Equestria's Corruption

Twilight's POV---------------------------------------------

Twilight had about 3 different questions running through her head as she looked at the now conscious Dennis who, despite having one les leg than he should have, had a bored almost lax look on his face. She didn't know which one to ask first so she just opened and closed her mouth over and over again. Dennis looked at Applejack and asked,

"Does she usually do this?"

Twilight found her voice and asked,

"What was that, are you okay, and do you know how much I will hurt you if your answer to the first question is 'I don't know',"

"Well to answer your questions, that was Ocram, what do you think, and I don't know and don't want to find out," he said.

Twilight was with her friends and Princess Celestia at the hospital in Ponyville, despite Dennis' claim that he was fine. He was being treated for certain gashes and bone fractures and his cauterized hind leg. The rest of them had gotten away with lesser wounds, Rainbow Dash's being the most serious, which was a fractured wing bone. Twilight noticed Applejack couldn't help stare at the ugly red stump that used to be his leg.

"Jeez that Ocram really did a number an ya,"

Dennis looked down at the wound and laughed,

"That, oh that's just a scratch, I've had worse," he levitated his saddle bag over to him and sifted through it a look of confusion on his face. "Hey when did I get all this silver?" he asked, as casually as 'hey when did I get this mail?'

"It came from when we defeated that giant eye guy, why did he drop all that silver anyways, and why did he have a giant mouth, that's crazy eyes don't have mouths 'cause they don't eat, or maybe they do in your world, in that case what do they eat, do the-" Pinkie Pie was cut short by Dennis putting his hoof up, looking like he was deep in thought.

"That makes no sense, the Eye of Cthulhu doesn't drop silver it drops demonite ore," he said

"Ohhh demonite ore sounds cool, does it come from demons?" Pinkie asked bouncing up and down.

Dennis ignored the question and talked, mostly to himself.

"All the times before it dropped demonite, why only now would it drop silver..." he took the remaining amount of potion from the bottle he had been using before and chugged it all down.

"Thirsty are you?" Rarity said one eyebrow raised. Princess Celestia, who had been silent the entire made a slightly audible gasp and everyone else did too when they saw what was happening. Dennis looked with a grin as his leg slowly reformed. The scab peeled off revealing shiny flesh. A bone poked out and grew slowly making the shape of a hind leg bone. the flesh grew as well encasing the bone in a tomb of muscle and flesh and skin slowly followed, wrapping snugly around his leg.

"Ahhh you would not believe, how much that hurt!" he said a small smile on his face.

"Gross," Rainbow Dash replied.

"How did you do that?" Celestia asked, a look of complete awe on her face.

"To be honest, I have no idea..." he said trailing off.

After he healed himself Twilight and the others went down to the lobby with him to check out, all the nurses and doctors staring at the colt who only minutes before had only three legs and now had four. they checked him out and when they asked for pay, he reached into his saddle bag and handed the mare behind the counter a large chunk of silver, all while keeping a straight face and left.

As soon as they walked out the door Dennis, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie burst out laughing and continued the entire way home. Back at the library Celestia questioned Dennis and while he was answering to the best of his ability his constant zoning out was wearing Celestia's nerves thin. When Dennis started asking what the question was again she decided that it was enough for one night, as the white alicorn looked just about ready to fry Dennis, and Rainbow Dash's and Pinkie's horribly muffled laughter was not helping at all.

One by one they and Twilight put the Elements of Harmony back into their display case. Dennis was still thinking hard and when he kept looking at the elements and his bag, Twilight asked him exactly what he was thinking. He didn't reply only taking a purple piece of stone that Twilight knew as ebonstone out of his pack and walked over to the Elements of Harmony. "Dennis what are you doing?" Twilight asked nervously. Dennis put the ebonstone as close to the elements as he could without moving the glass. the jewels encrusted into the necklaces and the tiara glowed brighter and brighter every second. "Dennis what do you think your doing!?" she yelled. and the elements unleashed a flash of light that made Twilight close her eyes.

When she opened them, to her surprise, Dennis was not a black mark on the floor and he was not holding a piece of ebonstone, but rather a piece of normal stone, no trace of Corruption in it.

"Oh, my, Celestia..." Twilight said, her jaw hanging.

"The elements are able to purify Corruption, I totally called it!" Dennis yelled a huge smile on his face

"How did-" she asked not able to finish the sentence.

"When you hit the Eye of Cthulhu with the Elements of Harmony, it purified the demonite normally dropped and turned it into silver!" he exclaimed, now jumping up and down. "This is it, the secret to cleansing your world!" he yelled.

"Oh my gosh, we need to send a letter to the princess, this is a breakthrough!" Twilight exclaimed a huge smile on her face as well. Dennis raised his hoof, and Twilight hesitated only a second before giving him a high five and franticly grabbing ink, a quill, and parchment. Twilight thought for a moment and began writing, "Dear Princess Celestia, Dennis and I have discovered a breakthrough..."