Return of Evil and A New Beginning

Both Sombra and Dante struck each other in the face, causing them both to fall back and land lying down. Dante arose before Sombra, giving him the opportunity to prepare for whatever Sombra was about to do. But to Dante’s disappointment, he just stood up.

“Well” Sombra started “that was a nice hit. But” Sombra held his right hand out with a large thin and long light forming above his palm, fading from the bright light, to a dark wood finish “let’s make this fight interesting.”

Dante grinned and looked toward Twilight, who, with the rest of them, was focusing energy for a final attack later on. The six ponies were standing still with their heads down surrounded by a light purple energy field with their bodies glow the color of their body color, but faded and bright.

“Hey Twilight, I need a staff.”

“I’m. A little. Busy here” she responded, now struggling with both focusing her magical energy and talking to Dante.

“Well, mine broke and I need one to kick the snot out of Sombrero here.”

Twilight sighed in annoyance. “Fine” she said. She walked out of the energy field. An aura formed around her horn, and then a staff appeared in front of Dante in the air. The staff fell, only for Dante to grab it. Dante turned to Sombra as Twilight moved back into the energy field.

Sombra ran after Dante, swung his staff, but was deflected by Dante’s staff. The shockwave from the deflection gave Dante the opportunity to strike Sombra, in which he successfully did. Sombra was knocked back, but regained his composure. Sombra ran after Dante again. Both Dante and Sombra exchanged blows from each of their staffs, each blow blocked and deflected with no damage dealt to one another. Sombra had enough of this, though. Dante struck Sombra, but Sombra deflected it. The shockwave threw Dante off balance. Sombra then kicked Dante away from him, and then jumped in the air, levitating off the ground a couple feet.

An aura started to form around Sombra. The aura grew brighter; with it Sombra began to form back to his pony self. The aura faded but still glowing. Sombra’s eyes were glowing completely red, with his horn glowing brighter than the aura surrounding him.

“Alright Dante” Twilight shouted “It’s ready. Point your staff at Sombra. I sense that he’s going to blast us as well, so we need to be quick with this.”

Dante nodded and pointed his staff toward Sombra and stuck the other hand out toward the six. The six blasted their concentrated energy toward Dante, the blast absorbing in his hand. Dante then fused his energy with the six’s, knowing that doing so would weaken him drastically, and then redirecting the blast toward Sombra. Before Sombra could use his energy attack, the blast from the six and Dante struck him. Sombra withstood the blow for about a minute before giving in to his fate. He vanished from the attack, whipping him off the face of Equestria.

The energy field around the six ponies faded. They looked around and only saw Dante standing there, facing the direction where Sombra once was, only to be left with not even remains of Sombra. The six cheered at the fact that they stood victorious. They were interrupted when they saw Dante fall onto his knees, and then fell down completely. Twilight smiled and rolled her eyes, thinking that Dante was just overreacting. She and the others walked to Dante.

“Okay, come on Dante” Twilight said sarcastically. Dante didn’t respond, causing the ponies to panic a little. “Dante, you can wake up now. This isn’t funny.”

“DANTE” Pinkie shouted “I have cake.”

“You do not have cake Pinkie” Rainbow responded.

Pinkie shushed Rainbow “I don’t have it on me” she whispered “silly.” They turned back to Dante. Twilight got closer to Dante and rested her fore hoof on his neck, and then began to shed tears. The others began to shed tears at the sight of Twilight, knowing what’s wrong.

“Is he? Is he?” Rarity asked, about to cry. Twilight turned her attention toward Rarity and nodded. The others began to cry, alongside Twilight.

Dante awoke, but when he opened his eyes, he looked around to see white, nothing else, but white. He stood up and looked around some more.

“Twilight” he called. “Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, anypony?” He proceeded to walk around. He then noticed Celestia and Luna walking up to him. “Celestia, Luna” he said with joy. “I’m so glad that you girls are here. Where are we?”

“We are in the realm of the passing” Luna responded.

“Passing, you mean, I’m.”

“Yes Dante” Celestia interrupted “You are. And you are passing into the new world.”

“Wh-what is the new world?”

“Well, in your case, the realm to where Discord banished your elf tribe” Luna said.

“We’ve found where he banished them and it looks like a realm for you. There is a race of beings similar to elves, but very little differences.”

“So, I’ll be reunited with my tribe?”

“Sadly no” Celestia responded “But, you will be reborn with the descendant of your tribe. They have been dwelling in that realm for as long as you have been imprisoned in the pillar. The time where you will be reborn will be more futuristic than our time.”

“So, I finally get to live a normal life. Cool! Hey, while I’m chillin in this ‘new world,’ will you two visit me?” The two started to walk away from Dante, but in his path and passed him.

“Well, if we do, it won’t be in our pony bodies. You won’t even know that it’s us.”

Luna turned toward Dante and walked up to him. “Besides Dante” she started before kissing him on the cheek “you owe me a rematch.” She winked at Dante and caught up with her sister walking away. Dante blushed, stared at the two, and then turned around to walk away. Dante vanished in the distance, teleporting him to this new world.

Later, the Mane Six, Spike, Shining Armor, Cadence, and the rest of the royal guard gathered around a tombstone with Dante’s face on it. On the tombstone, it said “R.I.P. Dante, Captain of the Royal Guard and protector of the thrown.” Each of the ponies gathered around were crying, except for Celestia and Luna who were giving the eulogies.