Return of Evil and A New Beginning

The next day, Luna came to visit the Crystal Empire and ran into Dante.

“Hello, Dante” she said.

Dante looked at her trying to hold in a grin “Oh, hey Luna” he said. Luna walked past him and opened a slightly opened door, when suddenly, a bucket of water fell on her head and Luna got soaked. “Remember when you pranked me and I waged a war against you” Dante threw a hand full of flour at Luna “Well, war on.” Dante walked away as Luna was thinking of a way to get him back.

A little over a half an hour later, Dante and Flash were walking down the hallway talking to each other. “So, I was surrounded by these ugly bug-pony things” Dante said.

“Oh, changelings” Flash interrupted.

“Yeah, well I was surrounded by those things. They rushed after me from all directions.”

“What did you do?”

“Well, if I didn’t have my staff, I would’ve been in great trouble.”

“So, you’re some kind of fighter.”

“Yeah, I am a master of the fighting arts. Basically, if you put something like a staff or nun chucks into my hands, I can do serious damage to someone or something.”

“How many weapons do you have in your armory?” Flash asked as they both walk up to Dante’s doors leading to his room.

“Well, check it out for yourself” Dante said as he opened his doors, but walked out of the castle and fell eight stories down, screaming on the way. After landing on the ground, Luna flew up to him.

“So, did you have a nice fall?” she asked Dante as he looked up at her.

“Really, a portal spell?” Dante asked in frustration.

“Well, at least you’re not soaking wet and covered in flour.”

“Yeah, that is totally worse than having horrible pain throughout your entire body” Dante said sarcastically.

Luna walked into the kitchen to see Applejack and Pinkie Pie baking cupcakes.

“Hey there, princess” Applejack said.

“You’re just in time” Pinkie said “The cupcakes are almost done.”

“Well, I could go for a few cupcakes. Hey, have you two seen Dante around” Luna asked. They both shake their head. The timer went off on the oven and Applejack pulled out a tray of one dozen cupcakes and set the tray down on the counter. Luna walked up to the tray and noticed an odd cupcake. “Why is this cupcake different from the rest” she asked. Both Applejack and Pinkie looked at the single different cupcake in confusion.

“We don’t know” Pinkie said “I don’t think that we made batter for that one.” Luna picked the odd cupcake up with her magic to inspect it. She bit down on it, having it explode and paint her, Applejack, and Pinkie’s face with blue paint. They looked over to see Dante eating an apple with a grin on his face.

“Man, I love dye packs. Great for pwning ponies” he said as he walked away.

Dante was walking down the hallway towards his room. He walked in front of his doors and about to open them when he realizes the last time there was a portal on the other side of the doors. He cautiously opens one of the doors slowly and peaks inside. He saw that there was no portal leading outside or anywhere, just a dark room. He flicks the switch turning on the lights to see that the whole room was upside down. Looking at the room with a surprised look, Luna walked behind him with a smile on her face. He turns around “Put it back the way it was please” he said calmly. “As you wish” Luna said before reversing the inverted gravity spell that she used to enchant his room. When the gravity in Dante’s room turns back to normal, all of his things in his room fall to the ground and the impact of the furniture shakes the entire castle and caused a loud bang. The whole time, Dante looked away, but he didn’t have to since he knew what has just happened. “I’m not cleaning that up” he said as he walked away. Rarity ran up to him and asked “What was that loud noise?” “Ask Luna” Dante said.

Luna walked down a hallway with a mirror covering an entire wall. As she was walking, she notices a shadow figure at the corner of her eye. She stops to investigate and looked in the mirror. After looking in the mirror for a few seconds, a ghost pops up and screams, scaring Luna. After that, two more ghosts that looked just like the ghost in the mirror phase through two doors and run after the princess. After the two ghosts close in on Luna, they stop running and the one on the left takes off its cloak and Dante starts laughing. “But, but how did you do that” Luna asked while breathing heavily after being scared half to death. “Did you forget? I have shadow abilities. That other ghost is a shadow clone.” The other ghost poofs away. “And that one in the mirror was also a clone that I have put in the mirror.” The other ghost steps out of the mirror and poofs away. “So, you give up” Dante asked. “Just you wait, I will get you back and you will regret starting this war.” Dante rolled his eyes and walked away.

Dante was walking down to his room, but when he turns to the hallway leading to his room, he saw that the entire hallway was covered in spider webs. Dante shakes his head “Oh come on, princess, sometimes you are so pathetic” he said to himself. He walked to about half way down the hallway when a giant fake spider falls on him, but he doesn’t realize that it was a fake. He freaks out and punches the spider, having it blow up and cover Dante in blue paint. Dante was standing there in shock as Luna walked out of his room. “You’re right, dye packs are great” she said with a cocky attitude.

Luna was sitting on the balcony of the crystal castle, watching down on the Crystal Empire, when suddenly, Dante snuck up behind her with two buckets. Luna was unaware that Dante was sneaking up and about to pour an entire bucket of poison joke pedals on her. “Hey Luna” Dante exclaimed. Luna turned her head towards Dante before dumping the bucket on her. Next thing Luna knew, her horn curled up and one wing grew while the other wing shrunk. “Dante, what is going on? Reverse this now.” “Calm down, I have the cure in this other bucket.” Dante holds up the bucket filled with water mixed with the herbs used to cure the effects from the poison joke. “It just looked like water” Luna said. “Watch” Dante said before dumping the bucket on her, soaking her. Then, her wings and horn turn back to normal. Then, Dante got a handful of flour and throws it at Luna. “Really, flour again?”

“Yep. It’s my thing when it comes to pranking.”

“Where did you get this flour anyways? I didn’t see you with it at first.”

“I know a guy.”

“That doesn’t explain anything.”

“That sounds like a you problem” Dante said before walking away, leaving a soaked and floured Luna confused.

Dante looked around the castle, trying to find Luna. He walked into the kitchen to find Spike making tea. “Hey Spike” he said “Have you seen Luna anywhere?” “Yeah” Spike said “She had to leave early to prepare to raise the moon. She said that she forfeits the war, but I don’t know what she’s talking about.” “Luna and I were in a prank war” he notices the tea “Hey, is that tea you’re making?” “Yeah, Twilight has an upset stomach so I am making her tea to help.” “Cool” Dante said “Can I have some?” “Sure” Spike responded. He pours Dante a cup of tea, giggling in the process, and pours salt in it instead of sugar, but Dante wasn’t aware that it isn’t sugar. Dante notices Spike’s laughter “Hey Spike, why are you laughing” he asked. “Oh, I’m just remembering a joke Pinkie told me earlier” he hands Dante his cup of tea “Here you go” he said with a giggle. “Must be a funny joke” Dante said before taking a drink of his tea. Dante realizes the awful taste of salt and spits out the tea. “Hey, what’s with the salt” he asked angrily. “Oh yeah” Spike said “Princess Luna also told me to do one last prank for you before the day ends.” Dante got upset “Oh really? Be right back.” Dante shadowported away.

Twilight and Flash were sitting on the balcony of the crystal castle, watching the sunset with Flash’s foreleg around Twilight. Dante shadowported next to them. “Oh, hi there Dante” Twilight said “How have you been while I was in Canterlot?” “Oh, well, Luna stopped by and we got into a prank war.” “Oh yeah” Flash said “How did that go?” “Well, it came close, but I think I have won.” “What did you do to win” Twilight asked. “Oh, you’ll see in a minute” Dante said. The sun sets as the moon rises, but there was something odd about the moon. It had a big troll face on it. Dante starts to laugh out loud. Both Celestia and Luna teleport to Dante. “How dare you ruin my moon” Luna yells in her Canterlot voice. “That is not a prank. That is classified as going too far.” “What is this pranking I hear” Celestia asked. “Well, you see princess, Luna and I have been in a prank war and I think I’ve won” Dante said. “Both of you need to end this right now. It is tearing you too apart” Celestia said. Both Luna and Dante stop to think, Dante looked at the moon that he has ruined with graffiti, and then he looked back at Luna “I guess I did go a little far” he said “Maybe we should stop.” “Yeah, I guess we should” Luna said “But, someday, I will get you back.” “And I’ll get you back, and the war will be in an endless loop. But I promise to never ruin your moon if you never use that portal spell on me.” She nods at Dante with a smile.