Arc

Chapter 1

Rain Whisper:

The blade in my hooves shined brilliantly, surges of electricity shot through it when I charged up my body. My father stood before me, studying the sword.

“I don’t know why you insist to use a weapon to control your power...” He said, “I only trained with the raw power.”

I looked up, “I can’t control it as well as you, dad.” I said, feeling the electric current fade from my sword. “I can’t control any of my powers as well as any of you.”

“Thalassa said you were becoming much better with hydrokinesis.” He said, sitting down beside me.

“I suppose,” I said, levitating a sphere of water near us, circling the two of us. “But electricity and fire seems to be what I am struggling with the most.”

I held the sphere a few moments longer, than let it drop into the koi pond outside, making me notice the trickling water.

“You remind me so much of your grandmother.” He said, smiling.

“Oh?”

“Always enjoying the little things.”

I smiled, sheathing the sword with my magic. I hadn’t ever known any of my grandmother, I hadn’t ever met her, at least I didn’t think so, my father had always said she would love me, but never spoke much of her.

I stood up, staring outside through a glass window, seeing the koi swim carelessly and gracefully through the water. I looked down at my cutie mark, an orange and white koi swimming head to tail of each other in a raindrop.

“Why don’t you go check on Twilight, I’m sure she’d love to see you.”

The unicorn flashed in my mind, every time I would walk into her library, from the time I was a filly until now, she would have her nose in a book, occasionally she would be in the middle of an experiment.

“I will.” I said, turning for the door.

Mirage:

I sighed.

I would of told her to be careful, but I did not want to frighten her. She would need the last of her training sooner than I expected. I didn’t know why, or how, but for weeks I had noticed a shift in the air, something had changed, something I thought would never come back for my daughter, was coming back. The others would not be ready for this, nor would I. Even in my prime I was no match for Celestia, growing so old would only make it easier for her.

Celestia made the mistake of leaving me behind once, I knew she would not make it again unless she was certain I would not be getting back up.

She needed to be ready, she didn’t need to be afraid of what would happen around her.

I pressed my old body up, I swore one of these times I would sit down, and never get back up.

“Mirage, you need to tell her.” She said.

“In due time, Clock Star.” I said, seeing the mare appear from nowhere, she still had not aged, just like the others.

A sequence flashed in my mind, a bright energy concealed my body in a bubble-like shape.

Celestia:

I open my eyes, utter nothingness surrounds my being. The darkness felt as if was engulfing me, rippling down my throat and suffocating me. I knew where I was, death had finally taken me away. Part of me was relieved, I had lived for so long, seen so many of my friends and family die off, I could finally see them all again.

But the other part of me burned with hatred, I had not wanted to die, dying was for the weak, dying was for the mortal. I was immortal, I couldn’t die.

“You were killed.” A voice said.

I noticed that the feeling of nothing around me returned, I felt on my back one moment, then on my hooves, then I was falling, fast.

“Who said that?” I called, my voice seemed to fade off around me.

A figure was in the distance, a black outline of a stallion, seeming to be a pegasus. He stepped closer, his crimson eyes seemed to pierce through my own, his pure black mane had red dripping from it.

Blood.

The crimson colors that were once in his mane were fading, the red streamed from his eyes, flowing down his cheeks like tears leaving behind black, lifeless eyes.

“It doesn’t matter who I am, we are both dead.” He said, his fur was also losing its black color, streaming onto the ground as a new, sticky substance. Oil.

“What matters is who you are, you are Princess Celestia, arguably the only pony that can kill who needs to be killed.” He said.

“Wh-”

“Mirage. My Son.” He said.

Sequences flashed in my head, a felt an electrical current rush through my body, trailing down my spine and bouncing through my chest. A purple and coal-colored stallion in a magical bubble, a white mare, begging for his release and an avian creature, standing over me.

Anger flared in my chest.

“Mirage is dead! I killed him already!” I yelled at the stallion that was still losing his features.

“True, but he came back, killed me, and returned to Equestria, keeping watch on his daughter and wife.” He said, even though he faded, his voice stayed strong.

“The foal...” Celestia muttered, remembering Vinyl’s bloated stomach.

“Not a foal anymore, a full grown mare.” The stallion said.

I looked up, but said nothing.

“Now, you get this last chance, it was originally given to me, but I know I can never beat him and her together. You on the other hoof-”

“I will kill them all.” I interrupted.

The stallion raised an eyebrow.

“Elements of Harmony and The Elementals.” I said, hate and fury engulfing my mind.

The stallion smiled lifelessly. “Good.”

I spread my wings and stopped the falling, flying towards Canterlot as fast as my colossal wings could let me.