Dawn of a New Era

by TheBestGamer

Rating: teen
Tags: Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, Princess Luna, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Tragedy
Length: 3211

An evil spirit has awakened and Twilight and her friends must do whatever it takes to help Celestia stop it.

An ancient evil spirit, said to be the almighty being of destruction goes to Equestria to take it from Celestia, now Twilight and her friends must help to make sure that, that doesn't happen.

Published 2013-10-10 03:10:08 UTC
Last updated 2014-06-14 18:22:30 UTC

The New Villain

Inside a dark abyss was a giant orb of power. What was inside was a mysterious person, that is said to exist in all dimensions at once. This person had hands, feet, and wore a black cloak that was covering every inch of the person's body and no matter what this person does this person can't take it off, since because of the one that put it on him. The person was in an eternal slumber that now felt like 1,000 years, no moving, no talking, only thinking.

"Those idiots think that this was all for them."

A flash back of Princess Luna before she became Nightmare Moon appeared.

An illusion of the mysterious person was right in front of Princess Luna, who she recognized who the mysterious person was.

"She plans to keep the kingdom bathed in the sun for eternity and you can't deny the facts in front of you." After he said that Princess Luna that cried out of betrayal. "However, this can be turned around."

Still crying, she looked at him straightly. "How?"

"It is simple, give in to the emotion in your heart and bathe the kingdom in the moon. That is all." After he said that the princess nodded and then the mist of Nightmare Moon formed around her.

The flash back then ended.

"They did indeed have extra-ordinary powers within them."

A flash back of Discord in his original stone prison state right after Cheerilee's class moved away him appeared.

An illusion of the mysterious person was right in front of Discord.

"She no longer holds the power. And once I free you, you can finally exact your revenge."

He then cast a spell on the statue of Discord and disappeared. After he did that the statue then cracked and Discord let out an evil laugh.

The flash back then ended.

"Different reasons and yet the same goal."

A flash back of the changelings and Queen Chrysalis before the attacked Canterlot appeared.

An illusion of the mysterious person was right in front of Chrysalis.

"You seek power, you feed on love, and I can help you get what you request."

Queen Chrysalis then looked at him confused. "What do you mean?"

"The kingdom of Equestria is filled with love for you and your changelings to gain. It matters not to me how you plan to do this, but I guaranteed that you and your creatures will get the power you want." After he said that an evil grin formed on Chrysalis's face.

The flash back then ended.

"Even after the fight, they still never quit."

A flash back of the land that held the Crystal Empire, only without the Empire appeared.

"Years of solitude and yet I still sense rage within your heart. Once I free you and your empire return it the way it was before they banished you."

He then cast a spell on the entire area and disappeared. After he did that the Crystal Empire and King Sombra slowly returned to Equestria.

The flash back then ended.

"No matter who it is, they all wanted the same thing."

A flash back of Sunset Shimmer at the school and in the afternoon appeared.

An illusion of the mysterious person appeared in front of Sunset Shimmer luckily with nobody around.

"You seek power, I can help you get it."

"You don't know what I want." Sunset Shimmer said making sure that nobody else heard her.

"Oh but I do. Your former home, Equestria carries this." He then showed an illusion of Twilight's crown. "This crown is full of power, otherwise called the Element of Magic. Retrieve this crown and you will have the power you deserve." He then disappeared.

After seeing that Sunset Shimmer then thought that she had to believe what he said and had an evil grin. "Looks like I'm going home."

The flash back then ended.

"However, no matter how much they wanted Equestria they all fell by the hooves of who. Who, other than her."

Flash backs of all their defeats appeared one after the other. Starting with Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis and the changelings, King Sombra, and finally Sunset Shimmer. The flash backs all ended and then he thought about Twilight.

"All that power she carries. She's the one I need instead of them." The magical orb surrounding him then started shaking. "I must have her power and claim what should rightfully be mine."

He then opened his eyes and then the magical orb surrounding him broke apart. Once he was free his eyes then started glowing bright red.

He finally started talking after a thousand years. "Now it is time for Equestria and all of its inhabitants to be brought to JUSTICE."

In the Crystal Empire, a couple of days after Twilight came back from the human world, the ponies gathered together for a speech of the new princess. The speech went on not that long ago with Shining Armor almost ending. With him is Celestia, Luna, Cadence, his and Twilight's parents, all of Twilight's friends, and Twilight.

"Which brings us to this day. Less then a month ago my little sister, Twilight Sparkle, became the newest princess of Equestria."

Cadence then interrupted. "During the coronation he was so happy for her that he cried."

"I told you before, I wasn't crying." Shining protested.

"That's not what your eyes were telling us." Cadence said making Shining Armor blush in embarrassment.

Shining Armor then faced the crowd of ponies again. "Anyway, I haven't been more proud of her, and if Princess Celestia says that making Twilight Sparkle the newest princess is the next step to making the fate of Equestria no longer hang in the balance, then I say 'let the future begin'." After he said the entire crowd started cheering. "Now I think that now's the time for a speech about this from the one that helped made it possible. Princess Celestia." After he said that Celestia then stepped in.

"Thank you, this is indeed a momentous day, although I shouldn't be surprised." She then turned to Twilight while making sure that every pony heard her. "No matter what the task is that she get's, either from me or from some pony else, she always proves to be my most faithful student." She then turned to Twilight's parents. "Her parents must be lucky to have a daughter like her." After she said that both Twilight's parents had the look on their faces that said 'you have no idea'. "Even one of former students, Sunset Shimmer, saw the errors of her ways because of Twilight, because she proves to every pony that friendship is magic."

As her speech was going on Luna couldn't help but feel a strange presence even though she sees that there's nothing wrong anywhere, that was until she heard something. "Things have changed in a thousand years." Luna then turned her head to see who said that, but couldn't see who said it. "Every pony changes as time goes on, but I remain the same."

"Princess?" Rainbow Dash tried to snap Luna back into reality. "Princess?" This time it worked.

"Is something wrong?" Applejack asked.

Luna looked at every pony and saw that they all had concerned faces. "It...it's alright."

"Now I pass things on to the special guest of honor, Princess Twilight Sparkle." Celestia finished her speech. As Twilight made her way to the stand both she and Celestia quickly hugged before she spoke. "Remember, don't be nervous."

"Thanks." Twilight said as she pulled away from their hug. She then stood in front of the crowd and spoke. "Thank you every pony. I must say that this was indeed very surprising, since even I didn't know that this would happen, but I do believe that some knew. At one time when I was a filly, Princess Cadence told me that I was anything but a regular unicorn and I bet at the coronation she thinking in her head 'I told you so'." After she said that all of the crowd started giggling.

As this speech was going on Celestia then felt the same presence that Luna felt, but at the same time she couldn't see anything wrong. "You've chosen wisely." Celestia looked to see who said that, but this time she saw something. It was little blurry but she could barely make out that it was something dark. "However, even you should know that she doesn't stand a ghost of a chance against destruction." After what she heard she is now putting pieces of the puzzle of who said that, which made her a little bit scared.

She then snapped herself back into reality. "Excuse me, but I need to check up on a little thing and I'll be right back. Continue your speech." She then saw that some royal guards were about to offer an escort until she stopped them. "I know what you're going to ask for and it's OK, no escort needed." A few seconds went by and Luna decided to follow her.

Celestia then made her way to the Crystal Empire gardens to try and clear her mind, her heart was beating at a rapid pace since no matter what she does she can't stop thinking about it. "I take it that you heard it too." Celestia then turned around and was relieved to see her sister, Luna.

"I keep on trying to tell myself that it was only an illusion and it wasn't real."

Luna then looked concerned for her. "You must have seen who said it then Who was it?" Luna asked.

"It was all blurry, but I thought I saw something dark" Celestia admitted.

"If this is serious then maybe we cancel the rest of the speeches, just to be safe." Luna suggested.

Celestia thought about it and came to a conclusion. "It's probably for the best if we do that." After she said that they made their way back to the crowd.

When they were a few feet away from them something happened. The felt unusual amount of pressure through the entire Empire, probably spreading through all of Equestria. As this was going on they heard the crowd of ponies screaming and then ran the rest of the way. When they made it the pressure they felt in the area was even worse and they saw the entire crowd of ponies running in terror.

"What's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked while at the same time panicking.

"I don't know." Celestia answered.

More pressure then came raining down causing ponies to be injured and the buildings to be damaged. Then it happened. The mysterious person from what Celestia thought she saw came in through a dark portal while at the same time evilly laughing.

The evil laughing then ceased. "Equestria, I have returned." He then saw all the ponies in terror and grinned evilly, that is if any pony could see it. The mysterious pressure in the area then stopped as he looked around and saw the two rulers of Equestria in terror since they both know who it was. "Long time no see, princesses."

Their hearts were close to stopping, goose bumps forming everywhere on both of their bodies, and they nearly shivered in fright as to who they saw. Celestia and Luna were both scared, but had enough energy to scream who they saw. "WAR LORD!?"

The Power of Destruction

The mysterious person referred to as 'War Lord' started looking around at the many terrified faces of every pony in the Crystal Empire. He saw their injuries that the pressure, from when he came into the world, had caused them, as well as the injuries that the rubble from the destroyed buildings. He saw the terrified looks in their eyes and knew very well that they all wondered what he might do to all of them.

Well he was very well going to show them what he's going to do.

He stretched his right arm out and after he did that storm clouds started coming in. However, instead of rain only lightning came in and struck in any place causing ponies to get shocked and injured while other ponies started running in terror. He loved to hear their screams as they all run for their lives, it made him grin with every bit of suffering they were going through.

Twilight was terrified herself for seeing what was going on right in front of her. Her friends weren't going good with all this either, they tried to run for it, but to no avail since the pressure got to the palace as well. Twilight, her friends, her brother, sister-in-law, and parents huddled together to try and avoid what was going on.

Twilight looked over at the two sisters and saw that from the looks of it that they were the most terrified of them all. Hearing them say 'War Lord' made her realize that they must already know about him.

Celestia started to back away from the scene. "Th-this, this can't be happening." It wasn't long before all them saw the terror in her eyes as well as the terror in Luna's eyes. "How can this be happening?"

"Princess," Twilight spoke up getting Celestia's attention. "do you know who that is?"

Celestia looked back the mystery person. "I'm afraid I do." In truth she really didn't want to know who that was after knowing what he was capable of over the past centuries. One look at him and she realized that since he returned then they are all in for true destruction. "His name is 'War Lord' a being created for destruction." Twilight couldn't believe what she was hearing, she found in hard to believe that someone would be created for destruction. "Twilight do you remember the books that explain entities?"

"Of course I do," Twilight answered. "It explains that entities are immortal beings of different prospects of many worlds." Twilight thought about what she said and why Celestia asked a question like that. After a couple of seconds of thinking this through her grew wider. "You mean that that's a-"

"Yes!" Celestia said interrupting Twilight but at the same time answering her question.

Shining Armor went out to the end of the balcony and looked at the guards. "GUARDS!" Shining yelled at them getting their attention. "ATTACK THAT THING IN THE SKY!" They didn't need a second order to tell them to go as the Pegasus guards flew to the storm and the Unicorn guards started some magic beams in the storm as well.

Luna went over to the balcony to Shining Armor's shock and tried to get the guards to stop. "NO PLEASE!" Luna pleaded to the guards. "WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T ATTACK HIM!"

It was too late for them to stop when some of them attacked the storm clouds War Lord was making and some of them attacking War Lord himself. However, none of them were successful since the storm was too powerful for even the strongest of Pegasi and the magic blasts went through War Lord like it was nothing. This however, did get his attention as he turned to look at who he thought was foolish enough to even try to harm him.

"My turn."

He then raised his arm out and shot fire from it aiming at the Unicorn guards. He didn't bother to attack the Pegasus guards since the storm was doing it for him. In the storm the Pegasus guards were all staring face to face with what looked like a tornado made entirely out of hail that was getting bigger and bigger every second they get closer to it. It wasn't long before a few of the Pegasus guards got sucked into the vortex and the others got hit by the hail and lightning. After all of this they fell to the ground with serious injuries from the hail and burn marks from the lightning. Some came crashing down to the balcony and one look at them made Twilight and every pony have wide eyes.

Flash Sentry was one of the guards that fell to the balcony and it made Twilight rush to him. "What happened?" Twilight said raising Flash's head.

"The storm was too powerful." Flash said struggling to say it without stuttering in pain. "Some of the guards got sucked into a tornado full of hail."

Rainbow Dash found it hard to believe, that was until the tornado started crashing down to the ground. "How is that possible?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "A tornado made out of hail, that can't be right."

Celestia stepped up. "It's because of whose causing it." She looked at the Crystal Empire as the tornado started causing even more damage and even more destruction.

It was at that moment that War Lord looked back at the Royal Sisters and used his power to trap them and all of the others in the crystal of the of palace. He levitated himself near them and spoke in the most creepiest of voices in front of the princesses. "Now you will understand what you have done."

Just being right in front of them made Celestia and Luna want to scream in horror over what was in front of them. Through his cloak they saw his eyes glowing dark red, one of the things that they fear from him.

Twilight saw this and was afraid that he might do something to them. "DON'T YOU DARE HARM THEM!" Twilight screamed.

Her screaming caught his attention. He slowly made his way to Twilight in a menacing way. "No please!" Celestia pleaded to War Lord making him stop, but he didn't keep his eyes off of Twilight. "This isn't about her, your fight is with us not her. Don't do anything to her."

He still didn't look at Celestia but he did respond. "On the contrary my dear princess, this now has everything to do with her." He finally made his way toward Twilight but stopped before he did anything. "All this time I didn't know, but now I see that this has everything to do with her and her power." He reached his hand out to touch her horn only to for him and Twilight to both be shocked by the touch.

Celestia's mood quickly changed from being scared to being angry at what he was trying to do. "You better stop right now." Celestia said getting his attention. "If you want power so bad then why don't you take mine instead."

Hearing all that made him laugh. "You don't understand do you. It is her power that I need." He then turned to face Celestia. "I've figured that out when all the other attempts have failed." Saying that made every pony try to figure what he meant, all except for Luna who much very well know what he means. "All those times they have all failed all because of her. Isn't that right Princess Luna?" They all turned to Luna who was right now looking suspicious. "You mean you haven't told them." They waited for her to respond but Luna didn't say anything. "Very well then I guess I'll have to show them." War Lord's eyes started glowing again and a dark dome of mist appeared around them.