Fall of Harmony

It was the day after Darquesse had entered Fluttershy’s life and Darquesse plan to enter the Grand Galloping Gala was at its final phase; use Fluttershy to locate someone who’s going to the Gala so he’d could sneak in with them. Darquesse exited the lamp and could tell that Fluttershy was asleep. Darquesse walked through the house while yawning. Just then he felt his foot connect with something. He looked down to see Angel looking up at him.

“What do you want Fluffy” Darquesse said as the rabbit continued to stare at him. Darquesse blinked and then fired two red eye lasers at him making him jump away.

“Hate rabbits”. Darquesse sat on the couch with a pondering expression. His plan was coming together all he had to do was find somepony who was going to the Grand Galloping Gala and following them as their guest. He couldn’t well storm the castle dark spells flying off and destruction being left in his wake. Celestia would stop him before he could crack off one joker or cleaver quip. The only pony who seemed to be going was Rarity but he didn’t think he could be subtle with her. He needed to find somepony and quickly, the Gala was tonight. Something else was bugging him though; he didn’t want to just appear he wanted Celestia to sweat a little about his appearance.

Darquesse walked over to a window and looked out to the forest. As he thought he saw Applebloom appear followed closer by Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Just then an idea popped into his head that quickly became do able and Darquesse smiled and disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

The CMC were running through the woods towards Zecora’s hut to learn about potions. As they ran black smoke began forming around them and then began forming in front of them. Just then the smoke exploded making Darquesse appear in front of the cowering filly’s. Darquesse waved the smoke away to see the girls shaking in terror.

“My apologises girls was it to melodramatic I can never tell haha”. Darquesse summoned a long black staff with a block orb on the top with black metal lines on it. He pointed at the girls, offering it to help them up. “Now I take it your in these woods for a reason”. He glided over to Scootaloo and pointed at her blank flank “and it’s got something to do with that I take it”.

“Yep were headin’ for Zecora’s to learn potions” said Applebloom

“to try and earn out cutie marks” added Sweetie Belle. Darquesse smiled as he pretended to remember an old memory.

“I remember looking for my cutie mark when I was a colt just a little younger then yourselves” Darquesse lied as he show the symbol on his shoulder. The girls all looked at it. “It was funny but ponies kept saying I’d discover it naturally but nothing I did would reveal it so I thought of more… unorthodox methods of searching for my mark”. The girls seemed hooked by this.

“Like what” asked Applebloom making Darquesse smile.

“If your elders have every said something that would be punished like stealing, kidnap, murder I have a specific talent for”. This made the girls worried as they began sweating. “And I think you three may be in the same situation as me, you’re talent may be criminal behaviour”.

“Really?” asked Scootaloo.

“Well you’ve tried everything else from match making to skydiving and you’re getting nowhere then isn’t it worth it to just stop being called ‘blank flanks’. The girls began to consider it and that’s all Darquesse needed. His eyes turned purple as smoke entered the girls ears and began to alter them. Dark black lines appeared around their eyes and they smiled that matched Darquesse.

“We’ll do it” said all three at once making Darquesse smile even wider. Darquesse kneeled down and began whispering into the girls ears his plan to ‘help’ the girls. He stood and walked away as they nodded in agreement and then began running for Ponyville. Sweetie Belle stopped though and looked at Darquesse.

“How did you know about us?” she asked making Darquesse chuckle

“I can read minds” he said with a slightly childish voice making Sweetie Belle laugh “I’m not joking you’re thinking about dinner tonight and… somepony of your age shouldn’t know about that”. Sweetie Belle looked shocked and ran to catch up with the others. Darquesse stood there leaning on his staff for a few seconds before a sly smile broke out and then he broke out into a full blown dance. Just then he felt a tingle in his spine and disappeared in more smoke.

Darquesse exited the lamp and stood in front of Fluttershy “yes my mistress”.

“I was wondering if I could have a new dress for the Gala” asked Fluttershy, obviously uncomfortable with asking for it. Darquesse’s ears perked up at this and he smiled with uncontrollable glee.

“You’re going to the Gala tonight” he asked

“Yes I went before and Twilight invited us to this years, Rarity said she’d make me a new dress but due to an order from someone of royalty” Darquesse gulped and looked away from that statement “I thought I’d use one of my wishes to have one”. Darquesse cracked his neck and zapped Fluttershy with a magical spell.

In a puff of light a light green dress that had dark green nature based patterns across it and then going down her front legs towards her light green shoes. Also with a pink clip for her mane and a small tiara. Fluttershy looked over the dress and smiled at it with joy, which Darquesse took as his cue.

“Fluttershy I was wondering, with this Gala, could I come I love social gatherings and it would be a good moment to introduce me to your friends”. Fluttershy thought for a second but looked a little concerned, Darquesse didn’t have a ticket.

“I know what you’re gonna say, haven’t got a ticket but I could easily hide in the lamp, it’s not going against the rules I ain’t even fully alive, please I’ve been cooped up in that lamp for ten thousand years and an event like this comes around once a year, pretty please” Darquesse pleaded and lied in a hope to win over Fluttershy. After a few seconds Fluttershy nodded and Darquesse hugged her in response.

Fluttershy smiled and went to take her dress off as to not ruin it. As she left Darquesse smiled even more as everything he wanted was going smoothly with little input from himself.

MEANWHILE:

In Canterlot the CMC had just left the train with a large burlap sack with them. They arrived at the castle and sneaked past the guards at the front door. They then snuck through the whole castle and finally arrived at their destination; Celestia’s room. They knocked on the door and waited.

Celestia was reading one of her many reports from a ruler of another land. Celestia sighed and placed the notes down and summoned her favourite book. It was about old legends and roots of the oldest religions. As she read about the religious group Two she heard a knock originating from her door. Celestia stood and walked to the door and opened it to see three fillies holding a large sack.

“Trick or Treat” they yelled before they jumped forward with the sack in tow to ensnare Celestia.

At the same time Twilight was reading her new book from Celestia. It was all about the first settlement of Equestria, much darker then the play she was in two years ago. Spike came walking downstairs and walked right past Twilight heading for his private store of gems. He knew that Twilight was a nightmare to talk to when she was engrossed in her reading. As he passed her again he burped and a letter appeared in a swarm of fire. Twilight noticed and caught it with her magic and unfolded it.

“Dear Twilight please come to Canterlot as quickly as possible and please being Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash and please nopony else thank you. This sounds serious Spike go get Apple Dash and Rarity and meet me at the train station and be quick”.

Ten minutes later Twilight was waiting at the train station for Spike and the others with Rainbow Dash, who was getting bored.

“Where are they and why did Princess Celestia want us” Rainbow Dash asked for the fifth time in as many minutes. Twilight ignored her as she continued to think of why Celestia wanted them. Finally Spike arrived with the others and without a word spoken Twilight moved everypony but Spike onto the train and they were off. Applejack was the first to speak.

“Twilight care to tell us what’s goin on” she asked which everypony seemed to nod with response.

“All I know is Princess Celestia wanted us in Canterlot as quickly as possible”. The rest of the journey flew by quickly and when they arrived they quickly headed for the castle. They all arrived and headed for the throne room. As they got closer they knew something was going on by the amount of guards that were around.

“Greeting’s Twilight Sparkle”. Twilight turned and saw Luna standing in front of the door of the throne room.

“Hi Princess”

“Twilight how many times must I ask you to call me Luna” Twilight looked embarrassed and blushing slightly.

“Sorry, do you know why Princess Celestia wanted us”

“it’ll be easier to just go in”. The four walked past Luna and into the room to see Celestia sitting on her throng with Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo looking upset and obvious signs that they’d been crying.

“Thank you for coming I’ll get straight to the point. The girls here tried to kidnap me”. This shocked the girls but very quickly turn to anger at this.

“What in tarnation do you think you were doing Applebloom”.

“This totally isn’t cool Scootaloo”.

“I thought you’d be smart enough not to do something like this Sweetie Belle”.

“Actually it’s not their fault”. Everypony stopped at this and looked at Celestia for an answer.

“The girls were under the influence of a powerful dark magic that could rival Discord. After I managed to subdue them they turned very violent and when I freed them from it they turned quiet and haven’t said a word that’s why I asked you her Twilight and why I asked you to bring your friends, I was hoping they could get the girls to tell us who hexed them”.

The girls looked back at their sisters and admires with softer expressers.

“Listen Sugercube I’m sorry I yelled you’re not in trouble but if you know who did this so they don’t do what they did to you to another filly or colt” asked Applejack.

“She’s right darling someone has to answer for this”. The CMC looked at each other before muttering something at a volume that made Fluttershy sound loud.

“Pardon you need to speak up please” Twilight asked.

“Darquesse” they said all together. The moment Celestia heard the name she quickly jumped up and walked up to the girls with a fearful look.

“Please say this is a joke and you just read that name somewhere please” she pleaded making everyone look worried. Twilight went up to Celestia but Celestia quickly walked past her and headed to the door and opened it revealing a guard standing there. “Alert all the Canterlot guards and get them patrolling the perimeter”.

“Princess what’s going on” asked Twilight as Luna entered through the same door.

“Twilight describe a religion of Equestria” Twilight was stunned at the random order but quickly thought of a religion.

“The Order of Two say that originally there were two Alicorns, one of light and another of dark. They both created a new land filled with creatures based on themselves. The one of light raised the sun and moon and made sure the food grew while the one of dark looked after the souls of the dead and controlled the weather. After a while the one of dark got bored with everything being the same so he tried to change everything but was stopped by the other. After fighting the one of dark was beaten and banished. Now all ponies come from the Alicorn of light while anyone who was corrupted by greed was created by the Alicorn of darkness”.

“Good now another” again this made Twilight confused but went with it.

“Disciples of light say that the first pony, an Alicorn, split themselves into two separate beings one was still an Alicorn while the other was only a Unicorn. The Unicorn became jealous and created an army of darkness, the original ancestors of the Changelings, and went to war with the Alicorn but was defeated. The conflicts made the Alicorn try to create a land where she could teach them to live in harmony and to not be jealous at what others had but some of the Unicorn’s followers survived and went on to create their own community and would continue to fight the ponies created by the Alicorn for all eternity”.

“And one more”

“There was once two kingdoms that lived in harmony with each other and began to create a new land for them to watch and protect. The land was created and the ponies were given certain things to live by. One ruler didn’t like this so he began making the ponies do horrible things to each other. So the other ruler locked the evil ruler in his own kingdom and all the ponies corrupted by him were sent to him to be punished in his kingdom while all ponies who lived in peace where welcomed to the kingdom of the good ruler and that’s how life has been since then. They also say that when the evil ruler redeems himself and leaves his kingdom to live with the good ruler then all the evil in the world will be extinguished and true harmony will arrive and everypony will be happy”.

“Very good Twilight. Now as you can tell in each one there was a definite source of darkness whether a jealous Unicorn or twisted ruler. All of these creatures that haunt our nightmares and are used to scare Colts and Fillies are all based on Darquesse”. This made the girls become instantly fearful and worried.

“Princess what are we going to do” Twilight asked.

“Only one thing we can do, to avoid a panic of everypony everything will continue as normal including the Grand Galloping Gala” Celestia said explaining her plan.

“Pardon me your majesty but I don’t think that’s such a good idea I mean if this Darquesse is what most religions base their devil off shouldn’t we tell people” Rarity asked to which the others agreed.

“While Darquesse is all powerful he has one weakness, he doesn’t own a physical body. His soul was bound to a crown that when somepony placed it on their head Darquesse will take them over but if it’s removed Darquesse will leave and be defeated. It’s this weakness that helped me beat him before”.

“You meet him before” asked Rainbow Dash to which Celestia nodded.

“It was just under a thousand years ago, I was still grieving and getting used to taking up Luna’s responsibilities” Twilight saw Luna look down in shame.

“A Pegasus arrived calling himself Darquesse and even wielding dark magic but before he could do any major damage I managed to remove the crown ending his threat. The Pegasus didn’t know of anything and I removed the crown from this dimension with very powerful magic, the fact the crown has even returned even worries me but if somepony has been possessed and if he does appear he will be easily stopped. Hence the reason to not cause panic”.

Twilight and the others understood and remembered there companions so they made their excuse and left to take care of the Cutie Mark Crusaders leaving Celestia and Luna alone.

“Sister do you think we could easily defeat Darquesse, he is the devil after all” Luna asked.

“He may be powerful but he has a weakness we can easily turn on him. My only worry is the time till he appears while he won’t take too long to reveal himself I fear and feel sorry for whoever he runs into”.

At this time Darquesse was releasing magic spells that were making the furniture dance and the animals to fly in spectacular patterns and even balls of light to draw pictures in the air. Fluttershy stood in awe at what Darquesse was doing for her out of the kindness of his heart. When it was over Fluttershy applauded and Darquesse bowed.

“Thank you my dear” he looked at his wrist “oh my look at the time it’s only two hours till the Gala you better start getting ready”. Fluttershy smiled and nodded and walked away and Darquesse looked at the audience.

“What you ain’t seeing that it’s a T rating see ya in two hours” Darquesse grabbed the edge of the screen and pulled another scene on top.

It was two hours later and the girls were just arriving in a similar fashion to the last time they were there. The girls began walking towards the main entrance with Spike coming with them. Fluttershy walked with them and looked into a secret pocket in her dress to see Darquesse’s lamp. They entered and saw Princess Celestia greeting people as they entered the room. They walked up and were welcomed and they entered but Twilight stayed back.

“Hey Princess anything on what we talked about earlier”

“No I… hello… don’t think he’s… hello… going to make a… hello… make an appearance” Celestia replied.

Inside Fluttershy had headed to a remote corner to let Darquesse out. She pulled out the lamp but Darquesse exited without her rubbing it. Darquesse appeared with his hand to his head as he acted like he could barely stand.

“Damn can you feel that so many thoughts of darkness, murder, treachery, adultery. It’s a banquet of darkness that I’ve never had before”. Fluttershy was a little confused at this Darquesse was acting strange.

“You can tell what people are thinking” she asked making Darquesse look at her.

“Yep any thought that they have in their little pony heads”. Darquesse went to walk away but was quickly stopped by Fluttershy.

“Well you’ve seen everything and even read some mind so um could you please return to your lamp” Fluttershy asked. Darquesse smiled and turned and grabbed the lamp and crushed it and dropped the remains on the floor.

“The Cutie Mark Crusaders required mind control for them to help me but you’re so gullible I tricked you my mistress, Genie ha they don’t exist outside fiction you fool and now thanks to you I’ll take Celestia’s whole kingdom and destroy everything because of your stupidity”. Darquesse saw Fluttershy was beginning to cry so he zapped her and her dress disappeared. Darquesse chuckled and evaporated into smoke as Fluttershy began crying.

Twilight moved out the main crowd and began scanning the crowd. See could see Rainbow Dash and Applejack on the dance floor and every so often see Pinkie Pie zooming from place to place. She’d lost Rarity into a crowd of Fancy Pants friends. Twilight began looking for one specific pony but couldn’t see her anywhere. She wasn’t with Celestia greeting people so Twilight couldn’t help but wonder where she was. Just then she heard crying behind her. She went to the source of the crying to see Fluttershy curled in a ball crying her eyes out without her dress either.

“Fluttershy what’s wrong and where is your dress”. Fluttershy looked up with tear filled eyes and wiped them away.

“Oh Twilight I’ve made a terrible mistake”. Fluttershy then went and told Twilight all about the Genie and how it had convinced her to bring him here and know says it tricked her and had disappeared.

“Oh my I have to tell the Princess did the Genie have a name” Twilight asked earning a node from Fluttershy.

“Yes his name was Darquesse”. This made Twilight pale and began worrying as the room itself seemed to darken.

“We need to find Princess Celestia quickly”. Twilight and Fluttershy began running through the crowd in search for Celestia. They finally found her talking with Luna near the throne and away from the main crowd. Twilight quickly ran to her teacher and was instantly noticed by both Celestia and Luna.

“Greeting’s Twilight Sparkle how’s your night going” Luna asked and Twilight almost answered but quickly remembered why she was there.

“Celestia we’ve a problem Darquesse is…”

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha” laughter ripped through the air interrupting Twilight and spooking all the guests.

“Well look at this it’s been over a thousand years since I’ve seen so many of my creations in one place and what a place. The Grand Galloping Gala what a pathetic excuse for a party let’s liven this place up”. Two lightning bolts hit the floor and where they hit Darquesse stood leaning on his staff. Applejack instantly recognised him as the thief.

“Hey he’s the one who robbed Sweet Apple Acres”. Applejack ran forward but when she reached Darquesse he summoned a portal which Applejack ran into and then fell out the ceiling, plummeting towards the floor. As the crowd were shocked Rainbow Dash quickly shot forward and caught her friend and brought her down to safety.

Darquesse watched and then caught Applejack’s hat that came loose. He went to throw it away when he smiled and set the hat on fire. When the fire died down it was now black with slits around the whole hat and three holes in the front. Darquesse placed it on his head with his crowns gems placed in the holes of the hat. Darquesse walked forward and grabbed a mare’s scarf and pulled it spinning them around and then wrapped it loosely around his neck. The scarf turned black as the mare stopped spinning revealing her to have been turned into a Changeling.

Darquesse jumped over Celestia and Luna and landed on the throne of Celestia and cleared his voice.

“Mares and Gentlecolts my name is Darquesse and i’m back baby hahaha”. At the mention of his name many of the guests began running for the exits in fear but Darquesse clicked his fingers and all the doors locked and become unmovable. Darquesse teleported into the centre of the room and grabbed two ponies and began to morph them. Black magic washed over them and when it was finished they were both Changeling’s. Darquesse laughed as his minions turned more ponies and began attacking ones they didn’t turn.

“Darquesse!!” Darquesse turned in time to see the yellow beam of magic strike his hat and knock it off along with the crown. Darquesse looked and saw Celestia looking happy with what she had done.

“How dare you that is private property I didn’t come in knocking your crown off your head” he picked the hat and crown up and placed them back on his head. Celestia looked stunned, normally that would have beaten Darquesse there and then. “My dear little pony normally that would work but I’ve merged with this body it’s mine even if I lose the crown I’d still own this body. Now I think it’s time I taught you a lesson in manners”.

Darquesse eye’s glowed as he fired two beams of black energy. Celestia quickly recognised the attack and quickly flew above it.

“Don’t let those eye beams hit you they’ll freeze your heart”. Luna fired a blast of magic but Darquesse slid to the side and then zapped her horn which then created a bright light as Luna was thrown back. “LUNA”.

Twilight ran to Luna’s side and helped her up to see Luna’s horn was covered in a red aura. Luna stood and tried to use her magic but she was zapped by electric for it. Twilight helped Luna up and then her attention turned to Darquesse as her anger began to rise.

Darquesse jumped into the air and hovered as Celestia tried to hit him again but he easily dodged and swung his hand as a red circle of energy flew forward and hit Celestia knocking her to the floor. Celestia slowly stood as Darquesse few attacks had already taken their toll on her. Celestia fired an intense blast of magic. Darquesse smiled and extended his hand and fired a blast of intense black energy. The two beams connected and began forming a ball of energy. Celestia’s knees buckled from the intense weight of Darquesse’s magic. Darquesse could see the lock of magic wasn’t changing. Darquesse cracked his neck as another version of him split from Darquesse.

The clone walked towards Celestia with red and purple vapour forming around his hands. The clone took two steps before a pink blast magic hit the Clone’s back turning it to smoke. Darquesse turned and saw Twilight standing firm with three Unicorn Canterlot Guards. Darquesse smiled and turned his attention back to Celestia. Twilight and the three guards fired a blast of magic at Darquesse’s back. The blasts just before they hit Darquesse split into two separate blasts and went round Darquesse and melted away into the air. Darquesse walked forward to Celestia as he continued to use his magic. Darquesse reached Celestia and discontinued the attack and while Celestia was still weak he grabbed her crown and took it and placed it crookedly on his head. Darquesse walked up the throne stairs and sat in the throne despite more magic being fired at him but again simply going round him.

“Equestria is mine and I think I’ll enjoy having my own kingdom” another blast of magic hit him “all the love in this world will be turned to hate and fear” another magic blast hit him “Equestria will become the… do you mind!!” All the Unicorn’s stopped firing their magic. “I’m trying to conquer and destroy the pony race and you’re blasting away like there’s no tomorrow”.

Luna helped Celestia to her feet and Celestia looked at Darquesse with anger filled eyes.

“As long as I stand I’ll always protect my subjects from you”

“I’m more powerful than anypony” Darquesse lifted his hand up and pointed his hand at Celestia “even you”. With those final words lightning shot from his hands and zapped Celestia sending her back to the floor as Darquesse’s laughter filled the room and frightened the Ponies.

Luna ran towards Darquesse with anger in her eyes.

“Leave my sister alone and fight me instead” Darquesse ended his attack and looked at Luna. “You can’t use magic so I think I’ll pass for now”.

Twilight ran to Celestia’s side and got down to help her but Celestia refused the help.

“No you need to get the Elements of Harmony and use their power to defeat Darquesse”

“do you mean these Elements”. Everypony looked to see Darquesse with one of his legs hung over one of the thrones arms and the elements hanging off his arms and shoulders with Twilight’s crown on his head crookedly. Twilight looked shocked as Rainbow Dash turned to Applejack “we really need to secure those better”.

Darquesse summoned a portal of energy and threw them into of energy. Twilight tried to grab them with her magic and the element became encased in purple magic Darquesse clicked making them be encased in black energy and were sent into the portal.

“If you want them back you’ll have to earn them back going through my maze at the Elements place of birth and you’ll be against the clock if you can’t get them by midday tomorrow then the game is over and Equestria is mine”. Twilight looked at Celestia who nodded which made Twilight look at her friends who nodded too. They all ran at the door but remembered it was blocked by Darquesse’s magic.

“Some elements of harmony can’t even make it past a wooden door how path…” Darquesse was cut off as Twilight blasted the door open and the 7 of them ran out of the room towards the exit. Darquesse frowned and flew through a window and saw the girls and Spike running outside of Canterlot. Darquesse summoned the shadows to his hands and then threw them in front of the group. Where the shadows hit thorns began growing out the ground and began shooting at the group to try and entangle them. Twilight quickly blasted them away and the group kept running.

Darquesse looked at the audience with an annoyed expression on his face. Darquesse clicked and summoned some popcorn and then clicked again setting off his magic.

Twilight looked ahead she could see the train to Ponyville almost ready to leave. Twilight knew they’d get there on time she just hoped they made it in one piece. Just then the ground beneath her began to shake and crack and rise in some places. Twilight saw a piece rising ahead of her so she quickly teleported to the piece as it rose high into the air. Twilight jumped down using the platforms as stairs to the best of her abilities.

Rainbow Dash quickly took to the skies to avoid the rising ground. She looked and saw Twilight ahead of the others with the others only slightly behind her. She saw Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Spike reach another piece of ground before it rose but Applejack was blocked off and then encased in the rising ground. Darquesse could sense Applejack’s predicament so he sent a wave of energy towards the ponies. Rainbow Dash saw the wave of magic hit one of the rising towers which made it explode and cause massive rocks begin falling towards Applejack. Rainbow Dash shot forward and beat the rocks to Applejack and lifted her out safely.

“Thanks Sugercube” Applejack thanked as they flew towards Twilight as she stood near the train waiting for the others.

Rarity and Spike continued to run and jump across the un-risen ground or starting to rise while Pinkie had opted to go high and was jumping across the pillars with a large smile on her face. Pinkie Pie landed and saw Fluttershy shivering with fright.

“Come on Fluttershy we gotta go”

“I can’t I’m too scared”. Pinkie thought for a second and then had an idea. Pinkie grabbed Fluttershy and then quickly ran and jumped on to the next pillar of ground with Fluttershy screaming in fear as they sailed in the air. Pinkie landed and began laughing with excitement. Pinkie looked and saw Fluttershy had fainted. Pinkie quickly threw Fluttershy onto her back and continued jumping towards the others waiting on the train.

Twilight looked from the train as Rarity and Spike arrived and entered the train. Twilight could see Pinkie with Fluttershy on her back. She could also see that the ground that had risen had risen crookedly so they were beginning to smack into each other creating a domino effect making them all begin to fall.

“HURRY PINKIE” she yelled as Pinkie sped up. Just then the train began moving slowly from the station. Pinkie could see this as she began to worry and speed up even more. Pinkie reached the end of the risen ground and could see the train and knew she had to jump. Pinkie took a few steps back and drowned out the sound of destruction behind her. She ran forward and jumped into the air and began descending towards the train. Time seemed to slow as she reached out for the rail at the end of the train. As Pinkie closed in on the train her hoof missed the railing and they began heading into the hard ground. Before they hit they were covered in a purple glow. Pinkie looked to see Twilight in the back doorway with her horn glowing as she brought the two ponies towards and then into the train.

Darquesse watched the whole causing his jaw to drop to his feet and his eyes bulge out the sockets. Darquesse flew back into the room and quickly grabbed his lower jaw and closed it and then pushed his eyes into his sockets. Darquesse looked and saw half of the room were now Changelings and the other half were cowering in the side of the room. Darquesse’s eyes glowed bright green creating a ball of green fire in front of him.

“Ensure those ponies and dragon don’t return” Darquesse ordered. The ball of fire shot into the sky and began following the girls train.

Luna tried to help Celestia but thanks to her inability to access her magic and the fact she was weak too she couldn’t help Celestia up. As Luna tried again she noticed a large shadow covered her and Celestia. Luna looked to see Darquesse hovering above them with his fingers now morphed to a sharp point and were glowing a dull green.

“The girls will be gone for a while so I can turn my attention to you”. Luna eyes widened in fear and she even tried to crawl away but stopped as to not leave Celestia.

“What’s the matter Luna I thought you wanted a fight?”