Moon's Blade and the Crystals of Chaos

Chapter 15:
The Grand Finale

I opened my eyes and waited until everything became clear.

I looked at the fight. Only a handful of soldiers were left. They struggled in their fight against the shadow. The mountain was littered with corpses. Smashed, crushed, pierced. Blood and flesh was all over the place. The only ones who were left were the princesses, the six other ponies, I and some soldiers, who were quickly slain by the shadow.

"You've returned," Celestia said, "Are you ready to perform the ritual?"

I nodded.

The princesses started to cast a spell that paralysed the shadow. After that the other ponies used the elements of harmony again. They focused the power of the elements on my blade, which I held skyward, pointing to a hole in the storm through which the crescent moon in the sky was visible.

It was as if my sword started to charge up. The ponies then focused the elements on the shadow, which started to roar in pain. I then pointed my sword towards the beast. Bolts came out of my blade and struck the shadow. Slowly, the shadow started to retreat into the crystal.

After a while the shadow had fully disappeared in the shadow. The sky cleared up and the night-sky was fully visible.

"Is it over?" Twilight asked.

"I guess it is." I replied to her.

"I expected him to put up more of a fight!" Rainbow Dash said lofty.

The other ponies looked angrily at her.

"But maybe it's better that it didn't..." She said, a bit ashamed of what she said earlier.

We started to laugh.

The Chaos Crystal was still there however.

"Do not let your guard down!" Celestia said, "I still sense power emanating from the crystal."

"But we defeated that evil shadowy thing!" Pinkie said.

"I'm afraid it was just one of its illusions," Luna explained, "The crystal is capable of much more. Should have known that we had to target the crystal itself..."

"So, when is it going to strike again?" Pinkie asked.

But as soon as she had said that, the crystal started to float up in the air again. The world around us started to disappear and after a while it looked like we were standing on a piece of floating land in the middle of space.

"What happened?" Twilight asked.

"It has sent us back to the beginning of time," Celestia explained, "Even before Luna and I existed."

We gasped.

"Will we ever be able to return to our time?" Rarity asked panicky.

"Maybe we will," Celestia said, but she doubted her own words, "But we'll have to defend ourselves."

We agreed.

"There's no other choice left," I said, "We must fight the crystal."

The others concurred and we prepared for battle.

The crystals summoned several shadows, much like before, but seemingly smaller and weaker. We fought them together as a team, the unicorns and princesses with their magic, me with my sword and the rest with purely their own strength. The crystals kept summoning shadows, as if there was no end to it.

"It's no use," Twilight said, "They'll keep coming. Maybe we should stop and give up, it's hopeless anyways..."

"Why do you think of giving up so easily?" I asked her, surprised by her giving up so easily.

"Because it's no use, it's stronger than we are." She didn't sound like Twilight at all.

"She's possessed by the crystal!" Applejack shouted out, which explained her unusual behaviour.

Her shouting seemed to trigger a change, and Twilight started to fire spells at me. I narrowly dodged them and knocked Twilight away. She seemed unconscious for a moment, then awoke.

"What happened?" She asked, and I quickly explained to her what happened in a nutshell.

After that, we continued fighting the shadows. It was still as if there was no end to it.

"Screw the shadows, let's fight the crystal!" Rainbow said, and as reckless as it sounded, I agreed.

I finished off the shadow that I were fighting and flew towards the crystal. Several other shadows started to target me.

"Could you get rid of them?" I asked.

Dash and Twilight started to focus on the shadows that were targeting me, and they quickly got their attention.

I tried to stab the crystal, but it was too hard to damage.

"Bah, we'll need something else to finish this thing off..." I muttered.

I looked at the others, hoping I could find a clue in them. Then I suddenly realised we still had the elements of harmony. It may not have succeeded in destroying the crystal before, but another try would be worth it.

"We need to use the elements of harmony!" I shouted out, "There's no other way to destroy the crystal!"

The others were too busy fighting off the shadows to notice, so I started to assist the others and told them my plan.

"First, we'll have to find a safe spot, next we'll need the princesses to cast a barrier that will protect us. After that, we'll need to charge up my sword and it is then that I'll strike the crystal with all I have."

One after the other they started to collect at an open spot.

We fought off a few shadows and at last the princesses casted a barrier. Twilight and the rest started to use the elements of harmony again, and again I held my sword skyward. Slowly my sword filled with power.

"We can't keep up any longer!" Luna said tiredly.

At last my sword was fully charged. The princesses were too exhausted to keep up the barrier, and thus it shattered. I had to finish it. It was our only chance. To save Equestria, no, the world!

I rushed towards the crystal, ignoring all the shadows that tried to stop me. At last I jumped and were ready to stab the crystal. Suddenly all my memories of Ponyville rushed through my mind. The time we've spent together. It couldn't be over. I had to do this, for my friends.

"For Equestria!" I shouted as I neared the crystal.

My sword pierced through the crystal, which started to shine bright. Cracks appeared in it and a huge explosion appeared and blew me off the floating platform, into deep space.

My sight slowly faded. It was over, I had accomplished that what I had to do. The crystal was destroyed, and with it was I. I could only hope for a golden age.

An age where Equestria and its citizens would live in peace.