The Last Equestrian War

+CHAPTER VI+

The secret that keeps all together – PART 1

Twilight Sparkle looks to your eyes as she remembers you never were to Equestria. You are an outsider, never came to these lands, and this destruction was not in the list of things you expected. You always heard of it as a land of majesty, a land of freedom and happiness, where troubles were uncommon, but did happen. The tale spoken by the old Mare alone freaked you out immensely, what kind of dark tale is that? You did know that some kingdoms were forged on wars and battles, but that was a tale of just plain disgrace to the lives of the princesses. Focusing back to reality, you turn your head back to your last focus of worry, Spike the dragon. You turn to Twilight Sparkle, begging forgiveness to her and hurrying to the purple teen dragon. What surprises you the most is how strong the little fellow is! After receiving a strong blow like that, and from a pony the size of Big Macintosh’s, he’s on his knees, just breathing slowly to regain his consciousness. On his side stands a very worried Sweetie Belle, she looks to his eyes with care as she is sobbing.

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“Why are you crying, Sweetie Belle...?” Spike said as he looked down. “Why are you caring for me…?” He looked away from her saddened eyes.

“L-Look, I’m sorry! You were always there for us… For our sister, for our family…” She looked down, trying to hide her weakness. “You fought a fucking wyvern to avenge my sister and I did nothing to thank you...” She looks in his eyes, red in her own eyes. She remembered how she usually made so much fun of the poor dragon for his questionable love decisions, now, mature enough; she could finally question him without fooling around. “Y-You did loved her, didn’t you?” Her eyes filled with tears.

“I…” He looked down, struck by her question. Emotions of a long lost past flowing again as the dragon’s heart was melting. “I don’t know what the hell was really wrong with me… I decided to love someone way older than me…” Spike closed his eyes, looking up and closing his fists. “She was beautiful as the blooming flowers… Beautiful as all the gems she ever gave me!!” The dragon, in anger and sadness, punches the ground, tearing through his eyes as you can feel his sadness puncturing your heart like arrows. “I was too late!! I was always too late…”

“Spike! Don’t say that!” Sweetie Belle forcefully hugged Spike. “You couldn’t have saved my sister, which is true. You couldn’t have saved my parents and that is true…” She is looking on his eyes with a sad smile. “But you saved me… You protected me ever since this shit storm of a curse struck Equestria… Even if you didn’t knew, you protected me from any invader that ever came towards this city. Every time he or she tried to attack me, you were there to attack him or her… Spike, I remember each of the scars you acquired… There are so many wounds that you have that...” She was blushing. “They were to protect me… I thank you for that…” Sweetie Belle moved towards Spike, kissing his muzzle as her cheeks were on fire.

Spike’s action could be any, as you fear for his decision, you near the two creatures, soon sighing relieved as the young dragon wraps his arms around her back. He puts his head over her neck as you hear Sweetie Belle’s gentle sobs of relief as she could finally talk to someone she was so afraid to ever beg forgiveness to. Spike looks to your eyes with a small smile of happiness, he then nods to you and motions his lips for you to talk with Twilight Sparkle.

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As you walk towards the top of the library, you see Twilight Sparkle in the center of a mystical room. Seven colored candles lighted the room from seven different spots. The six from the room’s corners were representing words that filled you with a warm feeling. Generosity, Kindness, Laughter, Magic, Honesty and Loyalty were the words that stood under the candles, their embers shone with power and it filled you with an overall feeling of peace. The last candle stood above a metallic stand on the room’s end the candle was white and its flame was blue. Twilight Sparkle comes to you with the book, blowing the dust away from it, she puts the book on the metallic stand and she smiles once you approach a picture that drew your curiosity. It was a picture of Twilight Sparkle herself, alongside the ponies that Sweetie Belle and her friends described to you:

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Twilight Sparkle:

“You wonder how I met these ponies, don’t you?” Twilight Sparkle questioned you, once you looked to the ponies in the picture. “They were the first ponies I ever befriended in my whole life…” She closes her eyes. “They were ponies that helped me on becoming somepony...” She held a hoof close to her chest. “When I was young… Lost in so many books and study, I never found friendship or… Any kind of reason for a finding a friend or so… It was ridiculous, I know… I had my older brother as a friend, and I thought it was enough, never really cared for finding another pony out there as a true friend…” Twilight Sparkle looks up, wondering your thoughts. “When I came to this city, it was an assignment to take care of a celebration party… By this time, my brother was already a Royal Guard, had barely any time left for me, and all company I ever had was the poor little Spike… But all the ponies you see in this picture, they all helped me…” Twilight Sparkle walks towards the candle of Loyalty as she places a picture under it. “Rainbow Dash, who rests in peace, helped me with anything that needed her reflex, never denied me a help; she left to the battlefields to help the Moon Herald fight in the front lines... She was crushed by a horrible monster and now rests in peace… She was the main essence of Loyalty.” You look to the candle with the word of Loyalty as you see the picture of Rainbow Dash, the mare of cyan coat, a rainbow-colored mane and beautiful pink eyes, her picture gives a beauty to  the candle, as you understand the essence that she was to the word of loyalty. “Applejack, I could always rely on her strength and honesty, she always would help me with the hardest of chores, even though a little stubborn, she is the strongest of the mares I have ever met…” Twilight Sparkle puts another picture under the candle of Honesty. As you look to the picture, you see the mare that represents Honesty, a strong mare, her green eyes peer at your soul, her blonde mane and orange skin beautifully crafted, giving Honesty a perfect representation on this land. “Rarity, she was kind, generous to help everyone in need… No matter who needed her, she was there for the pony… Until that wyvern attacked Ponyville and killed her… She was preparing to become a soldier herself, but this preparation had to be halted by this attack… She thought of her sister and ran back home, but her lack of preparation led to her demise in the hands of that monster. ” Twilight left another picture under the candle of Generosity, you see the white mare, her blue eyes and purple mane contemplate her beauty, a horn adds to her beauty as you close your eyes, Sweetie Belle in your thoughts. Finally you have a clear picture of who was her sister. “Pinkie Pie… Ah Pinkie Pie… Never losing hope… Even in this age of darkness, she is keeping such hope and laughter, it keeps me warm to see her every now and then… She is so happy and agile; she never fails to entertain us all with the stories of her battles… Even that we know it is dark and gritty; she turns it all into something good to be heard… She is still alive, though!” Twilight Sparkle tells you, handling a small picture for you, a pink pony and her mane is a mess, but her eyes show so much determination and hope, you wonder if she’s going to come out of the picture, her smile is overflowing with emotion and you can’t help but smile when you look to it. “The last one is a pony that mourns our losses as these ponies that died were all close friends to her… Her name is Fluttershy and she is a lot timid and shy, but she has quite a bad habit when we are all threatened in combat… I never go to battle; I have to secure this city… But after Rainbow Dash died, she turned to something so much more dark and sinister… It is weird to say… Yet she is a kind pony to all of us… Our friends… She is a pony with a huge heart, wouldn’t dare to hurt even a stone, if it had feelings… But if they hurt us, spells help whoever did such a thing, because she enters a state of bloodlust I myself can barely help her contain…” You look to Twilight Sparkle in quite a shock, thinking how hard a pony’s death could be a shock to someone. Determined to find her and help her, you pick a picture of this pony called Fluttershy, you see a beautiful yellow pony, her blue-green-ish eyes are beautiful, and her pink mane shows you quite a look of a timid pony, but really, as Twilight said, someone that could hold quite a heart of a princess. “Oh well, look at me telling me the story of my friends…” Twilight Sparkle tells you, shaking her head negatively. “I called you here to show you the secrets that still keep this earth together, and I did show you only one… Please, follow me.” Twilight Sparkle calls you as you both walk towards the book in front of an iron stand. It was a book with metal plating, writings in old equestrian, a language that you didn’t understood.  “These here are the stories of the elements that still hold the world of Equestria together… I just explained you the most basic of them all… The Elements of Harmony… I, the Herald of Magic, represent the final element, Magic. My friends, even the dead ones, their spirits still live on the candles, ready to fulfil their duty as the elements… Still there are many other elements to explain… Let me show you them all…” Twilight Sparkle told you as you paid close attention to her words.

[TO BE CONTINUED]