The Meta

Alright Meta think, Storm said that the bandits were at runners watch.  The Meta was at the center of town and the ruins were northeast of his current position. Nodding to himself, he headed northeast.

So how do you think this is going to go down?  Actual gang or milk drinking wanna-be's.  Sigma inquired.

"I Don't know nor do i care.  I'm just in it for the violence. You know What they say 'violence is always the answer!'"

"Stop right there monster", a voice cried out at The Meta.  Turning they saw what looked like one of the guards from that castle.  Looking him up and down The Meta saw he was wearing bronze armor instead of gold.  "You are under arrest by  the manehattan branch of the town guard remove your weapons and come quietly and you will not be harmed!"

"Under what charges", Sigma asked appearing in front of the guard. The guard stumbled back in surprise and tried to slash Sigma in two with a short sword. "I will repeat myself, under what charges?"

"A-a-assault of 20 royal guards, resisting arrest and attempted murder of the elements of harmony", the guard started nervously but grew in confidence. "So I will repeat myself, you are under arrest'', He said with as much authority as he could muster.

"So I expect the twenty, what was it, royal guards were court marshaled and the ..."

"Elements of harmony."

"Ahh yes, Elements of Harmony were arrested."

"Tell me why that would be monster." he spat the last word out like a eight year old spits out broccoli.

"They tried to arrest us with no charges, the guards attacked us and the same goes for the elements."

"He said the resisted arrest could not have happened because there were no charges and they didn't read us our rights, thus there was no arrest in the first place.  In both cases with the royal guard and the Elements they attacked us without provocation giving us the right to self defense. Anything else?"

The guard just sat there flabbergasted. Before shaking his head. He started to turn to walk away when Meta grabbed his shoulder and pulled him around.

"Hey up do you know where runners watch is?" Sigma asked.

If the guards jaw dropped any lower it would hit oil. "Y-y-y-y your taking on R-r- runners watch", the guard stuttered in amazement "nopony has ever been able to even get close!"

"Then it's a good thing we ain't ponies", The Meta turned and walked in the direction of runners watch. The crowds made way for the giant 6 foot 3 stature.

Twilight was sitting alone in the back of the royal library.  She was doing the [less than ] amazing, she was READING!  There were piles of books all around her, some reaching 30 high.  The more surprising fact was that Celestia was right there next to her.  "Princess, what  are we looking for", Twilight asked.

Celestia looked up from the book she was currently reading ''well . . . What the Meta said got me thinking, what if we are going to have to physically fight him to get him in stone?  Then there's the fact that this is who he is.  With Discord, he wasn't always the embodiment of chaos but when he embodied it the elements couldn't separate it from him so,rather than killing him, they froze him in stone.   With this being . . .", Celestia berried her head in her hands with a sigh.  "I just don't know."

"What do you mean 'you don't know'", Twilight inquired.  She put the book down and turned to her mentor.

"I mean the elements might not effect him. We need and artifact or weapon or something.  I think you know by now that this monster isn't a pony.  Meaning how he's acting could just be part of his nature and the elements can't actually change a beings nature.."

"So what does this mean about Nightmare Moon and Luna?"  Twilight's thoughts were racing faster than a race between Rainbow Dash and Sonic.If that's true then Nightmare is still probably out there.  How could we stop her?  Why am I thinking about this, I've bigger pieces of grass to fry.

"She wasn't real in the first place.  She was always just part of Luna's mind. She got angry and jealous so her mind became unstable, the elements just stabilized her mind.  Now can we get to the task at hand, please?''

"Yeah, sure."  They turned back to the books.  Around them, the piles of books only grew.  They went on like this for several hours. Celestia only got explosive crossbow bolts.  Twilight got a rain of exploding cheese .  "Were did you find that Twilight?  The exploding cheese book."

"Over there in the daderic spells section.  This daderic lord, Shoegorath, looks like he could give discord a run for his bits.  So as it turns out that if we could get some daderic weapons and armor we could take him on no problem but you need a dadera's heart to make it and something called ebony." Twilight explained enthusiastically.

Celestia walked over to the section that Twilight pointed to and started browsing.  There were several books about magical weapons but none of them were readily use able.  Suddenly a book drew Celestia's attention.  Grasping it in her magic she looked at the title.

Weapons of the Dragon-spire,

relics of the old world

Written by Muffinator The Adventurous

Celestia new Muffinator, he was Ditzy Doo's great great great grand father of her mother's side.  Good stallion.  Huh I didn't know he wrote anything on his adventures.  Celestia thought opening the book.  She walked over to the table and sat down.  The First page was a letter.

Greetings,

My name is Muffinator Doo.  I am the best adventurer at this point in time.  This book is by no means fictional and all in formation in this book is as accurate as I can make it.  So allow me to explain the meaning of this book.  I stumbled across stories of old world weapons and armor.  I will state this now, Celestia if you or Luna is reading this then know that I'm sorry.  Why, you ask.  Well it will be abundantly clear in the end.  Now, these weapons and armor are only usable by an individual element of harmony, meaning that the princesses can not use them.  The last and final thing I have to say is, to be able to access these relics you MUST HAVE experienced blood shed and death at your own hands.  I'm sorry but that's how it is.

The ever adventurous,

Muffinator