Nova slowly opened his eyes and forced himself to sit up, his body slightly sore from sleeping on the on the ground. "Man, I really need to organize myself a proper bed or something." he thought, he dragged himself over to the nearby lake and dunked his head straight in, and after a few seconds and a few gulps he pulled his head back out, shaking the water from his head.

Now that he was fully awake, Nova took the time to think of the events that went on in his dream. "So Luna can go into others dreams, I'm pretty sure that's an extreme violation of privacy..... oh god imagine if she walked in on someone having a dream about her? Anyway, seems like they want to punish me, so looks like I'm a fugitive now." Nova finished his thoughts and gave the area a quick look around, everything still looked the same as last night, it was barely any brighter as well.

"I guess that it's just naturally dark in this forest, though I'm not sure if the word natural actually applies here." Nova finally got to his feet, sick of standing around and doing nothing, he quickly took off back into the forest.

Meanwhile, Twilight and her friends had all just woken up and gone about their regular days, Twilight decided to completely re-organize her books for the day, and by Twilight, she actually meant a certain Purple dragon, Applejack and Rarity were both at home coming up with chores for their little sisters as punishment for wandering into the Everfree and Pinkie Pie had to work in the bakery that day.

The only two that were even near each other were Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, Rainbow had promised to help her after she received a large amount of animals from Canterlot after the city fell.
"Just another problem that screwball Nova caused, it's like he's trying to make every ones life harder!" Rainbow complained, carrying a large bag of animal feed to the new animals.
"I swear if I ever get my hooves on him..." This was one of the rare occasions where Fluttershy actually rolled her eyes at one of her friends' comments, although she may be a coward, at least she knew when something was way from trouble then what its worth, trying to get along with most of the animals in the Everfree had taught her that lesson, although she would never let Rainbow actually see her doing it.
"So..... how many animals did get moved here anyway?" Rainbow asked. "Um..... not that many.... most of them were the birds, a lot of others got moved to other areas, since I..... don't have that much room for that many animals." Rainbow simply nodded in response and the two of them returned to work.

Around the same time, Celestia sat at her dining table, her sister sitting next to her, having just finished telling her sister about the events of last night.
"So, to summarize, you went into Nova's dreams, and all you saw was a large beautiful landscape? I must say for his actions it seems rather odd for him to have such.... Peaceful dreams." Luna nodded in agreement.
"It was quite surreal, what really caught us me off guard was the music, I'm embarrassed to admit that the dream managed to trap me in its calming aura, though I doubt I could have done anything to Nova in his dreams anyway, since he seemed to be able to control his own."
"So, he plans on exploring the entire world? that will make tracking him..... difficult, especially since you said he's willing to fight for his freedom, though I'm surprised he admitted what he did was wrong, then again it just shows how irresponsible he is towards his mistakes." Luna raised an eyebrow towards her sister. "Maybe so, he did say he might turn himself in after he's done.... though if he plans to explore the entire world, that may take a few years." Celestia nodded, and suddenly let out a small burp, quickly covering her mouth in embarrassment.
"My sister, your table manner have really taken a dive haven't they?" They both shared a small laugh, before Celestia sighed and stood up and started to head for the door. "We'll have to talk more on this later, unfortunately I have a city in crisis to deal with at the moment." Luna laughed at the last part. "I remember hearing someone came in and complained that their fish bowl had flooded, certainly a major crisis." Celestia stopped for a second, but eventually she just walked off, saying a quick goodbye, it wasn't long after Celestia had left that Luna realised what she just said.
"Some..... one......." She sighed and finished her lunch, her thoughts still wrapped in the conversation from last nights dream.

Nova had come to the conclusion that this forest was more than just a little strange, it was downright dangerous, at least for those without the means to defend themselves, like small children. "Honestly, what kind of supervision do they have going on in that town if they freely allowed their children to wander into a forest filled with living wood wolves and bloody manticores." he said as he kicked the body of the recently killed manticore in front of him, it had jumped out of the nearby brush, probably hoping to get an easy meal, only to have its skull shattered as Nova smacked it away, he sighed and wiped the blood off his hands, turning his attention to the large cave he had just found.

The entrance to the cave was massive, easy enough to fit something the size of a two story building inside, though such a thought would usually make someone nervous, this only made Nova want to dive straight inside and investigate, along the sides of the entrance were large claw marks.
"It seems that whatever lives here is a large, clawed creature that seemed to have the ability to carve through stone with a swipe of its claw... not only that, but that also means it's smart enough to make itself at home by carving one out for itself." finishing his analysis of the outside, Nova peered deeper into the cave, he couldn't see that far inside.
"Hmm, either there's some form of light deep inside, or the creature can see in the dark." Nova rolled up the sleeve of his right arm as he slowly made his way inside, as the arm became exposed, its glow barely lit up the area, he focused on as it slowly charged with power, and the glow became brighter, he continued to do this until he was able to clearly see the inside of the cave.
"My god I'm a walking torch." He thought to himself as he walked through the cave, roots stuck out of the walls and roof, but they seemed to have been forced to the sides of the cave, creating a natural support system for the cave.
It didn't take long before he found himself at the bottom of the cave, only to be completely surrounded by piles of gold, jewels and other kinds of treasure.

"Okay, let's look over the facts, this cave is home to a large creature with massive claws able to carve through the stone, the creature has shown signs of intelligence in creating a home for itself." Nova turned back around to face the entrance of the cave. "And then supporting the cave with the roots, and now I find myself surrounded by piles of treasure......." Before he could finish his thoughts, the ground around him started to shake, the piles of gold surrounding him started to fall over, he quickly turned to see what was happening, only to come face to face with a massive eye, staring directly at him.
Nova wondered what he should do.
"Should I scream? should I run? Should I poke it as hard as possible? Wait, what?" before he even knew what he was doing, his right hand had already reached out and poked the giant reptilian eye, the power he had been building up inside it had an instant effect on it, by instantly destroying the eye. "Oh sh-" Nova tried to say as the dragon let out an ear deafening roar.

Meanwhile, the collective population of Ponyville either wet themselves or froze in fear, a massive roar rang out across the entire area, Twilight stared outside her Libraries window, looking towards the source of the roar.
"That can't be good, I better see if I can round up the girls, just in case." She quickly dashed past her currently napping assistant and galloped to the center of the town, thankfully, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie were already there.
"Thank goodness most of you are already here! but, where are Rainbow and Flutershy?" Twilight asked as she looked over the area for them.
"Oh, Dashie said she was helping Fluttershy at her house today! you know, the one rrreeeeaaaalllllyyyy close the Everfree?" Pinkie replied, Applejack held off the urge to face-hoof.
"We all know what Rainbow is gonna do, and Fluttershy is probably gonna get roped into it as well." Twilight let out an annoyed sigh. "Come on, let's see if they're still at the house." The four mares quickly ran through the streets filled with panicking ponies, each trying to get back to the safety of their homes.

Elsewhere, Rainbow and Fluttershy were currently flying towards the source of the roar, the trees of the Everfree blocking the view of the ground.
"R-Rainbow! we shouldn't be doing this!" Fluttershy said, trying to convince her hot headed friend to reconsider. "We need at know what that was! if it's Nova up to no good again, then we need to be ready for whatever it is." Fluttershy wanted to turn back, but she knew she couldn't leave Rainbow alone either, she was about to raise another argument, but didn't have the chance as the ground and trees below then erupted from the ground.

A few moments before this, Twilight and her group arrived at Fluttershys house, only to see two pegasus flying above the Everfree in the distant sky. "Oh my, it appears Applejack was right." Rarity muttered, Twilight once again let out an annoyed sigh in response. "It going to take us a while to catch up with them, so lets ge-" Twilight was interrupted when the ground suddenly shook, she looked into the distance, her eyes went wide when she saw what had caused the small earthquake.

Nova had once again, upset the locals by mistake, either due to him being in shock or some other reason that sounds just as stupid, Nova had not only poked a massive dragon in the eye, but he had also completely destroyed it with the built up power inside it, the result was a really pissed off, giant, fire breathing dragon that was now out for blood.

Nova had managed to react quickly enough to warp a fair distance away from the dragon, he turned and made his way out of the cave, the dragons quickly clawing its way behind him, however, with some quick thinking, Nova struck the roots supporting the cave system, and behind him the cave slowly began to collapse onto the dragon, although it only seemed to piss off the creature even more rather then help slowing or trapping it.

Eventually Nova broke out into the Everfree and instantly took the sky, the dragon erupted out of the earth beneath him, causing most of the area to break apart and collapse into the now destroyed cave system, after reaching a reasonable height, Nova slowly turned around to face the raging dragon.

It was a huge beast, easily dwarfing him in size, it was covered in dark blue scales, the blood running from its destroyed eye clashing against his face, his analysis was broken, however when a Rainbow blur smashed into him, knocking him off balance, he grabbed onto the object, only to find himself grappling with Rainbow Dash.
"What do you think you're doing?! Trying to cause an earthquake? Summon and ancient evil?! I won't let you!" She screamed nonsense at him, causing Nova to quickly lose both his patience and his reasonable attitude.

Nova forced himself and float upright, he wrapped his arm around Rainbows neck and forced her to stare at the large dragon bellow.
"First of all you're a fucking moron for attacking me, second, that is the real problem, and third if you try something like that again I'll
Tear off your wings, you understand me?" Nova slightly tightened the pressure on her throat, she quickly nodded in response, Nova pushed her away just as Fluttershy caught up with them.
"Well, that' two of the six, where are the rest of your merry brigade?" Both of the pegasi stared at him strangely, not understanding the insult, however, all three were quickly reminded about the enraged beast bellow them as it tried to roast them alive, Fluttershy and Rainbow flew out of the way as Nova simply warped out of the way.

Twilight and her group finally managed to catch up, above them, Fluttershy, Rainbow and Nova all flew above the massive dragon, it didn't take long for her to guess what had happened when she saw its bleeding eye.
"I swear it's like he's trying to make our lives harder just by existing!" Twilight shouted, catching the attention of the group in the sky, she suddenly came face to face with Nova.
"If I really wanted to, I could make your life worse than hell itself, just keep that in mind." Out of reflex, Twilight attempted to teleport herself backwards, Nova, not knowing what the spell was, slapped her in response, causing her to fall over.
"No, Fuck off." The others stood there in shock, but they couldn't find the courage to speak out properly, Nova's aura was slowly starting to build up, stopping them from doing anything.

Nova sighed as Twilight picked herself back up, the stress of the situation was starting to have a large effect on his mental well being.
"Okay, so I pissed off a dragon, whoops, now can you six please deal with it?" Applejack scoffed. "What? you expect us yo clean up your problem?" Nova shot her a dark glance. "Do you want it to rain dragon gore for the rest of the day? Because if you want me to deal with this, it will involve a very dead dragon as its solution."
Said dragon was currently rampaging around in the opposite direction, blinded by pain, fury and actually being blind in one eye, most of the forest was starting to catch on fire, and the ground shock as it stomped the area, Twilight finally decided to take action.
"Fine! If you won't do anything, we will handle the situation." she galloped past Nova and headed for the dragon, the other mares following behind her.

Nova let out a loud sigh.
"All I wanted to do was explore a cave, and now I've destroyed a large part of the forest and gotten the fucking Elements involves, man my day has just turned out awesome." He quickly looked back towards the mares, only to see them slowly rising off the ground, each in a familiar position, except this time, they were facing the other way.
Something snapped inside him, the sight of that 'attack' causing his mind to go into over drive, in an instant he appeared back in front of the elements just before they shot their beam of mind melting out, he summoned and raised his shield and took the entire force of the spell.
"I will not allow you to use those fucked up elements again!" Nova's shield absorbed more and more of the spell, and pressure slowly starting to build up, Nova concentrated, and just as the beam ended, unleashed it all directly back at them.
Twilight and her group had no time to react, just as they touched the ground, the reverted Elements of Harmony struck them, each mare screamed out as they felt 'something' being torn out of them, to them it felt like something was reaching through to their souls and forcefully ripping out a part of them.

Eventually it stopped, each mare was left there panting, Nova was just about to say something, but was interrupted by having to block a torrent of flame coming from behind him, the dragon had noticed the light show and had found the source of its pain, and was now focusing all its wrath on him, Nova raised his shield to absorb it, but the fire kept coming, seemingly endless.
"I swear, although I made this happen, if you don't stop soon, I'll fucking end it as well." Meanwhile, the six mares sat their speechless, as each of their elements laid in front of them, everything but the gems had been destroyed.

It was only now, after Nova had released such a extreme burst of energy, that both Celestia and Luna appeared, this time however, both were prepared, each had equipped what appeared to be powerful armour, and each held their divine weapons, Luna held her scythe from before, and Celestia wielded a massive gold and red hammer.
"We have found you Nova, and- Twilight!" Celestia had started to talk to Nova, but only to see her student and her friends sitting there, staring at what was left of their elements. "No.... he didn't, I refuse to believe it." Luna shook her thoughts away, clearing her head. "Sister, we must take the elements away from here, we may now have an even bigger problem than we thought now." Celestia snapped out of her own stupor and nodded to her sister, she turned towards Nova, who was currently still holding the flames back.
"Count yourself lucky today Nova, for at this moment you find yourself in a position we would gladly take advantage of." Nova quickly looked behind him.
"Fuck off you miserable arse wipe." Nova elegantly responded, Celestia scoffed at his response, before she and her sister teleported both the mares and their shattered elements away to safety.

Nova was actually starting to feel the heat of the dragons fire, his shield would eventually reach its limit and unleash, by this point he desperately searched for a way out of this stupid problem he had created, but nothing came to him, he let out a quiet sigh, a sudden feeling of guilt filled him.
"Sorry, but it seems like the limit has been reached, hope it's instant for you." A few things happened then, a new flame entered the battle, a white flame blinding anything that looked its way, it quickly overpowered the dragons own flame and shot directly down its throat, completely burning it from the inside almost instantly, the flame was drenched in divine power, further increasing its potency, it wasn't before long that the only thing left was burnt bones.
Nova observed the area around him, it was either destroyed or burning, the dragon now laid there as a pile of bones, having caught fire from the inside.
"I think..... I've explored enough of the Everfree for today."
With that thought, Nova disappeared completely from the area, he reappeared in the ruins, and slowly made his way around, his thoughts cluttered with different emotions of disgust, anger and sadness.

Eventually he found his was into one of the old tower rooms, a bed with a lounge and book case filled it, Nova collapse down onto the bed. "Maybe I really am a monster after all? no..... a bad choice lead to a bad outcome, though it really is all my fault, but those fucking ponies, trying to use those...... disgusting elements against the dragon" Nova let out a sinister smile. "Lets see how they like having a part of who they are taken away..."

Celestia eventually appeared where Nova once stood, the sight caused her to catch her breath, the destruction on the surrounding area was both awe inspiring and terrifying, she stared at the bones of the dragon for a while.
"I swear, I will bring you to justice for this Nova." she thought to herself, a fury she had not felt in a long time had started to build up inside her. Eventually she teleported away, leaving the disturbing sight, the area filled with the stench of burnt meat.

Author's Note

Well that took me a while.
also eventually this will be a thing.