Celestia re-appeared inside Twilights home, she quickly looked around her, the elements sat around the area, each of their faces devoid of all emotions. Spike had woken up a while ago and was currently making sure each of the girls was at least comfortable, Celestia smiled at that, glad to see Twilights assistant worried for his friends.

Luna was also there, she stood at a table near the centre of the room, sitting atop said table were the gems of the elements of harmony, each one of them, usually a bright colour, was currently dulled and appeared lifeless, as if to match their bearers.
Luna let out deep sigh, turning to face her sister.
"It is as we feared, though I don't know how, it seems that Nova has managed to cut off the elements from their bearers." She turned to face the six girls, her frowned deepened.
"As you can guess, such a forceful removal has left quite the affect on the girls." Celestia walked up to the table, looking over the six gems.
"I don't understand, how could the elements even affect themselves? As far as I know, they have only ever worked on those who have actually done something to disrupt the harmony in Equestria." Luna suddenly smirked. "I think I may already have the answer for that, from our uses of the elements, they have had a series of different effects on who they were used on." Celestia nodded. "Yes..... I remember quite well, they turned Discord to stone, then, they banished Sombera into the ice." Celestia deliberately stopped at this point, not wanting to remind Luna of her banishment. Luna continued on. "So, we both know the elements seem to have almost random effects on those they affect, now, how did they affect Nova again?" Celestia thought for a second.

"If I remember what Twilight said, he apparently said something about it destroying his mind, or at least a part of it." she recalled, Luna nodded. "That's correct, so the effect on Nova is that it target his mind and seems to either purify or destroy it, now, you remember that shield he has?" The answer instantly crossed Celestia's mind.
"He..... reflected the elements effect right back at them, and destroyed their connections to it." Luna quickly shook her head. "If that was the case, we would have even bigger problems, thankfully it seems that they managed to hold onto a small amount of their connection to them, though I doubt they will actually be able to use them for some time." Luna turned to face the mares. "Especially in the condition they're currently in."

Celestia walked over to her student and sat down next to her, Twilight barely reacted.
"Twilight, can you understand me?" she asked, getting a slow nod in response, Spike was also sitting next to Twilight, a worried look on his face.
"Hey, Twilight? please tell me you're going to be okay?" he asked, Twilight opened her mouth, but she couldn't make herself talk, Celestia extended a wing over both Twilight and Spike, trying to comfort them.
"I'm sure she will be Spike, though I will not sugar coat it, it will take a while for her to get back to normal." She stopped and looked at the other mares and sighs.
"It will take all of them a while to heal." Twilight opened her mouth again. "We....... did bad..... shouldn't.... attack him." Twilight stuttered out, tears formed in her eyes, causing Celestia hugged her student a little tighter. "Do not force yourself Twilight, his divine energy is still having a strong affect on you, it may take a while to fade, for now, you must rest." Twilight nodded in response.

Luna picked up the elements and placed them inside a golden box, quickly teleporting it away.
"I will secure a safe location for the elements, we may need to study them if they don't automatically try to reconnect to the bearers, what shall you do sister?" Celestia took a moment to think before responding. "I will need to return to Canterlot eventually, things are still chaotic there, though I would rather stay and watch over the girls....." Spike suddenly spoke up. "I can take care of the girls your majesty! so you don't need to worry about that." Celestia smiled at that, thankful that Twilight had raised her assistant to be such a caring person.
"Thank you Spike, but please, don't hesitate to send me a letter if things get out of hand." he nodded.
"For now, though, I will stay here, just to make sure." she said to her little sister, Luna nodded and walked towards the door. "I will take care of things in Canterlot for today then." With that, she flew away towards Canterlot, leaving Celestia, Spike and the mares in the library.

Meanwhile, Nova had already awoken from his brief nap and had spent some time thinking about the events that had just occurred, he brought his right hand up to his eye level, it still tingled and glowed with his power.
"Poor bastard didn't need to die, if I'm going to really travel, I'll need to learn how to properly control myself, these.... impulses I've been having ever since the elements hit me are causing a lot of problems." He thought to himself, a small frown appeared on his face.
"Although it seems I've dealt with the elements for the time being, there's still Celestia and Luna to worry about." He quickly thought back to the moment they appeared behind him, for a brief moment, he felt an overwhelming amount of pressure coming off of them, though thankfully they had their hands full with the elements being put through the same punishment he went through when they first hit him.
"Well, I've explored a fair amount of the area.... and destroyed the rest of it, I think it may be time to move on, though if I'm going to be travelling, I may need a map to help pick out my destinations." Nova thought for a second, before an idea popped into his mind. "Wait.... there is that town nearby that the three fillies mentioned..... but that also means that's where the elements most likely live, and after what I've done, I doubt Celestia or Luna would simply leave them alone, ah... but if that is the case, they won't be expecting me to come to town anyway, and even if they do, the elements are currently out of commission, therefore, now would be the best time to quickly have a run through the town and pick up a map." With this decided, Nova jumped off the bed he had been laying down on, and quickly headed out the castle.

As he existed in the castle, he looked down the giant chasm that divided it from the rest of the Everfree, he stopped halfway over the old bridge and scanned the sides of the chasm.
"hmmm... there...... some stairs appear to be leading down towards the bottom....." Once again, Nova's curiosity started to flare up, he went to run across the bridge, only to place too much weight down onto it, causing it to break.
"Oh fuck!" Nova screamed as he quickly fell down the massive chasm, however, it didn't take long for Nova to remember he could in fact fly, after a brief thought, he quickly slowed his decent to a much more comfortable pace.
"I really need to start practising with my powers more...." It didn't take long before he touched down onto the ground, the staircase was conveniently right next to him.
"Well at least I won't have to wander around to find the way out.... wait god dammit, I could just fly out." face palming himself, he quickly made his way deeper into the chasm, it wasn't before long he felt something strange, the air seemed to become thick with a strange power, Nova felt as if he shouldn't be here, but he ignored it and press onwards.
"What the..." were his first words when he finally saw it, there before him stood a large, crystal tree.

An overwhelming feeling of peace seemed to flood out from the tree, however, Nova noticed something very disturbing about the tree. "Those symbols..... They're the same as the elements, what does that mean the elements of harmony come from here? or maybe they get their power from the tree..... wait if they actually do come from the tree itself, does that make them fruit?" Novas thoughts were all over the place, however one thing was clear to him. "I should probably leave this thing alone." he couldn't really explain it himself, but he somehow knew that the strange tree should be left alone, despite its clear connection to the elements, Nova quickly turned to leave the way he came, leaving the tree untouched.

It was almost night by the time Nova reached the outskirts of the town, he sighed internally at the name of the place. "Ponyville? I really hope this doesn't become a running theme or I'll eat my hat..... Wait, I don't have a hat." Nova peered down what he guessed was the main street of the town, the twilight glow from the setting sun gave the area a peaceful area, there were only a few ponies further down the street, they appeared to be closing down stalls for the night. "Guess this place doesn't do late night shopping then, this really is a small rustic town, isn't it?" he thought to himself, admiring the simplicity of the town.

Although he was sure he could deal with any problem that may arise if he were to be seen, Nova decided to close to the alleyways of the small town, occasionally crossing into the bigger streets to get to the next alleyway, along the way he made sure to make note of land marks along the way. "Dear lord, that shop looks like it's actually made of candy.... maybe a witch lives there?" He said, a small chuckle escaping his mouth, before long enough, he found the type of building he was looking for. "Hmm, it has a book as its sign, but it's in a tree? that just seems like a fire risk waiting to happen." Nova raised his hand to knock on the door. "Wait.." He slowly brought his hand down from the door. "If all the other shops are already closed, it probably means this place has closed for the night as well." He looked around the side of the tree house, spotting a nearby window, light barely made its way through the curtain, Nova simply shrugged. "No, I shouldn't break in either, with my luck so far I'll just make more problems for myself anyway, so where to go now?" Nova turned back to the street behind him, the sun had long since disappeared, the only light available was the moonlight and the lights from inside the many homes nearby, with a small sigh escaping his lips, Nova made his way down the darkened street.

A few moments later, Spike opened the door of the library. "That's weird, I thought I heard somepony talking...." He shrugged it off and quickly closed the door again.

After wandering around the dark streets for a while, Nova eventually found his way into the local park, he laughed to himself as he took a seat on one of the benches. "Dear lord, it's like I've become a hobo or something, though I suppose it beats the ground, or the bark of a tree." He shot a glance up towards the night sky. "It really is a beautiful sky." he thought to himself, after star gazing for a while, he simply laid down onto the bench and closed his eyes.

It wasn't before long that Nova 'woke up' in his dream, the same calming landscape laid out before him, however one thing stood out that made him sigh in frustration.
"Hello Luna, it didn't take long for you to appear did it?" he said, making sure she could hear the annoyance in his tone, though she simple chose to ignore it. "The last time we were here, I recall you saying all you wish to do is travel, if that is truly the case then why did you-" before she could finish however, Nova had grabbed her by the snout, quickly shutting her up. "How dare you come into my place of rest, uninvited, and you start your visit by questioning me?"
Nova slowly applied more and more pressure, the pain causing Luna to flinch a little.
"All you need to know is that I gave the elements a taste of what they inflicted onto me, and what they may have done to the bloody dragon if I had not reflected their spell." Luna pushed Nova's hand off of her.

"The elements are one of Equestria's best defensive, if you had completely cut them off from their bearers, you would undo everything they have done recently." Nova scoffed. "Pray tell, what have those elements done recently? no wait, let me guess, judging by what they did to me, did they..... banish someone to hell itself? forever trap someone, leaving them to a fate worse then death? because as far as I can tell, your so called 'elements of harmony' are rather brutal when it comes to serving out their targets sentences." Luna faltered at that, having endured what the elements could do for themselves, she found it hard to argue for them. Nova noticed her hesitation.

"What's this then? no rebuttal? could it be that you agree with me?" Luna tried to shake her head.
"No, it's not that simple is it?" Luna found herself nodding in response, peaking Nova's curiosity. "Well, don't leave me hanging in suspense here." Luna suddenly found the grass very interesting as she finally responded with words.

"A long time ago.... I fell from grace and became a monster known as Nightmare Moon, my sister was forced to use the elements on me.... the sentence.... was banishment..... to the moon... for one thousand year." Nova was almost to shocked to respond.
"Wait, you were banished, alone, for a thousand year, on the bloody moon?" Luna nodded.

"Holy shit, how the hell are you still sane?" Luna responded quickly. "I was not myself, I was possessed by-" Nova cut her off. "Okay, no, I don't care who you are, or what you have done, but being forced to live alone for a thousand years? even murderers don't get sentences that long where I come from."

Nova shook his head. "Dear lord, if the elements had done that to me, I would have bloody snapped after the first few days, still, trying to destroy who I am is just as bad, and you ponies call these things the 'elements of harmony'." Nova flopped down onto the grass and stared up at the 'sky' of the dream. "I think we have talked enough for tonight Luna, I want some peace and quiet if you don't mind." Nova's tone made it obvious that he wasn't asking her to leave, Luna sighed and quickly made her way out of his dream, however, instead of leaving with an answer like she wished, she had left with a few new questions.

Author's Note

I don't care if it's a kids show, a thousand years imprisonment is just bloody harsh in my opinion.