(Unknown Location, Unknown time)
Lord Minros, second lord of the West, patiently waited in his appointed seat, he gave the room he sat in a quick glance.
The entire room was made from pure white marble, several pillars surrounded him, holding up the roof of the ancient building, he tried to look outside, but as always, the spell covering the building only let him see a fake, night sky.

"See, I told you I would get us here on time." A voice said, Minros look down to the seat next to him, on it sat his fellow ruler, Lady Terra.
"On time?" He replied, raising his eyebrow. "None of the others have even arrived yet, who knows how long we may have to wait."
Terra scoffed at her companion. "It's still better than arriving two days late." She said, causing him to look away in embarrassment.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything..." A third voice spoke out. The first two quickly looked for the source, only to see a large, white and grey griffon slowly float into the room, taking his seat opposite them.
"Ah, Ares, it's been a long time hasn't it?" Terra said, causing the griffon to chuckle.
"Indeed, I almost expected to see this place in ruins, but that was just foolish thinking on my part, so, how does the clans of the Minotaur and Dogs fair these days?" He asked, causing Terra to give him an annoyed look.
"Diamond Dogs." She corrected. "The Western kingdom fairs well, thank you." Minros snorted in response.
"That's one opinion, if you ask me, we could be doing much better." He said, Terra quickly gave him a swift kick to the leg to shut him up.
"Yes, well, your version of better involves us removing the entire elected council from power." She said, giving her fellow ruler a stern glare, Ares couldn't help but laugh.

"Ah, I see some things really never change, you two still bicker like an old married couple." He said, a sly smile forming on his beak.
Minros let out and awkward cough before changing the subject. "How fares your lands Ares, from what I've gathered, the North isn't fairing so well." Asked Minros, Ares let out a sigh before replying. "You would be right, the current winter has lasted longer than usual, although you make it sound more dire than it actually is." Ares face suddenly scrunched up in annoyance.
"It would help if a certain country just south didn't have such strict trade laws, the giant mountains don't help much either." Ares complained, Terra rolled her eyes.
"You would think those two want to cut their land off from the rest of ours." She said, just as a large figure slowly made its way inside.

"Oh, are we bad mouthing the sisters, I guess that means they have yet to arrive?" The new voice asked, quickly obtaining the attention of her fellow rulers.
She slowly made her way inside, her rather large form barely fitting inside the building, she slowly made her way to her seat, slightly shaking the ground as she sat down, each of the other rulers gave a quick bow in greetings.
"Thessa, it's rather surprising to see you, I'd had thought you would have just slept through this like last time." Minros said.
Thessa shrugged before responding. "Well, the last time I did, little Lulu got possessed and was imprisoned on her moon, with that in mind, thought it best that I attend this one, just to be safe." She said, all the while giving a sly smirk.
"What's really surprising me is that we have all managed to arrive before the ones who actually called this meeting, honestly its rather rude to keep us waiting like this." Said Terra, letting out a sigh of frustration.

After about an hour of light banter between the four rulers, a bright light suddenly appeared in one of the last seats left, Luna materializing in its place, she quickly looked up, surprised to see that the other members had already arrived.
"Ah, it seems we have kept you waiting, on behalf of my sister and me, I would like to apologize, this was a rather rushed meeting after all."
Luna said, giving a quick bow in apology.
Ares let out a small chuckle. "It is quite all right Luna, although I am surprised that your sister has not come as well." He said, his curiosity building.
"Yes, well that has something to do with the reason this meeting was called in the first place." Said Luna, quickly trotting to her seat.
After sitting down and clearing her throat, she began.
"As you all know, each of us has ruled over our lands for almost as long as time itself, and during this time, we have managed to keep relative peace in our world through our granted divine powers." Each member slowly nodded in agreement.
"Although this council hasn't always agreed on the same things, or some of us just slept through it." She shot a nasty glance towards Thessa, who responded by ignoring it.

"We have always striven to keep the balance of things between us, however, it is this very balance of power that is now threatened."
Luna said, she quickly brought up a detailed illusion of Nova in the middle of the room, each member giving different reactions.
"Oh lord, don't tell me Equestria has given birth to another creature that threatens to either destroy or rule the world" Minros said, causing Luna's temper to flare up.

"If you would allow me to finish explaining, Lord Minros, you will have your answer, this creature that I show before you calls himself Nova."
She started to explain. Luna hopped off her seat and started to pace around the room.
"My sister and I are yet to discern where he has originated from, however he appeared right after discord was re-imprisoned." Each member let out a groan at the mention of the Draconequus.
"We all bloody warned you that Discord would break free, and what did you do? make him a lawn decoration." Ares said, speaking what the others were thinking.

"Discord has been dealt with and my sister and I have plans in motion to deal with him another time, but moving back to the subject at hand." Luna motioned for the others to look at her illusion of Nova.
"Unsure of how to approach him, and only having just dealt with discord, we sent three guards to keep an eye on him, a moment later, and with the new elements of harmony in tow, two of the guards were dead, and Nova appeared to be charging for some attack against the third." As she said this, the illusion of Nova seemed to frown suddenly, but quickly went back to its blank expression, Thessa took note of this, but decided to keep quiet, letting Luna continue.

"My sister flew down to stop him, but all she accomplished was startling him, he swung wildly at her, thankfully Celestia was able to avoid the attack, however, the mountain was not." Terra and Minros both suddenly raised their eyebrows in interest.
"You're referring to Canterlot mountain, correct?" Terra started. "The one we helped fuse the supports of your capital to?" Minros finished, Luna let out an awkward chuckle.

"Yes.... well, it would be suffice to say that most of the mountain is now.... gone." She finished explaining. Both Terra and Minros stared at her in slight shock.
"What do you mean gone?" Minros asked, still slightly confused.
"Gone as in most of it no longer exists, the attack that was meant for my sister hit the side of the mountain instead, there was a suddenly explosion of light, and most of the mountain was simply gone, Canterlot then started to slide down what was left of it, falling into the lake bellow." Luna clarified.
"What became of Canterlot?" Thessa asked. "Thankfully, most of the city is still intact, there were a few casualties and a lot of flooding however, hence why my sister is currently absent." Luna answered, answering two questions at once.

"What about your elements of harmony, surely they could deal with the situation?" Ares asked, Luna shook her head in response.
"Originally we had thought the same, the elements have different effects depending who they are used on, when they struck Nova, they apparently wiped his mind away, only leaving his body intact." Luna sighed before continuing on.
"The elements tried to strike him again, and he simply parted the attack with his hands, my sister arrived soon afterwards, and from what she told me, it was as if without his mind, his power grew to an immersible amount."

"Soon after, Nova started to strike back against the elements and my sister, it was all she could do just to hold off his attacks at first, and as he attacked, his mind slowly started to return, seemingly broken at the time." As Luna said this, the projection of Nova seemed to smile slightly, but once again it faded back to its neutral expression.
"I arrived just in time to save them, I had thought to play it safe and retrieve my weapon before setting out, I tried to strike Nova, but he simply disappeared and reappeared close by, I told my sister to transport the elements away while I distracted Nova." Luna suddenly looked down to the floor ashamed.

"Although I had taken the time to prepare myself, I couldn't do a thing to him, he was able to constantly avoid every attack I threw at him, until he stopped and summoned a shield to his hand, he taunted me, and in my rage I struck at him with with scythe, only for his shield to completely bounce the attack back towards me." Luna turned and showed the slight scar the reflected attack left, causing a few gasps from the others.

"Hang on, he just reflected the blow back at you, didn't you create that scythe specifically to wound and kill beings similar to us?" Ares asked. Luna's ears drooped down in sadness.
"Yes... although technically it was Nightmare Moon who added the ability to my weapon when she took control, continuing on, after wounding me with my own weapon, I was forced to flee back to Canterlot."

The assembly sat in silence for a while, each member going over what they just heard, Terra suddenly coughed to clear her throat.
"So, to summarise, a being known as Nova has appeared, this creature is of unknown species and origin and has powers easily rivalling, if not completely overshadowing, our own, have I got this right so far?" Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Furthermore, one of Equestria's most powerful forms of defence seem to only have a temporary effect on him, coming with the draw back that it also seems to have made him even more powerful, now the only question is, why tell us about this?" Terra asked.
"Indeed, I have yet to actually hear why this also concerns us, so far I've only heard about how this is Equestria's problem." Minros said, Luna shot him a angry glare before responding.

"Because, after a few meetings inside the dream space, I have come to learn that Nova does not plan on staying in Equestria for much longer." Luna said. Each of the other members faces quickly drained of colour.
"Yes, Nova has admitted to me that he plans on travailing the entire world, so you can see why my sister and I called this council together." She finished explaining.
"Well, do you know where he is at the moment?" Ares asked, the worry in this voice clear.

"Oh, I don't actually know right now, somewhere on the road." A new voice suddenly replied.
Everyone in the room jumped in surprised, everyone except Thessa, who glared at the projection of Nova, Luna let out a tired sigh.
"I should have realised it wouldn't be a simple meeting, why don't you show yourself Nova?" Luna asked.
"Show himself, why would he need to? he's been standing in plain sight the entire time." Thessa replied, causing everyone to look at her in confusion.

"Thessa what are you on about?" Minros began to ask "The only things in this room are us and......" Suddenly everyone's eyes went wide, finally understanding, they each slowly turned to face the supposed projection of Nova.
"Ah, so you finally caught on did you?" 'Nova' asked, giving a sly smile. "It took you long enough, although M'lady Thessa here caught on pretty quickly." he said.

"B-but I don't understand, you're just a magical projection!" Luna stuttered out, clearly confused.
"Luna, do you recall the last time we met in the realm of dreams?" he asked. "Didn't it seem strange that I suddenly rushed forward and grabbed you so violently, it seems a little out of character for me, doesn't it?"
Luna quickly thought back to the event, remember how his attitude changed so quickly, she raised her hoof to her snout and was greeted by a strange sensation, Ares eyes suddenly went wide. "Luna, there on your snout.... that strange symbol." He pointed out.

Surely enough, right where Ares was pointing, a small, golden rune had appeared right where Nova had grabbed Luna in the realm of dreams.
"That's it all right, I guess you could say I planted a little bug on Luna to keep track of what she might do, although it only activates when I sleep." Nova explained. "It's quite convenient you chose to hold this little gathering so late at night, otherwise I would have been none the wiser." Minros suddenly jumped out of his seat and straight towards Nova, however he ended up falling right through him instead of grabbing him as intended, Nova chuckled at this.
"There's no need to get so worked up, this is still only a projection, I've just hijacked it for my own needs for the moment." Nova said as Minros picked himself back up.

"If I may be allowed a question, what are your plans exactly?" Terra asked, taking the opposite approach to her companion.
"It's just as Luna said, I only wish to see the world and everything it has to offer." He said, a genuine smile covering his face.
"Before I arrived here, I always wanted to travel my world, but now I'll never get that chance, so your world will just have to do instead."
Nova's smile suddenly faded away, his face completely devoid of any emotion.
"And if any of you decide to interferer with these plans..... it wont end pleasantly." He said with a monotone voice.
"Do you truly thinks it's wise the threaten us like that?" Thessa asked. "You may be powerful, but you are in our world, and we are not to be trifled with." She threatened, a small amount of smoke escaping her nose and mouth.
Nova smiled and shrugged at her. "Probably not, but I really don't care, I've said all I wanted to say, so for now, goodbye." The projection of Nova bowed, before dispersing itself.

Everyone in the room sat in silence for a while, before Ares sighed, stood up, and stretched.
"Well, I guess there's no time to waste, if what Nova said is true, then there's only one place he can go after he's done with Equestria."
He said as he made his way to leave. "I'll be in contact with you after I arrive back home, and I suggest everyone here strive to do the same." He said just before he took off into the night sky.
"Tch, it's just like him to leave so quickly." Minros complained. "However he does have a point, I get the feeling Nova is going to be a handful, we should all stay connected while we sort this out." The other members nodded in agreement.

"I wonder what such a creature could be doing right now, surely he must be planning something sinister...."

Nova slowly tossed and turned in his sleep, the roof of Trixie's caravan providing little comfort, however after a few to many turns, he found that the ground bellow him was as equally uncomfortable.
"Ooohh..... thankfully this hard dirt and stone road was here to break my fall.... and by fall I mean my body...." He groaned as he rolled onto his back and quickly fell back asleep.

Author's Note

That's Nova for you, truly the poster boy for evil masterminds everywhere.
Also, just in case you didn't pick up on it, here are the races of the rulers and where they rule
Minros = Male Minotaur, First ruler of the West
Terra = female diamond dog, Second ruler of the West
Ares = Male griffon, Ruler of the North
Thessa = female dragon, "Ruler" of the South, however unlike the others, her lands are separated by an ocean.