A small band of explorers dive down intos the depths of an everfree lake, searching the floor of lakes like this for relics of times before nightmare moon. One of these explorers is none other than Daring Doo herself, being forced to hire help to search this especialy deep lake.
She starts towards an outline of some sort of greatsword, except this huge sword has strang carvings and shape. Within seconds she is face to face with the sword, that is embedded in stone at its tip. She bites onto the handle and pulls with all her might, but it doesnt move an inch. She's about to try again when bright light shines from thousands of symbols carved into a perfect circle on the lake bed. Dirt and debris are blown away by a sudden strong current, as shes pushed out the way herself, she cant help but stare as a cylindrical pillar, 10 meters wide, ascends from the lake bed to the surface and above, taking the sword that was in its center with it.
Shes quickly grips onto its rough, rocky side and allows it to drag her above the lake and trees of the everfree forest. As the cylindrical tower stops its ascent the sound of stond gringing against stone fills the air and makes Daring determined to see whats happening at the top of the tower.
A whole had apeared at the towers center and the tower was opening a vertical tunnel towards it. As the tunnel got wider it pushed stairs out from its sides, one such stair revealing itself below Daring. Seeing the now clear staircase that formed below her she drops onto it and trots up the stairs. As she reaches the top fire had started to flow freely from its center and the odd sword had moved itself next to it.
An ash grey hoof that was seemingly a mix of fire and hoof apeared through the flames and was shortly followed by a second, and then a ash gray stallion ,a black mane with orrange tips was in a messy state, as though he had just been knocked onto his side. His eyes were small fires themselves. The inside of his nose and mouth glowed a blood red and gave of fire every time he breathed. His neck had strange symbols on them, they were glowing a bright yellow. As he finnished dragging himself out of the hole it became clear that the lower half of his legs were cracked and fire leaked out of them.
Shocked by his apearence daring doo only watched as the stallion walked over to the strange sword and says in a casual way.
"So, you did survive all these years, Chaoseater."
After he says this he grips his sword from the ground in wich it was stuck with ease. He then places the sword onto his back as if it were going into a sheath.
Daring Doo finaly returns from her moment of shock and gets into a battle stance.
"What are you doing with the legendary sword!? It only answers to, its... owner..."
She realises what happened before her but before she can speak again the strange stalion says.
"Ah. So the strange pony cant talk without her jaw dropping, again. And to answer your question. The reason why Chaos eater answers to me and me alone is because thats what I wanted it to do when I made it. Now its my turn. Is Celestia still the princess and has princess Luna returned?"
As Daring Doo is about to answer she stops herself and says.
"I shall only tell you if you answer me one more question. Who are you who claims to be the curator of such a legendary weapon?"
"And to thimk you wouldnt bother with pleasentries" he laughs in return. "I, am Ruin. Now, will you answer my question?" Ruin says.
"Yes. Princess Celestia and princess Luna are still on the throne, but after the Tirek Incident a couple of days ago the have kept a closer eye on the gates of tartarus. " Daring says, sweating slightly after learning of who she is talking with.
Hearing this, Ruin trots forward, but before he reaches the edge of the sylindrical tower of rock he is engulfed by fire and dissapears into the ground.
"Tia!" The blue alicorn known as princess luna calls out as she runs into the throne room, disrupting daycourt.
"What is it lulu?" Celestia asks worried.
"Its ruin! I dont think night mare, I mean I, killed him!" She says putting a slight look of suprise on celestias face. Before she can say anything though, luna continues. "I senced him transport himself to our old castle. I fear he may be very confused and angry about the husk that is left of one of tne few building he designed for us."
"Daycourt is suspended until tommorow. Now would you please leave us, my little ponies."celestia says as she rises from the throne.
meanwhile at the castle of the 2 royal pony sisters.
"What happened to cause this wonderfull building to fall into such disrepair? And one that I spent 3 days designing aswell!" Ruin groaned after arriving in another torrent of flames, burning some vines at the same time.
He looks around and trots up to the throne and looks at the damaged tapestries either side of the throne. Sighing he turns around just in time to see a blinding flash of light in the enterence of what used to be the throne room.
"I tell ye sister. Thou shall see our friend here!" He heard lunas voice call out.
"I trust you, lulu. But are you sure it was Ruin you senced and not, some other pony?" Celestia asks as they enter.
Bowing down, Ruin waits for approval to stand from the princesses, his friends.
He is clearly shocked to find 2 sets of legs wrap around him in a tight embrace.
"Heh. Was I missed that much your Highness's? So. Whats this I heard about, tirek?" Ruin asks
The hug ends almost immediatly afterwards. A slight shudder riddled its way though the 2 princesses.
"He returned from tartarus, stole almost all magic from our little ponies and ourselves. He was stopped by princess twilight and the other 5 element bearers and sent back to tartarus, after all magic was returned off coarse." Celestia says.
Ruins face turned void of any emotion as soon as she said 'princess twilight'.
"How long have I been away. And are there any other important things I should know about. Like maybe WHO this princess twilight is and if there are any more princesses I should know about?" Ruin says, a slight edge in his voice.
The princesses have allways understood his un surety about princesses but they never expected him to be slightly hostile to the idea of more than 2 of them.
"Well, um, well, there is the princess and prince of the crystal empire" ruins face noticibly changes from a frown to a slight smile" and theres princess twilight, I made here my protégé after I started my school for gifted ponies. She saved equestria from nightmare moon, discord, twice, tirek and saved a royal wedding from being ruined by changelings. She also saved the crystal empire from sombra's cruel rule. So, we allowed her to ascend to become an alicorn after an, incident, with the elements themselves. " celestia explains.
Ruins eye twitches.
"Can you give me a moment please?" Ruin asks.
getting an affermative nod, he quickly trots to a secret door under the thrones and follows a staircase to a sound proof room. rearing up on his hind legs he smashes his front hooves down as hard as he can. Cracking instantly spread along the ground and spit out fire. He stands there silently until the fire dissapates.
Meanwhile back at the throne room
The element bearers charge into the room, lead by twiligh, and run up to the princesses.
"Princess celestia, princess luna, we felt the ground shake and it came from here. Did something happen?" Twilight asks
The 2 princesses look at each other and celestia says.
"I dont think he took the news too well. I just hope he can understand our desicion and not be too, angry."
