The sum of our sins

Chapters

Prologue
Simple ways
The Nightmare Returns
Under my shadow
Beginning of the end
I'll Protect Her
Children are the future
The last hope

Prologue

The night was young, Luna’s moon was high on it’s pedestal of stars, glistening like a lone fire fly in a hallow forest. The moon’s rays glared upon it’s master, Princess Luna who sat on the balcony of the Canterlot castle, meditating. She could feel the life force of every signal being on the planet. From the mighty Dragons to the lowliest of mollusks; she could hear and feel them. But just then her focus was broken instantaneously, as a guard walked.

“What is it child?” Luna said in her signature monotone voice.

Dressed in the traditional gold outfit, the guard spoke, “Princess Celestia, has a guest and it seems she wants you to join them.”

“Ugh. My sister doesn't know what the word personal time means, does she?”

“Uh, I do not wish to speak against my ruler.”

“Oh course you don’t, you are dismissed.”

The Royal guard bowed and then frantically ran off. She chuckled at this sight, for she must have seemed like a demon to his eyes. She straightened herself off and fixed her hair, to meet with Celestia’s guest. She began to walk at a quick pace until she was met with the door too the Throne room. And when she entered she could see a stranger talking to her sister, who was dressed in her pajamas that had smiling suns printed all across them and a night cap on top of her head. Celestia looked like a mess, but brightened up when she saw her sister.

“Sister! Come sit with me! This stallion would like to speak to us about a urgent matter. He’s insisted that we both be present for this.” Celestia said with as much enthusiasm that she could muster up.

“If you wanted to see us both you should come during day court.” Luna said aggressively. She looked upon the stranger with judging eyes. He was a unicorn wrinkled and tattered, with a snow white beard. One of his eyes seemed bigger then the other, which had a greenish tint to it. And he seemed to have cut marks across his wrists. Luna didn't want to say anything but she thought he was gut wrenching to look at.

“Yes, yes, yes. I am very sorry for interrupting each of your private matters. But this is something that I must talk to you two privately.” The stallion said energetically, which was odd looking at the time. “Have either of you heard of the seed of sin?”

Celestia cocked her eyebrow, all playfulness was sapped from her speech, “Yes, I have. The question is how do you know about it? All knowledge of the seed died alongside our mother.”

“Uh... Erm, seed?” Luna unintentionally grunted in confusion. She had lived her life in ignorance of the past. She never knew her father. And the only thing Luna knew of her mother was that she was, as Celestia put it,‘The greatest hero, the world had ever known.’

“Uh, yes the seed. I know it from story! One of my ancestors witnessed the event! And passed along the story.” He twirled around, which again was quite surprising given his age. “The story of how your mother ascended beyond her Alicorn status and sealed the God’s Sin away, into the seed. Truly a breath taking story. And as a young boy, I was fascinated with the story. I wanted to find any proof that it truly existed. And then I found... It.”

“This so called, seed of sin?” Luna said with a mocking tone. “Celestia he’s faking, their is no such thing as a form higher then a alicorn. No such thing as the God’s sin. No su-”

“Quite Luna. Why are you telling us this?” Celestia said sternly.

“I want you to destroy it. To be honest I’ve been watching it for the past eighteen years and starting four years ago, it’s been getting bigger and bigger. I think it’s going to release the God’s Sin again.” The stallion said.

“You kept it, you watched over it... May ask for your name?” Celestia asked.

“Call me Tsuchinoko.” The old man replied.

“Thank you for the information. Tsuchinoko can you help, guide us to the seed?” Celestia asked only for the old man to nod. “Okay, Luna you will lead the crusade to destroying it, but I want you to bring along Twilight. If anything goes array, she’ll provide back up.”

“Celestia I can handle it myself. I don’t need her along for the ride.” Luna retorted angrily. Luna and Celestia’s student had always been on equal footing. Until the girl defeated Tirek, and saved Luna from endless torture in Tartarus. Now all Luna wants to do is prove she’s better. Better then Twilight at least.

“Luna, I could care less about your personal rivalry with my student. This is a matter of life or death. If the Seed of sin is opened, then hell will bring itself unto this world. It will be the end of the universe.” Celestia said in a stern but almost terrified voice.

Simple ways

Twilight stood outside the clock shop, holding a bouquet of lavender flowers in one hoof and a heart shaped box of chocolates magically floating around her. Today was the day she was going to ask out the stallion she had been eyeing for months. A young stallion named “Time Turner. She walked up to the door and she placed her hoof upon it with the intention of knocking. But right as she was about too, her emotions took hold of her body and she dropped everything and ran off towards the castle she had come to call home.

She got to the foot of her castle and leaned against it in a rather depressing manner. She gave a sigh and entered her domain. The clean fresh smell of mint flooded her nostrils as she walked through the first floor of her crystal fortress. Flying up the diamond embedded stairs up to the living complexes. A long hall way of suites is what came into her vision, as she explored through the alternate living quarter for each of her friends. She knocked on Rainbow Dash’s door, and instantly got a response as the door opened.

“What’s up egg-head?” Rainbow dash said as she poked her head out. She was dressed in a sports bra, and had sports tape on her fore legs. She was sweating profusely.

“Are you exercising?” Twilight questioned. Glancing in revealed a large punching bag hanging from the ceiling, with oddly enough a marker drawing of a dumb looking Terik drawn on it.

“Yeah, I was getting a work-out in before we went to the fair.”

“Speaking of which...” Twilight glanced at the clock placed in the center of the hall. “The others should be there right now. We better get going.”

“Whatever you say princess. Hey- Weren’t you suppose to have a date to this?”

Twilight laughed at this question. It was a laugh that dripped with shame, but laugh non the less.

“Things usually don’t work out as you plan.”

“Ah, what a shame.”

They walked out of the castle, talking and joking to each other. They worked their way through out town, until they reached the fair which prominently sat at the center of town, like a cherry on the top of a sundae.

They both wandered around until they saw a group of mares sitting on a bench.

“Hey guys, hows it hanging?” Rainbow dash exclaimed while walking towards the group.

“Howd’y their sugacube.” Applejack said walking forward, with a confident but humble smile.

“What took you so long?” Rarity questioned while drinking a smoothie.

“Oh- Ah Twilight had boy trouble.” Rainbow said with out thinking. Causing Twilight to begin to angrily blush.

They all began to laugh and they left to go enjoy their time together. The day passed on in a euphoric blend of smiles and excitement. The hours flew by and the adrenaline died down.

They were all seated eating fast food and passing stories on and off of each other. The sun was starting to set and the moon would soon come. But just then a dark figure came from the shadows to greet them, Luna did always like subtle entrances.

“Hello Princess Sparkle.” Luna said walking towards their seats. Her voice was deadpan. It was quite obvious that she was not happy about seeing Twilight.

“Hello Luna. Have you come on official business, or are you just here to act resentful towards me again?” Twilight asked with her own profound resentment to the Princess of the Night.

“This time it’s official. There has been a sighting of a powerful artifact and my sister wants us to investigate. The rest is confidential and will be explained in privacy.”

“No it won’t. Your going to tell us all what this is about. My friends are just as worthy of my status as I am. They deserve to know the same as I know.” Twilight exclaimed. If this were Celestia she wouldn’t have talked back. But this was Luna; the alicorn who has done nothing but acted cold and cruel ever since Twilight saved her from Tirek. “Right guys?" She turned to her friends who were all hesitant and nervous of the situation. Their faces screamed: What are you doing Twilight?

“Right!” Pinkie exclaimed without a second thought.

Luna pursed her lips, and started to look like she was going to scream. How dare this whelp order the master of the night. She who has only been a Alicorn for a year and a half. Luna opened her mouth with fire in her eyes, but then slowly calmed down. “Fine.” She told them everything from yesterday. The Seed, Tsuchinoko and Celestia’s fear.

“A new threat huh?” Applejack questioned.

“We’ll take it down! No worries! We’ll just use our rainbow powers and go ‘Zap’! The end, we win!” Pinkie said enthusiastically.

“Well you can probably stop it right now... It’s not dangerous right now but...” Fluttershy said as she trailed off mumbling to herself.

“If we want to stop it, we have to leave now.” Luna ordered.

“Right just let me-” Twilight was stopped by a hoof .

“I’m coming with you guys Twi” Rainbow dash said.

“Are you sure Rainbow?”

“Of course. Somebody's got to pick you up when you fall. If you’re walking into a battle then I want to be by your side."

Twilight and Luna nodded, and all three of them took flight.

The Nightmare Returns

They flew for hours, in silence. Luna was thinking of what lay ahead, of what her sister was concerned of. Twilight was wondering, if she needed to fight a new foe and how strong would it be? The thought of fighting is a thought she had always dreaded. She was raised to cherish life by her mother and father. But at the same time, that thought also excited her. Celestia had taught her how to fight, in a rather in-depth manner and the thought of testing her abilities... She shook her head, in a reluctant manner.

They landed in the ‘Badlands’, a canyon a few miles off of Appaloosa. It was home to all the hostile creatures that roamed Equestria. They landed near the northwest edge, right in front of a cave. Tsuchinoko exited from it, with a toothy grin, he walked in front of them and bowed.

Luna turned to Twilight, “This is the man I spoke of. He was the one to discover the seed and he’ll guide us through.”

“Pleasure to meet you.” Twilight said as she shook his hoof.

“The feeling is mutual.” Tsuchinoko responded, then turned to see Rainbow Dash. “And this is one of your friends I presume?”

Rainbow backed away just a bit. She could feel something in her gut and she didn't want to be anywhere near this pony.

“Rainbow! Don’t be rude!” Twilight exclaimed.

Rainbow turned away from the man in silence. Their was a painfully awkward pause that lingered until Twilight shook her head in disapproval and tried to continue the conversation as seamlessly as possible. “Anyway, were you going to guide us to the seed?”

“Y-Yes, yes.” He made a gesture for them to follow him and began to walk towards the cave entrance. They followed, Luna leading, Twilight right behind and Rainbow dash lingering behind.

Most of the cave was pony-made, with columns placed along the walls, so it wouldn't cave-in. They continued along until they found a large room. This seemed to be the hub to different corridors and pathways.

“How long did it take you to build this?” Twilight asked.

“Lets just say I spent most of my adult life making this. All to find proof...” Tsuchinoko said almost resentfully.

“Faith carries us to do odd things...” Luna said. She was following at a brisk pace but then she began to slow down... Her head was hurting and she started to hear whispers. She clutched her fore-head and stopped.

“Are you okay?” Twilight asked with a great deal of concern. She placed her hoof on Luna’s shoulder.

“I’m fine. Get off me!” Luna yelled. No, she can not be weak. She can not show weakness around her. She shrugged her off and continued to walk, even though she wanted to lay down. They took a right into another small cavern, but as they were walking Luna was falling apart. Her body wanted to collapse. She felt a ungodly amount of pain on her head, and she was sweating. She wanted to cry, to scream, but refused to.

And in the back confined to her own thoughts Rainbow Dash was feeling a similar feeling. She heard the exact same whispers that Luna heard and they were growing louder and louder with each step. “Kill her, kill them all.”

She started to sweat. “Hey Twilight...” Rainbow tried to say.

“Here we are.” Tsuchinoko said as they stepped in front of a large structure. A singular pillar sat in the center of the room. In which sat a large brownish black egg with roots coming out of it and sealing themselves in the roof of the cave.

“Ok, so what’s the plan-” Twilight turned back to see both Rainbow Dash and Luna writhing in pain.

“No! I will not betray her! She’s my friend!” Rainbow dash screamed in pain. Luna on the other hand was on her back clutching her head sobbing.

Twilight ran over to both of them, “What is happening?!” She turned to Tsuchinoko for answers only to see him admire the seed, which now had a dark blue aurora around it.

“What did you do?!” Twilight screamed in anger.

Tsuchinoko was still staring at the seed, “It’s like a dream, really. Sixty years of restless search, to find this thing... To take revenge on this world, for what it took away...” He turned too Twilight, “Your friends have hate and temptation in their minds, as does every mortal. The seed is feeding off that. Now, the question is... How are you unaffected?”

The seed began to pulse and released a blue stream of magical energy into Luna. Luna who was crying now began to laugh uncontrollably, which faded into chuckling as she began to stand up very shakily.

Tsuchinoko stared at her in terror. This was not part of his plan. ‘What was happening? Why did the seed do that? Why was she standing?’ Tsuchinoko questioned in his mind.

Luna was still chuckling. Twilight approached her and was glad to see she was alright. “Luna you’re okay! I was so scared that you were-”

Luna turned to Twilight with a dead stare causing Twilight to back up. Something was not right.

Luna’s laugh was getting louder and louder, until it was more of a scream then a laugh.

“I can feel it... The seed has given me the power I so well deserve! With it’s power I will no longer be a pawn of fate! I will finally take my throne... As the one true princess of Equestria!” She cackled madly. Luna’s fur began to grow darker, her hair began to become less dense and became a lighter shade of blue.

Twilight knew exactly what was happening and their was nothing she could do. Luna was no longer Luna... Nightmare moon had returned.

Under my shadow

Twilight observed her surroundings, in front of her was Nightmare moon. The mare who tried too destroy the world four years ago and almost succeeded. But it won’t be like that again, she was stronger this time. To the right was the seed and the traitor. Why is he doing this? Trying to unleash this unknown force across exitance. And behind her is her friend who is under going the same hell that Luna went through and might still be going through. She needed to figure out what she was going to do. Destroy the seed, fight Luna, or save her friend. She took a signal second to decide. Twilight turned a sharp one eighty and went to pick up Rainbow dash. Her friend was more important then any of this.

But Rainbow dash was standing up straight, “Don’t worry about me. I’ve felt worse.” She said with a cocky smile. She was sweating and her legs were shaking. “I’ll take care of seed A-hole over there. Try to knock some sense into Luna.”

“Rainbow you don’t look so good, we should ge-” Twilight attempted to plead for an escape but it was cut short.

“And if you even think of trying to leave, then I’ll have to knock some sense into you!” Rainbow winked at Twilight. Twilight’s confidence boasted and she nodded, turning to Nightmare moon.

Nightmare moon looked bored, her eyes were only focused on Twilight though. She smiled as Twilight turned to her. “I’ve waited a long for this. A one on one fight to the death, you and me mutt.”

“Oh, mutt? That’s a new one, tell me, do you call me that because I had to work for my title as a princess? Or is it because your sister treats me like her daughter?” Twilight said with anger in her voice. Nightmare moon chuckled at the remark and then took a fighting stance.

“No! You’ll protect the seed! Do as I command!” Tsuchinoko yelled nervously, he did not know what he was doing, he might not even know why Luna is under the seed’s control.

“Quiet fool!” Nightmare moon screamed. “I am no puppet! I am the true princess and what I say goes! And I say the defective princess dies!”

Twilight tensed up, she was really going to do it. She wants to kill her... Twilight began to shake... But she wasn’t scared. She was excited. “Fine but don’t you think this place is a bit... Cramped?”

Nightmare moon smiled at this comment and nodded. Their horns glowed and they vanished, only to reappear outside, in the center of the badlands.

“This spacious enough for you mutt?”

“Very... But before we start let me ask you something... Luna. Is this because of the seed’s power? Or is it the same old story of jealousy that plagues your life, that caused you to betray us?”

Nightmare moon was surprised by the question, and glared off to the side. “Twilight Sparkle... I have lived my whole life under the power of another, always. First under the power of Discord, then the power of my sister. Four years ago I was freed from control of others, only to fall under another. Your’s. You freed me, from my eternal prison. Defeated Discord, beat Chrysalis, Sombra, then finally Tirek. It should have been me... Everytime you help me you cast a larger shadow over me. I... I hated you from the first day. You stole my honor that day, by saving me. I will not be in anyponies shadow ever again!” Nightmare moon said with a burning fire in her eyes.

“Luna... By helping Tsuchinoko free the God’s Sin, you are subjecting yourself to his power. You’re not thinking straight!”

“No, that’s were your wrong. Once it is freed I will kill Tsuchinoko and steal the God’s Sin’s power!”

“You’re insane... And I’m just going to have to set you straight!” Twilight screamed. She stood on her hind legs and flew to the sky. She tensed her body up and concentrated on her magic. She felt it building up, and like a imploding fire, her magic erupted. Her rainbow powers activated and her magic power, speed and strength increased ten-fold.

Nightmare moon flinched at the sudden power boost, but then smiled. “The gift from the tree of harmony will not help you here, mutt!” She flew up and tried to strike a blow to Twilight’s gut only for her to miss. Twilight vanished and reappeared right next to her, landing Twilight’s elbow right on her cheek. Twilight vanished again, Nightmare moon desperately searched for her. Reappearing again and punching her square in the jaw, and thusly disappearing. “That’s it!” Nightmare moon screamed, flooded with pain and rage. She lifted up her hooves and sent out dark blue lights that were shaped like spears. They flooded the area and hit everything. Twilight reappeared with a cut across her fore-leg and a damaged wing.

Nightmare moon dived to catch her. Twilight’s couldn’t vanish any longer thanks to the damages, so she took the strike head on. Nightmare Moons punch impacted Twilight’s chest and Twilight was sent flying into a platoon. Twilight was hazy but when she regained her sight, she could see Nightmare moon charging up a attack. Twilight clutched her muscles and formed a protective barrier over her left hoof. And when Nightmare moon shot it at her Twilight, swiped it out of the way causing the blast to bounce off her left hoof and hit another platoon in the distance. Twilight looked at Nightmare moon who seemed annoyed. “That all you got?!” Twilight screamed.

Nightmare moons rage built up, and she flew even higher into the sky. “Fine then! You want to see what I got?! Then you and this planet will be sent to oblivion!” She raised her right hoof into the sky and grabbed it with her left and started to build up her magic.

Twilight looked upon her, and was shocked when she figured out what she was doing. Nightmare moon wanted Twilight dead that’s for sure, but was she really willing to destroy the earth just to do so? Twilight didn’t want to take any chances. So she stood on her hind legs and spread her arms out. In each hoof she formed a ball of unmeasurable energy. This was a ability that Twilight learned from Celestia when she was young; it was called the ‘Solar ray’.

Nightmare Moon finished charging her attack forming a ball of energy. She pointed it at Twilight and screamed out the attack’s name, “Moonlit Scythe!”

Twilight now facing down the giant ball of energy hurtling at her, slammed both her hoof’s together and screamed, “Solar ray!”

The two attacks collided and were fighting to overcome each other. Twilight’s attacked started to over come her competitor’s and the ray of energy hit Nightmare moon with full force. Causing her to fall out of the sky.

But Twilight wasn’t finished there, Twilight flew as fast as she could to Nightmare moon’s falling body and clutched both of her hooves together and slammed Nightmare moon into the ground.

Nightmare moon had exhausted herself and couldn’t move. Twilight walked up to her and closed her eyes and allowed her horn to glow with the spell that freed her friends from the grips of Discord. Hopefully it would work. She placed her horn onto Nightmare moon’s fore head and began to flood it with happy memories, of Celestia, Nightmare night and all the ponies she helped. Nightmare moon’s fur turned back to a Dark blue and her hair became denser. Everything was back to normal and Luna had returned back to normal. Twilight looked to the cave where her friend was and took flight.

Tsuchinoko backed away from Rainbow Dash in a nervous manner. “You do not know what are doing.”

Rainbow dash just gave out a huff and said, “I know that you let that thing try to control me. I know that somehow you’re controlling Princess Luna and I know you’re trying to unleash something called the God’s Sin onto Equestria. Am I missing anything?!”

“Well no but-”

“I thought so.” Rainbow dash jolted for the old pony and punched him in the gut causing him to fall flat on his back. Rainbow then flew up to the pillar that housed the Seed of sin. She gripped the seed with both her hooves and began to yank at it.

“Wait!” Tsuchinoko screamed, he looked desperate, scared. “Just hear me out first!”

Rainbow turned to the old stallion, “What’s there left to say? Your evil, the end.”

Tsuchinoko, “Haven’t you ever cursed at the gods? For all the suffering in the world. I have, and that’s why my plan must go through. My wife and son died a long time ago, in a forest fire. I pleaded to the gods, to give them back! But no one answered... So I swore that I will make the god’s pay for ignoring me. Ignoring all of us! I remembered the story of the God’s Sin and knew that was my way to vengeance, the gods would be killed by there greatest mistake. What god would let this world go with so much suffering?! They must pay!”

“Oh I get it.” Rainbow Dash said with a comforting smile.

“Truly?”

“No.” Rainbow dash said with a angry glare. She turned back to the seed got onto her hind legs, and charged up her inner power, unleashing it into her rainbow powers. She then grabbed the seed and began to pull with all her strength. The roots on the ceiling began to give in and the seed was torn from it’s pedestal. Rainbow Dash then threw it onto the ground.

Rainbow dash jumped up and began too glide down, but something began to happened. The Seed began to pulse rapidly, like a heart beat. Then white smoke began to leak out, and something from the inside was clawing it’s way out. The seeds exterior began to peel away to reveal, a being of immense power. It was standing on two legs, it’s body was completely black and very slimy. It had two claw like hands, it had no hair or skin for that matter, instead it had a rocky texture to it.

The thing turned to Rainbow dash and revealed it had three small bored looking grey eyes and a overbite with fangs on it’s jaw, protruding from it’s mouth. It raised it’s hand at Rainbow dash and pointed at her. As if to say “You’re first.”

Beginning of the end

Celestia sat on her throne, she had ordered that nopony bother her for the rest of the evening. She wanted to monitor Twilight’s mission and could only do so in the sanctity of solitude. Her horn began to glow brightly, and she began to feel the life force of every being in existence. But when she tried to sense the life force of Twilight and Luna she felt something else. A evil life force, that she hadn’t seen in over two thousand years. She opened her eyes and frantically scrambled to pick up some pen and paper. She had to act fast, she started writing to spike, to bring all of Twilight’s friends and all the ponies they love. For in a short period of time, the world would begin to end and their was nothing anypony could do to stop it.

Rainbow faced down the strange creature, she gave a nervous sweat and exclaimed, “So this is the God Sin? You don’t look so tough.” She got into a battle stance and flew towards the being at full force. She raised her fist to strike but the God’s Sin bent his head back a mere two inches to avoid the punch and then countered by striking her in the face. Causing her to bounce off and fly into a wall. The cave shook and Rainbow dash got up, “Okay maybe you’re stronger then I thought.”

Just then the God’s Sin reappeared right in front of Rainbow and took it’s arms out and clapped them together intending for them to hit Rainbow Dash. She jumped out of the way just in time, and flew up. He didn't have wings so she was safe up their, she thought. But the God’s Sin’s arm started to morph in a ridged and rocky way and it’s fore arm formed a harpoon. It punched the air and sent it’s arm flying to Rainbow Dash. She tried to get out of the way but it impaled her in the stomach. Rainbow screamed in agony as her insides fell apart. She fell to the floor and was being dragged over to the God’s Sin. Rainbow tried to grab on to anything to get away, but nothing could stopped what would happen next.

The God's Sin held her up to his face by her foreleg. He took his hand and put it up to her throat. Rainbow dash spit in it’s eye and smiled, in a last ditch effort of retaliation. The God’s Sin stared into her dying eyes and smiled. He plunged his hand into her wound and as she screamed his hand began to melt. His body began to melt on her, consuming her. She tried to fight back as best she could, but in the end her body was covered in the black goo that was the God’s Sin.

Inside, she could feel her body being twisted and mangled her, the wound seem to be gone but something even worse began to happen. She couldn't see anything, or smell anything, but she could feel tube like objects plunging into her and sucking out her blood in the most painful way possible. She tried to scream. But she couldn't. She tried to cry. But she couldn't. She wanted to curl up in a ball and pretend like this wasn't happening. But she couldn't. She attempted to scream one last time and her consciousness faded away.

The God Sin’s body began to reform but this time it was different. His face seemed to be more sophisticated. It’s face was slimmer and it’s neck and chin had a arc to it similar to a bird. He had a pair of stone wings that weren't connected to his back, but instead hovered in back of him. His chest appeared slimmer and he had light blue feathers protruding out of his back and head. He looked at his new body and gave out a crazed laugh. “I’m surprised. Really I am, you had the power of a god inside you. I’m glad you’re apart of me now.” He patted his stomach and began to exit.

Tsuchinoko walked out of the shadows like a rat. “Hello God’s Sin. Do you know who I am?”, he asked with a toothy grin.

The God’s Sin racked his head for the memories that he gained from Rainbow Dash. “Ah yes, you’re the one who resurrected me. To avenge your wife and child, was it?”

Tsuchinoko nodded in glee. “Yes, yes. Now what is our first order of business.”

“First I need to take care of a pest.”

“Oh and who is th-” Tsuchinoko was cut short as he looked down to see giant stone thorn had impaled him in the chest. He looked back up to see the God’s Sin pointing at him. He tried to ask why but another giant stone thorn launched from his figure and impaled Tsuchinoko through the head.

The God’s Sin began to laugh, he did not take orders from anyone, and certainly not from Tsuchinoko. He didn't know if the action was caused by his own instincts or Rainbow Dash’s hatred for the stallion. In any case he didn't care, his revenge was about to commence and he didn’t want to waste anymore time in this cave.

Twilight was lost. That was plain and simple. The catacomb were to complex and she couldn't teleport into the same room because the structure of the room seemed to have changed. She began to feel hopeless. So she dropped to the ground and started to meditate, trying to feel out Rainbow Dashes life force. She could feel it, outside of the cave and it seemed to be even stronger then before. Did Rainbow dash beat Tsuchinoko and the God’s Sin? She didn't care, she just wanted to see her friend. She focused on the image of the outside of the cave and teleported to it.

When she reappeared outside the cave, she scanned the area for Rainbow Dash. Nothing. She looked into the sky to see a black figure in the distance. Was that Rainbow Dash? She started to fly to it, but was immediately shot at by the figure. She dodged his attacks, and started to increase her speed. No way was that Rainbow, so what was it? The being stopped shooting and hovered in place as Twilight approached.

She hovered face to face with the God’s Sin. “So seeing as your not Rainbow, you must be the God’s Sin. Am I correct?”

He laughed a bit, “I used to go by that. But seeing as I've acquired a new look, I should get a different name... How about... Boreas Sin? And if I can remember, you must be Princess Twilight. A frail child turned hero.”

“How did you- Never-mind that where’s my friend?!”

“I can answer both those question with one answer.” He patted his stomach. “She’s apart of me, a simple minded girl. But she was powerful... Well more powerful then most that is.”

Twilight hovered stunned. He... He basically ate her best friend. Forced her to be apart of him. Took her life... Tears began to rushed down Twilight’s face as Boreas implications began to sink farther and farther into her mind. She had to avenge her friend, free her, she didn’t know. She had to stop Boreas, that’s for sure. Twilight felt a inferno build in her heart, her rainbow powers began to activate on it’s own. Twilight began to scream in a rage, crying her eyes out while doing so. Her body felt hotter and hotter til...

I'll Protect Her

A guard entered Celestia’s domain and bowed. “Your guest have arrived.”, he said.

“Thank you Sir.” Celestia said as she walked to the center of the room levitating a crystal ball around her. In a matter of seconds the remainder of Twilight’s friends entered the room, and the Cutie mark Crusaders. “Welcome, have a seat anywhere you like. Get comfortable. I have a few things to go over.”

Applejack looked around and began to question Celestia’s strange behavior, “Where is Twi and Rainbow? Are they ok?”

“I’ll get to that in a second just sit down. I want you all to be as comfortable as possible.” Celestia said as she placed the crystal ball in the center. The ponies formed a circle around the Crystal ball and the Crusaders cuddled up next to their guardians. Once everyone was comfortable, Celestia gave a big sigh and looked at the crystal ball. “I don’t know how to phrase this... But... In a few days... Maybe even today. We’re all going to die.”

“What?!” Everyone screamed simultaneously. They began to panic but Celestia calmed them down.

“A being known as the God’s Sin has been released. He was defeated more then two thousand years ago by my mother. But he almost brought the world to a apocalypse. Nothing can stop it. I’m... I’m so very sorry.”

“You’re just going to give give up?! You’re the ruler of Equestria for god’s sake! Their has to be something we can do! What about Twilight or Rainbow dash?!” Rarity yelled in fear. Sweetie belle was clutching her tightly, and in Rarity’s mind with this action she knew she couldn't just sit ideally by while the world ends. Her sister was only ten, she was to young to die.

“That’s what this ball is for.” Celestia said as she placed her hoof on it. “I can still feel Twilight and this will show us what’s happening to her.”

“Then ya’ll need to boot it up!” AJ yelled desperately.

Celestia put her horn on the Crystal ball and began to chant some an ancient spell. Just then the crystal ball showed a bird’s eye view of what was happening in the Badlands. It showed Boreas facing down Twilight, but something was changing in Twilight. Her body was growing larger, her neck and legs grew as well. Her mane started to sparkle and levitate. She began to look like Celestia.

“What’s happening to her?” Pinkie pie said in hopeful wonder.

“She’s...She's going through a metamorphosis.” Celestia said in awe.

Twilight’s body was in a overbearing amount of pain. Her body was twisting and morphing into something foreign. She screamed at the top of her lungs, but it wasn't from the pain of her body. She cried for vengeance. She wanted her friend back, she wanted Rainbow dash fighting along side her. She remembered all the happy moments they shared and it fueled her rage. She calmed herself, and stared at Boreas. Electricity bounced on and off of her, she had burning hatred in her eyes. She took a appearance similar to Celestia, here wings and body expanding three times as big as her original form. Her tears were dried up now, she took a fighting stance and launched herself at Boreas.

They all watched the fight, all of them confused as to what just happened to Twilight. Then Fluttershy finally piped up and asked the question they all wanted to ask. “What do you mean metamorphosis?”

Celestia looked up towards her and began to explain. “Well... It’s a hidden power locked away in every race of pony. It’s when a pony reaches a point when they gain so much magic their body can no longer hold it all. So their body adapts to match the overflow of magic... Well, so long as they can hold that state. It’s eating a way at her metabolism and she could easily revert back.” Celestia got up and stretched, “I reached my metamorphosis a long time ago. And I trained for hundreds of years to make this state my permanent form.” She glared at the crystal ball, “Hopefully she can keep that form for the whole fight... Maybe then we’ll have a chance.”

“Oh Celestia. I wouldn’t put your hopes on your student.” A cryptic yet familiar voice said, everybody turned to the door to see Discord slither through.

“She is the last hope we have... You know that better then anyone. You we’re one of the god’s who helped create him anyway.” Celestia said with hopelessness laced through out her speech.

“Yes, yes, yes. I helped create him. Blah, blah,blah. But that was the past. But... I know of someone in this very room that has a better chance of stopping him, then Twilight.” Discord said with a dumb smile on his face.

“Oh and who might that be?”

Discord jumped across the room and grasped the three terrified fillies, known as the crusaders. “This pony!”

“Get’cha paws off me!” Applebloom demanded.

Celestia looked confused, but her confusion turned into anger, “No! Their is no way in hell, we are going to attempt to the fusion technique!”

He dropped the crusaders and stuck out his tongue, “Fine then. Just doom the world. See if I care.” He got down and walked to Fluttershy and comfortably coiled up to her.

They all gazed back into the crystal ball, only to see that Twilight wasn't doing so good.

Twilight hovered trying to catch her breath. She wiped the blood from her mouth off and glared back up at Boreas. She tensed her body up and assumed a fighting stance again. Boreas began to laugh, “Now Twilight. I must say this has been quiet entertaining. Fighting me with everything you got, not stopping even when you know you have lost... It’s been fun, but even with that new transformation of yours, you still can’t beat me. Maybe I’ll absorbed you. Wouldn't that be fun? You’ll be with your friend as you watch me destroy this universe.”

She charged up and flew to strike him in the face. But he blocked the punch and grab her fore-leg. She tried to pull out but before that Boreas slammed his elbow down on it. A sickening snap was emitted, and Twilight went into shock. Her sight became blurry and she fell unconscious. Falling from the sky her body reverted back into her base form. She would have died from the fall but two figures appeared and caught her.

Boreas squinted his eyes to see who they were. He made out the first one and gave out a hardy laugh. “You must be Princess Celestia! I remember you! You were the scared little kid I kicked around. You’re all grown up! Ripe and ready to die!”

Celestia looked to Twilight who she was cradling in her arms. She turned to Discord, “I need to get to her to safety. Can you hold him off?”

“Of course I can. I’m me for god’s sake.” Discord said with a smirk.

Boreas glided down to the ground to face the two. He chuckled a bit and said “A princess of harmony and a god of chaos. I would say there was some irony to this scene, but I just can’t see it.”

Celestia gritted her teeth, remembering the fear that he instilled into her when she was young. The people she’s lost because of him. She closed her eyes and let a signal tear flow down her face before she teleported back to the castle.

“Well now that the coward is gone... How are you Discord? Rainbow Dash’s memories show me that you’ve sided with mortals. But last time I saw you, you were hiding up in the afterlife with the other god’s. Why are you here?” Boreas questioned.

“Oh I just felt my brothers and sisters upstairs got so boring after they made you. After that, they all went ‘We shall never interact with the mortal realm again.’ And it got boring up their pretty fast. So I came down here had some fun. Got sealed away, got revived, then got sealed away again and then got revived again. Etcetera, etcetera. Met a lovely mare named Fluttershy and now I’m here.” Discord explained.

“Huh, you truly were a cut above the rest, Discord. I have no hatred for you Discord, just your brothers, sisters and all that they have created. We both have the same purpose, to destroy, and spread death. I would love for you to join me.”

“Sorry Sin. But a few months ago another beast offered me the same thing and betrayed me, I don’t want to take those chances. But more importantly that isn’t my purpose anymore. My sole purpose now is to protect the mare who showed me kindness when no others would. If you continue your rampage, she’ll die in the process. And I can’t let that happen.” Discord lowered his head in a hostile manner. He was willing to fight to the death for Fluttershy.

“So be it, you’ll be the first god to die.” Boreas said shrugging. Discord lifted up his paw and sent out a barrage of energy blasts, Boreas dodged each one while making his way towards Discord. He jumped and slammed his leg into Discord’s side. Discord flew backwards but then stopped in mid air, he shot back at him and launched a barrage of punches.

They all hit their mark, damaging Boreas’s face. Boreas backed off for a minute and then morphed his arm into a scythe. He ran at Discord, swinging. Discord dodged him three times and began to wrap himself around Boreas like a Boa constrictor. He tightened himself hoping that he would be crushed. Boreas began to struggle and then used his scythe arm to cut Discord in half and escape.

Discord groaned in pain, but reformed himself. He stared at Boreas and began to charge up an attack in his mouth. It was a attack that would eat away at anything slowly destroying it. Discord let out the blast but as it was heading for Boreas. Boreas slammed his arm into it causing it to bounce off him and hit Discord. Discord looked down to see a hole begin to form on his stomach, slowly his body was decaying. He looked back up at Boreas who was admiring his hand which was decaying due to the attack. He simply ripped it off and threw it away. Forming a new hand in it’s place.

Discord knew he had failed and their was no way he could heal himself. He was going to die. That was final. But... He had something to do before he could go. “Well this was fun wasn’t it? Sorry but I have to dash. Got things to take care of.” He gave a big smile and teleported back to the Canterlot castle. Boreas just stood there trying to understand what he meant and where he was going. He gave a shrug and turned in the direction of the nearest city. He was going to fulfill his purpose.

Twilight laid in the infirmary bed with a cast on her fore-leg and bandages scattered across her face and body. All her friends crowded her, they were so scared as to what was happening. They wanted answers. Was the God’s Sin really that strong? Where’s Luna? Where’s Rainbow Dash? But unfortunately Twilight was asleep.

Celestia was right next to Twilight praying. She asked the god’s for help, for her sister’s safety, for Twilight to get better and she prayed to her mother for her to give Celestia her strength. Celestia was scared, she felt like the six year old that met the God’s Sin all those years ago. She wanted to cry, but she didn’t want anybody else to see.

Discord appeared, badly damaged and the decay of his body was growing fast. He would be dead in a few minutes. “Hello lovelies.” Discord said trying to sound as confident as possible.

“Discord! Is he gone? Did you-” Fluttershy said as she ran to him. She stopped when she saw the wound. She looked up to him, and he gave a hopeless smile. A smile that said ‘I’m sorry’ on it. She hugged him and began to cry.

Celestia stood up and understood what was happening instantly. “He’s still alive isn’t he?”

Discord nodded and Celestia put her head down in disappointment. “It’s hopeless then.”

“No it isn’t. There is still the fusion technique.”

Celestia looked at him with disapproval, but then saw the wound. “Your dying.”

“Yeah. One of my own attacks in fact.” He gave a chuckle but flinched in pain. He stood back up and said “The fusion technique is the only way. You have to trust me.”

“It’s not that I don’t trust you...” Celestia turned her head to the crusaders who looked really confused.

“I kn-” Discord fell to the ground and began to writhe in pain.

“Discord!” A teary eye’d Fluttershy yelled in fear.

Discord put his hand on her head. “You showed me kindness when no one else would. And for that I wanted to protect you. That’s why I am sitting here dying... I want to protect you, for the rest of your life... And I can...."

All the ponies in the room got close to Discord.

“What are you-” Celestia said in confusion but was interrupted by Discord.

“Look at me... The god of chaos. Willing to give himself up for ponies... You infected me with your kindness... You ponies are so contagious...” He smiled and coiled himself around Fluttershy. Wrapping her in his dying body. He began to glow with a blinding light. Everyone turned away but when they looked back all that was left was Fluttershy. But something was off.

Fluttershy had Discord’s yellow tinted eyes and red pupils. She had a single long fang growing out of her teeth and a bat-pony wing instead of her left wing. Celestia looked at her, “He merged with her... Discord... When I first met you I would never take you to be one who would give them-self up for another... You have my respect.” Celestia began to walk towards the Crusaders as Fluttershy’s friends gathered around Fluttershy asking her questions like, ‘How do you feel.” or 'Are you ok?' Celestia bent down to the crusaders eye level and then asked, “Do you kids want to know what fusion is?”

Children are the future

Celestia lead the crusaders outside to the balcony, she glared off into the distance. Feeling the life forces of the ponies she calls subjects. She felt some of the life forces being extinguished at a rapid pace and at the center she felt Boreas. She shivered and then looked towards the three fillies that stood next to her. “Little ones, do you know what is happening?”

Applebloom looked extremely confused by the statement. “Of course we know what’s happening. There's some sort of evil guy hurting ponies.”

Sweetie Belle stepped in and continued, “He’s hurting ponies like Twilight and Discord. And this is making you scared. Really scared.”

Celestia was baffled by this statement, “I-I am not scared. I’m a Princess, we don’t fear anything.”

Scootaloo cocked her eyebrow, “Really because you honestly do look scared, more then scared. Terrified even. What with the shaking, your hopeless talk, and you showing up in tears when you came back.” She looked up at the Princess and saw she had a rather stern expression. This caused the Crusaders to nervously back up. “With all due respect Princess.”

Celestia relaxed herself and gave a great big sigh. She wanted to act stoic to the children, to show that their was nothing to be afraid of and that their was a chance that they could win. But that wasn’t the case. The crusaders already could tell that she was no longer a proud symbol of hope. But instead that she was just as scared as a foal who is sleeping without a night-light for the first time. “Anyway... It’s good that you know the situation. Now as Discord said, you are the only chance we have at defeating it. Discord ment-”

Scootaloo interrupted, “Excuse me princess, but... Where is Rainbow Dash?”

Celestia sat down and began to scan for Rainbow Dashes life force... She found it. She looked down to the young filly. “Scootaloo... She’s...”

“Dead.” A voice came from down the hall. Twilight marched down it, with all four legs healed up. Her friends followed, some had grim expressions on their faces others were sobbing violently. “She was absorbed by the God’s Sin... She’s gone.” Twilight said sounding hopeless.

“How are you-” Celestia tried to question her but was interrupted by Twilight herself.

“Fluttershy seems to have gained healing abilities from her merging with Discord. There is no need to fill me in with the details of what has happened. They already told me what happened.” Twilight said as she walked towards the group. She bent down to speak to Scootaloo who was staring at the ground in a state of shock. “Scootaloo... I’m sorry.”

Twilight looked to her. Her pupils were small and dilated from hearing the horrifying news. The mare she looked up to... The mare she... She couldn’t live with out, was now gone. Scootaloo began to sob violently. She grabbed onto Twilight held her tight and screamed “Why?! Why did she have to die?!” Tears began to fall from Twilight’s face too as she put her fore-legs around Scootaloo.

“I’m sorry. I’m so very sorry...” Twilight said trying to calm down, but instead began to blubber. The mane six started to weep for their lost friend and Sweetie Belle and Applebloom ran towards their sisters for comfort.

Celestia turned away from all of them and appeared to be looking in the direction of Ponyville, but she was actually facing the direction of the Tree of Harmony. “There is a way... A way for the victims of the God’s Sin to be revived...” She said. Her voice was stern and cryptic.

Twilight heard this passing comment and wiped her tears away. “Wha- What do you mean.”

Celestia turned to Twilight and her mournful friends, “The Tree of harmony can be used to restore life.” She looked around her to see her some of the ponies wide-eyed and hopeful and the others confused. “Let me explain. When the god’s made the pact to never interact with the mortal realm they gave a artifact that was meant to provide miracles to the world if they ever needed it. This was the Tree of harmony. If one of us absorbs the tree’s power, and simply wishes for all the victims of the God’s Sin to be brought back to life, it shall be done.”

Scootaloo looked at her, her eyes gleaming with hope, wiping her tears away. “That means-”

Celestia gave her most motherly smile, “Yes that means that your mentor will return.” Scootaloo began to cheer and the rest of the ponies followed. “But first we have to defeat the God’s Sin... And there in lies another problem...” She turned to Applejack and Rarity. “There is know easy way to say this... Your sisters are going to have to die to save the world.”

All the celebration stopped dead in it’s tracks. There was dead silence that lingered on for a good 2 minutes, until Applejack broke the silence by asking, “W-What did you just say?”

“Actually that was to blunt.” Celestia said anxiously. “They’ll still be alive, but you’ll never see them again.” Everyone stared at her in shock. AJ and Rarity looked like they were going to pounce on her. “Ok, again not the best explanation. Let me explain. I wouldn’t do this if their were was any other way. But we have to use the fusion technique. This technique is when two or more ponies merge together to create one being. The problem here is... They will be stuck like that for the rest of their lives. Only separated by death.”

Applejack looked stunned and grabbed Applebloom. Pressing her against her side. The young filly tried to pry herself off but to no avail. AJ firmly announced, “There is no way my little sister is going to be subject to your magic tricks! Find somepony else!”

“Applejack you have to understan-”

Rarity interrupted, “Understand what?! You expect us to give up our family! Our sisters! Find someone else.” She had Sweetie Belle locked down on her chest. It looked like Sweetie Belle was trying to say something... Or breathe.

“That’s the problem.” Celestia said as she closed her eyes in sadness, “If I could I would. Hell I would try this myself with Twilight... The problem there is that when ponies gain a cutie mark they attain a form of identity in their souls, and there bodies set limits of how much strength and magic they can hold. If two ponies with cutie marks fuse there is a good chance that the two ponies identity’s would collided, leaving the resulting pony be a mentally broken mess. Not just that but their new body would have limits. But... Ponies with out cutie marks... They don’t a have a true identity, making the chance of insanity miniscule. But also they wouldn’t have limits to their power...”

AJ and rarity looked at each other, then looked down at their siblings. “No.” They said together.

Applebloom and Sweetie Belle broke free and gasped for air. “Yes, we’ll do it.” Applebloom said.

“No yah won’t!” Yelled AJ.

“Why not?!" Sweetie Belle screamed.

“Your not going to throw away your liv-” Rarity tried to retort, but was interrupted by Sweetie Belle.

“To save other lives?! Guys, don’t you get it? Ponies are being hurt! Suffering! If it takes us to give our lives up, then fine!”

“But-"

“There’s no excuse! We were booth raised on the beliefs of helping others and doing the right things! Well now were going to live up to those beliefs!" Sweetie Belle scolded, she began to pant.

Rarity backed up and tears started to well up in her eyes. She rushed to Sweetie Belles side and started to blubber. “I jus- just don’t want to lose you. I-I love you!” Tears started to well up in Sweetie Belle’s eyes to, she gave a comforting smile and hugged Rarity back.

Applebloom was so moved by the scene she didn’t notice AJ walk up behind her. She was startled when AJ began to speak. “So is that the reason... To help others?”

Applebloom nodded, “Just like dad.”

Applejack felt one tear roll down her face and she said,“You deserve this more then ah do then.” It was her dad’s old hat. She gripped the brim and nodded as tears came out of her eyes, she smiled and hugged her sister.

Celestia smiled at the display but then turned to Scootaloo who was standing next to Twilight, “How about you? What do you think?”

Scootaloo stood tall and gave a strut with so much pride that it would have put a tear to Rainbow Dash’s eye. “I’ll do anything to defeat him. I’ll do it for Rainbow Dash.”

Celestia nodded and took out some chalk. In the center of the Balcony, she began to draw symbols that spiraled into a circle. She guided each crusader to their position, and began to chant ancient words. A ball of light engulfed them, and the mane six gathered around.

“What’s happening?” asked Pinkie.

“There bodies are merging. Based on how many ponies the fusion should take up to a whole hour to complete... Let’s just hope we have that much time....” Celestia said grimly.

Boreas perched in the middle of the Vanhoover town square, he was surrounded by dead bodies and buildings lit a flame. He was feeling if their was anymore ponies left in the city. Most were escaping, they can live for now. Others were trapped in the rubble, they would die soon enough. But then he felt something, a power source growing rapidly in the distance. He had to see this for himself. He got up and flew into the sky but then remembered that there were still ponies left in the city. He looked down and saw ponies attempting to escape. He lifted his hand up and sent out an energy wave that engulfed the city and the ponies attempting to flee. He flew towards Canterlot leaving Vanhoover nothing but a crater.

More the forty minutes passed. They paced around the ball of light waiting for the fusion to finish. Celestia was the most anxious for it to complete, the God’s Sin was coming. She could feel it in her bones, he would have felt the energy spike. She scanned for his life force energy, just to come under the realization that he was heading right for them and he was almost there. She began to panic. “He’s coming!” she screamed.

The mane six got into a battle stance, all except for Fluttershy who hid in the shadows. Twilight transformed into her metamorphosis form and they all braced for his arrival. In a matter of seconds Boreas was standing on the balcony. He turned towards Celestia and gave a sickening smile, “Hello Coward. What have you been up to?”

She shivered, but she held her ground. He smiled and turned to the rest of the mane six , he gazed upon them all and then stared at the ball of light. “Oh what is this? A new warrior? To bad they won’t get a chance to fight.” He lifted his hand and readied a blast.

“Wait!” Celestia screamed. Boreas looked at her.

“What, coward?”

“In that energy ball is a warrior mighty enough to give you a good fight. Give us thirty minutes please. And then you’ll have a opponent worthy enough to fight you.”

He smiled, she had played to his pride that he absorbed from Rainbow Dash. “Fine then. But what shall I do in that time. I want a appetizers before I go for the main course.”

Celestia looked around her and then put her head down in shame. She pointed to the hills that could be seen from the balcony. “Give us thirty minutes and you can go kill as many mortals as you want.”

The mane six gasped in shock. “Are you crazy?!” Twilight screamed.

Boreas smiled and flew up and began to observe all the beings that inhabited the planet. He spent five minutes up there before he started to laugh violently and raised one hand into the sky. A large black energy ball appeared and sent out a ray of light that shot up into the air. Going past the clouds it began to disperse. Turning into billions of smaller rays of energy that dove down across the planet.

Did the inhabitants of earth know what was happening? No. This was just another ordinary day for them. Nothing special, nothing new. But in the sky the rays plummeted down to the ground. People would look up into the sky and they wondered what it was. Metors? Magic? Fireworks? That was the last thing that most mortals thought about before they were either impaled or blown up by the attack. Nothing was spared by the attack. Children, females, males. Ponies, Changelings, Griffons, minotaurs etc. Everything had died in one swift move.

The mane six watched this in horror. Once Boreas finished he landed on the balcony, “Well that didn’t fill me up to much. I have room for seconds.”

Celestia fell to the ground and began to sob, “I’m so sorry! Please forgive me! I’ll bring you all back! I promise!” Celestia couldn’t stop crying, everything she worked for died in a blinding flash. She curled up into a ball and lay there sobbing.

Boreas began to chuckle, “She won’t be any fun.” He turned to the mane six, “How about you?”

Rarity, was willing to do anything for her sister and there was nothing she could do to protect her. The only thing she could do was stall for time. She ran towards Boreas and screamed blasting magic through her horn. He grabbed her by the horn and by the legs. He held her above his head and slammed her back into his leg. Snapping her spine in half.

“RARITY!” They all screamed together. He threw her body to the left then vanished and reappeared behind them. They jumped back but before that he grabbed AJ by the neck. She tried to struggle and breathe, but he tightened his grip and crushed her neck.

Pinkie ran up to him and began to punch him. He turned to her and smacked her with AJ’s body sending her flying into a wall. She slammed against it hitting her head. She tried to pick herself up but saw Boreas charging up a beam of energy. She knew she was about to die, tears began to stream down her face and she gave a hopeless smile. She chuckled and was instantly disintegrated by his blast.

Boreas turned to Twilight and Fluttershy. Fluttershy was crying, but Twilight gritted her teeth and hoped that her new form was enough to at least stall Boreas enough for the Crusaders to fuse. She launched herself at him and started to wail on him. Tears streaming down her face, she knew this being had to die. Her attacks were actually doing damage, he was actually being effected. She continued wailing on him until, he let out a burst of energy causing Twilight to fly into a wall. She quickly got up and saw that he was coming at her very fast. So she raised her hooves above her and charged up a energy attack, and threw it at him with a overhead swing. It graced him and burned his right side. He gripped the injury but then rammed her with full force causing her to fly back and collide with Fluttershy.

She was on top of Fluttershy and was about to get up until she saw him charging up another energy attack. She closed her eyes and braced for the attack. There was a loud blast and the sound of punches. She opened her eyes, to see a new mare standing over a wounded Boreas.

The new mare turned to Twilight and smiled. She was a Pegasus with a messy red mane, and white coat. She had a red bow tied to her arm, but most notably was her Cutie Mark. It was the Cutie Mark Crusaders symbol. “Is that you guys?” Twilight questioned.

The new mare laughed, “I’m non of those fillies. My name is Crusader!” She turned to Boreas who was starting to get up. She pointed towards him and yelled, “And I am the mare who will defeat you!”

The last hope

Twilight stared in pure awe at the new fusion born warrior. Celestia’s spell did the trick, it created a being from the three fillies, a being capable of destroying Boreas.

Crusader looked at him with the smuggest smile, she stepped forward, which caused Boreas to step back in fear. “Scared yet?” She said, her voice sounded of three mares voices overlapping. “Feel a shiver down your spine? As if your mind is telling you, you’re going to lose? Feel the same fear, that so many ponies felt when you killed them?!” She was no longer smiling. She was frowning, and it read, ‘You’re dead.’ “I’ll make you feel the same, pain and fear you instilled in Rainbow dash, when you killed her!”

This rang a bell in Borea's mind and he finally responded. “Oh it’s you. The little kid that would follow Rainbow Dash around. What was it? Scootaloo?” He smiled, Rainbow dash’s mind tells me all about you, of how much you loved her... And of how weak you are.”

Crusader dashed at him, “You're the weak one!” She screamed flailing her fore-legs out in an attempt to hit him. He was dodging each punch, he was still faster then her. He reeled his arm up in an attempt to counter. But just then a energy blast came from the side and hit him right in the back. He flinched from the pain and was then caught up in the stream of Crusader’s punches. Twilight turned to see that Celestia had fired the blast. Her face was puffy from crying and her eyes were red, she fell to the ground to spectate the Crusader’s fight. Crusader had impacted his chest and fore head, she then slid under him and slammed her rear-legs into his gut sending him flying up into the air. Breaking through the ceiling, he stopped himself from ascending any further and looked down to Crusaders. He was mad, he raised his hand and began to charge up a large blast. A ball formed on his hand, it soon grew larger and larger, till it was larger then the throne room.

He let it drift down before it rushed towards the Crusader at top speed.

“Get down!” Celestia screamed, all of them got to the ground and put there hooves over their heads. All except for Crusader, she simply gave a smirk and stood up on her hind legs. The energy bomb grew closer and closer, eating away at the Ceiling and making it’s way towards her. She simply held her hoof out and a green aura formed around it.

“Lightning cannon!” She screamed as an untamed magical light came from her hoof and pushed the energy bomb back. It fought against it until finally sending both attacks rushing towards Boreas.

A magnificent explosion of light in the sky appeared as both attacks exploded in Boreas’s face. When the smoke and light cleared, Boreas was shown hovering in the sky. Three forth’s of his limbs where destroyed and black blood was seeping out. He was in agony.

“Crusader!” Celestia screamed at her, “Finish him off now! Before he regenerates!” But she just stood there fixated on him.

“No.” She replied softly. “I want him to suffer. I want him to feel the pain of every one of his victims times a thousand.” Her voice summarized her feelings, cold, unfeeling and vengeful.

Boreas gave a groan of pain and his limbs reformed themselves. He looked at her with fear written all over his face. He took a quick look to his left and basted off to get away from her. He needed to heal, to rethink his plan. No. He needed to survive, that’s what was most important at the moment.

“No you don’t!” she screamed as she spread her wings and launched out into the open to catch him.

Twilight stood up and looked towards the sky. She had just witnessed a miracle in every sense of the word. A Pegasus using magic. A being born of three small fillies. And most of all Boreas being injured. This whole day had felt like a nightmare, but now it was beginning to feel like a dream. She turned to Celestia and saw how broken she was. Enveloped in her failure and fear she laid there in fetal position sobbing. She looked so pathetic and hopeless, Twilight had to say something, so she approached her and bent down to comfort her. ‘It’s ok... We can revive them. It’s not-”

“It’s all my fault!” She said as she flung her head up and screamed. “If I at least tried to stop him... Maybe... Maybe things could have turned out differently!” She bent her head back down. “I’m tired of being afraid...”

A tear rolled down Twilight’s face. She couldn't say anything. It would be hypocritical to say any words of encouragement. Because she was afraid to. Fear ruled her life for so long. From when she was a filly and she was so afraid of the bullies she couldn’t go to school for a few days. To the present day were she feared her hidden rage and power. She simply sighed and rested her head on Celestia.

A soft sobbing could be heard at the end of the hall. Celestia noted this and her ears shot back as she realized what it was. “Twilight... I’m so sorry about your friends.”

Twilight got up and saw the source of the cries. Fluttershy stood over her friends corpses. Twilight soon joined her and stared down at there lifeless bodies. She knew that they could be brought back from the dead. She knew that. But it still hurt. Tears flowed down her face and she cocked her head and walked over and closed there eyes.

Fluttershy wiped her tears and walked over to Twilight. She raised her hoof and a warm light formed around her. Soon Fluttershy healed all the wounds that Boreas inflicted onto Twilight.

Twilight turned and nodded to Fluttershy in a gesture of thanks. She then turned to both Celestia and Fluttershy. “We should go see how Crusader is doing.” They all weakly nodded and took flight. Following Crusader’s life force till they found both Boreas and Crusader hoovering over the Everfree forest.

Boreas was heavily wounded, he was gasping for air and holding his stomach. He gritted his teeth and shot himself at Crusader swinging. She kept dodging each punch and when he tried to swing at her with his leg. She blocked it and grabbed it. She then brought her arm down in one swift motion and sliced his leg off. He cried out in pain and retreated.

“Quit mocking me!” He screamed. He tensed up his body and regenerated his missing limp.

“It seems to me that you’re biding your time. You want to survive. But guess what? Your time has come to an end.” She vanished and reappeared behind him slamming her hooves into his back side sending him correning towards the ground. But Crusader dove down and slammed him back up. She repeated the pattern three times until Boreas stopped himself in mid air. Crusader vanished again and Boreas turned around and punched the air behind him in a attempt to hit her. But rather she appeared in front of him and pressed her hooves into his chest. He turned around to see this just when a neon green color light emerged from her hoof and devoured him.

When the light slowly dimmed a black blob was in place of Boreas’s body. It fell through the sky onto the ground with a loud ‘plop’and sat there melting. Boreas’s mind was barely alive. He needed a plan to survive. He scanned the area for a power source that he could absorb. There was a powerful life force to the west. But it was too far away but it was coming towards him at a high speed. He can worry about that later. He scan and found three high powered beings walking towards him... But there was one. That was stronger then the other two. He set his sights on the power source and played dead.

Twilight walked with the group to the black blob that was Boreas. “It’s over.” she said calmly. She leaned against Celestia and they both gave a collective sigh. They could feel there was barely any life left in the melted corpse and it was fading away.

Crusader flew down behind them and asked. “Is he dead?”

Celestia nodded, “You did it hero.” She smiled and walked over to her to celebrate.

But Fluttershy was not so convinced. She stepped over to the corpse and tapped it. It stuck to her, so she tried to wipe it off but another part of the corpse latched onto her.

Twilight heard Fluttershy’s screams for help and they turned around to see her body being merged with Boreas’s melted body. Crusader got onto her hind legs and began to charge up an attack. “No!” Twilight said as she pushed the Crusader from shooting. “You’ll kill Fluttershy too!”

Crusader got back up and charged up her blast again. “She has Discord’s power in her! If he takes her then we’re all dead!” The untamed neon green light shot from her fore-leg engulfing both Fluttershy and the remains of Boreas.

Celestia and Twilight stood in the smoke that was thrown up into the air by the attack. They were in shock as they just witnessed the murder of a friend; they turned to Crusader with an un-filtered rage. But something was wrong. Crusader stood there glaring to the center of the smoke source. A being emerged from the smoke. It had the shape of Discord’s body but with no hind legs. It’s head was the size of Celestia with teeth the size of a pony’s fore-leg. He had two massive arms that had claws sharp enough to cut through metal. It slithered through the smoke and began to laugh. It’s voice sounded like loud white noise.

The Crusader stood there motionless until she said, “Both of you. Run.”

Celestia and Twilight both took to the sky and flew across the sky.

“Like my new body?” The being said flaunting himself.

Crusader smirked. “You look just as disgusting as before Sin.”

“Actually... Due too my new body a new name is needed... How about Leviathan Sin.”

Crusader laughed and then shot herself up to his head. She began to punch and kick. But nothing seemed to work. “Are we fighting yet?” Leviathan asked? He grabbed her and brought her up to his face. He gave the most demonic smile and took her into his other hand and tore her in half. Blood and guts spilling everywhere, Leviathan then chucked the body off to the side. It began to glow and in time it reverted back into the corpses of three fillies.

Celestia and Twilight both were revolted at the sight. Celestia turned her head in disgust and Twilight began to gag. Twilight looked to her mentor for an answer. "What do we do?!" Twilight cried. But, when she gazed into her eyes she saw nothing. For the first time in her life Celestia didn't have an answer for Twilight.