Equestria AM (after magic)

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Chapter 4: Reflections

“Wow, this is really good.” Twilight told ward, as she ate her french toast. “You know, you didn't have to make breakfast. That’s usually spikes job.”

“It was nothing.” He said, putting down his coffee. “I figured I would do something for you since you let me stay the night here.”

“After a long journey like that to find me, I wasn’t going to let you wast the little money you have left on an inn.”

“Yea, but you didn’t have to, so I figured I would repay you.”

“Thank you regardless. so...”

“So...?”

“Anything else I should know about this quest of yours?”

“Skipping over the small talk? ok. I was sent to find you to help you end the war.”

“By finding the princesses?”

“No.”

“I don’t understand. We need the princesses to lead the rebellion. If we had there help, we could attack canterlot and they could-”

“Loss. Again.” Ward cut her off, nearly sending Twilights eyebrows through the roof. “The overlord has only gotten more powerful since his rise to power. The two sisters are weaker then he was, and far weaker then he is. If we want to win, we need a real leader. Some pony who understands the zebras magic and the art of war.”

“But...that’s not possible. Zebras have less magic then earth pones, a single zebra cant have possibly taken-”

“Do you even no what happened the day of the take over?” Ward asked. “Do you even now how we lost?”

“No pony dose.”

“I do. I was there.”

Twilight gasped, prepared to call her guest on his bluff. Her brain betrayed her, of course. It made sense that he was there when the zebras attacked because he was Lunas student. In fact, she couldn’t come up with any scenario that would stop him from being at the castle that night.

“The zebra army advanced into the city, wielding weapons crafted from gems. The strange crystal tipped spears absorbed any spell cased at it. any defensive or offensive spell we threw at them was useless.

“The guards where forced to go spear to spear with the zebras, but where heavily outnumbers. All our forces had been sent to to the border towns to keep them from falling. The idea of the zebras attacking canter lot directly was never even considered. The zebras used there strange magic to make themselves invisible, and then they just walked. An army marched through our country, to the heart, without any pony seeing it.

“Shine armor ordered the guards to fall back to the keep, so that they could protect the princesses. The princesses protected the royal guard just as much as the guard protected them. Soon, they where dug into the castle keep, more then ready to ward of any attack.

“By this point, both Shining and I had both tried to put up magical barriers around the castle, but the moment a zebra touched there magic reducing spears to them, our magic would falter. Luna ordered us to stop wasting our energy.

“The zebras had taken most of the castle, and most of the guards with them. Forty guards stood in the castle keep, waiting for the zebras to try there hand at taking our alicorn rulers. We all figured that without magic, defeating the princesses was impossible.

“Then, Discord showed up. I didn’t have as big of a problem with the chaos spirit as Luna did. Heck, some of the pranks he would pull around the castle were really funny. He said, “if any of you wish to live, you best get out while you can.”

“Of course, Luna and Celestia assumed that he may be becoming hostile, so they got up. Shining stood in front of Celestia and out a shield around her. I did the same for Luna, but I was outside of mine. “Im not making a threat.” He said. “just simply stating a fact. I've seen the leader of these zebras. He makes me look like an earth pony.”

“I asked him what he meant, but he just laughed. He said, “Not even you can protect any pony from him, Warding Soul. The more they kill, the stronger he gets.” With that discord left, walking out a door he made appear, and closing it behind him. Shortly after, we all saw what he meant.

“The zebra overlord walked into the keep, and right through all our defenses. He had a large crystal horn sticking out of his head, glowing a bright red. With a single nod, all of the guards were pushed up against the walls, save for me and shining armor.

“We both put up out shield spells around the princesses, as we were trained to do. I helped develop the tactic. Once Luna had a spell ready, I would open up the shield enough for her to cast at the target. I got the idea from a daring do book.

“Anyway, we did that, but every time a spell neared him, it became this swirling mist of red. It got absorbed by this red gem he wares around his neck. Luna and I new what it was right away.

“A while before, the zebras had asked us for a magical weapon. We had the elements of harmony to keep evil at bay, but the zebras had nothing. They feared that when the stars attacked, there land would be left to ruin, as it has been in there past.

“We gave them a small red gem, said to be star swirls final invention. It would absorb the energy of anything that was cased at it. Or anything that died nearby. It was called the dragon tear. we gave it to them as a peace offering, but instead, they used it to destroy us. It was never meant as a weapon, but as a shield. Somehow, the zebras found a way to fashion working horns out of gemstones, and surgically implant them into themselves.

“Then, celestia and Luna looked at each other, and nodded. There was this brilliant flash of light. the next thing I new, shining and I where standing in the main hall of the crystal empire.”

Twilight sat at the other end of the table, staring down at her food. She was trying to process everything that had been said, but she could make sense of it. She felt like she was staring a paradox in the face.

For some reason, she had thought equestria lost because there where more zebras then pones. But from what the rebels said after missions, the opposite was true.

Twilight sat silently in her chair, thinking it all over again and again. An artifact that absorbed the energy of anything fired at it, and took the magic of the dead. It sounded familiar, and yet, it felt like fiction.

Ward hoped he hadn’t upset twilight in some way. She was just sitting at the table, staring into her plate. He knew the look she was wearing. It was the look princess celestia got when ever she was in deep thought. Much like when he had given himself wings, which Luna had kindly let him keep.

Spike stood near the stove, apparently thinking about what he had said as well. Ward had no clue how long the baby dragon had been standing there, or how much of the story he had heard.

“So...that’s how it happened?” She asked quietly.

“Yes. I’m sorry I don’t know more, but...they teleported us out. They saved our lives.”

“I-I have to go upstairs. I just-i need a minute.” She said, getting up from her chair, tears streaming down her face.

“Take all the time you need.”

Ward sat in front of his plate for another five minutes, his apatite gone. He was about to clear of the table when spike grabbed his plat first.

“Here, allow me.” He said, clearing off the table and taking the dishes over to the sink.

“Thank you.”

“No, thank you. I don’t know about any of that stuff you said, but She needed to hear it.”

“I know she did, as much as it hurt me to tell her.” He sighed. “I made her cry.”

“I know, and I’ll get you back for that by the way. But i think...i think you may have gotten through to her. The hole time the zebras have been in charge, all shes done is make up theorys about what happened to the princesses. for every theory, came a stream of spells to find, speak, or get to them. Now, maybe she can help end the war.”

“Yea, maybe.” He said. “Should I go check on her?”

“No. when shes ready to talk, she'll come back down. Its best to wait for her to proses it all on her own.”

“Alright.”

“So, was it all true?”

“What?”

“The story, is that how it happened?”

“I left out everything to graphic.”