A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

Destiny

Twilight and her assistant Spike made their way through the road, following the instructions one of the ponies in Fillydelphia had told them, heading in the direction of the old, partialy destroyed Inn called "Dirty Joe". Even though it was early in the morning, the whole sky was slowly being filled with dark clouds, and within a few moments, it started raining, the cold wind making it even worse. They picked up their pace untill they could see a big wooden building on their horrizon. Spike couldn't resist any longer, and finally asked.

"Twilight! Do you really think it's a good idea? How can you know that this isn't a trap?"

"That's impossible Spike, the pony who wrote this letter had to be with us on the train, there's no other way he could put it under me... which still surprises me how he could do that without waking me up."

"I just... I don't know Twilight, this seems to be really suspicious to me, and, uh.." A loud thunder coming somewhere from behind them made him jump in surprise at the unicorn's back, hugging her tightly with closed eyes. "...I don't like it here."

"I don't like it either, but... i just can't help but trust whoever wrote this... I got nothing else to lose as well." Just as she finished this sentence, they were already in front of the Inn. The wind had to break the signboard, now two halfes were hanging from the chains, one half saying "Ditry", and the second one saying "Joe Inn".

"Well, this is it. Come on, before you will get a cold." Spiked looked once again at the old house, before he shuddered and replied.

"Uhm... How about you will go in, see if it's safe, and meanwhile i'll stay here, and uh... guard the entrance! Yeah, guard the entrance, heheh..." Twilight rolled her eyes, but if she knew something perfectly, it was that if Spike was afraid of a place, then there was no way of keeping him calm in there. He stayed next to the door while Twilight made her way in.

Nick slowly made his way through the woods, making sure to keep an eye on Twilight all the time. The rain was getting worse all the time, and after a moment it was hard to follow the constantly picking up pace unicorn, but after a moment he could see already the inn. It seemed that she and that lizard called Spike which follows her everywhere were talking about something just before entering it, and the lizard stayed outside while the unicorn went in. It will be hard to get there without him noticing me, i'll need to-

His thought had been stopped as he suddenly fell on the ground, a light blue aura surrounding him as he slowly started growing and changing. Within a few seconds, he was already back in his human body, including the clothes. ...What? How am i... The spell wore off? Great, now being noticed by them is fully out of question. He looked at the Spike again, a plan slowly forming in his mind. I need a distraction.

After a moment of looking, he picked up a small rock from the ground and threw it at one of the walls of the inn. Apparently Spike didn't saw that, but he had heard the noise, since he instantly looked this way, terror visible on his face. What he didn't expected though, the lizard started backing away instead of following the sound. This must have scarred him pretty badly, but thankfully he's slowly backing away from the door. Another rock threw right behind him caught him by surprise as he instantly turned around, with his back to Nick. Now's my chance!

He quickly dashed towards the door, the rain being loud enough to drown out his steps. Thankfully he was able to stop himself just in time while going through the door to avoid bumping into a small unicorn, looking at him in fear.

Twilight slowly made her way to the nearest table and took a seat. She couldn't help but look around at her surroundings. There was dirt everywhere, nobody around, a bad smell filling the room entirely, a few broken wooden tables lying in the corner, probably waiting for someone to repair them. The only light in the room was from a small candle, placed at every table in the inn, but not all of them were lit. Twilight couldn't help but feel the uneasiness of the inn, should she believe the letter she received today? Maybe Spike was right? She looked around the room once again before making her decision; she's leaving. Just as she was about to make her way to the wooden, nearly broken apart door, a strange creature entered. It was way taller than her, was bipedal, with it's shape reminding her of an ape, with the difference that it was mostly hairless and clothed, which was a sign that it was most likely inteligent. They were looking at eachother for a few seconds before Spike suddenly shouted from behind him.

"DEAR CELESTIA, A MONSTER! RUN TWILIGHT!" Creature visibly didn't liked that, as he quickly started backing off.

"Whoa there, calm down, i'm not going to hurt you!" Spike didn't seemed to be amused by this reply as he quickly dashed betwen it's legs to Twilight and hid himself under her hoof. It's able to speak, so it means it's inteligent... I've never seen anything like it before! After a moment of silence she cleared her throat and spoke.

"Uhm, hello there... My name is Twilight Sparkle, w-what's your name?" Spike whispered something like "You are trying to talk to it?!", but she ignored that.

"...My name's Nick, nice to meet you... i gues..." Before Twilight could say anything else, a voice could be heard from behind them.

"Who's there?" Spike, Twilight and Nick turned around at once and saw another creature, similar to Nick, but with her ears looking almost the same as the pony ones, and being even taller than Nick was, though it was looking more femine than him, and had something on her chest which reminded her of two small balloons hidden under her clothes, which seemed to be made mainly out of grass and leaves. "Who are you?" It asked again, this time with more feriocity in it's voice. After a moment though, it had calmed down, her eyes focused on Nick.

"...Are you an elf? You look familiar, but yet so different." Nick seemed to be slightly startled by it.

"...N-no, i'm a human." Twilight ears perked up at it. A human? Just like i thought, there haven't been any books about 'humans', neither for the 'elves', though... her voice seems familiar to me.

"What is going on here?!" Spike finally yelled from under Twilight, catching attention of all the creature in the room.

"Twilight, do you know who he is?!"

"Why should i know, i've never seen it before!"

"He's the guy that ponynapped me!"

"What? I can assure you that it's a female, her breasts are-"

"Say something about my breasts and i'll kill you faster than you can take a breath."

"It was him?! Didn't you said he was ugly?"

"Isn't he?!"

"I'm not ugly!"

A sudden sound of something hard dropping on the ground caught everyone's attention. On the counter was lying a set of small rocks, one of them lying on the ground, there were overally six of them.

"...What is this?" Nick was the first one who said anything after a way too long pause.

"...I don't know..." Sunera slowly said, keeping her gaze on the rocks.

"...I know these." Twilight said, making her way slowly towards the counter. "...These are the Elements of Harmony, before they were turned into the necklaces.. But why are these there?"

"A very simple question Twilight." A male voice came from behind the counter.

"...Joe? Is that you?" Sunera slowly asked, which caught the attention of the group.

"Joe? The Inn keeper?" Twilight asked, visibly curious.

"Hey, i've did what you asked me to do, now i want some explanations!" Nick bursted out, making everyone shift uncomfortably.

"Yes, now's the time." Slowly the Elements of Harmony began rise, a light blue aura attaching to them, before the aura began to gain the form. It looked like an old pony with a long beard, wearing a robe and a typical wizard hat.

"...What the hell is that thing? Joe, where are you?!" Nick made his way towards the counter and looked behind it, only to face nothing. He could hear a laugh behind him, and the form of the wizard pony was visibly laughing, having the voice of the Joe.

"You see, my dear human, i am the Joe, but also i am not. I was known as a-"

"Starswirl the Bearded..." Twilight slowly said, taking a step forward, Spike never leaving her side, looking at the form of the pony in wonder.

"Yes, you are right Twilight. I've gathered you all here in a promise of help, which all of you will recieve, but first, i'll need you to help me as well."

"...What is it?" Sunera asked, slightly worried. Starswirl laughed quietly again, but afterwards said in a cold tone.

"Help me save this universe."

Another loud blast could be heard in the whole canterlot as the unrecognizable form flew across the sky, and what seemed to be a princess Celestia follow after it.

The fight was going for at least a few hours now, Celestia was becoming already tired, but it looked like Regone haven't been even started fighting seriously in the first place, although she knew he was becoming tired as well. They were exchanging punch after punch, Celestia's hooves leaving bruises all over the draconequus body, while Eua'Regone's claws leaving bleeding marks over Celestia's face and shoulders. After a few more minutes of that, the princess threw a small beam right in his face, creating a small blast that threw them away from eachother.

Eua'Regone caught himself in the mid air, charging a spell and throwing it a Celestia, which halfway through split in a three small balls of energy, which split up and tried to hit her from all the sides. Celestia swiftly avoided two of them, but the third one hit her in her side, leaving a burned mark and making her hiss in pain. Now he was charging at her, with his claws prepared to dug into her skin. She was able to recover in time and dodge the charge, sending after him a ray of energy which pierced through his left shoulder, destroying a part of the castle on it's way. Regone yelled in anger, managing to regenerate the wound in his shoulder, which gave Celestia time to attack again, charging straight at him and piercing his stomach with her horn. She continued her charge untill stopping right in front of the tower of the castle, letting him go off her horn and watching him fly through the walls and landing on the ground, on the streets of Canterlot.

Ponies saw some kind of a form flying in their direction untill it had landed on the ground, a dragonequus lying with his chest and shoulder pierced, bleeding on the street. Ponies instantly ran away in panick, creating chaos around the city.

Celestia flew shortly after him, looking at the dying form or Regone in disgust.

"I don't have mercy for the likes of you, Eua'Regone, it was foolish of you to come here at the first place." He coughed out some blood, before saying with a small smirk.

"...I know, i never had a chance against you..." He coughed some more blood before continuing.

"...This is why i'm not fighting alone..." Before Celestia could react, a ball of energy hit her in the back of her head, sending her flying through the houses of the Canterlot's residents. After a few moments she was able to land on another street a few hundred meters away, shakily standing on her hooves. She lifted her head, and in the air she saw probably the most horrible thing ever.

Right next to Eua'Regone, was hovering Discord, with his arms crossed and a wicked grin on his face.

"What?! You want to tell me that right now princess Celestia is losing to the two most powerfull villians in the whole Equestria, and i know nothing about it?!"

"Exacly that, Twilight." Starswirl kept his tone cold, which caused Twilight to snarl in anger.

"I can't stay here, i need to help her!" Before she could take a step though, Starswirl spoke again.

"This is what we're about to do." Twilight flinched, but after a moment turned back to the form of the wizard.

"...But what does we have to do with this?" Nick asked, sitting on one of the chairs that weren't still broken.

"Exacly, what do you need us for? We're not from here." Sunera added, feeling slightly worried herself.

"...Just like you both said, you're not from this universe. Exacly this aspect will have a huge meaning in my plan."

"...And what is your plan?" Spike asked, sitting on Twilight's back.

"...I don't know how much you know about the past, but a long time ago, there were four creatures that kept the world in peace. They were representing four elements of the universe, which were the light, darkness, harmony and disharmony. Celestia represented light, Luna represented darkness, i represented harmony and the Eua'Regone represented disharmony."

"I don't catch up with anything you say, but go on." Nick quickly said, getting a mean look from everyone except from Starswirl.

"...As i were saying, they kept the world in balance, and if one of them would die, or there would be two creatures representing the same aspect, the whole universe would break apart." He wen't silent for a moment before speaking again, this time with dread in his voice.

"It began... Prepare yourselves!"

A sudden lightning bolt struck the ground right in front of the inn, making the ground crack and shake.

"You don't even imagine how great it is to see your older brother after all these years!" Discord yelled as he was hugging tight Regone, which was keeping a rather cold expression.

"...We never really had seen eachother."

"That's even better!" He kept hugging him untill Regone just slipped out from his hands like a water, before gaining his normal form again.

"So, what had you done with the girl?"

"I've let her teleport back to her home as promised." Discord said, his wicked smile dissapearing for a second before returning.

Eua'Regone raised an eyebrow at the statement. "Don't you think it would be more fun to play with her a little bit longer?"

"She would eventualy realize that i'm not you, and that would be a problem... Besides, you said she's a real party pooper, and i don't like playing with party poopers... unlike this one down there, am i right Celestia?!" Discord shouted, waving his claw to her as she tried to recover from the hit. Sister, where are you when i'm needing you the most?

Luna made her way through what seemed to be endless corridors, using a purification spell on every single pony she was passing by. Some of the already healed element bearers were following her, watching her work. Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash were looking at some of the ponies dead bodies in pure terror, but Pinkie Pie seemed to keep her eyes on the ground, her mane and tail limply hanging. Rarity had noticed that, and slightly slowed to match her friend's pace.

"I know Pinkie, it must be terrible to watch... but princess Luna is helping, and soon everypony will be fine!"

"...What about the ponies that had died? Will she help them too?" That took Rarity off the guard, but Applejack quickly joined.

"Ya see sugarcube, some ponies just... go, and there's nothin' we can do about it. I'm sure these ponies woulnd't like to see you like that."

"Certainly!" Rarity added. "This is not the Pinkie Pie they knew and loved! We can't change that, so we just need to... go on." Pinkie stopped, tears falling on the ground from under her mane.

"...Fluttershy..." Rainbow Dash looked at her with curious look. "Right, what about Fluttershy? We haven't seen her yet, and we're almost half way through the hospital, i wonder where did they put her..."

"...N-no..." Now she was already quietly crying, trying to create a sentence through the tears. "...F-fluttershy is... d-dead..."

All the ponies, including princess Luna, stopped in line, looking at her in disbelieve.

"...She had died a while ago, before first ponies started to die... I've been in her cottage to see if she was alright..." She finally broke into a burst of tears, all the ponies looking at her in horror.

"...No way... F-Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash whispered as Applejack took her hat off her head and held it in front of her chest, trying to not cry.

"...B-but Pinkie Pie! Why haven't you said anything before?" Rarity asked, getting a glare from Applejack.

"I COULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!" She yelled, making everyone flinch from her sudden outburst. "...M-my cutie mark... M-my speciality is in making ponies s-smile... B-but everypony is d-dying now, and i... i... I couldn't bear seeing everypony s-suffering so much... If i w-were to tell them about... About F-fluttershy, i would only make feel everypony feel... even w-worse..." She said it through tears and sniffling, getting mixed look of pity and sadness from her friends before they all group-hugged her.

Luna was looking at the Pinkie Pie in compassion, but what she feared even more, is that one of the element bearers was dead.

Without her, Equestria couldn't be protected.

"...Listen, everypony, i may... have a solution." Element bearers instantly looked at her with a small hope, except for Pinkie Pie which was trying to stop her tears from flowing down her cheeks.

"..What do you mean princess, 'solution'?"

"...I know a reincarnation spell which can bring your friend back to live, but this spell takes a lot of effort and power to cast... I might be exhausted afterwards, maybe even fall into coma, but will try to help her... But that after i'll heal rest of the patients, alright?"

"Princess... Could you really do that?" Applejack asked with a mix of worry and hope in her voice.

"B-but you can end up in a coma! Are you sure you want to do this princess?" Rainbow Dash asked as she got up in the air.

"...Everything for my friends." Luna said as she smiled sadly at them.

The element bearers looked at her in hope, Pinkie Pie raised her head and smiled at Luna through tears as she sobbed quietly.

Dark clouds began spread above the Ponyville.

"What is going on?!" Spike yelled in fear as he grabbed Twilight's hoof, Sunera and Nick are holding the walls, and the Twilight herself had stick herself to the ground with her magic.

"It began, this universe is slowly falling apart." Starswirl said, looking outside of the building through the hole that once was covered with the wooden door.

"The universe? But why!?" Nick asked, doing his best to keep his balance.

"Because since a while ago, there were two aspects of chaos residenting on this planet."

"Two of them? But who?" Twilight asked, trying to do something about the Spike loosening his grip on her hoof.

"Eua'Regone and Discord." Twilight's face went instantly pale, same had the Spike's face. "Regone had rescued Discord from his stone prison a while ago, just before the time when Luna had a conversation with Nick, just before the moment Sunera was sent home and as you were having a conversation with Celestia about leaving Ponyville, Twilight." Everyone looked at the magical form in disbelieve.

"...This had been a few hours ago!" Nick yelled. "How come that now all of this is happening, and didn't happened before?!"

"Oh, but it was happening a few hours ago just as well, at the same time as the black clouds began to spread around the canterlot. They made their way to the Fillydelphia, through the Ponyville, and now they are making their way to the Appleloosa."

"What does the bad weather have to do with the universe?!" Sunera screamed, loosing her grip and falling onto Nick, which caught her and let her hold him.

"This is not just a bad weather, this is what will destroy this universe." Another thunder stroke, immediately setting the forest on fire.

"Can we just cast this stupid spell so we can survive?!" Spike yelled, loosing the grip of Twilight's hoof but being caughed by her magic.

"I'm afraid this is not the time yet."

"It's not the time yet?!" Whole group yelled at once.

"This spell can be casted only when the last part of the universe's death will make it's appearance, and it's still not present."

"That's the dumbest thing i've ever heard!" Nick yelled. "And you still haven't explained us how we are linked with that!"

"Four aspects representing and controlling the universe, the only way for the spell to break through is to strenghten it with four different aspects of the universes."

"Aspects of the universes?! What does that mean?!" Twilight yelled, watching the fire spreading faster and faster, slowly making it's way to the inn.

"Four aspects of the universe, with four different creatures from four different universes, each one of them representing their aspect of which their universe is made of. Sunera represents war, Twilight represents pestilence, Nick represents femine and i represent death, just like the riders of the apocalypse, these four aspects control whenever is it the time for the universe to end."

Luna and the rest of the element bearers ran through the Ponyville. As it came out, after healing all the alive ponies, the plague stopped spreading, like the source of it had just simply dissapeared. It was even better for her, she didn't needed to search for it. After a few moments of gallop, they were finally in front of the Fluttershy's cottage, once filled with animals and full of life, now seemed empty and abandoned. As soon as she opened the door, a smell of a rotting corpse filled her nostrils. Right there, in the middle of the room, were lying bones of the element bearer. A bunch of flies instantly flew away as soon as the door were opened, and Luna slowly walked towards the bones.

"...Poor Fluttershy..." She could hear a voice of Rainbow Dash speak behind her. Rarity and Pinkie Pie instantly turned their heads away, and Applejack looked at the remainings of Fluttershy with pure terror on her snout. ...I won't enjoy this for sure.

After a moment of silence, Luna's horn began to glow, and the Fluttershy's bones began hovering in the air. Suddenly, the magic on the Luna's tip of the horn exploded in pure energy, forcing Applejack and Rainbow Dash to look away as the Fluttershy's remainings began to put themselves in order, forming a skeleton of her. Soon, a meat began to appear on these bones, vital organs began to create, veins, muscles, and at the end, skin and fur.

The whole process took a minute, and instead of the bones, there was standing a living Fluttershy, breathing, and mostly confused. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were first to see what happened, and when they saw Fluttershy standing there, giving everyone a confused look, they instantly rushed to give her a hug, same did Pinkie Pie and Rarity after a moment.

And then, Luna has fainted.

Celestia flew into the ruins of her once beautifull castle, hitting the hard floor with her back, making her gasp for the air. Her left wing had been cut off during the fight, so now all she can do is to jump higher with a little bust of her right wing. Her crown was lying somewhere in the ruins, probably destroyed, and there were deep cuts from the claws on her side. Using most of her magic to stop the bleeding the best she can, she had very little to fight with. This is not a fight i could win alone, i need help!

Opening slightly her eyes, she could see Discord already charging at her, preparing for the final blow. Using some of the strenght left in her, she rolled away, making him hit the cold stone. With some of magic left in her, she shoot him with a small ball of energy, sending him flying away. Before she could react though, Regone appeared right next to her and kicked her in the side, sending her in the air. Her body flew limply, not having the energy or her second wing to stop herself in the air, she just awaited the impact with the ground.

It never happened.

In the middle of the air she was catched by her sister, princess Luna.

"Sister..." Luna slowly spoke, holding the broken body of her older sister with wide eyes, completely stunned by what she's seeing. Almost entire Canterlot has been turned into ruin, their castle being now a pile of rocks, and her sister, barely keeping herself awake.

"...This is over, isn't it?"

"...Celestia, i... i can't fight, i'm too weak... We need to run while we still can"

"...You don't understand... there are... two of them..."

"Two?" Before she could ask anything else, Discord and Eua'Regone both appeared right in front of her.

"Oh, hello there princess of the night, i've been wondering when would you arrive." Discord said, looking somewhat hurt. "For a moment i thought that you're avoiding me!" He whiped off a tear of his eye, which exploded as soon as it touched the ground.

"Give up Luna, it's all over. If you will surrender, i may have mercy on you." Eua'Regone looked at the Celestia with a disgust, but after a moment a smirk appeared on his face. "Let her go, and i'll consider sparing your life. So, how is it?"

After a few seconds of silence Luna spit Regone in the face.

"Never."

Just as the both of the dragonequuses were about to strike her, a loud roar echoed through the whole Equestria.

"...What was that?" Luna asked slowly.

"...I don't know..." Celestia anserwed.

Another roar echoed through the world, and betwen the dark clouds, in the sky, for a moment was visible a gigantic tail.

"Why is the rain not helping in extinguishing the fire?!" Twilight was using her magic to stop the fire spreading around the inn when suddenly a loud roar echoed from a distance.

"...What was that?" Nick asked, looking in the sky through the window.

"...Leviathan."

"Leviathan? What is that?" Sunera asked, still holding Nick who was trying not to touch any burning spots.

"This is Leviathan." Starswirl said as he pointed up in the sky. There, betwen the dark clouds, a gigantic snake-like creature was seen, swimming in the clouds. Everyone opened their jaws in disbelieve.

"Leviathan is a creature of the destruction, that appears once the universe is dying, and he will be the one destroying the worlds and the stars, untill there's nothing else than the void."

"...So what are you waiting for? Cast the damned spell!" Nick yelled, grabbing accidentialy a burning part of the wall, both him and Sunera falling on the ground.

"It's not that simple." Nick turned his head at him, ready to yell, when he noticed that he didn't had his form anymore, now the light blue aura was focusing in a single ball of light. "It needs to charge, or else it won't work."

"Then charge it faster!" He yelled as he hit a broken table with his head, the ground shaking so hard that the walls began to break, and the whole building was falling apart.

"I'm doing my best."

Luna watched as the huge snake-like creature made it's way through the clouds, huge enough to cover half of the Equestria with it's body. A few seconds after though, she got poked by Celestia's hoof as she quietly whispered to her.

"Now's your chance."

She opened her eyes wider as the realization struck her. Indeed, Discord and Regone were sill watching this weird creature I could now escape, if i could only fly fast enough to-

Suddenly she felt a tingling sensation back in her mind. ...I'm gaining energy. When she looked back at her sister, she saw that her horn was slightly glowing. Another whisper escaped her lips, but this time it made Luna's heart stop for a second.

"Kill him. Avenge Starswirl."

"...If it's your will, sister." She lowered a little bit just to be out of their reach and began charging a spell. Within a few seconds, a ray of pure energy was making it's way to Regone, he turned his head in surprise, but that's all he had time to do as the ray pierced through his skull, killing him instantly. His lifeless body fell down at the ruined Canterlot's street, leaving a bloody splash as he hit the ground.

Discord went pale as soon as he saw that, and he instantly made his way to his brother while Luna flew over the Canterlot garden and put her sister on the soft grass.

"Thank you." She whispered before she lost consciousness. Luna flew back to where Discord was looking at his dead brother, with pure rage painted on his face, when he heard Luna's voice behind him.

"He was never meant to rule, Discord, neither were you. It is time to end this madness." He slowly turned around to face her, his claw clenched.

"The only thing i'll end with, is you." Just as he charged at her, a sudden explosion was heard from the above, and the whole sky went white. A loud roar could be heard again, before everything just stopped. Dark clouds dissapeared, and the clear sky was once again visible. Sun was once again shinning, illuminating the ruins which they were standing in. Luna looked up in the sky, a surprised look on her face. What happened...?

"Alright, it's almost done! Prepare yourselves!" Everyone in the ruins of the inn looked at the orb that once was a Starswirl. Suddenly it drawed a small tears-like fragments of the energy from everyone, which made the orb increase in size at least twice. Then, it shoot up in the air, straight to the clouds. After a few moments of silence and confused looks betwen the creatures, a loud explosion could be heard above them, a white light filled the sky above the whole Equestria. A roar of the Leviathan could've been heard again, untill it all just stopped. It stopped raining, the ground stopped shaking, the fire was put off, sky was once again clear, and the sun was shinning on their bodies once again.

"...Is it over?" Twilight asked, looking around herself.

"...I think it's over." Sunera said, finally standing from the ground.

"God, finally!" Nick said as he stood up from the ground as well. "I was sure i won't survive this!"

"Well... So what now?" Spike asked, letting go Twilight's hoof which now have a claw marks on it.

"No, it's not over." All of them turned to the source of voice, which came out to be once again from of the Starswirl.

"What do you mean, it's not over? We did everything you asked us to do!"

"Yes, indeed, you and Sunera are free to leave now." Just as he ended saying that, two portals appeared in front of both Sunera and Nick.

"Wait!" Twilight said before any of them could do anything "I want to thank you both for your help... This all is so bizzare, and you had been helping Regone for a while, but... I can live in this place again thanks to you. So, thank you." Nick smiled slightly, kneeled down and ruffled up her mane lightly.

"You know, everything happening this world is made out of pure bullshit, but... No problem, Twilight... After all that, i'd rather not wake up and realize it was all a dream, since i don't like the idea of me being crazier than i thought." Twilight giggled a little bit while he stood up, and went through the portal. Sunera turned to Starswirl and after a short silence, she sighed.

"I've helped you... Does it mean you will help me now?"

"Oh, but i already did helped you." She blinked once. "Why don't you go see it for yourself?" After a moment of hesitation, she nodded to him and went through the portal herself.

"Now Twilight, i need you to make haste to the Canterlot, princess Luna needs your help, she's fighting right now with the Discord."

"Discord? But, what about-"

"He's dead." She froze for a moment, before sighing in relief. "Sadly, Celestia is unconsciousness, so Luna alone is fighting against Discord, and she's too weak herself to beat him."

"...But, didn't you said that Discord represents the aspect of the chaos? If he will be killed, then-"

"Don't worry about it. Pick the elements of the harmony. Other element bearers are on their way as well."

Discord charged again, pure rage not letting him think about anything else than about the need to kill her. Luna was swiftly dodging his attacks, but wasn't attacking herself. I can't kill him, but i can't be killed as well. I don't know how long i can keep it up, but eventualy i will need to attack! The thought disconcentrated her, and the blow right at the snout was on it's way, if not a sudden rock flying right at the head of the Discord. They both turned to the source of the throw, and saw a group of element bearers, minus Twilight Sparkle, in a battle stance.

"Come on you big ugly monster, show me what you got!" Rainbow Dash taunted him with a smirk on her face.

"I can't believe it! You've brought here these fleas with you!?"

"Girls, i told you to stay at the Ponyville untill Twilight comes!"

"Exacly!" Pinkie Pie said as suddenly a bolt of magic flew from behind Discord, hitting him in the head and knocking him off the princess. Before he could stand up again though, he has been already surrounded.

"This is the end Discord." Twilight said, coming from behind the ruins, with a bag on her back. She took it off of her and threw on the ground, a bunch of mysterious stones falling from it.

"Twilight, what is it?" Rarity asked, looking curiously at the rocks.

"These, are the original elements of the harmony... And also, this is Starswirl the Bearded." Luna's eyes instantly went wide as she heard that.

"This is, uh, what?" Applejack asked, confused just like the rest of the group, minus Luna.

"Twilight is right." Suddenly the light blue aura began emmanitating from the elements, and once again a form of Starswirl was visible. He slowly turned his head towards Luna, which was looking at him in pure shock.

"Long time no see, my student. I can say that you and your sister had learned a lot."

"That is not possible!" Discord yelled. "You're suppoused to be dead! Celestia killed you!"

"I'm afraid that you're wrong, Discord." Starswirl said, not turning his head. "Eua'Regone was right, this spell gave me an neverending life, sealing me into the Elements of Harmony. This way also i've gained the understanding of time and possibility to seek in the future, to predict any catastrophes that would happen, but at the same time, only at the times of the greatest catastrophy i can have my old form at least partialy back." He finally turned his head towards Discord, and looked him straight in the eyes. "I've predicted everything. You were never meant to win."

Discord looked at the magical form of Starwirl, looked around at the element bearers and finally rest his eyes on the Luna. He could feel his rage slowly leave him as he sighed sadly.

"Well... This is over then."

"I'm afraid this is over indeed, Discord. Element bearers, focus now!" Luna said as the Starswirl began surrounding the girls with his aura, which began to grow in a shape of a rainbow barrier as soon as the six girls began to focus on the energy. The barrier began to steadily make it's way towards Discord, surrounding him untill he was almost covered in the rainbowy power. Through the streams of power, Luna discovered something shocking. Discord looked like he... regretted it? A bright flash of light suddenly bursted out from Discord, and once it was over, the draconequus was once again a statue. As soon as this had ended though, Starswirl dissapeared, only leaving behind him the elements.

"...So, how does this exacly works like? There are two sets of the elements of harmony?" Rainbow Dash asked, poking slightly the stones with her hoof.

"Not exacly, these here are the original elements, which contains Starswirl, and can't be used without his permit, and our elements are made by using the power of these here."

"...Starswirl was always here..." Luna was looking at the elements, shocked, but also happy. For the first time in a very long while she was able to see her mentor. A small smile appeared on her snout as she sighed. "And here i thought that Nick could've been... Nick! Oh by the moon, what could've happened to him?!"

"Don't worry princess, he went back." Twilight said, making her way to the princess, who was looking at Twilight dumbfounded.

"...You knew?"

"Princess... It's a long story" She slowly nodded, while the other element bearers looked at eachother, confused.

"Uhm... Twilight? I think we're kinda missing something here..." Fluttershy quietly said, smilling slightly, which apparently made all the other girls happy as well.

"Oh, that's fine, i'll tell you everything on the way to the Ponyville... Oh, or maybe not, the plague is-"

"Cured." Luna said, giving a smile of her own, on which Twilight looked at least excited.

"The plague is gone? Ponyville is safe again then! Come on girls, i'll tell you everything on the way back... Oh, princess Luna?"

"Yes?"

"Where's princess Celestia?" She asked, cocking her head slightly. Luna suddenly gasped and rushed towards the Canterlot gardens, the elements following behind her.

Celestia was lying on the grass, bleeding from a few wounds, but still breathing. All the girls gasped as soon as they noticed her.

"...What happened?" Celestia seemed to be awake, she opened one eye and looked around herself.

"...Ah... girls, glad to see you.."

"She had been fighting alone against Discord and Eua'Regone for a few hours, she survived this by pure luck." Celestia closed her eye and sighed.

"...Twilight? Could you take me to the hospital? I'm afraid i dont have... enough energy to heal myself..."

"Of course!" Twilight with some help of Rarity had lifted up princess Celestia and they, with company of the rest of their friends, made their way to the hospital. Luna stood here for a moment, looking at them, before she sighed herself.

"...I'm sorry i coulnd't help you, sister..."

Nick woke up in a comfortable bed with white sheets, in a white room. A drip was attached to his left arm.

"...Am i in a hospital?" As soon as he spoke, a nurse entered the room.

"Ah, good morning Nick, how are you feeling?"

"...Good. What happened?"

"You hit yourself in head during your stay in the prison."

"In the... head?" Memories of what was happening before flashed in front of Nick's eyes as a realization hit him. "...Ah, yes, right!"

Nurse cocked an eyebrow as she looked at him for a moment, before smiling again.

"Also, after some investigation, it came out that the murder case has took on a complete twist when they discovered officer Mike hiding some evidence."

"...No way..."

"After questioning the officer and searching through his belongings, we discovered a set of knives, around one thousand dollars and a set to apply fingerprints to objects, specificaly set to your fingerprints."

"...No fucking way."

"Yes, from the entire case it came out he had been payed by a small gang to get you in jail, and adding to it the fact that he was helping you out with avoiding the police, he will spend the next fewteen years in jail. As for you, the police looked into your private life and they've come to conclusion you were stealing purely from the need, being poor, family members living in an old destroyed house, being sick and old... I feel sad for you, so did the judge. He had decreased your ."

"...Finally some good informations... Man, all this shit i went through payed off."

"...Did you said something?"

"...Nevermind."

Sunera walked through her village, kids playing around, farmers working on a farms, her dad standing in the doorway to her home, everything was back to normal. She was walking happily through main the path untill she was stopped by one of the farmer elves.

"...Tell me, this all seems so weird... Didn't we had a war here before?" Sunera looked at him, terrified.

"...What do you mean?"

"I can promise that just yesterday there was a war! There was fire, and dark elves, and... I can't recall everything, but i'm sure there was something like that!"

After a moment of silence, she smiled.

"I'm afraid i have no idea what you're talking about, farewell." She walked off, whistling happily and she went through her beloved village."

Finally things are starting to look better.

Within a few months, the Canterlot, Castle, and every ruined building was fixed, and ponies that died during "The great toxicity plague" was slowly getting resurrected with the help of the princesses. The wamrth of the day was filling the Ponyville with the happiness as the ponies went about their daily jobs. The wind was calmly moving through the grass and the dust of the roads.

The Inn called "The Dirty Joe" has been rebuild and renamed as the "Inn Under the Leviathan", where people were coming to from all across the Equestria, and where the bards were playing songs of all kinds and the staff was trusted and kind to everyone.

Cutie mark crusaders meet eachother under the town hall, talking about everything that had happened.

"Can you believe it?! This plague had killed almost half of the Ponyville!" Applebloom said, being clearly worried.

"Yeah, but now that it's all over, we can get back to earning our cutie marks!" Sweetie Belle said happily.

"...You know girls, i think we're missing something here..." Scootaloo wondered for a moment, before she shrugged the thought off and went with the crusaders to their club house in the apple farm.

This day seemed to be perfect for almost everypony.

Dinky looked through the window, watching the sun rise again. After all these crazy things happening lately, she was happy that it was all over.

"Dinky! Breakfast is ready!"

"I'm coming!" She looked once again outside the window and sighed sadly.

"...I miss my mommy..."

Author's Note

That would be it, hope you had enjoyed it as much as i've enjoyed writting it

Inspired by:
Witcher (A series of books)
Fable: The lost chapter (Computer game)
Darksiders (Computer game)
And, mostly, my imagination