A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

by Bordable

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Princess Celestia, Human, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad, Princess Luna, Original Character
Length: 30507

A pony, kind and innocent, A human, mysterious but clever, and An elf, agile and loyal, two of them taken from their dimensions, third one watching her own falling apart. Who knows what destiny awaits Equestria.

"There was an Inn in Equestria called "Dirty Joe", a place somewhere between Ponyville and Fillydelphia, was famous for its incredibly bad food, low choice of drinks and everything that a good inn should have. It was a dark and rainy day when finally someone has entered for the first time in a month. A pony, named Twilight Sparkle, 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? 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."

Bordable presents
A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

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Published 2014-09-08 19:20:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-03 18:55:03 UTC

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - An Elf

Author's Note

Let's be honest, you thought i'm not going to make another episode, didn't you? Silly anon, but the truth is that i was, and i AM searching for the editors, anyone interested send me a private message at the Fimfiction.

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - An Elf

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

An Elf

A land called Quertis. A peacefull land, a quiet land... At least that's what others would've said if they could only see it, without actualy being there. This land is in never-ending war betwen wood elfes and dark elfes. The war started when the captain of the wood elfes had discovered the forest called Oharaka, a peacefull forest filled with animals, rare herbs and the legendary Dritana lake. The legends says that the person who will touch the waters of Dirtana will be instantly healed from all kinds of diseases and wounds. Soon as the captian had send the good news to the rest of his people, dark elfes had came to this place as well. They have quickly found the presence of wood elfes and chased them out of the forest. From this moment on, each of the races had build their camps at both sides of the forest, where they were gathering forces and thinking about the possible plans to attack. This war was going for almost two hundred years, with a lot of loss on both sides. Orcs didn't wanted to help dark elfes, for they thought it is a waste of time to fight for a bunch of trees. Similar to the wood elfes, griffons stayed out of this. Unlikely griffons from Equestria, the Quertis griffons were cowards, avoiding fights whenever it was possible. While the middle of the planet was absorbed by war, the north of it, Truteland, a land of griffons was preparing to move to the Tutarena, where the plain fields would give them a better place to live than where they were at the moment, place that was soon about to get attacked by the forces of Dark Elfes... But the north of the Quertis wasn't the only part of the planet in war. At the same time, at the south, a two powerfull nations were at the state of war since the beggining of existance. Minotaurs, similar to Equestrian ones, but smaller. Harpies, beautifull flying warriors, the legends says that they were once ruling over the griffons. At the left side, plain fields of Futerena, at the right side a jungle called Ware'toa. At the very edge of the continent, far in the jungle lies the lost temple of the Azure, a goddess that once kept Quertis in peace. This place had fallen to the horde of the undead soon as the goddess had died. People say that gods cant die, this is why they are called "gods"... But on Quertis, everything is possible. Death of the goddess is a mystery to this day, but one thing is known - Since that day, wars started to spread all around the continent. Right now, this land is slowly falling apart, but there are few that are trying to save it.

One of them is a girl, a wood elf.

Her name is Sunera, she had left Frana Te'lun and was heading to the lost kingdom, where the old capital was placed, but destroyed once the wars started. Elves often say that this place keeps a lot of magic energy, often used in healing and enchanting weapons. Sunera wanted to gather these powers and call the goddess back at the Quertis, for she believed she haven't died, she had just left them because of wars that were slowly making their way in.

Sunera is a blond-haired girl, with what looks like a fragile body that often fooled her enemies into believing in an easy fight. Using her enchanted bow, she can transform everything natural into arrows. Leaves, rocks, grass, everything she could manage to get instantly turned into an arrow as long as it touched the string of the bow. Wearing her typical scout clothes, she slowly made her way through the forest at the edge of the Frama Te'lun. Soon she was about to find the ruins of the old capital, probably with a few harpies patrolling the place. She would need to sneak on them, take at least a few of them out with bow, and probably end with the rest of them with a knife she always had hidden in her sleeve. It would be a hard fight, and to take them all out without leaving anyone who could alarm the real warriors is almost impossible, but she have to do it. For Quertis, for Azure.

Soon she could see already the light coming out betwen trees. She had prepared her bow, picked a few leaves and transformed them into arrows. Slowly she came to the edge and looked around for any sings of the enemies. Surprisingly, there was nobody to be found on both the ground and in the air. The sun was shinning brightly upon the destroyed palace, throwing a shadow at the edge of the forest where Sunera was standing. She quickly made her way into the ruins, trying to feel the energy flowing through the air. Moving from one place to another, after twenty minutes she still haven't felt anything. ...This can't be, is the energy in this place only a rumor? She hang her head in defeat. There's still the posibility of the energy at the temple of Azure, though getting there would be suicidal... Just as she was about to walk away, suddenly she felt the energy, slowly growing in the air. With a glee of joy, she started to gather the energy in one place.

She haven't expected what had happened.

The energy kept growing and growing, untill it was such a huge wave that the air itself felt thick, almost impossible to breath. Her head was aching as she took a few steps back. What is happening? Where did all this energy came from? Next thing she saw was a huge explosion of light, visible from almost every neighboring country. Soon the light had faded, and while Sunera was trying get her eyes working again, a voice suddenly echoed through the ruins.

"...I can't believe this..." At first it was barely a wishper, but then it get suddenly way louder "I'M FINALLY FREE! Ahahah, i've told you Celestia! Now, if i could only..." She just got her sight back when she saw a strange creature standing right in front of her, she could practically smell his breath. ...Ew, it smells like something is rotting!

The monster was huge, at least three meters high. It looked like someone had mixed a few animals into one, it had a lion paw on one arm, and the eagle claw on the other, one leg as a boar hoof, second one as a claw of crocodile. It whole body was from snake, scales shinning at the light of sun peeking through broken walls. It's head was of a goat, with a one horn of a cow and the second one... If she didn't knew better, she would say it was a horn of a unicorn, a legendary horses that could create bursts of magic energy around them out of thin air. There were only legends about their existance, but at the books she had seen, it's horn was looking exacly as the unicorn horn. She awoke from her thoughts as the creature suddenly dissapeared and reappeared a few meters away, looking quite disturbed.

"...What are you?" It had asked, a confusion clear in it's voice.

"...I'm a S~" No! I've almost forgot the lesson of our captain, "Never let the potential enemy know you". That was close... "I'm... Quertis, an orc."

"Orc? I've never heard of something... like... that..." He seemed to suddenly froze. "...Tell me, is this an Equestria?"

"...A what?" He seemed to shake a little bit, she could say that it's afraid, if not the manic smile on it's face.

"...I did it... I'M IN ANOTHER DIMENSION!" He screamed in joy and started some kind of sick dance of victory. Sunera could feel the growing annoyance in her.

"...And what are you? What are you doing here?" She calmly said, trying to stay polite towards the strange creature. It seemed to suddenly halt in the middle of the dance, it's head turned her way.

"Me? Ah, right, where are my manners." It once again dissapeared from where it was standing and reappered next to her, sitting on a wooden chair and smoking a pipe with a monocle and a black top hat. "My name is Eua'Regone, a draconequus and the rightfull ruler of Equestria, at your service." It had stood up from it's chair, which by the way instantly dissapeared afterwards, bowed and kissed her hand like the minotaurs does in the act of manners. She was quite stunned at that, she didn't knew how to react to anything it's doing so far. "Also, if you don't mind, have a few questions to you." His monocle and top hat had dissapeared, only his pipe was still there. "First, tell me the name of this land."

"Ummm... It's..." By the name of Azure, i'm in big trouble now!

And then suddenly, harpy warriors came, visible at the edge of the woods on the other end of the ruins. There were at least dozen of them, each of them armed and looking sure of themself. Most of them were wearing a casual battle armor, covering their body and partialy their legs and claws, each claw having additionaly a metal gauntled, ending with a set of four blades, their typical weapon for a short range. Two of them were wearing full sets of armor, covering their whole body and head, and having additional blade at their sides. In the middle of the group was probably their leader, wearing heavy armor and an axe at her back, but without a helmet. A wise elf once said "A warrior without his helmet is like a painter without his brush" Soon they started making their way to the ruins.

"Oh no..." Sunera murmured while the strange creature was looking at the group with interest. "We need to hide." She spoke now louder and rushed behind one of the walls, Eua'Regone slowly following her while still looking at them. After a while they could hear the approaching group.

"Alright, we need to secure this place. If there's really so much magic energy as these wood elfes claimed, others might want to claim this power. Barbara group, head north. Areisa group, head south. Me and my girls will stay here and watch both east and west side. Also, we would need to search these ruins. Who knows what creatures could be living here now." Sunera slowly prepared her bow, waiting for the first harpy to enter the ruins. What she did not expected was that the creature behind her was now missing.

"Excuse me ladies, i have a few questions to you, if you could anserw them i would be really grateful!" He said to the harpies with a smile on his face, all of them looking at him with a mixed terror and confusion.

"What are you, strange creature?" The leader of the groups had asked it. Even when most of her warriors seemed slightly scared of it, the leader's face was emotionless.

"Oh, i don't feel like saying it again, why don't you ask the Quertis?"

"What?" One of harpies with full set of armor asked. Quera fa malete, shut up!

"She's hiding behind this wall." It said, pointing his thumb behind him at the wall where Sunera was hiding. You idiot! Now it's too late for a surprise, i'm surrounded. I gues i have no choice now... She slowly stood up and made her way outside, bow on her back and hands high in the air.

"I surrender." She stated while other harpies looked at her with a little smirks.

"So, she's a friend of yours, creature?"

"Maybe friend is a wrong word, let's say that she was the first person that i had meet here." The harpies attention went back to the Eua'Regone.

"And she said that her name is Quertis?" The main leader asked, a small smirk forming on her face as she looked once again at Sunera.

"That's what she said. Quertis, an orc." Draconequus said as his one eyebrow lifted up, a confusion slowly being visible on his face as he made a few small smoke circles with his pipe. There was a silence for a few seconds before all harpies bursted into laugh, a few of them falling to the ground and wiggling from the uncontrolable attack of laughter. Sunera could feel a deep blush slowly appear on her cheek. Alright, maybe this wasn't the greatest idea... Don't judge me! The main leader had first caught back her breath, turning to the Eua'Regone.

"Listen... You're not from this land, are you not?"

"Not exacly, i'm from Equestria."

"Equestria? I haven't heard about such place, but there's not much known about what's beyond the seas. Listen, she's not a orc, she's-" That's how much she had said before an arrow had pierced through her head, blood flushed at faces of a few harpies, who haven't realized yet what had happened. This is a prize a warrior must pay for not wearing a helmet.

"GET HER!" Barbara screamed as all harpies instantly rushed at her. She was just about to start running away when suddenly she could feel the pure energy flowing in the air from behind her. When she turned around, she instantly froze. All of the harpies looked like they were strangled, but nothing was holding them. When she looked around, she noticed that Eua'Regone was now smiling slightly.

"Ah, i haven't done that in quite a while. It always feels so refreshing to cause some terror in the group of mortals." He said as his grin was slowly growing bigger. After a few seconds, first harpy fell on the ground. Then second. Then third. Within a few minutes, there was a dozen harpies lying on the ground, one with percied head and all others strangled to death. Sunera slowly turned her head to the creature, unable to move or speak. What... What had he done? He started heading towards her, a smile dissapearing from his face and instead of that a look of dissapointment starting to get visible.

"You lied to me."

Fire next to the destroyed wall of the ruins was gently cracking, giving away a feeling of warmth as Sunera was watching the strange creature with worry. At the other side of the ruins were lying a bunch of harpy's bodies, catching the attention of the nearby rats and other small creatures. A twilight was approaching as she and the creature were watching the fire dance in the air. It's been almost whole day since the harpy accident, but he haven't said a single word yet... And yet whenever i try slip away, one glance at me is enough to keep me in place. How powerfull is he?

"You know..." Sunera started, catching his attention. "...You've said that you're from... Equestria?"

"...That is correct." He finally said after a few seconds of silence, which made Sunera sight in relieve.

"...So, how do you plan to get back?"

"I have no idea." She had yelped in surprise, earning a confused look from the draconequus.

"...W-what do you mean, you have no idea?" Sunera asked, trying to stay calm.

"I don't even know how i had appeared here, so how could i possibly know how to come back? Additionaly, i can learn now about new species in this world!" He said the last part with excitement.

"But... Isn't there someone who's missing you?"

"I think you have some problems with hearing." He said as he somehow made his ears grew, and some water started flowing from them. How is he doing it?! "I said i have no idea how could i get back... Though, now that you mention it..." Suddenly a chair appeared behind him as he sit on it and started making some smoke circles, his pipe never leaving his lips. A few minutes later he slowly stood up, a determined look on his face.

"...I think i know how i can get back, but i will need your help. I have left one unsettled case i should take care off..." He said as he made his way into the woods, Sunera quickly following him. What am i doing? I could just leave him there... Is it because i am afraid? Afraid of what he's capable of? ...I think i should follow him for now, to find out what are his intentions.

"What do you need me for?"

"Oh, i don't need you... I need your knowledge." He said as he suddenly turned around and caught Sunera with both his arms, holding her head in the air and looking her deep in the eyes. She could feel the pain in her head, like he was trying to crush her head. She screamed in pain, but after a few seconds everything stopped as he let her go. With a loud thump she hit the ground as the draconequus looked at her with a smirk.

"...What... What you had done to me?" She wishpered, feeling suddenly greatly exhausted.

"Oh, don't worry Sunera, you will be fine." Regone said with a wide, insane grin. Her eyes slowly widdened at the realization. ...How did he know... No way...

"What do you know?" She said with emotionless expression, which made him to drop his smile.

"Oh, from all the reactions i've seen so far, yours was surely the most boring!" He said while throwing his hands in the air. "Fine, i'll tell you. I've just learned everything you knew. Every. Single. Detail." He came closer to her witch each word he spelled. "And i have to say, i really don't like using this ability, but how could i know that you wouldn't lie to me again?" He said with a small smirk.

"...This is what you needed me for?"

"Of course! Now i know about this energy focus hidden somewhere in the ruins. This had to be the reason why the teleportation spell had took me there."

"Your... Teleportation spell?"

"Yes, my teleporttation spell! You see, before i've arrived here, i were... Let me say, in less comfortable place. I've been gathering power for millennials to be able to teleport away, but since the place i've been living at wasn't exacly very helpfull in that..." He said the last part with rather disgusted face. "...Anyway, it would take me at least a few hundred years more before getting enough of power for that, but i've found energy focus you've been searching for and used it's energy to supply myself, aaaaand... Here i am!" He said while lifting triumphantly his arms in the air. "So, now all i have to do is to find the similar focus in Equestria, and i think i know where that could be..."

He closed his eyes and focused on something, his face getting instantly serious. Alright, things are getting out of hand... It would be a good idea to slowly walk away now. She took a step back and at the same time Regone opened his eyes.

"Found it!" He said, making his pipe fell from his lips as he grabbed Sunera and took a strange pose, pointing his talon up in the sky while holding her with his second claw around her stomach. "To Equestria!" He said as the bright light quickly took over her vision, she could practicly feel parts of her body dissapearing.

Fluttershy suddenly opened her eyes, a sudden explosion could be heard somewhere outside her cottage. It was middle of the night, so she sleepily made her way outside to take a look what was that. When she peeked out of her door, there was nothing to be seen anywhere around.

"Hmm... I think it was just a dream." She said to herself as she made her way back into home.

A thick wave of dust and sand had surrounded them as they suddenly appeared in a really dark place. The only hearable sound was her coughing, somewhat echoing around her.

"W-where are we?" She asked the draconequus, who was standing still. If not the fact that he was still holding her, she wouldn't even know that he's still here.

"This is the place where a great battle had occurred a long time ago. Even after millennials, the energy in this place had never dissapeared..." He said as he made slowly his way somewhere.

"Why is here so dark? What is this place?"

"Ah, right, let me create something simple." He snapped with his fingers and a lantern had appeared in front of Sunera. She took it in her hands and at the same time it had lightened up. With confusion, she started to look around her.

"...This is some kind of a cave, isn't it?"

"That is correct, though i would be more careful if i was you."

"Why is that?"

"This cave is within an Everfree forest, a forest filled with magic, which also means magical creatures." Sunera slowly looked up at Regone, she could see now that he was looking at something in front of him. She slowly lifted her lantern this way.

...Only to reveal a huge, gigantic bear, which fur looked like a night sky.

"...And some of these creatures are attracted by this energy. Bigger the creature is, more attracted it gets." She actualy had to hold her mouth to not scream.

"In the name of Azure, what is that thing?" She whispered to him. It had to be sleeping, in other way they would be already dead.

"Ursa Minor, a legendary beast that lives only in places filled with magic. I'm not exacly surprised that one of them is here. This one is young though, the older one had to leave some time ago." She couldn't take her gaze off the huge bear in front of her.

"...Let's get out of here." Regone kept looking at the Ursa for a few more seconds before he slowly turned around and made his way in the other direction, Sunera right behind him all the time. After a while they could see already a huge entry to the cave, weak light of the moon peeking in and showing a bunch of bones lying on the ground. Once they had reached the light, Sunera instantly ran outside and fell on her knees.

"Futera Qu'rete, i'm alive... Thanks Azure for that."

"More like thanks to me." Draconequus said with a smirk from behind her. She slowly turned around to face Regone, an anger slowly appearing on her face.

"Where are we?! Where had you taken me?!"

"To Equestria, of course."

"Send me back!"

"I'm afraid that i can't do it right now. You see, i've wasted a lot of my energy to get there, it was beyond my possibilities to teleport from one dimension to another twice, if not for the fact that this cave was overfilled with power, it wouldn't even be possible for me to arrive here. It's going to take me days before i'll fully recover." At this moment something had snapped in Sunera.

"...You had suddenly came out of nowhere, wasting all the energy at the ruins which i could use to summon Azure back on Quertis. You had showed my position to the enemy, which could even end with my death at that moment. And now, you're telling me that you had TOOK ME AWAY FROM MY WORLD?!"

"Yes, exacly." Soon as he had said that, three arrows had pierced through his head, blood decorating almost whole entry to the cave. He stood for a few seconds, his eyes wide before a smirk had formed back on his face.

"You shouldn't have done that, Ursa bears are known from their great smell, especialy sensitive for blood." She was standing with mouth and eyes wide open, not being able to register what had just happened.

"B-but how are you s-still alive?"

"Eh, a waste of time... Oh well..." With that, he started walking away towards the woods. She now had just noticed what kind of place they are in. Trees blocking vision from all sides, darkness swallowing everything inside the forest. The entry to the cave was the only place without trees, where a moon light was slightly illumiating the place. A howling of some kind of an animal living there could be heard deep in the forest, from time to time something moved in the closest bush, and a load roar could be heard right behind Sunera.

...Wait, what?

Another roar filled the air as the huge bear made his way out of his cave, a fury visible in his eyes.

This time a sudden roar had woke up Fluttershy from her bed, shy pegasus instantly getting on her hooves and going downstairs.

"Mister Khurt, is that you? Are you hurt?" She ask kindly the sleeping bear, now awake by the weak poking of the mare. He slowly shook his head and went back to sleep.

"Oh dear... Was it something outside?" With that in mind, she made her way to the door, opening it slightly and peeking out. Once again, nothing was there.

"Hmmm... Strange things are happening this night..." She slowly made her way back into home, a worried by the incidents happening this night untill she went back to bed and fell asleep.

Sunera was running through the dark woods, branches breaking under her feet as she was running away from a legendary Ursa bear, who was destroying everything on his way simply by walking. Alright, focus Sunera. You've been trained to fight against enemies bigger than you, just take a deep breath, and... She made a mistake and slowed a little bit down, just in time to get hit by a paw of a powerfull bear. She flew over a few meters, and she would fly farther if not the tree in her way. She tried to catch her breath, slowly loosing conciousness. Right now she was defencless, and couldn't help but watch how the huge bear is going to eat her alive, or worse. Or...

Sunera used all her power to sit down and pulled her special arrow, hidden in her boot. Falling star, the most dangerous arrow on the whole Quertis... This should do. With that, she pulled the string and put the arrow in it, the black, poisonus juice already flowing from it's tip, the sign that she needs to shoot it right now, or she will get hurt as well. Ursa was standing right in front of her, already lifting it's paw to strike down the killing blow on Sunera.

Whistle of the arrow was the last thing Sunera could hear before she fell on the ground and fainted.

Actualy, it felt for her like she had just blinked. Suddenly it was already morning and the bear was nowhere to be found. When she looked over her body, she noticed that somehow she's not hurt anymore. In fact, she felt better than before! Who could have done that?

"Ah, finally you woke up!" The draconequus asked from above her, lying lazily on one of the branches. "Breakfast?" He asked as he tossed Sunera an apple.

"What... D-did you saved me?"

"Oh, not exacly, you see, i've just healed your wounds."

"Then what about this monster? Who had killed it?" A typical smirk had appeared on Regone's face.

"I hope you don't mean me this time, do you?" He recieved an angry glare from Sunera. "Fine, i see how it is. Anyway, it was you who killed the Ursa! Congratulations, you're officialy a criminal!" He said as a small party hat appeared at his and hers heads.

"I've... killed it?"

"Yes you did! With that arrow of yours, quite dangerous thing, i must say." Sunera instantly went pale.

"Oh no... We need to move, right now!" She said as she stood up. The spot on the ground where the poisonus juice was yesterday dropping was now black, all grass seemed to burned away from and around it. In the name of Azure, it's spreading faster than i thought!

"What do you mean? Fallen star should take at least 4 more days to destroy everything around the victim." Sunera stopped in her tracks, slowly turning her head towards the dragonequus.

"...How did you knew about the arrow?"

"I've read your thoughts, remember?" He said with a smirk.

"Right... What happened to your pipe?"

"Oh, i'm not smoking in here, something... unamusing would happen with the magic in this forest. Anyway, let's get to buisness - I've helped you, and i need your help now.

"...What kind of help are you talking about?" She asked while backing away slowly.

"Nothing big, i want you to give a letter to one of the inhabitants of the nearest village." He said as he gave Sunera a richly decoraded letter. Twilight Sparkle, The Ponyville Library. No mail adress?

"Why should i help you? All this wouldn't happen if you woulnd't bring me with you here!"

"Gah, party pooper... Fine, let it be your way, if you will help me, i'm going to send you back." Sunera once again looked at the letter, a worry growing within her.

"...Just to give it to one of them?"

"Yes, just that... For now." Her eyes narrowed as she put the letter in her sleeve.

"Alright, show me where is this village."

Sunera slowly made her way towards what looks like an elementary school, a little... ponies were running around and playing. Adults would be afraid of me, so i can only hope that one of kids wont be afraid of me. She was trying to stay hidden, walking from tree to tree untill she was already next to school. It was easier for her since the school was next to a park, but still the school itself was still too far away for her to just approach without catching anyone's attention additionaly. While thinking about her possible plan, a small light purple pony with blond mane had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and booped lightly Sunera's leg with her nose. She almost jumped, fear on her face when she turned around a noticed a little filly standing right behind her. Instantly her expression changed to happy as she bent to be on the eyes level with filly.

"Hey there little one, could you do something for me?"

"Good morning, uhmm... Miss... Could you tell me what are you?"

"...Maybe later, once you will do something for me." Filly hesitated for a moment, but after a while nodded with her head, a small smile showing on her face. No, i'm not going to tell her anything. "Here, take this letter and give it to the person it's adressed to." The filly looked at the letter for a few seconds before she nodded and grabbed the letter with her teeth, instantly galloping somewhere in the distance.

Sunera was walking through the forest for an hour before a realization hit her. I have no idea where are we supoused to met... Kak'ra mede, He tricked me!

"Finally!" A voice from behind her made Sunera jump in surprise. "I thought for a second that you've got lost! You did it?"

"Yes, i did it! Don't surprise me like that!"

"Very well, now comes the second part of my plan..." Before Regone could say anything else, Sunera was already face-to-face with him.

"What do you mean, second part of your plan?! We had a deal!"

"Yes, we had, and we still do! Just let me finish!" She took a few steps back, unamused look on her face. "Now, you see, the letter you've delivered was pretty much about asking a pony named "Twilight Sparkle" to meet with me... And this is also the part where you'll be going home!"

"Oh, how is that?" She asked as she leaned against a tree.

"You see, when you had left for your little quest, i've tried to get some informations on my own... As it came out, a link betwen Twilight Sparkle and the pony that i need to talk with is way stronger than i would thought. This will be really important in the future... But at first place, we gonna meet her soon."

"Meet her? How can you know that she will come?"

"Oh, i'm sure she will..." Regone said as he pulled from the grass next to him a small purple lizard-like creature.

"...You must be kidding me."

"Why would i?" Sunera couldn't help but facepalm at the moment.

"...You are insane, this is just straight cruel."

"World is cruel." He said with a wicked grin. "C'mon now, we don't want to be late, do we? You're supoused to see her in 30 minutes."

I sighed and grabbed a small, tied up dragon, putting him at my shoulder. I'm sorry little one, but i have no other choice at the moment.

"I still can't believe you've kidnapped a dragon!"

"You can't blame me for that, you wasn't sure if she will come yourself"

"I didn't meant it that way!"

"You also didn't meant to destroy the entire forest and the nearest village with a single arrow, didn't you?" She ignored the small gasp beside her as she continued glaring at the draconequus.

"Shut up! The disease won't kick in untill a day or two, they still have a chance to escape!"

"Shhhh, here she comes."

They both stopped talking as the purple pony slowly became visible betwen the trees, unsure look on her face.

"Alright, throw him out." Regone quietly wishpered to Sunera.

"What? Just like that?" When she tried to look at him, he was already missing, only the dragon was sitting there, tied up and next to him, a small piece of paper with what looked like an instructions written on it. With a deep sigh, she threw the dragon out of the bush. The purple pony instantly reacted and rushed towards him.

"Spike! Spike, are you alright?!" The dragon nodded, clearly looking worried. Sunera uncertain of what to do, looked at the paper she recieved. Ask for the things you asked. What?

"...Did you bring things i asked for?"

"...Yes, i did. Who are you?" Once again, a quick glance at the instructions.

"You don't need to know that yet... Let me say that you'll probably meet me soon. For now, you'll write a letter to the princess Celestia." While Twilight was trying to ungag her dragon, Sunera looked more closely through the instructions Regone left for her. Do not let them see you or know anything about you... Heh, i already lied to this dragon about me. Don't let the dragon try to say anything about our plan... No matter what, don't kill Twilight Sparkle... Don't~ Her thoughts were stopped when she heard dragon yell.

"Twilight, don't listen to him! He's planning to~" Before he could say anything else, Sunera shot a quick arrow right in front of him. Don't want to kill him, but can't let him say anything.

"Next time i won't miss."

Sunera was sitting at the top of a tree near the Ponyville, keeping her eye on the Library, and specifically on the pony and a dragon inside of it. I can't believe he tricked me once again. "You will follow the dragon and make sure he won't say anything and yadda yadda." This damned, little... Faer Khas Ta'ma! ...Am i supoused to spend here rest of my life? Is this what Azure wanted for me?

A sudden bright flash emanating from the Library made her blink in surprise, and as soon as it faded she tried to focus on what was happening inside.

Inside of the building was standing a huge, white pony with both wings and a horn. On her head was rested a crown.

...Princess Celestia?

Eua'Regone slowly made his way towards the Canterlot castle, disguised as one of the Celestia's royal guards, so nopony could recognize him. Not so long ago i could feel a lot of energy radiating from this place. He greatly knew that energy, this amount can be produced only when summoning something to this world. Was it you, Celestia? Or maybe it was your darker sister? It doesn't really matter to me, all i want is to see what had you done. With a slowly forming grin on his face, he walked past the massive doors leading into the castle.

Sunera watched as the magic bolt hit the dragon, giving him a little shine. Doesn't this pony know that dragons are magic resistance? Whatever she did, this wont work. She could read from the lip movement, but... obviously it worked differently for the ponies, so she could be able only to read what the dragon was saying, and from what she had readed, he's going to tell them everything. Only try...

"So, he~" At the same moment when he opened his mouth, an arrow was already on it's way to him. What Sunera didn't expected, was that the arrow, just as it was about to pierce through dragon's head, changed it's direction and hit something out of her sight. What the... For the love of Azure, please don't tell me it had hit the princess!

Everything inside seemed to freeze for a moment, before Spike started talking again. He's talking! But i can't risk the fact that i might hit Celestia! What am i supoused to do!? She watched in defeat as the dragon had told the princess about everything.

"...And his face is, like, the most disgusting~" No you didn't. She thought as another arrow flew through the window, once again hitting different direction. ...What am i doing?! She looked over her shoulder to look if someone's not watching. Streets seemed to be full of ponies, but none of them had noticed her, or arrows flying through the sky. At least i'm not spotted yet.

When she turned around, they weren't in the Library anymore.

"Oh, don't worry about that, my dear... I knew you would fail sooner or later." Regone said with probably the most innocent voice possible.

"But... Wh... Then what now?"

"Oh, let me think... The forest is too dangerous already to be living in it, after your little... gift, you left there. Ponies probably wont be very glad to see you, especially with what's happening lately... Oh well, i gues you should go now."

"Go? Where?"

"Home." Sunera's eyes widened.

"You... You mean..."

"Yes, to the Quertis. To your home." She instantly were in front of him, an angry look on her face.

"This better bot be another one of your stupid jokes, becase i swear, i will~" He had stopped when suddenly a gate appeared next to her, a gate that she was familiar with.

"...Is it..."

"Yes, indeed. This is a door to your home." Sunera slowly took a few steps forward and put her hand on a knob. A wooden, smooth surface, with a little 'WE' carved out on it, a symbol of Wooden Elfes. Then she looked at herself. Her clothes tattered, most of her knifes and other light weapons missing, cuts and bruises all around her arms and legs. A month outside in the battlefield haven't done the same to her as two weeks of living in the forest in a different world. Unsure of what's going to happen, she reached the knob and opened the door. Next thing she saw was a blinding, bright light.

I was already standing in front of a Luna chambers. It seems that Celestia had left before i've arrived here, so i can gues that Luna was the one who summoned something new. Full of excitment, i entered her chambers, spear held high and trying to look as serious as i can.

"Princess! We had recieved a task to watch you over this night, it seems that there's someone in the castle trying to assault you." To my dissapointment, there was only Luna sitting on her bed, looking through the window.

"Oh? Very well then, i'll remain in my chambers untill the assaulter will be found in that case." Oh c'mon, where did you hide it? Or maybe it's invisible, like ghosts? In that case i would be able to spot it with my magic. He focused for a moment but didn't spotted any magic creature. Damn it! If you think you'll play with me like that, then you're wrong! His disguise slowly began to fade away, revealing his true form. Luna looked at him with fear in her eyes, starting to back away towards the window.

"Don't even think about this, my dear. I've definitely felt a summoning magic here, so now tell me kindly, what had you summoned?" He said, trying to stay calm.

"I'm afraid i have no idea what you're talking about, Eua'Regone. Maybe Celestia was right, and you are indeed insane just like your descendant?" She said the last part with a daring grin.

"Oh please, don't compare me to him... Why can't you and Celestia see the difference betwen us? He was evil, and i just wanted to know everything!"

"Wait... how do you know that the Discord was..."

"Oh please, i created him, obviously i had a connection with him, at least partialy. Can't you really see that i was doing a good thing?"

"Yes, by enslaving everypony and taking the knowledge by force! And don't think we've forget what had happened to Starswil!"

"Enough!" He yelled in anger, whole castle slightly shaking from the power of his voice. "Where did you hide it?!"

"Why don't you try and find it?" Luna said with a grin as she suddenly flew through the window, flying through the night.

"Damned whorse, using her ability to see in the dark like that... I can gues she's not hiding it in this room in that case... Did she let it leave just like that?"

"Fu'ri ma,
De'ra ze,
Fu'ri de'ra ze! You're searching!"

"Aww, again?"

Sunera watched little elves play in the distance, a small smile forming on her face. She didn't really expected Regone to send her 'literaly' to her home village where she was born, it's been two days since she had came back to Quertis, but she still feels like she had forgotten something... Like she haven't done something she was supoused to do back on this strange world of Equestria. Leaving this thought at the second place, she enjoyed the calm, warm day.

"Soldiers says that you've been missing for 2 weeks, and then you suddenly arrive here just like that, without any stories to tell? That doesn't really seem fair to me." Her father approached her from behind and sat next to her. He was a tall, thin elf with brown, long hair and bear, his typical grey tunic with a brown belt showing that he just came back from the forest. He was a lumberjack, working hard every day for the family.

"Please, it's nothing i would like to talk about."

"Obera Ta'mete?"

"Indeed." She sighed, letting her head fell in her arms. "I just wish none of that would've happened."

"You know, sometimes things that doesn't seem to be good, often brings with them something way better than expected. I don't know what had happened, but maybe one day... You will see it in a different way."

"You're right, you don't know what happened." They were quiet for a while untill someone from the village came with a sword in his hand.

"Puert? What's going on?" Her dad instantly asked once he saw him approach them.

"Dark elfes! Prepare for the battle!"

"Ah, welcome. You're the first one to arrive here."

"Uhm... W-what?" Nick took a step back, looking at the calm stallion in front of him.

"Well, you still have..." He looked for a moment at the counter, where a single clock with partialy broken shield was resting, but apparently was still working. "...Around five hours before everyone will arrive, so why don't you do something for me?"

"...What are you talking about? Who are you?"

"You will see, in five hours. For now, how do you feel about a little task?"

Sunera made her way through the destroyed streets of her village, dead bodies of both wooden elfes and dark elfes all around her. Buildings around her were set on fire, screams could be heard from time to time deep into the village. Her leg was pierced, but she still was walking towards the town. She had to fight. She had to defend her family. She could not fail.

Another scream filled the air as suddenly a wooden elf fell through the window of one of the burning houses. The dying, burning form was slowly crawling towards the Sunera, whinning in pain with each movement of his body. When finally he reached her, he grabbed her leg and lifted his head, looking with tearfull eyes at her.

"Please... Help me..." An arrow coming from the same building he fell from pierced through his head. Sunera instantly kneeled and searched for an enemy. At the same moment the dark elf peeked through the broken window, an arrow pierced his chest, hitting directly his heart. A thump could be heard from outside the building as she started once again limping through the streets. I... Need... To save them...

A bright flash of light in front of her made her stumble, felling on the ground with a loud scream of pain. Once she had recovered, she looked in front of her. There, just like before, was standing a gate. The same gate that Regone had made. Suddenly she could feel something appear in her grasp. When she looked at it, it came out to be a richly decoraded letter. With growing dread in her she opened the letter, revealing the small piece of paper with a short message.

Dear Sunera Wintermoon
Enter this portal. I need your help, just like you need my help. Let's help eachother.
With best wishes
A friend.

She readed the message a few more times before she looked once again at the gate in front of her. With a loud gulp, she slowly started making her way towards the portal.

A wise elf once said "Sometimes things that doesn't seem to be good, often brings with them something way better than expected". The war begins, but i still remain beyond the battlefield.

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - A Man

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

A Man

"...This can't be... Is it really... Him?" Luna felt a frown on her muzzle, dark thoughts filling her head entirely.

"I do believe that is right. I don't know how did he managed to come back to Equestria, but this time i'll make sure that he won't come back."

"But what if that's not him? There's always this possibility."

"I haven't met anyone in my long life who had ever called me a "friend", except you, Starswirl and... him. And since Starswill's transformation haven't succeeded, he's no longer with us... I'm almost sure that it must be from him." Celestia made her way to her bed, looking more exhausted than before.

"I'd like to rest now, have a good night Luna." She nodded her hed once and left her room.

Standing in the corridor, she couldn't help but look mindlessly at the letter in front of her, a thin layer of her magic covering it, keeping it up in the air. It's been so long, i wouldn't ever thought that this case would see the daylight ever again. She slowly made her way to the throne room, letting her mind go back to the day when it all happened.

This day, Equestria have been officialy announced as a one, united country, where everyone lived together - ponies, gryphons, minotaurs, diamond dogs, even dragons, they all were living together in peace. Four rulers controled this land - Me and my sister, but also our mentor - Starswirl the Bearded, and Eua'Regone - the first dragonequus to appear in these lands. Dragonequuses are really incredible - in a world, there can't be more than one of them. Dragonequus in old, Equestrian language have two means - chaos and void. If two of them would be alive at the same moment in the world, it's balance would break and whole Equestria would fall into madness, unimaginable and uncontrollable chaos, and the elements of harmony would lose their power - when a dragonequus die, a new one appears from the magic left by the dying one. Back then, each one of us controlled aspect of the existance - Celestia controled sun and light, i controled moon and darkness, Starswirl controled the harmony and magic and Eua'Regone controled disharmony and knowledge. Every little thing had it's place on the world, and if one of the aspects would vanish, this world couldn't exist anymore.

This is what we had feared the most.

If Eua'Regone would die, another dragonequus would take his position. Me and my sister are immortal, but Starswirl... he was only a unicorn, a really old one at this point. He was really powerfull, he could create a whole new world from pure magic if he only wanted to and still would have some leftovers, but even the magic can't stop death. The only way to save him was to turn him into an alicorn, something that back then was nearly impossible with our knowledge. This is where things began to complicate.

Eua'Regone seemed excited about this idea, and promised to search for information about a possible spell that would turn Starswill into an alicorn. None of us trusted him, but we had no other choice, so we allowed him to search for anything usefull he could find.

And he... instead of searching for the information we needed... he made whole Equestria into his private researching lab! He would be sarficing thousand of lifes each day for his 'experiments'. Me and my sister wanted to stop him, but... Starswirl was getting weaker each day, we feared that his end was near.

We didn't stopped him. Oh, if we could only stop him...

A month passed, when finally Regone had returned, explaning that he had finally discovered a spell that would transform a pony into an alicorn. We had prepared everything in accordance with his instructions. My sister at first hesitated, but she did it - she casted the spell on Starswirl.

It killed him.

No, she killed him.

She killed Starswirl.

My sister, Celestia, had killed Starswirl the bearded, the aspect of the harmony.

Only ashes and some mysterious stones were left from him as the pure terror became visible on my sister's face. In fury she started attacking Eua'Regone, a battle that had destroyed our first castle in the everfree forest and created a huge cave in the mountain where now often Ursa bears resides. In the end, Eua'Regone lost, but his last words had burned in Celestia's mind to this day.

"C'mon my old friend, how could i possibly know it would kill him? After all, you were the one who casted the spell, the blood had stained your hooves."

Celestia had banished him to the sun for the rest of his life, where he suffered for his sins.

Sadly, none of us realized that by this, there's officialy no dragonequus in this world. This is when Discord had been created, in the ashes of their first castle where Regone had been fighting. With us, tired after the fight, world had fallen to the chaos.

Thankfully, my sister had a chance to take a closer look at the stones left by Starswill. They kept the magic and the harmony in themselves, and with their help, they had turned Discord into stone, not killing him or banishing him, but keeping him in harmless form to keep the balance in this already ruined world. The stones had been called "The Elements of Harmony", and from this day, they would be used to protect the Equestria from all the harm. Soon after Discord was defeated, the other races had spread all around the land, creating their own countries and kingdoms. The world had never lived through such terrible-

"PRINCESS!" Luna had jumped in the air as suddenly a loud voice had spoke right next to her. When she came to her senses, she was already in the throne room, still holding the letter in her telekinesis. Slightly confused, she made her way towards her throne and put the letter at her sister's throne, then turned her head back to the guard.

"...Sorry, how may i help you?"

"Uhm, sorry your highness, but your duties are awaiting you."

"Ah, yes, of course... What do i have to do tonight exacly?"

"Soldiers are waiting for your orders, your highness. Also the ponyville's hospital is asking for help in fighting the new dissease. They need more beds and some of our royal doctors, we need your permission before we will be able to send anything."

"I see... send them all resources they need, i'll meet with guards soon." The night guard bowed and left the room, leaving the princess of the night once again in her though.

A disease, spreading quickly over the ponyville... I don't know what they may need, they could use all of our necesseary medical resources, i should talk about this with the professors...
...resources...
...huh...
...Right! How come that both me and sister haven't realized it before! These preparations that Eua'Regone had told us to do - By the moon, Celestia havent killed Starwirl, she had send him to another realm! This may mean...

...This may mean that there's still a chance to get him back! The time works differently betwen realms, there's even a possibility he will be younger... at the same time, i could just as well summon a skeleton... it's worth a try though! I have to prepare the spell!

Somewhere betwen the darkness of the night, in the middle of the New York, across the streets echoed the sound of a police siren.

A man in a grey hoodie and black jeans ran across the sidewalk through the crowds of unaware people, an old bag hanging on his shoulder as he made his way towards an old looking house.

"Stop him! Once he reaches this building, our chase is over!" He ignored the commands from behind him and put an extra speed to his pace.

A few meters betwen him and the old rusty door knob seemed to be a kilometers to him when he suddenly heard loud bang noise, and his world turned into pain as he stumbled right in front of the door. A small streak of blood was flowing from his leg, and right in front of him was standing a police man, his narrowed eyes were literaly telling him straight 'You're fucked'.

"Well, well, well... Mr. William, it looks like god had finally blessed me with a open field to shoot!" A small smirk appeared on his face "You don't even imagine how long i've waited to say these words... Mr. William, you're under arrest!"

William sat on his chair as the cop sat on the other side of the table, which had a single lamp on it. Typical hearing, almost like from the old detective movies. This thought gave him a small smirk, but the view of another cop entering the room had quickly erased it. Damn it, how did they got Mike involved in this? I hope that this bastard haven't sold me out.

Mike slowly approached the table, and, with a rather displeased expression, he slowly said:

"This is over, Nick. I've told them everything." A quick headbutt made him stumble a few steps back while the other cop punished the interrogated with a few hits with his baton. Mike's nose was bleeding, but he ignored that. "I was fine with your actions so far! Stealing to survive, running away, i understood it was necessary, but this?!" He once again approached him, this time the other cop holding William's head.

"You've murdered an innocent person, Nick. Things went way too far this time." The cop had released his head, and Mike made his way towards the door, but just as he was about to leave, he turned his head back to the Nick and let a small sigh escape his lips.

"I've told them everything, and after that i'll be suspended, but after what you had done, i don't regret it."

"Listen, it's not like that, i can explain! I can-" At this moment the door closed, and he was once again alone with the cop that was chasing him just yesterday. Great, my only hope had sold me out... I don't know who's trying to trick me into this, but i'll make sure that he will pay.

"Alright, i gues we should start with the typical procedure. Name?" The cop sat back on the other side of the table, getting some papers out of his pockets.

"Nick Williams."

"Profession?"

"Unemployed."

"Maybe you should've get a normal job instead of stealing then..." With a dark expression he pulled out a small file, signed 'Case 426-B'. A few pictures of an old woman had fell out of it, a particular one showed her dead body, lying on a street, a knife sticking out of her chest.

"What do you know about the victim, Karol Mayed?"

"I don't know her." Trying to keep the eyes away from the picture of the crime scene, he noticed that the other pictures were mostly family photos. She, her husband, and two adult mans, perhaps her kids. At the other picture she was already without her husband, something that had slightly saddened Nick.

"Then what was your motive?"

"I didn't killed her."

"How can you prove it? A knife have your fingerprints, witnesses had described you clearly, and nobody else was at the scene of the crime."

"Listen, i don't care what does the witnesses says, it wasn't me! I was just walking through the sidewalk when i saw a woman lying on the ground in one of the dark alleys, her bag resting next to her. I thought that she drank too much and passed out, so i tried to take her bag, and then i heard someone scream behind me!" The cop slowly leaned over the table and wishpered.

"...Tell me, do you really think that someone will believe you?" He couldn't anserw that, Nick knew greatly that no one trusts him. He was a thief, a social outcast, and he was doomed at the moment.

"This case mixed with your crimes will grant you a death sentence without a doubt." The cop stood up, opened a door and called someone outside.

"Hey, we're done here, get him back to his cell."

With a summoning circle prepared in her bedroom, Luna made her way back to the throne room, expecting more guards to come asksing for tasks. Circle have to be left for 12 hours to gain strenght. In the morning it should be already done, and to this time, i have to keep ponies away from my room, they may interrupt the spell. I've already told two guards to guard it, but just to be safe, i've enchanted the doors so nobody can open them. This morning i'll have a surprise prepared for you, sister. I only hope this will work...

Just as soon as her sister raised the sun, Luna instantly lowered the moon. The light slowly reached the horizon as Luna made her way to her bedroom. On her way there, her sister had passed the same corridor, probably going to the throne room.

"Ah, good morning my dear sister."

"Good morning Tia. Did you slept well?"
"I wish i could... I've been thinking all this time about this letter i've recieved yesterday."

"I understand your worries... Something made me wonder about it. How did he managed to send you a letter? If i remember correctly, royal mail is private, only a few can use it." Celestia's eyes suddenly went wide, something that doesn't occur often to her sister.

"It... It was sent by Spike..."

"Twilight Sparkle's dragon? But that would mean..."

"...He have to know something about this." Celestia's horn instantly lit up and she vanished in a blast of light. It's not often when she teleports for such long distance... Well, now is the perfect chance!

Within two minutes Luna was back at her bedroom. She expected to see already prepared spell, so she could cast it and summon already Starswil back to their realm. She definitifly didn't expected to see in her room just a painted circle on the ground, with all the candles in the room blown off. I forgot to close the window...

Citizens of Canterlot didn't expected fireworks at this time of the year, but there were many of them, all of them coming the castle. Some of them were even displeased when three specific fireworks came out, each one of them forming a word.

I

Hate

Everything

"The doctors from the Canterlot haven't arrived yet! Who are we going to ask for help?" Applebloom's bed was right next to them, when hearing that she quietly whispered.

"...Fluttershy... She knows... A lot about health..."

"Fluttershy? Nurse, check the list, search for somepony called Fluttershy" Nurse went through her way too long list, and after a moment shaked her head.

"It seems that Fluttershy isn't here, so probably she's healthy."

"Good! Finally someone who may know what to do about this disease! Tell us little filly, where does she lives?"

"...She have a cottage... near the Everfree forest..."

"Thanks a lot! I'll personaly visit her, hope she will be able to help us!" As soon as he ended that sentence, he instantly went outside and made his way to Flutterhy's cottage. Within twenty minutes, he arrived. The place was barren, there were some fences, chickencoops, troughs filled with water and food, but there were no animals visible around. Doctor slowly made his way into the cottage.

Some time later the doctor enters the hospital again, looking way more depressed than before. One of the nurses saw that and instantly approached him.

"What happened doctor? Where's this mare you were talking about?" Tears slowly fell from his eyes.

"...She is dead... Some of the alive animals was feeding on her corpse..." He fell on the ground and started crying.

"Dear god... that is terrible! What are we supoused to do now?"

"...I don't care anymore... We are all going to die..."

Luna could see the dark clouds gather outside her balcon. She couldn't wait anymore, she wanted to see her old mentor again. The summoning circle was faintly glowing, but it still wasn't enough, if the spell was about to work fully, she'd need to wait longer.

She couldn't wait longer.

Dashing towards the middle of the circle, she lit up her horn and began fulling the inside of the circle with magic. She felt as the pure energy swims through her while she focused on searching for any traces of Starswil in other dimensions. Five minutes. Ten. Twenty. Half an hour later, she felt something. Yes, i recognize this warm feeling... It's him! Instantly the princess of the night began forming a shape of the teleport.

Sitting on a rotten bench in one of the worst cells they had, Nick was trying to think about his future. There wasn't a single lawyer yet that tried to help me after he heard about my crimes before. My only hope is to try to convince Mike that it wasn't me...

At some point, he became tired and went to sleep, deciding that the floor will be a way better place to sleep than the bench, which barely survived him sitting on it. He placed his head on his hands and closed his eyes, already feeling the dream taking control over the reality as he saw a small light appear just before he fully shut his eyelids.

Wait, a light?

Nick opened his eyes again and saw that, indeed, there were some kind of an orbs emanating with light, slowly floating around him. There were around 6 of them, flying right above him.

"What the hell..." As soon as he murmured that, the orbs instantly began to fly faster and faster, circling him whole. Nick instantly stood up and took a defensive stance. What is it? Witchcraft?

Before he could do anything else, some kind of a portal had appeared betwen the orbs. What scared him more, was that the orbs slowly began to fly towards him.

"Oh hell no!" He dodged it and started hitting the bars of the cell, trying to make as much noise as he can. "Guards! Help! Anybody! He-" Suddenly he felt a weird sensation at his back. When he turned around, he saw that the portal was already swallowing him.

The citizens of the New York could hear a loud scream coming from the prison, which was kilometers away from them. A single lighting had hit in this direction, and a rain began to rapidly attack the streets.

It's happening! The portal slowly began to appear, growing with each passing second. Instead of stopping at the size of a casual pony though, it kept growing, to the size of Luna herself. Had i done something wrong and created a portal for myself?

Then suddenly, a weird creature fell through it, stumbling and rolling for a few meters through the floor. Portal instantly closed itself after that.

It was a tall creature, similar to ape. It's been almost entirely covered in clothes, his head was hidden by his dark grey hood that had fell on his head during his fall. It was rather slim, and it's very existance was already alarming for Luna. What was even more worrying her, was the question that had appeared in her mind.

Where is the Starswirl? You don't want to tell me that this creature is him?

Whatever it was, it slowly raised from the ground - while standing, it was slightly higher than Luna, but still smaller than her sister. It had took off his hood, revealing his muzzle - specifically it's absence. It reminded Luna of how does the griffins looks like, just without the beak and feathers. Instead of the beak, it had a small... triangle-like thing with nostrils at the bottom of it. It's ears were also looking weird, they looked like a small, almost flat bowls. It had a short, black mane on it's head, and it didn't had a tail. It had minotaur-like legs, but instead of hooves it had... something weird, she couldn't even say what it was. Luna was almost amazed by his look, but had quickly came to her sense when the creature had finally looked at her, being both afraid and confused.

"Uhm... hello?" Luna had asked shyly.

This creature have a really strong lungs, ponies could hear it's scream all over the canterlot.

It haven't been even five seconds, and the creature was already missing. She didn't even saw what happened, it just suddenly ran at her, so she closed her eyes in fear. When she opened them again, he wasnt anywhere to be found. The door was closed, and a spell was preventing anyone from going in or out, so he couldn't leave this room. Luna started looking where it could hide.

"I don't want to hurt you, please come out." Something shifted under her bed. It's back legs are sticking out...

Few moments later it was already being levitated by Luna's magic. It was obvious that it didn't enjoyed it as it struggled around to the point where it was already too tired to even move.

"So... this may sound weird, but what are you?"

"I'd like to ask the same question to you! What are you? You look almost like horse but you're blue and you talk and you have wings and horn and do magic and it's all just a dream, isn't it?" It took Luna a moment to realize what he was talking about, but she decided that the best thing to do is to sit down and take it calmly. Of course she was the one who sat, it was still levitating.

"So, let me start then. My name is Luna, and we are in the Canterlot."

"...Do you mean Camelot?"

"No, Canterlot, in a country called Equestria. In this country lives ponies, three types of them to be specific - earth ponies, pegasus and unicorns."

"...And which one of them you are?"

"Well, actualy i'm an alicorn - it's like... being a mix of them all. I'm also a princess of this country, me and my sister rule over these lands."

"...Isn't that a job of a king and a queen?"

"Queen? King? I'm afraid we don't have such roles here."

"Oh boy, this sounds just great so far."

"Please remain calm, i'm trying my best to not flood you with informations."

"You're not doing exacly a good job." Her eye twiched for a moment before she could calm herself down. After a sigh, she continued.

"I'm afraid that you're right. It's impossible to just explain you all the aspects of our life... unless..." Luna quickly went through the books she kept in a small bookshelf next to her bed and found a filly's book, explaining the world of equestria.

"Here, this should help you." She said as she levitated it towards the human.

"...A book for kids? Why do you even have it in your room?"

"Shush you..." She levitated him the book while hiding a slight blush. After a moment of thinking he shrugged his shoulders, took the book and started reading. "Oh, by the way, what's your name, and, uh... What are you?"

"My name is Nick, Nick Williams, and my kind is called humans."

"Humans?"

"Or homo sapiens."

"...I think i prefer human, thanks." She turned around and made her way to the small bookcase, a small smile on her face. I remember how my sister gave it to me herself when i came back to kingdom, i had a similar reaction. Suddenly Luna heard a loud smack right behind her. When she turned around, the human was rubbing his cheek, a red hand mark visible on it.

"...What are you doing?"

"Just checking if i'm not asleep for sure. So... this is all real?" He said as he threw the book on Luna's bed.

"I'm afraid it is."

"...Alright then, screw trying to understand anything, i just got two more questions - why did you brought me here and when will you send me back?"

"Well... It was..." A good question! Why did my spell brought him? I clearly felt the traces of Starswirl on him while summoning him here... or maybe?

"May i ask you to come to the balcony?" Nick seemed rather surprised by that, but after a moment of hesitation he made his way to the balcony.

"Look around. Do you recall some of these places?" From Luna's balcony was visible half of the Equestria, including Canterlot, Ponyville, Fillydelphia and much more cities. If i'm not wrong, then he is the Starswirl! He had to lose his old form and memory during the teleportation to another realm! If that won't work, i can always cast a spell on him to bring his memory back.

"...No, why should i? I never was here before."

"Are you sure? None of this seems familiar to you?"

"Well... the city under us seems similar to some of the cities back in my world, but beside that, nothing."

"I see..." The spell it is, then.

Luna's horn began to glow faintly and a small ball of blue energy began to form in the air, making it's way towards the human's head, who was looking at the Canterlot in wonder.

Eua'Regone slowly made his way towards the Canterlot castle, disguised as one of the Luna's royal guards, so nopony could recognize him. Not so long ago i could feel a lot of energy radiating from this place. I greatly know that energy, this amount can be produced only when summoning something to this world. Was it you, Celestia? Or maybe it was your darker sister? It doesn't really matter to me, all i want is to see what had you done. With a slowly forming grin on his face, he walked past the massive doors leading into the castle.

While channeling the spell, Luna felt a small pinch back in her mind. The last time she felt that was when Discord had freed himself.

"...Oh no." Luna's spell instantly vanished as did the ball of light. The human turned around to see the scared expression of the princess.

"What's wrong?"

"He's coming. I can feel it."

"Who?"

"There's no time to waste!" In a quick manner she pointed her horn at the human and shot a small bolt of energy into him, which he absorbed and fell on the ground.

"W-what was that?! What had you done to me?!"

"Calm down! You will see in a few seconds."

"Oh, don't even say that you had poisoned me! I always imagined dying by poison, and it never was... something..." Slowly Nick began to shrink, his body turning orange and his hands and feets becoming hooves.

Nick became a pony. He was now slightly smaller than Luna, had no wings or horn, his coat was orange and his mane and tail dark blue.

"What... WHAT HAD YOU DONE TO ME?!"

"Hush! You need to leave! If he will discover that you're actualy a human, something much worse than a death will happen to you!"

"WHO'S coming!? What's going on here!?" Ignoring him, Luna quickly walked to a wall next to her bed and pulled a small lever, designed to look like a candle. As soon as she did that, the wall shaked, and a secret passage had been revealed.

"This corridor will take you right outside of the castle. Head north, to the village called Ponyville, you should reach it by hoof before the sunrise. Search for a purple unicorn called Twilight and tell her that i've sent you and that i ask her to keep you for a while. I will come for you as soon as possible, but now you have to hurry!" She pushed him slightly towards the hidden passage with her head, being carefull with her horn.

"Listen, i really don't like this whole thing, i don't know if i should trust you and the most important, i don't know if it's all even real! Do you really expect me to just walk to some kind of a village filled with talking ponies and act like there's nothing wrong with it? YOU'RE A TALKING HORSE AND I'M GOING NUTS SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!"

"JUST DO AS I SAY!" The royal Canterlot voice perhaps wasn't a good idea, but at least it worked, since Nick was now spriting down the dark corridor. A moment afterwards, the passage closed behind him, and Luna was once again alone in her room. She slowly made her way towards the bed and picked up the book Nick had thrown. Levitating it back on the bookshelf, Luna looked around her room. With a single spell, all the candles dissapeared and the paiting vanished, leaving the room as it was just two days ago. ...I should probably consider retreat, if Eua'Regone is going to come here, i won't have much chances in a fight. Before she could move though, the door to her bedroom opened, the guard with a spear walking in.

"Princess! We had recieved a task to watch you over this night, it seems that there's someone in the castle trying to assault you." Nice try, but you've disguised yourself as a Celestial guard. Only my guards are awake at the night. I probably shouldn't show him that i know it, it's better to catch him offguard and retreat.

"Oh? Very well then, i'll remain in my chambers untill the assaulter will be found in that case." He seemed clearly displeased by that, a small grimace on his face that he tried to hide from her. After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly revealed his true form. By the moon... I need to escape! She slowly started to back to the window behind her before Regone's voice stopped her.

"Don't even think about this, my dear. I've definitely felt a summoning magic here, so now tell me kindly, what had you summoned?"

"I'm afraid i have no idea what you're talking about, Eua'Regone. Maybe Celestia was right, and you are indeed insane just like your descendant?" She said the last part with a daring grin. Just wait for the right moment...

"Oh please, don't compare me to him... Why can't you and Celestia see the difference betwen us? He was evil, and i just wanted to know everything!"

"Wait... how do you know that the Discord was..."

"Oh please, i created him, obviously i had a connection with him, at least partialy. Can't you really see that i was doing a good thing?"

"Yes, by enslaving everypony and taking the knowledge by force! And don't think we've forget what had happened to Starswil!"

"Enough!" He yelled in anger, whole castle slightly shaking from the power of his voice. "Where did you hide it?!"

"Why don't you try and find it?" Luna said with a grin as she suddenly flew through the window, flying through the night. It seemed that he was rather surprised by that and didn't tried to catch her in the air, which allowed her to fly through the night. He may be powerfull, but in the night i'm invisible for the untrained eyes. After a moment of flight, she descended a little lower, making her way to the Ponyville.

I don't know what hurts more... My pride, that i was scared by a pony, or my body. Nick thought that as he made his way through the forest, branches and bushes hurting his unclothed skin. I thought that i would have more trouble with walking on four, but apparently this had to change with my transformation as well.. He stopped, looking up in the sky.

Transformation... I don't know if it's all even real, perhaps it's just a dream of sorts, but then... I wouldn't feel pain. The trees, the bushes, they all look unnatural, but feel in touch exacly like the trees and bushes in the New York park. Is it true that i'm in another world? His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of something breaking not so far away. He made his way towards the source of the sound, and soon found himself looking at the old, wooden building. A single signboard hanging on the chains states 'Dity Joe Inn'. It looks like it's abandoned, perhaps i could rest here for a while. Nick slowly made his way towards the old, breaking apart door. Slightly pushing it open, he entered it, and was greeted by a view of a stallion standing almost right in front of the door. The whole place was incredibly dark, and if not the lit candle on the table right next to the stallion, he wouldn't even seen him. He was holding a part of the broken table in his mouth, the rest of it lying on the ground. He was Nick's size, had dark red fur and a short brown mane and tail, and had a beer tattoo on his flank. When he saw Nick, a small smile appeared on his snout as he put the part of the table back on the ground.

"Ah, welcome. You're the first one to arrive here."

"Uhm... W-what?" Nick took a step back, looking at the calm stallion in front of him.

"Well, you still have..." He looked for a moment at the counter, where a single clock with partialy broken shield was resting, but apparently was still working. "...Around five hours before everyone will arrive, so why don't you do something for me?"

"...What are you talking about? Who are you?"

"You will see, in five hours. For now, how do you feel about a little task?"

Nick looked at him in worry. Who is he? Does he own this place? He seems to be insane, perhaps it would be healthy for me to just leave. "Uhm, i'm sorry, but i'll be going now..." He turned around, before he could take a step though, he heard the stallion speak from behind him, keeping the calm voice all the time.

"I know that you're looking for Twilight Sparkle." He stopped in tracks and looked at him, a terrified expression slowly making it's way on his snout. "Continue your way to the Ponyville, but don't speak to her. Instead of that follow her, avoid contact with her, but keep an eye on her all the time. Whenever she goes, you go there as well, and what's most important, do not make her suspicious of you."

Nick stared at him for a moment before he slightly narrowed his eyes. "...And what if i won't?"

"Well, you can always stay here and talk with me about mares, or you can go to Ponyville and wait for princess Luna, only to hear that you won't be able to come back to your world." Nick instantly turned to him, looking at him in fear. It took him a few moments before he could say anything.

"...How did you know?"

"As i said, everything will be explained... in five hours." He turned around for a moment to clean up dirty glass... with a dirty handkerchief, before taking a look at the barely working clock on the wall and returning his gaze back to Nick. "Well, 4 hours and 50 minutes now... So, deal?" He said as he raised his hoof to shake. After a moment of thought, Nick shaked his hoof.

"Don't think that i trust you, nor any of your kind, but... Deal."

Eua'Regone, once again in his guardian disguise, made his way through the castle. I'll need to find her, if she will tell her sister about me, it will be all over! Another corridor, another room, and after a while he found himself in the throne room. Looking around this place, he couldn't help but murmured quietly.

"...Soon i'll be the one sitting here..."

"Oh, is that so?" He heard the voice speak behind him, a very familiar to him voice. He turned around and looked Celestia in the eyes.

"...Oh, excuse me princess, i was just..." Celestia's expression stayed cold and emotionless.

"You know, my guards are all asleep by now, it would be smarter to become a Lunar guard... Of course you wouldn't know about that." His mind raced through the thoughts before he gave up on coming up with explanations and revealed his true form, slowly gaining in size and getting his misshapen body back. Celestia's glare never left him during the transformation, and now she was face to face with his true form.

"...Long time no see, my old friend." Eua'Regone said with an evil smile.

The sun was slowly making it's way up the sky when Nick had finally arrived in the Ponyville. He shaked off some sticks and leaves from his mane before he trotted towards the town. I'm slowly getting used to this form, but i still wish to be back in my own body.

It was too early in the morning for crowds of ponies to be around, but even at this time, the village was somewhat empty. He had seen one or two ponies on their way to their homes, wearing some kind of surgical masks on their snouts. Epidemy? Luna wanted me to come here? This must be some kind of a joke... And some pony called Twilight is supoused to be around? If she indeed would be somewhere here, she'd probably be in hospital at the moment. Just... where could it be? Before he could take a single step, he heard a sound of hooves in the distance. He turned this way and saw a purple unicorn walking off, in assistance of some kind of a lizard creature. ...It's her? She's certainly purple... Well, here goes nothing.

He started walking after her, keeping a relatively big distance betwen themselves. After a while, she seemed to stop at the train station. She's leaving the town because of the epidemy, that makes sense. She bought tickets for the train and sat at the end of the row of chairs, as i've immediately sat at the other side of the station. I don't have money for the tickets... gues i'll need to try my luck in this one. Nick made his way towards the other side of the chairs and sat, avoiding looking at the unicorn. ...I still don't know if she's the unicorn i'm looking for... Perhaps i could...

He coughed lightly.

No reaction.

He coughed again.

Still no reaction.

He did so several more times before suddenly the unicorn spoke. "Spike, are you alright? You weren't protected from this poison, are you sure this can't affect you?"

Suddenly the lizard spoke. "I'm fine Twilight, dont worry about me. Even if it really was so powerfull, the worst it could do to me is to give me a light cold for a few days, that's all." Yep! That's the unicorn i'm looking for- THIS THING CAN TALK!? Holy shit, is this her bodyguard? He seems smalls, but damn i'm in a world of talking ponies, so who knows what this thing can do! Why would Luna want me to talk to a purple pony with a freaking TALKING LIZARD AS A BODYGUARD?. Thankfully, a train came as soon as he thought about it, and he instantly made his way towards the train's door. Twilight and her lizard made their way to the train as well soon after he entered, and sat in the third wagon, just behind the Nick's seat. After a moment the train began moving once again.

I hope this whole... Spike doesn't have some matter of improved sense like dogs, or else i might be screwed... Although... I feel.. off. Not just because of the ponies or the lizard, it's just... i think something bad will happen soon.

Luna arrived in the Ponyville, the whole place was deserted. Not a single pony on the streets, houses seemed to be abandoned, and there were some traces of blood visible on the road to the hospital. She was looking around the empty streets, horryfied, untill she felt it too. It was like something was pushing on her brain from all the sides, and she had a problem to catch her breath. A quick purification spell, and a anti-disease shield around her, and she was once again feeling normal. It's worse than i thought... It's a pure plague. She followed the traces of blood untill she saw in the distance a white building, which she assumed was a hospital. There were a few beds outside of it, ill ponies lying on them, slowly dying. Some of them were coughing out blood, some of them were just lying, not moving at all, but still breathing, and some... were dead. She also saw some of the the element bearers, which she recognized as Rarity and Applejack. ...What had happened to this place? What kind of horrific things happened just under our chin?

Before she could react, a doctor ran out of the building, bowing to her with a look of hope on his snout.

"Princess! Do you brought us the medical ressources? So many ponies are dying, and we can't do anything about it!" She looked down at him with a mixed feeling of compassion and fear.

"...I'm afraid i don't have them with me." The doctor instantly stood from the ground, looking at her in horror.

"Princess.. you..."

"-But don't worry! I've came personaly to stop this plague!" The doctor looked at her with slighlt worry.

"Princess, it's impossible to heal these ponies with magic! This epidemy that we are dealing with is... nothing like we had ever met before. Do you really think you can take cure it?"

"I am your princess, and it is my duty to at least try. What is your name?" The doctor seemed rather surprised at that.

"Uhm... My name's Goldshrine, princess." He was a stallion with a golden fur and a dark yellow, long mane and tail, both of them messy at the moment. He was wearing a surgical mask and a white coat, and had a needle as a cutie mark.

"Very well, doctor Goldshrine, i'll help you cure ponies of the ponyville!"

Luna and the doctor walked through the door and into the corridor, filled with sick, dying and dead ponies. This will take a lot of my power, but i think i can actualy do it... Although i feel like i'm forgetting something...

Sunera fell on the ground in some kind of a forrest, her wounds healed, but her head aching really badly. She shakily stood up and looked around herself. ...Where am i? This doesn't look like the forest i was in before. Dark clouds began to form in the sky, it was going to rain soon. Through the trees she could see a big, wooden house, a signboard hanging on the chains 'Dirty Joe Inn'. Slowly she made her way to the building, with hope that this somebody who offered help will be there. The door seemed to break at the slightest touch, yet it resisted under her touch and soon she was already inside. The thick layout of dust on everything made it hard to breath, a bunch of candles were lit and lying on a few wooden tables. There were a few of them broken, lying in the corner of the room. Nobody was behind the counter, only a single small clock was resting on it, it's shield partialy broken, but it was still functioning. It was really dark here, if not the candles, it would be nearly impossible to see anything. She made her way deeper into the room when she suddenly heard hoofsteps. It looked like there was a set of stairs next to the counter, which she couldn't see untill she stepped in. After a moment, a stallion made his way down. He had a dark red fur, brown short mane and tail, and a mug of beer as a cutie mark, if she remember it's name of these tattoos correctly.

"Ah, hello Sunera, it's good to see you." She was surprised by that, she tried to grab her knife, before she realized that it was missing.

"The others should be there soon, why don't you rest in the guest room meanwhile?"

"...Are you the one who's supoused to help me?"

"Yes, i am. Everything will be explained soon, for now, you should probably rest, i imagine it's rather hard to keep your mind clear after what you had seen."

"..I have no other option than to trust you at the moment, but if you're just playing around, i won't be kind to you."

"Oh, i fully understand that. Soon everything will be explained, all i can do now is warn you."

"...Warn me?"

"Terrible things will happen soon, way worse than you can imagine. No matter what happeneds, i need you to stay calm." Sunera thought for a second, before she replied.

"After what i've seen, i think i can't be more calmer than i am now." She made her way up the stairs, while the stallion stayed in the room.

"...You may think you had lived through hell. All of them may think that they've lived through worse than anyone else." He made his way towards one of the broken tables, looking at it with slight sadness in his eyes.

"...At least they are not forced to be living through it for eternity." He kicked lightly one of the broken parts, turned around and murmured.

"A wise man once said: The worst crime to commit that makes you the animal is to not feel guilty for your vices." The sadness left his snout, and the thin, light blue magical aura began to surround him.

"Let the war begin."

Author's Note

After a WAY too long break filled with personal problems, troubles at school and all this kind of stuff, i've finally decided to get this one done. At least i've finally found an editor who will help me with the grammar correcting etc.

Also, i advice reading the other chapters again as well, i've changed some things.

Coming soon: A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - Destiny

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - Destiny

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 :pinkiehappy:

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

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - A Pony

A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn

A Pony

It was a beautiful day and the sun was high in the sky; its shining rays filling the inhabitants of Ponyville with feelings of warmth and joy. The wind was calmly moving through the grass and the fallen leaves on the ground. Even though it was the middle of spring there was still a lot of work left over from the winter wrap up celebration after the accident with another contest of Rainbow Dash and Applejack. Ponies went about their daily jobs as usual, but one in particular was staying in her house today.

She was a mailmare, called Derpy Hooves. It had been six months since she started working, so her boss had decided to give her a free day today. Lazily lying on the couch next to her chimney, she thought what she could do for today. She was so deep in thought that she didn't even notice that her daughter Dinky had come back home after school. Little filly had slowly approached her mom upon the sofa, and with a wide grin on her face, she started to tickle her mother.

"Dinky... S-stop! Hahah... Enoughhhaahaha!" Soon the filly stopped and jumped at the couch next to her mom, hugging her tightly.

"So mom, what are we gonna do today?"

"I still don't know... Maybe you have an idea?"

"I want to go to Everfree forest!" Derpy had been shocked, why would she want to do something so dangerous?

"No way! Why would you want to go there anyway? It's too dangerous even for your mommy, not even mentioning a little filly!"

"Because Scootaloo said at school that she went there today and there's nothing to be afraid of!" Oh, she greatly knew Scootaloo by now.

"And did she said something else about it?"

"Well... That she was with Rainbow Dash... This is why I wanted to go with you! I know you could protect me!"

"I'm sorry Dinky, but it is really dangerous. Dont forget that Rainbow Dash is an element bearer."

"Awww, okay... Maybe we could visit the library?"

"The library? You're interested in books?" Derpy slowly raised an eyebrow. She didnt liked to admit it, but her daughter wasn't... the brightest mind.

"Um, not really. I wanted to talk with Twilight!"

"Twilight Sparkle? Why?"

"Today some kind of a strange creature gave me a letter and told me to bring it to her! It was soooo huge and it didn't had hooves and it had clothing everywhere and it was hairless except for it's head, and, and..."

"Whoa whoa whoa, hold on there honey. A creature? Are you sure it wasnt your imagination?"

"Mom, it wasn't my imagination this time! Here, let me show you this letter!" She quickly searched through her school bag and pulled from it a letter addressed to Twilight Sparkle. Derpy couldn't help but notice how unusual it was. A strange seal with a letter "V" on it, nicely decoraded with small golden ornaments at the sides, and at the top of it a symbol of a crown. This is surely not just a casual letter... I wonder if it has something to do with the rumors of Twilight becoming a princess soon...

"Alright, we will visit Twilight."

Twilight slowly made her way through the town, heading towards her home. The sight of shops by her sides always made her wonder what she could need at the moment, and this time wasn't any different.

"Maybe I could get some... No, I already have a lot of it. Maybe some quills? From what i remember, Spike broke the last one I had, so I guess I could buy two or three more..." With that in mind, she turned left, to the Quills and Sofas shop. Probably the weirdest shop in Ponyville... But at least they have good quills!

She walked through the door, causing the little bell at the top of it to jiggle, which made both George and Wilson turn their heads in her direction. This shop was halfed - Left, bigger side of it was George's, where he was selling all kinds of sofas. He was an older pony, maybe just a bit younger than Applejack's grandma, grey coat and dark grey short mane and tail adored his view. His cutie mark showed a fine looking sofa.

At the right side was standing Wilson behind his desk, the pony who was selling high quality quills. Unlikely George, he was a young stallion, maybe a slightly older than Twilight. His coat was cream color, his dull brown short mane was slicked back and his cutie mark showed both sofa and quill. George was a father of Wilson, but there has been bad blood between them ever since they opened the shop. At the sight of Twilight, Wilson smiled while George turned his head away.

"Ah, my favourite costumer! What can i do for you Twilight?"

"Hey Wilson, I'll need three of your finest quills."

"All of my quills are finest!" He bowed down and brought three quills with him from under the counter. "That will be twenty bits."

"Twenty? That's less than usualy." Twilight quirked her eyebrow.

"For my regular customer? Not at all!" He leaned over the counter and whispered to Twilight "Of course... You can always whisper a word or two to your friends about some fine quills here, right?"

"I'll surely remember to do so... like always." She said with a little unease as she dropped twenty bits on the counter. He quickly counted them, then smiled and put them in a bag hidden in a small cupboard behind his counter. They said their goodbye's and Twilight left the shop. She could hear George mumble something to himself on her way out, but she ignored it.

Soon enough she saw her destination on the horizon - A library carved in a tree, which also served as her house. She couldn't even count how many jokes people made about it. While making her way to the front door, she noticed the Ponyville mailmare approaching her, Derpy if she remember correctly, accompanied by a little filly, probably her daughter. Soon enough, both of them were standing in front of the door to the library.

"Hey Twilight, how are you doing?"

"I'm fine, thanks. How about you Derpy?"

"It's been really boring lately... Anyway, my daughter here-" She pointed her hoof at the filly next to her "-have something for you."

"Oh? What is it?" Derpy's daughter slowly reached somewhere behind her and gave Twilight a really richly decorated letter, addressed to her.

"...A letter?"

"Yes, today this strange creature gave it to me, it was huge and~" Derpy shoved her hoof in Dinky's mouth, succesfully shushing her.

"Dinky got it today from someone, but i'm not really sure who was it..."

"I see... Thanks!" Twilight said with a smile. She nodded to her with a smile, and both Derpy and her daughter were on their way back, Dinky saying something to Derpy who looked slightly confused.

Twilight have made her way into the Library, looking at the letter she kept in her telekinesis. It's really splendid, maybe it's from Princess Celestia? But why wouldn't she just send it straight to me? Unless...

"Spike!" Silence. "Spike! Are you here?!" Still silence. Twilight could feel dread growing in her, where could have Spike went? She started looking for him through the house. Basement, kitchen, her room, he was nowhere to be found. Twilight gazed with fret at the letter levitating next to her. She quickly broke the seal with her magic and opened the letter, quickly scanning it's content.

Dear Twilight Sparkle

I got your purple lizard. If you do not wish for him to come to harm, you will do exacly as i say.

Meet me at the entrance of the Everfree forest, near the field of poison joke. Don't bring anyone with you. Take only a quill and a piece of paper. Do not try telling anyone about it. I'm watching you.

I expect you there at the sunset. Don't be late.

Regards
Stranger.

"...You are insane, this is just straight cruel."

"Yeah, well, you know. C'mon now, we don't want to be late, now do we? Not much time is left before sunset."

She sighed and grabbed a small, tied up lizard, putting him on her shoulder. I'm sorry little one, but i have no other choice at the moment.

Twilight left the Library in hurry, heading straight towards Everfree forest. Waiting for the right time to leave gave her a lot of time to think about what can happen. They told me to bring a piece of paper and a quill! That's ridiculous! Wouldn't they want a ransom for Spike or i don't know, maybe... Maybe it's a trap? With that in mind, she slowed down for a moment to cast few protective spells on herself, before going back into full gallop.

She made it to the Everfree entrance just before the sunset. Wind was really strong tonight, knocking off leaves from the trees and making generaly a lot of noise. Animals could be heard somewhere deep in the forest, and the thickness of it made it almost impossible to see anything within it.

To her left was a small field of teal-colored flowers, illuminated by the light of the slowly rising up moon, they stood out as the only visible thing in the forest at the moment. Each of them seemed harmless, but she knew exacly what they are. Poison joke, probably the biggest annoyance of this forest. She still remembers how she and her friends got poisoned by it. Good old times, she would say, if not for the fact these weren't good times, especially for Zecora. Poor Zebra, the way how ponies from Ponyville treated her...

Everything suddenly fell silent. Wind strangely calmed down, noises around her got quiet. Twilight could hear her own breathing now. This lasted for a short moment before suddenly Spike got thrown from her left side, seemingly out of nowhere. He was completely tied with rope and gagged with some sort of cloth.

"Spike! Spike, are you alright?!" He nodded, but seemed extremely panicked.

"Did you brought things i asked for?" A sudden female voice asked her calmly, her words strangely echoing around the field, seemingly coming from everywhere.

"...Yes, i did. Who are you?" She asked as she started to untie Spike.

"You're in no position to ask questions. Now, you'll write a letter to princess Celestia." Twilight felt shock grow within her as she slowly removed gag from Spike's mouth. As soon as she did it, his eyes instantly went wide.

"Twilight, don't listen to him! He's planning to~" Before he ended this sentce, an arrow flew right in front of him, barely missing his leg.

"Next time i wont miss." This caused Spike to hide behind Twilight. An arrow? These work only with bows, ponies can't use them! Who is that?

"Spike, you'll tell me later about this." Twilight wishpered to him silently.

"Oh, i dont think so. I want you to know that i'll watch you from now on. Spike, remember what i've done before you've arrived here?" Spike inhaled sharply, a look of pure terror on his face.

"What have you done to him?!"

"Don't worry Twilight, i haven't done anything to Spike that could hurt him. And i wont, as long as he won't say a word about what happend. Now, take a letter." Twilight groaned in annoyance, she's out of ideas at this point.

"...You know, i dont have an ink with me, you didnt asked me to take it with me."

"Yes, i know. You're going to use the juice from the poison joke's stalk." Twilight slowly turned her head to the field of poison joke. It's flowers looked like they were shinning through the night. Very slowly she approached them and took one of their stalks in her magic. A teal drops of juice loosely started to leak out of it as soon as she grabbed it. Twilight levitated a quill above it and let the juice sink in, then put the stalk aside and nodded in understanding that she's ready. This time, a different voice spoke.

"Dear princess Celestia..."

Princess Celestia was watching her beloved country from her balcony, the view of the moon slowly rising above the Equestria always brought a smile on her face, a reminder of the glorious day when her sister, princess Luna had finally returned. Sadly, she had to get some sleep, tommorow awaited her another day full of work, like always. She was slowly making her way to the bed when suddenly a letter arrived in front of her. She could recognize that it was from Twilight Sparkle, her loyal student, from the fading green flames, the sign that her dragon Spike had sent it. A smile reappeared at her face as she started reading the letter.

Dear Celestia

I can proudly say that today i've done something that neither you or Luna would have ever done.

I've summoned a creature from other dimension.

It is a huge succes for me, i've always wanted to learn more about culture of other species, and when i've finally learned everything about everyone in Equestria, i still felt the carving to learn more... Of course i do believe you knew that so far. Not so long ago, i've gathered enough energy for me to escape your little... "Prison". Learning how to jump from world to world, it was really usefull for my studies, untill i've met someone... Interesting. As you will see on your own soon, time often have a lot to do with dimensional travels. Anyway, i just wanted to inform you that this world had welcomed a new creature, and if i were to gues, you will have a lot of work soon. For this, i would like to apologize, i never considered you an enemy and it hurts me deeply to cause you such grief, but nonetheless, i will need to get back my righteous place in this world.

Regards
Your old friend.

Celestia couldn't take her eyes away from the letter for a long while. She knew exacly who was this old friend. Slowly, she levitated the letter with her and headed to her sister chambers. On her way she noticed Luna already walking through the corridor. When she noticed Celestia coming to her, she smiled calmly.

"Ah, good evening, sister. It is quite surprising that you're still awake, something had happened?" Without a word, Celestia gave her sister the letter, a look of worry on her face. Luna had started reading, and with each second her face get more and more horrified.

"...This can't be... Is it really... Him?"

"I do believe that is right. I don't know how did he managed to come back to Equestria, but this time i'll make sure that he won't come back."

"But what if that's not him? There's always this possibility."

"I haven't met anyone in a thousand years who could've called me an "old friend", except Starswirl and... him. And since Starswirl's transformation haven't succeeded, he's no longer with us... I'm almost sure that it must be from him."

"Very well, that's all i've asked for. You're now free to walk away... Also, i want to warn you. Soon, your beloved village will meet with a terrible fate, you should leave it as soon as you can. And you, Spike, i'll repeat myself - I'm watching you. Don't try to tell her anything."

"But... Why? What's about to happen?" There was no anserw.

And with that, suddenly everything once again became normal. Wind started moving around, creating a lot of noise, and a scowl of a timberwolf could be heard from away, a sign for rest of his pack that he found a target. Twilight slowly started retreating back to Ponyville, still thinking about what she had just sent to princess Celestia. An old friend? Does he really knows princess Celestia? And escaping "prison"... I really wish i could talk with someone about it, but i'm worried about Spike...

Within five minutes she was already in front of her home, a small light coming out the windows, a sing that the candles were still lit since she had left. This kinda surprised her, the candles should have already burned off a long time ago. She slowly opened the door to her house and looked around, Spike staying behind her.

"...Twilight, is someone here?"

"I don't know Spike, but if someone's there at this hour, this can mean only troubles..." Spike started slightly shaking as she made her way in.

A long while later, there was no one to be found in library. It was quite a mystery, since the candles looked like someone had just lit them up a few minutes ago. After additionaly checking whole home with a intruder-searching spell, she and Spike finally went to get some sleep. At least Spike did, Twilight didnt fell asleep this night. The feeling of something big coming was growing within her, and no matter how hard she tried, nothing made her forget about the letter she had wrote today. Today Equestria had welcomed a new creature...

Dinky suddenly opened her eyes, woken up by a sound of a knocking on the door. It's been a few calm days since the strange creature gave her the letter, but her mom always seemed to wonder about something since that day. She haven't seen this creature anymore, but it's view had sticked to her mind forever. Another series of knocks brought her back from her thoughts. Slowly she crawled out of her bed and sleepily made her way to the door. When she opened it, a blue pegasus stallion with long, orange mane and tail was standing in front of her.

"Oh, hey there little one. Is your mom home?"

"I don't know..." She murmured and took a quick look at the clock. It's 9am, mommy should be at work for now. "No, she's working now."

The stallion in front of her smiled sadly "No, she's not. You see, my boss sent me here to check on your mother, see why she havent came to work" Dinky was confused, her mom isn't at work? It had happened a few times that she had forgot she need to work on saturdays as well, but that was a long time ago.

"Uhm... I'll go get my mom then." She quickly made her way to her mommy's room. After a short moment she was already in her room, looking at her sleeping mom in front of her.

"Mom... Mom, wake up..." The filly shook her mom a little bit, but that didn't helped. She jumped on her bed and shook her again, this time harder. Still nothing. Suddenly the realization hit her. She's not breathing...

"Mom...?" She could feel tears slowly flowing through her cheecks. No... This can't be... How? "Mom! Mom please, dont die! You can't die!" The blue stallion quickly rushed to the room, and when he noticed her lying on the bed, he instantly approached her and checked her breathing.

"...No..." He started making my mom cardiac massage. "Filly, what's your name?!"

"...D-Dinky..."

"Dinky, go to the Ponyville's hospital and ask them for help, they will know what to do!" Without further thinking, she galloped outside and to the hospital.

Murphy never was in worse shit than this. Derpy often was late to work, but this?! He never asked for this! He continued the cardiac massage untill a realization hit him. Pulse! I haven't checked the pulse yet! Slowly he lifted his wing and put it at Derpy's throat. Wings are a lot more sensitive than a hoof, so pegasi were always choosen to check other's pulse. As soon as he touched it, he didn't had any doubts anymore. ...She's cold as stone... Oh no... He slowly backed away from her, when suddenly a group of doctors entered the room and quickly approached Derpy. Dinky entered the room shortly after them, terror clearly visible at her face. It wasn't even twenty seconds before the doctors sadly shaked their heads and one of them picked up from his backpack a body bag. One of doctors had came to him, a sad look on his face.

I'm sorry, but it looks like she had a heart attack at the middle of the night... Even if we could be there at the time she had it, there still would be a huge possibility that she wouldn't survive... I'm sorry..."

Murphy had closed his eyes and turned his head away, he could only hear through the shock doctors mumbling to one another, and a miserable crying and begging of Derpy's daughter.

Derpy has died.

It was a rainy, dark day. World seemed gray, lifeless as ponies slowly made their way to the graveyard, funeral of Derpy was soon about to start. Today, nopony went to work. Twilight was already at the graveyard when she noticed her best friends on their way here, each one of them were wearing a black dress. Pinkie Pie's had her mane and tail flat, Applejack had her hat taken off, Rarity from time to time had to wipe out some tears with a tissue, Rainbow Dash tried to stay tough, but i could hear her sniff from time to time and Fluttershy hiding behind her mane, though it was obvious she was crying quietly. When they noticed Twilight, a small smiled had appeared at their snouts for a moment.

"Hey girls... Nobody could have expected it, right?"

"Ah'm afraid no, sugarcube. Things like that just sometimes... Happen..."

"But why Derpy?! Out of all ponies, why her?! Couldn't it be~" A quick glare of disapproval from Applejack silenced Rainbow.

"...I think we should be going already, the funeral is about to start." Rarity said and everypony nodded, then started slowly walking to the visible crowd of ponies a small distance away. As soon as they approached it, Mayor Mare started the speech.

"Dear ladies and gentlecolts, today we meet together to bid farewells to our good friend, acquaintance, and a mother. Derpy Hooves, the Ponyville's mailmare, had left us at the night from friday to saturday last week. Starswirl the Bearded said once 'Death awaits everypony, but the most hurt will always be family and friends'. Let her poor soul rest in peace..." Twilight could hear growing sniffs and chokes of crying in the crowd, she herself could feel already tears coming to her eyes. She didn't knew Derpy that good, but death of someone you used to see everyday can't be just ignored.

Soon after the speech the crowd could approach Derpy's coffin to take a last look on her. Dinky had took it the worst way possible, ponies couldn't take her away from her mother for almost ten minutes. Now that she's dead, Dinky will probably end in orphanage, and the closest one is in Fillydelphia, almost two hundred kilometers away. Twilight could only wish the filly best of luck, and wish that somepony could help her in this situation. She could adopt her, but she couldn't handle a heart-broken depressed filly while also working at the library and taking care of Spike, not even mentioning eventual calls from princess Celestia.

Finally after a few hours, the funeral was over, and ponies slowly started making their way back to their homes. All ponies except one, who now was alone.

Princess Celestia made her way through the corridors and straight to her throne room. She had a lot of work to do, but the most important task still awaited her. On her way she noticed her sister going to her bedroom.

"Ah, good morning my dear sister."

"Good morning Tia. Did you slept well?"

"I wish i could... I've been thinking all this time about this letter i've recieved yesterday."

"I understand your worries... Something made me wonder about it. How did he managed to send you a letter? If i remember correctly, royal mail is private, only a few can use it." Celestia's eyes went wide as a realization hit her.

"It... It was send by Spike..."

"Twilight Sparkle's dragon? But that would mean..."

"...He have to know something about this." Celestia had ended for her sister. I'll need to pay my loyal student a visit...

It's been a week since Derpy's death. Ponies tried to live a normal life once again, but a few of them couldn't get through the fact that their friend had left them. Thankfully Pinkie Pie took Dinky after death of her mother untill ponies from the orphanage will come and take her, though a lot of ponies knew this will end badly. By now, the summer was slowly starting, sun shinning all over the Ponyville, like it was trying to give back happiness to all ponies that had lost it. Wind calmly moved betwen buildings, giving everypony who passed by a feeling of refreshment. Somewhere at the Ponyville park, three young fillies sat under the tree, lying in it's shadow and chatting with eachother. These fillies were known as Scootaloo, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, also knowed by whole Ponyville as "Cutie Mark Crusaders".

"What do you mean 'you're tired', Scootaloo? You're almost never tired!"

"I know, i just... I feel bad today."

"Maybe ya should get some rest today, Scootaloo? Ya really don't look too good."

"...I'm fine, i just need to stretch out a little bit." She slowly stood up and suddenly started coughing.

"See? Ah told you, you should get some rest, ah know that the best way to~" That was all that Applebloom could say before Scootaloo suddenly fell on the ground, unconscious. Sweetie Belle gasped and instantly stood up.

"Scootaloo? Scootaloo!" Applebloom stood up as well and picked Scootaloo up, then put her on her back.

"C'mon Sweetie Belle, we gotta get her to Applejack, she will know what to do!" She nodded and they both trotted to Sweet Apple Acres.

Applejack slowly put Scootaloo on a bed in her room, while Applebloom and Sweetie Belle stayed outside. Little pegasus looked like she was in huge pain, sweating and tightly hugging a blanked. After she once again checked everything, Applejack went outside and slowly closed the door behind her.

"She have a really bad fever, but that's the only thing ah know... I'm goin' to get a doctor, can you watch over her meanwhile sugarcube?"

"Of course Applejack! Me and Sweetie Belle will make sure that Scootaloo is fine!" Applejack smiled softly and made her way outside. Just as she left, Cutie Mark Crusaders entered the room where their third member was now lying on the bed.

"What should we do, Applebloom?"

"...Ah have no idea... Ah think we should wait and see if she will wake up." Just as she said that, Scootaloo slowly opened her eyes.

"...C...Cold..." Both fillies heads turned in her direction.

"Scootaloo! You're alright?" Sweetie Belle asked as Applebloom reached for another blanket from Applejack's wardrobe.

"...Not really, everything hurts me..."

"Stay tough, soon mah sister will be back with a doctor, he's gonna take care of you." Applebloom said while puting a new blanket at Scootaloo's slightly shivering body.

Meanwhile Applejack had already entered the hospital, and was on her way to the receptionist. White walls at each side didn't really kept the noise of coughing and sniffing of the sick inside, so Applejack was thankfull when she had finally reached the desk of the nurse Redheart.

"Good morning nurse, we got a patient at our home that needs help!" She said in a hurry.

"Good morning Applejack... This isn't a cow this time, right?" Applejack groaned in annoyance.

"Of course not, nurse! it's Scootaloo!"

"Ah, this pegasus filly? She was there a few times before... What happened this time?"

"She's sick, have a really bad fewer! Mah sister told me she suddenly fainted when they were talking, so this can't be just a cold!" Nurse seemed worried by it.

"...She too?"

"What do ya mean, 'she too'?"

"It's already twentysixth patient today with these symptoms, some of them had even memory lapses and partial blindness... This is slowly becoming epidemic, we will need to warn citizens of Ponyville!"

"And what about Scootaloo?"

"Uhmm... Could you wait here for a second? I'll go get a doctor for her." Applejack nodded and nurse Redheart instantly made her way through one of the corridors.

"Uh huh... As i thought, this is surely this new epidemic disease that's spreading lately. We've send already samples to Canterlot's laboratories to work on a cure for it, for now i can only give her some vitamns. She needs now to sleep a lot, her body is tired."

"Thank you doctor." Applejack said, which caused him to nod with a small smile. Soon he left the room, and only Sweetie belle, Applebloom and her sister stayed with Scootaloo.

"We gotta tell her parents so they can take care of her, but for now she need to rest a little bit. Ah'll go tell them, meanwhile i want you Applebloom to look over her." And with that, she left as well. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom were observing sleeping Scootaloo for a while untill a realization hit Applejack's sister.

"...Did the doctor said 'new epidemic disease'?"

"...Yeah, he did. Why?"

"...Well, it's epidemic, right?

"Yeah..."

"...Doesn't it mean we can catch it as well?"

"..."

Twilight was pacing from one side of the room to another, thinking about the warning nurse Redheart that today announced. A new kind of epidemic disease? This is really serious, i'll need to make sure Spike or me wont get it... While she was walking around the room, Spike was sitting on the couch, looking nervously around him. Suddenly a bright flash of light blinded everyone for a few seconds. Once they recovered, they noticed that a princess Celestia was standing at the middle of their room.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight said and instantly bowed, Spike jumping off the couch and doing the same.

"Good afternoon, my loyal student. I've came here to ask a few questions to your... assistant." Twilight could hear Spike gulp.

"...Is it about this letter Spike had send??" Celestia seemed a little bit surprised at that.

"You knew?"

"Yes, i've wrote that... Well, not me exacly, i've been just... It's a long story."

"I've made sure that i have a time for this, so let's just sit down and talk." Celestia said in calm voice, making Spike a little bit more relaxed at that point.

"We're getting out of beds!" Redheart screamed at the second half of the huge hall where they kept ponies sick at the new disease. Each doctor was wearing a masc to prevend from spreading the disease betwen them.

"Hold on, i gonna bring a few more from the corridor!" One of the doctors said and left the hall. Each pony lying on the bed was in critical state, some of them coughing with blood, some of them lost feeling in their back hooves, and some of them becoming blind. Suddenly a light yellow mare with twisted pink and dark purple mane and tail ran into the hall with teal unicorn mare with white and mint mane and tail, holding her in her front hooves.

"Please, help her! Help Lyra! She can't breathe!" Bon Bon cried as she ran into the hall. Instantly a group of doctors approached her and took care of the unicorn.

"Quickly, artificial respiration!"

"Someone prepare a oxygen mask!"

"Her pulse is fading!"

"LYRA, NO!"

"I see... I always knew that he was... insane, in his own way, but to kidnap someone?" Celestia sighed as Twilight was looking at her in a small confusion. Spike was sitting beside her, his gaze on the ground. "I really don't know what to think about it anymore..."

"Wait, you know him princess?" Twilight asked, which caused Spike to give her a short glance.

"I do, he was... Mine and my sister's old enemy." Twilight ans Spike gasped. "Yes, i know... These were dark times, before Discord was defeated, four entities ruled the Equestria. Me and my sister were two of these entities, although we didn't wanted it, for we both knew that with such great power comes great responsibility. We tried to stay in the shadow, but... We couldn't. Not after he tried to take the hold."

"He?" Twilight asked curious.

"Yes, he. His name is Eua'Regone. Just like Discord, he was a draconequus, and while he wasn't evil, he didn't cared for good as well. He wanted knowledge. Knowledge about every living creature. He wanted to use his status of a ruler to force inhabitants to share their knowledge with him... And he did. We tried to talk with him, to convince him that this is the wrong way to learn... but he didn't wanted to listen. If we wouldn't stop him in time, who knows how Equestria could end... but at the same time, we have sealed our destination as a rules of Equestria. We care for our country and we will not let it down."

"But... Why? Why did he wanted to know everything about all inhabitants of this world?"

"I'm afraid i don't know the answer for this question as well. After he was defeated, i've banished him to the sun, where he was supoused to spend rest of his life, but as you know already, he somehow managed to escape. This is why i wanted to talk with Spike." Spike once again looked at the princess, a look of hope on his face.

"I... I've seen him... And Twilight, i know what's causing this disease-" Celestia lifted an eyebrow at that" -but i've been warned that he's watching me... That he's going to kill me if i try to tell somepony..." Celestia's face hardened as she stood up.

"Spike, i'm going to cast a powerfull protection spell on you. Normaly that would be more than enough, but since your scales are magic resistant, this should work just fine." Spike slowly nodded his head and Celestia started to gather magic in her horn. A few seconds later a magic bolt went into Spike, giving him a little shine. "So, what exacly do you know? And what is about this disease you've mentioned earlier?"

"So, he~" Suddenly an arrow went through the window and was just about to hit Spike when it suddenly changed it's trajectory and hit the wall right next to Celestia. She seemed more than shocked at that, and Twilight instantly ran to her.

"Princess! Are you alright?"

"Yes, i am... Fine... An arrow? But... He should have no idea about bows... These have been invented a few months ago..."

"That's because it's not only him!" Spike quickly said. This time, there was no arrows coming.

"What do you mean Spike?" Twilight asked curiously while Celestia was still thinking.

"This Eua-something... Is working with this creature he's been talking about, this from other dimension!" Twilight eyes went wide while Celestia instantly turned her head his way.

"You've seen it?"

"Yes, it is large! Higher than you, princess! It wears clothes all over his body, mostly made out of... bushes and stuff... It reminds me a lot of minotaurs, but instead of hooves it have some kind of weird... things... and his face is like, the most disgusting~" Another arrow came through the window, this time it bounced off and hit a picture hanging at the wall, next to the window where the arrows are coming from. "...uhh... It looked strange." Twilight and Celestia were looking at each other, clearly stunned at what they heard.

"...And about this disease?" Celestia asked, trying to keep her voice calm.

"It's... It would be better if i'd show you... But you will need something to protect yourself from this disease."

Twilight, Spike and Celestia were walking through the Everfree forest for almost thirty minutes before they could see already something big lying betwen the trees. While on their way, they haven't heard a single scowl, a single noise of any animal, like they have left the forest entirely.

"Spike... It's this thing over there that's causing the disease?" Twilight whispered to him, looking at her sides from time to time. She couldn't exacly see what is this since everything in this forest gets darker the deeper you go in, but one thing was sure - it was really big.

"Yes, it's it. Just... Try to stay calm."

Soon they were already in front of it. It was still almost impossible to see anything, so Twilight slowly started creating a small light ball. Once it was out, it showed the probably most unexpected thing they could've seen.

A dead body of an Ursa Minor.

Twilight had backed away a few steps, a terror slowly growing in her. Celestia's eyes went wide, and Spike shivered at this view.

"Is... Is it Ursa Minor?" Celestia slowly asked, not moving her gaze from a dead body.

"Yes, this... Creature from other dimension was fighting against it." Both Celestia's and Twilight's head turned his way.

"He was FIGHTING WITH IT?" Twilight asked, a look of pure horror on her face.

"Yes, i couldn't believe it myself when he said that. He said he used his 'special arrow' on it, and that it would soon destroy the whole ecosystem around it." He gulped after the words had left his lips. Celestia looked curiously around his body. There was indeed a one, single arrow sticking out of it's back, barely visible through the darkness.

"Wait, he? It's a male?" Twilight suddenly asked, which caused Celestia to look back at Spike.

"Yes, he said his name is... uh... Que... Quer... Uhm... Quertis, or something like that."

"Interesting..." A realization struck Twilight. "...Wait, you want to tell me that one arrow had killed Ursa Minor?! And it's supoused to be deadly for the environment? And this had caused the epidemic disease in Ponyville? I somewhat can't believe it Spike, i'm sure there must be something else causing that." Just as she had ended, Celestia pulled out this arrow and brought it closer to her. A black juice dripped slowly from it's arrowhead, each drop that fell on the ground was burning it, causing the small purple smoke escape in the air, she could feel the toxicity from it trying to get through her spell shield she had casted on Twilight and herself. This catched the gaze of both Twilight and Spike.

"...I do believe that this arrow can do it."

"Doctor Goldshrine, what's the state of the patients?" Nurse Redheart asked the brown pegasus with short golden mane and tail.

"We have for now about two hundred sick ponies to take care of, so far only two had died... Poor unicorn, i wish we could do something more for her."

"What about this mare that brought her here? Bon Bon, if i remember correctly."

"She's still at the corridor, crying... This world sometimes feels a lot more cruel than it should..."

"I know that feeling... What about this second death?"

"Let me see..." Doctor went through his list untill his eyes met the specific name. "Carrot top, age 34, died soon after Lyra."

"Poor ponies... Hope that professors from Canterlot will create a cure soon, i don't know how much more they can handle it here..."

"Are you sure princess?"

"I'm afraid that i have no choice." Twilight bit her lip before she continued.

"We could keep this arrow, we could learn how the poison was made, this way we could cure it faster!"

"If we will keep this arrow, the poison will soon kill us all. I can feel already it's toxicity getting through our spell, we need to destroy it." Twilight turned away her head as Celestia had used her magic to disintegrate it. Just as she had done it, the air instantly felt lighter.

"A lot better, isn't it?" Celestia asked with motherly voice.

"...Yes, it is indeed. So, what are we going to do now? Ponies in Ponyville are still sick."

"I want you to move to the Canterlot and help proffesors in making a cure. They will need everypony who can help. After that, i want you and other element bearers to help me find the Eua'Regone and stop him from whatever he is planning. Can you take on this quest?" Twilight looked at princess Celestia for a second before sighing and nodding.

"I'll do whatever it takes to help you princess."

"I'm really glad. Take the earliest train tommorow, i'll be already awaiting you at the Canterlot station. For now, farewell Twilight."

"Goodbye princess." And with another flash of light, Celestia was gone. Twilight slowly moved to the window and looked outside, the moon was already rising. Spike slowly followed her, looking through the window as well, before hugging her. She looked at him for a second before hugging him as well, a warm smile upon her face.

"Come on Spike, we gotta get some sleep, we're going too wake up early tommorow."

Dinky looked through the window of her room, she was living there with another filly called Pipsy Drop. After the orphanage caretakers had taken her from ponyville and brought her to this place, everything seemed to calm down. The orphanage at Fillydelpha was really nice, everyone were nice to her... I wonder if it's because of what had happened. She was watching the stars in the sky, wondering how far it must be from there to reach them. After a while, something caught her eye. A familiar figure, often showed in many historic books when she was going to school in Ponyville.

It was princess Luna, slowly floating through the sky.

Twilight slowly made her way to the train station, Spike behind her. Train was about to arrive in ten minutes, so after the bought tickets, she sit at the free chair. There was also a huge pony sitting a few chairs away from her. He was at least at the size of Applejack's brother, had orange fur and dark blue mane and tail, both of them in a mess. His green eyes were looking somewhere in front of him, from time to time he could cough lightly. Suddenly Spike had get her attention with his own coughing.

"Spike, are you alright? You weren't protected from this poison, are you sure this can't affect you?"

"I'm fine Twilight, dont worry about me. Even if it really was so powerfull, the worst it could do to me is to give me a light cold for a few days, that's all." Just as he had ended that sentence, a train became visible from far away, slowly approaching the station. As soon as it had finally reached the station, the orange stallion instantly jumped off his seat and rushed to the wagon.

"What's up with that guy?" Spike asked while standing up from his seat. Twilight shruged, stood up as well and after a while they were already in the train. Slowly they started to move along the trails again as the unicorn and her dragon had took a sit at the first avaible wagon. She's been seeing it a lot, but she will never get tired of the views outside the window. Spike was also looking from his seat in front of her, wonder on his face at the scenery of the forest. Before she could notice, he went to sleep, snorting lightly with a smile on his face. She felt tired herself, but she couldn't help but look at Spike for a little bit longer. My number one assistant...

Twilight suddenly woke up, and first thing that she felt was that someone was watching her. She looked outside the window, but there was nobody here. She could see that she was near the Fillydelphia already, leaving behind the forest and getting into the landscape of the wild fields. She moved a little bit to scretch out, when she felt suddenly something under her flank. As soon as she stood up, she noticed a letter at her seat. It had a golden crown drawed at the top of it, similar to the Eua'Regone's letter, but without other golden ornaments. With growing worry within her, she slowly opened it and started reading the really short letter.

Dear Twilight Sparkle

Meet me at the "Dirty Joe" Inn. I can help you.

With best wishes
A friend.

Twilight Slowly put the letter aside. They were now slowly approaching Fillydelphia, they'd be there within a moment. "Dirty Joe"... I've heard about that inn before...

Twilight blinked a few times before shaking Spike slightly.

"Hey Spike, we're getting out now."

"Hmmm... We're at Canterlot already?"

"No, i have something to do first."

Soon, the train stopped, and Twilight Sparkle and her assistant Spike had left the train. The dark clouds were slowly coming this way as they made their way to Fillydelphia.

"A wise pony once said "The one who promises the most often have little". This war is just about to start, but they don't know yet what terrible things will happen in it..."

Author's Note

Coming soon: A Man, A Pony And An Elf Enters The Inn - An Elf