The Return of Darchadas

Remembering that day, Celestia begins to cry with a small sad smile. Everypony, except Luna, is shocked as they here of Celestias birth, but this does not stop Twilight, Cadance, and Luna from comforting her. "I'm sorry, its just been a long time since I've thought of that day,". Celestia continues to cry, but with their help she gets it under control to continue the story.

"Under direction from Darchadas the races grew stronger and closer, but their was always a rivalry between ponies and wolves. The leaders of both grew jealous of the other and sought to garner more attention from their parent. Years passed and Celestia grew into mare-hood and gained her power over light. Wishing to balance the scale Darchadas created his final and favorite child. Creating an opposite for light he formed this child in the same form and way as Celestia, thus was Luna born." Hearing her sisters words Luna looks down sadly in remembrance of how her parent was when she was born. The title princess of love was true, however Cadance was able to sense emotions beyond love as well. From Luna she sensed sadness, longing, and happiness from being called the favorite?

"Luna was raised by Celestia from filly to mare-hood and granted power over the night," Celestia said before lowering her head. "By this point in time the Grande Risurrezione had ended and the Age of Twilight began." Twilight Sparkles head shot up upon hearing this causing Celestia and Luna to giggle. After they calmed down a somber mood descended upon Luna, Celestia, and Discord.

"This age was the shortest among history, though we wish it was otherwise. All things must come with sacrifice, something Darchadas was soon to learn unfortunately. It began with Selene for she knew him before our birth. She noticed a change had come upon Darchadas between their sleep and awakening, but was unable to tell why. Before he had often been a very optimistic person, and smiled, but from his awakening up till Luna's birth, he rarely smiled and was often in a dark mood. With each creation his moods became darker than before. This changed once Luna was born, he began to smile and "act" happy. It wasn't till much later we discovered what was wrong. With each power granted his mind slowly unhinged, however he held on long enough for Luna. He knew what would happen and so birthed Luna to make certain of his creations survival.Knowing Luna would be his downfall changed nothing for Darchadas, if anything it caused him to love her more.

"As the years went by  Darchadas actions turned cruel towards his children. He withdrew from the public, but continued to act through others. The gryphons fled to their mountain dwellings, the dragons hunger grew until they hunted even each other, the wolves grew resentful of their mothers magic, and ponies pride became unchecked. Conflicts grew among the races and unknown to his children Darchadas continued creating races, different forms of the ones already formed such as the sea-ponies and crystal-ponies. It took many years, but between the 6 Rulers they managed to gather the races again in peace. By this time that had all learned of their fathers fate and knew fate had forced them to act. While they knew that he had granted earth, nature, fire, wind, chaos,light and darkness to his children, they were unsure if he could still use them. Finding him within the Eternal forest the six confronted Darchadas. During the battle he never used their powers against him, but the Void is nothing if not powerful and the battle was hard fought. After many hours the only ones remaining were Selene and Luna. Unwilling to fail, but unable to hurt his favorite children Darchadas pushed them back to the Everyfree Forest. Using her power Selene created a a prison underneath the forest. while Luna hid them using darkness. Combining their power for one final attack they overpowered Darchadas. Once awake Celestia aided Luna in draining Darchadas of his power, before locking him away in the prison forever. Thus was Tarterus created to house him. Through out the day and night the 6 Rulers created wards and the door hoping to forever seal Darchadas away."

Luna looks sadly at her sister and Discord before turning towards the others. "All our effort would appear to be for naught as he has indeed returned, though we do not know his goal." Turning her gaze towards Celestia she says, "Tis strange that he would call the gathering though.We would assume that he would gather his strength before letting us know of his presence?"

Thinking through what Luna said Celestia gains a look of half excited/half perplexed before responding, "Perhaps his time away has allowed his mind to heal."

"If that is true we shall see when he arrives my sister," Luna reply sounding unconvinced.

Twilight finally digested all this information looks at the clock, "Princess Luna isn't it about time for you to raise the moon?"

Luna looks suprised she didn't realize how long had passed and hurried out of the room. After she left a royal guard entered looking flustered before saying, "Announcing his highness King Pyrite, Lord Zaxas, and her majesty Mother Selene,". As each was said the bearer of the name entered the room. Seeing the images from earlier didn't due the three beings justice. Each was considerably bigger than a normal one from their race. Zaxas fur seemed to reflect the sun as if made of white ice, his talons looked like they could cut through a tree with little resistance, and he stood at close to Luna's height. Were Zaxas was blinding, Pyrite was the opposite. His scales were pure black giving him a shadows appearance, except for the yellow slits of his eyes and the glinting of claws and teeth. As and ancient dragon goes his size was rather small, being roughly Celestia's height but close to 3x length counting tail. Finally the most intimidating of the group was Selene. She was easily 2x bigger than Celestia in both length and height and her silver fur shone like crystals in the light. One would be hard pressed to not notice her during the night or day. Her most destinguished feature though was the air she gave of, as if she was natures presence, unbending to all, but nurturing to its own.

Selene gazed around the room with a look most would have called predatory, but few would live to say it to her if true.  After of a few minutes passed Selenes gaze locked on Twilight. "So this is the one you created?" she asked Celestia. Celestia simply nodded before giving a reassuring smile to Twilight. Selene shook her head in disappointment, "This might cause more trouble than you expected, we both know how creation is viewed,".

"No, I know how full creation is viewed, but we never discussed forced evolution," Celestia quickly replies.

A deep low laugh can be heard before Selene speaks. "It doesn't matter, she is not mine to decide,". Selene begins walking out of the room, "It is time follow me, that goes for the young ones as well,". The 10 ponies, one gryphon, one dragon, and one wolf begin their walk to the True Throne.