Applejack and Discord took off faster than they had ever thought possible. Aurora had started glowing as she began to lose control of her powers. It was something that none of them had seen before, and Discord had seen many strange things.

The two of them were shocked to find the others were just outside the gates, all glaring at them, at least until Twilight saw Spike. “Spike? Spike! Oh my gosh, you found him! What’s wrong with him?” Twilight gently lifted him onto her own back with her magic to give Applejack a break.

“Nothing a little rest won’t cure, but the princess… she…” Applejack just didn’t know how to describe what she had just seen. Once minute, Aurora seemed calm, and the next, she seemed like she was losing control of all her powers at once.

“Where’s my sister?” Sombra asked. He now seemed better, but he still had a dark aspect to him, but it was no longer evil.

Discord’s eyes were wide with worry and fright. “Oh shoot! I thought she was right behind us when she told us to run! She must be losing control of her powers!”

“What!” The whole group chorused. It was at this time that Spike woke up, but had chosen to keep silent about it. Mentally he was freaking out about it just as much as the others. Spike started off back towards the castle.

“What powers could she be losing control of? Discord, she’s a young filly! She doesn’t have as strong of powers as the rest of us!” Sombra practically growled.

Discord glared at his brother. “She has more power than you ever gave her credit for.” Discord then put Screwball down and ran back into the castle, which now had a beam of golden energy rising from the center of it.

Inside the castle, Aurora’s green and blue eyes were now filled with gold and her usually black horn was now pink and glowing. Her wings were outstretched and seemed to be on fire with the colors of an Aurora while her horn seemed to radiate the colors of the sunrise. “You wish to kill the world’s hope, but even in my defeat, there are others who carry on hoping! I was not the first to hope, nor will I be the last. I am merely able to use it to my advantage… I am not hopeless, I am Hope!” The Nightmare queen was backing herself into her throne as much as she could, obviously not prepared for this. She had been prepared to face the young filly who had fled all those years ago, only slightly stronger. She had not been prepared to face the wrath of the embodiment of Hope who had forced herself to hide her powers.

Spike entered the room at running speed. He was shocked by what he found in the room. The whole room was surging with Hope’s positive energy, which was exceedingly dangerous to the alicorn who wielded it, as she found herself slowly losing control.

Spike glared at the nightmare queen as she shrunk back, trying to turn invisible in the last scraps of darkness in the room. “This is your fault!” Spike yelled to her as he tried to think. He had to figure out some way to get Hope back in control of herself.

Discord entered just behind him. “Holy Equestria! What’s wrong with Aurora?” He hadn’t yet noticed the purple dragon in front of him.

Spike looked up to his adopted uncle and stated, “Oh, she’s just losing her temper and control.” Spike’s mind was still stumbling through all he knew from over the years to see if anything could help his mother. Unfortunately, he could only think of one thing. “Discord, I’m gonna need your help…”

Discord looked at the dragon with confusion. Hadn’t he been unconscious just a few minutes ago? “Alright, what’s the plan?”

“You use your chaotic powers to place all the Nightmares in jars or something so they don’t interfere, along with the queen.” Spike started moving his hands around as though trying to gather the energy in his claws. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

“Well that’s just great, but what are you going to do while I take on the Nightmares?” He started to place them in cages with his magic. He kept glancing towards his sister.

“Hah, you think you got it tough? I got the harder assignment...” He chuckled as he opened his eyes. They were now glowing gold and the essence of Hope seemed to surround him as though it was energizing him. “… I got Hope.”

Author's Note

Okay, just found out how to do the color bits, so from now on, you'll see a little color in this story hehe,yeah, I lost my temper... so sorry...
Just went back and colored things, so have fun with that.