The Four Horsemen

My Little Pony: The Four Horsemen

Chapter 10: The Awakening of Good and Evil Part 2

Twilight Sparkle began to read the spell on how to turn anypony back to normal if encased in stone. She read the words carefully as to not forget a step or else her chance to free Ares Maverick is shattered before her eyes. Even so, she would not prove her case to all in Equestria that the story and existence of the Four Horsemen are real.

Once she was done, she closes the book and focused her attention on the statue. She closes her eyes and concentrated her use of magic as she feels the energy inside of her build up. Grunting her teeth, she started to tremble as her horn grows brighter and brighter with a sparkling aurora surrounding it. Tiny sparks of electricity shot out of the aurora as small beads of sweat trickle down the purple unicorns head.

Spike watches in amazement as Twilight Sparkle continues to dig deep within herself to gather enough strength. Then, the magic that Twilight unleashed from her horn engulfs Ares Maverick's statue and it levitates off the library floor, much to the surprise of Spike. The baby dragon's eyes widen as he witness small lines forming around on the statue. It was cracking!

At Queen Chrysalis' castle, a crowd of Changelings gather around their latest discovery along with their royal majesty. The insect like creatures formed a circle around the statue of the demonic Black Mist with Chrysalis standing face to face with the gargoyle.

“My dear subjects!” Chrysalis informed her clan with triumph. “It is time awaken our new guest of honor. Please welcome...Black Mist!”

The insect like ponies cheered by hissing and letting out small growls to honor their leader and victory. Chrysalis' horn began to shine dark green as she she aims it towards the statue. In a flash, she fires a strong beam of dark magic towards the chest of the evil sorcerer. The statue becomes engulfed in green flames as the Changelings watched on.

At the same time, on different sides of Equestria, both statues being shot by a different source of magic suddenly burst open!

A sudden explosion from Twilight's magic on Ares' statue knocks the purple unicorn off her hooves as Spike took cover behind a pile of books. A little dazed, the magical mare steadily gets back up while Spike peeks out of his hiding place. Both of them gasped at the same time on what they see in front of them – a pale white unicorn with a mane and tail of gold and cutie mark of a golden Praetorian helmet. The unicorn is Ares Maverick...sleeping while curled up on the floor with Black Mist's spell book in his mouth and wearing a golden necklace that has a white stone!

Twilight looks at Spike and whispers happily, “Spike, do you see what I see?”

Spike gulps. “Yeah...it's...it's the real...Ar...Ar...”

“Ares Maverick!” Twilight Sparkle spoke quietly with excitement. “This...is...the...greatest time...of my life!!!”

She squeals in happinesses while standing on her hind legs and clapping her fore hooves. Calming down and holding the rest of her excitement, the intellectual pony and the baby dragon crept slowly to the sleeping, white stallion. Twilight can feel her heart pounding rapidly in her chest, sweat dripping from her head, and legs trembling in fear. Not only is she excited to see Ares for the first time and fearing that the golden mane unicorn will harm her in some way, she began to take note on his sudden appearance up close. When she read the Four Horsemen story so many times, she always picture her favorite stallion and hero to be hansom, strong, and attractive. Somepony, like Ares Maverick, that will make all the mares in Equestria fall head over hooves for. All that thought and imagination from the story that built inside her head for a long time turned out to be true as she comes within inches to his face.

Twilight Sparkle uses her fore hooves to remove Black Mist's spell book from Ares' mouth but unfortunately, after being imprisoned in stone forever, the brave soldier kept a tight grip on the book with his teeth. She tries again but comes to no avail as the stallion's mouth was locked onto the object. She tries again and again...only to hear a frustrated groan escape from his mouth. Twilight looks away from the book and stares at the face of the Horsemen leader. The purple unicorn witnessed the eyelids open, revealing bright golden eyes staring back at her.

“Uh...hi!” Twilight squeaked in sudden surprise to Ares.

“AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!” Ares Maverick screamed in horror as he released the spell book from his mouth.

“EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!!!” Twilight Sparkle cried.

“AAAAAHHHHHH!” Spike somehow joined into the screaming.

Ares Maverick noticed Spike behind Twilight and screamed once. “AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! SPITFIRE!!!”

The brave, white unicorn jumps into the air and pins down the helpless baby dragon to the floor.

“DIE, SPITFIRE!!!!” The enraged horsemen leader boomed.

Spike cries in horror as he sees the warrior unicorn's horn alights with sky blue.

“STOP!” Twilight intervened by teleporting in front of Ares. “LET HIM GO, ARES!”

“Madam,” Ares warned. “This is a Spitfire! He's a threat to ponykind and it's my royal duty to prevent him from reproducing!”

“He's not a Spitfire!” Twilight defended. “He's my #1 assistant and best friend! So please, Ares, don't hurt him.”

Ares Maverick raised his eyebrows in total disbelief. “Friend?!?! How can you, ma'am, be friends with thi...this...infant? Since when did King Icra...”

The white unicorn paused in silence when he noticed two things that don't make sense. The first is that this purple unicorn knows his name, even though he never met her before. The second is where in the world is he. The last time he remembered is that he and the rest of the Horsemen were battling their arch nemesis inside of a fortress on the Forbidden Mountains of Withersham. Right after witnessing his team turned into stone, the dark sorcerer used his book of spells to bring forth a twister to destroy the kingdom and all of the villagers. In a last ditch effort, the brave leader unicorn used his might to steal the book, copied the same stone spell that was casted on his team, and used it on its creator...however...he suffered the same fate before blacking out.

Now, he's awakened and still alive but not in the same place as last time.

“Um...ma'am.” Ares Maverick said to the intellectual mare. “Who are you?”

“My name Is Twilight Sparkle.” She replied in a calm manner.

“Hello...Twilight Sparkle...my name is...”

“I know who you are. You're Ares Maverick, the leader of the Four Horsemen and the one that carries the Gem of Leadership from the Gems of Peace.”

Ares dropped his jaw with a surprised look on his face. “Ho...How did you know that? How do you know my name?”

“I read about you and the Four Horsemen in a book called The Legacy of the Four Horsemen. It's one of my favorite Pony History stories.”

“There's...there's a book about me?...And my team?”

“And Withersham and the Gems of Peace. To put things in context, just about everything that happen 100 years ago in the past.”

Ares Maverick gasped. “100 years? I've been trapped in stone for this long?”

“Yes. I found you're statue in the underground caverns of Diamond Valley, outside of Ponyville.”

“Ponyville? So...that means...I'm not in Withersham.”

Twilight shook her head. “No I'm afraid not, Ares. The Cyclone of Chaos traveled west while it carried you and your team to this geographic location where I foun...”

“Where's the book?!? I need to more about this!”

Twilight ears drooped and she spoke in disappointment. “I don't have it. I let some other ponies burrow it.”

“Actually,” Spike said as he jumped into the conversation. “I have my copy upstairs.”

“WHAT?!?” Twilight said to Spike with wide eyes. “YOU HAVE AN EXTRA COPY?!?”

“Yeeahh,” Spike confessed. “To be honest, I do have one but I threw it away in a garbage can upstairs because of my harsh criticism...and I never told you that in the past when everypony came here to the library asking to rent one, you or I always reply to them 'we don't have one on stock.' I'm really sorry, Twilight.”

Instead of being upset and disappointed, the magical mare decided to let it slide and smile at Spike. “Well...that's okay, Spike. Just go upstairs and grab it for me but next time, don't ever do this again.”

“I will!” Spike saluted as he heads upstairs to the bedroom to grab The Legacy of the Four Horsemen book.

Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings stood in front of their new guest as he awakens with glowing red eyes and his wings extending to stretch.

“Heheheh,” Chrysalis chuckled silently. “Good evening!”

“RRRRROOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!!” Boomed the now awakened Black Mist as his roar echoed throughout the Badlands and Chrysalis' kingdom. “Ehhh...I am free...AT LAST!”