Seventh Soul: Birth

The train pulled into Ponyville around sundown. Once in the station many ponies left the train, including two very familiar white mares. "It sure is good to be back home, right sis? Especially after all that fuss in Manehatten about your new clothes line." said the smaller mare. Her hair was long and split into two colors, a light purple and pink, same with her tail. Both were very nice in contrast with her pure white body and green eyes. The most noticable thing about her, however, was her cutie mark, a smiling face with music note flowing from the mouth and forming a heart shape.

"Right you are Sweetie Belle, but we are running late as is so we can't stop for nostalgia." Said Rarity as they walked through town, turning the heads of quiet a few stallions along the way. As they walked they ignored almost all the hellos and greetings from the ponies they passed, truth was Rarity was to deep in thought to care. "I cant believe I'm late to an order from the princess! As long as i find Twilight fast everything should be fine... I hope." Her thoughts were cut off by Two very familiar voices.

"RAAAAAAAARRRRIIIIITTTTTYYYYY!!!!! SWEEEEEETIIIIEEEE BBBEEELLLLEEE!!!!" yelled a bouncing pink pony from across the street, an orange mare with an old brown stetson upon her head standing next to her waving.

"Pinkie Pie! Applejack!" yelled the sisters back as they ran to their old friends.

Rarity noticed how different her friends looked as they got closer. Both had grown taller, pinkies mane and tail were even more swirly and untamed. Applejack had her mane and tail untied so they fell nimbly along her body, and her body was more toned from all the farm work. "Darlings, it has been far to long since we saw eachother! How are things with you two?" Asked rarity slightly out of breath from the run over.

"Well the farms been doing great ever since Applebloom got'er cutie mark and started up a construction business using our orchards dead trees." said Applejack proudly as she told of her sisters exploits

"Great to hear Applejack, I always knew Applebloom would be an asset to the farm. What about you Pinkie, last we saw you said you were moving to Canterlot to open another Sugarcube Corner." Rarity asked the, still bouncing, pink pony.

"O business is just GREAT! All those fancy ponies love the sweets i make and order them for all the events! I even made the cake for the Gala last year. Celestia ate almost all of it it was so good!" Pinkie was mixing between yelling and squealing with glee.

"It's lovely to hear that you both have been doing well and I wish we could talk more about our time apart, but I know twilight must be in hysterics right now so it's best we get to her." said Rarity checking a clock nearby.

"Got that right. She had the 2 of us go look for y'all and told us not to come back till we found ya." Applejack chuckled remembering her friends fit. "O I almost forgot. Sweetie, Applebloom and Scootaloo are waitin' for ya up at the clubhouse." she said looking back at the smaller mare.

"Yay the crusaders are united again!" she stopped and turned to Rarity. "Can I go sis?" her eyes swelled and she took a pleading pose.

"Fine, but be careful with all the craziness happening in Equestria these days you can never be to careful." Sweetie's face brightened and she ran off leaving a dust cloud in her wake. "Now where exactly is Twilight I'm sure she's expecting us back by now." Rarity said turning to her own friends.

"She over by the edge of town setting up the ritual. We better hurry before she goes all 'firepony' on us" Pinkie said as she bounced ahead to lead the way.

Rarity opened her mouth to question what a "firepony" was but applejack stopped her. "It's just Pinkie being Pinkie, now come on." she ran off to follow Pinkie. Seeing the distance between them lengthen Rarity ran to keep up, and followed them to her other friends.

"Hey Twilight! the others are here!" Twilights lifted her gaze from her book and pointed the light from her horn, which she was using to read in the darkness of night, at the voice.

"Coming Rainbow!" Twilight called back closing her book and trotting over to her assembled friends. She was careful to avoid the intricate spell network laid out on the ground, which was strangely glowing in the moonlight. Walking up to her friends she said "I'm glad you could all make it on such short notice, and it's good to see all of you again." She smiled as her friends nodded in agreement.

"I don't mean to sound rude, but can we please save this mushy stuff for after this ritual thing is over?" Rainbow Dash said. Other than her new Wonderbolts uniform she looked exactly the same as the last time she saw her friends.

"I-I agree with rainbow... we should finish the princesses task now..... if you all want to that is." came a small voice from next to Twilight. Everyone looked at her as she hid her face in her mane which was easily done considering how long it had gotten.

"Well since the princess is expecting a report about the spell soon, i guess the catching up can wait. Follow me everypony." Twilight turned and walked up to the spell network. The guardian scroll levitated out of her bag and unravveled in front of the elements. Twilight began " This is the Guardian Scroll, the most powerful spell in history is written upon it. It is our job to perform this spell, and summon the Guardian. For that we are using these" Her horn flashed and a small box materialized into existance. Everypony knew that within it were The Elements of Harmony. "If all goes according to plan the guardian can put a stop to all the events that have been happening in Equestria." She waited for the depth of the situation to set in.

"Well shoot Twilight why didn't you say so. This 'saving the world' stuff is easy after doing it twice." Applejack said as she dawned her element. the others followed suit including Twilight.

"Applejacks right." said Rainbow Dash as she placed her element around her neck. "All this just to use the Elements again? To think I missed a week of training for this." the last part was barely audible to anypony.

"Well since everypony seems to want to get this over with as soon as possible lets get started." They all smiled shyly at Twilights statement, mainly because it was true. They all just wanted to do the spell so they could spend time with eachother, and catch up. "Ok each of you stand in front of one of the outer circles." each did as they were told and went to the edge of the network where there were six circles, each with a strange rune written in it. Twilight saw everypony in position and took removed a small knife from her bag.

"What exactly is the knife for?" said Fluttershy nervously staring at the blade.

In response Twilight put the blade up to her right forehoof and sliced, leaving a decent cut behind. She held out her hoof allowing her blood to drip onto the rune she was in front of. Once the blood touched the spell network a humming started to be heard, and Twilights tiara began to glow faintly. "The spell requires the blood from two of each race of pony, and they need to be exceptionally strong." she whiped the blood off of her knife and placed it on the ground. Her horn flashed and five more knives floated to each of her friends who looked at her in disbelief.

"Well ah'm not sure how i feel bout this, but ah trust you Twi and if you think it's safe then so do ah." she grabbed the knife in her mouth and slit her hoof letting the blood drip onto the rune. The humming grew louder and Applejacks element began to glow.

" Sam here, if Twilight says its safe then so do I." she lifted the sleve to her uniform and cut. The humming sound stopped and a slight thumping sound could be heard as Rainbows element lit up same as the others.

Pinkie grabbed the knife in front of her and slit her hoof without a word. A strange smile crossed her face as she watched the blood hit the rune, heard the thumping grow faster, and her Element begin to glow.

Rarity and Fluttershy both looked at the knives and the blood with unease. Both felt like fainting, but knew they must complete the spell first. "Well seems we are the last ones." Rarity said nervously while looking at Fluttershy. "How about we each go on the count of three?" Seeing Fluttershy and grab the knife rarity did the same "One. Two." both closed their eyes as they set the blade to their hoof. "Three!" said Rarity and both slid the blade across their skin the blood flowing straight onto the rune at their feet. the thumping stopped and silence filled the air. All the Elements were glowing and resonating with one another. The spell had begun.

Twilights eyes lit up the familiar white light and the others began to lift off the ground as the magic engulfed them. It was then that the lights shot forth from each of them and swirled into the air, but something was different this time. Instead of the familiar rainbow forming, the colors merged into a beam of pure white. Twilight felt something within her as the white beam formed, something ancient and sinister. She tried to stop the spell but to no results. The magic was to far gone and out of control.

The white light beam shot straight into the ground creating a wave of force that sent the six of them flying backward. and a crater left in the ground where the runes once were. All of them recovered quickly from the shockwave and ran to twilight who was standing at the craters edge with a look of both amazement and horror.

"Well did it work? Did we summon this guardian or whatever its called?" Said Rainbow looking into the small pit for any sign of life. The others did the same, and soon their expression were the same as Twilight's

Lying in the center was a skeleton of a creature nopony had ever seen before. it resembled a monkey in some ways but was missing a tail and was about five times bigger than any monkey they had ever seen, which wasn't many. Twilight broke the silence "This is the guardian? How is a skeleton of a.... thing supposed to help at all!?" she stomped her hoof letting her anger show and was about to check the skeleton for something of use when she heard a sound that made her blood run cold. "Did anypony else hear that?" she turned to look at her friends and knew from the fritened looks on their faces that they had.

It was silent for what felt like hours but was probably just a few minutes. They all held their breath hoping they had heard wrong. The sound came again, much closer this time, it was a howl from. Their hearts nearly stopped because they all knew exactly what the howling meant. "Timberwolves." they said collectively. A scream came from Poyvile. They looked trying to see what was happening and saw a blue stallion come running around a corner screaming for help "SOMEPONY HELP PLEASE! HEL-" he never finished, those were his last words. A timberwolf had jumped from hiding in an alley and gripped his neck in its jaws. With a quick turn a loud snap rang throughout the town and the stallions body went limp. Four more timberwolves appeared and began to feast on the new kill.

The girls looked on in horror as the timberwolves ravaged the dead body, a pool of blood formed around the wolves. More cries of terror and wolf howls could be heard throughout the town as the chaos began to set in. Ponies were fighting for their live as the timberwolves pounced upon them and ripped them to pieces. Blood was everywhere now, windows to shops and houses were broken in as the wolves searched for their next meal. The girls stood and looked unable to move from fear.

Applejack turned to her friends and yelled "What are y'all standing around for! We gotta go help!" Without another word she charged into town determined to help anypony she could.

The others looked at eachother, then back at applejack. " Lets go guys she can't do anything alone." yelled Rainbow as she flew into town followed by the other. Except Twilight.

"This is my fault. The spell must have done something to provoke the timberwolves. What have I done?" grief had taken over she looked away from town and back at the skeleton. "What did I do wrong? Guardian I beg you stop the timberwolves!" tears were streaming down her eyes as she bowed her head, her horn sticking into the ground.

She cried at the skeleton and continued to beg when she noticed something had changed around her. She lifted her head and looked to Ponyville to see everything frozen it time. She stared in disbelief, somehow time itself had stopped, she turned back to the skeleton and leaped back in shock. Standing, floating might be a better term, before her was the skeleton of the strange creature, two glowing orbs of white were in the eye sockets acting as eyes.

"You are the one who summoned me to this plane?" came an ancient booming voice inside of Twilight's head.

"Y-y-yes I am Twilight Sparkle and I am the one who called upon you." she said trying to hide her emotions and speak with dignity.

"Very well. What is thy wish young one?" asked the voice.

"Please stop the timberwolves from attacking and help all the innocent ponies!" she begged a tear started to form in her eye from the grief.

"I am not of this world young one. I can not actively interfere in thy worlds affairs. Make another wish." said the voice in an emotionless tone.

"Then bring me someponies who can! Anypony that can save them is fine!" She said angrilly looking to her home hoping her friends were alright.

The voice was silent for a few moments "Thy wish is granted, but know this young one. You have released forces no mear mortal has seen in many millennias." The voice grew quite and the white light from the skull faded into nothingness.

Time began to move again, but this time the ground began shaking stopping the ponies and timberwolves in their tracks as the braised for an earthquake. Twilight looked on at the still standing skeleton in amazement. Muscles began to work around the bones, and organs grew in place inside, what twilight identified as, the rib cage blood was dripping from it. Once the muscles and tendons had formed shim slowly crept around the body, it was a strange whitish color that twilight had never seen on any ponies before, the skin slowly worked around the face and finished growing on the skull. A long black mane fell down to its shoulders and the body was finished forming.

The runes from where her friends placed their blood began to glow and six balls of light floated up into the air, surrounding the body. Two orbs began to float towards the body, one was a deep blue the other a burning orange, and both dissipated into the creatures head. A giant crooked white horn shot from the skull followed by 4 smaller horns sideways horns on the temples. Next the an blood red orb and a forest green orb entered the creatures torso and two giant black wings sprout forth from it's back, they were easily the size of a full grown pony. Lastly a bright pink and a light yellow orb floated into the creatures two legs causing two tails to grow at the base of it's back.

Twilights mouth nearly hit the ground from what she just witnessed. Standing before her was some type of alicorn that stood on two legs. "What in Celestia's name is this thing?" thought twilight, but she stopped thinking all together when the creature opened it's eyes.

The irises were a metallic silver and the horn quickly changed to the same strange color. A streak of silver ran down it's hair. Twilight barely noticed the change at all she was to enthralled in it's gaze. The creature began to look around, it's gaze stopped when it saw Ponyville. More specifically the stallion that Twilight saw get slaughtered. A scowl swept it's face as he stared at the warped body of the stallion. The silver coloring faded and was replaced by the same blood red as the orb. A horrible aura filled the air making it hard for Twilight to breath.

"Wha-what are you?" she forced herself to ask.

The red eyes shot her a look of pure hate. She felt, for the first time in her life, that she was going to die. Instead of killing her the creature raised its wings and in a cold rough voice said "I am Rage." With that It brought its wings down and rocketed into the sky, headed straight for ponyville.

"What exactly have I done?" she stared up at the sky and saw the moon begin to turn red.
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