Elements of Destiny

They stood around each other wondering what to do with the shattered Elements.

"Maybe we don't need them." Dinky thought out loud. Everyone looked at her as she spoke.

"Maybe.... we can stop Skourene without them. If the Elements were destroyed, how come we're still here? Don't we represent them? Why else would Skourene hurt the Elements and us? When se attacked Ponyville, she left me alone. But we still represent them, and we can still use them. It's up to us to stop Skourene, and I believe we can do it. We just need to try."

"You have a point." Sweetie Belle said. "Why else would she retreat when we found our Elements?" She added.

"Do you think it can work? The unicorn asked.

"We have to try." Scootaloo said.

"We can do it, I know it. I feel it. We can save Equestria and find the Princesses, we can stop Nightmare Moon and find Princess Luna. We have a chance at this, I know it. Like, it's my fate." There was a light flash of light coming from her horn. The purple unicorn's eyes began to glow as she floated off of the ground the light mixing with the first Element of fate.

"You are the Element of Fate. The Element of Leadership," The crystal pony said. "With Fate, it is in your destiny to lead others. To lead us." The light wrapped along the lines of her horn, until it made a ball of life at the tip. Blinding everyone. When they looked again there was a crown on her head, a light gold gem on it. It looked a lot like Twilight's, only it had gray gemstones aligning the crown. Leading up to the bright, gold, gemstone in the middle, shining with light.

"Wha, what?" Dinky  said, silenced from shock.

"Your Element wasn't destroyed." The crystal pony realized. "It is created once united by the others. With Destiny and Fate, you become a leader, and it is in yours to become one. You unite us all Dinky." She explained.

"But the only way we can stop  Skourene is with them." Dinky said pointing to the crusaders.

"We'll be there to help you the whole way." Apple Bloom assured. The others nodded in agreement.

"But what do we do with these?" Babs asked, pointing to the crushed Elements. "They're drained." Without a word, the gryphon showed a look of realization on his face and slipped into the remains of the gemstone he protected. Filling it with it's glow and power again. Seeing this, the other ones did the same. Until they were all glowing with power again, piecing themselves together.

"What are you doing?" Babs asked.

"It's the only way to restore power to the Elements again." The gryphon answered. "We're retreating to them to fill them with our power, we'll be able to come out and help you in combat when you need it, and as you use them while we're out, their magic will be refilled." He explained. With each gemstone slowly coming together, their colors returned, each lighting a gray gemstone on Dinky's crown.. They floated to the necklaces of the Cmc in their right places.

"Of course." the crystal pony said. The crystal pony diminished into Dinky's Element, causing the smaller gems encrusting the crown to glow.

"It is up to you now." She said to the five fillies. Before filling Dinky's with light.

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Skourene looked in shock as the Element bearers or 'the guardians' as they called themselves. "Cowards!!" She shouted to them. "Only a fool will leave it to five fillies to save Equestria." She threw the orb against the wall of the cave, shattering it into a million pieces.

"You want to play dirty huh?" She asked no one in particular. "Two can play at that game." She took the form of an alicorn, her teal eyes glowing  as her red pupils grew blood red., one yellow fang appeared as the purple trailed out her eyes. Her teeth sharpened as she grew bigger. Her horn disfigured and full of holes as her hooves were. Turning to Nightmare Moon, she grinned.

She took the power she had gained, along with the previous power of the Elements of Destiny, the forces of darkness making her grow stronger as they left Luna's body, Skourene took the powers of the Princess of the Night, making her grow bigger as she took to the sky. Luna lay there, unconscious. She flew out of the cave at blinding speed. She flew until she was above her clouds, the sun and moon out. Absorbing her beautiful darkness across the land, she pulled in every bit of power from the land, taking whatever powers there was left in the world, causing the darkness from her mane and tail to invade what was once Equestria. She laughed as she felt the power within her grow as she took every last bit of energy she could muster from the nation, all but the power of the Elements of Destiny.

From afar in the cave, you could hear her laugh echo across the land. Rushing out the cave the five watched as the swirling clouds engulfed the land. They ran to the edge of the cliff they we on catching the sight of the gigantic Alicorn in the darkness become engulfed in her dark chaos. She stared at the fillies from afar, her eyes catching sight of the glow in her beautiful black world. She flew down to them, her eyes full anger at the fillies disturbing her peace. In a rage, she pointed her hooves to the fillies, and moved at a blinding speed to them, her horn lighting with a deadly glow. The five of them scowled, not moving once as they stood together.