Dawn of The Ice King

I flew as fast as I could towards the Frozen North, I tried to stop or at least slow time to make it faster but whatever that spell did won’t let me use Ice Dragon’s Frozen Time anymore. Instead I pumped my wings hard and fast, still flying fast enough to get me from the farce that was Ponyville to the Frozen North in a matter of minutes.

As I got close to Ixis ancestral home, she stirred in my mind, a primal rage growing inside me, it caused me to lose focus and nearly plummet out of the sky. I don’t know if the rage was due to her ancestral home being this magically fucked, the fact that being rocketed through time disrupted or connection some, or that an old villain who nearly killed what is essentially her son is back.

+All three, and I’m going to rip him apart, we’re going to rip him apart, no holding back this time.+ She finished somberly.

I just nodded, feeling the dark magic increase as we got closer to where the Crystal Empire was soon it became an intense wave surging through my mind and soul, my vision blurred and for a second I fell out of the sky, only to regain my composure. I hovered slightly above the clouds, when I felt five familiar magical signatures, but they were all warped. I dug in my pocket fishing out a messaging gem and my storage gem. I pulled a pen and paper out the storage gem and quickly wrote a message, quickly tapping it against the gem only for nothing to happen. I sighed, well it was work a sho-the message got sucked into the gem, “Good.”

~On a cliff in the Frozen North~

Celestia was overlooking the battle field with a scowl she has been fighting this war for over 6 years now, this was the hardest fight she’s been a part of, she lost so many good ponies to either mind control or death. Her captain was murdered by a spy and her student was taken hostage and tortured before being thrown back to her like some used up toy. Sunset hasn’t been the same since.

She sighed, she missed Luna, she hoped that a pony would come along and show the traits to free her sister from her imprisonment, but no, no such luck happened, she had to kill her own sister. Corrupted or not, she still loved her. Once more Celestia looked over the battlefield, her own ponies slaughter each other and for what?

“General Dash!” She called out, a rainbow blur appearing before her, the clanking of her mental wing grinding on her head ache, she was used to it though, “We need to re-” a flash of blue and white magic flashed in front of her, her horn lighting up on reflex before she realized it was just a scroll. She grabbed it and unraveled it, “Is this some kind of joke?! Are you taunting me SOMBRA?! YOU’RE LUCKY YOU HAVE MY PONIES IMPRISONED OR ELSE I’D BURN YOU AWAY TO NOTHING!!!” Celestia roared out, her mane turning a dangerous orange General Dash, backing away slightly.

Then the feeling of the magic hit her full force, this was old magic, magic she hadn't felt since she was a filly, no one could replicate this, if this was serious…, “EVERYONE RETREAT IMMEDIATELY!!!” She called out in her RCV, those who could teleport more than themselves did, those who could fly and carry others did, those who could run and carry others did and within a matter of minutes the battlefield was cleared of her soldiers and she erected a massive barrier of solar magic.

This caused a mass of black mist form in the center of the battlefield in front of the enemy soldiers, “Celestia… giving up? That’s not like you, are the lives of your ponies not important to you, they will be my slaves you know. Well not all of them, some will be tortured for fun, others killed. It’ll depend on my mood really.”

Celestia let out a deep growl before smirking, Cadance looked to her aunt, “Auntie, what’s going on?”

“Someone long thought gone has come to reclaim their true home and I don’t think they’re happy about it.” She said before laughing, her hinge on reality slightly cracked due to the hardships she's been through the past years, “I’m not surrendering Sombra, just creating less work for myself later down the line.”

Sombra scowled, “What are you… talking… about……?” he trailed off as an opening in his clouds started to form, for a few seconds nothing came through, Sombra thought that Celestia was preparing to smite him with a concentrated Solar Ray, but she would’ve done it long ago, unless she was just getting desperate, either way, he needed to protect himself so he threw up a mass of shadows, hoping it would be enough to stop any attack. The downside was that he couldn’t see anything, even with his enhanced senses.

Several more seconds passed before a whistling noise filled the air and a loud crash shook the area. Sombra was confused and was about to thin his shield out before a fist tore through his shadow and slammed into his face, sending him bouncing across the ground, kicking up dirt and snow.

“Now THAT was fucking therapeutic.” A voice called out from the cloud of kicked up dust.

Celestia looked onto the battlefield with a hard gaze, she expected to see a massive drake of ice but instead when the dust and snow cleared, a Biped that was barely taller than she was with brown skin, black and white striped hair with the wings, horns, and tail of a dragon was standing before them. She was baffled this is the creature that put off such an intense magical signature? And yet, she couldn’t deny it’s effectiveness. He eyes followed the trail of kicked up snow and dirt, seeing Sombra laying on his back, blood running from his nose and mouth. She smirked at that, as the creature said, that’s fucking therapeutic.

~Chris~

I cracked my neck as cold flames flickered out from my mouth, “Come on, Sombrero, I know that ain’t all you got!” I yelled out, walking forward slowly.

Sombra slowly picked himself up, wiping the blood off his face, looking at it. He was pissed and I could tell, good, I didn’t want this to be easy, “Who dares Strike me, King Sombra?”

I snorted, “Glad to know you’re just as arrogant here as you were back home. I didn’t have a title at the time but I am Prince Christopher McGrath ad Regem Glacies. Prince of The Crystal Empire and Equestria, rightful ruler of the Frozen North and you buddy, you pissed me off.” I finished walking forward, stopping in front of him, my last footstep sending out a thrum of power throughout the Frozen North, letting anything know that it’s true king has come home and anyone who wants to claim it has to do it by killing me. I never did this back in my time because no need to, not yet.

Sombra took a hasty step back before catching himself, he smirked, “Please what can one… whatever you are creature do against me, I admit, you have immense physical strength but that is all. Let’s see how you handle thousands of soldiers at once.” His horn glowed it’s sickly green and purple, the green lights on the helmets everyone wore lighting up in response.

My eye shot to them and then back to Sombra, my hand shot forward and gripped his horn, his spell ceasing, I spread my wings, drawing them back and then flapping them once, a wave of air pressure shot forward, strong enough to carry every brainwashed pony on his side back into the empire and once they were all inside the boundaries of the city the magic I poured into that flap formed a massive dome over the city.

“What soldiers?” I asked him before slamming his head into the ground, a crater twice the size of the one I made doing the same thing to Discord was formed, “You think I came into this fight not knowing how to fight you? Please, I’m not an idiot, and this isn’t my first rodeo, you’ll have to do better than that if you wa-” A blast of dark magic shot past my hand and across my face, knocking my eye patch off as well as knocking my head back. This loosened my grip enough for Sombra to pull himself free.

He was breathing hard, his snout clearly broken, maybe some of the major bones in his face as well but he laughed, his horn glowing once more with Dark Magic, “Not even Celestia can stand up to a blast of concentrated dark magic at close range so what chance did you think you ha-” My hand shot out and grabbed him by the throat.

“Shut, the fuck up.” I growled out, lean my head forward slowly, getting the kinks out of it, revealing my tainted eye.

“T-That…. Eye…. my…. M-magic….” He managed to choke out from me slowly crushing his windpipe.

My eyes flashed a dangerous color, “I told you, I didn’t come to this fight not knowing how to fight you. You don’t know me, but let me tell you a secret, I know you, all too well, I have nightmares about you, repeatedly. Of you killing my friends and family because I was too weak.” I touched the scar on my face and traced it over my ‘eye’, “You did this to me, well not this you a different version of you, but because he was unable to finish me off with it my body grew and adapted to the Dark Magic that tainted me. It gave me an incredible resistance to it, which is great because it was one of the few magic sources that could damage me, mind you that doesn’t mean it did hurt, because it did, like a bitch.” I glared at the dark unicorn and I could tell that for the first time in his life he felt the fear of dying, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to kill you, I promised I wouldn’t kill anything or anyone to my wives and my child, unless I had no other choice, so it’s your lucky day, you get to live.” I said with a laugh before I paused, and my glare returned full force, “Im stronger than you in every way and you know it, I would let you go just knowing that you could never win but no, I’m going to make you wish you were dead.”

I brought my free hand up to his horn and gripped it tight, I started to bend it, well not bend, it’s crystallized bone, it doesn’t bend, “N-No… please… I beg you….” He choked out.

I stopped and looked at him like he grew a second head ,”You beg me? What about all those ponies who begged you for a chance, ponies who had family, friends, lives. No, you don’t get the chance.” In one swift motion I snapped the horn off his head and with a quick squeeze I snapped his neck, not killing him, but definitely paralyzing him from the neck down, and I let him drop, crumpling like a rag doll.

I dropped the dome around the Empire and Celestia dropped the barrier protecting her ponies. The ones under Sombra’s control were freed as their helmets shut down.

Celestia and Cadance flew over to me, Celestia landing first, “Thank you, It pains me that you accomplished in a matter of minutes what took me years.” I just nodded, not looking at them, “You said you were Prince Christopher McGrath ad Regem Glacies. We don’t have any records of such a person let alone a creature like you.”

I nodded again, still not turning to look at them, “Not surprising, I don’t belong here, none of this does.”

Celestia was about to ask what I meant before a bright purple flash had a similar purple Alicorn and Dragon show up, “Chris there you are, what-” She saw Sombra lying on the ground, unable to move and hornless, “What happened?”

“Nothing, nothing at all.” I said, hiding the tears that were streaming down my face.

Twilight… I’m pretty sure she figured it out, she's a smart mare, “Ok, I understand, nothing happened, well I figured out the spell, we can still stop Starlight if we use the spell again, it’ll take us back to the race.”

I sniffed, “Good let’s… go away from this.”

“Hold on, what is going on? Who are you 3?” Celestia asked.

“No one important and hopefully you won’t have to worry about that question ever again, do it Twilight.” I told her, to which I heard the time rift open and suck us back up, flinging us back to the past.