Storm of the ages and a new dawn

When the colt's injuries finished healing, the doctor said that it would be OK to leave. As Twilight and the silent colt walked home, Twilight began to get the feeling that they were being followed. Sure enough, as Twilight looked back, she saw ponies in black garb with red trim. When her gaze returned upon the colt, she could see just how terrified of these followers of theirs that he was.

   The realization that these must be the same attackers that left him for dead in the forest hit her like a ton of bricks. Her gaze immediately returned to those following them, and where there was once kindness,love, and compassion now was hate, rage, revenge. Unfortunately for the attackers, they had no idea who they were dealing with. What was once clean ground was now covered with blood. As Twilight began to return to her normal self, she collapsed near the young colt she was protecting.

   Twilight's mentor sensed this change in her student and rushed immediately to find out the cause of her distress. The colt was nestled up against her. The wrath of her student upon her attackers was nothing short of brutal. A fortunate survivor of the attack had a crossbow hidden in his cloak. As he pressed the trigger, the bolt flew straight and true and imbedded itself in the colt's chest. Celestia turned around and saw the attacker try to slip away. She caught him and sent him to prison for the atempted murder of Twilight and her colt. With Twilight on her back and the colt carried in her magic, she returned to the hospital to explain the situation. The princess left to inform her younger sister about the events that have transpired in ponyville.

   It was three o' clock the next day when Twilight woke up. As she opened her eyes, she saw all her friends staring at her.  After being berated by several questions at once, the nurse stepped in to give her more time to rest and eat.  As she turned to look for the colt, she found him in the bed next to hers with the arrow still protruding from his chest. As soon as she saw the arrow, she let loose a blood curdling scream. In the middle of her scream, she began to glow in swirling trio of lavender, gold, and blue auras. The princess felt this sudden surge of power and distress so she teleported right back to the hospital just in time to see them put her student to sleep.  The princess inquired as to why her student had to be put to sleep. The nurse responded with " When she woke up, she saw the colt in his predicament and let loose a blood curdling scream of anguish, helplessness, and anger." After listening to the nurse, Princess Celestia said that she would stay for a bit to watch over her student and when she leaves shes going to send a small patrol to watch over them.

     Two hours later Princess Celestia left for Canterlot and assigned a small patrol to watch over Twilight and her colt. This patrol was lead by none other than Twilight's older brother Shining Armor. They were going to the train station when the two princesses used their combined power to teleport them to the ponyville hospital. As the captain gazed upon his sibling, he noticed her frail complection and how pale she looked. He took a look at the colt and wasn't able to see much because they were operating on him to try and remove the arrow from his chest. When they finally got the arrow out, the foal flat lined. This caused Twilight to wake and she glowed in the midst of three swirling magical energies. While the foal was stable for the moment, Twilight lost consciousness and fell onto the bed. Her brother screamed at the sight. One of the other patrolmen walked Shining Armor away from the scene.

   The scenario repeated itself three times, but the third time was different. The third time she began to sing in a language long lost to ponykind. The words of the song while untranslatable flowed like a calm river or a bubbling Brook. The song had taken all the excess magical energy and put them into her tears. As she wept over her foal, her tears dripped onto the foals wound healing it.  As the wound healed, Twilight collapsed into the floor from magical exhaustion. Luckily her brother just returned in time to catch her with his magic.

   The captain of the royal guard was beginning to feel a strong hatred towards those who attacked his little sister. His heart was broken, all he felt was pain, anger, hatred, frustration, and profound helplessness.  He walked into the room and laid his head on his sister's shoulder and he cried profusely. After about ten minutes of crying, his tears just stopped flowing. Twilight did not wake up after two days of sleep so Spike sent for Zecora. Zecora, a zebra with a sense of time who only speaks in rhyme. Zecora was in the middle of making a potion when she heard a knock on her door. As she gazed upon Spike, she said" Come in come in. Dear oh dear, what has happened with bloodshot eyes and fragile skin?" Spike let her know about Twilight's condition. Zecora grabbed a satchel and filled it with herbs, vials, pot and a spoon. Fifteen minutes had gone by when the pair arrived at the hospital. When she saw Twilight, her heart went out to her friend. She mixed the herbs in the bowl and requested Spike to go get her a little bit of water. When Spike returned with the water, zecora added it to the herbs and began to boil them.

    As this was going on, zecora began to sing in the zebrican language. As she started to sing, drums began to play but there was no drums around. The guards watched with fascination as glyphs appeared in mid air out of the blue. The potion when black in color, the glyphs sunk into it and the potion became clear as water. She had a guard go get a nurse and told her to put the potion into the IV drip.

As soon as the potion was put into the IV drip, Twilight began to come around.  Zecora stood there watching as Twilight tried to stand. Her legs, weakened from the drug used to knock her out. Twilight still had tears running down her face. Zecora had brought a few vials for blood but she decided to use one to collect the magical tears from Twilight. Zecora left after collecting a vial of blood and a vial of her tears.  When she had gotten back to her but, zecora grabbed a few ingredients from around her hut. Hearts desire, clover, sapp from the thorny trees, and the blood of Twilight. As soon as she got the water in the pot boiling with the three other ingredients in it, she proceeded to add Twilight's blood. Zecora chanted in her native language causing runes of grey magic to appear out of thin air. As she finished the chant, the runes began to submerge under the potion.  The pot began to glow brighter and brighter before it suddenly exploded flinging zecora across the room. When she looked at where the pot used to be, a dragon of violet energy stood in its place. The dragon disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Zecora ran back to town to find Spike to give the princess a message. Spike was uncertain about taking down a message to the princess for Zecora, but when she said it was regarding Twilight he scrambled for quill and paper.

  "Dear Princess Celestia

           I need you to come to my hut right away for I have discovered something about our mutual friend Twilight. It is regarding this deal with the colt and her magic.

                                                                                                                   Your loyal subject

                                                                                                                                                 Zecora"

   With a puff of green fire, Spike sent the message to the princess. Zecora left and hurried back to her hut to clean up and await the arrival of the princess. Unfortunately as Zecora was nearing her hut, she saw two roysl guards at her door. Inside was a golden glow. Cautiously approaching the door, she looked inside. To see the princess using her magic to help clean and repair her hut.

    When they were beginning to talk about Twilight and Zecora's discovery about her student, the princess was summoned to the hospital. So the princess and Zecora teleported there and sent immediately to Twilight's room. They arrived to see Twilight aglow with violet, blue, and golden swirling magical energies.

" So this is what the nurse was talking about the last time when they had to put Twilight to sleep" thought the princess. As for Zecora and the princess's earlier conversation, the black dragon encircling her cutie mark seemed to prove Zecora's theory beyond a doubt.  Twilight woke up two hours later to the frightened and curious eyes of Zecora and her teacher. When Twilight got up from the bed to bow to the princess, she almost faceplanted into the floor until Princess Celestia caught her with her magic. She scolded Twilight in a gentle tone for trying to get up so soon. The princess understood why she did it which was why she reacted the way she did.