Taylor, Luna and Celestia were enjoying their time together on the royal gardens, laughing and smiling as they caught up together and just enjoyed the time they were spending with one another. Taylor's mind was clear. He had finally been accepted into a world where he had friends, and a lover and apparently future wife. He was as happy as can be. He would reach into his cloak and pulls out two boxes. One was a bright yellow with orange ribbon, the other dark blue with black ribbon. Both sisters stared at him with shocked faces and then big smiles

"Happy Hearth's Warming to you both. You two and all my other friends have been nothing but kind to me. And I want to thank you especially Lulu. You have made me the happiest I have ever been with your love and affection for me. And I want you to know...I love you so very much Lulu...with all of my heart."

Luna looked at him with tears in her eyes, she sat the box on the table they were at and leaped into his arms and kissed him happily, he would wrap his arms around her lovingly and returns the kiss. Celestia could only smile at how happy her little sister had become, and she had this man to thank for it. After they broke from their kiss, Celestia spoke up

"And I want to thank you , Taylor. Because of you we are now ready to face a threat that we hardly had time to prepare for back then. And I want you to know. That I consider you part of our family as much as Luna does."

Taylor would smile again and nods, looking to the boxes then to them.

"Well go on, open them. I made them myself. Its all I really know how to make. but I put a lot of work into them."

As they unwrapped their gifts, they would smile at what was inside. It was a mask just for them, Celestia's was a white mask with the sun on the top of the forehead part, and orange and yellow tribal markings down the front. And Luna's was a dark blue mask, that had the cresent moon on the forehead, with the night stars all decorated along them mask, and black tribal markings as well. And even better, it had holes that perfectly fit their horns. They looked at Taylor with big smiles, running over to each side of him and wrapping him in their forearms, nuzzling into him lovingly

"They are wonderful Taylor, such excellent craftsmanship.."

"Yes Taylor...I will treasure this gift all my life...thank you so much my love."

They would hug him a little longer, until a noise from below in the city caught there attention. It sounded like...screams and explosion. Taylor quickly stood up and ran to the edge of the garden, seeing that all to familiar mixture of colors in the magic that was destroying everything int it's path.

"Tia, Lulu, gather the guards....he is here...and of all days today..."

Taylor said as a shiver went up his spine, he then noticed that Cadence have arrived just before the attack, she knew exactly what was going on, and so did Twilight, who had also brought her friends along as well. They spoke for awhile, telling them that Tirek had already gone through Ponyville and had taken everypony's magic again,he he was on his way here to come and kill off the princesses. This was the moment Taylor had been dreading. His mind was racing and his heart was pounding. He looked to the group of ponies and nodded.

Girls, get to the throne room, he will be heading there to confront you all. Hopefully the guard can at least bang him up a bit before he find us. But I promise to you all. I will protect you, or die trying."

Taylor turns and walks to the castle, he returns to his room and grabs his leather armor and puts it on, sliding on his coat and cloak, making his way down the stairs and into the throne room where they were all waiting for him. He looked to Twilight and her friends

"If you all can stop him somehow.I will not step in. But the moment things get bad. I will be unleashing my power on that monster."

And right on cue, the large doors explode with great force, Taylor would form an electric shield around him and in front of the others to protect them from the debris. He would take this time to vanish into his smoke form and trail off into hiding, watching from the shadowy corners of the ceiling of the throne room. As Tirek made his way in, he would smile darkly and chuckle

"Wemeet again princesses, at least. And we even have the elements of harmony to add to my collection once more. And this time. I am going to make sure...you will never get it back again"

Celestia stepped forth and glared at Tirek, her eyes fixated on him with rage

"You dare to come here and harm my subjects again? And then you have the nerve to come and threaten to claimthe lives of the rulers once more? You didn't succeed last time Tirek. You won't now."

"That's right, we will stop you here and now Tirek!"

Shouted Twilight and her friends, they would change into the formed they had used when they sent him back to Tartarus. and using the same spell to do it again. But something was wrong...he was..absorbing the spell, absorbing their magic through it!. They were quickly depleted of their magic, Tirek wouldlet out a loud roar as the magic from between his horns charged up and fired at the weakened ponies, tossing them against the walls with such great force, Taylor heard the bones crack and saw blood coming from their ears, eyes and mouths

"I have grown strong over the two years I was imprisoned. I am immune to your 'magic of friendship' now Twilight Sparkle. And now. I will be claiming what rightfully belongs to me. He said looking at the battered princesses that were also hurt badly from the raw power. But just as he was approaching them, A black smoke fell directly in his path, a bipedal form became visible from it, lightning surrounding the creature's body.

"Sorry Tirek, but you will not be getting anything else from these ponies today. Nor will you ever."

Tirek looked at Taylor, a bit thrown off at his appearance but would let off a loud laugh.

"And what can you do about it? You are just a simple creature. You may look tough dressed in black and have a bit of spark going, but that doesn't mean-"

He was cut short by a suddenly impact the his gut and the feeling of being shocked by a thousand lightning bolts surging through his body, the beast let out a scream of pain as the magic Taylor had seemed to make contact with it's target, causing Tirek to stumble back in pain and glare at Taylor.

"Y-you will pay for that you welp.....I am going to kill you slowly for that. But first, I will force you to watch me kill of these two when I have you laying on the ground with broken bones...."

Taylor didn't say anything after that, he charged forth and began attacking Tirek with all he had, they clashed fists, lightning with spells. They were tearing up the throne room with their impacts, Tirek would make attempts at the hurt and weakened ponies, but Taylor would block them fromthe attacks, getting hurt in the process, but he still kept on going.

By this time,he was beaten, bloody and very hurt. Tirek would chuckle darkly and land another hit directly into Taylor, he would fly back into the wall and hit it hard, blood coming from his mouth as he let out a scream of pain. He would fall to the ground and a motionless heap, his eyes wide but his body not moving. Luna saw this from her downed position and would widen her eyes in horror. He was bleeding severely and not moving. He couldn't be..no that wouldn't happen! She wasn't going to lose the love of her her life to this monster. She would scream and call out to him.

"Taylor, Taylor get up! You promised me! You said you would protect us...all of us! You can't be dead! Please get up-"

She was cutoff by large red hands clasping around her throat and beginning to strangle her. she would hit at Tirek's hands as he smiled evilly. She was choking and gasping for air as she looked at Taylor's...wait, his body was rising from the floor. and it was surrounded by black lightning now. She would reach out to him as tears began to stream down her face

"Taylor...don't let it take....control.."

Tirek would turn to see what was happening, he dropped Luna like a rag doll and chuckled at the sight before him

"So you aren't done yet are you? Good, I will make sure that you are done for this time."

Tirek stepped forward to confront Taylor, but stopped as he would see something was off. The black lightning was starting to whip around all over the place, the man's eyes glowed a dark blue and black smoke came from the sides...

(Epic combat music for those that want it)

"You dare to lay a hand on the one I love? You will pay the consequences.."

Suddenly there was a massive explosion of dark magic and black lightning swirling around Taylor. his cloak and coat flowing behind him violently as he would let out aloud scream. His hatred and raged had been released from deep within his heart. And Tirek, being the poor unfortunate fool to have even touched Luna was about to get what was coming to him. Taylor's face was now visible as his hood fell from his head.His teeth bared and his eyes in the most hateful and evil glare one had the misfortune of being directed at. Tirek began to back away a bit at the power coming from this man.

"I can still kill you!"

He exclaimed as he would start throwing as much magic at the man as he could, black crystal would appear in front of Taylor and fall apart as they were hit, but not one bit of magic made it to him. Taylor would suddenly vanish, reappearing in front of Tirek, slamming his foot intothe ground as making black crystals penetrate his legs and arms, making them branch out further into his flesh. Tirek would let out a cry of pain as he would try to pull himself free, but was only hurting himself more in the process.Taylor continued to glare at the centaur beast. And for the first time, he would show fear of another being.

"A-alright...I surrender I will give everpony back their magic I promi-"

He let out another scream of pain as Taylor began to shove more sharp crystals into Tirek's body his eyes coldly fixated on the screaming beast. Taylor would suddenly slam his fist into the ground and sent black lightning to the crystal and began to tear apart Tirek from the inside. He chuckled darkly as he watched him suffer.

"You had your chance Tirek. You should have stayed away went you had the chance. but Me and this young man will be watching you suffer for all the pain you have caused his friends. And I will enjoy watching from his eyes."

With that, Taylor would leap up onto Tirek's head and lands between his horns, wrapping his hands around them and begins to pull at them with all his might, a loud sickening crack was heard as he had removed them from Tireks skull, a gush of blood coming from the holes that were left there, Tirek was in absolute pain, between the crystal tearing at his flesh and the lightning still coursing through his body and now his horns had been ripped from his head. He was screaming and struggling. And this was making Taylor smile very wickedly. Taylor snapped his fingers as the crystals expanded, eventually severing Tirek's limbs from his body and falling to the floor, Taylor would approach the now immobile beast and leaps on top of him, grabbing a near by piece of sharp crystal and holding it threateningly over Tirek.

"Please....I don't want to die...Please-"

He was cut off by the crystal being plunged into his chest, Taylor letting out a dark laugh as he did it over and over again

"Die...die...die..DIE..DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!"

"Taylor That's enough!'

Taylor would stop as he heard Luna scream at him, tears in her eyes at what he had become and what he was doing

"It is done Taylor...please...just stop....I beg of you my love...I don't like this side of you. Please come back to me...."

Taylor would jump off Tirek's now lifeless body, slowly making his way over to Luna. She began to back away from him as she could still see that evil glare in his eyes. He would stop mere inches away from her, he raised that bloody piece of crystal up over her threateningly,Luna closed her eyes, fearing the worst.He was far too gone now...her love was lost in the realm of darkness and hatred. She opened her eyes once she heard something land away from them. She looked up to see those eyes she knew, a weak smile coming across his face and alight chuckle

"Lulu.... I told you I would...be able to..."

Taylor would suddenly collapse to his knees, falling in front of her and smiled weakly to her again

"Keep you safe."

As he said that, blood came up from his mouth, he soon lost consciousness and became motionless. Luna began to try and lightly push at him

"Taylor..Taylor! Somepony please help him! He is going to die! ANYPONY!"

Was all he heard before he lost full consciousness.

Author's Note

And vwala, another chapter done. What's that?No this isn't the end of the story silly. It is far from over.

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