Terror in Equestria 9: Return of Tambelon

After LaurFa and White Magick had discussed his concerns and reasoning as to why each nation should have a strong military, they knew that things they had wanted to keep hidden from the ponies of the modern world would have to be revealed.

When White Magick and LaurFa returned to the dining hall they saw that everypony was having a lighthearted, casual discussion but they went quiet when White Magick said, "May we have your attention please?"

Everypony went quiet as White Magick continued, "Alright, as you all know three days ago we had not only Princess Twilight Sparkle returned to us, but also King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis were cleansed of their evils but I do have my concerns that all that negative energy that was released may have a negative consequence."

Everypony gasped in concern but it was Twilight who seemed the most concerned as she was one of those who were cleansed of evil. She asked, "What is it? What do you think might happen?"

Given that more ponies knew her and would be more likely to believe her, LaurFa decided to answer those questions, "Alright, what White Magick is going to tell you may not sound all that believable to you but trust me, what he is going to say is the truth." She pointed her hoof at White Magick and continued, "The floor is yours."

White Magick stepped forward and began, "As many of you have probably been taught in your lives, before the founding of Equestria and the dark times that preceded it, there was this land known as Ponyland and it had quite a few dark evils that plagued it, perhaps among the darkest evils of all time."

Everypony with the exception of Galaxia and Cosmos began to snicker a bit, particularly Scootaloo. She laughed, "Come on, everypony knows that is all a myth and those evils are just fairy tales meant to scare."

LaurFa gave her an intense glare as White Magick replied, "Actually no Scootaloo, everything that is in those mythology books here in Equestria are very real."

Most everypony gasped, "Seriously, they're real?"

Celestia chimed in, "But how would you know?"

White Magick replied, "Because I was here. I along with my wife were involved in the battles between the ponies of that time against Lord Grogar of Tambelon." He took a breath and continued, "Thankfully the ponies of Dream Valley had Megan Williams on their side to ring the ancient bell and send Grogar, his minions and the city of Tambelon back into the deepest, darkest places of the world."

The only two ponies besides LaurFa who knew anything about this were Queen Galaxia and King Cosmos. Galaxia asked, "Alright, we know about that but you mentioned you had concerns about all the negative energy released during the cleansings having a negative consequence. What is this negative consequence that you speak of?"

White Magick replied, "Here is the thing, I'm not sure if this will actually happen but I do have my concerns about what all that negative energy may do. I have my concerns that it may cause Tambelon, Grogar and all of his minions to return."

Like Ponyland and Dream Valley, most of the ponies in the room had been taught that Grogar was a myth. Out of all the ponies though, Twilight seemed to be the most curious. She asked, "What would a return by Grogar mean for Equestria and this whole planet?"

White Magick could tell just by the way Twilight was acting that she was wanting to find out in a way that would be more than just his words alone. He suggested, "What would all of you think about joining me as I return to my realm. I have what is likely the most extensive library on the planet and you could learn a lot more there than simply from what I tell you."

Despite him already having told her about his library back home Twilight was the first to enthusiastically agree to go with him. The other leaders, were a bit more apprehensive. Galaxia and Cosmos really wanted to return to Saddle Arabia, Luna wanted to resume her old duties in the Equine Empire, Celestia was in a hurry to get Canterlot repopulated and restored and given that LaurFa knew quite a bit about the past she wanted to return to Alicorn Island. Blue Star already knew everything there was to know and Scootaloo wanted to hurry up and get herself established in the Crystal Empire. After hearing each leader's explanation for wanting to head to their new lands he said, "Alright Princess Twilight, I guess you will be joining me alone."

Twilight developed a mile wide smile on her face and asked, "So when do you think we should get going?"

White Magick replied, "Soon but like I have said, I need to duplicate dark Alicorn and changeling soldiers, give the leaders the proper spells so they can duplicate them. After all, if they are to build proper sized armies they will need them."

Given that everypony would be a great distance apart if any ancient evils were to arise, one pony began to wonder how they would notify one another. Galaxia asked, "White Magick, let's say one of those ancient evils were to return, how would we be able to notify one another if our worst nightmare was to come true?"

This was something that White Magick was unsure of but one pony did speak up, Scootaloo. Scootaloo asked, "Supreme Commander Colgate! We could always try to get in touch with her!"

White Magick didn't know much about Colgate except that she used to be a leader so he asked, "Why this Colgate pony?"

Scootaloo replied, "She is a time lady! In the days of old she could travel the world, pick up other leaders and get back to Ponyville in just minutes!"

Before anypony else could say anything LaurFa suggested, "I remember how she would do that but I don't know exactly how we'd do it but perhaps if it came down to that, I might be able to contact them."

White Magick asked, "And how would you be able do to that?"

LaurFa replied, "I could try flashing my horn skywards and hope that the right energy would reach my sister since she can teleport from world to world."

Luna added, "And hope that she brings Colgate with her?"

Many of the ponies present were pretty sure that it would work but two were more skeptical, White Magick and Blue Star. Blue Star asked, "Are you sure that simply flashing your horn would do the trick?"

White Magick added, "You know, instead of waiting until everything is going downhill to contact her, I want to see if this works now. I won't believe it unless I see it with my own eyes."

LaurFa replied, "Well I suppose I could try it. It would be better to do it while everything is peaceful."

LaurFa headed towards the exit and was followed by everypony. Most everypony was confident that she could do it save two, White Magick and Blue Star. They hoped that she would be able to but believed that the time Brevity along with the others returned was solely because of a sudden, one time burst of her energy being released.

Once they got outside LaurFa pointed her horn roughly in the direction that she believed the planet Brevity and Colgate had gone to and began flashing her horn rather quickly as though she were trying to send a message. Even though she didn't have complete confidence in herself, she could only hope that it would work.