A month had gone by since they had arrived in the Appleooson Saloon, Shu was working the bar far better the previous tender as Rose had taken a Liking to Dawn and the same from her Dawn stayed with Rose and acted as a bit of a fortune teller for the town. The snow had continued to fall to a point but the cold had not let up, a train had arrived as the mail carrier did their deliveries soon dropping off a decree in the saloon

"Hey Rose there's something here" Fairy spoke as she picked it up then walked over to her.

Rose walked over reading out loud, "BY DECREE OF THE PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP AND HER STUDENT, A TEMPORARY SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE WEATHER IS BEING WORKED ON WITH HELP OF THE LEADERS OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE, A MAGICAL BARRIER CRYSTAL IS BEING MADE TO BE PLACED IN EACH CLOCK TOWER IN EVERY TOWN IN EQUESTRIA.

"Princess?" she questioned as she looked to Shu confused about it as she was currently showing somewhat of a belly.

"That’s who the guards were that came looking for you were from, Princess Twilight, your mother’s best student."

"Uh mother didn't have a student other than me and she was also more focused on getting knocked up again after sister got married"

"She did though," he spoke, "about a year ago she left to Ponyville to deal with the nightmare moon return incident."

"I’m so confused" she spoke as she placed her hand to her head as she nearly falls

One of the other workers caught her and put her in a chair to relax.

"Thanks, another secret mother hid from me or is she that ashamed”

"She hid it due to past dealings with students."

"Though why make her a princess when she has a successor born by her"

Dawn sighed, "She didn't make her a princess, and Twilight completed one of my teacher’s old spells that transformed her into an alicorn, revealing her true destiny."

Nodded understanding it, while getting up to move to hug Shu as she needed comfort

He stood there wrapping an arm around her

"I feel so ...." she spoke as she was confused and felt alone

"There are secrets everyone keeps" he spoke

Nods into his chest as she started to cry at how much her mother had betrayed her

Dawn sighed again, "WE ALL HAVE SECRETS, And YOU HAVE ONE."

Eyes went wide as her pupils then turned into slits, "How dare you?" she snapped as she moved away from Shu

Dawn smirked as she stood up, "try me"

Growled as her magic formed two swords to her hands as she then started to move closer to her

Dawn held her hand down as she grabbed a card shifting into a traditional seers outfit as she held the card up the weight of the swords starting to get to great for her to hold them

Stopped in her tracks as she looked to her as a smirk formed on her lips before teleporting while her teeth changed to fangs and her eyes glowed

The massive dark sword slammed into the ground between them as Shuyin looked at her in his dark armor

Blinked in surprise as she had shown up behind Dawn before the sword appeared

He looked at her the red glow under his helm

Soon her eyes returned to normal as she stood there before falling to her knees in disbelief

He stood there still before lifting the sword as his armor and the damage vanished

"What did she do?" she asked

"Tried to attack Dawn"

"I've never lost control of her" she spoke as she was scared of herself

"Because of what I said" Dawn spoke

"The hell is going on Eclipse, you and i have always been in sync why now?" she asked

"CAUSE THAT BITCH THINKS SHE KNOWS EVERYTHING!"

"What did i tell you back in Canterlot?" she spoke as she seemed to be talking to herself on the outside

"You didn't, i will kill this bitch"

"No you won't Eclipse, she is family and we do not strike down family" she spoke as she managed to look to Shu to have him ready to help

He looked at her as the red glow fainted in his eyes showing he would kill her

"Eclipse, stand down and relax" she spoke as she rested a hand on his cheek, "I know your hatred but the past is the past and you are now a part of me"

“I WILL FUCKING, KILL HER KIND!"

"If you don't stop i will force us both to sleep like my mother did with Daybreaker"

"And risk killing your baby and breaking his heart?" she asked knowing well she wouldn't

"Try me, i see why mother did it to herself" she spoke as she then uttered the words "Sleep Eclipse"

Eclipse laughed as it didn't work, "You can't put your own to sleep someone else has to do it for you."

"You are not going to be another uncontrolled episode like Nightmare once was" she spoke as she then used a hand to have Shu signal her aunt.

He twitched tensing up as Dawn looked at eclipse, "No; Let us fight it out, i wish to know WHY she has this hatred for a race she knows nothing of." she spoke as she stepped out into the snow

"Dawn, i can't let him do that to a blind mare" she spoke in a strained voice as it was taking all of her to keep him trapped

"Let him, i’m not as weak as you think i am"

"The offspring in my womb" she spoke as she started to lose her grip

“Will be safe I already put a spell on it to protect it."

Nodded as she then let Eclipse take control over her as his armor covered her body while his swords appeared once more, "You are so dead" he spoke

She was already outside and back in the white robe standing there as she held the staff at the ready

"Your kind did the worst crime to us" he spoke as he held the swords at the ready.

"What existing?" she asked as she stood there, "Being nomadic and not listening to the forceful rule and tyranny of your kind?"

"No, your brother did something to provoke it all" he spoke as he proceeded to walk closer

She tensed a bit, "MY BROTHER DID NOTHING BUT PROTECT OUR CAMP WHEN YOUR FAMILY SHOWED UP!" she snapped as the wind around Eclipse started to become severe and sharp cutting into parts that the armor didn't cover

"He defiled my youngest daughter Luna" he spoke aggressively as he put forth a shield as he continued to walk closer

"HOW HE STAYED BY MY SIDE EVERY DAY!" she snapped as the wind grew sharper and sharper starting to cut the armor and shield.

"Then who was it if not your brother?" he asked as he started to realize his own blindness

She screamed at the top of her lungs in anger as blood was running from the bandages, as her staff started to glow brightly, "ITS BECAUSE OF YOU THAT HE IS GONE THAT HE IS DEAD!"

"I'm sorry" he spoke softly as he moved to one knee as he started to realize that it was the doings of someone else that caused him to be rid of the nomads

She screamed out till blood ran from her mouth as she held the staff up the light growing larger as she used the forbidden spell of the white stone, Holy.

"Dawn, i am sorry" he spoke as he let down his armor for her to see his face, "Please forgive me"

The orb of light left her staff floating a bit above her, just as it was about to explode, a dark orb surrounded Eclipse preventing most of the damage from it as Shuyin stood there his fist in dawns gut knocking her out as he was hit full force with it, burning most of his back

Eclipse withdrew back into Fairy as he let her take back the reins of their shared body

He was there on the ground Dawn under him his armor broken as his back was burned by the holy fires

"Shu!" she screamed as she then ran towards him.

He stood up shaking a bit as the burns started to close and heal up as there was a faint green glow around him, from Dawn’s staff

"Is he ok?" she asked worried as tears ran down her cheeks.

"I'm fine" he spoke as he stood up fully now

Moved to hug him deeply, "I'm sorry Shu"

"For what, they needed to work it out or it would have gotten worse."

Looked back over her shoulder to Dawn; "You ok?"

She laid there coughing up blood as she had damaged her throat

"Shu she needs something to full heal her" she spoke as she sniffled a little

He shrugged, "I can't do anything she is the only one who can heal herself if she chooses to.”

Nodded as she then stayed embraced with him

"Go on back inside I will bring her in" he spoke

"Of course" she spoke as she headed in while then seating herself at the bar before feeling Rose looking at her

Rose looked confused, "Did y’all get that settled?"

Nodded as she rested her head on the counter

"Sug, did something bad happen that you are not willin to talk about, or is your secret gettin to ya?"

"It's that i let him take over so easily and i feel ashamed of it"

"Well did they work out their issues?"

"I think so; i passed out in the midst"

"Then there shouldn't be any more problems" she spoke as it was taking a while for them to come in

"Do i deserve to be punished for starting it?" she asked

"No, it is good it came to a head now rather than later when your children are around."

"Does Shu seem interested in me even if i'm bearing for another?" she asked

"Idk; would he have protected you?"

"I don't know if he had"

He came in carrying Dawn as he was silent carrying her up to the room she shared with rose

"She can heal herself, just she's taking her time to do so" she spoke as she was glad the bar was empty

He came down silent still as he sat behind the bar closing his eyes

"Shu, are you happy with me?" she asked nervously

He sat there looking at her as he slammed the three stones on the bar for her, the ones dawn had used

Winced as she had a feeling he was mad at her

"She gave them up, refuses to heal herself" he spoke, "Says it's her punishment for what she did."

"She's not at fault, she is fine"

"She tried to use that spell to burn your body from existence for what happened."

"I forgive her, the dispute is settled" she spoke calmly

"She doesn't" he spoke as he looked at her, "And i know you have the box with the remaining stones."

"I wasn't planning to use them" she admitted

"Then why do you have them?"

"Luna gave them to me before i came back to you"

He tensed up shattering a glass in his hand

"She wanted them under my protection but my alter is unhinged a little"

He stood there bleeding glass in his hand as he looked at her knowing what would happen

"What should we do with them?" she asked as she was confused

He stood up fully, "I am taking them and leaving"

"Shu, no" she spoke as she looked to him

“I’m not putting you all in danger."

"Nor am i going to let the stallion of my dreams just throw his life away"

He groaned and slammed his fist on the bar, "YOU ARE JUST AS FUCKING STUBBORN AS THAT WHORE MOTHER OF YOURS!"

"No my stubbornness did not come from her, but the very stallion you slayed"

Those words broke him as he went silent he slammed the three stones he carried down and started to walk out

"Shu, wait" she called to him as she tried to follow

He just kept walking out into the snow

"Shu, I'm coming with you like it or not" she spoke as she walked with him

"NO YOU STAY HERE AND TAKE CARE OF THE OTHERS!" he snapped at her as he looked pain and hatred in his eyes

"Try me Shu, I’ve had it with you treating me like i'm nothing" she spoke as she looked him in the eye to show the love and compassion that she held for him

"I AM TIRED OF YOU REMINDING ME OF MY FUCKING FAILED JOB!!!" he yelled at her

"Then let us do it together" she spoke as she was no longer the innocent mare her mother raised

"NO YOU DO NOTHING BUT KEEP REMINDING ME THAT I FUCKING FAILED YOUR MOTHERS MAIN FUCKING ORDER, THAT I AM A FUCKING WORTHLESS FAILURE!"

"Wait she ordered you to do what?" she spoke

"TO DESTROY HIS DARKNESS AND BRING HIM BACK!"

"Then let me help, i am just as strong and if need be i'll protect you" she spoke as she rested a hand on his chest, "I am not going to leave your side ever"

He growled in rage, "Just GO AWAY!"

"Bring it Shu, i'll put my life on the line for you" she spoke like her mother would in the same situation for Sombra

He glared at her

"You are not going to intimidate me"

He glared harder as he clenched his fist

"You really wanna hit me?" she asked giving him a blank stare before walking past him then used her magic to equip Eclipse's armor

he turned and faced her, "Fine that’s how you want it to be you delusional whore," he spoke as he closed his eyes a different type of armor appearing on his body, one meant for one of her father’s guard

"You can either fight and kill me or join me in finishing your task" she spoke as she continued to walk through the snow while ignoring his words

"MY TASK FAILED THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF HIM EXCEPT THE DARKNESS HE SPREAD ACROSS THIS LAND!" He snapped as he stood there, "AND YOU ARE AS FUCKING STUPID AS YOUR MOTHER IN BELIEVING THAT OLD MARES TALE OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, IT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST!!"

Continued to walk as she ignored him as she believed that there was some part of her father left to bring him back from even if she had to do it on her own

"IF IT FUCKING EXISTED I WOULDN'T BE HERE ALONE WITHOUT MY FAMILY!!!" he snapped before dropping to the ground

"There honestly is, it's taken some thought in my memories but i do recall him speaking of a chamber in the crystal empire that i would find him in even after his death" she spoke as she stopped then continued "He wanted me to know this in case i got old enough to understand that he knew he was to die"

He was there on the ground, "They would be alive if that shit was real."

"There is still a chance to bring him back, if possible even your family" she spoke as she turned to kneel in front of him

"No there isn't" he spoke, "They are gone fully he had his troops shatter them."

Nodded as she placed her head against his, "I believe in my father's words, now come on" she spoke calmly and compassionately

“What of Dawn and Strongheart?"

"They will be safer away from us" she spoke as she seemed more mature and thought like he would.

He sighed and nodded as he got up

"You see why i believe you and i are to be one?" she spoke as she offered him a hand up.

He stood up as he started to walk

Shrugged as she walked along with him confidently

He sighed as they started the long walk

"Shu, i'm sorry if i've been a bitch to you lately" she spoke as she looked over to him while they walked.

He was silent, "why do you believe such a lie as love."

"Because my parents were the very example of it until darkness corrupted my father"

"If it weren't for that cursed thing, they wouldn't have died."

"When father and mother banished Luna to the moon all of those years ago he must have been inflicted by nightmare's darkness"

"No. his darkness came from a hatred for Dawn’s kind"

"What would my father have against her kind? Eclipse isn't my father"

"Because he wanted what they had."

"The stones?" she asked

"No. the crystal horns that the females get implanted in their heads after birth."

"He wanted to become immortal for mother and i"

"No. they don't have immortality." he spoke, "The crystals allow one to harness the powers of gods."

"But why, did he see it as a threat to us?" she asked

"The darkness did."

"So my father was an unwilling victim of it"

"No. the darkness was how he won his war."

"I understand; if there is a way to bring my father out from it then what will happen to you and i?"

"You will have your family back and you can go back to being happy," he spoke, "I will just fade away from your memories."

"I want you and your child to be in me" she spoke as she looked to him.

"Your family will not allow that, in fact they may try to kill me for what i did to you"

'Then i will defend you whatever the cost"

"You won't. Your love for your father is more than it is for me."

"I'm sure he will see reason in not wanting you killed, mother would be the only one to want you dead since Luna would be on our side"

He tensed up hearing that name again

"Sorry, is there a different name i can call her in front of you?"

"No" he spoke

Nodded as she continued on with him, "But with her and father on our side of it mother would give in"

"I doubt she will be on our side."

"I'm sure she will, after all she was the one who went ahead and talked to Rose about us"

"Still" he spoke

"We can trust her, i trust you with my life don't i"

"You can i refuse to."

"Mind telling me? It is a long walk to where we're headed"

"No." he spoke

"Shu, for me to trust you let alone Eclipse too we need to know"

"NO!" he snapped as he glared at her

"Alright, Eclipse i'll back off it"

He was tensed and enraged now

"I'm sorry Shu" she spoke as she blushed

He continued to walk again

"Want to know anything about me?" she asked

He sighed, "I already do."

"Since when, most i've told you was back in Ponyville"

"I have known who you are longer then you know."

"Then is my mother and father's relationship true to what they said to me"

"What do you mean?" he asked

"They told me that they had fallen in love when he was merely her apprentice, the first to be honest"

"Yeah, I don't know that much."

"Then how much do you know?"

"Only what i can remember from working under him."

"What was he like; i never got to know him after i was five"

"Rough."

"Ugh?" she went silent

"What?" he asked

"I mean in the time that you knew him as a stallion, not sexually"

"I am referring to that," he spoke, "He was rough on all his soldiers, we were not allowed anything."

"Ah, mother did say he was a hardass when it came to combat related stuff"

"We were not even allowed to be near a mare of any kind."

Nodded as she listened, "Even though he and mother consistently fucked"

"Yeah he wanted none of us to know love."

"Well i can change that if you let me be that mare for you" she spoke shyly

"I have made that mistake twice." he spoke

"Shu, i'm not ever going away, nor will i perish before your eyes"

“That was only one love”

"Shu, just listen ok; give me a chance and i will show you that i am yours"

"I REFUSE TO DATE ANYONE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AGAIN ESPECIALLY AFTER WHAT HAPPENED WITH LUNA!" he snapped in tears now fully pissed as he turned away quickly and went silent stopping in his tracks

“I am no longer a royal remember, i went before my mother and told her how i felt and that i wanted nothing to do with her cowardice"

He stood there silent, "Now, you know why i hate her name." he spoke, "and you still call her your aunt and cadance your cousin. As long as you still hold them as family you are a royal."

"Yes but i can never be that in which i do not believe i belong" she spoke as she then followed, "I may be a royal but that is not my destiny to be one not if i don't get a choice in my life that i can call my own"

"You have no say in your own destiny, it’s all predetermined before we are created" he spoke before going silent as he stood there a bit before starting to walk off again

"Shu, father once told me that we can shape our own destiny. He foresaw something in me that would change it forever"

He just stayed silent as he walked, knowing he had no destiny or future.

"You were the one he saw me with in a vision, with me baring your child a child of royal descent but not held to the bloodline

He remained silent as he continued to walk

"Shu, what happened back then; back when you and Luna first consummated your love it was not your fault, it was my grandfather's blindness to see that his daughter fell in love with a soldier and not a simple nomad prince"

He twitched, "How would you know, do you know how your parents would act knowing i raped you?"

"Yes i understand, but they will listen to reason before judging someone"

"They didn't with Luna; even your mother hated me fully"

"Then we'll just need to get one of my parents back to life"

"Your father remembers what i said his soldiers were never allowed to love, and he will remember me, after what i did."

"That was the darkness, not him"

"Just Dawns, if there is anything left to revive."

"Remember what i said about that chamber"

"Yeah." he spoke sighing as they kept going, "If we continue on foot it’s gonna take over 3 months to get there."

"Any ideas of how to speed that up?" she asked before wincing slightly

"No" he spoke as he noticed, "What is wrong?"

"Just some pain in my belly is all" she spoke as one of the calves moved

He sighed, "Why did you want to take this trip knowing you were carrying, you are risking killing off the calves."

"Honestly, to bond with you over something we could accomplish together"

"And with how bad this weather is, you are going to cause their death the moment they come out.”

"They’re not due until later this year, unless you prefer we go to Canterlot first to revive mother?"

"We can't only Dawn can revive her, and she is too injured to be moved from Appleloosa, and we are three days from there right now."

"Then let's head back, we can worry about my father when we get mother back on her feet but we need Dawn"

He nodded as he turned around starting to follow their hoof prints back

"Good thing we agreed on something" she smiled over to him

He nodded as they made their way back, as there were two new beings in town messing with the bell tower

"Must be Twilight right?" she asked

He nodded, "As well as her student and lover Starlight."

"Is Starlight pregnant?" she asked as she noticed one of them with a belly

"Yeah" he spoke, "She was the last customer i had on a regular basis until twilight learned that spell."

"Which one is that again?" she asked

He pointed to the alicorn that was working on setting the large red crystal

"That one makes a normal mare become a cross gender?"

"Not cross gender," he spoke, "It’s a spell that allows a normal mare to become both male and female at the same time,"

he spoke, "There are quite a few that are born naturally in the world but they hide it."

"Oh, thanks. So Starlight was a breeding customer?"

"No no" he spoke, "Twilight is the one who impregnated her."

"Sorry, when you said last customer i thought you and her you know" she teased

"No, she would come by regularly for a double shot of whiskey, and a few simple smiles"

"Shu?"

"What?" he asked as the crystal took effect, a barrier shoving all the snow out of town and making a bubble around it keeping the snow out

"Once these are born, would you like to be the next one to impregnate me?"

He sighed and looked down, "I do not know yet."

"I'm just asking and not insisting" she spoke as she headed to the bar to probably be bitched at by Rose.

There was no sign of Rose or anyone as the bar seemed empty and quiet

"Ok, that's odd. She doesn't leave it unlocked when we're closed"

There was silence as Strongheart came down looking at her

"What's going on?" she asked

"Oh we are closed for the day; Miss Rose and Dawn are up in their room."

"Oh, well we need to talk to Dawn"

"Good luck" she spoke sighing as she went into the kitchen

Blinked at that then looked to Shu.

He looked confused as he went to follow Strongheart

Shrugged then followed him as she decided best to leave well alone.

"You go check on them" he spoke

"Alright" she spoke as she kissed his cheek before heading upstairs.

As she walked she could her faint noises

"What the?" she thought as she then came to their bedroom door which was cracked open.

There were moans and screams coming from the room

Gently eased the door open enough to get a view, while being curious

Rose was pounding Dawn’s marehood as dawn laid on her back panting and moaning

"Oh my...." she spoke up by accident as she started to feel her own marehood throb.

She continued to plow Dawn hard and fast

Watched on as she then accidentally fell forward into the bedroom with her panties around her ankles

Rose looked over at her blinking as Dawn yelped and whimpered trying to cover up

"I'm Sorry you two, but um is there anyway i can make it up as punishment"

They looked at each other than to fairy as they sighed, "How is your pregnancy going?" Rose asked

"Going well as you can see" she spoke as she sat up to then show them her belly

Dawn looked her horn glowing softly, "No...We cannot do anything with you until 3 days from now."

"Please lemme serve you two" she begged as she looked to them.

Dawn shook her head, "You need to get to your room and have Strongheart get things prepared."

"No, it's common courtesy to be punished for intruding" she spoke as her marehood was soaking wet

"No" Dawn spoke, "You’re leaving a puddle on the floor, you are going into labor."

Blushed then nodded as she then got up to rush to her room before calling for Strongheart.

Strongheart jumped up from her bed as she started to gather as Dawn and Rose came as well, to help out

Breathed heavily as she spread her legs out of instinct

They came in going to work as no one went to inform Shu

"I'm sorry for being a bad girl Dawn" she whimpered as it hurt

She sighed, "Do not worry about it," she spoke, "Now you know the dark secret," she spoke as her horn was glowing the entire time

Nodded as she whinnied and cried out in pain while pushing the foal out

Rose finally left to get Shuyin, as Dawn continued to help with the birthing

"Fucking shit this hurts" she cried out as she worked to relax while pressing the foal out.

Shu came bursting into the room as Dawn was helping pull the small foal free

Whimpered and whinnied as she felt it leaving her body.

Dawn pulled it out wrapping it and cleaning it as fast as she could before handing it to Fairy

Panted and smiled to the sight of the foal as she still had a shirt and bra on breasts.

"You need to strip down so it can feed" dawn spoke

Nodded as she worked to get her shirt off then her bra as her breasts then came into view for them all

They all watched as the little one latched on and started to feed

"He looks like a normal pegasi though" she spoke weakly

"That’s a good thing...he won't stick out."

"Yes but wasn't he supposed to be buffalo?" she asked

"He is a half-breed remember"

Nodded as she then looked over to Shu, "So am i still desired by you?" she asked

He nodded sitting down as he sighed looking at Strongheart wondering why she wasn't going into labor yet

"I'm not due till next month" she spoke

He nodded as he sat there looking at Fairy

"What is it?" she spoke as she looked worried.

"You two should have given birth at the same time."

"Buffalos have a longer gestation period" she spoke

He sighed knowing she didn't remember their talk

"Um your wrong Fairy" she spoke as her legs and panties were now soaked with water, "It just broke"

He looked as Dawn moved and started to help

Lay back onto her own bed as she panted heavily and winced as her labor started.

Dawn started working hard and quickly

Breathed normally but looked to Shu to be at her side since it was his.

He looked at Fairy kissing her forehead before going to care for Strongheart

Fairy smiled as she sat back and watched her giving birth and Shu being a good stallion.

He did everything told of him by Dawn

Strongheart panted and pushed as directed by Dawn.

Dawn finally pulled the child out as she was in shock

"What's wrong?"

"It’s not normal."

"Shu, what did we do?" she asked

He looked as he gasped it showing that he wasn't a normal pony as what had been born was chimeric in nature

"So i am truly the last of my kind now" Strongheart spoke

"No i-it...has your DNA, the buffalo DNA, but it’s mixed with my monstrous."

"What do we do then?" she asked panicked

"It is your child, but it does not look like normal." dawn spoke showing it looked like a mix of Draconaqis and Chimera

Nodded as she then undressed to then allow her child to suckle.

It fed as it was weak and trembling

"Sorry to interrupt you two Miss Dawn" Fairy spoke.

Dawn turned her horn still glowing, "What is it?"

"I was apologizing for my intrusion" she blushed

"It’s fine."

"Though i would like to serve one night" she spoke with a smile.

"Not for three days, there is too much damage to your area right now for this

"I know, i meant whenever you decide" she spoke as she rested with her foal suckling

She looked to Rose who shrugged

"Shu, is that alright by you?" she asked for his permission

"You are your own mare" he spoke as he sighed and looked down before getting up and going down to the bar

Sighed and blushed when he got up and left, "He still denies me" she spoke softly but for Dawn to hear.

"No, he isn't denying you." she whispered to Fairy as she helped her sit up so she could see the monstrous child

"He's protecting me from that happening isn't he" she spoke as she then saw the child in Stronghearts arms.

She nodded as Dawn's horn was still glowing looking at the child

"I'm not afraid of that happening; i love him for who he is"

"Yes but, it means you may end up with a child like that."

"I’m not afraid of that happening" she spoke sternly

She went silent as she let her horn stop glowing before rose took her hand guiding her out

Blinked and wondered

Rose literally guided her back to their room

"What's going on Rose?" she asked

Rose was silent as she shut the door with her and Dawn back in the room

Fairy looked to Strongheart then went silent.

Strongheart sighed, "She is blind."

"What if his gene's cross with mine?"

"I" she was almost in tears over how her child turned out

"Shh shh" she shushed her as she came over to then comfort her.

She laid the baby on the bed and just broke down sobbing

Set her own down to then comfort her into her chest, "Easy"

“I-it was all a lie. He was never a pony." she sobbed, "H-he lied to me, t-to father."

"He is one just not one that is normal" she spoke

"If he was normal, that...THING...would be a normal mix."

"Not exactly, there are still unknown factors between species"

“My brother, the one who gave you the baby was a half bred."

"That was luck and plus i'm a natural born alicorn" she spoke

"No, it’s how our kind crossbreeds."

"Their always come out looking like one of the two parents.”

"Then you and he try again, if he'd be willing that is" she spoke knowingly that Shu was one to take things to heart when it came to her and Strongheart.

"It will just be another monster."

"Well, what if i gave you one of my eggs?"

"It would be the same."

"Yes it would" she spoke with a sigh

She just sat there sobbing ignoring the little one now

"Strongheart, she needs you" she spoke calmly as her own whined.

"I-I can't."

"Do it for your father" she spoke

“I n-not that. Thing he would be soo pissed."

"He would still not let it die"

"He would hide it away."

"No he wouldn't"

"Yes i know my father more then you.”

"Well, be its mother then" she spoke

She whimpered in tears

"Please"

"F-fine." she spoke softly

Kissed her on the cheek

She just sat there scooping up the little one

"Two first timers huh" she teases

She was silent holding the child

"I tried" she spoke as she got up and went back over to her and Shu's bed.

She sat there silent as Shu was downstairs frustrated

Got up and carried her newborn with her to downstairs, "Shu?"

He had open bottles of booze in his hand drinking heavily as tears ran down his face

"Shu, stop; Strongheart needs you she's upset and distraught over the foal"

He looked up at her and groaned, "I DID NOT GIVE HER A HAPPY LIFE I GAVE HER A MONSTER.”

"Yes but she is a first time mother and she is scared and afraid as am i but i was conditioned for it she wasn't"

"And she hates me for what i am." he spoke

"It’d fear and she will get over it over time"

"I doubt it...that child...is horrible

"You never know, she may become more buffalo then beast as she gets older"

He remained silent as he slammed the bottle down shattering it

"Sorry" she spoke as noticed it shatter

He just walked off up the stairs silent

Sighed to herself as she carried the young pegasi in her arms before hearing the door open and close to the bar

He sat there in the room with Strongheart alone

"Hey Princess" Twilight spoke as she came into the bar

"Shu, i don't know what to do" Strongheart spoke

"I don't either." he spoke looking at it, "I-I'm sorry i let you down."

"It's alright, i thought a lot about what her and i discussed and i feel confident"

"Still i let you down.”

"Yes, but i did not run nor shun you away from myself or our daughter"

He sighed as he could hear conversation downstairs

"What do you want?" Fairy spoke harshly to the unicorn.

She spread her wings, "Who are you to talk to me like that runaway?" she asked, "Because of you, Luna and I have to run everything."

"You dare speak to me like this child" she spoke

"YOU ARE NOT BUT A RUN AWAY CHILD!" she snapped as her horn glowed

"You dare threaten the royal bloodline and my child by the prince of the buffalo tribe" she spoke as her child was
currently nursing, while using one hand to pull her magic into a sword.

She stood there the magic in the room increasing due to the power she wielded over magic

"I am on working on a plan to heal my mother from her internal conflict between Daybreaker and Herself. So if you strike me down then Equestria will never heal"

"No you’re not your here being a whore and raising more run aways, what would your mother say if she saw you standing in a bar with your tits out!?"

"Oh and did you not see how she really was behind your big headed devotion"

She flared her wings as magical armor started to shine over her body, "YOU DO NOT SPEAK OF THE PRINCESS THAT WAY!"

"I can very well speak of my mother that way slave" she spoke as she stared her down outright.

She screamed a staff appearing in her hand as she stood there in rage

"Go ahead, Sister" she spoke solemnly as she recognized her father's abilities within her.

She glared, "I AM NOT RELATED TO A WORTHLESS WHORE WHO CAN'T ACCEPT HER LIFE!!!" she snapped his dark magic flaring on her horn

"Oh you aren't then why is our father's magic so easily used by one who claims she is not his blood" she spoke

"I HAD TO ABSORB SOME OF HIS FUCKING POWER TO FREE THE FUCKING EMPIRE!"

"Yes, father did leave you a gift back in the empire as he did for our sister Cadenza" she spoke as he heard someone coming in behind her.

"I AM NOT RELATED TO YOU!!!" she snapped as she laughed a massive blast at her as it was blocked

"Thank you Aunt Luna" she spoke while looking over her shoulder.

Standing there was Shuyin bleeding now as he glared at Twilight.

"Shu, you need to rest" she spoke out of surprise

He stood there starting to clench his fist one of the dark stones in his hand

"Twilight, you need to stop this. I was wrong you are not my sister i see that but Shu is the stallion i fell in love with after i ran due to mother's insanity"

Twilight looked at Shuyin the darkness dripping off him in her vision as she stepped back, "STALLION THAT-THATS NO STALLION IT-IT’S A M-MONSTER!"

"Why do they always say that" she spoke as she then teleported into behind her to then render unconscious with the butt of the sword.

He looked at Fairy as he sighed and turned, "It means you can't see the true me yet."

"I just see the kind yet hard exterior you hold" she spoke

“You see the shell not the inside."

"Yes but i can sense that inner monster and know it's there and do not fear it"

"You will see if he ever escapes that your lack of fear will be a mistake."

"Dear, i am just as stubborn as you like it or not" she spoke as she used her magic to carry Twilight to a bed upstairs before coming back to grab her foal.

He sighed as he stood there when she left he staggered a bit before falling over from the pain of the blast

"Need Dawn?" she asked

"No" he groaned as he needed to not move

Nodded as she stayed with him with the baby in her arms, "Shu?"

"What" he asked

"You wanna make love tonight?" she asked as she blushed

"You don't listen well do you? Dawn said no for a few days."

"Oh hehe sorry just the rush from Twilight and all got me pretty um yeah"

He groaned and sighed as he lay there, "is that all you care about.”

"No, it's just i am Celestia’s daughter after all"

"So what she said.”

"Ok smartass" she spoke with a smile

He laid there finally shifting onto his back

"How you feeling love?"

"I hurt like hell."

"What should we do about my mother's student?" she asked looking to the tied up and unconscious Twilight

"You should have let her run."

"And cause more drama for us"

"She wouldn't have come back" he groaned getting up

"Well, we do need more allies then enemies and my aunt supports us and having a third alicorn on our side would help our case"

He pulled out the dark sword

"What are you doing?"

"Getting rid of the mistake"

"Whoa no, you are not killing her"

"She knows too much and will only cause problems here."

"True, but if my mother wakes from her slumber with the use of Dawn's stones then having three alicorns she trusts talk to her about the path i have taken then we will be safe"

"She won't accept it as long as it is me."

"She will as long as Daybreaker is sealed" she spoke

"No, she won't she knows what i really am and will never see you as safe with me."

"So what we leave her asleep?" she asked.

"I don't know."

"If we risk letting her sleep, the more of a chance there is that Daybreaker will win"

"So you want her back now that badly?"

"Not really, but you have to give second chances to those that you may even think don't deserve it"

"Fine we will take Dawns stones and go wake her."

"Shu, if we do this then i'll protect and defend you no matter what"

“She won't allow it." he spoke as he got up grabbing a coat and starting for the door

"Should we have Luna come pick her up?" she hinted to Twilight

"Do what you want." he spoke twitching as he already had the box with the stones before going out into the cold

"Shu, wait. I'll go alone" she spoke as she traded the foal for the box; "If i don't come back, just know i love you" she spoke before kissing him on the lips as she teleported.

He groaned and sighed before turning and heading back in knowing she would have to return as he held onto one of the white stones and had swapped it for one of the dark stones.

Landed in the throne room from her teleport to then be greeted by her sister

Cadance smiled and bowed to her, "Greetings sister."

"Seems Shining has been treating you well, i brought back a white stone to heal mother with"

"You brought all three?" Luna asked as she came in feeling Fairy back

"Not sure" she spoke as she opened the box to then see only two of the white and one dark.

"WH-What where did you get the dark stone!?"

"Shu, must have switched one out before i left" she spoke before closing the box

"So, He is still alive." Cadance shuddered

'You have a problem with that sister; if it were not for Shu then you would not be here today because Father would have
died"

"He killed father i was there.”

"He had no choice, the darkness in his heart had consumed him, so his last orders to Shu were to protect me and to kill him"

"Still he and those three murdered him."

"Sister, just leave the past alone, he is a different man from back then"

"NO HE ISN'T IF HE WAS MY SISTER IN LAW WOULD BE HERE!"

"You mean brother in law right sister”

"NO Twilight, she was supposed to return after installing crystals

"Well, she had the gall to insult me while i had my child in my arms, even tried to attack me but shu protected me from her blast before managed to knock her out"

"Cause of the damage you have caused to the world, without sisters, magic and warmth the future will be nothing but winter."

"Sister, i came here to wake our mother, but Shu is in fear of his existence due to the hatred that resides in mother's heart, yours and Luna's"

"He is right to fear," Cadance spoke, "he is a monster.

"He has right to fear but, it is more than fear that drives him to avoid it." Luna added

"Sister, please accept him as he is and leave the past behind us. Father would not want you and i at odds over whether someone is just or not"

“I do not care; he and those whores murdered him in front of me."

"You did not see the whole thing then, there was a moment before his death that you did not see"

"You know nothing you worthless runaway whore!" Cadance snapped as she had been there seeing it all

Eyes snapped open as her eyes as her pupils turned to slits "Sister please"

"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WHORE!" She snapped her eyes doing the same as she glared at her

"Why do you think i didn't go to your wedding?"

"Cause you are a worthless whore who hates her family and everything about herself."

"Your beloved stallion tried to rape me, the night before your wedding just ask Luna I came to her after"

"You never came forward with any proof yet your mother still fucking executed him!"

"I'm speaking of Shining Armor"

"I KNOW!" She snapped her darker side showing

"He's not dead, she sent him on a mission that was briefed to myself and Luna"

"BULLSHIT THEN WHY HAS HE NEVER RETURNED TO ME

"He's been in a coma in a place that is quite risky to go to"

"Then i will fucking go."

"You really want him dead then go but we need a changeling on our side in order to do so"

"Really we would need a changeling to kill that monster of yours?

"No, to infiltrate the changeling kingdom"

“No i won't"

"Really, she wants you dead as is"

"Good."

"Cadenza, calm yourself and think straight"

"i have thought this through, if my husband is gone, and never returning then i would die going after those who took him."

"He is still alive, but in trade she wants you and Flurry as well broodmares for her eggs"

"NO I WILL NOT LET MY LITTLE BABY BE A FUCKING ROODMARE!!" she snapped going full darkness

Luna looked at her, "she is still only as foal."

"No, let Luna and I handle taking her out, besides i owe her highness for harming our mother"

"No." Shattered Heart spoke as she turned starting to walk away

"You’re giving her what she wants" she spoke as she moved to block her exit.

She just slammed her against a wall with a wave of her hand as she kept walking

"Luna, you could give me a hand" she spoke as she held her shoulder from the impact.

"I cannot leave the castle or a range from sister, otherwise...she dies”

"Shattered!" she called out as she stood up while Eclipse came forth.

Shattered kept going her colors turning to that of their fathers

"Let's do this together, since you’re as stubborn as i am we might as well it is Family"

"GO AWAY WHORE!!"

"I am still your sister, i have never turned on you nor abandon you as my sister" she spoke

"NO YOU ARE NOT, YOU ARE HER DARKNESS!"

"Listen to me, i'll help you bring her down and bring mother back and then he and i will be out of your lives forever" she spoke as she told Eclipse to back down. "Without Father i'm lost and now i've found a purpose by being by Shuyin's side forever"

"THEN GO BACK TO YOUR MONSTERS SIDE, I WILL DEAL WITH HIM WHEN I FINISH WITH THEM."

Took the end of her sword to hit her at the back of the neck before uttering "Sleep Shattered Heart" before returning to look at Luna

She turned around striking Fairy hard as the knockout did not work due to their father’s powers strong inside her

Eyes glowed blue right before screaming out and running her sword through her own sister.

She smirked as she grabbed the blade snapping it

"Do it Cadance kill your own flesh and blood much like our own mother had to do all those years ago"

Her eyes were no longer her own, "YOU FAIL TO RECOGNIZE WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH ECLIPSE"

"Father, it's me Fairy your first born" she spoke in his head, "Mother needs you more than ever"

"SECOND BORN!" His voice laughed as the darkness enveloped Cadance leaving just a shadowy form of himself

"Hehe actually no i was the first" she spoke as then grabbed him by the throat while using the two white stones she had.

He laughed as Luna whimpered backing away a bit knowing the truth

"Shu, feel free to step in my love with the final piece" she spoke

Luna shook standing in the back, "S-stop h-he isn't lying."

"What?!" she spoke as she lost focus

He slapped her hand from his throat, "While its true you a-are your mothers f-first, h-he t-technically s-sired a s-second o-one b-before you."

"Then Father please release my sister and help your true love, the mare who taught you more advanced magic and how to love and be who you were for me as i grew up until you left"

"You are dead to me; you went and sired a bastard with that monster who killed me," his eyes narrowed before turning into an evil smug smile; "Who right now, should just about be done killing them all."

"You were the one who trained him to kill you if you ever went corrupt" she spoke as knew she was risking a lot.

He just laughed and vanished taking his new body with him, as luna slumped against a wall curling up shaking and in tears

"So it was a lie to destroy Equestria" she spoke harshly while looking to Luna with the same glowing blue eyes mixed with her father's darkness.

She was just there shaking and trembling in tears

"Shu, can you hear me?"

There was no response as Luna was sobbing now

Growled to herself as she screamed out in her alicorn voice, "Father, if you hear me now take me instead of Cadance"

Luna shuddered, "H-he won't you-you weren't bred to b-be the stronger sibling s-she was." Luna spoke still on the floor

"What am i then?" she spoke before stabbing her sword into the wall above Luna.

she flinched tensing up, "J-just a child" she spoke trembling, "P-please g-go s-stop him b-before he d-does kill, s-she can only hold him f-for so long."

Nodded as she then teleported to where Shuyin was to then focus her magic on restraining him.

Dawn was holding him back with the one stone he had kept, shaking and trembling as she was bleeding horribly, as there was no Shuyin just a monster contained in a barrier, all shadow, pure demonic, as Rose was tending to keeping the baby's and Strongheart as safe as she could

"Release and clear out Dawn" she ordered as she then glared to the creature she saw before her, "You are not leaving me like this; you are not what he made you to be"

Dawn was too focused, as Rose grabbed Fairy’s arm dragging her to safety, "she can't let it down darling, he is after her, after that stone she is holding,"

"I can hold him off" she spoke as she tore away while engaging her armor, before knocking Dawn out of the way to take her place.

Dawn fell over as the barrier shattered his tail thrashing around destroying the bar as dawn laid there the white stone falling away as the full extent of the damage done to her was shown. Rose went wide eyed seeing what Fairy had done

Fairy charged at Shu with everything she had to protect those who were innocent, "Clear out"

Strong struggled to get out as Shuyin slammed his tail into her and smashing her into the ground as Rose just stood there traumatized

"If you are not able to hear me then you must perish along with myself" she spoke solemnly while holding before using a spell to impale them together with her own swords.

The beast just roared at her as Rose stood there trembling, as she finally screamed out dawns name as Fairy's swords were shattered as a massive lightning bolt hit Shuyin from behind as two female figures stood there

Winced as she fell to the ground while seeing the two figures but only as two blurs as she passed out

Fairy would feel a wave of energy washing over her as one of the females had the monster outside of the bar

"What, no let him live the true Shuyin is the one i love" she yelled as she stood there

"You worry too much dear," a black and blue haired thestral spoke as she turned a long thin sword on her hip as well as a strange crystal encased in metal, that seemed to radiate pure magic, "you really should not pick fights you stand no chance against." as Fairy could see the beast getting more and more pissed trying to hit a glowing golden, bunny with three tails

"Please just bring him back to me" she spoke as she stood next to her

"If it were any other magic other than your father's then i would give my guarantee," she spoke, "but with his and what it has done, I cannot promise that, but i can promise we will try." she spoke as she didn't look in dawns direction

"Then allow me to fight, i can ensure that my blows wound but do not kill" she spoke

"No darling, you can't handle the stones powers, and they were made to combat the darkness specifically."

"Then what can i do?" she asked before noticing the weather changing.

"Stay back," she spoke as she glanced at her, the sun glasses moving showing her piercingly emerald eyes ones she had seen before.

"Wait i know you but from where?" she asked as she stepped back

"You should know why," she spoke shifting outfits as she changed stones into a more regal looking one with a gun on her hip

"No i don't, wait your the warrior whom can't be killed" she spoke as she watched her closely before stepping back further.

she smiled as she winked and rushed out gun in hand.

Author's Note

special thanks to my beloved ShuyinK and a loving warmth to my editor