I awoke in the tree, sitting in the same area as I had when I had slept. In my crystal arm, a bunch of tendrils had implanted themselves like an IV. They slowly withdrew, leaving my arm with veins scattered throughout the crystal. The tendrils that had held me to the tree uncurled from my body, and I stretched, then hopped out the tree.

As I stumbled along the ground, I could hear someone calling for me. I went out, and called out were I was. When they reached me, they all gave me a hug. Rarity was the one to speak.

"Cameron, darling, have you been here for the last three hours? We have been wondering where you were. Twilight had to be called to Canterlot, so we were going to head on back to Ponyville." I nod

"Yeah, I have been here. Three hours? Damn, that was a good nap. The tree really put me to sleep didn't she?" They looked at each other, and Rainbow asked.

"What do you mean the tree put you to sleep?" I chuckle.

"I was just being shown some stuff by the tree of harmony. She wanted to show me stuff, and so I let her. I just had to sleep to do so. Also, I already knew about Twilight. She showed me that she had gone. We really should head back to Ponyville, she should probably be back soon." They all nod, and we leave.

We make it back to Ponyville about fifteen to twenty minutes later. Twilight still wasn't back yet, and the sun had set. by the time we had made it to Ponyville. We all decided to make out way to our homes, and went to sleep for the night.

I woke up to Lucy shaking me.

"Father, wake up. Tirek. He is in Canterlot. He will come." I sit up, and give her a hug.

"Don't worry, I know what is happening. I already know he is going to come. So, lets go have a fun day. You might even get a good snack if your a good girl." She looks at me, and I swear if she had eyes they would be sparkling.

"I might get to snack on some demon?" I nod.

"But again, you have to be a good girl." she nods. "Okay, now lets go say high to your mothers." And we head off to town.

And then Twilight's door is blasted open, and we see it fall near us as we enter town. I grin.

"Guess she hasn't yet learned to control her supercharge. Lets just wait around here." Not but a moment later, I see Twilight careening through the air. She is heading for us, and I shoo Satan over out of the way.

And then I get body slammed. Twilight hits me going about fifty and I am knocked off my feet, flying through the air with Twilight held against me. We make a furrow in the ground with the momentum of the impact, and come to a stop seconds later.

"OW... Oh god, my everything hurts. Twilight, you need to get a handle on your supercharge, please." She sits up, sitting on my chest. She is rubbing her head, and sees me.

"Oh Celestia, Cameron, are you okay? I didn't mean too, I was just trying to fly and couldn't control myself. I didn't hurt you too bad, right?" I just lay there with my head laid back in the dirt and grass by the tree, and groan, saying.

"No, but could you get off? You aren't fat, but you aren't light either. And it doesn't help with breathing." She quickly gets off me, and stands up as the other girls come over to us. Satan comes over to me and helps me up, as does Twilight.

Fluttershy walks up to her, and starts to check her over for any injuries.

"Oh Twilight, are you alright?" She nods, and Fluttershy gives Satan a hug, before checking me over for injuries. Applejack gets Twilight's attention.

"Good lord Twilight, when did you learn to fly that fast?" Twilight giggles nervously, and she almost comically sheds sweat.

"Uh, I must have caught a strong breeze or something." Rainbow Dash nods.

"Or something, 'cause there wasn't any breeze going." Twilight giggles again, and accidentally teleports herself next to Rarity and Applejack. Twilight just sighs.

"Look, I don't know what happened, I just don't have the time to try and figure it out right now." The rest of my herd looks at each other, and Rarity asks.

"Another visit to the Castle of the Two Sisters I presume? We would be more than happy to join you and help relieve some stress." They all get bright smiles, and I knew what they had meant. Don't know how, but I did. I speak up.

"And I could help too." they all just give me a deadpan look. "Hey, you made me herd master, so I have that privilege, remember?" They all nod, and Twilight just sighs.

"I'm sorry girls, but not today. Tirek is still a threat, and he may come after Ponyville. I need you all here to get all the ponies to safety. And Cameron, can you help them? I just need to be alone right now." I nod, and she smiles at all of us. She prepares for take-off, then thinks better of it, and starts to walk the path to the castle.

Satan gave me a tug on my shirt about twenty minutes later. We had gotten everypony indoors, and out of immediate harm. I leaned down to my daughter, and she says.

"He is coming. He is close. He has come to take mother Twilight, and all mothers magic. Tirek has come." I give her a hug.

"I know. Now, daddy has work to do, so please, go to your sisters, and keep them safe. When it is safe for you to come out, I will come and get you." She nods, gives me another hug, and runs off to the library, to get in the basement with the CMC.

"Now, I have to wait. Shaman, I hope you know what you are doing, having me stand by?" I make my way over to the rest of the girls, near the outskirts of Ponyville. As I neared, I heard Discord and Fluttershy talking.

"Or perhaps these things Take, time?" Discord says. Fluttershy gasps, and rushes over to give him a hug.

"Your back. Did you bring the cucumber sandwiches?" he nods.

"I did." Magicking up a plate of said sandwiches. He then gets a hard look on his face. "I imagine they will be your last decent meal for some time." He then lets the plate fall out of his hands, were it shatters on the ground, and the sandwiches and plate faze out of existence moments later.

And after that, he magicks a cage around the girls. Immediately, they start to yell at Discord, and he just steps back and gives a flourish at the girls, locked up in the cage.

"Tata!" he yells, as Tirek comes from behind a group of houses.

"You gathered up all of them?" and then, Spike comes flying in from out of nowhere. I didn't even know he was here, as I hadn't seen him. Tirek just turns, and grabs him by the throat middair, and tosses him in the cage when Discord opened a small door for him to do so. It disappeared moments later, leaving the girls to help Spike up, and glare at Discord.

"Sorry, I forgot about Twilight's dragon. Yes, though, I have them all right here. A feast, if I do say so myself." Fluttershy is the most heartbroken, and I can't go and help her. I felt sick, as she said to Discord, tears streaming down her face.

"Why, Discord? I thought we were friends? How could you do this?" she sobs out, being comforted by Applejack. Discord laughs.

"Oh we were. But, when Tirek offered me more than just tea parties, well. Surely you saw this coming?" Fluttershy nodded.

"But I had hoped you would have been better." The rest of the girls looked from Fluttershy, and glared at him.

Tirek continued on, charging up magic between his horns, lifting the cage and it's occupants to him, and started to inhale. As he did, I could see the magic start to flow out of each of the girls, and the dragons on their arms start to move. As their magic was lost, the dragons grew brighter. After Tirek had eaten all of the magic, he dropped the cage, and it shattered.

And the girls lay there, and started to laugh. Fluttershy first, then Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Tirek just frowned, and took a step back.

"Huh. How are you standing? I just took all your magic. You don't even have your cutie marks, yet your still standing up. How?" Applejack, still laughing, answers.

"Because, we aren't the mares you just drank from." And her scythe appears in her hand, and her skin starts to sag, and some falls from her, and she looks at Tirek, half her mouth gone, bone showing from her face. "We, are a different type of magic, that you can't absorb." And the rest of the girls bring out their weapons, transforming into the Elements of Disharmony. Pinkie just laughs.

"Now I can make some Cupcakes for everypony. His meat should go nicely in all of them, and Satan can have a tasty treat." Ah, so that is what they had all meant when they talked about cupcakes from Pinkamena. Tirek just laughs.

"Really, you think that you can stop me just by taking in some demonic energy? That is laughable." And then Rainbow shocks him, and he screams, holding his head, and she laughs.

"I want his blood Pinkamena, I need it for the rainbows. The factory can't make any without it." She shocks him again, and he screams once more. He looks at the assembled group, and growls.

"This is only an annoyance. You will be put down like the other demons I have fought. I am Tirek, the third ruler of Tartarus." And with that, he slams his hoof on the ground. The girls are sent flying by the shockwave, and he starts to use his magic.

But it wasn't against the girls. It was on Discord.

"Thank you Discord. I wouldn't have gotten here, if it wasn't for you." Discord struggles in his magical grasp.

"But, I thought we were partners. The necklace, you said it was a sign of your gratitude and loyalty? A gift, from someone close to you." He pleaded. Tirek chuckled.

"My brother, who betrayed me. Much like you, with these pathetic wannabe demons. Again, thank you for helping me get here, and thank you for the snack." He says, and then starts to inhale. Discords eyes glow, and his magic starts to pour out of him, and into Tireks hungry maw.

When he is done sucking off Discord (pun intended), he tosses him aside. Coincidentally, it was next to Butchershy. She laughs.

"AW, is poor Discord powerless, and feeling betrayed? How do you think Fluttershy feels? Surely you saw this coming, didn't you?" Discord looks at her, his face saying it all.

" I didn't. I truly didn't." He says, and he just lays down. Butchershy laughs, and then turns towards me with a flip of her hair, and winks. Then, she turns to the rest of the girls.

"Okay girls. Time to earn our keep, and follow our end of the bargain. Everyone, attack." And the girls do.

Pinkamena goes straight for the feet, and does her slashing damage. The Vorpal Blade goes snicker snack. And Tireks hamstring on his right front leg was severed, it flopping off onto the ground. Applejack comes in, and goes for his stomach, bringing her scythe to bear,and cuts a large opening in his belly, blood starting to pour out and dribble on the ground.

Rainbow flies up to his head, and starts to shock him with the Stick. She keeps repeatedly beating him on the head, and each time, she uses her shock charge to keep him disoriented. Butchershy works on his horns, and is using her saw cleaver to try and break/saw her way through them.

Rarity is on her own, but is using a large amount of large knitting needles as throwing weapons, having them stab at what I am guessing to be pressure points along the body of the centaur. After she has thrown about ten needles into him, she jerks her hand towards her, and I see chunks of Tireks body come flying off, each needle attached to yarn, a chunk of meat on the end.

Tirek is hurting, and I could see that he was actually worried that he might lose. He roars.

"ENOUGH!" And sends out a massive blast of energy, each of the girls gets thrown away from him. Then, he thrust his hand out, and each of their weapons, minus Rarity's, fly to his hand. A magnetism spell.

Without the demonic energy supplied by the weapons, the girls revert back to their regular pony forms. All but Rarity, who stands back up, and starts to throw more needles at Tirek.

"Really big boy. That is all you have for me? Well, I believe that you need to be taught a lesson, on how to actually give pain."

And with that, the needles expand, and explode violently. Tirek screams in pain, and I can see that he has massive holes in his body, one for each needle. Rarity then readies her weapon, and charges, striking Tirek in the face and neck with her bone needle.

But just as I think that Rarity may just pull this off, and I might not have to step in, Tirek reaches up and grabs her arm. Rarity tries to pull away, but can't. Tirek growls again.

"You pathetic ponies, cannot defeat me. You pathetic wannabe demons, cannot defeat me. No one, can defeat me. For I am Tirek, third ruler of Tartarus." And with that, he breaks Rarity's wrist. The white unicorn doesn't whimper, her masochistic side not letting her, and pulls out some more knitting needles. Tirek grabs her other wrist, and breaks it. The needles fall from her hand, and he takes the bone needle from Rarity.

As soon as the demonic energy was no longer in supply, she turned back into Rarity. And then the screaming started. Rarity started to feel her broken wrists, and the hold Tirek had on them. He placed one hoof on Rarity's chest, and started to pull.

And with a ripping sound, pulled her arms off.

She screamed. She screamed and screamed and screamed. She screamed till her voice box ruptured, and she coughed up blood, and still she croaked out a scream. And the voice in my head said to wait. Just wait a second longer, it said to me, and you can go and help her. Just wait for Twilight to get here, please?

And so I stood there, watching as one of my herd mates gushed blood from the stumps of her arms. Her cries slowly petering out as she started to lose consciousness from blood loss.

And then Tirek called out.

"PRINCESS TWILIGHT! YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO ME!" I looked at him, he having moved from Rarity's limp form after having thrown her arms at her side. In the distance past him, I could see a large rock with a split in it explode, and a magenta streak of color come streaking towards us. She passed by Tirek, and went to her friends. She looked at each of them, but when she saw Rarity, she gasped, and ran over to her.

"Oh goddess Faust, what did he do to you?" She knew, but she didn't want to believe. I know, because I felt the same. I didn't want one of my loves to be hurt, and bleeding out on the ground, in pain, without any comfort. Twilight lit her horn, and Rarity's throat glowed. I realized she was healing what she could, and that was the easiest thing to heal. Then, she started to work on her arms. I saw her think, and then slump, before starting her spell.

Rarity woke up, and started to scream again, but this time she had comfort. Twilight held her, as she cauterized the stumps of her arms.

She was crying, as she did so. When the spell was done, Rarity slumped back over into unconsciousness. Twilight let her off her lap, and stood up. She looked to Tirek, and pulled out the Anti-Thesis. Her eyes glazed over, and her lavender fur turned burgundy. The weapon took on the shape of a katana, and Twilight flew at Tirek. However, I don't think she still had control over her power, as she reached him, and slammed into him. His body healed with the energy he had, he didn't flinch. As Twilight stood, she looked up at his towering form.

Tirek started to use his magic, and he opened his mouth. Twilight teleported away. I don't know where she went, but Tirek turned. He charged up his magic, and fired a beam of magical energy.

Straight for the library.

I realized, she must have teleported there, and started to run, realizing what would happen.

I didn't make it more than four steps, and the tree that was the Golden Oaks Library, exploded under the power of the magic attack. I saw Twilight fly out of the blast, her owl pet safe in her arms, and I saw that Tophreltes had gotten out of the library earlier. Twilight stood up, and let her pet owl go, it flying off to safety. She looks at Tirek, a fire in her eyes. Books fall all around the town, and I look to see Twilight fighting Tirek.

The voice in my head tells me to help the other girls. I look away from Twilight's fight. The rest of the girls have woken back up, and Spike has as well. They had all gone to stand by Rarity, and Spike had her cradled in his lap.

I walk up to them, Fluttershy trying to stay calm and help Rarity. The rest of the girls, looked devastated. They stared at Rarity, and her arms. All of them were in shock.

Discord came over. He stayed back though. He knew they didn't want him near them. I knelt next to Rarity, and Spike looked at me.

"Cameron. Is she going to be okay?" I don't say anything to the dragon. I look at Fluttershy, and she looks at me like she might not.

"I don't know Spike. I have an idea, but it is probably going to hurt. So, hold her." And I take two pieces of crystal from my arm, and put them near where her arms were. And then, I start to push them into her stumps. As I did, I imagined them growing into a new pair of arms, sleek and slender, like the unicorn in front of me. They would be able to do whatever she needed, to help her with her job. They are purple, like her hair. And the crystals start to burrow into her arm, and Rarity wakes up, and starts to cry out in pain again. And I hold her. I hold her and let her cry into my shoulder.

The crystals grow a new set of arms for her. They were much like the arms she had, and were the same purple as her hair. They had veins of gold and silver going through it. I felt them connect to her nerves, as she tensed up in my arms.

Her hands suddenly came up and grabbed me, pulling me into a hug. And I held her, as she cried. I just held her.

Then suddenly, they all disappear in a flash of light, and Rarity is no longer in my arms. I look around, and see Tirek standing before Twilight, with my here mates, Spike, and Discord in magic bubbles around him. The voice in my head told me it was almost time.

So I get up and start to head on over to them. As I got closer to them, I heard what was happening. Fluttershy was the loudest, surprisingly.

"We're not worth it." And Discord scoffed.

"But you were, Fluttershy. And when Tirek told me he had something better than you, and your friendship, I should have seen he was wrong. But now, I have nothing, and I have no one to blame but myself."

I couldn't help but nod. He has realized, he done goofed. I pull.out my sword as I feel the time approaching, and listen to the conversation.

Twilight was looking at the bubbles containing everyone, and suddey, her eyes flash with a rainbow explosion. She sighs, and looks defeated.

"I will give you my magic, in exchange for my friends."

Tirek laughs. "I knew you would come around." And he releases the bubbles with her friends, popping them when near the ground.

Everyone looks around, then realizes. Where is Discord. They look up, seeing him still in his bubble. Twilight looks at Tirek.

"I said, release, my friends. All of them." Tirek turned and looked at Discord.

"Really? After all he has done to betray you, you still want to let him go?" Twilight just harrumphs.

"Release him." Tirek shrugs.

"Fine then." And snaps his fingers, lowering Discord till his bubble pops on the ground. Discord looks up from his faceplant, and looks at Twilight.

"Thank you, Twilight." He then looks at Fluttershy. "I am, so, sorry, Fluttershy." Fluttershy just looks away.

"I know, Discord." Tirek chuckles. He looks to Twilight.

"Your turn." And he starts to inhale her magic, absorbing it, and getting more and more powerful. Twilight started shake, and her knees trembled, and she collapsed. Tirek started to roar, and he started to grow, and grow, and grow. And now, the voice told me to fight.

And I decided, some music wouldn't hurt.

And so, I qued a song.

Tirek looked around for the source of the music, playing from everywhere. Heh, I guess harmony herself isn't to happy, if she is playing my music for the world. Well, lets have some fun, and wreck this asshole.

"Tirek. I was going to offer you a chance at redemption, but I don't think I am going to anymore. Not only did you almost kill all of my herd, but you ripped off Rarity's arms. And then, you destroyed the tree that my four daughters were in. So, Tirek. Give me one good reason, not to rip you head off?" I say, revealing myself to Tirek. As I was doing so, I had decided to switch songs. (I am putting it a bit closer to the action, so I am going to put it lower.)

Tirek saw me, and laughed. And I could understand, he was huge, titanic, massive. I was tiny, puny, and weak compared to him. He didn't even bother to speak to me. He just lifted his foot, and slammed it into me.

All of the assembled group gasped, as I disappeared under the colossal hoof. Tirek was still laughing, until he felt his hoof move. I was lifting it up, underneath. I heaved, and threw him off balance, before jumping like Saitama, and punching him in the face as hard as I could with my crystal knuckledusters. He is thrown over, falling to the ground.

Now, time for some battle music.

As the song that I had prepared started to play, I ran at the fallen Tirek. I leaped on to him, and started to run up his legs to his face.

He swatted at me, trying to get up off the ground. I dodged his hand, and pulled out my sword.

As he swiped back at me, I stabbed into his hand, and held on as he started to roar in pain. The sword pulled out, and I was flung off him. I landed near the libraries remains, and knocked my head hard on something.

As I was coming out of the small daze, I saw Tirek shoot a large beam of magic at me. I tried to scramble out the way, but I slipped on a piece of a book still on the ground. The beam was coming at me, and something jumped in front of me.

The thing in front of me, opened it's mouth, and started to swallow up the beam of magic. It was like Nel, from Bleach, just eating it. Once it had eaten all of the beam, it held it for a sec, then fired it back, larger and more powerful than before. It hits Tirek, and blasts him back.

"YOU WILL NOT HURT FATHER!" I look at her, realizing.

"Satan?!" I ask, and the creature turns to me.

She was no longer just a little girl, but was the size of an adult. She was curvy, and had a beautiful body structure. Her faceplate had eye holes now, and she had sharp, clear blue eyes. The faceplate itself, looked like a predator mask, but carved with runes, and covering half her face. Her hair was down to the small of her back. Her arms, had large bone like gauntlets on them, that covered her whole arm from the elbow down. It ended in four long, sharp claws. She was wearing a bone like armor, that only covered her private areas.

"Sorry father. I am bad girl. I disobeyed." I laugh.

"Your fine Satan. You did good. Know, how about helping out your dad with taking out the trash?" She smiles, and we charge Tirek. He had been trying to stand up from having been blasted over by Satan, and he had finally gotten on his feet. AS we reached him, we started to run up his left front leg. I was slashing up it the entire way, as Satan drug her claws while she ran, tearing large gouges into his leg. He roared in pain, and stomped his foot, but we held on as he did so, grabbing fistfuls of the fur on his legs.

After he had finished stomping, we continued on up his leg, and got on his back, were I started to cut in to reach his spine. Satan went further up, getting on his neck, and started to bite him, tearing chunks of him off, and eating her fill. I continued cutting into his back, at the portion were it transitioned from human to horse. I finally found something, and I reared back my hand, and jammed it into the hole I made.

I rummaged around for a second, and felt whatever was in there. I grabbed it as best I could, made some needles on my hand, and pulled. The needles that were on my hand, stabbed into what I was holding, and started to shred it as I pulled my hand out of the hole in Tireks back. He started to scream, in true pain, as I shredded what was in his back. My guess, I probably had a bit of his spine. 'Huh, who knew he actually had a spine. I always had assumed he was a spineless bastard.'

I finally pulled out a chunk, and he started to scream louder. He collapsed, and me and Satan jumped off. He was still screaming.

It was at this time, I saw some lights from the heavens shine down somewhere in the Everfree. Judging from the position of the stars, it was at the tree of Harmony. It was a rainbow light, and in it, I saw six figures. 'Heh, thats my girls.'

The girls had changed something. I REALLY couldn't figure it out. I'll ask them, when they are done. They fly over us, and Twilight calls out.

"Tirek, your punishment, for taking the magic of Equestria, hurting it's citizens, and possible genocide of ponykind. I, Princess Twilight Sparkle, do sentence you to death. Have you anything to say?"

Tirek must have healed himself some, as he stood up. I could see he was still very much in pain, but he now was standing and addressing Twilight.

"How do you have magic? I drained it." Twilight shook her head.

"You drained one magic. Alicorn magic. But I have the power of Friendship. Executioner, your blade, sir." I nod, and pull out my other sword. It is shrouded in a fog, the blade unseen by the girls. I present it to Twilight.

Twilight charges the the blade, a single ribbon of colored light shooting out from each of the girls, and grouping up into one beam, focused on my sword. Once the blade was charged, the beam stopped.

The blade that now shone, glowed gold. As I rose, I turned to Tirek. And I said.

"I once heard something, about this blade." I raise it over my head. As I do so, small balls of light, almost like firefly's, come from the ground. " That the light, is the true embodiment, of the sad yet noble dream of all soldiers, past, present, and future."

The little balls of light flood to the blade, and gather in it. It glows brighter with each orb of light it absorbs.

"Who lie dying on the field of battle, clutched to their hearts with their last breath, holding aloft their dying wish. Making certain their loyalty will not be in vain. And while I may not be the Invincible King, I will cry out the true name, of the miracle that I wield. And that name is." And the blade is charged. The blade is now glowing so bright, the girls are looking away, Tirek is being blinded. I raise the blade overhead for a downward slash.

"EX..." And I start to swing my blade down. " ...CALIBUR!!!"

And I finish the swing. The blade releases an energy wave, that travels along the ground, and hits Tirek. As it does, he starts to scream in pain once again. It was like a little girl, and I would have laughed, if I hadn't been crying. I now realized what Saber felt like, every battle she had to fight. And the soldiers and friends she lost. That had all been shown to me, as I had charged the blade. And I had felt every hope of the soldiers who had lent me their power. It was so sad, yet I bore it, and used it.

Tirek was screaming, as his body was cut in two, and disintegrated.

As he did, and the horns were disintegrating, the magic he had absorbed started to fly out, and go back to the ponies it came from.

Above the battle, on a hill away from the blast, three figures stood. One, was a man in full armor, a helmet with a plume obscuring his face. The second, a blond woman, her hair in a bun, dressed in a battle dress, the armor of a more European design. The third, the Shaman. The knight spoke first.

"He does good. He uses the weapon well, if a little sloppy. And he has true heart." The other knight nodded her head.

"Yes. And he is a true wielder of my blades legacy. He understands the meaning of it's true power, and knows that it isn't to be used lightly."

The Shaman giggles.

"I told you two, he was a good choice. I needed a champion, and I have one. I gave him those weapons so he could help protect, and he has. Thank you, for giving him your blessing, so he may fight with your power." The two nod.

Then, they fade out. The Shaman sighs.

"Well, at least the biggest problem for now is out the way. He should have some time for a nice vacation, before anything big happens again." She then walks away.

As the girls landed around me, the blade Excalibur was still visible. They all came over to me when they saw me, glomping me in a group hug. I couldn't help but laugh. I then saw Rarity. All the girls saw me looking, and got off me. When they did, I pulled Rarity into a hug.

"I'm sorry. I could have stopped it, but I wasn't allowed to. I know it hurts. I'm sorry." Rarity just pulls me closer.

"I know darling. Just promise me, that you will help me forget it tonight. And you know what I mean." I laughed. Very well. I took a moment to look at the girls, and say.

"Hey, did you all do something with your hair? It looks different?" they all laugh, and you know what they look like. Then, the power suddenly leaves, transforming them back into their regular selves. After that, we see a light come from the Everfree.

It arcs up, and comes down on the remains of Twilight's old home. In the light, we can all see the box that Twilight had been trying to open. As it went in to the destroyed tree, it all started to glow.

And then the tree started to grow back. But it wasn't all wood anymore. It was crystal as well. The wood grew too, growing and intertwining into the pieces of crystal that made up the new tree. The leaves grew back, the door was crystal, and the wall's were a mix of both wood and crystal. After it had finished growing, the crystal turned from a light shade of blue, to a more earthy light brown, and you could see a little into it. On one side, in the crystal, you could see what looked to be a colony of ants going through it. On another side, a bee hive. We went to the tree house, and entered. I immediately went to the basement door, and opened it. As I did, the CMC came out, and tackled me.

The girls saw this, gasped, and came over to hug them too. Twilight cried, realizing what had happened.

"Oh my goddess, I didn't know they where here. I wouldn't have teleported here if I had known." We all forgave her, the four daughters included. Then the girls made an announcement.

"Um, hey ya'll, can you come to the basement? There is something you might want to see?" And we follow Applebloom. We head into the basement, and when we get to the bottom of the stairs, we see a table.

But the table is made of the same stuff as the regrown tree. It is crystal, and has six chairs around it. Each chair has a cutie mark on it. The cutie marks of my herd.

"What is this for?" Rainbow asks. A familiar voice answers.

"Because Twilight is not meant to rule alone. This crystal library, is now her new castle. And I really like what you have done with your castle." Twilight whips around, and rushes Celestia. She was immediately glomped. Then she realized what Celestia said.

"Wait, this is my castle?" Celestia nods.

"Yes. And since you are living with Cameron, and his house wasn't destroyed, it made a new Library. But Twilight, do you know now, what your role is in Equestria." Twilight nods.

"Yes. My role as princess is to help everypony find the magic of friendship. And to spread that magic throughout Equestria. That is the role that I choose to have." Celestia nods. "But I didn't fight Tirek alone. I had my friends." Celestia nods again.

"Then it is unlikely you are meant to rule alone. As I see it, this table has six chairs. Now, who goes in those chairs?" She says with the highest amount of sarcasm. Twilight and the rest of the girls giggle, as me and Discord laugh.

I look at Discord, and he notices, and his laugh dies down.

"Discord. I ought to do some horrible things to you, for what you did to my herd. Give me one good reason, not to." Discord sighs.

"I have none, or at least, none that you haven't heard, or possibly used. I just, all I can say, is that I was stupid in choosing Tirek. I had friendship, and I had magic, and then, I had none. All because I couldn't see that friendship is truly magical. So, all I can ask, is for forgiveness. And if that is not given, then maybe a lighter punishment in hell." I snort. Dammit, he made me laugh.

"Fine. I forgive you. But, you now owe Rarity. You, are part of the reason her arms were ripped off by Tirek. So, tomorrow morning, report to Rarity for work, understood?" He sighs again, and nods. The others had turned to us, having heard most of the conversation. Celestia, Luna, and Cadence all come up to me.

"I'm sorry, I haven't met you yet. I'm Princess Cadence, the princess of Love. Twilight is my sister-in-law." I nod, holding my hand out for a handshake.

"I am Cameron Ruff, champion of Faust, wielder of the holy sword Excalibur, and user of the Great sword of Artorias. I am the herd master for Twilights herd." Cadence gets a look, and turns to Twilight. Twilight blushes, and looks away.

"Well, I need to tell a certain blue maned brother about this new development. It's good to meet you though, and thank you for helping Twilight out." Celestia and Luna nod. Luna asks a question.

"You said something about Rarity's arms being ripped off. What did you mean?"

The room got depressed real quick then. I looked to Rarity, who nodded, and came over, rolling up the sleeves on the shirt I had given her to replace the one she had on. When the princesses saw her arms, they gasped.

"What happened?" Luna asks. Rarity answered.

"Well, when Tirek and I fought, I was an Element of Disharmony. I had been throwing needles, and a few explosive ones, and he had been weakened. So, I went in for the final blow with my blade, and he grabbed my wrist. I then tried to throw some more needles at him, but he grabbed the other wrist, and then broke both of them. After he took away my blade, the demonic energy left me, and I felt everything. God, my wrists hurt. And then, he- he." She started to cry. I hugged her again. I finished.

"He then put his hoof on her chest, and pulled." The princesses just stood, slack jawed. Then, they group hugged Rarity. The other girls came over, and the CMC did too. Satan was the last to join, and when she did, she turned back into a child.

After about a minute of her crying, she stopped, and I finished telling what happened.

"After Twilight got into the battle, I went to Rarity, and used some crystal to make her some new arms. They can do whatever she needs to do now."Rarity hugs me again.

"And tonight, he is giving me some stress relief. Isn't that right dear."I nod, blushing. The girls and princesses giggle.

"Well, I see that everything here is under control. I need to head back to Canterlot to announce the news to the public. Take the time to tell the ponies here about the new library, and Tophreltes that I have made her job as head librarian here official. I remember her, from when she worked in the libraries of hell. Anyways, have a nice day, Twilight." And with that, the three princesses left.

The whole town, and Tophreltes, had gathered around the library. When Twilight exited, they all cheered. We then had a 'we saved Equestria from danger again' party, compliments of Pinkie Pie.

It was roughly five hours later, and we were at my home. The other girls had already gone to bed, and I was putting away all the dishes and cookware from supper. I finished, and headed to my bed.

But when I got there, Rarity was in some lingerie, laying on the bed.

"Now, help me relieve some stress." she said.

Author's Note

Damn. I meant to have 6,666 words, but I went over. Oh well. Also, I know the reason I didn't make the castle is pretty flimsy, but can we pretend it isn't, for the sake of the story. It isn't that bad of a reason, in my opinion. Anyways, the next episode may or may not be a clop episode, telling what I do to Rarity. Don't get your hopes up. Also, happy belated fourth of July, anyone in America. If not, then happy holiday that happens to coincide with fourth of July. But in conclusion,

Have a Jivin day!