I got back to town and had noticed that it had a bunch of vines going across it. The vines were a sickly black color, and had blue thorns growing out. I started in to the town, and saw a vine trying to drag Derpy off. I pull out the Leviathan axe, as it is used for tree cutting in the game, and start hacking at the vine wrapped around the mare. As I hit, it starts to freeze it, eventually making the vine cold enough to just shatter through. The plant tendril drops off Derpy, and I point her to the nearest door, where the ponies inside are waving for her to come in. She thanks me and dashes in.

I then make my way towards the center of town, cleaving through vine after vine along the way, and the scene I see when I arrive terrifies me. But not in a bad way.

I see Twilight and the gang, including Spike, fighting off the vines near town hall, which looks to be filled with ponies. And each of them has a weapon, colored and fit to match them.

Applejack had a large claymore style sword, and it looked similar to Dante's Rebellion, but it was and apple with branches as the hilt, instead of a skull and bones.

Rainbow Dash had a set of dual kukri knives, and they had a rainbow colored heat treated blade. She was using them to rodeo the vines as Applejack cleaved them with her sword. I noticed that the blade was gold plated to look like Applejacks fur.

Rarity had a naginata, that pole arm that the Peacekeepers used in For Honor. The handle was a royal purple like her hair, and the blade was a heat treated blue. She was using it to deflect the vines from the doors of town hall, towards her other friends so they could finish them off. I understood why, as naginata's were not made for tree cutting.

Pinkie was nearby, cutting most of the vines with a single swing of her massive axe. The axe was shaped like the axe from DMC Devil May Cry, the one Dante got that transformed from Rebellion. It wasn't the red like in the game, but pink, and she was dealing massive amount's of damage to the vines with every swing.

Fluttershy was using a rapier. It looked to be Weiss Schnee's Myrtenaster from RWBY. It even looks to have the dust attacks, and gives her some of Weiss's powers. She looks to be using ice and wind, much like Weiss in the show, and freezing vines for her Twilight to cut through.

And Twilight is the scariest. She looks like death. Sorry, did I say death, I meant Death. She had a scythe, which explained a few things, and she had on a cloak that matched. The scythe looked like the scythe used by the Dante from the game and book and movie Dante's Inferno. It was terrifying. She swung it, and it moved like it did in game and movie, becoming a spear that extended and slashed at one of the vines. It retracted moments after, and went back to being a scythe.

The whole time I was seeing this, something whispered that these were the weapons that had been created by the Elements of Harmony. It also whispered to shake it off and help. And I did. I charged my axe up for a heavy runic attack. I had read that all of the attack crystals are fully upgraded, and the attack I was using was Breath of Thamur. As I lifted my the axe in the air, a flurry of ice and snow came upon the area, and froze all the vines as the blizzard swirled and blew. After three seconds, the attack finished, and all the vines in the area had been frozen solid. I proceeded to smash them apart as the girls stared at my display of power.

Rainbow asked. "What was that!?" and I told her about the runic attack. The girls seemed impressed, but then Twilight gasped, and started talking.

"Oh sweet Celestia, I forgot. Celestia and Luna are missing. Nobody can seem to find them. And everypony is freaking out over the sky. Take a look!" And I do. And I see that the sun is setting and the moon is setting also, and i'm not there in a GAZEBO, and god did not come down from heaven and give me a million dollars. But that wasn't the problem.

The fact that the moon and sun were up was. "Well, that reminds me of a song, but yeah that's bad. What do I need to do?" Twilight looks thoughtful for a moment, and then speaks up.

"I think I know who did this. Everything, from the vines to the clouds points to one creature. Girls, we need the Elements for this." And the girls proceeded to transform their weapons into pendent necklaces. Twilight's scythe went from being placed on her back, to a crown on her head, looking like the one her and I had to recover. Then Twilight looked at her friends for confirmation. When they nodded for her to proceed, she started to pour magic into the element, making it glow.

As she did, the other elements reacted, and glowed as well. Then, starting from Rarity, a rainbow ribbon extended between all the elements, and then shot light into the center of the circle they had formed. It swirled into a tornado, and when it flashed away, the strangest creature was taking a shower before us.

It looked like a scientist had tried to make a chimera, but couldn't decide what he wanted in it. It the left hoof of a goat, the right leg of a dragon, the right hand of a lion, his left hand was an eagle's talons, he had a snake tail and a slender body of an unidentifiable species. His head looked ponyesque with large bushy white eyebrows and goat beard. On the top of his head, he had one antler of an antelope, and one antler belonging to another creature In couldn't name. He noticed us, and looked surprised. I could tell from experience he was faking it.

"Oh, Twilight. If you wanted to peak, you could have just asked." I didn't like it, and I wanted to buy my house already, so I pulled him to me, and placed my axe to his head.

"Alright whatever the fuck you are, I wanna get this done so I can buy my house, so your gonna help Twilight here, and were all gonna go home happy." He looked shocked for a second, genuinely, and then smirked. He pulled up his right paw and prepared to snap his fingers. I let go as he did, and dashed behind Fluttershy, grabbing him by the throat as he appeared behind the mare. Fluttershy and the others gasped, and I repeated myself. "Last chance. Don't make me do something I don't wanna. We can all go our own ways, if you help us figure this out." He nodded his head, and I let him go.

I immediately get punched by him. I take it, however, as I deserved it. He then says, "Now that THAT'S out the way, yes, I know some of what is happening. However, I also don't know what is going on." Applejack asks him.

"Discord, you know that isn't an answer." I shake my head and reply.

"No, it is. It means he probably knows as much as we do about this, and maybe a bit more, but he doesn't know everything about what is happening, like how it started, and what happened to the princesses. Is that more or less what you meant, Discord. Nice name by the way, sounds cool."

"Thank you, and yes, the asshole who choked me is right. However, I think your Zebra friend might be able to help point you in the right direction." He points with his talon towards a path out of the forest, where a Zebra mare is walking out of the forest pulling a hand cart piled with potion ingredients and cauldrons. The group rushes over, and I walk behind them.

"Zecora!" Twilight says as they draw near.

"From my home I've had to flee. For the Everfree has grown to wild, even for me." Applejack.

"Any idea on why this is all happening? Any way to help us find out?"

"I am afraid this is a mystery, to me as well. However, I have something that if combined with a spell," and she reached into the handcart and dug for a second, before pulling out a potion bottle filled with purple liquid.

"I dare not try it on myself, the results would be tragic. It only responds to alicorn magic." She sets it on a nearby picnic table, and then she notices me. "Hello to you. How do you do?" I am already liking her accent, very African in nature. I tell her I am doing well, and she nods and looks at Twilight.

"Princess Twilight, if you can turn the potion from purple to white. After a sip, you will see why the sky is day, and night." She points to both halves of the sky as she says each respectively. Twilight thinks for a second, then starts to cast.

Her horn glows black, and her hand does the same, and she grabs the neck of the bottle. When she does, the black magic rushes into the bottle, mixing with the liquid to make it turn into a milky white. I can't help myself.

"Okay that's just nasty. You sure about this Twi? Cause that doesn't look good for anybody to drink." She just looks at me as if I am not helping, and I back off. "Sorry." She sighs.

"I have to, we may be able to figure out whats going on if I do. Anyway, enough fucking around, let's do this." And with that, she tips the bottle back and takes a slug of the white substance. When she pulls the bottle away, she smacks her lips a little.

"Huh, not bad. Tastes like milk. Though, it doesn't seem to b-" and then her eyes start to glow a pale white. Me and the other girls all back up when it happens, and we stand by watching. After a few seconds, Twilight's expression becomes pained, and she starts to cry. She starts mumbling no to herself. Right as I am about to go shake her out of it, she comes back. She blinks her eyes, and one still glows when she opens. She rubs the itchy eye, and it stops glowing. We all are staring at her, and she notices.

"What?" Applejack starts us all off.

"You alright? You kept mumbling to yerself." Pinkie takes the stage next.

"And don't forget the uncontrollable sobbing." and Fluttershy says what we all felt.

"We were just really worried about you." We all nodded.

"I'm okay, it's just I saw something odd. I saw when Luna became Nightmare Moon. i don't think that has anything to do with this though." Zecora steps forward.

"Perhaps farther back still, lie the answers you seek. Another sip, should give you a peek." Zecora hands Twilight the potion once more. Twilight sighs, then takes another slug of the potion. This time, it took only seconds for the potion to work, and Twilight's eyes glowed white.

It took her about a minute to finish the vision, and when it did, she wobbled a bit, and started to fall. I grab her before she falls, and help her stand. She is blushing when she does. Spike asks the big question.

"So what did you find out?" Twilight thinks and replies.

"I don't know why this is happening, or where the princesses are, but I do know what we can do. We need to find the Tree of Harmony." The girls get confused, and Rainbow asks.

"What's the Tree of Harmony?"

"It is where the sisters got the Elements of Harmony from originally. And to find it, I think we need to go into the Everfree." Everyone gasps, except me.

"Well, let's go. I for one want to finish this. That way, I can buy the house, and then we all can have a party. Sound good? Good, now let's get moving." And I march into the forest, axe on my back, like Kratos.

After roughly ten minutes, Spike, the mane 6, and I reach a swamp lake. I appears to be green, and it smells like rotting vegetation. I say so.

"Good Gods above, why do swamps have to smell like dead vegetation so much? I know why, but WHY?" Twilight and the girls giggle, and Spike just looks like he agrees. Then Twilight sees the way forward. She hops on the first stepping stone, and I get a bad feeling.

"Come on everypony, this way." Then the stones move under her, and raise out of the water. As they do, Twilight looses her balance on them, and falls back into my arms, where I had been waiting to catch her. Applejack calls the animal.

"Cragodile! Run." And the everyone splits up, Twilight coming with me, as I still was holding her, and Spike followed right behind me. The Cragodile followed after us, and I assumed because of Twilight being on it. We ran, but after taking a right, came to a clearing with no path to take. I set Twilight down, and pulled out my axe.

"Stay behind me Twilight. Don't interfere." Then turn as the Cragodile appears from the trees. I roar at it, and it roars back and charges. I switch out my runic attacks, and charge up a light attack. Fury of the Ice Troll. I charge up the attack, and sweep around the axe in a circle, moving with it, creating a shockwave that blasts the Cragodile back. It stands up quickly, but I am already charging. I run up to it, and punch it in the face, slamming it into a nearby tree. I then see a vine nearby, and grab it. I open the Cragodile's mouth, and start to force feed it the vine, shoving the thorns and vine into its mouth. When I think I have about hit the tail end of it. I slam the Cragodile's head into the ground then jump back and grab the vines. I start to play tug of war, and pull the vines out of the creature, ripping up it's insides as each thorn makes it's way out of the rock croc. The creature bleeds profusely and starts to writhe in pain, and I stop. I then walk over to it, and hold it down. It stops thrashing, and I slowly pull out the vines, taking care not to hurt it anymore. When I finally finish, I grab the thing, and say.

"Do not bother us again." I drop it, grab its tail, and swing around to toss it back to the water. It lands with a crash, and swims off without a second thought. I turn around, and am shocked to see the girls are looking at me with awe, terror, and in Fluttershy's case, happiness. She says.

"Thank you for not killing it. It was just angry that we had woken it from it's nap."

"There was no need to kill it, after it saw it's mistake. Is everything okay, you girls seem scared?"

The girls gather themselves, and Rainbow says that what I had done was awesome. Applejack compliments my strength, and Rarity says something that gets all the girls attention.

"Your clothes are soaking wet. Are you cold darling?" I look down, and see she is right. I decide to mess with them a bit. I might not look like Kratos, I am not bald, pale white, and have an amazing ass voice that demands respect, but I have a nice beard that will do. Oh, I also don't have his tattoo. I change my outfit to the Pauldron of the Ancients, the stone guardians that you fight. When I have finished changing, the girls all stare, Spike included, though his interest seems less hungry and more envious.

The girls all look at me like I am a prime selection of beef. They look at my abs, not a hard six pack, but good. My armor is the full set of Ancient gear. The Gauntlets of the Ancients cover my arms, and the Belt of the Ancients is around my waste. Rarity is the first to comment.

"Oh sweet Celestia, that is the most amazing set of armor I have ever seen. It is beautiful. What is it called, and how is it made? Do you know?" I shake my head.

"The set is called the Ancient armor set, and it is created with the fragment of the stone golems that walked Midgard. There is no way for this to be recreated to where it will be as powerful. It is made from stones that come from the body of the ancients, and the power come from the hearts. It is very powerful."

"It is simply beautiful. I must have it at some point, to make armor like it. That is, if you don't mind parting with it?"

"Of course not. I will give it to you when we finish this escapade. In the mean time, we actually need to continue on this quest. Otherwise, today will get mush worse." The girls shake themselves out of there hunger, and we continue. I hear them behind me, talking about me, but say nothing.

Rainbow: "Oh my sweet Celestia. He has an amazing body. Look at his abs, I bet he could bench press a small half ton boulder."

Applejack: "And did you see how he threw that Cragodile? He looked as if he didn't even break a sweat. He could probably rip one o' my apple trees right out the ground, no trouble."

Fluttershy:"And did you see how he stopped hurting the Cragodile? He was so gentle when he pulled out the rest of the vines. I don't agree with how he sent it off, but he still was nice enough to STOP hurting it when he saw it would stop."

Rarity: "That armor. I must get it to make more like it. I don't care if it isn't as powerful, the armor looks magnificent. It conveys strength, power, respect, and so much MORE. And to think, he probably has more like it."

Pinkie: "Damn, I knew he was hot, but he puts the ovens to shame. I wonder if he knows how to bake, and if so, maybe he has some recipes I could borrow?"

Twilight: "I said it once, and I will say it again. Sweet Celestia he's hot!"

Author's Note

I wanna leave another cliff HERE. I think that this cliff will have less visitors, but it still could cliff. Also, I have a lot more of the God of War armor sets. The Ancient set was always the coolest in my mind though, so I wanted to show it off.

Have a Jivin day!