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It was another normal day in my new home town of Ponyville, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and I was reading the 'History of Equestria' again, well, more like a certain part of it, the Post-Discordian Era, years 1203 to 1218, where a friend turned villain was marked, not much was said about him, but he was amazing, a being that could do all of these magical feats that not even Celestia could do, he even taught princess Luna before she became Nightmare Moon, but that was all that the book said on him, his history with the princesses not even five pages long, but was still the most memorable in my eyes, so it's safe to say that it took me by surprise when Spike came downstairs with a letter in his claws.

"Twilight! Princess Celestia is summoning you and the girls to Canterlot immediately, she said it was important." He said coming up next to me holding a scroll up to me, I quickly grab it with my magic and scan the letter, true to his words, Princess Celestia was summoning me and the girls to Canterlot immediately for something very important.

"Thank you for telling me Spike, go ahead and take the day off after your chores, i'll be back by tonight after whatever Princess Celestia wants us to do is done." I said before hugging him, he quickly starts on his chores after that.

I left my new home and library in search for Pinkie, as she could gather everypony quickly, and luckily for me, she was skipping down the road towards me.

"Pinkie!" I call out jogging up to her.

"Hiya Twilight, what's going on?" She asks me, getting me to sigh, she could always tell when something was off.

"I'm glad i found you Pinkie, I need you to gather the rest of the girls and bring them to my place, something I was just informed of something important and we all need to be there." I reply, she simply salutes me like a royal guard before disappearing in a cloud of smoke that was shaped exactly like her.

I went back to my place and gathered some bits so we could get tickets for the train, and waited at the front door for my friends, one by one they appeared, the first was the cyan pegasus: Rainbow Dash, she flew in and landed in front of me.

"Hey Twi, what's going on? Pinkie said that you were informed of something important and that I was to come here." She said looking at me with a strange mix of excitement and confusion.

"I'll tell you when the girls get here, i ask Pinkie to grab all of you." I replied leaning against the wood of my tree house.

That was all I needed to say for her to be quiet, and soon enough, the rest of the girls got here, they all looked at me, asking why I had gotten Pinkie to grab them.

"Okay girls, so not to long ago, i got a letter from Princess Celestia tell me to grab all of you and head to Canterlot, saying it was important, we need to leave to get on the next train to Canterlot, any questions?" I explained as much as I could with the information given to me, Fluttershy raised her hand. "Yes Fluttershy?" I ask, giving her the floor.

"Shouldn't we go now? The next train is going to be here in six minutes." She asks pointing towards the clock, and sure enough, there was only six minutes until the next train to Canterlot gets here.

"Oh sweet Celestia, you're right, let's hurry girls, we can't be late." I say sprinting off for the train station.

One benefit of having athletic friends, that i'm rather athletic myself, not as much as Rainbow or AJ, but i'm well fit. I could see the train pulling into the station as we were running towards it, I knew we'd have three minutes to spare if we continued at the pace we're going, at least until Pinkie gasped and rush tackled somepony… only for said pony to front flip over her as she was about to tackle him, he landed on his feet as she went face first into the ground, she got back up as we came up to them.

"HII'MPINKIEPIEWHATSYOURNAME?WHATSYOURFAVORITECAKEFLAVOR?ICECREAMFLAV--mmmfffph." She started off on her tangent for the new pony, this pony just placed their finger on her lips, making her stop.

"You can plan my 'Welcome to Ponyville' party after you get back from Canterlot." The pony said, confirming in my mind that it was a stallion, just before the questions settled in.

"Who did he know we were going to Canterlot!?" My logical side yelled in my head.

Which brought up a good point, not even five minutes, heck, not even a single understood sentence from any of us and this stallion already knew we were heading to Canterlot.

"Now how'd ya know we were headin' ta Canterlot?" Applejack asked the question on all of our minds.

"Because you six were running for the train station, and the next train to leave is the one to Canterlot, i also know who you six are, but don't worry, all will be explained in time, by the way, egghead, tell your mentor and her sister that their brother says hi, they'll know who you're talking about." He said before looking straight at me, a small smile gracing his muzzle.

"Wait, how do you know my mentor?" I ask just as he turns to leave.

"Like I said, Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, wielder of the Element of Magic, all will be explained in time, just tell Princess Celestia and Luna that their brother says hi, they'll know who you're talking about… now you six might want to run, the train's about to depart." He said before walking away, we stayed there to watch him until we heard the train whistle go off, signaling for anypony getting on to get on now.

"Let's go girls, we'll deal with him later." I say before heading for the train.

We boarded last second and took our seats, besides me and my friends, the train car was empty, letting us talk about anything.

"Just who was that stallion? And why was he cloaked in such dark clothes?" RD asked as the train took off from the station.

"I don't know Dash… but he wasn't tellin' the whole truth, he told a lie." AJ said getting us to look at her.

"Whatever do you mean darling?" Rarity asked, curiosity getting the better of her, the same question was in my head.

"Well… it's kinda complicated, i know for a fact that he was tellin' a lie, but my gut was sayin' that he was speakin' the truth…" she replied, getting all of us to think back on what he said, that's when it hit me.

"You mean that Princess Celestia and Luna have a brother in the first place…" I say, getting the girls to look shocked that such a fact in his words was overlooked, even by me.

"Right… there's no point in history that says the princesses have another siblin', only teachers n' friends, but no family, 'cept their parents." She replied, getting all of us to think about the stallion in question.

"He's definitely fast, fast enough to out maneuver Pinkie, and she can move fast when there's a new pony in town." Fluttershy remared, getting us to nod at that fact, out speeding Pinkie was a feat of itself, as she could keep up with Dash while flying at half speed, which was fast in of itself, not to mention how she defied the laws of physics every day.

"True, but the only way to know if it was the truth or not is to tell the princesses, and see how they react, if they're confused, then he was telling a lie, anything else and he was telling the truth." I say in confidence, the others agreeing with me.

The train stopped at Canterlot station and we departed, coming face to face with four royal guards, one earth pony, two unicorns and a pegasus.

"Greetings ma'am's we were sent here to escort you to the castle by the princess, please follow us." The pegasus said before they made a box formation around us before escorting us to the castle.

The trip wasn't an eventful one, and we didn't really talk about anything for not wanting the guards to hear us, upon arriving, they brought us to the main hall, where Princess Celestia was talking quietly to her sister Princess Luna.

"Princess Celestia, we came as soon as we could." I said bowing in respect, both of them turned to look at us, whatever they were talking about stopped for a later date.

"Ah, greetings Twilight, i'm glad you could all make it, I was beginning to wonder where you girls were." Celestia said in a motherly greeting, Luna simply nodded her head in welcoming.

"What was so important that you needed us to be here so quickly princess?" Shy asked getting us to wonder too.

"I'm afraid that and old enemy of ours has come back to conquer Equestria again, come, i will tell you along the way." She replied before turning down one of the halls.

"Um… before i forget princess, somepony told me to tell both of you something before we got here…" i say making them turn to me, i started to freak out inside.

"And what did this pony say Twilight?" Celestia asked me, Luna waiting for me to say it.

"The pony said to tell you that your brother says hi…" I replied getting both of them to look at me in shock.

"W-what did you say?" Celestia asked cautiously, making me nervous.

"That your brother says hi… and that you'd know who he was talking about…" I reply, my voice definitely going up two octaves.

"No… it can't be… he's out too, how is he out, he shouldn't be out..." I hear Celestia say in fear, making me freak out in my head, worse than I was before.

"He actually remembered us… sister… he actually remembered us!" Luna exclaimed in joy, having the exact opposite reaction to Celestia.

"But now he's out too Luna, you aren't worried even in the slightest?!" Celestia asked in fear and shock, getting all of us to look at each other in worry, this stallion's words were making Princess Celestia, of all ponies, afraid of whoever this brother of theirs is.

"Um… princesses, mind tellin' us who your supposed brother is? 'Cause this is the first time we've ever heard of 'im." AJ asked getting them to look at each other, then to us.

"I… I suppose, since he's already out… you girls should know… of the stallion that nearly destroyed the birthplace of the Elements of Harmony." Celestia said getting all of our jaws to drop to the ground.

"Nearly destroyed the birthplace of the Elements!?!?" My mind went on shutdown directly after screaming that as my jaw dropped through the floor.

After about ten minutes, we all came to our senses, it was still hard to wrap our minds around that.

"Okay… I think we're good, so please princess, start from the top." Rarity said as we started walking down the hall with both princesses.

"Well… I suppose Luna should start first, as she was the first to meet him…" Celestia said looking over at her sister.

"Of course Tia, you see, I first met our brother… well, he's not exactly our brother, but I at least treated him like one." Luna starts off, getting our curiosity peaked.

"That's why he was never mentioned in the history books, because he was never an actual part of your family." I say making Luna giggle a bit, much to our confusion.

"Oh he was mentioned all right, not as a brother, but as a best friend turned villain." She replies teleporting a book in before quickly turning to a certain page, showing it to us, I felt my jaw drop in shock.

"Your brother is Arcana!? The stallion who could do feats of magic that even the both of you can't do! That's your brother?!" I exclaim in shock and surprise, which then made the girls jaws drop in shock.

"Yes indeed, he was quite the magic master, he even taught me some of the spells I know." Luna replied teleporting the book back to wherever it was in the first place.

"Like what exactly?" I asked in pure curiosity, the girls wanting to know too.

"Well… mostly healing spells, as well as some transfiguration spells, and then… he taught us four summoning spells, each stronger than the last." She replied going over the spells in her head.

"Summoning spells?" I ask looking at Celestia, she just put her hands up.

"I don't know what he taught her, all i know is that he didn't trust me with his spells, because everytime i tried to perform one, he'd put me to sleep with his magic." She said crossing her arms over her chest.

"True, those were funny times, but i guess i could summon an old friend of mine… just to show you how it's done." Luna remarks, before turning her attention back to me.

"Please? This would be a breakthrough in the art of magic if i could do it too." I say getting out a pad and quill with my magic.

"Very well, you might want to stand back though." She says, i take seven steps back, once I do, she starts the spell.

I write down everything, from her stance to how the circle that appeared at her hooves looks, to how much magic she's using, it was then that I heard her voice.

"Evoca il Compagno dei tre mostri infernali!" She calls out before slamming her fist into the ground.

Upon doing so, three feet in front of her, a smaller circle, this one looking like two blood red pentagrams layered in opposite directions of each other appeared, a crimzon ball of fire, about three to four feet tall formed on it, once the fire dimmed down, we all saw a dog, only it's coat was ashen black with fiery patterns across its upper front paws and spanning all the way down it's back, there was wisps of fire on the back of each of its paws, it's chest and lower jaw were fire orange, it's eyes however, they weren't like Winona's eyes, no, these eyes were pure red, almost as if they contained a fire itself, it looked at all of us before turning to look at Luna, it then walked over and sat in front of her.

"Girls, say hello to my Hellhound, Ash, she's a very powerful beast that can hunt down her prey forever, never letting them out of her sight." She said petting the dog, I was about to say something before a word stood out to me.

"Princess Luna… what's a Hellhound?" I ask, everypony else looks to her for an answer.

"Well, from what brother told me… it's a sort of demonic dog, usually used by Fire Giants as pets, as they're immune to the Hellhound’s flaming breath." She replies slowly stroking her Hellhound's fur while sitting down.

"Okay… what's a Fire Giant?" I ask getting curious as to the terms she was using.

"Well… actually, I don't know, brother never told us about Fire Giants, only mentioned them when talking about another species." Luna says shrugging her shoulders, I sigh in sadness before getting an idea.

"Wait, couldn't you track down where your brother is with his magical aura?" I ask, getting Luna and Celestia to look slightly debating about it.

"Not exactly… from what he told me, only those who are classified as Wizards or Sorcerers from his homeland can track down anyone, with the right materials that is, and i'm not either of those." Luna answered, making Celestia sigh in defeat.

"If Luna can't track him, then i can't either, besides, we have nothing to use that is his to track him with in the first place." She said getting me to sigh in defeat, before Luna spoke up again.

"Well… there is one pony that's classified as a Sorcerer who can track him down… but I don't think she'll do it if we ask her… she's still holding that day against us Tia…" she said getting Ash to growl a bit, before Luna speaks in a language I can't understand, but apparently calms Ash down.

"I know sister… but if it's our only chance, what choice do we have but to ask." Celestia says with desperation thick in her voice.

"What if i ask her? I'm sure whoever this mare is, i can get her to perform the tracking spell for us, or at least give us something of his." I say getting both of the sisters to look at each other in contemplation before Luna gives a hesitant half nod as Celestia gives an understanding nod.

"Very well Twilight, Luna will take you to her, meanwhile I'll take the rest of the girls and give them the Elements of Harmony for the first enemy." Celestia says as Luna and Ash come up to me, while the girls go over to Celestia.

"Good luck Twi!" AJ calls out before we split ways.

"Thanks girls…" I call back before following Luna. "I'm going to need it for this." I whisper to myself as i come up next to Luna.

We came into the gardens of the castle before Luna stops me.

"Twilight, you must understand something, the mare you are about to meet is somepony you already know, however, when bringing up this subject, you must be careful, one misplaced word and she could summon creatures that make Ash here look like an ant in comparison, so please, please, be careful with how you speak to her on this subject." She says getting me to worry a bit.

"Of course Luna… I'll make sure she helps us, i just need to think before speaking." I say before heading into the garden.

It took five minutes before I found the mare in question, which made me overjoyed at who it was.

"Cadence!" I call out rushing up to her, she immediately smiles and stands up to greet me.

"Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake, clap your hands and do a little shake." We both say in our little dance before hugging.

"Twilight, it's good to see you again, how have you been?" She asks as we end the hug.

"I've been good Cadence, but i'm afraid i'm not here to catch up… i need your help." I say interlocking my fingers a bit as I leaned back.

"What kind of help, love or magic?" She asks sitting down on the bench again, with me sitting next to her.

"Magic help… I need you to track somepony important down with your magic." I answer her, her eyebrow goes up when she heard that last part.

"And who, pray tell, is the pony you want me to track down with my magic?" She asks looking over at me while still facing forwards.

"He goes by the name 'Arcana', I was told that you were the only pony who could track him down." I say getting her to think about what I said.

"I can't help you there Twily, as i don't know who this 'Arcana' is, as well as having anything on me that would be his." She says shaking her head in slight defeat, I decide to add one thing that'll help.

"He's Celestia and Luna's brother…" I say, making her go wide eyed.

"Dad's free…" she says just loud enough to hear it.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, Arcana's your dad?!" I say shocked, apparently not knowing anything about her past.

"His name isn't Arcana, but yes he is my father, taught me almost every spell I know." She replies before pulling out a small gold bag and opening it up, before reaching elbow length into the bag, making me look at the bag in shock and disbelief.

"How…?" I ask pointing at the bag she's rummaging through.

"It's a bag of holding, basically, it's sort of like a small pocket of space that can store just about anything you can put in it… now where is that book." She explains before looking at the entrance of the bag. "Ah, there it is." She says pulling out a light blue book from the bag before opening it, turning the pages. "Sweet deities above, it's been forever since I had to use this spell." She says getting me to look confused.

"Don't you mean sweet Celestia?" I ask making sure i heard her right.

"Nope, Celestia may be able to control the pathway of the sun, but that pales in comparison as to the nine deities that watch the planet." She says before reaching into the bag again. "Evoca Silver Mirror." She says before a mirror jumps out of the bag and into her open hand. "That charm is so useful… anyways, here goes nothing… Contatta Forest Flare." She says holding the mirror slightly out in front of her, the book in her lap.

At first nothing happens before the surface of the mirror starts to ripple, before showing the stallion from before.

"Who is this and why are you scrying me?" He asks looking in a different direction.

"Daddy, I thought you wouldn't forget me, i was your best student all those years ago." Cadence replies pouting a bit, the figure turns around quickly, looking directly at us.

"Mi Amore? Is that truly you?" He asks hold out a hand.

"It's me dad, you look like you haven't aged a day." She says getting the stallion to chuckle.

"Yeah… petrification can do that to ya." He says taking his hood off, finally revealing his face.

It was nothing like I've ever seen before, first off, his muzzle is flat, and his ears aren't on top of his head, then I noticed his golden eyes and crimson mane, it was short and slightly wild, giving him this slight bad boy look going on, i see his teeth are slightly sharp, a few really sharp, otherwise he has an attractive yet roguish look to his face, especially with his smirk, which he's now sporting.

"So, i know that someone told you i'm now free, so who's there?" He asks getting me to freeze up.

"My friend, Twilight." She responds quick and blunt.

"I see, Celestia and Lulu must have gotten the message I sent them then." He says before chuckling slightly evilly.

"Probably, they want to know where you are." She says making him think a bit before chuckling again, then going into a full laughing fit.

"T-tell them… Chaos is home, that's it, that vague." He says after settling down but still laughing a little.

"Oh… I get it, clever dad, very clever indeed." She smirks before tapping the glass. "See you around dad." She says before ending the spell, making the surface go back to normal before putting both items back in the golden bag, then putting that away.

"What does he mean 'Chaos is home'?" I ask, getting Cadence to chuckle a bit.

"Don't worry Twilight, just go head to Celestia, you're gonna wanna be there when it happens." She replies before standing up and moving towards the center of the clearing. "Dimension Tür!" She calls out before jumping forwards.

I watch as an area of the space in front of her turns into a deep blue version of a door appears before her, she vanishes within it before it closes by swirling into its center and then popping away from existence, leaving me in the clearing, where i'm now alone. I quickly decided to teleport to the girls who apparently walking towards a large set of doors.

"Hey girls…" I say as they look at me quickly.

"Twilight, what happened?" Celestia asked as I walked up to them.

"Well… I got to see my foalsitter, who's an alicorn now, and she’s apparently the daughter of Arcana… whose name isn't really Arcana, I also learned that he isn't a stallion… or even a pony for that matter, that there's nine beings that apparently make your magic look like child's play, and that 'Chaos is Home' when asked where he was…" I reply as I recap the last fifteen minutes, once I was done, the girls look at me in confusion, Celestia looked slightly pissed.

“Oh really? Arcana thinks he can just take on the power of the sun? I'd like to see him try.” she says almost evilly, but then again, somepony just said that raising and setting the sun wasn't special.

“I don't know what's going through that stallions mind, but he's got some nerve, saying that you aren't powerful Princess.” RD says, getting confirmations from the rest of the girls, she seems to brighten a bit, before returning serious.

“Thank you girls, but let’s get the Elements before we do anything else.” she says heading towards the door, we follow her ready to take the stand of ‘Equestria’s Protectors’ once again.

Let's just say that a lot of things happened after that point, we found out that Discord, the Lord of Chaos and Disharmony, had taken the elements and left us with a riddle, which we then went into a hedge maze, where we got ‘Discorded’ one by one, then we lost his game, which then made me find the elements back home in the book about the elements, the same book I used when we went up against Nightmare Moon. I then used a memory spell on my friends, fixing them… which lead us to this encounter with Discord.

“Your chaos ends here Discord!” I call out to him, he just stands up, takes a bow, and stares at us, as if waiting for us to place us back in stone, but his smirk was saying something else.

“We’ll seen girls… fire when ready,” he says poofing a pair of sunglasses into existence, before creating a target that we could hit.

“Let's do this girls.” I say slightly unnerved by his smirk.

The Elements started going off by projecting their shapes towards him, which he dodged, this lasted a good six minutes before we’re lifted into the air, pure light coming from all of us, Discord looked a little worried, until the rainbow that we fire off hits the top of it crest. Once it did, I felt something hit my element before it left my head, the rainbow immediately faltered and dissipated, leaving Discord perfectly fine.

“H-how?” Rainbow asked looking at him in fear, before i feel for my tiara, it wasn't there.

“Where's my element!? Discord!” I yell out in anger making the draconequus sit back in his chair... smiling a really goofy smile.

"I can't believe that worked! I didn't think he'd show up!" he says getting us to look at the throne in horror as the cloaked stallion come out from behind it.

"I did say i'd help when you needed it Dis, but that was your one shot, you don't get another... so if she finds the Element of Magic again, i won't be able to save you." he says tipping his head to us before leaving. "Seeya Dis, i'm going back to training, i found another student, and this one has a lot of potential in her." he says walking towards the Everfree Forest, Discord waves goodbye to the stallion, who i now knew was Cadence's father.

"Bye Ty! have fun training the squirt!" he calls back before the stallion puts a fist in the air before disappearing into the trees. "Well, if you six want to stop me, you need to find out where he placed the element, i don't know where it is, and he's busy right now training somepony, so if you lot need me, i'm going to be spreading as much chaos around here as possible... but i can tell you this, the element is in plain sight." he says turning back to us before disappearing in a burst of confetti, leaving us to wonder and worry about what's going to happen next...

Author's Note

Chapter SIX!? WOOOOOOO!!! now i just need some more chapters... but what to place, what will happen, you'll all have to find out in the next chapter! AHAHAHAH!!!

Goodnight my lovely little night terrors!