The Equestrian Monomyth - Book 1 - Be a Good Brony or Die Trying

Twilight and I appeared in a cliff, in the other side outside the Everfree Forest. I looked around: Nopony had followed
us. So, I turned to Twilight, to give her the good news, but found her giving her loin to me, sorrowful. I could hear
her crying.

" Twilight, what's happening? "

She didn't answer.

" Twi? "

She started gradually to tremble, until she launched an angered scream, her coat became yellow and her mane and tail
red fire:

" AHHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGGGGG! " She levitated for a while, and after that she fell all scrambled up. Then, she turned to me
and started to buck me with her forehooves:

" This is your fault!! This is your fault!! If you never had showed up, none of this would have ever happened!! "

" Twi, what's happening to you?! "

" Don't call me Twi! For your fault, I had to fight my best friends, the very ones I've swear to protect with my very
life! Now I'm truly a TRAITOR! " She stopped trying to hit me, and walked to the cliff's edge, and started to cry again.
" I don't know if I could live with myseeeeelf... "

I didn't say a thing. Just came closer to her, knelt at her side and hugged her. She hugged me as well:

" I'm sorry, my love, forgive me... I'm just so confused... I don't know what to think... " She sobbed.

" Don't worry, my love. Whatever fate we have to face, we'll face it together. "

Twilight looked me straight to the eyes:

" You must know... that now you are the only one that keeps me alive. Please, don't abandon me too. My heart it's not
going to take it... "

" Twi, I'll never abandon you, for no reason, never, ever. Because I love you, over all things in the world. "

She smiled, and threw her muzzle over my mouth, but I stopped her:

" Hey, didn't you said that you weren't ready for this? "

" Are we truly ready for anything at all? " She smiled, and we kissed passionately.

And, for the first time in several days, we felt peace at last...

The dream realm. Luna's domain. What exactly she was looking for? That was something that was unknown to
even herself.

" Alright, pretty face. Show your cuteness already. " Said Seymour.

Luna made herself visible.

" How did...? How did you know that we were here? "

" It's called lucid dreams. I can be sleeping and awake at the same time. "

" How...? That... that's not possible! "

" Well, from where I came, it's completely possible. With training, of course. Why did you come back? "

" We need answers! "

" What answers? I've already told all I know. Did you get punished for doing the right thing, again? "

Luna startled. How did he knows?

" Your sister never listens to you, did she? She always humilliates you and mistreats you, like you were a prickle in
her hoof. She's never gonna trust you, and you know it. " Seymour continued.

" Stop it! Stop it already! " Luna walked back, sobbing.

" You wanted answers. I'm giving them to you. I never say you were gonna like them. "

Luna were almost crying.

" Please... we need to know how to find Twilight... tell us, please! "

" Ahhhh. The little traitor is now missing? Why I'm not surprised? That's what traitors do when they get uncovered:
They leave to never return. "

" Nooooo"o"o"oooo! " Luna were crying already.

" What's that for? Your sister is gonna send you to the moon again, if the little traitor is never to be found? "

" Yeeeeeessss! " Luna laid to the floor, heartbroken. " Why she don't simply kill usssss?! Why play with us, like we
were toyssss?! " She cried aloud.

" And that's all you're gonna do? Lie to cry and wait for your doom? "

" But, what else can we do?! We can't defeat her, she's stronger than us! "

" You defeated her once. The time you returned, remember? And then, it was the little traitor who defeated you, if I can
recall well. "

Luna raised the head and perked the ears, hopeful.

" Smart girl. I see you've figured out were I'm going to. Of course, in your current state, you cannot defeat her, but
with my aid, it will be another story. Once Celestia is down, we can easily take care of the rest of the Elements. Then,
you'll have nothing to fear of. Then, what do you say? Do we have a deal? "

Luna hesitated for a while, but finally, her facial expresion hardened, and her eyes sharpened, filled with rage and
hatred.

" Say, prisoner, what can we do to help you? " She asked, with the voice of Nightmare Moon.

" Well, first of all, stop calling me "prisoner", I have a name: Seymour. Second, stop talking about yourself in plural
tense. It puts me on the nerves. "

Luna put her hoof in her throat and gulped.

" And lastly... " Seymour put his hand in his pocket and raised his crushed VR googles. " ...fix this for me... "

" Are you sure about this, my love? " I asked Twilight, concerned.

" Yes, I'm, 100 percent sure. There's nothing left for me here. I want to go with you to your world. Start a new life,
with you. Marry you, and have our first time... you know... " She giggled and blushed. " And see the marvels that your
race has done. Learn from the brightest scientists of your history. I can't wait! "

I raised the VR googles, fully charged and operational.

" Well then. Ready to go? "

" Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! " She jumped in place, joyful. She looks so cute!

I was about to press the "Exit" option, when she stopped me with a hoof:

" Wait! I have completely forgotten about Spike! We can't leave him just like this! "

I raised a brow...

Celestia were attending her daily duties, when Luna surprisingly comes by, dragging a strange barrel"shaped metallic
device with wheels, multiple dials, and a scalene triangle in the top.

" Ah! Hello, little sister. Why aren't you resting? Is there something important that you want to discuss with me...?
Ah! Have you found some lead to Twilight's whereabouts? " Celestia kindly greeted her, believing that she had been too
harsh with her.

" Oh no, not at all, it's just that I've found this marvelous device, and I was so excited about that I didn't want to
wait to show it to you. "

" A device? What kind of device? "

" This one? Well, it's called a Sundial. "

" A Sundial? And what it does? "

" Well, normally, Sundials just show what time is it, based in the sun's position in the sky. Pretty useless here,
actually. " Luna giggled. " But this one doesn't. In fact, it does exactly the opposite. Let me show it. " Luna drags
the sundial to a window and looks to the sky. " Huh, the sun is so motionless. It should be so bored. Let's give it
some entertainment! "

She used her magic to manipulate the sundial's controls, and rolled a dial right. The sun moved to the right.

" Oh! Looooook, it moveeeed! Now to the left. "

She rolled the dial backwards, and the sun moved backwards.

" Wow! Did you see that, sister? It's not extraordinary? "

Celestia step down from her throne, concerned:

" Luna, what are you doing? "

" And look! It can go up... and down! "

The sun went up and down.

" Luna, stop it! "

" And now to twirl! " Luna rolled the dials and the sun started to twirl.

" Luna, that's enough! Stop it at once! "

" And it can raise the moon too! Look, night, day, night, day, night, day...! "

Day and night started to pass quickly.

" Luna, that's enough!! " Celestia used her magic to take apart the device from her sister.

" Why did you do that, sister? If it's so fun! "

" Luna, have you gotten crazy? Where did you find that thing? Answer me! "

" Who cares where I found it! With that device, now our services are no longer required. We can have holidays! Imagine!
The beach, the sea, the sand, the seagulls, The paradise!... well, actually will only be holidays for you, as I had
1000 years of forced holidays, if you know what I mean. " Luna giggled again.

Celestia sat on her haunches:

" Luna, look, I do really appreciate your efforts to release me from my duties, but I really need... "

" I was joking. " Luna interrupted her.

" Pardom me? "

" About the holidays. "

" Luna, I don't understand you. "

" You're not going on holidays. You're... just going. "

Celestia remained speechless for a moment, processing what Luna had said. Then, she adopted a defensive stance.

" Wait, wait, wait, wait, because I believe I don't heared you well! Are you defying me, Lu..?! " She couldn't end the
line, as she got a direct impact from a Plasma Blaster shot, that threw her violently back yo her throne, making a mess
of the place.

Seymour emerged from inside the Sundial, and quickly took down all the nearby guards. Then, he whiffed the cannon of
his Plasma Blaster gun.

" Help! I'm being attacked! Help! " Celestia screamed, trembling of pain.

Then, Seymour transformed in the predator and went toward her.

" I expect you to put some fight, or I'm gonna make you suffer! Mwahahahahahaha! "

Shining Armor and his guards came quickly, but Luna stood in front of them.

" Where are you going so fast, Captain? Don't you see that Celestia is busy? " She mocked.

" Luna, how could you...?! Guards, arrest her! " Shining Armor ordered.

Suddenly, crashing the windows, plenty of predators entered the room, and engaged battle with Shining Armor and his
guards. All the castle became a mayhem of fighting, while the civilians galloped away, screaming scared.

Predator Seymour tried to reach Celestia, but she used a powerful magic attack and made him retreat. Then, he just
started to make copies of himself, which Celestia could destroy, but they keep coming. Celestia then tried to teleport
to safety, but Luna prevented her to do so, by capturing her in a levitating magic bubble.

" Luna! What are you doing?!! He's going to kill me!! "

" Oh, no, don't worry, sister. He's not going to kill you. I AM going to kill you. "

" NO LUNA NO PLEASE NO AHHHHHHHHHH!!! " Celestia rapidly bucked of pure terror when she saw Luna lighten her horn.

" Just joking! "

" What? "

But at that moment, another plasma blaster knocked Celestia down.

Normal Seymour walked to Luna's side.

" I didn't know you had so perverse sense of humour, pretty face. I think we're going to get along well. "

They both threw an evil chuckle.

" Whaaaaaaahahahah! Whaaaaaaahahahah! How she could do that to meeeee?! " Cried Spike in his basket " How she's going to
leave meeee?! What's going to be of meeeeeee?! Whaaaaaaahahahah! "

Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were unsuccessfully trying to calm him down, as Dashie were still flying looking for
Twilight, and Applejack had to leave to take care of a stampede.

" Don't cry, darling. Fluttershy can take care of you. Isn't Flutters? " Rarity proposed.

" Of course, Spikey, I can take care of you, I have enough space to you to play, many little animal friends... "
Fluttershy tried to confort him with kindness.

" No! I don't want anypony else! I want Twilight! Whaaaaaaahahahah! Bring me Twiliiiiiight!! "

Fluttershy retreated, and looked sadly to the other ponies.

At that very moment, the door was knocked. Spike like a lightning got out from his basket, rambling:

" It's her! It's her! It has to be her! " And opened the door. " Twi...! Who are you? "

Fluttershy turned around and she saw : A familiar bipedal creature, covered with a large rainco...!

" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! "

Twilight and me were approaching ponyville taking an alternate course.

" Are you sure we're not going to be spotted? Remember that you aren't precisely a hiding expert. "

" Ah! Come on! Stop teasing me! Will you? " Twilight protested, gently pushing me with a hoof.

We both laughed.

" Alright, alright. We're close. Remember. Nopony. Nopony at all. Just Spike, Ok? " Twilight reminded me.

But when we arrived to Ponyville, the town was deserted.

" Woah, this is weird. Where's everybody? " I asked, rubbing the back of my head.

" Ohhh. Could all the town have gone to find me? " Worried Twilight, putting a hoof in her chin.

I was about to reply that was very unlikely, when my alarm sense triggered.

" Twi, run! " I warned her, just before a bunch of aliens and predators appeared from nowhere!

I cast a rapid fire blaster gun and started to take them down:

" Twi! Didn't you heard me?!! Run!! "

" I won't let you down! " She replied, firing with her magic as well.

" Let's go to the Everfree!! Move!! "

We run back to the forest, while hordes of monsters were pursuin us. Some of them managed to reach us, forcing me to
fight them hand"to"hand, to which I cast a dispelling sword.

From the Canterlot castle, Seymour were enjoying the view.

" Ohhh, poor of them. Don't they? They're so outnumbered. Let me even the odds a bit. "

From nowhere, gigantic flying aliens and predators appeared.

" Oh, crap! " I frightened, and after taking down the last mini alien, I cast a hover bike, mounted Twilight in and ran
away. We shot some rounds to them, but it was like trying to pierce a rock with a needle.

The forest started to be teared apart by the gigantic horde: Soon there will be nowhere to hide or run.

" Love, quick, that way! " Twilight indicated me with her hoof.

I followed the direction she told me, until I could see a cave.

" Shoot inside the cave! "

" What? " I didn't get it.

" Do it! "

I did so, and right after, a roar sounded from the depths of the cave, and an Ursa Minor emerged from there. The beast
started to swing its claws before the aliens with hostility. The bear soon was reducted, and threw a helping yelp.

From the depths of the cave, an even stronger roar was heared, and the Ursa Major appeared!

Then, the combat really got ugly.

Aliens, predators and debris of trees and soil started to fell around us, almost crushing us! Even going at high speed
with the hover bike, we aren't safe at all! There was no choice, I have to go aerial!

But just when I was taking off, a mountain"like pile of debris fell over us. We aren't gonna make it! Without thinking
twice, I grabbed Twi's loin, and threw her the fartest away I could. A second later, everything blacked out...

Seymour, cozyly sitting in the castle's balcony, were enjoying the show with a pair of binoculars, and mocked:

" Hey, girls, come to see this! " He levitated the cage where the rest of the Mane 6 and Celestia where held, and put it
on the balcony too. " It seems that the little traitor got more than she bargained for! Ha, ha, ha, ha! " He pointed to
the battle, which were so huge, that was perfectly visible from there.

When Twilight recovered conciousness, the battle was still raging on. She desperately called for me, and then, she saw
the hover bike, partially covered by the mountain of debris.

" Don't worry, my love! I'm coming to save you! " She ran to the debris and started to remove it.

" Gus, my love! Where are you?! Answer me please! " She dug desperately, because she didn't know were I was, while
covering her eyes from the dust.

Then, she came out with an idea, and cast a Life Force detection spell...

Her eyes widened, her body trembled, the sweat covered her face: Nothing... Nothing was detected... That means...

" My beloved... my... beloved... is... dead... DEAD! NO! He can't be dead! He can't...! "

She puts her forelegs over the debris, shrunk her tearful eyes, trembling from hooves to head, while the battle
surrounding her went slow motion. She could hear the beat of her heart slowing down too. All her world were crumbling.
If only she weren't come out with the idea of returning for Spike, they will be living happy after, at her beloved one's
world! It was her fault! Her fault! Now she has lost everything! Everything!

Twilight put a hoof in her chest, because she felt a pain in her heart beyond all description.

" Agh. " She mourned, like she had received a mortal wound, which in fact was.

She fell on her side, shivering, her legs stretched with an agonic stertor, her eyes goes up, and her heart stopped
beating...

The Ursa Major finally defeated the last colossal alien, and withdrew to her lair, exhausted.

" Well, it seems that the party is over. " Mocked Seymour. " Hey, pretty face, can you sense the little traitor? "

Luna lightened her horn.

" Nope. She's gone. " She said with a regal tone, but she couldn't skip a slight smile momentarily in her face.

The imprisoned mares gasped with terror and concern. Celestia broke to cry as never she was seen before.

" Oh, Twilighttttt... " Mourned the mares.

" Oh, poor Celestia. It seems that your faithful student is no more... Ha, ha, ha! " Cruelly mocked Seymour. " And the
other human jerk? "

Luna lightened her horn again.

" He's gone too. " She reported with the same cold blood as before.

" Oh, poor ponies, no one can save you now... Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!! " Cruelly mocked Seymour again. " Well, I guess
this deserves a toast! "

He made a toast with Luna, and both left, leaving the cage in the balcony.

" To the Tartarus with you, Luna! I'll never forgive you! You'll pay for this! You hear me?! You'll PAAAAAAAY!! "
Celestia bucked several times the cage bars, crying and enraged.