The Spectre of Phalanxia

After a long walk, all of them were in Ponyville, whilst the inhabitants were greatly surprised to see creatures they have never seen before. ‘Aw, this place and everyone here is so cute.’ said the human Fluttershy when she admired the place.

‘Oh don’t worry,’ said Fluttershy to her counterpart with a smile ‘After when we’re done here, we can show you around, you’d love it here.’

‘Speaking of here.’ said Celestia when they arrived at Twilight’s castle, with the rest of the EG Mane 7 surprised to see what the place looked like.

‘Oh, my, gosh.’ said human Rarity when she was surprised ‘This castle is amazing.’

‘Whoa,’ said Merlin when he looked at it ‘Nice castle.’

‘Thanks.’ said Twilight with a smile ‘There’s enough room here for nearly over fifty ponies to stay here.’

A while later, all of them were inside the castle and got the tour of the place. But their final stop was at the Friendship Map. They were surprised to see what it looked like. Caldor took a few steps forward and were amazed by the map whilst he whistled ‘Impressive.’

Whilst he observed the map with the ones the Serpent gave him, human Twilight asked her counterpart about the map ‘So what’s so special about this map?’

‘Oh it’s very special,’ said Twilight whilst she explained it to her Canterlot High friends ‘See, after we got the Castle, the map came along with it. It shows a map of all of Equestria and beyond. Whenever there’s a pony or any creature in trouble and in need of guidance and teach the meaning of friends, the map picked me and my friends to go on a quest to help solve the problem.’

‘Whoa,’ said the human Rainbow Dash when she looked at it ‘So all of you go on adventures?’

‘Not all of us,’ said Rainbow Dash when she spoke to her counterpart ‘See every now and again, the map picks either one or two of us to go on the quest. Last time when we first started, Pinkie Pie and I were sent to help the griffons, Applejack and Fluttershy were picked to go to help the Kirin, whilst Twilight and Rarity helped at Manehattan.’

‘But what happens if it picks all of you?’ asked human Applejack when she was curious about the map’s capabilities.

‘Oh, it’s rare,’ said Starlight when she explained ‘All of them were picked to try and help me. I was uh…uncooperative, but I eventually came around. But overtime, the map began to call different ponies to help. Last time the map picked me to help solve a problem between Celestia and Luna.’ she whispered over to them as they heard ‘They weren't getting along because each of them thought one had it easy than the other, so I kinda made them switch places,’ she then stopped whispering as she continued ‘But they eventually came through.’

‘Yeah,’ said Sunburst when he explained to them ‘The map called me and Starlight together last time.’

‘Even mah sister and her friends.’ said Applejack when she explained that the map called them over.

‘It even called me to help solve a problem.’ said Spike when he was proud of the one day.

‘That you nearly caused.’ said Merlin with a cocky smile, with Spike being embarrassed as he didn’t want to be reminded of the time he nearly botched up the ambassador thing between both Thorax and Ember.

‘Ah, got it,’ said Caldor whilst he pointed the way ‘The spot where we need to go would be…right there.’

They saw Caldor pointing to what appears to be Northwest of the Crystal Mountain, but to Twilight and the others’ surprise, the Crystal Empire was near their location. ‘Wait, that’s near the Crystal Empire.’ said Twilight when she pointed at it.

‘You know of that place?’ said Caldor when he was surprised that Twilight knew about the place.

‘Oh of course,’ said Mistmane when she remembered the place too ‘Twilight’s brother Shining Armour guards the place with Princess Cadance.’

‘Cadance?’ said human Twilight when she was surprised to hear the name, with her pony counterparts looking at her. ‘Oh, on my world Cadance is a school principle.’

‘Oh darling,’ said Rarity to human Twilight ‘Our Cadance is a Princess here, and she also happens to be married to Twilight’s brother Shining Armour.’

‘Wait,’ said human Twilight when she was surprised to hear it ‘Shining Armour and Cadance are married in this world?!!’

‘Oh, not just that,’ said Sunburst whilst he adjusted his glasses ‘They also have a foal named Flurry Heart.’

The EG Mane 7 were greatly surprised by the news. With human Twilight saying ‘Wait, I’m also an aunt here?’

‘You sure are.’ said Merlin ‘And it just so happens, she’s the first pony to be born as an Alicorn.’

‘The first?’ said Sunset Shimmer when she was surprised by what Flurry Heart was ‘What do you mean?’

‘You see,’ said Princess Celestia when she walked over to them when she overheard their conversation ‘When a pony performs a deed of great worth for the good of Equestria, they are granted Alicorn wings, as well as the title of Princess. When I first raised the sun and my sister Luna raised the moon, we were given the titles of both sun and moon. When Cadance performed a princess worthy deed, she became the Princess of Love, helping those unite with open hooves. And when Twilight became a Princess by finishing one of Starswirl’s spells, and overtime the Princess of Friendship.’

‘Indeed,’ said Luna when she stood near her sister ‘But it is the first time in Equestrian history that a foal was born an Alicorn, for it is beyond even our understanding. Even our mother, Princess Faust never explained to us of how things came to be.’

‘Aye that she didn’t,’ said Caldor when he remembered ‘Even she didn’t know. We both knew that there were many Alicorns in Equestria once upon a time, but for some reason, all of them except for the royal line disappeared.’

‘How do we get to the Crystal Empire?’ said Invictus when he looked at the map.

‘We can always take the train there.’ said Fluttershy when she suggested it.

‘Oh, good idea,’ said Twilight when she agreed ‘Spike, write a letter to Shining Armour and Cadance, tell them to expect us the moment we arrive there.’

‘Got it.’ said Spike whilst he wrote it down.

Awhile later, all of them took a train to the Crystal Empire. The EG Mane 7 as well as Spike the dog, were amazed when they saw the many sights of the place, with human Fluttershy going ‘Aw, the train is so cute.’

‘So what’s the Crystal Empire like?’ said Sunset when she wondered about it ‘I was there for a short time when…’

‘When you stole Twilight’s crown because you were a tyrannical power hungry lunatic?’ said Yin Sid when he remembered something of her past.

Sunset ended up sighing when she still felt embarrassed about it, with Don nudging against Yen Sid’s shoulder hard, for it was a bad time to bring something like that up.

‘You too huh?’ said Starlight when she spoke to Sunset, with her nodding over her question whilst she felt the same way when others kept reminding her of her past ‘Join the club.’

Twilight explained to her to try and keep her mind distracted ‘Well see, long ago the Crystal Empire was ruled by an evil unicorn named Sombra. He would’ve conquered all of Equestria, but he was defeated by Celestia and Luna. But strange enough though, the Crystal Empire, along with its inhabitants disappeared without a trace. But a thousand years later, all of them resurfaced, so Cadance and Shining Armour took responsibility and helped them back into shape. Pretty soon they became the rulers of the Crystal Empire and the ponies there were greatly happy.’

‘Not just that,’ said Spike ‘They also have a Crystal Heart there, when they channel their love and happiness into it, the power of the heart intensifies, generating more magic to protect the Crystal Empire not just from dark magic, but also the cold winter from the north.’

‘Really, why?’ said the human Rarity when she wondered why.

‘No one knows,’ said Rarity to her counterpart ‘We’ve never figured out why the cold snow of the north were like this.’

‘I do.’ said Caldor, whilst they were surprised when he gained their attention. ‘But you lot would never believe it. Probably better if I’d show you.’

Invictus kept staring out the windows of the train, seeing the sights go by as if time itself was moving forward. He only sighed whilst watching both the green and the mountains that passed by. ‘Excuse me, Invictus?’ said a calming voice, which gained Invictus’ attention, revealing to be Twilight ‘Are you okay?’

‘I’m fine.’ said Invictus when he kept staring out in the open space.

‘No you’re not.’ said Twilight when she was worried about him ‘Why are you always so angry?’

‘It’s just the way I am.’ he replied.

Twilight couldn’t help but try to help him, whilst she sat across him as they looked at one another ‘Why?’

Invictus sighed, whilst he looked outside ‘From where I came from, we didn’t have any trains like this. Things were…much simpler from where I was from.’

‘Oh?’ said Twilight when she was curious of Invictus’ home ‘What’s it like?’

‘I do not know,’ he said trying to think of his home ‘I’ve been gone for so long, I do not know what it looks like anymore.’
‘Why did you leave?’

‘There’s nothing there for me anymore.’ he replied. He looked at Twilight and kept most of the truth to himself, but told some parts to avoid suspicion ‘From where I was from, I was tasked into protecting my home from an impending invasion. But when we were overrun by enemy forces, I ended up making a mistake that costed me greatly, even though we’ve won the battle.’

‘What?’

‘He sighed as he didn’t want to think about them ‘My family. They were all slaughtered.’

Twilight was shocked to hear of what happened ‘You’re family?’

‘It was before I had the boys,’ he said when he told her of the times before Merlin and his brothers were born, as were Yin Sid and the others ‘I had a family, even a wife and daughter, their half sister.’

‘And they didn’t even know her?’

‘No.’ said Invictus, whilst continuing his tale ‘But overtime my mistake caught up with me. My home was invaded and I went to save them, but instead I was betrayed…and my kind and kingdom…turned to ash.’. Twilight couldn’t believe what he was sharing as he looked at her ‘You might say I’m the last of my kind.’

‘How horrible.’ said Twilight whilst she was shocked to hear their fate.

‘I’ve learned to live with it, but my hatred and pain never ceased, even after my sons were born, I didn’t change, nor could I.’

‘But don’t you have any friends to support you?’ said Twilight whilst she really got worried about him.

Invictus stood up and looked at Twilight again ‘I don’t need friends.’

Twilight was shocked over what he said ‘What? Why?’

He noticed that they were approaching the train station, whilst he walked towards the doors to it, which left her really worried when he said ‘It’s better this way.’

A while later, all of them arrived at the train station. When they climbed off the platform, they were surprised to see the Crystal Empire, as well as the rainbow light glistening all over the sky. ‘Whoa,’ said human Applejack when she looked at it ‘That looks amazing.’

‘Amazing?!’ said human Rarity when she admired the place ‘Try absolutely stunning!!’

‘Come on, let’s go.’ said Rainbow Dash when she wanted to get a head start, until she looked at her human counterpart with a smile ‘Hey you, race you to the palace?’

‘Oh, it, is, on.’ said human Rainbow Dash whilst the two of them darted with the speed of light.

After a long walk, all of them arrived at the Crystal Empire. many of the ponies were surprised to see humans among them, which left them somewhat nervous. ‘Okay, why are they staring at us?’ said Sunset Shimmer when she felt nervous.

‘Remember, it’s their first time seeing humans.’ said Applebuck whilst he explained it to them ‘They would think all of you are stranger creatures from another land.’

At the same time, they saw Cadance and Shining Armour waiting for them with a smile. ‘Twilight.’ said Cadance when she was happy to see her.

‘Cadance.’ said Twilight when she ran over whilst they gave one another a hug.

They ended up doing a special dance ‘Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves and do a little shake.’

Their counterparts were surprised to see the special shake they did for one another, with human Twilight going ‘Aw, that’s so cute.’

Cadance was greatly surprised to see a human Twilight. She kept looking at the two of them and noticed something ‘You look, familiar.’

‘Oh, right, you didn’t know.’ said Twilight whilst she introduced her counterpart ‘See when I first traveled to another world, I met counterparts of my friends. I even met her when I went to see what was going on. To be honest it felt strange seeing your other counterpart.’

Cadance felt fascinated when she saw another Twilight, with Shining Armour standing next to Cadance whilst holding Flurry Heart ‘Huh, you know I can actually see a resemblance.’

‘Oh my gosh, you must be Shining Armour,’ said human Twilight whilst she held onto Shining Armour ‘Fascinating, I’ve never known that my brother’s counterpart would be a soldier.’

‘Oh yeah,’ said Shining Armour whilst he rolled his eyes with a smile ‘You’re definitely Twiley’s counterpart.’. He leaned and saw her friends at the same time and asked them ‘Does she also get Twiley nanas?’

Human Rainbow Dash giggled whilst the others did the same ‘Oh you have no idea.’

Sunset noticed Flurry Heart in Shining Armour’s arms, noticing a baby. She took a few steps forward and knelt close to it.

She saw Flurry Heart was staring at her. Sunset looked at Shining Armour with a smile ‘She’s so beautiful.’
‘Yeah,’ said Shining Armour whilst he held onto her ‘She really is.’

Flurry felt so fascinated that she giggled and flew up right into Sunset’s arms, which surprised her in the process. She held onto Flurry Heart as she looked at her, with Sunset replying with a smile ‘Oh, you’re so adorable.’, with Flurry kissing her cheek.

‘Aw.’ said the girls when they saw how Flurry Heart looked adorable with Sunset when she held onto her.

Caldor walked up to Cadance and Shining Armour, whilst bowing to them in respect ‘Greetings your highness,’ said Caldor showing his respect ‘I beg your pardon for the intrusion, but we really must discuss something on a personal matter.’

‘Oh uh, of course.’ said Cadance whilst she was surprised to see a different creature with them.

‘Uh, who are you?’ said Shining Armour whilst he was also confused about it.

‘Oh, this happens to be Caldor your highness,’ said Sunburst when he introduced them to him ‘He happens to know every language as well as every realm and its creatures. He’s also an ambassador and claims to be the smartest man alive.’

‘I see.’ said Shining Armour whilst he looked at Caldor ‘So uh, what happened to your other eye?’

‘Long story short,’ said Caldor when he gave them the short version ‘Got my eye pulled out of its socket like I was a lifeless statue.’

Cadance walked over and asked what they wanted ‘So Twilight, what are you doing in the Crystal Empire. Not that it’s great to see you or anything.’

‘Oh, we came here because we were looking for a type of artifact near here, but in the snowy mountains,’ said Twilight whilst putting her up to speed ‘Caldor even claims he knows why the storms keep acting violent near the Crystal Empire.’

‘Really?’ said Cadance whilst she was surprised by the information.

‘Indeed your highness,’ said Caldor whilst bowing ‘But we’ll have to go there now to show you.’

A while later, after Cadance and Shining Armour were able to put Flurry Heart to sleep on her bed and slept soundly, they left with Invictus and the others, journeying towards their destination. Shining Armour and Cadance spoke to Merlin, seeing that he was the reasonable one as well as a pony they somewhat like, but didn’t tell anyone.

‘So uh, why are you lot here?’ said Shining Armour when he was curious ‘I thought all of you were going to scatter the ashes of your mother.’

‘That was the plan,’ said Merlin when he explained it to them ‘But as it turns out, from what Caldor told us, the highest peak we’re looking for isn’t in Equestria or from the other world, it’s in Adularia, realm of the First Ones.’

‘Wait, the First Ones are real?’ said Cadance when she was surprised.

‘Yep, we wanted to use the Rainbow Bridge, but they destroyed all other bridges to cross that world except for the one in the one we know of. But the only way to access it is with a special chisel, which he claims we could find from around here.’

‘And how do these Chisels work?’ said Cadance when her curiosity for magic nearly matched like the one when their old friend Nahmat told them.

‘How do I explain this? Say you’re in front of a Rosetta stone shaped door, and you use the special chisel to open a doorway to any part of the world you wish, or dimension if you will. So say if you want to visit Twilight without taking a train or chariot or hot air balloon, you could use that to travel there instantly.’

‘Wow, that really impressive. You must’ve studied this a lot.’

‘Sure did, you could say I’m twice the Egghead Twilight is.’

‘We’re almost there.’ said Caldor as they walked uphill.

‘Wait,’ said Celestia as all of them stopped ‘We are forbidden to go over there.’

‘What, why?’ said Copper Plume when he was curious.

‘Our grandmother had forbidden any to cross over there many moons ago.’ said Luna when she remembered.
‘Then she is a fool,’ said Invictus as it shocked them ‘They only told such lies to hide you from the real truth. They hid the truth from you that humans used to live in this world once.’

‘Wait, what?’ said human Twilight when she and her friends were surprised by the information.’

‘Yeah, kind of a long story,’ said Yin Sid as he told them ‘Humans used to live on this world long ago, until the sun on this world got snuffed out. The unicorns of old used all of their magic to create a new sun for them so that the planet could live, until the humans could absorb the sun’s energy, turning them into living weapons and ended up killing each other. Until their bodies couldn’t bear them anymore, so they exploded one by one, until a handful of survivors fled to another world so that they could be safe. Until in time, no human was left, only pony kind and other creatures.’

The EG Mane 6, especially Sunset, were shocked to hear this kind of information. ‘So we’re gonna be affected too?’ said human Rainbow Dash when she got worried.

‘Nope,’ said Atreus when he reassured them ‘It only works on the humans who used to live here, all of you are from another world so all of you are in the clear.’

‘Oh, that’s a relief.’ said human Applejack whilst they sighed in relief.

‘Well if we’re done hollering and stuff,’ said Applebuck when he got tired of being delayed ‘Can we please get a move on here?

‘Y’all said it brother.’ said Bucky whilst he agreed.

After much needed walking up the hill, Caldor, Invictus and his sons were the first ones to stand up the top as he said ‘Aright, we’re here.’

The moment all of them arrived up top, all of them were in great shock at what they saw.

‘You wanted to know the cause of the wild winters near the Crystal Empire?’ said Caldor whilst he looked at them, then pointed towards where it was coming from ‘There it is.’

For very far away, happened to be a dead frost giant on the mountain, body still the same as well as the energy aura creating the storms exiting from his mouth, whilst all around it were a type of Norse city, as they were in both partial ruin and covered with ice. ‘What the heck is that?!’ shouted Twilight when she couldn’t believe her eyes.

‘Follow me,’ said Caldor whilst he led them towards the dead giant. During their walk, he told them the origin story ‘Long ago after half of this world’s humans were destroyed, the Frost Giants came and wanted to take over these lands. Naturally one of them, the one that’s dead over there, happens to be Gogra, the Chieftain of the Frost Giants. They came to this land to claim it as their own, but the remaining humans as well as the gods here, retaliated and fought them to a standstill, until This big feller over there ended up being betrayed by his own son, and was stabbed through the head with a chisel.’

‘Wait,’ said Shining Armour when he saw the size of it ‘That’s a chisel?!!’

‘Yep,’ said Caldor as he continued ‘As Gogra was slain, he collapsed next to this village, and with its last gasping breath, he froze the entire city as well as the occupants living there, thus creating this storm that now plagues the Crystal Empire, which is why the Frost Giants were forced to leave and never come back.’

The ponies of Equestria were greatly surprised when they found the source of the magic they tried to fight when the Crystal Heart got damaged. They looked at him as Starlight asked ‘So how do we stop this?’

‘My guess,’ said Caldor as he thought ‘We would have to discard of the body and burn it so that it could no longer curse these lands with its magic.’

‘One problem at a time,’ said Invictus whilst he wanted to hurry things up ‘So how do we find the chisel?’

‘Oh, what we’re looking for is right below there,’ said Caldor as he showed them through the thin ice ‘See the tip of that chisel, the huge orange, that’s what we’ll need. We grab a piece of it, and we would be able to travel to any realm we could desire.’

‘And with it, we could make copies of it if we could.’ said Merlin when he thought of a way.

‘But how are we going to break through?’ said Sunburst whilst he looked at the ice ‘It would take a great force to break through it.’

Invictus looked around to find a solution. And in the end, he saw a perfect solution. ‘What of that?’ said Invictus as he pointed at a large hammer, still in place and ready to be tipped over, gaining their attention in the progress, but also surprised.

‘Whoa, that’s a big hammer,’ said Rockhoof whilst he was surprised to see the size of it.

‘Interesting,’ said Starswirl whilst he observed it ‘Imagine how much metal can be used if one were to melt it down.’

‘Oh far more as you can imagine.’ said a voice. When they looked to their left, to their surprise, it was Driskle.

Tempest slowly walked towards Driskle, which nearly made him nervous, but spoke to him with nerve ‘And just how did you get here so fast?’

‘Oh, it’s an ancient trick my people had developed.’ said Driskle as he disappeared behind a rock that he walked, and suddenly appeared right behind Celestia ‘My people have the ability to travel to different realms, even going to tough spots to avoid conflict. That’s how we always avoid to use our weapons unless absolutely necessary.’

‘Wow, sounds very useful.’ said Stygian when he found it fascinating.

‘Now then,’ said Driskle whilst he pointed at the hammer ‘In order to make the hammer move, it would require a massive amount of strength to make it move, so I would suggest that you would select a handful of your strongest group to try and give it a push.’

‘Thank you kindly Driskle,’ said Mage Meadowbrook when she was grateful for the assist ‘Much obliged.’

‘Why are you really here?’ said Invictus when he was curious of why Driskle was here far from his forge.

‘Oh, right.’ said Driskle and cleared his throat ‘I came to warn all of you to be careful, Eros’ sons, Tamar and Sera, happens to prowl around here, I think they might still be looking for you.’

They were shocked by the news ‘They’re on their way here?’ said Fluttershy out of fright.

‘Well we did kinda make a noise when we summoned that big serpent thing.’ said Copper Plume when he pointed out the obvious.

‘Then we’d better hurry, fast.’ said Caldor when he was worried of facing them.

After Driskle left, most of them waited on the ground about a few feet away, Invictus, Applebuck, Applejack, Bucky, human Applejack, Rockhoof and Tempest stood at the top of the mountain, standing right next to the mountain. They grabbed it with their hooves and hands, with Invictus counting ‘One…two…three.’

The strongest ones were able to lift it up and raised it in the air, and were able to give one big push to the side. With their combined strength, they were able to push it with all their might, allowing the hammer to fall over, whilst the tip of the hammer slammed the ground so hard, the ice began crack clean through, clearing them a path in the process.

‘Hmm, impressive.’ said Luna when she admired the great feat of strength they displayed to tip the hammer over.

Invictus and the others flew down and rejoined the others. ‘Well done lads,’ said Caldor when he stood near them ‘Now we will soon have what we need to create our way to the portal.’

‘So do he have to bring the whole thing with us?’ said Tempest when she wanted to be frustrated of the ridiculous work load.

‘Not at all,’ said Caldor when he reassured them ‘We just need to chip away the tip of the chisel until it’s the size of a unicorn’s horn.’

They were able to find a way down together and saw the glow of the tip of the chisel ‘See what I mean there?’ said Caldor when he showed them.

‘Amazing, it has more magic than anything in Equestria.’ said Twilight when she felt the power of it from a distance.

‘Indeed Twilight Sparkle,’ said Luna when she could feel it too ‘This magic is far more powerful than that of our enemies in Equestria.’

Both Rainbow Knight and Atreus went ahead to the chisel as they followed. ‘Come on hurry up,’ said Knight when he was eager to get their hands on the chisel ‘The sooner we get that chisel the sooner we can…’

But from out of nowhere, as if they were cursed, a large beast, a Manticor specifically, crashed onto the ground as a twelve foot tall humanoid fought it. But after a punch to the head, he snapped the neck of the Manticor. But within a split second, it looked up, seeing them in the process. Shocking half of them as they were scared, some stood their ground, whilst some took out their weapons and armed themselves in battle. The humanoid was a tall blond haired man named Tamar, with brown boots, green pants and no shirt with marks under his eyes. He slowly walked towards them as he stood near Invictus.

‘Oh no.’ said Caldor, realizing that they were now in trouble.

‘Surrender now,’ said Tamar to the ponies and humans ‘Our father demands it.’

‘No.’ replied Invictus, knowing all too well that he would never back down from a fight, neither would his sons.

With a smile, Tamar took out his large sword as lightning began to surge through it. Whilst gripping it at the same time, and replied with ‘Good.’

But from out of nowhere, another showed up. This time ten feet tall, brown hair and beard, green pants and wearing a bear skin named Sera. ‘Well, look what we have here. A pack of horses, and me without my chariot. Tell me, does your mothers know that you whore around in areas like this?’

The girls felt greatly insulted when Sera talked to them like that, until Atreus spoke with a cocky smile ‘That’s pretty big talk coming from a pig who spent his time sucking on a teat of a boar than his own mother’s.’

‘Why you insolent little…!!!’ shouted Sera as he attacked, until Atreus jumped, stood on one hand and kicked him below the belt, causing Sera to bent over, and Bucky to run up to him and gave him a powerful uppercut. As it was launched in the air, Knight flew down and knocked him down with a powerful buck.

‘Ha,’ shouted Knight as he saw Sera crash onto the ground like a test dummy ‘Bet you never expected a move like that!’

Sera stood up as his thunder mace charged up ‘Alright, no more mister nice guy. Shall we brother?’

‘With pleasure.’ said Tamar as the two of them charged together, with the others attacking at the same time.

However, at the same time, back at the castle of the Crystal Empire, Flurry Heart woke up from her nap with a big yawn. She looked around and wondered where her parents were. She started to feel concern for their safety. She teleported from room to room, not knowing where to find them. As she got worried, she saw flashes from the other side of the hills. She thought they were pretty with a giggle, so she teleported to where it was coming from. When she got there, she only saw the fighting.

Invictus, Celestia, Luna and Cadance fired all their horn magic, but Sera kept deflecting it and tried to struck at them back. Human Applejack, Rockhoof, Bucky, Applebuck and Applejack used all their strength to punch Tamar, but he proved a powerful opponent. Sunset and Don tried what they could, but they ended up being thrown against both human Twilight and Yin Sid. Atreus and human Rainbow Dash jumped over and shot a few arrows at Sera, but with little effect.
Twilight and Shining Armour paired up, but even their magic was no match, whilst they threw them against Spike, Merlin and Sunburst. Somnambula and Flash Magnus distracted Sera, whilst Mistmane and Starswirl used their magic to hold him down, with Mage Meadowbrook trying to contain him, but easily broke free. Those who have been injured, Fluttershy, Rarity, their human counterparts, along with Bashful and Lyon, made sure all of them were well cared for. Pinkie Pie shot her party cannon at Sera’s face, with Pinkie throwing him off guard with her explosive confetti. Starlight, Chivalry and Duke had their chance to put Tamar down, whilst Rainbow Dash, Tempest and Knight punched him from all sides.

‘Brother, together.’ said Tamar to Sera.

The two brothers came together and clashed their weapons whilst displaying a blinding smoke ‘Solder, molder, blinder!!’
The heavy mist blocked their eye sights, but luckily for them, Barry and Copper had an idea. The two of them used a mist machine to blow the smoke away. Some of them looked at Copper surprised. ‘What,’ said Copper whilst he smiled ‘Pinkie’s not the only one who can break the fourth wall here.’

But at the same time, Flurry Heart got distracted when she saw a butterfly flying by her. She became fixated and tried to catch it. But at the same time, Sera shot Atreus with lightning, but was able to block it. However, Invictus saw the lighting, and saw Flurry heart in the process, shocking him in the process as he yelled ‘The Alicorn infant!!’

Shining Armour, Cadance, Celestia, Luna and the Mane 7 looked at what Invictus was pointing at. All of them reacted too late and saw the lightning struck Flurry Heart, causing her to collapse in the process. Many were shocked by what they saw, with Shining Armour and Cadance running towards her yelling ‘Flurry Heart!!’

The two of them caught her in time, only for them to see her injured with a scar, and coughing, making them realize that the powerful lightning that struck her made her sick, badly, for the Alicorn magic protecting her took most of the impact whilst the rest of her body was injured, leaving them and Twilight distraught of what happened.

‘Aw, the little baby is hurt?’ said Sera as he walked towards them ‘Well don’t worry, I’m going to put that thing out of its misery!!’

Cadance and Shining Armour covered Flurry Heart to protect her, until something blocked Sera. When they looked, they saw Invictus using his wing to hold it. Then he did the unexpected. He transformed into a twelve feet tall human, wearing black boots, black pants with fur around his waist, brown sash like harness and fingerless gloves, whilst his skin was as white as the purest snow, with a red line tattoo covering some parts of his torso, right arm as well as over his bald head and right eye, with a black beard as he grinned his teeth in rage. Many were shocked to see what he looked like, even the Princesses.

‘You!!’ shouted Sera as he recognized him.

Invictus gripped his right hand and punched Sera so hard, he was flung against the chisel, allowing it to break down in a couple of them in the right size. Tamar looked at Invictus shocked, whilst Invictus began to growl whilst red electricity began to surge through him as if he was a living conductoid. He then gripped his hands, and yelled in the air with rage as his shoulder, his elbows, wrists and hands were set aflame whilst his body was partially red, shocking them again when they saw his power.

He looked at Tamar and walked towards him. Tamar attacked, only for Invictus to knock Tamar’s sword away as it shattered to pieces, with Tamar looking at it shocked. With a powerful right hook, Invictus punched Tamar in the gut, making him cough blood in the process as he dropped his broken sword and stood wobbly.

‘Father!!’ shouted Don, tossing him an axe. But to the Mane 7 and the Pillars’ shock, it was the same axe they saw before as it was accompanied by two swords.

Invictus grabbed the axe and swung it against Tamar’s chest, then swung at his shoulder, making him drop on his knees on the ground. And with one huge swing from above and yelling in rage, he struck at the center of Tamar’s head, killing him in the process, shocking the others too, as well as Sera, when he saw his brother dropping on the ground dead ‘Tamar!! No!!’.

He looked at Invictus angry and yelled ‘You’re going to pay!!’, allowing him to shoot his lightning in full blast. But it didn’t stop there, Invictus’ anger grew greater, and walked towards the foolhardy Sera.

‘Stay back!!’ he shouted in fear as Invictus had walked closer and closer. Sera swung his weapon, with Invictus grabbing it and tossed aside, allowing him to punch Sera extremely hard as he was flung against the wall, whilst Invictus yelled in rage whilst looking at Sera, standing up in fear. ‘This…this isn’t…’ said Sera, until a hole was shot through his chest, shocking him in the process, whilst he dropped on the ground as if he was nothing.

And from atop the hill, there stood a tall stallion, with Invictus’ sons calling out ‘Big Brother!!’

They were surprised to have met Invictus’ elder son. He slowly walked down to rejoin his father. ‘You’re late.’ said Invictus when he was annoyed of Invictus taking his time.

‘Apologies father, I was simply…occupied.’ said Thunder. But the moment he walked into the light, he showed his face. He was a black Stallion, with a scar over his right eye and a broken horn. Many were shocked to see it, especially Tempest, making her realize that she wasn’t alone.

‘Dude, where have you been?’ said Knight when he hovered next to Thunder ‘Do you have any idea how much trouble we kept getting ourselves into?’

‘I tried, but Eros hasn’t been making it easy.’

‘Brother, the child.’ said Caldor as he walked over to Flurry Heart to see if she was alright.

‘Merlin,’ said Invictus to his son ‘You and Yin Sid gather the shards and forge them to what we need.’

‘Yes father.’ said Merlin as he and Yin Sid were off.

Invictus and many others gathered near Flurry Heart to see if she was alright. Invictus stood next to Caldor whilst he was investigating Flurry Heart with his one eye. ‘How bad is her condition?’ said Invictus when he tried to get a good look of her.

‘Very bad,’ said Caldor when he filled in her parents ‘Her Alicorn magic may have taken most of the impact, but we need to treat her fast, otherwise she might not make it.’

Twilight thought of an idea and tried to come up with a solution ‘Maybe we can take her back to the Crystal Empire, maybe we can…’

‘No can do,’ said Caldor when he looked at Twilight ‘Equestrian magic has no effect, nor could it completely cure her.’

‘But there’s got to be another way.’ said Shining Armour.

‘Well,’ said Merlin when he thought of an idea ‘You may not like it, but I think we know who can help us.’

‘No,’ said Invictus when he disagreed ‘We don’t need help.’

‘Dad come on,’ said Yin Sid trying to persuade him ‘You of all people should know…’

‘No.’

‘That she can help.’

Invictus was silent for a few moments, as were the others. He sighed and got mad at the same time. ‘Fine, but we’d better hurry.’

As he walked away, they followed him, with Shining Armour talking to Yin Sid ‘Hey, you sure this being can help?’

‘Yeah, she can,’ said Yin Sid when he thought about it ‘Question is will she?’

‘Terrific.’ said Knight when he agreed with him.

And together, they set on a quick journey, to try and find someone who could help Flurry Heart. With her life hanging in the balance, they rushed with all their might as most thought about saving Flurry Heart at all costs.