Chapter 2

The Day Everything Changed

Equestria twenty years ago

It was a normal day. Twilight Sparkle had gotten her assignment by princess Celestia to visit an empire that was believed to be a myth. Twilight couldn't wait to visit this empire and see how it was like. She had brought her friends with her. Spike was also with her, but for some odd reason, he kept looking over his shoulder. When they had asked him what was wrong, he had just smiled and said it was just a weird feeling he had. They had shrugged at the time, but now they realized that they should have done the exact opposite thing.

The Crystal ponies had been sent to a thousand-year sleep and hadn't woken up until now. Shining Armor led them to the Crystal Palace which was ginormous. It was made of crystals like everything is in the Crystal Empire.

They had met Cadance who looked like she hadn't slept for days or even weeks. Luckily, she is an alicorn so she could last a lot longer than normal ponies. She had used all of her magic to surround the empire and keep her subjects safe from evils harm. The evil tyrannical ruler was King Sombra. He wanted to rule over the empire again, and this time, take over Equestria.

Twilight and her friends had built up a little Crystal fair, to try to help the Crystal ponies remember what could stop the evil King. It was a huge success, the Crystal ponies liked it, and started to remember that it was the Crystal Heart that kept out all evil. The problem was that no pony knew where it was. Twilight had tried to read as much as she possibly could, but she couldn't even find a hint as to where it could be.

She then realized that it would be somewhere only Sombra would know about. Twilight then realized that she felt a strange magical presence near the throne room. Downwards. She started running towards the Crystal Palace in hopes of finding the Crystal heart. She ran through the many corridors that had some guards there in their uniforms. The Crystal Palace was decorated with blue crystals on the floor, ceiling, and walls. Well, it is made out of Crystals, but, Twilight was too busy trying to get to the throne room then think useless thoughts that had no meaning at that moment.

Twilight reached the throne room, and she started to look everywhere, and also try to find a magical pulse somewhere. Good or bad, it didn't matter to Twilight. As long as she finds the Crystal Heart. She then felt a 'pull' downwards, and she used a spell that revealed a staircase that went downwards. She shined a light spell and shot it downwards, and saw how the light just went down, and down. It did eventually make a sound like it had hit its target, but Twilight simply sighed. It would be a very long and rushed day. She didn't have time for trotting down, she had to run to make sure she gets there on time.

She started to rush it down the staircase that was made out of ancient cold stone, that didn't feel right to Twilight's hooves. The stones were slowly acting up, and the small loose stone pieces started to slowly shake. Twilight looked around but saw nothing. She decided to shine her light brighter than it already was, but she still didn't see any creature there at all. She was confused. She had been walking and had a memory of her walking down The staircase, but she was currently looking at a door in front of her. What was weird was that Twilight have no recollection of ever stopping.

Twilight walked towards it and felt the dark magical presence on the door. She didn't really know what to do with it, so she simply used a blasting spell to make the door turn into thousand tiny pieces. Twilight felt the dark magical signature leave the living world and went... somewhere else. Twilight continued to walk and reached a door that apparently would lead her to the tower. She used a quick spell to walk upside down, as she felt like It was a lot quicker. Especially considering she was in a life-death situation. Twilight galloped, and she eventually reached the Crystal Heart; after making sure she was not upside down.

The Crystal heart was big and beautiful. The heart was shaped just like a heart, and it looked quite powerful. Very powerful, like that this heart knows things some ponies would only dream of. Twilight had walked towards the heart, and then she had been imprisoned with the black crystals, and she had no way to escape it either. What she wasn't aware of, was that Spike had seen the whole thing, and was coming to her rescue.

Spike was climbing on the side of the Crystal Palace and was doing so with ease. Some athletes would be jealous. Spike managed to reach the roof and saw Twilight continued to get caged inside the black crystals. Spike rushed with his small legs towards her.

"Twilight! Over here!" Spike shouted towards Twilight who was shocked. She knew that she didn't have time in questioning how he got there, as she threw the Crystal heart to him. Spike grabbed it for dear life, and he started to climb back down and made sure that King Sombra didn't see, but the problem was that he knew exactly what had happened. Spike climbed down but the black crystals were becoming bigger, and sharper for every minute or second that passed. Spike had no idea what was seconds and minutes anymore, as his adrenaline started to kick in. Spike heard a sharp;

"That is mine!" And felt how the ground and Palace started to shake wildly. Spike knew what was coming, but he still wanted it for some odd reason. Spike then started to shake and felt how he started to fall. He lost grip of the Crystal heart and he cursed himself. He was falling fast towards King Sombra who had made a black Crystal podium like thing for himself and was shooting towards the Crystal heart in anticipation.

All of a sudden, when all hope seemed lost, Spike felt a warm back on his lower part of the body. He looked down and saw that he was riding something pinkish. He then realized that he was riding on Cadance! Spike let out a sigh of relief. Cadance landed in the middle of the Crystal Empire and said with determination; "The Crystal heart has returned. Use the light and love within you that King Sombra does not." Cadance placed the Crystal heart in the palace where it rightfully belonged, and the Crystal ponies started to bow down, and the ground started to shine a crystal light blue colour. King Sombra was banished once again... or so they thought.

In the frozen North, existed nothing but ice, snow, mountains, and the occasional Yak that walked by. Other than that, nothing is interesting. King Sombra was currently inside a cave letting out several screams of agony. He was angry that he had lost. That was not meant to happen! It was meant that he returned together with the Crystal Empire, and then take over once again and rule it with an iron hoof.

The cave King Sombra was in was made of ice and showed an ancient creature that had been trapped for time itself. Sombra was currently looking at it, and smiled. He was gonna rescue the creature from its ice prison, he just wasn't sure if he was really interested in helping it after that. Then, an idea came to his head, 'what if he potentially recruited creatures to take over Equestria?' He certainly had the magic to do it, he just didn't have the strength to do it. He needed to rest, and regain his magic.

He used a quick spell to make him sleep for the time he needed to regain his magic. Hopefully, after his slumber, he'd be able to get back into it again. He would have to wait and see...

A few months had gone by and the biggest thing that had happened recently, was that Twilight had become Princess Twilight Sparkle. Spike was happy for her, really happy. He was looking forward to seeing his sister figure become the princess of Equestria. It was a beautiful day to celebrate.

The ponies were out partying like wild animals, and Spike was doing so himself. Although, he kept feeling like something was gonna happen. Spike kept shrugging away from the feeling, but it was still there. Spike was currently in the middle of Canterlot; on his way to Pony Joe's. Then it happened. There was a mighty roar up in the sky, and everypony looked up and saw dragons there and they started to breathe fire on the civilians on the streets. The ponies screamed on top of their lungs, and Spike just stood there in shock. He then started to run towards the castle in hopes of finding somepony to tell him what the Tartarus was going on.

He ran and ducked and dodged other ponies who were running like lunatics. The hard stone was getting heated by the flames the dragons breathed down. Spike may not feel anything, but he knew those without scales like him will undoubtedly feel it. Spike had climbed on top of a roof, and he started to jump from building to building. He ran with determination on his face. He was gonna warn the princesses, well, they are most likely already aware of the situation as the ponies are screaming so loud; Spike is wondering how Faust hadn't silenced them yet. Spike then made a large jump. One that was far away from one of the balconies. His balcony to be specific. He landed, and he forced the door to his room open.

He didn't bother to look around the purple coloured bedsheets, the large red mat. The Crystals hanging from the roof as a decoration. The purple and white coloured flowers made the room feel extra Canterlot themed. Spike simply flung his bedroom door opened, and he looked from left to right to find anypony there that he could order. He needed to find his adoptive mother; princess Celestia and his aunt; princess Luna. He needed to find either. Tartarus, maybe even Blueblood.

The hallways had been ruined by stones and broken glass. The floors were covered with filth, and the walls looked cracked, and the ceiling looked like it was gonna collapse. It looked worse and worse for every corridor the purple scaled and the green spiked dragon turned. He still hadn't found anypony alive. He hoped that his family members hadn't died, he couldn't bear the thought. Spike then heard voices. Voices that he recognized.

"How many are injured?" A commanding voice asked that would make anyone stand straight immediately. Spike knew who it was, it was plainly obvious to who it could be. He did feel relieved to hear his mothers voice.

"There are at least one thousand that are injured here in Canterlot. I imagine that there will be more, and the other cities and whatnot in Equestria has probably also suffered heavy losses. Princess Celestia, who did all this?" A unicorn commander asked, too curious and upset at the same time.

"I have no idea my little pony. I will make sure that whoever is doing it, will get years of imprisonment. Now, try to save as many ponies as you possibly can." Princess Celestia said, making the commander nod and rush off. Spike rushed up to her from behind and he hugged her for dear life.

"Mother, oh, I was so worried! I thought..." Spike couldn't finish his sentence. Celestia understood and cooed her baby. She knew that he must be angry and confused as to why this is happening. The problem was; that she wanted to give him an answer, name, reason, but she had none of those. She just hoped that she would find the perpetrator.

"It's okay my son, I'm happy that you are okay. Try to help innocent out there." Celestia said, looking out the window and seeing several ponies and different guards helping the other ponies. Spike nodded and ran off. He had no idea what was going on, but he did hope that he would receive an answer. He desperately needed one.

On top of a hill, not far away from Canterlot, stood a colt with a red horn with two small holes in the tall and proud, with a whole creature army behind him. The only thing he said was;"Long live the King."

Author's Note

And here it is!

I hope you enjoyed the chapter.