Author's Note

Damn longest chapter I've written. There is a little Gory scene so watch out nothing too huge but still a little bloody. I hope to have made it easy to read, understand and follow the story if not yikes :P

And Happy New Year 2022 to all of you

Return of the King

Realm of Chaos

Prison of Exitium

God of Chaos was looking into something which looked like a rip in time and space and speaking to the image of a light purple female dragon in it. The dragon looked much like Spike only that her chest has certain curves and her scales were much more pristine. The dragoness eyes were glowing dark green giving her a malicing look.

"My brother's champion is getting closer. One of those cultists told him where you are. You must resurrect Sombra now! I might not be able to manifest my full power through him but it should be enough to deal with those pesky princesses."
Before the dragoness answered she started to twist her head like she was in pain. The glow in her eyes disappeared for a moment but soon returned. After a short moment of silence, she spoke with a chilling tone. "This dragoness sure has a kick in her. Don't worry I have her under control again. She is still fighting my control." Dragoness said to Exitium.
Exitium looked angry and spoke with a deep and angry voice. "Make sure you don't lose your control. She is vital to my plan to get free from this wretched prison. If you can't do your job you can forget our deal."
"Don't worry. I'll hold on to our terms. You in turn should hold on to your own. My master won't be happy if we fail. But I am needed in the ritual site. There is a resurrection to be done." The dragoness said and waved her hand on the image and it disappeared into nothingness.

Dragoness walked out of her personal quarters entering into a long hallway. Walking through the hallway which has different statues and paintings honoring the god of chaos. Some of them were just crafted to look like Exitium others were described him slaying his brother Draco. After a short walk, he reached a large chamber with a symbol crafted into the stone floor. It was a pentagram and in its middle was a whirlpool-looking image and over it was a table with the ones of King Sombra. Next to the table was a smoke which had chains all over it the spirit of King Sombra waiting for the ritual to be finished. There standing next to the table was a cultist who was dressed differently than the rest of his kind. His robe was more dark red and he had a dark red tiara with a big emerald on it. The priest turned towards the dragoness hearing her enter.

"Aah, Barb champion of Exitium. How I may serve you?" The cultist said and kneeled in front of the dragoness.
The dragoness now named Barb waved her hand to the cultists commanding him to rise. "I have spoken with our god. We must resurrect Sombra now. High Priest Shadow Shield! Exitium has chosen you to be the sacrifice to usher in Sombra's return. This is great honor you will be at his side when he is released from his prison and helps you to achieve your revenge." Barb said speaking with a chilling dark voice. The other cultist in the room erupted into cheers yelling their leaders and champions' names.
The High Priest rose and spoke in a loud voice. "If that is is his wish I will obey. Brothers and Sisters! I have been chosen to do this great honor. Do not weep for me, but rejoice I shall return with our god to punish those who have wronged us." The cheering continued as the High Priest laid down onto the table. "I am ready. You must finish the ritual my champion." Barb took a ritual dagger from the table crafted for this moment.

Ritual Dagger

"Easily manipulated fools." The entity controlling Barb though and started the ritual making deep cuts into the high priest's wrist first then moving to his legs and last his throat the blood flowed down and started to fill the image that was crated into the ground. High Priest had a smile on his face and didn't move a muscle during this and slowly the life in his eyes vanished. During this, the real Barb that was trapped inside her own body started to gag. No matter what she tried she couldn't stop this monster that was controlling her body from killing this pony who has been lied for years. After all the blood was drained from the high priest's body it has filled the carved image in the ground Barb placed her left hand on the chains holding down Sombras spirit the other onto the bones of his body.
"All of you unicorns join me you all know what we must do." Barb said and started the incantation with the unicorn members of the cult.

"Taker of life, god of gods, accept my offering. Bone, flesh, spirit. Yours eternally. Bone, flesh, spirit. I beg of you, return Sombra to us." All of them chanted. Finishing the incantation the body of now dead high priest flesh started to peel from his bones slowly moving towards the bones of Sombra and so did the blood on the ground. Slowly the flesh on the bones started to morph into Sombra's old body. After that was done his spirit was drained into his new body until all that remained were chains falling to the ground.

Slowly now resurrected Sombra rose up to his feet and opened his eyes which were normal no dark green or red slits at all. Upon realizing he wasn't under Exitium's influence he started to panic and yell. "You fools! You don't know what you have done! You have all been lied to! Don't..." Sombra didn't get to finish his speech when a familiar dark presence entered into his body taking control of it again.
The dark voice of the god of chaos was back in his mind. "I told you. You are mine and there is nothing you can do to escape my grip." Exitium spoke to Sombra in his mind taunting him and laughing. Sombra tried to fight back, but even a fraction of the power of God was too much for him. "I might not have the power to expel you, but I will not give in this easy!" Sombra spoke to Exitium's spirit. "Last time you managed to do that you had your mother to help you. Now you are alone no one to help you. Alone and unloved just give in." God of Chaos taunted and was in control of Sombras body and Sombra did his best to fight back holding of not letting Exitium use his full power while he had a spirit to fight off so he could fully control his body. At that moment a door was blasted open by the explosion of light green fire and a certain dragon entered into the hall. "Girls... We have a big problem." Spike said as the rest of his group entered the hall

Crystal Mountains

Hour Before Ressurection

A tranquil forest clearing with ancient ruins was teeming with wildlife. Each of the animals was focusing on their day-to-day life eating and walking around the area tending their young and just living. With a bright flash of magic, a group of ponies and two dragons appeared, and all the wildlife in the area scattered fleeing the bright light. Each of the arrivals looked around the area where they were.

"It seems we arrived at the right place there seem to be some ruins here. Are you sure we can trust this Sky Arrow" Shining commented while he drew his sword from its sheath. Sky Arrow as to answer Shinings question lit his horn and focused his magic and stood in his place in silence. After a short moment, the land below them trembled and moved aside revealing a long staircase down. "There. That's the entrance to the temple. Now we must hurry we can't let them succeed in the resurrection spell." Sky Arrow said and started to walk down the stairs.
"Wait. Where's Eris?" Celestia asked taking a look around not seeing the Lady of Chaos anywhere.
"We don't have time to wait for her. Please follow me, Princesses." Shining said and started to follow Sky Arrow.

When the group finally reached the bottom they were in awe of how huge the hall was in front of them. But there was a huge question in everyone's mind why was this place so empty. Sky Arrow pointed towards different hallways which lead to where finally pointing towards the last hallway in front of them. "And that leads to Ritual chamber. Sombra's remains are held there and I'm sure all of the missing ponies are there." He said and guided them towards the door to open it. But to their surprise, the door opened itself only to reveal five ponies. They all had swords already drawn and spoke in a chilling voice in sync ignoring the fact that two of the ponies were missing their jaw.
"No one is allowed to enter into the chambers." They said in unison while having empty look in their eyes.
"What are those they look like ponies and yet..." Spike asked taking a step back.
"Their undead. It seems some pony among these cultists is dappling in necromancy." Luna answered and quickly charge a disintegration spell launching it towards one of them. To Luna's surprise, it quickly deflected the spell with the sword in its hand. The spell hit one of the walls disintegrating a big part of it.

Shining was first to act after that and dashed forward with his sword and started to clash with one of the undead shortly followed by Luna who was wielding her two moon forged blades in her hands and was dealing battling two of them at the same time. Celestia was using her own halberd to deal with the two remaining ones. The undead ponies held on their ground pretty well but the experience of two princesses and the captain of solar guard started to show and after a short battle the ponies' bodies were returned to rest.
Shining pulled his sword out of the body of the one undead pony and cleaned it. "Well that was oddly easy. Your friends should really work on the defense of this place." he commented letting out a little laugh.
At that moment the earth beneath them started to shake. "I'm afraid the real battle is still upon us Captain Armor." Celestia said and got into her battle stance. The rest of the group got ready too. Twilight summoned simple leather armors on her, Applejack, and Rarity with her magic after that she summoned an ethereal blade for her to use while Applejack was ready to use her fists and Rarity use her magic.

Both dragons were also ready for this with the snap of her fingers the armor Ember used in the gauntlet was on her and a two-handed sword that looked like it was made of black obsidian. Spike looked at her in awe letting out a whistle. "You weren't joking when you said you do know magic Ember. You got to teach me how to do that." Spike commented.
Ember had a small hint of blush on her cheeks. "Thank you Spike, but shouldn't you already know? You are Champion of Draco after all." Ember said.
"I... errr... I'm supposed to know?" Spike asked while rubbing his head embarrassed.
"You... You're joking?" Ember said looking at Spike hardly believing what she was hearing. Twilight noticed that Spike was looking a little uncomfortable after that comment and walked next to Spike.
"Spike when you fought against your... I don't know I'll just call it, evil twin. You manifested armor and sword. Your mind mirrors your magical abilities according to Starswirl. I'm sure you can do that in the waking world too. I summoned my armors from a locker in the castle. So my guess would be that the armor you had during that battle is inside you. Magically sealed in you. With your magic, you can draw it out, or at least that's my theory. Focus on that imagine it in your mind and draw it out." Twilight explained giving a quick guide on magic summoning. "I... I'll try. Thanks, Twilight." Spike said and closed his eyes and started to focus while the rumbling grow stronger and more of those undead ponies started to appear from the hallway leading towards the ritual chamber.

Focusing Spike closed his eyes and tried to focus his thoughts. All the sounds disappeared around him it was only him in pitch-black darkness. He could feel something inside him and he latched onto it. The Armor he used on his battle against his evil twin as Twilight called it appeared on her the Deep Purple color shined through the dark hallways. The four-horned helm on his head gave him a taunting look. Last, the sword appeared in his hand with its runes glowing light blue. While focusing on drawing his magic and the armor to him Spike heard a faint voice it sounded like a woman who was in distress "Help my..." And as quickly as it appeared it was gone. Opening his eyes he noticed that he managed to draw this armor out he had no idea was in him.

Spike could see that others were already busy fighting the undead ponies it seemed like there was no end to them. Suddenly one of them lunged towards Spike and pure instinct guided his hand when he pinned to dodge the dead pony and lifted his sword to cut its head off. The fighting against the undead continued with Spike joining in and using his Dragonfire with Ember the dead ponies started to burn up in numbers. Ponies had no hard time dealing with these mindless drones. There were many, but they lacked the intelligence to form up any good opposition towards the invading group. Shining was first to notice that the number of new dead ponies started to get lower with each passing minute. The time flew by during the battle against the undead horde and soon only a few of them were left standing.

After the last undead pony was cut down by Celestia she turned around to see how everyone was holding.
"It's over, for now at least. How are you all holding? This is a ghastly sight but know that you didn't hurt anypony. Their dead bodies were controlled with magic" Celestia asked while walking towards Twilight seeing that they all were looking pretty pale. Shining walked next to his sister and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Hey kiddo, how are you holding up." Shining asked and Twilight faced her brother.
"I... I feel a little horrified. I didn't know I could do something like this. I know they weren't alive anymore but still..." Twilight explained, but Shining interrupted her.
"Twily. I know how it feels right now. It gets easier by time, but remember that if you ever face another living being like that don't take joy in the act you are forced to do and never be the aggressor." Shining told his sister while keeping her close to him.

Applejack and Rarity were doing a little better and Luna was talking with them possibly about the same thing Shining just talked with Twilight. Celestia walked towards Ember and Spike who were talking about something naughty if the crimson red face of Spike was any pointer.
"Well Spike that armor does suit you, how about after we are done here you show me what's under it." Ember said teasingly while walking around Spike.
"I... I would love to do that Ember, but..." Spike tried to talk while feeling a little embarrassed about the situation.
"I haven't seen Spike like this in a while. I thought I was the only one able to make him like this." Celestia said to Ember and gave a quick smile to her.
"How are you two holding? I know this was ghastly, but it needed to be done." Celestia asked.
"You don't have to worry about me, Princess Celestia. This isn't my first rodeo." Ember answered.
"I don't know why, but I don't feel... well bad. I know they needed to be put down. Maybe it's my dragon instincts?"
Ember just shrugged her shoulders while Celestia thought for a moment before speaking. "Perhaps. But we don't have time to think about that right now. We need to stop Sombra's resurrection. Come let's see if the rest are ready to continue." Celestia said and started to move towards the others when a flash of pink magic flew past her with some undead ponies stuck in it. Celestia just smiled already knowing who was the source of that magic.

Seeing some undead ponies flying by surrounded by pink magic Shining let out a loud groan. "You just had to ignore my plea didn't you." Shining said not looking behind him.
A small giggle could be heard before Cadance spoke. "We did swear to be there for each other or have you forgotten already?" Cadance said while walking next to Shining and Twilight and giving a quick kiss to Shining.
Released from the kiss Shining spoke. "Well Princess if you want to help then you have to follow my orders got it?" Shining asked while trying to sound serious.
"Aye, Aye Captain." Cadance said and gave a salute.
Sky Arrow walked in front of the group and waved them to follow him. "Follow me. We should head towards the ritual chamber." He says and takes a torch from the wall lighting the way for them.

The group starts to move forward into the hallway passing many different pieces of odd art and some doors that probably lead to bedrooms or other areas. Finally arriving at the huge door and trying to open it starts to glow dark red and burn Sky Arrows' hand when he touches the handle. Quickly removing his hand he curses to himself.
"Damn it it's enchanted. We must find a way to dispel it." Sky Arrow says.
Twilight has an overconfident smirk on her face. "You have four alicorns here dispelling a blocking spell is going to be easy." She says and starts to light up her horn. After a short moment, she blasts the door with white magic, but nothing happens. "But... that can't be. I used the strongest dispelling spell I had." Twilight said having a look of disbelief on her face.
"My faithful student let me show you how it's done." Celestia stepped in and tried to dispel the spell but the result was the same. Luna and Cadance tried too as did Rarity and Shining with no results. "What is this magic?" Celestia asked and started to do a magical scan on it.

"It's the magic of Exitium's Champion so we can't get through the door only..." Sky Arrow explained, but didn't get to finish his sentence.
"Draco's Champion can dispel it." Ember finished getting a nod from Sky Arrow.
Ember turned towards Spike. "Go get 'em, tiger. Your turn to shine." Ember said
Spike was tapping his fingers together little nervous. "Ermm... How am I supposed to dispel it? I don't know how to do something like that." He said while the rest of the group just slapped their faces.
"Spike, magic can be overpowered and some magic is weaker against certain types of magic so..." Cadance explained
"What Cadance is saying is that you must just overpower it. So just use your breath on it." Twilight finished.

"Oh, okay here goes then." Spike said and started to gather his fire in his belly. After he thought he had enough of it he released it all. A bright green fire that had mixed gold in it blasted to the door and Spike kept releasing more of his fire. Shortly the spell gave up and the door blew up in a light green fire. Spike was first to enter and there he was King Sombra alive and well.
"Girls... We have a big problem." Spike yelled and the rest of the group entered. All of them let out a gasp upon seeing the former tyrant alive. But what shook them all was what happened next the dark green glow on Sombra's eyes disappeared and he looked towards Twilight and Cadance with a questioning look. "Ra... Radiant, Mo... Mom, you're... yo..." Sombra with a different softer voice than they had heard but suddenly stopped and started to trash his head around.

At that moment Barb jumped in front of Sombra. "Look what these foul ponies have done to our king. Protect him and he will show favor towards you and your families when he sits on his throne. I'll deal with the purple dragon You will help King Sombra to deal with the rest of the rabble." She said and used her wings to fly fast and grab Spike and separate him from his friends.
"Spike!" All of them yelled except Shining who parked orders. "Focus on the battle in front of us Spike can take care of himself! Rarity! Applejack! secure our rear! Luna! Celestia! Protect our sidelines. The rest of us deal with what is in front of us! Use non-lethal force for now!" Shining yelled orders their formation forming in the heat of the battle while they used magic and raw force to knock out the cultists who were trying to fight them while Sombra was fighting for control against Exitium.

Barb was flying while holding onto Spike who was trying his best to free himself from Barb's strong grip.
"This day couldn't get any better. Champion of Draco just walks in here. Exitium is going to be so happy when I deal with you." Barb says while flying. After arriving at the grand hall of the temple she throws him to the ground. Spike gets back up coughing while a dark sword appears from the black flames in Barb's arms.

Barb's Sword

Barb dashed forward trying to cut Spike but Spike managed to parry her attack with his own sword that he summoned back to his hand. Spike takes a look towards the dragoness and recognizes her. She is the one in the mirror. She's his sister. "Is this how you treat your long-lost brother? I mean what gives." Spike said giving a little laugh while they were in a deadlock with their swords.
"My... Bro... Brother..." Barb said with a different tone. Her voice was more feminine now instead of dark chilly masculine. She rolled her head a little and the dark voice was back. "She is ours. She might try to fight back, but it's only a matter of time until she gives in." Barb, said while two of them were trying to find weaknesses in others' defense while still in a deadlock with each other. After an agonizing moment, Barb used her tail to hit Spike's legs. Spike wasn't prepared for this and lost his balance and fell to the ground. Seizing the opportunity Barb raised her sword up and brought it down aiming to finish Spike with one quick strike.

Spike rolled and took a small hit to his shoulder blood flowing slowly from his fresh wound. Using his own wings he dashed forward slamming into Barb with his head which knocked the air out of her. Both of them were on the ground Spike holding her hands down and holding her tail with his tail. While she was trashing trying to get free
"Come on snap out of it. My name's Spike I'm your brother." Spike said. The entity controlling Barb could feel how this dragoness was fighting against its control. Doing its best to hold onto the control it managed to use Barbs dragon breath. Spike saw the build-up of toxic green magic fire on Barb's mouth and quickly released his sister to dodge the incoming attack. Attacking wildly with her breath she spew fireballs towards Spike who dodged them and headed into cover.
"Is this all you got? I thought more of you Champion of Draco." Barb taunted Spike while throwing more fireballs towards the cover Spike was behind.
"I don't want to hurt my sister. Just cool down and we can have a little talk about this you know brother and sister private talk. I got some tasty rubies you might like." Spike said while taking one ruby out of his pocket and raising it up only to feel it blow to pieces by Barb's fireballs.
"Or not... Come on I don't even know your name maybe start with that. I told you mine already."

Black smoke traveled from the hallway leading to the ritual chamber and formed a crack in time and space appeared in the air next to Barb. Spike could hear a deep ancient voice coming from it and the voice and it was sounding pissed.
"I lost Sombra and you aren't ready to face Draco's Champion. Retreat! Now! Or you ruin everything!" The voice yelled sounding a little panicked and the candles around the hall started to burn even brighter when it spoke.
"Fine then I'll retreat for now." Snapping her fingers a dark red portal appeared next to her. Spike decided to look out of her cover seeing that his sister stopped throwing fireballs at him and noticed a portal Barb was entering. Spike dashed forward trying to grab her sister, but seeing this the entity controlling Barb started to use her breath attack again and Spike had to get behind cover again.
"Sorry sweetheart, but I got to go. Barb says bye." The dragoness finished and disappeared through the portal Spike left his cover and dashed forward trying to enter the portal his sister used, but once fully through it the portal disappeared and Spike just fell to the cold ground.

After his failed attempt to get his sister back Spike was on the ground on his knees and started to hit the ground with his fists leaving cracks in the floor. "Damn it! I was so close!" He yelled to himself while pounding the floor while small tears formed in his eyes. A chance to save dragoness who surely was his sister he could feel it in his heart but she slipped past his claws. "At least I learned her name. Barb now that is a lovely name."
"Spike! Are you okay!" Spike heard Twilight's voice behind him and turned his head towards the sound. Seeing the rest of their group running towards him with Sombra behind them who was levitating above the ground.

Ritual Chamber

After Spike's Kidnapping

The cultists were attacking the group but thanks to Shining experience and the raw power of four alicorns they were making zero progress and were easily knocked out one at a time.
"Ugh... These ponies should really get some dressing advice those robes look so dreadful." Rarity said commenting on the robes cultists were wearing while sapping another cultist into sleep with her magic.
"Sugercube... I think this is the wrong time and place for a fashion guide." Applejack commented and knocked one cultist out.
The groups luck, unfortunately, run out when Sombra decided to stop whatever he was doing and blasted them with dark purple magic beams mixed with dark red energy beams. Shining noticed this and thanks to his deep knowledge of shielding spells managed to shield his group Sombra's spell. Most of the damage was absorbed by the large shield, but eventually, it cracked and got destroyed. The remaining energy seared their skin making burn marks on all of them. Thanks to the shield spell Shining cast around them his group survived along with some of the knocked-out cultists. Those outside the shield weren't so lucky. At least they didn't suffer and died instantly disintegrating into a pile of ash. Seeing his enemies were still standing Sombra spoke. "I'm impressed. I can't recall any living being surviving that attack. I might have used most of my energy on that attack, but I still got enough power to control Sombra and use his magic and remove you ants from the board." He said having a wicked grin on his face.

"Sister! No!" Luna yelled to her sister. Celestia ignored her and made a quick dash towards the possessed king attempting to knock him out fast, but Sombra was already awaiting something like this. Like their last duel, he melted into shadows and cast a fear spell on her. The princess of the sun froze in her place and started to mutter something to herself while she was covered in fear of something. "You haven't changed a bit, Celestia. Always raging like the sun so you dash into combat recklessly like last time. Now you'll pay the price, that spell is a little more enhanced from last time." Sombra gloated. Seeing Celestia fall into the same trap as last time Luna and Cadance got ready to fight Sombra.
"Luna and Cadance you flank Sombra's sides. Ember you attack him from the air I'll take him head-on. Twilight you support us with your magic." Twilight gave acknowledging nod and they rushed forward. Shining attacking with his sword, Cadance and Luna were charging their magic on both sides of Sombra while Ember was flying towards him with cyan flames forming in her mouth.

Exitium wasn't even worried. These ants were trying to use force and crush his vessel. It's true that he couldn't use all of his power, but he had some of his power and all of Sombra's left unused. A giant red energy ball formed around him and flaming crimson chains appeared from the ball launching forward all of them and coiling around them slowly starting to crush them while burning all of them at the same time. Cadance, Luna, and Twilight were fighting back better than Ember, Shining, Applejack, and Rarity were losing their strength faster. Shining could feel himself getting weaker by each passing second. "Twily... I'm sorry sis. But you got to take care of Flurry for me I..." Shining tried to continue but let out a scream of pain feeling the chains hold get even tighter. Hearing this Sombra had a wonderful and dreadful idea and stopped the spell from squishing all of them. just keeping them pound for now. "A sister you say. I do take so much enjoyment of crushing all hope out of you mortals so here's what we do." Sombra said and with a snap of fingers, all of them were lying in front of them while Shining and Twilight were sitting facing their other sibling. Another snap and chained Celestia was released from the fear spell. "What is the meaning of this! Release us at once." Celestia yelled upon seeing herself bound.

"Oh, all in good time Princess of the Sun. The bond between siblings is strong. I pondered if I would do this to you and Luna, but these two have far deeper bonds than you two." Sombra said and charged his magic again and a pitch-black blade appeared into his hand it looked like it was sucking all the light around it.
"Thou should speak more clearly. We already know Sombra is being controlled by you, Exitium." Luna said with anger on her face.
"Oh no I have been found out." Exitium said feigning hurt. "But it doesn't really matter. I'm planning to let all of you go, but first I want to drain all of your hope. I want you to feel how it feels to lose someone you really love and admire." Exitium finished and walked next to Twilight and started to press his blade into her shoulder. Flesh gave in and the blade started to sink slowly into her flesh. Twilight let out a loud scream of pain while all of them started to plead to stop what he was doing. "Stop! Please take me! Not my little sister! I'll give you anything don't hurt her!" Shining yelled while tears were flowing down on his cheeks hearing the sounds of pain Twilight was letting each time the blade sunk further into her shoulder.
"You mortals can't give me what I want! Now just enjoy the show I want to feel all your hope draining from your body." Exitium said.

Twilight looked straight into Sombra's eyes. "Please, grandfather! It hurts! Stop this please!" Twilight pleaded.
Love is said to be the strongest magic and in this case, it was proven right. Tears started to form in Sombra's eyes while he was forced to watch while this pony who looked so much like her love Radiant called him grandfather awoke something deep in him. The instinct to protect one's family. He could feel a special connection towards this mare, he was sure that there was a reason why she looked so much like his love. Radiant might have died a long time ago, but their son had survived their lineage survived. "No." Sombra said with his own warm voice and blinked to show the red irises and green color started to vanish from his eyes while more tears were forming and flowing on his cheeks and he stopped pressing the sword deeper.
Cadance could feel the intense love coming from Sombra. The love towards one's family was growing stronger each passing second. "Twilight! Keep going! I can feel the love within him growing stronger!" Cadance yelled.
"I... we read your diary grandfather. You did what you did to protect your family, but you were fooled. Please, fight against his hold. We know you can do it." Twilight said to Sombra her pain seemingly forgotten and was smiling warmly at her distant grandfather.

That smile reminded Sombra of the time when his son was born so long ago. That same smile was on Radiant who was smiling warmly at him when he entered the room to meet his son for the first time. It also brought back pained memories of what he did to his parents or rather what the parasite in him did. He also remembers the smile of his dying mother Amore and her whisper of forgiveness and undying love to him as her special colt. And last guiding words of love conquering all. When he had regained some level of control back then he immediately sunk into a deep depression and lost himself when he realized that he killed his own mother and father in that moment he forgot his mother's guidance and broke giving in to Exitiums will. "Not again!" Sombra said angrily and started to draw the sword slowly out from Twilight.

After the sword was out Sombra's eyes twitched he was having a mental battle against to god of chaos inside his mind. "You are my servant! You do as I command! Kill that mare!" Exitium yelled clearly angry at himself for losing control of Sombra. He shouldn't have used so much power on his first attack now it was biting him back.
"My mother once told me that love conquers all. It's the strongest force in the universe. If I had followed her guidance back then this would have never happened. I just forgot it after seeing what you did to my parents! But no more I won't let you harm my grandchildren!" Sombra yelled at the god in front of him.
Feeling his control slipping slowly away Exitium let out a growl. "You might have won this, but I'll make sure you won't say a word to your family." the god said and shot a beam of energy at Sombra's spirit chains appearing around him and locking him in his place.

Back in the corporeal world Sombra's body just fell limp onto the ground after black smoke left his body towards the direction that dragoness took Spike. The chains around all of them disappeared and Shining was quick to dash to his sister's side.
"Twily! Are you alright, come on kiddo speak to me." Shining said while starting to treat her wound.
Letting out a painful groan Twilight answered. "I'm... ouch... I'm alive Shining thanks B.B.B.F.F" Twilight said while feeling her shoulder slowly healing.
Celestia walked next to her student and fellow princess casting a powerful healing spell on Twilight's wound accelerating its healing. "Forgive me Twilight I almost got us killed." Celestia said.
"You damn right did. You haven't changed a bit, Tia. Still so impatient to rush into action without thinking. I'm glad Twilight managed to do whatever it is she did." Luna said while walking next to the siblings.

Applejack and Rarity walked next to Twilight. "That was some extreme fooling Twilight. Didn't know you had that good skills in speaking." Applejack asked.
"Applejack, Rarity. Shining, and Twilight are related to Sombra. The seal was hiding Sombra's diary which explained lots to us. But that's another matter come we must get to Spike we need to take Sombra with us and get some help for him." Cadance said. Applejack and Rarity's jaw were pretty much hitting the floor upon hearing that.
"I agree. He might have some info for us. Also, I would like to talk to him if he's free from this Exitiums control." Shining said
Twilight placed a hand on Sombra's stomach and a rune of seal appeared on it. "There that should seal of his magic and make it hard to use magic if Sombra isn't controlling his own body." Twilight said
Ember was dusting herself from all the dirt. "Maybe we should see if Spike needs our help." Ember said getting the last of dirt off her armors.
"I agree we must go and Twilight could you use your magic to get Sombra with us." Celestia asked and Twilight gave a nod casting a levitate spell on Sombra. With that, they left to the direction where that dragoness who is supposedly Spike's sister had captured her own brother.