Chapters Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
We wondered through the Everfree forest, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and myself landing after the purple cloud appeared, we weren't rushing but needed to get to Nightmare moon sooner, rather than later, for everyone's and everypony's sake. Spike had received a letter just before we left for the forest, we had two days at best to stop Nightmare moon and get her, force her if need be, to close the portal between worlds. I knew how many billions were living on Earth, but on Equestria, I had no idea, I asked as we walked through the dark forest, blood curling screams and cries coming up from the various monsters of the forest.
"So, how many celestial beings live on Equestria-" I added more to stop suspicion. "-like how many ponies?" I asked. Twilight gave a face as she thought about it.
"About, seven hundred million live on Equestria alone, the land, the country is so vast it can hold loads of isolated towns and cities and still have huge numbers. That is only counting the Ponies, there are also the Pegasi that stay in the clouds, known mainly as sky dwellers, they number to sixty million, then the thirty something million sea ponies, the isolations, the dragons, the legendary Changlings. Our planet has about an overall population of two and a half billion. Why?" Twilight asked, and I paused.
"Because I was wondering how many will die if we can't get past those." I muttered, in front of us stood the impossible. Twenty or so, human skeletons stood in out path, none armed, but had sharp clawed bones. "That is not possible." I muttered. The dead were slow and their bones incredibly bleached and old, very, very old. The ones still with skulls attached had bright blue, cold eyes. Twilight and the rest were paralyzed. I, being a veteran of fantastic war games, was surprisingly unafraid of these undead, just very confused. I pattered the ground with one hoof and stared at the oncoming dead.
"Twilight, anytime you wish to do something you may." Was all I said, then charged the skeletons. My initial reaction to some undead, human, skeletons was, fear, exhilaration I was now going to blindly run into some undead and just attack. I also felt pity and sorrow for wherever these skeletons had come from and who made them fight us. That I would have to ruin their rest to destroy them. I saw how sharp their finger bones were and almost hesitated. But then didn't and charged faster. I kicked the first one square in the chest and got a cut on my ear from a seconds swipe, I saw Rainbow Dash fly in and kick a skeleton to pieces, Applejack soon ran in and 'bucked a skeleton to next month' as she would say. Rarity was watching, not wanting to get 'barbarically' brutal I presumed, kicking another skeleton and getting another cut on my forehead, both cuts were bleeding as I saw some blood come into my vision for a second.
Pinkie Pie now ran in and kicked an undead into pieces, I destroyed my third and Rainbow was swooping in and destroying one then flying out of range, it was probably a better idea than mêlée, but I was too busy to change tactics. Suddenly a flame shot up on each skeleton and then began to burn, the fire occasionally falling to the ground but then dying out, I gave a quick glace over to Twilight, who's horn was glowing very brightly, she looked slightly tired and got more worn out as each second passed on her using her magical attack. Then just as I thought it was all for nil, the skeletons collapsed on themselves and stayed down, blue eyes dying out. I gave a cheer and saw everypony rush to Twilight, who had fainted under the stress of the magic. I figured she wasn't a big offensive magic user and trotted over. Knowing much about magic lore from all the fantasy crap I checked Twilight over, her pulse, her breathing, (her mana/magic source if I was a unicorn and could do that, so got Rarity to). After some confused looks from the ponies as to how I knew, we all agreed Twilight would be fine soon. So we decided to wait. Sitting in the darkness, with enemies closing in. But how were we to know that?
"Skeletons!" Pinkie Pie shouted, I jumped up, Twilight was still unconscious, and we were deciding whether to drag her to the castle due to time or not. I had been laying under a tree when Pinkie shouted, at first I didn't see anything, then pairs of blue eyes appeared and I ran toward the undead, destroying them as they came, my cuts were still bleeding but not as much and Rainbow Dash had offered to hold a leaf over it to slow the blood loss. I had accepted, Rainbow Dash had held the leaf for a good fifteen, and although the bleeding hadn't stopped and it was stinging like hell, I still thanked Rainbow for her efforts.
"Rarity! Rainbow, Applejack help me! Pinkie, Fluttershy, wake Twilight up, we're out of time!" I shouted, beheading a skeleton with my sore hooves. I was getting tired, but the mission at hand was more important. I kept fighting, as did the other ponies, as Pinkie was shouting for Twilight to wake up.
"Persistence, Sacrifice, Defence, Loyalty, Magic, Kindness, Helping." Twilight muttered. She was still sleeping.
"What?" Pinkie asked. I knew some of those, she was naming the Elements of Harmony, well, some. The others I wasn't really sure about. Then it hit me. The Elements are forged once a pure soul is made, so what about the Elements changing as the soul does. Rainbow had helped me with my bleeding head. Fluttershy had stayed kind to waking Twilight, Pinkie was persistent in waking her hurt friend up, Applejack was defending us all. Rarity hadn't faltered the slightest even after her complaining and had stayed loyal to Equestria. Twilight of course had saved us with her magic. The sacrifice one, or the seventh Element altogether I wasn't entirely sure on. It was so confusing. Suddenly Twilight sprung up as the last skeleton fell.
"We are out of time. Run my little ponies! Before Nightmare finds the Elements of Humanity! I mean Harmony. No." Twilight lost track and began to run, as did the rest of us as more skeletons came out of the woods.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
We ran, the dark unlit trees blurred past as we ran, there were skeletons everywhere and we had no chance of survival, every step we took, another human dead seemed to appear, there was a blue mist of Nightmare moon nearby that I had seen. So far none of the TV show had happened, no cliff, serpent or anything. The group had kind of shown their Elements, or a sort of Element whilst we were fighting the undead the first time. The seventh was probably Spike or somepony who sacrificed something for the mane six or the good of Equestria, maybe Celestia or somepony like that, I wasn't really necessary and was only in Equestria to close the portal a bit more by bringing the wild magic back. So I wasn't required, I knew where my train of thought was going and didn't like it. But knew it was probably for the best. I stopped running, Rainbow Dash saw me stop and flow over to me, skeletons were already massing.
"What are you doing? We've got to run." Rainbow Dash said, looking down on me, my head hurt from the cut and my ear was sore. I felt a tear in my eye as I looked up at the cyan Pegasus I had briefly called a sister.
"Rainbow Dash, I will hold them off, you just save Ponyville and Equestria. Go!" I replied, pushing Rainbow Dash away, she paused.
"You have to come though. We need you, I need you." Rainbow Dash said, how she said it hit me in the chest like a ton of bricks, that was very unexpected.
"Rainbow Dash. Go now! Before they hurt you! Go!" I shouted, Rainbow was almost crying, I'd known her a very short time but still felt like her family. Rainbow flow higher as the skeletons emerged from the trees, surrounding me.
"All of Equestria shall know of your bravery and sacrifice sir." Rainbow Dash said and flow off toward her friends, I was fighting on my own. I stared at each of the skeletons in turn, all with their great, cold, bright blue eyes. I blinked once and they began to move, around in a circle around me. More poured from the forest and I was completely trapped, no escape.
"Well? Who's first?" I taunted. The dead just kept moving, skulls tilted to look at me. I made ready for a kick and made the most intimidating sound I could, a roar. The skeletons skipped a step and then stopped and turned to me, clawed hands outwards, ready to destroy me. I remembered Dash's words; "All of Equestria shall know of your bravery and sacrifice sir." Rainbow had meant it, once this was over, Pinkie would probably have a party dedicated to me. I knew it was over, my time in life and Equestria was at an end, time to die.
I found myself thinking of home and now, being in Equestria. How fun it had been and great that the land actually excised, I thought that the Elements would stop the collusion and, even though I wasn't a religious man, gave a short prayer that Equestria and Earth would be saved. I felt more blood come down my face from the cut on my forehead and my ear was burning from the slash I had taken earlier. Finally, I took a deep, controlled breathe, and jumped into enemy lines.
Rainbow Dash flow next to Fluttershy, the others galloping below. Rainbow couldn't help but simile proudly at the humans bravery and become saddened at what it meant. Twilight had her horn glowing as she ran, presumably to detect where the ruined castle was.
"Where did the man go?" Pinkie Pie shouted up, only just figuring he was gone. Rainbow felt tears brewing but held them back. Turning her head behind her to look at the dark trees hoping to spot the man fly out victorious, it never came. Rainbow muttered, then realized Pinkie couldn't hear her.
"He, stayed behind. He gave us enogh time to get to the castle and save Equestria and Earth." Rainbow Dash said, loud enogh for Pinkie to hear, but not so that everypony knew Rainbow was on the verge of tears. That man who knew so little of them, who had come with them leaving his own world practically by force. Who had barely met anypony here, only really knowing Applejack fairly well from the market days, had opted to stay behind to save them six ponies and give them time to get to safety and save their world. Even if it meant death. Rainbow Dash saw what true loyalty was and smiled. She barely knew the man also, but still felt proud of his bravery. And hated herself for not staying with him and making everypony else to make a stand together. Pinkie slowed a little and then stopped, so did every other pony.
"Well we can't just leave him there!" Pinkie tried to run back, but Applejack grabbed her pink cotton candy mane with her teeth, letting go only when Pinkie Pie stopped struggling.
"Now sugar cube, we can't go trotting back other there to go to him, he stopped to give us time to get to the Elements of, whatever. We have to keep moving." Applejack said. Twilight nodded and looked at each pony.
"Look, everypony, I saw things when I was out, like the Elements of Harmony. And they aren't what we need to destroy Nightmare moon. The Elements changed and copied into new, pure Elements. The Elements of Humanity. Rainbow Dash, you helped the man when he was hurt. You are Helping. Pinkie Pie, your persistence just then to save the man makes you, the Element of Persistence. Rarity, for never doubting him, or falling away when it was our time of darkness, you are the Element of Loyalty. Applejack, for your fighting skills in defending the man in battle, you are the Element of Defence. Fluttershy, you were kind to the man when he first came to Equestria, helping him fly, giving him a home. Showing kindness that ponies shouldn't give to humans. You are the Element of Kindness. I, for using that magic to stop the skeletons attacking you all, and the man. Am the Element of Magic. The Element of Bravery, I have no idea, but I guess we will find out as soon as we get to the ruins. Come on girls!" Twilight said, the other ponies fell silent and stood completely prone until Twilight began to run again.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
There in front of everypony, across a cliff stood the ruins of the old castle. Twilight Sparkle ran to it, only to be pulled back at the last second by Applejack before she fell down the whole where the bridge was meant to be. Rainbow Dash flow over the bridge to re-tie the other side when there was a great explosion and a dark rainbow formed, much like Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom, but slightly darker colours. The ponies turned to look, but none saw the rainboom, just the after shock of the explosion.
"Come on y'all, lets get this done." Applejack muttered, everypony knew the human was dead. Pinkie actually burst into tears, spraying everywhere and was eventually pushed into the castle by Rarity and Applejack, the earth pony farmer also giving a few sniffs of tears. Fluttershy had gotten more quiet than normal, Rainbow Dash was on the verge of collapse as was Rarity. Twilight, she was definitely going to loss it. That lone human had just fallen saving them.
The six ponies trotted either in silence or in tears as they entered the castle. Just as they reached the doors, Pinkie Pie screamed, skeletons were moving toward the castle, now each pony truly knew that the human was dead. Twilight closed and locked the doors. The six ponies then wondered through the castle in search for the Elements. Or any life at all, the stone-slab room they had entered was mossy and cold, the torches on the wall had long since died out and much of the inter structure was damaged and cracked. The roof, or what was left of it, could collapse at any moment. Rainbow Dash flow close to the ground next to Twilight as they looked around. Both Twilight's and Rarity's horns were glowing and the two gave of faint light between them.
"So, what are we looking for?" Rainbow Dash asked. Lowering her voice in case any loud sounds brought the whole castle down. Twilight paused her strides and shock her head.
"I'm not sure right now, just look for some gems or anything." Twilight replied, in the centre of the room lay five pedastals, holding five different rocks.
"There, the old Elements, well, most." Twilight said, pointing a hoof at the rocks. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flow up and grabbed each rock. Around Twilight lay the five old Elements. Then, just as Twilight began her summoning magic for the next two and to change the old five as lore told. Nightmare moon crashed through the castle wall and shot a bolt of pure magical energy at the six ponies, they screamed and dispersed.
The energy missed Twilight Sparkle by inches and slammed into the locked doorway, undead were banging on it and the explosion weakened the door, but luckily didn't destroy it.
As the six ponies began to recover Nightmare moon charged in and laughed, she shot another bolt straight at the Elements of Harmony. Or the old ones anyway. Twilight screamed out and ran toward the now shards of rock. Nightmare kicked Twilight far across the room. The other ponies were trapped. Nightmare moon laughed again and the banging on the door stopped.
"Now my subjects, for high treason against your princess. Death." Nightmare said, horn glowing. The wooden doors blow open.
"No!" A familiar voice sounded.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
I smashed through the castle ruins great oak door and stood for a second. Nightmare moon stood on the wreckage of the Elements of Harmony, she said something along the lines of. Treason and death.
"No." I said, limping forwards, blood was dripping from everywhere. My left foreleg was probably broken and I fell myself edge closer to passing out, but there I stood, victorious over the human undead. I limped closer to Nightmare only to get pushed back as Rainbow shot in to hug me.
"Your late." She said.
"I'm alive. Just." Was my reply. I pushed Rainbow back with my good hoof and winced in pain. I edged closer to Nightmare, completely speechless.
"It is you who is the traitor Nightmare, betrayer of your own country. You may have destroyed the Elements of Harmony but as a pure soul is added, so is an Element, as a pure soul changes, so do the Elements, it is not the Elements of Harmony we need, it is not six. But seven, the Elements have changed Nightmare. Persistence, Pinkie Pie. Help, Rainbow Dash, Rarity is Loyalty, Fluttershy is Kindness, Applejack is the Element of Defence, and Twilight is magic." I shouted. Only realising now after Twilight had muttered in her sleep.
"But you mentioned seven, there are only six!" Nightmare moon shouted, horn glowing again.
The cobbled floor cracked open, revealing a black void of nothing. Then bone claws came out of the ground and five skeletons clawed out of the ground. Marching toward us. My head was getting light, this had to end now.
"Ah, yes, the Seventh, new Element, the Element of Sacrifice. That is given to the pure soul. An alien who was willing to end his life to defend two worlds.-" I looked to the other six, seeing shards of stone floating around them. They looked to me in pure hope. My vision became faint, the various cuts were bleeding badly.
"-I gave my life, or was prepared to give my life to save all these ponies and all of Equestria, a place I have lived on for a matter of weeks. I am the Seventh Element." As I finished my words another sphere appeared above my head. Shining brightly, the undead halted their advance and collapsed. I felt my body lift into the air and then, darkness.
Rainbow Dash woke up, head throbbing and something on her neck. She groaned and looked around, the other ponies began to awaken, all but him. The human. The cyan Pegasus jumped up and ran over to him, laying in his own blood, passed out and dying. Tears welded up for the second time as Rainbow Dash shouted for Twilight. The unicorn came over and her horn began to glow. The moon decended and the sun rose for the new day. Tonight was when the worlds collided. And Luna was sitting in the corner of the room, magical energies gloating off her as she sat crying, curled up. Twilight poured magic onto the human, the cuts began to seal up and the pool around him dispersed, still he lay. The dark cyan body of his, lacking any cutie mark lay still and cold. There was a crimson crown on his head and Rainbow saw Twilight wearing a purple gem in crested necklace. The gem was shaped like her moon cutie mark. Rainbow Dash stepped back to Pinkie Pie and the others as Twilight continued to heal the human. Every pony was teary, he had stopped to save them, and stayed alive to help them. The human was the bravest pony, or person Rainbow Dash knew, and at this rate, known. There were cuts all over the humans body and his rainbow hair was now smothered in just blood, smearing the colours.
It had been a good two minutes of pure magic Twilight gave the human before she felt faint and Rarity was required to lend her some. Luna was still crying and the sun was rising faster than normal. Twilight walked toward the night princess and looked at her.
"Luna. How do we close the portal?" Twilight asked quietly. Luna sobbed once more then looked up at the purple unicorn.
"I, I don't know. The portal wasn't me." Luna replied, tears dripping everywhere.
"What?" Twilight asked, shocked. "Your the only one who can open and close the portal."
"Not anymore. Whilst I was controlled by Nightmare, she, she gave the magic energy to another god. One who would use it for true evil." Luna explained.
"Who did you give the magic to? Luna we must know, the fate of Equestria, and Earth lay in your hooves." Twilight asked, looking over to see a new figure standing over the human.
"Luna. You gave it to him didn't you?" Celestia asked. Luna nodded her head and burst into tears again. Pinkie Pie was poking at the man with her nose, trying to wake him.
"My princess, who opened the portal?" Twilight asked, there was an awkward silence for a while and Twilight began to trot over to the human. Who's body was freezing and his heart was barely beating, the man was just barely alive.
"Twilight. She gave the magic to one who is trapped, one I thought dead in his mental cage, Nightmare allowed one to open the portal to his will. Nightmare gave the magic to. Discord." Celestia replied. She then walked over to the human and the seven, then Luna, the eight stood over watching. For a time nothing happened, then Celestia kneeled down beside the man, horn glowing.
"Twilight, Rarity, can you give me as much magic as you can, you too Luna, this man isn't going to die today." Celestia asked, the three nodded, their horns also glowing. Celestia released the magic flow and four horns shot a bright light of white into the humans body.
It was completely black, I felt myself floating in the vast expanse of nothingness.
'Am I dead?' I thought, I tried to look at myself but saw nothing but black. I realised I couldn't fell any part of me either. Unsure of myself, I tried to move or run or something, but my conciseness just floated. I found myself unable to physically speak. So just thought.
'Did we do it?' I wondered. I pictured Earth and Equestria hitting each other, but pushed the thought away and became happy at the thought the portal would now be closed and neither worlds would die. I floated for a second and began to think of home, well, Earth. The memories I had had.
I remembered my job, would they care I was gone? I remembered my school years, writing pony fan fictions and generally living a pretty good life. Then the ponies came and brought me to such an adventurous world, where I had gotten to know the most important ponies in all of My little pony lore. Then became the seventh Element and fought Nightmare moon and completed a sonic rainboom in an attempt to fight off the skeletons. I felt proud of the fact that I had done something to save worlds. I felt a pull to close my (metaphorical) eyes and rest.
Just before I went into eternal bliss, a light appeared, I felt myself draw closer to it and heard voices, faint worried voices. I felt my body reform and my wings appear. Blood had stopped flowing, my breathing returned and I let out a gasp of air. As I returned to Equestria, very much alive.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
I gasped for air and jumped up. I looked to my surroundings and saw what I had hoped for. My six friends and the princess was looking at me. I found myself not in as much pain and flapped my wings a little.
"He's alive!" Pinkie Pie shouted jumping around. I similed and walked over to Celestia and Twilight. I saw Luna crying in the corner of the room and instantly knew what that would mean.
"Thank you. Celestia." I said. She nodded then looked to her student.
"It was her and Rarity that gave their magic to me. I couldn't have done it without them." Celestia replied. Twilight gave a half simile and faltered a little, she was tired and low on magic, which isn't normally a good thing.
"It's not over though is it?" I asked, looking to Luna. Celestia looked down in shame and shock her head. If the portal wasn't closed today, we would all die.
"Nightmare moon gave the Interdimensional portal magic to one of stone. Trapped in a mental prison forever with no able way out. Discord. We have to find a way to get him out and force him to close the portal." Celestia replied. I thought about this for a second and then nodded. Everypony was tired and wryer from the nights episode, but we had to keep going, and each of the other ponies also saw this.
"Well. We better get to Discord then." I said, suddenly the thought of how the undead had appeared on Equestria, no humans, as far as I knew were living or had lived on Equestria so I couldn't think of an explanation. Luna seemed as confused as me when l asked her on the way back through the forest. We didn't see any skeletons, or at least I didn't. Despite all of Celestia's, (and Twilight's and Rarity's), one of my wings was badly damaged and I couldn't fly, so was limping along with the others. Applejack, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, the two princesses had opted to fly but were way ahead of us talking to each other.
Twilight looked back from where she was, the others did too, I was dragging behind and in pain still. But at least I was alive. I wondered what the void world was that I had seen, was it just my imagination, an illusion? Maybe it was real and I had actually been dead for a minute, maybe more?
"You okay sugar cube?" Applejack asked, I blinked back to reality.
"Eh? Oh, right. Sorry, my leg still hurts." I replied. 'Among other things.' I thought unhappily, almost everywhere hurt still and apart from closing the cuts, I wondered if Celestia had actually done anything. 'No, that's not nice, she did everything she could.' I thought, maybe the repairing of my body had caused a minor blood overflow in my brain, causing me to get hot headed or something. I took another step and fell. My foreleg failed under me and I went face first into some mud. Applejack ran over to me and put my hurt hoof over her shoulder and helped me get up.
"Thanks." I said, grateful of the help. The orange earth pony smiled kindly and winked.
"No problem. Now, easy steps." AJ replied and I walked, her body strength helping me along. The journey back was shorter than the one there but I figured it was due to us being completely lost all the time, then the running and resting. It took a while. Now the sun was up the Everfree didn't look so scary. The place still looked depressing and dark. But less scary.
"This is where we leave you. A chariot shall be sent to you as soon as we arrive at Canterlot. We will try to figure out how to force Discord into freedom. Goodbye my little ponies." Celestia said. We all nodded and the two princesses flow off out of the forest.
"Well. Now what?" Pinkie Pie asked. I was worrying to much about time limitation and how relaxed the princesses seemed. I limped, with the help of Applejack a bit more as we neared the town again.
"We wait in Ponyville, as heroines, and hero." I replied. Knowing we probably wouldn't get the portal closed before the worlds collided so we would all be dead, but letting the ponies believe they are now safe once more. I was beginning to get very tired and saw the others were too. We walked (and limped) back to Ponyville in silence, except Pinkie who was singing some song I hadn't heard of before from her.
After a few more minutes of traveling, we exited the Everfree to see almost all of Ponyville standing, cheering for us. Above me I saw a dark cloud with a grey wing, painted cyan, poorly painted cyan, I should say. I flapped my wings and flow up to see Derpy hiding, or attempting to hide in the cloud line. She had tried to paint herself cyan and most hadn't dried and was slowing dripping into the cloud. Derpy hadn't seen me yet so I just looked at her. Considering she was a pony, and myself a human, she seemed, attractive, or was before she became an attempt at cyan. Her hair was also painted a red colour, but again, the paint was mixing in and her yellow hair looked like she had been bleeding.
"Hi Derpy." I said suddenly, the grey (cyan?) Pegasus jumped and gave a cute, wait, cute? Anyway, she gave some sort of squeal. She looked up at me.
"Oh hi. Do you like my new look? I figured you might like the new me." Derpy said, her left eye twitched a little, her right was looking somewhere away from me. I decided to look into the left eye and gave a simile.
"New you?" I asked. Confused, I looked down at the others and saw them talking to the mayor and other ponies like Lyra and Doctor Hooves and the like.
"Yeah, new me. Not Derpy anymore. Just a normal, single, attractive Pegasus now." Derpy replied, okay, I understood now. Crap, she liked me. "So do you like it?" Derpy continued. I was shocked. Confused, hurt, happy, I didn't know what to say or do. My wings began to flap faster and my heart was beating so loud, I was wondering how Derpy, and the rest of Ponyville couldn't hear it. I caught sight of the Canterlot chariots and sighed.
"Look Derpy. Honestly, I hate this new attempt at a look." I began, she looked down, sad and about to cry. I had to act. I was probably going to die soon anyway right? "Because Derpy. I like the old you. You were attractive and funny and, I liked you the way you were, we are, just of two different worlds." I continued, Derpy's face lite up at the first part, then became confused at the last. I had to tell her.
"Derpy. I'm not a pony. I'm human. Brought here because Discord has opened a portal between my world and yours, and I was affected by a magic transfer. Derpy. I can't love you the way I do. It would be so wrong. I may not ever return from Canterlot, but Discord must be stopped." There, I told her. I spread my wings to fly of the cloud I had landed on to tell Derpy to fly away. But then, she came in like lightning, and. She, she kissed me.
Long and hard she embraced me, and after a second I replied. We stood on the cloud layer together as the chariots landed and kissed. My wings were flapping so much I thought I'd take off. My heart was on the verge of a heart attack and I felt so wrong. Yet, so right. I let go of Derpy's hoof that I hadn't realized I was holding and pulled back, confused, but happy.
"I don't care. I love you." Derpy said and similed.
"I may not return." I replied, she kissed me again.
"For luck." She explained and flow away. I flow down onto a chariot and Rainbow just winked at me.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
We flow in three chariots. Rainbow and myself in one, AJ and Pinkie in another and Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy in the other. I sat watching the clouds underneath us pass by as we drew ever nearer to Canterlot.
"So!" Rainbow shouted, we were going really fast so she needed to shout for me to hear. "What happened with Derpy?" Rainbow Dash asked. Winking again.
"She kissed me!" I replied. Rainbow gave a laugh.
"Nearly everypony in Equestria likes you!" Rainbow Dash replied.
"What does that mean?" I asked. Worried.
"Nothing." Rainbow replied. Twilight's chariot came closer to ours and she looked at me.
"How do you think we will free Discord then?" Twilight asked. Fluttershy was holding onto the gold rail and had thrown up twice already from what I saw. Rarity was comforting Fluttershy as she puked again.
"Well, he's what? God of Chaos?" I asked, pretending not to know.
"Yeah. So?" Twilight replied. The other chariot came nearer with Pinkie Pie and Applejack on.
"Well, Gods fed on their given power, for Discord, Chaos and Disharmony. So we need to create that for him to become strong enogh so that he breaks out of his prison." I replied, using both Pony and fantasy lore.
"Of course! But how do we make Disharmony and Chaos?" Twilight asked, I looked around. I had no idea. Kindness, Defense, Magic, Helping, Sacrifice, Loyalty. Persistence. Of course. I had it.
"We break some Elements." I replied and looked to Rarity. Each pony had their necklaces on still and I wore the gold crown of Sacrifice. I had an idea but it was mean.
We neared Canterlot and I watched as ponies walked the cobbled streets and went into shops and houses. They all seemed fairly happy and joyous. Not knowing what would happen in a matter of hours. The three chariots landed in the courtyard of the Canterlot gardens and we disembarked, seeing the two princesses standing with five unicorns around Discord's statue. We walked over to the group.
"So ponies, any ideas?" Celestia asked, almost sounding like this was a test.
"We must create Disharmony and Chaos for Discord to fed on." I replied.
"How?" Rarity asked, perfect.
"Well, why do you care, you're done nothing so far." I snapped dramatically, Fluttershy had stopped throwing up enogh to get scared by my sudden change of tone.
"Excuse me? I have been loyal this whole time!" Rarity spat back.
"Well I haven't fucking noticed!" I shouted. Cracks were forming on Discord, which Rarity saw and she nodded showing she understood.
"Well then why bother being loyal if a brute like you doesn't even notice? I quit. Celestia, take me home!" Rarity shouted and the stone around Discord exploded and the moment he laughed as he escaped, the two princesses, the guards and Twilight all shot magic at him. Trapping the God.
"What? You tricked me!" Discord shouted. Trying to move and escape, but failing. The magical barrier around him holding firm.
"Yes Discord we did. Now close the shield." Celestia ordered. Discord just stared for a second before realizing what Celestia meant, he gave a long, deep laugh.
"Ah, Celestia." He said after a second. "Why would I close the portal? When so much Chaos will be created." Discord laughed again and tried to move.
"Because, if you don't close the portal a lot of good ponies will die. As, will you." I threatened. Discord looked shocked and confused.
"Of course, your the human aren't you. Full of wild magic hmm?" Discord replied. I nodded.
"Yes, now close the damn portal." I replied, angry.
"But where would the fun be in that? I'm going to go now. Meet me on Canterlot mountains peak." Discord said, still trapped.
"Your not going any where." I warned.
"Ah, but I can't stay here, I would miss all the chaos. Your world is meant to hit in what? Two hours?" Discord asked, the moved and the magical barrier around him broke and he flow away.
"Discord!" Celestia shouted, she flow up, Discord turned and raised an arm, then shot a purple lightning bolt at her. She was struck full in the chest and fell. Her smoking body still on the ground.
"He's not the only one with wild magic!" The chaos god shouted and flow away.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
I watched the guards heal Celestia, they were pouring magic into the princess, fixing her bones, but she stayed pasted out. I was watching for a few seconds then blinked and looked somewhere else, I wasn't really paying much attention to the matter, too tired and distracted. Thinking about what Discord had said. A few hours and we would be dead, I would be dead. Hell. Derpy would be dead, now i was thinking about her, i began to feel more, just more toward my feeling for her. It was a happy feeling, clouded by dark thoughts of death and fire. I was now sitting, staring at the mountain peak and was about to do it, when I felt a bite on my tail. I turn to see Applejack, Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
"Hey sugar cube. You aren't going up there on your own." Applejack said. Completely serious, she wasn't going to let me go, not until agreeing to help. Help I knew l needed.
"Yeah. We are coming with you. Until the end." Rainbow Dash added, slightly grim, but reinforcing to know.
"You can't fight a god on your own." Twilight also added. I smiled at the trio, the others came over as well. All six staring at me. A month ago, I wouldn't have believed in them, maybe wished it, but never truly believing in them. But now, here they stood. My friends. My allies.
"Well, if your all coming. What are we waiting for? Get in the chariots!" I said they all nodded and ran toward a golden chariot. Luna was standing at one.
"Wait, thou canst just go. We need thou to stay here and see to Celestia." Luna said. I looked at her, deep into her eyes.
"Luna, we have to stop Discord. To save yours and my planet." I said and pushed Rainbow closer to a chariot. Luna thought, then nodded. She flow over our heads to her sister, still being healed.
I was driving one with Applejack, whilst Fluttershy drove Rarity and Rainbow drove Twilight and Pinkie. Considering everything, the chariot was fairly light and we had a good speed going. I had no idea how to defeat Discord and was too tired to think anyway. I began to think of Derpy and then fastened my wing-speed pace, I had to defeat Discord, if not for Equestria, or Earth, or anypony, I had to do it for Derpy.
"How we gonna defeat Discord then? Enogh that he closes the portal?" Twilight shouted to me. The question I had been dreading for half an hour, the mountain was huge, but we were nearing the top, my wings were tired and I needed sleep, but I kept going. We all did.
"I'm not sure, maybe use the Elements again?" I replied, helpfully.
"How?" Rarity asked behind me. Twilight knew more about magic than myself, well real magic. I say real, Equestrian magic, but then Equestria was real, right? It didn't matter, my brain was wondering the more tired I got.
I realised Twilight had asked me a question or said something as she was looking at me from the chariot.
"What! Sorry, I'm thinking about this." I explained.
"I asked. Do you think you could use the wild magic?" Twilight replied.
"Maybe. I don't know. Humans don't normally have magic." I replied.
"Then how do you know so much about it?" Rarity asked.
"Fantasy books." I said. They probably didn't know fantasy as their world was the description of fantasy, but they nodded anyway.
We neared the top of the mountain and landed at a cave ledge just out of sight from Discord. Near the top so not much of a climb. I un-clipped myself from the chariot reins and began to fly upwards, straight to Discord. The others could catch up.
"Ah, you made it, one hour and a bit to go. Sit, watch the flames." Discord said, he was laying on a sun bed, with sunglasses on and pop corn in his hand. I had an idea.
"Discord. This is your last warning. Close the portal." I said, calmly. There was just enogh for a run up, but it would be close.
"No, I like the chaos too much." Discord replied, not even looking at me. I heard the others climbing up. I had to act now.
"Then goodbye." I said and ran toward him, wings flapping. He gave me a look and laughed i kept running. My head bowed down and wings ready, just before I hit into him, I shot up into the air and continued, I gained lots of speed and looped round, heading for Discord again, pressure was building and I felt my speed gaining.
"Just, like. Be-fore!" I shouted and broke the barrier, sonic rainbooming straight into Discord and launching him into the air with me.
Rainbow Dash jumped up onto the mountain top just as the human smashed into Discord, shooting the pair miles. Rainbow ran to the edge of the mountain and screamed.
"No!" Rainbow shouted, preparing to go after them. Applejack bit her tail and pulled the cyan Pegasus back as hard as she could.
"No Rainbow. It's too dangerous. We just have to wait." Applejack said. Twilight screamed and the group looked to where she was, in the sky, where the sun should be, was. Earth. It was too late.
"Come on. He has to kill Discord. Now!" Twilight knew what the human had planned, and knew it would work. Well, very much hoped it would work. The Earth was getting closer to Equestria and already a meteor shower of telescopes and space junk was falling. Then, about three miles away, an explosion sounded.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
I grabbed onto Discord as we fell, flying uncontrollably through the air. I put my front hooves round him as her shouted at me. We flow straight across Equestria at metric speed. Air wizzed passed and I knew the landing would be the end. No fighting my way out, no healing. But maybe. A miracle.
"Since you won't close the portal freely, I will destroy you completely, giving magical control of the spell, to me." I shouted. I tapped into the wild magic inside me and felt it move through me, I felt a warm felling on my head and saw brown sparks fly about. I continued to pour magic into my spell, Discord struggled to escape, but couldn't go anywhere. I had him. The brown magic continued to gather and when I felt all of the wild magic used. I casted. There was a bright white light and I was shot back from Discord, an explosion rang and all sound but ringing was cut off. I closed the portal between the two worlds and waited, flying out of control through the blind light. I used the remaining spell to place a brown bubble shield around me to protect most of the falling damage. I saw my dark rainbow still following me as I fell. My full vision came back and Discord was gone, only dust. I smiled and fell. Closing my eyes, I embraced the end. This would be the third time in two days I had 'died', but this time, knew it was over, there was no Earth in the sky and Discord was dead, forever. I opened my eyes for a second, saw the ground coming and shut my eyes for the last time.
Rainbow Dash was flying, looking for the human, Fluttershy had come to and Celestia had gathered the guards to drive the others and search for the human. The sun goddess had woken shortly after the explosion and flow up to the mountain with the five guards just as Earth began to fade.
"I can't feel Discord's soul or mind at all. The human did it. Discord is dead." Celestia said, flying next to the mane six. The patrol was close to the ground, searching for the hero who saved them all. But to no avail yet.
"What if we can't find him?" Pinkie whimpered. Fluttershy squeaked at that and Rainbow looked down in sadness.
"We will find him. No matter how long it takes." Celestia replied, determined. But she had a secret she had to follow. It was only right.
"Okay. Lets just keep looking." Pinkie replied, still slightly crying. The group searched and searched, Celestia ordered more guards to be sent and for Derpy to be picked up. She had to see this. She had full right to know the results. Good, or, bad.
Almost three hours passed and still nothing, it was getting dark and the mane six had been up for almost two days. Celestia saw this and sent them back to Ponyville.
"Go back to the town my student, we will find him soon." Celestia ordered, all the ponies agreed to go, except Derpy and Rainbow Dash. The two were flying everywhere looking, and then, they found him.
"no." Derpy muttered out of nowhere. She flow down to the ground and Rainbow saw where.
"Celestia!" Rainbow shouted a shot down. The human lay in a crater, a crackling brown shield over him, he had obviously casted it to protect himself from the fall, but it had broken on impact. Derpy was crying over the humans body, the dark cyan transformed Pegasus form just lay there. Rainbow put a hoof on Derpy's shoulder and the cyan 20% cooler girl also began to cry. Celestia flow down and casted a quick spell. Then shock her head.
"I'm so so sorry Derpy. He's gone." Celestia said. Muttering. Derpy turned to Rainbow Dash and hugged her tightly, the two cried over the fallen hero in the darkness as Celestia called down a funeral chariot. It would go all around Equestria. To show everypony who saved them. That Celestia swore on.
"Every pony shall know of him." Celestia vowed. Derpy cried more in Rainbow, who was staring at the body of the human. The shield crackled once more then completely fell. There was just a dead pony in a crater now. The saviour of two worlds. Dead.
The trio stood together in the darkness for some time before a grey pony in a black suit came down by black-metal chariot to collect the body. Derpy kissed the human once more before he went away. Celestia called for a normal chariot to take them back to Ponyville. Derpy just stared in silence at the crater. Rainbow hadn't said a word, neither had. Just stood in the darkness, cold and sad, staring into the hole. Derpy couldn't see very well in the dark, but began to write in the dirt. Rainbow watched Derpy and felt more tears brewing. After some time Rainbow made the words out.
"You saved us all. But I love you. Always will. D." Rainbow read. Derpy just nodded and sat down face looking to the ground.
"Everypony will remember him. Derpy, he saved us all. He's a hero. He had a hero's death." Rainbow said. Not sure whether she should've.
"But he shouldn't have died at all. He loved me. I loved him. Why did fate stop us from being happy. If only Discord hadn't opened the portal." Derpy shouted.
"If Discord didn't open the portal, the human wouldn't have come at all." Rainbow replied.
"Then I'm grateful for that. Now, here comes the chariot." Derpy said as the royal gold chariot landed, driven by a white Pegasus and a black Pegasus. The chariot took off and flow back toward Ponyville. The two ponies sat in silence. The human was dead, no miracle or luck had saved him. He was gone.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
Everypony was now sleeping, it was well past midnight by the time Derpy and Rainbow Dash returned to Ponyville. The rest of the mane six had gone to bed, saddened and worn out. Rainbow walked the still tearful Derpy to her home. When the pair reached the doorstep, Derpy hugged Rainbow Dash.
"He really is gone." Derpy said. Rainbow was shocked as well, twice the man had nearly died, and twice he had returned to save them. But now, the fight was over, the worlds were safe and he was dead. Fell down on his own terms. After victory of a great evil.
"I know Derpy. He fell on his terms." Rainbow replied and released Derpy who walked in her house and began to scream loudly. Rainbow Dash flapped her wings and looked to the stars. Maybe he was okay, just woke back up on his world. With memories? Or none at all? Rainbow Dash would never know. And no other pony would either.
It was almost evening again when Rainbow woke up. She looked in the humans old room, hoping him to be there and that it had all been a bad dream. But, there was no pony. Rainbow Dash decided, after a quick bite to eat. Less than half an apple. That Rainbow should go find the others. She flow out of the cloud home and passed Derpy's home. She saw the grey mare sitting alone in her room. Rainbow decided that it was best to leave her, how would Rainbow help anyway? After some time of slow flying, Rainbow saw Apple Acres. There standing at the lite up barn were the others. Rainbow flow down.
"Ah Rainbow. The party is in there." Twilight sniffled. Pointing one hoof. Everypony was here, but the man. Rainbow and the others bowed their heads, even Pinkie, who apparently hadn't said a word all day.
"He's really gone. Isn't he?" Rarity asked.There was some music coming from DJ Vinyl, but no pony was really celebrating. Celestia had gone round that morning and told everypony the story of the human, and how he died falling. Rainbow looked at Rarity, the unicorn hadn't brushed her hair, and like the rest, had wet, red eyes. Rainbow nodded and hugged the white unicorn. The six grouped round in a big hug in a circle and sobbed again.
Almost an hour passed before they group released each other.
"Come on y'all, he wouldn't want us to be like this. We gotta celebrate our victory." Applejack sobbed. They rest nodded and just before they entered the barn, Derpy Hooves appeared and landed next to Fluttershy. She just nodded and the seven went inside for the party.
Inside some ponies were dancing and Vinyl was still laying down music for them. The barn was lite up with paper lights of different colours and there was punch and cookies near the door. Pinkie began to dance a little and after some time the others did. Except Derpy and Rainbow. The pair found a bale of hay and sat down with some punch. The two watched everypony dance and sat in silence. Finally Derpy broke the silence.
"Now what?" Derpy Hooves asked suddenly. Rainbow Dash looked to the grey mare confused.
"How will the Elements work now?" Derpy added.
"I don't know, with both Discord and Nightmare moon gone, hopefully we won't need them. But if we do. I'm sure Celestia or the Elements will sort it out." Rainbow replied, confused as to where this was going.
"But wouldn't they have already changed back, now the human is dead?" Derpy asked, Rainbow saw what she was hinting.
"Derpy, we all saw him fall. The man is gone and both Equestria and Earth are safe." Rainbow said, more harshly than intended. Derpy just looked down, tears forming again.
"Come on. Lets get you home." Rainbow said. The grey Pegasus just nodded, as they got up to leave. Celestia appeared. Everypony stopped as the bright sun goddess walked in to the barn.
"My subjects. You may have heard the story of the human from me this morning, and I would like to say some words on his behalf. If you would let me." Celestia said, asking to speak. The other ponies just bowed their heads and allowed the princess to talk. It was a very rare occasion the princess would ask permission to do anything. So it must be important.
She began.
"Ponies. A few months ago my student, her friends and myself went over to the human world of Earth because some wild magic had crossed between an unknown portal that we now know to be Discord's doing. There I discovered that the magic, for whatever reason, had gone into a single human. To close the portal a little and close the bridge, we had to bring him back. Once we returned home, I changed him into a Pegasus that looked very much like Rainbow Dash, due to an error in my casting. For a few weeks and only up to two days ago. Was working with Applejack in the market. May of you may have met him. But once Twilight and my unicorns had discovered that Nightmare moon had not only, apparently opened the portal, being the only one with the magic, but she was also returning from the moon. The only way to defeat her was through the Elements of Harmony, but a seventh was formed where only six had been. So I sent my student, and her friends to retrieve them for me in hope of finding the Elements bearers. During their trip into the Everfree, they in counted human dead. I have unicorns looking into that and we can only hope it was through Nightmares portal they arrived. After some fighting the group ran. The human decided to stay behind to give them all time to get the Elements, and after fighting, returned to them just before Nightmare killed them." Celestia said, she then paused to refresh her breathing and allowed the story to sink in.
Suddenly a yellow-brown Pegasus flow in with a brown sheet of paper. The mare gave it to Celestia and nodded slowly, the princess magically opened it and read, after some time she shooed the Pegasus away and set the note alight so that nopony else would read it. Then, she continued.
Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
"As I was saying." Celestia said, worried looking face. "The human survived the undead attack and had discovered he was the seventh Element, not of Harmony, but of Humanity. He would have sacrificed his life in defense of our nation, but survived to keep fighting for us. After a battle with Nightmare and reverting her back to princess Luna, the group discovered from Luna that Discord had control over the portal, not Luna. So they returned to Ponyville along with me and Luna and awaited our instructions. After we figured how to release, then trap Discord to make him close the portal, they came over to Canterlot, where we caught the chaos god. However he soon escaped and flow to the highest peak on the tip of the world.The Elements followed him whilst I was hurt and according to Twilight, the human sonic rainboomed into Discord, launching them off the mountain and across Equestria. There during the fall, the human used his wild magic to defeat Discord, but unfortanetly died in the process. Hitting the ground. That day we lost a great hero, but today we are still here because of said hero. Thank you all for listening, can I please speak to the Elements, and Derpy alone please." Celestia said and the other ponies left and waited outside in silence.
Once everypony was outside Celestia went over to the remaining group.
"Derpy, I am so sorry for your lose." Celestia said, sadly.
"Don't worry, he died saving us." Derpy pretented to be brave, even doing it in an even more normal voice, not just Derpy's.
"Well, I recieved some strange news." Celestia replied. Leaning in to the other six.
"What is it princess?" Rarity asked, bewildered.
"The humans body, has, gone missing." Celestia said.
"How?" Derpy asked quickly.
"I'm not sure, the undertaker didn't see anything except for when he reported the body missing."
"But he couldn't just get up and walk around." Rainbow said, very confused. Applejack nodded in agreement.
"I know Rainbow Dash. We have no idea where the body went and how it disappeared, it just has. Apparently. I must go and figure this out. Have a, nice? Party." Celestia finished and flow away, the other party ponies came back in and the music began.
The seven now sat together, thinking of the news Celestia had just received. How could the human just disappear? Where is the body now? what happened to the human? Is he dead? Or alive? The questions kept coming and no pony seemed to have the answer. They were all getting tired and decided to go to bed in an hour or so. Pinkie had gotten up to dance again, but even her partying self didn't have the energy anymore.
They drank the punch and ate the cookies near the door and just sat in sadness and confusion. Twilight said to search through her books, but didn't expect to find anything in them.
It was well past Midnight and probably nearing two in the morning by the time the seven decided to go home, the party was shut down and everypony went home. Derpy and Rainbow were the last to leave. Standing in the darkness together for a moment they stared into the darkness.
"Maybe he survived somehow." Derpy asked, hoping. Rainbow saw how hard this was for Derpy so just nodded.
"Maybe Derpy, maybe." Rainbow Dash replied, the two began to walk back to Derpy's house, it was a nice thing to do, Rainbow guessed. They were nearing Derpy's house when suddenly, Derpy stopped.
"Derpy?" Rainbow asked, the grey mare was still, staring out into the rising sun.
"D?" Rainbow asked again, then saw what she was looking at. There, on a hill top, with dark colour rainbow hair and a dark cyan skin, flapping wings about.
Stood the human.
The End...
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Fall of Two Worlds: Lunar's Light
That's it, the Fall series has ended, well for now at least. I already know what the next one will be about, but it won't be for a while.
Thanks to Sithjjf, Bronydragon and anyone else who enjoyed this.
There was, a lot of death and l really didn't know what to do about Derpy until near the end so sorry if it seemed rushed. The next one I'll focus on will most likely be Rainbow Dash: Fall of a nation, and, because of 500 story views! 500. I will be doing another part to I wonder alone.
Okay, l think that's it. Thanks again to Sithjjf, and Bronydragon. I'm kind of emotional that FotW has ended, but l know it would happen one day, but it still doesn't mean I can't be sad over it. Also, thanks for the admins for allowing this up here. It means a lot to me.
That's it. Will I do an epilogue one day? Probably...
