The New Line

by Prince Aeon

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Romance, Original Character, Tragedy, Adventure, Sad
Length: 8252

Prince Aeon and Princess Emma had two fillies 2 years ago, Gleam and Raven. But happy life ends soon

Third and last story of "The line" trilogy.
1rst story: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/32832/The-line-between-hope-and-time.
2nd story: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/37424/Pushing-The-Line

Prince Aeon and Princess Emma had two fillies 3 years ago. But some things that should have been forgotten, came back on the surface and their dream life change to chaos when a Strange Alicorn try to kidnap their daugthers. Aeon and Emma went together to the search of their fillies, but on their way, many hidden thing had to be revealed. The end of the line is near.

Cover art by Pisces: Linedrawings - http://linedrawings.deviantart.com/

Published 2012-11-28 07:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-11-28 07:50:01 UTC

Chapter 1: Sharpe

Three Years after Pushing The Line

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It's cold, I feel it in my coat. But I can't see anything it's too dark, where am I anyway? I heard hoofsteps behind me. I turned quickly around... nothing. What's going on?

"I know what you are looking for."
I got suprised by the unexpected voice. I turned my head all around me.
"WHO'S THERE! WHO ARE YOU!"
"Screaming is useless my dear, don't destroy your thought, you will need them."
"Wha... What?"
"I know a lot about you... I was there the day you want to remember."
"Tell me."
"I am not the one to tell you, it wouldn't be fun at all"

Green glowing eyes came out of the shadow. I stepped back a little. The grey Pegasus was slowly moving towards me, his black mane had two glowing green stripes like his eyes. He was unreal.
"Are you the one doing this? It's impossible, you are a Pegasus..."
"Indeed I am, but sometimes, you should think what your eyes see."
"Tell me the truth about myself."
"No, but I know where is the pony you want to meet."
"What's the name"
No response... He was teasing me, not for a single instant he had the thought to tell me. I was getting frustrated.
"You will need to bring me somepony if I tell you."
"TELL ME!"
"Her name is Emma."

Aeon

It is a cold night, I cannot feel cold... but Emma can, she was wrapped in her blankets. Even in asleep she is a wonder. The cold whisper of the night makes her shiver. It hurts my heart to see her suffering. I closed my eyes, I saw all the Lifes, all the deaths, all the happy moments, all the sad ones. I saw treachery, I saw love, I saw Jealousy, I saw Friendship, I saw Pain as I saw Time itself. For five minutes I saw the living of all the ponies at the same time. An ochestra, an harmony of pleasure and pain. Suddently! Emma woke up screaming. I was disconnected from my vision and stunned by the sudden event. Emma catched slowly her breath.
"What's wrong Emma"
She looked at me, a tear beading at the edge of her diamond eyes.
"It's still the same dream Aeon. Everything is fuzzy, I hear screams of unknown ponies. Then a big scream, a call for help. From them..."
"Our daughters?"
"Yes! Gleam and Raven!"
I sighed.
"It's okay Emma, they are sleeping in their room."
"I guess your right, it was just a bad dream..."
I nodded in approval. She returned to her leeping position. Looking a the sizling stars of the dark sky.
"Aeon?"
"Hmm?"
"I'm cold."
I thought for a second, then I spread my right wing and wrapped it around her. She whispered.
"Something is coming Aeon, I can feel it."
"Emma, your nightmare shocked you a little I think, Our girls are just fine, now gain some rest."
She closed her dazzling eyes. It took her seconds to fall in the hooves of Bluneris, the Princess of Dreams. I kissed her on the cheek and went out of the room. I walked calmly to our daugther's room. I used magic to slowly open the door to see that none of them was actually sleeping, but talking. It always suprise everypony how Alicorns grow faster, after 3 years, Gleam and Raven look like having 10.
"Girls, please, why aren't you sleeping"
"But Daaaaaad, we aren't tired!"
I looked at Gleam, her white mane was resting on the side of her bed. Her beige coat and yellow eyes were like a light in the darkness, not in the real terms, but... anyway...
"My little Princess of Light, Close your eyes and you will be dreaming before you know it."
She grumbled something I couldn't understand. I turned to her sister, Raven.
"Daddy, I don't like my powers, why am I Darkness."
I smiled.
"My dear, without light, there is no darkness, and without darkness, there is no light. It's not because you are Darkness that it means that you are Evil, or a bad mare. You both are adorable daughters and I am happy to have you both. I could never let anything bad happen to you."
"I love you dad."
"I love you too daddy."
"I love you too girls, now, go to sleep."
I closed the door of their room and went downstairs. I looked inside Sarah's room, she was sleeping like her sister. I continued my walk to the front door. My magic opened it.
"My salutation Prince."
Sharpe, our blind pegasus guardian was standing in front of the house, watching the void. Her talent will never stop to amaze me. She was wearing her golden armor, incrusted with the legendary symbol of the titans.
"How did you know it was me?"
"Who else could it be?"
She was right, I am the only one who cannot sleep here. I walked at her sides.
"Isn't a problem for you to guard the night?"
"I hate daytime, it's too loud, I can't hear anything perfectly. But the night... everything is calm. I can hear, smell, feel anything I want. Like this pony watching us in the woods."
"What?"
"Indeed, she's there for now a bit, doing nothing but starring at us."
"How do you know she is a mare?"
"An Alicorn also, your reaction revealed me this point. You cannot feel her, right... I know she is a mare because of the way she is too light to be a male alicorn. I know she is watching us, she is really close, and she is not moving, what is there to watch in the middle of the night else of a titan and a blind pony that is actually knowing that we are here."
"Is she dangerous?"
"I can't feel emotions or... wait... she... dissapeared..."
I suddently realised...
"EMMA! GLEAM! RAVEN!"
I slammed open the door, Sharpe on my tail. I flew up the stairs. I opened the girls room.

She was there...

Chapter 2: Pisces

Emma

The noise of the entrance door slamming open woke me up. I went ouside my bedroom, I saw Aeon fling up the stairs in a hurry, the second after he open the girls room and froze, something or somepony was in there. I slowly walked toward the room. I looked inside, a big mare, an Alicorn was standing in the black night light. Gleam and Raven didn't noticed her and both had their eyes shut. Not knowing what was going on. I couldn't really see perfectly the mare, but Aeon was staring at her, like if he knew who this pony was. I couldn't really see the Mare because of the dark. But I knew that she was staring at him.
"Do you know her?"
Aeon looked at me during a second.
*Boom*
The wall of the room exploded, the moonlight revealed the gray coat of the mare, her magenta mane and tail were glowing like crystals, I couldn't really recognize her cutiemark, but what was most intriguing was her orange eyes, her pupils were like cats, like Aeon.

The noise of the breaking wall woke up both of the girls and the mysterious mare grabbed them, she revealed her big wings. In a single swing she blasted off, Aeon didn't waited a single instant and chased the intruder.

I followed them as fast as I could, their shapes were like lights. Suddently Aeon had a boost and hit the Alicorn. Then he felt straight into the woods.
I landed on the ground. I saw a long crater on the ground, Aeon crashed. I followed the line that ended up against a tree. Aeon was laying on the floor, his wings covering his chest.
"AEON!!"
I ran to him to see if he was okay. My heart was beating so fast, I was hoping that he was okay.
"Are you alright?"
He opened his eyes.
"I'm fine"
He slowly opened his wings.

Gleam was holding the body of his father like if she was over a cliff, without any wings. I was so happy to see that my daughter was okay, a tear came out. I hugged her as much as I could.
"Mommy? Where is Raven?"
I looked at Aeon. At this moment, Sharpe and Sarah landed behind us.
"Sarah, Sharpe. Can you please escort Gleam to the house... Raven is still missing. Sarah asked.
"But can't I come with you guys?"
"No Sarah, I need you to protect our daugther."
"Very well Aeon..."
She sign Gleam to follow her, Sharpe followed them.

We started to walk in the direction that the mare went.
"I didn't forgot your question Emma" I looked at him "I need to tell you something that I should have told you long ago. I never always was Aeon, I was a normal unicorn first..."

?
5000 years ago

It is the great war. All races are fighting eachother in disharmony. Pegasus against Unicorns against Earth ponies. I am against this war, but as a unicorn and General of this army. It is my duty to protect my peoples, even if the enemies are my friends. But the unicorn forces are known to be the strongest one, so the pegasus and the earth ponies made a temporar alliance to exterminate us. The time was critic, we pulled back as much as we could and hid the civilians in the barracks.
"General, the enemy forces are approaching, should I give the signal to fire?"
"No! I am tired of this, I will go negociate, even if it will kill me!"
"General! Are you sure?!"
"No questions."

I walked slowly in the direction of the two colored armies that would just kill each other when we will be all eradicated.
Their leaders understood the message and imitated me. We walked until we were at 10 feets of each others.
"This Massacre is useless, you won, now go back home."
The Pegasus leader didn't agreed.
"There should be only one living race and there's no doubt that the Pegasus are the most worthy."
The Earth Pony disagreed.
"You said that if we helped you, we would both live in peace"
I tried myself.
"I say we all live in peace!"
The rage in the Pegasus eyes was burning he took his spear and dashed in my direction. I walked back but something stopped his movement.
A giant alicorn in an armor was holding his spear, her helmet had the shape of an hawk. I bowed in front of the goddess without hesitation, the earth pony did the same but the pegasus didn't had the same mind. I recognize the mare, she was the mother of Celestia.
"Ponies! Stop this nonsense! I am Aeon! Princess of Time and protector of this land! I have seen enough of you ponies killing eachothers for the reason of your race! Nopony chose his race and nopony wants to be the victim of others judgement!"
Foolish of the Princess, thinking that she reasoned with them, she releases her grip on the spear.
But Vicious were the pegasus at this time.
"Why don't you mind your own business Princess!"
Without warning, the Pegasus stabbed the Princess, piercing her heart.

The time stopped, everything around me went white. The Princess body was on the ground. I went to her help.
"Princess! Are you alright?!"
"It's to late General, I am dead, what you see of me is the sprit of Aeon."
I tried to understand...
"You see... Aeon is a spirit and it needs a host. When this host die, Aeon need to change of host, or the world will end."
"So what's going on then?"
"I saw you, I know I can trust you. I chose... you."
"Me? Why Me?"
"Because, you have something most of the ponies in this world doesn't have. You care more about the others than yourself. Aeon's spirit will give you the knowledge and his memories, will be your memories."
"What do I have to do?"
"Touch my horn with yours."
I obey and I slowly approached my horn towards the Princess. At the impact a bright light came out. I heard a voice.
"One last thing... Save my baby."
"Wait what!"
*Black Out*

When I opened my eyes, I was standing in front of the Princess dead corpse. The pegasus looked at me, then he moved back wards. I looked at myself, I was different, I was bigger, lighter, I had wings and my coat was a lighter blue. But... in my head everything was normal, I knew everything.
Two Alicorns were behind me. A mare and a Stallion. I knew who these were, they were my brother and sister Aera and Wit.
"She asked me to save her baby."
"Don't worry brother, let us take care of it."
Aera's horn started to glow, I looked at the corpse and the baby magically popped out in the airs.
"She is alive..."
I looked at Wit.
"Something is off"
"Indeed, She doesn't have a physical sister, but I feel two lifes inside her."
"Her sister may be dangerous, for her safety and the safety of the others, her sister, nor her should know that she is an Alicorn."
My horn started to glow and I casted a camouflage spell. And the baby's wings magically dissapeared.
"Only a powerful Alicorn will be able to remove this spell."
"Should we name her?"
I thought for a second.

"Pisces"

Chapter 3: Corr

Aeon

"So what happened with her?"
There was a cold silence... I... I regretted the answer.
"I've changed her as a unicorn, until she would be mature enough to know the truth, I couldn't let her sister discover her powers, I could have turned dangerous. I gave her to a unicorn family that brought her in the small village of Galloponia, but I fear of what happened."
Emma gave me a scared look.
"I am sorry, I should have told you this sooner."

"Does that means that..."
"...Yes... In some facts, Pisces is my daughter. As Celestia and Luna, but they do think that I killed their mother to gain her powers so they don't like me at all, and don't consider me as their father..."

"But where can we find Raven now?"

Pisces

The unconscious mare was on my back, I hoped that he would be pleased even if I only was able to have one of them. I dropped the body on the ground.
"Pisces... why is there only one of them?"
I hesitated, I didn't knew who the pony that defended the fillies was.
"Hum... Somepony got the other back..."
A hoof out of the shadows, far from the glowing green eyes that were starring at me, hit me and knocked me down. I stood back up to see him moving closer.
"Do you know why I asked you to have BOTH of them?"
"...uh.... uhh..."
I moved a little bit backwards.
"Because with one of them Aeon will KNOW if they are still alive, and for that I can't get him to do what I want... but it's still a good thing that you have the Darkness one."
He approached the mare on the ground with a creepy smile.
"But I will need you to send a message to him, and a special way."
Out of nowhere a dead zebra felt at my hooves, I looked at it with no emotions, like if I had no pity for it.
"What do you want me to do Corr?"

Aeon
It was getting colder, even if I couldn't feel it, Emma's shivering was giving me a hint.
"Are you okay Emma?"
"I'm fine, all what matters is my daughter!"
I think that she was kinda upset at me for hiding the truth. I had no choices, I couldn't risk Emma to try to meet Pisces. Suddently there was a movement in the bushes. I stopped but Emma ignored it. I whispered.
"Emma! Stop!"
"What's wrong? It's maybe just a squirrel"
Emma froze and stepped back. A shape came out of the woods. It was her...
Pisces.

"Don't go any further Aeon or the safety of your daughter may go wrong."
What did she meant?
"What do you want Pisces?"
She froze, maybe wondering why did I knew her.
"He told me I could get answers from you."
"Who told you that?"
"He said he knew you and you could help me."
"Why kidnapping our daughter?"
"He requested them, and for the return, I would have answers!"
"As long as I don't have Raven with me, I won't answer any of your questions."
She looked at me like I did a crime.
"Then others will die."
A bright light came out and blinded us. When everything came back to normal. A dead Zebra was on the ground. Emma gasped and had a movement backwards. As I came closer to look at the dead mare.
"This is the Zebra Princess Azure. She was crowned Princess five years ago."
"What did she meant «Others will die»?"
"She plans to kill another mare that lived the live she didn't, I think that she think that she should be royalty as an Alicorn. Azure lived something that Pisces didn't and I think that this is a clue of her next target..."
I thought for a moment, Noponies were crowned Princess, not recently tho, there is no Monarchy for the Mules, and the Griffons... the griffons... Oh dear.
I deployed my wings.
"Emma, we have to leave, NOW!"
"What is it?"
"I have no doubt that Pisces next target is the Griffon Lulisha!"
"Why are you so sure about it?"
"She will be crowned Princess tomorrow."

Chapter 4: Lulisha

Lulisha

It was a beautiful morning, today was the big day, the one that made my heart pump loudly each seconds I was getting closer from it. I don't know if I had to be scared or happy to be here right now. I looked at the distance throught the window. I could saw the Pony kingdom, my peoples were really intolerant against them. Griffons hates Alicorns more than anything, they dislikes everything about magic. Even Pegasus are only a little bit of tolerance.
"Very funny that you are thinking about us my dear!"
I jumped and turned around to see the shadow looking at me, I stepped back. He was so mighty compared to me.
"Wha... What are you doing here! GUAR..."
Suddently, my mouth couldn't create any sound... I was scared.
He removed his hood, his pale blue eyes were like sparkling diamonds, his thin pupils was absorbing all my thought, he was an Alicorn.
"Don't worry Lulisha, I am not here to harm you, au contraire, I know the fact that somepony wants to."
The spell on my mouth got released.
"What's the business of somepony against me."
"The pony that wants to end your life wants to make pay the ones that had a life that she didn't. Also, the pony manipulating her knows that your death may cause a war between Griffons and Ponies. To do so, it have to be obvious that it's a pony that took you life and everypony have to witness it. That is why you will need to do exactly what I tell you to do."

King Galliroy

Today was a great day, my daughter was growing in the steps of her father. I was so proud of her. The griffons will all gather to see the big day of my little Lulisha. I stepped on the stage.
"Dear Griffons, We are gather here for the coronation of my lovely daughter Lulisha, that will be from this day forth, Princess"
The crowd went crazy from screams of joy, to cheers and claw clapping. I raised my wing to present my daughter to the audience. She came out smiling, she had a dazzling outfit, from a diamond necklace to golden seams on her blue dress.
I raised her crown in the airs like the tradition wanted to. It was shining the colors of emeralds and sapphire. The gold ornaments on the crown had the shape of a humming bird.
"This is your big day Luli."
I looked at her, she was looking around for something, I don't exactly know what.
"Luli?"
She popped out of her dreams.
"Oh, of course daddy."
I slowly dropped the crown on her head. There was a big, cold silence. When the crown touched the feather of her head, The worst happened.

A purple beam pierced her innocent body, her eyes went wide as a small stray of blood came out of her beak. Her body fainted on the ground like if she felt asleep. The only sound that was heard was the impact of the crown that broke on the ground.

"Why crying the death of some, when the others doesn't matter."
I looked up to see a white Alicorn coming towards her body.
"What have you done!"
"She deserved what happened to her, She gained something that was taken from me. Anyway, she will be back from the dead in few seconds now, well, in some way."
I could have called the guards, but there's nothing that they could do against an Alicorn, I didn't wanted an more wounded of my peoples. She approached her horn from Lulisha's lifeless head. When it was at one feet from it. Lulisha's claw grabbed the horn of her attackers. The crowd was crazy, wondering what was going on. I looked at Lulisha's wound and there was nothing.
"Now Pisces, There is no escape."
The orange eyes of the mare went wide.

Aeon

The plan worked perfectly, and Pisces felt right into it, Lulisha never moved from her room, and she have a good protection. I slowly took back my original shape. Now Pisces was checkmate and scared, I could saw the King wondering about his daughter.
"Don't worry Galliroy, your daughter is safe, but to keep her safety, it should be better that I keep her location a secret."
Pisces was scared. I could see it, she looked at me like if I was a ghost that haunted her dreams.
"...And you are coming with me."
I used a teleportation spell. The bright light brought us far beyond the lands ponies know, or griffons or any other race. We were at the Battlefield sanctuary, where it all begun. Emma was here, I brought her with the spell. Three Alicorns at the same time drain a little of my energy. Pisces seemed scared, like if she knew the place. I turned my head to see Aeon's Grave.
"Here lies all your answers Pisces, so go, ask away. There is nothing to fear from me as long as you stay calm."
She was holding back, like something... or somepony was holding her.
"I... I want to know... Why... Why I was not raised as the pony I should have been, Why my mother left me as a unicorn, why did she abandoned me..."
She was looking sad and angry, I couldn't really tell her real feelings... I sighed.
"You were the most important thing at your mothers eyes, at my eyes, your mother was killed here, and in her last words, she wanted me to save you. Than she passed Aeon to his next host that was me... In some facts Pisces, you are my daugther."
She froze, stunned by the reality, she couldn't believe her ears.
"Me and my sister found weird that you didn't had yourself a sister at your birth but... we felt two lifes in you. I couldn't risk that your sister would be evil or not so I hid your powers from her. Then I wanted to wait until you were ready to know the truth before I revealed your true self. But you somehow discovered and in your rage, your sister took over and I couldn't take the chance to reason with you until you accepted the reality, so I've waited, but you never stopped to hunt the truth."
A tear came out of her thin pupil like mine, I knew I was talking to Pisces and not her sister. She regretted all her crimes. Suddently, something happened...
"He's lying, there is no doubt, he cannot be our mother. He just want you to believe his lies."
"No! I trust him, he wants to help me and I see that he is honest!"
"You are so pathetic Pisces, you will never find the truth, you only need to make the world pay"
"Shut up Gemini!"

Emma looked at me
"Is she talking to herself?"
"No... she is talking to her sister, she called her Gemini."

Chapter 5: Gemini

Pisces

4980 years ago

I knew I was different. I was smarter, taller, better in quite all the domains. Ponies taught me something and I cannot forget it. A perfect note in all my exams... But that's not what was strange. Everypony seemed like they didn't cared, like if I was normal, I knew I wasn't a normal unicorn, the look on their faces, not impressed almost if I disgusted them, even my parents.
But one pony was standing higher than all of them. Lige Sandhed. He is the only one in all of them that understood how I felt, the only that treated me as a pony. He loved me more than anypony else in this foresaken city. I wanted to die but he was holding me by his presence, he was happiness in a body. I could pass days sitting to his sides. He was the only thing that matters for me.
I woke up one day. It felt different... I looked outside, a dark black cloud was in the sky, it almost felt like it was still night. What was going on? I rammed open the door outside. Black stripes were striking ponies, killing them on impact, the visions of the horror was in front of my eyes, was it a nightmare? I went back inside and hid from the apocalypse.
When the clouds went away, I ran to search for Lige. I ran for about ten minutes, looking at all the corpses, hoping to not see his.
"Piiisces.."
I turned my head, I screamed, his lung was pierced and the hole was pure darkness.
"It's going to be alright Lige, I am going to save you!"
I tried to heal him with the basic healing spell. Something was holding the magic back.
"I don't understand. Why doesn't work!!"
I casted the magic harder and harder, using all my inner energy, everything that I've got. Then I felt something, a bigger energy, it was burning, then I exploded, I became bigger, my horn grew in size and when I looked back, I had wings. I was an Alicorn.
The truth froze me, why in Equestria was I, Pisces, an Alicorn, a Princess.
"Lige... I... I am an Alicorn."
"Of course you are, please help me."
"You... knew about it?"
"Everypony in town knew about it, that's why they all feared you, but I love you. Please... the pain..."

My head was burning, like if I was losing consciousness, a single word was repeating in my head.
"Gemini, Gemini, Gemini, Gemini..."

I could see, hear, smell, feel but I could not talk, I wasn't me. I was somepony else.
"Pisces, help me... please..."
I laughed, quite madly.
"You pathetic unicorn fooled me, you hid me from my destiny, the faith that you face, you deserve it."
I turned around and slowly walked away from him, a smile on my face. Satisfied.
"Pisces.... Piiiiiscesss.... Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiisceeeeesssssssss.........."
His voice faded away. I turned around.
"This place needs a final touch."
I casted the flame spell and lit all the hay on sight. The fire rapidly spread from a building to another, soon enought, the whole town was burning. I was in the middle, laughing, scaring myself. I was not Pisces.
"Gemini"

Aeon
I cut the memory spell, shcked by the reality, discovering what happened in the village of Galloponia. When me and my broder and sister went there. All we found was ashes, no memories, nothing.
Pisces was looking down, ashamed.
"Don't worry Pisces, you are not the one responsible for all this."
I was referring to her sister, but her answer was worse.
"You're right, he is."
She pointed something behind me. I looked...
"That's impossible..."
Emma slowly walked close of me.
The black and green pegasus was too much familiar. He was exactly how my memory remembered him.
General Corr.

"You remember me Aeon? I am really suprised."
"Tell me how and I shall answer your snake questions."
"You see, when I killed... you... you gave a big part of your powers to him, but with the physical contact I had with you, I too had some powers, but not enough to be immortal, so I had to find a way. Being a pegasus wasn't easy to use them. So after few years, I ran into a friend of yours. Does the name «Paradoxus» tells you something?"
I hated to hear that he had something to do with this.
"So that means that I never had all my powers."
"Indeed, your friend knew my ineer power. I needed to be immortal, he taught me, without a horn, to manipulate shadows and souls. He showed me that every souls I get, I was increasing my lifetime. But I had to find a lot of souls at the same time. I found a town named Galloponia."
Pisces froze when she heard the name of the town. Me, I was thinking, Millions of questions gathering around one question, what really happened in my life? Emma was shaking, I put my wing around her.
"But I recently found something, if I absorb the soul of an Alicorn, my power will grow stronger. Paradoxus merged with me, and now we are one..."
"Where is my daughter Corr."
He pointed his head with an evil smile.
"In here."
A tear came out of Emma's eye.
Corr looked at Pisces.
"I won't need you anymore, actually, I will..."
He opened his mouth, a black stripe came out and pierced Pisces chest. She gasped and collapsed. The stripe tore out two light balls. Pisces soul and Gemini's. The stripe pulled back and Corr crushed the souls in his mouth.
Astonished I watched in horror, trying to calm Emma. Corr laughed.
"Hahaha... six alicorn souls are mine."
"Six?"
"Mine, Paradoxus, Raven, Pisces, Gemini and a mare that I crossed, her name is Flare..."
The ground started to shake.
"Oh yes... I feel the power..."
Corr's body started to grow, he slowly started to have the shape of an Alicorn. This was bad... He was alread powerfull enough, now he have a horn. He slowly opened his eyes...
"Now, join me..."

Chapter 6: Aeon

Aeon

My foe was more powerful than anything. But there was something... something weird, I wasn't feeling fear, somehow, I knew

that there was hope... Emma...
I walked slowly toward Corr.
"You still have a chance to redeem yourself Corr, don't make me fight you."
He laughed at me.
"I can see that you don't clearly understand the situation Aeon, I am the most powerful here and soon, your souls will all

be mine and nopony will be able to stand in my way."
I looked on the ground, I knew whatwas going to happen, but I had to do it.
"I maybe don't have a chance against you Corr, but I won't let anything down."
"Too bad..."
His horn started to glow, the glow was dark as the void... Shadows was spreading under him, soon, they materialised into

some kind of shadow-ponies. Each one different, each one being a soul that Corr stole. They started to be hundreds, more

and more were spawning. I closed my eyes... concentrating to see each one of them... with my instinct
"Emma, Everything will be fine..."
Corr laughed
"Hahaha, You really said that as despair knocks to your doors."
"Indeed, but I won't answer to it."
He ordered to his shadows to attack. They all dashed towards us. My horn started to glow and a blade of light shaped itself

around it. The minions were getting closer. I spread my wings.
"Emma, whatever happens, do not help me, stay safe, it's my only desire."
"Aeon..."
I sighed...
"...I am not Aeon."
I pulled back my wing and dashed toward the dark wall with an earthquake. If I lose, all the world as we know it will be

under Corr's control, I cannot let this happen. I landed right in front of the mass, blasting away some of them. I punched

the first coming towards me, than the seconds, the third, kick, jump, kick, punch. I was defeating them one after another,

10, 20, 30... I lost the count, there was just so many of them. I looked up, there was a giant shadow-pony slowly stomping

towards me. I literally flew through it. I landed behind him... Corr was there, calm like he didn't cared.
"Stop using your minions and fight me like we should have five thousand years ago."
"I would have won five thousand years ago and it's still the same today."
I dashed towards him. He dissapeared as I was going to hit him.
"You are weaker than I expected you to be."
"Teasing me won't work Corr. Say that only when the world will be at your hooves, sadly for you, it will never happen."
That worked, he was angry, I could feel it. He rammed me before I had the time to realise that he moved. I kicked him back

and landed on my front hooves. I didn't had the time to stabilise that he kicked me in the back. The second after, he bit

me in the neck. I felt pain for the first time. His razor sharp teeth were deep in my skin. I could feel weaker each

seconds, what was going on? I had no choice but to tear him off me, Blood came out with it. I used my magic to contain him

so he couldn't escape with his shadow trick.
"You fool! This won't containt me forever!"
"That's not my goal"
I concentrated and put all my power, energy and magic inside my hoof. I took a big momentum and punched him so hard that my

hoof went through him. He yelled in pain. I took back my movement and kicked him on the ground, releasing my magic on him.
He stood back up. The pain in my neck was awful. I touched it and it just burned. I looked at my hoof, the blood was black.
"What have you done."
"I am playing with you, with this bite, I swallowed a part of Aeon from you, you don't have enough power remaining to heal

yourself, but I do."
The hole in his chest closed and he was back on his hooves.
"Oh and I almost forgot..."
Suddently he was kicking my back legs, breaking it, as I was falling in pain, a blade of darkness cut my horn off. The pain

was unreal, being a normal pony, it would have killed me.
"... no more light magic for you"
There was no more hope, I couldn't use magic, a part of Aeon was gone and I couldn't heal myself. Blood came out of my

mouth as I coughed. I said in pain.
"...Emma..."
"Oh yes I almost forgot about her, I will make you see your nightmare before I take your soul, ladies first."
He had a big smile on his face. I couldn't let this happen. In the pain, I stood back up.
"I won't let you as long as I can..."
"You are getting on my nerves."
A giant boom blasted me about two hundred meters from him. It felt like the blast broke every single of my bones, but I

could still move. How could I stop him... I look at my left, Emma was watching the scen in fright, on the ground I saw my

horn, then I realised something. I took a deep breath.
"It's the end of the line."

Emma

I looked horribly Aeon getting slaughtered. Corr blew him away at my right. When I turned back in his direction, Corr was

walking towards me. Oh dear Wit. What can I do.
"I know you are the spirit of hope but even now, I can feel that you see none. Your soul will soon be mine, and when I will

be finished with Aeon, I'll crush it because I don't need «Hope». It's a shame that you had to see him suffer, actually no,

I feel quite happy about it. Don't worry, I will try to make it the more painful possible."
I was shaking in fright. He jumped in my direction, mouth open. I had only one taught...
"Aeon, I love you."
Suddently he froze in mid-air, then he felt on the ground screaming in pain.
"AAARGH!! IT BURNSS!!!"
He was holding his chest. Then he realised something.
"Oh no... YOU DIDN'T DO IT DIDN'T YOU!!!!"
He slowly looked towards Aeon as I imitated him. Aeon was on his back knees, A smile on his face, blood coming out of his

mouth, his own horn in his chest, at the height of his heart.

My legs gave up, unable to see what I just saw. My attention was brought on Corr. Screaming in hatred and agony as spots of

red light was coming out of his skin, like if it was burning. Light balls started to come out of his body.
"NO!! NO!! NOOOOO!!"
Suddently he exploded as millions of lights flew in the airs. Two in particular went inside Pisces body. I realised that

they were the souls that were trapped inside him. Corr, the dark enemy of the Titans was defeated. I ran towards Aeon,

happy to see that I was okay.
"AEON!!! I..."

It felt like the time stopped. Everything around us was him and me, but he wasn't hurt. It's like in his story. When

Aeon... Oh no...
"Aeon, are you..."
"Yes, in some way... But let me explain, Corr was holding all these souls of him because of Paradoxus and the part of Aeon

that was in him. As he sacrificed himself, he made Paradoxus dissapear, Corr couldn't contain the power of the souls and

they all got free, also killing him in the process."
"But you are..."
"Yes, I had no choice. My dark selves were too dangerous to be. And I had to protect you."
Tears came out of my eyes.
"Don't cry Emma, Aeon is not dead. In fact, the first day I saw you. I already took my decision."
"What?"
"Emma, I trust you to be the next host."
"But I don't know what to..."
"Don't worry, Aeon will help you, you will understand when this will be over."
I couldn't hold myself, tears slowly were dripping on the white ground
"Emma..."
He pulled back up my head
"I want to see you smile, with my eyes, for the last time."
Ignoring him, I kissed him, crying, hugging him as hard as I could. This moment felt like an eternity.
"I love you"
"I am not the one that you asked to marry Emma."
I didn't understand. With a smile he touched my horn with his. A bright light came out. Soon I was back on the dirt ground.
I looked down. I had a backwards movement.

Eclipse.

Chapter 7: Eclipse

Emma/Aeon

Eclipse... My dear Eclipse, the Stallion that I've met this particular day, was all this time... Aeon? He gave his life to protect me.
"You are right Emma, Eclipse choice was clear, he wanted to get rid of Corr and Paradoxus, for him, there was no other solution"
The voice was in my head, it was neither a Stallion's nor Mare's. But it sounded like millions of voices together.
"Who... who are you."
"It's me Emma, it's Aeon... You are my host now."
I stayed silent... I couldn't know what to say.
"You doesn't need to talk Emma, we are one now, I can read you taught as you can read mine. The knowledge of ten thousand years of living rest in your head."
"Aeon, I need to know, why did neither Wit or Aera came to help... you?"
"Eclipse knew that he had to bring Corr to blind himself with power, he managed to make Corr to reveal who helped him and find a way to destroy him. Sadly, he had to make the sacrifice in the process."
"But now that I am the spirit of Time... What's going to happen to Sarah, my sister?"
There was a short silence.
"Back home, I will take control of your body for a short time, when you'll be back... you'll see."
I heard a noise behind me. I turned around to see Pisces standing back up.
"Pisces, are you alright?"
She shook her head.
"Yeah... I'm fine... I..."
She paused when she saw me.
"You... you look different."
I didn't understood first, I didn't felt anything different in my body.
"Your eyes... There are just like..."
"...Aeon?"
I understood what she meant, I had eyes like Wit, Aera, Aeon... her... I had the eyes of the titans. She looked down on his body.
She went closer.
"Is that... Aeon?"
I thought for a moment...
"Yes... and no... he is Eclipse, third host of Aeon, as he sacrificed himself to save me and Equestria, he had to transfer the spirit of Aeon... to me."
"I can remember what happened with Corr, it was like if I was him, but I couldn't control... I saw what happened to him, how much he suffered. I was scared...and I still am."
"Pisces, do you know where is Raven?"
She pointed behind me, Raven was lying on the ground.
"Raven!!"
I flew directly over her and held her in my hooves. Her eyes opened slowly.
"...M...Mom...?"
"It's over Raven... It's over..."
"Where's dad?"
I froze... what to answer to a three years old filly? She saw Eclipse's corpse.
"...oh..."
"You too remember what happened?"
Tears came out of her eyes as she slowly nod. She looked at Pisces in fear.
"It's okay Raven, she is your big sister..."
I looked at Pisces that finally had the family she wanted.
I went close of Eclipse's body and lifted it with magic.
"We must give him proper funerals."

Flare

I couldn't believe my ears. Aeon's third host, Eclipse, the one that raised me as his own child... died?
I cannot cry, but if I could, I would. He saved me from the flames as a filly, he protected me, he fought her own daughter to guard me.
His body was on a cubic stone, in the temple of Time, surrounded by all the Alicorns. Celestia, Luna, Emma, Nucleus, Pisces, Gleam, Raven, Tide, Draft, their daughter Mist and Glaze, Cadance, Aera, Wit and Me.

There was the coldest silence I've ever saw.

Wit stood up.
"We are gather here to send Eclipse Nightfall in the afterworld by releasing his soul directly in my hooves so he wont need to find his way to heaven. His sacrifice, to save Equestria, shall never be forgotten by us, Alicorns, that keep memories alive and true. Third host of the time spirit Aeon, he protected during five thousand years the ponies of Equestria, he cared more about the life of the others than his own. Yes, like everypony, he did mistakes, but the faith of death shall forgive al his sins."
As she said that, I used my magic to slowly make a trail of fire float around the circle, around Eclipse, to finally, slowly make the corpse take on fire.
Everypony stayed quiet as looking at the flames purifying the body.
Tide came close to me.
"Did you ever know about his name?"
"No, he never mentionned it, ever. He is the savior nopony knoes but everypony owes."
Wit looked at the body, she looked a bit frightened, she whispered to her brother. Aera looked a bit shocked, then he whispered back.
Wit stood back again.
"There is something wrong, Eclipse's soul is not in this body, actually, it's not even in the after life."
Everypony were whispering, stunned.
"Indeed, apparently, Eclipse's soul is still somewhere and we need to recover it to release him."
Emma looked scared, what happened?
In all the quarrels around us, I could hear her whisper....

"Eclipse..."

Pisces

I couldn't go with Emma, Aeon... I don't know anymore... My other self, my sister... Gemini was too dangerous to go in a crowded place such as Ponyville...
What was going to happen to me now? I found my answers, I lost everything and I can't keep in cities...
I walked during days, weeks, months... then suddently, the decor seemed familiar, oldly familiar... I entered the village I looked at the sign, it said "Galloponia". It was my home.
The streets were crowded with ponies, as far as I can remember, it felt like I could recognise each one of them. Suddently, one of them saw the Alicorn I was and he soon was followed by the others. Fastly there was a giant silence and everypony was looking at me, scared, confused, sad or happy? I slowly walked in the crowd that moved out of the way as I was approaching. A voice came out of the crowd.
"Pisces?"
I turned around to meet his eyes, Lige... Last thing I remembered of him was that he revealed to me that everypony lied to me.
Hate was growing in me...
"Lige... I tought you died five thousand years ago?"
"I what? Five thousa... Pisces, I woke up this morning and I was still here yesterday... You dissapeared months ago!"
It seems like they don't remember the events with Corr... Like if the fact that all the souls were released from him... Made things back to normal...
back to normal...

Back to normal...

Emma/Aeon

What happened to Eclipse? I couldn't understand... he died in front of me. His soul should have been released...
"I can't understand either Emma, Wit said that he wasn't in the afterlife. He have to still be in Equestria."
"I know Aeon, there is nothing we can do for the moment, my priority now is my daughters, we have to take care of them."
"Wit and Aera are already looking for him. Indeed, we shall take care of Gleam and Raven. Oh! I almost forgot..."
My eyes closed by their own when I opened them, Sarah was hugging me.
"Woah! Where did you came from?"
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Aeon!"
"I missed something! What happened!"
"Aeon spoke to me Emma! Since you are both the same person and you had to take care of Time, he gave me something!"
She showed me her flank, she had the cutie mark of Hope... Aeon gave her what she always wished for... Aeon made her the pony she wanted to be.
"Oh my! Sarah! This is wonderful!"
She was crying of joy.
"This is the best thing that could happen to me Emma!"
"I know Sarah... I know..."
"What's wrong?"
"I already miss him..."
"Aeon? But I thought you..."
"No... Eclipse..."
"We will find him Emma."

We will find him.

The End?

Author's note

Aye. This trilogy is finally over, I am quite proud of it. The whole Alicorn theory that created itself with the writing of the fanfics was not the easiest thing in the world to think of. It took me about six month too write and think about these stories. I want first to thank my friends that heavily supported me during this adventure as: Emma, Sarah, Smuggle, Cushies, Star, Pisces, Will and Loco. It was really hard for me to find betters and betters ideas. A million thanks to John De Lancie for reading The Line Between Hope And Time and giving me positive feedback.

Also that many of my friends wanted their OC's inside a spot in my stories, all of this thinking is weakening my mind, not speaking about the College. I will probably take a big break of writing, about a month or maybe less if I can't hold back. I will still create the upcoming stories and release quite soon the titles and the spoilers :P.

Something that I find sad with writing fanfics is that people will read only once and ask more and more. I don't say that I don't like this, au contraire, I like that people give me feedback and ideas. It's just that... sometimes... I wonder if writing is worth the time... For my fanfics I created around twenty OCs with all a background story, original names. I discovered with my theory that making an Alicorn OC is not as easy that many of the Bronies could think. It's not simply an overpowered pony with unlimited powers and magic. I showed in my fanfics that even gods can fall and love can change them.

As I already thought and revealed on my Deviant Page. Yes indeed, I already announced three incoming fanfics. They will maybe not be as long as The Line Trilogy buuuut we will see.

Thank you a lot for reading.
Isuno - Prince Aeon

I'll see you next Time