The next few days were interesting as Celestia and Luna were captured and it was the summer sun celebration. Maroon used her magic on the potion before she drank it and her eyes started to glow as she was shown the past. First she was back to when Luna transformed into Nightmare Moon and heard Luna say “the day shall no longer outshine the night that's the pony shun the Moon for the Sun” the moon was suddenly raised “and let there be night forever more!”

“Sister, lower the Moon it is your duty!”

“No sister, this country has no room for two princesses, only one shall rule!” Luna transformed into Nightmare Moon through the darkness that consumed her soul. The fight was seen throughout the place and their, Maroon saw Midnight Star watching from behind the throne of the Moon as the two fought, she watched as Midnight Star gathered the ponies of the night and led them away from the Everfree so she went back inside and saw the banishment of Nightmare Moon to the well Moon and the Alicorn’s face appeared on it as a silhouette as a being of Darkness suddenly when flying out of Celestia’s body right as a barrier appeared on the edges of Equestria. Next she saw Discord's downfall of him being turned to stone for the first time. After that the potion showed the tree of Harmony and its location along with the elements removal of the tree but something was off about the potion as it went further back in time to what she guessed was the Migration era for ponies 5,000 years ago. First it showed the sealing of the counsel into a chest lined with runes and the banishment of the alicorn killer along with the death of the victor who was the Pegasus. Then it showed the creation of the Everfree with a pony's death and her falling on a seed before it sprouted and took over the farm that stretched for miles. Then it showed the creation of the crystal heart out of desperation when the council attacked the empire for the first time. Finally it stopped with cave right in front of her with her curiosity peaked she walked in and heard three ponies talking in ancient ponish but somehow she was able to know what they were saying.

“Twilight, are you sure about this we don't know what we're messing with here.” a crystal unicorn with a changeling horn and legs said as his coat was a whitish silver and his mane and tail were a bright blue that seemed to change to a darker hue.

“The magic brought me here for a reason I have no clue why though” the now named Twilight said though he looked like a mix between a Thiestral, a Pegasus and a Dragon with a dark royal blue coat and a lavender mane and tail that acted like flames.

“Maybe it's something higher than us that was trying to have us come to this place?” a bark brown coated earth pony mare? With a nature green mane and tail said.

“Maybe Everfree maybe, maybe someone else knows though am I right?” The pony named Twilight turned around and stared directly at Maroon with his friends. “There is something going to happen sometime soon. We are sorry for letting you deal with our problems but we couldn't get rid of them completely, we could only stop them and seal them away.”

“Indeed we are truly sorry if you are seeing this it means the oath has been activated and you are unable to prevent it.” the mare now known as Everfree said

“But what does it mean?” Maroon asked them

“It means that Darkness will swallow Equius whole if you do not listen to what we have to say about this well. This well is very old, older than anything we know and we believe it's the start of all magic, it's filled to the brim with arcane magic and we are now its Guardians to protect it from those who try to twist it to their favor.”

“Hey now Crystal go easy on them, it’s a lot to take in after all the plunder Vines are probably going to make it tough for them.” Once it was done the vision stopped as the three turned back around to contemplate and chat about it more but the vision ended there so maroon lead them with the elements to the tree of Harmony where after placing the elements in the tree they decide to drop their connection and see how it goes from there. They ask the princesses if they know any spells that can help with it which they do as Celestia does the unbinding and cutting the threads that bind the bearers to the elements it worked. Then the tree presented the mysterious box but it was ignored as Maroon led them deeper and the tree did try to stop them from missing its box and get their curiosity as a black being tried again and managed to slip in as now all it needed was to wait for the right moment to strike.

“Where are you going Maroon?” Rainbow asked

“There was something more to the vision that needed to be solved as right around here as there is something far older than Celestia. Maybe around Discords age?” Discord appeared as they emerged looking at four places, a cave, a tree, a run down house, and finally a strange dragon statue that made everyone irritated for an unknown reason…

“Did someone say my name?” Discord asked curios,

“Yes I did as the potion that Zecora gave us has shown me something known as the arcane well I think?” at the name he said with his words full of memories.

“Ah yes the arcane well I know of it but first” Discord snapped and Maroon felt something fall unconscious inside her and she was confused a bit but understood that it must have been important. “There we go dont want anyone else to listen to this.” He then looked around the new discovery of his old friend’s homes with a smile and glazed eyes filled with memories of the past and the good times. “This is where my old friends used to live before the counsel came and tried to turn everypony against them” he frowned as he walked over to the farm house that looked awfully like the one back in Ponyville for the Apple family with the others following him curious.

“Were their names Twilight, Crystal and Everfree?” Maroon asked catching the others attention with Discord nodding

“Twilight Eclipse, Crystal Phoenix and Everfree Forest were their names and this is where they lived” something felt off to the ponies as Maroon walked over to two trees that were growing some strange fruit but Trixie recognised one and picked it off the tree with her magic.

“The ancient moon fruit? How long has this tree been here?” she said, shocking them but Discord heard something coming from the cave so he walked over and a timber pony came flying out tackling Discord to the ground.

“Everfree? Wow, you’ve certainly changed a lot since I last saw you!” he said in shock as the timber pony now known as Everfree said,

“It's been over four thousand years and you haven’t visited me in that time to tell me how the other two are doing!” she said angry enough to scare Discord so he said,

“That's not my fault as I was also dealing with the recent magic imbalance and the aftermath of it!” he said causing confusion among the ponies as they looked to the others and shrug,

“It's still good to see you old friend and why did you lead them here?”

“I didn't there is a new alicorn and she was the one to lead us here. While not too long ago my plunder vines sprouted and you know what it does to chaotic creatures like me as it happened to Eclipse…” she sadly nods before noticing Trixie examining the moon fruit while keeping Applejack from bucking the trees out of farmers intuition. The pegasi were flying around the other tree with the alicorns learning about the moon fruit from Trixie.

“So what you're saying is that this is a fruit that night ponies ate a lot of right? But why wont you let me buck the tree?” Applejack said with Trixie stating,

“Because think of these like peaches, you don’t buck those trees right?” Applejack nods “both of these fruits are like that as they must be picked off the tree instead of shaking the tree to make them fall” she sighed “from what was recorded the moon fruit has a tendency to explode if the tree is bucked don’t know about the other one though”

“They will turn into a cloud while falling as the magic of the earth pony race will speed up the process while killing off the seeds of both fruits” Everfree inquired taking a break from her talk with Discord,

“Thanks Miss Everfree!” Trixie said with a grateful smile and got one back.

“How do you know so much about them Trixie?” Luna asked with Celestia saying,

“Because her family is the one that grows them, even back in Canterlot, how do you think I got so many for you on your return home?” making Lunas eyes widen which caused her to ask,

“And what happened to my daughter?” shocking everypony there,

“I’m afraid I dont know what you are talking about sister?” Celestia said when Trixie asked,

“What was her name?”

“Her name was Midnight star” everyone was confused at the shock on Celestia, and Trixies faces till Trixie said,

“Celestia you made your niece the first and only noble house of the night other then the house of the moon” shocking everyone there with Discord saying,

“Well that’s unexpected”

“Eyup” Everfree said just like big mac would say catching Applejack off guard and causing her to wonder if her and Everfree were related,

“Do you know what happened to her after my banishment?” Luna asked Trixie who nodded and said as the rest were quiet and wanting to listen as their curiosity was piqued.

“During the time after your banishment, new laws were being passed by Celestia to protect the ponies of the night but the rest of the ponies didn't like the favoritism and removed a few of them without her knowing for that time because it happened behind her back. It was during this time that went by two names ‘the Solar Inquisition’ is the one that went in the history books while what it's know as by my family and Celestia is ‘the Lunar Purge’ which after a barrier was up we don't know what happened to the Thiestrals and other night ponies out in the badlands. To help them escape as a lot of ponies died in that time she brought the stars to life which is why we have the Ursas as they were the ones that stayed behind out of all of the starbeasts that were created.” shocking all of them with Celestia asking,

“How many died on both sides?”

“The ponies wanting eternal day greatly outnumbered the night ponies on ‘the Starless Night’ she made a big blow to them and she was considered a one pony army before making her way from the southern edge of Equestria all the way to Canterlot while injured beyond what a pony was capable of surviving well after her adrenalin ran out but she marched all the way there and proved to be very determined but once outside of Canterlot she finally passed out at the gates as the injuries had taken their toll on her aching body but she was saved by Celestia who happened to be on a walk around Canterlot and didn't recognise her at all. I'll let Celestia continue from here…” Celestia nods and said,

“At the time I had no clue who she was as to me she was a random pony that needed help and it took a while for me to earn her trust but in the end it was worth it. I learned that she was there during our battle and had taken matters into her own hooves by leading the way to the south for the ponies of the night. When she asked me if she could become a noble house and help with the decisions, I gave her the title and the power behind it. Though I accidentally gave them a little too much including over me but they only use it if it could harm others as some time while Twilight and Sunset were under me a stallion wanted to use an inactive mine in a memorial gravesite thankfully Twilight Velvet had been there to listen to the proposal and used that power to keep that memorial safe.” Celestia said with a smile as the rest were in awe at that but then it turned into a frown “though that pony did not take kindly to that so he foal napped Spike” causing shock which Trixie said,

“Oh... I remember that day yeah, Rainbow she was running all over canterlot looking for him at the speed you get to before you do your rainboom” with that Rainbow was impressed “they found him up north before the empire’s return right?” Celestia nods,

“When we finally found him I actually had to speed up in order to not lose sight of her. I almost did a few times but those times I saw her mane and tail ignited into flames” she said, shocking them except for Trixie.

“That’s actually the most normal thing that could happen with one of the main houses” which confused them “it’s been in our family line for quite a long time. Though it’s long enough that we don’t know when it started.” then Everfree spoke up.

“Actually Eclipse’s mane and tail acted like flames whenever he was truly pissed off.” confusing the rest “I’m not kidding if I remember correctly there was a pony who decided to try and foal nap all of the foals we had, they were at the time only two years old if I remember correctly.” Discord piped in,

“Oh I remember that day as not even the war that came before then could compare to his rage after I had helped find them. Let’s say he was going to use them as test subjects for different spells. I appeared next to him with this guy” he said pointing at the statue “yeah he’s alive but barely enough to generate magic, so he’s just stuck like that and not even I know what he can do but we agreed that the pony was going too far so we told him the location and he is the fastest flier that I know of today as not even sky coat here could keep up with him at his fastest.” shocking them “his mane and tail ignited to the point it was seen all across Equestria at the time before he disappeared only to reappear a few hours later. He returned with a cart full of foals with two being carried by his wings.”

“Do you know what happened to the one who did it?” Everfree asked,

“He actually told us this ‘they can mess with me all they want and I’ll laugh it off but the moment they try and use my family against me I’ll go to war’ I told myself ‘remind my future self to not harm any foals that are connected to my friends as they will go to the destruction of everything and back for their foals’ while Dark Flame was there, he was actually terrified and that's how he turned to stone. We don't know how long he will be this way though he was irritating. Just know if he agrees with something you said like ‘let’s turn leaves into candy’ it will happen as he is a being of the unknown.”

“Anyway we should get back on track what happened after that Celestia?” Maroon said with Celestia nodding,

“Oh thank you Maroon but where were we?”

“We were when you and Sunset nearly lost Twilight up north” Trixie reminded,

“Thank you Trixie." She cheared her throat "When Sunset and I got there, we saw that Twilight was slinging spells around the stallion but never at him till Spike burned him through the bag that was holding him and allowed for Sunset and I to get Spike away from him right in time for Twilight to stop slinging and started bucking and stomping him after he hit the ground. If you’re wondering, no she didn’t kill him but she did cripple him. I feel like we were talking about something else before this” she said while lost in thought.

“Oh you were talking about the first star of the night noble house” Trixie said with Celestia nodding before she continued with the original story.

“Midnight Star smiled at me and made the home that is still used today by her descendants though I won't lie when the Assassination attempts first started I wanted to stop them immediately but she convinced me not to and dealt with them herself by actually challenging them to try harder which impressed her coltfriend enough he asked her hoof in marriage and requested it to be under the moon” they were shocked with Rainbow saying,

“If i was that stallion i would do the same thing” causing Trixie to laugh and Luna asked,

“Who is the most recent heir and are the assassinations still ongoing?” which Trixie answered,

“Her name was Twilight Sparkle and she’s my cousin as well as Shining Armor’s younger sister. No one knew her whereabouts after Windigo came along as both her and Sunset Shimmer, who were both Celestia's students at the time, vanished. As for the assassinations, as far as I know is a yes as it even happens to me sometimes thankfully we of the house of star have actually found that we are actually immune to poison” At the mention of Sunset Shimmer, Maroon remembered something important that was needed to be said but she waited till Trixie was done. “It happens a lot even outside of canterlot as I actually remember aunt Velvet telling me about the first time Celestia joined us for it once and all but uncle Nightlight’s mane and tails burst into flames turned out the poison was from the dragonlands, interestingly enough” Trixie finished,

“Oh I just remembered a message that I was going to tell everyone here only for other things to happen. While I was on the other side I met Sunrise and she had certainly changed after becoming a mother-” “wait WHAT!!!” everyone said after that with Fluttershy asking,

“Why did you pass out after coming back through though?”

“The element actually tried to control my body and it did give the place magic. After Crimson no wait, it was Windigo that threatened to kill Sunset’s niece” the rest were confused at first but memories were coming back to Fallen who was holding her head in her hooves “if you’re wondering about it. Apparently Sunset has a sister named Sunrise Sprinkle though her daughter’s name is Moonrise Sprinkle.” Celestia was shocked before asking,

“Anything else?”

“I managed to gain control of my legs after the element caused their Windigo to turn into a demonic looking beast while forcing the other girls I met, which were you girls, to summon the rainbow. It took a bit for me to regain control but the damage had been done. I ran through the portal at full speed or as fast as I could go while only on two legs. What you saw was the aftermath and I didnt know what was going on when it happened as I lost most of my senses except for what’s in my legs” she said while looking downcast “but Sunrise wanted her daughter to meet her aunt someday and when I mentioned the wedding all of the human versions of us looked at the two curious if it was their wedding when it was Shining Armor’s” she said with a smile before laughing causing laughter from the rest at the thought of it happening there.

Trixie got a message from Fallen stating ‘yes we are married but that is a funny image as Midnight is laughing up a storm here’ as Trixie could hear the laughter in her head shocking Trixie into more laughter as the negativity was washed away with the laughter.

“So how are Light and Dark?” Everfree asked,

“Light is still in his masterpiece and the empire has returned here so he should be back soon, however I haven’t heard from Dark at all because he is either in Tartarus or outside Equestria. Neither place I can access without getting stuck in or out there.” Discord said which caught everyone's attention.

“Masterpiece? Light? What are you talking about?” Celestia asked, confused.

“We changed our names to help distinguish us better after we settled down right here. I replaced Forrest with Nature which is my element, my friends Twilight and Crystal did the same though the former is Dark and the latter is Light as for how I’m speaking modern Ponish its thanks to this very forrest which is my masterpiece and all that you see from this forrest was actually my farm and it was the largest recorded farm in history. Is it still?” she asked, curious.

“Wait, this forest was your farm? What happened to it to cause it to be this wild?” Applejack asked, confused.

“I created a seed that would become something more but before I could plant it the counsel attacked and accused me for treason. I had no clue why so I ran into the deepest parts of the orchard on my farm and that's where I died right as I set the seed down and I landed on top of it becoming the first thing to be brought into this forest like this as I am the first and only timber pony” she said shocking them with Maroon asking

“Wait, Light, Dark, Nature? Those sound like the types of magic a pony could have!”

“You are correct and the last one is crystal magic” shocking Celestia after learning about it Maroon asked,

“How did you and your friends know I was there?” confusing Everfree for a bit before realization appeared on her face,

“We didn't know anyone was with us till we felt a presence behind us and we didn’t know where you were even when you spoke as the only reason that happened that I could think of is because of the well below and its center is outside the forest that way but it’s not too far.” she said pointing in the direction of Ponyville shocking them but it worked out as they say their goodbyes and make their way back home with Fluttershy and Rainbow getting permission to have a fruit known as ‘skyspace’ so they have one and they were enamored by the taste of it that when Fluttershy shared hers with Maroon who took a bite and she was shocked at the juiciness but it tasted so good. Trixie did the same and nearly melted because of the taste alone but it was for the moon fruit.

Their minds did wander while in the castle of the two sisters but Maroon ended up finding a room of strange runes so when she ignited her horn it ended up spooking the other ponies there as they had let the thoughts get to their heads, but after meeting up with the rest she showed them the room and asked them. “I don’t know any of these runes, any of you girls?” Trixie walked up not igniting her horn and adjusted staring off into space looking at the runes.

“Yep Maroon you found them alright.” Trixie said with a smile, the rest were confused at first till she said “this is Midnight Star’s old room. I forgot to mention that she wrote a book of spells on the stars and shields. She hid it because if deciphered the pony would know how to cast very strong spells.” They looked around to find the book, Fluttershy found it after a while of searching and handed it over to Trixie who thanked her and stored it away in her saddlebag.

Meanwhile…

Archaeologists were running around at a new discovery and wanted to show the princess as everyone worked their way to the area. As there was an ancient chest there and they were wondering what's inside but they needed to wait for the princess to see. Sure enough when Celestia got there she was shocked at the chest and checked the enchantments to find they were for containment and if unlocked whatever is inside will be free. “Keep the chest as is and I’ll bring it back to Canterlot with me” she said, confusing the archaeologists but they shrug and let her have the chest which intrigued Celestia. They certainly got paid extra though for their find.

Back with the group the next day…

Things were going well for the ponies as the CMC were trying to do their performance to be the representatives for Ponyville in the Equestrian Olympics but something stuck to Scootaloo that she wouldn’t be a true pegasus due to her incapability of flying thanks to her bullies. The others were looking for her and when Maroon looked at the last place Sweetie belle and Applebloom saw her on the hill, she saw this and smiled at Scootaloo to try and encourage her but when she hit the ground again Maroon stepped in as the others showed up to see this. “all right that's enough Scootaloo” she said causing the little one to be confused so she said “you can’t force yourself to fly” she said confusing others looking on at this “there are somethings that will be impossible but that doesn’t mean you can learn from the experience” Fluttershy walked over with Rainbow Dash and the latter asked,

“What do you mean by that?”

“I wasn’t alway this good with magic I had to learn to be better but I think I know what might be going on with Scootaloo here” she said confusing everypony

“And that is?” Fluttershy asked

“Her ley lines are hindering her so we need to get those cleaned out and fixed, before then but it will have to wait till after the games.” shocking the rest but it made sense in the grand scheme of things. As Celestia suddenly appeared with a chest?

“I need to get this to Discord as I can tell that something is off about it.” she said with the rest confused but then Maroon asked,

“Isn't that the chest holding the counsel?” she asked, causing everyone’s heads to turn to look at her in shock as Discord’s eyes appeared looking at her. His head appeared with a confused expression on his face,

“How do you know that?” Discord asked

“The potion sent me to three points before the well and one was a draconic thiestral pegasus fighting off six unicorns and an alicorn, from what I remember…”

“So they are trapped in here, best not to let them out and keep them somewhere else right?” Rainbow asked

“It seems like the best solution but what about what's next?” she asked.
Celestia handed it off to Discord who held onto the chest till he hides it somewhere it can’t be found.

Power ponies Maroon replaces Twilight for that adventure and Trixie was left behind in the castle to clean up. After getting out of the comic they decided to clean up Everfree’s place as well while they were over. Though it didn’t take as long as the castle with them splitting up and Maroon decided to check in on the arcane well only to find Everfree there and kept her company before showing what Maroon's friends did for her which made Everfree smile like a mother would when they are proud of the foal’s.

They were about to make a bigger mess than before by using Fluttershy’s stare to help get the bats away but Maroon thought about it a bit more than a few others and said “girls lets do Fluttershy’s idea cause we might turn her into a fruit vampony if I’m thinking about it correctly, did I get that right Trixie?”

“Which spell were you planning on using?”

“The one I was going to use on the parasprites.”

“Then yes you’re correct” so after grumbling for a bit the others conceded but Applejack was stubborn which Trixie noticed and let her know that something bad might happen if not and it could harm the farm more than a swarm of bats which caused her to finally concede.

They made it to Manehattan only to find it to not be as exciting as everything about it was said to be. “There is such a thing as being too generous Rarity” Trixie said

“What do you mean darling?” Rarity asked when Maroon said

“I think I know it's something like ‘if you give away everything that you had, what more will you give’ right?”

“I don't like how that sounded” Rarity said

“That's because you're not supposed to.” Trixie said “it's like… how did you put it when you were talking to your marefriend to get her to stand up for herself Maroon?” Trixie said,

“Oh way back then? Sure it was ‘there is a kindness, like your kindness to others but you're giving too much kindness to others and not leaving any for yourself.’ but I can see that you can use those words in terms of the other elements as they had a lasting effect on us but we are still ourselves now.” she said before glancing at Spike and then getting lost in the past about her little drake with her eyes glossed over and her body on autopilot to follow her friends to the apartment.

Trixie noticed the look along with her friends and saw the downcast look was directed towards Spike. “I miss him…”

“Miss who?” Trixie asked confusedly while the rest remembered the day they made the Pinkie promise and hugged her.

“His name was going to be Terrar which is ground in draconic.” Trixie was confused but the rest looked at her.

Fluttershy spoke up first “We made a promise not to mention anything and let her trust for us build”

“So you wont mention anything to do with it?” the rest nod at that. “I see but why?” she asked which Rainbow said

“We know she has PTSD from her birth parents right?” they nod “last time this happened was sometime ago after Maroon first got here that we found out somethings” she said which Trixie concluded,

“Something caused a panic attack?”

“Sorta, we were curious and found out more than we should in fact before you teleported Shining Armor to us I was actually about to throw hooves.” she said, snapping Maroon out of it and she looked directly at Rainbow shocked before hugging her. The promise was still intact yet it was strained but not by very much.

“I got lost in my memories again, didn’t I?” she asked the rest who nodded. She then sighed “sorry guess Spike reminded me of someone did I say anything?”

“Yeah you mentioned the name Terrar and you said it was going to be draconic for ground” Trixie said with Maroon nodding

“He was going to be for me like what Spike is to you is the best way to say it.” she said with a sad smile before it turned somber.

“You don't have to if you don’t want to Maroon” Applejack reminded,

“You’re right but it's best to get it out now.” she said looking at them “remember what I said to the CMC Trixie?” she nods “they didn’t want him in the house and tried to have me get rid of him. That’s the first time I had ever refused to do what they said and so they made him that night's dinner right in front of me as punishment.” she said, shocking everyone including Spike who actually wanted to know about what happened to this other dragon but wished he never did, now that he did.

Rarity’s mood was down while she made her dresses along with the whole line up while being on autopilot when a pony came by hoping to make a pony fail the competition and managed to get Rarity’s fabric which was loaned to her and designs by looking at them, on the first day of the competition. Rarity was so lost in thought that she made a different set out of things she found in the hotel that night while on autopilot. So when she saw what another pony did with her original designs she looked through her designs to find the reason she was tired and it was the set of dresses she made in the night so she submitted those and won the competition with one asking her,

“How did you make all of these dresses?”

“To be honest I didn’t even know I made them as I was in my own head while my body was on autopilot and only found out why I’m so tired this morning during the competition when the designs I originally made for this competition were used by someone else though I don't remember who because yesterday and last night I might have given the fabric I used for my originals to somepony else. Now if you excuse me I need to go find my friends at the play nearby” with that she got her reward and everypony was shocked that she didn’t even know she made them. It worked out in the end as a thanks for not letting her employer win a pony, gave her a spool of rainbow thread and ended up getting the job for designing costumes for the plays with help from Rarity after learning that the mare was the one who managed to copy her designs down to the thread.

The Apples of Ponyville were about to go on a ride with Pinkie Pie to find out if the Pie’s are part of the same family when Maroon found out about it though she decided to ask Discord about it. “Yes I did have one but I was on the edge of what you knew me as before I changed. I had to give her up in order to keep her safe” He revealed

“What was her name?” Maroon asked, curious

“Her name was silly string and before I tipped off the edge I saw her wedding with a pony named Apple Pie.”

“Thank you Discord”

“Your welcome” he called out to her as she walked away

She found her friends that were just about to go on the trip and said “I had a chat with Discord and found out there might be an Apple named Apple Pie, does that sound familiar?”

“Actually yes it does” Pinkie said with the rest shocked so they decided to visit Everfree to find out more. “Hey Everfree, it's been a while.”

“Indeed it has also why do your friends look uncertain and who are these three?” she asked.

“They are my family, the big red one is my older brother Big Macintosh, the filly here is my little sister Applebloom, and that's Granny Smith my grandma” Applejack said,

“Nice to meet you”

“Are my old eyes playing tricks on me?” Granny Smith said confused while looking at the timberpony.

“Enope” Big Mac said,

“Well then nice to meet you too!” Granny Smith said with a smile.

“Wow you’re amazing but how strong are you?” Applebloom asked with wonder in her eyes.

“Strong enough to buck all the apples of an entire orchard of apple trees with one forhoof” Applebloom was enamored by that and really interested in the timberpony “Now why are you here Maroon?” Everfree asked Maroon while playing with Applebloom who was having fun playing with Everfree.

“I ended up finding out that their families might be related and ended up going down a rabbit hole with Pinkie being related to Discord and I’m now curious if the other farm families are related in any way?” Maroon said with Everfree nodding and said,

“I did have a lot of kids and named them after the parts of the farm they could help with so yes here let me get something from Lights place to help with the visualization of what I’m talking about.” she said before going into the tree house and coming back out with a book and helped translate it for Maroon by using her own magic to help translate the ancient Ponish. Maroon cast the spell on Applejack and sure enough it worked out better than she thought as it showed her the entire family tree with Everfree being the start of all the farm families with shock on their faces but she saw Everfree have a smile on her face “thanks for the help with the mystery Everfree.” Maroon said with Everfree nodding,

“Once the barrier is down I plan on teaching the newest members of the families some old tricks that have been lost to time.” she said as they walked away before Applebloom split off to have her lessons with Zecora in alchemy.

Rainbow Dash was practicing with the Shadowbolts for the games when the Wonderbolts came over and tried to sway one of them over but Rainbow said “Keep up the good work everypony I'll handle this if that's alright?” to the pony that was in charge of the Shadowbolts joining the olympics who nods to her.

“You have five minutes” was all that was said to her.

She flew over to the Wonderbolts to see what they wanted, they tried to bribe her and Rainbow was tempted but gave it thought and realized that if she did that she wouldn't be loyal to her team and Spitfire was happy that she was thinking about it till Rainbow replied “that doesn’t sound very loyal of you” with a deadpan stare which shocked everypony there as they stopped what they were doing to listen to what's going on “your friend is injured yes?”

“Yes he is” Spitfire said

“How would he feel if he knew what you were doing? How would you feel if he did what you are doing? Think about that… I may have been the element of loyalty but even I have a line in the sand on who I am loyal to.” Everyone’s eyes widened and jaws hit the floor with Rainbow finishing with “now get back to practice or do I need to tell everyone what happened with the academy?” the Wonderbolts who knew paled before going back to their area to practice. “LET'S DO OUR BEST EVERY CREACHER!!!” she holared with every racer there giving their loudest ‘YEAH!’ before joining back with her group and going back to practice. Sure enough word got back to Soren, when he heard it he was disappointed, a bit angry and felt betrayed by Spitfire. He did chew her out for it and made sure that Spitfire learned that being loyal is not replacing team members in major events like this for ponies that are not originally on their team when they are injured. Rainbow earned a lot of respect from the rest of the groups and earned a lightning bolt pin from Soren who thanked her for her help.

Maroon got to hang with Cadence while Spike was sick so Trixie couldn't come. While they hung out she had a nice chat with them while having a picnic. Though she tried not to stare at her sitter she was failing miserably and it seemed that the others were having a good time teasing her about it. After a bit Maroon got a question that she did need to ask “hey Chrysalis?”

“Yes?” she responded curious,

“How does this whole situation you have with Cadence work?” Maroon asked while looking at them.

“Oh well, first off I could do this at any time if I wanted to but it’s mostly a thing to do if you’re in love with another race or on death's door and you're not willing to die. Even though we Changelings have this ability we don’t use it because it gives us a second chance with that creature if both agree they share the body. Not to mention it’s what is keeping us alive.”

“What do you mean by that?” Cadence asked,

“What I mean is we can’t split even if we wanted to for some fun times… we can’t otherwise we will die. Think of us being like this as a second chance for both of us but we will die sooner or later and I’d like to leave a queen just in case I find out.”

“So you’re saying we could have actually died?” Cadence asked, worried.

“There still is a chance of us still dying even now.” Chrysalis answered somberly,

“So you both can still die but would it be harder to do so?” Maroon asked,

“Yes but sadly this is the final life as yes both of us can live for a long time alone but this caused a lot of problems as while I am making sure things go well in the hive and she is out here we are vulnerable even with my carapace but its cracking so think of it like us being in symbiosis but the injuries we gained before hand are still there and are able to kill us.” she said with a somber tone as she sighed with both catching on that something is wrong with the body.

“What's wrong?” Cadence asked,

“We are slowly dying Cadence and there is not enough time to stop it but there is enough time to make sure that we can give life to another.” Chrysalis said somber at first, shocking them before giving hope with her other statement. They take a few bites before changing the topic of the conversation only for Cadence to leave sometime afterward.

Then sometime after that things went well for everypony as it was Rainbow's birthday and it became a birthday battle between Pinkie Pie and a certified party planner named Cheese Sandwich for the two party ponies. They ended up becoming friends in the end.

When the writer Trenderhoof came by Ponyville things went well for him till he fell in love with Applejack which was shut down by Rarity who said “uhh Applejack I think you gained a pony vying for your attention.” when she said that Applejack looked their way

“Thanks for telling me that Rarity also I will need some help later in the orchard outback.” Which caused Applebloom to say

“Wait WHAT!!??” she was confused and had the wrong idea of what was going to happen so her face was also red, but Applejack started laughing at her sister knowing what she was thinking before saying

“What have I told you about listening in on others conversations Applebloom?” while walking over to her as Rarity walked over to the back after escorting him somewhere else for the finale.

Fluttershy still sings for the concert but is still shy when Gilda came over and told her “think about singing to Maroon at the event with what you want to convey” which Fluttershy with confidence sang on stage with the other singers joining in with her song.

Maroon gets a hoof full when the CMC were having trouble with their studies. Thankfully she managed to help them out with their studies by getting them interested in the subject they need help with. Maroon then asked “hey Applebloom just wondering what you were thinking about when you heard your sister ask Rarity for help out back?” causing her to blush the other two were curios and were about to ask when Applebloom said,

“I thought that they had started to date” causing Sweetie to say,

“That would be a bit awkward now right Bloom, Scoots?” both nod but Maroon picked up on what that meant and said,

“Congrats and thanks for helping me win a bet” causing confusion,

“What was the bet?” Scootaloo asked,

“Whether or not you would get together and with whom. I bet that all three of you were together while Rarity though it would be Scoots and Applebloom, Applejack thought it would be Sweetie and Scoots, Rainbow thought it would be Sweetie and Bloom, while the rest were split on the who” she said causing their jaws to drop and so the next day their studies work out very well but they couldn’t believe that there was a bet about them.

Fluttershy helped with the Breezies while remembering the words Maroon told her before they followed them as Breezies. Fluttershy earned a flower.

Trixie helps watch over Applebloom so that the rest of the family including Applejack went on a trip. Trixie helped Applebloom take a delivery over to the town that asked for apple pies without anything standing in their way.

Sweetie Bell was not happy at all about the dresses outshining their play. Even though she asked for her sister to make the dresses she was frustrated that she and her friends were in the background while the dresses were in the spotlight. So when she sabotaged the head piece it would have fallen apart. She went to sleep only to have a nightmare that was purged by Luna but there was an odd voice where the last bit was held. “Who are you?” Luna asked,

“You will know who I am soon, for you were the one to tether me in your plane!” the figure said before zipping over to the filly and said “you don't know the consequences of what you have done so allow me to show you what could!” They said with Luna trying to stop her but it was too late so she ran after the filly and the mare only to catch Sweetie Belle after she saw some dolphins.

“Are you ok?” Luna asked worried,

“I'm fine but I didn’t know that the damage would be that extreme.” Sweetie Belle said, scared out of her mind.

“It’s not yet you just need to fix your mistake” the figure said before disappearing with Luna helping out. So the CMC traveled to canterlot and saved Rarity’s business. While Luna was wondering who that pony was and what she meant by what she said.

When the cure for all tonic came in from Flim and Flam the ponies of Ponyville were skeptical about it till they saw it in action but a few were not convinced namely Applejack but she was strong-armed into having the tonic be sold. After she heard a voice in her head say “You better stop the nonsense fast or your Grandma is going to dive into a bucket of water too small to take her, she thinks she can do it with the tonic but really it’s about your mind” with that Applejack walked out of the tent. She refused and straight up said to everypony “the tonic is a fake!” after saving Granny Smith from doing something dumb she explained what really was going on and the duo ran out of town for the second time.

Rainbow dash has been worked to the bone by her team leader. When she saw the Wonderbolts going through their own tests she looked the other way for a bit and nothing happened so she continued on her merry way. The trades go well for everyone who got what they wanted for what they didn’t.

Inspiration manifestation was solved before it could begin as Spike forgot to think before he spoke and told Rarity “sometimes form over function is not the way to go and could cause more problems later on, so go function before design and the problem will be solved…” he realized too late about what he said and before he could apologize Rarity decided to start the project over thinking about the function before the form like Spike said which pleased the client. The puppet show cart looked a bit more like Trixie’s stage cart but was used more for the puppet shows the client wanted.

“Thanks Spike!” Rarity said

“Um… you're welcome?” he said, confused as he didn’t know what he said.

The Equestria games happened with everything going how they wanted to with Ponyville winning the games though with Discord’s help they managed to free Light Phoenix and fix the Crystal Heart before he could go on a rampage. Though it was quite the challenge that Maroon, Cadence, Celestia, Luna and Chrysalis took on as they poured magic to stop the corruption in the dark magic from the heart and making sure that the stallion made of light was fine. Which he was “thank you for fixing the heart” he said before passing out.

The next few months went by as normal and Maroon got a good laugh out of Discord through her story of trying to disprove Pinkie’s Pinkie sense. All of a sudden out of nowhere ponies were reported to be missing their souls and magic with only their body’s left behind. They went to Celestia for knowledge on what's going on and found that it was another of the students she had. “Who do you think it is?”

“All I know is that this work is one of a dark mage and a natural one at that. I don't know how they got passed without me knowing.” she said as a shadow appeared behind her. Discord lept into action stopping the pony from doing anything and shocking all there with Celestia asking “what's going on Discord?”

“It's the same thing that happened to me and an old friend of mine” he said,

“And that was?” Maroon asked,

“You're going to have to destroy the elements because their effects on us are what causes this insanity. Though judging by the magic she is using she's a dark natural mage and they normally don't go insane with power as it's usually the dark crystal ones and those who know the forbidden. First you're going to need to find her opposite if I remember correctly her title is ‘Wrath of the Fallen’ over in Tartarus but her prophesied name was the phoenix mare. Either them or Dark Eclipse, the first known user of dark magic. His remnant should be with his family after all he connected himself to it through his soul.” Discord said while holding Midnight back before teleporting them somewhere else.

Trixie fell to the floor as flames burst out of her but she teleported away before Fallen could escape…

“What?” Applejack asked,

“Looks like she has been with us this entire time but we need to find Dark’s descendants,” Maroon said before remembering something and running as the rest followed her. They watch her run through the barren streets jumping over the fallen.

Celestia asked herself “Why are we heading to the house of the star?”

Right then Cadence appeared with Luna confused on what was going on. “Sister, what is going on?”

“I do not know but it appears that the elements need to be destroyed along with the tree.”

“Why though?” Luna was even more confused.

“Something has happened to my students and the only way of getting them back is to destroy the tree and the elements themselves.” the two alicorns were in shock but Cadence asked,

“Which?”

“Sunset and Twilight!” Celestia said as Cadence's eyes widened at the only two names that could bring her to tears. Which did happen though, at the names the door swung open and there were Twilight Velvet and Nightlight ready to help them out in what seemed to be military gear. Sure enough Maroon got there and they heard Celestia say her name and knew what it ment. After a while they managed to locate Trixie who was fighting Sunset and keeping her at bay with some help from Everfree. She was in the Everfree forest so they made their way over as fast as they could thanks to Pinkie’s strange abilities.

Once there they see Everfree stopping the fires while attacking with the very ground itself along with the actual forest through the trees. It impressed the earth ponies. Velvet cast a spell from an old book by the looks of it but there was a strange orb floating next to her. Sunset fell to the ground unconscious and there was no movement coming from her and when they looked at who it came from they saw purple wisps of natural dark magic coming from Twilight Velvet's eyes but it shocked Everfree that her friends’ descendents survived for so long. They saw her and smiled at her before the book floated over to her “hey Nature! How’s everything?”

“It’s so good to hear you again my dark friend” she said as she hugged the book as it laughed. She said, “What's going on?”

“The bound has lost it thanks to those blasted elements”

“Do you know of any way to destroy them?” Maroon asked the book who nodded.

“Yes the well of magic is below the tree itself and will only unlock if the rest are on. The first is past the test area that they used on me up north then go from there as trust is in the center”

“What do we do when we activate them?” Maroon asked

“You will need to match the appropriate element to the well it comes from and once all are active it will change some things as for one I’m outside Equestria and can't enter if I want to end up the same as Discord did unless the barrier is no longer there.” he said with them managing to help Discord with knocking out Twilight. Discord walked over to the edge of the Everfree Forrest to talk to Everfree and dark explained why they went insane and the reason they can’t go anywhere outside their areas is because of the same thing and he would really like to see how his home looked. So Discord helped them get to the vicinity of said wells and within a few moments they find out who was where and activate all the wells starting with kindness, then heading to honesty, generosity, loyalty, laughter and finally trust. Once lit the tree exploded and everything went down hill for the odd being. The sky was littered with sparkles of magic and then Twilight's body started to shake and bend before both souls and magic went flying from her mouth and spread all across Equestria. Light and Dark zipped over ready to hug and smashed right into Everfree and all three exploded into their elements before reforming with laughter on the ground as they were excited to see each other after so long. Dark turned to the two unconscious ponies and released them of their magic induced slumber.

“Ugh it feels like I was hit by Tirek at full power through twenty mountains what about you Fallen?” Twilight said shocking the rest but Discord finally felt like himself after a long time.

“Urgh Midnight I think that you are right on that end of things” Sunset said calling Twilight… Midnight? But it didn't affect the family that she had as she was swarmed by her family in a hug.

Author's Note

Hey, Abyss here, and I'm just letting Everyone know that I'm taking a break from writing for a while as Writers block has kicked in but I want this to do well. Sure there will be loose ends but I want to clear some of those up and I might rewrite the book to do so but for now the storys will be on hyatus.