Look Inside Your Heart Part Two.

Chapter 10: An Old Pony's Tale. (P.O.V. Switch, Starswirl.)

I awake to the crackle of fire and the Behemoth roasting a buck he had obviously killed while I was sleeping. His helmet was sitting next to him as he stared at the moon. I shift my gaze toward the moon and find that Luna had been released yet I felt no disturbance in the balance of time. I was glad I hid the true Elements inside each of my friends their descendants must have found each other at the right time, I also felt the presence of the seventh, Amazingly he did not pass his element on in death or child conception, he kept it. I could never truly understand that one, it was the only element that you couldn't give away you had to find it on your own. "Good morning Sorcerer,"

"May I ask your name," I sit up and run my hand through the grass.

"Captain Scarab Chief of the Hive Guard."

"The Prince,"

"No that right was and still is Brother's."

"The prodigal son judging by the current events has he been killed."

"No, he's been thrown away."

"Your sister didn't like the idea of being the second fiddleback."

"You are the only one other than Brother that saw me as a living being, and not a mindless drone."

"Where is your Brother I need to speak with him."

"Ponyville, he's been going between there and Canterlot the past few days. He's made himself quite the little hive there, he's got a kid, some friends and a queen."

"You mean wife?"

"Not yet, and he has a warrior keeping watch over his assets."

"Does this warrior have a name?"

"Monarch."

"So he's been brought back, Cressendo must be progressing rapidly."

"Indeed, I hate to spy on him," He sighed.

"Then don't," I reach for some of the venison and take a bite.

"I thought Ponies were vegetarians."

"Now where'd you hear that?" I take another bite.

"All of the prisoners would refuse to eat meat, but jumped at the chance to eat plants."

"Then call me an exception to the rule. Why don't you warn your brother, or better yet help him?"

"That I'm afraid is not an option, not with Sister breathing down my neck."

"But, you saved me of your own free will."

"That may be, but I cannot keep her out forever, there are only a select few that can keep her at bay,"

"How did she become like that,"

"Well it's all a blur, I'll remember as best I can,"

(P.O.V. Switch, Scarab.)

"Our society is a monarchy one ruler unquestioned, our family have been the royals for one-thousand years. It was about thirty years ago when Brother was born, five years after I was, then another five passed and then Sister. As brother was eldest he was the heir, I of course didn't mind, the noble's life wasn't the one for me."

"How so?"

"I was more inclined toward father's ways, but not killing innocents,"

"I see, continue."

"While brother was away I was left with Sister, for what she lacked in strength she made up for with intellect. One day I took her to the archives and in a matter of hours she had memorized half of the tomes on the shelves. Over the years she got the idea that she was better than us, her quick wit, high IQ, and massive ego did nothing to convince her otherwise. One day she found a tome that had a different description of how our heirarchy originally worked, the book dated back to the last days of the first rule. Pandora's personal Diary was filled with legends about the many unsung uses of the Flame, most dark and twisted, like the ability to take the life away, rather than create it, or the ability to add or subtract mass from living beings and add it to your own. You saw how she grew larger and stronger with each innocent she consumed."

"How dare you accuse my daughter, of writing such things." A tall creature staggered toward me using a hammer as a cane.

"Calm down, Hephaestus, it doesn't matter how she found out, all that matters is how to stop her." The Sorcerer tried to calm the creature.

"Hephaestus the smith god, the creator of our society?"

"Yes he is, why are you here?"

"We have a problem look," He reached into a pocket and pulled out two flames, one black, the other green. "The gifted, has gained Zeus' powers too soon."

"Can he use it?" The Sorcerer asked picking his teeth with a bone splinter.

"Better than Zeus, but it takes alot out of him. I have to hand it to him you were right, he brought a dead one back to life, and made a new body at the same time."

The Sorcerer's eyes widened, he took thirty minutes to think.

(P.O.V. Switch, Starswirl.)

He is progressing too rapidly but he was a truly brilliant youth, he held the power of the Gods, but he kept sane, any other candidate would become drunk with power. Given how fast the darkness is approaching I may have to reveal the truth....