My Little Pony: The Foreigner's Destiny

Part 4

Twilight and I fought our way towards Canterlot. She used her magic to knock any foe back and I used my fists to knock down any soldier that she wasn’t in her line of sight. We must have brawled for hours until we were so exhausted that we could barely move. As we finally neared the kingdom of Canterlot, I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that everything was going too smoothly. We entered the castle and expected there to be bloody carnage and screams, but

everything seemed relatively calm. It was relieving, but at the same time, it was eerie amidst all the chaos outside. As we approached the steps to the Princess’ throne room, my sinking feeling turned out to be right. More of the demon soldiers

showed up and were more numerous than the groups that we fought before. Since we could barely move there was little we

could do to fight back. The soldiers easily overpowered us and tied us down with rope. One of the soldiers drew his sword and pointed it at Twilight’s neck. I was yelling at him to take me instead and let her go, but the soldier looked at me with an evil smile.

         He raised his sword and just when he was about to strike, Twilight whispered to me, “I’m sorry.”

         Time seemed to slow down for me. With the adrenaline pumping through my veins, I became angry at them all for trying to take the pony that I loved. My eyes started to glow red and with new strength, I broke the rope and caught the sword with my right hand. The soldier was surprised and scared at the same time. He thought that there was no way that any being could catch a sword with one hand without getting it cut off, and he finally asked, “Who are you?!”

         I looked at him with malice in my eyes and replied in a demonic voice, “Your worst nightmare.” With that, I broke the sword in two and let out a primal roar as I proceeded to partake in my killing spree.

         I awoke in a room on a hospital stretcher next to Twilight. We were both covered in bandages and my right arm was in a cast. As I saw her lying there, I was relieved to know that she was still alive, but there was still fear in my heart because I came so close to losing her. I held her hoof in my hand tightly and she responded. She turned to me and gave me a calm, warm smile as she went to sleep.

         I saw that Princess Celestia had entered the room and I asked her a single question, “What happened to me?”

         “Something horrible. But, let me explain what is happening first, as it will tie in with your question. And do not worry about your friends. I brought them all to Canterlot and placed a time-stop spell on all of Equestria to ensure that those soldiers would never reach this place as long as I am able to hold the spell. Also, I have wiped Twilight’s memory of when you turned into that monster and replaced it with simply blacking out.” I was most definitely in the Princess’ debt for that. “I can assure that this has nothing to do with Discord or Night Mare Moon. This threat is an omnipotent being that feeds off of the

malice of others. The name that he prefers to be called is Cizin.” I looked at her with confusion as if she expected me to know who that was. “The story of Cizin is a tragic one. Many centuries ago, there was a conflict within the Eternal Herd. Cizin was one of the most prized creations of the Great Shepherd and soon became prideful of his beauty. Soon, Cizin thought that he was more beautiful than the Great Shepherd and led an uprising against him. Cizin failed and was banished to the center of

the Earth in the realm of the humans. There, a civilization known as the Mayans worshipped Cizin as a god of death and their sacrifices to him made him grow more powerful. Soon, he tried to revolt a second time, but failed once again and was banished to the Underworld that is under Equestria. But now, he has broken free and will not stop until he feels that his vengeance has been exacted.” Even after all that, I was still as lost as I was before. If something horrible was happening to me, then I didn’t want a history lesson. Celestia saw my confusion and continued, “Before his fall from the Eternal Herd, Cizin

made his own creation forged from his own blood and the Heavens themselves. This child was kept secret until twenty years ago. After his discovery, the Great Shepherd commissioned one of the Herd to send the child to another realm and watch over it. That child became a mortal human and started to grow into a fine young man. The one that the Shepherd commissioned was me." I was stopped dead in my tracks when I heard this. But I truly wasn’t prepared for what she would say next. “And the one whom Cizin created, his own son……is you.”

         Of course, at first I thought that this was some kind of elaborate prank made by the Princess to lighten the situation and I started to laugh a bit. After a few minutes though, the Princess had the same look on her face as when she finished. I denied it with every fiber of my being. There’s no way that the one causing all this pain and devastation to my

friends could possibly be my ‘father’. It just couldn’t be true! But then, something clicked. It all suddenly made sense. I never

knew my biological parents, I always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, and in my youth I sometimes felt that someone was watching over me. It was true. All the answers pointed to the conclusion that Cizin, a being of immortality, is my father.

         “Then, that means the one who was watching over me was…” The Princess nodded as I looked towards her. I started to tear up when I realized that Princess Celestia, an Equestrian, was the closest thing that I had ever had to a mother. She put her long neck around me in an embrace that could only belong to a mother and her son. The Princess even started to tear up knowing that she could finally give the boy that she cherished the love that he had waited so long to

experience. It hurt me badly to move, but I wrapped my arm around Celestia’s neck. After a few minutes of embracing and tears, I realized what had happened to me. Celestia told me that all descendants of the Eternal Herd are given a mark to symbolize their ancestry. Because I had a Cutie Mark, then it proved all the more than I am the son of Cizin. Also, because my father feeds off of the malice of others, I took in the malice of those soldiers that were trying to kill Twilight. In short, I was becoming my own worst enemy: my father.

         Celestia added, “You still have a choice my son. You can choose to use your father’s power for the same purposes as he, or you can choose to forsake those powers and use the ones granted to you by the Heavens.”

         “But I don’t know what powers the Heavens have given me. How will I know which is which?”

         “I’m afraid that is something that you must find out for yourself, Danny. Now rest. You will need to get your strength back up if you are to help your friends.” As Celestia turned to leave the room, I asked her to wait.

         She turned and I asked her, “Would be acceptable if I referred to you as my mother?”

         At that, the Princess broke down in tears and ran back towards me. Ignoring the pain, I got up from my bed and we hugged each other with tears in our eyes. “You don’t know how long I’ve waited to hear you say that”, the Princess---no. Mother, said through her tears.

         I jokingly told her, “I think I have an idea of how long”.

         Twilight slept in a very comfortable bed and felt peace within her mind. She felt something holding onto her hoof and was curious as to what it was. As she opened her eyes, she saw that it was me. I noticed that she woke up and was overjoyed. The first thing she wanted to do was give me a hug, but it hurt very badly when she moved. She then saw not only her bandages, but mine as well. “Yeah, I found that out when I first woke up too.” She looked like she was getting

depressed, so I leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek. This immediately made her brighten up and she gave a look that just said “thank you” all over it. Our moment was interrupted by Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Spike bursting through the door.

         Rarity was the first to enter with an obsessed look in her eyes saying, “WHERE IS HE?! Where is Princess Celestia’s son? I have to meet him!” She then grabbed me by the collar and shouted in my ear, “Do you know where he is?!”

         This was the last thing that I wanted to tell my friends. When they all checked on Twilight to make sure that she was alright, everypony including Twilight shifted their focus to me. So, I had no choice. I told them everything; about who I really am, where I really come from, that Cizin is my father, and that Celestia is my adoptive mother, but I consider her to be

my true mother. The room went silent. Everypony’s jaw was on the floor. I couldn’t blame them for finding out that their ruler

was the one who watched over me my entire human life. It was starting to get awkward, so I got up and started to head out the door but was pushed back by my friends screaming, “WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT?!!!”

         “Yer tellin me that our Princess considers you her son?!”

         “That’s completely unexpected, but it’s still so very amazing!”

         “Whooooaaa.”

         “That is totally AWESOME!!!”

         “I don’t understand why the Princess wouldn’t even tell me!"

         “Um, wow. I really wasn’t expecting this. In fact, I’m so surprised that I could just scream!!” Fluttershy let out the loudest scream that she could muster up, but it was nothing more than a long squeak to everypony else. I gave her credit for trying.

         Twilight finally spoke up again, “There’s no way that could be true! If it were true, then the Princess would have told me!”

         Just then, Celestia came through the door saying, “Forgive me Twilight. But all that Danny says is true. I was the one who watched over him, therefore I consider him to be my son and he considers me his mother. The reason I didn’t tell you is because I knew you would not believe me since I have never had a husband. I’m sorry that this is the way that you had to find out, my student. But, I can still assure you that it is true.”

         It took Twilight a few minutes to acknowledge that my mother was telling the truth. She surprised all of us by telling Mother that she understood and she just left it at that.

         “Well,” I finally said, “why don’t we go find the Elements of Harmony and stop my evil dad from destroying all life as we know it?”

         “Don’t worry my son. I am one step ahead of you.” She already had the Elements of Harmony on her person. I knew I was proud to call her my mother for a reason. As the ponies donned the Elements, Twilight’s wounds were instantly healed.

         “Come on, everypony. Let’s go!” She immediately jumped up out of her bed and went to the front of the group. They stood ready at attention. Suddenly, I saw a ball of light enveloped me, much to the ponies’ dismay. Twilight immediately jumped towards me, but her face slammed into the wall as I disappeared. She screamed bloody murder when she knew that I was gone.

         When the light faded, I noticed that I was back in the portal room in the CEO’s building. Sergeant Tesla was standing there at attention once again shouting in that army voice, “Welcome back Private. We’re very much glad to have you back in one piece. We just recently received a reading that that dimension has basically gone to hell. We pulled you out of there as soon as we—”

         I cut off the Sarge when I told him, “Send me back.”

         “Excuse me Private but you don’t the orders around here. I am your Commanding Officer. Anything that I say goes and that is final Private.”

         My eyes once again glowed red and I picked up Tesla by the throat. I told him in my demonic voice, “Send me back now or you’ll be going home in a body cast!”

         It was the first time that I ever saw Tesla with fear in his eyes. Then again, this was only my second time seeing him at all, but you get my point. Tesla shouted to his scientists to do whatever I said. I told them to send me back to the current location of the Elements of Harmony. When it was locked on, the portal glowed with that blinding light and I was about to step through it.

         “Here, Sarge. I won’t need this anymore.” I took the mic-watch off of my arm and tossed it to Tesla. It fell to his feet as if he didn’t even know it was there. As I was turning back around, I noticed that Tesla was saluting me. I guess that was his way of saying good luck. I jumped through the portal hoping that I wasn’t too late to save my friends.

         Back in Equestria, Cizin had finally appeared before the ponies. Twilight recognized what the being looked like almost immediately. “Trixie? Is that you?”

         The figure looked like Trixie, but it was surrounded by some sort of skeleton that looked like that of a pony’s. The figure responded, “No, my little pony. Ms. Trixie, I’m afraid, is not here at the moment. Well, technically she is here because she can hear you even though you cannot see her.”

         Cizin unleashed a ball of lightning towards the ponies. It was moving so fast that not even Rainbow Dash could dodge it. It knocked the ponies back several yards away and they struggled to get up.

         “This is incredible!” Cizin announced. “I knew that this pony had a great reservoir of magical power, but I did not expect to be able to combine my spells with hers. Destroying the universe will be easy now!” Cizin started to laugh maniacally. As Twilight got up, she became afraid that even the Elements of Harmony couldn’t defeat this monster.

         Just then the blue unicorn suddenly regained her psyche back and shouted, “Twilight! Please forgive me for all that I’ve done. This is your chance to right the wrongs of the past! Use your precious Elements to destroy me along with this fallen god! It is the only you will save your beloved Equestria!”

         That moment didn’t last for long as Cizin emerged once again. This time, he didn’t speak; there was only hatred and malice in his eyes. Twilight now knew what they had to do. The six friends used the Elements to create the Rainbow of Power. But, as it was flying towards him, Cizin created a force field which managed to completely shatter the rainbow and made its power disperse. No one could believe their eyes when they saw this. Were the ponies just not powerful enough to

stop the combined power of Trixie and Cizin?! Then, the ponies noticed that the Elements were starting to crack. Without warning, the Elements had shattered and turned to dust. Twilight felt her knees buckle in fear that all hope was lost. As the others stood in disbelief that their only means of saving Equestria was gone, a bright light suddenly appeared before them. When the light subsided, the six friends were amazed to see that they had one more friend in this fight: me.

         I stood between my friends and Cizin not even knowing what I was doing. But, I couldn’t just leave them to die and allow my sadistic father to have his way and torture Equestria for all eternity. As I prepared to charge my new enemy, I was stopped by my friends who were holding me back.

         “Please just stop Danny!” Twilight beckoned to me with tears in her eyes. “The Elements have been destroyed. All hope is gone. We should just give up and accept our fates.”

         I stood in disbelief when I heard these words from the pony whom I loved. I pulled everypony off and looked at Twilight dead in the eyes. I gave her a broken smile and a hug. Not even a few seconds afterwards, all my friends had joined in. As we broke away a few moments later, I stood once again and announced, “Cizin! I may not belong in this dimension and

I may not know how we’re going to stop you, but we’re not going to quit now! Even though we may die here, at least we sacrificed ourselves for what we believed in. But, know this! You may be a god of death and you may be my father, but we will not surrender to you, we will never give up, and we will NEVER BACK DOWN!!”

         Just then, right above our heads, there appeared seven glowing lights. The lights dispersed and turned into the Elements of Harmony again!! However, there was another Element and went towards me. It even matched my Cutie Mark!! Could this have been what my mother meant when she referred to the power inside of me? As I donned the necklace, I immediately felt some sort of newfound power welling up within me. I knew then that I was an Element of Harmony! I smiled to

my friends as they realized it as well. We all turned to face Cizin who was trying to scrape his jaw off the floor. We all joined together, hand-in-hoof, and concentrated our powers. With the Elements back, we unleashed a more powerful Rainbow of Power. The death god once again surrounded himself with a force field, but the Rainbow didn’t shatter this time. Our power matched Cizin’s as we reached a stalemate. Then, I was suddenly transported to a place that was pure white everywhere.

         I looked around confused as to what was going on. Wasn’t I just with my friends trying to stop Cizin? I then turned around to see that Celestia was in front of me with a proud smile on her face. “I see you have found your power, Daniel. You know that you are one of the lost Elements of Harmony and that it is your destiny to join with your friends to stop Cizin from destroying the dimensions.”

         I asked in retaliation, “But where am I? One minute I was with my friends and the next I’m here. What is this place?”

         “This is my personal realm. I go here whenever I need time to think about an important decision. It is of good use because time does not flow in this realm, so I can take as long as I need to.”

         “Then you have to help me! Even with all of the Elements, we still can’t outmatch his power. Why isn’t it working?”

         “The reason is you my son. You are not concentrating your power properly because you do not know what your Element is…You are the Element of Patience. You showed this when you became Ponyville’s peacemaker. To truly unlock your power, you must think of a moment when you had the most patience with someone and you will be able to then stop Cizin. Now go Daniel! Your friends need you!”

         As my mother went away, my senses snapped back to our battle. I then thought of when I was solving arguments between ponies like Applejack and Rarity, and of when I settled the dispute between the buffalo tribes. I felt my eyes glow with power and shouted to my friends, “Let’s give it everything we’ve got everypony! For us; for our friends,” and we all shouted at once, “FOR EQUESTRIA!!!” A new light enveloped the Rainbow of Power and hit Cizin with an even more powerful force. His force field was starting to crack.

         Within her mind, Trixie was suffering as Cizin was sucking out her power to use for himself. Her eyes turned angry and finally shouted, “Even if I die, the Great and Powerful Trixie will not allow you to hurt anypony anymore!!”

         She used the last remnants of her magic to weaken Cizin, which allowed his force field to shatter and to be struck by the Rainbow. Trixie managed to get pushed out of her prison and Cizin turned to stone. With the fallen god finally defeated, the stone statue then exploded into nothingness and Trixie lay on the ground weakened by her ordeal. Twilight and I ran to Trixie to see if she was still alive, and she slowly opened her eyes and turned to us with a smile. “Thank you. Cizin has finally been destroyed. You’ve saved your precious Equestria.”

         “What happened, Trixie?” I asked vehemently. Trixie started to wheeze with pain as she tried to talk, so I cradled her in my arms to allow her to breathe.

         “When he found me in the Everfree Forest, he offered me a proposition. If I let him take over my body for a while, he would allow me to be free and kill those that humiliated me. I agreed to him, but instead he imprisoned me within my own mind. I knew what he was doing with the combination of his power and mine, that he was pushing ponies to the brink of death with our magics. But I couldn’t do anything to stop it no matter how loud I screamed.” Trixie turned to the side and started to

cough more violently, this time she started to cough up blood. My friends rushed over to her to comfort her in what could be her final moments. “It looks like Cizin has pushed me to the brink of death as well. I still can’t believe that after all I’ve done, you still had the sense to not destroy me along with that sadistic god…I’m…happy.” The ponies started to tear up at the sight of Trixie dying, even Rainbow Dash! But what really surprised me was when Twilight spoke to Trixie between her tears.

         “I’m sorry Trixie. I should have given you another chance. If I hadn’t driven you out of Ponyville, none of this would have happened.”

         Trixie looked at Twilight and shook her head. I guess that meant that Trixie blamed herself. I started to tear up myself while Pinkie Pie was crying waterfalls. The last words that Trixie could manage was, “Thank you…….thank you”, before she breathed her last. As the light left her eyes, we all finally broke down in tears.

         Every pony in Ponyville and Canterlot attended the funeral. I talked to Trixie’s parents saying that I was sorry that I couldn’t do anything to save her. It turns out that those were her adopted parents. Trixie’s real parents left her near a circus tent when she was just a baby. It was there that she learned to use her magic to become a master illusionist. When she started to take credit for everything, she angered them and she ran away. She never saw them or her biological parents

again. This made me tear up even more and I couldn’t find the energy to stand. As I sat down in a chair and started to cry, I saw Twilight in front of me with tears in her eyes as well. She put her forelegs around me and hugged me tightly. As I returned the hug, we both finally lost it and bawled our eyes out in each other’s shoulders.

         As Trixie was laid to rest, she was given a hero’s goodbye. Her closest friends laid roses around her in the casket. Her former fans Snips and Snails, her parents, even Twilight and I. Celestia presided over the ceremony. “Fillies and gentlecolts, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a dear friend. Even though she had caused trouble to Ponyville in the past that has all been forgotten. She aided our heroes in destroying Cizin and saving the dimensions by weakening

him from inside her mind even though she knew the cost would be her own life. She will be dearly missed. But, we must all learn a lesson from this brave filly: no matter who you are, what you do, or what you have done, you can still be forgiven if you forgive yourself.”

         With that, the casket was lowered into the ground and a trumpet pony played something reminiscent of Taps to salute Trixie for her sacrifice.

         It has been two years since that day. We succeeded in rebuilding Ponyville, but there is still much work to be done. Much has changed in that small town. Both Rarity and Spike now run the Carousal Boutique, and they got engaged a few weeks ago! It turns out that Spike had an enormous gem stashed away in the library and was saving it to ask for Rarity’s hoof-in-marriage. She told him that she would only say yes if he wouldn’t use the gem so he ate it. Rainbow Dash fulfilled her

lifelong dream of joining the Wonderbolts, though she stills makes time for her friends. The Apple family’s business has grown exponentially and there are now more ponies working on the farm than just the four of them. Pinkie Pie is now the head baker at Sugar Cube Corner, but it’s still owned by Mr. and Mrs. Cake. Fluttershy is still an animal care-taker and Twilight is still studying under the Princess. I guess the biggest changes are that I’m now a permanent Ponyville resident and I’m studying magic with Twilight as my mentor. Trixie definitely influenced me to take it up and she’s probably smiling down on

Ponyville up there with the Eternal Herd. Recently, Twilight and I had been having some troubles with our relationship. My mother heard about this, and called me and Twilight to her chambers. She explained that just before the age of the ponies, the Eternal Herd had created a spell to give themselves physical bodies to roam the lands of each dimension. If my mother could modify it, then it could be possible to transform a human into a pure-blooded pony! This was an answer to prayers if the Great Shepherd did.

         My birthday; February the 4th. Mother had finished the spell and performed it in front of all Canterlot in the same spot where she raises the sun during the Summer Sun Celebration. The crowd was amazed when I turned from a human to a tall, handsome stallion. My body was blue-green and my mane was a dirty blonde, the same as my human hair. Just a little something to remind me of my past life. I had a horn and a pair of wings, so I was an alicorn just like my mother. And, of

course, what pony could be complete without his Cutie Mark. I smiled to my mother and embraced her in thanks. The first thing I wanted to do was find Twilight, so I bolted off of the platform to try and search for her. However, since I wasn’t used to my stallion form, I tripped a few seconds after I started running. I slid across the grass to the feet of the mare I was looking for.

         I immediately got up and said, “How do you like me now baby?!”

         Twilight just smiled and shook her head. Then, we looked in each other’s eyes and kissed. Everypony started to cheer, even my mother. Then, Rainbow Dash did a Sonic Rainboom to help signal the start of my new life. Just a little something I called in as a favor from her. I definitely owe her for that one. And now, who knows what’ll happen next? Well, whatever does happen, I’m sure that it’ll happen for a reason.

         Twilight and I were walking in the Royal Gardens of Canterlot a few months after my ‘rebirth’. We had been talking for quite a while when I had finally come to a decision. I took Twilight to the Gardens as an ideal spot for ‘it’. As I led her through, she stopped when she spotted her friends, her parents, and even Luna and Mother in there with us. She looked at me with a confused look on her face to which I returned with a warm smile. I turned to Pinkie Pie and she pulled a little red

box from out of nowhere. She tossed it over to me and I caught it with my magic. I knelt down on my legs and floated the box to her. When I opened it, she was rendered speechless and her eyes filled with joyful tears. Inside the box was a diamond necklace.

         “Twilight Sparkle, will you do me the honor of being my wife?”

         She answered me with a passionate kiss on the lips. Everypony around us awed (except for Rainbow Dash) and stomped their hooves to congratulate us. And now came the hard part. Getting ready for another wedding.