Equestria: Avery's Wrathby AveryChaptersChapter 1: Returning to PonyvilleChapter 2: Normal Day Gone WrongChapter 3: A Change for the WorstChapter 4: What lies Underneath?Chapter 5: A Kingdom Under a KingdomChapter 6: A Monsters PowerChapter 7: Finding the PrincessChapter 8: The Mind of AveryChapter 9: Finally at PeaceChapter 1: Returning to Ponyville__being of fire will come____________be careful of the_______________________Monster and destroy all___________________________red as blood, it will stay_____________________ "That's all I can get from it, I have no idea what else it might say. But why did you just ask today and not the day I told you about it?" Princess Celestia says looking at Avery from her throne. "I completely forgot about it till today, sorry. I'd thought Twilight would want to know." Avery says with a tired tone "You're planning to go back to Ponyville? Why not stay here?" "Not to be rude or anything, it just doesn't suit me. I'd rather be able to have more space than I do here, plus I will get to see my friends more." "If it's your choice then go ahead. You're always welcome to come back if you want." "Thank you. I guess that I'll be off now." Avery says turning around "I'll have a chariot take you there, have a good time!" Avery walks out of the throne room and to where the chariots are. Princess Luna comes into the throne room after Avery left. "Luna...I need to say something." Princess Celestia gets up from her throne "What is it sister?" "Avery looks more and more like the foal everyday..." Princess Celestia says going to the hall outside "Tia... you told me of the foal when I came back to Equestria...I could've been an aunt...I wonder where it is now." Princess Luna says following Princess Celestia "I do not know....I just hope that my little one is alright." Princess Celestia looks out a nearby window with a saddened look Meanwhile, Avery was on a chariot to Ponyville. The sun had just come up starting the morning, it could be clearly seen that Avery was tired. "Geez....I'm not good with mornings..." Avery said to himself As Avery rode on the chariot he could feel that he was slowly falling asleep, he shook himself to stay awake. "No, I need to at least be awake enough to get to...to..." he yawns "to Twilight's" He arrives in Ponyville with barely any strength to stay awake. The Chariot stops at the library and Avery slowly gets off, the chariot then took off shortly after. Avery goes and knocks on the door, a few minutes passed and he fell asleep standing up. Inside, Twilight was just getting up. "Now who could be at the door...? It's still early." She said going downstairs Twilight opens the door to find Avery asleep, she backs her head up a bit at the sight. "Avery?" she waves a hoof infront of his face "He's sleeping standing up.... that is interesting, to say the least. I'd better not keep him out here, he might catch a cold with the chilly weather." Twilight says picking Avery up with her magic. She puts Avery down on the floor near the fire place on his side, he curls up into a little ball. Twilight laughs a little. "He is full of mysteries..." she yawns "But I need to get back to bed before I start to open the library up" Twilight goes back upstairs and back into bed. Shortly after a small earthquake erupted, a very weak one. It didn't bother anyone. An hour later Spike gets up and does his morning chores, he stops to see that Avery was here. "When did he get here?" Spike says scratching his head Spike ignored it and went back to his chores, there was weak earthquakes erupting here and there every thirty minutes. Twilight got up and went downstairs. "Hey Twilight, when did Avery get here?" Spike asked "Hmm...? Oh hi Spike, Avery got here...." she looked at the clock "maybe an hour ago" "So why is he laying on the floor?" "I was tired Spike! I couldn't think at the moment, so I just put him where it was warm." "Whatever..." Spike said as he continued his chores After a little bit Avery started to wake up, he slowly sat up and stretched his front hooves in the air "Ow, back, legs, oh." Avery said as he stretched and slowly started to stand up "Well good morning sleepy head! Hope you had a good time sleeping on the floor!" Spike says putting books away on a ladder. "Hm? Oh....hey Spike, what's been going on?" Avery says very tiredly Twilight walked infront of Avery and said "Hey Avery, you were asleep at my doorstep this morning" "O-" he yawns "Oh yeah? I got up early this morning so that I could see the princess about that thing she said about me, and get here with enough time to use with you!" "But you should've had enough energy to at least stay awake!" Twilight says "I'm not much of a morning pony...I'm always tired in the mornings." Twilight just looks at him with slight disappointment "...so what's been going on?" Avery says again "Oh the usual, working on plans, making sure everything is in tip top shape, and just having fun!" Twilight says going to her writing desk There was a knock at the door, Spike goes over and opens it up. Rainbow Dash walks in. "Hey Twilight! Do you have the newest book of Daring Do yet?" Rainbow Dash says looking over to where the adventure section is. "Oh, hello Rainbow. No, not yet. The next one isn't supposed to be out for another two weeks." Twilight says "Oh...Well get me whenever it comes in. I'll-" Rainbow spots Avery standing by the fire place. "Avery? When did you get here?" Rainbow says going to him "This morning..." "Seriously? You look like you've been here since last night!" "That's because I'm not good with mornings..." Avery slowly blinks "Yeah...I guess that makes sense. But do you want to go flying with me and help out with the weather?" "I guess that'd be fine, I need to get awake anyway" "Then come on!" Rainbow dashes out of the library "I'll see ya later Twilight" Avery says walking out the door "Bye! Have fun!" Twilight calls out Spike closes the door to find that there was another knock at it. Spike groans and opens it back up. Pinkie Pie hops in saying "Twilight! Twilight! Avery's back! OH! And I need a book about classy party things since a new pony is in town and she seems VERY classy" "Really? Well I think I have a book about that, let me see..." Chapter 2: Normal Day Gone Wrong"That's weird even for a tablet. Do you know when it'll be done?" Rainbow asks after moving a cloud into place "I'm not sure, possibly soon since they have some of the letters done." Avery answers moving another cloud into Rainbow's making it into one big cloud "That should be enough for now, it only calls for a partly cloudy day today. Hey have you been getting your flying in?" Rainbow asks laying on the cloud "Yeah, only to have myself crash into many things" Avery says laughing a little Avery sits on the cloud by Rainbow, he looks at the horizon. "Something on your mind?" "Something..." "Mind telling me what it is?" "I don't really want to say it." "OH come on, you never want to say anything about what goes on in that head of yours! Why won't you talk about it?" Rainbow says standing on the cloud now, poking Avery's head. "Because, I just don't want to talk about it. It'll make me feel silly." Avery says looking at the ground "Ugh, I can't get you to say anything!" Rainbow says before laying back on the cloud "...Can I trust you to keep it a secret if I tell you?" Rainbow sits up "Yeah, you can count on me!" "Thanks Twilight! This will help big time!" Pinkie says hopping away "No problem Pinkie. Now to get back to what I was doing here and-" Twilight says before looking out the window seeing Rainbow and Avery talking. "I wonder what they're talking about." "Who?" "Avery and Rainbow" "Who?" Twilight turns her head to see that it was Owlowiscious and giggles. She turns her head back to the window and looks for a minute, then goes back to her writing desk. Then a sudden earthquake happens, shaking the whole place right and left. Some books fell out of the shelves, Twilight slightly lost her balance and Spike fell off the ladder. "Ugh...what was that?" Spike asks after getting up. "Earthquake Spike, and a unusual one at that." Twilight says getting books out and looking at them. "...I did not expect that Avery. You liking two mares? I know one of them is Luna, but who is the other one?" Rainbow asks "I-I don't want to say it...." Avery hastily says "Come on, you told me that you like two mares. Why can't you tell me who the other one is?" "....I don't know, I just don't want to say it now....it's hard for me to say these kind of things sometimes." Rainbow sighs "Then just tell me when you get a chance to. Come on, lets go see if Applejack needs any help." she gets up "Alright, lets-" Avery started to say when Twilight called from a window "Hey you two! I need some help here! Earthquake shook the place two times in a row!" "On our way!" Rainbow says before noticing that Avery was one step ahead of her. "What the...and I thought I was the one to act fast." Spike, Twilight, Avery, and Rainbow cleaned up the library when another quake happened and shook almost everything down! All the books fell, lamps fell to the ground, the beds from upstairs fell and crashed downstairs, shelves gave away slightly, and the tree nearly tilted over! Avery and Twilight got out from underneath a bed, Spike climbed out of books, and Rainbow shook herself off after getting hit with a lamp "Ugh, that shook the whole place!" Spike exclaims "You think we didn't notice that?" Rainbow remarked "What's causing these?" Avery asks "I'm not sure, but we need to find out before something bad happens" Twilight says looking through books. Everyone helped to get the place back in order, just then the door slammed open and Princess Luna walked in. "Twilight! Is everything alright? There was an earthquake that shook Canterlot a bit, I pinpointed to this location. Strange that an earthquake from here could reach Canterlot..." Luna says looking around. "Really?! Then that means that last earthquake went over the maximum limit an earthquake can go, meaning that it's being caused by something else!" Twilight says while going through some books and putting some away. "But what would cause THAT?" Rainbow asks "Whatever it is, I just hope it doesn't get here!" Spike says worryingly Everyone then helps clean up. After about thirty minutes of cleaning, they finish and Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy come into the library. "Girls! Did you get hit by the earthquake too?" Twilight asks going downstairs after putting a bed back into place. "You bet'cha, took a while fixing everything up too." Applejack says "Yes, it made quite the mess of my shop" Rarity says "Yeah! And it ruined the Party for that new pony!!" Pinkie exclaims "Yes, well that last earthquake was way over it's normal power. Meaning that something else is causing it to do that." Twilight says going to her writing desk. "But what...?" Fluttershy softly says Just then another quake erupted, but it lasted for just a second and there was a loud crunching noise outside. It kept making the noise for a few seconds then stopped. Everyone was looking at the door and/or windows. Large stomping noises were heard outside, followed by a high-pitched voice saying "Ohh! I wonder where this place is. I need to get a new dolly for my play set, and I think this place will give it to me!" "...What in pony name is that speaking?" Luna whispers "How should I know?" Twilight whispers back Then the door suddenly showed two giant pink claws and it ripped the door plus it's surroundings clean off the tree. A large creature walks in, it has a green bandana that covers one of it's eyes, one large arm and small, pure orange eyes, circles with the same color as it's eyes on it's chest and hands, it was a stone green color with pink tips for the spikes or claws, with spiky teeth. "OH! Ponies! I need a pony dolly!" It spoke with it's high-pitched voice Chapter 3: A Change for the WorstThe large rock like creature stared at everyone with it's seemingly non-blinking orange eyes, infront of the ripped out door. It had a large spike coming out of it's back going upwards, but it was broken at head level. "So many ponies! But I only need one...Hmmm." it said looking at the ponies looking in fear at the creature. Spike had already freaked out and hid himself in his bed. Everyone else stood together, princess Luna infront of the group closer to where to creature is. "What art thou?" Luna asks the creature with a weak voice The creature eyes Luna and the circle on it's chest blinked, seemingly like it was an eye. It reaches out and grabs Luna with it's large arm, it being nearly twice as big as her. "Ah...This one will do! And it comes with it's own accessories! A bonus!" It said with a merry tone "LUNA!" Avery shouts and runs towards the creature. "Uh-oh, I think I made them angry. Running time!" It said pushing Avery back. The creature ducked under the already broken doorway and ran towards a giant hole. Twilight teleported infront of it, making the creature turn and run through Ponyville. "Let go of me! Thou ungrateful thing!" Luna yells as she tries to escape the creature's large hand. "Why would I do that? Then I would lose a dolly for my house!" The creature simply replied The creature looked over to see that Avery was right beside it with anger in his eyes, he rammed the creature with his side. It didn't even do anything to the creature. Rainbow was trying to pound the creatures head, Applejack roped the creature's large arm to slow it down, Twilight tried to use her magic to stop it, Rarity was throwing large rocks at it's head, but nothing worked. "Its like it's made of stone!" Rainbow yells as she continued to pound the creature on the head The creature looked up and said "Cause I AM made of stone you silly little pony!" the creature then smacked Rainbow away with it's smaller arm. Avery was still trying to ram the creature, then he called out flames and had them be jet like. "That's it, I'm going to melt your freaking legs off!!" Avery said as he put multiple flames on the creatures leg. Pinkie was on her flying machine throwing pies at it's face, and Fluttershy....she was frozen in fear at the library. The creature jumps behind the group after Avery put the flames to it's legs and says "OW! You're no fun! I'm going to go home now!" it turns and runs to the hole. Everyone turned around and ran or flew towards the creature, Avery drifted around and dashed infront of everyone yelling. Rainbow was ahead when Avery passed her. "What the?! He shouldn't be able to pass me! He's on the ground for hay sake!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Is now the time to think about that?!" Applejack yells at Rainbow The creature got to the hole and jumped into it while Avery was just getting there, a bright light emitted from the hole. Twilight teleported to the hole before Avery got there just to find out that the light was magma rising. Avery jumped into the hole, but Twilight grabbed his tail with magic and pulled him back to the surface. The magma slowly poured out of the hole, Rainbow saw that and went to get a large rain cloud. She then put the cloud over the magma rapidly jumped on it making it rain so hard that the magma cooled to stone. Avery was crawling towards the hole still being held by Twilight. A dark matter emitted from his horn as he kept trying to get to the hole. When the magma was completely gone Twilight let go of Avery and he dashed towards the stone driving his hooves into it, but it didn't even make a scratch. Twilight slowly walked over to Avery. "Avery, I-" Twilight tried to say when she was stared down by Avery's angry eyes "WHAT?! What do you want?! I'm trying to get to Luna here! You should be doing the same!!" Avery yells as the dark matter on his horn was starting to wrap around it. Twilight slightly backed up but said "That what I'm going to do! I'm going to let the Princess know about this so she could help us!" "Oh what is she going to do?! She would need something really powerful to break this! I don't think that even SHE would have th- AH!" Avery put his hooves on his head and brought it to the ground with his eyes closed tight Everyone gathered around Avery saying "Hey! What's going on?" "Avery! What's wrong?!" "Where'd the Princess go?!" Avery then stopped moving and the dark matter slipped away, he was unconscious. Twilight sighed and said "Come on, let's get him inside and contact the Princess. Hopefully my brother will help with this." "Yeah, we need all the help we can get if we're going after something like THAT!" Rainbow says landing on the ground. Everyone goes through the large hole of the library and waits for Twilight to write a letter to the Princess, Avery was set down near the writing desk. Spike slowly goes downstairs and looks around. "I-Is it gone?" Spike asks nervously "Yes it is Spike, but it also has Luna" Twilight answers "What?! Well we need to go after that thing!" Spike says jumping from the stairs "Oh you're not coming Spike, that thing is made of stone and I have no idea what we're about to face if we DO go after it." Twilight says writing the letter. After a few minutes passed Twilight rolled up the letter and gave it to spike. "Send it" Spike goes over to a window and opens it, then takes a deep breath and blows fire onto it making it burn and be sent out the window. "Now we just wait until she gets it so that she can help us" Twilight says Everyone chatted about the creature and how to bring it down, Avery still laid at the writing desk twitching every so often. A orange bolt of lightning struck through the sky, making everyone jump and look outside. "What the hay was that?" Applejack asks "An orange lightning bolt? There's no such thing!" Twilight exclaims "What caused that? There's no clouds over there!" Rainbow says worryingly Fluttershy still hasn't moved from her spot and Avery had opened his eyes, only for them to be pure white. No one saw Avery when he opened his eyes. Chapter 4: What lies Underneath?Princess Celestia just got the letter from Twilight and read it's content from her throne. It said: Dear Princess Celestia, I regret to inform you that things are not going so well. What caused the earthquakes earlier today was a very large rock creature, it was three times the size of us! It captured Luna and took her underground, magma rose from the hole it came through making access impossible. Avery nearly jumped into the magma, but I saved him. He's acting very angry so expect some harsh replies from him. We need your help with this, and if it's possible to bring Shining Armor with you for more help. I await your quick response and hope you'll come. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle. Celestia quickly rose from her throne and said "Luna's been captured?! I need to go to Ponyville quickly!" She then took off to find Shining Armor, who was actually just coming through the door. They bumped into each other, and they both got up at the same time shortly after. "Whoa, ugh. Oh hey Princess, I was just coming by to see if-" Shining started to say when Celestia suddenly says "You need to come with me!" "What for?" "Luna's been captured by some rock creature! Twilight just sent me this information just a few seconds ago. We must go Ponyville right away!" "Alright! Let's head over there!" Celestia's horn shined and in an instant, they were gone. At the library, Twilight and the others were cleaning up the doorway which was now just a giant hole in the tree. It was nearing 1:00 P.M. Avery remains laying next to the writing desk, his eyes open and pure white. "Boy...that thing must be really strong to bust the door and nearly everything around it!" Applejack says "You think? That thing is made of stone! It must break iron like it was no problem!" Rainbow replies In the background Avery is whispering words "I'll destroy it....demolish it....turn it to rubble....." There was a flash of light, Celestia and Shining Armor arrived at the library. Twilight turned around to see her. "Princess! Thank goodness that you're here!" Twilight says going towards her after hugging her brother "Where's that hole that you mentioned?" Celestia asks "It's just outside a few yards away, it's blocked up by stone now." "Yeah, I poured rain on the magma coming out so it wouldn't burn the town." Rainbow says "And just imagine that Avery was about to dive straight into it!" Pinkie says quite loudly "Where is he?" Celestia asks "H-He's over there." Fluttershy says still trying to overcome the event. Everyone looked over at the writing desk to see that Avery was standing by it with his head down, his mane was covering his face. Celestia goes over to him before stopping just a few feet away from him. "I sense....an odd power coming from him..." Avery was now saying the same things more loudly "I'll destroy it....demolish it.....turn it to rubble...." Celestia backed up just a little "He's never emitted that kind of power...." "I'll make sure it will be grounded into gravel and used for roads....I will not be stopped to destroy that thing....it took her away..." Avery kept saying, a dark matter was now swirling around his horn Avery lowered his head with his voice sounding more demonic like, everyone was just staring at him as he kept speaking "If you think....that you're going to stand in my way....you're wrong....Dead wrong." Avery lifted his head to show his white eyes. A bright flash of light shined, making everyone cover their eyes. The light dimmed down and there was a low demonic growling coming from Avery. Everyone looked in fear at what happened. Avery had turned into a glowing figure, orange light outlined his structure, two large arms came out of his wings seemingly made of magma as it glows, his hair flew upwards with an orange electric pulse going through it, his face had turned more evil like as steam flew from his mouth. "Graaaah...." Avery breathlessly says as he slowly walked toward the door Fluttershy was frozen once more, and everyone else just watched him in fear not able to move. Just then Twilight walked infront of him and used her magic to stop him in his tracks "A-Avery! What in the world happ-AH!" Twilight tried to say before one of Avery's arms smacked her against the wall. He continued to slowly walk, his white eyes seem empty as his body glows. Shining Armor went towards Twilight and brought her back to Celestia. "W-W-What's wrong with him?!" Applejack sputters out "I'm not sure...but it may have to do with that tablet...." Celestia says Avery slowly walks outside and looks left, he then jumps out of sight. Scratching sounds and loud growling were heard shortly after. "Come now, lets head to Canterlot to discuss what to do about this." Celestia tells everyone Everyone gathers around Celestia and she teleports them to the throne room. Celestia trots around thinking while Shining and everyone else helps Twilight try to feel better. "She got burnt, but it's nothing bad. Get some water and some ice just to be safe." Shining says looking at Twilight's side. "Its like he was being controlled...since Avery would never hit us, Especially Twilight!" Rarity says "Can the Elements stop him? I bet that they can! Yeah! Lets d-" Rainbow says before something interrupts her "It will not be that simple..." Said a voice coming from an unknown location Everyone looked around to see where it was coming from, Twilight just recovered from the hit. "Who there?! Show yourself!" Celestia demands "I will, I just need to find a safe spot to come in at.....AH, here's one." the voice said A few seconds passed, then from the corner of the throne room, a large silver spike rose up from the floor. It was huge in caparison to the creature itself. It then retracted, everyone stared at the corner of the room. A few minutes later a blue figure appears, it being the same size as everyone else, and walks towards the group. It looked like the creature, but it was blue and silver, had two small spikes coming out of the top of its head on the left and right side and curving to look almost a crown, it had two larger spikes coming out of its back curving down, it had green calm eyes with slight slit pupils and had marks around them, the same pattern appeared on its hands and chest. It stopped when it reached a few feet from the group, looking at everyone. "Who are you? What is your purpose here?" Celestia says walking infront of the creature. "My name is Solar, I rule a land underneath yours. I mean you no harm, but I do intend to help you." the creature said with a calm tone "Help us in what way?" "The tablet you found, I made that tablet Millennia ago, when this world was just starting to form. I can tell you what it says. I will also help you tame the beast that once was your friend." "How do you know about THAT?" Rainbow asks "I have ways." Solar answers "But didn't you....say that the Elements wouldn't work on him?" Twilight asks still feeling much pain. "I didn't say that, I said that it wouldn't be simple. You can't cure him with harmony magic, but you can trap him...for a time." Solar replies. "So....how do we cure him?" Celestia asks "It falls within the being's heart, he saw something bad happen to someone he loves and not able to do much about and sees them disappear. To cure him, you must have him see that the being he loves is alright, BEFORE the sky is red." Solar answers with a serious tone "Well do you mind if you tell us what the tablet says?" "Of course, just bring it to me. I have yet to see it after so long." Chapter 5: A Kingdom Under a KingdomA being of fire will come Into this land, be careful of the price to pay if a loved is taken away. For it will become a monster and destroy all until it finds what its lost. But if the sky is red as blood, it will stay that way destroying everything in its path with its empty eyes. "That's what the tablet says. I wrote this because of how the stars were using symbols to explain something. I had no idea what it might be, but I wrote down what the star were trying to say." Solar says giving back the tablet to Princess Celestia The tablet hovered infront of Celestia, she didn't say anything as she went to put it back. "Well, we will need a plan to get whoever he lost back. Who was it and how was she taken?" "It's Princess Luna...Princess Celestia's sister. She was taken by a large rock creature that looks similar to you." Twilight says to Solar "What?! No one is allowed up here! It's forbidden! What did it look like?" Solar says with a slight worried pitch "Well, it had a bandana." Rainbow says "It had weird orange eyes!" Pinkie says jumping on top of Solar's head "It had one large arm and a little one." Applejack says "It had a broken spike on it's back..." Twilight says Solar put his hand up saying "I've heard enough. The creature you saw was from my kingdom. A Thief to be precise." "A thief?! What would a kingdom do with thieves?" Rainbow says flying upwards a little. "I used them to gather information, and to scout areas so that they're safe enough to live at." Solar says looking at Rainbow "So YOU sent it then?!" Rarity says stepping forward a little, slight anger in her eyes "No! Not at any cost! It's forbidden for even me to be here. I'm here just to help you with that tablet legend. But that thief had orange eyes, meaning that they're not working for me any longer." "Well, we should stop talking and you should go rescue my sister!" Celestia says coming back into the throne room. "Ah! Yes I almost forgot getting caught up in the moment. Now then, I will need a group to go with me to have a better chance of finding her. We will need to get you to my temple first to place a spell so you won't suffer from the heat. A group also needs to stay here, so that they can trap the monster turned friend. Who is willing to come along with me, and who is willing to trap the beast?" Solar says standing tall, arms behind his back, looking at everyone in the eye. Rainbow stepped up, as well Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Fluttershy....didn't move. Twilight then said "I'll stay here with Princess Celestia and Shining so that we can try and....trap him..." her voice got quiet at the end Solar looks at Fluttershy "And what about you?" Fluttershy just responded with a frightened look, and fell over still in the same position as before. "....well I think we lost her." Solar says walking back to the hole he came from Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie followed Solar, he then jumps down and shortly a loud thud was heard. They we're about to jump when Solar said "Hang on! I need to put my hand on the hole do you won't hurt yourselves coming down here!" A few seconds later another loud thud was heard at the hole. "You can hop onto my hand now, I'll lower you down. And don't be surprised at my size." Solar says They were all confused and proceeded to jump down into the hole, stopping only a few seconds later on hard rock. The rock then moved and everyone balanced themselves. They finally stop a few minutes later in a burning hot room, hot enough to make you fall to your knees. The room was dark with a light showing through an large hole in the wall. They passed through the hole, still on the hard rock, and couldn't believe their eyes. There was an endless landscape of rock and magma as far as the eye can see, many of the pillars seemed to be houses or hotels of the sort, the magma was gathered at specific areas like water that gathers on Equestria, and there was thousands of creatures that looked similar to Solar but different all the same. They looked around to see if they could find Solar and when Applejack looked up she nearly bucked Rarity clean off the platform. For above them was the upper body of Solar, the platform was his hand, and he just smiled down as he walks towards a large pyramid like structure. "S-Solar?!" Rainbow yells "Hm?" Solar boomed with his huge voice "Holy cheese that mashed with a juice to make a drink that's no good!! YOU'RE HUGE!!!" Pinkie exclaims, falling on her back Solar chuckles and says "This is my true size, nearly twenty times larger than you. I don't go into this size unless I have be somewhere at a certain time. I mostly just stay the same size at everyone else down here." he sways his open hand infront of him as if showing the land. They continued through the land to the large pyramid structure over what seems miles away, the group was laying down from the heat of the cave, sweating profoundly. Meanwhile, Celestia and the others were planning on how to trap Avery in a certain way, without making him escape. "Well we know that just tackling him down and keeping him there is impossible, regular magic won't work, and that he has increased power and speed....Solar said that the Elements might help trap him, but in what way?" Twilight says walking in a circle "I won't be able to bring all the guards on him since he may accidentally kill them....What if there was a way to show him that Luna is still here with us, like a spell or something?" Shining says standing by Celestia "That might work....but if he finds out it's fake then he'll attack us." Celestia says with a worried tone "Well we have to at least try and find some way to block that anger of his for a little bit as they try and find Luna" "Block...block, BLOCK! A SHIELD! The Elements could possibly make a shield for him to be stuck in! Giving us enough time to get Luna to him!" Twilight says turning to Shining and Celestia "Hey YEAH! We could use the illusion spell to have him go to a safe location, and if he finds out that it's a fake then we use the Elements!" Shining says happily "Yes, that could work. Let me go get the Elements and then we can go." Celestia says walking away Shining rubbed Twilight's head saying "That's my sis! Always figuring out what to do!" Twilight giggled and hugged Shining. There was a faint demonic roar heard, coming from Ponyville. Twilight walked over to an open window and looked outside. "I don't like the sound of that..." "And I don't like the way the sky looks." Shining says looking at the sky. The sky was mixed of blue and red, the red slowly taking over the blue. "I hope we enough time..." Twilight says worryingly Chapter 6: A Monsters PowerApplejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie all arrive with Solar to the temple that he lives in. Solar, without any hesitation, took the group inside and began looking through stone tablets for a spell in a library like room. Solar had changed into a normal size rock creature, but still big to the group. He finds a tablet and sets it on the in the middle of the room. "Found it! Now, everyone put your hoof on the tablet." Solar says quickly Everyone did as he said. Once their hooves were on the tablet, Solar started to speak in a unknown language. After a few seconds of speaking, the tablet began to glow a light blue color and chilled air filled the room. A mist came out of the tablet and wrapped around everyone and went inside their bodies, the tablet then faded back to it's original color.They all blinked and took their hooves off the tablet. "Whoa, I don't feel hot anymore! It's like I'm being cooled from the inside!" Rainbow says surprised "Yes, it's because you ARE being cooled from the inside. It makes you not feel the heat from outside your body. I made this spell after an accident happened with one of your kind that traveled down here..." Solar says getting quiet near the end. "Right, where should we start to look for the princess?" Applejack asks "Well this place huge, looking everywhere would take days and days. We need to find her as soon as possible, because I myself have no idea when the sky will turn red and your friend will no longer be able to return to his normal self. But I will have most of my guard help with searching, mainly my thieves." Solar explained Solar continued "I'll have Applejack and Pinkie to search the northern part of our city, it's called Gaia for it's more like the crust. Rarity, you'll go with some of my foot-soldiers to the southern region called Frosted Mountain, be sure you know how to handle cold weather there as well for it's the only place with below normal temperature down here. Rainbow, I'll have you go with a thief to the outer wall, rumors are told that past thieves go there to hide. I'll have the rest of my troops go search everywhere else. If you do find the princess be sure to bring her here STRAIGHT away, the heat of this place could kill anyone not living here." Everyone nodded and went into action, Rarity went with a group of large creature with one hand and another arm with a shield like structure. Applejack and Pinkie went north, a small group thieves went with them. Rainbow flew away, a thief following close behind. Solar went west in search of Luna, and another group went east. Meanwhile, Twilight, Shining Armor, and Princess Celestia were getting ready to face Avery. "The Elements are in the bag, we have cold water for if we get burned, we know the spell we will use, and now all that's left is to just go." Twilight says checking bags Just then a letter fell from the sky after purple like dust gathered there, Celestia grabbed it with magic and began to read it. Twilight?! I'm trapped in my bed....Avery is out there roaring which is freaking me out. I try to go out and run for another place, but he always turns his head to the tree! Please hurry up and rescue me! Spike. "Twilight, didn't Spike come with us?" Celestia asks Twilight then perks up her head "I-I don't know! Is he still at the library?! Oh no! What if Avery sees him and he gets hurt?! What if-" Twilight was stopped by Celestia putting a hoof on her head "It's ok, he just sent this letter meaning that he's fine. Let's go and trap Avery so that we can get him back to normal." Twilight then nodded her head and Shining came over with all the bags. Celestia used her magic and teleported them to Ponyville, just outside the town. They walked into town, nothing was out of the ordinary. They found Avery resting on the stone filled hole, his magma arms crossing each other infront of him. "What luck! He's sleeping." Shining says quietly "Yes but for how long?" Celestia replies "What do we do? Should we just use the Elements or should we use the spell first?" Twilight asks Avery yawned lowly, stretching his magma arms out. He then got up and shook his head. "I vote for using the spell..." Shining says looking at Avery "Yes, that would be good" Twilight quickly says Celestia was creating the illusion when see saw Avery yawn. The spell formed into the shape of Luna's body and soon it was like she was there. Avery opened his eyes and turn his head towards the group, only to have his face drop at the sight of the fake Luna. He slowly walks over, his arms dragging on the ground saying with a deep demonic tone "L-Luna...?" Twilight and Shining backed up behind Celestia and the Luna. The fake Luna smiled and calmly walked towards Avery. The sky was beginning to turn back to it's color other than red, then moon was out meaning that it was night time. "I-Is that really you...?" Avery says getting more of his normal self back little by little. The Luna then changed her face to a bland like state and twitched. Celestia was having a hard time keeping the spell in place. Avery then tilted his head, looking at the Luna closely. Twilight got out the Elements. Avery then widened his eyes and he returned back to his monster like state roaring, the magma arms crushing the spell from above. "Twilight! Give me the Elements" Celestia demanded Avery swiped his arms at the group, Shining, going to the front to protect the others, got hit and was sent flying through trees. Celestia was now wearing the Elements, the Tiara on her head and all the necklaces around her neck. Avery brought his arms down on Celestia, but she dodged and grabbed Twilight. Twilight went to her brother, but was stopped by Avery landing infront of her. Avery then hit her with one of his hooves towards the library. Celestia looked at Avery and Avery stared at her steam coming out of his mouth every time he growled. "Avery....you're not like this....and I don't want to trap you, but you leave me no choice." Celestia says quietly Avery growls loudly as if replying and brings one of his arms back and sends it to Celestia. She moves out of the way and walks towards Avery, who keeps attacking in anger and missing. Celestia then stopped only a few meters away from Avery. "I really don't want to do this, but you need to be stopped." Celestia used her magic to active the Elements of Harmony and she begins to be engulfed with a white light. Avery swipes with his arms, but it bounces off the light. Celestia then summons a large different colored bubble and sends it towards Avery, which in turn traps him inside. Avery pounds on the bubble, but it doesn't show any signs of wear in the slightest. Celestia lays down and looks at Avery. "Now we must wait for the others to bring Luna here." Shining slowly walks out from a bush and falls over near the bubble. Twilight limps over to Celestia and sits down, looking at Avery. "I hope they find her soon...because there's very little time left." Twilight says looking at the sky Chapter 7: Finding the PrincessAvery is now trapped in a barrier, not able to escape. Solar and the others are searching for Princess Luna, looking over and under, inside and outside, doing nearly everything they can to find her. And if you wonder about Fluttershy, she's just hiding in the Canterlot castle. "Whew, this place sure is big. Bigger than Ponyville it seems like." Applejack says looking around with Pinkie "Nope, nope, not here, not there, isn't over here, certainly isn't here" Pinkie says zooming around everywhere and coming out of Applejack's hat. "Where else should we look Pinkie?" "OH, how about over there!" "Alright, but how about you guys? Did you find anything?" "Not as of yet, can't find any traces of you pony folk nor of the enemy thief" A thief says going toward Applejack, their eyes are yellow. "Just keep searchin' we'll come across something sooner or later." Applejack and Pinkie continued searching in the Gaia region. Rarity and some of Solar's foot-soldiers search in the bitter cold of Frost Mountain. "Nothing yet? Hmm, let's go around and continue up, we have to come across something." Rarity says wearing a scarf "Yes miss Rarity." A foot-soldier says with a determined voice Solar was searching the west region of the city, having the same luck as the others. Rainbow and a loyal thief was at the outer wall of the city, where it is rumored that past thieves go and hide. "Where do you suppose they hide at?" Rainbow asks "How should I know? We have no idea where it might be and if we do find a cave in the outer wall, we can't be sure if it's the exact cave your friend was taken to." The thief said with a slight annoyed tone. "Well it's either that or we don't do anything at all. I'll go this way, you go the other way so that we can have more ground to cover." Rainbow instructs The thief silently goes one way, while Rainbow flies the other. After a while Rainbow finds a cave and stops by it, she listens to see if the same thief from Ponyville was inside. There was no voices coming from inside, just the sound of steam. Rainbow then flies again. She stops at another cave and listens, at first it sounded like nothing but a voice was heard. "Come on little pony, drink your drink!" "ABSOLUTELY NOT! I will not drink lava! That's just idiotic!" Rainbow slowly went inside trying not to alert anything. Suddenly the voice was heard again saying "OH! I'm out of food...I need to go get some more. I'll be right back little pony, just stay there!" there was a light coming from inside the cave and Rainbow went outside and above the cave entrance. The same thief from Ponyville stepped outside and breathed in, then it crouched and jumped away. Rainbow then flew inside, looking for the entrance to wherever the thief came out of. She found it and went inside, the room was lit itself and she found Luna inside a little cage made of rock. "Rainbow Dash! Thank goodness you're here. I couldn't use my magic because that thing was squishing me so much, and it's nearly impossible to use magic here!" Luna exclaims "Yeah, well we've got a bigger problem happening above ground right now." Rainbow says kicking away the door. "What do you mean?" Luna says curiously "I'll explain on the way, but first we need to get you to Solar's temple so that we can a spell on you so that you don't feel the extreme heat down here!" "Yes, that would be good." Rainbow and Luna flew out of the cave and towards Solar's temple. Rainbow explained to Luna what happened with Avery and what they need to do. Halfway to the temple, Luna started to descend. "The heat is bringing me down...I don't know how much longer I can fly." Luna says breathing heavily. "Come on Princess, what would happen if you don't get to Avery in time?! You have to keep on pushing it!" Rainbow says Luna looked forward and tried to continue. They got to the temple, but Luna collapsed. Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Solar were already back from their searching. Solar goes to Rainbow and Luna and picks the princess up. "This is her? Well lets not waste anytime." Solar says going inside the temple Solar put Luna on the table and her hoof on the tablet, he then proceeded with the spell with the same unknown language. Luna gasped after the spell was complete and looked around. She got up and looked at Solar. "Thank you." "No problem at all, but lets hurry on out of here if you wish to save your friend." Solar says with a seriousness in his voice "Right. Lets go now" Luna went outside and everyone smiled as they knew that she was alright. Luna went to where they came in at and everyone else followed including Solar. Solar changed into his giant size again and lifted everyone to the top of the hole. Everyone jumped out and into the throne room, a few seconds later Solar joined them. "Where are they?" Pinkie asks "Perhaps they are already trapping the beast. Let's go to Ponyville and see" Solar says dusting himself off "His name is Avery, and I'd prefer if you call him as such." Luna says with slight anger "Sorry, I didn't know his name." "....I'll teleport everypony there, so that we won't waste anytime." And with that said everyone gathers around Luna and she casts a telepotation spell to Ponyville, right next to the colorful bubble that Avery's trapped in. Celestia looks over to see Luna and rushes over to hug her. "Luna! Thank goodness you're safe!" "And it's good to see that you have things under control here." Luna says looking at Avery Avery was smashing his magma arms on the bubble towards everyone, even Luna. "....I do believe, that we are too late." Solar says sadly "What are you talking about? I be-" Rainbow says before looking at the sky. The sky was now completely red, the moon was orange in it's ray of light. "The sky is red, there is nothing we can do now." Solar says looking away "...There may be one way, it has worked before and it may work here." Luna say going to the bubble "Luna, are you going to..." Celestia says "Yes sister, I'm going to do just that." Celestia sighs and says "Just tell me when to drop it" Everyone looks at Celestia in fear "You can't seriously be thinking that you're going to let loose that creature!" Solar exclaims "I'm not, I'm dropping the barrier so that Luna can cast a spell onto him." "I do not believe a simple spell will work on him." "It's not a simple spell, it's a spell that only Luna can use. The spell to enter a pony's mind" Everyone was confused. Twilight spoke up "But, I've never heard of that. How is there a spell that only one pony can use and not any other?" Celestia looks over to Twilight "Because this spell can only be used by Luna, since in the night, dreams can be accessed by a spell and through there she can enter ones mind. But she CAN use the spell to only go into the mind, she may have an idea to bring him back." While they spoke Luna was charging up her magic, making it more powerful by the second. "Tia, now!" Luna shouted The bubble was destroyed and Avery was about to crush Luna with his magma arms when Luna touched her horn on his head causing both of them to be motionless. "Now, we wait until she is done." Celestia says sitting down Everyone chatted away as Luna was now inside Avery's mind. Chapter 8: The Mind of AveryLuna finds herself in a dark room, the floor feels gooey as she steps on it. She looks around and the walls seem to be the same as the floor. "An odd place for Avery's mind, but I'm in. Now, let's find a way to get him back." Luna says walking through a hall. As she walks through the many halls of Avery's mind, the floor and walls start to become more like a house and become divided. She comes to a door with a music note on it. "A door? Let's see what's behind it" She opens the door slowly To her surprise, the room was made of many square tiles on the floor and walls. There were musical instruments lined up at the end of the room, organized from woodwind to brass. "...A music room?" Luna says stepping forward When her hoof made contact with one of the tiles, it lit up and made a sound. Luna backed up her hoof, then placed it down again to hear the sound. She walked into the room, and every time she stepped on the floor or touched the walls it made sound. Luna then jumped from square to square, making a simple song. There was a large smile on her face as she continued making music. She then suddenly stopped and a serious face replaced her happy one. "I need to find how to bring Avery back, though it's interesting that he has a room in his mind like this." She then walks out of the room She walked a very short way until she found another room, this door had crossed swords on it. She entered the room to find that the floor and walls in here were very hard and bland, there were swords lined up on the walls and a single scythe. "What in the world? Does he practice swordsmanship here?" Luna says looking around the room She shakes her head "This room isn't what I need" she closes the door and head towards the next room. This door had a paint brush and a rainbow colored line from the brush, she opens the door. The room was white with drawings of different kinds of things, some being ponies, some being of fight scenes, and some being comics. She walks into the room and floor made a crunching sound under her hooves. She looks around and spots a lone box sitting in the corner and walks towards it. The box was blue and had a symbol of a heart on it and had golden lace where it opens. Luna opens the box to find stacks of drawings of ponies in couples, only that it was of him and somepony else. There was Luna, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity. "...He....He has a soft heart, but how come he never mentions them when we talk. And there seems to more of Twilight and I than the others." Luna says going through them all There was another page at the bottom of the box, she hovers it and looks. It was a blank paper with only words on it. My heart is soft and is surrounded by a hard shell, these ponies have the power to break through the shell and strike my heart. When I find them, I will make pictures of them and myself and store them here. Who knows....maybe one of them will even like me. Luna stares at the paper for a few minutes, then puts it back. She replaces all the pictures where they were, closes the box, and leaves the room. She walked to another door, this one baring a heart symbol. She opens the door and instantly walks in, the room was divided into seven different rooms. She walks to a dark blue door and opens it, inside was floating spheres that emitted a dim glow. She walks over to one of the spheres and looks at it, there was life like image of herself and Avery hugging each other. She looks at it for a second and touches it, it then started to play out like a video. They were hugging each other, ears were down and Avery had a smile on his face, one smile that Luna has yet to see. They nuzzled and the image reset itself. Luna looked down at it, thinking. She went to another one and touched it, it played out. This one seemed to have a more romantic setting to it. It stopped and Luna looks at the other floating spheres around her. "This...is where he stores romantic thoughts. This room is of me, and the others are of other ponies. There are so many here too....but I do not share this amount of thoughts of him." She leaves the room and goes to another one, a purple colored one. In here more spheres floated and shined dimly. She goes to one and looks at it, this one is of Twilight and Avery sitting by each other. She touched it and it played out. They were just sitting there like nothing was wrong, Twilight then looks at Avery and hugs him, he had a blush across his face when it happened but he smiled another smile Luna has yet to see. Avery hugs her back, the image then reset itself. "This room is of Twilight, and there seems to be the same amount of thoughts here as in the room where I am." She leaves the room and goes to the others. A orange door leading to Applejack, a yellow door leading to Fluttershy, a pink door leading to Pinkie, a rainbow colored door leading to Rainbow, and a white door leading to Rarity. Luna leaves the last room and looks at her room and Twilight's. "None of the others rooms have as much thoughts as those two, and based on what I found he thinks of his friends like more than friends. As if he longs for a pony by his side." Luna looks around and notices a note on a clear wall, she goes over and reads it. The note seemed burned yet you could read the text perfectly, there was cinders coming from the note. That creature took her away, I will get her back. I'll crush that thing into rubble, that stupid little thing with orange eyes. "Does he mean me?" Luna says looking at the note After a few minutes of thinking, she perks her head up. "I have to show that I'm with him in order to bring him back! Yes that- but from what I saw...I have to kiss him in order to show him that I'm there. There MUST another way..." She starts walking in circles "Can I move the spheres?" She goes to the dark blue room She rolls a sphere outside "Yes!" she then rolls it to another room, the sphere glows and changes to that pony. She then goes and rolls more out to the others rooms, she evens them to the others leaving the purple room untouched. She looks around her room and see that there are still many spheres there. "I need to move at least two more, then I can just hug him." Luna takes two spheres and takes them outside, she then looks over to the purple room. She walks over to the room and tosses the spheres inside, they change and then the room started to show heart symbols on the walls. "I think that now, he'll be thinking about this mare a great deal." She leaves the room and goes out into the halls and continues down to another door, but this door was chained up as if no one was allowed inside. She tries to open the door but was pushed back. A voice was heard in her ears. "No one is allowed in this room, not even the master of this mind. This room contains his past, it's blocked up for a spell that went a little wrong. Move along" The voice was not of Avery's. Luna got a little curious about that, but continues down the hall. She then finds herself at a gooey door, it made a squishing sound when she touched it. She opens the door and marches on inside. She continued going forward until she comes into a room with a large blob at its center. The blob made a constant beat, deep and low. Luna stepped forward and the blob started to unfold into a large humanoid figure, with four arms and a strange shaped head. In the center of the blob was Avery's face, blank and staring at nothing. "What the....Is this what's controlling you?" Luna asks In reply, the blob smashed it's gooey fists into the ground near her. Luna just looks at the blob and walks forward, her eyes locked onto Avery. The blob continued to attack her, but it seems blind and misses just slightly. Luna stops and flies towards Avery's head, she then grabs him and pulls him out of the blob. The blob made a high pitched shriek that made you want to cover your ears. Luna hovers down and looks at Avery, he still had a blank face. "Well....Time to bring you back home." Luna says quietly She wrapped her hooves around Avery and a light emitted from him. After a few seconds the light then floats up and pops. Nothing was there and Luna was still inside Avery's mind. "Now to bring myself back" She made her horn glow and then she turned to mist and floated away. Outside, Luna was hugging Avery and he was no longer a monster. He was asleep, his legs dangling as he was held. Luna opens her eyes and slowly lets go of him. She then goes to Celestia and the others who were looking at her. "Good job Luna, you've rescued him." Celestia says tiredly Solar was no longer there. Twilight went up to Luna and smiled to her. "Do you mind if you stay and tell us how you did it?" Twilight asks "Not at all" Luna answers Chapter 9: Finally at PeaceAvery has returned to his regular self, though now asleep. He lays underneath Luna's wing as she and Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Rarity talk about what had happened inside Avery's mind. "So what did you need to do to bring him back?" Twilight asks "I just needed to show him that I was there with him, he was blind to see that it was me." Luna answers "And by that you hugged him? How does that work?" Rainbow asks "He has a soft heart. By hugging him, he saw that he wasn't alone and started to see again. And now I do believe that he has another mare to think about other than me." "Really? Who might that be?" Applejack asks Luna looks around and begins to think. "I don't think it would be good to tell you about that, since he never did speak of her when we spoke to one another when he was in Canterlot." "Ah, keeping it secret for his sake." Twilight says "What about the room where you found swords lined up? Did you find anything useful there?" Rarity asks "No, I didn't spend enough time in there. But it seems that he practices in his mind so that when he faces a foe, he's ready with a sword." Luna answers "And what about that chained door you found, did you see anything about that?" Twilight asks hovering a notebook and quill "I couldn't get inside that room, but when I tried to enter a voice echoed in my ear telling me that it was his past. That not even he can see what lies inside. Which means that he still has his memory, but he hasn't found out about it." Avery curls up into a ball, making himself completely invisible. Luna looked at her wing and chuckled. "It feels like you're not telling us all of it though, was there anything else you found?" Rainbow asks hovering over everyone "Yes, but like I said with the other mare that he likes, it's best to not tell about it." Luna answers giving a glare Spike comes downstairs carrying a letter. "Princess Luna, Princess Celestia wants you to come back to Canterlot." he says waving the letter around "Alright, I guess I'll being see you later then. Take care of Avery for us, he wants to live down here in Ponyville with you girls." Luna says getting up and folding her wings back She walks out the still broken doorway, a bright light shined through. Luna then teleports away. Twilight then says "Ok, what do you think we should do with Avery?" Rainbow suddenly says "I vote we draw on his face while he's sleeping!" "Goodness no! We should give him a makeover instead!" Rarity replies strongly "Well we should make funny faces with his face while he's asleep!" Pinkie says coming out of the ground Applejack steps forward "Hold on a minute, I say we tie him up and see if he gets out!" "Well, shouldn't we just let him sleep..?" Fluttershy says very quietly "And miss a perfect moment like this?! NO WAY!" Rainbow exclaims "Oh! We should do all those things at once! Draw on his face, give him a makeover, tie him up, and make funny faces with his face!" Spike says joining the group Rainbow rubbed Spike's head "I like the way you think! Now let's go an- Hey, where'd he go?" Avery was no longer curled up where Luna was. Twilight soon came down the stairs with a slight smile. "Hey Twi, Where's Avery?" Applejack asks "He's sleeping in his bed upstairs behind a barrier I put up." Twilight said with a smug on her face. "OH COME ON! You completely ruined it Twilight!" Rainbow says in disappointment "I know, and you should know that playing a prank on a pony that's been through a lot isn't going to do any good." Twilight says picking a book out. Rainbow mutters in anger. "Oh, well yeah it was pretty silly to think of doing that to him after he's been through all of that." Applejack says putting a hoof behind her head "Yes, quite rude if you ask me" Rarity says flipping her mane "But I still want to make funny faces!" Pinkie pouts "And I was not going to do such a thing, nuh uh. Not this dragon!" Spike says crossing his arms a little Twilight looks at Spike and he looks away pushing his fingers together. "Well, I'm going to go read a book until he wakes up. Then I'm going to try and fix the tree. I'll see ya girls later!" Twilight says going upstairs Everyone else left, Spike went outside into Ponyville to find someone to help fix the tree. Twilight walked to Avery's bed and inside the barrier, she lays down next to the bed and begins reading her book. Avery had a smile on his face as he slept and turned around every so often. Everything was now at peace, Avery no longer has to worry about anything and is now living in Ponyville.
Chapter 1: Returning to Ponyville__being of fire will come____________be careful of the_______________________Monster and destroy all___________________________red as blood, it will stay_____________________ "That's all I can get from it, I have no idea what else it might say. But why did you just ask today and not the day I told you about it?" Princess Celestia says looking at Avery from her throne. "I completely forgot about it till today, sorry. I'd thought Twilight would want to know." Avery says with a tired tone "You're planning to go back to Ponyville? Why not stay here?" "Not to be rude or anything, it just doesn't suit me. I'd rather be able to have more space than I do here, plus I will get to see my friends more." "If it's your choice then go ahead. You're always welcome to come back if you want." "Thank you. I guess that I'll be off now." Avery says turning around "I'll have a chariot take you there, have a good time!" Avery walks out of the throne room and to where the chariots are. Princess Luna comes into the throne room after Avery left. "Luna...I need to say something." Princess Celestia gets up from her throne "What is it sister?" "Avery looks more and more like the foal everyday..." Princess Celestia says going to the hall outside "Tia... you told me of the foal when I came back to Equestria...I could've been an aunt...I wonder where it is now." Princess Luna says following Princess Celestia "I do not know....I just hope that my little one is alright." Princess Celestia looks out a nearby window with a saddened look Meanwhile, Avery was on a chariot to Ponyville. The sun had just come up starting the morning, it could be clearly seen that Avery was tired. "Geez....I'm not good with mornings..." Avery said to himself As Avery rode on the chariot he could feel that he was slowly falling asleep, he shook himself to stay awake. "No, I need to at least be awake enough to get to...to..." he yawns "to Twilight's" He arrives in Ponyville with barely any strength to stay awake. The Chariot stops at the library and Avery slowly gets off, the chariot then took off shortly after. Avery goes and knocks on the door, a few minutes passed and he fell asleep standing up. Inside, Twilight was just getting up. "Now who could be at the door...? It's still early." She said going downstairs Twilight opens the door to find Avery asleep, she backs her head up a bit at the sight. "Avery?" she waves a hoof infront of his face "He's sleeping standing up.... that is interesting, to say the least. I'd better not keep him out here, he might catch a cold with the chilly weather." Twilight says picking Avery up with her magic. She puts Avery down on the floor near the fire place on his side, he curls up into a little ball. Twilight laughs a little. "He is full of mysteries..." she yawns "But I need to get back to bed before I start to open the library up" Twilight goes back upstairs and back into bed. Shortly after a small earthquake erupted, a very weak one. It didn't bother anyone. An hour later Spike gets up and does his morning chores, he stops to see that Avery was here. "When did he get here?" Spike says scratching his head Spike ignored it and went back to his chores, there was weak earthquakes erupting here and there every thirty minutes. Twilight got up and went downstairs. "Hey Twilight, when did Avery get here?" Spike asked "Hmm...? Oh hi Spike, Avery got here...." she looked at the clock "maybe an hour ago" "So why is he laying on the floor?" "I was tired Spike! I couldn't think at the moment, so I just put him where it was warm." "Whatever..." Spike said as he continued his chores After a little bit Avery started to wake up, he slowly sat up and stretched his front hooves in the air "Ow, back, legs, oh." Avery said as he stretched and slowly started to stand up "Well good morning sleepy head! Hope you had a good time sleeping on the floor!" Spike says putting books away on a ladder. "Hm? Oh....hey Spike, what's been going on?" Avery says very tiredly Twilight walked infront of Avery and said "Hey Avery, you were asleep at my doorstep this morning" "O-" he yawns "Oh yeah? I got up early this morning so that I could see the princess about that thing she said about me, and get here with enough time to use with you!" "But you should've had enough energy to at least stay awake!" Twilight says "I'm not much of a morning pony...I'm always tired in the mornings." Twilight just looks at him with slight disappointment "...so what's been going on?" Avery says again "Oh the usual, working on plans, making sure everything is in tip top shape, and just having fun!" Twilight says going to her writing desk There was a knock at the door, Spike goes over and opens it up. Rainbow Dash walks in. "Hey Twilight! Do you have the newest book of Daring Do yet?" Rainbow Dash says looking over to where the adventure section is. "Oh, hello Rainbow. No, not yet. The next one isn't supposed to be out for another two weeks." Twilight says "Oh...Well get me whenever it comes in. I'll-" Rainbow spots Avery standing by the fire place. "Avery? When did you get here?" Rainbow says going to him "This morning..." "Seriously? You look like you've been here since last night!" "That's because I'm not good with mornings..." Avery slowly blinks "Yeah...I guess that makes sense. But do you want to go flying with me and help out with the weather?" "I guess that'd be fine, I need to get awake anyway" "Then come on!" Rainbow dashes out of the library "I'll see ya later Twilight" Avery says walking out the door "Bye! Have fun!" Twilight calls out Spike closes the door to find that there was another knock at it. Spike groans and opens it back up. Pinkie Pie hops in saying "Twilight! Twilight! Avery's back! OH! And I need a book about classy party things since a new pony is in town and she seems VERY classy" "Really? Well I think I have a book about that, let me see..."
Chapter 2: Normal Day Gone Wrong"That's weird even for a tablet. Do you know when it'll be done?" Rainbow asks after moving a cloud into place "I'm not sure, possibly soon since they have some of the letters done." Avery answers moving another cloud into Rainbow's making it into one big cloud "That should be enough for now, it only calls for a partly cloudy day today. Hey have you been getting your flying in?" Rainbow asks laying on the cloud "Yeah, only to have myself crash into many things" Avery says laughing a little Avery sits on the cloud by Rainbow, he looks at the horizon. "Something on your mind?" "Something..." "Mind telling me what it is?" "I don't really want to say it." "OH come on, you never want to say anything about what goes on in that head of yours! Why won't you talk about it?" Rainbow says standing on the cloud now, poking Avery's head. "Because, I just don't want to talk about it. It'll make me feel silly." Avery says looking at the ground "Ugh, I can't get you to say anything!" Rainbow says before laying back on the cloud "...Can I trust you to keep it a secret if I tell you?" Rainbow sits up "Yeah, you can count on me!" "Thanks Twilight! This will help big time!" Pinkie says hopping away "No problem Pinkie. Now to get back to what I was doing here and-" Twilight says before looking out the window seeing Rainbow and Avery talking. "I wonder what they're talking about." "Who?" "Avery and Rainbow" "Who?" Twilight turns her head to see that it was Owlowiscious and giggles. She turns her head back to the window and looks for a minute, then goes back to her writing desk. Then a sudden earthquake happens, shaking the whole place right and left. Some books fell out of the shelves, Twilight slightly lost her balance and Spike fell off the ladder. "Ugh...what was that?" Spike asks after getting up. "Earthquake Spike, and a unusual one at that." Twilight says getting books out and looking at them. "...I did not expect that Avery. You liking two mares? I know one of them is Luna, but who is the other one?" Rainbow asks "I-I don't want to say it...." Avery hastily says "Come on, you told me that you like two mares. Why can't you tell me who the other one is?" "....I don't know, I just don't want to say it now....it's hard for me to say these kind of things sometimes." Rainbow sighs "Then just tell me when you get a chance to. Come on, lets go see if Applejack needs any help." she gets up "Alright, lets-" Avery started to say when Twilight called from a window "Hey you two! I need some help here! Earthquake shook the place two times in a row!" "On our way!" Rainbow says before noticing that Avery was one step ahead of her. "What the...and I thought I was the one to act fast." Spike, Twilight, Avery, and Rainbow cleaned up the library when another quake happened and shook almost everything down! All the books fell, lamps fell to the ground, the beds from upstairs fell and crashed downstairs, shelves gave away slightly, and the tree nearly tilted over! Avery and Twilight got out from underneath a bed, Spike climbed out of books, and Rainbow shook herself off after getting hit with a lamp "Ugh, that shook the whole place!" Spike exclaims "You think we didn't notice that?" Rainbow remarked "What's causing these?" Avery asks "I'm not sure, but we need to find out before something bad happens" Twilight says looking through books. Everyone helped to get the place back in order, just then the door slammed open and Princess Luna walked in. "Twilight! Is everything alright? There was an earthquake that shook Canterlot a bit, I pinpointed to this location. Strange that an earthquake from here could reach Canterlot..." Luna says looking around. "Really?! Then that means that last earthquake went over the maximum limit an earthquake can go, meaning that it's being caused by something else!" Twilight says while going through some books and putting some away. "But what would cause THAT?" Rainbow asks "Whatever it is, I just hope it doesn't get here!" Spike says worryingly Everyone then helps clean up. After about thirty minutes of cleaning, they finish and Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy come into the library. "Girls! Did you get hit by the earthquake too?" Twilight asks going downstairs after putting a bed back into place. "You bet'cha, took a while fixing everything up too." Applejack says "Yes, it made quite the mess of my shop" Rarity says "Yeah! And it ruined the Party for that new pony!!" Pinkie exclaims "Yes, well that last earthquake was way over it's normal power. Meaning that something else is causing it to do that." Twilight says going to her writing desk. "But what...?" Fluttershy softly says Just then another quake erupted, but it lasted for just a second and there was a loud crunching noise outside. It kept making the noise for a few seconds then stopped. Everyone was looking at the door and/or windows. Large stomping noises were heard outside, followed by a high-pitched voice saying "Ohh! I wonder where this place is. I need to get a new dolly for my play set, and I think this place will give it to me!" "...What in pony name is that speaking?" Luna whispers "How should I know?" Twilight whispers back Then the door suddenly showed two giant pink claws and it ripped the door plus it's surroundings clean off the tree. A large creature walks in, it has a green bandana that covers one of it's eyes, one large arm and small, pure orange eyes, circles with the same color as it's eyes on it's chest and hands, it was a stone green color with pink tips for the spikes or claws, with spiky teeth. "OH! Ponies! I need a pony dolly!" It spoke with it's high-pitched voice
Chapter 3: A Change for the WorstThe large rock like creature stared at everyone with it's seemingly non-blinking orange eyes, infront of the ripped out door. It had a large spike coming out of it's back going upwards, but it was broken at head level. "So many ponies! But I only need one...Hmmm." it said looking at the ponies looking in fear at the creature. Spike had already freaked out and hid himself in his bed. Everyone else stood together, princess Luna infront of the group closer to where to creature is. "What art thou?" Luna asks the creature with a weak voice The creature eyes Luna and the circle on it's chest blinked, seemingly like it was an eye. It reaches out and grabs Luna with it's large arm, it being nearly twice as big as her. "Ah...This one will do! And it comes with it's own accessories! A bonus!" It said with a merry tone "LUNA!" Avery shouts and runs towards the creature. "Uh-oh, I think I made them angry. Running time!" It said pushing Avery back. The creature ducked under the already broken doorway and ran towards a giant hole. Twilight teleported infront of it, making the creature turn and run through Ponyville. "Let go of me! Thou ungrateful thing!" Luna yells as she tries to escape the creature's large hand. "Why would I do that? Then I would lose a dolly for my house!" The creature simply replied The creature looked over to see that Avery was right beside it with anger in his eyes, he rammed the creature with his side. It didn't even do anything to the creature. Rainbow was trying to pound the creatures head, Applejack roped the creature's large arm to slow it down, Twilight tried to use her magic to stop it, Rarity was throwing large rocks at it's head, but nothing worked. "Its like it's made of stone!" Rainbow yells as she continued to pound the creature on the head The creature looked up and said "Cause I AM made of stone you silly little pony!" the creature then smacked Rainbow away with it's smaller arm. Avery was still trying to ram the creature, then he called out flames and had them be jet like. "That's it, I'm going to melt your freaking legs off!!" Avery said as he put multiple flames on the creatures leg. Pinkie was on her flying machine throwing pies at it's face, and Fluttershy....she was frozen in fear at the library. The creature jumps behind the group after Avery put the flames to it's legs and says "OW! You're no fun! I'm going to go home now!" it turns and runs to the hole. Everyone turned around and ran or flew towards the creature, Avery drifted around and dashed infront of everyone yelling. Rainbow was ahead when Avery passed her. "What the?! He shouldn't be able to pass me! He's on the ground for hay sake!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Is now the time to think about that?!" Applejack yells at Rainbow The creature got to the hole and jumped into it while Avery was just getting there, a bright light emitted from the hole. Twilight teleported to the hole before Avery got there just to find out that the light was magma rising. Avery jumped into the hole, but Twilight grabbed his tail with magic and pulled him back to the surface. The magma slowly poured out of the hole, Rainbow saw that and went to get a large rain cloud. She then put the cloud over the magma rapidly jumped on it making it rain so hard that the magma cooled to stone. Avery was crawling towards the hole still being held by Twilight. A dark matter emitted from his horn as he kept trying to get to the hole. When the magma was completely gone Twilight let go of Avery and he dashed towards the stone driving his hooves into it, but it didn't even make a scratch. Twilight slowly walked over to Avery. "Avery, I-" Twilight tried to say when she was stared down by Avery's angry eyes "WHAT?! What do you want?! I'm trying to get to Luna here! You should be doing the same!!" Avery yells as the dark matter on his horn was starting to wrap around it. Twilight slightly backed up but said "That what I'm going to do! I'm going to let the Princess know about this so she could help us!" "Oh what is she going to do?! She would need something really powerful to break this! I don't think that even SHE would have th- AH!" Avery put his hooves on his head and brought it to the ground with his eyes closed tight Everyone gathered around Avery saying "Hey! What's going on?" "Avery! What's wrong?!" "Where'd the Princess go?!" Avery then stopped moving and the dark matter slipped away, he was unconscious. Twilight sighed and said "Come on, let's get him inside and contact the Princess. Hopefully my brother will help with this." "Yeah, we need all the help we can get if we're going after something like THAT!" Rainbow says landing on the ground. Everyone goes through the large hole of the library and waits for Twilight to write a letter to the Princess, Avery was set down near the writing desk. Spike slowly goes downstairs and looks around. "I-Is it gone?" Spike asks nervously "Yes it is Spike, but it also has Luna" Twilight answers "What?! Well we need to go after that thing!" Spike says jumping from the stairs "Oh you're not coming Spike, that thing is made of stone and I have no idea what we're about to face if we DO go after it." Twilight says writing the letter. After a few minutes passed Twilight rolled up the letter and gave it to spike. "Send it" Spike goes over to a window and opens it, then takes a deep breath and blows fire onto it making it burn and be sent out the window. "Now we just wait until she gets it so that she can help us" Twilight says Everyone chatted about the creature and how to bring it down, Avery still laid at the writing desk twitching every so often. A orange bolt of lightning struck through the sky, making everyone jump and look outside. "What the hay was that?" Applejack asks "An orange lightning bolt? There's no such thing!" Twilight exclaims "What caused that? There's no clouds over there!" Rainbow says worryingly Fluttershy still hasn't moved from her spot and Avery had opened his eyes, only for them to be pure white. No one saw Avery when he opened his eyes.
Chapter 4: What lies Underneath?Princess Celestia just got the letter from Twilight and read it's content from her throne. It said: Dear Princess Celestia, I regret to inform you that things are not going so well. What caused the earthquakes earlier today was a very large rock creature, it was three times the size of us! It captured Luna and took her underground, magma rose from the hole it came through making access impossible. Avery nearly jumped into the magma, but I saved him. He's acting very angry so expect some harsh replies from him. We need your help with this, and if it's possible to bring Shining Armor with you for more help. I await your quick response and hope you'll come. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle. Celestia quickly rose from her throne and said "Luna's been captured?! I need to go to Ponyville quickly!" She then took off to find Shining Armor, who was actually just coming through the door. They bumped into each other, and they both got up at the same time shortly after. "Whoa, ugh. Oh hey Princess, I was just coming by to see if-" Shining started to say when Celestia suddenly says "You need to come with me!" "What for?" "Luna's been captured by some rock creature! Twilight just sent me this information just a few seconds ago. We must go Ponyville right away!" "Alright! Let's head over there!" Celestia's horn shined and in an instant, they were gone. At the library, Twilight and the others were cleaning up the doorway which was now just a giant hole in the tree. It was nearing 1:00 P.M. Avery remains laying next to the writing desk, his eyes open and pure white. "Boy...that thing must be really strong to bust the door and nearly everything around it!" Applejack says "You think? That thing is made of stone! It must break iron like it was no problem!" Rainbow replies In the background Avery is whispering words "I'll destroy it....demolish it....turn it to rubble....." There was a flash of light, Celestia and Shining Armor arrived at the library. Twilight turned around to see her. "Princess! Thank goodness that you're here!" Twilight says going towards her after hugging her brother "Where's that hole that you mentioned?" Celestia asks "It's just outside a few yards away, it's blocked up by stone now." "Yeah, I poured rain on the magma coming out so it wouldn't burn the town." Rainbow says "And just imagine that Avery was about to dive straight into it!" Pinkie says quite loudly "Where is he?" Celestia asks "H-He's over there." Fluttershy says still trying to overcome the event. Everyone looked over at the writing desk to see that Avery was standing by it with his head down, his mane was covering his face. Celestia goes over to him before stopping just a few feet away from him. "I sense....an odd power coming from him..." Avery was now saying the same things more loudly "I'll destroy it....demolish it.....turn it to rubble...." Celestia backed up just a little "He's never emitted that kind of power...." "I'll make sure it will be grounded into gravel and used for roads....I will not be stopped to destroy that thing....it took her away..." Avery kept saying, a dark matter was now swirling around his horn Avery lowered his head with his voice sounding more demonic like, everyone was just staring at him as he kept speaking "If you think....that you're going to stand in my way....you're wrong....Dead wrong." Avery lifted his head to show his white eyes. A bright flash of light shined, making everyone cover their eyes. The light dimmed down and there was a low demonic growling coming from Avery. Everyone looked in fear at what happened. Avery had turned into a glowing figure, orange light outlined his structure, two large arms came out of his wings seemingly made of magma as it glows, his hair flew upwards with an orange electric pulse going through it, his face had turned more evil like as steam flew from his mouth. "Graaaah...." Avery breathlessly says as he slowly walked toward the door Fluttershy was frozen once more, and everyone else just watched him in fear not able to move. Just then Twilight walked infront of him and used her magic to stop him in his tracks "A-Avery! What in the world happ-AH!" Twilight tried to say before one of Avery's arms smacked her against the wall. He continued to slowly walk, his white eyes seem empty as his body glows. Shining Armor went towards Twilight and brought her back to Celestia. "W-W-What's wrong with him?!" Applejack sputters out "I'm not sure...but it may have to do with that tablet...." Celestia says Avery slowly walks outside and looks left, he then jumps out of sight. Scratching sounds and loud growling were heard shortly after. "Come now, lets head to Canterlot to discuss what to do about this." Celestia tells everyone Everyone gathers around Celestia and she teleports them to the throne room. Celestia trots around thinking while Shining and everyone else helps Twilight try to feel better. "She got burnt, but it's nothing bad. Get some water and some ice just to be safe." Shining says looking at Twilight's side. "Its like he was being controlled...since Avery would never hit us, Especially Twilight!" Rarity says "Can the Elements stop him? I bet that they can! Yeah! Lets d-" Rainbow says before something interrupts her "It will not be that simple..." Said a voice coming from an unknown location Everyone looked around to see where it was coming from, Twilight just recovered from the hit. "Who there?! Show yourself!" Celestia demands "I will, I just need to find a safe spot to come in at.....AH, here's one." the voice said A few seconds passed, then from the corner of the throne room, a large silver spike rose up from the floor. It was huge in caparison to the creature itself. It then retracted, everyone stared at the corner of the room. A few minutes later a blue figure appears, it being the same size as everyone else, and walks towards the group. It looked like the creature, but it was blue and silver, had two small spikes coming out of the top of its head on the left and right side and curving to look almost a crown, it had two larger spikes coming out of its back curving down, it had green calm eyes with slight slit pupils and had marks around them, the same pattern appeared on its hands and chest. It stopped when it reached a few feet from the group, looking at everyone. "Who are you? What is your purpose here?" Celestia says walking infront of the creature. "My name is Solar, I rule a land underneath yours. I mean you no harm, but I do intend to help you." the creature said with a calm tone "Help us in what way?" "The tablet you found, I made that tablet Millennia ago, when this world was just starting to form. I can tell you what it says. I will also help you tame the beast that once was your friend." "How do you know about THAT?" Rainbow asks "I have ways." Solar answers "But didn't you....say that the Elements wouldn't work on him?" Twilight asks still feeling much pain. "I didn't say that, I said that it wouldn't be simple. You can't cure him with harmony magic, but you can trap him...for a time." Solar replies. "So....how do we cure him?" Celestia asks "It falls within the being's heart, he saw something bad happen to someone he loves and not able to do much about and sees them disappear. To cure him, you must have him see that the being he loves is alright, BEFORE the sky is red." Solar answers with a serious tone "Well do you mind if you tell us what the tablet says?" "Of course, just bring it to me. I have yet to see it after so long."
Chapter 5: A Kingdom Under a KingdomA being of fire will come Into this land, be careful of the price to pay if a loved is taken away. For it will become a monster and destroy all until it finds what its lost. But if the sky is red as blood, it will stay that way destroying everything in its path with its empty eyes. "That's what the tablet says. I wrote this because of how the stars were using symbols to explain something. I had no idea what it might be, but I wrote down what the star were trying to say." Solar says giving back the tablet to Princess Celestia The tablet hovered infront of Celestia, she didn't say anything as she went to put it back. "Well, we will need a plan to get whoever he lost back. Who was it and how was she taken?" "It's Princess Luna...Princess Celestia's sister. She was taken by a large rock creature that looks similar to you." Twilight says to Solar "What?! No one is allowed up here! It's forbidden! What did it look like?" Solar says with a slight worried pitch "Well, it had a bandana." Rainbow says "It had weird orange eyes!" Pinkie says jumping on top of Solar's head "It had one large arm and a little one." Applejack says "It had a broken spike on it's back..." Twilight says Solar put his hand up saying "I've heard enough. The creature you saw was from my kingdom. A Thief to be precise." "A thief?! What would a kingdom do with thieves?" Rainbow says flying upwards a little. "I used them to gather information, and to scout areas so that they're safe enough to live at." Solar says looking at Rainbow "So YOU sent it then?!" Rarity says stepping forward a little, slight anger in her eyes "No! Not at any cost! It's forbidden for even me to be here. I'm here just to help you with that tablet legend. But that thief had orange eyes, meaning that they're not working for me any longer." "Well, we should stop talking and you should go rescue my sister!" Celestia says coming back into the throne room. "Ah! Yes I almost forgot getting caught up in the moment. Now then, I will need a group to go with me to have a better chance of finding her. We will need to get you to my temple first to place a spell so you won't suffer from the heat. A group also needs to stay here, so that they can trap the monster turned friend. Who is willing to come along with me, and who is willing to trap the beast?" Solar says standing tall, arms behind his back, looking at everyone in the eye. Rainbow stepped up, as well Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Fluttershy....didn't move. Twilight then said "I'll stay here with Princess Celestia and Shining so that we can try and....trap him..." her voice got quiet at the end Solar looks at Fluttershy "And what about you?" Fluttershy just responded with a frightened look, and fell over still in the same position as before. "....well I think we lost her." Solar says walking back to the hole he came from Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie followed Solar, he then jumps down and shortly a loud thud was heard. They we're about to jump when Solar said "Hang on! I need to put my hand on the hole do you won't hurt yourselves coming down here!" A few seconds later another loud thud was heard at the hole. "You can hop onto my hand now, I'll lower you down. And don't be surprised at my size." Solar says They were all confused and proceeded to jump down into the hole, stopping only a few seconds later on hard rock. The rock then moved and everyone balanced themselves. They finally stop a few minutes later in a burning hot room, hot enough to make you fall to your knees. The room was dark with a light showing through an large hole in the wall. They passed through the hole, still on the hard rock, and couldn't believe their eyes. There was an endless landscape of rock and magma as far as the eye can see, many of the pillars seemed to be houses or hotels of the sort, the magma was gathered at specific areas like water that gathers on Equestria, and there was thousands of creatures that looked similar to Solar but different all the same. They looked around to see if they could find Solar and when Applejack looked up she nearly bucked Rarity clean off the platform. For above them was the upper body of Solar, the platform was his hand, and he just smiled down as he walks towards a large pyramid like structure. "S-Solar?!" Rainbow yells "Hm?" Solar boomed with his huge voice "Holy cheese that mashed with a juice to make a drink that's no good!! YOU'RE HUGE!!!" Pinkie exclaims, falling on her back Solar chuckles and says "This is my true size, nearly twenty times larger than you. I don't go into this size unless I have be somewhere at a certain time. I mostly just stay the same size at everyone else down here." he sways his open hand infront of him as if showing the land. They continued through the land to the large pyramid structure over what seems miles away, the group was laying down from the heat of the cave, sweating profoundly. Meanwhile, Celestia and the others were planning on how to trap Avery in a certain way, without making him escape. "Well we know that just tackling him down and keeping him there is impossible, regular magic won't work, and that he has increased power and speed....Solar said that the Elements might help trap him, but in what way?" Twilight says walking in a circle "I won't be able to bring all the guards on him since he may accidentally kill them....What if there was a way to show him that Luna is still here with us, like a spell or something?" Shining says standing by Celestia "That might work....but if he finds out it's fake then he'll attack us." Celestia says with a worried tone "Well we have to at least try and find some way to block that anger of his for a little bit as they try and find Luna" "Block...block, BLOCK! A SHIELD! The Elements could possibly make a shield for him to be stuck in! Giving us enough time to get Luna to him!" Twilight says turning to Shining and Celestia "Hey YEAH! We could use the illusion spell to have him go to a safe location, and if he finds out that it's a fake then we use the Elements!" Shining says happily "Yes, that could work. Let me go get the Elements and then we can go." Celestia says walking away Shining rubbed Twilight's head saying "That's my sis! Always figuring out what to do!" Twilight giggled and hugged Shining. There was a faint demonic roar heard, coming from Ponyville. Twilight walked over to an open window and looked outside. "I don't like the sound of that..." "And I don't like the way the sky looks." Shining says looking at the sky. The sky was mixed of blue and red, the red slowly taking over the blue. "I hope we enough time..." Twilight says worryingly
Chapter 6: A Monsters PowerApplejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie all arrive with Solar to the temple that he lives in. Solar, without any hesitation, took the group inside and began looking through stone tablets for a spell in a library like room. Solar had changed into a normal size rock creature, but still big to the group. He finds a tablet and sets it on the in the middle of the room. "Found it! Now, everyone put your hoof on the tablet." Solar says quickly Everyone did as he said. Once their hooves were on the tablet, Solar started to speak in a unknown language. After a few seconds of speaking, the tablet began to glow a light blue color and chilled air filled the room. A mist came out of the tablet and wrapped around everyone and went inside their bodies, the tablet then faded back to it's original color.They all blinked and took their hooves off the tablet. "Whoa, I don't feel hot anymore! It's like I'm being cooled from the inside!" Rainbow says surprised "Yes, it's because you ARE being cooled from the inside. It makes you not feel the heat from outside your body. I made this spell after an accident happened with one of your kind that traveled down here..." Solar says getting quiet near the end. "Right, where should we start to look for the princess?" Applejack asks "Well this place huge, looking everywhere would take days and days. We need to find her as soon as possible, because I myself have no idea when the sky will turn red and your friend will no longer be able to return to his normal self. But I will have most of my guard help with searching, mainly my thieves." Solar explained Solar continued "I'll have Applejack and Pinkie to search the northern part of our city, it's called Gaia for it's more like the crust. Rarity, you'll go with some of my foot-soldiers to the southern region called Frosted Mountain, be sure you know how to handle cold weather there as well for it's the only place with below normal temperature down here. Rainbow, I'll have you go with a thief to the outer wall, rumors are told that past thieves go there to hide. I'll have the rest of my troops go search everywhere else. If you do find the princess be sure to bring her here STRAIGHT away, the heat of this place could kill anyone not living here." Everyone nodded and went into action, Rarity went with a group of large creature with one hand and another arm with a shield like structure. Applejack and Pinkie went north, a small group thieves went with them. Rainbow flew away, a thief following close behind. Solar went west in search of Luna, and another group went east. Meanwhile, Twilight, Shining Armor, and Princess Celestia were getting ready to face Avery. "The Elements are in the bag, we have cold water for if we get burned, we know the spell we will use, and now all that's left is to just go." Twilight says checking bags Just then a letter fell from the sky after purple like dust gathered there, Celestia grabbed it with magic and began to read it. Twilight?! I'm trapped in my bed....Avery is out there roaring which is freaking me out. I try to go out and run for another place, but he always turns his head to the tree! Please hurry up and rescue me! Spike. "Twilight, didn't Spike come with us?" Celestia asks Twilight then perks up her head "I-I don't know! Is he still at the library?! Oh no! What if Avery sees him and he gets hurt?! What if-" Twilight was stopped by Celestia putting a hoof on her head "It's ok, he just sent this letter meaning that he's fine. Let's go and trap Avery so that we can get him back to normal." Twilight then nodded her head and Shining came over with all the bags. Celestia used her magic and teleported them to Ponyville, just outside the town. They walked into town, nothing was out of the ordinary. They found Avery resting on the stone filled hole, his magma arms crossing each other infront of him. "What luck! He's sleeping." Shining says quietly "Yes but for how long?" Celestia replies "What do we do? Should we just use the Elements or should we use the spell first?" Twilight asks Avery yawned lowly, stretching his magma arms out. He then got up and shook his head. "I vote for using the spell..." Shining says looking at Avery "Yes, that would be good" Twilight quickly says Celestia was creating the illusion when see saw Avery yawn. The spell formed into the shape of Luna's body and soon it was like she was there. Avery opened his eyes and turn his head towards the group, only to have his face drop at the sight of the fake Luna. He slowly walks over, his arms dragging on the ground saying with a deep demonic tone "L-Luna...?" Twilight and Shining backed up behind Celestia and the Luna. The fake Luna smiled and calmly walked towards Avery. The sky was beginning to turn back to it's color other than red, then moon was out meaning that it was night time. "I-Is that really you...?" Avery says getting more of his normal self back little by little. The Luna then changed her face to a bland like state and twitched. Celestia was having a hard time keeping the spell in place. Avery then tilted his head, looking at the Luna closely. Twilight got out the Elements. Avery then widened his eyes and he returned back to his monster like state roaring, the magma arms crushing the spell from above. "Twilight! Give me the Elements" Celestia demanded Avery swiped his arms at the group, Shining, going to the front to protect the others, got hit and was sent flying through trees. Celestia was now wearing the Elements, the Tiara on her head and all the necklaces around her neck. Avery brought his arms down on Celestia, but she dodged and grabbed Twilight. Twilight went to her brother, but was stopped by Avery landing infront of her. Avery then hit her with one of his hooves towards the library. Celestia looked at Avery and Avery stared at her steam coming out of his mouth every time he growled. "Avery....you're not like this....and I don't want to trap you, but you leave me no choice." Celestia says quietly Avery growls loudly as if replying and brings one of his arms back and sends it to Celestia. She moves out of the way and walks towards Avery, who keeps attacking in anger and missing. Celestia then stopped only a few meters away from Avery. "I really don't want to do this, but you need to be stopped." Celestia used her magic to active the Elements of Harmony and she begins to be engulfed with a white light. Avery swipes with his arms, but it bounces off the light. Celestia then summons a large different colored bubble and sends it towards Avery, which in turn traps him inside. Avery pounds on the bubble, but it doesn't show any signs of wear in the slightest. Celestia lays down and looks at Avery. "Now we must wait for the others to bring Luna here." Shining slowly walks out from a bush and falls over near the bubble. Twilight limps over to Celestia and sits down, looking at Avery. "I hope they find her soon...because there's very little time left." Twilight says looking at the sky
Chapter 7: Finding the PrincessAvery is now trapped in a barrier, not able to escape. Solar and the others are searching for Princess Luna, looking over and under, inside and outside, doing nearly everything they can to find her. And if you wonder about Fluttershy, she's just hiding in the Canterlot castle. "Whew, this place sure is big. Bigger than Ponyville it seems like." Applejack says looking around with Pinkie "Nope, nope, not here, not there, isn't over here, certainly isn't here" Pinkie says zooming around everywhere and coming out of Applejack's hat. "Where else should we look Pinkie?" "OH, how about over there!" "Alright, but how about you guys? Did you find anything?" "Not as of yet, can't find any traces of you pony folk nor of the enemy thief" A thief says going toward Applejack, their eyes are yellow. "Just keep searchin' we'll come across something sooner or later." Applejack and Pinkie continued searching in the Gaia region. Rarity and some of Solar's foot-soldiers search in the bitter cold of Frost Mountain. "Nothing yet? Hmm, let's go around and continue up, we have to come across something." Rarity says wearing a scarf "Yes miss Rarity." A foot-soldier says with a determined voice Solar was searching the west region of the city, having the same luck as the others. Rainbow and a loyal thief was at the outer wall of the city, where it is rumored that past thieves go and hide. "Where do you suppose they hide at?" Rainbow asks "How should I know? We have no idea where it might be and if we do find a cave in the outer wall, we can't be sure if it's the exact cave your friend was taken to." The thief said with a slight annoyed tone. "Well it's either that or we don't do anything at all. I'll go this way, you go the other way so that we can have more ground to cover." Rainbow instructs The thief silently goes one way, while Rainbow flies the other. After a while Rainbow finds a cave and stops by it, she listens to see if the same thief from Ponyville was inside. There was no voices coming from inside, just the sound of steam. Rainbow then flies again. She stops at another cave and listens, at first it sounded like nothing but a voice was heard. "Come on little pony, drink your drink!" "ABSOLUTELY NOT! I will not drink lava! That's just idiotic!" Rainbow slowly went inside trying not to alert anything. Suddenly the voice was heard again saying "OH! I'm out of food...I need to go get some more. I'll be right back little pony, just stay there!" there was a light coming from inside the cave and Rainbow went outside and above the cave entrance. The same thief from Ponyville stepped outside and breathed in, then it crouched and jumped away. Rainbow then flew inside, looking for the entrance to wherever the thief came out of. She found it and went inside, the room was lit itself and she found Luna inside a little cage made of rock. "Rainbow Dash! Thank goodness you're here. I couldn't use my magic because that thing was squishing me so much, and it's nearly impossible to use magic here!" Luna exclaims "Yeah, well we've got a bigger problem happening above ground right now." Rainbow says kicking away the door. "What do you mean?" Luna says curiously "I'll explain on the way, but first we need to get you to Solar's temple so that we can a spell on you so that you don't feel the extreme heat down here!" "Yes, that would be good." Rainbow and Luna flew out of the cave and towards Solar's temple. Rainbow explained to Luna what happened with Avery and what they need to do. Halfway to the temple, Luna started to descend. "The heat is bringing me down...I don't know how much longer I can fly." Luna says breathing heavily. "Come on Princess, what would happen if you don't get to Avery in time?! You have to keep on pushing it!" Rainbow says Luna looked forward and tried to continue. They got to the temple, but Luna collapsed. Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Solar were already back from their searching. Solar goes to Rainbow and Luna and picks the princess up. "This is her? Well lets not waste anytime." Solar says going inside the temple Solar put Luna on the table and her hoof on the tablet, he then proceeded with the spell with the same unknown language. Luna gasped after the spell was complete and looked around. She got up and looked at Solar. "Thank you." "No problem at all, but lets hurry on out of here if you wish to save your friend." Solar says with a seriousness in his voice "Right. Lets go now" Luna went outside and everyone smiled as they knew that she was alright. Luna went to where they came in at and everyone else followed including Solar. Solar changed into his giant size again and lifted everyone to the top of the hole. Everyone jumped out and into the throne room, a few seconds later Solar joined them. "Where are they?" Pinkie asks "Perhaps they are already trapping the beast. Let's go to Ponyville and see" Solar says dusting himself off "His name is Avery, and I'd prefer if you call him as such." Luna says with slight anger "Sorry, I didn't know his name." "....I'll teleport everypony there, so that we won't waste anytime." And with that said everyone gathers around Luna and she casts a telepotation spell to Ponyville, right next to the colorful bubble that Avery's trapped in. Celestia looks over to see Luna and rushes over to hug her. "Luna! Thank goodness you're safe!" "And it's good to see that you have things under control here." Luna says looking at Avery Avery was smashing his magma arms on the bubble towards everyone, even Luna. "....I do believe, that we are too late." Solar says sadly "What are you talking about? I be-" Rainbow says before looking at the sky. The sky was now completely red, the moon was orange in it's ray of light. "The sky is red, there is nothing we can do now." Solar says looking away "...There may be one way, it has worked before and it may work here." Luna say going to the bubble "Luna, are you going to..." Celestia says "Yes sister, I'm going to do just that." Celestia sighs and says "Just tell me when to drop it" Everyone looks at Celestia in fear "You can't seriously be thinking that you're going to let loose that creature!" Solar exclaims "I'm not, I'm dropping the barrier so that Luna can cast a spell onto him." "I do not believe a simple spell will work on him." "It's not a simple spell, it's a spell that only Luna can use. The spell to enter a pony's mind" Everyone was confused. Twilight spoke up "But, I've never heard of that. How is there a spell that only one pony can use and not any other?" Celestia looks over to Twilight "Because this spell can only be used by Luna, since in the night, dreams can be accessed by a spell and through there she can enter ones mind. But she CAN use the spell to only go into the mind, she may have an idea to bring him back." While they spoke Luna was charging up her magic, making it more powerful by the second. "Tia, now!" Luna shouted The bubble was destroyed and Avery was about to crush Luna with his magma arms when Luna touched her horn on his head causing both of them to be motionless. "Now, we wait until she is done." Celestia says sitting down Everyone chatted away as Luna was now inside Avery's mind.
Chapter 8: The Mind of AveryLuna finds herself in a dark room, the floor feels gooey as she steps on it. She looks around and the walls seem to be the same as the floor. "An odd place for Avery's mind, but I'm in. Now, let's find a way to get him back." Luna says walking through a hall. As she walks through the many halls of Avery's mind, the floor and walls start to become more like a house and become divided. She comes to a door with a music note on it. "A door? Let's see what's behind it" She opens the door slowly To her surprise, the room was made of many square tiles on the floor and walls. There were musical instruments lined up at the end of the room, organized from woodwind to brass. "...A music room?" Luna says stepping forward When her hoof made contact with one of the tiles, it lit up and made a sound. Luna backed up her hoof, then placed it down again to hear the sound. She walked into the room, and every time she stepped on the floor or touched the walls it made sound. Luna then jumped from square to square, making a simple song. There was a large smile on her face as she continued making music. She then suddenly stopped and a serious face replaced her happy one. "I need to find how to bring Avery back, though it's interesting that he has a room in his mind like this." She then walks out of the room She walked a very short way until she found another room, this door had crossed swords on it. She entered the room to find that the floor and walls in here were very hard and bland, there were swords lined up on the walls and a single scythe. "What in the world? Does he practice swordsmanship here?" Luna says looking around the room She shakes her head "This room isn't what I need" she closes the door and head towards the next room. This door had a paint brush and a rainbow colored line from the brush, she opens the door. The room was white with drawings of different kinds of things, some being ponies, some being of fight scenes, and some being comics. She walks into the room and floor made a crunching sound under her hooves. She looks around and spots a lone box sitting in the corner and walks towards it. The box was blue and had a symbol of a heart on it and had golden lace where it opens. Luna opens the box to find stacks of drawings of ponies in couples, only that it was of him and somepony else. There was Luna, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity. "...He....He has a soft heart, but how come he never mentions them when we talk. And there seems to more of Twilight and I than the others." Luna says going through them all There was another page at the bottom of the box, she hovers it and looks. It was a blank paper with only words on it. My heart is soft and is surrounded by a hard shell, these ponies have the power to break through the shell and strike my heart. When I find them, I will make pictures of them and myself and store them here. Who knows....maybe one of them will even like me. Luna stares at the paper for a few minutes, then puts it back. She replaces all the pictures where they were, closes the box, and leaves the room. She walked to another door, this one baring a heart symbol. She opens the door and instantly walks in, the room was divided into seven different rooms. She walks to a dark blue door and opens it, inside was floating spheres that emitted a dim glow. She walks over to one of the spheres and looks at it, there was life like image of herself and Avery hugging each other. She looks at it for a second and touches it, it then started to play out like a video. They were hugging each other, ears were down and Avery had a smile on his face, one smile that Luna has yet to see. They nuzzled and the image reset itself. Luna looked down at it, thinking. She went to another one and touched it, it played out. This one seemed to have a more romantic setting to it. It stopped and Luna looks at the other floating spheres around her. "This...is where he stores romantic thoughts. This room is of me, and the others are of other ponies. There are so many here too....but I do not share this amount of thoughts of him." She leaves the room and goes to another one, a purple colored one. In here more spheres floated and shined dimly. She goes to one and looks at it, this one is of Twilight and Avery sitting by each other. She touched it and it played out. They were just sitting there like nothing was wrong, Twilight then looks at Avery and hugs him, he had a blush across his face when it happened but he smiled another smile Luna has yet to see. Avery hugs her back, the image then reset itself. "This room is of Twilight, and there seems to be the same amount of thoughts here as in the room where I am." She leaves the room and goes to the others. A orange door leading to Applejack, a yellow door leading to Fluttershy, a pink door leading to Pinkie, a rainbow colored door leading to Rainbow, and a white door leading to Rarity. Luna leaves the last room and looks at her room and Twilight's. "None of the others rooms have as much thoughts as those two, and based on what I found he thinks of his friends like more than friends. As if he longs for a pony by his side." Luna looks around and notices a note on a clear wall, she goes over and reads it. The note seemed burned yet you could read the text perfectly, there was cinders coming from the note. That creature took her away, I will get her back. I'll crush that thing into rubble, that stupid little thing with orange eyes. "Does he mean me?" Luna says looking at the note After a few minutes of thinking, she perks her head up. "I have to show that I'm with him in order to bring him back! Yes that- but from what I saw...I have to kiss him in order to show him that I'm there. There MUST another way..." She starts walking in circles "Can I move the spheres?" She goes to the dark blue room She rolls a sphere outside "Yes!" she then rolls it to another room, the sphere glows and changes to that pony. She then goes and rolls more out to the others rooms, she evens them to the others leaving the purple room untouched. She looks around her room and see that there are still many spheres there. "I need to move at least two more, then I can just hug him." Luna takes two spheres and takes them outside, she then looks over to the purple room. She walks over to the room and tosses the spheres inside, they change and then the room started to show heart symbols on the walls. "I think that now, he'll be thinking about this mare a great deal." She leaves the room and goes out into the halls and continues down to another door, but this door was chained up as if no one was allowed inside. She tries to open the door but was pushed back. A voice was heard in her ears. "No one is allowed in this room, not even the master of this mind. This room contains his past, it's blocked up for a spell that went a little wrong. Move along" The voice was not of Avery's. Luna got a little curious about that, but continues down the hall. She then finds herself at a gooey door, it made a squishing sound when she touched it. She opens the door and marches on inside. She continued going forward until she comes into a room with a large blob at its center. The blob made a constant beat, deep and low. Luna stepped forward and the blob started to unfold into a large humanoid figure, with four arms and a strange shaped head. In the center of the blob was Avery's face, blank and staring at nothing. "What the....Is this what's controlling you?" Luna asks In reply, the blob smashed it's gooey fists into the ground near her. Luna just looks at the blob and walks forward, her eyes locked onto Avery. The blob continued to attack her, but it seems blind and misses just slightly. Luna stops and flies towards Avery's head, she then grabs him and pulls him out of the blob. The blob made a high pitched shriek that made you want to cover your ears. Luna hovers down and looks at Avery, he still had a blank face. "Well....Time to bring you back home." Luna says quietly She wrapped her hooves around Avery and a light emitted from him. After a few seconds the light then floats up and pops. Nothing was there and Luna was still inside Avery's mind. "Now to bring myself back" She made her horn glow and then she turned to mist and floated away. Outside, Luna was hugging Avery and he was no longer a monster. He was asleep, his legs dangling as he was held. Luna opens her eyes and slowly lets go of him. She then goes to Celestia and the others who were looking at her. "Good job Luna, you've rescued him." Celestia says tiredly Solar was no longer there. Twilight went up to Luna and smiled to her. "Do you mind if you stay and tell us how you did it?" Twilight asks "Not at all" Luna answers
Chapter 9: Finally at PeaceAvery has returned to his regular self, though now asleep. He lays underneath Luna's wing as she and Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Rarity talk about what had happened inside Avery's mind. "So what did you need to do to bring him back?" Twilight asks "I just needed to show him that I was there with him, he was blind to see that it was me." Luna answers "And by that you hugged him? How does that work?" Rainbow asks "He has a soft heart. By hugging him, he saw that he wasn't alone and started to see again. And now I do believe that he has another mare to think about other than me." "Really? Who might that be?" Applejack asks Luna looks around and begins to think. "I don't think it would be good to tell you about that, since he never did speak of her when we spoke to one another when he was in Canterlot." "Ah, keeping it secret for his sake." Twilight says "What about the room where you found swords lined up? Did you find anything useful there?" Rarity asks "No, I didn't spend enough time in there. But it seems that he practices in his mind so that when he faces a foe, he's ready with a sword." Luna answers "And what about that chained door you found, did you see anything about that?" Twilight asks hovering a notebook and quill "I couldn't get inside that room, but when I tried to enter a voice echoed in my ear telling me that it was his past. That not even he can see what lies inside. Which means that he still has his memory, but he hasn't found out about it." Avery curls up into a ball, making himself completely invisible. Luna looked at her wing and chuckled. "It feels like you're not telling us all of it though, was there anything else you found?" Rainbow asks hovering over everyone "Yes, but like I said with the other mare that he likes, it's best to not tell about it." Luna answers giving a glare Spike comes downstairs carrying a letter. "Princess Luna, Princess Celestia wants you to come back to Canterlot." he says waving the letter around "Alright, I guess I'll being see you later then. Take care of Avery for us, he wants to live down here in Ponyville with you girls." Luna says getting up and folding her wings back She walks out the still broken doorway, a bright light shined through. Luna then teleports away. Twilight then says "Ok, what do you think we should do with Avery?" Rainbow suddenly says "I vote we draw on his face while he's sleeping!" "Goodness no! We should give him a makeover instead!" Rarity replies strongly "Well we should make funny faces with his face while he's asleep!" Pinkie says coming out of the ground Applejack steps forward "Hold on a minute, I say we tie him up and see if he gets out!" "Well, shouldn't we just let him sleep..?" Fluttershy says very quietly "And miss a perfect moment like this?! NO WAY!" Rainbow exclaims "Oh! We should do all those things at once! Draw on his face, give him a makeover, tie him up, and make funny faces with his face!" Spike says joining the group Rainbow rubbed Spike's head "I like the way you think! Now let's go an- Hey, where'd he go?" Avery was no longer curled up where Luna was. Twilight soon came down the stairs with a slight smile. "Hey Twi, Where's Avery?" Applejack asks "He's sleeping in his bed upstairs behind a barrier I put up." Twilight said with a smug on her face. "OH COME ON! You completely ruined it Twilight!" Rainbow says in disappointment "I know, and you should know that playing a prank on a pony that's been through a lot isn't going to do any good." Twilight says picking a book out. Rainbow mutters in anger. "Oh, well yeah it was pretty silly to think of doing that to him after he's been through all of that." Applejack says putting a hoof behind her head "Yes, quite rude if you ask me" Rarity says flipping her mane "But I still want to make funny faces!" Pinkie pouts "And I was not going to do such a thing, nuh uh. Not this dragon!" Spike says crossing his arms a little Twilight looks at Spike and he looks away pushing his fingers together. "Well, I'm going to go read a book until he wakes up. Then I'm going to try and fix the tree. I'll see ya girls later!" Twilight says going upstairs Everyone else left, Spike went outside into Ponyville to find someone to help fix the tree. Twilight walked to Avery's bed and inside the barrier, she lays down next to the bed and begins reading her book. Avery had a smile on his face as he slept and turned around every so often. Everything was now at peace, Avery no longer has to worry about anything and is now living in Ponyville.
