In the Dawn of Destiny

                                                                            Storms P.o.V

"Wellcome to Tartarus or in your case hell."  A gruff echoing voice said.

"Who said that."  A familiar voice said back.  'Is that Star Swift.'  I slowly stood up and rubbed my eyes and looked to where the voice came from.  There stood a yellow unicorn with and a blue and white mane with a shooting star for a cutie mark.  'Speaking of which.'  I look at my cutie mark.  A storm cloud with music symbols.  'Fitting'

"Who am I you ask?  I am Hades,  keeper of Tartarus."  Hades said.

"Wait,  Hades is a greek god from where I'm from.  Are you the same Hades."  I asked looking around.  It surtanly looked like hell.  A fire pit here, a fire pit there, enough lava to smoother out an entire planet.

"Yes I am.  When Zues let me rule the underworld he didn't acount for other planets and dimensions and here me and you are."  Hades said as a red dragon winged alicorn apeared in front of me and Swift with a grin that could make a dragon shiver.

"Why are we here Hades."  I said with annoyance staining my voice.

"And why do I have a body, not that I'm not complaining."  Swift added.

"We are in Tartarus and your dead so put two and two together and there you go.  Now follow me if you will."  Hades said walking down a path to a huge door outlined in skulls.

As we got close to the door a giant three headed dog jumped in front of us.  Hades puts a hoof up and says  "Hold Cerberus these are our guest.  Well the blue one is at least."  He put his hoof to his chin in a thinking and a grin came across his face.  "You can play with the unicorn if you want, but be nice."

I looked at Swift,  he was scared and looking for a place to hide.  Cerberus walked forward growling at him.  Swift slowly turned and ran yelling  "BUUUCCCKKK!!!!"  Cerberus began to ran after him.

"Well now that he's gone I can answer your question now.  B"  Hades walked to the door and opened it.  "I did not bring you here, and I can not tell you who they are but they brought you here to help with this ."  I walked through the door.

"What the hell?!"

                                                                     Chrome's P.o.V

"Why am I here princess."  I said as I bowed.

"Raise Chrome Lilac, you need not bow."  Celestia said.  I raised my head.  She walked to a window that viewed the statue garden.  "I am glad you came when you did."  She said as she gestured me to look out the window.  "All the gaurds were turned to stone and and are now gathering to seize the castle with the statues of the garden helping them."

"Is this why you summoned me princess?"  I asked looking out the window then turning to her.

"I did not summon you.  It was they who felt you needed to be here.  They felt were it was needed and sent you there, and your two friends elsewhere"  Celestia said as she smiled at me.  'They?  I'll think about that later.'

"How did you know about Storms and Cheese Cake teleporting too?"  I asked

"I felt three surges of magical energy over Ponyville."  Celestia replied.

"Then where are they?"  I asked.

"As I said, you were teleported where you were needed.  They felt they were needed elsewere." Celestia said.   'Again with the They.  Who are they?'

"How can I help?  I dont know how to use magic to fight off the statues."  I said.

"Well we dont need to fight them.  I need you to go retreive an item for me."  Celestia said as she grabed a map from a nearby table with her magic.  "But let me warn you, this is nothing like the movies of your home world."

"Wait you know I'm a human?" I ask suddenly confused.

"Of course."  Celestia answers.

"Can you please tell me how."  I asked and her cheerful expression went grim.

"I am sorry but they wont let me?"  Celestia said looking away.

"Okay, thats it.  Who is this they you keep talking about?"  I said with agitation in everyword.

She let out a sigh and said  "I am not allowed to tell you.  Just know that they are the reason you are here in Equestria."

"Thats impossible.  Discord is the reason we are here."  I said.

She shook her head.  "Discord was following their orders."

I sighed.  'Well I'll never get any answers better to just help so I can go to sleep.'  I walked up and took the map in my teeth.  I nodded to her and she teleported me.

"Why a desert?"

                                                                                 Cheese Cake's P.o.V

"Why are rocks just floating around like gravity doesn't effect them?"  I asked nopony in particular.

"Thats an easy one my dear boy.  I got rid of the gravity, it's such a boring thing.  Dont you agree?"  A voice asked from behind me.  I turn around and see Discord.  'I thought he was gone.'  "I am very much here."

"Okay then why am I here?"  I asked him.

"Why are you here?"  He asked him self as he paced back and forth.  "I know, your here for some chocolate milk."  He made a glass of chocolate milk apear and handed it to me.

"Thanks."  I took it and chuged it, before throwing the glass away.  An explosion apeared where I threw the glass.  'Cool.'

"Indeed so.  Want some more?"  He asked  I shook my head.  "Oh well."  He pulled a giant glass out and downed it.  He threw the glass at a floating rock, and a blinding light apeared and the rock was gone.

"What happened to the rock?"  I asked.  He shrugged and floated into the air doing back strokes, I followed him until he stopped in front of a mirror.

"We're here."  He said as all humour was gone from his voice.

"Here were exactly?"  I asked.

"You are here to confront your past self."  He said not removing his gaze from the mirror.

"Past self?  I have always been a pony."  I said with a shakey voice.  He shook his head and pointed to the mirror.  I gulped and walked in front of the mirror.  "What is that?"  I asked shocked at what I saw.

"That is what your true form is.  Your species was known a human."  He said with no hint of joking in his voice.

"That cant be true I would remember."  I said as my whole body began to shake in fear.  The creature in my reflection walked out of the mirror and held out it's hoof-thing.  I lifted my trembling hoof and placed it on his and he shook it.

"Hi. My name is Eddie."  The creature said.

After a long discussion I regained some memory.  He said I would get it all back after a few years.

"It is time for me to go.  Remember I am but a piece of your spirit,  I am not going to be there when you need me."  Eddie said as he stood up and walked to the mirror.  He turned to me and put his hand to the ground and a bright light appeared.  A little earth elemental was looking around and saw me.  It try to make it's way to me but tripped on a rock. It rolled over and sat there.  It looked sad.  "This is the only thing I can give you.  Take care of him so he can enjoy life, he's here to help you.  Know this, he is the embodyment of your emotions.  He feels what you feel, so for his sake, cheer up"  With that Eddie walked into the mirror and was gone.

I walked over to the little guy he gave me a hug.  It made me a little happy.  I picked him up and placed him on my back and walked to Discord who was taking a nap.  He woke up when I asked  "Can you send me back to Twilights now."  He nodded and I was engulfed in a bright light and landed in front of the library.  The earth elemental was hugging my neck so I couldn't go to sleep so I just walked around town.

                                                                Chrome's P.o.V

"I've been walking for half an hour now and I sill cant find the ruins!"  I yelled.  "I dont see why she couldn't have just teleported me to the item....What the hell am I looking for anyways?  I cant believe I forgot to ask and this map doesn't explain anything well."  I just kept walking until I found a broken hut.  There was noise coming from inside.  "Hello?"

The noise stoped and a unicorn came out.  He was wearing a outfit simalar to daring do.  "Hello, what are you doing out in the desert?  You dont seem like an explorer."  He asked walking up to me.

"No.  I'm on an errand for Princess Celestia.  I'm looking for some sort of temple ruins."  I said.  He put his hoof to his chin.

"You mean the temple that holds the staff of Lapis contego?"  He asked.

"The staff of what now?"  I was confused now.

"The staff of a great unicorn who only used earth magic.  He enchanted it to reverse any earth spell."  He said in a 'matter of fact' tone.

"Yeah, thats it.  You know were it is?"  I ask excitedly.  He nodded but didn't say anything.  "Are you going to tell me?"

"No, But you can come with me.  I was just going there."  He said walking away.  I shruged and followed.

We walked for twenty minutes and we stumbled on a pathway with a bunch of diferent tiles on the ground.  "Well lets go."  I steped on a tile that had a water symbol on it.  It started shaking so I jumped off of it and it fell down a endless revine.  "There's traps?"

"Well yeah.  Did you think Lapis would leave a staff like that unprotected?"  He said.

"No."  I said.  "So do we look for the symbol that represents earth or something?"

"What?" He asked.

"Well before I jumped of that stone I saw a symbol that looked like water."  I said as I looked at all six tiles.  "Here it is."  I slowly steped on it.  nothing happened.  I looked back and saw the unicorn having a surprised look on  his face.  "Lets go."  He nodded and followed.

After a short walk we came across a giant pit that had snakes at the bottom.  "You got to be kidding me.  Why snakes?"  I said bacing away from the pit.  "I cant do it.  Theres no way I can make a jump like that."

"Well just teleport like I do."  He said as he teleported.

"I dont know how to teleport."  I said still backing away from the pit.

"Okay I'll teach you.  Just concentrate were you want to be and imagan yourself being there."  He said as I did as he said.  I felt a rush of power surging through my horn.  I felt my body move a little.  I opened my eyes and I did it.  "Good job,  to continue on.

A lot of puzzles later we found the entrance to the temple.  "Well here you are."  He said as we stoped infront of a door.  It had and riddle on it.  'A fucking riddle.  Seriously.'  We read the riddle

I am your greatest friend,

I love to play tricks on you,

I will never lie to you,

I am always there for you, but you could always lose me

What am I

"This is as far as I can help you, my time is running short."  He said as used his magic to bring a little cloud down.  He started to mold it.

"Who are you anyways?"  I asked watching him play with the cloud.

He smiled and said  "Your just asking me this?  Do you really want to know who I am?"  I nodded  "Okay, my name is Justin and yes that is you.  I am a part of your soul that came out when you needed me to."  I stared at him in disbeleife.  He put the cloud on the ground and used his magic on it.  It turned into a small fluffy green spikey cat.  "She is a cactus cat.  She will help you when you need it."  He put his hoof on my chest and said  "By the way, the answer to the riddle is your mind."

He just disapeared after that.  There were no dramatic fading or walk into nonexistance.  Just gone, like he was never here in the first place.  The only thing that showed he existed was the cat who was standing beside me.

The temple door opened and a stone staff was just sitting there.  Picked it up and was instantly teleported back to Celestia.  "Good your back.  They are almost apon us.  Give me the staff."  She said.  I nodded and gave her the staff, the cat was taking a nap in between us.  Celestia imedeatly started to say weird words once I gave her the staff.  It started to glow and the stone guards came into the door.  A bright flash came from the staff and all the guards were now back to normal and sleeping like a rock.

"Thank you Chrome for your help.  I am sure you wish to go back to Twilights and sleep."  Celestia said with another bright flash I was in front of the couch.  I laid down and saw my cat jump on me.  'Thank god the spikes are dull."  With that I fell asleep.

                                                                            Storms P.o.V

"Fuck.  Why... *Caugh*...  Why cant I hit you?!"  I yelled.

"I told you no mortal can defeat me now give me back the amulet!"  The voice said.

"Never!  HADES CATCH!"  I screamed.

"Wrong move."  The voice said.

                                                                ------ 10 minutes earlier ------

"What the hell?!"  I yelled

"That is what why I need a favor.  I need you to get my amulet of the Immortality but first we need to get my helmet of invisibility."  Hades said as he pointed to a cave.  wraths, demons, and golems were wrecking everything

"Why cant you go it get?"  I asked.

"I can't because my brothers sealed it when I tried to take back what was mine."  Hades said as he walked away.

"Why not get the amulet first?"  I asked as we headed to the cave.

"The guardians of the amulet only allow to the strongest of Tartarus to wear it.  Which is her.  No amount of magic can be used to get the amulet either."  He said pointing to a statue of the changeling queen Chrysalis.

"Why is she here?"  I asked also pointing to the statue.

"The army she had was weak and hungry and the griffins saw it as a opertunity to attack.  She winds up here and uses her magic to hypnotize everyone into helping her."  Hades stopped in front of a cave.  "This is as far as I can go.  You need to get in and find the helmet."  I started into the cave.

It was hard to see anything except what little light the entrance behind me provided.  I kept going forward until I hit a wall.  'Ow.  Why cant I see any thing I'm only ten feet from the entrance.'  I turn back to see the entrance is gone.  "Well fuck.  I guess I'll follow the the wall."

I walked for five minutes before a light showed itself around the corner.  "Finaly.  I can get out of here."  I ran up to light to see four doors in front of me.  'Huh.  The left one.'  I opened the left door and walked into it.  and was brought back to the same room.  'Fuck.  Middle left.'  I walked in to a dark room with three helmets.  'I'll take all three.'  I put one helmet on and the other two proped on my wings and ran out of the room.

I looked at the other two doors and went through the middle right.  I appeared next to Hades.  "Well done.  now which helmet is it?"  Hades asked.  I gave a shrug.

"It's your helmet."  I said taking off the one I had.  "It's not this one."  I threw the helmet into the lava and handed Hades the others.

  "Now, to get the amulet off of Chrysalis's neck."  Hades said sliding on a helmet then disapearing.  "I'm going to need you to destract her long enough for me to take the amulet off."  He said.  I nodded and I went to the palace.

Once I got to the palace I was surrounded by five demons and two golems.  "Shit."  I mumbled looking for something to help fight.  A sword was stuck in the ground.  I ran to the sword but a demon jumped on me driving his teeth in my left wing.  "Aaaaahhhhhh."   I screamed as I bucked him with my hind legs.  I looked at my wing and it was drenched in blood.

I tried to run to the sword again only to be stoped by a golem taking the sword and snaping it half and eating it.  It started to make its way to me.  I was to afraid to try and run, all I could do was slowly back away.  It reached its arm and grabbed me.  I tried to fight out but it would only strengthen its grip.  It was getting hard to breath.  It raised me and threw me into a wall.

*Crrraaaccckkk*   "Aaarrrrggghhhh!"  I screamed as I smashed against the wall with my injured wing.  My wing was folding over my back in a disturbing manner.  I stood up before and ran as another demon tried to jump on me.  It barely missed me as it fell in the lava puddle.  The area in a bloodcurdling scream of pain.  I shivered at the site before me.  As the other monsters were staring at amusement I ran away to the palace, adrenaline dulling the pain of my wing.

As I was running a heard loud roar that could only one creature.  "A DRAGON?!  YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"  I screamed as I ran in fear, the adrenaline wearing of and my breathing became heavier.  The dragon landed right in front of me .

"Stay were you stand and I will make it quick."  The dragon said opening his mouth.  A bright light was building up in his throat.  I looked for something to hide behind.  'Nothing.'  I readied myself.

*GRRRRRRRRR*  I opened my eyes and saw Cerberus charging at the dragon.  With a bright light, Star Swift teleported next to me and said "Hold on."  With another bright flash we were in the palace.  "We should be sa-what the hell happened to your wing?!"  He said in a worried and desgusted tone.

"Dem..on bite... me and....go*Caugh*lem..threw me."  I said.  My breathing was getting heavier.

"A demon bit you?  Their teeth are full of poison, you should be dead."  He said as he went and got Hades.  They stop as I walked to the throne room doors were Chrysalis probably was.  "Stop you cant go in there."

I turned to Swift and said  "I still have to act as a destraction so Hades can get his amulet back."  Swift just stood there, looking at me like I was delusional.  "Your not going to stop me Swift.  I have to do this."  I said.  Swift was about to say something but Hades stopped him.

Hades walked up to me and said  "We need to get that amulet, but if your going to be a burden stay here.  Swift can take your place."  I shook my head and walked to the door.  I stopped in front of it and looked at Hades as he sliped on his helmet.  He nodded then disapeared.  I opened the door and walked in.

"So you finaly made it, did you.  Well good for you but sadly you can't stay."  Chrysalis said as she stood up and shut the doors behind me.

"Give... me the am....amulet."  I said between breaths.  She walked closer and Hades jumped out and snatched the amulet away from her but she bucked him and he let it go.  I ran up and picked it up in my mouth.

Chrysalis ran up, slaming into side side and said  "Give me the amulet."

I backed up and placed it under my good wing and said  "NEVER!"  I charged and tried to ram her but I went through her.  I turned around and she bucked me into a statue.  "Fuck.  Why... *Caugh*...  Why cant I hit you?!"  I yelled.  The Poison Is finaly reaching my heart.  My eyelids were getting heavy and I was tired.  I wanted to sleep.  Just lay my head down and go to sleep

" No mortal can defeat me now give me back the amulet!"  Chrysalis said.

"Never!  HADES CATCH!"  I screamed.  He opened his wings and caught the amulet in the air and puting it on to keep it away from her.

"Wrong move."  Chrysalis  said.  She used her magic and  sent me flying into the air.  I hit a bunch of  stalagtites, most broke but some pierced into me sending an unbearable amount of pain through my body.  I was then falling, my conscience was fading and the slam on the ground was the last I could handle. Every thing was black.  'I.. fin...ally get.. to..... sleep.'