The sands of Equestria

The ponies and the heroes quickly evacuated the town regrouping in front of the library.

“We got everyone evacuated. We should hurry, maybe we can still help Bow!” KP said at the assembled group. “But first things first. Twilight, you said you can send letters from here to the princesses right?” Twilight nodded. “Well I think now is a very good time to warn them. Meanwhile the rest of us get to the edge of the town where we heard the noise. Got it?” All nodded. “Ok! Go, go, go! Double time!” With that they rushed to the battlefield except for Twilight who stood at the library and warned the princesses.

Meanwhile on the edge of Ponyville…

Bowtastic stood at the edge of the town with Firehawk by his side. Magically rocks started to shift into a humanoid figure that towered over Bowtastic. “How good it is to see you again brother!”

Bowtastic stood motionless as he replied. “Hello Earthquake.” Bow turned around. “I believe you got my back if something is to happen in this battle.” The creature nodded. “You got it brother.” Bowtastic equipped his armor preparing for the battle and took out his sword. Said sword lit on fire, the flames dancing gracefully around it. “The elementals are alive… we will defeat Herobrine brother, even if it kills us. I don’t know what is happening. I’ve just been here for barely a day and I am already determined to defend this place and its inhabitants with my life. It’s interesting to say the least.” Earthquake chuckled. “Hopefully that won’t be necessary.” Bowtastic smiled and sheathed his sword. “Yes. Hopefully…”

He saw the heroes and the ponies except for Twilight approaching. “When this is over you better explain who that guy is and what in the Nether is happening!” Said Honeydew as he pointed at the golem that stood next to Bowtastic. “When this is over I’ll explain. Where’s Twilight?” He asked. Xephos explained what she was doing. Bowtastic nodded “I see. Something tells me Herobrine is planning something. The wither he’s sending… I have a feeling that it has a trick up its nonexistent sleeve.”

The heroes chuckled at the small joke he included “Anyway what is that golem, statue, rock creature there?” Said Pinkie Pie looking at the being very curious. Bowtastic laughed. “You’ve been awfully quiet brother Earthquake.” He said looking at Earthquake. “Is something wrong?”

Earthquake simply looked at his brother and replied. “There’s corruption walking on my domain. It is our job to purify it. We start with that attack we did against Arcanus on that fateful day then you use whatever you want to destroy the rest of them.” Bowtastic looked pleased. “Let’s show them the power of the elements brother.” He said as he patted his brother’s back.

Twilight was approaching as fast as possible going to the soon to be battlefield. She approached the heroes and ponies. “The princesses are on their way.” She looked over to Bowtastic to see him, a golem and the phoenix from before Bow went flying off. “What’s that thing near Bow?” She whispered. “Apparently they’re brothers.” Xephos explained. Twilight was going to ask something but was cut off when the zombies, skeletons, creepers and the wither approached. Alongside them there were some all too familiar creatures. “Changelings? Queen Chrysalis is working with Herobrine?”

Honeydew looked at her. “Queen what?” Twilight sighed. “We’ll explain later.” As if on cue the princesses arrived. All the ponies bowed and following the example so did the heroes. Bowtastic and Earthquake continued looking to the horizon.

Rainbow noticed this. “Bow you idiots the princesses are here.” Bowtastic’s answer was blunt and simple. “The elementals do not bow before anyone.” Rainbow looked at him angry and was about to pin him down when AJ pulled her tail. She knew what this meant.

Bow then looked to his brother, the attackers getting closer each second, Bow generated his fire wings as he said. “Do it.”

Earthquake punched the ground below him making five boulders go high in the hair as he shouted. “ELEMENTAL COMBO!” Bowtastic flew high in the hair positioning himself between the rocks and setting them on fire. “METEOR SMASH!” He shouted as he threw the five flaming boulders against the incoming horde taking out half of their troops.

The ponies, including the princesses, and the heroes looked at their power dumbfounded. Bow then gracefully landed and created a ball of light in his hand. He aimed it at the mobs and muttered “Solaris.” His eyes looked like white flames shining brightly as the ball of light trespassed the attackers with beams of pure energy.

By the end not many were left and Bow flew up in the air to destroy the rest of the army so he could focus on the wither. “Firehawk! Show them the power of a phoenix!” As he said that the majestic phoenix dive bombed the remainder of the mobs and lit them on fire with a mighty flap of its wings blasting burning gales against what was left of a big army.

Bowtastic was pleased at his pets performance and looked at the wither. “Let’s do this!” He said, flaming sword in hand and fireball in the other.

The ponies were shocked at the black three headed monstrosity, while the heroes were just plain horrified. “That thing is hideous!” Rarity finally managed to say. “Tell me about it.” Replied Xephos jokingly.

Bowtastic flickered from existence as he reappeared behind the wither and swung his sword, the swing was easily dodged by the wither who turned around and threw 2 explosive projectiles. Bow spun in midair to dodge the projectiles and successfully hit his foe with a fireball.

“Yeah! How do you like that?” He taunted. The wither simply attacked again sending several projectiles. “Too easy!” Bow said while he slashed the miniature explosive heads in half. The wither was getting angry, its black color started becoming red.

“You mad?” Bow taunted again. To his surprise the wither teleported behind him and attacked successfully hitting him. Bowtastic came crashing to the ground but, with a flip in midair he managed to stay airborne. Everyone was worried about him, well everyone except for Earthquake. “Come on brother! That was nothing! I’ve seen you leave worse unscathed! So get it together!”

Bowtastic looked at his brother then back at the wither. “Oh, it… is… ON!” Bowtastic pointed his sword at his foe. “Combo of the flames!” Earthquake’s eyes widened as Bowtastic continued. “Lightspeed slash!”

He teleported in front of the wither dealing amazing amounts of damage, slashing it faster than anyone could see. The only thing showing he was swinging the sword at all was the fire trail behind it.

He then stopped, backed up and surrounded his fist with flames. He took out his bow that instantly lit on fire and loaded an arrow. “This ends here.” He said as a cone of flames formed in front of the arrow. “Piercing flames!” He shouted as he fired the arrow transforming the wither into nothing but smoke.

Meanwhile on the ground…

“So what are you after all?” Honeydew asked looking at Earthquake. “Well I’m Phoenix’s brother, a golem and an earth elemental.” Xephos looked puzzled. “First, who’s Phoenix? Second, what’s an elemental?” Earthquake chuckled. “Phoenix is that guy flying around and playing with Firehawk. And an elemental is a being that is capable of controlling the elements. There are four that I know of. Me as an earth elemental, Phoenix as a fire elemental, Geyser as a water elemental and Hurricane as a wind elemental.”

KP also had questions. “He told us he met Verigan a long time ago. Is it true that you met him?” Earthquake looked a bit sad. “Verigan was a great man. His heart was pure and he was very friendly. We have grown quite fond of him. Phoenix over there took the nickname Verigan got for him. Since he was such a good archer Verigan started calling him Bowtastic, and he kind of liked that name. I assume that’s the name he told you.”

Now with Bow again…

“We should probably go back down Firehawk, go back to the bow.” Bow said pointing at the ranged weapon. The phoenix complied. “Let’s see what they have been talking about.”

As he got to the ground he found Earthquake explaining things like what were elementals and their abilities. “Earthquake! Need some heals! That explosion was much stronger than one of a regular wither.” Earthquake turned to everyone and said. “Excuse me for a moment.” He then went over to Bowtastic. “You don’t look like you need healing.” Bowtastic replied. “Just… do it please.” Earthquake’s hand lit up with a green aura slowly healing any wounds Bow had. “You should stop being so reckless you know brother?” As they finished Bow replied. “Sure thing brother. Thanks a lot.”

“Now that is just weird. A golem made of stone healing a lava creeper. And this elemental thing… are they really that powerful?” Honeydew said. “I don’t know but that required a lot of power. And the energy readings are amazing!” Twilight said. Suddenly they heard a giggle behind them.

A being made entirely out of water was behind them. “Hey the name’s Geyser, water elemental and I have to warn you. Do not get on Phoenix’s nerves unless you’re as powerful as me. He may be a short-fused idiot but he’s pretty strong.” She sounded like a little girl and that was really weird because the figure stood at the height of the heroes. Bow then noticed her. “Hey Geyser how are you doing because, oh I don’t know, it’s been four freaking years!” He said with a hint of annoyance on the last part.

“Calm down kids.” Said a female voice materializing in the wind. “Don’t start one of your little fights again.” They both looked at the figure annoyed. “We’re not kids Hurricane!” They said in unison. Earthquake stepped in. “Calm down will you? We’re reunited for the first time in four years and we’re fighting in the front of the non-elementals!” He said pointing at the heroes and ponies. “Fine.” Bow, Geyser and Hurricane said as they rolled their eyes. “I swear if it wasn’t for me they would have already killed each other. It’s that important being the voice of reason.” Earthquake muttered.

They started talking, introducing themselves, showing some powers and so on until Geyser noticed something. “Hey where’s Pinkie Pie?” Everyone looked around not noticing she was gone until that moment. When the ponies realized they started laughing. “You have no idea what’s expecting you.” RD said. The elementals and heroes looked at each other. “I have a bad feeling about this.” Earthquake finally said. Bowtastic then started thinking and said. “Why are we even still on this battlefield?”

Later they were in front of the shelter the heroes built and the semi-built house Bow made. “I should really finish this thing.” Bowtastic said. “Nice house, idiot.” Teased Geyser. “Stop it Geyser he had little time to work on it.” Hurricane said annoyed at her younger sister’s behavior. “Bugger off Geyser we’re going to have this house built before nighttime you’ll see.” Honeydew said aggressively. Bow turned around. “What do you mean we? You’re going to help me build this?” Xephos answered like it was obvious. “Of course! You saved us and this town, that means you’re on our side, and whoever is on our side is our friend. I don’t know about you but the heroes of Minecraftia help their friends.” Bowtastic didn’t know what to say, they already considered him their friend. “Thanks I guess.”

“Well we’re going to leave you to it. Goodbye.” Hurricane said while she dissipated into wind, Geyser turned into a puddle and where once Earthquake stood was now a patch of rocks. “What was that?” Twilight asked. “They don’t actually have physical forms. They’re pretty much spirits that are able to materialize in certain objects. As for me I do have a physical form so I need some sort of shelter. Yeah a tree is good for one night but I think I’m not going to leave that soon.” He said with a smile.

Bow turned to Xephos, Honeydew and KP. “So… how are we going to do this?” He asked. Before they could answer they heard the ponies whispering. “Anything we need to know about?” He asked raising an eyebrow. “Follow us!” Said RD while holding him and attempting to drag the lava creeper.

A few moments later Bow and the heroes eventually gave in and followed the ponies. “What is happening? Why is the town still deserted? I thought the princesses before going back to wherever they came from were going to warn the citizens the wither was dealt with.” Honeydew whispered. “I don’t know but I have this feeling I can’t shake off. Nothing bad is going to happen but there’s something bugging me hero.” Whispered back KP as they continued walking the deserted roads.

“Bow I want to know, how did you do that with the flames and such?” Xephos asked as they were still walking. “Herobrine developed me and my siblings to be weapons of chaos and mass destruction. We have the powers over the elements he gave us. Notch then gave me the purifying flames and I purified my siblings. We kept our powers over the elements and we fought some of the most powerful creatures in Minecraftia. Some of which you can’t even imagine!” Xephos nodded. “You know? I got the wrong idea of you Bow. Maybe we should talk more often because you’re a pretty cool guy in my book.” Bowtastic smiled at the statement. “Thanks! I agree. You seem very interesting spaceman.”  They both laughed.

They arrived at a building that Honeydew described with few words and still it was spot on. “It looks like a giant cake.” The others nodded as they saw the candy building. “Is this thing even safe?” Said Bowtastic looking carefully at the foundations only to be pushed by Twilight. “Just get in will you?”

As they got in the building was dark. “Huh… Why are we here?” Xephos asked. Suddenly the room lit up and loads of ponies yelled out. “Surprise!” At the sight Bow’s head lit on fire, the flames were waving wildly as if it was hair against a draft of wind. A certain pink pony appeared in front of them. “Were you surprised?” Bow only twitched his right eye. “Congratulations! I am officially startled.” He said pointing at his ‘hair’. “This only happens when I am startled. Luckily Geyser isn’t here, that annoying little brat.”

As he said that a bit of water transformed into Geyser. She was laughing to the point of losing her breath. “You should’ve seen your face dweeb!” She continued laughing. “I swear that every guy has to deal with some sort of annoying little sister, even if they’re not even siblings.” Said Bow holding a poker face. “Lighten up you idiot, this IS a party!” Bow sighed and face palmed. “That girl is going to be the death of me.” But she did have a point. “Alright let’s get this going! I have a house to build before night fall.”

Xephos interrupting the conversation said. “As entertaining as this is I think you’re too late Bow.” He then pointed at the moon up in the sky. “Well shit.” Bow managed to say. “Guess we’ll deal with that later.” Honeydew patted him in the back. “Dwarves are excellent at 3 things: drinking, mining and partying. Time to do the third. Let’s get this party started!” He shouted getting a huge cheer from the ponies. Bow put a smile on. ‘Well… might as well have some fun. Been some time since my last party.’ He thought.