It was time. Another world would stand before the most powerful being in the multiverse, Oran. Another world he had to destroy, and most likely another failure. Last time when he was here, a thousand years ago, he won without even a scratch. He didn’t even need to slow his walk towards his goal. How could this world win against him now?

Oran didn’t remember much of the last five years. The only things he remembered were that Aren seemed to be happy, for whatever reason, and that he got disturbed by some changelings some years ago. He didn’t remember more than that about this world.

He slowly descended down the mountain, and he touched the grassy plane, which was surrounded by trees. He remembered that this was called The Everfree-Forest. He slowly began walking towards the mountain on the horizon. The mountain on which Canterlot was built.

He walked undisturbed for quite a while until he came to a clearing. He felt that he should be here and stopped his stroll. He stood before a hill. There wasn’t anything special about this clearing. He looked up, and saw that a familiar biped walked over the hill and stopped at the top. Oran grinned when he saw his apprentice looking down to him.

“Hey old man.” Aren said slowly, but not with aggression. Oran only nodded once. Some time went by where neither of the two moved. Arens’ expression slowly changed from a nice smile to a sad smile. He looked down at the reflection of his sword. “I never thought this day would come this fast.” Oran crooked an eyebrow.

“What day do you mean, Aren?” His apprentice only chuckled a little and looked him in the eyes.

“The day when this finally ends. Your journey. My apprenticeship.” Oran had a bewildered look in his eyes.

“Do you honestly think that it is over today? You know that I never needed to use my full power against anything. You shouldn’t sell the fur before you hunt the bear.” Oran said with a serious voice, and Aren only shook his head.

“I don’t know if this will be the last time we meet.” Suddenly his expression changed to a serious one. “Listen here master, this is the strongest world you have ever seen. It’s a shame that you don’t remember what happened here. I hope you have your fun because it won’t be easy today.” He said with motivation glimmering in his eyes.

Oran smiled happily. “I’m glad to hear that. Now, show me that your words aren’t empty.” He said, and Aren straightened himself. Opening his right hand, he held it in front of him. Slowly, lightning materialized in his hand. The flying ball of pure electricity glimmered in its’ white color, and Oran only shook his head.

“You’re going to use lightning against me? You know that this is not enough.” He exclaimed, and Arens’ expression changed into a cocky smirk. Suddenly, the color of the lightning changed from white to blue, and Oran instantly felt a deep danger coming from it. His eyes widened, and Aren shot the soul-lightning at him.

Oran instantly screamed and erected his most powerful barrier. He built it all around himself because lightning had the property to go over barriers, and attack the caster from behind. When the attack impacted with his barrier, he instantly felt the force of it and put even more into it.

Screaming aggressively, he put everything he had into it and held it up. Aren continued shooting lightning and made even more lightning-bolts flying out of his hands. He also started screaming in exertion and also used every last bit of magic he had. Oran had a hard time. He never saw an attack like that. What was this element? How could it be this strong?

He needed to do something, but he couldn’t. If he would use any less magic, the barrier would break, and the unknown lightning would surely kill him. He only hoped that Arens’ magic would run out before his own.

A whole minute passed in Arens’ onslaught, and Orans’ magic was dangerously low. He couldn’t keep this up for any longer. Suddenly, the flow of lightning stopped, and Oran looked to the front, only to see Aren being one meter in front of him, swinging his sword at him. Oran instantly sidestepped and jumped back.

Aren had none of that and followed after him. While back-stepping, Oran pulled out his own sword and blocked a strike from Aren. Instantly noticing that Aren placed a lot of spells on his weapon, he used the last of his reserves to dispel them. They both stood there, swords clashing at each other. No one of the two went back and only used even more strength to push forward.

Slowly the hill beneath them began to lower, and formed a crater. While they both stood there with their swords clashing, both sent out spells and dispels at each other. All of them got countered, and lightning and fire came out of the swords in a chaotic way. Suddenly, Oran pushed Aren back and threw him away with one mighty push.

Aren jumped back with a back-flip, landed, and instantly bolted forward again. Both swords clashed, but this time there was no blocking. Both slashed at each other, and the slashes impacted on each other, and every impact created a shockwave that went through the forest, and rustled the leaves in the trees.

One swing from Oran came through, and Aren jumped over it. He slashed down, and Oran went under him. Using the power of the swing, he jumped out of the way of Arens’ slash and went behind him. He extended his swing and slashed at the landing Aren, just to get parried by his sword. Turning around, he went forward and punched the body of Oran with his shoulder.

They fought with unreal speed, and suddenly Aren jumped to the side. Oran followed him. He was much faster since he was stronger and older. After a short while, Oran got to Aren and used a gigantic overhead-swing to slash down on him. Aren turned around and blocked the swing, with his sword while one hand held the blade, and another held the hilt.

Oran used all his strength and broke through the defense. When Aren was stunned due to the shock on his hands, Oran slashed at him and cut off Arens’ left arm. Gritting his teeth, Aren jumped back and landed on the hill. Oran quickly gave chase and slashed at Arens’ other side. The slash got blocked with the sword, which was held in Arens’ last remaining hand.

Suddenly, Aren smirked, and a blazing light shined from beneath them. Oran looked down and noticed that they both stood on a gigantic trap-circle. He pushed Aren away, and jumped back, out of the circle, but impacted with a barrier.

“Sorry gramps, can’t let you exit.” Aren said and the trap-spell activated. Black chains were wrapping around Aren and Oran with unreal speed. None of the two were fast enough to block it. They burned when they touched the skin, and wrapped themselves around each wrist of the two. Suddenly, the barrier vanished, and the chains let loose. Oran and Aren jumped out of it, each jumping in a different direction.

Oran looked down at the chains at his wrists and frowned. He knew those. These were partian-closing-chains. A special kind of chain that could only be used with a trap spell. It takes nearly forever to build a trap with this spell, but it was worth it. Those chains block the regeneration of magical energy for a long time, and Oran had nearly no magic left. This looked bad.

He could remove the chains if he could get some time to concentrate. Those chains were extremely hard to break, even for him. He looked up from his wrist and looked over to Aren, who just laughed.

“Time to begin for real, old man.” Then he flicked with his remaining hand, which was still engulfed with a chain, and suddenly seemingly hundreds of soldiers came running and flying out of the forest. Every night and day guard who has been trained by Aren charged at Oran. Aren winked once at Oran and then vanished out of existence.

Oran had no time to think about what Aren planned, and readied himself for the attack of the guards. He made one huge slash, and a shockwave flew at the army. They all evaded it like they saw this shockwave at a daily basis, which they did. Seeing that this didn’t work, Oran cursed silently under his breath and readied himself.

The first who arrived, were the Pegasi, which instantly got swapped out for earth-ponies with shields, which were ridden by Unicorns with readied offensive spells. Being surprised by the swap spell, Oran jumped back to not get smashed by the earth-ponies. When he went back, the Unicorns unleashed their spells at his new location. He blocked and deflected a lot of them, but not every spell was shot at him.

There were many explosions on the floor beside him, which bathed his body in fire. The fight just began, and he was already injured. This looked bad. Seeing that the ground around him was filled with magic, he instantly jumped as high as he could. Not a second too early, because the floor around him got changed into two gigantic plates that smashed into each other at the old place he stood.

In the air, he didn’t get any breathing breaks because an ass full of Pegasi all charged at him. He blocked one spear with his sword, used his other hand to pull the Pegasus to him, and broke his neck. Using the corpse, he shot himself a little more upwards, to evade the other attacks. He took his sword in one hand and threw it down while it was spinning extremely fast.

The sword cut two Pegasi apart, but suddenly on top of the rest of the Pegasi, unicorns got ported there, and shot a barrage of fireballs upwards to Oran. He didn’t have much time. If this hit him, he would be history. He instantly punched the air above him, creating a gigantic gust that pushed him downwards. One of the fireballs grazed him on one of his legs, but it wasn’t a big injury.

He evaded the other fireballs, and was nearly at the flying guards again, but then something happened. Every single guard got swapped out with bombs. Orans’ eyes widened, and he gusted himself to the right, just when the bombs exploded. He evaded the combined force of all the bombs, but one explosion still hit him, while he was blocking his body with his arms.

The shockwave shot him away, but he didn’t even think about taking a break. He instantly looked at where he was flying, and made a front-flip, evading a charging guard with a spear. After completing the flip, he landed on top of the guard and pushed himself below him. He grabbed the guard and threw him with all of his power at another one, who was running away with his sword.

The guard impacted with the other one, and both died. Using a tiny spark of magic, he catapulted himself to his sword, and picked it up while rolling on the floor. After the roll, he shot himself skywards and evaded the ground exploding beneath him. Preparing himself in the air, he suddenly spun like a gyroscope and unleashed one gigantic shockwave in the air.

The Pegasi which were at the same height as him, tried to avoid it, but this shockwave was way bigger than any before. He got around 40 guards with that move. The corpses of the sliced guards fell down to the floor and made a sickening crunch. Oran landed some time later, and started running at the Unicorns. Shooting one large shockwave to the gathered unicorns, he used his aura-vision to see where they planned to port.

At every destination they planned to evade to, he unleashed a mini-shockwave that was not exceptionally big. If the unicorns ported or not, didn’t matter. They were dead either way. Some saw what he did and changed their plans, and swapped with some sticks and stones. Those weren’t many. Around 75 unicorns were lost with that maneuver.

Not pausing, he looked around again and saw the gathered earth ponies. He instantly ran to them, but suddenly there was a gigantic red explosion that impacted the floor before him. He got grazed by it, and his shoulder got burned. Looking to his right, he saw an arcadian. It was obvious that he shot the red ball, but something was different.

This arcadian had unreal magical power. It looked like his power was over 4000 crunox. How was this possible? Aren still had his 3400. Suddenly he felt endangered, and crouched down, evading a slash from a night-blue Katana. While crouching, he rolled away and looked back. There stood a blue alicorn with a Katana. Her power also was unrealistic. It was at around 3500. How was this possible?

He suddenly turned to the right, and blocked two white swords that flew at him. An alabaster alicorn was using her magic to hold them against him. 3800 power. He jumped away because a flurry of ten green stars was flying through his old position. Looking to his left, he saw a changeling. 3700 power. How could they be this strong? He knew that they didn’t even have half that power 1000 years ago. It was physically impossible to get this much stronger.

Suddenly his eyes widened with realization. He jumped up, and looked at the trap-spell in which he stood before. It was a dull gray. “Fuck!” He cursed to himself. Now he knew how they were able to get this powerful. When he was attacking the guards, the four immortals used that time, to absorb the saved magical energy in there. The whole saved magical energy was now in those four immortals.

He landed and instantly shot a shockwave at Chrysalis. She evaded with morphing into an insect, and Ravien shot one of his chaos-bolts at Oran, who redirected it at Celestia. She easily sidestepped it and charged at Oran again. Her two swords slashed at him, and the blocked both swings with his sword.

Celestia didn’t stop and charged with her horn at the open spot in Orans’ defense. He instantly jumped back, but he suddenly felt a gigantic force to the head. Celestia used a force-back-spell. These are spells that use the power, which was used to jump back, and throw it at the target. So when Oran jumped back, all the physical power he used to catapult his body away from Celestia, impacted with his head.

He was stunned for a short duration, and Luna used this to shoot her Katana at him. He calmed down quickly and blocked the Katana with his sword. Instantly afterwards, he leaned back to evade some green stars. He grabbed the Katana and blocked more green stars which were flying at him now. He threw the Katana at Chrysalis and caught one star with his hand. Chrysalis’ eyes widened, and she instantly jumped to the side. The Katana grazed her at the back, but the cut was not too deep.

Still falling, she looked at Oran and saw her own star flying at her. Out of reflex, she caught the star in the air and stopped its’ progress to her head. Suddenly, Oran put his sword over his head and blocked an overhead swing of Raviens’ two handed sword. The floor beneath Oran shook with a “boom” and his knees’ buckled. This slash was empowered with magical energy.

Stepping to the side, he let the swing go through his old position and threw his sword at Celestia. He didn’t throw it to damage her, but rather to block the lightning-strike that was charging at him from her position. The lightning impacted with the sword and got absorbed into it. Oran turned around and punched Ravien in the gut. Using unreal strength, he shot him over the clearing, and he impacted with a tree, which got totally annihilated.

Not a second too early, he turned around and blocked a Katana-slash with both of his flat hands. He didn’t completely stop the force, and let the sword together with the body of the blue alicorn fly over him. When he landed on his back, he used his legs to kick Luna in the body, and catapulted her also into some trees.

He evaded more of the green stars and jumped at Chrysalis. He picked some of them up while they flew at him, and threw them back at her. He held to one of it, and slashed at Chrysalis, but she got swapped out with Celestia who blocked the attack with one of her swords, using the other one to strike at Oran.

He blocked this strike with a second star, he had in his hands. Suddenly, Celestia jerked her head to the front, and then he saw it. She had his sword in her mouth. She prepared a slash at him, and Oran was prepared for it. He would punch the sword out of her mouth before it touched his body. He punched down, but the hit never came. Instead of blocking a slash, he punched right into the tip of her horn.

His middle-finger got badly damaged by this, but he gritted his teeth, and still went for his sword. He got it and used it to attack Celestia. She hoped that he would be stunned for a little longer, but this was not the case. He tried to behead her, but she went back. Instead of beheading her, he cut of her horn. Celestia instantly screamed while being in pain.

Oran didn’t let up, and struck again at her head, but she got swapped out, and in her place was a damaged Ravien with his sword again. Orans’ slash got easily blocked by the immense arcadian sword, and he heard Celestias’ screaming form the other side of the battle field. She was save, for now.

Ravien smirked, and he suddenly exploded into a huge red explosion of chaos. Oran got caught in it and received some heavy damage to his legs and arms. He had some burns and deep cuts in them, but Ravien wasn’t alive anymore. He sacrificed his body in order to damage Oran. At least, his plan was successful.

Suddenly he jumped back again and avoided a slash with the blue Katana. He grabbed the top of it, and pulled Luna in, giving her a powerful close-line. He picked her up before she fell to the floor, and held her to his left side. The green stars that were flying straight at him, instantly stopped their flight and went back to Chrysalis.

He took his sword, and slashed at Luna, but she got swapped out with a stick. Cursing under his breath, he saw how a red earth-pony was running at him. He crooked an eyebrow. The earth-pony jumped, and Oran was sure that he will get swapped out with something more dangerous. He was right, but it was not what he expected that got swapped in.

A with blue fire burning, smirking Aren was directly before Oran, and his eyes widened in shock. Oran jumped back with as much force as possible, but it was too late. Aren impacted with the floor and the environment got destroyed in one large blue soul-fire explosion.

Aren was intelligent enough, to absorb his own explosion, and looked at the smoky area. It was hard to see, and he didn’t know if Oran was still alive. While the guards and the immortals fought, he concentrated on removing the chains on him, and on healing him. The smoke slowly lifted, and Arens’ expression changed into a frown.

Oran was still alive. He used the absolutely last bit of magical power to defend himself against this explosion. Now he was 100% spent. His life flashed before his eyes back there, and he actually had to smirk at that. It was over 15 million years ago, when this happened the last time. This dimension truly was better than all the other ones.

Aren didn’t let up and instantly charged again at him. He already used up all his magic again through this explosion, but he was healed again and could attack him head on. He slashed at Oran, and he blocked. Like at the beginning they traded blows, and the powers that clashed at each other were again damaging the surroundings.

Suddenly Aren jumped at Oran, and Oran lifted his sword. Before Aren could get him, Orans’ sword pierced through Arens’ stomach. Aren didn’t stop and pushed him to the ground. When Oran hit the ground, the sudden stop, made the sword go even further into Aren, but instead of frowning or having a shocked expression, Aren only smirked. He coughed once and said something.

“Chains… Of… Flesh!” Suddenly the muscles on his back and on his arms and legs, exploded out of his body and wrapped themselves around Oran. All the flesh and muscle moved in unreal speed, and Oran was thoroughly subdued in this. Chains Of Flesh was a spell that created extremely strong chains out of the body of the caster. They were only used in desperate situations.

Oran was completely pinned to the ground and couldn’t move. He knew that the chains weren’t there for long since they vanish quickly. He looked up because Aren was laughing like a dying man. “It’s over.” He simply stated through coughing fits. Oran didn’t quite see what he meant and turned around.

His eyes widened. There they were. Six ponies, flying in the air, having some kind of necklaces and crowns on their heads. Just when he saw them, a gigantic rainbow came from them. He tried to get out, but the chains were too strong, and he used his last bit of magical energy on the defense against the soul-fire-explosion before. There was no escape.

The beam impacted on him and engulfed him in a bright explosion. The ponies fell down to the floor and were also perfectly spent. It took an enormous toll to use the Elements Of Harmony. They were just sprawled on the ground and lifted their heads to look around. Luna walked over to them.

“Is everything alright?” She asked, and they slowly nodded her. Chrysalis also walked to them and stood by their side. Together they looked at the smoking crater before them. They heard heavy breathing in it, and they shook their heads in disbelief. Some of the fog lifted, and there stood Oran. He was nearly destroyed. Blood was flowing furiously out of many cuts, and his left arm was entirely encased in stone.

“Impossible! How can he withstand a direct hit from the Elements?” Twilight asked no one in particular. Her voice sounded deeply shocked. Oran slowly lifted his head, and enraged eyes were locked at the six ponies who damaged him. Suddenly, he saw something on the corner of his vision and looked at it.

He felt nothing but disbelief. Leaning against a tree at the other side of the clearing, was the battered and torn body of Aren. Aren was hit with the elements, just like Oran. How could he be back there? He looked closer. There was no mistake. That was Arens’ body. But if Arens’ body was back there, then what was with him hit by the elements?

He turned around, and the last of the fog lifted. There stood a white alicorn without a horn. It sparked and glowed fiercely with power. He took a step back. Celestia was even more powerful than before. How could that happen? Suddenly it hit him. The Elements Of Harmony were pure harmonic magic and were able to differ between enemy and friend. So when Aren had him pinned, Celestia swapped herself in before the beam hit them.

Since she was the princess of the whole land, the Elements’ couldn’t possibly deem her an enemy. So instead of damaging her, they gave her their strength. Oran was near death, and Celestia was radiating with Orans’ magic, the elements’ magic, and her own magic. She opened her eyes, and they had no color. They were a pure shining white.

Lightning came out, out of all parts of her being and stroke down everything in a close radius around her. She lifted her swords with her multiverse-magic, since this didn’t need a horn, and the swords also suddenly glowed in an intense white light. With an intense cry of battle, she charged at Oran and slashed at him.

He was barely able to evade some slashes, and block some with his sword in his remaining functioning hand. Celestia screamed, and all around her, everything was lifted with a burst of lava. Oran and Celestia were surrounded by towering lava-pillars that created an arena. There was no escape.

He silently cursed under his breath, and readied to go at it again. Celestia instantly stormed at him, blazing with pure power, and threw a lot of elemental beams and bombs at him, while slashing with her weapons. He was barely able to evade everything and slashed at her. Suddenly, his sword got shot down by a stray spark, of Celestias’ power, and the slash got aborted.

He evaded to the side, and they traded blows again. Whenever he would get a slash at Celestia, it would just get shot down with her power. Now Oran knew what she did. Aren apparently managed to teach her in this short amount of time, how to build a magical-reaction-shield around herself.

A magical-reaction-shield was a spell, which encased the caster in a magical-reflex-field. When a foreign object came into the field, the magic would lash out and would stop it. With Celestias’ amount of magical resources right now, it looked nearly impossible to win against her. She wouldn’t run out of magical energy any time soon.

He was at a bad spot. Being trapped with an overpowered immortal, in a lava-engulfed arena. He evaded another spell and rolled to the side. He had totally no idea, how he could win this fight. Celestia continued attacking with everything she got, and he always evaded or blocked. He needed more time to think up a plan.

After a minute, she finally got him. She was able to graze his leg, and he nearly fell down. Raising her weapons, she prepared to slash down on him, but suddenly there was a noise that sounded like glass just broke. Not a moment later, the whole clearing was leveled in a monumental explosion.

Even some parts of the forest around the former-clearing got blasted into nothingness. The size of the explosion was unreal, and nothing could be seen. The smoke slowly cleared, and a coughing Luna, which was battered with cuts and bruises, slowly rose from some debris. She rose and below her some ponies also slowly stood up.

Luna saved the Elements Of Harmony from that huge blast. Before the blast hit, she had tried to absorb it, but it wasn’t fire. After she got hit hard, she quickly changed her absorbing barrier with a normal barrier and just blocked it. Nearly her whole magical energy was spent. Looking down at the also injured Elements, she asked.

“Is everypony alright?” The elements coughed, and slowly every head nodded. Hearing sound from her right, Luna turned to the origin of said sound, and saw how Chrysalis moved some debris to get back at her hooves. She also had a ton of injuries all over her body. Suddenly Twilight shouted.

“Where’s princess Celestia?” All heads perked up and looked around the clearing. Then they saw her. She was badly damaged sprawled at the border of the destroyed land. They sighed once when they saw that she was alive. Suddenly, they looked back to where the explosion came from.

When the smoke lifted, they saw it. Oran was flying in the air, lightning coming out of his body, hitting everything in a two meter radius. His cuts and bruises healed at an incredible rate, and his arm wasn’t encased in stone anymore. They looked shocked at him, and they saw the reason for it.

The chains that were suppressing his magic were broken, and all the power was flowing back to him. He looked around and saw Celestia laying beside the battered form of Aren. In his absence, Aren was able to heal himself to the point where he wasn’t in immediate life danger anymore, but he was far from ready to fight, just like Celestia. Her near dead body was nearly impossible to move.

Oran was ok with this outcome, and let them sleep there. He moved his head over to the rest of the ponies. His expression changed into a smile, and he slowly floated over to them. His victory was assured. It would be impossible for them to win against him anymore. In a short time, his body was completely healed, and he was back in his best condition.

Chrysalis and Luna nudged the elements to move behind them, and readied their weapons. Oran had to laugh at this.

“Do you honestly think that you can stop me?” He asked them with a loud but deep voice. They didn’t flinch and only looked even more serious at him. Chrysalis shot some of her stars at him, but they got quickly obliterated in the air by an orange lightning-blast. All her weapons were entirely destroyed.

“An interesting weapon, but it is too weak.” He stated with a deep voice. Luna shot her Katana at him, but it got sliced in half by an unseen force. “This is not any better.” Luna and Chrysalis went closer together and readied themselves. Why were they still fighting? Can’t they see that it was over? Oran was back at his full power, and they were fully spent.

He looked in their eyes, and he didn’t belief what he saw. He saw hope. A huge spark of hope. How can they feel hope now, in the darkest hour? What is it that gives them hope? He looked over to Aren and Celestia and watched closely. They were not asleep. Their breathing was too fast to be asleep. They were talking. Activating a hearing spell, he listened to their conversation.

“For I am not eternal, and my enemy is stronger than the sun.” Aren recited.

“For my enemy is stronger than the sun, and I am not eternal.” Celestia followed.

Oran pondered about this. Suddenly he realized that they both were near dead, but they didn’t really use much magical energy. They both were completely full, and in Celestias’ case more than full.

“As we fight together to bring the danger down.” Aren said.

“As the danger must be brought down, and we fight together.” Celestia stated.

Suddenly, Orans’ eyes widened in realization. He knew that chant. ‘Oh fuck, if they succeed in this, I am in seriously deep shit.’ He said to himself in shock. He instantly turned entirely in their direction and charged there. Chrysalis cursed under her breath. It’s bad that he noticed it already. They were not finished yet.

She ported herself, Luna, and the Elements in the way between Oran and his two targets. Oran cursed once, and shot a laser at Aren and Celestia, but Luna went between it and built a barrier. She screamed when she felt the power behind that beam. It was too much to handle, but she had to hold out. She had to keep him away from the two.

Cursing under his breath, Oran shot an electrified, burning chain of steel at the barrier, and Luna fell down on her haunches, but she still held up the barrier. Oran started throwing every spell he knew at her, and finally she collapsed together with the shield. He threw another explosion at her, but this one got blocked by a barrier of Chrysalis.

“I don’t have time for this.” He told himself and used a spell to stop time in a certain radius, but it somehow didn’t work. “Damnit, Aren placed some anti-time-spell-wards somewhere. Seems like it’ll have to do without them.” He instantly used a teleportation spell, to get to Aren, but the targeting-dot got swatted out of the air, by Chrysalis.

Oran grinded his teeth. How can she be able to use her magical aura like this already? He decided to go with the old tactic and threw everything he had at Chrysalis. She buckled over quicker than Luna, and her shield also got destroyed by him. He threw a last explosion, but this time it was stopped by Twilights’ shield.

He cursed again and threw more at her. After the second blast already, she fell nearly into unconsciousness, but suddenly her friends ran to her side.

“Don’t give up!” Pinkie screamed while she pushed herself against Twilight.

“Ya’ll can do it!” Applejack said while she placed a hoof on Twilights’ shoulder. Another blast hit, and she felt the damage again, but she had to hold out.

“We believe in you!” Fluttershy said while hugging Twilight.

“Don’t fall now!” Rarity screamed while she held one of Twilights’ hoof. Another blast hit and Twilight felt like she should just go to sleep. Suddenly she got slapped in the face by Rainbow Dash.

“Don’t you dare giving up now!” She shouted at her and put her hooves around Twilight. Everypony put all they’ve got into Twilight, and they all began to glow suddenly. Twilight felt like she had power, and she put more into her barrier. Oran was confused, but continued to throw more spells at them.

Twilight held out the longest from all of the barriers. Her friends gave her the strength to hold out even longer than a trained immortal, but also this strength had its’ limits. After 15 blasts, she started getting sleepy again. She didn’t give up. Equestria needed her. Her family needed her. Celestia needed her. Aren needed her, and especially her friends needed her.

She held out but fell down on her haunches again. Oran had enough and threw a gigantic explosion at them. Nearly the whole forest was blown up. Oran simply defended himself against it, and when the fog cleared he looked down. Everything was black and burnt. There were no trees, and there was no grass. The wasteland before him shouted nothing more than just “total destruction”.

When the fog around Aren and Celestia cleared, he had a shocked look on his face. The barrier of Twilight still stood, and she stood there panting heavily, but not two seconds later, she collapsed, and the barrier vanished. Her friends were laying unconscious beside her.

Oran smirked when he saw this, and shot a laser at Aren and Celestia. It was over.

“FOR WE ARE ETERNAL!” Aren and Celestia shouted at the same time, and suddenly everything was bathed in white light. Oran was confused at the beginning, but then he realized what happened.

“DAMNIT!” He screamed while falling down to the white earth. He got to his knees and hammered his fist into the ground. “DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!” he repeated all the time. Those two succeeded. He was in real deep shit now. He got up again and readied himself for battle.

He waited patiently, but there still was too much fog. From the ground, he couldn’t see anything. The only thing he could do was waiting. Suddenly, there was a quiet sound that sounded like a sword-tip was gently placed on the earth. When that sound ringed, all the fog that could be seen got blasted over the horizon, like it was being pushed away by an explosion, but there was no wind. With a frown, Oran looked to his opponents.

Amidst the unconscious ponies all laying around, there was one being. A female human, not bigger than Aren. Her body was slender and agile, and her whole torso and legs were encased in a shining silver armor. The armor was perfectly suited for her, and her hands ended in long silver gloves that glistered in the light of the undergoing sun. On her back, was a long silver Katana. It was nearly 2 m long.

Her hair was extremely long and went down to her knees. It was completely silver and moved in the breeze of the ether. Oran rarely saw such a beautiful woman, but this was no time to think about her beauty right now. He readied himself for battle, but the woman only gently lifted her right arm and held it above the unconscious ponies.

She opened her eyes, and they shone in a mixture of light blue and white. On her back, silver wings were extending themselves, and they gave her appearance even more beauty. She slowly moved her hand over the air of the unconscious ponies, and blue shining crystals gently floated down to them like snow. When the crystals touched them, they began to move calmly, and they opened their eyes like they had a comfortable sleep.

Orans’ eyes widened when he saw this spell. He never saw it, but he remembered something when he was still really young. In his first millennia. It was said that there was a spell that could heal any injury, any disease, any grief. The spell “Embrace Of The Angel”. It was only a legend, and no one remembered it after a while. Oran was the only one to this day who remembered this legend.

The ponies slowly got up and looked around. Suddenly they were in panic when they realized what happened and looked even more frantic around, but when they saw the goddess beside them, their eyes stopped at her. Their frantic movement stopped, and deep calmness moved through them. Twilight looked up at the shining goddess like she just took a look at paradise.

“Who are you?” She asked slowly and calmly. The goddess opened her mouth, and when she spoke, it sounded like violins and harps were playing in the skies.

“My name is Aeos.” The ponies stopped their breaths when they heard her voice. It was such a beautiful voice. Aeos began to smile warmly, and looked at them. “You did a good job holding out. I am proud of you.” She slowly and calmly stated. Twilight felt even calmer than before, but she remembered something, and looked around.

“Where are Aren and Celestia?” Aeos chuckled a little, and it sounded heavenly.

“Celestia and Aren spoke the Oath Of The Eternals. Their bodies, minds, and souls were merged, and thus they created me.” Twilight never knew what the spell does. They were told that it was a last resort and that it is not important that they knew it. They only had to do everything to hinder Oran in interrupting it.

Aeos slowly got her long Katana and pulled it out of its’ sheath. She readied it in one hand and turned to Oran, who also was ready to fight. They were both nearly 100m apart, but they felt like the other one was just beside them. Aeos’ gaze slowly shifted from warm and friendly, to serious. She looked deeply in Orans’ eyes.

“You are the one I was called to defeat.” She slowly lifted her free hand before her and pointed at the sky with her index- and middle-finger. Closing her eyes, she leaned her head at her two fingers and said one last thing. “May your soul find peace.”

Suddenly, her eyes opened and Oran instantly moved his sword up as fast as he could. It was extremely close because if he would have been even a split-second slower, he would have been carved in half. Aeos was directly in front of him, and her slash was being blocked by Orans’ sword. She had run the 100m in nearly no time. One moment she stood by the ponies, and instantly after, she already slashed at Oran.

A large splash of blood exploded on Orans’ cheek. Even if, he blocked the strike of Aeos, it still created an unreal sharp wind that even cut him when he blocked it. Behind him, the clouds at the horizon were cut in two. The cut instantly healed due to Orans’ fast regeneration. Aeos instantly changed her stance and made a 360 with unreal speed. Oran was barely able to align his block to the other side of his body.

A gigantic slice went through his left upper body, but it also closed. He tried to take a step forward, and slashed at Aeos. He couldn’t even take the step before his left foot got cut in half, and Aeos already jumped back. This speed was unreal. It was as if Oran was moving in slow motion. His leg already grew back, and it was healthy again before he ended his step.

Due to Orans’ unreal amount of magical power, his body was regenerating at also an unreal speed. Not stopping his assault, he shot twenty different offensive spells at the same time at her. One slash with unnatural speed later, every spell, laser, bomb, and everything else was cut in half, exactly like Orans’ arm from which the spells emerged. It instantly healed, but Oran knew that this couldn’t go on forever.

It costs an extreme amount of magical energy to heal limbs in that speed, but he needed to re-grow them this fast, in order to not die. He slashed at her, but she only stepped around the slash. It looked like she was casually walking at Oran, and cut all four appendages of him, which instantly grew back.

She didn’t stop and began cutting apart every limb again and again. Oran couldn’t even concentrate anymore due to all the pain he was receiving. His magical energy was going down exceptionally, and after not even five seconds he was utterly drained. He didn’t have any magical power anymore. Slowly he collapsed. He panted heavily and looked up at Aeos, who had still a judgmental gaze in her eyes.

There was nearly no hope left for him. He was spent again, and his opponent still stood before him, with not even a scratch or a droplet of sweat. He fell down to his knees, and while he kneeled before Aeos, it looked like he offered his head to her.

“Why won’t you do it? Why do you not take my life?” He asked, and Aeos answered.

“Here in Equestria, we do not believe in killing. There is always a second chance. Face your defeat and accept your punishment.” She said while holding the Katana to her side. Oran coughed and slowly moved his hand at Aeos’ leg. Aeos let him do so, and did not stop him. When he touched it, he smiled and looked up at Aeos.

“Aeos, it was nice meeting someone stronger than me. Farewell.” Suddenly, Aren and Celestia flew out of Aeos, and she vanished. The ponies all gasped, and couldn’t believe it. Aeos was gone, just like that. Oran chuckled and stood up again. His chuckle slowly evolved to a full out laughter.

Aren and Celestia shook their heads and looked at each other. Celestia looked disapproving at Aren while he only scratched his head in embarrassment. “Oh come on. I didn’t think he would be this dirty to use a dividing-spell on us.” Celestia only rolled her eyes and looked back at Oran. Her magic was back to normal, just like Arens. Oran was still out of power, but he slowly regenerated his magic.

Aren jumped up and readied himself for battle. Celestia followed. Oran calmed down and also readied himself. Aren enchanted his weapon with soul-fire and charged at Oran. He only evaded the slash because he knew that if a weapon enchanted with this element would hit his weapon, he would get damaged pretty hard.

Aren continued throwing a barrage of attacks at him, and also used a soul-fire bomb to damage him. The attacks were pretty effective, and Oran was receiving more damage than he was regenerating. Celestia quickly followed in and also used her two weapons to attack Oran with everything she got. They both were one soul, and they fought like one. They never got in the way of the other one and combined their attacks perfectly.

Oran parried Celestias’ attacks while he evaded Arens’. Even if, he was able to part Aeos, Aren and Celestia were still dangerous. Suddenly, Aren got Orans’ left hand and cut it off. It tried to regenerate, but somehow it was impossible. Oran cursed under his breath. It seemed like this new element blocked any magical energy that tried to banish it or tried to get past it. If Aren hits him often enough, he won’t be able to regenerate at all.

Suddenly, Oran jumped into Celestias’ swing, and lost a leg of his, but he ignored it in order to behead her. Like earlier, she pulled her head back, and only her newly grown horn got cut off. She instantly screamed and moved backwards, while Aren attacked Oran, but missed again.

At least Celestia was out of the fight for now. Aren went more and more for a successful attack. Oran saw this and used his chance. Aren was way too aggressive right now, and when Aren made a slash that was too wide, Oran stepped into him, and pierced his body with his sword. He quickly pulled it out again and kicked Aren away. He flew over 25 meters, before he fell to the dirty burnt ground.

Oran saw that Aren was trying to heal himself, so he jumped over and place an anti-magic barrier around him. He didn’t want to end him right now. It was obvious that Aren was unable to move anymore. Being satisfied with his work, he walked over to Celestia. She had still unreal pain, due to her horn being cut off. She didn’t see that Oran was beside her and not long after, her two back-legs got cut off. She fell down and screamed some more.

A time later, she looked up at Oran, and he simply looked down to her. “I think we were here already.” He bellowed with a deep voice. “Just like 1000 years ago, you lay before me, without hind-legs.” She lowered her head and hammered on the dirt beneath her. She was so frustrated. They lost, again! How could they lose again?

Suddenly Oran turned around and slashed in the air. He blocked the sword that has been thrown at him, and he saw that it was Luna who tried it. Celestia saw her chance, used her multiversal-magic to pick up her horn, and threw it at Oran. He didn’t look. It was perfect. Suddenly his hand shot up, and he caught the horn. He turned around and smirked at Celestia.

“Trying to pierce me with your horn, very cle-“ Suddenly, a white horn pierced through his chest from behind him. Shock was plastered on his face, and he looked down to his chest. There was the tip of a horn coming out of it, but he blocked it. He looked at the horn in his hand. He slowly turned his head backwards, and there he was.

“Celestia lost two horns!” Purple Edge said while holding the horn in his wings. Suddenly the horn in his chest began to glow, and then there was an explosion. It was loud, and it was accompanied with much blood splattering around. Luna, Chrysalis and the Elements ran over to the two.

The area was still smoky, and they went in there, and when they found Celestia, they pulled her out of the area. They shared a cough and sat down. When the fog finally cleared, they saw the purple Pegasus standing there, with a torn wing, and cuts and broken bones all over him. He held a spear at the throat of Oran. Or at least at what was remaining.

The total underside of his body was torn apart, and only from lung and upwards was he laying at the floor. The ones, which could stand walked over to him. They looked down, and they saw him. Suddenly, He jerked, and he began to breath slowly. With a raspy voice, he said.

“End it. *pant and caugh* You won.” Everypony looked at the purple guard expectantly. He readied for a swing, but then he simply swung the spear over his back, and back into its’ proper place.

“Here in Equestria, we do not believe in killing.” He said with a serious tone and turned around. Oran looked bewildered, but finally he had a smile on his face. He began laughing. It got louder and louder. Suddenly, all ponies stood amidst a forest. It was the clearing they began their fight in. Looking around, they saw that everyone was alive again. Every guard was alive, Ravien and Chrysalis were fully healed, and Aren was leaning against a tree, having a happy smile.

“Well, I believe we have to find another solution then.” They heard from a direction, and they saw a fully healed Oran. They instantly readied themselves again, but Oran only held up his hands and signaled for them to stop.

“No need. You already won. I acknowledge my defeat. I won’t fight you anymore.” They slowly lowered their stances and looked at him, still careful. “If you do not want me to die, then I think we should do something different.” He put a hand at his chin and pondered for a while. While he did this, Aren walked over him.

“I said it. This world isn’t like the others.” Aren looked at him and smiled.

“Yes, you are right. And I am finally happy to end my journey, and to finally find peace.” Aren crooked an eyebrow.

“But I though you didn’t want to die since the Equestrians don’t want it.” Oran nodded.

“I already have another solution. I think everyone should be ok with this.” Suddenly, there rose up a giant mountain in the middle of the Everfree-Forest. It was a feat that looked mightily impressive. When it was as high as Mount Dragonborn, it stopped growing.

“This mountain, harbors many adventures. I created it, so young ponies and changelings and any kind of living creature can go into it and feel the thrill of battle and adventure without endangering their lives. Whenever someone dies in there, they will get ported out to the front of the mountain.” He smiled warmly. “The kids will love it.” Then he turned to Aren.

“I can’t believe how much you have grown. I never saw anyone as strong as you, and I am proud to have you as my apprentice.” He went to him and embraced him in a hug. Aren was a little taken aback, but when he felt the warmth of his old friend and master, he couldn’t hold himself anymore. He began to cry and to unleash all his sadness.

“Whatever happens, know that I will be always proud of you and that you will never be able to disappoint me.” Oran let go, and looked at Celestia. “Celestia, I think it is time we part ways. Remember me, and don’t forget to change the diapers.” He said, and Celestia suddenly had a dumbstruck look on her face.

Not a second later, Oran just wasn’t there anymore. They looked around, but he was nowhere to be seen. They all felt that they will never see him again. Suddenly, a cry like coming from a baby was heard from the ground, and everyone looked down. There at the old position of Oran was a little alicorn-baby. It had a yellow coat, and a red mane.

Everyone looked at it, and finally they got it. Oran didn’t kill himself. He turned himself into a baby-alicorn. This way, he could finally end his journey, and he wouldn’t die. Aren bent down and held the baby up. They both stared at each other, but after a short while the baby had to sneeze. A collective “D’aaaw” went through the ponies when they saw this. Aren turned to Celestia.

“So what now? What do we do with him?” Celestia chuckled once and took the baby in her magic. She floated it over to her, and looked at it more closely. With a sad gaze, she turned her eyes to Luna.

“You take it.” She said slowly, and Luna hadn’t expected that.

“Me? Why?” She asked, and Celestia only sighed.

“Because, I will leave with Aren in some time, and I don’t want to take a baby with me to a dangerous journey.” Luna understood but only looked at it. After a while, she took the baby with her own magic and looked at it more closely. The baby simply looked back with interested eyes. Suddenly, the baby began cheering, and it tried to touch Lunas’ mane.

Luna chuckled a little, and let him go on her back. He played around with her mane.

“I think we can keep him.” Said Ravien from beside Luna. Luna looked at him bewildered that he accepted it so easily, but then smiled. Suddenly, her head jerked back, and she let out an ‘ow’. It seemed like the baby liked to pull on Lunas’ hair. Everyone in the clearing had to laugh at this.

They couldn’t stop laughing. It wasn’t because this was so funny. It was because it was finally over. The fight for which they trained five years for. The stress of the battle. The blood. Everything finally had an end, and peace could come back to Equestria.

The mane six went back to their home and families. The guards continued their work. There was always danger, and they had to be ready. Chrysalis went back to her hive, and took over again, but the relations between Equestria and Changlia were much better since then. Some years later, both countries were allies and new laws were installed that guaranteed a peaceful coexistence of the two races.

Blueblood continued ruling day-court, and Luna took over night court again. Shining Armor went back to his wife Cadance in the Crystal Empire. Ravien decided to continue living in Equestria with his love, and his new child. Thus, peace came back to Equestria, and everypony could have a normal life.

Celestia and Aren were on top of Mount Dragonborn and looked over the land. With a last smile and a farewell, they both disappeared, but it was sure that they will come back one day.

Author's Note

I am no guy for long epilogues.

Apart from that, we finally are finished. My first story can finally be tagged as complete. I really hope the last fight was to your liking, and that you liked the story in itself.

I will take a break from writing serious stuff for now. Maybe I write some one-shots or a comedy story? Well for now I am happy to finally have finished my main story.

It would be nice if you would give me a last comment to tell me how you thought the story was, and with that said.

See you guys at my next story ;)