Heart of Shadows

by ShadowChaos

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Sad
Length: 1375

They did everything they could to protect Equestria. They only have one more hope.

Shadow and her friends got caught up in a lot of mess. They had to travel around Equestria and come back with an army of ten thousand armoured, trained ponies ready to fight Draikea and Gryffia who are planning to overthrow Equestria. Warning- I made up some of these places.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-02-24 20:52:22 UTC

Sonic Lightning

An Alicorn with a black coat paced around nervously. Her black, spiky hair was flying in the wind, and the midnight purple highlights stood out. She has purple horse shoes, with elegant etchings. Her stormy grey eyes, the rim midnight purple, were filled with worry. Her unicorn horn and large wings stood out as well. It signified she was a Alicorn. Midnight purple armour with beautiful etchings was strapped onto her. Shadow Chaos was her name. Shadow originated from Cloudsdale, her father Pegasus, mother unicorn. She was waiting for her dearest friends, Lightning, Ice, Blaze and Star.

Somewhere Else -

A mint blue Pegasus was trudging tiredly through the forest. It's mane was blonde with pink highlights. Her green eyes were focused in returning to the kingdom. A royal blue Pegasus was following her. He had sea green eyes and a brown mane. One of his wings was twisted in a weird angle. His eyes were full of pain, but he carried on following the mint blue Pegasus.

"How much longer do we have to walk, Sky Strike?" he asked

"Not longer Thunderstorm. Just a few more miles." Sky Strike replied

Thunderstorm sighed. His right wing was broken. While sending a message to Appleloosa, they found it destroyed. An army of griffons stood in all the chaos. The two of them alone couldn't beat the griffons, and they retreated. However one griffon saw Thunderstorm, and lunged for him. Sky Strike killed him, but he managed to break Thunder's right wing. For a member of Celestia's most trusted army of Pegasi, this was the worst thing that could happen next to death.... or two broken wings. Thunder had to get to the castle quickly. They arrived at Canterlot, and he sighed in relief. He didn't realise how far they went.

"Wait here. I'll alert the royal guards." Sky Strike said, and ran off into Canterlot hurriedly

Thunder sat down in relief. He sighed yet again, and twitched slightly. A sick feeling filled his stomach. Deciding to take the chances, he walked into the gates of Canterlot, where Sky was talking to guards. Two of them ran forward, and helped Thunder walk. One hoisted Thunder on his back, and ran to Celestia's castle, to the infirmary to Strawberry Sprinkle. She was a light pink horse with a red mane, and hot pink eyes. Hr cutie mark was a red plus with little strawberries and sprinkles. Celestia's most trusted nurse, she can heal almost anything.

Ponyville -

Rainbow Dash cleared the skies, trying for a quicker score than ten seconds. Yet again, she couldn't beat it. She sighed, and relaxed on a cloud.

"Have to hurry!" she heard from above her

Looking up, she saw a grey pony with a blonde mane. She had yellow eyes, and her cutie mark was a yellow thunderbolt. Her grey wings were outstretched far. She was high in the clouds, but Rainbow Dash could still see her.

"Sonic Lightning!" she yelled

She bursted forward, lightning trailing her. She was surrounded by lightning, now as fast as lightning. Zooming past Rainbow, she hurried somewhere.

"Damn, why is Canterlot so far?" she muttered

"Hey! Who're you?" Rainbow asked

She stopped, lightning still around her. "You don't know me? I'm Lightning Dash!" Lightning introduced

"I'm Rainbow Dash." Rainbow replied

"I've heard of you. You're the element of loyalty!" Lightning recalled "And I saw you at the Wonderbolts academy. I quit that after I started to make the night with Shadow, Star and Luna."

"You make the night?" Rainbow was dumbfounded

"Yep. And day, and storms and other weather." Lightning added

"Woah." Rainbow thought about doing that

"You did the Sonic Rainboom as well!" Lightning remembered "I saw that at Cadence's wedding!"

"You were there?" Rainbow asked

"Yeah. I had to do the weather and stuff." Lightning said

"Cool." Rainbow said

"Oh yeah! I have to get to Canterlot. Now!" Lightning said, and took off "Bye Rainbow!"

"Bye Lightning!" Rainbow called

Still on the cloud, Rainbow decided to go into Ponyville. She hopped off her cloud, and descended to the ground. She walked into Ponyville, to be greeted by her best friends.

Element Wielders

Draikean Mountains -

A dragon was siting in it's large cave. It's scales were the colour of freshly spilled blood, and menacing emerald green eyes looked out over Equestria. Smoke was rising from Appleloosa. Griffons had attacked. All of a sudden, a royal blue dragon with dark red eyes flew in, blocking out the sunlight.

"Ryios. What are you doing here?" the red dragon grumbled

"That's how you treat a visitor, Solaris?" Ryios asked

"What do you want?" Solaris narrowed his eyes. He was short tempered.

"The griffons are attacking Equestria already. If we don't act now, they'll get all the land." Ryios explained the situation

Solaris thought for a moment. "Get Lunaris and Floira. We'll gather up dragons and plan an attack on the griffons." Solaris said

"Ok." Ryios flew out the cave, off to get the dragons

Celestia's Castle ~ Infirmary -

Thunderstorm was sitting in one of the hospital beds, while Strawberry Sprinkle tended to his wounds. Every once in a while, he would wince as Strawberry rubbed the numbing ointment. He buried his face in the pillows, and Strawberry sighed.

"How did this happen?" she asked

"A griffon got me at Appleloosa." Thunderstorm replied, his voice muffled

"Damn griffons." Strawberry grumbled

"Hopefully Draikea, Skieh and Oceirpia won't attack." Thunder said

"Hmm. Maybe." Strawberry though about those chances

Sky Strike walked in with Lightning Dash, and Thunderstorm raised his head.

"Thunder! What happened?" Lightning asked worriedly, hurrying to his side

"A griffon got me at Appleloosa." Thunder explained

Lightning stamped a hoof. "We need to get rid of them before the situation gets dire."

"Didn't you need to go see Shadow?" Sky questioned

"Yeah. I have to go, bye Thunder, Sky!" Lightning called as she ran out of the room

Shadow's house -

Lightning raced by. She quickly flew straight through the door, not bothering to open it.

"Shadow! Where's the others?" Lightning asked

"They're not here yet." Shadow replied

As soon as she said that, a cream Pegasi burst in. Her mane was fiery, and her wings trailed off in fire. Her eyes looked like a raging flame. She resembled a Phoenix. Her cutie mark was flames.

"Blaze!" Shadow said

"Yo!" Blaze replied

The room chilled. A hiss escaped, and a white mist formed. A pony stood. It was pale blue with a dark blue mane. Her eyes were icy blue. Her cutie mark was icicles.

"Ice! Do you know where Star is?" Shadow asked

"Late, as usual." Ice replied

After a few minutes of waiting, impatient huffing and the occasional stamp of a hoof, Star appeared breathing heavily. Her flank was covered in scratches. A claw got her on the left side of her face, and on her right front leg.

"Star!" Ice ran to her aid

Shadow shut her eyes, and concentrated. She imagined Star's wounds being healed, and her horn started glowing black. Once the light reached a climax, Shadow let it loose like a dam breaking and letting a river flow through. The light engulfed the room, then faded after a few seconds. Star's wounds were healed. Shadow was panting however.

"Thanks Shadow." Star said

"It's ok." Shadow said "Now we have to go get the ponies that harness the elements. Celestia said we needed them, right?"

"Yeah. They are Twilight Sparkle the element of Magic, Applejack the element of honesty, Rarity the element of generosity, Rainbow Dash the element of loyalty, Fluttershy the element of kindness and Pinkie Pie the element of laughter." Ice listed them

"Hmm. They all live in Ponyville, correct?" Shadow asked

"Yup. Twilight has a baby dragon named Spike, as well." Blaze added

"Let me get out the elements. And some things to prepare." Shadow said

Using her magic, she got a saddlebag for everypony. They all attached them on, and Shadow got out the elements, and said,

"Who wants what element?" she asked

"I'll take loyalty." Lightning said

"Kindness." Ice said

"Laughter." Blaze said

"Honesty." Star said

"I'll take generosity. We'll all get Twilight with the others." Shadow said