The Return of Dawn Breaker

"Welp," said Applejack taking a sip of the grape punch that had been graciously given to her by Pinkie Pie, "I've got to admit, that you sure do know how to throw one hoot of a party."

"Thanks alot Applejack," replied Pinkie, "I'm very glad that you like it!"

Indeed the party was a riviteng success. Almost everypony they knew was there, including some of the kids from both Babs and Applebloom's schools. Even Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were there. There was, of course, some entertainment for the grown ponies as well. Berry Punch was enjoying herself with the cider (as usual), Rainbow Dash had been telling stories about her times in the Thunderbolt boot-camp, Rarity had come down from her dress-making to enjoy a little break with her friends, and Vinyl Scratch had been trying to fix her "Wubs" machine so there can be some music for this party. All of the ponies had been enjoying themselves at Babs' wonderful birthday party.

All except one. "The Great and Powerful" Trixie had been doing some minor magic tricks for the fillies that had shown up early. The children were in awe at her spectacular magical prowess, but Trixie felt as if her powers were being slandered. How dare they! she thought to herself as she made her hat disappear and then reappear once again. I am not a childrens performer, I am a great and powerful unicorn that has magical abilities far beyond that of all other ponies in Equestria! She was so angry at the fact that she was performing tricks to mere school fillies, that she had to end her show early so she could rest her thoughts.

I swear, if Pinkie Pie had not have given me the offer of free Apple cider, I wouldn't even be here right now. Trixie had been doing jobs like this one, ever since she gave her half-hearted apology to Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight Sparkle! she thought angrily. Ever since Trixie left Ponyville with her tail between her legs, she had sworn revenge against the one she blamed for all of this. And to think, she truly thought I was sorry after what she did to me!? She should have been the one apologizing to me! Trixie had been so preoccupied with her thoughts, that she didn't even realized that she had pounded a hoof on the countertop that she was sitting in front of. Nor did she even remember ever taking a seat. She looked aroung the saloon-like room. Nopony was with her except for Berry Punch, who had been knocked unconcious by the flood of apple cider she had just consumed. Trixie was disgusted, but did not show it. Instead, she swallowed her pride (and a couple pints of apple cider) and continued towards the children for her next trick.

Elsewhere, Rarity was talking and introducing herself to some of Applejack's relatives. After they had left, the only ones next to the punch bowl were her and Octavia. Octavia had recently come here with Vinyl Scratch, helping her unload Vinyl's huge "Wub" machine. Over the past couple of years, Rarity had become very comfortable talking to Octavia, who had moved to Ponyville just recently along with Vinyl Scratch. Octavia was the first to notice that Rarity was with her and began to start up a conversation.

"Oh, hello Rarity!" she began, "How are things with your boutique?"

Rarity did not respond. Octavia tried once again too communicate with her unicorn friend,

"How is your sister doing? I haven't seen her since the last party that Pinkie threw."

Rarity did speak, but not in response to Octavia's question.

"Octavia, I can tell you anything right?"

Octavia was brought aback by Rarity's question. Not that it was a very shocking question, but because it truly caught her off guard. Usually, all Rarity and Octavia talked about were their lives in Canterlot, and of course stories about when they moved to Ponyville. After collecting her mind for a little bit, Octavia spoke,

"Of course you can dear, it is why we became friends in the first place."

Rarity had only known Octavia for a short while, but she needed to share her feelings with somepony.

"I don't know how I can go on like this anymore."

Octavia was even more confused, "What do you mean, Rarity?"

"Spike has been gone for more than a year now, and I had no idea how much I had taken him for granted until now. I was not even able to say good-bye!"

After that last sentence, tears started flowing down her muzzle. That later transformed into an uncontrollable wale.

"Spike was so good to me, and all I have ever done is use him for my own selfish gains!"

This began to make Octavia uncomfortable. She did not know who this "Spike" was, but she quickly asumed that it was somepony very special to her. Octavia tried to consol Rarity, but Rarity just kept crying.

"Spike is gone and I didn't even get to tell him how much I love him!"

Suddenly, all of the tears that had been flowing from her eyes had stopped. She covered her mouth with both of her hooves. She had never said she loved anyone other than her family before, let alone Spike. She had finally gotten back to her senses and realized what she was doing to Octavia.

"Oh my goodness, I am so sorry Octavia! I know this must have made you very uncomfortable."

Octavia just grinned and said, "hey, what else are friends for."

Rarity suddenly remembered, "Oh my gosh!" she said, "That reminds me. I have to go put the final seems on Babs's very special birthday dress."

She waved a hoof to Octavia and Octavia waved back as Rarity presumed her masterpiece in the upstairs bedroom.

Unfortunatly, in Canterlot; a fight between the two princesses of the celestial bodies was under way. Celestia tried desperately to snap her sister back to her senses. The battle was so epic, that the walls and foundation of the room began to crumble with every blow made by each of the sisters. Celestia did not want to harm her sister, but Luna wanted the complete opposite. Dawn Breaker, who had been watching this great battle unfold, had gotten a little bored of watching these two quarrel, that he decided to take a rest. He proceeded towards the throne of Celestia and took a seat on the Luscius fabric that adorned the golden seat.

"What better place to take a seat," Dawn began, continuing to watch the fight from his comfy new seat, "then my lovely new throne."

Dawn began to remove his tattered rags, revealing his wings for the first time in weeks. He began to massage his wings with his front fore-hooves to try and get the stiffness out of his amazing wings. His wings were a bit smaller than Celestia and Luna's but still larger than that of a normal pegasi.

Celestia had been receiving a thorough beating from her sister. She had been punched by her hooves, tossed like a rag doll, and even stabbed by the horn of her own dearest sister. Celestia tried to defend herself, but with no avail as she was thrown to a nearby wall. The once great and illustrious princess, was nothing more than a bloody mess, as she lay on the wall. Celestia began to speak, but barely as blood from her nose had begun spilling into her mouth.

"Lu... Luna. Why are you doing this?" Begged Celestia.

Luna, once again, did not answer her fallen sister. Instead, she gave her the same blank stare she gave her before the fighting began. Luna began to slowly creep towards her sister, ready to strike. Celestia knew her sisters intentions and this brought her to the brink of tears.

"please Luna, don't do this! I am sorry for whatever it is I did! Please speak to me!"

Luna stopped suddenly, and stared down upon her sister. Luna still wore the same blank expression on her face and Celestia began to believe that she had finally reached through to her sister. In reality, however, Luna had stopped her furious rampage only at the will of Dawn Breaker.

"I'm afraid she can't hear you, big sis," He began.

His jeweled eye had begun to glow an even darker red, indicating that he had been using some sort of magic.

"Luna is fully under my control, and there is nothing you can do about it." Dawn Breaker began to cackle wildly as he approached his sister. "You see, she is under my control. Bending only to my wim and nopony else's."

Celestia's sadness was now replaced by unbridled hatred towards her brother.

"You," she began. Her voice was muffled as she tried to hold in her screams of pure rage. "Why? Why have you done this? What is it that you want?!"

Dawn had stopped his maniacal laughter to answer his fallen sisters question. He now wore a look of disgust and he directed it down towards Celestia.

"To take back what is rightfully mine, of course." He replied. "You have been safe-guarding everypony for far to long now. It is time for a change."

Celestia had begun to understand what her younger brother had been speaking about.

"You don't mean," Celestia gasped. "No! You can't. It is not their time yet! Everypony still has time to mature and grow. You cannot just come here and destroy thousands of years worth of progress,"

Celestia had begun panting urgently. Although all of this information was unspoken, Celestia had finally begun to understand her brothers true intentions. Dawn found joy in watching her sister hyperventilate before him. He began to speak again.

"I'm glad to know we are on the same page!"

Celestia knew that her brothers intentions were not to rule the world, but instead to rid it of all life.

Back at the party, everypony who was invited had finally showed up and then some. Applebloom had gotten bored of sitting and waiting for Rarity to finish the dress she was preparing for Babs. She also knew that, even if it were finished, She surely would not have gotten to take a peek. Instead, Applebloom had begun to go and look for the birthday girl herself. She searched and searched but could not find her favorite cousin. During this search, Applebloom had run into her two best friends in the whole world. One was a sunset orange pegasi with purple hair growing on both her head and her tail. The other, was the very well dressed, but not very well mannered sister of Rarity. She had snow-white fur growing from her body which was accompanied elegantly with her light purple mane and tale.

"Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo!" squeeled Applebloom as she ran to hug her fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders who had returned the hug with ones of their own. "I knew you fellers were gonna make it."

"Of course," said Scootaloo very matter-of-factly, "we weren't gonna miss this party for the world."

Scootaloo had always been a very brash little girl, just like her idol Rainbow Dash.

"So, where is the birthday mare anyway?" asked Sweetie Bell.

"She's with Rarity right now, gettin' fitted for her birthday dress." answered Applebloom.

Sweetie Bell knew her sister had been working incredibly hard on something but she was afraid to ask what it was, fearing she would break her sisters concentration.

"Is there anything to do here?" asked Scootaloo. She had been very bored ever since she arrived.

"Well," replied Sweetie Bell. "There is pin the tale on the pony! Or we can play some jump rope outside!"

Scootaloo let out an exasperated huff.

"Those are baby games! I want to do something really fun!"

Applebloom was very bored as well, and she also beleived that the games that Sweetie Bell suggested were very childish, but was not so up front about it as Scootaloo was. Scootaloo began thinking about what it is they could do that would be fun and fit their age range. Scootaloo liked to beleive she was very mature for her age and that she is a grown-up that would do everything without fear. The only pony that she had ever confided her fears to was Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo began scoping the room for an activity when her eyes caught a glimpse of the Cider Room.

The Cider room is the storage facility where Babs' parents kept all of the cider. Their were usually ponies that would guard the door to the room during large get togethers such as this, but it appeared the ponies were gone enjoying themselves in the festivities leaving the door unprotected.

Scootaloo let out a slight grin as she turned to the other girls, "I think I have an idea!"

Pinkie Pie too, had been enjoying her own party. After all, she went through so much trouble preparing it, she should at least try to enjoy herself. And enjoy herself she did. She went around both rooms partying with both the children and the adults. She played hop-scotch with the fillies outside, she hammered down some Ciders with Applejack and Rainbow Dash, she even helped Vinyl Scratch with her "Wubs" machine (Which she suprisingly knew alot about.) Pinkie was truly the "hostess with the mostest".

During all of this fun, she noticed something was outside. It was hard to tell who it was, but that didn't stop Pinkie from going outside and seeing who it was. It was Iron Will, a largely built, muscular minotaur. He had been passing out brochures to his next class at the plaza in Manehatten. Iron Will knew he all about Pinkies party and he thought he could fly by and see if he can make a quick buck off of the party-goers. Pinkie was unaware of Iron Wills little scheme. She was more worried about why he was not inside at the party. Iron Will was had recently finished handing out the rest of his brochures when Pinkie approached him.

"Hi there!" she said with her normal care-free tone.

Iron Will jumped when he heard the voice for it had caught him by surprise.

"no need to be so scared of me, tough guy," said Pinkie, "why are you not in at the party?"

The minotaur adjusted his tie, which was strange seeing as that is all he was wearing at the time.

"Pinkie," he began with his harsh raspy voice. "I already told you, I am a business professional first. I'm not in the mood for your parties."

Pinkie Pie began to get excited. She wanted to convince Iron Will to come to the party, for she is the Element of Laughter.

"Come on Iron Will," she said tugging at his tail, "we have alot of fun things here, like games and food and apple cider..." Pinkie was cut off mid sentence by the big, blue minotaur as he continued to make his leave.

"Sorry Pinkie, but I can't stop by. I have fliers to hand out and money to make."

Iron Will turned to grab his suitcase filled with brochures, but what met him instead was a sad faced Pinkie Pie. Her eyes had gotten wide, and she extended her lower lip as if she were a begging dog. In the most adorable voice Iron Will had ever heard, Pinkie Pie begged

"will you pweeeeese stay for the party? Onwy fow a wittle?"

she had replaced all the L's from her little plea and replaced them with W's. This was enough to break the bulking businessman as he replied,

"I guess I can stay for a little while." Pinkie gasped with exitement and began to escort Iron Will into the house.

Celestia had begun gasping for air as she took a crushing blow from her sisters hoof to the back of her neck. Luna had, once again, begun her mindless onslaught against her sister. Shining Armour could hear crashing and banging from the throne room. Cadence looked at her husband with utter fear and their little daughter, Kiki, was holding on to her mothers cape. Kiki was to the brink of tears as she hid her face inside of Cadence's cape.

"Mommy," she began, her voice muffled by the cape of her mother. "Will Aunt Cellie be all right?"

Cadence began to comb her daughters hair back with her softly touching hoof.

"Of course, my darling." Soothed Cadence. She felt her daughters trembles as she now began to cry, staining the pink robe of her princess mother. Cadence also felt uneasy and began to tremble. Celestia, she thought,Please don't let us down.

Shining Armour was also terrified, but he did not show it.

Instead, he looked towards his wife and said "You know what I have to do."

Cadence nodded only barely, for she was stricken with too much fear. The captain put on his purple helmet and kissed his wife. When he lowered his head to kiss his daughter, Kiki had wrapped her hooves around him with as much force as her little legs could exert.

"Please," she whispered softly into the ear of her father, "promise me that Aunt Cellie will be all right!"

Shining Armour stood still for a moment. He did not know what this new feeling was. Was it fear? He could not tell for he had never felt this way before in his whole life. After snapping back to reality, Shining Armour only knodded towards her daughters plea. Kiki was slightly reassured, but Shining Armour was not. Shining Armour did not want to promise that Celestia would be okay, for he feared that was a promise he could not keep.