The Seventh Element of Harmony

Chapter2: The Escape

Many years ago, when Celestia was the new ruler of Equestria, she knew many would come and try to take the throne. Celestia knew she could defeat whoever tried to defy her, because she wanted to protect her royal subjects.

However, there was one that she knew, even with her magic, she could not defeat. It was the Alicorn that only wanted Equestria for her own needs. To be a tyrant. She was the one who tried to take the throne of Equestria in the past and her name was Nightmane.

You would think she wouldn’t be so much trouble, even with an innocent name. However, she is a beast. She will kill all those that stand in her way.

When Celestia defeated Nightmane, she had to put her in a prison. The reason was because Celestia was almost killed by her, and made Celestia very weak the amount of magic she used against her.

Celestia made her prison on a side of a mountain, far away from Cantorlot. She also put her in a purgatory or hell in this instance. It was a hell to Nightmane, and she swore, when she got out, she would make Celestia prey for mercy. The place almost turned her into a psychopath.

Her hell consisted of being isolated from the world. She almost went insane. She was also chained in a large contemned cell that had been protected by magic, with guards with the most powerful of weapons, ready to strike. They would attack her even if Nightmane moves her legs. However, that is what Celestia did to her. From Ngihtmane’s point of view, it was much worse than that.

She had been kept there for 2,000 years. If you ask, what were her signs of her escape, well, she still had a following.

It was a little cult, which worshiped her, and believed she is the true ruler of Equestria, and not Celestia or Luna.

The signs were the cult rising, and planning for her escape.

When Celestia saw the signs of this, she ordered the guards at the mountain to double security. On the night of the mane six’s departure from Ponyville, the cult had been traveling for days, and had finally reached the mountain.

The mountain had been the most undiscovered, isolated, and dangerous mountain to climb. Only the bravest of the brave would dare to go towards the mountain.

The cult had been planning this escape for years, and determined not to fuck it up, for it was their only chance they would ever have. If they failed, they would be put in a dungeon in Cantorlot, or Exiled from Equestria, for Celestia had enough patients with them.

The cult had planned 3 or 4 cult members to kill the guards that were ordered to go to the mountain for double security. They then put on their amour, and sneaked through the guard posts.

They then singled each other, and killed the guards at the posts, and let the other cult members in. as soon as they got prepared with the weapons, they started the fight, and tried to kill every single guard who was on or around the mountain.

The fight lasted about an hour, before the last guard’s neck was snapped.

They then set up posts to make sure no other guards came. If some did come, they would kill them, for if they let them go, they would have an army at the posts within minutes.

Then, the leaders of the cult, or also known as the wise ones, where escorted through the prison cave system in the mountain.

They were there to set Nightmane free from her prison.

They had brought everything they need to break the cell and chains open. However, the problem they ran into was the magic spell that was casted upon the cell.

They were expecting this, and brought their supplies to create a potion that would be able to destroy the barrier of magic that sealed Nightmane. The problem though, it will take a few hours to do it, for the potion was complicated to make.

They soon got started on the potion, for it was very sensitive to handle. If they had made it early in advanced, they would have died, for the potion is very sensitive. If the potion was to shake as much or even a single drop was on the ground, and not on a specific magic spell, a deadly gas would have been made. The potion could only work if it touched magic, or a magical barrier.

As they were making it, the guard posts did run into a few guards that were coming in for security. The guards were a few hours late, because theircarriage had been lost for a while, but eventually found its way to the mountain.

The cult guards made sure none were alive. One guard even begged for mercy and promised not to tell anypony of what he saw, for he had a family. The thing was with the cult was that they were cruel, and didn’t respect the ones that weren’t part of the cult. One of the cult members soon killed the guard and made him suffer a slow and painful death.

A few hours went by, and the potion was finally made. One of the wise ones carefully took the potion in the bottle with both of his hooves and slowly walked over to the cell with caution.

As he made it to the cell, he touched a little bit of the barrier, and it burned. The magic barrier was made to burn whoever who tried to break open the cell.

If the cell was successfully opened, the barrier would still be there, and Nightmane would burn into ashes if she ever went through it and Nightmane knew it.

The wise one then took the pain and tried to concentrate how if he was successful, Nightmane could reward him for the pain he went through to free her.

The wise one slowly poured the potion all over the barrier as much as possible. The magic slowly started to decay and eventually wither into nothing.

As soon as the barrier went away, the tough members of the cult then broke the door open with an iron weapon. They were also successful. However, there was one thing that Celestia never told anypony about.

There was also a triggered explosive if the cell door is to be opened. It was Celestia’s idea, if the magic barrier was to be somehow destroyed, an explosive trigger would go off. However, she wasn’t the one who put the explosive trigger on the door. In fact, an inventor of the prison cell put it there, and unfortunately, his calculation of the explosion radius was wrong.

The explosion did kill the members who broke open the cell; however, it destroyed the cell, and almost made a cave in happen.

When all was calm and silent, the wise one’s and other members stared at the empty space that used to be the cell. They were afraid that they had killed their leader, and felt guilty and wanted to kill themselves for what they have done, however, they didn’t see any remains.

Then, all of a sudden, a hoof popped up from the broken rock, and out came Nightmane.

She stretched her back and had a small little grin on her face.

She was back.

She was also released early as well, because she had thought the members would have come to get her near hearth warming’s eve.

As she finished stretching, all the members and the wise ones bowed down to her, and worshipped her, as If she was god.

She then went up to one of the wise one’s, who had poured the potion over the barrier. She gave him a look, and asked in a venomous voice, “Are you the one who purged the magical barrier, and suffered burns?”

The wise one was so happy, for he was acknowledge for his efforts. He then gladly looked up at her, and said, “Yes. Yes I am your highness.”

As he said those words, he could imagine what award he would have gotten. Perhaps she would heal his burning wounds or maybe a place by her side. All the wonders he had thought.

However, he had thought wrong. Nightmane then grabbed him by the neck with her magic. She made sure to make it tight around the neck.

She then said, “How dare you fucking hurt me! Especially your leader! You were a fool to destroy the magical barrier. You could have killed me when the explosion was triggered!”

Nightmane then threw him against the wall, and he soon later died on the ground.

Before he died, he heard faint noises from Nightmane, and had a blurred vision of what he saw. He then took in the last breath of air, and died where he was thrown.

As Nightmane looked at the dying pony who she had blamed for almost killing her, she talked to the rest in a dark voice.

“As for the rest of you. I expect this will not happen again. For if it is repeated, I will make all in this room pay. I also have to thank you for releasing me from my imprisonment. I am also aware of Celestia knowing of my escape. However, she expected me to escape near hearth warming’s eve. Moreover, that’s what we are exactly going to make her think. We will study her every move and plans she has for me.”

She then thrust her right forelegs out and used her magic to make a black raven bird appear on her foreleg.

She then said to the bird, “I want you to go find Celestia, and report back to me when you have found out her plans is for me.”

The bird then nodded and flew off into the night sky. Nightmane had watched as the bird flew off into Luna’s night, and then turned her attention back to the ones in the room.

“As for right now, this will be our base until I kill Celestia, and take my rightful place as ruler.”

She then walked off to go see outside, for she had been locked away for 2,000 years, and wanted to see what had happened while she was gone.

Some of the members were afraid of her, but they knew she was the true ruler of Equestria. The wise ones, however, had a big smile on their face, and thought she will rise again and become the new ruler of Equestria