Endless Night

Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Silver Blade, and Fluttershy travel down the eastern road; trying to find a clear path up the eastern mountans. When Twilight asks where Applejack and Rainbow are; the other three just shrug and say that they do not know. After a long and aqward period of quiet; Silver breaks the silence. "Maby I could fly up and check for a path. Would that be OK Ms. Captan Twilight Sparkle mam'?" The unicorn does not take kindly to the reviling sarcasim; and stops the group. "Silver, shut the fuck up and fly with the wings He gave you. Be usefull for once." The colt acts falsely suprised; putting his hooves before his face. "Oooh; The little girly's usin' big-boy language now! Im so scarted!" Silver flaps his wings; rocketing himself high into the air. Pinkie turns to Fluttershy; bouncing with neverending exitement. "Hey Fluttershy! Wanna play a game?" The pegasus lifts her head, acknowliging the pony. "Sure Pinkie. What kinda game?" The pony jumps extra-high into the air, pli with the happiness of a social interaction. "Well, ya see; there are all these rocks around," The pink pony pushes a small; grey rock with the cleft of her hoof. "And I thought we should count how many loose stones there are! Dosent that sound super-duper fun?" The pegasus looks back to the ground, and puts back on her serious face. "No. Not at all Pinkie." The pony looks confusidly at the pegasus; and a spark of apiffony ignites in her mind. Sneaking slowly behind the pegasus; Pinkie Pie charges at Fluttershy. Grabbing the mare by the legs; Pinkie brings Fluttershy onto her sholders. The Pegasus looks shockedly down at Pinkie; not knowing if she should feel angry or confused. "What the hell are you doin' Pinkie?" The pony puts the inquiring Pegasus back on the ground, and shrugs. " 'Just wanted ta make ya' feel better, Fluttershy."

Twilight Sparkle looks up to the decending colt; ready with many questions to ask. "Silver, did you find any clear way up th' mountans?" Silver softly impacts the frozen ground; slowing his momentum to talk to the unicorn. "There is one path leadin' up th' mountans, but it sure as hell wont be easy farin'. Im guessin' its at least ten Fifen before the Elder's house. An't we got to deal with that fuckin' 30kP snow too" Silver points to the mountans; and makes a broad sweep of his forhoof. "If we follow the path in a waving motion; and dont cut through the woods, we should be fine. The narrowest part of the path is only like 3 Kips wide. As long as we dont slow down; and we keep walking; we can make it there before any major frost damage is done"The mare looks down at her scroll; wrighting down what she had just heard. The colt turns back to Twilight. " There's just one little problem," The mare looks inquiringly at Silver, as if silently asking him to continue. He takes a long breath; and pushes back his turqoise mane. "We have little to no food and no means of starting a fire. If we get lost or linger a bit too long; we'll run out of supplies and freeze to death. Or, we will starve and eat each other. Either way; we'd be fucked" The pony continues wrighting; getting a sarcastic smirk across her face."Shit just gets better and better every time."

About 3.5 Fifen up the mountanous path; Silver begins to count the supplies in his sachel. When he looks up again; he notices that all of the attention is on him. Standing up off the rock he sat uppon; he took a long draw off the last cigarette in his bag. Flicking the glowing stub to the ground; he sighs. "Fuck. Well; I guess this is the 'Point Of Said Return'. We dont have enough supplies to get down the mountans. Its either we keep going; or we die" Pinkie looks up the hill; standing on the tips of her hooves in an attempt to oversee the trees. "Common' lazy bones! Its just a little further! I can see the house now! Its all nice and warm and..." The Pegasus interupts the pink pony; not playing along with her game. "Pinkie. You cant see it. The trees are at least five Stren high! Anyways; who says that this elder guy is gonna be there? He's probably dead! And we will be too if we dont get down this fuckin' mountan!" Twilight shouts back at the spiraling mare. "Fluttershy! Did you not hear a fucking word that Silver said! He just told us we CANT go back down the mountan. And even if we were to go back; what would be there?! Just hundreds of dead corpses of our friends and families! No. We are going up the motherfucking mountan. If you don't like it: stay here and freeze for all I care! Just dont slow us down!" Twilight turns with Silver and Pinkie; resuming their acent up the almost vertical mountan. The Pegasus stands in shock of the countering revile; and slowly gains her sense again. Charging up the hill; Twilight has barely enough time to turn before the mare is on her.

Silver Blade stops; waiting for the two mares to halt their incessent bickering. He sets himself on a large stone; sharpining his knives, when he hears a familiar voice in the trees. He turns; trying to shunt off the curiosity that grew within the back of his mind. The colt hears the voice again; this time using difinitive words. "Silver, come here...." The colt stands; unsheathing his machette and walking cautiously to the thick of the woods. After about ten paces into the forest; he hears the voice again. Male in tone, it seems as if he has heard it before. Looking around for the source of the sound; Silver Blade realizes that he is alone. Alone in the densest woods of Equestria. "Fuck." The pony slams his hoof on the trunk of a birch, repeating the curse over and over. "How fuckin' stupid could I be?! Here I am; telling the others how to get up the mountans, and I get lost! What fuckin' irony!!! The voice comes again; this time nearer. "Silver, where the fuck'v you been all 'dese years?!" The colt turns to the sound; now clearly remembering what its voice belonged to. Out of the air comes his father; in all his prime. Blood comes from his nose and eyes; but Silver does not concieve that. He sees only his father; the man that he had lost long, long ago. The colt falls to his knees; his mentality shattered to the point of hysterics. "F-Father? I thought y-you were dead!" The stallion that stood before him laughed, taking this serious question as a joke. "Boy, you have much to learn" Silver's father helped the colt to his feet; shaking him loosly. "Anyways. I got somthin' I need to ask of ya." Silver; still terribly shocked by the sight of his father, nodded with half acceptance, half unawareness. "Good. Silver, my boy. I need you to go back. Back in time to th' first war. I want ya' to find and track th' Fourth power. Become what it make. Blend in wit' th' socity. Prevent this hell from ever happening. Do yo' hear?" The colt nods again; this time grasping what he is told. "But father; I thought there were only three surviving powers?" The stallion laughs again, coughing up blood onto his face. "Yes, that's what th'a taught you. But you'll BE the Third Power. Will ya do it? Fo' me?" The stallion stands back; waiting for his son's responce. The colt nods; not willing to go against his fathers wishes. "Good. Good. Go now, my son. Bring the wars to an end." With this the stallion pulls a pistol out of his coat, leveling it with his offsprings forhead. "You shall return, my son."

The quarrel between the two mares ceices when a gunshot is heard in the near woods. Twilight shoves off Fluttershy, Not wishing to fight the Pegasus any longer. Dusting herself off, the mare gathers her spilled supplies that lay on the ground. Twilight turns to Pinkie and Fluttershy, bolth of whom seem as distressed as she. "We need to get to the elder's house. NOW"

Once again we join the (Now only three) ponies, each within sight of the elders house. It is a small, rickety shack; only contrasting from the trees by its cracked window panes. A door sits loosly in its joints; just waiting for gravity to pull it down. The pink pony turns to the other two; jumping up and down with asurance. "See! I told you it was just a little futher! I wonder if theres lots'a food and stuffs inside!" Twilight sighs in a bend of releif; walking slowly to the door. Fluttershy stands, shocked that the place even exists. Pinke Pie turns to the exasperated Pegasus; still bounding with happiness. "Lets go inside guys! I bet he's gonna LOVE having guests!" Trying to be as ginger as she could opening the door (to no avail), the rotted wood collapses to the ground. Stepping inside, one can feel the warmpth of a wood stove circulating the air. Feeling awfull for destroying the Elder's door, Twilight looks for the aged stallion. Pinkie is the second to enter, closely followed by Fluttershy. The pink pony runs directly to the table. Seeing a fresh loaf of bread laying on the table, Pinkie cannot help but fill her depraved stomach. Twilight turns into the main bedroom to see a releiving sight. There, in an old, oaken rocking chair; sat the reason for all of their toils. The elder looks inquiringly at the unicorn that stands in his doorway, and rases himself slowly from the chair. "I've been expecting people up here for a long, long time. These mountans, do not provide much in the way of company. But you have not come all this way to hear my life story. No, you have come on a great accord." The unicorn begins to state her piece, but is inturrupted by the Elder. "Come, come. I will not explain your prediciment without the settling factor of food in your stomachs."

At the lenghty table, the three companions sit, enjoying the copious (For a starving body) amounts of food. After igniting the candles that stand on old nethicite holders, the elder sits at the end of the table. Taking out a large, dusty book that which pages are yellowed by age; he turns to an old document that lay bound inside the book. He hands the parsol to Twilight; telling her not to open it untill after he finishes his statement. Sighing deeply, he begins to imart his knowlige with the other three. "The evil you face has no name. It has no shape or form. It only resides inside you; taking the form of your worst fears; it draws out as much emotion it can, and kills you. Normally, this evil is supressed by the enlighting powers of the sun, moon, and stars. But when the princess was murdered; the sun fell out of the sky, giving full reign for this creature, this Abomination to reap its deadly hooks into the souls of everyone and everything. You three are the last remaining ponies in Equestria. I know this is a heavy burden. But you must look at the depth of your soul and relize that the only thing giving this evil power is you. If you refuse to accept that fear is unabrigable; then it will surely kill you all. All I ask is for you three to think of your responsibilities to this world." With the closing of this sentence; the old stallion rises slowly from his chair, walking decrepidly to the doorjam. Not putting the effort to turn, he pauses. "You are welcome to stay here as long as you like."