I own nothing but Abigail the Hedgehog, Connor Westwood, Jack Barry/Jeff and Ethan, but Ghislaine, because she belongs to an author called Chris d'Lacey, so I don't own her.
Warning: contains some swearing and some occasional blood, and OOC. You have been warned.
"Stop it Twilight!" The Pegasus shouted, running alongside two dragons, carrying a precious and special cargo.
Twilight snorted in reply, and continued blasting fire at them. She was chasing them through Ghastly Gorge, after the Pegasus refused to go in.
"It is no use dear, she will not reply, or listen at all to any of us. We can only hope she stops chasing at some point in time." The first dragon replied, running on four claws, though he was meant to be swimming, after all, he is a water dragon.
"I know. She just doesn't give up." The second one replied, flying low, using his new wings, being an adult, and the Pegasus being the youngest, a mere 15 years old.
Burning Twilight stopped following them, only to start causing an avalanche of sliding rocks, falling trees and boulders with rare crystals. The dragons dodged easily, but the Pegasus was having trouble, her wings being burnt to the point where if she used them, she would damage them even more.
She moved towards a cave, towards the side, when a loose rock spire hidden above the cave entrance came crashing down, hitting the Pegasus in her back hoof, causing her to scream in pain, but stopped when another rock spire hit a spread out, broken and almost damaged beyond healing wing, feathers drenched in blood falling off effortlessly.
She screamed again, but quietly, not wanting the insane and deranged Princess of friendship to find and end the young Pegasus, whose friends had also gone insane, apart from a lucky few, who escaped to the surrounding lands, taking any lucky survivors with them.
She stopped, and took deep breaths, trying to pick herself up, which she managed eventually, limping and slowly getting towards the cave, finding a small fire with some creatures around it, a yellow fox with two tails, a hedgehog with hair instead of quills, a fox with hair and bat wings, a wolf walking on his back legs and has four tails, a green dragon/mermaid, called a siren that had hands/hoofs, and a plasma made dragon with a heart made of obsidian, a darkling.
The scraping of the rock spire echoed across the cave, catching the attention of the darkling dragon, who looked in the direction of the sound, her eye catching the limping Pegasus.
She leaned over to the two tailed fox, and said, "It appears we are not alone, a Pegasus has entered, and she doesn't look too good."
The fox turned around and saw what she meant, the limping Pegasus, with blood from her back hoof and wing trailing behind her. He gently stood up, showing his appearance, three bangs nearly hanging over his aquamarine eyes, goggles on his forehead, a white tummy and around his mouth too, white gloves with black rings, and red and white shoes. His tails constantly moved around, never stopping once.
"Are you ok?" He asked kindly, his eyes locking onto plum/magenta ones, some red, orange and yellow bangs hanging in her face, green, blue and purple mane hanging down, but the colours seemed darker, like they were being drained away, her light blue sky fur caked with dried blood from her wounds was blended with the liquid, all over her sky blue body, even over her, well, where her Cutie Marks were.
"No. Everything hurts, apart from my wing that doesn't have a rock spire in it." She admitted and joked, wincing at his touch upon her front hoof. She stifled a cry of pain, but couldn't help but politely move her hoof.
"Sorry, really hurts." She muttered, as the plasma dragon came over to the two, looking concerned, unlike most darklings.
"I presume the King of Shadows, brother of the King of the darklings, has corrupted your friend, and all of the entire land, into evil and dark versions of themselves." She asked the mare.
"Yeah, about a year ago, when, Princess Celestia died because the King of Shadows killed her, leaving Luna and Cadence to rule the land." She explained, slowly finding her courage.
"What is your name?" The fox asked.
"Well, it was Rainbow Dash, but because of what happened with Burning Twilight, it's Spectra." Spectra said, painfully grinning, before she dropped it and asked, "What about you guys?"
"I'm Miles Prower, but I prefer Tails. The dragon is called Ghislaine, a darkling, the only one who is kind and nice. Anyway, the girl hedgehog is Abigail, the fox bat is Connor, the wolf is Connor's brother Jack, or Jeff, and the siren is Ethan, the nicest siren ever." Tails explained, pointing at his friends. Jeff and Connor gave her a two fingered salute, while Abigail waved shyly, and the siren just nodded in greeting.
"May I ask, Spectra? What has happened to you that caused yourself to come here, to our cave?" Ghislaine asked, as a small clay dragon, Gretel the potions dragon, appeared with a remedy to cure the pain.
*Flashback*
The doctors worked as fast as they could, looking at reports and x-rays, until Doctor Stable began talking with a fellow doctor In the waiting room, where Luna, the Mane 5 and Spike were waiting, and I say Mane 5 because Rainbow Dash had injured herself and was waiting to be discharged from the same hospital, but different room.
She walked in through the corridor, limping on three hoofs, just as a nurse walked out of the room, holding some results in her yellow aura of magic, a grim look upon her face.
"How is my sister, Nurse?" Luna asked, anxious to know if her older sister would live or not.
She shook her head and explained, "After examining your sister, we have discover she has developed a rare yet deadly disease called Crystal Syndrome."
"Is there a cure?" Twilight asked, close to tears, while hugging Rarity close to her, also on the verge on tears.
"Yes, but you wouldn't like how to it would have to be gotten, or where it is." She replied, "A Pegasus would have to travel to the place where it is."
"I shall decide out of our Pegasi guards who should go." Luna decided, about to walk off, when the nurse cleared her throat.
"That will be a problem, the cure is an Ancient crystal the Spectra ponies made, only a descendant would be able to harvest it, along with a Crystal Pony." The nurse explained, stopping the Princess of the Night.
They all looked at Rainbow Dash, who replied, "What?"
Luna walked towards the mare, and said, "You must go on this quest, to the Crystal Empire, find this Ancient crystal, and come back with it."
Rainbow nodded, as Luna used her magic to teleport her saddle bags onto the mare, who was ready to fly off. Luna teleported the group outside, where Dash took off flying, heading straight to the Crystal Empire.
12 days later…
On the outskirts on the Crystal Empire, a small group of Frost Dragons were flying in circles around a large area, the Crystal Empire that had a shield around it, and their leader, the evil ice dragon, Mortar the Soul Freezer.
A scout came into Mortar's cave, saying, "A Pegasus has been sighted heading towards to Empire, she has been caught by my warriors, although she was quite tough. She resisted our Freezing Hypnotism, and I sensed a lot of Harmony from her. What do you suggest we do with her?"
"Bring her in." He ordered, moving from his bone throne and picking up a sceptre with a Dark Ancient Spectra crystal, the opposite of the most powerful ones.
The scout nodded and left, a few seconds later, a frost coloured Pegasus was thrown in front of him, not landing with a thud, in fact, not landing at all, she hovered in the air, not minding the freezing wind whipping at her, in fact, it stopped, but Mortar tried forcing it to continue, and only three words came to his mind,
'Spectra Pony descendant.'
He growled at the thought, as well as the pony as she brushed herself off, sending a death glare at the scout and Mortar, and asked angrily, "What do you want?! I have a royal business to finish, so either you let me go right now, or I will kick your scaly behinds into the middle of month!" By now, she was very mad.
Mortar was enjoying it, he started to tease her, only it didn't work, she wasn't really bothered, so she just flew out of the cave, quite pissed off at the dragons.
Rainbow Dash flew into the Crystal Empire, not effected by the shield, as the shield is used to keep enemies out of the Empire.
She landed, and started limping towards the town, where crystal ponies came and went as they pleased, and not minding Rainbow Dash one bit. Until she came near the centre of the Empire, where the Castle is. Shining Armour was explaining some things to a new guard,
"…And then if anything bad happens during your night searches, you report straight back to your commander. Got it?" Shining Armour finished.
"Got it." The guard replied, walking off around town, walking the same way Rainbow Dash just came, when the Unicorn noticed her.
"Aren't you that Pegasus that performed that Sonic Rainboom at Cadence's and my wedding about 2 years ago?" He asked, walking up to the limping mare.
"Yeah, that was me." She replied, stopping to allow the Prince of the Crystal Empire to catch up with her, but also allowing him to see the wound on her back hoof.
"I must say, Princess Cadence and I thought it was amazing. And- wait a minute, what is that on your back hoof?" He said, before catching himself and asking.
"This?" She asked, shaking the sore hoof up and down, "I was out with a friend, and a tornado came from out of nowhere, launching rocks and branches and stuff at me and my friend, me taking most of it, and getting hit a lot. My friend teleported us out of there, when I collapsed, and woke up in the hospital when Princess Luna took us that Princess Celestia is ill, and only a Pegasus who is a descendant of Ancient Spectra ponies and a crystal pony can get it. Which is why Princess Luna sent me up here, 12 days ago." She explained, getting a look of shock from Shining Armour.
"So let me get this straight. You flew here, in 12 days, none stop?" He asked.
"Yeah." She admitted, starting to struggle with staying on her hoofs.
"Want some help?" He offered, and without waiting for a reply, he bent down and sled himself under the mare, and walking off towards the Castle, her explaining everything along the way.
But, they did not know that something, or someone, was watching them. In the darkness, a shady figure watched them in silence, and slipped away once the two had watched off.
"Equestria shall soon feel my wrath! Watch out, Princesses! I'm coming for you!" It cackled in a distorted voice, its eyes flaring into green, as he laughed an evil laugh, echoing across the Empire.