prologue

In the skies of equestria, above the everfree forest, there was an Alicorn stallion that was as tall as princess Luna and wearing a cloak that covered everything, but his white hoofs and muzzle, flying over the forest in what looked like a serious hurry, as he flew so many things had gone through his mind from, the crystal empire and its rulers to the monsters he saw, he then thought of Ponyville and all the ponies that live there including an old friend that he had not seen in a long time . He then shrugged of the old memories and focused on the task at hoof, he had recently chosen to do something he never thought he had the desire to do, which was rescue two allied civilizations of the home he hated with a passion, until his recent discovery of an evil plot formulating in a cave by a dark villain.

"I don't know who that guy was or what he is up to, but somepony has to stop him, and I guess that is going to be me" he said as he remembered what he saw and heard deep in the forest.

Deep in The Everfree Forest

The pony had flown through the forest many times before and heard all sorts of noises, he learned to ignore them when flying deep in the forest, which he now considered his home, it was the one place ponies would not usually go and so it was a place where the Alicorn could live in peace and harmony. He was flying home with food one day and as he neared his home he suddenly heard crazed laughter coming from the deeper part of the forest, he merely raised an eyebrow as he walked towards the sound and suddenly he found a cave he then went inside. As he walked in cave the laughter got louder and louder, finally as he turned the corner he saw them.

Deep within the cave was a filthy lair, and in that lair stood a dark Alicorn that had a black coat, as tall as princess Celestia, a silver mane and tail, demonic red eyes, and a cutie mark of a black heart coiled up by a serpent. He stood there laughing at three unique creatures he manage to tame and control. The first monster was a black Ursa Major with a bad attitude and green mind controlled eyes, the second was a three headed giant black panther like creature with the same eyes, the last monster was a giant crackodile which oddly stood on its hind legs like a raptor, it had black scales and the same green eyes.

The dark alicorn finally finished laughing and marveled at his monsters, "finally! I have you fine creatures at my disposal, now then I want you all to go to the crystal empire and ponyville and raise them to the ground, then once there out of the way Canterlot will easily fall without their allies to save them, Now go my monsters ruin everything! let nothing stand in your way!" he roared as he blasted a beam of black magic at a cave wall making a giant hole to the outside world to let the monsters leave.

"No pony will stand in my way this time, NO PONY!" he shouted as he began to laugh maniacally to himself again. Little did he know the cloaked alicorn was watching this plan unfold with wide eyes and a serious look. He then took off with great haste towards the crystal empire with one thing on his mind.

"not if I can help it" the mystery pony said.

The Crystal empire Throne Room

In the throne room of the empire palace, there stood princess Cadence, a alicorn mare with a pink coat, multicolor mane and tail, a crystal heart for a cutiemark, and royal attire such as gold horse shoes and a crown. She was talking to none other than Shining Armor, her husband and prince of the empire, They were talking about the dark sense of foreboding that has haunted them for days at a time.

"Shining I'm serious, this could be a bad omen, we need to have a bit more guards protecting the empire, I don't want to take any chances" Cadence Inquired.

Shining just looked at her in a concern look, "I know we have been haunted by these visions, but we can't just mobilize more guards, the empire is still shaky from the reign of Sombra, If we suddenly start mobilizing massive amounts of guards, the crystal ponies will become fearful and may loose their love for the empire again, I just can't risk that happening again" he replied with his head bowed in shame.

Cadence walked up to him and put her head onto his shoulder and gave him a worried look, "I know your stressed at the moment with these troubling times, but please just do something as an extra precaution" she begged.

Shining looked at her and finally smiled, "I'll see what I can do as a precaution he said before kissing her and walking towards the balcony, but before he could even get to the balcony, suddenly they all heard a rumbling roars of what sounded like a panther.

As Shining and Cadence made it to the palace balcony the looked upon in disbelief at what appeared to be a giant three headed black panther with green eyes attacking the citizens of the empire. When Shining snapped out of his confusion he bolted to a small horn next to the throne, he blew the horn to signal all crystal empire guards to follow him as he ran to the balcony and jumped off it, as he made for the ground he landed on his hooves and with tremendous force sending debree flying in all directions, as he stood tall the crystal guards imerged from the palace gates, numbering to about fifty. Shining looked to them before charging towards the creature with his guards right behind him, as they neared the creature they began to take in the creatures massive size, which if accurate was almost the same size as the crystal palace.

They finally arrived right behind the monster as it continued to swipe at crystal ponies and chomp on homes, Shining Armor signaled his guards to throw their spears, as the guards threw their spears, the panther suddenly twitched its ear before suddenly swatting away all the spears with lightning fast guards looked on in shock as the monster looked at them with fury, then in a flash of claws all guards were swatted away or slashed to death by the monster's giant claws, all except for Shining Armor who manage to dodge and shield himself with magic against the monsters attack, he then shot a magical bolt at the beast which made it stumble back a bit and fall on its his butt, Shining smiled at the creature, but was soon frowning as the creature got up, it roared at him as he stood there with a brave face, before he could throw up a shield the panther swatted at him knocking him back leaving scratch marks on his chest, as he struggle to get up he looked up at the monster as it reared up to finish him, he just stared at the beast and gritted his teeth.

"WHAT ARE YOU!" Shining yelled as he closed his eyes and got ready for the end.

As the beast reared back its paw to strike it was suddenly caught off guard and its middle head was destroyed by a sudden blast of ice blue magic, the monster was taken back so far that it fell on its back and twitched before its other heads stopped moving showing that it was dead. As Shining was helped to his hooves by a crystal pony he looked at the direction of that magical blast, and thats when he saw him, floating at the edge of the crystal empires border was a cloaked pony who was made out to have a white muzzle and white hooves he then started to notice the color of magic that the mystery pony used, it was an ice blue color which he had only seen two ponies used before.

Shining Armor was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts as he saw Cadence leave the palace and fly towards the mysterious pony.

CADENCE POV

As I saw the creature get defeated so fast I had looked at the source of the magical blast, I then suddenly flew out of the palace towards what appeared to be a pony in a cloak, as I got near the pony he rose in the air and took a fighting stance showing that he was taking me as a threat. I stopped when I was ten feet from him and gave him a concerned look.

"Who ever you are, thank you" I said smiling at the pony.

He then turned his face to the left showing off what appeared to be a scar down his right eye, he then began to leave before hearing me one last time.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

He just ignored me as he then took of at great speeds that would even rival my sister in laws friend Rainbow Dash. I sigh as I then fly back to the empire to check on my husband.

Meanwhile in the skies again the mysterious pony flew over the land giggling to himself, he then made a turn going towards Ponyville and smiled.

"Shining, you are still as pathetic as always" He said to himself while giggling. He then put on a serious look as he flew towards his next destination, "I hope Twilight has gotten better since our last meeting" he said as he then closed his eyes to enjoy a smooth flight towards Ponyville.