Shining Armour continued along the way to the Castle with Rainbow upon his back, the Unicorn greeting any Crystal pony as they walked past, and in a matter of minutes, reached the outside, as guards parted for the two ponies to pass.
Princess Cadence stepped out of the throne room, after talking with many members of the court, all complaining that something was trying to take over the Empire, when she saw her husband entering the corridor, and noticed Rainbow Dash on his back, having few injuries, minor scratches, but that was it.
"Oh my." She gasped, "What happened?"
After the two told her everything, she nodded in understanding, asking a nearby guard to bring a medic to them, which he did so.
"So my aunty is ill?" The Princess asked.
"Yeah, so Princess Luna sent me here to get the cure, and then go back." The prismatic Pegasus replied, the Crystal pony nurse checking her back for any injuries, finding none.
"The scratches should heal up by tomorrow. Other than that, no big injuries." She confirmed.
"Thank you." Cadence replied, dismissing the nurse, who walked away.
At the Crystal Mining Fields…
Some Crystal ponies still mine crystals, but very few do so now, being traumatized by King Sombra's rule as a tyrant. But those that do the mining, send some crystals to the rest of Equestria as a gift, forgetting they were ever traumatized by the evil Unicorn.
That day, Cadence and a fully rested Rainbow Dash walked into the Mining Fields, watching how the Crystal ponies and newly acquainted Crystal Dogs worked together to harvest the crystals. Until one crystal caught the ponies' eye: the Ancient Spectra crystal, the cure for the Princess' Crystal Syndrome.
"Is this the crystal you are looking for, Princess?" A Crystal Dog asked, presenting them the crystal, and showing off its beauty: it was shaped like a diamond without a cut, with all the colours of the spectrum shimmering across the gem, and everything reflected from its shiny yet uncut sides.
The Princess looked towards Rainbow Dash, who looked as if mesmerised by the crystal's beauty, and turned back to face the Dog, as she replied, "Yes. Please wrap it in a special material so it will not be damaged by the weather."
The Crystal Dog nodded as he walked off with the crystal, two more Dogs following.
'Why does that look familiar?' Rainbow thought to herself, 'I remember now, those Diamond Dogs that kidnapped Rarity and forced her to find gems and jewels.' She mentally chuckled.
A minute later, while the two ponies watched back towards the Castle, the first Crystal Dog approached, holding the crystal wrapped in a special material, it was heat resistant, cold resistant, allowed air to enter the cloth and was very light.
Rainbow gingerly picked up the crystal and gently placed it in her saddle-bags, closing them straight after, thanking the Princess and every-pony at the Crystal Empire for their help, and flew back to Canterlot, taking a mere 7 days.
A week later…
Princess Celestia was in the bed in the hospital, slowly taking the cure into her body, as well as slowly curing the new disease. Outside, the Mane 6 waited with Princess Luna, the Princess of the Night happy that her sister was going to be well enough soon to take back her responsibilities as Princess of the Sun.
"I am proud of you, Rainbow." Luna stated, smiling at the tired Pegasus.
"Any time, Princess." Rainbow replied, before yawning.
Luna giggled as she said, "Perhaps you and your friends could stay tonight?"
Twilight nodded as she said, "Of course Princess. It seems too far for us to travel, even with my teleportation spell."
Every-pony said their goodnights as they went to the castle to sleep.
But that night, something terrible happened…
As Luna rose the Sun, she noticed that the hospital was on fire, but it wasn't normal fire, it was like Greek fire, which is green and can burn through water, which is what the fire was doing right there and then.
She teleported to straight in front of the hospital, where the Mane 6 and Spike were already waiting, looks of worry, concern and fear on their faces as they saw what caused the fire:
Princess Celestia herself. But she looked different:
She still had white fur, but the stripes in her mane and tail were duller and never moved, like her original mane and tail, her eyes were a mad, dark and evil purple, and instead of a crown, she wore armour like Nightmare Moon's. And her Cutie Mark, was very dark, as if she had become corrupted and instead of raising a bright and beautiful Sun, she rose a dull and corrupted one. Purple haze flowed out of her eyes, as if she was under a Unicorn's magical influence, under a strong mind-control spell.
She saw the seven ponies and dragon, and aimed a spell at them. She launched it at such speed, only Luna, Rainbow Dash and Spike avoided it. The others, were surrounded by an aura of purple, green and red, as the five ponies screamed in pain. Celestia cackled evilly once the screaming stopped, and five more joined in as the aura faded away, leaving the corrupted Mane 5.
Pinkie Pie, whose mane was straight, a psychotic grin that said 'death' ever present, a long bendy neck, a talon and pink arm on an orange body, with a green, yellow and red large wing, and one yellow, purple and red wing, and a purple 'leg' that had a green 'foot' on it. How she was going to walk, the non-corrupted had no idea.
Rarity, whose fur coat turned from white to black, her curly indigo mane and tail grew longer, gaining some white streaks through it, with blue slit eyes, along with head and chest armour, the chest armour having a diamond on it. And her Cutie Mark remained the same.
Twilight, her fur coat turned orange, as her mane and tail set on fire, her eyes turned flame orange, as she blasted flames out of her mane and tail and random points, but the biggest difference, was the orange bat-wings on her sides, where a Pegasus had their wings. Green haze also flowed out of her eyes, as green dark magic seeped through her horn, taking aim at a building.
The kind Pegasus Fluttershy, whose long, bright pink tail disappeared, and back hoofs merged together, become yellow and green crystals, her entire body was now made out of crystal, even her eyes, and green crystals formed with the yellow crystal all over her body. But the creepiest thing, was the black crystal coming out of her chest, the end half tipped red.
And Applejack, she changed to look like a scorpion and a Changeling, she kept her original shape and colour, and she grew wings on her back, basically, she was an insect, and a creepy one at that, and her eyes were a darker shade of green, more evil, corrupted and wild. With sharp fangs growing out of her mouth, and a holey horn growing out of her holy mane, and claws on the ends of her hoofs.
Each one of them looked ready to strike the ponies and dragon, who by now had fled from Canterlot, Princess Luna flying to all over Equestria, finding ponies not under any spell, and she, along with Princess Cadence and Shining Armour fled from the dying land, the goodness, right and happiness seeping away as evil took its place.
But as for Rainbow Dash, she, along with Spike and a dragon named Eclipse, they managed to survive, hoping to make it out alive.
*Flashback end*
"And that's what happened." Rainbow concluded, and looked up to see their reaction, Tails had listened closely, as had Ghislaine and Gretel, who had finished with the remedy, Abigail had moved closer, with a bit of a sense of shock, Ethan's eyes had widened in shock and surprise, and Connor and Jack even more so.
"So you escaped with two dragons and have been hiding ever since?" Ghislaine asked, Gretel asking the same thing in dragontongue.
"Yeah. And speaking of my friends, I have to find them." Rainbow stated. As if on cue, the two dragons landed on the ground, and walked in, the larger lowering down so his head could reach the creatures' height.
"Are you ok my dear?" The larger one asked.
"Eclipse, I'm fine, these guys here helped me." Rainbow replied, looking into the kaleidoscope eyes of the father of all dragons.
That was when the group noticed the large dragon, his ice blue body, with an rock tail, and mountain rock club, his large and folded electric wings, spectrum coloured horns and spines trailing down his back, to the tip of his club, rock hard lava back claws and spectrum coloured front claws. Each claw was webbed, meaning the dragon lived in or near water.
Next to him stood a smaller dragon, a purple beast, with a lime green tummy, spines, eyes and fins, and on his back was a pair of medium sized dragon wings, and he stood at a tall size for his age, the 18 year old dragon stood at the size of Eclipse's head.
"You ok Dash?" The smaller dragon asked.
"How many times do I have to say it? I'm fine." Rainbow Dash groaned.
"Ok, ok. Geez, just checking." He replied, holding his claws up in defence. The others apart from Rainbow giggled at them.
"You two fight like an old married couple." Abigail laughed. And said, 'old married couple' sent her a death glare, though she did not flinch and cringe, as she stuck her tongue out at them.
"So, you gonna introduce your friends or what?" Jack asked, pointing to the two dragons.
"Whatever. The smaller dragon is Spike and the taller dragon is the dragon god Eclipse. There, done." She moaned and complained, as Connor sighed in frustration.
And once introductions were finally said and done, Ethan doused the fire as the group left the cave, and went into the dangerous world.
"Well, let's see if anything comes towards us with a death wish." Connor stated casually, as if he enjoys doing things that involve him killing or knocking out things or living stuff that have a death wish.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I had school, an optician's appointment, a doctor's appointment and I was stuck on ideas. Again, sorry, plus I've been ill, and having trouble doing stuff, but I managed to do this.
Again, I own nothing, only the OC's, and this is me out for now.