Let the madness begin ch1 pt2
Pov: fang blade
We just exited the caves and made it back onto the path when i sensed it, the same magical energy that i felt in the town hall which was coming off that invisible skeleton pony. Its at this point that i figured that, that skeleton pony wasn't some illusion. My best guess currently is that it's some sort of necromancer or the servant of one. Thank god i managed to figure out how the ancient languages ability to let the user sense the minds and magic of other living things. I can sense the skeleton pony in the old castle it's currently in the throne room though i don't know what it's doing. I can also sense nightmare moon, she's in lunas old tower. I look to the rest of the group and back down the trial we should reach the castle rope bridge within 5 minutes. Then rainbow will get to show her part off as the element of loyalty. I decide against my better judgment to go ahead of the group and see what the skeletal pony is doing, and also to have a 1 on 1 meeting with miss moon before she gets blasted by the element.
Me: "hey everypony. I'm going to go on ahead there's something i need to grab before we get the elements in case nightmare moon decides to attack. Just continue down this trail and you'll find the castle in a few minutes. I'll meet you all in the castles throne room."
i throw out a card using it to teleport away before they can argue against my actions. I land across the ravine to the castle. More specifically i land in a large bush next to the castles outside wall. I quickly transform into my human form. Thankfully i figured out how to enchant some of my simple clothes to meld into my only transformation so i don't have to carry around clothes whenever i want to change back to human, i also don't have to worry about my clothes tearing, or ripping when i transform.
After transforming back to human and readjusting my gear i used my magic cards to teleport onto the tower roof that once held princess luna's bedroom. I put away my cards and jump onto the balcony knowing that nightmare moon was still inside, mostly likely using the old tower as a lookout spot for twilight and the others. The balcony i land on is rather small and inside the room hasn't aged well. What was once a grand bed is now nothing but a metal bed frame and a small pile of rotting wood. Aside from the bed the room has nothing of importance beside a rotted out desk and a small metal wardrobe that looks like somebody used it for target practice. And standing in the center of the room is nightmare moon herself.
Nightmare moon: "we'll im slightly impressed after its been a very long time since somepony has managed to get this close to me without me noticing them." nightmare moon turns away from the tower door and faces me, her eyes widen slightly
Nightmare moon: "well, well, well. What have we here. Iv never seen something like you before. Have you come to fight me or are you here to join me?"
Me: "neither im here to give you a friendly warning, and some advice, assuming your willing to hear what i have to say." nightmare moon seems to think over my offer for a good minute.
Nightmare moon: "alright i'll listen to what you have to say but only if you tell me what you are and where you hail from, and depending on what your advice is, i may or may not kill you." i shrug it's better than her trying to kill me on sight
Me: " my species is called human though the scientific term is homosapien. As for where i come from that's rather hard to believe. I'm from another universe and i'm pretty sure you know i'm not joking after all you and celestia liberated a magic mirror portal to another universe from the crystal empire back when king sombra ruled the crystal kingdom." nightmare moon frowns and growls at me.
Nightmare moon: "how do you know about that portal and what do you mean. I never aided celestia once nor was i ever at the crystal empire." i smirk
Me: "you can't hide anything from me miss moon. I know that you were previously princess luna,and the two of you are at your very core the same pony. If your wondering how i know that blame celestia. She shouldn't have left her and luna's personal journals in the castle, and seeing as how up till now the entire planet thought of luna as dead or a myth along with you. i can't be blamed for reading those journals." nightmare moon glares daggers at me but doesn't attack me.
Nightmare moon: " i suppose that line of reasoning is logical. I suggest you tell me what you came to say before i decide to go back on my word and just kill you."
Me: "incase you haven't sensed it yet there's a necromancer in equestria, or at the very least the servant of one. Its very hard to tell the difference between the two sometimes. This necromancer is currently down in the throne room of this castle. It was also at ponyville town hall when you arrived. Whoever this necromancer is their following you, and they are probably going to either make it look like their on your side or attempt to trick you into joining its side. Either way don't listen to it as its just going to use you as a pawn if you agree to either option. Also the advice, your not the only one who has the issues you do with luna. If you ever need a safe place to hide, or rest just go through the cavern system's in the mountains behind the castle into the heart of the mountain you'll find a large grove within the mountains crater that's where i spend most of my free time and it's magically protected so no-one can enter it without my permission." i toss nightmare moon a small dark green stone that's been shaped into a coin.
Me: "that will allow you to enter the hidden grove. Enjoy the rest of your evening your highness."
i quickly give a light bow before jumping off the balcony and using my knife to slide safely down around the side of the tower. Once on the main roof i look up to see nightmare moon turning into a cloud of sparkly dark purple smoke that heads towards the rope bridge into the castle. I use my cards to teleport down to the entry door that leads into the castle from the rope bridge and i quickly turn back into a pony. After around 2 minutes i see the door open up and twilight and company walk on in.
Me: "hey, we're gonna have to keep quiet in here there's something in the throne room and it isn't friendly, i don't know what it is but it isn't something i want to fight, also the elements are still here and from what i can tell nightmare moon hasn't arrived yet."
Twilight: "if you say the elements already why didn't you just grab them."
Me: "i was busy looking for traps, and trying not to get spotted by the monster in the throne room."
we all quietly head which is in the castle third tower towards the back of the manage to make it to the elements tower without issue. Inside we find a large stone pillar like machine with 5 arms each having a rather large stone orb sitting on them, with a very large orb on the pillar itself. Rainbow dash and fluttershy fly up and bring them all down and set them in front of twilight.
Twilight: "gently now. Gently." after looking the stones over for a solid 3 minutes twilight groans.
Twilight: "ok everypony i have an idea of what to do but i don't know what's going to happen."
Applejack: "alright everypony let's give twilight some room so she can do her thing."
everypony heads back outside to the tower stairway, i stay in the room but remain right next to the door. Twilight picks up the elements in her magic and they begin to sparkle and shake, then nightmare moon flys in, in her gaseous form and makes a minor tornado that rips the elements from twilights grasp.
Twilight: " NOOO!" twilight jumps into the tornado after the elements, and i fling 1 of my cards into the tornado.
After a bright flash of light i find myself standing next to twilight, in the middle of the throne room. We both spot the elements at nightmare moon's feet, and she's standing right in front of the two thrones.
Nightmare moon: "this appears to be the end for you, little pony. You've lost."
twilight's horn begins to glow and she lets out a loud growl towards nightmare moon. She bullrushes nightmare moon.
Nightmare moon: "you're joking, she is joking right."
i believe nightmare moon directed that question at me so i simply shrug. Nightmare moon charges at twilight after realizing that she wasn't joking around and just before the two could meet twilight teleports behind nightmare moon and over to the element. She picks them up with her magic and begins to shake them frantically.
Twilight: "come on, come on, work already!"
nightmare moon teleports behind twilight and tosses her aside like a rag doll, and she lands right next to me. Nightmare moon then crushes the elements beneath her hooves shattering the stones into nothing but a small pile of rubble, and dust. Twilights face turns to one of shock and terror. Then a deep psychotic sounding laugh echoes throughout the room, and it isn't coming from nightmare moon. A pony made of nothing but bones walks out from the corner of the room and slowly applauds nightmare moon's actions.
Skeletal pony: "well, i must say that was quite the impressive little show, but now i'm afraid that i'm going to have to kill the both of you. After All i'm here to make a deal with the princess of the night, and i don't want anypony else knowing i exist."
twilight at this point appears to have some sort of sensory overload as her jaw is literally on the floor at this point and shes stuttering, a lot.
Twilight: "h...h...how, what, who, where?" and that's all she seemed to be able to say. I pull out my axe and i grin and look the skeletal pony dead in the eyes.
Me: "you obviously have no idea who, you just challenged to a fight. Cause let me tell you pal, there's no way you can beat me without an army in your current state, and that body of yours is just a mindless minion isn't it, after all you're not actually here, are you."
both twilight and nightmare moon look at me in surprise and the eyes on the skeletal only seem to darken at my words.
Skeletal pony: "you're quite the perceptive pony aren't you. How do you know so much about necromancy. Hmmm"
Me: "let's just say i learn much faster than most ponies, and i have access to one too many forbidden books."
Skeletal pony: "interesting, very interesting. I suppose you're right i can't fight you with just a single minion, however with the knowledge that i'm about to share with nightmare moon. she'll think twice about leaving you and the rest of your little group alive. Lady moon mistress of the night, if you wish to prevent your greatest failure you'll look into this orb, afterall it helps to have a friend from the future."
the skeletal pony tosses nightmare moon a small black crystal that's glowing then the skeletal pony disintegrates. Its at this point that i have a somewhat fearful look on my face because i could sense that, the necromancer wasn't lying about what he just said, and it appears that nightmare moon seems to think that as well.
Me: "if you look into that orb your going to regret what happens next." nightmare moon looks me dead in the eye's and she can see my fear.
Nightmare: "you could also tell that the necromancer wasn't joking about what he said, and now your afraid of what will happen if i look into this orb. Your fear will be your downfall" she smirks as she looks into the orb her eyes go black for a few seconds, before her face twists into a scream of rage.
Nightmare moon: "so that is how i am defeated, by simple petty friendship. I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN, which means the both of your are going to die!"
she tosses aside the orb and it shatters into a million pieces. Nightmare moon charges up a magical attack and fires it at us. Twilights still in shock from everything that just happened and probable traumatized from the realization that nightmare moon and all powerful alicron is going to kill us, correction trying to kill us. Just before the attack hits us i throw down one of my cards at our feet and a large rectangular shield blocks the attack though the shield falls apart after the attack stops. I shove twilight back putting her near the main entrance to the throne room, then i fling out another card and turn up its power, this time a shield appears the cuts the main doors off from the rest of the room, thus keeping twilight in a protected area.
Me: "ok black snooty, you want a fight i'll give you a fight you'll never forget."
i fling three cards out, 2 of them hit her and explode with the force of a hand grenade upon impact the other one misses and explodes after hitting the wall. Just after sending out three cards i rush nightmare moon with my hatchet in hoof. She's Temporarily blinded by the explosions and shoot out bolts of magic wildly. I manage to dodge them and i kick out her legs from underneath her then i go to hit her in the head with the blade of my hatchet, but she rolls out of the way. She teleports and i suddenly feel a hoof connect with the back of my head. I hit the floor, and immediately roll barely dogging another punch which cracks the floor. My vision is slightly blurred but i throw out another card she doges it easily
Nightmare moon: "ha, you missed." i smile and chuckle.
Me: "no, i didn't."
the card flys back around and hits nightmare moon in her left hind leg and it becomes frozen in a block of solid ice which is attached to the floor. She fires multiple small volleys of magic bolts at me and hold out a card in front of me which turns into a roman legionary shield. I charge nightmare moon while shes frozen in place, and i use the shield as a battering ram as i plow into her shoulder. I hear the sound of ice cracking as she breaks free with the help of my attack. Suddenly i find the a hoof shaped indent in my shield that's just an inch from my face. Nightmare moon then rips the shield from my arm, and wacks me with it hard enough to send me tumbling a good 10 feet away.
Nightmare moon: "i'm done playing around!"
i manage to catch a glimpse of nightmare moon before she hits me and picks me up with her magic. i could see that her left shoulder seems to be dislocated and the left side of her neck has a large purple bruise on it. With me in her maigcal grasp she slams me into the wall several times before slamming me into the ceiling then she cuts off her magic letting me fall to the floor. Most of my body hurts and i think i broke a few ribs, but i'm too stubborn to just lie down and die. I slowly get up and spit out some blood, i think i bit off part of my inner mouth when i was getting flung around. I laugh as she shoots daggers of ice at me. I hold out another card and i melt into the shadows. I reappear in the same spot after the attacks stop.
Me: "i'll admit that hurt like hell. But i'm stronger than i look."
i throw a card into the air, as nightmare moon attacks me again with ice dagger. As i teleport to the cards location i pull out 6 cards and throw them out letting them hit the ground around nightmare moon. I land on my hoofs, and pull out a seventh card and throw it out.
Me: "SEVEN TOMBS OF ANNIHILATION!"
as the seventh card hit nightmare moon in the face the other cards glow and attach themselves to her torso. The room begins to shake as 7 portals open up around nightmare moon, and giant coffins appear, the lids open and nearly needless amounts of rocks, and boulders fly out of the coffins at nightmare moon at mach 6. They keep building up till a small hill of rocks, dust, and boulders has buried her alive. Expecting her to have survived my 2nd best attack i prepare to throw another card, then i hear the sound of laboured breathing behind me. I turn around only to receive a massive blast of magic to my face, this sends me flying backwards and right into the pile of rocks, which i get sent flying through. I land right in front of the thrones. I'm pretty sure i have a broken arm this time since it hurts to move my left arm. I look up to see nightmare moon back where she hit me with her magic, she's covered in dust and large purple welts. A strong flow of magic comes out of her horn and her wounds seem to fade away. *wonderful she has the ability to heal herself with magic.*
Nightmare moon: "i'll admit you have some pretty decent tricks up your sleeves, but there still just tricks, childs play when compared to what i can really do. However i could use somepony like you."
she walks over to me as i struggle to get up and a black light comes off her horn. It's dark magic, probable sombras type of magic if my memory is right. This is gonna hurt. A lot. She touches her horn to my head she uses her magic to break into my mind, or to attempt as such. The second her horn touches my forehead i feel nothing but pain, then nothing everything goes black for a couple seconds, then the pain in my head fades, and i hear screaming, at first i think it's me or twilight, then i realize it's nightmare moon. She's holding her hoofs to her head and screaming in agony. By the time imanage to get myself to stand up she's stops screaming and with bloodshot eyes, she looks me dead in the eyes, and stares at me with nothing but pure rage, and a bit of fear.
Nightmare moon: " wh… what are you, you shouldn't, and cannot be a mortal, or a pony." realizing what she saw, i laugh uncontrollable.
Me: "that, ha, ha. That was something i left behind a long time ago, after all everypony has their inner demons, and some of them are worse than others. But you know all about that don't you. After all you were originally known as the lunar demon, weren't you."
Nightmare moon: " how do you know that?"
Me: "well the tales of the demon of shadows, that hunted and killed, entire camps of bandits, and crushed entier rebellions within a single night had to come from somewhere." Knowing exactly what i was talking about nightmare moon smiled.
Nightmare: " i'm surprised i thought nopony new of those events back in my day, and i highly doubted that any records of those events would survive long enough for somepony from today to read about them."
Me: "yeah well i'm not out of tricks yet black snooty."
i pull out 7 cards. I crush two of them in my right hoof. Those two cards heal the worst of my wounds leaving me with some cracked ribs a fractured arm, and some minor welts and bruises. Nightmare moon rushes me and tries to hit me in the head with a hoof, i roll back wards and crush the other 5 cards in left hoof. A light green glow comes off the crushed cards, and engulfs my body, and a dark green fire surrounds my eyes. Nightmare moon's eyes widen in surprise and shock as do twilights she's still behind the shield i put up at the start of the fight thankfully.
Me: "it's your turn to take a beating."
I rush her with an unnatural speed and hit her before she can even blink. I hit her in the side of the face with enough force to send her flying backwards and into the shield that twilights standing behind. I pull out my hatchet and twirl it fast enough to break the sound barrier. I rush forward as lighting begins to form on the blade of the hatchet. I do a complete spin and as i turn around to face nightmare moon i let a blast of lightning fly off the hatchet right into nightmare moon's chest just as she manages to stand up. She falls face first onto the floor from what i assume is pain. Still charging at her i jump into the air and land a good 7 feet away from her. As i land on the floor i bring the blunt end of the hatchet dow first, and cause the floor to shoot up as i hit the floor with enough force to cause a wave of stone to race towards nightmare moon. It hits her in the face and slams her back into the shield that twilights standing behind. Nightmare moon manages to teleport back towards thones before i can attack her again. I turn around and i throw my now destroyed hatchet at her and i rush forward again. She manages to put up a shield to stop the broken hatchet, however when she lowers her shield to counter attack im already in the air again with my knife in hoof. The knife is glowing red hot and i manage to stab it into the top of nightmare moon's right shoulder and i quickly pull it down. Before i can pull my knife out of her shoulder nightmare moon glows bright blue and sends out an energy wave of magic that sends me flying a good 10 feet backwards. At this point the magic trick i pulled to make me glow green has ended, and nightmare moon notices this. She pulls the knife out of her shoulder and heals herself with magic again. I try to get up but i can't iv burned up my nervous system with that trick i just pulled.
Nightmare moon: "i'll admit, you gave a decent challenge. Before i break through that shield you made and kill that purple mare, i have an offer for you. I could use somepony with the brains and raw power you have. How would you like to join me as my second in command. If you accept i only need you to prove your loyalty be lowering that shield you put up."
I manage to sit up before i look nightmare moon in the eyes.
Me: "sorry lady if you had meet me a few years ago id probably have taken you up on that offer, but i've changed since then so im gonna pass on that offer. If you want to get through that shield your gonna have to kill me first." i spit out some blood at her hooves. Nightmare moon's slight grin turns to on of rage at my little speech.
Nightmare moon: "you ungrateful little brat. I offer you, a high standing position, and more power than you could ever dream of and yet you still remain defiant. Fine then if you wish to die then you shall die!"
Nightmare moon picks me up with her magic and slams me into the floor a good couple times before sending me crashing through one of the stained glass windows on the wall. I get sent flying out of the castle and down into the ravine that cuts around the side of the old castle. As i fall i quickly pull out my last 2 normal cards and use them to heal most of my minor wounds, and to reduce my ribs that have been broken or shattered to sever fractures, and my shattered arm to a broken bone. A good 20 feet before i hit the floor i extend my wings, manage to slow my descent just enough so that i dont go splat on the floor, but i still land on the ground hard enough to knock the wind out of me. I get up, my entire body burns with pain as if i was on fire.
Me: "damit! I shouldn't have used rage mode with how injured i was. I didn't know Magical burnout, could hurt this much."
I look around and spot a small trail going back up to the castle in the ravine on the other side of the small creek that runs through the ravine. By the time i manage to make it back up to the castle i can see the bright rainbow light from the elements of harmony coming for the throne room windows. By the time i manage to make it back into the castle the light died down. All though i can assume that after i left things played out just as they did in the show, though i couldn't be sure so i pull out my swiss army knife and rush into the the throne room. I sigh in relief when i see twilight and company talking with celestia, and i see luna standing beside celestia.
Twilight: "we need to go check the area outside the castle, fang could still be alive and if the his he's most likely badly wounded."
i chuckle at that, i planned on losing to nightmare moon though i didn't think i was gonna be beaten as badly as i was.
Me: "there's no need for that."
everypony turns to look at me i can see that fluttershy had been crying probable terrified at the idea that i was most likely dead up till now. Everypony else seems to immediately smile and most of them rush me, i get hugged to death by pinkie pie before everypony else piles on for a group hug.
Me: "stop… cant… breath…"
Everypony stops hugging me and gives me some room.
Twilight: "how are you still able to walk, when nightmare moon threw you out the window it looked like most of the bones in your body where broken, and how'd you survive the fall?"
Me: "simple i kept two of my magic cards in reserve to heal myself, afterall i expected to lose the battle against nightmare moon. I was simply a distraction until you could figure out how to use the elements against nightmare moon. And i'm guessing that the rainbow glow from the windows is how you defeated nightmare moon. Also i survived the fall by redirecting my fall into the ravine outside the castle which gave me more time to slow myself down with my wings."
I spoke loud enough so both princess who had stayed back to give me and the girls some room. I didn't want to explain myself twice.
Applejack: "how are you able to cast spells using those cards anyhow, last i checked you said you don't have any magic which is why you can't fly."
Twilight: "and speaking of magic, how'd you cast that lighting spell near the end of your battle with nightmare moon?"
I sigh. Me: "look i do have some explaining to do, but can we please get back to town and show everypony that celestia is back and perfectly fine. I don't want the panic that's surely running rampant throughout equestria to get worse. I promise i'll explain all your questions when we get back to the library."
Celestia: "and i shall hold you to that promise MR blade, as i to would like to hear how you managed to get those cards of yours, but for now let's get back to ponyville. Now everypony gather round i'll be teleporting us back to town, and just as waring you may feel sick in the stomach for a few minutes if this is your first time traveling by teleportation."
We all gather around celestia as she teleports us back into the ponyville town hall. Inside we find a group of surprised guards, and the town mayor trying to locate nightmare moon. They all immediately cry out with relief upon seeing that princess celestia is back. While celestia begins to explain everything i tell everypony to come meet me at the library for their explanation, then i go home to heal the rest of my wounds.
The sun quickly rose to bring about the day after we returned to ponyville and moved straight into the midday position. At the library i fixed the remainder of my broken bones mostly by drinking a prototype healing potion i made 3 days ago. It tastes like dirt, but it heals most of my bones, and the only injuries i have left are a hairline fractured leg, and some badly bruised ribs. After an hour everypony comes into the library as a group and spike wakes up shortly before they arrive. Now i have everypony sitting down in the library in a giant circle. I'll say i was a bit surprised to see that princess luna decided to come to this little meeting but i figured she'd stay close to celestia for the rest of the day.
Me: " ok before you all start asking questions, i'll explain how i got those magic cards and what they are as that seems to be the main question you all had back at the castle. I got this deck of magic cards from an underground vault in the castle in the everfree forest on my third trip to explore it, and when i found the vault it's back entrance was busted open, from a very old magical explosion. Inside this vault i found around 2 dozen objects most of which didn't interest me, or i didn't want to mess with them. The only two things i took where the fire staff you six saw when i used it to negate the dark magic in that cavern system that i called the cave of horrors. The other object was the deck of magical cards i used to fight nightmare moon. Now for me to explain the magic deck. This deck of cards is older than equestria itself, i can safely say that as it had an instruction manual sitting next to it in the vault which was written in a language that was used before the three pony tribes united. I can read this instruction manual as if it where in regular equestrian due to how the cards work, you see this deck of cards kind of has a mind of its own. Nopony can use this deck except its owner, and everytime the decks previous owner dies it will look for a new owner. According to the instruction manual this deck of cards will look for some specific attributes when seeking a new owner. It will look for anyone who has a powerful imagination, a strong sense of morality, and someone who is extremely intelligent. Once this deck finds a new owner it binds itself to whoever that is so only that entity can use the deck, the deck also repears with all the used cards back in the deck once a day, the time at which the deck reappears on its owner is set by the new owner after reading the first page of the instruction manual. Also this deck of cards is simple know as the deck of magic as every owner gives the deck a different name. I haven't decided on a name for the deck yet so i'll just refer to it as the deck of magic until i can come up with a name. Now for how this deck works. The deck of magic provides all the magic needed to cast a spell, and it also acts as a conduit for any spell it casts. The only thing the user of the deck needs to provide is the creativity and brains to determine what spell the cards will use, and how the spell will work. This is extremely overpowered as the user of this deck with enough intelligence could use this deck to do things like enchanting items, and materials, or use it for transmutation otherwise known as the magical changing of one thing into something else an example is using magic to turn coal into diamonds. There are 3 different types of cards in this deck their are the normal cards. The normal cards are every card in the deck that isn't a joker card, or an ace. A single normal card has enough magic to completely destroy this entire library from the basement up. Then there's the god cards, and reality destroyer cards, the god cards are the aces and the reality destroyer cards are the jokers. Both the god cards and reality destroyer cards work in a unique way you see there much stronger than the normal cards however in exchange once you use one of these cards whatever spell that card casts is the only spell it will ever be able to cast until the deck gets a new owner. These cards also don't reappear within 24 hours, they take 6 months to reappear. a single god card has the power to create a black hole the size of the moon, and a single reality destroyer card has the power to destroy somewhere between half the universe to the entire universe. while i never used the god cards, or reality destroyer cards, i just gave you the same example the instruction manual gave for how powerful the deck of magic is. Now are there any other questions?"
Most everypony gives me a look of disbelief probable over how powerful i claimed the aces and jokers where. Then celestia decides to speak before anypony else.
Celestia: " everypony as much as i wish fang was joking about the power of the ace, and joker cards, i can truly tell you from past knowledge that he is telling the truth, the last wielder of those cards commonly used an ace to summon black holes to suck up and crush anything that he couldn't beat with his own magic, and before he died he challenged the lord of chaos know as discord to a fight in that battle he used an joker to rip apart reality around discord in an attempt to banish him to a place known as limbo. In fact that battle with discord is what created the badlands south of the everfree forest."
Twilight: "no offence meant to luna, but if you had the ability to cast spells that powerful why didn't you use them to defeat nightmare moon?"
Me: "twilight unless something with reality bending powers, the ability to casual destroy planets, or an extra dimensional creature threatens equestria i don't plan on using anything beside the normal cards. And the only time i would use the ace's, or jokers for something other than fighting would be if the universe started ripping itself apart, or time started collapsing in on itself. I don't wanna be known as the pony who accidentally destroyed the planet. Now are their any other questions?"
Luna: "we have a query. What where those last two attacks thou used against nightmare moon."
Me: "ahh those would be the seven tombs of annihilation and rage mode. The seven tombs of annihilation is a special attack, this attack summons 7 portals which if done right will surround the attacks target. These portals will release 7 steel coffins which will open and shoot out massive amounts of rock, dust, sand, gravel, and even a couple boulders, which will then fly into the target at mach 6 or 6 times the speed of sound. After the first wave of rock crushes the target, a larger second wave will fly out of the coffins at the same speed as the first with the intent of burying the target alive assuming they survived the first wave of rocks.
Then there's rage mode. This spell is very powerful and extremely dangerous. This spell costs 3 normal cards to activate which then use magic to temporarily transform the targets body into a conduit for magic. This spell gives the target the ability to cast spells like a unicorns but the target can use any part of their body to cast spells. This spell also doubles the natural speed, and strength of the target. The third card also provides its entire storehouse of magic to the target in the form of raw magic which can then be used to power any spells they cast. After that every card you add to this spell increase the speed and strength enhancements by times 1, and it also adds to the amount of magic that you have access to, to cast spells. There are major drawback's to this though. This constantly consumes magic that you provide to stay active, and once your out of magic rage mode ends, you also risk suffering from varying levels of magical burnout as your literally forcing your body to experience a partially controlled magical surge. However the more spells you cast while in rage mode the faster you run out of magic, and the more spells you cast the worse the magical burnout is after rage mode ends. How bad the bornout is depends on how many cards you use when activating rage mode, and how many spells you cast while in rage mode. What spells you cast also affect how bad the burnout is but that entirely depends upon the spell cast. Now take note that when i started explaining rage mode i said that the target of the spell enters rage mode, meaning i could use the cards to send other creatures into rage mode. This is useful if you and a group of allies go up against something that outclasses you in terms of combat abilities. Oh and if my math is correct an alicorn like the either of you has a decent chance of surviving max rage mode which means i put all the cards minus the aces, and jokers into the rage mode spell, and you assuming my math isn't wrong would have a decent chance of surviving the magical burnout due to how much magic an alicorn naturally has. And that's how rage mode and the seven tombs of annihilation works."
rainbow: " you said that you don't have magic, and that nopony where you are from has magic, why is that, and where are you from anyway."
While i was expecting this question i assumed it would come from twilight or one of the princess not rainbow dash. Everypony immediately perks up at the question obviously wanting that question answered just as much as how i got those magic cards.
Me: "ok. How much do you all know of lands across the ocean?"
Celestia: "we know only what travelers from afar have told us and that isn't much as most of them are merchants, and the ones who stayed where from a long time and they came from small islands."
Me: "ok well far across the ocean is another continent, that's where most ponies are originally from i only know this cause my country has written records going back a little over 10,000 years. That continent does not have a name and it's not where my country is, you see there's a third continent father past that one. That's where i'm from. Nopony can find it or get there as it's been hidden away for roughly the last 1,500 years. Now to explain why nopony can find it i need to explain why nopony has magic in my land. You see before the entire continent was hidden away we had been under the rule of the magic sucking demon known as tirek. This tirek was a centaur of some kind though not more about his appearance is known. Tirek drained the magic from all the sentient creatures on my continent such as ponies, dragons, gryphons, diamond dogs, wereponys, thestrals, donkeys, zebras, buffalo and so on. Basically if it could speak it had magic tirek could take and he took all of it. He enslaved everyone and everything. You either got stuck as a direct servant, or as a farmer in order to feed all the other slaves. This forced all species to learn to live without their magic which is how we are able to function normally without magic today. Eventually tirek grew bored, so when he heard of other far off lands with even more magic for him to take he just left without saying a word. With tirek gone everything started to fix itself though everyone feared that tirek would soon return. This is when everyone learned that a couple groups from each race had managed to avoid having their magic feared the return of tirek even more than those that had been enslaved so they devised a way to keep tirek and anything else that would wish to enter the land out. So in the single greatest act of recorded magic, and the last known act. The remaining magic users cast a spell that consumed their very bodies and souls. This spell created an invisible shield 75 miles away from every coastline. This shield made the entire continent invisible to outsiders, it also prevent anyone and anything from ever leaving. This barrier would take anyone inside that ran into it and teleport them to the other side of the shield, while keeping them inside. It worked the same way for things outside the shield. The only reason i got through the shield is because i technically didn't go through the shield to exit the sealed off continent."
Applejack:" sugarcube you make it sound like you can't go back. Can't you just get back the same way you get through the shield in the first place."
Me: "no i can't. You see before tirek took over our land the greatest magical minds of the time started working on a way to allow all creatures to use magic, and they succeeded. But tirek invaded before they could share this knowledge. Then a little over a month an a ½ ago i discovered these scrolls with this knowledge. Unfortunately, a cult group discovered this magic a long time before i did. This new magic didn't need the user to have magic of their own, you see this magic allows you to draw magic from other creatures, whether they where willing or not. And tirke didn't realize that normal animals, and plants have magic. These cultists did realise this, and they started using this magic to corrupt my country's government over time. When i discovered this magic they felt threatened by me so they captured me, and they decided that killing me would be to kind. They decided to banish me to from my country by sending me through the living shield that surrounded my continent. They accomplished this by doing something that i believe is pure evil. They knew that all magical forests had a shared connection so what they did was they cast the spell from a forest very similar to the nearby everfree forest. They used the connection to open a wormhole directly from the forest in my country into the everfree forest. They told me before they banished me that this spell was going to kill the entire forest, and anything in it. That forest had several small towns, and villages on its outer edges. They literally exploited our planet's natural connections, and the lives of possible hundreds of thousands of living things to bypass the shield around my country. Though most of those lives where that of animals and plants. So unless you want to kill the entire everfree forest to try and send me back to my country then i'm stuck here. Also i'm pretty sure that even if i went back this cult group would hunt me down and if they thought it would help catch me. They would probable kidnap my friends and family."
Everypony looks at me with this pitiful look and a couple of them start to cry.
Celestia: "for somepony whos been through so much you seem rather calm."
Me: "yea. Thats cause i left a going away present. I managed to figure out 1 spell from the books i found. And i used it to completely destroy that magic, it doesn't exist anymore. Also everything they did was recorded and sent to a live camera feed so at least half my country saw what they did. I have a camera built into my hat that records everything and it transmits everything to a broadcasting device, that anyone could view at any time they wanted. So i can confidently say that those cultist's lives are just as shity as mine is curretnly propable even worse than mine."
Rarity: "how could one spell have the power to destroy an entire type of magic."
Me: "oh that's simple really. You see this magic was conducted through a magically constructed language, and the name of this language held the power to alter and rewrite the very nature of this magic language. And i was the only one to decode the languages true name."
Luna: " what was the name of this… magic language?"
Me: "i can't say, and i mean that literally i didn't just remove the magic from this language, i destroyed the language in its entirety it cant be read or spoken in any way shape or form anymore."
Everypony goes quiet for a couple minutes probable thinking of questions to ask. Eventually twilight looks up at me.
Twilight: "what did nightmare moon do to you when her horn glowed black instead of blue, and why did she claim that you couldn't be a normal mortal or a pony?"
Luna who had obviously begun to remember things about the fight during this meeting looks to me and frowns as she tries to remember what twilights talking about then her eyes go wide and she looks at me with a hint of fear.
Luna: "that is something that needs explaining. What in the name of faust was that thing that's living in your head."
Everypony looks to luna than to me. Celestia raises her eyebrows and frowns,
Celestia: " what does my sister mean when she said there's something living in your head."
I chuckle. Me: "that's a story i'm not yet ready to share with any of you. Because firstly that's a rather personal matter that i haven't even told my family about. And secondly i don't trust any of you enough to even tell you about any of the events related to that. However since you'll hound me till you get an answer since you know something's not right with me i'll tell you enough to somewhat understand what happened when nightmare moon tried to break into my mind by using dark magic. Essentially when i told nightmare moon that everyone has their inner demons, i wasn't just saying that. Every living thing has their own personal demons from their past. Some just have it worse than others. nightmare moon meet my demon, and as you can guess it didn't turn out well for her. After All nightmare moon was literally luna, but the difference is that nightmare moon was a physical manifestation of lunas darkest and deepest thoughts and emotions, my guess is your alicron power gave those thoughts the power to physically manifest. And assuming that theory holds true then the same thing could happen to anyone with massive amounts of magic such as you celestia, and possibly twilight as well. For those who don't have that kind of power those thoughts, and emotions remain as just that thoughts, and emotions. Though they could manifest mentally from trauma, or extreme stress, but those are the only ways for such thoughts to mentally manifest they are however the most common was for that to happen. And if you're wondering how im know all this psychoanalysis stuff, i don't have any medical training though i've been in therapy since i was 9. So i've learned about everything relating to my own personal mental issues which i'm perfectly fine listing as they don't really relate to what nightmare moon saw."
Fluttershy: " um what kind of mental issues are you talking about, things like ptsd? Or stuff like schizophrenia?"
Me: "neither of those. I suffer from moderate levels of anxiety, low level depression, OCD, ODD, ADD, ADHD, bipolar (type ), and aspergers otherwise known as high functioning autism."
Rarity: " i don't know about the rest of you darlings, but i've heard of and kow what all of those are but bipolar, and while iv heard of autism. I have never heard of that type of autism."
Everypony seems to agree except twilight
Twilight: "i know what all of those are but this different type of autism."
Me: "ok then i'll explain. Bipolar is essentially where you have the inability to control your emotions this also makes it so your emotions are naturally more intense than the common person. It also makes it so you randomly flip from being happy, to angry, to sad, and back again in random order, at seemingly random moments. This commonly makes it so bipolar is confused with schizophrenia, and split personality disorder. High functioning autism is actually generally a good mental defect. This is because it normally causes the person with this mental issue to be unnaturally smart, like above average IQ without trying type of smart, though it's downside is that it also makes it so the person with this mental issue has no social skills, and it makes it extremely difficult for them to learn social skills. I only learned how to use basic sarcasm 3 years ago, and i just learned moderate levels of common sense last year. Also for frame of reference im 17. Thankfully im medicated for my ADHD so that has fixed my attention issues, and i'm medicated for bipolar which kinda fixed my emotion control problem. However the downside is that while i can now control my emotions, im also somewhat detached from my feelings, and emotions. I'm not medicate for anything else as those i learned to use in a healthy manner, or i learned to live with them."
Celestia: " i don't think we've yet developed a medication to treat bipolar though we know it exists. You see we've only recently started making advancements in mental medical care. Once i talk to some doctors about it would you allow use to have a some of your medication for replication, and testing?"
Me: "sure in return i just ask that i get a monthly prescription of the stuff for free, i'm down to my last month of medication."
Celestia: "i'll have to get on that when i return to canterlot, at some point i'll most likely call you down to canterlot to have you discuss all you know about those mental diseases with a doctor."
Luna: "that's all well and fine but that doesn't fully explain what that thing i saw in your head was, it wasn't even a pony. It kinda reminds me of king sombra and that's not a good thing."
Me: " princess it's fine that thing you saw its from the past, you saw into my memories. Though that thing was never real it was the image i gave to a create that scared me when i was younger. It can't hurt anything or anyone. It's just a fading memory at this point."
After another good couple minutes of everypony thinking none of them come up with any more questions so we end the meeting.
We go outside and towards the town hall where the princess's chariot is waiting.
Before the princess leave celestia notices the sad look on twilight's face.
Celestia: "whats wrong my student?'
Twilight: "well, it's just that now that iv meet all these wonderful friends. I have to leave them and go back to canterlot."
Celestia: "spike take a note. I hereby declare that twilight sparkle she'll stay in ponyville to continue studying the friendship of magic, and to work as the town librarian's assistant. Afterall fang and i already talked about him getting an assistant now that the library expansion has been approved."
At these words twilight and everypony else cheers, and they say goodby to the princesses as their chariot takes off and heads back to canterlot.
I head back to the library with twilight and spike right behind me. Now that we actually have the time i show them around the library and though they are against me having the smaller bedroom since this is my library, i quickly shut them down by making it clear that i've been using the smaller bedroom since i started working at the library. Eventually they reluctantly agree to take the master bedroom. Twilight spends the rest of the day learning the work schedule for the library, and planning ot how to fit all her lab equipment into the basement. I don't know about twilight but the second the night arrives i rush to my room lock the door and flop onto my bed. I pass out the second my body touches the bed.
Authors notes:
Sorry about the info dump at the end of the chapter but realistically thier where to many questions left unanswered for the main six and you the viewers. Also yes fang lied about how he arrived in equestria, why? simple he wants to investigate this necromancer without endangering anyone he cares for so he's going the superhero and secret identity path. With the pony being the secret identity and the human being the superhero. Though that's all i say on that subject. So long everypony see you in the next chapter.