My Little Pony: The Four Horsemen
Chapter 3: 100 Years Later...
A/N: Sorry I took forever to update, I was battling a flu last week but I'm feeling better now. Yay! So far, only two reviews and I'm guessing all of you are waiting for the Mane 6 to appear. As promised, they will appear in this chapter. Plus, I did see the Season 2 finale Canterlot Wedding and I loved it though the way Queen Chrysalis was defeated could've been better. Anyway, continuing the story.
Ares Maverick stood there helpless and without his teammates, what can he do now to defend himself? He checks his left side and right side to find a way out of the foyer. However, all he sees is nothing but pillars, dry and wet bloodstains on the floor, corpses of dead ponies; weapons, and the rest of the Horsemen in stone. This can't be good for him...but he has a mission to do: he has to protect Withersham and the villagers. Black Mist approached him and noticed his spell book next to Ares. He uses his dark magic to teleport the book from the frozen-in-fear stallion to his hand.
"How dare you, Ares!" The sorcerer spoke. "Trying to steal my property without asking? You should be ashamed of yourself...and for that, you shall be punished!"
The gargoyle opens his spell book and flips through the pages to find a useful spell or attack. After a few seconds, he found one that is indeed worth the punishment for the white unicorn.
"Ah, here we go!" Black Mist said. "This one would blow you away, stallion!"
"Wh..wh...what?" Ares Maverick asked with concern.
"This...would be your punishment...for stealing my book, you will receive...The Cyclone of Chaos!"
"Wha...what's the Cyclone of Chaos?"
"Simply put: once I read these enchanting words from the book, a powerful deadly cyclone will be summon to a location I prefer and will leave nothing behind...except bits and pieces on what it used to be."
Ares gasped on what he just heard. Then, the sorcerer began to read the words on how to summon the Cyclone of Chaos.
"Dark as my might, clouds of terror and pain that fills. I call upon the dark magic of my ancestors at will! Hear my words as I beg your powers onto my hand, to bring forth the Cyclone of Chaos and destroy's King Icarus' kingdom and his land!"
Suddenly, the clouds above Withersham began to fade from blood red to dark black. The surviving ponies of the village looked up to see the clouds forming into a monstrous tornado with powerful winds that no one can't escape. The ponies panicked and ran for cover to nearby homes that are still standing though only some have underground cellars. However, some of them galloped towards King Icarus' castle as the guards did their best to gather the survivors inside and lead them to a safe place in the basement of the castle. The twister touched down outside the village and began it's course towards the doomed kingdom, gathering debris and whatever was left in the battlefield outside of Withersham.
Back at the fortress, Ares looked through one of the windows and squints his eyes to see the cyclone in the distance. He can imagine the devastation that the twister will cause and that he failed to do anything to protect all the ponies and his king. Not only, that his fellow guards, friends, and family will all be dead within minutes if he doesn't do something...and fast.
"Well, Ares!" Black Mist growled. "What's your next move? Surely, you must have a plan to stop me instead of just standing there clueless...or...you can just bolt to the door and head back home to the king but if you do, the Cyclone of Chaos will take you and the king away to extinction!"
Ares snapped out of his fear, turned away from the window and took a stand, "I don't think so, Black Mist. Who said anything about me retreating? I got a task to complete and I'm going to finish it...even without my team!"
The sorcerer laughed once again. "Fool! You think you can actually defeat me? Don't you understand who you are dealing with? I can easily destroy you with both hands tied behind my back and my tail strapped around my waist."
"Is that so?"
Ares reveals a cocky smirk and paws at the ground in front of Black Mist. He starts out slowly until he began to speed up a little. Witnessing this in front of his eyes, the sorcerer raises an eyebrow and is somewhat not amused.
"You're kidding?"
The brave unicorn continues to paw the ground and then took charge at the gargoyle. Black Mist just stood there, rolled his eyes, and yawn at the charging unicorn. However, what he didn't notice is that the horn on Ares started to glow and in a flash, the unicorn disappeared. Black Mist was dumbfounded for a second until Ares reappeared again on his shoulder blade. Black Mist was left with a surprised look until Ares gave the sorcerer a strong buck kick to the jaw, which causes the sorcerer to drop his book and he fell to the ground. Ares landed near the book and flipped through the pages in order to somehow reverse the direction of the cyclone's path of destruction.
"Now to find a way to stop that cyclone." Ares said as he flipped through the page until he found it.
"Here I go: Ancestors of the dark, I made mistake of the cyclone's call. Send that thing straight to me, so I can take my fall!"
Just as the white stallion said those words, the Cyclone of Chaos changes its course from Withersham to Black Mist's fortress. The village is saved for now but the question is: Will Ares be able to make it out and save his teammates or be caught in the twister. Ares drops the book and gallops to Silver Iron's statue and hopefully save him with the spell of changing his teammate back to normal.
"Hang on, Silver Iron!" Ares said. "I'm about to free yo...AUGH!"
Ares was caught off guard when Black Mist recovers from his fall and shoots his laser right at the stallion's hind legs. Ares falls to the ground in pain and was startled to see that he's turning into stone.
Black Mist began to chuckle at his fallen enemy. "Surprised? You should be. However, I am not surprised over the fact that you were able to control my Cyclone and have it turn its course to my fortress. No matter, I can re-reverse the process myself while you lay there turning into stone!"
Ares, ignoring the pain that his legs are going through as they harden, responds back to the sorcerer, "I...WON'T...L-L-L-LET...Y...YOU...GET AWAY...WWWIITHH...TTTHHISSS!"
Suddenly, Ares' horn began to glow and he shot a powerful white stream at Black Mist. Black Mist, distracted of reading his spell book, sees the incoming the beam and tries to jump out the way but it was too late. The powerful magical beam hits him in the right leg and it caused a lot of pain to the dark gargoyle. The pain was so excruciating that the sorcerer dropped his book and the white stallion, almost completely turned to stone, used his last bit of magic to grab the book and hold it in his teeth.
"I...hope...you suffer Black Mist." Ares painfully said. "Not...only...am...am...I turn...into stone,...but you will...as well."
"WHAT?" The gargoyle said all shocked as he sees his legs turning into stone. "HOW...HOW CAN THIS BE?"
Ares laughed a bit and talks some more while holding the spell book in his mouth. "You're not...the only one...wh...who learned...how...to use the spell...cause...I read...the book...be...fore...you took it...away...from me...So...have a...nice time...in sto..."
Ares couldn't finish his last words as his whole body was turned into stone. Black Mist tries to reach the staircase and get to his room for another spell book but his own spell was working against him and he couldn't move anymore. He witness wings spread out and harden and his arms become useless. He lets out a monstrous roar as he takes his last breath and becomes a victim of his own stone spell. The Four Horsemen and the sorcerer Black Mist are turned into stone statues! Just then, the Cyclone of Chaos approaches Black Mist's fortress and with a lot of wind power, destroys the whole thing. Bits and pieces of the fortress were ripped from it's foundations and were sucked into the funnel. The Cyclone of Chaos made its way to the foyer of the fortress with stained glass windows shattering and walls crumbling. The violent storm rips the ceiling off and sucked up the statues of the Four Horsemen and Black Mist with the debris and rubble it picked up. Finally, as the storm destroyed the fortress, it continued it's course far west into parts unknown.
100 years later...
"...And the storm ripped through the fortress while it carried the Four Horsemen statues and their nemesis Black Mist. It traveled all the way far west for about three days, causing more destruction in its path until it finally dissipated in a valley outside of an undiscovered land, which that land is now today as Ponyville, Equestria..."
The narration of these words were spoken in a book that is read by a purple unicorn with a cutie mark of small, sparkling white stars and one big violet star in the middle; and her mane being moderate sapphire blue, violet and rose. Her name is Twilight Sparkle, a magical unicorn from Canterlot and faithful student from Equestria's ruler Princess Celestia. The beautiful mare is currently living in Ponyville at the town's local library as she studies on the magic of friendship and read tons of books about almost anything. One book, however, has been read so many times by Twilight that she alone has got herself interested to know more. She sat on all four of her legs on her bed as she continues to read the book entitled Legacy of the Four Horsemen, a biography book about the four stallions from Withersham.
"'...To this very day." Twilight continued. "Nopony has ever found the statues of the Horsemen nor the statue of Black Mist. Some say that one day, somepony will uncover the truth on fate of the Horsemen.'"
Twilight puts a hoof on her chin and ponders, "Hmmm...no one has found the statues yet? After all these years and they might be still out there? This is...just incredible."
A/N: In the next chapter, Twilight learns that she's not the only pony that has read the story of the Horsemen. Find out in the next chapter.