"Well you all ready to go?" I asked as they all nodded. Over the last few hours I was talking to my new teacher about dark magic. What intrigued him them most about me was that my magic changed when I was mad enough. But I also learned why he was here. He used to be very evil in the day realm until he was defeated by something called the crystal heart by the mane six of that realm. And I was friends with their counterparts. It would be very awkward if I met them somehow. But I also learned more about them both. Turns out that chrysalis is also one of my teachers. Light magic can be used to shape shift and its one of the secret reasons that changelings can change their form. But they only had enough to let them shape shift and not do much of anything else. They were the only beings allowed in dark Equestria that could only have light magic and it turns out I became an exception so I was very happy for that. Sombra and chrysalis would be visiting dark Ponyville like three times a week until I mastered the magic inside of me. And they said that it would take a while so I am basically stuck with them for almost my entire life. Also I found out that I could basically own the mines with how much gold I had so as soon as I got back all I had to do was ask midnight to send back 10 gold and the mines would become mine for good and only those that I hire can go into it. I was still going to go mining every day to find any new secrets the mines had but otherwise I was going to have a normal life. But way better. We were all currently walking out of the castle and towards the train station and as soon as we got on the train started to move. We wouldn't be back in dark Ponyville for a couple of hours and I knew I wouldn't be able to fall asleep so I just sat awake and looked outside while I thought. I was thinking about my brother and sister. I really hoped that they would both be okay. Moon and eclipse said that they were able to search once more for answers just before I left and I hugged them and they hugged me back surprising everyone as we had left. If I found out that they were hurt I would hunt down those responsible and sick Krodh on them. Well I would like that.
Well of course you would. My rage would give you enough strength to do whatever you want to them.
Yeah yeah... But seriously dude...
Hey I am still mad at you for using me to do a dirty deed and I never knew I had done it until yesterday. I realized it was you cause you did your trademark breath of fire on their asses.
Well you did want then dead.
No I fucking didn't... All I wanted from them was for them to apologize for what they did and then my rage blinded me and you took over... Causing me to break one of my vows.
Well your fucking vow was fucking stupid.
Hey it helped me a lot in the past to help me gain respect. And then you come along and get rid of it all and replace it will fear.
Well to bad. Fear is what kept you alive for the most part.
And fear is what also made me become an outcast.
Well that's the price to pay if you want to stay alive.
Well anyway I hope you are going to be strong enough for when the hunters of dark Ponyville challenge us...
I haven't forgotten about them don't worry. Don't forget about another one of my powers.
Yeah you can hop around from person to person and take information that you need from them while making it unnoticeable and then hop to the next person to get more information.
Don't forget that the power has become very useful in the past like when you were getting bullied I found out their worst fears and made it happen to them.
You fucking broke both of their arms and legs! Gave one two black eyes! And gave the other a broken jaw bone and broken nose! I was surprised they didn't find out it was me that did it!
Well it technically wasn't you. It was me.
And you don't think I don't fucking know that? So how many of them we looking at?
Well I suspect that about 50 of them? But my information was limited in that town so when we get back I can get more exact information.
Well let's just hope nobody sees you in the act... I don't want to take innocents lives...
Well then make sure that they don't and they will be just fine. As long as they don't make fun of those you love then they are dead even if they are innocents.
Well then don't use my body and make me actually watch what you do to them then. I will have to see if there is a spell that could give you your own body so then I don't ever have to watch what you do.
Well to bad. Also I doubt there is one. Plus we need each other to survive. I need your rage to survive and you need me to actually live. Win win situation.
Yeah I know that. But maybe you could get information from the princesses about my brother and sister... I think they might be hiding something.
Can't... Tried that as soon as I woke up and saw you memories. Their minds are locked. I am going to need to save up a lot of power to be able to get into their minds unnoticed.
Well then get saving...
I also remember one of the thoughts in your memories saying that I was like a best friend to you? Is that actually fucking true?
Well... Yes...
Now that's just fucking awesome. Does this mean I can help you pick up girls or what?
Shut the fuck up...
Well to bad cause I can't at the moment. Currently extracting information from your new friends about these hunters and talking is actually helping me stay focused on my task.
Never knew you can fucking do it from my own mind?
I'm a very special personality thanks to your fucking magic source.
Well fuck me...
I rather not thank you...
I fucking hate you...
I know you do...
Asshole...
"So what were you talking about to the princesses?" Black rage asked me as I snapped out of my thinking zone.
"Well I asked them if there was a way I could own the mine near dark Ponyville so they said I could buy the territory with only sending then 10 gold for the fee and that any silver found immediately goes to them to create new bits."
"Isn't 10 gold a little much?" Rottenjack asked me.
"Well I am going to make it all up sooner or later. Plus you all saw how much gold I have in the blacksmiths basement." I then said and they all nodded.
"Yes we did…" black rage said sighing.
"But this does not mean I want to be treated differently!" I then yelled and they all smiled.
"We don't want it any other way!" midnight then yelled and I only smiled.
"We like you for who you are!" blood pie then yelled.
"Thank you all for that then… I still need to figure out what to do about the hunters of dark Ponyville though…" I then said.
"Well ya just had ta anger them then…" rottenjack then said.
"Hey! I am the defender of the innocent!" I then yelled.
"Yeah yeah." Shadow dash said.
"Well would you all like to come with me and midnight tomorrow to the mine?" I asked and they all looked at each other.
"sure." Black rage said.
"But there is also something you should know about us." blood pie said.
"Yeeesss?" I then asked.
"Sometimes… our personality's break out…" midnight then said.
"Meaning?" I then asked.
"every once in a while we might snap and show what we truly are… except if something happens between us and you our rage will mostly be about you." Rottenjack said.
"Well then… then I guess I might as well be prepared." I then said with a smile and they all looked at each other and smiled as well.
"Should I come clean about something about myself as well?" I asked and they all nodded. "Well I can sense any kind of metal except for aluminum in the ground meaning all the gold, steel, and iron that's in the blacksmiths basement I found using that power." They all got wide eyed.
"No wonder you're so rich!" shadow dash yelled.
"Now that's a mighty fine good power." Rottenjack said.
"Well before I was brought here the people that had captured me they had used me to find silver. Or at least I think they used me… being here has helped me forget every single day almost of me being there." They all smiled.
"Then that's good right?!" black rage yelled.
"Yes it is. For somepony like you to be trapped in the Day realm… when you seemed to fit in here in the Night realm… it's just… not possible!" midnight yelled.
"You are all great friends… if anything were to happen to you…" I said wiping tears from my eyes as I felt myself starting to get hugged and when I looked it was midnight.
"Nothing is going to happen to us ben… we are going to stay with you no matter what!" she then said as I started to hug her back when the others walked over and started to hug as well. Krodh?
Yeeesss?
I think we should now be close enough to dark Ponyville for you to make the jump…
Then I shall get right on it… I shall return!
Now I can tell them… "Girls… I think I need to tell you all something…" I said as they all let go. "It's about me…"
"You mean you're going to tell them about him?" midnight asked me and I nodded.
"Who's him?" black rage asked. So I started to tell them my story.
For the rest of the train ride I told them all my story… and they all took it well surprisingly. "That just means you are just like us! To a point." Rottenjack said.
"Then that just makes me even more happy that I am closer to you all…" I then said with another smile as I felt the train come to a halt. "but if I ask you to cover your eyes you must do it… it means… he is coming out to help me… and also don't mention him whenever I am around after this trip or if I tell you that you can talk to him." they all nodded as we all got up and started to walk off the train into the rain. "So are you sure I can stay with you midnight?" I asked.
"It's alright ben… all we got to worry about then is food." She said with a smile when several arrows planted themselves into the ground at my feet causing me to jump back a few feet and when I looked at the town there was a bunch of black hooded figures were on the roofs all around where we were.
"SO YOU ALL CAME EARLY?! AVERT YOUR EYES GIRLS CAUSE IT SEEMS ITS TIME FOR A FEAST!" I yelled as I felt Krodh return to my body and then take control. As soon as I opened my eyes surrounding me were multiple body's while there was twitching bodies all over the ground and roofs and some through the walls. "What the fuck happened?" I then muttered before I fell backwards and was caught by someone and when I looked it was shadow and midnight. "Thanks…" I then said as they helped me onto my feet. "What did you do...?" blood pie asked.
"Happens when I get mad… please don't ask questions…" they all nodded as they started to help me walk towards the blacksmith. As we reached the blacksmith he walked out and smiled when he saw us.
"Glad to see that you survived…" he said as he walked over and helped me inside as he set me down in a chair. "So what do you need?"
"Can I donate gold to help you with this place?" his eyes got wide but nodded. "Then take 5 gold… midnight could you send 10 gold to nightmare moon and eclipse please?" she nodded as she walked into the basement.
"Do you need any help ben?" blood pie asked.
"Just need some water… that's all I need."
"Here you go friend." The blacksmith said as he levitated over a glass of water and I thanked him and I started to drink it and as soon as I was done I set it down on the table midnight walked back up with a couple scrolls.
"Princess Nightmare sent the deed to the mines along with a warrant to mine anywhere needed." She said and I only nodded as she gave them to me and I put them both into my pocket and as I was helped up I remembered… what Krodh had done to those ponies…
"I… remember… what… happened…" I then said.
"Well we didn't watch what you did in worry that you were going to die." Blood pie lied.
"Well… I wish I didn't remember. I think… I killed some of them." I said looking at them all as they looked at each other worried.
"Then that means…" Shadow started.
"That now the families of the dead hunters…" blood pie then said.
"Will request you killed…" black rage said.
"Because none of the hunter's families can know of the challenge…" rottenjack said.
"So that would make what you done…" scarity said.
"Murder…" Midnight then said and I then sat back down gripping my head.
"Shit…" I then said. "I fucking get rid of another problem and then I fucking create another one. What the fuck is going on here?"
"It is called karma." Midnight then said and I gave her a glare as she backed down. "Well we can just worry about it when it comes up." I nodded at that as I stood up once more.
"Do you have any bags I can use to take some of the gold and stuff with?" I asked the blacksmith and he nodded as he levitated over several bags and I smiled as I grabbed them and then walked down into the basement and started to fill them all up. As soon as I was finished I then walked back up the stairs and as I nodded to them we walked back out into the rain and soon everyone went their own separate ways and I was left walking with midnight back towards the library. "So how worried were you for me when you realized where I went?" I asked.
"Well… until we saw the gifts… not worried at all… but after… we became so worried for our new friend that we had just lost…" she said crying a little but I then gave her a quick hug.
"well I'm back now so don't shed any more of those tears…" she only smiled as we then reached the library and as I opened the door for her and she walked in I then walked in and I then closed the door and set the bags down near the closet and I then sat down and pulled out the deed, smiled, and then put it away. "So what do you want to do now?" I then asked.
"Maybe we can go and see the tree of disharmony and try to find something." She said and I only smiled as I then put on my steel armor and I felt myself teleported into a chasm and as I looked around I found midnight smiling as I then started to walk with her into a cave and eventually to a pure black crystal tree. "What dafuck is that?" I then said as she smiled.
"This is called the tree of disharmony. I am looking to see if there is a way we could retrieve the Elements for future purposes once more." She said as we both started to look around the tree. As she checked out the front I checked out the back.
"Let's have a look see here…" I then said as I felt around the back of the tree and eventually I found a slot in the back? "What the fuck is this?" I then muttered as I pulled out my steel sword and looked at the slot and then my sword. "Well it seems like it could fit." I then said as I fit the sword into place and as I inserted it I was thrown backwards from a unknown force and as my back crashed into the back of the cave and I then fell onto my ass, I then looked up to see the tree glowing back and I then hurried to my feet before I could do anything there was another flash and I then hurried to the front of the tree where the arms of the tree were all glowing. "What did you do?!" midnight yelled at me.
"There was a slot in the back of the tree! When I inserted my sword this is what happened!" I yelled as several shapes all floated down towards me and as I held out my hands and they fell into it. "Are these the elements?" I asked and she nodded.
"But if we did this then this means that our counterparts in the Day realm will now have their elements as well." She said as she took the elements and put them into her saddle bag before we appeared back in the library.
"Well I just lost my sword…" I then muttered as she only smiled.
"You still have your gold one!" I only smiled then when I realized something I should of a long time ago
"Actually I have a question. Do you think you could teleport me to the castle quickly? I need to check something." She only nodded as I appeared inside of the castle and as I figured out where I was I heard movement behind me so I quickly turned around and pulled out my sword only to put it away when I noticed it was only moon.
"What are you doing here ben?" she asked with a smile.
"I need to ask some questions…" I then said as she only nodded and she walked into a nearby room and then motioned me to follow and as I entered she closed the door and she sat down on a large pillow as I sat down in a chair.
"What questions do you have?" she asked and I looked at her.
"What do you know so far about my brother and sister?" I asked and she paled a little bit before she sighed.
"We know only a very few things…"
"Well then tell me please before I go to the mirror." She quickly looked up.
"My sister would not allow-"
"I MUST KNOW!" I then yelled as tears came to my eyes. "I MUST KNOW WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THEM! I MUST KNOW IF THEY ARE BOTH ALRIGHT!"
"Then maybe you could just wait until my sister thinks it's ready to tell you…"
"Please…" I then said with more plead in my voice.
"Alright… what we know so far is that… they are both no longer in the facility…"
"Meaning?" I then asked calming down a little.
"you might as well try and get to the mirror if you want to know more…" she said with tears in her eyes as I then stood up and walked straight out the door and towards the throne room. When two of the guards tried to stop me immediately I kicked them to the side as I burst into the room and made my way towards the door hidden behind the throne and as she looked at me but smiled but she then saw the purpose of what I was doing and then paled as the guards in the room all tried to stop me. The first guard I flipped over me and then kicked into a guard attacking me from behind. The second guard I tripped and then smashed him into the wall causing him to get stuck in it. The third guard attacked me from behind but I then grabbed his swinging sword and then spun around, ripping it from his mouth, as I then used the very sword to plant his tail into the ground. As I continued to walk towards the throne soon I was surrounded by guards. "I AM NOT IN THE MOTHERFUCKING MOOD!" I then yelled as I filled my fist with magic and then pounded the ground, shattering the armor on my fist, but also creating a crater and sending the guards surrounding me flying. As I stood back up there was now only one obstacle between me... and the mirror… and it was eclipse… as I cracked my knuckles and then neck she then aimed her horn at me… and then fired magic at me as I then spun around… and summoned a sword somehow and as I held it downwards using my right hand to hold it in place the magic she fired at me got absorbed into the sword and as the magic stopped I looked at her as she gave me a shocked face. "MAGIC BEAM!" I then yelled as I then spun around and spun the sword, launching the magic inside of it towards her as she only dodged to the side and tumbled to the ground as I walked straight past her and into the room where I then looked at the mirror. "Mirror… please show me the fates of my brother and sister…" I asked it with plead in my voice as it shimmered and I then started to break down into tears at what I saw… through someone's eyes… I saw them… on the ground… bleeding… not breathing… dead… "No…" I then said as I fell onto my knees and then onto my hands. "NO!" I then yelled as I punched the ground with my right fist causing magic to be sent out of me. "WHEN I FIND THEM! THEY ARE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE AND-" and with that I was knocked out.
Nightmare Moon's POV
As I knocked him out I felt something in my heart break even more. "Sister… what did we do to have him think of this…" I asked as she walked in.
"He must of thought of it when we showed him the mirror… meaning… when he gets something on his mind and he aims to complete it…"
"So what he said… he will not stop until it comes true." I then said as she nodded.
"He took out our guards like they were fly's flying around aimlessly just waiting to be slaughtered." She then said.
"I hate to see what would happen to Celestia if he got ahold of her…" I then said.
"He… used my own magic against me…" she said and I gasped before looking at her wide eyed.
"How?!" I then asked.
"He… has his own element… and… he used it to block my magic attack… and the sword absorbed my magic… and as he spun around he then swung the sword sending my magic back at me…" she said and I looked at him with worry.
"Then what happens now?" I asked.
"we teleport him back to Midnight Sparkles home and also send with him a note at what has happened… I hope to find out what has happened to his brother and sister… all we know is that they are not in the facility anymore." She said and I nodded as I brought out a scroll.
