Shadow Griff then, after doing his evil laugh, twirled around in the air and, in a flash of red and black light, was gone.
"Looks like we have some history on the 8th Element to research", said Twilight to the six others.
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The seven friends were then at Twilight & Spike's house (the Book Tree), searching for any information on the 8th Element of Harmony. But as they all searched, they new that time was short and that the fate of the entire universe was at risk.
"I found it!", sang Pinkie Pie in an annoying way.
"Where'd ya'll fahnd it?", asked AJ.
"Under the old legends and prophesies section of books", answered Pinkie.
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The seven then found the chapter about the history 8th Element of Harmony, the Spirit of Friendship:
Just a few years after Celestia and Luna's ancestors had defeated the Antmen and hid the existence of the 7th Element away, they decided to create some new sort of guardian, that would not go evil and would defend the whole world from the forces of evil. So they created the 8th Element of Harmony, the Spirit of Friendship, which was also given a mind of its own. The form the Element decided to take was that of a giant living stone statue soldier Pony with the powers of fire, liquid water, ice, subterrainean earth, stone, air, light, gravity, magnetism, electricity, acid and sonics.
Over time, the "Great Stone Pony of Friendship" protected Equestria from all evil threats and even created smaller, Deer-sized duplicates of itself to make the powerful force stronger. But however, these small copies could not defend themselves against one particular threat, the evil entity-like being of many names, Kurayami.
Thank's to Kurayami, the smaller stone guardians fell one by one. This evil being continued to cast out its unrelenting shadow and planned to send all living things across the planet into a deep slumber, so that this dark being could create a time of dark order and awaken the world as their conquerer.
Reluctantly, the Great Stone Pony of Friendship battled against this evil spirit thing, hoping to defeat it. All of its elemental powers did not work on this wicked beholder of darkness. So the Great Stone Pony of Friendship summoned its best power of all that had hardly used in a while, the Harmony power of Friendship; itself. Kurayami was defeated, but not gone. Kurayami had become very weak from that blast of Harmony power and could do nothing more than posess bodies of living Organisms.
The Great Stone Pony of Friendship then decided to pass the torch of leadership to a new generation of guardian hero, a female Pygmy Griffin (no relation to Griffy). The Great Stone Pony of Friendship passed the power on by turning back into the Spirit of Friendship and went inside that Griffin's body, giving her its powers.
Kurayami tried to destroy this Pygmy Griffin and the 8th Element inside her, but she was well armed and Kurayami disappeared; but that evil being said that it would return someday and that you cannot destroy it, for it is immortal (practicaly nothing).
The Spirit of Friendship then departed the female Griffin's body and decided to retire in the great old temple in which the other Elements of Harmony had always resided. It then took an unknown form, in order to camuflougue itself from any new evil threats and it has been disguised in the temple ever since.
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"Wow", said Spike, "That's a pretty intense tale"
"So Kurayami was the real reason why Princess Luna turned into Nightmare Moon and why Griffy has turned into Shadow Griff?", said Rarity, "I think that this evil fellow might not really have a taste for good fashion like I do"
"But what puzzles me is..", said Twilight, "Why did Celestia tell us that the reason why Luna bacame Nightmare Moon was because there was a spark of uncontrolable magic within her which resulted in evil behaviour?"
"Perhaps she just wanted to let us all understand the threat of Kurayami taking control of you when you are at your most bitter, but without actually knowing of this evil Being", suggested Spike.
"Now we have to save the world, the 8th Element of Harmony, and poor little Griffy", said Fluttershy, "All he wanted to be was a hero, like the seven of us"
"We've got a universe to save", anounced Twilight heroically, "Now let's go!"
To Be Continued
