Chapter 10, blood and innocence

"Get off me!" rarity screamed, thrashing her body. "Get off me this instant you thug!" her captor simply laughed and pressed a dagger against her throat. Rarity froze, the steel was ice cold. 'Nova where are you?' around her the other attackers where subduing her friends. Fluttershy lay bound and gagged on the floor, her hooves tied together behind her mouth and a wad of cloth shoved in her mouth. She bled from a small nick in the flesh across her cheek, her eyes where tight shut and the only noise she made was a quiet whimpering. Beside her was Pinkie pie, who hadn't yet been gagged, was yelling obscenities.

"you better stop right now mister!" she was shouting at the top of her lungs "Cus we've got a big strong stallion friend called Nova and he's a prince and he's gonna come outta that forest and kick your butts you big mean bul-" that was as far as she got before one of the ponies that had attacked them grabbed a mouthful of her hair, pulled her head up and stuffed a ball of cloth in her mouth.

"For the love a Luna shut up" he said in a heavy voice, thick with aggression and barely suppressed blood lust. "Nightshade, can't we just kill em and get this over with? This one's doing my head in" he kicked Pinkie, who gave a yelp from behind her gag. Beside her Rainbow dash mumbled as she dreamed. She'd been knocked unconscious by a heavy whack to the head with an iron shod hoof.

"No pony is to touch them until the target returns Steelflank" said the pony that had his knife pressed against Rarities throat "we need them unhurt to use as bargaining chips" the one called Steelflanks gave Pinkie a hungry look.

"Well seems to me that after all that work we've just done we deserve a little reward" his hoof reached towards Pinkie and he yanked her head up, staring hungrily into her eyes. "This one's given me a lotta grief, time I gave her some"

"No raping Steelflank" Nightshade said his voice quiet but none the less threatening "Or I'll geld you, understand?" Steelflanks eyes flamed with anger and his muscles tensed, Nightshade stared him in the eyes, a growl rumbling in the back of his throat. For a moment Rarity thought they were going to going to come to blows, but then Steelflank dropped his gaze.

"As you say…sir" he spat the last word, as if it tasted like poison on his tongue. There was a light laugh from Rarities left and she looked to see a female Pegasus on top of applejack, her cheeks flushed and her muscles bunched up. Beneath her Applejack was writhing on the ground, her face red with exertion. She moaned in fear and saw the Pegasus was running a knife down her cheek, Applejacks green eyes where wide with fear, but the pegausi' where filled with some sought of sick fascination.

"Easy there girl" she told Applejack in a low, soft voice, her knife traced a line down Applejacks other cheek. "I like this one; she's got plenty of fight" she leaned in and took a deep breath of Applejacks mane, Applejack squirmed. "And she smells like apples" the Pegasus placed her front hooves on Applejacks cheeks and stared deep into her eyes, Applejack closed her eyes tight shut. "Look at me" the Pegasus whispered, and then she slapped Applejack hard. "I said look at me!" Applejack opened her eyes and the Pegasus held her head tight in her hooves, staring into Applejacks eyes. "You have beautiful eyes, I wish I had eyes like that" the Pegasus gently kissed Applejack "even your lips taste like apples, oh I'm going to have a lot of fun with you…"

"Poison, get off her and stop that monologue of yours, you're freaking me out" Nightshade snapped "bind and gag them, then move into ambush positions, I want Steelflank and Shadowmane in the trees to cut off his escape. Poison ivy and I will hold the centre with the hostages and lure him in. Fleetwing, you stay high and take him down if he tries to fly away. Go" at once the other ponies moved into action, working with methodical skill.

"Nova will never be defeated by the likes of you ruffians!" Rarity screamed as the bound her hooves with coarse rope "who are you?" she managed before a gag was shoved in her mouth. Nightshade gave her a shove and she fell on the floor hard, bruising her chest. Nightshade kneeled down and gave her a wicked smile, and then he drew out a knife, it rasped sharply as he pulled it from its sheath.

"You see this knife unicorn? I used it eight thousand years ago to slice the skin off your princes' body, I used this knife to make him scream and cry like a baby filly" Nightshade gently laid the knifes serrated edge against Rarities cheek "I used this knife to slice off his cutie mark" rarity felt fear dig even deeper into her heart, a cutie mark was the physical representation of a ponies soul, to take it away was to literally strip them of what they were. Nightshade must have known what she was thinking, because his smile grew even more wicked. "I'm Nightshade, and every time your prince screams in his dreams it's because he's reliving what I did to him" Nightshade lifted the knife away from her face and returned it to its sheath "and now I'm about to drag him kicking and screaming back into the fires of hell"

For a moment Rarity thought she could see madness in the pegausi' eyes, madness and cruelty, then there was a call from one of the other ponies that had attacked them and Nightshade turned away, moving to stand with Poison ivy. 'Nova' Rarity thought 'where ever you are, please help us. For love of Celestia help us…for the love of your goddess help us'

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"Welcome Nova"

"Welcome Nova"

"Welcome Nova"

The three voices spoke at once, sounding in tandem. Each one was different to the other, one was higher pitched, one was slightly throaty and the other was deep. Twilight squinted into the darkness ahead of her, but the meagre light that made its way through the distant door way was too feeble to make anything out. She could barely make out Novas flank, as plain and smooth as a newborn, in the blackness ahead.

"You've been waiting for me for a long time Cherub" Twilight couldn't see Novas face, but she could sense him give a small smile to the darkness.

"We've waited for eons"

"We've waited for millennia"

"We've waited an age"

"I appreciate it" there was a dull grinding sound and Twilight turned to see that the door was slowly rising up from the floor, blocking out the light and sealing them within the temple 'how in the name of Celestia are we going to get out now?'

"Don't use that name in this place Twilight sparkle" one of the voices called out, the deep one. There was no emotion in it.

"She is a traitor"

"She is a blasphemer"

Twilight stood gob smacked 'how did they know what I was thinking?' she reached out into the darkness with one hoof, without any light to see by, she was blind. "Nova" she called, her voice echoing away "Nova I'm scared"

"It's okay Twilight, I'm right here" Twilight felt Novas heavy hoof take hers gently "nothing's going to hurt you" Twilight sighed "BUT A LITTLE LIGHT WOULD BE APPRECIATED!" Nova roared into the darkness. There was a scrambling noise, like tiny claws scratching on stone, and suddenly an emerald green fire leapt into life from a torch sconce in the wall. It floated there for a long second, the only source of light in a world of all consuming darkness, and then it leapt to another sconce further down the wall, causing the fire to spread, the radius of the light to grow a little larger. After a few short seconds the whole chamber was lit up with green fire, Twilight heard herself gasp.

The chamber was huge, massive. Its ceiling was hidden by shadows as it stretched high above them, its vaulted detail hidden from her eyes. The floor beneath her was made from a glassy substance, jet black and cloudy, like it was made of frozen smoke. Pictures had been etched into them, hideous monsters swarmed across the floor, each of them facing toward the centre of the pattern. When twilight followed the design she saw they were all facing a pony that seemed to float in the centre of the chaos, a point of reality in a shifting sea of chaos. His armour had been laid over with emeralds and in his hooves he held a massive hammer, its twin heads covered with ruby red gore. Three blades surrounded the pony, glowing softly in the green light. The walls where covered in carvings, the demonic creatures seemed to actually be tearing themselves from the wall, their claws grasping towards a massive statue at the back of the temple. As Twilights eyes grew more accustomed to the light she began to make out more of the statues details and gasped once more.

It was huge, at least ten meters tall. The statue reared on its back legs, a mighty gesture of strength. In his front two hooves he held a massive warhammer, its haft almost six meters long. The haft was carved over with ornate scroll work; the ancient and angular letters had been embossed with rubies. The hammer had a double head and was also covered in scroll work, on each head there was carved a symbol that hurt to look at, as if it where something too powerful for a normal pony to behold. Three blades carved out of the same black substance circled around the statue, held levitating in the air by ancient spells. They moved like clockwork, spinning as they went, a gentle hissing came from them 'their actually cutting the air as they move'.

The statue itself was clad in emerald armour, the stallions' chest was covered with an emerald green breastplate, on its centre, just over the statues heart was a rune of some kind. It was a unicorn horn, with the earth ponies' horse shoe set in the foreground before it. From either side of the two symbols stretched a pegausi wing, completing the trinity. 'Three symbols, three ways of life, the ultimate balance'. She looked at the statues wings and saw that its feathers where made with the same emerald substance as the armour, along the front of the wings ran blades; ancient weapons wielded by the mightiest pegausi during the ascension wars.

"What do you think?" Twilight turned to Nova and saw he was staring at the statue, his eyes seemed unfocused and glazed over, like he wasn't entirely aware of his surroundings.

"Who is he?" Twilight asked, even though she already knew the answer.

"Me, that's me Twilight sparkle. I wore that armour in a thousand battles, I defeated discord with that hammer, with those three blades I eviscerated the heart of Dalktarion the black terror, with my flight knives I sliced off the wings of Dreadbeak the emperor of the griffins" Nova blinked and shook his head, snapping himself back into reality. "But what does it matter now?" he walked up to the statue and stood before it, gazing at the mark on the breastplate "all of these things happened over nine thousand years ago, it's what I do next that'll truly make me a legend. It's my vengeance that I'll write into the book of history with Lunas blood" he saw Luna holding Blossoms cutie mark, he growled quietly "and into my sisters' flank". There was a sound, like fillies whispering and he turned his head to the side of the statues plinth, staring intently at the shadow that resided there. "I see you there cherub, come out so I can see you"

There was a giggling noise and what sounded like a brief hushed conversation. Then three fillies stepped out from the shadow, each of them with identical looks of happiness on their faces. One of them was a unicorn, the second a Pegasus and the last an earth pony. Each one of them was completely grey, their mane, tails, skin, even their eyes where completely grey. "Hello Nova" the said in harmony, and then they leapt at him, giggling loudly. Nova grabbed all three of them into a bear hug and pulled the tight to his chest. He gently nuzzled them and Twilight was surprised to see them nuzzle him back, looks of perfect content on their faces. They hold their embrace for a few moments longer, and then Nova gently stood them on the floor. 'The way he held them like they where his foals, and the way they look at him, as if he's their only family in the world.

"You're bigger then I remember" he said quietly, Twilight thought she could hear tears in the voice, but Nova hid them well.

"I'm a lot more powerful" said the unicorn.

"I'm a lot bigger" the earth pony said.

"I'm a lot faster" said the pegausi.

"I see" Novas eyes sparkled as he smiled, for a brief moment he looked every bit a father figure and the fillies his foals. But then his mind returned to the present, and the danger that hung over Twilights friends. "You know why I'm here, I have returned and my sisters seek to once more banish me to eternal silence. I must fight, I must have my weapons" the fillies nodded sagely in perfect synchronous.

"We can give you your weapons, your hammer"

"Your magic forged blades"

"Your flight knives" Twilight noticed that whenever they spoke it was always the unicorn that spoke first, then the earth pony and then the pegausi.

"But there's a price to pay"

"A steep one"

"With lasting consequences"

"What is this price?" Nova was confused 'the book didn't mention this'.

"You are the goddesses' last servant Nova"

"The last of her herd"

"The last warrior at the end of the battle"

"…that's impossible, what about the cathedrals, the churches?" Nova was beginning to sound worried "what about the priestesses', what about the saints?"The fillies gave him sad looks, and then continued.

"But in her eternal knowledge she has seen this coming"

"She has prepared for the end of the faith"

"And the start of something new"

"What do you mean something new? How can I be the last one?" Nova had moved past worried, he was getting desperate "what happened? Who did this?"

"The princess"

"The sun queen"

"The ruler of fire"

"Celestia…she did this?" Twilight looked from Nova to the fillies and back to Nova 'what are they on about? by Celestia I'm way out of my depth here'

"She came with torches"

"She came with hammers"

"She came with the anger of a hundred ponies calling for blood"

The fillies shuddered, as if even the memory of what happened caused them pain.

"She tore down the tapestries and smashed the statues"

"She took the holy weapons and melted them down to slag"

"She defiled the priestesses with her magic"

"She brought fire and pain to the faith and washed it away with the blood and innocence of its children" they said in unity.

"But the goddess knew this would happen"

"She's made a plan; she's laid apiece on the board that cannot be removed"

"She's made the final move; she's taken the king" the Pegasus made a sweeping gesture "check mate"

"…me…I'm the final piece aren't I?" Novas eyes where wide. 'Something's about to happen' Twilight realised 'something big's about to happen'

"Yes Nova, the prince Starflight must fight for vengeance"

"You will be raised to the level of a god Nova, and when your time is done you will join the goddess as part of the pantheon"

"You will become divine Nova; you will receive the highest honour"

"And all it will cost is your immortality" the said together 'the way they say it' Twilight thought 'as if it's nothing' Nova closed his eyes and sighed, when he opened them there was something new within their fiery green depths, something Twilight had never seen in anypony before.

"My immortality" Nova scratched his chin "for the unlimited years I have left the Goddess will give me the power to fight and triumph over my enemies. For the silence of eternity she will raise me to become a god and be her equal as an architect of reality" Nova smiled, the fire in his eyes burning so bright they seemed to glow "it's a deal" he spat on his hoof and held it out to the three fillies, who did the same with theirs and shook his hoof in turn.

"Nova, are you insane?" twilight practically screamed "you're giving up your immortality, think of everything you're going to miss! The rise of the millennial sun, the storm of unity! These are things anypony would kill for and your throwing them away!" Nova gave her an even stare.

"I spent eight thousand years sealed within a star Twilight, I've already missed so much" he sighed and shook his head "you just don't get it; immortality is a curse Twilight sparkle. Every friend I've ever made had aged and died and not one of my hairs has greyed, I've seen empires rise and fall and foals grow old and die, I don't want to see it anymore. I want to have a family Twilight, I want to get married and have foals of my own" he smiled at Cherub, all three of her. "This is an opportunity I'm not going to miss; I'm going to grow old Twilight. I'm going to get married and have foals, I'm going to buy a house and make it a home. I'm going to age and my mane and tail are going to go grey, and I'm going to die in a warm bed surrounded by my children and my grand children and my great grand children. It's what I've always dreamed of, how could I say no now?"

He turned to cherub, who looked at him with three pairs of eyes. "Let's do this" he said with a fierce determination. Cherub nodded her faces solemn.

"Step upon the rune" the unicorn gestured to the image of Nova set in the floor.

"Try not to resist, it won't hurt" the earth pony told him with her low voice.

"Unless you do resist" the Pegasus chimed in.

Nova nodded and stood upon the rune, it lit up as he did so. In the green light that under lit his face he appeared almost demonic himself, his face sharp and angular. The three fillies stood in a triangle around him, their eyes closed and chanting softly. Twilight stepped back; she could feel power seeping from the walls around her. It was alien to her, it wasn't magic, it was…older, more fierce and stronger than anything she could ever wield.

"Come down upon us divine one" Cherub chanted "give Nova your servant strength"

"Give him purity and honour to do what is right; give him the will and the means to do what must be done. For the night draws near and all must take arms in defence of the faith"

"And in exchange we offer you his immortality, so that you may use his energy to empower him with your virtues"

Nova had begun to levitate slowly into the air, but his wings weren't moving. Slowly green bands of energy rose out of the rune, probing the air around them as they rose. One of the brushed against Novas hoof and instantly it began to climb it, snaking its way up his body. It was soon joined by other bands, they slithered across his body. Twilight saw they were pulling away at his skin, burrowing deep into his flesh, but Nova didn't even wince. His eyes where distant, and the fire that had burned within them was now erupting forth, the emerald flame searing into the air. The bands wrapped over him tight, covering his whole body and even his face. They covered him, leaving only his green silhouette behind.

"FOR THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENCE THERE MUST BE VENGENCE!" the three Cherubs screamed at the top of their lungs, an intense whirring noise had filled the air, driving through Twilights ears and straight into her mind, she raised her hooves to cover her ears but it was no use. "THE FALSE REGENTS WILL BURN, THE FIRES OF HELL WILL CONSUME THEM AND THEIR SOULS AND THEY SHALL KNOW ENDLESS AGONY!" Cherub screamed over the din. The green bands had begun to whip through the air, creating a storm of emerald green energy.

From within the maelstrom of energy she heard Nova screaming, and then the whirring became a shriek. There was a flash of energy so bright Twilight thought she would go blind, it was too much for her. She fell to the floor and seemed to sink into the frozen smoke beneath her, before the smoke enveloped her she heard a voice speak. It was deep and seemed to reverberate with a divine power.

"I am Nova" it said, every word speaking of the strength within the speaker "and I will have my vengeance"

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Rarity was scared, no not scared, terrified. It had been three hours since they had been set upon and yet Nova hadn't returned, 'where is he?' Nightshade had finally lost his patience and let his squad succumb to their bas urges. Right now the one called Steelflank was raping Pinkie pie, who had tears streaming down her face. The one who was called Fleetwing seemed to be completely mad, and was dancing with Fluttershy in mid air. Or more rather he was dragging her through the air as Fluttershy whimpered in fear. Poison ivy had climbed on top of Applejack and was running her knife down Applejacks body; every now and then she would suddenly tense and drive the knife deep into one of Applejacks legs, licking her lips as she heard Applejack scream. Shadowmane simply sat in a tree cleaning his repeater crossbow, oiling down the mechanism with a small cloth. He was whistling quietly to himself, seemingly unaware of the atrocities his fellow Lunar guard where committing below him. Nightshade sat in silence, deep in thought.

"This is useless!" he shouted, kicking Rarity in the flank "do we have to wait all night for one fucking prince?" he kicked Rarity again and shouted in frustration.

"You should loosen up a bit Nightshade" poison ivy said, stabbing her knife once more into Applejacks leg. The knife went all the way through and pinned Applejack to the floor, she screamed in pain. "This one's good, she's got a lot of fight in her" Poison kissed Applejack, who bit at her lips. Poison kissed her anyway and when she came away her mouth was covered in blood, Applejack spat some more on her "see what I mean?"

"Dammit poison stay in focus!" Nightshade kicked Rarity one more time and then sat on the floor by his weapons "I'm getting angry, when I see Nova I'm gonna bring him in dead, not alive" he stood up and began to pace, mumbling under his breath. There was a grunting Noise and Steelflank threw Pinkie pie to the floor beside Rarity, Pinkie was a mess, the area between her legs covered in blood. Rarity crawled her way beside Pinkie and laid her head next to hers, 'it's okay Pinkie' she wanted to say, but the gag meant it just came out as mumbled noise.

For another hour they waited, the silence broken only by Applejacks screams and the click and whir of Shadowmanes crossbow as he stripped it down for the fourth time. Then there was a sudden screaming noise and the crackling of lighting, Rarity squeezed her eyes tight shut as a bright green flash threatened to blind her. Then there was silence, the air stank of ozone. She looked up and saw Nova rearing on his two hind legs, twilight just behind him.

Nova was wearing green armour, ornate and beautiful to behold. It was covered with swirling patterns depicting scenes of war, and it covered his whole body. He had a breastplate, vambraces, flankmail and iron shod hooves. On the front of his wings where two incredibly sharp flight knives, they whistled as he moved his wings slowly. Around him where three magically blades that slowly spun through the air as they rotated around him, and in his hooves there was a massive hammer, its haft covered in ornate scrollwork carved straight into the metal.

"Did you miss me Nightshade?" there was something different about his voice; it was more powerful, like he was filled with energy. "I've missed you" he hefted his hammer up into a fighting stance. All around Nightshade his comrades where forming up. Poison and Fleetwing had abandoned their distractions and had fallen in behind their leader. In his tree Shadowmane and loaded his crossbow and had drawn and bead on Nova, Steelflank was pawing at the ground over to the right, steam bellowing from his nostrils as he tried to hold back. "Only five of you" Nova smiled, the aggression within him coming out "I'll make this quick".

Steelflank roared and charged forward, aiming to ride Nova down under his bulk. Nova spread his legs and held his ground, staring coolly at Steelflank as he came rushing forward. Just as Steelflank was about to crash into him Nova spun to the left, dodging his charge and he brought his hammer smashing down on Steelflanks head, smashing it open like an overripe melon. Steelflanks body continued on for a few more steps, rolled to a stop and collapsed on the floor, blood squirting from the pulped ruin of his head. Nightshade and the others simply stared on, no emotion showing on their faces.

"Now" Nightshade said, and at once the remaining four of the Lunar guard attacked at once. Shadowmane fired his crossbow, the bolt flying straight for Novas heart. Nova concentrated his magic and with a flick of his tail sent the bolt flying back towards Shadowmane, the pony had but a second to comprehend what was happening before the bolt took him straight through the eyes, pinning him to the tree.

Fleetwing dived from the sky at the same time as Poison ivy leapt at Nova. He dropped down and rolled to the right as Fleetwing came slamming down, Poison ivy just a few seconds before him. There was a cracking sound as Fleetwing came slamming down on Poison ivies back, who hung in mid air where Nova had been only a few seconds before. Fleetwing snapped Poisons back and as he and the now dead Poison crashed to the floor he landed on his neck, snapping it and killing himself instantly. Nova rolled to his feet and cleaned the grass nonchalantly off his armour, and then he planted his hammer along with his magic blades into the grass, where they stood quivering.

"I've waited a long time for this Nightshade" he said as he pulled at a clasp on his back, his wing armour slid off and fell to the floor with a clatter. "I used to dream of killing you, ripping you apart into bloody chunks with my bare hooves" he pulled off his vambraces "and now I've got my chance, but I won't need this armour" he flicked at a set of catches with his tail and his chest piece fell away, he was now without his armour. Rarity who had watched in silence with her five friends as Nova had killed four of the finest warriors in Equestria, now began to scream, the blood was just too much, how could a prince do this? Nova rubbed the back of his neck and then reached down to his flank and pulled out a knife, the same knife Twilight had given him before they'd entered the forest. "I'm gonna maim you with this knife, then I'm gonna ram my horn through your head, into your brains and use that bond you've got with my sister to tell her to watch her back" Nova smiled coldly, and then he leapt at Nightshade.

Nightshade brought up his sword to parry, but he was too slow. Nova rolled under the swords stroke and was within Nightshades guard "that's for my stars! He shouted and he brought the knife slicing down on nightshades left hoof, slicing clean through the tendons and rendering Nightshades left hoof useless, it hung limply by his side. Nightshade roared and tried to punch Nova with his right hoof, but Nova ducked underneath it, grabbed it with both his hooves and snapped Nightshades arm. He savoured Nightshades scream before he wrenched at the broken limb and pulled it clean from its socket "that's for Requiem!" he roared. He brought the knife back out and stabbed straight into Nightshades chest, expertly twisting through his ribs and reaching straight into his heart. Nightshade gasped and slumped into Novas arms, the light in his eyes dimming. "That's for Blossom" Nova whispered into his ear before he lifted Nightshades limp body into the air, he stared at Nightshade for a moment and then thrust his horn straight through the bottom of his mouth. There was a wet sucking sound as Novas horn pierced its way into Nightshades brain and then Nova felt himself within Nightshades dying mind, thoughts fluttered like butterflies through the encroaching darkness as Nightshade died.

'Luna' he thought, using magic to send the thought through the psychic link Nightshade shared with his sister. For a moment there was silence and then he heard Lunas voice in his head, it hadn't changed abit.

'Nightshade, thank the darkness. For a moment there I thought Nova had won, tell me. Is my brother dead, or have you subdued him?'

'Oh Luna, I'm very much alive. Though I can't say the same for your royal thugs, you should pick the members of the royal lunar guard more carefully next time'

'…Nova…'

'I'm coming for you Luna, I'm going to find you and kill you. It was you who convinced Celestia to overthrow me, and you were going to betray her once she'd done the dirty work. But I'm back now Luna, and I'm stronger then you could ever possibly imagine. For your crimes I'm going to rip you to shreds and personally drag you to hell, it's the least I could do'

'Nova, I-' that was as far as Luna got before Nova pulled his horn out of Nightshades brain. Nightshade spasamend and fell still, Nova let his body drop to the floor. Blood and brain matter where slowly sliding their way down his face, but he barely noticed. He walked over to rarity and undid her gag.

"Are you ok?" he asked her, Rarity seemed to shy away from him "Rarity?"

"How could you do that!" she screamed, around her her friends nodded in agreement. Twilight set to work undoing their bonds, magically removing the ropes.

"What the hell are you!" Rainbow dash asked her eyes wide in shock "how the hell did you move that quickly?"

"I…training" he looked at them, they all had looks of fear and revulsion in their eyes "what's wrong with you?" he asked "I just saved your lives and your acting like I'm the monster" Nova stared at them in disbelief "I can't believe you…I trusted you…I thought you understood!"

They hung their heads in shame. "You're no better than my sisters, the lot of you!"

"Nova-" Twilight began, but Nova barged past her and lifted Pinkie pie in his eyes as effortlessly as if she were a ragdoll. "she's been hurt, I'll take her to the hospital" he gently laid Pinkie on his back and spread the wings "I'll meet up with you later" In a tone that stated he obviously wasn't going to.

"Nova!" Twilight shouted as he took the air, the rushing of his wings blocking out her words.

"Nova I'm…I'm sorry"

Authors note: I'm afraid I was recently issued my GCSE schedule sheet and I'll have to spend the whole of the Easter working and revising to prepare, so from now on I'm afraid that the gaps of waiting between chapters are going to be longer. But I'll be back up to capacity in a few weeks once this is all behind me

Timefather 64, BlasianAsian, foxondragonwings, valourousspectre, the guy who left an anonymous review. Thank you for your reviews and support, you've made logining on to one of the best parts of my day. I promise I'll never let you guys down

and to the other 892 people who've read my story, thank you for reading this, not even my parents know i'm doing this, but the fact you guys out there are reading means the world to me.

Me and my brother are going to a cosplay convention in Manchester in the summer, if anyone else is going, look for the guy with rainbow hair, a blue shirt and a black tracksuit with the words "JDA 10019" on it. He'll have a small kid sitting on his shoulders who's dressed as scootaloo and going mental as they wander around the stalls buying merchandise. If you spot us, just say "Nova says hi" and I'll get what you mean. Hope I see a few of you there, I know at least 177 of you live in the UK.

See you on the other side bronies. Stay true and always keep your pinkie promises.