chapter 20
Heavy and the girls were walking home peacefully with his mothers remains in Sunsets arms, now that they were stuck in the human world for a month, all they could do is wait and try to enjoy themselves while they were Sunset was looking at her new wings and coping with the fact that she was now an alicorn, Heavy turned to Sunset, who was still holding Golden Hearts jar carefully and he smiled."You know...I been thinking, if you girls wanted...we could all go to the spring formal, just the three of us, hows that sound?"Heavy said in a happy tone.
"That's a great idea Heavy, oh i knew you would come around,"Twilight said in a happy tone.
"Yeah...but I just realized something,"Sunset pointed out.
"And what would that be?"Heavy questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"We need to find some dresses for the dance!"Sunset exclaimed in almost a worried tone.
"Oh my gosh your right! and we need to find Heavy a nice tuxedo for the dance,"Twilight added.
"Wait...what?"Heavy asked with confusion, the girls only smiled slyly at him and the girls took Heavy's arms and began to giggle.
"Heavy Weight...prepare to take a dive into the world of fashion,"Sunset said as her and Twilight began to drag Heavy down town to get suited for the dance.
Meanwhile in Equestria, Outskirts of the Crystal Empire
Dark Star was still looking around the edges of the Crystal empire for the horn of Sombra, he was now even more stressed as he discovered that his last servant had perished in the other world, he now once again on his own and more frustrated then ever."AHHHHHHH! CURSE CELESTIA AND ALL WHO WORSHIP HER! HOW HARD IS IT TO FIND A BLASTED HORN OF AN EVIL UNICORN!"Dark Star roared at the top of his lungs. He had accidentally yelled so loud that he caught the attention of a Crystal guard that was scouting the borders.
"HALT! stop right where you are Dark Star! there's no escape!"The guard said as he pointed his spear at Dark Star, Dark only chuckled with amusement and stress as he turned and gave the guard a demonic smile.
"Congratulations guard...you caught me,"Dark said through his chuckles.
"Yes well...just don't move and come with me, and maybe there won't be a problem,"the guard said as he came closer to Dark Star.
"Oh there is already a problem,"Dark said sinisterly with a dark smile.
"And what would that be?"the guard questioned.
"YOU!"Dark Star roared as he suddenly made his horn glow and levitated the helpless guard in the air as he panicked and struggled to get free.
"Please I beg you, don't kill me, I have a family, a little filly and everything, please don't!"the guard beg as he struggled, this only made Dark chuckle as he began to squeeze the guard tight.
"Well then, your little filly will just have to grow up without you,"Dark said as he squeezed the guard so tight that his body exploded and blood went everywhere and came down like rain all around Dark Star, Dark only smiled as the blood rain finally stopped and he plopped down in exhaustion with his search."Well that was fun...But how do i find the blasted horn, is it hidden or something?...Where is it?"
"You will never find it upon the soil,"A deep an evil voice sounded out in Dark's head, alerting Dark Star as he immediately got up and looked around.
"Who goes there? who dares to sneak up on one such as me?!"Dark yelled with confusion.
"My...I must say, I have never seen that much twisted evil in a long time, you may very well be worthy of my power,"The voice rung out again, irritating Dark Star.
"Your power?! I'm looking for the horn of Sombra fool! what are you, king Sombra himself?"Dark questioned.
"Yes...I AM SOMBRA YOU FOOL!"the voice introduced in a roar, sparking Dark's interest.
"Really?...I suppose i should be honored to meet you, but I have no time for a greeting, and the only fool here are ones that dare to call me one!"Dark warned at the voice of Sombra.
"Oh please dark one, i do apologize for my ignorance...please tell me who you are then,"Sombra asked in a heavy and dark sarcastic voice.
"I am Dark Star, the newest wielder of dark magic, and soon to be the new ruler of Equestria, that is when i get your horn of course,"Dark Star stated with composure and waited for an answer.
"Of course,"Sombra simply replied
"Let me guess, your going to try and stop me right?...well just to give you fair warning, I'm not like the other whelps, I have grown more powerful than any pony, even Celestia, I am not afraid of you,"Dark boasted.
"Maybe...but your not as powerful as this Heavy Weight character I hear about now a days, now he is definitely something to behold,"Sombra commented, and making Dark grit his teeth in fury.
"Don't ever say that name, especially in front of me, Heavy Weight will rue the day he messed with me"Dark growled making Sombra chuckle again.
"Whatever...now listen, I am actually here to help you get the horn, but the problem is that you were so foolish and blind, you didn't realize that you practically gave the horn to your servant,"Sombra said mysteriously.
"What do you mean? I would never give my chance at ruling Equestria to a lowly servant, what are you talking about?"Dark questioned in confusion.
"You really are a cumbersome fool...let me explain it to you,"Sombra said as he cleared his throat for more words."When i was defeated, my horn was blown far away from my kingdom, before i could find somepony to take a hold of my horn, it was founded by princess Celestia herself, when she realized what it was she took my horn and put it in a place that only her, Heavy Weight and Twilight Sparkle knew of, It is also the place that you and your servant went to pick up the surprise for Heavy."
Dark was at a lost for word and kept trying to think of what the dark king was talking about, finally as he thought back to where he and his servant went to steal the remains of Heavy's mother, it hit him with devastating force and angered him as well."THE URN! ITS IN THE URN! I HAD IT IN MY HOOFS...AND I GAVE IT AWAY TO MY SERVANT...AND I HAD NO IDEA!"Dark roared loudly.
"Yes...I told you that you were a fool, now keep your voice down before you get caught by another guard,"Sombra commanded with a smug tone.
"I do not take orders from a voice, especially the voice of a king that was so easily defeated by one such as Cadence...or that baby dragon as i have heard the story be told,"Dark mocked and chuckled.
"Are you going to keep mocking me?! or do you want my horn? cause i can get it for you if you will just be silent and listen for a moment,"Sombra enticed getting Dark interested.
"Very well...king Sombra, how do i get the horn?"Dark asked with a wicked smile.
"Simple, you must wait for a month, the path to the dimension where those troublesome fools went is now cut off from our world...temporarily, but it will reopen in about a month, when it does, you will go through the portal and get my horn from the jar and you will have all the powers of darkness you could ever want, but there is a catch,"Sombra explained.
"And what would that be?"Dark asked with a sneer.
"If you want to be a ruler, you must first take over the Crystal empire before you can set your sights on Equestria and you will need to do a little task right after you achieve the horn to make it so,"Sombra explained.
"What would that be?"Dark asked impatiently.
"For now I just need you to go hide out and wait for the next thirty moons until the portal reopens, then you must get that horn, when you do, I will explain the rest step by step for you when you have It...understood?"Sombra questioned with authority.
"Fine, have it your way, if it means i get to rule this world, I suppose i have no choice,"Dark snorted as he began to walk away from the empire in a huff.
"Good...very good...You are going to be a great heir to my throne my new friend...you better be grateful for the gift i am giving you fool, for i cannot stand the wretched love that spreads through out my empire any longer, but with our combine evil, not even the love of Cadence and Shining Armor will be able to stop us!"Sombra roared as his voice faded away, leaving Dark Star to sigh in relief.
"Gee wiz, I thought he would never shut up, so now i get to wait another month till i can get what i desire, just wonderful,"Dark said in relief as he teleported away as if nothing happened.
Meanwhile in the Crystal palace
The royal sisters and the two rulers of the Crystal Empire were gathered around the mirror to the other world and were now worried as they discovered that the portal was now sealed, knowing that Heavy and Twilight were now trapped for a month in the new world. But in the wake of all that worry, princess Celestia was the one that was most worried about what was happening and allowed a stray tear to run down her cheek as she gently rubbed the mirror in grief, catching the attention of all the royalties."Aunt Celestia, is there something wrong?"Cadence questioned.
Celestia turned to see everypony looking at her with concern a she then turned to hide her confliction with the events that were taking hold."Sister, what is wrong? why do you look so sad and in such grief?"Luna now questioned.
"It's nothing really, I'm fine,"Celestia defended, but Luna was not easily fooled.
"Sister, I know when something is troubling you, I can sense your grief Tia, you can tell me sister, what is troubling you?"
"I...its just that I...I could tell that Heavy has not forgiven me for what happened to him all those years ago,"Celestia started, gaining the attention of everypony.
"Sister, you are still holding onto that battle you had with him? and why would you even want that monsterous stallions forgiveness? he has proven to be nothing but an ungrateful student with nothing but raw power at his hoof,"Luna pointed out.
"That's exactly what I thought, but once i learned of what he suffered through and what good he waqs really doing, I have come to relized that he is just misunderstood, he can actually be a great guy when you get to know him,"Shining Armor pointed out.
"Even so, he is nothing but a dangerous pony and he needs to be brought under control at least before he does more damage to Equestria,"Luna said loudily.
"That's the thing Luna...we can't bring him under control, we failed to do just that and we almost paid for it with our lives, the only thing that ever brought him under control was..."Celestia started before realizing something.
"Well...don't stop now sister, what did bring him under control?"Luna questioned impatiently.
"Love,"Celestia answered.
"Love?"all the royalties questioned.
"Yes...that is it...love is what calmed him in the wake of fury, and there were only three ponies that manage to use love to stop him when he lost control,"Celestia continued, receiving raised eyebrows from everypony.
"Who were those three ponies Aunt Celestia?"Cadence questioned with curiosity.
"Well Golden Heart was one, she was Heavy's mother, she was a very kind and loving mother for Heavy, just the sound of her voice kept Heavy calm and very happy as he grew up until...she died, Heavy went down hill after that,"Celestia explained
"Oh...I had no idea of this information...perhaps my words were somewhat judgmental of him, I insulted without understanding the history of his life,"Luna said with a bit of guilt.
"Twilight was another one Right? I could feel the love radiating off those two, they had a bond that was much like the one me and Shining have, completely in separable,"Cadence said as she stared at Shining with a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Wait a minute, if his mom was the first and Twilight was the second, who was the third pony?"Shining questioned with confusion.
"It was...Sunset Shimmer...she was the other,"Celestia answered much to the surprise of everypony.
"What? But Sunset was bullied by him like you said, when did he ever listen to her?"Luna asked.
"Sunset always talked about how much she liked Heavy, and i believed that it was possible that he may like her as well, there were times that Heavy would play rough with the guards and when ever i wasn't around, Sunset was there to calm him down before he could do any real damage to the guards, though she would later on take the rest of the punishment, though i could never catch him in the act,"Celestia kept explaining.
"So...do you think there may still be feelings between Heavy and Sunset as well, I could not sense through the portal to be sure, but I definitely sensed love earlier and lots of it,"Cadence questioned.
"Yes...and maybe more than i could have foreseen...I get the feeling there was more to all three students meeting under my wing and falling in love with one another than I could have thought possible, It may have very well have been fate that brought them together under my wing,"Celestia said with a smile."I get the feeling that when they return, we will be faced with not a couple, but a herd."
"Wow, that's going to go over real well with dad, he already doesn't like Heavy being with Twilight, let alone this,"Shining said as he scratched the back of his neck.
"Yes...I just hope he can forgive me for what i have done to him and maybe...me and him can at least be friends again, I can't help but still treasure him like a son,"Celestia said in a solemn tone.
"Trust me princess, he will come around in time, he may be an angry stallion, but he never stays angry for too long,"Shining reassured making Celestia smile a bit, Suddenly a Crystal guard bursted into the room in a panic and almost ran into the royal sisters as he was frantic and scared.
"Prince Shining Armor, princesses Celestia,Luna and Cadence, we have had a sighting of Dark Star on the borders of the empire, he...killed a lone guard in a very gruesome way and disappeared mysteriously,"The guard explained.
"What! how dare he step hoof into our kingdom and slaughter one of our own, that does it, we need to send out parties of our best guard and hunt this monster down before he kills again,"Cadence said as she got furious at the news.
"We agree, we must find this alicorn monster now, we cannot wait for Heavy and Twilight return, we must do what we can do in the mean time,"Luna said as her and the others ran out of the room, except for Celestia who stared back at the mirror.
"Aunt Celestia, are you coming?"Cadence asked as she peeked back into the room to see Celestia still staring at the mirror, she then turned to Cadence and smiled.
"Yes Cadence, I'm coming,"Celestia said as she slowly left the room, but not before turning back to the mirror with her smile as she left"Good luck...my three very faithful students."
WELL THAT WAS FUN A BIT, THERE ARE STILL MANY THINGS TO
COME IN THE FUTURE SO STAY TUNED.