A/N: well no one reviewed. Could have done it and gotten an extra chapter but nope. It doesn't matter all the chapter will be pasted soon enough.

Chapter 27: Revealed enemies come with former allies.

it was the next morning when Chaotic woke up slightly sore from the attack the night before. it was not enough to injure him, but it was enough to make his side ach slightly. so Chaotic stayed in his room a while and stretched out his muscles. once he was feeling better he thought he would risk showing up to the throne room to see if Heart was himself or willing to kill him still. Chaotic entered the throne room to see that no one was in the room. this confused Chaotic but figured it had to do something with Heart giving orders or sleeping in and his beacons were getting him for his day to start. Chaotic wasn't going to wait to be teamed up against with Petal and Heart, so he left a note saying that if he was wanted to let him know, otherwise he was going to go see his family.

then Chaotic flew out of the castle and to Ponyville. he arrived with only a few minutes before Moon and Illusion would get out of school so he decided to land at the school and walk them home. "Hey Cebby! how are you today?" Cebby saw it was Chaotic and all three heads smiled brightly. "Doing good pops. just waiting for Moon and Illusion to get out of school. how about you? what are you doing here?" Chaotic shrugged and landed next to the large dog. "I will tell you and the others in the castle later. for now I just want to see My favorite filly and colt. walk them home and maybe stop for ice cream on the way. you up for some?" Cebby nodded happily. he may be older and smarter, but no one was to old for ice cream!

soon the school bell rang out and fillies and colts came running out of the school laughing and yelling. it did Chaotic's heart good to see all these happy faces. and his good mood only grew when he saw a certain filly come trotting in his direction. then when she saw who was with Cebby she started to run. Moon jumped into Chaotic's open hooves giggling the entire way. Choaitc found himself laughing with her as he hugged her and put her down. "Hey honey, how was your day?" Moon smiled as Illusion came up behind her. "it was good daddy! we learned a new spell!" Illusion added something to it. "Ya now we can do more than just levitate stuff!" the two foals laughed happily knowing they both could do much more than just that. but they enjoyed the little joke all the same.

"Well that is good to hear. and how about we celebrate with some ice cream on the way home?" the loud yes's that came after the question fully answered him. so they went off to get some ice cream for each of them. Illusion chose cotton candy flavored, just like his dad in choosing sweets. Moon on the other hoof chose rocky road. Chaotic chose moose tracks because of all the chocolate in it. and Cebby chose two different flavors per head. Chaotic knew since Cebby was bigger he would need more to just taste it so he spoiled the big pup just like he always had. just another spoiled kid of the old king. "So lets get home before your mothers starts to worry about where you are."

Both kids nodded happily as they ate their ice cream and walked home. the castle came into view and Luna could be seen on the balcony waiting. she had looked worried until she saw her husband walking behind the foals. then her look turned into a happy smirk knowing that her husband was once again spoiling their little girl and even their nephew. Luna flew down and met them at the entrance of the castle. "You stopped for ice cream I see. and where is" she didn't get to finish her question as a cone of vanilla ice cream was levitated to her muzzle. "What? think I would forget my favorite mare?" Luna gave him a smirk and took the cone. "thank you. now come on, you two have homework to get to."

two "awww" answered her order. Chaotic smiled and offered to help them with their homework and that cheered up the filly more than the colt, but he still liked the help. it only took a few minutes for the trio to finish the homework so they snuck out of the castle to the playground out back and played a few games for a half hour before being caught by Luna. "Nice try you three but is the homework done?" all three answered at the same time in a playful tone. "Yes Luna." then the three broke out laughing as Luna shook her head. "Ok you two, we adults have some things to talk about, so go play with your friends and I will see you later ok?" the foals nodded and ran off with Cebby following close.

Luna's looked changed almost instantly. "Why are you here instead of the castle? this cant be good if you are playing with the kids instead of telling us what is going on." Chaotic gave a heavy sigh. "That is because I am not sure what is going on. Heart found out last night about the Windigos inside him. and when I thought I was finally getting threw to him... he got pissed and threw me though a wall..." Luna looks surprised and scared and Chaotic continued. "I went to the throne room this morning and no one was there. so I left a note saying that if I was wanted to let me know, otherwise I would be with my family. and as you can see, if am still here. now lets go tell the others."

then Chaotic and Luna went into the castle and told his other friends what happened from entering his mind to being thrown threw a wall. "So all we can do now is wait and see what he does. excepts our help, or now tries to wipe us out because he is lost to those things." Twilight was trying to hold herself together while hearing what Heart had to deal with, then what he had said and done. "D-do you think he can still be saved?" Chaotic gave a sigh, "To be honest twilight...I am not sure, we can only hope"

A loud banging was heard as some pony knocked on the Castle's doors. Twilight decided to answer it. She opened it to see Heart's Vision standing waiting for her to answer. She was struck with fear and happiness. She was happy to see the stallion that she had mentored for so long but with the recent news feared why he was here.

Heart rushed forward shocking Twilight but was of no malicious intent. Heart crushed Twilight in a hug. "I'm sorry Twilight. I'm just so sorry." A tear ran down Heart's face.

Twilight smiled knowing that there was hope for her student. "It's ok Heart. We will fix this."

"You can't fix what I've done. You bring back the ponies I've hurt."

Discord walked to Heart. "It is ok my friend. You are fighting forces that would overwhelm another pony."

Dominic appeared next to Heart. "I am the one to blame not you."

Heart didn't recognize the voice. He looked at the creature. His sadness was temporarily replaced by shock. "What the hell are you!" Heart had pushed Twilight back and gained a defensive posture.

Dominic chuckled. "That doesn't get old. You ponies always freak out. I am a Slican. As to WHO I am. I am Dominic Brightstone. In the past I captured your mother and preformed a ritual to take her magic but instead transferred those windigos into you."

Heart yelped in pain. He fell to the floor grasping his head.

Voices screamed from inside his head. 'Kill him! Kill him! Do it! Kill the Lizard! KILL HIM!'

Heart felt a massive pain in his head as the Windigos broke through a barrier. "NO! I will not listen to you! Never again!"

Everypony stared at Heart as he screamed for seemingly no reason. Twilight put a hoof on him. "Are you ok?"

Heart shook his head as the voices stopped. "Yes. I am fine. It seems that they don't like Dominic."

Dominic used a sarcastic tone. "I wonder why. It isn't like I trapped them in your body or anything."

Heart didn't find it funny. "It isn't like I have to resist killing you because they won't shut up about it."

Dominic realized this was not the time and said nothing.

Heart looked at Chaotic. "I think that your barriers didn't work. I still hear them and now they like punishing me for disobeying."

Chaotic nodded. "then they are stronger than i thought. and the sight of Dominic must have released all of their hate causing the barrier to weaken so they could break it easier. I am sure that Twilight you and I can come up with a barrier that will at least keep the punishment out. I'm sorry the first one broke so easily. I was not prepared for what I found. and after realizing all that you did it must have shaken more then just what you knew. as in it had already rattled the barrier before they readied their attack. so we will go to the archives and look for stronger spells. until then I will teach you how to control the evil things inside you. I grew up with an alternate personality that was pure evil so I can teach you a few techniques that might help you keep in control." Chaotic when up to Heart and placed a hoof on his shoulder. "I am sorry this happened to a good stallion like you. but I'm glad it didn't happen to a pony with a weaker mind or heart. otherwise we would have a monster on our hooves. so as bad as this is, it could be worse without you being who you are."

Heart wasn't sure if he believed that. "Thanks for the compliment. And… I'm sorry for…Well, throwing you through a wall."

Chaotic couldn't help but laugh. "Oh don't worry about that! almost everyone in this room minus Dominic had attacked me at some point. and you didn't leave any lasting harm so alls forgiven. and if it means that you are here trying to make things right, you can throw me through a few more walls!" Chaotic laughed as the ones around him either snickered or smirked at his actions.

All but Heart who was still upset at himself. "Explain to me what you all know so far. I want these things out of me."

Twilight explained to Heart what they had been doing the entire time he had been ruling. Heart was surprised. "So it has taken you this long and you are waiting on Zecora? Really? You found nothing? Nothing!?"

Twilight understood that Heart was upset but she did her best. "I'm sorry Heart but we did what we could. There wasn't a wealth of information at our disposal. We did are best. All we can do now is wait for Zecora to find that artifact."

"It isn't enough! These things need to be gone! They have already done too much."

Twilight tried to talk sense into the pony. "There isn't much we can do. We can help you try to protect against them but the only way we know to get rid of them is with Zecora and she needs that artifact. You will have to sit and wait."

Heart was angry and wanted to act with his anger but stopped himself. "Ok. I can wait. I might as well right some wrongs while I'm here."

Twilight didn't understand what he meant. She waited to see if he would answer her question for her.

Heart looked at the ponies he had betrayed. He hated himself for if but knew what he had to do. "I betrayed you all and took most of your powers. I am now going to give them back." Heart did as he said. He returned everypony and draconaquus their powers. Heart felt weak with his loss of so much power. He wobbled on his hooves. He slowly lied down on the floor so he wouldn't fall over.

Everypony was shocked when Shining Armor came close and kicked Heart on his side while he was down. "That's for taking them in the first place!"

Heart grunted as the hoof made contact. Twilight yelled at her brother. "What the hell! Why would you do that!?"

Shining Armor backed off. "punishment."

Twilight didn't believe that her brother did that. "You can't just do that!"

Heart waved it off. "It's fine Twilight. I deserved it. He is all good."

Twilight frowned at Heart. "He shouldn't do such things. He has no right to punish you."

Heart didn't care. "Let's not worry about it Twilight." Heart stayed on the ground. "You all have your powers back. I honestly don't know how to proceed from here. Do you want to go back ruling or what?"

Celestia responded. "I think that would be best. You shouldn't be in a position to hurt more ponies. We need to return everything back to normal."

"No." Chaotic spoke firm and the others looked at him in confusion. so he explained his thoughts. "Heart needs to stay in power. as he said, he needs to write some wrongs. and if we just take back over I know at least two ponies and a possible army of them that might think we just took down their leader and for some, savoir. The lanterns will rise to save Heart, even if he admits that it was his choice to give the powers back. the best way to make this right is to let him stay in charge and not let anyone know he gave up the powers just yet. Then he can change those things that are wronged without any opposition. then once those are done he can tell the ponies that he has given the power back and will step down. And with that we will all work together to keep making progress. that's the only way I can see this ending without a war on either side. but Heart would have to make the decision to do this. and we would have to stand behind him. and as I have told him, many of the things he has done are actually making this kingdom better. the marks, and getting rid of those that can't be helped and putting that money to the kids. and helping single parents and a few other that I honestly think need to stay. even the Lanterns them selves are a good idea, just without the special privileges. so will you let him make these few wrongs be righted, and let the good stay? or will you just take back over?"

Celestia looked down at Heart. Seeing him now made her think of how this pony could have ever been a threat. She had seen how much good this pony could do. She saw how long he held out against spirits that are powerful enough to destroy notions. Twilight had shown her how much effort he put forth. She couldn't let such a strong soul go unredeemed. "We can let Heart redeem himself. He deserves that much."

Shining didn't like the decision. "What!? Why would you let him go back? Who knows how much damage he could end up doing? Why risk it?"

Celestia answered in her calm manner. "Multiple reasons. He deserves a second chance, everypony does. As Chaotic stated, the Lanterns wouldn't appreciate their leader being dethroned suddenly. I don't want any unnecessary bloodshed. Heart will keep the throne and we will find a way to slowly take control back."

Heart had an idea. "I may be able to solve that problem. If I start bringing you all to the castle, showing you to be friends. Than the Lanterns will have a easier time accepting you as their leaders again. In a few days I could make a statement saying that I have returned Luna her powers. I am only one pony and I cannot go without sleep. The ponies of Equestria have had no pony watching over their dreams. This would be a small step towards putting you back in power." Heart scoffed. "Plus I would like to not have nightmares every night."

Luna smiled. "Tell us when it is official and I will start. If you would like I could prevent your nightmares until then."

Heart shook his head no. "If everypony doesn't get it than I don't deserve it. I will deal until it is made official. I will keep fake returning your powers until you all have them back. Each time telling them that I am doing it because I am not capable of everything and slowly you will be the unofficial rulers. So when I hoof over the throne it will not be such a ruff transition. Sound good?"

Everypony nodded. Heart liked his plan. He wished that he wouldn't have to do at all but he had made the mistakes and he would make them right. Heart stayed until he regained his strength. Twilight and the others used their powers to create and strengthen Heart's mental barriers. Heart wasn't sure how effective they would be after seeing how quickly they had broken before. While Heart was there he conversed with Dominic, who apologized for the hardship.

Heart blew it off. Heart was easily forgave the slican. When Heart came back to the Canterlot Castle he viewed his throne differently. Before it was a symbol of his righteously earned position. Now he realized it was his seat of tyranny that was stolen.

Sun Petal was whispering to Lachrymose and giggling. Heart smiled at the happiness of his followers. At the same time it brought him a sliver of sadness knowing that he caused the exact opposite feeling for many ponies. Lachrymose said something to Petal and then looked over at Heart. "Heart's Vision."

Heart was already looking at them. "Hmm?"

Lachrymose usually wasn't so pleasant towards Heart but she had a happy tone. "Would you remove my mark? I promise not to wander off."

Heart looked at the permanent mark that Heart had bonded so she could not hide. He didn't like the idea that she could impersonate any pony he cared about but he also saw that this was not really about the mark. It was about trust. "Yes." Heart removed his spell from her. Her false cutie mark was removed from her black coat.

The smiled at Heart. "Thank you. It always irritated me."

"Your welcome Lachrymose."

Lachrymose kept her happy attitude. "Please don't call me that. Call me Plecia."

Heart didn't get it. "Plecia?"

"Yes Plecia. My real name is Plecia Nearctica."

"Plecia it is than. Thank you for sharing your real name with me finally."

"I only wanted to share it with the real you."

Petal butted in. "The real him?"

Heart understood that she was talking about his recent revelation. Heart diverted attention from Plecia "Petal, have you organized the single parent funding yet?"

Petal forgot about her question. "It will be finalized soon. It won't be much longer until t will be available."

"Good. We have some other changes that need to be made."

A/N: For those who don't know (99.9% of the world) Plecia Nearctica is a part of the scientific name of a love bug, yay science for giving me an excuse to use a name that probably used a thousand times in other fanfics for Changelings. Well Heart finally knows his own big secret. Now he just has to fix all his fuck ups. Also he is a pussy. Breaking down and crying like that. Be a man Heart! Or at least be a stallion. Everyone have a nice day.~ sci-fi