#55

Questions filled with grievances were still circulating in everyone's minds. It wasn't easy to adjust, never has loss had such an impact, especially when it just happens out of the blue and in such a moment. Luna still holding fast to Ben, while others stared still comprehending, made the depressing scene.

"W-what now?" Luna asked softly, a tear rolling down and her eyes locked on his irresponsive hands. Celestia didn't want to answer, the feeling of guilt overwhelmed her, this would never have happened of she just took the warnings, was all she heard when she saw everyone's reaction. Her silence forced Luna's eyes back to Ben's body, before she gently laid him down and stood up, everyone watching the scene, some crying and others whispering questions to themselves. There was a small silence before Luna opened her mouth.

"W-we do what Ben wanted…"

"What?" Celestia asked, dumbfounded by her sister's demand. Luna turned to her before gulping and letting out a sobbed breath. "W-we get rid of Sting's hatred."

There was silence, which meant that no one knew how to respond to her sudden order, but in Luna's head it was all she wanted to do right now. Luna turned to Ben, to glance once more before closing her eyes and looking away up the sky. "We have to do it."

"Fine…you go do what you need to do…we'll stay here." Dash remarked, refusing to give the princesses any more attention and let herself become distracted by the body. The princesses were moved by her agitation, and they wouldn't blame her for it, yet it was painful to see such rejection from her. Celestia rose slightly and showed her sorrow, trying to prove she was also hurt. "We're sorry, Rainbow…"

Dash turned away silently and the princesses got the point, they nodded in agreement, hurt but accepting. "Fine. Take care of him."

With that they left along with Jade and Chrysalis, silently, and as much as Dash despised seeing them at the moment, she was using them to be more angry than lost in the painful wound of her feelings. Everyone stared at Dash, as she slightly lowered her head, trying to hide herself from everyone to avoid anyone seeing her streaming eyes.

"Why…why did this happen?" She asked herself, but everyone being close around her heard. Among the group, up forth came Twilight, refusing to see her friend cry.

"Dashie…l-let him go." Twilight urged, not letting her eyes float off to the source of grief. She tried her best to comfort, but there was something wrong with her words, and Dash couldn't ignore it.

Dash's heart forced a double beat, she whimpered a quick one before turning to Twilight, looking at her off the corner of her eye. "What did you say?" A threatening tone coming from Dash while her eyes were sore with tears wasn't something Twilight intended on watching, she gulped and closed her eyes, avoiding the sight of Ben or Dash.

"Please…this is depressing…" Twilight painfully let out, trying to beg in a matter of sorts. Dash turned to her fully and bared her teeth. "W-what!?" Dash processed through her head before quickly stomping a hoof getting Twilight to open her eyes in a stun.

"And how am I supposed to feel!?" Dash yelled back, not giving her stress a break. "Happy!?"

Twilight shook her head confused as to how Dash wasn't listening to her and held back her urge to be demanding. She had to have expected this attitude from somepony like Dash, but didn't. She leaned in towards her, once more, seeing if she could convince Dash to distract herself. "Dashie, come on-

"NO! I WON'T!" Dash quickly rejected backing away from her, refusing to accept Twilight's words, which were a disgrace in her sense. Her backing away was a sign she was fearful, fearful of forgetting that body next to her. The crowd of emotionally twisted spectators watched at tensions grew within themselves and those around them.

Unlike before, Twilight was now slipping past that "kind" zone and was entering the demanding stage of her situation. She imitated Dash's move, stomping her own hoof for attention. "What's wrong with you!?" She yelled out, hoping she could get a reaction with this new approach.

As if Dash would suck up to Twilight at a time like this, no way in Equestria, not when there was something she cared so much for in between.

"What's wrong with me!? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?" She returned the question, almost laughing from how insane Twilight's questions were driving her. This sudden turning of questions forced Twilight to lift her head, backtracking in her efforts to convince Dash and hearing her out for a change.

"Remember that day, wing exercises and everything!?" Dash added, her voice going so high pitched from how much stress was releasing through her flooded eyes. "We went to investigate Fluttershy's problem!"

Twilight looked at her, her head repeating that first moments of that day where Fluttershy asked for help, worrying that a pack of Timberwolves had trapped something in Everfree. "Y-yes…" Twilight answered, lowering her attitude.

"We got to the forest Twilight, and you called me over to discuss a plan, but I didn't because I remember feeling something coming from inside the forest!"

"You felt something?" Twilight asked, getting some insight into that day. Dash nodded firmly

"I DID! And then I heard a voice and I rushed in," She whimpered, using her wings to wipe the tears, that moment in time had forced her to recall, what is now a bad memory. In a moment, she frowned as she braced herself, getting attention from everyone as she picked her head up quickly with reason. "I…I was expecting to just save some pony, normal stuff you know? But no, instead I found a creature that called himself Ben from another world! THAT IS MY PROBLEM!"

Twilight felt those words, her hooves trembled as she listened in, not really knowing how to respond. Dash looked at everyone before looking away and closing her eyes, in an effort to shut everyone out.

"YOU DON'T EVER GET THE CHANCE TO FIND SOMEPONY THAT SPECIAL, SOMEPONY THAT WOULD MAKE YOU THINK OF HOW YOU LOOK OR FEEL! HE WAS MY FRIEND AND MORE! AND YOU'RE INSANE IF YOU THINK I'D JUST "LET HIM GO!" WHAT HAPPENED TO FRIENDSHIP!?"

Twilight looked away before nodding, hurt by Dash's revealing words.

"Dashie…I'm sorry…"

In a plane, engulfed in complete darkness that would make anyone think they're blind, were two figures that stood out, one glaring at the other, which laid upon the ground. The one standing tall was shining to no avail, and the other resting on the ground, knocked out.

"Why must they turmoil with each other…?" She asked before turning over to the body resting on the ground and smiling slightly. "But I guess thou is worth it, isn't he?"

She got no answer. She sighed and shook her head with a smile still gleaming on her. "Fine, I'll save the compliments for when thou wakes up."

"Jade, stop crying." Chrysalis ordered as she held her by her side, and with the princesses on the other, just watching the battle in front of them, thinking of a way to extract what Sting is refusing to let go.

Jade turned to her and gulped strongly through that lump that formed in her throat. "I'm sorry, but I, I just can't believe this!"

"Believe it, because we need you to handle Sting's hate." Celestia responded, looking down her side at Jade. Jade twitched as she looked up to see K and Sting, hoping to get some courage, but that was quickly shot down with how quickly Sting moved across the field. She backed a bit before Chrysalis used her magic to pushed her slightly.

"Why are you afraid?"

Jade nodded to Chrysalis's question. "It's dangerous."

Chrysalis lifted her head slightly. "Huh?"

"As you can see, Sting is at the moment covered in his hate, possessed," Jade warned before clearing her throat further. "So mercy or talking him back to sanity is out of the question, the only way to cleanse him is to get in contact with him and do a small ritual, or get something that can absorb all the hate."

The princesses looked at each other, remembering something from a few nights ago, in which Ben was still alive, and did something to Celestia's magic, almost like absorbing, but then again that was out the question.

"One is possible, but it's risky, and the other we don't have anything that can absorb hate, I could do it, but getting inside of Sting is fatal at the moment." Jade lamented. Everyone looked at each other before sighing.

"We'll have to go with what he got, how is this ritual done?" Celestia asked.

K quickly swiped down at Sting with a fist but had to back away at Sting's sudden eruption of increasing rage. K watched for a split second before lifting a foot quickly over his head at Sting incoming and landing him one under the jaw before aiming his hand towards him and sending him into the sky with a burst of dark jagged energy waves. K watched the sky's act calm and peaceful before quickly running a hand behind him, ready to meet anything, but instead was met with his own surprise. The sudden feeling of something occupying his hand didn't go unnoticed.

"W-what!?" K ran his hand back up to his face, and he glared at it insanely. "No way…" He whispered as he gripped tightly to the ten-foot scythe in his hand that glowed a light-red, almost pink hue. He studied it for almost a second before giving it a twirl and noticing how light and quickly he moved it.

"K!"

K's head jerked up to the sky to notice Sting with two hooves over his head, a ball of sparking mass over him, almost six time his size. K gave him a glare before turning to the scythe and giving it a twirl before gripping it firmly. "Try me." K whispered out, confident in the feel of his odd weapon.

Sting yelled loudly as he put more effort into his attack, forcing the mass to increase in size by the exponents. "Parish with all your friends!"

Sting used his body like a slingshot and sent out a hoof towards K, making the mass of damage follow through coming in bullet speed. K's eyes reflected off the darkness of his own power as he gave the scythe one more firm spin and brought his arm across his chest and with his hand over his shoulder, six feet of scythe and blade behind him. He quickly immitted what looked like a red and black mix of aura for a slit second as he rapidly spun his body with the scythe slicing the air, and the air that was sliced turning into a red flash that extended almost a mile and rushing upwards towards Sting, at a speed faster than his bullet speed.

"WHAT THE!?" Sting yelled out as the red mile sliced through his attack, destroying it, and went for him. He quickly dropped a bit from the air to let the fine red line go over him, but as soon as he looked back at K, he was greeted by a barrage of them, and K resting the scythe on his shoulder. "TSH-K!"

K frowned slightly as Sting dodged with difficulty, and spit out something before putting the scythe to use again and twisting his body slightly. He took a moment to study Sting's moved before getting the scan and growling as he put as much force into his arm as he swung it across his body, sending his weapon propelling towards Sting, propelling with such speed that it looked like a pink-glowing spinning disk.

Sting quickly ducked from the last one he saw, but he had a late response to the disk that quickly got him on the cheek before he quickly looked behind himself, but before he could react, it had gone over his hoof. He was reacting slow, too slow to keep up with the spinning scythe that was now taking advantage of his speed. Within seconds, the scythe was going to a speed that it looked like Sting had become trapped in pink cocoon.

This odd scythe of K's was not only baffling the audience of four, but K himself as he stared. After a few, K aimed his hand towards the sky at the pink cocoon. "HEY!" He yelled and, in an instant, the scythe stopped and quickly spun toward K's hand and firmly landed in his hand. K took a moment to accept his weapon's obedience before turning to the sky and seeing Sting. He was wide-eyed all the way, cuts across his body, dripping blood as he slowly descended. K snarled slightly as he lifted his dormant hand, created a marble like ball and bouncing it around in his hand slightly. Once he felt the perfect pitch, he tossed it up before sending it rushing towards Sting in a kick full of fury.

Within an explosion, Sting was down to the ground.

"W-what just happened?" Celestia asked taking a step forward. "K has a scythe?" Luna followed looking at K scrape the ground around him with the tool in his hand, causing the grass to just fly into the air, K was seemingly taking a moment to enjoy his weapon.

Jade glared at K before turning over to Sting in the further distance, he was alive, his aura proved it. Jade quickly clicked and tapped Celestia's hoof repeatedly. "This is probably the only chance we have! Let's go!"

Celestia looked at her and nodded. "Right!"

"I'll follow with you, but first I need to go check on K." Chrysalis explained, getting Celestia's approval. "I'll go with Chrysalis, as well." Luna came up, getting next to Chrysalis. Chrysalis glared over to her before turning to Celestia, who took a small moment to think before approving it as well.

"Alright, we'll be over by Sting."

They all scattered to their locations via teleportation, Jade was quick to react to seeing Sting in front of her. She was unnerved by the sight of his damaged body, but she wouldn't go and stick up for him yet, not before she had extracted everything in him. She quickly circled Sting a few times, searching for something before stopping at his side.

"Alright," She whispered, tying to not provoke Sting, he was still awake, his eyes glaring up at the gray clouds in the sky, wide and in shock.

"What will you do?" Celestia asked and Jade worked some magic which involved her gathering the blood that Sting let off, and using it to paint the ground around him. "A ritual, and thanks to the damages K made, this process will be quicker."

Over by K, Luna and Chrysalis both stared at K's back as he had stopped and froze slightly at their presence behind him. He picked his head up before turning over to them. Luna and Chrysalis froze slightly as well at K's unsettling appearance.

"K…you're different." Luna noted, making K look down his body. He lifted his arms before getting the scythe in his view and nodding.

"A little I guess." He seemed to have the same attitude as the K he's known as, which brought some relief to Luna and Chrysalis who sighed. As they sighed, they noticed the scythe, and asked. K brought it up to his face before loosening his grip on it, evaporating it. Equally to vaporizing it, his eyes reverted back to normal and his aura dropped.

"Yeah…I don't know how to explain it, it just spawned, and I put it to use." He explained, but the vibes Chrysalis and Luna got from being around him changed, they felt safer and warmer after the scythe disappeared. They looked at each other, hoping to see if they could relate before turning to K.

"You seem to know how to use it really well." Luna brought up, and K nodded. "Yeah…I did."

The absence of firmness in his voice, got both female's attention.

"What's wrong?" Chrysalis asked, hoping to connect. K looked up at her, expressing his feelings with his glare. Chrysalis looked away with some shame, she'd forgotten the main reason K took action in the first place. "Oh, right…I'm sorry."

"K, I'm really sorry, I never would have expected such." Luna apologized next, which K closed his eyes to.

He turned to the ground, thinking deeply before picking his head up. "I'm going to Ben…I'm not pissed or anything…just hurt." He expressed before turning over and walking off in a direction. Luna and Chrysalis looked at each other before joining his side.

"Don't lie, how can't you be stern!?" Luna asked, making K look to the ground before rubbing his eyes with his arm. "I know you loved him…and he loved you, and I respect that."

Luna took her time to take that in as they continued walking. It hurts now, it hurt to think she could forget about Ben and focus up on the future, but when she thought about it, it was Ben who she looked up to for the future, and now he's gone. Luna walked with her head slightly lower than everyone else's.

"Is that really it?" She asked and K followed with a nod.

"What will you do now?" Chrysalis asked, making K sigh and shake his head. "I don't want to think about, first let's get to Ben."

"What about Sting?" Chrysalis followed up, making K frown slightly before looking away, ignoring it.

"Ben is more important."

"Oh my…Sting seems to have injured thy innocent soul…"

That voice, it was so heavenly and soothing, it took me back a while. I couldn't identify where the beauty of the voice was coming from, but I could sure as hell could tell is was somewhere around me.

"C-Celestia…" I called in an attempt to get her attention.

The one standing jumped back a bit at the sudden response before leaning in curiously.

"I beg thy pardon?"

Her confusion was strange, and I so very much wanted to see her again, but I felt so tired out to the point I was all hazy in the head and couldn't open my eyes. I felt some feeling come to my fingers, managing to slightly move them, yet, I still wanted to get the attention of whoever was around.

"Y-you…your voice…"

She stood watching him as his legs suddenly twitched before her head processed his words and she smiled.

I remained there, it felt like my back was to the ground and now I could feel my legs. I slightly recoiled a knee and made an effort to move my upper body but I was still weak. The figure became shut and inactive for a moment. I tried to move my lips but I had worn myself out just trying to move. There was silence before a giggle arose.

"I'm pleased you recognized such a minor similarity, now, if only thy eyes were only-

The moment she mentioned "eyes," I felt a small effort build up and managed to slightly open them, but I couldn't tell if they were open, everything still seemed pitch black. "Are…are my eyes open?" I asked before working the eye muscles, making sure they were open, which they were. I blinked a few times, but even then, I couldn't tell if I was blinking, everything was just too pitch black. The fear and anxiety of being blind got to me and I quickly picked my back off the ground looking ahead of myself, nothing but endless darkness.

"I'm…I'M BLIND!" I panicked.

"No-no! Thou aren't blind!"

I picked my head up before turning around quickly. "W-w-what!?" was all that came out as I quickly saw something that wasn't what I had expected. I back peddled quickly away from the being made of pure light that was blinding. I wasn't blind now, I knew for sure, but what the fuck is that!?

"N-no…please, please don't fear me!"

My backward journey came to a slow stop as I noticed the tone of voice matching that calm one from earlier and the light I was seeing dim down, was it sad? "Huh…?" I whispered as I noticed it before looking down and seeing my legs there and hands there, looking like they would in broad daylight. I gulped before looking up at this light, it was of a familiar size to some princess I knew.

"Are you an angel?" I asked out of the blue, or should I say black in this case. The light flinched before slightly changing color, a pink glow.

"Um…no…"

I blinked a few times before looking around myself, I was sitting on a pitch-black floor, like the rest of this place. I looked up at the pink light before getting on my feet and getting the sense of control of my body. "Some figment of my imagination?"

"I assure, this is no figment of thy's imagination."

I got a hang of her civility and stepped slightly in her direction at the sound of her voice, it felt pleasing. Strange, I could swear on anything this was Celestia.

"Well how about this, you sound almost like Celestia, and she's the only one I know with the power of sun and all its holy light…although I must say, I don't recall her light changing color based on emotions."

She flinched again, meaning I had exposed her of that truth. I smiled a bit and moved another step. I wasn't as spook as before, on the contrary, I was drawn to this light now that it had dimmed and become fully pink.

"Thou knows them well…"

"Huh? Them?" I asked closing the empty space between us. "Aren't you Celestia?"

This light looked up at me, and now that I could see it better, this was in the outline of a pony, about Celestia sized, maybe a bit taller and lengthier.

"No, but I know her and her sister." She was speaking as if she was close or related to them, like a friend of sorts. The way she expressed that remark, it almost sounded as if she had tried to feel disappointed. Even with that being said, there was something she held back, it was this feeling I had.

"Everypony knows Celestia and Luna, but what makes you different?" I asked with a smirk as I lifted a finger and poked at a line that was surrounded by light. She blew up in a brighter pink which meant I struck her horn. "W-what's thou up to?" She asked as I quickly got to her side and put hands on her sides feeling around for something. With a few seconds of rubbing around, I got my hands on a soft patch of something and gripped gently as I pulled on it, unveiling a glowing light that extended from her body. Wings; lengthy, gentle, and stiff.

"Oh? So, you're an alicorn!" I expressed before circling around her a few times. "But I've never met an alicorn that is Celestia's size, or taller for that matter. And what's with the pink glow?"

"Oh my…thou's very…physical in his approaches…"

I chuckled a bit before laughing out loud and smiling to no end. "I'm a very physical guy!"

She was silent for a moment before looking away and glowing a friendly, lighter, glow of pink. I lifted an eyebrow before placing two fingers on what should be her muzzle and smirking with my eyes closed, she brightened up to the point I was really gonna go blind staring at her. "Are you smiling?"

She looked up at me before giggling and making her light disappear. I felt her giggle, not like I heard it, more like that giggle traveled thorough my fingers and up to my head, and as far as I remember, a muzzle wasn't as slippery and moist as this. I opened my eyes again and quickly looked down at my fingers.

"I…uh…crap…" I chuckled nervously as I noticed my fingers, of all places, in her mouth, and really not knowing how to react. I looked at her expression next and smiled slightly at how she was glaring at me with amusement and a blush bright enough to be seen mile from this darkness. "I…I'll be taking back my fingers…" I chuckled retracting my hand and noticing the saliva between her mouth and my fingers before wiping them on my shirt. She giggled as she licked her lips and smiled.

"Very physical…" She giggled. I blushed slightly as I looked away. "Sorry…I didn't really see where I was aiming my fingers…"

She giggled some more.

"Don't mind it, we are alone in here after all."

"Leaves much for the imagination," I returned with a smirk, she wasn't really aiming to make her words "meaningful," but I was. She caught on and blushed with a smile. "Does thou really intend on such actions?"

I gave her my look, the one I've given so many to prove I'm being playfully serious. She stared at me before blushing and looking away. "Oh…you do."

I shrugged before looking around again, I had almost forgot how I was completely surrounded in darkness. "Hmm…what is this place?"

"Oh?" She mentioned before looking around as well and jumping slightly. "Oh yes! I introduce thee to thy soul!"

"Thy soul?" I asked looking over at her. "My soul?"

She nodded before looking around and giggled nervously. "Yes…well…what's left of it…"

I choked up slightly before shaking my head. "Left…" I whispered before looking to my hands and body, I was looking clean, with the clothes I remember last wearing. This alicorn gave a mildly depressed look before sighing.

"Thou remembers how he got…eliminated, right?"

I looked at her a good few seconds before getting a head full of scenes. They didn't come as a surprise, since I knew beforehand I was, in some matter, far from my body. But still, remembering back to my chest opening up like it did, I could only place my hands on my chest and squeeze tightly. "Y-yes…Sting…"

She picked her head up. "Yes…Sting…forgive him, he's blinded with a hatred known as jealously."

"Jealously!? Of what!?" I asked and she looked off to the distant darkness. It must have been one hell of a green eye if he had to kill me.

"The fact that thou killed Yuson…and he didn't."

I stared at her, trying to comprehend that, I could understand it, but I couldn't believe it. "W-what!?" I asked before shaking my head at the disappointment. "Are you telling me he killed me over his own pride!?"

She looked up and nodded, making me close my eyes and think on it, trying to see if I could find a way to make it sound at least acceptable in my head, but I couldn't. If it had been me, I would have been grateful and even maybe have done my best to serve him good, but no, he didn't do that, he killed me instead, an ungrateful bastard he is. But still, I had to accept this, maybe the green-eyed monster inside of Sting got the better of him, it happens to many.

"Please, I know thou's a kind and forgiving being, I've been watching over thee."

I picked my head up curiously before turning to her, she knew me well apparently.

"I may not know who you are, but yeah, you got that right, don't worry, I'm not hellbent on keeping a grudge against him." I answered her and she lit up instantly with a smile. "But, now, explain one thing, you've been watching over me?"

She looked at me and blushed. "Don't contemplate it too deeply, in time you'll have an answer."

I smiled at how she avoided answering.

"Hmm…a young yet wise alicorn, I guess I can trust your words." I chuckled making her blush.

"Oh, I assure thee, I'm not really in my youth, those days are long behind this body."

I shivered slightly at how she phrased that, the irony in her words where too great to go unseen. "Ms. Alicorn, your body contradicts your words, harshly," I responded, before some more literature popped into my head. "I mean, you're as beautiful as beautiful can get."

Beautiful was an understatement, gorgeous is more like it, this being seemed to possess every attribute I liked in a pony, but then there was an odd connection between us, that I can't describe with words. She blushed with a small smile as she looked to the dark ground.

"D-don't spoil me with such flattery-

"Not flattery, it my honest view."

She glared at me before smiling to no avail and I smiled back at how she acted. I wish I could have looked at her smile longer but, I needed answers. I sighed, getting her smile to fade. "But…as much as I like your company, I don't understand, aren't I dead?"

She shook her head before slowly bobbing her head to the sides. "Well, in a matter of sorts, let's just say thou's not as easy to execute as he looks."

I turned to her with some strong motives burning. The way she worded it made it seem as if I had withstood that chest pericing titanium stab. "Wait, what!? I'm not dead!?"

She looked to one side before the other and smiling.

"Well, you are…but your soul isn't." She revealed making me jump slightly.

"Huh!? What's that mean!?" I asked and she giggled at how I reacted.

"It means thou can possess other bodies as thy own!"

I stared at her before frowning slightly and shaking my head firmly. If I knew how she was going to make this sound, then I wouldn't be taking part in some possession.

"Well you can forget that idea! I'm not going to take someone else's body!"

She quickly shook her head in objection as well.

"N-no! Listen, I'm speaking about thy own body."

My own body? She was slapping me across the face so many answers that I couldn't land firmly on one. Yet, my own body? Wasn't it killed? I lifted an eyebrow in response and glared curiously at her. "What about it?"

She smiled before lifting a hoof towards me.

"If thou haven't noticed, everypony with magical abilities has been trying to heal thee, Twilight, Lyra, Vinyl, those two young ones; Belle and thy fostered foal, Trixie, and Starlight…yes, it's a far cry from bringing thou back to existence, but with thy's body almost restored and in shape, it would just take a soul interaction…and then a small but pleasant surprise…"

She decided to go through with her point, which I was hooked on firmly to, she was getting to a conclusion that I was beginning to get fonder of with every time she would increase her smile. "S-surprise?" I asked taking a small step towards her. She nodded and blessed me with the sight of her joy.

"Oh yes, thou's ability of using Pure Light magic will basically engulf thee the moment thy soul comes in contact with thou's body, in other words, the soul will place back all its magic back into thy body, which will quickly start thy heart and mind!"

"You mean I can get my own body back!? And restart my heart and everything!?" I quickly became a frantic shaking machine. She smiled and closed her eyes. "Yes."

I looked at my hands and nodded with no end to it.

"If that's so, then let's get to it!" I demanded but she looked off to the side making me follow. "W-what's wrong?"

"Before I get to what I want to say…Pure Light magic has the power to absorb other forms of magic, even hate…so I'm hoping thou understands what I'm asking?"

I'm not stupid, but yet, I get her intentions and made fists with my hands in excitement.

"Yes! I got it!" I assured her making her blush slightly. "I'll get thou's soul ready…but remember…this is quite possibly the last time I'll be able to do this…it's very draining of my magic."

"I'll use my second chance wisely, I promise!" I promised before rejoicing by smiling towards the endless abyss of darkness.

"I trust in thee, oh and before I forget," She brought up with a blush making me pause and leaning in closer.

"Yes?"

She took a moment to herself, looking off to the darkness before coming back at me with a blush, that if I had known better, she was saving up till now. I watched her, before lifting an eyebrow and leaning in. "What's the matter?"

She giggled before giving off those eyes that meant you've given someone a goodtime. I stared at her a bit before leaning in more.

"For ending Yuson and bringing Equestria closer to peace-she giggled a bit-you have all my blessings to bed my daughters, Celestia and Luna, my two gems, and for the future you three have."

My heart stopped for a second before accelerating at almost three times the regular speed.

"Wait…then you're-!

I was cut off by my face become bright red with embarrassment as I recalled everything I did to her while I was here, alone with her, and not to say that having her lips pressed onto mine did make my blush a mile brighter. She pulled back and winked my way.

"Thou's a charming stallion, I look forward to our next meeting, alone that is." She giggled making me feel heavy and weak. I fell on a knee before feeling my body go limp and fall to the ground. This was her, their mother, and I wish I got to know her better, but it seems that I'll have to wait now, and only she knows how long till then.

"B-but…you're their…mother!" I tried to yell out, but it came out as more of struggle for air, I wheezed before feeling my body become numb and irresponsive.

"Send my best of regards and tell Sting that I'm still alive…but ease it onto him, he might lose his mind again."

I couldn't move my limbs, but my mouth was still shivering at the chance to release my final words.

"H-hey…"

"Hmm?" She hummed curiously. I gave myself another breather and felt my eye lids begin to close on me.

"B-bye… a-and please…visit sometime…" I let out softly before my head fell and banged on the ground with a thud.

She smiled as she stared at Ben's body and gave one simple nod. "Don't worry, I'll make sure to make our reunion special."

K had sat down and crossed his legs, watching Ben while answering the questions laid on him. He answered off the top of his head, pondering what to do, not really wanting to accept the fact that he was missing his other half.

"Please…try and be considerate of K, he's been through enough." Luna asked of the audience that watched K stare aimlessly at his friend's corpse. They all looked at Luna before looking down to show their shame, well except for Pinkie, who made her way up to K.

"K…um…I'll make you something sweet…if that will make you feel better." Pinkie offered as she approached K, the only one with the motives to get within a foot from him. K got distracted and look down at her, understanding her act of kindness, but given the circumstances, he just couldn't at the moment.

"Sorry, Pinkie…but I can't right now."

She lowered the small smile.

"Oh…okay."

Pinkie looked across to Ben before approaching him and looking at the refurbished body, clean of all blood and cuts, leaving only a scar in his chest and torn clothes. She sighed before using her teeth to grab him by the shirt and pulling back on him, forcing his body to sit up right. Everyone gasped as she got Ben to sit up, before pulling him over to a boulder with grunts as she struggled with his loose body. K watched closely as she managed to get him to rest his back on the huge chunk of rock and sit lifelessly.

"Pinks, what are you doing?" Dash asked finally speaking up for everyone who was silent, even K. Pinkie turned to her before looking depressingly to the grassy ground. "He looks a little bit livelier…like this."

Everyone went silent and beyond it, they all turned to the ground hoping to not get any more tear jerking moments. Pinkie looked at them all before nearing Ben and letting herself rest alongside his leg, and with his loose fingers slightly grazing her puffy mane. It's hard to get tears out of Pinkie Pie, but they got the better of her earlier and now.

"Pinkie, ya really are somethin' special." Applejack complimented her actions before ducking her head to the moment, crestfallen as well. Pinkie looked over to her before looking away and nodding. "Thank you."

K closed his eyes and took a moment to himself before turning to Ben on the boulder, which was right next to him, and then Pinkie.

"Did you ever get to spend any time with Ben?" K asked her way. Pinkie looked at him before whimpering and looking away, giving K a straight answer. K sighed before shaking his head. "I'm sorry, Pinkie…did you want to spend time with him?"

Pinkie didn't want to turn to him and nodded, looking away. K nodded back before turning to everyone else, before looking down and seeing three little foals in front of him. K gave them a small look before reaching a hand out to comfort them, but they just continued letting out their sorrow through their tears. K squinted before shaking his head. "For kids…you should be seeing this."

"How did you feel about him?" Luna asked turning to Chrysalis. Chrysalis choked a bit on answering and looked over to K.

"Uh…I don't really know, I spoke to him only a few times…but he was a respectful being."

Luna looked ahead at K as well, finding the answer too simple for Chrysalis. "You didn't get to know him any better?"

Chrysalis turned to her before looking away nervously.

"Well…he had charm, and he did know how to play with his words."

Luna almost smiled there as she agreed. "That's true."

Chrysalis almost smiled as well, but the hung over feeling she had, kept her from doing so.

"Luna…" Chrysalis called, and Luna responded instantly.

"Yes?"

"What would you do…if Ben were still here? How would to treat him?" She asked.

Luna was baffled by the question, basically since it challenged reality at a deep level, but one quick look into Chrysalis eyes, and Luna was all for pondering the question. She thought for a few seconds before looking up with an answer she hated having thought about.

"I'd never put him through something like this again and show him as much affection as I can possibly muster."

Chrysalis smiled. "I'm glad,"

Luna looked over and smiled, thankfully but with pain behind it. "Yes."

Pinkie sighed once more before realizing how depressing the whole scene was; she was next to someone who she never really got to spend time with, everyone is down and blue, and she was crying, something that is hard to get out of her. "I guess…I'll…do something." She whispered to herself before standing. "Yeah! Do something!"

"N-now, all I have to do is-EPP!"

Feeling a strange pinch on her head, Pinkie quickly jumped and rubbed the back of her head, getting everyone's attention in seconds of her yelp. "Pinkie! What's wrong!?" Twilight asked.

She looked around before landing her sight on Ben's hand, which had grazed her hair before, and noticed the strand of pink on it. She blinked a few times before leaning in closer.

"I…I think Ben pulled on my hair…" She mentioned looking back at everyone.

"What?" K asked, not finding it funny, getting Pinkie to shiver as she looked around at all the crazy looks everyone gave her.

"Pinkie, he's not able to do that, he's…dead." Twilight answered getting the unfortunate agreement of everyone behind her. Pinkie looked at all of them before hearing Luna and Chrysalis speak up.

"Pinkie, you need to realize that, that isn't possible." Luna added before Chrysalis came up, serious portrayed all over her. "Maybe your crazy head is getting to you."

As mean as it was, Luna wouldn't object making Pinkie frown and shake her head rapidly.

"N-no! I can prove it!"

Everyone glared at her before K moved up to her and kneeled down. "How?"

Pinkie looked his way before she reached for Ben's hand with her hoof and lifted it slightly with her hoof. K watched, before cocking his head slightly and reaching his hand down and gripping the pink thread with his fingers. "A pink hair?" He whispered before tugging on it, but at the same time he tugged, he lifted Ben's hand as well. Pinkie quickly gave her input. "Yes! My hair!"

K stared at the odd grip Ben had before tugging harder on the hair and standing up with the hair still at hand, and almost immediately everyone gasped as how Ben's hand was just loosely dangling from the hair, he was grabbing it. K studied it for a few seconds before letting it go and quickly falling back and backing away from the so-called corpse and bumping into Fluttershy and Applejack, who quickly asked about Ben's odd grip on the strand. K shivered with wide-eyes as he shook his head and looked around.

"Who's idea of a joke is this!?" He asked, and no one answered. He looked at everyone before looking back at Ben, still lifelessly still.

"IT'S NOT A JOKE!" Pinkie quickly yelled defending her position, and K quickly aimed a finger towards Ben.

"THEN, HOW THE HELL IS HE GRABBING ONTO THE HAIR!?"

There was a silence before everyone looked at each other. K turned to Ben and stared as he wondered what was happening. Everyone rose to the occasion, and Dash along with the three little foals joined K's side.

"K…can you check…?" Dash asked getting next to K, not breaking her eyesight from the idle corpse. K looked around at everyone, they all had hope in their eyes. He gulped. "Y-yeah…"

He stared a few more seconds before walking back up to Ben and kneeling down in front of him, studying his face before looking at the pink hair strand. He shivered a bit as he placed his hands-on Ben's face and lifted it up to see it clearly.

"Pinkie, are you sure you're not playing around?" K asked, seeing no reaction from him. Pinkie shook her head quickly, finding it hard to believe no one would believe her. "No! This is serious!"

K took a moment to accept that Pinkie was acting serious, it wasn't her strong suit. "Alright."

He turned back to Ben before taking a deep breath.

"Ben?"

That voice, it was familiar, too familiar! I wanted to react to it, but I felt paralyzed to whatever was on my back, the best that I could do was just listen to the voice call out my name.

"Ben? You there?"

Damn it, I was here, but I couldn't get it through. I could tell I was sitting with my back against something hard, and that there was also something was in front of me, and I was stuck here. Without a second gone by, after the voices last words, I felt something land on my shoulders and give me a firm shake. The voice called my name again, but this time I felt the words, and recognized the voice. K, simple.

"K, he's not responding."

Another voice, and that voice was also familiar, it was without a doubt Luna's, and I quickly felt something begin to burn in my throat. If what I'm hearing is correct, then they still think I'm alive somewhere in this body, but they weren't seeing it.

"He ain't comin back…"

If that burning in my throat wasn't searing enough, then now it was. That was Applejack, and by what I heard, she's accepted I'm dead. That was painful to listen to, you'd think she'd at least have fought a bit more with her emotions before accepting it, then again, maybe I was giving off a convincing corpse. I felt some internal damage go as I felt like yelling out in how much restriction my body was going through, it was like trying to dig you're way out of being buried alive with just your fingers.

"DON'T SAY THAT!"

Pinkie Pie, that voice was an instant recognize for me, at least she still had faith in me.

"Pinkie…you're known for joking around, how am I suppose to know if ya didn't just do this to get us off our bottoms?"

The urge for screaming had never been so powerful as it was as I heard AJ just try to object to the idea I was still here, this feeling was strangling. I felt something touch my side, a hoof. "I'm not!" was Pinkie's only words as she tried to defend her case, and I wanted to prove I was still here.

"Please K…check him one more time!" Pinkie urged before I felt some horrible feeling, almost as if someone had been affected greatly by those words. And I was right to assume, it seemed as if AJ wasn't having any shit today, I felt her yell out my side.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?"

"N-nothing…but he's alive…I'm telling you-

Applejack cut off Pinkie again, not letting her speak, infuriating me to the point I felt like I was gonna capsize everything in me. "You ain't telling nothing but a lie!"

"S-shut up…"

"K, SHUT YOUR TRAP!" Applejack quickly shot to her side turning to K, but K didn't give her any notice, he was staring at Ben's body, his eyes not yet catching up to what had happened. Ben's body seemed to have moved its lips, and spoken, but K wasn't so sure about it, it was just too hard to believe at the moment.

"K? K!?" Applejack asked, noticing how K was just staring, same as everyone else. Noticing the equal responses, she lowered tensions, and eased away her frown. "What's goin' on?"

Pinkie looked over as well before noting Ben, and how there was air gently blowing his air forward in the windless moment.

I managed to open my mouth once, and the second moment wasn't too far from coming, my throat was just about to heat up in flames. I felt the moment come and went for what I wanted to say.

"Leave…Pinkie…alone…"

Everyone looked at each other quickly, double checking they saw his lips moving with everyone's views, but before they could come back with something to say, they easily began noticing the buffering light that was surrounding Ben. Within a second of the spasming light, the aura manifested causing a strong gust of wind to pick up, forcing everyone to duck and flinch back.

The wind died down, but the aura of pure light surrounded Ben continuously. Everyone glared, speechless apart from the muffled sounds they made covering their mouths in paralyzing shock.

I felt like something was released from my body, and an instant wave of intense heat over take me before dying down to normal body temperature. My body felt oddly firmer after the event, and I could swear I could move everything, but the fear of being wrong held me back from going too fast on this moment. My body was still slouched forward, my head loosely hanging over my chest.

"B-Ben!?" I heard from ahead of me. I felt my head jerk up slightly and fall down again, before gasps overtook the silence. I tried again, moving my head up, and lifted it up about enough to see the face of who was head and opened my eyes. There was no glare in the world, it was overrun with gray clouds over head, and in front of me was K. I stared at him a good second, before getting the strength to lift higher.

"K…" I whispered out before trying to reach out a hand for him, but the weakness of my body made my hand wobble as it reached for him. I didn't make it to him, but he made it to me; I felt his hand grab mine gently.

"Ben…how…?"

I understood his confusion, and couldn't help but smile, even if it would look like I was having a stroke. My eye sight was clear as a window, and I noticed how he wasn't as joyful as I was to be back, he didn't look like smiling, more like closer to the edge of crying, forcing a smirk from me.

"You idiot…demons don't cry." I chuckled and he gripped my hand firmer before smiling. He huffed out in pained laughter.

"Damn it, I'll remember next time." He responded, trying to laugh behind the tears he sniffed back. I quickly found the energy to throw my arm around his shoulder and pull him in for a friendly bro embrace.

"What did I tell you!?" I played around before letting him break free of my elbow lock. He smiled without even thinking about how funny he looked giving off a smile out of pure joy. I smiled his way before looking around and seeing everyone, mixed emotions everywhere. Everyone was here, and I didn't know how to speak to everyone at once, there were too many special individuals.

"I'm guessing-I started bringing my knees up and used the boulder behind me to stand up-you all are probably wondering how I'm back?"

I nearly fell over but caught myself making K flinch his hands towards me. I assured him I was fine, and he just stared, wondering in his head how I could say that when I was lifeless a few minutes ago.

They all shook their head instantly as I found some balance on this rock. "You're not?"

"NO! WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE ALIVE!"

I almost jumped at how quickly Bonbon and Lyra appeared beside me. I quickly turned to them before smiling at how worried and angered they looked, before remembering that their anger and worry was justified. I dropped my smile and nodded with some shame.

"I'm sorry, Lyra, Bonbon," I apologized before looking up at everyone. "And everyone, I'm sorry you had to see that, I wasn't planning on dying a second time, but it happened to my surprise."

"Don't apologize Ben, this is my fault, I should have trusted in my own fears and K's judgment, this would have never happened if we listened to them."

I turned to find myself before Luna and Chrysalis, Luna looking emotionally broken while Chrysalis had this smile, that meant she only focused on the positive. I gave Luna some thought before smiling and shaking my head. I watched her glance to her side before squinting her eyes tightly as if holding something back before she was all over me.

"H-HOW!? How are you still here!?" She cried getting my full attention. "We tried everything! AND YOU REMAINED DEAD! WE TRIED TO GET OVER YOU BUT IT'S HARDER THAN IT SEEMS! SO WHY!? HOW!?"

"Shh, don't blame yourself, I was the one who acted when it was necessary. Yes, that happened, but I'm back, and I swear to you that I have some amazing explanation as to who helped bring me back." I explain remaining calm. She stared at me, lost for words before I gave her a firm nod. "Let me remind you once more,"

I smiled as got her cheeks with my hands and rubbed them comfortably. "I'm not easy to get rid of, am I now?"

She stared, fully at a loss for words, and she should be. This would be my third time reminding her of my word, and to prove a message in such a way is bound to hurt.

"I'm just glad you came back, I was so afraid…" Luna remarked before Chrysalis smiled a bit wider and nodded.

"Yeah, you wouldn't stop crying over him."

"I was afraid I wouldn't see him again, you would feel the same about K!" Luna returned her way, a painful hint of red on her cheeks. Chrysalis looked away with a smile.

"Fine, you have a point."

I smiled at how everyone seemed to slowly return. "Thanks, it feels good to have someone care about me to the point they'd cry for me, that's something I've never had before."

"Well you've got an audience of them everywhere!" K showed with his hands, indicated everyone else. I turned and smiled before taking a step forward and running into AJ and Pinkie, one was over zealous and the other was just staring, seeing if she was right about what she was seeing.

"You're back! You had everypony crying, even me!" Pinkie cheered in relief with a smile that was small but meaningful. I laughed on the inside, she was happy to the point she cried, it was a heart warming feel which made anyone gush out in joyous emotions. I got on a knee to have her with my eye sight so I wouldn't look down on her.

"I'm sorry, and thank you, for believing I was still in here," I said with some deep meaning which almost made for a second round of tears, but she accepted it dearly and gently threw herself on me in an embrace. "You're welcome."

Her soft way of saying that last line made my arms gain strength as they gently tightened around her. "Yeah."

She parted with the same warmth I felt, and next one to get my eye sight was AJ. She looked like she'd made a mistake that she regretted as she had her gaze fixed on me.

"You alright?" I asked, and she broke her gaze and looked away with guilt.

"I'm sorry," She apologized, not wanting to cry again like she clearly has been for a while now. I knew the reason behind the apology, and I couldn't be mad. She's been through do much in such a small amount of time.

"Don't be, seeing someone die isn't easy to take in, and it makes us do weird things." I said, twisting her apology to make her feel better. She flinched a bit at my words, and shook her head.

"But, I actually said you were died, and I said to everypony, I feel horrible!" She whimpered looking to the floor, her hat covering her face.

I smiled, finding the opening in her words to reach the deepest regions in her heart. My hand found it's way to her hat and lifted it slightly with mh thumb.

"I was dead, but I came back, I know it's hard to take this in, but I'll explain it all later, when I won't be risking my life, and I'm able to kick my feet up, so please, believe me when I say, I know it hurts, but you have to take a deep breath and enjoy the positive." My word was a miracle to her, she quickly looked away before smiling as she adjusted her hat.

"Alright, but…don't leave us again, I don't think I can take feeling like that again." She expressed, and I couldn't agree more.

"Believe me Applejack, no one would ever be able to get rid of this feeling of despair." I explained sounding hurt, but quickly changed it with a smirk. "That's why an apology won't work, but living will, so let's live and let this be history, let's enjoy what the future holds, and end misery."

"Still speaking like you got some angel whispering in your ear." AJ giggled, I smirked back at that.

"Always."

"You kept your promise!" I heard a high pitched sqeal appear behind me before getting three little ponies on me. I looked at my arms, they were gripped with smiles. "Of course, but I need to get a hang of not breaking them."

"Heros never die! That's what Rainbow tells me." Scoots quoted making me ponder it and look ahead of myself at Dash, right in front of me. I went from her light blue hooves, up to her rainbow mane and smiled. "She knows what she's talking about, she maybe a daredevil but she's got a strong head."

She smiled my way and I followed through. "Thanks, the both of you, and Belle and Bloom."

"Dang it, you really got a habit of making us feel weird." Bonbon commented with a smile before Lyra sniffled in agreement. "It's Ben, he's always gonna make you feel one way or another."

"True, but that's him, always rocking forward," Vinyl followed along with Octavia smiling gently. "Yes, a sequel I'd love to listen to."

I watched everyone give an insightful comment before smiling. I got off my knee and gave one nod before reaching for my side, but found absence.

"Here,"

I looked behind, getting the little one and Strike in my view. Strike held the word with her magic and handed it to me, I stared at it a while, seeing the blood stained titanium before smiling as I reached out for it.

"You didn't happen to cry too, right?" I asked and they both looked away with shame.

"We thought we lost you, it hurt to think of never seeing you again." Strike admitted almost crying again from just remembering. The little one, feeling the same way actually cried and nodded. I smiled and gave the sword a good twirl.

"I love you too." I simplified her words making her blush and smile.

"Yeah, me too."

"Dang it!" Jade exclaimed as she tried to use her magic to take in as much hate as she could, but the process of converting it to life source was immensely slow. The hate she was trying to absorb was thick, the thickest of all hate she'd ever extracted. "How…how did you ever get this into you!?"

Celestia looked at Jade before studying Sting as he slightly twitched every now and then.

"Jade, just how much hate does he have!?" Celestia asked, and Jade shook her head.

"For all I know, it might be all those centuries upon centuries of time we wasted!"

Celestia looked back at Sting and shook her head. "Then this is impossible! We need another way!"

"I already said the second way but we don't have that!"

"What about K or my sister!? One's a demon, and my sister housed hate at some point, you think we'd be able to do something more effective." Celestia encouraged but Jade turned her down again.

"Even K would find it painfully grueling to do this, and I'm sure Luna won't be able to deal with this hate without turning deadly evil."

"So, no choices." Celestia said before watching a rising line of dark plasmatic energy behind Jade.

"I wish we had-

"BEHIND YOU!" Celestia quickly yelled before using her magic to grab her and teleport a few feet away. The line of darkness collided with the ground and created of a line of cracked land as far as the eye could see.

"T-thank you…" Jade thanked before looking at Sting rise and shook her head. Celestia also stared as she frowned and clenched her teeth in the stress of failing the hate extraction.

"Since Ben is gone, and K is left, I did tell him that I'll end his friends too!" Sting smirked maliciously, but not getting fear as a reaction.

"Us, in other words." Celestia replied.

"Very observant, now, how about I send you all to the infernos of the afterlife!?" He yelled before flying back a bit and tumbling before getting on his hooves again and laughing like a mental patience. Celestia and Jade both retracted their magic before shaking their heads.

"Hmmm…I could try banishing him to the moon…" Celestia inquired but Jade was step ahead.

"Only to accumulate more hate and terrorize when he comes back?"

"Right, wrong path." Celestia sighed.

"How about letting me have go?" I said, a smug look over my face, popping the knuckles evenly on both hands.

Both Celestia and Jade quickly jumped before freezing at the sudden appearance of such a confident voice behind. The voice traveled through them quickly, but their frozen stares refused to look back, afraid of what they might find.

"T-that's…" Jade shivered.

"Is it really…?"

"The one and only!" I quickly replied making them turn around slowly before snapping onto me on the instant. They stared, and of course, I expected it. I smirked looking up at Sting, he looked about as mentally challenged as can be.

"B-B-BEN!?" Jade stuttered. I looked over and gave her the assuring nod, I liked her reaction, it was too genuine.

"Sorry I took so long, I had to get a word with everyone," I excused but holding back on the fact they were believers of my dead corpse. I switched over to Celestia and watched her trembling for a few seconds before winking playfully. "Hey."

"H-how are you…!? HOW DID-

For the sake of sanity, I'll play it hero for today. I looked at both with the best grin I could whip out and lifted a fist into the air.

"Celestia and Jade, I'm back! And I'm ready to finish this!" I exclaimed, gripping my motives by the neck, they won't fail me.

"BEN-WHAT-HOW!?" Celestia continued, working some magic on my hair pulling it in random directions before gripping my cheek and pulling.

I turned over to her and nodded with a disfigured smirk. "Thank your mother." I said in almost a mumble before she finally let my cheek go. She jumped in place before staring at me pondering what was the bigger surprise.

"Mother…WHAT IN EQUESTRIA ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? JUST TELL ME IF YOUR REAL!"

I looked over to her before bowing my head slightly. "I'm still here to guarantee you get that break, I'll never break that promise I made, remember? Back in my first days here?"

Celestia was forced to remember, and remembered Ben's words clearly.

"See ya, Luna and Celestia, maybe we'll all enjoy a day together, someday, I promise."

Celestia couldn't with him again, why was he so

complicated but simple!? She wanted to express as much as she could but couldn't, she was too emotionally wrecked to even move. She remained like that, stuck, before feeling a hand go over her head and rustle around.

"I met your mother, and I can see why you two are so beautiful,"

"Mother, and you…" Celestia eased out, looking over at me. I nodded before turnung over to Sting, seeing him rub his eyes desperately.

"Yeah, and I think I hit it off pretty well, she's the reason I walk again!" I proudly said before looking at Celestia's tears, I guess it was too much.

"I haven't seen her in centuries, she just disappeared one day…and she helped you return…I don't know anymore Ben!" She cried and I quickly flashed a glance at Sting before lowering myself to embrace her, this always helped before. She seemed to like the move, she rested her head on my shoulder.

"Shh, I know it's confusing, but your mother is with us somewhere, and she brought me back here, just take a moment to let that sink in." I said, and after a few seconds of silence, I pulled her back slightly to see her face. "I'm back Celestia, I'm not wasting my second chance, how about once this madbess transpires, we get something to eat? Sounds good?"

She smiled and nodded. "Y-yes…but be safe…I don't want to feel like that again, so empty…"

I flashed my own smile. "You got it."

I stood up and turned over to the audience in the distance, a safe distance away like I told them to be. I gave off a firm salute and turned to Sting, he seemed to gave gained some movement from last time.

"A mission, is a mission, I'll get rid of that hate Sting, I bring you back, the one I want to meet."

"B-Ben, is that…Pure Light magic!?" Jade asked from below. I looked down at her and gav her a thumbs up.

"Yup, and Celestia…" I called. She picked her head up in an instant.

"Y-yes!?"

"Remember something about light consuming darkness?" I reminded, and she quickly thought about it before rising with a rushed nod and eyes that clearly showed agreement.

"Y-yes!" She answered. "But is that really possible!?"

I smirked in response. "Your mother said so, and in the queen, I trust!"

Celestia smiled and gave a firm agreement. "Alright!"

"BEN!? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE!? I KILLED YOU!"

I turned over to Sting, same place as before, and revealed my grin.

"Sting! I've come back to finish this the right way! And I think I finally understand how this Pure-Light magic is meant to be used!" I said making this light I'm surrouded by brighten and force miniature lightening around me. He flinched before snarling as he quickly aimed his hoof and shot out darkness.

"N-NO!" He objected making me drop the smirk for a serious glare. I raised my hand up and all the black he shot my way went into my hand, and forced my aura to change colors slightly. My aura glowed darkness and light, this aura was actually absorbing energy and making me the user. I conjured up some black magic on one hand and light in the other.

"W-what the!?" Sting remarked.

I let the magic flow back into me and shaped my fists.

"Sting, I gotta hand it to you, you really got me, but I'm done playing! You've made Jade cry, my friends cry, my demon cry, and child cry! I bled useless blood cause of you! And now, you'll see what I can do when I tighten my fists and aim them at you!"

"You're nothing!" He yelled, and I responded my way.

"Say that to your queen, who brought me back."

I must have evoked his anger with that one, I couldn't remember such horrible wind conditions around here. His aura blew up in a roar and I closed my eyes and took a slow breath of air.

"I promised my princesses a day out, no turning back now…bring it!"