Chapter
2- Equestria in Ruins
As the 7 ponies arrived in ponyville, Firestorm flipped up his hood, so not to
disturb anyone, but when they arrived, things were somewhat of a surprise to
the ponies. Ponyville was relatively barren, only a few mares and colts remained,
a young Pegasus called Starshine Purity greeted them. "Oh hi girls, and
hello Mr. mysterious, you new to the area?" Firestorm nodded "Sorry
you had to see ponyville like this, it's just after what happened to canterlot,
everypony went as far away as they could from the capital" Starshine said,
with a certain sorrow in her voice, Starshine was obviously gonna stay In
ponyville till its eventual destruction. Pinkie lead the group to sugarcube
corner, not surprised to find that the cakes and their children had departed,
and stated they had left for fillydelphia, until this disaster had subsided.
"That's not like the cakes" pinkie pie stated with concern, an
emotion rarely conveyed by the bubbly earth pony.
As the seven ponies ate, Firestorm perked up, and began telling the mares that
he had watched the last 3 years events, with nightmare moon, discord, queen
crysallis, and finally the elements. "Those elements were fashioned by me,
in the event that a true disaster occurred, that 6 friends, could use them to
save equestria, from total destruction. Yet, they seem powerful enough, they
must be amplified by the magic of royalty, I perfected a spell that does just
that, and should hopefully destroy Diablo, and undo all that has ensued,
Canterlot will be repaired, and I can retake my place as a ruler of
Equestria" and then, rainbow dash interrupted, with the obvious. "The
elements were pieces of jewellery, and they got destroyed alongside Canterlot,
there's not a chance that we can stop Diablo, give up firestorm" and then
he said it "Honestly rainbow, after three years of bearing the elements,
it hasn't dawned on you? Loyalty, laughter, generosity, kindness, honesty and
magic. You ARE the elements, their power resides in you, but there are four,
that none of you possess." then twilight interjected "That's
impossible! There are only six!" Firestorm then shot back "My brother
took mine in my absence, an element of purity, there are four, Fury, Pacifism,
Light and Dark. Representing my brother and sisters"
"You have a brother?" Rarity asked, awestruck. Firestorm began
telling the mares about his brother, Fenir Steelhoofs. The just ruler over
equestrias frozen north, home to a select few ponies, an entirely new race in
fact, Ice ponies, specifically adapted to the harsh conditions. The ponies were
surprised to hear that these ponies mastered a special fire magic, and half
these ponies were not unicorns. The six ponies were baffled "I trust we
need to obtain these elements from Steelhoofs?" AJ said, for the first
time in the conversation, Firestorm simply nodded, and then said to prepare,
since the north was an unforgiving place. As the ponies left sugarcube corner,
they noticed that the sky had gone dark. "I think we should sleep out the
night" Firestorm recommended. "But it's 3 in the afternoon"
Twilight added. Firestorm raised his eyebrows and concluded silently that
Diablo was to blame. He told the ponies to prepare for the north, and twilight
offered to help firestorm, he smiled to show his appreciation.
As Firestorm entered ponyville library he was greeted by spike, twilight's
assistant. "It's a pleasure to meet you spike, so you work for miss
twilight?" Firestorm asked the baby dragon, as he placed a book on a
shelf. "Oh you must be firestorm, heard twilight mention you earlier
today, before canterlot was destroyed"
"not my fault..." firestorm said sheepishly, and twilight grabbed her
saddlebag and took plenty of fire tools, and snow boots among other things.
"This is an incredibly organised library miss sparkle, Luna certainly
would be impressed" Twilight smiled, nobody really cared for twilights
books, so it came as a shock when Firestorm complimented her organisation. She
blushed and went back to packing. "Make sure you pack something too spike,
your help will be much appreciated" Spike bowed and prepped a backpack,
and with that he went to check on Rainbow Dash.