A/N: Alright, last time I made an update to this story was a month back. Surprising... and it's almost November 26, a celebration for the anniversary of the oncoming story.

Boy oh boy, Halloween was good. I got like a whole pillow of candy and I kept thinking that the pillow I got the candy in was going to break! :o But I am glad that it didn't! What did I dress up as for Halloween, well I did Norwegian Black Metal again for the second time. I ended up giving people a real scare and they loved my makeup I did. I swear that the mouth part was almost like Abbath's makeup from Immortal. Also, I might be getting a Nightwish VIP ticket. Since they are my favorite band, I would love to meet them and the new singer.

Now... I want to talk about some things for my story.

1) On my profile page, I have added two lists based on this story. One is my inspirations for the story and the other is for the story's soundtrack. Feel free to check them out when you can.

2) Upon the next chapter being released after this current one. The rating will be changed into a M.

3) I know I've said this already and even the soundtrack gives it away. There will definitely be Brayden x Coco and Brayden x Sunset in the story. One other possibility is Brayden x Fluttershy. Though the most likely case is Brayden x Twilight is the main romantic focus.

But now... the Review Responses!

chipmunkfanantic: Yes indeed. :)

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P.S. Alright it wasn't as big of an announced break as ever, but I need to get my mind on things. I swear I ended up getting a D+ in my elective class. :/ Oh well... the new chapter everyone. :)

P.S.S. When is Season 5 going to kick in? It has been a while you know. :)

Twilight's POV

I was in both a surprise and in shock from the words that Princess Celestia had told me. Giving up our magic so Lord Tirek can't get it? But why? The princess' faces of sheer concern continue to cross on their faces even after I had realized how it had to end overall.

"Tirek is set on possessing alicorn magic," Princess Luna spoke out, set out on this plan. The tone of her voice was that of a warning. "When he comes for us, we cannot have what he is looking for."

I paused for a few moments and my eyes were set down onto the ground. Giving up my magic was like giving up something that felt important in my life. I've grown up with magic my whole life, wanting to know more about it. It was a dream that I had and continued to follow throughout the lifetime I had. With my alicorn magic, I'm pretty sure that my lifespan increased by, I'm guessing five… ten years? Well no matter, I cannot keep the other princesses waiting for my answer.

I looked right back up at Princess Luna. She looked patiently at me for the answer I found. "I'm more than willing to do my part and give up my magic." I said, knowing that this will be a sacrifice worth making for Equestria's sake.

"You misunderstand," Luna speaks out again. "Our magic cannot just disappear into thin air. Somepony must keep it safe."

"That somepony is you, Twilight." Cadence said, trotting forward towards me.

"Why me?" I had asked.

"We do not believe that Tirek is aware that a fourth alicorn princess exists in Equestria," Celestia said, looking down towards me and trotting closer. "If we transfer our magic to you, Tirek will not know where it has gone."

I could feel the hoof of Princess Cadence on my shoulder and turn my head to look at her. "Do you understand what we're asking of you?" She questions.

"Yes," I said, ending it with a sad sigh. "It's just… I'm only now learning how to control my own alicorn magic. To take on even more-"

"Twilight?" I hear Cadence ask again. "You represent the Element of Magic. If there is anypony who can do this, it's you."

I paused again, and turn my head away. "Taking on this task is one of the most difficult things I'll ever do," I said, the tone of my voice changing to sound more confident about this. "But with the help of my friends-"

"I'm sorry Twilight," Princess Celestia said, interrupting me but because this was of importance I stopped talking. "But you must keep your new abilities a secret. I fear that your friends being aware of your new power could put them at great risk. Do you still think you could take on this responsibility?"

"This is the role I was meant to play as a princess in Equestria!" I said, sounding brave once again. "I will not fail my duty."

"Then we must begin at once." Celestia announced to me.

"Wait!"

My head is turned towards Nightmare Moon. She stands there by the throne, looking worried as ever about something. By the sides of my vision, I could see the other princesses turning their heads towards the black alicorn. Her cyan eyes were crossed into a concerned look.

"I just became concerned about something." Nightmare said. "I'm worried about Brayden. He holds the Song of Order. What are we going to do about him?"

"I will warn him about the danger that Tirek is coming soon," I said to her. "He should be able to hide it in a safe place. The Song of Order is still at the library, so I will tell him as soon as I can that he needs to put it somewhere else right away."

"I will agree with Twilight," Celestia said again. "Putting it in a safe place will not draw attention to its location by Tirek as he can smell magic when it is close by. It explains why he is drawn to the magic we have."

"I still have a feeling that it would not work out." Princess Luna says, again with her doubts coming to her.

"It might be the only hope we have for Brayden's safety," Princess Cadence said. Most of our ideas had outweighed the doubts of disagreement made by Luna. "Why are you concerned?"

"It will be no doubt that when Tirek makes his approach, Brayden will stand by to defend us with the Song of Order," Princess Luna explained. "The more magic that is drawn from the sword, the easier it is for Tirek to steal it when he has weakened Brayden long enough."

"While Twilight is holding onto our magic, she can make absolute sure that Brayden understands this. Besides, he should know a place where it cannot be found." Cadence debated once again.

"Nevertheless, Twilight will be given this task," Princess Celestia had exclaimed to Cadence. Her eyes turn towards me. "But now we must begin, for time is starting to run out."

I stand there still on the carpet. All of the alicorn princesses gather in a circle around me and wait for Nightmare Moon to come and join them. All of us turn their heads towards the black alicorn once again. She seemed a bit timid about doing this. It is almost as if she did not want to do this at all. She did not want to give up her alicorn magic, even though it was pretty weak after Brayden had purified the dark magic she used to have.

"Well I can see why this is a risk," She says. "If I have to do it for Equestria, so be it. I just hope this does work out in the end."

"Tirek will be aware of your return and will act a bit surprised at first," Celestia said, watching as Nightmare joins the circle. "But he'll only look at you as if you were different."

Silence began to fill the throne room. All of the princesses around me just looked at me, starting to channel their magic to their horns. The sound of the magic auras ignites with the look of their horns that brightened the color of their aura with a glow. Nightmare had a bit of trouble at first channeling her magic because her magic was weak, but eventually managed to pull through.

The power of their magic began to shoot like lasers from out of them and led into a beautiful bright ball right above me. I looked up and stayed still, not try to flinch away. If I flinch, the magic will go loose and it's much easier for Tirek to steal them. The ball of magic remained there, floating above me and preparing to dive down straight towards me. A feeling of mild panic starts to run through my mind. What if it's all a trap and the ball of magic will hurt me in the process? I had not answered myself that question when that bright light descends down upon me and covers me entirely, blinding my vision.

Discord's POV

This feels absolutely perfect! Tirek was right after all about what he had promised to me. I definitely feel a little stronger without the magic of friendship. My two feet of two different sorts of animals that I don't really need to explain are walking on the dirt ground as I follow Tirek towards the castle ground. He is busy stealing magic from a few ponies. Since I had been with Tirek for the last few hours, he has grown into incredible size and continues to grow by every magic he takes.

Oh my, that tingling in my body sets off and I begin to find myself shaking. How I knew about this kind of tingling was when there had been a change. It was something that I felt nearby inside of the castle and it did make me feel kind of doozy. After a few moments, it ends. But this felt different.

"That can't be right…" I said, now starting to think about what had caused this to happen.

Tirek just about finished stealing some magic, growing a few inches on his two horns. "What can't be right?" He says to me in a strong, gruff voice. His raspy old voice was no longer there from the magic he now owned and possessed. His voice had changed.

"Nothing…" I said trying to change the mood to make it seem like nothing was wrong. "Carry on."

Tirek remains emotionless, not looking at my face as he continues his rampage through the city streets and towards the castle gates. I continue to follow him, but by the tingling I had experienced: there was more to that.

As much as I was happy to join forces with Lord Tirek, I couldn't help but feel something was wrong. What in the hay is going on and why do I still have that feeling of doubt? Nevertheless, I need to keep it behind me. This is a new promise that the Centaur promised me and I intend to keep listening to his words.

Twilight's POV

The light began to lift from the throne room. I can feel myself being lifted in the air. With the eyes of clear white shining through, I can feel the power inside of me. The powers of the princesses are bound within me, by the layers of the horn filled with their sun-raising and moon-raising elements. With that, the powers of love and what powers that Nightmare had to scrap from her horn. My mane is flowing in the air just like how Luna and Celestia's manes flowed by themselves whether windy or not.

My four hooves land back onto the carpet again. I close my eyes to remove the white glow that remained on my eyes and I can feel the hair of my mane set back into normal position. With the magic I have now, it is going to be hard to hide this without having Tirek know that I now am taking care of it. I opened my eyes once again.

All of the princesses had weak and tired looks of expression drawn onto their faces. I look over at Princess Luna and she turns her head towards her flank. Her cutie mark of the moon had disappeared. With that, all of them had suffered the same fate from the exchange. Needless to say, I just gallop over to Princess Celestia and give her a careful hug.

"It is done." She said to me with a sigh. She was right, as long as the transaction had been made, Tirek cannot find the magic anywhere.

"I must get going now; Tirek will probably arrive in any minute now." I said to all four of them. I turn my head around and begin to walk towards the door. My face remains sad.

"Twilight… wait," Princess Celestia said weakly. I stop before I am just four or five steps away from the large wooden doors. My head turns around once again. Princess Celestia seems a little bit quiet about something and she was going to confess it. "There is something I must tell you."

"What is it?" I had asked.

"It's about Brayden," She said to me. "Until he finds out, I want to tell you this and then keep it as secret as you possibly can until he finds out the truth for himself. The secret is kept between all five of us."

"Truth?" I question once again.

I could feel her trot weakly towards me. Her snout moves near my right ear and begins to whisper a statement into my ear. After she had done her whispering, I looked at her face. Her face was crossed into a look that was serious. I could already tell that she wanted me to promise not to tell him or anypony else this news.

I let out a quiet sigh with my ears lowering quickly and then raising again. "As much as it is a complete surprise to me, I will promise not to tell him. But it will be a shock for him when he finds out."

I just hope what she told me won't cause such an uproar on him. I would hate to see him angry if he finds out about this.

Ponyville, Fluttershy's Cottage

Brayden's POV

My eyes are open once again. I'm lying down in my bed, letting the blurred vision from sleep start to clear up and focus again on what was happening outside.

I stare out through the open window of the room. The moon is shining brightly through my bedroom window, shedding light to those who enjoyed the wonders of the night. Where I had lived on Earth, educational purposes as a kid had taught me that the moon or the brightest star in the sky 'Sirius' had helped out travellers at sea to look where they were going at night. A few winged creatures flew by in the night. Most likely in my case, there were only a few owls or bats.

I had been asleep for quite some time. My mind goes back a bit to recollect my thoughts on what happened that evening. I could remember that I and the rest of my friends went back to Ponyville to grab a bite to eat. After we had our meal share, I had gone back with Fluttershy to her cottage. I was really dead tired. I did fall asleep and now here I am just waking up from a dream.

Something felt different about this dream though. I felt a little disappointed about what happened in that realm. Princess Luna didn't have the chance to come and visit me, nor did Nightmare come as well. But of course, I can understand if something came up like the news about Lord Tirek. Wasn't Discord supposed to be tracking him by now? That had been understandable since news of the centaur were spreading like wildfire. I didn't know what he looks like, but I was aware that he had been in the first generation back in the 80s. I wasn't even born yet! But back to my dream, sure it was peaceful but it felt empty without the two said princesses there to visit on occasion.

Something was feeling strange about the moon though, it stood still in the night sky unable to move from there. Not only that, if I was estimating the right time it was supposed to be seven o'clock in the morning. Questions and predictions start to ponder through my head while observing this majestic body of night. Did the princesses already get captured by Lord Tirek? Were they distracted from their duties? I had no idea, but I had to notify somepony about what was happening. But the true question to me: what was going on?

The room continues to remain silent. Only the quiet sounds of my feet moving slowly across the floor are heard from the wooden planks below my two feet. I'm going towards my door and reaching out of the handle. If I am too loud it would probably wake up the animals and in the end, Fluttershy as well. I've already seen her very rarely that upset at others for waking them up so it was just best that I remain quiet.

I turn the handle on the door slowly and pull it back carefully. The sounds of the wooden door creaking are heard while the door is being pulled. I stop after the door is peeked open by… I'm not sure, one or two feet? I'm bad at Math or estimating these kinds of stuff, so I wouldn't know. I move by my side from the front of the slightly-opened door and squeeze through the opening.

I'm obviously always this quiet at night because experience at my home back on Earth was because of people I knew also living there. The dog there was always sleeping during that time, but what made matters worse was when she was barking at the door that late at night. It'd give me such a hard time about sleep.

My foot taps silently into the hallway. From the silence, I could hear the sound of crickets chirping in the peace of the night. Fluttershy must've left one of the windows open to let in some air. I start tip-toeing down the hallway towards her bedroom. As much as I don't to wake her up, she's the only pony closest that I had to tell about the moon still in the sky.

Wait a second, through one of the open windows I saw the moon vibrating a little bit. Was it starting to make an attempt to move? I keep my eyes on the celestial body as it starts to make a move towards the eastern horizon. The moon disappears for a moment, and then comes back into the sky. By the way it had been moving, it seemed like Princess Luna was already starting to have a little bit of trouble I would suspect. It was almost as if… it had moved in a hurry. The moon disappears again, in the same direction it was going. The sun comes out for a moment, then night again for a brief moment before the sun crawled out and lit up the sky with blue.

Well for one thing the sun is out so there didn't seem to be any need for having to be quiet. That completely made me realize that was making me look very dumb, even though I wasn't. Dismissing that claim, I let off my quiet stance and just began walking in a beeline straight to Fluttershy's room. It didn't really matter anymore about the noise because day had come so quickly.

I approached her door and form my left hand into that of a fist. I raise it upwards into the air and softly knock on the door. I do not want to knock on it too hard. There is silence for a few moments. I move my head towards the door and press my ear up against the wood. Inside the room, I could hear her softly yawn and the sound of her bed sheets moving. She must've been making her bed. The sound of hooves trotting closer to the door are heard, I move my head away from the door and watch as she starts to open the door.

Her bedroom door opens and I could see Fluttershy's pink mane in the opening doorway. The door is opened up all the way and I could see Fluttershy in the flesh once again. She looks tired at first from her beauty sleep, but when she sees me standing there her face lights up and her cyan eyes look at my face, pointing at my brown eyes. Nevertheless, she seemed surprised for the idea that I'm used to her coming to my bedroom to come see me when I wake up every morning. This was different in this situation. Instead, I am coming to see her.

"Good morning Brayden," She greeted me with that usual soft tone. She is smiling at me. Thoughts about that strange occurrence with the moon fade from my mind. I will have to tell her about that later. "I'm surprised you came to my door today. Did you decide to come see me just like I do with you?"

I scratch my head. "Yeah, I guess I'm just returning the favor." I said.

Fluttershy moves her right hoof and gently places it onto my left hand. "That was really nice of you to do that," She said to me. She takes my hand and starts to trots past me, I'm walking with her. "Come on now, I'll go and make some breakfast."

I walk alongside Fluttershy down the stairs. Once at the bottom, she lets go of my hand and trots into the kitchen to get breakfast ready. I turn to my left and walk to the nearby chair in the living room. Approaching it, I turn around to face behind it and bent down my two legs to sit down on it. It was by the window so all I could do was look out at the tall mountains and Canterlot all the way in the middle of the tallest one.

All I could ever do was worry about how all of the princesses were doing. It wasn't really Twilight I was worried about, because I did see her come back to Ponyville after her visit to the princesses. When I saw her return, she looked rather grim about something. It made me already wonder if something must have gone wrong during her visit there. Why was she that upset?

"Brayden?" I could hear Fluttershy's soft voice call out to me from the kitchen. My eyes turn away from the sight of Canterlot. I get up off of the couch and walk from the living room into the kitchen. I look at Fluttershy who had been making a healthy assorts of fruits and nuts in a bowl for me. "Is everything alright for you?"

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"It's just that you seemed rather worried and I'm wondering if everything is okay." Fluttershy said.

I sighed. "I'm- I'm just thinking about the princesses. What if Tirek got to them already?" I said, my voice's tone coming in a cross between concern and agony.

"Well I am sure that whatever they are doing about Tirek, I am sure that they are protecting themselves the best they can." She said.

"But remember when the Changelings had attacked?" I asked, trying my hardest not to bring them up but in the end being forced to anyway. "They had a shield protecting the city from any changeling attacks before Queen Chrysalis got into the castle in disguise of Princess Cadence."

"Queen Chrysalis?" Fluttershy asked with curiosity coming to her.

"I'll explain later," I said to her. I mean it was really was her real name, but most of them just called her the 'Queen of the Changelings' since she nor anypony in that two-parter even said her true real name. But I had to get back on topic about Canterlot. "At the moment, Canterlot is already probably under attack by Tirek himself."

"Oh Brayden, don't worry about him." Fluttershy said to me. "Tirek is too far away from Ponyville to matter. Even if he did, I would've ran and hid. He wouldn't be a threat to us."

All I could say was "That is what worries me the most."

"Oh Brayden, there is nothing to worry about." Fluttershy said to me, turning around back towards my breakfast. She just finished putting in the apple slices for me. She sounded so calm about it. Did she not believe me about my worries? She takes the bowl of fruit and nuts she made for me and placed it onto the wooden table. "Here you go, your breakfast is all ready for you."

I move towards the chair scooted close to the table by my food. I pulled the chair out and take a seat to have my breakfast. Fluttershy moves past behind me and trots towards my right side.

"I'll be back in a moment Brayden," Fluttershy says to me while her right hoof is touching my right hand. "I have to go and feed the rest of my animal friends, but I'll be back to have breakfast with you."

"Alright." I said, putting a weak smile on my face to try and hide the rest of the worries away from her. Fluttershy puts a smile on her face and my brown eyes are looking at her cyan eyes for a few brief moments. She finally let go of my hand once again, trotting around to head into the living room. I could see the small birds and woodland critters waking up to the smell of the fresh nuts and birdseed she laid out for them to have. Of course there was the stomping of her bunny rabbit, Angel.

I take the first bite from the juicy slices of apple she had given to me. The smell of the fresh fruit had filled my mouth with saliva and I place one of the slices into my mouth. It tasted soft and its taste was very sweet and chilled. After chewing the soft fruit into mush inside of my mouth, I gulp and swallow it down to head towards my stomach.

It all came flashing to me, that quick picture from my dream came to me for a few moments when I wasn't thinking of anything. It was that tall two-horned creature once again. Who was that? Tirek? Nevertheless, in the nightmare he had apparently left everypony I knew as weak and helpless as ever. The image fades and I'm back in reality, sitting there on the wooden chair eating. Just like the visions I had of Nightmare Moon before I helped her be redeemed, I could sense that Tirek would be coming anytime now.

I turned my head away from my breakfast and towards the kitchen window. Outside, I could still see Canterlot's shadow looming high in the mountain with not a cloud in sight. As peaceful as it looked, I knew something was wrong from the instant Twilight got a letter of being requested to Canterlot immediately.

Celestia… Luna… Nightmare… Cadence… Please be okay.

Tirek's POV

Penetrating the castle was no biggie for either me or Discord. My heavy hooves prance slowly forward towards the two castle doors. Across from there would be the throne room where the princesses would be located. I could smell their magic from afar. Discord went ahead of me to scout for more guards. The more the merrier of him, it's just another amount of magic for me to steal.

The double doors swung open and Discord turned invisible. Even though I could not see what else he was doing, he must have managed to rid a few of the guards into the same hallway that I was in. My face lets out a smile and I take the magic out from the armored equines.

I turned my head towards the outside. Discord was confronting what seemed to be the leader of the guards in Canterlot. My heavy hooves rampage forward to join in what was going on.

"Shining Armor," Discord taunted in his clever voice behind the white stallion. "Why, whatever are you doing here?"

I watch the brave stallion turn around and point his horn at the draconequus. "Back off traitor!" He calls out with a quiet snarl coming from him.

I managed to speak up so he could see me in the clear daylight. "The only one Discord betrayed was himself. He had been abandoning his true nature to make friends with weak-minded equines, who offer him nothing."

The stallion who I now knew had been named Shining Armor charged up his magic from his horn and let out a beam of violet towards me. I just laugh at the puny pony's futile attempt to attack me. To no avail for him though, I catch the violet beam. The rest of the magic fired ends up in the sphere of the beam created and I throw it into my mouth, chewing and swallowing it as if it was nothing harmful to me.

I finally bent down on my centaur knees and grabbed Shining Armor by the horn. I opened up my mouth. That delicious magic comes flowing from him and into the veins of my strength. Once the fresh-scented aroma of magic had been cleared, he shook for a moment and I let him go. He collapsed on the floor.

"How… could you… do this…?" The young stallion said while he came to rest at the ground. The young stallion closes his eyes and his eyes looked ever gray like the other pathetic equines that tried to cross me.

Discord had paused while observing the stallion's weak and tired state that he had been placed into. I walk over the stallion, joining up with the draconequus and placing my right red hand onto his left shoulder. His eyes turn from the stallion and around to face me.

"Why don't you go and have a little fun?" I suggested to him. A smile comes creeping across the face of chaos himself. "I won't stand in your way."

Discord just places his… lion paw and eagle claw together and lets out a bit of a laugh. I turn around and away, deciding to let him do what he needed to do around the city while I dealt with the princesses. My giant hooves stomp away and enter the other side of the castle.

I literally bust through the wooden doors on my way through. I could smell the scent of alicorn magic coming from down the hallway through the large double doors. I continue forward with the stomping of my hooves rumbling throughout the entire castle. Power… I am coming closer to having you. My eyes are focused on the doors and I am at a close enough range to break through into the room.

I throw my two brute hands forward to grab the throne room doors. The door's hinges break off and I could see the throne from across the small room. Had I been smaller, the trip across would've been longer unless I began to run. The four princesses were just sitting there, just throwing dirty and tired looks towards me. My face grows into a smile. Alright princesses, now is your turn to give your magic to me.

The first equine I grab with my magic is Princess Celestia. She was the one responsible for having me locked up in Tartarus in the first place. Once she had been grabbed with the orange glowing aura I had, I begin to inhale for the magic she had.

Wait a minute… I don't taste any power absorbed. I opened my eyes and looked at the dumb princess. She was throwing a glaring smile towards me as if she had somehow outwitted me. "What have you done?!" I shouted.

I place Princess Celestia down back on the throne and levitate her younger sister towards me. I inhale, waiting for magic. Nothing. I grab the pink alicorn Princess Cadence. I inhale… nothing is recieved. Finally, I was starting to get really annoyed.

I take a hold of the black alicorn who I knew was Nightmare Moon from down in the legends of these unruly ponies. I opened my mouth and inhaled, waiting for a single scent of her magic to enter in. There is nothing from her or either of these princesses. Their magic was gone. I was already enraged.

"WHERE… IS YOUR MAGIC?!"

Brayden's POV

After all of that wacky stuff going on with the sun and moon, it seemed like it was going to be another good day nevertheless. I was walking down the dirt trail beside Fluttershy and observing the nature that was at peace from every single day that I've been here so far. Fluttershy trots beside me, humming a peaceful tune.

The school fillies were out and about once again, getting ready for another day at school. We didn't really run into anypony that we really knew. The Cutie Mark Crusaders weren't really seen, so I guess they must have either left home early to arrive or they were already late. I did see a few of them I knew such as Pipsqueak, Twist or Dinky. I did see Button Mash trotting along with his mother but I didn't really engage in conversation with him or his mother. Alright, note to self: make sure to talk and introduce myself to Button Mash or his mother. With the JoyBoy in his hoof, I could tell he loved to play video games. I was once a gamer too, you know.

At the bridge across to Ponyville, I could tell that the town seemed a little quiet, but did have the deliveries being made from around the region. One other stallion is pulling a wagon right behind him full of chopped wood. I suppose those must be for stoking the fire when night came around. I could see most of the ponies trotting about and chatting amongst their friends as I saw every day. I see Time Turner trotting with another mare and talking with her. Then there is the usual greeting I have when I see that lucky aquamarine coloured mare waiting for me. Yes, it was Lyra.

When I came within the range of her eyesight her face is lit up with joy. She gets up from off the bench that she and Bon Bon sit at. She's the only one trying to sit like a human while Bon Bon sits more in the pony fashion. I of course, don't realize she is there every time which is something I have to get used to. Why? She comes galloping towards me. One time, she did surprise me when I was with Rainbow Dash on my way to Sugarcube Corner. Lucky me this time, I turn around and see her coming at me.

The unicorn jumps forward at me and playfully tackles me to the ground. Sure, she should know better than to do that, but I respect what she does. Bon Bon is still sitting on the bench, just rolling her eyes with a smile. She probably already knows that greeting from Lyra is expected a lot. I am knocked back by her tackle to the ground. Well, it didn't really matter if I got a bit of my pants dirty from the tackle, I can wash it with the laundry later.

"Sorry about that Brayden," Lyra says to me with a giggle illuminating from her mouth. She gets up off of me and offers a hoof to help me up off the ground. I accept her offer and take her hoof, allowing her to lift me up off the ground. "A mistake on my end."

"It's alright Lyra." I said to her, letting go of her hoof once I am back on my two feet. "Me and Fluttershy were just going on a walk through town."

"I see," Lyra says to me with that smile remaining on her face. "I'm already starting to wonder when you will be free to hang out with me and Bon Bon?"

"Well, it all depends on my schedule. But if I do have a time in mind I will let you as soon as I can, alright?" I said to Lyra, placing my right hand onto her left shoulder.

Lyra nods to me with a smile. "Oh, and before you go," She said, just before I was turning around to continue my exercise with Fluttershy. I look into her gamboge eyes and begin to wonder what's on her mind. The usual answer slips from her. "Can I touch your hands?"

"Feel free to do so." I said to her, offering both of my hands to Lyra. She smiles and gets up on her two back legs. Her front hooves are placed onto my hands. My dry hands hold onto them, trying not to squeeze them too hard, nor do I want to do it so shaky.

After a few moments, me and Lyra let go and she waves goodbye to me while a wave from me when I continue my morning walk with Fluttershy.

All seems to be at peace once again. I can find myself walking at a normal pace and my adrenaline inside me in a calm, relaxed state. But again, I could feel some exercise doing well for my legs and it had been a while since I had done this. Fluttershy was humming a tune back at the trail, but she was silent this time just smiling innocently.

I take out my iPhone from my pocket which has earphones plugged in already. I slip them both onto my ears and unlock it. I navigate into the music section. I look up an instrumental jazz fusion band under the catalogue of 'L' and select an easy-paced song for me to play. I did keep it at a decent volume so I would be able to hear Fluttershy and what she was going to tell me if she needed to.

The music seemed to be very xylophone-sounding at first, even though it was somebody playing those pianos with effects. Then the bass and soft drumming kick in. The guitar could be heard on a clean tone but gave off a bit of beautiful harmonies. It really blended in with my surroundings. There are no vocals on the track I selected, but it doesn't matter. I appreciate any song without vocals no matter how different it is.

A minute or a half into the song, I feel Fluttershy's soft hoof tap onto my right shoulder. To pay attention to her, I look at her and take out an earphone. "Um, Brayden? I'm sorry if I was bothering you there, but I was wondering what you are listening to?"

"I'm listening to some of the music I know from Earth." I said to her. "Would you like to hear a bit of what it sounds like?"

"Oh, umm sure." Fluttershy said to me. Both me and her stop walking and turn towards each other. I move the other earphone from my ear and bring the earphones closer to her ears. I'm not sure how it'll stay, but I'll try my best to see if she can hear it. I help get the earphones onto her ears and she pauses slightly, giving a mildly surprised look on her face. It was like she hadn't heard this before and that it was completely new to her.

A few minutes pass until the song is finished because I would occasionally check the time of the song until it was over. This was usually because sometimes it felt like it would go for many minutes and I would check to see if it was still the same song. The song's time reaches near the end and I gently move my hands towards the earphones in Fluttershy's ears. I take them out and then carefully stuff the earphones into my pocket for later.

Fluttershy was smiling at me. "That song was really good Brayden. But where's the singing?" She both compliments and asks me.

"Some songs are instrumental which means that it's only the music playing. It's like classical music but with electric, sometimes acoustic stringed instruments," I explained to her so she could get the basic idea on what the type of music that was. "I have more songs on the phone that have vocals."

"I see," Fluttershy says to me. "I hope you don't mind me asking about vocals, but is there any music you listen to that has singing?"

"In a way, I prefer to call them bands," I said to her in order to stay relevant to the topic. "Sometime though, they decide to only have instrumental music on their entire album. Only two is a famous guitarist and the other a small time band with the members of a band that I like. You were basically listening to one of their songs. It was from Liquid Tension Experiment."

"Liquid Teni-what?" Fluttershy asked, really confused by the band's name.

"Tension Experiment." I corrected her.

"Oh, my apologies for getting confused." Fluttershy apologized.

"No need to apologize," I said to her with a smile. My hand gently moves towards her left front hoof and gently takes it, holding onto it. "When I first heard that name, I thought it was a long name for that band."

Fluttershy's smile comes back to her and she's looking at my brown eyes. My eyes stare right back her beautiful blue eyes. What turned from staring at each other became friendly gazes to one another. I could feel myself moving closer towards my best friend. Fluttershy continues to stare at me.

"Fluttershy?" I asked.

"Yes?" She told me, her look becoming curious but that smile still remained.

"I was wondering about something. I'm not busy sometime on the next few days. If you're not too busy, I was wondering if you wanted to do something together as friends." I asked her.

She looked at me, her eyes furrow a bit and they seem relaxed. "Well, I think besides going to the spa with Rarity… yes, I am free by then. You just let me know and I'll let you know on that day, alright?" She said to me in her usual soft voice.

"Alright Fluttershy, it sounds good." I said to her with that smile coming on my face.

"Oh," Fluttershy said. Small pink blushes came onto both of her cheeks. "And Brayden?"

"Yes Fluttershy?" I had asked.

"Umm," I heard her say and her eyes turn towards my hand and her hoof. "You're still holding onto my hoof."

I let go with a slight blush crossing my face. "Sorry about that," I said with a bit of a giggle coming from me. "I want to consider holding your hoof more in a friendly way, not in 'that' way."

"It's okay Brayden," Fluttershy said to me as I had finished my apology. "I can understand that's who you are though as somepony."

"But I'm not a pony though." I stated with a tiny bit of sadness in my voice.

"That doesn't mean that you should put yourself down about that though. Everypony here in town think you're a really nice human." Fluttershy said, trotting forward towards me and putting her hooves around me, giving me a hug.

I gently move my arms around her back and past her wings to share the hug with her. She felt as warm as ever when she had covered me on the train to Canterlot. We continue to share the hug and then finally we let go after a few seconds.

The sound of a loud boom rang out in the sky and a scream that sounded so similar to my special somepony. I look up into the sky and I could a large purple streak flying quickly around with somepony conducting those clouds. It was Twilight just as I thought.

I had no time to react to this and I bent back up from the ground and begin to follow the streaks she made in the sky that would fade quickly. It seemed almost like a Sonic Rainboom but not quite. It still seemed like she was faster than Rainbow Dash.

Twilight let out a panicked yelp when she came descending towards the grass. Her impact was surprising, she had stopped there without falling flat on her face. There were dirt marks on the ground from her impact. What in the hell was going on already? She was just about almost close to hyperventilating there, but it was slower. Deep breathes went in and out from her mouth to catch the breath she needed. Surprisingly the rest of her friends also saw the whole thing and gather near her.

"Oh, my goodness, are you all right?" Fluttershy had asked, standing next to me.

Applejack trotted closer towards Twilight. The princess' head turns toward her. "Jumpin' junebugs, Twilight! Where did ya learn to fly that fast?"

A quick moment came where Twilight seemed to look like an experiment had gone wrong by the way the lightning surged quickly around her body. That is exactly what I also wanted to know about Twilight today. She giggles and sounds like she is trying to hide something. "I must have caught a particularly strong breeze… or something."

Rainbow just eyes her and looks curious at the same time. "Must have been 'or something' because there wasn't any breeze up there." She said.

"I don't know what happened, but I don't have time to figure it out right now." She said, with another surge of energy coming about her body. I don't think any one of her friends noticed that.

All of us seemed to know what that meant when she said she didn't have time. All of us had smiles on our faces except for Twilight. "Another visit to the Castle of the Two Sisters, I presume?" Rarity asked, looking delighted. "We'd be more than happy to accompany you!" A squee comes out from Pinkie with the cutest smile that I've ever seen to date from her.

"Not today!" Twilight said to all of us. Looks of disappointment cross onto all of our faces. After that, another surge of energy phasing from her body came about.

Twilight turned towards all of us. "Tirek may still be a threat. I need you all to stay here and encourage everypony to remain inside. Brayden, I need you to get the Song of Order from the library and head on the train to any town out of Tirek's grasp."

"Why?" I asked, an eyebrow rose on my face. "What's going on and why is the Song of Order important?"

"Though not possible but most likely to happen, Tirek might steal the magic from it. And I don't want to risk your safety." She advised me, trotting closer towards me and taking my right hand.

I was a bit worried about why she had already decided that the Song of Order should go with me to a safe place until Tirek had passed by. "But Twilight-" I tried to get out.

I was interrupted with her planting a quick kiss onto my lips. She looks at me with worry. "Please Brayden, you don't want to be here when he comes rampaging. I'd hate to see what would happen if he saw you."

"But I want to stay and help. I don't want him to hurt you." I said, gently moving my left arm and my hand gently stroking her soft mane.

"Brayden…" She softly said to me. "I'll be fine. It's for your own safety. I love you, but I really advise you head into the nearest city. I'll send you a letter when it's safe to come back to Ponyville. The Song of Order is at the library, so please take it with you."

I sigh softly in defeat. I didn't want to argue with my special somepony so I just decided to go with the flow and do what she asked me to. She gently strokes my cheek and I gently share a quick gaze with her before she gently let go and started to trot away.

"Brayden?" I could hear Fluttershy say to me. I turn my head to look at her. "I'll take you to the library to get the blade."

"I'll make sure to buy you a train ticket to Manehattan," Rarity added. "Coco Pommel will be sure to give you a room to stay at her apartment. You just have to tell her that I sent you."

I nodded my head in understanding and follow Fluttershy. I just hope Twilight is right about all of this. But inside, something tells me that something is wrong and that I should be there to her not only her, but my friends as well.

Tirek's POV

"Getting rid of your magic so that I cannot take it from you?" I said with a manner in my voice to see if they were joking or not. There is a crooked smile bound onto my face. "That was your plan?"

All four of the princesses sitting there just do is glare at me with those dirty looks on their faces. As much as I want to react harshly to that, I find those faces rather to be humorous on my end. They don't have their magic on them so all they do is stare at me with their eyes furrowed towards me. It was a confrontation between me, a supreme and four puny princesses below me.

"How does it feel," I continued. "Knowing that soon, every Pegasus, unicorn and Earth pony will bow to my will," I conjured up three orange orbs with shadows of the three mentioned races. I move both of my hands together crushing the magic glass that they were made of. "And that there is nothing you can do to stop it?"

The princess in the middle just looks at me with her rose coloured eyes and says "You will not prevail, Tirek."

I was already bored with having this conversation with her and the rest of them, so it'd be best for me to dismiss of them quickly before more of their boring rants starts. I channel my magic between my two horns and conjure an orange portal open. "Give my regards to Cerberus." I warned.

I channel my magic towards the princesses, levitating them into the dark corners of Equestria. All four of them are left in a mountainside in the dark caverns of Tartarus. I knew of this because this was where I had been kept after being banished by them and my worthless brother, Scorpan. But no matter, the princesses no longer have their magic. After they spiral around their prison, I close the portal in front of me.

"You meant our will, didn't you?" I could hear Discord say from across the throne room. With his chaos set in motion, he had already begun to mess about with the stained glass windows and alter the images of what had been of Equestrian history.

"Of course." I said to the draconequus himself. I got up out of the throne and trotted towards him. He had been with me for long enough during my raid of Equestria and I felt like he needed to have a special reward from me. "Here, I want you to have something." I take off the golden medallion from my neck and place it in the eagle claw of Discord's. "This was given to me by someone very close to me. I give it to you as a sign of my gratitude and loyalty."

"Oh, my!" Discord said, sounding really impressed and placed the medallion over his neck onto him. "I do love a good accessory. I suppose that's Rarity's influence." The both of us look at a picture that Discord made himself of me and him ruling together. What humored me was me carrying a sword and him carrying a large sandwich and half of it being cut off by my sword.

"Amusing." I complimented on the stained-glass photo. "But we have no time for such things. With the princesses gone, we can now-"

I stopped for a moment. What are these? WHAT ARE THESE TWO PICTURES?! On my left is a picture of a very different race that isn't one of those ponies. He was standing proud with a sword being held in his two hands. In the picture he seemed to be aiming at that black alicorn I just about sent to Tartarus. On my right is a picture of an alicorn. AN ALICORN! What is this blasphemy?! All I know is that Discord probably was joking about with me. It wasn't funny to me though. "ARE THESE TWO MEANT TO BE HUMOROUS?!" I just about shouted with a hint of anger and annoyance in my voice.

"Oh no, I haven't touched those two yet." Discord said to me, realizing he probably had to act immediately. But the picture of the alicorn was more important now than the other.

"There's a fifth alicorn…" I just about said, trying to calm my anger but it was already loose. "…And you did not tell me this?!"

"I just needed some assurance that you truly considered this a team effort. And now I have it." He returned, rubbing the eagle claws of his together.

I finally grab the draconequus by the neck and pull him towards me. "Then where can we find this fifth princess?" I interrogated with a mixture of threat and question. "Where is her castle?"

All he could do was just laugh at my two questions. "Castle?" He managed to get out before he laughed some more. "No, Princess Twilight lives above a library in Ponyville. Castle?" He began to chuckle and laugh again. But at least I got an answer out from him.

"Also, what is up with that other picture?!" I growled. "Who is that?"

"Oh, that's Brayden!" Discord said, removing any trace of laughter from his face. "He just arrived in Equestria from another world, so I have no idea what is up since I haven't seen him in a while. He did take possession of an equestrian blade thingamajig called the Song of Order though."

My eyes slid wide open when I took a look back at the window. I could see that silver blade now and in the room, I already know the reason why I smelt strong scents of the Equestrian magic. It was coming from the Song of Order itself. I must have arrived a little late because I must have mistaken it for the princess' magic. I heard stories about it while attending my time in Tartarus, it was a powerful blade that equips the magic inside that was so ever powerful. He must have last equipped the blade here where something was up. If I could find Brayden, I could force him to give me the Song of Order, even if he has to fight back to defend himself.

"Well, this 'Brayden' won't be too hard to deal with, because when he is weak enough I can make him watch as I take the blade's magic away." I said, turning around and heading for the door. "He won't be able to see this coming."

"And what about Princess Twilight?" Discord questioned to me. All I did when I had turned around was melt the two stained glass windows with my magic. I chuckle.

"She's not going to have that magic for much longer."

Brayden's POV

Ponyville Train Station

In the distance, I could hear the mild sounds of the wind that made the town seem so silent. From what I could see from my sides, most of the windows had been boarded up with wooden planks. Everypony seemed to look so hesitant to hide from Tirek so he couldn't have their magic. On my back is the Song of Order, shining brightly from the golden sun above me. My right hand is empty, while my left hand is carrying a ticket ordered straight for Manehattan.

Something felt funny about this though, as much as I didn't want to be sent off to Manehattan there was something wrong. Twilight seemed to have electrical surges of power. Was she hiding something from me and her friends? If so she could have just told me right there. I didn't want to be in her way though, so it does explain why I went back to her treehouse and got the Song of Order as she said. As much as she is both a princess and holds a special place in my heart, I have to listen to her as much as I worry about her and the rest of my friends being placed into danger.

I could hear the sounds of hooves trotting towards me. My head turns towards my right and I could see Fluttershy coming up and moving her soft left front hoof to touch my right hand. She looks at me with a gentle, but concerned look on her face.

"Alright Brayden," Fluttershy told me in her usual soft voice. "The train will be arriving in a few moments soon. Don't worry about what it will be like in the city. Sure they have some ponies with straight attitudes, but they're not yelling to be mean… unless they really are."

I turned towards her and bent down on one knee. "I really have a bad feeling about this Fluttershy," I told her. I sounded really worried and even my face gave off that vibe as well that I was concerned for not just her, but the safety of Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie and Rainbow. "I want to help you all fight Tirek."

She releases a weak smile upon her face. Her hoof that is touch my hand gently takes it and holds onto it. "Brayden… please," Fluttershy said to me now having a hushed tone in her voice. "We'll make sure that everything is fine. What matters the most is that you take the Song of Order out of here just as Twilight told you."

"But I am afraid of what will happen if Tirek finds you." I confessed, placing the ticket inside one of my jean pockets and taking her hoof with both my hands.

"I know you're scared," She assured me, gently trotting closer to me, letting go of my hand and my hands letting go of her hoof. She puts the both of her hooves around me and gently gives me a gentle, friendly hug. "But please be brave about this while we do this."

After a few moments, I sighed softly in defeat with sadness. I move my arms gently around her and move my face to face her, gently pressing my forehead against hers gently. "Please be okay." I whispered to her.

Fluttershy's eyes gently stare into my brown eyes. "I'll be fine Brayden," She whispered back to me. I watch her move her head past me and her cheek gently and softly nuzzles the side of my right cheek. "I promise that I'll be okay."

After me and her gently shared the hug, me and her slowly let go from it and in the distance, besides hearing the train roar its loud whistle, I could see it coming towards the station. Me and her turn towards the oncoming train and watch as it made haste towards the station and pulled its brakes slowly, coming to a complete stop. The train doors open.

I turn towards Fluttershy and she looks up at me, placing her left hoof onto my right hand. "Get going now," She told me, putting a smile on my face. "You don't want to miss your train."

I gently release a smile at my best friend for those final few moments and then get back on my two legs walking towards the train doors. The conductor stood there, looking for anypony else to come along and get on board to Manehattan. I approached him and he has a smile on his face.

"Hello sir," He said to me with a hurried tone in his announcing voice. "Do you have your ticket on you? But it won't matter if you do or don't, all other non-ponies get to ride for free."

I was surprised by this. A free ride to Manehattan? I thought those only applied for if I was only going to Canterlot or The Crystal Empire. I guess being different does give me some good conditions. "Thank you," I said, taking my ticket out of my pocket and giving it to him. "But I should give you my ticket to Manehattan just because I live along the pony way."

"Alright, just hop on board." The conductor said, gathering my ticket and putting it into the stash of the ticket box he carried. He gives me a pat on the back when I pass by him. After he follows behind and heads to the other train car, I move into the room full of empty train car cabins. My bare feet touch the gentle carpet on the ground, giving that soft and grassy feeling to the bottom of them both. I select the second cabin on the right side of the car and head into there.

Unlike the other few cabins in the car, this one had no windows and a door that led in and out of the room. On the other side of the small car would be the bathroom, so in case I needed to do my business, it was right there. I enter into the cabin and close the cabin door behind me, leaving only the sound of the train's wheels starting up to run again. Besides that ambient sound to accompany me in the silence, I also had the Song of Order with me. I take the claymore from my back and place it against the wall of the cabin.

The train starts up with a light push. I find myself stumbling a bit to regain control and to not lose my balance. Thankfully, I had grabbed onto something when the train began to move. I then take a seat and listen carefully to the train tracks move ever so peacefully. I don't dare try to close my eyes or take a rest, I needed to be awake as I still felt worried.

The Song of Order began to straighten from being leant on the cabin wall and began floating there. I just discovered that the blade was capable of doing this by itself when it was not carried around or being used. I believe that it is supposed to have natural or unnatural abilities, but I haven't seen that. Princess Celestia did tell me about it though.

What felt like seconds had gone by since the train had started, seemed like long minutes or hours that had gone by. I did not even notice that. The Song of Order just floats there without strings, humming in a peaceful tone that kept me relaxed. All seemed to be so silent and peaceful inside of the cabin as the train rolled through the tracks unseen by my own eyes. I felt like my eyes were drifting into a state of sleep.

Outside of my cabin door, I could hear the sound of ponies talking to each other softly as it had begun to fade away. No, I couldn't start entering the dream realm right now. Though the conductor would wake me up to tell me I was in Manehattan, I would still be worried about my friends.

"Brayden…"

I could hear the voice of the Song of Order that had spoken to me in a while since Nightmare Moon had returned. The whole room began to glow a bit in a bright golden color. The Song of Order still floated there, inanimate as it was.

"The Song of Order?" I said, looking towards the blade. I move off the plushy seat and get on both of my knees onto the soft carpet and face it in all its glory.

"Yes Brayden," The voice of the blade spoke to me. "It is I, The Song of Order."

I looked towards it. I didn't know what to say except talk about the safety of my friends against the tyranny of Tirek. I looked to the blade as the six pointed star on it was glowing low-lighted. I said "Thank you for talking to me in this hour of need. I feel like my friends are in danger and that 'm useless in their fight."

"I could sense that you were troubled by this," The Song of Order told me. "You are worried that Lord Tirek will take ahold of them. It has already happened to somepony already who had been siding with him, betraying you and them."

"Who is it that betrayed us?" I asked.

"Discord." The Song of Order told me. I gasp softly before silencing it with my mouth. Why in the world would Discord betray Equestria again? He was reformed! "He has helped Tirek to become much stronger."

"But… why?!" I said, rather in shock but not raising my voice about this. I'm saving that raised voice all for Tirek if I ever see him. "As much as Discord is reformed, he could never do this!"

"That may be true Brayden. But you haven't taken up me in a while, forgotten that training will be required to take on risks like this." The blade told me in his godly voice.

I crawl closer towards the blade. "But I know how to fight back! I have experience of dealing with these situations." I said.

"Because Tirek is now stronger, there is a small chance that you will not be strong enough to help fight back. You will only last a while before you are down and out," The blade warned me. "If he takes the magic inside I… all chaos will be broken loose by him. Towns and cities will be lost and all will fear him."

"Then what do I do?" I said, my desperate tone turning into that of planning a strategy.

"Fight back." The Song of Order told me.

My face is rather surprised by these news that blade just told me telepathically. "Fight back?! But you said that is a very bad idea." I said.

"It is the only solution that can help you deal with him. You must get going now back to Ponyville and help your friends." The Song of Order told me with such warning again. "They are already in a huge amount of trouble."

"Trouble?" I said, raising my right eyebrow. "What do you mean that they are in trouble?"

The Song of Order glowed lightly, surrounding the room with all white. Then it all came to me in which it was visions of despair.

In the first image of the vision, I could see a large shadow with horns standing in Ponyville with his face hidden from my sight. He was already stealing the magic out of every single one of my friends in a cage with Discord looking sad while this was being done. By Discord's sad face, I knew that something was wrong. Was it the sign of regret he was already starting to face? In the second and last image of the visions, I could see the shadow of Tirek trotting away from Discord. The draconequus was lying on the ground and holding up what seemed to be a medallion. He looked weak and as if he had been betrayed.

There is another flash and I am back in the cabin with no glowing in the room. I am back on the plush long-seat. The Song of Order continues to float right there, now starting to sing at a normal tone of level. By the sound of the blade, I could tell that danger was close by.

It all came to me of what I had to do now. I get up off of the seat and check the time. I've been asleep for almost twenty minutes, so I should still have enough time to react and go back. I take the blade with my hands and hold onto the hilt of the claymore. I waste no time and open up my cabin door and end up running down the hallway towards the end of the car.

The car door opens and I'm looking out at the outdoors, stepping onto the moving train's end. Using the power of the Song of Order, I power up the ability again. Ethereal wings come from right behind me and I find myself flying from the train car and into the skies of Equestria.

The skies were blue and the sun was still sitting in that same spot it had been in since this morning. I move my body forward and I begin to think about my wings spreading open and flying down the mountain of green back towards the Everfree Forest. I figured that I could warn Twilight of what I had seen and let her know that Tirek was probably going to come for her next. I could feel the wings letting out a bit of a soft breeze while it passes through the air, avoiding the white clouds. My face is filled with anger and worry.

Overhead, I am above the trees of the dark forest and I could sense the presence of Twilight's unknowingly strong magic close by in the area. I descend down towards the trees and gently land on one of them to peek out at the distance. The Castle of the Two Sisters was close by, but I couldn't see here there. I move down the trunk of the tree with the wings to aid me. My bare feet hit the ground. I move my feet around and scan the area both inside and outside for signs of Twilight or Tirek.

"PRINCESS TWILIGHT!"

Oh no… Tirek somehow found her first. I let out a gasp and begin to run through the forest to the area visible across from where I landed so I could view what was going on. I move the non-poisonous fern with my hand and begin watching what was happening.

"YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO ME!" He shouted at the top of his lungs once again. I could see his face bright and clear. It wasn't shadowed out like the visions I had of him. It was all clear. He was the one from that nightmare when I passed out at my birthday party.

On my left, I could see the large rocks break apart and from out of there comes Twilight. She is flying all over the place just to avoid the centaur. I could tell that was already pissed off, so I wouldn't want to step in during this fight. This seems like something between him and her. I couldn't find myself to interfere with it. Twilight lands on the grass, skidding across and narrowly landing softly against Tirek's hard hooves.

He stood above her as she was backing up from the dark centaur. The centaur's yellow pupils stared down at her, looking gruff and mean. His two fists were clenched tight as if he was going to punch Twilight with his strength. "You're going to give me what I want!" He pronounced angrily and sounded demanding at the same time.

I watch him open his mouth to try and steal her magic, but she must have been just about lucky… she had teleported away from the scene, igniting her horn to cast the spell. But what did he want from Twilight. Was she carrying something that seemed very important to him? Nevertheless, I was bound to find out. His body turns around towards the left, facing towards Ponyville.

I was quick enough to skid into the nearby bush to watch everything. But I had to be quiet when doing this. If he saw me sneaking there, it would have been an automatic 'Game Over' for me because he would have seen the blade I was carrying and know what it is.

Between his two horns, a glowing orange-yellow ball of plasma energy was formed. He fires it towards the treehouse and then there is a bright flash that causes me to shield my eyes for a few moments. I can hear Twilight yelp and loudly gasp. When I finally moved my right hand from my eyes, I could see the damage that had been done already.

Twilight's home was just destroyed.

A few moments pass and I could see her pet owl, Owlowiscious fly away from her. I could clearly see Twilight's face when she turned back towards Tirek after seeing her home destroyed and what's worse. Her books were gone as well. All I can tell you is that… nobody destroys her books. Ever. Her face changes into what seemed to be enraged and her wings open. Her horn ignites and she teleports her way into the skies that had turned red, charging down towards the dark centaur. The battle was just beginning.

Twilight charges the magic right all the way on her horn and fires out a giant laser beam towards the dark lord. From the direction that I was facing, I had shielded my eyes for a few moments when the beam had made contact with Lord Tirek. I move my left hand from my eyes and watch the giant beam she produced come out and push him backwards through the valley outside of the Everfree Forest. Another flashing light came before my eyes and I was forced to shield them with my left hand once again to avoid becoming a blind man. I could hear the sound of an explosion slightly to the right and I uncovered my eyes to see Lord Tirek standing there, unharmed with the explosion from the attack behind him. I watch Twilight land in the ditch of dry soil she created. With her out of my sight, it was hard to see where she was.

"Now I know what your fellow princesses had done." I could hear Lord Tirek say with that smirk on his face. Wait, the princesses? Did something happen in Canterlot while she was there reporting to them about something?

I could see Twilight launch out the ditch she and started to make her flight towards the centaur. The centaur lights up an orange ball between his horns and fires an orange beam towards her. I wanted to come out and shout to Twilight to look out, but doing so would blow my cover big time. I just sat there and watched the deadly beam coming straight for Twilight.

She spreads out all four hooves in the air and ignites more of the magic from her horn. A bubble shield to protect her from harm had formed. The orange beam made contact with the shield. Violet flares were flaming right off from the shield she was producing. By the look on her face, it was like no other pissed off face that I have ever seen before. She maneuvers herself towards the ground and lands on all fours and producing another channel of magic to her horn. She fires a burst of magic towards Tirek's face. The dark centaur roared and used his right strong hand to push the magic beam off of him. Then he ignites his own magic, taking a hold of Twilight. She is brought closer towards her.

He quickly spins in a circle and using the aura of his magic, had tossed Twilight towards a mountain. My emotions were set into action as my worries about her came to me. I could hear Twilight scream while she was being tossed towards the mountain. A big cloud of smoke is seen hitting with a violet aura activated in the center. Good, she's still alive. But it did not seem like the end for Tirek's attack. I watch as he pounces widely off of the ground, high up into the air that I hadn't seen from him before to ever do that. I could hear Tirek roar all the way into the blood-red sky when he charged towards the mountain.

While none were looking, I get out of the bush with the Song of Order still equipped in my right hand. My mind begins to communicate with the ethereal wings that I had been given by the power of the claymore and they begin to flap in the air. On the silent air, I make flight towards the mountain where Tirek and Twilight had broken through. Overhead, I pass over the trees and the green marshes of the forest. I could see the lights of the two battling continuing to flow with fury growing in my eyes. I would take the necessary risk to protect her if all else failed for her. I would not allow Lord Tirek to take control and steal Twilight's magic.

I make flight over the mountain and descend down towards the Castle of the Two Sisters where the battle seemed to be commencing close by. I could hear Tirek roaring loudly with the sound of loud pounding on the ground. Then there is the sound of magic being fired, breaking apart what seemed to be the sound of rocks. Finally, there are two blasts and then the sound of a large explosion.

When the explosion came close by, I had ducked and covered behind one of the solid rocks. Seconds after the blast between the two magic sources, debris had been formed with splinters of tree wood falling towards me in very small branches. I slowly start to move up onto my two feet. The destruction they made left another ditch close by the Castle Bridge and the stairs leading to the Tree of Harmony under the castle.

I could hear the sound of rocks moving on the left and the right. It was Twilight, who had a bit of dirt markings on her from the fight. Lord Tirek threw the boulders off of him, still looking untouched from the fight he was giving to her.

"It appears we are at an impasse." I could hear Lord Tirek say to the Princess. While he is focused on Twilight, I keep hidden behind a large tree and watch from the small hole. My hand is still firmly gripping onto the claymore, but my temptation to ignite the power of the blade to a maximum for battle purposes was starting to get to me. The second I ignite the battle magic, Tirek will be aware that the Song of Order is there and will know where I am. "How about a trade, Princess Twilight?"

I watch as he snaps his fingers on his left hand, igniting six bubbles in the air, hovering behind him. When I had turned to look who was inside the magic bubbles, I could see who was located inside of them. I gasped in silence when I saw that it was my friends in there. But not just them, it was Discord lying in one of the bubbles and his face had a look of sad shame as he knew he had done something wrong. In my heart, I could tell that I had forgiven him this instant, but what mattered most is that Lord Tirek had captured him and the rest of my friends. Lord Tirek continues "Their release… for all the Alicorn magic in Equestria."

I could hear Twilight gasp and the sounds of her friends protesting. Discord just remains motionless in the bubble, still feeling shameful for what he did.

"What's it going to be, Princess?" Lord Tirek asks.

The temptation to activate the Song of Order's magic grows even more quickly on me and I could feel like it was forcing me to attack Tirek. Besides that, I could hear the sound of her friends' protests and begs to not give up the alicorn magic. I move a little closer to hear what is going on. I sway to the side quickly into another nearby fern bush. Tirek seems to notice that sound and turns his head towards the fern bush for a brief moment.

I watch through the fern bush, moving my head a bit to make sure that Tirek doesn't see my eyes peeking out and him being aware that I was there. That brief moment lasted and he turns back around to look at Princess Twilight.

"Don't do it Twilight!" I could hear my best friend begging with a hint of worry in her voice. I turn my head to another open hole in the bush and take a look at Fluttershy. My heart pounded with fear when I saw her. Her eyes had gone light gray as if she had no magic left inside of her. "We aren't worth it!"

"Oh, but you are, Fluttershy." I could hear Discord sadly state. He turns his head towards her and looks at her. "You're the pony that taught me that friendship is magic. I had magic and friendship… and now I don't have either." He lowers his head and shamefully closes his eyes again.

"ENOUGH!" I could hear Lord Tirek shout with rage in his voice. He was already starting to get impatient already. I could feel the ground shake from one of the large hooves he had stomped. "I want an answer, and I want it now!"

I could see Twilight take a look past the dark centaur and towards her friends. There was that spark in her eyes again that could tell me something was going to happen. Then I could see a swirl of a rainbow briefly flow in a circle in her eyes. This brought back a memory to me, whenever one of her friends found a problem, their eyes would flash into the color of a rainbow. Could it be? Has she found a way to unlock the final key to the chest? She lowers her head for a moment, closing her eyes. She opens them back up and looks at Tirek, dead in the eyes.

"I will give you my magic, in exchange for my friends." I could hear Twilight state.

I froze right there when she said, hearing most of her friends gasp loudly upon hearing her final decision to Tirek's trade. Is she crazy?! He's literally not going to have just her magic, but Celestia's, Luna's, Cadence's and Nightmare's magic! I had to react quickly and stop her, but my body remains still and my mouth shut.

"As you wish." Tirek said with the sound of that he had won this time. He snaps his left hands' fingers and the bubbles around her friends pop, bringing them towards the dirt ground. I look up in the sky, only one bubble remained. Discord.

"All of my friends." Twilight stated, not going to give up another friend.

Tirek turns towards the floating bubble and I duck back into the bush, trying not to let him see me. "After the way he has betrayed you, you still call him a friend?" He questions, without bringing up anything to support it.

There is a brief pause between her and the dark lord. She just stares him down. "Release him." She had commanded.

"If that's what you want…" I could hear Tirek coldly say, snapping the same fingers on the same hand.

With the sound of the bubble popping, I could see the draconequus drop straight to the ground of dry soil with a soft thump being heard. He raised his head and tiredly looks at the princess. "Thank you Twilight…" He said with a weak hush. He turns towards Fluttershy who was next by him on the ground. "I'm sorry…"

"I know…" Fluttershy says, looking at him with her gray eyes.

"Your turn…" I could hear Tirek say and could see his giant mouth opening wide with Twilight's horn releasing out all of the magic. While all of the magic was being absorbed straight into Tirek's mouth, I could hear Twilight painfully scream. My emotions of heavy worry and fear started to get to me even deeper and eventually couldn't hold out any longer.

I just get out of the bush with the Song of Order still held in my right hand. My left hand reaches out towards Twilight as Tirek drained out the magic from her. I just shout with mild defeat sounding off in my voice. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

All of her magic is drained out from her and weak and tired from what just happened, collapses onto the ground with her eyes opening revealing to be as gray as ever and without a cutie mark on her flank. I could see Tirek start to grow at an accelerating level from the magic that he himself now possessed. "YES!" He shouted with a roar coming from him.

I fly down towards Princess Twilight using the ethereal wings that sword temporarily had given me. I run on my two feet towards her and kneel down close to her upon contact. The rest of her friends get up to help me. I take Twilight's hoof and both and her assistant Spike begin to carefully get her back up onto her four hooves as slowly as possible. She stumbles a bit, but I help to catch her before she falls.

"Brayden…" She tiredly said. "Why did you come back?"

"I had to," I said to her, moving my right hand and gently stroking her left cheek. "I couldn't let Tirek take advantage."

"But… the Song of Order…" She states, her eyes looking a bit glossy. "He is already aware that you are here…"

"But it was a risk I was willing to take." I told her, taking her left hoof with both of my hands and holding it gently. "I wanted to be there, for you and all of my friends."

"You made the right choice Brayden," I could hear Discord say to me, still looking shameful but now afraid to start talking. "Tirek tricked me into believing he could offer me something more valuable than friendship. But there is nothing worth more. I see that now." I watch as he turns towards Twilight and takes off the medallion that had been around his neck from the moment I saw him. He spoke "Twilight, he lied when he said that this medallion was given to me as a sign of gratitude and loyalty. But when I say that it is a sign of our true friendship, I am telling the truth…"

I watched as he brought the medallion forward to Twilight and placed it around her. I take a look at the medallion for a few moments. Not just me or Twilight, but all of us saw the streak of rainbow flashing by the golden object. This is what I knew as the final key to the mysterious chest. The mystery would be unlocked. With that same streak, a little bit of strength had been restored for all of them.

"Ya think that might be the last one we need?" Applejack questions.

There is the sound of a giant stomp close by us and all of us look high up into the air. Lord Tirek, now looking stronger than ever has his piercing eyes set down at me. His breathing is intensified when I realized what his eyes had been set upon. The Song of Order.

"Boy," He announced to me with his right hand moving towards me. "You have something powerful in your possession, and I want that magic."

I ignite the power of the blade in my right hand and move my left hand across me to grip onto the handle. With the power at a maximum, it was no doubt that the centaur could smell it. I could see the nearly-invisible ethereal armor form up and around my body. A helmet appears over my head and covers my face, but I can still see what is going on in front of me.

I could hear the sound of Twilight and her friends starting to gallop down into the canyon. While they are headed for the chest, this would give me a good chance to distract Lord Tirek for them to have some good amounts of time. "If you want to have this blade Tirek," I teased with fury running through my voice. "You're going to have to try and crush me."

I could see Tirek's face change into an aggressive stance on his face and powers up that orange ball between his dangerous looking horns. Seeing how he was going to attack, I run forward and slip under the giant centaur. The beam hits the ground and leaves a burn mark where it hit.

"Where are you boy?" I could hear Tirek growl and start to look for me. I spread open the ethereal wings and begin to fly upwards towards the centre of behind him. I thrust the sword forward and create a damaging scratch behind him.

He roared from the pain I had created. He turns around and this gives me a good chance to start flying for my life. I dove straight into the forest grounds and begin to take cover from the trees to allow myself some time to recover for the next offensive move. I could hear his power going up and releasing another giant beam of destruction throughout the forest, tearing apart the trees and leaving nothing but ruin.

Now is my big chance to make that move, while he is distracted. The wings charge forward into the skies and towards Tirek's big face. He barely has any time to react since he is still looking for me. I raised the claymore and allow the blade to slash a cut onto his face.

Tirek stops and places his right hand onto the cheek I had cut. "You little bug!" He roared in aggravation. He turns towards the skies and sees me. He fires another beam straight towards me. I grip onto the blade and close my eyes to allow for its power to unlock a barrier to protect me from the awaited damage.

The blast of his magic knocked me and the magic of the blade backwards, only deactivating the shield when the attack was done for him. I let one hand go off of the claymore and force my open hand towards him. I'm not expecting to as an attack from a movie saga I knew back on Earth, but this would probably scare him off.

A beam of light blue began to fire straight out of my left hand and towards his face. Second time getting magic beams shot in his face must be totally worth an effort for him. Considering that Twilight was the first to do it. He roars and makes a lunge-jump at me.

I had no time to react when his lunge had sent me flying towards the same mountain he and Twilight came out of. Because he was almost as big as the mountain, it would seem like he would just grab the sword then and there. I quickly gain some adrenaline in my body and use my two feet to launch myself back into the air with the sound of the ethereal wings flapping behind me keeping me in flight.

Lord Tirek releases a smile onto his face and proceeds to open his mouth to try and attempt to steal the blade's magic from when I flew close to attack him. I activate the magic of the blade and I could feel myself teleport straight behind him with a flash of light. He stops opening his mouth and begins to search for me again. I charge straight behind him.

But he is quick this time to turn and see me coming. He fires another blast of magic from between his horns. The blast manages to make contact with me this time. I am sent flying backwards towards the ground with my back impacting the ground. With incredible pain shooting through my back, I struggle and get back up onto my two feet and grip the blade with both of my hands, glaring at him.

"You won't hurt anypony as long as I am standing!" I shouted towards him, hatred flowing through me.

"Oh, but Brayden," Tirek said to me with a chuckle from his mouth. "I have already won, I have the alicorn magic now. There is nothing you can do to stop me!"

"Oh but there is a way, I just know it." I said back to him and begin running forward with my wings spreading into the air to lift me off towards his chest.

Lord Tirek charges towards me as well and swings his left arm to hit me. The impact between me and his hand sent me flying into the Everfree Forest. I still grip onto the claymore, powering it to help me. No shield comes up. The ethereal armor protecting my back takes another hard landing to the forest ground.

An orange beam of Tirek's magic has broken straight through into the dark forest, destroying the trees in front of me. His giant hooves trot towards me. At this point, I am trying hard to activate the magic of the blade's rainbow beam towards him, hopefully to distract him for a long getaway. Instead, I sheath the blade behind my back, deactivating the ethereal wings and armor. Without wings, I cannot fly for cover. I could feel the aura of orange magic grip onto me and bring me towards the centaur.

"Now hand me the blade," Tirek demanded by the sound of his growl bringing his right hand towards me to take me. "And I shall spare your dear life."

"Never!" I shouted with the sound of bravery in my voice sounding off like an alarm. His hand makes contact with me and I open my mouth, letting my teeth bite onto his hand.

He lets out another shriek and his magic lets go of me. I am sent down towards the ground and make hard impact with it. I find myself struggling to get up, but Tirek sends another deadly blast of energy towards me, bringing more harm to me.

"Well, since you won't give it to me I'll have to force myself to take it from you!" I could hear Tirek shout with anger in his voice. While I am rolling on my side, the Song of Order slides from off my back and ends up on the ground. I struggle to reach for it, but a stomp gives off that Tirek is there in front of me.

"At last…" I could hear him say. "The power of this blade is now mine and there is nothing you or Equestria can do to stop me."

I try to move my body in order to grab the claymore's handle, but Tirek sends another energy blast towards my hand, bringing more incredibly pain to me. I find myself lying on my back once again with my head tilted towards the view of him standing towards me.

"You are about to see how incredibly powerful I can become with this special magic. With the alicorn magic in my possession, I can steal the magic located deep in this blade. I used to know that this was a legend… but it is right before my eyes now." He announced.

"Why?" I said, sounding really desperate for an answer not to be answered.

"Be thankful that you are not my brother Scorpan. Once I am finished with Equestria… I am coming for him next." He finished.

Minus my pain shooting through me, I roll quickly and take a hold of the blade and move my left hand out towards him. Another light blue beam of magic is shot towards him, but is enough to send him stumbling backwards a bit. I slowly get up onto my two feet and begin to stumble my way into the forest once again.

I can hear the sound of his hooves coming towards me and I was turning in all directions to try to leave that area. I find myself almost going in a circle, but heading back to where the battle began outside of the castle. I can still hear his giant hooves coming and his magic tearing through the trees like butter. I stumble forward towards the cliff and fall onto the grass. I flip myself around and begin to crawl backwards and Tirek has a sadistic smile crossed onto his face.

I find myself trapped when a large boulder stopped me and caused me to hit my head on another resting rock. Tirek trots forward a little more and finally stops in front of me and looks down at me. My hand lets go of the Song of Order and I am forced to look at him for what he would do next.

"At last… the Song of Order's magic is finally mine." I could hear him say.

A bright flash of light emerges from outside of the canyon gorge and floats high up into the sky. Tirek stops trying to attempt his magic-stealing ability to the Song of Order and looks up into the air. I turn my head weakly towards the bright circle full of the colours of light and a rainbow. Inside the bubble of magic, I could see Twilight and the rest of her friends. I could see Discord and Spike leaving the gorge. In his anger, Tirek fires another blast of his dark magic towards the bubble, but it absorbs his magic, rendering it useless.

"How is this possible?!" Tirek said, outraged and surprised by this. "You have no magic!"

"You're wrong, Tirek!" I could hear Twilight shout. From what I was seeing, she had a much longer mane along with the rest of her friends looking different. "I may have given you my magic, but I carry within me the most powerful magic of all!"

Finally, the bubble of powerful magic fires another rainbow beam towards the centaur individually one beam at a time and then connecting to form it. I could feel my eyes start to close. The colors start to go distorted while I listening to Tirek scream in defeat from the rainbow attack. The last thing I saw was his weakest form when he had become small and weak again.

I then closed my eyes and was knocked unconscious.

"Wake up Brayden!"

I could hear the sound of somepony shouting at me and the front of my body feeling something light pushing down on my chest. I still had my eyes closed, but it felt like somepony was actually performing CPR on me. After about 30 pushes against my chest, I could feel a mouth making contact with mine and starting to blow air in from their mouth into mine.

My eyes are forced open and I started to gasp in that air heavily. I could see Twilight in front of me that had been giving me air, her eyes returned to normal. My body rises a bit from the ground. I could hear a few other ponies gasping and gathering around me. A few others started asking questions such as 'are you okay?' or 'You worried all of us.'

Twilight is holding my hand with her left front hoof and her right front hoof is on my left shoulder. "You had me and everypony else worried." She tells me with that relieved and happy tone in her voice.

I struggle to talk, but cough for a bit. Twilight moves her right hoof to gently pat my back. It helps get the coughing out of me. "Thanks," I complimented putting a smile on my face. "But I had to do what was necessary to distract Tirek. It was the only way to-"

I tried to continue, but I had been interrupted when Twilight moved her head forward, wrapped her wings around my body and made contact with my lips. Her eyes were closed and I gently close my eyes as well. Both of us share the kiss for a few moments and then release the kiss from our lips. Both our eyes open and we gaze at each other with her snout and my nose making contact. "That was for taking the risk to help us out." She whispered to me.

I gently smile back and gaze into her beautiful violet eyes. "Wait… the Song of Order…" I said, turning from her to look for it on the streets of Ponyville.

"Oh, don't worry about it Brayden," I could hear Twilight say to me, taking and holding my right hand with her left hoof. "Fluttershy is holding onto it."

I turned from Twilight to my right and saw that Fluttershy had the claymore on her blade, trotting over to give it to me. I wait until she approached and she offered me the claymore. I take it by the handle and carefully sheathe it behind my back. "I'm going to have it with me at all times. I can train myself to be a better fighter." I stated. "But, now… what happened while I was out?"

"You might want to come with us." Twilight said with a smile on her face. I get up on my two feet off of the ground and begin to walk with my special somepony and friends. All I could see from the blue, peaceful sky was something big and pointing like a giant star that stood still.

From down the path, I could see it come into my full view. It was a tree-castle of some sort. I think something did happen while I was out. I find myself looking at it with wonder. The star that was decorated in crystal above it was a six-pointed star, another sign of Twilight's cutie mark.

"That castle…" I said, rather surprised by its sudden appearance. "Is that what had come in the chest?"

"Well, it was more like the seed to the chest, plus our new defense!" Pinkie says behind me, bouncing up and down. "We were going all around Equestria that had been affected by Tirek's rampage and gave everypony all of their magic back, and then the chest rose from the tree's place and went straight into the ground there so-"

Applejack stuffed a hoof into Pinkie's mouth to get her to stop talking. Dang it Applejack, as much as you are a close friend I wish I could hear the rest of the story from Pinkie's point of view. "Alright Pinkie, we know the story." Applejack says with a smile on her face.

"But I only have one question about this castle," I asked with question crossing into my voice. "Who does this castle belong to?"

"I believe it belongs to Princess Twilight."

That familiar voice that I knew was right behind me and all of us turn with a smile on all of our faces. Not only was it Princess Celestia standing there, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence and Nightmare Moon were all standing there looking proud about us. Discord peeks from the left of Princess Luna and waves at us with a smile on his face. I can totally trust Discord now.

All of us enter the castle and walk through the halls. Princess Celestia is guiding us to the throne room as if she had already studied it without us ever knowing of it. I am trotting beside Twilight with Celestia on her left.

"You've been wondering what you are meant to do as a princess," I could hear Princess Celestia ask, I turn my head to look at her talking to Twilight. "Do you know now?"

Twilight smiled and turns to the princess. "As princess, I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria and beyond. That is the role I am meant to have in our world! The role I choose to have! But I didn't defeat Tirek on my own – it took all of us to unlock the chest!" She said to her, looking prouder than ever before.

Princess Celestia trots towards the golden double doors and uses her magic to open up the doors to reveal the throne room. "Then it is unlikely that you are meant to take on this task alone." She said, a smile still on her face. She didn't even look sad this time, because I wondered what she felt so sad when I was visiting the Crystal Empire.

The throne room seemed to have the same symbol of Twilight's cutie mark lying in the center. Not only was there one throne for Twilight, but there were five others surrounded it. It seemed to be meant for her friends to sit in. There was also a small throne meant for Spike to sit in.

"Wowee!" I could hear Pinkie Pie say, sounding really amazed by how beautiful the room looked.

"You are now Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship," I could hear Princess Celestia announce to my special somepony. Twilight smiles when she hears about this title that seemed new to her. "But what is the princess of friendship without her friends?"

"Wait a minute," I hear Discord say out loud with surprise in his voice. "Where's my throne?!"

"Umm," Fluttershy got his attention with her soft voice. "I don't think you're quite there yet."

Discord calms down a bit and chuckles. "Yes, well… I suppose not." He said with a smile on his face.

I turn towards Princess Luna and Nightmare Moon. I walk towards them and decide to ask them if they were alright during the attack. I approach them and generally give them both a hug from me. One arm around Princess Luna's neck and the other around Nightmare's neck gently.

"We're fine Brayden." Princess Luna says to me, already knowing what I wanted to tell them.

Nightmare Moon places a hoof onto my right shoulder and looks at me with her friendly cyan cat-like eyes. "Cerberus made sure that we were alright and that no monster brought harm to any of us."

"I wished that I was there to protect you from Tirek. But I am glad you were all safe when he sent you four to Tartarus in his place." I told them, taking both Luna and Nightmare's hooves and holding them.

I could feel a hoof tap behind me. I let go of their hooves and turn around to see Princess Celestia standing there. She looked quite proud of me.

"Brayden," She had announced to me, placing her hoof on my right shoulder. "I know that it seemed like a big risk that you might let down Twilight and her friends when you came back to Ponyville, but you did make the right choice in coming back to distract Tirek."

"Wait," I said, with Celestia pausing. "How did you know that I was there?"

"Just a lucky guess I suppose." Celestia said with a giggle coming from her. Oh Celestia, you and your guessing and know that we'd win.

I could see Twilight trotting towards me with a smile on her face. I walk slowly towards her. She takes my hand with her hoof and holds onto it. I hold onto her hoof and look at her. The rest of our friends gather around us and all were smiling and happy once again.

"This calls for a party!" Pinkie Pie announced, pulling out her party cannon.

"Then a party we will have!" I said with a bright smile on my face. This seemed like it would be another after-villain is defeated party for Pinkie, so she blasts the party cannon in the air and she is cheering. I had a bright smile on my face, this was just the beginning of something new to happen in Ponyville and the rest of Equestria. It was something special for me as well.

It was time to enter the next chapter of my life in Equestria…