A/N: Here's the next chapter.

This one I had a lot of frustration with because there were some parts in this that were very hard to write, because I didn't know how to push it forward that easily, and some where I felt like extending or re-writing, because I was never really happy with the end result. So yes, this is all I am putting out from this chapter. If I ever find a way to re-write, I will go back to correct it.

This April is coming up to a close, with Avengers: Endgame coming up soon in theatres. I will go and see it because I want to see how it ends. Yes, I have watched Season 9's premiere "The Beginning of the End" and the recent one "Uprooted". I find myself to be interested in Grogar and his appearance in the final season and wonder what he will do in the series finale. Looking forward to watching the next episodes "Twilight's Seven" and "Frienemies". No, I'm most likely not sticking around for G5, though I will go see the movie in 2021 to see if it is decent.

Only 12 chapters are left until this story is closing its book. The next chapter will be completely in Ann's POV. Hoping you enjoy this chapter, even if it isn't perfect in any way since I am a bit mixed on this.

P.S. I do have Red Dead Redemption 2. I just haven't played it yet, but it's not like I am going to be losing sleep over it. If it was Elder Scrolls IV, that's a whole different story.

I can't believe I was ready to go face to face with a fear that I thought would come to be. All in the end, turns into loss.

My right hand was gripped onto the shining gold colored handle at the door where Nightmare was waiting for me, moments... possibly short minutes away from dying. I stand there to take in as much courage as I can to see her in such a state, lying on the hospital bed. Kind of like me, when I had collapsed and took so much from attacks.

I inhale in a bit of breath, held it for a quick moment and exhaled it out through my mouth. I turn on the handle and I push it forward to open up the door. The room is lit up, even with the full moon shining from outside the window that was visible in my sight. The sound of the heart monitor is beeping away but isn't seen.

From the moment forward, was the shock and dread that I was feeling when I turned my head towards the hospital bed.

Nightmare was lying there on the bed on her side, her mystic mane and tail barely trying to keep afloat and those beautiful eyes of hers closed as if she was resting. Her fatal wounds that will never heal are patched up, but are being bled through. I couldn't look away from the state she was in as I move closer to the side where the window is. Where her head was turned on the pillow, it was in that direction.

"Nightmare?" I asked her, pain sounding in my voice.

She groans weakly for a moment, slowly opening her cyan cat eyes and turning to see me right there, bending a little closer to her at the side of the bed. "B-Brayden..." She managed to get out with a bit of acknowledgement in her voice.

"It's okay... I'm here." I said to her with a gentle tone in my voice. "I- I can stop you from... I can help mend the wounds, I-" I stopped right there for a moment and then with a groan of despair and frustration, I threw my head forward onto the bed, placing the both of my hands on my face. "Oh what am I talking about? It's all my fault that I let this happen to you."

"It's- it's not B-Brayden," She responded to me, weakly reaching with her left front hoof and taking my right hand. "Why w-would you s-say that?"

"If I wasn't so stupid to charge at her in battle and stood my ground, she wouldn't have done this to you... and you would still be..."

She notices the tears beginning to form in my eyes with each word I was getting out, and I can hear her voice shushing me both gently and weakly from everything that she was going through for her final moments alive. I can feel her hoof move off from my hand, gently placing it onto my long grown hair, gently stroking it.

"Don't say y-you're stupid. You're not." She says to me. "What y-you've done for me... all of this life I h-have lived, even when I was just a fragment of what darkness I used to b-be-" She stopped talking for that moment, coughing.

I placed a hand onto her right cheek. "Nightmare..." My voice trembles when the first tears were crawling from my eyes.

"T-thank you for showing me your heart to save me when n-no one e-else would do that." Nightmare says.

"No... no." I said to her. "There's probably a magic spell to stop this! That you can live!"

"S-such a spell is too dangerous to use, especially if misuses are done. You could risk your own l-life if you tried to bring me b-back. I-it's rare to find that spell..."

"I can't live without you!" My voice broke as I couldn't handle the tears coming down from my eyes. "I would rather sacrifice myself to make sure you live! She should've taken me! Why didn't she just let me?!"

"B-B-Brayden... I'd rather you live to live out the rest of what life you have as an Equestrian Human than to b-bring me back for y-you to fade from e-existence."

Her horn sparked a bit as she was trying to power magic to her horn. She struggles a bit but is able to eventually create an aura of her magic around it. Why would she be using her magic at this time? She's already dying and doing such that would only fasten towards death. I want to stop her from doing so, but I find myself unable to.

"Brayden?" She gets my attention again, even when I had lost it for a moment from a small amount of shock. "P-please let me place m-my horn on your forehead..."

I listened to her, moving closer as I gently wrap my arms around her in a hug. She is shaking a bit, but I don't want to let go of her. I can feel a part of her horn resting carefully on my forehead, her magic making contact with me. From what this magic felt, it didn't hurt as she never would do something like that again.

Her hooves move around me as I can hear her wheezily coughing as life was declining from her. There is a tingling sensation that I can feel coming from her magic-lit horn as those cyan cat eyes stare at my watery brown eyes. Her eyes blink for a moment, and then her magic ceases at once with the tingling sensation lifting.

"What... what did you do?" I asked her, my voice gone a bit soft.

"I sacrificed a-all of my magic. I gave to you whatever magic was in me, so that it will always be w-with you so you'll n-never let me go. B-believe me... the l-love I shared with you in m-my magic will help protect y-you..."

My eyes begin to notice a bit of a change in the moonlight's color visible at the bedside, as its haze looked much more different than the usual white. My eyes turn away from Nightmare for a moment, turning towards the window and seeing Luna's moon beginning to host a new, but temporary color.

It was a blood red moon. A sign that somepony connected or once connected to it, having suffered to the last breath.

Her heart monitor begins to beep much faster from when I first entered the room. "Brayden..." She weakly calls out to me, her left front hoof gently stroking my hair. I turn around to look at her, seeing her head slowly moving forward towards me.

I moved my head closer to hers, gently placing my lips onto hers. My tears were continuing to run even if she was giving her final kiss to me. A few moments after, me and her released from the kiss and her breathing grows more weaker.

"I-I'll always be with y-you... always..." She manages to get out in a soft whisper as her last few breaths are exhaled. Finally, her head lowers back onto the pillow her head was resting on, closing her eyes and releasing her final breath, being free from the pain.

Nightmare Moon was dead.

The flatline tone is heard from my ears and I can feel so much pain from inside begin to swell up much harder than it did before when I had felt betrayal from friends in the past. The tears crawled more, even when I gripped my hands onto the black alicorn, in denial that she had already died.

"Nightmare?!" I called out to her, the volume of my voice having raised a bit. When the reality of the situation had finally struck me, I was already screaming. "NIGHTMARE!"

I had lost all self control inside of me from watching one of the mares I loved die in front of my eyes, and I was absolutely screaming to the heavens as the tears ran uncontrollably. I am very certain that possibly everypony here, upper floor or downstairs could hear it, and in the end I fell forward with my face in Nightmare's coat, absolutely sobbing my heart out even when I heard the door opening up.

The tears were staining Nightmare's coat, and my eyes were closed but I can tell that by the sounds of the hooves coming in - it was most likely the hospital staff trying to get me off of her so that they could attempt to calm me down.

"Come on. Let's step outside..." I can hear Nurse Redheart's voice saying to me even as a hoof moved around my shoulders.

I didn't want to let go at first, even by how soft the pull was from the nurse I knew. It took a few soft words after that, but eventually even in my wrecked state, they were able to pull me off from the black alicorn. Tears were absolutely covering my vision and my face looks to be red from absolutely belting it out.

"Shhhhh... it's alright." She is sounding very gentle with me as she slowly and carefully is escorting me out from the room. A final turn of my head towards the hospital bed was the last time that I would ever see Nightmare again. I wouldn't want a funeral because seeing her again would probably deliver more harm to my well-being, even after what I saw. "We'll just head downstairs."

I can feel myself walking towards the elevator, one nurse pressing the button and galloping off down the hall that we had left. I couldn't really focus on anything, even with the tears in my vision. The elevator doesn't take too long to arrive, and Nurse Redheart's hoof is still around me when the door opened up and we stepped in, headed for the first floor.

"Brayden?" I can hear her say my name. I slowly turn to look at her, a concerned expression on her face. "I'm sorry that this had to happen to you. I really am..."

I wanted to speak, but all that came out was more sobbing. Nurse Redheart uses her hoof to begin rubbing it on my back to ease the pain. Not much was helping, but a little is better than nothing at all. I was shaking a bit, and even so it looked quite noticeable from the hands. When there was the sound of the elevator dinging, the iron door opened up on the first floor and she lets me go.

I step out into the hallway where everypony I had been talking to was there. Fluttershy is the first to notice that I am crying, trotting forward with a worried expression on her face like all of the others shared as well. She carefully approaches me, taking my right hand and giving it gentle strokes.

"Oh my goodness, you're shaking." Fluttershy says to me, gently nuzzling my cheek in a friendly way to give me comfort. "Are you okay Brayden?"

"That look on your face... something bad happened." Rarity says to me, almost shocked to say the least from what she believed to be true.

Starlight looks rather worried about me. "I don't like where this is going to go."

"She's gone..." I managed to get out softly, before raising my voice to an audible range. "She's fucking gone!"

Everypony was shocked to hear me use such language, but knew that it was because I was feeling heartache. My mother Celestia closed her eyes and lowers her head for a moment. She expresses disappointment, but not towards me. This disappointment was for how everypony failed to recognize her as a changed pony. That she tried so hard to fit into society only to be excluded by the elites.

"Brayden," Aunt Luna gets my attention. "I'm so sorry about what happened."

I couldn't find myself to forgive them and say that it wasn't their fault. That word 'sorry' was already started to build up loads of pressure inside me, and I was already beginning to feel a mixture of sadness and anger begin to flow into my emotions. Not corrupt as it was before, but something that was on my mind for a while.

"He's shaking badly..." Twilight says to them, trotting forward to look at me. "I... I don't know what to say about losing Nightmare Moon. B-Brayden?"

She could tell that I was beginning to have the anger overflow through me, a reminder of how many times I have forgiven them over and over for even the smallest things. The only time I was stupid enough to forgive them due to my pure-heartedness was when they cast me out from killing a pony who was my own father.

I finally snapped.

"That... that's it!" I finally let out my voice of frustration. "I can't fucking take this shit anymore!"

Fluttershy being surprised to see and hear me raising my voice and delivering a frustrated, yet angry expression, stopped nuzzling my cheek or giving me comfort. My tear-filled rage has already broken loose and I looked at every single one of my friends who trotted away even in my time of need.

"I've lost a part of me. The mare that I saved is gone because of me, but it's not only that. It's all of you that I have kept bottled up for a while now!"

"Brayden!" Rarity exclaims with a bit of shock in her voice. "Whatever are you talking about, darling? You have us, and we're all a part of your life."

"Don't darling me Rarity! It was from that moment when you and everypony I know, chose to walk away from me when I had stopped my own father. Somepony who was corrupt to the darkness, and could feel and have no redemption! I had to kill him, and you all just turned away!"

"Why I- But I-" Rarity doesn't know what else to say.

"Brayden, it was all part of a law-" Celestia tries to explain.

"A law? A FUCKING LAW?!" I raised my voice towards my mother once again. "YOU ALL WALKED AWAY BECAUSE I DID THE RIGHT THING TO STOP SOMBRA, AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS A LAW?!"

Spike managed to get out some words. "I didn't want to walk away..." He says, a little surprised.

"But you all decided that you wanted to, and my own mother... makes up some fucking excuse. My heart inside tells me that I have to forgive them for the mistakes you all make when it comes to me. I'VE HAD E-FUCKING-NOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT! YOU LET ALL OF THIS HAPPEN! NO MORE FUCKING ACCEPTING APOLOGIES WHEN THEY ARE FUCKING DUE FOR THE RIGHT OR WRONG REASONS!"

"But we didn't-" Aunt Luna tries to get out, but I have once again taken the bull by the horns.

"Why does my heart always make me forgive? Because I was born too pure!" I said, unable to take back control.

"There's nothing wrong with being pure," Twilight says to me, trying to calm me down. "It's just who you are! Somepony who cares and knows the mistakes they make just as we do!"

"You..." I pointed at my own wife. "You were practically glaring at me for what I did, and decided to believe the righteous action I made was wrong! I was left all alone! I had to go to Coco's apartment because AT LEAST SHE HAS A FUCKING HEART TO UNDERSTAND ME!"

"Brayden, we do-"

"UP UNTIL THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU JUST DECIDED THAT I COMMITTED MURDER WHICH IS SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO! YOU LEFT ME ALL ALONE, AND DIDN'T CARE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I JUST LEFT! FUCK!" I got out in frustration, a final string already being pulled at.

I can feel Twilight's hoof touching my arm to try and calm me down. "Brayden please... we weren't thinking straight!"

"BULL. SHIT." I said straight to her face out loud with such doubt in my angered expression. "If walking away from me to cast me is what all of you consider a law... then fuck your rules and fuck whoever wrote that in the justice system of Equestria."

"Brayden!" Twilight gasped, the expression on her face turning to that as if I had offended her. "That is promoting anarchy! Something against the rules of Equestria's law. You should just be lucky that you weren't thrown in exile because of you being Celestia's son!"

"Twilight, don't set him off more..." I can hear my mother who I was just as pissed off at as well.

"You don't have any right to speak wrongly about the monarch!"

I argued right back with her. "Seriously?! You're defending a completely broken system of law! Why would there be a law of turning the cold shoulder on somepony that killed a pony in order to save their kingdom?!"

"It's your mother's kingdom and her decision on law, and I will not allow you to badmouth her or what she-"

I had lost all control for that moment, even my right hand had formed into a fist and drew it back. Nopony had time to react to when I had screamed in absolute frustration, throwing the punch towards Twilight, my own wife. She was knocked back, falling towards the floor on her side when I had done so.

My mind is quick enough to collect itself back and the shock had hit me when I realized what I had done when I saw Twilight there on the carpeted hospital floor, my fist out and everypony gasping in shock for what I did. Twilight slowly is getting up, surprised at what I did.

Everypony remained shocked at what I did, with Pinkie's expression changing to that of being a little guilty for trotting away. Fluttershy and Rarity look absolutely horrified as if they didn't expect that to happen. Somewhere in Rainbow Dash though, something told me that she could tell that after all of that, I had some things inside that were kept in for so long.

I couldn't bear to look at anypony else nor Twilight, walking past her and headed for the hospital exit. What happened was something that I will probably regret. I broke my own promise... I swore that I would never hurt anypony... and I did it in my own frustration.

"Brayden..." I can hear Twilight's voice calling to me, even as she was slowly getting up. I couldn't look or turn to look at her even as more tears are crawling down my eyes. I stopped halfway across the room from hearing her voice.

"I..." My voice was more broken, unable to scream or shout anymore, but is still audible to everypony. "I can't be around any of you anymore... not after I broke my own promise..."

I continued forward, the hospital doors opening up in front of me as I allow my wings to slowly spread out. My walking begins to increase in speed and I find myself beginning to run, flapping my wings and to take off to the skies, the blood red moon still visible.

"Brayden! Wait!" I can hear Rainbow Dash's voice calling out to me with worry as it grows distant. I still couldn't turn to look at her or any of them. Not even my own mother. As my tear-stained eyes continue to cycle, I flew off into the night, headed towards the east.

I knew who I needed to go to. She was one of those who could give me comfort as of right now...

Manehattan

Coco Pommel's POV

Ah, what another day wrapped up in Manehattan, even after having shared a lunch with the union of costume designers at the Town Hall! I got to share the costumes that I had made for the upcoming performances of 'The Stallion of the Opera' that is due to be coming in a month from now. It feels rather exciting to be involved with a production that big.

My hooves have finished closing up the closet that held a few of the important costumes that will be needed for the main actors. I had made sure that not a loose string was found on either of them, so I am certain that they will remain perfect for the actors to see in the next few days.

Even after such a day out with the union, my stomach was feeling rather rumbly especially after lunch had come and gone so quickly. Now it was already night-time, and I figured that before bed I would do my usual habit: have dinner, relax and listen to jazz music for a while and then go to bed.

Believe me, sometimes I can't even get to sleep at all. Thankfully when that happens, I have that bedside table picture of me and Brayden together, him holding my hoof while I nuzzle his cheek for the photo at the park here in Manehattan.

The moon outside of the windowed balcony doors show Luna's moon in full outside, though to my own surprise I didn't expect to see it in such a red color. A rare sight to see perhaps, because it was its usual color on my way back home.

Knock knock!

My apartment's front door is sounding off as if somepony is here to deliver a package for me. I turn towards the door from the kitchen, my ears perking up to listen to the knocking and wondering why the mail-pony would come at this time of night, as he usually works early afternoon until sunset.

There is another set of knocking delayed by a few moments when I am trotting over towards the door. By the way they now sound, it's most like desperation and panic from how it resonated. "Coming!" I called out to whoever was there, approaching the door and placing my hoof on the handle.

When I turned it and opened up the door, who I had at first thought was the mailmare turned out to be somepony that I loved... Brayden.

The expression on his face as he stood there, worried me quite a bit. His eyes looked red as he looked to have been crying, and he was shaking a lot. He looks to be feeling such despair and like he would break down at any time soon. My heart inside hurt a lot to see him looking like this, as this was the first time I ever saw him feeling this way. What hurt me the most was to see all of those injuries that he received.

"Coco..." He says to me, his voice sounding quite like he has given up. He starts to fall forward, as in a collapsing state. I was able to catch his fall, and I can feel his arms wrap around me, wanting me to hold me close to him.

"Brayden? Are you okay?" I asked him with my soft-spoken tone of voice. My right front hoof is placed on the back of his head, gently stroking his long hair that has grown a lot since I first met him. "Why are you crying?"

He choked for a moment, trying not to cry but his quiet sobs are what really got to me. I am gently shushing him, wrapping my other front hoof around him, brushing my cheek against his in a comforting nuzzle. "It's okay Brayden... I'm here."

"Nightmare..." He was able to get out, the thought of what he was crying about made me realize why when he told me, practically close to screaming. "I made a stupid mistake, and I've lost her! She's gone!"

The door to my apartment is left open, but I didn't make any motions to do anything about it. I just closed my eyes, holding the crying Brayden in my hooves, making sure to calmly shush him in order to calm him down. He felt defeated, and this felt like this wasn't the first time that it had ever happened to him.

"What happened? Please, sit with me at the couch and tell me everything. I'm here for you always." I said to him, releasing from the hug I was giving him and placing my hoof on top of his left hand.

He doesn't respond to me through words, but lets go of me and starts to get up, headed over towards the couch and taking a seat while I grab a box of tissues and a small garbage bin that he can toss them in.

"Are you feeling comfortable on the couch? Would you like a blanket to warm you up? I am going to be making something in the kitchen soon." I offered to him, trotting over to the couch and sitting next to him.

"...No. I'm... I'm fine." He says, having calmed a bit, but still tear-stained.

I brought my left front hoof forward to take and hold his left hand, gently rubbing it. "Please tell me. I will understand..." I said to him, wanting to know more and doing everything I can to help him.

"I was at the castle and I couldn't get to sleep... Applejack is at the door and she leads me to the Everfree Forest's old theater... she almost gave me to Rebecca, the Dragon Queen who wants to kill everypony. I fought her, but I showed weakness, even when Nightmare came to help... she killed her... and I lost control from that... hitting my own wife Twilight... hurting her..."

I gasped for a moment. "But why would you hurt Twilight?" I asked him, quite surprised.

"I didn't want to. My anger took the bull by the horns... and it just happened when I was yelling at them."

"Don't worry Brayden," I said to him, rubbing his hand with my hoof. "I'm sure you can figure it out."

"I... I just want time with you..." He says, taking a tissue from the nearby table to blow his nose.

"Have all the time you need. I'll get some soup ready for you." I said to him, kissing his cheek and getting up off of the couch to get something for him ready. Hopefully something to help him rest, as he looks terrible and I hate to see him look like that.

I'll let him stay with me until he feels better. There's no way I can turn Brayden away, especially with our relationship in good trust.

Mortem

Rebecca's POV

I landed right onto the top of the black tower in the center of all the dark land. All of it in full view, even as dragons and the remaining Global Persecution members scattered throughout the land, waiting for the call to be summoned for an all-scale invasion of Equestria itself.

From what my ears had heard even from the newspapers in town was that of what would seem to be potential allies for the ponies: the Hippogriffs. The Storm King who even I could not let join us in the fight, acted like a loose cannon and as a result, thrown into the tightest prison on the sea far from land. It would be useless to attempt to get him out, even with the Staff of Sacanas powerless and left to the hooves of those ponies.

The pendant aroun my neck began to glow red with a chime that I could tell was that of a summon. My master Vuurtongo was calling to speak with me, and even after the attempt to kill Brayden, there was nothing I could think but my own failed attempt a third time from doing so. I placed my right hand onto the pendant and gripped onto it tight to answer his summon.

Particles of fiery dust began to gather from where the pendant contained his spirit, setting him outward onto the soil of Mortem, the name that all should fear. The pendant around my neck glows brightly as the particles swarm around and each dragon taking notice of this. He slowly appears, his scales of steel and obsidian seen from even the undead that roamed here, his eyes of hellfire opening up as he looked upon me on the tower.

"Rebecca, there you are back where we last talked." He says first, looking strangely content with seeing me.

I looked at him, getting down on one knee and bowing before the now demigod-blooded dragon himself, cast from the heavens. "Yes master, I have returned." I said to him, my sight looking down at the ground.

"I couldn't have been much more proud to find someone who would take the pendant and pass it down by each generation," His deep, resonating voice says to me, his claws below on the ground shuffling a bit which shook both the tower and the earth below. I look up at him, my injuries visible to his own eyes. "And yet, somehow still not one who can easily take down the Paladin so simply."

"I've let you down. I tried to do that, but his heart is powerful with that of... that friendship. It's sickening." I responded to him.

"Of course you did. I expected better of you, simply to go straight for him. Killing Princess Twilight or her friends is merely a bonus, because without one of them, their power of this 'friendship' will be quite useless, even against us. Those are your injuries? You still have too much that enemy's influence in your heart, and you as a result, are still weak."

"I killed Nightmare Moon," I confessed to him, hoping for some praise from him. "While I kept him back, I decided to tear him apart. Watch him get emotional and try to kill me with his bare hands. I was close until that rainbow pegasus flew in."

"The Element of Loyalty... I am not surprised. But even so with my happiness that you took somepony he loves in his heart away, you have failed me again with such a mistake at not doing what you had to do much sooner," He says to me, expressing disappointment in the tone of his voice. "Give me a reason why I should give you much more trust that you will stop him."

"I saw his weakness, his loves... they are the reason why he didn't die so easily. He flipped out when I killed that black alicorn, and reacted quite badly almost like he had a heart attack when I killed plenty of ponies and had others executed or hurt. His connection... the blood of Equestria mixed into his own human blood... if I can weaken that, he can be taken down and we can have revenge on the First Alicorn who carved this world."

"She was foolish to cast me down from up there, and now she can watch me in her own horror as you cast fire to the land, harvesting all life for all blood dragonkind to breed. Then those outside of Equestria when we are done, will know not to underestimate us. Then my business with the First Alicorn can be worked on." He says, raising a claw and forming it into that of what looked like a fist.

I got up onto the both of my feet, my eyes still not off from my master. "I won't let you down. I have a great solution." I said to him.

"Do you now?" He seems rather intrigued by my obedience.

"We'll demand a war. Knowing that 'princess', she'll be more than happy to do so, to send everypony here to battle us. She is a fool to think that we will be much weaker than before they set hoof on our soil. We'll take care of them here, including that paladin. Any remaining, we'll go throughout Equestria and burn it all."

He chuckles slowly, leading into a laugh. "I like the way your mind works Rebecca!"

I could only stare back at him, a smile coming on my lips at the thought of getting another opportunity to stab Brayden in the gut and watch him fall down and suffer before death at hand. Those ponies who thought they would get away... it isn't going to happen this time around. It was time to make things right on my side.

Sheathing out the two katanas I have, all I can do is look at the text written onto the blades themselves, seeing the glow of what would be that of fire, powering up and showing off it's power for what it was itself given to me upon handling the pendant. Fire is reflected and visible from inside of them as it brightens up my hazel green eyes.

The Song of Flames.

"So that's what happened?" The ram said, trotting around the beaten long black haired human with wings, having tortured him for where he last was. "Such a foolish decision to fly off from losing the commander and king to dungeons."

"Whatever..." The human says, panting for breath. The scorches of the magic the dark necromancer had were more powerful than even the commander he had before her capture, having been placed into a Canterlot dungeon. He doesn't even try to get up off from the ground as the ram goes around him again.

There is a chuckle from the ram hiding in the shadows. "But this Song of Order that boy has in his possession. I can relax happily knowing that it is active and well from hiding in the darkness for so long. But what I am needing to know is the whereabouts of the other songs are... Nature, Aqua, Earth... and Flames."

"I... I've told you all I know about the Song of Order," The human responded, stopping to cough for a few moments. "It's the only one."

"Starswirl is a fool who thought he could hide that they were lost forever in the silent darkness, but there they are... still to be united together as a team. At least that's what the 'friendship' ponies think they insist on it being." The ram in the darkness chuckles again, coming forward to the human and placing his hoof on his chin to move up and look at him.

The human's eyes turn to look up at the ram, quite surprised to see who it was before him. The master of darkness, the seed of all evil that exists in Equus. The human is completely speechless, until the light had brightened up the room, unveiling more color to the ram's blue coat and dark horns, those moderate red eyes staring down at him with a cruel smile. When the human finally spoke, it was a tone of fear.

"...Grogar..."