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“Uhhh… is it just me, or do those crystals look familiar?” Rainbow Dash interrupted. With everypony turning the cyan Pegasus’ way, they noticed her hoof rising up and jutted towards the wall. They followed her direction, staring back to Monster Zero and seeing it. Seeing them.
The Council was so transfixed with the image of the great serpent that they nearly failed to notice the crystals Rainbow Dash had pointed out. Upon closer examination, there were, in fact, several familiar and dark crystals coating the ice from the very top and even resting directly in front of them. All of them infused within the wall, all of them dotting and pockmarking various cracks and crevices and fractures across the ice.
Celestia and Luna knew those crystals well. As did Bon Bon. As did all of T.I.T.A.N. Twilight and her friends made the connection and lost their collective breaths upon realizing it.
“They’ve only been growing more and more since we discovered Monster Zero,” Shining Armor said, trying to gather the shocked masses and bring them to attention. He pointed his hoof to one of the crystals on the wall. “Leftovers from King Sombra… but unlike the rest of Equestria, these crystals didn’t want to go away. They just kept growing, remaining hidden. Our magic hasn’t been able to break it like we could with Sombra’s other crystals.”
Despite her older brother’s explanations as to why some of King Sombra’s crystals were still present on Equestrian soil, Twilight Sparkle was slowly beginning to hyperventilate. There was no reason to panic. She had seen it, her friends had seen it, even Discord had seen it, and they all could confirm that Sombra was dead. He died when she and friends utilized the power of the Elements of Harmony within them, showcasing the magic of friendship that obliterated Sombra and his influence from the face of Equestria.
Forever.
But the possibility was enough, the fear of the unknown and the thought pressured into her mind was all that was needed to break her away from her brother’s words. That familiar cloud of darkness filled her mind and shrouded her heart, making all else numb around her. Not even the cold could reach her now. Nothing but the soft, gentle whispers brushing across her ears.
She made the mistake of listening. She made the mistake of turning towards the soft breath and following it, sensing its growing presence to the wall on her far, far right.
Almost as if she was invisible to everypony else—to T.I.T.A.N., to the rulers both current and former, and even to her friends—Twilight broke away and proceeded towards the mysterious crystal embedded in the icy wall. Of all the crystals, of any pillar of ice she could have come across, it was that pair in particular. It was there where she sensed the crystal’s whispers leading her on and enveloping her in that unknown, unnatural embrace.
One of the T.I.T.A.N. scientists nodded to Shining’s statement, clarifying, “Correct. These gems seem to be infused with some kind of… bio-electrical nature. Perhaps Monster Zero is a conduit for this type of energy. Like electric eels in a sense, but still far beyond anything our sciences can conclude. It just doesn’t add up perfectly with anything in nature. But other than that… there is another presence infesting the gems.”
Shining Armor nodded and continued. “There seems to be some kind of… dark force empowering the crystals. It would be the only reason we can’t break them down or study them further. An ancient power, a spell far beyond that of our knowledge on the dark arts. This blend between bio-electric influence and ancient power created… this. This magic we’ve never come across.”
“A magic we have never seen,” Luna declared.
Twilight stared deep into the crystals. The slick, black surface was coated in frost, but even nature’s chilling bite could not contain the darkness. A shroud of purple and green hues flowed deep within them, the dark aether of unholy power flowing in its winds and whispering its haunting, nightmarish tongue to the Alicorn. Upon her presence, they cracked the frozen wall and destroyed it, creating a loud crash like that of a window shattering.
The sound was so sudden and so jarring that it brought the entire crowd to an abrupt silence.
And once they turned to face it, all they could see was Twilight Sparkle backing away rapidly from the pillar of ice and crystal. The fragments fell by her hooves, casting a dust of snow and frost across the area. To Twilight especially, the Alicorn finally coming to her senses and realizing what had happened. She faced the crowd behind her with panicked and regretful eyes.
Stating loudly, “I-I’m so sorry! I didn’t touch it; i-it just cracked and I—!”
Celestia and Luna approached her, the much older and much wiser Alicorns pausing in the midst of the dispersing fog. In the middle of it, Twilight stammered “I-I…”
They cast Twilight a single glance before moving past her, eyes trained on the remains of the ice pillar. Frozen momentarily, Twilight’s brow straightened before she eventually spun around to see what the former princesses had discovered. With snow, frost, and the cloud of fog finally evaporating, there was an entirely new tunnel beyond the wall. A tunnel that led to nothing but blackness.
Twilight © Hasbro
“Uhhh… is it just me, or do those crystals look familiar?” Rainbow Dash interrupted. With everypony turning the cyan Pegasus’ way, they noticed her hoof rising up and jutted towards the wall. They followed her direction, staring back to Monster Zero and seeing it. Seeing them.
The Council was so transfixed with the image of the great serpent that they nearly failed to notice the crystals Rainbow Dash had pointed out. Upon closer examination, there were, in fact, several familiar and dark crystals coating the ice from the very top and even resting directly in front of them. All of them infused within the wall, all of them dotting and pockmarking various cracks and crevices and fractures across the ice.
Celestia and Luna knew those crystals well. As did Bon Bon. As did all of T.I.T.A.N. Twilight and her friends made the connection and lost their collective breaths upon realizing it.
“They’ve only been growing more and more since we discovered Monster Zero,” Shining Armor said, trying to gather the shocked masses and bring them to attention. He pointed his hoof to one of the crystals on the wall. “Leftovers from King Sombra… but unlike the rest of Equestria, these crystals didn’t want to go away. They just kept growing, remaining hidden. Our magic hasn’t been able to break it like we could with Sombra’s other crystals.”
Despite her older brother’s explanations as to why some of King Sombra’s crystals were still present on Equestrian soil, Twilight Sparkle was slowly beginning to hyperventilate. There was no reason to panic. She had seen it, her friends had seen it, even Discord had seen it, and they all could confirm that Sombra was dead. He died when she and friends utilized the power of the Elements of Harmony within them, showcasing the magic of friendship that obliterated Sombra and his influence from the face of Equestria.
Forever.
But the possibility was enough, the fear of the unknown and the thought pressured into her mind was all that was needed to break her away from her brother’s words. That familiar cloud of darkness filled her mind and shrouded her heart, making all else numb around her. Not even the cold could reach her now. Nothing but the soft, gentle whispers brushing across her ears.
She made the mistake of listening. She made the mistake of turning towards the soft breath and following it, sensing its growing presence to the wall on her far, far right.
Almost as if she was invisible to everypony else—to T.I.T.A.N., to the rulers both current and former, and even to her friends—Twilight broke away and proceeded towards the mysterious crystal embedded in the icy wall. Of all the crystals, of any pillar of ice she could have come across, it was that pair in particular. It was there where she sensed the crystal’s whispers leading her on and enveloping her in that unknown, unnatural embrace.
One of the T.I.T.A.N. scientists nodded to Shining’s statement, clarifying, “Correct. These gems seem to be infused with some kind of… bio-electrical nature. Perhaps Monster Zero is a conduit for this type of energy. Like electric eels in a sense, but still far beyond anything our sciences can conclude. It just doesn’t add up perfectly with anything in nature. But other than that… there is another presence infesting the gems.”
Shining Armor nodded and continued. “There seems to be some kind of… dark force empowering the crystals. It would be the only reason we can’t break them down or study them further. An ancient power, a spell far beyond that of our knowledge on the dark arts. This blend between bio-electric influence and ancient power created… this. This magic we’ve never come across.”
“A magic we have never seen,” Luna declared.
Twilight stared deep into the crystals. The slick, black surface was coated in frost, but even nature’s chilling bite could not contain the darkness. A shroud of purple and green hues flowed deep within them, the dark aether of unholy power flowing in its winds and whispering its haunting, nightmarish tongue to the Alicorn. Upon her presence, they cracked the frozen wall and destroyed it, creating a loud crash like that of a window shattering.
The sound was so sudden and so jarring that it brought the entire crowd to an abrupt silence.
And once they turned to face it, all they could see was Twilight Sparkle backing away rapidly from the pillar of ice and crystal. The fragments fell by her hooves, casting a dust of snow and frost across the area. To Twilight especially, the Alicorn finally coming to her senses and realizing what had happened. She faced the crowd behind her with panicked and regretful eyes.
Stating loudly, “I-I’m so sorry! I didn’t touch it; i-it just cracked and I—!”
Celestia and Luna approached her, the much older and much wiser Alicorns pausing in the midst of the dispersing fog. In the middle of it, Twilight stammered “I-I…”
They cast Twilight a single glance before moving past her, eyes trained on the remains of the ice pillar. Frozen momentarily, Twilight’s brow straightened before she eventually spun around to see what the former princesses had discovered. With snow, frost, and the cloud of fog finally evaporating, there was an entirely new tunnel beyond the wall. A tunnel that led to nothing but blackness.
Twilight © Hasbro
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