To protect this story from being deleted, I change my rating to T rated. But it's still going to be a fun read, trust me.

In the song in this chapter, I had to change some of the lyrics so they'd match the story.

I would like to thank Najee for suggesting I change my rating because he may have saved my story.

Chapter 17: Darkness rises (part 1)

Far away dark mountains

One of the silhouetted alicorns was on his throne looking down at the other three who were kneeling before him. The three alicorns then rose up to hear what the other alicorn had to say.

"Brothers…sister….as we all know, the boy know as Matthew has interfered with our plans too many time. That is why I have come up with a decision. It is a risky one, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm sending one of you to Ponyville tonight to drive that foolish boy out of there so we can take Canterlot." The alicorns dark voice said.

The other three alicorns looked at each other and then back to the alicorn on the throne.

The alicorn the looked down at one of the male alicorns. "Thorn...everypony in Ponyville will be gathering around to watch the comets tonight….you are going to crash that party." The alicorn said darkly.

"Yes Brother, I will prepare myself for it." The alicorn (now known as Thorn) said before turning around and walked towards the entrance to the next room.

The alicorn got off his throne and walked down the small set of stairs and then towards Thorn. "Wait Thorn!...You can't just go there and force him to leave…otherwise he would come back. You must make him leave by his own decision."

Thorn raised an eye brow. "How do I do that?...scare him off?"

The alicorn shook his head. "No, there's an easier way…You see, I know that Matthew carries a great secret and we can use it as a weapon to turn all of Ponyville against him." He said darkly.

"And what is this….secret?" Thorn asked in a curious tone.

The alicorn then grinned evilly.

Meanwhile: Ponyville library

Discord was in the bathroom in front of the mirror with three combs hovering in in the air while they were combing his main, eye brows and beard while he was brushing his teeth. Not to mention the nervous look on his face.

I walked past the bathroom with Jeff on my back and caught sight of Discord in the corner of our eyes. I then walked backwards back to the bathroom entrance and we both watched Discord with confused looks.

I then entered the bathroom and stood behind Discord. "Hey Discord, what'cha doin'?" I asked.

Discord yelled as he spun around fast. "Oh Matt, it's just you….I'm getting ready for tonight." Discord then turned around back to the mirror.

"Why? You got a date?" Jeff asked with a smirk on his face.

"No, Princess Celestia is coming to the comets tonight and I want to make a good impression to show her that I've truly changed." Discord said before he poured mouth-wash in his mouth and swilled it around.

Jeff's smirk grew bigger. "So it is a date."

Discord's eyes shot wide open before he did a spit-take and got mouth wash all over the mirror. He choked for a moment before turning around to face us. "What?...don't be absurd, why would the princess go on a date with me? She hates me."

"She doesn't hate you, she just….don't trust you, but we're gonna change that tonight." I said; trying to build his confidence.

Discord crossed his arms. "And how do you suppose we do that?...say please?"

"Not exactly, we just need to find a way to prove to her that you've changed. The question is how." I said as I tapped my chin with my hoof.

Jeff then crossed his wings while he had a sly look on his face "I think I can help with that." He then flew up to the window and opened it.

"Where you goin'?" I asked as I walked towards him.

Jeff turned his head to face me. "I'm gonna call in an old friend to help Discord, you just go hang out with Twilight and Discord will stay here until I come back."

Me and Discord looked at each other before looking back at Jeff and nodded in agreement. Jeff then flew out the window; I looked out the window to see that he was flying up towards Canterlot.

"Wonder what he's up too." I thought before walking out the bathroom; leaving Discord alone to prepare.

That night: Ponyville streets

Everypony in town was excited for the show and they were galloping to the open field to get a good spot to view the show.

Me, Twilight and Spike with Peewee on his shoulder were calmly walking towards the field. We were excited for the show too, but we just liked walking together.

As we were walking, two female pegasi came up in front of us, one was light blue with a dark blue mane and the other was yellow with a pink mane. They both had an excited look on their faces. I raised an eye brow. "Can we help you?"

The two pegasi let out a small scream. "Oh my gosh, he spoke to us." The blue Pegasus said while she looked at her friend.

"I know, right?" the yellow Pegasus said. I was getting rather confused.

The blue Pegasus looked back at me. "Anyway, we saw you and your band play at the talent show the other day and you were all SO cool. Can we get your autograph?"

The blue Pegasus then reached into her saddle bag and pulled out a sheet of paper and an ink pad and placed them on the ground in front of me.

I raised my hoof and pushed it down on the ink pad before lifting it off and pushed it down on the paper. When I lifted my hoof, there was an ink hoof print on the paper and the two pegasi's smiles grew larger.

The yellow Pegasus then looked towards Spike and Peewee. "Oh look! It's that adorable dragon who was playing the guitar, can we get your autograph too?" she said in an excited voice.

Spike then walked up to the paper and ink pad. He then pushed his hand on the ink pad before lifting it off the ink pad and pushed it down on the paper, when he lifted his hand, there was an ink hand print on the paper.

Peewee then raised his wing. "I was in the band too."

The yellow Pegasus raised her eye brow. "I didn't see you up on stage."

"Oh, I was doing the lights." Peewee said before giving them a sheepish smile.

The two pegasi looked at each other before looking back at Peewee. "Fine." They both said at the same time.

Peewee then flew down from Spike's shoulder and did the same as what we did; only he used his foot so it left an ink bird foot print on the paper.

The blue Pegasus then started looking around us before looking back at me. "Where's Discord?" she asked in a curious voice.

"He'll be coming down soon, he's just getting ready." I said.

The blue Pegasus smile. "Ok, well see ya. We're looking forward to your next show." She and he friend then turned around and started following the other ponies to the field.

We then continued to walk towards the field. As we walked, Twilight was looking at me with a smirk on her face. I saw her in the corner of my eye and I turned my head to face her. "What?" I asked with a smile.

"Looks like somepony's starting to become famous." Twilight said.

I gave her a concerned look. "Does it bother you? Because if it does, I can try and get them to stop."

Twilight shook her head. "You don't have to do that, I think it's pretty exciting that you're a singer now."

My ears lowered as I frowned. "Oh….so…you like me more because I'm a singer?"

Twilight looked at me in shock. "Matt, why would you think such a thing? I like you for you….not because you're a singer. I liked you before you were a singer and even if you weren't I'd still like you. I want you to promise me that you'll never think something like that again."

I gave her a small smile. "I promise, can you forgive me?"

She gave me a warm smile. "I already have….ya big green handsome lump." She said playfully.

I gave her a warm smile before I turned my attention back on the track to the field.

Once we reached to field, we found an open spot and we sat down in it by each other's side. Spike and Peewee saw us together and decided to give us some privacy before walking off to find somewhere else to sit.

I felt a lump in my throat as I thought about how good Twilight's been to me and how I felt about her. I turned my head slowly to see Twilight was looking up at the sky; waiting for the comets to come.

"Errr….Twi." I said quietly. She turned her head to face me and her sparkling eyes met mine. "Yeah Matt."

I then took her right hoof in my hoof and we looked deep into each other's eyes. "Twi….you know that I like you a lot and well…..I need to tell you something…..something important."

"Yes?" Twilight said as a smile grew on her face.

I gulped hard. "Well Twi…..I…errr….I.." She was waiting for me to say it before something caught her eye.

"Matt, look!" she said as she pointed her hoof; telling me to turn around. I turned around to see that Celestia had arrived.

"Come on! Let's go see her." Twilight said before she took her hoof away from mine and walked past me.

When she was far enough away, I stomped my hoof on the ground. "Idiot, you left it too late. Why can you not just spit it out?" I whispered to myself.

Twilight looked back at me. "Are you coming?" she asked.

I nodded and got up to follow her to see Celestia. Once we were close enough, Celestia noticed us and smiled. "Twilight, Matthew, I figured you two would be here."

"You figured correctly, your highness." I said with a smirk.

Celestia giggled at my response. "Well I can certainly tell that you're in a good mood tonight, which is good because I want to introduce you to somepony."

I tilted my head. "Really?...Who?"

"Matthew, may I present my sister…Princess Luna." Celestia said before she stepped to aside to reveal Luna (Who had the same appearance as she did in Luna Eclipsed).

Twilight smiled in surprisement. "Princess Luna, I haven't seen you since Nightmare Night."

Luna walked up to us. "Yes, I would have come back sooner but I've had to remain in solitude for some time now."

Twilight had a confused look on her face. "Why? What's happened?"

"There has been a threat made against me, I fear that somepony out there is trying to steal my magic to control the night for themselves. With my sister here, this is the only time I have to come out before going back into hiding." Luna explained.

"Why not just fight whoever it is off?" Twilight asked.

"I may be a princess but I'm not as strong as my sister. Plus, I've already tried brutal force, I once got a message from this mysterious pony and I sent three of my best guards after him." Luna said.

Twilight moved closer to her. "And then what? Did they return?"

"In a way, yes….but they didn't return to my castle; I was told they had been sent to the hospital so I rushed over there to see what condition they were in, they were gravely injured. Two of them died and the other is too shook up to tell me what happened. Every time I ask him, he freaks out and starts babbling about some sort of monster." Luna explained with her ears hanging low.

I was shock by this news. "Whow, whatever attacked them must have been one bad ass."

Luna looked at me and raised an eye brow. Twilight then came up beside me. "Oh yeah. Luna, this is Matthew. He's my coltfriend."

Luna then came up to me as well. "So this is the Matthew my sister has been telling me so much about in her letters. You have certainly gained a great reputation while you've been living in Ponyville…..despite your weird name."

"Again with the name." I thought while I just nodded my head with a smile.

"So….if you're Twilight Sparkle's coltfriend, then I have just one thing to asked." Luna said as she moved her face up to mine.

"Yeah." I said nervously.

Luna then had a small smile on her face. "Do you have a brother?"

Once I realized where she was going with this, I chuckled. "No sorry, just a sister and she's very VERY far away."

Luna frowned slightly. "Dang."

"So Princess, have you come to watch the comets with us?" Twilight asked.

Luna turned her head to face her. "Yes, but I'm also here to see if these rumours about Discord claiming to have turned over a new leaf were true."

"Where is he anyway?" Celestia asked with a curious voice.

I looked around for him but couldn't see him. "He said he'd be here. He's been stressin' out about coming here though."

Celestia raised an eye brow. "Stressing about what?"

I rubbed the back of my neck with my hoof. "Well….he's been really nervous about seeing you again because he wants to prove to you that he's changed."

"I didn't think he would get that nervous about it." Celestia said in a calming voice.

"Yeah, but he can't prove he's changed if he doesn't show up." Luna said.

"Ok, if he doesn't show up in the next few minutes I'm gonna go look for-" I was cut off from my sentence by the sound of some sort of music.

We all looked in the direction it was coming from and saw a crowd of ponies before we walked towards them. Once we got to them, we made our way to the front of the crowd and were surprised to see Sapphire Shores with Jeff on her back and some female pop ponies behind her.

"Good evening my little ponies, and welcome to the midnight comet show. Now I'd like to present…the new friend to all ponies, DISCORD." Sapphire called out to everypony

"HIT IT!" Jeff yelled before the music changed to a different track.

As the music was playing, Discord appeared in the streets in a flash of light. He breathed in the fresh air and exhaled before walking towards us. Sapphire and her female backup singers then started singing.

Sapphire Shores: "See him walkin' down the street (ho) with a merry gleam in his eyes (ho)

He's loved by everypony in this town (he's loved by this town)

Look at him now; you'd never know he was once the kind of guy (ho)

Who tried to bring an empire down (an empire down)

He lost his groove, he lost his way

When he fell in with an alicorn (yeah)

Who wanted to take over the world (take over the world)

But then he did a full 1-80

Said vamoose to the shady pony

Now he'll teach your kids to talk like a squirrel."

Discord: "Squeakity, squeaken."

Cutie mark crusaders: "Squeak, squeak, squeaken."

Sapphire Shores: "And though he spread such joy (such joy)

Everywhere he goes

Looks like this town's fly guy

Will be the last to know."

A group of ponies then joined Discord and Sapphire and started dancing in the same rhythm as they were. Celestia was tapping her hoof along with the music.

Sapphire and backup singers: "There is nothing to prove

Don't have to approve

The way that you move

Don't have to be smart, or be rich, or be smooth (don't have to be)

Don't have to make art

That could hang in the louvre

If you just go with your heart

Then you'll be true to your groove (true to your groove, true to your groove)

Oh, you should be true to your groove (true to your groove, true to your groove)

Oh, you should be true to your groove (true to your groove, true to your groove)

Yeah, you should be true to your."

Sapphire shores: "Oh, you should be true to your groove."

The crowd cheered as they gathered around Discord and started cheering his name.

Celestia then walked up the crowd; which then separated to allow Celestia to reach Discord. Once Celestia was in front of Discord, she gave him a small smile. "Well Discord, I see you have made a lot of progress since I last saw you. Next thing you know, ponies will be asking you for your autograph."

At the moment, the two female pegasi walked up to Discord. "Discord, can we get your autograph?" the blue Pegasus asked in an excited tone before she pulled out the sheet of paper with our prints on it.

Discord smiled, snapped his fingers and with a small flash of light a quill appeared in his talon hand. He the leaned over and wrote a fancy written D on the sheet.

"Thanks." The yellow Pegasus said as her friend put the paper back in her saddle bag and they both walked away; finally satisfied.

Celestia looked back at Discord to see the smirk on his face. "Well that was ironic. Anyway Discord, after seeing all this excitement over you I finally see that you have changed and I've also received word that you haven't caused any type of chaos since you started living with Twilight and Matthew; which has resulted to many ponies being able to trust you…and if they trust you,… then so can I."

Discord then had a large smile on his face. "Thank you Cele….I mean, Princess." He said as he bowed slightly.

Celestia then tapped her chin with her hoof. "Discord….would you mind joining me to watch the comet show?"

Discord's smile grew bigger. "I'd be delighted, Princess."

"Please…call me Celestia." She said as they both walked to the field to find a nice spot to watch the show.

Meanwhile, Jeff came up to Me and Twilight. "So…what'd ya think?" he said with a smirk on his face.

"How did you get Sapphire Shores to perform for Discord?" I asked curiously.

"Me and Sapphire go way back, she owed me one after I saved one of her shows by singing for her when she had a saw throat." Jeff explained. "Now, where are we sittin'?"

"Well actually Jeff, I was hoping you would sit with Spike and Peewee while Me and Twilight have some privacy."

"Oh….ok…well, I'll see you two later." Jeff said as he took off into the air and flew towards Spike and Peewee's spot.

Me and Twilight then headed back to our spot.

14 minutes later, everypony in Ponyville was sitting on their own blankets in the field waiting for the comets to come. Me and Twilight were sitting on our blanket looking up at the sky.

I took the spare time I had before the show to look around the field. On my right, I saw the rest of the main 6 sharing a single blanket and Spike, Jeff and Peewee on a blanket next to them. I then turned to my left to see Celestia sitting between Discord and Luna.

Suddenly, a light in the sky caught my eye and I looked up to see the comets were starting to shoot through the night sky.

As more comets were shooting by, Twilight rested her head on my shoulder while still looking up at the show. "So, what was it you wanted to say before Matt?" she asked quietly.

I then remembered what I was going to tell her before and bit my bottom lip. "Twi…I want you to look me in the eyes when I say this!"

Twilight then lifted her head off my shoulder and we looked into each other's eyes. "Twi….I want to tell you that I….I….I lo-" I couldn't finish my sentence as a large bolt of black fire suddenly burst from the ground a few feet in front of us.

Everypony got up in fright from the bolt of fire. The heat from it was so intense that it caused us to take a few steps back, Twilight covered her face with her right hoof and I was covering my face with my wing.

When I felt the heat die down, I lifted my wing off my eyes and was shocked at what I saw. It was an alicorn but this time I could see him clearly.

He was a large black alicorn (slightly taller than Celestia) with glowing red eyes, large black feathered wings and a long sharp horn. He had a sliver metal armoured vest covering the front half of his body and his front legs had silver metal greaves with spikes on them. His mane and tail were formed completely out of black flames mixed with small white flames and his cutie mark was a white ball of fire with a black crown in the middle.

We all had terrified looks on our faces as we backed away from the black alicorn.

The alicorn then chuckled darkly. "Well, isn't this a lovely sight? The beautiful comets….the cool night breeze….everypony all wrapped up in the warmth of their loved ones…..it all makes me want to incinerate every last one of you and reduce this entire town to rubble. Lucky for you all, you have been proven to be useful in my plan to bring about the new age….with a new ruler."

Celestia stepped forward. "You'll have to deal with me first." She said with a glare in her eyes.

The alicorn turned his head in her direction. "Oh….Princess Celestia!...it is an honour to finally meet you. Allow me to introduce myself! I am Thorn, the alicorn of darkness and I regret to say that your rule has come to an end." Thorn said as he smiled evilly.

"My sister's rule will never come to an end." Luna protested in anger.

Thorn raised an eye brow. "Ah, Princess Luna….or is it Nightmare Moon? I forget, Hahahaha."

Luna growled at what he had said.

Thorn then started to walk towards the two Princesses. "To be truthful Luna, I do admire you the most….especially due to your power over the night and the moon itself."

Luna's eyes widened in shock. "It was you….you're the one who's been trying to steal my magic….you're the one who killed my guards."

Thorn stopped a few feet away from them "Only the first one was right. I had nothing to do with the death of your guards. But I do know who did it."

"Who did it?" Luna demanded.

Thorn grinned. "That's my little secret."

Celestia stomped a hoof on the ground. "What is it that you want Thorn?" she growled.

"What do I want? Well that's very simple, EQUESTRIA. Now it's your choice….remove yourself from the throne…or I'll remove you myself. " Thorn said with a glare.

Celestia spread her wings out. "I will not let you take Equestria for your selfish dark desires." She said in a confident tone.

Thorn growled in anger. "Fine, have it your way." Suddenly, Thorn quickly pointed his horn in Celestia's direction and shot out a bolt of black lightning towards her.

Celestia found herself caught off guard and couldn't pull out a spell fast enough to stop it, so she shielded her face with her wing and waited for the blow to come. As the bolt was about to hit Celestia, Discord pushed her out the way; causing her to collapse to the ground and the bolt of lightning hit him instead.

Discord yelled in pain as the black electricity flowed through his body. Once it stopped, Discord fell backwards to the ground with a hard thud.

"DISCORD." I yelled out before we all galloped over to him. Celestia picked herself up off the ground and galloped over to Discord. Once she reached him, she lowered herself down to him and put her ear against his chest.

"Princess….is…is he-" I tried to say in a worried tone. Celestia then exhaled in relief. "No…he's still alive, just barely…his heart beat is slow."

I tuned my head to Thorn to see his ginning face and then turned it back to face Celestia. "Princess…you and Luna take Discord back to the castle to try and heal him; we'll take care of this guy." I said with a serious face.

Celestia looked down at the unconscious Discord and nodded in agreement. Her horn then glowed yellow and she, Luna and Discord disappeared in a flash of light.

Me, Twilight, Jeff, Spike, Peewee and the rest of the main 6 then turned our attention to Thorn. "You're gonna pay for doing that you bastard." I growled in anger.

Thorn's grin grew bigger. "Ah, Matthew….we meet again."

I raised an eye brow. "What do you mean? I've never met you before."

Thorn took a few steps closer. "Oh but we have, remember? We first met at the castle."

Suddenly, I knew what he was talking about and my eyes grew. "It was you….you're the alicorn that hypnotized me…you force me to fight my friends…you're the one who overpowered the Elements."

"And the one who started the main hall fire and tried to kill Discord in the process." Thorn added.

I glared at him again. "I was wondering how that fire started. But that's enough talk, let's just get this over so we can see if Discord's ok."

Twilight and the others nodded before they joined at my side.

Thorn the started laughing quietly but his laughter grew louder each second. "Haha, I wouldn't do that if I were you…. I know your secret Matthew…your deepest secret."

I suddenly got nervous. "I…I don't know what you're talking about."

Thorn then walked up to me. "I think you know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't you?"

"Matt, what does he mean?" Applejack asked.

Thorn smirked. "What?...they don't know? Hahaha, go on! Tell them."

I remained silent as I looked up into his blood red eye until I frowned and hung my head. "You didn't do any of those things you said….you're not from Manehatten; you're not even from Equestria, ARE YOU?" Thorn yelled loud enough for everypony to hear.

"No." I said quietly. "What was that? I don't think we heard you." Thorn said.

"No." I said loud enough for everypony to hear and they all gave me confused faces.

"It looks like they want an explanation….so give them one." Thorn demanded. I remained silent.

Thorn glared down at me. "Fine, I'll just have to force it out of you." With that, his horn glowed white and I suddenly heard somepony screaming behind me. I turned around to see Twilight was glowing white while lying on the ground screaming in pain while the others were trying to help her.

My eyes widened in horror before I turned my head back to Thorn. "No…ok, I'll tell them…just, please let her go." I cried.

Thorn's grin returned as his horn stopped glowing and the glow disappeared from Twilight and she stopped screaming but was breathing heavily.

I tried to gallop too her but I felt myself lift off the ground until I was hovering in the air. I looked back at Thorn to see his horn was glowing again. "TELL THEM." Thorn yelled.

As I hovered in the air, I looked around at everypony to see that they were looking at me with suspicious looks on their faces; even Jeff, Spike, Peewee and the rest of the main 6 were giving me suspicious looks while they were helping Twilight.

I finally gave in and hung my head. "I'm not a real pony….I'm not from Equestria…everything I said about my past was a lie…I'm…I'm actually a creature call a human, they're hairless, intelligent creatures that walk on two legs….they're just like you only they do things a lot differently in their lives then you do…I was brought here by some sort of vortex and as I was being suck through it, I was turned into a pony and a few weeks ago the Princess made me a pony permanently….and I lied to you all ever since we met." A tear then ran down my cheek.

"And your girlfriend knew of this?" Thorn asked while looking at Twilight.

"No, she didn't." I said hoping he'd believe me.

"YOU'RE LYING AGAIN, tell the truth!" Thorn yelled

I turned my head to face him. "I am, she doesn't know anything." Thorn then pulled me closer to him and smacked me across the face with is hoof.

"THE TRUTH." Thorn demanded. I shook my head and he pulled his hoof back again.

Twilight quickly stepped forward. "Yes, I did know. Please don't hurt him." She begged.

My eyes widened. "TWILIGHT NO. I don't want you to lose your friends too"

Thorn then looked back up to me. "You lied to your friends and then made your girlfriend lie to them. You're nothing but a fake and a coward."

I let my head hang lower. "Now listen you little runt! You have no friends anymore….nopony here wants you around now that they know what you really are. So you might as well just leave and if I see you in this town again you'll see how cruel I can really be." Thorn yelled before he slammed me on the ground.

I picked myself up off the ground and looked around at all the shocked and devastated faces around me. With my head hanging, I walked towards Twilight and the others.

Once I reached them, I looked up to see their devastated faces with tears in their eyes. I then looked at Twilight who had tears pouring down her face. "Twilight….I….I'm so sorry." I then turned my head to the rest of them. "I'm sorry to all of you."

I then walked passed them and started walking down the road to leave Ponyville with tears pouring down my cheeks.

Twilight and the others watched me go until I was out of sight. "We can't just let him go like this, not after everything we've been through and all he's done for us." Twilight said.

Applejack turned her head to her. "I know." She said quietly.

"Then by all means, let's go after him." Rarity said. Jeff, Spike, Peewee and the rest of the main 6 nodded in agreement.

"I'm afraid I cannot allow that." Thorn's voice said from behind them. They turned around to see Thorn hovering in the air.

"If you go…you'll miss the MAIN EVENT." Thorn yelled before his eyes glowed brighter.

Twilight looked around to see that everypony's eyes were turning as red as his. "Quick, cover your eyes." She said as she covered her eyes with her hoof. The rest of the main 6, Spike, Jeff and Peewee then did the same.

After a few minutes, Twilight and the others removed their hooves, hands and wing from their eyes to see the horror before them.

Everypony in Ponyville was under Thorn's mind control spell with the eyes blood red. "Hahahaha, glorious isn't it? And pretty soon…Celestia will fall by the hooves of her own subjects and Equestria will be MINE. HAHAHAHAHA." As Thorn laughed evilly, the mind controlled ponies join in with the evil laugh.

Twilight and the others had the same horrified expression on their faces.

To be continued

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