Disclaimer- I own none these properties involved in this crossover

My Little Pony is owned by Hasbro

The Legend of Zelda is owned by Nintendo

Constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged

---

The Crystal Empire, Ten Years Ago...

---

"You have to be the one to bring the Crystal Heart to the Faire" Twilight said to her dragon assistant through the dark crystal cage that she was trapped in.

"Me?" Spike said in shock at the unicorns request, he then took a look at the several black crystals that where approaching him. "But Twilight-" the dragon began to protest before Twilight cut him off.

"Go."

"-But-"

"GOOOOOOOOO!" Twilight finally shouted earning a look of panic from Spike, the dragon then scooped up the Crystal Heart in his sweaty palms and then jumped straight out of the window. As Spike went to deliver the heart, Twilight was still trying to escape the dark crystal prison but all her attempts where in vain as the prision kept resisting all of the spells that she cast at it.

A few hours later, Twilight was overtaken by darkness and the menacing figure of King Sombra was seen towering over her with a dark grin on his face. "So, you're the unicorn who has tried to halt the retaking of my kingdom" the unicorn king said in a dark, menacing voice causing Twilights pupils to shrink.

"Wh-what do you mean by tried?" Twilight said with fear in his voice, as if to answer Sombra's horn lit up to lower the cage that had her trapped. When it was lowered Twilight was surrounded by her friends, her brother and her sister in-law, all of which had glowing green eyes "n-no" Twilight silently muttered as she heard King Sombra laughing evilly.

"As you can see, your friends and family are firmly under my control" Sombra said as he brought a hoof underneath Twilights chin to make eye contact with her "my faithful student" the king finished with a mocking voice.

"What are you talking about?" Twilight said as she glared at the dark unicorn.

"You have potential Twilight Sparkle, but you should know that Celestia is holding you back" the king of the Crystal Empire said in a more persuasive tone of voice. "I saw how easy it was for you to use dark magic while you where searching for the Crystal Heart, but you still lack the necercary power to control it, with my help I can teach you things even Celestia couldn't" Sombra offered as he extended a hoof to the beaten unicorn.

In response Twilight just slapped Sombras hoof away and shot him an anger filled glare "take your offer and shove it Sombra, I'll never join you!" Twilight shouted earning a sinister laugh from the Crystal King.

"If thats the way you want it, then so be it" Sombra said in a dark voice as he turned his attention to Twilights friends and family. "Take her to the dungeon, I don't want her to interrupt my conquest of Equestria" the dark unicorn ordered as they advanced on the lavender pony.

"Yes master" Twilights friends all droned as they began to advance on Twilight, who attempted to fight off the advancing ponies, but the various attempts to escape the cage from earlier had left her exhausted. The brainwashed ponies dragged Twilight all the way down to the dungeon and threw her into a cell, as Sombra just grinned menacingly before leaving to plot his takeover of Equestria.

Twilight just sat in the centre of the cell with a blank expression on her face and tears beginning to form in her eyes. "Please just let this be a horrible nightmare" the lavender unicorn said while she cried herself to sleep.

---

Ironman64 presents:

The Legend of Zelda: Equestrian Shadows

---

Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Hyrule...

---

Link and Epona emerged from the Lost Woods, it had been at least a week since the near apocalyptic events in Termina and the Hero of Time felt unfulfilled. While he was happy that he was able to help out the citizens of Clock Town, he only wished that he could've found his fairy partner Navi on his journey through the woods.

"I hope she's okay, I'm worried that something might've happened to her" Link said in a concerned tone of voice as he looked down at his horse, who was looking at her friend with worried look on her face. "Don't worry about me girl, lets just get you back to Lon Lon Ranch before Malon kills me" Link said giving the horse a small smile as they began their long journey across Hyrule Field.

However before they reached the ranch the young hylian noticed something coming from a nearby cave, a faint blue glow. "What in the name of Nayru?" Link said as he dismounted Epona and started to walk slowly over to the cave, unknown to him his horse began following behind him very slowly as if something was calling her to the cave.

"N-Navi, are you in here?" called the Hero of Time as he recalled the glow reminded him of lost friend, but to his disappointment when headed deeper into the cave Navi was nowhere to be seen. However, what he found was some strange hieroglyphics bathed in a blue light, said hieroglyphics included a star, three apples, three butterflies, three balloons, three diamonds and a cloud with a lightning bolt.

But that wasn't the strange part about all this, the strange part was that getting closer to the wall with the images on it caused the symbol of the Triforce of Courage that was on his hand to glow brightly. "What in Din's name is this place?" Link questioned to himself only to be snapped out of his thoughts when he noticed a covered up Triforce insignia on the ground in front of him, remembering what Impa taught him during his first quest Link pulled out his ocarina and began playing Zelda's Lullaby.

After the Hero of Time finished the song he waited to see what the effect would be, to his surprise the pictures on the wall started to glow various colours and began to form what seemed to bright doorway. Link started to back away from it but the young hylian felt some kind of suction pulling him towards it, he tried to run but within mere seconds Link was swept off his feet and pulled through the bright doorway.

Epona, who was watching the whole thing occur from far away just ran at the bright doorway and jumped right through it before it sealed up, leaving Link and Epona to their fate.

---

"Ugh, my head" Link groaned as he started to regain consciousness, as he awoke the Hylian Hero found himself in the middle of a forest, which he assumed was Kokiri Forest at the time. As he picked himself up, he decided to check his item pouch to see whether he'd lost anything, to his relief almost everything was still there, his bow and arrows, hookshot, boomerang, his various masks and all his bottles, which had all of their contents intact.

However the Hero of Time was missing something extremely important "where's my ocarina?" he asked himself as he searched all around the area that he had landed in, unfortunately his efforts where all in vain. "Not again" Link said in a pathetic voice as he wondered where the blue instrument was.

However he didn't get long to think about it as a loud scream brought him out of his stunned state "HELP! somebody please, HELP ME!" cried a young female voice which sounded close to his location. As if it was by instinct, Link followed the sound of the voice to an open clearing where he saw someone, he couldn't make out who it was but he could see that it was being chased by three wolves that looked to be made of twigs, logs and leaves.

Without a moment to spare, Link drew his gilled sword, lept over the wolves and got into his fighting stance "back off!" the Hero of Time said in a demanding tone as he pointed his sword in their direction. The wolves didn't seem to be fazed by Links actions as one of them tried lunging at him, unfortunately for them Link was able to dodge the attempted attack and delivered some swift slashes to the attacking creature, causing it to turn to ash mere seconds afterwards.

The other wolves saw to angry look in Links eyes as he repeated his earlier words "I'm giving you on last chance, back off!" the young hylian said causing the wolves the yelp in fear and run off. He then sheathed his sword and started to turn around and ask if the woman he saved was okay "are you alright mi-" Link began only to be tackled to the ground by a brown blur.

"Link! oh sweet merciful Farore, your okay" said a relieved voice that was unfamilliar to the hylian, when Link finally faced what had him pinned down he saw that it was a brown horse with a white mane and a symbol of the Triforce of its flank. But the most shocking aspect of all this was that it just spoke to him and coincidentally it just happened to resembled...

"E-Epona!?" Link exclaimed in shock as the talking horse finally got off him "wh-what happened to you? and how are you able to talk?" the Hero of Time asked still in complete disbelief.

Epona just shrugged at the questions "I honestly don't know, one minute I saw you get pulled into some bright portal thing, but the very next one I'm on my back in this forest and suddenly able to talk, trust me buddy this was a shock to me as well" she said before a look of shock came across her face. "Oh thats right, I found this before I was chased by those wolves" Epona said as she gave Link a familiar blue object.

"My ocarina" Link said as he reached out for the royal families instrument and took it from the brown mare. "Thanks girl, I think Zelda would probthrow me in the castle dungeon if I lost this" Link joked as he sliped the ocarina back into his item pouch, while Epona just gave him a confused look.

"Wow, you sure are taking this 'I can suddenly talk' thing pretty well" the ranch mare said surprised that her friend just accepted this transformation quite quickly.

"Considering on my last quest I was turned into a Deku, a Gorron and a Zora I think that this is pretty minor in comparison" the Hero of Time replied with a small smile before his face became more serious. "But aside from that, I don't think that we're in Hyrule any more" Link said as he scanned the surroundings of the forest.

"What gave it away, the fact that I can suddenly speak now? or was it the wooden wolves that tried to eat me?" Epona said with a deadpaned look on her face before she noticed an nearby exit with a small town in the same direction. "Maybe someone from over there knows where we are?" the ranch mare said pointing her hoof in the direction of the exit.

Link on the other hand was a bit more sceptical "I don't know Epona, something about that place rubs me the wrong way" the cautious former Kokiri said while rubbing his chin curiously.

"I don't like it either Link, but at this moment in time I really don't think we have a choice" said Epona with her voice showing some fear.

"Alright, we'll head over there, but stay close to me in case something happens" Link said earning a nod from his equine friend as the two made their way to the small village outside of the forest.

---

This is my first attempt at a MLP/LoZ crossover so the constructive critisicim would help out tremendously. If anyone has any ideas for dungeon puzzles or bosses then post in the comments and i'll see what I can do.