A/N: Ok, back to seriousness now. I am almost done with part one of this two part arc, and I think you all know what part two is by now. Well, what will happen this chapter? Let’s find out!

Shadow Breeze was walking to Twilight’s home. It has been a little over a day now and he has seen no sign of her, so he was going to check the last place he could think of…her library. He walked up to her door and knocked a few times and then waited.

Spike opened the door and looked at him “Hey Shadow, Twilight isn’t here right now. Is there something you need?” the baby dragon said to him.

“No thank you, I just wanted to know if she was here. Thank you though” Shadow Breeze said to Spike before taking off into the air and flying towards the capital city of Canterlot.

He was flying extremely fast for even himself. He was really worried about everything. First Kyle goes missing, then a mysterious stranger shows up and was looking in on them, then RD goes missing, now Twilight; something was wrong. Shadow Breeze rounded a mountain side and saw the city in the far distance. He was nearly there.

As he neared the city it was clear that it wasn’t just his imagination running wild because of worry. As he flew over the city on the way to the castle he looked down and saw ponies, but they looked different, and they weren’t moving. It was like they were stone or something. He dropped down out of the sky and began to walk through the streets. His heart sank when he realized that these were the citizens of Canterlot, and they were all encased in stone.

Shadow Breeze picked up his pace as he made his way through the city streets. Something was really wrong, somepony or something did this to all of them, and it wasn’t Celestia or Luna. He rounded a street corner and the Canterlot royal gardens loomed in front of him. He walked through the archway and began to make his way up to the castle door. He looked around in the gardens for anypony that was maybe around that could tell him what was going on, but he didn’t even see the royal guard anywhere.

He bumped into something as he lost track of thought for a moment and he looked at what he bumped into, and then he wished he hadn’t after he did. In front of him was a statue much like the others, only this one struck a nerve in him that made him sick. Kyle and Rainbow dash were in an embrace and Kyle was holding Rd in his hooves and he was kissing her forehead. He looked around and saw not only that but he saw Celestia, Luna, and Twilight, all in a much similar fate.

Shadow trotted out of that section of the gardens and kept trotting until he made it up the stairs to the castle door. He didn’t knock he just opened the door with a shove. He walked through the hallways and he heard laughter coming from somewhere down a corridor to his right. He turned and began walking, but he was stopped by a plume of grey and sparks. When they dissipated he was standing right in front of a dark grey alicorn with a fiery red mane that had sparks floating off it.

The alicorn chuckled to herself again as she looked at the pegasus “Hello little one, my name is Ezra, and you must be here to ‘save your friends’ am I correct?”

“What did you do to them? Why would you do that to them, they have such a long life to live yet!?” Shadow Breeze said to Ezra with anger flaring for a moment.

“It’s simple, because they were going to ruin my plans to rule this place effectively. And I think you know what I’m going to have to do now right?” Ezra said to him with an evil grin.

Shadow Breeze turned around and trotted down the hall. He wasn’t about to be turned into stone like his friends and the princesses. He was the only one left who could save them, so he was going to try to do so. He rounded a corner and saw mannequins with armor and weapons adorned on them. He found one pony mannequin that had a short sword and he smacked the hilt where it was attached to the side of the armor and it broke off and hit the ground with a thud. He picked it up in his mouth and held his ground.

Ezra walked around the corner and saw him standing there with the sword in his mouth. “Oh how cute, you’re going to defend your honor! Maybe I should just skip turning you to stone and just kill you to restore the honor I take away from you when you lose” Ezra said as she neared him.

“I won’t allow you to keep doing this to everypony. I’ll kill you if I have to, but I don’t want to. Give up and free my friends and the princesses and maybe you will still have a place here in the castle” Shadow Breeze said to the alicorn.

“I can’t do that” Ezra said before she charged up her magic and broke similar weaponry off of the other mannequins around them. she began to throw them at Shadow Breeze with her magic, but shadow was a little too fast for them to make contact. He deflected a sword much like his own with a swift turn of his head and it was sent flying up into the air. It hit the ceiling and drove itself into the stone.

Shadow Breeze lunged forward and flapped his wings and took off in a streamline towards the alicorn. He was really fast, but she maintained control of seeing his movements. He stopped right in front of her and slid under her with his momentum he gained during his rush. He made another swing of his head and the sword connected with Ezra’s fore and rear calf muscles.
He stood up behind her and she turned around, her eyes white and her horn glowing brighter than ever. “You shouldn’t have done that. This little game is over!” Ezra said to him before she shot a fiery red bolt of magic right at him. He dove out of the way, but the shockwave of it sent him flying through the air. He was sent straight into a large mirror, which shattered on contact. He hit the floor and stood up slowly, and he got an idea as he looked at a big piece of mirror.

Ezra was still standing where she was previously and her horn let out another bolt of magic. Shadow Breeze quickly grabbed the large section of mirror in his mouth and waited for the spell to get closer. He had only one shot at this, and it would end badly if he messed up. Right before the spell hit him he twisted his head and the mirror caught the spell and it bounced off of it, right back towards Ezra.

Shadow was staggered after that, but he watched as the bolt hit her. There was an amazing flash of light and when it faded he saw her lying on the ground about 10 feet from where she was previously. She wasn’t moving and he started to move in to see what the damage was. When he made it to her she still lies unmoving. She had cuts and scrapes all over her body and her eyes were closed.

I was sitting with RD and we were still inside the stone room. We were getting really bored and it felt like we had been there forever. I heard a small cracking sound and I looked up and saw that the tiny hole of light was getting bigger. “Dash, look!”

Rainbow Dash looked up with me and we watched as the light shone brighter and brighter where we were, soon it got so bright that we couldn’t see and I could feel myself getting warm again, something I hadn’t felt since we were turned to stone.

When I could see again I was holding Dash in the same position as when we were turned and I let her go. “RD, we’re alright! We’re alive again!” I said to her with a grin. AWWWW YEAH!

“Wait, how? Hold on, let’s go see if this is legit or not” and with that RD began to walk towards the castle doors. We made it up to them and found that they were open. We wandered through the halls and soon we saw Shadow Breeze standing in a room with Ezra, her being lying on the floor unmoving. RD trotted up to him with me right behind her “Shadow, d-did you do this?”

“She was going to kill me, so I used a piece of the mirror I hit to deflect the spell back at her. I-I think she’s dead” he said to her in reply, a little worried as to what would happen now.

Holy mother of god! Shadow’s a badass! Where’s the celebratory wine for a most hearty victory? Shadow, you saved countless ponies today, and I’m sure that everything will be explained soon” I said to him with a reassuring smile.

“How right you are Kyle” a very smooth and regal voice said from behind me. I turned and saw Celestia, Luna, and Twilight all walking towards us, and they stopped next to me. “You see, when corruption takes hold of your mind, you forget what you are truly meant to do in life, such as the case with cousin Ezra, but now that Shadow has defeated her, she will once again be cleansed of her cruel and evil ways, replaced with what she once was meant to do. Shadow had just saved countless ponies, including us, and we should all be grateful to have him on our side” Celestia said to us with a smile.

There was a small crackling sound and we turned and saw Ezra’s body fading away into plumes of dark grey smoke and sparks. We watched as she faded away and the smoke flew out the window. We turned back to Celestia “what happens now?”

“Now my little ponies, we can resume our normal lives. Everything is right in the world again, Ezra is cleansed and is now on her way back to rule over her province, and we can all rest easy” she said to us with a smile.

Ok, well then, time for me to return to my own normality! I turned to Twilight “Twilight, I know that this is a little sudden, but could I ask a favor from you?”

“Sure, what is it?” she replied happily.

“Twilight, it’s been far greater than the time limit to remain a pony for the magic to leave my body. Could you please turn me back into a human?” I said to her with a smile. I swear, if she can’t do this imma blow up!

“I can get this one Twilight. Kyle, this won’t hurt at all” Celestia said to her and then me. She rested her horn on my head and there was a bright flash of light, and me becoming unaware of my surroundings for a split second and then I could see again.

I looked myself over and I was as I was before I got turned into a pony. I had one other thing I wanted to test. I looked over to a chair that was in the room and I concentrated on it. Sure enough the chair lifted off the ground with ease. I set it back down and smiled. AWWWW YEAY, now everything is back to the way it should be! Time to get ready to ask Celestia for a little favor now!!!

A/N: This was a pretty informative chapter for you all, but it tied up all of the loose ends and returned everything to normality. Now what will become of part two? Well, let’s find out in the next update!

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