(End Flashback)

Twilight felt the memory fade back into the depths of her mind, but she wished she could see it again. She did not have to though, she remembered what had happened after that. The next morning she had felt happier than ever. She had gone to the Princess’s study and waited for Daybreak to come in, but only the Princess ever entered. When Twilight inquired as to where Daybreak was, she had noticed the Princess’s eyes were wet, like she had been crying. The Princess, knowing full well Twilight had followed Daybreak home, told her only part of the truth. The Princess told her Daybreak would not be returning, because there had been a terrible magical accident that morning as Daybreak tried to perform an errand for her. She told her that Daybreak could not return because of the accident and that he had been sent away far away where the accident wouldn’t affect him and that he would be happier there.

Twilight remembered how she had cried, cried for hours, the Princess even had discarded all her duties for that day and sat with Twilight, allowing her to cry and attempting to soothe her. Twilight had shown up for the next two days and did nothing but sit in Daybreak’s corner of books. Then after that, she had broken, she swore to dive into her studies and never make another friend after that. She had even tried to forget him using magic, and that had resulted in her losing control of her magic several times throughout her studies. Twilight from time to time told the Princess of how much she had grown to love him in one day. Then one day, she finally had succeeded in forgetting, she came to the Princess’s study and had done only that, studied. She did only that until the events of Nightmare Moon fell through and by then she had forgotten him. By then she had played with her big brother happily, played with her foal sitter Cadence happily and then she made friends in Ponyville. But secretly, there would forever be a deep seeded longing that had turned into anger, inside of her. Anger that the first pony she really cared about, was gone from her, and she never even knew how!

Twilight opened her eyes and felt her head, she had hit it quite hard during the memory spell, she looked over and found a smile on her face. She had succeeded, Don lay only a few feet from her, his color completely restored, but there was one minor difference. The hair on top of his head, and on his tail, had become green with a white streak through it. Twilight’s eyes automatically found Don’s flank and she gasped in shock. There on his hip, was a cutie mark, and not just a cutie mark, a cutie mark she knew. A cutie mark she had thought about endlessly for two days after he had disappeared.

Twilight felt faint, she couldn’t take this, there was no way, no way in all of Equestria that Don could possibly be…Daybreak…could he?

Twilight walked over and nudged Don with her horn, as his eyes flickered, he rolled over and looked up at her. The instant their eyes met, Twilight’s head burst into pain and an image of Daybreak flashed in her mind. She unclenched one of her eyes and saw Don was feeling the same effect. As the vision faded Twilight chanced a glance at Don and saw he wore the same expression…Fear. Twilight knew he had seen the memory too, and his own current appearance, and felt scared. He struggled to find words to fit their situation

“Twilight…..I-I don’t know who I am anymore…please…help me...”

Before Twilight could respond, she was interrupted by the arrival of their friends. Rainbow Dash came around the corner followed by the rest of their friends, and immediately piled on top of Don. They jumped all over him, each one doing their very best to hug the life out of him. Twilight realized something, watching her friends hug. Don, Daybreak, it didn’t matter, the one she loved was in front of her with her friends, happily. She knew then, that they could overcome anything, including Discord. Twilight called her friends off Don, reminding them that it was too early for a group hug because Discord was still loose. As they stood back up Don smiled at her, she could tell he was still troubled, but he was willing to wait until later to deal with it.

Twilight and her friends raced back through the maze and up through the tower, until they once again stood before Discord, who, other than twirling Twilight’s crown on his finger, seemed content to just sit and stare at them. Twilight stepped forward to challenge him

“Give me back my element Discord!”

Discord refused, inquiring as to why he would do such a thing and allow them to reseal him. Rainbow Dash growled at him and Twilight lit her horn dangerously, but only Don stood there and did nothing, having already found the solution in his mind. As Twilight and her friends schemed on a way to retrieve Twilight’s crown from Discord, Don walked forward, passing them and coming between them and Discord. Twilight looked up from their group and saw him

“Don, what are you do…” before she could finish Don’s hands lit and a barrier sprang up around her and her friends.

Twilight jumped in surprise “Hey Don, what are you doing? Let us out!”

Don shook his head and motioned at Discord “sorry Twilight, I can’t let you interfere here”.

Discord let out a long laugh “You think you can defeat me by yourself, you’re weaker than you were before, and you lost then too!”

Twilight and her friends pounded and blasted against Don’s force field, Twilight yelled to him while they struggled “why Don?! Why?! Don't be stupid! We can beat him together, if we all just work together, we can seal him again”.

Don shook his head again “We can’t get your crown back from him, and I’m not letting any of you get hurt, my way is the only way to protect all of you”.

Discord pretended to gag himself “Oh please, you honestly think you have a chance of besting me, how, pray tell, do you plan to do that”.

Twilight saw a slight smirk cross Don’s face, then he vanished and appeared in front of Discord, wrapping his arms around him, pinning his claws to his sides and surrounding them in a huge magical field. He strained his face as he levitated them both into the air, pouring his strength into holding Discord

“like this Discord, I’m gonna pour all of my magic and power out of me and stream it around you, sealing you permanently”.

Applejack scratched her head, “he’s gonna what? I’m mighty confused ya’ll”

But Twilight wasn’t she knew exactly what he was gonna do

“He’s gonna blow himself up…by releasing all his magic at once, and with it trapped it that bubble he made, it’ll be forced to cling to Discord, sealing him again”

Her friends faces all mirrored hers, they were appalled. Rainbow Dash was panic striken “but…why, why would he do that”

Twilight dropped her head “I don’t know”.

Don felt Discord struggling against his grasp, but he held him firm, powering himself up for his last bit of magic. He looked down and saw Twilight and his friends beating against his shield with all their might, but most importantly, he saw Twilight’s face, he couldn’t bear to look at it. He saw how upsetting this was to her, and she did not understand why he would do this, but he did. His element had never been love, there were only six Elements of Harmony, that was fact, no he was something different. He had seen it and felt it emanating from each of his friends as he befriended them and grew to care for them, he felt it when his magic became unstable. He wasn’t an element, but he knew what he was now.

Don shut his eyes and felt the last bits of life force being pushed into raw power! His eyes began to shut and his fur began to lose its color as it was all poured into his magic. Discord struggled in Don's burning grasp and fieed off a shot of magic into him, but it had no apparent effect.

Once Don had pulled every ounce of magic he could into the sphere, he then pulled the all the power into him, and in one giant wave, released all of it!

Twilight watched as Don’s barrier around them faded, and a giant rainbow wave of magic hit rocketed outwards in a dazziling display of magical strength. at the last moment before the blast struck her too, she swore she heard her name being called somewhere far off.

Twilight was knocked over by the force of the blast, it shattered the castle they were on, but somehow they ended up on the ground unharmed. It seemed to spread all over Canterlot, eliminating Discord’s maze along with all of his orange creatures.Twilight watched until the end, when Discord fell from the blast, encased in a new statue. At first it seemed like he would shatter on the ground, but instead just landed without a bounce in the ground and remained intact.

Rarity was the first to speak, but her words echoed pointlessness

“Where’s Don?”.

She knew what had happened, they all did, in fact, they didn’t even feel like they had won. Even Pinkie Pie wore a frown, unable to find the smallest bit of joy in their sad situation. Twilight however, was far worse off, she stumbled, unable to keep her balance, it felt like the whole world was spinning. She saw stars in her eyes, before any of her friends could catch her, she collapsed.

Author's Notes:

Who likes cliffhangers?
I know i don't!
so i won't torture you with it for that long, now don't go making any assumptions about the upcoming plot cause you shall likely be wrong my readers.
But this is not the end...