This weapon had appeared out of nowhere, after Hase... well, let out his anger and made Dark Oreol, the leader of the soldiers, slowly and painfully sink into the Void. Vortex told them, that it's name was the Whip of Rage. it surely sounded sinister, and it looked sinister too. The fact, that it was connected to Hase, was the only thing, that stopped the Avengers and the Elemental Lords from trying to destroy it. They blamed it for Hase' behaviour.  But Vortex replied, that his behaviour summonned it, it wasn't caused by it, and the whip was indestructible for some reason. He said, that he will explain later, when they set up a camp.

Meanwhile Hase was studying the whip. No matter, that it's appearance " wasn't good " according to Vortex, the yet unexperiened pegasus still trained on the way to the camp. While the magic drained his strength, and you had to be very careful when using the Void, using this whip was easy. he just controlled it with his mind. Each time when it slashed and touched something, that thing dissapeared in black mist. That was a powerful weapon and Hase thought, that it may become his personal weapon, like Thor's Mjolnir and Loky's scepter. But Vortex said, that it was " way more mysterious" than them. So finally they reached a place, which was perfect for a camp.

There was a hotel in the nearby passage, but it was going to be strange for such a colourful group to enter the hotel and the owner would probably call the soldiers. Loky suggested to set up " Lucky's circus for freaks and incredible ponies " to excuse the behaviour of some of the gods and the Avengers. They didn't want to participate in a circus ( but still the Pre-  Equestrian and the Equestrian Loky worked together and made a slogan :  " Circus Lucky is here with all of your  favourites, like Mr. Muscle and the Queen of Knives, but that isn't all! Meet Electro, the thunder bender, Tin Stalion, the half - pony with the sence of humor,  The Chill - Hot brothers and Whiplash! " ) .

After they set up the camp, all got around the fire and looked at Vortex. Hase was even staring, his future depended on that story.

" Equestria is one of the few dimensions, that have existed twice. " the Dark Emperor began

" Me and my brother lived in those days. It's us who re- created it after our dimension was destroyed. This story is mainly about the pony, that began as a normal unicorn, slowly rose up and brought Equestria to it's doom. Nopony knows how he was named before he turned evil. Well, except me and Primal Shine. So let's start from the beggining.

Azure Spark was a normal unicorn. He was even afraid from magic, so he instead learned the art of the blacksmiths. he was good and soon was as good as his master. Back in those days, Equestria was a completely different land. if you ever end up there, which is now impossible, you won't find anything in common with the existing Equestria, because we re- created it without so many complicate things, as the Oracles, for an example. If there weren't oracles, this story would of never happened.

But in our village, and in every other one, there was a tradition:  when the foals become teens, when they become older, each pony should go to the Oracle and ask for its fate. And so did Azure Spark. When he saw him, the Oracle nearly fell off his throne. I have forgotten his rhymes, but the Prophecy said, that he shall be the greatest sorcerer of them all, greater even than the king, but he shall fall from his own sword. he, of course, got scared and melted all of his swords.

Except one. One of them his master kept as a memory from his best student. But the colt didn't know that. Now he wasn't afraid of magic and went to the local sorcerer, who was my brother, accidentally, " Vortex smiled " , and he learned magic. He studied for years, and years, untill when he was 20 he left to the palace in ... "

" Canterlot ? " Rarity interrupted him

" No, the capital city's name was Banastor. There he continued to study at the Royal Magic Academy. And... the Prophecy became true:  in a magical duel between the king and Azure, who had became his personal advisor, Azure won. Nopony else had defeated the ruler before. The king was also surprised. So when he passed away, 2 years ago, he left the kingdom to him. But one day the royal duties proved too challenging for him and he went out for a walk in the forest, where he was suddenly attacked by a dragon. He repelled it with his magic, but on the next day Azure made an audition and told the ponies of Equestria to kill all of the dragons.

The unicorn was impulsive and volatile. The ponies refused and some of them even tried to attack the king and get him off the throne. That was it. He hired mercenaries and sent them to kill all the dragons and their supporters. When the ponies knew, that he slayed his folk, the ponies stood up against him, led by the son of the king, the rightful heir of the throne. All races :  unicorns, pegasi, earth ponies, dragons, gryphons and crystal ponies united against him. Even the changelings came from an another dimension and took the side of the rebellion. The only race, that was on the side of the king, were the minothaurs, because Azure had promised them land. The unicorn knew, that even his guards were on the side of the rebells and feared for his life every night. So he did the only thing he could do:  he became a Chaotic.

Because he was a powerful wizard, he was also a powerful Chaotic. The rebells had surrounded the castle. He killed the guards. And than in a single battle, reinforced by Voidians and minothaurs, he killed, no, he destroyed all of the rebells. that's the scene on the handle of the whip. Because he was the first Chaotic in this dimension, nopony had an idea how to stop him.

The army of the Void was infinite. The rebellion had no chance. They say, that in this battle Azure himself had slain thousands of ponies with his new powers. And than something unseen happened. After he defeated them all, Azure changed. No bath could wash away the stains of blood, which covered almost his whole skin. And his cutie mark... changed. Now it was a pony skull with a rusty sword and a broken spear crossed behind it. Nopony called him Azure Spark anymore. Now he was the Destroyer.

But you can never break the rebellion spirit, and he knew that well. So he did something even more horrible in the days after that . He forged... the Weapons of Devastation. Each weapon or piece of equpment was bont to a deep feeling, granting tremendous power, and thus the Destroyer was able to controll everypony and everything with these deadly weapons, bont to his mind.

First there was... the Whip of Rage. The Destroyer removed all of the memories of the screams of his victims during the battle, with the help of the power of the Void, turned them to real. The screams echoed through his forge room, which was inside the highest tower and in it's bottom there was an opening to the Void. Again, using the Void's materia, he closed those screams and a huge amount of dark energy, in a normal whip. It became dark, it linked to his mind and weak shines of light, the screams, caught inside, ran across it's surface. There are rumours, that inside the whip the souls of the earth ponies, who the Destroyer killed, are closed forever. And sadly, those rumours are true. If there were only screams in there, this weapon wouldn't be so deadly. No, his pony victims are still in there and look for revenge. But the whip is built this way, that the angry souls would never see the Master of the Whip. With the decades and centuries, the dark energy soaked them and unified with the Void, they are now equally evil with their previous Master. A perfect weapon for a dark ruler, but if it comes to you, my son, it isn't a good sign. "

Vortex looked at Hase. He was horrified from the whip he held. he tried to throwp it, but it was impossible. The weapon, soaked in thousands of ponies' blood, was now part of him.

" He used a different feeling for every weapon. The pegasi never liked him, even before. Some of them even bullied him, and most of them were always his horrible boss. But now he had his revenge. The Bow of Vengeance was a broken bow that he found after the battle. He ripped off every feather of every pegasus wing he found. With the power of the Void, he turned the feathers to an unbreakable rope, which replaced the bow's lost string. The angry souls, that ran across the bow, made the wood turn to a black metal, again unbreakable. And soon the power of the Void corrupted these souls too, This is how all of the weapons, except maybe for the spear, look like: they are dark with weak light ranning across them.

The most powerful of the four weapons of the Weapons of Devastation, because in this list there are also a robe, a shield, and an armour, is the Spear of Hatred.

The Destroyer felt betrayed from his own race, the unicorns, so he punished them more cruel than any other race: he cut off the horns of all of the fallen unicorns as battle trophies. this is forbidden in any civilized dimension since than. they say, that the unicorn will awake from his death only to feel how his horn is being cut off and than die in pain.

But this was welcome for the dark ruler, he wanted them to see who is killing them.  Again in his forge tower, he united all of the horns in a single 5 feet long horn. With the help of the forging magic of the Void he put 3 sharp spikes on the top and on the bottom part a single spike, full with the poison of the Void. The Void corrupted these souls too, because they were helpless, but the horn kept it's original colours and has all the colours of the rainbow. There is always a ball of magic on the top, where the end of the horn and the three spikes' tips nearly touch each other, ready to launch a deadly spell, or form into a magical spear top when you throw it.

But the most combat- efficient weapon is the Berserker Mace. Originally a normal spiked mace, after it was fueled up with the souls of the defeated gryphons, it grew in size , it's spikes covered in poison and it held the Art of War... "

" Art of War ? " Twilight was confused.

" Yes... the Destroyer harnessed the hunter's feeling, when he hits the prey, the soldier's triumph, when he slays the enemy, the primal bloodlust, without which a being, who fought in numerous battles, can't live. It is... the Art of War. Anypony, who uses this mace in combat, will be led by his blind bloodlust, like the ancient warriors, called berserkers. The reaction is even stronger than the one of the Whip of Rage. The warrior will just rush through the enemy's army and kill anything he sees. "

The fire went out. Blaze lit it up again, but it was weak. The fear from this story affected even the Lords.

" And those are only the weapons, altough these relics are called the Weapons of Devastation, only half of them are actual weapons. There is an Armour, a Robe, a Shield and... a Helmet. "

" Wait a second, that makes 8 Weapons of Destruction in total. And the races, who fought against him, are Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, Gryphons, Dragons, Changelings and Crystal Ponies. Totally 7. What does the last weapon stand for? " Dash asked. The ponies thought for a second. Dash's math was right. There was an extra weapon, that wasn't created by any race.

" You'll see... " Vortex frowned " I'll start with the armour, the Armour of Extinction. After the battle, the Destroyer forfilled his dream - he hunted the dragons untill the last one. They went extinct and never appeared untill me and my brother re- created Equestria. From each killed dragon he took the most thick scale. The last dragon scale was bloody red. And that was the colour of the Armour. Dragon scales cannot be breached by no arrow or sword and combined with power from the Void, the Armour could also not be pierced by no magic. The perfect armour for a dark lord. Now he would walk across his kingdom without fearing hidden archers or armed bandits. "

' Spike won't like this story. ' Twilight thought

' Absolutely ' Emma replied in her mind.

" The Changelings... their fate wasn't better. After ripping off all of their wings, he threw their bodies in the Void and fed the Voididans. He summonned all of the kingdom's best weavers and forced them to weave his new robe from the wings. Millions of innocent ponies' tears fell in the robe, untill it was finally ready. It looked scruffy, but with the power of the Void the Emperor gave it a new design: now it had the perfect length, the nearly- transparent robe with a dark colour and colours runnning across it like a soap bubble.

And when somepony, that didn't deserve to die, tried to kill the Destroyer, the ruler just smiled and the robe magically went in front of him. In there, because of the tears, that fell in during the weaving, the pony only saw his bad sides, multiplied million times and showing the pony as a cold- blooded assasin, if he hunted to feed his family, a shameless whorse, if she had the most pure love for her husband, a master thief, if he had chopped wood from the forest and many other things, which power didn't came from darkness, but from the very soul of the pony, who faced the wicked Robe of Illusions. The good things reflected as bad, and were than multiplied million times. The pony fell on it's knees and begged the Destroyer to kill him or her and save the world from such a villain. A wish the ruler gladly forfilled.

But... if the pony was bad, really bad, the robe reflected him as a national hero, an owner of a house, that keeps the homeless ponies off the streets, slayer of monsters, threathening the village, generally, a great person. The person keeps his twisted view of things and joins the Royal Guard, believing, that he is saving his homeland. That is the most treatorous of the Weapons, because it's twisted mind won't kill you, but simply show you the path to your doom, convincing you, that it's the right way. Only the closest friends of the Destroyer weren't affected by this. Luckily, this means, that if you, my son, somehow find that Robe, it won't affect us. But we'll still see what the pony, that faces the robe, sees, in this cloak.

The Shield of Horror isn't so evil as the Cloak of Illusions, but still can be deadly. It reflects all of the fears of the ponies, who stare at it. It was first created by an old, rusty shield, but in his tower the Destroyer filled it up with the fear of the weak crystal ponies, who even these days are extremely vulnerable to the fear. That's why King Sombra suceeded to rule them. They are peaceful and the horror of the war was too much for them. And when the tyran let the cloud, which reflected everypony's worst fear, this broke them. And this cloud was later put into this shield, turning it's colour to pitch black. It's the one of two weapons from the pack, that doesn't have sparkles running across it's surface. It's completely dark and leaves a shadow as big as a tree. The more gentle and kind ponies will always fell threathened around it, even if they are the wielder's closest friends. "

Fluttershy shivvered. Dash went closer and told her something. She smiled and green sparkles appeared in her eyes for a second.

" And now we reached the answer to Dash's question:  why is there a weapon extra? It wasn't part of the original Weapons. It was created years later:  the Destroyer had this beatiful dimension only for himself. But soon holes appeared in this dimension and ruined the walks of the tyran, expecting to see beatiful nature, instead seeing holes in his dimension. Holes that led to the Void. He knew whose fault it was: the Voidians. Since the victory they fed off his dimension. He gathered all of them and commanded them to leave. Of course, the last thing a Voidian in a dimension would do, is to return to the Void. The Voidians laughed at him. They were an entire army, a single Chaotic couldn't force them return to the Void.

But this made the Desroyer angry. With his weapons he attacked the Voididans, slaying all of them, who didn't retreat to the Void. Luckily, he had also slain his own Voidian, and lost his chaotic powers. But he still wielded the Void, because the Weapons of Devastation are all Chaotic Artefacts, that however kill a pony, who holds them, but hasn't been a Chaotic. The Voidians cursed him and reminded him, that he shall fall under his own sword. But he wasn't listening. He was rushing to the forging tower to create a new weapon from the bodies of the Voidians, before they dissapear. At first he wanted something big, but the quickly dissolving matter was only enough for a helmet, the Helmet of Supremacy!

The last piece of the puzzle.  Once it was forged, it stopped dissolving, but it is still unclear to see. Dark smoke surrounds it and falls from it,. You can see, that it reaches a pony's nose in the center and even guards his neck. There are spikes, also covered in dark mist, on it's top, but nopony can see through this fog. It will only be visible on the head of the greatest villain of them all. This helmet makes the ponies, that aren't close to the wielder, think how tiny they are, how weak are they, it hides their potential from them and makes them believe, that they are born to serve the great and powerful ruler, so much more powerful than them.  The wielder can also perform a very different form of primal portal spel, called " Shadow Whisper "

Only the name of the spell made the fire grow weaker. The darkness became more dense and the ponies could swear, that they heard an old voice, whispering on an unknown language.

" The pony turns into Chaos and can travel fast like a Voidian. When it looks at himself, he or she will look like a Voidian and other Voidians will just pass by. He or she can stay as long as he/she wishes, but the pony also feels where it is in the dimension. The Chaotics, who had seen it, describe it as a pony- like Voidian, surrounded by black smoke, who moves with an incredible speed, like all Voidians. Whoever is near it, hears a horrible voice whispering. It tells them how small they are, how weak they are. If the bearer is interested, he can stop there and continue to whisper, untill he loses her or his will to live, because it's convinced, that a pony's life is such small and inimportrant thing, that it's death won't change anything. Actually if used, the helmet makes the pony a hybrid of a Voidian and a pony, while in use: it becomes fast as a Voidian, but it doesn't need to feed off the dimension, but it will still feel good, when he or she unleashes the Shadow Whisper upon somepony. It has the instincts of the Voidian, the pony can feel the life in his victims. This pony can even travel through the Void for a very long time, but unlike the Voidians, can enter the dimensions. To non- chaotic ponies the bearer is invisible, they just feel small like an ant when the pony passes by. This was surely the most dangerous weapon in the Destroyer' s arsenal.

You probably wonder, how have I and my brother defeated him? Well, it isn't impossible. If the pony is smart and uses more tactics, like Hase, he would surely be invincible, but if it's like the Destroyer, hungry for blood and running to every possible fight, it is possible, that he loses.

The blacksmith, who once taught Azure Spark how to forge weapons, was almost dead. Before he died the smith cursed himself for teaching the colt how to forge and the Oracle for his prophecy. If only  those things didn't happen, Azure Spark would remain a normal unicorn, instead of becoming evil and forging those evil Weapons. We were the only ponies, that were there: me and my brother. the last thing the blacksmith did was to give us the sword, that he kept as a memory from the kid, so that the Prophecy would come true. It was with the perfect size for my brother, because it was forged as a gift to him from his youngest student Azure Spark.

Primal Shine cried. he knew, that the way to defeat the Destroyer, isn't through rage or any of the other feelings, because every time the enemy of the tyran used this feelings to help him in battle, he or she instead grew weaker and was defeated. No, he filled the sword with another feeling. The sword shone like gold and emitted light, that made the whole room light. The blacksmith died with a smile on his mouth. And the weapon was named... the Blade of Absolution. " Vortex stopped for a second and wiped out a tear out of his eyes " Now let me tell you about the battle.  The Destroyer smiled, when he saw his old teacher.  He said, that there are no lessons left and he needed his teacher no longer. He got the shield and revealed it's surface to my brother... "

The fire suddenly grew in size and a memory was projected at it. Vortex smiled at emma and Blaze.

Two ponies. One of them with bloody red skin, and the other - a white unicorn, with a sword levitating around him as all of the magical weapons did. The bloody pony guarded himself with a black shield, that also magically levitated. It's edge was with the colour of blood. But the Shield of Horror didn't reflect anything.

" WHY ISN'T IT WORKING!?  " the Destroyer yelled

" Because I am looking at my greatest horror right now. And i am not afraid. " Primal Shine replied.

The tyran smiled and put the shield back in it's bag. It was the perfect size. It was obviously the original bag, that always was on the bearer of the shield. Just like the little bag for the whip Hase couldn't get off, but somehow didn't have any weight, even with the whip in it.

" But now prepare to lose yourself! " the Destroyer yelled and the Robe of Illusions got off his back and levitated in front of him.  Primal Shine immeadietly appeared ina dream, where he was studying the already adult Destroyer how to slay dragons. But he just shaked his head and lifted his sword at the sky, yelling:

" Show me the way to Absolution! "

The illusion dissapeared. The Destroyer laughed, but he also looked worried:

" So it's absolution? You think I need my sins taken away? That won't work, I guarantee... " And than he pounced at Primal Light, swiping with the Berserker Mace. Primal Shine made a quick step back and the duel began. Primal Shine was good with the sword, while the tyran wasn't very careful what he was doing, because he was guided by the Art of War.

" So that's why, Hase, you should be careful with these weapons. You should learn to controll them and supress your feelings. A coldblooded pony would be nearly invincible with these weapons. But if you rush to the fight, no matter of your weapon, you'll lose. " Vortex told his son

And as if to prove it, the white unicorn quickly made the tyran bleed. Light went through the scratch. The Destroyer fell on the ground:

" What did you do to me!!? "

" I turned your sins... against you. You had your absolution. " Primal Shine spoke, while the whole body of the Destroyer emitted light and finally blew up. But nearby immeadietly several portals opened and the unicorn ran from the coming Voidians.

" And that is the story. " Vortex said after the hollogram ended " After the ruler of Equestria died, the Voidians destroyed this dimension. We fled to another dimension together with the Equestrian Horsegardians and later, when we were Chaotics, my brother and I re- created it together with the Horsegardians. So let that be your lesson, Hase. These weapons are powerful, " awesome " as you may say, but YOU should controll them, not the opposite, or you'll end up like the Destroyer. We start the lessons of self- controll and weapon usage tomorrow. Untill than... be careful. "

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