The sinister passage with the screaming wind was behind their backs. Things weren't getting any better though. They saw something on the horizon, that according to Twister was Sabredance' castle. There were just dry plains around and the castle, standing in the foot of the mountain, that went all the way to the passage, was in the perfect place: the deffenders would of been alarmed for an army hours before it gets to the city beneath the castle -  the dark city of Thrandor, as Crescent said. The place, where colts over ten were forced either to forge armoury for the soldiers, or to become a soldier themselves, where a mare couldn't just walk across the street without getting attacked, a place, where the parents feared to let out their foals for a single second, the city with no shame, the city with no justice. And for a flavour - alcochol.

The group noticed a big squad of soldiers. Hase insisted to slay them, but Vortex adviced him to be wise. So they accepted Twilight's plan instead. They hid in the nearby bushes.

" That's lame! " Rainbow dash whispered and Johny, Hase and Wanda silencely agreed. Dash nearly jumped out together with them, but twilight held her back. The squad nearly passed. And than something unexpected happened. A strong beam of light hit the ground exactly in front of the hooves of the leader. The squad stepped back.

" Prepare to meet... your dooom! " Luna yelled.

' There was a use of practicing in front of the mirror. ' the princess of the night thought.

Back in the bushes Twilight's eyes nearly gotten out of their eye orbits. The Princesses decided to join the party right now?

Luna always loved adventures. So when she knew, that the Avengers are sent on an interdimensional mission, she insisted, that she and her sister should " bravely aid their loyal servants in their chivalrous duty " .

Celestia was at first against this quest, but she wasn't able to hold back Luna's enthusiasm for more than a couple of days. Luna honestly believed, that she had to catch- up with the 1000 years she missed on the moon. After she thought of it for a while, Celestia also came to the solution, that they still need to take an eye on Vortex and Hase, and the Mane 6 probably needed help, so she finally agreed.

Magic bolts broke the lines of the soldiers. Because the squad was pretty big, and there was no more use of hiding anyway, the Ghost Biker jumped out of the bushes, smashed a pony with his bike and ran over three other, swiping with his chain. Wanda and Emma also joined the party. Orbs of magic made the troops weapons attack their owners and chaos spread through the army. Some of the troops fell with a strong migrene. This only made it easier for the Iron Stalion and the War Marechine. Vortex wisely decided to stay hidden for now, and so did Hase. Rarity remembered, that she had forgotten her suit. A minute later she returned:

"My suit! It is absent! "

" I wouldn't say so. " Hase looked from the bushes. He turned his head to Rarity and pointed something with his wing.

The sight made Rarity very, very angry. Hawk, the stalion of her heart, or at least untill this moment, was teaming up with a red- maned mare, wearing her suit.

" Ahem, darling, would you explain me about this... hmmm... affair between you and ginger? " Rarity asked him after she got there.

" Just like in Budapet all over again. " the red maned fired with the hoof bands.

" You and I remember Budapet very differently... sorry, what Rarity? " the archer turned to the fashionista and continued firing arrows.

Rarity sighed and nearly cried:  

" R-r-rarity? You call me Rarity? " she spoke through tears.

" As far as I remember, that's your name, yes? "

" What happenned to darling? " the mare cried

" I'm sorry, but we would never of gotten any further in our relationship. And besides, that's the mare I've been talking about, the one, that " died " from Blaze, remember?  Well, it appeared that she had saved herself and went through a portal. She comes from Stalliongrad, the New Equestrian one, and is known like Чëрная вдова,  the Black Widow. She has been trained by Stalliongrad 's secret intelligence, the KGB, but she needed her suit. I hope you don't mind, but I returned it to her. Friends? " the archer spoke, but his face remained without any expression.

Rarity didn't say anything. She just ran away, only hearing the beats of her heart. When she was 50 feet away, she felt a wing on her back.

" Don't try to stop me, Twilight. " she spoke " You do not know how dreadful I feel. "

" In fact I do. " Rarity was surprised, because the voice wasn't the one of Twilight. She stopped and turned around. The dark feathers of Hase' left wing entirely covered her back.

" Hase. " this time the unicorn mare managed to hold in her tears " It's different to be hated by the ponies, and to be ignored.. "

" ... by the one you love. You don't know me well enough to say that. I'll prove it to you. " multicoloured oreol surrounded Hase'  tail and a little medallion in the shape of the heart appeared. He let it in the magic of Rarity. The mare still cried, as she opened the medalion. Two parts of a same picture- two ponies kissing. First it was an earth pony- Hase obviously, but the mare... was this...

" Emma Frost. My former greatest lover. I loved her from the bottom of her heart. I thought she did too. But... not once or twice I saw her kissing Johny. She spent more time with him, than she did with me. She's with him now, sharing the excitement of the fight, the same way as  Hawk and Agent Romanoff do. Surprised I know her name? " the unicorn mare nodded " Hawk told me. He wanted me to explain it to you, but it's unexplainable. I can't. "

" How did you do it? How are you doing it? " Rarity looked amased and horrified at the same time " How were you... "

" How did I ignore my heart for the good of the group? How I'm still ignoring it? " the pegasus looked at Rarity for confirmation

" Well, why do you think I remained silent for a week? It wasn't because of Vortex, I hope you don't really believe in that. Now it's obvious. The days would of been more, if ms. lady warrior hadn't interrupted us. " the stallion looked back to the fight. Sif, aided by Crescent and Twister, were dealing with a group surrounding them. The soldiers soon fell.

" Love is... volatile. And, as I found while on this trip, not replacable. No matter how hard I concentrated on my task, I will never be full. " the pegasus sighed

" Anger, War, Frenzy, Fear, Happyness, Brothership, Hatred, Supremacy, not even Friendship... " the pegasus was interrupted by a deserting soldier. Before the pony could even react, Hase pulled his shield in front of the soldier's eyes and the horrified pony preffered to run in the opposite direction. " ... can replace it. You won't get over it, unless you find it again. " the pegasus raised in the air and left Rarity think over his words.

" Thou fell! Surrender! " Luna triumphed with her hoof on the leader of the squad. He just husstled at the ruler of the night.

" Princess Luna, excuse me, but what the hay are you doing here? " Twilight neared the princess.

" We've came here to aid you in your chivalrous duty! " the alicorn replied

Twilight was just going to inform the princess, that they are doing well on theirselves, when she spotted the new mare with Hawk. The mare looked back at her with great interest. This suit suited the unknown mare better than Rarity, and the mare also looked more like a fighter than Rarity. However, it was unclear to Twilight how the fashionista will react to both the miss of her coltfriend and her suit. Luckily, she was nowhere to be seen and the crisis was avoided.

" So, Twilight , we'd like to hear your report. " Celestia spoke.

So the purple alicorn had to tell the whole story from the arrival. She tried to avoid the part with the Weapons of Devastation, but it failed. After the Princesses knew the whole story, Twilight saw how they were whispering in eachother's ears. That surely wasn't a good sign. Hase might of been a good guy, but the evil forces had an unhealthy interess for him. First the Elements, than A.I.M. and Vortex, and now those Weapons... Interesting concidence.

Luckily for her winged friend, the Princesses were more interessted in Sunset Shimmer, after the purple mare assured them, that the son of Vortex has a perfect control over his weapons.

" The Weapons are a far greater problem than my ex- student, but while they won't harm anypony while in Hase' control, the problem with Sunset can quickly escalate, if she contacts Sabredance. " Celestia said Twilight " Where are you exactly holding her? "

The lavender alicorn led her to the bushes. But the blanket, that covered, or used to cover her unconcious body, was now in the dirt. After she looked everywhere, Crescent found, that the Sundisc Amulet was also missing.

" We didn't expect anything else. My sister's ex- apprentice is a master of escape. She only pretended to be unconcious. " Luna profounded.

" Let's just hope she doesn't join Sabredance. We have enough problems eitherway. " Celestia replied.

" Aha, I have found you! Now prepare to meet... the Great and Powerful Trixie! " a triumphant voice reached the ears of the three alicorns. When they turned around, a mysterious hooded figure laughed at them.

" I thought you said Zecora had made Trixie promise she wouldn't become evil again. " the Iron Patriot landed nearby. The mask lifted, revealing Rainbow's worried face.

" Perhaps it's the Trixie from this dimension? " Twilight made a lucky guess.

When the hood came off, the purple mare knew, that she was right. The Trixie from this dimension had grape- coloured mane and tail. The unicorn sent an orb of light at the bystanding Hawk, but it was diversed from Hellios, the lord of Light, and hit the blue mare herself.

" Iiii.... just don't get it. " the cyan mare spoke

" What? " Twilight asked her.

" The first time Trixie didn't try to attack, she just looked for fame. The second time,when she vowed revenge, she got advantage over us with the Alicorn Amulet. We either have to assume this dimension's Trixie is a lot more stupid... or that she has a trick up her illusionist sleeve... " the War Marechine turned her head towards the now stunned Trixie. Twilight imagined how inside the helmet Dash's eyes suspiciously looked at their enemy.

And she was right. Trixie suddenly got back on her hooves with a beaker filled with ... smoke. Smoke with eyes and a mouth. . It looked pretty familiar to both Luna and Twilight. So they both yelled " NOO! " when the illusionist broke it and the smoke enlaced her.

The azure blue coat darkened and became with the colour of a deep lake.  The grape mane and tail also became longer and floated in the air. Trixie's eyes became even more blue than usual and an evil spark shone in them. Pink sparks ran across her now longer horn.

" Behold... the first of the new warriors... Nightmare Trixie! " the unicorn proclaimed and made a huge force field, only leaving the Princesses and herself in it. Twilight was horrified. If it was possible, Nightmare Trixie looked more evil than Nightmare Moon, because she had a fanatic glow in her eyes. She looked, as she was ready to die only to stop them from reaching their destination. And according to Nightmare Trixie, this was only the beggining.

" Perhaps you think, that I am the queen? Noo, she would never bother again with such weakling as you, Luna. We will have our revenge. Before only our queen was able to possess a pony body. Now everypony among us can do it! Finally we figured out how you always win - our Queen is one, and you are many, now even more. But we, we are infinite! "

Luna stepped in front of her sister and Twilight. With a brave glow in her eyes she spoke:

" I won't let you possess innocent ponies again! Take me and end this, it's what your queen wants, right? Take me! "

The unicorn mare smiled and a strand of her mane stretched and punched Luna. The Princess of the Night fell on the ground.

" You? We haven't travelled between dimensions only to end up with you again. You have nothing to offer us, Princess of the Night. Before our Queen was weak and she gladly accepted your offer. Now she has much more power than you could ever offer her. You beat her twice, don't expect to do it thrice. No, the real thing she seeks is somepony, easy to control, somepony, recently betrayed, somepony, who is an Element of Harmony... you know who I'm talking about?  " the mare grinned, as the three Princesses finally realized the plot of the Nightmare Spirits.

" Rarity... " Twilight whispered. Now she understood. The heart of her friend was probably broken, because Hawk was with that unknown mare.She was left vulnerable.

" But first, I have to make sure, that you won't ruin our plan... " the strands of Trixie's mane pounced at them as giant snakes. One of them caught Celestia.

" Princess Celestia, such an honour! " Nightmare Trixie kneeled, but the grin on her face remained " Sadly for us, the power of the sun in you had always burned us and never allowed us to possess you! And you would of been our better queen! Thousands of years of experience was something, that used to be very attractive. But now our queen has enough power and could defeat both of you. Not at the same time, of course, but you shall all kneel before her greatness and her power! " the unicorn profounded and laughed at the sky

" All she needs now is an Element of Harmony... first, it would make your other pretty necklaces useless. And second, the Element, no matter which, holds a great power, that would make our queen even more powerful! "  Trixie was so busy taunting the captured Celestia, that she didn't notice Luna pick up a log and hit her in the head with it. That made the shield dissapear for a second and allowed another pony to join the party.

" How primal! " Nightmare Trixie pretended to cry, but than caught Luna in the grip of her mane " oh, I've now got two Princesses in my grip, let's go for the third! " a strand of her tail reached for twilight's legs, but the alicorn jumped in the air and flew towards Trixie, preparing a magic. But this reckless move left her in the grip of Trixie mane.

" Now they are three! " the unicorn grinned again.

" How about 0? "  the mare was suddenly punched in the muzzle. This was enough for the Princesses to get off her grip. When she saw who hit her, trixie just grinned even more:

" Oh, look who's finally joined the party! Hase, the champion of the Princesses... or more like their puppet, hmm? "

Completely unnoticed by Hase, the nightmare unicorn had made a force field, preventing her and Hase from hearing anything outside of it.

" Look at yourself, Hase! Few villains have such power and you still waste it on heroism! If you remained the villain you were ment to be, all of this, " Trixie nodded at the Elemental Lords and the Avengers " , would of still been yours. I see how you fight yourself in your mind, but know this is true:  if you haven't limited yourself, your forms would never, ever dare stand against you! Not even your father is more powerful than you. Think about it Hase. What would of happened, if you didn't play fair in New Equestria? What if Stark, Hawk,Thor, Loky and Glace were on the other side, together with the Lords, do you think the Mane 6 and those miserable royalties would stand a chance? No! They would of remained sealed there forever, and you would rule not only over New Equestria... oh, no.

If you were still evil, you would of ruled over Equestria too. What do you think your old friends would do, after you revealed youself? They wouldn't of had another choice, except to join you, as they truly wanted. A.I.M. would of granted you your dream, " a little strand of Nightmare Trixie's mane tickled the left cheek of the pegasus " , the throne of Celestia. And what are you now? A marionette of the two royalties, trying to prove itself innocent. These Weapons are signs, son of Vortex.

Signs, that your fate isn't being a hero, it is being a villain. Break of the chains the Princesses had caught you in! Release your Rage! " the unicorn smiled, as she saw the three alicorns yelling outside of the bubble. No sound got out of their mouths.

" Release it, and great fate awaits you. You will have an honour... unheard for centuries. You'll be the host... of our king! "

That clinched it.

" A host? " Hase' eyes filled with hatred

" A host?  Well, my dear Trixie, if you ever plan getting somepony on your side in the future, don't tell him he'll just be a host. " the pegasus jumped at the unicorn and hit her horn with the Berserker Mace. She yelled in vain and dark streams of smoke got out of her coat. The real Trixie fell unconcious, while a female Nightmare Spirit with a form of a pony stood against Hase.

" I see you prefer getting destroyed. That's not impossible. " the voice of the spirit was half as beatiful and convincing, as it was before, so Hase didn't fear getting enchanted. He pounced at the Spirit, but the mace just passed throughher.

" How do you fight smoke with a stick? " the spirit asked, after throwing Hase 10 feet away.

" I don't get it... last time, when Rarity was taken by the Nightmare Forces, I thought we have destroyed them forever, by freeing the peaceful animals on the moon, isn't that right? " Twilight asked Luna, while inside of the force field Hase was trying to figure out how to fight smoke with a whip and a mace.

" I am as confused as you, Twilight. " Luna was worried. She stared at the force field, untill somepony else spoke:

" Nopony but me knows the answer to that..." the three alicorns turned around. Vortex was staring at the bubble fight too.

" You might of known it earlier, if you haven't turned me to stone and if I saw how you defeat them with my eyes. But as I understand from Twilight's words, you have only destroyed... some of them. "

" What do you mean, Vortex? " great anger was emitted from the eyes of the Princess of the Night.

" Well, I didn't ask once or twice about this. But your friend here convinced me, that all of them are gone for good. " the alicorn looked at Dash

" I... I thought it was so! " the War Marechine tried to excuse herself.

" No. Does anypony among you know how the Spirits came to an existence? " Vortex' eyes slowly circled the whole group. The prequestrians, of course, didn't know anything about it, because such thing obviously never existed in this dimension. The Lords, who had spent nearly the time Vortex had been turned into stone waiting for the right host, didn't know anything either. The Avengers, that weren't part of the Mane 6, had spent their life in New Equestria and didn't know anything either. Vortex' eyes slowly moved to the Horsegardians. They guarded the 9 realms, they should of known of it, right? But apparently not.

" I have never been sent to the Moon on missions to Midgard. I didn't ask questions about it. " Thor replied to Vortex' glare.

" Well... I haven't been targeting Equestria for an invasion, I targeted New Equestria. " Loky smiled.

His eyes now focused on the Mane 6. They have defeated these forces twice. Hadn't atleast one of them made a research or something?

" This topic isn't very popular in the books. Most of the books just describe the horrors of Nightmare Moon. None focuses over the spirits.  " Twilight replied, as if she had read his thoughts.

Celestia and Luna didn't know anything either. Finally his head turned to Johny, Emma and Wanda. Perhaps the magic researches of the Witch had brought her to the information

.

" Ah...no. " Emma replied.

The Dark Emperor sighed. He had to tell them the whole story.

" The story of the origin of the Nightmare Forces. As many others of the stories of the monsters, it is related to the Destroyer.

As you should, or concidering your limited knowledge, maybe don't know, " Vortex looked at the whole group with disaprooving look, while his mane reflected an ugly shade of orange " , the Moon was, and currently is, populated with peaceful beings, like our animals, except that they are able to speak. But what you apparently don't know, is that the Moon was populated also with ponies. "

" Ponies? Why haven't I encountered them, while I resided on the Moon? " Luna glared at the Emperor, doubting his words.

" Maybe if you dont interrupt me, you'll know. " Vortex looked like a teacher in the moment, in which a student asks him a question, which he or she thinks, is very hard, but actually is quite easy. His mane reflected his cheer.

" These ponies were as different as the crystal ponies are different. They weren't transparent like them, but I don't know is it either because of the constant low gravity, or because of a kind of spell, but they manes are big, beatiful and float in the air, ignoring all laws of gravity. They were a beatiful, proud and powerful race. Their kings and queens were majestic, a pony would of never forgotten the beauty of the the Moon Queen, or the pride look of the Moon King, if they had seen it only once.

Once it was a well- known fact, that the moon is populated. But since we, them and the Horsegardians are the only ponies, that survived to see Equestria being rebuilt, this legend was forgotten. Primal Light didn't want to risk telling you about it, at the end you'll understand why, " he looked at Luna before she even opened her mouth " , and so you are the first ponies to hear this from thousands of years. While the kings and queens ruled, the Moon and Equestria lived in peace. We even had business together: there is food on the Moon, but some of our delicacies the Moon ponies craved to have. And no Equestria jewel could ever compete with a jewel from the Moon.

   This was so, untill the Destroyer came to the rule. He feared, that the Moon ponies may try to liberate Equestria. They were able to do that, their magic is mysterious and no equestrian charm could block it. So the Destroyer took the fight to them. He attacked the towns and villages on the moon.

Knowing what they are dealing with, the moon ponies activated their defence system: all towns and villages sunk in the ground. In fact this was a mechanism, that protected the towns from meteor rains. I forgot to mention, but the moon also had more advanced technology than us. Millions of radars searched the skies for a potential treat.Lasers dealed with the single meteorithes, but when an asteroid or a metheor rain was going to surface, this was their alternative. So all of the villages and towns just went underground and the hills nearby them closed aboves them, because they were just smartly masked covers.Tunnels connected them.

But this made the Destroyer's job easier, because he went straight to the castle. It didn't have such mechanism, because it was protected by a strong force field. If it had such a mechanism, the Destroyer would of either had to dig hundreds of feet under the surface, or to retreat, cursing the technology on the way back. But he went straight to the throne room, slaying half of the castle's population on the way, and threatened, that the Moon Ponies... oh, I got tired from saying that every time..."

" Moonies? " Pinkie suggested

" That will do. So he threatened the Moonies, that they should either become his allies or else... Both the King and the Queen agreed to sacrofice themselves, instead of betraying the folk. But the Destroyer laughed and said, that death will be too mercyful.

the legend says, that he had thrown a pot on the ground and vanished. After breaking, a dark smoke filled the entire room. Some survivors, that chose to evacuate to the Earth, instead of hiding, said to me, that the cloud grew and surrounded the whole moon. It than sunk into her surface. The ponies got their identities warped and became the Nightmare spirits. Most ponies think, that the spirits in their forms would definetely need to possess a pony. That's wrong. The ponies and the moon animals are themselves, but their minds have been warped to crave for evil. Only the Queen and the King spirits need hosts.

Those in particular aren't exactly spirits, more like  viruses. If they held the Queen and the King, they wouldn't need to possess, they would of had constant forms. But the part of  the dark chaos, that was ment to... not to possess, but to disease them, didn't do it on time. They only managed to suck all of their power and knowledge of magic. The King and Queen killed themselves with magic. So these viruses didn't become spirits, but something between a spirit and a virus. Strange, is it? They don't have enough power to live, but once they have diseased a pony, the pony would have all of the power and the knowledge of magic of the King or Queen of the Moon. The diseased would be like the rest of the spirits.

Most of the spirits of the Moonies would look like Nightmare Moon - not so magnificent, powerful and wise, of course, but would look just like the  Moonies used to - except that they would have a slightly darker shade of their coat. They are also able to possess another pony, become more powerful and other nasty things. They can exit it anytime, as this one left Trixie. But let's get back to the story: because the whole moon was diseased, soon those Spirits began creating trouble: horrible nightmares, abductions, et cetera. Sounds familliar to you? "

Rarity shivvered, as she remembered herself as Nightmare Rarity, saying with her own voice, in her conciousness, that there is no longer Rarity and speaking for herself as a weak pony, just a host. Rarity had no idea back than, she thought, that it was the Spirits' fault, but now she realized, that she wasn't possessed. She just unintentionaly focused on the bad sides of her life, and sunk in her nightmares, becoming a nightmare herself.

She remembered how she feeled, while facing Luna, how her entire self hated the Princess. She hadn't been controlling herself. There was no spirit. Just she. Rarity got scare and wondered if this would happen again without the transformation, in the right circumstances... she didn't want to think about it anymore.

" You say you have defeated the Nightmare Spirits. But according to me, you have only defeated the animal nightmares, while now the Nightmare Moonies will strike. And this will be more harder than ever. Any questions? " Vortex looked at the crowd. Most of them had confused looks on their faces. If that wasn't enough, Pinkie got out a strange gadget with the logo of Stark Industries on it's back and did something, because soon the sound of crickets was heard.

" I... didn't get the whole possess/ disease thing. " Dash broke the silence.

The stalion sighed and drew a diagram:

                               .............. + MOON ANIMALS-------------- WEAK SPIRITS

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BLACK SMOKE ............. + Queeen/ King ( only knowledge and powers) -- SOMETHING LIKE A VIRUS.......+ a pony--------

     |                                               NIGHTMARE MOON/ NIGHTMARE RARITY/ NIGHTMARE KING/ NIGHTMARE QUEEN

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     + a moon pony -----------------  STRONG NIGHTMARE SPIRIT ........ + another pony( not actually needed, no idea why they are doing it. For more power perhaps? ) -------------- POSSESSED PONY

" Is this OK? " the alicorn asked after he had finished drawing in the sand.

" Yes. " Rainbow nodded and her mask went back down.

" So actually the spirits of the normal ponies can live by theirselves, but the ones of the royalties can't? " Twilight hoped, that she got it right.

" Exactly! Because they aren't any living beings inside them! " Vortex looked happy, that somepony finally understood.

" One more question, Vortex. What was the black smoke? " Celestia asked.

" It is a weird story and it wouldn't sound very convincing, I warn you. " he turned to Celestia  " But I'll need to tell it anyway. The Black smoke is... death. "

" We know this already. I mean what is it made from? " Celestia was insatisfied

" It's made from... death. "

" Stop being sarcastic and say us already. "

" OK. " the Dark Emperor smiled

" I did say the truth. You just didn't understand. You see, the Destroyer wanted another weapon. His weapons were very powerful, but as you know, they didn't help him a lot in the final battle. He didn't have any reasons to doubt the power of his weapons all the time untill the battle. But nevertheless, he wanted a new one. A weapon, that didn't just grant him the victory, but a weapon, that stopped the battle before it even started. If he had really done this, he would of won and rule over Equestria forever.

He wanted a weapon, made out of Death. Death is the ultimate weapon. You can get over your rage, ignore the burning hatred, supress the wish for vengeance, stay calm in the battle, instead of recklessly attacking. You can look through illusions with faith, ignore the fear and be brave, even to fight before you become extinct. But nopony can escape the death. I know what you're thinking, you are thinking, that currently the whole population of Ponyville is immortal, plus me, three, oh, sorry, four princesses, 7 lords of the Elements, all of the Avengers and Hase.

But we aren't invincible, and if we aren't careful, we can get ourselves killed. Imagine a weapon, that kills immeadietly. Even we won't be immune to it. These were the thoughts of the Destroyer too - to make a weapon, that has no mercy. But there was a small problem: unlike with the others, the tyranic ruler wouldn't be able to produce this weapon by concentrating his feelings, before he had never died. So he just concentrated and focused on all of the homicides he remembered. The result was better than he have imagined, but it didn't satisfy him. With such a bloody life, he suceeded to summon the death, the power of the death.

He tried to forge a weapon out of it, using the Void, but the death doesn't take orders from anything. He just suceeded to give the death a permanent form - black smoke. However, he wasn't able to produce a weapon out of it, so it was useless. At least untill he deceased the Moon. But the results weren't the same as in his evil mind. He wished for an army of Spirits of Death, but because of the effect of all of the defensive spells, and also a result from that, that the magic flows through the blood of the moon ponies, he got an Army of Nightmares. he liked it, but was dissapointed, so he just ditched them and let them haunt the dreams of the ponies. And that's how the black smoke was created. An unsuccesfull experiment. " Vortex finished his story.

While the others were chatting, Hase wasn't exactly in the best mood. Something like a miniature Nightmare moon, the so- called Spirit, that according to his friends should of been way more animalistic, was trying to kill him, and wasn't very far. The pegasus was tired. He stopped flying around for a second and a huge bleeding wound appeared from his left shoulder to his flank. Hase fell on the ground. The spirit triumphed:

" You'll live to see your friends serve us with their lives and you... you will lead them, as you conquer your own home!

Hase felt an immense wave of hatred flow through him. He saw something falling from the sky and smiled:

" But you won't. "

The pegasus jumped in the air and felt a stream of magic partially close his wound, as he grabbed the falling object. he felt the bond to his mind. The stick was multicoloured and at least 4 feet long.Multiple lines wet around it on the surface, some of them dividing the colours. The lines of a unicorn horn. Three black spikes stood on the top, and kept a small orb of light on the top of the spear from getting away. The Spear of Hatred.

" There is no smoke without fire. Let's stick to the rules. " Hase spoke as he activated the spear. A wave of light went across the whole Spear, changing it's colour multiple times on the way. The orb grew, but before it could exit the space between the spikes, a multicoloured lighning struck from the top. These lightnings didn't stop, but continued to torture the Spirit. After 10 seconds of electrifying, the Spirit flew away, reuniting the group with Hase.

" I like this one. " the pegasus smiled " Now, who's left? I've just warmed up."

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