"I thought you can save her Shadow." cried Soul.

"I can Storm, Lancer, and Tint as well."

Dawn returned back inside the castle only to see the body of the princess lay still on the floor. She started to tremble.

"Dawn, there is one more thing I need to tell you. We can die, only if we sacrifice our immortality. We can do this for a reason or for none at all. I will give my immortality to bring back those four. After you can decide whether or not to do the same. Put them together, in a row."

Seng, Aero, Bladedancer, and Flood gathered the bodies of Lancer, Tint, and Storm by Celestia. Shadow stood over their bodies and shut his eyes. He took a deep breath. His friends gathered by each other, they didn't know what was going to happen. The light and color in the room started to fade. Everything was now black and white. The winds died down. Glowing beams of light started to come from Shadow's chest.One ray went into Lancer another to Tint and another to Storm. All their wounds healed by themselves. One ray went to Celestia's wound, it healed. It was not enough. More rays started to emerge from Shadow's chest they all entered Celestia. The rays stopped emerging. Shadow was uneasy, he was wobbly and almost fell. The color, light, and wind came back.

"That should work." said Shadow, he coughed up a bit of blood and his nose started to bleed.

Fyn Cour ran to him,"Let me take care of that."

"I'm fine just move them to the infirmary." Shadow coughed a bit more. Some of the others helped carry them.

"Are you sure it worked dad?" asked Dawn.

"I'm sure. I had to use a little amount of my own life and a large amount of my power to bring Celestia back. I split my immortal life into fourths, they each got a piece of it. Tint, Lancer, and Storm were all able to come back with only one-fourth. Celestia being a natural alicorn, it took more out of me. Me being the positive of life I was able to use my power to surely bring them back. The reason why the world went uncolored is that the rays emerging from chest find it easier to find their target. They are living. It'll take a few weeks for them to wake up. Their soul is still being brought back from limbo."

"Who told you this?"

"The witch that granted us immortality, Great Tear. She told me this after I became immortal."

"Where is she now?"

"I don't know and I don't care."

Dawn chuckled,"So I can give up my immortality?"

"If you wish to."

"You're able to die now. Aren't you?"

"Yes. That's sort of a downside to it." Shadow laughed."Okay everypony we've had ourselves an eventful day. You should get some rest."

Soul, Fyn Cour, Seng, and the division leaders stayed.

"What shall we do?" Randall asked.

"Build an army. This was an act of war." Mist scolded.

Tal replied,"I agree. Where should we go to recruit?"

"We tell the frontier that the princess was almost killed. That can rally them up quickly." Soul said.

Fyn Cour blurted out,"What about the sun? Who will raise it?"

"Luna. I'm not sure if she can do it though." Seng said.

"I can assist her. My magic is as strong as hers." Dawn suggested.

"Don't get too confident." Mist replied.

"I think my daughter can. Her mother is the granddaughter of Star Swirl making her the great-granddaughter of Star Swirl. "

"Yeah and I think her mother knocked me out." Seng exclaimed.

"She doesn't like it when she gets the answer "no"." laughed Shadow.

"Did she really?" asked Soul.

"Yeah. My wife kind of always wanted things her way. Well, let's clean this place up. It's a total mess in here."

Dawn repaired any broken windows and other inanimate objects. Fyn Cour and Mist mopped up the blood from the floor. Tal and Randall picked up any debris they can find. Shadow and Black Soul went outside to the garden. IT was completely demolished, not a green plant in sight except for the great survivor, grass. Grass can be found in some of the most harsh conditions in the world.

Soul asked,"Does it feel weird to be mortal again?"

"It's the same as it was before. You have to be careful with what you do."

"I'm going to get my mothers armor reformed to fit me because I'm a Pegasus. It's going to keep it's color and it's to be polished. The spear will be the same only sharper and clean."

"Wrench and Wither going to be doing that?"

"Yeah."

They continued to where used to be the bridge, no water was in the pond anymore. Just dirt and part of a gray object.

"What is that?" Soul asked.

"Not stone. Let's dig it up."

They used their hooves to pave away the dirt. The gray object was an egg. A very large one, it had no patterns just gray coloring.

"Dragon egg."

"Shadow are you kidding me?"

"It most likely is. I can have my friend see what kind it is when he returns."

"You mean Excaelum?"

"Yeah. I wonder who buried it here."

"It couldn't have been recent. This garden was built many years ago."

"It must have been dormant this whole time." Shadow gave the egg a little nudge to see if it was hollow."There's something inside."

The egg started to rumble and it cracked a little. The egg was starting to hatch. The egg heated up, the shell was turning red hot.

"I need a dragon here right now." said Shadow.

Shadow looked toward the frontier and didn't see a dragon in sight. Like he expected to.

Soul shouted,"I have no idea how to raise a dragon!"

"I don't either!"

The shell was becoming to fall apart more and more. The dragon inside was gray. It wasn't much. About 6 to 8 inches in length. It was crying it's high-pitched cry. The wings it had were bigger than the body. 10 to 12 inches in wingspan. It opened it's eyes, light-gray. The head was quite large for it's size, but it looked natural. A few pebbles around it started to lift, barely a couple centimeters off the ground. The pebbles dropped.

"No way. A gravity dragon?" said Shadow.

"Gravity dragon?"

"7 races of dragons. Fire. rock, water, air, thunder, time, and gravity. Time and gravity dragons have the highest rarity. I thought Excaelum was the last one, looks like I'm wrong. We need to take care of this dragon until he returns, he will know what to do." Shadow approached the hatchling and it blew a blue flame at him,"It doesn't like me. You try Soul."

It growled a bit as she inched closer to it but, didn't blow any flames at her."Seems like it likes me more than you." she chuckled. That changed,"I guess it doesn't like to be called "it". Let's see, are you are girl?" It growled,"Nope a boy. I'm going to call you angry." It growled."I'm kidding."

"Only if you could talk it would be a lot easier."

Dawn walked up behind them,"It takes time for a dragon to mature you know."

"Since when did you become such a dragon expert?" asked Shadow.

"I talked to Dragaitas while you and Excaelum were out that one night. He said that Excaelum took longer than he expected to until he learned how to speak."

"Oh. Well, where the heck is Excaelum? Damn we can't do anything with him."

A burst of knowledge ached Shadow's head and he began to hear what sounded like Excaelum talking to himself,"Where is Orcusin? I need to find out what happened to the rest of us."

Shadow felt like he was there with him and said,"What the? How is this possible?"

"Shadow. How are you in my head? I'm nowhere near the frontier."

"Yeah it's kind of awkward me being in this to I guess."

Shadow added,"Okay now that Dawn is here, even though she's right next to me, we can figure this thing out."

"You don't need to my friend, my father told me that we can communicate through our minds."

"Well now that we kind of got this sorted Excaelum we need you back at the frontier immediately."

"What's wrong?"

"I think we may have discovered another gravity dragon."

"I'm on my way." A few minutes passed,"That's where he's been. I need to lose him."

Dawn asked,"Who're you talking about?"

"My brother he's been tailing me. Keep the dragon warm until I get there. He still doesn't know of the dragon, let's keep it that way. He may want to take the dragon if he finds out. He is much stronger than me so if he does find out I won't be able to stop him. Sit tight."

Excaelum didn't come that night. They moved the dragon inside and gave it a name, Kishi. This name belonged to a friend Soul had awhile back, she had the privilege in naming him because the dragon didn't try to burn her.
That night, that calm, faithful night. The Six-winged Pegasus was speaking to his daughter in the garden.

"Have you decided?"

"I......I don't know."

"This kind of decision takes time. What has gotten you stumped Dawn?"

"I'm afraid......afraid of death."

"Death must come to everything one day. Death itself is not frightening, it's facing death on your own. As long as you have the love of your family and friends, death will not scare you."

"Death,,,,,,"

"If you die then that means you have lived. We are living, we must go someday. That's the truth."

Dawn started to sniffle,"I don't know where I'm going to go after."

"None of us do. Besides you want to grow and have a family of your own one day right? Grow old with your love. Have fun with Flake, your future friends."

"Does death hurt?"

"Only if you let it."

"Why can't we just all live?"

"I ask myself that everyday."

They both stood where the tree used to be. The same tree that brought them ever closer.

Dawn looked up to the moon and shut her eyes taking a couple deep breaths. The world wasn't going dull as it did for Shadow, it went more vivid instead. The rays left her body and joined the stars. The process completed and Dawn opened her eyes followed by a gasp for air.

Author's Notes:

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I'm sorry I forgot to mention that the word tear in Great Tear's name is tear as in rip.
TWO NEW ART PIECES. SHADOW'S AND DAWN'S CUTIE MARK
http://azndragon123.deviantart.com/art/Shadow-s-Cutie-Mark-409125760?ga_submit_new=10%253A1382573513
I am looking for somepony to volunteer and make my scanned images into CGI if you are interested leave a comment here or on my deviantart.
The dragon design came from a member in a forum I am part of. mlpforums.com you can add me as a friend there if you want to, same as this username. MLP_Moth