It was a while later and Canterlot is restored to normal, there isn't a trace of damages or Shadowbolts in the city. The ponies got up, groaning while the statue of Discord is nearby.

"Man, I feel like I hit a wall." Rainbow groans a bit, feeling her forehead.

"Everypony okay," Applejack asks her friends in concern, seeing if anypony suffers any damages.

"My tail, it's back!" Rarity giggles happily as she saw something familiar on her back end: her tail has grown back, replacing the one that she gave to the sea serpent!

"Why Rarity, it's so lovely." Fluttershy comments with a smile.

"I know, isn't it? I will never part with it again."

"I think she means your necklace!" Spike exclaims in amazement as she points to Rarity's necklace. "Why, I didn't realize that it looks like your cutie mark until now!"

"Why thank you, Spikey Wikey. And Fluttershy's necklace has the symbol of her cutie mark." Rarity giggles as she smiles at Fluttershy's necklace making her gasp in amazement.

"Look at ours, everypony! Look at mine!" Pinkie exclaims as she bounces up and down, motioning to her necklace.

"Aw yeah," Rainbow exclaims, grinning in approval at the cutie mark on her necklace.

"Spike...thank you for helping us." Twilight said while hugging her assistant/little brother. "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have defeated Discord and Nightmare Moon...and thank you for helping me, Rarity and us when we needed it."

"You are a true hero, Spike." Rarity said as she kisses Spike on the cheek, making him blush.

"Gee, Twilight! Ah thought yew were just spoutin' a lot of hooey, but Ah reckon we really do represent 'de elements o' friendship." Applejack said with a grin. Twilight was right all along about she and her friends being the Elements of Harmony. "Though Ah am surprised 'dat Spike has an Element himself."

"Indeed that is the case." A familiar voice said. The ponies and Spike gasps as Celestia, recovered, came to them with Shining and Cadance, making them bow to the ruler of Equestria.

"Princess Celestia, you're all right!" Twilight, after she bow to Celestia, exclaims as the unicorn rush over and nuzzles her teacher/mentor.

"I knew you could do it, Twilight Sparkle my faithful student. I was worried when Discord was released but I knew you and your friends would pull through."

"You knew what you were talking about the whole time! You knew that friendship is the key to stopping Nightmare Moon and Discord, that's why you told me to make friends!"

"Yes." Celestia said with a smile. "I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return and knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, though I didn't expect her to release Discord as a precaution. But thanks to the magic of true friendship in your heart with some help from Spike you were able to accomplish."

"But what's with this necklace around my neck?" Spike asks Celestia in concern, wondering about the neck.

"I thought there were only six, Auntie Celestia." Cadance points out to Celestia in amazement. "Where did this new Element came from?"

"There are six Elements of Harmony but I heard legends of more out there. Spike's the Element of Determination; his determination to help you all has truly shows how powerful friendship really is. Now if only another will prove it as well," Princess Celestia said. She trots over to a part of the battlefield where an alicorn with moderate cyan eye, a very light azure mane, a light phthalate blue coat, a magic aura of moderate cobalt blue and a crescent moon on a dark purple background is on lying in the background, just waking up. "Princess Luna."

Princess Luna wakes up and gasps upon seeing Celestia who spoke up, "It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this." The alicorn sat down while continuing, "Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together, little sister."

Everypony and dragon gasps in surprise, "Sister?" Then again, they have known for some time that Luna is Celestia's sister. That is who Nighmare Moon used to be!

"Will you accept my friendship?"

The ponies and dragon lean in, in hope and concern. They hope that Luna will accept Celestia's friendship and everything will be forgiven. Pinkie yelps as she falls down, "Whoa!"

Finally, Luna sniffs as she stood up and rushes over to Celestia, making her stood up while crying, "I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have released Discord! I missed you so much, big sister!"

The two alicorns made a pony version of a hug, Celestia, with tears in her eyes, said, "I've missed you too."

"Shining...I almost forgot to ask. Why are you and Cadance hanging with one another?" Twilight ask her brother curiously, making Shining and Cadance blush a bit.

"We have been dating for a while." Shining admits to Twilight with a smile. "Sorry to keep you in the dark..."

"It's okay, Shining. As long as nothing foolish happens like you two getting engaged and I end up finding out months later."

"Well...that is a possibility." Cadance giggles a bit as she and Shining nudges each other.

"So what shall we do with Discord?" Rainbow ask the princesses and everypony else in concern while motioning to Discord's statue form nearby.

"We shall put it where no pony, not even Luna, will ever release him again." Celestia said seriously while Luna nods in agreement. "At least on the plus side, we all know that he can't pull one over on you girls again."

Pinkie sobs a bit as she blows her own nose into a hanky. Then the Earth pony grins while exclaiming, "Hey! You know what this calls for?"

"A party," Twilight ask Pinkie with a grin.

"How did you know?"

"Lucky guess!"

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Back in Ponyville, the ponies cheers on for the return of Celestia and Luna, who has been forgiven for what she tried to do as Nightmare Moon, as well as the defeat of Discord. The ponies were hailed as heroes for saving Equestria from danger, even Shining and Cadance were cheering on Twilight.

Twilight grins as she receives hugs from Spike and her friends....then she looks down in sadness. Nightmare Moon has been defeated and so did Discord...but that means that the adventure is now over. The unicorn would have to go back to Canterlot now.

"Why so glum, my faithful student; Are you not happy that your quest is complete and you can return to your studies in Canterlot?" Celestia ask Twilight, noting the sad look on her face.

"Right, I thought you would be happy to come back home." Shining said to Twilight in surprise.

Twilight sighs in sadness, glancing at her worried friends as well as Spike, explaining, "That's just it. Just when I learned how wonderful it is to have friends, I have to leave them."

"Yeah...it would be sad to separate them like this, isn't it, Auntie Celestia?" Cadance points out to Celestia in concern. If only there's a way.

"Spike, take a note, please." Celestia said thoughtfully. Spike nods as he did as the princess say. She begins to say as if making an announcement, "I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must continue to study the magic of friendship. She must report to me her findings from her new home in Ponyville."

The ponies cheers on while Twilight and her friends laugh while the others hug their new friends. She exclaims to the princess, "Oh thank you, Princess Celestia! I'll study harder than ever before." This is great, this mean that Twilight will stay in Ponyville after all!"

The ponies cheers on wildly. Looks like nothing will ruin this moment...until Spike then ask, "Hey, Twi, who was that dragon I..." The baby dragon gulps a bit, "killed?"

"You mean Lorcan? Oh, I almost forgot to thank you for doing so." Twilight said to Spike with a smile. "Now my brother Starlight can rest in peace."

"Wait, hang on." Celestia said, hearing what Twilight said in shock. "Who did you mentioned that Spike has killed?"

"Lorcan. Why?"

"My faithful student, this is going to sound shocking...but Lorcan has been dead ever since he tried to escape. A while before Nightmare Moon returned."

Twilight looks shocked and confused. She was never told about this! The purple unicorn asks in concern, "Wait, then who did Spike kill? Come to think about it...something about this adventure doesn't make sense!"

"What do yew mean?" Applejack asks Twilight as her friends look at the unicorn.

"I mean, for some reason, this adventure isn't right! Discord wasn't supposed to be released until a while after the gala! I haven't told Spike about that colt...and he wasn't supposed to get an Element. And I didn't realize that my brother and Cadance were together yet and...I feel like this adventure isn't right for some reason, I don't know!"

Rainbow pauses then say, "Yeah, Twilight. We know what you mean. And I think I know how to solve this problem."

"How," Twilight ask Rainbow, waiting for an answer.

"WAKE UP!" Pinkie screams as she grabs Twilight, shaking her like mad.

Twilight yelps in alarm as she can hear her friends screaming for her wake up over and over...

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Twilight gasps as she stood up in a bed in a familiar hut. The unicorn yelps as Pinkie shakes her some more while screaming, "Wake up, wake up!"

"Pinkie, Pinkie Pie, I'm up, I'm up!" Twilight yelps in alarm, causing Pinkie to stop shaking.

"Oh, sorry."

"Wake goodness you're awake." Fluttershy said to Twilight with a sigh. "We were worried."

Twilight blinks her eyes and saw that she herself and the rest of the Mane 6 are inside Zecora's hut in the Everfree Forest. What are they doing here?

"What's going on? Why are we in Zecora's hut?" Twilight ask her friends in concern.

"Don't you remember? We were travelling in the Everfree Forest, looking for ingredients for your lab." Rarity explains to Twilight in concern.

"Oh yes...now I remember, we came into a part of the forest...and I guess we went right out after a while of looking for some ingredients that I needed."

"Yyep! We woke up a few minutes ago an' were trying 'ta wakened y'all up." Applejack said in agreement. "But what happened?"

"Welcome you back to the world of waking, my friends." Zecora said as she came into the room. "I do hope that the Plant of Alternative didn't affect you too much."

"Is that what we came across?" Rainbow asks in concern. "Man, I thought we learnt our lesson about plants after the business with the Poison Oak."

"Perhaps I should've told you about the Plant as well. When you all travelled into the Everfree Forest, you all came across a very rare, but highly dangerous plant that causes all that suck in its aroma scents to share an illusionary moment in their life if things happened different."

"Really," Pinkie asks in surprise. "Well, that does explain when I re-experienced the incident with Gilda in a different way."

"Of course, that explains how I experience what we did with Nightmare Moon the last time...but things end up being different when Discord got involved." Twilight said in amazement.

"Yes, but funny thing about dreams: they can also be alternative universes." Zecora explains with a chuckle. "We all should learn from stuff like them, yes?"

"Yeah, you're right. We should be thankful not to relive things if they happened differently...and kept moving forward."

"Sounds like an important friendship report to send to Celestia, huh?" Pinkie asks Twilight with a smile. The purple unicorn pauses and smiles in agreement.

As the group leaves the hut to head back home, Twilight spoke to Rarity, "Rarity, odd enough, I dreamt that you and Spike were...you know...more than just friends..."

Rarity pauses then giggle a bit, "Maybe, though the dragon is a bit young for me. But who knows? If I don't find my suitor..."

Twilight cringes as another part of her alternative universe dream is still in her head: the one with Lorcan. The unicorn hopes that she will never find into him again soon...

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Meanwhile, in the area Spike killed 'Lorcan' in the alternative universe that Twilight dreamt up, a familiar dragon from the prime universe, wearing his cloak, appears and scoffs, "My creation has failed. I made him the sole purpose to ensure that Tadaka would be avenged in another universe. As for the blue scales...I'm glad that I am not blue, dark purple is the way to go. Still, best to see what this clone has learned..."

Lorcan picks up the dead clone and put a claw to his forehead to gain access to his memories. Just then, the dragon saw him...Spike. He gasps and, his scar glowing brightly, rages, "No...HE is still alive in this universe! This is an insult!"

Lorcan sets the clone aflame. Calming himself down, he leaves while mumbling, "This makes me more determined to get myself of those ponies even more....

Cast list
John de Lancie: Discord
Tabitha St. Germain: Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna, Rarity
Kazumi Evans: Rarity (singing voice)
Tara Strong: Twilight Sparkle
Rebecca Shoichet: Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)
Ashleigh Bell: Applejack, Rainbow Dash
Andrea Libman: Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy
Shannon Chan-Kent: Pinkie Pie (singing voice)
Cathy Weseluck: Spike the Dragon, The Mayor of Ponyville
Nicole Oliver: Princess Celestia
Mark Hamill: Lorcan
Andrew Francis: Shining Armor
Britt McKillip: Princess Cadance
Frank Welker: the chair
Rob Paulsen: the treasure
Brenda Crichlow: Zecora

Author's Notes:

Whoa! Now that is a twisted ending, eh? The whole thing was a dream that Twilight has. Nice. Hope you all like this My Little Pony. And now, it's time to reveal what's next...

"The Return of An Old Friend: (takes place from Curse of the Demon Pony) Ater the attack from Lorcan, Celestia sends a letter to someone she knew from her past; someone who helped to end Discord's reign years ago."

This next fic will introduce another OC of a new pal called Gold Heart. Hopefully this may be a bit short or who knows. Read, review and suggest, folks.