At first, ponykind took the multiple killings as a warning that they should be good instead of bad. But then it escalated into a full-on extinction era. As the corpses started to pile up, the bounty for the sisters of darkness went up as well. Eventually it became everypony for themselves in most of the major towns and villages. Many ponies decided to fight back, in an effort to claim the reward money. Many ponies tried, but all of them were slaughtered by the possessed unicorns, and many ponies that weren't killed by Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine, were themselves possessed. The former bridesmaids were now amassing an army of possessed ponies, but for what purpose?

Monday. November 18, 2014, 10;51 AM

In the city of Canterlot, many of the buildings had been destroyed beyond all repair, and weird green marks were tagged on some of the still stable buildings. In the castle's throne room, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had called forth the Spirits of Harmony after years of fighting back possessed ponies.

"Welcome, girls." Celestia said as they came through the front doors, "I would have called you sooner, but i've been a little preoccupied."

"I understand, Princess Celestia." Twilight said to her ruler, "You've been fighting back against them as well."

"As you are no doubt aware, these possessed ponies only started popping up just recently." Luna explained as she magicked up some visual aids with her horn, "We've done all we can to hold them off, but they just keep coming. We know not who or what caused this to happen, but we do know that these possessed ponies are being commanded by three unknown unicorns."

"It is apparent that these unicorns have been steeped in the darkness before, as their magic is off of the charts. All of my men, even Shining Armour had no luck in taking them down." Celestia's voice turned grim.

"What kind of brutish ponies would want to do such a thing?" Rarity inquired.

"We are just unscrambling the picture now, it will be clear in a few moments." Luna said as the screen showed a vortex of colours, violently and erratically swirling around in the light box. After the colours had stopped moving, the possessed ponies were revealed and Twilight bore a look of horror.

"This is impossible." She said as she gazed into the green eyes in the picture. She knew who they were just by looking, "Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine, Chrysalis's Bridesmaids."

Upon hearing this, Celestia and Luna shared scared glances, "You know them?!" Luna asked.

"I've seen them before." Twilight said with grief on her face, "Do you remember the crystal caves underneath the city?"

"Yes, i sealed them off myself, hoping my subjects wouldn't get consumed by greed and darkness." Celestia said.

"Stuff happened to me after you scorned me on the wedding day, I was warped there, by the queen herself." Twilight spent the next 10-15 minutes talking about the journey to escape the caves with Cadence, she went on and on about everything, even the Bridesmaids at the end, "What i don't get is, how have they been possessed again? Chrysalis was banished and the Changelings scattered.

"Someone must have seen their darker sides and re-opened them. Someone with the power to alter light and darkness on a massive scale." Luna replied. "A being even stronger than anypony on this planet."

"We don't have much time, girls. Who knows, they could be closing in on our position even as we speak-" Celestia was cut off by a deafening explosion in the throne wall, which now had hundred of possessed ponies climbing through it and into the castle.

"Well well well. What do we have here?" One of the followers said as he eyed down the princesses and the Mane 6.

"Survivors? Impossible. Nothing escapes the dark ones!" Said a second voice, "But still, these girls look tough, well except for the pink one and the yellow one, they look tasty."

"They all look like fresh meat to me." Another one said with a low expectation like voice, "What do you think, ladies?"

And soon enough, all of the possessed ponies moved aside to reveal Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine stepping through the crowd towards the Mane 6

"Hello, Twilight." Lyra said as she stopped walking.

"Hello, ladies." Twilight said back to them.

"Are these your friends? Cause i'm not seeing a lot of potential here, unless you have something that will make us reconsider." Colgate asked her.

"Hang on girls, i smell something. Something... powerful, coming from their saddlebags." Twinkleshine said as she immediately teleported next to and opened said saddlebags, "Ah ha! Here we go."

"Are those the-"

"Yes, the fabled Elements Of Harmony." She said as she returned next to her colleagues, "And i suppose you are their chosen bearers?"

Upon hearing this, the possessed ponies could not help but laugh, laughing at the sight of 6 childish mares bearing the trinkets needed to save Equestria from utter destruction.

"How amusing, to see six..... kids! Bearing the greatest weapons ever deivsed by ponykind." Lyra noted.

"Hey, are you saying we're childish?!" Rainbow Dash snapped.

"Dashie, dear, you and your friends ARE childish. I mean you're what? 16?" Colgate asked.

"14 and a half." She responded.

The possessed ponies could not help but laugh even harder than before.

"You're 14, and you're wielding the elements? How funny." They decided to calm down a little before pulling out their weapons of mass death and destruction, "This should be CHILD'S play, oopsie, did it again."

"What business do you have here in the castle anyway?!" Luna demanded.

"Patience, former elder of darkness, all will be revealed in good time. But for your childish defenders, I leave a riddle." Lyra said to the princess of the night and then turned to face the Mane 6, "What is the light, without darkness? and if so, what is the darkness without light? The answers, the truth, the final clash, all awaits in the Everfree Forest."

After she stopped, the possessed followers teleported into nothingness and/or ran/flew off laughing. Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine however, opened a weird vortex of black and green energy and stepped through it before fading away into the shadows completely.

"OK, that was weird, even by my standards." Pinkie Pie said after the portal sealed itself and dissapeared.

"Well we're not gonna get the answers by sittin' here and twiddling our hooves. Those ponies said that the truth awaited in that there Everfree Forest." Applejack said, breaking the silence.

"But, the Everfree Forest is a dangerous place for anypony who dares enter, Remember, If it wasn't for the Tree Of Harmony, we would have all been devoured by the forest's dark essence." Fluttershy reminded them all, "They must be using the forest for another reason altogether, maybe an ambush, or a ritual ground, or something even more dark."

"Even so, if we don't enter the forest, Lyra, Colgate and Twinkleshine will eventually get bored and start killing again, and god knows what kind of hell those three can pull off now." Celestia told them all, "Twilight, you and the girls need to enter the forest once more and restore those ponies to their rightful states, only then will all this carnage stop."

"You're right, come on ,girls. We're gonna pay the dark bridesmaids a visit." Twilight said as they were strapping on their respective Elements Of Harmony.

As they galloped off to the forest however, a voice in the air said, "Soon i shall be reborn, and all ponykind will burn!!!" Next Chapter: Chapter 2: Twilight..... Come out and play.... Estimated time remaining: 6 Minutes