Author's Notes:

HELLO! and welcome, to the first ever super special! this super special, aka, a special among specials, will be packed with action, comedy, drama, worldbuilding and intenisty! so be sure to stay tuned for this huge, and amazing super special spectacularthon!!!!

First I want to take a moment to thank you all for being such a great group of readers, sure we got some people who...are less then nice at times, but I know at least SOMEONE out there has to like this story! Silver Haze is my creation, and from what I've seen...well it can go ONLY UP FROM HERE!

Let The Adventure Begin!

Spoilers for the end (No peaking)

THE STORY IS NOT OVER, THERE WILL NOT BE A HAZE IN EQUESTRIA 3 SEPERATE STORY...WELL NOT YET, ACT II & III WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO GO TOGETHER. THANKS FOR READING THIS, LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!

Alright girls LETS DO THIS!

"Uhhh Princess? Howes es wee suppurs to due 'tat?" Applejack said quietly?

"I HAVE NO IDEA!" Twilight said with bravado!

"Yes Darling! We need a PLAN?" Raity said questionaly.

"I'm now more NERVOUS, less EXCITED!" Pinky said in her RANDOM way.

"Girls it's all OK! I put a tracker spell on Silver Haze when he tried to flee, I didn't tell Celestia because she'd try and arrest him for crimes he didn't commit." Everypony and Luna nodded Twilight let her horn light up as she felt to spell guide her, she gasped.

"Girls...with the way the signal is moving...I think that silver is going towards the BADLANDS!" Everypony gasped except for applejack.

"Errhh? Suggurecube? I maght naut be one of 'tem fancy edumacation types, but agh dont writghtly knaw whats so bad about them there's Badlauds place?" Twilight sighed.

"No Applejack, as a farmer I don't expect you to know much about geography, the badlands...they were once where all ponykind called home." applejack looked surprised.

"Well how'd that be so?" Applejack inquired.

"Well it's a bit of a long story...you see applejack back when ponykind was spit into three tribes, equestria didn't exsist, we lived in Equius, a nation much like equestria, just a fertile, but also just as dangerous, however, after the Alicorns whent to alicornia to excape when we unrightfully rose up against the alicorns that had so long protected us after the tree of harmony was created and destoryed most of them. Without the Alicorns to guide us our weak species had no guidence and turned on each other for reasorces...it was sad, however, after the events of Hearth Warming Eve, Equestria was founded, but what was once Equius was destroyed tottaly, and what was not destoryed and covered in dust and death is now called the Badlands, few survive there, and I don't know why silver would head that way." Twilight finnished shaking her head as she walked home.

She had spent so long telling the story they were back in ponyville. All six of them + Luna. They decided to take another train to the badlands but none exsisted yet. So they toke an Airship and departed for the Badlands.

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silver's location
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a giant fog montster comes out from the floor and a large sword comes to meet it, causing the monster to die "man when will these monsters stop?" silver asked with a huff. rose nova was sitting off to the side "just keep fighting them, we wouldn't want them to kill me now would we?" she said like a damsel in distress. silver nodded

"i will protect you will all my might!" yelled the haze of silver. silver was about to slice another portion of the floor when his head went a little dizzy and he blinked, seeing blood splattered all around the ground. another blink reveals a fell pony with a huge gash in his chest, and it was ALICORN! silver blinked one last time and it all was gone "MY lady i saw a alicorn on the floor " silver said panicked. "it was probably the fog playing with your mind... pay it no mind" she said, and silver resumed his combat, becoming more and more tiered by the second.

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hope' location
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hope wiped his forehead as sweat flew off his hoof. the harsh hot rays of Celestia's sun punished down on the barren wasteland known only as the badlands of Equestria.

hope looked about, the sun light that was reflection off the ground was blinding him. he approached the temple he had come to know over the past while, the one where his brothers stood guard.

Shielded had come to the Badlands to regain the Artifact, so that he could wield it to destroy the fog, but what he had found was far better.

Warmongers. An entire division of Warmonger Alicorns

Turns out his father found the artifact before he did, and sent a team to guard it until Alicornia needed it. They lost contact with the city some time ago, but their orders were to hold position, they had been waiting here for new orders. He had finally convinced the leader of the small group to let him take the Artifact, and use it to avenge his fallen comrades.

He stepped over the body of what was once a corrupted Changling, they had a hive nearby, but the warmongers kept them at bay, he feared what would happen if they soul was unguarded.

Now, he walked towards the dark temple, what was once a grand open palace had been buried in dust and sand for so long that all he could see was the grand staircase leading to the main entrance.

cautiously, he looks around to see if he was followed. nopony there...or anywhere, odd, the guards normally came out to greet him...Hope walked into the temple. the first bad sign was blood. blood everywhere. Worried, he continued on his way to the main hall of the temple. Summoning The Warhammer of Hope to wield at his side. Peering around the corner Hope was devastated to see that all the Alicorn guards...his BROTHERS, were dead. Hope collapsed as he ran to one of the guards side, there was no life in his eyes, what life he once had had been sucked out of his body, a painful and slow death.

The death inflicted by a blood mage.

Hope shut his jaw, his teeth grating on one another as he suppressed new anger, this world, it had run out of things to take from him, now it was just giving him things for the express purpose of taking them away.

Hope stood his Order magic bending around him as he searched the magical energy for a signature, like a bloody name he could follow back to the bastard responsible.

Hope stopped, his magic faltering as he checked the magical signature, it was unmistakably Alicorn, one he had seen so many times before.

It was Prince Silver Haze.

of course it was

who else would it be? Who else COULD, it be?

In that moment, Hope didn't care about his Oath, his dignity, or how Silver Haze needed to stay alive for just a bit longer, he only wanted Vengeance, blinding, stupid vengeance, the kind he had long dreamed about but never pursued because he knew how careless it made you, he had long since condemed those who spent their lives seeking it.

He now understood why.

Hope charged down the hall, his warhammer ready to fight and his will burining, he had a lot to answere for and by the GODS he would ENJOY RIPPING THAT PATHETIC ALICORN TO SHREADS, as he entered the next room, a giant open prayer area with giant statues of an Alicorn tyrant long since dead, and some weird alter at the end with stairs leading to the central chamber, he saw silver and he was looking right at him, Silvers eyes were red and looked hypontized, peering past him, he saw a twisted fog abomination, brown and with a single peering golden eye that Hope dared not look upon. the fog had gotten to him, that explaned it. he matched Silvers gaze and readied his hammer. Hope shouted to Silver "Silver! You are under the Fog's control, FIGHT IT! Let me help you! This need not go to the death!"

Silver Growled, his mind echoing the words back to him "Silver...FIGHT...ME...GO TO THE DEATH!" Silver blinked, his full mind back at his disposal, but the threat still heavy in his mind. "What do you want HOPE? How dare you attack the Grand Galloping Gala!" Silver angrily shouted looking around at all the confused and worried Gala-ponies, Nova looked particularily worried.

Hope looked confused, before his scowel returned "Fine, if you wish to live in your delition, I will not wast my breath trying to save a murderous monster, TO THE DEATH, EN-GARDE!" Hope finished as he charged Silver, as Silver did so as well.

"RAHHHH" The two screamed as they locked weapons in a destpreat battle. Silvers Red eyes meeting Hopes Blue.

Hope had the strategy to outwit silver through his tactics, Silver just wanted to bash his head in.

Silver let loose a torrent of red blood magic, Hope teleported, keeping his defenses up as he stood on a tall statue of an Alicorn in the room. He teleported again behind silver and brought his warhammer down with all the might he could bear, he was surpised by silver's tactical thinking when he turned around and tried to block with his blade, but only as a destraction so he he could charge up and use a teleportation spell to teleport behind Hope. Silver slashed at his back, but it bounced off Hope's Order Sheild he had hid on his back.

Hope, seeing that Silver was serious, used his magic to throw off his cloak, his eyes, no longer bound to the cloak, glowed their full blue colour at almost a blinding light, his Gold, Blue, and Silver armor reflecting in the little light the made it through the cracks in the temple, he drew his sheild in his magic grip, which looked like a triangle with a semi-cercle at the bottem that was bent inward to provide protection, He swong his warhammer as he brought his sheild up to block Silver's Wrathful attack. He countered gracefully, creating fake copies of his weapon to distract silver and keep him wasting his life force.

This was it. The final time they would fight.
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Badland Outlands
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The mane 6 + Luna all made their way off the airship, the dry area, once a frozen wasteland now merely a burning barren one. Was the only greating as far the eye could see.

"Boy Howdy Twighilight! How ahr wee to fuind Silveer in dis here place?" Applejack said, worry in her voice.

"Relax applejack, I can track him, its going to be a long jorney, but a neccary one! Silver is across the scortching sands, through the dry vally, and past the Dragon's Skull. We can do it girls, but we have to work together, All the mane 6 cheered, but a smaller voice was also caught cheering.

"SPIKE?!?!" They all said at once as the stowaway dragon was found. "Sorry girls, but Silver has become like a brother to me...the brother I never had, this is one adventure that having a mighty dragon hero along for the ride MIGHT be a good idea."

Everypony but twilight seemed to be iffy about it, Twilight was FURIOUS.

"SPIKE This place is WAY to dangerous for you! You could get hurt here!" Twilight yelled, spike matched her volume "No more then you could Twilight! I will not sit by and watch you...you DIE, because I was too weak to step in and help, its like silver always says 'Inability is natural, Inaction is a flaw!' and I'm not taking no for an answer!" Before Twilight could order spike to get his scalely butt back on the airship, Luna pipped up.

"Will all do respect Twilight, having a young drake along may be beneficial, sending him away now would be a wast of an opportunity." Twilight turned around to glare at Luna

"Yeah? Well he's not your assistant PRINCESS Luna, he's mine! If I say he gets back on that airship and goes back to the safety of the library, HE GOES BACK TO THE LIBRARY!" Twilight yelled at Luna, who quickly fired back a response.

"It is more logical to take him along, his flameproof scales and dragonbreath will be invaluble, I do not see why you will not see reason Twilight!" Luna finished with a huff only agrivating twilight further.

"Oh! So you want to use him as BATE for the traps! Yes lets just throw him in the line of fire, its not like this isn't a place for a child to be! Why don't we arrange a field trip for all of ponyvile elementary to come here and play 'Avoid the spike traps!' THAT SOUND SO RESPONSIBLE!" Twilight's response struck a nerve with luna.

"AS HIS PRINCESS I ORDER YOU TO KEEP HIM HERE WHERE HE CAN BE USEFUL!" Luna's orders was the last straw for the new princess.

"WELL I ORDER HIM TO GO HOME." Twilight screamed back at Luna, Spike stepped back, not wanting to be in the middle of this anymore. Luna just scoffed at Twilights reply before continuing

"I AM HIS PRINCESS WITH RIGHTS BEYOND YOURS TWILIGHT, MY AUTHORITY TRUMPS YOURS AS A NEW PRINCESS, TELL ME UNDER WHAT LAW DO YOU GET TO SAY WHAT HE DOES?" Suddenly, something inside Twilight snapped, the words came out of her mouth before she could stop them.

"BECAUSE OF THE SAME REASON I DONT LET HIM GO ON ANY OF MY ADVENTURES! THE SAME REASON I DON'T LET HIM PUT HIMSELF IN SITUATIONS WHERE HE CAN BE HURT! BECAUSE OF THE SAME REASON I HATE LEAVING HIM ALONE! BECAUSE OF THE SAME REASON I GET WORRIED WHENEVER HE SPENDS ALL DAY AT RARITY'S PLACE! BECAUSE I AM HIS MOTHER!...I MEAN..Caretaker...I mean..." Twilight shoved her hooves in-front of her mouth fear in her eyes from what she had just let slip. She looked around to see the surprise on Luna's face, the shock on Spikes face and the mixed reactions of her friends.

Rainbow dash and Fluttershy almost looked like they...understood? Fluttershy more then Rainbow dash though.

Rarity looked baffled as if she had just found out that the puzzle she had been constructing looked nothing like the box.

Applejack and Pinkie pie seemed to be just shocked at the revelation.

Twilight opened her mouth to speak, to explain, to laugh it off as a miss word. But she could force no more then labored breaths out of her throat, she would never know if it was from using the Royal Voice, or fear about saying the wrong thing again, but for just a moment she stood there.

Twilight brought her map up to cover her face.

"...there is...about a half-hours walk between us and the Dry Vally, We can cut through the Scortching sands to buy ourselves a few minuets, but how many exactly I do not know, once we get to the Dry Vally...its another half hour to the Dragon's skull, then a ten minuet walk to where Silver is.

"Twighlight..." Applejack said as she went to move the map away from twilight's face, Twilight just pushed Applejack's hoof away with her magic, and with an almost inaudible sniffling sound, turned and began to walk. The mane 5 followed hesitatnly after her. Leaving just Luna and Spike.

"so...am I coming or not?" Spike said to luna, the young drake desperately trying to keep his mind off the impact of what Twilight's thoughts on him did to his preception of his life.

Luna said nothing and walked off quickly, following Twilight.

Spike followed a second later.

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silver's location
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"RAH" Silver cried as another statue fell to his magic, the gala seemed to be suddenly filled with them, his mind said "Stop this Hope!" His mouth said "I'll STOP YOU HOPE!" as he slashed at Hope again, his two blades once again being blocked by that sheild, before Hope used his sheild to force the blades to the side before he brought his hammer directly in front of him before throwing it forwards with his magic, Hitting Silver on the chest, breaking several ribs and puncturing his lung.

Silver gasped for a moment before his magic swirled around him as he bones snapped back into place, his lung was obviously damaged though, healing organs was a delicate thing, even alicorns had to watch getting their organs destroyed if they didn't want to risk death.

Silver grabed his blades as he teleported, blinking in and out of exsistance as he gracfuly avoided Hope's more-then-normal agressive style of fighting, eventualy, he managed to blink directly in front of Hope before slicing at him, he got a few good blows in before he was forced to blink away, Hopes superpowered ruins quickly used some of his magic storage to heal his wounds, Silver could only gasp, he was already running on empty, how could he compleat with a Alicorn who wasn't tired by using his magic? He knew Hope's runes would run out of power, but he would be splattered by then.

He brought his blade up and forced the warhammer to the side of him, where it cracked the ground, Before Hope could step on his head, he teleported away, sweat dripping down his ripped body, his mane lying limp at his side as he held one blade out in front of him, and the other one at his side, he could only breath hevily. How was he to defeat this crazy Warmonger?

He saw the look of worry on Rose Nova's face, he had to keep her safe, he had to protect her, he had to protect ALL the innocents at the Gala!

"YOU ARE A MONSTER HOPE" Silver yelled, Hope calmly replied.

"I'm not the one stealing the lifeforce of one to use to kill another Silver, you are the beast, and I will PUT YOU DOWN." Hope yelled as he spun around and swong, forcing Silver to make another despreate move.

"You are the one who kills innocent ponies just because they were born with gifts you fear." Hope suddenly pushed silver back pinning him against the wall with his hammer, Silvers two blades pointed at Hope's chest being the only thing keeping him from being crushed.

"They are not Innocent, every blood-spell condemns hundreds to death by fog, I have never hunted a blood mage who has not indirectly been responsible for a hundred corpses due to their incompitance and ignornace, and YOU shall be no different." Hope said as he steaped back and swong his hammer at Silvers head, Silver ducked and tried to thrust his blades forwards, which hope sidesteped before turning around and bucking him through the wall, which revealed a small armory beside the room, filled with rusted old steel, Silver shakily tried to stand, Hope stood there.

"Quickly now silver, If you don't get up soon I'll just kill you now, call it selfish but I want you to get up so I can enjoy watching you SUFFER first." Hope spat out at Silver, who took the oprotunity regardless to stand and ready himself again for the next brutal swarm of swings that soon followed.

"Why do you hate me so much!?!" Silver growled as he and Hope stood against each other their weapons keeping them just out of spitting range.

Hope looked at Silver a fire burining for so long rising to the surface. "My brother Raging Honor, he was young and foolish, and you...he told me that YOU were the one who showed him accursied blood magic, that YOU were the one who showed him how he could gain power with it...ITS YOUR FAULT I HAD TO KILL HIM, IT. IS. YOUR. FAULT." Hope accompanied every pause at the end with a mightly swing of his Warhammer, knocking Silver back, forcing him to jump over Hopes head to avoid being smashed through another wall.

Silver stopped. "Wait...Raging? I remember him..." Hope froze for a moment.

"So you do?" Hope said, the cold tone of his voice very noticable as he for one rested his Warhammer on the ground.

Silver shook his head "Hope...I never...Raging was a Bloodmage before I WAS. Hell I learned everything I knew from him...he was talented too...I'm sorry but...your brother was a natural bloodluster. I-I had nothing to do with that."

There was a moment of silence.

Hope began to laugh.

"Oh yes, look at me, Prince Silver Haze, Oh he was always a Bloodluster, oh he was always CORRUPTED, little old me had jack all to do with it" Hope began to laugh louder and louder his magic becoming stronger and stronger.

Silver tried to reason with him "Hope...there is a history of Bloodlust in your family, if one or two every now and again come up as naturals...it's expected." Silver was cut of by the laughter become more forced.

"OH SILVER, HOW YOU LIE EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN, WHAT, IS TURNING ME AGAINST THE MEMORY OF THE ONE-FUCKING-PONY WHO EVER TREATED ME LIKE A BEING INSTEAD OF A WEAPONS PART OF SOME MASTER PLAN TO DEFEAT ME?" Hope attacked faster and harder, bringing every ounce into every strike.

"What is next! Telling me my father never loved me? I was a political tool to be given to the king to promote the Warmonger agenda? Knew THAT already! Did I know that the Warmongers wispered my name whenever I walked by because I was the bloodlusters little toy guard? That I was so bad at hunting bloodlusters that I was more likely to destroy them if I was guarding them? I HEARD THEM ALL! HA, now you tell me the one pony who treated me like I was worth something, like I could BECOME something, like I could DO something was always a filthy bloodluster and just waiting to kill everyone in my family in the dead of night to take our power?!?! THAT ONE IS NEW! BUT IF TO DEMORALIZE ME IS YOUR PLAN YOU ARE FAILING! Because I'll tell you something." Hope tightened his grip on his Warhammer.

"It's just making me more pissed."

Hope roared as he charged against Silver.

The fire of battle had ignited once again.

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Badland Dry Vally
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The group tirelessly walked through the vally, as they came across the other side, the surpisingly NOT DRY vally leaving some of them wounded, some of them soaked with water, some of them hungry and some of them emotionally scared for life.

The group gasped looking back at the long journey they had taken, they had survived countless perils, some INDESCRIBABLE using just words, it was one of those adventures that one had to be there, to truely understand, nothing else would do it justice. Twilight knew it was dangerous, but she had come out a better mare. She was GLAD she got to see the horrors that Vally presented and that she had had a chance to overcome them...she could not think of any other words to describe it. What happened there was personal to each of them.

She would never mention it again. Ever. It was just too personal to give it justic-

Spike screamed as he ran out of the vally. "RUN, THE HAIRLESS APES ARE CHASING US AGAIN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVEESSSSS" As the small drake ran as fast as his little legs could carry them, all the ponies looked at each other, fear in their eyes. "RUN!" They all said unaimously as they sprinted away from the most horrible of the terrors of the vally.

Never. Mention. It. Again.

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silver's location
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Silver's duel was endless, neither party giving up, never making a single mistake, they would end this, both parties were sure of it, one fueled by blind vengence, a broken warmonger who wanted nothing but to bring silver death, and Silver, trying to save who he thought were inocent ponies.

"GRAH" They both forced the other away with magic, silver's magic faultered as he tried to lift his blades up to his chest again, Hope could bairly bring his Hammer over his shoulder.

"Are you good?" Silver was shocked to hear Hope's weary voice, he looked to see the anger in his eyes.

"W-what?" Silver spat out, trying to find what game Hope was playing.

"Are you as deaf as you are daft? I asked you if you were still up to fight...this battle...well I don't want it getting pathetic. I really don't want this fight to turn into who slaps each other to death first. I personally recomened a five minuet break. You know, just to catch our breaths." Silver was shocked at Hope, not understanding his words.

"Why the hell would I trust you?!?!" Hope rolled his eyes.

"Because you know I respect the honor of battle and I know you are many things, but you at least have some form of respect for mutual honor." Hope said with a gasp his magic falling out of his grasp, Silver saw his chance, to swing his blade and finish this.

A few seconds later Silver gave up trying to lift his blade.

"three and a half minuets. I want to get back to this really soon." Silver said with a growl.
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Badland Dragon's Skull
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Twilight thought that it coulden't get any worse then the Dry Vally, but she was wrong, she had not known what horrors awaited her in the Dragons skull...this was the craziest adventure of her young life.

Twilight didn't even look back as the giant skull of the anchent dragon Nostur'dav caved in as magical feedback destroyed it, the screams of griffon cult memebers trying to bring back their dead dragon god mixed with the blood-hungy growls of the Weird ape things that had followed her.

Somewhere in the back, the flames of a newly open gates to tatartus exploded, causing most of the mane 6 to flinch. Not Twilight though, she was still trying to remember the last words of that wise old stallion who had given her and her friends the key to excape eternal punishement in limbo, sacrificing his and his friends soul to save them, they would be remembered forever, but their actions would have to be kept on the down-low, what had gone on in that cursed place must never leave this land.

Twilight called out to her friends "We...I understand why we might want to tell others about what has happened, but we can't risk anypony trying the same thing they did again, we must NEVER mention it, EVER AGAIN."

Rarity studdered "But! Darling! The cult!"

"NEVER AGAIN"

"a-and the giant zombie dragon!"

"Nope, NOT EVER TALKING ABOUT IT."

"and how rainbow dash changed history when she went back to the founding of Equestria! or how you fell in love with Star Sw- MhmhHmMHh!?!?!" Rarity found her lips magically zipped up as twilight turned to her hey eyes serious and focused.

"Never. Again."

Rarity just nodded.

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silver's location
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Silver and Hope locked weapons YET AGAIN as they brutaly beat each other with their hooves as their magic weapons were stuck against one another, Silver was lossing ground to Hopes attacks, his raw power was no match for hope's cold cunning. The Gala would be destroyed at this rate! He had to think fast, how could he save the Gala? perhaps he could surrender? He hated to let Hope win, but he knew Hope was an honorable Alicorn, if he got what he wanted, he would leave, he had no other reason to attack the Gala like this.

Silver had to take the risk. For the good of Equestria

Silver dropped his blade and placed his hooves up "I SURRENDER, MY LIFE IS YOURS, JUST PLEASE STOP!"

Hope groweled. He was Silver Guardian, but he would finnish this once and for all, he lifted his weapon over his head. Memories of the dead bodies, memories of the horrors Silver had done, memories of his brother...turned into a MONSTER because of this BRAT. He remembered the FEAR in his youngest brothers eyes as he had to bring the blade down on him...vengeance...IT WOULD BE HIS.

Silver sat there silently, Hope would not kill him, he was too soft for that. He knew Hope, for all his coldness and anger, would do what was right, and that was to keep Silver alive as long as he was a hero.

Hope readied a his hammer again, his eye twitching as his indoctrinated mind, bound to honor and Oaths, battled his heart, filled with darkness and long suppressed dreams of vengence against...HIM.

Silver let out a breath as it stopped inches before his face. The heat of the Magicly enchanced warhammer causing his eyebrows to singe slightly.

Hope let out a shaky breath, dropping his weapon which fell into the ground and dissipated. "You forefit the battle, it is my victory, you will keep your life...and I will walk away, I am done with you Haze, I don't care what you do now...just leave me alone" Hope turned to walk away. He was better then his emotions, without honor, without his Oaths, he knew he was nothing more then a vengeful monster, everypony in his family was, his father was. Selling his child away just for a chance to influence the king to his 'morally better' ways, His brother, for turning at the mear suggestion of using his blood to gain power...and him. He was better then that, better then them.

Silver gasped, a shaky breath as Hope turned to walk away, it was over, it was done...parhaps not all was lost, parhaps Hope could be brought over to his side...at last, the two remaining Alicornians working together to make a better world. The Gala...parhaps his dream COULD come true at the Gala!

Suddenly, Silver saw a fog monster race into the room and jump on Hope knocking him to the ground, Silver quickly remembered why he was fighting in the first place, he needed to save Hope, as Hope had just spared him, it was time to return the favor! without thinking Silver grabbed his blade from the ground with his magic, charging it to absorb the power of the Shadow beings and struck the creature through the heart.

"..."

"..."

Silver Blinked to see the blade sticking through hopes armor, right through his chest and out the other side.

Silver could only stare at what he had just done. As the blood and energy from Hope was absorbed into his blade.

Hope turned and looked him dead in the eyes. He did not wince at the pain, or cry, or even blink, he just stood there and judged. "Dishonorable...Bloodweilding...life-ruining...M-M...Monster." Hope coughed, blood pouring out of his mouth as he fell down, the blade being pulled out of him. Glowing a dark red from the satisfying meal.

Silver looked shocked down at the body...what had he done? He looked at his hooves, covered in Hope's blood... He had done this...why? WHY? The illution was shattered as Silver found himself in the temply, in the holy room...what had he done, He looked down at Hope's dieing body, he saw Rose run to Hope's side.

"Silver...what happened, where are we? Why is there a dead Alicorn! W-what have you DONE!" She cried as she ran down the hall towards the alter, running down the staircases. Silver grunted his mind blanking on him, but he still had to follow Rose, he didn't know why, but he HAD to find her, something told him that she was important.

And for some reason, he had a score to settle with her.

Silver looked down at the dieing warmonger, He leaned down to look him in the eyes, tears coming to Silver, he may not have liked the brutal Warmonger, but he could respect him at times...SOMETIMES.

"Parhaps...it didn't have to end like this Hope, you messed up and this time it came back to bite you in the ass, we could have been friends Hope...good friends, but your nature consumed you, yet you knew nothing more then that. I am sorry that you were forced to become my guardian, I hold no Ill will towards you for what you have done to me...just know that I would not have done the same to you, but I understand why you did it to me. Now sleep brother, parhaps... the next life all you Warmongers think exsists will treat you better." With that Silver smiled at the dieing Warmonger, hoping his words gave him a bit of peace before he passed on.

Standing up, Silver cracked his neck as he walked towards the final chamber of the temple, he had a mission to complete. One he would not delay...

...Whatever that misson was.

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The Temple of the Second Coming.
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The party, tired, weak, scared yet strong of will, stood in front of the temple of the second coming, this is where Silver's signal led Twilight.

"Alright girls...this is going to be dangerous, we don't know why silver is here or what signifigance this place ha-"

"It is a vault...a prison for something so dangerous that if the wrong beings got it, our would would be doomed." The wise yet tired voice spoke from behind them.

Everypony turned around to see Princess Celestia standing there in her full glory, as she walked forwards to Twilight.

"And...this thing...is my responciblity, which is why I didn't want you all to get involved. It is my failier, the punishment will be mine and MINE alone, if any of you are hurt I will never forgive myself, I am sorry for keeping you in the dark, but putting together a team for this took far to long, I decided that now that silver was gone, now would be a better time then any...though I supose Silver had the same idea." Celestia shook her head.

"Princess? Is whatever in there that...Crystal soul thing you told me about?" Celestia nodded

"Yes my stu-...fellow princess, it is. You must understand that I would bring half of Equestria here if I could, but this land belongs half to the griffons, half to whoever has the strongest steel at the time. We must move quickly or we risk losing everything, Silver is inside...we must find our answers before the...and I use this term loosely, king of the Badlands, finds out that we have set hoof on his turf." Celestia said with a sigh, knowing that whatever laied inside that dark temple would change everything.

"Alright Celestia...we have to move quickly if we want to find Silver, watch out for Changlings everypony, aparently, some of them were building a Hive around here." Everypony nodded at Twilight's command.

Everypony walked up the stone stairs towards the temple, as the reached the entrence, the group was hit with the smell of gore, everypony looked at each other and feared what came next.

"Oh...oh no..." Celestia wispered as the blood and guts of the now dead Alicorn guards were scattered around the room, Celestia and the gang walked forwards, trying not to puke at the horrible scene they saw before them.

"W-what happened here..." Twilight wispered as they found a few more corpses.

"This is the work...of a very powerful Bloodmage, Twilight we both kno-" Celestia was cut off by Luna

"we know NOTHING yet sister, hold your tongue until you know for sure." Celestia shook her head, but stayed silent.

The group continued forwards coming towards a large open destroyed room, what was once filled with grand statues had been crushed, grinded, and reduced to nothingness, walls crumbled and pillers were barily standing.

"...no." Celestia's voice was barily above a whisper as she ran towards the only body in the room.

A very noticable Blue and Blonde alicorn.

Celestia stood over the dieing Alicorn, and leaned down to speak with him. "Hope? Hope are you there..." Celestia said gentily as she flipped the alicorn onto his back and leaned him up against the wall with her magic.

Hope's eyes slowly opened to a half lidded gaze, the anger in his eyes previlant as he grabbed celestia's head in his magic and pulled it towarads his mouth before wispering quietly.

"Silver...fog...together...going...for...soul...forget me...go." Hope coughed up a bit more blood before shoving Celestia's head away and letting his head slump back, breathing heavily.

Celestia stood back on shaky legs she thought about trying to heal Hope, but she knew it would be in vain, Hope was too far gone for her magic to help him alone, she needed to keep her magic charged for dealing with Silver...and the fog.

"Celestia...we...we must go, if the soul is used...we all lose." Luna said quietly, the mane 6 could only watch. Celestia mearly nodded.

"Goodbye Hope..." Celestia said quietly before standing up, resuming her regal form, and walking quickly towards the stairs at the end of the temple, leading to the heart of the Temple.

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Silver drew his blades, fatigue plauged him, but he kept moving forwards, he walked through several smaller rooms before going down one final giant staircase.

when he got to the bottom he was shocked, a wide circular room, with large stairs leading down to a first level filled with pillars that touched the tall roof, down the stairs a bit more was a second level, with a wide bridge leading to the center circular platform, with a oval floating object with a strage symbol on it, about three times as tall as Silver and four times as wide. and Rose Nova aproching it slowly.

"ROSE!" Silver shouted as he ran foward, Rose turned around as she stepped backwards, looking at Silver.

"Silver! St-stay back!" Rose said as she stumbled backwards towards the platform.

"Rose...there is something weird about you, I always suspected it, but now I know you arn't being a hundred percent honest with me, none of this make sense, TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE HIDING!" Silver ended his inquary with a stab of a blade, meant only to scare Rose, however, she reached up and stoped the blade with her hoof, suddenly, Silver felt the illution shatter again

Silver gasped his breath being caught in his throat

the creature was about half the size of silver, its brown patchy fur covered in dark fog, its eyes poured the stuff out of it, creating a mist pool around her a single golden eye peered out at him through one eye socket for a few seconds before she blinked and the light apeared in the other socket.

Silver looked back, horrified at what happened, his mind finally put the bits together to connect the dots

The Gala

Rose

Killing the 'shadows'

...

Killing Hope.

Suddenly, a new anger burned in Silvers eyes, Nopony made him hurt innocents! He would rip this monster to shreads!

"FoOl HahaHahaHaaAh Doo~ You~ RealLy ThiNk~ YoU caN bEat MeEh~?" The monster said in a cillingly high pitched voice, a slight tune being caried in the air that forced a Melody into her voice.

"WHO ARE YOU?" Silver yelled readying his weapons and charging fowards.

The creature summoned a Bastard sword and blocked Silvers blade with his own. "I am~ ThE~ SiRen Of sOuLs~!"

SILVER HAZE

VS

THE SIREN OF SOULS

Silver yelled as he summoned three more copies of Silver's Fury, which he called his blood swords, he felt his fautige set in again he was already running on empty, but he still had to fight. He swong at them however the Siren cracked two of the blades with the sheer force of her blows.

She followed this up by breaking Silvers third blood blade, before slashing at him directly, silver forced himself to tire himself by blood-teleporting away, taking away even more of his power, he felt his breathing grow eratic, he had to end this soon or else he would loose everything.

Silver brought his blades up, clashing aganst the blade again he had to force himself to keep from falling over, he had to keep fighting just a bit longer, he had to keep it up, one more minuet was all he needed one slip up. The fog around the Siren kept himself on his toes, he felt things in the fog clawing at his hooves and lower chest, but he kept fighting, he could not lose hope now!

He had to fight harder.

Faster.

Silver shouted as he blocked high from one of the sirens strikes and swong low, a good long strike across her chest, the siren screeched in a high pitch tone, the wound quickly resealed itself. But he had done damage, he had to keep going, keep fighting.

Just one more time, one more fight.

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The party heard the unearthy screech come from ahead of them, they all took one look at each other before running forwards, they saw the final stair case down in front of them but before they could act, a buzzing sound filled their ears.

"What in Tarnations!?!" Applejack yelled as the walls shook before caving in.

Everypony gasped.

Changlings.

No, not Changlings, something far more sinister.

Badlings.

Twilight knew that the Changlings of the Badlands would be different, changed, mutated unlike what they had seen before, but she had not expected this. She saw three main groups led by one in particular.

Some of them were the same size as her, but they were buff, as in so muscular she wondered how they moved, instead of holes in their legs, they sort of had dents in their chitin. they looked almost as if a giant suit of armor had been weilded into their very skin, thicker plates of chitin created armor like paturns over their bodies, they lacked wings, but instead had spikes where their wings would be, on their heads, they did not have a horn but instead had thicker plates creating a classic knight helmet like paturn over their face.

The second group were tall, as in as tall as Celestia. Their legs were covered in holes, they looked undeveloped and weak, but they had extra chitin on their chest and face, their wings were thick and bulky, She could see the outline of the classic changling membrane in the wings, but the cover of light chitin over it looked thin enough to allow for flight, but still thick enough to be guarded from attack. On their heads, instead of a single horn, they had the start of a unicorn horn, but about half way up the leigh it split into two parts twisting behind the ears and ending underneath the jaw creating two twisting horns under it's mouth. They sparked with magic and Twilight relizesed they were fully fuctional.

The last group seemed to be the most normal looking like normal changlings except for having only one eye, and having their front two legs start normal, but about half way down they got thiner before ending in a sharpened blade-like-point their wings looked thin and concealable, and Twilight had a hard time looking the changling in the eye, so she coulden't tell if it had a horn or not, but she assume they did, she also assumed some kind of magic stopped her from looking the creature in the eye.

The last changling though, was big, huge, tall and regal, it looked just like chrysalis, but this changling had four eyes, two normal ones and two smaller ones on her...it's muzzle. it also instead of having wings, had two extra limbs that ended in the same razor sharp points as the third group of Badlings she saw. The creature took one look at her opened her mouth to reveal three sets of sharpened teeth, the teeth of a carnovore.

"WEEE ARRE DEAAATHHH" The Creature said in broken equestrian. "KILLLLLL" It screeched.

Celestia and Luna hopped into action, they moved quickly destroying a few of the charging grunts, before they were locked in combat by the flying creatures and the brutes.

"RUN GO, STOP THE ARTIFACT FROM BEING ACTIVATED!" Celestia called.

"Come on girls!" Twilight yelled to the rest of the mane 6 and spike, they all ran past the changlings, she saw some of the flying creatures soar overhead confined by the small space but still having enough room to manover as they flew over celestia sending shocks of green magic down at her as they passed overhead.

Twilight felt her heart skip a beat, she had to get to the artifact.

She had to get to Silver.

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"RAWH" Silver yelled as he struck again, this time the blade flew true, another gash on the creature. The creature answered back with one of her own.

The siren steped back, humming, which Silver quickly relised was her way of panting. Silver was panting as well, he had long since run out of energy, he was fighting with his darkest magic now, he needed a boost now, he needed to finish-

"I see you could use a hand...my son."

The voice echoed in his mind, Silver knew it instantly.

"Sombra! What do you want! I am not your son!" Silver gowed causing the siren to look at him with confution before taking a step back.

"Silver, silver, silver...I am your father, remember? Hah, you always were a forgetful one, I cant help but see you need power, I can offer you it if you promise to do just a small task for me..." Sombra's voice chuckled in his head, causing Silver to grow angeier.

"I will never do anything for you sombra" Which only caused Sombra to laugh.

"Of corse you would not Silver, I never expected you would, I just knew that your anger against me blinded you, and now, you will pay the price for your laps in judgement..." Silver was snapped out of his mental conversation by the fog creature standing before the Artifact, which was spining rapidly as fog from the creature was fed into the disk.

"GOOoO~ ArtIfaCt~ Do yOur JoB~" The Creature sung as it laughed manicily. Suddenly, Silver relised exactly what the shadows plan was.

This was the crystal soul.

Its job was to gather all the darkness towards it, then it would be purged by the crystal heart, but if there was no crystal heart here to pruge it...

Silver's eyes turned to pinpricks.

All it would do would summon all the darkness...all the FOG.

Right here in Equestria.

It would miss all the checkpoints the Alicorns had put in place to stop it, that Equestria put in place.

it would be at their doorstep before they could even begin to ready themselves.

Silver forced himself up, but the constant fighting had taken its toll on him, he bairly had the streigh to get up. Even then the force of the gale winds created by the spining artifact were too much for him. He saw tendrals of darkness come through the cracks in the wall, gathering into a ball around the Artifact before flying upwards towards the roof.

"SILVER!" He heard, Silver turned his head slightly to see a terrified mane 6 and Spike standing at the entrence to the heart of the temple, Twilights look of fear is what gave him the streigh to get up, he began to walk fowards, but the creature's head snaped around 180 degrees, beforer opening her mouth as a tendral flew out and smacked Silver on the face, forcing him back down.

Twilight had an idea for helping silver, she had to get the creatures attention, Twilight suddenly threw herself down to the central chamber, standing behind the creature looking at her, she charged up a spell and let if fly, striking the creature, knocking her off balence.

"GrahHHah~" The creature half screamed half laughed as she grappled onto twilight and telported them to the other side of the room. The rest of the mane 6 and Spike ran to Silver's side.

"Silver are you ok!" Rarity asked worriedly, silver only nodded. Knowing he had one shot at this he moved with purpose towards his goal, he had to keep twilight safe.

He had to stop this artifact before it summoned the fog.

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Twilight
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Twilight grunted as she was smacked across the face as she tried to get to her feet as she was smacked again, as she looked up and the giggling creature who had tendrals growing out of her horn, smacking her around.

"cOmE On giRl wHy WoUld siLver LoVe a MaRe wHo CaN'T evEn fiGhT FoR hErSeLf~?" The Creature laughed.

Twilight growled as she cut the horn off of the creature for the nine'th time as it grew right back.

"SHUT UP ABOUT SILVER" Twilight screamed as she shot spell after spell at the creature.

The creature dodged most of the them, the ones that didn’t miss her usually just tipped her or didn’t do much damage because the rapidness that twilight was shooting them at made them less powerful. Twilight still continued to attack the monster. “WHy do YOu pERCIsT ?~ DOnT yoU kNOw THat SILVER DOesn’t ~LOvE YOU?~” twilight hesitated her onslaught of magical spells

“LIES! twilight shouted, shaking her head. “SIlver DOES love me!” twilight added. before shooting spells out like a gattling gun.

“IF hE hLOves YOu so MUCh thEn WhY WoulD cOmE tO me WhEN You BRoKe hIS HearT?” The creature said, a song that forced the idea into her head.

twilight stopped again, “...broke his heart? what do you mean?” twilight so distracted that she didn’t see the monster’s swordstrikje at her.

“WhY DonT yoU asK hiM?” twilight was knocked to the ground by the creature who quickly moved to advance on her.

“Parhaps you have a few questions for him first!” Twilight spat out as the creature turned around when a horible thump sounded from the central chamber.

“ohHoHnooOOn~” The creature wispered as Silver drew his blade and shoved it between the ground and the spining artifact, causing it to crack as it tried to keep spining even with the jam.

“NOOoNON~” The creature cried as it threw itself at silver, however Twilight hit her with a spell causing her to tumble to the floor.

Silver grunted as he felt the artifact crack down the center, just a bit longer…

The fog swirled around the artifact, trying to dislodge the blade, but to no avail, suddenly, the artifact cracked down the center and shattered.

The fragments of the artifact fell to the ground and instantly, everything was still.

Celestia and Luna ran through the door, covered in cuts and magic burns, but still standing. “Twilight! Are you ok! We drove off the Badlings!” Luna called out from the top of the stairs.

“we are fine! Silver saved us! He destoryed the artifact.” Celestia looked surpised.

“I thought only the choosen one could destory the artifact...could silver really be..?”

Suddenly Celestia looked up as fear entered her eyes.

“Silver! Above you!” Celestia screamed.

Silver looked up and gasped, the entire roof was covered in fog, so much fog, so dense much like the cloud that had attacked Alicornia...it was not the army but so much had gotten through!

Silver tried to stand but was blasted by a constractated beam, throwing him across the chamber to the stairs, where he created a crater. He was out of the fight

He phyiscaly could not stand on his own. He had failed.

Suddenly, the mane 6 and Luna and Celestia stood at Silver’s side. “You won’t take any of us FOG!” Twilight yelled as the swirling mass of darkness laughed at them, causing the entire room to vibrate.

Suddenly, the fog sent a single tendral into the ground, and that tendral broke the ground, causing a pool of mist to form, out of the mist, soon twisted ponies began to come out and create weapons which they grabed to attack our heroes with.

“HOLD THE LINE MY LITTLE PONIES!” Celestia and Luna cried as they charged the darkness.

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Hope sighed, a bit of blood trickling down his mouth, he didn’t even have the streigh to lift a hoof to stop it.

He had been here for what, eight minuets? How long was he gonna have to wait to die.

Silver had dealt a fatal blow against him, a dishonorable blow, but a fatal one none the less. He was almost happy about, he was finaly done, he had done it.

He had done it.

He had kept silver alive, he had fought the Bloodlusters that threated his people, he ignored the temptation that bloodmagic could bring.

He could die a happy, fufiled stallion.

So why woulden’t he just die?

He wasn’t afraid, he had accepted the things he had done long ago

but now...now it felt diferent, he felt like he wasn’t ready.

stupid thoughts, he had done his part...the gods would give him his eternal reward and all that, he could finaly be done. Finaly move on.

He could finaly take that nap he had been waiting to take for the last thousand years.

Hope finaly shut his eyes, he took a deep breath, he saw the light at the end of the tunnel, he moved towards it, he would die in peace.

Then the entire room shook as the dark laughter shook the room

…

He would die peacefully, no more adventures, no more chaos, he had done all he had to do, to die now would be acceptable.

He heard the echoing screams of ponies clashing against something dark.

Yes his death was perfectly justified, there was only one way he would get out of death and he would rather take the death over that alternitive, it would invalidate every oath he took, every promise he ever made to himself. He was going to die here.

He head the unmistakeable scream of Celestia as she was hit.

Fuck.

Hope grunted, he opened his eyes slowly, frowning the whole time, there was no rest for the wicked was there? He wasn’t going to just be able to drift off and pay for his crimes in peace.

No, that wasn’t what he was destined to do.

Hope shakily moved his hoof, to the left, he coughed, blood spurting out of his mouth, and landing on his hoof. The blood soaked into his hoof, the red in the blood hit his rune, and began slowly turning it red.

He closed his eyes.

This was the death of Hope.

He was going to become a Monster.

He was going to become a Hero.
Perhaps it was always destined to be the same thing.

When hope opened his eyes, the red glow illuminated the room, the wound closed quickly, the inital burst of power brought by making your blood a conduit for magic. For letting your magic running through your blood rather then just through your magic feild. He kept his mind focused as he stood up.

He was a Bloodluster now.

He knew he woulden’t be one for long.

He never would get that nap.

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Celestia stumbled back, the wound on her shoulder quickly mending itself, as she struck down the fog abomination responcible for it, she looked around, they were losing ground quickly, they could not stop it, they could not run, it would follow them.

They were dead.

Celestia looked to see one of them run up to her, only to be blasted away by silver haze, who was leaning on twilight feeding off of her streigh to use his more powerfull blood magic.

Luna was being overwelmed, but she was still holding her own.

Flutershy and rarity were guarding rainbow dash who was on the ground screaming in pain from an arrow that hit her, and Applejack was trying to keep anypony from touching Twilight and Haze along with Spike.

Celestia kept her head down, this was going to be it, but she wasn’t going to show them the weakness.

Suddenly, there was a blast of raw magic that passed over the room, all the fog creatures stopped, to see what the cause was, all the ponies and drake in the room turned to see what was happing.

The Blue and Red alicorn standing in the entryway to the room growled as he moved, the red runes on his skin glowed brightly his blond hair darkened concitrably, his blue eyes now a red glowing ball of fire.

“You are insignifigant to my power, you will fall to me and ME ALONE!” The Alicorn said in a booming voice, before swiping his hoof across his chest, disintigrating every grunt in the room, before the fog could summon more, the Alicorn rased his hoof to the roof and placed a barrier between it and the room, traping the fog momentarily.

The Alicorn came up beside the group.

“...Greatings. I do think it is time for you all to leave.” The Alicorn said, his tone comanding echoing and crisp.

Everypony knew who it was.

“Hope? Is that you?” Silver said, his voice bairly above a wisper.

“...Hope is dead, I am the pathetic shell of a failure that remains.” He said a pause before he spoke.

Silver was confused. “Oh...Kay...Well come on...not Hope...we have to move quickly! We can leave now before that barrier breaks.

The Alicorn stood still. “I am not leaving.”

Everypony was confused, except for Celestia, who just looked sad. “Hope...I unders-”

Hope turned to Celestia “I am a Bloodluster now, I am an abomination, I should kill myself right here...which is what I plan to do, only I will not be the one holding the blade.” He turned to Silver.

Silver walked up to Hope and placed a hoof on his back. “Please Hope, don’t do this...you don’t have to! Don’t throw your life away!” This only caused Hope to let out a bitter laugh.

“Silver, for me to throw my life away, I must have had one in the first place.” He laughed louder. “I never got to live, I was born, given to you as a gift, told I was going to be a warmonger, forced on a quest for vengence over my brother...everything I have done had been nothing more then a part in someone elses story...so now I get to choose to die.” Hope looked towards silver and let a smile touch his face as his laughter died down.

“Silver, are you a religious fellow? Do you follow the teaching of the old gods? Like the Warmongers do?” Silver looked at Hope and let a smile touch his face.

“Yes, yes I do, its the one thing I think we have in co-” Hope cut Silver off.

“Well then you are an idiot, the old gods never exsisted, the Warmongers made them up to control the Warmongers, to get them to fight ‘more efficiently’ the only ponies who knew that was my father, your father, and me.” Hope laughed.

“I have been keeping that inside for so long...it feels good to get it out, to let people know that the most honor bound ponies are fighting for a cause that doesn’t exist.” Hope turned his back to the ponies.

“Now go, I have nothing else to say to any of you. Not even you Celestia, I made my peace with you last time we talked, I rather not complicate it now.” Hope spoke, stoping Celestia’s words before she even had a chance to speak them.

Silver got angry, really angry. “Look it was MY fault this happened and I will NOT let you throw your life away I ORDER you to stand down” Hope turned around and grabed Silver by the throat.

“I have broken every Oath, dishonored every Warmonger law, I. Do. Not. Take. Orders. From. You.” Hope droped Silver, before turning around as the barrier cracked slightly.

“Run, run far and fast, run until you can go no longer, I am no longer a pony, but a monseter, do not rescuse me, do not try and save or stop me. I thought I could die with honor, with success on my mind, but now I am a failer, I failed every Oath and Promies, I have hurt Silver Haze, I have fell to Bloodlust, I have let the Darkness come to this land…” Hope turned to face the party, blood red marks running over his body as he powered his body with magic.

“The least you can do is let me die with some dignity.” Hope then turned as the barrier gave again, as a crack formed and the fog started to slip out.

“RUN!” Silver yelled as he turned to flee, followed by spike and Twilight, the rest of the mane 5 followed, then Luna, leaving just Celestia and Hope.

“...Goodbye Celestia.” Hope said grunting under the weight of keeping the barrier strong. “Leaving now would be wise.”

Celestia said nothing, she quickly walked up to the blue and red alicorn, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. Causing hope to look at her with surprise.

Celestia began to walk out of the room. “I still will never forgive you for what you have done Hope..you have done far to much to EVER be forgiven...but this, dieing like this...I needed you to know that I...appreciate it. Goodbye Hope, my friend.” Hope only looked fowards.

Hope grunted, before waiting for everyone to leave the room, then he let the barrier break, surging fowards he yelled as he charged his blood with power as he smashed his Warhammer of Light...ironic now that he was a monster of darkness, into the ground destorying the fog, be moved with speed, ready and willing to fight, he would hold the line.

The first wave came, they were many, but he was stronger, he had the will to fight, he cared not if he died, he just needed to buy time, pain would not stop him.

only death.

and that had a habbit of being quite late to clame him.

Hope stood tall as they charged him a grin on his face.

He decided he didn’t need that nap after all.

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The party ran out of the Temple, down the entrence, the temple shook behind them as the excape.

as twilight ran with the others, her mind went back to what the monster had said. It coulden't be true...oh who was she kidding, Silver Haze was a mystery to her, was it really so far fetched that he would go out and try to extend their herd, without asking her? Granted Twilight wasn't thinking about how such behavior was normal of the Alicorn socity, her own mind was hardwired to the way the equestrians did it and coulden't think of any other way.

Twilight had to know, Twilight had to make sure silver wasn't cheating on her, if he said he wasn't, there wasn't any problem...but if he was...

Twilight turned to Silver “SIvler, is it true you had an offair with...her” twilight didn’t need to specify, as they both knew who it was, who she was, and Silver didn't want to answere but he had no choice.

silver replied with a depressed sigh. “i’m so sorry twilight, but i’m ashamed to say that i did… i thought that you didn’t like me anymore, and i was confused and didn’t know what to do… when she showed up, I though I would just flirt a bit, get it out of my system, then go back to enjoying the Gala without anypony being hurt, but she said a few words, and I think she used magic and before i knew it, we were in be-” silver was going to finished but he cut himself off with a sharp intake of breath, realizing what he had just let out.

“..bed? BED!? YOU SLEPT WITH HER! i can’t believe you silver! i would have been okay with luna...I-I've tried to make ajustments, but its hard" Twilight angrily yelled at him, silver tried to let his own voice be heard.

"Look, It was a mistake, I wasn't in full control! And don't act like you haven't enjoyed being in this relationship with both me AND Luna!" Silver said back, trying to be the voice of reason.

"but you SLEPT WITH HER! You may have not been in a hundred percent control, but you still made the choice, you were in control when you went to her to just vent instead of coming to me to talk about it!" Twilight yelled back, Silver relised how bad the situation had become. And how little distance they had really put between themselves and the temple.

"L-look Twilight, everythings been going wrong, mistakes were made, but we are currently running away from a giant cloud of darkness, so you know what, this converstion is over! We'll talk about this later!" Silver yelled back before turning to walk away. Only to be stopped by twilight walked back up to him.

"No, we don't need to continue this converstation another time Silver, I now know everything I need to know about what you have done, I see now how bad of a person you can be silver, you broke both me and luna’s trust by doing that…I may love you but I am sorry I can't forgive you.” Twilight began to cry, silver tried to justify his actions one last time, to make her see.

“You don’t understand Twilight, I was under her control, she hypnotised me! What did you expect me to do!” But Twilight wouldent lisen to the truth.

“I... I can’t believe you silver, not anymore, I'm sorry, we’re over.” said twilight, leaving silver in the dust as they continued to run, mainly because Silver had slowed down because of the crushing news he had just recieved. one of his greatest nightmears had just come true.

Still though, a rumbling from the temple behind him foced him to stay focused.

Silver continued on, with a broken heart, and a steeled mind.
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A red ring of blood on fire swept across the burned and hellish room, filled with burning fire being smother by giant shadows, a light show of death. As the ring covered and puged the room, it left but a single occupant in its wake, a bloody, smiling, laughing Alicorn.

“HAHAHA! IS...THAT...ALL...YOU...HAVE!” Hope roared as he cut down another swarm of aproching fog creatures. He had been runing on empty for quite some time, his runes were but black marks on his skin, his breathing labored. But he would not fall, he would never let them leave this place as he stood. Suddenly a gust of wind knocked him off his feet, as he rose up to stand, he saw a fog Alicorn standing in front of him, he had fought several of these already, nothing more then pathetic copies of dead Alicorns, powerful by fog standarts, but they were dumb. Still this one looked slightly different...

it was fairly average in size, standing just below his hight, somewhere around Celestia's, it was black primarily, yet it had no fur, or a body really, it apeared to be pure fog weirdly form to look like a pony, but the perportions were just slightly off, the way one hoof never touched the ground as it walked, the way the smile streched just a little too far... it's horn apeared to be cracked, though puffs of fog would occationaly travel up the length of its body, and reform the horn to reveal its hight and magisty before the fog would dissapate leaving the cracked horn.

It also had a single wing, it was massive though, bigger then even his, Hope noticed the stump where the other wing would have once gone. if it was there. Looking into the creatures eyes, two dark purple lights stared back at him. The Alicorn also had purple runes and symbols decorating its body, seemingly the only thing holding the swirling mass of darkness together. It cairred no weapons, but walked as if it had the weight of an army behind it...to be fair it probibly did.

It opened its mouth, but Hope cut the abomonation off before it could speak.

Hope growled. “I do not know what you are, or who you think you are, but you are a monster, a deamon and you will fall like the rest of them to my Hammer!”

The creature chuckled “Well, why don’t you try that out young one, I always enjoy a good sparing match against the youth of our fine species.” The creature said, the unusual voice paturn that all fog creatures had absent from its voice.

Hope charged, striking with his warhammer, the creature looked rather unimpressed as it sidesteped his attack and tapped him lightly on the flank with a long, thin blade made out of pure fog that he pulled from his own form.

"Child, keep your guard up! honestly, just because you expect to die does not mean you have a good excuse to be sloppy!" The Alicorn chastised him. Causing a new fire to ignight in Hope's eyes.

"D'VOLTUL!" He shouted in ancient Alicornian swinging his warhammer around, causing it to be blocked by the creature who raised his sword and blocked the heavy warhammer, the fragile looking blade didn't even bend as the huge warhammer made contact. The other Alicorn looked plesently surpised for a moment before chuckling.

"Savi? Tu'ud ack'awih vacude wevt Alicorns un'vay dast Voltul." The Alicorn spoke in perfect Ancient Alicornian shocking Silver, how did this creature know that launguge! And so well too, hell most Alicorns don't even know a word of it, and only the best scribes can...could only speak broken fragments. Hope was left flabergasted trying to rack his brain for what had been said.

"Uhh...ahh..." Hope desperatly tried to find the words, where were all those pointless facts now that he needed them!

The Alicorn only chuckled again, suddenly pushing Hope's hammer back in his moment of weakness. "What is wrong child? You know you shouldn't start a conversation in a tongue you do not speak." The Alicorn said, mocking Hope, suddenly, Hope pushed back, spiting out the words through the strain.

"Ahhh...Tasss- no...Tassvun! Dast'vone rin ui'n equ vacude! " Hope said angrily, causing the Alicorn to pull himself back suddenly as the creature stepped back to look at Hope, before to Hopes anger, begin laughing hysterically.

"wow...Eqi rin Tassvun, that was the worst Alicurn I have heard in over three-thousand years...granted its the only Alicurn I have heard in three-thousnad years so..good, solid efort. Though you misspronced the word Eqi and your sentence structure was horrible, do relise you just said 'Pathetic! Lack of truth are in land thought.' Equ means LAND, Eqi means YOU. Little info to take to the grave with EQI." Suddenly, the Alicorn jumped fowards, his blade flew past his hammer, Hope brought his sheild up to block but the blade turned to fog and simply whent around the sheild before stabing him throught the chest.

Hope grunted dispelling the fog with his own magic, before taking up his stance again, though blood trickled down his chest.

"Oh...I was hoping you would have died there, it would have made from a much better story to tell how you died. Oh well." The creature mocked before summoning ten more blades ripping into Hope without mercy, Hope tried to put up a sheild to no avail as he was torn to shreads, his armor hacked off, his face cut up and his bones broken as he finally fell onto his back.

Hope tried to get back up, but several blades stabed through him, putting him in Eminence pain and keeping him pined down.

The creature advanced “Sorry ‘child' but you must die now, it is nothing personal, the old gods will thank you for this...personally. Do know that you are by FAR the most interesting fight I have had in a while, if you are one of those types who worry about their names being forgotten to history, know that I will always remember that one Blue Alicorn who said that my thoughts of my thoughts of my land were lies.” Hope spat at him, it was really the only thing he could do in his position, before deciding that he could probably get one more shot in, not physically, but at least verbally.

“The old gods are fake, you pathetic fog creature, you say I am the one who does not know my own history? Hah.” The creature stopped before laughing.

“Oh...not real you say? Not for long if I have anything to say about it...after all, I am going to become one of them.” at which point the creature's leg turned into a giant sharpened tentical and plundged itself into Hopes chest. He could only gasp as his head slumped back as the world drained of color.

"Eqi rin Murum..." The last words that Hope would ever hear.

Hope resisted right untill the horrible end.

The bitter end of Hope.

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The Temple of the Second Coming.
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The gathering group of alicorns standing in the heat of the Badland sun, became worried quickly, they had found the temple in ruins, their brothers dead and the artifact assumed destoryed.

The Warmonger division was in chaos, with no leader, no direction, nothing to guard, they had no idea what to do next. They had failed, they did not even know who was responcible.

One of the warmongers, a young recrute who had been leading what little was left steped fowards.

“As former Royal Guard Sharpblade’s only taken son, Grinded Stone. I herby move to elect a new leader of the Warmongers. To guide us into the future, to say the Old Gods wills. To find vengence for our fallen, comrads...I nominate myself.” The group suddenly burst into argument everyone shouting over everyone, some in agrence, some in dissagrence, some electing themselves and having their own positive/negitive reactions. Suddenly a voice came from the temple.

“Shoulden’t you wait until the current chain of command is dead before you start a new one?” Everypony looked to see the armored Blue Alicorn with the Blond mane stepping out of the temple. Dark Blue-ish eyes staired down the now silent group of Alicorns.

“As former WARMONGER COMMANDER, Shinning Hope’s only remaining heir, I clame rights to the leadership position, I know who is responcible for this attack, I know who we should seek our vengence upon!” The Alicorn yelled. Everypony was enthraled, wanting to follow and be lead by this new Alicorn, like there was some victorious anthem to his words.

“Together! Together we will take the Badlands as our own, then when we control this pathetic mortal wasteland, we will move onto EQUESTRIA! and then Prince Silver Haze! The one responcible for this henous crime! He shall be slain for what he has done to us! We will build our army! And we will strike him down!” The group of Warmongers cheered and stomped their hooves, suddenly all knowing this was the pony they wanted to follow.

The one golden eyed pony stood at the temple entrence smiling as her seeds from her song bore fruit, entrancing the Alicorns to follow him.

The Alicorn drew his blade “I AM WARMONGER SHIELDED HOPE! SILVER HAZE KILLED MY BROTHERS! I WILL KILL HIM- NO, WE WILL KILL HIM, AND ALL BLOODLUSTERS WHO GET IN OUR WAY! FOR THE OLD GODS!” He shouted. Every Warmonger, some by magical infuence, others just tempted by the strong leadership and chance to kill, drew and rased their blades and chanted as one.

“FOR THE WARMONGERS, FOR THE OLD GODS!” They all broke into cheers, except for one pony, the son of sharp blade, who was looking at Hope with distaine.

and at that moment, only Grinded Stone saw Hope’s eyes, if only for a second, turn to empty sockets. He blinked and they were back to normal, he convinced himself it was a trick of the wastes.
But Stone decided keeping his blade with him at all times might not be such a bad idea.

Hope basking in the prase, grunted as a headache passed over him, he shook it off, he had to stay focused, Silver Haze had tried to kill him, but his magic saved him, the Old Gods saved him, he would carry out their will, Silver would diE LiKe thE sCuM hE waS.

“IT’S TIME BROTHERS, TO PREPARE...FOR WAR!”

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“This is bad.” One of the seated voice spoke, a quiver in her voice.

“Yes...the darkness, it comes too fast for us.” A refined eligant voice spoke, worry clear even under her diplomatic tone.

“Silver an’t ready, his power ‘tant even be in full form, if anything, this whole thing has weakend him.” the voice spoke her contry accent sliping in slightly, a habit when he was nervous.

The next pony to voice her bit was angery. Her slightly more guff voice yelling “Two, WHY did you let this happen?” Two growled, the refined tone was lost in the reply.

“I HAD NO IDEA! This creature...she enchanted my top men, they are protected now but who knows how many were compromized! I can’t let my presence be known, none of us can, we have already altered history far to much for us to know what is going to happen next” Another voice, weary silenced them with a clearing of her throat.

“This bickering will not help. The fog has changed its tactics, it will use cunning to find its way past us, it knows it will not stand a chance through the defences we have all set up. We must continue to prepare...and hope Silver learns his true destiny soon, the Seventh Element must be awoken if we wish to surive. Now, the meeting is adjourned.” And with that the voice dissapeared.

“G’night” A bubbly voice said before also departing.

“see Ya’ll” A friendly voice also spoke before leaving.

one more spoke quietly “don’t stay up all night, we will need to get our rest to prepare” Before signing off.

Leaving just two.

“I’m...look I’m sorry for snaping at you.” Four said to member Two.

“It’s fine...I undestand you are under a lot of presure, we all are, we have to keep together. Soon, soon it will all pay off.” Two reasured her.

“...What if it doesn’t?” Four finaly replied.

“Then we all die and nothing really maters does it?” Two physicly felt Four wince.

“H-how can you?” Two cut her off.

“Because its true, we have to accept that, we get one shot at this, we know our leader can’t preform another spell like that again, it would kill her. We have to make sure everything falls into place, and pray that this time we get it right...because if we don’t, all we’ve done is started a time loop.” and with that, Two departed, leaving Four to reflect on her thoughts.

This was it.

It was time to end the games.

War was coming.

The fog was coming.

Silver Haze would live to become a hero.

Or the world would fall with him.

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Councel of Equestria
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In another seated room on the other side of the world, the discussion was much less collected.

"YOU IDIOT! IT WAS UNDER YOUR FAT STUPID BEAK THE ENTIRE TIME AND YOU DIDN'T FIND IT!" The new head of the Councel roard at the third member of the group.

"OH SO IT'S MY FAULT THEM! SO SORRY, I GUESS THOSE CHANGLINGS RUNNING ABOUT IN MY LAND DISTRACTED ME!" The voice roared back, an idignet tone in her voice.

"YOU KNOW I DON'T HAVE ANY RELATION WITH ANY OTHER HIVE! IF THE WORLD WORKED LIKE THAT MEMVER FOUR WOULD JUST GET ALL HIS FIREPROOF BUDDIES TOGETHER AND BURN THE FOG TO THE GROUND!" Member one roared.

"...uhh, I have sent scouts to try and burn the fog and it didn't work that well..." Member four said with a cough.

"Yeah! Member Four is right!" Member Three said giving her larger friend a high five...as best she could with the magical holograms.

"I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT!!!" Member One screamed at both members at the same time.

"Whoh, calm down there, we are all friends, we are all here because if we don't stand up to the Fog, nothing will, so please will everypony, and Griffon, and Dragon...and Changling, and...whatever member Two is..." Member Five said.

"HEY! I Will have you know that I am-" Member two was cut off by Member One.

"ENOUGH! Things are bad, but still on track, Hope's death was...untimely, but getting him out of the picture early may help us in the long run. We have to stay focused, we know at least a bit of Fog found its way into Equestria, we all have to be on guard, every spy, every informant, every scrying spell...we need to know where the fog is going to be next...and we just have to hope...that Silver is the Hero we need him to be...Member One...signing out." However before Member One could depart, a sudden gasp by Member Two caused her to stay for a second longer.

"What is it Member Two?" However instead of a snappy reply, Member two spoke in his own quiet way.

"I found it...the spell came back positive, it finally has been awoken, it's be found." Member One stopped waiting for what she hoped the next few words would be.

"The Seventh Element...It has awoken."