Forgotten Mountain of Saddle Arabia

In the small wooden hut, a small sliver of sunlight roused the Ex-Prince from his bed, the Alicorn got up, the small cramped hut was empty, beside his modest cot and the small counter he used to prepare his food, and the simple stick and cloth roof being his only greeting in the morning. Silver grabbed at the floor around his cot instinctivly.

Stopping himself after a few seconds, by far one of his hardest habits to kick. Silver signed, rubbing his face, it had been four months since he had been living here on his own, four months since he had a single sip of alcohol. More then four months since his last drink of Battlebrew... Four months since he had seen another living thing that had not tried to kill him.

Four months of endless torment.

Silver forced himself up, dropping down as he did his morning excise. He had found it got easier over time, When he arived, he had been out of shape, he was no warrior, he had fallen out of practice, relying on his bloodmagic to give him power, he had long ago let his streigh wain. He had spent the last four months training, getting back into peak shape. Physically was by far the easiest... Breaking the habits he had developed as a spoild prince? That was not.

Silver finished up his morning push ups. Standing up, he walked over to his kitchen, eating his carfuly balenced diet, everything healthy, nothing tasty. A few magical herbs to help his Alicorn biology speed up its repair after a hard day. He scarfed it down, he left the hut slaming the door behind him to see the sun had started it's assent into the sky. He had to get to work.

The mountain of Saddle Arabia were as far away from Equestria as he dared go, the vast empty desert being a good place to hide from prying eyes, he modified his airship to gather clouds around the ship to keep anypony from seeing it, but then again, being on top of a tall mountain kept the eyes that could see it to a minimum. He was on a small platu, he had build a set of stairs down the the second platu where he trained, but he lived mostly on the first one.

Silver walked from his hut, he looked behind the hut to see the deck of his ship, the Peacemaker, parked just behind his hut, he grunted as he used his power to summon his blade, the ground cracked open and his blade, Silver's Fury, rose upwards, he grabbed it in his magical grasp, then swong it over his shoulder.

Eventualy, Silver found himself at his self made training center, a large flat platu, which had several training dummies set up, several more broken dummies sat in a nice pile in the corner of the area, waiting to be repared.

Silver took his place opposite the dummy, It looked like a normal Earth Pony. Using his magic, Silver floated several more parts over to the dummy, creating an Alicorn by attaching some wings and a horn, using discard wood to create a fake suit of armor and a sheild and blade, fixing them to the dummy.

Silver took his place oposet the training dummy. Closing his eyes, Silver let his magic surge into the air around him, he forced his mind inwards, serching for that spark he had used so many times before, finding it, Silver frowned, he hated his true father...but damn it if he didn't inherit some cool powers.

Opining his eyes, red fog poured out of Silvers eyes as his eyes glowed...well more irradiate pure darkness. Another interesting addition from coming back into what was his full power. Suddenly, red crystals started to form around the Fake Alicorn, covering the legs, then the chest, moving around the head to create a fake helmet that covered the wooden face.

After a few seconds a crystal see through Alicorn stood in front of Silver. Nodding his head, the crystals around the Alicorn darkened so the wooden bits were no longer visable.

Then the Alicorn started to move. It made shattering sounds as its joints broke out of its mold, it eventually made its way oposit to Silver bowing low, Silver coppied the gesture. The creature stood up, red fog trailing from where he assumed its wooden eyes were underneath the Cryistal helmet.

Silver made the first move.

Silver ran forwards, keeping his blade in front of him, blocking the first defensive swing from the 'Alicorn' The Alicorn moved to bash him with it's sheild, Silver saw the blow coming, and summoned two more blades in an X shape to block the bash, steping back, Silver juggled the three blades in the air, the Alicorn tried to keep track of which one was the real blade and which were the weakened copies.

Silver summoned a fourth blade at some point during his juggling, when he stoped he thrusted all four blades foward at once, the Alicorn however, instead of bringing his sheild up threw his blade back at Silver, forcing him to suddenly summon his own sheild, disspelling the fake blades to consever energy. The Alicorn finally rased it's sheild, knocking away the real blade before charging forwards with it's sheild.

Silver reached out and teleported his blade to him, Silver closed his eyes and felt the blade and its magical properties, suddenly, as it teleported, he shifted its aperence in his mind, and when silver reached out to grab the weapon as it teleported to him, he held a Great Sword instead of the Broadsword he normally weilded, He grunted as the heavier two handed weapon spun around his head the Alicorn brought his sheild up, however, the heavy sword crashed through the sheild, destorying it compleatly and knocking the Alicorn on the Head slightly.

The Alicorn stumbled back from the blow, a red ooze leaking from underneath the Helmet. The Alicorn grunted as the cryistal on his legs sharpened, The Alicorn stumbled backwards again as he reformed slightly until he stood on two legs, Towering over Silver, The creature silently charged Silver without hesitation or a battlecry.

Silver let his great swords drop to the ground, as the enchanted weapon fell through the ground, Silver summoned his normal Silver's Fury, and prepared himself to block the constructs attacks.

The creature moved eligantly and gracfully, Slicing both furiously and yet somehow cunningly. Silver swong his blade to either side of him, blocking the blows, He moved his sword to beside his left to block one swing, as Silver moved to swing his blade forwards to strike, he found the construct's arm had grown a hand and was grabbing onto his blade.

The Alicorn struck at him with his other arm. Silver rased his hoof to sheild his face, however, instead of the sharp edge meeting flesh, the creature's cryistal weapon met a crystal sheild that was literialy growing out of Silver's skin, Silver smiled at the construct.

"You arn't the only one who can do that pal." With that Silver twisted his blade, breaking the cryistal hand surrounding his blade, He pushed the other arm away and struck at the Construct's undefended face with his sheild, before spining around and ducking to avoid the constructs despreat flailing, before standing quickly and bring his sword up, knocking off the creatures helmet and slicing it across it's wooden face.

Red ooze once again sprayed out, splatering Silver's face, the creature dropped back to all fours before charging up his horn, striking Silver with a despret mental attack. Silver only smiled.

"Nice try." Silver spoke as he felt the Alicorn's presence try to enter his mind, he focused his power inwards, blocking the creature off from his emotions and long term memories. However he left the way to his short term memories wide open, the creature took the bate, directing his energy towards it, the second he felt the Construct make its way to his short term memories, he forced himself to block that off as well, trapping the creature's mind inside his own.

The Construct's magic dimmed slightly as the sudden cut off from his own mind, the Alicorn began beating against his mental walls to escape, however, Silver took this oprotunity to strike at the Alicorn's own mind, the Alicorn only relised his plan when he felt Silver Creep his way into his emotions.

Silver with a flick of his horn, banished the Construct's mind from his own, giving it the excape it craved, the second the Alicorn's mind was back where it belonged, Silver exicuded his attack, overloading the Construct with emotions of Sadness and Stress.

The Construct stumbled at the sudden mood wiplash, at the same time Silver struck with his blade, the Alicorn barely managed to block the attack, before trying to answer back with one of its own, but a sudden spike of rage caused the Alicorn to make a risky attack, giving Silver the perfect oprotunity to...

"GAH!" Silver grunted as he spun around three hundred and sixty degrees, whipping his blade slightly behind his head in his magical grasp before slicing the Alicorn's head clean off.

The Construct stood there for a few seconds, red ooze bubbling out of the stump where its head was, suddenly, the cristals turned transparent again before the entire thing fell sideways and shattered, leaving bits of wood and glass-like cryistal shards everywhere.

Silver panted, streching his neck at the sparing match. He took a moment to admire his hard work, he woulden't be able to fight like that before then, he marveled at how good he felt even after that fight, he had mimimized his blood magic use, Sombra's dark magic was still draining, but not quite constantly-using-blood-magic draining.

He walked towards one of the shards, one of the only ones still not transparent, before pressing it against his horn, a spark of black magic apeared between the two, before the cryistal disintigrated and Silver felt a flood of memories from the Construct flood into his own mind, he walked over towards his hoof-build water well, pouring some water into a pitcher as he studied his battle from the other side's perspective.

"Hmm, I was slow to react to the change in the Construct's aperence, I was forced on the defencive, I don't fight as well when I don't control the speed. I also sacrificed my defence for that sword throw attack, if he had taken my blade and made sure I coulen't teleport it...well I would be screwed royally...instead of by it!" Silver let out a hardy laugh at his own joke, the severed wooden head not finding it funny at all if it's reaction was any indication. It never did, construct rarely did respond.

"Wow...I'm talking to severed wooden heads now...and now I'm talking to myself about how I am talking to wooden heads...I really need to stop talking now." Silver said as he shook his head and walked back to his hut, closing the door carfuly behind him.

after taking a few steps, silver poured two cups of water, setting one down on the kitchen counter beside him he spoke loudly.

"You know, if you are going to invite yourself into the house, you should remember to close the door behind you. Kinda just common curtsey." Silver smirked as he heard a very feminen gasp from the dark corner of the hut where he slept.

"Come on out now, you came all this way to see me, the least you can do is let me know who had decided to break and enter into my abode." Silver remarked a bit more venom in his voice as he leaned backwards onto his blade. which he had summoned during his first comment.

The shadows seemed to move around his bed, before out of the shadow's stepped a blood-red unicorn with a black mane with streaks of dark grey going through it the same with her tail. The unicorn mare was wearing black armor, not like royal guard armor, it was black, it had tactical pouches and she had two short swords tucked away in sheiths under her armor, as well as several knives tucked away in various places.

"Hello there, Silver Haze, Alicorn Prince." The Mare said, her voice was somehow still cold yet bubbly and cheery at the same time.

"It's just Silver Haze now, 'fraid there's nothing left for me to be the prince OF anymore." Silver said causiously, keeping his attention focused on the Unicorn in front of him. "I assume you didn't come all the way up here for my autograph?" Silver said, sarcasm creaping into his voice.

The mare let out a bit of a chuckle. "Afraid not Silver Haze. I was sent he to give you a message though, from your...benifactors, ponies who wish to see you succeed in your quest...a gift. One that thousands of Bits and countless amounts of time was spent gathering, consiter yourself lucky that we found you at all, this is one gift you do not need a receat for." The mare's criptic message only further sparked Silver's curiousity.

The mare pulled out a box, about as big as a normal pillow, made of wood and gold, she placed it on the kitchen counter quickly before grabbing the second glass of water silver had left out and chugging it all in one gulp. She smiled at Silver winking. Before placing the glass down and walking towards the door.

"If you like this gift, I can assure you that more will be on their way. Have a good day Silver Haze, the Mare said smiling, before walking out the front of the hut. Opeining the door before slamming it behind her, shocking Silver out of his stupor, causing him to run after the mare, but by the time he got out, she had disipeared, Silver grunted, he had just spent the last four months training only to be douped by the first pretty face he came across.

Silver walked inside, back towards the box, he sighed as he opened it, exaling and letting the stress leave his body as he opened it.

Silver had low expectations for the gift, but even he thought it was going to be something INTERSTSING at least.

Inside the box was nothing more then some broken crystal fragments, some sort of gem? The bits of gold chain scattered around in the box seemed out of place, it looked almost incompleat. Silver was just going to leave the box like that, but then decided that he might want to inspect the fragments closer, one could never know what was going to end up being useful in the end.

Silver reached out carefully as he felt his hoof make contact with the gem, he took a sharp intake of breath.

then let it out when nothing happened, how silly of him to even think anything would happen.

" Vaut, Zuvar Vwos Quunt Dumbarnum t'vn suv'e uoon Asy'um."

Silver haze agreed with the disembodied voice from behid-

Silver Haze took a deep breath in.

Silver Haze took a deep breath out.

Silver Haze turned around.

Silver Haze came face to face with a Alicorn made of pure red light

Silver Haze stared into the Alicorn's golden eyes.

The Alicorn smiled. "Bandvarn Adduont Tis'tasu Brothah Alicorn."

The Alicorn reached back and plunged a hoof into Silver's chest, his hoof turning intangible as it passed through him.

Silver Haze passed out.

Ponyville Square.

Twilight Sparkle smiled as she walked through ponyville square, she saw Applejack at her stand talking with Rarity, turning the corner, she walked towards the two of them.

"Hey there Girls, how are things going?" Twilight asked smiling brightly. The other two girls smiled back.

"Twilight Darling! How have you been?" Rarity asked.

"Good Rarity, things have been good, hows business?" Twilight smiled, this was good, this converstation was ok, no mention of anything upseting, just a normal talk with her FRIEND.

"Oh Twilight same as normal...by the way I was at the spa with Fluttershy..." Twilight found her smile becoming a bit more forced as Rarity continued talking.

"Anyway, she was saying that she invited you over for tea...again...and you failed to show up, she wanted me to ask you since she...hasn't been able to reach you lately." Rarity said, taking a dainty bite out of her apple. Twilight breathed deeply, she knew it was going to come up...again...she wanted to be mad at Rarity, but she coulden't she knew it wasn't Rarities fault that she found herself stuck in the middle of this.

"Oh, you know, regular stuff, Rarity, I was reoriginzing the library...again, you know how it is." Twilight said, hoping Rarity would drop the topic.

"...Oh, well then, parhaps if you want me to I could tell Fluttershy that you could go another time..?" Rarity asked hopefully, Twilight decided that enough was enough.

"...Rarity." Twilight said with a sigh, causing Rarity to shake her head.

"Look Twilight, she's trying to reach out to you, she feels HORRIBLE at what happened, I...I understand that you needed time to forgive her but...you don't even have to do that Twilight, if you want to be angry at her at least BE angry at her, don't just go around pretending everything is fine and then avoid her every chance you get. It's not good for her, its not good for any of us stuck in the middle of it..."

Rarity put a tentive hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "and most importantly it's not good for YOU Twilight, it's not healthy to bottle your feelings like this..." Twilight thought about shrugging Rarity's hoof off, but decided against it.

"Rarity...Silver had an affair with her, MORE THEN ONCE, when we were together, she betrayed my trust...I though it was bad when he cheated on me ONCE with that...demon thing...but with one of my own best friends?" Twilight shook her head. Rarity only sighed.

"Twilight, he never technicly cheated on you, when he and Fluttershy had...their...moment, you had broken up with Silver, you were not in a relationship with him." Twilight looked rarity in her eyes anger burning.

"Yes and when I went back into a relationship with him he told me right away and I didn't hear about it MONTHS later." Twilight sighed as Rarity pulled back from her, Twilight knew deep down she was being irrational, that Silver had done nothing wrong, that his relationship with Fluttershy was when they were not together, she knew that demon thing hypnotised him and that he didn't have a choice...but she was still angry, she was going to be irrational about it because she could.

"Applejack...be a dear and help me...Applejack?" Rarity said as she looked over to see Applejack was laying on her back behind her booth, twitching spasticly, Rarity and Twilight both gasped.

"Rarity! Go get some help!" Twilight said, Rarity nodded, turning around before she gasped, clutched at her chest despreatly, before falling over as well, Twitching.

Twilight ran up to Rarity, however, she felt something pull her back. As she turned around, she was confronted with a tall Alicorn made out of purple light and stars. The Alicorn put a gentle hoof up to her mouth, silencing her. Before it took its other hoof and plunged it into her chest.

"Kas'vur Murum Elumont, Ta'ut Suvount Elumont Risuns..."

Silver Haze awoke in his hut, forcing himself to stand up he became alert of how everything felt a little bit different, sharper, clearer.

Silver Haze ran outside, looking around, he saw everything was exactly how he left it, panicing, Silver decided to get a birds eye view, dipping into his power he channeled it upwards to get some alititude.

Silver Haze suddenly took off from the ground, he found himself soaring above the mountan, going faster then he ever had before with a single flap of his wings, trying to stop himself, silver spread his wings out fully, stopping him instantaiously and causing the sunlight that hit him from behind to filter through his wings creating red light, he also noticed that without even flapping he was holding himself in the air.

Silver Haze looked down at his hut, then relised that he was wearing something.

Something Golden

With a gem the shape of a sword with a wing growing out of the hilt.

A necklace of sorts...

An Element of Harmony.

"wha-...what!" Silver yelled as he flapped his wings again, forcing himself back down to the ground, Silver ran inside the hut. He started packing what little things he had, he had to get out of here. He had to go to Equestria, find out what the hell was happining.

"You would do better to look around your suroundings before traveling across a continent to do it." Silver turned to see the same Alicorn from before, the one made of light standing in front of him, this time Silver was ready, putting all of his weight behind a single blow...

which passed right through the now intangible Alicorn.

"Wha-how-bu-but!" Silver stuttered as his mind tried to put the bits together.

"Greetings Silver, I apologize for my rude introduction, but I had to find a way to unlock your Element powers, that was simply the most effective way." The Alicorn bowed deeply.

"Ho-How can I understand you! You were speaking Anchent Alicornian just a few seconds ago!!!" Silver yelled at the Alicorn who just rased an eyebrow at him...or he would have if he had eyebrows.

"Really? Of all the strange things that is your inquary? Very well, to be correct I was speaking Anchent Alicornian a few HOURS ago, you have been out for a while, for the second one, I only wanted to unlock your powers and leave back to my home in the Element...but I got...stuck." It was Silver's turn to rase an eyebrow at the Alicorn.

"What do you mean...you got stuck?" The Alicorn frowned at him.

"Well, I assumed I would have to fight your soul in order to gain access to your powers, but when your soul put up no resistance I just entered your being completely to make the work go faster, however, when I went to leave, I relised why your soul put up so little resistance...it isn't anywhere in your being." Silver was shocked.

"Wait...are you saying I don't have a soul!?!" Silver said horrified. The Alicorn shook it's head.

"No, incorrect statement, without a soul you would not exsist, but your soul is just not in your body, I assume it is somewhere in the Void, but that is besides the point, your body has gone so long without a soul that it was despreate to find anything to fill the power vacume...so the second I entered your body...it trapped me, binding the Element's power to your own permiantly. You have full access to the Element and it's powers, rather then only in times of crisis. As well as meaning that I am bound to you, as long as you live, I live." Silver was still trying to swollow the whole soul in the Void thing when he heard the second half.

"So wait...who are you? Why are you in this element? WHAT is that element?" Silver asked the Alicorn staired right back at him.

"Silver Haze, you have been choosen to weild the Seventh Element of Harmony, the Element of Redeption, but also known as the element of Honor or Bravery. I am trapped in this Element because that is the price I pay for my wish...and my crimes..."

The Alicorn took a step fowards, spreading his wings to their full span and his eyes glowing pure gold.

"My name is Rightful Smite...and I am the creator of the Elements...and the one who wished for the deaths of the Tyrant Alicorns that plagued this world."

The Alicorn smiled.

"And you and me have a LOT to talk about..."

Badlands

Deep in the sands of the Badlands...

Training drums endlessly beat...

Carrying a song calling for war...

and magic calling for obedience...

Author's Notes:

Silver Haze here! Kicking off Arc III with a BANG! Yep we have had shifted the focus away from Haze himself the last little while, I figured it was time we focused back on everyone's favort Alicorn Hero!

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As Always, I love you all, thanks for reading!

~Silver Haze