Twilight stood in the ruined ponyvile square, news had just reached them of the events in Canterlot.

Everypony was taking it differently.

Twilight was still in shock.

Silver Haze...was dead.

She looked at the ponies, recovering their lives...mourning the dead.

Applejack had retreated to the farm and had been bucking non stop for the last day, nopony

Rarity had also retreated into her work, however, Carousel Boutique was burnt to the ground during the Fog's attack on the town, Rarity was trying to scavenge as much as she could, it was especality hard for Sweetie Belle as she was still dealing with the deaths of Applebloom and Scoots.

Fluttershy was simply devistated. Just as she had made up with her freinds, Silver died, again. As she had re-made a freind, she re-lost a lover. It was the hardest on her for her to adapt, she kept saying how empty her house and heart truely were. Silvers death hit her the hardest and she took the longest to recover.

Pinkie Pie threw a Memorial gathering for all who had been touched by the life of Silver Haze and wanted to say a final goodbye to the brave Alicornian Warrior who had helped them so many times that they had lost count, his generosity, and compassion and bravery will forever be missed.

Rainbow Danger Dash took to the sky, still angry and saddended by Scootaloo's foolish sacrifice that ended her life to save hers, she had no healthy way to vent out her angry. So she took it out on everyone, she turned to the bottle. Not the milk kind. However her friends tried to help her, though she is still touch-and-go the mane 5 + Spike + Sweetie Belle were able to help her get through it.

Spike had one of the biggest losses. not only did he lose a friend, but he also lost a father figure, now he would have no one to bro around with because big mac was severely wounded and will not be able top hang out for a long time.

Twilight was the most affected in her own way, true she and haze never got along very often, not after what they had done to one another, but she still felt a sorrow, in the end, he did care about equestria, so much so he was willing to give his life for it, it was an impressive act what he did, killing the fog and still managing to get a final message out.

Twilight felt most sorry over one thing, the never exsisting goodbye, the last time any of them had seen Silver, he was not himself, he was Rightful, and that had depriveded her of the chance to make a final amend, after she and Fluttershy had made up, she thought foolishly that they would have a chance to make us as well, though they would never be as close as they once were she did know for a fact they could be friends.

Twilight let a lone and solum tear run down her already soaked face, she wished she could have said goodbye at least, he didn't deserve much in her eyes, but a goodbye was something everyone was owed.

As she stood in the ruined town, she looked forward and bowed her head.

"Goodbye, Silver Haze... and Thank You."

But Twilight was a Princess, and she needed to get back to work.

Celestia stood, strong and tall in the damaged and ruined Canterlot square.

Ponies over the last week had slowly returned to their normal lives, insurance was taken out, clams filed, business reopened. Everything was slowly returning to the way it had always been, but on this day, they were going to have to remember one more time.

The shouting of the Canterlot Solar Guard seemed so quiet to Celestia, as the rows of the guard that was left marched to give their final respects.

Celestia looked up at the monument, a statue of a Solar and Luna guard, standing tall with their respective flags, behind them, a Griffon and a Diamond Dog stood, saluting out into the sky, Behind them, a Saddle Arabian knight stood with an outstretched hoof, where a breezy solder stood just as proudly. Below the statue, an inscription said.

Below that, a large rock sat, written on it were hundreds of names from many different cultures, all of the brave souls who gave everything to defend those who could not defend themselves.

Celestia looked down for a moment, bowing her head, however, when a pebble by the monument started to shake and the sounds of ponies quickly moving out the way was heard, Celestia realised she wasn't alone in paying her respects...she wasn't sharing the burden of the lost alone.

"Hello King Terrier." Celestia said, waiting to hear the booming reply from behind her, however, the quiet(er) voice that greeted her back caused her to turn.

"...Many Good Boys die. Many Nice Ponies die. Terrier not do his job right." Terrier looked...tired. That was the only word she could use to describe him, he was covered in bandages, red and fresh, his constant insistence on them helping others first and moving around before his wounds could completely heal (as well as his insistence on licking them clean) had left him still physically unfit, however, she could see it behind his eyes. Terrier was not a bad person, he had come to be helpful, to extend an olive branch to Equestria, and he felt all he had had done was hurt those he had tried to protect.

"Terrier" Celestia began "You helped so many, if you had not arrived when you did, many more Ponies would have been killed, we might have even lost, the only reason we can put these ponies to rest is because you helped us survive to do it." Terrier looked up, a thankful sad smile on his canine face.

"Nice...Nice Ponies k...k...city was hurt, we want Nice Ponies to not need to worry about healing it. So we brought shinnies to help." Terrier turned away from the monument and pointed behind him, Celestia looked back and gasped at what she saw.

Diamond Dogs had destroyed a portion of the street (again) digging a hole, however, they brought up minecarts filled with rare gems, of massive size that would be the envy of any dragon's horde... and there still seemed to be more coming.

"Terrier...this gift...is so generous...but I cannot think to take it-" Before Celestia could finish, Terrier lifted a massive paw to silence her.

"You good to Dogs, Dogs very loyal, we know that Shinnies kan be replaced, we kan't replace those that died because we were slow...konsiter this being payback for Nice Ponies being Nice." At this point, all Celestia could do was smile and nod thankfully, the sounds however of a very angry nurse shouting about her Dog being missing reached them.

"...Must go, I hate doctor but Nice Moon Pony say I have to see him. Goodbye!" Terrier bowed, revealing his wagging tail before the massive Dog turned and walked back towards the Nurse, before she could yell at him, he lifted her up and began walking back towards the hospital.
Celestia smiled and let a small giggle escape her lips, but her heart wasn't into it. However, the sound of clanking on her other side filled her with sadness again as she turned to her other side.

"Greetings. Solar Guardian." The Griffon Guard said, leaning off of his metal limb that had replaced the one he lost...he was one of the lucky ones that was still walking.

"Oh...hello...have you any news?" Celestia said to the Griffon, who hesitated before shaking his head.

"It is no new news, only the same bad bits, critical condition, if he ever recovers he won't ever be fighting...or flying...or moving much again." The Guard said. Celestia bit her lip, only four griffons left that battlefield, found after the Eye of the Fog was destroyed at the abominations scattered, after they easily defeated the broken line, they had shifted their efforts to finding the lost.

"Well. If any new news of your King arrives, please inform me at once...thank you" Celestia said, as the guard saluted before flying off to who-knows-where.

"Celestia." The old voice said, Celestia turned to see Scorpan, standing beside Prince Sand, who nodded to her.

"...you still owe me that conversation." Celestia said, Scorpan chuckled in that mysterious way he always did.

"I suppose I do, but not today, it is no time to be digging up the tragedies of the past when a new one is so fresh in our minds. Soon though. Oh, and Queen Chrysalis sends her regards." and in the way Scorpan always decided the conversation was over when he was done saying what he set out to, he turned and walked away. Prince Sand, stood there for a moment, looking between the two, before Celestia rolled her eyes and and nudged her head in the direction of Scorpan, the Prince looked at her, smiling, bowed quickly then ran after Scorpan.

Celestia sighed. Suddenly, she became aware of the guard approaching, surrounding something. As they drew near, Celestia made out the form of a Corrupted Alicorn, Celestia readied her horn, however, she relaxed it when she saw the bindings and little bodies riding it.

"CELESTIA! How are you doing this fine morning!" Bloodwing called from a little throne right between the Alicorn's eyes, holding reigns connected to it's muzzle. Upon realizing that he had to look up to see Celestia, he suddenly pulled on them, causing the Alicorn to twitch it's nose, rearing up onto it's back legs and flaring it's wings out, bringing Bloodwing to an equal height to Celestia's face. (And causing several Breezies to almost fall of the Creature's back as they scrambled to hold on for dear life.)

"I am fine Bloodwing. I see you have not abandon your mount?" Celestia said, the creatures sunken eyes had been covered by some sort of fabric with the Breezie Flag painted onto them. It's mouth had been completely muzzled off, as to not reveal it's twisted smile. Bloodwing laughed.

"Are you kidding me? Do you know the tales they'll tell when BLOODWING THE MIGHTY! Rides in on the back of an Alicorn who he defeated by himself!" At this point, several breezies in armor began complaining loudly. Bloodwing suddenly snapped around and growled.

"ALL BY MYSELF! YOU HEAR ME! YOU ARE ALL JUST PIGGYBACKING OFF MY FAME YOU LEACHES!" Several of the Breezies shut up but a few more continued grumbling as they checked the straps or were looking at maps.

Bloodwing held out his hoof, waiting for Celestia to give him hers, she decided to humour him and gently placed her hoof ontop his his tiny one, he tried to put his other hoof ontop of hers, after failing that, he just rested his other one on the front of hers.

"Celestia, beautifly, fair, FLAWLESS Celestia, shall I compare thee to a summers day?..Well I mean you raise the sun and all that so it's quite the fair comparison when really thinking about it...where was I? OH! Yes, FLAWLESS Celestia!" Bloodwing prattled on, Celestia was, for lack of a better word, humoured.

"Though I must leave, and I may never return- I WILL CHERISH THIS MOMENT FOREVER!" Bloodwing ended by bowing his head and (attempting) to kiss the top of Celestia's hoof, before backing up, bowing and yelling at the Breezies, pointing away from the square.

"NORTHWARDS MY FRIEND! TO HOME!" Bloodwing screeched, there was a moment of hesitation before the Alicorn started moving, however, a brown Breezie with a yellow mane flew up to Bloodwing and spoke.

"...Sir, not only are you pointing westward, not north, but our home is to the south." The Breezie ended with a sighed the hung in the air for a moment before Bloodwing coughed.

"Thank...you Mayflower...I was testing my navigator's abilities...you passed...so...to the SOUTH!" Bloodwing yelled as the Alicorn was turned around, it's wings spread out before it took to the air. Crashing into four buildings before leaving the square.

Celestia smiled an honest smile. It had been far too long since the Breezies produced anyone tough and stupid enough to call themselves a warrior and take on a far bigger world.

"...Perhaps I was wrong."

Celestia turned to the Alicorn who had come up beside her, who was staring up at the monument, without even looking at her, he spoke again.

"Maybe these mortals are stronger than I ever gave them credit for...for if we failed to hold off the fog where they succeeded...they may be even more powerful than us...a scary thought..." Hope mumbled, his eyes still locked onto the monument.

"It's only a scary thought to those who have a reason to fear mortal retribution." Celestia replied.

"Well that still doesn't make me feel any better considering what we have...I have done to them over my lifetime." Hope chuckled, before letting a small smile touch his face.

"I think...no, I know why it was never going to work between us now, I was foolish and blind, and I ruined whatever we had, it's far too late for me to even think about the connection my lack of empathy shattered...so would it be possible to start again? From the beginning. After surviving all I have, can you say I earned the right to start anew?" Hope looked at her with pleading eyes, Celestia sighed.

"...after all the help you gave us...after all the lives you and the Warmongers saved, I feel you earned yourself another chance, but this IS your last one..." Celestia said sternly, causing Hope to smile.

"...and Hope? Never say it is too late to do something, after all, we are immortals, I don't think it's too late for anything..." Celestia coyly added on, causing Hope to grin and blush.

Celestia turned back to the monument, it was a fresh start for Equestria, a more united one, a more fearless one. "Today is a brand new day for the world" Celestia said, smiling.

Hope for his part also began smiling, looking towards the monument, this was a new day for the world. "A brand new day indeed." Hope could feel the ebb and flow of the magic of the world. The old gods were coming, a new darkness was rising, not a force, an army.

The two Alicorns stood at the monument. Both hoping for the new world that they saw coming. Neither knowing the true intentions of the other.

But in that moment, neither of them cared.

Pain. Unbearable.

Heat. Intolerable.

Silver Haze, wingless and hornless, laid in the burning yellow sand, boiling and burning his flesh, as he dragged himself through the sand, the shinny yellow turned to a bright red, the painted lines of a dead stallion moving.

Silver persisted, nothing more than the need to find somewhere cool to curl up and die motivating him. The sun was relentless in it's scalding, even Celestia was not this cruel to the driest of Equestrian soil.

Silver haze continued on his crawl, each movement feeling like burning fire, he dared not rest, for fear he would roll over and at best get sand in his wound, at worst not be able to flip himself back over to keep moving.

He had no destination, there were only endless plains on all but one side, where there was a dune of sand as tall as a ship, obstructing his view of what laid beyond, as he crawled, he felt his muscles spasm, fearfully paralyzing him for a few moments until they returned to his control. Only increasing his urgency. As he aproched the dune however, he became faintly aware of the sound of yelling on the other side, from his dry, cracked throat, he worked up what little energy he had left to scream.

"HELP. HELP ME! ANYPONY HELP!" Silver's head hit the sand, causing him to horribly get some of it in his mouth, causing him to hack and cry, breaking his already broken throat even more.

After an eternity consisting of about twenty seconds, he became aware of a shape of a earth pony on the pile of sand ahead of him. After a few moments, the figure seemed to jump and turn and run. Silver, seeing hope for the first time in what felt like forever, began to crawl towards the Pony, however, as he approached, he slowed, he heard rapid hoof steps, a lot of them.

Suddenly, action exploded over the dune, about forty earth ponies, wearing what seemed to be metal armor of some kind, covering most of their body, how they survived in the heat Silver had no clue, but another burst of pain distracted him from his chain of thought, when it ended, they had surround him.

From the circle around him, he heard several behind him move out of the way, he could tell by the clanging of armor. Before he could work up the ability to speak, he screeched as boiling sand was forced into his eyes suddenly, when his vision cleared, he saw the cause, an armored hoof, covered in metal with what looked like three talons...or claws on them, they were metal, however, the ends were white and bleached, it took Silver to realize they were fragments of a giant dragon's tooth.

Silver risked looking up, and when he worked up the energy, he saw a massive Earth Pony, about the size of Big Mac, covered in armor, where as no fur was even showing, the pony did not have a tail, it appeared to have been completely cut off and the armor sealed in the back. On his head...or he assumed by the raw size it was a he...was a full covering helmet, forged to look like the jaws and head of a dragon, completely closed off, all he could see was a pair of piercing green eyes, very angry eyes.

"What...what is this? WHY IS THIS...THING...HERE?" The pony roared, definitely a guy with how deep the voice was.

One of the more lightly armored pony approached the larger one "Elder-Slayer Garrilith, we found it like this, we have no idea who he-" The pony was cut off.

"I care not WHO this thing is, I want to know what threat it possesses." The larger one ordered.

"Sir, it's wings have been completely cut off and it's horn has been separated at the base. This...thing...is dying, it is of no danger to us." The lightly armored pony advised.

The larger one drew his blade, it was massive, red and silver, forged in such a way the blade looked like thick stacked diamonds, with holes through the center of each one, the blade, despite seeming heavy, was wielded with expertise.

"Well then, never say I did not know mercy..." The pony stepped on Haze's chest, causing him to let out a pathetic scream as the little air left in him deserted and the thick dragon-tooth talons dug into his skin as the pony moved his blade to one side of him, planning to swing it across his chest and slice Silver's head clean off.

However, at the last moment, a voice stopped the impromptu execution.

"He needs him alive." Everypony turned to the voice, a pony, stood there, cloaked in a black hood, he moved silently in between the crowd, who moved to let the pony through.

"Rapture needs all the information he can get, this specimen, even damaged, will be invaluable, as long as he's ALIVE. Garrilith." The pony spoke, the Larger Earth pony grunted, before stepping off of Haze, letting him suck in the sweet nectar of air once more.

"Fine. But Advent owes me one. You get that?" The large pony spat.

"Advent did not call this order. Rapture did." The hooded pony coldly replied.

"Aye, but I owe Rapture and it would be rude to charge him for this favor." The larger pony gave as a curt reply.

The Hooded pony moved past the larger one, approaching Silver Haze, smiling. Silver Haze on his part, was having a hard time remaining lucid, he felt himself drift off into the void, hearing only a few more words before sleep took him.

"Congratulations Alicorn, you will be the martyr for the sins of your kind, I don't know where you came from, but you will serve a greater purpose...this is where your story ends I'm quite afraid, but don't worry. You still have SUCH a big part left to play...or maybe just your organs do...The Fatebreaker will make good use of you...but you must be confused, you've come a long way. The least I can do is give you some information, yes?" The black hooded pony threw back his hood, revealing a unicorn wearing a helmet that appeared to be made out of the skull of another pony, white, un-detailed eyes stared back at Silver, leading him to think the pony was blind. However, the most noticeable feature was the brand he wore on his...skull-helmet, it was instantly recognizable as the brand of the Platinum Kingdom, the dead bloodline of the first Unicorn Tribe...but their bloodline all but died when the family refused to leave with Princess Platinum when she went with those who fled the Windigo threat. The Unicorn smiled.

Silver Haze did not feel the hooves grab him and pull him away, he felt nothing but a burning heat and the chill of the grave.

For once, Silver did not fight the embrace of the void, there was nothing left for him here, he had no magic, he had no throne, he had no enemy he could fight...he was just in so much pain and so tired...

This was the end of his road.

This was the end of his story.

It felt incomplete.

But then again, this was life, not some fairytale.

That's the funny thing about life, you never know when it's just gonna unexpectedly end.

Author's Notes:

well. That's it.
When I started this project I had no idea it was gonna last this long or come this far.
I may release a few bonus chapter in the future (drafts that never got through quality check)
But for now the story of Silver Haze has come to an end.
I will also be bringing a seed grown to an end.
It's time to give Haze the long rest he deserves.
His story had truly this time come to an end.
But don't expect this to be the end of me.
...I really have learned a lot from this experience.
I will take it into the future.
It's time for a new OC to be announced.
But for now, I'm tired.
It's late.
and it's over.
Thank you.
Brohoof.
For the last time on silver's story.
..but let's not let this get too sad! I'm silver haze, that's not like me at all! so until next time, GOOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!

~Silver Haze