Nightmare let out an evil laugh as the dramatic lightning struck around her. The mayor regained her senses and leaped up.

"Seize her!" Yelled the mayor. "Only she knows where the Princess is!" A few armoured Pegasi flew up to Nightmare, only to get struck down by lightning. Nightmare laughed some more, then transformed into a dark blue magical vapour and flew out the main doors of the Town Hall.

"I've got to get back to the library," stated Twilight, "and find the Elements of Harmony!" She picked up Spike off of the floor, threw him onto her back and ran out of the building.

"Well," I said to myself, "this is happening." I readied myself into a good stance, then focused my magic and began teleporting back to the library. Was it a coincidence that I woke up on the same day that this happened? How should I know?! I don't know!

One flash of magic later, I was inside the library. Books were being thrown around, Twilight was talking to herself like a madmare and Spike was nowhere to be seen.

"Twilight!" I shouted, startling her. "How do we stop Nightmare?"

"We need to find the Elements of Harmony," Twilight explained, "but nopony's seen them in a thousand years! Not since the Princess used them to banish Nightmare Moon to, well, the moon!"

"Well, where were they when the Princess last used them?"

"They might be-"

"And just what are the Elements of Harmony?!" Interrupted Rainbow Dash, who at some point had entered the library along with the others. "And how did you know about Nightmare Moon, huh? Are you spies?" Realta damn it! Does she solely exist to piss me off?!

"Screw off, Skittles!" I shouted. "Go back to lazing around! It's what you're best at!" Rainbow shot me a death glare.

"Buck you, you son a-"

"Rainbow, stop!" Yelled Applejack. "We've got more important things to worry about now than social quarrels! Twilight, what are th' Elements o' Harmony?"

"I read all about the prediction of Nightmare Moon," Twilight explained. "Some mysterious objects called the Elements of Harmony are the only things that can stop her, but I don't know what they are, where to find them-I don't even know what they do!"

"The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide," read Pinkie. Twilight bashed Pinkie out of the way to see for herself.

"How did you find this?!" Twilight asked. Rainbow was still glaring at me, muttering something under her breath.

"It was under E!" Sang Pinkie, bouncing across the room.

"Oh..." Twilight levitated the book off of the shelf and started to read from it. "There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known. Kindness, laughter, generosity, honesty and loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said that the last known of the five elements was in the ancient castle of The Royal Pony Sisters. It is located in what is now..."

"...the Everfree Forest?!" Exclaimed Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie and Flappy Gas Lord. We were outside the forest in question. Wait, how did we get here? I... Have no idea.

"Whee!" Squealed Pinkie. "Let's go!"

"Not so fast!" Exclaimed Twilight. "Look, I appreciate the offer, but I'd really rather do this on my own."

"No can do, Sugarcube," said Applejack walking towards the forest, "we sure ain't letting a friend o' ours go into that creepy place alone. We're stickin' to you like caramel on a candy apple!" The others grunted in agreement and followed Applejack into the forest.

"Especially if there's candy apples in there!" Enthused Pinkie. Twilight looked at her with a confused look on her face. "What? Those things are good!"

"Doesn't look like you're getting any say in this," I explained to Twilight as a walked past her, "so you may as well go along with it for now." Twilight sighed. "Hey, don't you think it's weird that Ponyville just happens to be near the Everfree Forest, and your Princess just happened to choose Ponyville as the place to host this years celebration, and that discounting myself there just happens to be the perfect number of ponies for the Elements of Harmony, a reference guide to which that you desperately needed just happened to be in the library that your Princess assigned you to stay in?"

"That's... An interesting point." She thought for a few seconds. "Wait, what do you mean my Princess? She's your Princess as well. And I thought you didn't believe in fate?"

"I don't," I said, shrugging off her question about why I called them 'her' Princess, "but conspiracies are a different matter." Why did I refer to her as Twilight's Princess? And who is Realta? More questions to add to the list...

We were getting deep into the forest now. The sky could hardly be seen and it was almost pitch black. I didn't light up my horn to avoid attracting wild animals. We were getting close to a cliff edge.

"So, none of you have been in here before?" Asked Twilight as we walked.

"Heavens no! Just look at it, it's dreadful!" Complained Rarity, pointing her hoof at trees.

"It's a forest, what do you expect?" I asked.

"It ain't natural," explained Applejack, "folk say it don't work the same as Equestria."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Twilight asked.

"'Cause every pony who's ever come in, has never come out!" Taunted the Blue Bitch.

Suddenly, the edge of the cliff we were standing on erupted and broke apart. The next thing I knew, I was skidding down the side of the cliff on my hooves trying not to trip. Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were stopping everypony else from being flung off of the edge of the cliff. Applejack grabbed onto a root sticking out of the ground and- OH SHIT, I'M GOING OVER THE EDGE!

I quickly focused my magic and continuously made the molecules in the air around me push outward forcefully, creating a barrier of pressure between me and the ground. The air in my barrier collided with the air below me, slowing down my decent. By the time I reached the ground I was slow enough to not take any damage.

That was way, way too bucking close! It's a good thing I have such good control over my magic, or else I'd be a stain on the grass. How am I so calm after that happening to me?! It could mean I've been through worse in the past, so my unconscious mind knows to stay calm in situations like that. I'm not sure I want to remember my past if I went through that kind of traumatic experience enough times to be calm about it!

"Cloud? Are you okay, darling?" I looked up to see that it was Rarity asking me the questions. "I didn't see Rainbow Dash catch you and you've been lying there with a strange look on your face for a full minute now." I looked back to the cliff edge and saw Cyan Prat and Fluttershy slowly lowering Twilight down to the ground.

"Uh, yeah," I assured her, "I'll... Be fine..." So the Rainbitch was really gonna let me fall, huh?

It was a few minutes later and we were walking through the forest again.

"And once Pinkie and Rarity were saved," bragged Rainbitch, "Me and Fluttershy flew around and WHAM! Caught you right in the nick of time." Hatred... Levels... Rising...

"Yes, Rainbow, I was there," Twilight explained for the third time, "and I'm very grateful, but we've got to-" A loud thump from in front of us cut her off. A lion-headed, bat-winged creature let out a huge and ferocious roar. I knew exactly what it was, and so did Twilight. "A manticore! We've gotta get past him!" The manticore leapt towards Rarity, swinging its huge paw towards her head. She ducked under it, then sprang into the air and gave an impressive buck to its face.

"Take that you ruffian!" She yelled triumphantly. The manticore roared in her face covering her in stray saliva and mucus, completely ruining her mane and tail. "My hair!" She cried before running away. The manticore started to give chase but was interrupted by Applejack jumping onto its back. It jumped around trying to buck her off, soon getting lucky with a swing of its head sending Applejack flying back towards the rest of us.

"All yours, pardner," she said to Feather Brain, who tried creating a mini-tornado around it. She was cut off when it struck her with its tail, sending her sprawling in the dirt. As entertaining as it was, watching her fail only wasted time to get to the Elements of Harmony.

It was my turn. I readied my stance and sent out a cloud of sleeping gas from my horn. It flew towards the manticore scoring a direct hit, making it unconscious immediately. I grinned at my success.

"And that girls, is how it's done!" I brohoofed Pinkie and we continued onward.

"Don't you think there could have been a diplomatic solution?" Fluttershy asked me. The tops of the trees were starting to get thicker, which blocked out the little light we had in the first place.

"That was the diplomatic solution," I explained, "the violent solution would poison gas." Fluttershy looked forward quietly.

Why do I remember so many different spells? It doesn't add up; a memory removal spell would've completely wiped all of my memories... And where do I go from here? I thought I could find something in the library about memory spells but even if I do find something, where do I go from there? Find a counter spell, maybe? For now I should focus on helping Twilight. She cou-

Screams from the girls broke my train of thought. I looked at what they were screaming at, and it was...

"A tree? Really?" I facehoofed and groaned.

"They're all around us!"

"Wow! Really?" I asked sarcastically. "There are trees in a forest?! The horror! What's next; clouds in the sky?! Hair in a mane?!" Pinkie started laughing and making silly faces at the trees. "I'm going on ahead. Feel free to join me when you realize a shrub can't kill you." Well, not easily. I went on ahead without them.

I arrived at a river. there were no trees to block out the sun here, meaning I could see again. Unfortunately, the river had insane rapids surging through it, making it difficult to cross. I could hear crying emanating from somewhere to my left. I headed upstream a little to see what was causing the racket. There was a large sea serpent sobbing and thrashing about in the water, causing the out of control rapids.

"Uh... Hey!" I called to him, getting his attention. "Why are you crying?"

"Oh what a world!" He cried. "Well, I don't know; I was just sitting here, minding my own business, when this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whisked past me and tore half of my beloved mustache clean off, and now I look simply horrid!" He cried more and fell into the river, splashing me with water. Actually... I know just the spell to help!

"Hey!" I shouted to him, "Bring your face closer and stop thrashing about!" He sniffed.

"H-huh? Okay..." He did what I asked him to. Once again, I readied my stance for magic. I've been doing this a lot today... I focused my magical energy around the remains of his mustache and concentrated it. I made his cells split much faster than normal, making his mustache grow more and more until it matched his other side. I stood still for a little bit to catch my breath. All this advanced magic is getting exhausting!

"There you go, man. Now could you please let the water be calm? I really need to cross." He looked overjoyed at his new stache and nodded vigorously.

"Absolutely!" He bent his body to make me a bridge.

"Thanks! Oh, and some friends of mine will be coming through here soon, could you help them too?"

"Oh! Don't even fret about it, good chap!" I smiled and gave him a firm nod. Then I turned and continued my journey.

It wasn't long before I could see the ruins of a castle in the distance. That's got to be the castle Twilight was talking about! Wait, so if I do find the elements what then? Stand around and wait for the others? How should I know? It was a rhetorical question!

I came up to a ravine with a broken rope bridge. I used my telekinesis to lift up the broken end and retie it to the supports on the other side, then crossed it. Wow, that was easy. After all I've been through tonight I was expecting a bigger challenge.

The ruins made it seem like the old castle wasn't very big. In fact, it was quite small compared to... Uh, castles in general? Maybe there's more around the back or underground. I pushed open its large wooden doors to reveal a large stone room. In its center there was a stone structure with five different stone spheres on stone pedestals. That's a lot of stone.

Suddenly, a cyclone of blueness surrounded the stone structure and me. It lifted up the spheres and collapsed in on itself, teleporting me and the spheres to a different room. I looked up and saw Nightmare levitating the spheres around her, still firing dramatic lightning. Her smooth silky black wings outstretched alluringly- Now's not the time! It's never the time!

"Uh, hey!" I shouted over the lightning. "So... Nice night huh?" She laughed sexily evilly!

"It shall be the last night anypony shall see!" She declared, rearing up and firing even more dramatic lightning.

"Oh. That's probably bad. So... Do you wanna destroy the world or rule with eternal night or what?"

"Did I not make myself clear, you dunce?! I shall rule alone with a night that never ends!" More laughing, more lightning.

"Could you please stop with the lightning? It's really annoying, I can barely hear you over it."

"Oh! You are scared by my incredible magic prowess?!"

"No, not really. Lightning's kinda easy. Look-" I fired a large bolt of lightning from my horn, hitting a wall and blowing it up. Nightmare looked shocked for a second before turning back to me looking angry.

"YOU DARE THREATEN ME?! GODDESS OF THE MOON?!"

"What? No I wasn't threatening you I-"

"YOU SHALL NOT STOP ME, FOR I AM NIGHTMARE MOON!" She yelled. She stomped hard and the spheres smashed to pieces. "You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me? Now you will never see your Princess, nor your sun! The night will last forever!"

"Now you're just making a mess!" I shouted, starting to get angry.

"I AM-"

"Would you shut up?!" I yelled at the top of my voice. My horn starting to flare up as my rage grew greater. "Realta damn it, you're so bucking annoying! Just shut up and stop trying to be so dramatic!" Stay calm. I've got to find a diplomatic solution.

"NOPONY CAN STOP ME!" BUCK THE DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION!

"SHUT THE BUCK UP!" I screamed at her. I could feel my anger surging through my veins. I forced it into my horn and flung an enormous fireball at Nightmare. She turned to vapour and let the fireball pass through her. Still vapour, she flew towards me firing lightning in my direction. I threw up a magical barrier and absorbed every bolt.

She changed back into pony form, and, using the momentum she'd built up, tried to impale me with her horn. I rolled to the side and shot her in the torso with a magic bolt strong enough to crack her armour. She yelled in pain and turned back towards me, firing a beam of concentrated nightmares which I countered with my own beam of electricity. The two exploded on impact and the room started to crumble. Nightmare flew up into the night sky.

A circle of some kind erupted beneath me, feeding me strange power. I willed it to lift me up like a platform and it followed my every thought. Nightmare looked horrified when she saw what I was doing.

"W-WHAT?! HOW CAN A WHELP SUCH AS YOU HARNESS THE POWERS OF ARCANE?!" I ignored her and quickly fed magical energy into my hind legs, charging them up until they glowed. Then, willing the circle to move me, I sped over to her and energy bucked her in the face. She fell from the sky into the rubble of the tower we were previously inside and landed on one of her wings, producing a snapping sound. She screamed some more then looked up at me with tears in her reptilian eyes. "H-HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! HOW CAN I BE DEFEATED BY A LOWLIFE SUCH AS YOURSELF?!"

"Magic," I said, cracking my neck. "Mother bucker." I threw a pulsating ball of pure magic at her. She screamed as it hit her, unable to move. The brightest of lights enveloped my eyes for what could have been eternity.

Then everything went dark.

Author's Notes:

Action scenes are hard to write.
Also;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Teg-CwVW0

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Revised 06/01/2015 (DD/MM/YYYY, I'm English).