Author's Notes:

I tried to make this story as exciting as possible for you all so please forgive me and I hope you all enjoy.

We were on board the train heading home from the Crystal Empire with a surprising addition to the group. Eris, daughter of Discord himself, was pretty much the female version of Discord. The only thing different was she had white hair that reached her shoulders instead of a beard and a female body. Twilight was asking her questions and when that ended she managed to talk to Gilda and they seemed to hit it off well. Even Rage had a chat with her and she was surprisingly less chaotic than her farther; but she was a bit surprised when we mentioned about him being reformed. I looked away from everyone and looked at my pouch that held Sombra's soul, the power crystals and the pepperbox that had once belonged to Sombra and gave it a few pats before I looked out the window.

"Hey Ash."

I turned to face the source of the voice and I saw Twilight was standing in front of me.

"Hey Twi, what do you need?" I asked.

"I just wanted to check and see if you’re alright, you did just get out of the hospital today."

"I'm grateful for your concern Twilight but I'm fine."

"Ok thought I’d just check," Twilight said as she began to walk away.

"Hey Twi?"

"Yeah Ash."

"Didn't you want to learn the soul sight?" I asked.

Twilight's face lit up with excitement and sat on the chair opposite me and listened with great interest.

"That's it Twi, keep concentrating," I said watching Twilight.

Her eyes kept flickering and she was trying to keep them open until she opened her eyes fully and they were glowing white.

"Whoa this is incredible," Twilight said as she looked around.

"Terrific job Twilight," I said.

Twilights eyes returned to normal and she looked at me with a smile which I thought might split her face.

"You have to show me more human magic," Twilight said.

"Whoa, slow down young grasshopper, in order for me to teach you more I need Celestia's permission. Also, we’re almost at Canterlot," I said as I looked out the window to see Canterlot Mountain in the distance.

"ERIS!" Discord screamed when we entered the castle.

"Nice to see you too dad," Eris said simply.

"What are you doing here? If Celestia, Luna, Chrysalis and Dream Catcher see you then things will get ugly," Discord said.

"I ain't scared of those ancient old hags," Eris said leaning back on a cotton candy cloud she’d conjured up while everyone looked at Eris with a look that said, “Is she nuts?”

"And just who are you calling an old hag?"

I looked passed Discord to see Chrysalis walking towards us.

"Why you in fact Crissy," Eris said getting in Chrysalis's face while Chrysalis looked ready to tear her in two.

Seeing how this would end, I intervened.

"Ok I think it would be wise not to spill blood here. For now I suggest we go see Celestia," I said as I stepped in-between the two, pushing them away from each other.

Eris and Chrysalis just gave a nod before Chrysalis led us to the throne room. When we arrived I saw Celestia looking at the aurora borealis that spread across the sky from the crystal empire.

"Princess Celestia," I said as I kneeled.

"Ash, I told you no more bowing, it's a little uncomfortable around friends," Celestia smiled as I stood and smiled at the princess in return.

"If it ain't sun butt herself," Eris said causing my friends to freeze and look at Eris in shock.

"Who exactly are you anyway?" Celestia said with an unamused look.

"Eris, daughter of Discord," Eris said causing Celestia to raise an eyebrow at her.

"It's my fault she's here Celestia, she was trapped in stone, just like Discord, and the magic sealing her was dark magic so I was unsure of what to do; I freed her," I said.

"I understand Ash and you couldn't have known, as for you Discord, we shall discuss about why you have a daughter and why we weren’t informed later; but right now congratulations to you all on liberating the Crystal Empire, especially you Twilight," Celestia said with a warm smile.

"Thank you Princess but the real heroes were both Spike and Ash, I just wish I could have done more," Twilight said looking at the ground in sadness.

"Twilight as I understand it you gave Spike the crystal heart because you weren't sure of how quickly you could escape the tower. You weren't about to risk the lives of the citizens of the Crystal Empire for your own benefit. Far better that I have a student that understands the meaning of self-sacrifice than her own self-interest," Celestia said.

"Does that mean?" Twilight started looking at Celestia with hope. Celestia's response was a single nod "I passed!" Twilight shouted as she jumped up and down and was wrapped into a hug by the girls.

"Ugh, all this sweetness is going to rot whatever's left of my teeth," Rage said as he split.

"Nice one killjoy," Rainbow said.

"Whatever, can we just get the whole separating Ash and me done please," Rage said.

This grabbed the attention of everyone in the room.

"What do you mean?"

We looked at the entrance to see both Luna and Dream Catcher walk in.

"He means this," I said as I pulled out a small bag in my pouch then pulled out the soul.

"Is that?" Chrysalis asked in small surprise.

"Sombra's soul, yes," I replied.

"What does it have to do with separating you two?" Dream Catcher asked.

"It means that it will split us in both mind and soul. Rage will be his own man now, not an emotion that grew a personality," I said.

"How do you know that?" Soarin asked.

"Faust told me that this thing has so much power it must be split between two or it could overload us with magic. The results would be catastrophic, my body needs to adjust to the new magic in order to gain more," I said.

"So it's like growing into clothing," Rarity said.

"Exactly," I said.

"Why exactly didn’t you split yourselves already?" Celestia asked.

"We wanted ask for your permission to use it," I said.

Celestia was surprised by the request and held her hand to her chin in thought.

Very well Ash you may proceed, but there is one condition; Rage must stay in Canterlot Castle under my supervision until I decide he is trust worthy," Celestia said pointing at Rage.

"I'm fine with that," Rage said with a shrug. I tossed the soul to Rage and he caught it in his hand before he lifted it to me. "Here's to our separation," he said before he ate it.

I looked at some of our friends and they looked a little green at the action. Then I looked at Rage, he was looking himself over before he shrugged at me. All of a sudden, I felt a burning sensation growing in my core and it was getting stronger and stronger I started swaying on my feet until I collapsed to my knees. Everyone rushed towards me but I held out my hand to stop them. I looked at Rage who was going through the same thing; soon the burn became unbearable and we started crying out in pain. The feeling got worse and worse until everything went black. I opened my eyes to see my right hand and I tried to move it but I could only make the fingers twitch. Slowly I regained control of my hand then arm, then the rest of my body. I got up onto my hands and knees and slowly stood up only to fall back down, but I was caught by Luna.

"Don't move too fast," Luna said as she helped me sit back down while she sat behind me and laid my head on her lap.

"Thanks. Ugh, that hurt," I said gripping my head.

"Should I kiss it better," Luna giggled.

"Only if you want to," I said with a smirk.

Luna leaned down and kissed me on the forehead.

"Better?" She asked.

"Yeah thanks," I said as I sat up and I saw everyone looking at us "What?" I asked as I stood.

"Oh nothing," Soarin said while Thunderlane whistled a tune next to him.

No pony gave a response and pretended they saw nothing; I just rolled my eyes at this. All of a sudden, I heard a groan come from opposite me and Luna and I walked over to the source. I saw another human lying face down. He wore a black leather jacket and blue jeans and had a pair of skeletal wings on his back giving me an idea who it was. I kneeled down next to Rage and shook him gently.

"Rage, you alright?" I asked.

"That could of been better," he replied as he stood.

I got a good look at him, he was no longer on fire and he was completely covered in skin. He looked like a healthy human with skeleton wings his facial features had also changed. Instead of looking like me he was someone else, with black hair that just touched his shoulders and also he looked really handsome.

"Damn Rage, you look good," I said with a low whistle.

"How?" Rage asked.

I summoned a mirror and showed it to him, when he saw his reflection the look of surprise was obvious.

"Is that me?" Rage asked.

"Seems that way," I said.

"Damn Rage, that's one hell 'a look you got," Applejack said.

“Indeed,” Rarity said fanning herself.

"Thanks you two, but this is going to take some getting used to," Rage said.

"So are you both separated?" Twilight asked.

Rage closed his eyes for a bit but nothing happened when he opened them.

"Seems so, I can't get into your body anymore," Rage said.

"So how does it feel?" I asked.

"Terrific! I can do what I want, when I want, this is amazing!" Rage said as he flew into the air and did a few loops.

"Mind you Rage, if you pull anything I’ll know," Celestia warned.

"Calm yourself Celestia; I think we’re past that incident, ok? Besides I kinda owe Faust for this, so I'm still at your service," Rage said as he landed and then kneeled to Celestia.

"I trust him Celestia, also I have some things I need to show you," I said as I pulled out the three crystals in my pouch.

"Ooooo pretty," Eris said getting up close to the crystals.

"But dangerous in the wrong hands," Rage said as he stood next to me.

"How so?" Dream Catcher asked.

Maybe I should show you all in the training grounds," I said.

We arrived at the training grounds and I laid the crystals out on a table in-front of the group and I made a solid stone wall and set up a training dummy.

"Alright, first off I need three volunteers," I said.

"I'll give it a shot," Twilight said

"Alright Twi anyone else," I said.

"Sure," Comet said.

"Finally how about you Caramel," I said.

"Uh ok," Caramel said as he stepped towards me.

"Alright, I want you all to pick a crystal," I said to the three.

Twilight picked up the red crystal, Comet picked up the green one, while Caramel picked up the blue one. I led Twilight over to the stone wall, Comet to an empty part of the training ground and Caramel to the training dummy.

"Alright Twilight, tell me, can you break this stone wall?" I asked gesturing to the wall.

"With a blast of magic, yes," Twilight answered.

"What about with a punch?" I asked.

"I'm not that strong," Twilight said.

"Try punching it with the crystal in your hand," I said.

"Are you crazy? Cause I'll break my hand if I did that" Twilight said.

"Just try," I encouraged.

Twilight did as I instructed and held the crystal in her right hand; she reeled it back and punched the wall. Instead of Twilight crying out in pain, her fist smashed through the wall in a shower of rock, causing everyone except Rage and I to stare gobsmacked at the action.

"Holy buck Twi! When did you get so strong?" Rainbow asked as she zoomed over to us and inspected Twilight’s hand; to her surprise it didn't have a scratch on it.

"That was actually the crystal’s work, the red one gives you un-measured strength," I said as I took the crystal from Twilight and placed it on the table. "Comet, you have a simple one, just jump," I said.

“How high?” Comet asked.

“Don’t get smart with me, just jump,” I said in an annoyed tone while folding my arms.

Comet looked at me in confusion before he held onto his crystal and jumped; he managed to jump four feet in the air before he landed on the ground safely.

"The green one temporarily makes you weightless and allows you to jump to all new heights," I said as I placed the green crystal on the table before I turned to Caramel. "Now as for you Caramel, I just need you to aim the tip of that crystal at the dummy and focus on releasing the energy inside it," I said.

Caramel aimed it at dummy like I said and closed his eyes in concentration before a beam shot out of the crystal and lit the dummy on fire.

"Finally, the blue crystals allow you to store spells inside and the best part is, it's an unlimited source. These crystals have great power in them and it was what the demons were after in the empire," I said as I placed the crystals back in my pouch.

"Incredible, but If I may ask Ash, what do you plan on doing with them?" Celestia asked.

"Don't worry, you'll find out; but what I will say is the results are going to be good," I said.

"Very well, I trust you Ash," Celestia said.

"Great, oh I just remembered Celestia, Twilight has an interest in human magic and she appears to be eager to learn more. So with your permission I'd like to help train Twilight in human magic," I said.

"I would prefer if you didn't teach her human magic Ash," Celestia said.

"Yes, I can understand your worry Celestia, but Twilight was able to master a spell on our way here called soul sight; it grants the user the ability to see everypony’s soul if they have one," I said.

"I see, well as long as you’re with her then very well; but Twilight I must ask you to be cautious, other attempts to use such magic have had serious repercussions," Celestia warned.

"Of course Princess," Twilight said with a bow.

“Also I need to discuss with you about the two maids that I discovered in my home a few days ago,” I said

"Yes I understand your situation about the maids in your home and if you like I can have them relocated elsewhere," Celestia said.

"I never said you had to get rid of them Celestia, I just wish you gave me a warning or talked to me about having maids in my home. They are a great help around the house but the only thing that made it un-comfortable was the fact they wore skimpy outfits, curtsied to me and called me master; it just felt wrong," I said.

"I see, I'm sorry about that and next time I'll bring such matters to you personally before I make a decision," Celestia said.

"Thank you Celestia," I said as I looked at Luna who had an angry expression aimed at Celestia. "Are you alright Luna?" I asked.

"Hm...Oh yes I'm fine," Luna said looking at me.

"Alright, well we must be off. I'm sure Dust is waiting at home and I need to get started on a certain project," I said.

Everyone said their goodbyes and my friends and I left the training grounds.

"Um everypony…" Dream Catcher said.

"What is it Dream Catcher?" Chrysalis asked.

"I just re-read Cadences message about the Crystal Empire and apparently we missed something," Dream Catcher said holding the letter in question.

"Oh and what did we miss," Discord asked in an interested tone.

"Well when Ash and Rage were in chains, Cadence was struck by Sombra's whip and that's when Ash and Rage got free," Dream Catcher said.

"So, what's so interesting about that?" Luna asked.

"It's how they got free that matters, after Cadence got hit Ash was somehow able to use the Canterlot Royal Voice on Sombra and his magic became so strong it overloaded the anti-magic shackles on him and Rage; it sent out a shock wave that destroyed some of Sombra's crystal guards," Dream Catcher finished earning shocked looks from Celestia and Luna.

"Looks like Sombra hit a trigger on Ash," Rage said.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked.

"I mean Ash's mark on his back. Discord managed to find out the past behind it by force and that earned him the cut on his arm," Rage said pointing at Discords arm. "Discord then pinkie promised not to tell anyone about it. Then Faust found out and I can't say anything because it's a really touchy subject and personally I’d prefer to live a few more years than face Ash’s wrath," Rage finished as he shuddered.

"DISCORD YOU BASTARD!" Luna yelled in the Canterlot Royal Voice.

"Way to go Rage," Discord said in a sarcastic tone.

"Hey, I had to be honest, but anyway we can't tell any of you a thing about Ash because it’s really it's not our place to say unless he asks us to tell you," Rage said.

"Very well, we’ll ask Ash at an appropriate time, but for now Discord let’s discuss Eris," Celestia said with an angry expression on her face that made Discord gulp.

It's been three weeks since we returned home. When we arrived at Ponyville, Comet finally asked Twi out on a date and from then on they’d been dating regularly. Now we head to the present where I was just working with some metal in the forge.

"Just one more piece then I'll call it a day," I thought as I pounded away at the last piece of metal.

When I finished I took the metal into the back room and placed it with the other pieces I finished when we returned from Canterlot. I walked outside and stretched my limbs out, I thought about giving my friends a visit. But then I remembered they were busy helping prepare for when Princess Celestia was to arrive with the delegates from Saddle Arabia; so I was left to think of another method to entertain my boredom.

*Squawk*

I looked around and I saw Dust fly down to me.

"Hey Dust, I was just about to find something to do, any suggestions?" I asked Dust, he just turned his head to the Everfree forest and I followed his gaze and smiled. "Good idea," I said as I walked towards the Everfree.

My walk led me further and further into the dense foliage where branches acted like hands that reached out to try and grab me. I simply ignored it and swatted them away to continue onwards. I appeared from the dark and had my destination in my sights.

"The castle of the old royal family," I said when I spotted the ruins.

I walked along the rope bridge that spread across the gorge that stood between me and the castle; then walked inside and went straight for the library. We arrived at said library and I walked over to the secret door and kicked the emblem in the corner and the door opened. I walked inside and I was once again greeted by the glowing orb and the six statues, but to my surprise another statue was added. This statue was of me wearing my assassin robes, also the statue was wearing the hood and mask and had my wings outstretched.

"Whoa! I wonder who made that? But I got to say whoever did made a damn fine job of it," I said.

"Thanks,"

The sudden voice caused me to turn around and summon Whispering Wind ready to fight, but my gaze was met with the knights of Equestria.

"Geez you guys! If you weren't already dead I could have killed you," I said in annoyed tone.

"Thanks for the reminder," Altair said in a slightly depressed tone but I couldn’t really tell cause his voice had no emotion most of the time.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean...," but I was interrupted when Link raised his hand.

"It's alright Ash, we know you didn't mean anything by it, just be careful what you say when you say it and who you say it to," Link said.

"Right, so what brings you all here?" I asked.

"You actually, we sensed a large amount of dark energy has been destroyed along with you splitting your soul from Rage," Ezio said.

"Faust told me about it, you'll be glad to hear the Crystal Empire, Dream Catcher and Discord are safe," I said.

"The Crystal Empire? That means you killed Sombra, I’m impressed," Corvo said.

"Indeed and its fantastic news; the royal family is almost whole again all that's left is Faust," Arno said.

"Yeah but there's something that's been bothering me," I said.

"What is it Ash?" Link asked.

"The demons, it's the second time now, they offered me a chance to join them," I said.

"Do you plan to join them?" Corvo asked resting his hand on what I could sense was a weapon of some sort.

"I'd rather be eaten alive by scarab’s thanks; it's just, why ask me something like that," I said.

"They must see you as a serious threat which is good; if they fear you, all you need to do is not fall to their mind games," Link said.

"I'll be sure not to do that," I said.

"It's too bad we can't use the Alicorn Amulet to help train you against such things," Arno said.

"Alicorn Amulet?" I said.

The knights led me to a desk that had a book shelf attached to it and a vast assortment of a chemical kit. The desk had a grey leather book on it with a swirl and stars on it.
“Is that what I think it is?” I asked.

“Starswirls journal correct,” Altair said.

Corvo reached out and used his magic open the book and flip through the pages. When the pages stopped I looked at a necklace that had a unicorn head and wing's connected to a downward facing triangle and a bright red gem in it.

"The Alicorn Amulet was a charm that gave the wearer great power, but it was designed by Starswirl to corrupt its user," Link said.

"Why build something that was designed to corrupt the user?" I asked.

"It was made as a training tool to help us fend off corruption. But when the charm created a magical lock on itself it became too dangerous to use so it was locked away," Link said.

"How was it able to do that," I asked.

"Because the power source is a demon soul, it was one of Starswirls projects on harnessing demon soul energy," Corvo said.

"So why not destroy it?" I asked.

"Starswirl wanted to repair it but he never got round to it, so it was locked away until somehow it was stolen from the vault," Altair said.

"Well the bad news keeps on coming huh," I said.

"Not exactly, it's quite easy to destroy; just disassemble it with your magic," Ezio said.

"I’m afraid we must leave you Ash but feel free to explore and open your mind to curiosity. Anything dangerous will be labelled so keep your eyes peeled and use what equipment you may find," Link said as he disappeared along with the others.

Dust and I stayed in the room for many hours I mostly read and had a small look around and found an old broken down automatic training ring. All it needed was a few power sources and replacement parts then it would run again. We left the room so I could go find the tools needed but not before taking Starswirls journal with me, as I was walking through the forest I heard voices through the trees. Creeping quietly I peeked through the trees and I saw Fluttershy wearing some strange bunny outfit and was being carried by some birds while she was struggling but failing to get away.

"Oh please little friends, I don't want to be in this spooky forest," Fluttershy whimpered.

"Flutters," I said causing the poor mare to squeak in fear and turn towards me, but when she saw me she let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh Ash am I glad to see you," Fluttershy said as her birds let go of her and she gave me a hug.

"What's going on Fluttershy? Why are you in the Everfree forest?" I asked.

"My friends were taking me to find Twilight, there's an emergency back in Ponyville. But why are you here? If you don't mind me asking," Fluttershy asked.

"I was looking at some books in the Everfree castle. Now what's this about an emergency?" I asked.

"A unicorn called Trixie has taken over Ponyville and I was asked to go look for Twilight to help," Fluttershy said.

"Ok well let's go see if Zecora knows where she is and if we’re lucky Twilight will be there too," I said.

"Ok," Fluttershy whispered.

"Um Fluttershy, what are you wearing by the way?" I asked.

"Oh it's Rarity's dangerous mission outfit," Fluttershy said.

"Okay, well let's get moving," I said. I knew better then to judge Rarity in her choice in fashion so I decided to leave it and gestured to Fluttershy to run towards Zecora's hut.

We arrived at Zecora's hut and I knocked at the door and I was greeted by the zebra herself.

"Ash Blade and Fluttershy I trust everything in Ponyville is fine," Zecora said when she saw us.

"Apologies if we’re interrupting something Zecora, but we're looking for Twilight," I said.

"Follow me my dearies and you'll see Twilight quickly," Zecora said as she beckoned us to come in.

We walked inside and I saw Twilight drinking some tea at a table.

"Ash, Fluttershy, what are you two doing here?" Twilight asked in surprise as she stood.

"I've been in the Everfree castle for almost the entire day," I said.

"And I had some help to sneak out of the force field, but Twilight I figured out how Trixie became so powerful, she's using the Alicorn Amulet," Fluttershy said.

"What!" Both Twilight and I shouted.

"I can't believe I didn't recognize the Alicorn Amulet! How could I have been so stupid?" Twilight said as she paced around.

"The more she uses it the more it will corrupt her," Fluttershy said.

"As was its purpose from the very beginning," I added.

"Wait, what do you mean?" Twilight asked.

"The amulet was used as a training tool for the knights of Equestria to fight against mind corruption. It was made by Starswirl the Bearded himself, but the amulet was banned from use when it developed a magical lock so that the only person or pony wearing it can take it off," I said.

"But how was the amulet able to do that?" Twilight asked.

"It's because the amulet’s power source is a demon soul one of the many artefacts Starswirl made when he was studying them," I said.

"But how am I supposed to beat that thing? It's too powerful! I can’t take her on horn to horn," Twilight said

"Twilight Sparkle, much work you have done. You've learned all of my lessons, all but one of Trixie’s tricks have you in a fix then mix your magic and use the six," Zecora said.

Twilight repeated the last line a few times out loud.

"Use the six of course, Zecora you’re a genius," Twilight finally said.

Zecora simply nodded and smiled.

"Now we need to get you two back inside Ponyville," Twilight said as she began writing on a piece of parchment.

After a few hours of preparing everything I stood at the edge inside of the force field and gave the signal to Twilight and Zecora to come out of the hiding place outside the dome.

"Is everything ready?" Twilight asked through the shield.

"Sure is, all that's left is this," I said tapping my hand on the shield.

"Any ideas?" Twilight asked.

"That depends on how you want to enter. Do you want to stay out there and let Trixie come to you or come in and challenge her up front?" I asked.

"I like option two," Twilight said with a smirk.

"Alright step back," I said.

Twilight and Zecora backed away from the shield and I placed my palm on the shield. I then dug my fingers into it like claws and squeezed. Cracks began to appear on the shield around my hand until the entire shield shattered like glass.

"Just call me the doorman,” I said dusting off my hands.

"Perfect job Ash," Twilight said as she walked past me towards Ponyville.

Suddenly a flash of light appeared in front of us. After it disappeared in its place was a blue furred female unicorn. I looked at her for a moment because she seemed familiar she had a white mane and tail with blue eyes wearing a black one piece show suite that showed off her curves and bust along with her cutie mark, which was a star wand with a glittery trail pouring from the tip and a black evil overlord cape and around her neck was the Alicorn Amulet.

"You how did you break my force field!" She yelled glaring at Twilight.

"I didn't, Ash here did it for me," Twilight said gesturing to me.

"You expect me to believe that a simple monkey was able to break the shield of The Great and Powerful Trixie!" she yelled.

"Oh that's right, I remember you," I said earning looks of confusion from Zecora and Twilight but a look of shock from Trixie.

"The ape can talk huh? Maybe I can keep your new experiment as a pet Twilight," Trixie said summoning a collar.

"If you couldn't catch me before then I doubt you can now," I said.

"Trixie has never even met a beast such as you," Trixie said.

"Not like this," I said as I changed into my wolf form earning a gasp of surprise from Trixie.

"It's you again!" Trixie yelled again with her eyes glowing red.

"You two know each other?" Twilight asked.

"Before I arrived in Ponyville I met Trixie here while she was walking through the Everfree forest, apparently she was looking for a new act for her little show. She overheard me talking to Dust and tried to place me in a cage and boy was that a dumb move," I said as I turned back into my normal form.

"Who are you calling dumb, you monster!" Trixie yelled.

I shot a hated glare at Trixie but before I could do anything more Twilight stepped in.

"Leave Ash alone Trixie, your fight's with me and I know about the Alicorn Amulet. I know you cheated," Twilight accused

"Cheated, moi?" Trixie said in an innocent tone.

"Yeah and I thought you might like to see what a real magical charm looks like," Twilight said holding up a gold necklace with an emerald green stone with spiral markings. "Zecora gave this to me as a gift. Before it was nothing but a simple necklace but thanks to Ash, the magic goes beyond any in our world including your measly little Alicorn Amulet," Twilight said putting on the necklace.

"Ha! Nothing is more powerful than the Alicorn Amulet and there is nopony more powerful than the great and powerful Trixie," Trixie boasted.

"Care to put your amulet where your mouth is? How about another duel," Twilight dared.

"Why should I? I already beat you," Trixie said.

"That’s up to you, but I guess you'll never see the awesome power from beyond Equis c'mon guys," Twilight said as we turned away.

"Ok, ok! You’re on, a second duel," Trixie said as she appeared in front of us again.

We stood in town square, all of my friends were standing behind Twilight while Trixie stood opposite us with Sips and Snails (two colts from Ponyville.) The rest of the ponies in town stood off to the side and I even saw Mayor Mare in a cage. The entire town was completely changed. Dark clouds flew overhead and there were statues and banners everywhere of Trixie.

"Let’s start with a simple age spell shall we," Trixie suggested.

"Let's," Twilight agreed.

"Snips, Snails," Trixie said

On command the two colts stepped forth then Trixie fired a spell at them turning them into baby foals and they started to cry. I rushed over to them and picked them up then handed them to their parents and changed them back to normal before I went back over to Twilight and looked back at Trixie.

"An oldie but a goodie; now let's see what your little charm can do," Trixie said.

"No problem. Uh Applejack, Rarity, could you help me please?" Twilight asked.

The two looked at each other in confusion then they stepped in front of a statue of Trixie. Twilight then fired a blast at them that covered them in smoke; once the smoke cleared a foal version of Applejack and Rarity stood in their place. To top it off, foal Applejack still had on her Stetson which just slid down her face making her look adorable. Trixie looked shocked at the results before she regained he composure.

"Ho hum, so you can do an age spell big deal," Trixie said pretending to not be amused.

Twilight fired another spell turning them back to normal. Then another that turned Rarity into a foal again but was balancing on top of Applejack. Then another that made Applejack elderly and Rarity her normal age, again while still balancing on Applejack. Then another that turned them back to normal.

"That…That's impossible," Trixie said.

"That's nothing," Twilight said turning to Rainbow and fired a spell at her. At first it didn't look like anything had happened, but another pair of blue wings extended behind her. Rainbow looked up to be met with a pair of familiar magenta eyes.

"Yow!" Rainbow cried as she flew up with her double and checked herself out.

"How did you?" Trixie asked in shock.

"Duplication spell, ever seen one pony play ten instruments," Twilight said as she fired a spell at Pinkie Pie getting her to play ten different instruments at once.

"This...this can’t be," Trixie said.

"Oh there’s more, but first Comet could you stand next to Applejack please?" Twilight asked Comet stood next to Applejack as instructed and put on a brave smile for his marefreind. "For two of my last tricks I can turn a mare into a stallion and a pony into a completely different species," Twilight said. As she said that both Applejack and Comet began to panic. But Twilight fired the spell at them quickly. When it was over Applejack was turned into a stallion and looked as strong as Big Mac and let out a manly, “Eeyup.” Comet was turned into a human. He was busy checking himself out before Twilight turned them back
"And for the final trick, I can control all four elements," Twilight said gaining gasps from the audience. Her eyes turned white and balls of fire, water, earth and air circled around her. She performed a small amount of tricks before making the balls disappear. Trixie was in complete shock at what she had just witnessed. "Well Trixie, looks like my amulet is more powerful the… Hey! Give it back!" Twilight was interrupted when Trixie snatched Twilight's amulet with her magic.

"With this amulet I shall now rule all of Equestria," Trixie said with an evil laugh as she took off the Alicorn Amulet and exchanged it for Twilight's. "Witness my subjects gaze upon an even greater and more powerful Trixie," Trixie said with an evil laugh. Suddenly one of the Rainbow Dashes zoomed down from the sky and grabbed the Alicorn Amulet. "Hey! Oh I don't need that old Alicorn Amulet, I have this," Trixie said as she fired a blast of lightning at Rainbow. The spell hit right on target but instead of cries of pain I heard cries of laughter.

"Stop it that tickles," Rainbow said in-between laughs. She was laughing so hard she dropped the amulet.

"Tickles? That was supposed to make you rife in agony, this amulet is defective," Trixie said.

She spotted the fallen amulet and ran to it but before she could reach it a small black blur snatched it up. Trixie looked around for the amulet and she saw Dust was holding it in his claws, he flew over to me and dropped it into my hands and landed on my shoulder.

"That's an extra bird treat for you tonight Dust," I said as I stroked under his chin.

"Give me my amulet," Trixie demanded.

"No way! This thing is too dangerous to even exist, I’m getting rid of it," I said as I levitated the amulet up in my magic.

The amulet vibrated wildly before I disassembled it with my magic. I cracked open the gem in the centre of the amulet to reveal the demon soul. I snatched the soul out of the air and placed it in my pouch and destroyed the remains of the amulet.

"By the way Trixie, the amulet around your neck it's one of Zecora's doorstops," Twilight said wrapping her arm around Trixie and tapping the amulet the rock fell off the necklace and shattered the ground.

"But how did you do those spells? No unicorn can do those spells," Trixie said.

"You’re right not even me. Zecora taught me so much about magic while I was in exile she even taught me when not to use it. My magic alone wasn't enough to take on the Alicorn Amulet head to head, so I needed to use a different kind of magic, the magic of friendship. And I knew the only one who could get the amulet off your neck was you," Twilight said as Apple Bloom ,Granny Smith and Big Mac disguised as Applejack along with Sweetie Belle disguised as a younger Rarity came out from behind the statue, while Fluttershy removed her rainbow wig.

"But what about the pony with the ten instruments, also the pony into a human, also controlling all four elements," Trixie said.

"The pony with the ten instruments wasn't magic it was just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. For the others I had to call in some help from someone who had powerful magic," Twilight said gesturing to me.

I held out my hand and once again all four elements spun around in a circle above my hand.

"Finally the pony into a human trick was a disguise ring," I said turning to Comet as he tossed the ring to me.

Soon the crowd of villagers surrounded us cheering for us. I high fived Twilight before I looked around for Trixie. Unfortunately she disappeared while the crowds cheered for us. I looked up and I saw the dark clouds moving away and ponies started removing the posters and statues of Trixie, also letting Mayor Mare out of the cage, everything was going back to normal.

We managed to get everything set up in time for when Celestia and the delegates from Saddle Arabia arrived. Surprisingly Rage also came along because he was Celestia's escort which I was happy for as it means Celestia was learning to trust him. Twilight was putting on one heck of a show for everypony by levitating Fluttershy's animals. But, Fluttershy was terrified that something would happen to them and wouldn't let go of Mac. While Twilight was finishing up her show I walked over to Rage.

"Hello Rage, how's your life been in the castle so far?" I asked.

“I have to walk around with a pair of guards following me but apart from that pretty good," Rage replied.

"Give Celestia time. I'm sure she'll come around with you, but for now here," I said handing him the demon soul.

"Where'd you get that? Also, we’re split forever it won't work anymore," Rage said taking the soul.

"I know but you said this was like a treat for you. Also I don’t know what else to do with it," I said.

"So what am I a soul disposable unit for you," Rage said jokily.

"Are you going to eat the soul or not?" I asked in an impatient tone. Rage placed the soul in his mouth and swallowed it but he stuck out his tongue in disgust. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"The damn things gone stale," Rage replied causing me to chuckle.

"Um excuse me."

I turned around and to my surprise I saw Twilight and Trixie. Only instead of wearing her evil overlord cape she wore a blue cape with stars on it and a matching wizard hat.

"Hey don't we know you?" Rage asked.

"We do Rage and I'll explain everything later, but what are you doing here Trixie?" I asked with a small amount of anger in my tone.

"I...I just came to apologise for what I did today it was inexcusable and I treated you and everypony so horribly, it was the amulet I just couldn't control myself; it was like I had another being inside my head but I know it's no excuse and Trixie unders...," Trixie was shocked beyond belief as I wrapped her into a hug.

"You don't have to explain to me Trixie, I know you weren't yourself at the time and for that I forgive you, but you must promise me to stay away from such artefacts ok?" I said wiping some tears from her eyes as I released her. Trixie was crying silently but it wasn't tears of sadness leaking from her eyes but tears of happiness and relief. Twilight placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "So what will you do now Trixie?" I asked.

"Trixie has no idea, there's no way I can show my face in public again after this," Trixie said looking at the ground.

"Y'know, I have a vacant room. You can come live with me if you want," Twilight said.

"What?" Trixie and I said at the same time.

"Are you sure Twilight?" I asked.

"Yes. If Gilda could apologise and be forgiven and given a room with Rainbow then why not with me," Twilight said.

"You'll do that for me? Even after everything I did to you?" Trixie asked.

"Yes, but you'll need to face a punishment to earn the trust of everypony here and you have to be a little more friendly with others," Twilight said.

"Also, in case things get hairy with the citizens here and they might, just come to me and I'll do the talking ok?" I said with a smile.

"Trixie understands, thank you both for giving me this opportunity," Trixie said.

"Well now that everything is sorted, how about we grab a few mugs of cider at the bronco with our friends and give them the news about Trixie," I said.

"Can't Ash, I need to stick by Celestia remember?" Rage pointed out.

"You three go ahead, I'll tell Celestia where Rage has gone and I’ll also tell her something," Twilight said.

"Hear that Rage? Now come on, let's go get you a drink," I said as I wrapped my arm around him and led us to find our friends.

Twilight walked over to the royal box and saw Celestia and the delegates about to leave after watching the show.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight called out running up to her mentor.

"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student," Celestia said hugging Twilight then releasing her. “You put on quite the show tonight," Celestia praised.

"Thank you princess, I came to let you know that Rage has gone to have a drink with Ash and there's something about Ash you need to know.”

"He can use the Canterlot Royal Voice I know," Celestia said.

"Wait he can do that?" Twilight asked in surprise.

"You weren't going to tell me that?" Celestia asked confused.

"No I didn't know he was capable of that, when did he do it?' Twilight asked.

"At the Crystal Empire, you might want to ask your friends about it," Celestia said.

"I will," Twilight said.

"Now what is it about Ash that you needed to tell me?" Celestia asked.

"Hm...Oh yeah well I saw Ash was able to use all four elements today and I think his magic is only growing," Twilight asked.

Celestia held a hand to her chin in thought for a moment.

"This is interesting news. I'll have to let my siblings know of this. But for now this conversation must stay between us," Celestia said as she turned towards the waiting carriage.

"Wait, will you at least stay to have drink with my friends?" Twilight immediately covered her mouth after she realized what she just said.

Celestia just let out a chuckle before she turned back to her student.

"As tempting as the offer is Twilight I must decline, but perhaps I will join you in a drink next time. Oh and please tell Rage to be back at Canterlot before sunrise," Celestia said as she stepped into the carriage and flew off leaving Twilight to walk to the bronco.

It's been six days since the incident with Trixie and when we were at the bronco the others didn't really approve of Trixie staying in Ponyville and living with Twilight. But, after a few words and some of force from Twilight and I, they calmed down and agreed to give her a chance. Trixie has been doing community service for Ponyville and helping in the library by telling stories to the children. As for me, I woke up ready to begin a new day. I planned to go to the Everfree castle and try and repair the old automatic training arena I’d found in the secret room. It looked like it was going to be a perfect day, but I thought too soon and I heard a beep come from my IPod I looked at the screen

"Oh no, no, no, no, no! It can't be," I said as I looked at my screen and found out that not only my day but my entire week was going to be messed up.