It's been a month since the Grand Galloping Gala and life has been peaceful. I was either reading a new book on the five knights or strolling around town getting used to my new home and meeting new ponies. Twilight was bugging me to tell her where I keep getting the books from and looking up new spells. Spike is still going googly eyes over Rarity. Applejack is bucking apple trees with Big Mac, who has become a really good friend to me. Fluttershy is feeding her animals and taking care of Dust. Rainbow Dash is doing some fancy tricks to impress the Wonderbolts and busting clouds. Rarity is up to her waist in orders and Pinkie Pie is well, being Pinkie Pie. Scootaloo's leg has healed and she and the rest of the cutie mark crusaders are on a field trip with their class up in Canterlot, so they won't be in Ponyville to cause trouble. Yep, life is good or so I thought. I was walking by Sweet Apple Acres, stopping in to see if Applejack needed help on the farm when I spied Rainbow Dash racing across the sky, chasing a rogue cloud. But something was off about the cloud. Instead of it being white, it was pink. All of a sudden it started raining, but instead of it ordinary rain it was raining chocolate milk.

"Rainbow Dash, what's going on with this here rain? I mean chocolate milk? I mean chocolate milk rain?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah Dash it's not supposed to rain until tomorrow, what gives? And why is it raining chocolate milk?" I asked joining the conversation.

"There's crazy weather all over Equestria. Cloudsdale is getting soaked by a major cola storm right now, but don't worry I'm not leaving till I get Ponyville back under control," Rainbow explained.

All of a sudden the corn in the cornfields started popping into popcorn completely covering me and Applejack, but Pinkie seemed to be having fun.

"Why would you want to stop this?" Pinkie said as she dived and popped out of the corn like a dolphin.

Rarity appeared next wearing a bright violet raincoat and carrying an elegant umbrella with gems on it.

"I heard about your troubles Applejack and I came to see if there is anything I could do to help, except get wet or dirty," Rarity said.

"Wow, word spreads fast around here!" I said as I climbed out of the mountain of popcorn.

Suddenly the apples on the trees grew ten time's their original size causing the trees to bend over threatening to snap them in two allowing all sorts of animals to take a bite of the oversized apples. Fluttershy appeared next and was surprised about what was happening.

"Fluttershy do something!" Applejack shouted to the yellow Pegasus.

"Now Angel you really shouldn't...," But Fluttershy never got to finish, because as Angle was eating one of the enormous apples his legs suddenly grew longer. "No, it's not possible! I must be seeing things!" Fluttershy exclaimed as other rabbits legs extended.

"Ok, I really want to wake up now because this dream is getting too weird," I said as I stared at the mess around me.

Just then Twilight appeared over a hill carrying a book with Spike in tow.

"Don't worry everypony, I learned a new spell that will fix everything," she said as she charged her horn sending out a large burst of energy that blinded me for a few seconds. When my vision returned, the area was still in the same mess "my failsafe spell failed what we do?" Twilight asked surprised.

"Twilight don't you have a Plan B?" I asked.

Twilight brought her hand to her chin in thought before she said "Rainbow can you collect all of those clouds in one area of the sky?"

Rainbow saluted her before she flew off to she cut through the air like a knife and collected all the clouds into a large ball.

"Applejack, I need you to bring those cotton candy clouds down to earth," Twilight said.

On command Applejack threw her lasso around the ball of fluffy goodness and dragged it closer to the ground while Twilight whispered something into Fluttershy's ear.

"Oh dear, I hope none of the animals notice these delicious chocolate filled cotton candy clouds. I'd hate to have to share them," Fluttershy said in a low enough tone for all the animals nearby could hear.

"Oh you and me both sister," Pinkie Pie said with her face stuffed inside the clouds, only to be knocked out of the way by a large group of animals. "Hey!" she pouted

Twilight then whispered an idea in my ear which I thought was brilliant. I gave a loud whistle and waited. In about ten seconds Dust landed on my outstretched paw.

"Hey Dust, I've got a treat for you. Here, you see all this popcorn? Why don't you grab some friends and eat as much as you want?" Dust looked at me in glee and nuzzled his head against mine before he flew off to grab some friends to chow down on the popcorn everywhere.

All of a sudden, Spike burped out green flames which turned into a scroll. Twilight picked it up opened it and read through it.

"C'mon girls and Ash, Princess Celestia wants to see us all in Canterlot, immediately," Twilight said in a panic filled tone.

We arrived in Canterlot and ran straight for the palace. Canterlot wasn't fairing any better than Ponyville. It was as chaotic as the Grand Galloping Gala a month back. We arrived at the palace and ran for the hallway one of the guards had said Celestia was in. We ran through the halls and came to the doors of the hallway, Twilight flung them open and we ran inside.

"Princess Celestia, we came as fast as we could," Twilight said, as we stopped at the foot of the stairs while Celestia stood at the top in front of three stained glass windows.

"Thank you all for coming on such short notice," Celestia said in a worried tone.

"Is this about the crazy stuff that's happening? What's going on? Why isn't my magic working?" Twilight asked frantically. But Celestia just held up her hand for silence.

"Follow me," she said as she led us through some doors that took us up a tall staircase to a long hallway with stained glass windows in each one. "I've called you all here for a matter of great importance, it seems an old foe of mine, someone I thought I had defeated long ago has returned. His name is Discord."

I looked at one of the windows to see a creature with a pony head, a short black mane with an eagle talon as his left hand and a lion paw as his right. He had a snake tail with white fur at the end, a dragon claw as his right leg and a cloven hoof as left. He also had a deer and antelope antler, one purple bat wing and one bird wing. He had yellow where the whites in his eyes should be and red pupils. These fierce eyes were framed by white bushy eyebrows and his beard framed and a single snaggletooth.

"He ruled Equestria in an eternal state of unrest and unhappiness. Luna, the knights and I saw how terrible life was for the earth pony, the unicorn and Pegasi. The five knights went to face Discord in battle, giving Luna and I enough time to find and use the elements against him, turning him to stone," Celestia said.

"Alright Princess's! You, Luna and the five knights kick serious flank!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"The real heroes were the knights. If they didn't hold off Discord, he would have succeeded in turning our world. It would have been overrun with chaos. The spell we cast should have contained him forever, but since Luna and I are no longer connected to the elements the spell has been broken," Celestia said as we continued through the hall to the back to see a large set of doors with banners on the sides, some even had suns and moons and the five knights marks on them.

"This is where the elements are stored. Since all of you recovered them, I need you girls to wield the elements once again and stop Discord. Ash Blade, you must protect them at all costs," Celestia said.

"But why us, why don't you...,"Twilight was cut off before she could finish.

"Hey look, we're famous Pinkie Pie," said pointing to one of the stained glass windows.

The window showed a picture of the mane six in an X formation, firing a beam at a black mare in armour above them, which I identified as Nightmare Moon, she also appeared to be fighting an ash grey wolf which was me.

"You six showed the full potential of the elements, by harnessing the magic of your friendship. Ash, your heroics and strength to fight and beat a mighty foe, although Luna and I once wielded the elements. It is you 6 who now control them and Ash to stand by you to defeat Discord," Celestia said.

...

"Princess Celestia, we won’t let you down. Just help us get started and we'll take care of the rest," I said with a determined look.

"Hold on a second, eternal chaos comes with chocolate rain you guys, chocolate rain!" Pinkie Pie said millimetres from my face.

"Don't listen to her princess, we'd be honoured to use the elements again," Twilight said, pulling Pinkie away from my face.

Celestia walked over to the doors and placed her horn in the lock and channelled energy into it. She pulled her horn out and the door made a few clicking noises before it lit up and opened to reveal a box covered in gems. Sitting atop a stone pedestal. I looked over at Rarity staring at the case in awe.

"Have no fear everypony I have total confidence you will defeat Discord with these," Celestia said as she levitated the case closer to us. But when she opened it, the case was empty. Everypony gasped and stared at the empty case in shock.

"Oh well if anyone needs me, I'll be outside in the chocolate puddles with a giant swingle straw," Pinkie Pie said completely unfazed by the situation and began to walk off.

"Hold it Pinkie, you need to stay with us," I said causing the pink mare to stop in her tracks and turn toward me.

"Okie Dokie Lokie," she said as she bounced back over to the still shocked group as if nothing happened.

"That chamber is protected by a powerful spell that only I can break, this doesn't make sense," Celestia said while she paced all of a sudden an evil laugh echoed through the hallway.

"Make sense? Awww what fun is there in making sense?!" a voice called out

"Discord, show yourself!" Celestia demanded searching the halls for the source of the voice.

"Did you miss me Celestia? I missed you," Discord said as one of the window murals of him came to life and started moving from window to window, just to stop on a picture of the mane 6 standing around a pedestal with the elements of harmony resting atop of it. "It’s quite lonely being imprisoned in stone, but you wouldn't know that because I don't turn ponies into stone."

"Enough! What have you done with the elements?!" Celestia demanded

"Oh I just borrowed them for a teensy little while," Discord said, snapping his fingers to make the picture of the elements disappear.

"You'll never get away with this Discord!" Celestia said pawing at the ground with her hoof.

"Oh I forgot how grim you can be Celestia, it's really quite boring," Discord said with a yawn.

"Hey! Nopony insults the princess!" Rainbow yelled charging at Discord, only for Discord to disappear in a flash of light, with Rainbow smacking her face into the window where he once sat.

"Oh you must be Rainbow Dash, famed for her loyalty. The element of harmony you represent," Discord said as he reappeared.

"That's right I'll always be loyal to the princess," Rainbow said in an aggressive tone.

"We'll see about that," Discord said as he disappeared once more.

"I can't believe where wasting time talking to a tacky window," Rarity said.

"The beautiful Rarity, representing the element of generosity," Discord said appearing in a window right next to Rarity.

"So you know who we are big deal," Applejack said.

"Oh I know much more than that honest Applejack," Discord said as he enlarged himself to fit the window.

"You seem to know our strength's too," Twilight said just as Discord disappeared and reappeared in the window with the mane six standing around the empty pedestal.

"Yes Twilight Sparkle and yours is the most powerful and elusive element, magic. Fluttershy's is kindness and Pinkie Pie is a personal favourite of mine, laughter," Discord said.

"Pinkie!" Twilight yelled at a laughing pink party mare.

"He's dancing on your head," Pinkie said through the laughs and pointed at Discord doing a backwards shuffle on a glass painting of Twilight.

"But there is one name in this room I don't know, the wolf, who is he Celestia? Is he your new pet?" Discord asked pointing at me.

"I swear the next pony or whatever, that calls me a pet again, I'll tear their lips off their face!" I yelled.

"Well, I certainly didn't see that one coming, a talking wolf. You haven't been playing around with forbidden magic have you Celestia?" Discord mocked.

"Stop hiding in windows you demented jigsaw puzzle and face me like a whatever you are!" I yelled.

"I'll have you know, I'm only slightly demented thank you and for the record I'm a Draconequus," Discord said in an annoyed manner.

"Stop stalling Discord, what have you done with the elements of harmony?" Celestia demanded.

"Oh so boring Celestia really, fine, I tell you, but I'll only tell you my way to find your missing elements. Just make sense of this change of events, twists and turns are my master plan, then find the elements back where you began," Discord finished as the picture of himself returned to its proper place and stopped moving.

"A riddle. Great," I said in a sarcastic tone.

"Twilight walked over to the window while muttering twists and turns under her breath and peered outside to see the castle labyrinth "Twists and turns, that's it! I bet Discord hid the elements in the palace labyrinth," she said excited.

"Good luck my little ponies and Ash Blade, the fate of Equestria is in your hands," Celestia said

"Thanks princess, we won't let you down," Twilight said before we ran towards the labyrinth.

We ran outside and towards the giant maze's entrance, the hedges where filled with thorns to prevent anyone from climbing over the massive hedges.

"We...we have to go in there?" Fluttershy asked trembling at the intimidating entrance.

"Nope dopey, Discord forgot about these babies," Rainbow said extending her wings "I just fly over and we’ll have the elements in no time," but as Rainbow was in the air her wings disappeared and plummeted to the ground "My wings," she cried out looking at the place her missing appendages once where.

I looked at the remaining girls to see not only Rainbow's, but Fluttershy's wings as well, including Rarity and Twilights horns also disappear. All of a sudden, a bright ball appeared and grew and got brighter until it disappeared and left Discord in its place, cackling like a mad man.

"You should see the looks on your face's, priceless!" Discord said while laughing.

"Give us our wings and horns back," Twilight demanded.

"You'll get them back in good time. I simply took them to ensure there is no cheating. You see, this is the first rule of our game, no flying and no magic," Discord said.

"The first rule?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"The second rule is everypony has to play or the game is over and I win. When I say everypony, I only mean the ponies, so that excludes you my young canine friend, as a precaution," Discord said as he clicked his fingers hitting me with a spell.

"AHHH!" I cried as the spell hit me.

"ASH!" the girls cried out in union worried for me.

"Good luck everypony" Discord said as he disappeared and I started to feel drowsy and started to tilt to the side and feel my eyes close.

My head was aching with horrible pain and my body felt like it had pins and needles stuck in it.

"Uh...my head, did anyone get the licence plate of the truck that hit me?" I asked to no one in particular. As I got on all four paws, I opened my eyes and looked at my surroundings, only to see a vast void of stars and planets.

"Where am I?" I said as I looked at the empty space.

"In the world between worlds," A voice said behind me.

I spun around at the sudden noise, but nothing was there.

"Who's there, show yourself!" I yell into the void. As if on command, a bright light appeared then disappeared, leaving behind the five silhouettes that sent me to Equestria, "You again? Why are you here?" I asked warily.

“You did well stoping Nightmare Moon and saving not only Twilight Sparkle, but Princess Luna as well," one of the silhouettes said.

"I didn't do anything, Twilight and the others where the ones that saved her," I said.

"Wrong, at the Gala you became her friend. If it weren't for you at the old castle, Nightmare Moon would still be roaming around and Luna would still be trapped. If you didn't become her friend at the gala, she would have turned into Nightmare Moon once more, just like a thousand years ago. We can't thank you enough," another said as they bowed to me.

"Wait, how did you know all that?" I asked.

Because we fought Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago along with Discord, one of the silhouettes said.

"But that means you're...," I started.

"Yes, we are the ghosts of the five knights of Equestria. I am Link the knight of courage," one of the silhouettes spoke.

"I am Altair, knight of peace," the second said.

"I am Ezio, knight of order," the third said.

"I am Arno, knight of hope," the fourth said.

"And I am Corvo, knight of honour," the last one said.

"It’s a pleasure to meet you all, but I have so many questions," I said.

"We understand that and we will be happy to answer them, but now is not the time. Your friends are in danger and you must help them," Link said.

"Huh, how what happened?" I asked.

"Discord has manipulated them to become there opposite selves, Twilight Sparkle is the only one that remains of their group, you must stop Discord," Corvo said.

"Where do I start?" I said.

"You must help Twilight from becoming her opposite self," Ezio said.

"But before you leave Ash Blade, it’s time to unlock your magic abilities," Altair said.

"Wait, unlock as in I can now use magic? But I thought only you guys could do that?" I asked surprised.

Anyone can do it, you just need to learn how to activate your magic core. But be warned, using too much magic will deplete your stamina and you must wait before you can use it again. But, the more you practice, the longer and more powerful your magic will become," Link said as he walked over to me.

"Our books will teach you many techniques and as you go through life here in Equestria, you will gain new skills and abilities," Arno said.

"Are you ready Ash Blade?" Link asked, standing in front of me.

"Do what you will," I said

Link reached and placed his hand on my chest, his hand felt cold but at the same time it felt warm. I felt him reach into my soul and then everything went dark.

"Say hi to both Celestia and Luna for us and tell Luna welcome home," Link said as I once more slipped into sleep.

I woke up with a start and I found myself in Twilights library.

"You’re up," Spike said as he entered through a hole that used to be the front door.

"Spike where are the girls!?" I asked as I shot to my paws.

"There outside" Spike said pointing to the hole.

"Spike, send a message to Celestia, tell her the five elements have become corrupted by Discord and ask if she can assist us," I said as I ran to what used to be the front door

I went outside, only the place was consumed by chaos. I saw the girls, but Applejack looked shifty, Rarity was obsessing over a boulder saying it was a diamond, Fluttershy was acting mean and Pinkie Pie was grumpy and was all grey, Rainbow Dash was missing and Twilight was still lavender purple but was arguing with the girls. Soon they all went in different directions leaving Twilight, as they left Twilight turned grey.

"Twi, please don't give up on me," I said as I walked over to her.

" where were you ?" Twilight asked

"What?" I asked.

"WHERE WERE YOU? WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP ME WHEN I NEEDED IT THE MOST?!" she screamed at me.

"I...I," I stuttered.

"You...you were asleep, what kind of pathetic excuse of a knight are you, huh? Maybe it would have been better if you never came here!" she scowled at me before she turned to the library.

To say I was hurt would be an understatement. I was shattered and it hurt that someone I called friend would say that. I sat on the ground in misery, but as all hope seemed lost, a familiar squawk broke my trance. I looked around to see Dust sitting in front of me. I reached my paw out to him and he hopped onto my arm, I lifted him close to my face and stared at him and he nuzzled me under the chin and I nuzzled him back.

"Your right Dust, I can't let this beat me and I won't. Even if it's just me against Discord, I will fight till I draw my last breath" I said smiling at the crow.

I ran back to the library with Dust flying behind me, I walked inside and upstairs to Twilight's room. As I reached the door, it opened on its own to reveal a lavender purple mare.

"Ash, your here, I thought..." Twilight started.

"You thought a few words would make me leave? It hurt yes, but force me to leave no," I said with a smile.

"Ash, I'm so sorry. I was just so angry and I thought Discord got to you too," she said, tear's welling up in her eyes.

"Twilight, did I ever tell you how I started to trust you?" I asked.

Twilight shook her head in response.

"The reason why is because I have been watching you and the girls, ever since we met in the forest. I saw the adventures you went on and I learned many things. I even learned that even if you're different and you don't fit in and the whole world is against you, you must never give up hope, no matter what, that things would get better and it did because I met you and the girls, and became friend with all of you," I said wrapping Twilight in a hug.

"Thank you Ash. Now let's go get our friends and defeat Discord," Twilight said as she wiped away a few tears.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," I said as I released Twilight.

We ran out of the library leaving both Dust and a groaning Spike behind. As we ran, Twilight told me of how Celestia sent all the letters she'd written back to her, which gave Spike a stomach-ache. She was also reminded by her friendships with the girls and about the plan, to return them to their true selves. We ran to Sweet Apple Acres and saw Big Mac digging holes in the ground like a dog and Granny Smith cane dancing like a professional and Applejack lying up against the barn.

"Applejack, we're here to fight for our friendship," Twilight said with confidence.

"Oh now you want to help. Where were you both when I was battling Discord? Ash you're useless, why were you sleeping when we were in danger? Some friend you are. I mean, what kind of friend goes off to sleep and leaves the others to the dirty work?" Applejack complained. At that second, I pounced on top of Applejack and held her down.

"Stop it the Applejack. I know you would never tell a lie. Twilight now!" I yelled.

Twilight rushed over charged her horn and taped it on Applejack's head. I climbed off Applejack and waited for the memory spell to take effect. Applejack started to gain her colour once more, freeing her from Discord's spell.

"Wh...What happened? Twilight, Ash I saw a vision of us fighting with each other. I couldn't face the truth so I started to tell lies. Ash, I'm so sorry. I called you useless. Can you both ever forgive me?" Applejack asked hiding behind her hat.

"There's no need to ask because we already have," I said warmly placing the hat back on her head.

"C'mon, we need to find the others," Twilight said running to the exit.

We went around town freeing the other girls from Discord's enchantment until only Rainbow Dash was left.

"Huh, she's not here," Fluttershy said while we stood outside Rainbow's cloud home.

"We've got find her, we need her element to stop Discord," Twilight said.

"But Equestria is huge. Where could she be?" Applejack said.

"She's right there silly billy!" Pinkie Pie said pointing at a cloud with a grey Rainbow Dash on it.

"Rainbow Dash, we've been looking everywhere for you. Discord's still on the loose, we need you to help us defeat him!" Twilight yelled so the Pegasus could hear.

"Have you guys seen Ponyville it's a disaster zone! I'm staying up here in Cloudsdale where everything's awesome," Rainbow said.

"Time for plan B," Twilight said.

It took us awhile but to find a hot air balloon and wait until Rainbow was asleep.

"Ok Fluttershy, you grab Rainbow Dash and hold her down. Meanwhile, Applejack will lower me down with a rope so I can cast the memory spell on her," Twilight whispered the plan.

"Got it," said Fluttershy as she flew down towards Rainbow Dash.

"Uh Twilight, you do realise this is Fluttershy right?" I asked.

"Yeah why?" Twilight asked

I simply pointed down at Fluttershy. She was about to grab hold of Rainbow Dash but stopped, instead she tapped Rainbow, disturbing her from her slumber.

"Um, I'm just wondering, if it’s alright, can I hold you down against your will for a little bit?"

Twilight slapped the side of her head and groaned.

"I've got this," I said as I jumped out of the balloon and landed on Rainbow while she was distracted by Fluttershy. "Gotcha!"

Rainbow didn't seem happy to see me and flew off at break neck speed. She did loop de loops, spins and made tight turns to try and throw me off. We zoomed left and right and as we passed the balloon, Fluttershy was pulling, Applejack threw a lasso around us. I suddenly heard screaming coming from behind us. I looked to see Rarity and Pinkie dangling at the other end of the rope.

"Hang on, ya'll are slowing her down!" Applejack cried out to us.

"Trust me AJ, I wasn't planning on letting go!" I cried back.

"Oh Fluttershy, would you be a dear and fly faster please?" Rarity asked in an annoyed tone.

"I can't," Fluttershy whimpered.

"If you can't catch her Discord wins," Twilight said.

"That big dumb MEANIE!" Fluttershy yelled suddenly gaining a burst of speed catching up to us in no time.

"Alright Applejack, last rope make it count," Twilight said tossing up the rope.

Applejack caught the rope and made another lasso and threw it at us catching Rainbow and I, jerking us to a halt. We gently brought Rainbow down to earth while she struggled to get away. Once we were on the ground we tied some more rope around her wings so she wouldn't fly away. Twilight walked over to her and lowered her horn to Rainbow's to perform the spell once more. After she finished, colour returned to Rainbow.

"Wha...what happened...how's Ponyville!? Where are the elements!? Did we stop Discord!?" Rainbow said as she tackled me.

"Welcome back RD," I said while everypony group hugged the rainbow maned flyer.

All of a sudden a group of pink tutu wearing buffalo danced their way past us.

"Maybe it's a little early for a group hug," Twilight said.

"Agreed," I said.

We ran back to town to fight Discord. He wasn't that hard to find, he was sitting on a throne in the middle of town laughing like a mad man.

"Chaos is a wonderful thing," Discord said.

"Not as wonderful as friendship," Twilight said triumphantly.

"Oh this again," Discord said.

"That's right, you couldn't break apart our friendship for long," Applejack said.

"Oh Applejack, don't lie to me. I'm the one who made you a liar," Discord said as he grabbed ahold of all 6 girls with his magic.

I watched as each one of the girls tried to squirm out of his magic grip and tried to think of something. Then I remembered that the five knights had activated my magic. I decided to use a simple levitation spell I'd read in the book and use it on Discord's throne. I channelled my energy and a grey aura lit up around the throne. I managed to pull the seat out from under him twirl it around a few times and use it like a bat and send him crashing into a building, forcing him to drop the girls. I released the throne with my magic, letting it fall with a clatter, after I released the throne I felt exhausted.

"Wow Twi that was close, nice swing to," Applejack said.

"But I didn't do anything," Twilight said.

"Oh then nice one Rarity," Applejack said.

"I'm afraid it wasn't me either," Rarity said surprised.

"Then who was it?" Rainbow asked.

Twilight looked over at me while I was still panting with exhaustion.

"Ash did you do that?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah," I said still tired from my first use of magic.

"How?" Twilight asked.

"Let's just say you can learn a lot from a nap," I said

Twilight opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted when a beam of wood was thrown into me knocking me back a few feet. Out of the smoke and rubble emerged Discord brushing dust off of himself

"Well this is truly surprising, a talking wolf that has the ability to use magic. I must say you are just full of surprises aren't you!" Discord said with a maniacal grin.

I decided to try a few spells from the book. I used my magic to levitate a large flat cylinder made of dirt and lift it above Discord, then I stamped my paw on the ground and a small pillar launched Discord upward to crash into the cylinder above. I then used my magic to slam the cylinder downward burying Discord under it. I grew even more exhausted after I released my magic, but Discord wasn't done with me yet. Next thing I knew, Discord blasted the rock off of him, he was as flat as paper when he crawled out of the hole, he stuck his thumb in his mouth and blew until he was 3D again.

"You want to play rough huh? Fine, I can play rough," Discord snapped his fingers.

All of a sudden all sorts of objects rushed at me as if I was a magnet. Some were sharp, others where blunt and some where even soft. I dodged and weaved my way through the objects, getting hit a few times. The girls could only watch and stare at how I moved. After the objects stopped flying at me, Discord snapped his fingers and flouting houses started dropping on me. I ran my way through the falling disaster, nearly getting crushed twice, until I got close to Discord. I pounced at him to bite him, only to be batted away by an Iron studded club. I flew into a building's window and landed on the floor I felt something warm run down my face, I lifted a paw and touched my face to see it was blood. Suddenly I was pulled out of the window by Discord's magic and brought face to face with him.

"You know you remind me a lot of those five knights, they put up quite a fight like you have. You have that same look in your eye," Discord said tilting my head with his paw.

I didn’t answer I yanked my hand from his grip and bit his paw.

"AHHHHHH!!!!" Discord cried out as he pried my jaw apart with his talon so he could release his paw. Discord looked at his paw before he looked at me. Still trapped in his magic grip he slammed me on the onto the ground, then picked me up and threw me into a building. He threw me around like a rag doll before he brought me in front of him again.

"ASH!" the mares screamed my name as they saw my badly bruised and cut body.

He slammed me on to the ground and I started to stand up, only for Discord to put his clawed foot on my throat pressing lightly against it.

"You've got spirit I'll say that much, but its best if you stop playing hero unless you want to die," Discord said.

"I will not give up Discord. I will continue to fight until there is no more breath in my lungs, I will stand and fight, either until I draw my last breath or until everypony is free from evil such as yours," I said. All of a sudden The Elements started glowing until it sent out a shock wave knocking Discord off me. I looked towards the mane six who were looking at the elements in surprise. The gems disconnected from the necklaces and tiara and floated over towards me, they started spinning around me getting faster and faster, my body was lifted off the ground and started glowing. The elements glow got brighter until it could be seen from space. After that they stopped glowing and spinning and floated back into their proper places on the necklaces and tiara the girls were wearing. The girls uncovered their eyes and looked at a form lying on the ground. I picked myself up and brought a paw to my head to rub it. But, when my paw came in contact with my head my paw felt like it was wrapped in cloth including my head. My paw didn't feel like a paw at all anymore. I brought my paw to my vision only to find, to my surprise instead of a grey fury paw, it was a hand wearing a black fingerless glove. I looked at my other arm to see the same thing. I looked at my body to see I was wearing a grey hooded jacket with a few tears in it from age, along with dark grey jean's that also had a few rips in them and a pair of white runners. I placed a hand on my face to feel it, I no longer had a muzzle and my ears nose and mouth were all back to normal and I was no longer bleeding.

"Ash is that you?" I heard a voice say behind me

"Twilight," I said as I stood up and turned around to see the mane 6 staring at me in surprise and awe and a little bit of fear.

"Ash Blade, what happened to you? What are you?" Twilight said looking me over.

"I proved myself worthy to change back to my human form Twilight," I said with excitement.

"Your human form. So this is what you looked like before you arrived," Rainbow said as her eyes looked like they would pop out of her skull.

I was about to answer but a boulder hit me in the side knocking me onto my back. I looked in the direction from where the boulder came from to see Discord, up for round 2. I stood up and got ready, I knew how to fight in this body and I felt I could do more with magic in this form. I charged at Discord but just as he was going to attack, I teleported in front of him and started landing punches on him as fast as possible on his chest. I reared my left hand back and hit him in the face knocking him a couple of feet away from me and onto his back. As he picked himself up he fired some beams of magic at me, but I teleported behind Discord and wrapped him in a binding spell.

"Twilight, use the elements, I can't hold him forever!" I yelled.

Twilight and the girls got into formation and the elements started glowing. Discord struggled to get free of my spell, but was failing.

"Who do you think you are?" Discord said looking at me with anger.

"I am Ash Blade and I'm the sixth knight of Equestria," I said. Discord looked at me in surprise.

I released my spell just as the rainbow came down on Discord turning him to stone once more. The beam turned into a dome that covered Ponyville wiping away the chaos. When the dome disappeared, Ponyville was returned to normal. I smiled at the shining sun before I collapsed to my knees, exhausted from the fight. Twilight and the girls rushed over to me.

"You girls alright?" I asked removing my hood from my face.

"Are we alright? You not only took on Nightmare Moon by yourself, but now Discord! How you fought him in your human form you are totally 20% cooler than when we first met!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Are you alright sugarcube? You look plum tuckered out," Applejack said offering a hand.

"I'm alright AJ, just exhausted from using magic for the first time," I said accepting the hand.

"Oh my, you should get some rest," Fluttershy said.

"Your clothes, they're in a terrible state, I insist we go back to my boutique so I can restore them," Rarity said in a horrified tone as she pulled at my clothing.

"No time Rarity, we need to report to the princess. She must know about Discord and what happened to Ash," Twilight said.

"I think it's a wise idea we tell the princess first. She must be worried and if we have time Rarity, you can fix my clothes," I said.

"Very well,"

With that, we walked back to the library and I saw Spike feeling much better and sitting with Dust. When they both saw me Dust just stared at me and Spike cowered away from me. Twilight and Fluttershy explained everything to them so they could understand why I looked the way I did. Once they were done, Dust flew onto my shoulder and nuzzled my head. Spike was hesitant at first, but when he got closer he warmed up to me. Twilight asked Spike to write a letter to the princess about Discord's re-imprisonment.

"Damn Ash! You look awesome! So this is what you humans look like?" Spike asked.

"Ain't that the truth," Rainbow said as she punched my left arm.

*CLANG*

"OUCH!" Rainbow cried as soon as her hand hit my arm.

"Are you alright RD," I asked looking at the injured hand.

"What the hell is your arm made of, rock?" Rainbow yelled holding her hand.

"No it’s made of Iron" I said plainly.

Everypony stared at me in confusion, then at my arm.

"Maybe I'd better show you instead huh," I said as I unzipped my jacket, I took a deep breath and pulled my arm out of my sleeve, everypony gasped. What they saw was the cold iron arm emerge from the cloth. I knew they wanted to hear the tale, so I sat on the floor before I began.

"After my family's death I was walking through a town when I saw a supermarket on fire I rushed over and I heard some fire fighters pulling people out of a fire. A couple caught my eye, they were telling a fire fighter that their son was still inside. The fire fighter said it was too dangerous to go in, but once I saw the parents start to cry, I placed my hood over my head and ran past the fire fighters and into the burning building, determined to find the child. I searched the burning aisles until I found the boy sitting alone in the toy section, trying to get away from the fire. I ran toward him and checked for any injuries. When I saw none I picked him up and carried him back to the entrance, only to see it covered in fallen debris. I searched for another exit, only to see a window that led to where the Fire fighters where. I grabbed a brick and threw it through the window shattering it and I ran to the window and handed the boy to a fire fighter who came to investigate. I heard a slight hissing noise down across my left I looked at it to see a BBQ gas bottle ready to explode. With split seconds to think I pushed the fire fighter away from the window and I dove away from the bottle. Just as it exploded, the blast catapulted me into a shelf and I fell onto the floor, the shelf fell on top of me pining the right side of my body while my left arm was on fire. I screamed in pain and tried to wiggle my way out from under the heavy shelving, but failed. All I could do was scream myself to sleep. I woke up a day later in a hospital, with a missing arm. The Doctor said that after the fire was stopped fire fighters found me buried under a lot of rubble that protected me from the fire, but my arm was burned to cinders, he also told me that because of my selfless act the family of the boy I saved wanted to reward me. I found out that they worked for a bio engineering company that specialises in replacement limbs and prosthetics, and that they would pay for the hospital bills and the operation for my new arm. I accepted their kindness with gratitude. When they attached my arm to my nervous system, I was screaming bloody murder for half an hour." When I finished, everypony looked at me with surprise and awe and sadness.

"This is amazing, think of what we could do if we had the technology to do something like this," Twilight said going googly eyes over my arm.

"I must say, even I am surprised by your technological advancements," A familiar voice said.

Everypony turned to the entrance to see the ruler of the sun.

"Princess Celestia, how much of that did you hear?" I asked.

"I arrived when you started to tell the part about how you ran into a burning building to save a child. You were very brave, how old where you then?" Celestia asked.

"Unlucky 13 your majesty," I said plainly.

Celestia nodded her head in understanding before she looked at the girls.

"Well done my little ponies! Ash, congratulations on regaining your true form," Celestia said.

"Actually princess, Ash was the hero today, he saved us from Discord and fought him one on one. He is very skilled and he was even was able to use magic," Twilight said looking at me.

"It was no big deal really. If it weren't for the knight's ghosts and books, we all would have perished," I said. Everypony stared at me in disbelief.

"Ash, ghosts don't exist! There is no proof that they do, they're make believe. You must have hit your head or you’re too tired from using magic for the first time," Twilight said placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Twilight, I saw them, I wouldn't lie to you about this. They are also the reason I'm in Equestria, they appeared when the portal opened and they unlocked my magic core, I know I saw them," I said turning my head to look at Twilight.

"He's telling the truth. Don’t ask me how, but he really did see the knight’s ghosts," Applejack said dumbfounded.

"Indeed, I can sense a strange presence around you Ash Blade, when and where did you see them?" Celestia asked.

"When Discord hit me with a sleep spell, I was dragged into a place called the world between worlds, where they have been watching over Equestria. Oh and Celestia, they asked me to say hi to you and Luna and to also tell Luna welcome home," I said.

Celestia was taken completely by surprise, she started crying tears of joy. I stood up and she wrapped me in a hug which wasn't hard because I was almost as tall as her.

"Thank you Ash Blade, I'm sure my sister will be happy to hear that," Celestia said as she hugged me.

"I'm sure she will," I said rubbing her back.

"I still don't believe in this really, I'm going to need some solid evidence or see these ghosts myself in order to believe in them," Twilight said.

"Fair enough, you’re entitled to your own opinion Twilight," I said calmly.

"I think it’s time we let the kingdom know about Discord's imprisonment and to introduce Ash Blade as the sixth knight," Celestia said.

"Um Celestia, are you sure about that? I mean you kept us hidden for a thousand years, how will you explain to everypony about me and the five knights? What will everypony think? And what will those nobles say?" I asked with concern.

"Fear not Ash Blade, I plan to answer any questions ponies may have about you and the knights. I plan to also release the legend of the knights and you don't need to worry about the nobles, I'll deal with them. Soon everypony will know the legend and you will be welcomed with open arms," Celestia said with a warm smile.

"Bu...Bu...But your highness, Ash Blade's clothes are in a terrible state and what will he wear for formal attire?" Rarity asked.

Celestia just summoned a scroll and handed it to Rarity.

"Those are ancient robes from Ash's world that knights wore when they were knighted," Celestia said.

Rarity took the scroll and opened it. When she saw the contents she let out a sharp gasp of surprise.

"There are no words to describe how beautiful these are," Rarity said swooning over the scroll.

"May I see?" I asked trying to get a look at the scroll.

"Absolutely not, you will just have to wait," Rarity said pulling the scroll away from me to prevent me from seeing it.

"You can begin once we arrive at Canterlot. I'll have a carriage sent for you. All of you now must excuse me, I have some preparations to make, see you all at Canterlot," Celestia said as she turned and left.

We arrived in Canterlot and as soon as we landed Rarity grabbed my arm and dragged me into a room filled with fabrics and sewing needles and thread, along with three other ponies I had never even met, who were asked by Celestia to assist in making my new cloths. Rarity placed me on a podium and started taking measurements of each and every inch of me.

"Alright darling, now sit down over there and wait for me and Celestia's helpers to finish with your new clothes," Rarity said gesturing towards a nearby seat

I sat in my seat and waited. After half an hour I got bored, and then I remembered that the family that gave me my arm also installed an IPod as a bonus. I reached for the retractable earphones that were placed in my arm's shoulder to reach them. I placed them in my ears and looked at the IPod screen on my wrist and selected a slow and gentle song to listen to. As the song played I began to drift off to sleep.

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I awoke to someone nudging me. I looked around to see Rarity shaking my leg in an effort to wake me up.

"What's up Rarity?" I asked as I pulled the earphones out of my ears

"I came to let you know your clothes are finished," Rarity said.

I looked at the clock in the room to see it had been an hour and a half since they began.

"You guy's work fast, I'll give you that," I said as I pressed the button to retract the earphones.

"Um darling, what where those?" Rarity asked pointing at the spot my earphones retracted to.

"Oh just my earphones, I use them so I can listen to music," I said.

"How can your arm play music?" Rarity asked.

"I'll show you all later, right now don't you want me to get into the new clothes you made?" I asked.

"Oh yes, right this way," she said as she led me to a change room to get changed.

The throne room was filled with ponies of all kinds, standing on either side of the red velvet carpet that led to the throne and from the back of the room to the double doors which were used as the entrance. The doors opened to reveal the mane six, they walked down the carpet towards the throne where Princess Celestia stood.

"We are gathered here today to once again honour the heroism of these six friends who stood up to the villain Discord and save Equestria from eternal chaos," Celestia said.

The audience let out cheers of applause before Celestia raised her hand for silence.

As the crowd grew silent the royal guards lined up alongside the red carpet. Some held either the Equestria flag or a banner with a sword sheathed downward in a shield, with a pair of feathered and webbed wings which sprouted out the sides.

"But they did not fight the threat alone, for there is another who fought not only Discord, but Nightmare Moon in combat. He is part of a species from a different planet, called humans. Five of them became the five knights of Equestria the most powerful force to use in combat until Nightmare Moon appeared. I have kept their species secret since then, but now a new knight has come and has earned his place as one of our greatest warriors. Mares and gentlestallions, I give you the sixth knight of Equestria Ash Blade," Celestia said.

As Celestia finished the doors swung open to reveal me, wearing a grey tunic with my cutie mark on it and a black cape and pants and brown leather boots. My face was in complete view for everyone to see as I walked down the carpet, some of the guards drew their swords and raised them in an arch for me to walk through as they started singing a chant in a language I do not understand but the sound itself sent chills up my spine as the voices echoed around the room. I continued to walk and I received a few looks of fear and disgust but mostly awe. I walked until I reached the stairs, and strode up them. The mane 6 moved to either side to make room for me. I looked at Rarity and smiled at her, in thanks for the clothes, she puffed out her chest with pride. I looked at the others, they all smiled at me before I knelt in front of Celestia and looked down. Celestia summoned a gold blade with a diamond studded handle and tapped my shoulders and the top of my head with the blade.

"Rise Sir Ash Blade Knight of Freedom," Celestia said when she knighted me.

As I stood the audience thundered into applause and Celestia pointed at two windows covered by curtains. Her horn lit up and the first window revealed a window similar to the window of us fighting Nightmare Moon, only it showed Discord and I in my human form, wearing my grey jacket with the hood over my face, jeans, runners and gloves, battling together. The mane 6 positioned below us in an X formation. The curtains on the second window pulled away to reveal me once more in my old clothes with the hood over my face. On my left shoulder sat Dust and my right hand had a grey magic aura around it. Bellow the picture of me was a scroll with the word Freedom written on it. Below the scroll was a grey wolf and above the picture of me was my cutie mark, I looked at each of the girls before I turned to the still cheering audience and smiled.

Author's Notes:

Happy Heaths Warming and A Merry Christmas see you all soon and hope you enjoyed this chapter.