As the ponies gathered around the armour-clad alicorn, a grin crept across his face and he chuckled deeply.

“Kneel before me feeble ones! I am Eternal Rain!” Eternal Rain shouted with confidence, but all he received in return was a silent audience. He expressed confusion and looked at all the ponies. The pony that had destroyed his previous clouds landed in front of him and squinted at him.

“Who do you think you are, demanding everypony to do what you say?” The rainbow haired pony asked, to which Eternal Rain got angry and used his magic to summon dark clouds over Ponyville.

“You will speak when I give the order, fool!” Eternal Rain said, his face going close to the pony who questioned him. He then took off the cloak that covered him, revealing his heavy armour that almost covered his entire body, except his mane and tail. The rainbow pony became surprised of his intimidating stature and stepped back slightly.

“Much better… Now, allow me to properly introduce myself… My name is Eternal Rain. I am, or was, the watcher and creator of the clouds. I was responsible for making sure the clouds were nice, fluffy, and perfectly white. One day, I thought it would be necessary to be named ‘Prince Rain’. Mostly because I was loyal and made the sky clear if Celestia ordered it.

“Of course, she denied my request and after that, I would always try to improve myself, in order for her to reward me the title. I waited and waited, but my anger grew greater with every passing day, making me the strong alicorn I am today. Then, I tried to forcefully demand my title, but she overthrew me, imprisoning me in the Everfree Forest. From that day forward, I vowed vengeance and a promise that I will one day, rule Equestria with my clouds. That day has come…” Eternal Rain explained, using his magic to create more clouds to slowly cover the sun. Slowly, rain began to drip from the sky, transforming into heavy rain

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Immediately, the ponies retreated inside their houses to prevent themselves from getting wet than they already were.

One pony stayed behind to fight against Eternal Rain. It was the rainbow pony, who opened her wings and flapped them, getting ready to practically charge him.

“You think you’re all tough and scary? Well then, let’s see you take me on!” she said, grinning confidentially and taking to the sky. Eternal Rain laughed lightly and followed along, quickly meeting her speed. She looked next to her, seeing him almost neck and neck.

“Chew on this!” the rainbow pony yelled, picking up speed and stopping in front of him as he was about catch up, she turned her flank to him and as soon he was in range, she gave him a buck to the chin, making him grunt in pain and flip backwards away from her and falling to the ground.

Quickly, he stopped flipping and landed on the ground to prepare for another attack. He looked up at the sky and saw her flying right him, ready to hit him once more. He grinned and used his magic to fire a dark cloud at the Pegasus. When it collided with her, she flew through it and destroyed the cloud, but felt odd.

“You should really calm down. Maybe a nap will help.” Eternal Rain said, continuing to smile.

She slowly became dizzy and landed on the ground slowly, falling asleep. Eternal Rain chuckled that his magic was effective.

“Challenging me was a big mistake. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to meet Princess Celestia for a special visit.” He said, opening his wings again and flying off to Canterlot, the rain continuing to fall over Ponyville and slowly spreading over Equestria.

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Gadget and Twilight looked at all the rain in confusion and quickly galloped to find somewhere to keep dry.

“Why did it start pouring all of a sudden? It was perfectly fine when we were leaving Sweet Apple Acres.” Twilight said, as they entered the town square to see the rainbow haired pony sleeping on the ground, not even bothered by the rain.

“Rainbow Dash!” Twilight yelled, quickly rushing to her side and moving her slightly to wake her up. “Are you alright?” she asked.

Slowly, Rainbow Dash woke up and looked around in a daze, surprised to see Twilight of all ponies and another pony beside her.

“W-What happened? Who’s this? Where’s that one alicorn?!” Rainbow Dash asked, quickly getting up on her hooves and looking left and right.

Twilight tilted her head and said “Well, this is Gadget Rust. We saw you just sleeping here in the town square and… Wait, what alicorn?”

Gadget looked up at the clouds in worry, afraid that the weather might get worse and he suggested “Hey, w-we can talk later. We should get inside a house first!” Twilight and Rainbow Dash nodded and Twilight galloped to her house, with Rainbow Dash following along as well as Gadget.

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Eternal Rain spotted Canterlot and laughed as he flew closer.

“At last, I shall settle the score once and for all! I will be the one to rule Equestria and neither Celestia nor her sister can stop me!” Eternal Rain stated, landing outside the Canterlot Palace, the Royal Guards quickly getting in the way of Eternal Rain.

He looked at the guards and gritted his teeth, saying “Move out of my way and I’ll spare you the humiliation of defeat.”

The Royal Guards did not move and held their position. Eternal Rain growled and stamped his front hooves.

“Now you will know why you should fear me!” Eternal Rain said, inhaling a great amount of air and holding it in for a moment before screaming at the guards, which caused a force of wind to push them through the door, rendering them stunned.

He stepped through the door and approached the throne room of Princess Celestia, his face becoming serious and determined.

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“So, what you’re saying is that an alicorn dropped from the sky, wearing a bunch of armour with red eyes. He demanded for everypony to bow to him, you challenged him and hit him, but he made you fall asleep with some sort of black cloud?” Twilight asked Rainbow Dash, who was lying down in the middle of Twilight’s house. She nodded.

Gadget looked around Twilight’s house, amazed by all the books and the fact her house was built from inside a tree.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying! He called himself Eternal Rain or something. Sounds like a stupid name to me, but I’m telling the truth. He caused all the clouds and rain to pop up out of nowhere!” Rainbow Dash said which Twilight began to ponder about the name.

“Eternal Rain… The name sounds familiar… Hold on.” Twilight grabbed a book from the shelf and opened it, using her magic to flip through the pages to look for any alicorn by the name of Eternal Rain. Minutes passed and Twilight found the page about his history.

“Here it is! Hm… Let’s see…” Twilight muttered, beginning to read from the text.

“Long ago, there was an alicorn by the name of Eternal Rain. He was noble, kind, and caring to his clouds and to the ponies of Equestria. Almost every day, he would create clouds in the shape of various objects to entertain the ponies below and make sure the clouds never blocked out the sun or moon and only made it rain when Equestria needed it for nature.

As the years went by, Eternal Rain became curious as to why Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had the title of ‘Princess’ in their names and asked Princess Celestia if he could be titled ‘Prince Rain’. She denied his request many times, rumoured for his lack of loyalty and negative emotions.

Eternal Rain slowly began to develop feelings of hatred and jealousy towards the sisters and on one fateful day, he challenged Princess Celestia for the throne. As they fought, Eternal Rain’s power seemed too strong, but Princess Luna joined the fray, helping her sister defeat Eternal Rain.

Unfortunately, they could not rid of him forever, so Princess Celestia used her magic to imprison Eternal Rain deep into the Everfree Forest, never to escape.

Some say that if enough negative emotions were absorbed by him once more, he would be able to leave the Everfree Forest and cause trouble all over Equestria again.”

Twilight finished reading and closed the book. Gadget’s expression showed great worry and Rainbow Dash brushed it off like it was just made up.

“So what if he can control the clouds and we get a little wet. We can still take him on! We’ll just use the Elements of Harmony and beat him. We used it on Nightmare Moon, why not him?” Rainbow Dash said, grinning and getting up. Twilight shook her head and frowned slightly.

“We could, but I don’t know if that’ll work. Who knows how much negative emotions he’s absorbed. He could be strong enough to stand a chance against both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.” Twilight said, putting the book away and pacing around the room.

“How much negative emotions could he have taken to make him stronger?” Gadget asked, to which Rainbow Dash and Twilight began to think.

“Well, there was the time during the Grand Galloping Gala, Pinkie Pie getting sad when we didn’t want to go to her parties, and Spike when he got jealous of the owl… There’s too many to explain.” Twilight said, sighing and looking out the window at the rain hitting against it.

“Can’t we just get the help of Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, and the Elements of Harmony and attack him at the same time? I think it would be more effective that way.” Gadget suggested which Twilight and Rainbow Dash looked at him at the same time and smiled at the idea.

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