31st May, 71 BNM
Late Evening
20 miles north west of crystal empire
Frost Mountains foothills

The roar of the earth splitting apart from the jagged line of energy that thrust through it was exceeded only by Odi-Viscer's bestial noises. Plunging his jagged spiked hand into the ground, he hurled it upwards as if throwing a ball underhand, but from his excavation, a cascading series of fiery geysers of energy shot forth.
Ahead of him across the snow and rock strewn plains and foothills, Sombra darted away on a plume of black magic, barely missing the energy wave shot at him. Flying sideways, the Unicorn fired back, black magic and magic infused crystal and rock fragments firing at him like a hailstorm.
The fragments and magic earned only grunts from the creature, as he then was staggered by a blast from behind him. A bronze blast hit him square in the back, and he spun around to punch the bronze shielded Alicorn head on as he'd tried to get in close. With a shockwave cone of air forming with the thunderous crack, Aubelles went flying backwards, his shield flickering out as he was sent a hundred feet backwards.
A series of green bolts hit Odi-Viscer in the side, and his red eyes burned at the sight of the red armour clad Salamander running by, his strange weapon shifted into a crossbow. Seething with rage, the Being of Wrath charged, his hands ripping into the ground and infusing it with red energy before he leapt skywards with a crashing burst on the ground, higher then Chack would be able to jump.
The Salamander turned to fire, as Odi-Viscer's eyes burned with an impending beam attack. Acting on instinct, the Salamander shifted his weapon from Everfree into a sword, and slashed the air as the red light shot from the creature's eyes as he came down overhead.
Odi-Viscer's eye beam vanished into the green tear in the air before Chack, and as he turned, almost as if he saw time move slower, a green tear appeared in the air below the creature, and the red beam burst forth, impacting and scorching Odi-Viscer with his own attack as it launched him in midair again.
Hurled into the air, he grunted as black hued crystal shards, fired by Sombra still flying around, smashed into him like a barrage of arrows, each shattering on his body but imbedding tiny fragments into his skin enough to resemble having many nails stuck in his hide.
But he was bred for conflict, for battle, for destruction. To attack was to give him power.
As Odi-Viscer fell to the ground, Chack formed his green weapon into a spear, and behind him Aubelles landed and shouted as Odi-Viscer landed in a crashing heap on both feet:
"Throw it!"
Not even waiting a moment longer beyond the command, Chack hurled the spear towards Odi-Viscer, while Aubelles's bronze magic shot forth and highlighted the spear in his glow, and fired it forwards midflight faster then the eye could see.
With a blow that sent forth another shockcone of air, the spear imbedded deep into Odi-Viscer's skin, but barely went beyond just the skin. Stuck inside his chest, the spear enraged Odi-Viscer to the point of animalistic thrashing.
From high above however, a bolt of black magic struck the ground around him, as crystal shards shot forth and pinned Odi-Viscer in place, shocking him with black magic arcs as he was restrained.
Aubelles fired another bronze energy wave directly at the spear, the hammer-like blow of bronze Alicorn magic hammering the spear all the way through Odi-Viscer's chest, out the other side.
But contrary to expectation, the fatal spear through his chest didn't kill him. The feedback from its green magic instead caused an intense red glow, infused with dark magic, to begin leaking out as if it were his blood turned ablaze.
His red eyes ablaze with rage fuelled magic and strength, Odi-Viscer glared at the two before him, and the black Unicorn hovering behind him. But as he began glowing his entire body, Aubelles turned to Chack with an uncertain boast, tapering off into an uncertain whimper almost:
"That should have killed him..."
"And yet..." Chack replied, no trace of sarcasm or cruelty, just uncertainty and fear. The Salamander slowly backed up, as Aubelles stood his ground while the crystal fragments around the restrained Odi-Viscer began to glow and fracture.
In an impossible move, his neck glowing brighter red as he turned his head, Sombra's face morphed to morbid terror as he saw Odi-Viscer twist his head 180 degrees, and fire a burning beam of magic at him. Only his black shield protected him, but he was so caught off guard by the revolting, terrifying move that Sombra was sent hurtling into the mountainside in a snow and rock spilling crash.
With Sombra nearly out cold, the crystals weakened, and very soon Odi-Viscer shattered the crystals that had shot from out below the ground to entrap him.
Grunting as he made to start towards the two, he suddenly looked in the distance, and saw the Crystal Empire's tallest spire. A voice entered his head, not his own.
"Such power... You are wasting it. But you see a way..."
"Yes, the Crystal Heart, a powerful artefact. How easily I could use it to control you, your power put to better use..."
"NO!"
His bellow shook the ground before him, as he shook his head of the
He shook his body, as he gave a loud snarl towards Chack and Aubelles before gripping the spear imbedded in his chest flesh, and pulled it out as if it were a plant thorn.
The skin on his chest began to actively heal with a red glow, skin and bone replacing the torn hole that seemed so small compared to him. Standing before them, he hurled the spear towards Chack's head, the weapon spinning in a poorly skilled but powerful throw.
Reaching up to catch the spear, barely, Chack clenched it in a webbed hand as a booming crash sounded to them. Like a stampede travelling at a falcon's speed, Odi-Viscer charged them, all but ripping aside the ground as he charged them.
"Move!" Aubelles's bronze magic shoved Chack out of the way as his own shields raised. A deafening crack split the air as the massive creature tackled Aubelles's shielded form through the ground in a long crater, only to raise his fist and crash it down atop Aubelles's shield the moment they stopped. Aubelles's shield flickered dangerously as he raised another gargantuan fist, only for Odi-Viscer to grunt and spin around to try and seize Chack, the Salamander diving aside as the claws nearly cleaved him in two. The slash across the back of Odi's leg bled the red and dark magic as it healed up, and as Chack made a slash, the green energy slice merely grazed the beast's skin as it slammed and sliced into Odi-Vicer's chest and face, red and black magic hissing like steam as he was adapting.
"You can't hurt me anymore..."
Swiftly rolling a hand back, and as if bowling a ball, Odi-Viscer slammed his hand to dig into the ground, sending a wave of disturbed ground and snow outwards. Running backwards, Chack made to slice a teleporting spell, but the shockwave caught the Salamander and flung him upwards, green sword flying from his grip.
Preparing to fire a red eye beam, Odi-Viscer roared in outrage as bronze magic tore apart the ground beneath him and flipped him end over end, his red eye beam streaking skywards as it arced away. Landing on his back with ground showering around him, Odi-Viscer stood up and charged as Aubelles's stabbed forwards with his now unsheathed sword, glowing with bronze energy.
The blade pierced his open palm as he slammed down on Aubelles's hoof, the Alicorn screaming as his hoof was crushed beneath the blow. With Aubelles's sword still sticking through the top of his hand, he enclosed his fist around the now pretty much 3 legged Alicorn and hissed into Aubelles's face, and for any to hear as his voice carried on the wind and through the air like a venomous rumble:
"I will not be beaten, I will not be subdued! If I cannot do it myself, they will tear each other asunder, and know suffering as I do from all that life entails!"
As his grip tightened, Aubelles horn flared for a brief moment, bronze energy encasing him as Odi-Viscer hurled him up slightly, before cocking a fist back and punching the bronze Alicorn upwards and towards the Empire's general direction.
For a good few seconds the bronze sphere flew in an arc, but he gave no reaction as he saw it flicker out, and the Alicorn slow as he instinctively flared his wings. But the speed he hit the ground at meant he wouldn't be getting up anytime soon.
Turning his gaze towards the Crystal Empire, the rage fuelled creature leapt to the air, the ground cracking as he launched towards the Empire.

Meanwhile
Frost Mountains, 2 miles away

Perched inside a small alcove in the mountains, the green eyed being gave a small smirk as she saw Odi-Viscer taking off towards the Empire.
"So easily led about..."
Teal Quirt slowly vanished further into the mountains, confident her work with Odi-Viscer was done.
"Whatever happens, he'll leave his mark..."
The Being of Envy remained a bystanding watcher of events she orchestrated.

Crystal Empire, Palace

He was upon the Empire in minutes, as he burst through the shield the Crystal Heart had around the city as easily as through a window. He was a streak of red light and grey flesh, right up until he ceased his flight and landed roughly on the tallest steeple of the Crystal Empire's palace. Clutching onto the structure with one hand, Odi-Viscer's eyes lit up red as he carved off the top as easily as slicing butter, and hurled the top of the steeple aside to crash down into the plaza far below, ponies scattering in terror as he clambered up onto the flat topped tower steeple.
From down below on the balcony, staring up at this creature, Princess Amore gazed in horror as he reached a hand skywards, while he plunged his other into the steeple's structure he now stood on as a narrow platform.
As soon as he began, something began in the Empire's rim. Buildings dimmed from their usual splendour, and the palace itself took on a darker appearance, while red lines like blood vessels stretched down from his entry point. Atop the steeple, the grey skinned, stone armoured beast shook from the raw energy he felt flowing through him.
With his other hand, the aurora borealis light far overhead in the skies began to move faster, actually seeming to stretch down slightly towards his hand as if being sucked towards him.

Frost Mountains, foothills
3 miles north west of the Empire.

Slowly getting to his feet, Chack reached for his discarded green weapon as he stared on, his armour dented and broken in some parts. But he knew Aubelles was there outside the Empire, badly wounded in his foreleg, and the scream the barely conscious at the time Chack heard, was any indicator.
"He's harnessing the cosmic energy spell AND the Crystal Heart's energy!" Staggering over to where Chack stood, the limping Unicorn came up alongside the Salamander as they saw the distant sight of the Empire 3 miles away. The red light that was sucking in like a vortex to the top of the tallest palace spire was like a lighthouse from where they stood, a red star outshone only by the low lying sun this far north.
"And what does this mean for our already hard troubles..?" Chack drawled, his fingers stroking his green sword in his hand, his beady eyes able to see the sight despite their lesser vision compared to Sombra. The Black Unicorn explained as he slowly walked forwards a few steps, firing some dark spells from his now slightly reddened horn as test shots onto the ground, making sure he was still able horned.
"The Crystal heart magically spreads love and peace across Equestria, normally. The war makes such efforts ineffective."
"And he said he'll see any who he doesn't kill tear each other apart. He's going to use it..."
"To spread his anger and hatred across Equestria's populace. If the War is as it is with the Heart spreading love and happiness, him turning it to anger and hate will only make the war worsen." Sombra finished Chack's speculation with confirmation of the problem at hand.
"Worse? How could this situation get any worse!? We have tried everything and nothing has stopped him before this massive boost of his!" Chack exclaimed, angrily pointing the end of his green blade towards Sombra in emphasis of his outrage.

"Not everything."
A voice suddenly called behind them, as Chack spun around to see a light blue, blonde maned Alicorn mare teleport to stand behind them. Sombra turned too, surprised by the newcomer.
"You... You're one of them!" Chack realized as his sword was raised to her, while he aggressively took a few steps towards her. Backing up, the glowing Alicorn hybrid pleaded:
"Yes, but I am not with them in this madness! I never wanted any of this, only to help them when they were merely lost souls in need of a caring being!"
"And yet you stand here a monster like the rest!" Sombra accused, to which Chack kept his guard up, listening skeptically as she pleaded to them, her head hung slightly:
"We were not born monsters, we were made monsters. You know this... Please, my own abilities Siral granted me, I can help reign them in, my magic was to soothe them in case they became too violent for Siral. I can help them and save lives, they don't have to die!"
"What makes you think you can stop them, especially that beast!" Chack exclaimed, his sword jabbing in the direction of the Crystal Empire. As she gazed on in the distance, she forlornly remarked:
"Because he didn't attack me before. He won't now..."
Sharing a look of uncertainty with Chack, Sombra warned her: "One chance, it is all we may get."
With an urgent bow, Ave-Dol made to leave. But before she could take flight, Chack stepped forwards, a cruel tone in his voice as he remarked to her:
"You were made to keep them in check, and you failed miserably. So that means you have a role in the deaths they've caused, by you not doing your intended job. One of my friends possibly too!"
As Chack bellowed at Ave-Dol, his webbed hand gestured to a nearby crater, where Ave-Dol saw a mangled body part of a bronze pony of some sort, a foreleg, crushed and beyond repair or hope.
Stunned into silence, her back still turned to both Sombra and Chack, she hardened her look ahead, as she remarked bitterly:
"I know. My mercy and doubts... They won't stop me this time."
"We'll see." Chack sharply judged, as she took flight. Beside him, as the Alicorn hybrid took flight towards the Empire, Sombra asked cautiously:
"Can she be trusted?"
"Trusted or not, one that doesn't slaughter like the others is welcomed... It will make her easier to put down..." Chack replied, what could be described as a smirk crossing his amphibious face for a brief moment. With a wary look, Sombra stared ahead, as the Alicorn hybrid approached the distant Crystal Empire palace.
"Come on, we must get to Aubelles, he landed near the Empire anyway." Sombra urged Chack ahead, the black magic consuming him as he took flight, while Chack summoned a green teleportation spell from his sword.

Crystal Empire outskirt walls

Pain, and a hot stinging feel that ended in numbness. Such feeling was all Aubelles felt on his left foreleg.
His eyes blinked open as he wheezed a breath, bruised all over his chest and torso. His desperate wingbeats as his shields failed saved his life, just.
His left foreleg was utterly gone, a bloody stump remaining where the crushed and mangled leg had clearly been left behind on the foothills he'd just flown from.
His head rushed with dizzyness as he gazed up. He saw ponies fleeing the empire, screams of civilians and rallying calls of the garrison of crystal guards that had remained in the empire's confines, and a red light consuming the northern lights far overhead as they seemed to be slowly sucked inwards, towards the centre of the empire. A red light, like a dim star, growing brighter on the highest spire.
Looking down at his stump of a foreleg, Aubelles hardened his face, as he charged his bronze magic horn. Aiming at his stump, he fired the burning spell.
His teeth grit from the agony nearly to the point of cracking, but soon, after releasing a single gasp of pain, his foreleg was cauterized. The snow he lay upon was a blessing at this point, as he buried the stump into a small dug pile of it as he lay there, panting.
Staring up, Aubelles saw a strange light blue being flying high overhead, towards the red light over the palace spire. As he lay there, blinking, his vision became clearer, and he saw it. An Alicorn, but different. This one was like the Windigos of old, but with the red mane of a phoenix's feathers, and streaks of ethereal energy trailing behind her as she flew.
"Aubelles!"
Turning his gaze, the bronze Alicorn saw Chack and Sombra land nearby, the latter of whom stopped short to gaze towards the Empire's palace spire while Chack rushed over to put an arm under Aubelles' frame.
Despite his strength, it was a chore for Chack to lift Aubelles to a standing position. But stubbornly, the bronze Alicorn stood on his own, one of his wings stooping down to replace his now missing leg's standing.
"I am going in for Princess Amore. That power he's amassing up there, it can't be good being near it!"
Sombra's cry was followed by him taking off in a black plume of magic, entering the confines of the city while many other ponies fled south into the tundra plains in droves, as bombardments of spears and magic spells from the ground were dissipated and absorbed into the growing red sphere atop the tallest spire. Air, Aurora light from far overhead, hurled weapons and energy seemed to slowly be pulled into its confines like a red coloured whirlpool running slowly.
And as they looked on, Ave-Dol's light blue form vanished into the growing red abyss.
"If he somehow reverses the Heart's effects, Equestria is plunged into total war..." Aubelles rumbled, while Chack stared up at the growing red sphere of energy while looking down at his green weapon, and even hopelessly his deteriorated old sword.
"We aren't equipped for this kind of threat!"
"What happened to your daring and ruthless nature Chack?" Aubelles asked, forcing a grin as a flare of pain engulfed his leg again.
"I lose it when the odds are of certain death, with no gains to be had from such sacrifice." Chack remarked bluntly. Looking up at the gathering energy, and then up at the slowly spiralling down light from the aurora borealis overhead, Aubelles remarked:
"That light, the cosmic energy, he's harnessing it. Like the spell first shown at Tartarus..."
"And now its in their hands..." Chack rebuked, the ronin looking into the red light as Aubelles shuffled to a more upright stance, before the rumbles from building magic above the palace began to shake the envirnment. Only the crystalline strucutre of the empire's buildings prevented it from being heated or damaged by the electrical arc storm growing over the palace.
"I can counter it with the same, draw on the aurora as well, I can match him."

Crystal Empire, Royal Palace
Underground chambers

Under the deeper layers of the palace, Princess Aurora strained with the powerful emanating magic of the Crystal Heart, perched on its hidden backup pedestal.
"Your majesty, Sombra has come!"
Bursting through the door, the black Unicorn entered the chamber where Amore stood before the Heart with two Unicorn guards, her magic already bathing the heart in its warming light:
"Are you hur-."
"No time, he is infecting the heart. Too much and he spreads violent desires and hate across Equestria, and unlike love, the war would catalyse it, not negate it!"
"I know. We have ones up top trying to subdue him, the rest of the city is fleeing. What can I do?" Sombra added quickly as he strode up to the heart, to which Princess Amore looked tiredly at Sombra:
"Help me shield the heart."
Staring at the Crystal Heart, Sombra saw that indeed, the bluish-white colour of the crystal heart had begun growing what looked like a fragmentary red growth inside itself, like a series of slowly spreading blood vessels inside its glistening form.
"The hate, the rage, he won't infect the heart!"
As Councillor Sombra mused to himself, he began to siphon his black magic, as he fired it around the Crystal Heart's outer shell in combination with Princess Amore's magic. The two Unicorns were joined by magic from the two guards inside the chamber with them, but as their efforts showed, it only slowed the immense power Odi-Viscer was using to infect the heart.

Crystal Empire outskirts

Chack was stunned to silence, questioning as he turned to Aubelles in a quiet tone:
"You know the spell?"
Nodding, Aubelles looked up at the growing red light, remarking without looking at Chack:
"Yes, it was told in the Nationalists from spies shortly before the Baltimare-."
"Your faction KNOWS!?" Chack exclaimed, rounding on Aubelles suddenly with his sword out. The bronze Alicorn rebuked:
"It was only a matter of time before they figured it out too! I was still honoured enough within them when I was told, before the serpent ruined me!"
"Not only did you omit this, but you didn't use it yet!?" Chack bellowed.
"I have never performed it successfully, but I know how! With how powerful the cosmic energy is this far north, here is better then anywhere to try."
"But he is the same, and more. You can never match him, think this through Aubelles!"
"I know. But I won't let him easily overshadow everypony else in power, not if I can nearly match him."
"Aubelles!" Chack exclaimed, before bronze magic engulfed the Alicorn as he took off towards the red ball of energy atop the Crystal Empire.
Helpless as he stared at the Alicorn, 3 legged as well, vanishing into the growing red maelstrom, Chack readied his sword, trying to sense into the storm occuring right above the palace like a fallen star.
"Too much, I wouldn't make it through. She must weaken him!" Chack murmured aloud. He's been prepared to fight the creautures with a sliver of hope of winning, but not when one was drawing on this virtually unlimited energy from the heavens, and was minutes from unleashing it across Equestria.
Overhead, the aurora that was not being sucked down and turned red from the many, many miles above fluctuated like it had done too unnaturally, too many times. And it would many more times to come after today.

Crystal Empire, palace.
Uppermost spire

A maelstrom of heat, energy, red light and lighting arcs surrounded her as she ventured further inside.
There, in the centre, she saw him. The monster, the one that was once Odi-Viscer, the disfigured, bald Earth pony who endured a life of hardship before Siral by the savant's own selfish desire for a violent tempered agent of destruction of his own. He had succeeded in turning Odi-Viscer into a living superweapon, but in learning the truth, he rebelled more violent then ever intended if serving Siral.
Hovering into the swirling storm of red and black magic, Ave-Dol gasped as she saw dark magic as well. And she peered into the silohuetted Odi-Viscer's mind as he slowly hovered a few feet above the pedestal like spire top he had stood upon, high above the ground.
As she stared, she felt Siral's menacing energy still there, the trace of it left that motivated so much of Odi-Viscer's rage.
"Odi-Viscer! Don't do this!"
Through the maelstrom, he suddenly lowered his arms, his back still turned to her. But the storm didn't cease, his body still glowing the dark red blaze that was his rage fuelled magic and power.
"Ave-Dol."
Slowly turning his entire body mid hover, a few lightning arcs coming off him, she saw the permanent scowl on his ape-like face, the jagged stone and bone armour plating all over his ape-shape body even sharper now, the innocent looking bald earth pony long gone. But as she stared into his hateful eyes, as they beheld her, she saw it.
Inside, she saw him. To her, it appeared as a silhouette of the subdued, wary earth pony boy she'd come to know and care for.
"I didn't do my best to protect you, all of you! Nothing can forgive that!"
Her words carried through the maelstrom, and as he listened in, she felt the whirlwind of red energy falter ever so slightly. Gaining her composure, the Windigo/Alicorn hybrid vehemently proclaimed, showing no fear:
"But I won't leave you, not this time..."
"You would try to control me."
"Let me help you, this will only all end in-."
"They'll all suffer as I have my entire life, ALL OF THEM, with their own weapons as their doom!"
As he roared, more energy suddenly shot out.

Over the city, the red sun above the palace suddenly shot out a series of red beams in many directions, the ground scorched black as the beams swept across many areas of the Tundra, aimed at the army garrisons firing magic and bolts outside the maelstrom's suction zone, and at fleeing civilian pony groups.
In many short sweeps, hundreds more were dead. And on the outskirts, one Salamander could only gaze in horror at the power being unleashed today.

Inside the maelstrom, Ave-Dol fired fierce beams of light blue magic, hooking loops of their coils around Odi-Viscer's limbs as she tried to restrain him. The beam attacks outside and onto the empire's outskirts ceased, but the storm they were within increased in intensity.
Lightning bolts struck repeatedly at Ave-Dol, but she held fast, keeping Odi-Viscer restrained. Taking flight, she yanked Odi-Viscer up as hard as she could, taking the entire starlike storm up, away from the empire at great speed.
Up the red star went, away from the ground, a thousand feet up now. But Odi-Viscer broke free, and with a red beam he latched a harpoon-like grip onto Ave-Dol's ankle and hurled her downwards. As she swung around, Odi-Viscer saw her light blue gaze stare at him in pleading, for his sake.
His own red eyes glowed back, and the scorching beams that shot forth blasted Ave-Dol downwards. She vanished into the plume of red energy around him, gravity taking her.

As she fell, the burning consumed her chest. Yet her eyes remained open.
A bronze blur flew past, red energy trailing around him and turning bronze itself. An Alicorn stallion with only 3 legs.
She fell from the now slowing red star, her face resigned in pain about what had, and was about to happen.

From where Ave-Dol plummeted, a bronze blur shot from below him as he came to a midair hover, the red haze still surrounding him. His energy felt drained, as the bronze Alicorn charged him, and rammed him headfirst in the chest, his burning bronze horn penetrating all the way and beginning to fire scorching hot beams of magic into Odi-Viscer's chest.
Agony, and red and dark energy arcs bled from Odi-Viscer's stab wound, but it wasn't deep enough to kill yet. The red maelstrom raged harder the ever before, and outside, the star shaped display shot skywards, higher and higher towards the altitude of the aurora borealis itself, the light from it trailing more readily into the swirling ball of energy as it flew upwards.
Inside the beam, Odi-Viscer saw his own energy he was emitting being sucked into Aubelles horn and fired into his chest. This incensed him beyond reasonable thought, and without a second thought, he extended his clawed hands and plunged them into Aubelles's ribcage.
Aubelles's scream was lost inside the whirling maelstrom now having flown up to the thermomosphere, while inside it as well Odi-Viscer grit his teeth against the significantly smaller Alicorn compared to him all but burning a hole through his chest and heart.
Higher and higher they rose, until the red glow from Odi-Viscer's claws grew in power as more aurora energy was siphoned. In turn, Aubelles's own horn glowed a bright bronze, him too drawing power from the aurora itself.
Straining, Aubelles felt his energy draining, his vision blacking out as what blood he was losing was being incinerated as it left his energy shield. FInally, sucumbing, he passed out.
The moment Aubelles's shield dropped, the star shaped maelstrom's intense energy disintegrated the bronze Alicorn, former champion of the Nationalist armies. The creature that had been stabbed by Aubelles roared in triumph as he felt his attacker disintegrate, melt from the molten magma level of heat and the destructive energy he was unleashing.
But as Aubelles's body vanished, the healing of Odi-Viscer's body wasn't fast enough to plug the hole instantly. As the Alicorn vanished, the gaping hole in Odi-Viscer's chest was exposed to the full effects of the entirety of the Aurora borealis's energy being harvested. Without his outer skin to seal it out, and his magic shielding over that part disrupted, the searing red energy flew inside like a drain suddenly being opened.
Odi-Viscer's eyes flew open as he felt the energy consuming him from the inside, and as he clutched his chest, he let out a shriek of agony as the powerful energy he himself was responsible for consumed him from within.
The Being of Wrath was destroyed, a victim of his own power, but he took many with him shortly before and upon his death.

Crystal Empire basement

"Its stopped. Thank the gods..." Princess Amore gave a sigh as the Crystal Heart returned to normal, the red, virus-like glow inside it gone.
Opposite her, as the other two Unicorn guards relaxed, Councillor Sombra's mysteriously sharpened teeth returned to normal, his horn reducing in its redness too. Despite these strange features he took on from time to time, the Councillor couldn't help but feel relieved too.

Crystal Empire ourskirts

Far overhead, the red star blew apart like dust on the wind. Around it, the Aurora Borealis returned to normal, the green and blue lights flickering overhead as they should be.
On the ground though, as many ponies and garrisons gave cheers in the distances, Chack sat there on the ground, staring up, mouth slightly agape in disbelief, head hung in utter loss.
Glancing upwards however, he glimpsed a light blue glimmer falling from the red light dissipatig high above, this one heading away towards the mountain foothills, a few miles east of where Odi-Viscer began his rampage.
Tightening the grip on his sword, Chack readied to use the transport means of his green blade. Ave-Dol had survived, and she had her own debts to pay by what she was.

Falling, smoking from the skies, grey sludge of what was once his mutated body falling away, the chest wounded and dead Earth pony plummeted to the earth many miles below. Bald, grey, and at peace for once, Odi-Viscer was claimed by unexplored wilderness as he eventually landed and broke apart on impact.

20 miles north west of the Crystal Empire
Frost Mountains
Crystal Caverns

Starswirl's dreamscape
17th May, 502 BNM
Midnight
Faroench Kingdom, Pahrii [capital city]
Joie-vive Inn

They had met 27 years ago, and been married 25 of those years. Frello had left the church, and Jaquelle the cirque. Now a widowed Jaquelle and those that knew the mute, but celebratory and good natured stallion. Frello's adoptive son from before he knew Jaquelle, before he met two important wizards from Equestria 27 years ago, the lame legged Earth Pony Kayeno, led the funeral speech, laughing slightly through his tears of sadness as the funeral party celebrated the life of Claupe Frello.
"He was always happiest, even if his laughter was silent. Funny, when I was growing up with him, he was always more withdrawn as the church organist. But now, he can sing all he wants. He can now be heard by all who appreciate a good melody or tune. But as he said many times this year, he's not sure that means they'd appreciate his singing or music, given the standards angels sing at."
A few laughs spread among the crowd, while Jaquelle quietly mourned for her husband. A simple funeral, before he would be buried in the cemetery of the church he'd been in before they met as the organist, Basilica de Saint-Neigherre-aux Danme.
"To Claupe Frello, we will miss your hearty spirit!"
A cry from the back went up from a patron of the inn for many years, who'd come to know the humble and showboatish stallion and his wife Jaquelle. They all celebrated and mourned as Frello would want, with merriment, drink, music and staying happy through simple or more means.

Another memory of a death long ago, one he was linked to. Claupe Frello, the Faroench stallion he'd met as the third, the exemplar of Laughter. That meant another Being had died, Wrath if he was right.
"Starswirl, we almost have them out. Is, is something wrong?"
As Starswirl regained his composure, he saw a guard coming over, concerned at his sudden dizzy spell. STaring around the crystalline cavern, Starswirl saw the princesses half freed from their crystal prisons, able to move their heads as they worked in sync to free themselves. The outer layers remained enough where they couldn't be heard yet, but they could be seen clear as glass.
As he looked at them, Starswirl's mind raced.
"No... Yes... I don't know, but....Queen Aurora...I have to go!"
In a flash of blue, the Wizard vanished from the cavern, leaving the guards there to free the princesses.
"Wizards..." The Captain mused to himself, as he returned to help crack open the crystal, the Unicorns weakening it from the outside, the princesses from within, and the pegasi chipping away with tools and hooves.

Frost Mountains, quartz valley

Queen Aurora was still exhausted, but as she stared up at the distant red light high up in the sky, she yearned to know what was going on.
But as another rumble came from underground, and she sensed Golmov moving, the Queen stood her ground.
Slowly stomping about, Queen Aurora heard a series of crumbling rocks as something burst from the ground a few dozen metres away.
A long quad of razor sharp wings, two with claws on them, burst from the ground and pushed aside rock to haul the centipede-dragon hybrid's body from the rubble, the black and golden bug armoured length covered in dust, but imbued with a sparkling array of metals and gems on his coat.
"We're not done yet your majesty, and I have made myself more presentable, and stronger for it..."
"Vanity is not a weapon dragon. You forming armour shows you fear me..."
"I fear no Alicorn!"
"You feared my daughters, you will certainly fear me in spite of your growth since then." Aurora challenged, as Golmov's yellow glow grew inside all four of his wings and eyes.
She readied herself, as Golmov's took flight upwards, the first of his passes to attack her yet again. The metallic and gem coated skin he now wore glistened in the low sun sky.
Aurora was not afraid of Golmov, and neither was he of her.
All the while though, hidden from view as she came to the last piece of this puzzle she'd arranged occur today, the Being of Envy watched, and waited.

Author's Notes:

Odi-Viscer is dead, 3 down, 3 to go. Obviously number 7 of Gaudium/Discord is safe.
But Aubelles dies in the process of taking down Odi-Viscer, in delivering the blow that exposes him to his own immense power he was drawing on.
But on this note, and this will play in soon later chapters, the Nationalists have the celestial magic spell.
On a side note, being closer to the poles of the planet, in my magic rules I set out, lets magic wielders draw on cosmic energy, such as the celestial level magic, with greater ease, to do with the concentrated energy there from the Aurora.
Yet all the while, Chack has his beef with Ave-Dol, who did survive. And Golmov is not going down so easily either after crawling from his entombed ravine when Sombra has to go off and help.