Sauron reached with his hand for the Crystal Heart. Ignoring the falling ice and tons of rock, he used his power to help himself and with telekinesis bring the Heart closer. When the Heart met with the surface of his skin, it radiated with its azure blue color. Meaning that the heart is ready to answer his call and do what he wants it to do.

Normally, Sauron would use his power, but he might as well use the power of the Heart to test how strong it is. Maybe he could later use it as a weapon when he finds out its more destructive and less defensive abilities. Sauron’s hand let out a yellow aura wrapping around his hand, that behaved like spilled water but resembled sand at the same time.

The Heart gave one quick flash of pure white blinding light and it exploded with its energy. It went past Sauron, the rocks and dirt that dared to fall on him were pushed back with extreme amount of magical force. The mountain that has collapsed due to his and the Hearts magic, was now again being defeated by those two powerful entities.

Sauron’s will and the Hearts strength. Putting his left hand on the Heart he held it high in the air, only increasing the amount of magic it gave. In seconds the surroundings have changed revealing a glittering, thanks to the starlight, snow and ice. Sauron found himself in the middle of the mountain, and above him was small circle that revealed the night sky. Just as pretty as Luna's mane…

‘No! That is not what I wanted to think!’ With much anger those words were filled.

Screamed the Dark Lord in his head, increasing his body temperature making the nearby snowflakes evaporate. How could he even thought of this? Comparing that image high in the sky to that of a horse! Not only that, but in such a manner! He did it earlier only to play with the blue equine, but only to do that and nothing more.

The Heart stopped glowing and the remaining azure glow that remained in the air like a fog went away as it was swept by the cold winds of the northern mountains. He needs to go back, the incoming bad weather will only worsen his capability to fly back to the empire in the form of an eagle.

Sauron stood up and dropped the Heart on the cold rocky ground that was cleaned from the snow by the earlier showcase of power. He took the form of an big eagle again, not as big as the great eagles of Manwë, however, still big. Slightly bigger than the young of the eagles. He used his claws that were sharp like halberds and thick like axes to grab the heart in a tight grip.

Using his power the wings gave him, he prepared to take off and fly back to the empire. Using his legs he jumped and flapped his wings. He left a small crater when he did it, small yet worthy of showing his power. Flying with amazing speeds one could only dream of, he left a thin strip that consisted of snow and clouds.

While flying he looked down, he observed what was happening and he didn’t notice earlier, but the situation has worsened significantly. It was a nightmare for the ponies, thunder he himself had to avoid not to get hit, scared the ponies. The thunder had a an interesting capability of sometimes freezing the ground and not setting in on fire.

He didn’t locate Sahvoz or his friends, if he died then it was a waste of his own power to grant him the ability to cast magic. If he didn’t die, Sahvoz will answer his call when he decides to summon him. Sauron aimed for his chamber, and he aimed to quickly check if anyone wanted to check on him. If yes, he will remember them and later agree those ponies have been in his chamber even though he wasn’t there and they clearly saw him thanks to the illusion.

Looking back quickly, he saw that one of the mountains was indeed gone, what also troubled his mind was the fact that his struggle with the Heart has caused some anomalies and caused a few strong earthquakes. The pathway towards the north was full of openings in the ground and the snow that covered the top of the mountains wasn’t there anymore.

It only shows what power he and the Heart poses, he didn’t use much of his strength either, he didn’t go full out. Yet he could claim that about two thirds of his concentration and all of his emotions went towards increasing the chance of him winning. Clearly, after Morgoth was banished into the void, his power has decreased, as a Maia has his Vala that powers him up. Sauron definitely needs to have some sort of connection to this world that made him more powerful.

Coming closer his destination, Sauron enveloped himself with a cloud mist so that none of the ponies may spot the Heart. If any deity of this world forbid, Cadence saw the heart he carried, it would get nasty. He could fight her in this form and cause some havoc, drop the Heart as he no longer needs it. Hide and return to the palace unseen.

Talking about the Heart. Sauron lowered the height he has been flying on, coming closer down. When the time came, he saw a fountain. Catching the perfect momentum he released his grip and the Heart went down. Dropping into the small pond of water, he corrupted it, he doesn’t need it anymore. Later , maybe, right now he still has to play friendly and nice.

Flapping his wings he shoot up into the air, he pierced the flickering with thunder clouds. No thunderbolt hit him and he found himself above the clouds, while the snow and ice that grew on him, cracked and fell down from his brown, white and black feathers. He could have changed the color of his feathers, to look more appealing, there was no point in doing it sadly.

Hovering above the clouds, he stopped to truly inhale the fresh air, so clean and so refreshing. Air in Mordor is harsh and really hot, making you go and drink water every now and then or else your throat would be as dry as the deserts of Haradwaith. The fumes coming from the lava lakes is poisonous, every now and then someone dies because of poisoning.

Looking up, the wonderful night sky was full of Stars, by just looking at it, he could tell that these are not the stars he knows, constellations don’t make any form of sense and the stars are way brighter than the ones in Arda mixing every color you can imagine, while everything is tainted in the dark blue tint.

The Moon was shining brightly, he could swear that there was something on it, like craters or maybe actual dust forming an image, blurry, hard to describe. Luna was Imprisoned there for a thousand years, as darkness tookover her, talking about that darkness, she could have some of it still In her. He can tell that she has something more in her.

Stopping flapping his wings, he let gravity do all the work, folding his wings he let himself be dragged back down. Falling through the dark and electric clouds had pointed his head towards the ground from where the Palace was visible after a moment. Locating the entry to his chamber he flew in, slowly spreading his wing more and more and decreasing the amount of speed he has been flying with.

His claws meet with the floor and a loud screech followed. Leaving like a fork on a plate marks. The difference with Sauron’s claws was that sparks also were present, thankfully they didn’t lit anything on fire. Still sliding he turned back to his elven body, soon his hands were wrapped by his magic and he connected with the illusion he cast. Scanning quickly thru it he didn’t found anyone who has tried to come and check on him.

Sauron’s hand turned rose red and he dismissed the spell. The fog collapsed by forming gold particles that as soon as they met the ground disappeared leaving no form of magical trace. All of this happened at once, with great skills and mind he opened the doors, dismissed the spell and watched it do wonders.

With his telekinesis he closed the doors to the balcony, and he lit the candles in his room also with his mind. He wanted to close the doors but he heard hoofs hitting the ground and the sound was getting closer and closer. Lighting illuminated the hallways casting a shadow on the wall, it was a pony and he saw the armor he or she wore.

‘A guard seeking me?’ Those words were thrown with concern.

The Crystal guard was more than happy when he saw the crystal Guest also known as the scary knight by some, was already ready to go and see what in Celestia’s round flank was happening. The Guard used his legs as brakes and stopped before Sauron. Bowing his head the Guard proceeded to tell him why he came.

“Princess Cadence asks if you would answer her call for help and lend her your skills and power to fight the ongoing frizzing menace.” The stallion voice was deep and firm.

“I just wanted to do that.” Said Sauron.

Truly he didn’t it was another lie, but he might use this situation for later.

“What’s going on?”

“The Crystal Heart that protected the Empire has been stolen, and the icy storms are slowly freezing the homes of the Crystal ponies.”

“Is Princess Twilight going to assist?”

“No, she still is in a coma”

“Then lead me to where I can help.”

The stallion turned back, Sauron had to run, this was the most bizarre reason to run. To save some colorful ponies from the freezing cold of the northern storms. Sauron ran and also tried to define the power and the amount of work he will need to hurt the storm or to clean a part of the sky from it without much effort. The storm has much power, he will admit it. But if the Crystal Heart managed to get rid of it, he will also manage to do it.

Cadence was horrified, she was scared for her Daughter's life right now. One moment ago she almost blew up the ceiling and now she got calm. She asked for nurses to look after her daughter while she will try and partially fight of the storms. She hopes Sauron is on his way down the palace to accompany her and her husband.

She ran down the stairs and with each story she passed she had more and more courage and confidence that she will succeeded in finding the Heart. Maybe Shining Armor has already found it and he prepress the ponies to sing the Crystal Empire anthem?

She was stressed about the situation but she couldn’t be mocked by her stress, she used her Magic to teleport outside. As soon as she teleported, she was met with the unreal colds and massive amounts of snow pouring on her. The Crystal Ponies noticed her and approached her to ask questions. Those questions were uncomfortable.

“Is the situation under control?”

“When will it stop snowing?”

“Will you allow us to use the emergency furnaces in our homes?”

Cadence with a smile and a happy posture tried to respond to her lovely subjects.

“Yes, it is under control. It a few minutes and you definitely should use every potential source of heat right now.”

With that, she got pass them and flew to reach her husband that wasn’t so far away. He was still in the barracks for some reason although she saw unicorns and Pegasi trying to fight the storm. She landed on the ground and the guards made place for her. She wished those guards have at least once forget about such formalities, and it would be perfect for this situation.

She was met with dead guards. With blood surrounding them, showing away the gory wounds on the back of their necks. Some bone was also sticking out from their necks. Murdered with unseen before her precision, those cuts were clean and made by somepony experienced, probably hoofblades or wing blades were used to make them

“Cadence!” Yelled Shining Armor “Don’t look at it.”

“Who… who could have done this?” She said on the brink of crying.

Shining Armor Hugged his wife and buried her face in his fur. Stroking her mane he helped her with acknowledging the fact somepony has murdered their guards and stole the Crystal Heart probably for sinister and evil in nature deeds. She retreated her face, and turned away with shock in her eyes She never saw a dead body before, and murder was very uncommon among her Ponies.

“Cadence, we are looking for the Heart, we have used tracking spells that will help us find it, with each second there are hundreds of ponies looking for it.”

“This doesn’t explain this!” She yelled. “Why would anypony go so far?”

“Whatever he or she is up to, it has to have a high value to make that pony commit murder in order to reach its goal.”

Cadence took deep breaths and tried to get the images of dead guards away from her mind. She had to concentrate on protecting her Crystal Empire. She looked up into the sky and noticed that the thunder was getting stronger. She looked around the barracks, imagining all of those stallions that have passed away would normally stan here and salute.

“Whoever did this, will pay with the greatest of punishments.” Her voice held a significant amount of venom in it.

She noticed something touch her shoulder.

“And I will help you, but we need to protect our ponies first.” Her Husband said, setting a fire in her heart.

Sauron was outside right now, he looked around and the situation was getting out of hand, the storms have entered the city and were beginning to literally freeze the homes. Everything the black clouds touched turned into ice, the clouds were like a disease, coming closer and closer in stopping the heart, causing death. Here freezing the homes of the Crystal Ponies, and destroying their property.

Sauron attention was caught by a torch that burned weakly on the ground. Opening his palm, the fire was sucked into his palm and using his magic he increased the amount of fire he held in his palm. He charged the fire in his arm to the point it started to emit such heat the snow under him started to melt and the clothes he wore started to burn.

Using his skills in manipulating energy, he enhanced the fire and changed its color to very deep and dark orange. Sauron aimed at the clouds on the opposite side of one of the main streets. He released the force in the form of a an oval fiery missile that while flying made the ground under it shake and crack slightly.

When his attack met with the storm clouds, it was absorbed into the storm. Making Sauron stand in surprise and awe how did a weather anomaly ignore so much strength and magic. Soon, however, the projectile exploded within the cloud making an frightening fiery explosion that made the clouds back away and melt some of the ice.

What Sauron has done, had a bad effect to, the explosion send a shockwave that broke some of the crystal Homes walls causing moderate damage to the homes of the Crystal Ponies. Sauron’s attack was effective, yet the storm regained much of its strength where Sauron has hit it and continued to again freeze the homes Sauron has freed.

Sauron was so concentrated on the storm he didn’t hear the ponies cheering his name, ignoring the fact he destroyed a tiny part of their city. Further ignoring the ponies he went down the main street to fight the storm face to face. He was asked to help them, he will, it will increase their trust in him. Gaining a few unicorns on his way he stood about twenty meters away from the storm clouds.

Snow begin to freeze his very eyes, his hair were filled with snow and his blond turned all white from the snow. Sauron wanted to play with it as much as he could. This time he was going to use pure magic and make a shield before him that will such with great force the clouds away. He accumulated the needed magic into his palms again letting the white energy swirl around his hand and around his arms.

Aiming Left and right, he cast the spell, it indeed worked as he wanted it to work. A wave of pure energy was send pushing the clouds away in a great distance even harming it and making it disintegrate in the process. Reaching almost as high as the palace, the clouds were attacked widely and Sauron’s attack has weakened the storm on the left side of the city.

The Unicorns also used their magic to drive the clouds away and keep them as far away as they could. Sauron turned away seeing he has succeeded partially on this side, even a pony can’t fuck this up and will be able to drive the storm clouds as far away as they can. He needs to meet with Cadence and discuss the most effective way to harm the storm.

The Heart was supposed to defend the Empire by just being here, yet it seems he might have disabled that option. Looking for Cadence, eventually he has located her in the air using her horn to fight the Storm shooting thin but powerful beams of magic at the storm. Having no other option then to yell for her to come, he did just that.

“Princess Cadance!”

Cadence looked down and saw that her guest was standing beneath her, she stopped her fighting and landed on the ground, she was breathing heavily, it was quite exhausting fighting the storm. She was glad Sauron was here, his strength and his skills will do much good in fighting against the storms. Shining Armor has been with other unicorns trying to prevent the clouds from expanding, but didn’t try to make them go away.

“I’m glad to see you, we have to stop the clouds from freezing the city.”

“I understand, however how is it possible for the Crystal Heart to be stolen? I told you, your guards are few in number against what the world can throw at you!”

“You were right.” She said in shame. “We need to focus on defending the city or else I won’t be able to help you go back to your world!”

“Don’t talk about that in the open princess. Who knows what might happen.” Sauron noted. “Do you have any clues on how we might fight this havoc?”

“We need to use as much magic as we can, the storm will have to cease at some point to regain strength.”

Nodding Sauron got an splendid idea. It might not work due to the Storms strength, but he will use the fact he got stronger. However he has to do it from the center of the city. He turned back leaving Cadence wondering where is he going, eventually making her think he wants to find a new position from where he might fight with the weather.

What he is about to do is crazy, and might even lead to the city burning, but if he will succeed, he might save the city and only destroy some of the homes in the process on the outskirts. Standing by the entrance of the palace, he heard a voice call his name, he recognized it, it belonged to the prince of this place.

“Sauron! What are you doing here? The western side of the city is barely holding out!”

“I don’t recall us agreeing to call ourselves by name. Either way, I’m here because I have an idea how I could stop the clouds from entering the city.”

“Really? Then what are you waiting for! Do it!”

The amount of disrespect the young prince has showed him is making him angry. He came here to do something and he will do it. Sauron closed his eyes and begin to make fire appear around him, at first it seemed rather impressive, that he could control fire like this making it create a shield in the form of a tornado.

Quickly the ponies had to stand back, as with each second the fire had more and more strength and grew rapidly in size. At one point it shoot up into the air and went straight forward. The beam of fire was wide, and it stretched from where Sauron stood all the way to the outskirts of the city. The fire again grew in size and was even wider and emitted a significant amount of hat.

The fiery beam turned left and went around the Crystal city still being guided by Sauron and his will. The beam did its first circle and it continued to do another one, gaining more strength and speed. Cadence came to investigate what was going on, but she received an satisfying answer from her Husband.

It was pleasing to see Sauron put so much effort in defending her empire, she didn’t believe in his power as much as Luna and Celestia believed, but she has been converted. Sauron stopped casting fire after the flames he created formed a dome around her city still going around it and preventing the storm from entering.

He has been standing in the middle moving his hands around guiding the flames. His posture was slightly bent fords or backwards, depends what kind of position his hands took. Suddenly the air became very hot, and all of the ice she has seen in her city started to melt casing small floods here and there. Cadences citizens were in the same amount of shock and awe as she was with her Husband.

It took much centration to keep the fiery dome from collapsing and keeping it in the form of a round shield around the city. The ground under him melt to the point rock became lava, however his feet were placed on normal ground. Cadence didn’t want to say anything as she seen Twilight concentrate, and she knows Sauron is too by just looking at his facial expression.

“This is amazing.”

“To the point it looks scary.”

Cadence flew around checking if the storm truly didn’t get past Sauron’s barrier, It seemed that his barrier had a negative effect after all. Some of the homes were cut by the Fiery beam and were currently burning. Crystals themselves begin to burn and melt from the amount of heat Sauron’s fire emitted.

She teleported back to her husband in a flash of pink. “Shining, we need to find the Crystal Heart.”

“We were looked over most for the city, my unicorns found nothing, maybe you will be able of finding something”

“I doubt it, dispatch everypony you have, to look for it.”

Sauron still had his eyes closed and his hands were moving in a circular manner keeping the fires strong and stable. He normally would maybe have been able to accomplish such a feat in such a shortage of time. But his power level has shown him that whatever has happened to his strength really benefits him. He could cast a shield around a village or a small city, but this was completely new, with enough time he would do something like this. But the fact he doesn’t need the time he would normally need is amazing.

He heard the ponies whisper about him and how strong he is, this is something he liked. Fame in the eyes of citizens not even from his country making their own Monarchs look unpopular and weak. He could have dropped the Heart somewhere else, but some pain and some suffering is necessary even for the innocent. Those who will never taste sorrow and pain before they die. Should never feel happiness in their afterlife.

The Storm was very strong and he didn’t like it, he could feel how the clouds were pushing against his magic, he might lose it and drop the barrier if the storm gets even stronger and he will be forced to find a new way of beating it. Fire seems to work fine, but the destruction it bring is very unnecessary, those ponies shouldn’t receive so much pain.

Although saying again what he has said, it sounded weak, and kind, he can’t be kind he needs to be cold and without emotions that would slow him down. He won’t communicate with Sahvoz for now, later after he deals with the storm. For now he will let his puppet, that probably is dead, rest a few hours.

Sauron could feel that the thunderbolts were trying to penetrate his barrier and they were pretty close in doing it, a lighting bolt like this mixed with his fire might not only empower the lighting bolt but also cause way to much unneeded harm. He could have had dropped the Heart elsewhere, right now they will look for it for hours before they find it.

He also was concerned about the way his emotions changed, he feels worse for doing this, he feels that its unfair, but it’s a small portion of his inner self that tells him that. He doesn’t understand, what could a part of him see in those horses to make him think like this. He didn’t feel like this before he touched the Crystal Heart.

It might be that the Heart has tried to change him, to probably clean him and make him his old self, but he won’t become Mairon, oh no, he is The Abhorred and he will remain The Abhorred for so long as he wishes, he likes it. He saw the true power of Melkor and his ways are the best from all. Others simply lack the intellect to see it and they’re blinded by their own way and are closed minded.

The storm has been pushing against Sauron’s magic very effectively now, and he has troubles maintaining it as it is. He only hopes one of those horse wild are to look into the fountain or go past it and sense the Heart. If not, he will have problems, big problems and with him the Empire. The storm is very powerful and it gets more powerful with each minute he has to fight against it.

Cadence has been looking everywhere, she looked in every ponies houses, she ordered to look thru out every building and every alley there was, she ordered her guards to even recycle the bins to make sure the Heart isn’t there by any chance. Shining Armor did the same, he used his magic to try and find the Heart, yet he found nothing.

Cadence was losing hope, where might it be! If the Heart is outside the city she is lost, and she has failed as a Princess, she has failed as a mother and she would fail as a wife if she won’t find it. She swore to protect this land from any form of danger. She will lose to her own herself, she already has probably lost…

She ascended to the ground, with a tear running down her cheek. She has failed hasn’t she? She has failed her ponies and she has failed a s a ruler, she has failed… she has. Nothing might stop it, Sauron won’t be able to defend the city forever everypony has its limits, although he is strong, sooner or later he will get tired, or he will simply need time to regenerate some of his magic.

What then? Ice and ponies being freezed in it, making the whole Empire die out, because he wasn’t strong enough. Celestia and Luna wouldn’t help, Twilight is also here trapped with them. She will die, Twilight will die, Shining Armor, her family will die. Discord could help but he is back with Fluttershy in his dimension.

Cadence went to a nearby fountain, the fountain consisted of a carved from crystal pony with a long spiky mane. Wings and standing on one leg with his left hoof up from which water came. She should go and spent the rest of her time with her family the look for the Heart. It has to be gone, outside the city’s borders, perhaps outside the Empire itself.

She looked into the water that reflected her, her mane was messy and she had bags under her eyes. Her eyes were watery and she just looked at Herself complaining how miserable she is, clearly she is, she can’t even be responsible enough to secure her citizens safety. Sauron was right, sooner or later a thief may come, and he came.

She sobbed and covered her face with her hooves, as tears dropped into the fountain, the sky was orange because of the fires Sauron uses to protect her city, she is so weak that she needs a Stranger to defend what is not even his! This is the level of weakness she has reached. At this point, she shouldn’t be even able to be a princess.

Her tears dissolved in the fountains water, and as Mi Amore Cadenza Cried, so did an special artifact. The water begin to glow and Cadence didn’t notice it at first, when the glow became strong she stopped and removed her hooves from her face and reached down deep into the water. Meeting something hard on the bottom of the fountain she grabbed it. Taking it out, she could swear, that this was the happiest moment just after Flurry Hearts birth.

What do you think? For now we will see magic equally amazing to what has Sauron just done. I can make him OP but we need to build him up for this task. It won't be easy.

Raistlin Phantom Is the editor of this OP chapter...Give some love, don't be a orange lantern.

And BTW, there's that cool story made by The Crimson Reaper, It’s a LOTR crossover, its good and has a lot of Potential. Show him some love, he promotes me, I can at least support him!