The Dragons of Metal, Sun, and Thunder
Chapter 5: Friendship is magic part Two (updated)
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"The 'Elements of Harmony, see 'Mare in the Moon'"?" Twilight said confused. "But isn't that just an old ponies' tale." Spike said.
"She will bring about nighttime eternal. It's imperative that the princess is told right away." Twilight said. Spike burped a scroll. "I knew she would wanna take immediate action." Twilight said with pride in her voice.
"My dear Twilight, there is more to a young pony's life than studying. Make some friends!" Spike read.
"Hahahahahahahaha. Celestia still makes the best j-" Keshaun said before being punched into a window.
"When do we leave?" He struggled to asked.
"[prolonged gasp]" a Pink pony gasped and ran off.
"Everypony in this town are crazy!" Twilight screamed.
"Okay. Come down if your going to join us." Justice said as dark purple lighting jumped around him.
"I hope the Princess was right." Twilight said looking at the Moon.
"Get ready guys." Keshaun said cracking his knuckles.
"Oh no Nightmare Moon." Twilight said. Nightmare Moon started laughing.

Pov: Twilight
"Seize her! She knows where the Princess is!" Mayor mare yelled. As royal guards rushed at Nightmare Moon.
"Stand back, you foals!" Nightmare Moon said sending the knights away with magic.
"Now!" Keshaun yelled. Then three tornadoes covered Keshaun, Caleb, and Justice. Then they were in there true forms.
"Let's go." Caleb said. They all rushed at Nightmare Moon.
"Hey moonbutt." Keshaun said getting her attention. He landed a punch square on her face. Justice followed with a kick and Caleb finished the combo with a double axe handle.
"Wambo combo." Justice said.
"It's not over yet." Keshaun said with a serious tone.

Switch of Pov: Keshaun
"So you three are going against the new queen of Equestria?" Nightmare Moon asked.
"Yeah. I'm not letting you take over our home." I said
"Spike. Help out with getting ponies out of here." Caleb said.
"We'll handle her." Justice said.
"Got it. I'll do my best." Spike said helping ponies up and taking them to the exit. As soon as he did we summoned our weapons.
"Get ready for a good fight." I said rushing in.
"Crash. Drill ram bunker." I yelled slashing her with the drill making her crash into the floor.
"Did you really think that hunk of junk would be able do anything to my armor?" Nightmare Moon asked fury in her voice.
"Naw, just had to get you in the right spot." I said jokingly.
"What are you talking ab-" She asked as a punch from Justice landed in her stomach followed by a kick to her face from Caleb. I transformed to crimson battler mode.
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And followed with a flurry of punches. "Crash! Drill ram break!" I yelled finishing the rush. Punching her into the roof. She stopped her accent with her wings. She then flew down towards us.
"She fell for it." I said as a smile was on my face. "Ready?" I asked.
"Yeah." Caleb and Justice said making hand signs.
"3...2...1...now" I said.
"Water style: Water dragon Jutsu." Caleb and Justice said as two eastern dragons made of water rushed at her.
"What the fu-" she said before the dragons explode at her. She crashed on the floor and became smoke leaving.
"First bad guy beatdown. We're awesome." Justice said celebrating.
"Yeah we were." I said.
"Triple fist bump." Caleb said. We bumped fist and headed for the library.
"Elements, elements, elements... Ugh! How can I stop Nightmare Moon without the Elements of Harmony?" Twilight said looking for a book on the Elements of Harmony.
"And just what are the Elements of Harmony? And how did you know about Nightmare Moon, huh? Are you a spy? Whoa!" Rainbow dash said before being grabbed by a pissed off Justice.
"Don't you Dare call Twilight a spy you bit-" Justice yelled before I interrupted.
"Okay Justice calm down. Look Twi isn't a spy. But she just knows what's going on. Tell them Twi." I said.
"I read all about the prediction of Nightmare Moon. Some mysterious objects called the Elements of Harmony are the only things that can stop her, but I don't know what they are, where to find them; I don't even know what they do!" Twilight said.
Next to a bookshelf Pinkie said. "The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide." With a smile on her face.
"How did you find it?" Twilight asked surprised.
"[sing-song voice] It was under "E"!" She bounce around saying. While Justice, Caleb, Spike and I gave Twilight a deadpan look.
"Oh. I see [nervous laughter]" she said embarrassed. "There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters. It is located in what is now--"
"The Everfree Forest!" The girls said scared.
"Okay everyone stay near us." I said as we went inside the forrest.
"Let's go." Pinkie said with excitement.
"Not so fast. Look, I appreciate the offer, but I'd really rather do this on my own. That means you four as well. This is well my mission." Twilight said with seriousness in her voice.
"Yeah that ain't happening. We are going to help you. No matter what. Remember: "All for one and one for all"." I said.
"He's right sugarcube. We sure ain't lettin' any friend of ours go into that creepy place alone. We're stickin' to you like caramel on a candy apple." Applejack said.
"Yeah. So are you coming or what?" Rainbow asked her. Everyone in the group went in.
As we were going in Twilight asked the others. "So, none of you have been in here before?"
"Heavens no. Just look at, it's dreadful." Rarity said disgusted by the forest.
"I think it looks nice. It reminds of the forest near my old house." Justice said as his old house back in Ohio was near a forrest.
"It just ain't natural. Folks say it don't work the same as Equestria."Applejack added to this place.
"What do you mean?" Caleb asked.
"Nopony knows. You know why?" Rainbow asked trying to scare someone.
"Rainbow. Quit it." Applejack said getting annoyed.
"'cause everypony who's ever come in has never come out!" As soon as she finished saying that the cliff we were on broke off. Sending everyone on to the canyon.
"Fluttershy! RD!" I yelled going to catch them.
"Got it." Rainbow said flying after them.
"Oh my goodness, oh my goodness." Fluttershy said scared flying behind Rainbow.
We started to grab everyone. I grabbed Pinkie. Caleb grabbed Rarity. And Rainbow and Fluttershy grabbed Spike.
Applejack grabbed Twilight as they were on another cliff.
"Applejack! What do I do?" Twilight asked scared.
"Let go." Applejack said calmly.
"Are you crazy?" Twilight asked trying to pull herself up.
"Now listen here. What I'm sayin' to you is the honest truth. Let go, and you'll be safe." Applejack said calming as a mother trying to calm her child.
"Okay I'll trust you." Twilight said letting go. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" She screamed before Justice grabbed her.
"You ok?" He asked. "Yeah. I'm fine." Twilight answered.
"Hey AJ. How did you know Justice was going to be there?" I asked.
"I didn't know Justice was there. But I did know that Twi was going to okay. That's the truth." She answered.
After walking for a bit I noticed purple smoke. "Caleb, Justice, Spike. I saw purple smoke. Nightmare Moon is trying to stop us." I said telepathically.
"Yeah. I noticed when the cliff broke off." Caleb said in thought.
"Me too when I grabbed Twilight." Justice added.
"It was weird when the cliff broke off." Spike said.
"[gasp] A manticore!" Twilight said breaking our mental conversation. The Manticore roared with it's claws out.
"Plan of attack?" Caleb asked.
"Beatdown blitz!" I said rushing at the Manticore. Spike, Caleb and Justice followed.
"wait." Fluttershy said quietly.
"Spike you got lead on this." I said.
"Got it." Spike said running around the Manticore. He gave a kick to it's side. Justice followed with a few kicks.
"Wait" Fluttershy said a little louder. Caleb followed with a few punches and kicks finishing kicking it towards me.
"Wait!" Fluttershy said louder.
"Crash! Drill ram br-"
"WAIT!" Fluttershy yelled stopping my attack.
"Shhh... It's okay. Oh, you poor, poor little baby." Fluttershy said to the Manticore.
"Little?" Rainbow asked.
"It must be pretty young then." I said.
"Now show me where it hurts." Fluttershy said. The Manticore showed her that it had a thorn in its left paw.
"Now this might hurt for just a second." She said pulling the thorn out. The Manticore roared as it lunges at Fluttershy. We all run at it before we heard giggling.
"Aw you're just a little ol' baby kitty, aren't you? Yes you are, yes you are." She said as the Manticore was licking her face. The Manticore let go of her and she walked towards us.
"Wait. How did you know about the thorn?" Twilight asked.
"I didn't. Sometimes we all just need to be shown a little kindness." Fluttershy said.
"There's a saying I like that reminds of that. 'Sometimes you have to look in a different viewpoint'." I said remembering that my dad used to say that.
After a bit of walking.
"Ugh. My eyes need a rest from all this icky muck." Rarity said as the forrest went dark.
"Well, I didn't mean that literally." She said regretting her words.
"That ancient ruin could be right in front of our faces and we wouldn't even know it." Twilight said.
"Calm down Twi I'm sure that isn't going to happen. But just in case. Caleb got any light spells?" I asked Caleb.
"Yeah. I got a few." Caleb said.
"Wait. Let me try. I gotten better with magic." Spike said.
"Ok. Light it up." I joked.
"Mage Light." Spike said as a ball of light appeared.
"Ahhhhh!" Fluttershy screamed hugging Caleb.
"What happened?" I asked. Fluttershy just pointed at a tree. Everyone looked at the tree and saw it had a monster face.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" The girls except Pinkie screamed running into more of the trees.
"[laughter] Bleh. Ooo! [funny noises] [laughter]" Pinkie was just looking at one of the trees.
"Pinkie, what are you doing?! Run!" Twilight said concerned.
"Oh Twilight, don't you see?" Pinkie said as music began to sound.
"When I was a little filly and the sun was going down..."
"Tell me she's not..." Twilight asked.
"The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me frown... "
"Yep she is." I said.
"I'd hide under my pillow
From what I thought I saw
But Granny Pie said that wasn't the way
To deal with fears at all."
"Then what is it?" Spike asked.
"She said, "Pinkie, you gotta stand up tall
Learn to face your fears
You'll see that they can't hurt you
Just laugh to make them disappear."
Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Everyone gasped as the trees faces disappeared.
" So, giggle at the ghostly
Guffaw at the grossly
Crack up at the creepy
Whoop it up with the weepy
Chortle at the kooky
Snortle at the spooky
And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha... heh...
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuugh!"
We all laughed at the trees as the illusion disappeared.
"That was a good laugh." I said wiping tears from my eyes.
"Let's get going everyone." Justice said getting up. I noticed Nightmare Moon's smoke just left.
We stopped as we got to a river with a current of rapids. "How are we supposed to cross this?" Pinkie asked. We then heard flamboyant crying coming from the river. We looked for the source and found a giant purple River Serpent with a golden mane and half a mustache.
"What a world, what a world." The serpent cried.
"Excuse me, sir. Why are you crying?" Twilight asked him.
"Well, I don't know. I was just sitting here, minding my own business, when this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whisked past me and tore half of my beloved mustache clean off, and now I look simply horrid. [wails]." He answered splashing us on accident as I created a shield of harden sand above everyone.
"Oh, give me a break." Rainbow said annoyed.
"That's what all the fuss is about?" Applejack added also annoyed by the serpent.
"Why, of course it is. How can you be so insensitive? Oh, just look at him. Such lovely luminescent scales." Rarity said defending him.
"[sniffs] I know." The flamboyant Serpent agreed.
"And your expertly coiffed mane." Rarity added.
"Oh, I know, I know." The Serpent said.
"Your fabulous manicure." She added.
"[gasp] It's so true!" He said.
"Is there a reststop to here and the fucking point?" I asked.
"All ruined without your beautiful mustache." Rarity said ignoring me.
"It's true, I'm hideous!" The Serpent said crying his eyes off.
"I simply cannot let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected." Rarity said determined as she pulled of one the Serpent's scales.
"[yelp] What did you do that for?" He asked as Rarity lifted the scale to her tail.
"Rarity, what are you-." Twilight asked as Rarity sliced her tail off.
"[Gasps]." The Serpent nearly fainted. Rarity used her magic to tie her hair to his mustache.
"Oh-hohohoho! My mustache. How wonderful." He said happily as his mustache was fixed.
"You look smashing." Rarity said complementing him.
"Oh, Rarity, your beautiful tail..." Twilight said saddened about this.
"Oh. It's fine, my dear. Short tails are in this season. Besides, it'll grow back." Rarity said not affected by it.
"So would the mustache." Rainbow said annoyed.
"Don't ruin it." I said.
"We can cross now. Let's go. Ah!" Twilight said as the Serpent made a bridge with his back.
"Allow me." He said.
"Hey what's your name?" Justice asked.
"Oh, I completely forgotten about that. My name is Sebastian." The flamboyant Serpent now named Sebastian said.
"Okay. Bye Sebastian." Spike and Justice said at the same time.
"Thanks for the bridge." I said walking towards the others.
We were in front of the castle of the two sisters. "There it is, the ruin that holds The Elements of Harmony. We made it!" Twilight said as she almost fell off the broken bridge.
"What is with you and falling off cliffs today?" Justice asked.
"[Nervous laughter] Sorry about that." Twilight said.
"[sighs] Great now what?" Pinkie asked.
"Duh. I'll just fly over and get bridge up." Rainbow said pointing at her wings.
"Oh yeah." Pinkie said.
"Should we go with her?" Caleb asked me.
"Naw she'll be fine." I said.
Switch of Pov: Rainbow Dash
I flew over the bridge and grabbed the rope for the bridge. "Rainbow..." A voice called out. "Who's there?" I asked.
"Raaaaaiiiiinnnnbbbbbbooooooowwww....." The voice called out again.
"I ain't scared of you! Show yourself!" I said punching air.
"We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the best flyer in Equestria." The voice said.
"Who?" I asked confused.
"Why, you, of course." The voice said.
"Really?! I mean... Oh yeah, me. Hey, uh, you wouldn't mind telling the Wonderbolts that, would ya? 'cause I've been trying to get into that group for like, ever." I said with pride.
"No, Rainbow Dash. We want you to join us, The Shadowbolts. We're the greatest aerial team in the Everfree Forest, and soon we will be the greatest in all Equestria, but first, we need a captain. The most magnificent-" The leader of the Shadowbolts said.
"Yep." I said. "Swiftest-" She added. "Of course." I said. "Bravest flyer in all the land." She finished. "Yes. It's all true." I said with pride. "We need...you Rainbow Dash." The leader said.
"WOOHOO! Sign me up. Just let me tie this bridge real quick and then we have a deal." I said going towards the bridge.
"No Rainbow! It's them or us." The leader said.
"You." I said. They smiled.
"Thank you! For the offer, I mean, but I'm afraid I have to say no." I finished.
"See? I'd never leave my friends hangin'." I said. Everyone cheered me on.
Switch of Pov: Keshaun
We all went over to the castle. As we went inside I notice the smoke. "Stay on guard everyone. Nightmare Moon is close." I said. They nodded.
"The Elements of Harmony, we've found them." Twilight said. The Elements of Harmony were round stones. Fluttershy and Rainbow brought them down gently.
"One, two, three, four... There's only five!" Pinkie said.
"Where's the sixth?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"The book said: when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth Element to be revealed." Twilight said.
"What in the hay is that supposed to mean?" Applejack asked.
"I'm not sure, but I have an idea. Stand back. I don't know what will happen." Twilight said as the girls and Spike stepped back. Twilight then concentrated magic, trying to see what would happen.
"Come on now, y'all. She needs to concentrate." Applejack said as the we all went outside to let her concentrate.
Then the smoke of Nightmare Moon started to appear. Surrounding the elements. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" Twilight screamed.
"Twilight!" We all yelled running into the castle.
"The Elements." Twilight said jumping into a tornado made by Nightmare Moon.
"Damnit! I knew we should've stayed inside!" Justice yelled furious.
"Calm down Justice. She couldn't have teleported far." Spike said.
"Yeah. We'll get them both back safe." I said.
"Okay. I'm calm. Let's get Twi." Justice said.
"Let me try something." Caleb said as he closed his eyes. An aura surrounded him. "I got her aura. She in the tower over there." Caleb said pointing at a tower to the left of us.
Switch of Pov: Twilight
I cough a little bit as dust was floating from the tornado. "[Gasp]." I gasped as Nightmare Moon was in front of my with the Elements of Harmony. I started to charge at her.
"You're kidding. You're kidding, right?" Nightmare asked. I charged at her and she followed too. I teleported behind her and ran for the elements.
"Just one spark. Come on, come on." I said trying to conjure the sixth one.
"No, no!" Nightmare Moon yelled as she sent me away with her magic. She smashed the elements with her foot witch left an echo.
"No. But... where's the sixth Element?!" I asked.
"[laughter] You little fool! Thinking you could defeat me? Now you will never see your princess, or your sun! The night will last forever! [evil laugh]!" Nightmare Moon yelled.
"Hang on Twi! We're coming!" Spike yelled.
"We're on our way sugarcube!" Applejack yelled.
"Try to hold on!" Keshaun yelled. Then I felt something.
"You think you can destroy The Elements of Harmony just like that? Well, you're wrong, because the spirits of The Elements of Harmony are right here." I said as everyone else came in the room.
"What?" Nightmare Moon asked with anger.
"Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of... honesty!" I said as a orange light covered Applejack.
"Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion, represents the spirit of... kindness!" I said as a yellow light covered Fluttershy.
"Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of... laughter!" I said as a pink light covered Pinkie.
"Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift represents the spirit of... generosity!" I said as a white light covered Rarity.
"And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own heart's desire represents the spirit of... loyalty!" I said as a cyan light covered Rainbow.
"The spirits of these five ponies got us through every challenge you threw at us." I finished.
"You still don't have the sixth Element! The spark didn't work!" Nightmare Moon said scared.
"But it did! A different kind of spark. I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, to see you, how much I cared about you. The spark ignited inside me when I realized that you all... are my friends! You see, Nightmare Moon, when those Elements are ignited by the... the spark, that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element: the element of... magic!" I said as the elements floated around us except for Spike, Keshaun, Caleb, and Justice. All of a sudden everything went white.
Switch of Pov: Keshaun.
"NOW!" I yelled. "CHAOS BUSTER QUARTET!" I yelled as we four of us fired a Rainbow colored laser that combined with the one Twilight and the others made.
"No. Nononononono. No!" Nightmare Moon screamed as everything went white for a second.
"Ugh, my head." Rainbow said with a splitting headache.
"Everyone okay?" Applejack asked.
"Yep." Pinkie answered.
"Oh, thank goodness." Rarity said as her tail grew back very fast.
"Why Rarity, it's so lovely." Fluttershy said.
"I know! I'll never part with it again." Rarity said hugging her tail.
"No. Your necklace. It looks just like your cutie mark." Fluttershy said pointing at the necklace.
"So does yours." Rarity said pointing at Fluttershy's.
"Look at mine. Look at mine." Pinkie said showing her's.
"Aw, sweet." Rainbow said looking at her's.
"Gee, Twilight! I thought you were just spoutin' a lot of hooey, but I reckon we really do represent the elements of friendship." Applejack said.
"I believe so as well." A familiar voice said. It belonged to Princess Celestia.
"Princess Celestia." Twilight said running to her.
"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student. I knew you could do it." Celestia said hugging Twilight.
"But... you told me it was all an old pony tale." Twilight said releasing the hug.
"I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more. Keshaun, Caleb, Justice, and I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return, and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart. Now if only another will as well. Princess Luna! Nightmare Moon!" She yelled as the two figures awoken.
(Nightmare Moon has the same body shape but is shorter at 6'7" and Luna being 6'9" and Nightmare Moon's dress is black and her fur is dark blue.)
"It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this. Time to put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together, little sisters." Celestia said.
"I'm sorry sis." Nightmare said crying.
"I'm so sorry! I missed you so much, big sister!" Luna said also crying. The three sisters hugged.
"Hugs are always nice." I said with a small smile and tears in my eyes.
"Wait. Those two are your younger sisters?" Rainbow asked.
"Yes. There aren't two royal sisters. There are actually four royal sisters." Celestia answered.
"Speaking of four royal sisters. Where's Daybreak?" Caleb asked. I all of sudden got tackled by a yellow and white blur.
"Found her." I said dizzy.
"Oh Keshaun thank you so much for bringing Luna and Nightmare back." Daybreaker said hugging me.
"No prob but could you let go. I can't breathe." I said turning blue.
"Oh. Sorry." She said letting go of me.
"Hey, you know what this calls for? A party!" Pinkie said as we got out of the everfree forrest. Then everyone in Ponyvile celebrated the return of Luna and Nightmare Moon. Daybreaker just kept hugging me making Celestia jealous. I noticed Twilight looked a little saddened.
"Why so glum, my faithful student? Are you not happy that your quest is complete and you can return to your studies in Canterlot?" Celestia asked Twi.
"That's just it. Just when I learned how wonderful it is to have friends, I have to leave them." Twilight answered.
"Spike, take a note, please. I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must continue to study the magic of friendship. She must report to me her findings from her new home in Ponyville." Celestia finished. As the girls cheered.
"Yeah. New home. Quad fist bump guys." I said as Caleb, Justice, Spike and I bumped fist.
"Oh thank you, Princess Celestia! I'll study harder than ever before." Twilight said with glee.
