Celestia looked up in horror. Her sister, Luna, was turned back into the creature feared by everyone, Nightmare Moon. Just when she started to get used to normal life, all her effort thrown away by silent gibberish. She cried, crying at her failure to protect Luna from becoming Nightmare Moon again. Cold Heart laughed maniacally, his laugh sounded even colder than before. "What a climax, isn't it?" He asked dastardly, "Seeing you tremble at the sight of your beloved sister becoming this crature, HAHA!" He laughed again, his maniacal joy could not be comprehended. Nightmare Moon's horn started glowing making Celestia float. She couldn't escape the hold of her floating spell. Cold Heart walked up to the floating princess and asked: "Now... where are those Elements of Harmony this time?" Celestia's eyes peeled open, she was shocked at the line 'this time'. "What do you mean by 'this time'?" She asked, the evil brother grinned and answered her with another question, "Oh I forgot, remember that faithful day thousand years ago? The day when you sealed me in my icy prison with the Elements?"

Celestia nodded and Cold Heart continued: "Well, shamefully enough, you only locked up my body, while my spirit still could roam free." This made Celestia shock, she didn't used the spell to properly seal him away. "I followed every step you made. I saw how the Elements became part of those 'mane six'. I saw how that our beloved sister and Discord's seals were broken. It was only a matter of time before my release was near..." He continued, "The Elements were supposed to be in that lock-box when Discord was released but they weren't there, isn't it? Now, I want to know where they are now.." Celestia became angered, she failed in protecting Luna but she won't let the Elements fall into his hooves. "The Elements aren't yours to take! They belong to the ones the Elements have chosen to bear them! They disappear only to appear again when needed, even I don't know where they are."

Silence filled the room after Celestia's outburst but the silence broke when Nightmare Moon threw Celestia against a wall. Cold Heart walked up to her, "Don't you want to tell me?" He asked again but Celestia's answer was a predictable: "Never!" The evil Alicorn grinned again, "Then I'll have to ask it to your loyal subject... Twilight Sparkle, wasn't it?" This made Celestia more angered, "Don't even dare to lay a hoof on her, fiend!" she yelled but her yell was cut short by the icy touch of Cold Heart's horn. "Sssh..." He whispered in her ear, "It's time to sleep, dear sister." And those were the final words she heard as her vision blurred and her body started to feel cold...

"CELESTIA!!!"

...

Twilight and the rest of the mare six went to the shattered remains of Canterlot Castle as fast as they could, Princess Celestia's fall didn't went unnoticed. This time they didn't had to worry about the rabid Windigoes as they already fled from the scene, only leaving the frozen citizens of Canterlot to remain silent. Through the rubble in the courtyard they ran to the forcefully opened castle gate to enter the Entrance Hall, where they saw how Cold Heart turned Princess Celestia into an ice statue.

Twilight was of course shocked to see her teacher she knew and loved as a second mother taken away from her by someone fueled by hatred and evil. As she teared, she shouted, her cry could be heard clearly on the other side of the Entrance Hall:

"CELESTIA!!!"

Cold Heart and Nightmare Moon stared and glanced at the crying Unicorn and her friends. Nightmare opened her eyes wide and turned into a puff of smoke and in a millisecond, the smoke stood behind Twilight and materialized back into the evil Alicorn. Her cloudy mane wrapped around the little Unicorn, holding her in the air, "Twilight Sparkle, long time no see!" she yelled and threw her against the other ponies, "My vengeance will be absolute, foals!" She smiled with her teeth visible, it was like she lost control of herself but her incoming wrath was halted by her, seemingly weakened, brother, "Your vengeance can wait, dear sister." He walked up to her, he panted and fell on the ground.

Nightmare Moon helped him stand back on his hooves. "Turning you back drained a lot of mana, freezing Celestia made it worse..." He said, wrapping his bat like wings around him and Nightmare.

"Our paths will cross again... Soon Enough..."

After taking a last look on the injured ponies he and his sister disappeared in a flash, vanished into thin air. The ponies had problems getting back up, getting a pony flying in your face was everything except painless. "Gawsh Twilight, what did ya eat to get so heavy?" Applejack asked but her question went unanswered as Twilight ran to the frozen body of the beloved Princess Celestia. She screamed, she cried, her face was wet with tears. She hooked herself on the neck of her teacher, both Rainbow Dash and Applejack had to pull her off the statue. Which wasn't easy as she kept resisting, Celestia never let Twilight behind so why should she?

In the end Twilight calmed and she let go. The six of them were alone, the sky was still cloudy and the only sound they heard was the cold wind. The castle lied in ruin and everypony in Canterlot were turned into a statue of ice, even Spike. They stood there, lost and broken. They couldn't save the city nor the princess. There was nothing for them to do. They could only comfort each other in a group hug and take the hot air balloon back to Ponyville, leaving the ruined city of Canterlot and it's citizens behind.

...

"Dear brother, are you alright?" Nightmare Moon asked.

"Does it look like I'm okay? If I stayed there and used my magic on those foals, my mana would be drained and I could fell prey to those blasted elements." Cold Heart roared with glowing red eyes.

"I'm lucky enough that I still had a sprinkle left to teleport to this place, the palace of the royal pony sisters."

"What are we to do now?"

"For now we wait, when the time's right... My plan will be set in motion and those Elements will be mine to take."

...

It was already evening when the ponies came back in Ponyville, everypony was at home, probably sleeping. It was dark and the only sources of light were the street lanterns, some windows and Twilight's library tree-house. "Hey, look Twilight! You forgot to put out the light before we left!" Pinkie Pie yelled but Twilight wasn't really in the mood for jokes, she looked at her house and said to Pinkie: "But I didn't even put on the light to begin with!"

"Then who did, dear?" Rarity asked.

"We're about to find out" Twilight answered, "Be quite, maybe it's one of those Windigoes..."

Rainbow Dash started flying in rage, "Windigoes!? Screw the silent way, they're gonna pay!"

"No, Rainbow! Wait!" Twiligth yelled but it was already too late, the blue Pegasus flew trough the door.

"Okay spooks! Who's asses... need a... kickin'..."

Twilight and the rest entered the house, not to find a Windigoe but a Unicorn couple. The colt was blue with darker blue manes and two crescent moons as his cutie mark. The mare was periwinkle with the same mane-style as Twilight but medium purple in color and white dye-lines, completing it with three purple stars as her cutie mark.

The mare looked at Twilight, "Lil' Twilight? Is that you?"

"Mom? Dad?"

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