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"That's not a smart move. I can do anything with my singing. Time manipulation isn't my strongest spell after all." He talked melodiously So he didn't drop his spell. After a few seconds he smiled "Best brace yourself." He warned before bucking Montarion back knocking him into a large fireball. The fireball hurt him for a second before blowing up knocking him towards another fireball, Repeating the same thing it knocked him back to woody who had boosted his strength with his magic he slashed with his claws again, the claws as strong as steel. His strike he knew would at least draw blood but there was some mercy to his attack. "How's that?" He asked pleased with his result.

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Montarion fell to the ground eventually but stood up, his body had burn marks and scratches all over it, yet Montarion just stood up from the after effect.

"That was quite an interesting strategy, and now it is my turn for an attack, but i am curious... Would you prefer if i held back? It would be a shame if i overdid it, i control my powers but i can only control the flow to an extend, the end result is what makes it all happen." He asked with an tilt of his head.

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He had Woody there, One favor deserves another, "Go all out! I want to see what you can do." He sounded fearless, That's because he knew he wasn't gonna get hurt until time unfroze he'd been doing this a long time after all. If he went down well he was taking Montarion with him for coping his ability. "My attack though... I was holding back. Wait 'til you see what I can really do." He said intimidatingly.

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"I noticed an interesting pattern in you Equestrians, you try to fight your enemies, yet you all take no effort in trying to uncover the weaknesses behinds it opponents body via, data, history or even fighting knowledge, the method you all tend to use is fight on the terms you all are used to, basing your tactics that worked on NIghtmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek. But you think that is going to work forever? Because I am going to tell you something, had you tried to even find out those things, you all would have a much better chance of survival, but instead, you all have been relying on the knowledge of a single boy. Even when Valtrek was mentioned, yet you took no effort into asking him about it, because who do you think is holding you all in this grip? This entire invasion is puny compared to what is really happening, that is where you need to open your eyes, try to look beyond your mirror and see in the shoes of others because overconfidence is the curse that you are all suffering from this entire ordeal." Montarion said with a sigh

"Because your sister can at least see the bigger picture in her enemies, knowing when she is outmatched, but you? Trying to out power an opponent which you have no knowledge of whatsoever? I may be your opponent, but I have lived for so long that I am inclined to tell you this." Montarion said

"Open your eyes to the reality Woodland, don't let your own powers go to your head."

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"I'm seeing reality." He said calmly "I know what I can do, my own limits and strength, My doubts and my weakness. I may not have lived near as long as you or my father nor trained as hard as my sister. But here..." He said mentioning the time stopped world around him "when the world is watching. I always put on a show to remember even if the crowds not cheering my name." His voice had a resounding echo to it  and he had a tone full of true valor. He knew what his situation was and didn't care. His mistake would only reunite him with his sister. "Enough talk." He said. "Go on give me your best performance."

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"And that is the mistake you are making, you are centring too much on yourself, you may center on others in terms of protection, especially your family, but you wanted to help others yes? Then you should make a start by what I said earlier, learn about your enemies, don't rely too heavily on your own powers and knowledge, but adapt to your enemies methods. Not everyone has such reality warping powers like us, and in way, this is our curse, it makes use to cocky and overconfident because we think we can beat anything with our powers, i find myself guilty of that fact many times over."

"Don't see this battle is a wager of life and death, but see it a lesson, an exam, because i am going to reveal you something that you might or might not yet have figured out."

"Why do you presume i haven't attacked you yet? Why do you think i hadn't manipulated my way out of those seals earlier? Because my intention is not centred about killing you, it is centred about helping you overcome your flaws, because having flaws is something everyone has. My biggest flaw is that i have no control over my own objectives. I may not be willing to harm any good people, but when i became a member of the Bloodcult, i signed a contract that essentially bounded me to a fate of service." Montarion said with a frown.

"Attack me if you wish, but know that you will just continue to ignore your own mistakes. Which is going to cost you dearly later on."

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Montarion's words sunk in. "Well I... I guess I'm sorry then. You did challenge my word but in a attempt to help so I guess I can forgive you... I know your objectives is Jack's soul I knew all about what happened with my mom and dad. Back off for now You've failed this time, come back later. And hey thanks for helping but this is gonna hurt." He sung his time stopping melody overriding the time stop resuming its flow Montarion felt the pain from woody's earlier attack.

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"You are wrong in my objective, I am not after his soul, that was but a mere offer, I am-" Montarion, however, was cut off as a blade went straight trough his neck.

It was, in fact, Jack's blade, which he had used to stab straight Into Montarion's neck, the runes on it were glowing an intense blue.

Jack burst the blade deeper and deeper into his neck until it chopped off Montarion's head.

But he was not done as he then stabbed straight through Montarion's heart, an intense fury could be seen in Jack's as he showed no remorse.

"Not so cocky now? Do not worry, I will make sure you won't be coming back to claim more lives!" Jack roared to Montarion.

Though everyone presumed Montarion was dead, it was not the case.

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"Jack! WH.. What?!" Woody said horrified, Startled and confused all at the same time. "He was helping Me. He didn't want to harm any of us!"

Luna walked over "Well Woodland it can't be helped now. He was probably only trying to manipulate you into helping him kill us though... Did you stop time during the fight it didn't seem to last long only a few seconds." She said as she resumed searching documents.

Woody scratched his head "Montarion Copied my time stopping ability So he stopped time in order to show me that I tended to be cocky and overconfident. I was a bit mad he copied my signature ability I guess."

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"Woody, I appreciate that you stepped in, but you should not have stopped Mehriel because she was trying to defend the very thing that we were looking for."

"Montarion was not interested in my soul, he wanted to find the location of Moriah, because do you know what would have happened once he would find his location? The entire Bloodcult was hunt Moriah down, and by that extension, we would be responsible for his demise, because we lead Montarion straight to this temple that we were trying to find."

"It is true, Valtrek and his armies may be a plague to the galaxy, but nothing compares to the Diabolical acts of the Bloodcult, Montarion may have been one of the more self-controlled ones, but most of them know no such thing as mercy, reformation or even an alliance, they don't act based on grudges or wars, they murder ANYTHING they can find, sometimes including themselves should  their master demand an offer."

"All because their very master is a massive void that constantly feeds on living souls, the very same thing that is their source of power, which explains where they draw their reality warping powers from. We cannot allow one of them to roam around this planet, one is hard to wipe out, but should it stay for to long, it will draw the attention of his fellow brethren, and when that happens, you might as well no longer bother in defending Equestria, because you cannot restore anything to its former once they have started to consume it all." the artefact said in a stern tone.

 

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"You say that Jack." Woody said looking angrily at him "But honestly I don't believe you anymore. You say they're without mercy but he had ampule opportunity to kill me and everyone else here given he can stop time. Why didn't he then? He now failed his objective he was 'willed' to do because he didn't So he broke his masters control. I don't know who this Moriah is but how about WE pay them a visit then I'd like to know more than just their name you know!" He was extremely unconvinced at the fact Montarion was a huge threat he'd done nothing at this point to deserve all the criticizer except the fact that he was some member of a cult.

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"You want to know why? Because he wants to be free. The moment he tried to take my soul, I did not need words to make me realise that. Because when I was unconscious, I could feel everything started to change, his powers were flooding my entire mind, but know what it did? Not only was it drawing me straight into something, it was filling my mind was countless of visions and memories. I could not even recall what was happening during those memories because it had been imprinted into my mind the moment I woke up."

"There is a reason why the Bloodcult is acting like this, because they have no free will, the Montarion you met was not the one you would have expected to meet, The once Raukan he told himself to be is no longer there, all that remained was his body and a pre rendered soul that held memories of his former life. It happened the moment he let himself be consumed by those powers because there is a reason they consume souls of others because those very souls go to the void that they are serving, they are feeding the very source that grants them their powers."

"But you want to know something? If it wasn't for me, your very FATHER's soul would be in that very void, ceasing from existence, and you almost fell to that same fate, because did you really think Montarion was going to get up and leave? He was not fighting you because if he would, he would be drawing stronger powers from the void, and by that extension alerting his entire cult to this planet."

"But you are misunderstanding why i did it, i did not kill him because i hated him, i killed him because i wanted to free him from this very curse that he has been feeling for an entire 80.000 years long. Because deep inside i respected him deeply, not the mutated being that you saw, but the old Raukan that he used to be before he choose this path. Those moments where he was helping you, those were traits of his former personality, still stored in his form."

"So you are going to blame me for saving your life? Because if you are, then that is one of the unreasonable things I have ever heard, i want to spare the lives of others, but i have never let something stop me from what needed to be done, and this time it was nessecary." Jack said with a glare

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Woody understood why he did and calmed down a bit realizing just how mad he was he figured he needed to relive some of the stress before he did something stupid. "Well if Equestrians treated threats the way your people then me and my sister would have never came to be. Even if someone seems to far gone into the realm of insanity or Evil they can still be brought back to kindness yo saw it first hand when my mother protected my father." He sighed starting to leave the temple "Nevermind. I'm just a young dragonequus. What do I know... I'm going for a walk to clear my head. Be back whenever I can think straight again." Flurry followed him outside the temple concered about him

Ember and Chrysalis where quite shocked by the exchange between the two "For the son of a element of harmony that sure wasn't friendly. Ember said

"Agreed but he is the son of Disharmony too..." Chrysalis added

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Jack's stomach clutched togheter as he heard what Woody said, Jack was not mad, but sad, because he had just heard what he had been trying to avoid all his life.

"When i end up having to leave i know that i won't have to return because i know Woody was right, i should have never come here in the first place. You see what has transpired here the moment i landed here, all the destruction that has been going out there, has come with me."

"So there is that, i don't expect anyone to feel this same way as you can't feel like this unless you truly know what iis going out there. But perhaps it is where i belong." Jack said as he walked away.

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Luna looked up from her document hearing that then walked over following. "Relax Jack You couldn't have avoided bringing this to us. It was Montarion's fault, if I remember correctly, that you ended up here. Woody is merely comparing the situation with Montarion to closely to his father. He means well but sometimes he's too defensive of his own family. Don't take his words as a personal attack he could be blaming me and my sister for not giving him a chance all those years ago when we sealed him in stone.

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Woody sighed looking around at the snowy area. "Well... I messed up again didn't I Flurry. Jack probably hates me now thinking I want to help this cult. I should have just stayed out of it."

Flurry looked at Woody "Don't be that way Woody. You where only doing what you thought to be right. Protecting someone who could be helpful to us later." She thumped him in the shoulder "It's not like you want to destroy equestria like your father did."

"I...I just want to see Maple again Flurry even if she's turned into a monster I... I just want to see her again." He said looking way out there into the snow

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"He was right Luna because this is how I had been feeling the entire time, I just could not admit, but it is true."

"If we truly were all so pure, then the galaxy would not be in this current state, because even if we didn't cause it directly, certain events had set this in motion, and all it took was a difference in opinions, and even should all this tragedy will be fixed, who says it won't happen again?"

"Should I not have landed on Equestria, I would have fought a losing battle on Cyril, but that had been my plan all along, to die along those who I had as my previous family because, in the end, they did not constantly acknowledge the entire war as some thing that could be fixed with some battles, they see it as a never ending struggle that cannot be fixed. But for us it is a sign of pride to die for others, it is a tradition among warriors."

"But why I am feeling like this? Because I am not a warrior, I was supposed to become some scholar, but during my imprisonment, I met my mentor, who opened my eyes and showed me the reality of this entire war, he had saved countless of lives despite being branded as some deserter. But still, i idolise my every action in his name, because he is only one who truly understood me and not just based my experiences on exaggerations or nonsense, but instead encouraged me to use those beliefs as a weapon to strife further than ever before. And what is left of him? His skull! HIS SKULL!!! All i have left of him as is his skull and a bunch memories."
"Because you know how this will end? For you it all be a happy ending, but for me? I will be forced to fight who knows how many battles, which will make the Equestrian war pale in comparison what i soon have to face, along with those have somehow managed to fight through the entire ordeal while i was absent. This might sound rather mild for those who don't know fear, but guess what? It is all we can do!! It is all we have left!!"

"Things in Equestria might have turned out good in the end before, but everywhere else that is not the case. I had been saying such things many times over, but everyone had been ignoring those things i said like i am some child, which has only led me to believe that fighting has become a lost cause, because if no one else is going to listen, then i know i am going to be alone in the ordeal." Jack said while in a sad but angry feeling.

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Luna studied his word choice carefully picking out the emotion behind it. Knowing he was honest Luna sighed "I guess you're correct. However Jack your heroism here will not be forgotten, Nor Maple's sacrifice. Hero's always live on as long as someone remembers them. That mentor of yours too." She said smiling "Don't forget him if he meant so much to you."

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Flurry eventually got cold and started to head back into the temple. "Just let us know if something happens 

Woody sat in the snow watching the blizzard for a while he thinking deeply about his sudden outburst, He knew now that it was childish and uncalled for in this case Montarion was like king Sombra, He couldn't be reformed. Eventually walked back into the temple after a bit. "Jack?" he softly but loudly, "Sorry about what I said..." His voice echoed in the silent temple eventually he saw Jack and walked over to him. He looked him dead in the eye as he said "I was behaving like a idiot. I wasn't thinking only acting. I regret what I said... Just... I'm Sorry."

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"Thanks,  Luna, but that is the thing, no one sees him as the hero he really was." Jack said back.

Jack then turned around when he heard Woody.
"You were right Woody, I just needed to hear it from someone else, because you weren't wrong in that regard. It was just a bit difficult with being confronted about it like that again." Jack said.

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"I've been looking throught these files sister." Celestia said "A few of these talk about this Moriah. Here" She handed them to Luna who started to go over them. Celestia kept looking around through the documents.

Woody heard the bit about Jacks mentor. "Maple did." He said saddened "Well I'm sure they're talking or perhaps training even..." he looked up "Where ever they are now. I'm sorry sis... I wasn't there for you..."

Ember walked over to the group wearing some jewelry she found. When Woody gave her a sour look she was offended "Hey just because it's old stuff doesn't mean it can't be my stuff. Remember Dragon's Greed."

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Jack put on a hand on Woody's shoulder.

His ears perked up when he heard Celestia say that.

"Hold on could I see that?" he asked

Jack started reading trough the pages at a fast pace, but frowned at what he was reading.

"Oh no..." he said

"It doesn't specifically describe his location, but one of these symbols is giving it away, it does indicate that he is not in Equestria, that i am certain of." Jack said with a frown.

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"So... What now then?" Celestia asked Looking at the temple entrance "Me and my sister can't just leave we have to take care of equestria."

"We don't need whoever he is." Woody said confident. He looked at the group smiling as he remembered Montarion's words "Jack your knowledge of our enemy is probably our greatest strength right now i need to know as much about the enemy as you can tell me strong points, Weak ones, They're battles cries everything! Ember, Luna, Celestia, Flurry and Chrysalis. All of you nobility and all of you are strong too. We don't need miracles or this Moriah, We just need strategy and a few brave souls to stand up for our home land."

Flurry pushed her way up to Woody "I'll help I promise!"

Chrysalis grinned "That's a pretty good way to put it there Dragonequus What do you all say to that?"

Celestia felt like she agreed but was unsure. "Jack do you think it'll work? You are the backbone of the plan after all."

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"You are right Woody, but here is the thing, should we manage to defeat the enemy in Equestria, I can't guarantee Equestria will stay free forever. Because unless the enemy has been rooted from the core, they will keep coming back. Which is the reason why I have to leave after Equestria has been saved."

"I mean, we are constantly talking about saving Equestria, but have any of you thought about the prospect of helping others beyond here? Because I know for a fact it that I am going to help anyway i can once things are safe here. So what i am asking of you all is where your plan lies in the end. I don't expect any of you would want to help anyone who you don't even know, but i would just like to know in advance, it is crucial to know." Jack said.

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Woody knew he was gonna say that. "One step at a time Jack. Can't move a mountain without pushing a few stones first. I intend to kill this monster. He took my sister so I'll do everything I can to get back at him. I'll go with you beyond equestria if I have to though I have on thing to ask. You have a plan to get off the planet right?"

Celestia, and Luna looked at each other for a second then nodded walking away from the group. "He's got you there Sister" Luna said. "We can do this."

Celestia sighed but then chucked and smiled "Yea. I guess we can."

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"Getting off planet is something i know how to do. All i would have to do is reverse engineer one of our enemies technologies."

"In fact... If i am not mistaken in this temple there could be warp gates, portals that were used to travel between planets before spaceships were even a thing."

"The technology to build these portals is long lost, but there should be a few around here if we are lucky." he said.

"Tough reaching a specific planet is still a bit of a problem, but that is something i could fix within  time."

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"Right... But Jack before we do this... I want to know what happened to my sister." Woody sighed, He'd been weighing the group down with this a lot now but this was it for him "I know it's a lot to ask given everything that's at risk but this is something I just need a bit of closure on this. Once I have that I'll go beyond Equestria. She was taken inside a conversion center. I need your help to get me inside it."

Ember was still picking up some other valuable looking things Flurry was too since Ember asked. Chrysalis wasn't sure what to do at this point.

Luna and Celestia had stepped outside to move the sun and moon respectively.