Starless
Prog rock pony
Another chapter. Honestly I think the idea of Starless and his friends resurrecting Grogar is stupid and wouldn’t work, and the only reason I’m writing about this is because I wasn’t happy with season 9. Grogar should have appeared physically as the main villain or not at all. Starless and his friends are writers in their own way, and them bringing back Grogar is like their own fix fic.
Twilight Sparkle and her friends got together for their meeting once a moon to discuss her first year as ruler of Equestria. Unbeknownst to any of them, Black Night and his gang were eavesdropping on their meeting using some dark magic spell to record everything they say, and through this, they find out the location of Grogar’s bell. The bell is kept locked up in a secret vault in an undisclosed location somewhere in Canterlot. Only Twilight Sparkle knows the location and has access to the vault. The bell contains all of Emperor Grogar’s magic as well as Chrysalis and Tirek’s magic which was absorbed back into the bell when they along with Cozy Glow were defeated. The bell also contains most of Discord’s magic which Twilight took from him as part of his punishment for his actions, along with him being in Fluttershy’s custody for some time. It wasn’t going to be easy for Black Night, Starless, and his gang to retrieve the bell.Black Night and his gang broke into Tartarus to release several of the most dangerous creatures and had them attack Ponyville, and as they predicted, Twilight Sparkle left Canterlot to help her friends defeat the creatures attacking Ponyville. During this, Black Night and some of his gang members infiltrated the Canterlot castle and the Canterlot library looking for, and successfully broke into the secret vault and retrieved the bell. Starless went with a few gang members to the Canterlot gardens to steal the statue of Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow. By the time Twilight Sparkle and her friends defeated the creatures and she returned to Canterlot, the gang was gone.Twilight quickly discovered that both the bell and the statue were missing and begun panicking, fearing that Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow somehow returned. Meanwhile, Black Night and his gang destroy the statue of the three villains to prevent them from returning and calls them pathetic for failing what they are about to succeed in. Black Night and his gang discuss their plan to take over Equestria, suggesting they resurrect Emperor Grogar and use him as a pawn to make themselves look like heroes, just as Twilight Sparkle and her friends did. Starless is against this and questions why they would even risk something like this when they could just use the power of the bell to systematically take down every creature with powerful magic. Some of the gang members argue that if they did that, nobody would listen to them as they’d be seen as the villains.Resurrecting Grogar would be a very difficult task as performing a resurrection spell would require the combined powers of the gang’s dark magic and Grogar’s bell, and a soul sacrifice must be made to complete the resurrection. Since Grogar was a very powerful ancient soul, they must sacrifice dozens of ponies to bring him back. Black Night saw this as an opportunity to eliminate every pony they saw as a threat so nopony could stop them once they do begin the resurrection.They needed a way to sacrifice ponies, and one gang member discovered a spell that could extract a creature’s soul and incinerate it’s body, but this required a curse to be placed onto the pony. They realized they could place the curse onto a tattoo or mark and the curse would be given to any ponies who take the tattoo or mark. Starless makes the mistake of bringing up a Countess Coloratura concert in Ponyville he’s attending, and Black Night gets the idea of infiltrating the concert and cursing Coloratura’s hoofsie stamps, knowing that many of ponies will take the stamps, and the curse will remain even after the stamp washes off, so they don’t have to act quickly. Starless is against this, not wanting to sabotage his former friend’s concert, but Black Night tells him he needs to get over Coloratura and threatens to have him locked up if he tries to intervene, not wanting to sacrifice a fellow gang member but also not wanting his plan to fail. Starless, thinking Coloratura still hates him for what he’s done to her and realizing she may not remember him, decides she isn’t worth it and agrees to help his friends sabotage her concert, not wanting to lose the only friends he has left.And so, Black Night and his gang sneaked backstage the day of the concert, and placed the curse on Coloratura’s hoofsie stamps. Starless attended the concert but did not warn Coloratura about the gang. That night, as they expected, Coloratura gave out hoofsie stamps to over a hundred ponies, including herself, not knowing they were cursed, and every pony who received a hoofsie was now cursed and would be sacrificed to resurrect Emperor Grogar. They were ready to begin the resurrection.