My Little Pony: Frost Falls

When Shuangjiang saw his father for the first time, he couldn't help but want to talk to him for a while.

They just sat down quietly and chatted casually, with Shuangjiang talking and Fengdu listening.

They talked about the changes in the empire over the past thousand years, about Frost's daily life over the past decade, about the crises the empire had faced and how they had managed to escape danger, and finally talked about her mother, Ai Mo.

Feng Du was silent for a while, then tentatively asked, "Is your mother... okay these years?"

"If I say it's okay, would you believe me?" Frost blinked mischievously.

Fengdu naturally shook his head. When Shuangjiang asked this, he naturally thought of what Ai Mo must have encountered.

"Mother is not doing well. Since you left, she hasn't said anything, but she's been missing you." There's a saying that goes, missing someone is actually deeper than love. "Later, mother was petrified by Sembula, and like me, she was sealed for a thousand years. She only woke up recently."

Frost finally looked at Fengdu seriously: "Don't you really want to go out and see her?"

Fengdu was silent again, and when Shuangjiang thought he was finally going to agree, he shook his head firmly.

"Why?!" Shuangjiang stood up excitedly and asked in confusion: "You and your mother love each other so much, why don't you even have the courage to go out and see her?"

"It's not that simple, Shuangjiang." Fengdu gently held Shuangjiang and softly soothed her emotions.

"You can see me now only because we are in this different dimension now. This is between reality and illusion. Everything here is both real and fake."

"You mean-"

"Once I leave here, I will truly become nothing. How can I ever meet Aimee?" Fengdu smiled self-deprecatingly.

Frost stammered an apology: "...I'm sorry, I was too excited."

"This is not your fault, no need to apologize, it's just that my current situation is too special." Fengdu touched his daughter's head again to comfort her, raised his head to look at the sky, and took her hand and walked forward. "Let's go, don't you still want to see the place where I saw you?"

"Ah."

Frost followed his father's footsteps and suddenly another question came to his mind.

At the beginning, she was so desperate that she ignited her magic with the determination to die, wanting to die together with Sombra, so that at least she could seek long-term stability for the empire in the future.

And at the moment when the magic power exploded, she lost all her memories, and now appeared here again - a different world that exists relying on the crystal seal.

Obviously, the crystal heart is the key to enter.

But since Frost is fine, what about Senbula? Who can guarantee that he is dead instead of being lucky enough to survive like Frost?

If this is true, then wouldn't she have left the empire with another huge crisis?

Absolutely not!

Shuangjiang asked Fengdu: "Father, do you know how to really kill the Wasteland Shadow Demon?"

Feng Du shook his head: "The Wasteland Shadow Demons are unkillable. They have no physical body. After their fall, they sold their souls to darkness in exchange for greater power. I think you know all this?"

"of course I know."

"So the ancestors of the Crystal Empire studied them for generations, and the only solution they finally came up with was to seal them away, never to see the light of day."

Unconsciously, Fengdu had brought Shuangjiang to the place where he saw her. There was nothing here, but after Fengdu stopped, he smiled as if he saw something, and his smile was slightly cold.

"Shuangjiang, I remember you said that the old patriarch of the Qing clan once predicted your fate and said that you have a destined mortal enemy?"

"Yes, his name is Sombra, and he later changed his name to Senbula. He is also... a descendant of the evil Wasteland Shadow Demon clan."

Fengdu asked again: "Then do you know the origin of black crystal?"

origin?

Isn't Sombra the surviving child of the Wasteland Shadow Demon? When he grew up, he learned the "truth" that the Wasteland Shadow Demon was sealed, and deliberately came back to take revenge on the Crystal Empire.

But it's not.

Fengdu told Shuangjiang that the wasteland shadow demons had been trapped in cages for a long time, and resentment had permeated their hearts, thus giving birth to black crystals.

He was born a lie, and spent his whole life trying to accomplish something that was impossible. Their purpose was wrong from the beginning.

Everything that happened after that was just making matters worse.

Looking back, the origin of everything was actually greed.

The shadow demons of the wasteland always crave power that they should not have, and for this reason they degenerate into demons and kill innocent lives.

Therefore, the Wasteland Shadow Demon has long been unable to gain freedom.

From the moment Fengdu sacrificed himself, the conditions of the seal changed. Only sincere repentance can release the seal. The magic power of light covers the seal, turning it into a shackle of judgment and also a door of possibility.

Because he realized that the seal could not last forever, and only by resolving the resentment could the two races prevent from hating each other from generation to generation until they were destroyed.

But what Fengdu never expected was that the Wasteland Shadow Demon took advantage of this loophole and threw out a weak newborn baby.

He grew up with difficulty relying on the scarce food and water resources underground in the Crystal Empire, and was led out with the help of a shadow until he was picked up by Frost.

At this time, the innocent Sombra was still unaware of her own life experience and was growing up happily in the Crystal Empire.

However, he found that as he grew older, the annual crystal ceremony had a greater impact on him. At first, he was just a little uncomfortable, but later he felt dizzy and nauseous, and finally fainting became a common occurrence. He often had a high fever because of it.

Until one year's Crystal Ceremony, he was so upset that he broke out of the Crystal Empire. It was also on that night that he learned about his life experience and launched a series of revenge actions.

"Frost, I tell you this only because I hope you can clearly understand your enemy. Only then can you talk about defeating him completely."

That's it.

How to say it, after hearing about Hei Jing's life story, Frost's heart was actually not shaken at all. He was indeed miserable, but that didn't mean that Frost would sympathize with him.

Even after listening to it, she felt a mysterious pleasure somewhere in her heart - he deserved it.

He had brought such terrible harm to the Crystal Empire and brought about a miserable end for so many ponies she loved. He deserved what he had.

…No, no, she couldn't think like that. Laughing at other ponies' backgrounds was something only bad ponies would do.

The expression on Shuangjiang's face changed a lot. She tried her best to restrain the malice in her heart, not wanting to turn herself into the ugly appearance of a bad guy because of hatred.

Fengdu was watching patiently on the side. He seemed to have something else to say. When Shuangjiang calmed down, he pointed to the empty space in front of the two horses and said, "Close your eyes and feel it carefully. See what you can feel."

Frost obediently closed his eyes. When darkness fell in front of him, his other senses seemed to become more sensitive.

In the darkness, there was only a warm light in front of him - a crystal heart. Shuangjiang opened his eyes and saw the crystal heart floating quietly in front of him. But strangely, there was a ball of black smoke floating next to the crystal heart.

"...Sembula?" Frost's tone was a little uncertain.

He was not dead, but he was not in much better condition either. Instead, he lost his physical body like other wasteland shadow demons.

At this moment, Fengdu put his arm around Shuangjiang's shoulder and said to her earnestly, "Shuangjiang, now, have you decided how to deal with him?"

"Ah."

I've thought it through.

No matter what, no matter how much hatred we have in our hearts, we should not turn ourselves into a cruel pony.

It is because of love in our hearts that all of us, all ponies, can move from the past to the present and into the future.

Frost said softly to the black smoke: "Go back to where you should be, Sombra."

There was a flash of magical light on her horn, and the enemy that had troubled her all her life disappeared with the magic, going underground to join his people.

Perhaps some day in the future some of them will be freed, but by then, the resentment will have surely dissipated.

The light of the crystal heart gently wrapped around her body, sending her back. Frost turned to look at Fengdu, her eyes full of nostalgia.

Fengdu saw this and waved his hoof to comfort her with amusement: "Don't be sad, there are still many days to come, and we will meet again!"

"Well, we will meet again!" Frost smiled and nodded and left, although there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Goodbye!

Father!

-

The crystal heart took her back to the place where she disappeared in the real world.

Finally, Frost turned his head and looked towards the end of the sky. There, the sun was rising and a purple figure appeared in his sight.

All the worries and fears vanished in the moment of reunion, leaving only the calmness after the dust has settled.

She said, "Frost, I'm here to take you home."

(End of text)