Equestria Girls: Crystal Clear (Book 7~Equestria Girls Series)

Chapter 12: Sombra's Words

Sunset Shimmer was falling from the roof backwards into the air since Rainbow Dash had pushed her. "AHHHHHH!" She screamed. "Helppp!"

"No! Sunset!" Twilight was in shock seeing what had happened, as she was still trapped in the prison of crystals.

Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack all gasped in shock in unison. "SUNSET!" They saw Sunset falling down.

Everyone else was worried about Sunset's wellbeing. You can even see it on Flash Sentry's face from the background. Also, from the Shadowbolt girls, students, and principals.

Fluttershy closed her eyes in fear, and hugged Pinkie. "I can't bare to look! Please tell me when it's all over, Pinkie."

"Ahhhh!" Sunset was still falling. Her hands accidentally dropped the Crystal Heart, since the air had strong winds. "N-no! The Crystal Heart!"

Rainbow jumped off the roof like she was diving into a large pool. She flew straight down in her rainbow blur. With the sound of a fast clap of her blue wings, she caught Sunset with her hands. "Got you!"

Everyone else was relieved at how Rainbow caught Sunset in time, for her to not fall down to her death.

"Rainbow!" Sunset smiled. "You saved me! Again! Like you did in the Friendship Games."

"Why wouldn't I? Save you? You are my friend after all!" Rainbow said. "And you did say that you trusted me? Didn't you?"

"Yes. I did say that." Sunset said. "I just wasn't expecting you to do that. You caught me off guard. That was totally, wild."

"It was my plan that I came up with on the spot." Rainbow said. "Sound familiar to you? You did that with me too. Don't you remember?"

"Hmmm," Sunset had a flashback when Rainbow was stuck in a honey-colored gooey-liquid pool at an abandoned island. She was remembering the time when them and Twilight were all surrounded by Equestrian eating-plants. That the only way that they had to escape was to jump into the pool since it was a portal that led to Equestria.

She recalled that time that she pushed Rainbow's head down into the pool and asked her the words, "Do you trust me?"

"Yes. I remember now." Sunset said. "I didn't know you would catch up on that."

"Well," Rainbow put Sunset down safely on the ground. "You did tell me to trust you that day. So, now..I saw that it was my turn for you to trust me. This time. Just like you did with me."

"It's funny, that I never thought you would do something like that for me." Sunset said.

"Yup. And now we're both even!" Rainbow said.

"Fluttershy." Pinkie said, still hugging Fluttershy. "You can look now! Everything is okay. Rainbow saved Sunset. She is safe now."

Fluttershy opened her eyes and stopped hugging Pinkie. She ran over to Sunset. "Sunset! I'm so glad that you're okay!" She hugged the sunlight-girl.

"So sorry, we had you worry there. It was part of Rainbow's plan that she could only think of." Sunset patted Fluttershy's pink hair.

"It's okay, now." Rainbow said. "Honestly."

Starlight Glimmer raised both of her hands in the air. "Got it! I got the Crystal Heart!" She levitated the shiny heart-crystal with her purple aura-magic. "Here, Sunburst. You can go ahead and do the honors!" She passed it to him in the air.

Sunburst used his orange magic powers from his hands to move the Crystal Heart into its position at the front for display to use for the Crystal Fair. "Got it!"

The Crystal Heart began to glow. Everyone else was gathered around it, absorbing the love and light that it had spread across the sky. Everyone else ponied up and their outfits changed into fancy ones. Their figures, clothing, eyes, hair, and skin even shined into dazzling shiny coats of crystal-light that had reflected onto them.

The light reflected on top of the roof, making the dark-black crystals disappear around Twilight Sparkle. She got out of the circle. She saw that the light had reflected onto Sombra. "N-no! The Crystal Heart! Should of been mines!--" It made his shadowy presence fade away into smoke. "AHHHH!" He screamed.

As soon as the smoke faded away, Sombra's body was left lying down on the ground. Twilight approached him. She had ponied up already. "I hope he's okay now." She put her hand out, creating a pink magic shield-bubble. She placed him inside of it to make him safe.

Using her wings, she flew down the roof, while using her hands to place the magic bubble down below near the Crystal Heart.

"Ooh! We're all shiny just like the crystals!" Rarity beamed a smile, feeling excited about her new look.

"Yeah, this must be the light of the Crystal Heart's doing," Sunset said. "That we are feeling now."

"It sure feels great," Fluttershy said. "I feel like we are feeling the energy of love and peace."

"I wonder if Twilight is okay?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Since Dean Sombra is with her."

"Hey, look," Starlight said to Rainbow, gesturing to her that Twilight and Sombra were back. "They're back."

Twilight landed the bubble down and made it disappear with her magic powers. People gasped in shock, to see that Dean Sombra was revealed to be laying down. He was unconscious. "It's Dean Sombra!" Sour Sweet and the Shadowbolt girls gathered around him.

"Oh, is he okay?" Sunny Flare asked, out of concern of being worried about him.

Sombra started to open his eyes back up. He looked around all confused. "Huh? What happened? I don't remember?" Sugarcoat put her hands out to help him get up.

"And, why is everyone else? Have pony ears? And, have shiny crystal-looking coats? What is going on here?" Sombra was confused.

"It's a lot to explain." Sour said. "For you to understand."

"Since this mostly involved magic." Twilight said.

"To sum it up into short terms, you turned into some sort of a dark shadow presence. And tried taking over Crystal Prep, which you surrounded in strong snow blizzards, strong winds, darkness, and dark crystals that trapped people." Shining Armor said. "You wanted to ruin the Crystal Fair. And take the Crystal Heart for yourself."

Sombra's eyes shone in guilt. "Oh, my. I must of not..been in the right mind to--" Sunset Shimmer cut him off by putting her hand on top of his shoulder.

She was using her magical power to see his vision. Her eyes stopped glowing a bright white color, as she was done seeing what she had seen from his point of view. Her eyes returned back to normal, "It's not necessarily Dean Sombra's fault for doing this. He was possessed by dark magic that had controlled him, when he was in the school office."

She took her hand off his shoulder. "It caused him to transform into that shadow. And, it made him form a darkness inside of his heart. He didn't mean to be evil or anything. Honestly. He couldn't stop it himself, inside of him."

"Oh, I remember being in the office now. That did happen to me. But, I don't have any memory of what happened after I got possessed by this magic." Sombra said. "I'm sorry for ruining this Crystal Fair on accident. I had no intentions of doing so. I never wanted to create harm for any of the students and faculty here at the school. I do know now that I am responsible for all this. I am truly sorry, everyone." He bowed down his head in pity.

"It's alright." Principal Cadance said, still holding Flurry Heart. "Speaking entirely for the representation of Crystal Prep and everyone else here. We forgive your mistakes, Sombra. As, we know that you didn't do this intentionally. All now that ends well, since no one here was hurt nor harmed during this time. Now, let's get back to enjoying the Crystal Fair!"

"Thank you, Mrs. Cadance." Sombra grinned. "I appreciate it." He said.