The Re-Rise of Starswirl

Starswirl is appearing to have tremendous difficulty to convince Equestia that he really is the returning Starswirl, with everyone blazningly convinced that he is long dead and that he's just a very convincing wanna-be that just so happened to be REALLY good at magic. Worse off, he had to deal with Starswirl Look-Alikes that are fan creations that are scorned that him for being the "Canon Starswirl" and are giving him the most shit. So, he turns to Twilight and friends to prove his authenisty. However, things take the turn for the worse, when a disgruntled future jester named Chad Puns, a young donkey, was picked on by Starswirl fans for being a terrorable comedian and left him to seek out the comfert of a once hidden away old book Starswirl was sure was gone for good, called The Tartarus Journal, a sentient, trash-talking evil book with the ability to summon the worse of evil monsters from Equestia's past, as it corrupted Chad into 'Punzor', and allowed the Journal to begin exacting revenge onto Starswirl and all Starswirl followers for his eternal humiliation by using Stygian to choose the next Pony of Shadows, choosing it through one familiar face: a dark priest from Hollow Shades named Bishop Dipper, who has started embracing darkness since Starswirl wronged him long ago and that the Taraxippuses know that his darkness would make him far stronger than any other Pony of Shadows beforehand as his previous battle was not easy, and should he become the nexy Pony of Shadows, it will not be realistically possible to stop him, and with the help of the Tartarus Journal and Chad, he may finally get that chance, not knowing that they'll be tapping into something that will do more than release it's own race, the Taraxippus, or ghosts that scare ponies by choosing a host and using their magic to fuel their powers, as they used to be almost released by Pitch Black, who was allied with the Pony of Shadows at the time during the Great Fear Wars as he attempted to spread fear through the ponies' previous picture of the boogeyman, which was the Taraxippus, and with this threat on the horizon and located within a haunted hippodrome once encountered by one of Starswirl's old students when he fought another Taraxippus, the awakened Starswirl, Mane 6 and Lodgers must stop the Tartarus Journal and Punzor from using this power to unleash untold fear upon Equestria, and might find the key to defeating a much stronger Pony of Shadows from a poor soul named Doldrumsta Blue, the previous Pony of Shadows before Stygian with a lot to lose.

The Story Behind the Pony of Shadows
(Later...) Flashback... Present
 * Icky: Tara what now?
 * Starswirl: Taraxippus!
 * Icky:... (He looked it up quick on his iPhone)... Oh, wow! In Greek mythology, the Taraxippus (plural: taraxippoi, "horse disturber", Latin equorum conturbator) was a presence, variously identified as a ghost or dangerous site, blamed for frightening horses at hippodromes throughout Greece.... The Pony of Shadows was THIS?!?
 * Starswirl: Indeed. In fact... The Pony of Shadows itself has existed since the Age of the Alicorns, and so has it's kind....
 * (Starswirl): (As an Alicorn similar to this, only with dark magic eyes similar to King Sombra's, was seen)... They were created by another rogue Alicorn God. The Alicorn of Black Magic, Fear, Hate, Sorrow, Darkness, and everything similar himself, Prince Woeus. His home was what Hollow Shades is today, as the land was brewing with his dark influence. He created not just the Umbras associated with King Sombra, but also the Taraxippuses, including the Pony of Shadows, back before Pitch himself even arrived. He sought to rule the land by fear, until the head gods Philosophia and Temperanus cast him off and turned him forever into darkness, as he ended up manifested into a shadow realm of whence to exile his Taraxippus creations...
 * Starswirl:... That is until the Great Fear Wars, when Pitch Black managed to find his home, the Woe Hippodrome, where Woeus himself tortured mortals until they cracked and became more Taraxippus followers. Pitch managed to free them and form an alliance with them, and after their own Pony of Shadows was destroyed... They picked another... That ended up being freed herself, as... A certain pony that defeated and freed her... Assured that the poor soul has been made eternally sad and tormented and is still missing as a pony with cursed immortality, and needed to be cured of this curse.... Then... That's when-
 * Spyro: When they got to Stygian?
 * Starswirl: Indeed. It didn't exactly happen before Pitch was defeated. Remnants of the darkness of Woeus and the Taraxippises remained in where Stygian became the next Pony of Shadows, within the Well of Shade, existed for them to choose another. In this case, a betrayed soul lost in the Great Fear Wars, with nowhere else to turn to but the darkness... And as a result... It got us into a horrible case of karma. We had to bring the Pony of Shadows into limbo with us to ensure he stayed there in Ponehenge... Then you all freed us... No thanks to Twilight! (Twilight chuckled nervously)... (Sigh), but, I want to make clear that I do reckindse the good intention beyond the, albeit, still most epic blunder in the history of Equestia, and I will give due credit that at least with you, your heart was in the right place. My upset with you only stemmed from my perfect plan being undone.
 * Icky: "Ya didn't exactly left a warning for people like Twilight to NOT do that!"
 * Starswirl: "Alchourse I left a warning! My journel was designed to show a hologram of what happened and what was a good reason to leave the place well enough alone!"
 * Pinkie: "Ohhhhhh..... Well, the problem is..... It was kinda vague."
 * Starswirl: "(Starswirl was surprised)..... Define, Vague?"
 * Applejack: "Well, ya didn't exactly said you didn't want help or get into anything spefific. That warning of yours could've been taken the wrong way and be mistaken for a signal for help."
 * Mistmane: "..... I told you we should've left a more proper warning then that flashy display you conjured up, ya old coot!"
 * Rockhoof: "Or at the least actselly leave a written warning in that book of yers!"
 * Flash Magnus: "But NOOOOOOOOOOOO, You wanted to be flashy and mysterious about it with a hologram light show! Yeah, it paid off well?!"
 * Meadowbrook: "Now let's not squabble like fillies and colts about this, we didn't exactly helped making that warning clear neither!"
 * Somanula: "I agree, and besides, immaturity and complaints get nothing done."
 * Starswirl: "(Sighs)..... You have to mind that arguement, we had long gotten into a, unfishished disagreement about the effectiveness of the warning I had chosen!"
 * Icky: "To be fair, it was kinda vague. Twilight mistook that as "Please help us" as suppose to be the intended "Please leave this place the fuck alone"! Maybe you could've tried ACTIVELY saying that you want to be trapped in limbo with the freaky shadow monster before someone like Twilight ended up doing something stupid with this!"
 * Rockhoof: It did not even help that our disappearance was a representation of Celestia's worst fear. Specifically the one that made her briefly powerless against Pitch Black.
 * Twilight: Well... What about this 'eternally sad' pony?
 * Stygian: Her name is Doldrumsta Blue.... My sister.
 * Rainbow Dash: Oh, I guess that explains how you know who she is more than- (Did this)
 * Icky: "..... Well I guess being freaky shadow monsters runs in the family!"
 * Gazelle: ICKY!
 * Icky: WHAT, I CAN'T HELP BEING INSENSITIVE!!!
 * Stygian: Well you should. Doldrumsta has been cursed with immortality and cursed to never EVER stop crying. The depression left from her time as the Pony of Shadows is an eternal torment.

The Bishop's True Colors
Flashback... Present
 * Icky: Alright, Bishop, we got you RIGHT where I want you!
 * Polaris: Don't come any further! You will not threaten the father!
 * Bishop: And besides, it's already too late! Stygian and Doldrumsta are becoming stronger than you can possibly imagine. Even I can't stop it.
 * Icky: We'll see about THAT, Bishop Dips***! (The Bishop got angered at that statement)
 * Polaris: Oh no! Not again! Please don't say that again!
 * Icky: I don't give a s***! Bishop Dips*** deserves what's coming to him! (The Bishop got madder and displays a familiar smoky aura)
 * Polaris: PLEASE, STOP SAYING THAT NAME!!!
 * Starswirl: Bird, I think Polaris looks as if he's serious! Something doesn't feel right about the Bishop-
 * Icky: I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT! I WILL CALL THIS FALSE GOD NUTCASE, WHATEVER I WANT TO CALL HIM! DIP***, DIPS***-
 * Bishop Dipper: (He screamed a deafening and fearful screech as everyone held their ears as he grew a dark aura as Icky screamed in pure agony)
 * Paladin #1: Oh, now you've done it!
 * Paladin #2: We're dead!
 * Polaris: I suggest we all run!
 * Polaris and the other presits began to make a run for it!
 * Starswirl: "(Stares at Icky) MOST INDEED, YOU ARE THE KING OF IMBACILES?!"
 * Bishop ends up revealing his true form as the Pony of Shadows...
 * Pony of Shadows: "STOP, CALLING ME, DIPSHIT?! IT'S, DIPPER?!"
 * Starswirl: I... It can't be!
 * Pony of Shadows: It is. Ever since Stygian was liberated of the Pony of Shadows, it needed a new host and found it's way on my doorstep.
 * Icky: "(Pained Daze) Oh, SUUUUUUUUURE, OF COURSE THE EVIL RELIJUSTUS FIGURE TURNS OUT TO BE ANOTHER SHADOW MONSTER?! I mean, sure, it's a nice deviation from this episode being A COMPLETE COPY OF THE NETFLIX CASTLEVAINIA SERIES, BUT, OWWWWWWW, DID THIS DEVIATION HAVE TO BE PAINFUL?!"
 * Pony of Shadows: "WELL YOUR OWN MISTAKE INSULTING ME, YOU IDIOTIC AVIAN?!"
 * Skipper: "As if this fun little neightberhood needed another problem from you. So now your a tyrant, AND a byproduct of the guy that started the fear wars? That's a double-whammy of you being unfit to lead anything, pal!"
 * Pony of Shadows: (In loud booming monstrous voice) SILENCE!!! (To Starswirl) YOU COULD NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH I HATED YOU AND YOUR PILLARS, STARSWIRL!!
 * (Pony of Shadows): I WAS RAISED IN HOLLOW SHADES BEFORE THE GREAT FEAR WARS! IN THAT TIME, I WAS A RESPECTED PRIEST OF HOPE IN DARK TIMES, CONSIDERING THE BLACK MAGIC OOZING IN THE LAND AFTER THE DEFEAT OF PRINCE WOEUS! I EVEN HAD A SON! LITTLE DIPPER WAS MY ONE TRUE HEIR, AND WOULD'VE DONE BETTER THAN ME! BUT SINCE THE FEAR WARS... (Taraxippuses were seen invading the land and successfully taking it back, as ponies like Dipper and his son were seen hiding in their reign)... WE WERE RUNNING FROM THE WRATH OF THOSE BEASTS! PITCH WAS ATTEMPTING TO PURGE THE ENTIRE PLACE OF IT'S INHABITANTS SO HE CAN TAKE IT AND HARNESS IT'S BLACK MAGIC FOR HIMSELF! BUT THEN... THANKS TO YOUR ARROGANCE AND PRIDE WHEN FIGHTING AGAINST THE PRINCESSES AND THE GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD, WE WERE FOUND BY PITCH, AND SO, THREATENED BY THE MAGNIFICENCE OF HIS TALENTS... PITCH ORDERED FOR HIM TO BE EXECUTED!
 * Bishop Dipper: LET HIM GO!! LET HIM GO!! (The Taraxippises took him away) NOOOOO!!!
 * Pitch: (Growls)... I want no further holdups! I want his father turned to stone immediately! (They took him off as he was crying)
 * (Pony of Shadows): I HAD ASSUMED HE WAS LOST THAT DAY WHEN I WAS TURNED TO STONE! (He was seen being petrified)... I THOUGHT ALL HOPE FOR OUR SOCIETY WAS LOST!... THEN YOU FINALLY RESPONDED, TOO LATE! (Hollow Shades was purged of Pitch's influence as all ponies left out of fear and torment)
 * Bishop Dipper: SON! (He hugged his son) You're alive! I-
 * Little Dipper: DON'T TOUCH ME!
 * Bishop Dipper: What?
 * Little Dipper: You got me nearly killed back there! I was trying to offer an ounce of hope by trying to rally up all these ponies, and even tried to contact the Princesses!... BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME! AND NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO US! I had the solution to this whole problem, and suddenly I wasn't even allowed to say another word about it, because YOU WERE TOO MUCH OF A COWARD!!! HIDING NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING, EVEN IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS!!!
 * Bishop Dipper: Son, please-
 * Little Dipper: NO!... This... This is all your fault!
 * Bishop Dipper: This was NOT my fault! Starswirl was just too late!
 * Little Dipper:... You... YOU SHUNNED MY IDOL, BECAUSE OF BEING TOO LATE?!?
 * Bishop Dipper: HE GOT US CAPTURED IN THE BEGINNING, SON! I DIDN'T FULLY TRUST HIM ANY LONGER!
 * Little Dipper:... This is EXACTLY my point! You never trusted me, OR him! I'm sure he had good reasons! NOW YOU'RE SAYING HE'S A MENACE?!? IF YOU SAY HE'S A MENACE, THAT'S HURTING MY PRIDE!!! THE LIVELIHOODS OF EVERYPONY HERE HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BECAUSE OF YOU!
 * Bishop Dipper: Son, no- (He cast a certain spell)... Son, no!... DON'T DO IT! (The ponies noticed him using a spell)... DON'T DECONSTRUCT YOURSELF WITH THAT ACCURSED SPELL!!!
 * Little Dipper: I HOPE IT WAS WORTH SHUNNING MY IDOL, OLD MAN!... BECAUSE YOU JUST LOST SOMETHING TO GET IT! (He was deconstructed as Bishop Dipper panicked in tears)
 * Bishop Dipper: NOOOO!!! SON!! NOOOOOO!!! (He cried as the remnants of the spell manifested into a familiar figure as Little Dipper became a Taraxippus, frightening all the ponies as he cackled)
 * (Pony of Shadows): MY SON KILLED HIMSELF, BECAUSE YOU TURNED HIM AGAINST ME! AND SAVING US FROM HIM CHANGED NOTHING, BECAUSE YOU DID WHAT YOU ALWAYS DID WITH ANY THREAT... USE OTHER REALMS AS DUMPING GROUNDS!!! (Starswirl casted Little Dipper into the Shadow Realm)
 * Bishop Dipper: NOOOOOOO!!! MY SON!!! NOOOOO-HOOO-HOOO-HOOO-HOOOO!!! (He slumped down on the ground crying)...
 * Starswirl:... Bishop-
 * Bishop Dipper: DON'T TOUCH ME! (He attacked him with his magic as it turned into black magic with his hate)... YOU CAST HIM INTO THE SHADOW REALM!! I COULD'VE SAVED HIM!!! BUT YOU RUINED MY CHANCE TO SAVE HIM!!!
 * Starswirl: Bishop-
 * Bishop Dipper: DON'T, EVER, SPEAK TO ME AGAIN! I DON'T EVER WANNA SEE YOU AROUND MY OLD HOME, EVER, AGAIN! (He blasts him and the others away angrily, and looked at the ponies as they trembled in fear, as he ran off)
 * Icky: (With bleeding earholes) MY EARHOLES!!!!
 * Pony of Shadows: Your pride and arrogance ruined my one chance to make up everything I did wrong to my son, BY HIS SIDE! That's why I had to ensure your protégé Stygian paid the price by being our God's new Pony of Shadows. I founded this religion to correct what you were never qualified to correct. IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME AND MY SON! And though I was tainted by the darkness of the land, it was too late to turn back because I now realize that I am the threat you destroyed COMING BACK TO HAUNT YOU! Now I have the power to achieve my goals of bringing back the Taraxippi, and being their new vanguard. I WILL NOT REST UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVED!!!
 * Starswirl:... Bishop... I'm sorry I banished your son! But he was too long gone! He-
 * Pony of Shadows: (In a much louder voice) NOO!!! YOU MADE ME LOOK BAD TO HIM WITH YOUR PRIDE AND ARROGANCE!!! I HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE IT UP TO HIM, AND YOU TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME!! YOU'RE NO LEGEND! YOU'RE A MONSTER! NOW, YOU WILL DIE IN THE HOOVES OF ONE!
 * Starswirl: I WAS TRYING TO PROTECT THEM, AND YOUR SON, AND YOU!!!
 * Great Fear: (Cackles insanely) You don't give hope, you old fool! YOU TAKE IT AWAY! So I'll take away yours!! (He cast powerful thunderstorms blowing away all the heroes as he disappeared, cackling ominously)...
 * Icky:... Whoops!
 * Everyone: WHOOPS?!? (The Pony of Shadows did this and unleashed Taraxippi that attacked the heroes and left to spread fear)

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