Druun (Shining Bonds)

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The **Druun** (ドルーン) are the antagonists of the prequel movie *Shining Bonds a la Mode: Harmonic Tales*. It is a mindless plague born from human conflict and discord, summoned by Midnight Sparkle and reawakened by the other alicorns on the alicorn comittee. The Druun have the ability to turn living creatures into stone, namely humans and other species from Starlightia, and multiply every time they do so. They are based on the creatures from the Disney movie *Raya and the Last Dragon.*

## Background

The Druun are said to be a mindless plague that spreads like a relentless wildfire, consuming everything in their path until there is nothing left but ash and stone. They wander Starlightia and target any living creature they encounter, turning everything into stones. However, the Druun are repelled by both the Rainbow of Light and Elementals of Harmony. The Druun are born from human malice; they bear no discernible goal beside consuming everything in their path.

When the Druun emerged, the land was completely ravaged as many living beings fell victim to them with no way of fighting back. To save the citizens of Starlightia, a group of Celestial Warrior Ponies combined their magic to form a crystal ball that could keep away the Druun. It worked, yet all Celestial Warrior Ponies remained as stones, except for the last Celestial Warrior Pony, Syrami. The crystal ball, known as the Crystal Rainbow Light, survived and came under the protection of Starlightia.

## Appearance

The Druun look like a black and purple cloud-like spirits with varying degrees of size, according to Mizuki's *Legends of Harmony* book.

## Role in the series

Before the emergence of Tetanus in 400 years ago, the Starlightia was taken over by the evil alicorn Midnight Sparkle, who used her dark power to emerge Druun and transformed into fallen land. King Zetwal and Queen Stella defeated her with their magic, turning her to shadow and imprisoning her in the darkness, but not before the Rainbow Crystal Star created by Celestial Warrior Ponies used it's power to protect Starlightia after the banishment of the Druun.

They are first mentioned when Mossy Rock of the alicorn commitee says that break the Rainbow Crystal Star and unsealing the Starlightia shield would give them even more power to conquer the Multiverse. Carrot Lasagna says it might be dangerous when the Crystal Star is broken, but Mossy Rock decides to anyways since then they will have more power at their disposal to further their plans of conquering the Multiverse. The group invades Starlightia's castle when the guards are on lunch break and Sapphire Quarry uses his dark magic to burn a hole through the inside of storage of Rainbow Crystal Star and calling Midnight Sparkle to use her power to destroy the Crystal Star, causing the Starlightia's shield gets unsealed without it's star and unleashing the Druun and causing mass havoc in seconds.

The Druun make its last assault on the Starlightia again thanks to Midnight Sparkle's apperication against Alicorn Commitee, nearly wiping out all of the remaining population. It is only thanks to the efforts of Mizuki's friends Skyla, Yuni, Katily and Shirley combining their efforts to restore the Rainbow Crystal Star by using the Crystal Rainbow Light. Thanks to Mizuki, Sora and Syrami combined together to use their harmony to defeat Midnight Sparkle and the alicorn commitee, the Rainbow Crystal Star is restored to its original form, releasing a massive shockwave of the rainbow power that banished the Druun from Starlightia for good, ending their reign of terror. However, Honeycomb sees the error of her ways, decides to redeem herself, and thus her life is spared thanks to Syrami's trust. All of the victims, including Mizuki's friends Atsuka, Lisa, Kanata and her wolf friends, that were turned to stone by the Druun were revived.

## Abilities and weaknesses

The Druun are drawn to negative emotions and can fire breath blasts of negative energy as well as breathe fire. They become stronger with increased negative emotions and weaken with increased positive emotions.

They also have the power to turn living beings into stone or kill them and have extremely strong destructive powers. Being dragons, they can also freely fly and levitate and have a powerful (and poisonous) bite.

Their weaknesses is the Rainbow of Light. When they're approaches the Rainbow of Light they might get severely weakened at best, and can get vaporized by it.

## In the manga

They have the same role as they do in the anime, except that they are a much more menacing threat and are much more vicious. They even try to attack their summoners, and when they get attacked by the Rainbow of Light, they *explode* instead of just getting vaporized.

In Yamato Phantasia episode 2, Kyaru used Flower Breathing to slice the Druun, causing it vanished in few seconds.