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// Chapter 14 
// Story: An Alloyed Hope 
// by computerneek 
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One would be mistaken, upon evaluation, to believe that the lack of fresh damage to the roadway meant Princess Luna had landed lighter.  As a matter of fact, she had landed close to twice as hard- but her Royal Armor has spells in it, designed for hard landings, that negated her velocity at the moment of impact.

The front door is a different story.  Whereas Rainbow had paused- however momentarily- to make sure it was open, Princess Luna made no such check.  As a result, fragments of it can be found across the lobby.  Nurse Readheart manages to save the next door in her path by having it open; the Princess soars over her head in a blur of navy blue.  She might walk through doors, but ponies she will detour around.

Finally, the door into the ward is saved by the simple merit of being left open from when Rainbow entered.  The loaded armor stand grasped in one hoof wobbles its way to a halt on one side of the bed while the Princess screeches into place on the other side.

“SISTER!”

Princess Celestia startles awake, letting out a pained yelp when this torques her injuries.  “Wha…  Luna?”

Luna, her faceplate already standing open, bows her head.  “I thought you dead.”

Celestia blinks, smiling weakly from her mattress.  “I thought you dead.”

“That would explain the sun.”

“What about the moon?”

“Ahh…  The centaurs managed to start their curse right before I teleported home.  I took him down- hardly a week to full health.”

“Then how…?”  Her reviving eyes cast themselves down at her armor…  and weapons.

Luna glances down at herself.  “Hope.  That wall Discord summoned…  It’s moving, and fighting for us.”  She smiles.  “The war’s as good as won.”

“And that…?”  A faint hoof gesture, immediately followed by a wince.

“The armor?  Hope provided it…  It goes overtop my Royal Armor.”  She glances back at the big black thing- the one that had shredded everything she pointed it at.  “It ran out of arrows.”