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// Chapter Eighty-Six 
// Story: A Journey Unthought Of 
// by Hustlin Tom 
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Princess Luna vaguely felt a shape inside the energy field surrounding her.  It was large, equine, and..white.  

“Tia?” Princess Luna croaked through parched lips.  

“Hello Sister,” the Princess of the Sun replied with calm determination, “Let’s finish this.”  

“Aye,” replied the severely weakened Princess of the Night.  

Princess Celestia’s power roared into the atmosphere, a fiery arcing lance of light that accompanied the dark beam of energy that was her sister’s magic.  Princess Luna felt her body slowly begin to ease and cool down, as now the burden of this task was shared with her sister.  The combined field of magic was steadily growing, and the Elements seemed to have gotten their second wind with the arrival of Princess Celestia.  Some of the unicorns that had recovered quickly got back into position and gave all their magic again to the pair of alicorns.  The void hole slowly began to close, and it shrank, and shrank, and shrank.  Then, with one last almighty push given by everypony, the sky closed up.  

The hole was gone, and the danger averted.  

Some in the crowd cheered, and cried tears of joy that the deed was done.  For two princesses and six friends, their method of rejoicing was falling down on their backs in exhaustion and being overjoyed that they were alive.  

“We did it,” Twilight muttered through her panting.  

“Eeyup,” Applejack replied.  

“I think we can have a 'Happy Not the End of the World' Party..after everypony stops being tired,” Pinkie Pie commented.  

Rarity looked over at Pinkie Pie between breaths, “Agreed.”  

“Sounds good,” Rainbow Dash chimed in.  

“I think we should all just go home for now, and take a nice long nap,” Fluttershy wheezed, “If that’s alright with everypony.”  

They all agreed.  

After being brought some water and having time to cool down, Princess Luna looked to her sister, “What in Tartarus keep you?”  

“I had a..heated discussion with mother.”  

“If she’s no longer influencing you, where is she?”  

“She’s still here in my head, although I have an idea of how to keep her around.”  

They paused, and just rested for a few minutes, looking up at the stars and the moon.  “It’s a beautiful night,” Princess Celestia commented warmly.  

“Yes, it is,” Princess Luna offered back to her sister.  “But what are we going to do?”  

Princess Celestia looked over at Princess Luna “About what?”  

“About the human ruins surely throughout the world.  Do we tell everypony about our common lost heritage?”  

Princess Celestia mused awhile on that thought, “Perhaps..It is not best for all to know immediately.  We won’t speak but to those who ask, and we will slowly pass it down for generations to come as the legends of yesterday.  There is both good and bad in the past, and the bad is worse than anypony alive has ever known.”  

“But don’t they deserve to know?"  Princess Luna pressed on, "Don’t they need to know of humanity’s struggles so we don’t make the mistakes of our mother and her race?”  

Princess Celestia looked over her still celebratory subjects, and some were beginning to look in their direction.  They looked as if they expected a speech, and those closest to them were beginning to quiet in preparation for it.  “Perhaps you’re right sister, but not today.  Let’s let our ponies have their hard fought joy, and perhaps we will tell them later.  For now we wait.  In the end,” she looked to her sister with a smile, “truth will out.”