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// The Final Battle 
// Story: The Dead Of Night 
// by Raidah 
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     Rainbow was in the forest for two days, and still couldn't find the alicorn. But she knew that she was nearby, she just couldn't see her.

"I know you're here!" Rainbow called, "Now show yourself!"

"As you wish." The alicorn replied, jumping down from a tree and landing softly on her hooves.

The alicorn didn't look any better than the last time Rainbow had seen her. Her horn was still gone, nothing would change that, but she looked as if she were obsessing over something, but RD couldn't figure out what.

"So you finally return," the alicorn began, "do you like the nightmares? I knew that if you were going to get away I had to do something to bring you back here."

"So you ARE the reason I am having nightmares..." Rainbow accused.

"Correct, and if you want them to stop, then you will have to kill me." The alicorn confirmed.

"Good," said Rainbow Dash, now tensing up for what she knew would be a long and intense battle, "now all I have to do is succeed."

The ensuing fight was long and hard, with Rainbow using her speed and agility for hit and run attacks, and the alicorn using her superior size to try and hold Rainbow Dash down. Clop by clop, blow after blow. Both of them realized they were an equal match for each other, and that this fight was going nowhere fast. After two hours of furious fighting, both combatants were exhausted. But Rainbow Dash had just enough energy left to buck the alicorn one last time in the head. Denting her skull and crushing her brain, killing her instantly.

With the alicorn menace dead, Rainbow Dash sighed in relief and collapsed to the ground, exhausted. After catching her breath, Rainbow headed or home, oblivious to the five other pairs of eyes watching her from the trees. Rainbow was, however, relieved that the alicorn wouldn't be harming anypony else, ever again. Though Applejack's and Rarity's deaths would never be forgotten, Rainbow could finally rest knowing that their deaths, along with many others, had been avenged.