//------------------------------// // For Purpose it Does not Matter // Story: Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust. // by FoxofRarity //------------------------------// Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust By. FoxofRarity Chapter. 63 Disclaimer- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. “NO, NO, NO, NO, PLEASE TAKE ME, LUNA PLEASE TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!” Gold Sky on his knees begs Princes Luna. “I will not.” Luna replies to the Alicorn. “A life for a life.” Her horn glows creating a magical dagger. “The daughter becomes the father and the father the daughter.” Luna’s magic rotates Gilda so the griffon can be facing her father while the magical dagger positions itself behind the heart. Gold Sky’s eyes widen and reaches out to Gilda just as everything around him go black while Gilda glows brightly. Gilda reaches out to him to say her last word. “Daddy…ugh!” The magical dagger protrudes out of her chest and it twists one hundred and eighty degrees. “AHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Gold Sky screams so loud all of the surrounding nature goes quiet. Luna throws the body to the father while she goes to the body of her lifeless son also they are surrounded by more bodies for all of Lakota squad is dead and Iron Cloud’s body turns into silver dust while the wind blows it to Cheerilee. “My son, my lovely dear son.” The Princess moans while she strokes Delta’s hair. “My son please don’t leave me.” With endless tears running out of the magenta eyes many images from the moment he held Gilda for the first time, her growth, being forgiven, are the moments he treasured in his heart and now sadly this. The immortal father looks into his dying daughter’s golden eyes. “G-G-Gilda my dearest daughter, I-I love you.” To deny the inevitable is what a weakling will do especially when this immortal experienced death through the heart. “Good bye and may Lauren take you under her wing.” The immortal father kisses his daughter’s forehead for the last time as the white light being shined down by the Archangel takes Gilda’s spirit to the other side. “Mourn Gold Sky while I allow it.” Luna orders with a emotionless voice while she continues stroking Delta’s hair. “Mourn for that griffon who not only killed my son but also killed my Elite Commando guard who came to apprehend you without extreme prejudice.” “Y-You killed my daughter! When you could have taken me instead!!” Gold Sky screams while cradling Gilda’s lifeless body in his arms. “She killed my son and so I take her life as payment. I have no reason to take your life for you did not kill my son.” Luna stops with her affection to remember the moment she covered Delta Scorch with her wing and watched him mature into strong stallion thanks to her nurture. “Cloud Kicker.” The mare she intended to bless. “Huh?” Until she notices she no longer hears the sound of tears striking the ground. “It doesn’t matter.” Gold Sky softly lays Gilda on the ground while gently passing a hoof through her hair for the last time. “I am nothing to her now; for in the heavenly paradise one is given a clean slate meaning I am not her father anymore much less a memory to her.” Luna turns her complete attention to him. “Wha-what? It doesn’t matter??” “It doesn’t matter Luna because nothing matters at all. There is no purpose in this, no purpose to mourn WHEN SHE WILL NEVER REMEMBER ME ANYMORE AND I WILL NEVER EVER FEEL HER LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT! IT DOESN’T MATTER!” “You speak like you’re so certain in everything you say Gold Sky, the heavenly paradise is a paradise and at least your daughter is there now.” A strong breeze suddenly rushes through Luna’s flowing mane. “I am certain, I’ve been there and luckily been casted out. Y-you killed my DAUGHTER!” Gold Sky’s wings shoot out making another strong breeze rush through. “YOU SHOULD HAVE TAKEN ME! Because I understand the pain you’re going through right now Luna but you do not understand the power of the choice you made when you killed her. You know I will never find any form of purpose to ever rise against you or disobey you but even now with you stabbing my daughter in the heart there is no purpose when you come to realize nothing really matters…now.” Luna’s horn glows to bring forth a collar of dark matter. “You are pathetic…my dear nephew, oh yes, I am calling you what I should be calling you. Ahem, you are a pathetic Nihilist. You an immortal should be one with purpose but yet you decide to think like a mortal to find no connection to purpose when as immortals we are everything mortals look to for guidance what!” A bolt of magic shoots the collar of dark matter out of Luna’s magical grip. “PURPOSE! For what reason will I care to find anything in purpose when anyone with purpose can be put to an end by any sort of action! Purpose! You dare to explain purpose to me when you killed what could have been my purpose! For what reason will purpose exist when it can be killed so easily or like me when I killed one thousand four hundred and twelve innocent potentials that had the chance to find purpose, oh yes Luna I have killed plenty, so much in fact that my numbers may be beyond three thousand and isn’t purpose supposed to stop me from killing so much if you say mortals look to immortals for guidance so why will mortals look to me when I now see that…” Gold Sky’s eyes shift to Gilda. “Nothing matters. It doesn’t matter! Equestria can become a land where its rulers can be conquerors, billions of stars can be destroyed by a red giant going super nova, a young child can lose its parents therefore losing direction in life, and for what! Is purpose supposed to provide some sort of relief when terrible things happen, well purpose is like hope and both seem to be well connected. I don’t believe in hope Luna and purpose seems to turn into nothing to me. Because if purpose can be brought to an end then that means every choice that is to give reason to purpose is meaningless therefore everything we do does not matter and what I will do now doesn’t matter.” Gold Sky snorts out his breath. Suddenly Luna starts to sense something surging in Gold Sky, not just thoughts or emotions but specifically Love, anger, rebellion but mostly or entirely it’s Love that is rising to infinity. “YOU DARE!” The Princess declares in the royal canterlot voice. “You will dare to rise against me!? Your Princess, your aunt, your family! I am very powerful in strength and magic while you are almost nothing in magic as for your strength it is rising because it is Love becoming your strength and it is not anger as I previously thought. But Gold Sky do you really think I can ever get over the death of MY SON AT THE TALONS OF YOUR DAUGHTER AND THE DEATH OF MY COMMANDOS!” The shout sends Gold Sky’s jet black hair flying back. “I BLAME YOU! SO I WILL TAKE YOUR LIFE AS YOU WANTED ME TO GOLD SKY FOR IN THE END GOLD SKY YOU’RE STILL GOING TO DIE ANYWAY FOR YOU CANNOT RUN FROM THE DEATH THAT IS DUE UPON MY WORD!” “If that is the case then you shall come with me.” Even with the intentions in mind Gold Sky is speaking calmly and quietly. “Whatever I knew before does not matter anymore for what matters now will be this.” *Tirah* The chilling cacophony sings as the magenta eyes become crimson red. This Alicorn glows once again with angelic majesty before becoming dim but still glowing lightly for every atom in his body to even the carbon dioxide being expelled by his lungs is Love. Infinite, pure, weak mortal minded immortal infected with vengeance and of course as the Griffons once called him in first campaign against the fascists…The Soldier of no Sorrow. Now the physical manifestation is beyond a physical form but still manifested in a body. “I have nothing to lose now Luna.” “So be it.” Luna slams her right hoof into the ground splitting open the earth all way down to the mantle exposing the magma. “Except I won’t be Luna anymore, you will face my wrath in all its fury for my fury is a nightmare.” With a ray of blue magic shooting out from the tip of her horn black clouds revolve around the immortal mare and then the black clouds becomes a merciless blood colored fire. “Not her again.” Gold Sky knows what Luna will change into and he does not want to fight against a beauty only he alone finds beautiful. “I AM NIGHTMARE MOON!” The fire departs to reveal the Princess of the Night is Dark and Full of Terrors. “THE MOTHER OF NIGHTMARES!” “It doesn’t matter.” Gold Sky calls forth his armor to cover his body. “Nothing does.” “Perish dear nephew!” Nightmare Moon the immortal mother and Gold Sky the immortal father engage one another because in the end one of them will be stabbed in the heart. *** In the Palace. Princess Celestia senses everything around her change drastically for she feels a darkness coming her direction and a strong love also coming her way but yet with these approaching anomalies Celestia freezes for that strong Love belongs to one pony and she saw him die before her very eyes. *Crash!* From the ceiling Nightmare Moon impacts the ground creating a deep crater. “Nightmare Moon!” Celli screams in fear. “No wait, Luna why are you Nightmare Moon!?” “AHH!” From above Gold Sky lands on Nightmare Moon. “Stay down!” His strike creates a ring of distortion upon impact after which his horn glows retrieving the knife from the side vent and launches it down onto Nightmare’s heart. “Immpossible!?” The knife shatters into pieces while on the skin over the heart there is not even a scratch. “Oof!” Nightmare takes advantage to hit Gold Sky away also creating a much greater ring of distortion in the clarity. “Gold Sky!” Celestia gasps in disbelief. “He’s alive b-b-but he died before my very eyes! He, he, no, no that can’t be him fighting Luna, he’s dead! Body turned into silver dust still I feel him…his voice! That is him!” Celestia’s telepathy connects to six minds. “Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Twilight Sparkle! Don your elements because Equestria needs you!!” She telepathically tracks Nightmare Moon and Gold Sky. Aooh!” Gold Sky lands on clocks square in Manehattan. “Ooooooooh!” He slides on the cobble stone pavement before slamming headfirst into a bronze statue breaking it in half scaring everypony around him. “DIE!” Nightmare Moon dives down to hit him but even though she may have extraordinary speed and strength she does not have a single ounce of fighting skill something of which Gold Sky genetically has. She fails to hit him and instead is grabbed by her left arm getting slammed into the ground, then feeling a hoof bury itself in her stomach, and a weak blast of magic tickles her face. “Tickles but his strength is very powerful!” That is the power of Love. “Good punishment but you made a mistake using magic!” Nightmare catches Gold Sky’s left hoof in mid swing and swung it back at him. “You stupid fool, let me show you what real magic is!” She unleashes a blast of magic striking the Alicorn sending him into a tower as for the innocent bystanders Nightmare Moon does not care if they’re caught in the crossfire. “Humph, I knew he wouldn’t put up much of a fight.” Nightmare stands in front of a pile of rubble which was once a seventy seven story tower that collapsed onto Gold Sky. “Ugh!” From the rubble a tomahawk flies towards Nightmare striking the forehead of the black mare, of course just like the knife it shattered into millions of pieces. “Pathetic.” Nightmare blows off the metallic dust left behind from the tomahawk. “Distraction successful.” *Poof* Gold Sky reappears in a low stance along with being below Nightmare’s peripheral vision. “Down here.” He gives Nightmare a double uppercut. “I don’t need magic Nightmare.” With Nightmare in midair he punches her in the stomach with his right hoof deafening the ears of the bystanders for every time he hits the sound barrier is broken, with the mare still in the air he gives her a left hook almost knocking off Nightmare’s helmet, quickly not to give Nightmare any chances to gain a foot hold in an offense grabs her head to bury his left knee in her face. “Must get this fight away from that group of children.” As soon as both hit the ground Gold Sky throws Nightmare away from clocks square but what is hypocritical in Gold Sky’s intention is the fact some stallions and mares died already in the crossfire but he does not care for them he only cares for the children and only them alone. Tower after tower Nightmare crashes through causing more damage to the city also obviously killing many innocent ponies, Gold Sky flying with speed almost compatible to Rainbow Dash shatters hundreds of windows as he tackles Nightmare breaking through more buildings until kicking her into a cube of pure iron and teleporting in front of the mare. He presses her against the cube and pulls back his right arm. “UGH!” Nightmare Moon seizes his neck and endlessly buries her hoof in his face. “You are stupid to think you will continue striking your Princess!” Nightmare scolded. “Taste my fury!” Without much effort she tore off Gold Sky’s horn while ever so relishing his scream of unmeasured pain. “You think by being the son of my sister it will save you in any way.” Just like the magical sentient Nightmare Moon Gold Sky fought Nightmare punches Gold Sky in the stomach but unlike the magical sentient Nightmare Moon, Luna or in this case Nightmare with her fury backing her strength collapses almost every organ inside the stallion. “Suffer.” She switches her magic to ray of heat rather than of lethal concussion burning the skin off of Gold Sky’s face. “Oh.” The skin instantly regenerated. “Hmm, let’s go to the sky.” Nightmare delivered a sound breaking upper cut launching Gold Sky up towards the sky and she pressed against the ground before shooting up taking hold of the stallion. “Let’s see if you can handle the vacuum of space.” The black mare travels up with ever increasing speed. “Let go!” Gold Sky tries to get free from Nightmare’s grasp but the mares shoots him again point blank in the face with another blast of magic causing his helmet fall down and hit a mare on the head. “Hold my breath.” Gold Sky took a breath to at least try to survive the how ever many seconds he’s in space. “Ahhhhh it’s cold!” That is the least of his problems. “PAIN!” With no oxygen he can feel his bones shattering to the pressure. Nightmare Moon suddenly shifted her course back down to earth. “Burn!” But little does Nightmare knows Gold Sky cannot be harmed by the friction of the atmosphere for being a child of earth the heat does nothing to him. Finally Gold Sky manages to get free from Nightmare’s grasp and spun around to be above her. “Great.” Nightmare mutters after receiving a strike to her nose and then gave Gold Sky a hit of her own continuing their fight in reentry. On the ground Celestia with the Elements of Harmony are shielded by a force field to protect them from the power of the two flaming fighting ponies. “Hold your ground!” Celli braces herself for the shockwave Nightmare and Gold Sky will create once they hit the ground but no shockwave is created for Nightmare Moon and Gold Sky didn’t impact the ground in front of the seven ponies instead they go through the ground to land in the city’s metro system causing massive devastation down below. Nightmare Moon who turned into her black wisp immaterial form, rematerializes over Gold Sky strangling the stallion while she mouths some words towards him however, during the descent Gold Sky’s magical fluid went into his eyes so the crimson red eyes flash two times and unleash beams of ultra-powerful magic throwing Nightmare into the steel beams of the metro system. “Ow! Curse his magic!” Nightmare confessed after feeling a one ton steel beam hit her head. Gold Sky jumps to all fours to continue this fight until from an unknown impulse he catches eye of a young child cowered in the path of a falling steel beam. “NO!” Gold Sky blasts a packed subway out of his way with his magic killing thirty passengers but makes it to the child and protects him from the falling steel beam. “Got you!” He grabs the child. “Go to your mother and run!” Gold Sky carefully places the child on his mother’s back and turns around to focus back on Nightmare Moon who took advantage of the stallion’s hypocritical heroic deadly act strikes like a cobra from behind. Up above Celestia feels the raging shockwaves of the fight going on underneath. “Get ready to stop them the minute they surface!” The six elements glow while floating above the ground waiting. “AHUGHH!!” Gold Sky painfully screams after being thrown from below and into multiple towers destroying each one like their made out of cardboard. “Huh.” Upon recovering he zooms in on a bolt of magic homing in on him. “Nice try!” He swats the bolt of magic away thanks to his valyrian steel horseshoe. Sadly the bolt of magic explodes with the force of twenty thousand tons of TNT turning all of Short Island into pure glass. *BOOM!* Gold Sky with beyond sound breaking speed charges forward delivering Nightmare with punches so hard the impacts send the floating bearers of the Elements of Harmony back to the ground and Celestia off her hooves. Taking another hit Nightmare Moon spits out blood but before she can shake her head to spit out more blood she receives another hit. “Every time he hits me he must first run across the whole world.” With the moon being her eyes, Nightmare sees a white steak coming from the east. “He’s approaching light speed while I calculated where to intercept him.” Nightmare dematerializes into her black wisp form and dashes to the point she’ll intercept the stallion. Three thousand miles from the interception point Gold Sky shoots out his wings creating drag to slow him down but still have enough speed and momentum to break down Nightmare’s planned attack for him. “Got you!” Gold Sky leaps up with his right arm readily positioned and just as Nightmare rematerializes back to the beautiful villainous mare he shoots down his right hoof sending Nightmare straight down, the mares gets up but her head is grabbed by Gold Sky’s left hoof ensuring a surefire path for Gold Sky’s right hoof to follow as he punches her. “Get ready!” Celestia helps all of the Elements back up. Gold Sky uppercuts Nightmare making her fall to her back. “Now!” The Elements unleash the all mighty Harmony onto the fighters. “Uh oh.” Nightmare Moon dematerializes and zooms away leaving Gold Sky to be struck by the mighty rainbow. “My son.” Celestia looks away from her son being turned to stone like Discord. “Look!” Rarity’s eye to detail prompts her to point at Gold Sky. “It didn’t work!” In seconds the stone cracks and Gold Sky is free from the prison that is supposed to hold him down while Nightmare Moon rematerializes next to Fluttershy. “IMPOSSIBLE!” All of them gasp in disbelief . “Ahh! Nightmare Moon!” Fluttershy squeaks in fear. “Don’t worry, you’re cute nothing bad will happen to you.” Nightmare tells the cute Pegasus. “G-G-GET NIGHTMARE MOON!! GET HER!!” Fluttershy screams to her fellow Elements. “Get her!!” “Uh oh!” Again Nightmare Moon dematerializes and steaks off just as the mighty rainbow is hot on her tail. In the perfect timing she cuts to the right outrunning the rainbow and making it go straight to the stallion but this time Gold Sky catches the rainbow with both hooves, turns it into a sphere, and crushes it to nothing. Celestia realizes why the Elements of Harmony had no effect on Gold Sky. He is Love and love is the only thing that cannot be overpowered by magic and the other elements. “Nothing I or the Elements can do anything to stop him while Nightmare Moon is capable of evading her capture.” Meanwhile Nightmare Moon throws Gold Sky into the Kingdom state building only to see him pick up the upper half and throws it at Nightmare, crushing her. “This fight will be never ending.” Nightmare catches Gold Sky’s right arm and tears it off of him. “Too many lives have been lost already, damage beyond comprehension, and this will only spread because I and the Elements can’t do anything to stop them.” Nightmare fires many bolts of magic at Gold Sky each one exploding upon contact. “I can’t do anything to stop my son and sister.” Alas. “You think you can defeat me!” Nightmare Moon roars. “Defeat you!? I’m going to end you!” Gold Sky scrapes the ground with his horseshoe blade. “AAHHHHHH!” Both scream as they charge forward. “NO!” Celestia screams! Nightmare’s and Gold Sky’s hooves clash causing billions upon billions of atoms to spilt in rapid cessation releasing endless amount of energy, heat, blinding light, and…death. Celestia didn’t have enough time to react for she was only able to shield Rarity and Rainbow Dash with her wings as for the rest of the Elements they turn into ash as for the city only nothing but a white mushroom cloud is rising and for the innocent ponies, well they’re dead. In the smoke a flash of blue is seen then what is heard next is a scream of pain coming from Nightmare Moon. “MY HORN!!” “IF MY BLADES CAN’T MAKE YOU BLEED THEN YOUR OWN MAGIC CAN!” Gold Sky caught Nightmare’s bolt of magic and threw it back at the mare severing the horn clean off. “LET’S END THIS!” He grabs the horn before tackling Nightmare. Nightmare’s pupils shrink to see her own horn on the verge of being used against her luckily she spotted Gold Sky’s ripped off horn within reach and grabs it without giving it any thought. Rarity’s, Rainbow Dash’s, and Princess Celestia’s eyes widen to see one horn shoot down and the other horn shoot up. “NOOOOOOO!” All three yell. *Sharp groans!* Gold Sky stops glowing to feel his horn go through the scar over his heart, Nightmare looks down to see her horn stabbing her heart. “Not again…” Gold Sky whispers. “Die!” Even with his life slipping away, he thrusts the horn deeper and deeper into her making Nightmare groan with more pain to then end with twisting the horn just Luna twisted the magical dagger. “Nightmare Moon.” Gold Sky speaks above a whisper. “No, Luna. Know this, not only has your sister defeating you. Y-y-you’re nephew, me, this pathetic immortal who once desired to be mortal defeats you. Defeated twi-twice. A mere immortal defeats you. You made the choice to kill family well I did so too. Still forgive me Luna I-I love you. P-please forgive me.” Gold Sky rolls off of Nightmare who now turned back into Luna however, Luna is defeated but not killed for she is immune to death but paralyzed until her horn is removed from her heart. Rarity and Rainbow Dash run up to Gold Sky to be by him in his last moments. “Rar-Rarity, Ra-Rainbow Dash. Sister, friend…” Celestia knowing Luna will live comes to Gold Sky’s side feeling the maternal pain she felt before. “Mo-mother, mommy, I had to. For G-Gilda my flesh an-and blood.” Slowly he reaches up to touch mother one last time. “Mother, mother nev-never thought I’ll see you again like this and I-I love you mother. Sister please comfort…” Gold Sky’s arm suddenly drops. “Sweetie Be-Belle. Rainbow Dash, thank you, thank you for helping me and ple-please ta-ake care of Rarity.” With the end near he looks for Gilda knowing that he’s doing this out of his paternal instinct. “Please don’t go my son!” Celestia falls to her knees and presses her forehead against his. “Not again, no not again. I can’t go through this again!! My son please don’t leave me!” “G-G-Gilda…” Gold Sky cries out with one tear running his left cheek. “It doesn’t matter.” With his final breath Gold Sky takes Lauren's hoof causing his body to glow brightly and turn into silver dust leaving nothing but the silver armor behind. “It’s okay Rarity.” Rainbow takes Rarity into her arms and waits for the endless tears to come through the floodgates. Celestia starts groaning with her mouth clenched tight and eyes holding back tears, once again this mother loses her child before her eyes. This pain, this overwhelming cold pain cannot restrained because maternal pain is grand as maternal Love. Celestia’s flowing mane suddenly turns into fire, her body glows brighter the sun itself, and her emotions are unleashed. She roars with so much pain the sun nearly went super nova and the Great Spirit himself comes down to take his daughter into his arms like any father will do when their child is in sadness. Everything changes to blackness. “Oh my.” Cadance awakes from her deep sleep nap. “This dream is a window to what will happen if I don’t succeed in protecting Gold Sky and Gilda.” Cadance jumps off from her couch and telepathically watches over Gilda, Luna, Celestia, and Gold Sky. Cadance closes this window with her iron will. “This dream will never be coming true!” Because. “Unlike Rarity…I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER! I HAVE MORE TO LOSE THAN HER!” --- Chapter. 64- All for Octavia's sake and Sisterly comfort.