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Chapter 18
The names of Celestia's and Luna's parents are from Ink rose's headcannon, "Celestia, Luna, and the history of equestria" video. I DO NOT OWN THE NAMES (unless the names are from the internet then just comment below if they are and i'll remove this message). and the night and white "creatures" are similar to those in the nightmare rarity comic, but they appear more pony-ish like the changelings.
"Yes, dear one. It is I," King Cosmos lowered himself and embraced his daughter
"I can't stay for much longer. I will leave my moon creatures here to help fight the darkness and I will lend you some power," He touched the tip of his horn and touched it to Luna's. Upon contact, there was huge bright glow of light. When the light faded, King Cosmos had gone, leaving an army of moon creatures along Luna's side.
"I had so much to ask him still..." Luna glanced back up at the moon sadly. "And mother...it's been so long..."
"Done chatting yet?" Asteria stomped the ground with one hoof. Luna turned back towards her, all trace of sadness erased and faced her. The shadow creatures growled eagerly at Asteria's side. The citizens of Ponyville stood behind Luna as well as the moon creatures. Luna turned to look at them.
"Be warned, my fellow ponies! These nightmare forces will do their best to scare you off, but fear not! The moon creatures will help you face your fear. We shall fight to the end," Luna shot herself into the sky, her wing working as well as ever. Asteria flew up to face her, while the ponies below her fought off the shadow creatures. Asteria's eyes glowed an ominous red and vines of shadow shot out towards Luna, wrapping around her legs tightly. Luna teleported herself out from its grasp behind Asteria and shot her down onto the floor.
"Maybe they forgive you for being Nightmare Moon, but what about abandoning your sister?" Asteria taunted. Luna narrowed her eyes.
"Must you taunt me with the same things every time? I still feel the guilt, but that guilt is overwhelmed by my desire to protect Equestria. And once I defeat you, my sister shall be free," Luna's horn glowed more brilliantly, and a magnificent white mist reared up behind Luna in the shape of an alicorn, much like Lucena. Luna blasted herself forward, with the white mist following her like a shadow. They knocked Asteria so far back that she landed at the foot of the Everfree forest.
"We don't need to do this, Luna," She said as she struggled to get up, clearly battered by Luna's attack. "We could both rule Equestria together. So then the ponies can finally appreciate you," She broke off as Luna's voice roared over hers, almost as loud as her Royal Canterlot voice.
"YOU can not know how the ponies appreciate me! Look around you! The ponies are united with me to defeat you! They have proven to me their love," She looks back fondly at the mane six "And I have redeemed myself with them as well. You have nothing to offer them, neither compassion or wisdom. " The shadow creatures were retreating fast, cowering next to their fallen leader now.
"Get up and we can finish this," Luna stepped back away from Asteria, allowing her to stand.
"Or perhaps we can all it a draw," Asteria blinked at her innocently.
"We can clearly see who the winner is here," Rainbow Dash flew until she was directly above them, a look of anger furrowed her brows.
"Fine! But hear me out, Luna! Our final battle shall be one that everypony will remember! Enjoy your time on Earth while you can!" With a final cackle, she disappeared into a loud explosion of purple smoke. Luna sighed, and sat down,tired out from the battle. After resting for a bit, she walked through Ponyville, making sure no pony was too hurt. The moon creatures had retreated over to Fluttershy who stroked them happily.
"Is everything ok, princess?" Twilight and Spike came over, a look of concern on her face.
"I am still curious to find out her connection with my sister and why Celestia has not told me this. There is no evidence in our old castle that speaks of an alicorn with the name of Asteria.
"Do you think you could be related?" Spike suggested.
"That isn't possible..." Luna trailed off, deep in thought.
"Trixie!" She called suddenly. "Is the alicorn amulet safe?" The blue unicorn hurried over.
"I don't know. Everypony was out battling and no pony was in the castle." Her expression worried. "Why? Do you think someone could have taken it? Black Ember is still tied up though," She pointed to her cousin still tied up against the tree. Luna didn't respond, but flew straight toward the castle. Rainbow Dash followed her. The princess ran to her room. Thunder Hoof and another guard was no longer standing, but was instead knocked unconscious on the floor.
"Thunder Hoof! Wake up!" She shook the purple pegasus urgently while Rainbow Dash tried to wake the other guard. As they both sat up drowsily, Luna helps Thunder Hoof to his feet.
"What happened? Did somepony enter the castle," Luna asked her guard. Rainbow Dash glances over curiously at them, but says nothing.
"A shadowy creature knocked us both out. We saw it head into your room." He trailed off, his eyes widening.
"The amulet!" They all said at the same time. Luna raced into her room, and stared as she saw books littered everywhere and Moon's cage knocked over. Moon was cowering in the far right corner, her eyes scared. When she saw Luna, she hurriedly flew over and she embraced her. She picked up her bag and rummaged through it. The amulet was gone, leaving only the sun and moon yin yang jewel necklace Celestia had given her inside.
"Why can't I do anything to help?" Discord's annoyed voice drew her attention back to the hall. She placed the necklace around her neck and headed outside. The draconequis was staring down at the mane six with his arms crossed.
"Well, I know you wanna help, but I just don't see how. I mean, you are the master of chaos," Twilight was saying.
"I thought you trust me by now not to cause trouble," Discord said sharply.
"We do!" Fluttershy assured him, but the rest of the mane six looked away.
"It's just...you don't really have the power to help and you might make things worse," Rarity said.
"Fine!" Discord snapped. "If that's what you really think, I'll be better off in my room." He stormed off. Fluttershy followed him, trying to reason with her friend. Luna could not bring herself to follow them. During Celestia's and her parent's reign, there had been war between the Draconequis and the alicorns, and during that battle their parents had been killed and their spirits went to the moon and the sun. Discord had been so young then and they had played together, but as their duties as princesses grew more important than their games with Discord, he eventually turned against them, forcing her sister and herself to turn him to stone. Although he had been reformed, Luna couldn't bring himself to forgive him. She decided not to lower the moon now, since there would be nothing from darkness since she could not raise the sun.
"How about we both try to raise the sun?" Twilight suggested.
"I think it's best to stay in moonlight for now. Even with all the unicorns helping out, it may not do much process. And now that she has her hooves on her alicorn amulet, we do not know what power she possesses," Luna's tone was serious. "In fact, she could be more powerful than before," she added.
"But I thought the amulet won't corrupt an alicorn," Rarity pointed out.
"Perhaps that isn't so...Asteria claims to have created the amulet, so she will most likely be able to use her magic to change that," Luna replied. "It may take more than one alicorn to defeat her, but with Princess Cadence back in the Crystal empire, it may be more complicated."
"Well, I would be honored to help, Princess Luna," Twilight said rather pointedly.
"Of course," Luna gave her a half hearted smile.
"I have a hunch...I just hope I'm wrong," Luna turned and walked back to her chambers, her head half lowered.
The idea about discord betraying luna and celestia came from Ink rose's headcannon. I only took one bit of it, not the entire video of her headcannon. If she says no, i WILL remove and rewrite this part, so plz no hating! and also, the last quote luna says is from the third book/movie of harry potter ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdeGzOEpJE&index=2&list=PLIZ1KgoI8wPBEUwvOY_ijJaD7WiRX-GS0
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