This was it: her final assault. Each light bounce of her hoofstep further damaged what was left of her remaining fortitude. One could say she was walking towards Nightstare Moon, but it was really more comparable to pony who had too much to drink.
While it was true that she wasn’t physically damaged (outside of her corneas being on metaphysical fire), the same could not be said for her mind.
“Why do you approach me? Unless, of course, you’re ready to concede defeat by bowing down to me,” the alicorn of night allowed herself an arrogant scoff at her sister and her rapidly declining resistance.
Celestia knew that speaking wasn’t the best option at the moment; one misaligned face crease and the fight was over, and she knew it all too well. Yet she was an adamant mare, so she struggled bravely onwards.
“Now, really? What could possibly be your plan here Celestia?” Nightstare Moon spoke slightly hurriedly as she noticed a strange sense of vigor… no that wasn’t the word… enthusiasm emanating from her sister. She hesitantly walked backwards one step.
One wing, white as freshly laid snow, extended from the princess’s body. A feather, no larger than that of the average quill for unicorn writers, drooped lazily until caught by an extended golden-clad hoof. She lifted it into her mouth and bit on the tip, letting only the soft and airy side protrude.
“A feather? That’s your plan? What could you possibly hope to achieve with such a meaningless object?” she inquired, backtracking further with the slightest hint of fear tingling in the back of her voice, anticipating even as she asked.
Celestia took a large step forward, as if delivering some great speech, and was now at the half-way point between the two. Nightstare Moon, realizing this, dashed to the nearby curtains and pulled them apart, letting a grand flow of light into the room, and more importantly into the solar alicorn’s face. It had no visible effect on the bedraggled mare; it was probable that she was losing all feeling in that side of her face.
The irony was not lost on her that she had just made an attempt to use the sun’s light to vanquish the diety with complete power of said ball of boiling gas; coincidentally, this went against her own philosophies of night, but she continued opening more, just the same. Again, it failed to produce any effect.
By the time she had finished, half of the room was unreasonably bright. The other half she wouldn’t dare approach; that would mean confronting her. Nightstare Moon was on the bright side, her sister in the dark.
Celestia quickened her pace, taking more imposing steps towards her nemesis, squinting as she went.
“C-Celestia? What has become of you… doesn’t that hurt?”
“Yes,” she spoke through gritted teeth, once again ignoring her physical limitations, “it hurts more than the time we set Equestria free from the reign of Chaos. As you may remember from our days of fighting Discord, using more than one element of harmony at a time was not free of consequence. However, what would hurt more is if I let myself lose my own stake and sacrificed the reputation of innocent ponies to a sister who couldn’t merely say no to desire over a simple morsel of Bliss.
“With this feather, an object that was once a part of me as an extension of my own body, I will end this fight. Through this pain, I will obtain victory and decree your punishment. If you really cared, we would have ended this petty squabble days ago.”
“Wait what?”
“But how am I to suspect you didn’t have ulterior motives this entire time after seeing me in this much agony?”
“Oh, so you thought I was serious about the whole deposing you and making you and Twilight kiss thing.... well, that’s awkward.”
“Unlike you, I keep my promises, especially to my relatives and to my kingdom. Nightstare Moon, prepare to meet your defeat!”
At the bottom of her closed eyelid, a stream of tears formed. Not closing her eye while speaking that much was like pouring hot water onto a sunburn while in the middle of a sauna. On the sun. What came next was undeniably worse. Like a tiger, she jumped into the air, forelegs stretched out as far as possible in a pouncing formation, and lunged the feather at her solar opposite.
Nightstare Moon sidestepped to avoid the oncoming assault, but it was so sudden that her joints locked up in tension. She finally knew what was going to happen next. If there was one thing her sister knew from their foalhood together, it was her ticklish spots. And she… was quite ticklish.
Her own body convulsed as Celestia’s plumage swathed across her neck, sending jitters and spasms to her face. One eye had to close, there was no other way.
“Pl-please Celestia I –ha ha- can’t t-take it!” she said in half giggle, half terror. But, the onslaught refused to cease. Celestia moved down to the bottom of her sister’s hooves, the second most ticklish place of all.
Nightstare Moon couldn’t help but have laugh after laugh forcibly escape her mouth, all while attempting to stay in the fight. If Celestia kept it up for even a few more seconds, that would be it. So, she fought back too, quickly plucking one of her own from her jet-black wing and counter attacking.
Like swords, they wielded their mouth weapons with valor and courage, scanning for weak spots in the opposing’s defenses. Nightstare Moon would assault one spot, only to be tickled double in return.
The door to the great dining room opened and a servant walked in to find the two going at it with feverish haste. He wondered where the referee was… but then he realized that if he found him this glorious fight would end. Seeing as it was, for the most part, harmless, he just stood there, cheering on the both of them.
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By the time they stopped, it was eighteen minutes into the battle. Celestia only had one stroke of energy left which was on par with her sister’s. She knew what had to be accomplished. With an all-powerful leap of super intense ticklish justice, the solar alicorn in all of her great glory tackled her relative and tickled right under her chin!
Or, so was her intentions. Knowing she might have tried to engage in such a noble and valiant manner, Nightstare Moon ducked and used her own weapon to attack. With laser point accuracy, she hit her sister’s chin at the exact most sensitive spot.
“No! No!” Celestia screamed in terror, “this wasn’t supoosed to be how it ended!”
“Unfortunately for you, this is how it shall end.”
She couldn’t help it, it was inevitable. Her royal eye, the one proclaimed to have the will of the sun and stronger than the moon, shut.
Nightstare Moon… had won.
Very nice.
YES!
YES!
Eternal muffins?
YES THE NIGHT HAS WON!
Even though it would call it cheating, though Celestia started it.
That. Was. Epic. No words can truly show how much this story shall change so much of all of our lives. Well done.
That was great. I was honestly hoping Celly would win though D:
Huzzah!
At first i was like then i was likeand now im like
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You bet it is!
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The muffin was removed from this fanfiction a while ago...
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Yeah... so it were.
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Please tell me you're on illegal substances. This story is awful
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I lost the moment I stepped out of place.
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Suddenly, I am reminded of Balrog from Cave story... someone make a Mlp:fim X cave story cross over... NOW!
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Why thank you, Broccoli :D
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And I'm like
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Illegal substances? I have no idea what you are talking about...wait, are ponies illegal? But in all seriousness, this story was FREAKING AMAZING! I legitimately fell out of my chair laughing.
YAY!
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I wrote this story as a joke. The grammar is awful, the plot almost non-existant, and Celestia and Luna (NIGHTSTARE MOON!!!) are completely out of character. The grammar issue will be resolved soon, but other than that... this story is just awful.
I do believe my eyes are crusting over in sympathy.
It's really quite distressing.
That said... GO LUNA!!! GOOD JOB!!
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And you thought I was a changeling XD. That and a smelly old flea bag cat something or 'nother.
ok then...so Nightstare Moon or whatever wasn't serious about the Kissing thing?
Wait....why isn't Celestia relieved at this? I mean she likes to play practical jokes, so why would she be so mad when her sister joked around about doing it? Assuming she was lieing like she said.
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Oh... probably because... idk... her eyes were open for three days. Just a guess.
and all was right in the pony world.
That was unexpected....I like that! TAKE THAT GOOD, EVIL WINS FOR ONCE!
646205 I KNOW! THAT'S WHY IT'S FUNNY! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEE!!
And so begins the Month of Darkness, partially because Nightstare Moon had won, and partially because Celestia's eyes had been stuck shut, and she was unable to open them again for a month!
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nooooooo!
ok cool
Looks at the ending *in M. bison voice* YES! YES!
Victory to the lunar alicorn!
YES YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES
YES YES YES YES!
Ah, fuck the overrated night.
646205 Awesome creator...the only drug YOU are on.....(Wait for it, my original saying GO!!!!) is...CHARLIE SHEEN! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Luna_lolface.png That's my original saying ^_^
TICKLE FIIIIGHT!!!
Hey, at least they'll have a great chance at facing SCP-173
I haven't blinked through this whole story.
THE PAINNN!
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my god man
why would you subject yourself to that?
2445067 Really? I only survived for five chapters! How did you do it?
AYIYIYI MY EYES
My eyes hurt...
It's so beautiful
NOOOOOOOOO!
Finally I can close my eyes.
"At her victory, Nightstare Moon stood up and with closed eyes she start to shake her flank to the music that blared out of nowhere." - that's how I imagine how it looked when Moony understood that she won.
I bet I can go without blinking for the next part also Yay Nightstare you won!