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// Larva 
// Story: Metamorphosis 
// by Fabella 
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	The large, intruding, ebony doors stood before her in their radiant glory. Glittering stars of magic glimmered dimly against them while a giant sideways, crescent moon stood present in the middle. Starswirls, her's and Luna's room were all stylized this way. Showing off their importance as well as their influence and glory. It was almost prideful but the simple excuse of being royalty was enough for others to brush off its opulence.

This door in paticular had no seal. It didn't need one as other ponies hardly if ever entered it save to dust off the objects of the late princess and make sure that no spiders and dust webs created homes in there. Celestia unlocked the door with her magic and the ebony doors came opened for her silently.

She stepped in and looked around, seeing the room in complete spic and span shape. No wrinkle was present on the bed, no dust made sway on the carpet and no blotch or stain or dustweb could be found with even the keenest and sharpest of eyes. No pony had really set hoof in it and the pony it was built for couldn't set hoof in it if they wanted too.

It was perhaps the most elegant of the rooms and despite her preferences, it was Celestia's favorite. The ceiling was adorned with vibrant arrays of magical like energy that gave the appearance of stars much like the front of the doors. Upon it, bearing all of the different types of constellations that Luna herself had crafted in her disappearance from courts and royal duties after being pushed out by the rallying cries for her sisters attention.

The fabrics upon the canopy bed and windows were of a beautiful navy blue with golden lace and cords tied around them. There was a table and sofa seating by the bed, the walls were of beautiful blue color and gilded and bordered with gold and a large window engulfed the entire center wall that pointed outside so that the moon showed largely through. Outshining even the large, crystal and platinum chandelier that hung from the center of the ceiling.

Celestia closed the ebony doors to the room and just as quickly begun to use her magic. Her horn a lit and she strained under the amount of energy that was being used as she pointed it at the two doors. Hot, white, glowing chains appeared and begun to wrap themselves around the doors, intertwining themselves as she continued using her magic. After gaining just enough strength she jolted a small light beam at the entrance which completely sealed shut the doors.

To ensure that no pony could easily break them, she crafted her own specialized lock like that of what Starswirl did and then left the doorway alone. Finished, she stood in the center of the room and carried over the two scrolls and her chalk that she had grabbed also from Starswirls room.

Celestia took a deep breath and pulled back the curtains to the largest window in the room. Seeing the full glow of the moon that bore the image of the very one who had previously wield it. Its large size staring back at her intently.

"Here I am...Luna..." she spoke. Nearly choking on her words.

"I remember when the castle was first being built. When the carpenters and architects came to me with the blueprints for the new castle, I had asked them why there was no room for you. They looked at me bewildered, puzzled as to why I would even ask such a thing. They figured that such a thing was unnecessary. Princess Luna was gone and who knew when you were to return....if you would return. But even still I pressured them to build this abode nonetheless. I still had hope, hope that you'll return to me someday."

Celestia did her best to hold back the tears but she could feel her eyes burn from the saltiness that was beginning to swell up inside of them. "I should have paid attention. I should have been the bigger sister and did all that I could to help you through your pain but I didn't. It is said that the Elements of Harmony can purge out evil. That even the most vilest, grossest and most abominable creature could be cleanse if it was possessed or corrupted by something. When you became that wicked thing, I sought to purge it out of you. She was not Luna, she was not my sister, and she was not the one who was birthed alongside me all those years ago. Starswirl told me that it was of your choice, your decision, that I needed to do what a ruler should do and to press on."

Celestia looked down at the ground in silence as it begun to become wet from what she had tried so hard to hold back. "But what does he know! With you gone Equestria has now looked more bleak then ever! Harmony has vanished and on both sides of the globe is Equestria threatened with war and racial zealots! I know this is what fate had prepared us for, to be rulers and guide out subjects back to order but this is not how its suppose to be! Starswirl doesn't understand and neither does any pony else! Since your banishment the ponies more than ever praise me. They praise the defeat of Nightmare Moon, they celebrate the rising of my sun as a symbol of their everlasting deliverance from eternal night and for them they see nothing but my smiles. I am too go on, continue as though nothing had happened."

Celestia choked. "They don't see that I not only banished my sister but also the only pony that will be by my side. The only one capable of understanding me. I received no comfort when you were banished. The wars, the bloodshed, the violence...."

The princess squeezed her eyes shut as she let loose the tears that streamed down her face. Thinking back to the times where where battles engulfed the land and when the gryphons had recently attacked. The mourning of parents, the loss of innocent, and the horrible deaths of soldiers. All flashed back to her like a violent nightmare. Ready to engulf her in an everlasting tale of grief.

She opened her eyes and furrowed them at the moon.

"The Elements of Harmony failed me. They failed you but I will not. No matter what I will undo this even if it means forever sacrificing Starswirl's trust of me."

Celestia laid down the scrolls to the side and taking the chalk she held, begun to draw on the floor. She started with drawing a large circle and then begun to intrinsically put in the details according to the scroll that she looked at.

"Now, if I remember correctly..."

She drew a middle circle with a star in it along with two smaller circles within the much larger one. The two having a picture of the sun and moon. Afterwards, she filled in the gaps around the circle that carried the star shape and drew a picture of each element of harmony. Loyalty, kindness, laughter, generosity, honesty and finally magic.

"Finished."

She took a step back and glossed her eyes over the details to be sure that each one was not only properly placed, but correctly drawn accordingly. 

Seeing how all was clear, Celestia grabbed hold of the black bag that she had stopped for long before, and emptied its contents out onto the floor.

They were the Elements of Harmony themselves.

They were faded and lacking in magical use since Luna's banishment to the moon.

Celestia took the bleak stones and placed them accordingly on each of their pictures upon the magic circle. Once completed, she turned to the other two scrolls that she had picked up out of her teachers room and stood in the middle of the image that she had created.

She opened the two up simultaneously and read over the papers intently at once. Making sure that she did not miss any words nor fine print that could possibly cause everything to go wrong. One was that of a breaking spell for seals. If Luna was banished to the moon then surely there had to be something, some type of magical power, that bonded her there. 

A spell for breaking seals should truly do the work. However, it just wasn't enough that she simply be freed from the moon. Celestia wanted to make sure that it was her sister that was freed from the moon and not the likes of that wretched abomination that dared to possess her sister.

To be sure this was to happen, the day princess had the other spell up her sleeve. A conversion spell that could change a creature's or being's nature or appearance into something else more closely aligned with what it was. Like converting a greedy person into a more generous one.

These two spells was all she needed and it was all here to do as she wished. 

"I am ready."

Celestia placed the three scrolls far over to the side of the room, on top of that of Luna's dresser.

She inhaled a deep breath and with eyes beaming with false confidence lit up her horn.