//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Only One Will Leave // Story: DayBreaker's Fall, Celestia's Rebirth // by KnuxChangeling //------------------------------// Luna fired a beam at DayBreaker, who dodged and bucked Luna in the gut as she passed. Luna rolled onto her back, making sure her wings weren't hurt. She caught her breath just in time as DayBreaker slammed her hooves over her only hitting a blue shield. Luna rolled out of the way and fired a beam at DayBreaker. It caught the enraged alicorn off guard, slamming her into the pillars on the other side of the room. Luna bolted out the door, heading toward the top of the castle. She needed to get to open air and gain some sort of advantage. She barely dodged the maids and guards in the halls who looked confused and alarmed. Some of the guards tried to fight the alicorn of flame once they saw her. They didn't recognize their once kind princess of the sun. They were discarded like trash while DayBreaker just calmly walked along the halls after Luna. DayBreaker was dead set on ending the blue alicorn's life, ending this "suffering" that she's been going through. DayBreaker was going to have her day in the sunlight, so to speak. She met Luna at the top of the castle, Luna's horn already charged with its soft blue aura. DayBreaker laughed and stopped a few feet away. "So you don't like being so close to me huh", DayBreaker mocked, "The heat too much for you?" "Nay", Luna said, gritting her teeth, "I just wanted some space to breathe." DayBreaker laughed again before firing a beam of scorching sun at Luna. Luna flew up into the sky and retaliated with another beam of her own, one set to freeze DayBreaker. DayBreaker smirked before the ice covered her entire body. Seconds later, however, the ice shattered and Luna had to cover her face as the shards flew towards her. A few cut her but it wasn't something to bat an eye at. DayBreaker proceeded to chase Luna into the air. Luna lead her on a wild goose chase weaving through the spires of the castle, ducking and dodging scorching beams of sun, some singing her feathers. Luna kept flying, trying to find an opening where she could get behind DayBreaker. Her chance came when they came up on one of the spires with a large opening. The spire was a place Luna and Celestia used to sit at when they were watching the stars together. Sometimes, she would show her older sister how she moved the stars and would make silly pictures with them. It had a large dome that stretched far above them and had plenty of places to hide with all of the large pillars that were inside. It was perfect for Luna who was still dodging the beams of pure flame. Luna ducked into the spire and disappeared behind one of the pillars. Luna could hear the clip clopping of hooves as DayBreaker landed and started looking around. Luna wasn't really breathing, afraid that her very breathing would attract DayBreaker's attention. She kept an eye on the other alicorn's movements and moved when she had to. DayBreaker, however, was quickly getting annoyed. "COME OUT AND FIGHT ME COWARD", DayBreaker shouted, her mane and tail seeming to brighten with her anger. Luna moved, the silence going to her advantage. She was always the better flyer anyway. Luna came from above, slamming her hooves directly into DayBreaker's back in between her wings. DayBreaker cried out in surprise and pain as the floor cracked from the pressure. DayBreaker's tail engulfed Luna, attempting to burn Luna to ashes, but Luna put up a shield but she still felt most of the heat. Flying upwards, Luna spread her wings and flew out of the spire, hoping this time, that DayBreaker would follow. She did, and her eyes were filled with unrivaled hatred. Luna weaved through the other spires, heading back into the castle itself. Where she was going specifically would determine who won, who left alive. Luna burst into a long hallway with a velvet carpet leading to double doors. Luna headed toward the doors but a beam of flame hit the doors stopping her. DayBreaker landed a few feet behind Luna, her breathing labored. It wasn't because she was tired, she was far from tired. It was because she was growing more and more frustrated. Her anger was forming into a ball of flame directed at Luna. Her mane and tail was flaring up above her forming into that ball of anger. Luna paled and moved out the way, but barely. The ball of flame burned her left back leg. Luna winced as she smelled burning fur and flesh but got back up creating a shield of ice, actually, make that 18 shields of ice. She limped toward the doors that lay just a few steps ahead as she heard DayBreaker's chilling voice through the shields of ice. "Oh poor LuLu", DayBreaker crooned, "You got a little boo boo? How unfortunate....Let me patch it up for you!" Like glass, shield after shield shattered as DayBreaker laughed. Luna pushed open the doors and hurried toward the chest that lay on a golden pedestal. The chest was gold and red, the gold being in swirling patterns. Luna opened the box with her magic, six gems sitting inside, the one in the middle was a six pointed star. These were the Elements of Harmony, the very tools that her sister and herself used just recently on the Spirit of Chaos, Discord. Luna's moment of reminiscing was cut short, however, as the last shield of ice shattered. The force of the last blast almost knocked Luna off her hooves. "Ah there you are", DayBreaker said, stepping into the room, "Why do you hide from me LuLu?" "Only my sister is allowed to call me that", Luna hissed, turning to face her fiery assailant. "Am I not your sister", DayBreaker asked mockingly, "I am the same Celestia you know, but more expressive about what I want. You aren't what I want right now with you acting like you're high and mighty. I will have what I want Luna." "Then come and take it", was all Luna said as she lit up her horn. "Then let's dance dear sister", DayBreaker said, as the heat within the room grew more intense, filling in every corner of the room. They both lunged at each other, horns alight. Only one will leave, and they were both determined to make sure that it was them who walked out.