Celestia sat in her cage. How could this have happened, she thought.
Chrysalis cackled. "With the power of this Alicorn Amulet, not even the Elements of Harmony can beat me now!" Tears formed in Celestia's eyes as she saw Twilight, her precious student, on the ground with her friends.
With a last burst of effort, Twilight raised her head and forced out, "You... you'll never get away with this."
"I already have." With that, sickly green energy mixed with the red of the Amulet she wore around her neck, and the spiraling energy flew toward the little ponies. Stone formed around them, until they were as statues. Chrysalis laughed uproariously.
Celestia weeped, and the sounds of her tears hitting the ground made the changeling queen spin around. "Oh, don't think I've forgotten about you, my dear princess." Energy gathered up just as before, and Celestia shut her eyes closed tight, awaiting the end.
A loud crash came and the ground shook. That isn't what the spell sounded like. Celestia opened her eyes to see a striking figure in front of her. He was a tall stallion with a muscular build. He had dark purple fur, approaching black, and a luxurious mane flowing ethereally with a dark blue starscape pattern. He had large majestic wings and--is it possible--a large curved horn. He had a beautiful, almost mare-like face, with his eyes closed. But what really drew Celestia's eye was his flank, featuring a red moon cutie mark against a dark sky.
Chrysalis grimaced. "What? How dare you interfere! But I suppose I haven't grown tired of crushing heroes today." She fired the spell at the mysterious pony. To Celestia's shock, he made no attempt to dodge. She tried to shout out for him to leave, but in her grief, it was too hard to get the words out.
As the blast approached him, he opened his eyes, revealing a strange red and black pattern, almost like what could be seen in a kaleidoscope. "KAMUI!" he shouted, and the blast disappeared into nothingness.
Chrysalis stepped back. "Is... is it possible? The Mangekyo Sharingan? Who are you?"
The stallion flared out his wings and lifted one hoof. With a grim expression, he said, "My name... is BLOOD MOON!" Energy collected in his horn, a mix of black and red. More and more built up, far beyond anything Celestia had seen in all her years, until it seemed like reality itself couldn't contain it. Finally he released his hold, and the magic rushed out in a torrent of cosmic power.
Even from behind him in the cage, Celestia could feel its heat, and it was intense, and yet... It felt like more than her skin was being warmed. She felt a yearning in her chest. Could he be... warming my heart?
Chrysalis summoned a shield to protect her from the blast, which slammed into it with the force of a thousand Sonic Rainbooms. She dug her hooves into the ground as it slowly pushed her back, drawing more and more energy from the amulet. At long last, the blast dissipated and the shield dissolved. And with it, the Alicorn Amulet shattered.
"How? How is this possible?" she shouted, her eyes shaking but fixed on the alicorn stallion. "With the amulet, I should have had far more energy than you!"
Blood Moon closed his eyes and shook his head. "More energy, yes," he explained, "but I have spent years learning fine chakra control. Even with less energy, I am capable of using it much more efficiently."
This answer kept Chrysalis silent for a moment, but she soon started smiling and regained her confidence. How is she still so cocky? She lost her power source! Celestia thought.
The princess was shaken to her core by what came next. From within the holes of her legs, Chrysalis pulled out, no, it can't be, an additional sixteen Alicorn Amulets! Despair sank into Celestia as Chrysalis's diseased laughter echoed throughout the chamber.
"As you can see, I have gone above and beyond what was needed to beat the Princess of Friendship and her friends," she said as she put all the amulets around her neck. "Your magic and chakra control, as you call it, has all been very impressive, but with what you've shown me, I only need the power of three of the amulets." Her eyes glowed black and the chamber was shrouded in darkness.
Blood Moon's horn glowed, but that light seemed to be absorbed by the gloom. The brief flickers that reached beyond a yard seemed to be snatched out of the very air by shadows.
"I summon the forces of darkness to tear you apart!" Chrysalis spoke, and then turned to face Celestia, who at this point, could only see her glowing eyes and three of the amulets, alight with magic. "And don't think I've forgotten about you. You will be caught up in this attack too."
The darkness closed in around them, with writing shades lashing out at the rocks, leaving deep gashes with their every movement.
During all this, Blood Moon simply chucked. "You think you can beat me with darkness? I am the darkness!"
Purple energy gathered around Blood Moon, similar to but different from the shadows about to attack. It engulfed him and then exploded outward, knocking back the malignant attack. Celestia was forced to close her eyes, but when she opened them, there stood... Nightmare Moon?!
But the warmth remained, and Celestia's heart still throbbed at his sight. No, it isn't the same as Nightmare Moon.
The shadows moved unsurely, confused as to what to do next, until Blood Moon spoke. "I am the lord of shadows and the night. You belong to me!" The shadows rushed toward him again, but instead of hurting him, they seemed to only make him stronger as they flew into him, converting to magical energy again.
But Celestia had no time to feel relief. Chrysalis had switched to using six amulets now and threw the moon at him. But wait, this was a distraction! While Blood Moon used his Nightmare powers to hold the moon back, Chrysalis fired a big energy blast at him.
But Celestia had no time to feel grief. Blood Moon explained, "It was a mistake to bring the moon so close to me. With the light as it is now, it is a full moon." His fur grew longer, his features more canine. He was transforming into a werewolf.
Still enveloped in Nightmare energy, the new werewolf Blood Moon used pure physical strength to knock both the energy blast and the moon into space. He stood silently for a moment while Chrysalis gathered more energy from her amulets, and then spoke. "Let's take this battle into space. I don't think you want this planet to be destroyed any more than I do."
Chrysalis begrudgingly nodded, and both flew into the sky. Celestia had good eyesight, but even she couldn't see that far. Yet somehow, through the warmth in her heart, she could tell what was happening to Blood Moon.
Far outside Equestria's atmosphere, Chrysalis gathered the full power of her 16 Amulets, and the fight appeared to be even. The Werewolf Nightmare Blood Moon used his Mangekyo Sharingan to summon Susanoo, coating himself in large armor made of black flames. But Chrysalis's attacks could disintegrate stars, so he used Kamui to phase himself out of existence to avoid them.
Over time, Blood Moon started gaining the upper hand, but he felt his energy draining faster than it should. In a brief interlude between attacks, he looked, and he saw: standing on a nearby asteroid was Tirek! His mouth was open, absorbing small portions of his immense energy. Now that the gig was up, Tirek increased the pace, and before Blood Moon could react, he was caught in an energy blast from Chrysalis.
He used his remaining energy to form a shield, but after the blast dissipated, he was completely out of chakra, and was sent hurtling toward the sun, which he fell into.
At this, tears welled up in Celestia's eyes, and she called out, "BLOOD MOOOOOOOON!"
A light brighter than the sun erupted from within it. "Impossible!" Chrysalis shouted. "This love I feel... it's far greater than that between Shining Armor and Cadance!"
The light faded away, revealing Blood Moon, still a werewolf, still with Nightmare energy, but now there was something even stronger: a golden glow coming from him. His first move was to take out Tirek, not by attacking him, but by emitting so much energy into his mouth that he exploded from the overload.
And then came Chrysalis, who barely had a chance to move as Blood Moon fired a blast the size of a galaxy at her. Chrysalis screamed, and then...
To the shock of both Celestia and Chrysalis, they were back in the cavern where they started out. Blood Moon explained, "What you just saw was an illusion created by my Tsukuyomi. Sorry that you had to be caught up in that too, my love," he said to Celestia. "I was perfectly capable of everything we saw in that vision, but there is no need for us to fight now that we know what will happen."
Chrysalis scoffed. "If that was all an illusion, why should I believe that?!" She took out all sixteen of her Alicorn Amulets, still intact, and charged toward Blood Moon.
"Let me finish," he said. "Even besides what we saw in that vision, there's something else about me you should know." Six glows came within him, and then two more. "I am a master of all eight Elements of Harmony." A rainbow came out of him, joined by the colors infrared and ultraviolet, and it crashed into Chrysalis, instantly shattering her amulets.
When the light faded, Chrysalis had changed in appearance, her holes filled in, her exoskeleton pink and green. The newly changed changeling started crying. "I'm sorry for everything that I did! And I know that this is strange, but... I think I love you!"
Blood Moon chuckled. “Psssh… Nothin Personnel… Kid…” He walked over to Celestia and released her. "... But I only have one true love."
Blood Moon took Celestia's hoof, and electricity shot throughout her body, a joy she never felt before. His face approached hers, and their kiss was so intense that the pressure resulted in nuclear fusion, forming helium from hydrogen. Celestia started to speak and giggled as the helium made her voice high. But she continued, "Who are you?"
"I come from another dimension," Blood Moon explained. "I have been using my own magic to create portals to other dimensions. I picked up my werewolf curse from a dimension with what are known as humans. I used to go by a different name, but I took the name Blood Moon after I mastered the Sharingan. My real name... is PRINCE LUNAR."
Celestia gasped. "I have a sister named Luna. You must be an alternate universe version of her. That explains your Nightmare Moon form."
"Sister? But I don't have any siblings."
Celestia was relieved. That meant this wasn't creepy.
They walked away, deeply in love, and they approached a strange object.
"This is the Sun Crusher. It is a star fighter that is capable of destroying stars and withstood an attack from the Death Star. I've been using it as my personal vehicle after it fell out of a white hole into this dimension."
But as they walked toward it, Celestia's heart stopped. There stood the stallion she assumed she never stood a chance with. But now that Twilight is stone, is it possible he moved on... to me? she thought as he looked at her with bedroom eyes.
"Hey Celestia," said Flash Sentry. "So who would you rather have, him, or me?" He pulled out a guitar and started playing it.
Celestia looked back and forth at the two gorgeous stallions, and... didn't know who to pick.
Now it's up to you, dear reader! Who should Celestia date: Blood Moon, or Flash Sentry?