Ouroboros: The Dream Eater
THE WIND WHISTLED through the empty spaces (which were many), and the hot sun beat down on all the plains of Equestria casting an endless sunset of red. Though there was a curious sight; that through the dimming glare all the heavenly body could be seen in the crimson sky.
There was the moon, broken in two; there where the stars, burning out; there was the universe, dying in agony.
Not that anyone in Equestria bothered to look up at the last lights of existence, what with everycreature being turned to bone and dust,(Its not as if they had anything else to do,) not even Twilight noticed.
She could have been a little more thoughtful, being the only living thing on the planet. Where the same old relics really that important? Where the same old tiered castle wall really much more interesting than the new end of the old universe?
No, maybe it wasn't that. Maybe it was because she lived in a twilight of her own mind, now.
Her crown fell from off her brow and laid there, weary from thousands of thousands of years of rule. It tiered from the long time on her head it graciously stayed there, resting in the dust.
The ruler step over her crown headless that it had even fallen. Walking the way she'd walked for a millennia. Nothing seemed changed to her eyes. It was always the warm light of a Summer Sun Celebration, to her. She would walking to garden greet the new flowers, where only dust lie.
Up, up the flight of stairs that lead from the garden to the balcony that over looked the ruins of Canterlot, to great the ponies of Equestria.
"It is good to have friends such as these." Nothing but the rent sky heard her.
"Friendship is magic," She laughed, But the bone didn't find it so humorous.
To the highest balcony that over looked the plains blow the mountain castle.
"We love thee all! Loyalist Equestrians!" She shout, to the empty fields, destroyed villages, crumbling city, barren forest, and dry seas.
"Twilight, it's very sad to see you here, like this. Although you always were a little loose in the brain," said Discord," but, I spouse this par for the course for you, and the last millennia. You are a mare of habit, Twilight."
Twilight was shocked," Discord! I haven't see you since— No... Wait that's not right. She... She was just here. With everypony else!"
"Ah! A final moment of clarity before the end. At least I will have some to talk my non-sense to."
"Discord, they're all gone," the new revaluation took Twilight by surprise," Celestia, Spike, Applejack, Rarity, Dash, Pinkie, Flutter—"
"Shhhhh," Discord interrupted putting his finger to her lips," yes, yes, Dust in the ethereal winds. Now. What should we do in are final day? Throw a tea party? A gala? Journey to the restaurant at the end of the universe? Which isn't that far anymore. Oh! Will have so much to talk about after all this time!"
"Discord... The what...What will we do?"
"Well anything you like, it's the end of this universe and we are the only two beings left in it."
Tears sprung to Twilight's eyes. She cried, and wept for all the lost time that had left her.
"You know, I come all this way to spend my last days with you, and all you do is cry! Is it my smell?" he snapped a can of deodorant into existent and sprayed it on.
"Discord we have to fix it!"
"Fix 'it?' Twilight there is nothing to be fixed. Everything is working as time intended."
"We could go back! Back in time! To when it all began and we...We could..." Nothing came to her," oh if takes a million years I'll find a way to bring them all back. To bring everything back!"
"Well, Twilight, we don't have a million years. It looks like we don't have another minute," He pointed into the heavens above.
There is no way to describe the absence of existence. You can't rap your mind around it. No color fills it, for black and white are something you can see and experience. It spans no distance, because if it did you could measure it, it would be something. No, you could never understand, even if you where there.
"Is...This how it ends... All of progress of our kind... All of are friendships... Ends in nothing..." She let down her head.
"Oh! Yes Twilight! This is how it ends! And... How it will begin!"
She lifted up her head," What?"
"Twilight, Twilight, Twilight— There are no end as such, but rather the world will be anew. This is how its always been; The sun rises, it sets. The stars come out, they fall. Friends and memories are made. Friends... Leaves us... Alone. And memories fade. Ouroboros eats what's left after that," The draconequus's eyes glinted," But— we'll meet again. Maybe. It's a small universe after all."
Twilight stared at him. His speech hadn't given her much comfort, for what could be called comfort was quickly leaving existence, and existence with it.
He looked at at her," No Twilight. It wasn't all for nothing. I don't know how to say this, but all that we did mattered."
"How did it matter?"
"I don't know the answer to that. It the end of the universe and not all the answer have been solved. But, Twilight... I just know...
"It's like a dream, except we wakeup into another dream. The last one was all foggy and distant and we won't remember much, but we'll have that feeling that we seen it before... In a dream..."
They sat there.
"How many times has this happened... The world starting over, I mean."
"Oh, I'd say at least an infinite amount of times..."
"... Oh."
"We've been here before, I'm sure, of that! Oh well, we'll probably see each other again... In the new beginning..."
The was long silence while the last two creatures in existence sat alone.
"Discord."
"Yes?"
"I'm scared."
"I am too."
"Discord."
"Yes?"
"What happens next?"