Dawn slowly came over the horizon and with it came the peace of mind that Red and his vampony army had been defeated and the remainder scattered to the winds. The citizens, now realizing that the attack was over, calmed down and either got some well deserved sleep or just shrugged off their tiredness and began to go about their day like nothing had happened. For some, it was better to forget that the attack even happened, while for others it was nearly impossible to forget what had transpired during the nighttime.
Celestia and Twilight went about fixing and restoring whatever was in need of repair, from the library itself to the gardens that Red had destroyed. Buildings that had been burned would simply have the burned areas fixed later on, no matter what needed to be done to the building itself. Nopony really minded that the two princesses were helping with the construction that needed to be done, but some wondered where Luna had run off to.
Luna had, in fact, taken the still body of Red Velvet with her back to his house, where she had promptly entered the gateway and appeared in the ruined castle. The place brought back memories, some more painful than others, but she trotted along, carrying the stallion all the way back to his torture chamber. She placed him on the table and turned around to look at the black stone that held the cursed red symbol that made it be called the Blood Rune. She spotted the forgotten sword laying on the ground, so she picked it up and plunged it as deep as she could into the forsaken stone.
"Go ahead, scream you blasted stone," Luna growled, pulling the weapon out and tossing it aside again as her magic gripped the stone, "I'm going to smash you into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the farthest reaches of Equestria so you have no hope of restoring yourself ever again."
As she spoke her magic seeped into the stone, cracking both the interior and the exterior while she allowed her anger to truly enter the stone. As she stood there, letting her magic seep into the cursed stone, she made sure to position herself just before the trapdoor, so that way some chunks of it would fall to the deepest pits of the old castle. Just as the stone began to fall apart she opened the door and let the pieces fall to the abyss, leaving herself with a fourth of the stone's exterior and the stony heart that made the evil rune stone tick.
"Not surprised you didn't scream," Luna commented, pulling a lever as the table she left Red on lifted itself up, "but I am going to leave you with a parting gift. Your Champion returns to you and he will join you in the well deserved punishment that both of you deserve to have."
Red's body, for the second and final time, fell from the story where he had conducted tortures and murders in the name of an employer who didn't exist. His body, now that of the monster he had strived to become, fell with the pieces of the cursed stone he had dug up and placed on the wall. Now he was joining the master he had tried to please and they could fight it out for all eternity as far as Luna was concerned.
~Canterlot~
"There is something unique about the world Twilight," Celestia said, surprising her student while they worked to restore the library, "Sometimes the sky will become the color red during the time of dawn, meaning that somepony who has escaped justice for far too long has finally been brought down and the world becomes happy again. It is sort of like a blood debt; we take down the one who kills others and the world will, sometimes, give us something in return."
"I doubt that's true," Twilight replied, shaking her head as she took a look at the red dawn anyway, "But the sky has a certain beauty to it when its lit up like this."
Luna appeared behind them, but she only shook her head at her sister and handed her something small in her magical grasp. Celestia opened the small package and her eyes seemed to light up as she noticed what was inside the container, looking up to her sister to be sure it was really there. Luna nodded and backed away, returning to her room so she could finally retire for the remainder of the day while her sister took over. Celestia stared down at the container that happened to contain the very heart of the Blood Rune, an artifact she needed to hide as soon as possible.
"I'm sorry Twilight, but something needs my immediate attention," she said, turning to leave as quickly as possible, "I'm sure you can finish repairing the library by yourself."
Twilight sighed, she was used to having to pick up some of the slack these days, but somedays it just seemed like her former teacher liked giving her more stuff to do.
~Ponyville, Lyra's House~
Lyra sat on the couch of her house, sighing softly as she wondered if her best friend Wild Cherry was ever going to come back home. She just vanished again last night, but already Lyra was wondering if she might as well pack up and move someplace where nopony knew her. Bonbon was dead and for all Lyra knew so was Cherry, likely got herself killed in the process of searching for the one who killed her sister. Manehatten was sounding much nicer, considering that there was no murdering pony going about, kidnapping and murdering others.
There was a knock at the door, which would have surprised Lyra if she wasn't expecting guests, but she really just wanted to be left alone. Still, she shrugged off the blankets she had been wearing and marched up to the door, opening it to find a much more surprising visit. Standing on the other side of the door was none other than her best friend Wild Cherry and a very much alive, if not somewhat changed, best friend.
Cherry had a smile on her face, which to Lyra meant that she and her new boss had overcome whoever was behind the killings. Plus she had somehow managed to bring Bonbon back to them, which filled her eyes with tears. Sure Bonbon now had a pair of bat wings, fangs, and slitted eyes, but that meant nothing to Lyra. All she cared about was that the three of them were back together, that was all that truly mattered to her at the moment. She threw her front hooves over her best friends and welcomed them inside, her mood already turning happier for the first time since Bonbon disappeared.