//------------------------------// // Final Chapter // Story: The Tragedy of Sombra // by Majin Syeekoh //------------------------------// Sombra looked at himself in the mirror. His horn was a furious red with a wicked curve, and his mane and tail flowed with a black power. The whites of his eyes were a permanent green, and dark power flowed from his eyes like smoke from a fire. His wolf-teeth were gleaming. He was dressed in the ceremonial red ermine cape and barding for all regents to wed, and he was wearing his crown. He daresay he looked dashing. Fetching, even. "You're on in two!" Sombra took a deep breath and exhaled. This is it. You're about to marry the love of your life, not to mention seal a treaty. No big deal. No big deal at all. "You're on, King Sombra!" Sombra walked out of his dressing room, nerves quavering at the shock of it all as he approached the altar. The bridesmares came out, accompanied by their groomsponies. Then, the flowerfilly, telekinetically spreading flowers across the runway. Then came the bride. Luna was wearing a flowing white dress, tight around the barrel, with a long train. Her mane was done up in the Crystal Empire tradition, crystals weaved into her mane. Her ceremonial barding, custom-fitted for an alicorn, gleamed in the sunlight along with her mane crystals. She's beautiful, he thought as his breath caught in his throat at the literally divine sight before him. As the minister droned on, all Sombra could think of was the reception, which featured honey-glazed eggplant with mixed vegetables. That, and one other thing. "Luna," Sombra whispered into Luna's ear, "when this is all done, I am going to consummate the hay out of our relationship!" Luna just blushed and giggled. "Now, if anypony objects to this glorious union, speak now or forever hold-" "I OBJECT!" called a familiar Royal Canterlot Voice. Celestia strode into the room, head held high. She was holding the withered remains of a familiar pony. "Political Pull..." Luna said while backing away from Sombra in horror. "And a thousand more just like him piled in an unmarked grave west of here! How DARE you betray your subjects like this, King Sombra! Prepare for-" "Not here." Sombra said calmly. He then sighed, unburdened from secrets, steeling himself afterwards. "W-what!?" Celestia barked. "Oh, Sombry, how could you!?" Luna wailed. “First of all, you’ll find that your precious elements are inert.” Sombra said. Celestia pulled them out of her saddlebag, and found that they were indeed, inert. “How can this be!?” “They respond to disharmony. But I have created harmony, although a dark harmony, like a minor scale. So I choose the battleground, seeing as how this will be a battle.” Celestia nodded. "We will fight in the Frozen Wastes. But first..." And then Sombra's horn flared in dark magic, and all of the ponies withered as Sombra's mane flowed more violently, his eyes grew greener, and his horn blazed like a volcano. Celestia fired a beam at him, only to hit teleport fizz. "Confound that foul brute! Well, I can still trace him, if we-" Celestia pauses as she saw her sister sitting on her haunches, sobbing softly. Celestia looked on, sharing the sorrow drawn on Luna's face. "He said we were his v-very special somepony..." Luna sobbed, "he said he loved us," as a blue glow enveloped her being, "but a being who would drain a living pony to add to their own power HAS NO ROOM FOR OUR LOVE!" She screamed as the dress went up in flames, the barding melted into a puddle at her feet, and crystals launched every which way. "You with me?" "YES WE ARE. LEAD THE WAY" ---- Sombra poofed into the Frozen Wastes, waiting for his hunters. It was going to be a great wedding. She could have at least waited for the reception to clear up. Sombra began to pace, when two flying creatures landed by him. "I see you've-" A beam of pure sunlight exploded at him as he teleported on top on Celestia, sinking his fangs into her neck, then blasting black magic into the holes. Celestia rolled over, hoping to crush him, but he just teleported by Luna. "She's jealous of you," Sombra whispered into her ear. "BACK AWAY, CUR!" Luna howled, backing away herself. Sombra teleported next to her again. "She hogs all the day to herself because she's afraid your moonlight would far outshine her sun. She-" cut off by teleportation as Luna blasted moonlight at her, appearing above Luna. He prepared a dark magic spell, then blasted it straight down. Luna rolled out of the way just as a crater formed where she once was. Celestia, on the other hand was struggling with what appeared to be- "Sepsis," Sombra said, teleporting above Celestia's neck, "a particularly virulent strain I designed myself. She'll be-" Celestia's hoof whiffed through solid air as Sombra attempted to teleport inside of Celestia. Celestia shunted him to the side as he settled for goring her with his horn. Celestia breathed in through her teeth, then ripped out Sombra like a bur, punching him square in the jaw, causing him to roll across the ground. "I am when I say I am." "You dare hit me, GOD-WHORE!?" Sombra growled as his form thinned until it was twelve feet of pure shadow, its form rolling towards Celestia and Luna. His form overtook them, subjecting them to hundreds of cuts and scratches. The shadow monster turned, the visage of Sombra and his horn appearing. "HOW DARE YOU DEFY MY CAREFULLY DESIGNED ORDER!?" it roared as it prepared a spell, black magic pooling. Celestia prepared a dark magic of her own, and released. “SHE WILL USURP YOU, LUNA! MARK MY WORDS!” Shadow Sombra yelled distortedly. “SILENCE, SCOUNDREL!” Luna shouted. The two beams collided, magic pulsing at the center, eventually deflecting into the ground below, splitting the earth. Celestia took to the skies, Luna following as the shadow crawled up the sky behind them. Celestia powered up her horn, Luna following as well, a single tear dripping from her eye as they fired off the blast. Sombra caught it full force, sinking into the crevice below, but not before uttering this phrase: Que as bágoas da princesa lúa banear a cidade de cristal! The ground shook as the crevice closed. Celestia looked up, and raced towards the Crystal Empire, Luna following. When they got to where it was supposed to be, both sisters floated there in shock. Instead of crystal spires, there lay a giant fissure in the ground. Luna floated towards her sister and cried into her shoulder. Celestia patted her on the back. The, Luna felt her slip away as she caught her in her hooves ---- Luna flew with all of her might, and reached their castle in the heart of the Everfree Forest. She laid her down and yelled, “PRINCESS CELESTIA HAS MAGICAL SEPSIS AND NEEDS HELP IMMEDIATELY!!” as two ponies grabbed her and dragged her up the stairs. Luna sat at the threshold, Sombra’s words tickling her brain. “Jealous…” “Afraid…” “Usurp…” ---- Celestia was walking in the foyer in the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters when she heard a voice calling out. "Not another step." Celestia looked up at Luna, stopped "Do you honestly expect me to stand idly by while they all basked in your precious light?" She said while walking over to the foyer balcony. "There can only be one princess in Equestria, and that princess is ME!" Luna said as she smashed the balcony while holding her arms up, raising the moon into the sun and blotting it out. Just then, a black energy wrapped around her, whirling about, revealing an alicorn as tall as Celestia, laughing madly.