//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: The End of The Battle, Volcano Reborn // Story: Clash of Alicorns, Battle of the Brothers // by LightningBlade //------------------------------// Luna channeled her aura into the amulet, her armor surrounded by dark blue aura, she changed form, she grew taller, her eyes changed to serpent like eyes, her blue and purple fur changed to black, Nightmare Knight was summoned. Her armor changed, and her sword changed. "Your appearance don't effect me, fight!" said Dire. "Thou think we changed our appearance for fun? Thou do not understand our true power! *Evil laughter* ." Luna dashed, her sword clashed with Dire's with tremendous force, Dire struggled to push her back, he deflect it aside and slashed her, her cheek bled, but it recovered instantly, she kicked Dire to the ground, he landed flat. "Argh... such strength..." Dire astonished. "Thou killed Luna's stallion have thou? Thou shall not be forgiven! Prepare thyself!" Luna dashed, and attacked continuously, making no room for Dire to fight back, with one of his hoof injured he couldn't do anything, but after a few moments, he saw through her movement. Dire rushed in with his saber, trying to throw a blow to Luna and disarm her, but she was one step ahead, she deflected the deadly saber, and slashed Dire in the chest, the black veins exploded into dust, the amulet was exposed. Luna caught Dire off guard and kicked him in the face, Dire was send flying to a wall, the wall collapsed, he crashed through it. "That... HURT *evil laughter*. No one besides Lightning can deal so much damage to me, why am I so happy? Is it because since I possessed this body, no one dared to harm... ME!?" Dire charged, his saber coated with dark aura, he swung his saber like a devil, Luna defected them all, but Dire's turning the game over. He slashed faster and faster, the dark veins were growing back, surrounding the amulet again. Luna got slashed in the back, in the neck, and her right hoof. Dire did not held back, he returned the favor by kicking her down to the ground, Dire arrived beneath her in a blink of an eye, Dire stabbed her, blood dripped from Luna's back, Dire pulled the saber out, and rammed her to a wall, she took a large amount of damage from the impact, and fainted. "*Evil laughter No one in Equestria can stop me now." Dire moved forward and pointed his saber at her neck, "You are strong, but not strong enough." Dire lifted his blade, Luna opened her eyes, drew her sword into the Amulet of Hell, red aura flickered around it, it slowly cracked, Dire growled in pain. "Impossible! You're suppose to be dead! Argh!!!" Dire stumbled, he knelt down, "Who are you?" "We are Nightmare Moon, and we shall destroy that wrenched amulet, once in for all!" Nightmare Moon stabbed the amulet multiple times, until it exploded into pieces. Dire fainted, his armor vaporized, he turned back to his original form, Volcano Saber. Luna changed back to her form, she ran to Lightning's side, she held his cold body in her hooves, she cried. Celestia woke up when she heard her sister, she trudged slowly to her side, placing her hoof on Luna's shoulder. "He's gone Luna, there's nothing we can do." Celestia sobbed too. "Celestia, can't we do anything? How about that spell... there must be a way." Luna cried harder. "That forbidden spell... I will not guarantee it will work, if we work on this together, we might be able to do it." Celestia put her horn on Luna's horn, they floated, they mumbled an old equestrian spell, and Lightning floated. "It's working sister!" Luna forced herself to push the spell further. Lightning was surrounded by a white ball of light, Celestia gasped. The white ball of light exploded into white sprinkles, he turned into an alicorn, he fell to the ground, he didn't move. "Did the spell... work? Or we just couldn't do better?" Luna started to worry. But in all odds, Lighting showed movement. He groaned, "What happened? I had the worst dream on dying." he got up slowly, feeling weird. "Lightning..." Luna gasped, she couldn't believe her eyes, she ran to him, and bury her head in Lightning's arms. "Hey hey, what happened? Why are you suddenly so touchy?" Lightning hugged her and smiled. "You... died... but that's okay you're alive now! And you're..." Luna tries not to scare Lightning. "I died? But how? How am I alive?" Lightning asked curiously. "Because when converting you into an alicorn, even if you're dead, there is a chance of resurrecting." said Master Yang, his body filled with wounds and blood, his hooves holding his bloody blades. He stumbled and fainted. "Master!" Lightning ran to his side, and asked. "Who did this to you? Is it Dire?" "No, I insisted on fighting Yin, don't worry, he took some serious damage too." chuckled Master Yang. "So this means, the war has ended." Celestia said happily.