Fire rained down around me as I flew through the smoke filled skies. I coughed and choked as I flew, desperate for fresh air.
A ball of flames struck Discord and sent him straight to the ground. Then I felt my wings buckle and snap.
I opened my mouth to scream, but I never got the chance. I slammed into the earth, and was sent skittering across the charred landscape. I tried to stand, but was slammed back into the dirt by an unseen force.
A short distance from where I lay, I could see Discord. He lay on his back, bleeding out, only inches away from where Twilight stood.
The world around her seemed to shift, as if the entire universe was bending to her whims. Cracks of purple lightning seemed to ripple through the air around her. Her eyes glowed, just as they once had when she had been the wielder of Harmony.
She had grown since I last saw her. She looked more regal now, more godlike.
I closed my eyes.
I didn't want to watch.
Although I couldn't see, I could hear. I heard Twilight speak for the first time in forever. Not transmit her thoughts, but speak. For the life of me, I couldn't understand the words, yet knew from whence they came.
"Va'hatah, hamilchama hagedolah bainaynu ba'ah l'suf."
She was speaking to Discord in his native language. A language that had been dead for countless eons before I had even been born. This was... uncanny.
The words seemed to echo in my mind, and my body shook with every syllable. Every letter was like a hammer pounding on my eardrum.
I knew now why Discord never spoke his native tongue.
The very letters that made up the language were blasphemies against nature. It felt as though the air around me had somehow been profaned from the words staining it, and that the fibers of my being had soaked up that profanity.
Then suddenly, the world grew silent. The roar of the flames, the screaming of ponies, the thundering of hoofbeats all in one instant ceased. Only one singular sound pierced through the veil of silence.
A low, painful gasp.
I opened my eyes as much as I was able, and saw Discord gasping, as something bright and ethereal flowed from his eyes and mouth. A second later, he fell to the earth, still and unmoving.
I feared he was dead, but his head slowly lifted up, just before he vanished in a flash of purple light.
The sky began to grow dark, and I watched with a mixture of awe and disgust as a cloud of Changelings descended upon Twilight. There must have been thousands, if not millions of them, headed by their Queen. They swarmed around the goddess, striking with magic, fangs, and chitinous hooves.
She didn't even flinch. Through the black sea of carapaces, a single shaft of violet light arose, reaching high into the atmosphere and beyond my line of sight. This line expanded into a ring, and then expanded outwards, like a ripple on the surface of a lake. In its wake, the Changelings dropped like flies. Those immediately around her fell instantly, while those further out had a few extra seconds before their inevitable death.
All that remained was their Queen.
She looked broken, utterly defeated as she watched her hive perish. It was hard to tell at this distance, but I could have sworn that I saw tears in her eyes.
The Queen without a kingdom let out an earsplitting scream, channeling her sorrow and rage into a powerful burst of magic, delivered directly to Twilight's chest.
Nothing.
Chrysalis was thrown suddenly to the ground, just before Twilight brought a hoof down on her skull, crushing her like an insect.
Then, Twilight turned to me.
I tried to fight.
I tried to run.
I tried to scream.
Nothing.
"I'm not going to kill you."
My entire body went numb from her words. It suddenly dawned on me that it was not Discord's language that had disturbed me so.
It was her voice.
"Not yet."
It was a single voice, and yet it was many voices. It rang out at a volume I scarcely could describe. Like tens of thousands of shouts ringing in my ears in perfect unison.
"You and Discord started this, and plunged Equestria into madness. Its only fitting that all of Equinity should watch as you die."
Her eyes suddenly bored deeply into me, and I felt an intense heat ignite my body. I screamed, and this time my mouth remained open. Through my mouth a viscous, ethereal fluid began to flow. I recognized this feeling.
It was the feeling of magic flowing from one's body.
I tried to resist, but found I was rooted to the spot. Just as suddenly as it had began, it was over. My magic hovered in front of me for a second, then fell into the dirt where it vanished. Before I could even react, Twilight was gone.
I lay on my back against something cold and hard. Gone was the fire, the injured ponies, the charred homes and ashes. In their place was a marble throne room, now fitted with only one throne.
I lay there for what felt like hours. I knew I could move freely now, but I had lost the will to do so. My body was aching, my head was swimming, and my magic was gone. What was there left to fight for? The right to die?
I looked to my right, where Discord now sat. He glanced down at me, sighing softly.
"Took your magic too huh?"
I nodded.
Discord laid on his back, assuming a position similar to mine.
"What I wouldn't give for an ice cream sundae right about now."
I am Princess Luna.
I am nothing.