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// 13 Trust 
// Story: Moon's shadow 
// by Znegil 
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My attempt to knock out the unicorn stallion without him noticing me failed. He was surprised enough to not deflect the ball of Midnight Shadow, but he could defend himself very well against my attacks. His shouting must have alarmed anypony else here, but had no time to look around. He didn't seem to have much experience in none magic fighting, nor did I, but I could exploit my bigger body size and the reach coming with that. I could hit him a few times to the head while I heard some beam hitting the snow quite near to us. Finally I knocked him out.

'aT lEAST sOME aCTION!', I heard the voice in my head but ignored it.

I turned around to look how Alex was doing, just in time to see him running straight into a big unicorn stallion and falling to the ground in front of him... unfortunately on the other side of the plateau.

'yOU cOULD nEVER gET tHERE iN tIME'

I winced when he got a kick to his head as he tried to stand up again.

'lOOKS lIKE yOUR lITTLE fRIEND iS iN tROUBLE, yOU kNOW... i cOULD hELP hIM wITH mY mAGIC.'

'I can't trust you at all, maybe he gets out of this situation'

In terror I saw the stallion stomp on his head.

"NOOOOO!", I screamed.

'i pROMISE i wILL sAVE hIM fROM tHIS sTALLION'

I panicked, there was nothing I could do to help him. I couldn't let him die like this.

"Die, pitiful creature!", he shouted as he stomped hard on him again.

'tHIS iS yOUR oNLY aND lAST cHANCE tO sAVE hIM fROM dEATH!'

I looked at my sister a last time. I was so sorry for taking this path.

All my mental barriers I had so carefully constructed while she was weak, to keep 'her' from ever gaining control over me again, I removed them all. I gave up all defense and surrendered.

'Do it...'

Instantly she washed over my helpless mind with the power of a tidal wave.

Now I was the small voice again, the small weak voice just watching how her body was used.

I felt her gathering immense power focused toward the red haired unicorn stallion, she wanted to be back with a bang. 

Blinding light raced towards the stallion and hit him mid-air as he jumped up to finish Alex. He made a terrible sound as he disintegrated and was wiped out of existence.

I could only watch, as she passed a terrified Celestia and walked to where Alex was lying in the snow.

"hELLO, i tHINK wE hAVE nOT bEEN iNTRODUCED tO eACH oTHER."


----O_O----

"No, that can not be. Luna that isn't you."

I was in shock seeing her like this, she looked so dark and scary, her appearance had lost all kindness.

"wELL, lUNA iS nO mORE, sHE gAVE hERSELF tO mE sO i wOULD sAVE yOU fROM dEATH."

'No! Luna, why did you do this, why for me?'

"i rEALLY hAVE tO tHANK yOU, nOT oNLY fOR bRINGING mE bACK, bUT tO eNSURE mY rEIGN oVER eQUESTRIA aS wELL. cELESTIA iS hELPLESS aT mY hOOVES, i cAN kILL hER wITH eASE." 

I was surprised to notice villains really do love to monolog. It gave me the opportunity to gather a bit strength again and get into a squatting position.

"oNCE sHE iS dEAD, iT wILL bE eASY tO gO bACK tO cANTERLOT aND dESTROYING tHE eLEMENTS oF hARMONY, i sAW wHERE cELESTIA lOCKED tHEM iN."

She looked at me directly and gave me an evil smile.

"yOU hAVE tO dIE tOO oF cOURSE, yOUR aBILITY iS a bIT aLARMING."

"Luna, I know you are in there. You have to be strong and fight her, Equestria needs you, your sister needs you."

"lUNA iS nO mORE yOU fOOL!", she said while walking towards me.

I knew if I were standing right now, I would be slightly bigger than her, but she looked huge to me at this moment.

And suddenly in the face of death and doom for Equestria, everything was clear to me, all the feelings and thoughts that had been tangled in my mind, I saw them all so clear.

"I need you.", I addressed the creature in front of me.
"I love you Luna.
Please come back to me."

I saw the surprise in her face, then different feeling started to appear in fast sequence. I saw enough of Luna in it to give me hope that I was right and that there was hope in what I was about to do.

I jumped towards her, her horn lit up on instinct to keep me away, but that didn't work of course. I locked my arms around her neck, and I started to kiss her deeply. She tried to use her front legs to kick me away, but I was to close to her, without the support of all her legs she tumbled with me to the ground.

All I did was holding on as much as I could, thinking of Luna while kissing her. Her sharp teeth cut my tongue so I could taste my blood, while my eyes were locked on hers, searching for a change.

Finally she stopped struggling, and a light blue glow radiated from her body. Her kiss got soft and loving while she changed back into her normal self. Neither of us broke this kiss while we lay together in the snow. Never before had I felt so close to another being.

After what felt like a happy eternity our lips finally parted.
"Thank you for believing in me.", she said.

"Everything I said was true Luna, you will never have to feel alone again, I will always be there for you... if you want me to...", I said.

Suddenly I was less sure if she felt the same way, she was a pony princess from another world, we couldn't be more different.
"Oh, I would like this very much.", she said smiling and my heart leaped with joy.

Celestia coughed slightly.
"I don't want to interrupt you two, but maybe you could unchain me, and we could tie up the other three before they wake up again."

I had a hard time averting my eyes of Luna's face.
"Oh yeah, sure."
I walked over to her and looked at the chain while Luna started to tie up the others.

I examined how I could unchain her when she leaned close to me and whispered: "Thank you for what you did, my sister is everything to me."

"I feel the same way towards her...", I answered. 

There was no way to break this chain, so I searched the tent for some minutes before I found a key ring.

Luna had tied up the remaining stallions and stood next to Tia hugging her.

"I hope it is one of these.", I said approaching them.
After some attempts she was finally free.

I looked down the mountain.
"To bad your magic isn't back yet, it would make getting down much easier..."

Luna gave me a peck on the cheek.
"I found something way better here than magic."