The next day, Luna awoke early for the spell. She had her things packed and she was waiting in the throne room alongside her sister for the mane six to arrive. Though they all agreed that Fluttershy should accompany Luna to the new dimension, the rest of the Elements of Harmony insisted to join their friend to Canterlot to say their goodbye. Luna was beyond nervous as her sister tried to calm her fears, "Don't threat, little sister. Everything will turn out alright in the end,"
The Equestrian ruler nuzzled the smaller alicorn for reassurance, causing the Night Princess to give a small smile of gratitude. Luna was thankful to have an older sibling as kind as Celestia. She knew that her sister would no matter what do the best things just for her.
The alicorns were interrupted from their private calm when the room door opened up to reveal the mane six. All of them except for Fluttershy looked worse than the previous day; they looked exhausted, sick, and their coats looked as though there was no color in them whatsoever. It pained the two immortals to see their friends in that state.
Gracefully, Celestia and Luna flew down from the pedestal that Celestia's throne stood and joined the group. Luna noticed that Fluttershy was wearing her element around her neck, she had a saddlebag around her back, and that on top of her head sat a snow white rabbit who had a face only a mother could love. Without waiting for a greeting, Princess Celestia asked, "Ready?"
Everypony in the group, including Luna, nodded their heads. With little effort, the Sun Princess used her magic to close the doors and curtains to make the room dark again, but with the levitating table illuminating the middle of the room. However, before the ponies walked towards it, Celestia levitated up another object; an old but fancy hand-held mirror, "Take this mirror with you. It is your only connection to Equestria,"
Luna took the mirror with her own magic and examined it, "How does it work?" Luna eyed the mirror than her sister, Fluttershy spoke next, "Um...Yes, uh..h-how does it work and can we use it anytime?" Celestia shook her head at the question, "No. You cannot use it whenever. It can only be used on a full moon. And how it works is by magic. You have to say only this, 'Show home,' and it should show me to you two above that table," Celestia gestured to the table in the center of the room that was giving them light.
Luna put the mirror in her saddle bag as she turned to face her sister, but was instead met by a tight embrace from the tall alicorn ruler. Luna was stunned for a few short moments before returning the hug, "Don't worry, Tia. We'll get back the elements and bring Sombra down," Luna looked over to see the six friends also embrace each other as they said goodbye, "We know ya'll can do it, sugarcube," "Yeah, go and pound Sombra's face into the ground for me!" "Indeed. We have complete confidence in you, darling" "Don't forget to have fun! Oh and bring me candy when you get back," "We are right here for you,"
Even though the mane six's words of encouragement were weak, Luna could tell that they meant every word. Once everypony were ready for the spell, Luna and Fluttershy stood on top of the table as Twilight put up a force field around herself, her friends, and Celestia so they wouldn't get sucked in by the portal. Celestia then began to bring an old sheet of paper towards her as she spoke the words of the spell, which could not be heard by the two mares on the table.
The spell must have worked though, because Luna and Fluttershy felt a strong current of force pulling them into what looked like a black hole! The two ponies were terrified, although Luna quickly got over it. She knew her sister would never send her into a black hole that could hurt her or anypony else. she looked around to see that Fluttershy was yelling at a high pitch as her stuff was being scattered in all directions.
Fluttershy was regretting going into the portal; she knew it was for the good of her friends and Equestria, but she didn't expect it to be this terrifying. Angel was clinging on to her mane for dear life as the yellow pegasus went deeper and deeper into the abyss. Fluttershy could feel a few strand tears leak out of her eyes as they floated above her do to the gravity. The pony was about to let out another scream before she felt a pair of wings enlace around her. She opened her eyes to see Luna smiling at her reassuringly as the alicorn flew straight to the opening at the end of the portal.
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The creature was so strong; it had come out of nowhere and was now battling the Teen Titans like a bull. They were all being flung, thrown, tossed, and punched around with no mercy whatsoever. This was the fourth time this week that an unexplained beast has been attacking the city. None of the titans could explain what was going on. Sure, there would be an evil monster who is either controlled by a villain, or just wants to eat people, but this was getting ridiculous!
"We need to retreat, Robin! I don't think we can stop this thing!" Beast Boy shouted to his leader as he dodged another punch from the monster. Robin was too busy strangling one of the creature's tentacles to respond to Beast Boy. The green hero looked to see that Cyborg and Starfire were shooting beams of electricity and green flames at the creature's mouth, only to have it swallow the beams with no effect.
Raven couldn't help but agree with Beast Boy's claim, but she was not going to give up that easily; using her telekinesis powers, the caped superhero surrounded the biggest object she could find; a statue of the founder of the city. Using all of her strength, Raven through the statue straight at the beast's green, demented eye. Hitting the monster hard enough to make it fall hard on the pavement, the Teen Titans went to the ground to examine their fallen opponent, only to find that it grew smaller and mutate into a strange mist.
The strange mist zoomed off down an ally, but not before Starfire speeded after it and was able grab a piece of it before it vanished for good, "Friends, what do you think this means?" "I don't know, Starfire. But, don't worry. We WILL stop whatever is going on here," Robin stood next to his girlfriend to try to get a better idea of where the smoke went off too. He then took the piece Starfire was able to get from the creature, "Okay, Titans. We have a new objective: to figure out what all these creatures are and where they are coming from," Robin held up the strand piece of mist to his team mates.
Raven approached what Robin was holding, but when she did she felt an extreme headache overtake her as she crumbled to the ground, only to have Beast Boy catch her, "Uh...th-that thing. It..it is made from dark magic..." Raven winced in pain before passing out in Beast Boy's arms.
The group was dumbfounded; they had never seen Raven so affected by anything as small as an unknown mist. Not to mention that she said that it was created by black magic. This was a sign that whatever they were dealing with, it was not just another minor problem like they've dealt with in the past; this was an emergency that they had to stop before it was too late. The question was: If a little patch of smoke could cause Raven to pass out, then what would it do if it got stronger?
The team was just about to go back to Titan Tower when Cyborg stopped them, "Guys, stop. Listen, can you hear that?" the group listened for a minute before they heard a distant "HELP!" and bolted to their feet with the exception of Beast Boy, who still had Raven in his grasp. Robin was the first to speak, "Titans,go!"
The Titans rushed to the end of the allyway and turned to the right, only to find a shocking discovery.
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The portal opened up to allow Luna and Fluttershy, along with their saddlebags enter through. Luna landed gracefully on the hard ground, while the bags and Angel plopped on it with a little thud. For a moment, Luna found that it was hard to breath, so she checked her back to find that Fluttershy was gripping onto her neck and was shaking her tail off, "Uh...Fl-utter-sh-y, I-can't-BREATH!"
Fluttershy opened one eye to see that they were safe and on the ground. Frantically, the shy pegasus yanked her front hooves away from the princess's neck, "Oh dear! I am so sorry, your majesty! I didn't mean to!" Fluttershy quickly got off of Luna's back to observe their surroundings, "Where are we?"
The Moon Princess gaped at all the buildings around them; they were nothing like what the princess has ever seen! That was really saying something considering that she has lived for more than a thousand years, but the atmosphere was just too new and strange. Some of the buildings were even taller than Canterlot Castle!
The princess was interrupted by her sightseeing however, when she heard a scream from Fluttershy, "AAAAHHHH!!! WHAT IN CELESTIA'S NAME IS THAT!!!???" Fluttershy was pointing at a huge monster that was terrorizing the city and destroying some of the buildings. Luna was glued to the spot, before a car smashed right next to her! She knew that this was not a safe area to be in, so the true leader in her came out, "Fluttershy, follow me and be on the lookout for falling objects and anything out of the ordinary apart from THAT thing!" Luna and Fluttershy bolted in the opposite direction of the monster, taking flight once they were a safe distance away.
In mid flight, Luna halted and turned back in the direction of the beast, only to have Fluttershy stop with her, "Keep going! I'm going to try something and I don't want you to get hurt!" Luna flew straight towards the rampaging monster as she gathered up all the energy she could muster and shot at the creature, causing it to fall to the ground. The Night Princess watched from afar as she witness about five smaller creatures wearing strange clothing cornered the beast as it started to turn into nothing more than a purple mist.
Before she could go back to Fluttershy, Luna saw that the mist zoomed away at lighting speed. She knew she had to follow it, even if it wasn't her business. For all she knew, that 'thing' could be apart of King Sombra's magic, and she would have just let get away like it didn't matter. Luna speeded after it, flying past Fluttershy as she shouted, "Come on! We can't let that thing get away!"
Fluttershy reluctantly followed, picking up Angel and zooming as fast as her wings could take her. Together, the two ponies were flying at high speeds to get the mist before it was out of their vision. Luna spotted the smoke go down an ally and quickly gained on it's tracks.
However, when Luna turned down the ally she was met with the mist purposefully shooting into her head, which caused an extreme sensation of pain overtake her as she knocked into some trash cans! The princess weized and winced at every movement she made. Nearby, she could hear her companion gasp in horror as she blacked out. The only word she heard was, "Help!"