"Sister how could you!" Luna screamed.
"Ah Celestia now do you see how your actions can come back to haunt you" A voice rang in her head.
"Luna please listen to me, he was.."
"What? Acting like he has feelings and isn't cold hearted!"
"Please sister don't make me.."
"What, try and banish her again?" The alicorn laughed. "You don't have control over the Elements of
Harmony anymore." He said as he drew nearer to her.
Celestia tried to cast a spell but she was too exhausted from the battle.
"You always were the weaker one Celestia." He said as he kick a guard out of his way. "Only because
you were the eldest did they give you the control over the sun."
"Auroran please, it doesn't have to end like this."
"Ah but it does."
"Please no.." Celestia's breath was forced out of her as Auroran's magic rapped around her, lifting
her into the air.
"Celestia do you know what its like to be blind for a thousand years?" Having the whole world
change around you and not being able to see it, only knowing darkness?" A twisted smile formed
on his face. "No of course you wouldn't know how that would feel."
Celestia was slammed against the stone floor, blood spilled out of her mouth."Oh but you will." A evil
laugh echoed through out the throne room.
"Auroran dear why don't you show my dear sister what it feels like to be blinded for so long." Luna
suggested with a evil grin as she slid her hoof down his chest.
"Ah my dear midnight star that's a wonderful idea." His black eyes falling upon Celestia.
"Enjoy the darkness Celestia." He said as a evil light glinted across his eyes.
"AURORAN PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!" She screamed as her eyes where ripped from there sockets.
"AAAHHH!" Pain shot through her. Auroran cast her body to the ground as she writhed in pain.
"Now, now sister here let me help you." Celestia felt something cold press against her neck.
"By ending your life like you tried to do to my Auroran."
Celestia felt a sharp pain as Luna sliced open her neck.
"PLEASE NO!" Celestia eyes shot open. She was breathing heavy, her body was covered in a cold sweat.
"What have I done?" She sobbed in fear as she griped her head, trying to tell herself it was just a dream.
o~o~O~O~o~o
"Miss Luna I don't know what he looked like." Treblen said as he sat across from the moon goddess.
"I just found this laying on my violin case and a note telling me that you would be here an to give you
that flower.
"Are you sure there was nothing else?" Luna was siting on the edge of her seat, she was so close to
seeing her love again.
"I'm sorry but that was all that was there."
Luna's heart sank. She had been hoping that there would have been more for her to go on.
"You said you found it on your violin case correct?"
"Yes that's where I found it."
"Could you bring it to me?"
"What the violin?"
"Yes I need to see if is his please."
Treblen was a little confused on how she was going to tell if it was this Auroran's instrument but he did
as he was asked and he got up to fetch it.
"Princess if I may ask how do you know if it really is this pony you think it is?" The sand colored
pegasus asked. He had been silent for most of the conversation.
"What is your name pegasus?"
"Its Hayden miss Luna." He replied.
"Well Hayden in truth I don't know. Its been a thousand years since I've seen his face, but in my heart I
know its him, I hope at least."
Hayden just sighed. "That's all we can do it seems now a days princess."
Luna was going to ask Hayden something when the stone colored pony entered the room with the
case in his mouth.
"Here princess." Treblen said through clenched teeth placing the case on the table in front of her.
Luna glanced over the exterior of the case. It seemed too simple in design to be his Luna thought.
She reach down to open it but when her hoof touched the gold latch the case was enveloped in light.
When the glow subsided Luna's heart felt as if it was about to beat out of her chest. The case before was
just plain black leather was now had a complex design over it. At its center was a picture of her and
Auroran on that Hearts and Hooves day. The case click open and laying on the black violin was a piece
of yellow parchment.
Luna picked up the paper and opened it. In his scroll it read:
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Dear Luna if you found this you are on the right track, let the love in your heart guide you.
Its been so long since I've seen my moon goddess and my heart has ached every moment
we have been apart. Come and find me my midnight star I'll be waiting for you like I always
have.
Love Auroran Skies
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Tears began to roll out of her eyes. After a thousand years of waiting she was going to be reunited
with her love.
It was dusk when Luna set out again. Her guards had protested fiercely about her going on by
herself but she knew this was something she had to do.
"Princess what your asking goes against our sworn oath."One of the guards protested.
"I know but I feel I must go in alone for this."
"It could be a trap you highness."
"Theres always that possibility but I'm still going." Luna made her way to the edge of the platform to
take flight but her guards stood their ground.
"Princess we can not allow you to..." There was flash of hazel behind the two guards, the sound of
an impact and the guards crumpled to the ground.
"Princess Luna I would recommend getting some better guards." Hayden said as he pulled one
of the unconscious guards out of her way.
"Was that really necessary?" Treblen asked as he dragged along the other one.
"No, but it worked" He replied with a smile.
"Well princess I think you should be going, it would rude to keep Auroran waiting if he's waited a
thousand years for you."
Luna was struck speechless, the pony's she had just met had knocked out her guards, but she
understood why.
"What you have done will have you both thrown in to the equestrian dungeon for the rest of your lives."
"Yes it would princess, but something we call love is worth such a risk." Hayden said with a smile.
"I thank you for your help."A smile came across her face as she spread her wings and pushed hard
against the air. "May our paths cross again someday." She shouted down as she rose higher into
the sky.
"Yeah but next time over a better set of circumstance's." Treblen yelled back.
They waved goodbye as they watched her soar off into the direction of the Everfree forest.
"We should probably get out of here while they're still knocked out." Treblen suggested as he looked
back at the two guards.
"Yeah there going to be more then a little upset with me when they wake up." Hayden chuckled as
they both took off into a gallop.
o~o~O~O~o~o
Celestia's eyes were open but all around her was darkness. She tried to move her head but found
her body was frozen as stone.
"Well, well, well, looks like your awake." A familiar voice rang through her head. "You make it far to
easy." It chuckled.
Celestia tried to speech but she had no voice within her throat.
"Oh are you not use to being second chair Celestia? Ha ha haha! Ah but soon you will no longer be
needed in Equestria, for your reign is nearly at its end. Oh but whats the fun if I can't hear you beg
for your pathetic life."
There was a loud pop and Celestia felt her voice return.
"What do you plan on doing Auroran?" She wheezed out.
"Ha ha ha, always to the point Celestia." The voice seemed to resonate all around her, not having
a origin but having no end.
"The answer is quite simple really, I plan on finishing what my love started all those years ago."
"You wouldn't! The repercussions would be......"
"AH HA HA HAHA!"
"You monster you'll kill millions!"
"Yes and its all thanks to you." Auroran said, stepping out of the darkness.
Celestia's eyes failed her, what stood before her was no longer the Auroran form her memory's but
a being born from the darkest pits of hell.
"Whats wrong Celestia? AFRAID OF THE DARK!"
Its charred skull was mere inch's from her face. Its eyes black as coal smouldered the flames of hate.
"Or are you afraid of what you have created?" Its bloody jaws clicked as its razor sharp fangs twisted
into a evil grin.
"What happened to you Auroran?"
"Have you already forgotten your little fire spell?" He said, as he drew back from her. "That day you
tried to kill me you showed me how deluded my thinking was. To think I was blinded by a silly thing
called love. A love that I thought would be eternal."
Its black body moved closer to her. The smell of rotting corpses filled her nose.
"But you showed me how foolish I was when you took my love away and burned it out of me."
"Auroran I..." Celestia felt one of his leather wing slide down her neck.
"Its a little late Celestia." He whispered as spikes grew from the end of his wings.
"THE DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE!"
o~o~O~O~o~o
Luna was flying over the final rise in the Everfree forest when she heard it.
"Claro de luna." the whisper escaped her lips.
As she landed on the viewing deck the ground began to shake violently. Then before her eyes
Evercity transformed back to that Hearts and Hooves day. All the faces from a thousand years
ago were walking by her as if that day was just unfolding. Next to her stood the ghostly image
of her love.
"It seems like I'm always waiting for you." His voice seeming distant called out. "But I wouldn't
have it any other way." When he turned Luna saw the image of herself standing there before him.
"And neither would I." She said as the two phantom pony's kissed and drifted away in the wind.
Luna couldn't find words to explain what she had just saw. Then out of the corner of her eye
she saw them again. They were heading to where they had waltzed. Luna took off after them.
"Their leading me to where he is." Luna huffed as she tried to catch up with the phantom lovers.
But when she reached the top of the hill where they had danced her heart drained of the hope
she had been holding on to for so long. There before her sat a tombstone that bared his name.
"No" Luna's eyes filled with tears. "All this time he was...."
Luna collapsed. She had come so far only to find that her love she had longed to see again
was dead.
"Why did you have to make me go through this for nothing?" Her sobs come heavily as she
tried to breath. Her heart felt cold and empty the last spark of warmth fizzled out.
"Have some faith in me princess." A voice whispered behind her.
Luna bolted up right at the sound of the voice.
There, standing behind her was Auroran the ailcorn that she loved so much.
A smile drifted across his face."Time has been good to you Luna" He smiled, as he pulled the hood
that covered his face.
"But time has not been so easy on me Luna. The thousand years you have been gone have done
there damage."
Luna now facing him saw what he meant. Both of his eyes were milky white.
"Auroran what..." She fell silent as she gazed into the eyes she had missed for so long.
"But there is one thing that hasn't changed." He said as he put his hoof under her chin. "My love
for you is still as strong as it was the day you first stole my heart Luna my love. He leaned down
and kissed her, his eyes clearing showing the love that had been waiting for all this time for her.
Luna felt her heart burning bright again with the love she had missed for so long, for the first time
in a thousand years she didn't feel alone.
"I love you Auroran Skies" She whispered as she laid her head against his chest.
"I love you too my midnight star." His sapphire eyes closing as a little hum filled the air.
With a flash of his horn they were bathed in the soft light of a million lunar roses and lotuses as
the melody played through the darkness. Together again and that was all that mattered to them
as they held each other close.