Author's Note

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, even if it is a bit of a short one. Was written to these.
Celestia's Memories
Dying world by Evening Star.

Celestia's final thoughts as she destroys Equestria.
Reignite by Malukah.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the chapter.

• Silent

Thirty Days part 3a: Inferno.

Celestia sat alone upon the throne of her ruined kingdom, Twilight and the rest of her subjects had long since left through the mirror hours ago. It both relieved and saddened her to know that they would be safe and have a new home, but at too high of a cost.

The Sentiment offered to take care of the problem once everypony was on Earth, but she declined. This was her kingdom, her world…her home, it this world was to be destroyed she would be the one to do it…it was her duty as a princess after all.

The Elements failed to stop the threat, and they were drained of their magic and were nothing more than powerless shells that crumbed into dust for the effort.

Discord’s chaos magic had nothing against them, and he paid the ultimate price in his efforts to save as many as he could. His death had been devastating on everyone.

Her own sister Luna had willingly succumbed to the nightmare once again in an effort to fight back, she had won but it was a hollow victory, the damage had been done and she had vanished with the false moon in the climactic battle.

Her royal guard was devastated; the crystal kingdom was wiped out, the changelings all but extinct, the griffons, dragons and everything else…just gone and consumed by those monsters.

Celestia had hated the Sentiment when he first appeared; to her a Sentiment only brought death. She hated the fact he had come in a last effort to save them. She remembered his words and she just couldn’t hate him anymore.

“And just what would you know about sacrifice!” She remembered, “What you’re asking for is impossible!” The look in his face was one of anger.

“Don’t you dare tell me about sacrifice!” He roared back at her, “Tell me about sacrifice when you have watched everyone you have loved die, and become twisted into something monstrous! To stand back and watch your home be reduced to nothing but a lifeless husk! To fight a losing battle against everyone you love and know there was no way to save them! To feel that pain! That loss! As you lay there dying! To be the one who destroys your own home just so this never happens again! And to not even remember the faces of those you loved or why you loved them!”

Celestia sighed she could understand him better now; she had made many sacrifices over her long live but never on the scale of that.

“This world is destined to fall into greater chaos.” She repeated to herself remembering Discord’s last words, “But I think I would destroy that world myself, it just wouldn’t…be home.”

“Do you expect me to give up on my wife and my sister because they’re frail? I refuse to accept that.” She recalled Shining Armour declaring, “I’ll wipe out anyone who even thinks of trying to hurt them!”

“I’ll protect you Cadance, Twilight!!” Were his last words as he charged the monsters to save his wife and sister.

Her calm composure had finally shattered when Luna had disappeared after her battle against the false moon.

“Luna?” She cried, “LUNA!!!” Celestia had finally snapped, “Damn it! DAMN IT!! DAMN IT!!! GIVE ME LUNA! GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER!” She remembered roaring in her fury. She raged against the creatures firing searing hot blast after blast of magic. “THAT’S. ENOUGH! JUST. FUCKING. DIE!!!”

Her scream had echoed throughout all of world, showing everyone that she had finally broken. It wasn’t long after that the Sentiment had appeared, and offered her a way to save what was left.

“One more chance, with all our power behind you. Our hopes, our dreams, every last thing on this planet is on your shoulders now.” She remembered telling the Sentiment.

Celestia awoke from the thoughts, and made her way through the empty throne room, the countless hallways and corridors of the now empty castle. It was time and there was no way to avoid what needed to be done.

She reached the highest point of the castle, the balcony of her private chambers, and looked on at the lifeless wasteland her home had become. It was a maelstrom of lightning, wind and rain. The roar of the echoing thunder, and mourning winds was Equestria’s plight for the pain to stop.

Pitch black clouds smothered the skies; the howling shrieks of the monsters could be heard in the distance. Celestia shut her eyes to remember what her home once was.

A few moments had passed and her eyes shot open with an ethereal glow of her primal fury. She took a deep breath and roared in the Royal Canterlot Voice.

“YOU MONSTERS DARE TO COME INTO MY HOME! TWIST MY KINGDOM AND EVERYPONY I LOVE AND SWORE TO PROTECT! YOU MONSTERS HAVE TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING THAT I LOVE! I AM THE RULER OF THIS KINGDOM, AND THIS WORLD! AND I SHALL NOT LET YOUR EVIL GO NO FURTHER AND UNPUNISHED!”

Her decree was met with a silence of the monsters cries, they heard her loud and clear.

“Now every last one of you…burn.”

The cold finality of her voice was the last thing she spoke before being engulfed in flames that swelled to the size of the castle and took one the shape of a phoenix, before taking off into the sky parting the clouds as she shattered them.

Her immolated form grew to engulf all of world, as the wings wrapped themselves around the planet ensuring there would be no escape from her wrath.

The clouds burned away, the very air ignited, the ground rose and tore itself from its roots and crumbled away into ash piece by piece. The monsters screamed and howled as they were slowly cooked and incinerated by her scorn and wrath. Celestia took her time, making sure those monsters would feel every last bit of her sorrow, rage and loss.

Firestorms consumed and ravaged what was left of the former homes. Rivers, lakes and oceans boiled and evaporated until there was no water left. Beaches and deserts became glass, shattered and crumbled into nothing. Fireballs rained down upon the lands obliterating everything in their path.

In finality everything was consumed in a blinding light, as Celestia drove what was left of the burning planet into the heart of the sun, causing the sun to slowly grow into a red giant as she expelled and fed every last bit of her magic into making sure that every last trace of them from the face every planet that orbited her sun.

Each planet crumbled away into ashes as they were burned and consumed by the giant as it became larger and larger, soon it grew to the point it had consumed everything in its path before it finally exploded in a supernova and began to collapse on itself becoming a black hole.

Celestia was spent and fell into the heart and slowly faded in a trail of sparkling lights. She had a small smile as her last thoughts before she lost consciousness were.

“I’ll see you again soon Luna…"

A crack in space opened up and pulled Celestia into it, saving her from being crushed by the sheer gravity of the newly formed black hole.