The Destruction of Harmony

by Jchg7

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Princess Celestia, Dark, Twilight Sparkle, Sad, Main 6, Princess Luna, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 4199

The one thing that could Destroy the Elements and their holders is released.

-----Written by Cut N Edit------ Updated on Saturdays
Twilight Sparkle and her friends have finally brought Equestria to near complete peace, but when the Nightmares find a way to Canterlot, they may have a way to finish off the Elements of Harmony and their holders once and for all, but this time, they aren't after Luna.

Published 2013-07-23 09:10:03 UTC
Last updated 2013-09-18 21:09:45 UTC

The meeting

The Destruction of Harmony

Darkness had shrouded the land, Ponyville was in ruins, hell, all of Equestria was in ruins and the only one left was Princess Twilight Sparkle she trotted into the ruins tears in her eyes, this was the first time she'd returned in years, and this was all that was left, she was alone now, well alone except for the one who started this, the one who had began it all, 3 short years ago.

***

Screams filled Canterlot's castle, to origins of which were from none other than Celestia's bedroom, a cold sweat came over her as she awoke from her dreams, eyes wide, and breathing heavily. Luna rushed in, obviously worried about her sister, this wasn't the first morning she'd awoken like this, and her health was deteriorating, even when she was sleeping it was restless and she was loosing her mind, sure it was slowly, but she was still losing it. "My sister, are you alright?" Luna rushed to her sister's side, to which Celestia replied,
"It was the dream again, I was destroying Luna, killing my subjects, destroying the many villages and cities, and Canterlot fell, many tried to stop me, but I just couldn't be...I don't want this future Luna, I don't," She cried softly into her pillow as Luna patted her back, comforting her sister, but she recognized the nightmare's the feeling of breaking, the preminitions of death, and she felt that this was something she could attempt to stop before it began.

***

Twilight Sparkle and her friends arrived at Canterlot's Castle for an emergency meeting, spear headed by Princess Luna, she was not told exactly why the Elements were needed, but she knew that it was urgent and she should probably make herself present. It had been a year now since she had defeated the greatest threat in Equestria history, and seen her friends, as they began to flood out of the train she made it a point to get to them as quick as possible, embracing them all, noticing they all had their elements, as she had. "It's great to see you girls again, it's been a long year, and I'm so glad I get to see you again," Pinkie was the first to respond,
"Oh my goodness Twilight it's been forever and I'm sure we've all missed you so much, I for one have been all mopesy dopesy, trying to meet up with you again, but the cakes have been running me left and right and-" AppleJack covered her mouth.
"Twi, as Pinkie Pie said, I'm sure we've all been missin' you, but we need to get inside and get to this meetin' right?" Twilight nodded and they headed inside.

***

"Princess Twilight Sparkle, and friends, I thank you for coming on such short notice, a threat to all of Equestria is rapidly growing, and they're the same creature that brought fourth Nightmare Moon, the Nightmares," The group Gasped as one Twilight being the one to respond,
"B-but Princess Luna, we saved you from the Nightmare's we assumed they had been defeated,"
"As I had assumed, but, they appear to have a new target..."
"And that target would be?"
"my sister."

The Coma sets

2

The quiet had swept across the room, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, none of the ponies had an idea how to respond to what princess Luna had said, even Pinkie, who was bouncing around with excitement to see all of her best friends in the world, had lost her party demeanor and was sitting with her tail between her legs. Twilight looked as if she was going to explode, her face now represented that of fear, pure fear, the kind of fear when you were a child and left alone in your house for the first time, she shuddered, "Princess Luna, what exactly are we looking at here?" Luna was as afraid as she was, though there was one thing in her expression that no other pony had shone, hurt, she obviously knew of the dark future that was ahead if the Nightmares got a hold of Celestia and what'd they use her body to do to the world. "Twilight Sparkle, if we do not stop the Nightmares before they take control of my sister, they will start by using her to murder me, and the castle guards, ten she'll begin to destroy Canterlot, but she won't stop there, she'll go for Ponyville, killing everyone there, staining the pavement in crimson, crumbling buildings, and ripping it from the earth, then she'll continue until all of Equestria, and the world is destroyed..." the Ponies all stared at their princess in shock, terror, and sadness, now knowing that such a wonderful, kind, loveable, princess would be the bringer of Armageddon, death and dismay, and the sworn enemy of pony kind. No, no this wouldn't be the work of their princess, this would be the work of a creature that had sucked the life from her, and used her hollow shell to do their bidding, Twilight and her friends knew what their mission was, to destroy the Nightmares before it began.
"Luna, I think me and all of the girls agree, we are willing to do anything to stop Celestia's fall into the dark pits of the Nightmares, so what shall we do to help her?"
"Princess Twilight Sparkle, you are to be flown to the moon, along with your friends, I however will not be joining you, for 1. I need to watch over my sister, and 2. I can not return to the moon, for the nightmares will attempt to destroy me," and with that Luna trotted out of the room to leave the girls to discuss what their plan of action was. Twilight began to cry, it seemed as if her whole world was crashing around her, her mentor whom she had loved, was going to become an unstoppable killing machine, and there wasn't a single thing she could do about it, Seeing their friend crying her friends went up to comfort the purple princess pony. Applejack spoke up,
"Twi, were going to the moon to do whatever it takes to stop the take over, and we'll stop at nothing to kill these hideous creatures." now it was Rainbow Dash,
"Yeah, we'll be able to stop the Nightmare's again, after all we have our elements, AND my awesomeness on our side," She got a smirk on her face,
"Yeah Dashie's right, we'll stop those nightmare's for celestia!" agreed the pink pony as she bounced around with excitement. Little did they know, that in the royal Bedroom of Celestia, she was beginning to lose the war against her nightmares, drifting into a restless coma, she repeats only one set of phrases, "Luna, I love, Luna, my sister, Luna."

"It's all your fault,"

4

Silence. pure silence was all that could be heard from the cart, as Twilight Sparkle was feeling the guilt soak into her, it had to moved somewhere, so she decided that it would be given to the sky colored pony. "It's all your fault you know, Rainbow Dash..." Rainbow's eyes widened, hurt by what her friend just said, it burned so deep that her sadness quickly turned to curiosity,
"W-what do you mean Twilight?"
"Rarity. more specifically the fact you could've caught her, should've caught her, but you didn't!" tears burned in her eyes when she realized that she was breaking a bridge with one of her best friends, meanwhile Rainbow Dash's curiosity changed to a new emotion, Rage.
"No I couldn't have Twilight, I was thrown into the pile with the other girls, by the time I was out of the pile she was already gone, and besides you have wings and didn't catch her, what's you excuse?!" Twilight had no rebuttal to this and just sat there sobbing to herself, the rest of the ride to the moon was silent.

***

Celestia was still in her coma back in Canterlot, Luna by her side, holding her hoof, sobbing herself, her sister was obviously slowly losing her body to the nightmares, Luna could see her body forming, she stepped out of the room, and immediately smashed a pot, screaming as loud as possible, "Maybe those girls can't save the day, maybe this was giving them a bit more then they could chew, now I have to lose my sister to those damn parasites, feeding off of her fears, taking over her body." She began tearing down photos off of the wall in a fit of rage, causing a ruckus among the royal guards, she sighed, still crying, one of the royal guards walked up to her,
"Princess Luna, is everything okay?"
"No...whatever the nightmares are doing...it's working..."

***

Celestia was in the royal court room thrashing about trying to break free, Twilight Cackling at this, something Celestia had never seen her do, "former Princess Celestia, I wouldn't try to free yourself from those, though if you do try it'll make the trial for sending you to the moon much more quick, would you like that?" Celestia glared at Twilight,
"Twilight Sparkle why are you doing this?!" The purple pony's grin grew even more wicked as she cleared her throat to begin her story.
"It all began when you crowned me to be the ruler of Equestria once you would step down from your duties, but you slowly began trying to murder me in different ways, or hiring royal guard to do it, so I told Luna, she confronted you and you admitted to it...so we both decided this was the best decision for you, the Moon, and complete banishment..." Luna stared on at her sister in depression, tears filling her eyes, meanwhile Celestia still thrashed about, trying to escape, thinking of Slitting Twilight sparkle's pretty little throat.

Split up

5

The chariot was brought to a screeching hault on the lunar surface, the 5 ponies stepped out, Twilight and Rainbow Dash still refusing to even look at each other. The Royal guard was the one to cut the tension and speak first, "you only have until the morning to get back to the chariot, after the moon leaves Equestria, Luna can no longer help in any way." Twilight nodded and the 5 began walking, for what was minutes stretching into half hours stretching into hours, Twilight was at this point beginning to get annoyed, the guilt once again, it was one of her issues, she'd get fixated on one thing and, wouldn't quit with it until it was finished bothering her, she now turned her attention to the yellow pony who was prominently hiding behind applejack, cowering in fear.
"Fluttershy, would you mind going to the far side of the moon and looking for the nightmares?" Fluttershy nearly screamed with fear,
"B-but, I can't go to the far side of the moon, I mean...I'm afraid of the dark, and the moon, and the nightmares, and..." the last excuse was just a barely audible squeak. Twilight sighed, deciding to try and be nice, Fluttershy was, after all, the toughest to get into scary situations,
"I know flutter shy, but I need you to please bare with me here and go and look for the nightmares, we only have a short amount of time to save all of Equestria, so please, we'll all split up and look for the nightmares." she smile at the other girls pleadingly, Pinkie, at this point, was busy speaking with one of the locals on the moon, who then walked off never to be seen again. Pinkie then nodded at Twilight, Apple Jack thought for a second,
"Shoot Twilight, I'd love to help ya out, so a'course I'm in!" then rainbow Dash,
"Yeah. sure. whatever." Then Flutter shy again, who sighed,
"Okay I'll help the group by looking." and with that it was decided, the ponies walked off in different directions to search the moon.

***

The Chains broke apart, allowing Celestia to run up to Twilight, getting so close to her with her horn, she only needed 5 seconds to kill her. 5. short. seconds. but did she get that? no! what Celestia got was a raging headache due to the fact that she slammed into the force field surrounding Twilight, and from hearing her Cackle once again, a noise she was beginning to despise, "Well Celestia, it seems that you are as Stupid as you look," Twilight spitting the word 'stupid' out of her mouth like a bad patch of hay, "This only proves that you're a danger to all of Equestria, and that you are insane," the purple pony turned to one of the Royal guard next to her, "Take her to the prisons, we'll have her sent to the moon by tomorrow morning!"
"Yes Ma'am Princess Twilight!" the white Alicorn wanted Twilight's head on a platter now,
"Trust me Twilight Sparkle if I EVER get my hooves on you, so help me, I will destroy you, you are the lowest form of threat to Equestria, you'll destroy it, you hear me? DE-STROY I-" Clestia didn't get to say her last words because everything began to go black, and then...
Oblivion.

***

For a moment, it looked to Luna as if her sister had died, she began to feel cold, and her heart rate was beginning to diminish, and her pulse was rapidly lowering. She was about to put out a notice that Equestria's Princess was dead when her eye's shot open, but they weren't her usual color, they were light green, "Face it Luna, your sister is our's, she's basically ready to rip Twilight Sparkle to shreds, she thinks you betrayed her, and she think Equestria is going to be destroyed...yet she doesn't know it's at her own hands!" the princess, or rather the thing that was using her hollow shell to speak let out a ear splitting scream of delight, and just like that, the princess was back in her coma state, the heat returned to her body, and the sweat dripped down from her brow, and once again she spoke, "K-kill Twilight Sparkle...she'll kill us all."

***

Twilight was alone now, when she ran into Apple Jack and Pinkie Pie, who were now together after running into eachother, an image began projecting into the sky, it was a nightmare, smiling at the 3, "Well, well, well, Twilight Sparkle and her little friends, there's only one thing I have to say to you, you've got 20 minutes to gather your other friends together, or else they'll be dead, we're going to send a comet crashing into that side of the moon."

20 minutes

6

20 minutes, that was all Twilight had, what about Rainbow Dash and Flutter Shy? she looked at Pinkie, and Apple Jack, who had barely started walking, Twilight was panicking, the Orange pony walked over and placed a hoof on her friend, "Twi, don't worry, they'll be back soon, they had to have heard that..." Twilight now noticed she was hyperventilating, and used the methods of calming herself down that Cadence had shown her. After all Flutter Shy and Rainbow Dash will be back, she thought reassuring herself, Right?

***

18 minutes remain
Rainbow Dash was looking for the Nightmare base when she saw the sky turning bright as if the Moon orbited the sun a little closer and she heard the voice blaring warning her of the 20 minute limit, she began to look around for the source of the brightness and the message. Barely paying attention a few minutes passed and she thought for a second, "Wait, did that voice say twenty minutes until the moon was attacked?" this sent her into an instant panic she was beginning to do a nervous dance. How long had it been since they spoke? 10 minutes? 15 minutes? maybe she only had 2, she booked it back to the other side of the moon where Twilight, and all the others had been.

***

16 minutes
Flutter Shy was galloping with all of her might, (Her wings were tired) she had to make it back to the others, she just had to, her eyes were wide, that was when she tripped on the moon rock, and impaling her leg on a rock, A shriek of pain and surprise came out of the Cautious pony's mouth. It was at this point that she pulled herself off of the rock, blood puring out, she stumbled up and then immediately collapsed, sobbing heavily, she picked herself up and began to stumble, at this rate she'd never make it...

***

14 Minutes
Celestia awoke in a Cellar deep in Canterlot, in a haze, a shadowy figure stood before her, it was somebody she recognized this pony as Luna, tears filled her eyes, "Oh Luna...I'm so glad you're here!" she tried to run up and hug her sister, but she was tugged back. She looked down to see the collar now attached to her neck, and began crying, Luna trotted over and hugged her sister, then suddenly she saw Luna's eyes get a nightmarish feel to them and gasped, "That's right Celestia we've taken over your sister yet again," her voice was not her regular voice but a raspy scratched voice that sent shivers down Celestia's spine, "and now that, that damn fool Twilight Sparkle has sentenced you to the moon, there'll be no one to stop us from destroying all of Equestria." Celestia charged again and let out a choking noise as she was flung back again,
"Damn you Nightmare Moon, you'll never get to them, you won't kill my kingdom and I will destroy you." Nightmare Moon chuckled,
"But don't you see Celestia...you've already lost..." and with that, Nightmare Moon had turned back into Luna and walked up from the Cellar, Celestia cried once again, her sentence was soon to be put in action.

***

9 minutes
Twilight was still standing there as fear took her over, she was now beginning to tear up in thought of her friends meeting an early demise, that was when she saw over the horizon, was it rainbow Dash?

***

8 minutes
Rainbow Dash could see her friends sitting there, even Twilight, if she survived this she would forgive Twilight and if she died she would keep the hate burning within her, but as luck would have it, (after all she WAS the fastest flyer in Equestria,) she ended up with her friends, embracing twilight spurting out forgiveness, and such, Twilight was so caught up in the moment that she raised the force field.

***

2 minutes
Fluttershy was in a panic limping when she began to realize how much time she had left, bearing through the pain she launched off and began flying as fast as she could, then fell again, cursing her lack of strength, and launched off again, blood pouring out of the open wound on her hoof, only one minute remained.

***

50 seconds
Twilight shrieked now noticing fluttershy, her friends joined her at the side of the force field, there was fluttershy, blood flying back from her leg, moving pretty quickly, but there was no reason, the force field was up, and it's take to long to build up it's power again.

***

30 seconds
Fluttershy was crying but she was so near to her friends, so excited to see them again and hug them, soon they'd be back in Equestria again, and everything would be okay, there was no need to worry about any thing. She smiled at the thoughts of this through her pain- SLAM! Fultter Shy fell back, slamming on the ground, panic raced through her as she began to pound on the force field, now sobbing openly, eyes wide, and a crazed look in her eyes, surely they could help her.

***

10 seconds
There was no way in the wild world of Equestria she could save Fluttershy now...

***

5 seconds
Flutter Shy was hyperventilating at this point, crying and screaming at her friends, maybe they'd hear her

***

3 seconds
Flutter shy was saying something but the force field blocked out their hearing from the outside world.

***

2 seconds
Fluttershy gave up and just whispered at her friends, "Good bye" tears in her eyes, then sat down wincing at the pain.

***

0 Seconds
Twilight watched as Fluttershy was ripped apart in front of her eyes by the explosion, Fluttershy's last words were now haunting her, as she threw up on the ground of the moon, letting her feelings out and gently cried, "G-Good Bye Flutter Shy..."

The travel, the nightmare, and the command

3

Within an hour the chariot was loaded and the 6 were on their way to the moon, within the chariot the six sat and waited for their trip to come to an end so they could destroy the threat. "Twilight we simply must tell you what's been going on in ponyville, everyone misses you and they'd love to have a visit," Rarity was the one who had just broken the silence, then Fluttershy, "Um, the Animals really miss you Twilight, including Angel, and he rarely misses anypony," She smiled at Twilight and she smiled back, masking the depression she was now in, "You girls, Twilight doesn't want to hear about how everyone is carryin' on about missin' her, she's focused on her worry about Celestia, and I for one am happy that she-" The cart jerked back and forth aggressively flinging the ponies over to the far side of the chariot, spike hadn't been there, he'd since grown up and headed off into the world at Twilight's will, she knew he'd survive, it was spike after all. as Twilight brought her head up to survey the damage, she noticed that Rarity was hanging off of the side of the cart, screaming, Twilight rushed over and attempted to pull her into the cart, but she felt the crashing of the moon's new defenses hitting the chariot, and Rarity slipped out of her hooves, plummeting to Equestria, far underneath them. The purple Princess Zoomed as fast as she could attempting to save Rarity, but she wasn't quick enough and she heard the screaming come to a sudden and Violent end, and upon surveying the area she had seen that Rarity lay dead on the ground, her necks snapped, and her entire body broken, Twilight looked on in horror, one of her dear friends were dead, and she could've saved her, but she didn't, Tears filled her eyes, and she sobbed openly, "Oh Celestia, Rarity I'm so sorry, it didn't have to end this way, it really didn't." The event was scarring Twilight seeing Rarity's lifeless eyes drift backwards into her head, revealing white pools of emptiness, and saw her expression which had kept as if Rarity was screaming. Twilight couldn't take it anymore and flew back up to her friends, "I have something to tell you all," she said in between sobs, "Rarity is," She paused, crying even more, by this point her friends knew the dark truth that their friend was gone and they were never going to see them again and began to cry as well, they held each other as their howls entered the night. They were only a short time away from the moon, and it wouldn't be long before they attempted to stop this force.

***

Celestia was in a palace quite a ways away from Ponyville, she knew not what was going on but had a feeling that it wasn't good, for a few seconds ago she was in her bed and blinked her eyes to find herself in this prison like palace. "What am I doing here, where am I?" the Princess screamed out with anger, to find an odd shadow like creature before her, wich chuckled and spoke in a whispered tone,
"My dear princess you are in the kingdom of the nightmares and were about to bring your worst fear to life." Celestia stared on in terror as she began to see her throne room, she was within her subjects, which was odd because she had never sat here before, she tried to move her legs but she was shackled down. The trumpets blared as a royal guard stepped up and cleared his throat,
"Ladies and gentlecolts, princess of all of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle!" Celestia's eyes went wide as Twilight strode in and sat down, sneering at her former princess.

***

Princess Luna stared over her sister, who was tossing and turning madly by now, tears were in Luna's eyes, all she had ever wanted as a child was to rule Equestria, but she didn't want to lose her sister, not like this, she hated herself for being so selfish in wishing her sister would pass the throne down to her rather than Twilight Sparkle, the tears broke into a floodgate of tears, "I'm so sorry sister, this is all my fault, they channeled my thoughts and went after you..." Celestia's mouth opened and she spoke on solid phrase that had surprised everyone in the room, "Kill Twilight Sprakle."