An Old Whooves Tale.

Nightmare Moon saw the opportunity to end the struggle for power and defeat Celestia, but just as she was going to launch her last push; something in the corner of her eye caught her attention. It was a grey pegasus who struggled to fly closer to the battle because of the strong wind currents.

“Princess Luna! Princess Luna!” The pony cried out. Nightmare Moon tried to pay it no attention, however what the pony held in her hooves split her concentration. It was a small dark blue flower covered in white dots. Then the pegasus called out again.

“Princess Luna please listen! Do you remember what I said about the difference between darkness and the night?” A thought popped up in Nightmare Moon’s mind causing for an even greater distraction.

“I told you that the night and darkness are two separate things! Darkness is evil! But the night is good and pure. Just because darkness infects the night, doesn’t make it any less pure!” Eventually the currents became to strong for the pegasus and caused her to be knocked off balance and plummet to the earth.

“DERPY!” The Doctor cried out as he tried to watch his friend fall, but the wind was keeping his eyes shut.

“NO!” Nightmare Moon yelled out, and as she did one side of her helmet cracked and exposed part of her face.

“Doctor look!” Celestia cried out and over the beams of magic battling each other, the Doctor saw that part of Luna was showing through.

“SISTER!” Called out the familiar voice of Luna.

“Quite you!” said another one, which was Nightmare Moon’s.

“Luna!” Celestia responded.

“Celestia please, you have to use the Elements of Harmony and defeat me quickly before you run out of energy!”

“I said QUITE!” growled the other voice.

“But sister I can’t! Not without you!” Celestia cried back, her energy nearly empty by this point

“You can Celestia! I know you can, you need to stop worrying about what will happen to me and worry about the rest of Equestria!”

“But Luna-!” Celestia was cut off.

“We have an oath to protect Equestria sister and we must do so at all costs! Even if it means self sacrifice! I shall do my part!”

“Not unless I have a say in the matter!” Nightmare said trying to push on the beam of energy.

“But the elements will not work sister I have tried, and I am all out of strength!

“Celestia I feel myself loosing what little control I gained, you must find a way to make them work, only they will bring you victory!”

Celestia was beginning to sob, but her sister’s reappearance caused the elements to start giving out energy to Celestia, which kept her from loosing control of the fight.

“You best say your goodbyes Celestia, because this is the last you’ll see of your precious sister!” Nightmare moon mocked.

“Sister, I have enough control to pull back the strength of Nightmare’s attack, this will be your window of opportunity please take it!”

“You need to listen to her Celestia!” The Doctor called out nearly drained of energy himself.

“But sister I don’t want to loose you!”

“We will see each other one day Celestia, that is for certain, but right now you must think of our subjects first. Get ready sister and know that I will always be your friend!”

Luna’s last words rang in Celestia’s ears, and she felt Nightmare Moon’s energy weaken. The elements began to glow as bright as day and the Doctor realized the activation of their energy.

“NOW!” the Doctor yelled!

Celestia screamed and channeled the energy of the Elements of Harmony, which were now feeding their infinite power to Celestia into her attack. Nightmare Moon pushed back, but was loosing the battle quickly. The immense power of the Elements caused Celestia’s appearance to change, transforming her mane from a light pink into a deep flame red, and her coat from a white to a burnt orange that shined like a the sunrise hitting a crystal clear lake. The Doctor saw this, and even though the brightness hurt his eyes, he could not look away.

“Beautiful,” he muttered.

Celestia gave the final push on her attack and it overwhelmed Nightmare Moon enveloping her in the ray of sunlight that shot up to the moon. In that instance the power surged through Celestia and caused such a powerful ray light that everypony in Equestria looked away. It was as if the earth was only miles away from the sun. The white light cloaked the land and for a moment there was nothing but silence and the blinding power of the light.

After a moment the Doctor opened his eyes and was greeted by the warmth of the sunlight and the brightness of the day. Celestia had landed back on the balcony and was unconscious. The Doctor looked over and saw Derpy doubled over faced away from him.

“Oh no, Derpy!” the Doctor cried as he turned her over and listened to her mouth. He heard her inhale and he breathed a sigh of relief. She opened her eyes slightly and asked,

“Did we do it Doctor? Did we win?”

“We sure did you glorious pegasus we sure as heck did!” The Doctor ruffled up Derpy’s mane and noticed she was still clutching something. He took her hooves away and saw that it was the flowerpot with the flower from before.

“I was scared that the sunlight would kill it, so I had to shield it. It’s Luna’s Moonshine Flower.” The Doctor smiled at Derpy and he turned over exhausted as well and allowed himself to bake in the sun.