Chapters Prologue
It is the simplest and primitive question, yet that humanity was never able to give a proper answer. The question that has been asked chronically, and continuously throughout our history. But the real question, the real question is not about who we are. it is about what we are...Then the another question raises, what are you willing to sacrifice to make what you are standing, right now, at this very moment.
When they came to me with the nanosuit, I gave up Laurance Barnes. Man I was, to become Prophet. When my own flesh and blood hold me back, I replaced it like a spare part. Victory costs... And every moment you pay... A little more. I have sacrificed all I was to become what I am... Am I ceph? Or am I human... Or am I cold hard living machine... I am Prophet. Not living nor dead. Not human nor ceph. Not machine nor organism.
I am... Prophet. And that is what they used to call me. I remember... Destroying the ceph mother ship, and closing the gate. But the gate... It sucked me in. Taking me with rest of the falling debris of the ship. Sending me in to the universe uncharted. unknown even to the ceph navigation system.
At first, I explored a bit around the remains of the ship. Savaging anything that I can use. Anything to make me better. I searched for information and technology that I was about to learn. And I did. My link to the Nanosuit help me understand every bit of information that Ceph has. My suit evolved. Evolved into something entirely new, and every time I searched for more, there was. Waiting for me to be cracked open.
And one day, I found something that I never wanted to see again. Ceph in their cryo tube. At first I wanted to kill them, show no mercy. Yet however I did not. It was the Alpha ceph who engaged attack on earth. It was alpha ceph who controlled them. These remaining ceph used to behaved like an animal... I pity them. So I spared their lives and waked them up from the cryo tank, and gave them individuality. And a freedom from their Alpha Ceph.
"What is your name, ceph?"
"What is... Name?"
"What do you remember?"
"I do not remember ...anything."
They had no memory of themselves, they didn't need it for it was alpha ceph to control them.
I educated them, and thought them everything I know of, in human way. And they followed me well. And so past thirty years. All ceph went in to their cryo tube... For thirty years was a long time, and I do not wanted to go back in to that filthy tube ever back again, after what happened to me long time ago.
Then, I realized... I was all alone. Alone in the dark. Alone in the void. I left my ceph behind, and I let my body drift away, let the void take me. I cared not about them, when they need me, they will know where to find me. I closed my eyes, and listen to the sound of the universe. Sound of the stars, planets, and even to sound of the atom. Each of them differed, thus creating a beautiful song of harmony, and greatness.
So I drifted countless years in the void. And I learned, and my suit adapts. And we changed. Changed in to something entirely new, yet somewhat similar. Then, I fell in to long slumber.
Canterlot castle
A white regal pony stood tall in her throne room, taking care of the day court. For she loved her subjects, she shall listen to their words, and do her best to keep ,the harmony in her hooves. She was well known for that, and it was something that she have done for thousands of years, since the creation of her sun. She goes by many names.The guardian of the sun, the life giver, The protector, The all mother... But above all, she is well known as Princess Celestia. Although she just wants to be called Celestia.
Despite of her many names, there was one thing that she was not good enough. Healing the broken mental wound of her younger sister. She loved her dearly, but no matter what she do she was not able to heal her wounds. It has been only few weeks she has returned from the moon, and it was hard. Celestia let a long sign. And turned her gaze to the outside. Sometimes she just wanted to let everything go for awhile and take care of her sister. Yet the court was important and she could not let her subjects down.
For a moment, she let her brain drown in the thoughts. She could not let Twilight stop learning about friendship, but also, she could not find anypony who is capable of tending her sister. Sudden sorrow hit her mind.
She had to leave it to her sister all by herself. Even Cadence feared her. Luna was only known as Nightmare Moon to all others. She just wishes for a something miracle.
"Princess? Malady? Are you alright? You seems not well? Should I call a Docter?"
"Oh, My apologies. Shall we continue the court? I was drifted in thoughts for a moment."
She sheepishly smiles.
"Is it about your sister, malady?"
"No... It's about something else... Shall we continue the court? I do not wish to let my ponies waiting
" Ah, yes. Of course. Next, Sir Moneybag. Come forward!!"
Then there was an rude interruption. A griffon, with red cape and big brown mustache came forward with his soldiers. These soldier knocked off guard ponies in ten seconds flat and arrogantly walked towards Celestia.
"Hey, who are you to interrupt..."
Sir moneybag shouted, but cut out by the mustache Griffon.
"Shut up, you pathetic scum! How dare you to speak to representative of the Grifonia!! I should tear you in to pieces, but I have more pressing business with Princess Celestia, so consider it your lucky day."
Of course, Celestia frowned at this sight.
"What brings you to my castle, ambassador? If it is about the land, I shall not talk."
"Actually, Princess. It is."
"I believe we went over this just last month. I gave you the land that you requested, and I did."
"Yes, you did. But it is not enough. Our emperor, demands more land over the Prancer's mine. And he is very impatient. He will take it by force, if. You do not respond."
"Prancer's mine is where our all gold comes from! I cannot give you that mine! You already had enough taking our silver mine, and for sake of my kingdom, I cannot risk bankruptcy."
"War? Is that it Celestia! We had enough with your controlling the sun nonsense, your words are nothing more than a lie! You think you are so great, Celestia? So great that you can take over the sun and the moon?! I heard ponies are cruel race, and they are!!"
"You speak as if you are the emperor himself. As I you know I do not want war, nor taking our most precious mine! The risk is too great, and your emperor's demand is ridiculous. What is that your emperor wants? Money, is that it? If I give up our mine, what will he compensate?"
"We compensate nothing. You give up your little gold mine, or face our armada!"
Then... A great sound shook entire equestria, and every pony, including griffon, look outside of the window. Great flame flew down from the sky, and it created tale of smoke behind it. As they see it more, they could see that it just became bigger. The realization strike. The ambassador griffon panicked, and said,
"You created a weapon! Weapon to kill us all while in Your castle! I should immediately report back to my emperor! This... This is war!!"
The ambassador and his guards frantically ran away from the castle. Few guards collapsing on their way out. Celestia kept on looking to the mysterious meteorite. She did not expected to see this. There were no meteorite report from Luna.
Something has gone terribly wrong. It continued to fly towards the castle, and every pony started to panic, and entire castle and canterlot was plunged in to total chaos. There were screaming, yelling, crying. Then she saw the meteorite's position shifted and flew towards the mountain. It started to illuminate itself bright as her sun, and for a minute, there seemed to be two suns hanging in the sky. After that it hit the mountainside.
A quarter of the mountain disappeared like in to thin air. Gigantic crater came in to her view, then after that, a powerful shockwave. It rippled the air,and the very space itself, expending throughout it's nearby area, growing in size. Most of the buildings in canterlot were ripped apart, sending its debris to the air. And eventually it struck the castle.
She felt the hot air passing through her skin. Next thing... Next thing was not something that she wanted to see. Several huge boulders flying in the sky few hit the ponyville, majority just slamming on to the mountain, but few managed to fly towards the canterlot and one of them flew towards... Luna's wing. Celestia realized that her sister is in danger, and quickly let her magic flow to her horn. Then, she teleported away.
Luna was... Well... Alone. In the dark. Alone. That's what she was after all. Dark, lonely pony who was afraid to anything. Pony who was condemned by her past, her wound carved her unstable mind so deeply, that it was almost impossible to recover. Even her sister was no use.
She is weak. After that charged Elements of Harmony, her magic was drained. Almost depleted, returning to her old form. And her past haunts her so deep, she was defenseless. She cries.
She cried for her own misery. When she does, nopony takes care of her except her sister. Most of the ponies still recognized
as a threat to many ponies, and some fears her.
But majority still does not know her return. And all ponies agree on one thing, She is pathetic. But they never understand her. Never. Luna never leaves her room, nor punish those who mock her.
She agreed to every inch of it. She admit it, and she knew it too well. Like her banishment in her moon. Her sorrow, loneliness, and her regret still remains. There was no difference. She feared to go out and venture the world for the world has abandon her for a long time. And everything was different. What was once a forest now became soulless desert.
What was once a mountain now unforgiving cold mountain. She stayed in her own corner. And cried until she gets exhausted. Cried for her own sin. She already attempted suicide, no avail, her own fate does not let her.
She tried drinking poison, bath with acid, slid her throat, inhale toxin, jump off from the building, drain her all magic, but none of them worked. Then... One day... One day she saw something illuminate bright shine in the sky other than her sister's heavenly body. A meteorite... No... This is not something that she have expected... And soon... She realized it was not a meteorite, but something else.
She needed a closer look. She quickly grabbed her telescope and started to admire the thing. Then it crashed side of the mountain, created a biggest explosion that she ever saw. Then... Those fragments of mountain flew every where. One of them flew right towards her... She did not care... She let it come. Then... Everything went blank.
Celestia broke Luna's door, it's silver and obsidian parts flying away from impact. She galloped inside, but she was already too late, her sister...
"Luna!! Please, don't do this to me!!! Don't die! Don't die! I cannot lose you anymore! Medic! Doctor!"
She yelled for help... And none did...
"Please? Anypony can hear me?!"
She felt betrayed. Her anger rose. Is this how they treated her sister?!? She quickly healed her sister's wound but she
needed medical attention, her wounds were beyond her knowledge.
Celestia grabbed her sister with her magic, and rested her on her back, then threw her self in the air.
"Just hold on! I woun't let you down, Luna! Just hold on for few more seconds..."
Tear started to form around Celestia's eyes.
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Prophet searched for more intelligence and ceph's technology as much as he could get his hands on. Every time he searched he found something new, learned, and admitted that how astonishing it was. He was never a scientist, but he did had quite a knowledge about it.
He had to know them to face the ceph. But his nanosuit helped him further. He knew how ceph manages to fly in the air by using anti-gravity technology, and telekinesis, but to try it on for himself... It was different. Then prophet found ceph energy cell blue prints. He applied that too. And he learned how to drain any form of energy. He also learned how to utilize every known dimensions to ceph. Although he didn't dared to use them, it was still pretty cool to have such an ability.
'Wonder Hargreave and Rasch saw this...' And it was amused to see their faces if they were still alive. Ignoring the thought, he continued his journey in to dead alien warship. He walked on the metal platform, and taking away useless piece of junks by his new gained force, and telekinesis.
In front him, there was huge room filled with ceph cryo tubes. He walked down to the room, and scanned the area if he can find anything useful, and nothing... Prophet looked back.
"Why are they still alive?! I should disable their life support system, so they can't attack me in the future."
As Prophet looked for life support system, he thought again.
"No... Maybe... Maybe I can use them like I did with that pinger back before. And plus, I have Alpha ceph's ability. I can control them."
With that thought he approached the release button, and punched it. All the ceph started to wake up from their tube, and as he expected, some of them started to behave like an animal. And some of them remained steel.
"Enough!!" Prophet shouted, and all cephs stopped moving and started to stare at him. They were like mindless robots. But he does not want mindless machine to serve him. He hated being machine. So, he decided to give his knowledge about individuality, and his language so that they are no longer connected through one hivemind. It took him good 10years to teach them, and give their name.
And what do you know, like a child, they were quite eager to learn about definition of individuality. It was something entirely new to them. And every moment they learned about it, they liked it more. They said... They felt free, and they never wanted to go back.
Later, they stopped using their telepathic way of communication, and started to use human language. That was another
10years later...
"Attention, all ceph troops to report to the main chamber room, immediately." A low voice of Ceph mastermind roared through out the broken ship.
And all surviving cephs started to gather around. Prophet looked around and it was finally good to see some sort of his own small army, although they were ceph, he have decided to set the difference aside long time ago. They were controlled by Alpha ceph, and they had no choice. He felt right to give them a chance to be free themselves. He counted all the ceph to see if they are in right number.
One ceph mastermind
Three ceph commander
Five ceph guardian units
Sixteen ceph reavers
Twenty ceph grunts
Five ceph heavies
Two ceph shadows... ... ...
Prophet felt good...
Prophet remained in the crater like if he was a stone. Unmoving. Not even an inch. Yet, he could see everything going around him. He could hear everything. This unknown energy was like a hivemind like ceph. They were all connected to each other... Some weak, some powerful. However, it was very complex. Much more harder to decode than ceph's power source. He slowly opened his eyes. Smokes and heat started to retreat slowly, But majority remained around him, yet he did not felt it. He raised his body up, and looked up. The sun was hidden by the smoke that he created. Burned up ashes rained from the sky, slowly covering the land. He climbed up the crater to analyze further. Rocks and boulders what seems to be from the crater destroyed an area where seems to be a some sort of city. Now he knows... That he is in some sort of planet filled with indigenous life form. He remembered drifting away in the space, but he did not expected to arrive in such a planet. It was such a rare opportunity to arrive in a planet that supports life, while there were hundreds and thousands of places that does not. He felt lucky. It was good to know there are more alien besides ceph. He hoped they are friendly... Or maybe not... He realized how much damage he have done. He saw fires erupting around the city... He saw quadrapod creatures running and screaming. Building falling around. He felt guilty. But he did not hide. He did not ran away like a coward. Let them come. Let them confront me eye to eye. Perhaps maybe, there is a chance to become friendly. Perhaps make friend with them. He needed to act carefully now. He did not want to find himself in a fight against unknown creatures.
Then, he saw creatures start to gather around. And these creatures looked strangely similar to horse, adorned with golden armor. And he had to admit, these horse-like creature looked naive. He could easily see it in their faces. There were no war veterans. Maybe these are just local guards? But there too many to assume they are local guards. There were probably about a hundred. Each of them wielding a sword or crossbow. Well... They didn't look so happy.
Then he felt air moving above him, and he looked to see white Flying Horse... Thing.. It gently touched the ground and started to stared at him. At first it seems to look shocked. But it did tried to compose itself, and tried to stand taller. By look of her accessories such as her golden crown, and necklace, he could safely assume that this one was their leader. And this leader winged unicorn-horse thing did not looked so happy. Prophet remained silent.
Celestia was able to deliver Luna to nearest hospital, and by the fact that everypony frowned or feared upon her sister's presence, she was not very happy. Starting from that arrogant ambassador, War against Grifoina, meteor, and this... Things were not going so smoothly as she hoped. And every moment, it just seemed to get worse. She didnot liked every inch of it. And after all these matters are handled, she will make sure punish those who looked upon her sister so pathetically. For now Luna needed time to rest and recover, and she will return to her shortly, but first, she needed to investigate what that unexpected meteorite was all about. She looked for any guards around her and ordered them,
"Guards! Gather all soldiers to the crater, this is a direct order from your princess!"
"Yes, your highness!"
And they did. The order spread quickly and when about few hundreds ponies gathered, Celestia flapped her wing and started to approach the crater. The area around the crater was just horrified her. She have never saw such a destruction, her mouth remained open to the view the ground around the crater has turned in to black colored rock, and some created yellow glass. All the greenness was burned in to ashes, and trees' naked root was visible, as they rolled around the area. The leaves were gone, and only the remain was their burned black log. Ashes fall from the sky as if it was snow flakes, covering the ground with ash and fire. As she got closer to the crater, she felt immense power. Power that she have never felt or experienced before. It was much more powerful than anything she can think of. If it is a threat, it was going to be rather huge problem, but nonetheless, she will defeat it. But if she do, the damage might not be recoverable. She had to approach it with caution. As the smoke cleared, she saw a creature standing in front of her. Bipedal creature. Easily towering over her by a little less than a foot. The creature had similarity to minoter, it had fingers and arms, but it was completely black and dark metal. And between the metal pieces, she could see black muscle layer. She was not able to figure it out if it that part was it's skin or something else. It also had two strange devices hanging on its back, and middle of its back, there was a small, deformed, roughly backpack looking device with multiple cylinders it's thigh w also covered in metal over it's black muscular layer. and held a small L looking thing. but what was important was its face. Its face... It was just a skull, it's red glowing eye that emitted red smoke around it pierced her through her soul. She backed up about, but again returned to her regal form. She had to admit, that thing looked very dangerous. And to be honest little bit of fear came in to her mind, but she could not show any weakness to anything.
The thing remained so still, almost looking like a statue. It didn't twitched or moved an inch. It seems to be waiting... For her to act first. And this wasn't taking her to anywhere, unless she do something first. She first moved her hoof to make soldiers to lower their weapon.
"Soldiers, lower your weapon."
And slowly they did, except for one. One hold it's crossbow high and aimed for it's head. Celestia yelled,
"What are you going, soldier! I said, lower your weapon!"
The soldier replied back,
"Princess! This creature destroyed our quarter or our capital city and harmed your sister, Princess Luna!! I can't just let it destroy more!"
Celestia's eyebrow raised, and thought, 'and when did you started to care about my sister? Just five seconds ago?'
"I understand, but attacking it would make it angrier. We've seen what he is capable of, and attacking it would make worse!"
" then, I'll just have to finish it, before it does."
The pony released his bolt, and let it pierced the air. However, the creature grabbed the bolt like if it was a child's toy, with its eyes still locked on to her eyes. Then, his gazed slowly turned to the bolt, tilting his head, analyzing it. Then the wooden bolt started to burn on it's claw, turning them in to ashes. Its claw loosened its grip and let ashes fall like a pile of sand. Its gaze locked on to the attacker. The pony, madden by this, brought out his sword and attempted a direct charge, letting out this battle shout.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
And he was close enough, he swung a powerful blow to the creature, but the creature grabbed the sword so easily, and bent it like if it was a paper. Then, a red beam of energy discharged from it's claws and slowly crushed the pony's helmet. He let out a painful scream, however, instead of killing him, it stopped. Then it spoke, "A good soldier never go against their superior. " then it turned its gaze towards Celestia again.
"And it is up to superior to maintain that order... Disappointing."
Celestia widened her eyes. The creature spoke perfect Equestrian.
"You... You can talk."
The creature remained calm, with little bit of sarcasm behind.
"I can talk, and I can even shout."
" No no no no, you just spoke perfect Equestrian! How?"
"And you speak perfect English."
" What?"
"What?"
"Never mind that. What are you, creature? Why did you came to us, and cause such a damage?"
" none of your horse died."
"How do you know?"
" I feel... The flow energy from every life form... And I feel that none of them went out."
" you destroyed our city, you hurt my sister. Why did you do it!?"
" it wasn't my intention. The once destroyed can be rebuilt, the wounds can be healed... But I know how much damage I have done. It is wise to ask for your forgiveness."
"You do realize this cannot go unpunished. There is a war raising from Grifonia, and Equestria, and thanks to you, you just made it worse. And what is even worse, is that you just hurt my most dear sister. She is the most important pony to me, and you hurt her!!"
She stomped the ground hard.
"I am sorry. But do know that I am not your subject, and you are not my ruler. Whatever you are."
" I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria, goddess of the sun and heaven. Guardian of life , protector of the day. Now that I have introduced, it is your turn, creature."
The creature paused for a moment, and it spoke.
"I am not dead or alive. Not machine or living, not ceph or human... Human... Is what our race is called... Now I am not among them... I am more... Than them..."
Celestia frowned.
"What are you?!"
It responded in a low voice
" They call me... Prophet...."
just art work for my chapter
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this is prophet.
Prophet
and this is probably Luna in cyborg form. I might make few changes.Her mouth is kind hard to see because of the lens flare.
I might fix that.
Luna render
http://ironmanjae.deviantart.com/art/Cyborg-Luna-in-progress-396667966?ga\_submit\_new=10%253A1377772539
Cyborg Luna
(Read it as if Karl Ernst Rasch narrating to you.)
What do you know about the moon? A chunk of rock that orbits around the earth? A place for a misery and damnation, where all sadness lies? Or perhaps it is a source of mysterious powers in Equestria? The moon is... A piece of rock. It is not magical or it is not extraordinary. Nothing more, nothing less. A rock. It is not beautiful like the sun, it is not bright as the sun. Moon is just the moon. That's how all the ponies, griffons, Minotaur, and dragons thought. How about the... Those little specks of dots that glitters in the night sky. They are the sun. Not just the sun, not just a group of the suns, but all suns, scattered in the very fabric of cosmos, holding and tending their own planets, their own worlds... Stars... Some bigger than other, some smaller than others. Some live longer, some shorter than the other. But they are all alike. Allow me to re explain the stars. Imagine... A sun. A sun that allow life to form, offers energy to crops and plants, a sun that creates culture, to make ponies, what they are, now. Imagine foals of different species of ponies jumping, giggling, having fun under the sun light. Can they do it same in the midnight? No.
But imagine not just one sun but millions and billions of suns, all connected to each other like a form of network. Imagine the power of the sun that can offer us.
Now imagine the power that is billions times more powerful. Imagine what you can achieve with that power. It is limitless. Can you feel it? But what makes you think that ponies actually knew about these... They do not. They see them as just a star, not the powerful alien sun, not the network of energy, but just few dots in the sky. They do not understand. Star swirl the bearded. Tried so hard to get better under standing of stars, but he could not, for they are a young spices, and their tools severely limited, lacked in knowledge. Luna is not a princess of the night. She is the master of space, dimension, and very fabric of universe, stars, planets and all there is to it in the cosmos. Yet she is not aware for that she only can see around her planet. She did not feel the echo. Night is just a window, a gate to the all stars and their worlds. All she needs is a key. But she had no time to figure it out, for she was stuck in the moon for thousand years with nothing.
Let us think... How powerful is Celestia? Her name drives from the term, celestial. Heavenly body, that includes sun, moon, stars, and anything that is visible to our eyes. She also have ability to control over the stars, and create one. Her true power cannot be matched, and even Discord, chrysalis,and king sombra combined cannot be matched. But she denied to use that power. She feared it in fact. So she decided to extract the power of the stars, and divided them in to six different elements. And so the elements of harmony was created. These elements does not required to have six different users to operate them. They can be operated by Celestia, alone. For it was her to create it. She knew everything. But as mentioned above, she feared it. She used the elements to represent six requirements to keep harmony and peace, and each of them did their finest to keep them in order. Sending Nightmare moon in to the moon, and turning Discord in to a stone is nothing.
Her true power cannot be estimated.
Now, how powerful is Luna? Of course, she can control stars just like her sister, but what she can also control is the space and time. She is the pony of space, roughly speaking. Definition of space pony expands much further than Celestrial bodies, for those bodies are just a part of the cosmos. Luna can be a master of void if she learns how to unlock it. She can bend and tear the very fabric of cosmos if she discovers the way. She can slowdown the time, and go backwards and forwards, travel through time if she figures it out. She can jump through dimensions, and shift through different universe. And because she can control things those are in cosmological scale, why not the negative?
She can control things in atomic scales and beyond that. She can even bend the string of energy, thus controlling all four known power in the universe. She is perfect. Billion times more powerful than Celestia, but is she aware to any of these? She is not. She is young goddess. And probably the youngest of all in godhoods. In order to unlock that power, the interference is needed. And interference is a good thing.interference is the key that she have not found in her life. What would it be this interference? That question seems to remain unanswered. And maybe in someday, she will figure it out. When she does... It will not... Be the same... And when that happens, and when the nightmare moon returns... There will be nothing left to stop it.
(Basically, Luna is the most powerful being, but she does not know the potential. Celestia already knew this, and she blocked the power for her own good. She did not wanted to Luna know about this dangerous power, so she never mentions, because if Luna unlocks that power, and when she turns to nightmare moon, it was all too dangerous.)
She remembers her days in the moon. She remember...... Herself lying on the surface of the grey empty, friendless desert that She created. No wind to blow. No sound could be heard but only her own echo. Way home lying right in front of her, but not been able to access it. The torture was unbearable. It was worse than any other torture that she can think of. Luna can't die in the moon. She and to suffer the mental pain for thousand years. All she ever wanted was them to watch her night. All she ever wanted was them to admire hr night. Perhaps... A friend she can express all her pain and emotion. And this what she gets. Loneliness. She felt it deep in heart and her very bones. Anger was what she felt,but quickly replaced by sadness and misery. She should have accepted it a lot sooner. There is no happiness or victory for her from the very beginning. She was ment to be like this. This is what her father wanted. She was meant to be left alone. She is meant to be forgotten. She is meant to be... Hated and feared. All this crossed her mind at once. This went on for like few hundreds of years. Crying and suicide attempts were all she could think of. Next few more hundreds years, her mind became unstable. She sometimes cried, she sometimes laughed like a maniac for no special reason. The conversation kinda goes like this.
"Oh, ser baker! You are the funniest one that I have ever met."
No replies...
"I know! I just only wanted to show them my greatness, and Tia thought it was funny to kick me to the moon!
She laughs like an insane mare.
And... And... She made me stay for a thousand year! Isn't that amazing? I just I love this place!! I have so many friends here! I have my own castle! What was that?"
Nothing.
"And why of course! You all are my very best friends! What were you thinking!"
Then she suddenly stops talking and her mood gets saddened.
"What were you thinking... What are you even doing, Luna... For a thousand year. You are stuck... And you are talking to a rock..."
This was her life in the moon. She remembers it so clearly. And even now, she is still doing the exact same action like she did. But now... She is stuck again. In the hospital. There were many patients in the hospital, but none of them stayed with her in the room. She was alone again. The doctors told her that she is recovering very rapidly because of Alicorn nature, and will be out in no time. But if she goes out, there weren't any place that welcomed her. She did not wanted to go back to the castle, neither she wanted to stay in the hospital. Truly there weren't any place that welcome her. Does she really belongs to nowhere?
She dreamed about something. She saw her father... He showed her the glimpse of the future. Future up roaring with blazing fire, dying soldiers and ponies, then she saw a creature, emerging from the fire... Her father told her... he told her that... her journey is not over yet... Not just yet... It was too early to for her to end. And one last thing...
"Redemption is coming... And when it comes... You will have your chance..."
She can hear... Her name from the distance
"Luna? Luna? Can you hear me? Please... Talk to me..."
"Luna... Please... Come back..."
The from the darkness she saw a fire... And the fire engurlped her. Luna tried to struggle free, but she could not move at all. The voice once more spoke to her.
"Luna..."
After that word, the turned thick, and low. There was evil with the voice.
"Come back where you belong!"
"Nooooo!" Luna yelled and opened her eyes wide open, forcing her to get up from her bed.
"Nooooo!!!!!"
Princess Luna shouted top of her lung desperately as her Royal Canterlot voice shook the entire building, her body immediately jolting up from her bed. Her heart beat faster than ever, and her lungs were gaping for more air. Her eyes were locked to air emptiness, and stared unclearly at it like if her mind was lost to the void. Her visions were unclear, and she is not also unaware of her surroundings. She was not able to process anything for a moment. Only her dream was surrounding her head. Her ever flowing ethereal mane was tied, and bended in unnatural way, and her grey blue coat was no exception. She felt half dead. Then sudden notion alerted her to snap out of her own thoughts. Something was grabbing her quite tight. Her head slowly turned, and she saw her sister, hugging her. Luna felt safe. Her sister's embrace always have comforted her. Her heart beat lowered a bit. Then she was aware of her surroundings. She asked her sister, "Sister...?"
Celestia responded with concern.
"Luna?"
"Am I...?"
"In hospital? Sadly yes..."
Luna gave out a long sigh and looked out to the window for a moment. Celestia said,
"Luna, are you well? Did you had a nightmare?"
Luna kept on looking out to the window and saw two fillies running around under the tree and their parents laughing heartily, like all families do.
"Those fillies... "
Celestia raised her brows.
"Hmm? Oh, you mean those fillies. Yes, they look quite enjoying themselves don't they? It always fills me joy whenever I look at them."
"I hope I could see fillies having fun under the night."
Celestia's eyes closed, and said.
"Luna..."
"No, sister... Just don't. I was foolish to think of such things. Forgive me."
For a moment there was a silence. And it flowed in the room for a time. Celestia looked down. She wasn't thinking, but she wasn't daydreaming. And Luna just stared at fillies outside. The room felt warm. Finally Celestia broke the silence.
" Luna? Can you talk about the nightmare you just had?"
Luna turned her gaze to her sister.
" Nightmare...? Nightmare... Yes... That's we used to call it...a Nightmare..."
"But this time... I don't think it was nightmare... I saw my father."
Celestia's eyes wide opened and smiled.
"Oh? Really? We haven't seen our father for a very long time. What did he say?"
Luna hesitated for a moment, and she said,
"He showed me... A glimpse of the future... He showed me what is coming...
Silence...
" He told me a hidden prophecy... A prophecy that was too disturbing for any of us to know... The world was on fire... And ponies running around and screaming... I knew what he tried to tell us."
"From my heart, I knew... That is was the end of the time... I felt it."
Celestia's heart beat rose up. And started to panic. She said, "No... No. No! No! No! No!!!! There... There must be a way out! Luna, what else did he told you? What else? I need to know everything!"
"Then he told me that our journey is not over yet... Not yet... He told me that the redemption is coming. Then I saw something. Something that I have never seen before. It looked like a Minotaur, but it was not. It was something else. Then there's where the prophecy ends... "
Celestia asked her.
"Can you describe this creature more in detail? What..else can you tell?"
"It was in the fire, so I only could see its shape. That was it."
Celestia realized. The creature named Prophet. Could the prophecy telling the truth? How is he related to all this?
"Luna... I believe I have surprising news..."
Luna raised her brows.
Then Celestia gestured to the door. The door opened and something came in...
Luna's eyes widened and her jaw dropped open.
Previously,
"Prophet, you will first apologize to my sister, and then we can talk about war and your punishment. And if my sister does not get an apology, remember that I shall deal with you with personal manner. Is that clear?"
Prophet groaned and remained silent. He looked up to the sky with his hands warped around his side of his head as they run down to his chin. He let out a long a sigh then he quickly acknowledged.
"Very well..."
Then Celestia smiled with little victory in her lips
"Good. Guards! Take us to the Canterlot central hospital."
Multiple acknowledgments followed. And the carriage was already prepared for her, including Prophet. Prophet asked.
"Is this how you people transport? Carriage?"
Celestia tried to read intentions from him, but she could get nothing. She frowned a bit.
"No, we also have trains but carriages are more often used, and it is tradition for us to use the carriage. Why do you ask?"
Prophet answered before he entered the royal carriage.
"It's nothing. Let's carry on."
After Celestia and Prophet entered the carriage, Celestia asked him.
"Care to ask what people do they use for transportation?"
"Do you really want to know?"
Celestia answered,
"It's not going to hurt me wouldn't it?"
Prophet corrected himself.
"I'm sorry I must have asked you a wrong question. Let me ask you in different way. Are you asking me about my world's transportation to figure out my intention asking you for a first time, or are you asking me just for curiosity?"
Celestia was impressed. This creature was not simple minded creature after all. Celestia answered,
"Both."
Prophet stared at her for a second, and said.
"We use a lot of things. Cars, buses, trains, planes, boat, submarines, jets... And in bigger scale, rocket and space shuttle... Are you aware any of these?"
Celestia answered.
"We have trains. But rest of it, I don't think I have. Care to explain?"
"Think of car as a carriage move ofmits own. But a lot faster. Bus is pretty much a same thing but carries more"
"Actually we are trying to create something like that but you see we are still new on this field, and... They are all still in prototype state."
Prophet asked
"Are they fully operational?"
Celestia sighed
"Well, some are but most of them... But research team and engineers are constantly trying to figure it out."
"They are not fast as you expect them to be, correct?"
"Yes... They are actually, not faster than a pony walking... But we are getting there, slowly. say, how fast are your cars?"
"Some can go up to 340miles."Celestia's eyes widened.
"Wow... That's impressive..."
As soon as she finished her words, the carriage started to depart and flew in to the air. Prophet looked at Celestia with surprise in his voice.
"Your carriage flies? Is there any some kind of contraption or machine attached to it?"
Celestia smiled.
"Nope. Just a simple enchantment. Magic is what we call it. Do you have any form magic in your world?"
"Magic... Is a joke."
"Do you really think so? You see magic is everywhere. They are all around us. Without "magic, how are we going to raise sun and moon, unicorns uses their horn, Pegasus controlling the weather, earth ponies grow crops?"
"We don't need magic. We uses our technology to achieve what others can't. And technology promises us so many things. We even managed to travel around the space and the moon."
"Your...your people what?"
"We went to the moon, and traveled around the space."
Celestia felt empty. Going to the moon was almost impossible! That was so why she locked up Nightmare moon in the moon. But them... What are they really capable of?
Sudden inpony like voice blasted out form Prophet.
"Unidentified energy source confirmed as 'magic'. New energy source isolated... Initiating deep layer protocol..."
"What was that?"
"No. It's my AI named SECOND. Think of it as a 'Spirit' assistance of my own."
"Okay... But what does AI stands for?"
"Artificial Intelligence"
"Only myself and Luna was capable of doing such things... but...Intelligence created by technology?"
"Yes. But there are much better AIs around the world. Like IBM's Watson, or Cell's NAX."
Celestia wondered just what he can do with his technology, she asked.
"Is it possible for you to help us building a car for us?"
"I remember a blueprint of every single thing that we created. They were all uploaded in me by a guy called Hargreave... I even posses alien technology... But is that what you really want? Just a car? I remember you telling me about the war? Car isn't really going to do anything yet."
"But it could be a breakthrough in our history."
"How about I show you how to make more efficient weapons than swords and shields?"
Celestia thought... It was war, but she still wanted no bloodshed. Surely creating new weapons would lead her country to victory but she didn't want weapons. She had to think. And from the distance, she saw the hospital, taking this chance; she decided to change the subject.
"Weapons... We'll talk about this later. And hospital is up ahead. You know what to do."
Prophet did not respond and watched the hospital slowly getting closer. And saw ponies start to gather. And As he wanted, this what seems to be a central district had received no damage. What he didn't wanted was reporters. Prophet asked
"Did you bring the reporters for some intentions?"
"No, I may be the ruler of this country, but I have no control over those reporters. They are just doing their jobs."
"Doing their jobs, eh?"
"I assume that you do not wishes to be spotted by them, correct?"
"I may have revealed my presence to you only because you are the ruler of this country, but I do not want to find myself in some god dame news!"
"It's just radio news reporters, and some photographers! Why would you be so concerned? You know your presence will be known to everypony within a week after you created that massive hole."
"I just don't want to be spotted everywhere I go! I find it disturbing."
"But you will still have to walk out to the hospital, no matter you like it or not."
"Watch me."
As he finished the word, he vanished. Not with sometime of smoke, not with magical auras, but just disappeared. Celestia was most impressed to see such thing without magic.
"Did you just turn invisible?"
"That I did"
"So you are going to pass by them with your cloaking ability?"
"Yeah, is there's a problem?"
Celestia shook her head gently,
"No, of course not. If that's you want."
She and prophet felt the carriage hitting the ground. The soldiers slowed their speed, stopped with all their muscle power. One of them said,
"We are at the Canterlot central hospital, Princess Celestia."
Which Celestia responded,
"Thank you, sirs. You may go and rest now."
Then she entered the hospital....
Presence...
The door opened slowly and something... A creature... At first Luna thought it was opened by her sister's magic, but no, she soon felt another source of energy entering the room. The door swung fully opened, and the it revealed itself from nothingness. The bipedal creature... She saw in the her vision, it was him... She felt exactly same force she felt in her vision. The black creature that roared with fire. Only the feature she did not notice, or could not see its face, and some other details....
Her mouth gaped opened with full of surprise. She was almost lost to herself.
"It's... The creature..."
Celestia felt cold sweats running down from her forehead, as she bite her lips. She felt nervous, and had no idea what would happen. Luna seems to be excited. But Celestia had so many questions unanswered. She've seen what's capable of this creature, and how is he related to all this? If he is related... The untold prophecy... And listing to her sister, everything just matched and fit all together... The war against griffons, her untrained army, even the creature. Is he plunge Equestria in to death or is he offer us Salvation...
Celestia cared about her subjects, and her world. She did not wished to end. Not now.
And opposite side, Luna, was mentioned above, was excited to see the one that she saw. She awed, her mouth slightly opened, showing her a bit of front teeth through her lips. Her eyes rolled around examining every inch of the creature. Her left hoof aided her way to look for further details of the creature's body, carefully, pushing the parts of the creature that has slight free movements. Every time she looked for more details, she let out a faint breath of amazement and tiny smile across her face, while the creature stood motionless. At the end, Luna finally said, "wow... For so many years... I lived... And never saw a such thing like you, creature..."
Celestia talked to Whispered to Luna,
"Luna, tell me, is he going to be the one who will fulfill this terrible prophecy, or one stopping it? Did our father told you anything about that?"
And after gazing the creature(prophet) for few more seconds, Luna responded, "I... Do not know... Dear sister. I... Believe it's friendly... Or else, it would have already tried to attack us."
Celestia frowned
"He may seem friendly but he did manage to destroy quite a lot, and even hurt you. I can't fully trust him, and from what I've heard, his capability is enormous, and that worries me."
"It's capability? What is it capable of?"
"He can do something that is out of any wildest dreams... Something that is very hard to achieve even with magic."
Luna's smile started to form again,
"Sister, for thousands of years... I don't think I have ever smiled...before... It feels weird... I'm just not used to the feeling... I don't know how to describe..."
Celestia realized. Luna, who was always crying and weeping for her own misery, and damned herself in her room finally smiles. Celestia couldn't help to smile back. A brief happiness filled her body and soul. She was genuinely happy to see her smile... She nuzzled her, and let out one of her white alabaster regal wings around her. Hugging her gently.
"Luna... It just over joys me to see you finally smile..."
Somehow she felt liquid at corner of her eyes. The liquid ran down through her checks and stopped at her chin. It was no tear of sadness. It was a tear of joy. Luna also gently nuzzled Celestia slightly. Then shortly after, she carefully said,
"Sister, can it talk? I would very much to talk to this creature."
Celestia simply nodded.
"Also, it seems to be a male. You might consider referring to him as He"
Luna nodded, and then carefully let out her first word to Prophet, but however... She was very anti-social pony. And when it actually comes with other ponies than her sister, she was... Not so brave. And as you can imagine, Luna had a hard time trying to say anything to Prophet. As she tried to say a word to prophet, she immediately stopped. She felt blood rushing through her hearth and her head. She felt her heart skipping beats. She felt her head getting hot. She stopped for a moment and let air filling her lung. Her head quickly went down, and stared at the ground, her mane was doing pretty good job at hiding her face, for her face was now violet colored. She started to avoid eye contact to Prophet. Her dramatic change in reaction amused Celestia. Luna was never a social pony. She avoided everypony for this is one of the reason. Luna spoke to her sister,
"Sister, can I just do it later?"
Celestia shook her head.
"No, you said you wanted to talk to him."
"But... That was... I just... I really haven't talk to other ponies yet..."
Celestia just smiled to Luna, and said,
"I'm thinking leaving this to you, it may seem difficult, but I need you to do it.
The whispered,
"Find out what you can about the Prophecy, Luna."
Luna nervously let out a sigh,
"Okay..."
After Celestia nodded with confirmation, she shot a warning glare to Prophet.
"If you try anything to hurt my sister, I will just simply have to agree on using less civilized method of punishment."
Prophet nodded without a word, and watched Celestia going out to the hall, he watched very seconds of her going out to the hallway. After Celestia is no longer in his sight, his gaze immediately locked on to Luna. And well she seems to be a shy pony. She just kept on avoiding eye contact, and muttered something that prophet couldn't really hear. But he amplified the sound with his nanotechnology, and was able to make out that she was muttering about how pathetic herself to be not able to talk to others. Prophet could not stand anymore. Somehow he needed to make this pony not emo. Prophet asked,
"Something wrong?"
Luna startled and quickly looked at Prophet. Her eyes were darted small.
"Yes... No! I mean no... no! Not... Not at all!"
Prophet examined Luna's feature, and most noticeably, she was... A lot darker than her sister. Probably standing little bigger than average ponies, she was a lot smaller than her sister in every way. Her mane was short ,colored with grayish sky blue, and her coat was grayish navy. And her eyes... When prophet saw her eyes, it was truly different than her sister's eyes. Prophet saw... Emotions charged with depression, sadness, loneliness, tranquility and... Innocence. He also felt everlasting coldness. Her eyes were like most pure ice, glimmering thought the light. It was the most beautiful eyes he ever saw... He then saw her in different way. She was not pathetic, she was lost. He wanted to help her. Her voice now he noticed was most beautiful voice he ever heard, it was like chimes rigging together, creating an ethereal symphony. Prophet smirked and told himself.
'I guess I still have some human left in me, after all.'
Prophet saw Luna Start to gather herself, and saw letting out one of her hooves to him slightly. Luna said as she nervously let out a laugh.
"Where are my manners...I'm sorry... I'm... I'm princess... No... Just call me Luna... I'm no princess of anything..."
Prophet stepped closer and shook her hooves.
"I have a collective intel that suggests me that your sister is the ruler of the day. I assumed you are the opposite."
Luna let out a sigh
"I...I used to... That was thousand years ago... I gave up doing that, you know."
Prophet wondered,
"Why so? What happened during those thousand years? What changed you?"
Luna replied with sadness in her voice and her eyes. Her voice slightly trembled...
"I never changed... I was...it was meant to be like this... From the beginning, i was meant to left alone... Forgotten. It was will of my father... I can't deny the fate he has given me. So, you want to know what happened to me during that thousand year? All I ever wanted was a friend. A companion who can listen to me. Who can share with me... But nobody came... They all feared me... They all...hated me... But my sister had so many worshipers, friends, followers, because everypony loved her day. Her sun provided them everything, while my moon did nothing. Nopony, not even single one cared about my moon and stars. At first, I thought because my night is not beautiful as the sun. So, I just kept on realigning the stars, add more, take out some... I even put aurora polaris in every different colors and shapes. But I did not prevail. They didn't even looked to the stars, and moon. I remember drawing my night over and over. There were celebrations for my sister, but none was for me. I was alone. Forgotten. Most ponies didn't even know my presence in Equestria. So I started to hate my sister... I hated all the ponies, dragons, diamond dogs, griffons... So I wanted them to admire my night for just once."
Then Luna paused, prophet saw tears running down from her cheeks. She was doing her best to hold her tears. Prophet couldn't help himself to see this poor thing left crying. He gently sat down besides her, and give her a gentle stroke on her back. He said,
"Do you wish to stop?"
Luna wanted to say yes, but she just wanted to tell him everything. Everything that she thought, and felt. She needed to do it so badly.
"Can you hear me... Just for me! Please... Listen to my whole story... Just for once..."
Prophet nodded gently
"I will."
"So... I just for once, I decided to not lower the moon. Just... For once... I expected them to admire my night... But what came was total chaos. Every creature dwelled on our world, screamed and yelled... I was horrified... And angry. And my sister... Do you have any idea what sister did to me?! She... She told me... It was all my fault. It was my fault to disrupt the order... I explained to her everything! Everything that I have been through! I showed her... Everything... But... She didn't listen. She never did. So I was locked up in dungeon of my own castle. My horns and libs tied with chain... With those... Damned anti-magic barrier... I couldn't resist. Then it began... My downfall... I let all anger and hate consume me... I turned to what they call... nightmare moon. And I brought out my full power to bring eternal night. And make them suffer... I thought I'd won this time. But as always, darkness fails and light prevails, she used Elements of harmony against me... And I was banished to the moon. All I ever wanted was friend, all I ever wanted was those who admire my night, but what I got was the opposite. Banishment to the moon for a thousand years. I was alone in the emptiness... At first, I thought it was their fault! Their! Fault! But longer I thought, I started to realize something. This was my fate. Always! Re... Remain in the shadow... That I deserve every bit of it."
After she finished her words, she let out soft cry. More tears tormented down towards her chin, and some fell on the blanket. This melted prophet's cold machine like mind. He carefully swung his arms around her and pushed her little more closer to his chest. Then Luna gently rested her hooves on him, and cried even more as she dug down to his chest. Prophet let out a deep sigh, and said,
"It's okay. It's gonna be alright."
After few more seconds, the door blasted open, and Celestia came in. She yelled,
"Prophet! What have you done!"
Sudden rage took Prophet, he bolted his finger towards Celestia, and his body started to glow in red...
"Maximum power"
Prophet yelled,
"You... You twisted motherfucker!!!"
"You...you twisted mother fucker!!!"
Prophet's finger bolted towards celestia.
"Do not think you are in such place to yell at me, Prophet, after all you have done! Now, answer me Prophet, What have you Done to her!!"
Celestia's voice thundered the room, rippling the air around her. Prophet's voice raised up more.
"What have I done? What Have I...Done!!! I listened, to HER!!! I listened to her EVERY. SINGLE. WORDS!!!! No, That is a question you should ask yourself!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, to her!!! Look at what you have turned her in to!!! You tired her apart to shreds!! That's what you do! That's what you to those oppose you!
Prophet's grasp got tighten as he spoke every words, more energy surged through his body. Almost shaking his fists. Celestia, her power currently fed by her anger, she roared,
"You do not know what you are dealing with!!! What do you know about my sister's banishment! Nothing! But you claim yourself you know everything!"
Prophet shot back with malice and hate in his voice,
"Oh... I know... Everything... Have you ever thought about others than yourself? You sent her too the moon, banished her for a thousand years! Is that what she deserves after all she have done! Have you ever thought about, what is like, to be, alone for a thousand year!"
Celestia yelled back slowly her horn charged with arcane energy, as she stomped the floor with her front hoof, leaving a crack beneath her, sending debris to muti directions.
"Then do you have, any idea how hard it was to send her to the moon! I have spent my whole youth with her! She was my sister, for my father's sake, and I had to send her like that! After she was sent to the moon, I had to spent rest of my years with regret!"
Silence...
.....
.....
"She was trying to suffer my subjects under her iron hoof! With her eternal night! She... Was trying to destroy all of us! And I did what has to be done! I had no choice, and if you truly heard everything, you should have figured that out by now!"
Those words... He remembered... She had no choice... She was just like him on earth. She was just like prophet.... But no... He is different now... He learned the lesson. Lesson by psyco... He made sure he'd remember that... Yes... Everyone has choice...
Prophet glared at her slowly walking in circle,
"No choice? Was there really no choice? No! Everyone has their own choice! Everyone! And yet, you manipulate their choices and shape them how you want! And you call what is now nothing more than a shredded shadow of past, Luna! You never gave her chance for her redemption! You never gave her any chance to show her night, and even you, didn't care! And is that what you do with your sister! Is that how you love her!"
Celestia yelled, and let out her all charged form of emotions in to energy, letting out short, but powerful compressed shot. Prophet who was standing there, took the full impact to his stomach, shooting him back couple yards away from her, destroying the room as so. Stone wall flew apart. Dust was all there was... Celestia stared at the hole she have just made, her eyes red, teeth clenching together hard. Without her notice, ponies in the building were all staring at her with shock and surprise. They have never seen the dark side of Celesita, before. Celestia did her best to calm herself down, she inhaled air deeply into her lungs,
"I... Apologize for all notions... I will be leaving you immediately..."
Then, she turned her gaze to Luna, who was softly crying, hugging her pillows tight with her hooves. Luna thought to herself...
'It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I should have never told about me to him. I am the cause. I am useless. Whatever I do, I am the source of all problems around me. I can't do anything. My sister hates me. She wishes me gone. She shot down the creature, because of me. I am nothing. I don't belong here, but I am here, I wish to die, but I can't die. I wish I never existed in first place. But no, I am still here, alive, but I am not here, but I am here....'
Then suddenly unexpected voice chuckled from the hole.
Celestia's gaze quickly snapped to the source, as Luna's gaze slowly moved towards it.
It spoke,
"Hehehehe...So, that's your way, bitch? I'll show you, what I am capable of!"
The sudden red electric energy blasted from the hole, knocking out Celestia, zapping her entire body. She yelled in pain.
"Aaaaahhhhhh!"
Everyponies looking at her all gasped and all tried to analyze what was going on.
From the hole, two red glowing orbs started to emerge and it got slowly bigger. It was prophet, looking at her with destruction in his fists.
He quickly grabbed Celestia's neck with his arm, and started to gag her. Celestia bucked him hard with her hind legs, slightly throwing Prophet backwards, but prophet tried again, this time grabbing her horn, too. He put all his force to break her horn but before that, Celesita, shot out her arcane energy, successfully jolting him back. Celestia stretched her wings out and grabbed prophet with her front legs, and flied upwards, using Prophet's head to break all the floors and sealing form the building. Thousands of debris and dust flew everywhere, pipes and stones hit him hard, eventually flying out to the building. Celestia pushed Prophet to the cliff wall near by her castle. Metals and stone clashed together, red and orange sparks flying everywhere, carving away the cliff. Prophet quickly turned and activated his jet propulsion behind his back, pushing Celestia's front body to the cliff. Jagged stones broke apart, flying and stabbing her face, some tearing apart her white coat, and cutting her skin. White was now red. She tired to reverse the position, but Prophet held her too right, and every time she went deeper in to the cliff's face. Celesita jolted her head back for air, but quickly prophet grabbed her mane's very roots and pulled her back more. Celesita shouted in agony.
"Die, you fucking bitch!"
After that word, prophet pushed her head forwards to the cliff's wall with extreme force. Immense amount of rock spread apart. Celesita fell sudden numbness on her left eye, and felt liquid coming out from her mouth and nose. She used all her concentration to her horn, ignoring the pain. Explosion. Everything went numb. For Celestia, even for Prophet. His visions blurred and his ears rang with high pitched noise. He loosened the grip and slowly falls down to the ground. Celestia however used her wings to balance herself. She watched prophet fall to the ground. He fell right on the dirt, creating a another crater, but not big as the previous one. Celestia saw prophet struggling to adjust his balance, and saw this chance for her strike. She again charged up her horn for her solar bolts. And when prophet finally stood with two legs, she shot her multiple bolts to prophet, and kept on shooting at him until collapsed on to the ground..
Prophet
Prophet felt pain overwhelming his body. And even now, he felt like his intestines were going to burn, but he knew what is going on. He knew what is going on in his suit. Celestia is a fool. Fool that believes she can beat him so easily. Every time he was getting shot by Celestia, his suit was doing something entirely else. His suit is resistant to almost everything he knew. But not magic. Or is it?
Suit integrity 89percent...
Adapting new energy source...
Analyzing 69 percent...
85percent...
91 percent....
Analyzing complete
New energy testing...
New upgrade unlocked...
Maximum armor...
Suddenly all pain just went away like if it was never there. He did not felt Celestia's bolt. Now, it's time for her to taste her own medicine.
Energy absorbent modules activated...
Integrity 60percent...
Stabilizing...
Good, let her using her magic. Every time...she struck him with her bolts, he was charging up for his counter attack.
Celesita
She just kept on shooting at him, she had been doing this for a while, and she lost her count. After a while, she stopped her shooting, to see any movement of her enemy. She was actually not sure if he survived or not. She saw many has fallen by her solar bolt,although it was not her most powerful spell,but he was struck so many times, much more than others. She hoped she has defeated the enemy. But yet, Prophet was completely different creature. Never encountered. Thick grey smoke started to clear. And saw red burning fire, from the spot where she threw. Then she clearly saw prophet standing, staring at her. Celestia was impressed to see him still standing. Prophet chuckled
"Hehehehehe... Is that all you got bitch? How about a taste of your own medicine?"
As soon as he finished his words, he discharged all the energy collected from Celestia's energy bolt, directly towards her. And luckily Celestia dodged the streak of energy beaming towards her, but she did get slight cut side of her stomach. She yelped in pain, but however Celestia yelled,
"If you think you can defeat me so easily, Prophet, you are mistaken!"
Then with her magic, she summoned a great sword illuminating with brilliant golden light. With all her might, she dropped down to Prophet like an arrow, her sword pointing like an arrow head, ready to pierce the skin. Prophet saw this coming and moved his body away from her and he drew his energy sword from his right fore arm. As he expected Celestia's impact on ground did leave a fine looking crater. Then celestia flew towards Prophet who was standing firmly. Two swords clashed together, and created large sparks. Then two broke apart, then Celestia drew her sword and force her sword fly forward, and Prophet was able to dodge it. Celestia's sword pierce the stone wall, falling them apart. Then Celestia swung sword right, where Prophet was. Prophet also swung his sword against her swords, eventually pushing sword away from him. Then he took this chance to grab her sword, for disabling her weapon, and threw his left fist towards her. Celesita got away with the fist but that wasn't over. Another sword slide towards her form the arm, piercing her cheek alittle. She again took control of her sword, and shook away Prophet's grip. Celesita, this time summoned another sword to match prophet. Celestia spun around and sliced Prophet's back before he could react. He jolted in pain, but it quickly got away. He quickly turned and spun around his two swords around her, but she ducked down quickly enough. She again slashed her swords towards him, but prophet 's fluid motion just knocked her swords out of balance. She shout at him with anger. Prophet did not care. Before she could slice her sword upward, he stepped on her left sword locking it on the ground as prophet swung his sword down against her other sword, pushing it to the ground. Celestia was now off guarded. He quickly put away his right sword and took out his Scar mk20,with grenade launcher already loaded. shoot her right middle of her chest at point blank range. The explosion destroyed her chest piece shattering in to many pieces, as well as celestia threw backwards by the shockwave. Her head hit the ground hard. Celestia had no idea what was going on for a moment. Her head was all blurred out. prophet ran to her with his left sword still drawn. Prophet grabbed her chest with his right hand high up above him head, and threw his left sword towards her left shoulder, piercing it. Blood spilled, his sword which was orange was now red, her white coat was now streaming down with red liquid. Celestia yelled in agony and pain. Prophet immediately with out hesitation, kicked her on the chest and collapsed her down to the ground, her chest downward. Prophet then stabbed her back, sword flawlessly pierced her right chest, then dragged her forward on the ground. Celestia frantically moved her right hoof to drag his sword away from her, but it was no use. Blood leaved marks as she was being dragged with prophet's sword. Celestia was confident she was going to win just about few minutes ago... Now the situations was changed. Celestia feared him. Prophet was overpowering her in every way, she can think of. Only if the Elements of harmony was here... But they were at the Ponyville. And she was not able to call them without new selected bearers. First in her thousand of years, she felt hopeless. She could not just end like this, but there were no pony to call for an aid. She felt helpless, and she was already exhausted in a battle. Her blood spreading everywhere... Then Celestia jolted as Prophet took out his sword from her back. She looked up to Prophet's face with fear. She knew very well that he was not going to stop until she is dead. How did it come to this? How did it become like this? What went terribly wrong? What have she done? Is this the fall of the Equestria? Her all ponies... Dying with out her sun... There was war coming against griffon. She could not just leave that. There were just so many works to be done, and she could not just end like this.
She reached out her hoof for hopeless help towards prophet.
"Please..."
Prophet anger grew,
"You... Beg for mercy... What chance do you think you will have!" Then he drew out his Majestic Six pistol towards her head.
"I wish to see your brain splattered..."
Celestia quickly says...
"You... You have to understand!! Please... Listen to me!"
Prophet ignored and shot a bullet towards her head, although it did not penetrated , it carved out her skin pretty damn
well.
Celestia felt a immense force striking her head, the force was too great that her Brain was disoriented from the impact and pain. Despite her breath and blood rushing in her body, she weakly said,
"Prophet... I beg you..."
Then another shot came. She felt the pain, but this time greater. She could not speak. The pain was unbearable. Celesita saw Prophet readying for next round. Celestia just simply closed her eyes. This was it... End of Celestia. Then another familiar voice came.
"Stop!"
Celestia and Prophet both looked for the voice and saw Luna, her wings fully stretched, tears still running down towards her chin. Prophet said,
"Stay out of this, Luna!"
Then Luna said with all courage she've got.
"Don't kill my sister."
Prophet remained silent.
Luna slowly walked and stopped right in front of prophet, and sat on the ground, locking her eyes to prophet.
"Please... Don't kill her... I beg you... Equestria can't live another day without her. I can't live another day without her. She... Is my only family who is still alive... She is my only sister I'll ever have... And she is only pony I know... She is everything to me... Please... Don't kill her... Don't... Please... "
More tears ran down from her eyes again, her gaze fell on to the ground, and sniffed softly... Luna then hugged Prophet's leg tight. And buried her face in him. Her hot tears soaked Prophet's leg.
"Please..."
More tear exploded from her eyes. Every tear, turned her coat in to darker tone.
"Please...if not for her, do it for me..."
Those words melted Prophet's mind.his anger ceased and looked down at poor Luna.
At the end, prophet managed to speak suppressing his anger away.
"Fine... But I am doing this for you, not her."
But then when he looked at Celestia, his anger started to raise. But he could not kill her. For Luna. He grumbled and threw his pistol to the ground and walked away.
Luna watched him walking away, and soon, he went transparent, completely hiding himself from all others. Ambulance's beeping sound surrounded Luna's ear, and faded out to her back. All she cared about was her sister and Prophet... She stood motionlessly, and watched med Ponies quickly putting her in to Ambulance's back door. Some checking for her pulses, some trying to stop her blood... She just simply stood there, staring at the weapon he dropped. L shaped weapon that shoots projectile faster than any arrows. She carefully took it with her magic, and made sure nopony was looking at her. She didn't know why she took it. But after all it was Prophet's belonging, and she did not wanted others seeing it.
Prophet and Luna part 2: What Luna needs
Celestia was still alive. Being an alicorn can do that. No matter what kind of torture they suffered, they can survive. Anything that would dish out damage to kill other ponies would do little damage to alicorns. Only gods can kill gods. She knew that very well, for she was ancient. Older than Equestria itself, older than her planet, Equis. And perhaps older than her Sun. Millenium after millenium she saw things come and go. She saw war. She saw peace. She knew. She knew about everything that has happened in the universe. She knew her family inside and out. She knew Discord from the beginning of all things. The exodus. But what she did not know... What she did not know was Prophet. She has sensed the fabric of space tearing apart because of Prophet. However, interference was a good thing. She always liked interferences; they cause changes that creates some of the most unimaginable things anypony would bear to think of, creating rifts that allow her to take a leap forward towards new knowledge. But for the very first time, she was unsure of it. She thought she knew anything and everything, yet, she still remained unsure of Prophet. To her this was no fear… it was a terror. Knowing so little about Prophet, and his entire race, yet she was confident. She had been before but not now. She was a fool. A fool who thought she knew everything. But now she realized she is merely a child compared to other deities from other world. There was still a lot more to learn. For a moment Princess Celestia let go of her thoughts and slightly moved her head. She was in her chamber with all medical instruments standing aside of her bed. Then she heard soft crying. It was Luna no doubt. She weakly looked at her and smiled.
"Luna?"
Luna kept on crying.
"...Luna?"
Luna ignored her call, and squeezed herself little more like a little ball.
"Luna... It's all right. I'll be fine..."
Then she softly murmured, her voice barely audible. "It's all my fault... It's all my fault... I hate myself... I did this to her... I should never tell anyone about myself... I am so ignorant..."
Celestia sighed at her sister, and tried her best to calm her down. "Luna, it was never your fault... I... should have known better."
Then Luna bursted into tears and yelled, "How can you say it's not my fault! It's all my fault! All mine! I should have never told anypony about myself! I'm supposed to be stuck in a shadow! There is no victory for myself… none! That was my fate. My destiny! I should have never existed in the first place!”, “But I had a stupid, pointless hope. Hoped to have at least one pony who can listen to me, but no! Should I ever have one? Never?! My stupid hope did this to you, Tia! Can't you get it yet?! I am the one who did.. this to you! I should have just stood like I was before! I should just take my life while I can, but I’m immortal so I can’t! Is that what you want?!" The nightly mare panted heavily, eyes wide as she breathed wildly.
Celestia stared at Luna with a shocked expression, her facial muscles frozen in place. Her lips trembled and fumbled to try to make out words. "L...Luna..."
Without a second’s notice, Luna jumped out from her sister's bed, crying frantically. She then hurriedly flew away out through the window, not even looking back. Her shadow cast upon Celestia while she watch her sister fly. Celestia couldn't do anything but watch her sister running away. Sorrow filled her soul.
Luna flew. And her flight was very unfamiliar. Last time she flew in to the free air was a thousand years ago. She was not used to it at all. It felt weird to feel her wings clapping against the air.
As she flew, she saw Celestia's sun still pinned in the sky. The night was coming. Or do they really need her night? She decided to not care about it since her arrival. Nopony ever cared about her night anyway. So she flew. She just kept on flying, not knowing where she might end up. Then one thing struck her mind. She needed to find Prophet. She didn't know why. But talking to him made her feel he is the only one she knew other than Celestia. She wanted to be left alone, but also in other hand she just felt comfortable with Prophet. Although he did a lot of damage.
"Where could he be...?" She had no idea how to track him. But she might be to track him in night. She could use her moon to watch him. However, she was in no mood to raise the moon today. She never was. She had to come up with some way to find him.
Prophet walked until he could find someplace to hide. Entering the Everfree Forest was his idea, and after all it did gave him better cover than a open wide area. The thick vegetation in this area of the Everfree surely did grant him seclusion and cover, but just staying around the forest did not mean he has a hideout. The Everfree was dark, and had many dangerous creatures. Anything unexpected can happen here. He could see them through the darkness. He could see some of them watching him closely, and some of them running away. He did not care. They are weak, and can be killed easily. After a moment of walking, he heard a low growl from behind him. First, he just ignored it, and kept on walking in deeper. But after hearing the same noise numerous times Prophet grew ever more annoyed and spun around to see his follower, and saw a lion — a lion's head with bat wings and a scorpion tail? Prophet stood baffled and blinked.
While narrowing his eyes he uttered, "What the...fuck?" The monstrous creature responded with bellowing roar that echoed all through the forest. Prophet was in no mood for fighting right now so he wanted to finish it quickly as possible. The lion-bat-scorpion raised its paw, razor sharp claws extended, to attack him, but the move was immediately blocked by Prophet. As he held the beast's paw with his hand, he glared at it without emotions behind him. The wild beast tried to swing its paw away to shake Prophet off to no avail. Hastily Prophet started to crush its paw with his hand with brutal pressure. The creature let out a ear piercing cry of agony and raised its tail to stab Prophet, but he just grabbed that too. He forced the tail to his side and somersaulted sideways to twist and sever the tail off. The monster flinched greatly, bending down onto its knees to recover from the massive recoil. Prophet jumped again, this time up into the air looming over the head of his attacker, and simply impaled its brain with its own tail to kill it in an instant. It gave a brief howl before finally collapsing onto the forest floor, lifeless. A flock of birds chirped loudly to fly away from the killing.
Prophet stood to his feet. He wiped off the sweat from his forehead whilst muttering, "What a pity, creature. "
Sitting on a rock in what sempt to be deep thought, Luna broke from her train of thought to notice a wave of birds fleeing from the distance. Birds don't flee unless they detect a threat, which remained a natural instinct for them for millennia. What could have caused such a commotion? Luna thought to herself of the possibilities. A manticore, hydra, Ursa Major. But Luna had a feeling it was something much smaller. Perhaps a manticore? But she still had hoped to find Prophet, so she flew there. After flying for some minute or two and descending down to the ground, she glimpsed upon a manticore — a dead manticore — lying stomach down on the ground, its head crushed by its own tail.And right next to it… was none other than Prophet. She her prediction was entirely correct. Prophet turned and noticed Luna looking on with a neutral expression drawn on her. It was funny, she thought, he was actually a little surprised to see her.
Prophet tilted his head. He spoke, "Luna? Were you following me?"
"No-- er, yes. Agh, I mean no! No. I... I wasn't following you." Prophet gave a very perplexed look that read ‘Are you serious?’
Luna sheepishly responds, hiding her face behind her mane. "Sorry..."
"I wish to be alone. Leave me.."
Luna hesitantly responds, "B-But... I want to be with you! Please?"
Prophet crossed his arms and tilted his head as he spoke, "Why is that?"
"I just don't want to be alone anymore..."
"I thought you wanted to be left alone."
Princess Celestia looked out the empty window that remained opened. Cold wind was blowing in, gently taking the loose curtain with it. The air was cold, she knew what needs to be done. But she was exhausted, far more exhausted than she has anticipated. She felt her power drained quite a lot from battling Prophet and had to heal herself. Above all though, it was her sister who really broke her down. Yes, battling did drained a lot of her stamina and magic physically but what her sister said to her terrified Celestia deeply. Her words looped through Celestia’s head over and over like a scratched vinyl disc. It drained all the force that she barely kept content as if her soul had abandoned her body. It made her feel empty inside. But Celestia knew that it could not be avoided. She loved Luna. She was her only sister and sibling, but she had no idea what was really going inside her sister’s mind. Celestia always thought of her sister as a silent and lonely pony. Celestia was completely oblivious to the fact that Luna wanted to die. Her deep depression was invisible to Celestia, since Luna never really showed her full emotions until now. Now Princess Celestia thought her sister was always like that. Even before her banishment to the moon, she was same. The onset of the corrupt attitude Luna developed to become Nightmare Moon made Celestia begin to question if her sister would ever come back. But once when Nightmare Moon had spat threats of eternal night in order to get all of Equestria to appreciate her for a change, a spark was set off that forced Celestia to send “Luna” to the moon. The Princess didn’t take note of Luna’s sadness though; she instead shrugged it off the time she was used to it. She seldom cared about Luna’s problems and grew annoyed at times because of them. Celestia thought to herself “How could I be so… immature?” She couldn’t see it…
She looked out to the window again. Her mind was still clouded with regrets and thoughts of her sister, her power was way too weak to do anything, yet something had to be done to resolve it. Or she let her subjects suffer day after day of no night. Is this what sister meant? Luna yelled about her existence was not be known or mentioned. Celestia imagined the world without her sister’s night.
Celestia laid her weak aching body down onto her plush bed, thinking aloud, “No… wait…” She realized her sister’s true meaning. IIt had nothing to do with her night disappearing! It was about her presence. Celestia again realizes she has been controlling both sun and moon for the entire thousand years Luna’s spent on the moon, and not even a single day caused any chaos. It implied Luna was useless or unfit to raise the moon herself, for Celestia can handle both the sun and moon’s raising. Another thought arose in her head: not even a single pony remembered Luna’s name the time she was banished. She was forsaken and everypony lived just fine without her presence. And even now, nothing has changed. Nearly all ponies, except the bearers of the elements of harmony and most of the Royal Guard, weren’t aware about Princess Luna’s return. Present day with Luna was virtually the same as it was in the past.
Ever so slowly Celestia then again looked her sun, still shining in the sky. She needed to lower it down. She really wanted to see her sister doing it herself, but she insisted doing it. To be honest, Celestia was worried that she was not able to lower the sun. It was obvious that she will fail. But she had to try. Celestia rose to her hooves. She forced all her energy left inside of her and channeled through her horn. It glowed a faint goldish color. However as expected, before her horn could release the magic, her horn flickered dimly and faded away.There was too little energy to lower the sun. Celestia collapsed to the floor of her balcony as she felt sweat accumulate around her head and body, and gasped for air. She saved up all her energy left inside of her, but it did not work. Surely she has gone weak. She needed time to recover, but the time has deceived her.
Prophet watched Luna softly crying, and sighed. “Luna, I’m sorry. Alright? I know I was being a dick, but hey, I don’t mean it. I was just little angry… Luna, I just want to know what happened.” He said as he walked next to Luna. Then he sat down beside her, who was still crying. Prophet was never the best on socializing with the females.
He knelt down to her and petted Luna’s head delicately as he said, “It’s okay. It’s alright. Just tell me what happened.”
Then she finally or barely managed to speak. Although it was really quiet, Prophet still could make out what she was saying.
She mumbled out, “My sister is hurt… She is hurt… and I did this to her.” These words struck his mind. He felt guilty although he still hated Celestia.
“Only if I said nothing, this would have never happened. It was my fault to think that I can have somepony who can listen to me… I should have stayed like I was.”
Prophet gently brushed her back, and said, “Luna it’s not your--”
“My fault… all my fault…”
Prophet attempted to coax the mare of the night into calming down. “Luna, it’s not…”
“What are you Luna? You are nothing…” Luna recalled the words of her sister.
“Luna…”
“I am worthless..”
“Shut up!!” Prophet shouted top of his lungs this time. This wasn’t the Luna he was looking at, or anypony crying for his or her misery. Whatever they did, locking away themselves from everything and slowly breaking themselves is not going to happen in front of him. Especially Luna! And after he shouted, he realizes that he might have been made the situation worse.
Luna’s eyes widened and her pupils darted in to small pecks. She stared at Prophet with shock and nervous expression. Her body froze in solid and was trembling slightly in fear.
But Prophet continued his harsh tirade, “Stop all this stupid nonsense! You’re Princess Luna, you are not useless! You are not nothing!” With great gusto booming in Prophet’s voice, he still continued, “It is not your goddamn fault! It never was! It was Celestia ! Not you!” Prophet circled around behind Luna, while Luna just kept on s
taring at him speechlessly.
"Can't you get it yet?! Your sister took away your choices, then she just tore you up into pieces! It was never your fault! You just did what all other people would have done! Hell, even I would have done it, too!" Luna was beaten down mentally by Prophet’s overpowering words and her gaze slowly dropped down to ground instead just kept on staring at him. Prophet couldn't help himself to calm down. Whenever he saw Luna, he felt something tingling in his mind, forcing him to help her anyway he could. Now the bottled up feelings exploded right in her face.
Prophet paused before telling Luna, “'What did I call them when I was human?
“Sympathy and empathy... Yes. I think that's what I used to call them.” Those words felt peculiar, and strange. But yet familiar.
Prophet sat down next to Luna and whispered to her, "Luna. Luna. Look at me. “ She ignored it, “Come on, just look at me..."
Luna hesitated for a moment before she could raise her head, but her eyes were still locked on elsewhere. Prophet could see small amount of tear forming beneath her eyes. Her eyes were heavily bloodshot from the tears. It was much more beautiful than any gems he could think of. And to see Luna crying made Prophet feel like human again. Did he like Luna? He couldn't really answer that question. But he did wanted to help Luna surely, and she did melt his cold metal side of his mind. So maybe... no. He liked Luna. Yes he did.
Prophet reached out his finger and gently touched beneath her eyes where her tear formed, and cleared them out. "Luna, I don't want to see you crying anymore. Can you promise me that?"
Luna stayed quiet.
"Well?"
Luna finally spoke, "I-I promise..."
Prophet smiled behind his helmet. "Good." He softly brushed her mane with his hand. Luna seems to blush a lot. He noticed her blueberry cheeks turning into a deep red color, and her eyes widened for a second for a shock. She did her best to hide under her mane but it was pointless. Prophet felt her heart beating as blood thundered through her whole body heating her up. This blowed his mind away. He was breathless.
Prophet thought, 'Jesus... She is just... Damn...' But he had to finish his words first before he can go in to something else. He used all his willpower to pull that out.
"Luna, you know. It's my fault too, if you think about it. I should have controlled my anger. It could have started out much better than this." Then he felt sudden pressure around his chest. It was Luna hugging him tight. And from the expression from her face, she would not release him until the world ended. Prophet looked at her with genuine expression. Purest he can ever think of in his past life. He felt warm. Not that he can feel the heat of the exterior environment. But somehow he did. Heat was not coming from outside. It was coming from inside of him. Silence embraced both Luna and Prophet with comfort. Luna felt that was well. Seconds... Minutes... Her feeling remained constant. For the first time in thousand years, she finally felt warm aura emerging inside of her, and it started to illuminated inside of her cold, lonely mind. Her heart beat gradually slowed down. Then something extraordinary happened. A small smile. True genuine, pure smile of satisfaction.
Prophet broke the silence with a "You can let go of me now."
Luna gave him a quick look and apologized still with red cheeks. "I-I’m sorry..."
"Don't be." Prophet chuckled heartily.
Out of the blue Luna suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, I almost forgot!"
Prophet looked at her with curiosity. Then Luna took out something that he easily recognized, and his belonging just seems to appear out of her tail… but why? But he didn't ask her. Anyway, it was his most trusted revolver, Majestic Six. Its glossy chrome finish shined in the moonlight gingerly. Prophet held it -- just like he had for the first time -- tightly as he felt Majestic Six’s power in his hands.
"It's my pistol... I thought you ponies destroyed it or studied it."
Luna sheepishly answered, "Well... I did my best to not let them see this thing."
"It is my most trusted weapon,” Prophet said as he carefully examined his weapon, “It never let me down. This is a piece of me. Luna, this means a lot to me."
"You're welcome." Luna continued, “So what is it?”
"It's called a revolver, and it shoots... these." Prophet took out some sort of cylinder out of its bottom, and showed her brass looking objects.
"These are called bullets This one is called .50 compact. These may look small but pack a helluva punch." Luna shuttered remembering how it almost killed her sister. She hesitated heavily.
Soon after finishing feeling up his gun he said, "Luna, you know what. I want you to keep it."
Luna's ear plucked up in surprise. “W-What?"
"I just want you to keep it."
"W-why?"
Prophet shrugged. "It's wears some of my old life. Makes me remember things. Just consider it, a gift from your new friend."
A very surprised Luna was taken aback by the offer as her eyes widened at what Prophet said, "Your… friend?"
Prophet nodded. "Yeah. We are friends now, don't you think. "Her eyes started to flutter.
”You... You really think me as your friend?"
"Yeah, Luna. "
Then Luna's tight hug came around his neck, and she broke down into tears again. Tears of happiness. Although she technically did break her promise of not crying as Prophet watched, it was tears of happiness so they both waved that off. It wasn’t just tears of happiness, it was heartful tears.
"Thank you... Thank you... "
Prophet smiled warmly. "Oh, forgot to tell you my name, I was really ignorant."
Luna said tilted her head to the side questioning, "Prophet. That's your name, right?"
"Yeah... That's what they used to call me... Prophet. But you can call me Laurence. Major Laurence Barns at your service, Princess. " He snickered cheesily. Luna stood with regal pose and stretched out her hoof, giggling.
"It is my pleasure meeting you, Larry. Seems like we are going to be well acquainted."
Prophet narrowed his eyes at her remark, responding, "Larry? What's that for?"
Luna shrugged in reply. "Let's keep it simple, shall we?"
Prophet responded with mocking voice, "Alright, then. Woona."
"Woona? That's not simple at all." She crossed her front legs, scoffing.
"Keeps us feel little more closer. Right?"
"I think so, Larry." She nodded.
Next Prophet felt something off. The sun. The time is now 7 o'clock. Why is the sun still up in the sky at this time? Prophet thought, 'Did Celestia die? Did I kill her? Is that why the sun is still there?'
He nervously uttered, "Uhhh... Luna. Why is the sun still there?"
Luna closed her eyes, "I noticed."
Prophet's voice started to rise. "Something to do with Celestia?"
"No, She is... fine. She is just not well. If she died, the sun might have collapsed, too."
"Then why are you not raising the moon?"
Luna's face dropped. "I...I am not worthy."
Prophet let a long sigh. He started to remember the fuming tirade he spewed at Luna just some time ago. "You are Luna. Princess of the night. That's what you are. You are worthy of controlling your moon. That's what it's all about you and whole raising sun and moon business."
Luna still denied that she has worth in raising the moon. "No, not after all I have done. I don't know."
Silence followed. The trees around the twosome swayed gently to and fro in the warm breeze. It was very peaceful weather. Once Luna had warmed up with heartfelt smiles and the like, it was as if on cue that the dismal and gloomy feeling of the Everfree dissipated. The darkness didn’t feel so strong anymore. Prophet gazed to the auburn red sky, highlighted with purplish streaks and dotted with rolling patches of clouds. He decided to turn the subject a little.
"Luna, you know. I love stargazing."
Luna's brow arched. "What does that mean?"
"I love the night sky! And I want to see yours. What do you think?"
She replied with shock, "You... You like my night?"
"Well, I mean night in general. My homeworld's night was dull. Never really saw many stars, but I like night more than day. So, I want to see yours."
She answered with saddened face. "Oh... My sky isn't very good... I never really impressed anypony with my night." She underestimated herself quietly.
"Well, I'm not a pony. And I haven't seen your night yet."
"But, why are you pushing me to do this?"
"Luna, I just want to see you happy. I want see you raise your moon. You can't be stuck like this, for rest of your life. And watching your night would make me most happy, too. Can you do that?" He looked Luna deep in her cyan colored eyes, smiling ever so gently to try to entice her into raising the moon. It should be raised after all, maybe that would bring Celestia to ease and satisfy the citizens of Canterlot and all the other places so they wouldn’t become agitated.
Luna hesitated. "If...my night makes you happy... " She rose to her hooves off of Prophet’s touch. She sighed deeply to concentrate magic on her horn. Then her horn started to illuminate bright blue color, and glowed more with each passing second.
"I...I haven't done this for many years..." With her words, she slowly grabbed the sun and pulled it down gently under the horizon with her magic and pushed up her moon after it. Thing with such a sad memories of her. But she shook away her thoughts and continued her work. Prophet stared at her with awe. It was really amazing to see something like that. And his suit made unwanted noises, he muted them.
He turned away briefly to fiddle with his suit to try to silence it. "Immense energy pulse..."
"Mute"
He hated it when it broke his mood. But then he still gazed to the rising moon as the sun slowly falling down, shouting one last cry of light before it disappears. Then he saw millions of stars glowing themselves as if they were diamonds across the black blanket. Strangely her night was more beautiful than what he saw in the space. It was strange, but it was Luna. She is the Princess of the night after all.
"Wow... Luna... This-- is just unbelievable."
Luna deeply blushed, and her ears folded down "Really? You really like my night?"
He paused. "No, I don't like your night."
Luna worried as heart started to sink. Her voice trembled a little. "I...I knew it... I not good enough. I should have..."
Prophet then cut her words and looked to her with his head slightly tilted. "I don’t like your night -- I love it."
Luna's emotion quickly changed. "Do you mean it?" Then Luna felt being pulled up by Prophet. And he rested her on his arm.
He said, "I mean it."
A tidal wave of happiness washed over Luna and to her eyes in the form of tears again. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Prophet felt like if Luna was a little girl, and to be honest, that made her just adorable to him. And he felt little bit like what he used to be. Human. After all, he was only a human.
And prophet knew what Really Luna needs. She needs love, care, and attention. And he was going to give her his best.
