As the sun rose in the east gently, slowly, heavy rain clouds started to unleash their hold. Pouring drop after drop of rain onto canterlot and the whole of equestria. The princess of the sun sat on her balcony, greeting the day as it came. But she was not happy, not cheerful, no emotion was seen on her face. Her once beautiful coat, matted and uncempt. Her eyes heavy with lack of sleep, and her hair, droopy and lifeless.
She had received the news of the battle betwwen the dragons of dragornia and the canterlot guards. She touched her necklace of gold, a soft clink was heard as she took it off her neck and let it fall to the floor. Her crown heavy, it too was dropped onto the floor. She watched as it rolled and stopped by the necklace. Her eyes lifted from the metal as she watched the rain fall into the streets of her home.
A few hours earlier
As the battle ragged on, captian shining armor held onto his shelid and sword in his magic. Blood trickleing down his leg, joining the blood soaked ground as he pressed forward.
"Keep going! We have them on the run!" He shouted at his troops. Guards turned to soldiers, recruits to medics and many wounded screaming. He knew, each one of them would not survive, but he had to stay strong.
As he turned back to the battle field, a large hand reached out and grabbed him. He lost his breathe as it squeezed him, his sword dropping to the ground. The dragon cackles and tears off his armor. "Aah!" As he screams, blood escapes his mouth. "Whats the matter, prince? Lost your nerve?" Its deep voice, the gargle of rocks. He spat in its face, staining its scales with his bloody saliva. "I-i won't give up!"
The dragon squeezed him tighter. He went limp and his blood dripped onto the stained ground. "Shining!" His soulders watched as the dragon tore off his ear. The unicorns charged at the beast and he dropped the limp prince. They assaulted the dragon with swords and spells, driving it back to the trenches. The head guard rushed to his commanders side and dropped his helmet next to the broken armor. "Captian.." he touches shining's ear and calls for a medic.
Meanwhile, princess aurora was slashing at the dragons around her, her armor stained with blood and her eyes full of rage. "Come at me!" The next dragon came at her, his teeth bared. "Ill rip you to shreds!" It fell with a mighty thud as the princess slashed his throat, killing it.
"Goodnight, princess..." She was hit in the head and blacked out.
Back at the castle
Celestia held the helm to her chest as the rain poured down on her, the tears streaming down her face burning. "Its not true..." She started to weep openly, but hushed herself after she heard her daughter stir in the next room. "I...i need to be strong for her..." She held her breathe and waited for the foal to go back to sleep. "I can't be loosing hope.." But the words were sour on her lips. Filling the air with an unseen mist. Clouding her judgement.
"I can't loose her...not like this..." She knew she had to be strong, not just for her daughter, but for her kingdom.
Chapter two: A rude awakening
A few months earlier
Celestia screams as she pushes, sweat building on her brow as she pushed. Her lover, princess aurora, held her hoof as she squeezed hard on it. "Thats it. Come on darling." Celestia nodded and panted as she pushed again, this time, the room was filled with the gasping cries of a neborn foal. Aurora smiled as her new dughter was cleaned and brought to her by the nurse. "Here she is..." princess aurora took the foal in her silver magic and smiled down at her love.
"Celestia..." she gasped out, her eyes filled with tears as she held her daughter close. "L...let..me see... our daughter..." aurora gently gave her foal to the one who brought her into this world. A proud mother took place of the ruler of the sun. She smiled as tears of joy and happiness rain down her cheeks. "Shes beautiful..." she says as she places a hoof under her daughters chin, bringing the foals face up to her mothers.
The foal opened her eyes slowly, but surly. She yawned and looked at her mothers face for the very first time. Her magenta eyes twinkleing in the moonlight. "She has your eyes, love..." aurora nuzzles her lover and kisses her forehead softly. "Yes...yes she does..." celestia smiled and leaned against the large black pony that was her mate. "Look...she has your color..." the foal bore her mothers black coat, shining from the water used to clean her. "And your hair too..."
The foal had silver tipped red hair, with black stripes along the back. "I don't care, shes as beautiful as the both of you.." a dark blue alicorn stepped into the room, her hair glowing softly in the moonlight. "Sister..." Celestia held up the child to her elder sibling. "Hello there little one..." luna said as she gently nuzzles the baby. "Truly beautiful.." she adds. "Almost as beautiful ad you, my darling..." aurora says to her other mate.
Luna blushes brightly at the comment and smiles. "Tis only true, my darling.." a dark figure approached the mares, her blue mane, a mist of stars. Her dark purple coat, the deepest night sky. And her dragon-like eyes, gentle and a soft torquoise. "Nightmare..." luna nuzzles her as they all look at the child.
Unbeknownst to them all, a scream filled the night as a dragon flew into canterlot and destroyed a statue of the four princess's.
Ponies screamed as the dragon headed for the main part of the castle, the gaurds headed for it, trying to protect their princess's. They were out smarted by the beast as two more showed up and hit them from behind, sending them to their deaths below in the streets. "Ill take the higher towers, you two take the inside. Find her, do your job, and then ill do mine." The scaley beasts nodded and went into the main entrance of the caslte, breaking the walls and killing several maids and guards.
They had no remorse as a recruit shot a magical arrow at one of the dragons head, at which the other stabbed him in the chest with his sharp tail. Spilling his blood on the floor and left him gasping for air. But the other dragon rushed his skull as he went past, insuring that their was no witnesses. A maid screamed, but was silenced as her throat was slit, her blood staining the walls and her body going limp. They cackled and made their way closer and closer to the delivery room.
"Where do you think your going..?" A large, black dragoness stood in front of the room. Her wings folded against her sides. Her hard green eyes locked on the intruders, ready to kill if nessesary. "What are you doing, sister? This is our mission!" The larger of the two males steps forward, his muscles tense as he glared at her. "I think, you have the wrong castle. I live here, i want nothing to do with this invasion. And if you think that for a second that ill let you pass, your mistaken..." she hisses deeply in her throat, threatening them.
The smaller of the two snort and charge at her. In a flash of green fire, he dropped like a stone to the floor, half his body burnt to ashes. The insides of him exposed to the air, creating a sicking stench thqt made the large dragon wrinkle his nose. "You killed your own brother...?!" He shouted to her. She steped into the pill of ashes and chuckled. "I am no dragon, and he was not my brother.." in a flash of green fire, she changed her shape.
Scales turning to sickly, black ash colored fur. Her stature shrunk, but not by a lot. She was still taller then an alicirn, but her siaze difference was made up in her body. In the dragons place stood a bleeding, blood stained manticore. Its head tilted to the side in a sicking way, a crack sounded as she took a step forward. The hallway turning darker. "W-what are you?!" He yelled. "I'm your worst nightmare...." she lunged at him and all that was heard, was a loud snap.
The dragon stood their and then he started to crumble, his flesh dripping off of him like water. His blood pooling around him as he disolved. His last breathe was taken as she snapped his neck in two. He fell, only bones, to the cold hard bloody floor. She smirks and realized it was a deversion as the door to the delivery room was shut. "No...no...no!"
She ran back to the room, slipping on his blood as she slams into the door, tearing it off its hinges. "Aurora!?" She looked around frantically as she saw her mates on the floor, including the weakend celestia, clutching her daughter in her shaking hooves. Trying to calm her down, she looked up at the changling. "C-chrysalis..." the changling queen ran to her lovers side and helped her from under the bed.
"Where is aurora?" The shocked mare pointed to the balcony, were a black mass lied. "S...she defended us..." the queen rushed over to the balcony and held a hoof over the limp body. "Aurora.." she shed a few tears and buried her head into the black fur of her wife. As she wept, the others got up slowly and looked around. Luna and night,are gasped and rushed to her side. "What happened..?"
Her words were stained with her own blood. "d...dragons.."
