The Sulreif Demigod

Twilight was standing in front of Celestia, Luna and Rainbow Dash who had restored her energy, standing in the corner. Twilight was unsure if Rainbow Dash had even heard what was going on. No matter, both her and Fluttershy knows the truth and had to be eliminated. Though Fluttershy was still to reveal her position. She had probably just fallen behind while Rainbow Dash rushed to get here. Asking Rainbow Dash where she was probably wouldn’t help, but these were all minor problems to deal with later. Right now she had to finish what she started so long ago; to kill Celestia and Luna and take full control over Equestria.

Suddenly breathing was heard from behind Twilight. It was Pinkie who had seemed to finally be awake. Twilight turned around and looked back at her with a cold look.

“Tw- Twilight?” Pinkie asked confused.
“What is going on?” Suddenly she opened her eyes wide. “Dad!” She said quickly. “Is he alive? Where is he?!” she asked startled.

Twilight looked down at her. “Don’t worry” she said with a smile. “You’ll be with him soon” she whispered just before she lifted her right hoof, and stomped it down on Pinkies head. A cracking sound appeared as Pinkie was instantly knocked unconsciously. Celestia and Luna had no doubt that what Twilight had said was true. She was the evil behind it all.

“I will defeat you” Celestia starred mad at Twilight.
“Even though it breaks my heart to see a dear friend fall”

“That’s some big words from someone that has no magic left” Twilight smiled, with the mist keeping appearing around her. She was confident that this would be an easy battle. She had it all planed.

“I may not have much magic left, but I still have the will to protect Equestria. That is all I need” Celestia said equally confidently.

Twilight couldn’t help to chuckle a little.

“You think it’s funny?” Luna whispered, still lying on the ground.

“Let’s see you laugh after this!” Luna suddenly jumped up and flew towards Twilight with a blue glow in her eyes, looking intimidating.

“Don’t think I forgot about you” Twilight smiled. With no further movement, Luna just as Twilight did with Pinkie, was able to pierce Twilights chest with her horn.

“It’s no use” Twilight said calmly, just before a purple mass was going from Twilight’s chest onto Luna’s horn; almost like her skin was trying to blend with Luna’s horn. Luna was quick to react, and withdrew her horn, still with a white and dark blue glow storming from her eyes. The hole left in Twilights chest, was quick to close itself.

“Don’t forget Luna…” Twilight’s had a smile on her lips, just as the wound disappeared, as nothing had happened. ”I’ve fought you before. In the future. I know all your tricks. Unlike your sister here…” Twilight looked over at Celestia.

“You have a monster hiding inside you. A monster with even more power than your normal self, even greater power than Celestia. The power of Nightmare Moon. That was actually the reason you bested me the last time. I thought I had you both forced down, just as dark blue glow began appearing, and a huge amount of magic burst through you. At that time, I thought that Nightmare Moon was long gone, but I learned it never left. You simply learned to contain it. Of course, you had to keep that detail a secret to the public so they wouldn’t look at you with anger and fear” Twilight looked back at Luna, seeing the eyes of Nightmare Moon.
“But not this time. Without your sister to help you, you don’t stand a chance against me” Twilight smiled calmly.

“Shut your mouth!” Luna screamed as she created a massive beam bursting from her horn, shattering the ground below its path. Twilight quickly did the same and sent an equally massive beam towards Luna. The 2 forces smashed against each other in the middle, sending both beams off course with a screeching sound, one of the beams was forced upwards, making a big hole in the roof, as Twilight’s beam was heading towards Rainbow Dash.

“Dash!” Celestia quickly yelled as she had observed the beams direction.

Rainbow Dash quickly looked up as she saw the massive beam heading directly towards her. She just managed to spread out her wings before the beam made contact with her, sending her flying into the wall behind her as the beam dissolved. The amount of force was great enough to make a big hole into the wall, where Rainbow Dash was now stuck in, unconscious and badly wounded.

“Rainbow Dash!” Celestia yelled again, before running towards the unconscious blue pony.

“Oh no, you don’t” Twilight said. In an instant, she sent another beam heading towards Celestia. The beam was flying quickly through the air, heading directly towards Celestia that had no change of avoiding it. Celestia knew she was unable to evade, and simply closed her eyes. The purple beam was certain to finish her off.
Quicker than the eye could catch; Luna appeared in front of Celestia, with both her daggers she used against Pinkie’s clones. She levitated the two weapons in front of herself and Celestia. Just as the beam made contact with the weapons, she managed to send the beam off course yet again, but the power of them beam was so intense that the daggers were forced out of Luna’s magic and sent flying in separate directions. Luna was breathing heavily, standing before her sister, with her eyes glowing more than ever.

“Thanks Luna” Celestia was quick to say as she bowed her head, then continuing to run towards Rainbow Dash, while gently levitating the blue pony down from the hole.

Luna’s eyes looked fierce, and her energy seemed to be fully back. Though she looked like Luna on the outside, you could see Nightmare Moon in her eyes.

“Oh, how nice. 2 sisters protecting each other. Guess I just have to kill you instead” Twilight focused her eyes on Luna, who had small wounds across her body and an angry look on her face.

“If you insist on using your toy weapons, I can play along as well” she smiled, just before some of the purple mist began gathering in front of her, slowly beginning to form a long blade, with a shaft at the bottom. A thin sword began taking form. The blade was narrow but razor sharp. The shaft was black, with what appeared to be bandages across it. The mist in front of her was gone, only leaving the weapon before her.

“Let’s end this shall we?” Twilight made a smirk just before disappearing into thin air.

“Where did she go?” Luna thought to herself. Even the mist was nowhere to be seen. A step was heard somewhere across the room, followed by another one at the other side of the room.

“She- she’s not teleporting. She just moving so fast I am unable to see her?” Luna was shocked as step followed by step was heard across the room as Luna tried to keep focus. Every time Twilight placed her hoof on the floor; a sound appeared, but she was moving so fast it was impossible to see where she was. Luna closed her eyes and looked down, beginning to focus magic in her horn.

“There is no reason to try and attack me. It’s just a waste of magic” Twilights voice was heard across the room.

Luna ignored it and continued to focus on her horn, though nothing appeared to happen.

“Too slow!” A voice was suddenly heard just inches next to Luna. In a swift move; Twilight swung her weapon with magic, towards Luna’s neck. The sword stopped suddenly as it made contact, but as Twilight looked at Luna, it revealed this she had managed to block the sword with her right hoof. Though her quick reactions, the sword had still made a deep cut into her hoof, but a little slower and the blade would have killed her with a blow to her neck. Blood was dripping down from Luna’s hoof, with the sword stuck in her hoof. Twilight was standing in front of her, looking frustrated.

“How… how were you able to block my attack? I was moving faster than anyone would be able to see and hear. How did you know when I was going to attack?” Twilight asked, with a drop of sweat escaping from her chin. Luna kept her right hoof up, still with the blade stuck in the bloody wound.

“I didn’t try to use my magic to attack you” Luna said still looking down.
“I was sending out invisible waves of magic. Almost acting like sound waves. Even though I wasn’t able to hear or see where you were, I could feel your position in the disturbance of my magic” Luna looked up and stared at Twilight. “You’ll have to do better than that Twilight” she said cold.

Twilight smiled nervously. “I have to do better, huh? Alright then” she almost chuckled.

Suddenly the sword that was stuck in Luna’s hoof began bulging. Luna was shocked as she saw thin purple hands creeping out from the surface of the sword.

“W-what?!” Luna said nervously as she tried retrieving her hoof, but she came painfully aware that it wasn’t that easy. Every time she tried forcing her hoof back; a sharp pain pierced her entire leg.

“Oh, you’re not going anywhere” Twilight smiled.
“This is no ordinary sword. I am able to shape this sword to my liking. When the sword sliced through your hoof - even though the wound is only a few inches deep, I made inverted spikes at the end of sword, meaning every time you try to retrieve your hoof, the spikes not only stop you, they make even more damage. So I suggest you stop struggling, or the spikes will bury themselves deeper into your flesh” Twilight smiled.

Luna could feel the spikes, pushing against her flesh every time she tried to move. Forcing her hoof free would result her flesh being ripped apart, leaving a big open wound which would eventually drain her from blood loss. In despair, she looked around the room. Seeing Celestia empty of energy, trying to help up the badly wounded Rainbow Dash. She looked at the thin hands emerging from the sword that was beginning to crawl their way up her leg, and closer to her head. She then looked back at Twilight, who was smiling confidently. She was sure victory was hers, and who could blame her… Luna was slowly being devoured by the Sulreif while her sister was struggling to even stand up and while Rainbow Dash wasn’t even able to move a muscle. The other holders of the elements of harmony were trapped in the other castle, waiting for it all to be over. Waiting for the good news, that they saved Pinkie Pie. It all rushed through Luna’s mind as she closed her eyes as she recalled a recent memory.

“I convinced my big sister that everything was alright” She thought to herself.
“That Twilight had it under control. If it wasn’t for me, we might have discovered it all a lot sooner. We would have been able to capture the real monster and save Equestria” She thought of the last words she heard from her sister that day. “I love you” Her sister’s words kept smashing inside her mind.

“She trusted me, and I let her down. She loves me… this is my fault!” Suddenly she snapped out of it, and began yelling as she tried to retrieve her hoof with all her force. Twilight was shocked by Luna’s determination, and had to struggle to keep the sword in place. Luna’s yelling became louder, as well as the pain was rising. Just a second later, she ripped off her hoof from the sword, leaving a bloody open wound across her hoof while some of her flesh was still stuck to the spikes. Blood was almost spraying on the ground.

“Luna!” Celestia suddenly yelled as she saw the blood appearing from Luna’s wound.

“I’m sorry sister” she whispered with a tear pushing from her eye. “It’s Time to end this!” Luna yelled as she began casting a spell.

Before Twilight was able to react, the ground around her lit up and 7 chains made of magic appeared from below, swinging quickly upwards. 4 of the chains began going in circles around Twilights hooves, before tightening in. She became unable to move. Just as quickly 2 of the other chains did the same around her wings, so she was unable to fly. The last chain was quick to tighten in around her horn. All 7 chains were now holding her firmly fast to the ground as she was completely unable to move.

“What is this?!” Twilight yelled nervous, while trying to teleport away.

“It’s no use. These chains have magic flowing through them, counter attacking your own magic” Luna stared dead at Twilight as her own horn began glowing.

She was levitating Celestia’s weapon, which was a few feet behind her. Twilight began shaking violently, trying to break free from the chains as Luna held Celestia’s spear, with one of the blades pointing towards Twilight. Twilight was staring at the sharp blade Luna held before her, only a few feet away.

“You did it Luna!” Celestia almost cheered, despite her lack of energy.

“This curse ends now!” Luna yelled.

Time appeared to be in slow-motion as Luna ran towards Twilight, with the weapon in front of her. No matter how much Twilight struggled, she couldn’t move out of the way. Just inches before the weapon made contact; Luna opened her eyes wide as she saw a smile across Twilight’s lips. She was still in a running movement, but at the moment Luna placed her right hoof down on the ground, something made her lose control, and she almost slipped to the side, missing Twilight by mere inches.

“What?” Luna thought, running just past Twilight that was still stuck in the chains.

“Remember…” Twilight smiled as Luna was passing Twilight, unable to stop running.
“The hands on my sword weren’t meant to kill you. They were meant to take over your body, making me able to control it, and since they only reached your hooves… I now control your hooves movement”

The words just managed to pass through Luna’s head, as she realized she couldn’t feel her legs. They were running without her control. Twilight stood still, with a cold smile as Luna kept running forward, towards one of the broken windows. Unable to stop, she could only watch as she got closer and closer to the window.

“No” Luna whispered as she was forced to take a final step before she fell out the window, at a deadly height. As Luna felt like she was frozen in the air, a scream passed through her.

“LUNA!” Celestia had cried.

“Sister” Luna gently whispered as time felt like it made a glitch and then went back to normal, and she was forced closer and closer to the ground. Twilight’s magic was forcing her down, so even if she had enough energy available, her wings wouldn’t do any good. It was a cold night outside, with the wind gently passing through the trees and the grass. It was a beautiful night. A tear escaped from Celestia’s eye, just as she heard the loud thump of Luna’s body smashing to the ground. At that exact moment, the chains holding Twilight in place, dissolved into nothing but dust. Celestia stared blank at the window for a while, tears falling to the ground, one after another.

“I know it must hurt” Twilight stretched her neck, feeling glad to be free again as she took a few steps forward. “It’s a loss for me as well. She was like a sister to me” Twilight continued, taking another step as a smile appeared across her face. “But she wasn’t” she grinned.

At that moment, Celestia smashed her left hoof into the ground and stood up tall with anger in her eyes.

Twilight couldn’t help but to sigh. “I know you want to avenge your sister, but…” Twilight paused. “Right now, you’re as weak as the blue pony beside you”

Rainbow Dash was still lying numb on the ground next to Celestia, barely breathing.

“Just give up now” Twilight was now only feet away from Celestia.
“Or you are going to end up like your dead sister” She smiled, staring down Celestia.

“You…” Celestia whispered.
“You’re gonna die here” She said a little louder. “Right now!” She suddenly yelled as she bashed open her wings and flew up into the air, with her eyes glowing as bright as the very sun. In a quick move, she swung her head back while her horn began glowing strongly. Just as quick, she swung it back, sending a bright beam burning with white fire, directly towards Twilight. The beam was going fast, but Twilight was even faster as she was able to move out of the way with a laugh. “Ha! It’s no use”

But as soon as the beam hit the ground behind Twilight, a sharp flash almost exploded through the room, blinding Twilight.

“Argh!” she flinched as she held her right hoof in front of her eyes.
“You annoying…” Twilight grunted.

It wasn’t long before her sight returned, but as she looked up, Celestia had vanished from sight.
Suddenly a sound appeared from behind, Twilight quickly looked back in surprise. Her eyes first saw the wall of purple mist that had appeared behind her, just after she noticed a blade just inches away from her body. Celestia had tried making an attack from behind while Twilight was blinded. Only at the last second, the purple mist had created a strong wall behind her as protection, but the blade had penetrated, though only a few inches, the blade had still cleared through some of the mist. The mist was like a wall of sand. Enough mass to slow down an incoming object, but not enough to completely stop it, like concrete would.

Twilight laughed nervously. “Sorry Celestia, it was a good plan, but the Sulreif has a mind of its own sometimes. The curse can see things that I cannot. It doesn’t need eyes; it can feel where you are” She smiled.

“SHUT UP!” A yelling was suddenly heard from above. Twilight quickly looked up towards the voice, seeing Celestia flying towards her with her weapon.

“What?!” Twilight let out. “But you’re weapon is stuck in the wall of mist… How is that possible?!” The wall of mist that had protected her, began spreading out again, as a blade fell to the ground.

“The blade isn’t attached to her weapon? Which means…” Twilight looked back up at Celestia, seeing only one blade on her weapon.

Twilight quickly realized what Celestia must have done. “She took out one of the blades from her weapon, and used it as a decoy while flying above me. Even though the mist has a mind of its own, it’s not able to move fast enough to create another wall above me” Twilight realized all this as Celestia was flying at intense speed with the weapon towards her. Before Twilight was able to move, the blade of the weapon made its way through her hair and flesh, and had made contact with her skull. A slight sound was heard from pieces of Twilight’s skull cracking.

Twilight felt the blade penetrating her flesh and nerves. Just as her heart made a beat, her eyes were forced wide open. “AAAARGH!” Twilight screamed in pain, just before the purple mist forcefully smashed Celestia and her weapon away, sending them both flying through the air, before hitting the ground at the other end of the room.

“Dammit!” Twilight yelled while holding up a hoof to her wound. She looked at Celestia that was struggling to get up from the ground.

“That blow could have killed me if she had hit with full power” Twilight thought to herself. “Just lucky for me, that she used the last bit if energy she had left on that flash beam” Twilight had a hard time feeling lucky while feeling the narrow hole in her head. The pain was rushing through her body as she could feel the blood working its way down her face.

“I’m going to kill her!” Twilight yelled in her head.

The purple mist quickly retracted Twilight’s sword that was lying on the ground. As soon as Celestia saw this, she lifted her own weapon with her magic and with her last bit of energy she was able to stand up.

“I’m not giving up!” Celestia yelled.

Twilight was just looking at her angry. The wind rushing through the smashed windows was sending a cold air into the room. Twilight closed her eyes just before moving at tremendous speeds towards Celestia. Again, it was hard to even being able to see Twilight while she was moving so fast. Celestia closed her eyes for a second and took a breath. In a flash, Twilight appeared in front of Celestia, swinging her sword forcefully down towards her. Celestia quickly opened her eyes and reacted. As fast as she was able to, she levitated the spear in front of her, in an attempt to block Twilight’s sword. Twilight swung with such force, so even though the spear blocked, it was pushed to the side while the ricochet forced Twilight’s weapon back, but it had left an opening. Twilight quickly took back control of her sword and swung it from the side. In an attempt to avoid it, Celestia tried to move back, but she was too slow to avoid getting hit.
The tip of the blade swung just over her right leg, leaving a long wound. Celestia ignored the pain and quickly tried to counter attack by taking control of her spear, and with a stepping motion she forced the blade towards Twilight, trying to stab her body, but with her slow movements, Twilight was able to duck the blade and just as quickly, she got below Celestia’s head and slammed her head up in Celestia’s jaw, making Twilight’s horn pierce through her chin and up through her open mouth. Immediately Celestia began coughing up blood. The ground was already splattered with blood, from Twilight’s head wound.

Twilight didn’t waste any time as she began focusing magic to her horn, still while it was stuck from down her jaw through Celestia’s bloody mouth.
“Die!” Twilight yelled, just before sending a beam from her horn upwards.

Celestia opened her eyes wide as she could feel the warm beam going through the roof of her mouth, and further through her skull and brain, ending with shooting up a hole through the top of her head, sending pieces of brain and skull across the room, with a massive amount of blood.

“L- Luna” Celestia whispered as her eyes rolled back in her head, with a single tear escaping from her eyes.
“I couldn’t save you” She said with a fading voice.

Twilight smiled, as she in a swift move withdrew her horn, down out from her jaw, leading Princess Celestia falling to the ground with a hole going from her jaw all the way through the top of her head.

Blood dripping from her horn, Twilight looked at her dead teacher lying on a pile of blood. Both the princesses had fallen before her, and knowing she now had finished her goal. To gain full control over Equestria. There was complete silence in the room. No screams, nothing falling apart. The air felt delightfully dirty, and the room seemed more beautiful than ever, with the broken memories and the dried up blood. Twilight looked up into the air, before laughing uncontrollably.

“I DID IT! THERE’S NOTHING TO STOP ME NOW!” She screamed.

The purple mist floating around the room quickly flew back into Twilight, giving her eyes an evil purple glow. She looked around the room. There were defiantly signs of violent battle. Broken windows, holes in the floor, the roof and across the walls. Not to mention the dead bodies. Pinkie had been lying on the ground peacefully for a long time now. It was unclear whether or not she was still breathing. Her eyes then focused on the other unconscious pony, lying in the corner.

“Better do something about you” Twilight said to herself, as she began walking towards Rainbow Dash. She was still alive as her breathing was still following a steady rhythm. Twilight stopped before her and looked down on the blue pony.

“You know too much, my dear Rainbow Dash” She smiled.
“Don’t worry. Killing you isn’t necessary. You might become useful, later on. A quick memory erasing spell should do the trick” Twilight slowly lowered her horn, and began messing around in Rainbow Dash’s head.

“You won’t remember a thing” Twilight almost hummed.

“Princesses!” Suddenly someone stormed into the room. Twilight quickly stopped the spell, and looked at the entrance, from where the yelling had appeared. There was standing a single white guard, who was just staring at the damage in the room.

“W- What happened? I’m from the medic team that was evacuating ponies in the nearby area. When I returned, I saw the massive amount of dead soldiers around the castle” He muttered as he looked around the room, seeing Princess Celestia lying numb on the ground.

Twilight had to think quickly. She looked at the guard with a sad face.
“Pinkie was stronger than we imagined” She sighed.
“It took our full strength to bring her down. Celestia she…” Twilight squeezed a tear out.
“She fought a brave battle, b- but she died fighting for Equestria. I was the only one who managed to survive Pinkies destruction, besides my friend Rainbow Dash. I was just performing a healing spell on her, but I’m afraid it’s too late with Celestia and Luna” Twilight looked down to the floor, trying to hide her smile.

The guard took a step forward. “Celestia and Luna are dead?” He asked with a silent voice.

“I’m afraid so” Twilight weakly responded. The guard tried to say something, but he couldn’t find the words.

Twilight looked back up. “How many royal guards are left?” She asked with a serious tone.

“Ehm…” The guard took a while to answer. “From what I know, there are about 50 uninjured guards, and probably around 110-120 wounded ones. Most of them are being taken care of by the royal medics”

“I see” Twilight responded quickly.
“My royal guard” Twilight took a step forward.

The guard quickly looked up, this time more confident.
“Yes, Princess Twilight”

“Now that I am the only princess left, and most of our army is destroyed, we need to rebuild” Twilight looked into the guard eyes, not caring about looking sad anymore, but still hiding her smile.

“Y- Yes princess. What are your orders?” The guard lifted his right hoof up to his forehead.

“First, send a couple of medics up here, to take care of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie” Twilight commanded.

“As you wish” the guard responded as he went to call upon the medics. After he left the room Twilight looked outside, seeing Canterlot being struck by the first beam of sunlight. It all looked so peaceful.