The Last Equestrian War

+CHAPTER I+

An excerpt of the past

Old Mare:

Oh... Are you the new to this land...? Then let me tell you the story that exists here a long time. Perhaps you have heard it... Perhaps you haven't...

Equestria... A land where majestic ponies flied and lived... A land where every kind of evil soul tried to tarnish it. A land where a couple of monsters would bring the almost destruction of it, the war that almost killed us all. The war that the Heralds of Harmony fought, on one side came darkness and its harbingers... Sombra and his wife Sunset Shimmer, they ravaged lands with eternal suffering. No crops dared to grow on those cursed lands. No foals dared to breed on the mothers who were ruled by the couple of pure evil... Their darkness was overwhelming, burning all hope away. Rape, famine, rage and destruction struck all the lands in this once majestic land... No hope lived on the hearts of those that lived in pure despair. That was until someone kindled the flame. From the dark obscurity, four lights came. Two sisters and their lovers... The younger sister and her lover controlled the darkness flawlessly... But not a cursing and controlling darkness. A kind of darkness that could heal and guide through times of loss and despair. It was a knowledge that was obscure, but could nurture your mind through the harsh times. Toghteter, they guided the innocent to freedom, they were the ballance between knowledge of good and evil, togheter lovers for a long time... Luna and Starswirl. She, alongside her lover, struck Sunset Shimmer, who dared to bring eternal pain and suffering through tortures and rape. They managed to defeat her, but not before crumbling her castle.

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Memory of Starswirl:

“Argh!!” Starswirl cried in surprise as he created a magic shield in defense of a boulder that almost crushed them.

"You demons!! H-How come you could destroy my beautiful castle?!!" Sunset Shimmer cried as her wounds finally made her succumb in pain.

"Starswirl!! You're too wounded! I have no more herbs to heal you and we must leave!!" Luna shouted as the castle crumbled around them.

"Luna, my beloved... I... I don't think I can move..." Starswirl tried walking, but his legs didn't respond, as an attack of Sunset Shimmer's destroyed his leg's ligaments.

"N-NO!!! I'm not leaving you!!" Luna cried, tears in her eyes. "Please!! Th-There must be a way!!" She desperately tried carrying him with her.

"Luna, listen... There is no need for such act... I... I am long... Long overdue on this earth..." Starswirl tried letting go of Luna.

"Shut up!!" She screamed as she ran through the hallways with him. Boulders crashed the corridors around them.

Luna ran up to the center of a main hall on a castle, where they were cornered by destroyed pieces of the castle. "No... We're stuck!!" She looked around, then to Starswirl.

"Luna... Damn it..." Starswirl looked down as he thought to himself. 'That spell is not ready... I didn't master it... But I have no choice... I must... Save her...' Starswirl did his best to focus the spell.

"Starswirl, STOP!! Don't force yourself!!" Luna didn't understood what he tried to do, but as he focused his spell on her, she came to despair. "STARSWIRL!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!" It was too late.

A flash of light, a tremor of force on the ground, and Luna was not there anymore. Only rested the wounded body of Starswirl. "Ghr... I... Did what I could, Lunnie..." He looked upwards to the sky that he saw through the cracks. "Only one bad guy to go now... I wonder where are those two wonderful sun lights now..." Starswirl smiled.

The castle crumbled in loud piercing noises of explosions and pieces of rock crashing on the ground and in the end, it was done. No more Starswirl The Bearded, he finally was put to rest.

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Old Mare:

That was the fate of Starswirl and her lover Luna. He teleported her to a place away from the castle. A gentlecolt's true movement. But oh well, enough babbling about one couple, there is more to this sad history tale than just one loss. There is the other couple in this incredible war. The older sister along with her lover, as powerful as the shining sun, raged great firestorms and healed the land against the curses and diseases of King Sombra. Ten thousand years of connection made this couple more than friends... Lovers... Celestia and Discord. Togheter, they were the harmony between restoration and destruction through flames... They struck at King Sombra and together, they massacred the evil king with light. However, a dark fate came to the young and loving couple.

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Memory of Celestia:

"DISCORD!!! NO!!!!" Celestia cried as her lover was struck with a blade of dark energy, capable of cursing somepony forever.

"Damn it..." Discord said as he fell with the blade on his chest.

"If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me..." The demon King Sombra said, before coughing blood and perishing.

"Discord, this blade... No... Its curse will transform you... I... I..." Celestia fell on her hooves, pure despair on her eyes.

"Celestia, honey... Listen to me... Please... Listen..." Discord tried to call her attention. "You have to freeze me... I have no other choice... AGGH!!!"

As Discord cried, the curse soared through his veins, corrupting his beautiful form... Him, the last male Alicorn in existence.

"No!! We can find a way!! We finally defeated the king!! Luna and Starswirl will help you!!" Celestia cried as she held him close.

Discord cried in agony and pain, as his flowing of magic corrupted with sinister dark magic... The destructive power he knew turning to something so much worse.

"My love, listen!! You have to do this! I C-CAN'T RISK LOSING MY POWER!! AGGH!!! TIME IS SHORT!!" Discord's words seemed filled with fear.

"Discord... No..." Celestia cried in fear as she saw the corruption taking its final act.

A flash of light sent Celestia flying to a wall, as she was knocked out. When she awoke, she saw what was once her lover now turned into a demonic beast, a Draconequus.

A mythological creature once said to be banished from space and time... And now her lover had taken the form of it.

"D-Discord... What have he done to you..." Celestia was on her hooves as she was on tears.

"I still have my sanity... Please... Before this consumes me..." His voice seemed filled with anger, lust and hatred. "Freeze me into a stone... You are the only one that can do it..."

"I-I won't do it... I won't be able to live without you, Discord..." Celestia cried like a filly, tears for her loved one as she knew a fate of lonliness awaited her.

"I-If you won't do it... I will..." A voice called from the room's entrance... There stood a sorrow-filled Luna.

"Luna... No... Please..." Celestia, with tears on her eyes, begged her sister not to do such act.

"Discord... We don't know how to save you... We will try to find a way, though... I promise that..." She closed her eyes "I promise that to Starswirl..." She held her hoof against her chest as tears flew her eyes.

"Thank you..." The power surging through his veins, corrupting his very core of existence. "Ghrrrr... What are you waiting for?" Discord, almost out of patience and almost out of control, ready to attack on her lover, Celestia. "Come on... DO IT!!!!" He shouted as Luna shot the magic that she had left.

As it hit Discord right in the chest, it froze him like a diamond, he was stuck in that form until someone could ever break that enchantment... The problem was, there was no way to break petrifying.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Celestia fell on the ground, her wings opened as she cried like a filly.

From that day, peace did come to the wounded lands of Equestria, but at the price of its most majestic Knights... Soon to be named Kings, their sacrifices were not in vain.

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Old Mare:

That was the tale of the four Heralds of Equestria and their war to stop Sombra and Sunset Shimmer, my dear...

That is the burden that the princesses carry... The dark fate they hold. Sad losses... How much had you lost in your life that you never stop to think?

Yet I say all of this to you, a pony who is suffering a long curse that Sombra put on this world... The Soulless curse... The curse that is draining you...

Did you have family? Did you have a wife? Children? What did you have? Can't seem to remember? It's the power of this curse, my dear... It already is consuming you...

Go forth... Seek the Herald that resides on the deserted city ahead... She might give you some more information on what is going on... For now, I don't have more storytelling to you...

[TO BE CONTINUED]