The two sisters stood outside the main barracks, covered with ancient, yet impressive looking Armour.
On Celestia's right side rested a hammer of insane proportions, although it had sat in storage for almost a millennium, the weapon pulsed with a power that sent a chill down an enemies spin, yet somehow inspired allies at the same time.

Luna, standing next to her sister, was similarly dressed as her sister, though her armor seemed to be focused more on speed than her counterparts.
Next to her sits her scythe, although it wasn't as large as her sister's weapon, its size was still impressive in scope, the old weapon gave off a deadly aura, as if promising death with one simple cut.

Standing in front of the sister was currently Equestria's most experienced military force, although the group didn't have a name, they had earned many commendations from border skirmishes with bandits looking for easy pickings.
The group stood about twenty strong, with about twelve unicorns, five pegasi and three earth ponies.

Luna let out a small sigh upon seeing the gather soldiers.
"I suppose after so long with no true conflict, it would be expected for our military to be some what lacking compared to before, but is this truly the best we can do?" Luna complained.

Celestia shook her head. "Not quite Luna, although you are right, our military is not what it used to be, these soldiers aren't coming to actually fight Nova, that would be insane." She started to explain.

Celestia turned to look at her little ponies, each of them standing in attention, ready to move out on her command.
"No, they will have a different role, however, you'll have to wait, we don't have time to waste." She said, clearly annoying her sister on the lack of information.

Luna cleared her voice and turned to address the group.
"On my mark, my sister and I shall teleport us and all of you to the site, upon arrival, time will be of the essence, you all know your roles, even if I don't... now ready yourselves."

The small group prepared themselves as the two princesses charged their spell.

Nova and Trixie's mood had improved over the passing time, especially with their goal finally coming into view.
"Ah, so that's the check point is it?" Nova said, pointing to the two rather large buildings that were seemingly building into the two mountain sides.

"Indeed, they say that the griffins built the one leading into their nation and the ponies built the one leading into Equestria as a sign of alliance, although Trixie cannot say if that's actually true or not." Trixie explained.

"So, Equestria and..... wait, what is the Griffin kingdom called anyway?" Nova asked, mentally slapping himself for not asking sooner.

"You really..... no, Trixie should not be surprised you don't know, they call it Griffionia, although its usually just referred to as the Frozen North." Trixie explained.

"Huh, I've never seen snow." He replied.

"Well, you won't be seeing it for a little bit still, despite the name 'Frozen North' its not all just snow and ice, most of the area close to the Equestrian Border is apparently fertile land." She further explained.

Nova slowly nodded, before getting slightly confused.
"Wait, how do you know that, I thought this was your first time leaving Equestria?" He said with confusion.

"Trixie is just that amazing, what can she say, no but really unlike most other ponies, she actually has an interest in what lies beyond our borders." She said.

Nova could have sworn he just saw Trixie's head grow a little bigger, and was going to comment on is, but was interrupted as a massive flash of brilliant white appeared far to the left of their carriage.

Trixie blinked a couple times, and lost focus on her magic, the carriage quickly came to a stop.
"wh- what, I... that was a teleport spell.... a very Powerful one at that.... what... Trixie still can't see properly.." She said, rubbing her eyes.

Nova however, could see perfectly fine.
"Trixie..... remember what I said earlier?" He said, the tone in his voice a mix of annoyance and anger.

Her face suddenly changed into panic.
"What, what is it Nova, Trixie doesn't..."

However, before she could finish, Nova let out an annoyed groan and hopped off his seat.
"Go, I'll catch up when this is done." He said, giving her a small smile. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine, now get going already, the borders just ahead."

Trixie let out a sigh of defeat, starting her magic back up.
"Dammit Nova, you had better explain yourself to Trixie when you get back." She yelled out as the carriage took off with surprising speed, leaving Nova beside the road.

Nova stood there for a second before slowly walking towards where the flash had come from, and not before long he saw exactly what he expected.

Although annoyed, he had to admit the two princesses looked much more ready for an actual fight than before, what was previously simple regal attire was replaced with imposing looking armor, however what really caught his attention was the disgustingly huge hammer Celestia had with her.
"Holy fuck..... that's... bigger than me." He said, generally impressed with the sheer size of the thing.

What Nova failed to notice, however, was the group of unicorns quickly spreading out and around him, encircling the three of them.

The three eventually stopped walking, simply staring at each other for a short while.
"Nova!" Celestia called out. "This will be your last chance, come quietly, and face a fair court, or we will be forced to stop you here!"

"I thought I made myself clear already." He said, lowering his hood and unwrapping the bandages around his arm.

Luna scoffed at him. "Your reasons mean little to us, you have committed crimes against Equestria, you cannot deny this, and you will not deny justice." She announced.

Nova stared at the two blankly for a few seconds, the tension was almost getting too much to bare, however, ever so quietly, He began to chuckle to himself.
It was almost as if he couldn't control himself, so many thoughts and emotions suddenly swelled up inside himself, he wasn't laughing at the princesses, their little speech or anything like that, he just didn't know what to feel at the moment.

"Do you think this is a laughing matter?" Celestia said furiously, stomping her hoof down, crackling the earth beneath her.
Upon this, each of the unicorn guards cast and combined their magic, a massive magical dome forming around the area.
Luna smirked as the barrier formed.
"You cannot escape Nova, submit." She commanded.

By this point, Nova had stopped laughing, his face was devoid of all emotions, he slowly raised both his hands above his head.
"I guess this is it then..." he mumbled out.

Celestia and Luna both blinked is confusion and shock. Surprised by his sudden surrender.
"Well.... good, I-" Celestia began to say.

In an instant, His face changed to that of pure, unbridled fury, the surrounding area became engulfed in his aura as he slammed his hands onto the ground, the entire area around him cracking with light seemingly pouring out of said cracks.
-Music start-
"This is it for you then." He finished saying, before summoning his shield to his hand.

Celestia and Luna acted instantly, bringing their weapons in front of them.
"If that is your answer, then fine."

Luna flew up into the air, intent on charging Nova as Celestia began charging a spell, Nova simply stood still, his right arm outstretched towards the sky, slowly growing brighter and brighter.

Not wanting him to cast one of his spells, Luna closed in for a quick strike, forcing him to dodge backwards, only for her to quickly follow up with another slash.
As Nova was forced to keep dodging Luna's strikes, Celestia summoned massive pillars of flame behind him, cutting off his escape route.

Nova raised his shield to block Luna's next attack, however the scythe, instead of hitting the shield, was aimed to swipe around and instead cut into his shoulder.

As the weapon cuts into his shoulder, Nova's eyes went wide, he used his shield to knock the weapon away and warped himself far to the other side of the barrier.
Nova quickly looked at the wound, a strange black colour spread from it to the rest of his body.
Concentrating for a second, he sealed the wound with a basic heal, thankfully clearing up the strange affliction as well.

Luna landed next to her sister, clearly annoyed from his apparent healing abilities.
"It seems he's able to nullify the enchantment, then again, it wasn't a very deep cut."

"Stay focused sister, we have to keep up the pressure, I'll attack this time." Celestia said, getting a short nod from her sister.

As Luna began to ready her attack, Celestia took off towards Nova.

Once again, Nova raised his hand above his head, an insane amount of power clearly building in the palm of his hand, and just as Celestia closed in, she felt herself physically pushed back by a sudden eruption of light.

Celestia barely had time to recover as Nova suddenly charged her, bringing her hammer down to block, steel met with steel as the force of the two weapons meeting caused another eruption of power, causing Luna to lose focus and having to brace herself.

The weapon appeared to be a large sword, obviously supposed to be held with two hands, yet, Nova stood there, easily wielding the thing in his right hand alone.

Celestia had little time to properly look at the Nova's new weapon as he brought his shield around and slammed it against her, forcing her to fly backwards to recover.

As Nova pressed forward to take advantage of this, Luna interrupted it with a sudden bolt of lightning, only for the attack to be harmlessly absorbed into the shield, however, this gave her sister the time she needed to come around for another strike with her hammer.

Not wanting to test the actual damage the massive thing could do, Nova quickly cast judgement upon her, the spell struck her back, causing her to yelp in pain and crash into the ground.
Nova prepared to strike the downed princess, but was suddenly struck by a massive blast of magic, sending him crashing into the barrier.

Luna quickly flew to her sister's aid, only for Celestia to pick herself up, a few small cuts on her body from the crash.

Nova similarly pick himself up off the ground, clearly frustrated. "Fucking hell, two on one isn't bloody fair is it?" He asked rhetorically.
He brought the sword up to his gaze, smiling sinisterly.
"Well, not fair for you, that is, but I'm getting tired of dicking around, I promised my friend I'd catch up with her, so I think it's time we cut this short." He stated.

With that, Nova simply disappeared, only to reappear right beside Luna.
Not giving her a chance to act, he brought his shield up, lightning spewed forth sending the mare flying, landing and slightly convulsing from her own spell.
Celestia brought her hammer around to strike Nova, however, the slightly slow attack was knocked back as Nova perfectly timed and parried the blow with his shield, Causing it to swing out far, leaving her wide open.

-Music end-

The guards outside couldn't believe what they were seeing, just a few moments ago, it seemed like their princesses were set to win, now, Luna was struggling to stand, the combined force of her own spell plus the added power from Nova almost knocking her out.
However, this was nothing compared to her sister, who know laid in the ground, armor torn open, and a massive gash across her chest.

"Soldiers! don't lose focus, if that barrier comes down-" The leader of the group began to say.
Only to be cut off when Nova charged towards the closest side of the barrier, wielding his blade in both hands.
As the blade met with the barrier, it cuts through it like a knife with butter, the entire thing suddenly shatters completely, the magical backlash killing most of the unicorns and knocking out the few who survived.

"You Bastard!" cried out one of the pegasi, taking out her crossbow, only for her to be struck with an exorcism, her lifeless body quickly fell to the earth.

None of the other guards dared move, either to scared, or knowing they simply didn't have a chance at this rate.
"Smart move." Nova said, swinging the blade onto his back and walking away towards the borders.

As soon as he left, the leftover guards rush to their princesses aid.
"Dammit, See if any of the unicorns are alive, you, the princesses need medical aid!" The next in commander started to bark out orders.
The guard quickly checked for Celestia's pulse.
"Bless our luck, she's still breathing, you, get to Manehatten, we need proper medical aid YESTERDAY." He shouted, one of the pegasi flying towards the city.

Luna slowly managed to stagger towards her sister's side, almost crying as she saw her bleeding frame on the ground.
"Sister... please, hold on..." she cried out, attempting to close her wound.

Meanwhile, in Ponyville's Library, Twilight suddenly got a terrifying shiver down her spine, she couldn't describe it, it was as if someone had suddenly torn a part of her away.

Meanwhile, Trixie sat there with her wagon, she had caused quite the commotion when she was seen rushing towards the border so quickly, though with a bit of hassle from the griffin guards, had finally made it through the gates a while ago.

Staring at the gate, Trixie found herself surprisingly worried for her companion, however, those fears were apparently unfounded as she saw him appear on the other side of the gate.
With a small smile, she gave with a quick wave as the gate opened up and he quickly jogged over.
It wasn't until he got closer that she saw all the cuts and bruises on his body, not to mention the scar on his shoulder.

Nova, not giving her time to ask anything, jumped up onto the seat next to her.
"There was a problem, but it's been taken care of." He simply said.

Trixie almost flinched when he talked, his voice was harsh, the anger clearly visible on his face.
"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" She asked. "You're not looking very well."

He relaxed into his seat, leaning his head back and closing his eyes.
"Yeah, I just, used a lot of energy, it's making me feel like shit, any more and I might have actually done some self harm." He answered.
Nova reached out and scratched Trixie's ear, the sudden contact caught her off guard, but the shock was soon replaced by a feeling of reassurance and comfort.

"Well, fine, Trixie.... never mind... let's just get going." She stuttered out nervously.

As the carriage slowly began to move forward, Nova felt a massive amount of fatigue suddenly overcome him, as he started to fall asleep, he smiled to himself, happy to finally leave his problems behind him.

(A few hours later, Manehatten Royal Hospital)

"Sir, how is the princess doing?"

"Thankfully, thanks to Princess Luna's efforts, we were able to close the wound easily and most other injuries have been properly healed, she's going to have a long recovery, however, something else is bothering me."

"You mean the scar doctor?"

"Indeed, the regeneration spells should have healed the skin perfectly, however, despite not only ourselves, but princess Luna's best efforts, the skin has scarred as if she has been burnt, yet the reports say she was cut with a blade."

"What does that mean for the princess?"

"I'm afraid it looks like she may be in constant pain from this, as it appears the wound refuses to properly heal..... There's nothing we can do at this point."

"Her student Twilight Sparkle should be contacted."

"Yes.... but lets wait till morning, give them one more day before we give the news."

Author's Note

In before: omg, what, princesses so weak so this is shit.
Will explain this if asked... or maybe in THE NEXT CHAPTER.