Who Were They?

For country Tia?

No...for me.

Luna felt that she was floating on nothingness. She could not explain it, but she felt at peace and calm. The blue alicorn slowly opened her eyes to find herself actually hovering over a field of stars, nebula and clusters, this was her own domain, her own dream world. "Am I dead?" she asked herself.

"No...just dormant." corrected a familiar voice. Out of the darkness walked in her own sister herself; Princess Celestia. She smiled at Luna.

"What are doing here sis? I thought we agreed not to enter other's dreams like this?" the princess of the night could not believe this.

"But I implanted myself here to tell you something important, something you need to know before you wake up again." she explained with sadness in her voice. "I couldn't bare for you to find out AFTER you awaken."

"What do you want to tell me that is so important?" Luna was concerned.

Celestia turned to her side to reveal a large and bleeding stab wound. "I died."

"WHAT?! NO?!" Luna felt her entire world spin, she did not want to accept that fact, she secretly hopped it was another one of Celestia's pranks. Her own sister dead? No.

"I wanted to be here to share my peace with you and to bring closure...and to thank you for always being with me through the good and bad times, even when I treated you less than perfectly, you still stood up for me." Celestia gave a genuine smile. "I really wish I could turn back the time so I could listen to you and treated you better so the whole Nightmare Moon thing did not happen."

"Please...this not the time for regrets...you did what you felt was right for Equestria." Luna shook her head.

"No...I did what was best for me and MY rule!" admitted the sun princess.

"Celestia...?"

"No one is perfect Luna, especially me, but Equestria needs you now more than ever, to lead them and prove to them that the kingdom can continue without me."

Luna had no idea what to say, she was stunned into silence. "I-I-I will do my best sister...I'll do my best." she quickly grabbed Celestia into a tight hug and started to cry. "I will never let you down, I will lead Equestria into a new era, and I will be there for Twilight, try my best to be her new teacher."

"Twilight..." was all the white alicorn said before her body suddenly dissolved into dust in Luna's forelegs.

"What the...?" the blue alicorn felt her sister dissolve away, she was no longer there. Luna was stunned.

Suddenly, a bright light engulfed her realm and she felt drawn to its source.

"Kage~ Oh Kage~" hissed a voice into the black stallion's ear. He suddenly jerked himself awake only to see the hooves for another dark stallion. His eyes traveled up this dark stallion's body only to see piercing green smoky eyes that stared at him.

"NO! NO!" exclaimed a dumbstruck Kage.

"I am back Kage, in all of my magnificent bastard glory." he gloated.

"You should be dead!" growled Kage.

"Killing that bitch Mistress Superior only weakened me temporarily, it will take a lot more than that to get rid of me." he mused. "Anyways," Sombra brushed his tail under Kage's chin. "I overheard your earlier conversation with Twilight, you really have a flair for the dramatics."

"Why can't you just shut up and stay dead!?" Kage jumped back away from the shadow unicorn.

"Why can't you just admit that it was ME that Twilight was attracted too?" Sombra smirked. "She practically WANTED to get her tight cunt fucked by me." he snickered.

Kage bucked the dark king hard in the face. Sombra appeared unaffected by the hit. "Thank you sir...may I have another?" Sombra smirked again.

"You are nothing but a monster!" the other stallion spat. "And to think you risked your existence by killing Superior to save Twilight!"

"Oh please, I only did that because I knew it wouldn't have killed me, if I knew it would...things would be so much different."

"I thought you love her!"

"Not enough to risk getting myself killed that's for sure, but I do indeed love her. Perfect mind and perfect body I would say, I always have been attracted to egg-headed mares...a lot like Hikari."

That name struck a chord in Kage.

"I have seen your memories Kage...Hikari, the name of your previous lover, the name of the mare whose death inspired you to create me. It must have been difficult just lying on the ground helpless and bleeding out as those Diamond Dogs gang-banged raped her to near death in front of your eyes."

The memory caused Kage's blood to boil.

"Yes...let the anger flow through you, let those visions of the past surge through your mind, let vengeance influence your every decision. Because as long as you have those memories of her...I'll ALWAYS have a reason to exist. ALWAYS."

In a faraway city, Tirek and the mysterious alicorn walked the back alleyways to reach a small obscure shop. "What are we doing here?" asked a skeptical and cloaked Tirek.

"Patience is a MUCH needed virtue for you Tirek, what better time to learn it than in the present." calmly responded the alicorn mare as they walked inside. "Mister Regia?"

The entire shop was old, dusty and cobweb filled. The walls were nothing but shelves of bottles and beakers filled with various potions. "Y-yes?" said a gravelly old voice. The visitors saw an old and decrepit stallion hobble in. "C-can I help you?"

The alicorn removed the hood of her cloak to reveal her face to the shop owner.

"G-goody Awa?" gasped the owner.

"It's Mistress now...Superior is dead."

"W-what can I help you with?" the old stallion slowly made his way to the front counter of his shop.

"Do you have the potion that Superior asked for?"

The old stallion thought for a minute. "Oh yes." goes under the counter and shows Awa a blue-green potion. "H-here it is." he gives it to the alicorn.

"Thank you Mister Regia...you have served the Sisterhood wonderfully as our potion master these last eight decades."

"N-no problem Good-I mean-Mistress Awa." smiled the very old stallion. Awa bowed slightly to him before she turned around and left.

The alicorn walked up to the centaur. "Steal whatever magic he has left and put him out of his misery...watching him grow old makes me want to pity him, so do your thing." she then trotted away without a care.

The centaur just shrugged and walked inside with a smirk. "At least I'm getting something." he locked the front door behind him. "Hold still Mister Regia..."