I could feel my hands slip against the saliva coated walls of the Hydras throat as my fingers tried to find purchase. The last few seconds had been all but a blur for me; shoving Luna and Aurora out-of-the-way, getting swallowed whole by the beast I thought I killed and then being slowly sent down the beasts long serpentine neck, painfully I might add... seeing as its saliva was already disintegrating the remnants of my clothing. I didn't have my lightsabers with me, so that made for a 'I'm fucked' incident in my head... along with the fact that I could still hear the screams of the ponies as I felt the behemoth get up and continue its march towards them. The slow swaying I felt only confirmed my fears.

Knowing that I was fairly royally screwed I tried to come up with as many scenarios in my head to try an d effect an escape. First off I called on enough of the force to shield myself from the harmful ways of the hydras saliva... seeing as I didn't know what exactly it could do to me yet, and not wanting to find out.

"Lets see... I could try to call one of my sabers towards me... but that may not work seeing as I don't know how far in I am... I could try to take control of the creatures mind, and then have it regurgitate me... Hmm... to many ways THAT could go bad... I could-" I stopped my musings when I heard a VERY familiar cry... One I hopped to never hear again this night.

"LUNA!" I bellowed, pulling in a large influx of energy to my core, I curled up and became a small supernova in the beasts throat, one that everyone could see. White and blue energy formed around me, swirling around my fetal form. I then thrust out my limbs, releasing the mass of pent-up power, making the tissue around me explode outwards in a rain of gore and blood, which covered me seconds later. I then fell to the ground, seeing as I was twenty feet in the air. I then landed on my feet, ungodly amounts of energy flowing through my veins as I searched for my friend.

I spun about, using my force sense to hasten the search, and finding her no more than thirty feet away. I then shot off towards her as one of the beasts feet came crashing down towards her; one of her wings had been broken sometime before leaving her grounded and unable to fly. With my unexpected power boost I was able to make it to her in about four strides, coming to an abrupt stop just in front of her as my arms shot up and prepped to stop the descending foot.

Luna didn't even have enough time to register that I was there before the foot had come down upon us, slamming down upon my outstretched hands. The force of the blow made by the surrounding ground indent as I pulled on even more power, making my body glow a slight gold as I put all I could into keeping Luna and the child safe. Now where I stood was a large crater with me and the other two occupying the very center.

Luna then looked up after a few seconds, noticing that she wasn't a red stain on the ground. She saw me standing over her, a slight golden aura radiating from my body as I kept the foot from falling towards her anymore.

"Corpus?" She asked with disbelieving eyes. I gave her no answer as I lifted my right foot and took a step forward, inching the beast back a bit. I then took another step, and another, and another, continuing forward as I pushed the beast back. All of the ponies were awe-struck to see such a feat of arms being performed before them, knowing that none other could possibly ever accomplish this. Even the princesses were dumbstruck by this. Once I had arrived at the top of the crater I shoved the Hydra back, making it stumble and howl from the two remaining heads.

"Dread Creature... You have tried to eat me, kill me... To this I would forgive you... But you have struck at the innocent and tried to harm those that would even forgive you for such..." The aura had built up around me as it started to form a spire of pure force energy that stretched towards the sky. "BUT, Seeing as I WAS YOUR OPPONENT! I will be bestowing your judgment." I stared at the creatures face's as it howled at my impudence and made to strike at me.

"DIE..." I sifted up one hand... and the Hydra stopped, looking confused as it did so. I then lifted my other hand up towards it, and made the Hydra lift into the air, slowly at first, until it was about a hundred feet from the ground. By this time a few of the ponies had fainted from all the bull crap that had happened around them, from me kicking their ass to me now kicking the hydras ass. Luna was about ready to call hacks and flip a table and Celestia was trying not to get a brain aneurysm from the sheer ridiculousness happening in front of her. Or at least THAT'S WHAT I'D SAY WAS HAPPENING... seeing as they were behind me, I could only assume that they were just as dumbfounded as earlier, or worse, as I continued with my plan.

"You all might want to turn away..." I bellowed out, making many of them faint from the attention. I then howled as I made two gripped fists and started pulling them away from each other... Just as a loud ripping noise could be heard coming from the Hydra above us, along with its own howls of pain. There were hundreds of thousands of small tear marks all over the hydras body as time sped by at alarming rates. I then released my left hand-made for a figurative grab of its necks, ripping the fuckers off in one go. I then brought the body down hard, slamming it into the dirt, making a large crater. Before lifting it back up and doing it again and again, until the thing stopped twitching.

I then looked over to my right and shot out my arm, focusing on a large uncontested patch of land. I then made a lifting motion and carved large portion of the land out of the ground. I then quickly brought it down on the crater that the Hydras body was occupying, crushing the remains and sealing them in ten tons of earth and stone... leaving a large hole in the ground to my right where the earth came from.

Then, finally seeing that none of my allies were in danger I fell to the ground, falling unconscious before my head hit the dirt.

"SISTER, lower the moon this instance! WE must keep the order if the world is to go on!" Celestia howled as she soared after her sister, following her into the grand hall of the palace that led to the throne room. Both sisters landing and held their great swords en guard towards each other.

"Our subjects do not appreciate us! They stay away and inside during the night, coming out only during the day to bask in your glory while they shun me!" Luna, now with a black coat and fetching bright teal dragon-esk eyes. She bore similar armor to that she wore today, when I fought the Hydra... but it was different, slimmer, and did not cover as much... like most of it had been broken off... And upon closer examination I saw that there were many cuts and dings on her armor... showing that she had fought hard.

"Please sister, be reasonable... We can fix this... But only together!" Celestia cried out, a lone tear falling from here eyes. her armor was in similar condition, though half of her helm had been shattered, showing a large gash under her right eye. most of her other armor pieces had been bashed from her body as well, though the remaining pieces also showed many signs of a great battle.

"NO SISTER! FOR THE NIGHT SHALL LAST FOREVER! AND THESE POUR PESENTS WILL KNOW MY NAME!" Luna cried out as she charged at her sister... the vision cutting off as the clashed in the foyer.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" I jumped up, screaming, in an unknown bed in a medium-sized white room. I tried to immediately calm my breathing while looking around the room, seeing only a few things in it with me, besides the bed. There was a night stand to my left, with a heart monitor to my right, there was also a painting of the sun gracing many rolling hills sitting on the opposite wall from me. There was also a dresser sitting right under said painting, and in the far right corner of the room, from my angle anyways, was a single wood door. The room was illuminated by a large glass globe that let the sun light into the room from above. There was even a medium-sized window o my left as well, letting a small breeze waft in through it and aerate the room.

I then noticed that my own attire was different than to what I had previously been wearing. I could tell that I was indeed wearing nothing under the white covers I was laid under, save for a smallish hospital gown... I could tell that two of them had been sued together and used to drape over my large body. The bed was rather comfortable for hospital accommodations, though I have had better and far worse in my long life. Sitting there thinking about all my past experiences with hospitals, the good bad and interesting, I barely heard the soft knock that came from my rooms only door.

"OH! Come in..." I replied hastily, not wanting to be a disrespectful guest.

"Thank thou Corpus..." The angel like voice of Luna graced my ears as the door swung slowly open, letting the goddess of the night walk in. Looking at here I could see that she had been crying recently; her eyes were puffy and slightly blood-shot, her nose was a little runny, though not obviously so, her mane was slightly disheveled and she looked like she took on a rancor and lost...

"How art though Princess..." I spoke softly, feeling a slight headache build up behind my eyes. I gave her a small smile and motioned her to take a seat, calling one of the extra pillows from the closet over before tossing it to her.

"... What all do thou remember... Corpus..." She said hesitantly, showing that she was afraid of my answer.

"We remember the whole thing Princess... We remember the Hydra... The fight there after, It swallowing us, We blowing one of its heads up... Us then beating the stuffing out of it and burying its remains under several tons of rock, gravel, and dirt." I answered truthfully.

"Dost thou know how thou did all those things..." Luna asked, a sad tone etching her words.

"Well... At first it was just my own power that fueled me... until we pulled on everyponies abilities..." I smiled slightly at her shocked face.

"How did thou use our own powers to fuel thy destruction of that creature!?" She spoke loudly, backing away from me slightly at this revelation.

"All I did was use all of the strong emotions that permeated the area to fuel them... The fear of the guards was so strong that We could have created a force storm with it if centralized and molded correctly... Though what we did was far more controlled... What we mean though is that I called upon the power that each of the ponies emotions create within the force... drawing that into myself to strengthen our own attacks..." I tried explaining, and failing miserably.

"How does one even do such a thing Corpus?! It sounds... evil... To call on the emotions of others..." Her fears were starting to become evident to me as we continued our conversation.

"Well... It dost not drain them... If that is what thou are afraid of... And granted We have found that such emotions as FEAR are weak when compared to those of Loyalty, Generosity... and Love..." I sighed the last word out as I leaned back into my pillows.

"Why doest though say that...?" She said slightly confused.

"When one finds a solid rock, like loyalty, generosity, kindness, compassion, love, or even honor... one can then have the power to move true mountains to their whim..." I smiled slightly when I thought of a certain Sith that had pulled a Star-Destoryer out of space and right into the ground...

"So we have noticed..." Said a new voice from the door way. There stood Celestia, in all her alabaster glory... though not in the same glory as her younger sister. She beheld a golden tiara upon her brow, sitting just behind her horn. her wings were folded at her side, the tips reaching all the way back to her rump, similarly to Luna's, her light green, blue, and pink hair hung around her shoulders like a cascading waterfall, her tail cascaded over her rear like a water fall, though not as dramatically as her mane.

I sat up straight in my bead and bowed to the ruler of the day, giving her respect where I had previously not.

"Good day Princess... How might we help thee?" I said with a slight grin.

"We would like thou to continue answering our sister for now... we will just sit and listen." Celestia replied, we bowed to each other and she took a spot next to her sister. I could tell then how much taller Celestia was than Luna... a good foot or so at least separated the two AT LEAST!

"As thou wishes Princess... Princess Luna... If thou would..." I gestured with my hand for her to continue her questions.

"Ah yes... We must ask... What was that... that gold Aura.. that surrounded thee there at the end?" She questioned, not sure if she should even be asking this.

"That... Dearest Luna..." Referring her in the endearing way I used to for the first time since I had seen her again, "Was the force... I had started pulling so much of it through my body that we were burning... Effectively killing oneself to the effect of killing that damned lizard..." I spat out the last word like it was venom on my lips. Both alicorns gasped when they heard what my changing aura had meant.

"Thou..." They both couldn't from words to even TRY to express what they were thinking on the subject.

"We have heard of those that have, in the past, that have burned themselves to ashes in the pursuit of power... We have even seen it for ourselves... The young Devorian, his name was Faltorus... Was my apprentice... We had traveled to the one of the many sith home worlds and found a Nexus... WE had just been wanting to study it, trying to just figure out how it had been formed and such... But our apprentice had other plans... He had planned on using the nexus to boost his energy unnaturally... To use this power to kill us... and become the new master. But when he tried to release his power he opened himself to the nexus... and it flowed through him unabated.. burning his body into a charred husk." I said with a hint of grief in my voice, I had hoped that he would turn to the new ways I was trying to create at the time... But he instead held true to the old ways... and got himself killed in the process.

"That... sounds terrible Dearest Corpus... How could such a stallion even try something like that?" Luna questioned, trying to wrap her head around the whole concept along with her sister. Granted I had told Luna of how things had worked before... She had never once gotten an example of what some paid for power.

"The price of power is great... and some are just to weak to handle the responsibility... We have paid countless sacrifices to have obtained the power we used today..." I told them, being completely honest with them.

"What kind of Sacrifices..." Celestia asked as Luna tried to compose herself after my last answer.

"From a young age we knew that we were different... We have the Gifted Curse of immortality... Living for eons instead of decades... As is our people's curse for wanting power. We have personally lived through hundreds, if not thousands, of wars that would have killed one being billions of times over... even trillions... We have faced the wrath of an immortal goddess that wished the total control of the universe and as a cost of victory over her we had to walk the line and try to keep from falling into despair. We have even sacrificed personal feeling for the life of others less fortunate than ourselves... Creating an entire empire just for those with a devastated life could live once again." I named a few of the hundreds of things I had done for my power, and for others... knowing that they would respect some of what I had done.

"By the creator... Thou are hundreds of years old... but thou looks so young!" Celestia cried out, having been unable to continue listening once she learned I was immortal.

"Dearest Corpus... Thou never told us this... Why have you kept this from us?" Luna asked, tears staining her eyes as they threatened to pour over. With Celestia being occupied with her own thought I took it upon myself to comfort the midnight blue mare. I slowly got up from my bead, somehow not alerting the two of them to my movements as they were looking away from me, Luna towards the floor and Celestia towards the wall to my right. I got down on one knee and slowly wrapped my arms around the blue colored alicorn... Exuding an aura of calm reassurance and love from my person, wrapping it around her as she then let some of her tears trail down her cheeks, pulling her into my chest for comfort. I then let her shed her silent tears on my shoulder...

"Thank thou... Dearest Corpus..." Luna then leaned into my chest and let me rock her in my arms.

"Um... Sir..." Celestia said, being rather timid compared to the rest of her time around me.. Spoke up trying not to disturb Luna all that much seeing that she was having a moment and all.

"Yes... Princess?" I asked, slightly confused as to her reason for calling on me this time.

"We must... Apologize... For our earlier actions... Our sister informed us of some of what thou had been though in your time here... And we would like to reconcile with thou... And possibly have a true set of introductions..." She was blushing slightly, I was slightly taken aback, here was the princess of the sun, blushing for her ineptitude... and not just brush it off and go on with her day. granted the color of her cheeks was making me slightly nervous about her other intentions... "It also might go without saying that... We still do not truly know thy name..." She blushed even more at this, feeling embarrassed that she had never really caught my name.

"That is quite alright Princess... Our name is thus..." I stood tall, helping Luna to her hooves as she soon stopped crying to be apart of whatever it was I was going to do. I called some of my dark side energy to myself, using it to cloth myself slightly in a cloak that cascaded over my shoulders and pooled at my feet, spilling all over the ground around me. "Dark Lord Corpus, Ex-King and Emperor To the Demi-Empire of the Sith..." They both gave a slight gasp to my changed appearance and stepped back a few feet. I then knelt down and bowed my head to both of them. "At your Service Princesses..." I heard Luna give a half choked chuckle while Celestia went bug-eyed at my titles and how I was portraying myself.

"Thou... Thou... are, or were... A king!?" Celestia said bug-eyed, mouth agape and hanging low in a cartoonish fashion.

"Yes... And if thou wishes to hear of what mine other title means... We would liken thy attention to MY Dearest Luna here... For she knows what We have been..." I smiled halfheartedly at Luna as she gave me a small glare, thou I could feel her thanks in the force I played along with her guise.

"Um... Might we ask... What ever happened to that gryphon girl who was with us... I owe her a debt of gratitude..." This earned a slightly dubious look from both the princesses.

"How dost a villain like that earn thy debt of gratitude?" Luna asked, slightly miffed at such a prospect.

"Yes, Lord Corpus... It is... Slightly dubious in nature, wouldn't thou think?" Celestia enquired.

"Well, under normal circumstances it would be... She was one of the only ones to have been of any challenge to us in a one on one... At one point in the challenge she was forced to remove her armor, revealing what she was... All of those we fought were male, and thus made her the only female, and a captain at that, once this had occurred she was turned on by all her forces. She then stood by my side, watching our back and making sure we were not flanked. She then kept watch over the entrance to the township... making sure we had a viable way of escape... even while defending herself from her fellow warriors." I explained everything to them, leaving out all of the things that led up to her armor removal and some of the more grotesque things I had done.

"By the creator... We see... But dost thou believe in her oath to thee? Is it wise?" Celestia asked, skeptically, though understandingly.

"She stood with us as hundreds of arrows rained down on our position and fought by our side when we charged the Gryphon lines... We doubt that she would betray us... Now... Where art she..." My face hardened as I preempted her answer, feeling her emotions, and some of her thoughts, through the force.

"She is currently being held in the dungeon... We had done so, seeing as she was station with enemies of the state and crown... We could not just allow her to roam free." Celestia said wearily.

"Huh... I understand Princess... Now, we have several more questions... Dearest Luna... Did thou ever see an odd-looking contraption near where you had found us? And also, where is that colt we had given to thee to care for..." I inquired of the Ruler of the Night. She cocked her head slightly to the left and answered my questions concisely.

"Um we had not seen much that night... seeing as the night was black and the rain permeated the area... Tis possible that what thou is speaking of is still there though... As for the child, he is actually in the room next to thou. He had suffered a severe concussion and needed immediate medical aid... But other than that he shalt recover post hast..." Luna relaxed after her little oratory and leaned against my bed. Since showing my allegiance to the two Princesses I had taken a sitting position on the bed, sitting to Luna's immediate right.

"Lord Corpus..." Celestia spoke up, catching my attention, "Is there anything thou would like while waiting to recover?" Celestia asked, making it sound like I would be in here for a while. I laughed. "What's the mater?" Celestia asked, slightly confused and cross at my laughing at her.

"Oh tis noting Princess... Just that We won't be in here much longer than a few hours at best, We have the ability to accelerate our healing processes... Dearest Luna here could tell thee... We spent only a month laying about healing a severed spinal column and several broken bones in the span of a few weeks... So these little wounds are child's-play." I chuckled at her flabbergasted face as I leaned back on the bed, placing my arms behind me as I leaned on my hands.

"Tis true sister... We would not believe it either save we were there to watch the whole endeavor ourselves." Luna said, trying to stifle a giggle or two.

"We... See... Well... Dost thou still need anything?" Celestia said, trying to not let any of what we had said faze her.

"Well, if thou could, we would be quite grateful for a set of clothes... Seeing as the ones We were wearing were destroyed... beyond repair it seems." I said with a slight chuckle.

"We dost not see why not... Though we art curious as to the need of such things..." Celestia quipped.

"In our universe it is unseemly to go around in nothing but your skin and fur... unless thou're a Wookie or some other being that can hid its genitals within its body or under a large mat of fur... And seeing as we art not a ten foot tall walking carpet... We need clothing!" I bellowed out, making sure to strike a goofy looking pose atop my perch on the bed. This elicited giggles from both of the mares, though only socially accepted ones form the Sun Princess.

"Then we shalt acquire some post hast for thee... But for now please stay within thy room until such provisions have arrived." Celestia said monotone before leaving me and Luna to regale in the events of last night.

"Dearest Luna... Would thou please go retrieve the colt from his room... We would like to... expedite his recovery." I grinned slightly to the dark blue mare beside me, making her smile a good natured, yet devious, smile before leaping from the bed and hurriedly retrieving the child. I then leaned back on my bed and awaited Luna's and the boys return... Thinking of all I could do for the young stallions mind as I waited... Hoping I would be able to heal him of more than just his bodily injuries...

Author's Note

To warn all of you.. the next few chapters might contain things that might upset you... One of them being rape.... So proceed with caution... But i will label the chapter that contains it itself.