A Thousand Years Later...

[Luna's View]

I awoke, my body was like a burden. I dragged myself out of the hospital wing- wait, hospital wing?

"Oh good, Princess, you've awaken!" A jolly nurse smiled, Tenderheart, i believe.

"It's Empress... Wait, is that-"

"Yup! Thanks to you, the cycle has turned back to normal. Day, night, day, night. Unless Princess Celestia goes crazy and makes it day forever." I sighed, staring at my injuries.

"When am I being discharged."

"Tonight- oh I'm sorry, I so used to it now. Day. Today."

"Where is my son." I screamed, noticing the fact he wasn't crying beside me.

"..."

"I demand to know!"

"Your son has been in a coma for a mighty long time now... Most folk think he's dying." A familiar voice said plainly.

"Applejack, really? Your thing is honesty, yeah I know, and I have said this before, but really?"

The ponies all entered... All but one certain lavender alicorn.

"Where is Twilight?"

"She hasn't moved an inch, darling. She's stayed right by Dusk for how long now." Rarity entered behind them. My eyes dimmed.

"Where is he."

"Princess Luna, your in no condition to travel-"

"I want to know where he is."

"He's in my spare chamber." Celestia entered.

"Take me to him. Please, sister, if he's dying I want to be beside him."

"But I need to ask you something. How did you turn Shining Armour and the guards against us?"

"A hypnosis spell, now please?" Celestia nodded, and lead me to the chamber.

He lay on the sheets, Twilight next to him. His stars in his mane had now become very faint, so faint they were hardly viewable. Twilight, unaware that we were here, fell to the floor, crying.

"How did I live, and he end up like this?"

"He gave up the alicorn magic inside him to ensure his mother lived. He hit the ground before he could fully give you the magic. That is why he is in a coma and not dead. He still has a tiny bit of magic."

"I must return his magic!"

"No, that magic is what you're currently living off. Give it up and you'll die. He wouldn't want that."

"The... Elements?"

Twilight's ear flickered. "The elements. We can use the element of magic to give him some more life force!"

"It could work! I didn't think of it! Do it at once!" Twilight nodded, hope in her heart, and ran out. Her destination, the tree of harmony, more specifically, the elements. Even more specifically? The element Of Magic.