Thunder left the den looking worried as she started to walk away from the den, glancing back into the den a moment before continuing forward "Okay" she breathed out reaching the edge of the outcrop "I have to tell them today" she bite her lip before a sigh escaped "Oh where do I start?" she looked down at her hooves before straightening and looking off into the distance picturing Twilight in front of her "Twilight, Nightmare had a plot and I was part of it but I don't want to be" she anxiously pawed at the ground "because...." her tail lashed as she let out a frustrated sigh "It's because I love Rainbow..." she continued on a whisper "Oh she'll never believe me" Thunder turned back around heading back toward the den again "but I have to try" she spotted Twilight coming toward her and started to call out to her but Celestia interrupted.

"Twilight I don't want you talking with her" Her stern expression gentled into a playful smile "I want to talk with her" She winked at her daughter, whose face had turned from upset to relieved as her mother spoke, and lead Thunder away from Pride Rock, finally giving Cadance's advice a try by getting to know Thunder. The pair had left Pride Rock far behind as Celestia began telling Thunder the true story of Discord and by now Pride Rock wasn't even visible any longer "-Discord couldn't let go of his hate and in the end, it destroyed him" her eyes were distant as she remember how she had come to lose her father, all because of jealousy and hatred.

"I've...never heard the story of Discord that way...he truly was a monster" She looked at Celestia with horror in her eyes, seeing this Celestia lead Thunder through the burnt dead trees that had suffered from Nightmare's plot.

"Fire is a killer, sometimes what's left behind can grow better than the generation before if given the chance" She pushed aside a hoof full of dirt revealing a small green sprout. Suddenly the air seemed thick and full of tension the two mares straightened, looking around when they heard a dark chuckle.

Nightmare stepped out of shadows followed by her small herd all of them eager to get at Celestia as Thunder whispered denials under her breath. "Why Celestia, what are you doing out here and so alone" she smirked as her ranks closed in her eyes flashing over to Thunder and her smirk widened "Well done Thunder, just like we always planned" she wasn't going to let Thunder off the hook so easily and was pleased to see when Celestia turned to Thunder, her horn glowing with her rage.

"You!" she yelled feeling strangely betrayed by the dark mare.

"No I didn't have anything to do with this!" Thunder tried to argue but Nightmare was sick of all the talking and ordered her troops to attack.

Celestia was able to hold her own at first, fighting with her magic, but even with magic as strong as hers she can easily be outnumbered, Thunder raced to help but was kicked in the head and slammed into a rock. Celestia was doing her best to hold off the sheer mass of the Lunar herd when they all tumbled into a deep ravine and hit the ground hard. She was in so much pain she could barely get her horn to light, but she didn't have time to catch her breath, Nightmare's herd was already advancing following Nightmare pointer that she shouted down to the from the top of the ravine so she was forced to run. Having no other choice she began to climb a large pile of logs, kicking some down on her pursuers purely by luck as she kept going higher. She looked up seeing Thunder who called out to her and leapt away, hoping to get something to bring Celestia to safety despite Nightmare's urging to finish her off.

"I'll do it! For you Nightmare!" Blazing shouted leaping forward to climb after Celestia wildly barely noticing as several logs snapped under his assault "Nightmare are you watching?" he shouted back to them but continued the rest of his statement in a low growl like sound "I'm doing it for you, and I'm doing it for me" he grabbed Celestia's back hoof in his front one "This is my moment of glory!" he grinned madly, but his grin soon faded when a log he had been using to support his weight snapped falling down and getting pinning down by a log he couldn't move in time before a second log, kicked down by Celestia as she leapt to freedom out of the ravine, landed on his head.

For a moment the entire ravine was silent, Thunder rushing down to see what had become of Blazing, before Onyx ran forward moving the log out-of-the-way and trying to unbury him, he was quickly shoved aside by Nightmare who finished moving things around to finally reveal Blazing's head and right forehoof the rest of him was far to buried to get to the rest of the Lunar herd watching in silence.

He coughed a few times while Nightmare whispered his name, already beginning to grieve, though she had been unaware of his feelings for her she was still a loyal follower. "I'm sorry N-Nightmare, I tried" he managed to gasp out despite her attempts to hush him "Well I finally got your attention didn't I?" he grinned weakly before he seemed to completely relax, his head falling limp as he let the last breath out of his body. Red walked over quietly looking at Blazing for a brief moment before hanging her head in grief, she had liked him, he was funny and she would miss him dearly.

"Discord, watch over our poor Blazing Fury" Nightmare prayed the entire herd hanging their heads to grieve the loss of one of their most powerful members, even Thunder was saddened and grieving the life that they had lost moments ago.

Onyx's grief however, was quickly becoming rage he spotted Thunder and his horn lit up. "You!" he nearly roared blasting Thunder in the face with his dark magic sending the unsuspecting mare sprawling with a pain filled groan. When she got up she had a long jagged scar cutting diagonally the right side of the scar higher than the left.

"What did you do!" Nightmare yelled stopping Onyx with a raised wing as she advanced on Thunder her eyes bright with fury.

Thunder stammered a little before her spine stiffened "I did nothing" she defended but that seemed to be the thing that Nightmare was waiting for her to say.

"Exactly!" she walked around Thunder, the mare watching her with sharp eyes "and in doing so you betrayed your herd...betrayed Discord!" Nightmare continued her face turning into greatly insulted she mentioned Discord.

"I want nothing more to do with him!" Thunder growled back their argument beginning to echo through the air, no one in the herd moving as they watch the two mares argue.

"You cannot escape it!" Nightmare growled "Blazing is dead because of you!" she stalked Thunder into a corner ignoring Thunder's weak protests "You killed your own herd brother!" she roared it right in her face.

"No!" Thunder yelled leaping around Nightmare and running away taking to the air and flying away as quickly as she could.

"Let her go" Nightmare growled when Onyx began to charge his horn again "Celestia has crossed me for the last time, now she has corrupted Thunder!" she leapt onto a small ledge as she turned address her troops. "Listen to me, Celesita is injured and weak, now is the time to attack" she stamped her hoof to emphasize her words "We'll take her entire kingdom by force!" she laughed gleefully as her troops cheered and stamped their hooves in eager joy determined to avenge their fallen herd-mate.

Celestia finally managed to make it to the Pridelands barely noticing the sound of Candence, Shining, and Twilight crying out her name until they came up to her asking her what happened. "...Thunder... Ambush" she gasped out before collapsing completely, the three ponies shifting so that they could carry Celestia the rest of the way home.

Author's Note

Sorry guys but the next few chapters are going to be a bit shorter but only because the next part has two songs very close together but because of that I wrote the next two at once so you get two updates for one story on the same day :) hope you like them