Lux raised his sword and blocked the other blade Draigh swung at him, the sixteen year old pushing his tentacles into the ground to jump back from the older stallion. He grinned at the other pony and swirled Mercy before he thrust the crystal sword at the blade master who parried it easily.

Draigh ran towards him and aimed for his neck, twirling his head back to gain momentum. The half demon quickly ducked under the sword and uppercut the older stallion who was forced to back off, giving Lux a nod of respect for his quick relfexes.

The younger stallion enjoyed these training battles, they always tested how much he had learnt and he had a chance to show off to the mares watching the training grounds from higher up in the dome. It was always a bit of fun knocking someone down and flashing the girls a smile. Of course it often lead to one of his opponents punching him across the face but he could take it.

"You need to disarm me kid, how would you do that?" Draigh asked and planted the his blade into the soft soil below them.

"I would hit the blade from behind. Hitting the front will only push you back and it won't loosen the grip your mouth has on the sword. But hitting it from behind will make you loose that grip and leave you defenseless" The prince said and the blade master nodded.

"Show me then" He said and picked up the sword with his mouth, tilting his head back for the best way to swing.

The half-breed grinned and summoned his wings before he flew up into the air, using the planets gravity to bring him down and deliver a hard blow at the older stallion's blade. Draigh blocked it but was pushed back for a second, allowing Lux to continue his strikes.

The sixteen year-old never let up his assault, waiting for the perfect moment to disarm the blade master. Of course that moment didn't come by itself, he was forced to push the zebra stallion against a wall before he lashed back, the half demon slid under the blade and then delivered a back swing at Draigh.

The zebra blade master's sword went flying into the air and Lux grinned, holding Mercy to his throat. This was a moment of triumph, he had beat his teacher fair and square. Then again, his teacher was fifty-seven, so the fact he was still willing to train with him or the fact that he still could was in itself amazing.

"Good job kid, you are quick on your hooves and your strikes are powerful" Draigh said as Lux lowered the red blade.

"But you still don't protect your stomach in the air. If I decide to suddenly shot a spell at you the crystal blade might not absorb it. So if you jump up into the air use Mercy both as a shield and sword, or you actually use one of those shield spells Salijah forced you to learn" The blade master said and the prince groaned.

"I need to focus really hard to maintain a shield like that, especially if it's a bubble shield!" The young stallion complained and Draigh rolled his eyes.

"You are to impatient then? Should I tell our arch mage to put meditation on the schedule?" The old stallion asked the crown prince who's eyes widened.

"No need! I'll focus! Please don't tell him to do that! It is so freaking boring Draigh!" Lux whined and the stallion chuckled.

"Fine, go and practice some magic we're done for today anyway" He said before leaving Lux to clean up and get to the library.

As Lux left the dome like building and walked back into the town hall he headed to his private room first, using a wet towel to clean himself off. He looked at his yellow eyes in the mirror and he grinned, looking over his body. The prince had built muscle during the years he had been training and he knew the mares liked what they saw.

Lux and Bliss had both been trying to get a marefriend for a long time, neither of them succeeding at their quest for tail. The prince assumed that they would have no problems with finding mares but even with all the flirts they gave during his sparring seasons they all played hard to get. It was annoying both him and Blissful.

So far Lux had met ONE mare that was actually responding to his attempts of courting, but then again that zebra unicorn might be after the queen title more than him. The thought made his ears fall before he shock it off, it was his charm she had fallen for, not a crown he was yet to wear.

With more happier thoughts of a possible marefriend Lux walked out of his room and headed to the library across the hall, his horn lightning up as two mages guarding the entrance bowed for him. He have them a nod before heading towards Salijah's desk in the back of the library.

He wondered if the mage had found some new way to improve the spell that hid the city from the outside world, it was the one thing keeping Frigidum safe from Celestia and her army. Yet knowing the arch mage he could very well be meditating instead.

The mage was looking over a long iron staff with a golden ball at the end of it. The entire thing was covered in runes and it seemed to have been made by very skilled hooves. If Lux didn't know better he would say that the staff was Salijah's masterpiece, but he knew the older mage had more skill than most in him.

"Shadow walker, do you know how the most powerful weapons are made?" He asked the half-breed as he put down the staff.

"No, not really. I get that many of them are infused with magic which grants them power but you haven't really gone into details on how one powers those weapons for a long time" Lux responded and Salijah nodded.

"The powerful enchanted weapons are infused with soul or souls from sentient beings. This is what gives them so much power and why the weapons at times seems to have a mind of their own" The mage told the prince.

"How.. How do you even infuse something with a soul?" He asked Salijah who put away the staff.

"It's a hard and long process Lux. It requires one to bind a soul, something that deserves rest, to an object for all eternity. It is technically outlawed but that doesn't mean that all creatures will refrain from doing it. The gryphons will stop honoring their greatest warriors by putting their soul into a weapon before they die" The zebra said and the stallion nodded.

"So Mercy has souls in it?" The half demon asked and looked at his blade, a bit unsure about using dead ponies for power.

"One soul, Yes. It was of a dragon if I remember correctly, which is why the sword is even more important. That soul gives the weapon a personality fit for war and fighting, something that really helps once you can achieve complete focus in combat" Salijah stated.

Lux thought about it and looked at his sword, the blade glowing softly. This meant he veiled a former dragon, he almost bowed for the sword before shrugging of the feeling. This dragon had for some reason wound up in a crystal sword and that was that, if there was a way to speak with the soul Salijah would have already went over that.

"Celestia's war-hammer, dawn-breaker, has over five unknown souls in it. To infuse that much power into a weapon the thing has to be made out of sky metal or red crystal" The zebra said and pointed to the blade in Lux's magical grip.

"Go and train with some of your combat spells in the woods shadow walker, we have made sure to have scouts nearby these days so no more guards can surprise us. Just make sure to keep the timber wolves off our territory. they stole your meat supply again" The mage mused and the young stallion saw red for a second before stepping into a shadow.

The prince appeared up in a tree, the shadow of the branches having allowed him to teleport there easily. The blue rune on the trunk behind him reminded him of his limited power, the thing acting like a one ticket way gateway if he concentrated enough on the memory of where it was.

Yet he did not know how his magic teacher made them, the runes easily enough to draw but never responding to being filled with mana. After he had been annoyed by the old stallion's secrets he had asked him how one made the rune only for Salijah to say a weird quote. "My secrets are my kingdom. For each one I reveal the more holes appear in the castle gate"

Lux liked Salijah, yet he was always so vauge it hurt his mind. At times the zebra stallion made perfect sense and at other times he spoke like he knew some truth other ponies couldn't see. It was driving the half breed mad if he were to be honest with himself.

He was gonna keep loosing himself in though until his sensitive hearing picked up on movement further away in the forest. He unfolded his wings and sailed through the air towards the noise, his magic ready to draw the now sheeted Mercy at any time.

As Lux finally arrived at the origin of the noise he saw an earth pony stallion yelling at a pack of timer wolves. The creatures had pushed the stallion against a large tree with no way out. He was to become their next dinner if no one did anything about it.

Should he intervene? He risked Frigidum's safety if he saved the pony, and he would never forgive himself if something bad happened to the city. But could he really leave an innocent to die when he had a chance to save him? What was the right thing to do and what was the safe thing to do?

Deciding in a split second Lux stepped between the stallion and the timber wolves, growling loudly and flaring his wings as his sharp teeth showed. This caused the timber wolves to stop dead in their tracks and look at the half demon, eyeing him with caution before they slowly backed away, not wanting to met their end on that day.

"Thank you kindly sir! I thought I was gonna meet my maker!" The stallion said from behind the half breed who turned around and looked at him with curiosity.

The stranger's coat was a dull grey and his mane was a strong red. His blue eyes stood out on him as he eyed Lux with slight fear. The crown prince's red horn, yellow eyes, purple haze and dragon wings scaring him. They should, they weren't there for show.

"Who are you?" Luxri asked him before eyeing the woods for more ponies to barge in.

"Name's Silver Sweep sir" The earth pony said and walked closer to Lux who eyed him.

"Why are you so deep in the woods Silver? Don't you know demons posses these trees?" He said with a slight smirk.

One of the many rumors of the forest Frigidum laid in was that demons possessed anyone brave enough to enter. It didn't keep the soldiers away but it did keep any adventurous villagers out of harms way, or at least until Silver Sweep had walked into them.

"I do not believe in such things young sir" The stallion started before looking over Lux.

"But it's never to late to change ones mind" He then added with a mumble.

Lux looked at the stallion with a coy smile, almost wanting force some made up story down his throat to explain everything. Yet what was the point, he had already seen Lux's wings and other weird looking body parts. Lying wouldn't gain him nothing, if anything it might make Silver Sweep run off.

"I'm.. Styx" Lux said with a smile and looked at the stallion.

The stallion had a silver mane and tail with a white coat to top it off, his cutie mark being a silver brush cleaning a pendant. He seemed to be a cleaner of silver objects then? It seemed strange to have that as procession but who was he to judge, he had enough dark magic in his spit to make his mother feel weird around him.

"Ahh, an old name then. From the time before the queen? Correct?" Silver asked him and Lux nodded, the name having poped up in his mind.

Styx was an old zebrikan legend, a god of darkness and shadows. Zicra had spoken about the name like they should fear it, like just saying it might make the god appear. They had even a few zebras in Frigidum worshiping Lux, thinking he was the reincarnation of the old god.

While the half demon did find it a bit funny that they worshiped him like a god like being it was getting old. He could take them bowing, his title basically required them to do so, but he would not accept crude statues of him stashed on his poor mother's front door. They had a box for offerings in town hall for a reason!

Huffing at the thoughts Lux turned his attention back to Silver Sweep wondering what he was supposed to do. Sure he could kidnap him, but then what? He most likely lived in one of the many villages surrounding the forest, taking him would only lead to search parties, they couldn't handle a possible battle mage among them.

"Are you ok young sir?" The white coated stallion asked him and Lux nodded.

"Yes just lost in thought" He said with a small smile.

"Where do you live Silver?" The crown prince asked and the stallion pointed west.

"In the small village of Manehattan. Yet with the amount of ponies coming to settle down there we'll be a town soon" The silver maned stallion chuckled.

"I see" Was Lux response before noticing a zebra scout in a tree, aiming a crossbow at Silver.

"I think it's time you head home Mr Silver, it was nice meeting you but I have to return to my.. tree" Lux said and the stallion nodded, shaking his hoof.

"Thank you once again Styx, if you're ever in Manehattan just ask for me and I'll have a bed for you" Silver Sweep said before walking away, muttering something about how fascinating it was that demons lived in trees.

Lux smiled as the stallion disappeared among the trees, having made a new friend. Wait.. He had made contact with the outside world! Fuck yeah! He met a stallion that could help him win over one of Celestia's villages! Blissful was gonna be so pissed he had manged to gain new allies before him.

The zebra scout landed with a soft 'thud' looking at Lux with anger and fear. His two green eyes were trained to detect most things in the woods and because of that they were flicking away from the grey furred colt in front of him every other second. His striped wings twitched nervously as he eyed the path Silver Sweep had taken.

"You just risked Frigidum's safety! Why did you intervene!?" The zebra Pegasus huffed and strapped the crossbow to his side.

"Wait.. Were you just watching him!? Is that how we do things!? We just leave ponies to die!?" The half-breed stallion said loudly and the scout growled.

"If it keeps Frigidum safe? Yes! If it's between one random stallion and my people? Then yes! I'd gladly watch them get ripped apart if it means my family lives through another day. Now get back, I'll have Zicra beat you for this. Fucking idiot.. We'll have to deploy scouts in the edges of the forest now" The scout huffed.

"You don't hold and power over me! You can't order me what to do!" The younger stallion screamed.

"Not out here! There is no crystal crown! No crystal throne! You are not of age and therefor as your elder I ORDER you to return to Frigidum" The zebra stallion growled and after a long starring contest Lux looked away.

"Fine" He said and unfolded his wings, flying towards the tree he had arrived by.

His thoughts were a bit of a mess now. He was angry that they easily left ponies behind to die, it angered him that the scout thought he could't keep Frigidum safe, it angered him that he had four more years left to study for a battle he really didn't think he could win.

He had to win right? He couldn't loose, if he did he would loose his home. No! He would not let Celestia hurt those he cared about. He had been born to avenge his father, he had been born to take back his mother's home, he had been born to win over the evil queen of the sun. He would not fail, he would fight.

~Autumn's POV~

Autumn Wheat looked over the small city with a smile on her face as she tended to the flowers in the study room's windows. The mare's golden mane and tail still held their youthful shine after all these years and her soft brown coat was covered in a few patches of dirt from earlier garden work.

She was proud with the small garden she had manged to grow during the years, the side of her house having a patch of land filled with strange flowers and plants. Many of the flowers were gifts from the scouting squad or newly arrived dark mages. It surprised her that ponies still came here after all this time.

As the mare eyed her garden she noticed a flower with red petals and a black stem and white roots. The small thing was a called "demon cherry" and she knew why, the flower producing a red berry among it's petals. She had tasted the berry a few years ago, a sour thing, said to give a pony more energy. Yet she had only been sent into a deep hallucination by the thing, not gained more energy to work more. Lux liked them though, the berry not affecting his mind in any way, he even found it sweet.

As the mare walked around her home she looked at the chest stashed away in her small office. The box containing some of the last things she had left of the crystal empire and her diaries. Yet in the bottom one could also find the old book on dark magic, hidden away for safe keeping.

She had no idea how long it was since Lux (even if he was not allowed to) or herself opened it. The runes in the book had helped her with many things in the house but she actually needed a horn to use most of the spells in the book. Or at least she thought so, Salijah's uncanny ability to suddenly pop up out of nowhere was strange. So was his ability to make random things flout.

As she pondered on how the zebra stallion could do all the things that made him a mage Autumn heard the door downstairs open and closing with a large bang. She could feel her son's anger and frustration from miles away, but when he actually was in the house it was almost overwhelming.

"I'm home mom" Was the only thing her little light (not that little anymore, he was a tiny bit taller than her) said before the mare heard him enter his room.

The mother of the crystal empire's crown prince sighed and hoped her son would talk to her about what had happened. He could be very quiet when he wanted to be and his anger resembled that of his father, or rather his spiritual father. How did demons even pass on their genes once they possessed someone?

It would take Lux a hour of pondering before he walked out of his room (it's walls painted black like he liked it and the corners stashes with weapons) and confronted his mother. His twitching wings and smaller haze had been enough for her to know he was in a bad mood. His yellow eyes seemed to search for something in her eyes before he spoke.

"I saved a pony today, out in the woods" Her son said, his voice holding a hint of uncertainty.

Autumn did a spit take upon hearing that. It was not often she heard from the guards about what Luxri did in the woods but to hear that he had risked the safety of the city? The mere thought of having the queen of Sol on their trail again was enough to make her shiver.

"Lux, you know very well why you cannot do something like that! It puts the entire city at risk! We need to remain hidden for a little while longer or everything we have built during these last sixteen years have been for nothing!" Autumn said loudly to her son who folded his ears against his head.

"I just couldn't let him die mother.. What kind of pony would I be if I could simply walk away and let someone who needed my help die?" Luxri muttered and looked at the floor.

"I understand, you are a good stallion son and that is not a bad thing. But the city must come first, your people must come first" The mare said and nuzzled his head.

"What happens if I fail mom?" Lux asked and looked at his mother with tear filled eyes, reaching out for some type of hope for this great task.

"You won't fail Lux, you won't fail" She said and hugged him close, knowing full well what awaited them if her son could not beat the queen of the sun.

Queen Celestia POV

The white alicorn mare looked into the mirror with a small grin, the lavish silver crown on her head reflecting s bit of sunlight onto the mirror. It was made up a silver ring made to fit her head with blue gems building up three spikes from her front head, giving her the appearance of having three extra horns.

The regalia she wore around her chest was made from silver and gold, the two metals having been mixed expertly by a gryphon smith. The piece resembled a dragon's head, yet it was flat enough to not be in the way during court or battle. The white cape that was attached to the chest piece hang below her flank and sides, covering her sun cutie mark. The solar mare's mane and tail was bound together in pony tails by using white ribbons and her lips was a plumb red.

All in all she looked good, very good even. The queen knew that she could get any stallion she wanted, or mare for that matter. They'd happily eat her out or lay there and take whatever perverted spell her dirty mind could think about. She licked her lips and looked back at the bound stallion on the bed, both gaged and blinded using a piece of cloth.
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Celestia giggled and walked over to him, her hooves making a gentle clicking sound on the marble floor as she walked over. The stallion had a grey mane and white coat with a cutie mark showing a spell tome. He heard her approach and groaned out something into the gag, making the monarch giggle.

This dark mage was special, one of the few she had taken from the pens before execution. His blue irises had caught her eye and she had gladly taken him as a pet. The young stallion had not had much to say about the decision and simply followed her back to the castle.

When her guards questioned why she had taken the stallion she had simply said that she would purify him, and they had believed her! By Faust she loved being queen. But there had been another reason she had taken this young steed, a currently very hard reason.

The stallion moaned in pleasure as her golden aurora wrapped around his throbbing leaking member, making the appendage spurt out more pre. She just smiled at the sight, the cock putting most stallions she had laid with to shame. He was her pet now, a little dark mage ready to please her in any way she wanted. Celestia did love those mind breaking spells as well, it made getting willing mates so much easier.

Her royal bedchambers were probably one of the most lavish rooms in the castle. She had a wall with several compartments for gold filled chests, her own personal share out of the royal treasury. The only window in the room was one of the walls, overlooking her white and gleaming city. The bed she had her moaning pet tied to was large and had red sheets over it with a small roof above it. From the bed's roof drapes hung to be used for privacy or to keep the early morning sun away.

Her pet groaned in frustration as she blew a husky breath over his throbbing member, having been teased for hours. Yet it was time to end his suffering as she slowly but surely took him inside her mouth, making the young stallion throw his head back and buck up into her mouth. The solar monarch greedily sucked on her treat like it was a lollipop, swirling her tongue around the tip before wrapping it around his member.

Celestia's ministrations continued for several minutes before listening to the whines and shaky breaths coming from her plaything, he was close. She grinned and blew another breath over his cock before letting her tongue slowly drag over his member, the rune glowing on her wet tongue slowly but surely driving him towards the edge.

When her tongue finally touched the tip of his cock the stallion threw his head back and screamed in pleasure as his body spasmed under the intense orgasm tearing through him. His member delivered load after load of warm cum over Celestia's face and his own stomach, making the alicorn mare moan softly.

The erotic moment was interrupted by a female guard walking into the room, freezing up in shock at the cum covered face of her monarch. For a moment the mare just stood there and stared at Celestia before the solar queen finally broke the silence.

"If you don't want to join him for the next five hours of rough fucking I suggest you leave" She said and her pet whimpered at the thought of five hours of fun.

"T-They have found signs of the missing mages my queen. There has been demon reports coming from the hollow forest" The mare whimpered out and Celestia froze before cleaning herself of with a towel, releasing the stallion from the ropes binding his back and front legs to the bed.

"Summon captain Blood and all my guards, we are going to wipe those fucking degenerates out once and for all" The white alicorn mare growled and quickly walked away from her room with the guard running of to gather a small army.

Celestia was marching for Frigidum.

Lux's POV

"You understand that we need to do this without anything going wrong right?" The half demon asked his half zebra friend who grinned back at him.

"Trust me, we will have a herd in no time if we find Salijah's personal spell book" Blissful said as the two young stallions walked through the library.

"Is this really important Bliss? I'm already having shit thrown at me by Draigh for saving that pony last week, I don't need the arch mage to banish me while we're at it" Lux told his friend who punched his side.

"Relax, this will be easy. We'll just use your shadow teleportation thingy and take the book that way. Once we have written down a few lust spells no mare will be safe from us!" The other stallion said with an exaggerated evil laugh to which the crown prince rolled his eyes.

Once the two stallions reached the end of the town hall library (which was empty thanks to the late hours) they saw the the door leading to Salijah's personal collection was locked. Then again, they had expected this, one of them having brought a book on lock picking spells.

"Ok so concentrate on the lock.." Bliss mumbled for himself as his horn lit up, making the keyhole on the door glow.

"Hurry up, he had an uncanny ability of just showing up" The prince mumbled to his friend who nodded and soon the door was unlocked, allowing them to enter the room.

The room was a section of the library no one but Salijah had access to, holding the most rare of tomes and magical artifacts. Lux had been in here before to borrow books on dark magic but he had never stayed long, the zebra mage's eyes always looking at him with such intensity that he felt the need to hold the handle of Mercy.

While Luxri was put on guard duty over the door Bliss looked over the tomes on the shelves, looking for one with a succubus crest on it. It took the young half zebra over twenty minutes to find the damn book but when he brought it back to Lux the half demon couldn't help but feel excitement.

"With this we'll be having any mare in the city, just look at the spells in this thing!" Blissful Dreams said and flipped open a page which showed how to make oneself produce heavy amounts of phermones.

"Are you sure Salijah won't see it's missing? I mean, I borrowed a book and he got mad when I didn't return it the next day" The dark mage said and grabbed a dark magic book from the shelf with his magic, the very thick tome reminding him of the book back at his mother's house.

"Eh, he's to busy with the barrier to care these days" The zebra said and looked out the window, his eyes widening.

"What? Bliss what are you seeing?" Lux asked and walked up to stand next to his friend to spot something horrible, the barrier hiding the city was gone.

All of the pillars that normally shielded Frigidum from the outside world was burning, like someone had lit the magic within them on fire and let it burn to the ground. Screams and the sounds of zebras running towards the pillars could be heard everywhere and one emotion rolled through both of them, fear.

"I need to find father. Now." Bliss said with a serious tone and dropped the tome on lust spells, Lux catching it.

"I'll need to get mother away from the city center, she's to close to the pillars" The half demon said and whistled, his demonic crow flying out from the shadows and landing on his head.

"Find mom, now" He said and the bird nodded, flying out an open window towards the square.

With both having clear objectives Lux and Bliss ran out from the library (the prince carrying the two tomes protectively). Bliss headed towards the fire while Lux summoned his wings and flew towards his mother's house, his mental connection with the crow telling him she was still inside.

Once he touched down on the porch Lux stormed into the house to find his mother downstairs, packing the chest she stored keepsakes in, the book of dark magic being one of them. Lux placed the two new books down into the chest and she packed them without thinking, putting the chest on a rune drawn on the floor, a blue barrier forming around the chest thanks to it.

"Now it'll be safe from the fire, if there is one.." His mother mumbled and looked at him with fear and sadness.

"Mom what is going on? What happened to the pillars?" Lux asked and Autumn looked out the window, her eyes filled with dread.

"The queen of Sol, has arrived" She said as the great gates around the city exploded with balls of fire.

Zicra POV

The zebra stallion hit the ground with a scream of pain his held his hooves over his face, the left side of his face having been burnt badly by the explosion. His fur was black at a few places from the ash and smoke while his left eye had problems seeing. He got up with a groan as his ears adapted to the sounds around him, the screams of battle everywhere.

How had this happened? The pillars had caught fire for no reason before the first wave of soldiers had rushed into the city. Any civilian that had been the way had been cut down by the soldiers, the zebra having to avert his eyes from a dead foal. The leader of Frigidum picked up the sword he dropped when the gate blew and looked at the scouts and warriors defending the broken gate, ponies clad in golden armor rushing in.

With all four gates broken the soldiers stormed into the city without problems, the warriors being overwhelmed by their sheer numbers. Zicra had been leading a team to reactivate the pillars when the gate blew, separating him from the others. Now the buildings across Frigidum was catching on fire, the bell on top of the town-hall sounding out an alarm to the entire city.

They would need to evacuate the civilians while they still could, but that meant breaking through the enemy presence at one of the gates. He would need to gather as many warriors as possible and redirect all citizens to the river, they could get away there.

His thoughts was interrupted as he suddenly saw a unicorn rush him through the smoke, the zebra racing his blade to block the incoming strike. The two blades met and created a line of sparks through the air before the unicorn was suddenly sent flying, Blissful running after the downed unicorn and ending him with a swift stab through the pony's chest.

"What are you doing here!? You were supposed to be with your mother!!!" Zicra yelled and threw his sword at a pegasus who flew over the gate, hitting the mares stomach and seeing her drop out of the sky.

"She's the one who ordered me to come get you!" The younger half breed said as zebra warriors rushed the northern gate only for a great white beam to tear through them all, turning most to ash.

The leader of the hidden city looked at the gate in horror before pushing Blissful towards the middle of the city. Celestia was here! They needed more time but here she was, ready to kill every last one of them. He needed to get Blissful and Lux away from the city before she found them.

"Go to your mother! Find Lux and Autumn as well! I need you to get to the southern gate! The warriors will gather there to help you escape!" Zicra said as he saw Salijah stand on one of the rooftops, glaring into the fire that covered the northern gate.

"What about you!? I'm not gonna leave you with her!" The young stallion said and pointed a hoof at the large body coming towards them through the fire.

"Yes you will! Go! NOW!" Zicra said and pushed his son out of the way as another white beam tore through the house next to them, sending the building down between father and son.

"Dad!" Bliss screamed but the zebra ignored his cries turning to look upon the solar monarch. She was wearing a red and white armor that covered most of her body, the helmet on her head looking to be made out of crystal. So it had come to this? Fine, he was not gonna back down.

Celestia veiled a large white and gold war-hammer, the large thing meant to overpower more than to be an elegant weapon. Saliajh jumped down from the roof with his staff, landing by slamming its end into the ground, creating a great shock-wave.

"Leave fiend of the sun! There is nothing for you in this safe heaven of knowledge" The zebra mage said and Zicra watched Celestia sneer.

"Chaos mage, of course there had to be a chaos mage" The queen of Sol said and launched herself at Salijah.

The two met halfway as the arch mage did the same, their weapons meeting in a large shock-wave of opposing magical forces. Salijah's magic was a deep green while Celestia's was a sickly orange, it was easy to see which one looked the most evil in that moment.

Zicra moved to pick up a sword as the two fought, Salijah zipping around the battlefield without any problems, avoiding the large war-hammer that left craters in its wake. The fight continued for several minutes as Zicra cut down any guard that came running to help their princess, leaving more bodies on the ground than before.

Yet when Celstia cornered Salijah and met his staff with her war-hammer Zicra saw something he didn't think was possible, cracks of blue light where spreading all over the staff Salijah was using. The arch mage cast several spells to force the alicorn off him to no avail, every spell blocked by a barrier or beam Celestia cast.

Their fight came to a stop when the staff exploded and sent Salijah tumbling into a wall, the mage groaning in pain. Zicra saw this and rushed towards him before being cut of by a squad of guards. He yelled to the other tribe leader to get up and soon saw Celestia pick him up with a magical aurora round his neck.

"Heed the day the dark prince cuts you down queen of the sun! The day the darkness finally kills the ligh.." The mage started just to have the solar monarch break his neck, dropping his dead body to the floor.

"NOOOOOOOO!" A voice called out over the burning city over the death of the arch mage, Zicra looking to the sky to see Lux.

'No.. No.. Run Lux!' He thought before a blade sunk into his side, causing him to fall to the floor.

As he looked up he could see the young half demon fly at the queen of Sol with a battle-cry, hitting her and sending them both tumbling to the ground. Zicra swung his blade at one of soldiers that had stabbed him, slitting his throat before taking another sword into his side.

He was picked up from the ground, his blood pouring out from the wounds. He felt lightheaded and looked at Lux, the young stallion running towards him to get to the older stallion out of trouble. With what strength he had left Zicra threw his sword to Lux, the balde sailing through the air and embedding itself into Celestia's shoulder, the mare having been about to crush Lux using her war-hammer.

Then he felt the knife enter his throat, the guards that had grabbed him holding him still as he fought against their grip. Yet all his power flowed out with the blood, and the last thing he saw was Lux being sent through the wall of a building, screaming his name.

Lux's POV

He felt numb, like he had been bathing in ice for years. The feeling spread through his body as he chocked down sobs, using his tentacles to get himself through the burning building. So far he had managed to outpace the large alicorn but that wouldn't last for long.

When he had seen Saliajh murdered in cold blood in front of his eyes he had snapped, throwing himself at Celestia with little to no thought. He had bitten her, clawed at her and even tried to stab Mercy into her eyes but nothing worked. When he saw what was happeining to Zicra he had been quick to throw himself towards the stallion only for him to send a blade towards Celestia that had her weapon raised to end him.

When the knife entered the zebra's throat he had felt such anguish that he screamed in pain before Celestia sent him flying
through the wall of a former house. The burning building had been his way to escape the battle quickly, using Mercy to cut through the burning wood and to get out of the house.

His side hurt but it was nothing compared to the loss of two of his teachers, both stallion bodies left to burn. It hurt him that he couldn't go back and bury them, but with the solders flooding into the town that simply wasn't an option. He needed to find his mom, he needed to find the others.

Running down the burning streets he could see bodies left and right, just following the sounds of battle. Soon he came upon the southern gate, the battle everywhere. Zebras fought against the soldiers at the other side of the gate and tried desperately to push them away to get a safe passage for what was left of Frigidum.

What citizens were left screamed in fear as soldiers rushed into the group of dark mages and zebras, cutting down anything in their path. Lux saw red and with a scream threw himself into battle, his tentacles making short work of the guards unprepared for his attacks. As he tore the ponies to shreds the civilians rushed for the gate once an opening was found, the zebras starting to turn the tide of the battle at the southern gate.

The crown prince blocked, slashed and sent a spell every few seconds at an enemy. Soon he acted more automatically for each pony that met their end at Mercy's blade. The half demon spotted him mother among the ponies running out the gate and he could see Bliss leading a small group after them for protection.

Knowing they were safe for now he turned back to the melee only for a war-hammer to hit his side, sending him into the wall surrounding the city. He stood up on shaky hooves as Celestia stalked her way towards him, her great war-hammer being dragged across the mud.

"I thought Sombra had no children. How wrong I was" She snarled before swinging her weapon at him again, the young stallion dodging it.

The war-hammer hit the wall and an explosion of debris and fallen trees was sent outwards, hitting both zebra and pony soldier alike. Lux escaped though the hole she had made for him, blocking some of her strikes with mercy while backing towards the river, he needed her away from the city.

When a spell from her hit him square in the chest he was sent flying only for him to teleport through the shadows and hit her across the face, sending her helmet flying. The queen snarled and hit him again, making him drop Mercy and land by the edge of a cliff that lead down to the river. His sword flew down into the dark depths of the water and the only thing stopping Celestia from killing him was Nathaniel, the crow scratching at her face.

Yet the bird's attack was stopped by a spell sending it flying, Celestia picking up a sword to cut him to shreds. When she raised the blade and jabbed it down towards him Lux closed his eyes, awaiting the feeling of cold steel in his chest or being crushed by a war-hammer.

Yet the sound of the blade sinking though meat made him open his eyes in horror, looking up at the face of his mother. She coughed up blood as the blade had pierced through her chest, Autumn giving her terrified son her last words. Words that tore through his soul.

"I love you my little light.." She whispered before falling of the blade, dead.

Luxri was stunned, to stunned to move. He could slowly feel a scream tear through his throat as he summoned his wings and threw himself at Celestia, only for the queen of Sol to send a bolt of light through his chest, making him gasp and fly backwards.

He tumbled over the edge and saw nothing, only feeling even more cold once the he hit the water. The last thing he heard before passing out was Bliss calling for him, but then there was only silence, and the dark depths of the river.

Author's Note

Finally. Chapter 10. Now I can start my edits and rewrites