Autumn ran past her two arguing saviors and headed up towards the largest wagon, she needed to stop this, this was suicude.

"Stop! Chief!" She called to the wagon and it suddenly stopped in it's tracks.

The golden doors opened and the chief looked at her with a curious expression. His advisors walked past them chatting on about something and then seemed confused to why the royal wagon had stopped. Autumn looked at him before motioning him to walk back inside so they could talk in private. He nodded and walked back into the wagon with Autumn following him. She closed the doors and looked at him.

"Tell me the truth, this isn't a short cut is it? This way goes straight to the damn royal castle" she said with a growl and glared at him.

"..." he sighed and looked out the window as the wagon started rolling again.

"Talk to me!" She said and walked in front of him.

"..Fine" he said with a sigh and walked up to a map.

"That must show where we are" Autumn thought for herself and followed him.

"You see the symbol of two alicorns? That's the castle, we're going to save princess Luna before Celestia can put her plan into motion" he said and walked over to a display case containing a red crystal sword.

"That reminds of Sombra.." she said and looked at the sword with a frown.

"Maybe because he made it" the chief said and looked out the window.

The realization that something her loved had made was left froze Autumn in her steps. She remembered how much he loved building things out of crystals and how crystal swords and war hammers had been his favorite choice of weapon. She touched the display case in awe before shaking of the memories. She needed to focus on the task at hand.

"So you are ok with just sending the entire tribe into certain death?.." she asked him and looked at the map.

"Of course I'm not ok with it, we will make sure that the children and mares will stay behind with the wagons" He said and looked at the birds flying past the window.

"And then what? You'll just march into the castle expecting that the guards will just let you in?" she asked him and looked closer at the map, Equestria was so much bigger than she could have ever imagined.

"No, we will sneak into the castle through the old tunnels under it, I have planned this very carefully Autumn" The chief told her as above the tree tops they could see the towers of the castle in the distance and suddenly the sounds of all animals stopped. Autumn looked confused at why the sudden peaceful sounds had stopped and looked out at the forest to see that the trees had taken a darker color and that yellow eyes seemingly lured in the shadows. She shivered and looked at the chief.

"Why would anyone choose to stay here?.." She asked the zebra leader and he looked at the forest with a frown.
"It isn't supposed to look like this.." He mumbled and walked to the door and opened it. He called for Zicra and the stallion came running.

"Chief something is wrong with the forest!" Zicra yelled and the woods around them seemed to groan.

"It has to be Luna's doing! Celestia must be influencing her somehow!" The chief yelled and Zicra nodded before spurring on the other wagons, they needed to hurry.

The sound of hooves thundering across the ground echoed across Everfree and the stallions panted at the heavy load they were forced to carry. Autumn looked at the quickly approaching towers of the castle with a shudder and she looked at Razor that came running from the back. He picked up different weapons along the way and tossed them to some of the stallions. He told them they had to fight of any guards along the way and if they didn't make it to the tunnels in time they would have to fight through the entire castle. This seemed to spur on the stallions dragging the wagons and soon a small patrol of guards approached the wagons. Razor grabbed a nearby spear and rushed the guards with a battle-cry he jumped the first guard and used the handle to wack the guard in the head knocking him out. The other guards quickly reacted and tried to stab Zicra but he gracefully dodged their heavy strikes with their swords and spears. He blocked one of the swords with his spear and punched the guard in the face knocking him out also. The third and last guard growled and tried to stab Zicra with his spear only for the chief to grab it and easily breaking it. The guard paled and tried to run only for Zicra to punch him, sending him onto the ground unconscious.

"Ok they are knocked out! Drag them to the side and bind them!" The chief yelled and the guards was quickly dragged into thew bushes after their legs had been bound.

"Chief if they are all the way out here we need to stop the wagons. We would be putting all the mares and children at risk" Zicra said and the chief just stared at the castle.

"If we don't move quickly it will be to late, so order the others to stop here and if we don't return they have to run" Zicra said to the tribe leader who was still looking into space.

"Everyone who can fight come with us! The rest of you will stay behind and hide from the guards!" The chief yelled and the wagons was quickly hidden among the trees.

The chief and most of the tribe's stallions ran towards the castle while the older mares kept tabs on the colts and fillies. The few stallions that had stayed walked around the camp keeping the forest's beasts at bay and no one noticed among the small chaos and fear that Autumn was no longer among them. She had silently moved away from camp and followed the chief and his warriors towards the castle. She saw them quickly take down any guards who got in their way and hide them in the bushes. Autumn looked on as they dug up the old tunnel that would lead them into castle without getting detected by the guards. She moved as sielently as she could, if she was gonna be honest with herself she didn't know why she wanted to follow them. It was not only dangerous for her but also her unborn child, but deep down she knew why she wanted to follow them, revenge. Celestia had taken everything from her and she was going to make her pay for it, no matter what. Autumn waited on the zebras to get down into the tunnel before she followed them, making as little sound as possible. She made sure to stay far behind enough so they wouldn't notice her but never far enough to lose track of them. Soon the pregnant mare heard them fiddle with a old door, seemingly not having been opened for centuries. When she heard them breaking up the door and their voices becoming a distant whisper. Autumn walked to the now open door and beyond it laid something she did not expect to find under the castle. A great cave laid beyond the gate, large crystal shards on the ceiling, on the walls and on the ground. But what stood out most about it was the great stone fortress that stood in the middle of the great cave, a large spiral stair leading up to the cave's ceiling was in the middle of the fotress. A faint light could be seen from the top of the stairs, that must be the way out. The mare made her way towards the fortress, looking at the stone structure she wondered why it was here and who had built it. Celestia? And if so why? Was it used to store weapons or food? But if so why would it be in the form of a fortress? Autumn shook her head and continued walking towards the structure, she would see when she arrived. As she walked closer she could hear the voices of the zebras and she could see them walking up the stairs towards the ceiling. She made sure to be as quiet as possible when she entered the fortress in case the chief or any of the others would listen for anyone that could possible have followe them. When Autumn was sure they were out of hearing distance she took a good look around and to her suprise the entire fortress was a big library. Books upon books adored shelves in the fortess and every single one had to be extremly rare, possibly were many of them the only copy of its kind. She saw one book on a pedistal in the middle of the great fortress that was just in front of the stairs and she walked up to it. The book had a dark red crystal moon on it's cover and Autumn looked at it with amazment, this had to belong to Luna herself! The mare looked around before she grabbed the book and stored it onto her back, this would possibly be of help further down the line seeing how the child in her belly was.. special. After taking the book she climbed up the stairs and soon was in a small room lit by torches, a door were open in the end of the room and she walked over to it, looking out in the gigantic hallway. No one was seen but she could have sworne she could have heard something. She walked out and to her amusment was camoflauged agaisnt the brown wodden wall that lead into the rrom with a sign above it that said "Private studies". She quircked and eyebrow at it, why would celestia wanna keep that library so secret? She now wished she had investigated the other books but after Luna was saved and Celestia defeated she could look through the libary all she wanted. Though the book she had picked up had made her felt so atracted to it, like it was telling her that not only could she help her child with it but also herself. She finally heard the sounds of a fight and hurried over seeing Zicra hit a guard's forehead with the blunt side os a spare.

"The throne room is closeby!" Zicra yelled and looked suddenly saw Autumn and frooze.

"Good then let's save princess Luna" Autumn said ignoring the zebra stallions atempts at stopping her from walking past her.

"You are putting yourself in a lot of danger Autumn.." The chief said and looked at her.

"And you are putting the entire tribe in danger by coming here so I don't think you can tell me what to do" She said looking at the zebra leader. She felt rather bold for some reason.

The chief looked he was about to rant when they heard angry yells from further into the castle and they looked at each other before running, hoping they weren't to late. As they ran Zicra took down any guard that got close to them using the spare to injure them before knocking them out with the spear handle. All of this made a lot of noise, enough noise for the guards in the castle to finally understand that something was going on and they flodded the before empty hallways. The zebra warriors were better fighters but in the end the sheer amount of guards were to much for them and they focused on getting to the throne room as quickly as possible. Autumn ducked from anything the guards threw at her, oh how she wished she knew how to fight. As the pregnant mare ran she was suddenly jumped by a group of guards and screamed in shook and suprise. The guards tried to hold her down before suddenly black tendrils picked them up and threw them into the walls. Autumn got up and as soon as they appered the black tendrils disappered. Was this the work of her child? Could it truly already protect her before it was even born? She didn't have time to think about this to long though as the guards kept jumping them and made their way to the throne room harder and harder. Zicra finally saw a chance for them to get away from the guards and he quickly started drawing runes on the ground, the other zebras seeing what he was doing and they covered him so he could work without getting interupted. Autumn was first confused to what he was doing until a large gray rock golem was summoned and sent to deal with the guards and Zicra orderd the beast to keep them busy. The creature made a grumbling sound as a way tomsay it had understood it's order and it threw itself at the guards. Zicra signaled to them all to move and they ran for the throne room and the second they saw the two large golden they gates kicked them open and saw the chaos inside. There were dead guards everywhere and Celestia herself stood above the smaller alicorn princess of the moon with a cold stare being everything she showed the younger immortal.

"They are all dead because of you Luna.. Look around yourself and be happy about the destruction you make no matter where you go or whatever you touch.. Know that every life you have taken only proves that you are exactly what I always knew you were.. evil" Celestia said with the coldest voice Autumn have ever heard.

"Celestia, step away from princess Luna now or face the true consequences of your actions" The cheif said and took out out the red crystal sword that earlier Autumn had seen in his waggon, a weapon made by her beloved.

"I'm afraid you are to late, the only one that will face the consequences for their actions today are all of you" The princess of the sun said and they could hear a quiet laughther coming from Luna.

"Princess Luna?.. Are you ok? We have come to help yo.." Started one of the zebra stallions that approached the dark blue princess only for a smokey purple tendril to suddenly wrap around his body and they all heard bones snap and the stallion screamed in agonizing pain.

When the screams stopped the smoke like substance dropped the now dead body on the floor, having twisted and folded all his limps so horribly that he was nothing but a pile of bloddy flesh and bones when the smoke was done with him. Celestia started to grin as the body of princess Luna rised from the ground and her body now looked taller and her cuitemark was changed along with her wings, fur, tail and mane. Her cutiemark that had once been a white cresant moon had now took a blue-ish color to it and her once small blue wings had grown in both size and lenght as well as taken a black color them. Her entire body was mostly black now, mirroring the blackness of the night sky. Her once beautiful blue mane that had looked like it contained all the stars in the night sky were now, along with her tail, a smoke like substance that almost seemed to have a mind of it's own. What stood before them was nothing short out of a nightmare, a demon that could only have been created from the depths of someones madness.

"How?.." Autumn whispered and what had once been Luna just laughed madly as the moon itself seemingly had a malicious light coming from it.

"You see my little pony" Celestia started with a grin threatning to swallow the world.

"With enough pain anyone will breake and the pain sometimes not only breakes you but it creates something new inside you, something so dark history itself will never wanna remeber it's name" The grinning immortal said as the new entity slowly walked towards them all with a mad look in her eyes, seeimgly her entire mind was just one chatoic pain filled plain of existence that only she could see.

"The world will know my darkness and nothing will stop it!" The nightmare said with another mad laugh, memories fleeting from her head but the once filled with pain she remebered, she would never forget them.

Five weeks earlier, Luna's POV

Luna ducked from another powerful dark magic spell Sombra shot her way, the mad unicorn king laughing as she growled at him. She didn't know why he had done all of this but she was not gonna rest until he paid for everything he had done to the crystal ponies. The princess of the night flew down towards the king of shadows in amazing speed and with a battlecry she slashed him with her crystal scyte. The injury staggered the unicorn and Luna took this opportunity to keep attacking the evil king and she smirked as he was hit by a light spell sent from Celestia's horn. Her sister was wearing a stylish golden armor holding some of the most powerful light magic enchantments on the planet. Luna had always thought her sisters armor was impractical, having sacrificed mobilty to look better. Her own black crystal armor was very crude compared to Celestia's armor but it kept her more safe and she didn't have to sacrifice mobility. The enchantments were made out of dark magic of course and becuase of this had most spells Sombra sent towrads her little to no effect, however she needed to be careful with that strange green magic she had seen him using to change living ponies into statues or weapons. She ducked from another spell he sent towards her and growled, she needed to stop this before it was to late to save the crystal ponies. The black armoured mare shot towards Sombra again and this time she teleported behind him before he could conjur up a shield. With another battlecry she sent the blade of her crystal scyte into his back and the monster screamed in pain. Sombra pushed her away with a powerful magical shookwave and his horn glowed a mighty blue all of a sudden, the empire's crystals imitating the glow. He didn't get more time to do anything when suddenly a great rainbow colored beam shot from Celestia's horn and sent him out the throne room window. King Sombra screamed in pain as he was shot out from the empire and the frozen tundra itself seemed to open up to swallow him. With a final scream of anger he was shut under the ice, gone for good. Luna panted and looked at her sister.

"You were right, that spell worked just as good as the elements" The princess of the night said and looked at the crystal empire, it was finaly free.

"Of course it worked, Starswirl himself created it" Celestia said and looked at Luna as the entire empire suddenly started to shake.

"What is happening!?" Luna yelled and flew out the great window to get a look of the empire.

"I don't know!" Celestia yelled back and flew after her.

The same second they were flying above the empire they saw the crystal streets and the crystal palace glowing a great blue that blinded them both for a second before they noticed that the entire empire and all inhabitans with it was gone, nothing to pointing towards what had happeded. Celestia looked at the scene in horror before her eyes showed nothing but anger and she slowly flew off.

"We're done here.." The solar ruler said and headed towards everfree, that anger never leaving her eyes.

Luna looked at the place where the crystal empire once stood, tears trailed down her eyes. All of those innocent ponies were dead?.. But.. They had tried to save them. They had defeated the evil behind everything but yet they had all died?.. Luna slowly followed her sister, feeling sick and fysically weak after seeing the entire empire being ereased from existence. When she caught up to Celestia they didn't say anything to each other, both of them focusing on getting back to the castle they called home.

A week, a week had passed since all of the crystal empire had died becuase they had failed to save it. Luna had barely goten out of her bed, her eyes always filled with sadness and her movements slow. Whenever she dared to go outside her door she could hear the servants speaking about her, about her dark magic.. She never thought that her specialization in magic would become so hated. Ever since everyone had heard what the dark magic had done to Sombra all dark mages across Euqestria had been hated and refused everything from homes to food. All of this made her doubt herself, was she really in control or was she simply a pupet controled by the magic she loved? Luna sighed and walked into the throne room and sat down on her throne next to Celestia, her own sister seemed to show a bit of distain every time she sat down next to her but it only lasted for a second, but a second was all Luna needed to notice it. The more days passed the more reports of dark mages that were trying to follow in Sombra's footsteps popped up and Luna felt more and more miserable. Soon she started to even notice snarky remakes coming from Celestia about her dark magic, had her mane lost it's stars?.. wonder why..

Luna's thoughts were becoming more and more fuzzy for every day that came and went, soon had three weeks passed and ponies of Euqestria were calling for her to be investigated for possible magical corruption that could threaten the entire nation. She wondered what Celestia thought of it but whenever she tried to get emtional suport from her sister she wasn't there. The princess of the night was feeling weaker and weaker every day, she couldn't even lower the moon anymore when she tried and in the end left that responsabilty to Celestia. Luna was now hearing about something called "The church of light", a group of ponies that apparently followed some pricipals and moral codes her sister had created but sje didn't really care anymore about that. Everyday there was more and more ponies calling for her to be dethroned and everytime she didn't have the streght to face them, making them leaving even more angry than when they arrived. Soon five weeks had past and Luna had been asked by Celestia to meet her in the throne room, she didn't know why but had walked to the grand room waiting on her sister. If Luna had enough streght she would have noticed the magic poking her mind, trying to find a way inside, but she was to weak to resist or even dedect what was happening. She first heard a small whisper, barely audioble, then she heard it.

"Kill. Them. All."

Without even hesitating the lunar princess summoned her scyte and screamed in anger as she slashed and bite the the guards, blood covering her body as she slaughtered them all, the day outside turning to night.. When she woke up from this mad rage she looked around in horror, the entire room was filled with blood and she was covered in it. With a fear and sorrow filled scream she fell to the floor and washed away the blood from her body using her magic, but the blood splattered on her mind couldn't be washed away. Celestia entered the room with a shooked expression on her face.

"Why Luna?.." She said walking towards the Lunar princess.

"I.. I.. I didn't want to kill them!" Luna said and sobbed, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"From all the evidece I'm seeing that's all you wanted to do" Celestia said and walked towards the covering blue coated mare.

"I'm so sorry....." She said and cried more as Celestia stood above her and pushed her onto her back.

"You have always been a torn in my side.. A wrong I could not right.. You are nothing.." The solar ruler said and her cold stare seemed to carve those words into Luna's soul.

""They are all dead because of you Luna.. Look around yourself and be happy about the destruction you make no matter where you go or whatever you touch.. Know that every life you have taken only proves that you are exactly what I always knew you were.. evil" Celsetia said but Luna couldn't hear her anymore.

The lunar princess didn't even notice the zebras and crystal pony kicking open the door. She could hear them saying something but it was like they were really far away, out of sight. She just felt cold and like her mind was slipping away, her eyes losing their final spark of happiness and life as a zebra stallion walked close to her. She killed him easily in a mad rage, her new mane twisting and crushing him into a fleshy pile of bones and blood. She slowly got up, a laugh starting in her throat before she gave of a kackel, she could see their fear and hear what they were thinking. Yes! She was a nightmare! She was THE nightmare. Her eyes fell upon the other ponies in the room and her head just repeated the same thought over and over again.

"KILL. THEM. ALL."

Present, Autumn's POV

Autumn slowly backed away from the demon that had taken the place of princess Luna, this was not good. She screamed in fear as smoky tendrils shot out and tried to impale her, only for the chief to suddenly stand in front her and cutting of the limbs made out of smoke.

"Yli sol draigen" The cheif said and the red crystal sword glowed, a spell were fused with the weapon!

Any dark limb that shot towards them were quickly cut of by the chief, making sure they all were going towards the great gate they had rushed in from. But soon the tendrils were becoming to many for the cheif to handle, they pierced his shoulder to which he yelled in out pain. Autumn and the other zebras just stood just be their way out, they could't lesve him right? They had to do something! Zicra ran towards the chief until he held up his hoof and suddenly tossed Autumn the sword.

"Run" He said as the tendrils pierced through his head, killing him instanly.

Autumn screamed out in shook as the stallion was dropped on the floor, she had killed him so easily.. Zicra grabbed her and pulled her with him, Autumn clutching the book and sword to her side. He had told them to run and they weren't gonna go against that order as the tendrils grabbed another of the zebra stalions and pulled him back to the demon. Autumn and Zicra ran, Zap and Razor cutting down any guard following them. They sprinted towards the way from which they came and the stone golem was still fighting the guards, distracting them from noticing the fleeing zebras. They looked back and saw the royal sister fighting each other, their spells lighting up the sky as the they both tried to turn the other into dust. Autumn and Zicra ran into the small room leading into the fotress below. She looked back and saw Zap, Razor and a few others of the zebra stallions run into the small room as debrie from the ceiling baricaded the door, there was no other way out now. Autumn ran down the stairs as the cave shook from the violent fighting above as the castle crumbled below the two powerful magic users battle. The pregnant mare ran out of the fotress the second she hit the cold stone floor from the stairs, Zicra following her. Some of the other stallions picked up what books they could, most of them magic or history books as they rushed out of the cave, making it into the tunnels. Autumn's breathing was becoming more and more panicked, they needed to get away before it was to late. The second they climed up from the depths Autumn rushed towards the waggons far away, luckily for them had the zebras that stayed behind already prepared the waggonsa and the same second Autumn was spotted the first waggon were dragged off.

"Get onto the damn waggons!" A stallion said before something grabbed him and pulled him off into dark woods, his scream only lasted a few seconds.

Zap, Razor and Zicra grabbed the ropes to the waggons and the second Autumn and the other stallions got on they dragged them off. The sky flashed with the lights of the great battle until a rainbow coloured flash blinded them all, the only thing they could hear was a scream of anger. As they could see again Autumn recongnised the light and saw a black shape carried by a rainbow coloured beam was carried towards the moon. She gasped as the shape hit the moon and a shookwave seemed to flew at every direction, almost bending the trees. Autumn and the zebras were almost sent flying by it and they then looked at the moon in horror. Where the moon once was white and bare there was now a black shape of a mare's head on in, Luna was truly gone. With a shudder they kept running through the woods, aiming to get out by the morning, they hoped Celestia wouldn't follow them becuase they truly had nowhere to run anymore. Autumn looked up at the moon, the eyes of the princess they had came to save seemed to stare down at her and she knew that this would bring along a change, a change that would tear this contienent apart once and for all.

Author's Note

I'm very sorry this took months to finish, School have started meaning I might not be able to write anything in a good while which sucks but at least I got this out. 16 likes? That's way more than I expected ^_^ Thank you! 20 dislikes? Thats actually lower than I expected, anyways thank you for reading.