Author's Note

Unless noted otherwise, this chapter will be told under Yuki Terumi's point of view.

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Sacrifice

"Ah! Now THAT feels better. What did you do?" I asked the strange black mare. She regarded me with eyes of adoration.

"I, as Nightmare Moon, found your other personality to be far to bland for my taste. So with a little magic, that little hat is all but gone. You'll find that I'm stronger than I look." She spoke with pride in her voice. I felt for the energy signature of Hazama, which resides in said hat, only to find that instead of being somewhere else, it was wedged inside our combined psyche. I frowned slightly, that meant that the little pansy could come back at any time if he gained enough sense of himself. However, his removal was sudden, and he was weaker than normal. So he seemed to be in a bit of a coma, letting me have free rein over the body. Even now my power coursed through our veins. I smirked.

"Mostly, for now the idiot is gone. We'll need to find a more permanent solution" I smirked at the strange mare.

Our musings were cut short as a few guards rushed in through the door, and quickly charged up a few different spells. They looked ready to charge when Nightmare called out to them. In the flurry of movement she had teleported up to a light fixture.

"Your not afraid of the Dark are you?" She asked no one in particular, as she used her magic to dowse the light in the room. Her evil cackle was heard amongst the screams of the ponies. I stood there soaking up they're fear. It felt amazing, to be free and to actually use my powers. I cant wait to fight something strong, I wanted to decimate something! Nightmare came back down after her little fun, and re-lit the light for us. A vicious smile formed on my face.

"I think were going to work great together."

----With Celestia----

Pacing back and forth I the throne room, she found herself in a bind. Her sister has been tainted by some kind of Dark energy or entity, and if the energy coming from the area was anything to go by, she had that creature to thank. She scowled at the thought of it. Everything had been going bad since it had shown up. Even after weakening it in battle, and rushing into the war ahead of time, it still confused her. Saving her sister must had been a farce, to keep her from its more diabolical intentions. It came through the rubble, took down Sombra, and then tried to kill her sister! She wouldn't let that monster get away with this! She ignored the feeling in the back of her head, telling her she was wrong, and instead focused of her current task. She had to find the two responsible for this and take care of the problem. She was wondering where to start looking when the sky suddenly went dark. Quickly jumping from her position, she galloped outside. Looking up she saw that the sky was in a state of Solar Eclipse, something that has only happened twice before. Both were times when Luna was trying to figure out her powers.

"Luna.. Why?" She asked herself quietly, while willing her magic to move the sun. She found herself gasping in surprise when she found that she couldn't get the sun to budge. The moon had some kind of grip on the star, and wouldn't let it pass. Where she moved the sun, if at all, the moon moved with it. With wide eyes she quickly jumped into the air and with a flap of her wings, she was rocketing off towards the main tower of her castle.

Arriving shortly after, she threw open the door to the tower, and walked into the armory. In the back was a steel door, branded with both Hers and Luna's Cutie marks. Bursting through the door with the help of her magic, she saw what she came for. A set of brightly polished White Gold armor, glowing faintly from the magics enchanted onto it. Next to it was a rather unappealing box, she grabbed the box and held it close to her chest, as she started to magically put the armor on.

-----With Terumi and Nightmare-----

I sat under the light of the moon, looking at our handiwork. While Nightmare was in the sky doing her thing with the moon.. I'll never get over that by the way.. I was using my power to scare the locals. Everything from throwing houses to just cackling while the flames burned in the town, I did it all. Nightmare landed next to me, and put a wing on my shoulder. She looked at me like I would expect a lover to look at. The hell did that idiot get into now?

"We really do work nice together Dearest" I was about to retort something about the horrid nickname she seemed to keen on calling me, but it was stopped when a familiar feeling washed over me. I grit my teeth in agitation as I felt the idiot waking up. What started it? He was completely out of it mere moments ago! My vision blurred as I felt the hat being summoned yet again to block my existence, I fell to my knee's.

"D-damn it.." I hiss under my breath.

"Dearest?" Nightmare spoke, leaving my side as I fell. "What's wrong?" She asked mildly worried. Almost like she knew what was happening. I didn't hear anything else as I faded back to the consciousness.

"W-what?" Hazama asked confused by his surroundings. He quickly stood up when he noticed Nightmare looking at him, pouting like a little filly who lost a toy. "L-Luna! Why?!" He asked even more confused by her appearance. "This energy! Don't worry Luna I've got-" I couldn't finish. Nightmare ripped off the hat yet again.

"Foul hat, your just a nuisance!" She muttered as she made the hat disappear again. She narrowed her eyes, as she watched her Beloved wake up. She felt the hat disappear from this plane, again to only re-appear inside Terumi again. "Your hat is far too attached to you." She deadpanned.

"You have no idea.." I muttered "He is bound to the hat, the hat cannot be destroyed with him alive, and the same the other way." I explained. I watched as confusion then a smile passed over her race.

"Then I must simply split your souls-" She was interrupted by a small beam of Golden energy to blast between us. We looked up to see Celestia gently floating down to the ground. She was all decked out in armor, and a sword glowing with flames floated next to her.

"You will not do anything for this monster, Luna!" She yelled furiously. Before I could do anything I heard the laughter of Nightmare ring out. It echoed off of the building, making it sound more vile.

"Your a fool, But I thank you anyway, Dear Sister. If it wasn't for your arrogance, and your inability to see your own sisters feelings, you wouldn't be in this mess." She stopped for a short laughing fit. "This is all your fault! By thinking that Hazama was nothing but a monster and not listening to your sisters own attempts to dissuade you, you've let Darkness overcome your dear little Luna." Celestia's eyes widened more and more as Nightmare talked. She looked destroyed, as she realized that in her blind rage, she had caused her sister such strife. She looked to Hazama, and shook her head, as tears started to stream down her face.

"Hazama, I'm so sorry.. I should have let you speak your mind more.. We could've been friends." Celestia cried out.

"Now listen here, my names Yuki Terumi! I don't give a fuck what happened between you and the idiot, I just wanna fight you!" I said as I charged into her range. Celestia's eyes widened even more sat Terumi's exclamation. It matched what he was trying to tell her all that time ago.. Was.. Was this the other being residing in his head? He really needed our help, and I just kept calling him a monster. Celestia didn't want to fight now, but she had to!

"I am sorry.. To both of you!" She called out to the two, as her mane flew into a rage, fire bristling out Pushing Terumi back. Her eyes went white and glowed with power, as she started to charge her horn. In an instant there were multiple magic circles in the air, all aimed towards the two. Nightmare looked around with wonder in her eyes, as Terumi looked interested in the power she was exuding.

"You plan to take us both on? Foolish." Nightmare said abruptly falling into her own shadow. Terumi readied an Ouroboros for what was going to be an amazing fight.

"What?!"Nightmares voice cut through the air. She had been forced out of her shadow a bit behind Terumi. She looked startled, and afraid. "How did you cast a full barrier without my knowing?!" She was seething. "It even powered by the elements!" As soon as she said that, the circles all glowed together, and then connected with streams of rainbow energy. All together it looked really cliché, only for the rainbow power to start being pulled back.

"I knew I would be no match against the two of you, so I've used the Elements to charge that barrier. I have two minutes to banish you two, I am sorry." Celestia said as more tears dripped from her eyes. Her eyes still white, her mane started glowing a rainbow rather than flames. The pure magic she was generating was amazing!

"Like hell you will!" Terumi yelled. In a fit of rage he charged as much energy as he could into his fist, and charged the barrier.

"No, don't!" Nightmare's scared voice held no sway in his movements. He punched full force, only to get a blast of magic backlash into his whole body. He grunted in pain, as he kneeled onto the ground. The energy surging through him was picking him apart from the inside out. "Are you okay?" Nightmare's voice cut through him like a knife. She was too close, her wing was draped over his shoulder again. The concern in her voice made something snap. A flash of Luna kissing Hazama shot through his mind. Suddenly he felt it again. Hazama was waking up again, faster this time. He barely had time to register his next thought before his mind was swept away.

"That idiots gonna get us killed.." He said aloud.

Shaking his head, Hazama looked around and noticed his surrounding. He quickly shot up, knowing he was short on time, be it Nightmare ripping his hat off, or the beam of rainbow magic that Celestia had just released. He reached up, at Nightmare, touching her chest. Before she could get her squeal of indecency, his hands fazed right into her chest. When he pulled his hand out there was a small flash of black light. In his hand was a Black wisp, crying for release. He smirked as he saw a dazed Luna looking at him weirdly. She barely registered what was happening, aside from the feeling of Hazama throwing her through the now faded barrier. Her eyes caught his mouth as he said one last sentence.

"I love you"

In a flash the rainbow magic of the elements had done its work, and nothing remained inside of the crater. She looked at the crater, shocked at what just happened. Celestia landed next to her, nuzzling her sisters cheek affectionatly.

"What happened?" Celestia asked

"He saved Us again.." Luna said as tears dripped down her face. The two sisters sat there, basking in the morning sunrise, thinking about everything that has happened.

----That Night----

Luna was looking to the moon, as she had been for the past couple of hours. She was still feeling the impact of what happened, if the tears were anything to go by. Her sister was sitting right next to her, almost like she was afraid to leave her. They had been like this for the entire day, only conversing when Luna wanted to.

"How long is the banishment?" Luna asked softly. Celestia was silent for a full minute

"I'm so sorry Luna, I swear, I'll make it up to you, and Hazama.. I swear.." Celestia said breaking into more tears of her own. Luna looked at her sister, and then back to the moon. She would wait, she knew he would. The minimum time would be a thousand years.. Yes, she would wait.