Author's Note

Had to change the rating. Don't know why, but this is the direction my mind is going.

Chapter 10

Canterlot was burning and there wasn't a fucking thing I could do. Everywhere my gaze fell bodies, debris and other detritus of battle lay. Bodies that looked like they was fed through a woodchipper. Blood running down the sides of buildings. Some of the bodies looked like they had been eaten. My eyes eventually locked on to the familiar form of Luna laying on the ground. Rushing over to her...I realized she was dead. The armor she always used was dented and missing in places. The sword I had forged for her birthday over a millennia ago sticking out of her chest. Someone had removed her horn and wings.

Falling to my knees I had to wonder how? How had this happened? Why had this happened? Movement caught my eye and ten feet past Luna, I found Tia.

"TIA?" I called to her running up. Falling to my knees again at her side, I was appalled at her condition. She was burned badly and her stomach had been ripped open.

"Tia! Baby, please talk to me" I begged nuzzling her cheek. Opening her eyes she finally focused on me enough to know who was holding her.

"J?"

"I'm here my love. I've got you." Laying like she was, I just noticed a small white body under what was left of my wife's right wing. It was little Winter and something had ripped out his throat.

"Who did this Tia? Who killed Luna and Winter? Where are our daughters? Why is this happening?" I couldn't understand why this was going on. I thought we was safe.

"Sombre. It was Sombra." WHAT? How could it be. He disappeared with the Crystal Empire.

"J?" I looked down to my sunshine and watched as she drew her last breath. I could do nothing to save her. All I could do was clutch Tia closer to me and wail in pain. I had lost both of my wives and my adopted son. My daughters, I didn't know where they was and that bastard Sombra is responsible for it all.

SOMBRA!! WHERE ARE YOU!?

"I'm right here" he said with a low chuckle from behind me. Kissing Tia, I gently laid her down and stood. When I turned to face him, my mind stopped. My daughter's stood to either side of him.

"What is the meaning of this" was the only thing I could say. I could see the same black miasma flowing out of their eyes as Sombra had.

"Isn't it obvious father. Our King has shown us the true way to rule" Cadence answered.

"The way you and our mothers rules was not very efficient. Our husbands way is better." Twilight added.

"Cady, Little One?" I was in shock. First my wives and son are dead. Now this fucker has the gall to corrupt my daughters. The demented bastard started laughing again.

"Just give up Prince. Your family is broken, so is your kingdom. You can not win." I looked around at the carnage. Turning, I walked back to the bodies of my family. Levitating Luna's body to where I was standing next to Tia, I placed them next to each other with Winter in the middle. I stood over them and flared my wings. My horn lit up as I started to channel magic.

"My family is dead and my kingdom has fallen. That is true, but what makes you think you're going to leave here alive" I answered him in perfectly calm voice. He stared at me for a minute before his eyes grew in alarm.

"YOU WOULDN'T!"

"I have nothing to live for. So, I'm going to take you with me." In desperation he lit his own horn, but nothing happened. I smiled at him knowing in the end he would die.

"You aren't strong enough, even with two alicorns helping you to teleport away. Even a shield spell won't work. Nothingness, that's what awaits you." I smiled again in thought. "I pity you Sombra. You will die alone, unloved. I won't." And in a brilliant flare of light, I knew no more.

My eyes snapped open with one name on my mind.

"SOMBRA!"

At the same time I had cast the strongest area effect spell I knew without realizing it. I was told later, after I had calmed down, that they had felt the detonation of it in Ponyville. I hovered in midair breathing hard, my mind still recovering from whatever that was. A nightmare? Premonition maybe? I don't know, but it scared the living hell out of me. Finally I calmed down to the point of being observant and oh by the gods I thought. Please tell me no one was in the tower with me. Looking around, I had destroyed half of the northern tower. Landing amongst the wreckage, I started digging in a panic.

"J! J stop. Calm down my love." Feeling hooves around me, I looked and found Tia and Luna holding me with concern in their eyes.

"Did I hurt anyone?"

"No, my love. No pony was in the tower with you and any flying debris was vaporized by the pulse" Luna answered.

"What happened J" Tia asked with fear in her voice.

"I fear a nightmare is coming. One I can't defeat."

"Who my love?"

"SOMBRA."