Shattered Immortal

"To save you daddy. With your curse broken, it was the only way." My teary eyed baby girl answered. "There was no other way. No magic we had would have saved you and your life was fading by the hour. Momma finally made the decision to perform the ritual to turn you. It was our hope that the inherent healing abilities of a alicorn would save you."

"And has it" I asked still feeling weak.

"You are in no danger anymore my love" Luna answered nuzzling my ear. "Myself and Tia now can spend eternity apologizing to you for the pain and suffering caused by our indiscretions."

"I never hated either of you for what happened. I couldn't bring myself to do so. I would like to know what happened with Whispered Word and his collusion with Sombra though?" I got a reluctant smile from Tia and a satisfied grin from Luna.

"After his confession and trial he was executed."

"And what happened to Sombra?"

"A year after Word was executed, Sombra declared war on Equestria. In six months his army was non existent. When we went to the Crystal Empire to confront him, he destroyed everything, killing everypony in the Empire" Celestia told me.

"What the hell? Why did he do that" I asked.

"He did not want anypony else to have the Empire. If he could not rule it, nopony could" Luna said. I sat there in disbelief. The psychotic bastard destroyed his home to keep anyone from taking it from him. Discord was bad, but Sombra was a whole new level of evil.

"Did anyone make it out?"

"Not one soul. The ground has been barren since then" Celestia answered.

"Can we talk about something else please" I asked. I couldn't stomach anymore about that particular subject. I know I was absolutely ruthless in war, but the complete annihilation of a race, even I couldn't do that. Though there was that one.....

"Do not dwell on it J" I could always count on Luna to control my rampant thoughts on certain things. "I know how you think when it comes to battle. Sombra is the one to blame, he is the one that cast the spell. You could never do something like that. I know it in my heart."

"Are you sure Luna? I came within a hairs breadth of committing genocide once. Who's to say I wouldn't come close or follow through to doing it again?"

"We would stop you love" Celestia added nuzzling my ear. "I may not be as proficient in battle as you or Luna, but I do know how to keep you from making that mistake. I've done it before." I wasn't going to argue with her on that point.

"Father? What is mom talking about?" Sighing I looked at my oldest and answered her.

"Around two hundred years before both of you was born, the Caribou king at the time made a dumb ass demand. He basically said if your mother's didn't surrender themselves to him, he would conquer Equestria and enslave all of the female population."

"Why would he make such a demand daddy?"

"He wanted them as his personal sex slaves Little one." The shock that crossed my daughters muzzles is something that I would remember forever.

"W....what happened to make him change his mind?" I grimaced and answered my youngest.

"My spear going through his skull" I deadpanned. "By the time these two had caught up to me....I had killed all the males above the age of fifteen. Tia talked me down from killing everything in my path." Looking at my daughters, broke my heart. I could see the pain in their eyes and the fear. They had just realized that their father was a monster. Knowing I had lost them, I turned and hid my face under Luna's wing.

"Cadence and Twilight, you must understand something. Your father is very protective of us. All of us and he would sacrifice himself to protect the four of us. We are his world, his life and to lose any of us would shatter his world." When Tia finished I felt her move closer to me.

"Do not judge your father because of what you both just heard. He is not a monster. What he has done, he did because he wanted a safer world for everypony. More importantly, he wanted a safer world for our foals." I felt Luna nuzzle the top of my head before she continued. "His wish was for a world that was safe for his family and he fought for that dream."

I didn't hear anything for a few minutes until I heard a couple of sniffles. I felt the bed shift and two more bodies joined the pile. Feeling a hoof on mine, I looked up and into the lavender eyes of my youngest. They were red from crying and I didn't like it one bit, because I was the reason for the tears.

"I understand that you both fear me now. I don't blame neither of you."

"We are not afraid of you daddy. It was just..."

"A very jarring bit of news father" my oldest finished for her sister.

"I know it is. Having to acknowledge that someone you love is willing to go that far to protect the ones he love is both comforting and terrible at the same time." I looked around for a moment. "So, how long will I be in this bed?"

"At the longest, tomorrow morning my love" answered Luna.

"Good, I'll start getting stir crazy before long. And after I get out of here?"

"We start on being a family again" Celestia replied