Twilight and Arkantos felt the spell, but they knew something was wrong.

“She’s letting us go.” Twilight muttered.

“No… No. She’s not.” Ark shook his head.

Arkantos wasn’t about to wait for anything else to happen. He immedietly started blasting away at the buildings, trying to clear more away. They needed to see more.

That’s when they noticed it. More… fire. In the distance. However, it wasn’t as if something was burning, more like…

“Wh… I’ve seen that before when Celestia got really, really angry.” Twilight muttered. “H-how the hell is Daybreaker here?”

“It doesn’t matter!” Ark said, grabbing Twilight’s hand. “Take us in close.”

“But…”

“They might think it was me firing off something to signal the attack to stop.” Ark said. “We have a chance.”

Twilight nodded, teleporting the both of them up onto a nearby building.

Then Twilight saw both of them, they were still distracted, laughing almost manically.

They may be powerful evil beings… but really, a spell? Didn’t either of them think that she, the element of MAGIC would feel it?

“Good…”

Several blasts of magic hit the nearby building, startling Nightmare and Daybreaker, giving the human and pony combo a chance to teleport right behind them.

Without a sound, Ark swung hard catching Nightmare Moon completely by surprise.

Twilight blasted Daybreaker off the roof, sending her sprawling to the cobblestone below.

Ark’s burning blade managed to strike through a bit of Nightmare’s armor, causing her to scream in pain before hitting him with a spell. He was sent to the ground as well, and Twilight yelled after him.

“ARK!”

“Fuck… Smart move. Attacking when we least expected it…” Nightmare growled. She cast a spell, and she heard screams below as several humans were magically drained to heal herself.

Twilight stumbled back, preparing a shield.

Nightmare was a bit predictable, and she lashed out at Twilight now. “THIS IS FOR TAKING MY RIGHTEOUS NIGHT FROM ME!” The angry alicorn screeched, firing spell after spell at Twilight.

Twilight could feel how angry Nightmare was, and she quickly thought of a way to use that to her advantage. “You’re damn right I did! And I’m going to do it again!” Twilight retorted.

The glow behind Nightmare’s eyes doubled and she roared angrily, now her arms were surrounded in magic, forming vicious looking blades as she dashed towards the unicorn.

Twilight blinked Nightmare out of the way, congratulating herself on learning the actually efficient teleportation. Nightmare wasn’t prepared for the sudden shift. She slammed into another really close roof, grunting loudly as her blades had gotten stuck.

Twilight realized the blades weren’t magical anymore… They were fully real, and she was thankful that she’d acted so quickly. “Stupid bitch. You know I’m smarter then you right?” Twilight let just a bit of pride slip in. Though it was planned. She wanted to anger Nightmare into a blind rage… if she could manage that maybe she could set the corrupted version of Luna against Daybreaker, easing their fight considerably.

However, that plan was put on hold as Daybreaker screamed loudly.

“FOR GLORY!” Arkantos shouted.

“GLORY AND HONOR TO THE EMPEROR!” Several other male voices shouted.

Twilight remembered that the Blades of Faust were patrolling, and now they’d be converging here, giving them a significant advantage.

“FAUST GRANT US STRENGTH AND HONOR!”

“HAIL!”

“Stupid fucking monkeys! You have no idea that she isn’t with you!” Daybreaker screamed.

Twilight wasted no more time and blasted Nightmare through the roof.

Nightmare screeched again, this time being sent through the floor and down onto the ground as Twilight kept blasting.

Daybreaker hadn’t had much luck since the beginning. First, even though the human had hit the ground hard, he seemed to be gaining strength from HER sun. While she couldn’t even call out to it.

Now they were taunting her with praises to the creator of Equus. What did the hairless apes know of her?

Now, worst of all she was surrounded by more humans, all fighting in unison.

“DAMN YOU ALL! I’LL BURN YOU TO CINDERS!” She roared, now FORCING this dream sun to her will.

It cried in agony, it wasn’t something that the humans around her could hear… except for Arkantos. He recoiled as if injured.

“BURN, BURN IN MY HOLY FIRE!” Daybreaker roared.

“TWILIGHT SHIELD YOURSELF!” Arkantos screamed.

Twilight’s barrage against Nightmare Moon stopped, and she put up a shield around herself, then an idea hit her. She teleported down, and put up a slightly larger shield. She hoped her idea would work.

Arkantos was saved from the burning hellfire by his magic. However… not much else was so lucky. The ruins of the city, with many, many buildings still standing tall was wiped away to burning and smoking rubble in an instant. All life was instantly annihilated. There was no time for pain, no agony, all simply stopped existing as they were reduced to shadows on the street, or on the few still standing walls.

Arkantos collapsed as the last of his extra magic was drained defending his own life. He took in deep and ragged breaths.

“YES, YES! ALL OF YOU ARE WORTHLESS BEFORE ME!” Daybreaker roared with malicious and happy laughter. Then she looked down to Arkantos, before her attention was drawn to the diminishing shield as Twilight retracted it.

Daybreaker growled and stepped over Arkantos as he fell to his chest, trying to pretend to be winded.

“Bah, I knew my sister was useless. Stupid whorse couldn’t even properly take over Luna… let alone a weakened human. But now… now I have a chance to strike Celestia where it will really hurt.” Daybreaker chuckled. “Come to me little pony… and I might just let you live long enough to watch me destroy your friends and family.”

Twilight however teleported away for a moment.

“Oh? Playing hide and seek?” Daybreaker laughed. “There’s no where left to hide little one! You’re in MYdomain now! THIS IS MY WORLD NOW!”

That’s when she felt it.

A drop of water right on her snout.

Several Minutes before:

Outside Celestia was scolding herself. “Why… why, WHY!” She growled.

“S-sister what’s wrong?”

“When I fed magic into Arkantos, Daybreaker escaped! Now she and Nightmare are together against Twilight and Arkantos!” Celestia growled. “And there-”

They felt it, the magical coma that had blocked Twilight was lifted.

“What…” Luna muttered. Celestia and Luna glanced wearily at each other.

“Go to Arkantos sister. It’s his dream… if this is truly an opening…” Celestia began.

“No… I won’t enter. But… there is something I can do to help.” Luna smiled widely.

“Then do it! They’ll need help!” Celestia pleaded.

“Why? Wasn’t sh-”

“No! I’ve been keeping her locked inside me for over a thousand years now! And I haven’t been sealed!” Celestia said quickly, sounding genuinely ashamed of herself. “She’s… more powerful then I am… and had you not returned…”

Luna hugged Celestia. “Sister… they’ll all forgive you.” She assured. “I know Twilight will…”

“Just please… get them out of there alive.” Celestia pleaded. “If I do anything else…”

“She’ll grow stronger… and with Nightmare now dead…” Luna began.

“You have a chance.”

Author's Note

Two chapters in one day! Yay I'm on a roll for once!