Epilogue: Moving Forward

Word of Princess Celestia's stabbing spread quickly as it was not even two hours after her admission to the hospital that she was visited by her sister. When Princess Luna saw her sister laying in a hospital bed, bandaged and looking rather weak, she rushed to her, hugged her and asked, "Sister, are you ok?"

Princess Celestia opened her eyes and replied, "Yes Luna, I'm ok."

Luna had not heard a whole lot about this whole situation except for what Spike had sent in what appeared to be a hastily written scroll. She asked, "Who did this to you? Who stabbed you like this?"

Celestia replied, "It was Fluttershy. I don't know what happened to her but she became rude, violent and arrogant. She kept referring to herself as New Fluttershy and spoke in the third pony. When Applejack and I went to confront her over her behavior, she attacked us."

Luna developed a fury in her eyes. She was enraged that anypony, especially somepony that her sister trusted would do such a thing. She slammed a fist into her other hand and snapped, "When I get my hands on Fluttershy she will......."

Celestia interrupted, "Luna, there is no need. She wound up dying in a fight that she had with Applejack."

Luna had always been fond of not just Applejack, but the Apple Family in general because of their work ethic, that and her love of their fritters. She asked, "What about Applejack, what happened to her?"

Celestia held her head low and replied, "During their fight, Fluttershy bit her throat open and they pretty much killed each other at the same time."

Luna shed a few tears and asked, "What about the others?"

Celestia replied, "Well Rainbow Dash was chained to a bed and every single one of her organs were removed and regarding the other three, I have this feeling that they are probably buried somewhere, most likely in the Everfree Forest."

Luna put her hand up to her face and stood there in shock. She just couldn't fathom that something like that would happen in Equestria, especially among those six. She held her head low and asked, "So sister, what are we going to do? Is there any sort of investigation that needs to take place or since they're all dead, is this it?"

Celestia replied, "All we can do now is move forward. With all of them being gone, there is nothing to investigate. We'll just have to send ponies into the forest to try and find the other three if they were buried there and we have to do something more difficult, retake control of the Elements."

Luna's eyes grew wide as she heard this. She asked, "Sister, how are we going to do that? Up until now, it was those six who were the ones they were connected to and with five of them, they are no longer in their original shape. They are in a shape that tied them to those five."

Celestia replied, "Perhaps with them no longer being alive, the connection between them has been broken and their energies will be tied to us again."

Luna gave her a concerned look and said, "Let's hope so or Equestria may be in grave danger."

Celestia was becoming tired so she nodded and yawned, "All we can do now is hope little sister. For now though, I am tired and I need to get some sleep."

Luna replied, "Very well big sister but I'm staying here by your side."

Celestia gave her sister a smile before closing her eyes and trying to get back to sleep. As Luna watched her sister slumber, she still couldn't help but wonder what would cause Fluttershy, the sweetest one of the Element bearers, to snap the way she did and spill so much blood. She did know that her sister was right though, that they would have to retake control of the Elements in the event of future crises.

The End