"I'm sorry Lilly, I guess, it just wasn't meant to be."

"What 'wasn't meant to be?!' The fact that YOU stopped me from saving MY husband?!" Lilly sat on a chair by the table in her little house in Canterlot, it was where she and Brave Heart lived.

"Lilly you could barely walk you were so weak, even if you did find him, what could you have done then? And it was Celestia who stopped you, not me." Twilight sat next to her with her hoof on Lilly's shoulder.

"I guess you're right, I still don't believe he is dead though, I will not." Lilly was drinking hard liquor, Vodka to be specific. She had only had that much alcohol twice in her life. One was on her first and last high school party at the popular mare's giant Canterlot house. She got so drunk she peed on the host's coltfriend. The second time was her wedding, and we can say she didn't pee on anypony, but she did have some abnormally dirty thoughts about Brave Heart throughout the night, well we just wont go there right now.

"Oh Lilly, I think I understand." Twilight started to stroke her mane,

"How could you even remotely understand Twilight. You still have your husband, your big strong, stallion." Lilly's head knocked on the table, she started crying.

"You know Lilly, you're absolutely correct. Lilly I want to tell you something. You morning Brave Heart reminds me of this. This is something I don't want you telling every teenage stallion and mare you come across, this is pretty dark and private stuff." This made Lilly's head perk up a little.

"Ok, what?"

"It's about princess Luna, and King Sombra, and their soon to become foal prince or princess.

Lilly's eyes widened.

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"Chrysalis, we need you to cooperate. We are all exhausted, and want to rest, but can't until you tell us want we want to know." Celestia and three royal guards stood in a brick cell. Chrysalis was in chains on a concrete chair within the cell. It was dark, the cell was underneath the Canterlot castle. The only light came form the torches on the walls.

"Why should I tell you anything?! You said it yourself you royal brat! You already know everything about the stone! SO LEAVE ME ALONE!" Chrysalis tried to slam Celestia, but was stopped by her chains.

"You're right, I already know everything we need to know about the stone. I want to know how you got it, and where you got it, and if something gave it to you." Chrysalis and Celestia just eyed each other down for a minute, before Celestia spoke again. "It is useless and a waste of valuable energy for you to resist, just tell us, and torture wont be necessary." They both eyed each other for another minute, Chrysalis then sighed in defeat.

"Fine, if it makes you leave me alone."

"It will, I promise."

"It was after the wedding, Cadence's and Shining Amor's wedding. All my changelings were ether dead or lost somewhere in Equestria. I had nothing, I was nothing, so I just ran. I ran and ran until the Everfree forest was in my way, so I entered the forest. For two weeks I survived with nothing but what the forest could supply me with. Until he came to me." Chrysalis looked to the dirty floor for a moment.

"He came? Who came?"

"Give me a second and I will explain. It was a pony, an earth pony by the looks of it, he had a dark voice so I figured it was a stallion, but he was cloaked so I couldn't know for sure."

"Thats it?" Celestia was obviously getting a little inpatient.

"Hold on damnit, there is more. He asked me one thing. 'If their was one thing in the world you could take for free, what would it be.' I said everything. Then he pulled out the stone, from this bag he was carrying, he said it would grant me everything. He gave it to me and ran of, I never saw him again. Then I approached Sombra, I gave him life, and magic. He agreed to help me, but wanted in return the Crystal Empire to himself, and the Crystal Heart."

"Thats it? Do you know anything about this 'cloaked stallion'?" Celestia thought for a moment.

"I told you everything I know, NOW LEAVE...........please?"

"Very well, guards let us got back up, I have some urgent news for princess Luna."

"Wait, their is one more thing you should know." Celestia turned back around just before she was about to leave.

"What? I though you told me everything you knew?"

"No, there was one more thing Sombra wanted from me, he asked for one pony's soul he could have from the stone. I had no idea what he meant, but I didn't care."

"Because you were going to double cross him, and kill him." Celestia was now putting all the pieces together, but there were still pieces missing.

"Exactly, I will say no more." Chrysalis had now revealed everything she knew, or did she.

"Well then, I guess this 'cloaked stallion' didn't tell you everything about the stone did he? Because if he did, you would know that you haven't killed anypony using the stone."

"What on earth do you mean?" Chrysalis had no idea what Celestia was talking about. She killed ponies but they aren't really dead? She had no idea.

"Now I will leave. We are still deciding on your punishment Chrysalis, and I can't promise you mercy, mercy where there is none." Celestia and her guards left the cell and locked it. There was a long hallway of dungeon cells in front of them, the exit was on the other side of the hallway. It was dark and cold, water dripped from the ceiling, the only light came from the fires of the torches. Guards were standing by the exit, blocking anypony who dared to enter. Chrysalis was the only pony in the dungeon. Common criminals usually just go to Canterlot jail, which was way more clean and was better maintained. Chrysalis was completely alone.

It took about five minutes for Celestia to make it all the way back up to the castle. It was quiet, very very quiet. Chrysalis had been defeated, but at what cost? Their were no parties, ponies weren't celebrating. Soliders weren't drinking at the bars, there were no feasts, nor songs those dark nights. The city was packed. Celestia had ordered the Crystal Empire to empty until repairs could be made. Cadance and Shining Amor were still at the Crystal Empire, overseeing the rebuilding. The hospital wing was completely full. Full of wounded soldiers and sick or starving ponies who were still weak from Chrysalis' rage, but their was one pony at the hospital wing who was not sick, nor was hurt. She was there for a very special reason. It was done in secret, for she was still no comfortable telling the world she was pregnant.

Luna rested on a hospital bed in a private room. It was a fairly large room, not as large as her private royal bedroom, but large enough for Luna to be satisfied. Luna has regained most of her strength from the Crystal Empire attack. Her blast wound was properly treated, and she was pleased to hear from the doctor that her foal she was carrying had not been effected at all, and is predicted to be a healthy, happy little prince or princess one day. Luna was looking at a book, resting on the bed, in peace.

"Well it looks like you survived." Celestia walked in the hospital room, two guards were at her back.

"Couldn't have done it without you sister." Luna smiled.

"Leave us please." Celestia ordered her guards to wait outside, giving the two immortal alicorn sisters some privacy. "I'm sorry this had to happen Luna."

"it's not your fault, in fact, it's more my fault than yours." Luna rested the book she was looking at on her nightstand beside her bed. "If I had just listened to Captain Royal Shield, I wouldn't have been captured in the first place. So, what did Chrysalis say?"

"A lot actually, and i'm still unsure of what her sentence will be." Celestia sat down on Luna's hospital bed.

"You don't think, she will be executed do you?" Luna thought back to the last execution that took place in Canterlot, it's been some time.

"I don't know, justice will come though, but we have more important matters to talk about now." Celestia got back up from the bed. "Luna, i've been keeping this information from you because I am worried you'll get yourself in some trouble, but with you and Sombra, I just can't keep it a secret anymore."

"What is it Celestia?" Luna was curious to say the least.

"Chrysalis got the stone from some cloaked stallion in the Everfree forest after Cadence's wedding, then she brought Sombra back to life."

"Um, ok? But that's not the important information is it Celestia?"

"No Luna, it is not. Sombra agreed to help Chrysalis if she gave him the Crystal Empire, the Crystal Heart, and one soul he could save form the stone. You see, Chrysalis called it the Magi stone, but thats just a dumb criminal name she gave it. It's real name is the soul stone, and it's the most powerful object in the world."

"I don't understand? How do you know so much about the stone and I don't? How could you be the only pony who knows anything about the stone?" Luna was cut short from Celestia.

"Because Luna, I created the stone." Luna's eyes widened in shock after she just heard the words that came from her sister.

"Wait, you, you did it? This is all you?"

"No Luna, you see about five-hundred years ago, when you were still banished on the moon there was a war. The bat ponies of Equestria felt they weren't getting equal amounts of rights normal ponies were getting. So they all joined forces and made a massive army and declared war on me. I didn't want to kill them because they were still my subjects and I loved them, but they sure as hell wanted to kill me. So I created the stone to fight the war for me. I created it to trap the souls of the victims and imprison them within the stone itself. I would do this by blasting a powerful magical beam at the victim, moments later the victim would turn to ash."

"Wait, but Sombra was turned to ash, so does that mean that....."

"Yes Luna, Sombra isn't 100 percent dead yet. Chrysalis thought that she had killed Sombra with it, but she didn't. I designed the stone so that it would make it look like the victims were dead, but they weren't. Souls trapped within the stone are not dead nor alive. They are in a state of suffering, trapped in a void. The plan was that after the war I would free the souls from the stone and they would return to their mortal bodies."

"So that means, everypony that was turned to ash, are trapped in the stone, including Sombra. So, why did you get rid of the stone after the war?"

"Well, not everything went according to plan. Once the war was over I tried my best to free the thousands of souls trapped within the stone, but I couldn't, for some reason the stone wouldn't let me free the trapped souls."

"So you're telling me for five-hundred years those poor souls have been trapped in an eternal void with no hope of escape?" Luna got up from the bed. She honestly though that Celestia was almost as bad as Chrysalis at this point. She had accidentally trapped thousands of souls in eternal suffering.

"Well yes, thats why I planed to destroy it, so it could never be used again, but I couldn't destroy it. So I went of for hundreds of miles and hid it in a place no pony could ever find, but I guess one pony did find it." Celestia lowered her head, she was ashamed of what she did all those years ago.

"Well, that does explain your affection towards bat ponies. Wait, you said cloaked stallion?" Luna just realized something, something that completely makes sense.

"Well yes Luna, I did. At least thats what Chrysalis said." Celestia turned her head towards Luna, who was standing next to her.

"When I was on my way to Ponyville, to ask Twilight about the mysterious book, their was a cloaked stallion at the train station that ran from us. He did get away but I had no idea why he was running."

"Yes, I remember the report from that now. Do you still have that book?"

"Yes Celestia, it's right here." Luna pulled the book from a saddle bag sitting beside her bed. "Now come to think about it, I think Sombra made this book, for what reason, I have no idea.

"You know Luna, you have reacted differently to this attack than the last one. Last time you were all depressed and sad, but this time you seem happier." Celestia smiled at Luna.

"You're right you know. I think it's because last time, I saw Sombra get destroyed knowing he could have done better, but this time. Even though he was destroyed, did better than any of us could have done. Do you think their is a way to save him, and the others?" Luna turned towards Celestia again.

"If we find a way, we will save him, and anypony else who is trapped in the stone."

"This sounds like an adventure, count me in."Luna raised her hoof.

"Oh Luna, maybe you shouldn't. You're pregnant, have your child, raise it, make sure he or she will grow to be great. You will need all the rest now to raise a child."

"You know Celestia, you're right. I guess I just wish Sombra was here to raise my foal with me." Luna turned her head and faced her side.

"Who in the world would dare try to venture into the soul world though. I'm not even sure their is a way in, let alone a way out, who would dare." Celestia thought of just how dangerous a journey like that could be. The soul stone was in her custody, but she still didn't know how to free the trapped souls within the soul stone.

"We would dare." Behind Celestia and Luna came Twilight Sparkle, Flash Sentry, Lilly Tulip, Royal Shield, and Nightcore. They all walked in the hospital room, offering to save Sombra, and the thousands of other souls trapped within the soul world.

~~~~~~~~end of part one

Author's Note

Thats it, my first story done. Thanks to everyone who followed me and liked this story.

----More will come though ;)