Celestia's Sorrow

“Yes,” The unicorn said, savoring his victory. “Once I discarded that foal, I was done with it!”

Prince Blueblood's light blue eyes glowed, and he turned. “I had no intention of going to bed with you, Miss Sparkle. Nor did I have the idea with Luna.” His horn glowed brightly, and the purple mare felt vines slither around her, binding her. One wrapped around her horn, disabling her magic. She squirmed and Blueblood, smirking jauntily, moved a vine, and when she struggled, it pressed and wiggled against her nethers. She tried to wriggle out of the vines, but her moaning soon filled the bear's head, and finally, when she could take no more of it, she collapsed limply.

“Right then, Twilight Sparkle. If you're quite done, I have something to show you.” He was tying up Luna as he spoke, and once he was done, levitated Twilight along with him. His hooves clacked on the stone tongue of the bear, and Twilight looked around, eyes full of fear.

“Why?” She said weakly.

Blueblood rounded on her. “Because! Unicorns have never ruled the throne, always Alicorns. Pegasi are brutes, and Earth Ponies are weak, and Alicorns want to treat them the same! I come from the noble line of Princes. I am Blueblood Prince, and I should be Prince Blueblood! And when Celestia and Luna are dead, then unicorns will rule supreme! No request from a unicorn to pegasus or Earth Pony could be denied, or the ponies denying would be punished severely!” Blueblood laughed softly. “No request, Sparkle.”

“You're perverted!” She gasped.

“Rarity, poor mare, thought I was gay, Miss Sparkle. But I showed her. I showed her that I was no stallion's person, and she gave up her virginity to me. Albeit, somewhat forcedly, but she agreed to in the end. She was glad.” He gave a sick smile. “Right, miss Twilight.” He loosened the vines at the tip of her horn. “Light the way.”

Twilight, having no choice, lit her horn. She felt like a living torch and just as bad as a parasprite- she hadn't wondered why Rarity hated Blueblood so much. It couldn't just be because he was a snob, she'd know to like people like that... so Blueblood had put her to bed against her will?!

Rage filled Twilight as it had not done for a long time. She opened her mouth to say something, but vines forced her jaws shut. Furious, she tried to pry them open.

“And, Twilight Sparkle- so ends the life of Duster Dirt.” His eyes glowed maniacally, and his horn glowed at the bear's stone windpipe. Duster, limp and lifeless, lay in a corner, a corner of his mouth slowly dripping blood. Her heart caught in her throat, and she looked at Luna.

The whole bear's head was about the size of a small kitchen, and Luna moaned and stirred in the corner. Blueblood turned to look at her, he muttered, and turned back to the throat.

“I need royalty to do this.” He snarled under his breath. “If I take off that foal's wings and attach them to you would it still work?”

He raised Luna jerkily from the ground, and made Luna trace her horn across the door's walls. It opened slowly.

“Hear me, beast! I am Blueblood Prince, and heir of Fireswing, your master! Hear me, and allow me to take control of you!” His horn glowed, and a live cow appeared, struggling against the deranged white stallion's sky-blue, glowing grip. The stone throat opened, and in the darkness glowed a pair of huge, glowing yellow eyes. “I brought you this offering to satisfy your hunger!”

The cow mooed, eyes wide with terror, and the huge BearSpider's head appeared, jaws wide. It's long, shaggy brown fur hung limp from it's mammoth-sized head, and it's enormous, seven inch long teeth pierced the cow's windpipe, crushing it. The BearSpider was so gigantic it only took three bites of the large cow to devour it completely. The cow was alive for the whole feeding, and Twilight had to close her eyes so she didn't vomit. Not that she could with the rope-like vines restraining her jaws. She wanted to cry, because she knew what was going to happen.

“As our first sacrifice for unicorn supremacy, kill the pegasus. I don't want it getting out how I freed you.”

The bear hesitated, staring out stupidly, and then it's eyes glowed, and it cocked it's head. Then lunged.

The creature was only a bit smaller than a dragon. The book had been wrong. Huge black wings unfurled from it's side, and the spikes gleamed on it's back wickedly. It's long, sharp claws unsheathed from broad, flat paws. It's ten foot long tail carried a huge daggerlike white blade at the tip. There was no way in all of hell Duster would survive, and Twilight wanted to cry to him to wake up- that none of it was real, that she was in her books, and Duster was safe-

And suddenly, her pupils widened. She hadn't ever loved Duster. She was concerned for him, because deep down inside- she knew Duster was going to die. Her heart filled with dread, and she shivered. And she broke the binds around her jaws. “Duster!” She cried. “I loved you like a friend, but not like a lover!”

Duster's eyes opened, and he opened his mouth and said, “I always did.”

And the creature killed him cleanly, a stab through the neck with its thin, bladed tail. Duster's eyes turned glassy, then closed, the etch of a smile on his once handsome gaunt, dead face. Twilight watched the Bear neatly pick Duster up and bring him to it's new master. “Now. Which one should die first? My  supposed sister or Twilight Sparkle?”

He paused, then looked up at Twilight fondly. “You're the strongest unicorn there is. Perhaps you could be my queen?” He was musing out loud. “I would need to watch you all the time, make sure my secret doesn't get out, but if you're half as good as Rarity, then...” He lapsed  into a thoughtful silence.

He turned to the BearSpider. “Kill the dark blue one and then fly me and the purple pony across.” He told it. The creature advanced on Luna, and Twilight's eyes widened in hopelessness-

“No! There will be no more murder tonight, Blueblood!” A voice shouted, shaking the whole world.”

“LunarSun,” Blueblood whispered, pupils dilated in fear. “I thought...”

The world was bright, as bright as the sun, in a flash of pure white. The light drew to one source, and it pulsed brilliantly, a white blob bigger than Celestia. The bear swatted at the light with a paw, eyes wide, and with an expression full of wonder.

The light formed a pony shape, and then the soft, pulsing light grew detail. A tail like Celestia's glowed blue, light blue, and black all in waving stripes. So did a small mane only flowing out to the light pony's long snout, and the same color as it's tail. Suddenly, the light stopped pulsing and a pure white alicorn stood there, kneeling. It opened it's eyes, which were a soft green color, a mixture between dark blue and pure, bright yellow. The stallion blinked, and then stood. He was about as tall as the bear, and bore faint scars on his chest, back, and shoulders, not including three indistinct, jagged scars across one of his gentle green eyes.

His horn glowed, and silver armor appeared on his back, and slippers appeared on his feet. A small silver crown appeared, his horn holding it in place.

“Ready for round two, Bear!?!” The stallion roared, eyes blazing with anger. Twilight realized- this stallion was LunarSun. She looked at him in awe, and he looked back at her. He tilted his head slightly, and his eyes were soft and caring. Twilight felt a rush of affection for him. LunarSun had loved her, all along, And she had known she loved him as soon as she had touched the writing in his books.

Happiness filled her, then dread- what if he fought the bear and lost? What if he was put in stasis for another ten thousand years or whatever it had been? What if... he lost against the bear? What if he died, like his parents and brother, facing the BearSpider. Emotion blocked her throat, and through tears of fear, happiness, and love, she barely managed to choke out, “Lunar! Run!”

He charged at the bear, and it opened it's jaws. Lunar jumped over it, and slammed a hoof into it's spine. Roaring in pain and fury, the bear lumbered around, but found itself too big to move. It thrashed its tail in frustration, but Lunar could'nt get a clear shot at it. He had to move it somehow. Lunar opened his wings, and flew out of the cave. His horn glowed silver, and he shoved Luna into a corner. The Bear, noticing her, tried to scramble to get her, but his master screamed, “NO, YOU IDIOT! GO AFTER THE FLYING ONE! THERE'S TIME FOR HER LATER! KILL THE FLYING ONE!”

The massive creature whooshed out it's wings, and flew off to get Lunar. Twilight could see the battle from the stone Bear's head. She found herself strangly reluctant to move- but maybe that was just because of the vine at her crotch. She used her horn to loosen the vines now that Blueblood was distracted. She loosened them, and they slipped off. She took Blueblood in a magical grip.

“I'm sorry.” Twilight whispered. “You don't deserve it.” Closing her eyes, she wiped some of the bear's blood off the stone floor. She conjured a vial from nowhere, and murmured soft words as her horn began to glow. The black, dark bear blood was raised out of the vial, swirling, swirling, until it became a tornado of blood. The blood became acid green and foamy. She put it back into the vial.

“Blueblood, there is no other way.” Twilight wiped her tearful face on her hoof. She raised the vial, and poured it on Blueblood's horn.

Blueblood felt a strange sensation in his horn. It felt like someone had put a warm towel around it, or someone was holding it in their hooves on a cold day. The beautiful lavender unicorn was in the corner, sobbing with a hoof over her eyes. Blueblood slumped to the floor, and felt so weak, like he was a sleepy colt caught staying up to long by it's mother. He opened his eyes half-way. “What...” He mumbled drowsily, “What did... what did you do...?....” He fell into a weak sleep.

“I took your magic and your horn away from you. Forever.” Twilight whispered to him softly.

Lunar panted heavily, flapping his wings. They had been in aerial combat for almost ten minutes, a long time to go while you were bleeding slowly and couldn't slow down or take a break. Lunar jabbed at the BearSpider with his horn, and the sharp horn twisted, and scraped the Bear's underbelly. Screaming in rage, the bear took a swipe at Lunar that he dodged, missing the powerful, clawed blow... Lunar's wings drooped, and his power was at a weakness, if the BearSpider attacked again, surely he couldn't dodge...

A flash of white blurred past his vision as a paw slammed into him, sending him flying backwards. A white Alicorn flew past. “Mom?” LunarSun whispered, eyes wide, as he landed on the stone bear's tongue. Twilight rushed to him, and as he lost consciousness, he looked at the glowing bright alicorn that had spared him from the fight and death, who he thought was his mother.

Twilight looked up again. “Celestia!?” She nearly shouted. The pure white alicorn princess dove at the stone bear's jaws, and then veered up. The BearSpider slammed into the rock wall, and she looked at Celestia, who's face was full of righteous anger. She slammed a hoof into the bear's face, and Twilight could hear a huge CRACK even from thirty feet away. The lavender unicorn went numb, then heard moaning from the corner- she trotted over to Luna and nuzzled her. The blue alicorn shook her head, then murmured, “Hey... Twilight...” Then her eyes jerked open and she shouted, “Where is the traitor Blueblood!? And what has he done with the beast!?”

“Blueblood is...” Twilight paused. “I...”

Luna looked at the limp, sleeping form of Blueblood. “You took away his magic?” She asked gently.

“I...” Twilight hung her head. “Is...he was going to kill you.” She burst out desprately. “I know it's illegal and morally wrong, but I can't let him kill anyone else!”

“Twilight. I approve of what you did. Now-” Her teal eyes widened with shock. “Is that LunarSun?!” She looked at her brother with badly concealed suprise and shock. “He came back!? He came for us?” She smiled broadly. “Wait. What happened? Where's the beast?”

“Celestia is fighting it.”

“Tia is out there!?” Luna said in obvious fear. She jumped out, and flew after Celestia to battle the beast.”

Twilight cursed at herself for not having wings. Now she was trapped in a bear's head with an unconscious alicorn Prince and a dead pegasus. She shook the Prince, who stirred. “Where's mother?” He murmured.

“I'm sorry Prince LunarSun, but she's dead. You saw Princess Celestia.” Twilight said softly.

LunarSun's face was expressionless in the shadowy bear mouth. He rose to his hooves, and said, “We have a bear to kill.”

He jumped out, and while the tired BearSpider attacked Celestia and Luna. He flew under the bear, and then Twilight broke off a tooth from the bear head, and levitated it over to Lunar. He grabbed it between his hooves, and he flew, as fast as he could, upward, and drove the huge stalagmite into the bear's heart. It's eyes flew open, and it opened its jaws in a silent howl- and it's wings stopped flapping as it fell into the gorge below, eyes glassy like the pegasus he had killed.

Twilight trotted over to Duster. The three alicorns landed on the jaw, and Twilight held Duster tenderly in her arms, looking down at the foolish pegasus, tears dripping on his now closed eyes. All of the royal ponies stood there awkwardly, intruding on Twilight's love and grief for the dust-colored pegasus. LunarSun finally broke the silence by nuzzling Twilight's neck. “Twilight, we can give him a proper burial when we're back in Equestria. For now, we need to get back home, where we can throw Blueblood in jail and find Him. He said He'd be in His favorite animal form. Undoubtedly he chose a cat.” The stallion rolled his eyes. “Honestly, at least birds can fly.”

She smiled softly, and gently put Duster down. Luna grabbed his in her hooves, and Celestia picked up Blueblood, wrinkling her nose in disgust. LunarSun picked up Twilight softly, and carried her carefully to the other size. The alicorns' horns all glowed, and they vanished, leaving the scene of destruction behind them.