"Sister before you sleep, please tell me honestly what you think we should do?"

Celestia stiffened before slouching her shoulders, "I don't quite know, so much has happened in one day, Sombra's appearance, The Crystal Empire showing itself, and an ancient evil propping up for ultimate power." She rubbed her temples with the frog of her hoof. "Everything feels like it's rushing to something I don't think is going to end well, and we don't even know what IT is. Like we're the only ones not in the loop of the power struggle that is going to inadvertently blow up in our face!" Her voice pitched at the end, hysteria slowly creeping up but just as it began it stopped.

Celestia poured all her baggage into one, long sigh. "It feels as if everything just wasn't meant to happen like this. Some things too soon and others out of our grasp. I don't like any of this and worst of all we are not prepared."

Luna chipped in with her idea. "What of the elements?"

She asked her sister, "I thought you had skepticism when I was handing down the trial to Twilight?"

Luna gave Celestia a reassuring smile. "And they have proven me wrong."

Celestial gave in a bit. "Yes I suppose so, but that doesn't make them ready, they aren't ready in a long shot."

"We should still keep them in the know."

"For what? The pillars are out of commission, six ponies of experience of olden dark magic, AND a princess having to guard a kingdom along with one of our top guards. We are spread as is, defense is the only play we have for now."

"Then you have already set for protocol spellbound?"

"I did it once Starswirl had told us of this- this disaster!" Her voice pitched again.

"Then rest sister, we shall look over the night."

"But you will be watching over the dream realm, who will-"

Luna came forward with a hood onto her sister's shoulder. "We can manage multiple things at once sister." stepping forward she smiled softly at her sister. "You are not alone anymore."

Celestia's mouth slowly curled to a smile before embracing her sister. "Thank you, I'm so so sorry."

"Tis fine sister, we understand you are under a lot of stress, we merely seek to remind you that We- I am here."

Celestia laughed lightly at that slip-up, "Speech lessons with Raven are going well?"

Luna blushed, "Ah yes, slang and wording are still very difficult to take on."

Celestia draped a wing over her sister's back, "I'm glad to see you adapting sister."

"As am I." Both nuzzled heads together before splitting.

The air was tinged with a metallic taste, yards were covered in blood, and crystals along with bodies of red-soaked white and black coats adorned with yellow and dark purple armor. Some ponies were impaled by the purple shards that extended and pierced out in jagged and unnatural ways like cracks within ice. The earth was soaked in the blood bath with one pony standing above it all.

Eyes aglow with red slits for irises with a green hue around the fury-filled eyes. A dark purple mist followed along with the eyes as the pony stood there.

"PRINCESSES, GIVE ME WHAT I WANT AND NO MORE BLOOD WILL FOLLOW!"

Two tall celestial bodies stepped forward from their perch. Armor adorned their bodies with their respective color schemes of sun and moon with swords in their holsters.

Celestia spoke with an even, cold tone. "You don't need to do this Sombra, forgo your weapons and we can stop the bloodshed."

Sombra squinted with a burning stare, his muzzle twitched with anger. "Give. Me. What. I. Want. Or I will not hesitate to crush you and your sister with everything I have." Snarling he earned a cold, calculating stare from the solar princess.

Celestia's horn came to life with a yellow glow, "You know why we can't do that."

Luna stepped forward with her magic gripping her own sword. "You need to stop this madness or you will die with it."

Sombra growled, adorning a scowl, "If you wish to protect Him, then I will not prolong your death."

Shards slowly began to protrude from the soil around the king, crackling and impaling the earth. "Today will be when justice is shown in its true form, soaked with blood and anger."

The sisters jumped in unison charging at Sombra but in one swift moment, the shards surrounding Sombra exploded in growth, skyrocketing towards the sisters. In the sky, they dodged at a moment's notice with a cut on their respective sides.

"I deserve this! This is justice!" Mist around the eyes began to grow in intensity with his horn beginning to glow bright with red, "Why do you defend him!" The sisters began to take dives and twirls to avoid the pillars of crystals shooting toward them. Snarling he stepped forward with a hoof to his heart. "He has taken EVERYTHING FROM ME!"

Both sisters in union made their horns glow with the colors of the celestial bodies, lighting with the power they shot at the crystals, destroying them like paper. The sisters, growing closer, caused Sombra to move slowly with crystals growing underneath him, height slowly growing with each step. "This is justice!"

Destroying shards and crystals Celestia spoke, "This is madness, not justice, soaked with the sins of your rash actions!"

Sombra yelled in anger with his steps becoming more aggressive and faster with each hoof coming closer. "You speak as if blood has not already been spilled! You hide it behind your frivolous laws while I show the horrible truth behind true justice. It is not impartial nor blind, the price is heavy and deadly, not hidden away behind some feign deception of comfort." The princesses swooped around the spirals of crystals and shot their beams together, magic fusing to hit the platform that Sombra was on, before he could react the Crystal floor shattered within seconds right underneath him.

The debris and dust clouded the fall but the Crystal pillars attacking the princesses stopped. The princesses flapped their wings but stayed where they were, everything became still and frozen until a red glow shot from the floor hitting Luna's left-wing, her sister quickly came to aid, slowly helping her land on the floor.

Once they reached the ground they found that from the darkness and dust, came the eyes of their enemy. Glowing brightly as day with his signature colors. "You let him hide behind you when he caused nothing but trouble, causing a rift in dimensions, making a friend out of nowhere to feign a lie. A weak soul trying to salvage what he could in this world." Sombra snarled, "Letting him play with a body of a pony as if nothing were to come with consequences. And for what? Unable to control what was to happen until somepony stepped in, until I stepped in."

The princesses took their swords out with prepared stances as they saw more and more of Sombra's body peak out from the shadows until he was clear in view. "Sowing chaos more than he could handle, and you did nothing but calm worried ponies while clasping your hooves. Pathetic."

Luna looked underneath Sombra to find his shadow slowly shifting form. Black tendrils began to wrap around his back hooves quickly moving up onto his back and then writhing in the air as he stood.

"He deserves true justice, not a mock trial to an already sentenced fate. He played with a life, MY LIFE and he will pay with blood!"

The black tendrils shot towards the princesses, they slashed and dodged but the dark tentacles still came, even when cut they grew back with more ferocity. Celestia began to fly up to get a better range but the dark black appendage kept up while Luna had tried to parry and slow the momentum of her attacker.

Sombra snarled before more tendrils came out of his back as it slowly overwhelmed the princesses, the dark tentacles wrapped around the duo slowly bringing them closer to Sombra until they were just a few inches away from his face.

"I promised a quick death, any last words?" His dark enforcer slowly wrapped tighter around his foes slowly constraining their airways.

Celestia quickly used a spell to focus the sun's rays into a beam and hit Sombra with everything she had. The force of the spell struck Sombra with the noise of disintegration burning around her and her sister. The tentacles burned in contact and let both of them go while burning into the air.

Luna's horn lit with a spell, wrapping a shield around them in a bubble, steadying her breathing in concentration.

Celestia fell to the floor, panting with exhaustion.

"Sister you mustn't use the power of the sun, his clouds of dark magic prevent the recharge of your abilities. And with no moon for me to draw power from, I can't help your side of the battle, we must work together."

Celestia began to find her hooves and slowly lift herself with wings draping. "Yes, you're right."

Both looking upon the debris of mist Luna felt something was off, staring intently with a twitch of the ear leaning forward. "The dust should've settled by now."

Readying her sword and her body she waited. And waited. And waited.

"Sister, can you scan for" before Luna could finish her sentence a vertically spinning red blur broke her spell, pulling her sword horizontally she deflected the weapon upon the loud clash of metal with a forward push. The weapon bounced off into the air slowing down in momentum through the open sky just enough for Luna to see what was just thrown, a red double-headed axe, curved from top to bottom with a sharp-pointed spike on the top.

"Luna watch out!" She turned her head back forward to see Sombra's eyes glowing with a shield strapped around his hoof. Luna quickly realized her opponent's distance and regained her senses with a slash downwards onto the enemy. But Sombra moved his shield to cover his head, a loud clash of metal was the sound of his success in defense whilst sliding down to knock her off her hooves.

With that swift movement, she began to fall forward while Sombra held his hoof out to her face. Luna could barely see small shards of dark crystals slowly building up, her eyes widened as she got closer before a yellow beam hit Sombra to the side leading her to face plant on the ground.

Lifting her head she rubbed her cheek with a hoof, "Did you have to let me fall?"

Celestia was slowly losing her balance before Luna came to her side. "Sister you need to rest, go retreat to the castle with the elements of harmony."

Celestia looked at her with tired eyes, "No! If I leave you will fall and if we are to win we need to work together as you said."

"That was before I realized how much he had dampened your power from earlier. You need to lead Twilight," Luna smiled, "Equestria still needs a leader sister."

"Equestria needs both of us, Luna."

Luna gave out a hollowed laugh, "Sister, we both know that Equestria has done fine with only one."

Celestia's lips trembled with eyes watering, "Please, don't say that Lulu, I need you!"

Luna softly smiled with tears in her eyes, "And Equestria needs you, sister." Her horn began to glow a soft light blue hue. Celestia's eyes widened, "NO-" before she could finish she was surrounded by the blue aura before disappearing.

A dark small laughter snapped Luna out of her sorrowful goodbye, leaving only anger in her heart.

"You will not leave here alive, cretin."

Eyes aglow with a sinister smile moving with the dark mist. "You are all the same and it will all end the same. Royal blood will be spilled along with your pitiful insults for your last dying breathes."

"I may be struck down today but my sister will lead and teach the elements of harmony bearers on how to destroy you."

With a click of his tongue, he lifted his empty hoof to the sky.

Luna eyed the empty hoof with suspicion, "What are you-"

A red blur swooped from the sky to land on his hoof before being twirled with a red aura of magic. Luna instantly recognized the tool to be the same axe she had seen thrown at her. Sombra smiled with a wide grin along with his menacing eyes.

"Today is the day I overcome the night."

The night was peaceful and lulled creatures of all kinds to sleep. But one creature; a deer, couldn't sleep.

She slapped herself trying to get ahold of the situation, "Come on Alice don't panic, don't panic!"

Her wooden cozy home could hold no comfort from the horrible vision she had seen. Her fellow raindeers were asleep with no tremble, no worry of what was to come. For she alone held that power. The power to see the slow inevitably of the future. The horrible truth that fate had been set in place... The conquest of Sombra

Author's Note

A vision... but who was the victim? A damaged person with a misguided look upon life that pretends and tries to play along...

What was taken from another? What was used for their own gain?

Also sorry if these chapters seemed a little less up do quality.