Twilight's yell had been enough to draw the attention of the sudden invaders. Attention that was filled with hate...and an unnatural joy. Morbid joy.

"Finally, we can fight somepony!" the one that had scared the flowerpony said.

"Brother, would you do the honors," she continued.

One of the other attackers, who had been standing farther back stepped forward.

"With pleasure," was all the warning Twilight received, before a hailstorm of cobblestones was sent her way.

She could only just pull up a shield around her and her newfound friends.

Where did Princess Celestia and her sister go?

After the attack seemed to calm down, Rarity took over with the shield. Twilight had to get her friends ready to hopefully use the Elements of Harmony against these attackers.

But then the tallest of the three stepped forwards and blasted Rarity's shield, causing the unicorn pain, based on her expression. So Twilight took over shielding again.

The two that had attacked stepped back, seemingly retreating. Twilight knew that these three likely couldn't break through her shield, so she needed to hold through until Rarity was back to 100% and her new friends were ready.

"Are you ready to give up and die?" the shortest alicorn-the one that hadn't attacked yet-asked.

"Never!" Twilight yelled, shocked at the crass plans of her opposer, "We shall stand up to you and protect Equestria from your twisted ideas! With the power of friendship, we will def-

"Blah blah," was the response,"You think a simple shield can stop us?"

...

Night whispered into her ear, "Do you really think we should waste our energy on them?"

"Night, please. And miss out on this fun? Certainly not!"

...

"Please just give up!" Twilight tried again, "I am sure if the bystander you scared forgives you we could be friends?"

The smallest alicorn, who looked quite bored by now, perked up,"Forgives us? Why should we care if she forgives us? None of us laid a single hoof on her!"

The other alicorns moved closer to her, seemingly worried.

"You deeply terrified the poor darling," Rarity exclaimed, "You and your monstrous brutality could have given poor Rose a heart attack!"

"Monstrous?! We did nothing!"

She started walking towards them, but her siblings held her back.

"Sister, stay calm, try to make mother proud," said one, male alicorn, softly.

"Please sister!" urged the other.

But their apparent sister seemed to already be too enraged for their attempts at stopping her, "NO! Our aunt is the monster! If we do monstrous things, so be it, BUT DO NOT SAY WE ARE MONSTROUS WHEN WE HAVE DONE NOTHING."

The alicorn jumped against her shield and gave it a....headbutt?!

Rainbow Dash asked, "Is she seriously trying to force her way through your shield?" Amused at the thought...

Until she noticed Twilight's strain.

When the shield broke, I levitated up the white unicorn.

Calling me monstrous for no reason?! How dare she! She must feel amazing!

She makes me think of Dave.

But before I could rip her throat out, I was pushed back by a magical blast.

When we recovered, we saw her.

The monster.

The being responsible for our mother's imprisonment and torment.

Our Aunt.

"You," I growled at her.

"I am Princess Celestia!" she stated...or rather, she commanded,"And you will leave my subjects be!"

Celestia, huh? Grand name!

She was a tall white alicorn, about as tall as mother. She had a long, flowing mane. I would say she was majestic if I didn't know of her crimes.

But cowering behind her was a small, blue alicorn. She was helping the white unicorn I was about to finish off.

She cought us in a bubble, that devious b!tch.

"Agh," was all we could yell, as we were lifted up. Her magic was strong, stronger than that of mother, even. She had the power of the sun, and the sun IS larger and stronger than the moon, so it only made sense that she had more power, but wow....she was powerful.

Caught, unable to es-

Escape.

Against my will.

I felt my rage flare to new extremes as I began bashing my head into the shield. Over and over and over again.

"Quickly Twilight!" her mentor said, straining....somehow,"Get you and your friends ready, I doubt I can hold these three for long."

Two of them seemed angry, blasting at the shield.

But one...one of them looked livid! It was a wonder how her cranium stayed hole, with how much she was bashing her head against Celestia's shield. But at that spot, the shield was cracking. CELESTIA'S SHIELD WAS CRACKING.

So they hurried to get into position with the elements.

As soon as they were ready, the shield broke.

And they repeated what they had done to Nightmare Moon. Unleashing a powerful stream of rainbow coloured magic onto the three alicorns. To show them friendship, harmony, and peace. She let her happiness flow into the magic, she let the three feel how happy she was to have her friends.

As they they were going on, she thought she heard a short sharp, "No!"

And as the light faded and they were safely returned to the ground, she saw the changes.

One of them was now a sky-like blue. The other was a chartreuse green.

And the third...

The third seemed to be the same.

Slowly, the unchanged alicorn picked herself up and looked at her siblings.

Then she hunched down, like an animal.

...and hissed at them, before running off.

Luna, followed by a weakened Celestia, ran after her.

How?

As she was running, Eclipse thought over what had just occurred.

They were winning, then their aunt-Celestia was her name-appeared and trapped them. Then her memories became fuzzy, she thinks they escaped. She thinks they were hit with some kind of magic.

That magic...must have been the elements of harmony their mother spoke of.

The relic that Celestia had used to curse their mother.

It showed her images, images of strange beings...like Dave.

That had made her even more mad.

Did she yell "No!" or did she merely imagine that?

She became frustrated once more and blasted a few of the trees. Apparently she was in a forrest now...wait...

She could hear voices. They must be after her.

She had speculated on the elements, that they may corrupt and brainwash a pony. She can't think of the evidence she had for such an event, she couldn't think straight at all with how angry she was.

She runs into a clearing with a castle, and saw a small gap in the ground.

Her siblings looked different, so they must have been changed somehow...they left her behind.

"Agh!"

And where was their mother? Had she left them behind as well?

"Everypony is against me! I have done no wrong!"

She prepared to jump over the small gap in the ground...

But missed horribly. (Note to self, gravity feels very different here.)

She had survived much more, so a small fall won't hurt her either. But she is still very visible within the chasm, so she decides to run into a small cave.

Warm.

A calming warm embraces her. An odd familiar presence.

Then she sees it, the tree of harmony. The truest evil in Equestira, without it, her mother could have never been robed of her purpose.

She wants to destroy it, but every step closer makes her calmer and calmer.

(Maybe I can be at peace?)

Luna searched, like everypony else, where Nightmare Moon's remaining.....her daughter could be. It hurt to think of what atrocities the almost committed, how angry she was, how poor of a mother she was.

Though...was that really her? She really didn't like to think about it, about how terrible she became. That's what made her afraid, thinking about the past, seeing her children. How much could these thoughts really hurt her? Could they bring...that back?

She decided to go looking near the tree of harmony.

It was her hope that she didn't have to be the first to encounter Eclipse, to let somepony else deal with her mistakes. No! Her children were her own, and she would show them love. Love she never truly felt while on the moon...she was so angry then. The elements helped purge that hatred, to make her see that she was as much at fault as her sister, maybe moreso.

That made Luna afraid as well, she and two of her children had been entirely changed by the elements. From the short moments she had with her reformed children, they all had most of their memories, if her's were a bit fuzzy, and most of their personality...but she simply felt more at peace with themselves. She will have to talk to them as well. But Eclipse.

Eclipse seemed to be unchanged by the elements of harmony, an impossibility in on itself. She had not changed, if anything, she had become more aggravated. Somehow she managed to fight off any attempts at soothing her seething hatred. She even made a yelp that sounded like somepony had hurt her.

(Oh, what have we done! Allowing such aggression to fester to such an extent!)

Then she saw it, the tree of harmony.

It was beautiful, having grown during her banishment.

Luna stood in awe before the crystalline being, until she saw her.

Eclipse was lying at the trunk of the, sleeping, smiling as if she was truly happy for once...

Until Luna came closer.

Her eyes shot open and she stood up, "Who are you?!" she shouted, "Leave me be!"

Luna had to be careful, she did not want to aggravate Eclipse.

Calmingly, she said, "Do not worry dear. We art th- your mother," she had barely caught herself on that one. If memory serves, Eclipse hated her manner of speaking.

Eclipse seemed shocked, before narrowing her eyes and looking Luna up and down.

When her eyes went wide again, she spoke, "Mother, you...you are different. Wh- How could you leave us? Did you expect us to be capable of defeating your sister alone!"

"No," admitted Luna, "But we no longer crave this revenge, we have forgiven our sister and have been shown a better way! Please, Eclipse, m-my daughter, come with us and we can promise to help th-you!"

Eclipse took a step back, "Mother, you have changed. I- You have become...weak," Luna flinched, "Do not worry, mother. I will simply have to finish your task alone."

"No!" Luna yelled, "Please, come with us!"

"I will only come with my true mother, the one that isn't weak," she snapped, "Goodbye, Nightmare Moon, 'til we meet again."

Then Eclipse teleported away.

Luna had to find Celestia quickly.

Author's Note

I am worried, I feel like my current writing style reminds me of a book series I recently read. I hope I am not subconsciously copying the style.
Also, this IS the story, but I am not satisfied with the level of writing. I feel like a better author (or an actual author) could actually explore the characters to the depth I envisioned them.