The Sun and The Beast

A thick fog covered the forest floor, the faint glow of the crescent moon didn't cut through the darkness as a raging storm was approaching the island. Hooves crunched on the fallen leaves as she approached what looked to be an abandoned cavern far from Equestria, surrounded by crashing waves and woods of a far away land.

Taking the chance to be so far from her sister. No crown, no personal guards, all alone. She was told that what she's doing was madness, finding the stallion who stole her heart.

Especially when this stallion was none other than Sombra himself.

But it wasn't the Sombra she had banished many moons ago.

The large snow white alicorn shuttered as the cold began to cut through her fur, her feathers fluttered as she entered the cave. Her long horn lit up with magic, creating small orbs of light, illuminating her way inside the dark winding cavern.

Tall stalactites and stalagmites formed on the ceiling and floor, there was a stale stench in the air as the ex princess went further in. For weeks her visions had led her here. For over a thousand moons, she had gotten a good handle of how to go about her visions. It was the reason how she was able to map out Twilight’s destiny to rule, she had a few hits and misses over the years…

She just hoped this wasn’t the case.

Celestia didn’t know how this could happen, how this came to be. She had to know.

Celestia followed a pathway, sounds of water dripped more and more, echoing all over the place, unable to pinpoint where the source came from.

“Come on Celestia…” the alicorn muttered to herself. “This is ridiculous. Maybe what you’ve been seeing were in fact dreams.” After a few moments of not finding what she wanted, she stopped when she came in the middle of a big open area in the caverns..

Her ears drooped. “What was I thinking… he’s not~ EEK!”

Celestia felt shadowy tendrils shot out from all corners of the room, wrapping around her neck, pulling at her both front and back hooves, felt something grab her wings so she wouldn’t fly away, wrapped around her body. There was this tightness around her as she felt like her body was getting crushed. Dark crystals shot from the ground and formed a cage around her. Her horn felt something covering it, preventing her from using her magic.

“How many times must we do this?!” This deep voice snarled from the shadows that sent shivers down the alicorn’s back.

Celestia’s heart began to pound as she heard movements echoing all over her. Her eyes darted all over the place from her cage, trying to find the source but the more she moved, the tighter the tendrils became and it was starting to hurt her.

“How many times must you hunt for me?! I have nothing left to give to you or your sister!” the entire place began to shake as his anger reverberated. “I just want to be left alone!!” The last syllable caused various stalactites to fall, some of the bigger ones crashed mere inches from the ex ruler.

“Sombra, wait, this is not who you think!” Celestia cried out. “It's me!”

Smoke began to rise right in front of her. The smoke grew bigger and bigger until it grew the right height, blood red eyes peeked from the darkness before it dissipated.

Revealing Sombra himself. It was clear all these moons spent wasn’t good to the once proud King of Equestria of his world. Once having neatly slick back hair with the blue streak was now solid black and unruly long. His horn redded and curved, not straight and smooth like before. Even having a full beard and goatee combo, messy and unkempt, wearing a tattered black hooded cloak instead of his royal blues.

These past moons weren’t kind to him.

Sombra snarled, fangs protruding from his lips when seeing Celestia. For a split second he had believed he was seeing his world Celestia, but he then noticed that her mane didn’t have all the colors. It was just pink.

"Sombra, I'm not the Celestia from your world." Celestia whimpered. Trying to get him to see it was her. The tendrils tightened their gasp around her alicorn. Cutting off oxygen from her lungs."You're in my world!"

Sombra stared at the ex princess before his horn glowed red, the whites of his eyes turned green with a purple mist seeping out.

Celestia let out a breathless gasp when the tendrils disappeared but the cage stayed.

The eyes reverted back to somewhat normal.

"Celestia…" Sombra muttered. "How did you find me..?"

Celestia rubbed her throat with her hoof as she gazed at him. All these years have passed, though there was evil in him, Sombra was still as handsome as ever. A bit more worn and rugged but it has its own charm.

Though staring at him, she could not help but think that he looked more like this world's Sombra…

"I've been having visions for weeks." Celestia responded. "Seeing you in them, I couldn't turn them away… "

Sombra grunted.

"It's been the same set of visions, replaying over and over again. Luna didn't want me to go. "

"You shouldn't have come." He growled.

"I came for you." Celestia whimpered. "This right here was one of the things I saw… "

Sombra stared at the alicorn for what seemed to be an eternity, looking menacing and unamused with her. "Foolish girl… "

He then approached the cage, his horn lit up, bringing Celestia up against the gap of the crystal cage. Sombra leans in close to her ear. Feeling breath on her fur brought memories back to the ex princess. Memories that brought her weakness to her legs. Longing for his touch once more.

"If you predicted this, then do you know what will happen next?" His voice echoed low. Being so close to him again, she felt like…

Celestia sat up from her bed with a loud gasp. Hot sweat poured from her brow, her heart pounding against her chest.

It was the middle of the night in the Sister's Estate. A large mansion the sisters bought after they retired from ruling Equestria so they can relax.

But relaxing was the last thing in Celestia's mind.

She quickly turned to her bedside drawer. Using her magic to pull something off from inside, stuck to the ceiling of the drawer inside.

Levitating it over to her was a piece of a mirror shard… the only thing left the Mirror Universe.

The only thing of her Sombra.

Celestia held the shard then in her hooves.

Was it a dream or a vision…?