Dear Princess Celestia

Celestia descends from above, she lands beside her sister who was glancing down at the grouping of ponies that had begun forming after Luna used her Royal Canterlot Voice to call them, Celestia steps up to the edge of the royal balcony to gaze down upon her subjects with narrowed eyes. "Hopefully, this many ponies will be enough to help in spreading the word if nopony hears me when I'm giving the speech, so I'd suggest covering your ears so you don't accidentally lose your hearing" Celestia advised, her eyes briefly glancing towards Luna who nodded and conjured herself a pair of earmuffs which she placed onto her ears to nullify the sound passing through her eardrums, Celestia on the other hand turns back towards the balcony and slammed her hoofs down onto the concrete beneath her. "PONIES OF CANTERLOT! HEAR ME!" Celestia boomed, her Royal Canterlot Voice echoed throughout the streets of Canterlot with incredible authority and power, her eyes momentarily beginning to glow with dazzling regal power as she unfurled her wings and ascends into the sky above.

"I have summoned you, all of you! To hear me, Equestria is in danger, an infection, a sickness has been discovered. We must instil an immediate quarantine across Canterlot, return to your homes immediately and use your radios to become aware of any further information we might have to give." Celestia commanded, her voice had lost much of its former boom but still retained her stern regal authority, the mass of ponies beneath her were left confused until her wings expanded fully to display her authority. "RETURN! Now." Celestia simply commanded, the order took only a moment to be understood and followed by the mass of ponies, hundreds of stallions, mares, fillies, colts and other ponies rushed away to their homes without a second thought. "Good. Be safe my little ponies." Celestia whispered, then she turns back towards the balcony and descends onto the pristine concrete yet again, Luna dispelled her earmuffs and gallops up to her sister who still seemed saddened. "It will be okay, big sister, with the help of Twilight Sparkle and the power of the Canterlot medical team, we will combat this ailment." Luna offered with a supportive smile, the comment made Celestia nod weakly as she attempted to convince herself that this affliction would be or could be undone with the workings of magic and science.

"You're right. Perhaps I've been spending too much time worrying. We have battled many evils together, this is nothing but another inconvenience." Luna commented, hoping her words would instil some kind of confidence or determination in Celestia, Celestia glanced down to the ground with her eyes narrowed, then she glanced back towards the edge of the balcony with her eyes glimmering. "I hope you are correct, because I am beginning to fear that this time. We might not be getting out of this so easily, we've always won our previous battles because we had help, we had the Elements of Harmony to battle against Discord, then without those. We needed the full might of our Alicorn Magic to battle back Sombra. And then. Sombra's dark influence corrupted you my dear sister, and I needed to battle you away WITH the Elements yet again. And now, we don't have the Elements..." Celestia hopelessly replied, her eyes lowered towards the ground as her confidence began to burn away like water exposed to the sun, Luna walks up beside her sister and unfurls her wings to wrap her left wing around Celestia's back.

"Tia, we don't need the Elements. They're not the source of Harmonic Magic, you know this. They're the conduits, we held their Magic, and now Twilight wields it inside herself just as her friends do." Luna observed, she had studied the Elements prior to her banishment, of course during those days, she had hoped to corrupt them and their harmonic power but now she could understand their capabilities. "Starswirl taught us that the Elements are forged with love and friendship, this infection. It is just a parasite, we're going to stop it, we're going to destroy it and we're going to save our kingdom." Luna ordered, her words were stern yet loving, she narrowed her eyes as Celestia turned to glance at the midnight coloured alicorn beside her, Celestia couldn't help the smile that slowly crept onto her features from the advice and confident speech that Luna had given. "You're right. No point dwelling on the past, we have a kingdom to save, besides. Perhaps Twilight has already figured something out? We haven't heard from her in a short while" Celestia noticed, she hadn't actually realized that her letter to Twilight had been sent hours ago, she had only just realized that the letter being sent would've been answered within only a few minutes considering how by the book Celestia had known Twilight to be.

"I'm sure she's just tending to the ponies in Ponyville, she's probably so busy that she didn't even realized a letter was sent, or she did realize and just hasn't had time to read and respond yet" Luna chuckled, she had known Twilight to be very obsessive and overzealous when it came to certain or most topics, she had already accepted the theory that Twilight was merely distracted with caring for the ponies of the small village. "You're right, I'm probably just being overly concerned, Twilight is one of the most capable ponies I've known, I suppose I've still been holding her too close. Trying to keep her safe even when I've been letting her live her life properly, I guess I still need to move past that kind of terror." Celestia sighed, she had already begun establishing to herself that she had been holding Twilight too close, especially after making Twilight send her letters for the past few years up until she ascended into an Alicorn, she had already feared her actions left Twilight stunted and yet she still couldn't deny that Twilight was better now.

"Of course I'm right, I'm your sister, it's my job to notice these things." Luna replied, she smiled in response as she watched Celestia unfurling her own wings, Luna instinctively pulled her wing away to allow Celestia's wing to extent outwards with Celestia's newly enflamed determination. "Then it's time to stop forcing Twilight and her friends to do these things, we've been making them do it long enough, they've more than proven their capabilities. Now it's time we do the same." Celestia commanded, her voiced boomed through the air with confidence, Luna was momentarily proud but felt her adoration slowly being overtaken by an unexplainable dread slowly beginning to spread down her spine, Luna glanced around at the surroundings for answers only for a scarlet burst of magic to shoot her down to the ground. "What?! Sister!" Celestia shrieked, she galloped beside the hurt but conscious Night Princess, Luna could only groan from the unfamiliar sense of burning pain, Celestia glanced at Luna's side which was burnt from powerful fiery magic that she was unfamiliar with.

"How pitiful. I expected better from the great Princess Luna, I mean, she was transformed into Nightmare Moon? The mare who wanted to drag Equestria into eternal darkness?" A voice mocked, the voice was deep yet soft as it mocked the power and capability of Luna, Celestia growled in response and turned to face the magical menace but felt her own blood freeze when she gazed upon the attacker. "What...No...You..." Celestia stuttered, she had always heard stories of Alicorns elsewhere in Equestria, but she had known only ponies who can be granted the magic of Earth Pony, Pegasi and Unicorn could ascend, yet she stared into the eyes of an Alicorn Prince standing before her. "You? I what? I can't exist? I can't be real?" The Alicorn mocked yet again, his eyes were wide with madness, his teeth were sharpened spikes in his gums, and his royal attire was carved from the same kind of gold as Celestia herself, but the gems that were placed inside were not like any ruby she had ever seen present in Equestria.

"What...What are you..." Celestia blurted out, her eyes were wide and vibrating from the fear that was wracking through her body, she had never truly seen into the eyes of the impossible, even after facing the cosmic power of Discord or the magical draining properties of Tirek, but this Alicorn was truly impossible. "Me? I'm an Alicorn. An Alicorn King. And I'm going to deeply enjoy this one little Sun Princess." The Alicorn chuckled, his shadow black horn was shrouded with a crimson red aura of great magic, his eyes began to glow with the same level of dark and malevolent power that left Celestia stepping away. "No...No Alicorns should exist aside from me, my sister and the others...How are you...Who are you?!" Celestia blurted out yet again, her eyes began to glimmer with solar magic, but her horn was incapable of sustaining any spell while she was so terrified at the impossible yet very real Alicorn Prince that was standing before her with his horn blazing with unknowably dark magic. "Me? I'm someone you left behind. Somebody who you tried to push under the cosmic rug. And now? I'm taking some revenge for my home. And you can call me. Death Rose." The Darker Alicorn replied, his eyes narrowed from sadistic glee at the level of fear he could practically taste from the horrified White Alicorn, her eyes grew wider when she heard the words he spoke then she saw nothing but black after yet another powerful burst of scarlet magic.