Dear Princess Celestia

by The_Archivist

Canterlot #004

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"BEGONE CREATURE OF THE NIGHT!" Luna shrieked, a burst of lunar magic shooting through the air, the greyish blue bolt of magic crashed into a similarly sized bolt of scarlet tinted magic, Death Rose stood opposite to Luna with his eyes narrowed, Death Rose bared his teeth and growled softly. "Such a disappointment. The younger sister does more." Death Rose commented, his eyes glimmered with delight as Celestia pulled herself back onto her hooves, the white Alicorn groaned softly as blood seeped down from her head, Luna galloped infront of her sister and glares towards the malevolent Alicorn Prince with her horn blazing. "You will not hurt my sister! Vile beast." Luna replied, her eyes began to shimmer with dazzling lunar power, the energies of the Moon were radiating through her body as she leans forward, Death Rose cackled as Luna's horn crackled with mystical power. "Aww, the Night Princess is trying to be threatening. How cute." Death Rose mocked, his slit pupils shrunk as he chuckled, Luna gasped at the comment and growled softly from the rage burning in her heart, Luna extended her wings and rapidly ascended into the sky allowing her divine power to immediately increase.

"I am Princess Luna, Princess of the Night, Mistress of the Dark. And you will TREMBLE before its might!" Luna commanded, her eyes momentarily flashed a blinding white, then she directs her head down until her horn was pointing directly at Death Rose. "Alright, show me how skilled you are with Dark Magic." Death Rose responded, his horn was blazing with scarlet might, both Alicorns unleashed their own beam of magic that collided in the air between them both, the air was flooded with a shine of red and blue from the collision. "BEGONE! I am the Mistress of the Night! You will NOT best me! I will not allow it!" Luna ordered, her eyes began glowing white yet again, her eyes narrowed as Death Rose chuckled softly, Luna felt her horn beginning to ache from the strain of upholding such a powerful and draining force of magical prowess. "You forget. You are Princess of Night, I'm not the Prince of Night. I'm the Prince of the Darkness." Death Rose simply replied, Luna was left in momentary confusion until she felt a force of physical strength wrap around her back legs, Luna cried out as she was ripped from the air and crashed into the ground with the colliding beams dissipating instantly.

"W-what in...Equestria?..." Luna dizzily questioned, Luna glanced around but froze when she noticed her own shadow, the dark imitation of herself was pulling itself free of its non-existent shackles and standing before her on its hooves, Luna could faintly see through the shadow but it remained present. "Do you like them? I call them Umbrum. Shadow Ponies, they're crafted from the shadows of others. Unfortunately, I can't just make Umbrum, I need shadows to corrupt and infest like a disease. Kinda ironic, don't you think?" Death Rose commented, his eyes narrowed then his horn began to blaze with scarlet magic once again, Death Rose began approaching the tired and drained midnight blue Alicorn laying against the concrete with strained eyes. "I truly expected better, your sister went down fast. But you put up a fight. How heart-breaking that my revenge was so short li-" Death Rose stated, but he was cut off by a beam of solar magic striking his face, Death Rose screamed out as he was rapidly pushed backwards by the fiery yellow beam of sun magic.

"ENOUGH!" Death Rose shrieked, his horn blazed out with his scarlet magic to push the solar beam away, Celestia stood with fiery orange eyes glowing with the fuming power of the sun itself, Death Rose chuckled softly at the royal display of solar power. "Step away from her. Vile creature. I will not allow you to wrought anymore chaos and destruction." Celestia ordered, her horn was beginning to slightly tint yellow at the tint with her magical aura growing more intense, Death Rose was panting softly, then he grinned whilst chuckling at the display of power. "Alright. I'm gonna admit, I didn't see that coming. Maybe I should've expected a little more bite from you." Death Rose stated, his horn was blazed with magic until he dispelled his combative spell to stand up straight, Celestia held her wings out as she glares at the shadowy Alicorn with narrowed but still glowing eyes. "Who. Are. You. And why are you here." Celestia inquired, her voice was stern but softened, her eyes glanced back to look at Luna who was slowly pushing herself back up onto her shaky and cracked hooves, Death Rose just chuckled softly at Celestia's question.

"Who am I? Why am I here?! Are you fucking kidding me!? You don't even remember me?! You're the reason my village was destroyed! You're the reason my family was murdered! And you just forgot?!" Death Rose snarled, his eyes began glowing bright scarlet as he glared towards the White Alicorn, Celestia was left stunned in surprise at unbelievably intense outburst that was enacted by Death Rose from some unspecified amount of emotional baggage. "You...You think I know you?" Celestia inquired, some of her recent fury was extinguished once she asked the question for answers, the question only made Death Rose scowl in unbelievably intense variations of pure rage, Death Rose let out a guttural shriek of pure rage at Celestia's comment. "DO I THINK YOU KNOW ME?! Are you FUCKING kidding me!? You came to my village, over a thousand years ago. Before Sombra was banished and after Discord was petrified. I once lived in that village. The village of the Snow Keepers." Death Rose growled, his rage was slowly growing more and more intense with every passing moment, each time Celestia proved her lack of knowledge of lack of caring to remember only added more fuel to Death Rose's burning hatred.

"The Snow Keepers?...Oh my...You were the little unicorn colt..." Celestia whispered, her eyes widened as her horn slowly reverts itself away from its former blazing power, her eyes followed with this depowering as the ordinary glow began to rapidly dissipate until it was gone entirely. "I wasn't just some unicorn colt. I was the possible student who might've one day proven myself worthy of being in your stupid magic school." Death Rose stated coldly, he had already given up any hope that he'd ever try being enrolled into Celestia's magic school after his village was tarnished, then he unfurled his wings with his eyes growing even more narrow. "Perhaps, but I would never allow someone with this kind of evil to enroll in my school. Twilight was given the chance because I saw her talent and the good in her heart. I wouldn't do the same for you because all you have is hatred and malice in your own heart." Celestia stated coldly, she had already seen this kind of hatred and hypocrisy throughout her millennia of life in Equestria, then she forces her horn to start glowing with dazzling yellow magic. "I would never join the school of somebody as pitiful as you." Death Rose chuckled, his own horn began to blaze with scarlet magic that was emitting sparks of unstable dark magic from the tip of his horn, then he leans forward and grins from purely sadistic glee, Celestia flaps her wings then she shot out a beam of solar magic which was countered by a scarlet beam from Death Rose.

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