ch. 2 End of Choice

Twilight continued to shout out as her mind was kept being blasted by the voice. So much pain, that she felt like she was losing who she was, until she felt a warm aura around her mind.

“She shall not fall to you, fallen one!”

Twilight opened her eyes and found herself being held in the air by Luna magic, as she blocked off the infected with her night aura.

“Twilight you finally awaken!” smiled Luna as she set the unicorn down and started to fire her magic beams at the machine that was affecting the crystal, sadly though, the infected kept blocking the attack with their bodies “Twilight Sparkle! Hurry and help me take out the machine!”

Twilight nodded as she too started to fire her magic at the machine but like before, the infected got in the way of the attacks.

“Foolish! Your choices won’t matter!” laughed the voice as it sent more infected at them, until they were able to push through Luna’s aura and consumed them with their bodies.

Twilight closed her eyes and once again, she could hear the crying filly...she could feel her pain...her sadness...her lost of something...Twilight could feel something within her growing “NO!” screamed Twilight as she fired off a powerful rainbow beam from her horn, as her cutie mark was glowing brightly, that it pushed off the infected from her and Luna’s bodies.
The beam blasted through the infected and hitting into the machine with great force, that it left nothing behind but smoke. As the smoke cleared, Twilight could see the machine was no more...but to dismay, she could see the crystal was destroyed as well and standing in front of them, was a dark shadowy figure with burning red eyes. With no time to react, Twilight watched as the figure leap towards in great speed, but lucky for her, Luna stepped in and took the figure tackle.

In front of her, Twilight watched in horror as the figure consumed the princess and slowly form into something that looked like Nightmare Moon but still keeping the burning red eyes.

“Princess!?” cried Twilight as she backed away as Nightmare stepped towards.

“The Shadow Walker now knows no will and choice but mine!” laughed the voice.

“Princess! You must resist it!” yelled Twilight as she backed up against a wall.

“There is no Shadow Walker, no Luna as you called her. There is only...ME!” roar Nightmare as the temple started to shake with great fury.

Twilight duck and started to panic, was this her end?

“Twilight!”

Twilight and Nightmare looked up and saw Armor and the two crystal knight ponies in a tunnel vent above them. All three ponies jumped down and started to push back the remaining infected, while Armor reach out to his sister.

“Twilight, teleport out of here!” ordered Armor as he blocked an attack from an infected Pegasus “Head back to the empire and tell everypony what happened here!”

“What about you?” questioned Twilight as she saw her brother create a magical shield and sword “I can’t leave you!”

Armor turned to her and smiled “Twilight, I’ll be fine...just go!”

Twilight eyes started to fill up with tears as she nodded and teleported to the tunnel vent system and dash off back to the outside. Armor smiled soon faded as he and his last remaining knights faced the infected and Nightmare.

“Foolish little ones, you shall fall here by my choice!” smiled Nightmare as the infected bodies started to turn pure black.

Armor dash toward Nightmare with his weapon and shouted “My choices are my own!”

Before the strike could land, Nightmare and the rest of the infected body shot out dark magical aura and filled the chamber with it.

“GAZE UPON THE END OF THIS WORLD! THE CYCLE WILL FINALLY END...for...her…”

With her teleport speed, Twilight was not only able to exit the temple but also land on the outskirts. She turned back and watched as the temple being consumed by a dark magical aura. Soon, she could see millions of burning red eyes as they slowly march forward. With no time to waste, Twilight teleported hop away back to the crystal empire as the night sky slowly turned dark.

“There is only one choice in this universe and it’s mine…”

to be continued in Ponycraft: Loyalty to the Past

Author's Note

Felt he rush this and just wanted to get it done,right?