Banishment Part 11

"The time I feared most is near, the time when Celestia lost herself- but this is even worse than I Imagined"

-Levier Aldona

Twilight woke up with smoke in the air. She immediately screamed and feared Celestia had went 'Solar' and attacked the castle. "Twilight! what's wrong!?!" Rainbow Dash flew through the door, "Sorry, Applejack and I forgot about the toast- we kinda burnt it" a hiss came from the kitchen, "Darn it Pinkie! we didn't need the fire extinguisher!" AppleJack's muffled voice came through the foam that seeps through the door, "Sorry!" Pinkie Pie's equally muffled voice came through. Rainbow Dash looked over at Twilight and blushed a bit. Twilight looked by her side to find FlutterShy snuggling up to Twilight's wing. When Twilight attempted to remove FlutterShy from her wing, The yellow pegasus held on tighter and mumbled, "Angel . . . Stay right here mister. . . we need to get carrots. . ." Twilight blushed brightly and eventually had AppleJack and Rainbow Dash pry FlutterShy from Twilight's krinkled wing. AFter some preening and breakfast with the rest of her friends, Twilight got back to reading. "Twilight, are you sure you want to continue this?" AppleJack had unwillingly asked her this, it was not that she did not care, but was afraid of what Twilight might find. "Yes, this book hold the only information that could help her. We need to know what happened after Auroria came to talk it out with them." "Who in the hay is Auroria?" AppleJack looked down and then at the rest of her friends, "Well, I guess we should leave her to it" They walked out of the quiet room, the clicking of tendons and tapping of hooves on the floor. The clicks and taps grew distant, Twilight waved and they left, the smile on her face moments earlier faded and she picked up the book, only to find a note on it,

Twilight-

What you shall find my or may not terrify you,

But please, just Please realize that

Celestia is not a monster

nor is Luna

Akikilr has Twisted both of them

But they are kind and loving ponies

I know that, so please

Don't blame them

Blame me,

It's all my fault.

Twilight didn't know who wrote it, The note however did not help her feel better though, not that it was meant to. She turned to where she left off, her feather marking her exact place.

Celestia limped inside the first plane. Her equine soul case had a crack in, It seemed to pour energy from it. The energy went from a calm yellow color to a violent red, and then disappeared. Akikilr was sucking up her strength so she would not be able to stop him. But she had a plan. Moments before her soul case cracked and Akikilr fed off of her, she sent a message to Luna. It was a plan. "Celestia- how will that work?, Akikilr will know if we get close to each other!" Celestia panted and then sent another message "Remember when we snuck into the vault? " "yeah." " I'll distract him, and you'll run this way, then we can form a spell together strong enough to hold him off, we'll regain control of our bodies and we can seal him away" "but sister... Akikilir is bounded to you soul, if we seal him back in the statute. . . you'll be stuck there too-" "Luna... I know that- but I can fight him! I will escape it! I promise, as soon as this is all over, I'll escape, we need to use the elements, but you have to fight NightMare!" "Ok, but you better come back Tia! if you're not back after a week I'm going in there myself!". Luna raced for what seemed like forever in the first plane, but truly an hour there was only a minute or so in Equestria. Celestia sent up a beacon spell hoping Luna would see it. Luna saw a far off bright flash and changed directions towards it, "Oh yeah I have wings" Luna hit herself in the face and her wings unfolded and she flew. But eventually she remembered she had to be 'sneaky' and slunk down. Celestia waved her over. Luna walked slowly, but then faster and faster until she was in a full on run. Tears filled her eyes and she jumped into the loving embrace of her sister. "What!?! NO!?! CELESTIA STOP THIS NOW!" Akikilr leapt towards them, But bounced off, A soft pink bubble had formed around them The beats tried to get up, but it was quickly weakening from what energy it stole was given back to both Luna and Celestia. Akikilr became weaker and weaker, his normally muscular figure became a small skinny husk. As he tried to get up, but the more he tried the faster his lower half turned to stone "Wha-What are you doing! CELESTIA!!!" Celestia and Luna let go of each other and both said, "What we should have done long ago" Akikilr chuckled a bit, then laughed, but it was methodical. 'I may not be able to destroy Celestia, but I can destroy something much more... Important" A beam of Red light shot towards Luna, Celestia tried to block it, but she was too late. A purple vortex sucked Luna in and she disappeared. "Luna!" Celestia pulled on her sister's hooves but was thrown backwards by the energy emitted from the vortex. The vortex closed as suddenly as it appeared. "AKIKILR!" Celestia yelled at the creature, but he was not there. Celestia spat out evil curses, but to no avail. Calm down Celestia, He wants you to get mad, I can't let him take over again Celestia returned to the real world to find Auroria's mangled body laying on the ground next to where they were standing only moments before. She expected to see fire somewhere. Instead though she found shards of black crystals- they were lodged in the ground, in the walls,  trees, but also in Auroria's shoulder. "Auroria!" Celestia ran towards her, crimson blood gushed from the wound, Carefully Celestia pulled out the largest shard, but quickly found out that there were possibly hundreds of tinier ones still in the gaping wound. "Auroria, your gonna be fine-" "Celestia.  .  . I'm sorry- you need. . . to get the Elements of Harmony.  .  . and stop- HER!" Auroria fainted and whispered "It's ok, I'll be fine. . ." Celestia bandaged up Auroria,It's not very good, but it'll do, Celestia tied up the bandage, got up and ran towards the castle where the elements were kept. She arrived to find six stond arbs, each representing apart of friendship; Kindness,Loyalty,Mirth, Forthright, and Altruism, the one in the middle represented Magic. He horn lit up and the orbs rose into the air, only to have a large crystal shard to destroy them. Celestia gazed at the pieces of stone that she thought she needed. A dark laughter came from the shadows, "so my little filly, come to take back the sun?" Celestia's wing fell by her sides. It's hopeless.  .  . It's all over Celestia had tasted defeat plenty of times before, but this was far more crushing than any other battle she has lost. Whether it was because she had felt like she failed everyone she had ever loved, or she had failed herself, but most of all Luna. But something began to burn inside her, something nothing could ever take away. The shards that were left from the elements began to raise. "I made a promise to two of the most important ponies I have ever met,. I will not become a monster, not like you, I will save Luna!" Celestia charged NightMare Moon, as the two ran towards each other, thoughts raced through Celestia's head, Luna, if you can hear me, use your elements. Mirth, Fourth Wright and Magic! I will use mine as well! we can fight this! Celestia's plea did not fall on deaf ears, Luna heard her used her memories to separate herself from NightMare. Celestia rose up into the air, her eyes glowed as bright as the stars. The rainbow from her mane coiled around her then shot towards NightMare Moon. "What are you doing! NOOOOOOOOOO" gleaming white cracks peared through NightMare Moon's skin, Celestia pushed them towards the moon at increasingly faster rates, after only five minutes of flying Celestia had pulled off nine sonic rainbooms. The earth shook beneath them, Skin cracked and then broke off, then more began to peel off and Rainbows pulled them off. "Ta, why are you hurting me?" It was a pitiful voice, scared and alone sounding. Luna was in front of she Celestia froze in fear but she was going to fast to stop. A hoof though pushed with her along, helping push Luna towards the Moon. It was Levier, "Lev-Levier" The green mare smiled and then pointed back to NightMare Moon who had played another trick on Celestia who pushed harder after this, but then Luna was actually was revealed, she was calm. But she was crying

They pushed forward to the Moon. Luna was unconscious, her body was battered and bruised. Celestia laid her down gently. Luna opened her eyes as the Rainbows began to come back to Celestia, "tia- promise me you'll come back" "I promise Luna, I will come back" Levier stood on a few feet away. After a long group hug. Levier sung Luna a lullaby, the one she sang to Celestia and Luna so many years ago. Luna would sleep for however long, but would most likely wake up on the moon with no recollection of what had happened in the past few months.

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Celestia let go of her sister, she tried to fly back but she was too weak to get there on her own, so Levier carried her back. "Levier... I'm sorry I- I failed you" Celestia wept, but Levier's soft feathers comforted her. They wept together, over Luna, over the time they had not seen each other, and over all the things they felt they had done wrong. "Celestia, it's not your fault, I promise you" But kind words would not help Celestia now, all she really wanted was Luna.