A Darkness Lurks Part 3

          "This cannot be good" Twilight had uttered those words a hundred times while reading the last few lines.And she was right.

          A surge of magic erupted from the statue.It was hot and bright as the Sun itself,hotter even.Celestia's eyes roled back and her eyes began to glow.Her once beautiful pink mane turned violent shades of red.Her skin made an awful cracking sound as her body began to go limp.Then her white coat began to turn darker from her hooves up.Cracks of lava began to break Celestia's body.But she stood intact.Celestia cried out in agony again and again.Luna could only watch."Tia I'm coming!" Celestia spat up blood in a attempt to keep her sister away. Luna galloped to her elder sister,using her wings to streamline her body.a circle of flames formed around her sister's body. Luna stopped before the flames as they connected.Luna had to think quickly.Luna leapt through the fire and embraced her sister. Celestia tried to stop her, but again spit up more blood,she would embrace her sister back but she was already burning Luna. "Tia, please don't leave me! your the only one I have left" the flames died down and Celestia's body return into it's normal form, she was bruised battered, burnt a bit too, her beautiful mane and tail were burnt in some areas an normalish in others. Blood had covered Celestia's chin and apart of her chest, her hair was also much shorter. Luna's body was a bit dirty and burnt, but overall in better shape than her elder sister. "I promised you I wouldn't, remember" Tears filled up the sisters eyes, and they began to cry as the Sun came up. They thought the night would never end.Two dark figures speed towards them, Celestia immediately jumped in front of Luna and got in a fighting stance. As the two figures landed another figure was with them.Celestia loosened up a  bit when she found out who it was. It was her mother and father.Celestia expected that she would be banished, or never allowed to see Luna again. But instead, One of the Figures stepped forward, and hugged both of them.StarSwirl was with them, her hda most likely come to identify what happened."Thou hast done wrong my dearest children" I think we should kill him.He called you "dearest" we both know you're not though. You father is not a very good liar, so destroy him Celestia flailed and went limp again Oh, my bad, your sister messed up our connection when she did that oh so brave move. foolish if you ask me Celestia said something that probably would have got her flogged if none of them noticed her eyes became that of a snake when she said that."Princess Celestia are you ok?" her mother gasped when she said that word.Celestia hid her face in her hair when she finally got up, she could barely walk, let alone fly.Luna got on her sister's back,their father tried to stop her but Celestia told him "it's ok, I did burn her a bit after all, I also gave all of you a fright".Their parents looked concerned, which they were, but also confused,that beast is said to swallow any mind in it's way, breaking it's host body into insanity Queen Galaxia thought quietly.that's when Auroria appeared out from behind the bushes,"Are you mad! you did not see what that thing became, She's a monster!" Tears filled Celestia eyes, she tried to hold them in, but those words really stung Celestia's heart,"Auroria,how-how could you?" Celestia cried, "yeah, go cry me a river BEAST" That's when Luna jumped off her sister and landed in front of Auroria,"You have no right to call my amazing sister a beast, you are the beast, constantly picking on others just because you think your better them then?!?! well I have something new for you, YOU'RE NOT, in fact you're just as good as everyone else!".Auroria is bigger than Luna, a little shorter than Celestia, but somehow, Luna, the tinier one, managed to defend not only her pride, but also Celestia's."Also Celestia is not a beast, she is one of the Kindest ponies I know!" StarSwirl pointed out  as he stepped forward to defend his student.StarSwirl was an old stallion but still a strong one."young lady,leave your sisters alone. They have through a lot last night, I don't think they need anymore." Auroria lifted off the ground and flew towards the castle. Celestia sniffed a bit and continued walking.

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Twilight sighed,"so, his is what they were talking about, but this is in the Night Mare Moon section...wrong book?" Twilight checked the books cover and still could not find out where it belonged,"now, where do you go..." magically the book lifted into the air and then into it's place,who did that? Twilight looked around and saw no one.Twilight looked at the time and realized she had been reading for awhile.she walked through the shelves into the door in which she came, wrote her name down, the book she got, where she got it and why she was getting in it in a small log book on the counter, the doors opened and she left.

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Twilight walked back to the Castle to find Celestia and Luna not there, the a court adviser had told them they went to lower the sun and raise the moon.Twilight left to the Balcony to find that Luna had just raised to moon. "oh Twilight, are you, you look fatigued". Luna said to Twilight as she  walked by her sister "Fire-StarSwirl-Sun-moon-" Twilight fell over and her eyes spun "you got to chapter 3 did you not?" Luna asked as she helped Twilight up.Celestia looked over at the horizon and heard the voice again, thankfully it was quiet Ooo! i have an idea.Why not kill them? your sister still have that thing inside of her, and you very well know now that your faithful student has this power, you know that certain being will go after it" I know that very well Akikilr" Celestia whispered to herself, while Luna had the "luxury" of being able to talk to NightMare Moon with her mind, Celestia did not because of Luna hugging her, but if she had not, Celestia would have been fully consumed.

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After a week of healing,Celestia could still hear the voice.It began becoming clearer with every time she ignored it, but not too loud, because if it was too loud,it would kill her, and Akikilr with her.Years passed, their parents left them to rule Equestria, and many tainted ones were defeated.But little did they know, both of them were tainted.Luna had slowly become envious of her sister,ponies of all shapes sizes and groups came to give thanks to her day, ponies did admire Luna's night, in fact the night before they had a celebration for her night, Ponies admired her night just as much as Celestia's day, but Akikilr had slowly influenced the thought that no one cared about her. that's the Day it happened. It was around sunrise, the time Luna lowered the Moon to make way for the dawn. But this time was different. "Sister! how are you?" Celestia smiled widely as she saw her little sister standing there, but Luna did not smile back, in fact she glared,"is something wrong sister? was it when I spilled tea on you last night? I told you I was sorry" Celestia frowned a bit."sister. You will not be raising the Sun today." "Luna what are you talking about", "Celestia don't you see? the ponies of our kingdom care nothing of me nor my night" "they care,we had a celebration all over Equestria last night to celebrate you and your night! I even let you have more night so the ponies could celebrate it. remember?" "I do remember, but no one really liked, they just did what they were told" "it was the public's choice to celebrate, no pony had to" Luna grunted.Celestia tried to reason with Luna, but to no avail. Again and again Celestia tried to reason with her little sister, but she would not. An hour passed and whispers of Celestia weakening, they hit her ears in a short amount of time when in the Court a small group of starry unicorns walked up to her and told her they'd be happy to help her raise the Sun."I can raise Sun by myself, I appreciate the help-but i'm fine" Celestia smiled warmly as she answered."oh well it's noon and we're starting to get worried, the farmers said that if the Sun doesn't rise soon, their crops will suffer" Luna smirked and shuffled through her papers,Celestia thought to herself I'll just remind her that's it's way to late, and she'll let me raze the Sun "um, Luna sister,It's noon and the Sun has not risen" "I know that" "so-?" Luna ignored Celestia's last hint and stormed out of the Court room with her Lunar guards in tow"Terribly sorry, she's just in a bad mood" Celestia chased after her sister down the hallways and corridors to the Balcony,oh, so she is lowering the moon, thank goodness but what she found shocked her to her very core. The figure she found was not Luna.It was a tall ebony Alicorn, a blue flowing mane came from a blue helmet of sorts, she wore some other garments. A cutie mark that looked almost exactly like her sisters."my dearest sister." the Alicorn said in voice not her sisters,"Lu-Luna?" Celestia's voice said in barely a whisper, her body trembled at the kind of magic she felt coming from it."your-your not my sister!-what did you do with her!" Celestia's eyes narrowed a bit but she was still scared."I am Luna, just not her-her I am her envy of you, I was brought about because the ponies of this world do not care for the night" Celestia had not noticed, but the Unicorn that spoke to her just a minute ago came from the shadows "What are you talking about? I-I love the night. It gives me time to look at the stars, and calm down and relax from a day's work" the Unicorn stood behind Celestia but before the Unicorn could move a dark bolt of lightning struck it dead, it pierced the unicorn's throat. Blood poured from the wound, but as the Dark Alicorn picked up the seemingly life less body, the unicorn gurgled "I am loyal to Luna and Luna only.You are  a beast, I do not regret anything" Before Celestia could stop the Dark mare, she decapitated the Unicorn with it's mane, it's lifeless body fell as the dark mare dropped it. Celestia looked in horror at the mangled body, it's cutie mark was actually a moon behind some clouds,But the dark mare cared not for this, she just looked down at it's body with a smile."your not Luna!  your not your not your not!" "stop that foolish child, it's annoying." Celestia was grasped by it's mane and and held in front of it's face, the guards behind it snickered and sneered. "so This is the great Celestia? what a weak creature. wait-there is something strange about you..." The Dark Mare turned Celestia upside down and spun her around, examining her body."oh.I see what you are now.beast" "what are you talking about! I am an Alicorn, sister of Luna and...AUroria, daughter of Galaxia and Nebulis!" "don't talk to me like your better. Your as much  as a freak as me inside" "YOU ARE NOT LUNA" Celestia's mane erupted into flames and the Dark mare dropped her, some of her Guards snickered and said;"Ooo she's got a temper to match!" the flames died down and her pink mane returned,"I expected that from you Akikilr" Celestia's stance and body numbed at the sound of that name "ho-how do you know that!?!" Celestia began to tremble again  and The dark mare walked over to her "It's easy to tell when a weakling like you just gets some strength out of no where,where it came from with a power control as sloppy as his".  Celestia's eyes became that of a snake again, but narrowed and still blue."oh so you've figured out how to work with her Akikilr? I can understand why though, if she dies so do you!" The dark mare broke out into insane laughter. Celestia smirked and the guards became as confused as the mare that commanded them.Then they noticed her eyes "I guess he tried to swallow you up like the others.But dear little Luna stopped him through his process and now hes trapped you-I could help you know" "I WILL NEVER LET YOU HELP HER!" Celestia spat up a bit of blood and Akikilr lost connection, "Luna-I'm sorry" Celestia began to weep as she fell down on her knees."I'll find a way to help you-I promise" "Beast of Night. I surrender.But do not hurt the citizens-I allow you to do anything to me in return, just please,leave our people alone" The Dark mare smirked "You should know my name before your punishment...It is NightMare Moon" NightMare Moon triumphantly Flew up into the air with her guards and shouted "From this night fourth,The Shall last...FOREVER and her guards cheered  with "all hail the new queen!" "hail NightMare Moon!". Later that day-night I should say around afternoon market time, Celestia was beat and hour latter she was whipped, an hour after that she was beat again. Battered and bruised her own guards were forced to tie ropes around her along withe night guards. The solar guards cried while their once great Princess had been reduced to a weak mare. The night guards had more fun with it though. As an act of humiliation, she was led by the ropes around Canterlot. Some ponies laughed and scoffed at her, while most cried, one filly ran out and hugged her,but a night guards pushed him back into the crowd that had gathered as Celestia trudged through the streets. I'm sorry Luna, I wish I could do more but-I need to think, please understand that I love you! but I must find a way to protect you! If I kill her...I kill you Celestia quietly wept as she was led through the streets. Finley, they untied her. "Celestia of Equestria, I hereby strip you of your title as princess and banish you to the Everfree forest" NightMare Moon uttered without much care "I doubt we'll see each other ever again." and that was it. Her guards had tears in their eyes as she looked back one last time before she continued to stumble through the forest.