Realium

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Realium

By Deathstrike666

Prologue - ∞

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‘I was betrayed,’ thought Luna, ‘Betrayed.’

“Telepathic link to Celestia is down,” said Deathstrike, telepathically to Luna, “Interference, maybe... I-I can’t be sure. There is too many of them. I’m pulling back. What should we do princess? Princess?”

His voice was half muffled by the distant sounds of magical blasts and gun fire, getting closer and closer.

“Are you there? Princess Luna?”

Luna does not reply, instead concentrating on keeping her sword pressed up against the Alicorn’s neck.

“What is stopping me from killing you now, Realium?" Luna said to the Alicorn, staring deeply into his green eyes.

“I can save both of us," said Realium returning the stare, “And your guards. She lied to you, all of you. She has murdered both of us. She knew exactly what would happen, she has always known”.

Luna looked up to see, to her horror, Spike laughing. Luna’s sword starts shaking. If Spike knew that this was going to happen, then the whole mission was a lie. She tries to regain her thoughts but the sounds of magical blasts and gunfire were too loud for her to handle. Luna knew that the griffons don’t have magical powers; she had to accept the truth, the magical bombardment had begun.

Luna’s mind was slipping. The temporal distortion had reached the chamber and was scratching her mind like blades on metal. She couldn’t be sure what was happening now and what was happening then. Currently Luna had her sword against Realium’s neck and simultaneously leading her guards through the ruined castle, but she knew that had already happened. Luna stares deeper into Realium’s eyes.

“Telepathic link to Celestia is down,” said Deathstrike, telepathically, to Luna, “Interference, maybe... I-I can’t be sure. There is too many of them. I’m pulling back. What should we do princess? Princess?”

Luna cursed to herself and looked to Spike them back to Realium.

Time is collapsing. How many times did she hear the same message, over and over again? Am I, the one and only Princess of the Night, going crazy?

“I Won’t let you live!”, snapped Luna, “You’re an abomination to all ponykind!”.

“He has wronged us both”, replied Realium pointing to Spike, “Why should we accept our fates. We are a select few. We both have power. Great power. Why should we let others make our final decisions?”.

Luna shook her head, which was starting to fill with doubt. Killing him meant failure, but what other option did she have, they were all going to die anyway.

“Behold the power of Celestia!”, yelled Spike over the sounds of approaching gunfire and magical blasts, “You’re a fool, Luna. All this death lies on your head. Did you ever think that Celestia would ev-”

Luna silenced him with a quick slash of her blade, through his neck. Spike’s head stayed there for a second before it fell to the floor. This was slowly followed by the rest of his body crumpling onto the ground. His legs gave a small spasm in the quickly spreading pool of blood before he became utterly motionless. Luna returned her concentration back to Realium.

“You’re... a... MONSTER!”, said Luna shouting the last word.

“What does that make you, Alicorn?”, said Realuim with Spike’s blood over the left of his face but he still maintained a low defiant voice.

The sounds were growing all around her: Deathstrike’s despite request for orders, the groaning earth, griffon gunfire, magical blasts. But one thing that stood out from this was Luna’s doubt. ‘How and why would Celestia trick me?’ As the question starts to torment Luna, her doubt turns to rage, a dark rage, ‘Not even my own sister believes in me, didn’t believe in my armies. Me and my guards have been sent to our deaths. Probably the best course of action was to listen to Realium?’

“I will prove you wrong, Celestia," said Luna slowly backing away from Realium, “I will make you pay!”

Luna looked around the chamber and then back to Realium, who was still lying on the ground.

“Save us then,” ordered Luna

Realium just nodded and his horn starts glowing a dark gray. Out from his horn a magical dome starts spreading outwards, faster and faster, until a few minutes later, the dome covered the entirety of Equestria. As suddenly as it started, the dome imploded on itself.

The Princess of the Night woke up, with a satisfied smirk. Luna, though, was no where to be found.

“Yes, yes, we are finally free!" said Nightmare Moon picking herself up from the ground.

“After a thousand years of being on the moon, we will make thou pay, Celestia. MUHAHAHA!”

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