Chapter 6: Searing Light

Second to last chapter and we get the confrontation with Solar Flare!

Enjoy the chapter!

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She had mentally prepared herself for the moment she had come across her neglected castle, no longer in the state it had been a thousand years ago. Vines had taken root and curled up around the pillars and up the windows, mosses and lichen had nested on many of the statues and many weeds poked out through the cracks in the floor tiles. While the library and a good portion of the walls and staircases had remained intact and in surprisingly good shape, many of the walls and ceilings had large chunks out of it an the windows were mostly, if not entirely, cracked and shattered.

It brought a grin to her darkened face at the sight of them, remembering how a thousand years ago the castle had been a battleground for her and her enemy to fight upon. It had not mattered that the structure had broken apart, as long as she had beaten her. Of course though, she had failed at defeating her and was banished to the moon because of it, but she would not fail now.

The ponies came into the hallway and took down each of the stones for the Elements of Harmony off the pedestal they were on. As she slinked undetected behind a pillar, her form narrowed at the sight of it all. The Elements of Harmony were key to her downfall, yet as of now there were only five of the six present here, and judging by the thin layer of dust and dirt they had accumulated over the years it was obvious they had not been used over the multitude of years since her exile.

Still, five or six total, old or new, they would still be dangerous if the unicorn succeeded in bringing forth the last one. Even with one missing it would be best to destroy them before any chance of conjuring up the last to ensure her safety at winning. The unicorn had laid down and her head was bowed over the five while her horn was lit up, preparing to cast a magic spell. The other five had walked away, giving her the silence she needed to focus. The choice they had made which would now lead to their downfall and her supreme victory over all.

While her eyes were closed tightly as she concentrated, her smokey form came streaming towards her. She began swirling around the five, spherical stones with angular markings on them. Swiftly, they began to turn around with the rapidly moving force and began to lift up from the ground in a fiery twister. The unicorn beside her suddenly opened her eyes and lifted her head, gasping in horror once she saw the Elements were flying away from her grasp.

The other ponies called out her name worriedly once they two saw from the outside the tornado growing bigger. They tried to rush to her aid, but it was too late for them. Though as just as she meant to teleport herself and the Elements away from here, the unicorn jumped into the midst and disappeared along with it all too.

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It was another tower of the once proud caste they had appeared in. It was originally used as a observatory from the large window she was standing behind, but all furniture and other items in the room had long since removed.

One the other side of the long room, the unicorn had teleported, coughing from the fiery twister's pull of air away from her and the smoke it gave off. In just a few second she had regained her breath, turning towards her in all her majestic, light-shedding glory. The hole in the ceiling brought forth the sunlight and accented her form. She stood stoically on the platform, looking down proudly and disdainfully around the room. In the tendrils of her mane, she held each of the Elements the unicorn was trying to activate. Her throat opened to let out a cackle at the stunned silent look of the pony.

To her surprise, she suddenly came up to her feet, instinctively lowering her head while her focus never left her face. Her front hoof lifted up before slamming down, pawing the ground in an action indicating her intentions. Her mouth quirked in disgust at the unicorn's stubbornness and inability to stay down and yield.

"You're kidding. You're kidding right," she asked, narrowing her eyes at her. The unicorn didn't reply, but continued her scraping the ground.

A spark of light came up from her horn, a bright glow of very light pink magic. In an instant, she began charging towards her at a full on run. Her reaction was shocked at her determination, but her thoughts quickly reacted as they imagined how desirable it would be see her pinned to the ground and staring up in her in awe and fear. Who would she be to deny such a lovely, horrible thought to become a reality?

As she continued charging, she quickly placed down the Elements behind her before charging as well. Her legs were longer and had more experience, meaning she was getting closer to her faster. She thought for sure that the unicorn would now waver in her intention and come to a screeching halt, but still she continued, her horn glowing brighter and brighter.

Suddenly, right before they met at the middle, a large orb of light appeared and encased her entire form. Right before she could jab her front legs painfully into the unicorn, she had vanished. She quickly came to a stop, looking behind her past all the remaining magic sparkles to the platform where the Elements there sat unguarded. Instantly, another magic sphere appeared and popped, revealing the pony. Her head bowed in front, focusing to re-attempt to create the spark.

Solar Flare's mane quickly swept over her body, trading from physical to its smoky form. She transformed into a spiraling disc, quickly making to the platform where she appeared right before her enemy and in the center of the five spheres that had a magical aura around each of the spheres. A small, glinting sparkle came from her horn, touching the aura as it fell and suddenly sending back a magical current back at its owner, crackling as it met her. The unicorn cried out in pain and surprise as she was suddenly thrust backwards as the spheres started generating their own currents.

"No," she cried out, lifting her hooves up in fear as the Elements were powering with energy. Her fur stilled on end, anticipating as the static rose. Her goals, once again tp be taken down by these ancient relics.

Her eyes had shut as she awaited her doom, but widened in shock and disbelief as she suddenly looked down and saw that the Elements had suddenly died down and lay dormant around her. In an instant, a feeling of relief came over her, followed swiftly by the feelings of wrath and anger. She heard the unicorn gasp in disbelief as her foe reared up and slammed her hooves down in the midst of the five useless stones. The force of the impact sent through the rock's cores and she smirked in sadistical joy as they shattered into shards and fell pathetically on the floor. While the pony was still shell shocked, she made her grand speech of victory.

"You little fool. Thinking you could defeat me. All your goals, all your hopes shattered like the so called Elements of Harmony you see before you. Did you really believe you could win? Win against me? Ha! You shall never again see your pathetic princess, or your precious night either. The day, the era of everlasting light will last for all eternity!"

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As the shards of the broken stones suddenly glowed and lifted up each at their own accord as each of the Element bearers were called, her form tensed and she felt fear flow like a river of ice water through her veins. As each of them swirled around their called pony, she felt all her previous bravery and power drain from her body. As the last Element was called and brought forth in a burst of light rivaling the sun itself, she knew she had lost entirely.

Still, even as she steeled herself for the fate she would not come out of, that did not stop her from screaming and rearing as the Elements combined and the rainbow shot out before swirling around and encased her in it's colorful glow.

The last thing she recalled before the light overtook her completely and she lost consciousness was the disappearance of the sun from its place in the sky through the hole in the ceiling, replaced with its paler glowing opposite and the deep indigo of night.

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Her eyelids fluttered before they opened, revealing two magenta, slitted orbs that widened further in shock. In what once the castle was now what appeared to be a glowing, deep blue tube. In the background surrounding her were tiny, gently glowing dots, some bigger, some small, but all like little pinpricks of white deeply contrasting against the blue. She shuddered in fear as she was floating inside a realm of a night sky.

She gasped suddenly as she looked before her and realized she was not alone. Another alicorn, such as herself, floated beside her, encased in a sparkly, light blue aura. Her appearance was that of royalty, complete with the crown, hoofshoes and jeweled peytral, yet it was less extravagant then what regalia used to be over a millennium ago.

The alicorn nary had to flap he wings to float closer to her. Her in her grotesque, darkness-covered form. he cringed and tried to shield behind her wings as the almost angelic figure came before her and slowly held out a hoof to her.

"Celestia." Her voice was calm and majestic, a fitting match to its owner's royal appearance, yet it sent shivers down her spine. Not because of the tone of the voice, but the word that came out. Celestia. It had been a thousand years since she chose to abandon that name. To hear it now just felt so... so strange.

"Take my hoof, dear sister. Let me show you the way out of this place."

Tears filled the corners of her eyes as she slowly reached out and interlocked her arms with the alicorn's. A silvery white and blue wisp swirled down from the alicorn's orn, trailing down her face to her chest before going down to her connect arm and disappearing as it reached the tip of the hood of hers. Instantly, white cracks began to form in the blackness of fur, chipping off and revealing a sterling white underneath.

A long trail of thin light blue light traveled up her leg, stopping once it came to her chest and expanded into a intricate, delicate design of a morning sun with waves of sunlight spreading out from each curve. Her emblem. The emblem of the sun.

Her heart beat swiftly and ached painfully in her chest as she felt every last trace of darkness, every piece of corrupt power and every last bit of hate and negative emotion burned out from the light exposure, leaving behind a clear, pure and simple slate to work upon.

A feeling of serene calmness spread over her, chipping away the darkness of her coat and dissolving her armor. She began to lose consciousness as the healing made its way from her body up to her head. The last thing she saw before her world went blank again was the smiling eyes and face of her sister.

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I had major inspiration from the fight scene in Equestria Girls: Friendship Games for the final scene. The scene in that has to be my favorite of all the confrontation scenes, even if we don't get too much of a fight, but the emotion and drama combined with the non-violent solution is what I best thought would be like if Luna and Celestia had had ever talked to each other, even while one was turned evil and the other was gone, A.K.A held imprisoned by the other.

Stay tuned for the final chapter of this story and please leave a review for what you thought of this one. Sincerely, v.t.7