Persona: The Harmony Arcana
Chapter 23: Chapter 22: A Midsummer Knight's Dream (Part 3)
Previous Chapter Next Chapter“This can't be happening," Twilight said with the trembling voice. She slowly backed away from Nightmare Moon, doing her best not to just turn tail and run, lest she expose her back to the dark Alicorn and become nothing more than a moving target. "Why would you do this, Luna? Why would you turn back into Nightmare Moon?"
“Luna!" Came a shout from behind Twilight. She spun around and saw, to her great surprise, Princess Celestia, standing tall and stern as she glared up at her sister.
Nightmare Moon growled as she descended from the raised platform, then shot a magical blast of neon blue energy from her horn and blasted a hole in the ceiling, sending debris down on both Twilight and Celestia. Both of them dived out of the way, Twilight's poorer reflexes causing her to hesitate too long before the impact sent her sprawling to the floor while Celestia took to the air.
“Princess Luna! Please stop!" Twilight yelled as she stood back up, ignoring the pain in her side from being knocked down, and rushing forward, only to have her way blocked when Celestia landed right in front of her.
"Beast," Celestia growled. "You've already lost. Your servants are buried with you beneath the forest. Your power sapped and sealed away. Even the turncoat you planted within our ranks has been frozen in the ice forever!" Celestia’s rage flared and her horn began to pulse and glow with the energy of the sun, causing the darkness around them to retreat and Nightmare Moon to flinch."You have no way of achieving victory now! I refuse to allow you to claim any more of my family! Give me back my sister! Give me back Luna!"
"Foal!" Nightmare Moon shouted as her own horn began forcing the darkness to fight back against the light. "There is no Luna anymore! There is only the shadow my greatness casts on the world as it blocks out your precious light! There is only the fear and awe of our subjects as they bow before us! There is only I! Nightmare Moon!”
The two titans continued their magical struggle between each other, forcing light and darkness to clash in the center, creating a distinct line between the two with an almost sunlight esk glow on one side that gave way to near pitch blackness on the other. Twilight could only watch helplessly as they battled, unable to interfere as the opposing energies continued to tear the castle apart.
Cracks traveled up the walls as the opposing forces pushed outward and against each other. Several windows fell to pieces and tapestries ripped apart in the gale force winds. But with an extra push, Celestia looked as if she were gaining the upper hoof. She took a few tentative steps forward as her magic began to overwhelm Nightmare’s. Nightmare glared viciously at her enemy as the struggle of maintaining her attack visually drained her. But then, with a frustrated roar, Nightmare Moon called out a single word.
"PERSONA!"
Celestia and Twilight’s eyes shot open in surprise as a towering figure appeared behind Nightmare Moon, carrying a massive bow and wearing a flowing blue overcoat. The coat was open at the front, revealing a simple frock and giving from the Persona the freedom of movement she needed to charge forward and bring her bow down on Celestia’s spell. However, the bow rebounded off the field of light, only causing minor discomfort for Celestia.
"That is Luna's Persona!" Celestia cried out. "How dare you send Diana, My sister’s fighting spirit, to strike at me!”
"It is not her’s anymore!" Nightmare Moon shouted back. "I am the true self, I control the façade now!”
With that, Diana dropped her bow and began screaming as she clutched at her head. Her body began to tear at an invisible seams, until a pair of arms shot upward, right out of her mouth. The grotesque display continued as the arms then grabbed the sides of Diana's mouth and tore her entire being a part.
A new persona stood where Diana's scattered remains fell. She too wore blue in a form hugging dress, speckled with white dots like stars in the sky. Her skin was half white and half black, her face featureless and bald. The outline of a sneer was all that could be seen on the figures visage as she bent down and picked up Diana's discarded bow, transforming it into a staff with a full moon adorning the top.
“Melinoe!” Nightmare Moon shouted, commanding the Persona to once more attack Celestia. Melinoe brought her staff down on Celestia’s magic, causing it to shatter.
Celestia leapt backwards into the air to avoid the attacker's follow-through; Twilight had to duck for cover in order to avoid being smashed. Celestia, her face filled with both rage and sorrow, glared down a Nightmare as the dark alicorn started to laugh.
Celestia sighed and closed her eyes, doing her best to stem the flow of tears.
“Luna," she said out loud."I know you're still in there. I know you're still hurting, but I can help you. Whatever pain and misery drove you to do this, we can fix it, and then it will all, finally, be over.”
Nightmare Moon looked up at her sister without a shred of amusement. She snorted and turned away.
“You foal, you don't even realize it." Nightmare Moon’s words caused Celestia to open her eyes and look down in confusion. Nightmare lifted her head and snarled, shouting out with great fury and hate. "YOU are the one that pushed her to this! You left her alone to become a pariah, whilst you and your precious subjects danced in the sunlight!" Nightmare grimaced and began charging her horn again, while Celestia could only look on in terrified realization. "And now, we can all be alone, FOREVER!”
Nightmare unleashed her attack, which Celestia narrowly avoided by rising up and over the blast of magic, only to fly within range of Melinoe’s staff as she swung it around. Eyes going wide as she realized she only had milliseconds to spare, Celestia reached into herself and made a desperate plea for help.
"PERSONA!" She shouted.
A massive figure appeared between Celestia and Melinoe, raising an equally massive shield to protect its summoner. Twilight blanched as she looked up at the unfamiliar Persona. It wasn't Gnowee, not even close. This Persona was clad and pure golden armor, underneath which she wore crimson chain mail which was just visible through some of the armors hinges. The Persona held aloft a shield of similar gold and red coloring that was almost as tall as the Persona itself. In its right hand was a sword that was separated into different segments that floated around a center gem at the crossguard, shaped like a sun.
“Amaterasu!" Celestia cried out. The persona used its shield to push Melinoe back to the ground, then Nightmare shot another blast at Celestia, causing her to flee out of the hole in the ceiling, Amaterasu following close behind.
“And where," nightmare called mockingly. "Do you think you're going?”
Nightmare Moon and her Persona followed, taking off from the ground and into the moonlit sky. Twilight, still very panicked and in shock, also took off in pursuit.
The battle between Celestia, Nightmare, and their Personas, was beyond anything Twilight had ever seen in her life, at least not from her mentor. Nightmare flew in the wake of Celestia's flightpath, shooting beams of magic with complete disregard for what she might hit. As Celestia dove to and fro to avoid the shots, much of the outside structure and decor of the castle was obliterated. Statues that would have stood for hundreds of years were suddenly turned to dust and rubble or sent careening to the ground. At every turn, Melinoe would lunge to try and cut Celestia off, only to be stopped dead as Amaterasu body checked her into a wall with her mighty shield. Melinoe would, at times, follow suit with Nightmare Moon and fire bolts of electricity at their quarries, destroying even more of the surrounding landscape as the attacks missed. Trees ignited like giant torches, the stone walls charring where the attacks struck, and windows blasting inward as the sudden change in air pressure caused them to shatter. Any bolt that came near hitting Celestia would be redirected back by Amaterasu, who used her sword like a giant lightning rod. All of this, Twilight watched from a close, yet safe distance, just out of the line of fire. She noted that Celestia and Amaterasu we're making no attempt to return fire, preferring to stay on the defensive as they flew around the castle.
Soon the four of them had ascended above the structure, Nightmare Moon and Melinoe having separated and placed themselves on either side of Celestia and Amaterasu. Melinoe charged at the solar matriarch, lightning running through her staff as she prepared to strike. Amaterasu readied her shield to block the attack, but at the last moment Nightmare Moon shot one more attack, not at Celestia, but at Amaterasu. The bolt of magic struck first, making both the armored persona and her summoner flinch. Melinoe took advantage of the two's slip in concentration and successfully landed a blow to Amaterasu, conducting a lightning strike directly into her and causing Celestia to freeze and sputter in midair. Nightmare moon, smiling gleefully, fired another magic beam at Celestia, and this time the attack found its mark.
With a scream of pain that made every ounce of blood in Twilight’s veins freeze with shock in terror, Celestia lost the ability to stay airborne. She plummeted back through the hole in the throne room she had exited out of, and even over the roar of Nightmare Moon’s triumphant laughter, Twilight could still hear the sickening thud of her mentor's body hitting the floor.
“CELESTIA!!” Twilight cried out, breaking from her shock and diving back into the throne room and landing right next to Celestia’s unmoving form.
Twilight fell to her haunches. She lifted her forehoof several times, as if to reach out to Celestia and touch her side. But every time she pulled back, unable to bear the misery she would feel if she couldn't find a pulse.
"Why," Twilight sobbed, tears flowing freely from her eyes. "Why would Luna do this?"
Twilight sat there as silence ruled over the destroyed throne room. Her sobs and despairing moans echoing off the walls over and over again, like there was a crowd of ponies there, also lamenting the fall the princess of the sun.
Then, something shifted. The feathers of Celestia’s wings twitched, then the full wing folded up against her side. With trembling legs, Celestia rose, her face somber.
“Celestia!” Twilight cried in relief. "You're okay!"
Celestia did not acknowledge Twilight; she simply looked up at the hole in the ceiling, where Nightmare Moon was waiting.
“Oh Luna,” Celestia said, her own tears beginning to fall. “If what she said is true, that I am the one who drove you to this, then I pray that one day you will forgive me for what I am about to do.”
Celestia’s horn begin to glow, and her magic revealed a trap door at the center of the room. From below, a five pronged alter arose, each branch of the statue carried a large gemstone that spun around on its own volition. Celestia took to the the air again and examined them with regret, Twilight gawked at them as realization suddenly dawned on her.
"The Elements of Harmony," she muttered. "But that's how they looked in… in the past.”
That explained it, why neither Celestia nor Nightmare Moon seemed to respond to her. The potion that Zecora had given Twilight was showing her events that had happened a thousand years ago, on one night in particular.
“This is the night you banished her,” Twilight realized sadly. She watched as Celestia collected each Element, then flew to the top of the structure and touched the stone sphere that adorned it. Her magic glowed around the sphere and the sixth element appeared from within, joining the other five as they began to rotate around Celestia.
As the stones begin to increase in their speed, Celestia began to glow with the radiance of a hundred suns. Without a single flap of her wings, she began to rise back out of the throne room. Nightmare Moon was waiting, ready to resume fighting as her mouth curled into a snarl. But before she or her Persona could attack, Celestia spoke.
"I can't allow this to go on. You are putting my subjects at great risk, and if I have to sacrifice my own wants to spare them from the misery you would inflict upon them, then so be it.”
Nightmare Moon, completely disregarding Celestia's words, sent Melinoe forward, then followed up with her own attack by pushing all the magic she could through her horn. Celestia responded by raising the elements of harmony in front of her, with the first five surrounding the sixth. The five then shot beams of light that connected with the starburst shaped gemstone, which combined their energy with its own and fired an intense blast of light and color right at Nightmare Moon and Melinoe.
Melinoe was disintegrated almost immediately as the beam engulfed her, then Nightmare Moon’s attack collided with it and held for less than a few seconds before the Light of Harmony pushed back against it. No matter how hard Nightmare tried, she couldn't gain control over the struggle, and soon the light began to engulf her as well.
“Nooo!” Nightmare cried out as he disappeared completely. The beam of light then bent upwards and headed straight for the Moon. After a moment, a rainbow colored shockwave blasted out from the heavenly body, and slowly the image of a horned mare appeared among the craters.
Their purpose complete, the Elements deactivated one by one. Celestia slowly glided back into the throne room, her face bereft of any sort of expression. As her hooves touched down, Twilight ran forward, unsure of what to do as merely an observer of this long gone time.
Then, each of the Elements fell out of Celestia’s grip. Five of them lost their color and morphed into gray, lifeless, stone spheres that hit the floor with a resounding thunk. The sixth one, the Element of Magic, hit the ground and fell apart like it was made of sand or ash.
"It's just like she said,” Celestia murmured tearfully as he watched a small draft carry what was left of the Element away. “We're all alone now.”
Twilight couldn't take it anymore. She was rearing up on her hind legs to embrace Celestia, to let her know she wasn't alone, to tell her how much Celestia meant to her. But Twilight was losing focus, the world was disappearing in a flash of light, and the last thing she saw was Celestia’s violet eyes lose their color and overflow with sorrow.
~~~~~
Twilight blinked several times before the bright white glow lifted from her eyes. She placed a hoof on her forehead to steady herself before getting the bearings on her surroundings. She was back in Ponyville, still covered in vines, and in the same place in the same position she was before she drank the potion. Her friends were all gathered up in one spot, looking at her like they’d just seen a ghost.
“Uhmm,” Twilight murmured as she looked at everyone’s wide eyed expressions. “Why are you all looking at me like that?”
“Maybe because ya’ll were muttering something fierce while you were in that trance of yours,” Applejack explained.
“And the uncontrollable sobbing,” Pinkie Pie added. “Don’t forget about that!”
“We were really worried,” Fluttershy said, eyes still filled with almost tearful concern. “Are you alright?”
“I’m fine,” Twilight said as she started to pace. “I just, I need a moment.”
“Sounds like you went for quite a ride,” Discord chimed in. “Couldn’t help but overhear you mention Celestia and Luna a few times while you let the faucets behind your eyes run. I take it you got to see one of the princesses' darkest secrets?”
“Not really a secret to us at this point,” Twilight said, giving Discord and annoyed look. “I saw the night Celestia had to banish Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. It was like watching the world fall apart.”
A somber silence fell over the group for a moment, then Rainbow Dash spoke up.
“Well, what does that have to do with what’s happening now? Zecora said the potion would show you where the source of the vines is.”
“Perhaps,” Zecora said, stepping forward with the potion in her grasp. “More of the potion must be taken, to find an answer if I’m not mistaken.”
She hoofed the potion back to Twilight, who took hold of it and looked around at all her friends, who nodded supportively. With another well measured gulp, Twilight’s eyes once again flared with light.
~~~~~
Twilight didn’t find herself in any sort of recognizable environment this time, in fact she probably would have thought Zecora’s potion was causing her to hallucinate if it wasn’t for the fact that Celestia and Luna were there with her. Taking a better look around, Twilight realized that she did recognize where she was, or rather she recognized the overall motif of her current location.
All around her was like a psychedelic wonderland: the rolling hills had a checkerboard pattern of blues and pinks, the sky was purple and the clouds a neon green. There were fish of all species and colors flying through the air like they were avians, and all of them were strangely distorted in one way or another: an extra eye here, a few dozen misplaced fins there, and a couple with limbs that certainly didn’t belong to any fish or bird that Twilight had ever heard of. Buildings were being balanced upside down on their rooftops, or else were simply spinning around in the air like gravity had been selectively turned off. Twilight had only one word to describe what she was seeing: Chaos.
“Now this this reeks of Discord’s handy work,” Twilight mused out loud as she thought back to her and her friend’s first encounter with the Spirit of Chaos, and how he’d turned Ponyville into a similar looking vortex of nonsense.
Celestia and Luna started walking through the checkered hills, looking all around them with disgust and apprehension. Twilight galloped a bit to catch up and then matched their speed as they began talking.
“Sister, “ Luna said. “Are you sure we cannot try and convince him to stand down? Must we truly retake the throne by force?”
“Luna, for all we know, he’s in the same boat that Sombra was in.” Celestia frowned and used her magic to tighten the straps on her saddle bag. Twilight took note of the fact that both Celestia and Luna looked ragged, as if they’d been traveling for a long time. “He will be far too powerful to be contained in the earth by our own strength if that is the case. And even were he not controlled by the Beast, do you really believe we could talk down the Lord of Chaos from doing whatever he pleases?”
“I know, but, it’s just that, Mother always spoke so highly of him, and he always seemed like the one most determined to see the threat of the Beast vanquished. I just cannot see him falling to the will of another like that.”
“I know, Luna,” Celestia said somberly. “But the same things could have been said of all of us. Every member of the Arcana was so talented and strong and so willing to give themselves up to protect Equestria, that we saw ourselves as untouchable and incorruptible. In the end though, you see how far all that moxie took us.”
Luna looked like she was about to respond, but then the sound of crazed laughter echoed over the next rise. Casting a determined look at each other, Celestia and Luna stepped up their case, with Twilight following unseen.
The world opened up to a more flat expanse, dotted with several homes. The clearing was a maelstrom of hecticness, everything was the physical embodiment of a non sequitur. And at the center of it all was Discord, sitting on a throne and watching the chaos he’d wrought unfold.
“This is the day they turned him to stone.” Twilight concluded to herself out loud.
The two sisters walked right up to the foot of the hill Discord had sat himself upon as his vantage point, their faces filled with tension. Discord smiled gleefully down at them, then rose from his throne and threw his arms wide, as if greeting an old friend.
“My dear ladies!” He cried out. “Oh, it has been far too long! You should have told me you were back in town, I would have made dinner arrangements! How was your trip? Is Sombra still filled with doom and gloom?”
“Sombra has been sealed within the ice of the north,” Luna explained coldly. “He had gone mad like the others and had forced our hooves.”
“And now it seems that you have done the same Discord,” Celestia said. “We are only going to give you this one chance. Return control over to Luna and I, restore Equestria to its former state, and leave these lands for all time.”
Discord, unsurprisingly, looked hurt at Celestia’s demands.
“Leave?” He asked, disbelievingly. “But this is my home! Where do you expect me to go? And where else could I possibly have this much fun spreading chaos and disharmony?”
“Your ‘fun,’” Luna scoffed. “Is causing naught but distress and misery for our subjects! You will acquiesce to our demands, or you will meet the same fate as the rest of the Arcana!”
“You know,” Discord mused, stroking his beard. “One might look at this situation somewhere down the line and might make the assumption that the two of you are performing a coup d’etat. I mean, first you blame all the other rulers of Equestria for some misplaced subjects and use that as an excuse to bury them and plant a forest on top of their grave. Then you go around toppling whoever’s left, thus leaving only the two of you, unopposed, as the rulers of Equestria.”
“Sombra had enslaved an entire race,” Celestia said sternly. “His actions resulted in the loss of both the Crystal Empire and all of its people. They disappeared into the nothingness with one last cruel spell on his part. And you, Discord, saw fit to turn Equestria into your own personal playground when our backs were turned. What my sister and I do is for the good of all!”
“Keep telling yourself that, Celestia,” Discord said. He then vanished in a flash of light, only to then reappear at Celestia’s side. “But consider this, how much longer before the two of you decide the other isn’t fit to rule either and you banish her ‘for the good of all?’” Celestia and Luna threw a glance at each other, but otherwise did not comment. Discord continued, twirling some of Celestia’s hair around his fingers. “You know, the three of us are all that’s left of our respective races. We’re all going to be living very long lives, and something tells me they’re going to be longer than we could even imagine.” He leaned himself against the solar princess, much to her growing rage. “It’s going to get pretty lonely, you sure you don’t want to keep me around? I’m positive I could make for great company.”
“Away from her!” Luna shouted as she began charging her horn. “Neither of us have any desire for your ‘company!’”
Discord groaned, but returned to his throne. “Fine, be that way, but it isn’t like it matters. Do the two of you really believe you can stand up to me? I’m not some steely black unicorn with a god complex. I’m a real, flesh and blood, bender of reality. How do you possibly think you could win against this?”
The card of a Persona fell into Discord's outstretched paw, his entire body flaring with power as he smiled from ear to ear.
"JOKER!!" He cried out, crushing the card.
A heavily disfigured Persona rose up behind Discord's throne. Every limb seemed to have twice as many joints in it then it should have, bending its arms and legs in grotesque ways. He wore a pure white suit highlighted at the wrists and ankles with a pattern of black and yellow triangles. He also wore a large jester's hat of the same coloration with tassels that hung all the way to the small of his back. His face was scarred and slashed many times over, even to the point of one eye being hidden under an eye patch, but he still smiled in a horrifyingly toothy grin.
Blanching for a brief moment, Celestia and Luna leapt backwards as Joker lunged forward and slammed his fist into the ground where they were standing just moments before. Discord laughed uproariously, pulling a bag of seeds out to munch on like popcorn as his Persona attacked. Joker swiftly followed the two princesses around, smashing through whatever it could to try and reach them.
"Amaterasu!" Celestia cried out the moment she got a chance. Her own Persona materialized and blocked a kick from Joker with its shield.
"Diana!" Luna shouted, following her sister's lead. The archer Persona appeared and quickly let loose three arrows in succession. Joker, pushing Amaterasu away, snatched the projectiles out of the air, then snapped them in half and tossed them aside. Discord's laughter grew and Joker made a dash right at Luna and Diana.
"This is just too much!" Discord shouted, waving his arms around in glee and scattering his seeds every which way.
The three Personas continued to dance around each other, fire and lightning arcing every which way, but Joker agilely evading every attack the other two launched at him. Luna, in a fit of rage, threw all sense of restraint away and commanded Diana to attack Discord directly, shooting a lightning infused bolt at him in the middle of a laughing fit.
Her attempt was in vain, however. Joker, once again, caught Diana's arrow, but instead of discarding it, he rushed over to Amaterasu and embedded it into her shield. The shield exploded spectacularly, sending both Personas flying in opposite directions.
Celestia and Luna continued to try and gain the upper hoof on Discord, but he and his Persona seemed perfectly content in just taunting them, tiring and frustrating the two while he wasn't even winded. Eventually, the two princesses were left barely standing and out of breath, both of them out of ideas on how to take down Joker.
With a heavy sigh, Celestia recollected herself, standing up straight before, to everyone's surprise, dispelling her Persona.
"Sister! What are you doing?!" Luna shouted out.
"I warned you Luna, and I was right," Celestia said, not taking her eyes off of Discord. "Discord is too strong for the two of us, we simply cannot beat him like this. It's time."
"Giving up so soon?" Discord said dejectedly. "And it was just getting good!"
Luna, after a moment's hesitation, nodded and also dispelled her Persona. The two princesses walked forward, until they stood before both Discord and his Persona, who were smiling wickedly down at them. Then Celestia and Luna undid the clasps of their saddlebags and pulled out six familiar looking gems.
"And what, prey tell, are those?" Discord asked, barely restraining more laughter as he tossed the bag of seeds aside and stood up.
"The Elements of Harmony!" Celestia declared. "The last of the Harmonious magic left in Equestria!"
"It doesn't matter how much more powerful than us you are," Luna said as the elements began to rotate around both her and Celestia. "Whatever power the Beast gave you is nothing compared to the might of Harmony!"
"Wait," Discord said, looking at their serious faces with bemusement. "You think I'm doing this for big, tall, and inky?"
Celestia and Luna looked at each other in confusion, before Discord let loose his loudest laugh yet.
"I'm not being controlled by some eldritch shadow monster! All of this is because of my own chaotic genius! No, when I heard the whispers in my ears telling me to bring sacrifices to 'the Mother of Misery,' I got out of dodge immediately. I didn't want to stick around while my so called comrades in arms waltzed into a deathtrap! Why would I give myself up to something that's just going to destroy everything? You can't have chaos when everything is destroyed!"
Celestia and Luna's confusion turned into fury and anger as the Elements spun faster and faster, until there was a ring of light surrounding the two.
"You did all of this," Celestia said through gritted teeth. "For your own selfish laughs?! You ran away when we needed you the most?!"
"UNACCEPTABLE!" Luna shouted hysterically.
Discord continued to laugh as magic began to sphere around the princesses. Then a massive rainbow of magical energy shot upwards and arched back down at Discord, who continued to scoff obliviously. When the spell struck, Discord's body quickly froze in place as it was rapidly encased in stone, a permanent laugh etched onto his face. Then the magic exploded outward, shattering Joker like a rock through a stained glass window. The shock wave blasted outward, undoing all the chaos that Discord had created. The light blinded Twilight, and everything went white.
~~~~~
When she came to, she was in yet another unknown location. It was a large cavern illuminated by a bright bluish glow. Celestia and Luna were there, looking up at a giant crystalline tree that seemed to be the source of the light. The tree was marked with pictures of the sun and moon on its trunk, its branches each held a gemstone that Twilight recognized as the Elements of Harmony. And at the center of the tree was...
"My cutie mark," Twilight whispered, looking up at the six pointed star with both wonder and confusion.
"The Tree of Harmony," Luna said in awe. "The only remnant of the Harmonious Magic left."
Celestia, with her magic, began picking the Elements off of their branches.
"Are you sure about this?" Luna asked worriedly.
"We need a way of defeating Discord, and any other members of the Arcana that managed to escape our curse on this land," Celestia explained as she opened up the center star burst and pulled out the Element of Magic. "We may have been able to just barely defeat Sombra, but it came at an awful cost. We still have need of the Harmonious magic, and these Elements and this tree are the only sources left of it in Equestria. So until the Fire of Friendship burns bright again and the land is once more infused with Harmony, we will keep the Elements close to us."
"But what of the curse?" Luna asked. "Will the tree alone be able to hold the Beast back?"
"I'm sure of it. I can feel its strength, like a thousand locks on a diamond chest. And so long as that strength remains, this forest and our curse will remain as well." Celestia carried the Elements over to Luna and placed a hoof on her shoulder. "Don't worry sister, soon it will all be over. Then the two of us can rebuild Equestria to be the land of Harmony our grandmother Rosetta wanted it to be."
With that, Twilight's vision went white again, and the world faded away.
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