Celestia and Luna grabbed what they could for the trip, and proceeded out the castle doors. Both with a look of pure determination, plastered upon their faces.

“So, do you really think our own brother would try to kill us? I mean he’d gone completely bonkers, but he’s still out brother…R-Right?” Luna gulped at the thought they might not survive their trek into the Everfree Forest, let alone surviving through it to even get to the elements.

“Unfortunately, he’ll kill us at any chance he gets, he’s just toying with us now, knowing we’ll probably choke up.” Celestia tightened her saddlebags, one a bit larger than traditional ones with Celestia’s cutie mark embroidered into the side elegantly. With one final gulp, she turned to Luna, “Ready little sister?”

Luna nodded, and they made their way out of the newly crimson courtyard, ignoring the bodies and armor strewn across the elegant castle lawn.

“This’ll be a nice surprise to the gardeners won’t it…” Luna said jokingly, though nothing of what she said made anypony laugh, just made Celestia shoot a stern look at her, which made her immediately break eye contact and turn her smile into a straight frown.

“Luna, this carnage is no laughing matter. We must respect these stallion’s sacrifice to save us, and do whatever they can to secure the fate of Equestria with us. We will respect them, even in death.” Celestia was annoyed by her sister, though knowing she was only trying to lighten the mood, it gave her no excuse to use such a situation for a joke. But Celestia sighed, “Little sister, no matter what happens…You are still my little sister, no matter how much you can annoy me, I still love you.”

Luna cracked a smile, “Likewise sis,” Luna then proceeded to laugh, and move down the concrete pathway to where they would then need to fly to get to Ponyville, or at least to the ground where they can start walking before their magic and flight get taken away.

The sisters finally hit where they would need to fly, usually, the guards would have flown them down, but given the current situation that there was no royal guard any longer, they would need to fly themselves down to Ponyville. So the Alicorns looked at each other and with a nod took off down to Ponyville, and will surely give the ponies a shock when they arrive.

Luna flew happily and majestically through the air, smiling without a care in the world. It was as if nothing had happened, like the castle hadn’t been disturbed. But her happiness was cut abruptly when her wings disappeared. “Uh-oh…” Luna began screaming as she fell down, she’d thought that she would die before they even got to the Everfree Forest. But her fall was stopped by three pegusi who gently lowered her down.

“Thank you my little ponies,” Luna said with a smile looking into their faces. But her smile was crushed when one asked her something.

“Princess Luna, you’re not going to let him kill us like he did everypony at Sugar Cube Corner…Are you?” The smallest one’s eyes constricted in fear.

Luna was shocked, “Wha…What happened at Sugar Cube Corner?” she finally managed to ask them.

The three looked at each other the oldest one being a respectable young mare replied, “A pony, an orangish redish color coat, came in and just murdered everypony there, we tried to contact the Royal Guard but no pony would pick up.” She finished.

Luna looked sadly down, “I’m afraid there’s nothing left of the royal guard now little ponies…I’m afraid he made easy work of them, unfortunately…If me and my sister fail in our quest, that will be the fate of everypony in Equestria.” She said grimly.

The ponies gasped, “Oh…Oh dear…Thank you for telling us, we’ll go warn everypony. Good luck princess, he looked real mean…and scary…” The three pegasi flew off into the distance going to every shop in Ponyville warning everypony of the events to come.

Celestia caught up with her sister, “It’s good that they now know. They can try to protect themselves, but hopefully we can stop any further destruction from happening.” Celestia turned to her little sister and smiled, as they continued to make their way to the Everfree Forest, noticing the path of destruction left by the certifiable madman their very brother had now become.