History had a funny way of repeating itself. Thousands of years ago, Celestia fought her sister's alter ego, Nightmare Moon, and it ended with Luna's banishment to the moon. Many ponies knew the story, or at least they thought they did, that the Princess of the Night became jealous of her sister Celestia, and felt that no pony appreciated her night. Then one day, she wouldn't move her night for the sun to rise, and she became the evil Nightmare Moon due to her bitterness and malice. That's what the books told them, but there were only two alicorns who knew the real story, and the dead that died with them. It wasn't just a fight between them, but a full blown war. A war for power. Nightmare Moon wanted to have the night last forever and have control of Equestria, while Celestia fought her to save Equestria. Both Lunar and Solar soldiers lost their lives, and they were the only two left standing as they fought on blood soaked soil among corpses. Celestia had the oppurtunity to kill her, and end it all there, but she had seen enough ponies die. It was a selfish notion, to let her sister live when so many have lost their lives, but it was her own sister. She couldn't kill her, so she chose the alternative. Banish her to the moon, and cover up the tragedy for generations to come.

Now, here she was again. The same spot, the same fight, the same struggle for power. Nightmare Moon had control of Luna and she desired power, and Celestia fought again for Equestria, but there would be no banishment this time. One of them was going to die, and as much Celestia wanted to save her sister, she knew that her only salvation would come from death. There was no way out of it, no way around it, no way to avoid it, but she knew that history had a way of repeating, and she could only hope it ended with her on top.

Celestia and Luna had their horns locked against each other. They could not best each other with swordsmanship, and both had given up their blades. They both had to end each other, one that was eager and willing, and the other reluctant, but their goal was the same, and they had to achieve it no matter the cost. Celestia was bloodied and bruised. Her golden chest plate was completely missing as it had finally broken due to Luna's vicious power, but Luna was not without her scars. A long cut ran diagonally across her face as blood slowly seeped out of it, and only half of her chest plate was on her, as the other half had been shattered completely. This was more than a fight for power, though, as the two sisters looked at each other's eye's. This was a fight between sisters. One that was corrupted and twisted, and used her past and Celestia's claimed weakness as her justification to kill her, and the other who had always try to do the right thing, but she had let her guilt and regret fill her. In reality, they both weren't that different. They both wanted power, though for different reasons and motives, and they both lived in their long past.

"Why do you persist Celestia? You can't win this. Your too weak to win," Luna said between her hard breaths as she pushed her horn against the white alicorn.

"To stop you Luna. I persist for Equestria," Celestia retorted..

Luna scoffed at her claim.

" The flinch in your eye calls your bluff sister. You don't do it because of Equestria, you do it for yourself. Does it really hurt you that much to see what I am?"

Celestia continued pushing as their horns were locked on their mental battle of words.

"This is not you Luna, and you may not believe it or see it, and I don't expect you to, but Nightmare Moon has twisted your mind and made you her puppet. There is still a chance to end all this, and it dosen't have to end in blood."

Celestia knew she was letting her selfishness get in the way, but she was trying anyway she could to avoid kill her, though it seemed very doubtful.

"It has to end in blood! We have had this struggle for centuries whether you want to see it or not Celestia! There has always been tension between us, and it needs to end. The world has changed, and it's time that we change with it. There is simply no more room for the both of us!"

Celestia heard her words, and it hurt her. It hurt her, because she was right. There was always tension between them, whether they admitted it or not, and it made Celestia think. Was this the inevitable? Would they still be fighting here, even without Luna under Nightmare Moon's control in the end? Was this the way things were supposed to be?

"We were meant to rule together Luna! We are weak without each other!."

Luna pressed harder as their horns grinded against each other.

"No! You are weak! I never needed you Celestia! I had spent one thousand years on the moon alone, and I never needed you once. What makes you think that we need each other now?! Equestria only needs one of us, and it will not have a ruler who refuses power! I am the only one fit to rule, not you!

Celestia knew this was only Nightmare Moon's control, but to hear Luna spew such delusions was still alien to her. The Luna she knew was kind and loving, and she had no desire for power, but to only be loved and accepted. Nightmare Moon had done a fine job as she continued twisting her mind and filling it with illusions of power.

"Power isn't everything Luna! Power doesn't rule kingdoms!"

Luna broke away and spread her black wings and hovered in the air as anger seethed through her.

"Enough of these lies! Power is everything! Withought might, you can't protect anything! I will protect Equestria and I will lead it into an era of peace! You would lead it into destruction! You are blind to the truth and you refuse to see it!"

Celestia simply stared into her teal eyes as she watched her hover in the dark sky. Maybe Luna was right. Maybe she had been blind to see it. Maybe she was too blind to pursue power, and maybe this was the truth of things. If this was, then Celestia would rather be blind. She knows what the pursuit of power does, and it only corrupts.

"That may have held true thousands of years ago Luna! But the world is different, and much has changed! There's no need to pursue power! I have ruled for many years without it, and Equestria is still safe!"

Luna eyes flashed a bright white. Her wings stretched out as her canterlot voice roared across the burnt valley.

"Nothing has changed! You cannot comprehend what power means. You are too ignorant and weak to understand such a concept sister! If Equestria was truly safe, then it's enemies would be wiped out, and it would stand on the pinnacle of this world! Equestria is meant to rule all things, and I will lead it to glory! You would have it grovel in the dirt, and beg for mercy from it's enemies!

"Ponies will die Luna for what you plan! Is power worth lives?!"

A dark aura began to glow around the deranged Luna.

"Then let them die! I would kill stallions, mares, and even foals if I have to! If it saves Equestria, then I will gladly do it!

Celestia's mind couldn't believe it. There was no regard for life in Luna, and to say that she was willing to kill even foals, children who only knew innocence, was too much for her. There was no way for her to avoid killing her. It now had to be done.

Luna flew higher into the black sky as the rain poured and a giant black aura enveloped her, only showing her white burning eyes. She summoned her blade once again, as she was now putting all of her power into one last attack. Black lightning started to strike the ground as it broke the soil. The black aura grew and grew until it covered the sky, and only a black swirling vortex surrounded her.

"I will show you what power can do! Today, power will strike you down, and hand Equestria to me! I will be the one to teach you this time dear sister, a you used to teach me! Your one and final lesson! Power is everything, and you are weak!"

Celestia knew this was it. This was the moment that would decide everything. She was either going to die and fail, or she was going to kill her beloved sister, and live the rest of time with another regret, one she would never be able to ignore. Either result did not spell well for her, but only one of them meant that many more will die with her, and she couldn't let that happen.

"So be it Luna! Let's end this! If you want to show me power, then I will meet you, and show you how wrong you are!"

"Come then! Let's not delay!"

Celestia eyes flashed a burning gold once again and she spread her wings out. Fire started to spark from the ground as a flame began to circle the alicorn, and she summoned her blade as it raged with fire. The flames began to spread and become larger as they rose and enveloped Celestia. It swirled like a tornado as it began to burn everthing, and only her golden eyes were visible. The tornado of flames dances around her as she looked up to the sky to face the darkness that Luna had become. She put all her magic into her blade and the tornado of flame that spinned around it's eye that was Celstia, roared as it's destructive flames caught trees on fire and lit up the eath in a bright orange light.

"Let fate decide now sister, and let's see who is meant rule this land! Prepare for your death, for I will show no mercy to you. Luna and Celestia as the regal sisters are no more! Only Luna, the ruler of Equestria, will be known after this day!"

The flames spun faster as Celestia fueled her magic within her.

"I will grant you a quick death Luna! As you are my sister, this is the most I can do for you!" Celestia proclaimed as the flames roared with her voice.

"You can try sister, bit it is not I who will die, but you!"

The black sky began to spin as it covered Luna and she put her sword out in front of her and dived towards Celestia. The sky was torn from the air as it followed it's dark princess and swirled around her with black lightning dancing around her body. Celestia did not hesitate, and she spread her wings and flew up into the air to meet the darkness. The tornado of flames moved with her as it spun around her and lit up the sky with it's amazing glow. Both of their swords pointed straight at each other as one blade led the darkness, and a blade enveloped in flames led the light. Darkness and Light were coming to join together in midair. The sky looked torn as a giant vortex of darkness was coming to meet it's opposing force of light. Celestia and Luna screamed as they got closer, as they both knew the inevitable was coming. Theri blades finally met as both tips of their blades met each other and the force of darkness and fire clashed against each other in the sky and illuminated the entire valley.

They pushed against each other as they channeled all their magic into their blades, and both steel tips began to turn red hot from the pure power they were pushing out against each other. The roaring of flames and the cracks of lightning filled their ears as they met each other's burning eyes once again. Celstia pushed more magic out and Luna did the same to meet her hers. They seemed frozen in midair as they pushed against each other. Neither one of them wanted to lose to the other, and they were pushind everything they had into one final blow. Blood started to come out of Celestia's nostrils as she continued pushing all her magic against her, and the flames roared even louder as they encircled her. Luna felt blood her blood raging within her, and she gritted her teeth to the point that her gums were beginning to bleed.

"A new era will begin sister! Accept your coming death, and relinquish Equestria to a ruler more powerful than you!" Luna screamed over the lightining and flames.

Celestia felt Luna's magic push against her, and she forced more into her blade. She felt a stinging in her eyes as she felt something warm run down her cheeks.

"You will have to make me Luna!"

Lightning shot through Luna's blade and to Celestia's. The white alicorn flet Luna's magic pushing on her harder and harder, and her body was giving out as blood was now pouring out one of her white ears. She was using all her magic and she was past her limit already. Luna's eyes had begun to cry tears of blood as she wanted to break Celestia. Celestia's magic was running out quickly, and she was now running off her very life, and destroying her body from the inside. She didn't care though. Luna had to die. The darkness in the sky was slowly pushing against the fire, and slowy pushing it back to the earth. Celstia kept pushing as more blood began to pour from her nostrils and eyes.

"I can't let you win Luna! I can't fail!"

Luna pushed more and more against the breaking alicorn.

"It's over Celestia. The darkness will always shroud the light, and you will be consumed in it! You and I both know that the sun rises..."

Luna pushed harder against Celestia's blade. The two tips of steel were steaming and red, but one began to crack. Celestia looked in horror as her blade began to crack before her. She pushed more energy into it, and she coughed out dark blood, but it didin't matter to her. She couldn't let Luna win, but Luna already knew that it was already over, and she would finally end it.

"...and it must also fall!"

A surge of dark magic blasted through Luna's sword and right into Celestia's. The horrified white alicorn watched as her blade shattered before her eyes, and Luna's sword sped straight to her. She felt it's steel pierce right trough her chest and push into her as she flew down into the earth. A giant wave of black was pushing the vortex of flames straight back into the ground. Celestia hit the ground as Luna plunged her blade deeper into her. The ground shattered at the force of the impact and broke, and the vortex of flames spread out as it burned all the trees in the valley, and the land became now just a complete burning fire. The darkness that had enveloped Luna slowly dissapeared as she plunged her blade deeper into Celestia's chest. Blood rushed out of her mouth, and burning pain ran through her body as blood seeped out from the sides of her pierced body. Her golden eyes vanished and water mixed with blood ran from her eyes.

Luna loved it. She watched as Celestia's blood poured from her body, and the pain she could see in her eyes. Power had overcome her, and Celestia would now finally see it in her last moments. Her sister had failed, and fate has chosen her. She had proven that might controlled everything, as she now had Celestia's life in her dark grasp

Celestia put her hooves on the blade as she tried to pull it out, but Luna wouldn't have it. She began to turn the blade in her, and Celestia could feel it twisiting in her. Hot burining pain ran through her body, and it felt llike her chest was collasping. Luna stood over her as she turned it and watched Celstia suffer.

"This is what happens when you refuse to gain power!"

Celstia screamed out in pain as blood flew out of her mouth and landed on her face.

Luna pulled her blade out of the bloodied alicorn and stood over her and brought her face close to hers. Pure joy and pride was running through Luna as she smiled wickedly at Celestia's bloodied face. It felt good to see her sister in such pain. All her lies of power, and her useless compassion for other's lives would finally come to an end. Celestia was a fool.

"Foolishness sister..." she put her hoof on top of Celestia's face and smashed it against her white, bloodied cheek,"....foolishness."

Celestia was burning inside. She felt her mind fading, but the almost unberable pain kept her attached to the world. She felt Luna's hoof smash into her bloodied face and she winced in pain. Her chest gushed out dark crimson blood and every breath she took was gurgled with blood iin her throat.

"Now you see it. Might controls everything, and you lack in it dear sister, and without strength, you can't protect anything...let alone yourself."

She grinded her hoof in Celestia face harder, and the dying alicorn felt the the bone in her face breaking under her hateful power.

"Now your foolishness will end your life. You should have let the pink one kill me earlier, but you were too much of a fool to let it happen, becasue the great and powerful Celestia felt it was her burden to bear. How does it feel Celestia? How does it feel to know that you were too weak? Too weak to save your kingdom? Too weak to save your subjects? Know that once I take your life, any pony that decides to still follow you, will suffer beyond imagining, and you know the last thing they will hear before they die? That they were fools to believe in you, because you have now failed.

Celestia's heart was racing in her, and her breathing was becoming erratic. She could only lay there in bloodied defeat as she listened to Luna. That's all she could do. Power had proven it's point, and Celestia would be it's example. Luna continued as she put her face close to Celestia's ear and whispered to her.

"You spoke earlier of saving me from myself, but you must understand something before you die sister...there is nothing you can do to save me. I do not want to be saved. It has empowered me, and opened my eyes to the world before me. Before I end your miserable life, know this when you pass... this path I follow is what it has shown me, and I will follow it, and it finally begins with your death. You have failed everything Celestia, and I will make sure that when I find your precious student, I will make her suffer so much, that even the heavens will cry out in pain, and she will call for you in her agony, and you will never come. She will die knowing that her mentor had abandoned her once again."

Luna walked away from Celestia and picked up her blade with her hoof. She stood up on her hind legs and went over and stood over Celestia once again. Celestia knew it was the end for her. She had failed, and a mix of blood and tears flowed out of her eyes. She had failed Equestria, and it was now doomed to die with her. Luna will lead it into chaos, and ponies will die, becasue she was too weak to stop her. She had failed her faithful student. She would die, and Twilight will plunge into darkness when she learns of her death. She will come back for Luna, and if Twilight didn't get her friends back, she would die a much more horrible death than her, but most importantly, she had failed Luna. She said she would free her from Nightmare Moon's grip, but now she was bound to her forever. Pain thrashed through her, and she felt herself slipping away, but she had to say one thing. One thing that she had to say before she left this world forever, and left it to it's new dark ruler.

"I'm...sorry...Luna," the alicorn said as more blood poured out of her mouth and she began to choke once again..

Luna smiled wickedly at her as she watched her sputter out her apology. It was all too good for her. Celestia was going to die, and she could would finally have Equestria under her hoof and begin her true path. The voice in her would help her, and show her the way. She will find her preciosu student and get Rebris back, and complete her path to power.

"Don't be sorry sister. Your death will grant me passage to my path, and to my ultimate goal of power. It will be a shame that you will not live to see my ascension to a god, but I will make sure that I take care of Equestria for you, and your precious student. So take heart dear sister, that you won't have to spend an eternity alone. I will make sure your student is reunited with you, along with her little friend."

Luna positioned her blade over Celestia. The dying alicorn looked straight into her teal eyes, but she didn't see her. She was overcome by images that began flashing through her mind. She saw a screaming unicorn, and she saw her purple eyes. She could see Twilight in a room screaming in pain. Celestia's pain was nothing compared to what she was seeing. Was this the pain that Luna would bring her? More images flashed through her head as she saw two purple eyes begin to glow red, and she could feel a burning rage coming from her red eyes, and it horrified her. She could feel the hate and pain burn into her. Celestia wanted to scream as she felt it, but she was fading away, and she didn't have the strength. Horrible images of her student appeared to her, and she didn't understand what it all meant. She didn't have the time anyways, her life was at an end. The images disappeared, and now she faced Luna once again.

"It's time Celestia. Your rule has come to an end."

Celestia watched as her sister held her blade over her head, ready to end her in an instant.

"As I am now ruler of Equestria..."

Celestia's blood poured out onto the ground. She could hear the earth screaming at her and yelling at her failure. She could hear the screams of dying ponies. She could hear Twilight scream at her for abandoning her once again. She laid her head down and accepted her fate and made peace with herself. She had many regrets, and now this was just one more on her long list, but it was all going to end. Regrets didn't matter anymore. You had to be alive to have regrets. Celestia looked out into the black sky, and her dying eyes caught something. In the darkness, there was an even darker shadow as it watched from above. She squinted her eyes as she heard the sound of her heart slowoing down in her. The shadow was smiling with satisfaction in its grin. It descended down and now stood behind the standing Luna that would impale her skull. It waved at her as it stood behind her sister, and she knew it was a wave of farewell. There would be no peace in her death now, as she slowly realized what this shadow was. She tried to say it's name, but it would never be heard.

"I senetence you to death!"

Luna brought her blade down and it split through Celestia's head and opened her skull. It pierced her brain and everything went black for the white alicorn. Luna twisted the blade as she heard the skull break and blood gush out of her sisters cranium. She pulled her bloodied blade out as she gazed upon her sister. Celestia's eyes rolled back in her head as more blood gushed onto the ground and brain matter came out with it. Her mouth was open, as if she was trying to say something before her last moment, but Luna never heard it and she didn't care.

Princess Celestia was dead, and at long last, Luna finally had defeated her sister. She threw her blade to the ground and went over to where Celestia's golden crown laid. She picked it up, and placed it upon her head. She looked up to the sky, and smiled. She would command all of Equestria now, and nature itself would obey her call.

She knew that from here on out, Equestria will follow her. It had no choice now, for there was only one regal sister. One that would take on the duties of Celestia, and rule with power. One that would pave it's path in blood and bodies.

Fire and blood was her usher and it welcomed the new Ruler of Equestria to power.

Luna had proved that power was everything...and Equestria will learn the same...