When they reached the other side of the portal the four women who had turned back to their original forms fell into a snowy ground and were bombarded by a heavy storm.

"Damm it....Everypony follow me!" Celestia shouted.

"We have to find a way to get away from this storm!" Luna shouted.

"I think i've got it!"

Twilight said and then used her magic to create a magical shield around them.

"Now what do we do? We don't even know where we are!" Cadence said.

"Or we do!" Twilight said.

"What do you mean Twilight? You know where we are?" Celestia asked.

"Well...if my caulculations are correct-which they always are.....some times-then i would say that we are at the Crystal Empire."

"Hmmm, you may be right Twilight Sparkle but....wouldn't that mean that the Crystal Heart is......"

"Destroyed......" Cadence finished.

They all put their heads down, knowing that this beutiful Empire will never see the light of day ever again.

"So....what do we do now?" Cadence asked.

"We first need to get out of this storm and then face Nocturne! That is all that remains to do." Luna said.

"But....Nocturne has on his back who knows how many monsters and.....other unspeakable horros to his side. Don't we need like....an army of our own to even have a fighting chance against him?" Twilight asked.

Luna then surprisingly laughed and said.

"Oh....i have a few ideas......"

She as she was looking at the tip of her Scythe with a rather mischievous smile.

"But in all seriousness without an army we are doomed." She said.

"Well....maybe there are survivors.....maybe we can convince them to help us?" Twilight said.

"Survivors? Nocturne never leaves survivors! Trust me on this Twilight." Luna said.

"I mean.....we are alive after all this time. Maybe there are others too." Cadence said.

Then from outside of the shield, three big ice made dragons with blue glowing eyes surrounded them.

"What are these things!" Cadence asked.

"Oh no....Nightmares! Everypony be ready!" Celestia shouted.

The three dragons then started breathing ice towards them and around the shield. The shield was slowly getting weaker and Twilight felt her connection to the shield vanishing.

"I can't! Control it! The shield is gonna break!"

While Twilight was doing her best to keep up the shield the other three prepared for combat with their respective weapons.

Then one of the dragons was knocked down by two other dragons that came out of nowhere. That caught the attention of the other two who were trying to break the shield and they joined the fight as well.

"Now is our chance to take out these dragons! Let's go!" Luna said.

"Twilight, drop the shield we need to figure out who these are and help them!"

Twilight did as her former teacher commanded and dropped the shield.

When she did that the four mares charged into battle.

"Twilight help me with this one!"

Cadence said while shooting one of the dragons with her bow who appeared to be taking more than just one shot to die.

"I have an idea!" Twilight said.

She then charged her magic and created a shield around the dragon, causing it to get trapped.

"Twilight what are you doing?"

"Trust me!"

Twilight then with her magic opened a small window on the shield and the dragon tried to get out.

"Now Cadence!"

Cadence then took the shot and the dragon fell back in pain.

Twilight then dropped the shield, made her way to the dying dragon and stabbed it with her sword causing it to petrify. And when she pulled it out of the dragon's chest, the statue that was created was destroyed.

"We are doing a very good job you and I." Cadence said with a smile.

Twilight laughed and said.

"Yes, of course we are!"

Meanwhile Celestia and Luna were handling their own dragon.

The dragon breathed ice right on top of Celestia's direction but she managed to dodge just in time. Luna then with that opportunity, landed an aerial strike on the dragon, piercing it's skull with her Scythe and then started pulling it's head towards her direction.

Dragon however did not back down. Instead of struggling to survive, it started breathing ice and without giving Luna a chance to escape she started freezing.

"Luna!" Celestia said and decapitated the dragon causing it to shatter and die instantly.

"No....i won't! I WON'T GIVE IN!"

Her Scythe then started glowing and the ice that was slowly covering her started melting and after a few seconds she was back to her normal self again.

"Luna are you alright?" Celestia said as she rushed to her sister's aid.

"Yes.....i am fine."

As for the other two mysterious dragons. One of them had managed to put down the last remaining ice dragon and the other unleashed a wave of flames on it and it died a fiery death.

With the three dragons dead, Twilight raised her shield up again and they were all covered by the storm.

"Thank you for your help strangers but who are-" Celestia immediately stopped when she saw who these two dragons were.

"Princess Ember!" Twilight said.

"Princess Twilight? What are you doing here?"

"We could ask you all the same and who is your companion?" Cadence asked.

Then the dragon next to Ember was covered by a green aura and revealed to be.

"King Thorax?" Princess Luna said.

"Yes it's me, no need to be alarmed."

"But...why are you both here? What happened?" Twilight asked.

"Princess Twilight.....the news about Canterlot's fall had spread all across Equestria and we have been doing everything we can to sustain ourselves from these monsters." Ember said.

"However things have been going pretty bad. City after city, village after village. Everything has died. We thought that if we teamed up Changelings and Dragons we might have a chance to fight back and save everypony but....things didn't work out as planned."

"Then we heard that the Crystal Empire had fallen. We thought that you......that you had all died."

"We almost did, if it weren't for Twilight. We managed to escape but.....only we made it....." Celestia said.

Ember and Thorax then took a look at Celestia's face and saw the burned mane and the bandage around her eye.

"Princess Celestia....your eye! What happened?" Ember asked.

"Don't worry about it Princess Ember, even if it's shocking.....i have to endure it."

"And.....what about Spike? Tell me that he made it too!" Thorax started.

"I....i am sorry Thorax....." Twilight said with her head looking down.

"No....it! It can't be!" Ember said in frustration.

"Spike....my best friend......you didn't deserve this!" Thorax also said in frustration and put his head down and started crying a little.

"No! This won't go unpunished!" Thorax said and wiped the tears from his eyes.

"I agree! Whoever started all this is gonna get what's coming to him!" Ember said.

Then an idea came in Luna's mind and approached her sister and started whispering.

"Sister this is it!"

"What do you mean?" Celestia whispered back.

"If we can get them to rally together, we can all invade Canterlot and kill Nocturne. This is the opportunity that we have been looking for!"

"Luna, what are you saying? We can't send them to their deaths! We are the ones who must defeat Nocturne alone!"

"No....Princess Luna is right. We will join you." Ember said.

"But no! You can't, if you join us you will end up dead." Celestia said.

"Don't worry about us. We owe our friendship to Spike, he was the one who brought us together and now this is our chance to make him proud!" Thorax said.

"We will fight for you! All of us will!" Ember continued.

Seeing the determination in their eyes Celestia knew that their minds can't be changed and said.

"Alright....we thank you for joining us." Celestia said.

"No need to worry about us Princess. This is for the best." Thorax said.

"Now that this is all cleared out with better get back home. There we will prepare for battle, follow me." Ember said.

Twilight dropped the shield and they all took flight. They flew away from the Crystal Empire and from the storm. Ember and Thorax led them beyond the Celestial Sea where the Griffons and the Dragons were living. Their journey through the skies was long and tiring, but even this would not stop them from achieving their goal and stop Nocturne once and for all. And after some time, they had finaly reached the Dragon's lair, they landed just outside of it and they started walking inside the giant cave that all the survivors were gathered.

"So, who is behind all this?" Ember started.

"Yeah, who is this the monster that kill my friend Spike?" Thorax said.

"His name is Nocturne, at first he wanted to kill only the two of us for revenge. But after some other events his quest for revenge ended but......." Celestia sighted and later said.

"It's complicated, he thinks that with our powers and the powers of our weapons he will manage to achieve his goal."

"Oh really?" Thorax said.

"He sounds just like another bloodthirsty criminal in my opinion, he must be put down for all that he has done." Ember said.

Inside of the cave they saw every kind of species. Ponies, Changelings Dragons and Griffons, all of them working together, trying to survive in these dark times.

Ember then along with Thorax flew over to a big stone in the middle of the room and they started saying.

"Everyone! Gather around!" Ember said.

With her words, all the residens made their way around her and Thorax.

"We have returned! And with us we bring those that will help us get our revenge on these monsters that have taken away everything we love! I present to you. The Princesses of Equestira!" Ember said and pointed at the four Princesses.

Surprisingly however, the Ponies and even the Dragons and Griffons started cheering.

"It would seem that our weapons and armor are inspiring.....loyalty....." Luna said.

Thorax then stepped forward and said.

"With them on our side we will charge towards and retake Canterlot! But we will not stop there! When Canterlot is taken we will move on all over Equestria and retake our home once and for all!"

The croud started cheering even more. After all this time, all of them alone and scared, hiding in a cave. It was their time to rise up and retake what belongs to them.

"This is.....new....." Twilight said.

"If only they knew what their were truly going up against....." Cadence said with her head down.

And she was right. The appearence of the four Princesses might have rissen their morale but in the end when each and every one of them comes face to face with death, they will yield. No matter how strong or powerful they are, in the end we all submit.

Then Thorax and Ember made flew towards the four Princess and they started talking.

"Alright, our warriors will prepare and we will march towards Canterlot, is there maybe anything else we should know before going in?" Ember asked.

"I agree, it would be best if we knew what we were dealing with." Thorax said.

There was a moment of silence. They knew that if they revelaed that the enemy they are fighting is not gonna go down as easy as the expect,then the whole plan will be cancelled and they would be left without an army.

Celestia sighted and said.

"I am not gonna lie....this battle will cost you your lives, i am sorry that you had to hear that, but Nocturne is very dangerous and his minions reek of darkness and savagery....you will not be spared. But it is very vital that we four reach Nocturne, if we can do that then we will win!"

The two leaders looked at each other for a second and later said.

"We understand.....but we will not back down!" Ember said.

"What? Are you seriously gonna come with us? After what we just told you?" Cadence asked.

Thorax just laughed and said.

"It would be my honor to fight beside you and after all Equestria is our home too, we won't give it up so easily!"

"He is right! No matter how strong the enemy is! I am prepared to do my part!" Ember said.

"Do not worry yourselves, you will not be alone!" Luna said.

"What do you mean sister?"

"I told you i had a plan Tia, you see....i have a surprise for Nocturne. He will not expect me to release.....it."

"Release what Princess?" Twilight asked.

"You will see, i don't want to spoil anything but know this. We will have the upper hoof no matter what with what i am going to do."

Meanwhile in the throne room of Canterlot.

Nocturne was sitting on his throne meditating on his dark thoughts, when from the door Lynthea appeared.

"Master, it's been a while." She said with a seductive tone.

"I am not in the mood for games Lynthea....is the ritual ready?"

"It is, the only thing that remains is to get the weapons that you need and we can start."

"Good....."

"Is something troubling you my love?"

She said and she started moving towards him.

"It's just that.....i feel like we are running out of time. I feel him getting closer and closer."

"You talk about the Phobetor?"

"Who else would i be talking about? I know that he has gained the power he needs to get out of the Absolute Nothingness and come here but for some reason, he hasn't done anything yet."

Lynthea then placed her hooves around his shoulders and closed in next to him.

"Maybe he is waiting for something, he might be waiting for you to get the ritual done?"

"Why would he do that?"

"Trust me dear, you remember my mistress don't you?"

"How can i forget? All that mystery that surrounded her...."

"And you still remember what she will do to you if you find yourself back in Hell yes?"

"Of course i do.....and it won't be pleasant."

"That's not fear i smell is it?" Lynthea said with a smile.

Nocturne then turned to face her and said.

"That's my line!"

She then laughed and the two prepared a kiss but suddenly.

"Wait.....something isn't right." Nocturne said as he got up from the throne.

He then looked out the window and saw them in the distance. Dragons, Griffons, Changelings and Ponies all of them marching towards the castle. Nocturne then looked closer and he saw the four Princesses standing on top of a big rock looking over Canterlot.

"Lynthea! Take the ritual back to my castle i will handle things here!"

"Yes master!" And she left the room.

Nocturne kept looking at them and their army and said.

"So....you returned huh? That saves me the trouble from coming back to the human world, oh well......Chrysalis!"

The from behind him a green pentagram appeared on the ground in the middle of the room and Chrysalis appeared on it.

Chrysalis was taller, her wings were bigger, she had green glowing eyes with dark tentacles under her body and green spores around them.

"You called me master?"

She said and she bowed before him.

"Yes i did! Gather my troops and engage the enemy but.....leave my little Princesses alone."

"The Princesses are here?! Then you must send me to-"

But before she could finish she felt her entire body being crushed.

Nocturne had extended his hoof towards her and was the one who was causing her pain.

"I said! Let them come to me! You can take care of Thorax! Don't you want that?!"

"My lord please! Yes! Yes i do! Just....please stop!"

Nocturne then stopped and left Chrysalis go.

"After i get my weapons you can get your revenge on these pitifully Princesses. But for now! Let them come! LET MY ARMY FEED ON THEIR FLESH AND GROW STRONGER! Cause when the time comes! I will kill Phobetor! AND THE OLD GODS! I WILL SAVE CREATION!"

From outside of the castle, the four Princesses were talking along with Thorax and Ember.

"Alright, the assault has begin." Ember said.

"We will attack the enemy and we will make sure to give you enough time to head to the castle, you just make sure that Nocturne is defeated!" Thorax said.

"We will, you just now need to stay safe." Princess Celestia said.

"We have told you Princess, our minds are set. Even if it means dying, i will die fighting to avenge those that have fallen, even my dearest friend, Spike." Ember said.

"Alright, oh and one more thing, when i give you the signal, tell your troops to fall back." Princess Luna said.

"How will we know when you give the signal Princess?" Thorax asked.

"You will see, it will be very obvious."

"Ok, good luck to all of you. Let's hope that this goes well." Thorax said and then left along with Ember.

"This is it everypony, the end is near, are you ready?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Nocturne will get what's coming to him sister, that's a promise."

"All this bloodshed must come to an end, a lot of good ponies died because of him." Cadence said.

"This is our chance, we can't lose now! Not when we are so close." Twilight said.

Celestia smiled at them and said.

"Then, let's go!"

The four mares then took flight. The flew around the battlefield in which was happening in both air and ground. The Dragons and the Griffons were fighting in the air while the Ponies and the Changelings were fighting land. Celestia knew that they had little time before their army would be overrun, the discipline training of the resistance fighters did little to nothing to the brutality of these monsters and they were being massacred.

The four Princesses managed to make their way around the castle without being spotted, they got inside the castle and they didn't encounter any resistance, only this dark fleshy substance that was all over the castle.

"What is all this stuff?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know but it looks dangerous, we better stay away from it." Cadence said.

As they were walking down the long halways and corridors of Canterlot, the sounds of battle from outside could be heard. Screams and agony was reeking from outside and those outside were facing horrors beyonded their imaginations.

"I hope that plan of your's works Princess Luna....." Twilight said.

"It will Twilight Sparkle, trust me. If we had joined the others in combat then Nocturne could have escaped or even worse prepare a trap for us. But right now he expects us to be in the middle of battle with the others and when we reach the throne room we will take him by surprise."

After some more walking they had finaly reached the big doors that led to the throne room.

"This is it everypony, be ready." Princess Celestia said.

But before they could open the doors, the window next to them broke and from it Chrysalis came forth, with Ember's neck pierced by her hoof turned into a claw.

"Princess Ember!" Twilight said.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" Chrysalis said and dropped Ember's corpse to the floor.

"Chrysalis? Is that you?" Cadence asked.

"Of course it is me! Who did you expect to rush to you and take your life because of revenge?"

"What has happened to you Chrysalis? You look terrible!" Twilight said.

"Isn't it obvious? Nocturne did this to me!"

"And now you serve him as one of his Knight Terrors?" Princess Celestia said.

"You think that i was given a choice? After my defeat! When you took my children away from me, he found me. He turned me into one of these things but it wasn't so bad as i expected."

Then from the broken window Thorax came in.

"Chrysalis!" Thorax said and landed next Celestia.

"You will pay for this you hear me!"

Chrysalis just laughed and said.

"Oh will i? That's where you are wrong you brat, it is you who will pay! You and that Starlight Glimmer for taking away my children. Even if she did join us for a moment i still hate her!"

"What? Starlight is....."

"Yes, she was Thorax but no more. I tried my best to free her but there was no other way....i am sorry." Twilight said.

Thorax lowerd his head and said.

"Another friend lost.....just like that.....why is this happening?"

Chrysalis laughed again and said.

"You really did care about her didn't you? Ha! Well then if you want, i can send you to her right now.....ALL OF YOU!"

She then opened her mouth spat out acid on the ground in front of her.

The others managed to dodge the attack just in time.

"Run all you want! You will never escape me!"

Cadence then started shooting at her with her bow, to her surprise however Chrysalis moved her head side ways and grabbed the light arrow with her mouth something that caused all of them to moving in shock.

Chrysalis then chewed on it and the arrow was gone.

Then the tentacles under her body pierced Ember's and from her whole body, the spores that were driven into her flesh were turned into changelings with fungus and tentacles on them and they bursted out of her body at once causing it to be destroyed.

"Kill them all!" Chrysalis shouted.

And the changelings rushed forward to them.

Celestia and Luna also charged towards them and thanks to their blades, the curropted bodies of these changelings were cut to pieces one after the other, covering both of them with their blood.

As for Twilight and Cadence, they prepared to face Chrysalis.

"No! I will handle this!" Thorax said and put his hoof in front of them causing them to stop.

Then green energies surrounded him and when they disappeared it revealed Shining armor.

"I got this." Thorax said in Shining armor's voice.

He then raised the sword that he had with him with his horn and said.

"You and me Chrysalis! You are going to pay for all that you have done!"

Chrysalis just laughed and said.

"I can't wait to see you try!"

Chrysalis then charged her own magic and created a green sword. The blade of the sword was cresent with green energies radiating out of it. It had a pony skull on it's hilt with small green tentacles coming out of its side with green goo running down from it.

The two looked at each other for a while and then suddenly, with the boost of her wings Chrysalis charged forward.

Thorax wa able to block her attack with his sword and the two kept adding presure as their swords were pushing one another.

"You really think that you can beat me? Fool! I won this fight the moment you raised your sword against me!"

Chrysalis then spat on his face acid and pierced his chest with her tentacles and lifted him up into the air.

"Thorax!" Twilight shouted.

Chrysalis then with her tentacles split open Thorax in half. The remaining parts of his body fell to the ground in front of them while they also changed back to his original form.

Twilight then in rage flew towards Chrysalis.

"Twilight no!" Celestia shouted.

"Foolish girl! Didn't you see what i just did a second ago?"

Chrysalis then prepared her tentacles to pierce Twilight, but just before the impact, Twilight charged her horn and teleported herself above Chrysalis and thrusted her blade on Chrysali's neck causing it to slowly start petrifying.

Seeing this opportunity Celestia and Luna charged towards Chyrsalis.

Luna then used her Scythe to cut Chrysali's horn and front hooves causing her to drop her sword and fall before them.

Cadence then saw her tentacles getting ready to attack. She flew above Chrysali's and launched a golden arrow that when it touched Chrysali's body it created a tiny explosion strong enough to destory her tentacles and her back legs.

Twilight seeing that pulled her blade out of her throat and jumped away.

Then Celestia with all her might pierced Chrysalis with her sword and holded her up against the door. She then charged her sword with magic that caused an explosion throwing Chrysali's forward and causing the door to burst open.

Chrysali's body was dragged by the explosion a few meters away from the throne were Nocturne once sat. The ground from the door until her body was covered in her blood along with most of her organs that had survived the devastating assaults.

The others then slowly walked into the throne room and saw Nocturne looking at the window.

"It's over Nocturne, we have you surrounded." Celestia said.

"Intresting choice of words sister, but when i see your soldiers getting massacred like if they were nothing i don't think that you can call that surrounded."

And he turned around to face them.

Nocturne's eye fell on top Cadence and Twilight. They armor that they were wearing proved to him that they had mastered some of the weapons' powers, however when he looked over to Celestia and saw her burned mane and covered eye he said with a sight.

"Tia, this........"

Feeling sympathy for his sister Nocturne charged his magic and said.

"Let me fix this."

"Don't you dare use your foul magic on me!"

"But sister! You must be in pain!"

"Yes, yes i am in pain! But i can live with it! I can still live on no matter what happens, as long as i have my family on my side nothing can stop me.....unlike you!"

Nocturne then growled and said.

"You think that i am doing this for myself? I am doing this so that Creation may live on! If Phobetor and the Old Gods escape their prison-which i am sure that Phobetor already has- then we are doomed! The only thing that is required to stop them is this world's energies! And who knows? Maybe the Creator will have mercy on us and Pony Kind may be recreated! But in the meantime, i can't allow a second Cosmic War!"

"You overestimate yourself Nocturne! To think that you can defeat an evil that existend from the very begining of Creation!"

Nocturne then released a demonic laugh that caused the four princesses to feel chills running down their spines.

"I have proven myself worthy of such a mission, lot and lots of times in the past! You were there! You were the moment of my many triumphs! Yet you still doubt my powers!"

"We do not doubt you Nocturne! We have seen what you can do and what you are willing to do to achieve your goals! You killed my husband and brought him back as your servant! You devoured my child right in front of me! And you brought destruction not only to Equestira but to the Human world as well! Cadence said and readied her bow.

"If you think that you have seen everything, then you are wrong! The powers of the Old Gods are beyond understanding! Those that would dare to study them would fall insane! All of them except me! And you know why? Cause i was made to be able to weild such powers! I was made to wreck havoc and destruction both in the real and the Dream World! But now thinks have changed, i for once in my life will do something good! Something that will save Creation and all of its inhabitants! And when it is finished i will surrender myself to the will of the Gods and i will be rewarded! I will have my place back upon the Heavens as the God Of Nightmares as i did many years ago! And i am so close! All i want is your weapons, give them. To. Me!"

Celestia looked on her three companions and they all gave her an acknowledge full smile and she said.

"What you are doing Nocturne maybe be pure, but the way you are going about it is wrong! Many have died because of your twisted ideas and strategies, i won't let anypony else die! Even if it means finaly killing you!"

Nocturne hearing then slowly stood in two hooves, he extended his hoof forward and released a tendril that pierced the remain's of Chrysali's body. He then pulled it and when it was close to him he punched it and it melt into his body.

"Then you will all die right here! Right now!"

"We will see about that!"

When Luna said that she stabbed her Scythe to the ground. The Scythe was then covered by a blue aura and then pierced the roof with an illuminating light so strong that it pierced a small portion of the roof and the light was extended towards the skys.

"I don't believe you Luna, you would dare release it in the real world?"

"Luna what did you do?" Celestia asked.

Luna however just lowered her head, grinned and said.

"This is what i was talking about sister...."

The from outside of the throne room windows a giant dark energy being in the shape of a unicorn pony appeared without any facial features at all appeared.

Twilight was able to recongnize the dark being and said.

"The Tantabus!"

From outside, the Tantabus roared and charged it's magic and the whole roof along with the walls of the throme room had disappeared.

"The Tantabus? What is that?" Cadence asked.

Celestia then looked over to her siste and asked.

"Luna what is the Tantabus?"

"I created it, it was so that i was punished for my actions as Nightmare moon but after it was able to spread to the minds of the Elements of Harmony and infect them with Nightmares. Soon after, everypony in Ponyville was being tormented by it, but i was along with Princess Twilight's help and her friends i was able to defeat it and seal it away. But now, thanks to this Scythe i was able to remake the Tantabus into a Dream Guardian like myself. And now i brought it forth and it will help us defeat Nocturne!"

The Tantabus then unleashed a wave of darkness all around Canterlot, weakening or destroying the lesser Nightmares.

"My Scythe has the power to destroy Nightmares and now the Tantabus is one with the Scythe and it shares it's powers!"

Luna was right, when the wave of darkness hit Nocturne it made him bow down for a few seconds before getting back up. He grunted a little and said.

"Yes, you are right Luna! Your Scythe can kill me! But it won't matter once i have Consumed it along with your Tantabus!"

Nocturne then started running towards them but was stopped by a wall of darkness that appeared before him, from the wall came out pony warriors made out of light blue energies stepped forth who were also equipted with lances and heavy armor.

The warriors attacked Nocturne, all of them constantly charging towards them without stopping.

Nocturne stood in two hooves and started cutting them down with his twin blades, the problem however was that they weren't as durable as normal ponies made out of flesh and blood and their combined attacks from all directions some times caused Nocturne to get hit by them and surprisingly, bleed.

"This is our chance! Luna i believe in your Tantabus, let's end this Nightmare once and for all!"

Luna and the others noded in agreement and joined the battle against Nocturne.

Celestia was the first to come in contact with Nocturne, she swinged her blade across his neck but Nocturne was able to guard the attack with his own left blade.

Cadence was in mid air behind him, she aimed her bow and started taking shots after shots.

Nocturne noticing that ducked down and the arrows headed straight for Celestia, she tried to move out of the way but she felt her front hooves being stuck to the ground. Whe she looked down to see what was holding her, she was that Nocturne had wrapped her hooves around with his tendrils and was holding her there.

The Dream warriors however jumped right at the arrows taking the hits for Celestia and when they were touched by them. They and the arrows disappeared.

Nocturne flew towards her and kicked her out of the way knocking her back with blood coming from her mouth.

Then from both of his sides he was attack by Luna and Twilight, he rose up both of his blades and blocked both of their attacks. He then noticed Cadence behind him again, but this time he wouldn't let het attack him. From his back a tentacle appeared and slapped Cadence to the ground causing her to gasp out in pain.

Then, tendrils came out of his hooves again and wrapped Twilight's and Luna's blades. He then started spinning around while the two were still attached to him. Twilight started feeling dizzy and after some struggle she let go of her weapon and was thrown into the ground, the same also happened to Princess Luna, she too was getting dizzy from all the spinning and was forced to let go.

Nocturne the charged his magic and teleported the four Princesses right in front of him, however they were trapped by his some strong tentacles that erupted from the ground.

"Now i know what you are gonna say..."I have seen enough hentai to know where this is going".....Oh wait forget about that, that wasn't me speaking."

He then charged his powers and the tentacles slowly started crushing them.

However the Dream Warriors were still coming in. Nocturne unleashed an explosion of darkness and the Dream Warriors disappeared for the time being.

He then turned his attention to the Tantabus. He extended his hoof forward and unleashed a tendril that was attached to the Tantabus, Nocturne jumped off from the cliff and started flying around the Tantabus, slowly wrapping it too with his tendrlis.

"Your time has come little Tantabus, cause when i consume you! Nothing will be able to protect them from me!"

Nocturne then flew right towards the Tantabus's head and thrusted his blade forward into its forehead.

"Tantabus, NO!" Luna shouted cause she knew that it was about to be Consumed.

But something else happened. Instead of melting, the Tantabus started getting smaller and smaller to the point where it had reached the average size of a normal pony.

Nocturne then landed next to the trapped Princesses.

"What is the Tantabus doing?" Celestia asked.

"I...i don't know....." Luna said with her head down.

The Tantabus was then wrapped around by a blue aura. The aura started getting stronger and stronger to the point were they had to cover their eyes from the blue light. And when it disappeared, they all gasped at it's new form.

"Impossible!" Luna said.

"But...how?" Twilight asked.

"Should we be alarmed right now or not?" Cadence asked.

Celestia gazed at the transformed Tantabus and said.

"It can't be...."

The Tantabus was standing before them, but it wasn't in it's original form no, it had take the form of Nocturne with only some differences. Instead of having dark skin, red wings and blades. Its skin was light blue much like the Dream Warriors, along with its blades and wings.

"It has taken Nocturne's form! That's amazing!" Luna exclaimed.

The Tantabus started moving forward and it surprisingly started talking.

"You have lost your way dark one. But i have come to correct your course." The Tantabus said in Nocturne's voice.

"I am the embodiment of your greatest potential. I am what you once were before you embraced the dark and walked in the path of Light."

"But i am still one with the Light and this path that i walk is the right one."

"You are wrong, by embracing the dark you are already ruining yourself. And this path that you have taken has been consumed by paranoia and fear. Betrayal was waiting around every corner, you never knew whom to trust."

"I like it that way."

"But you might like the alternative better."

He then stompped his hoof on the ground and released all around Canterlot a blue claming aura that removed all the corruption and freeded the four Princesses who stood there watching in amazment the blue aura. Then Celestia started feeling better, she felt like if she was reconstructed. The bandage that was wrapped around her eye had fallen down and revealed it anew.

"Auntie, your eye! It's healed."

"This is amazing, i am glad!" Twilight said.

"Yes....it would seem this blue aura has healed you sister."

"And all thanks to your Tantabus sister." Celestia said with a smile.

"You see, Phobetor was using you from the beginning so that you may wreak havoc all across the pony world. He chose this plane of existence because its inhabitants can use and manipulate magic. And with every dream that you have corrupted, or life that you have taken has only been empowering Phobetor. But if you choose to give up on your powers, just like you did all these years ago, then Phobetor won't be able to sustain himself and he will be brought back to the Absolute Nothingness. And then and only then true clarity and peace can be achieved."

"I won't fall for your manipulations Tantabus."

"If you refuse the Light, you must strike me down. Do you have it in you to kill a part of yourself?"

"Let's just get this over with."

The four Princesses then prepared to help in the fight but the Tantabus raised his hoof in front of them and said.

"You four have suffered enough, i will handle this."

He then faced Nocturne and said.

"Come on then, take me on. You will discover the Light inside you cannot be vanquished."

Then two then began attacking each other, using their twin blades.

Nocturne then jumped over the Tantabus and released his tendrils that were then wrapped around its neck. Nocturne then started pulling but the Tantabus resisted, but not for long.

The tendrils were then set in flames but it didn't do anything to the Tantabus.

"You cannot destroy me, i have become you and i have gained all of your powers and resistances."

"We will see about that!"

"Yes, yes we shall."

The Tantabus then extended its wings and flew towards Nocturne but instead of bumbing against him he went right through him. He then turned around and pierced him with his blades and wrapped his wings around with his own tendrils. He then started spinning around and then dispensed Nocturne into the air. The Tantabus then violently pulled him down and smashed him against the floor cuasing it to crack. It then teleported behind him and cut off his wings wit his blades causing Nocturne to start bleeding.

"I don't believe this! Nocturne is actually loosing!" Luna said.

The Tantabus then backed away, it charged it's magic and a blue circle appeared around Nocturne.

"What is it doing now?" Twilight asked.

Then, copies of the Tantabus appeared around the circle and one after another started dashing forward and striking at Nocturne with their blades. The real Tantabus then flew high above Nocturne, charged it's powers again and was covered in a blue flame.

"I welcome you. To the pure world i will forge!"

The Tantabus extended it's wings and started flying straight down to where Nocturne was as the flame around it grew ever bigger and stronger.

The others watched in excitment and waited to see what would happen. Would this truly be Nocturne's end? Or not?

The moment of truth was near, the Tantabus was very close to reaching it's target.

"Enough!" Nocturne said.

He then pierced both of his blades into the ground and created a black hole that covered him up. The clones of the Tantabus were all sucked up and the real one was struggling in the air.

"Oh no! Something is happening!" Cadence said.

Nocturne then roared and the black hole around him exploded releasing dark energies all around him. With hatred in his heart he flew towards then Tantabus and wrapped it around his tendrils, he then smashed it to the ground pierced it's back with his own blades.

The Tantabus however used his magic and was able to rotate itself and face Nocturne while still being stabbed by his blades.

"This is the end."

When the Tantabus said that it exploded into a blue aura of energy and knocked Nocturne back near the cliff.

The others covered their eyes because of the explosion and when it cleared out Luna said.

"Tantabus! Where are you?"

"Luna...i think it's gone...." Celestia said.

"No that can't be! The Tantabus can't be defeated!"

"Everypony, look!" Twilight said and she pointed at Nocturne.

Nocturne slowly started getting up, he however was in bad shape. His wings were destroyed and he was bleeding badly. His armor and twin blades however were surprisingly intact without even a scratch on them.

Luna and Twilight then immediately picked up their weapons and prepared themselves for combat.

"You think you have won? Oh it's far from over!"

Celestia then raised her sword and said.

"Quickly get him before he gets a chance to recover!"

Hearing that, Nocturne jumped off the cliff and started descending.

"What is he doing? Has he lost his mind?" Cadence asked.

"Just keep following him!" Luna shouted.

And just when they were about to reach the cliff, a giant dark dragon appeared and started flying up on the sky.

"What in the!" Twilight said.

"Is that Nocturne?" Cadence asked.

The four mares stood there in shock, but the dragon retreated, then a magic portal appeared before it and when the dragon crossed it, the portal was closed.

"What just happened?" Celestia asked.