Then from around Nocturne, four glowing orbs appeared, all of them harboring different colours, one of them was red, one was blue, one was green and the last one was brown.

He then used his magic and his twin blades disappeared.

"Do you reall think that you can stand against the Guardians? How amusing! For now i control the very fires that keep you all warm! The very ground that you walk! The very waters that you drink! And the air that you all breath!"

Nocturne then extended his hoof and picked up the red orb. When that happened, a giant red fox with orange glowing eyes and wings made out of fire appeared above him, it then let out a roar and the fox turned into a sword with a red hilt, an iron blade with a pointy edge and on the blade there were symbols carved on it.

Nocturne then stood in two hooves, turned his hoof into a claw and picked up his sword, he then extended his wings and took flight towards Celestia. Seeing that, Celestia blocked his incoming attack and pushed him back with the beam from her horn and followed up with an attack from her sword which Nocturne was able to parry. Then from the tip of his sword, fire started coming out, something that forced Celestia to back away from him.

"Come any closer! And die!"

Celestia just ignored him and continued attacking him. She then sliced his left hoof something that made him groan a little, but when Nocturne suffered the damage he kicked her face in with the same hoof that Celestia attack, causing her to get knocked back a little.

"Celestia!" Queen Galaxia shouted in fear of something happening to her daughter.

"You may shout all you want! But none of you is going to help her!"

Nocturne shouted and then invisible binds stopped everypony on the giant platforms to stop moving.

"Don't hurt them Nocturne! This is between you and me!"

"I haven't done anything to them yet! But rest assured that their turn will come after i am done with you!"

"I won't allow that!"

"It not for you to decide!"

Nocturne then flew up in the air and said.

" FLAMBERGE! BE UNLEASHED!"

Nocturne then came charging down with his sword that was now covered in flames. Celestia was able to dodge his attack but the ground beneath them was covered in flames. Celestia quickly took flight and Nocturne stood there in the ground but instead of getting hurt he just started laughing.

"No more running away sister! You said it yourself!"

He then stomped on the ground and her wings disappeared. As a result Celestia fell down on the ground and was covered by flames.

"CELESTIA!" King Cosmos shouted.

But little did he know that Celestia was able to create a shield of light around her that protected her from the neverending flames. The barrier however wasn't as effective against these flames. It slowly started cracking and Celestia felt the world around her heating up.

"Tell me sister? Are you ready to feel like how it is to be in flames that can actually hurt you?"

She then saw Nocturne jumping on her barrier and slicing it with his sword and then disappear into the flames and with each strike that Nocturne would cause on Celestia's shield the faster it would crack.

"Your end is near!"

Celestia however just smiled and said.

"No, it is not!"

She then spinned around with her blade and she released a light that cleared out the flames.

"What the!" Nocturne said.

Celestia then jumped out of her shield and prepared to attack Nocturne, but before she reached him she used her horn and teleported behind and swinged her sword across his neck but Nocturne was still able to block it with his sword. But when the two swords came in contact, the flaming sword was shattered to pieces and released in the air a red aura. Nocturne's neck was then cut a little and blood started running down and as for Celestia, her wings have been returned to her.

"Impossible! Flameberge!"

When the ponies from the platforms saw Nocturne bleeding, they all let out a sight of relief and Nocturne felt that.

"FOOLS! If you think that i will die with one hit then you are wrong! I still have a lot of tricks under my sleeve!"

Then the blue orb appeared in front of Nocturne and when he touched it a giant blue squid appeared, it let out a roar and it then turned into a big sickle. The handle of the sickle was long and was made out of iron and it had something carved on it. Also, at the end of it's iron blade there was an even bigger blade made out of water.

Nocturne then swinged the sickle around him and then something bad happened.

"Celestia watch out!" Crossbleser shouted.

Then from bellow, Celestia saw the dark waters rising all the way up to the tower that she and Nocturne were. The castle was now under the sea and Nocturne then used his magic and lifted the four platforms high up in the sky so that they won't get in the way.

"I will drown you into the cold black waters!"

They both then rushed at each other and their blades clashed causing water to come out of Nocturne's sickle. He then swinged it in front of her and water came down on Celestia's face and forced her to close her eyes.

Seeing his opportunity, Nocturne swinged his sickle and it's iron blade was wrapped around Celestia's neck. Nocturne the pulled her towards him and kicked her right on her chest and caused her golden armor to crack a little. He then jumped above her while the sickle was still wrapped around her neck and threw her into the air.

Celestia tried to regain her balance and fly while she was falling down but with just a gesture from Nocturne's hoof, the very waters around them charged at Celestia and covered her up, Celestia accidentally drunk some of the salty water and all of her air was cut off.

"Now to finish you off!"

Nocturne then lifted his sickle up into the air and the waters behind gathered together and created a massive tsunami that covered Nocturne with it's shadow.

"SQUIDMOTH! BE UNLEASHED!"

The giant wave then charged towards Celestia and both her and Nocturne along with the tower were swallowed by the sea.

"Oh my God no! CELESTIA!" Luna shouted from above.

And after some seconds the water cleared out and revealed Celestia who was down on the ground not moving and Nocturne making his way towards her slowly.

Celestia then slowly opened her eyes and started vomiting out water.

"What's the matter? Can't keep your head above water?" Nocturne asked sarcastically.

Celestia didn't reply to him, she just kept on vomiting water until her insides were clear once again. She then sat down and kept on breathing. What she experienced a second ago was traumatizing, she felt like if she would never be able to breath ever again and her heart was racing.

She then slowly looked up and saw Nocturne coming towards her.

"I have to do something! I will get up and i-" Celestia thought but then she realised that she had lost her sword.

"Oh no! The waters probably took it away....damm it.....is it all truly lost? How can i defeat him?" Celestia kept thinking.

"There is no point in trying to hide your thoughts from me Celestia, i can still hear you." Nocturne said.

Celestia then felt something strange, it was a small light somewhere in the depts of the waters bellow.

"Is that....." Celestia asked.

Celestia had a clear image in her head, it was her holy sword trapped underwater.

"Thanks for the information sister, i mean i was going to search for it later myself but thanks to your visions i know where it is....."

Celestia then saw her sword wrapped around by tentacles that were slowly pulling the sword back into the surface. Seeing this image in her head, Celestia focused on her powers and her horn started glowing.

"Do you really think that you can grab it when it's that far away from you?"

But Celestia didn't give up, instead she tried harder.

"And even if you were to grab it, how will it escape from my grasp?"

Celestia then looked at him and said with a smile.

"Here's how!"

The glow from her horn then became so powerful that blinded and Nocturne and forced him to go on two hooves, cover his eyes while droping his sickle and scream in pain.

Meanwhile in the waters, the sword was covered by Celestia's magical aura, the sword was then dispensed through the tentacles and right back into the surface. The sword passed through the walls of the castle, shattering them until it reached the tower. The sword the pierced the floor that was a few meters away from Nocturne and was about to pass through him too but Nocturne recovered from the blinding effect and put his sickle in front of him to protect himself.

But things didn't go as he expected and the sword passed through his sickle, destroying it completly and a blue aura was released in the air. The holy sword then pierced his cheek, completly removing it and immediately later flew right next to Celestia and Nocturne then fell down on the ground, he grunted a few times before his wound was healed.

"Squidmoth.....curses.....calm down, calm down you can still kill her....." Nocturne thought to himself.

He then slowly got up and the green orb appeared before him. Nocturne then touched it and then a giant green hawk appeared above him, the hawk roared and was then turned into a green bow with that had something carved on it and it's string was made out of pure air.

"You may have defeated fire and water sister but now i control the very air that you all breath! And now i am going to take it away!"

Nocturne then stood in two hooves, his hoof turned into a claw and he then pulled the air string. Surprisingly for Celestia, an arrow made out of pure air was shot out of the bow and headed straight for her direction. However this wasn't any normal arrow, it flew towards her so fast that she didn't have time to react and dodge the attack. The arrow then hit her on her chest and caused her to go back a bit and let out a big gasp, she then put her head down in exhaustion and kept breathing heavily.

"You may think that my arrows won't do much to you Celestia, but each time i hit you with Windweaver, your lungs will abosrd less and less air till the point where you will die of asthma! And the powerful winds will destroy your body before you could know what hit you!"

Nocturne then flew up in the air and started shooting down on Celestia with the air arrows. This time however Celestia was able to dodge them, this time being prepared for them but they still proved to be fast. Celestia then tried to flight towards Nocturne but just when she was about to stab him with her sword, Nocturne put his claw over her head and jumped above her. He then while being upside down in mid air released two shots of air arrows, one that caused her to let out another big gasp and the next was powerful enough to knock her back to the ground and cause it to crack.

Celestia tried to breath more but it proved harder and harder just like Nocturne said. Then as she slowly got up, small shards from her armor started falling down on the ground and she felt her right wing being in pain.

"Tell me sister, how does it feel to take away your breath? Does it hurt? Do you feel faint?"

Nocturne then shot three arrows down on the ground bellow him.

"WINDWEAVER! BE UNLEASHED!"

The arrows then turned into small tornadoes, the tornadoes then merged into one big typhon that then charged towards Celestia, wrapping her up and then releasing her into the air above.

While in mid air, Celestia tried to extend her wings and fly but it proved futile. With each tiny inch of movement from her wings would only cause her pain. Nocturne then with a simple gesture pulled Celestia towards him and when she had reached him, he punched her right in the face and caused blood to come out of her nose. Celestia let out a smaller gasp and felt her mind breaking.

Nocturne then said in a disappointed tone.

"This is our final battle Celestia! You said to give it my all yet you are doing nothing more than just accept my hits! Hmm maybe you need a little.....motivation?"

When Nocturne said that, he waved his claw across the four platforms and something horrific happened.

"CELESTIA!" Twilight shouted.

Recognizing her student's voice, Celestia turned to the direction of the sound and saw Twilight along with her friends that were all next to her along with Spike and Starlight Glimmer. She saw everypony in the platforms trying to breath, all of them struggling and with that horrible image, Celestia hit her hoof into the ground, let out a small roar and charged towards Nocturne.

"Yes! Yes! That's better! But let's see how fast you can kill me before you and everypony else run out of breath!"

Nocturne then got in two hooves and started shooting Celestia with his wind bow while taking steps back increase the distance between him and her.

But this time Celestia was determined, she didn't want anypony else to be in pain and she was going to stop Nocturne and just when the arrow reached her, Celestia just moved her head aside and dodged the attack, she then swinged her sword on the next arrow and caused it to dissapear. She then used her magic and teleported right in front of Nocturne and lunged her sword towards him.

But Nocturne quickly took flight and dodged the attack, unfortunate for him though Celestia was not gonna back down this time, she used her magic and pulled him to the ground. Then from her sword the same blinding light was released and Nocturne was weakened, Celestia then bit his claw with such ferocity that she was able to cut them off and make Nocturne drop his bow. Celestia then used her magic and threw the bow right on Nocturne's neck causing to be wrapped around it and then lifted her sword up in the air and drove her blade through his mouth and into the bow causing it to shatter and release a green aura in the air.

Celestia then felt her lungs returning back to how they were and when she looked around she saw that nopony was suffering anymore. Celestia let out a smile but it was cut short, Nocturne puched her off of him and she was thrown back and when she saw Nocturne she was horrified.

Her sword had manage to pierce through his mouth that was now even more messed than it was before. Most of his sharp teeth were removed or broken and some parts of his long tongue that had been torn appart were stuck on some of them. But after some seconds these wounds were healed just like any other.

"I am not done yet! I still have one Guardian left!"

The brown orb then appeared before him, he then extended his hoof and grabbed it. The brown orb then turned into a giant stone goldem that was covered in vines above Nocturne. The golem let out a roar and it then turned into a brown shield that was made out of wood, it was cover by some vines and it had something carved on it. After Nocturne equiped his shield, both of his twin blades disappeared and his right hoof was bare.

"Come on!" Nocturne shouted.

Nocturne then leaped into the air, landed next to Celestia and unleashed a volley of punches. Celestia tried the best she could to block his attacks but she couldn't. Nocturne's attacks were strong and her lips along with her nose slowly started bleeding. Nocturne then pulled his head back and with a roar lunged it forward and as a result, Celestia was thrown all the way back near the edge of the tower by the tremendous amount of power that Nocturne's attack had.

Celestia however didn't move after that, she didn't let out a single word. She just lied down there on the ground.

"Oh no.....please don't tell me!" Twilight asked.

Nocturne then slowly approached her and shouted.

"GET UP! I KNOW YOU ARE NOT DEAD!"

Celestia then slowly opened her eyes and looked around.

The ponies around then let out a sight of relief when they saw that she was still alive.

Nocturne however just punched the ground and from beneath Celestia a big boulder came out and knocked her up in the air. He then flew up in the air next to her, he then put both of his hooves above her and then smashed her back to the ground. While she was falling down, blood came out of her mouth and she let out a gasp once she reached the ground.

Nocturne then landed next to her, he stood in two hooves and with a simple gesture, Celestia was forced into two hooves as well. She felt her very own body fighting against her will and she could not return back to four hooves. Nocturne then jumped in front of her and unleashed more punches while saying.

"It's useless to resist me! It's useless, useless, useless, useless, USELESS!"

He then unleashed a powerful punch that pushed her back but at the same time a wall made out of stone appeared behind her and stopped her from moving. Nocturne then released an uppercut and Celestia was dazed, he then placed his right hoof in between her legs and wrapped the other around her neck, he then lifted her up and started slamming her up against the stone wall mercilessly. He then pulled her back and with a roar Nocturne rushed to the wall while still holding Celestia and he went through the wall. After some seconds of running he spinned around, threw Celestia away and she fell to the ground in pain.

"Hmm.....something is wrong here....." Nocturne thought to himself.

Celestia slowly got up and picked up her sword. She felt her head hurting a bit and surprisingly there were no wounds on her body and her armor was still standing even though it was damaged.

Nocturne then flew up in the air and shouted.

"GRANIUS! BE UNLEASHED!"

He then came down and smashed the ground beneath him. When he did that an earthquake so powerful occurred that caused Celestia to lose your balance and once again fall to the ground while the other ponies were still stuck because of Nocturne's spell.

"Everypony! Look!" Crossbleser shouted and showed the surrounding area with his hoof.

They all gasped when they what had happened. From the four corners of the castle, giant raging volcanoes that pierced the sky came out of the ground. Then from these volcanoes, big flaming boulders came out and started raining down on top of the tower.

"You are crazy! You are gonna kill us all!" Celestia shouted.

"I don't see anything wrong with that, i can die but i will come back, always! No matter how brutally i am killed!"

"You idiot!" Celestia exclaimed.

She then charged up her magic and created a giant golden shield around the whole tower, covering everypony around.

"You are ruining all the fun!"

Nocturne then smashed both of his hooves on the ground and right in front of Celestia, spiked vines appeared that wrapped themselves around her neck. The vines were squeezing her harder with each passing second to the point where Celestia couldn't take it anymore. She then screamed out in pain and just after her scream was done, she lost control over the shield.

The boulders just kept raining down on them, Celestia took flight and used her magic beam to destroy those that were gonna fall down on the other ponies. But it proved more difficult than it seemed and one of the boulders was close on falling down on one of the platforms.

"Oh no!" Celestia said.

And when the boulder was about to hit, it stopped. Celestia then looked down and saw her brother using his magic, she saw that it was him who stopped the boulder.

"What are you...."

"I told you sister, their end will come after your death, that is a promise that i won't break."

He then got in two hooves and with his right hoof he used his magic and pulled Celestia out of the sky and right back into the ground. Then, tentacles came out of the ground and wrapped her body around.

Nocturne then flew up in the air and dragged the boulder along with him. He then placed it above Celestia and let go of it.

"And just to make sure....."

Nocturne then got on top of the falling boulder and started punching it down.

"Celestia! You have to get out of the way!" Queen Galaxia shouted.

Celestia struggled but she couldn't escape and the boulder was close. Then, her holy sword that was right in front of her started flying around the tentacles that were holding Celestia down and she was freed.

"How in the!"

Her horn was then lit on it's own and the sword was wrapped by her aura. The sword then dragged her up in the air right bellow the boulder.

"Oh no no no!" Celestia started.

She then closed her eyes but to her and Nocturne's surprise, the boulder turned into dust when the sword touched it. Seeing that, Nocturne put his shield in front of him to deflect the long pointy sword that was coming his way. The sword however was able to pierce the shield and went right into Nocturne's mouth.

The two ponies then stood in the air completly shooked about what just happened and blood was coming out of Nocturne's mouth.

"Imk-poh-ssible...." Nocturne tried to say.

The shield then disappeared and a brown aura was released into the air.

"Granius....."

Celestia then snapped out of the shock and pulled her sword out of her brother's mouth and when she did that Nocturne started falling down on the ground and after some seconds, he reached the ground and caused it to crack.

As for the ponies all around, their eyes were all stuck on Nocturne, they were all eager to see if he would rise up again.

Celestia then landed a few meters away from Nocturne and prepared herself from the worse.

"Is he.....truly dead?" One of the stallions in a red outfit asked.

"Nocturne.....?" A mare in a blue outfit asked.

And then, under his corpse, a green pentagram appeared. The pentagram then started glowing rapibly and Nocturne let out a deep breath as he was levitated back on his two hooves.

"What did she just do? How was she able to defeat the Guardians? Is she? No.....i am imagining things.....i hope....." Nocturne thought to himself.

Nocturne then got on four hooves and said with a laugh.

"Alright a good start! But let's see how you will fair against this!"

He then slammed his hoof into the ground and then a fire by the colour of green started blazing next to him. He then placed his hoof that he turned into a claw into the fire. And from there, he pulled out a green scythe with a big red eye next to it's blade. Then from the scythe a green aura came out and it wrapped around Nocturne's right hoof.

"Your life essence.....it will be mine!"

He then put the blade of the Scythe on the ground and started running towards Celestia while the blade of the Scythe was sliding down on the ground.

"That Scythe....i remember it....." Celestia thought to herself.

Nocturne then grabbed it with both of his claws and was about to attack Celestia but she put her sword and stopped his attack.

"You should have accepted this Scythe when you had the chance sister! Now you will die in agony because of your mistake!"

"I would never accept such an unholy weapon! My job is to protect those that i care about, not take the lives of the innocent like you!"

Nocturne got angry and said.

"You call me weak? We will see who is the weak one after i crush your skull with my claw!"

Nocturne then kicked her back and prepared another attack with his Scythe but this time the hit was successful and the Scythe pierced Celestia's shoulder.

"Ahhh!"

The from her wound, green energies started coming out and straight into Nocturne's mouth. He then moaned in pleasure and said.

"Delicious! I can't wait to feel my teeth sink into the rest of your body! The sweet sweet taste of your flesh!"

Celestia intimidated by his words tried to back away but when she did, the green energies that were coming out her wound started getting stronger and she felt her very own life leaving from her body and after some seconds of immense pain and screaming the green energies stopped coming out of her body and she stopped moving.

"CELESTIA! MY GOD! CELESTIA!" King Cosmos cried out for his duaghter but she didn't responed.

Celestia's body had now decayed, it got old and her beautiful mane had now turned grey and she just stayed there, in Nocturne's hooves dead.

The ponies around the platforms were left still as statues because of the horror that stood before them and they couldn't do anything else.

"Princess....Princess Celestia......" Twilight said and started crying.

"CELESTIA!" Twilight shouted.

"YOU MONSTER! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" Starlight shouted.

"Oh just be patient.....your final seconds are close and you are gonna waste them on insulting me? If so then by all means! CURSE ME ALL YOU LIKE! WHY WOULD I CARE?" He shouted.

But then something unbelievable happened.

Celestia rose her head up and bite in Nocturne's neck causing him to drop her and pull out his Scythe. Celestia however as she fell down took with her a small piece of his flesh.

And as Nocturne was going back he started grunted and he put both of his hooves on his injury and thought to himself.

"How in Heaven's name! Normaly my skin is tough of iron but how did she pierce through it? And.....it hurts?"

Celestia then stood up and picked up her sword with her magic.

"Everypony! Look!" Crossbleser shouted.

They all then looked at Celestia. To their surprise her body was radiating a dark blue energy out of it and after a flash of that light, her body was brought back to it's original state.

"Impossible! These energies.....oh no, don't tell me!" Nocturne thought to himself.

Celestia then pointed her sword at Nocturne and said.

"For a pony without many facial features i would say that you look frightened am i right Nocturne?"

"Me?Frightened? You would wish that i was scared of you....but how did that happen? I devoured your very own life! How are you still alive?!" Nocturne demanded an answer.

Celestia then lowerd her sword and said.

"I do not have the answers that you seek Nocturne, right now i am just happy that who or whatever was that helped me did so and it has given me the opportunity to fix this mistake!"

Celestia then boosted herself with her wings and flew towards Nocturne and started attacking him with her holy sword.

"Oh shi-!"

Nocturne was cut short and put his Scythe to protect himself but her attacks were this time stronger. She was attacking him from all directions without hesitation or fear. She felt the hilt of her sword lighter and the way that she was swinging the holy blade it seemed like if it had become second nature to her.

"Now take this!" Celestia then prepared a powerful strike but Nocturne stomped his hoof to the ground and said.

"No! I defie the magics that empower you Celestia! I will crush you!"

Nocturne then pierced the ground with his Scythe and cracks appeared all around the ground. Then from these cracks came out green beams and they attacked Celestia but she backed away and put her sword in front of her to block the glowing beams.

The beams however were able to pass through and once again Celestia felt her own life leaving her body.

"No....i....i won't allow this!"

This then started spinning her sword and the green energies were wraped around it until nothing remained.

"Here! I am giving it back!"

And then with a powerful swing of her sword the green beams were thrown back to Nocturne and when he was hit his Scythe was thrown into the air and started falling on Celestia and without any choice she picked up the Scythe as well.

Nocturne then slowly got up and stated laughing.

"Why are you laughing!" Celestia asked.

Nocturne stoped and said.

"You fell for it you idiot!"

Then from the Scythe a green string appeared and it wrapped around Celestia's horn and after a second the string disappeared.

"What! What just happened?" Celestia asked.

"Allow me to explain! The Scythe that you now hold is able to devour the souls of those that the wielder kills but if the wielder is near the brink of death the Scythe with turn on him and devour him instead!"

The others around gasped out when they heard these words.

"So now the only thing that remains for me to do is..."

He then stood in two hooves and crossed his hooves.

"TO WEAKEN YOU!"

And then from his hooves his blades appeared and flew towards Celestia while extending his blades forward.

In that moment of shock and fear, Celestia pulled her head down in an attempt to dodge his attack but she wasn't fast enough and his blade was able to slightly cut her cheek and blood started coming out but what scared her the most was the fact that the blade of Scythe was split in two and opened up like a mouth and the blood that kept running from her cheek was sucked into it.

Nocturne then prepared another attack but this time, Celestia put both her sword and scythe in front of her and blocked his other attack. She then used her magic and released a light beam that launched Nocturne a few meters into the sky and as Nocturne was coming down, she extended her sword and as a result Nocturne was hanged by her sword that had pierced his neck and after that she used the Scythe and pierced Nocturne in between his legs and Nocturne let out a weak gasp.

"I won't let you win!"

She then spinned him around and with the swing of both of her weapons she let Nocturne and the Scythe go and he was thrown into the ground with the Scythe still stuck in between his legs.

Nocturne then felt a familiar darkness surrounding his body. His very own body was being destroyed from the inside, his bones started breaking and his lungs were squeezed to the point were they popped. When that happened Nocturne started trembling in pain as the darkness kept destroying his darkness. He was struggling to survive like a fish out of water.

"You! I knew it! You are helping......" But his words were cut short and Scythe was in between his legs was pulled out on each own and it flew above him.

"The Scythe! Is it?" King Cosmos asked.

"It's....after Nocturne now." Queen Galaxia said.

Then Scythe's blade was the once again split in two and it lunged itself towards Nocturne.

"Yes! It's over!" Celestia said.

But right before the Scythe could stab Nocturne, his hooves turned into claws and he grabed the Scythe from it's two blades.

"No...." He said as he was getting up slowly descpite the unimaginable pain that he was feeling.

"I won't allow anypony to stop me from achieving my abitions! MY WILL IS ABOSLUTE!"

When he said that, he broke both of the blades of the Scythe and as a result, the Scythe itself was melted and absorbed by Nocturne's body.

"He.....he consumed it!" Twilight said.

"Impossible! He isn't supposed to be able to do such a thing!" Starlight said.

Nocturne however just laughed and his body was then wraped by a green aura.

"Fools! My consuming ability HAS no limits! I can Consume anything i want! A living being, an object! Nothing is safe from me!"

When he said that Nocturne got in two hooves and laughed even more but this time his body started chaning. His dark flesh was slowly changing into green and his eyes turned yellow. Nocturne's wings had turned dark green and his body along with his wings had grown in size and from his head two black pointy horns grew out violently. His armor and twin blades also changed, his armor from grey had now become dark with green symbols all around it and his red twin blades turned dark and they were also split in two like the Scythe.

The ponies all around gazed up Nocturne's new form in terror but the one who was afraid more than anypony else, was Celestia. She was naturaly taller than him but now this new form intimidated her more than ever.

Nocturne stood there in two hooves admiring himself for the new powers that he just got. He turned his hoof into a claw and said.

"No force of will can overcome a failing body. Remember that when i will devour your life!"

He then extended his hoof towards her and a green powerful beam came out and just in time Celestia was able to dodge it.

"You won't be able to dodge my attacks for long!"

Nocturne then snaped his claw and Celestia fell to the ground in pain.

"Celestia!" Luna shouted.

"But what just happened?! Why did she fall?" Cadence asked.

Celestia was looking down on the ground and grunted in pain, she felt her head spinning and her vision was blurred.

"Don't try to resist it! It's a small curse that i placed within you, but don't worry it's full power is build up over time, so you still have some time to kill me before that curse reache's it's full potential!"

Celestia then in rage got up and prepared her sword for an attack and with Nocturne seeing that, he couldn't resist the challenge.

The two then rushed to each other and used their weapons to attack each other.

Nocturne lunged both of his blades forward but they were quickly stoped Celestia's sword.

"Do you realy think that you can much my strength? How naive!"

And with a quick move of his claws, Nocturne grabed the sword and put it down while with his other claw he grabed Celestia by her horn, he then turned his left hoof into a hoof and punched Celestia right in her belly.

When that happened, Celestia let out a gasp and in the same time she puked out some blood. Nocturne then wraped his claw around her face, spinned her around a few times and then threw her near the edge of the tower.

"Princess Celestia!" Starlight Glimmer shouted.

However to their surprise she got up slowly but just as she did, the golden armor that was protecting her from further damage was now slowly shattering with each move of her muscles.

"I...am fine, i just need a....."

Celestia then felt the curse that was growing inside her becoming stronger and she fell on the ground again in pain. She let out stronger grunts and she crunched her teeth in pain as tears started coming out of her eyes as well.

"I, i can't! It hurts so much!"

And just when she finished her sentance she puked out more blood.

"As i expected!"

Nocturne said as he was walking towards her and when he was close to her he grabbed her by her neck, lifted her in the air and said.

"I suppose i was wrong, he isn't protecting you at all."

"What...are you talking....about?"

"Oh nothing really, it doesn't matter now, your end is here."

Nocturne then placed his giant claw on top of her head and started slowly squeezing her and Celestia let out a scream of agony.

"Yes! Your pain brings me joy!"

However, the fallen sword that was in the middle of the tower started twitching on its own and suddenly, it was lunged towards Nocturne.

The sword pierced his back and came out from the other side, destroying his armor. Nocturne then let out a scream and dropped Celestia to the ground and it was then that she heard a small voice in her head.

"I won't let you die Celestia, not yet!"

The sword then removed itself from Nocturne's back and cut one of his horns. Celestia then out of instinct, grabbed Nocturne's horn and watched as he was fighting with the floating sword. The sword then dodged Nocturne's blade and got under him, there the sword was swinged across the both of his legs and cut them off, causing the ground beneath him to flood in blood.

"Now is my chance! I feel it!"

Celestia then flew up in the air while still holding her brother's horn and as she landed, she stabbed Nocturne in his neck with his own horn. When that happened, Nocturne screamed in pain and struggled to get up but it was all in vain. After that, the sword appeared next to Celestia, floating and waiting for its mistress to pick it up. Celestia smiled when she saw the sword and she said as she picked it up.

"I don't know who you are, but thank you, thank you for everything."

She then lifted the sword up in the air and from the skies a giant light beam covered the sword while she was still holding it. And when she looked down she saw her brother Nocturne who was at the brink of death. She closed her eyes and said before landing the final blow.

"This pains me as much as you do brother, i am sorry...."

She then pierced the sword that was covered in Holy Magic through Nocturne's chest, piercing his armor and entering his body. And as the sword pierced his chest, Nocturne let out a scream of agony and the two ponies were covered by the Holy Light Beam.

"You! Have no idea what you are doing, if i die then Creation has no chance!"

"You really think that the Gods will just stay idle when the Old Gods come back? Do you think that they will let us die?"

Nocturne then let out a sinister laugh and said.

"You are fool! You think that Phobetor doesn't have a plan about this?"

"What? What do you mean Phobetor has a plan?! Answer me!"

"He plans on traping every God into a Dream, a Nightmare to be exact."

"But.....that's impossible! There is no way that he can do that!"

"Oh but he can! And when he does Creation will be left defensless and the Old Gods will scatter across it like a plauge! And no one can stop this terrible thing from happening except......"

Nocturne stoped and started breathing out in pain.

"Except me....."

Then, the Light Beam around them released an explosion and the whole tower was covered in Light.

"Oh no.....what just happened?! Celestia can you hear me!" King Cosmos shouted.

After a second or so, the Light was cleared out and in the middle of the tower was Celestia who was looking down on the ground. She then pulled her sword out of the ground and turned around to face her father.

"I...i am ok, i think.....i think i did it, i don't sence him anymore."

The ponies all around the platforms felt joy and happiness as if a giant weight was dropped from their shoulders and they all started laughing and hugging each other.

However from the middle of the tower a tiny drop of blood was on the ground, the drop started getting bigger and bigger to the point where it became a small pool.

Celestia the noticed the small blood pool in the middle of the tower and shouted.

"Everypony wait! It's not over yet!" She said and pointed her sword at the pool.

As for everypony else, their gazes were fixed upon the pool as well and they all witnessed the horror.

"By the Holy Light! What are we seeing?" Crossbleser said.

"It.....it can't be real! This can't be happening!" Sessuena said who was next to him.

The pool of blood was slowly transforming and taking the shape of the skeleton of a stallion with long sharp teeth. When the skeleton was complete, other organs such as the lungs and stomach started taking shape along with two hearts on the skeleton's chest. One dark with small tentacles coming out and one normal heart. After that, the skeleton was covered by dark flesh and dark skin. Then, red bat wings came out of the stallion's back along with a long red tongue that was still forming. The stallion then closed his mouth and from his eye sockets two blue glowing eyes appeared.

"No.....that's! That's not possible!" Queen Galaxia said in fear of what she just saw.

And once again, Nocturne stood before them fully healed from nothing.

"He is still alive? But how!" Twilight asked.

"I.....i don't know, such things shouldn't be possible!" Luna said.

"Nothing is impossible for me, you should have known that a lot of years ago!" Nocturne answered to Luna even if she was not within the range of his hearing.

He then looked at Celestia and said.

"You know what sister? I believe that i have found the perfect way to kill you."

"It doesn't matter what you try Nocturne! I will always find a way to prevail."

The skies were then covered by dark clouds and the temperature started dropping.

"You won't be saying that when i freeze you on the spot and then shatter your body to bits!"

Then, the ground bellow Nocturne started freezing and he was covered by a pillar made out of ice.

"What is he doing now?" Celestia thought to herself.

And suddenly, the ice pillar shattered and ice missiles where launched into the air and three towards Celestia's location but she cut down the three of them with just one swing of her sword.

Then, from the shattered ice pillar Nocturne appeared. His dark skin was now light blue as if it was made by ice. His grey armor turned into white with blue runes all over it along with his twin red blades who were too white with blue runes on them. His eyes also changed colour from blue to white along with a visible mouth.

"Your limbs will fail you when you need them the most Celestia but here's the good thing, when i seperate them from the rest of your body, there won't be any pain! No pain at all!"

Then from around Nocturne, six big pointy icicles appeared and with just the swings of his hooves the icecles were dispensed forward but were quickly replaced by other and Nocturne was ready to shoot Celestia again.

Celestia quickly placed the sword in front of her and prepared for Nocturne's attacks which she blocked perfectly and not leting even one passing her and going towards those that where around her.

"DEFEAT IS INEVITABLE!"

When he said that, the icecles disappeared and both of his hooves were now turned into big ice claws. He then pierced the ground with them and Celestia felt something coming from bellow her. She quickly flew upwards and as she did, spikes made out of ice appeared from bellow her and were able to scratch her back as she was flying up.

"You won't get away!"

Then from Nocturne's claw a chained mace appeared.

The handle of the mace was made out of black steel and at the end of it there was this long powerful chain that was covered by small icicles. As for the head of the mace, it was made out of ice that had the shape of a shpere with pointy spikes around it.

Nocturne then swinged his mace up in the air and chain was wrapped around Celestia's neck.

"What the!"

And before she could do anything, the head of the mace started spinning around her neck, tightening it and after a second the head of the mace came full force right on Celestia's face and caused her to start falling down.

Nocturne then hit the ground with his other claw and ice spikes appeared to the loaction that Celestia would fall.

Seeing that Celestia extended her wings and tried to fly away from certain death.

"IT'S TOO LATE! YOU CAN NOT ESCAPE!"

Nocturne then extended his other claw towards Celestia and from it, tendrils appeared that made their way to Celestia and when they reached her, they pierced both of her shoulders and entered inside her.

"I will freeze you Celestia! I WILL FREEZE AND THEN I AM GO TO SMASH YOU DOWN ON THESE SPIKES!"

Celestia however just kept strugling, she wouldn't give in, she didn't want to.

However, the chain around her neck along with the tendrils started freezing and that cold effect started spreding to Celestia's body as well.

Celestia felt her body being in pain. The ice was spreading around her so fast, freezing the very blood that was flowing in her veins. She felt her head dizzy and her eyes were blinking fast, even at that moment she couldn't surrender to her brother's icy grasp. But it wasn't enough.

Celestia then completly froze in mid air and started falling down to the trap bellow her.

"She is completely frozen! This is bad!" Rainbow dash said.

"If only we could do somethin!" Applejack said.

"I-i can't look!" Rarity said and turned her gaze away.

"Oh no....." Twilight said and prepared herself for what to come.

But just when Celestia was about to touch the icy spikes, she was mysteriously lit on fire that melt the icy spikes in but an instant.

Nocturne stepped back in surprise and pulled away both his mace and tendrils.

"Who did this? Was it you Phobetor? Are you helping her defeat me?" Nocturne thought to himself.

The flames that covered Celestia were now extinguised and she rose up from the ground unharmed.

"Look everypony! She is ok!" Sessuena said.

As Nocturne saw his sister rising up, he felt his blood boiling knowing that she was assisted by Phobetor himself and still proving that Nocturne was powerless against him.

"Damm it, if he truly is helping her survive my attacks then.....do i even stand a chance against him? No! I mustn't doubt myself! I have done so many things! I fought monsters that i didn't even know existed in our world! I can not fail! I will not!" Nocturne thought to himself and contained his anger.

"If you can break out of ice, then i suppose that i will just have to keep freezing you!" Nocturne said and prepared another attack.

He then used his magic and he teleported in the middle of the tower and smashed Celestia in her face and knocking her back. He then smashed his mace into the ground and cold winds covered Nocturne and it's radius started becoming bigger.

"I WILL FREEZE YOU FROM WITHIN UNTIL ALL THAT REMAINS! IS AN ICY HUSK!"

He shouted and the cold winds around him started spreading and creating icy that covered the ground fast.

"If you think that i will run away from this you are wrong!"

Celestia said and prepared her sword.

The icy was coming towards her direction but she faced it without fear, for a mysterious reason she felt unstoppable and her will was unshakable.

She then extended her wings and flew towards Nocturne without hesitation while the ice started freezing her slowly.

"YOU ARE A FOOL! DO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN JUST RUSH LIKE THAT WITHOUT FREEZING AGAIN? DO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN STAND AGAINST MY REMORSELESS WINTER!"

Celestia however just smiled and said.

"Yes i can!"

And then she lunged herself forward with blade in hoof and prepared to strike but Nocturne put infront of him his mace to protect himself from her attack but when he did that, Celestia had an idea.

She aimed for Nocturne's claws and cut them both, causing him to drop his mace and back away in pain.

She then picked up the mace and started relentlessly smashing him with it something that proved disturbing to those around.

Blood started flying everywhere with each strike as Nocturne moaned out in pain as he tried to catch his breath and maybe fight back.

"Do you feel that Nocturne! Do you!" She said in an angry tone.

"How....how can somepony like her resist my Remorseless Winter..." Nocturne thought to himself.

"NOCTURNE!"

Celestia shouted in anger something that caught everypony around by surprise.

"I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU TILL YOU CRY LIKE A BABY NOCTURNE!"

She shouted and started hitting him again.

She then let out a wicked smile and prepared her next move. She rotated the mace and shoved the handle right in Nocturne's mouth and it was stuck down his throat. She then grabbed the head of the mace with her magic and pulled back, revealing the chain that was holding together the head of the mace and it's handle. She then wrapped it around Nocturne's neck and said.

"I promise you Nocturne! You won't enjoy this!"

She then flew towards Nocturne with incredibly speed and smashed his face in with the head of the mace. The icy mace then pierced Nocturne's skull and his whole head was blown out of his torso and it went flying while still having the mace stuck in his mouth and it landed a few meters away from his body that had fallen to the ground as well and Nocturne stopped moving.

The sight that bestowed before all of them was shocking. Not only did Celestia completely lost it but what she just did was cruel and they all around knew that, even if it was Nocturne who received the punishment.

But that feeling of dread and guilt hit Queen Galaxia harder than anypony else. Even if he was different, even if his form was abhorent, she gave her heart and soul to raise the child as her own and now it stood before her dead or was he?

"I.....i can't believe this.....did i....do that?" Celestia thought to herself.

But before they could do anything else, the jaw of the head suddenly closed with a loud bang and the mace melted into it.

"You!" They heard Nocturne calling.

His head then rolled over to the other side and faced Celestia.

"No.....no impossible!" Celestia gasped and said after she saw that Nocturne was still alive.

And just like her, the others around let out a gasp after they saw what happened.

His headless body then stood up in two hooves and it made it's way to the fallen head.

"Hi....his body! It's moving on its own!" A stallion in a dark purple armor said.

Nocturne's body then picked up his head with his hooves and placed it back on top. He then adjusted it a little and it started healing to the point where Nocturne was back to normal.

"Oh cool i can do that too! Look!" Pinkie Pie shouted from across the platform.

And she then proceeded to remove her head.

"Pinkie no!" Flutershy said and stopped her.

"Ok ok....." Pinkie pie said dissapointed.

Nocturne's gaze was then fixed upon Celestia and he said.

"I-I WILL MAKE YOU REGRET THAT YOU FILTHY CUR!"

Nocturne then rose his hoof into the air and revealed to them a clock. The clock was made out steel and was covered by a blue aura.

"Oh no..." A stallion from the platforms thought to himself.

Celestia looked at the clock but she didn't recognise it at all.

"Princess Celestia!" The stallion shouted.

Celestia turned to the direction of the sound and tried to find the stallion who was calling to her.

"Princess Celestia! Listen to me! Whatever you do not let him complete the sentance 'Creation, time stop'!"

"What?Why? I am not sure i understand you!"

"It's the clock! Nocturne can use it to stop ti-"

But before he could say anything else.....

"CREATION! TIME STOP!" Nocturne floated in the air and shouted.

And once he, did the sound of a clock stopping was heard in the air and everypony in the area except for him had stopped moving.

"At last....a time to relax for a sec....." Nocturne said and sat down.

He then took some deep breaths and started thinking about his next move.

"Hmm....." He said as his body started healing the rest of his wounds.

He then got up and said with a wicked smile.

"A good simple way to start will be this...."

Nocturne then used his dark magics and created a portal above Celestia. From that portal a boulder started falling down but stopped just before it was about to crush Celestia.

"Or maybe i could....no i will leave that for later yes. If she survives that is but i have a feeling that she will for....a bizzare reason...."

Then from his hoof three claws appeared and Nocturne said.

"Time flows again in three...."

And he lowerd one of his claws.

"Two...."

He said and lowerd the next one.

"One...."

Only one seccond remained for Celestia and he knew that well. He just hoped that it would work.

"Zero!"

And once he lowerd his other claw time started again and the boulder above Celestia fell down, completely crushing her.

The crowd released a powerful gasp when they what just happened. Was Nocturne really able to bend time to his will? Or was this some sort of super speed? They all thought to themselves.

"You warned her too late old friend. She is dead now!"

"No....this...this can't be happening! You! You did it!" The stallion said.

"So....he really DID stop time? But that's impossible! Such thing.....can't happen!" Luna said.

"I TOLD YOU BEFORE LUNA! NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME! AS LONG AS I HAVE THE RESOLVE! ANYTHING AND ANYPONY CAN BEND TO MY WILL!"

Nocturne shouted.

"And now that dear Tia is done for! I will Consume whatever remains and then my plans will finally come to fruition!"

Nocturne then extended his hoof forward and from it tendrils came out that started making their way towards the boulder and when they reached it they squeezed themselves under.

"Yes, soon you will be mine!" Nocturne thought to himself.

But little did Nocturne know that right when the boulder fell on her, the inside of it just disappeared and it made room for Celestia to sit tight in her stone shell.

"How did that happen? Did he stop time? Where did this come from?" Celestia thought to herself as well.

And just when she picked up her sword, dark tendrils came in squeezing themselves from outside.

"No no no, something is wrong. Why do i feel like that there is empty space. The boulder crushed her right?"

He then immediately felt pain in his tendrils and he pulled them back, only to see that one of them was cut and he was bleeding.

As for Celestia, she charged up her magic and threw the boulder back at Nocturne.

"CREATION! TIME STOP!"

When he said that, time stopped and Nocturne moved out of the way of the boulder.

"Time flows again...." Nocturne said and the boulder was thrown out of the tower.

He then looked at Celestia who appeared to be ok and said.

"Alright Celestia, you want it the hard way? So be it!"

The two then rushed at each other with their weapons and engaged in combat and as they were clashing their blades, Nocturne used his superior speed and scratched Celestia's front hoof and broke down the armor plate that was protecting her.

"Come on! Try harder i am not even using my time stopping powers to defeat you!"

"Just....how can you do that? Where did you even get such an artifact!"

"Oh this?" He asked sarcastically while referring to the clock.

"Hmm, well. A lot of things happened back when i was researching things about magic and i ended up with this! Though it's not just a tool that can be used that easily. At first i was able to pause time for like....hmm seven seconds? Maybe ten. But as i kept using! As i kept understanding what i created i became stronger! And only the Gods can surpass my genius!"

Nocturne then prepared a kick but Celestia was able to dodge it and get behind him. She then lunged herself forward along with her sword towards Nocturne but when her sword touched his armor, it bounced off of it and she fell down near him.

As Celestia looked up she saw Nocturne looking at her intensely, his glowing blue eyes piercing hers and trapping her in fear.

"Tia, Tia, Tia....how many times do i have to say this? My armor is made out the strongest material out there! Not even this sword can break it! But now that i think about it, it's better to just finish you off right now don't you think?"

And without a second thought, Celestia took flight and prepared an aerial attack but Nocturne just stood there on the ground and laughed.

"Creation! Time Stop!"

And just like that, time stopped again.

Celestia couldn't see anything. But she did hear a voice in her head, guiding her.

"Celestia.....i am here to save you. I can't allow Nocturne to hurt you any further....so i am going to give you this.....the ability to move in his stopped time for a few seconds. But know this, if i was stronger.....if only i was! I would have granted you full control over this. So, use thus that i have granted you and put an end to this Nightmare!" The mysterious dark voice said.

Nocturne started flying towards her while laughing.

"So this is the end dear sister. Don't take this the wrong way, we had many fun memories together.....as a family, some of them were unpleasant but....you and mother where always there to help me.....Luna too sometimes along with our other sibilings...."

Nocturne looked down for a moment sorrow but he didn't regret what he did, deep down in him he knew that he was the only who could stop Phobetor but without that sword, without that somewhat familiar sword, he stood no chance.

He then prepared his right blade and lunged towards Celestia's chest but just when he was about to push his blade through her chest and kill her, Celestia blinked her eyes and Nocturne quickly backed away.

"WHAT!"

The dark stallion said.

"Did she just.....move?"

And right after he said that her eyes blinked again.

"No.....this can't be happening....."

Nocturne then decided to get close to her to see for himself what was really going on but just when he was in range, Celestia quickly swinged her sword and managed to cut Nocturne's hoof off before returning back to her stopped phase.

He then let out a gasp the moment his hoof fell down on the ground bellow him but he didn't look elsewhere. He wanted to know how much control she had over his stopped time but more importantly, how was she able to get that control?

"....I.....hmmm.....Creation.....time continue..."

And just when he said that time returned back to normal and the two ponies stared violently at each other.

"So.....you were able to see me there? And on top of that attack me as well?" He said refering to his cut off hoof that was still on the ground.

"Yes i was and i am gonna do more than that!"

"But....how?"

"Why would i tell you brother? Wouldn't it be better if you Consume me and find out yourself? Isn't that what you always have been doing? You know during school and stuff?"

Nocturne sighted and said.

".....Point taken, let me get my hoof back and i will see what else you can do....."

He then flew downwards back to the ground and Celestia followed him. He then picked up his hoof but instead of putting it back in its place he quickly turned around and threw his bladed hoof at her and forced her to dodge the attack.

"What the!"

But before Celestia could continue, Nocturne was already in front of her and he had his other blade ready to cut her down and she was forced to defend herself.

"You know what sister? I had an idea.....a very good one....."

"Whatever it is Nocturne it won't work! I am more determined to defeat you!"

"Well determination won't be enough to kill the likes of me! If there are any....."

But little did Celestia know that his thrown hoof started coming back like a boomerang and it was aimed at her back hooves. Lucky for her however, the ponies around her noticed so and warned her.

"Celestia get out of the way! His hoof is coming back!" King Cosmos shouted.

Hearing that, Celestia dashed to her left in order to avoid certain death but as she did Nocturne appeared floating behind her, laughing.

"Tia....."

When Celestia turned around to face him she saw that Nocturne was carrying on both of his claws pointy knives made out of darkness. They didn't look like much but knowing her brother's mind she knew exactly what he was going to do with them.

"What's the matter sister? You have gone pale. I assume that you already know how i am going to use these knives right?"

"Oh my God.....just how do you always come up with such things! You truly are dangerous...."

"To be honest Tia, you deserve what is about to come. You are puting the lives of a single world before Creation, you truly are terrible!"

"You are calling me terrible? Tell me Nocturne! Who was willing to butcher his own kind! His own family and friends! Huh? Was it me? No, i don't think so! You are the one who is truly abhorent not me!"

Those words however did have a small effect upon the pony of Nightmares.

"S-silence!"

"No Nocturne, no matter what you say, i will never again change my mind about you!"

And Celestia flew up into the sky and prepared a powerful blow. But Nocturne wouldn't have any of it.

"CREATION! TIME STOP!"

Nocturne then flew close to her and said.

"Let's see you move now!"

And as he was flying around her, he was unleashing those shadow knives that stopped in their tracks a second before impact, trapping Celestia.

"I dare you to move now sister! Do it and i will let time flow again!"

But there was no reply.

"Hmm....stubborn little girl! Creation! Time Continue!"

And just when he said that, the knives started penetrating the naked parts of her body that were not covered by armor and the others would just get stuck on it and as Celestia started falling down into the ground due to pain Nocturne said.

"And just one more to be sure...."

He then threw another knife but just when it was about to hit Celestia, she deflected it with her sword and returned it to Nocturne faster than he threw it at her.

"Crea-"

But it was too late, Nocturne was hit in the head with his own knife and he struggled for a second to get it out.

"You crazy bi-"

Nocturne then flew down and he saw the corpse of his fallen sister there on the ground, pierced by the knives.

"Oh no.....This....i pray that this is not the end but....." Crossbleser started but ended up looking away in sadness.

"Celestia!" Queen Galaxia said in fear.

Nocturne then started making his way towards the body.

"Don't you dare get near her!" Luna shouted with tears in her eyes.

"Why? So that she may magicaly come back to life? No.....i am not risking it again!"

And he then used his magics and created an axe made of shadow and said.

"With this i can guarantee my victory!"

But just then Nocturne couldn't move.

"What i! I can't move."

And the worst part was the fact that, he couldn't hear himself saying those words. His lips just stayed sealed. He then looked over to Celestia's corpse only to find out that it was not there.

"What the! First i can't move nor can i hear myself! Now this?!"

"I have a question to ask you Nocturne." He heard Celestia's voice coming from behind him.

He so desperately tried to turn around and face her but he couldn't he was stopped.

"Tell me Nocturne, how does it feel to have somepony coming from behind you while you can't move a muscle? It's terrifying isn't it? It's like being dragged down into the ocean and just when you come out to take a breath...."

She then placed her hoof on his shoulder and said.

"You feel something dragging you right back into the cold waters, isn't that right Nocturne?"

She then walked in front of him and said.

"Remember when you threw that last knife at me? And i was able to deflect it back to you? Well, when that happened, you dropped this!"

And she showed him the clock that he was carrying.

"But...that's impossible! How did that happen? I don't just drop things! There is no logical explanation to this!"

"After i saw the clock falling down from the sky, i picked it up with my magic and when i reached the ground i played dead and waited for you to come back. And it was then that i stopped time and got up! But as you can see i only managed to stop your time and not time of the others. Oh and one more thing if it weren't for my armor, i am sure that i would be dead right now but you had your chance to shatter it and now....i can freely do this...."

And she pointed her sword at him.

"Tell me Nocturne? How long will it take for your whole body to regenerate? Two seconds? Three? Or maybe one? We shall find out either way!"

"Go get him Celestia! End it!" Luna shouted.

Celestia then started swinged her sword around Nocturne from every possible angle where his skin was exposed, to his front and back hooves, to his head, to his neck! Her blade was unbending!

She then released her final attack and started taking deep breaths and everypony around was eager to see the results of her work. She then stood up and said.

"Time flows again!"

And just when she said that, Nocturne was able to move. He took a close look around his body and he found no scratches nor did he feel any pain at all. With those two things in mind Nocturne couldn't help himself but he laughed maniacally and he later said.

"I am sorry Celestia......BUT YOU MISSED! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Think again Nocturne!"

"Hmm!"

And just when Nocturne took a step, both his front and back hooves were seperated and cut into pieces along with some parts of his cheeks.

"WHAT! NO! SO YOU DID MANAGE TO LAND YOUR HITS!"

"Of course i was! Do you think that i would miss in point blank range? And the fact that you keep underestimating me will be your downfall!"

And when she said, she used her magic and threw the magical clock off the tower for good.

But something unexpected happened. Nocturne started laughing even more now.

"What's so funny Nocturne?"

"You! HAHAHA! You really think a few broken bones and cut flesh is enough to stop me! I am willing to harbor any type of pain if it means safety for Creation!"

His flesh and bones then quickly healed and he was back to normal. With that now done, Nocturne got up and said.

"BEHOLD! THE CROWN OF THE LEPER KING!"

Nocturne then pulled out a golden mask and said.

"THIS IS THE MASK THAT I WAS GIFTED BY THE VERY FIRST KING OF TRINIA. HE CHOSE ME TO LEAD HIS KINGDOM! AND HE CHOSE ME CONTAIN ITS POWER! AND NOW I AM GONNA USE IT FOR THE GREATER GOOD! FOR ALL OF CREATION! FOR THE GLORY OF THE LIGHT!"

"PRINCESS CELESTIA STOP HIM! DONT LET HIM PUT ON THE MASK!" Sessuena shouted from across the platform.

Celestia then flew with all her might towards Nocturne but it was too late. Just when Nocturne put on the mask, an orange aura surrounded him and pushed Celestia back.When she looked back at her brother, the orange aura that exploded from him was gone but he had changed.

Nocturne wore a black armor with small spikes on his shoulder and front legs, his head was covered by a red cloth shroud and at the tips of his front and back hooves were bandages with what appeared to be dried up blood. However what inspired fear on all around along with Celestia was the golden mask that Nocturne had put on along with the giant broken sword that he was carrying to his side.

"Oh no.....it's too late.....there.....there is no hope left now." Sessuena said.