“HAHAHAHAhahahHAHAHhahhahaHahHAAHAHAHAH!” I laughed as I saw Celestia’s eyes widen in absolute terror.

“YOU ARE NOT MY SISTER!” she screamed, tears beginning to fall.

“Oh YES WE ARE!” We shouted.

“You will never be my sister! You MONSTER!” she screamed again, this time accenting “monster” with a blast of sunlight. With barely a thought, a tendril of solid shadow caught the beam like a colt would a ball. I brought the writhing sphere of angry energy close to my face.

“Are we in denial that We’re your sister?” We asked, Our voice silky smooth. A flash of umbral flames and the sunlight was converted into moonlight. “THEN LET US PROVE IT!” We threw the ball of energy back. Celestia hastily brought up a shield to protect herself. A wave of ice formed over the sun shield. The ice broke as Celestia expanded the barrier.

“YOU ARE NOT MY SISTER!” she screamed, her horn glowing. We decided we had had enough of this foal’s play and rushed our Sister. Our sword, Lunar Majesty, appeared in our grasp right before We struck. In response, Daybreak, our Sister’s double ended spear, appeared to block my swing. We used our momentum to front flip over Celestia and bucked her savagely with Our rear legs. Celestia went flying into the wall.

We turned slowly around to see Our Sister getting back up, twirling the spear with practiced ease. We presented our side and prowled to the right. Celestia responded by circling the opposite way. Both of us said nothing. Celestia moved her spear, clearly ready for another attack. We dipped our sword to the ground, causing it’s enchanted edge to scratch the stone and cause sparks. Suddenly a rattle from behind Us warned Us to dodge. One of Our bloodied spears shot past me into Celestia’s grip. She shouted a war cry and charged, both of the spears twirling in deadly arcs. We backed up to give Us room to deal with her flurry of attacks. Our blade sang in the air as We blocked Celestia’s fury.

We ended the assault when Lunar Majesty broke the guard’s spear in half. We followed up with a vicious strike towards her neck. Celestia was forced to end her assault to block. Our weapons clashed in the air in front of us. Both Celestia and Ourselves found us to be locked in a stalemate.

Celestia’s eyes were narrowed in a burning rage. But those magenta eyes also housed a terrible fear.

“Is that fear We smell?” We asked, pushing Lunar Majesty forwards. “What ever happened to the ever brave Unconquered Sun?”

“Silence you MONSTER.” Celestia growled, forcing her own weapon against our own.

“Look in the mirror Celestia! It is not Us who is the monster!” We snarled back. “How many years has it been since you showed gratitude to another pony?! How many decades?! Centuries even?! Every night we bring the Moon up! As is our duty! But not ONCE have you thanked or praised Us for our deeds!” We pushed forwards far enough to cross horns.

“YOU.” Celestia growled. “ARE.” she reared back. “NOT.” her horn glowed as if it were the sun itself. “LUNA!” she slammed back down, sending cracks across the floor and even up some nearby columns We were thrown back into one of the damaged columns from the explosion. The column crumbled beneath the blow. We lifted our head to see Celestia walking forward. “A monster like you is neither deserving nor capable of gratitude!” she shouted. We flapped our wings and rushed the Solar Traitor. Our weapons locked again.

“I AM THE SAME LUNA YOU REMEMBER.” We stated. “THE SAME LUNA YOU PLAYED WITH AS A FILLY… THE SAME LUNA YOU GREW UP WITH… THE SAME LUNA YOU HAVE IGNORED AND PUBLICLY SHAMED… THE VERY SAME LUNA YOU WISH TO DISPOSE OF!” We shouted. A burst of seething energy erupted at Celestia from Our horn. At the very close range Celestia had no time to even register the attack. She was sent flying into a crumbling wall. “DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?!” We shouted. “WE HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO SUPPORT YOU AND THE KINGDOM!” We advanced, head bent aggressively and a sneer on Our face. Celestia struggled to stand. “AND WHAT IS OUR REWARD?!” We kicked away her fallen spear. “HATRED BEYOND BELIEF! WE CAN NOT EVEN SHOW OUR FACES IN PUBLIC WITHOUT CAUSING A RIOT FROM THE NOBILITY!” We’re standing over our sister. Our face only inches away from hers. “AND FOR WHAT?! BECAUSE OF WHAT WE’VE DONE FOR YOU?!” We picked up Celestia and threw her into a nearby column. “LOOK US IN THE EYE AT LEAST WHEN YOU WISH TO EXTERMINATE EVERYTHING WE ARE!” We grabbed her in our telekinetic grip again and hoisted Our sister by the throat. She made several choking noises. “HYPOCRITE! LYING BITCH!” We slammed her into another column.

“You’re… Right…” she moaned from the wreckage. She slowly stood up. All the earlier fear was gone now. Her eyes were dominated by determination. “I never let Luna know how much I cared. I never taken the steps to cast Luna in a good light…” Her eyes narrowed further. “I now know what I must do.”

Suddenly a burst of sunlight knocked us backwards. Forcing us to drop Lunar Majesty. We crashed through a stain glass window and fell downwards into the canyon that surrounded the Everfree Castle. A brief glance backwards revealed Celestia also cashing through the same window, a cloud of dust chasing her as part of the ceiling collapsed. We dipped low into a dive, evading several blasts of sunlight. One of which singed Our shoulder.

I found myself standing in a smoldering crater. In the center, was a pile of glowing embers and orange hot plates of metal.

I recognized the shadow made helmet that I summoned into existence before my fight with the Traitor.

That meant...

A structure of ash that looked disturbingly like a Pony's ribcage collapsed in on itself.

Ah... So that's what happened.

When I first ascended into Alicornhood all those years ago in the city of Bloodstone, I bonded with the Moon and she I. So long as I had her favor, I could never truly die. And yet... With no body that bond was degrading.

I cast my otherworldly senses outwards. Searching for something, anything to latch onto.

Nothing?! Truly there is nothing?! What about-

There!

A vacancy.

I latched onto the area and pulled myself to his location.

”No!” a mare shouted. I turned to see what looked like an ape from the far South. However it’s eyes were much clearer and more intelligent. Two similar creatures were tending to the female. A door opened behind me.

“What’s my wife yelling about?” another ape stuck it’s head in, this one sounding like a stallion. The mare screamed again, staring right at me.

“Don’t you dare!”

“Sir, I need you out of here now.” one of the tenders stated to the intruder.

“Stay away!” the mare screamed at me. I scanned the room to find the vacancy I was looking for, I couldn’t see it.

“She’s hallucinating nurse, help me with the baby…” what must’ve been a sort of midwife stated.

“Keep her out of here!” the female still screamed at me, trying to sit up in bed. I looked at the female, her eyes were wide with terror. Immediately I knew where the vacancy was, and who she was talking about.

“Scratch that, keep her down…” the doctor amended.

“Keep her out of here!” the female screamed again. I began to manifest myself more, causing several of the lights to dim and flicker.

“Get the generator back on!” the doctor yelled at the door. This time an orderly entered.

“The power is still on…” she began, but noticed the light’s flickering in the room. “Oh god…” she whimpered before she rushed out of the room. The female on the bed screamed in pain this time.

“Almost got him…” the doctor whispered. The orderly in the room looked up and his eyes also widened when he saw me.

“Keep her away!” the female screamed.

“I’m not going to harm him…” I soothed, knowing full well there wasn’t a HIM to harm. “And I will protect him from HER, and anything else that would bring him harm.”

“You will?” the female replied. I nodded.

“Who are you talking to?” the orderly asked. I felt the soulless foal begin to awaken. It would not even live a moment. The foal would be stillborn. It didn’t have a soul, and thus would never live.

I already knew what would happen had I not appeared. The mother would weep, furious and in despair over her foal that would never be.

I was in a unique position. I could anchor my own soul to the thing that would be born dead, making sure it, or I by that point, would live, and give the mare a child. Giving her joy instead of unhappiness.

The problem was however, that if I did do that, I am by nature of my Bond with the Moon, an immortal. A creature of immense magical strength who was the Champion of a celestial object. And I was certain that even a full grown pony who had actively prepared for such a burden would be unable to withstand such a feat if they were unworthy… Much less a foal. Where I would undoubtedly lose a very large amount of myself to it’s undeveloped brain.

That meant I needed to lock everything away and keep them safe. Eventually I knew that I would become my Alicorn self again… It was just a matter of when. Too soon and I would lose my self to a developing brain. Too late and I would literally burn up with my contained power.

I gathered as much oneroimancy as I could and weaved my spell.

“Don’t you ever reveal to us who we really are.” I ordered.

“I can, and I WILL.” I growled as I began to lock away all my memories. Every single one. “As per our agreement, you give me what I want, and I tithe half the fear I cause. Since I'm still the owner of my soul and have not defaulted on my payment, what I say goes. And I say you can not touch a single sentient being until our memories come back.”

“Haven't I? Tell me, worm, have you not sated yourself on the fear we took from my traitor sister? Surely you must've had plenty of time to do so. And other than that, nothing divided by two, is still nothing.” I grunted as I chained my consciousness to the already fading foal. As I did so I felt my spell take effect, beginning to take away memories and locking away my magic. I prodded the body of the foal with a little healing spell, reversing it’s fading away.

Before I knew it, I was half standing over the scene and half swimming in fluid.

“The moon…” the female whispered. “The moon herself…” she said as she passed out. Immediately a baby's cry filled the room. The lights stopped flickering. Almost all of my memories were gone, only my last week in Equestria remained to me, and even that was rapidly fading.

I looked up to see the orderly looking down at me. He recoiled and blinked. But by the time he reopened his eyes;

I was gone.

And that's how that happened.

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