The Tantabus crossed through the waters of the mysterious sea with its rider yelling in happiness as the shadow horse picked up speed.

Since asking for assistance in finding Sunset Shimmer the Tantabus brought Luna to this dream where instead of solid land the entire area was underwater with no visible way to reach the surface. In the bottom rested old and broken structures very similar to those of the roman and greek cultures.

Among the rubble Luna distinguished many statuses of small horses with different features, some with horns, some with wings, some have those two combined, some didn't have any. The place was desolated from any form of life that Luna could see although in the back of her mind she could feel that something was watching her.

"Are we close Tony?". Luna asked her steed which in turn send her a correction about it's name. "I know but Tony is way cooler don't you think?". Not Tony argued again in Luna's mind but Luna insisted. "Fiiiine! If you want then invent a better name yourself and I'll call you that".

The two continued traveling through the desolated area until the path started to narrow into a single small corridor, up ahead a bigger ruin could be seen, as Luna got closer she saw a large building with the same style as the other except that this one was almost intact and instead of statuses of ponies this one had serpent like creatures that resembled giant seahorses located in a circular plaza, most of the statuses were broken either missing the tale, fins, head or arms, all but one, the single complete statue was placed almost on the center of the entrance.

The complete statue also had a different pose as the others, this one had an intimidating posture, it's hooves looked ready to strike, its mouth was wise open showing rows of fangs, in front of the statue there was another unique item, a shiny orb the size of a fist, the orb was orange and shone with a slight crimson tone, the orb was however covered in black tendrils, the Tantabus indicated that it was a soul, Sunset's soul.

Luna was overjoyed by the news but she felt the hidden presence again, closer this time. "No time to waste friend let's get Sunset and be gone before something comes out to play". The Tantabus agreed and moved down to stand on the plaza.

Luna jumped off its ride and walked toward the orb, as she approached it she noticed the shine of the orb diminishing slightly. "It's that normal?". The Tantabus responded telepathically informing her that the longer a soul remained away from it's owner then it would weaken and die out eventually. "WHAT? That's...! No! We have to hurry now". As Luna closed the distance she felt the alien presence get closer but ignored it for a more pressing matter.

Imagining a sword in her hand Luna saw the blade appear out of thin air or water in this case, taking aim Luna stroke down and the root of the tendrils hoping to cut the soul free from its imprisonment but instead of cutting through her sword bounced off. "What the hell?".

"Surprised?!". Asked a voice that came from every direction at once.

"Who there?! Where are you? Show yourself!".

"And if I say no?". Asked the voice again, Luna noticed a defined female tone and her memory clicked. "Adagio Dazzle! Its you isn't?. Free Sunset this instance! I'm only giving you this chance!".

"You are talking to the wrong person woman, I'm just a shadow, the warden of that soul, you are invading so now... I'll dispose of you!". As the disembodied voice finished the entire place started shaking, the water became turbulent and the rest of the seahorses statuses broke into pebbles leaving only the one complete.

As Luna took a few step back the statue's glowed with a mystic red color, the shakes continued and the stone covering the statue fell of it revealing scales and real looking leather skin under it, now in a panic Luna remounted the Tantabus just in time to heard an angry screech.

The serpent creature emerged fully from the statue resembling the full transformed form of the siren pony Adagio but black in color.

As soon as the dark siren was free of the statue it detected the intruders and started chasing them with terrifying speed. Luna held to the Tantabus for dear life as the other black monster trailed behind, imagining a gun instead of her sword Luna started shooting the aquatic pony to drive it back, the siren didn't worry about dodging the small projectiles until one found its mark in its shoulder easily passing through it.

The siren cried in agony and whirled in pain temporarily forgetting about its pray. Luna used the opportunity to swim back were Sunset's soul was kept and summoning the sword back she started hacking at the tendrils to no vail.

"Grrrr! What's wrong with this thing? Why wouldn't it let her free?".
The Tantabus called for her attention as the siren recovered and resumed its chase of them. Luna took aim again and shoot again but unlike before the siren didn't underestimated the damage that those bullets could do and dodged all of them. "This looks easier in my video games". The Tantabus waited until the siren dodged one more bullet and rearing back it stomped hard in the floor causing a pillar of magic to erupt from bellow its target damaging it again. "Atta boy! Keep it away!".

Luna continued shooting at the enemy while this one was weary of approaching too recklessly and been hurt by the Tantabus or Luna.

The dark siren soon had enough of running around and shot at the intruders with a blast of magic from its mouth, the new move got them off guard and the shadow pony was forced to use its magic to protect both of them.

Luna tok had enough and her sword changed to a chainsaw which she directed at the root of the tendrils. "Keep the fish thingy of my back for a bit Tony!".

The annoyed Tantabus informed her that it would try but its magic was begining to run out, summoning copies of it kin it charged to confront the siren and distract it from Luna, the new army of tantanites swarmed the siren while the Tantabus shot it while it was distracted earning some howls of pain from its foe.

Meanwhile Luna was having progress but barely, the shine within the sphere dimmed again and Luna knew she was running out of time, she needed to think of something and fast. Remembering that the Tantabus was sharing its magic with her Luna decided to play a good old all or nothing gamble, without warning Luna pulled as more magic as she could and changed the chainsaw back to a sword, this time the sword shone with immense lunar magic, crossing her fingers in her mind she swinged the blade against the tendril with all the muscle created by endless hours of gaming, the sword cleaved the tendril from side to side with no problem but Luna felt a huge chunk of magic missing from the sword but at last Sunset's soul was free, Luna didn't think twice and took the sphere in her hands.

In the other side of the plaza Luna's actions took its toll in her partner, the Tantabus was having difficulty keeping the siren in guard but it was working in its favor, however when Luna pulled more magic from it, it couldn't keep its little army of tantanites and even its own body seemed to dissipate.

The siren was confused at first when the multiple attacks ceased but soon it charged toward the Tantabus that was in that moment paralyzed by the lost of magic, the siren rammed it hard and the shadow pony was launched away like a rag doll.

"Tony!'. Luna sprung toward the downed steed using her gun to keeping the siren away from it. "Sorry sorry sorry! I have to use more of your power, I'm sorry".

The Tantabus simply demanded a proper warning next time she thought about doing something like that. "Yeah I promise now get us out of here, We need to take Sunset back". Luna mounted again and the two started their retreat the mad siren hot behind them, their foe shoot again and again forcing the Tantabus to dodge left and right, up and down avoiding a very painful and dangerous ray.

With Sunset's soul in one hand and her other holding for dear life Luna was unable to provide covering fire, even so the Tantabus used it magic and a portal appeared in front of them and Luna almost screamed in victory when they crossed it only to end up in the same spot with confusion.

The siren aware of what would happen used the small window of distraction to shoot a soundwave that hit both ride and rider, the two fell hard back near the plaza, while the two got back to their feet and hooves the confident siren laughed.

Luna still clutching Sunset's soul felt desperation once again. "What happened? Why are we still here?".

The Tantabus opened another portal but the moment they tried to cross it the same thing happened, it only dropped them in the same place. The answer came from the Siren above. "This domain was made specially for trapping interlopers like you, it was made so that anyone fool enough can enter but not escape".

"Shit! What do we do now! We can't wait he- oh no". To Luna's horror the sphere she was holding grew pale, the shine barely a flicker now, the Tantabus saw this and explained that it was almost out of time, wherever energy or matter that kept the soul alive was depleted and soon there would be no more.

"Fuck! I didn't come here to fail and let Sunset down! We didn't came here to let this fucking copy get us!". Summoning her sword back and fighting back tears Luna stepped forward challenging the black siren.

The Tantabus admired the courage of the human Luna but it wasn't as confident as her, the situation was a losing one, its own magic was low and when it ran out the human Luna would be at the mercy of the creature, even if they somehow managed to win it wouldn't be fast enough to prevent the soul of the princess of love from disappear.

The princess of love? Something clicked in the mind of the Tantabus but it didn't quiet told it anything, still something was coming in its mind, a chance perhaps.

Having enough thinking the shadow horse received a message from its rider and it barely have time to agreed when it saw the siren charging at full speed against the woman. Luna readied her sword, she somehow managed to put away the orb of the princess's soul in her mini garment to hold her sword two handed.

The Tantabus felt Luna draining more magic toward her weapon and it found its legs weak and about to give, there would be no second chance, if Luna failed it would be over for both of them.

Reaching full momentum the siren dived for the kill, Luna meanwhile smiled at the danger and when the creature was almost within reach Luna changed her weapon back to a gun and shot, the siren was taken by surprise and when it saw what it pray did it tried to move away from the bullet but at its speed the maneuver was impossible, the shot went straight to its jaw coming at the other side of the siren's head destroying everything in its head, as its body lost control of the trajectory it end up crashing hard on the floor of the plaza.

"Ha ha , that's what you deserve SUCKER! Still can't believe it worked". The Tantabus had no idea of how to react but decided in taking the chance to open a portal to finally get away from this dream.

"Finally, let's fo ho-". Before Luna could even put a foot through the portal the fallen siren shook and the wound produced by the gun healed completely like it never happened in the first place, it didn't lose time and quickly rammed against the Tantabus and Luna, the woman let out a cry of pain as her body was send to land in a nearby pile of rubble, her companion meanwhile was hook in the angry siren's maws by the neck.

With a lot of effort Luna stood up but her body was heavily bruised, she pulled Sunset's soul from her hiding place in her cleavage and saw with horror the sphere almost white, her mortification only increased when her magic friend landed a few feet away all trashed and missing one leg.

"Tony!". Luna screamed and tried to reach it but the siren blasted the spot in her path.

"Fool! As long as you fight me here I will never lose, you can't escape, you can't win! You are doomed! Ha ha ha-graagh!". The siren's gloating was cut short when a pair of wings cut its head like a closing scissors. With as much speed as possible the Tantabus took Luna and flew away, its leg was still gone but it was growing back little by little, Luna put the sphere back in her bosom to be able to hold into the mane of her ride with both hands.

As the Tantabus looked for a place to hide its minds remembered again about the princess and finally the reason as to why that memory came to it became obvious. The princess of love, OF LOVE!. That was her power! That was what she needed! Finally making its way inside a ruin big enough for them to hide the Tantabus summoned another portal and kept it open.

"Tony what do we do? That thing can't be killed an Sunset is o- what are you doing? I thought that we couldn't use the portal to escape?". The Tantabus responded letting Luna know of his plan.
"You're bringing someone else here? That's nuts! Who else can help us against that horse fish". The Tantabus ignored her trying to keep the portal open and hoping that the person in the other side would cross it.

"YOU MISERABLE SCUM! YOU THINK YOU CAN HURT ME AND JUST RUN AWAY? I'LL DESTROY YOU!".

Even hidden the siren's words sounded like it was right next to them. The Tantabus knew they could not win this battle as long as they were in the siren's domain but if somehow they were able to bring the princess back in action their combined magic maybe enough to brake a hole though the trap.

"YOU ARE WASTING MY TIME! GIVE ME BACK MY PRISONER AND I PROMISE YOU A SWIFT END!". After a while with no answer the siren growled and started blasting the ruins with magic trying to dig them out.

Luna was about to talk about moving out when through the portal another sphere appeared, this one was a few inches bigger that Sunset's and red colored with small green spots, it also shone way brighter of what Sunset could right now.

The newcomer flew around the Tantabus moving around it curiosity, then it moved to Luna and at her sight it seemed to recognize her and started to move around her with puppy like emotions, Luna too felt a sense of familiarity from the little red firefly.

Floating up close something seemed to call the attention of the red bulb and it froze for a second before diving its round body into Luna's exposed chest. "What the- you! Pervert!". With a slap Luna send the orb away but in the moment her hand did contact with it her mind was flooded with memories.

Memories of a boy born into a big happy family, of him playing and been raised by a blue headed girl that he grew attached to, of two loving and cute sisters, of the lost of his parents, of the a redhead girl that would change his life.

"Bi-Big Mac? It's that... It that you? Its that him?". Luna turned to the dark pony who nodded. "But why?". Luna asked again as the red soul of Macintosh Apple got closer again at Luna, moving about and probably preparing to repeat the weird action again.

However instead of the red soul diving inside Luna slightly armored bra it was the orange soul of Sunset Shimmer that weakly floated out of it. Slowly the two spheres approached one another until they touched, in that moment the Tantabus covered both with its dark mantle of magic and for a few seconds nothing happened, then like a battery been brought to life sparks begun to appear between the orbs, pink in color and few at first but soon it grew in intensify and number becoming a mini storm inside the dark space.

Luna noticed that Sunset's soul got some of her color back, after getting no explanation from her partner Luna simply continued watching the weird event in front of her making memory to tease the couple later, another reason to survive.

The spectacle was disturbed when another blast from the raging siren destroyed the nearby ruin, the Tantabus informed Luna that they needed to gain time for the princess and her mate and that meant going out and confront it. "Fiiine! But if I miss important blackmail material you'll have to compensate somehow, Alrighty Tony! Let's kick some ass!", the Tantabus was surprised that even in the bleak situation they were right there she could continued with her rare sense of humor.

The Tantabus exit from their hiding spot with Luna riding in its back like before, the siren was distracted still looking for them and its back unguarded, Luna produced her gun and the dream pony concentrated magic in the tip of its horn, both left a powerful blast that the siren was unable to block or dodge, as before the siren fell and rose again as good as new.

"YOU DARE WOUND ME AGAIN! YOU DARE IN CONTINUING THIS POINTLESS RESISTANCE! FINE! I HAVE GROW BORED OF YOU! NO MORE TOYING AROUND!".

After finishing her monologue the siren's body lost its form falling to the bottom of the floor in the form of a black blob, the black mass jiggled for a moment before it started forming again, Luna used the time to shoot it twice but to no vail. When it finally stopped it took the form of a three headed siren, bigger in body all heads looked the same as before but each one had a different eye color mimicking the former Dazzlings colors.

In a second all three heads locked up to their pray and charged toward them, The Tantabus turned tail and ran away barely escaping a blast from one of the new heads but not a second one from the main head, it hurt it, a lot, it almost dropped its rider but managed to correct itself and continued dodging like a black blur draining more of it already low magic.

The three headed monstrosity continued the chase unaware of the small pink light coming from the ruins left behind, the Tantabus not only joined the souls in a shared dream but also masked their presence so that the enemy wouldn't knew where they were or what were they doing until if was too late.

It was pretty much what ponies called an ace up it sleeve. "Dead end ahead!". Luna called its attention in time to realize that they were back in the plaza and up against the wall, there was nothing but the destroyed building in front and the siren coming closer, the Tantabus waited until the last second to turn aside and change its trajectory while the siren was forced to brake chase or risk impact.

As the chase continued with no apparent end the siren finally pulled out its cheating move and waited for the perfect moment, its two side heads shot magic again and again forcing the pray to get in the center of its vision, when it felt the timing was right the center head let loose a banshee screech that disrupted its magic, the same one the true Adagio used against Sunset Shimmer.

The trap worked perfectly and both Tantabus and Luna felt their heads about to explode from the pain, the duo felt hard and skidded over the plaza like a stone over the surface of a river.

The siren left out a mocking laugh, it could feel that it enemy has reached its limit and was no longer a treat but a nuisance. Luna recovered first, her head still ringing like the world 10 worst hangovers combined in her brain, she limped her way toward the dream pony, the siren watched with a smirk on its three faces as the two struggled to raise and try some other useless escape.

"Get up' hurry Tony, get uuuuup!". Using her own strength Luna managed to get the Tantabus back on its hooves but this one was shaking. Luna summoned her gun once more but in doing so extracted more magic from the Tantabus and as a result it lost its footing and it dropped back to the ruined floor.

The siren laughed once more at the futility of the duo and decided to end this little hunt, the head in the center started singing a low tune and the two remaining heads watched for any hidden move.

Luna suddenly felt sick in her stomach and a nauseous feeling started to grip her, the Tantabus reacted in equal pain but in its own fashion, the song draining the life out of both of them while the singing head got the volume up. Luna felt some parts of her body grow numb and others feel unnerving pain much worse that the last scream that was used on them.

"Urgh, Sis-ter! I'm so-rry!". Luna couldn't even stand anymore and dropped to her knees with an furious expression in her face, even in death she wouldn't give those creatures the pleasure of seen her cry.

A different sound broke the rhythm of the moment as a whooshing noise followed by a splashing one were heard, the side heads were confused as to why the melody stopped and why thw main head was gone, a second later the same noise occurred again this time the head in the left was missing, finally the body seemed to register the pain cursing from the lost of its extremities.

Before the siren could even see where the attack were coming from a third blast passed through its chest leaving a hole in its place. "That... Is for keeping me in that horrible place for so long!".

Sunset Shimmer told the siren before its body was reduced again in a formless gelatin.

The moment the song stopped Luna felt the pain disappear just as it came, even the Tantabus with its tired body seemed to regain some of strength. "Sunset?".

"Miss Luna! Are you ok? How are you feeling?". Sunset asked floating down to help Luna to her feet.

"Me? What about you! I thought you were dying! Oh God! Tia was going to kill me if something were to happen to you!". Luna hugged Sunset and the two let out small laughs of bottle up tension.

"I... was, in a way I think, I-its a long story and I think we have more pressing issues at the moment".

"You're right". Luna turned to the Tantabus who looked almost translucent. "Tony! Are ok?". The Tantabus send a message of reassurance to Luna and warned Sunset about the siren.

True to its thoughts the black blob started to form again although it was taking longer that before. "What do we do now? We could be trap here with that damn thing forever for all we know".

The Tantabus explained its plan to used their combined magic to break free but first they needed to drain more magic from the siren. "So every time we kill it it sucks more magic from Adagio?". Sunset asked and got a nod as reply.

"Ok but what can we do? Tony here can barely stand and I don't think Pokeball Mac can be of much help right now, where is he by the way? I thought he would be stuck with you after soul banging".

"Luna! Ugh even here you... He's... here, with me". From Sunset crimson and blonde hair the red sphere appeared near her cheek causing Sunset to blush a little.

"Kgggh ha ha, how I wish I had a camera right now". An angry scream interrupted the cute moment and announced that the siren was up again.

"He pulled me out of that nightmare Adagio put me into, but you're right, he can't fight with us here, you and I are can manifest in this form because we used the gem that Princess Luna give us but Mac didn't used". Sunset explained.

"I'll fight that thing for now, you keep yourself away for now until... Tony... Get some of its magic back". Luna didn't like that part of the plan too much.

"I don't know Sunset, that thing is damn hard to kill, how are you gonna deal with it by yourself".

"This isn't Adagio and as tricks goes I already saw all of them so unless it grows a forth head I can take it on with no help for now, besides, someone needs to keep and eye on it". Sunset pointed to the weak shadow pony.

"Fine! Just don't mess up, the rest of your friends needs you back in one piece, both of you". Luna pointed to Sunset and her red orb parrot.

Sunset smiled with confidence as her hands glowed pink with her princess magic. "Don't worry non, this time... It will be different".

With a mighty scream the new reformed siren darted toward the group and Sunset met it half way first with a magic barrier in which the siren slammed itself and next with a pair of magic blast to its chest leaving it smoking and missing a chunk of its body.

The siren backed up in pain but Sunset didn't let go sending two more consecutive blasts that took and arm and another head, the siren coiled around dodging now that it knew it couldn't take a hit from the cursed pony girl, its magic was stronger that the one in its creator's memory, even with increased magic the shadow siren was no match for such enemy wondering what changed from her capture up to this point.

Still, this siren was created to attack anyone interfering with its master's plan and they were doing just that, wherever the siren was stronger or weaker it didn't matter, its very purpose of existence was to get rid of anyone who got in the way for Adagio.

Another blast and another dead, then another reconstruction and another dead. The cycle repeated again numerous times in the span of what felt like hours, yet non of them let go, to Luna watching from the sidelines Sunset looked like an OP character from some videogame and the siren looked like a mob boss who became immortal from some glitch.

Luna didn't like to watch only as the person she came to rescue turned into the savior but she knew that her interference would only hurt her friend.

Speaking of the black steed, to Luna it didn't look like it was getting better but more like it was preparing itself for something, which did make sense according to its plan but Luna had a weird feeling growing inside her. The roar of the siren as it was beat down once more distracted Luna from her thoughts, in that moment the Tantabus snapped out of its trance and opened a portal and kept it open, the command to enter was send to Luna and Sunset and both obeyed.

Luna was ordered to go first as she would act as the anchor for the portal to work, Luna did it and to her surprise when she passed she found herself in a different location, also she could feel a sense of familiarity like been back in her room, remembering her orders she turned toward the portal and raising her hands she used the magic bestowed to her to stabilize it, it seemed to work as the portal looked better made that before now she waited for her friends.

At the other side Sunset arrived next to the Tantabus and was told to go next, she nodded and proceeded however a screech from behind stopped her in her tracks, she turned to find the siren restored and coming at them at full speed.

Seen it pray about to run away caused the magic made siren to lose all reasoning and let a single minded rage take over, draining a huge magic amount from its host the siren restored its body in no time and launched it against its enemies. Its speed bolted by magic aid it into tackle both Sunset and the Tantabus through the portal with it.

At the other side Luna was not prepared to be crashed by the body of Sunset Shimmer, the Tantabus landed nearby too but not in top of her, finally from the dark hole came the siren looking more enraged that before if that was possible.

The siren took one look and decided to finish Sunset first as she was the bigger threat, it moved quickly to take her out before she could recover, Luna managed to untangle herself from Sunset but was thrown aside by the siren, the beast pinned Sunset to the floor with both hooves and prepared a magic shot right to her face but her plan was interrupted when a red ball erupted from her hair and slammed the siren in her chin forcing the blast to go off in its throat.

The siren backed off, its throat and mouth injured by its own blast, even so Sunset was still reeling from the previous attack and now the two remaining heads prepared magic attack of their own, one shot against Sunset and the other against Luna.

In reflex Luna covered her body crossing her hands but neither attack hits its target with painful dark magic but rather with confetti, the magic rays turned into pinky party approved confetti leaving everyone confused.

It was the Tantabus who communicated to Luna that now they were in her dream and here she was master, her thought was to make the attack useless and so her mind pictured the image of harmless confetti and her mastery over her dreams did the rest.

It was no magic now that ruled this domain but Luna's wits and that Tantabus assured her that she was now invincible. It didn't took Luna even a second to understand now what to do next, her videogame like clothes changed to her everyday ones and a long ruler replaced her sword.

"Now now, little scoundrel like you are to be punish, severely!". Luna told the angry siren while smiling creepily and holding the ruler in a very intimidating manner, the creature not understanding the situation repeated the precious attack and again the magic blasts were replaced, this time with whip cream no less.

"Didn't learn a thing didn't you?". Luna did the bold move of walking in front of the siren, her smile now a smirk, seen as its magic didn't work and that the inept human had moved within range of a striking hoof the siren did just that, but instead of causing any damage to the woman a sickening sound indicated that the siren arm broke in two, the culprit been non other that Luna who blocked the arm with the ruler.

No force was placed behind the long wooden object, the limb of the siren simply broke from colliding with an immovable object, the siren backed off, it didn't understood yet why this human that until a few moments ago was a weakling was now making the siren existence impossible. Worse yet the siren couldn't heal like before, couldn't summon more magic either, only its body could be used to finish the enemy and even then it was braking apart piece by piece.

Still in defiance the siren tried to strike with its other arm and hoof , when nothing happened the siren head turned to see what was obstructing its remaining limb and found nothing, arm fretlock, knee, hoof, there was nothing beyond its shoulder, only seconds after the realization came the pain of the tore limb that appeared in Luna's hand like it weighed nothing. "Sorry, were you looking for this?". Luna said with a sadistic tone before tossing the useless chunk of leg away, the body part disappeared in smoke soon after.

"Now then, time to release some stress". Luna said wielding her ruler like a hammer and letting loose several hits at the immobile siren, each hit sounded worst that the last one and the siren trashed trying desperately to move, dodge or block but it couldn't move at all, like been frozen back in statue form, meanwhile the whaking continued.

Behind her Sunset took an involuntary step back. "Remind me not to piss her off that bad next time". Sunset told to the red orb floating next to her and through their bond she felt his agreement.

With one final blow over the remaining head Luna seemed to finally get her sadistic side pleased and looked at her handiwork, the siren lay beaten and broken, twitching slightly, the siren in its part was beyond salvation, only now that its body was beyond repair did it understood that its mistake was to follow its pray outside its hunting ground, as in doing so reverted the roles and now the siren was pray, one final act of defiance was tried, the siren used the last of its magic and collect it in its chest and let it explode and take the bastards with it, it would be a glorious dead seen their faces contorted in terror seen their imminent demise.

The siren did so and with one final laugh the siren announced their doom to come. "Fools! Die with me and suffer knowing you will share my fat-!". The siren suddenly went silent when it saw a big blue eye watching it back curiously.

"Ooooh look at you! So tiny! It almost make me don't want to squeeze you to dead!". The siren found itself reduced to a miserable fraction of its original size, been held within the blue haired woman's hand, the fact of its final sacrifice all but forgotten by the undeniable news that it was all but useless. "Almost!". Luna said at last and closed her hand compressing the miniature siren into nothingness.

"Welp, I call that sizing the opportunity, get it? Because I turned it tiny and... You guys lack sense of humor! Why aren't you more like Tony over the-Tony?". Cleaning her hands of the gooey remains Luna's joke died in her throat when she saw the Tantabus resting on its side and becoming more transparent.

Luna approached the Tantabus unsure of what was going on or how to fix it, their ally simple send both women a message of thanks and farewell explaining just at the end that it used all of its magic and now there wasn't enough left to sustain it.

"Magic? You need magic?" Luna put her hands over the body of the Tantabus and tried to pass on the magic left back in her body but it warned her that it wasn't enough, it tried to calm her down.

"Sunset quickly! Give it some of your magic".

"It-it doesn't work that way Miss Luna". Sunset approached the downed shadow horse and placed her hands in top of it too, Sunset let her magic wonder to the palm of her hands and focused on passing it on but it didn't work either. "It useless, its magic is way different from mine, even then we are passing magic to the wrong part".

"What do you mean? Oh you mean the gem in the necklace!".

"Yes, its magic was placed there by Princess Luna and her magic is connected to the moon and the night, mine was just common unicorn magic and now is love but nothing like what it needs". Sunset said with a sad expression as her magic continued to flow down to the Tantabus but it didn't altered its condition.

The Tantabus managed to lift its head to touch Luna, it expressed its resignation to its fate, it told Luna to not be sad as it was happy that it accomplished its mission, Sunset was rescued and the tantanites were destroyed.

"Tony... This... Come on! We just beat that darn fish thing, you can't sore the moment by dying on us! Come on!". Luna focused her will into restoring it but it didn't work. That Tantabus only got weaker, once again it expressed its happiness into knowing them and wished them good luck with the rest of their battle, the final words that transmitted to the trio was to pass a final message to Princess Luna, the message was inscribed in Sunset's mind and she promised to pass it on to her.

Finally with one final nod to its comrades the Tantabus became completely transparent and both Sunset and Big Mac returned to their own dreams while Luna stood alone in her own. Only then a few tears run down cheeks, she knew it was silly to cry for a creature she just met that day but it just felt like a piece of her was been discarded, a weird yet familiar feeling just like when she put the necklace on the first time.

"Goodbye buddy, it would have been nice having a friend in my dreams too, its awesome having any dream you wish but... It sometimes feels lonely been the only one that can enjoy them".

Leaving her own dream Luna woke up in her bed, she slowly scanned herself finding no signs of the battle played in the Dreamscape, for a few seconds she feared that the whole thing was just her imagination, that Sunset was still comatose and that she was just crazy, however she heard her sister gasp in surprise as her adoptive daughter woke up, soon they started talking and were joined by Big Mac, Luna thought about going too but she decided to stay were she was.

Her hands removed the necklace and saw that just like the Tantabus the gem in it has turned clear, devoid of any color. She rested back in her bed and put the jewelry in her chest muttering a single 'thank you' as a single tear run down her cheek.
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RICH'S WAREHOUSE COMPOUND.
Adagio smiled viciously as her magic was about to break through Rarity's diamond shield, two of the Rainbooms were down already and Rawhorn was dealing with the farmer and the speedy girl.

The only one giving her trouble right now was Aria, her way of fighting was more random that the others and her siren screams could hit her if she was distracted, never the less victory was going to be hers before the end of the night.

With one final blast the shield fragmented and the force send Rarity tumbling against a wall, Adagio was surprised when her place was replaced by her former partner.

"I'll be damn, you have become friend with them haven't you". Adagio teased but Aria simply respond was a growl. Adagio focused magic in her hands. "I'm gonna enjoy th-" suddenly Adagio felt a pressure building in her chest, then it turned into pure pain, the gem in her neck glowed and the shard that Abigail send her appeared from it before shattering in pieces.

Adagio knew right away that there was only one explanation, Sunset Shimmer had escaped!.

Author's Notes:

Sup everyone, finally managed to finish this chapter, will take extra time for the next one but little by little I'll try to push it. Thanks for reading and until next time.

Next Chapters.

1) Empress of the night Childhood days chapter 3.
2) PokePon chapter 2.
3) Fruits of love chapter 22.