Twilight looked at the hand she drew for a second before noticing one card she could actually use. It wasn't a armor card or a monster card, but it will do. She took that card and laid it onto her holder.

"I play the Element of Magic card!" Twilight said with a cocky grin, "It allows me to nullify any of your spell cards for one turn and allows me to draw another card to play."

Twilight drew a card and grinned even more when she realized what it was. It was a monster card.

"Now I summon Purple Fire Breathing Dragon!" a wingless dragon appears onto the field The creature is large and colored purple with green spines.

Purple Fire Breathing Dragon

ATK: 1000

DEF: 500

"I end my turn."

"well we seem to be evenly match with our monsters now Twilight." Sunset said before more maniacal chuckling to herself. "But I think I can beat you at your own game."

She flips over the face down card and activates it. "I play my spell card! Solar Eclipse! With this card I can summon anyone of my lunar monster cards into play. So I play Moonfire Dog!"

A indigo doberman with silver armor appears onto the field next to the cat.

Moonfire Dog

ATK: 1000

DEF: 500

"Plus this card is an eclipse card and WILL allow me to combine them to form one monster! Combine Eclipse Beast!"

The cat and dog on the field vanish and it their place is a orange and blue hybrid monster with a cat head and a dog head side by side. It's armor is a combination of silver and gold.

Eclipse Beast

ATK: 2000

DEF: 1000

"Attack Purple Fire Breathing Dragon!" Sunset ordered and the monster did what it was told. Firing a blue ball of flame out of the dog's head and an orange ball of fire out of the cat head. Both fireballs converged into one and slammed into Twilight's dragon monster, destroying it instantly.

Twilight's HB: 35

Sunset's HB: 50

"Come on Twilight!" Rainbow Dash screamed from the sidelines. "Kick her worthless flank!"

"We believe in you Twilight!" Pinkie added.

"Your turn Twilight." Sunset said proudly.

Twilight tossed her two cards played into the graveyard. She drew two more and looked at them more closely.

"Eureka!" Twilight exclaimed. She laid card onto her holder and activated it. "With resurrection I can revive my Fire Breathing Dragon and with this Sorcerer's Might card I can increase Dragon's attack points!"

Purple Fire Breathing Dragon

ATK: 1500

DEF: 500

"So…? That doesn't mean anything. Eclipse Beast has two thousand attack points. That dragon can't do anything."

"You're right!" Twilight said, "But I haven't ended my turn yet! I'm going to activate this trap card! Magic Seal! I can finally nullify your monster's defense and attack points for one turn! Take it out Dragon!"

The Purple Fire Breathing Dragon monster fires a green flame out of it's mouth and hits a defenseless Eclipse Beast head on and destroys it."

Twilight's HB: 35

Sunset's HB: 35

"You think you're so clever Twilight Sparkle!" Sunset shouted, "But remember I am a Card Master. The best of the best! I never got to where I am by letting fate decide if I would win! I chose to flip fate the finger and forge my own destiny!"

"Yet your destiny has been to hurt others and live their lives in pain! That is ALL you've done! Yet I actually got here and I feel I'm making friends already! Your turn!"

Sunset just merely laid a card face down. "Since I know you're going to lose to me. I'll just lay this card face down and end my turn."

"Your overconfidence is going to lead to your downfall Sunset Shimmer!" Twilight said. "Because I now will summon…"

Twilight was cut off by a card glowing inside her deck. The card flew and landed into her hand. She looked at it and recognised it as her Element of Magic card. On the sidelines a card within the decks of Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack's own deck glowed. They pulled out their cards and realized that their own element card was glowing as well.

Rarity looked at her card and said "Element of Generosity…"

Rainbow held up her Element of Loyalty card, Fluttershy her Element of Kindness card, Applejack the Element of Honesty, and Pinkie the Element of Laughter card.

Then a new card in Twilight's deck glowed. It was drawn out into her hand. She stared at it and noticed it had six gems on the face. Five gems circling the middle gem as a six pointed pink star.

"The Elements of Harmony…" Twilight looked at Celestia who was watching the whole match in the back of the audience. She only nodded to Twilight as if she knew these cards contained some kind of magic to them. But magic is impossible to do physically. Twilight kept the Elements of Harmony card and she drew two new cards. One was Starswirl the Sorcerer armor card and the other was the Unicorn Sorceress synthesis armor card.

"First I play the Elements of Harmony!" Twilight activates the card. "With it I can increase the attack points by a thousand per Element of Harmony. Since there are a total of six cards that means six thousand attack points. But that is not all! I Exceed Armor Summon Starswirl the Sorcerer card! Then I synthesis armor that with my unicorn sorceress card to become Starswirl the Bearded Unicorn! I'm NOT going to let this chance of beating you before you summon a armor card Sunset! This is where it ends with YOUR defeat!"

The Starswirl card attached a star covered robe with bells and a hat with bells onto Twilight's body. The unicorn card grew a purple horn out of her forehead. Finally a long grayish silver beard formed under her chin and mouth. With her armor attached she was ready to finish this match.

Starswirl the Sorcerer

ATK: 3000

DEF: 100

Elements of Harmony

Grants six thousand attack points for each element.

Unicorn Sorceress

ATK: 100

DEF: 0

Starswirl the Bearded

ATK: 9100

Def: 100

Twilight summoned magical energy to her hands and then fires it all into one big ball of energy. The ball of energy hit Sunset Shimmer head on and wiped her entire health bar to zero instantly.

Twilight HB: 35

Sunset HB: 0

"NNNNOOOOOO!" Sunset cried. Her victory… Was she not allowed to have one victory against the new girl? Black energy started exiting out of Sunset's body as if it was smoke. Which caused everyone to look very concerned. "I'll be back for you Twilight Sparkle! Just you wait!"

The doors leading outside of the gym burst open and a still 'smoking' Sunset Shimmer ran outside into the rain. Just as the sun peered through the clouds. The sunlight shining directly onto Sunset Shimmer as she fell to her knees as she screamed to the heavens on her defeat by the new girl who couldn't duel worth a damn to Sunset. Tears mixed with the rain as Sunset Shimmer wailed to the fading rain storm.

"Why…? Why can't everything go my way this past few days?" Sunset wiped tears and rain from her face as she screamed again into the heavens. "ARE YOU TRYING TO PUNISH ME FOR SOMETHING GOD!? DO YOU HATE ME FOR SOME REASON!? DO YOU WANT ME TO BE THE BUTT OF YOUR JOKES!? WELL HERE I AM! COME GET ME YOU BASTARD!"

Sunset Shimmer hung her down and faced the grassy ground below her. More tears came her way as she tried to stop crying. She didn't need anyone to see her weak. She heard footsteps in the soft grass and turned to look behind her. What she saw made her stare in total shock. It was an older woman who held up a card with a turquoise pentacle on the front. The card glowed a eerily turquoise color before Sunset Shimmer let out a scream that shattered any and all serenity with the day. This scream was heard from the doorway, and cause Celestia and the students to rush out onto the field to find Sunset Shimmer laying there dead.

"What happened to her?" asked a young woman with blue and white hair and blue skin. Celestia leaned down and checked Sunset's pulse. When there was no pulse to find. Celestia shook her head grimly.

"She's dead…" Celestia grimly said. "Quick take her to the infirmary. I can handle the rest."

"We need to call the police Headmistress Celestia!" Twilight exclaimed. "They need to know a student died on campus!"

"They won't believe us if we say a perfectly healthy girl just dropped dead Twilight Sparkle!" Celestia said. "Besides this has happened before you came here. Only last week as a matter of fact."

"Last week?"

"Yes Twilight… Sunset Shimmer's soul has been ripped out her own body by a powerful magical force!"

"WHAT!?" Twilight couldn't even believe the words out of Celestia's mouth. "There is no such thing as magic! There is only science! Magicians use science and optical illusions to dazzle the crowd at their stage shows! What you just said makes no sense whatsoever!"

"I know you wouldn't believe me Twilight. But trust me when I say that I can handle it from here."

Celestia threw open the door to her sister's office. Luna laid on the floor in front of her desk. Black energy oozed out of her body like it did with Sunset Shimmer.

"SISTER!" Celestia exclaimed. "Are you alright?"

"I am Tia…" Luna replied. "it's just that…"

"Sunset Shimmer's soul took it's toll on you. Why do you let HER take control? This can't continue anymore. I'll defeat her even if you won't."

Luna's eyes changed from her regular human eyes to slitted dragon eyes. Whatever had control over her, was in charge once more.

"I'm sorry…" Luna said in a deep demonic voice. "But I can't allow you to defeat me."

Soon Luna produced another card used to steal Sunset Shimmer's soul and Celestia didn't have the chance to run. Within seconds her soul was ripped from her body and absorbed by the card. Which then transferred it to Luna.

"Soon I, Nightmare Moon, will fully awaken." Luna/Nightmare Moon said. "Then I will bring about the apocalypse with my soul army at my side."

The next day Celestia hasn't said a word about what was going on over the PA system Twilight thought. Then again she wants to keep this under wraps as it has been for some time now. She just laid on her bed in the dorm. While Spike laid on the bed next to her. A book in front of her, on science, of course. Twilight was reading until an announcement came over the school PA system, which did include the dorms.

"This is Assistant Headmistress Luna speaking." Luna said in her Nightmare Moon voice. "Your Headmistress Celestia has been indisposed of for the moment. I will be taking over for the rest of the school year…"

A knock at her door broke Twilight out of her train of thinking. She opened the door and saw Applejack standing on the other end.

"We're having a emergency dorm meeting in the lounge sugarcube." she said. "We're going to talk about the announcement."

In the lounge Twilight took a seat next Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Applejack took charge of the meeting in Sunset's absence. It's not like Sunset can argue anymore.

"Settle down everyone!" Applejack exclaimed to everyone crowded into the lounge. There was barely any room to sit, let alone move around. Each dorm can hold up to only fifty people max, and each room is filled at Golden Oak.

Once everyone quieted down. Applejack continued what she was going on. "We all just heard Assistant Headmistress Luna said. Headmistress Celestia has been indisposed of for the time being and she has taken over the school."

"But why has she taken over the school and for what purpose?" Rarity asked.

"We could be here all day talking about the why. We need to take action right now!" Applejack replied.

As they continued to argue, rather than discuss, about Luna. Luna herself watched from a hiding place within the dorm. In fact she is using a spell card that allows her to become invisible for a certain amount of time.

'So they plan on taking action against me. Without even knowing why I'm doing this? They will all fall one after the other. Soon the reign of Nightmare Moon can begin…' Luna thought.