What did I eat?
Chapter 4
"So, what is the plan, sister?" Luna asked, as she was now covered in silver armour with a purple lunar crest on it. Instead of her silver hoof covers, she had silver boot like hoof covers. Her night sky mane was pulled back into a braid. Celestia stood beside her, wearing her gold armour. Twilight wore navy blue metallic armour, while Rainbow and Applejack both wore bronze armour.
"First, we will have to fly through the forest. Rainbow, you will lift Applejack there. Can you do that?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah, I can do that." was Rainbow's response.
"Then, we'll all enter through the glass roof." Celestia said.
"But if Spike repaired the castle, the glass roof will be closed." Applejack said.
"Yes, that is where you come in. Rainbow will release you from above the roof. You won't be heavy enough to break through the roof, so you'll use your hooves to bust the glass. Got it?" Celestia explained.
"Sounds straight forward. But who goes after Spike, and who goes after Rarity?" Rainbow asked.
"It's up to me, Luna and Twilight to reverse the dark magic. You and Applejack will go free Rarity. I'd assume that she would either be in a dungeon or a tower of some sort." Celestia said.
"Sounds like a good plan." Twilight said.
"Alright, let us not wait a minute longer." Luna said, as she expanded her wings, and took to the sky. Celestia followed this pattern, as did Twilight.
"You ready, AJ?" Rainbow asked.
"You bet." Applejack said, as she lifted her front hooves off the ground, standing on her back legs. Rainbow took off into the sky, looped back around, and wrapped her front hooves around Applejack's, lifting the earth pony into the air. Rainbow followed Celestia's path, since the white alicorn was leading the mission.
It was a short flight, but they all made it to the dark castle. "Sister, our old castle!" Luna said.
"I know, Luna. I know it's hard to see it like this. But we must stop Spike." Celestia said, as she pointed the direction for Rainbow to go. Rainbow flew down to the glass roof, and released Applejack's hooves. Applejack landed without breaking the glass, and stamped her hooves on the roof. As the glass began to crack, Applejack ran to the brick roof. Her attempts failed, as she began to fall through the castle.
"Applejack!" Rainbow shouted, as she took a nose dive, and followed Applejack's fall. The clouds of dust fell, and Rainbow could see what Applejack landed on a clear area, completely unharmed. "Thank Celestia, you're safe!" Rainbow said, as she wrapped her hooves around her orange friend.
"I'm okay, Rainbow. I'm just... Look out!" Applejack shouted, as a beam of eerie blue light hit Rainbow, knocking her to the brick wall. "No!" Applejack shouted, as she ran over to Rainbow's side.
"We have to help them!" said Twilight.
"There's no time. I'm going in." said Luna, as she flew down and attacked the shadowy dragon figure.
"Luna, wait for me!" shouted Celestia, as she flew down as well.
"I guess I'll find Rarity." said Twilight. She flew away from the broken roof, and headed for the tall tower on the edge of the castle. "No doubt, Rarity's in there." Twilight said. Twilight lit her horn, and hit the tower with a blast of her magic. A large hole appeared in the tower wall, but dark magic seemed to be rebuilding it. Twilight flew as fast as she could, and flew through the hole, as it closed behind her. She folded her wings to her sides, and climbed the stairs of the tower.
Back in the throne room, Luna and Celestia were fighting the dark dragon. "Spike, you must break your trance. It is us, Celestia and Luna." Celestia said, trying to get through to Spike.
"The so called 'rulers of Equestria'? Hah, not for long." Spike said, in a low, dark voice. "Equestria, and all its ponies, shall be mine to control! Starting with both of you!" Spike finished, as he shot two beams at the two princesses. Both Celestia and Luna flew away, and dodged the beams.
"Spike, you must break free." Celestia said.
"You shall not take Equestria away from the ponies." shouted Luna.
"You know nothing, younger princess." Spike said, as his eyes glowed a brighter blue. "You fell to evil ways too. But this time, I shall succeed. Unlike you."
"What did you say?" Luna shouted, her pupils grew narrow.
"Luna, ignore him. He is only telling lies. You are nothing like him." Celestia shouted to her sister.
"You are right, sister. I am not. I am far more knowledgeable and more powerful then he will ever be. I know it is the dark magic talking, but the nightmare forces that talked for me when I was Nightmare Moon. I now talk for myself, and I know what I am doing." Luna said, as she started to glow a dark magic from within her.
"Luna! No!" Celestia shouted.
Luna appeared again, but with her body being taller, giving her a more regal form. Her armour now looked like it had when she was Nightmare Moon. A silver, sparkling crown was upon her head. "I will never be a Nightmare again. But that does not mean that I cannot be powerful."
Luna lit her horn with magic, now having a purple magic aura. She shot the beam towards the enraged, dark dragon. Spike moved to avoid it, but the beam turned into a net like spell, entrapping the dragon. "Celestia. We must release the magic." Luna shouted.
"Yes, at once." Celestia said, as she flew down. Celestia lit her horn with her yellow magic, lightly touching her horn with her sister's. A beam of light enveloped Spike, as his black and blue scales started to crack, releasing his original, small purple body. Celestia used her magic to lower Spike to the ground.
"Wh-what happened?" Spike asked, as he rubbed his head with his hand.
"It is over." said Luna, as her body glowed with a silver aura, returning her back to her original form.
"Luna," Celestia said, putting her hoof on her sister's shoulder. "Back there, why did you call me 'Celestia? You've always called me 'sister' or 'Tia'. Why did you call me by my real name?"
"It's just, when we became princesses, we agreed that out new duties wouldn't change our relationship. So, I always call you 'sister' or 'Tia' to remind you that you are my sister, and that I am yours." Luna explained.
"Oh, Luna." Celestia said, wiping her tears out of her eyes, and giving her younger sister a hug. "Wait, what about Twilight? And Applejack and Rainbow Dash?"
"We must find them at once." said Luna.
"I think I already found them." said Spike, as he pointed one of his claws at the stair case connected to the throne room. They all noticed that the castle didn't go back to normal, but was repaired with new details. Celestia and Luna turned to see Rarity, standing on the stair case. Rarity's magic was now an eerie blue colour, as she tied Applejack, Rainbow and Twilight together. Her eyes glowed with her horn, as she lifted Spike towards her.
"You shall not take this away from me." said Rarity, her voice now sounding like Nightmare Moon's.
"S-Sister, what do we do?" Luna said, starting to back away.
"Retreat." Celestia whispered.
"What?" Luna asked.
"Fly away." Celestia said, as both expanded their wings and took to the sky.