Episode 7: Bringing the Light and Night
Though the seven warriors shall shine in the final battle, its true glory shall forever be enshrouded by the seven omissions made in the legend…
"...What does that mean?" Leo asked Akame. "Please...tell me. Why are you doing this? Why did you do all this knowing they were just using you, planning to throw you away at the end of it all?"
"Because it was the purpose of my creation." Akame answered. "Just like that insane version of Princess Celestia from the Transcending project, the reason for my existence is to cause death and pestilence in order to prune this undisciplined generation. It is my duty as an artificially created devil god."
"You're just like the Princess Celestia in our world…" an angry Leo replied. "You just accept the terrible fate the ones above have given to you, refusing to even try and fight it. If I, a mortal, refused my "destiny" to stop the birth of Noimman's son, why can't a god refuse commands to do wrong?"
"Oh, don't talk like you're a big shot." Akame retorted. "The greater gods knew you never had it in you to kill your wife and child from the start. You want proof? How about the fact that we made you the final member of Helllights instead of Vincent?"
"I don't intend to preach as if I am on a higher platform than you…" Leo replied. "I only ask why you, a god who adores creating chaos, so greatly value the orders of your superiors."
"Value isn't the right word." Akame responded. "I don't follow their orders out of respect for them. I follow them because they allow me to do what I want without having to face the consequences of my actions and make this world a better place on top of it. The gods who created me can destroy me just as easily as well, so I see no reason to rebel so long as things are as they are."
"..." Leo was silent for a brief period.
"You seem surprised that like mortals, I have limitations." Akame remarked.
"Indeed I do," replied Leo, "but more than that, I'm surprised that meeting you here and talking to you in person after you murdered me, when my enmity for you was at its pinnacle, is...soothing me. I'm surprised that I'm...not surprised that even after all the atrocities you have committed and all the hatred I have felt for you that you have turned out to not be the true enemy in all this."
"That better not be your way of telling me that you've gone soft." Akame said with a sneer. "When we have our final battle this day, you better hit me with everything you have, because I'm going to hit you back much harder with everything you don't have…"
"Challenge accepted." Leo replied, unmoved. "And just for the record…"
Leo said that as it was revealed that all around them was darkness…
"What I don't have is what gives me my strength…you said I'd only be happy for a short while after I found out the truth...but unhappiness is always where I've found my happiness..."
Soon, the darkness that surrounded them disappeared, being replaced by light, and Leo was back in his house. Looking below, he saw his corpse. Looking at his forelegs and seeing that they were glowing and transparent, he was well aware of what he was now…
"I am a ghost…" he told himself with a look of sadness. "Soon, my vessel shall rot to naught, but the real tragedy is that my soul shall be barred from the afterlife for many generations, forced to bear firsthand witness to the inevitable decay and death of all living creatures…"
He then became especially sad when he looked over at Terra, who was still sleeping.
"Including you…" he continued as he knelt his head. "And my child…"
Leo attempted to gently stroke his wife's cheek, but alas, he could not, as his ghostly hoof simply passed right through her physical body.
"Terra…" he said, clenching his hoof and shutting his eyes filled with sorrow. "Please know that this shell you will wake up to see is not me...the real me will always be with you, even as he leaves…"
Leo then floated over the bed where his wife slept and passed through the wall on the other side, departing his house and heading towards the battlefield where he and his soldiers had slaughtered the devils…
"To fight the greater fight…"
All of a sudden, Terra opened her eyes, having somehow heard Leo's voice.
"Leo…" she said to herself. "What do you mean? Why…*gasp*"
Terra gasped as she caught sight of Leo's body lying on the floor before her. In a state of absolute shock, her terror grew as she examined Leo's corpse further and saw that his own blade had been thrust into his heart. Bringing her hooves to her face, trembling, she could no longer contain her anxiety and let loose with a loud bellow…
"LLLLLEEEEEOOOOO!"
Meanwhile, inside Celestia's castle…
Celestia was in her bedroom, tossing and turning in bed, her rest being disturbed by Akame assaulting her mind…
Inside her mind, Akame was standing before her, darkness surrounding both of them just like it had done with Akame and Leo.
"What do you want?!" Celestia cried. "Haven't you caused me enough pain?!"
"Hmmm...nope." Akame replied cheekily. "I simply can not relent as we draw close to the coup de grace…"
"What are you plotting now?!" Celestia demanded to know.
"Nothing more than a fitting conclusion to everything." Akame answered. "Wouldn't you agree that this glorious play deserves a more-than-satisfying denouement?"
"The devil war is over!" Celestia exclaimed. "At the cost of the lives of so many, you now have the invincible soldiers you desired! What more must be done?!"
"A test of the power of those soldiers, of course." Akame replied. "I already know the current potential of the Nightbringers, but not the potential of those ghost soldiers, the Helllights, I shall call them. Nor do I know the potential of the Nightbringers and the Helllights fighting together...combining the powers of light and darkness in order to defeat this world's supposed 'ultimate evil'..."
Celestia's eyes widened as she caught on to what Akame meant.
"You mean to fight them yourself?" she said.
"Not exactly…" Akame replied, smirking and rubbing her chin with her hoof. "I am going to have some backup with me to make things fair. I'm sure the poor, lost souls of those devils your men killed will be seeking employment as my guards…"
"You must be joking!" Celestia shouted. "You already hold so much power on your own! "Make things fair"?! Are you truly so cowardly?!"
"And are you truly so unfaithful?" Akame taunted. "I know the abilities of my men better than you, and sadly, that includes the guys who used to be your favorite soldiers."
"Mock me all you want…" Celestia said as she gave Akame a glare of anger. "I will not stand by and watch you brutalize my men. I'll be watching you. If I find this little test of yours unfair, I will intervene, and I will even kill you should it come to that."
"Why so serious?" Akame replied. "You know those men of yours can no longer die now. Are you really just that sick of me?"
Celestia paused for a while, reflecting on everything Akame had done to her and the people she loved before gritting her teeth and donning a furious, fearsome look.
"YES!" she finally shouted in a loud, booming voice unlike her own. "I AM BEYOND WEARY OF YOU! YOU HAVE TORMENTED ME, MY SISTER, AND MY PEOPLE FOR FAR TOO LONG! JUST THE THOUGHT OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO FINALLY BE RID OF YOUR TOXIC, INSUFFERABLE PRESENCE FILLS ME WITH A FEELING OF JOY LIKE NO OTHER! FUCK YOU! FUCK OFF! GO FUCK YOURSELF IN HELL! I HOPE EVERY LAST SECOND OF YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE MAKES YOU REGRET THAT YOU EVER EXISTED! I ONLY HOPE THAT I GET THE CHANCE TO TORTURE YOU TO DEATH!"
In response to this, Akame just started laughing out loud as she watched Celestia snarl while breathing heavily.
"Oh come on," said Akame, "you know that I can only find hatred being poured out through words hilarious. I know how much you have hated me in your heart, and I've loved every bit of it. You can not know how long I have waited for you to show it to me...through actions…"
"...Actions?" Celestia asked as she stopped snarling and heavily breathing. "But I've not attacked you physically…"
"Not yet." Akame replied. "But in this final battle, I assure that you will come to participate in it, and in your words, "kill me if it comes to that"."
"..." Celestia was silent, puzzled at why Akame was so nonchalant about all this. In spite of the hatred she felt for her, the two had fostered a relationship and a prestigious public image. Could it be…
"Are you trying to bait me?" Celestia asked suspiciously. "Do you mean to kill me off in a way that will appear justifiable to the public eye?"
"You would've been dead long ago had that ever come across my mind as a serious thought." Akame answered. "The greater gods have valued me as a key player in this whole affair up until now, but you, I'm afraid, they have always considered replaceable."
"Well if I'm so unimportant compared to you, why have they always allowed me to have my way despite not agreeing with their ideologies?" Celestia replied.
"Replacing you and your sister with yes-men would've proved quite boring, don't you agree?" Akame said. "Boredom is what the greater gods despise above all else. Why do you think they create these worlds, these conflicts, these tales of immortal-turned mortals rising up against tyrannical devil gods such as myself?"
Suddenly, Celestia realized what Akame was trying to say. Her eyes went wider than ever as she started shaking.
"Do you mean to tell me…?" she asked.
"Yup." Akame replied. "This world was deliberately created with the problems it has. We were given a solution to the problems they wanted to one day solve for the purpose of making their story interesting. The suffering and hardship we endure is ultimately for their entertainment."
Celestia was now enraged to the point where we could no longer control herself…
"YOU'RE DDDEEEEEAAAAADDDDD!" she screamed as she jumped at Akame. In the real world, she jumped as well, leaping out of her bed and bursting the bedroom doors wide open. The guards standing outside of them were knocked aside and were now grunting in pain on the floor, shocked and confused. Not being herself, Celestia ignored them and ran towards her throne room, her instincts telling her that that was where Akame was most likely to be.
Celestia had nothing on her mind right now besides finding Akame and destroying her. She didn't care if this was a trap. She was done playing Akame's games. If this did mean her demise, so be it, she thought. The life she had spent following Akame's orders was torture anyways. Not just because she had become fed up with being a slave to the greater gods, but also because she was fed up with being a slave to guilt. The only reason she had tolerated this awful life up until now was because she thought she was suffering for the greater good, not for the amusement of the ones who had tormented her and her loved ones…
"You lied to me…" she thought. "WE'RE JUST KILLING YOUR SUBJECTS AS ESSENTIAL SACRIFICES FOR THE WORLD TO LIVE IN PEACE! BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!"
Celestia burst through the entrance to the throne room from the hall. To no surprise, she saw Akame sitting on her throne, smiling that sickening, loathsome smile she could no longer tolerate…
"RRRAAAGGGHHH!" Celestia cried as she charged up a magic blast in her horn and fired it at Akame, who jumped out of the way to the right before the blast destroyed the throne. Celestia turned to the right and was about to charge up another destructive beam, but stopped upon seeing Akame turn to shadow and disappear.
"Let's finish this somewhere more suitable…" Akame told Celestia in her mind. "A king is meant to fall in battle on a battlefield, not in his own throne room. Meet me at the battlefield where we sent our men to fight against the devil army. Before we let karma catch up with us, let's catch up with karma…"
"For once, I honestly agree." Celestia replied. "I'm no longer afraid of how I will be punished for what I've done. At the end of this, may we both rest in pieces in the blackness of DEATH!"
With fire in her eyes, Celestia leaped out the window and flew towards the battlefield Akame was talking about posthaste.
"Sister…" she thought solemnly. "I'm so sorry to do this to you and to our subjects...but I know that not only you, but many others will be able to take my place and rule over Equestria better than I have as of late…
...farewell."
Suddenly, Princess Luna, who had been asleep in her bedroom, was awoken by an overwhelming feeling that something was wrong. Looking out a window, she realized that the sun had not been raised yet, for it was still dark out…
"I feel not night's essence…" Luna said to herself. "It should be morning…"
Luna got out of bed and left her bedroom. Coming to Celestia's bedroom, she was astonished to find the doors wide open and two royal guards lying on the floor.
"What in…" Luna said as she rushed to one of the guards on the floor. "What happened here?"
"Her Highness suddenly bolted the doors open." the guard explained. "With great force at that."
"After that, she rushed down the halls." the other guard said. "It was as if Her Majesty had become possessed by a demon."
Luna scowled, immediately suspecting that Akame had something to do with this.
"Forgive me, as I know you two are in pain," said Luna, empathizing, "but please, come with me. I want to take extra cautionary measures…"
The guards got up off the floor and joined Luna in searching the castle for Celestia. Eventually, they came to the throne room and gasped when they saw the destruction of Celestia's throne.
"I was only speaking figuratively…" the guard who spoke of Celestia being possessed said.
"What has come over you, Sister?" Luna thought as she saw the broken window. "Where have you gone to?"
Luna pondered over where Celestia would be, and soon, was overcome by another strange premonition. She turned to her guards and asked them…
"Please bring Vincent to me."
Meanwhile, on the battlefield where Celestia's soldiers and the devils fought…
Leo was already there, standing and waiting. Now that he was no longer of the physical realm, he could sense spiritual presences all around him. To be more precise, three hundred familiar spiritual presences…
"You must be the ghosts of the devils we fought…" Leo said. "So you were all once innocent ponies. I do not blame you if you hold a grudge against me."
"We do not." the ghosts, gathered as one, replied. "We completely regretted our decision to become demons as soon as we made it. The death you and your army brought us was a blessing. But alas, even now, we are not free as the greater gods seek to use us once again…"
"By that, do you mean…?" Leo asked, even though he already had a good idea of the response he would get.
"Yes, Akame." they answered as he predicted. "The orders she has received through them are the reason we have been gathered here as one. And very soon, she will arrive to do battle here with Princess Celestia."
"What?" Leo replied. "Why is Her Majesty being pulled into this?"
"We do not know." they told him. "We were not told everything. However, what we do know is that the fight Akame has planned to have with you and your comrades is not just meant to be a test of your abilities. It's also meant to be a testimony to the world. A story that will go on to inspire future generations in spite of the omissions made to it..."
"My comrades too?" Leo asked, confused. "And what do you mean by omissions?"
"We're going to cut out a few parts that we simply don't feel will fit…" Akame explained, suddenly appearing behind Leo. "Like how your beloved princess laid on the ground begging for death…"
Leo turned around and gave Akame a scowl.
"What do you want with my liege?!" Leo demanded to know. "This was supposed to be our fight, leave her out of this!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that." Akame replied. "After all, she's the one coming to fight me…"
Akame and Leo both looked ahead of them and saw Princess Celestia zooming towards them, flying at full speed, the flames in her eyes burning fiercely as her vision locked onto Akame.
"DIE!" Celestia shouted as she fired a powerful magic blast at Akame. Just like before, Akame jumped out of the way in time as the magical energy scorched the ground below her. Celestia then followed up by shooting multiple magic beams at Akame, with her casually dodging each and every one of them. Leo watched in astonishment.
"My, my." Akame said as she casually flew through the air, avoiding the beams. "I'm actually tempted to let one of these hit me just for a change of pace."
"THEN DO SO!" Celestia screamed.
"As you wish." Akame replied and flew right in front of Celestia. Remaining there, she gave Celestia the perfect chance to hit her. Celestia charged up the most powerful energy beam she could in her horn and fired it at Akame, completely disintegrating her, her ashes falling to the ground. Celestia then began panting heavily as she floated down to the ground, exhausted from having spent so much magical energy.
"Your Highness!" Leo exclaimed as he floated over to Celestia. "Are you alright?"
"No…" Celestia answered as she looked at Leo sadly. "How can I be? It is because of me that you are dead…"
"No, Your Majesty…" Leo replied. "I chose to die…"
"That's a lie…" Celestia said. "You didn't really choose anything. You were just set up, just like I was. That's the only reason we exist, to be used by those abhorrent sadists we call the "greater gods"..."
Leo was taken aback, but quickly regained his composure out of urgency.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty." Leo said, sympathizing. "I know you are going through much right now, but I must tell you, Akame-"
"I know that she is still alive." Celestia answered, interrupting him. "I've known from the start that I can not kill her."
"Then why did you…" Leo prepared to ask, but was interrupted again by Celestia saying…
"Because I was angry. I gave into my emotions, and sought out to destroy the object of my aggression, even knowing it was impossible. Because the darkness inside of me still lives…"
It was then that Leo saw a shadowy creature that resembled King Sombra in his shadow form, but had the face of Akame rise out of Celestia's back and bear its sharp teeth. Twice Celestia's size, it loomed over her, ready to devour her...
"And Akame is part of that darkness. Goodbye Leo…"
"NNNOOOOO!" Leo shouted as he flew towards Celestia and entered her body. Possessing her, he had her jump out of the way before the shadow creature, Akame, could dive in and gulp her down.
"Heh heh." Akame snickered. "I was wondering when you'd finally spring into action."
Just then, Akame's face fell off, having been severed from her shadow body by a sword glowing with a very radiant light. Genuinely surprised, Akame turned her face around to see that the one who had cut her was Dante.
"You mean when we'd finally spring into action." Dante said with Trish, Vergil, Princess Luna, and Vincent standing behind him.
Despite having a look of surprise on her face for once, said look soon turned back into her vintage look of amusement.
"Yes, I was wondering when you three would spring into action." Akame said to the Nightbringers, rolling with the joke. "It's about time you decided to betray me."
"Ha!" Dante jeered. "We were never on your side, cunt."
"We may have "chosen" the dark path," said Vergil, "but we've always been on no one's side."
"We only supported to have you made the ruler of Equestria because we felt you deserved the position." Trish explained. "And we're only here to stop you because we're not going to just sit back and let you hurt anyone."
"Predictability, predictability." Akame replied. "Do you really think I ever trusted you three or any of my servants for that matter? To tell you the truth, part of the reason I made Numdust the leader of the doomed devil army is because I was worried he would try to conspire against me with the greater gods."
"So we're all just pawns to you, a demon lord of all things?" Dante mocked. "Pfft, what a shocker. And you're going on about predictability."
"Yes, as demons who have witnessed all too much darkness, we begin to miss the feeling of true, genuine surprise we once had…" Akame replied. "However, I'm not a demon. I'm a demon god. I never knew that feeling because I was artificially created. Unlike you, I never was a real pony...or a human for that matter…"
"Human?" Princess Luna questioned in her mind, puzzled.
Ha ha ha ha ha…
An unfamiliar laugh was heard by all, the only one finding it familiar being Akame.
"Ninja Time God Rarity?" Akame asked as she rolled her eyes up to the sky.
I must say, I am impressed by how well you're taking being in this precarious position, Akame. Though you did always boast about not being afraid of "losing face". Hee hee hee!
That joke was made by another entity who was unfamiliar to all who heard what he said, save Akame.
"Fantasy God Discord?" Akame asked.
Surprised to hear from us now? After what you just said about never knowing genuine surprise?
"Oh please." Akame retorted what Ninja Time God Rarity said. "I'm not freaking out like everything I know is a lie."
Oh ho, but you will be freaking out over one thing you know turning out to be a lie…
"And what might that be?" Akame said nonchalantly in response to Fantasy God Discord.
The fact that what you were told about being "artificially created" did not mean what you thought it meant. Even we greater gods have mortal limitations, one being that we can not create something out of nothing, nor can we create life. The pure darkness you came from was a pre-existing life, a "human being"...
"What are you talking about?" Akame asked, genuinely perplexed by what Rarity was saying. "You created this world…"
We created this FICTIONAL world. It's just a story you live inside. But every character inside this story, including you, was once a real person…
What followed the words Discord spoke was the longest silence yet.
"..." everyone went.
The silence was eventually broken by the ghosts of Gordon and Ricard coming out of Dante's sword and saying…
"Wait, what did he say?"
It's hard to explain, given that you don't know all the facts like we do, but essentially, what we mean is that we took your lives away twice.
Once again, everyone was silent for some time before the silence was eventually broken, this time by Leo, who still inhabited Celestia's body.
"Well then, bravo." Leo remarked sarcastically in response to what Rarity said. "Remind us to congratulate you again when you find someone who cares."
No, no. Don't congratulate us. Congratulate yourselves.
"For what?" Leo replied to what Discord said. "Having the patience to put up with all this shit?"
Precisely. You, your friends, and the Nightbringers are now the super soldiers that you've been brought up to be in both form and spirit now. All as part of our plan.
"Interesting…" Vincent responded to what Rarity said. "That reminds me of what Akame was saying yesterday. Only she said that it was only part of the reason you "staged the war".
Akame explained that part of the reason to Luna very early on, and another part of the reason to Celestia just recently, if I recall correctly. Unfortunately, she was misinformed in saying that the suffering and hardship you endure is "ultimately" for our entertainment. It is not. What it is ultimately for is renewing the spirit of this broken universe, thus the name, "Spiriting project".
"You...you must be toying with me…" Akame replied to Discord indignantly. "Do you know what I suffered through believing that I was only created for evil?"
Do you know what all the ones you've tortured have suffered through?
"Don't you dare accuse me of being a hypocrite…" Akame said to Rarity with a growl. "At least you gave everyone I tortured a worthwhile existence in this insane world. I, on the other hand, you made into an irredeemable monster…"
What about Numdust and everyone you turned into devils, shadow soldiers, and Sombra-like creatures?
"At least they knew who they were…" Akame replied to Discord, growling louder. "Even though they were essentially forced to become demons, they knew they didn't have to be evil…"
I don't get what you're so upset about. At least you know now that you can be good…
"...Good?" Akame responded to Rarity, the immense anger inside of her growing ever so great as her face began to crack. "Let me guess, is Vincent supposed to be the example of how no one is beyond redemption? Or maybe Myra Michaels? Again, ones who always knew they didn't have to be evil…"
Don't play dumb, you know the answer. YOU'RE the example. You're just too arrogant and immature to accept the truth. That's why you're going to throw a massive temper tantrum as we've written…
"STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!" Akame screamed as her face exploded and the entire region transformed into pitch-black darkness. Having shielded their eyes with their forelegs as a natural reflex upon the explosion, everyone soon slowly pulled their forelegs away to witness the souls of the three hundred killed ponies that became devils arrive at where Akame's face once laid and fuse together to form a creature of pure light…
...that was shaped like a devil. It had the arms, legs, torso, and head of a devil. Its face, however, lacked any features save for one, eyes. The eyes of Akame.
"Okay...I'll play your game…" Akame said in a frantic tone, her composure completely gone.
Akame began to raise her hands in the air and twirl around as she had done long back, concerning every pony watching her as they slowly began to back away. Luna and Leo became especially concerned when she saw Akame charging mixes of light and dark energy in her hands...
"I'll be good." Akame said in a disenchanted monotone, her mind slipping away. "I'll fight the "essential role models of this generation". WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN MAKE THE UNIVERSE GREAT AGAIN!"
"EVERYONE, GET DOWN!" Luna and Leo cried as they both cast a shield spell in an attempt to block the energy blasts, but they proved to be too strong. The beams broke through the shields and completely destroyed Celestia and Luna's supposedly immortal alicorn bodies as they disintegrated into traceless dust. The Nightbringers, the Helllights, and Vincent, on the other hand, were unharmed by the beams. Seeing this, Akame gave a snicker that soon turned into the laugh of a madman…
"AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" she cackled insanely. "SO THIS IS THE POWER I AM EXPECTED TO MARVEL AT! I AM ABOVE THE ALICORNS BUT EQUAL TO THE GUINEA PIGS YOU HAD ME RAISE! WITH THEIR POWER, THEY WILL KEEP THE EVIL AKAME IN CHECK FOR ALL ETERNITY! WHAT A SPLENDID JOB YOU HAVE DONE! AH HA HA HA HA-"
Akame's laugh was interrupted by Vincent tossing his sword, imbued with light and dark energy, into Akame's heart.
"ULP!" Akame coughed up a dark fluid. She was paralyzed.
"You think it is the power of these soldiers that you are expected to marvel at," said the light energy inside Vincent's sword, revealing itself to be Celestia's soul through its voice, "but you are wrong."
"It is how their hearts come together to create a power greater than that of any evil that you are expected to marvel at." the dark energy inside Vincent's sword, revealing itself to be Luna's soul through its voice.
Akame soon realized the truth of what Celestia and Luna were saying as she saw Gordon, Ricard, and Leo enter Trish, Vergil, and Dante's bodies respectively. Vergil and Dante put their blades together as Trish fed her power combined with Gordon's into them, just as Vergil and Dante fed their power combined with Ricard and Leo's into them. Coursing through their blades was lightning that had the auras of light and darkness emanating from it. Akame knew what was going to happen to her as Vergil and Dante prepared to swing their blades…
"Hey Akame…" Dante said. "Remember what you told me at Devil's Peak? Lightning came down from heaven..."
"AND SATAN FELL!" the Nightbringers and the Helllights both exclaimed together as Dante and Vergil both swung their swords and released a bolt of lightning that shot towards Akame and electrocuted every single part of her body.
"AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEHELPMEEEEE!" Akame screamed in agony as she felt every part of her body bulge and burst in an enormous explosion that sent out a blast wave so loud, it could be heard all throughout the land. The light from the explosion was so bright that it not only lit up all of the darkness Akame had created, but it also caused the night sky above to become bright as well. And this brightness was not light pollution, rather natural daylight like the kind Celestia created. And even as all this brightness came in to light Akame's darkness, the darkness of the night that Luna created remained.
All the ponies in town who had heard the blast wave and were curious as to what was causing this combination of daylight and night followed the sound. Though it was a long walk, being mystified by the beauty being displayed all throughout the land made the time seem like nothing. Eventually, they came to the battlefield to find the Nightbringers and the Helllights talking to two strange figures. One was Rarity, dressed in a black garb with the emblem of a sword on it, and the other was Discord, dressed in a white robe with the emblem of a shield on it.
"Who are you?" some of the townsponies asked. "What has happened?"
Rarity and Discord looked over at the townsponies with sly grins on their faces.
"Your story." they replied.
Aftermath
This is the account given in Rarity and Discord's story…
In what can be seen as an attempt to take the throne, a powerful demon known as Akame assassinated Princess Celestia and Princess Luna that day. Following this, she was killed by the combined efforts of the Nightbringers, the very soldiers she had raised, the Helllights, formerly known as the Jaeger Raid, and a royal guard named Vincent.
That day, there was understandably much mourning for the loss of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. However, there was also much comfort found in what their souls that still lingered had to say. They promised that they would live on inside not just their subjects or the daylight and night that would still shine throughout the land even after their passing, but also inside the heralds who may have died…
This is the list of those heralds and what they did following their defeat of Akame…
Gordon has been researching the past of the devil known as Numdust. He purports that his reason for doing so is because he believes he will return and wishes to make preparations…
Ricard has often been seen in talks with Princess Luna. It is said that they have been trying to work together to find a way to monitor the dreams of the citizens of Equestria better…
Leo soon found himself to be the father of not one, but two children when his wife Terra, finally gave birth to twins. One was a colt with a dark coat and mane, and the other was a mare with a white coat and mane…
Trish has been assisting Gordon in his research with her abilities as a ghost whisperer, attempting to contact the spirit of King Sombra, an alleged subordinate of Numdust and Akame…
Vergil has been working to improve his aura reading skills and studying the forces of light and darkness in an attempt to understand better why such great power results from their unity…
Dante has been behaving gloomier as of late, as a surprise to most. Some speculate that he feels sympathy for his late mentor. Others speculate that he doesn't feel Akame is gone for good…
Vincent has grown to be the most trusted guard of the two new rulers of Equestria…
...What has been omitted?
"We attacked him, but he proved to be too powerful for us." the messenger said. "Thus, we failed to subdue him…"
What really happened in the battle with Numdust and the Jaeger Raid.
The relationship between King Sombra and the shadow creatures.
How Terra overcame that her husband was now a ghost.
The most important parts of the final battle between Akame and the seven soldiers, as well as Akame's true motive…
The last part of the account of Rarity and Discord…
The heralds who may have died but still live…
Finally, the last part of the list of the heralds…
The two new rulers of Equestria, Queen Spira, the daughter of Fluttershy, and King Nero, the son of Noimman...