I then heard a sword. It wasn't hitting anything in particular, but the world moved in slow motion for a few minutes, I felt a shock wave of magic and a repetitive and denigrating clanging noise as it fell to the ground. Wave, having apparently seen something while I heard all of that, tapped with a combination of worry and surprise on my back, "What was that?" "I don't know," I tapped back, "but it sounded like a sword just fell." "I saw a greenish shock wave, kind of like what happens when a rainboom is performed only a bright green, emanating from the throne room in the castle." "Well," I signed, "That narrows it down a bit. Let's go to the castle."
We flew over to the throne room, entered it and found a scratched up and bleeding Luna, her starry mane reduced to a few shreds of magic. Wave tapped to me what she saw, and I tapped back to her what I heard. What I heard was a strong magical aura, yet Wave had signed to me that Luna was in no state to use magic. She and I rushed over to Luna, who promptly said she was fine. We took her word for it, and we walked over to the apparent source of the magic. Wave attempted to describe the sword, but it was perfectly impossible. She'd tapped to me that it was green and black, it was emitting a greenish glow across the throne room from where it sat on the floor. The handle of the sword was black, and we both felt a mutual strong magic surge that was getting stronger from where it sat.
I almost tripped over something while I was walking closer to it, though. It was a humungous saddle, it was designed to nearly cover the tail and it had a flexible strap over it. It was obviously designed for an alicorn, only alicorns have that body type. It had a slot for a wing, but it obviously wasn't Luna's or any other normal alicorn's armor. For one thing, the wing slot was WAY too small for pegasus-type wings. For another, it was way longer than any armor I'd ever seen, and was built for somepony who was even thinner than Luna. I could only assume this was Chrysalis's armor.
Suddenly I realized what must have happened. Luna and Chrysalis must have been fighting. A.K.A, from what I'd read about the changeling queen, she was battling against another alicorn, PLUS almost the entirety of her own sister's love for her. Also, she seemed to have busted through about three miles of solid rock from what I heard during the battle. How Luna had managed all this, DESPITE the fact that she was an immortal alicorn, AND survived I had NO idea.
"You need help," I heard Wave tap to Luna. I walked over to Luna, who apparently didn't understand this, and translated for her. "I'll be fine, child," she said with great effort, then she groaned and lay her head back down on the floor. "Wind?" Wave tapped to me, "Luna needs help but she won't let me. Let's show her what we can do." "I'm perfectly fine with that," I tapped back to her. "Positions!" she tapped. We stood up on our back legs, wrapped our wings together and squinted. "We will help you, even if you don't want it," I told Luna, "We saved Equestria, remember?"
Tapping into the alicorn's gigantic, albeit disintegrating, magic reservoir, my vision whited out again. I was pretty much forced to open my eyes the whole way, and I put all my willpower into healing the Princess. I felt her pain, but we healed it. I felt the stinging in my side gradually becoming less. My hooves got stronger every second I grasped Wave's. We stood there, and every ache in my body simply melted away. I heard a few gasps from Luna, but since I didn't need her magic anymore I let go, instead of sapping our energy from hers I used ours to replenish hers.
When Wave and I opened our eyes and ears again, we saw and heard things to the same extent. Not only was Luna no longer bleeding, she wasn't hurt at all and neither were we. "Luna? Are you all right?" I asked her. "I am now, child," she replied, getting to her hooves, "I am now."
Suddenly somepony burst through the doors. "Luna!" shouted a familiar voice, "Luna! Are you okay?! What happened?!" "Tia…" Luna started, "I'm fine. But only thanks to those two." I knew she was gesturing to us, and although a bit embarrassed I nodded. "Chrysalis is gone for good, I banished her. And I told the stars that they shouldn't ever let her out. Being imprisoned on the moon forever should give her ample opportunity to reflect," said Luna, "I love you, Tia." "I love you too, Luna," said Princess Celestia. I heard the Princesses then walk over to us. "You saved my little sister?" asked Celestia. I nodded, humbly. "And you saved my kingdom?" she continued," Then I owe you two an apology. Earlier, I didn't know if you'd be able to make a difference. But now," she looked over at Luna, smiling, then continued, "I see that I misjudged you. Ponies can use magic, even if they're not unicorns. For magic," she paused for only a moment to think of what to say, "resides in us all."
"I think I know what this calls for," said Celestia, "I think this calls for a Pinkie Pie style party!" she finished with great enthusiasm, hugging her little sister as the party pony barged in. "She's got her party cannon!" tapped Wave with equal enthusiasm. "LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" shouted Pinkie. I'd only ever heard her once before, that was on a TV documentary. I heard noisemakers, the flapping of streamers as they hung themselves all over the throne room and the opening of the doors as guests flooded in. "News gets around Canterlot FAST," I tapped to Wave, who agreed with me.
"Do you want to stay for the party?" I tapped to Wave, "Or do you want to go home? We have time to do either one, we've still got two days before the competition and I could get Twilight to teleport us there." "I think we should go home," she signed, "But I'll take the long way. Flying for two days will be hard, but I think it's worth it if I do it with you." I smiled and signed back, "Let's go, then." We walked slowly toward the balcony, then we took off and flew away from Celestia's setting sun. I wrapped my hoof around Wave and she did the same for me. "Let's go home," I sighed, saying it to nopony but myself.