Chapter 3
Princess Celestia was out side Shadow Lust door were she saw the guard outside "Why are you not in there keeping an eye on her" Celestia asked him.
As he bowed his head "I didn't want to wake her up she was still asleep" he said to her.
"Well I can feel she is awake the now" as she open the door to see Shadow Lust right at a corner of the room breathing heavily and was looking at her sword as if she was planning on something "Leave us alone" Celestia said to the guards as they back out closing the door "I hope your not planning on killing yourself" she said in a slow walking towards her.
"Ha it funny how easy it is to think about ending your own life but when you try and do it something stops you" she said sounding sad.
"It because your mind is telling you this isn't the right way to think I take it this Shadow Path is really important to you" she said feeling sorry for her that there isn't another shadow pony out there.
"It is the way I was brought up from birth it drilled into your head all the rules the laws everything" she said letting go of her sword.
"I am sorry for you being the last if I could do something for you I would I would even make a project for you but I can't because I have no clue to what your kinds are really about" Celestia said taking a seat next to her.
Shadow Lust then heard this female voice in her head "Shadow Lust it me the Shadow Goddess I have come to tell you, you don't have to be alone back during the war you will know a project called project Abomination it still stand but how ever we are giving you two choice to make you can let the project be complete and let it help you win the war but Celestia and her sister shall die in this or you can end the project suffering by shutting it down and making you the very last one but remember the shadow path is a harsh thing to take it pushes you to the limit and beyond it down to you oh and there is an elite class armour down there take it, it your for extra protection" the voice then left her.
Shadow Lust shaken her head and looked up off the floor "That it the old project" she said to herself.
Celestia caught what she said "What project" she said to her.
"Sorry it just something told me to think in the past and remember about a project called Abomination it secrete but I have two choice to make for it and I need to see it first" she got up placing the sword back in it pouch and was about to rush off but was stopped by Celestia.
"Wait where is it and I am coming to help you" she said determine.
"Okay it here in the palace follow me" she lead the way.
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After following her through the many corridors they came to a solid wall "It here" she said pointing to the wall.
"But that just a wall" Celestia said to her.
"Yes to your eyes it is but our kind made it that way to protect our secrets from enemies" as she taken a step towards the wall and went through it.
Celestia looked with wide eyes and shock as she taken a deep breath and walked through it she came to a huge chamber with lot of pipes and water tanks there was water flowing around the pipes and a few flags here and there but they were very hard to tell what it was as it had torn up through age "What is this" she asked seeing Shadow Lust standing there.
"During the war your kind always wondered how could we keep fighting if they killed us and we are few well this was why we could in these water tanks are... were little foals" she said as Celestia saw in the tank a teenage mare with a mask around her mouth.
"Are they dead" she said shocked at was she is seeing.
"No their are not dead you see we though we could win the war but time went by our numbers fell fast so we had to make the little one grow fast this was the way we did once they were born they were brought here to be grown fast then it was straight into war from here" as they passed a couple of tanks with little baby of ponies in them.
As Celestia was about to touch one of the tanks Shadow Lust stopped her "Don't touch anything we cast a spell on everything so when a non shadow pony tries to touch these they will die only us can touch" she said.
"What kind would create such thing" Celestia said sounding horrified from what she was seeing.
"What kind would do this simple your kind force us into war we never wanted to fight" Shadow Lust shouted out with angry "your kind wanted to wipe us out what did you think was going to happen that we would simply allow it to happen no we were desperate we even nearly lost our ways to the promise land for this war of ours that would have cast us out of the shadow ponies okay I admit it wasn't the right thing to do but we had nothing left" she walked up to a tank and placed a hoof on it and sigh "It was the only thing left we could offer to our empire to safeguard her freedom and all those who lived in it so tell me would your kind do the same" she said facing Celestia as Celestia had a face saying yes they would have.
"I am sorry for saying that" Celestia said to her feeling sorry for her.
"It okay come I came here to make a choice and to collect something" she lead the way through the place.
They came to the far back where there was an armour the same as her own only it was much more thicker and was highly decorated it had much more sharper edges "This is an elite class armour I am taking it I be a min" she said grabbing the armour and going off somewhere.
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When she returned Celestia saw the armour was one her she looked more attractive as she shaken the thought out of her head "So now what".
"Well I have two choice one choice is I can let the project go on but once it done they will kill alicorns or I can shut down the project end their suffering which will kill them but quickly but then I will be alone" as she face a single pipe with a round valve on it and a sign saying "SHUT DOWN" as she placed a hoof on it.
"I will be waiting outside for you" Celestia said leaving Shadow Lust alone to think.
Shadow Lust looked around seeing the tanks with different size and gender of ponies all in the tanks with those mask over their mouths then seeing the water flow around the pipes going in to the tanks "I am sorry for this torment I did to you all young ones please forgive me and those who worked on this project we only wanted to protect the innocents" she placed both hoofs on the valve and then turned it clockwise as she then saw the water was begging to slow down then coming to a stop and the pipe was now empty and the tank began to empty the water.
Shadow Lust then walked up to a tank and smashed the glass and placed a hoof on the little colt feeling for a pulse as she couldn't as she closed her eyes "Rest in peace now go the promise land see your mother and father live in peace now the gods are watching over you all now for I shall continue this war the way I want to either by killing them or myself but when I say" as she got up and walked slowly out of the rooms and the tanks were now all empty and the lights began to die out.
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Celestia waited for Shadow Lust as she saw her coming through the wall she couldn't see what face expression she was making but she could feel she was not happy "Come it almost time for dinner it seems we were down there for hours" she said hoping to cheer her up again.
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When they arrived at the dinning room Shadow Lust saw Luna was waiting there for them and two other ponies one was a white body unicorn stallion with blue mane and tail wearing a golden armour and beside him was a pink alicorn along with her own guard Lance "Hello Shadow Lust I am Cadence I have heard much about you".
"Hello it would have been a pleasure to meet you but at these time with our kind at war but however I am here on peace terms" she said taking a seat next to Celestia.
"What do you mean our kinds are at war" Cadence asked Shadow Lust.
"Cadence I will tell you the story later I promise right now isn't the best time to her" Celestia said quickly as they just eat in silence for the rest of the meal.
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"Shadow Lust was alone in the room on the balcony as her guard had went off to get something to eat she then heard something behind her as she quickly turned to be just blinded by a bright light.
As the light dulled down to reveal a dark shadow form of the same type of pony as Shadow Lust how Lust gasp and bowed her head "is it you Shadow Goddess mother I am really sorry".
"Don't be my dear daughter I am here for I felt something is troubling you" she spoke with a gentle calm voice.
"I am just trying to figure out where do us our kind stand in this new age of our once fair empire" she said looking out over the city.
"I see" she said looking over the city with a smile "I must admit thing don't look good for us Shadow Ponies but however we still have a huge impact on this new land to this day the alicorns don;t see it but it the truth come fly with me" she then taken to the sky as Shadow Lust followed after her.
"I don't understand mother" she said watching the ponies below walking about their daily lives.
"Simple come" she flew down to a window as they both saw a baby foal sleeping "We always watched over the ponies in their dreamland protecting them from the bad dreams that could scare them harm them and many other ways we don't care if they don't know who did it as long as they are safe come there is still more to see" she lead the way.
"Okay I get that part but what about anything else" Shadow Lust said as they both where over the wasteland.
"There are those who try and study our temples that we left behind in hope our kind could be remember but we hadn't encountered that they couldn't read our kind own language but it adds mystery to our once pride kinds" she said looking around the place.
"What about the dead souls of those who have left this world" Shadow Lust asked as they passed a few small villages.
"We gods still watch over them as well we help them get to the afterlife come lets return to the palace before your guard sees you missing" Shadow Goddess said to her as she nodded and they both headed back to the palace.
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When they both arrived and night had taken over Shadow Lust said goodbye her mother as she went off leaving her alone Shadow Lust still couldn't get Celestia out of her head how she looks and so many more.
As she sigh and laid her head down on the floor looking towards the moon with a smile on her and closed her eyes slowly.