A/N:Hello again my fellow readers. I'm back with another chapter of "A Star's life". Now I know I haven't been consistent. It frustrates me believe me, but I do post these whenever possible. I have many ideas for this story and may even ask for OCs in the future. Anyway sorry for the wait and hope you enjoy :)

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"Tia...I came here because I need to tell you something."

"What is it?"

"I wanted to let you know that...I'll be leaving.."

"Leaving? Why are you leaving? Where will you go? Who knows about this?"

"Calm down Tia... I'll tell you everything. It happened like this..."

-An hour later-

"...and that's about it. Pretty much after the gala, I will have to go Tia."

Celestia was crying softly in his neck over the news of losing her closest friend and recent lover so soon. It wasn't until she stopped crying that she composed herself enough to speak, "Are you sure you can't just stay here and train? That way you'll still get stronger and then you won't have to leave us."

"Tia, I can't do that...it would just endanger you and everypony here. I have to leave but I will come back when the time is right."

His explanation did little to comfort the sun princess. She was still going to see him go and he couldn't even tell her when he would return. She was afraid that if she let him go then she'd lose him like she almost did after the banishment of Nightmare moon. As she looked at him,she remembered that faithful day...

(Flashback)

-1000 years ago, Royal pony sisters' castle, 8:30am-

The sound of laughter echoed through the halls as a young Star and Luna being chased by a cake splattered Celestia. The duo had recently played a prank on her by rigging a chocolate cake to be thrown at Celestia when she went to the kitchen.

Needless to say, the solar princess was less than pleased and gave pursuit. Luna and Star ran as far as their hooves would take them,hiding,dodging and swerving, doing anything they could to lose Tia. They finally ended up in Luna's bedroom and locked the door as they leaned against the door and simultaneously sighed in relief.

That was short lived as they looked in front of them and saw ten vanilla cakes being held in her magic, aiming at the alicorn prince and princess as they were surrounded.

"Now then, give up?" Asked Celestia.

"Yes.." Said the lunar princess in defeat.

"Never!" Shouted Star as he stood protectively in front of Luna and charged towards Tia until being assaulted by all the cakes. He was completely covered with cake from head to tail as his eyes blinked.

The princesses giggled and they kissed his cheek, gaining a blush from the colt that couldn't be seen due to all the cake on used their magic and took him to the tub in Luna's bathroom to get clean then left him.

He came out shortly with a wet mane and tail as the princesses waited on the bed. "Well I gotta admit,that was fun. Even though I was defeated in the end.." Said the colt.

Luna rolled his eyes and walked over to him,kissing his cheek. "That's for thy bravery,my hero"

"Alright, enough you two, we have got to get going. We do have a kingdom to rule and duties to attend to do we not?" Stated Celestia as she headed for the door and opened it.

"Yes Tia.." The two younger alicorns said as they walked out the door and headed for the throne room reluctantly with Celestia.

Little did they know that it'd be their last time together...

-The next morning, 7:20 am-

After a day of long meetings and signing new treaties with other nations, Star had left to a nearby quarry with a saddlebag to gather some gems. He was currently using his magic to form a necklace out of all the brightly colored gems.

"I can't wait to give them these gem necklaces and see how happy they get. Then maybe I'll come back tomorrow and make a tiara to match."

He was happily finishing the assemble of his gifts to the princesses, oblivious to the fact that the sky was still dark and that the princesses he cared for were battling one another.

Once he was satisfied with how they looked,he put them in his saddlebag and flew off towards the castle. He looked at the sky and noticed it was still dark out instead of the sun shining through like it usually would.

"That's odd...Tia would have already raised the sun by now, I wonder if something's wrong..." And with that, he flapped his wings more and flew faster as he noticed two figures firing magical blasts at one another.

He had just flown to the castle and saw that the two figures was Celestia and a dark alicorn with a mane that only reminded him of only one mare...Luna. He noticed that Celestia had the Elements of harmony and fired a massive blast that was going to hit Luna so he dashed off towards her hoping he could somehow block it but it was too late...he was just a few feet away when he saw Luna disappear before his eyes and banished to the moon.

Celestia flew back down and Star followed though he felt a hurt and anger he had felt only once before. As both touched the ground, Celestia stared at Star, noticing a change in him. His face showed nothing but she could feel the power emanating from him was dark...dark and evil.

"Star, I know it hurts now but please let me explain..." She tried to reason with him as he stared at her in disbelief.

"You...you banished Luna.."

"Star...please.."

"You banished Luna.." His eye twitched as the recent event kept playing over and over in his head.

"I didn't want to Star but I had no other choice..."

"YOU BANISHED LUNA!"

His body was suddenly surrounded by a dark flamelike aura as his coat turned black as night, his mane changed from his usual blue and white to a black and blood red long, spiked mane, his teeth sharpened, and his usual blue sapphire eyes became bright red ruby slitted eyes. His anger and pain fueling this power within as in a moment, he stood in front of Celestia and kicked her across the room,hitting the hard stone wall.

Celestia didn't see it coming and she stood up slowly. She didn't want to hurt him, she had already fought and banished her own sister. She didn't want to have to do the same to her close friend, she didn't even know if she could do it again.

"Star...please listen to me...I didn't want to do it..."

It fell on deaf ears as he walked towards her,his power so strong that each step he took cracked the floor.

'I don't want to hurt him...but I need to defend myself and get through to him somehow...'

Star stood a foot away from her,thinking about how to make her pay for what she did to Luna.

Star grinned darkly and aimed towards Celestia for a punch to her face. She managed to barely miss the hit and backed away. "Star, stop this and listen to me! Don't make me hurt you!" She shouted with sadness as she stared at him with pleading once,giving a final attempt to avoid fighting her close friend.

"Hurt me? I don't think you need to worry about hurting me, what you need to worry about is...surviving. Now fight me Tia!" His aura grew and got darker, his eyes being the only thing visible.

"If this is the only way to make you listen...then so be it. I'm not losing you too." Her body emanated a golden aura as she spread her wings with only one thought going through her mind, 'I'm not going to lose you Star..'

The air was heavy with tension as the only sound heard was of the wind blowing through. Then, in an instant, the Alicorns clashed hooves as they left the castle and headed out into the night sky, never once stopping their constant attack. It seemed their power was equal and neither was willing to give in.

It was two hours later as their battle ensued with their stamina beginning to deplete. Both ponies had bruises all over their bodies and blood starting to drip from their mouths as they flew away from each other.

"It's been fun Celestia but just give up...you can't defeat me." Said Night Blade arrogantly as his horn glowed dark red.

"No...I won't. I will defeat you! I'm not losing Star to you!" Her horn glowed a bright yellow as a ball of magic began to form at the tip of her horn.

Night smirked and he began developing his own magic ball on his his horn. "If that's how you want it...then it'll be my pleasure to end you."

Once ready, she sent a powerful blast of magic directed at Night Blade, using all her remaining strength. The thoughts of Star,Luna, and her flashed through her mind as she was reminded of why she had to get Star out of this.

Night countered with his own magical blast wave, red with black lightning sparking around it as it clashed with Celestia's yellow and white attack. There was a sonic boom heard and the ground shook as both attacks tried to push back the other.

It seemed it was going to be endless until Celestia felt herself reach her limit and unable to keep it up. Night grinned and his attack pushed hers with ease as it headed towards her. Celestia felt herself start to feel weak as she was suddenly hit with the dark blast and sent crashing to the ground,creating a large,deep crater and dust to rise in smoke from the impact.

Night glided down and walked slowly to the crater, thinking about how he'd get to finish Celestia off and get revenge for sending Luna to the moon. As the dust cleared , he saw her body in the center, barely moving as her breathing was weak. He flew down with intention of ending her yet as he got closer to her, he began to have second thoughts about it. He shook his head and stood beside her raising his hoof as he infused it with his magic but as he looked at her, the doubt came back much stronger and with one thought echoing. 'What have I done?'

He set his hoof down as the anger that fueled him was replaced with worry and felt the dark form receding slowly from horn to tail,returning to his original form. He bent down and listened to her slow breathing.

"I'm so sorry for hurting you Celestia... I hope you forgive me." His horn glowed his usual blue color and Celestia's body was enveloped in a faint blue glow as he took off to the castle, carrying Celestia behind with his magic.

(End flashback)

Since that day, the relationship between her and Star remained damaged. Star chose to become distant and focus on the protection of equestria, thus becoming anti-social and Tia seemed almost in fear of losing him if she tried to get close to him. She was so enveloped in thinking about the day, she didn't notice Star trying to snap her out of it.

"What in the world could she be thinking about?" He said as he thought of any way to snap her out of it then he got an idea.

He wrapped his hooves around her neck and pressed his lips to hers. He wondered if it was working until he felt her kissing back. They remained like that for a minute before parting.

"It's about time I snapped you out of it Celestia. I was starting to get worried something was wrong." Star said with a smile.

She smiled back with a faint blush on her cheeks, "Well I must admit that it was a pretty good way to 'snap out of it', as you said."

"I think so too..so what were you thinking about?"

"Nothing..just memories of the past."

"Alright well I guess I should leave you to rest. It's bedtime for you."

"It is?" She said with a surprised tone.

"Yes, you've been so wrapped up in your thoughts. I had to finish reading over the possible laws to put in place and discuss a possible trade agreement with the Griffon kingdom. I even lowered the sun and raised the moon an hour ago."

"I'm so sorry Star Shield... I hope it wasn't too much trouble."

He shrugged and got out of bed, "It was no problem, I was happy to help you. Now then, I'll leave you to rest...goodnight Celestia"

He turned and tried to walk out to the balcony but was stopped by a tug on his tail. He turned his head back to see Celestia holding onto his tail with her magic.

"Star...I know you still have to go and all but, would you please stay with me tonight? I don't want to be alone..." She spoke in a quiet voice with a nervous and almost frightened tone.

He smiled slightly and climbed into bed beside her,turning on his side to face her as she did the same. He put his wing on top of her and kissed her forehead.

"Now get some sleep, I'll watch over you." She smiled and moved closer to him, snuggling her head into his soft chest.

"Always being my protector... Goodnight my prince, I love you..." And with she drifted off to sleep.

"I love you too...goodnight" He spoke softly as he looked at her. He didn't realize that the more he laid there with the sun princess, the more he got sleepy until it was too late and fell asleep.

Once he fell asleep, he was in a white empty space alone...or so he thought. Then two figures seemed to appear before him of which he knew very well. One was Nova and the other, Night Blade, seated at a large round wooden table that just seemed to poof out of nowhere. Both looked to be expecting him as he took the only empty seat left across from the dragon and dark pony. They looked as if they were arguing but went silent once Star was near.

"What is this place and why is he here?!" Star asked,shouting the last part as he pointed at the other alicorn who huffed.

"Well hello to you too Star." Snarled Night Blade.

"This is what you may call your mind scape. The place where everything about resides, including Night Blade and myself. He's here because he can't do much at this point and said he'd behave for this." Nova explained.

"Okay...and what exactly is this about?" Asked the confused Star Shield.

Night Blade looked at Star seriously as he put his fore hooves together, "You are here because we need to discuss an issue."

"What issue is that?"

"The issue is...about getting rid of a certain pegasus."

"Well I'm sure once I capture him, he'll rot in the dungeon or..."

Night raised his hoof to signal Star to stop. "No...I don't mean it in that way Star."

"Then what way could you...no, you can't be serious."

Night nodded and pointed to each one of them, "We're going to kill Crimson Shadow and get rid of him once and for all."