Dreamweaver
Avedon
Cyan Hide
Shadeofshade
Daybreaker didn't even know what to do anymore. The one thing she had to protect in her life... gone. She failed again. It didn't even need to be said that she had failed again, even if it wasn't her fault this time. It felt like her own fault. Luna has every right to blame her for not doing her duty once again. How many ponies can say that they failed to protect their wife, their child, not once but twice now? This is the second time she was not able to save Luna. The first time she has not been able to save Aurora. If her self-esteem could have possibly gotten any lower since their banishment a thousand years ago, it would have. Celestia is already at rock bottom.
Her ears flicked at the sound of a heartbeat suddenly forming. She didn't believe it at her, but a second one came. A third, fourth, fifth, sixth seven eight--a heart was beating in Luna's chest. A hopeful glint suddenly showed in Daybreaker's eyes, mouth opening in a wide gape as they seemed to be coming back to life. Yet, unknown to Avedon, she felt something disturbingly wrong. The body is living but the soul is not. Nothing could be felt from Luna. As far as she could tell, they are still dead.
But then... how could she seemingly be coming back to life right now? It wasn't until they spoke that she realized what was happening.
Daybreaker couldn't even react in that brief moment, caught between shock and hope that Luna was returning to them. The words are all wrong, yet also so right. These are the words that Luna would never speak, but the both of them still know. It sounds like Luna, smells like them, looked like them, but this is undeniably not Luna. The bond is not there. No, somebody else is inhabiting her wife's body, and she knows exactly who it is. The same being that had caused all of this to happen in the first place. They dared to once take her wife away... and they have done it again.
Daybreaker's mouth closed, a very passive look was on their face for a moment. The curling of her lip was the only thing that foretold what was coming, a sudden wave of heat in the area. The blood around her evaporated in an instant. Her body seemed to glow even brighter, her mane and tail becoming more chaotic, erratic, somehow becoming an even greater blaze, feeding off the pain, rage at the audacity of this bitch, and the absolute hate she was feeling at the moment. Hate of herself that she allowed this to happen again and hate for Nightmare that they would even attempt it, desecrating her wife's corpse.
Leaning down as if to kiss them, she instead moved next to their ear, baring her teeth, whispering into their ear with a soft, malevolent voice. The underlying growl returned in full force. "... Crack my wife's skull...? No. I'm going to destroy your skull. Not even Harmony will be able to bring you back after this one. This will be the last time you terrorize my family ever again."
She didn't even wait for a response. Pulling back her hoof, horn igniting to restrain the mare in that same moment, she threw her whole body weight into that punch, made even more impactful by the fact that their head was parallel with the ground. Her hoof decimated their face, pulverizing it in an instant, if not outright blowing it apart. The crater that she left in the ground from way over eighty tons of force pile driving into the dirt, blood and brain matter flying everywhere, was all that remained of their face.
Avedon would find Night's Wrath ripped from their person, flowing into Celestia's hooves. She went absolutely berserk, flames lighting up along the blade, sunfire fueling each strike. She slashed, smashed, stabbed, cut, eviscerated, punching--she was intent on leaving absolutely nothing of this body behind. If there is a shred of it left, Nightmare will probably come back again, taking the guise of her wife once more. She cannot allow that. This will be the final time they're ever seen again. She didn't stop until they were unable to be recognized as the corpse of a pony anymore. Through all of this, all the rest of them could hear is incoherent screams, some resemblance of an insult thrown in here and there, usually in another language entirely.
When she was finished with it, she tossed Night's Wrath away, panting and huffing. Her hoof raised to the sky, calling upon the might of the sun itself now. It glowed brighter, the horrible sound of something large moving through the air. The area quickly was growing brighter and brighter, the grass incinerating. So much sunlight present that it even began to burn Avedon, Starlight, and Twilight as well. That's going to leave a very nasty sunburn.
Twilight was utterly horrified to witness such a thing. She had never seen Celestia filled with so much fury before. Not just that--she was blind at this point, focused solely on the task of removing Nightmare from existence. It was actually terrifying to see. At least she didn't have to look any longer, glancing upwards and seeing what was coming. It was just... a massive beam of light hurtling down to them from the sun itself.
"AVEDON!" Twilight yelled, grabbing the stallion and the others as well, teleporting away just a couple of seconds before impact, landing them all on a cliff roughly a quarter mile away from the point of impact. She was left on the ground, sprawled out, scrambling up quickly to look in that direction.
The beam of light hit the ground, right on where Nightmare was. If they somehow were not dead before by the many blows Celestia dealt with Night's Wrath, leaving hardly any trace of them remaining, this will even remove the body permanently. Nothing will remain. The light hit the ground and sent what used to be Ponyville, the part of the Everfree Forest, and the field they were in sky high. Explosive fire like a mushroom shot upwards, beyond the clouds, sending all sorts of debris rocketing into the atmosphere. The display of power was massively overkill to remove Nightmare from the picture permanently, but it seemed that Celestia wanted to make absolutely sure that they could not come back.
There was a few seconds of nothing, just the blinding light of the explosion as what appeared like a localized volcano. A wave of force traveled across the land, demolishing practically whatever was in its wake. By the time it reached them, it completely knocked Twilight over, sending her rolling backwards and struggling to even hold on to not be pushed back even further. Intelligently, she thought to put up a shield around them all to protect everybody further from the blast.
Daybreaker didn't even know what to do anymore. The one thing she had to protect in her life... gone. She failed again. It didn't even need to be said that she had failed again, even if it wasn't her fault this time. It felt like her own fault. Luna has every right to blame her for not doing her duty once again. How many ponies can say that they failed to protect their wife, their child, not once but twice now? This is the second time she was not able to save Luna. The first time she has not been able to save Aurora. If her self-esteem could have possibly gotten any lower since their banishment a thousand years ago, it would have. Celestia is already at rock bottom.
Her ears flicked at the sound of a heartbeat suddenly forming. She didn't believe it at her, but a second one came. A third, fourth, fifth, sixth seven eight--a heart was beating in Luna's chest. A hopeful glint suddenly showed in Daybreaker's eyes, mouth opening in a wide gape as they seemed to be coming back to life. Yet, unknown to Avedon, she felt something disturbingly wrong. The body is living but the soul is not. Nothing could be felt from Luna. As far as she could tell, they are still dead.
But then... how could she seemingly be coming back to life right now? It wasn't until they spoke that she realized what was happening.
Daybreaker couldn't even react in that brief moment, caught between shock and hope that Luna was returning to them. The words are all wrong, yet also so right. These are the words that Luna would never speak, but the both of them still know. It sounds like Luna, smells like them, looked like them, but this is undeniably not Luna. The bond is not there. No, somebody else is inhabiting her wife's body, and she knows exactly who it is. The same being that had caused all of this to happen in the first place. They dared to once take her wife away... and they have done it again.
Daybreaker's mouth closed, a very passive look was on their face for a moment. The curling of her lip was the only thing that foretold what was coming, a sudden wave of heat in the area. The blood around her evaporated in an instant. Her body seemed to glow even brighter, her mane and tail becoming more chaotic, erratic, somehow becoming an even greater blaze, feeding off the pain, rage at the audacity of this bitch, and the absolute hate she was feeling at the moment. Hate of herself that she allowed this to happen again and hate for Nightmare that they would even attempt it, desecrating her wife's corpse.
Leaning down as if to kiss them, she instead moved next to their ear, baring her teeth, whispering into their ear with a soft, malevolent voice. The underlying growl returned in full force. "... Crack my wife's skull...? No. I'm going to destroy your skull. Not even Harmony will be able to bring you back after this one. This will be the last time you terrorize my family ever again."
She didn't even wait for a response. Pulling back her hoof, horn igniting to restrain the mare in that same moment, she threw her whole body weight into that punch, made even more impactful by the fact that their head was parallel with the ground. Her hoof decimated their face, pulverizing it in an instant, if not outright blowing it apart. The crater that she left in the ground from way over eighty tons of force pile driving into the dirt, blood and brain matter flying everywhere, was all that remained of their face.
Avedon would find Night's Wrath ripped from their person, flowing into Celestia's hooves. She went absolutely berserk, flames lighting up along the blade, sunfire fueling each strike. She slashed, smashed, stabbed, cut, eviscerated, punching--she was intent on leaving absolutely nothing of this body behind. If there is a shred of it left, Nightmare will probably come back again, taking the guise of her wife once more. She cannot allow that. This will be the final time they're ever seen again. She didn't stop until they were unable to be recognized as the corpse of a pony anymore. Through all of this, all the rest of them could hear is incoherent screams, some resemblance of an insult thrown in here and there, usually in another language entirely.
When she was finished with it, she tossed Night's Wrath away, panting and huffing. Her hoof raised to the sky, calling upon the might of the sun itself now. It glowed brighter, the horrible sound of something large moving through the air. The area quickly was growing brighter and brighter, the grass incinerating. So much sunlight present that it even began to burn Avedon, Starlight, and Twilight as well. That's going to leave a very nasty sunburn.
Twilight was utterly horrified to witness such a thing. She had never seen Celestia filled with so much fury before. Not just that--she was blind at this point, focused solely on the task of removing Nightmare from existence. It was actually terrifying to see. At least she didn't have to look any longer, glancing upwards and seeing what was coming. It was just... a massive beam of light hurtling down to them from the sun itself.
"AVEDON!" Twilight yelled, grabbing the stallion and the others as well, teleporting away just a couple of seconds before impact, landing them all on a cliff roughly a quarter mile away from the point of impact. She was left on the ground, sprawled out, scrambling up quickly to look in that direction.
The beam of light hit the ground, right on where Nightmare was. If they somehow were not dead before by the many blows Celestia dealt with Night's Wrath, leaving hardly any trace of them remaining, this will even remove the body permanently. Nothing will remain. The light hit the ground and sent what used to be Ponyville, the part of the Everfree Forest, and the field they were in sky high. Explosive fire like a mushroom shot upwards, beyond the clouds, sending all sorts of debris rocketing into the atmosphere. The display of power was massively overkill to remove Nightmare from the picture permanently, but it seemed that Celestia wanted to make absolutely sure that they could not come back.
There was a few seconds of nothing, just the blinding light of the explosion as what appeared like a localized volcano. A wave of force traveled across the land, demolishing practically whatever was in its wake. By the time it reached them, it completely knocked Twilight over, sending her rolling backwards and struggling to even hold on to not be pushed back even further. Intelligently, she thought to put up a shield around them all to protect everybody further from the blast.