"I call the darkness unto me
From deepest depths of Earth and Sea
From ancient evils unawoken
Break the one that can't be broken
To blackest night i pledge my soul
And crush my heart to burning coal
To summon forth the deathly power
To see my hated foe devoured!"

Moon chanted, before her eyes were drawn to the black and purple veins clearly visible through her skin, her blood corrupted. Yelling in panic, her eyes flitted fron her arms to the target of her darkest spell, the lizard general, 'Toffee'.

"Enough of this!" Toffee stated angrily, reaching out to her.

Moon made to alter her aim, to maim and not to kill. She never wanted blood on her hands, irregardless of whether the target bled or not.

Then it all flashed before her eyes.

-+-

"Mummy!" a little 7 year old girl with blue hair and purple diamonds on her cheeks squealed, running to hug a woman with purple hair tightly tied and butterflies on her own cheeks.

Comet Butterfly smiled at her daughter, and picked her up, cradling her in her arms.

"Hello, dear. Did you miss mummy? Sorry that i was so busy today~" she crooned. Moon giggled. "Yeah, i missed you! Can we play?"

"Of course we can!" Comet placed the small girl down and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "And i promise no more days alone. Mummy's gonna stay with you fully from now on"

-+-

"I'm sorry, your highness" Rhombulus said weakly, his usually cheery disposition dropped as he gave the teen a remorseful look. "Your mother... Couldn't be saved.."

Now 15, but heart still as fragile as if she were 7 again, Moon's legs gave out, and her attendant had to catch her. She could hear talking, but it was fuzzy and distant.

"N-no.."

-+-

That familiar sensation arose, cold fury blurred with the static of misery.

Her aim held true, even as her hands trembled and her eyes watered and her knees started to buckle.

A dark purple shot from her wand like an explosion, leaving a trail of butterflies. Even before the spell hit, it ranked of poison, of blood, of death. The stench filled her head and she flinched violently, but her eyes remained open long enough to see the spell tear through the general's body.

A dull ringing filled her ears and her head began to throb, everything flashing before her. She watched semi-detatched from reality as his body hit the floor, now an empty husk uninhabited by a soul that had just resided there.

His army screamed in horror and fled, but Moon still couldn't see because oh god it all hurt-

She clutched at her hands, completely black though rimmed with purple, and an x across her palm. The deed was done.

She had saved her kingdom, most likely.

She had saved potentially hundreds of lives.

She had avenged her mother.

So why did she feel so ill.

Eclipsa...

The thought hit like a gunshot, and she turned and ran, even as a stitch formed in her side and blood rushed to her head and black clouded her vision.

Arriving at the crystal, seeing the frozen form of a woman she had only spoken to half a day prior, and staring in pure fright for just a minute, before finally allowing herself to collapse, sliding down against a crystal and pulling into herself.

So wrapped up in the pulsing of her head, she was unaware of the cracking of the impossible-to-crack-crystal, until...

"Are you alright, dear?"