//------------------------------// // Anti-Chapter: A Nightmares Fall; Thug- (Un-Edited) // Story: Equestria's Heir of Conduits // by Akuma Kazama //------------------------------// Past As Nightshade vision clears up, he notices he wasn't in the castle anymore, as he looks around he heard a soft whimper and looks towards the sound and saw Nightmare Moon struggling to stand, he narrow his eyes and started to walk towards her as he started to remember everything she did in trying to stop him and the girls, the things she might have done to him and Barbara and in almost killing Twilight, a growl escape his lips that got her attention. Nightmare Moon looks up in time to see a kick to her chest pushing her on to her back as Nightshade got on top of her, his hand on her neck, causing her to gasp "you.......fucking......bitch" he growls out in anger as she gasp in pain and tries to talk "please..........all.....we ever.......wanted.......was for........my little......ponies to.......love our......night" she chokes up as tears came out of her eyes, making him pause. Nightshade thought for a minute, sure she didn't harm anyone at the beginning, except when he got her attention and saw the guards get launch, all she wanted was for others to notice her night, he for one enjoy the night more than the day, hell he even saw her memories about having her night be appreciated, even before she transform, he looks down at her and instead of seeing a tyrant, he saw a lonely mare, wanting her night to be loved, but she tried to hurt his friends and the citizens in Ponyville. Nightshade only had one thing in mind 'what do I do?' he thought to himself as he felt that he was in a crossroad, not knowing what to do. Present Nightshade was slowly putting pressure on her neck as he could see her struggling for air, but as he saw her eyes, he could see the guilt slowly rising in them and soon saw that she accepted her fate, till he remember something his father once said that caused him to loosen his grip till he remember what she did. With a shake of his head, he growls and puts more pressure on her neck as the life in her eyes slowly started to fade and as it did, his own magic started to slowly absorb her own magic into his, as he felt more power entering him. With one final push, he snaps her neck as she lets out one final silent scream of pain and fell lifeless as her body turn into particles of magic that Nightshade soon absorb, a few minutes later Luna appaer, looking around and spotted Nightshade, she gave a small smile and ran towards him "Sir Nightshade thou is alright" she exclaim at him, as she hugs him, he gave a small chuckle "was there ever any doubt?" he ask her as she let out a small giggle, soon a bright light cover their vision. Back in the Sister's old Castle A groan escaped his lips as he slowly open his eyes to be greeted by sunlight and Barbara looking down at him in worry till she notices him waking up and quickly hugs him "Nightshade! your okay!" she said with relief in her tone and also getting the attention of the other girls, who were looking at their new accessories, they run towards them and started to ask him question after question. "Y'all alright Sugarcube?" "Oh My Gosh, you alright dude" "You okay Nighty?" "Are you okay Darling?" "Uuuumm, are you okay, if you don't mind me asking" "Are you okay Nightshade" said each girl in their own way as they looks him over to see if he had any other wound on him while he gave them a small smile while saying "am fine girls, nothing to worry about" he said as he slowly got up, using the katana to support himself a bit. Suddenly the brightness of the Sun’s glow drew his attention. He looked on in surprise at the newest arrival. It was none other than the Princess of the Sun herself Celestia, she stood around 6 feet 9, almost 7 feet tall, even in heels, white fur with a light green, blue, pink and looks to flow in the wind as it switches to other colors as well, wearing a white with yellow dress that shows off her curves and impressive bust size, a E-cup size, light violet eyes, she also wore a golden tiara with a few other accessories. The ponies bowed in reverence of the new arrival, except Nightshade who was looking around the room for someone, while Twilight ran up to her and happily hugged the ruler, overcome with so much emotion that any thought of decorum flew out the window to which the taller mare returned the gesture, “Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student I knew you could do it“ as the Princess said that, Twilight seemed stunned at this revelation “Princes…you…you made it seem like it was an old fairy tale. Nightmare Moon’s returning…why?” she ask her mentor. Princess Celestia looks at Twilight and smiles at her “I told you that you needed to make some friends, nothing more, I saw the signs of Nightmare Moon's return and I knew it was you who had the magic inside to defeat her, but you could not unleash it until you let true friendship into your heart, to which never would have happened if you were approaching it like a mission, your feelings wouldn't have been genuine. Now I hope another as well will be ready to open her heart.” Celestia turned her attention to Luna and was about to call her till she notice her little sister hidding behind a stallion from her "Luna?" she ask worry, to which cause said mare to flinch and hide more behind the stallion, who was looking at the Solar Princess with narrow eyes. Celestia started to walk towards them and for each step, Luna would slowly start to tremble, feeling like she will be send once more to the moon again by her sister. Just as Celestia was near, Nightshade moves forward and blocks her path, making everyone go wide eyed, but Celestia looks at him and narrows her eyes "excuse my little pony, but I would like to talk with my sister" she said as she try to go to Luna, but was once more blocked by Nightshade, who gave Celestia a slight palm strike, pushing her away and once more shocking everyone in the room. Twilight was the first to react "Nightshade, what the buck are you doing!?" she ask, cursing a bit in shock at his action, but when she looks into his eyes, she took a step back, as he looks towards Celestia and spoke "what am doing is, keeping my prosime to her and that's protecting her" he said as he looks at Celestia, who was rubbing her stomach from the palm strike as she looks at him. Celestia was slightly confuse at that and ask "but she's my sister, I have the ri-" "shut up!" he shouts at her, cutting her off as he looks at her dead in the eyes "you have no right, not after what you put her through" he said, shocking Celestia and confusing the Mane Six and Barbara. Nightshade looks at Celestia and continues "I saw her memories of that day, the things she went through before she turn into Nightmare Moon and it was all your fault!" he shouts at her, then takes a step forward "over a thousand of years and you don't do anything to show your little ponies the beauty of the night, only your sun" another step "even when you two ruled, they only loved YOUR sun, but never saw her night" another step "you say your her sister, yet you didn't notice her pain, her sadness, her loneliness or jealousy" another step "and because of that, she fell into depression and consume by her darkness into creating Nightmare Moon and what was your idea?" another step, standing in front of her "you send her to the moon, instead of helping her out before she get's consume anymore, you think that being in the moon would have help her? NO! it made it worse and now look at her" he said as he points towards the little Luna "she's scared of you, afraid that you will send her back to the moon!" he said with a growl as he looks at her, his body suddenly acted on his own and slaps her, making everyone gasp in shock while Celestia was in shock and wide eyed. Nightshade not missing a beat said "you better wake up and remember what you did and that it was your fault for ignoring your sister's feeling, it was your fault for not helping her out or to fix it so that everyone would see the beauty of the night" he said as he glares at Celestia, she looks back at him in shock while absorbing his words and as he continues to speak, everything he said was true and would cause her to look down in shame, knowing she was the one that cause her little sister all this suffering. He then looks at her with a scowl and felt a tug on his arm, he looks towards the source, seeing it was Luna with a sad yet understanding look and with a sigh he moved to the side, letting Luna walk over to a now crying Celestia, who was on her knees. As the Lunar Princess comfort him and the girls looks on, they never would have notice a red glow on his back and his jacket two headed eagle design changing slightly, once done, a red eagle was visible and was a bit bigger than the blue eagle head in the design while his clothing took a bit darker shade, but still looks the same.