Nightmare

by Blackdrag-rose

Fin

Allen Keller moaned as the sunlight hit him square in the face and rolled off his couch, hitting the ground hard and knocking himself awake. He reached up to rub his head and noticed something strange, his arm was pale colored and his hand was back. He got up and, expecting to all over on his rear end, he was pleasantly surprised, not to mention disturbed, to find his old legs and worn out shoes back. He looked down at himself and found that his human body had returned in all of its glory, which was void of the azure armor he had been wearing as Nightmare Moon. Not only that he noticed that the police brace he had been wearing, and destroyed with Nightmare's powers, was back where he had last seen it on his leg. As far as he could tell he was human again, without so much of a drop of Nightmare's powers coursing through his veins.

He looked up at the television and watched as Twilight Sparkle, powered up by containing the powers of four alicorns, gave Tirek the beat down that caused shock waves throughout the entire fandom. It was almost as if everything that had happened in the last few days had simply been a dream, one that had started out sweet and had swiftly turned into a terrifying nightmare. As he thought about Tirek he wondered where his housemate Christen ended up, as he had assumed the form of his ponysona Prince Shimmering Glory just a few days after Allen had become Nightmare Moon.

Allen moved to where Christen's room was and opened the door, finding a well kept bed, a neatly stacked bookshelf, and a desk that was clean, but there was no sign of anybody else. It was quite possible that Christen was already at work and wouldn't be home for some amount of time, but that idea was quickly dashed when he noticed that Christen's phone was sitting on the center of his desk. The man never went anywhere without his phone, so he knew that something wrong was going on and needed to figure out what that was. Or, that would have been his plan if he hadn't heard a pounding on the front door of the house and someone shouting his name, followed by the sound of the door being busted down. In a matter of seconds he was surrounded by heavily armed police officers, a swat team that just happened to be led by a women who looked at least twenty-two years old.

"Allen Keller, you have committed crimes against the United States and her people," the swat leader said, moving behind him and wrapping his wrists with handcuffs, "crimes that include kidnapping, intent to cause mass genocide, and terrorism by leveling several buildings in Las Vegas. What say you in your defense?"

Allen just stood there, dumbfounded by the fact that everything from his dream had somehow been real, but instead of the police looking for characters from a television show they came for him. Now he was being arrested, which meant that whoever had been King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, the ponies that followed them, and even the demon Tirek, were likely being rounded up as well. As he failed to answer the swat leader she simply waved her hand and the police gathered him up, pulling him into the police van that he had been trying to avoid for the last few months. All his hard work, he now realized, had been shattered the moment that he had taken on the mantle of Nightmare Moon and as the doors closed behind him he silently wished that none of it had ever happened in the first place.

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Christen stirred the moment that a gentle wind blew across his face, causing him to pull his head up and open his eyes to find a shocking sight laid out in front of him, the beautiful land of Equestria. He pulled up his hands to rub his eyes and made sure that all of this was real, when he realized that his hands had been replaced by long white furred legs that ended with silver armor that resembled the ones Princess Celestia wore all the time. His body was the same large body that he had seen on Celestia, while he had a pair of large white pegasus wings growing out off his back. He cast a look towards his forehead, finding a long white colored unicorn horn and a short platinum colored mane hanging in front of his eyes. Resting on the ground near him was a set of silver battle armor, like the ones that Shining Armor and the royal guards wore, but on the side he noticed a grey shield that was surrounded by three shimmering stars.

He had, in essence, become the spitting image of his ponysona Shimmering Glory.

"Its good to see that your awake," a voice to his right said, causing him to turn and find Princess Celestia standing there in all her glory, "I was afraid that the pressure of taking on Tirek's magic could have potentially destroyed you, but you have proven me wrong yet again my friend."

"Is this really Equestria?" Christen asked, wondering if this was all a dream.

"It is my friend," Princess Celestia replied, draping a wing over him as she somehow helped him onto a standing position, "You did it! You somehow overcame Tirek magic and reversed the magic that had brought us to that world, returning us to our home. Welcome home Shimmering Glory."

It was at the moment that Shimmering and Christen were one and the same, neither one giving any ground as they settled in perfect harmony with each other. As Equestria was Shimmering's world Christen was more than happy to let the stallion have control, knowing that the two of them would experience the world of friendship together until the day they died.

"Its good to be home," Shimmering said, pulling his helmet over to him as he gazed upon the world of Equestria with his bright open eyes and envisioned all the adventures he would have in the future.

Comments

[user123]

Commenting because I can't add it to my read it later.

Never mind, it's fixed.

[Sonata Blaze]

Wait a minute everypony...does the ending mean that everybody who changed into a pony was arrested?
Or was it just the ones who turned into the villains?

Either way, the story was good.

[joeyjumper94]

You are kidding me, is this how it ends?
This. Needs. A. Sequel.

[Blackdrag-rose]

5198806 I'm thinking of the possibility. The only way for it to continue would be to use Shimmering's adventure.
Let me ask you; interested in such an idea?

[user123]

5197053
I highly doubt people with a high magic level could be arrested.

[Creed Alborn]

5199482 I can see a sequel happening. Why not have a short story about what happened to Twilight, Candence, and Shining. Also About where Apple jack & The real Pinkie pie? (Unsure if it was a changling) was doing. It could be a cool side story if you are up for it. And it helps cover some plot holes because there are quite a bit & you're an amazing writer. A story this good should be void of that.

[Blackdrag-rose]

5212372 The Pinkie in Seattle was a changeling, but the real one was someone in Las Vegas following Discord. And I completely forgot that I even added Twilight, Cadence, and Shining into the story. Maybe they, Applejack, and the real Pinkie will get a side story before I work on a direct sequel that involves Shimmering. If you see anymore plot holes feel free to tell me about them and I'll see to it that I somehow resolve them in the side story.

[user123]

Um author, did the humans that got turned into villans get arrested?

[Blackdrag-rose]

5375366 Yes, Allen and the rest of the people who turned into villains got arrested.
Allen was the focus of the story, so I only thought of showing his arrest.

[user123]

5382786
how does a being with that magical power get arrested?

Haven't read this yet sadly, comments section kind of made me disappointed on how that would happen and why.

[Blackdrag-rose]

5383759 Happens in the end of the story. Long story short Humans -> ponies -> humans.
Most stories have characters becoming ponies and staying that way, but my ending ends in reversing that.
I just hope you'll give the story a chance.

[user123]

5383892
ok, um, (not in a bad way) that makes no sense (not the good sense) for them turning back...I mean really, once you have that magic in you, you can't just, go back...permanently at least.

I guess I will, my list is huge atm.

[Sonata Blaze]

5383991 Well, from what I can gather from the story, the humans changing back seems like a withdrawal from magic.
And your right, it doesn't make sense for them to lose all that magical energy they had.
The story is good in my opinion, if you can overlook some of the faults it has.

[user123]

5384209
how did they have magic withdrawal?

And still doesn't make sense, a transformation like this cannot be reversed like this, you would need to take away thier magic then transform them to human.

[Sonata Blaze]

5384423 Well...Tirek was involved in the ending and some sort of power similar to his.
Somehow the concept of a reverse transformation made sense to the author.
And I'm trying to answer questions without ruining the story, to which I apologize for not directly answering you.

[user123]

5384511
well, thanks then.

But yeah, a transformation like this on a living creature, it's impossible to turn back so easily.

[Sonata Blaze]

5384586 And I completely agree with you. Somehow it made sense to the author and he (or she for that matter) wrote it into the story.

[user123]

5384627
(Sorry for the spam, I guess)
I hope he/she makes an alternative ending or something, as this one doesn't give propor closure, just the character losing so much.

[Sonata Blaze]

5384729 Yeah, maybe show us the other would be villains and what happened to them.
Maybe tell us how all that magic suddenly got sucked out of everyone it had entered.
Or, maybe, the other members of the mane six that never made it to the story or something.

[Sonata Blaze]

5198806 I was just poking around the author's profile and spotted a story called 'Insanity' that the author posted earlier today.
Apparently its the side story that involves the missing characters from this one.
The Author promised us a side story and we've got a side story!