Lament: Epilogue
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Lament: Epilogue
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The buzzing coming from the surrounding area was almost too much for the mare to handle. She slowly opened her eyes to see the nothing but burning brightness, in anticipation of her eyes adjusting to the flames illuminating the room she was in.
“Rarity!” Spike called a little too loudly, as he was instantly ‘shushed’ by Twilight.
“Spike, she’s only just waking up!” Twilight chastised, treating him just as she always had, “Please speak in a calmer tone.”
Rarity couldn’t find any words in her mind yet. She was still a little put off by the series of events that had just passed.
Inspecting the room around her Rarity quickly recognized it as the Library, and home of Twilight. She idly wondered why she had been taken here, instead of the boutique, but brushed it off as an easier place to be looked after by those more intelligent than her.
“Are you alright, Rarity?” Twilight asked her quietly, trying not to overwhelm her, “We have a few things we’re trying to sort out here.”
Despite her shocked state, Rarity still recalled every minute of the past few days. She had all the answers her friends sought. But had no desire to speak them aloud.
“Rarity?” Spike asked softly, kneeling down next to the bed, “Are you okay?”
Turning her head to face him, she momentarily forgot about all of her past troubles, and smiled genuinely to him.
“I’m happy you’re alright, Spikey,” Rarity sighed, before remembering that her sister, Sweetie Belle, had been in just as much danger as him, “H-how is Sweetie?”
“She’s fine,” Twilight smiled, watching Rarity relax once again, “You sucked Nightmare right out of her.”
“What of her friends?” Rarity asked, remembering the other fillies being in just as much danger, “And Princess Luna?”
“Well, Princess Luna was in a bit of pain, but Discord fixed her up, good as new.” Spike chirped, always happy to deliver good news, “And the other girls are just fine, besides a few bruises on Scoots.”
Rarity felt like it was her place to apologize for what happened. Despite the truth being exactly the opposite.
“What happened to Nightmare?” Twilight finally asked, her burning curiosity taking hold of her, “How did you stop her?”
Rarity knew she was in for a long story.
“She wasn’t the monster everypony made her out to be.” Rarity led with, perhaps poorly, making it sound as if her mind was poisoned by Nightmare, “Well, once she was influenced by myself and Avarice.”
“Avarice?” Spike asked, tilting his head at the unfamiliar name, “Who’s that?”
“Well, that was the chaotic side Discord told me- well, all of us, we would meet.” Rarity continued, hoping her conversation made sense so far, “She told me… horrible things about myself. I have never been so exposed in my entire life.”
Twilight frowned at the obviously hard time Rarity had with this.
“However, back on to the topic at hoof.” Rarity continued, lying herself back in the bed as she spoke, “Nightmare wasn’t able to keep her usual state of mind, in the presence of Avarice and myself. Our dominating personalities influenced her greatly, leading her to regret many choices she had made in the past.”
Both Twilight and Spike found this information to be incredible, and almost unbelievable. It must have been pure luck that things turned out the way that they did.
“So, once she had absorbed a sufficient amount of my mental traits, she told us that she would leave us alone, and go someplace far away, to find a way to pay for her wrongdoings in the past,” Rarity explained slowly, and carefully, “But when she left our- my body, all of my influence left her, allowing her to once again hurt the ponies that are most dear to us.”
“Okay, so,” Spike began, piecing back together the last bits of the story, from what he had been around for, and what she had just told him “You absorbed Nightmare from your sister, just as Luna was able to.”
“Yes.” Rarity nodded.
“She was pulled back in to your mind, and then she was changed once again, right?” Spike asked, still missing the last piece of the puzzle, “What happened to her after that?”
Rarity frowned, and turned from the gaze of the two inquisitive ponies, as she quickly exhaled and closed her eyes.
“Are you okay?” Spike asked quickly, leaning in closer to her, and softly turning her head on the pillow to face him, “What happened?”
“She’s gone now,” Rarity finally answered, her face wreaked with pain at the admittance, “My mind simply… took over hers. She begged me to do it.”
Twilight finally understood.
Nightmare, with the help of Rarity’s conscience, realized the monster she really was. And, without the ability to leave, she had no choice but to stay, and allow her mind to become more and more clouded with Rarity, until there was nothing but.
It was truly a horrible fate.
“She apologized,” Rarity squeaked, looking back and forth between her lover and her friend, “She wished she could have taken it all back.”
Twilight nodded, as she mentally took down every note she needed to.
“I have to report these findings to Princess Celestia,” Twilight said, stepping backward from the two, “Spike, please make sure Rarity is comfortable. And make sure she gets everything she needs for the stay.”
Spike nodded, as Rarity gave the two a confused look.
“I truly appreciate the hospitality, Twilight.” Rarity said, mustering as much of a polite tone as she could, “But I think I’d be much more comfortable back at home.”
Twilight gave Spike a brief, panicked look, as both he and her realized that Rarity had no idea about the Carousel Boutiques explosion.
“I’ll leave you two alone,” Twilight said, running out the door at full speed.
“What is it?” Rarity tried to ask the fleeing mare, “Spike, what’s wrong with the boutique?”
Spike frowned for a moment, trying to consider the best way to break the news to her.
“It exploded.” Spike said frankly, hoping she would be happy with his honesty. But that was not so.
“I beg your pardon?” Rarity asked slowly, turning her head to the window, and climbing out of the bed.
Scanning the town, she knew that the Boutique towered over most buildings in the town, and that it would be completely visible from her view out this window. But, just as she had feared, there was no sign of it.
“Spike, what are we to do now?” Rarity asked eerily, her tone calm, “Please answer me that.”
“Well,” Spike said, knowing exactly what Twilight had offered the two of them, “Twilight said we could stay here, while the store is rebuilt!”
Rarity frowned. She was simply feeling too much right now. So, she decided to start resolving her unknown actions while she was under the influence of Nightmare, hoping that would give her some clarity in the fog.
“Spike, how did I act while Nightmare was controlling me?” Rarity asked, surprising Spike with her instant progression from her destroyed home, to what she had been forced to do as Nightmare.
“Well, she tried to tell us a bunch of lies actually,” Spike laughed, trying to recall just what Nightmare had told them when she first appeared in the library, “Like, that Pinkie was annoying, and that Rainbow Dash should have been a lesbian… you know, total lies.”
Rarity felt her heart sink. Those weren’t lies.
Reading the expression on her face, Spike realized that what they were told was the truth.
“You like it when I take charge?” Spike asked suddenly, remembering what Nightmare had whispered in his ear, “You want me to be the boss more often?”
“W-well, that’s just a little, um… fantasy!”
Spike just shook his head and laughed.
“Maybe if you’re a good girl.” He winked, smirking at the blush that was now quite present on her face.
Rarity felt comfort in herself, as Spike started to act as if none of these horrible things had happened. She was unsure when she first woke up, but now, she was confident that things would return to normal soon. She wasn’t going to be in this slump forever.
Now all she had to do, was wonder when she would be able to move back in to her house… probably when it got rebuilt. In, what was likely going to be the better part of a couple years.
Crap.
“Spike, do you know what our long-term arrangements are going to be?” Rarity asked, wondering if perhaps Spike had given this some amount of thought.
“Oh,” Spike said, having just assumed that they would stay here, “We’re gonna live here until the house is rebuilt!”
“Hmm,” Rarity said instantly, not happy with the prospect, “And who will be sleeping where?”
Well, you and Twilight will be sharing a room, and I have to bunk with Alpha,” Spike explained, having no issue, considering the circumstance.
Rarity didn’t want to sound rude by turning down Twilights offer to stay at the library, but she had no interest in sharing a room with Twilight for however long. So, she needed to get Spike on her side.
“You know, Spike,” Rarity began, devilishly working together a plan, “Sharing a room with Alpha might not be the best plan.”
“Why not?” Spike asked, tilting his head to the side and frowning.
“What if he were to… change into a form of me?” Rarity pushed, knowing she could really convince Spike of anything, “Imagine what he would do to you.”
All the color drained from his face, as he considered what she was saying.
“Do you really think he’d do that?” Spike asked incredulously, darting his gaze around the room, as if somepony might hear him say that.
“Well, it’s better to be safe than sorry, my dear.” Rarity grinned inwardly, knowing she would have to apologize for this manipulation once they got settled into a place where they could sleep together.
It wasn’t that she would die without having a stallion to share a bed with… The truth in the back of her mind, was that she didn’t want to sleep alone. After all of this, sleeping in a room with Twilight simply wouldn’t do. She needed him so hold her, through the horrible dreams that were sure to be plaguing her nights.
However, one unintended effect she had, by having this lie ridden conversation, was the sad changeling out in the hall, standing next to Twilight, who was about to come back into the room, when she was interrupted by Rarity’s swaying of Spike.
“Well, there goes my bunk buddy,” Alpha said, feigning sadness to the purple mare next to him, “And there goes my plan to change into his girlfriend and have my way with him.”
Twilight giggled at the insane assumption made by Rarity, knowing she was just convincing Spike to find another place to live.
“I’m actually kinda glad,” Twilight whispered, speaking softly enough to only be heard by Alpha, “Doubling up in this place would be a pain in the rump.”
“And with Spike always downstairs, I’d have no time to practice my impersonation of your mother.” Alpha added with cough.
Twilight gave him a dark look.
“Never again.”
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Yay! Epilogues! Fun! Exclamation marks!
I forsee Ruby and Crystal Clarity in the near future
4230407 wut?
Oh well, the doctor will just rewind time and all that s ***
And it will all be a happy ending!
I hope
Damn. It's going to be tough for Rarity for a little while as the store/home is rebuilt. However, it's all okay in the end. The reason why is this: you can always replace materialistic items (house, bed, etc.) but you can never replace a life. Everypony should just be happy that nopony got killed in all of this mess, despite the heavy losses property wise.
An excellent way to end Lament, which I really liked by the way, and I look forward to the next chapter!
~ Super-Brony12
I wonder how many copies of the Backup/Restore Spell are kept in Canterlot, from grains for houses to the moon for Equestria itself.
This is only going to get better. Will every opposing quality have its own side story? If so, that'd be cool.
Why is that picture up there so sexy, but there is no sex in this story? U expect me to fukin' read this?
4238872
Well, there's lots of IMPLIED stuff. But having sex in the story puts it in to the mature category, which cuts possible readers in half.
just l imagine the dirtiest, raunchy stuff, and that's what has happened.
I just can't really bring myself to post clop at this point.
This is your 100th chapter of this story.........
Good on you mate!
GRATZ ON YOUR 100th CHAPTER!
4238972
I am fairly new into reading fanfictions for this universe and was on EQD and *realizing this is going to be a long explanation...* ended up finding your "Lament" side?/one-shot?/spin-off? yeah, one of those, story saturday afternoon. I started reading and immediately fell in love. I searched to see if there would be more and I found this amazing 100 chapter(including the linked side?/one-shot?/spin-off? yeah, one of those chapters) NOVEL(yes I'm calling it a flippin novel :D)well... here it is tuesday evening and I could...not...stop...reading...
Although I do regret I found the ending before the beginning(which kinda spoiled it a little) I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of reading this from chapters 1-28 to "chasing the rainbow" to chapters 29-35 to "The Fall of the Night" to chapters 36-50 to "Haven Station" to chapters 51-80 to Return to chapter 81 to Lament and finally this.
PLEASE keep this up :D and you have a definite fan here
(P)(S) I love using (parenthesis)
96 chapters in the main story plus five side arcs is truly an amazing feat. If I were to go on a journey and had my pick of light reading, this would be what I'd want to take.
If you're not interested in, or comfortable about writing clop, that's your decision and we all should respect that, but that's not to say that it wouldn't be an interesting read.
Always looking forward to what happens in this story. Keep up the excellent work.
4239145
How did you come across the story in the first place? Was it when it was featured? Or some place else?
4239290
That's what I get for trying to make a long story short :D
I was on EQD browsing their archive for 5+6 star rated fanfics and going down the list. I read a couple ones with Luna+NMM combos and liked how they were portrayed by the fandom so I ended up finding this site(through links on the EQD fics) I like the chapter layouts of fimfiction better than the google docs BS(sorry!) of EQD lol. So I figured I would start searching for high rated fics here.
I set filters for Luna and NMM and your Lament was on the first page of that and... the rest is history :D
4239522
Ahh, well, I hope you enjoyed the way I did this story. I tried to make it a bit different from the usual stuff people post.
Hmm...so if Rarity absorbed the Nightmare...does this mean she gets cool superpowers out of it? I'm sure Spike (and most of the stallions of Ponyville) would appreciate that if it came with the Nightmarity look.
Also, I can't help but wonder if one of the dark side personalities of the Mane 6 is gonna turn out to be actually evil? The two we've seen have mostly been of the 'Jerk with a heart of gold' types, but I have a hard time figuring how the opposites of Loyalty or Magic(implied to be friendship) could be spun as a good thing.
4240249
Yes, because evil is sexy.
I believe the opposing quality of loyalty would be betrayal or treachery, nothing like getting stabbed in the back by your best friend/lover. And I also vaguely remember that there was no opposition to Magic and I believe it was Discord(?) who told Twilight that while Alex and Rainbow Dash were in his world.
Here's what I've figured out
Obviously: Greed for generosity
Cruelty for kindness
Betrayal/treachery for loyalty
Insanity/Madness for laughter
Deception for honesty
4240291
That sounds like either a gyp or an outright lie then(or maybe Discord just doesn't actually know). For one thing, it's kinda massively unfair if Twilight would be the only one of the elements who doesn't have to go through this 'make peace with your dark side' thing. And for two, we know Twilight's got massive potential for a downright SCARY dark side. See 'Lesson Zero' or 'It's About Time' for canon examples, and tons of other fanfics for potential possibilities of a dark or downright evil Twilight.
4240423
Knowing Discord, it's probably an outright lie. What she'll face will probably be an amalgamation of all the others which will probably end up breaking her.
4240291
Actually, going by what Discord did to her, I think the opposite of Laughter would be Anger/Hate.
4240515
Agreed. I'm surprised there isn't a TVTropes page for this story yet.
4240568
That's not Off the Record.
4240583
Yeah, and I feel REALLY stupid now. That's what I get for being up so late, reading one fic and responding to comments on a completely different one...
4240609
HAHA! No problem. I'm trying to get some help on being able to sign back in to tvtropes. System says my handle and email address don't match when resetting the password. Once that mess is taken care of, I'll see what I can do about building a page for it.
4238972 *LASER EYES* Cuts readers in half pffffft.... nah.
4239145 Lol. That's what I also did. But it didn't really give that many spoilers that ruined the story. It was just a bit confusing until I read the rest.
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Next chapter soon?
You must feel so accomplished!
Um, with an extra 0. 
The big 1-0!
Anyway, good job, as always. Can't wait for the big 1-0.
1.
Anyways, bye!
4249031
He had quite a large role in Fall of the Night, which occurs much later on. You've got quite a bit to catch up on, it looks like. Have fun!
Anyway, KoH, I finally got around to making the tvtropes page.
4249238
Oh, i remember seeing you mention that.
Thanks for doing it! Hopefully gets some more readers in here. Can never have too many of those!
4251628
No problem, I'm glad I could do it. It needs to be indexed and the Return folder needs content.
Well man, crongratulations for the 100th chapter and 5th side story. I really liked that one. It was filled with emotion, comedy and a little (one may say) dirty jokes. You're awesome man, keep it up.
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Here let me give you a hoof
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Okay that was bad.
Dixie Biscuit Cafe
NSFW Dixie
and Askdiscordedwhooves
Dicorded Dr. Whooves
4286596
Thanks
Before i read this just lettin' you know. The description is hilarious, i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/004/815/lol-guy.jpg
That is all...I look forward to reading this!
I was hoping that Rarity, after absorbing Nightmare Moon, would still have the body Nightmare Moon gave her before. Oh well.
I totally did find this sad.
my tearducts now have less mass.
Which begs the question: what else was Alpha going to do with Spike? Changelings are known for their love extraction techniques after all...