I Think I've Got My Mojo Back! Tell Me What You Think :D · 9:57pm Jul 3rd, 2015
I awoke with my eyes closed, the distant sound of birds chirping happily being the only reason I knew it to be morning. Sighing tiredly, I opened my eyes and blinked the sleep away, rubbing them lightly with my right hand before shaking my head and looking around the cave I appeared to be in.
Where am I? The last thing I remember is…feeling afraid, deathly so. I remember…Luna, or a tiny piece of her. She brought me here…and then…I don’t know. There’s something else…something flew at me, and spoke to me…but who?
I stood up gingerly and grimaced at the sudden jolt of pain running through my legs. But with some determination, I gritted my teeth and began to hobble towards the entrance of the cave. The light was so bright it nearly blinded me…but I refused to let it stop me, I had a goal and I was going to achieve it.
I have to get back home. I have to find Cadance and mom. I have to…I need-
A deep, feminine giggle snapped me out of my thoughts and caused me to stop in instinctive fear.
That voice…
“Now where do you think you’re going my lovely Xander?” she cooed softly.
I flinched at the sudden weight of a wing trailing along my right shoulder, a blackness blurring the corner of my vision as it brushed against my cheek tenderly. A vision of pain, of torture and agony flashes before my eyes, and then is gone in a blink.
But the fear…that stayed, I couldn’t imagine it ever leaving.
“Let me go,” I whispered, unable to move, to do…anything more than that.
The clop of hooves against solid rock indicated her moving forwards, and the breath…the warm breath against the back of my neck told me just how close she was.
“Why would you want to leave me?” she asked, her voice gentle and…slightly hurt.
“Why?” I echoed, incredulous to her question. “Haven’t you t-tortured me enough by now?"
A pause…then-
“Xander…that part of me was insane,” she whispers, breath tickling my ear. “Utterly insane, a mind without morality, love without restraint. You know me, you know I would never hurt you intentionally. I love you.”
“Know you? Before you tortured me I’d never even met you.”
Another pause, a breeze, birds singing…silence, nothing more…until she spoke again.
“Look at me Xander,” she asks pleadingly, quietly, softly.
“That’s not my name.”
“Yes it is…Xander please.”
I shake my head.
“No.”
“Please.”
“N-No.”
A gentle sigh is the only response I get in that moment…but then she retracts her wing, her breath and walks around, her face almost in sight before I turn my head and look at the barren wall.
“Xander please look at me,” she says, a shoeless hoof grasping my chin ever so softly, turning my head, my eyes onto her turquoise, draconic ones.
They plead with me silently, I can…read them with an ease I never thought possible. You know me, they said. You can trust me, they cooed. I love you, they soothed
Nightmare Moon stood before me in all her glory, looking every bit the imposing, powerful alicorn she was meant to be…if not a bit thinner than any alicorn I’d met before.
She looked straight into my eyes, searching for something…and then frowned, her ears flattening in sorrow as she failed to find whatever it was she wanted.
“You really don’t recognize me do you,” she uttered sadly, falling onto her rump in defeat. “You used to look at me as if I was your whole world. You promised you’d never love another as you did me…what happened to change that my love? It was not me who hurt you, why do you look at me with such terror?”
“I know who you are,” I correct, somewhat bitterly. “And I don’t just mean your real name either. I know you named yourself Nightmare Moon before your banishment.”
Nightmare looked at me and smiled knowingly.
“Because you come from a world where I and everypony else is naught but fiction, I know.”
“W-What?” I backed away, stunned at her words. “How could you possibly…I never told you that.”
“You never told my insanity given form that, no,” she agrees, stepping close and placing her immensely large wings around me, stopping me from moving any further away. “But you told me. You told me everything…so very long ago.”
As if sensing no resistance she comes even closer, her muzzle barely a scant few inches from my mouth.
“You told me your name and age. You told me about your family and friends, about being an only child, about wishing all your life for someone who would love and care for you as you would for them.”
“I’m an only child?” I echoed, dumbfounded much to Nightmare’s apparent confusion.
“You don’t know?”
“I don’t know much about my life on Earth,” I admitted, not completely comfortable at how…comfortable I was beginning to be with her.
I felt as if I’d known her for a very long time. Not the two years I spent in that hell, but before that…before I’d even met…
It unsettled me, and the way she looked at me unsettled me further.
So you're not leaving? YAY!!!
I am intrigued. Go on...
I'm glad she doesn't want to mess with his intestines at least. Is the word you're looking for 'intentionally'? I'm also glad to see you "back in the saddle" as it were.
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go on.
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God damn auto fucking...
And I'm hooked.
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Same here.
Let the work slowly churn and mature as thou let inspiration grow.
glad to see you found new hope and decided to stick around a little longer. And I have to say I'm quite excited to see the next part of this saga. The 'Set in Stone' fics really are my favorite HIE on this site.
Good to see you got your groove back. Shouldn't this be after Alex or Xander and not Resistance is Futile?
Duh, duh, duh, duh!
Ooooooh! Drama! I'm glad you got out of your funk. This piece looks very promising
congratulations for reigniting you creative flame and good luck with wirting
Nice work can't wait for more from you.
Glad to see your not leaving.
Cant tell you how happy i am to see you back in action have a good one friend
Very nice, good show!
Huzzah the mojo has returned
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I knew you had it in you.
This is the Zam we know and love.
Looks good!
YEAH!!!!! We got the master back. Welcome back Zam, it's been to long.
Yes! the best writer is back
Knew you would prevail, glad to see one of the best return.
He's back in black........ yaaaaah!!!!
Glad to see you back in action.
YES!! The master writer is back in the fight!
Awesome
Our saviour has returned!