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// Chapter 1: lunar being 
// Story: There's more than one way to live a Nightmare 
// by Abaddon spice 
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"Ow" I groaned as a sat up, the last thing I remembered was.

'...'

"Okay, that's not a good sign" I grumbled as I opened my eyes. 

Grey.

As far as my eyes could see, I was on a grey cratered surface. 'Am I on the moon?' I wondered, and as I tried to walk forward, something stopped me. I looked down. Chains. Huge black chains pinned my hooves to the moon sur-

'Wait, hooves?' 

I raised a eyebrow, and inspected the "hooves", dark black fur, and wore sliver scuffed up bracers. "I'm Nightmare moon aren't I" I groaned to no one in particular.

"No actually I was talking to you"

"No, 4th wall breaking. That's Pinkie's job"

"Hey I'm stuck here for a thousand years, humor me"

"Fine, you're Nightmare Moon, but let's just say your going to have a surprise when you get out"

"Uh, what do you mean by that"

"No spoilers" ;-)

I groaned at that. I decided to stop breaking the 4th wall (for now) and I looked out at the bleak scenery. 

"1,000 bottles of beer on a wall, a thousand bottles of beer. Take on down, pass it around, 999 bottles of beer on the wall~" I sang. 

Maybe it may help pass the time.

(A thousand years later)

"I'm soooo bored" I groaned.

I had tried everything, sing, dance (I gave up do to chain restraint), heck I even tried to see if Luna or the original Nightmare was in my head. No such luck. I couldn't even explore anywhere. There's probably nothing out there to explore, but heck! It beats staying still in these chains any day of the week.

I groaned again and looked at the far away Equestria, in other HiE's you started straight-off in Equestria. I got the moon. Great. I pulled against my chains, I hadn't known how long its been, but it wouldn't hurt if-

They moved.

The chains moved.

'Hallay-frickin-louya!' I mentally celebrated, and then I started thrashing against the chains, and as one broke I felt the magic that was protecting me fade a little.

Lets just say a thousand years of not eating anything, really hurts.

"Ohhhhh..." I groaned, and then I clamped my mouth shut. 'This is going to hurt' I thought with a wince. Then I began breaking off the remaining chains.

Thirst.

Pain.

Sound.

Air...

My lungs were contracting, as the vacuum of space was collapseing my ribs. With one last wild tug, I felt the last chain snap, and one thing completed me as I rocketed toward Equs.

Rage

I slammed into a meadow, (Faust knows where) and luckly it was nighttime, before I did anything  though I gasped for air. "Sweet, beautiful air, how I've missed you" I choked out and then I looked down at the grass under me. I was a pony, pony+grass=Full. So, I shoved my muzzle straight into it, tearing and gobbling up bits of dirt with it. It was delicious.

As I devoured the meadow, I caught a glimpse of a stream. Faster than a wonderbolt, I shot over there and immediately started guzzling the water. 

When I finally got my feasting and drinking under control, I looked down at my reflection in the stream. Black fur, teal slitted eyes, fangs, the whole Nightmare package, but upon closer observation I noticed some notable differences.

Firstly, my armor was silver, not blue (like in the show), I also felt I was probably a lot taller to, as well as a lot thinner, but I could blame that on a certain thousand-year event. My armor was dented and scratched, and as I leaned closer to the water I could see plenty of scars and scratches on me. One notable one was a huge crescent scar on my right eye, "Run Simba" I said in the deepest voice I could muster and then broke out into a grin. 

When I did this, I saw my teeth, but instead of being only fangs, all my teeth were pretty sharp. I tilted my head at this. 'Aren't ponies herbivores?' I questioned and then opened my mouth so I could examine my back teeth. To my surprise, they were molars.

'I guess I'm still a omnivore' I thought with a shrug, and then looked again at my monstrous grin  'I look like I came out of a creepy pasta' I mused, and then decided to look around at my surroundings.

As I scanned the torn up meadow, I saw a all too familiar mountain structure in the distance, and slowly a savage smile spread across my lips.

"I think it's about time to let Equestria know that Nightmare Moon, is back!"