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// Chapter 2 Artemis’ deer 
// Story: How to train your villains 
// by Kewiei777 
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	After a hasty preparation, Nightmare moon cannot wait to start the summon process probably because of the long period of isolation.
“We will first summon a pair of ponies, the species we know best, so we can save them easily in case the experiment went wrong. Oh, let us see, what about earth ponies, they are tough and hard to kill even my spell fails to reach the expected goal. And we really need workers, as we are still surrounded by garbage.” Do not want to change places, Nightmare moon starts to draw lines on her bedroom’s ground. “It will be an honor for them to have their audience with their queen in her highness’ own bedroom.” 
Nightmare moon is about to cast the spell before suddenly feels doubt about herself. “Summoning is not hard, is it? Relax, we are an alicorn full of mana. We have the talent. On the other hooves, how wrong can it be even we cannot remember the details. We have successfully healed ponies in pieces. Furthermore, pieces of earth pony will be lot easier. Come on, we can do this.”
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A few seconds later.
“Well, this doth not go as expected.” Nightmare moon feels the velocity of the loss of mana, a little freaking out. “We certainly should start with the rabbits. Details usually do not matter that much. Why is this spell so costly? Are we summoning a giant powerful monster from other dimension?”
Nightmare moon grits her teeth, enduring the pain of the mana extraction. Her mana reserve has dropped to a critical standard.
“We cannot hold much longer.” With the words come out of her mouth as a distraction, her mana depletion make her legs feel like jelly and her version dimmed. 
“Ponyfeathers, why do we say everything out?” Nightmare moon falls to the ground and everything blacks out.
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A moment later.
Nightmare moon stands up from the ground, rubbing her head and feel everything around her comes to life. “Ah, well, experiments always fail, maybe next time.”
Nightmare moon wanders across the room, trying to find one or several pieces that are definitely not belong here. “Well, we have to deal with what is left of our… Err… experimental victims, sorry for them.”
“Why are you talking to yourself?” A male voice suddenly pronounces.
“Who is there, identify yourself!” Nightmare moon jumps into a defense stance because the voice obviously does not belong to any of her stupid marshmallows.
“Actually, I do not know who I am.” The voice says, sounds confused.
“Where are thou, thou coward? Shew yourself!” Nightmare moon turns around, trying to find the intruder.
“I am not a coward, nor I do not know where I am. All these feel… wrong.” The voice continues. “And please don’t spin your head around, the blurring version make me sick.”
“What is wrong with my head turning… wait, are thou in my head?” Nightmare moon lets out a squeak, freaked out. “How dare thou, thou peasant, to invade her highness’ mind when she is weak.”
“Now, come out of my mind before we make thee do so.” Nightmare moon urges while lights up her horn.
“My instinct tells me doing so is right, but I don’t understand. What is this ‘out of mind’ thing? Feels weird. I should know the meaning.”
“What do thou mean ‘not understand’? Thou can pronounce the single words but thou cannot understand? Are thou querying my intelligence? Are thou…” Nightmare moon slows down the pace of her speaking, realizing this thing might be the ‘victim’ of her failed experiment.
“I don’t know, but I think I am suffering from some kind of… Err… mental lost. Err…what is the meaning of ‘mental lost’ anyway? I just said it.”
“Lucky us, how can we summon an idiot like thou. For the sake…” Nightmare moon pauses, suddenly realize that it is a perfect chance for her to get a faithful follower that she always wants before some final confirms.
“We presume thou are a male, judging from thy mental voice.” Nightmare moon says.
“Maybe, I think so. My instinct tells me…”
“Do thou know Celestia?” Nightmare moon continues.
“What? Is that a name? Or did you say ‘celestial’?”
“What do thou think of Equestria?”
“I’m totally confused. What is ‘Equestria’?”
“What do thou think of forcing somepony to do things he don’t like? Theft? Rape? Slavery?”
“My first impression of these words isn’t very good, but… I think it is fine. Wait, did you say ‘somepony’?”
Nightmare moon ignores the question and meditates for a while before finally blurts. “Wonderful! He doth not even form his values. Now he have no choice but take what we teach. He will think the way we teach. He will act the way we order. He will be our best follower if he hath no intelligence problems. Now tis the question about how to get him out of my head and into an entity.”
“Wait, wait, I can’t follow all those you said. Err, I think this is ok. What happened to me? All these feels wired.”
“Then ignore it, we were not talking to or about thou.” Nightmare moon interrupts imperiously. “And thou will be taught directly by us. Tis thy honor.”
“Why is that? Why should I like honor? Oh, what’s this ‘honor’?”
“Thou do not know anything that is why we need to teach thee. Thy instinct tells thee that Thou should not keep this ignorance, right? Though instinct is always for the moments one know few.”
“Yes, yes, ignorance feels awful. I’ll follow your guidance.”
“Good, soon we will start our lesson, but first I will give Thou a name, thou dost not remember thy name either, dost thou?”
“Sorry for that, madam…”
“Call us queen or highness.” Nightmare moon interrupts. “We once heard an old tale written in an ancient language about a goddess associated to the moon named Artemis, just like us. She always let her Elaphos Khryso… or something pull her cart. So we are going to call thee Elaphos. Thou hear us?”
“Yes, your highness.” Elaphos replies.