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// Chapter 4 Daily life on moon 
// Story: How to train your villains 
// by Kewiei777 
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	Several years after the first lesson.
Nightmare moon wakes up from her little dream walk to the ground, idly rubs the sleep out of her eyes. Sniffing her nose, she is aware of one thing.
“Elaphos.”
“Yes, My Queen.” A cloud of mist and dust starts to form into a figure of a pony the same size as Nightmare moon.
“Next time do not change my sheet and blanket while I am sleeping.” Nightmare moon says with a little irritation.
“Your will.”
“Materialize and stay outside the bathroom every times we enters it for personal hygiene.” Nightmare moon adds. “Last night thou shew up directly in front of us when we were… Just remember do not do that again.”
“Sure, my queen, may I ask the reason…”
“No, orders.”
“Of course.”
“……”
“……”
Nightmare moon feels a little embarrassed and decides to finally teach her faithful follower something about gender difference. But this intent is interrupted by Elaphos.
“May I know the information you collected on the ground, my queen?”
“Sure… Err… sure.” Nightmare moon is muddled by the abrupt words but soon recovers. “Equestria seems having conflicts with The Griffin Empire. Maybe it will soon become a war. Damn those griffins believe Equestria is weakened with one princess banished. But tis true. Poor Celestia will not win this war without us. The griffins are strong and aggressive. They are trained for fight when they were born. The best consequence we can presume is both sides of conflict are mired in the fight and both of them are too weak to continue and fear to be attacked by others, then they will sign the peace. Unless…”
“Unless what?”
“Miracles.” Nightmare moon continues. “We feel sorry for our sister and our little ponies. Clearly they will suffer for a long period of time. We wish we could help. We would like see Celestia suffer, but as for our ponies, they are innocent and they should be our subjects if the elements had not got in the way.”
“We can do nothing about it, can we?”
“Indeed, unless Celestia misses us and release us from this…Rock.”
“Questions, my queen. May I have the honor to know your story about this ‘elements’?”
“To begin with, elements is something corrupts thy mind, separating thee and thee aspiration. Make thy life dull and boring. The worst part, it will make thee believe that thinking the way it force thee to believe is truly happy. In this way, it hath made many ones who are destined to make fabulous achievements rest in their little cozy nests. As for us, we were tough enough that it could not corrupt us. So it just banished us to the moon which is our own. Irony, right?”
“No, my queen. This is Faust-damn vicious brain-wash. I feel delighted to hear my queen managed to escape from it malicious effect.”
“The elements is in short of ‘Elements of harmony’, which is composed of six separate elements. But only five of them are known and each of them represent one… Err… pattern of doing things. The five are: generosity, kindness, honesty, loyalty and laughter. We have seen the sixth element, but we do not quite understand its meaning. Let’s discuss them one by one.”
Nightmare moon changes to a comfortable position and continues. “Generosity is contradictory with efficiency. For a whole society, resources need to be hold in these elite who produce more, and the rest are supposed to be inspired to work hard and become an elite. Generosity just spoils this pattern; Kindness is said for losers to beg for mercy and skewing mercy to one’s enemy is deadly especially in a fight; Honesty is sometime good, but being honest with thy enemy is a disaster; Loyalty is praiseworthy when all of our little ponies are loyal to me; the last one, laughter, is just for entertainment.”
“We will talk about the details later. Now brush my fur, the brush is in its usual position. Last time thou didst well.”
“Your praise is my pleasure, my queen.”
“Hold on, we need to do some adjustments to thy current appearance. We need this to be more precise and vivid. Thou need to accurately remember these places.” Nightmare moon prods her hoof to several places that she is not satisfied while manipulate the said places with her azure magic.
“Your will.” Elaphos answers. “May I ask why you stop summoning subjects here?”
“Eh…” Nightmare moon mumbles, enjoys the brushing. “Thou feel lonely, doth thou? We were embarrassed to admit we do not remember the details of the spell. We are fearing it goes wrong again and… Never mind.”