Everlasting Night

by Dream Searcher

Captured

Our bearers are Twilight, personal student of Celestia and a very powerful Unicorn. She's an 'egghead' with a love for magic and books. Friends weren't really important for her, until now. She represents the element of Magic and is the leader of the bearers.

Fluttershy is a timid Pegasus with a love for animals. Flying was not really a favorite activity of her. She knows that you can make your enemies your friends if you just show some kindness to them. She represents the element of kindness.

Pinkie is an earth pony with a love for pranks, parties and sweets. Her favorite activities are partying and creating parties. But there is one thing that Pinkie has sworn to herself and that is that she would make everypony smile, even if it kills her in the process. She represents the element of laughter.

Rainbow dash, a name that fits with her mane. This mare loves speed, the Wonderbolts and awesomeness. Her dream is to join the Wonderbolts and she would push herself to the extreme to accomplish that dream. There is only one thing that Rainbow would never do and that's abandoning her friends. She represents the element of loyalty.

Applejack, an honest farmpony. Her love for apples is like the love for a child, the apples were her foals. There is one thing Applejack can't stand and that's lying. She believes that speaking the truth is the best thing you can do, no matter what kind of situation you're in. She represents the element of honesty.

Our last bearer is Rarity, a hard to get mare for many stallions. Her love for fashion is widely known in Equestria. She helps many ponies with fashion problems and she does it for free, because she believes that a little bit of generosity can make a pony's day better. She's the element of generosity.

The lights are on, the stage is set, let the story begin.

It was time, the Bearers of Harmony had Nightmare Moon cornered in the ancient ruined Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters. The Elements were clung around their neck and they were ready to end Nightmare Moon once and for all.

But this was the moment that Nightmare Moon had been waiting for. Ah, now they’re going to use the Elements, excellent. I just need to raise a barrier around my body and then I will be victorious. Nightmare Moon raised her barrier and just in time, in less than a second a rainbow engulfed her. The only thing she had to do now was to keep the barrier steady and wait until the rainbow disappears. Magic of the moon, I call upon thee, help me to defend myself. Her eyes began to glow with the same whitish hue as the moon, her barrier grew to become the same color. After what seemed like an age, the rainbow dispersed, she had survived.

She dropped her defensive barrier and saw the Bearers of Harmony lying on the ground unconscious. Good, unconscious, now that they are unable to stop me, I can put my plan into motion. Her horn started to glow and a magical aura enveloped the necklaces along with Twilight’s crown. In the blink of an eye, the Elements had gone to a place that only Nightmare could reach. She sat down and waited for the Bearers to come back to consciousness.

After ten minutes they all began to stir, they slowly came back from their forced rest. Twilight was the first to open her eyes and to speak.

“Wha-? Did we win?” She rubbed with her left fore hoof on her temple, trying to ease the throbbing of her head. Her rubbing stopped when she saw Nightmare, sitting in front of her. She wore a devilish grin upon her face.

“Guess again.” Nightmare snickered while patting Twilight on the head. The other Bearers were also starting to awaken, they all gasped in shock as soon as they saw that Nightmare was still in the castle.

Twilight pushed Nightmare’s hoof away and ran towards her friends, they were huddled up close to each other. Then, realization struck Twilight, her crown was gone and so were the necklaces.

“What did you do to the Elements?” She asked Nightmare, this triggered the attention of the other ponies and they gasped in shock, again, when they noticed that their Elements were gone. Nightmare just chuckled.

“Oh, are they gone? Well that’s too bad, but! If you truly want to know where they are? Then I shall tell you. They are in a place that only I’ve been and that only I can reach, they are sealed on the moon.” Nightmare was now walking around, her gaze never leaving the ponies and the devilish smirk remaining stuck on her face. “You won’t ever see the Elements again, I have won!”

Twilight fell on the ground, her fore hooves covering her face. She had to acknowledge her defeat.

“No, how can I get the Princess back? Will the sun come back?” Then a question popped into her mind, a question that needed to be answered. “How did you manage to defeat the Elements of Harmony?”

Nightmare stopped for a moment. Should I really be telling them this? I guess since the Elements are on the moon that it couldn’t hurt.

“Well, since the Elements aren’t coming back I can tell you how I defeated you. When I was on the moon I had 1000 years to study how they worked. I found out that there are only two things in existence that are stronger than the Elements, the sun and the moon. So when you were busy sending that rainbow towards me, I called upon the magic of the moon to raise the defense of my barrier and guess what? It worked.” Nightmare was beaming with malicious pride. She loved to humiliate other ponies, but she loved it even more when she had power.

Twilight frowned in thought for a moment. Why didn’t I see this before, how could I’ve been so stupid and more importantly, what is she going to do now?

Nightmare saw the frown on Twilight’s face and, through a mental link with Twilight, she knew what she was thinking. Her smirk widened. This is going to be the best part. I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces. She replaced her smirk with an emotionless expression.

“So, you want to know what I’m going to do now?” She looked at Twilight, her expression was first a confused one but a horrified one replaced this. She must have realized that I can read her thoughts. Nightmare cleared her throat.

“Well, right now my loyal followers are taking over Canterlot and I plan to repaint the castle of Celestia to a more dark color. As for you six, that we’ll discuss later. But right now get ready, because we’re going for a ride.” Before Twilight or the others could respond, the horn of Nightmare began to glow. In the blink of an eye they were gone, leaving the castle back to the way it used to be.

Meanwhile in Canterlot the fighting continued. Celestia’s royal guards were trying to keep the Army of the Night from entering the castle. The Army of the Night were outnumbering the guards, but the guards were far more skilled fighters. The Army of the Night had conquered the city and were now making their final push towards the castle. In the middle of the battle were two individuals fighting each other. The individual dressed in a golden chest piece with a golden helmet was Shining Armor. He was a white unicorn loyal to Celestia, captain of the Royal Guard and the brother of Twilight. The individual he was fighting was dressed in a dark blue chest piece with a dark blue helmet, the armors of the two individuals looked like each other, except for the color. This individual was a black Pegasus with a gray mane, he was loyal to Nightmare Moon and the commander of the Army of the Night. His name was Dark Shadow.

They had been fighting for over twenty minutes, Shining Armor had the advantage of magic, but Dark had the advantage of flying, both made excellent use of their advantages. They were both becoming tired, but if one didn’t pay attention than the other could take an advantage of it. Dark flew towards Shining, his sword in his hoof. Shining was ready for the attack, he levitated his sword with his magic. There was a clash the two swords colliding against each other and the two ponies just mere inches from each other’s face.

“You have an excellent defense, Captain Shining Armor.” Shadow said, he knew that his opponent was a skilled fighter. He flew backwards and landed on his hooves, taking a moment to rest.

“You are also an excellent fighter, commander Shadow.” Shining Armor replied, he too, took time to rest.

They were both very tired and it wouldn’t take long before one of the ponies made a mistake. They both took their battle stances again and ran towards each other. They clashed against each other and tried to find an opening in the defense of the enemy. Shadow managed to make a light cut on Shining's leg, but it certainly wasn't enough to kill him. Shadow was beginning to declare himself the victor, but in his moment he wasn't paying much attention to the fight and Shining managed to use that to his advantage. They both looked down. Shining Armors sword was in Shadow’s chest, blood began to pour out of the wound. Shadow fell to the floor and just when Shining Armor wanted to finish the job another sound could be heard. It was a horn, the horn of victory. Shining Armor looked at the castle and saw that Celestia’s flags were being changed to Nightmare’s flags. Shining Armor looked back at Shadow.

“You… lost.” Shadow smiled, he could feel life dripping out of him, but then he saw a medic from the Army of the Night.

“Medic, over here!!” He shouted, this alerted the medic and he trotted towards the injured Commander. The shout had also alerted some soldiers from the Army of the Night. They rushed towards Shining Armor, they were ready to kill him, but Shadow interrupted them.

“Don’t kill him, he was… a worthy opponent. I’ll ask the… Queen to spare his life, but for now throw him in the dungeon.” The soldiers nodded and levitated Shining Armor of the ground. He looked one last time at Shadow and there was a small gratitude of thanks in his eyes, then the soldiers trotted towards the castle. Shadow turned his gaze towards the medic.

“Am I going… to make it?” The medic looked deeper at the wound and frowned his eyebrows.

“I think so, but you’ll need at least a few weeks of rest.” He took a piece of cloth and gave it to the Commander.
“Bite on this, I’m going to pull the sword out.” The Commander took the piece of cloth and placed it into his mouth, when it was in place he nodded to the medic. In one firm pull the sword was out of the wound, but blood was leaking out of it, much blood. The Commander was spasming in pain. The medic quickly took the piece of cloth out of the Commander’s mouth and bandaged the wound. He levitated some painkillers into the Commander’s mouth and finished the field tourniquet. Once everything was done, he levitated the Commander and went with him to the camp for better medical care.

Nightmare Moon arrived with the Bearers of Harmony in the castle, it took some magic to teleport them all to the caste, but she still had enough to fight. She looked around. She was in the throne room. She looked to Celestia’s throne and then saw her smaller throne. In the 1000 years she was gone it had never left Celestia’s side. She felt some remorse inside her, but that was quickly replaced by anger and rage. She levitated Celestia’s throne and smashed it against the wall shattering it instantly.

The sound of the shattering throne alerted some of Celestia’s guards outside the room. They ran into the throne room and saw Nightmare standing there, looking at them with rage in her eyes. They unsheathed their swords and ran towards Nightmare, but were quickly trapped in her magical aura.

“You foals think you can defeat me!?! Those stupid mares over there couldn’t defeat me with their Elements of Harmony. Let me show you what I can do with those swords.”

The three guards were placed on the ground, but they were still trapped in her magical aura. She levitated one of the swords above a guards head and beheaded him. His body twitched for a moment before it lay on the ground, lifeless. She looked at the 6 mares that were standing behind her, they had witnessed it all and it had scarred them for live. She looked back at the second guard who was terrified. She levitated the swords to his legs and cut them off, all four of them. She dropped him and watched as he died slowly. She heard the 6 mares throwing up, but paid no attention to them, she still had to finish with the last guard. She levitated the sword above his middle and cut him in half, he also died slowly. She heard somepony collapse behind her, it was the white pony with the purple mane. She just had a smirk on her face, but a door opening disturbed that. She looked at the door, the door to enter the throne room, at a pony with the armor of the Army of the Night walked in. He bowed when he saw the Queen.

“My Queen, the city and the castle have been taken over.” The soldier said, still bowing.

“Good, sound the victory horn, let everypony know that Queen Nightmare Moon now rules Equestria.”

“Yes, my Queen.” The soldier left the room and five seconds later the victory horn was heard.

Nightmare Moon turned around and walked towards the terrified ponies. She used her magic to wake the white unicorn up. When the white unicorn was awake she began to speak.

“You have now all witnessed my capabilities, but for now I want to know your names.”

It was Twilight who found the courage to speak first, but she was still terrified.

“Well, as you know, I’m Twilight. The mare with the white coat is Rarity, the mare with the cyan coat is Rainbow Dash, the mare with the orange coat is Applejack, the mare with the pink coat is Pinkie Pie and the mare with the yellow coat is Fluttershy.” Nightmare Moon looked at all the ponies, they were either sick or terrified.

“I will remind you your names, but for now I will call you slave or pet and you will call me Queen or Mistress. I’m not the worst kind of Queen, if you obey and do everything I say then you don’t need to worry, who knows, I may even reward you. But if you cross my path and disobey me then you will feel my wrath, do I make myself clear?” She looked at each mare individually and there was one mare that caught her attention: Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash flew towards Nightmare Moon, stopping inches from her face. “Now wait a minute, I’m not going to be a slave, not even for-“ Her speech was cut off when Nightmare placed a magical aura around Rainbow Dash. She threw Rainbow in the air and smashed her on the ground, breaking her left wing in the process. Rainbow lay there, drifting between consciousness and unconsciousness.

“Rainbow!!” Applejack shouted. She ran towards Rainbow, but was stopped when she was in the same aura Rainbow was in a few seconds ago. “Ah should buck ya back to the moon.”

Nightmare’s expression changed back into rage. “You should just be quiet!!” She cast a spell and in less than a second Applejack was gone.

“Stop that right now, Queen meanie.” Pinkie Pie stepped forward.

Nightmare Moon looked Pinkie straight in the eyes. “What did you call me?!”

“Queen meanie, because that’s what you are, you’re a-“ Pinkie Pie was teleported before she could finish her sentence.

Nightmare then looked at the three other mares. “Is there anypony else that wants to feel my wrath?!” Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity looked at the ground and said nothing. A small smile formed on the Queen’s face.

“Good, you know your place.” Nightmare trotted towards Rainbow and teleported her also. She went back to the three other mares and shackled them with magical bindings to the ground. When she saw that everything was in place she teleported away.

Rarity looked at Twilight. “Do you think she will hurt them?”

Twilight looked away, a small tear dropped on the floor. “I’m pretty sure.”