It has been a couple of weeks after the crazy day involving the doll and the need it want it charm on it (a limited Imperio spell to Harry). And things had settled down in Ponyville for now aside from Rainbow Dash crash landing into the ground and being sent to the Hospital three weeks ago and was let out four days ago. Harry was there watching her perform tricks in the air when it happened he was able to cast Arresto Momentum while it didn't stop her slowed her down to only get a broken wing. Harry knew from experience that something will happen sooner or later. He also noticed that Twilight and her friends have been speaking to him some more like Rainbow Dash asking him if he wanted to watch her do tricks which was why he was there.
He was in town when he noticed Ponies putting up decorations. He saw Applejack and Twilight at the Apple Stand and walked up to them. "Hey AJ Twilight what's going on?" He asked them.
The two looked at him for a minute before remembering he was from a different world. "It's a couple of days before Nightmare Night. It's a holiday were ponies dress up and go door to door getting treats." Twilight explained to him.
"So it's like Halloween." He thought to aloud to himself as he checked the date and saw it's going to be Halloween on the same day. He saw the two looking at him questioningly so he started explaining. "It's a human holiday were humans do the same thing but kids or foals as you call them are the ones doing it while their parents go with them." He tells them. "It's also on the same day now I think about it." He continued his line of thought.
"That's interesting to know but why do you have it? We first have it because of Nightmare Moon." Twilight asked him.
"It used to be known as All Hallows Eve. The night when it was thought the barrier between the living and the dead is the thinnest and the dead will walk among the living. People would leave out food and candies for the dead, in the hope that the evil spirits would leave them alone. They would also carve out turnips and rutabagas, and place embers in them to ward off the evil spirits." Harry told them. "Halloween's roots can be traced back to Celtic culture in Ireland. According to their "Druid" religion, November 1st was New Years' on their calendar. The celebration would begin on October 31st ,and last into the following day. The spirits of all who died in the prior year, would rise up and roam the earth on this night. This is an evil night when spirits roamed the streets and villages. Lord Samhain, the lord of Darkness, would arrive in search of the spirits to take them to the underworld." Harry explained more of the beginning of All Hallows Eve. "And it was started thousands of years ago. It became as it is known now by The Roman Catholic Church who wanted to have people believe in their God and leave the Gods they believed in at the time but it didn't succeed in making it forgotten but it did cause it to change into what it is now." Harry finished explaining.
Twilight was writing it all down on a note book she keeps on hand fascinated by the information while a good number of other ponies nearby listened in for they wanting to know about the holiday. She looked up thoughtfully before speaking to Harry. "So what are you going to dress up as? Nightmare Night is for everyone and we all can dress up." She asks him.
"I'm afraid I won't be out for the day at all. I'll be staying in my home and till the next day, and before you ask it's personal." He tells her. Twilight nods as he leaves them.
"You think this may be something involving those nightmares the letter you got from the Princess was speaking about." AppleJack asks Twilight in whisper.
"Maybe. We'll have to speak to the others about it and check in on him then." Twilight tells her.
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Flashback to the day after Twilight went nuts:
Twilight and her friends along with Spike were at a hill having a picnic to make up for the one ruined the day before when Spike breathed out a letter. "Wonder why the Princess sent this?" He asked them.
"I don't know but lets read it." Twilight tells him. Spike opened it and read the letter.
"Dear Twilight
I wrote this letter to you to tell you of Harry. Yesterday before I came a spoke to you he had came up to me and give me a letter for Luna saying it has his thanks for doing one of her jobs. When the two of us read the letter to her we quickly understood why. He has spoken of being hunted by nightmares for most of his life and they had gotten worse when he reached the age of 11 and kept doing so till the age of 17 when event he didn't tells speak of made them found there peak and he hasn't gotten a full night's sleep for five years and till he came to Equestria. This has worried us for what ever as been causing him nightmares may still be out there in the human world. We had told our guards to look out for anyone who has spoken of his name for he's now a citizen of Equestria after he moved to Ponyville and signed for forms for becoming one. I will like for you to try to learn more about him but don't force him to tell you, let him tell you in his own time.
From Princess Celestia."
Twilight looked at her friends. "What is it that is cause him to have those kind of nightmares and for so long?" She asked them softly.
"I don't know dear but we must let him tell us if he wants to." Rarity tells her.
"Ah don't know about you but ah vote that we watch any other humans who come to Ponyville and if they saw anything about Harry warn him and get him out of town till they leave." Applejack told her friends. She was the closest to Harry working along side him on her farm and liked his jokes. The other five mares agreed with her and they returned to town.
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Twilight and her friends along with Princess Luna who joined them after they told her why Harry wasn't in Ponyville after they helped her out with the townspeople and she noticed he wasn't there. They came up to his door and saw a bowl out with a few pieces of candy in it with note saying "two pieces each only" on the door. they walked up to the door and knocked on it. "Who ever you are please leave. There's a bowl on the rail."
They looked at each other before Luna walked up to the door and spoke. "This is Princess Luna and we will like to speak with you." She tells Harry.
It was a couple of minutes before the door opened. Harry was seen looking a bit worn out as he looked at them. "Why are you here?" He asks them.
"We are worried about you after what you told Twi and AJ and came to see if we could help you." Pinkie said as he hopped in place.
"There's nothing you can do." He tells them.
"Perhaps not but may we come in?" Princess Luna asks him.
Harry sighed before letting them in. As they enter the house they saw a circle with a few runes and candles with two pictures. "What are you doing here?" Twilight asks him as Luna watches him carefully.
"There is another reason for All Hallows Eve. It's a day to morn the dead, and it goes double for me." He tells them.
"Your parents?" Luna asked him after noticing that the pictures are of humans who Harry looks like a mix of. Harry nodded at her.
"But why double for you?" Twilight asked him before it came to her. Harry nodded at her when he saw the look on her face. Her friends looked at her but she spoke saying it. "This was the day they died?" Causing them to look at Harry in shock.
"They were killed when I was a baby." Harry told them planing to say part of the truth.
"Killed you don't mean they were murdered." Luna said in shock.
"My parents were apart of a group fighting against a terrorist but went into hiding when I was born. They were betrayed by one of their friends and he came to the safe house and killed them. He would had killed me if it wasn't for a trap set off by my mother." He told the seven who looked at them in horror. "I was a year and a half then. The only thing I can remember about them is my mother asking for him not to kill me and him laughing like a mad man as he killed her. everything else I know about them are stores and pictures I was given by some of there friends. I have been doing this for the pass five years when I learned about All Hallows Eve." He tells them as he sits down with the pictures in front of him.
Fluttershy quickly moved to him and hugged him. They rest of them joined in even Princess Luna for she now understood what he meant when he said he was hunted by nightmares when he was young. The mane six and Luna stay with him as he did the ritual the muggle way. A couple of hours later they left with Luna stopping at the door for a minute. "If you ever want to talk about something we are willing to listen to you." Luna told him.
"I'll think about it but thank you your Highness." Harry told her.
"Please call us Luna. It's tiring hearing us be called that all the time." She told him.
"Very well. Have a good night Luna." He told her for he could relate to her because of the "Boy who Lived" Title he had. She nodded to him and left.
Harry closed the door and locked it before heading up to his room. 'I never thought I would tell them that.' Harry thought to himself. 'Ah well. It couldn't be helped cause I had to explain it.' He finished as he got in bed and fell asleep.
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Luna met her sister in the dinning hall the next morning. "Good morning Luna. How did last night go?" Celestia asked her.
"It was fine for the most part. We did have some trouble when we first arrived at Ponyville due to the towns ponies panicking when I appeared as Nightmare Moon but with Twilight and her friends along with a foal named Buttonmash we were able to fix things. However we did managed to learn a bit about young Harry." She told her sister.
"Did you manage to learn about why he has those nightmares?" Celestia asked her.
"One of them. His parents were killed by a terrorist because they fought him and his men before he was born and they went to hiding when he was before they were betrayed by a friend when he was a year and a half old with his mother being killing in front of him which he remembers her asking him not to kill Harry before he killed her while laughing." Luna told Celestia and quickly casted a silencing spell on the room when she noticed the raising anger.
"WHAT!" Celestia shouted in anger.
"Sister please calm down he's dead. Harry's mother killed him with a trap when he killed her. It's also the only thing that he can remember if his mother." Luna told her as she calmed her sister down.
Celestia calmed down as Luna removed the spell she casted. "If this is the start of what cause those nightmares then I fear what is cause the rest of them." She told Luna.
"I agree with you. We believe we must watch the humans who come to Equestria, not only for those who betrayed him but any who could has been with the terrorist group he spoke of." Luna told her sister. The two finished eating and left the room.