//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Exorcisms for Dummies // Story: The New Dawn of the Setting Sun // by The Crazed Werewolf //------------------------------// Sunset waited quietly for Celestia and Discord to go to sleep. Once she was certain that they were she quickly and quietly made sure that Scootaloo was also asleep. Then she slipped out the front door. Sunset needed some time to think and to analyze what was happening to her friends and herself. As she wandered the silent and dark streets alone she didn't have a destination in mind. Sunset found herself standing outside the park. She sat down on bench illuminated only by the light of the full moon. Somehow I formed a contract with that demon, Sunset thought, all contracts have a way to invalidate themselves, how do I invalidate this one? Sunset didn't get time to think of an answer to her question, at that moment a car that she recognized happened to drive past. She watched as it turned around and pulled up to the curb. "Sunset," Luna said, "my sister is going to kill you for being out this late." "Sorry Luna," Sunset said, "I just needed to get out of the house and think." "More nightmares," Luna asked as Sunset got in the car. "Haven't had any in almost a week," Sunset answered as she put on her seatbelt, "that's my problem." "How is that a problem," Luna asked, "if I had been having nightmares like yours I would welcome any respite." "How do you know how bad my nightmares were," Sunset asked, she knew that Luna's Equestrian counterpart could see and enter dreams, but as far as she was aware no such power existed in this world. "My sister told me," Luna said, "she thought I could help you." "How could you help," Sunset asked. "When I was your age, I suffered from horrific nightmares," Luna answered, "they drove me to do somethings that I regret." "Like what," Sunset asked. "Maybe I'll tell you when you're older," Luna answered, "now tell me about your nightmares." "They started right after the Fall Formal," Sunset sighed, "that demon that I turned into kept coming to me each night and threatened my friends and my family." "I'm listening," Luna said. "Then one night," Sunset continued, "an angel, or what I perceive to be an angel, appeared to fought the demon. That night I saw something I still can't explain, but since then I haven't had any nightmares." "That's sounds good," Luna said, "you have a guardian angel watching over you." "Yeah," Sunset said, "but now the demon is haunting my friends dreams, and I have to go d a way to stop it before it consumes one of them like it did me. And it's all my fault." "Sunset listen to me," Luna said, "when I look at you I don't see a bad person, I never have. I see a scared little girl who may have stumbled, and might have lost her way. But I know that you aren't beyond redemption, all you need to do is ask." Sunset looked at Luna oddly, what did she mean that all she needed to do was ask? Sunset was about to ask what Luna meant when they pulled into Celestia's driveway. "Well here we are, can you get inside with out waking Celestia," Luna asked. Sunset nodded, "ok I'll see you tomorrow at school." Sunset watched as Luna put her car into reverse and backed out of the driveway before silently slipping inside. ***** Fluttershy danced in the arms of her prince. She stared lovingly into his red eyes. He simply stated back. They danced in a ballroom made of clouds. She was so list in the moment that she could no longer hear the music. "Everyone is watching," he said. "Let them watch," Fluttershy whispered to him, as she pulled his face towards hers for a passionate kiss. "Bulk Biceps! Really," Fluttershy heard a voice say, "I never would have guessed!" Fluttershy looked around and saw Sunset Shimmer, the old Sunset Shimmer, watching her. "Sunset," Fluttershy asked in her quiet voice, "what are you doing here?" "Why, I'm looking for you," Sunset said in a sinister voice, "my dear Fluttershy." "Why are you looking for me," Fluttershy said, "oh your eyes," Sunsets eyes had turned black but seemed to burn with an unnatural fire. "Come here Fluttershy," Sunset said with a voice that wasn't her own, "take my hand I can give you everything you desire." "NO! Look here Ms. Demon," Fluttershy said as she stared intently into the demon's eyes, "you may look like my friend, but I know that you aren't her! I don't know what you have planned but I can see through your game!" The demon felt it's disguise being ripped away, and if it had ever had a soul of it's own it would have felt terror from the girl before it. ***** That was unexpected. The demon had never encountered a being so pure before. The girl had been able to see into the demon's very essence and overpower it. It was getting frustrated, each potential host that it had tried to consume so far had been able to defeat it. Now the demon circled a farm house. Yes. This could do. The occupants of this house knew suffering and loss. What was even better was that one occupant was a friend of Sunset Shimmer. This would do perfectly. The demon attempted to enter the house but found it's way barred. Something was preventing it from entering. How could this be? The demon tried again but it couldn't seem to set foot inside. "You have no power here," two voice seemed to echo from the heavens, "begone foul creature of the abyss!"