A Moon's Student

by DrawLight


Chapter 6: Memories

Black Moon sat alone in her room on her bed, thinking. She was suprised of the letter she received from Celestia.
She hated her. So did she. Black hated her for so long and had not stopped. She took away the one pony who cared about her. She couldn't just sit there and do nothing. She needs to take action. She levitated a piece of paper and took a quill. She closed her eyes for a moment to remind herself of her past before she started writing.


Black Moon was a young, innocent foal. She lived in an orphanage in Ponyville since both her parents had died. She was quite lonely. She had no friends at all. Although, she didn't wish to have any either. She didn't know why herself.
She wouldn't be awake during the day so often. She would rather be up at night. The beauty of the night is the one thing she had always admired. It was simply beautiful to her. She wasn't so social either. Until a Princess opened a new school.
The Princess of the night, named Luna, had opened a school. It was a school for unicorns and pegasi, to teach them all they need to know about protecting themselves and others.
Princess Luna walked into her school. It was quite darkly coloured. It had some decorations on the entrance, and a lot of windows. The doors were dark blue as the night sky, much like her mane and tail. It had a small tree next to the entrance.

Luna walked into her new school. She was smiling, although it slightly faded of the sight of no students. She quietly walked to the classroom that she was supposed to teach. Nopony was in it.
The classroom had a teacher's desk on the left side of the classroom doors. There were about 20 desks for each student on the right, each having a chair to sit on.

She sat at her chair and looked out the window. It was sunset. Her classes start at this time now. They used to start at daytime, but nopony came either way.
She waited for 30 more minutes, and decided to give up.

"Nopony was going to show up today anyways," she thought, before standing up from her chair. She started to walk towards the opened doors.

"Wha? Huh?!" Luna heard a voice. She walked out to see a foal running through the hall. She was light blue. Her mane and tail black with a stripe of green. Her eyes were lime green. It was Black Moon.

"I-I'm so sorry!" Black said as she accidentally ran into the princess, dropping a few papers that she brought with her.

"It's alright," Luna politely said, levitating her papers and giving them to her.

"Oh, um, thank you!" Black thanked her. "M-Mind telling me where could my first class be? I'm really late..." Black asked.

Luna smiled. "It's alright. Right here," she leaded her to her classroom. They entered the room, both taking a seat.

Black looked around, noticing that there's nopony around her. "Um... Miss?" Black asked. "Why is nopony here?"

Luna sighed before answering. "I'm not sure. They must not wish to attend this school. I cannot blame them," Luna said.

Black looked at the princess, slightly tilting her head. "Why? Aren't they supposed to attend?" Black asked.

"It was optional," Luna said, looking out the window.

"Oh," Black said. "Okay then."

" Did you wish to come?" Luna asked.

"Yes! As soon as I found out!" Black said, smiling.

Luna smiled aswell, starting to ask questions.


As Black finished writing her letter, she levitated the quick onto the table and used her magic to send the letter away to Celestia. She watched as it flew away and faded in the air. She took a deep sigh when it was gone. She stood up from her bed and walked out her bedroom.
Closing the door, she saw Twilight speaking to Spike, who held a paper, writing down with a quill. She walked up to her to speak.

Hey Twilight," Black greeted.

"Hey Black!" Twilight greeted back, waving her hoof.

"I... need to talk to you," Black said.

"Oh, sure! What is it?" Twilight asked.

"Uhm... I was thinking somewhere more private," Black said.

"Oh! Then let's go to the library. Spike, you stay here and wait for Starlight and Rarity," Twilight said to Spike, when he answered with an okay.

The two mares entered the library, Twilight closing the doors behind her. When she did so, Black spoke up.

"So, I needed to ask you to do something..."

"Okay. What is it?" Twilight asked.

"You see, I've known Celestia for quite a long time..."

Twilight listened.

"And, well..."

"...yeah? " Twilight said.

"I need you to not tell Celestia that you know me," Black exclaimed.

Twilight raised an eyebrow.
"What? Why?"

Black was silent for a few, moments, then she finally spoke up.
"I can explain later. But right now, I'm pretty sure you're really busy... right?" Black asked.

"Oh, right! I've gotta hurry up!" Twilight said, running towards the library doors in a hurry. "We'll talk about this later, Okay? " Twilight said, and Black just nodded. After she left, she sighed again. She walked up to the shelves of books. Stopping, she levitated a book from the top shelf. It was dusty and old, so she cleaned the dust off of it. It was coloured pale blue, but it would probably be just pale if it wasn't so old. It had a blue star on it.
Black opened the book with her magic. She sat on a near chair, getting in a comfortable position, starting to read.


As Black Moon was crossing through the pages reading the book, the clock on the wall tocked. Black looked up towards it, looking at the current time. It was almost midnight. She lost sense of time. She quickly stood up from her chair, levitating the book with her out of the library to her room.
She opened her bedroom doors, entering it and closing the door shut behind her.
She placed the book onto her desk before she got into her bed, sighing and quickly falling sleep.