//------------------------------// // nightmare moon // Story: Viva La Lunar // by amf studios //------------------------------// Welp, Ima back!  And to make up for the hiatus, two chapters in one day. Chapter 8: nightmare moon. Twilight couldn’t believe what she had just read, her thought’s were blaring as she remembered the words that hit her the hardest, “jealousy, destruction, violence, nightmare moon, monsters,” that last one hit her the hardest.  How...how could Equestria see them like that? She read over the story one more time to make sure she didn’t misread it.   “Long ago, in the land of Equestria, lived two, royal sisters.  The older sister rose the sun in the morning, while the younger rose the moon in the night.  Though as time passed the younger sister grew jealous that the ponies would frolic and play in the sun, and sleep through her beautiful nights.  Eventually, that jealousy turned her into a monster, Nightmare Moon. she enlisted the help of demons known as changelings and thestrals, as well as begin to telepathically enslave ponies, and their northern neighbors the yaks, her army began attacking innocent ponies in the streets and burnt down homes leaving no survivors, eventually, the older sister was forced to use the most powerful magic in existence, the elements of harmony, to trap her and her army in the moon.  The older sister took charge of both the sun and the moon, but a mark on the moon’s surface proved that nightmare would return. The mare in the moon has been visible ever since, but it is said that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in nightmare moon’s escape. Only the elements of harmony can defeat her.” She hadn’t misread a bit of it.  All of this was wrong, nightmare moon was obviously referring to luna, but she never became a monster, she was still the caring monarch, who had the wisdom of an elder, but the energy of a child she had always been, the ponies and yaks had been supporting luna, not brainwashed, and changelings and thestrals weren’t demons!  And the bit of Celestia using the elements to banish Luna and her followers, utterly impossible! Luna had made the elements a key part of pre-republic history, and thus an educated mare like twilight was completely aware that it takes two to six creatures to activate the elements, the only creature who probably could ever use all six of them by themselves would be the living definition of mary sue, which was also impossible. “Why, why would they think such things? All of this is-” “ Twily!” her train of thought was interrupted by Pharynx bursting into the library. “Twilight, you’ve been in here for 5 hours, what have you been doing,” he asked, though all the books made it blatantly obvious. “This isn’t good pharynx, it’s… impossible to describe! Uh, here just read this!” twilight said opening the book on the elements of harmony to the page about nightmare moon.  Pharynx began silently reading the book, his expression becoming grimmer by the second. “We have to tell the princess,” he finally said dropping his disguise to reveal a black and blue jumpsuit-like outfit. He raised his right foreleg to his mouth, on it was a long distance communicator the guards used to keep in touch, “testing, this is lieutenant Pharynx calling Captain Shining Armor, do you copy?” no response. “I have important information that must make it to Princess Luna, do you copy?”   “We must be too far out of range of the satellites,” Twilight sighed.   “Just great, can you teleport us?” Pharynx asked. “If I knew where I was going, she’s somewhere in Equestria’s capital, that’s too vague, if I try to teleport based off that, we might end up beneath a building, or inside of someone,” Twilight said making them both shudder. “Ok, then, we have to wait for her to come to us, but by then it might be too late,” Pharynx said. “Actually, the merger’s not official until she and Celestia sign a document, which they plan to make it a public event, they might be here at sunrise,” Twilight said, “come on, help me find everything we need to show her, and the list is pretty long.” Later, it was a few minutes to sunrise and the town was gathered outside city hall, Rainbow and Rarity were generally excited, though they hadn’t seen Twilight or pharynx in some time.  The crowd was hushed as a tan earth-pony with a white mane walked up on stage. She cleared her throat and said, “Citizens of Ponyville, and visitors from all around Equestria…” “And a few outside it,” Rainbow snickered. “It is my honor to announce the arrival of our Wise and benevolent ruler, Princess Celestia!” the Mayor said. “That's our cue!” flutter said as the bird orchestra began.  A purple curtain was dropped revealing the snow-white alicorn with her ethereal, rainbow mane.  She was followed by Princess Cadence, Prince Blue-Blood, a dozen guards, and on the sidelines were three ponies no one recognized, except Rainbow and Rarity of course.   “Citizens of Equestria, I may say this every year, but it is truly time for a new day for Equestria,” Celestia said.  The next thing you knew, the moon lit up bright blue, yet everyone noticed Celestia wasn’t doing anything, truth be told no one had ever seen her lower the moon, but everyone assumed she did. When the moon was nearly set, she rose the sun and continued, “And I happy to say, this new day is the first I get to spend with my sister, Princess Luna!” Luna flew into sight and landed at her sister’s side.  The crowd was initially surprised, they were unaware their princess had a sister.   “My sister has been running her own country for the past millennia…” Celestia said. “Though after much consideration and negotiation, I have chosen to resume co-rule of Equestria,” Luna added, “as well as my country becoming an equestrian colony.”   The crowd was silent for a moment, then began to applaud.  Celestia took out a document written on parchment, “With the signing of this document, Equestria will be whole once again.” The crowd applauded again, Celestia signed her name on the document.  Then telekinetically handed the pen to luna. Luna almost signed the document before a familiar voice yelled, “STOP!”   The entire crowd went silent, everyone turned in the direction of Twilight who was holding a book, and Pharynx who was no longer disguised and wearing his armor. “A changeling!” Blue-Blood yelled. Some of the guards approached them, but Pharynx pulled out an I.D., “Lieutenant Pharynx of the Lunar Republic Royal Guard!” “One of yours?  But didn’t you only bring 5 guards?” Celestia asked. Luna disregarded this, “Twilight, what have you found?” Twilight walked pass the guards and said, “you wouldn’t believe it if I hadn't brought it.” She handed the book to Luna, who began speed reading it.  Every second she spent she seemed to be harboring a different emotion, shock, disgust, rage.  Celestia saw luna’s wings being covered in bright blue lightning. Rainbow and rarity moved up to Twilight's side, Scootaloo hiding between them. “What in the world did you show her?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Something she needed to see,” Twilight said.  Luna had a final angry expression and slammed the book shut.   “Luna, is everything alright?” Celestia asked.   “Luna…” Luna turned to her, “I thought I was… Nightmare Moon to you?” Celestia, along with most of the crowd gasped, but for different reasons, Celestia that she had found out about the one thing she made effort to hide from her, the rest that they were looking at the real Nightmare moon. “Luna let's calm down now, we have a deal to finish,” Celestia began walking back, she knew how dangerous luna was when she was mad.  Clouds began to form in the area, swirling just above Luna. “The deal?  You insult my subjects and I by rewriting history to accuse us, and you think there is still is going to be a deal!?” she yelled in her Canterlot voice, lightning shot out of her wings and into the clouds sparking an electrical storm, she held the merger document in front of her, then used her magic to burn it, “Deal’s… off.” “Guards!” BlueBlood yelled, “Detain Nightmare Moon!”   Several pegasus guards swooped in from above but before they could do anything Lieutenant Blitzer used his lightning to knock them all back, “Not gonna happen!” Several unicorn guards charged their magic, each sent a beam but they were all blocked by Shining armor’s Shield spell, when he dropped it, every lunar guard, Pharynx included, drew their weapons.   “We don’t want to hurt you, but we will!” Shining yelled. The lunar senate, along with the three mares and hidden filly got close to Luna.   She announced one more thing in her canterlot voice, “Celestia!  You know not what you have done, the merger is off, if any equestrian force tries to come to the republic it means war, My citizens and I will find our own way to survive, and if I never see you again, it will be too soon!” Luna unfurled her wings as they and her horn and eyes began to glow blue, all of the lunar ponies were engulfed in the blue light, which then shot up to the setting moon, an imprint of Luna's face appearing as it did.  A few seconds later, the moon hid behind the horizon. “Luna... I’m sorry,” Celestia whispered to herself. Meanwhile… “Oh poor Celestia, your actions have caused you to lose your sister once again,” the mysterious being mentally laughed, “Oh, but do please press on, a war is JUST what this Draconequis needs!”