//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 [Edited] // Story: Nightmare Mom 🌙 // by Twilight Star //------------------------------// Today, Nightmare Moon had no political issues other than her school to look after. Yes, she founded a school for other unicorns to learn to use magic. The school was called: Nightmare Moon School for Talented Unicorns. Today would be the day that the unicorns would go to school to pass a test to see if they could enter the school. But first, she decided to go for a walk in Canterlot and stay for a few hours at school without her daughter, since Twilight insisted on staying at the castle to observe the night sky at the observatory. Although Nightmare looked a little sad inside, she let her daughter stay at the observatory.  She was now taking a walk in the statues garden. She saw statues that she never saw. She wondered who was the sculptor of these statues. She looked ahead and saw a statue of an Dragonequus. Nightmare Moon had to stop. This wasn’t an ordinary statue or made by a sculptor. This statue was nothing more than Discord, the Lord of Chaos. Discord had been petrified by Celestia and Luna, now known as Nightmare Moon. Nightmare Moon sat on her hips while looking at Discord. She could feel tears in her eyes, when she was Luna, she didn’t want to petrify Discord, since he was friends with her since she was filly, and her coltfreind when she became a mare. She wanted there to be a way to talk to Discord. But how could that be possible? Discord was petrified.  “Oh, Discord. I miss you so much,” said Nightmare Moon through tears. “I would so much like you to meet my daughter Twilight. I’m sure you and she would have a great time. But that will be impossible, since you’re a statue, and it looks like you will be forever a statue.”  Nightmare Moon started to cry more. “Well, I’m going. But in case you ever stop being a statue, please don’t hurt my subjects... I don’t want to petrify you again...” that said, she went flying.  She never imagined that Discord would become evil. When she met him, he was so much fun. But as time went on, he wanted to cause chaos throughout Equestria, even if no one thought it was funny. Nightmare Moon wiped the tears away with a hoof. There was only one thing left for her to do, which was to check the school.  She landed on the floor, and entered the school. She wondered how the foals were doing. Suddenly, she heard the sound of magic. Nightmare Moon walked over to where the sound came from and was surprised to see a unicorn filly of light yellowish gray coat, red mane and tail with purple highlights making a plant grow with her magic. But it wasn’t the color that impressed her, It was the mane and Cutie Mark. The filly’s mane was similar to her daughter’s, but what she liked most was that the filly’s Cutie Mark was a crescent moon with three stars. She went to the filly with a smile.  The filly heard footsteps and looked where he saw and smiled. “Princess Nightmare Moon! Did you see me making this plant grow?”  “Yes, little one. You’re a very talented filly for your age,” replied Nightmare Moon.  The filly blushed as she smiled with praise. “Thank you princess. I’ve been reading a lot of books to get into your school.”  Nightmare Moon couldn’t help noticing that for a filly of that age, she was quite studious. “What’s your name?”  “Moondancer, princess,” replied Moondancer.  Nightmare Moon smiled. She liked that name because it had the word Moon in the name. She wondered if the Cutie Mark was also a moon. She looked at the flank and saw that the Cutie Mark of Moondancer was a crescent moon with three stars. She started to think about something. But she didn’t know it was a good idea, since she already had Twilight. “Moondancer, where are your parents?”  “Actually, only my mom is here with me.” Moondancer pointed to a unicorn mare of yellow color and red mane with Cutie Mark of a waning moon.  Nightmare Moon approached the mare. “I suppose you’re the mother of Moondancer. I am right?”  “Yes Princess, and my name is Crescent Moon,” replied Crescent Moon with a smile. “My daughter was reading several books yesterday so that she could study her magic more. She’s very interested in becoming a student at your school.”  Nightmare Moon never imagined that a filly would want to be her student. Normally, foals would prefer to be students of Celestia. But she was happy that now that she was ruling Equestria, everything was starting to change. The thought she had before returned. She didn’t know if it was a good idea, since she feared she wouldn’t have time for Twilight, since she would have to teach Moondancer magic.  She looked at Moondancer and could see that Moondancer was smiling at her. Nightmare Moon couldn’t help but deny that until Moondancer was cute. Should she do that? But she started to remember that now that she had a school, and with that, maybe she wouldn’t be able to spend as much time with Twilight as before. She couldn’t believe she was going to think about it, but who knows if Twilight had a friend, maybe Twilight would have somepony with her during the days she was busy in the future? She was determined, but she just hoped Twilight wouldn’t be sad about it. She looked at Moondancer. “Moondancer.”  Moondancer approached Nightmare Moon. “Yes, Princess Nightmare Moon?”  “I could see that you have a great talent with your magic, Moondancer,” began Nightmare Moon with a smile. “And i can see that you have great potential too.”  “Thank you, princess.” Moondancer blushed with praise.  “Moondancer, I would like you to become my personal student,” finished Nightmare Moon.  Moondancer’s mouth fell open. Did she hear right? Her ears could only be mistaken. “You accept?” asked Nightmare Moon.  “Yes!” shouted Moondancer cheerfully. Nightmare Moon smiled, she liked to see happy foals.  “Princess, where is your castle?”  “In Everfree Forest.”  Moondancer’s joy was replaced by fear. “Everfree Florest? But princess, this forest is dangerous.”  “I know, Moondancer.” Nightmare Moon agreed as she stroked Moondancer’s mane.  “Do we have to walk to the castle?” asked Moondancer.  “No, we will fly,” Nightmare Moon looked at Crescent Moon. “Goodbye, Crescent Moon.”  “Goodbye, princess. Take good care of my daughter,” said Crescent Moon as she said goodbye with a hoof.  Nightmare Moon caught Moondancer with her magic. “Hold on, Moondancer.”  “Ok, princess.” Moondancer went to the princess’s neck and hugged him with her hooves.  Nightmare Moon, seeing that her student was holding on, spread her wings and flew away.    Twilight was at the observatory, drawing stars with the pencil she held with her magic, beside her was the Nightmare Moon doll. Thanks to her studies with her mother, she now knew how to hold objects with her magic. Twilight couldn’t deny that she loved having a mother as a teacher. She was a very lucky filly, because she had a mother who was Princess of Equestria and her teacher. In addition to learning magic, she also learned astronomy. Twilight loved every class she was taking each night.  Suddenly, she heard footsteps. Twilight, smiling, dropped the notebook and pencil, and looked back. She was surprised and confused at the same time to see Nightmare Moon with a filly with a yellow filly and red mane and stir light purple and dark purple. Nightmare Moon smiled while the filly had a shy look. Twilight approached Nightmare Moon. “Mom, who’s this?”  “Daughter, this is Moondancer. My new student. She will be living with us here,” replied Nightmare Moon.  Twilight Sparkle approached Moondancer with a smile. “Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle.”  Moondancer smiled and waved amicably. “Hi, Twilight Sparkle.”  Twilight Sparkle looked at Nightmare Moon. “Mom, have you shown Moondancer the entire castle yet?”  “Yes, I even showed her room,” replied Nightmare Moon. “Did you manage to have fun without me?”  “Yes, but i missed you. But with my doll, I could feel less alone.” Twilight Sparkle hugged her doll lovingly.  Nightmare Moon smiled at that. Good. She was happy that Twilight had a company. She just hoped that Twilight and Moondancer would get along.