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// P.O.I 
// Story: Nightmare for Nightmare 
// by CodenameOne 
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Another chapter, because I said so.






"MOONY-CHAN-POOOII!!"

Sweet moon, not again. It was hardly noon and Yuudachi had come to bother Nightmare Moon again. The two had become something closer to 'friends'(though Yuudachi was more open to it than Nightmare was) but it seemed to the night's avatar that the human girl truly had nothing better to do than pester her.

"Must you always yell? And what is it that you're even wearing?" Nightmare asked, looking at Yuudachi. She understood the black sailor tunic and matching skirt, but not much else. What was the point of the gold clasps on her hair? Or the clasps on her collar?

"Huh? It's, like, my outfit-poi" Yuudachi said. "The uniform gives us our protection, and the boots are, like, to help us float. Everything else we put on ourselves to, like, express ourselves-poi. Like, when I've got my rigging on, I wear a big wind-sail-poi."

"A wind-sail on your back? How do you even explain that?" Nightmare said, and Yuudachi shrugged.

"The admiral says it's, like, for morale reasons. To inspire the other girls to, like, do their best-poi!*"

The poi's... "Is this all that you wear?"

Yuudachi blushed. "Huh? I, like, wear underwear too..."

"THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!!" Nightmare yelled, waving her hooves. "I meant apart from this sailor getup, do you often wear anything else?"

"Oh, um, there's, like, my pajamas and my swimsuit, and last Halloween I, like, dressed up as a wolf! Grr-poi!" Yuudachi said, and made a show of raising her hands as if they had claws. "But this is, like, all I was wearing when I showed up here-poi."

Oh, that's a great point, too. I'd LOVE to know how I had the misfortune of having this creature suddenly arrive in my kingdom. "Do you even know how you got here? It seems to me as though you just...appeared in my castle, and now I'm apparently meant to just deal with this fact."

Yuudachi shrugged. "I don't know. I remember talking to Fubuki-chan about how weird Naka-chan is, and how Naka wanted to see me for something. Then, when I went to go see her, there was like this HUGE flash of blinding light, and then next thing I knew I was, like, here in this castle-poi."

"Please, please, explain to me what these 'poi's mean. You say them so incessantly!" Nightmare declared, exasperated already with the human girl's antics. Sweet moon, take me back! I'd have never escaped had I known this is what would've become of me!

"Huh? Poi is, like, poi. Poi-poi...**" Yuudachi said, and Nightmare threw her hooves out.

"I've heard enough! Let us talk no more, instead we shall find something for you to occupy yourself with! What is it that you enjoy doing? I'm sure we can find SOMETHING in my kingdom to distract you. Books? Jousting? Fencing? Knitting?! Anything!" Nightmare Moon yelled.

Yuudachi put a finger to her chin and looked up. "Hmm, I like to read. There was like this manga that Kongou-sama wanted me to read, once. She was, like, in it! I guess it was some kinda romance thing-poi, between her and the admiral. I dunno, it was kinda weird. Her sister Kirishima-sama wrote it-poi."

That's it. Books. Surely I can find something for her. "Come with me to the library, at once! We shall find things for you to read!"





"You're a ship! Err, girl. Shipgirl? Whatever, you like boats, yes? Here is this tome on naval doctrine. You may find it rather titillating" Nightmare Moon said, thrusting the book against Yuudachi's chest. The girl took it and flipped through it, her eyes scanning a few random pages as she went.

"You guys, like, don't use any torpedoes-poi? Or turrets? Where do you keep your AA radars?" Yuudachi said, keeping her eyes on the pages.

"What in the name of my stars is a ray-darr?" Nightmare asked. "I have turrets on the castle walls, but they are for archers. Torpedoes are a manner of sandwich, as well; I don't see how they could possibly be related to naval warfare."

"Huh? Torpedoes are, like, a missile that goes into the water. It, like, blows a hole into a ship's hull to sink it-poi!"

That's...clever, as a matter of fact Nightmare Moon thought. "Interesting. Perhaps you could teach me about this device; we may have use for it."

Yuudachi put a finger to her chin and looked up, apparently in thought. "Well they, like, used compressed air, usually, but ours use oxygen. Fubuki-chan is, like, really smart and explained to us all in class one day what makes our torpedoes so awesome! She was like 'the oxygen dissolves quickly in water, and leaves like almost no bubbles in its wake, making it like super stealthy-poi.' Well, she didn't, like, say poi, poi. That's what I said."

"Compressed air inside of a waterborne missile. Quite clever indeed. Is there perhaps anything else you'd like to peruse while we are here in the library? I'm sure we can find plenty to keep you occupied" Nightmare asked.

"Do you have any, like, manga-poi!?" Yuudachi said, her eyes full of stars(or so it seemed to Nightmare, anyway). She took a step back and grimaced, unsure of what it is she meant.

"We have comics, I'm sure, but I do not keep that tripe here in the royal library. We would have to take a trip to one of the peasant villages to find such a thing."

Yuudachi put her hands together and bounced in place. "We could go on like a roadtrip-poi! Or you could, like, FLY us there!"

"I am not going to let you ride me as I fly, ever. That would be degrading and frankly ridiculous; you are surely heavier than you look, with all that you eat" Nightmare said, and Yuudachi pouted.

"Are you saying I'm, like, fat? Moony-chan is so mean-poi" Yuudachi said with hands on her cheeks. Nightmare sighed and rubbed a hoof against her head, and wished she could better reach this bizarre woman.

"I am sure that you are a perfectly healthy weight for a member of your species. Now, if there is nothing else, would you like to leave now?" she asked, and Yuudachi nodded and pepped back up. They took a moment to check the book out with the librarian(who hurriedly stamped an 'indefinite loan' on the book's logcard) before they ventured back out into the castle's halls.

"Well, now that you have something to entertain yourself with, I trust that you shan't be bored while I attend to the day's duties? I assure you they'll be brief--mostly cackling in glee at the despair and suffering of my subjects--so once that has finished we shall be free to spend the evening together" Nightmare said.

Yuudachi nodded. "Sure thing-poi. By then it'll probably be time for dinner, which I can't wait for! I'll see you later, Moony-chan-poooii" she yelled, and hugged Nightmare Moon tightly. The Nightmare was about to hesitantly return the embrace when Yuudachi released her and ran off, her hair and skirt fluttering as she went. Nightmare smiled warmly and trotted off towards the throne room, looking forward not so much to holding court, but rather to spending more time with the eccentric shipgirl.