Everfree Forest, Outer Sanctum, Pre-Dawn
Sleeping sound surrounded by leaves, brush and bark is something that one should experience at least once in everyponies life, for me this would be my third timd sleeping out in the wilds with my timber wolf Bright Branch and his pack, which is safe to say pretty cool since most ponies view timber wolves as threats and run at the mere sight of them. Me on the other hoof view the timber wolves as the protecters of the Everfree from any harm that would come to it, and also that the timber wolves are cute and cuddly when they come up to you and look at you with those sweet golden/orange eyes of theirs and rub up against you with their bark and leaf bodies. My little Bright Branch is sleeping soundly next to me serving as a cushion since his body is made of mostly ivy and bark, and as usual his body is soft to rest on, in essence his body acted like a living cushion that is both awesome and serves as a loyal pet.
When I was still asleep Bright Branch was busy moving quietly through the forest with his pack of seven other timber wolves, the others made ivy, bark, twigs, vines and flowers, each wolf looking different from each other but still resembled a wolf's shape.
After a good three hours of quick deft movements through the tree's and bushes of the forest we all arrive near the outskirts of the Everfree until we reached Fluttershy's cottage, in which the pack all stopped moving and sat down near the fence and stared down the roaming chickens and other animals milling about. After Bright shook me off his back and fell face first into a pile of dry leaves and a single large rock lying in the center of the pile, and going face first into a rock while asleep was enough to wake me up from my delightful dream.
Nightshade's Dream
'Waking up in a strange new land, one colored in different shades of grey and silver, the night sky emitting a lovely light shade of blue and the air was crisp and cool to the senses. Looking around I saw that the moon was full and was a beautiful ornate silver with waves of nocturnal energy flowing freely from its gentle form as I flew happily in the night sky enjoying the wind between my wings and the gentle rolling breezes gliding through my mane as I took my place in the sky as the only being around. Looking below I saw a castle hanging off the side of a mountain, a glorious palace sat peacefully on the mountainside as its silver and white colors betrayed its own appearence of white and gold, the city that rests near the castle was the same as its overseer and took on the same shadow.
After gliding down to the palace I landed on a balcony with a soft thud and proccedded to walk down the halls until I pass a room that was filled with the colors of dark blue and purple clouds and stars cover the walls, the carpet a deep shade of indigo and the ceiling itself was embedded with enchanted moonstones to glitter and sparkle to imitate the night sky. Happily trotting into the room I noticed that the fireplace was still alive with a roaring fire and that a cup of hot coca was sitting their, waiting for the return of its master as I levitated the warm mug to my face and take a delicate sip, minding that it is still hot as the steam slowly rises and coils in the night air.
The sound of somepony coughing behind me served its purpose as I turned around to see a midnight blue alicorn was laying down on the bed under the purple covers, presumably asleep until I entered the room, her aluring gaze was enough to make me set the mug down by the bed-side table and climb into the covers with her, smiling at one another we enter a warm embrace for what felt like an eternity until we both hear the sounds of a light voice calling out to us both. "Mama...Papa...can I sleep with you tonight...." and before we give our answer, we were interrupted by a thun- '
Everfree Forest, Ponyville Outskirt, Dawn
Landing on the rock with a loud thud I screamed out loud from the sharp pain that is now racking my head like somepony hit me in the back of head with a frying pan made of rocks. "OWWWWW! Damn it Bright! What have I told you about dropping me on rocks! I told you that hurts especially when I land head first and roll onto my back....now my imma get a headache before the big match with Macintosh...." I said grumbling to myself since the timber wolves will most likely ignore my rant and think that I am simply a crazy pony. To Bright Branch he thought it was hilarious to me it was more like a very rude awakening and a cruel prank.
Looking at my surroundings I noticed that it belonged to Fluttershy's cottage and that we were near Ponyville and by the looks of the sky that the sun was barely over the horizon which means that it is roughly about six in the morning, just one hour shy of the duel between me and Macintosh. Taking in my surroundings brought a smile to my face as the fresh smell of roses and lavender buds filled the air with its sweet fresh scent which covered my smell of dirt and mud, a bath would do lovely right not but since the only water source is a small stream which I would barely get my hooves wet in I rather just go to Ponyville smelling like nature and dirt.
"Okay pack...this is the plan...I am in the front of the group while all of you bunch up behind me and Bright, and when we get to town please don't growl at the ponies their, they will just think that I am trying to feed them to you and that is the last thing I want to do to them...and when we get there please restrain yourselves from eating anything that does not belong to you...that means no eating fruit, vegies, or ponies. Now...if we do this right I get to scare at least half the town and give Macintosh a run for his bits that I am truely a force of nature...probably pun intended." I said while getting a smack upside the head from Bright Branch, who somehow hit me with his paw which to me feels like I went face first into a desk back in school.
Looking at him with a scowl on face while he was busy acting innocent and looking in a random direction, the rest of the pack was also lookin in random directions to avoid my gaze.
'Seems like I have taught them well to avoid getting looked at when they did something wrong...such good little wolves they have become!'
Turning my attention back to Ponyville I smiled to myself before giving a loud and long whistle, alerting the pack that it was time to put the show on the road and fight for my broken honor.
Ponyville, Marketplace,Dawn
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! TIMBER WOLVES!"
"Oh the HORROR!"
"Everypony for themselves!"
And this was my thought when I heard those three ponies yell that out loud for Luna knows how many ears were listening on to their shouting. 'This could have gone better than I thought it would have gone...ehh this is awesome.'
After only five minutes of galloping into Ponyville while being followed by at least twelve timber wolves and each of them are larger and longer than anypony in town, everypony that was out in the streets or were on their homes doorstep when they heard the racket and yelling, they all immediately did a complete 180 degree turn and slammed their doors shut along with their windows. I also barely heard the sound at a few homes of wooden boards being nailed to the doors and windows. Seems like this town is afraid of everything that is not a pony, I even bet that they are afraid of parasprites in this town...little...cute...soft...parasprites.
As I look around I can see that me and the pack are in the middle of the marketplace and I was standing directly in the middle of a boxing ring that was oddly placed in the square. Even more odd was the fact that Pinkie Pie was wearing what looks like a judge outfit meant for boxing, even wearing a silver whistle around her next and what also appears to be a megaphone in her hooves. Looking around again I noticed that the ponies that left came back after noticing that the timber wolves were ignoring them and were clearly sitting down and were docile, it became amusing as a few of them started to pet the wolves and was even funny when one of them started thumping the floor with a hind-leg when Lyra started scratching it behind the ears with a stick she found lyng on the floor.
Turning my head I notice that Big Macintosh, Applejack and Applebloom are trotting over to the ring as I take off my armor and cloak and tossed them into a heap near Bright Branch who in turn lays down next to it and keeps an eye on them, the rest of the pack simply watchs the newcomers and crowd over to him to protect my belongings. Watching Big Mac crawl into the ring was amusing at best since his frame was larger than what most ponies were and that he could barely fit between the ropes that serving as the railings for our stage of battle that will begin as soon as the bell is rung.
DING! DING!
'Oh buck...'
Almost immediately I felt a large, and very heavy hoof hit me in the left side of the head making my head snap hard to the right and go flying partially into the ropes and bounce back onto the floor, shaking my head clear of the ringing in my ears and forcing my eyes to stop seeing double I saw that Macintosh made the first move by throwing a left hook with his hoof which clearly served as a cheap shot when I was not paying attention.
Two can play at this game old friend.
As I got back to my hooves and stared into the eyes of my enemy I saw that behind him was Applebloom holding up a sign that said 'Kick his fat flank!' while Applejack was holding up 'Go Team Apple', Granny Smith was asleep in her rocking chair while somehow holding a sign that says 'Beat that whippersnapper' which made me snicker under my breath which earned a snort from Macintosh before he began his onslaught of wild hoof-strikes and occasionally trying to buck me in the side which all missed thanks to my long training session with my teacher back at the castle, that ghost sure as hell knew how to throw a mean uppercut when it mattered.
Strike after strike Macintosh kept swinging at me as I simply side-stepped or ducked each blow that was meant for me and with each failed attack he snorts in anger until finally I retaliate with a strike of my own, a dirty blow to the weakened rear-leg that was barely healed up. Upon striking that leg he let out a whinny of pain as I reared up another strike and bucked him in the ribs before pushing hard on my front legs forcing me to spring backwards and striking him again with my rear-legs still locked up from the buck, in essence bucking him twice in rapid succession, causing him to hit the rope ring, bouncing directly into my rear-hooves again but with added momentum from the rope, basically causing him to hit the floor and holding onto his ribs in pain.
Looking down at him I turn around before lifting him back up with my front-hooves and started to repeatilly headbutt him while my horn was protected by a spell to prevent it from being damaged in the fight. With each headbutt that Macintosh received started to increase in volume until finally it started to sound like somepony was hitting their head on a hollow metal wall.
Thud...thud...thud......THUD...THUD...THUD...THUD......THUD......CRACK!
And with that near-thunderclap level of a headbutt I pull my head back and looked back down until I looked and saw that his head was covered in blood from where my horn had cut above his left eye-brow and that he was having a hard time staying on his hooves or even staying still from the concussion I gave him. Expecting another blow to the head Macintosh just stood their waiting for me to make another move but instead I jump backwards and with help from the tension I am placing on the rope I hold on as long as I can before letting go of my spell and launching myself at him like a cannon ball out of a cannon, hitting him center-mass with my right shoulder bringing him down onto the mat, leaving him in a sorry state. Getting back up and walking towards the edge of the mat, thinking that the fight was over I hear a loud gutteral noise coming from behind, and turning my head back around only for it to snap back by a heavy hoof to the face by Mac, forcing me to slump over onto the floor and partially black out.
"And it looks like the winner is Big Macintosh! Congradulations!" shouted Pinkie Pie from her hot-air balloon which was resting ontop of a flower stand off to the left of the ring. As everypony present started stomping their hooves in happiness that their local farmer and friend won the duel they all cheered and whistled happily amongst themselves...not one of them paying attention to the other duelest that is still laying in the ring.
Nightshade's Mind
Oh god...my head...why does it hurt so much...
That was because you got your ass kicked by your false friend and that everypony is cheering for him and ignoring you.
So that is why my head feels like I just took a brick to the face....it freaken hurts!
No duh Sherlock...what else is obvious? The fact that you lost or the fact that you are currently bleeding out of your mouth and your left eye?
Wait what? I am bleeding out of my eye? How is that even possible?
Well with how hard he deked you I am formerly guessing that his hoof might have cut a part of your eye...
You got to get up and finish this...the pain we caused him was not even close to what he has caused to us! Now get back up and finish him!
Yes! I will finish this once and for all!
Back to reality
My eyes flutter open as I feel a warm breeze bring coldness to my face as it chills my blood on my face as it passes over it, feeling my face with my left hoof I find out that it was my red eye that was bleeding and that I felt with my tongue that he has also punched a tooth out of my lower jaw, knowing that because I see a bloody tooth resting in the middle of the ring. Slowly turning over on my side, feeling my head spin from the surprise attack to the temple, the ponies were still cheering loudly and were not even paying attention to me at the time, all of them were busy looking and whistling at Macintosh while Pinkie Pie was holding his right hoof up in a victorious manner. Shaking my head to force the disorientating daze away, I slowly being to crawl towards Macintosh from behind with my front hooves feeling that my rear hooves were in pain from what might have been a bone shattering buck to them. Angerly snorting from the lack of feeling to my lower half I keep crawling towards him until I am right behind him, only turning around to notice that I left a blood trail behind me and grinning evilly for a second as my other half takes over for this moment.
In that moment when I made my move I felt my body slip away from me as my eyes slowly get covered in a thin sheet of magic as it turned white and as my body slowly crackle with energy and magic, the only sign of what was going on was the insane laughter that I let out. My laughter...MY Laughter...
As soon as Macintosh stood on his rear legs I made my move, quickly getting up while at the same time grabbing his left rear hoof and lifting up in liquid motion I was on my rear hooves standing up with my fore-hooves keeping me balance as I went bipedal. In that moment of time of my quick movement not a single pony made a noise, not even the Apple family made a sound, and when they all saw me get back up onto my rear hooves they knew that I was not going down without a fight.Macintosh on the other hoof hit the mat hard with a thud, smacking the back of his head roughly against it, his eyes half closed as he tries to resist the pain until he opens his eyes long enough to see my hooves slamming down onto his rib-cage again but this time with full force as another thunderous CRACK can be heard. Looking down I saw that my hooves left an imprint on his chest and that I saw that his chest was rising and lowering in a rapid motion, making me realize that I broke his ribs and probably damaged his lungs from the blow, making me only grin evilly and in another lightning fast motion brought my left hoof into his face, than again, and again, and again, punching him in the muzzle with more and more brutallity until I see a tooth of his own fly out of his jaw and skid next to Fluttershy's hooves outside of the ring. The sight of all the blood on the mat, the tooth by her hooves, the blood on my face, and the strong smell of iron in the air was enough to make her pass out and emit a sheep sound before falling ontop of Rarity.
Watching Fluttershy pass out from the brutal attack on Macintosh was enough to snap me out of it, looking down in my hooves I drop Macintosh onto the ring and with a whimper I hear him cry out for me to stop, looking over at Pinkie Pie I saw that she was horrifed by my appearence and left me immediately and ran straight to the hospital, Rarity didn't even look at me when I turned to stare at her, Applebloom was crying when I started to brutally beat the living daylights out of him along with Applebloom who was shouting for me to stop, Twilight didn't even bother with me and just hung her head low and walked back towards her library. Rainbow Dash was the last pony to earn my gaze, but when she caught me staring at her she went pale and I caught her within my magic grip, lowering her to my eye-level, and only made a deep growling sound both speaking. " Do not...follow me..." letting her go before teleporting out of ring, reappearing in the middle of my wolves, in full battlegear and cloak ,nodding at Bright Branch he signalled our pack to at the same time to let out a long wild howl, and with whatever insanity I had left I joined with them before it ended. As soon as I saw the sights of the medical staff of the hospital show up I started galloping towards the Everfree Forest along with the others until we were no longer in the town, and kept on galloping into the forest, going past the outer forest and the inner sanctum, all the way back to the castle until we stopped as we entered the throne room. I was the only pony in that room as my wolves stayed near the door that leads into the castle courtyard, leaving me alone for what I was going to do next. "Bright Branch do not let anypony enter this castle unless it is the royal princesses or Discord himself...nevermind about Discord that old demon is still in stone...just the princesses."
Everfree Castle, Throne Room, Afternoon
After I entered the throne room I throw my armor all around the room and let my cloak glide across the floor until it stopped in a dry puddle of blood of where I lost consciousness when Nightmare Moon was still alive. Growling angerly to myself and at Macintosh for not giving up when he had the chance, now everypony in Ponyville thinks that I am nothing more than a brute that shows no mercy to anypony. Snorting at my self for letting those ponies get to me I pull out my sword and start swinging at the air hoping that it would lessen the stress on my mind but to no avail it only makes me more angry and more willing to bring harm to those that doesn't deserve it, but my wrath is still unchecked and when I heard the sounds of hooves on tile approaching slowly behind me I reacted quickly by throwing my sword at the ponies hooves, and without even looking back I hear the sound of a deep sigh before pulling the sword out of the floor and putting it back into my sword's sheath and yanking it off of my shoulder and throwing it into the corner infront of me. What came next was somepony that I would have never expected to hear from again.
"Nightshade...what have you done in Ponyville to make yourself retreat all the way back to your old home..." the sun princess herself was the pony that was behind me, turning around I saw Bright Branch leading her in, just as he was told to do.
"And what brings you here sun tyrant...this is not your home...this is not your lands...this castle and this forest is mine...my sovereign haven...our sovereign haven....so say what you want to say than leave...just leave me alone..." I said while trying to hold myself together, my emotions currently tearing each other apart and my rage and sorrow are currently leading the fight against everything else in my head as my voice shakes and crackes between words.
"You know I can not just leave you Nightshade, and the Everfree Forest is not yours to command...it is mine and Luna's to command. And no matter what you think of me I am no tyrant, I am not ruling Equestria with an iron hoof. Now tell me what you did in Ponyville or must I enter your mind and find the answers for myself." she said while slowly advancing towards me with her horn slightly glowing and making all the windows in the throne room close and bringing down the curtains behind them so nothing can see what we were about to do.
"Oh really...you think that you do not rule with an iron hoof...you sent your own flesh and blood when she became jealous of you and how that everypony praised you more than her...you ruled your kingdom for a thousand years before she returned and yet from what I can hear from her faint whispers that she is still not being allowed to rule with you. And yes this forest is mine to command...Lockjaw! Come hither to your master!" I shouted with enough venom and malic put into that Celestia slightly backed away from me before continuing her advances as we both felt the ground shaking and vibrating under our hooves, the increased tempo of the vibrations brought a smile to my face as I turned around and sat down on the only throne in the room that was broken, saving the seat that was whole for the Queen that will return to her senses soon enough.
"What have you called upon Nightshade....be this a monster from Foggy Bottom Bog or Ghastly Gorge either way I will strike it down if you unleash it upon my little ponies!" she shouted while getting into a defensive posture.
I grin at her before opening five windows as a head enter each open window. Princess Celestia, meet Lockjaw the Hydra, I raised this hydra since I was 13 years old, and boy is this hydra a beauty, tall enough to be able to stick his head in the windows and trained enough to not attack ponies, just like the timber wolves outside. Lockjaw was like anyother hydra in existence except that his body color is more dark and tanned, and with few scars and gashes that he has earned for defending his territory from other hydras.
"This my tyrant of a princess, is Lockjaw, my loyal hydra who loves to rest and bathe in the bog, he is oh so loyal...to me that is, anypony else he would try to eat on sight if he was back in his home, over here he is more of a sentry. A very large and tall sentry. But none the less he is still loyal to me. Now tell me Celestia how many beasts and creatures of the Everfree are loyal to you hmm?" I said grinning at her as a cockatrice slithers into the throne room from a purposely placed hole in the wall behind me as a Lupus Minor enters through the same hole and sits to my left, smiling at Celestia as she just stands their dumbfounded that the beasts of the forest responded to my command.
"And if you haven't noticed anything yet princess, this forest is mine...and mine alone now and I will do with it as I see fit, and in its current state I see fit that it remains in my control. Oh don't look at me like that Celestia you should have known this was coming back to haunt you sooner or later, this forest is ancient and the power it holds is equal to its age, the few towns and villages that dot the exterior and interior of this forest are under my control as well...which reminds me of something....have you heard of this quaint little place called Sunny Town? Oh I am sure you have heard of it since you cursed that town 1,000 years ago, never allowing those poor souls any rest, forever doomed to be nothing more than zombie ponies. Such a grim fate they have...and yet most of them have tried to repent for their crimes and yet their cries for help go unattended...why is that? I said with my best poker face as a phoenix flies into the room and lands ontop of the head-rest of the larger throne, staring right at Celestia than stares at me, than back to Celestia before screeching out and taking off back into the air and flying into the castle halls.
Giving me a deadpanned expression on her face before using her magic and teleporting the cockatrice and the Lupus away somewhere, the hydra has also vanished leaving me alone with her. "You are not making this any easier on yourself Nightshade...I am almost tempted to banish you to the moon for a few years for your insolence against the royalty of Equestria and giving hints of threats against the crown. Do you have anything to say in your defense?"
"Yea I have a few, first off if you banish me to the moon what would your sister Luna think about you hmmm? We both know that she still cares about me and from a few whispered thoughts of hers...still loves me...as I to her. And giving hints of threats? The only hint that I would give you is that if you try to take anymore lumber than you need from this forest than I will send those lumber-ponies back with one missing. This forest is under my protection and as long as I live and breath I will protect it...with whatever I have lest it be hooves, fangs, claws, talons, gazes or traps. This forest is mine and mine alone...so if you have anything else to talk to me about than please leave...I have to...prepare myself for those ponies that was watching the duel...and the Apple family will be out for blood since I wrecked Macintosh." I said standing up from my throne before going to the left hall and following it up to my room, looking back and sighing sadly that Celestia was still following me.
"I take it you are not going to leave me alone..." she simply shook her head no.
"Than it seems I get to apologize in front of royalty again...twice in the same month...ain't that a kick in the teeth."
Shaking my head in defeat now twice in front of Princess Celestia, the feeling of defeat by her hooves was humiliating and at the same time tempting enough that I do carry out with that one plan as to where she is close enough that I pull a knife out of my mane and do away with her...but than the reprecussions from it are not worth it...
Everfree Castle, Nightshade's bedroom, Night
Laying down in the still warm bed in our room I sigh sadly as I look at the fireplace and forced myself out of bed and slowly shuffle my hooves over to the fireplace and sat in the plump cushion that was still soft to the touch, and with the smallest of slight smiles I lay down ontop of it as I look into the fires with a damp wash cloth, cleaning up the blood on my face and removing any sign of dirt as well. After giving myself the saddest excuse of a clean up I lay my head down and continue my stare at the flames, hoping for any sign of life or somepony to talk to as the numb feeling starts to settle in than almost as quickly as the numbness started to kick in, another sense started to wash over me. Regret.
As I slowly lower my eye-lids to sleep in front of the fire I hear the slight sounds of a cough and raising only my ears to pin-point exactly where that sound came from which was behind me, and my guess that it was Celestia again wondering what I will do once I get back to Ponyville, but when I turn my head to see who the unwelcomed guest was, I stopped half way when I heard her speak up. It was the voice of an angel so sweet and pure that if I even look at her I would run the risk of corrupting her. Turning my head even more I saw who the pony was that was standing on my window balcony and staring at me with eyes filled with seeking the truth.
"It seems that thou hath been causing problems in Ponyville for thy self. Care to explain thy self to us Nightshade...unlike my sister who thought on condemning thou on thy's action, We thought that thou must hath had a reasonable explaination for such an act. So tell us so We may pass judgement for ourself."
Sighing a bit I levitate my cushion and turn it a complete 180 before setting it back down and levitating a rather large plush cushion from the corner of the room and placed it next to me and did a half bow to her as she walked into our old room and sat next to me with a smile that I knew that she still had feelings for me which sent a sharp shiver down my spine.
"Well...Luna...it started almost two days ago when Celestia sent those gala tickets out and when Applejack got hers she got a spare and supposedly it was for a colt-friend and knowing her since she works herself to the bone for the week that I have spent living with her she has none...so she asked if I could be her date...and since I knew that it was going to be at Canterlot than I would be able to see you again so...yea I accepted...she kissed me and well..her whole family saw that and they sorta questioned me." As soon as I said 'kissed me' Luna almost blew her top off but remained calm in my eyes.
"Than after I left with a smile knowing that I will see you again I started hearing them talking again so I decieded to listen in...they were talking about my integrity and honor...and Macintoshed questioned it...saying that I shouldn't be trusted...I thought he was my friend but appearently not. And using of what you taught me I kept to that code of 'Death before Dishonor' so I walked by into their home, pulled out a white glove and slapped him in the face with it. I told him to face me at dawn today in Ponyville Marketsquare in an all out brawl with whatever you were born with and well..." my pause was enough for her to look at me with questioning coldness in her eyes, and she was wondering of what happened...I just was not really prepared to answer her how.
"Well...when we were fighting everypony in Ponyville was siding with Macintosh and not one pony called out cheering for me so yea I was pissed off, but hearing the crowd telling him to drive me back into the Everfree, drive the traitor into the ground, and to straight break me was enough to send me over the edge. When we fought I was dealing quick debilitating blows to cripple him long enough to knock him out and win but all those years of farming was enough to nullify my blows so I was losing...he only hit me twice and each hit was enough to send me on my way to the land of the unconscious...I was their for only a split second but it was enough for my other half to take charge. We both fought over control but I lost when I was bleeding out of my eye and my mouth so he used my rage as a catalyst to take over and uhh...I rather not continue..." I said recalling what I have done earlier that day since it was when I was at my weakest was when I was at my strongest.
"Please tell us your pain Nightshade...We understand what thou went through and We too have experienced that pain...it was the same pain that turned us into Nightmare Moon...what thou went through was thou's inner demon take over. We do not know what thou would look like if it took over but what thou did was the first step We took to our path of self-destruction...thou must control thyself otherwise thou will be lost forever...We do not want to see thou lost..." I heard her sob a bit as she brought up her memories as her past evil and most likely remembered the fond memories we created together over the years we were together. Memories that I want to go back to no matter what.
"If you are ready for what I did...I will tell you." she nodded yes while I was handing her a small handkerchief in which she used to dry her tears, followed by scooting closer to me and was practically leaning against me, I did not even know what was going on unil I felt her left wing cover me with her warmth...the good old days... "When he took over I lost all control over my body but I could still partially see from my eyes, and what I saw was him repeatilly punching Macintosh in the face after yanking him off his rear-hooves and forcing him on his back on the mat, and stomped hard on his chest cracking his rib-cage...I knew he broke a few ribs... and he proceeded to lower his teeth count by one...I kept punching him in the face until I saw Fluttershy pass out...that was the last thing I remember besides teleporting out of the ring with all of my belongings and running with the pack out of Ponyville back here..." tears started to fall down my face as the past quickly came back to bite me in the flank.
"I nearly killed one of my only friends that I still had...even if he stabbed me in the back..." a single ruby red tear fell down my face as it landed on the floor and splattered leaving behind a red spider-web.
"Nightshade Calm Thy Self This Instant! Thou art stepping over thy line that wouldst mean that thy weren't never meant to cross! Calm thy self before thou art forever lost to thy's emotions! If thou can not control thy self than We must put thy down to sleep!"
Her shouting was falling on deaf ears as I simply started having a spasm that rocked my body to the core as I started emitting shadows from my very soul, slowly making the shadows in the room start to crawl and swirl around the room as they came to life with new found purpose. The darkness slowly began to creep toward the epic center of the void in the room as each strand of inky darkness started to turn into wisps of miasma, each strand slowly swirling around until reaching the vaccuum that is absorbing everything. Me.
As soon as the first strand touched my horn my eyes snapped open and as black rays shot out of my eye-sockets as the darkness rushed towards my body, being absorbed as if I was a plant absorbing the solar rays of the sun, and with each webbing of shadows I consumed I began to get larger and stronger, my body slowly growing in size and scale as I slowly began to change. Within a matter of minutes my entire body turned into nothing more than an mirror image of a mare that was casted down for creating the night that would have lasted forever, Nightmare Moon.
"No....no...no this can not be!" Princess Luna was trying to shout as the darkness in the room slowly started flying towards my body as it levitated into the air as my body started to shift and snap into something different yet similiar to her.
As the last strands of darkness crept onto my new form I was released by whatever force was holding me up was cut off as I slowly sunk to the ground until my hooves made contact with the hard carpet beneath them. I was mostly unconscious as soon as I touched the floor as my new form started to bend and weave around the night air until finally it was complete. My new body was much larger than my old one as I now stood equal if not taller than Luna, my wings...if I can call them wings, were more bat like than feathered and my horn was now sharper than it previously was and was considerably longer and much more thicker. As I looked at myself in the mirror that was cracked into shards that now layed on the floor from the magic that saturated the air, looking at myself I saw that I was pitch black, no shine to my coat, my eyes were no longer red and amber but instead were something I would never have thought of. Both eyes were now glyphs of magic, what it means I will never know but its appearence is that of a single large triangle with three circles with their centers at the edges of the triangle, the glyphs were neon blue as the tints to my eyes were blacker than the blackest void.
Coughing loudly and coughing up blood I stare around a bit trying to figure out what happened I stumble with my clumsy new hooves as I fall face first into a pile of broken glass only to feel no pain as shards of glass cut up my neck and chin. Looking down I saw that the glass was slowly disintergrating into sand which only served to scare me to the point of backing away from the floor and slam into the wall my eyes darting around filled with fear for what happened to me, my heart was beating so fast that they almost resembled the steady tempo of drums in the zebra tribes. Before passing out from hyperventilation all I can see was the room spinning rapidly and the sound of hooves rushing towards me, and as my eyes slowly close shut from my transformation I barely hear the words of my love.
"Nightshade....what have We done to you...."
Deep in my mind, all I heard was the sound of laughter and screams of everypony in existence.
"It is not about the pain and suffering of those you love, it is about how to make them beg for the end."