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// 11. Nightmare Moon and her beloved, Jonas (Unknown Jaydex AU) 
// Story: Short Shorts 
// by Coranth 
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Clad as the Phantom of the Opera - as Jonas stood upon the stage whilst the gathered ponies crowed for more music - the human raised a hand for quiet. "Well..." he stated, "I... do have one more song I can sing for you tonight... but I'm not sure I should. This last song is called 'The Music of the Night' and it holds a magic all its own. The song's magic is so great, so powerful... that legend says it can be used to summon and calm Nightmare Moon.

At the name, the crowd gasped and Jonas nodded. "Bah! That's horseapples!" crowed an Earth Pony from the crowd. "Humans don't have magic!"

"But they do..." Jonas replied. And then, he began to sing. No sooner had he begun the enchanting song, then up in the Royal Seats Celestia gasped as she realized her beloved sister had vanished!

Even as she thought to raise the alarm, a thick, eerie mist began to fill the music hall; then from that mist she came unto the stage, hissing, rearing, snarling at Jonas: Nightmare Moon! Jonas, however, did not seem alarmed; on the contrary, he just kept singing, directing his lyrics not unto the audience, but to the Dread Mare herself.

And ever-so-slowly... ever-so-gently... the jet-black Alicorn became curious, intrigued... and then enraptured by his gentle song. By the time he was done, the two were kneeling on the stage before the utterly shocked audience and Solar Diarch, Nightmare Moon upon her side with his head in her lap, snuffling and nuzzling into him, a thick lump in her throat, her eyes foal-like and misted with joyous tears...