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// Return to Ponyville 
// Story: My Little Demons: Friendship is Sin 
// by Moonbit 
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	The dew glistened on the tall grass, as Trixie walked along the path to Ponyville with her head towards the ground. She watched her feet step on the dirt as she thought about the last time she had visited this town. Unlike last time, she didn't want revenge, she just needed friends. Her last act didn't go over too well and she had been run out of Fillydelphia. Maybe Twilight and her friends would make her feel better.
Something felt very wrong as she neared Ponyville. Trixie looked up to see that it was night time already. "Wait, it was day just a few minutes ago. Something's not right." That's when she noticed the moon in the sky, it was blood red and gave off an eerie glow that sent a shiver down Trixie's spine. Has Nightmare Moon returned? she thought to herself. Something about the glow the moon gave off told her otherwise.
Just then a loud shriek echoed over the hills. "Trixie knows that voice... isn't that Fluttershy?" Without wasting time, Trixie galloped as fast as she could towards Ponyville. As she neared the town she noticed the buildings, they all looked like no one had cared for them in months. 
She slowed her pace as she saw what she thought looked like Fluttershy. Something was wrong, and as she neared she was horrified at what she saw. Fluttershy was covered in bruises and wounds that were still bleeding, her hair was ragged and missing in places, and one of her eyes was missing. She was screaming at some other pony.
"Why don't you watch where you're going!" screamed Fluttershy.
The other pony stuttered. "I-I didn't-" Before the pony finished what she was going to say, Fluttershy turned around and bucked her in the face. Then she screamed, "That's what you get!" and stormed off. Trixie was standing there watching all this happen in complete horror. She shook her head and ran over to the other pony, who was on the ground with her face in her hooves.
"Are you okay?" Trixie asked as she knelt down next to the pony.
"Wha...what?" The pony looked up and blood was pouring out of her eyes.
Trixie gasped and backed up a little bit. "We need to get you help!"
"H...Help? From who?" asked the pony.
"Um... Twilight will know what to do." Trixie looked around, hoping to see Twilight nearby. The streets were fairly empty aside from a few depressed looking ponies.
"Twilight?" the pony laughed slightly. "That pony only cares about sex."
"What?" replied Trixie "That makes no sense." She recalled the last time she had seen Twilight. The pony had worked with her friends to stop her. She couldn't recall her caring about anything like sex. "Twilight cares about other ponies." 
"Not... not anymore." The pony uttered before she passed out.
Trixie stood up and looked at the blood moon. "Something is seriously not right here. Trixie is going to get to the bottom of this." She started walking towards the library. Before she was able to reach the front door she heard someone call her name.
"Psst... Trixie." She spotted a pony standing in the dark between two buildings. "You should not enter that house."
"Hello? Who's there?" Trixie stepped closer to see that it was Princess Luna. "Princess?" She walked up to her and pointed at the moon. "Did you do that?"
Luna shook her head. "I did not do that. I have no power over the moon anymore."
"What?" asked Trixie. "But you are Princess Luna. It's in your name!"
The Princess ignored Trixie's comment and continued. "My sister has been corrupted. She cast me out of Canterlot and now controls night and day."
Trixie nodded. "So what are you doing now? Sitting in back alleys and telling ponies to stay away from Twilight?"
"Twilight has also been corrupted, you do not want to see her. Trust me." Luna looked at the alley she was standing in. "Well it's not like I have anywhere else to go."
Trixie looked out at the streets. "Are all the ponies corrupted?"
"No." Luna shook her head. "Not all of them. But the ones that aren't are too busy crying to notice."
"How did this happen?" asked Trixie.
"It all began with my sister." Luna began walking and Trixie followed next to her. "Her pride got the better of her. It consumed her like a disease, and that disease is what caused the blood moon. You've noticed the glow, I'm sure." Trixie nodded. "The moon changed something in the ponies. It caused them to forget the Elements of Harmony and take on something terrible."
"I saw Fluttershy." said Trixie. "She hurt somepony."
"Fluttershy is one of the worst ones." Luna looked up at the moon.
"Wait." Trixie looked at Luna. "Why haven't we changed?"
Luna shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe because we already have darkness in our hearts."
Trixie looked up at the moon as well. Darkness in our hearts? she thought. Well she had been pretty mean to someponies, but hadn't she changed since then? Maybe not enough. Trixie thought about Fluttershy, and couldn't help but feel grateful that she didn't end up like that. It made her sad to think that all the ponies had been corrupted. She looked at Luna and said, "We need to help them."
Luna looked back at Trixie. "How? I've already tried to lower the moon countless times."
Trixie thought for a moment and then replied. "We have to purify Princess Celestia to lower the moon."
"How do you suppose we do that?" asked Luna.
"By purifying the other ponies and getting them to use the Elements of Harmony." said Trixie as she started walking towards the library.
"Wait." said Luna. Trixie stopped and looked at her. "We're going to need help, we can't do this on our own."
Trixie nodded. "You're right. But who? Everypony is corrupted."
"Not everypony. We aren't." Luna looked up at the moon again. "So what if there are others who were able to withstand the moon's glow."
"Who do you have in mind?" asked Trixie.
Luna looked at Trixie, with an intense stare. "We need to find Discord."