Months passed by slowly, but things seemed to continue as normal. Occasionally Ghost and Luna would spend time up on the mountain where they found the crystal, but lately Luna seemed more and more distant before she eventually stopped spending time with him all together. One night Ghost walked into his room to be greeted by a cold wind and a crying Luna.
Ghost slowly approached Luna “what’s wrong Luna?” he asked softly, he was a couple inches away from her.
“Stay back!” she yelled at him.
Her eyes opened and met his and softened up, “Im sorry Ghost Im not feeling myself lately” she said before wiping her tears.
Ghost knelt down beside her “it’s ok Luna Im sure whatever it is will get better” he said it a soft tone.
Their gaze met once again and they leaned it for a passionate kiss. They fell asleep in each other’s embrace smiling happily. Celestia poked her head through the door and smiled at the sight.
“I need to go find something…” she whispered to herself before leaving.
The next few days were normal Ghost and Luna seemed closer than ever until another night where Ghost came upon a piece of paper lying on the table in his room. He lifted it closer to him and realized it was a spell and not just any spell it was a spell for eternal life.
Ghost set it down before trying to perform the spell. He focused his energy and drew in magical essences from all around him and focused it on himself. He opened his eyes once he finished the spell and felt refreshed and full of life.
He looked back at the page, at the bottom he could see what appeared to say “destroy this paper when used”.
He levitated the paper and used his sword to dice it into shredded bits. As the day continued Ghost went about his daily duties which were training guards, checking on the princesses, doing a patrol, and standing watch outside Luna’s room for the remainder of the day before spending time with Luna at night. This night was different though, he heard her softly crying in her room. Ghost came in, but this time it felt different, he could feel darkness swirling around the room above Luna.
“Luna what’s wrong?” he asked keeping his distance.
She looked right at him, but her eyes weren’t normal they were green slit eyes rather than her normal blue eyes. They pierced right through him, she had weird grin that seemed to be formed by the very essence of evil.
“Why hello Ghost, nice of you to drop by” she said in a distorted evil voice.
Ghost noticed that the door slammed shut and locked behind him, “L-Luna are you feeling alright?” he asked feeling fear creep up on him.
“Oh Im feeling just fine” she said before laughing evilly. Ghost noticed that when she stood up she was taller, she was now midnight black, and her wings turned sharp, and she had what appeared to be a helmet on her head.
“Luna what happened?” Ghost asked backing up towards the door. She approached him slowly
“Im not Luna, my name is Nightmare Moon” she said smirking at him. Ghost tried to draw his sword, but it flew out of its sheath and over to Nightmare Moon.
“You won’t mind if I borrow this for something” she said smiling before she slashed off Ghost’s horn.
Now he was completely helpless, he was unable to use any magic to defend himself.
Nightmare Moon pointed his sword right at his eye “it’s such a shame a stallion like yourself will end up having to live half blind with scars like this” she said before raising the sword high and bring it down slashing the right side of his face and then bringing it back upward for another slash. Ghost cried out in pain, his eye was gushing blood and he couldn’t see out of his right eye. He fell against the wall having nowhere to go. He could barely make out the figure of Nightmare Moon who was ready to strike again when a he heard a loud thud, it seemed Celestia had came in and chased away Nightmare Moon out the balcony. Five guards followed behind her, three followed Celestia as she pursued Nightmare Moon. Two guards stayed behind and helped Ghost to the infirmary.
Ghost passed out shortly after reaching the infirmary. He awoke to Celestia’s concerned face hovering right above him
“Ghost you’re awake are you ok?” she asked concern overflowing in her voice.
Ghost blinked and realized he could see once again through both of his eyes.
“The medics fixed your vision but couldn’t get rid of the scars” Celestia said frowning looking at Ghost’s now scarred face.
Ghost ignored what she said “what happened to Luna?” he asked looking concerned.
Celestia’s face darkened before she started tearing up “I-I--- I banished her to the moon for a thousand years” she finally cried out.
Ghost held back the tears that formed in his eyes and hugged Celestia “don’t worry she’ll be back before we know it” he whispered in her ear softly.
He finally let the tears stream out of his eyes and Celestia continued crying. They both held each other for what seemed like an eternity before they controlled themselves and let go. Celestia had to raise the moon for night to begin
“Ghost I need your help tonight to raise the moon” she asked softly.
“I would love to princess but my horn—“he started to say but he felt it there once again.
“I used an acceleration spell for it to grow back, please Ghost help me I can’t do it on my own” she pleaded.
Ghost nodded “alright” was all he said.
They walked up to Luna’s balcony, both of them focused hard and the moon began to peek up over the horizon and rose up high in the sky.
They both stood standing watching the moon “what now?” Ghost asked softly with little emotion in his voice.
“How about for the next thousand years we come here every night and sing sweet lullabies till she comes back” she said with a soft voice.
Ghost nodded “Im sure Luna would like that” he said looking back at the sky.
“Wait how do you know that I’ll be alive for the next thousand years?” he asked curiously.
“Who do you think left the spell in your room?” she said with a slight happy tone.
Ghost smiled weakly “why though?” he asked.
She smiled “I saw what you and Luna shared and knew she could never find a better match for her than you” Celestia said to him in a soothing voice.
Ghost smiled “thank you” he said relaxing. “I’ll wait an eternity for you Luna to get back” Ghost said looking up at the moon. “Princess of the Night” he whispered as he stared off at the moon.