//------------------------------// // Nightmare Night special part 2 // Story: Foal Adventures. // by Super-Stallion //------------------------------// Somewhere outside of Canterlot in the hills, a noble was doing some construction with a work crew, excavating the sight to discover a probable water source that could raise funding for the budget in Canterlot. He was told not to come here by the Princess but he ignored her. "Hmff, that Celestia doesn't know what's she talking about, with this new river coursing through the towns outside Canterlot will be able to raise funding and everypony will be happy. When this is all over Celestia will be proud." the noble said to himself as he watched his workers shuffling out piles after piles of huge mounds of dirt out the pit they've been working all day on. The workers worked nonstop pulling wagons of dirt and rubble out the pit and kept digging deeper down into the earth for the water source, suddenly one of the workers felt he hit something with his shovel, putting down the shovel he started digging with his hooves until he uncover a vase. "Hey boss, I think I found something!" the worker said holding up the vase. The noble walked toward the worker pony and took the base examining it. "Hmm, this seems to be something that belong to Celestia." he replied looking at the symbols on it and Celestia's own Cutie mark on the front the noble smirked. "Maybe there's gold in it?!" "You really think there's gold in there?" said another worker watching the noble trying to open the top of the locked vase. "I don't know...only one way to find out!" he grunted as he pulled the top of the lid with all his might with his magic. "Here let me help." the other worker said, the noble hoofed him the vase and with one fell swoop he threw it into the ground shattering it to pieces, the noble was shock and he looked up at the worker. "What the hay!" "What's wrong, it's opened isn't it?" "Yeah. but you could've damaged what's inside!" "Whatever...hey what's going on here?" Everypony looked down where he was pointing at the broken vase that seemed to be seeping with some sort of dark energy. They all watched as the dark energy rose into the sky and circled above their heads. Suddenly the darkness pulled together into turning into a shadow figure. The darkness started to grow wings and a horn started the grow In the middle. A tall and slender body started to form, his fur pure black, darker then night and his Cutie mark appeared on his flank that looked like a swirling vortex of nothing a black hole, opening his eyes that where all black filled with nothing he looked down at the ponies below. Floating down to the ponies he landed right in front of the noblepony who was now a bit scared. "W-who are you?" the noble asked nervously. "I am called by many names, but you mortals may call me Darkness, for I am darkness itself all eternal and powerful, bringer of Darkness, ruler and destroyer of worlds. I have defeated many powerful enemies, all fear me, all worship or be destroyed by me! ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE DARKNESS!" Darkness screamed with a voice similar to that of the royal pony sister voice he laughed as lightning and thunder clashed threw the sky. The noble winced and lowered to the ground in fear."W-what do you want?!" Darkness stopped laughing and looked down at the noble."I want revenge, Celestia trapped me in that jar for a thousand years preventing me from doing my evil plan and cover the world in darkness with my love. Now that I'm free I will go and destroy her, take my love and create darkness that shall last forever and together we will rule!" "Oh yeah? That's not happening on my watch!" said the worker and along with the other worker ponies they all charged at Darkness with shovels and pic axes. Darkness only smirked. "You actually think you mortal can stop me?! Fools!" he said then with a glow of his horn shadows rose from the ground and stroke at the workers enveloping them in darkness when the shadows disappeared the workers were shivering like they just saw all hell itself. The noble looked at his workers then at Darkness who walked towards him and he coward to his knee's in fear. "Please don't want to die! Please let me live!" Darkness stopped in front of him and scuffed. "You cower like a sniffling foal, fine I wont kill you but..." with a glow of his horn the noble was soon covered in darkness like his men and when it went away he looked different like a zombie. "You will become my slave and take me to Celestia understand?" The zombie noble nodded, "Good now take me to your Princess!" **** At Canterlot Castle therewas a big party in honor of Nightmare Night everypony wearing a costume and having a good time, the Elements of harmony were there to also enjoy the party along with their foals. "Wow evewypony wooks like their actuawwy having fun." Rainbow said on Fluttershy's back watching everypony in the actually having fun, thinking about the last party at Canterlot they went to. Twilight nodded. "Yeah, the Princess let Pinkie arrange this party and she made it fun for everypony," she said then giggled. "although some of the nobles wasn't interested in Pinkie's type of fun and skipped out." Applejack shook her head. "Well there just going to have to miss out, will gonna have a whole lot of fun." "I quiet agree Applejack." Celestia agreed walking up to the mares and her sister. "How was your Nightmare Night this year,sister?" "It was most wonderful Sister, we got to dunk a whole bunch of ponies this year in the diving pit and thy won the moon pie eating contest." Luna replied holding up her trophy as proof. "Well that sounds splendid, did you foals have a good time too?" All the foals nodded. "Yes we did Cewestia, where is Bwueblood?" Nightmare asked. Celestia smiled. "When you two left and the party started I put Blueblood in the kids area where you and the others can go play." she said pointing a hoof at the other side of the room where they could see party streamers and a small table filled with goodies and other things. Rainbow and Lightning looked at Fluttershy excitedly and already knowing what they where going to ask, she giggled. "Okay girls you can go play but be sure to stay there where I can see you and don't eat too much or you'll get a tummy ache." Fluttershy said. Jumping of their mother's back the cyan foals crawled over to the kids area, their other friends close behind them. Celestia watched them then looked at the Elements and her sister. "Alright let's not let them have all the fun, come my little ponies it is time to party!" Everypony went into the crowd starting conversation with ponies who where there, some of them actually pretty familiar. "So how's the music business, Octavia?" Rarity asked the cellist who was wearing a wolf costume, who was there for entertainment. Octavia smiled. "Quite well thank you, I'm making plenty of bits and having a good life." "And...your roommate?" "Oh she's over there." Octavia replied pointing to her partner for the night, Vinyl Scratch playing desk her music booming out the speakers playing classical music that fits hers. "I managed to get her to play something classy but sometimes I can't control how crazy she get...sometimes I think she a little filly." Twilight was walking through the crowd till suddenly she bumped into somepony, "Oh sorry sir, I didn't..." she paused when she realized who she was talking to. "...Discord what are you wearing?" Discord was wearing what looked like a school fillies outfit with a short skirt and top wearing a frilly bow, he had a head band around his head wearing a blond wig with long locks of hair tied in big tails. Discord looks down at Twilight and smirks. "I am Sailor Moon and I...am here to punish you!" he said doing a pose at the end. "Dude, please not here, you're already wearing the costume let's not mess up anypony else mind tonight." Kit retorted wearing a suit of armor the helmet in shape of a wolf with a unicorn horn and body armor. Twilight raised a brow, "What are you Kit?" "Oh I'm Zen-aku." "Hmm well it looks like a great costume, so what brings you and Discord here? If you don't mind me asking." "Well Luna invited us, and of course she warned us if we tried any tricks, we'd be stoned." Kit replied. Twilight sighed in relief. "Well at least I won't worry about you two...but why his he wearing that?" "You're just jealous cause I'm pretty." Discord retorted crossing his arms. Celestia watched as her little ponies danced the night away along with her sister, suddenly all the lights went out and everypony gasped. "Well, this is an interesting party, MWAHAHAHA!" Celestia's eyes grew. "Oh no, not him, it can't be!" Then something started moving above, looking up they all saw as darkness started to circle around till in a flash of light the darkness busted leaving a tall dark Alicorn in its place. Luna gasped. "DARKNESS, I THOUGHT MY SISTER DEFEATED YOU!!" she screamed uncontrollably in the royal canterlot voice. Darkness dropped slowly to the ground and smiled and Luna. "My dear Luna how have you been these past years?" "Fine, although it would have been better if half of it WASN'T SPENT IN THE MOON BECAUSE OF YOU!!" she screamed scowling at him. Darkness just rolled his eyes. "Oh come now Luna I bet it wasn't that bad." he retorted then looking around the room he could see a table with a bunch of foals cowering behind it looking at one in particular, turning into shadows, Darkness quickly moved across the room and appeared in front the small table and picked up Nightmare with his magic. "So Is this your other half?" "STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" Luna said, using her magic she took Nightmare and cradled her in her wings for protection. Darkness looked at her surprised, he followed it with a grin and a chuckle. "Oh Luna, don't you mean our daughter, you know good and well I had a hoof in her birth." "What is he tawking about, Woona?" Nightmare asked starting to worry. Luna sighed. "Nightmare...remember when you where born from my anger at my sister and we tried to take over Equestria?...there's more to it." "Yes there most certainly is more, you see Nightmare, Luna's anger wasn't enough to make you what you are now, she needed a little push and I helped her." Darkness explained coming closer to Luna who backed away. "I'll explain it all from the beginning, it all started when I proposed to Luna in marriage but she refused me." "I could see why not," Discord retorted pointing at Darkness, "she wouldn't want to marry a-" he was cut of by Darkness shooting him with a beam of magic turning him to stone. Kit's eyes grew wide, "Oh my goddess, he stoned Discord!" "You bastard!" said one of the ponies in the back. "Now as I was saying," Darkness said going back to the story, "after Luna refused my proposal I decided to go a different approach, I decided to force her to marry me by kidnapping her and we were just about to get married at the alter." "Until I came in and ruined his plan," Celestia interrupted. "and I'll do it again if you don't stop now, Darkness!" "Oh not this time, Celestia, for not only will I destroy you, but I will destroy you with your own precious PONIES!" he said, using his magic the room soon started to become dark again as dark shadows started to pour into the room. The ponies watched the shadows came closer as they backed away. One of the shadow struck out at one of the nobles in the group enveloping him in shadows, when the shadows disappeared and he was visible again instead of a normal pony there laying on the floor was a Skeleton pony his bones see able for anypony to see just like his costume. "I will turn all your ponies into what they wear and force them to destroy you Celestia!" Ponies screamed as the shadows came at them and turned them one by one into monsters all of them becoming what they all wore. Kit watched as the shadows came for him, just before they grabbed him he snapped his fingers then the shadows absorbed him along with Discord. The foals watched as all the adults where grabbed and turned into monsters by the shadows. Rainbow gasped when she saw Fluttershy and the rest of the element were surrounded by the shadow and closing in. "MOMMY!" Fluttershy looked at Rainbow and Lightning in fear before the shadows grabbed her and the rest of the mares, the foals watched as the shadows disappeared and they could see their mothers again, but instead of the ones they loved and cared about they were replaced by abominations from tartarus. Flutterwitch, Count Twilight, Cat Rarity, Applejack the Scarecrow and Pinkie wolf, the foals felt like crying for there mommies turned monsters, Rainbow looked at Fluttershy for a long time tears flowing down her cheeks she was heart broken but most of all she was angry. Wiping her tears away she turned around to the rest of the foals. "Hey awe we just going to sit hewe and watch as this goes on!" she yelled. Trixie tried her best not to cry with no avail. "But Wainbow what are we gonna do?! We're just babies!" "Who cawes if we just sit hewe? We're gonna get caught by those shadow things, come on wet's at least go down fighting!" The foals still felt kinda scared, but nodded in agreement and got up about to move, suddenly ice started forming around them and the foals watched as the ice formed into a dome over their heads, Rainbow looked around until she saw Onyx outside the dome blowing at it with icy breath. Rainbow runs to the wall of the dome and taps on it. "Hey Onyx what awe you doing!?" she yelled. "I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to my fwiends, Wainbow, don't worry I'll handle this." I said turning to the approaching shadows. "What awe you gonna do!?" I squinted my eyes. "Someting cwazy." going into a fool out run I headed straight into the shadows. "I HOPE THIS WORKS!" Darkness watched as his army of monsters were finally completed, the shadows were disappearing. He looked at Celestia who was stiff from shock, she flinched when she noticed he was looking at her. "Now my army, attack!" he said then the monsters started walking towards Celestia until Luna walked in front of them. "No, I will not let you harm my sister!" Luna screamed with Nightmare safely on her back. Darkness only scoffed and with a glow of his horn the shadows came back and surrounding Luna and forming a cage. She tried to use her magic against the bars but anything she tried the bars didn't even crack. "Don't bother, Luna, those bars are way stronger than you, but don't worry once I'm done with your sister, you and me and Nightmare will live happily together." Nightmare snuggled into Luna's mane in fear and Luna rubbed her as she watched the monsters got closer and closer to Celestia Darkness hovering above them with a smirk. "Nopony can stop me!" "I beg to differ." Darkness looked to see the speaker only to be punched in the face and sent flying into the wall cracking the surface with his force. Opening his eyes he saw a Earth pony stallion with a white coat and a black mane flying above the ground wearing a strange red and blue outfit with a letter S on it. "Did somepony call for a hero?"