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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Marry the Night 
// by Cadence5 
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	Nightmare Moon stared down at Luna who was curled on the floor in front of her. Luna was trapped. Her leg and wing were both injured and now Nightmare Moon had her chance. She raised the piece of glass above her head and was about to bring it down upon the young mare’s neck when a black figure flew through the wall as though it was not there. He landed between Nightmare Moon and Luna blocking the glass from impaling Luna's body. "How dare you!?!?" Nightmare Moon screamed as she was pushed across the room by the stallion's magic. He then replaced all of the furniture and repaired the glass wall. 
Nightmare Moon couldn’t believe what she was seeing. A black alicorn stallion just flew in and saved Luna even though he probably didn’t even know who she was. How did he even get here? She watched as the stallion, who introduced himself to Luna as Night, helped the princess up and began to bandage her leg as he magically pulled supplies out of the air. Bandages appeared next to Nightmare Moon and dropped onto her bed. 
"There you go. Now you can bandage yourself up." Night called through the newly repaired wall. 
Nightmare Moon rolled her eyes and laid down ignoring them as night continued to talk to Luna as he wrapped her leg and wing.
Nightmare Moon was not happy. She should have murdered Luna when she had the chance. Then she would have Night for herself. She could have killed her and as he appeared made up a sob story of how they had gotten into a fight and the glass wall had shattered in their rage. Maybe the slice of glass had impaled Luna by accident. Nightmare Moon was sure she could make herself cry if she had had to. Then Night would have bandaged her up. He would be curled around her as she cried herself to sleep. Devastated by the loss of her dear friend Lulu... and oh what would Celestia think when she found out! Nightmare Moon hated Luna, but now Luna had Night which made her hate Luna even more. 
Unless... she could get Night away from Luna and tell him that Luna is really the evil one. That she’s a spirit who feeds off of the power of the moon. Luna was haunting her and was corrupting her mind. That’s why everypony hated her. Nightmare Moon took them both to the moon to get rid of Luna once and for all, and she was almost done when Night showed up. He had to help her get rid of Luna. She’s just pretending to like you, Night. That’s how she’s going to use you to take over Equestria... and eventually the universe. Nightmare Moon’s plan was perfect. Sitting up in bed again she looked over at Luna’s sleeping figure. Then she looked at Night and their eyes met. His ice blue eyes staring into her ice blue eyes. Nightmare moon had butterflies in her stomach as she sat up and lightly called out, “Night, we need to talk... please.”


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Night flew past the Milky Way and entered into the galaxy just beyond it. He flew towards Equestria's moon, but as he approached he could feel the presence of something in one of his many homes. He sat atop the moon and flipped his tail in front of him as though it were a map. Which, it was. 
As he looked down, his tail showed him other galaxies, but with a flick of his tail the scene changed to the moon he was sitting on. Another flick showed him the inside of the moon where he saw two mares, and it looked as though they were fighting. As Night watched the larger of the two mares raised a broken piece of glass above her head and slowly moved towards the other, a light blue mare whose leg and wing were injured. He realized what was going on and quickly flew through the wall of the moon where he landed right between the two mares. He pushed the black mare across the room splitting up the furniture in the room as well. Then he took the shards of glass scattered across the floor and made a wall between the two halves of the moon. 
He turned to the blue mare as she asked, "Who are you." 
"I am Night." he replied before helping her up and putting her on her bed. 
"I’m Luna," the mare said as he began to conjure up supplies to mend her leg, and he gave the other mare, Nightmare Moon as Luna called her, some bandages as well. 
Luna told him her story, and he told her some of his. When he had finished with her leg, he left Luna to sleep and curled up on the bed he had made for himself.
Night stayed awake longer than Luna trying to understand everything… Luna had wanted to end nightmares for the ponies who lived in Equestria because she was one of the rulers of the country with her sister Celestia. Her spell went wrong and created Nightmare Moon who possessed her body and turned everyone against Luna. Celestia banished them to the moon and that’s how they got here. They will return to Equestria in 1000 years, well 999 years and 360 days. They started a fight after they got here and that’s why everything was pretty much destroyed. Then Nightmare Moon attacked Luna again and was going to kill her... until he showed up.
He looked over at Luna who was sound asleep on her stomach with her left leg sticking out to the side in her attempt to not injure it anymore. Night smiled. Luna really was gorgeous and it wasn’t very often that he met other ponies in space, especially not ones this beautiful. He had to admit Nightmare Moon wasn’t bad herself but there was something about her (besides the fact that he flew in on her trying to murder Luna) that told him to be wary of her. 
Before he decided to go to sleep himself he looked over at Nightmare Moon and their eyes met for a few seconds before he heard her call out, "Night we need to talk… please."