Time drifted by slowly...seems a thousand years can give one time to think if anything. All of the playing by the moment and hoping her next step would be the one that leads to victory was a waste. Careful planning is what she needed, and a thousand years is plenty of time to plan. Yet as the moon watched over Equestria, she felt a strange loneliness as the days turned into months, what was there to for but build a fortress out of the dust and rocks...and then what? Nightmare Moon spent one eternity on the moon already...but Luna felt more trapped in the endless expanse of space than she ever felt in her room back home.
A soft kick startled Nightmare Moon out of her daydream, a cruel smile coming to her face when another wave of Luna's shame fed into the dark demon. Proof that a plan is the best course of action, Nightmare Moon used the one thing it could to take root on the world below...the child was empty after the fall...becoming the perfect form for the demon to find its way back. It didn't expect to meet resistance when rebuilding the child; but such petty ways were nothing once the presence had a foothold on the child.
Luna pleaded for days, banging on the door to see her child. It was pathetic...she begged and begged like an animal for just one moment.
Nightmare Moon still refused.
"Any day now, sweetheart....and with you I will finally complete my vengeance and take down the sun."
With the child, she could return with a force beyond the sun goddess's comprehension. A thousand years to mold the perfect soldier, with god like strength and wits beyond match...Nightmare Moon would not only have her revenge...but she would destroy the good name of the cursed All Mother's blood line. To let it become just as mortal as it once was until Luna remains the last true daughter of a goddess; and then...a simple slit of the wrist would be the victory she desired.
Another kick...Nightmare Moon laughed coldly.
"Thee will be the greatest murderer the world has ever seen..."
Luna screamed behind the doors, making the demon laugh wickedly.
Luna would never be free, eventually she would wither down to a shell and fade out of existence, leaving just Nightmare Moon.
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This is MY child!
Thy chose this fate!!!
The new mother was standing over her foal...it slept against the cold surface of the moon while its mother was raging a war inside to do the only thing she could to save it. Luna fought and tore at her prison, she would do anything to see her foal...she didn't even know what it looked like yet, and nothing would keep her from having one last moment....
"Do...not....fight me anymore!" Nightmare Moon shouted into space.
Luna and Nightmare Moon screamed into the black sky, all the darkness rushing though her body, the demonic presence forced out of control and brought to one part of her mind and sealed away in a dream. Luna gasped sharply when she brought her head down again, the joy of having her body back nothing compared to what she saw on the ground, curled up, hugging its tiny tail and small enough to fit in her hoof....a colt. A tiny colt with a horn on his head hidden mostly under a fluffy jet black mane streaked by a white strip, the noise had caused it to stir in its sleep, it made Luna worry that such a loud noise did so little to the colt...normally it would be crying after such a jarring noise. Instead it looked up at its mother with a bright smile, opening its eyes and taking its first look at the world...that's when Luna's heart sunk so far. One eye was as pale as snow, the right the only one with a dark blue color.
The fall had damaged him beyond repair...permanently scared by the dark touch of Nightmare Moon, Luna felt the demon slowly breaking down its prison, she had no time to waste. The colt let out a quick laugh when it was picked up by a soft blue glow, outstretching his arms and expecting a warm embrace with his mother...looking questioningly when Luna only started with longing sadness.
"The moment between a new day and the darkest night...goodbye, Midnight...."
The exile was her's, not the child's; with a simple spell, the foal was wrapped safely in a blanket made of the finest enchanted silk and in a flash...he was gone. Luna had her strength for a few more moments, she sighed deeply and looked down at the world below, all of the life looked upon her but never knew she was there. How could she find forgiveness...how could Acrylic ever speak fondly of her to the child...will she just be a horror story?
I will be the most powerful tyrant Equestria has ever seen....
With or without the child, she would have her revenge. The All Mother would see her children shred each other to pieces from that all mighty roost she perched upon in the life after. Just a thousand years...a thousand years trapped in her own mind. Luna felt Nightmare Moon regain control, she felt it come back full force...so she closed her eyes...and fell asleep. Escape into the dream realm so she can weather this storm in peace, and keep her mind in tact as the ages pass.
Today is my day...Celestia will fall........usher the coming storm.