Princess Luna, princess of the night, owner of the stars and moon, was reading, a book only seen by one other set of eyes, Celestia`s, Princess Twilight may have found the diary from when the two sister were 100 on but this diary was from before that.
Flipping through the pages Luna smiled, memories of her 'early' childhood, this diary had been kept at the request of their father and mother, like they seem to know what was going to happen in the future, it wouldn`t surprise Luna if they did.
She got to a page, it had a crudely drawn image of two sister and 3 friends, one was obviously Discord, his mane wasn`t grown, and had a large white tuft between the growing horns, the next was a unicorn, a large floppy wizard hat covering half his face, the third was a earth pony, mess mane and tail with large broad smile, small fangs in the row of straight teeth.
Luna smiled, the young Discord and Starswirl the bearded, had a relationship akin to brotherhood, Discord had been hatched by Starswirl, as the first unicorn to learn magic in the way it is known to ponies today, of all of them he was mad inventor, his veins flowing with pure magic, he should have lived forever, but when Tirek nearly killed him, it left everypony a little down hearted, and Discord was shown the fragility of his best friend, he snapped slightly.
Then her memory turned to the earth pony, more at home in a forest then a castle, he was the reason their was a royal garden, and the predominantly earth-pony guard, due to him physically pushing Tirek into tartarus, then wadding out through the river of souls. Ironic really he was Luna best friend, and his name was -
Luna reminiscing was disturbed by a puff of chaotic magic, Discord`s chaotic face appeared in the photo, changing the face of his younger self, "Psst Luna, Luna. Hey Luna, Have you heard the news, Chrissy joining us at the palace!" he whispered, disappearing and reappearing next to the lunar princess. Luna sighed, she had herd the news of the changeling queen joining them at the palace.
"Yes I have heard the knew of Chrysalis joining us at the palace, but I detest the though personally" she stated with an air of disapproval "Oh Luna, it a good thing, I have more people to course my chaotic effects to" he said wringing his paw and talon together.
Then Discord looked at the picture for a moment, he sighed then sat down on the bed a guilty look on his face "If Starswirl could see me now, I don't know what he'd think" Luna placed a hoof on the dragonequus, "He would still be your friend no matter what happen"
Discord smiled then something through him off, he wobbled at something "Luna you destroyed the nightmare essence right?" he asked off hand, she nodded giving him an odd look "Then why do I fell it presence?"
A black mist bellowed from the shadows, as a pair of red eyes glowed in the dark, and a voice echoed over both of them, a voce full of malice and spite "A perceptive one, no matter" The eyes rised to Discord height, then a pitch black leg excited the shadows, it dull sliver hoof, glinted in the light, followed by the face, it had fangs, a promenade set of two, with two facing down, two towards the sky. The rest of jaw was lined with sharp jagged teeth. His mane was a mixture of red and blue energy, flowing upwards, with a large black horn that looked like it was a sharpened, it looked veery much like Sombra but without the red tint. It eyes were le Nghtmare Moon's only instead of cold blue they burned a deep crimson. Large demonic bat wings folded up against it side.
"Who are't thou?!" bellowed Luna, the demon smiled slightly, he words seem cynical and almost mocking "I thought Dad had the anger issue" Discord looked at the creature, he seem without fear. He disappeared and reappeared in a doctor's whet coat, with a large needle, he tried to get a sample of blood form the creature but only found he oversized medical instrument to break on contact. "Oh, an uncooperative on!, find bring out the really oversized needle!"
The pony rolled his eyes "You`ll work out my parents so enough, over groan lizard, I have a message for Princess Luna" he loomed over the smaller alicorn and spoke again "Mother will return, whether you like it or not" and with that he sank into the floor, like a shadow in the night.
Discord and Luna looked at each other for a moment "Mother? Aren`t you a virgin?" asked Discord, Luna looked away flustered "What happens in my bedroom is non of your concern!" she said using a wing to cover her face. "It kinda is now, Luna, Nightmare Moon is that things mother, no denying it! And Nightmare Moon just one of your personalities, not a different being, so it also your son? If you could call it a boy that is? Anyway, if that thing want`s Nightmare Moon back he`s going to have to have some form of plan, we just need to work it out!"
Luna raised an eyebrow and spoke "I think the only sensible thing I`ve ever heard you say"
"Pudding is good for helping stick to socks"
"And your back to normal"
Princess Lovelust the only changeling to survive the fury of Death, was walking under his shad, the harsh sun of the Badlands, silhouetted him against the skyline, only his dark brown colour was visible. In the story her mother used to tell her, Death carried 4 maces, all having a metal tip, well they turned out to be his hooves, metal hooves, she`d never heard of anypony having metal hooves, or anypony being over 10 hooves tall, both of them just walked in silence for hours on end.
As night drew closer, Lovelust became tired, the sun was still harsh but lower in the sky, as she yawned, the voice of death echoed in her ears "Here, I get you hope, you take a nap" he seemed kind and wise, not a demonic voice full of darkness and anger, but one of kindness and tolerance. Lovelust was to tired to respond as the massive head of the stallion picked up the tiny changeling and placed her on his back.
As night began the cold winds bellowed through, and Lovelust pushed herself unconsciously into the stallions fur, his red eyes smiled slightly, as he walked through the night, towards the green planes of Equestria and the small changeling`s mother.