Dormant Nightmare

by Red and Black Alicorn OC


Prologue

Hello. I'm... Well, I'm unsure of what I am. You may know me as the Princess of the night, or the Lunar Princess, perhaps Luna or if you want to be informal then Lulu would do.

Well, I'm certain that you know who I am, so a introduction isn't needed, don't you think? So, skipping to the thing I'm trying to tell you but first, let me tell you a few things.

I have a sister, called Celestia, Princess Celestia, the Solar Queen. She was, and she still is, powerful.

Oh Tartarus, what am I doing? Okay, my sister Celestia was a ruler in charge of Equestria, and I was by her side, helping her rule over Equestria. We keep peace and order, we help the poor and rich, we raise the sun and the moon. We kept the residents of all of Equestria happy.

We had been doing this for over thousands upon thousands of years when I finally got tired of it all. How, you may ask? Well, you see, my sister and I were holding the community together. All of the pegasi, unicorn and earth ponies looked up to Celestia as a hero, a caring and just ruler.

This lead the people to idolise her as a great ruler. The hero who turned Discord into stone. The one who defeated the tyrant, King Sombra. The pony that fulfilled the needs of Equestria.

But the one thing they always seemed to forget was that I was always by her side. I helped her use the elements of harmony against Discord. I helped her to delay Sombra's evil deeds for the crystal ponies.

So, I grew jealous and decided to intervene by using dark magic. Now, since I was able to enter one's dreams I decided to use it to my advantage. I spread nightmares everywhere, I caused grief and pain to my subjects, until eventually I realised that I shouldn't have been targeting them. I should've been targeting my sister.

It didn't end well. She cheated, she used the elements of harmony to stop me, to banish me to the moon. I sometimes wonder why Celestia used the elements on me. Aye, I used dark magic, but does she see me as a monster too? Like everypony else in Equestria, did she think that I was like Discord or King Sombra? Or even worse?

I don't know, how'd I know, with that voice inside of my head everything always seems to turn into a question. I sometimes wonder, about that voice. It isn't like that little demon that stands on your shoulders, whispering in your ear. No, it's more like a urge, a thing I have to do.

When I got banished to the moon, the voice said that the stars will aid in my escape. I won't be stuck here anymore, and I can escape, to destroy Equestria. The voice tells me to hate Celestia and to kill Celestia, but not before she witnesses her kingdom fall by my hooves!

For she was the one that had been drawing all of the attention to herself, she was the one that was absorbing the love from everyone, leaving me nothing!

Every time I walked through the hallways of the royal palace all I could hear was talk of my sister's achievements and victories! Every time I walked through the streets of Canterlot all I could hear were bards singing of my sister's compassion! And even when I could bother to aid my subjects from any dark nightmare, I could only summon a mere mask of my sister to keep them satisfied! For when I appeared as myself they would only see me as a monster!

I was unloved when my sister was given a kingdom's worth of the damned emotion!