//------------------------------// // Hello // Story: Dormant Nightmare // by Red and Black Alicorn OC //------------------------------// I looked down at my hooves and saw a shiny reflection of my face. Perfect. My eyes closed intensely, trying to search for the source of my sister's power. It didn't take long, she seemed to be close, a few miles away from where I stood. Opening my eyes for the second time in a thousand years I turned my head around to face my outstretched wings. I hadn't used them in over one thousand years, and the experience and knowledge I had of flying was long gone. Despite the satisfaction of controlling a alicorn body, I had to admit, being able to transform into a shadow can be a pretty useful skill. My atoms pulled apart from each over and spun around in the air, until I got to my senses and pulled the atoms into place. The atoms changed into the forms of a group of shadows, I didn't wait for them all to become shadows, so as I flew through the air towards my sister a few unsure atoms trailed behind me. I ascended up higher as I looked down below me. Fields of green grass and flowers met my sight as I soared through the air. I continued to do this for a few more minutes until I looked up towards the moon, my old prison. The barrier must've still been there, maybe it was still gradually breaking apart as I flew through the air, like a ripple. Another eternity passed as I finally stopped, hovering over a village. My field of vision scoured over the petty buildings. My eyes finally locked onto a larger building, a building that had a crowd of at least a hundred pegasus, earth pony and unicorn. One might've had the thought that they were now a species that thrived among the time of night, like a bat, but by their tired yet excited eyes they seemed to be celebrating something, or waiting for a annual celebration. Either way, something big was going to happen, and that is probably why my sister is here. I was about to command my shadows to fly forward when I realised that the I sensed Celestia's energy within the crowd. I glazed across the whole crowd. She wasn't there. I looked up to a balcony with a curtain hiding whomever was behind it. She was there. If I could've grinned, I would've grinned. The shadows spurted forward. I felt some of the ponies eyes upon my careless presence. But I didn't care, it has been over a thousand years since I last cared. My shadows squeezed through the gaps of the curtains. I saw my sister. If any of my decayed heart had managed to survive the onslaught of a millennia of hate and mistreatment then it was not anymore. My sister was in the middle of a well furnished room. She was in a sitting position, her head bowed down in... She seemed to be taller then when we last saw each other, and her clothing had seemed to change. Instead of her white bare hooves she wore golden shoes, a luxury that only those with wealth and power were capable of having. Her crown seemed to be different from last time, this one seemed to be more rounded then the previous one. Her 'necklace' hadn't changed one bit. Her hair wasn't flowing in a false wind, but I don't think it was something she had changed permanently, probably something changed to give herself more sympathy, like hell I will. But the feat that caught my attention the most was her eyes. Her bright, magenta eyes. They were full of self disappointment and shame, but something else was in her eyes, something foreign to me. The shadows clumped together, forming and moulding my from together. Once I was able to open my eyes I saw that her own eyes were looking upon me. I felt her eyes trail along my front hooves and up to my neck. It continued to trail down my back until it stopped at my cutie mark. And then, after a thousand years of isolation from each over, she spoke. "Hello, dear sister." I smirked at her, "Hello, dear sister. I'm home." Her face turned into a sad smile, "It's been a long time." "Yeah, a thousand years. A thousand years since you banished me to the moon." Celestia grimaced, she looked hurt. Good, she bloody deserves it. Kill her. No , I'll let her suffer by watching Equestria fall first. Celestia looked up to me with a quizzical look, "What did you say sister?" I scowled at her and replied, "Your kingdom will suffer as you watch it burn." A pregnant silence filled the room. One second. Two seconds. Three. Five. Seven. Ten. Fourteen... And then her horn glowed. I spawned shadow tendrils and threw them at her before she managed to complete her spell. Celestia teared the shadows away in a matter of seconds, but not before I transformed into a shadow. My shadows slammed into her, and she flung backwards against the force of my power. Her weakened body lay against the floor, giving me another opportunity. I moved my shadows around her, like a second case or skin. But her horn let out a powerful white glow that prevented the shadows from reaching her horn. The shadows slowly pulled away from my sister and dissipated, but the sweat appearing above her forehead showed that it hadn't been easy. I sent a sliver of shadow towards her eyes with extreme force. Head first she slammed into the wall again and looked back at me, her pupils unfocused. This was my best chance. My entire body of shadows burst forward towards my sister and slammed into her again. My whole shadow form surrounded her body and started fighting against the weak light emitting from her horn. It was hard enough for her to fight against the shadows before without a headache, she wasn't going to succeed with one. Finally the shadow touched the base of her horn. Behind the shadow veil that covered her face I saw that her eyes were wide open in worry. The shadow was halfway up her horn, just a little more to go before she can be able to teleport her. You can kill her now, this is a rare opportunity. No, not now Luna, I'll have to be patient, if I wait then she can suffer the consequences of betraying me. I hadn't realised that the shadow had finally subdued the light, and that Celestia was now covered in shadows. I didn't hesitate. One second I was in a room with tiled flooring, the next I was outside with branches towering above both me and my sister. I sent two slices of shadows towards Celestia, one of them encasing her horn while the other one binding her wings down to her body. My shadow slivered away from her and hovered above. The shadows spun into place to make my true form. I found myself staring down at my sister. Weak, pathetic. It was the first time I felt the cold bitter wind bite at my skin and the leaves and twigs beneath my hooves. I was in a forest, a cold, isolated forest. A good place to keep my sister trapped. She looked up at me, she still had that unknown look in her eyes, that foreign look. Is it expectancy? Or... hope. She still has hope for me. She is a fool. Your already gone. I laughed at her. A wicked, evil laugh lacking compassion and humour. I looked down at her and grinned menacingly, "You are a blind fool, you always thought that everyone has 'good' in them. You are wrong sweet sister." I stepped back and illuminated my horn with a deathly black aura and cast it on top of her. "You are wrong." She looked at me one more time before closing her eyes, reopening them with a few tears trickling from them, and said the last thing I expected her to say. It was barely a audible whisper, but it was still there. Those three words pierced me like a million daggers. Those three words stung me like a million hives. Neither a spear nor a sword could pierce my skin, enter my flesh and burst my heart like those three words just did. Suddenly, the cold wind seemed to bite like a carnivore. I turned around. And sprinted off. My hooves crushed the weak sticks and stones that found themselves beneath me. I hadn't noticed but I had already ran at least a kilometre away from my sister. I skidded to a halt before a calm river, and looked down at the glimmering surface. My predator eyes were gone, and were replaced by... sad eyes. Sad eyes full of tears. I whispered softly to nothing in particular, the same words that she said to me. "I love you too, Celestia." And then the predator eyes reappeared. She'll suffer.