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// 03: How it felt for me. 
// Story: Conflict 
// by Chaos Phantasm 
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Conflict


By Chaos Phantasm



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Chapter 03


How it felt for me


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"So that's what it was like for you?" Twilight sat beside Nyx in the library by the fireplace.

"Pretty much..." Nyx sighed softly looking into the fire.

"It sounds like a jumbled."

"My mind still isn't clear.. I'm getting flashes but it's not enough to paint a picture big enough. I don't blame myself if I somehow jumbled everything up in the wrong order." Nyx sighed.

Twilight looked over at the doll of herself Nyx had made at the Castle of Nightmare and frowned. "I wouldn't be surprised if I pieced my experience together the wrong way either. Spell Nexus's 'blessing' or whatever made my head, well fuzzy. But I remember enough to recall it accurately... I hope."

Nyx buried her face in a pillow in frustration. "I don't remember flying to Golden Glow Valley, or meeting a filly either. The memory is there but it doesn't feel real."

"Perhaps Luna did something to replace some of your memories?"

"I don't know Twilight..." Nyx rested her head on its side on the pillow.

Twilight looked down at Nyx laying on the floor and then out the window at the snowfall. "I guess it was good we had this talk. We're visiting my brother in Canterlot in a few days during and it would be very distracting to have these thoughts of wonder in our head when we're trying to have a good time."

"Do you think uncle Shining Armor will be happy to see me? Or Aunt Cadence?" 

"We'll have to wait and see sweetie." Twilight's ears started to twitch, she looked in the direction of the stairs where foot steps could be heard.

Spike rounded the corner and entered the living area, letting out a big yawn. "Mind if I sit here girls?"

"Nope/Not at all Spike." Said Nyx and Twilight.

Spike smiled and sat himself down on the sofa. He laid back into it and let out a sigh. "So what is everypony talking about?"

"Stuff..." Nyx said tiredly.

Twilight noted Nyx's tired tone and looked at Spike. "We were just confiding in one another, about what we remember and what happened."

"Sounds like something between you two. I don't want to get involved in a conversation I'm not apart of."

"Didn't something happen to you during that time?"

Spike opened his mouth to speak but quickly closed it. "I don't want to talk about it. Besides, what happened to me hardly matters anymore since Nyx and I talked about it right Nyx?"

Spike and Twilight looked down at Nyx who continued to look at the fire. She gave a silent nod and looked back at the both of them with a kind and innocent smile. Twilight smiled and let out a happy sigh.

"Everything has gotten so much better now." 

Stones hit the windows of the library alerting Twilight to the ponies outside. She turned her head around and looked at it. Her ears folded down with a frown forming on her face. She got up from the sofa and approached a window, Nyx and Spike watched while she did. The unicorn looked outside through the glass circle only to quickly jump back as a rock crashed through it leaving glass on the floor. 

"Nightmare lover!" Shouted a unicorn on the ground below.

"Why don't you get rid of that 'thing!' You'd be doing us a favor!" Shouted another.

Nyx's ears flattened on the top of her head and she curled up. Spike got down beside Nyx and tried to comfort her while Twilight shouted at the two unicorns angrily to the point of almost screaming at them. She pulled her head back in from the window and fixed the glass with her magic. She let out a loud angry sigh then turned and looked at Nyx who cried in the pillow. Spike tried his best to make her feel better but she didn't seem to react to his attempts. Twilight sat beside Nyx opposite of the purple dragon and Nuzzled her.

'It's okay Nyx, they're gone now..." 

"Why can't anypony look at me and see me any different then Nightmare Moon... I'm not her!!" The filly shouted and cuddled into Twilight, sobbing quietly.

Twilight hugged the filly and tried to comfort her as best she could. Spike looked a little angry that those unicorns had said those things but there was nothing he could do, he folded his arms in frustration and looked down sadly. Twilight watched Spike and sighed.

"I know how you feel..."

'I know we have to ignore them Twilight but this isn't fair on Nyx, especially at night when nopony can do much of anything!"

The unicorn sighed. "I know Spike.. But what other choice do we have?"

"We can always go out there and teach them a lesson." Spike punched his palm twice but Twilight shook her head.

"No Spike, that won't solve anything."

"But-"

"No Spike!" Twilight raised her voice making the baby dragon flinch.

Spike looked down and sighed. "I'm sorry Twilight..."

Twilight sighed. "I know, it's okay... I have faith that this will all blow over eventually. Somepony's will see Nyx for who she is and not who she was."

Nyx stood up slowly, Twilight and Spike watched her with worry on their faces. The alicorn blinked and shut her eyes tightly, wiping tears from her cheeks. "I'll be okay. I won't let this push me down. I'll stand right back up and push forward."

Twilight smiled and stood up as well, she walked to the filly's side and leaned down to gently nuzzle her. "And I'll be there every step of the way."

"Thank you mommy." Nyx nuzzled Twilight in return.

"And so will I!" Exclaimed Spike.

Nyx looked at Spike, smiled and gave the dragon a big hug. "Thank you Spike!"

Spike returned the hug, patting Nyx on the back. "Anytime Nyx."

As Nyx hugged Spike she looked up to a mirror and saw herself in its reflection. Spike and Nyx let go of the hug and the filly approached the mirror, looking at herself carefully before blinking and looking over to a table where a vase sat in the corner of the hearth away from the fire where she saw her glasses sitting. She approached the table slowly and lifted the glasses off of the flat surface, opened them with her magic and put them on. Blinking once their magic worked and her eyes changed shape. 

"You don't need those anymore Nyx, everypony knows who you are, there's no need to hide anymore."

"Anypony who see's my eyes see only Nightmare Moon. But if I wear my glasses and keep my eyes the way yours look, maybe everypony will stop hating me."

Twilight levitated the glasses off of her and placed them on the coffee table. "You know that's not true. Your friends don't see it that way. I don't see it that way and neither does Spike. Your eyes don't make you Nyx, you make you Nyx."

Nyx looked down unsure if that was true or not. Spike approached Nyx and put a hand on her back.

"If you were anypony else I probably wouldn't be so understanding, but I'm happy you are around. You make everyday exciting and new and sometimes stressful but you make my life even better living, you and Twilight both do that for me."

"But it's how I feel... Do you two really mean that?"

Twilight and Spike nodded and hugged Nyx together.

"Of course we mean it sweetie..."

"We're here for you Nyx, whenever you need us."

Nyx teared up and hugged the both of them trying to force her tears back. Twilight and Spike continued to hug the black alicorn until she let go. Twilight looked at the clock to see what the time was, it was close to twelve AM.

"It's getting late Nyx, it's past your bedtime."

Nyx shook her head. "No no... I want to talk some more... Please?"

Twilight thought about it for sometime in addition to what she remembered and came to a conclusion. "Well.. I suppose we should if it helps bring us a little more ease. Alright Nyx. We can stay up a little longer, but we're going to bed before one o'clock."

"Deal!" Nyx smiled.

Twilight sat back on the sofa along with Spike, Nyx joined them both by sitting on the left side of Twilight where she snuggled up to her.

"What would you like to get off your mind?"

"The doll?"

"Okay sweetheart, tell me about the me doll."

"Well you already know why I made it... So I could take my anger out on you."

"There's more to that isn't there?"

Nyx nodded. "I beat it up... ripped it, fixed it, but It gave me comfort when I needed it, when I wanted it."

Twilight and Spike listened intently to the filly while she told them all about the doll's other purpose. However toward the end Nyx sighed and started looking unsure about whether that was true or not anymore.

Twilight sighed and told Nyx what she wanted to. "When Spell Nexus put me under that spell... I felt lost, trapped and alone. I had no control of myself it was like I had been replaced, my soul was not my own." Twilight nuzzled Nyx. "Had I been in control I would never have tried to harm you."

Nyx nuzzled Twilight in return, to show her love and forgiveness. "It wasn't your fault."

Twilight smiled and kisses Nyx on the forehead before looking at a yawning, sleepy Spike.

"Tired are you?"

Spike nodded. "It is getting rather late Twilight."

Nyx yawned not long after and shook her head. "I think we should head off now..."

Twilight smiled and nodded. "I think that would be best you two." She got up off the sofa and approached Nyx, lifting the filly up with her magic and resting her on her back.

Nyx got settled between Twilight's shoulders and rested her head on the unicorns back. Where she slowly started sleeping. Twilight smiled and started moving toward the upstairs to Nyx's bed room.

"I shouldn't dwell on the past... If I do then I won't remember what was real and what wasn't. To be free of my past sins I need to let go... and move to the future." Nyx whispered to herself. She let out a big yawn and finally fell to sleep.

Twilight pushed open the door to Nyx's room and walked over to her bed, passing a black mannequin with Nightmare Moons armor on it and gently placed the young filly in her bed, pulling a blanket over her afterwards. The unicorn looked at Nyx for a moment then realized she was missing something. She looked back toward the door, her horn glowed and the Twilight Sparkle doll floated into the room. Twilight stared at it for a moment before placing it beside Nyx on the bed where the filly cuddled up to it, saying Twilight's name in a happy and tired sleepy tone as she moved and positioned herself so her head would lay on the dolls back. Twilight Sparkle leaned down and kissed Nyx's forehead gently. 

"Goodnight my little pony." She turned out the lights and moved toward the door. She stood in the door way and looked back at Nyx for a moment, letting out a slight chuckle and exiting the room, closing the door while leaving a slight crack in it so it wasn't completely shut.

Twilight took the stairs to the top floor of the library where she folded back her bed sheets and climbed in. Spike was already curled up in his basket, fast asleep like a baby. Twilight laid in her bed, pulling the blankets back over her with her magic. Her eye lids grew heavy and she closed them gently, looking at a picture of Nyx on her beside table. Before long, Twilight was fast asleep and dreaming a long with the others. outside a single snowflake fell slowly toward the library, coming to rest at Nyx's window on the outside, making a slight twinkling sound as it landed.


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