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// Pointless Villain Resurfacing - Check! 
// Story: Twilight Writes A Book's Sequel 
// by Arreis Of Avalon 
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	Twilight stretched out her wings as she walked to the throne room. The trip from the trainstation to the castle had done her wings in. Still, flying was simply so much more efficient. She had saved a full - she did the calculation quickly - 3.5422132 minutes from her long walk! She smiled.
Trotting through the halls of Canterlot castle, she was surprised to find it mostly void of ponies. “That’s funny,” she said to herself. “Usually ponies are walking around and socializing… Is today some sort of ‘stay at home’ holiday?”
She found her way to the throne room quickly. Surprisingly, no guards stood outside the doors either. She tilted her head: this was all highly irregular. She moved to knock on the door (as she wasn’t one to burst in unannounced) when she heard a loud shout from behind the door.
“WE ARE BETTER THAN THEE, SIR, AND WE WILL DEMAND THY RESPECT! NOW KNEEL TO THY DARK QUEEN!” This declaration was followed by delighted, if malicious, laughter.
Twilight was shocked. “Luna!?” Quickly, she burst into the room quite unannounced (as usual), her horn alight with magic. “Princess Celestia, are you alright?! Where’s Nightmare?!”
Luna looked up from the chessboard, eyes wide with surprise. “Oh, Twilight! What a pleasant surprise. Come; we were just about to defeat my guard at this lovely game of chess.”
Twilight watched as Luna placed her queen, the black piece, in a very strategic part of the board. “Huzzah! Checkmate, guard! We have said thus once and shall say once again - kneel to thy dark queen!”
The guard sighed, looking incredibly bored as he tilted his king over. “I give. Another win for you, Princess.”
“How many points do we receive?”
“Princess, chess really doesn’t have much in the way of points… But, well, this makes 11872 games won and 2 lost.”
Luna smiled brightly, nodding. “Perfection.” She turned to Twilight, who had long since calmed down as she gathered context for the outburst of Luna she had overheard. “Now, Twilight, what brings thee to Canterlot?”
“Well, I was hoping to speak to Celestia…”
Luna frowned lightly. “We’re afraid my sister is off in Griffon territory negotiating the peace between our two nations.”
Twilight’s eyes widened. “Oh no! How could I have forgotten?!” She groaned, facehoofing. “I’m sorry to have intruded, Princess Luna. I don’t know how I managed to forget about it. I’ve just been so busy writing lately!”
Luna gasped, standing. “Writing!?” She smiled brightly, before opening her mouth wide. “GUARDS! LEAVE US! WE MUST DISCUSS PRIVATE MATTERS!”
The two guards standing nearby ran forward quickly to grab their fallen comrade, who was most certainly deaf due to his proximity to the shouty princess. “Y-Yes, your highness,” they said with a bow before dragging their shaking friend outside.
Twilight tapped her ears, trying to regain her hearing. “Er… Private matters, Princess?”
Luna nodded quickly. “Yes, dear Twilight. Thou said ‘writing’. We are embarrassed to admit to being thy biggest fan!”
Twilight beamed. “Really?! You’ve read my book?”
“Read? Twilight, we have memorized it!”
Twilight giggled, smiling. “Wow… I didn’t realize it had gotten so popular that even you were a fan of it, Princess. I’m honored.”
Luna nodded. “We simply love how thy ending of the book remained so absolute!” Twilight’s smile fell slightly. “A resounding ‘The End’! It sent chills down our spine!” Luna, oblivious as always, kept rambling, despite Twilight’s increasingly uneasy stance. “We simply cannot wait for the next release! We are sure thy next series is sure to astound. Pray tell, what is the next book about?”
Twilight gulped. “Er… you haven’t heard?”
“Heard? We are terribly sorry, but we have been busy reclaiming our duties. Very few ponies are used to us yet. When Celestia left us in charge of the daycourt today, we were not expecting any visitors.”
Twilight nodded; that explained the empty castle then. “Well… I’m… sort of…”
“Speak up, Twilight.”
She gulped again. “I’m… sort of writing a sequel?”
Luna tilted her head. She chuckled softly. “What was that? We think thou said a sequel. Surely, thou art mistaken. Only a foal would write a sequel after such an astounding ending!”
Twilight grinned sheepishly. “Well… Ta-da. I’m a foal!” 
Luna’s eyes narrowed. “Dost thou mean to make a foal of us now, Twilight? What is this jest?”
“I-I just mean that I’m writing a sequel. You see, I came because I have writers block due to a wacky spell done by some crazy albino, and -”
Luna stood, glaring. Twilight gulped, stopping: the princess was incredibly intimidating. “We think thou do not grasp the severity of thy claim! A sequel is a heinous crime to the original book! We shall not allow it!”
Twilight shook her head, confused. The ringing was coming back. “Princess, that isn’t the biggest issue here! Again, a crazy albino blew up my door, and -”
“What say has a pesky unicorn in the issues of the world?!”
“Unicorn? Luna, I am a Princess, just as you!”
“Thou art nothing like us, Twilight Sparkle!”
Twilight gasped, stumbling back as wind began to rise magically in the throne room. Luna stood, her eyes white. “L-Luna!”
“Do not refer to us as mere ‘Luna’, welp! We are higher than thou!” Luna flared out her wings, which were turning steadily darker. “If thou refuse to follow our advice, we must end thee!”
“LUNA!? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!”
“We are not Luna anymore, Twilight Sparkle! We are Nightmare Moon, and we will control thee!”
Twilight watched in horror as darkness gathered around the princess. Her mane grew into a miasma of violet starlight, and her eyes into teal slits. Nightmare Moon laughed, flying into the air on bat wings. “Prepare to go into permanent retirement, Twilight Sparkle!”
Twilight screamed, flying toward the stained glass window as Nightmare fired a beam of darkness from her horn. The beam of shadow hit the chessboard and blew it up. The explosion was far greater than even the door explosion from earlier. It pushed Twilight out the window as she screamed in absolute terror, her wings burning at the edges. She heard another ding, but was screaming too loud to hear the soft “Pointless Villain Resurfacing - Check!”. 
Twilight groaned as she flew away, smoke coming off her wings. Nightmare followed her the entire way, her beams of darkness blowing up numerous support beams for towers and buildings. The entirety of Canterlot was soon burning, and ponies were screaming. Twilight was screaming. Everyone was screaming.

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General Lance sighed, tracing his hoof over the map layout of the terrain. “So… bored… When will those peace negotiations fall through so I can kill some griffons?”
A private ran in, out of breath. “Sir! Reports say Canterlot is under attack!”
The general slammed his hoof against the table, his eyes shining with happiness. “FINALLY! MEN! PREPARE TO ATTACK THE GRIFFONS!”
“B-But, sir, we don’t know that Griffons were those who attacked…”
“Private, I don’t need anymore of an excuse to cause a war with these monsters. Now go ready the troops.”
The private walked out, sighing. “Dang it… When I said I wanted a role in the sequel, I was expecting something better than an extra in the side story…” With a frown, he went off to gather the troops for battle.