Long before Celestia and Luna were ruling over Equestria, Alicorns were treated as freaks and outcasts because of how different they were. Alicorns were beings of high magical power and could fly faster than any pegasus there was. But alicorns were scarce and not many were found, however when one was found amongst the other ponies bad things tended to happen. Let me tell you a tale of one such alicorn, her name is Nightmare.
One night a knock was heard from the door. “What the, who could it be at this hour?”
Cloud Cover went to her door and found at the steps a carriage there, along with a note that read “Take care of the little one, for she has no parents. Her name is Nightmare.”
“Well that is strange, I wonder what she looks like.” Cloud went and turned over the blanket covering her, and saw that Nightmare had both wings and a horn. “What the?” Cloud had no idea what to do because she had never taken care of an Alicorn before. Cloud look over the little Nightmare again and felt that this little pony could grow up to be a kind one, if the others would look past her color of black and red. Time went by and whenever Nightmare would go outside all the other ponies would try to avoid her, other times the kids would mess with her and call her names. Nightmare told this all to Cloud Cover, and Cloud knew she couldn’t do anything at all. Sometimes Nightmare would come home with bruises and cuts from rocks getting thrown at her.
“Cloud, why do I get treated like this every time I leave the house?”
Cloud thought Nightmare would never ask that. “Because you are far too different from the other ponies. You are an alicorn, which means your magic is powerful and you can fly faster than a pegasus. Plus you are stronger than an earth pony. But you are also the color of black and red, which they assume you are evil as well.”
“But I’m not evil at all, I’m a kind pony. I would never hurt anypony at all.” Nightmare said as tears were in her eyes.
Cloud came over and hugged her “I know dear, I know.”
“Why was I born like this, I wish I could change so other would accept for who I am not how I look.”
“I don’t know how to answer that.”
“I wish I wasn’t born at all.”
“Don’t you dare say things like that.” Cloud said looking Nightmare in the eye. “It may be rough now, but if you continue to think like that, how do you think you are going to be treated if the others knew you thought like that.” Nightmare said nothing but looked at the ground. “Now get some sleep, it is getting late.”
“Yes Cloud.”
Cloud Cover knew what was going to happen in the morning. Morning came and when she checked on Nightmare, she found the bed empty and the window open. She sighed heavily and cried, because she knew this was going to happen. She just wished Nightmare would’ve stayed instead of leaving. She found a note saying Nightmare had enjoyed all the time they had together, but she would run away.