//------------------------------// // A nightmare awakens // Story: Nightmare Family // by Smrrt //------------------------------// The teenage girl let out a groan, as she finally woke up, barely remembering the morning. It had been an unusual morning, even for her standards. It started already with multiple little magic surges, thanks to the solar waves the sun decided to give off today. Even though she had a deep connection to the moon, doesn't mean that the sun had no affect on her. Especially since there was no alicorn who "reserved" or better put, claimed the sun as her own. When it seemed like things were about to get better, they of course got worse. Feeling someone else's magic at work, Sarah instinctively threw up a defensive shield, which was supposed to stop the for some reason very familiar magic, only it overwhelmed her. The last thing she knew, was the feeling of being teleported to another location. Noticing the smell of disinfectants, Sarah slowly opened her eyes, blinking a few times in order to get her eyes used to the bright light. When they finally did, the human, actually not so human, looked around. It was like someone put a hospital room inside a medieval, no renaissance (she wasn't that good in art history) styled castle. There were other beds in the room, three of them seemingly being recently used. Throwing off the blankets, Sarah was still fully dressed for a regular school day. Her watch said it was 11 o clock already! Wait, I was out cold for around 4 and a half hours? Where the hell am I anyway? Shit, I hope the rest is okay. Maybe they were on the other beds. Deciding that lying around wouldn't get her anywhere, Sarah stretched all of her limbs, before getting of the bed and heading towards the door. She stopped immediately, when she saw a yellow magic glow surrounding it! The handle went down and then the door opened, revealing Dr. Thin Needle and Princess Celestia. In an instant Sarah tensed up, her brain going into overdrive. Celestia?!?! How the fuck did she find me? Does she even know who I am?! Better safe than sorry! The girl extended her arms and prepared a spell. As she did so, her two hands started glowing in a blue light. The doctor pony took a few steps back, while Celestia's eyes widened ever so slightly. Reacting quickly, she raised her hoof and said: "Wait! We won't harm you Sarah." The girl narrowed her eyes. "How do you my name?" "Your family told us your name. They're in the guest quarters and we can bring you to them immediately." "Why did you teleport us here in the first place? Don't try to hide it, only an alicorn has the power to pull that off." Okay, Discord too. "It was an unfortunate accident. What is more unfortunate, for the time being we can do nothing about it, but me and my sister are working on a solution already." ... ... ... ...She...really has no idea who I am? It could all be acting...nah she wouldn't do that. She would have subdued me already or blasted me to pieces, when nopony was looking. Heh, "nopony". Never thought I'd use that term again. Sarah relaxed her stands and at the same time released her magic. Taking in a deep breath, she spoke up again: "Yeah...sorry 'bout that. I am not a morning person and...didn't have the best of mornings." Celestia smiled. "I understand of course. I would be suspicious too at first, although I expected a little more excitement from a pegasister, such as yourself." "Whaaaa-? HOW THE FRIGGING FUCK DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?!" Sarah exclaimed in utter shock. Celestia herself only giggled in response. "Oh, your family told us all about what is going on in your world." As Sarah found out, her father couldn't keep his mouth shut and called the princesses by their actual names, before they could introduce themselves. Later, when everyone else, except Sarah herself was awakened, they of course explained as best as they could the show to the diarchs of Equestria. "This is...awkward." Sarah stated. "It's every fans dream to finally meet you and the rest and then you find out...well, that." Celestia nodded. "At first I didn't belief it. But then your brother described in detail the events of the last Grand Galloping Gala." "Oh yes, the one episode I forced him to watch. Uh...is it okay for her to be listening to us?" Sarah pointed at Thin Needle, who had been standing on the sidelines this entire time. She felt a little offended being spoken about, as if she wasn't there. "It's alright. She already knows about everything and has promised to keep it a secret from everypony else. That said, I expect of you to do the same thing." Celestia said sternly. "Sure thing." Lying and deceiving is second nature to me anyway. Only some people seem to relate the element of honesty with me although Luna is or rather was, the actual bearer. "This also includes future events. Your mere presence might have change important events of our history already. Please do not try to "improve" the future or shape it in any other way." "You really want Twilight to fall in love with you?" Celestia's left eye twitched. "Very funny." "I mean it. Well it doesn't happen naturally, someone just messed or will mess with her head and enjoy the show from afar, while Twilight does every stereotypical thing to win your heart. And of course she does it by the book, with checklists, it's quite hilarious actually, especially when the press starts to print papers about how you're actually a stallion." Celestia and Luna weren't the only beings who mastered the art of a poker face. Okay, mostly Sarah had the experience from Luna's memories, although normally she was way more open with her true emotions than Celestia. Said princess in the meantime desperately searched for any kind of deception in the girl's face, however she didn't found it. Since overreacting wasn't appropriate for a princess, she took in a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I...well...I mean, I simply can't risk the timeline being broken for a little discomfort on my part. But as I said, please do NOT disclose any more information about the future anymore." Sarah shook her head. "Sorry princess, but I will just do that, in case I noticed I or one of my family members accidentally changed something, especially if it is for the worse." The sun princess put a hoof under her chin, thinking. "That actually sounds reasonable. Yes, that will suffice. Now then, shall we go to your family?" "They...WHAT?!" Celestia exclaimed. Oh Sarah was so going to get bitten back by this, but she just couldn't resist. Thin Needle had insisted on doing another magic scan for completion, before they headed out. The doctor couldn't come with them sadly, due to her job and so it was only Celestia who heard the most infamous fanfiction stories of MLP. And Sarah was enjoying every moment of it. Just because she regretted her action, didn't mean she did not held a grudge against Celestia. One thousand years stuck on the moon did this to you. "Yeah, those kinds of stories come up, when 90% of the fandom are guys. Not to mention the ones where you and Luna and sometimes even Nightmare Moon have sex together for...whatever reason." Celestia had a hard time not throwing up. "Alright I had my fun. I'll only tell you about the good stuff alright?" "I'm not sure if I want to hear any more of it." Celestia stated as they turned around yet another corner. "This one's actually pretty good. It's called "Past Sins" made by a guy who calls himself Pen Stroke. He wrote a story about how Twilight got abducted and used for a ritual to bring Nightmare Moon back to life." Celestia's ears folded against her skull. "I'm still not sure I want to hear where this is going." "Well, the ritual fails, because you safe Twilight, but in a way no one expected. She walks back to where she has been used, because she lost a book there" Celestia rolled her eyes. That sounded like something Twilight would do. "and meets a tiny version of Nightmare Moon, who has no memories whatsoever." At this Celestia's ears perked up. "She then raises her as her child, using camouflage spells to let Nyx, the name she gave the filly, look like a normal unicorn foal, tries to hide her identity even from her friends and Nyx in the meantime makes some friends of her own." "This sounds like an interesting premise." "Better than Nightmare Moon falling in love with a random human and having sex about a few weeks after they met." Sarah grumbled. "I swear, don't let the internet happen in Equestria. It's just-" "GUARDS!" The sudden scream interrupted Sarah and got the attention of both the alicorn and the human. Sarah didn't hear the voice that often in the past, but she recognized it immediately, as the owner of the voice played a significant part in one of her favorite episodes of MLP. Celestia inwardly groaned. "Please excuse me for a moment." Celestia said, before she headed off. Not heading any of her words, Sarah followed the mare until she found herself with two ponies and her brother in front of said ponies, one of them being Prince Blueblood. since Luna was banished before Blueblood was born, she had no idea whether he was actually blood related to the princesses or if it was just a title he gained somehow. Sarah resisted the urge to facepalm. She was to 70% sure her brother was somehow at fault for the stallion calling out the guards, if only he pissed him off with a dumb joke or something. "What is going on here?" Celestia spoke up, resisting the urge to groan. Stuff like this happened with her nephew all the time. And it was always for minor reasons. "Auntie!" Blueblood exclaimed. "You need to lock...this...this naked monkey-" "Still wearing clothes." Sarah's brother interjected. How can he still be himself in this kind of situation?! At this rate he's going to get himself killed. "This monster insulted me in the gravest matter!" Your hairstyle? Sarah thought to herself. "And what matter pray tell did our guest insult you?" Celestia emphasized the word "guest". "I said he should do some workout exercise in order to get rid of some of that extra weight." John replied before Blueblood could say anything. "He called me fat!" You ARE fat. Okay not fat, but dude, give it a few more pounds and those cheeks of yours will look like those of Molestia. Celestia resisted the urge to rub her forehead and instead focused on the situation at hoof. "Blueblood, you can't simply accuse some...human without any kind of proof, especially if you insult them in return!" "B-but-" "Now go! We'll talk later." the princess told the prince. Blueblood shot James a glare before he left the hallway. "I'm terribly sorry about Blueblood." "Eh, I was tactless." the human replied shrugging. "But then again I always aA-A_A_A-A-AMMMM!" he shouted as all of the sudden he was levitated from the place he was standing, hold in a blue magic aura and stopping mid-air right next to Sarah. "Oh, hey sis. What's up? You feelin' alright?" In return his sister just gave him a stern look. "What?" "You know exactly what." Sarah growled, showing her real eyes for a split second. Her brother however was much too used by it to be intimidated anymore. "Oh come on! We've talked about this a bazillion times." "And I'm gonna change you into a mouse a bazillion more times, unless you finally learn some good behavior!" she shouted him right in the face. James just grinned his idiotic way, like he always did. And just like it happened every week, Sarah raised her hand and started to channel her magic through it. Once the spell was ready, she released the energy in form of a blue beam and transformed her brother into a mouse yet again. A small black one. Celestia watched the display with amusement, a small part of her being amazed how much control the girl had over her magic. She raised an eyebrow as she felt Sarah charging up yet another spell. Confused the small mouse saw as Sarah surrounded herself with a blue light and started shrinking. It didn't take long for the transformation to be completed and soon in front of the mouse stood a black cat with blue eyes. The mouse let out a tiny gulp. That was new. The mouse gave a salute before making a mad dash into the other direction, running between Celestia's legs. With a loud meow Sarah gave chase. The alicorn looked under her belly, seeing the two animals running around the corner.