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// Everything's so Clear 
// Story: Shattered Harmony:  True Terror comes In Packs 
// by NightmareTRXY32 
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	Everything was so clear to her now. Her new purpose, her mistress' every caress and the whipsers being made into her ears. She could feel the hate buidling for what she had been for the longest time. Just a slave to her friends and her former mentors every whim. They took her firendship and her very soul for granted. She would also know the price she'd paid for the evil she committed. But she didn't care anymore. All of her past was behind her now. All she was looking towards now was the darkness that engulfed her now. She embraced it with open hooves. She would become their Nightmare. The living emboidment of ever lasting torment and pain. And yet she was also a slave to her 'lover's' curse until the end of time. And even then she'd still be trapped in a semi immortal shell. 

She should of known the price of the evil she committed. There was no one to call, no one to blame it on but herself and her damned immortal soul. Even Octavia couldn't of foreseen the path that she and her curse had set Twilight on. Hell was about to come to Equestria's doorstep once again, and there'd be no end to it. Their pain would be what Twi now desired. Their tormented screams would fill her heart with pleasure, as well as a deep and ever abiding abyss. 

Their Tragic lives would be clear as both the night and day in which they all slept and lived. The whispers of the dead spoke to her in the heart 	of the night, passing along the blessings and curses of those damned souls that interacted with the mortal realm. Twilight could hear her grandparents amongst the souls speaking to her now, as well as that of AJ's parents, and many many others that died long ago. Twilight's sanity was gone now. In its place a cold and calculating machine that no longer cared about friendship reports, or her friends for that matter. It only cared for Octavia, and the chaos that once permeated the land when Discord ruled. 

Rarity was in bed when a shapeless form slithered into her bedroom above the Carousel Boutique and took shape. Before the sleeping mare stood a Black Alicorn with a glistening Crimson and Purple Mane. Rarity awoke to a sudden chill and saw she'd soon realize was Nightmare Twilight. Before she could utter a single word a purple and black aura formed around her neck, and with one thought, snapped her head to the left. There was no remorse in the eyes of this Nightmare alicorn.

It disappeared as quickly as it had entered. In the morning when Rarity didn't show up for her usual get together with Applejack, AJ went to Rarity's place to check on her. What she found stopped her heart cold. There in front of her was the lifeless body of her friend, and fiancee. She noticed the black and purple magic tinge around Rarity's neck, and screamed inside the confines of her own mind.   

TWILLLLLLLLLIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.   

AJ staggered out of the White unicorns bedroom and into the horrified eyes of Sweetie Belle. She kept the small filly from entering until the Nurse Ponies could get there to recover the body and examine it further. The look in Sweeties' burned for an answer as to who could of killed her sister. AJ looked her in the eyes and told that from now on she was her responsibility.  She told SB that she and Rarity were in the process of getting married, and that if anything happened to one of them, the other spouse would take care of her. 

AJ found Spike hanging around outside of Sugarcube Corner and asked him to alert Princess Celestia that Twilight has become some kind of Nightmare Alicorn. Spike looked at her in disbelief, but immediately went and got a quill and ink and penned the message. The context of the message was that something odd was happening to Twilight according to Rainbow Dash and that Celestia should get here soon before another one of their friends were found DEAD. Apparently no one had told Spike that she had killed Rarity while in her new form. The little purple dragon looked at AJ with a grief stricken look in his amber green eyes. It was beyond comprehension for him. How and why would Twilight do something this heinous? No pony had killed another in over a hundred years. Why now? 

Both Celestia and Luna arrived to see what they could do to help. How could she of done this Luna thought. What could of driven a mare so devoted to her friends to kill one of them in something akin to cold blood? Unless... Luna thought. She wondered if this had anything to do with that dark disturbance that been reported to them by Discord. He told her in private that he felt something might of been trying to take a hold of Twilight and that there was another pony with her. From what he could gather it was an earth pony, but she had traces of unicorn magic IN her blood. The only earth pony that had been born to Unicorn parents was one Octavia Melody, from what Luna was told by her sister. It had been reported that her parents had been killed by an unknown assailant. Luna suspected that intruder to be Twilight. What they didn't know was that Octavia's parents had used forbidden magic to get her a cutie mark, and now that curse had been transfered to Twilight after the two of them had sexual relations with the other. Twilight's soul was now bound to Octavia's, and it would take something extraordinary to save them both. And much more to keep them both alive. 

The first signs were starting to show. One of the vendors in Ponyville that ran one of the fruit stands hit a grey mailmare with a bag of apples before attempting to hit her again with his bare hooves. Celestia stepped in at the right time to prevent him from striking the grey cross eyed pegasus in the face. She turned and glared at the vendor for his actions. 

No one had seen this kind of aberrant behavior amongst poines for nearly 1,000 years. Not since the times of Discord or the birth of the Lunar Republic. Back then it had been a crime of Treason to show any kind of violence like that. She believed she had fought hard for the equality and the peace that her ponies now knew of. It might of surprised her to know that even 1,000 years later the tensions between the tribes were still prevalent, it would just take more to bring them to the surface. This was just the first step in a much larger plan. But The Princess of the Sun didn't know or realize it until it would be too late. 

Her, Twilight, and Octavia had no idea that the curse that been placed upon Ms Melody by her parents was from the time of the Lunar Republic. It was the final piece of a puzzle that had been lost to the annals of time. Her sister, Luna, had tasked her Lunar sages with cataloging all the Known dark magic artifacts and keeping an eye on them should they need to be employed or eradicated if they proved too powerful to control.