"Oh... Crap."
"What does it say?"
"Princess Celestia requests a meeting to judge your resolve."
"Well then i should pass... right?"
"Why would you not pass?"
"I was thinking that she would judge me just for being human."
"Well... she can be bias sometimes."
"Well we are just going to hope. Besides, I always have a back up plan."
"If I know Celestia, then a train should be arriving soon."
"I haven't seen a train in forever. What fuel does it use?"
"Magic."
"Of course."
Nikolai went back to his alchemy station and used the triangle bottle, he put a green mushroom with white spots, a red mushroom with white spots, a small bone fragment, steel shavings, a piece of rainbow oak wood, and a orange crystal in the bottle, heated it up, and and put water in. After it was done heating up he capped it and wrapped a small piece of cloth around the neck of the bottle. Twilight was suspicious of the potion.
"May i ask what this potion does?"
"No, but i hope you don't have to see me use it, the white one is a emergency potion."
"Right, we should get to the train, you should shadow walk with me there."
"Good idea" Nikolai took his new potion, put on his shadow walking ring, and went with Twilight to the awaiting armored train. Seems excessive. Nikolai and Twilight boarded the train, the guards asked Twilight about the human.
"He is with me."
Nikolai took off the shadow walking ring and surprised the guards. The guard on the left of the train motioned them to board. Nikolai and Twilight followed suit into the middle of the train. The cabin was almost like a living room, there was a couch, tables, chairs, and some other furniture. It was painted a dark and lighter blue theme, it seemed dark and mysterious. Twilight lied on the couch and Nikolai sat in a chair. The door open and a tall pony with the same theme came in, she was in battle armor with a sheathed sword at her side. Nikolai as seen more menacing warriors.
"Hello human, I am Princess Luna, Guardian of the night. Our travel to Canterlot will be a couple hours, make yourself comfortable."
"Thank you Princess Luna, by the way, i like your armor."
Luna seemed stunned by Nikolai's compliment. She thought he would be scared of her armor.
"Um, thanks? I thought you would be intimidated by it."
"Nope, because I've seen More intimidating armor. You would be flat out afraid of the armor i have seen."
"I doubt it. I guess that means that you have sot out battle?"
"No, I have sot out war."
"I see. Anything else you want to tell me human?"
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"Call me Nikolai."
"Alright Nikolai. If either of you need anything, the guards and I will help."
Princess Luna went to her own car in the front. Nikolai and Twilight were alone. Nikolai noticed a mini fridge next to the couch, he looked in and found nothing of interest. Nikolai noticed Twilight looking a bit down. Nikolai went over and sat next to her.
"Hey Twilight? You okay?"
"Kinda, i'm just nervous about Celestia's judgement."
"Look, it will all be okay. I'll make sure of it." Nikolai gave a mischievous smile that worried Twilight.
"Okay, if you say so."
Nikolai lied down on the couch with Twilight and fell asleep.
"Welcome back me. Been awhile since I've seen you."
"Not now Nikolai. I have a important meeting soon."
"Well Nikolai, What if you never make it?"
"What are you implying?"
The landscape around Nikolai changed to pure black, in the middle was a small pool of water. Nikolai peered into the water and saw a reflection of himself. Nikolai's reflection was himself but with black straight hair, pastie skin, and blood red eyes. He hated seeing his inner demon of himself. His demon was a demon of rage, anger, and wrath.
"I am implying that you take a long walk out the trains door."
"Never. All that you are is a face in mirror. I close my eyes and you'll disappear."
"Do you really think that I would disappear? I live inside you, whether you like it or not."
"NO!"
"All that I am is the demon inside you, you may be the mana leach, but I am the life leach."
"NO!"
"I am anger, hate, and wrath. I CONTROL YOUR LIFE!"
"NO, NO, NO!"
"YOU WILL SNAP, YOU WILL DESTROY ALL YOU LOVE!"
"NEVER!"
"YES, ALL WITH FREEZE AND SNAP!"
"ALL THAT YOU ARE IS THE END OF A NIGHT MARE! ALL THAT YOU ARE IS A DYING SCREAM!"
"I AM THE ONE TO DESTROY, YOU ARE JUST THE PUPPET!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
Nikolai took a breath, Demon Nikolai burst into black fog and rushed Nikolai. Nikolai felt himself change, his skin turning pale and his hair turning black. Nikolai took his wand, pointed it to his head. Everything went black.
Twilight woke up to Nikolai talking to himself, pacing the room. He sounded conflicted and paid no attention to Twilight. She knew that he was asleep. Twilight went into the next car to Luna.
"Luna, something is wrong with Nikolai."
"Bring me to him."
Twilight brought Luna to Nikolai.
"He is having inner conflicts, we can't do much."
Nikolai stopped and fell to the ground.
"Luna..."
Luna took Nikolai in her magic and put him on the couch. Luna took the opposite side and fell asleep.
Nikolai lay on the ground in the void. Luna tears a hole and enters the nightmare. Luna went to Nikolai, picked him up and went towards the tear until Luna was grabbed by the leg by demon Nikolai.
"You aren't taking him that easily. He belongs to me and no one else."
"Silence, no pony belongs to any other pony."
"Oh but he does belong to me. After all, i am him."
"You think you are a true nightmare? I can show you a real nightmare, so i suggest you let go."
"Alright then, let us have fun."
The demon threw Luna to the ground and Nikolai fell away from Luna. The demon stood above Luna. Demon Nikolai crouched down to Luna who was subdued by darkness.
"What... what are you doing?" Luna was starting to get scared. She wasn't used to this emotion. The demon expanded and burst in smoke and came down on Luna. Luna started to cough as the demon was getting into Luna's system. She could feel herself losing.
Twilight was getting nervous as she was hearing Luna talk to herself. Twilight went into Nikolai's robe pocket. She could feel Nikolai getting cold. She pulled out a white potion labeled 'Nightmare emergency-shake well.'
Twilight shook the bottle and it turned a deep blue, she wasn't sure what it was, but she felt like she needs to do this. Twilight levitated the potion to Nikolai and made him drink half of it.
Luna had been taken over by demon Nikolai. He was fighting a losing battle, until he felt a surge of power. He got up from his sitting position and prepared to face his demon. Demon Nikolai appeared out of the shadows face to face with Nikolai.
"Feeling better?"
"A lot."
Nikolai grabbed his demon around the neck and choke slammed him onto the ground. The demon got back up unfazed to a good right hook to his temple. The demon kept getting back up after every hit. Nikolai took a quick glance at Luna, she was surrounded by a dark fog. As he was looking at Luna, his demon slide tackled him. Nikolai fell on his face and got back up. Nikolai kicked his demon's kneecap in for a stunner. Nikolai rushed to Luna and held his breath through the fog. He picked up Luna and brought her out of the fog. When he faced back to his demon, he just dodged a dark magic blast.
"You cannot win this battle."
"Watch me."
Nikolai roundhouse kicked his demon. He simply got knocked back. Nikolai's demon grabbed his arm and twisted it around his back and pushed up. Nikolai reversed it and got behind him. Nikolai's demon reversed his reverse and tripped him to the ground. Nikolai got back up and tackled his demon to the ground and started beating his face in, it was a battle of getting each other on the ground and beating each other senseless.
"Why won't you just die."
"Because you aren't dead."
"Well if I need to die to have you die. THEN SO BE IT!" Nikolai took out a shadow dagger and put it to his neck.
"STOP!" Luna yelled at Nikolai. Nikolai and his demon turned to Luna. She was standing up with her battle armor and a sword that splits off at the end. She came up to Nikolai's side. Both readied their weapons. The demon look at both of them and walked away.
"You have won this time." he uttered until Luna and Nikolai were brought back to reality.
Nikolai and Luna woke up at the same time to see Twilight with a empty potion bottle. Nikolai sat up and locked eyes with Luna.
"Thank you."
"No worries Nikolai. Tis my duty to help others with their nightmares."
"It wasn't a nightmare, it's reality."
"Either way, i am glad to have helped you."
"Thank you."
"If I am correct, we should be arriving to Canterlot in 15 minutes."
"And also Twilight..."
"Yeah?"
"Thank you." Nikolai swept her up in a hug.
"No problem, I also have one question."
"And that is?"
"When I went into your pocket, it felt like is was a void of objects. care to explain?"
"This robe is enchanted, as you can see it has runes on the trim. One of the enchantments make its pockets, infinite."
"That is cool, and strange."
Nikolai took the potion bottle and put in his robe pocket. Twilight still had no idea on what to think about Nikolai's enchantment.
"We are getting close now."
"Well, onward with the adventure."