Nightmare Moon visits Twilight in the night, and things get biblical.

Featured on Equestria Daily, 1 May 2012.

What exactly was Luna up to during her time in exile? Adventure, that's what! From battling stardrakes, space-pirates, and her own shattered psyche, the banished Princess must strive to endure upon the rocky, bleached surface of the moon...and beyond. Lucky for her the moon isn't as lifeless as some might think.

I would know. I live there!

I do not fault Twilight for what has happened. There was no guarantee that the Elements of Harmony would work the way I intended.

But they have given me a second chance. A chance to get through to her, the hard way. I do not know how long it will take, but even if it takes another one thousand years, I will get through to her, one day, and bring my sister back. I know Luna is still there, behind a shell of her anger and jealousy. And I will not rest until I have her back.

Entry to the EFNW 2014 Writing Contest

It has taken a thousand years of hard work, but at last the four most powerful of the Star Beasts - Draco, Cetus, Cygnus, and Scorpio - have freed Princess Luna from her unfair imprisonment and millennial slumber upon the moon.

Now, she will have her revenge! ...after five more minutes of snoozing. Maybe a little more.

This is a re-telling of "Friendship is Magic" Parts I and II, from Nightmare Moon's perspective, and with minions, because all bad ponies need minions.

Rated T for language.

On a dark day, one may wonder: just what horrors lie beyond the veil of the heavens? What ghastly demons exist that could only spawn in a pony's dreams? What terror!? What blight in the face of all that is good!? What- wait, it's the Mane Six?

What sort of twisted reality contains a lycan Applejack, a vampiric Fluttershy, a ghostly Rarity, and a lich queen Twilight Sparkle, you may ask? Why, it's just the Nightmare Realm, existing one and a half dimensions below and above the normal Equestria, and they are sick and tired of Nightmare Night not living up to its name in the 'real' world.

However, are these nightmares truly nightmares, or do they just like a good scare? Why, it depends on who you're talking to! So sit tight, give way to fright, for coming soon is Nightmare Night!

Upon her return to Equestria one thousand years after her banishment, Princess Luna struggles with her weakened body. Clumsy and left without magic, she searches for the key to returning to her true form. But is that really what she wants?

~A melancholy but heartwarming tale, explaining one possible take on Luna's change between Seasons one and two~

Big thank you to the88cherryice on deviantart for the awesome cover art! Click the Source link under the image to find her!

Luna and Philomena: a hate affair for the ages.

A thousand years ago, Celestia's pet harrier chases a broken Nightmare Moon through the Everfree Forest. A thousand years later, a much-diminished Princess Luna attempts to feed and take care of the elderly phoenix. In neither case does it go particularly well. Set during Season One, slightly before "A Bird in the Hoof."

Now with a Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi!

Princess Luna has returned. To many, this is seen as a joyous occasion, but for the Princess of the Night, her reappearance brings only heartbreak. The world Luna once knew is but a thing of the past, lost within the dusty corridors of her mind, while memories of her loved ones haunt her nightmares.

Unbeknownst to Celestia, Luna was with a foal when she was banished, forced to give birth in her lunar exile. Now, centuries later, she has come back, broken and somber, to re-take her rightful position as co-ruler of Equestria.

Her hopes to connect with her subjects fading, Luna finds a growing jealousy festering within herself as she fails to accept the past and make amends with her sister.

No matter the case, a goddess must never show her sorrow.

Rainbow Dash attends her hometown's Millennial Summer Sun Celebration, where she meets a peculiar pink pony. When a strange portal appears during the testing of Twilight Sparkle's latest invention, and pulls their new companion inside, the two friends give chase and embark on the most important adventure in all of history.

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I'd have assumed the whole thing was nothing more than a fever dream, but being bucked square in the chest by a tiny bat horse tends to change your outlook on life.

They had stolen me in the night, stomped their dirty horseboots over the crisp white sheets of the bed I had just made, and burned my home entertainment system for inciting heresy. I didn't even get a kangaroo trial before they locked me in a throne room with the residential lunatic and threw away the key.

Trigger warnings: Boops, cuddles, snuggles, chest floof, mares.