The Separated Souls

by EvilNaab

Chapter 2

"No, we delayed it for long enough!"

Celestia took a couple more steps towards Nightmare's bed, but stopped when she heard that the alicorn took a deep breath.

"Fine, let me tell you a few thing," She turned around to look into her eyes before she continues. "I let her suffer,"

Celestia turned away so Nightmare couldn't see the smile on her face.

"the whole time what we spent on the Moon, I kept her awake while I was having a long sweet sleep. No matter how many times she asked me to have a talk or anything, I never answered not even when I heard her crying in pain."

When Nightmare finally finished her speech, she expected that Celestia will start to cry or leave without a word, but she didn't. Celestia let out a laugh which surprised even the alicorn.

"What are you laughing at?!"

A couple of seconds passed when Celestia stopped and turned to look at Nightmare with a smile on her face.

"You lie, I know you do and I'm pretty sure it happened the other way around as you said, you took responsibility for your acts and felt ashamed for it, so you protected her and made her staying on the Moon as painless as you can."

When a troubled look appeared on Nightmare's face and Celestia knew she was right about it.

"So what if I did, I don't care and If I'd get out from here I'll.."

Nightmare couldn't finish it because Celestia jumped forward and hugged the other alicorn, wrapped both of her front hooves around her.

"Let go of me you fool!"

No matter how hard she tried to get out from Celestia's hug she wasn't able to. Tears started to run down on her cheeks the a minute later when she finally calmed down and stopped fighting against Celestia who had her wings too around Nightmare by now.

"I forgive you."

They were holding each other for minutes before Celestia let go of Nightmare and backed away, but she was still looking into her eyes. Nightmare's whole face was wet from her own tears and her eyes turned a bit red from all the crying. A glow around her horn appeared to help herself remove her tears after she finally stopped crying. Celestia walked to the door and opened it, after a few more steps she turned back with a smile on her face and reached back with one of her hoof toward Nightmare.

"Come."

Nightmare was looking surprised at Celestia, after a minute or two, she stood up and walked to the door. She reached out with one of her hoof, but before she would touch the white hoof, she placed it back on the ground.

"I can't"

Nightmare turned away, maybe for the first time Celestia saw shame on Nightmare's face.

"Maybe you forgave me for what I did, but the ponies and Luna."

The same aura appeared around the door like her horn and it slowly began to close, but Celestia stopped it.

"You shouldn't have saved me, I didn't deserve it. The best thing you can do is to lock me up and leave me here."

"Everypony deserve a second chance, Neona."

"Neona."

A smile appeared on Celestia's face.

"Well I can't just call you Nightmare can I."

She turned around and began to move away from the room, but left the door open, hoping she will change her mind. She walked straight to the throne room, ordered the guards to open the main entrance and sat down. The full moon was right in front of her, it's light was filling the room up. She decided to hold the moon on that part of the night sky so she can look at it. It made her think about plenty of things, but it also made her sad yet hopeful. For everypony else the Moon moved like any other day, but it was nothing more than an illusion. When the time came Celestia removed the real moon and raised the sun.

Celestia stood up and made her way towards the room where her sister was already waiting for her. While she was closing to her seat she could recognise a troubled look on Luna's face.

"Good morning Luna."

Celestia greeted her just like any other time, but Luna only nodded as a response. Celestia was looking at her sister for a while before she decided to grab a bite from the food because she was really hungry. A couple of more minutes passed when Luna couldn't hold it back anymore. She placed the food back on the plate and coughed a little to get Celestia's attention who did the same as Luna with the food. Luna turned away a little because she didn't want to look into Celestia's eyes when she will hear the question what's been bothering her.

"Did, did she die?"

Before Celestia could say anything, they could hear some screaming from the outside. Both of them stood up then headed towards the door, but before Celestia could open it a guard did it who was scared to death, but he still bowed in front of Celestia no matter how much in a hurry he was.

"Princess, she is back, Nightmare Moon has returned."

A scared look appeared on Luna's face as well and she took a few steps back. A unicorn guard was backing from the first corridor to the right from the room where they were eating a minute ago while he shooting at something with his magic. Few more seconds passed when that something became visible for both princesses. It was Nightmare forming a shield around herself blocking every shot, but she wasn't firing back at the guard.

"Stop."

When the order left Celestia's mouth everypony turned to her with a surprised look on their faces especially Luna who took a few more steps back as Nightmare was approaching. When the guard did as he was ordered to, Nightmare removed the shield.

"Tia, what are you doing?"

Luna's voice was weak and shivery, but it can be heard who she was targeting with it.

Celestia turned around and shot a warm smile at her then turned back to meet with Nightmare who was walking towards them. Both of the stopped a meter away from each other, the other alicorn lowered her head, but she didn't bow in front of Celestia who wasn't expecting her to do so.

"Good morning Celestia."

"I'm glad you decided to come out from there, Neona."

She raised her head a little to take look at Luna.

"I"

"Tia, what's going on here?" Celestia turned around, but before she could try to explain anything Luna continued. "and how dare you call her like that?"

"Luna, calm down."

"NO!"

She used the royal canterlot voice then teleported away. Celestia let out a sigh then turned back to Neona.

"Well, it went better than I expected."

Under different circumstances Neona would have allowed herself to let out a laugh, but she only smiled at Celestia.

"I can go talk to her if you want."

Celestia smiled at Neona then after a couple of steps towards her she placed a hoof on her shoulder.

"No, don't worry about it, give her some time, I promise you two will have the chance to talk about things, just like the two of us."

Neona lowered her head.

"Alright."

Celestia turned back and pulled out a seat next to hers at the table, she ordered the guards to leave the room then closed the room's door. Both of them sat down and Celestia let Neona grab a few bite as well before they would have a long conversation about a lot of things.

Luna appeared at the edge of the Everfree forest in front of the stone statue of Nightmare Moon. She was filled with anger like before, but this time she didn't know why. Actually she was happy to see Neona and that name fit her perfectly since she was looking differently, Luna couldn't explain how or why, but she was. After all even Celestia was on her side and the way she was acting.

It was early in the morning, the grass was still wet and the temperature was quite cold, but she laid down on it. Luna raised her head to look at the statue.

Author's Note:

Neona is a greek name and it's meaning is: New Moon

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Comments

[Cool_Story_Reader]

Didnt have any time to read this yesterday, so I`m reading it now.
New Moon. I like it.

[EvilNaab]

2910317

Thanks, it took me for a while (an hour) to finally decide from the lot of names....
Tho, now I'm planning for 3 more chapters hopefully I won't change my mind and I'll be able to write them nowdays, but once again I started to have some trouble with "things"... :/