Conflict

by Chaos Phantasm

01: Nyx's Conflict

Credit and gratitude goes to Kelisah for allowing me to use her image for the cover of this story

Conflict

By Chaos Phantasm

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Nyx, and Spell Nexus were created and owned by Pen Stroke.

Credit for the song "I've Got to Find a Way (extended version)" goes to its writer Daniel Ingram. I claim no ownership of this music/song.

This story is set sometime during the events of Past Sins and should not be considered apart of the stories canon. Past Sins is a story by Pen Stroke.

Dawn Shine is an OC created and owned by Chaos Phantasm.

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Nyx's Conflict

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Nightmare Moon stood in the center of her bedroom staring at the Twilight Sparkle doll she had made from one of the dummies the children of nightmare use to train. The mare of darkness was shedding tears and baring her teeth in rage, the room was a mess, a mirror shattered, the bed was in two pieces, tables turned and chairs on their backs, and even a window was broken. The Twilight Sparkle doll however was slumped against a cracked wall, looking at the crying alicorn with a caring smile almost as if it were real.

"Stop it..." Nightmare Moon spoke, her voice carried a tone of anger and sadness that matched her feelings. She continued to stare at the doll.

"DON'T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY!!!!" Nightmare Moon charged her horn and shot a beam of dark energy at the doll, the beam burnt through the chest of the doll where the heart of a real pony would be. but it continued to smile, looking at Nightmare Moon with eyes that seemed to forgive her.

Nightmare Moon looked down, she closed her eyes shedding more tears then looked back up at the doll.

"Why do you still look at me that way..... why do you look so forgiving...."

She shook her head sniffling and ran out to the balcony passing the doll. Once she was on the balcony, Nightmare Moon laid down and covered her face with her wings. She sobbed loudly, as if she had lost everything she ever loved, and the horrible truth was that she very nearly has. The mare of the moon, wiped her tears with her right wing then slowly raised her head and turned it toward the doll of Twilight Sparkle which continued to sit there with a gaping hole in its chest, she stood up, and walked slowly back inside. She levitated the doll over to her bed and rested it there.

'Wait here... I'll fix you..." She spoke softly and turned away from the doll, walking toward the desk with the shattered mirror. She looked at the second drawer on the tables left side and opened it. She looked around in the drawer until she found a spool with purple wool that matched the colour of the Twilight doll, and a needle.

Nightmare Moon closed the drawer gently. She turned around and walked toward her bed, treading on broken glass and splintered wood. The mare of the moon stopped, she looked at her bedroom and closed her eyes, her horn glowed and in a flash, her room, and her furniture were repaired and cleaned. But the doll still had a gaping hole in it. The alicorn climbed onto the bed and sat on it. She took the needle and thread, put more stuffing inside the plush then began to sew it back up again. The front hole required five stitches before she stopped. Nightmare Moon cut the thread then tied a new one to the needle, she held onto it with her magic as she used her hooves to maneuver the doll around so she could sew up its back, which she did, the hole in the back required five stitches just like the front did. After she had finished, she levitated the wool and needle back into the drawer where she found them and looked at the Twilight doll. She stared at the stitches for a moment, then used her magic to fix the doll as if it had never been ripped.

"See, now you are as good as new Twilight."

Nightmare Moon used her hooves to turn the doll to face her. The mare smiled at the doll as if it were the real twilight however she soon realized that no matter how hard she may wish it, the doll was not the Twilight she longed to speak to once more. The dark mare slowly pulled the bed sheets back and gently laid the dolls head on the left pillow and pulled the blankets up to just below the plush's head. Nightmare Moon then lowered her head down and kissed the dolls forehead, shedding a tear as she did.

"Sweet dreams.... Twilight...." Nightmare Moon, got of the bed slowly and looked toward the door. She stared for a moment then walked toward it, she turned the handle with her magic and opened it, the door creaked and made a squeaking noise from the hinges as it slowly swung open.

Nightmare Moon stepped forward and stood in the door way, she looked down and saw two children of the night standing guard over her room. She stepped out, turned toward the door and closed it again, locking the door with her magic then turning back to walk down the stairs and past the guards that stood ever vigilant. They saluted her, but she took no notice. The black alicorn passed through corridors, the rooms of her generals and high acolytes were located in these hall though at the present time she would see only one of her Acolytes. She rounded a corner, and entered her throne room where Spell Nexus was talking to a hooded unicorn bearing the mark of the night. Nexus looked behind him and saw Nightmare Moon, looking in his direction. He dismissed the hooded unicorn and turned to his queen who approached him, standing tall, towering over him.

"You haven't ventured from your chambers since two nights ago. The guards heard screaming but did not wish to incur your wrath if you were just venting. Is there something wrong my liege."

"Twilight Sparkle. She has not been harmed? Nopony has attempted anything on her?"

"The only harm that ever came to miss Sparkle was the harm one could get from being thrown into a cell like trash."

Nightmare Moon's expression turned to that of guilt for a moment, an expression Nexus quickly noticed.

"My liege, do you... regret your decision? Do you wish Twilight Sparkle be released?"

"No... she can rot in there for all I care. I feel nothing for her now, nothing!"

Spell Nexus smiled. "Good that's good. Wouldn't want our glorious night mother to be held back by something so meager as "family" right?"

"Of course Nexus. Now if you are done with chatting to the worms I allow to live here, and done chatting to me of what you deem is right or wrong for my rule! There is something I must ask of you."

Nexus raised an eye brow and bowed. "Anything my queen. Just name it, and it is yours."

"There is something that I wish to have from Golden Oaks Library, a scrapbook Twilight Sparkle kept in her bedroom."

Nexus bowed "Very well. I will retrieve this "scrapbook" personally." Spell Nexus donned a cloak and hood, and set out for Ponyville.

Nightmare Moon then lowered her head in shame and sighed. She turned and walked to the front doors of her throne room and descended the stairs to over see her children's training. She walked behind them, watching each and every one of them as they strike dummies with weapons and magic. To any ruler, seeing their army train was a pleasure, it made them smile, but Nightmare Moon did not smile, she did not encourage, she did not stay long. She looked down and continued to walk until she passed the barracks. She stopped and stared at the ponies inside with their fur dyed black. Nightmare Moon watched them, then she felt sick. She quickly ran, taking flight until she came to a river. She landed and hurried over to the flowing water and vomited black liquid which seemed to move as if worms inhabited it into the water. The wind picked up and twigs began to fall around the alicorn. Nightmare Moon looked up and was surprised to see that the trees that were so full of life weeks ago, had become dead and leafless.

"Is this my doing?" The alicorn continued to look before blinking and looking away from the dead trees. She gritted her teeth and angrily screamed, she walked away from the river then ran, taking flight immediately afterwards.

During her flight, Nightmares mind turned to when she was the filly Nyx. She was looking around the library the day after she got there. Nyx walked around the bedroom, looking at the variety of books Twilight had in the shelves. Suddenly Nyx could hear hoof steps coming up the stairs. The timid filly quickly climbed up on Twilights bed. Using Spikes basket to help her up, she then hid between the pillows hoping nopony would notice her. The hoof steps got closer and it was soon revealed that the hoof steps were coming from Twilight sparkle. The purple Unicorn was carrying a tray with breakfast on it. She set the tray on the bedside table and closed the door, locking it behind her.

"Don't be afraid, it's only me."

The filly whom would soon be known as Nyx, lifted her head from between her front legs and looked at Twilight. The purple unicorn smiled at Nyx and moved her head in a way that invited the filly over.

"I brought food, you know, like the soup I gave you last night remember?"

Nyx slowly came out of her hiding spot and approached Twilight cautiously. Twilight, sat down on the bedside and levitated the tray in front of Nyx. The filly looked at the tray, Twilight had prepared some toast with strawberry Jelly, and a bowl of wheat bites with little bits of apple and milk for her. Nyx nibbled the toast a little and tried to levitate it with her magic, but she could barley lift it half way before her magic faltered and stopped. She sniffled and looked up at Twilight who took pity on her. And smiled slightly with care.

"Here, let me help."

Twilight lifted the piece of toast Nyx was nibbling on and levitated it in front of the filly. Nyx started taking big bite out of the cooked bread and eating it. She swallowed, and took another bite, and another making some really cute sounds as she did. Twilight giggled and smiled widely.

"You need a name..." Twilight looked over at her book case, she scanned it's shelves before stopping at the third shelf, using her magic, Twilight pulled out a midnight blue book from the center of the shelf. The cover had trees of a lush forest and the castle of the royal pony sisters in the background and the silhouette of a unicorn with it's eyes shining bright,there was a full moon in the sky on the cover. The title of this story is "Nyx of the Night".

"How about... Nyx?" Twilight looked at Nyx. "Do you you like that name?"

Nyx smiled and nodded happily. She hugged Twilight, and the unicorn hugged back. The flash back ended. Nightmare Moon was standing in her bedroom, looking at the scrap book she had sent Spell Nexus to retrieve. The mare of the moon sat on all fours and used her magic to bring the book over to her. She opened the scrap book and looked at all the pictures. It wasn't her scrap book, it belonged to Twilight Sparkle. Nightmare Moon was smiling happily at first but upon turning to the 15th page her smile dropped into a frown, she closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath. She reopened her eyes and looked at the picture again, shedding a tear. The picture Showed Twilight and Nyx covered in cookie dough and flower, smiling together and making a funny face while they were at it. Most would smile at something like this, but Nightmare Moons heart was wracked with too much guilt. How it burned her to be unable to bring herself to apologies to Twilight for what she had become.

Suddenly Nightmare Moon felt ill again, her cheeks puffed up and she held her left hoof to her lips, she dropped the book and used her magic to bring a bucket over to her. She moved her hoof and vomited black bile into the pale, hacking and choking as she did until she stopped. She turned her head away from the bucket and took deep breaths, using a cloth to wipe her lips and drinking a glass of water to be rid of the foul taste. She levitated Twilights scrap book under her pillow, she then turned her head in the direction of the bucket and looked in it to see the mess she made.

"What is this?"

"You are not pregnant my liege. That I can be sure of." Spell Nexus calmly said whilst standing in the door way.

Nightmare Moon growled in anger at him. "Of course not you lout. I refuse to bed with anypony here, or anywhere else! With that aside, perhaps you can tell me what it is I have been coughing up."

Spell Nexus walked over to the bucket and looked into it, he stared at it for a while then smiled.

"It's not bile if that's what's worrying you. It's black mist."

"What is black mist?"

Spell Nexus looked at Nightmare Moon after raising his head. "It's a side effect of your transformation. Tell me how long have you been vomiting this stuff up?"

"Since I started my rule." Nightmare Moon spoke angrily and rudely to Spell Nexus.

"Well you can rest assured that you have probably just coughed up the last of it. Assuming this is the last of it... you can never be too sure."

Spell Nexus looked over at Nightmares bed and saw the Twilight Sparkle doll, laying there as if it were the real Twilight Sparkle.

"Do you still care for her?"

Nightmare Moon walked over to the balcony and looked down at her children of the night.

"Who?"

"Twilight Sparkle."

Nightmare Moon froze up for a second then looked at Spell Nexus to see he had picked up the doll by it's back right leg with his magic. Her eyes widened.

"If miss Sparkle is going to be a distraction my liege I could always..."

Spell Nexus ceased talking and dropped the doll jumping out of the way of a charging Nightmare Moon. She stopped in front of the bed swinging her head as if to cut Spell Nexus with her horn.

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!!!" The mare of the moon had her teeth bared, her pupils were smaller and she was breathing deeply and quickly.

Spell Nexus bowed in apology. "Forgive me Nightmare Moon, I seem to have angered you. If it's any consolation, I won't touch it again." He smiled.

"Get out Nexus! If I need you I will call upon you until then I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear you, I don't want to breath your air now leave!"

Without another moments passing, Spell Nexus quickly left the room as if fearing for his life. Just as he exited the room the door slammed shut and locked, startling the two guards at the end of the hall. In her chambers, Nightmare Moon picked up the Twilight Sparkle doll, and nuzzled it gently starting to shed tears again. She help the doll closer to her before gently laying it on the bed. Nightmare Moon turned and looked at a bare wall. Her horn glowed brightly.

"Please.... let me see her... let me see Twilight Sparkle."

The wall in front of Nightmare Moon faded away into nothingness and was replaced with the image of a dungeon cell, and in this cell, was the very unicorn Nightmare Moon has for so long tried to forgive, Twilight Sparkle. The purple unicorn sat in the corner of her cell just as a member of the Children of Nightmare was delivering her food.

"Eat up Celestias puppet. The mistress wants you alive. I don't understand why since she hates everypony."

Twilight looked at the slop she was given and levitated it up with a wooden spoon. She scooped up the mashed apple mixed with banana and ate it, shuddering in disgust after she had swallowed. The child of nightmare laughed wickedly.

"Be grateful you are fed you waste of flesh, it's better then being starved to death by our glorious ruler Nightmare Moon" The child of nightmare spat on the floor of the cell and left, laughing. Twilight stopped eating and looked down shedding even more tears then she had before.

"And I would deserve it... I don't deserve to be called her guardian... her mother.... her friend.... Not after what I had done..."

Nightmare Moon started sobbing again she turned her head away from the wall and covered her face with her left wing, the wall had returned to its original state before Nightmare Moon cast the spell. the alicorn leaned against a table wept.

"You deserve... more then you realize Twilight Sparkle..."

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Three days had passed since Nightmare Moon cast that spell to see Twilight Sparkle. The mare of the moon did not eat, nor drink, all she would do was read books, and do the things Nyx would, but at times her Nightmare Moon personality would surface and she would be as cruel and terrible as an angry dragon. Yet none of it could hold back her sorrow, she started a new diary, and wrote in it frequently. Three weeks into her rule over Equestria and the mare of the Moon continued to think of Twilight. Nightmare Moon paced a hallway, angered that spell Nexus was unable to prevent a fight breaking out in the dining hall. Her hoof steps echoed loudly through the halls, she flapped her wings a little in frustration until she stopped. She blinked, then she sighed. Her expression became that of sadness and anger, thus she retreated back to her chambers, mumbling something in the welsh like language that is ancient Unicorn.

"Why! Can't! I! Forgive! Her!!"

Nightmare Moon slammed her door and threw the Twilight sparkle doll into the wall nearest the door to the balcony. She screamed and slammed her front hooves on the ground twice. She looked at the doll with eyes full of hate and started to speak to it in an enraged tone of voice.

"If you hadn't told Celestia about me, If you had just kept me a secret from her, then it wouldn't be this way, We could still be happy!! I could've been the best daughter for you but you turned your back on me!! Thanks to you I am who I am Twilight Sparkle and you have nopony to blame but yourself!!!!!"

The mare of the moon took deep breaths very quick ones too. It looked as though she was hyperventilating. After a few more minutes of being angry, Nightmare Moon finally closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath and looked at the doll again.

"It's just... difficult for me... To be this... to be a queen of the dark and night... to be the legendary mare of the moon... to be Nightmare Moon... It's life I am still unfamiliar with even after three weeks yet somehow I act just like she did in the old stories and it frightens me... perhaps I am still.... very much like that filly... Nyx."

Nightmare Moon then grinned. "But if I were still Nyx then I wouldn't be ruling over an Equestria cursed with endless night. I will be loved by all and feared by all, No Twilight Sparkle, your precious filly Nyx is long dead, anything that was once her has been suppressed into the back of my mind. I am the dominant one! Not that weakling of a filly!"

Nightmare Moon put her face close to the Twilight doll grinning almost manically.

"I'm not your darling Nyx Twilight Sparkle! I am what she should've been! How she would have grown to be! I am Nightmare Moon!!!"

Nightmare Moon panted again, her grin dropped into a frown as she slowly realized what she had said.

"Could Nyx still very much be... apart of me... is that why.... I still feel strongly bonded to her.... could... could my connection to Nyx... still be keeping me bonded to Twilight..."

Nightmare Moon raised her head with a blank expression on her face. Her expression changed to one of deep thought, she looked to her left then back at the smiling doll. She growled in frustration and paced her room in confusion.

"What's wrong with me!!!!" Her eyes flashed white for a moment. "I don't know what I want anymore, Who I am anymore. I'm just so confused.... I wish to reconcile with you mother but I have my duties to my subjects... and I cannot let you get in the way! Ugh... it's so frustrating!!!"

Nightmare Moon shook her head and sat down with a sigh, she placed her left hoof on her forehead and thought.

"I wish you can forgive me somehow.... but then again.... that's all my words will ever be.... deaf wishes... I have no hopes of them being fulfilled..."

Nightmare Moon walked over to her Twilight doll, and picked up. She held it to her chest, nuzzling it while she did. She sniffled and whimpered softly...

"I wish I could be held again..." she closed her eyes and shed a lone tear.

The sound of yelling coming from the courtyard reached the eardrums of the night mare. Nightmare Moon placed the Twilight doll on her bed and walked over to the balcony and looked down to see Spell Nexus ordering a unicorn to tie one of the wonderbolts to a pole where Spell Nexus proceeded to lash at the Pegasuses back and wings with a leather whip that had crocodile teeth built in. The whip lashed across the Pegasuses back, the crocodile teeth ripping into the skin and tearing it. Nightmare Moon was horrified by this and screamed. She jumped from her town and dived toward the court yard. She landed just as the whip was about to strike a 6th time, she took it and turned it to ash. She then swung her head toward the wonderbolts hooves and cut the ropes with her horn, she then swung her head the other way and cut the ropes on the other side too.

"Go, go back to wherever you came from!"

The wonderbolt nodded in fear and quickly flew away.

"What is the meaning of this my liege?!"

Nightmare Moon glared at Spell Nexus and started choking him with telekinesis. "You were punishing somepony without my knowledge, my consent!"

The mare of the moon made Spell Nexus kneel whilst he was gasping for air. "Let me make this clear, I am your queen, anypony who questions my rule, speaks out of term, or rebels against me, will be brought in front of me so I may pass judgement do you understand!"

Nightmare Moon let go of Spell Nexus. The unicorn coughed and wheezed then looked up at the queen of the night. "...Perfectly!" he coughed again.

Nightmare Moon re-entered her castle and made her way back to her chambers. Along the way her mind turned to the suffering that wonderbolt must have went through during those first 5 lashes, she looked down and upon arriving at the door to her chambers she unlocked the door from the outside with magic, then walked inside shutting and locking it afterwards. She sat down and pulled Twilights scrap book out from under her pillow, she opened it and looked at the pictures inside. She turned to the last page and looked at the picture of herself as Nyx, with Twilight. While she was looking, she noticed the corner of a piece of paper which jutted out to the side of the photo from behind it. Using her magic, Nightmare Moon gently lifted the paper out from behind the picture and unfolded it. Once she did, the mare of the moon started to read what had been written on the parchment. And what she read tore her heart to pieces.

"To my dearest Nyx, I will treasure every moment we spend together. You are like the perfect daughter anypony could ask for adopted or not. Since I found you in that bush all those weeks ago, you've made me feel like the happiest mare in all Equestria, to have a daughter as wonderful as you. No matter where you are, no matter what you do, or who you become, I will never stop being your mother, and I will never stop loving you. From your loving mother, Twilight Sparkle."

Nightmare Moons eyes were wide with tears, she let out a scream that was full of sadness, more tears welled up in her eyes, more tears then she could ever shed. She slammed her hooves on the stone floor, her horn glowing brightly. In a fit of rage, she started to remove her helmet, her armor, her horse shoes and her cape, and throw them at a wall. The mare of the moon swung her head around and ran toward the balcony, kicking the scrap book under the bed as she did, and jumped from her tower and took flight. The mare of the moon flew beyond her castle, over the Everfree and over Ponyville, past Canterlot. She followed the Neighagra river, turning northeast toward golden glow valley, an ancient valley that was once called Galloping Grass Fields, it is the large area of open space outside the Crystal Empire. The grass had a bright glow to it, the moon shined down on the valley giving it this glow. Nightmare Moon came to rest on a hill top, she took two steps forward before resting her head on her right leg in tears. She sobbed lightly for a while, the grass around her glowed like the northern lights very dimly. It went dark around her but the grass continued to glow.

"I give up Twilight... Everything was perfect before all this happened... I had you as a mother... I had friends... family.. a home... but now look at me... Equestrias most feared alicorn, pony, whatever... bawling her head off on a hill miles from the Crystal Empire wishing everything was back to normal but will never be...." She sniffled.

Nightmare Moon lowered her leg and looked up at the stars.

"And to think... I had been trying to think of a way to earn your forgiveness only to find out you forgive me no matter I do or who I become... But that doesn't mean I forgive you..." Tears dropped from her face onto the grass below, turning the glow of the grass the very same color of her eyes.

Nightmare Moon sat down and hung her head in sadness. She closed her eyes, more tears fell. A cool breeze blew across the landscape, the grass swayed, and so did Nightmare Moons mane. Whilst she sat their, she began to recall a memory, a memory of the day Twilight took her out star gazing one night. However, no images came to her, only the image of Twilight Sparkle.

"Please... stop.. stop tormenting me..." The mare of the moon spoke softly. She did not lift her head, she did not open her eyes. she only sat there with her sorrow for a while.

While she sat there, somepony approached her, a bright yellow crystal filly with light blue hair and a scar on her front right leg, and hazel, colored eyes, slowly approached the mare of the moon, whom opened her eyes to look at the filly. The little crystal pony looked up at the black alicorn then gently placed some tissues and some warm tea down for her. then bowed to Nightmare moon, turning around afterwards to walk away.

"Little one." Nightmare Moons voice had changed to one of intrigue.

The filly turned and looked at the alicorn with question.

"Are you not afraid of me?"

The filly shook her head. "No... should I be?"

"So you should be. Do you know who I am?"

The filly nodded. "You're Nightmare Moon. The queen of the ever lasting night, the mare of darkness. The mare in the moon, the mare of the moon. And I don't feel afraid of you."

Nightmare Moon stared at the young-ling for a moment then smiled.

"You are a brave one little unicorn. Tell me, what is your name?"

"Dawn Shine"

"Lovely name." Nightmare Moon smiled but that smile soon vanished once she saw the scar on her leg.

"What happened to your leg?"

Dawn Shine looked down sadly. "A Warg scratched me when my family and I were attacked by a pack of them a year ago... Princess Cadance and her guards drove them away and saved me... I tried to find my parents but the princes told me they had passed away... I never got to see them."

"Very wise of her. To look upon the body of your deceased loved ones can scar you."

"have you ever seen someone die?"

"No... nor do I wish to." She looked down.

"Why are you sad?"

The alicorn looked at Dawn Shine again. "Huh? Oh... right... I'm just so confused.... Spell Nexus and the Children of Nightmare expect me to be this heartless cold ruler of Equestria yet I find myself clinging to somepony who betrayed me therefore clinging to a life that I doubt I will ever be able to return to... and I don't know what to do..."

The filly smiled. "When my parents died... My life changed, I was always depressed. I never spoke to anypony, I hardly ate and I hardly drank. I was going through a bad time... but then I made friends, they cheered me up, now I live with my best friend and her family. Maybe if you live through all the bad stuff that's happening to you, be the queen this Spell Nexus wants you to be.... then the good things will come again. But they will not come easily."

Nightmare Moon took a sip of her tea. "Thank you."

Dawn Shine smiled and looked up. "The stars are pretty, aren't they?"

Nightmare Moon looked up at the stars for a moment and smiled. "They sure are."

Nightmare Moon looked back in the filly's direction to see that Dawn Shine was gone, vanished into thin air. the mares eyes widened in shock, she looked around to see where the filly went Standing up as she did. She continued to look until a breeze blew against her and the fillies voice spoke on the wind.

"We'll see each other again. I know we will."

Nightmare Moons shocked expression turned into a warm smile. She looked down and stood up. finishing her tea, and picking up the tissue box, and holding it in her mouth, she sent her cup to Princess Cadance, and started running in the direction of canterlot, taking flight afterwards. She followed the Neighagra river back to her castle. She flew just above the Pegasuses field of vision and onto her towers balcony. She stretched her wings and folded them down to her sides and walked inside, she opened a drawer and put the tissues inside, closing it afterwards. She walked toward her bed and nuzzled the Twilight doll, putting it back on the bed. The mare of the moon then looked toward her armor. Using her magic, she put her armor onto a mannequin then turned back to her bed. She pulled the blankets back, and climbed into it, she pulled the blankets over her and rested her head on the pillow.

"The elements of harmony are still out there... No matter... once Twilight friends make their move, I will be ready. But I cannot deny that a day will come where I will have to make a decision that will reflect on my life... but until that day comes... I will be the queen of night and dark... I will be Nightmare Moon."

She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. As she slept, a sweet smile formed on her face, as did a lone tear. She pulled the Twilight doll close to her, and held it even closer.

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"C'mon Twilight, hurry hurry!" Nyx hurried Twilight excitedly. Nyx was looking down at Twilight.

Twilight marched her way up the hill slowly. Carrying a heavy telescope with her magic. Nyx watched Twilight with a smile, she did not wear her glasses, nor her vest since nopony was around.

"I'm coming Nyx, hold your horses!" Twilight shout up tot he filly.

Nyx rolled her eyes smiling. She backed away once Twilight had reached the top of the hill. The unicorn set the telescope down and started stretching and cracking her legs then stretched and cracked her back.

"ooh that's much better." Twilight spoke in a satisfied voice. She then laid down on her back, her legs outstretched, looking sorta like a star-fish.

"Twilight! Twilight. Here set it here please."

Twilight looked up at the jumpy filly and slowly got up.

"Well you're certainly excited aren't you?"

"I-Is that bad?"

Twilight giggled. "Not at all Nyx. It's natural for a filly your age to be excited. Especially when it comes to stargazing."

Twilight picked up the telescope which laid on her right with her magic, she moved it forward until it was beside Nyx, and hovered it over a flat surface, right where Nyx so eagerly asked Twilight to put it. The lavender unicorn spread out the legs of the contraption and set it down gently. Nyx stopped jumping and looked Twilight.

"Would you like to look through it first?" Twilight smiled.

Nyx nodded and walked over to Twilight who politely levitated the filly up to the telescope lens. She looked through it and could see hundreds of constellations, the stars were especially beautiful. Nyx smiled widely, laughing happily, her eyes sparkled.

"They're so pretty aren't they Twilight?"

Twilight continued to smile, she nodded and blinked. "They are, Nyx. They sure are."

Twilight and Nyx spent hours under the stars, looking at them through the telescope and enjoying the peace that they had been graced with. Nyx drew pictures of the constellations while Twilight took notes and wrote down what she saw. By Midnight, Nyx had grown tired. The filly yawned getting Twilights attention.

"Time to go home sweetie." The unicorn smiled and started packing everything away."

"Twilight?"

"Yes sweetie?"

"I wish... I wish the night would last forever..."

A terrified expression appeared on Twilights face. She turned around, worried the filly's Nightmare Moon personality was surfacing, only to see Nyx was curling up into a ball sleepily.

"...So we can stay... and watch the stars together... forever and ever..."

Twilight smiled lovingly and nodded.

"You know Nyx... I think I'd like that." The unicorn continued to smile as she put on her saddle bags and levitated Nyx between the satchels on her back. Twilight then levitated a blanket over Nyx to keep her warm and hidden on their return to the library.

The filly snuggled into the blanket, yawning once more before finally drifting off to sleep.

"Sweet dreams... My little pony."

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I do not own the intellectual properties this fan-fiction is based on.

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Comments

[Vinyl Moon]

Amazing work!

[electrocross]

CONTINUE IT!!!

[Ponyzilla 2000]

Please write another chapter

[AortaHeartless]

Wow, I'd love to see how this turns out.
If you decide to continue it.

[Admiral Q Ponyform]

small issue. Twilight actually got good food in prison. Nightmare Nyx degreed it to Spell Nexus that she get the same food he would get.

[starship55]

SUCH.....CONFLICT.....