Celestia has been preparing for Luna’s return in exacting detail, most of which is being kept from the other ponies. Unfortunately, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Shining Armor wakes up one morning to discover that the entire Day Guard has quit, save for a single Pegasus named Cloud Skipper. Their reason: anger over thinking they're being replaced by the Night Guard, made up of a single Night Pony named Midnight Blossom. Before he can pull the situation together, Nightmare Moon returns. Still, one can only make the best of a bad situation.
But even after Princess Luna is restored, the problems don't stop. It's nearly impossible to recruit any more Guards, leaving the reparations in the hands of three ponies. Nightmare Moon isn't entirely gone, still haunting the dreams of Skipper and Midnight. Certain warlike cultures may notice Equestria's weakness and invade. And the old commander of the Day Guard, Cumulus, may have had other motives for his disbanding them...
Truths will be uncovered, identities will be questioned, and nightmares will come to life. But maybe, even in the eternal night, a light can be found and followed to the dawn.
Notes: British spellings used for all except names. Also, Hasbro owns My Little Pony, and Cloud Skipper and Midnight Blossom were originally created by Equestria-Prevails on Deviantart. The only thing I own is this particular story.
Rated Teen for blood and occasional uncensored swearing, but no detailed gore and no sex.
Written with pre-Season 4 information.
Feature dates: 17/08/14, 26/08/14, 13/09/14
Wait, how the hell did I get a feature by posting an omake?
Pretty good. Hope you continue to update
I got to say it nice to have a fanfic that cover what Shining was up to when Nightmare Moon first appeared
I gotta ask.
Did you get the title from the 'Knightmares' off Code Geass? XD
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Never watched that show in my life, so no.
Welp. This chapter pretty much confirmed it.
Cloud Skipper is this story's Dredd.
Wait, Cumulus is the father of...?
...oh fuck you buddy.
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You're welcome.
Loving the fast updates! Keep up the good work.
I like it anyway.
Is it wrong that I do support Cloud Skipper and Midnight Blossom? I totally do.... XD
Moar!
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Got a long chapter in the works. Can't guarantee a time, but it'll come, don't worry.
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Thanks bro, not that many good stories on this website that I haven't read yet. Relieving to read yours
hakumen is a blazblue reference?
4845046 Cookie for you.
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It's not going to turn into an out-and-out crossover, but there's an in-universe reason for 'Hakumen' besides my favourite video games.
>mfw male Aryanne
Awesome.
Keep up the great work! I can't wait to read more!
-TC
4848588 Thanks for the vote of confidence.
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In some of your comments, it sounded like you needed it.
Honestly, this is a really great idea, its still a fresh and relitevly new story, but it'll take off, and when it does, it'll soar.
Again, can't wait to see what's in store.
Love the story man, if you don't have an editor, you should ask around and try to get one, when your writing you don't see a lot of your own mistakes! Keep up the great work!
Wait... the entire military... quit? And they did it.... over one guard? Um.... o-okay.
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Don't wanna spoil anything, but I do have reasons (other than 'I needed to kick this off somehow'.)
Hell of a plot device, but I like where your going with this and am most curious to see what you do with it all.
Sweet!
Wow!!!! This is awesome!!!! I'm gonna try reading this in between stuff I'm behind on posting and whatnot. Could I get a link to the devisntart owner of the characters?
4908765 Click on the picture; that should take you to the original, and from there you can reach his gallery.
Edit: Whoops, my mistake. That just leads to a full view. http://equestria-prevails.deviantart.com/
4908807 I went ahead and did it myself. You got a great theme and plot goin. I wanna read chapter 1 but it's four in the morning!!!! Good thing I'm homeschooled. I'm a bit disappointed the artist has gone quiet. The art is absolutely amazing!!!!
I have a theory about Skipper's child!!!! Said child is Scootaloo. That is all
4910344 Good work, Poirot.
4910721 watch!!!!! In season 5 they'll announce Scootaloo's parents and it'll be wild sky yonder all over again!!!
4911532 That's why I put that "pre-season 4" tag on. "AU" kind of counts as well, though it'll go into a lot more depth than just Scootaloo's parentage later...
4912440 yeah I know. Not everything will be canon. It's just stuff like that that upsets me when a writer quits like the one for wild sky yonder.
4995474 That... and quite a bit more. I promise I'll get back to it in full at some point to explain what's going on, but I think there's a pretty good clue in there already if you keep reading...
This chapter was very sweet.
4995497 It was the best plot I could think of, and I worked out how to justify it later.
Aaawwwww, no kiss scene or anything. I got my hopes up for nothing at the beginning
Oh...that's quite a revelation for a "fluff" chapter.
5018245 Yes, you will get to see the whole fight later.
I will continue to watch, see what you do next.
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...do not like.
Then again, you didn't write it to make me happy
Alright, so you put together a remarkably thin and threadbare explanation for why you wanted to stop this fic....which I can appreciate far FAR more than a simple authors note of "yea, not going to write any more on this, sorry". I was rather looking forward to confirming whether Scootaloo was related to Cloud Skipper...or not....but hey, you can't win them all.
You really want to make the nerds happy, include some references to Dr Who. Not sure exactly what, maybe an extra letter, or a funky dream that shiney woke up from, even a glimpse of Dr Whooves in the hallway or something, i dont know.....anyway, that's just me being silly :-)
Well done, I'll keep an eye out for future releases from you
5109927 I don't remember any Dr. Who references. Probably an accident, but I hope that doesn't make it any less fun.
Is this the tale of the original midnight blossom? If so is it okay if I use midnight blossom in some of my works?
5299838 no its not ill send you the link of the original story in pm if you like.
5315115 sure. that'd be cool
"She was his father," He was her father? I dont know if thats done just in North America...
5942009 I'm not actually from North America, if that helps.
Cancelled?
6430929 Remake/reboot/reason to despair for creative industry coming soon(tm).
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Okay okay :)
In this case , im gonna read it
Awesome! Already, Cumulus is reminding me of Vulcanus from Disgaea.
Also, if Midnight's freakout had anything to do with Nightmare powers, she wouldn't get along well with my OC.
Since this whole story is based around Nightmare Moon, I can't help but insert my own OC, a human-darkling hybrid who acquired lunar magic and his own Nightmare form, into it and imagine what he'd do. In this case, he'd certainly have enough lunar magic to deal with the crystal himself. The problem is that his Nightmare form is, well...Equestria's Sans. (Do you wanna have a bad time?)