Full Moon Fever: A MoonLight Prompt Collab

by TheLastBrunnenG

31 Seven Deadly Sins: Pride by Macho Madness

Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
by Macho Madness

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2:13 Pride is much like a disease of the mind. It saps your reasoning and inhibitions, leaving a fool believing themselves a wise.

2:14 Judge not your own virtues, instead let others judge you. Lest you be brought low by your own hubris.

-Book of Noontide

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She walked confidently over the uneven cobblestone streets Her hoof steps echoed like a faintly ringing bell off the stark stone and wood walls that shot up and curved over her. In the little gaps of the walls she could see a distorted vision of a city, lights twinkling like stars in the windows. In the looming shadows of the unmarked streets, little pools of light shone down from warped streetlamps. Faint whispers crawled just at the edge of hearing; allowing themselves to be heard but never understood.

"Are you sure this is ok, Twilight?" She heard Spike say in the back of her head. "Luna told you not to go walking with out her."

Twilight smiled knowingly. "I'll be fine, Spike. I went walking in the in-between already. If I can do that, I can walk actual dreams just fine."

She continued walking in silence, though she could hear Spike muttering something mixed in with the whispers. Eventually, the walls around her crumbled away revealing a rolling and idyllic countryside, the grasses and flowers swept by silent winds. In the far distance, silhouetted by the moon, two ponies sat shoulder to shoulder under a tree perched atop a hill.

With a hop, Twilight dived into the ground. Her passing was marked only by gentle rippling as if on the surface of a lake. Moments later, her head pokes through the ground on a smaller mound just behind the couple. She carefully and quietly climbs out of the ground. She gently creeps up the hill, the evening dew clinging to her belly as she slides low to the ground.

When she pokes her head over the crux of the little knoll, she stops, laying down quietly watching but not listening to the dreamer.

The head he heads of the two ponies whipped around, both emitting a blood curdling snap that cut through the silence. Their reptilian eyes were of the brightest turquoise, bringing back a fear Twilight hoped she would never feel again.

"Hello, Twilight, my old friend," the Ponies said, their voice deep in her head. Stumbling backwards, Twilight rolled down the hill and tried to scramble away as quickly as possible.

"Spike! Cut it now!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, her eyes wide as she peered over her shoulder. Behind her, the ponies both were twisting in horrid and grotesque ways. Bones snapped and broke through the skin letting acrid black smoke pour out into the air.

"Spike!" She shouted again, but no answer came.

A blue and black mass whipped around her back leg and drug her to the ground, her chin slamming down with a bone rattling thud. She rolled over and looked back at what held her. A twisting miasma of darkness slithered along the ground: a single stark eye opened in the center.

"Quite bold of you, little Twilight, to roam my realms with no protection." A silken voice echoed in he head.

"N-n-nightmare moon!?" Twilight stuttered out, "We destroyed you!"

A husky laugh rolled through her mind while the mass in front of he shook with laughter. "Do you think yourself so mighty as to destroy that which a god could not?"

She tried to speak, but it came out only as a gurgled squawk as more black tendril's wrapped around her neck. She scrabbled franticly at her throat, desperate to free her self.

"Wake now, Twilight. I have plans for you." She heard as the light faded from her eyes and her body was dragged into the nightmare's own.

Comments

[Toratchi888]

TWILIGHT: Youuuuuuuu fffffooooool!

[user123]

What happened to twilight? Possesed?

This was about twilights pride, wasn't it? A very troublesome thing pride is...

[KibaWR]

Why do I have to think of shadow-controlling Pride from FMA: Brotherhood now?....

[Kyosilver]

Why is twilight default setting when facing nightmare moon in fics fear and helplessness ? I'm pretty sure at this point twi is capable of defending herself

[AleaJactaEst]

In all honesty: meh. That's about all there's to say. If it was a longer story - yeah, it probably would've been interesting, but as a prompt this just falls flat, imo.