“NOOO!’’
Radiant Hope woke up with a scream one night. She began to shudder in fear. The nightmares. The nightmares won’t stop coming to her.
It has been a month since her friend turned to the dark side. She thought that he was a good friend to her, but it turns out, he became nothing more than a monster.
Her ‘friend’ was none other than Sombra. Who was used to be Hope’s best friend, but things changed when he became a pony of darkness.
It began with the Crystal Heart. A powerful crystal that could see into other ponies’ future. When Hope stared into the heart, she could see herself as a princess. She then found out that what she saw into the heart, might possibly come true. She wanted to ask Sombra what he saw, but she decided that she didn’t want to.
Then the Crystal Faire arrived, and Hope was excited to go, but somehow Sombra became ill. Hope had to stay and take care of Sombra, which made her miss the faire. The next day, Sombra became better. But on the next Crystal Faire, Sombra became ill again.
One day however, Sombra’s body becomes crystalized and fractured. Hope then used her magic to heal Sombra, and it worked. Hope earned her cutie mark in the process. She was so happy.
Her abilities gained the interest of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, who then invited Hope to study with them in Canterlot. She told Sombra about this, but he ran off so suddenly.
Hope then found Sombra corrupted by darkness and that the ruler of the Crystal Empire, Princess Amore was imprisoned in stone. Hope pleaded for Sombra to stop, but he refused. Sombra was going to rule over the empire and the many crystal ponies who tormented him. He offered Hope to rule by his side, but she refused. And that makes Sombra shatter Princess Amore into pieces.
Radiant Hope then ran off to Canterlot to tell the princesses about Sombra’s rise to power, and they flew over to the Crystal Empire to defeat him. When Sombra is defeated, he enacts a curse that makes the empire disappear. Hope is now forced to watch her home vanish before her very eyes.
Now, Hope is now living in the castle studying under the princesses. But she will always have these nightmares about Sombra corrupting her with dark magic, and telling her that she will rule alongside him as his queen.
“Why? Why won’t they just go away?!” Radiant Hope said. Ever since her only friend was gone, these nightmares just keep getting more horrible. She wondered when it would finally stop.
Her thoughts were interrupted when Princess Celestia walked into Hope’s bedroom.
“Radiant Hope? Are you okay?” Princess Celestia asked.
“I...I’m fine, Princess. Just had another bad dream.” Hope said, trying to calm down after having that nightmare. Celestia became a little more worried after hearing that.
Celestia knew about Hope’s nightmares, and whenever she tried to talk to her about them, Hope would brush it off, saying it’s nothing. But everytime she told her that, it made the sun princess more worried about it.
“Hope, I know a lot about these nightmares of yours. And what I do know is that you need to calm down. King Sombra is gone now, and he won’t come back to hurt you.” Celestia said, reassuring Hope.
Radiant Hope still began shuddering in fear. “I know.. But these nightmares just won’t stop! They keep getting worse and worse and I don’t know how to stop them! Ever since my only friend is now gone, they arrived and tortured me in my sleep! And I can’t fall asleep because I'm afraid that the nightmares might come! All I ever wanted is for them to stop, But they won’t! They just keep coming and coming! All I ever wanted is to sleep peacefully! All I ever wanted is to dream happily! ALL I EVER WANTED IS FOR THOSE NIGHTMARES TO STOP!”
Princess Celestia was shocked after hearing Hope. She never knew that she felt this way. But that’s when she got an idea.
“Hope, I know you want them to stop. But I'm afraid that they won’t be able to. But I do know how you can make them stop for one night.” Celestia said.
The princess then grabbed a purple and dark purple spotted dragon egg from her bag with magic and brought it to Radiant Hope. “I want you to hatch this dragon egg, Radiant Hope.” Princess Celestia said.
“Really? You want me to hatch this egg?” Hope asked Celestia. She was confused. Why would the princess want her to hatch an egg? It doesn’t make any sense.
“You do want those nightmares to stop, do you?” The princess asked. Hope nodded, hoping that Celestia knew what she was doing. “Then hatch this egg, and it might help your nightmares go away.” Celestia instructed.
Radiant Hope closed her eyes and focused real hard on hatching the egg, her magic grew stronger and stronger as she focused on hatching it. Then, she heard a crack, and another one. Hope knew that the egg was almost done hatching, so she focused more and more on it.
She heard a few cracks until eventually, the egg broke revealing that inside was a baby dragon. Hope saw the baby dragon and squealed with joy. “Oh my gosh! A baby dragon! It’s so cute!” Hope squealed. Celestia smiled. She had done it.
“I’m glad you're happy about the baby dragon, but I think you’ll be more happy if I told you that you are going to keep it.” Celestia told Hope. And after hearing that, Hope squealed more with joy. “Thank you so much princess! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Hope said with so much joy.
“You’re very welcome. Now, what are you going to name your new baby dragon?” Celestia asked. Hope thought about it for a moment, until eventually she came up with a name.
“Spike. That’s what I'll call him.” Hope said hugging the dragon in her arms. Celestia smiled. “What a good name for your new dragon.” She said, looking at how happy Hope is.
“Princess, I think I can sleep now.” Hope told the princess knowing that she’ll sleep easily tonight. The princess smiled knowing that her job is done. “I’m just glad that I can help you, my dear Hope.” Celestia said.
She walked out of Hope’s bedroom and turned to see Hope smiling. “Good night, Princess.” Hope said. Celestia smiled. “Good night, Radiant Hope.” she replied. Celestia then closed the bedroom door.
Radiant Hope with her baby dragon Spike in her hooves smiled happily before going to sleep. And on that night, those nightmares never haunted her.
On that night, Radiant Hope dreamt happy and pleasant dreams.
I think this is the first time I see a fanfic centered in a character from the comics, and I am more than happy to have found it by chance.
Many things here intrigues me, but what I want to see most is: What ponies will she become friends?
I mean, I love the Main Six, but the single fact about the new possibilities makes me want more.
And lastly I have a question, when does this story happens? I mean, Radiant Hope must be 1000 old here by logic, and I did not see any Umbrum to keep her young.
Anyway, hope to see an update soon.
I have to say, this IS an intriguing start to the story. The work that went into the exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up was quite well done. Though, as was said already, the biggest issue is that the time frame would make it extremely difficult for Radiant to still be alive when Nightmare Moon returns (not impossible admittedly, because this IS an alternate universe, but extremely difficult).
Of course, because this IS an alternate universe, the "Crystal Empire" deal could have been MUCH more recent than in canon (like 990 years later than in canon). That's just a guess though.
or, if the Crystal Empire deal happened at the same time as in canon, Radiant could have been kept alive by other much more benign means (again, this IS an alternate universe)
But at any rate.
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You wrote:
(I think this is the first time I see a fanfic centered in a character from the comics, and I am more than happy to have found it by chance)
Couldn't have agreed more.
You wrote:
(Many things here intrigues me, but what I want to see most is: What ponies will she become friends?
I mean, I love the Main Six, but the single fact about the new possibilities makes me want more.)
I think you already have three of your answers if you look at the character tags.
And you are right.
You wrote:
(And lastly I have a question, when does this story happens? I mean, Radiant Hope must be 1000 old here by logic, and I did not see any Umbrum to keep her young. )
That IS a really good question. Admittedly, it IS possible that the Crystal Empire thing could have happened only ten years ago here instead of a thousand. Of course, it's ALSO possible that Radiant could have been kept alive that long by OTHER means. Of course, Spike still being alive after 1000 years is definitely possible (dragons have notoriously long life spans) if he were hatched that much earlier than in canon, but, if that were the case, he'd already be back in the Dragon Lands by present day and be pretty much a non-factor except for backstory detail.
But, neither of us is the author so we can only guess. And our guesses are probably wrong at that.
Interesting few questions
Is this story basically placing radiant hope in twilight sparkle role.
If so will she find her own six element carriers or be the original six.
will sombra have a redemption arc
Great work on this.
Well this looks like a pretty interesting story so far and I see radiant hope is going to be the main character and she still having nightmares about what happened to King Sombra and her home which that's pretty terrifying for her to see it's a good thing Princess Celestia knows how to cure a nightmare even though only temporarily and it's always good to see Spike there ( although you could have picked a different dragons like smolder or ember but ok whatever) and it looks like she's sleeping peacefully at least for now now there is something I don't get and I'm probably sure you know what it is so how is hope alive I know for a fact that she not an alicorn and she did not get trapped with her kind in the Crystal Empire when they disappeared it all happens in a thousand of years what kind of magic does she have to stay alive this long probably ponies have different lifespan but I'm sure they don't live this long but anyway that's my only criticism other than that I think the story looks pretty interesting so far