Moonset
The frigid vacuum burned her skin, blackening it further.
That was good. It meant she was still here. There were times, increasingly frequent, where she couldn’t quite tell.
The black expanse of her fate had mocked her, at first. Now it simply pressed down on her, body and soul, heavier and heavier, silently and efficiently crushing her.
She yearned for the mockery.
Now, at least, the dull blue-green glow of her horn—duller than yesterday, brighter than tomorrow, if there was one—kept her company in her final days. Not even the Nightmare, with all its charm and guile, had remained; it had fled long ago, escaping her frail, dying body to find another victim. She could see every bone, now, with what vision she had left; every rattling expansion of her ribcage was a losing battle with death.
She deserved it all. She knew this, for her sister had said so.
“Luna! You must lower the moon! It is your duty!”
The Nightmare laughed. “Duty, Sister? I have but one duty now: to destroy you!”
They battled under the full moon. When Celestia was finally cornered, the Elements appeared betwixt them in a flash of yellow. The Sun looked at the Moon and said, “I will send you away to your fate, Sister, to a place where you will learn your lesson.”
And so it was done.
Luna—just Luna, for she no longer deserved her title of Princess—groaned in the dull, numb pain of freezing as her blue-green life slipped further, up to the tip of her horn, barely a spark. It had been keeping her alive these past three weeks; air, warmth, water. Including food would have meant losing energy much more quickly. Now she was certain she would rather have done so. Better that than to lie alone, looking up towards the sun with her starved body’s dying strength.
She had screamed and cried and begged for forgiveness, at first. It had soon become very clear that the sun wasn’t listening.
The sun shone strong and bright above her. “Oh, yes, you deserve this,” it said. “This is your punishment.”
Or perhaps it had said nothing at all.
The light was so bright. Could it melt the ice from her breath? She could almost touch it…she reached out, shackled dark blue hoof quivering in the airless atmosphere.
“…I’m sorry.”
It fell back with a thud as the black closed in and the blue-green died.
Princess Celestia was practically giddy as she trotted towards the throne room. A thousand years of waiting and wishing and hoping and planning had finally come to fruition. She had never meant to send Luna away for so long—only a few years, but she had accidentally pushed too much power into the Elements, and the surge had resulted in a much longer sentence that Celestia had meticulously planned an extensive apology for, after the Nightmare was purged from her body. But no matter—the Elements’ lock would expire very, very soon, and the moon would send her back.
She had her star pupil, her most faithful student; and the new Bearers were all picked out. Twilight had already left for Ponyville earlier that day. Now all that needed to be done was wait for the stars to align and reform Luna at last.
She moved to the moonlit window and silently waited. A few minutes passed, then a few more. Almost time now…there.
Four stars surrounded the moon in a perfect square and flashed. The Mare in the Moon disappeared and a rush of energy blitzed towards the castle, straight for the throne room. The Princess of the Sun sat upon her throne and prepared to be ‘defeated’ by the Nightmare, having already safely cleared the area of all castle staff.
Celestia smiled.
She couldn’t wait to see her sister again.
A moment later, a perfectly preserved, frozen body lay in the center of the throne room.
…
…
…
“…Luna…?”
“Luna? Can you hear me?”
“Luna?”
“Luna!”
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Yeah... That's pretty dark.
My heart
I doubt it would be perfectly preserved
10590750
Why not? What would cause any form of rot or decomposition? The moon is hardly known for its bacteria or scavengers. Maybe it would be a little bleached if it was on the light side. It would begin to bruise as it thaws and blood leaks from the bursted veins and capillaries. But before then it would be rather pristine.
Well, we've been doing this song and dance for the past... scary number of years. Dark, yes, and also entirely implausible. Still, this is well-written.
10590802
yea no, it would definitely be in bad condition, unless the sunlight explicitly avoided her she would have went through boiling heat to sub -250 F every thirty days or so (assuming similar orbits as earths moon) add on micro-meteor impacts and unfiltered uv radiation that body would be in horrid condition
10590802
The moon is not known for it, that’s true. But Luna has bacteria in her gut and they’ll eat her body. Plus the moon does have a day-night cycle. It’s long, but it exists. So the constant reheating and cooling (to the tune of hundreds of degrees Celsius to close to absolute zero) would shatter the skin and bones over a thousand years.
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10591154
Well yeah, but then we'd be stacking a gore tag on top of everything else.
Besides, the freeze-dried corpse always does wonders for atmosphere, especially if it's got the tears still preserved or something equally tragic.
Freezing to death would be horrifying.
Also, NO LUNA!!!
Overall good story. I wouldn't call it horror, just dark. It could use a little polishing up to be perfect.
Ah, the trusty ol EoH, banishing villains to certain, slow, agonizing death.
EXACTLY how one would expect them to work.
After all, you can't spell 'harmony' without 'harm'!
10590750 It would have had to land in one of the craters at the poles which never get direct sunlight. But, since Luna saw the Sun, that's not an option.
Also... their Sun and Moon are teensy magical bodies that they can drag around with magic. We can't even be sure what passes for 'space' in their world is even airless. THE SHOW EXPLAINED NOTHING!!! NOTHING!!
Meh
10596219
Get that motherfucer
F
I mean... realistically speaking, what did she expect to happen when she banished her to a frigid, airless rock for a thousand years?
10841371
Exactly
Celestia is a dumbass, excuse my language for anyone that would be offended
10841371
Eh...immortality is as immortality does. One tends to forget the need for food, air, and water when one is immortal.
10879529
depends on what kind of immortality they had. Also what effect the elements would have had on it
The prose in this is so lovely and dark. It cuts my breath away (it does) and by beautys hand that ending...
I will say this. Sunbutt is a great liar. Found this story accidentally while searching for fics where luna rejects being a princess or quits later on.
Mate.... it’s just insult to injury that her body.....