49. Birth of the Nightmare - part I
The pain was unbearable.
The little pony wanted to scream as the darkness tried to rip it apart, but at the same time, it felt six familiar presences, urging it to not give up. Their strength was its. The small pony bit back the cry of agony that was building inside its throat and fought with this terrifying being.
The monster responded by attacking it more ferociously. The pony grin its teeth, as he felt its body melt, its bones fracture, and its mind unravel. The presences, alarmed, shared even more of their power with it, strengthening the bond they shared, and with their help, he reformed his body and mind. Again, they broke, and again, they reformed, and again and again... over and over, causing the pony to...
“Luna, wake up!”
The small, dark blue alicorn woke up with a jolt, breathing heavily. She was laying on her bed, in hers and Celestia’s bedchamber, which now was lighted by few candles.
There was no darkness around, besides that outside the windows. For now...
“You were screaming.” her big sister, that was standing next to Luna’s bed told her, nuzzling her in attempt to sooth her nerves. “Were you having a nightmare?”
Luna nodded, shaking.
“It was so scary!” she cried, hugging Celestia, afraid to go back to sleep. “It was dark, and something was trying to hurt me, and and...”
“Shhh...” her big sister said, climbing up her bed and wrapping her wing around Luna as she settled besides her. “Don’t worry, little sister, I’m here. I won’t let anything harm you, I promise.”
Luna smiled, as she nuzzled her sister’s warm body’s side, already feeling better. As she closed her eyes, she whispered:
“Don’t blow the candles, Tia... dark is scary.”
Luna heard Celestia giggle, and then, covering them with quilt, she began to sing in a hushed voice:
Don’t you worry about a thing,
Luna, close your eyes.
I’ll be here for you,
‘till the end of time, that’s what I’ll do.
What the years to come may bring,
is a guessing game.
But I’ll always be here,
so don’t you worry about a thing.
As Luna listened to her sister’s self-made lullaby, her mind drifted off into sleep.
Luna woke up and stretched her hooves, forgetting that Celestia was sleeping with her.
“Auu!” she heard her sister shriek. “My eye!”
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry!” Luna exclaimed, standing up and looking at her frantically. “Are you okay?! Please tell me you’re okay!”
“Of course I am.” Tia replied, rubbing her eye and giggling at her panic. “You just surprised me; that’s all.” she grabbed Luna with hooves and hugged her. “Good morning, little sister, how did you slept?”
“Good morning.” the smaller alicorn responded, relieved that she didn’t do Celestia any harm. She moved her sister’s pink mane with her hoof so she could breathe easier. “I slept fine after that... nightmare.”
Her voice grew darker as she recalled that scary dream. It was so scary, and it seemed so real... then again, all her dreams seemed real.
“Luna, maybe you should tell about this dream doctor Horn?” Tia suggested.
The dark blue alicorn looked at the bigger white one, confused.
“Why would I tell the Royal Physician about something like a silly dream?” she asked her ten years older sister.
“Because maybe it’s wasn’t such a ‘silly’ dream. Luna,” Celestia said, brushing her younger sister’s mane, “you’ve always had dreams that seemed real. Once or twice you have even had the exact same dream as I had. And you are an alicorn. Perhaps that is your special talent?”
“But... I thought that my special talent is supposed to be raising the moon, like you raising the sun!”
“One doesn’t decline other.” Tia replied, and glancing at the window, she added: “And my talent is pretty match useless, as long as that nasty Discord still does as he pleases.”
Luna frowned, looking at the moon outside, despite the grandfather’s clock saying it was past nine in the morning already. Neither she nor Celestia ever met the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, that took over Equestria thirty years ago, few days after their grandfather, King Brom, died after a long sickness, and just before their mother, Princess Platina, then barely six years old, even younger than Luna now, could be crowned. The dark blue alicorn knew all of that from their grandmother’s, Queen Sundancer, stories, as well as that it was their father, Yellow Flash, who was then their grandfather’s apprentice (well, used to be), took their mother and their grandmother (who was then still ‘carrying’ their aunt, Twinklestar, although Luna had no idea what that meant), gathered few other guards and castle’s staff ponies and teleported them all to an abandoned castle within the Evergreen Forest, now called the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters. Luna didn’t know if it was because of her and Celestia, or their mother and aunt, but she liked that name.
As the little princess recalled all that, the night turned suddenly into day.
“What exactly is so amusing about this?” she thought, irritated, as she yawned.
“Fine, I will go tell doctor Horn about this dream.” Luna managed to say through the yawn.
“Then you better get up, quickly.” Celestia told her, rising from the bed. “I heard from Father yesterday that they were going to look for some medical supplies in one of the cities. If you don’t catch him now, then you will probably have to wait until tomorrow.”
Luna growled, annoyed, as her sister’s magic pulled her up from her bed and to the bathroom. She wouldn’t have minded to wait a day or two.
Outside, the day turned back into night.
The alicorn princess took a deep breath before she knocked on the door. Celestia insisted that she should go to the Royal Physician before breakfast, due to the possibility of him and their father leaving.
“She’s making me skip breakfast because I have stupid dreams.” Luna thought, shaking her head in annoyance, but then stopped. “Although, this means that I won’t have to bother with our cousins until dinnertime.”
All three of her cousins were older than her, and... well, they weren’t mean or anything like that, but they were so... uptight. Even the youngest one, that was only five years older, was boring to hang around. In fact, there wasn’t a single pony within the castle that wasn’t boring; everypony was so serious all the time. Even her sister was almost all the time busy with her studies. There was only one other pony that she could consider to not be like all the others, but he was the most annoying colt there ever was.
Taking her mind away from useless thoughts, Luna knocked on the door.
“Royal Physician?” Luna asked, clearing her throat and switching to the ‘royal speech’. “Thou assistance is required by us...”
“Oh, for crying out loud!” a stern voice cut her off. A white glow surrounded the door-knob and the door opened. “You know I hate that gibberish. Come in.”
Luna gulped nervously as the black unicorn looked at her sternly from across his office, sitting behind a desk. Truth to be told, she hated speaking that way even more than he hated listening to it, but her aunt always coached her to speak that way whenever dealing with official matters or when speaking to important ponies.
She shook and entered. The Royal Physician’s office was a mess, as it always was. There were various books about medicine, gathered by her father over the years of teleporting in and an out to cities of Equestria. Luna could see also quite the number of bottles, vials, plants, and herbs, all being either medicines or components of medicines.
Princess looked at Dr. Horn. He was an elderly pony, about the same age as her grandmother, and had his mane grey, although she heard it used to be black.
“Ah, good morning, one of about fifty reasons why I drink.” the unicorn greeted her. “What do you want?”
Luna straightened up. She was a princess, and she wouldn’t get talked down... not so easily.
“We had a dream.” she told him, deciding to talk to him in the royal speech. Pity she couldn’t quite yet do the ‘Canterlot voice’. “Our sister told us to tell thee about it, due to how real it seemed to us.”
The doctor frowned at her, but beckoned her to sit on the sofa near his desk (and picking up the mess from it with his magic).
“Another dream that seemed real?” he asked, taking some notes. “What this one was about?”
Luna gulped and closed her eyes, trying to recall.
“I was in some dark... room, I guess. I couldn’t see much.” she said, forgetting to speak using the royal ‘we’. “There was... something in there with me. It tried to hurt me. Rip me apart. I felt as if I was on fire, and my head hurt like crazy. But there was - were - something else there as well. About six different... I don’t know what they were, I didn’t saw them, but I felt them. It was... something like what I feel when I’m playing with Celestia, only... different. It’s as if they weren’t just my friends, or other ponies, but... extensions of me. They urged me to not give in, and continue to fight this monster. And so I fought, while using my magic to heal myself, and it began to destroy it again, and that happen over and over, until Celestia woke me up.”
Luna opened her eyes and saw that Dr. Horn was still writing notes in some notebook. He stopped, and looked at her.
“That was quite a dark dream, but I don’t think there’s a special reason to worry about that.” he said. “As for this dream, along with most of your dreams, it seems so real. I would guess that, since Celestia talent is rising the sun, she could be called the Princess of the Sun or Day; then your talent, which we all suspect will be rising the moon, gives you the title of the Princess of the Night.”
The alicorn repeated that in heard mind. “The Princess of the Night.” She liked that title.
“As such, maybe it is within your powers to have... unusual dreams.” the doctor carried on and shrugged. “I suppose when you grow older, you will learn how to stop unpleasant dreams such as today's.”
“‘When you grow older’!” Luna frowned, hearing the old excuse again. “You can stay up until late when you grow older! You can start learning more advanced spells when you grow older! You need to be a little older before you try to raise the moon! Isn’t there anything a pony can do around here before they get wrinkles?!”
She knows better than to say that aloud, of course. Instead, she was about to ask if the doctor had any potion that would make her sleep dreamless, but before she could, the door opened again. Luna glanced at them and saw her father standing in the doorway, his lean, but muscular bright yellow body making him stand out from all the other stallions that were living in the castle (the majority of them being royal guards, and having either white or dark grey coats due to the enchanted armors they wore all the time). His mane, very short and spiky, had an even brighter color that his coat and saw was his cutie mark - a swirling flash of yellow light that was almost white.
“Knock next time,” Dr. Horn snapped at him, and pointed at Luna. “Patient confidentiality and all. Although, at least you stopped teleporting here whenever you felt like it.”
Yellow Flash rolled his eyes and smiled to Luna.
“Morning, Little Princess.” the unicorn said and the small alicorn felt something nuzzle her head affectionately a moment before she saw her father disappear.
“Good morning, Father.” she replied happily, nuzzling him back, not at all surprised by the speed of his teleportation spell.
“Your sister told me you had a bad dream.” Yellow Flash said and Luna could hear his voice growing slightly worried. “You’re alright now, I take?”
“Yes, Father.” she lied. The dream still troubled her, although not as much, and she was annoyed by the words ‘when you grow older’, but she wouldn’t trouble her father with such nonsense. “I think I will go eat breakfast now.”
“Well, you’re out of luck, the breakfast is over.” Yellow Flash said, with his face stern. He managed to keep it for whole two seconds, before he broke into smile. “But your mother saved you some, so go to her chambers.”
Luna nodded happily before she gave her father a hug and run away from the Royal Physician’s office.
“Ugh, you two are so cute that you almost made me gag and vomit at the same time...” she heard the doctor say as she was leaving. “I almost gavomited.”
“Come in, darling.”
Luna opened the doors and entered the chambers that her parents slept in during what was supposed to be a night-time if it wasn’t for some meanie that took over their kingdom long before she was born. Her mother was lying in a huge bed, which almost took half of the space in the room.
Princess Platina smiled to her. She was a beautiful unicorn, whose coat was in a pretty shade of silver-white, and her long mane that’s tied into a ponytail, was pure white.
“Hi, Mommy!” Luna exclaimed as she was about to bounce at the bed right next to her, until she remembered how weak she was. Instead, she trotted over to her. “How do you feel?”
“Better, now that my Little Princess is here.” Platina giggled as she pulled her daughter up the bed into a weak hug. “I’m just a bit tired, that’s all.”
Luna nuzzled her mother carefully, not even frowning at her words. She was always tired! Another pony that wouldn’t play with her...
The small alicorn pulled away and moved to the other side of the bed. She noticed a tray with oatmeal on the nightstand.
“Ugh, suddenly, I don’t feel so hungry anymore.” Luna said and started to back away. “So, I’ll just...”
Her stomach growled.
“Et tu, stomach?” Luna thought, as her mother giggled.
“I know you hate oatmeal, but this is all we have at the moment.” Platina said, looking at her daughter sympathetically. “We need to ration our food, because...”
“... Because we live in the middle of the forest, and can farm a limited space outside of it.” Luna finished with a sighed as she lay next to Platina.
The small alicorn was about to reach for the tray, but her mother lifted it with her magic, and put it in front of her. She then lifted a spoon, gathered some of the oatmeal into it, and moved it in front of Luna’s mouth.
“Now, open wide...”
“Moooom!” Luna protested. “I can eat by myself.”
“I know.” Platina replied, giggling. “But humor your tired mother, pretty please?”
Luna gave annoyed grunt, but allowed her mother to feed her, blushing.
Luna sighed as she gazed at the Everfree Forest from one of the balconies.
She just finished her lessons with her aunt. Luna briefly wondered why she couldn’t learn with her sister, but Celestia, being so older than her, studied more complicated things. The dark blue alicorn once took a peek into one of her books, but couldn’t understand much from it, except that it was about ‘magic theory’ or something along those lines.
“I wish there was something to do around here that didn’t involve studying or reading.” Luna thought, bored out of her mind. “Seriously, I don’t care what it could be, anything would be better...”
“Hi Luna!” a familiar voice called behind her.
The young princess facehoofed herself.
“Hi, Bolt.” she sighed as she glanced at the small grey pegasus trotting over to her.
Shadow Bolt was the only pony within the castle that was her age, and was about the only one that wasn’t boring. Luna wondered if it was because he wasn’t born here. One of the guards found him a few years ago by the border of the forest, and brought him here. Bolt has been living here ever since, and wanted to become a royal guard once he grew up. Luna didn’t know why she found him so annoying, everypony else liked him...
“Do you know where Celestia is?” the colt asked, brushing of some of his dark violet mane from his face.
Luna rolled her eyes as she now recalled. The thing that annoyed her in him was that he had a crush on her sister.
“She’s still probably studying.” she told him, glancing back at the forest. “You do know that you don’t have a chance with my sister, right?”
“Oh, very funny.” Shadow Bolt replied, blushing, as he joined her at the balcony. “What are you looking at, anyway?”
“Don’t change the subject. My sister is a princess, she will rule Equestria one day; and you, at best, will be her guard.”
It wasn’t the first time they had a discussion like that. Luna was determined to make him see that this relationship that he hoped to have with Celestia was never going to happen, while Bolt bounced back all of her arguments, by saying things like...
“Ah, is somepony jealous of her sister again?”
“Jealous?” she snorted. “Of what? Of having the most annoying colt ever making big eyes at her and barely stopping himself from singing serenades under her balcony?”
“I know it must be painful for you,” the pegasus replied, trying to keep a serious and compassionate face, but failing as a smirk appeared on it, “but my heart belongs to Celestia. Don’t worry though; I’m sure you will meet some nice stallion one day. Obviously, he won’t be as great as me, but...
“Are you two teasing each other again?” the voice of Celestia came from the entrance of the balcony, interrupting their argument.
“We’re not teasing.” Luna told her sister, turning around to regard her, and noticing that Shadow Bolt was already at Celestia’s side.
“Well, I am, it’s borderline treason otherwise.” he said, chuckling, but quickly stopped as he bowed dramatically. ”But I will stop, it that is the wish of the most beautiful princess.”
Luna rolled her eyes as she heard her sister giggle at the compliment. As Celestia engaged with Bolt into polite conversation, asking him about the training few of the guards were putting him through, she returned to gaze as the forest and let her mind wonder.
“It’s so boring in here!” she pouted mentally. “I wish I could go outside of the castle, I bet it’s exciting out there!”
She continued to stare at the Everfree Forest for few heartbeats, before the she realized what she just thought.
“Hmm...” she mused as she rubbed her chin, a happy grin on her face. “Perhaps when once again Discord changes the day into the night, I will go for a little... walk, in the forest?"
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Congrats on coming out as a Brony!
That took a lot of guts, I know I still haven't been able to tell my family. And thanks again for the update. 
Well good luck with that. My family was unnaturally accepting that I watched the show, and so were some of the people at my school. Although the only awkward moment was when my sister discovered what clop was. -.-
Well seems like I am a little more lucky in terms of showing that I'm a brony.
Because I simply never hide my powerlevel and tell everyone what I watch, not caring what they think of me afterwards. If they don't accept the possibility of a grown man watching a cartoon about ponies, then he simply doesn't deserve to be in contact with me. I see people hating on the show without watching it, and those will simply get shot down before they even get the chance to be me friend.
My friends I had before, all understood it. Could be because they don't have prejudices in nearly anything. One even wanted to watch some episodes with me, but decided that he isn't such a huge fan of it. Still he never hated on it. Another one just doesn't watch it, but has no problem with it. We work at the same company and I spam him nearly everyday, with a summary of the latest fanfic I read. He even is interested in that, and he likes the songs.
Now for the actual comment. Good job revealing your powerlevel, and good luck with your brother
P.S. For those of you who don't know what hiding your powerlevel means.
Hiding your powerlevel = Hiding something embarrasing.
OHhhh, a wow/mlp crossover. I was planning on making one.
Been waiting for this
will be looking forward to the next nut take your time to make it right no need to rush it and make a bad chapter, good luck. 
Im looking ahead to theto comparing their stories and Luna realizing how big a monster Arthas became in comparison to her NMM episode. Everything Luna did was because of jealousy and in the end hatred towards her sister, Arthas started with good intentions but it quickly spiraled out of control and in the end his given goal was the eradication of all live and the subsequent raising into undeath.
I never really hid my powerlevel and since a lot of peope at my university either just dont care or are also bronies it didn't really matter. My family first thought it was weird after my first shirts arrived in the mail but after that they didn't really care.
This chapter is not needed. This site is replete with original fan fiction, explaining the origin of NMM. Describe it again, taking an array whole chapter is not necessary. Where Arthas? Luna`s story in its most different variations already known by everyone. Where the story of Arthas? Luna`s reaction on it?
2036404 I think the writer is adding in something that was a little vague in the show, how she became nightmare moon, and I bet it has something to deal with Arthas' world
The author has already said everything in the previous chapters, the creation of local NMM associated with awakening of C`tun. It happened like this:
1. C`tun woke, subdued silizid`s;
2. First Qiraji war begins;
3. Energy release by forgotten god flooded the local desert that abounds resonating crystals, which were used by silizid`s (hello Twilight Hammer). Since silizid directly related to the local moon (the characters in the temple, prophets appearance, all actions happend in raid instance just in night with full moon). The energy of a forgotten god rushed to the night luminary, which was reflected in Equestria.
4. C`tun`s influence, through local moon, corrupted little princess;
5. There is NMM.
Congrats m8, and hope for more luck with your brother.
Yellow Flash, and Teleporting. You just made a Naruto reference didn't you?
i don't really know that problem
I could tell my parents that i watch My Little Pony, that I'm gay and that I would like to wear a skirt and they wouldn't get mad
worried,yes angry, no
Same with my friends, the only thing that could happen is that they tell me i don't have the legs for a skirt.
The only problem I have is that there are almost no other brony's here
This is so far out from canon.
Good
Fuck, I don't even play the game
2037458 I loled at this.
But the truth is, that no everyone has that capacity.
2043298 it's a shame not everyone can do this, but I guesse living in Belgium has its benefits
2046685 This is because some people feel ashamed of this little "hobby"
At the first time, as a Metal lover that I am, I was very reluctant too see this, but a friend of mine kept insisting till I said "Ok dammit, I will see your stupid show". But to my surprise, when I started seeing this, some part of me started liking it.
If someone had told me 2 years ago that I would have liked this, I would probably have laughed in his face.
Its just amazing how much people can change in the course of time.
2046957 i was just looking on youtube for music vids last summer when I saw this music vid with nightmare moon
I'm a big fan of animation and cartoons and something about it caught my eye, before that I didn't even know mlp Fim existed
and I certainly didn't know what a brony was.
i'm going to stop this conversation know because the comment section of someones story isn't the best place for this
; )
Please, I beg of you. Give me the Forsaken ending
I came out long ago. They heard me, joked exactly once. Then ignored it. And so i went back inside my room, logged into fimfic...
AND HAVENT LEFT SINCE.
Aaaaand more naruto.....I've seen this in like 12 story's now....
Grit.
Sleep.
Maybe you should tell Doctor Horn about this dream.
Isn't it supposed to be the Everfree?
One doesn't decline the other.
Much.
A few days later.
Just before their mother, Princess Platina who was barely six years old then.
Gathered a few other guards.
Teleporting in and out to the cities of Equestria.
See.
Celestia's.
You misplaced your quotation mark. Should be after 'She lied' and not before 'I think' because she's still talking.
Breakfast is over.
Ran.
Luna gave an annoyed grunt.
Being so much older than her.
Forgot your closing quotation mark.
In.
A few of the guards.
For a few heartbeats.
Holy shit a sonic Archie comic reference. I have never seen such a thing ever.
2036285 Well, look at it this way: without sunlight plants don't grow, and without plants the entire food chain crumbles. True, it lacks the horror and shock value of a zombie horde or a gigantic rampaging dragon, but had Nightmare Moon won, every living thing in Equestria would have slowly starved, withered and died, leaving the entire planet barren in the span of barely a few months.
Not even Deathwing was so nightmarishly efficient.
“We’re not teasing.” Luna told her sister, turning around to regard her, and noticing that Shadow Bolt was already at Celestia’s side.
“Well, I am, it’s borderline treason otherwise.” those quotes r from the sonic the hedgehog comics sallyXsonic
That lullaby bit made me... think... of......
sorry! Sorry. Anyway, i just saw that and thought of this
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I'm sure you will be fine. Your brother would not do horible things to you, just make you really anoyed all day every day for the rest of your life. I am speaking from expeaiance here.
The parents of Celestia and Luna are King Cosmos and Queen Galaxia. she had another name
At least that's what Ive seen in other stories
Minatooooooo! All the yes!
AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THAT 50 SHADES OF GREY REFERENCE?!?!?!
6188806 give a quote, i missed it.
It's not thou, it's thy. Thy assistance is required, not thou. Thy means your, thou and thee mean you. "Thy dress is elegant(graceful, pretty)." "Thou must lend thy assistance!" "We beg of thee, let us go." "Thou art injured." Art meant are back when thou, thy, and thee were used. "Show us thine injury!" Thine means the same thing as thy, but thine goes before a vowel. Think of it like an and a, except with an archaic form of your, with thy being like a and thine being like an.
I swear this is omega flowey before undertale ever came out