The death of a man shall be reborn to live the life of one whom is known to be a monster.
A man has chosen to give his life to save another and for this kind act he has been given one more chance to live. But for what he has become was this new life a blessing or a curse.
As I look back on my life, I have no regrets. I lived as best as I knew how and in the end, I thought it was worth it.
I liked to give help to those who were less fortunate than I. Whether it was preparing food for the homeless, helping build playgrounds for children. I did little things too, like giving someone my spare change when they needed it more than me. I even got in trouble a couple times when I put quarters in parking meters so that they wouldn’t expire.
But the greatest thing I ever did, was saving the life of a little girl, even though it cost me my own.
{oOo}
It was a normal summer day in Dallas when it happened, and just like any other day during summer in Dallas, it was hot and sticky. It also happened to be the day that my car was in the shop, so I was forced to walk that day.
I’d just gotten off work and started my trek home, which happened to be on the other side of town, thankfully Dallas has a bus service.
The bus stop I got off at was just a few blocks away from my apartment, so even though it was over a hundred that day, I wouldn’t have to suffer outside for long.
A block or so from my apartment and sweet, blessed air conditioning, I happened to pass by one of the new playgrounds I helped build recently. At the time I didn’t pay it much mind, as the only thing I was thinking about then was my air conditioned apartment and a nice cool drink.
Of course, fate had other plans for me that day. It all happened so fast. I was just about halfway to the next intersection when I happened to glance at the playground. It had just about everything a kid could ask for, swings, monkey bars, slides, you name it. However, there was one thing it didn’t have, and that was a fence.
It was at this point that I spotted a little girl on the other side of the street chasing her ball across the grass towards the street. I didn't pay her much attention as walked by. I figured she’d either catch the ball or one of her parents would intercept her before she made it to the street. So I just kept on walking, minding my own business, until I heard a woman yelling. “Lily, stop! Don’t go into the street!”
The little girl must not have heard her mother, as she kept chasing after that ball of hers trying to grab it. Each time she made to grab it, it would slip out of her grasp, and when the ball went into the street, so did she.
It was then that I noticed the truck driving wildly all over the road. The driver appearing to not care if they put anyone else in danger from their reckless driving, the driver was more than likely drunk at the time.
As the truck drew closer to the playground, I looked back at the little girl. She’d finally caught that ball of her’s and for some reason, she just stared it. Like it was going to jump out of her hands if she didn’t keep an eye on it. For a moment, I just stood there looking back and forth from the wildly out of control truck to the little girl, who still seemed unaware of her impending doom.
Time seemed to slow down as I looked on in growing horror, I knew that the little girl wouldn’t be able to get out of the way in time. In that moment I made my decision. I took off like a shot, running as fast as my legs could carry me, in the hopes of snatching her up and carrying her to the other side and safety. But like I said before, fate had another idea.
I was just a few precious feet away from the girl, the truck continuing to draw closer and closer by the second. As I took one more step, it happened. I stumbled. To this day, I still don’t know what caused me to trip up. It could have been me putting my foot down in a pot hole or tripping on a crack in the road. Whatever it was, it caused me to lose my balance and thus my forward momentum, and if I was going to try and save her, I had to make up my mind right there. My life or the little girls? Sure, my life was good, but she was still so young and had so many opportunities ahead of her in life.
Making my decision, I used what little forward momentum I had left and jumped. Barely pushing her out of the way in time and leaving me to accept my fate.
The truck hit me and I felt it, all of it. The impact of the truck as it impacted my body, throwing me to the side of the road like I was a some sort of rag doll. By that point, shock had set in and I felt numb. I didn’t feel the impact I made when I hit the pavement and came to rest. I just lay there, waiting for death to take me.
I could still see though and I watched as people crowded around me and even though I couldn't hear what they said to me or each other. Their looks of horror were confirmation enough to know that I probably wasn’t going to make it. Course, I knew that already.
I wonder what will happen when death takes me? Where will I go? Is there a Heaven or Hell? These thoughts were rushing through my mind as I waited for the Grim Reaper. I could feel my eyes growing heavy, my sight fading, the people in my vision becoming nothing more than blobs to me. I guess this was it. Oh well, as my momma always said, ‘when your time is up, it’s up, ain’t no getting around it.’ Guess mine was up. I lived well as I could while I was here, so no regrets.
The growing darkness enveloped me and I knew no more.
{oOo}
Deep in the depths of the Everfree forest, a powerful storm raged over the abandoned castle of the two royal pony sisters. Lightning and thunder boomed and flashed throughout the forest, their sounds heard as far away as Canterlot.
As the storm raged on, lightning struck closer and closer to the castle, as if drawn there by an invisible lighting rod. With one final strike, the lightning struck inside the castle, next to the monument that had once held the Elements of Harmony.
A dark sphere appeared on the exact spot that the lightning struck. As magic swirled around it the sphere grew in size and with every passing second, the sphere grew in size until most of the room was enveloped in its dark embrace. When as suddenly as it had appeared, the sphere imploded, leaving only a dark bipedal shaped outline lying unconscious next to the monument in its wake.
{oOo}
It was just another normal Thursday night for Twilight Sparkle as she sat on her balcony gazing up at the night sky. Searching for any new constellations that Princess Luna might have recently created.
As Twilight scanned the night sky with the aide of her telescope, she couldn’t help shake the feeling that something was off tonight. Leaning away from her telescope, she let her gaze roam over the sleeping town of Ponyville, where she had lived for the past several years. Seeing nothing amiss, she simply dismissed the feeling as fatigue and resumed her search of the heavens.
However, the sudden loud crack and thundering boom of lighting, startled the young mare. Her head coming up like that of a dog that had caught a scent. Looking around, Twilight didn’t see any storm clouds nearby. However, as her gaze continued to search the sky, she happened to look towards the Everfree Forest and saw the massive storm that had suddenly appeared.
It was not uncommon for storms to appear randomly over the Everfree Forest as the unique magic of the forest allowed their forming. However, it was rare to see a storm this powerful and this close to the edge of the great and mysterious Everfree.
"Wow a maelstrom, I don’t think I've ever seen one before." mused Twilight as she swiveled her telescope away from the sky and towards the storm covered Everfree.
She watched in awe as the bright flashes of lightning struck inside the forest, illuminating it in chaotic flashes of light. While thunder rumbled overhead, adding its voice to the elemental symphony playing out before her.
After what seemed like hours, the storm finally looked to be abating. Leaning back from her telescope, Twilight let go a large yawn and stretched, it was at that point, when her eyes were closed, that the final bolt of lightning struck.
As if that last lightning bolt had been a signal, the storm suddenly redoubled its fury. Thunder roared, lightning crashed, and the wind suddenly picked up in its intensity. The storm’s size quickly grew and its edge’s spilled over the border of the Everfree and over the town of Ponyville.
"W-what’s going on?" exclaimed Twilight, as the storms intensity continued to build. There was something else building too, under all of the thunder and lightning, a strange magical charge. She had felt a similar one shortly after she first came to Ponyville, on the day of the Thousandth Summer Sun Celebration.
“Spike!” she yelled fearfully. Quickly grabbing her telescope and retreating into the safety of her room.
Spike, Twilight's dragon assistant that she had hatched when she was a young filly applying to Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. Already partially awake from the racket produced by the storm, woke fully from his fitful sleep, startled by Twilight’s yell for him. Leaping out of his bed, he hurriedly ran to Twilight's room, wondering what in Equestria was happening as the storm rage around their home.
Bursting through her door, Spike saw Twilight clutching her telescope to her breast like it was a life preserver and she a drowning pony.
"Twilight, what’s going on? Are you ok?" he asked her worriedly as he rushed to her side.
Meanwhile the storm outside was quickly dissipating, as it spent its fury on the town and the surrounding area.
Turning to look at Spike, Twilight reluctantly let her telescope go and said, "I-I’m fine Spike, just a little shook up by that storm is all.” shaking her head, she looked outside at the damage left by the storm.
“What could have caused a storm like that to appear so suddenly?" Twilight asked no one in particular.
Spike, thinking she was speaking to him, shrugged and said, “I don’t know, wasn’t it just a normal Everfree Storm that got a little out of control?”
"No Spike. This wasn’t just any normal Everfree storm run amok. This storm was a magical tempest, I felt something, I’m not sure what it was, but I doubt it could be anything good.”
"Do you want me to send a letter to Princess Celestia, Twilight?"
"Spike, you know full well we've had telephones here in Ponyville for almost two years now." replied Twilight. Amused by her assistants apparent forgetfulness.
"But wouldn't a letter be fas-" whatever Spike was about say was interrupted, as his cheeks turned green, and his eye's crossed before he let go a small flame of green dragon fire. A scroll magically appearing in front of him.
Twilight immediately snatched the scroll from the air as it bore the royal seal, stamped on a red ribbon wrapped around it, and on the side of the scroll in big red letters read, Emergency.
Quickly removing the ribbon, she opened the scroll and read its contents,
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I hope this letter finds both you and your friends well, as there is a matter of grave importance that I need you and the Elements to look into. I am sure that you felt the magical storm and its magical energy from inside the Everfree Forest in Ponyville. I need you and the Elements to head to the old royal castle. I believe that is where you will find the source of this magical anomaly. Luna and I will be heading to the castle as soon as we can.
Please stay safe my student and be careful.
-You're mentor,
Princess Celestia
Princess Celestia wanted her friends and her to journey into the Everfree Forest. To the same castle where they had found the Elements of Harmony and defeated Nightmare Moon, in an effort to search for the source of the strange storm.
This was big, the only other times Princess Celestia had asked them for help was when Discord had escaped or when the Crystal Empire had reappeared after being gone for a thousand years.
"What’s it say Twilight?" asked Spike.
Turning to him, she said, "I need to call the girls together. Princess Celestia needs us to go into the Everfree forest and investigate something inside the old castle. I want you to go down stairs and call Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Rarity and tell them that they need to come to library right now."
Spike gave a sharp nod and headed downstairs. Twilight meanwhile, went straight to her personal telephone, which was on her nightstand next to her bed.
While Spike called Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, with the public downstairs phone, Twilight only had to make two calls with her’s, one to Applejack and one to Pinkie.
Quickly punching in Applejack’s number on the phone’s keypad, Twilight waited anxiously for her friend to pick up. After she had let it ring for a time, she was about to hang up and try Pinkie’s number when she heard somepony pick the phone up on the other end.
"Ugh! Who the hay is callin’ at this time of the night? It’s after midnight for Celestia’s sake!" complained her friend Applejack, as she brought the phone to her mouth. Twilight suppressed a winch at her friends irritated mumblings over having been awoken so late in the evening. However, she didn’t have much time to dwell on that as Applejack cleared her throat and asked, “This is Applejack, may Ah ask who’s callin’?
"I'm sorry to wake you Applejack, but this really important. I assume you heard that storm in the Everfree from earlier right?”
The sound of a barely suppressed yawn could be heard over the line, followed by Applejack’s reply, "Yer darn right Ah did, darn storm nearly woke up the whole family! Well, cept for Granny Smith, she’ll sleep through just about anything. Ah was just about to fall back asleep when ya called."
"I'm really sorry Applejack, I know you're tired from work, but I need you to come to the library as soon as you can, Princess Celestia needs our help."
Twilight could hear her friend’s tired sigh before she said, "Alright Twi, I'll be over shortly, just give me a couple of minutes to get dressed and I’ll be on my way."
"Alright, thanks Applejack. I’ll let you go now, as I still have to get hold of Pinkie Pie. Spike’s busy calling the rest of the girls right now. So I’ll see you in a few."
"Yeah, bye Twilight." said Applejack as she hung up the phone on her end.
Rolling her eyes as she set the phone back down, Twilight remarked, "Well she’s just a bucket of sunshine right now.” Letting go a tired sigh, she said, “I better call Pinkie now, the faster they get here, the faster we can get to the castle and then get back to bed."
Quickly dialing Pinkie’s number, the phone had barely run three times before Pinkie’s cheerful voice sounded over the line. "Hiya Twilight! How come you’re calling so late? Oh! Do want to plan a surprise party or maybe want to order something for tomorrow?" Twilight patiently waited for a break in Pinkie's rant so that she could get a word in.
Sensing her chance, Twilight broke in saying, "No, I’m sorry Pinkie, I don’t need to order anything or throw a party right now.” She heard a disappointed sigh emanate from the other end of the line. Quickly pressing onwards, lest Pinkie launch into another tangent, she said, “ I need you to come over to the library as soon as you can, the rest of the girls should already be on their way."
"Okie dokie lokie! I'll be right over! Bye twilight!" and with that she hung up.
"Well that was easy, I hope they get here soo-” The sound of somepony knocking on her front door interrupting her. Frowning in confusion, she called out, “Spike, would you go see who's at the door please?"
Who could be at the door this late, or is it early? She shook her head. Bah, doesn’t matter, it’s probably Rainbow Dash, she’s certainly fast enough.
"Uhh, it's Pinkie Pie, Twilight!" replied Spike from the front door.
"What!?" exclaimed Twilight as she ran quickly down the stairs and into the main room, and sure enough, there was Pinkie standing there at the front door, a large innocent smile plastered across her face.
"Wha-, bu-, Pinkie? How did you? Ugh! Never mind." Twilight said, quickly chalking up Pinkies sudden arrival at the library to Pinkie just being Pinkie Pie.
A few minutes later, the rest of Twilights friends arrived, some more agitated than others.
"What the hay Twilight! Here I was, having fun kicking some fillies flank in Haylo and then Spike calls, saying to come over cause of some sort of 'emergency'." said Rainbow, as she strode through the door, making air quotes with her hands.
"Yes darling, I myself happened to be in the middle of my much needed beauty sleep. At least I was, until Spike called, saying something similar about an emergency." quipped Twilight’s other friend, Rarity. Even now, she still had her hair up in curlers, a mug of coffee in one hand. However with a quick flick of her horn, her curlers disappeared, leaving her luxurious purple hair to flow freely over her shoulders.
Twilight sighed, knowing full well it was the middle of the night, edging towards early morning, but Princess Celestia needed them, and Twilight wasn't going to let her teacher down.
Putting her hands up in a placating gesture, she replied, "Look, I know most of you are tired and want to go back to bed or back to playing a videogame,” she said, looking pointedly at Rainbow Dash. “But Princess Celestia needs our help. I’m sure you all felt or heard that freak storm that blew through a short time ago. Well, Princess Celestia sent me a letter saying that the storm somehow created a magical anomaly at the old royal castle. And that she wanted us to go there and find this anomaly and if possible to determine what it is."
"Sh-sh-shouldn't we w-w-wait till m-morning when the s-sun is out?" asked Fluttershy timidly.
"We can't Fluttershy, the princess is worried and she needs us to do this as quickly as possible. I understand you don’t like going into the Everfree Forest at night, frankly I’m not too happy with the idea either. But Princess Celestia said that her and Luna would meet us there, and it wouldn’t be right to keep them waiting." replied Twilight as she placed a comforting hand on Fluttershy’s shoulder.
"Well what the hay are we waiting for then? Let's get in there and do this!" said Rainbow, punctuating her statement with a fist pump.
"Are you girls ready?" Twilight asked her friends as she quickly began gathering supplies for their small journey. Suddenly remembering something she turned to Spike and said, “Oh! Before I forget. Spike?”
"Yeah Twilight?" he asked, looking up at Twilight as she and her friends were preparing to leave the library.
"You go ahead and head back to bed, the girls and I should be back by morning, alright?"
"Okay Twilight, you'll stay safe right?" Spike asked, looking up at her with worried eyes.
Twilight placed a hand on his shoulder. "Of course we’ll be careful Spike, with the six of us going, this’ll be a piece of cake."
"Alright, I'll see you in the morning then." he said. Twilight gave a nod in reply before she, along with the rest of the Elements, stepped out of the library. The six mares quickly making their way towards the Everfree Forest. "Please stay safe everypony." Spike said as he closed the door to the Golden Oak's library.
The first thing I noticed as I regained consciousness, was that I felt very heavy. My arms, legs, chest and head all felt as though they were weighed down by something heavy. It didn’t help that my head felt like someone had taken a baseball bat to it either.
I slowly opened my eyes, though I wasn’t able to make out much except a large amount of gray. I blinked a few times in an effort to better focus my vision on what I was looking at.
Slowly the gray morphed into what looked like a ceiling high above me. I slowly moved my eyes around the room. It looked incredibly old and dilapidated from the passage of time.
My first thought upon awakening was, Where am I? as I took in my new surroundings.
The pain in my head was slowly receding, but I could still feel an ache sitting around my temples. I started to move my right hand to my right temple, I usually did this when I had a migraine, as it tended to relieve the pain most of the time. However, as soon as my hand made contact with my head, I heard the loud clanging of metal striking metal.
The sound alone was enough to cause the pain in my head to quickly return to its former levels as I moaned, "Oh god my aching head! What in the hell did I just hit?"
However, I quickly closed my mouth upon hearing my voice. What in the world was that? That wasn't my voice! I thought to myself, too afraid to speak again. The voice I’d heard, it was soft and smooth, like that of a seductress.
"Is...is this really my voice?" I asked myself shakily. Quickly, I clamped my hands over my mouth again when I heard my voice once more. My eyes wide with shock.
This can't be my voice,it just can't be! What's happened to me? I thought fearfully.
As I lay there on the hard stone floor, I racked my brain to try and figure out just what kind of situation I now found myself in. So far, all I had to go on was that I’d awoken in some crumbling ruin, and that my voice was, for a lack of better term, feminine.
Part of me wanted to just close my eyes and hope that this was all just some sort of nightmare and that I would wake up in a hospital bed safe and sound. But in the back of mind, I knew that this was somehow real, that I wouldn’t wake up and find it all just some frightening dream. After all, if you can feel pain, then you can’t be dreaming, right? However, there was another part of me that was morbidly curious and wanted to see just what else, if anything, had changed.
Removing my hands from my mouth, I noticed that they weren't my hands, no the hands in front me were hands alright. But they were smaller, and more delicate looking than the ones I was used too.
What was even more strange, was that the topside of my arms and hands were covered in what looked like some kind of light blue armor, gauntlets, my mind helpfully informed me as I stared at them.
Inspecting my new gauntlets more closely, I found that they each bore the picture of a crescent moon. I turned my hands over so that I could get a better look at them in the dim light of the room. They were a dark black in color, and my new fingers were both thinner and longer than normal, just like a woman's would be.
"Just how much of me has changed?" I asked myself as I moved my hands away from my face. Trying to lift myself into a sitting position, I found that the weight I had felt on my chest earlier was still there, and it was making it difficult to sit up. However, with a little force, I managed to push myself up onto my elbows. It was at that point that I finally figured out what the weight on my chest was.
"Oh. My. God!" I screamed in horrified alarm. I could barely believe what I was seeing before me. It turned out that the weight on my chest was actually a pair of breasts. Very large breasts in point of fact.
No, nonononono!This can't be! I can't be female! Is this some sort of cruel cosmic joke? Am I just some sort of play thing to amuse a bored ‘god’? Is that why this is happening to me?
I sat there on the cold stone floor, staring at my new breasts. Thankfully they were covered by a violet silk top that flowed over my breasts. Its soft fabric caressing them with its silky smoothness, before wrapping around the back of my neck, securing my top in place.
As I stared down at them, I just wanted to break down and cry. I didn’t know where I was, and from what I had seen of myself so far. I could hazard a guess and say that I’d lost all traces of maleness. It still didn’t matter to me that I’d made the choice to save that little girl, and if I’d found myself in that situation again, I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Right now though, I just wanted to know what the hell I'd become.
Finally tearing my gaze away from my chest, I glanced up and looked about the room more carefully this time. On the far side of the room I spotted an old and cracked mirror that seemed to glitter in the moonlight.
Wondering if it would help me figure out who/what I was. I slowly picked myself off the ground and tried to get a feel for my legs. I stumbled a bit as I tried to stand up and straighten myself out.
I had thought that the weight from my breasts would be a problem, seeing as how I wasn’t used to their weight yet. But to my surprise, I could feel a similar weight on my back counterbalancing that of my breasts, and helping me to keep my balance as I stood.
Taking a hesitant step forward, I almost fell on my face when I tried to roll my foot forward like I normally would when walking. However that was the problem. I didn't have feet anymore.
I looked down as I took another step forward, an audible clop ringing out in the silence of the room. I quickly discovered that what I had stepped with wasn't a foot. It was a hoof.
I took another step forward, this time with my other leg, yet another audible clop resonating through the quiet room from its impact on the cold stone floor beneath.
"I'm a freak aren't I? I have the voice of a seductress, a hot feminine body to go with it and now to top it all off, I’ve got hooves instead of feet.” I let go a weary sigh. “What else is wrong with me today?" I asked wearily, carefully bringing a gauntleted hand to my head as I trudged towards the distant mirror, slowly putting one hoof in front of the other.
I didn’t really bother to look at my surroundings as I picked my way carefully over the debris covered floor. As my main goal was to try and figure out just what the hell I turned into, I was more focused on making it to my goal than sightseeing at the time.
Finally having successfully navigated my way over the treacherous floor, I stood before the mirror and looked into it, wondering what I would see. Upon closer inspection however, I found that most of the mirror was riddled with cracks and missing pieces, making it almost impossible to see my new self.
"What more do I need to do, just so that I may see what I have become? Say Abracadabra and do a little jig?" I asked, defeatedly.
I placed my right hand over the broken mirror as I closed my eyes and let my head hang down in defeat. A lone tear escaping my eye as I tried to hold onto what little sanity I had left.
It was no more than a minute or so when I felt a small piercing pain run through the middle of my head, before passing as quickly as it had come. When I opened my eyes again, I was shocked to find that the broken glass that littered the floor, was now surrounded by a dark blue glow.
I watched in silent awe as the broken pieces seemed to melt and flow together, like silvery water, creating larger pieces as they pooled together on the floor below. Soon they began to flow towards the mirror, and startled, I snatched my hand away. Even as I watched, the silvery blobs began to mend the cracks in the mirror, and in no time at all, the mirror was whole again, with no signs of it having once been broken.
However, the sight that greeted me in the now fully repaired mirror was not one I was fully prepared for. For there, standing in the mirror before me, was a creature I had never seen before, and as I stared at it, and it, at me. I quickly came to the conclusion that this creature was in fact, me. The ‘new’ me.
"So...this is what I have become." I said quietly as I slowly brought my hand up to my face. My skin, though I don't think I could call it that anymore as it felt just like the fur of the horses I used to groom back on my family’s farm. In addition, it was colored the same color of black as the fur on my hands. Carefully I traced the tips of my fingers over my lips, somewhat surprised to find that they felt soft to the touch.
That wasn’t the only change made to my face however, as it appeared to have been elongated, more closely resembling that of horse, except just a little bit smaller and with a more feminine look to it. The green eyes that I once had were now gone, replaced instead by the large orbs that now stared back at me, their green color replaced by teal. In addition, my pupils now bore a close resemblance to that of a cat’s in shape, with a long vertical slit in place of my normal round ones.
As I stared into the mirror, my gaze wandered over my new body. Where should I begin when trying to describe myself? Should I start with the long black horn that now jutted out from just above and between my eyes? Or maybe the light blue helmet that covered my head, small slits cut into it that allowed my horn and new pointed ears to poke out.
Oh, and what about my hair? If one could call it that! It had an ethereal beauty to it, seemingly moving as if by the wind. Trouble was, there wasn’t any wind to move it. Though, I will admit that it was beautiful, with its indigo blue ‘hair’, liberally dusted with little ‘stars’ that twinkled merrily. At that point I noticed that there was something else cascading behind me under my ‘hair’. It too held the ethereal beauty of the night sky and seemed connected to my waist. So I could only assume that it was a tail that matched my ‘hair’.
Looking past my new ‘hair’ and tail, I remembered the weight I had felt earlier on my back. It was then I realized that the weight was pair of black feathered wings which jutted out behind me.
I felt the last of my sanity slowly slipping away as I cackled like some deranged mad woman. "Hahaha! What else has the devil given me today? He’s already taken away what physically defines me as a man and replaced it with...this!" I yelled as I looked into the mirror gesturing with one arm at my new body.
My body’s new figure closely resembled that of an hourglass, large busty chest, slim waist and wide hips. The same figure I’d always found attractive on a woman. Problem was, now I'm the one with stuck with the figure!
Barely managing to keep a small sense of control, I hesitantly continued my visual inspection. In addition to my armored gauntlets on my hands and arms, I also sported a light blue, armored belt around my waist. A crescent moon symbol adorning the center of it, the same one as that on the armor of my gauntlets. Attached to my belt was a violet silk garment that came down to just above my ankles in length, similar to the one that covered my breasts.
However, it seemed that the sole purpose of this garment was to cover my nether regions, while leaving my hips fully exposed. That was another thing I quickly noticed too. There was a large image pasted on both sides of my hips. It was that of a light blue colored crescent moon, with a purple splotch lying under the moon and looked to be the same crescent moon that adorned my gauntlets and belt. However, this crescent moon was apart of me, apart of my body. I ran a couple fingers over the spot where it was located and shivered at the simple touch.
I finally stepped back from the mirror, allowing me to really see myself in all of my ‘glory’ for the first time.
"This is the demon the devil has turned me into? Some sort of creature that stalks the night and that preys on and seduces men? In essence a monster and a freak! Hahaha! Isn't this hilarious!" I yelled as that last bit of my sanity I’d been clinging too for so long finally broke.
"I mean, isn’t it just hilarious! After all the work I have done! All the countless hours helping those in need, not asking for anything, anything, at all in return! This is what I get? Why did this happen to me? Why? What did I do wrong?" I asked, tears streaming down my face as I finally broke down and cried.
I couldn’t have stopped the tears at that point, even if I wanted to. I was broken now, not my sanity, or at least not completely yet, there was still a small glimmer of hope left in the dark well called my psyche. No, it was my emotions that were broken. My anger. My sadness. And all the rest of them, broken, like that of a porcelain vase dropped from a high pedestal, and into a million fragments.
I fell to my knees, as I began to cry out every bit of pain in my heart.
{oOo}
Nightmare Moon sat there on stone floor of the old castle as she cried. For hours she cried. So distraught over who she now found herself as, Nightmare Moon failed to hear the creaking of an old door opening behind her.
"Girls do you hear that? It sounds like somepony’s crying."
Hours passed since Twilight Sparkle and her friends entered the Everfree Forest, making their way to her mentors former castle. Their journey this time around was much smoother since they first trekked inside all those years ago to defeat the entity known as Nightmare Moon.
Every obstacle from before was now passed with ease now that the Elements have faced many perils since the start of the beginning of they're friendship. Perils that to this day, would go down in Equestria's history as the Equestria's triumphs over the evil's of the dark.
To pass the time they talked about the many things going on in there lives, subject's pertaining to work, music, food, video games even stallions. But for one mare there was many questions plaguing her thoughts wanting to be let out and answered for her own peace of mind.
'What could the anomaly be? The magical force I felt when the storm climaxed was a force of high magical power, something I only experienced when we used the 'Elements of Harmony' to defeat Discord or Nightmare Moon. Could this anomaly be just as powerful as the elements? ...No that can't be it, the elements are the only fragments in existence that could ever achieve such high levels of magic. Even the Alicorn amulet pails in comparison to the magic the elements contain. But if that's the case just what could this anomaly be?
The purple mare hounded herself trying to find a plausible answer that could satisfy her thoughts and to let her be free of the torment she created for herself.
With the unicorn mare deep in her own thoughts, she could not sense or hear her friends trying to grab her attention on an important subject they discussed since passing the small river that housed the effeminate sea serpent that helped them from their first quest through the forest.
"Twilight?" The alabaster mare called to her. Without even a notion of recognition from the purple unicorn, Rarity moved forward from her place beside Fluttershy and placed her hand up onto Twilight's shoulder, braking her away from her thoughts and scaring the living daylights out of the mare.
"Wahhhhh!" Twilight screamed as she quickly turned around looking for the one who scared and most importantly broke her away from her thoughts. "Rarity! What the hay! Why did you do that!? You nearly scared me half to death!"
Rarity was taken back from Twilight's reaction, she knew the purple unicorn might have been frightened, but she didn't think that Twilight would almost bite her head off for it.
"I'm terrible sorry darling but we've been standing outside the castle gate entrance for quite some time now." Rarity looked into Twilights eyes and could see the frustration and wariness' in them "...Twilight, dear is everything alright?"
Twilight took this time to look around and realized that the alabaster mare was right. Looking ahead of her she could see the two statutes of the two alicorn sisters facing one another as a wall of flora covered the entrance to the castle grounds.
Twilight quickly turned to ready her friends for what may lie ahead but when she did she could see the concerned looks crossing the faces of her friends. Twilight gave a sigh in frustration as she rubbed her temples. "I'm ok girls, alright! It's just... I'm a bit worried right now. Earlier this evening when the storm began to die down I felt an immense magical force when the last lightning bolt struck. And the force alone... The only time I ever felt a power so immense was when we fought Nightmare Moon using the 'Elements of Harmony '!"
All five mares facing Twilight visibly cringed at the thought. They knew that the Elements where the most powerful artifacts in Equestria, but to have another magical force that can rival the Elements truly scared the six mares. And if that wasn't enough, the princess had tasked them to confront the 'Magic Anomaly' without the use of said Elements.
"Well." Applejack began as she stepped forward passing the others as she made her way to the front of the group. "I know y'all are just as scared as I am, but Princess Celestia gave us a job ta do and I reckon we best get in there lickity split so we can figure just what were dealin with."
"Hey yeah!" The rainbow maned Pegasus piped up. "Applejack's right, we can't stay here like scared little filly's. The faster we get inside the faster I can get back to kicking flank in haylo."
With Rainbow Dash and Applejack on board to head forward, a certain pink earth pony began hopping up and down with excitement to continue their adventure. "Silly Dashie you keep playing that game yet you still get beat by that one colt. What was his name? Oh! Spetsnaz Pinkie Pie! You always lose to him."
Rainbow gave an unamused look to the pink party pony showing her disinterest to what her friend said. "Ugh! I hate losing, and I think that guy was using mods. And beside Pinkie don't you find it kinda creepy he uses your name as his gamer tag?"
Pinkie Pie immediately stopped bouncing in excitement from the cyan Pegasus words and quickly grew a more heated look. "Actually Dashie." She said as the pink mare began twiddling her fingers around one another. "I kind of find it flattering really. To think that some colt out there that likes me enough to use my name, even if it is for his video games, it's-." The pink mare couldn't finish her own thought as the entirety of her face grew red as a large smile graced her lips.
"Girls!" Twilight exclaimed getting everyone's attention. "You can talk about your video games later, but for now we have to get to the castle!"
"Darn tootin' sugarcube. Come on y'all let's hop to it."
"C-c-can't we w-wait h-here for the P-princesses?" Fluttershy stutters as she walked along the path next to Rainbow Dash.
"No we can't Fluttershy. We need to find anything we can, that way we won't have to waist the princesses time when they get here!" Twilight said as she placed her hands on the foliage that separated the castle grounds from the forest.
"Very well darling let us be off. I need to return back to my boutique soon to get some rest, I have an order due in a few days and Onyx is taking me out to dinner tonight."
With a nod Twilight brushed away the vines and leaves that covered the broken gate leading into the open area of the castle grounds. Slowly, one by one each mare passed the flora and walked straight into a most horrifying site.
"In Celestia's name what happened here!?" Rarity screamed. The girls were in shock. The sight before them was more horrifying then the storm that once hit Ponyville a couple of years back.
The castle grounds were scorched black from the fire that even now still lit the grass plain that surrounded the area. There were Large amounts of broken trees that littered all around the castle grounds, and if the mares were to look closely to the trees before them they would be able to see the carcass of small animals smashed between trees were pools of blood would seep down and gather into the divots
"This... This is horrifying!" Twilight said as she and the others began walking through the debris of broken trees and burnt grounds.
A high pitched scream was heard right beside the mares as they traversed through the broken foliage. They quickly looked to the one screaming and found Fluttershy on her knees balling her eyes out with tears.
The five other mares quickly went to her side only to find an even more horrifying sight. Fluttershy sat there, her arms wrapped around her legs as as she cradled herself in a tight ball as her tears and screams of sadness fell from her eyes from the sight before her.
There, under the large broken tree was the corpse of a baby fawn. It's body crushed by the large willow causing the fawn's body to explode in a heap flesh and blood. On to the side of the blood stained bark, it's head was free from the impact but was greatly affected still. The weight of the willow caused it's eyes to pop out and the blood flow out from every orifice the head had. Blood spewed from it's ears, mouth, snout and eye sockets.
None of the girls had the stomach to stand at the site of the dead fawn. Tears began to stream down every mares face as they tried to take Fluttershy away from the gruesome sight. It took the strength of both Applejack and Rainbow Dash to carry the distraught mare away to an area where the damage was nothing more then burnt grass.
Although Fluttershy was a usually quiet mare, but from what she just saw, she couldn't help but cry out in terror asking why? Why such a terrible fate should have befallen such a poor innocent creature.
"Why!?" The butter yellow Pegasus cried out through heavy tears. "W-why d-did this h-have to h-happen!?"
"There, there Fluttershy." Applejack said as she began to comfort the distraught mare. "it's all gonna be okay sugarcube, that there critter is in a better place now, ya hear."
"B-b-b-but the poor b-baby!" Fluttershy wailed more as she tightly hugged the apple farmer. Rarity drew closer to her friends and began to calmly pat the crying mare on her back.
"Fluttershy." Twilight spoke as she sadly walked to the crying Pegasus. "I know it hurts now but there simply nothing we could for it. We have to move on. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna will be here soon and we still haven't seen the inside of the castle."
Fluttershy said nothing as she kept weeping into Applejacks shoulder. The apple farmer stroking her mane as she did. Twilight gave a sad sigh as she brought her hand onto pink maned Jared shoulder. "Fluttershy how about this. When this is all over we'll make a burial for the fawn..."
Fluttershy slowly lifted herself away from the orange earth pony's shoulder and looked to her purple coated friend and began to slowly nod her head in approval. "I-I" She sniffled back a few tears before she went on. "I-I guess that's okay. Can you say a few words for her Twilight?"
Twilight gave her friend a small smile as she gave a nod. "Sure thing Fluttershy"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah real sad. But incase you girls have forgotten we still have to get inside that castle and I just checked the bridge and it's gone, completely gone!"
Twilight's smile vanished as she and the rest of the girls looked to the cyan Pegasus flying above them. Rainbow held a scowl as she looked back to where the bridge to the castle use to stand only to find chard pieces of rope and the end of the stakes that held the bridge.
"What!" Twilight yelled quickly making her way to the burnt out bridge. The others walked up next to her as they all looked to where the non existent bridge use to be.
"Oh my stars!" Rarity exclaimed "How in Celestia's name are we supposed to cross over that dreadful chasm now?"
Everyone was quiet for the moment until a cough from the orange earth pony caught everypony's attention. "I think y'all are forgotten that we got two unicorns here. And dat one of them is ta element of magic."
Twilight along with Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash physically face palmed from forgetting such a thing. "Okay just give a few seconds to prepare and I'll teleport us over."
Everypony stood close to Twilight as her horn began to shimmer in a light of lavender color. In a flash the six mares were gone and in there place stood only the charred remains of burnt grass and trees. Another flash erupted, this time not to far from the castle doors.
Twilight stood tall being used to teleporting, but the others began to wobble just a bit from the dizziness the felt after being teleported. "Ugh. I think I'm gonna vomit. "The cyan Pegasus said as she lurched herself forward onto her knees feeling the remnants of her previous meal fill into her esophagus. With a gulp she pushed it down back into her stomach, but even then she could still feel the after taste.
"Twi remind me to never let you teleport us again." The apple farmer said to the lavender unicorn as she, Rarity and Fluttershy regurgitated the last meals. Fluttershy let loose a few tears as the bile left her maw. Pinkie Pie... Not really sure? The pink party mare didn't seem to be sickened by the effects of the teleportation.
"I'm sorry girls that usually only happens on the first teleportation. It shouldn't happen again." Twilight gave her friends a crooked smile of embarrassment as she scratch the back of her head as the girls began picking themselves off the ground.
"Look egghead were cool just... No more teleporting for me. I'll think I'll stick to what I do best." Rainbow said flexing her wings as she did.
"Alright everypony here good now?" Applejack asked looking to her friends.
""Heavens no darling! My breath stinks of this wretched bile! Oh I should get back to the boutique. I don't want Onyx to think I'm uncouth because of this."
Applejack looked to the alabaster fashionista in bewilderment "Rarity yer datin a black smith for the Royal Guard! I recken he won't mind something small like dis."
"Never the less Applejack, a lady must always be clean especially for there stallion."
"Girls!?" Twilight asked in a questioningly stern voice catching the others attention. " Are you two finished yet?! We still have to go inside, unless you want to tell the princesses that we couldn't complete our task because we were to busy arguing with each other."
Applejack and Rarity looked down to the grass beneath there hoofs both giving a sorry sigh before apologizing to the frustrated unicorn ahead of them.
"Sorry there Sugar cube."
"Please accept our apologies darling. We shouldn't have been arguing over something so pointless."
Both mares looked up to Twilight, the lavender mare giving her friends a happy smile before speaking. "It's alright girls. Let's just get going, the princesses should be here soon."
"Alrighty then let's do dis!"
"Finally!" Dash exclaimed, jumping off a large stone. "I thought I would of been an old timer by the time we finally get moving again!"
"Hush now Rainbow Dash. We're moving now so no need to fret."
"Pfft, whatever."
Walking up to the old wooden doors to the old castle brought back memories for the six mares the last time they were there. It was a time only a few short years ago were there bond as friends were strengthened once they realized who they were. The holders to the 'Elements of Harmony'.
Twilight breathed out a heavy sigh as she remember what she and the others had done that day. The day they defeated Nightmare Moon and brought back Equestria's second princess back from the evil that plagued her.
Twilight began to pull the handle to the large ornate door that held the carved image of the Lunar princess out. The hinges creaked as the years of age and rust played there toll on them. But as the large door opened further, the sounds of sobbing reached the groups ears as they took small hesitant steps forwards.
"Girls do you hear that?It sounds like some ponies crying."
"Girls do you hear that? It sounds like some ponies crying." Twilight looked back to the others her ears swiveled to the direction to the crying was heard.
"Oh no! Do you think somepony is hurt Twilight?"
"I hope not Fluttershy. Come on girls let's go check who's in there."
One by one each mare took hesitant steps inside the gloomy and decrepit castle. There hooves made audible clops that ranged through out the large room that once housed the 'Elements of Harmony'.
The more they moved the more there hooves echoed throughout the castle. "Girls stop!" Twilight said abruptly in a whisper.
"What gives egghead?"
"Sshhh!" The lavender mare harshly hushed the cyan Pegasus next to her, placing her hand on her mouth. "Listen..." She said closing her eyes listening to the sounds emitting from inside the castle. "I don't here anypony crying anymore?"
"H-hello?" A voice spoke out from not to far away. "Hello, is anyone here? Please! Anyone!?"
{oOo} I thought I heard voices. Somewhere behind me in the dark areas of this horrid castle. I called out to them hoping they would answer me. To answer my plea for help.
"Who's there?" A feminine voice asked. "Who are you?"
I didn't know how to answer such a question. I'm not me anymore, I'm this... Creature, this Demon! Hesitantly, though I spoke back to the voice. "I-I don't know? I don't know who I am? Or what I am?" The last words I spoke dejectedly, a small tear falling down my cheek as my luminescent hair covered half of my face.
There was muttering. My new ears swiveled to where the voices were, and I could barely hear anything let alone what was being said. Something in my mind told me that there maybe more than one other person there.
{oOo} "Watch it egghead! It could be a trap." The Rainbow maned mare said with concern as she looked to the awaiting darkness that housed the unknown mare.
"Rainbow how can you say such a thing!? The poor dear is scared out of her mind couldn't you tell from the way she spoke?" Rarity said concerned about the scared mare she heard.
"What you think about this here Twi? You reckon it's a trap like Rainbow said?"
Twilight shook her head in confusion. "I heard that voice from somewhere before, but I can't remember where?" The lavender unicorn spoken, smacking a hand against her head. "Look there is six of us and one of her, that we know of. When we see her we'll demand some answers."
"Um... I-I hope she's okay." The soft voice of Fluttershy spoke out just as Twilight lit her horn.
{oOo} A small spark of lavender flashed before my eyes and the darkness that surrounded the castle walls began to dim as the lavender light illuminated them. I covered my eyes as the light intensified leaving me a bit stunned.
I heard the sound of shocked gasps rung through the castle as I rubbed my eyes from the disorienting light. "YOU!!!" Someone shouted as I began blinking away small bright dots in my eyes.
I looked to where I first heard the voices, but before I could see the people ahead of me, I found myself beginning to lift into the air. "W-what, what's happening?!" I yelled as I waived my black arms in fright.
"Don't play dumb Nightmare Moon! I don't know how you're here but we will stop you again!" I wanted to say something, anything! I didn't know what she was talking about. Who is this Nightmare Moon? And why does the name seem so... Fitting for this form?
"Come on Twilight! Kick her flank!!!" Another female yelled. I began screaming as I felt my body being launched through the air. I could see pillar after pillar move past me as I flew backwards, my arm flailing wildly as I did.
A sickening crunch reverberated throughout the castle and the screams of a mare in excruciating pain followed through. The form of Nightmare Moon impacted the far wall, her wings being crushed by her own body weight causing the bones in her wings to bend and snap under the pressure.
The mares standing next to a grinning Twilight Sparkle began to cheer in victory as the body of Nightmare Moon fell to the dirt covered stone floors of the castle, the metal of her armor clanging loudly as the impact caused in uproar of dust to cover the air around her prone body.
My body... So much distress I could feel all around my new body. My wings I could feel immense pain from the many broken bones in them, the taste of copper flooding into my mouth. My breasts... I can understand now why girls never liked there breasts being squeezed to hard. The pain from the impact... I think I blacked out for a second. The affliction was just unbearable.
Through my pain I could hear the sounds of amusement coming from the group that did this to me. They enjoyed hurting me? Why? What did I do?
I struggled as I tried to move. Just to attempt any movement at all caused pain to course through my very being again. But I had to leave this place. I had to get out of here before they start hurting me again.
Through the pain I began to crawl, my delicate black furred hands and the gauntlets I wore clawed forward, they moved in tandem with one another moving through the dirt and debris littering the ground. My breasts caused my movement to suffer due to their large size. 'Why did I have to be given large tits!' There was a hole in the wall not to far away, I could see foliage just beyond the passage as it glistened in the moonlight just outside of these foreboding walls.
Crawling there was to slow, I had to move faster! I shakily began to lift myself up off the ground, my breasts ached from the crawl the cloth holding my breasts was torn almost to shreds leaving only strands that barely covered anything!
Standing now on my own two hooves I limped my way closer to the passage. With the blood seeping through my teeth, I smiled as the hole widened the closer I moved to it.
"Oh no you don't!" A diffrent female voice yelled near me. My ears swiveled to the left were her voice came from but before I could turn to look to her I was knocked to the floor hard, cradling my left leg screaming like a banshee in pain.
I screamed. I screamed for the life of me. My legs was broken, I knew it was. Through the tears and screams I looked down to my broken leg and the sight before my eyes made me want to vomit. Blood gushed out of a hole were bits of bone had burst through my black fur, showing me the whiteness of the bone itself.
{oOo} "Good job AJ!" Rainbow Dash yelled giving her friend a high-five. "Now it's my turn!" The cyan mare yelled launching herself into the air before hovering over the down Nightmare Moon.
Giggling to herself, Rainbow Dash plummeted straight down from the ceiling aiming herself at Nightmare Moon edging to give her the beating of a lifetime.
The sounds of ribs cracking and breaking resounded through out the castle as the rainbow maned mare's hoof harshly connected to Nightmare Moons abdomen, causing her to lose whatever oxygen she may have had left in her lungs making her wheeze and cling to every breath she could take in.
"I'm not finished with you yet WHORSE!" The pegasus yelled, kicking Nightmare Moon in her ribs.
"All right, way to go Dash! Show that big meanie who's boss!" More cheering came from the mares as they watched Rainbow Dash take on a non-combatant Nightmare Moon.
{oOo} I feel so... Numb, I can barely breath. This body. My body. It feels so broken, so damaged I can't feel my legs, nor my wings. The blood won't stop pouring into my mouth. Each breath I take caused more of it to crawl down my throat and into my aching lungs making jerk in a fit of hacking.
Above me I can barely see what stood above me through my tears. She I can see that it was female, stood over me. Her lips curved into a mix between a scowl and a sinister smile.
Suddenly I felt my head in a flash turn to the side, a searing pain blazed upon my cheek after it did. Another flash and my head turned to other side, my other cheek now in pain. Again and again my head would move back and forth, the pain following through as it did.
Why won't they stop? Can't they see I am doing nothing to fight back. Or to even protect myself. Why do they need to do this?
{oOo} Fluttershy had watched everything that had happened since the beginning. She watched as Twilight flung the ebony alicorn into the far wall of the castle. She watched when Applejack had kicked the mare down right in the center of the femur in her left leg causing the bone to not only break but to breach pass the skin.
As her friends cheered, she silently cried watching the merciless beating they were giving to Nightmare Moon.
Now she watches as Rainbow Dash, a friend she has known since her days in flight camp, repeatedly punch the mare across the face over and over and over again. Fluttershy didn't know what to do. She was crossed between cheering with her friends or helping a being that hasn't even lifted a finger to fight back or even protect herself. She knew everything that was happening was wrong, her friends weren't fighting Nightmare Moon they were torturing her. She new she had to do something. Her element was kindness yet she hasn't shown it to a being who truly needed it most at the moment.
"Stop it." She softly said, her voice not loud enough to even come close to the cheering beside her. "Stop it!" She said again a little louder but still wasn't enough. "STOP IT!!!" Fluttershy screamed in fury as she tackled her friend off the ebony Alicorn.
Both pegasi skid to halt close to a broken pillar at the far end of the hall. The cheering had completely vanished as the mares stood by taking in what there shy friend had just done. Rainbow Dash was shocked seeing her friend holding her down with an angry expression on her muzzle.
Fluttershy angry expression softened as she turned away from her cyan friend and looked to the beaten mare not to far away. The butter cream-colored Pegasus let go of Dash and quickly made her way to the beaten Night Princess.
The others protested asking what she was doing and why. Only to receive a glare from the pink maned Pegasus as she bent down to cradle Nightmare Moons head into her lap. "Sshh." She softly cooed trying to calm down the scared mare as tears fell down her muzzle and splashed down onto Nightmare Moons swollen face. "It's okay now, nopony is going to hurt you."
The ebony Alicorn convulsed as she coughed up more blood. Her eyes were swollen shut and teeth were missing from her open maw. Her nose was bent and broken as blood slowly trickled out. Fluttershy could hear something, something past the wheezing the alicorn was making.
"Momma..." Her voice, soft, frightened and in pain when she spoke that single word. "Momma..." She quivered in terror as she tried to clear away the blood in her mouth. "I wanna go home, I wanna go home!" She gasped trying to take another breath. "Momma! Momma! Mom-ma, momma, momm..." Her voiced trailed as her eyes closed and the blackness of unconsciousness' took her from the world.
Fluttershy wept holding the alicorn in her hands. The others looked upon the scene in awe at the view before them, not noticing two large beings walking through the castle doors behind them.
The unconscious body of Nightmare Moon began to move as a golden aura encompassed entirety of her figure. The mares were stunned as the limp body was taken from Fluttershy's grasp and brought up into the air at full view of everyone inside the castle.
"Why?" Was the question from a voice standing beside the group of mares. Each mare turned to there right to find Both Celestia and Luna standing beside them. A scowl on each others muzzle, with the golden aura of the Solar Princess not only lighting the room but holding the ebony Alicorn before them. "Why?" Celestia said again. "Why did you come back? What purpose do you have here? We already defeated you not once but twice! Why try again?"
"Princess." Twilight said hoping to get the Alabaster Alicorns attention. The Solar Alicorn looked to her pupil asking her to continue. "Princess she was the Anomaly. She was the reason for everything. The Maelstrom, all the destruction outside. She caused this."
"Did this vile beast hurt any of you?" The younger Alicorn asked, a look of pure hatred etched onto her face as her eyes barred holes into Nightmare Moon.
"No." Came a quick response from Fluttershy. Grabbing both princesses attention. "S-she did nothing. S-she didn't hurt anypony." They all looked to Pegasus but the only thing she did was stare at Nightmare.
"Good." Was the response of the Solar Princess. The light around her horn grew and the aura encompassing the ebony Alicorn expanded in to a large white ball. And in a simple poof of magic she was gone, leaving nothing but torn cloth and blood littering the ground below. "She's gone now... I sent her to a cell inside the castle dungeons were no magic, not even one of an alicorn can break through. She will spend all her time there until the day of her execution."
"What!?" Came the shrieking voice of Fluttershy. "No! You c-can't do that! She d-didn't hurt a-anypony! S-she d-didn't do a-any t-thi-."
"Enough!" The Lunar Princess yelled to the butter cream mare that protesting such an event. "For to long had Nightmare Moon plagued Equestria before our banishment! That vile beast took thousands of the little filly's and colts of our land, never to be seen again! The 'Elements' have proven that they could not dispel such wretched vermin from the land, so we must do what we know is best."
"The guillotine." Celestia said looking to the Element bearers. "In one month she will be executed and that is final. I'm proud of you girls for subduing Nightmare Moon when you had the chance... Come let us talk more at the library. We will discuss what went on here later."
With out hearing any disapproval from the others, Celestia walked out of her old castle. Her sister Luna following behind with the 'Elements' trailing not to far away.
{oOo} Deep in the dungeons of Canterlot Castle, a lone Alicorn. Bruised, beaten and broken, was latched to the cold stone wall. Bindings held her arms apart as the ones placed around her ankles held her ebony legs together.
Nightmare Moon was fully nude in her bindings. Her clothing and armor taken away when the guards placed her in her cell. One guard smiled to himself as he grabbed her large breasts with his free hands before he left. The same guard that was now posted outside her cell.
Her mangled body. Even though the runes that were placed around the cell dispelled any magic that tampered within the walls, did not stop the magic of the Alicorn herself from repairing all the damage that was done to her.
The bones in her wings began to move and latch themselves back together. The broken femur in her left leg began to reseed back into her leg and it latched itself with the rest of the femur bone.
Molars began to fill the missing areas in her maw and the swelling around her muzzle began to go down as her bent snout righted itself.
Everything looked fine now... The body of the unconscious Alicorn seemed okay. As if she was never beaten to a pulp in the first place. But everything was not fine. Not in her mind at least.
"The goddess has granted me a new host?" A sultry voice said it in the depths of Nightmare Moons mind. "Oh! This is just to much!" She laughed. "Oh, you poor thing... Taken away from your world. Brought here in a form that is hated by millions all around. Oh!" She said again as her snickering continued. "Not just a new form, but also a new gender!" The voice laughed again.
She laughed. For how long she didn't care, it was to much fun. "A new host that was given my form when I took over that silly little princess! A host that has no knowledge of the world SHE now finds herself in! Oh yes I will have fun with you! By the goddess indeed I will!"
Everywhere I turned they were there. Every hall I passed, every door I opened they were there following me in this haunting castle, with there sinister smiles and sharp pointed teeth. I could hear them cackling in joy the closer they would get to me.
This was a nightmare, my nightmare. And no matter how hard I tried to wake, it proved frivolous. If I stopped running for a single second in here the monsters would appear behind me, cackling away with their sharp claws prepared to tear away my flesh with a single swipe.
I tried using weapons against them, things I could use like the leg of a table or a wall mounted sword to cut them down. But every time I tried they would only laugh away as their wounds healed.
I tried using the ebony wings on my back but even they proved to be useless. Even if I was able to fly I was struck down by the cyan one with rainbow hair. If she wasn't there it was the lavender one with her horn that struck me down with some unseen force.
The orange one toyed with me though. Running with great speed behind me then breaking away to some unknown place only to reappear in front of me, shrieking a horrifying cry as her jaw unhinged further and further with every step she would take closer to me.
I wanted to give up, so badly I just wanted to crawl up into a ball and cry, let these 'things' take me away and do what ever it is they wanted.
But I couldn't give up, I can't let these monsters get me. If I waited out long enough the yellow angel would come and save me. Free me from my nightmare like before.
I just needed to hold on just a little bit longer.
I could feel my calves burning and my stomach twisting into knots for each second I ran. My body ached from the extra weight on my chest, I could feel the non existent bile run through my stomach with each twist and turn through the castle.
Running through this castle was like running through a maze. A never ending maze with no way out.
I turned left and there was the lavender one cackling away shooting purple beams from her horn. I turned behind me to the other hall and ran again. This one like the others held pictures of another different 'thing' laughing away as I ran. The picture was of a pink creature, her hair straight and sleek, her eyes black and soulless and the streaks falling from them were red like blood. It would look at me, pointing, laughing as I ran past.
Something felt different about this nightmare. Something even more wrong then what it was. The walls were beginning to feel like they were closing in on me the further I ran and the monsters seemed to be faster than before.
Darkness began to seep in around me, the torches on the walls extinguished in a flash behind me after each step I took. Every corridor I ran passed was now pitch black, except for the red eyes inside that followed me.
My body completely halted in it's tracks as the torches further down the hall extinguished. There was no where for me to run now, the only area keeping me safe was where I stood between the only space that had any light.
Out there in the dark reaches of castle I heard the cries of laughter. The blood red eyes that bore into my being making me whimper in fright. The two torches on the walls flickered.
"No..." My voice wavered in fright as I looked away from the dark halls and menacing eyes, too the flickering torches above.
"Please god no-" Was all I could whisper before the light extinguished and the darkness of the castle enveloped me.
My screams of pain reverberated through out the pitch black castle as the demons tore away at my flesh with their claws as they cackled in delight.
{o0o}
As the screams of the ebony alicorn took a turn for the worse, they seized quickly as ice water splashed against her body. Nightmare Moon woke distraught after the newest form of horror her dreams conjured. She blinked away the weariness' in her eyes before looked to and fro into nothing but darkness as the freezing water dripped from her fur.
"For Celestia's sake shut the buck up!" A masculine voice yelled from inside the darkness. A torch lit from outside the Nightmare's cell showing the form of one of the guards the ebony alicorn as come to see since her first day waking in her prison. "Non-stop with your bucking screaming! I swear I would sow your mouth shut if I had the choice."
I didn't say a word as he turned and left. I had come to learn what happens if I talk. The memory of the guards blade as it cut my skin the first time I woke in this cell begging for help.
The clopping sound of his hooves caught me as he rounded my door with a metal tray in his hands. "Well look what I've got here."He said holding the metal tray in front of the cell door.
His horn flashed with an orange aura, the chains that held me to the wall came loose. My naked body fell to the cobble stone floor, pain rushed through different parts of me making cry in agony.
"Ahh, little Ms. Moon get a boo boo?" He mocked as he laughed. "Anyway. Per Celestia's orders I've come with your food. Again..." The guard mindlessly tossed the tray into my cell letting it crash sending bits and pieces of mush and bread through out my cell. "But she never does say how you would receive it."
With haste I crawled forward beginning to scavenge every scrap I could grab but the chains would only let me go so far. Every piece I found I would eat with haste trying to fill my empty stomach. There was never any water when I had the chance to eat, what I found to quench my thirst were the puddles of liquid that dripped from the stone ceiling.
The food just outside my reach I would try with all my heart to get, it would be at the edge of my black furred fingers but the scraps would never be close enough for me to reach.
"You're done already?" He said watching me clawing for the large piece of bread only an inch away. "Well then let me put you in your rightful place." His horn gave a glow for a 2nd time and I felt the chains that bound my arms and legs tug at my limbs pulling my body back with great force.
I screamed as I crashed back against the wall, my wings crushed by the force and the weight of my body. Tears streamed down my face as the pain slowly faded. My stomach continued to grumble wanting more food but I knew it would days or hopefully hours until they would feed me again.
The feeling of lethargy came over me as my tears stopped. The effects of the lack of food was taking it's toll on my mind and body for another day as black spots filled my eyes.
It was only a matter of time before I was completely...
She was out. Nightmare Moons head hung low as her naked body hung from the cold dark stone wall. The guard posted outside her cell smiled at her form just before the torch behind him went off and the stallion simply walked away.
{oOo}
For a second time this day Nightmare Moon's, chains loosened from the walls. And for a 2nd time this day her naked body fell to the cobble stone flooring that was her cell.
She awoken with pain coursing through her body and the feeling of her lungs empty of oxygen. She hacked and coughed and try as she might gasped for air. The guard that had loosened her chains, the same guard that had tormented her with lack of food, watched in amusement as she wreathed in pain.
Her naked body bounced with each spasm and twitch, and with the sight of her generously proportionated breasts jiggling in the light of the torch made his phallus harden in excitement.
Nightmare Moon laid upon the dirt covered floor, her wings splayed out underneath her as she gasped for air. She looked up to the black ceiling thinking. It was one hell after another for her. If it wasn't the nightmare in her dreams it was the nightmare of reality making her wish she would just die.
She was so very tired and so very hungry. All she had known after waking inside that ruined castle was pain. The only hope she had was in her dreams when the yellow angel saved her from the demons. But even then their were times that even the angel was unable to save her.
The sound of rusty hinges of her cell door squealing open caught her ears. She looked left from her position on the floor to find the same guard that has watched her since the beginning of her imprisonment slowly walk in with hunger in his eyes and a sinister smile on his lips.
"You know," He spoke stopping right in front me casting his gaze over my body before looking into my eyes. He bent down and took a knee before he began to stroke my cheek with his left hand. "I have been watching you for days now Ms. Moon, and you know what I have come to learn in those days?"
I felt the same fear again as I had in my dreams as his hand moved from my cheek to my throat. "No pony here seems to care what happens to you." Tears streamed down my face again as his hand clenched onto my throat choking me. My body flailed in terror as I tried to scream to breath the sour air of the castle dungeon again. I watched through teary eyes as he laughed in joy the more he would tighten his grip around my throat.
I tried to strike him with my hands but the chains around my wrist still kept me from moving them to far.
I don't know if it was an act of mercy or if he had grown tired of suffocating me. Or maybe it was something else, but when he decided to release me from his grasp, I hacked, coughed and gasped for much air as I could.
I flopped onto my stomach feeling bile running through my stomach and up into my mouth before releasing the contents of my last meal onto floor of my prison cell.
I wheezed for breath and cried for the horrors to stop...
"I can hear it you know? Your stomach. Grumbling, craving for it's next meal. And I can give it to you, right now actually. All you have to do is..."
The sounds of a buckle being unbuckled and and a zipper unzipping came to my ears as I silently begged for what was about to come next was just a nightmare.
"Get on your knees, and open your mouth wide, cause I have something that's going to fill you right up."
