As most of us know from the legend Princess Luna was possessed by an entity known as Nightmare Moon.But what if there was something more to that legend.This is the tale of one of the reasons Luna had been banished.For it was also Luna's own faul
Princess Luna had been possessed by Nightmare earlier than most had known but, Nightmare being as clever as she is,she had disguised herself as Luna and thus hadn't been found out until it was to late.For you see Nightmare had used Luna's body to gather foals to make an colony as she had planned ,but she made a change to her plans instead of making a colony she would torture and brutally kill the foals all in one night.
NOTE: This is based off of Children Of the Night also could any of those who dislike can you tell me why
NOTE: This story contains gore and mature content you've been warned
Looking at the terrified and grief stricken foals in the dark cave,Nightmare Moon glared viciously at the hoof-full of foals she had gathered.'To think what way would be better to get revenge than this' thought Nightmare as she used her magic to pick up a colt that was no older than six years and strapped him onto the stone table surrounded by a vast collection of tools ranging from the simple brand new saw to a old and rusty crank.She examined the selection she had,cast a spell that gagged the colt,and picked up a small bone saw.Nightmare smirked and slowly,but lightly dragged it across the colt's left foreleg and bringing it down to his small barrel and bringing it up to his muzzle.By now the colt had been screaming and crying many tears of pain,while the small group of the other colts and fillies were gagging and throwing up others were crying and shaking ,but one thing was the same with all of them they were forced to watch Nightmare and her "operation".Nightmare herself was trying to hold back as much as she could to make the precise strokes of the saw and not let her anger at her sister get the better of her.
All the while she was doing this performing small designs on the poor colt a star over his heart, a moon on his muzzle and other small designs being engraved into his skin.Eventually she picked up a glove and cleared the blood off of him,and then selected two tools the first a hammer and the second a chisel then began her new routine with this new pair of tools.First she put the chisel into his left fetlock and hit the hammer's head right on the chisel burrowing it in the the fetlock and out the other side,nailing it to the table.She grabbed a second chisel and repeated it with his right both earning muffled screams of pain that sounded more like a far-away howl.The group of foals screeched in terror at the sight.
"Silence!" yelled Nightmare,next to instantly shutting up the group and even the colt strapped to the table."Quiet all of you."
And then she went back to work, grabbing another chisel and positioned it over the colt's left ergot,she looked at his face, smiled darkly, and hammered it in harder than the other two, resulting in an even louder scream than before.Now she went to pick up a scalpel and put it on the lower part of his barrel stabbed him straight in the middle and slowly began to pull
up opening his mid-section and then upward onto the higher part of his barrel.Then she stopped, put the scalpel down and used her magic to rip open his chest exposing his entrails and organs inside.Nightmare for the first time noticed that the colt was unconscious, grinning she cast a spell that woke him up.
"Good now it's time for an examination." said Nightmare,grinning evilly as the next part of this colt's procedure came into fruition.
Using her magic Nightmare picked his small intestines up and out at first pulling slowly and carefully then, pulling hard and wildly.Soon, the entrails came free,Nightmare grinned and put them on a metal plate.
"Now how about the other one" cooed Nightmare.
The colt quickly shaked his head 'no' and struggled once more only to be struck by Nightmare.The colt looked over at the group of fillies and colts noticing that by now most of them had passed out ,and those who hadn't looked like they were about to.The colt looked down and stared into his open chest cavity in sadness and disgust
"Oh giving already dear? Good it'll just mean less pain for you in the end." said Nightmare.
And she went back to cutting up and taking out the colt's various organs,but saving the heart and lungs for last.As she finished up with most of his organs she stopped looked him in the eye and said:
"You haven't made this as fun anymore so now you DIE!"
She plunged the scalpel into his heart and repeatedly stabbed until it was just blood and mush.
And so the colt had breathed his last breath as she finished stabbing.
As Nightmare yelled she awoke the group of foals and the terror before made them all scream loud.For their fellow captive had his hooves nailed down to the stone bed he was one with chisels,his barrel opened,all of his organs on a metal plate,and a bloodied Nightmare Moon standing by his body with a glare mixed with anger and insanity.
"Silence!" She bellowed silencing all but one Earth Pony filly. "Hmm what do we have here?A volunteer.Well come on up don't linger"
As the filly continued to wail Nightmare shut her up and pulled her over with her magic staring her in the eye
"Well let's have some fun then.Shall we?"
Nightmare took the filly to a rock wall that had chains and shackles on it.She put the filly on the wall and closed the shackles around her hooves made sure they were as tight as possible and brought over the collection of the, bloody, tools.
"Hmm what should we use on you little one?" Nightmare whispered into the filly's ear causing her to squirm even more in her shackles."Oh yes this will be interesting."
Chuckling Nightmare picked up an awl and picked up the bloodied hammer and aimed it right over the filly's top left hoof and hammered the awl into her ergot and hammered it into it.The filly howled in pain at her hoof virtually being cut off.Nightmare grinned at the filly's pain,and for a moment felt pleasure in what she was doing.And just now Nightmare amidst her feelings of anger pleasure and giddiness did she remembered about the other foals, she looked over and saw them in a similar position as before cowering and sniveling in the corner of the cave not one brave enough to run or do anything else.
"Now let's see what should I do next?" Said Nightmare, again examining the collection of tools."Aha!This will nicely" Nightmare said grinning while looking at a very sharp and deadly looking exotic dagger.
Nightmare picked up the dagger and held it to the filly's flank and slowly engraved her cutie mark of the Moon and it's shadow into her skin.The filly whimpered in pain as the blade sliced her flesh and fur burning as Nightmare went.Eventually, Nightmare came to a stop,put the dagger out and picked up a much more terrifying scalpel than the one she used before,and began to cut along her right cannon to her elbow then to her flank and to her tail leaving a very large gash.Next Nightmare began to slowly peel back the skin across her barrel until most of her muscles were in sight.Then,she slowly started to cut across her whole barrel making a large five-pointed star.Then, Nightmare started to cut each non-major vein she could find.By now Nightmare had noticed that the filly had noticed that the filly had passed out and her coat was losing it's color.Nightmare revived the filly and continued on her procedure.Then she suddenly stopped, picked up an axe and began to fervently hack at the organs slicing each one into bloody ribbons.While looking quite fierce Nightmare was actually planning where to hit and the landing of each and every slash.
With most of her organs destroyed the filly was close to dying,but Nightmare wouldn't have it.She used the revive spell again on the filly but it had a lesser effect.As the filly was beginning to breath her last,final breaths Nightmare ripped her tiny intestines out and strangled her to death with her own intestines.The filly died staring into the eyes of a cold, heartless monster.
As Nightmare finished with strangling the filly, she bellowed "Wake up!Up!".And woke up what was remaining of the colts and fillies.
"Come on we are going deeper in the cave.NOW!" She demanded.All of the foals whimpered in protest against her command,since most knew that only more nightmares would await them further in the cave.After about half an hour, although time was almost indistinguishable due to the darkness of the cave, they reached a stone room that none of them had seen before.It was filled with skull crushers,and 'cat's paws',asides from those only other various torture tools were littered around the room/cavern.As soon as all of the foals had entered the cavern Nightmare blocked the entrance with a boulder, and quickly picked up a unicorn colt, cut off his horn with a bone saw, then strapped him to a skull crusher.Then she picked up a large hammer and a especially made part of the crusher to hold legs, put the colt's left leg into the part and broke his knee, then she repeated the process with each of his legs.She grabbed the dagger from earlier, still coated in blood, and began to trace a line upon each of his legs until they reached an center point in his back.From there she drew a large circle with an star on the outside.She put the dagger down and started to turn the large corkscrew starting the skull cap's slow descent onto the colt's skull.The colt saw what was to be his agonizingly painful future, and struggled to get out even though he knew it was impossible.The skull cap was right on top of the poor colt's head and then it's slow descent had just gotten even slower as it began to slowly compress his head.
His jaw started to wobble then creak then most of his teeth shot out of his mouth, some cutting his cheeks.He started to cry tears of pain at the lacerations in his cheeks and the torn blood vessels where his teeth were.Nightmare laughed at his pain taking in every little piece of his expression.Then his eyeballs started to bleed and it looked as if he was crying tears of blood.Then his eyeballs popped out of his head and were left hanging over his muzzle by only his optic nerves.He began to whimper at the new darkness, and cried even more.Nightmare laughed at his sadness, and continued to turn the corkscrew.And finally there was a very loud, the crushing of the colt's skull,and Nightmare grinned at the small shower of gore.But the remaining foals, about four or six were left, screamed at what had just happened.
"Silence!" Nightmare shouted, shutting up all of the foals."Now who wants to go away next?" she inquired.Sadly, a young, very young filly raised her hoof hoping to get away from the torture of this cave."Perfect" hissed Nightmare "Well come on follow me".
The filly followed Nightmare, thinking that she would finally be able to leave this nightmare, until Nightmare lead her to a clean metal table with a second one that had something that the filly couldn't see."Come on get up here" said Nightmare sympathetically.The filly believed that Nightmare was telling the truth but in reality it was an even worse nightmare awaiting her unknowingly.The filly jumped up onto the table only to be seized by Nightmare's magic and strapped down by leather braces.Now the objects laid out on the second table were visible, a few 'cat paws'.Nightmare picked up a paw and picked up a whetstone and started to sharpen the paw's claws.
Then Nightmare hovered the paw over the filly and asked a simple question: "Are you ready?".The filly shook her head no and Nightmare laughed at the action."Well too bad,",and with that Nightmare began to ever so slowly scrape along the filly's wither's down to her lower back leaving a long bloody three pronged line.The filly screamed in pain while Nightmare chuckled at the sight.Nightmare picked up a scalpel and began to pierce random parts of the filly's backs and sides.After a few minutes Nightmare suddenly stopped and started to lightly trace a line between all the holes until it formed a pattern of a star.By now the filly was in tears and screaming uncontrollably,so Nightmare shut her up by cutting out her tongue.The filly now did her only choice left whimper and struggle.
Nightmare was not going to have it and held the filly in place.Then she picked up a new chisel with a spiked head and pointed the head at her pastern and rapidly hammered it into her pastern.Then she repeated the process with a slight variation for each of them just a inch or two higher or lower.Nightmare then she picked up a bone saw and began to cut off all of her limbs at the elbow.And as quickly as she had cut them off she sealed the wounds close with a extremely hot frying pan.Nightmare teleported the dagger from the cavern with the colt's dead body,stabbed the filly, and began to slowly cut open the filly's barrel.Nightmare performed an surgery cut out a little segment of each organ one at a time until all that remained was the filly's little heart beating in a fashion that looked as if her heart would explode.
Nightmare smiled grimly at the filly's little heart cast a spell and the heart started to beat faster and faster until it beat like thunder for a few moments and then the heart exploded causing a small torrent of blood to burst out of her barrel,ending her life.
It should be of note while obviously non-canon to the show's timeline that this ending is even more less canon than I would've liked
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As Nightmare finished with the filly a small sound could be heard reverberating throughout the entire cave, hoof-steps. Heavily armored hoof-steps. The barking or orders could be heard in the distance whether or not they were in or right outside of the cave was indeterminable. The foals,lost a piece of their fear.and started to look around the cavern to try and see what was causing the soft sound of metal hitting stone. The sound eventually quieted down to nothing but the silent cries and retching of the foals and the small amounts of wind blowing through the cavern.
Then a small golden blast occurred blowing up the once large boulder keeping the foals from running away. A legion of royal guards coated in the golden armor of the Solar Guard stepped through only to see a frenzied Nightmare standing in front of a group of foals and a table that looked to have blood pouring off of the sides. On a skull cap was a unicorn colt with his teeth missing his eyeballs only hanging by their nerves, an intricate pattern cut into his body involving a star and lines and a circle, along with each of his knees broken,and his skull had been crushed.taking another glance at the room there were all kinds of torture tools and devices around the room, with some being bloody.
A guard with the highest rank, which had been identified by his medal as a captain, stepped forward and shakily said "St-top what yo- ou are doing and step awa-y from the tab-ble". As Nightmare complied the guards saw what had been on the table: a filly no older then six had looked as if she was attacked by a manticore only missing the bites, but a glance at the bloodied 'cat's paws' took away what had been assumed.
The guards visibly blanched at the sight, each nearly losing either their lunch or what was left in their stomachs. The captain then went back to his legion,scared and sickened at the sight.The captain muttered some orders to them and those in the front readied their spears and pole-arms while those in the lines further back readied their swords and shields.
The captain now having steeled himself stepped back towards Nightmare. "Now are you ready to comply and go to prison where you will face the charges?"
In answer to this Nightmare looks around herself, sighs and lowers her head. "Yes."
The guards closest to her started to edge slowly to her side and when they saw that she was actually complying, they put hoof-cuffs on her and started escorting her out of the cave.
Unbeknownst to them however was Nightmare already scheming in her mind, plotting on escaping and getting revenge on these guards-stallions and her sister.