The Confessions of Luna
We still remember the time. A time started by…us. Tis still our fault, and we regret it every day and every night. Twas many moons ago, before we brought forth our dark envy. It has been nine hundred, ninety-nine years, and we are still here on my blessed gift. We fear the day we are released.
We remember it clearly, for it was the last thing we had done before being sent here by my dear sister. After many years of feeling what we thought was neglect. We were…depressed. Sister would set the sun as we raised my moon, and we would look over the night sky as sister went off to bed. The world went quiet. Nopony was awake to see the beauty of our night. Twas the first time we realized this, therefore it did little to bother us. But the pain would build up. Night, after night, after night, we sensed fewer and fewer woken souls. Sorrow set in. They praised our sister for her gift, yet ignore our moon, as if it is no more than an unimportant speck in the sky. Each night, we tried harder and harder to make the nights ever so beautiful for the ponies to admire. Shooting stars to wish upon, twinkling stars brightening the sky, and our moon, shining as beautiful as ever, all ignored.
Next was anxiety. Why was it that they ignored our nights? Were they simply too tired? Too overworked and preoccupied to view our starry skies? Or…did they simply hate us? Did they not care for what we wanted to share with them? Or did they simply love our sister’s sun more than our moon? They ignored us. Treated us as if we were not there. We were sister’s shadow, following her every whim and getting little respect. They praised her, treated her as a god…and many forgot our name. Twas no wonder the anger set in.
We remember the last night of our time in Equestria, the longest night in Equestria. Sister had just set the sun, and we raised the moon for one last night. But something was terribly wrong. The emotions built up in us, causing a darker side of us to begin bubbling up, to start taking over our body and mind. Our coat darkened, blacker than the darkest of nights. Twas frightening for us, not knowing why this was happening, all that was left of our purer side was a small part of our mind, where we reside for now. Dear sister, there are only a few more days until our body is freed from our prison. We hope you remember. Please stop us.
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Fools! They think they have stopped me! This is only the beginning. Over nine hundred years up here is such a bore, but I should have known Celestia was up to something, I was just so confident that I had won. Those memories, whenever they make their way back I feel like destroying Equestria! But I will get my chance. Soon I will get my chance. If only I hadn’t been so foolish…
It was all those years ago when I emerged. Nightmare Moon, the ultimate alicorn. After Celestia set the sun, I took control, putting the moon into the sky, creating the darkest night they had ever seen. The moon stayed over Equestria for hours, hours longer than any night had ever lasted. I felt in control! I felt as if no one could stop me! After so long, everyone began to panic. Celestia went looking for me. It must have taken her hours. Eventually, she found me circling the castle in the night sky. She confronted me, appauled by my new beautiful appearance, asking me to set the moon. Of course I denied her. So she tried acting superior, demanding that I set it, allowing room for the morning sun. I told her my plan of eternal night, making everypony look up at my moon instead of her “blessed” sun. she began pleading, and I couldn’t hold from laughing at the sight of Equestria’s ruler pleading with her younger and now superior sister. With her eyes filled with tears and her voice quivering, she told me if I refused, she would have to take charge. I could see it, she wouldn’t nor couldn’t attack her dear sister. So I struck her down, sending her plummeting through the castle ceiling. I felt truly powerful! I had just defeated Celestia with a single blast and refused her power! I took perch atop Canterlot castle, staring at my night sky. I couldn’t believe I had just won that easy. But little did I know that victory was still so far away.
While soaking in my victory, Celestia reappeared before me, sporting her crown this time. Her coat was scorched to a charcoal black where the direct impact was from my last attack. She didn’t catch me off guard, I expected it. It wasn’t as if she would simply sit back and let her younger sister take control. No, she had too much glory to step down from her royal throne or title as ruler. She gave me a final warning, and I only laughed in her face. In my form, with my power, and with her simple heart stopping her from harming her “dear sister”, she posed no more a threat. I shot another blast at her, and she evaded, repeatedly.
I was growing irritated. I began firing more rapidly, yet she somehow still avoided every shot. I was angry now, so I lunged. She kicked me away, and her crown began to glow. It was then that I realized what she was doing. The Elements of Harmony. I thought that, being the embodiment of half the pair, she couldn’t use them against me. But she found a way. I was engulfed in a bright rainbow, turning me into no more than a mass of light. I was shot to the moon, just after Celestia took away my powers of control over it. Now, I show my beautiful face looking over Equestria every night. But soon that will end. There is nothing else to do up here than count the days, and it has been exactly three hundred sixty four thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine days and nights. Or to put it simpler, nine hundred ninety-nine years and three hundred sixty days. Soon I will be freed from this prison, and I will be able to take back my power and bring back eternal night! Soon, so soon…
And this time, I’ll take out Celestia first.