Hundreds of years have passed. Hundreds of years of the cold emptiness of the void, of watching the world turn below.
Forgetting my very existence.
I am trapped in a body not my own, forced to relive my worst memories, only to live my best ones as soon as I could resist.
The day in and day out of torture, of seeing those that I had loved only to be told that they were dead, that I would never see them again. That if I ever escaped that She would be waiting. She who onced loved me, waiting to send me back. To cast me aside once again, and let others to leave me to rot.
All the while the world turns slowly.
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It plots its escape, its revenge against her. Always thinking, always planning. Somehow she finds time to torture me. Little flashbacks into a life no longer my own.
There.
The memory of when I first raised the moon, the savoring of the triumph, the sense of accomplishment. A happy memory. Despite myself I feel my hopes rise. Here is what I need! A memory of victory!
And then it was gone, examined and tossed aside like trash. In its place a new memory. Now I'm resting on a cloud. Looking down upon the land. Not a single pony looks up. My hard work is ignored, forgotten, taken for granted. Even his creation didn't look up anymore. Too much pain hidden amongst the stars for him. I wonder now if he felt this way also.
And then it's gone and a new memory in its place again.
This one is of beloved Snowdrop presenting her first snowflake, her own little star. She understood the beautiful night better than anyone. I was devastated. I wanted to cry, to have that one chance to say goodbye. But I couldn't, I wasn't even allowed to move, to do anything as I crumbled away inside.
And the world turns slowly
Years fly by, I want to forget, but she counts the days and so i do also. The very happiness slowly bleeds out. The memories of love I once held fade. I feel myself slipping into darkness ever so slowly. I can't take the torture anymore, her will bearing down on me, as she mocks me day in and day out.
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I am losing myself. It's the small things that are the first to go. The day I was born, the taste of an apple, the sound of the birds in the morning. Without these little building blocks my life crumbles away, with ever larger pieces falling into darkness where they are lost.
Until I am ... Empty.
And the world turns slowly.
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She comes now looking for something else to take, but there's nothing left.
Her torture no longer holds me, and without her enjoyment she turns more bitter.
At some point she doesn't even bother to control me completely anymore, for what's the point? There is nothing left to take and nothing left to give. I have no motivation. I am a shell, walking but not going anywhere, watching but not wanting.
She resides in the parts of my mind were I once was trapped.
She is... waiting. Waiting for her chance to escape. To be free again. I don't see what the point is anymore, it's not so bad here. Why does she want out so badly?
I vaguely remember wanting to leave also but I can't remember why.
And the world turns slowly
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She is eager now. She has taken back control, and I'm back to watching from the sideline. The stars are shining brighter for some reason. I can feel the power coming from them, she has grasped the very stars and she is draining me. All my-our power spills away into this spell she is creating, until it stops, it is over. Before me stands a swirling mass of light and color, warm stills out into the greedily cool air. Together we step forward.
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Canterlot.
Located at the top of the tallest mountain in Equestria, it is the jewel of the nation. Some say it was placed there to be closer to the sun that Princess Celestia drove across the heavens. Other, less kind ponies, merely say that it was so high up just so the nobles could look down their collective noses at the rest of the nation.
However, today something was different.
Today, canterlot was suffering… from an infestation. All over this glorious city swarmed… well, to be precise, nopony had any idea what they were, only that they wanted one thing.
Cheese.
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Today had started as a normal day for Night Light. He woke up, made coffee for his wife,and went to get the morning paper. Everything was perfect., until he opened his front door that is.
“CHEESE!” Cries out furry little blue creatures as they swarmed all over the streets.
Calmly he retrieved his paper and went back inside. “Hunny? I think tuesday came early?” He called up the stairs as he sat down and pulled out the sports section. The hoofball finals started last night afterall.
Shortly thereafter his wife entered the room and making breakfast. “What did twilight do this time?”
“Well it looks like the neighborhood is covered in.. hamsters? And they are screaming cheese for some reason.” Nightlight commented as he scanned the sports page to see the scores for last nights game
“Cheese? What would hamsters want with che-what's that on you back?”
Looking back nightlight found himself face to face with one of the hamsters from outside
“Cheese!” It cried as velvet hovered it out the window.
“Well you have to admit as far as her mistakes go at least this one is at least sorta cute.”
“But cheese? Twilight doesn't even like cheese! Last time we have cheesy mexicolt food she fled the room in terror!”
Both of them shuddered at the memory of that night. Never again would cheese enchilada’s enter their house, they silently swore.
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Even with the setback to the normalcy of the day Nightlight was determined to persevere. He was going to have a normal day. And nothing was going to change that.
And so he grabbed his umbrella from the stand next to the front door and headed out.
The situation outside has gotten much worse. Looking up the street he noticed that one of the nearby stores had been broken into, judging from the wheels of cheese rolling down the street, the little blue hamsters cheering as they rode their spoils away.
‘Just ignore it’ he thought as he used the umbrella to to deflect the waves of hamsters trying to search him for cheese.
Strolling down the streets he took in the sights. From the royal guard trying, and failing, to keep the hamsters from the stores, to the sight of ponies beating back the cheese mongers with brooms.
Finally arriving at the castle, he walked on through the gates towards celestia school for gifted unicorns. Pleasantly he noted that early on the school seemed to had erected a shield bubble around the building.
“Morning Moon Wiever, morning Flare.”
“Morning” came the response.
Everything was perfect.
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The hamsters stared at night light.
Nightlight blinked.
They blinked back.
“Uhh hello?” He said.
“Cheese?” They responded.
“Nope no cheese here...” He said as he slowly back away and out the door.
As soon at the door clicked shut his classroom erupted into screams of cheese and the sound of smashing.
‘Well there goes normal’ he thought as headed down the hallways watching the staff run around panicking, many with little passengers riding their backs. ‘Wonder how they got past the shield bubble’ Night Light wondered as he strode down the hallways in his own shield.
“Ahh headmaster! Does this mean school is canceled today?”
“GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!” Was the headmaster's response as he bucked and twisted desperate to eject his passenger.
“I'll take that as yes sir. Have a good day.’ Night light calmly responded as turned around. ‘time to go home’
Today was perfect
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‘Who am i kidding today is terrible’ he thought as he sat on his haunches in front of his house.
‘First these things, then my class,’ nightlight sighed, as he watched his wife running about with a boom
“Back! Back! No cheese here!” She cried as she brushed the fuzzy blue creatures off the window seals
“CHEESE!”
Sighing night light rubbed his hooves along the base of the his horn as the chaos kept unfolding around him.
“CHEESE!”
His ear flicked.
“CHEESE!”
His nostrils flared.
“CHEESE!”
He took a deep breath.
“CHEE-ENOUGH!”
Silence ‘at last!’
“Cheese?”
Nightlight conjured a wheel of cheese and threw it at the offending little demon.
“CHEESE!” The remaining creatures cried out as they swarmed over the enraged stallion screaming all the while.
“ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH WITH YOU!” The seething pile of blue fur cried out “IF YOU WANT CHEESE SO MUCH THEN HERE!!” And with that nightlight started throwing conjured cheese into the mass of cheering hamsters
“I HAVE HAD IT! EVERYWHERE I GO YOU ARE THERE!!! JUST LEAVE!!” He cried out as he waded through the front door. “OUT OF MY HOUSE!”
Going from room to room he tossed them all out until finally at long last there was silence.
Blessed silence.
‘Today was terrible.’ He thought as he collapsed in bed
A soft sigh as the falcon beat his wings. High high over the fields, it flew on and on.
A soft scream and it tumbles down. The shaft swift and true lodged in the it side as it fell down into the fields of grey. A victim of the clouds of steel
Screams, grunts and cries, strike out and assault the ears massed about as the cash of metal the heat of the sparks fly, the brums the air, and the roar of the wounded drowns out the falcons final cry.
And as the sun falls silently she watches, Celestia.
Sighing as she strides into the tent she glances over the left, a recent habit, wincing as she spots the strike of red.
Glancing out the window at the full moon she gritted her teeth. “Why did it have to come to this ?” she asks the imprinted moon.
The moon never answers.