> In the dark of Nightmare Moon > by Tempest_Flare > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue the lost sisters > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In The Dark Of Nightmare Moon Prologue The lost sisters “What’s going on? Where am I?” Nightmare Moon called out. All around her were a multitude of doors. Some she had glimpsed at when she hid in Luna before trying to create an eternal night the first time 1,000 years ago and again when she was returning from her banishment on the moon. This time was different from the last two, though. She wasn't attached to Luna and now had her own ethereal form. And she was just floating in front of the doors instead of just glimpsing them or using the one that connected the surfaces of the moon and Equis. Now, this time, she had a chance to explore her new surroundings and decided to do just that. As she wandered through the void she was drawn to a particular door by a voice she recognized as one she had heard from Luna's memory. And the last time she was here she had paused momentarily before she used the door that she had unsealed with the power of the night. In that moment, she had heard the same voice. Wondering who knew her name but then passed through the door when she didn't immediately hear the voice call out again. This time, she had heard the voice call out more than just her name she heard it say things like “how can I help you be loved for the night like I love you?” and “why do I like two fictional night goddesses and most think of them as fiction? They feel real to me. Like I was meant to be a friend to both?” Nightmare heard these things and got an idea. ‘I think this one should know of my appreciation for the kind words it has spoken.’ And as she opened the door she felt a powerful draw to the word she had exposed and the female she observed though it was a bit of a new sensation she remembered a similar feeling when she first found Luna. This was very powerful. So much so that it literally pulled her off her hooves and into the world that she had seen from the void. I had just finished my thoughts on my new fanfic that featured Nightmare Moon returning to Equis. Not to take over but rather give Tia a break from her duties. But as before I failed to gain a better rep than with my last fic; I still had ponies (as stated in my earlier works I always have my mains use pony pronouns even when breaking the fourth wall.) thinking that Nightmare was either a dark side to Luna or a separate entity who had inhabited Luna's body and the mainstream view still was one of a villain to be hated and destroyed or at least to be locked away and forgotten. While a small amount of fanfics I've seen were about her trying to make up for her deeds or her being purified they always have her be evil through loneliness or pure negatives and the ones that do mix the two were always my faves but I went further I gave her a true title and place of power that allowed her the privilege to give her sister's duty breaks. Mostly Tia cause of day court's pressure and stress but every version I wrote of it got ten or fewer views and two likes at most I even told the readers it was a dark comedy but the stories never took. I contemplated how I could use the basics of the idea to tell what I wanted when I heard a rather LOUD thump land just outside my window. Now my window was on the second story so to make that sound the thing must've hit some invisible barrier like the spell I put on my outer windowsill for fun and for protection from dark forces like the dreams of my past lives. See I'm a witch. I've known magic was a real thing since I was the fifteen. I woke up from one of my recurring dreams of my past lives and found a pin of a random symbol inside of my left-hand glove and a tattoo on the back of the same hand. Now at the time I was out in the woods and no one knew that I was there. So for me to wake up and have two random things show up on my person was startling, to say the least, but what was even weirder was when I went to open my tent the tattoo started glowing and the tent unzipped itself. That's when I first used my magic. In the following months, I practiced with it and found I was what most fanfic writers called a Mary Sue. I could lift tons of stuff with telekinesis. Literally! The heaviest thing I lifted without straining my power was over 40 tons! I had yet to find my limit in weight and number of objects but I hadn't really tried to go past that point with my telekinesis. As I got the hang of my new power I learned things that I thought only existed in TV books and movies. I found that I had a deep well of physical strength as well as a large resistance to the harm of all kinds. Then came the day a dream of all children came true. I was seventeen at the time and I had just moved to my new home. I was watching dbz and had just finished the Cell saga. I had loved the imagery of the final beam struggle and in the heat of the moment, I raised my right hand and shouted the infamous phrase “ka me ha!” at the top of my lungs expecting nothing to happen but instead the blue ki beam shot from my hand and obliterated my television. I instantly dropped my hand cutting the flow of power and looked at my left hand and just like when I used my magic it was glowing but this time, it didn't stop when I cut the power. In fact, as I was looking at it started to change and I felt myself change with it. From that day forward I started to have the dark dreams of my past lives. Each one got worse to the point that I learned spells to help filter the gore out of them. The ones I had that I couldn't filter told me things about my powers I already knew that I was using magic (that came to me when I first used it). The dream I had before the power appeared was of when I first used my magic in my human past lives. It seemed the power manifested itself when I turned fifteen or sometime in that year. But my new power was also a curse of sorts as it came from a dragon's soul. The power I now had been that of the ancient race the Dragonoid. The Dragonoid had the powers of all races that inhabited the planet and the forms of the dominant sapient species on said planet the form of a dragon and the true form of the Dragonoid a human-dragon hybrid plus in the dominant form if the species didn't have wings they grew them if they did the wings get bigger. For me, I got a set of the most beautiful black angel wings I ever saw. I wondered how I could hide 23 foot wide wings but if I wanted to go out and talk to people they would fold up against my back and under a slightly baggy shirt, they were unnoticeable. When I tried to transform into the dragon form I got a surprise. I didn't just change forms I got the memory of all the time I was in this form along with the spells I learned to like the barrier I put on the window sill. I had learned of my first life after I watched mlp: fim for the first time when I saw Woona and Tia I suddenly got flashbacks of the day I died on Equis. I still didn't have all the pieces but I knew that I was the lost sister, the middle filly in birth order but not in power I was the most powerful of the three royal sisters because I would control Destiny itself. The elements of harmony were born of my heart for when I was born the seed that the tree of harmony grew from the Heart of Destiny fused itself with my heart and gave me the power of the Dragonoid race. I had always known that my luck and timing were the product of magic but I thought it was just my extra power affecting my surroundings, not me using Destiny to help my life. This also told me that the tattoo I had been actually a cutie mark and after seeing the new forms the elements took I understood the whole thing the heart in the center was my element the Heart of Destiny and the six different fires with the colors of each mare and the element each held in the center of the fire that matched their mane and coat I was the seventh element. The truly lost element. That night I found that when I cleared my mind I could see The Weave. The Weave was the cords of Destiny that attached all to my power but I still didn't know how I was affecting it. One thing I knew was I was no longer Tia and Woona’s sister but now a new alicorn, so if I ever was to visit Equis I could marry my Woona. Then something in The Weave revealed itself. I had seen Nightmare and loved her like I loved Woona and The Weave said that she was still out there. That's when I started writing my fanfics where she was not purely evil but a kind sister of sorts I thought Woona would like that I was telling the story from Nightmare's point of view with what she had told me she wanted to do for me and Tia. The door pulled Nightmare through with such force she was falling at terminal velocity and before she did more than slow her descent to a safe speed she hit something and knocked herself senseless. Groaning she tried to stand on her hooves only to stagger dizzily and fell against a window with a loud thump and passed out. As I got up to look outside I heard another thump. This one louder and much closer. My desk was a good twelve feet away from my window and at an angle so I couldn't see it at night. And since it was 2:36am I had to get up to look out the damn thing so the second thump made me even more worried that I was in trouble. When I got to the thing and opened it I looked down cause the outer sill was a couple inch lower than the inner one due to the shutters that used to close needing to be flush with the house for some reason. What I saw made me gasp. It was Nightmare Moon and she looked to be unconscious. Knowing the barrier spell could hold the weight of two fully loaded dump trucks (I had done the test myself in dragon form which was the same weight) I climbed out onto it and turned into my Dragonoid form (the human-dragon hybrid form was named that because it is short for Humanoid Dragon). Using its massive brute strength to lift the alicorn into my home and on the bed, I kept in my home office/second master bedroom I made sure she was comfortable and got back to work. I had just finished the prolog of my new fic when Nightmare started coming to. I changed into my alicorn form cause I thought she would freak out if she saw a Dragonoid sitting down. To tell the truth I wasn't sure when got my pony form back. I would sometimes just wake up an alicorn and have to deal with it for a day or two. At one point I had taken a nap at the office I owned and woke up a pony. I then decided to try to turn human again and after about ten tries I got back to my human form. That afternoon I learned how to change to all my different forms smoothly and quickly so if I needed each forms looks and abilities I could switch at a moment's notice. When Nightmare fully awoke she looked confused like she was lost but when she saw me she got wide eyed and I saw tears welling up as she said a nickname, my nickname, my PONY nickname: “Tempé!” She whispered. Then more loudly she said, “Tempé, i-is that you?” “Yes, Moonie it’s me.” I answer as she starts crying and looking terrified. “How? I was looking for a female creature to reward for their kind thoughts of me but instead, I find my long lost sister where said being stood?” “I must be the thing you're looking for.” I said as I changed back to my human form.“Is this what the creature looked like?” She nodded staring in astonishment at how smooth the transition was. After snapping my fingers in front of her to bring her back to reality I continued “I know you aren't Luna and I don't care. My new pony form is in no way related to you or our old sisters so if you need anything even if you just want to lay down with me you can but know this: The Weave has told me what you are and what you can do so I hope you behave yourself and not dream hop. Human dreams are not the kind to walk into lightly.” Chuckling inwardly at her surprised look I left the room to let Moonie rest. As I headed to the main master bedroom I thought to myself ‘ I wonder if she'll heed my warning and stay to her own dreams. Well, I'll find out soon enough.’ As I lay in my bed I took stock of what had happened to me but after one look at my alarm, I knew that I had to sleep. I was always more of a night creature if my experience told me anything. I had been asleep for a few minutes when I started to dream. The surrounding images were blurry at first but they soon coalesced into solid shapes. > Chapter 1 the dragon's strength. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dragon's Strength Son Goku awoke. His wife Chi-Chi the Ox princess lay at his side. He lived a good but dangerous life. He was a Z Fighter one of the great unknown protectors of his adopted home. As the strongest being on the planet, trouble seemed to find him at any time. The universal tournament had ended with Beerus making a wish that Whis told him was for Champa’s earth to be reborn. Now Xeno’s Omniversal tournament was in the works. With all that over he had decided to come home for a few weeks before returning to his training. What woke him was a powerful energy unlike any he had felt before. This energy was enormous but still less than him or Vegeta but like the first time he saw King Piccolo he knew that the new power could be trouble. The dream I was in found myself in a Saiyan pod hurtling towards earth but not as I knew it. I felt power the likes of which only a few worlds could emanate. As I looked I heard Moonie’s voice in my head. “So this is a humans dream…” she said quietly. “Wait something's wrong I can't manifest my physical form.” I felt her flare her magic and as she did that my own power temporarily spiked. “I've only had this problem when in other dimensions where I had inhabited a mind but not a body. You must have slipped through the barriers when you fell asleep. This is no dream! We're in another world!” Moonie you've got to be shitting me! I passed through the barriers of reality! I chuckled. You're kidding aren't you? Wait are you in my head. Why are you in my head? “To answer your questions one,no I'm not kidding and two,I entered your mind to see a human dream. Seeing as you were the safest human around I thought you were a good starting point for me.” Well if you had asked I would of let you. “You gave me no chance to. You just warned me and went to bed! How could I ask for your permission if you were asleep?” I thought you could knock on a dream like a door! After all, it's what I do. “Y-you can dream walk?” That I can. I can invade dreams too. But I tend to find it's safer to enter with the dreamer's permission so I knock on their dreams to enter. “But can't that damage the dreamers mind?” Not really human minds have had to adapt to harsher conditions and have built up stronger mentalities because of this. “Wow. So a human being has a stronger mind because of the world they live in?” Yep! Now stop talking! I think I recognize the planet we're heading to. It-it’s earth! But this earth…? “What is the matter Tempè?” It can't be! This is DBZ earth! That's the only thing that I can think of after seeing the Lookout! I think it's safe for me to assume that we have landed after Frieza went golden from the power I sense. The only thing I wonder is how I got here? As I fell past the Lookout I decided to bust out of the pod and find Goku. I focused on my Dragonoid power and felt the change start. My feathered wings melted the feathers fusing together and stretching out into leathery membranes. The wing bones lengthened and grew stronger to support my new weight. As that happened my whole body grew bulletproof and blastproof scales the color of a new moon. My arms grew spikes and my fingernails transformed into five-inch retractable scalpel sharp claws that also had a numbing touch. My whole body got denser as my tissues and organs compacted and grew more efficient. My muscles and bones increased by as much as 40x in strength and I grew my dragon's tail. My tail made it hard to stay in the pod and as it kept growing. I grew taller as well. I was never a very short girl but I could stand to gain a little height so when my 5’4” frame increased to 5’9” I loved it. That was the last change. I was now a 5’9” 240 lbs half dragon hybrid. The pod I was in was creaking under the pressure my new form was exerting and as I focused the thing seemed to quiver. I found the point where it seemed weakest and shot my clawed fist through the metal. I then extended my hidden scale blade and cut my way out. The blade was made of scales I could reform after shedding them. They lay just under my weighted forearm gauntlets and were just as sharp as my claws if not more so. Knowing The Z Fighters had to of sensed my energy I decided to go to the Lookout to wait for them there but as I landed I found that Future Trunks had shown up and boy was she pissed. She took one look at me and drew her new sword. She then went Super Saiyan 3 and rocketed forward swinging down as she moved. Goku had called his friends and confirmed that they felt what he had. He felt two of the same energy signatures both were Trunks but Bulma had told him her daughter was in the gravity room for training so she couldn't be at the Lookout. Knowing this Goku came to the obvious conclusion Future Trunks had returned to her timeline. As he could feel F Trunks’ energy battling with the new being he focused and using Instant Transmission he made it to the Lookout. When he looked for the two he saw something he couldn't explain. It looked like F Trunks was fighting a girl as a Super Saiyan 3 but the girl was matching her blows with easy counters. As he saw the girl (who he now saw was a humanoid dragon) landed a brutal kick to F Trunks’ stomach causing the super Saiyan to drop her blade but remain transformed. And as F Trunks was about to get back up the girl held out her hand and charged up a ball of energy Goku could feel from his spot 30 yards away. He then heard the strange girl speak. “Give up young one We do not wish to destroy you or this world. We just ask can you explain why you are doing this?” Moony asked through me. “You killed her you killed my mother I'll never forgive you for that!” Future Trunks screamed at us. “We would never do something like that. Do you even know who we are?” Moony asked. “No, I don't. All she told me that was a dragon who killed the one that walked on two legs.” Future Trunks stated. “How do you even know that I thought the Dragonballs were gone,” I stated. “I thought so too but my mother had remembered the Namekian Dragon Balls she hoped that she could locate them by expanding the reach of the dragon radar. She then rebuilt the ship that brought Goku to the original Namekian planet and sent it to me when she found the new one. Realizing that I would be gone and not able to defend earth if anything showed up to threaten the planet she decide to use the training room that she built for my father the train along side me even in her old age she somehow became a very capable fighter and after training again in the hyperbolic time chamber of my timeline I was able to reach this level of power a Super Saiyan 3. My mother somehow was able to reach a power equal to a normal Super Saiyan I'm not sure how she was able to do this but that power was still not enough for you! You destroyed her! She was barely able to let me know after everyone was wished back before she died yet again I don't know how but you killed her and would not let her return. “Well did she tell you what I look like cuz I've never been to that world. I have never been to your Timeline, this the first time I ever even crossed the dimensional gap!” I asked knowing for sure that neither I or Moonie had been in her timeline and we sure as hell didn’t kill Bulma! “No, she just said with a dragon walking on two legs and that it called itself a nightmare, a shadow.” Future Trunks said. “I know a few beings like me but what you described sounds like a Shadow Dragon something that can be created by the negative energy of the Dragonballs. Should they be overpowered with it this power can deny a being reincarnation and rebirth through wishes. It seems that when Piccolo was killed the shadow dragons were released because the creator of there Dragonballs was destroyed. The Dragonballs themselves cracked or crumbled to dust releasing all the negative energy creating the seven shadow dragons. One of them calls itself the nightmare dragon. I do not know what its real name is but has Shenron as part of it. That is what killed your mother and that is what the denied her a rebirth. I'm not the one you seek, seek out the shadow Dragons! Destroy them and your mother will be reborn. Since you finally remembered in the Namekians and their Dragon Balls you can bring back everyone. Have you already?” “Well yes, I have. Even Goku came back! I don't know how I'm just glad that I'm able to live a more peaceful life and the rebuilding is better with everyone now that the androids are dead. Now that I know that these shadow dragons are responsible I'll hunt them down destroy them but, how did you know about them?” You know the multiverse seriously your timelines I live in an Oververse another part of a multiverse one that can observe lower multiverses in the universal systems. Your world is one of the few that I can see most often. I'm surprised that you even exist now for you have your own self in this world and you know it I'm just glad that Goku over there has not attacked. Shadow dragons exist in a parallel timeline to this one where there is another level of Super Saiyan power that Goku achieved called the Super Saiyan 4 a power that is great and almost equal to that of a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan but is hard to control a Saiyan's destructive urges. It has yet to be mastered. The shadow dragons were defeated by Goku in this form up until the last 1 Omega Shenron a powerful dragon infused with the power of all of the other shadow dragons through absorbing their Dragonballs. Stronger than the strongest of all the shadow dragons when fused with the other six Dragonballs he became the most powerful evil force in the Universe. As Goku heard all this he wondered could he reach this level of power. This whole time the two of them were still fighting but instead of going all out they were now sparring and seeing as this girl could easily keep up with a Super Saiyan 3 Goku decided to pull out all the stops and turned into a Super Saiyan blue as it’s called now. Goku then fired off a ki blast just to see if she could deflect it while still fighting future Trunks. I sensed Goku's massive increase in power and his launching of the ki blast and as I reach me I instantly transported it all the way to the other side of the world using my magic. When trunks saw what I did her mouth fell open and I knocked a good one upside her head. I then decided to ask her why she came here in the first place when she did not even know that I existed until this point in time. She said that her mother had figured out a way to track dragons as well. Before she left again she gave her the password for the way to track them using the dragon radar and as she found out it spanned the multiverse instead of just her universe’s timeline. She found my power and thought that since I was so powerful that I had to be the one to kill her mother. She didn't even notice the other blips that were still in her universe and timeline. She apologized to me and asked me to come with her to her timeline to hunt down the shadow dragons. I said no because I knew that I was needed here somehow and I knew that she had the power to defeat even Omega Shenron. As Future Trunks left back to her own timeline she wished me good luck in the training with Goku. Goku was still in Super Saiyan blue state and asked why he couldn't sense the second ki that was within me until he was in that state. I explained that the second being within me was a goddess within her own world one that controlled shadows in the night. Moonie scoffed at the insinuation that she was merely a goddess. She's the queen of all goddesses but she knew the humility of losing to her sister and her sister’s student twice so she agreed that she was no longer going to pursue revenge. She also knew that she never even wanted revenge she just wanted to give her sister a break. Being the dark side of Luna wasn't what she was intended to be known for. But instead as somepony that could give Tia a break from her royal duties using the extra power that she gained from this form. But when she was separated from Luna and became her own entity she realized that she was now a sister herself, the youngest of the three or four that she now knew. Upon hearing that Goku could sense my ki without being in God state I realized I hadn't even reached my godly level of control and that's when something unexpected happened Beerus and Whis showed up asking why they both felt a strong Ki. This is something that shouldn’t have been possible since Majin Buu was destroyed. With that kind of power they felt a very weak ki next to it, somehow I had my goddess ki but with Goku's level of training he had not been able to truly notice I had it at all now. Seeing as I had my power but it was so low I could not even use it I knew I needed training. Beerus turned around when I mentioned who I was and just like that Moonie’s magic flared fusing with my power in somehow making me even stronger. I don't know what happened at that point but when Moonie saw his face a dark rage awoke her negative power. A god of Destruction vs a goddess of nightmares. Our greatest strength awoke fusing Moonie’s power with my own and somehow this awoke my full goddess powers. I didn't know at that point that we were emanating Dark energy and I was using a link to her and even at this point Luna since the nightmare power was awakening. I asked Moonie to calm down but it seems that Beerus reacted the same way too and Moonie took control of my body to protect me. Using her magic to teleport both me and the god of destruction far enough away from any galaxies that we would not destroy any living beings making him even madder when she using my innate magical ability and her control unleashed a massive blast at him. I never realized that they had met before and when Nightmare explained this to me later she said that she had lived longer than even Luna and Tia but as an ethereal being that had no real sense of self. She had met Beerus once and he locked away her memories and sent her to a place where peace was the only thing around, hoping that her power would be completely sealed. But when sensing Luna’s hate Moonie woke up with her power but not her memories transforming Luna into a dark mare but sensing a sympathetic soul instead of being evil she just wanted to be accepted. It seemed even then that Moonie’s full power had not been unleashed and only one she linked to me and met Beerus again the seal on her memories broke and showed that she’d been through multiverse Travel many times explaining why both me and her were confused and living in the one body while she was with me she also explained to me through unlocking memories of my own lifetime I would travel to different worlds in my dreams and live many lives and now I could understand why I was connected to so many worlds. All this was explained to me as Moonie and beerus fought. They basically used their most powerful attacks and for some reason, Beerus and nightmares rage calmed down showing that they both knew they were going to destroy themselves if they used any more power. I, on the other hand, had much power. More than I knew how to control so as I said earlier Moonie had to control my body to keep it in check until I could fully understand it. there is one problem though I didn't even know why I had this power! I thought that I was just a simple alicorn! But it turns out the element of destiny is not just one universe-centric but Omniverse centric meaning I was linked to everything but choose to be in Equestria for its peace. After both Deity’s rage dissipated Moonie gave me control of my newly upgraded powers. Beerus noticed the change and decided to take a few minutes to test me and my power. As he started to spar with me Moonie guided much of my actions at first helping me get acquainted with my new abilities. When Whis showed up with Goku and Vegeta they witnessed my new power firsthand as all three jumped in to fight against me not knowing that we were training at this point. I easily blocked the two blue haired Saiyans attacks and had a mental convo with Whis telling him what was happening. With the strongest of the four standing down and Beerus in on the prank( I’d planned it with him and Moonie earlier) I then went on the offensive. Using a ki blast I hit Goku temporarily stunning him and knocked him upside the head just like when I fought F Trunks earlier. Then moving at speeds faster than light I hit Vegeta in the back knocking him unconscious. I then proceeded to draw my cutie mark on their outfits next to Whis’own marking. Both still dazed I teleported the whole group back to earth to see the two Saiyan's reactions to Our idea.