If called upon by a ritual -
most demonic beings follow the call.
And on the other side of the magic stands -
a human being, in a trance.
Their wish will be heard and fulfilled for a price -
in exchange for a soul, demons play nice.

When a desperate person calls out into the void - what happens when the void stares back?
Lily Potter is a strong woman, but in the face of almost certain death, even someone like her can come to the conclusion to fight fire with fire, and call upon a demon to fight the inhuman Dark Lord tearing down her home.

Once called, Nightmare takes on Harry as her child... this doesn't bode well for the sanity of everyone else involved, especially once she finds a very special letter addressed at herself years later.

Disclaimer:
The Nightmare in this story is a (far) future version of the Nightmare found in my other story.
The 'Sex' tag is for roughly two sentences implying it in a chapter near the middle (hence this story's rating).
The 'Death' tag is for, well, the death of Harry's parents.

Image by Feynna

It was never the goal of the nightmares to make the dreamers fear them, and they always were doing their best to stay away from dreams.
But recently, something has been hunting and killing the nightmares. It has much power and glows a pale, sickly, light blue color, and therefore was nicknamed 'the presence' by the nightmares. One could sense and see it from far away.
This is what pushed the nightmares to become active for the first time, to try and intentionally hurt another being, instead of just scaring them.

When Nightmare Moon got hit by the elements, they caused her to enter a deep sleep, so that she wouldn’t break on the isolation of her banishment. But what does this mean for princess Luna?

Unedited, ‘cuz everyone I’m writing to for help has either no time or isn’t responding at the moment.

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Well, I could place here a normal story description. But if I had to guess, we’d say you already know what we mean if here simply stands ‘HIE as Nightmare Moon’.
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What? Too meta? The only meta thing you can’t write here is about the real world.
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Original (HTML & epub).

Tags: < MLP:FIM | Sex | Anthro | Human | OC | Nightmare Moon >
(Sex only implied, and NOT a main aspect in the story.)

Let's assume Celestia didn't see any reason to continue her rule about Equestria.

What do you think would she have done?

This is the second published version of this story. History of earlier versions of the story can be found here.

Samuel has lived a (he thought) boring life, so he happily accepted the offer some sort of spirit made to him.
When he wakes up the next morning, he is still in the same world, but he really should count his limbs now.

Plot:
Human transformed, in the four versions of Celestia (Celestia, Daybreaker, Nightmare Star, and Solar flare), tries to find his way in the human world and ultimately goes to Equestria thanks to the strong magic now at his disposal.

Tags: < mlp:fim | Adventure | Human | Changelings >
The main character is more or less based on me.
Story was featured at least twice (I’m not keeping track).