Chapter 4. To Fight The Nightmare

"Girls do you hear that? It sounds like some ponies crying." Twilight looked back to the others her ears swiveled to the direction to the crying was heard.

"Oh no! Do you think somepony is hurt Twilight?"

"I hope not Fluttershy. Come on girls let's go check who's in there."

One by one each mare took hesitant steps inside the gloomy and decrepit castle. There hooves made audible clops that ranged through out the large room that once housed the 'Elements of Harmony'.

The more they moved the more there hooves echoed throughout the castle. "Girls stop!" Twilight said abruptly in a whisper.

"What gives egghead?"

"Sshhh!" The lavender mare harshly hushed the cyan Pegasus next to her, placing her hand on her mouth. "Listen..." She said closing her eyes listening to the sounds emitting from inside the castle. "I don't here anypony crying anymore?"

"H-hello?" A voice spoke out from not to far away. "Hello, is anyone here? Please! Anyone!?"

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I thought I heard voices. Somewhere behind me in the dark areas of this horrid castle. I called out to them hoping they would answer me. To answer my plea for help.

"Who's there?" A feminine voice asked. "Who are you?"

I didn't know how to answer such a question. I'm not me anymore, I'm this... Creature, this Demon! Hesitantly, though I spoke back to the voice. "I-I don't know? I don't know who I am? Or what I am?" The last words I spoke dejectedly, a small tear falling down my cheek as my luminescent hair covered half of my face.

There was muttering. My new ears swiveled to where the voices were, and I could barely hear anything let alone what was being said. Something in my mind told me that there maybe more than one other person there.

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"Watch it egghead! It could be a trap." The Rainbow maned mare said with concern as she looked to the awaiting darkness that housed the unknown mare.

"Rainbow how can you say such a thing!? The poor dear is scared out of her mind couldn't you tell from the way she spoke?" Rarity said concerned about the scared mare she heard.

"What you think about this here Twi? You reckon it's a trap like Rainbow said?"

Twilight shook her head in confusion. "I heard that voice from somewhere before, but I can't remember where?" The lavender unicorn spoken, smacking a hand against her head. "Look there is six of us and one of her, that we know of. When we see her we'll demand some answers."

"Um... I-I hope she's okay." The soft voice of Fluttershy spoke out just as Twilight lit her horn.

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A small spark of lavender flashed before my eyes and the darkness that surrounded the castle walls began to dim as the lavender light illuminated them. I covered my eyes as the light intensified leaving me a bit stunned.

I heard the sound of shocked gasps rung through the castle as I rubbed my eyes from the disorienting light. "YOU!!!" Someone shouted as I began blinking away small bright dots in my eyes.

I looked to where I first heard the voices, but before I could see the people ahead of me, I found myself beginning to lift into the air. "W-what, what's happening?!" I yelled as I waived my black arms in fright.

"Don't play dumb Nightmare Moon! I don't know how you're here but we will stop you again!" I wanted to say something, anything! I didn't know what she was talking about. Who is this Nightmare Moon? And why does the name seem so... Fitting for this form?

"Come on Twilight! Kick her flank!!!" Another female yelled. I began screaming as I felt my body being launched through the air. I could see pillar after pillar move past me as I flew backwards, my arm flailing wildly as I did.

A sickening crunch reverberated throughout the castle and the screams of a mare in excruciating pain followed through. The form of Nightmare Moon impacted the far wall, her wings being crushed by her own body weight causing the bones in her wings to bend and snap under the pressure.

The mares standing next to a grinning Twilight Sparkle began to cheer in victory as the body of Nightmare Moon fell to the dirt covered stone floors of the castle, the metal of her armor clanging loudly as the impact caused in uproar of dust to cover the air around her prone body.

My body... So much distress I could feel all around my new body. My wings I could feel immense pain from the many broken bones in them, the taste of copper flooding into my mouth. My breasts... I can understand now why girls never liked there breasts being squeezed to hard. The pain from the impact... I think I blacked out for a second. The affliction was just unbearable.

Through my pain I could hear the sounds of amusement coming from the group that did this to me. They enjoyed hurting me? Why? What did I do?

I struggled as I tried to move. Just to attempt any movement at all caused pain to course through my very being again. But I had to leave this place. I had to get out of here before they start hurting me again.

Through the pain I began to crawl, my delicate black furred hands and the gauntlets I wore clawed forward, they moved in tandem with one another moving through the dirt and debris littering the ground. My breasts caused my movement to suffer due to their large size. 'Why did I have to be given large tits!' There was a hole in the wall not to far away, I could see foliage just beyond the passage as it glistened in the moonlight just outside of these foreboding walls.

Crawling there was to slow, I had to move faster! I shakily began to lift myself up off the ground, my breasts ached from the crawl the cloth holding my breasts was torn almost to shreds leaving only strands that barely covered anything!

Standing now on my own two hooves I limped my way closer to the passage. With the blood seeping through my teeth, I smiled as the hole widened the closer I moved to it.

"Oh no you don't!" A diffrent female voice yelled near me. My ears swiveled to the left were her voice came from but before I could turn to look to her I was knocked to the floor hard, cradling my left leg screaming like a banshee in pain.

I screamed. I screamed for the life of me. My legs was broken, I knew it was. Through the tears and screams I looked down to my broken leg and the sight before my eyes made me want to vomit. Blood gushed out of a hole were bits of bone had burst through my black fur, showing me the whiteness of the bone itself.

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"Good job AJ!" Rainbow Dash yelled giving her friend a high-five. "Now it's my turn!" The cyan mare yelled launching herself into the air before hovering over the down Nightmare Moon.

Giggling to herself, Rainbow Dash plummeted straight down from the ceiling aiming herself at Nightmare Moon edging to give her the beating of a lifetime.

The sounds of ribs cracking and breaking resounded through out the castle as the rainbow maned mare's hoof harshly connected to Nightmare Moons abdomen, causing her to lose whatever oxygen she may have had left in her lungs making her wheeze and cling to every breath she could take in.

"I'm not finished with you yet WHORSE!" The pegasus yelled, kicking Nightmare Moon in her ribs.

"All right, way to go Dash! Show that big meanie who's boss!" More cheering came from the mares as they watched Rainbow Dash take on a non-combatant Nightmare Moon.

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I feel so... Numb, I can barely breath. This body. My body. It feels so broken, so damaged I can't feel my legs, nor my wings. The blood won't stop pouring into my mouth. Each breath I take caused more of it to crawl down my throat and into my aching lungs making jerk in a fit of hacking.

Above me I can barely see what stood above me through my tears. She I can see that it was female, stood over me. Her lips curved into a mix between a scowl and a sinister smile.

Suddenly I felt my head in a flash turn to the side, a searing pain blazed upon my cheek after it did. Another flash and my head turned to other side, my other cheek now in pain. Again and again my head would move back and forth, the pain following through as it did.

Why won't they stop? Can't they see I am doing nothing to fight back. Or to even protect myself. Why do they need to do this?

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Fluttershy had watched everything that had happened since the beginning. She watched as Twilight flung the ebony alicorn into the far wall of the castle. She watched when Applejack had kicked the mare down right in the center of the femur in her left leg causing the bone to not only break but to breach pass the skin.

As her friends cheered, she silently cried watching the merciless beating they were giving to Nightmare Moon.

Now she watches as Rainbow Dash, a friend she has known since her days in flight camp, repeatedly punch the mare across the face over and over and over again. Fluttershy didn't know what to do. She was crossed between cheering with her friends or helping a being that hasn't even lifted a finger to fight back or even protect herself. She knew everything that was happening was wrong, her friends weren't fighting Nightmare Moon they were torturing her. She new she had to do something. Her element was kindness yet she hasn't shown it to a being who truly needed it most at the moment.

"Stop it." She softly said, her voice not loud enough to even come close to the cheering beside her. "Stop it!" She said again a little louder but still wasn't enough. "STOP IT!!!" Fluttershy screamed in fury as she tackled her friend off the ebony Alicorn.

Both pegasi skid to halt close to a broken pillar at the far end of the hall. The cheering had completely vanished as the mares stood by taking in what there shy friend had just done. Rainbow Dash was shocked seeing her friend holding her down with an angry expression on her muzzle.

Fluttershy angry expression softened as she turned away from her cyan friend and looked to the beaten mare not to far away. The butter cream-colored Pegasus let go of Dash and quickly made her way to the beaten Night Princess.

The others protested asking what she was doing and why. Only to receive a glare from the pink maned Pegasus as she bent down to cradle Nightmare Moons head into her lap. "Sshh." She softly cooed trying to calm down the scared mare as tears fell down her muzzle and splashed down onto Nightmare Moons swollen face. "It's okay now, nopony is going to hurt you."

The ebony Alicorn convulsed as she coughed up more blood. Her eyes were swollen shut and teeth were missing from her open maw. Her nose was bent and broken as blood slowly trickled out. Fluttershy could hear something, something past the wheezing the alicorn was making.

"Momma..." Her voice, soft, frightened and in pain when she spoke that single word. "Momma..." She quivered in terror as she tried to clear away the blood in her mouth. "I wanna go home, I wanna go home!" She gasped trying to take another breath. "Momma! Momma! Mom-ma, momma, momm..." Her voiced trailed as her eyes closed and the blackness of unconsciousness' took her from the world.

Fluttershy wept holding the alicorn in her hands. The others looked upon the scene in awe at the view before them, not noticing two large beings walking through the castle doors behind them.

The unconscious body of Nightmare Moon began to move as a golden aura encompassed entirety of her figure. The mares were stunned as the limp body was taken from Fluttershy's grasp and brought up into the air at full view of everyone inside the castle.

"Why?" Was the question from a voice standing beside the group of mares. Each mare turned to there right to find Both Celestia and Luna standing beside them. A scowl on each others muzzle, with the golden aura of the Solar Princess not only lighting the room but holding the ebony Alicorn before them. "Why?" Celestia said again. "Why did you come back? What purpose do you have here? We already defeated you not once but twice! Why try again?"

"Princess." Twilight said hoping to get the Alabaster Alicorns attention. The Solar Alicorn looked to her pupil asking her to continue. "Princess she was the Anomaly. She was the reason for everything. The Maelstrom, all the destruction outside. She caused this."

"Did this vile beast hurt any of you?" The younger Alicorn asked, a look of pure hatred etched onto her face as her eyes barred holes into Nightmare Moon.

"No." Came a quick response from Fluttershy. Grabbing both princesses attention. "S-she did nothing. S-she didn't hurt anypony." They all looked to Pegasus but the only thing she did was stare at Nightmare.

"Good." Was the response of the Solar Princess. The light around her horn grew and the aura encompassing the ebony Alicorn expanded in to a large white ball. And in a simple poof of magic she was gone, leaving nothing but torn cloth and blood littering the ground below. "She's gone now... I sent her to a cell inside the castle dungeons were no magic, not even one of an alicorn can break through. She will spend all her time there until the day of her execution."

"What!?" Came the shrieking voice of Fluttershy. "No! You c-can't do that! She d-didn't hurt a-anypony! S-she d-didn't do a-any t-thi-."

"Enough!" The Lunar Princess yelled to the butter cream mare that protesting such an event. "For to long had Nightmare Moon plagued Equestria before our banishment! That vile beast took thousands of the little filly's and colts of our land, never to be seen again! The 'Elements' have proven that they could not dispel such wretched vermin from the land, so we must do what we know is best."

"The guillotine." Celestia said looking to the Element bearers. "In one month she will be executed and that is final. I'm proud of you girls for subduing Nightmare Moon when you had the chance... Come let us talk more at the library. We will discuss what went on here later."

With out hearing any disapproval from the others, Celestia walked out of her old castle. Her sister Luna following behind with the 'Elements' trailing not to far away.

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Deep in the dungeons of Canterlot Castle, a lone Alicorn. Bruised, beaten and broken, was latched to the cold stone wall. Bindings held her arms apart as the ones placed around her ankles held her ebony legs together.

Nightmare Moon was fully nude in her bindings. Her clothing and armor taken away when the guards placed her in her cell. One guard smiled to himself as he grabbed her large breasts with his free hands before he left. The same guard that was now posted outside her cell.

Her mangled body. Even though the runes that were placed around the cell dispelled any magic that tampered within the walls, did not stop the magic of the Alicorn herself from repairing all the damage that was done to her.

The bones in her wings began to move and latch themselves back together. The broken femur in her left leg began to reseed back into her leg and it latched itself with the rest of the femur bone.

Molars began to fill the missing areas in her maw and the swelling around her muzzle began to go down as her bent snout righted itself.

Everything looked fine now... The body of the unconscious Alicorn seemed okay. As if she was never beaten to a pulp in the first place. But everything was not fine. Not in her mind at least.

"The goddess has granted me a new host?" A sultry voice said it in the depths of Nightmare Moons mind. "Oh! This is just to much!" She laughed. "Oh, you poor thing... Taken away from your world. Brought here in a form that is hated by millions all around. Oh!" She said again as her snickering continued. "Not just a new form, but also a new gender!" The voice laughed again.

She laughed. For how long she didn't care, it was to much fun. "A new host that was given my form when I took over that silly little princess! A host that has no knowledge of the world SHE now finds herself in! Oh yes I will have fun with you! By the goddess indeed I will!"

Author's Note

Well look new chapter! I'm not sure if I did good on the whole fighting thing or torturing more like it... But I digress.

Anyway. Did you all know I was banned for two days? Yeah it seems that the admins don't like selective down voting. And since the only stories I down vote are those filly fooling one's it got me in trouble. But if I can't down vote them how will people know they suck!

Oh well.

Another thing. I have a new 'Who I've Become' fic out... So far people don't really like it. Well it is a Marine in Equestria type fic. But here's the thing! I mean yes the main character is a Marine that much is true, and yes he dies just like the main characters in my other two fics. But thing is, I mean he gets turned into Fleur de Lis! That's hilarious. And she naked too.

Maybe people will warm up to it later...

Also one other thing. I have one final 'Who I've Become' coming out soon featuring the sexiest princess ever. Who you may ask is the sexiest? Well it's Celestia of course. But my approach in that fic is going to be diffrent then the others I promise.

Well... Till next time my friends.

Next chapter. Nightmare Moons punishment part I.