Chapter 5. Nightmare Moons Punishment part I.

Everywhere I turned they were there. Every hall I passed, every door I opened they were there following me in this haunting castle, with there sinister smiles and sharp pointed teeth. I could hear them cackling in joy the closer they would get to me.

This was a nightmare, my nightmare. And no matter how hard I tried to wake, it proved frivolous. If I stopped running for a single second in here the monsters would appear behind me, cackling away with their sharp claws prepared to tear away my flesh with a single swipe.

I tried using weapons against them, things I could use like the leg of a table or a wall mounted sword to cut them down. But every time I tried they would only laugh away as their wounds healed.

I tried using the ebony wings on my back but even they proved to be useless. Even if I was able to fly I was struck down by the cyan one with rainbow hair. If she wasn't there it was the lavender one with her horn that struck me down with some unseen force.

The orange one toyed with me though. Running with great speed behind me then breaking away to some unknown place only to reappear in front of me, shrieking a horrifying cry as her jaw unhinged further and further with every step she would take closer to me.

I wanted to give up, so badly I just wanted to crawl up into a ball and cry, let these 'things' take me away and do what ever it is they wanted.

But I couldn't give up, I can't let these monsters get me. If I waited out long enough the yellow angel would come and save me. Free me from my nightmare like before.

I just needed to hold on just a little bit longer.

I could feel my calves burning and my stomach twisting into knots for each second I ran. My body ached from the extra weight on my chest, I could feel the non existent bile run through my stomach with each twist and turn through the castle.

Running through this castle was like running through a maze. A never ending maze with no way out.

I turned left and there was the lavender one cackling away shooting purple beams from her horn. I turned behind me to the other hall and ran again. This one like the others held pictures of another different 'thing' laughing away as I ran. The picture was of a pink creature, her hair straight and sleek, her eyes black and soulless and the streaks falling from them were red like blood. It would look at me, pointing, laughing as I ran past.

Something felt different about this nightmare. Something even more wrong then what it was. The walls were beginning to feel like they were closing in on me the further I ran and the monsters seemed to be faster than before.

Darkness began to seep in around me, the torches on the walls extinguished in a flash behind me after each step I took. Every corridor I ran passed was now pitch black, except for the red eyes inside that followed me.

My body completely halted in it's tracks as the torches further down the hall extinguished. There was no where for me to run now, the only area keeping me safe was where I stood between the only space that had any light.

Out there in the dark reaches of castle I heard the cries of laughter. The blood red eyes that bore into my being making me whimper in fright. The two torches on the walls flickered.

"No..." My voice wavered in fright as I looked away from the dark halls and menacing eyes, too the flickering torches above.

"Please god no-" Was all I could whisper before the light extinguished and the darkness of the castle enveloped me.

My screams of pain reverberated through out the pitch black castle as the demons tore away at my flesh with their claws as they cackled in delight.

{o0o}

As the screams of the ebony alicorn took a turn for the worse, they seized quickly as ice water splashed against her body. Nightmare Moon woke distraught after the newest form of horror her dreams conjured. She blinked away the weariness' in her eyes before looked to and fro into nothing but darkness as the freezing water dripped from her fur.

"For Celestia's sake shut the buck up!" A masculine voice yelled from inside the darkness. A torch lit from outside the Nightmare's cell showing the form of one of the guards the ebony alicorn as come to see since her first day waking in her prison. "Non-stop with your bucking screaming! I swear I would sow your mouth shut if I had the choice."

I didn't say a word as he turned and left. I had come to learn what happens if I talk. The memory of the guards blade as it cut my skin the first time I woke in this cell begging for help.

The clopping sound of his hooves caught me as he rounded my door with a metal tray in his hands. "Well look what I've got here."He said holding the metal tray in front of the cell door.

His horn flashed with an orange aura, the chains that held me to the wall came loose. My naked body fell to the cobble stone floor, pain rushed through different parts of me making cry in agony.

"Ahh, little Ms. Moon get a boo boo?" He mocked as he laughed. "Anyway. Per Celestia's orders I've come with your food. Again..." The guard mindlessly tossed the tray into my cell letting it crash sending bits and pieces of mush and bread through out my cell. "But she never does say how you would receive it."

With haste I crawled forward beginning to scavenge every scrap I could grab but the chains would only let me go so far. Every piece I found I would eat with haste trying to fill my empty stomach. There was never any water when I had the chance to eat, what I found to quench my thirst were the puddles of liquid that dripped from the stone ceiling.

The food just outside my reach I would try with all my heart to get, it would be at the edge of my black furred fingers but the scraps would never be close enough for me to reach.

"You're done already?" He said watching me clawing for the large piece of bread only an inch away. "Well then let me put you in your rightful place." His horn gave a glow for a 2nd time and I felt the chains that bound my arms and legs tug at my limbs pulling my body back with great force.

I screamed as I crashed back against the wall, my wings crushed by the force and the weight of my body. Tears streamed down my face as the pain slowly faded. My stomach continued to grumble wanting more food but I knew it would days or hopefully hours until they would feed me again.

The feeling of lethargy came over me as my tears stopped. The effects of the lack of food was taking it's toll on my mind and body for another day as black spots filled my eyes.

It was only a matter of time before I was completely...

She was out. Nightmare Moons head hung low as her naked body hung from the cold dark stone wall. The guard posted outside her cell smiled at her form just before the torch behind him went off and the stallion simply walked away.

{oOo}

For a second time this day Nightmare Moon's, chains loosened from the walls. And for a 2nd time this day her naked body fell to the cobble stone flooring that was her cell.

She awoken with pain coursing through her body and the feeling of her lungs empty of oxygen. She hacked and coughed and try as she might gasped for air. The guard that had loosened her chains, the same guard that had tormented her with lack of food, watched in amusement as she wreathed in pain.

Her naked body bounced with each spasm and twitch, and with the sight of her generously proportionated breasts jiggling in the light of the torch made his phallus harden in excitement.

Nightmare Moon laid upon the dirt covered floor, her wings splayed out underneath her as she gasped for air. She looked up to the black ceiling thinking. It was one hell after another for her. If it wasn't the nightmare in her dreams it was the nightmare of reality making her wish she would just die.

She was so very tired and so very hungry. All she had known after waking inside that ruined castle was pain. The only hope she had was in her dreams when the yellow angel saved her from the demons. But even then their were times that even the angel was unable to save her.

The sound of rusty hinges of her cell door squealing open caught her ears. She looked left from her position on the floor to find the same guard that has watched her since the beginning of her imprisonment slowly walk in with hunger in his eyes and a sinister smile on his lips.

"You know," He spoke stopping right in front me casting his gaze over my body before looking into my eyes. He bent down and took a knee before he began to stroke my cheek with his left hand. "I have been watching you for days now Ms. Moon, and you know what I have come to learn in those days?"

I felt the same fear again as I had in my dreams as his hand moved from my cheek to my throat. "No pony here seems to care what happens to you." Tears streamed down my face again as his hand clenched onto my throat choking me. My body flailed in terror as I tried to scream to breath the sour air of the castle dungeon again. I watched through teary eyes as he laughed in joy the more he would tighten his grip around my throat.

I tried to strike him with my hands but the chains around my wrist still kept me from moving them to far.

I don't know if it was an act of mercy or if he had grown tired of suffocating me. Or maybe it was something else, but when he decided to release me from his grasp, I hacked, coughed and gasped for much air as I could.

I flopped onto my stomach feeling bile running through my stomach and up into my mouth before releasing the contents of my last meal onto floor of my prison cell.

I wheezed for breath and cried for the horrors to stop...

"I can hear it you know? Your stomach. Grumbling, craving for it's next meal. And I can give it to you, right now actually. All you have to do is..."

The sounds of a buckle being unbuckled and and a zipper unzipping came to my ears as I silently begged for what was about to come next was just a nightmare.

"Get on your knees, and open your mouth wide, cause I have something that's going to fill you right up."

Author's Note

Yep.