Eternal Darkness

The two sisters kept eye contact as they attempted to catch their breath; ones gaze was full of hatred, the others full of disappointment and anger. “Sister I beg of you to stop this fighting.” Celestia stated before her sister laughed.

“Why? So that I can be your tool again? So that you can get all the worship while I get all the fear and hate? I’d rather die!” Nightmare Moon replied, baring her magically sharpened teeth in an angry growl.

“I have never used you sister I...”

“Save it!” snarled Nightmare Moon before flying up into the air, both her eyes and horn illuminated a blinding white as the clouds outside the castle began to circle around with hurricane force. “Feel the chill of darkness!” Nightmare Moon yelled, her Canterlot voice causing the remaining windows left to shatter into a million fragments. Blotches of shadows fell from the whirling clouds, crashing onto the floor and quickly beginning to take forms, causing Celestia to stare with horror as they took the forms of ponies.

The ponies resembled Alicorn's though their faces were featureless, the only detail visible being their blood red eyes and their tentacles which sprouted from their backs.

“Give yourself to the darkness.” The conjured creatures chanted calmly as they slowly approached the princess of the day, their eyes empty of anything but darkness.

“Do you fear me now sister? Do you think I am a simple foal? Hahahaha!” Nightmare Moon laughed hysterically as thunder began to strike the castle, pieces of stone and its wooden supports exploding in multiple places.

Celestia backed away from the conjured shadow ponies, their chanting ceased and replaced with a hellish giggle. She knew she had only one hope of defeating her sister now, she needed to find the Elements of Harmony. Thinking quickly Celestia turned and began to gallop away, her sisters laugh echoing through the hallways after her. Celestia turned the first corner to her right only to find more of the shadow ponies approaching towards her, their hellish giggle louder than ever. Celestia gained a firm expression before illuminating her horn and firing a powerful magical blast at the shadow ponies. Her ray reverted them back to splashes of shadow on the ground, bringing a grin to Celestia’s features which was quickly wiped away at the sight of them reforming. The shadow ponies doubled, instead of three approaching the day princess now were six, their features being dark grins once more.

Celestia backed away once more before turning around to go another way, only to come face to face with one of the shadow ponies. Its face split in half where a normal ponies mouth would be before opening a horrific amount six times the normal limit of a ponies jaw, its teeth bloody and its throat non existent; in its place was another mouth with even larger teeth.

The shadow pony dove forward, releasing a scream so loud Celestia felt as though her eardrums would rupture from the sheer volume. Its body collided with hers, knocking her onto her side before charging forward, its companions following closely behind with their razor teeth ready to rip into her flesh.

Celestia channeled her magic to her horn immediately, quickly followed by sending a blindingly bright ray of light directly into the shadow ponies second mouth, the ray of light shredding its way through its form and through another, thus causing the two to fade out of existence. Before the others were upon her she was already to her hooves, her wings spread while she galloped as fast as she could, the shadow ponies no longer walking, but running on both the floor and the walls, their wings no longer wings but large razor blades made out of the same shadows of their very being.

Faster and faster Celestia ran but the shadow ponies kept gaining ground on her, their screams getting louder and louder. They were screaming her name now, taunting her in sadistic sentiments.

“You can’t hide from the darkness Princess! Hahaahaha!” one screamed in a high pitched hellish voice, its eyes splitting into another pair to give it a similar appearance of a spider.

An explosion erupted from the wall in front of Celestia, sending shards of glass and timber into her form, causing her to collapse and slide across the stone floor, a blood trail following directly behind her.

She rose once more and galloped, much slower now however for the explosion had injured her worse than she had been before. She turned left only to have something leap on top of her, immediately followed by a sharp pain stabbing into the back of her neck.

“Die! Die die die ahahaha!” a shadow pony screamed, its tentacles on its back beginning to slash at her flank and legs like razors, ripping flesh from her body while it proceeded to bite at her neck, hoping to reach her brain stem or one of her arteries.

Celestia immediately charged her horn, followed by releasing a flaming pulse of light throwing the shadow pony off her.

Celestia forced her way through a door, collapsing before the pedestal possessing the elements of harmony, a puddle of blood pooling around her from her injuries. Tears rolled from her eyes, not from her wounds but from her inner pain. Her sister was no longer her sister, what once was her sister was now a horrible monster of the darkness. Consumed by corruption, jealousy and hatred.

“Here I come Princess!” a shadow pony screamed sadistically as it charged towards her fallen form, its tentacles ready to finish her off as they morphed into blades.

Celestia gazed to the elements of harmony before whispering “Help me”

The shadow pony dove through the air but a second before it could claim its kill it froze in mid air. Confusion washed over the demonic creature before it began to feel pain, a horrible scorching pain only comparable to the flames of Tartarus. Its form immediately became alight with white flames, flames of purity. It faded out of reality immediately before a shield, white and transparent expanded through the castle.

Nightmare Moon paused as she sensed all of her minions die before her eyes widened with fear. The wall came for her, and it came faster than she could see. The wall did not stop with Nightmare Moon however and continued to expand past Canterlot, Ponyville and all other cities, finally stopping at the borders of Equestria, purifying the land of evil before disappearing.

Followed by the barrier was nothing but silence. The sun was now in the sky and the only indication of the previous events being the damage to Canterlot Castle. Celestia kept her gaze on the elements, a small smile forming on her face. “T-thank you.” she thanked before falling unconscious from her injuries and exhaustion.

….. and with the elements Princess Celestia forever banished Nightmare Moon, the princess of the night, preventing her from ever returning and bringing upon eternal night.

Nightmare moon stared at the last sentence of the book before it ignited in black flames. “Are you OK mother?” Nightmare Moon’s filly age adopted daughter asked, not receiving an answer at first.

“I am fine Chrysalis, now please, go to sleep, Its noon and you must get your rest” Nightmare Moon responded, rising to her hooves and exiting the cave her changeling daughter and her had inhabited. “Besides, tonight your training intensifies.”

“Forever night mother” the young changeling said happily before resting her head on her pillow and closing her eyes.

“Forever night my young princess” Nightmare Moon responded before turning her gaze back outside to the hot desert of the badlands, her features emotionless.

I will have my revenge.