All things evil

by Flame Bolt

Rating: teen
Tags: Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Spike, Princess Celestia, Alternate Universe, Sad, Main 6
Length: 6015

After being defeated by Nightmare Moon, Twilight is transformed into a puppet of darkness. But when she starts to have flashbacks of a certain baby dragon, she realizes that there may still be hope for Equestria.

After being defeated by Nightmare Moon, Twilight is transformed into a puppet of darkness called Lunar Eclipse. But when she starts to have flashbacks of a certain baby dragon, she realizes that there may still be hope for Equestria.

Will Lunar Eclipse be able to see the error of her ways in time?
Will Twilight survive?
Will Equestria be saved?

Read on to find out!

Credit goes to Giuliabeck for the photo which gave me inspiration for this story.

Link to picture

The sequel to this story 'For Want of Eternal Nightmare' is out and can be accessed quickly via the link. Its a lot longer compared to this and has higher quality writing. It's worth the read, trust me.

Published 2013-06-05 20:30:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-13 14:48:05 UTC

Chapter 2 - The bitter taste of defeat

“ENOUGH...” Twilight screamed as she fired the magic she’d been charging, only to have it hit Nightmare Moon’s armour and rebound back at her hitting her square in the stomach, knocking her back. Twilight’s eyes widened for a split second realising what had happened and crumpled to the floor again, almost losing consciousness. Nightmare Moon exploded in laughter that sent chills down the spine, the laughter sounded distant to Twilight as she was severely disorientated, her eyes finally focusing as Nightmare Moon was taking her final steps toward her. Finally, Nightmare Moon leaned over and whispered into Twilight’s ear “My turn”.

Nightmare Moon cast a curse on Twilight who immediately felt faint, “what have you done to me?” Asked Twilight, “I’ve given you a push in the right direction you foal” Sneered Nightmare Moon. Twilight shifted her position to get a better look at what Nightmare Moon had done only to gasp at what she saw, “w-what?” was all Twilight managed to say as she could only stare in horror at the black substance that had formed at her hoofs and was slowly spreading up her legs, taking control. When it reached her flank, Twilight cringed in pain as it felt like her cutie mark was burning. It was only when she could see past the tears did she realise what had happened to her flank and what the curse was that had been casted.

Twilight’s cutie mark had changed to a large silver coloured eight point star with a purple orb in the centre, the star itself was surrounded by smaller purple stars. Twilight’s tail changed colour to a more nightmarish hue. As the black substance spread further over her body, Twilight looked up into Nightmare Moon’s eyes “w-why?” she said, tears forming at her eyes. Nightmare Moon gave her a sympathetic look of reassurance which only seemed to play with Twilight’s emotions more and speed up the transformation. In response to Twilight’s question Nightmare moon replied “You will understand when it is over”. As the transformation neared its end, Twilight closed her eyes and remembered the five friends she had made; Applejack, Pinkie pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Rarity. But... the friend she remembered the most was her baby dragon, Spike. Tears streamed down her face as she remembered all the good times they spent together, adding to the bitter taste in her mouth. Once her mane had finally changed colour, Twilight made one final wish before her transformation was complete, to never forget about Spike. Once she was finished she opened her eyes one last time to accept the inevitable. As the black fog from the substance finally covered her eyes, Twilight fell asleep, probably for the last time...

Deep inside her conscious Twilight waited for the inevitable takeover as she knew this was the last stage in the process, it arrived all too quickly and Twilight wilfully accepted it as she knew it was over. Once her conscious had faded, Twilight Sparkle was no more.

Author's Note

BAM!!! chapter 2 done. chapter 3,4 and 5 will be up in a matter of minutes.

Chapter 3 - An Eclipse is born

Nightmare Moon smiled at her handiwork, “I surprise even myself at times”. The next few minutes were spent on giving her creation a name when at last she came up with an idea, “Eclipse! Wait, no... It needs something else too” after a few more minutes she had it “Lunar Eclipse”. Nightmare Moon looked down upon the unconscious Lunar Eclipse and smiled again...

A few hours later

“Ugh” groaned a voice sounding slightly familiar, Nightmare Moon turned to see her new creation, Lunar Eclipse, awake and cracked a wicked grin. “W-what happened” said Lunar Eclipse rubbing her head, eyes still closed. Eclipse’s voice sounded of a mixture between Twilight and Nightmare Moon’s but still sounded young. Nightmare Moon started to make her way to Eclipse as she slowly began to open her eyes to identify who the hoofsteps belonged to. Eclipse’s eyes were not lavender like Twilight’s but instead a crimson red and resembled Nightmare Moon’s slitted eyes.

Once her eyes had adjusted and gained focus she looked up to see Nightmare Moon and immediately bowed her head in respect to her queen. Taken aback by the immense show of respect Nightmare Moon quickly amended the situation “Lunar Eclipse, you bow to no pony as you will rule over Equestria with me, don’t you remember?” Eclipse closed her eyes and remembered back to when she was that pathetic unicorn, she couldn’t even remember her past name but she remembered what had happened and how her transformation hadn’t been as bad as she was expecting. “Yes” she looked up and smiled “sister”. Nightmare Moon closed her eyes and remembered when she used to call Celestia her sister, but that was long ago and she disowned her sister when she was banished from equestria, right now, she’d found a new candidate. Nightmare Moon opened her eyes “I will call you my sister although you have one final test before I will truly class you as my sister” Lunar Eclipse gave Nightmare Moon a perplexed look “What do I need to do to be ‘truly’ classed as your sister?” Nightmare Moon spread out her wings “you need to become an alicorn” Just as Eclipse was about to open her mouth there was a loud bang on the door “it seems we have uninvited guests” said Nightmare Moon. Lunar Eclipse smiled at her sister “well let’s go and give them a ‘warm’ welcome shall we” she replied

Author's Note

OOH i wonder who could be at the door, hehe. Read on to find out.

P.S. i feel like this was a shoddily done chapter, the feedback might say otherwise but if it doesn't i promise you guys that i will rewrite this later.

Chapter 4 - Uninvited guests

As the sisters made their way to the door a mirror caught Eclipse’s eyes she looked into the mirror and saw a familiar figure, Twilight Sparkle was looking back at her but was then replaced by a black figure wearing armour in a similar style to her sister but it represented her new personality, fierce and unforgiving. Whereas Twilight was small like an average pony, Eclipse was the size of an alicorn, without the wings. Her horn was bigger and more majestic looking. To sum it all up, she looked nothing like her past self.

Just as she was about to set off in pursuit of her sister she had a sudden vision of a small purple baby dragon, the pain this came with was unimaginable and almost caused her to lose consciousness and she would have if not for her ‘new, tougher’ self. “That dragon” Eclipse mumbled “he is very familiar”.

Quickly remembering the guests at the door Eclipse darted to her sister’s side and reached it astoundingly quickly, “whoa” said a surprised Eclipse, Nightmare turned her head, “what’s the matter Eclipse?” Eclipse gave her sister a sinister smile “I could get used to this new power” Nightmare Moon smiled to herself “It seems Twilight sparkle isn’t coming back” she thought.
Somewhere inside Lunar Eclipse’s corrupted mind, a familiar lavender unicorn opened her eyes...

Eclipse could hear the muffled voices of ponies attempting forced entry into the room until one of them made her freeze on the spot, “allow me, my little ponies”. With a blindingly bright blast, Eclipse was thrown by the immense force into a dark corner of the room, where she used some of the extra power the darkness gave her to recover. During her recovery Eclipse played the voice over and over in her head until she realised who the voice belonged to. “Celestia!” she growled between gritted teeth, Eclipse was furious, in her mind Celestia had betrayed her. Eclipse decided to wait in the shadows gathering more strength for her grand appearance.

6 figures walked through the dust, five ponies and one alicorn. Nightmare Moon’s eyes widened in realisation of who the alicorn was, “B-but, that’s impossible! H-how did you escape?” rasped Nightmare Moon “Did you really think that a simple sealing spell from my corrupted sister would be able to hold me?” snapped Celestia and cut straight to the point “where’s my student, Twilight Sparkle?” Nightmare Moon let out a triumphant laugh.

“Ugh, not my head again” whispered Eclipse as she rubbed her head. Eclipse eventually shook it off and returned to listening to the conversation in hand.

Nightmare Moon couldn’t help but grin at the anger on Celestia’s face, “What have you done to her?” she asked. Lunar Eclipse had heard enough and slowly came out of the shadows with a vicious grin on her face “remember me?”

Celestia could only stare in shock as her faithful student had become an evil puppet of the night. The other ponies looked at each other in anguish and regret, realising that they had been too late to save their friend.

Eclipse couldn’t help but laugh at the expression of fear on Celestia’s face, eventually composing herself enough to speak, “If only you could see the priceless expression on your face” Eclipse immediately burst into laughter again. Celestia could only bring herself to look down... She had failed Twilight Sparkle. “Don’t feel too bad Celestia, I’m like your sister now or should I say MY sister”. Celestia continued to look at the ground as Lunar Eclipse went over and stood by Nightmare Moon’s side. A tear slid down Celestia’s cheek and fell to the ground, she looked up at Lunar Eclipse, “I failed you Twili--” Eclipse immediately cut her off “DON’T EVER CALL ME BY THAT NAME!” Eclipse screamed and fired a powerful spell at Celestia.

Celestia stumbled back, barely able to keep standing, “Princess!” one of the ponies cried out as they all ran to her side “come girls” Celestia said weakly, “I’ll... Find another way” and after a bright flash of light, they were gone.

Author's Note

Yes the ponies that accompanied the princess were the rest of the mane six. In one of the later chapters i will focus on them, after all someone has to break the news to poor spikey wikey.

The flashbacks play a key part in the plot of the story, you will know why later =)

Chapter 5 - Flashbacks

Nightmare Moon made her way over to Lunar Eclipse and nudged her, “nice job” “T-thanks” Eclipse rasped. The spell she had used against Celestia had taken its toll on her. “You look worn out” said Nightmare, “maybe you should take a rest”. Eclipse nodded in agreement and was about to take a breather until...

Eclipse released a cry of pain and brought her hoof to her head, she was having more flashbacks and the pain was worse than before. “Eclipse?” she looked up to see a worried look on Nightmare Moon and replied “sister”. Eclipse stumbled back a few steps and blacked out.

Lunar Eclipse awoke in a massive white room, she quickly stood up and surveyed her surroundings, “w-where am I?” she asked anxiously, her voice echoed for a while until she heard another voice, “so this is what I’ve become” it said. Eclipse spun round to face the direction the voice had originated from.

A lavender unicorn started to walk towards her, “T-twilight?” Eclipse asked in confusion. The lavender unicorn smiled, “what are you doing here?” asked Eclipse “This is your conscience” Replied Twilight, “It has taken the form of a space that we can both see each other in, which explains the room”. Deep down Eclipse wanted to be her usual nasty self, but something was preventing this from happening, Intrigued to know more she opened her mouth again to speak, “what am I doing here?” she asked “I needed to speak to you” Replied Twilight. Eclipse closed her eyes, deep down she hated Twilight but she was surprised she was so calm about the current ordeal. “What about?” asked eclipse, in reply to Twilight’s previous question, “about the flashbacks you've been having” replied Twilight. Eclipse sighed; “I've been wondering why I've been having them” she said and sat down. “Allow me to explain” replied Twilight who also sat down.

Twilight explained the whole ordeal behind the flashbacks to Eclipse who eventually made sense of the situation “so, Spike is your baby dragon who I keep having flashbacks about?” said Eclipse “Yes” replied Twilight “so you did something, while being you were being transformed into me, which resulted in me having flashbacks about Spike?” “Correct” replied Twilight “I wished that I would never forget about Spike no matter what happened” she added “It all makes sense now” Said Eclipse “one more thing” replied Twilight “now that you know this, the pain from the flashbacks will be non-existent” she added. Lunar Eclipse stood up, “thank you Twilight Sparkle” she smiled “I hold a lot more respect for you now, than I previously did and, if it makes you feel better to know this” she lowered head looking at the ground “I regret being like this”. Twilight smiled at the comment, knowing that Eclipse held respect for her but she also held respect for Eclipse as she had just shown that she does have a soul. “Good luck” Twilight said “Thank you Twilight, for everything” said Eclipse before she smiled at Twilight as she slowly faded, returning to the area of Eclipse’s conscience where she was held.

Back in the castle of the royal pony sisters Nightmare Moon paced back and forth, next to her sisters unconscious body. “Twilight” mumbled Eclipse. Nightmare Moon’s eyes widened.

Author's Note

This is a key part to the plot of the story, the next part will hopefully be spike getting the bad news but i won't know until it is written. Unfortunately that's it for today everypony. I will write the next few chapters and upload them on a different day, so that it keeps you occupied. fortunately though the next 2 days i'm at home so you know where i'll probably be. yeah i know i spoil you guys xD .but until then goodnight.

Chapter 6 - The saddening truth

“Come girls” Celestia said weakly, “I’ll... Find another way” and after a bright flash of light, they were gone.

They arrived back in Ponyville, right outside Twilights library. “We’ve got to go back” pleaded Rainbow Dash.
“Does that include me?” Fluttershy anxiously asked.
“I’m sorry girls” said a regretful Celestia, “If we go back, they’ll destroy us all. You saw how powerful the spell was that hit me.”
The rest of the ponies all nodded in agreement, “but, who’s gonna tell spike?” said Applejack, the rest of the ponies all turned to look at her, “it had to be me” she sighed.

Inside the library, Spike was anxiously pacing back and forth waiting for Twilight’s return. Suddenly, the door opened, “you’re back!” Exclaimed Spike, as the five ponies walked in, “wait, where’s Twilight?” he asked nervously. “Spike” said Applejack, “Nightmare Moon did something to Twilight” she stared at the ground in regret, “she’s no longer Twilight anymore.”
“What do you mean, no longer Twilight?” he asked. He was only met by silence from the group, “Tell me!” he demanded. It was now Celestia who came forward to speak.
“Spike” she said, “you have to be strong, we will get Twilight back but we need your help. Did Twilight have any books on dark magic or curses for that matter?”
“Now that you mention it” he replied, “she did recently read a particular book that sounded along the lines of a curse reference guide. She had asked me to put it back for her, but then though otherwise and told me to leave it right over there.” Spike pointed to a table near one of the windows. They all followed Celestia over to the table. When they got to the table there was a pile of seven books.
“Which one is it Spike?” asked Celestia.
“That one” he pointed, “three books down from the top” he quickly added. Celestia levitated the book in front of her, “The dark magic encyclopedia” she read aloud. Celestia was just about to open the book when Spike quickly intervened.
“Wait!” he shouted.
“What’s the matter spike?” she replied.
“I remember catching a glimpse of the page she was on before she closed it. Let me find it Celestia.” Spike suggested.
“Alright then Spike” she smiled and lowered the book down to him.
“Right, page 237” Spike mumbled to himself as he flicked through the pages, “237... 237, Aha! Here it is, page 237, huh?”
Celestia closed her eyes, spike knew, “How could I have been so stupid?” she thought to herself.
“A transformation curse?” said a surprised Spike, “Twilight prepared me for a situation like this.” he added. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as there was now a glimmer of hope.
“So how do we fix it?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“Well... It says here that if a pony remembers enough about their past life then they can transform back. It also describes what happens to the victim when the curse is cast.”
“What does it say?” asked Fluttershy.
“When the curse is cast, the victim is turned into an evil version of themselves.” Read Spike, “The caster also has control over certain memories of the victim, often exploiting this to manipulate them.”
“So that’s why Twilight was like that with me” responded Celestia, “she’s not herself because she’s under Nightmare Moon’s influence.”
“I have an idea to remind her of her past life” answered Spike, “If we take a saddlebag full of some of her most prized achievements and possessions then we have a big chance of getting Twilight back. I’ll go and pack it now.” Spike ran up the stairs so fast that no one could argue with him in time.

5 minutes later Spike came back down; or rather fell down the stairs. “My head” he said while rubbing it. As soon as he got up he asked his next question, “so uh... who’s gonna carry this?” Everyone looked at Applejack.
“Are you kidding me?” she cried.
Before she could object further Spike asked another question, “Can I come with you guys?”
It was now Rarity’s turn to speak “Spike, dear, you didn't really think we were going to leave you here by yourself again did you?”
“Yeah Spike” added Rainbow Dash, “you mean the world to Twilight, we’d never leave you behind in a situation like this, Fluttershy you don’t mind carrying Spike on your back do you?”
“Not at all” she replied, “come on Spike, Twilight needs our help”
“Yay!” shouted Pinkie Pie as she threw confetti in the air, “Big awesome adventure thingy”

As they set off on their way to the ‘Castle of The Royal Pony Sisters’ Spike smiled to himself “Don’t worry Twilight” he thought to himself, “We’ll save you.”

Author's Note

Finally... its done! sorry this is late, a big problem with this chapter was that i had no idea on what to put so it took me ages to write. oh well its finally done now and is a tad longer (if you class 100-200 words as a tad longer). i'm gonna have a break, stupid headaches. i think i'll let spike take over *ahem* SPIKE!!!
"yeah?"
Today's your lucky day!
"why?"
because i'm letting you write the last bit of the authors note, go ahead, I've got a headache to attend to.

"Hey, everypony, hope your enjoying the story so far, i don't know what else to put so i think i'll just wrap it up here and publish it for the author, bye."

Chapter 7 – One thing always leads to another

Back inside her conscience, Lunar Eclipse was pacing around wondering what would happen next. All of a sudden she heard a loud bang, she turned around “what the...” was all she managed to say before she was enveloped in white light.

Eclipse woke up, eyes wide, gasping for air. She finally calmed down when she realised she was in familiar surroundings. Eclipse slowly stood up, she felt different, only realising why when she saw that she had become an alicorn. Eclipse gasped in surprise.

Nightmare Moon chuckled as she made her way over to Eclipse from the other side of the room, “I’m just as surprised as you Eclipse” she said.
Eclipse turned to her sister after admiring her wings, “How did you end up over there?” she asked, her hoof pointing towards the wall that now had an imprint of Nightmare Moon on it.
“Well... when you became an alicorn, the power surge generated by you, sent me flying into the wall.” Nightmare replied.
“Sorry about that” replied Eclipse.
“Don’t worry about it; besides there are other matters of importance” as soon as this was said, Nightmare Moon’s attitude changed completely, “What did Twilight want?”
“What are you talking about Nightmare, I--”
“Do not take me as a foal Eclipse, WHAT DID TWILIGHT WANT?” When she received no answer, Nightmare zapped Eclipse with a lightning spell.
Eclipse could barely take the force of the spell and stumbled back, “what was that for” she exclaimed.
“You didn't answer my question” snapped Nightmare, zapping Eclipse again.
“OW!” she cried, “If you stop I’ll tell you”
“I have a better idea” Nightmare replied, releasing a bolt of energy that hit Eclipse in the head and knocked her out, “I’ll ask her myself”

“Eclipse, are you alright?” Asked a worried voice that sounded distant, “Eclipse?” it asked again.
Eclipse groaned and slowly opened her eye’s only to be greeted by the sight of an extremely worried Twilight standing over her, “H-help me.” was all she could find the strength say.
“What happened to you?” Asked Twilight.
“Nightmare M-moon is obsessed with getting rid of you completely” replied Eclipse, “It’s gotten to her head, making her more dangerous than ever.”
“Eclipse, is there anything I can do to help you?” She asked
“There is one thing you can do” she replied, “Take my place.”
“What” Twilight said, a look of shock on her face.
“This is your chance to put things right” she said, putting her hoof on Twilight’s shoulder, “Don’t make the mistakes I did Twilight, good luck.”
All of a sudden Twilight felt an immense surge of energy and slowly vanished before Eclipse’s eyes. When she was gone, Eclipse fell back into a deep sleep.

Author's Note

phew... new chapter done. No break for me guys, i promised you all i would finish this story before friday, watch me keep that promise.

Chapter 8 – An unexpected visitor

Twilight’s eyes shot open. She just laid there staring at the ceiling, replaying the events, which had happened just a few moments ago, over and over. It was only when she finally got up and surveyed her surroundings that it dawned on her what had happened. “Take my place” the words echoed in her mind. Twilight guessed she was in what was going to be her bedroom, seeing as she had woken up on the bed.

Twilight walked over to the mirror opposite her and looked at her reflection. She was still Eclipse but her eye’s had changed colour from the crimson red they were to their original lavender colour, while remaining slitted. She closed her eyes and turned away in disgust, it was the one thing she hated most about her new appearance, they made her look evil like Nightmare Moon was.

Twilight made her way onto the balcony facing in the direction of Ponyville. A tear made its way down her cheek, she missed being there with her friends and most importantly she missed Spike.
“ARRRGGGHH...”
Twilight never even got chance to look at the silhouetted individual before they fell on her. They both lay crumpled on the ground. She quickly used her magic to light up a nearby lantern to see who or what had landed on her, but it was who she saw that shocked her “Spike!” She gasped.

“What are you doing here?” she asked.
“T-twilight?” he replied and was met with a reassuring smile, “TWILIGHT!” he exclaimed with delight and ran into her welcoming embrace.
“Shush, keep it down or Nightmare will come back” she whispered.
“Oh, sorry” he replied.
“And here I was hoping I’d have to knock some sense into you first” announced a cyan Pegasus.
“Rainbow Dash, I’m guessing the others are here too?” replied Twilight.
“Yep!” she grinned.

As if on cue, they appeared after a sudden white flash and Celestia was with them.
“Princess!” she gasped, “I-I’m sorry about what I did to you before, I should never ha--”
“It’s okay Twilight, it wasn't your fault, we already know who’s responsible for this mess” she reassured Twilight.

Suddenly the door flew open, revealing an extremely angry Nightmare Moon “YOU FOALS” she snarled, “Eclipse, get them!”
“No” replied Twilight, turning to face Nightmare Moon.
When Nightmare saw Eclipse’s eyes it dawned on her “ah, Twilight, ready for round two” she taunted.
“More than ever” replied Twilight, fire burning in her eyes.
“Anypony want popcorn?” asked pinkie pie, producing a bucket of it.
“Don't see why not” giggled Spike as he shoved a handful into his mouth.

The two alicorns charged each other and the epic battle began.

Author's Note

Climax time!

Chapter 9 - Destiny

They both collided, trying to push each other back with their horns. “Once I’m done with you, I’m going to kill your friends one by one!” Spat Nightmare Moon, “Then, I’ll kill Celestia while you watch me. Once I’m done with her, I’ll kill you in the most agonising way I can.”
“If you think that’s going to work on me a second time then you can forget it!” Growled Twilight, doing her best to push Nightmare back further.
Nightmare realised this and pulled away, sidestepping to avoid the extra jab Twilight sent in her direction. In response to this Nightmare sent a wave of shadows towards Twilight which knocked her back into the hallway.
“Hey! That’s cheating” Snapped Twilight.
“I’m sorry” said Nightmare, sarcastically, “I don’t play by the rules” and sent another shadow wave towards Twilight, who quickly ducked under it.

“Celestia we’ve got to do something” Spike complained, “They’re going to end up killing each other.”
Celestia knew he was right, she let out a sigh and turned to face Twilight’s friends. “Girls, remember when you set off to find the Elements of Harmony?” she asked.
“What’s that got to do with anything?” asked Rainbow Dash before anyone else could.
“Well” she sighed, “you are the bearers of the Elements of Harmony.”

Back in the hallway, what was a violent battle was beginning to turn into an immature squabble siblings would have with each other.
“You’re pathetic Twilight.” Jeered Nightmare Moon.
“Well so are you, maybe even more so.” Replied Twilight.
“Will you two stop arguing? I want to see some action” Spike moaned.
Nightmare Moon sent a bolt of energy his way that turned the piece of popcorn, which was between his fingers, to ash.
“WAH” he cried out and ran back into the room he’d come from.

“Why didn’t you tell us about this before?” asked Rainbow dash.
“I had to be sure I was correct about you all, but now I am you need to--”
“Those two are definitely intent on killing each other” interrupted Spike.
“Spike dear” Rarity began, “it can’t possibly be that bad.” As soon as she looked out into the hallway her mouth went agape and her eyes wide, “Maybe it can be that bad” she added, walking back inside.

Celestia lit her horn and out of nowhere 5 necklaces and a crown appeared, “These are the Elements” she said and attached each of them to their particular bearer, “I can’t get the Element of Magic to Twilight, Nightmare Moon will see it coming and stop me before I even get it close to her.”
“Maybe I can help” Spike offered, “If I can distract Nightmare Moon long enough, then you can get the Element to Twilight.”
“Are you sure you can Spike?” Celestia asked.
“Of course I can” Grinned Spike.

Spike carefully climbed over the balcony wall and slowly made his way round the outside of the castle, via a ledge.
“Spike!” shouted Pinkie Pie.
“What!?” he snapped
“Don’t look down.”
“Oh, great” he muttered.

Author's Note

Its a race now to get this done =P

Sequel - For Want of Eternal Nightmare (with link)

Now announcing the sequel to this story which has some generally higher quality writing and longer chapter length (seeing as that was the main issue with this story).

For Want of Eternal Nightmare

Enjoy the story.

Author's Note

This is for those people who favourited this story, but didn't know about the sequel. And... for those that haven't even read these yet =)

Chapter 1 - All hope is lost

“You FOAL; you couldn’t possibly have hoped to defeat me!” Spat Nightmare Moon. Twilight collapsed, her legs couldn’t find the energy to allow her to stand as she struggled to get up to continue fighting. “I won’t give up!” she shouted, as her legs gave way again she crumpled to the floor, Twilight was completely devoid of energy and, even though she refused to admit it, she was defeated.

Nightmare Moon stood over her wondering what she should do to the pathetic excuse of a pony that lay in front of her. Eventually an evil smile appeared on her face as she had decided the cruel fate that would befall Twilight. “If you thought that YOU would be able to defeat me with such weak magic you are wrong TWILIGHT SPARKLE!” Nightmare Moon Said with a look of disgust on her face, “but... I have decided you are of more use to me alive” her gaze meeting Twilight’s eyes. She laughed at the look of horror on the terrified unicorn. Eventually Twilight mustered the strength to speak, “w-what are y-you going to d-do with m-me” Twilight said before all energy left her and she returned to her helpless position where she lay on the ground. Nightmare Moon’s sinister look returned as she realised that she had complete power over the unicorn, “well... about that” she said with an evil smile on her face.

Nightmare Moon slammed her hoof against the ground; causing the door to the room to slam shut, “I’m going to make you an offer” Nightmare Moon said trying her best to sound as ‘kind’ as possible, “Change your allegiance Twilight. Join me in rule of all of Equestria, or perish as a victim of eternal night”. Twilight hid the complete shock of what she had just heard by pretending to consider the offer, eventually, she looked at Nightmare Moon with a look of disgust “I’ll never join you” she rasped. Twilight mustered all the energy and strength she could to stand up and began to charge her magic, “there is still hope for --” before she could finish Nightmare Moon cut her off “HOPE?” Chuckled Nightmare Moon; “there was never any HOPE as soon as you arrived here. This is my castle and in my castle my rules are followed. So I’ll ask again” Snapped Nightmare Moon, the evil smile returning to her face, “Join me or perish” Said Nightmare Moon “I’d rather die” Twilight said weakly, her magic still charging. “That can easily be arranged, but I have other plans” Said Nightmare Moon with the look of pure evil.

Author's Note

This is the first chapter of my very Mlp fic i hope you guys enjoy reading the rest of the chapters.

P.S. to remove confusion this section takes place in the castle of the royal pony sisters. I will include when the location changes in one of my future chapters that have not been written yet, but until then it is currently in the castle. see you in the next few chapters guys.

Chapter 10 – An end of all things

“Why are you holding back Nightmare?” asked Twilight, dodging another spell.
“Oh well” replied Nightmare, “I knew this little game would have to end sometime.”
With that said Twilight was suddenly blasted back, by an immensely powerful spell, into the wall behind her. She tried to refocus her vision but couldn’t do so in time. When her vision finally did refocus, Twilight saw Nightmare Moon standing over her.
“I wish I had done this from the beginning” she snarled and began to choke Twilight with her hoof.
Twilight couldn't breathe. As much as she writhed and squirmed, she was powerless to fight back. As her vision started to darken, Twilight was suddenly released from Nightmare’s grip and collapsed back onto the ground gasping for air.

“HEY!” shouted Spike throwing another rock at Nightmare Moon, “You big bully, pick on someone else for a change”
Nightmare Moon turned around, a look of anger on her face “You annoying pest” she growled to Spike, “I’m going to deal with you first.”

As Nightmare Moon slowly made her way over to Spike, who continued to hurl rocks at her, Celestia and the rest of the group ran to Twilight’s side.
“Twilight are you alright?” asked Celestia.
“I think s-so” she panted.
Celestia levitated the Element of Magic onto Twilight’s head and helped her up

Spike was beginning to run out of space as he slowly backed away from Nightmare Moon. He quickly decided to hide behind one of the pillar that were in the room.
“Come out, little one, there’s no point in hiding” coaxed Nightmare Moon.
She knew he was here, she could taste the fear in the air and that led her directly to him.
She slowly made her way round the opposite end of the pillar and whispered into his ear, “Boo”
Spike stumbled over and fell, this was the end. Nightmare Moon began to charge her magic and then everything went white.

Author's Note

It's finally over!

Chapter 11 – All’s well that ends well

When Spike opened his eye’s Nightmare Moon wasn’t there anymore. Instead a much smaller alicorn had taken her place. He just sat there staring at her.

Twilight and the rest of the group regained consciousness. Lunar Eclipse and Celestia were standing over her, “Ahem, I believe this belongs to you” said Eclipse and handed the Element back to Twilight, who was now back to normal.

“So, what will are you going to do now Eclipse?” Asked Celestia.
“Make my grand departure of course!” Eclipse replied with a smile on her face and slowly faded away.

Celestia smiled and looked over in Spike’s direction, the smile quickly faded when she saw who was next to Spike, “Luna!” she gasped and quickly made her way over to her.
“Wait, you know her?” asked Rainbow Dash.
“Of course, Luna is my sister” Celestia replied.
“SISTER?” Everyone cried at the same time.

“Luna are you okay?” Celestia asked.
“I’m sorry big sister” she replied, tears streaming down her face, “I should’ve listened to you. Please forgive me”
“It’s okay Luna” Celestia gave her sister a reassuring nuzzle, “It’s over now.”

Back In Ponyville

That night, Twilight was awoken by a figure standing on the balcony, staring up at the night sky.
“Eclipse?” she asked.
Eclipse turned around “You should be asleep, Twilight” she replied.
“Why are you here?” Twilight asked.
“After all you did for me, it’s the least I can do to make sure you are safe and that no harm comes to you while you sleep” replied Eclipse
“So you’re like my guardian angel now?” she asked
“Precisely” said Eclipse, “now get some rest Twilight, or you’ll regret it come morning.”
And with that, Twilight put her head back on her pillow and fell back asleep.

THE END