The Nightmare of The Celestial Dragon

by Lunas_Daughter

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Alternate Universe
Length: 2125

If Luna couldn't be the Nightmare Moon in this alternate world, the CELESTIA is! (THE Celestial DRAGON!)

Nopony knew what lay on the other side of the otherworldly waters in the The Pond of Differences. A mere slip of a hoof, however, sends Princess Luna on a one-way trip to find out. What she discovers is a dark reflection of Equestria, one where her own beloved sister has fallen to evil, becoming Sunny Daymare, the Celestial Dragon.
Luna is faced with the same dreadful trials that her brush with the Nightmare forced her sister to endure. To gather the Elements, to find bearers, and perhaps to save her sibling to a thousand years of loneliness and exile.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-20 01:56:33 UTC

the pond

An alicorn sat at the edge of The Pond of Differences. Though she had created it, she still had no idea what lay underneath it's waters. The pond, was just as big as the reflection of the moon. It was fairly big.

  Luna stretched her wings.

  The pond was created with such powerful alicorn magic, that she had created. The spell could only be cast by the descendant of the moon, which, in this case, was Luna.

   Luna tried to cast the spell, that she had tried to cast, ever since she had made the pond. She tried to see what was on the other side. The spell worked best at night. The moon was full, Luna had added her numbers. This would be the night she would finally know what laid beyond her creation.  But not in the way she intended.

  Luna cast the spell. She put all of her power, all of her heart into it. She must know what was beyond her imagination.     Luna screamed. Pain seared from her horn and covered her whole body. Suddenly, the pain stopped. it left a horrible tingling feeling under her skin. Luna stared at the pond in disbelief. her own creation, just... kicked her out? Luna glared at the pond. She tried to gather what just happened. It was night, perhaps, it was not when she was the strongest, but the pond was? It didn't make sense. All she could remember while she was hacking into the pond's other side was.... The sun... That was strange. She saw the sun every time she tried to look into the pond. Even during the day. The daytime shouldn't be opposite across the pond.. Unless... no, that can't be possible. Eternal, day. That was absurd! Luna's head hurt. Maybe the pond was just making her think that she saw a sun every single time she tries to look into the pond. Luna sighed. The sun was coming up already. Her looking-in-the-deep spell took much for time than it seemed. Luna sighed again and headed back into the castle. She feared, that she would never know beyond her creation. Luna mentally stomped her hooves in frustration. She entered her room. Luna's room was huge. Across from her door, was her bed. Her sheets were dotted with her Cutie Mark. On the side wall was a dark blue vanity.  A huge mirror was suspended by Luna's window. Luna laid on her bed and was asleep by the time the sun peaked her curtains.

When Luna woke up it was time to bring up the moon. She quickly raised it and headed down to the Pond of Differences. You couldn't see the pond at first, it was surrounded by the trees of the Ever free Forest. It kept curious eyes away. Luna lighted her horn. she put all of her might into it. The spell bounced off the pond. Luna screamed, this time, in fear, not pain. The spell hit Luna. Luna was sent flying backward. She slammed into a nearby tree. She heard the swish of wings. Celestia Luna thought. Luna rolled, completely out of her power, down, and landed with a small splash, into, the Pond Of Differences.

  "NO!" Celestia shouted. She swished her hoof in the pond. It was too late. The Pond, had engulfed her completely. Luna flew into a open window of the castle. "Phenomena!" She cried "Go after Luna! Keep an eye on her!" Phenomena fly off, and dove into the waters of The Pond Of Differences. Celestia flew off to tell the nightmare guards of what had happened to their princess.

  Luna Twisted in the waters of The pond. Her struggling was useless. A green hoof reached out, and pulled Luna up. Luna found herself face to face with a Pegasus mare with dark curly green hair, and a green coat. Her cutie mark was what looked like a crystallized leaf. There was a filly beside her, that looked just like her, except she had an olive coat, and had no cutie mark.

  "come on!" The mare cried. "before she sees you! Then we'll be barbecue!"

Luna's Monster Sister

"Who?" Luna asked

"The Celestial Dragon," the olive filly whispered like it was obvious.

  "Shh, she'll hear you," The older mare said.

  The trio ran for a little longer until a alicorn shadow appeared looking for it's next victims. The filly screamed. An alicorn crashed down onto the ground her hair were flames and her fur was silky white The crash sent the olive filly and the Green mare flying backwards Luna caught them with her magic and set them down.

  " Luna," She said with a sneer "Glad you could join the party. These ponies will suffer. And you thought you could hide. Foal."

  "Tia?" Luna asked not quite believing of what she was seeing.

  "Don't call me that," the monster spat "I THE CELESTIAL DRAGON!"

  "I don't understand, Tia, this isn't the kind of power you want," Luna said remembering her own experiences.

  "Oh really?" Sunny Day mare hissed"As I recall, every pony just simply loves your 'wonderful' night. It's simple I want the kind of power you have'"

  The Celestial dragon charged at Luna.  She put up a dome shield Only having it give her a splitting headache, once her monster sister rammed into it. Luna's magic wasn't that strong.... Luna summoned up some attack spells to hit The Celestial Dragon even after she dodged them might as well call them boomerang spells.

  "YEAH LUNA!!!! KICK HER FLANK!!" the two sisters shouted.

  "SILENCE!!" Sunny day mare shouted and sent a powerful fire attack spell hurtling at them.

  "NO!!" Luna cried as the older sister placed a wing over the filly and braced for impact they never felt it. Luna had jumped into the way of the spell as Sunny Day Mare disappeared

  "COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD!!" The green Mare shouted shaking a hoof.

  "Will she be okay Glitter Leaf?" the younger filly asked.

  "Hopefully Lila, now go get help" Glitter leaf commanded

  Lila flapped her little wings straining to pull her self up

"HURRY!!" Glitter called

Nursing

  A unicorn and an earth filly burst into the observatory.

  "I-I wanna see the alicorn," Said Speedy Gallop, Lightning Sprint's little sister.

  "I do too," cried Radish Roots, little sister of Radish Rose she jumped on Speedy Gallop

  "I WANNA!"

  "NO WANNA!"

  "I WANNA SEE HER MORE THAN YOU!!"

  "NO YOU DON"T!"

  Lila laughed when she saw Her friends wrestling. "Shes over here guys."

  The three fillies trotted over and when they saw Luna, gasped(Lila had gasped too because Glitter wouldn't let her see Luna)                "It was worse," Lighting Sprint said 'In fact. ........"

  Radish rose glared at her. Lighting Sprint returned the glare and started up a conversation with Flutter Heart. Flutter Heart shushed the 3 fillies, because they were shouting about how cool it would be to get a cutie mark in medication. Flutter Heart gently started wrapping bandages around Luna's wound. She was surprisingly very steady and easily ignored the fillies as they gave Flutter heart 'tips' on how to wrapped a bandage. Luna suddenly groaned and woke up with a start. 'who are you ponies?" She said, in fear.

  'uh, we're the elements of harmony, duh," Lighting sprint said

  "Lightning, she probably hit her head really hard and doesn't remember a thing!" Flutter Heart said, oddly cheerful.

  Luna looked at her like she was crazy.

  Bubbly cake flew in. Her saddle bags burst open, and millions upon millions bandages rained down on the mares.

  "BUBBLY!!!!" Lightning Sprint growled

  "oops, sorry Lighty, didn't see you there!" Bubbly Cake said, cheerfully.

  Radish Rose levitated several bandage rolls.  "well," She sighed "flutter Heart now has a Lifetime supply of bandages. How many bits did all of these bandages cost any way?"

  Bubbly cake stared blankly at Radish. "what?"

  Radish Rose groaned.

  "uh, hello?" Luna said. "who are you ponies anyway?"

  Radish rose looked up. "oh.. Well I'm Radish Rose."  She gestured to Flutter Heart "And the one bandaging you is Flutter Heart."

   "Glitter leaf, Bubbly Cake, and Lightning Sprint" Glitter Leaf said.

  "there's also Starry Night..." said Flutter Heart. "but she's unavailable right now." Radish Rose finished. The mares smiled nervously.

"RADISH!" Glitter Leaf suddenly said "Be polite and ask what her name is."

  "what's your name?" Radish Rose asked Luna, glaring at Glitter Leaf.

   Luna sat up. How could these mares not know her? "My name is Princess Luna." Luna felt tension fill the room."what? What's wrong?"

"Uh.." Radish Rose said. "Um, well, after you fled, when your sister transformed, you're uh, now known as a.. Uh.."

  "cowardly," The rest of the mares finished. The 5 braced for angry yells. Instead, they heard the confused, calm voice of 'cowardly' Luna"i'm from another world... I fell into my creation, The lake of differences. That's where glitter Leaf found me..."

  "that changes everything" Radish Rose cried "Why didn't you say something?" Radish Rose looked  accusingly at Glitter Leaf. She raised her wings defensively. "they don't have a sign! How was i supposed to know!?"

  Luna cast a calming spell on Glitter Leaf. She flew down and made up with Radish Rose.

  Suddenly, the observatory door flew open, and Starry Night came galloping in "I'm sorry!" She cried.

  The rest of her friend smiled, "friendship repaired!" They cried.

  Luna was surprised. The mares made up so quickly.

  Starry Night stepped forward. "Starry Night. As you know, your element of harmony have saved you once again"

  Luna looked like a cold bucket of water came splashing on her head. "no... Twilight sparkle and her friends are the-"

  "Twilight Sparkle dear?" Glitter leaf snorted. "they're just a fairy tale."

    Luna shook her head. 'that doesn't make any sense."

  "of course it does dear, for all we know,you popped right out of a book!"

  Starry Night walked towards Luna "who are you? Where did you come from? Because, certainly, you didn't come from here." Starry Night's eyes were threatening.

The alternate mane six

Starry night was surprised when Lila burst into her observatory saying there was a hurt alicorn in the woods.

  she did not believe her at first. Lila had a taste for trouble. Opposite of her sister.

  But she still lighted up her horn and galloped after the surprisingly fast flying filly into the evergreen woods. Lila led her into a clearing not too far from the lake of differences.

  From the treetops was Phenomena watching closely. She did show herself for she knew her master saw through Luna's eyes when she was asleep.

  There, in the clearing was Glitter Leaf and an alicorn who resembled the cowardly princess Luna.

  Starry Night was not happy being called from her work just to see a sleeping alicorn. Then she saw it. a deep red burn that was huge and it was surrounded by singed fur well that explained the horrible smell.

  Glitter looked stressed. her eyes were puffy from crying

  "She saved us," Glitter leaf whispered The Celestial Dragon sent a fire spell at us and she jumped in between. Starry Night please help."

  Starry night nodded and picked Luna up with her magic straining to pick something so heavy up

  "Go get every pony else and doctor hoof," Starry night instructed Lila.

  She saluted and flew off

  Soon the rest of the mane six and Lila were in Starry Night's observatory Doctor Hoof would come in half an hour The observatory was getting quite full.

  The seven mares studied the unconscious Luna and her wound. Then Flutter Heart whispered ever so softly "She looks like Princess Luna."

  Radish rose moved in for a closer look "She is and i reckon shes as cowardly as ever. Ditching us like that,"

  Bubbly cake and Lighting Sprint nodded

  Though Bubbly was the element of laughter she didn't like Luna.

  "We have to heal her," said Flutter Heart with a roll of bandages in her mouth.

  Starry Night stuck her muzzle in the air "Why should we help her? She ditched us!"

  Radish Rose frowned "We should at least do some basic healing," she said grabbing a burn heal in her magic.

  Bubbly flew out to get more bandages(and to 'accidentally' wreck the pharmacy.)

  Once again Starry Night stuck her muzzle in the air "My talent is astronomy not healing like Flutter Heart!"

  "Well, you can just slack off," Said Radish "Some element of magicyou are."

  Starry's ear flattened down and she trotted out the door.

  "WAIT! WAIT!" cried Flutter Heart Then she stopped "The Celestial Dragon did this to us," she muttered with her eyes watering.

  Glitter put a reassuring hoof on her Friend's back"come on dear, we have an alicorn who needs healing."