Past Sins: Mother day and Father night (alternate events)

by Canvas Stories

Rating: everyone
Tags: Alternate Universe, Sad, Nightmare Moon, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Other, Dark
Length: 5996

A short story that I thought of after reading the story Past Sins and bases on if events where Nix/Nightmare Moon has not shown mercy to her enemies and is must be corrected by higher powers.

Nix or at this time Nightmare Moon has not show mercy to all her enemies and has made her self a cruel dictator seizing internal night. With no other to stop her the parents of Celesta and Luna must step in and correct what has bin wronged.

Published 2013-10-10 03:10:08 UTC
Last updated 2013-10-10 03:10:08 UTC

Day and night

Past Sins

Mother Day and Father Night

Events are betrayed in front of you in a hazy blurred image as Mayor Mare speaks. With a quick a subtle strike, nightmare moon projected her magical sword at celestia’s neck, decapitating her. A few hours later Luna then entered the throne room and Nightmare moon used her magic to slam the door behind Luna.

“Dear ponies of ponyville it is my great trouble to announce that princess Celestia and Luna have been struck down by Nightmare Moon.”

The area that you are viewing has now changed to Nightmare moon’s castle. Twilight and her friends now stood at the edge of wooden planks with rope around their necks. Now with a slight move of the of the planks they all fell one by one hitting the end of the ropes and either suffocated or had their neck brake.

“The wielders of the Element of Harmony magic were viewed hung at the wall of Nightmare Moon’s castle. Nightmare moon has now declared eternal night.”

Three days have past since Nightmare moon had declared eternal night. She had gotten a bit bothered by it and she now in her bedroom was contemplating on beginning it back for one day. As she begins taking off her armor she rejected the thought and decided to keep to old ways. Many times she had gotten this feeling to do good. She rejected them do to her anger and want to fulfill her goal even if it was born from Luna and not herself. She had just gotten her eyeliner off when knocking on her bedroom door had interrupted her thoughts.

“Catering my Queen” The young servant of her kingdom said in her obedient voice.

Nightmare moon then opened the door letting the mare bring the cart in. The mare then left it in the middle of the room and backed out bowing as she left. Nightmare moon now when to investigate the cart of food that had been made by the great chef at the castle. He had once again had made all the food as if it were some form of art project which has annoyed her a bit. She did see celery soup on it though which did make her smile a bit. The smile quickly dissipated as memories came to her.

“Twilight” Nightmare moon said to herself as she thought of the decision that she made.

she levitated the soup with her as she walked to her bed while slouching her neck. She looked at the soup not eating it but going over her memories of what she had done. Tears started to build in her eyes and was on the verge of crying as she heard a small thumping sound. The sound had came from the under section of the food cart and was followed by muffled voices. She then quietly got out of bed and walked over to the cart curious on what was making the sounds. she then look in the under section of the cart and saw that the dessert platter cover was moving just slightly. She then gently levitated it to her bed.magic and carried it to the bed. She placed it directly in the center before
spreading her wings, the alicorn preparing to face whatever was under the lid.

She lifted the lid off in a single, abrupt motion, revealing three tiny figures. Three fillies, covered in crumbs from long eaten desserts and looking up at her, startled by how abruptly their hiding place had been uncovered.The fear in the filly's eyes, however, was replaced with happiness as the three red cape-wearing crusaders smiled and jumped up, moving to the edge of the bed, completely un-intimidated by Nightmare Moon’s staunch
stance, and wide spread wings.

“See? I told you we’d find her,” Scootaloo said. “My plan was just that awesome.”

“It was sure was!” Apple Bloom cheered. “And boy Nyx, you sure got big!

You’re as tall as Princess Celestia!”

“Um... we’re sorry if we ate your food. We... kind of missed dinner,” Sweetie

Belle apologized the little white unicorn gently tapping her hooves together.

“Yea, sorry about that.” Scootaloo added, rubbing the back of her neck.

“You aren’t too mad, are you?” The three filles said at once

Mad? Nightmare Moon was honestly unable to process anything at the moment. She was still as a statute, mind and body locked up like a machine with a wrench thrown into its gears. Her jaw hung open, and her turquoise, dragon like eyes had narrowed as she stared down at the three little fillies that had managed to find their way to her bedroom without being detected by the guards.

“Whoa... Nyx, is this your room?” Apple Bloom asked, the filly looking around the space in awe.

“It's so... big.”

“And beautiful.”

“Well, Nyx isn’t exactly as small as us anymore,” Scootaloo pointed out.

“Hey, Sweetie Belle, look over there. She has a vanity mirror like your sister’s.”

“It’s called a vanity mirror.”

The little unicorn corrected, the three fillies jumping down from the bed and scampering over to the mirror, jumping up onto the surface and looking at their reflections.

“Oh, I got crumbs in my mane and my tail,” Sweetie Belle whined, using a bit of her magic to try and clear the crumbs away.

“Well, that's what you get for sittin’ in one of the desserts,” Apple Bloom said flatly.

“It wasn’t my fault! The cart shook. At least I didn’t eat it, like Scootaloo did.”

“What? It was still good... just a little smushed,”

The orange pegasus defended as she opened a small makeup box that was on the top of the vanity, taking notice of the large amount of purple eyeshadow inside.

“Wow, that’s a lot of makeup. Didn’t know you were into-”Scootaloo did not get to finish her sentence as the makeup box was snapped shut by Nightmare Moon’s mane.

The black alicorn rushed over to where the three little filly’s were, looking down at them with panicked eyes.

“I-I’m not! It’s just that everypony here keeps expecting me to-”Nightmare Moon caught herself, giving her head a firm shake.

No...no, she couldn’t talk like that anymore. Even if they were her friends... were once her friends... that wasn’t who she was anymore.

“What are you three doing here?” she asked, voice firm, but not harsh.

“We wanted to help you so you weren’t so confused,” Apple Bloom said as she and the other crusaders turned away from the mirror and looked at Nightmare Moon.

The alicorn still had a significant height advantage, even though the fillies were standing on top of her vanity table, but the fillies either didn't care or didn't notice.

“Confused?”

“Yea,” Sweetie Belle answered.

“Cheerilee said that you were confused about who you were, and so you were trying to be the pony other ponies expected you to be.”

“And that’s why you made it so that the sun doesn’t come up. Because you’re confused,” Apple Bloom added.

“So we decided to come help you remember who you are, so you're not confused anymore. After all, Cutie Mark Crusaders stick together.”

“We even brought you a cape!” Sweetie Belle chirped, the little unicorn sticking her head beneath her own cape before bringing out a fourth small little red cape, with the blue Cutie Mark Crusader emblem and the interior made with golden fabric.

“We tried to bring your old one, but we couldn’t find it at the library. So, I decided to make you a new one... though, now that I think about it... I probably should have made it bigger,” Sweetie Belle admitted, holding up the tiny cape to the princess-sized Nightmare Moon.

“Oh yea... a whole lot bigger,” Scootaloo said with a nod.

Nightmare Moon was again struck speechless, her eyes focused on the little red cape. She gingerly lifted a hoof to it, Sweetie Belle letting the black alicorn take it. Nightmare Moon held it up to her eyes, focusing on the haphazardly sown blue emblem with a rearing, smiling, cap wearing yellow filly on it.

*********

“Why are we going to the club house again? I thought we were going to go
and try to be Cutie Mark Crusader Coach Sales Ponies with Mr. Davenport,” Nyx asked as she followed Apple Bloom to Sweet Apple Acres where, in a more secluded, private part of the farm, was a simple clubhouse.

A hoof me-down from Applejack and current headquarters of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
“We are, but we need to go pick up something first,” The farm filly replied before nosing open the door to the shop.

She then stepped back, letting Nyx walk in first. The little black filly didn't think much of it until she suddenly found Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle standing in front of her, big smiles on their faces.

“Oh... Hi everypony; I... I thought you were going to meet us at Sofas and Quills.”

“We were, but first we got a surprise for you,” Scootaloo said, grinning ear to ear.

“A surprise... oh-um... really? What is it?”

“First you gotta close your eyes, and keep them closed.”Nyx closed her eyes as fast as she could, keeping them sealed tight even as she felt something made of fabric fall on her back.

She stood there, biting her lower lip in anticipation, but she wouldn't let herself peek.

“May I look yet?”

“Yes!” Sweetie Belle chirped, and Nyx opened her eyes and looked back.

There, on her back, on top of her usual vest, was the signature red cape of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

“Consider yourself an official Cutie Mark Crusader,” Apple Bloom announced happily.

Nyx looked over at the cape, a smile spreading onto her face. That smile was soon joined by tears, Nyx's eyes gently leaking.

“Th-thank you....thank y-you so much...” She sputtered out, having to close her eyes and wipe away some tears.

“Told ya she would cry.” Scootaloo teased with a grin on her face.

“Scootaloo! That’s mean!” Sweetie Belle chided, though she was surprised to hear Nyx giggling a bit.

“It’s okay, I’m just... so happy to have three great friends like you.”

“And we’re glad to have you as our friend too.” Apple Bloom said with a smile, a smile that all four fillies shared together as both friends and Cutie

Mark Crusaders.

*********

Nightmare Moon shook her head, reclaiming her thoughts from the memory that had forced itself to the front of her mind. The three small crusaders were still looking up her, smiling as they waited for the black alicorn’s response. For a moment longer, Nightmare Moon looked at the little cape, and then gently set it down on the side of the vanity.

“Girls... we need to talk.” Nightmare Moon spoke, neither as a friend nor as a queen, but as an adult speaking seriously to children.

She stepped away from the vanity, motioning with a hoof for the fillies to follow her. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo did just that, being lead across the room to Nightmare Moon's bed. The three fillies jumped up first, sitting down on the edge as Nightmare Moon climbed up and laid down on her stomach, which brought her head at least somewhat closer to the heads of the fillies she once called her friends.

“First of all, you shouldn’t have come here. You put yourself in a lot of danger sneaking into the palace. If one of my guards had found you, it would have been very bad... and I can’t imagine how worried everypony is, since I know you didn't tell anypony where you were going.”

“Well, if we had, they would have stopped us.” Apple Bloom offered.

“For good reason.” Nightmare Moon scolded, causing the three fillies to flatten their ears.

“W-we just... just wanted to help. We were worried about you.”

“I... I know Sweetie Belle... and I appreciate your concern. But I don’t need help. I’m the Queen of Equestria now.”

“What about Celestia and Luna? What happened to them?”

“Hasn’t anypony told you?”

The three fillies hesitated, but eventually nodded their heads.

“Nopony has told us directly, but...sometimes we hear them whisperin’,” Apple Bloom admitted.

“They said you locked the princesses up in the sun and moon, and you were the one makin’ it dark all the time. That isn’t true, is it?” Apple Bloom said not knowing the truth.

“It....it is...I won’t lie to you, you...should know the truth.” Nightmare Moon said with a sigh, afraid of how her former friends would act.

“But...why would you do that?” Scootaloo asked

“It’s... it’s complicated, Scootaloo,” Nightmare Moon replied, trying to defend herself against the fillies.

“I... I-I have a lot of expectations that I have to live up to.”

“That’s what Cheerilee said too.”

“She did?”Apple Bloom nodded.

“Yea, she said that, since you don’t really know the pony you’re supposed to be, you’re being the pony others expect you to be.”

“But that’s why were here,” Scootaloo added. “To remind you who you really are.”

“And... and... who am I to you three, now that I’m like this?” Nightmare Moon asked, partially fearing the answer.

“Well...you did look scary the other night...” Scootaloo said, making Nightmare Moon close her eyes and lower her head in shame.

“But now that we’re all here...you don’t seem that scary at all.”

Nightmare Moon quickly lifted her head back up, unable to believe what she was hearing.

“I... I don’t?”

“Nope! I think you’re just confused, and if that’s true, then you’re still our friend, Nyx. A pony that is really awesome at magic.”

“And a pony that’s also really good at school and is always ready to answer Cheerilee’s questions.”

“And who is always really nice and fun to play with.”

The black alicorn was finding it difficult to breathe, a tightness in her chest
forming that she couldn’t shake away, no matter how hard she tried to banish it with her thoughts.

“But... you do know who I am, right? You know why everypony calls me... why I call myself Nightmare Moon.”

“Cheerilee said that you were always Nightmare Moon, but... we’ve never really met Nightmare Moon. We’ve only ever known you, Nyx,” Apple Bloom explained.

“And I think you just need somepony to tell you that you don’t have to be the bad pony everypony else expects you to be. You can just be yourself, even if you do look like Nightmare Moon.”

“Yea, it doesn’t matter what a pony looks like on the outside. It’s who that pony is on the inside that counts.”

“That, and getting a cutie mark,” Scootaloo added. “Hey! I bet you’ve got your cutie mark! Oh, what is it? What is it!?”

“I... don’t have a cutie mark yet.” Nightmare Moon replied, looking back at her utterly blank flank.

“Well, don’t worry about it, Nyx. Everypony finds their special talent sooner or later. You’ll just have to keep crusading with us until you find it. After all, that’s what the Cutie Mark Crusaders are all about,” Apple Bloom reassured.

“I... I think... I think I would like that.” Nightmare Moon replied... letting herself smile even the slightest bit... a smile that was wiped away when the door to her bed chambers opened.

“I do apologize for this, my Queen, but there is something that you should be aware of. There are reports that the monsters in the Everfree Forest have started to get restless. It may be in our best interests to-” Nexus began, only for the unicorn to freeze up as he looked at the three small fillies that were sitting on Nightmare Moon’s bed.

“They need to be made an example of,” Nexus grumbled, pacing around anxiously.

Before Nightmare Moon could stop him, the unicorn had called for the guards. Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle were now held out in the hallway, being held by her soldiers.

“They are fillies, Nexus, ones who were my friends when I was, myself, just a cowardly filly. They meant no harm.”

“It is not the intent that matters, but the action taken. They snuck into your castle, and were able to reach your bed chambers without detection. That kind of trespassing cannot be allowed, or how long will it be before assassins begin roaming these very halls? NO! They need to be made an example of!”

“So what would you have me do? Let them hang from the gallows?”

Now this put Nightmare moon at a standpoint, should she make a example or let her friends go. All the other things that she had done were fuelled by anger and venus but there was no reason for her to harm her friends. She stood there puzzled, unable to think of what to choose. If she were to chose her friends, she would need to make some explanation or an alternate punishment.In the end she was stuck, unable to think of something and lowered her head and sighed. The amount of responsibility she put on herself was too great she just couldn't think of a way around it.

“Do as you please Nexus” Raising her head looking twored Nexus as she talked.

“As you wish my Queen” Nexus said as he kicked Scootaloo forcing her to walk forward.

“Nyx “ was all Apple bloom could say before the door was closed giving her just one last look at her once friend which started to form a tear in her eye.

Nightmare moon stood in the same place staring at the door thinking about what she had just done forming tears in her eyes.

“My only true friends in the forsaken world and I just sent them to the gallows..... I’m sorry” She thought as she leaned her head down and let one tear falls and hit the floor.

The Ground started to shake and this cote her off guard and forced her to raise her head raising her attention. It seemed that to be a earthquake, one that was at a high frequency do to not being able to keep her hoofing. she then whent to a gental flap of her wings to lift her in the air.This was a great earthquake do to items on her dresser started to fall. Now she started to her guards yell and the clatter of them running and stuff falling.

“EARTHQUAKE!!” One of the guards yelled.

Nightmare moon then flies out her window to investigate her kingdome and view its state. Guards and magic investigators were at a state of fear, running at a frantic pace, screaming and/or yelling. She had just started to get her horn to glow as she felt a magical presence. There many magical presence that she was feeling but this particular one was different in a very noticeable fashion. not just was it so much greater than the rest but it was very familiar... no she know this presence. It was warm, embracing and was comforting just like... Celestia?

“No... no shes dead how is she here!?”

Nightmare moon started to frequently look around trying to put celestia in her view. She tried to pinpoint it by trying to look at the direction that the sors she believed to be. All that did what have bring her gaze to the East and had no sign of the great sun princess excluding her magical pressens.

“Aaa shes not there, all there is there is the sun rise... sun rise?”

She quickly turned to see if her eyes were betraying her or not just to find that they were not. She did not understand how this wa happening but she was committed to eternal night, so she began to face the sun to go back down. Once her magic had fully reached out to the sun it was batted away like a fly being smacked by a hoof. The magic came back to her in a roped facefull fashion, shocked her a bit... Ok more than just a bit. She was thrown off her flight for a few seconds making her fall a couple of feet before catching herself. After she shook off the soak of this event she looked to sun that was rising at a great speed. By the time she had gotten herself back to a condition to try and reach her magic to the sun again it had stopped. It had stopped at the point where sunrise and night split down the middle of the sky. The moon had just gone half way past the West horizon and the sun just half way up the East horizon.

As she began to reach out to the sun and try once again force it to go back down, it disappeared. This very well shocked her, since really the sun had just disappeared but the light of it still was shining. She now turned to the west and saw that the same had happened to the moon.

“What is this?” Nightmare moon said to herself showing a great amount of confusion on her face.

The Earthquake had stopped and Nexus had now stuck his head out a window and spoke.

“My queen what is wrong?”

“The sun and moon are gone!”

“WHAT! how could they be gon-” Nexus stopping do to him going lip and falling unconscious.

“Nexus what's wrong? Nexus?” now turning to window that her trusted adviser was just at.

Thru the corner of her eye she saw a glowing bright yellow light coming from the direction of where the sun was, and is blazing toward her. As she looked to the west she saw simerly shaped dark blue object coming from the where the moon was. With her quickest reactions, she teleported to a position twenty yards from where she was previously standing. She had just avoided being in the middle of the coalition with five seconds to turn and create a barrier to protect her from the shock wave. Once they collided a shock that broke her barrier and forced her backward two feet. Closing her eyes and putting her front hoof in front of her face to protect her eyes from the blinding white light. After about ten seconds the shock wave passed and the light started to change into just a gray light that was dimly lighting the area.

“*pant**pant* what is this?” Nightmare moon said to herself as she looked at the gray floating mass.

Staring at the middle of the empty gray mass, she began to to see something. They were hazy but she could tell what they were, eyes two pairs of eyes that seemed to be coming toward her. She now got herself ready to fight caring her horn and raising her front hooves. Suddenly she then found herself unable to move and unable to use her magic or wings and was flowing in mid air. Keeping her breath at a steady rhythm, then she went thru mental check of the magical esens controlling to find a weak spot to no provel. The magic was strong, strong enough that there seemed to be no openings or weak spots that she could use to brake. The only thing that she could do was move her head and face but was unable to focus any magic to her horn.

She now looked back to the gray blob of glowing gray light to observe the position of the two pairs of eyes. As she lifted her head to put the eyes in view she found herself confronted by two clouds of smoke with pairs of eyes near the top of them. One was a bright white and the other was black like her coat. A trail of smoke followed the two masses of smoke leading to the large mass of gray light. These trails grabbed her attention do too as she looked down the trail it seemed to change colors. The white’s trail went from bright white to yellow to orange to red which resembled a sunset. The black’s trial remained black but had specks of light on it once you got a bit further down the trail which reminded her of the night sky. Once she looked back to the eyes of the two clouds of smoke she saw that both were looking down at her. The eyes of the darker cloud seemed to looked as if they were glaring at her and the other’s had a look of sadness or worry. Both eyes looked to each other and she could her the murdering of whispers or mubals. Nightmare moon then spoke using the old Royal voice breaking the silence.

“WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?”

This did make them look back to her for a couple of seconds.They then turned back to one another and continued to wiper. After a few seconds the eyes turned back to her and squinted at her before closing. Just floating there, she had nothing to do but stare at them and “strike in her own confusion”. Ten seconds passed before she started to feel two strong magical energies coming from the two clouds of smoke. Focusing her gaze on the two clouds of smoke almost made her not notes that the once big gray blob was shrinking and was now half the size it once was. It was shrinking at a speed so great that only 5 seconds passed before it had fully disappearing. Great confusion swept over her face as she saw the once giant ball that was about thirty to forty feet in diameter, just disappeared. She now sew the trails that were behind the smoke clouds seemed to rush back toward the main section of them which floated before her. As the trails got closer she could feel the magical energy of the two forms increase to levels high then she could have never imagin. This scared her and she began to struggle and break free thrashing her head back and forth. With her now knowing that she had no chance of escape she stopped struggling and stared at the two clouds of smoke with wide eyes.

The air itself seemed to tremble as the trail of smoke was fully joined with the main mass of magical smoke. Both clouds had grown about two feet taller and now we're that much taller than her. The two masses of smoke began to glow, spewing out pure magic as they got brighter and brighter. After about ten seconds of constant increasing brightness and magic energy the clouds then dispersed revealing the two alicorns within them. These two alicorn where big, taller than Celestia or even herself which by about one or two feet. One was as it looked colt and the other mare and both had hoof links, chest plate, and crowns which to her symbolizes royalty.

To the left was the one appeared out of the white cloud and was the mare. The magical energy that felt like it was coming from Celestia but felt a bit more worn and comforting. Her torso and head where a bright yellow/orange to a point of it almost being mistaken to be white. The hoof links that she wore seemed to look like they almost where the night sky but still had some remainder of sunlight left. From her ankles and up the leg seemed to resemble a sunset. Mane, tail, and wings curled into spirolls and resemble her midsection color fading into a sunset than night sky.

To her right there was the alicon colt which was astounding to her, not only was her a male alicorn but his whole body represented the night sky. His mane, tail, and wings at their ends seemed to fly backward like her hair but it bits fly off and dissipate in the air at the end of the hair like a campfire. The hoof links where pure black, the chest plate was a dark purple with one jewel in the middle, and the crown had three spike each having there own jewel on but one spike being bigger than the rest.

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“Aberdeen Nightmare Moon yo-” the alicon colt interrupted by the other alicorn

“I think her name now is Nyx now honey?”

“My name is Nightmare Moon!” Nightmare Moon a bit frustrated that she was referred to as her former self.

‘Regardless, you are being tried for upsetting the balance of day and night and in turn upsetting the balance of all form of nature on this planet. You will be tried by your last remaining pears.” The colt said with a strong amount of disapproval in his voice.

“You sure that you need need to say it like it is a court case?”

“How else would you prefer it?”

“Maybe a intervention?”

“She has done most terrible of things to this planet, she deserves a far worse.”

“If it were that bad then we would just fix it ourselves without a court case.”

“........ You never let me get to be a judge.” the voice now reverting to adult male that had just lost a bet with his wife.

“At any time and event I could have been stopped by these two? Why have they not done something until now?” Nightmare moon thought to herself as her eyes mixed between sorrow and confusion.

“If you could fix everything as easy as you say then why have you done nothing?”

Both alicorns looked to each other once before the warmer colored mare walked up to her.

“Aberdeen or Nyx w-” Cut off by mixed feeling Nightmare moon

“My name is Nightmare Moon!”

“..... sweetie we are celestial beings just like you but our power is much greater, which gives us the ability to fix most issues. But even with this power we like to let most things resolve themselves, since if where to do it all ourselves then every pony would expect us to do so. If the event were to happen that we can’t help, then chaos will amerg.”
“... I guess your plan is to take me away then.”

“Sweety you may have done a lot of bad but we still are you parents s-”cut off by Nightmare moon.”

“parents? no no I don’t have parents.”

“Sweety... you don't remember us?”

The alicorn colt now walked up curious about what Nightmare moon had just said.

“Wait wait you don’t remember us? how could you forget us?”

“I am no daughter! I was born from the Luna’s evil emotions.”

Both alicorns looked to each other, faces now wearing the look of confusion and concern and then turning back to her.

“You really don’t remember, don’t you?”

“remember what?”

“When we were still around and beyond your sisters Celestia memory, Luna was born. A great darkness that is locked with in you father had passed down to Luna. We know that this would take over Luna preventing her from being the next celestial being of night. Your father wanted to seal himself within her as well to confront and vanquish the evil. But if had done so then he would forever be trapped within her and as the first celestial being of night would end the line of further generations of celestial night beings. You the oldest of the three offered yourself to be sealed and keep the evil at bay. You as one of the lesser branch of celestial being would make it so no enomis differences in as the metaphor is “Tree Of Life”. As we were unable to construct a convincing argument, we allowed you to do so. It is aberrant that you were not able to hold this worthy foe at bay and was consumed by it. This evil turned you dark and cruel erasing you past memories which involves why we are confused at this time. From what I was sensing in my position in the sky , the darkness was no longer with in you.”

The celestial being of day now took physical and serial scan of Nightmare moon and show an even more confused look on her face.

“I was right, there is no more of evil within you, I guess that you memories are lost forever. But why do you continue to act evil, you were the one of the three that was most likely to be the most caring. What is the real reason you act in such ways?”

Nightmare moon now looked down absorbing in all of what the being in front of her had just said. Sister of the two, celestial beings? None of it seemed to make complete sense. But she was right about the action she had done in the following few months, she only did them since she felt that she was responsible to do so as she was Nightmare moon.

“I am Nightmare moon *Sigh* and I am Responsible to be how I am”

“.... Sweety, you are only responsible to do what you feel is right not what seems to be right. You are how you want to be not how you're told to be.”

“ I have already went down a path that I can not come back from.”

“Not necessarily.”

“What do you mean?”

“We have decided to give you one more chance. We will be sending you back to your first chance we gave you but with the ever nagging Idea that you having control over your own destiny.”

The alicorn colt now stepped forward to talk.

“I’m sorry but we only have little bit longer we hunny, we need to send her back now.”

“Wait, will I remember all of this?”

“*Sigh* Sorry, but we can’t allow that to happen, we just can't have everypony know about us so they don’t depend on us.”

“We’re sorry” Both alicorns said at the same time.

With time for their confession coming to an end the two great alicorn’s eyes began to glow a bright white and there horns starting to magic in a vein like pattern. The magical strands now began to rapped around her. She tried to call out them, there was so much question she wanted to ask, but she was unable to, due to some strains wrapping around her mouth. With the last strand wrapping around her eyes she fell out of consciousness.

Nightmare moon now awoke to to find herself leaning her head on her hoof with her elbow resting on the throne. She had only closed her eyes for just a second and she dozed off. A doors to the throne room now opened and a guard walked in and approached her.

“My queen, Nexus requests a adeans with you.”

“Send him in”

Nexus now trotted in with the same big grin that he had bit showing all day.

“My queen I would like to show you something that you will surely enjoy.” bowing to the point of his masal touching the floor.

Nightmare moon had now thought to herself “This must be the thing that has gotten him so happy.”

“Proceed”

“Bring her in” Nexus yelled while facing his head back to the door.

From the hallway was shoved purple unicorn mare. She was tattered with scratches and bruises, she also raised her front right hoof like it pained her to put pressure on it. Seeing the one she once called mom in such a condition saddened and angered Nightmare moon. Nightmare moon that was how she was, she thought to herself that she should congratulate Nexus for capturing her and should send her to the dungeon for a future trial. But why, why shouldn’t she scold Nexus, she is Nightmare moon she can do what she pleases. He hadn’t followed her orders to bring the element wilders to her unharmed, he needs to know his place and that she can do what she feels is right.

THE END

Written By: Canvas Stories

Editing credit goes to: Thomas Herrick, jwhitezel2, fat1thatyoulove, and Marek Brzozowski

Original story (Past Sins) from: Pen Stroke