Lunar Light

by CreamMocha

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sad, Tragedy, Adventure, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 3948

Why? That was the question of equestria. Why and when did Luna become a threat? Why is celestia weak to fight nightmare moon? Why does Nightmare moon capture ponies? No this is not based off of Past Sins (ok maybe a little bit)

The legend, as long ago as time itself, a world unknown to the human race. A slit reality between two dimensions, ours and an unknown universe called equestria. Though unknown to the human race, it came with a legend. A true one. The tale began with two regal sisters, with a unicorn horn and pegasus wings, one raised the moon and the other raised the sun. Ponies, pegasi and unicorns from all around basked in the sun gods glory while the lunar one felt pain and dread, for no one watched her beatiful night sky being raised. This pain soon turned into jealousy and anger. The younger one changed into a monster known as Nightmare Moon. She threatend the world of night eternal but the elder banished her to the moon. The elder took on the job of the sun and moon for a thousand years until the lunar's escape. 6 elements, elements of harmony, had been discovered and retrived to their owners. They used the elements to peel the hatred off of the younger just as you would peel an orange. Returning her to her normal state. Over the years nopony watched the moon anymore bring hate back to the Lunar one. Not enough to change her. Six ponies intent to change this they wish for eternal night bringing the true queen to her feet. Six ponies two of each kind. They transformed her into Nightmare Moon once more giving her more hate. She attacked the celestial one. She gave in all her magic but before the elder banished her once more the six, in disquise, saved their queen teleporting them into the everfree forest. They gathered more ponies, most denied the curse of eternal night and left, some were left to die in the dungeons and some were too freighted and gave in to the rule. Now the world is left in the hooves of one filly, a filly who loves the day and night a filly who was captured as a servent for the Allience of darkness. Will the Lunar bring night eternal? Or will the light shine through her? Or will her alter ego as the once known princess and evil bringer become a fable?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-04-15 22:15:07 UTC

A family business indeed

"Mom?" "Yes Moonshine?" "Can you tell me about dad?" She asked. Fluttershy walked slowly over to her bed and sat down. She chuckled Moonshine would do anything to stay up later. "Your father, Discord, was a brave kind Draconequus. The princesses asked me to reform him one day and I did, he was confused and didn't have friends and later we fell in love and had you then he..." She stopped. Her long pink hair stretched across the bed, she was taller now almost as tall as princess Luna when she was younger. "You mean you met princess Luna before she reformed into nightmare moon?!" Moonshine asked happily. With a simple nod and reply "yes but it's late and we have work tomorrow." When she said 'work' she meant it, first was another day working as the pet sitters and vets, then Pinkie Pie was going to throw Moonshine a sweet 16 party which would most likely have pin the tail on the pony. When moonshine heard the door click shut she got up and opened the curtains and let the moonlight shine in. "Well mom I have bigger plans tonight" she whispered a whisper that echoed throughout the large room.  She was a tall pony but the same hight of her mom like every average pony her age. She had a silky black coat, like nightmare moon, and a shoulder length purple mane that got lighter as it went down with small dots of white in it. She looked so familiar to her her mom assured her it was just what she looked like. She was also a pegasus like her mother but inherited magic her father used. She tiphoofed into her bathroom and turned on the water for a bath. Once it filled up she got the nessacsary supplies. Her sleek black coat became muddy from the contents on her bed from the previous day. She put her hoof in and the water quickly became mucky so she drained the water and turned the shower on. She stepped in and in a instant all the mud drained off of her like she was dirt standing tall above the ground, being washed away by rain. She turned the faucet off and quickly became cold. Now came the hard part, getting the shampoo and conditioner on. She had two things she could do, use her chaos magic to try and lift it, or use her chaos magic to give her a temporary unicorn horn. Neither she had tried before but the unicorn horn sounded easier and it lasted longer. She used her hooves to wrap a towel around herself and went to her bookshelf for a chaos magic book her father wrote. She took it and read the page.

Unicorn Horn Chaos spell number 15

be warned if you use to much magic with this temporary horn it could stay there, grow larger or it will change your appearance like all other chaos spells you can snap your fingers or focus very hard on the spell if using it in mind just use these words: okatu malkey prosino. It the more power you put into it the larger it will be. The larger it is the longer it will last. Every minute it will shorten an inch.

She read the spell carefully and used all that she could after a while of trying a horn of her own appeared. She accedentily add it a few inches bigger then she wanted it to but that didn't matter. She slowly but surely levitated the shampoo and conditioner closer and poured some onto her head. She turned on the faucet again as the spell book warned her 'every minute the horn shortens in length if too much strong magic is used the horn will stay at that state, get longer, or any other physical change will happen. ' her horn was now as big as twilights when she first met her mother. She applied soap to herself and washed it off. Moonshine used her horn once more to use a spell to dry her coat. She got out of the bathroom and walked over to her vanity. She brushed her hair using her horn but she had used a lot of magic by then and the horn expanded. She took applied her dark purple eye shadow and walked over to her closet. Her horn turned into a stub then disappeared. She looked through her closet, finding nothing to wear was a last minute thing. She took her saddle bags and put things she needed in them. She opened and flew out the window over to ponyville. She flew over to Carousel Boutique which was open until 11. Luckily it was ten. She walked in to see Rarity, rarity was like a second mother, of she had a boy she liked she would help her. Rarity smiled and greeted Moonshine "so darling whats brought you out past curfew tonight?" She asked. "I need a dress for tonight because me Scoots, SweetieBelle, and Applebloom are going on a quadruple date for my birthday." Rarity ran across the room and grabbed various shades of purple and blues. Rarity took a tape measure with her magic and measured her. Then she took some templates out of a cabinet. She took it over to a pony manuquinn and created the fine dress but that didn't suit Rarity enough. She took some silvery purple horse shoes from a cabinet. But that still didn't end there Rarity frantically searched the house for something. She looked upstairs and with a final 'AHHA!' She came down stairs with three things being held in her magic,a necklace, some silver stars and a light blue and dark purple flower maneclip. She put the flower on the dummies ear, necklace around the dummies neck and for the stars she spiced it up a little bit. She found a light blue belt as well and threw the stars away and took out some white diamonds. She sewed them onto the belt and placed it around the waist of the fake pony. "So what do you think?" She asked Moonshine. Moonshine loved it and stared at it but in reply nodded "how many bits?" She asked "NO! No bits your like a niece to me! You don't owe me anything but you being here" she smiled. Moonshine smiled back and pulled out her chaos spell book and turned to the unicorn horn page. "Watch this!" She said and cast the spell on herself. The spot where her horn previously was glowed brightly and reappeared. Rarity stared in shock as she used the levitation spell of the dress. She used the magic again to put on the clip, horseshoes, necklace and belt. She waited a few minutes before going out for the spell to wear away. Then she walked away with one last goodbye to Rarity.

A date in the night

Moonshine entered sugar cube corner. Her friends and scoots boyfriend were there. "Where's the other guys?" She asked featherweight "not here I guess" he said. The girls were all wearing something similar to hers. Though SweetieBelle being 15 and them 16 they were still the cutie mark crusaders. Yep that was them still blank flanks, she already stated the obvious though to the other 3 mares at the table but they still wouldn't believe her. "So how are your cutie marks going?" She asked SweetieBelle smiled and so did the others, a smile that meant something was up. "Uhh so FeatherWeight did you get the job of photographer?" Asked Scootaloo trying to change the subject." No keep going on about your cutie marks I want to hear" he said an evil grin on his face. Scoots gave him a look that said 'I'm so going to punch you when we get home...'  They sighed in defeat "we were sort of at the clubhouse this mornin' but you were too busy with yer' moms critters that you couldn't come so I didn't invite you. And well we took yer advice and well this happened" AppleBloom said and looked at her flank. "So there's no more cutie mark crusaders?" Moonshine asked. "No it's not over and it will never be. As long as were all still friends the curie mark crusaders will live on plus you don't have your cutie mark yet!" SweetieBelle said

KABOOM!

Lighting struck somewhere in the everfree. It made them jump and reminded her of tomorrow night "oh guys why am I not staying over tomorrow night?" SweetieBelle asked "because that's the night we get might get chosen, if not tommorow morning by Celestia then at night by nightmare moon" scoots replied. "Oh come on girls! Nightmare moon is just an old ponies tale!" SweetieBelle replied "no SweetieBelle it's true, don't you remember? The night nightmare moon returned and attacked Celestia? I was touring the school that day and Luna was in the corner crying. She almost attacked me when she transformed! And I was just a filly, she knew me her whole life, she'd been like the big sister or cousin I've never had, she's my god parent. Then she realized what she had done and fled to fight celestia. Any pony that escapes from her castle tells me that in her sleep she screamed my name like, she wasn't fully transformed into a vicious pony that everypony fears. She remembers me! I mean I look just like her! Black coat, dotted mane, normal turquoise eyes! Sometimes it makes me wonde-" she was cut off by scootaloo slamming the table "NO!" She screamed "YOU!ARE!IN!NO!WAY!NESSACARY!RELATED!TO!THAT!MONSTER!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, it made everypony stare at her like she was insane. Scoots took a few heavy breaths in before she calmed down. "Well umm look at the time, I need to get home" the other three said together and dashed it the door.

Bitter 16

"Moonshiney! Heya moonshine!" A fimiliar voice said. uh oh she thought pinkie. Moonshine sat up from her bed still tired from last night. "Heya Moonshine are ya ready for your big BIG birthday party today?!?!" Pinkie asked excitedly. "Uhh" was all she could manage to say "how did you get in my room?" She asked. Pinkie kept bouncing around the room and made a stop at her closet she pulled out a short purple dress. Purple was all she could wear that would match her fur and mane. Pinkie grabbed her and with a few minutes of spinning she was ready and pinkie was dragging her to the party. "Come on come on your going to love it!" She said. They neared sugarcube corner but pinkie turned left to town hall. She followed, walked in and stared up in awe. Balloons blue and purple surrounded the room and blue steamers were on the ceiling. Glass, no, ice sculptures were built around the room and tons of tables full of party games and snacks. Then she turned her head over, a majestic white figure was sitting over by the cake. She respectfully bowed to the princess standing before her and said "princess celestia" she smiled and stood. The princess merely laughed. After hours of party and play and talk and...pinkie, they finally said goodbye and walked home. Scoots and AppleBloom came with her. Fluttershy calmly walked infront of them while the girls dared each other to try a piece of pinkies new 'Pinkie every flavored cake' some pieces were spicy, sweet, sour, salty and anything else. "Hey mom how did pinkie get the princess there at the party?" She asked as a ton of cinnamon came piling on the ground below her 'cinnamon cake gross' she thought. "You can't thank twilight for that part she was so busy with her princess duties today so princess Celestia told her she would go for her. It was an amazing surprise too-" she was cut off by scootaloo breathing smoke. Scootaloo coughed and laughed like crazy after it went away. "Well were here" the three girls bust in. As always angel bunny kicked Moonshine. The three girls shoved themselves into the large expansion and set down their sleeping bags. They took off their dresses and moonshine but on her casual purple sweatshirt, and pulled her hair up into a 'ponytail'. "How bout' we play truth or dare?" Moonshine held her head "what's wrong?" Scoots asked "nothing nothing just a headache give me a minute" she trotted into the bathroom. The sound pounded in her head like drums in a rocksshow and the amp was right next to her head, wubs at full blast. moonshine... it was quiet but said by none other then nightmare moon moonshine she said normally now. Moonshine held her head harder and covered up her ears MOONSHINE! if screamed as loud as it could.

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"Scoots I dare you to look in Moonshines chao-" "NOO STOP SCREAMING PLEASE PLEASE NO!!" Moonshine pleaded. The screaming stopped and moonshine walked out "sorry Im just-" "scared?" "Happy?" The two others chimed "tired" moonshine corrected, her hair was messed up because of her trying everything she could to get nightmare moon out of her head. She climbed into her sleeping bag and as soon as her head hit the pillow she fell asleep.

Stolen

Moonshine opened her eyes, wanting to go back asleep but something was just urging her to get out of bed. Her mane was a mess. She looked at her clock two am!?! she thought and groaned. She fell face first onto her pillow. Scoots and AppleBloom were still asleep. "Looks like we weren't caught. Could've been a practical joke though." She wispered to herself and did her morning routine. After she had walked out of the bathroom she looked over at the sleeping bags. Her friends weren't there. She panicked for a minutehow far could they have gone!?! I only left the room 3 minutes ago! she thought. Her thoughts were interrupted by a hoof pulling her out her window. A stallions hoof no doubt, it was black with a metal horseshoe. Moonshine screamed as loud as she could but another guard came and enchanted her to put her to sleep.

Her vision was blurry. She couldn't see anything but a blurred darkness and sounds of mutters and whispers. She opened her eyes and sat up. Four guards and scoots and AppleBloom. The two others were still fast asleep but she sat up which made the guards stop talking and sit up straight. Only one kept the way they were before, it was a mare and she was smiling at her. Not an evil grin but a smile you would see from a good friend. "The new ones seem to be mares. Uncommon for you buffoons to grab." She teased. She was a dark purple color, had green eyes, and a gray mane. Moonshine had to admit that she was pretty. She looked like a teenager most likely 18 or 19. The other 3 were a pegasus, earth pony, and unicorn. "Oh shut up Mist you know nothing about the grabbers, your just here incase someone wakes up early and flips out. Or your the inflight entertainment." The gray with black maned unicorn said. "You know I am right here...right?" Moonshine asked slightly annoyed without knowing whats going on. "Oh hello I didn't notice you were awake" the pegasus-mist- had said. "Allow me to tell you what's going on. I am Mist Chaser, this is Twisted Shadow, this is Dark Night and this buffoon is Silent Crow. You must be Moonshine I presume" she said in a calm fashion. Mist Chaser looked over at AppleBloom and Scoots, she gasped "oh you two are serious BUFFOONS! Ugh! You know we'll have to get them done! Ugh wasn't there any other townsfolk who had other colored pelts?!" She raged at the pegasus, Twisted Shadow and the unicorn, Silent crow. In all the screams the other two sat up and looked at the ponies around them. "Where was I? Oh yes! We have been ordered by your Queen of the Night to bring you to her castle. But these two will be ordered to go to the bathhouse. Please do not ask why you will see when they come out. We are approaching the castle. Any questions?" She nearly almost demanded questions but stopped herself from it. Moonshine gulped the stories are true! she thought. " what happened while I was out?" "Oh sorry you questions were not answered we are here." The trio looked down, hundreds no! Millions of carriages were descending into a large black castle.

Moonshine was guided by the four members into a large room. "Pure ones are separated from ones going to the bathhouse" Mist had said. She met a black stallion who promised to watch her until Mist had led her into a room with children, some older some younger. Other stories in pony history appeared to be true as well. Vamponies can around and passed out black saddlebags. One of them came and plopped hers onto her back and wispered "The Queen will like you, your blood is strong but not strong enough yet. Don't worry we don't bite....much" she walked away and it freighted Moonshine. Thoughts started running through her head. She looked to her left and saw four staircases, all black. They were labeled, Shadow House, Nightmare House, Dark House and Widow House. They sent chills down her spine they were just so creepy. The whole thing reminded her of her two favorite books, Colty Potter and The School For Wicked and Pure. Wispers started forming as house representatives came down the spiral staircases. A colt wearing a Black and White tie was under the Shadow house, another colt wearing a navy and off white tie was under the Dark House, under the Nightmare house was a mare wearing a purple and a slime green scarf and under the widow house was a mare wearing a black and red tie. "Those are the house captains! ShadowBlade, NightWind, DarkRose and WidowBolt!" Moonshine turned around it was a small black filly with green hair, pulled into a ponytail. "My name is NightGale, I was taken away from my mommy and I'm new! I want to be just like NightWind! She's so cool! She has perfect A's and has won the NightMare compitions every year! Everyone thinks The Queen will ask her to be staff or better!" The filly answered and smiled. Moonshine couldn't help but giggle at the fillies big plans. "I may now ask thou crowd to be quiet!" "Eee! That was NightWind that just spoke!" NightGale said excitedly but was shushed by a vampony gaurd. "I now call NightGale of everfree, Moonshine of Ponyville, DeadBat of Dark Caves, Shadow of DawnMare, and QuietNight of SnowVille." NoghtGale pulled moonshine to the front of the line and held out a pen to NightWind "can you sign my Best Young Everfree Flyer cup!?" She asked "sure thing kid" she took them both and wrote her name on it. "You live in the Everfree forest? Nopony but Zecora lives there! And where's all those other places?" She asked. "Oh yeah your the PonyVille noob...the further you go into the everfree the more 'beautiful' it gets" explained NightWind. Scootaloo and AppleBloom walked in, AB had a purple coat and a full black mane and scoots had a navy coat and a white mane. "I said they'd look good in any color....I lied" NightWind and NightGale cracked up at the joke. "What they look like their in an 80s hair band for punk rockers" they all started cracking up even scootaloo and AppleBloom.

Memories

The students trudged up the stairs. It was cold and damp but Moonshine could see large stained glass windows, she recognized these. This was the story of the elements of harmony and how they defeated discord and nightmare moon. From the inside of the large castle she could see it was raining. its almost like the sky in the everfree took pity on us and cried... she thought and sighed. Her pace slowed as she came up to a large door, it was cracked open. She stopped at stared at it almost in a trance. Suddenly everything went black and she couldn't see anything. She heard hoof steps around her of a crowd forming, she could hear the medical doctors coming. She felt pain and the bed under her.

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As the world slowly came back to her, she was in a white room. She could hear two voices speaking one more harsh and powerful and the other, calm and serene. One figure walked in, her vision still blurred. The figure was wide eyed. Was...she home? Was this figure her mother? No, the figure couldn't have she was too tall, and the walls were made of a light colored stone, one she wasn't familiar with. When her vision was clear enough, she could tell the figure was nightmare moon herself. no it doesn't seem right to call her nightmare moon. This side of her acts more like Luna, the Luna I knew and loved.Nightmare moon or Luna knelt down closer to the bed and...smiled. Not a wicked smile, a friendly smile, a smile of love and joy. She had remembered her!  The nursed walked in and she had returned to her other side, the wicked Luna. "Nurse Black heart, this patient is injured far beyond your medical training, I shall take her to my quarters until she is healthy, although I highly suggest she stay after she is well, just as a precaution." She sternly said. The nurse simply nodded and glanced at Moonshine, then back at Luna.

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The trip through a long hallway was a breeze, although Moonshine got concerned looks at medical ponies and guards as the bed slowly moved through a long hall. To pass the time she looked at all the stained glass windows and tried to recognize them from stories. It seemed they all played out the parts of history. Next thing she knew she was in a large room. The rolling bed was in the corner. She must've passed out. There was a marble table next to her, it had a glass of water and a flower on it. Luna walked over and raised her helmet off of her head. It was then set on the table, She rested her head on the bed beside Moonshine. "I'm sorry" she whispered in a voice that was made of tears. Moonshine opened her eyes "wha?" She asked confused. "Oh um...my queen" Moonshine said hoping that she would offend her if she had said anything else. She sat up in bed and Luna hugged her. "Moonshine, it's been a long time hasn't it? You remember me? Luna? It's me! I'm just...different now? Remember?" She asked worried for the young pony. "Yes...I remember though I didn't expect you would..." She was nudged gently in the shoulder. Nightmare moon sounded sweet and kind like Celestia did almost able to compare the voice to her old one. "Good now that I've found you, I don't want to lose you ever again. Now can you walk?" That was a silly question. "Of course my queen." She had repeated the queen part, though she acted less villainous, she didn't want to anger her. "Please just call me nightmare moon, well I suppose that is a bit long, just call me what you want." She turned to the balcony. "Even...Luna?" She asked. Their gaze met, surprised at the mention of the old name "Yes, I don't mind." She said. "Now does thou want to see the moon rise?"