The Fall of the Night

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Shadow, Serenity, and any of the original characters.  All I own is this idea and my OCs.

Chapter 11: A Dream

Star Shadow, Nightfire, and Midnight exited from the building in haste, running towards the edge of the city, for they knew that they couldn’t defeat the group of rebels by themselves.  We need allies; more ponies that will help us defeat them.  Star Shadow thought to himself, but who would make a good ally?

The three ponies turned a corner and started to run down the street towards the gates of the city, earning strange glances from the pedestrians.  The three ponies burst through the gates of the city.  “Halt!”  A guard shouted, but the three ponies ignored him and continued on.  The guard didn’t try to chase them, he didn’t really care about three random ponies running out of the city, and his job was to keep ponies out, not in.

Star Shadow ran until he found a spot they camped at getting to the city of Manehatten, a rather large cave, it was hard to find, but when you did find it, it was a great place to camp at.  It was a small hole near the base of a small cliff, it looked like nothing from the outside, but on the inside it was huge, it was almost enough to fit a few hundred ponies inside it.

The only flaws in it was there was only one escape route, and it was pitch black without a fire or some other light source.  Luckily they still had plenty of firewood from when they camped here while traveling to Manehatten and Midnight knew a spell to start a fire.

The three ponies easily started a fire, and they sat around the campfire.  “Okay, if we’re going to kill Night Shadow we’ll need more ponies to do it.”  Star Shadow said, surprising both of his friends, he was a pony who was more brash, and reckless when it came to this type of stuff.

“I think we should contact Nightmare Moon, to get more ponies to help us with this.”  Midnight told them in a confident voice.  Star Shadow looked at her and nodded.

“But how do we contact her?”  Asked Nightfire.

“Simple, one of us goes back to Canterlot to get reinforcements, while the other stays here and makes sure that the ponies in the city don’t do anything, they shouldn’t, you left Wing Beat pretty injured back there, and I don’t think they’ll leave him behind.”  Star Shadow said, sounding more like a leader.  “I’ll be the one to go; you two stay here and watch the ponies in Manehatten.”

Midnight and Nightfire nodded.  Star Shadow looked at them with a serious face; he rarely had one of those on his face.  “We’ll all sleep here tonight, but tomorrow we move out.”  Star Shadow said again as he put his head down to the cave floor, and closed his eyes.

Midnight sighed, “How long do you think it will take him to get back?”  Midnight asked Nightfire.  Nightfire sighed.

“Probably about two days to get to Canterlot, and then a good three days to get back with the ponies he’s bringing, so basically we have a just about a week before he gets back.”  Nightfire said looking at Midnight with a small smile, but, lucky for Nightfire, the room was too dim for Midnight to see the smile.

“Well, I’m going to get some sleep.”  Midnight said as she too laid her head on the floor and closed her eyes.  Nightfire was now the only one awake, he began to close his eyes, today was an eventful day.  Nightfire began to close his eyes, and soon enough he too found sleep.

-Nightfire’s dream-

Nightfire looked around; he saw ponies everywhere fighting each other, he was standing in the middle of a battle.  An attacker came out of nowhere swinging a small knife at him, but Nightfire easily side stepped the blow.  Nightfire reached for his own knife and grabbed it and slashed at the attacker, hitting him in the neck sending him to the ground.

Nightfire ran through the battle fending off, and, sometimes, killing attackers.  He reached the middle of the battle and saw his two friends, Star Shadow and Midnight, fighting against four ponies, one being Night Shadow, another being Wing Beat, and two other he has seen but didn’t know the name of, one was a light blue pegasus with a pink mane and had two lightning bolts in an X for her cutie mark.  The other pony was a dark purple unicorn with a darker purple mane with a pink stripe through it.

The purple unicorn and Night Shadow were attacking Star Shadow, while the light blue pegasus and Wing Beat were attacking Midnight.  Nightfire tried to run up to help his friends, but he couldn’t he just stayed in one place.  Confused, he tried to shout at them, but his voice wasn’t working.  He looked back at Midnight and Star Shadow and he saw one of his worst fears come true.

The light blue pegasus and Wing Beat both flew down at Midnight at the same time.  Midnight dodged the attack, but as she did Twilight fired a spell at Star Shadow, the spell missed and hit Midnight in the face.

Midnight screamed and fell to the ground.  Another pony, seeing his fallen enemy stabbed a spear through the fallen mare.  Nightfire’s eyes widened at this sight.  Tears came to his eyes at the sight of his friend dying.  Why?  Why her… why not me?  Nightfire thought to himself.  Why… why am I so useless, why can’t I do anything?  I’m so… so… useless.

Nightfire awoke with tears going down his face.  He looked over at his sleeping friend and smiled.  I’ll protect you.  You won’t die, I promise.  Nightfire thought to himself before going back to sleep

-The next day-

Star Shadow walked out of the cave with saddlebags on his back, ready for the journey to Canterlot.  He will get more troops, he will kill Night Shadow, and he will be victorious this time.