The Fall of the Night

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Shadow, Serenity, or any character originally from the show.  All I own is this idea and my OCs.

Chapter 14: Explanations

The light slowly subsided; Night Shadow looked around the throne room.  He saw the Elements of Harmony standing in the middle of the room and looking at a mare he has never seen before, she almost reminded him of Nightmare Moon, but she was different, she didn’t seem as evil.

Night Shadow walked over to where the alicorn lay and asked, “Who… who are you?”  The black unicorn asked timidly.

The alicorn looked at him, tears in her eyes and shakily said, “I’m sorry.”

Night Shadow gave the mare a confused face, “What do you mean ‘you’re sorry’?  Who are you?”

“You, you don’t know who I am?”  She asked in a calm voice, confused on how this black unicorn didn’t know who she was.

Another blinding light took the room, again blinding everypony in it.  Night Shadow reopened his eyes after the light went away and standing in the room was a white alicorn, it was Princess Celestia.

Night Shadow and the other ponies in the room bowed to their princess.  Celestia slowly walked over to the dark blue alicorn and said to her, “It has been years since I seen you, dear sister.”

Everypony in the room were shocked at this discovery, this mare was Princess Celestia’s sister.  “Sister?!  Who is this mare?!”  Twilight practically shouted at her mentor in shock, for she had no idea who this other alicorn was, and she has never heard of Celestia having a sister before.

Celestia looked over to Twilight and her friends with a small smile on her muzzle.  “Everypony, I’d like to introduce my sister, Princess Luna,” Celestia said to the group of ponies.

“So, you have a sister, your highness?”  Night Shadow asked the white alicorn.

“Night Shadow, you have no need to call me ‘your highness’ just call me Celestia.  And yes, I do have a sister, she was Nightmare Moon, but-” Celestia was cut off as soon as she said that Luna was Nightmare Moon.

“She’s Nightmare Moon?!”  Serenity exclaimed in shock, looking at the dark blue alicorn on the ground.

“No, she was Nightmare Moon; the Elements of Harmony have purged her of the evil that was Nightmare Moon.”  Celestia explained to the other ponies in the room, “She is no longer Nightmare Moon, she is now Princess Luna.”

Everypony’s, except for Celestia and Luna, mouth hung wide open at what the white alicorn had just said.  “So, she’s no longer evil?”  A timid Wing Beat asked.

“She is no longer evil, she will now rule at my side,” Celestia calmly told the ponies in the room with a smile.

“So, Princess, why didn’t the elements not work when we tried the first time?”  Twilight asked her mentor, confused on how the elements worked this time, but before they had failed.

“Twilight, the answer to your question is, that at the time Nightmare Moon had followers who would do anything for her, she had ponies who would follow her into battle, they would follow her anywhere.  The Elements of Harmony are powered off the ponies in Equestria, their love, happiness and courage powers the elements, but since you were trying to use the elements on a pony that brought happiness to many, the elements did not work.  But even though she has ponies who follow her now, she has brought pain, and sorrow to more ponies than she brings happiness too, and some of her own ponies have left her side.”  Celestia explained to the ponies of the room, all of them nodding their heads understanding somewhat of what the princess had said.

Night Shadow walked over to the white alicorn, “So it’s because she had followers, and ponies who completely obeyed her?” Night Shadow asked the princess.

“Yes, that is correct,” the princess replied in a soft tone.

“Celestia, what about the ponies that still follow her, the ones in Manehatten?”  Night Shadow timidly asked Princess Celestia.

“Well, they are going to try and take back Canterlot soon, I know they will.  And they’ll do in their beloved name of Nightmare Moon,” Celestia told the black unicorn, “Even if was defeated as of today.”  Celestia frowned at what she had just said, she didn’t want to hurt any more of her subjects, she didn’t want to harm anypony else.

“But, princess, could we somehow convince them to stop the fighting?  I’m sure Princess Luna could stop them, since she used to be Nightmare Moon,” Night Shadow told the white alicorn.  Luna winced at the mention of her being Nightmare Moon.

“I don’t think so, granted she was Nightmare Moon, she is no longer the pony they all serve,” Princess Celestia told the small group of ponies in her throne room.  “And I don’t believe that they would follow a pony who is the exact opposite of the one they served.”  Celestia frowned at what she had just said.

“But, there’s always a chance,” Night Shadow told the princess, “If we can get the ponies to not fight, we can make peace, we can have harmony again.”  Night Shadow looked at the princess desperately, but Celestia just shook her head no.

“Night Shadow, no matter what we do, we cannot stop this with reason.  Those ponies are in a frenzy, they want to harm us, they want to kill us,” Celestia told the black unicorn in a more serious voice.

“Fine, we’ll do it your way,” Night Shadow told Celestia angrily, “I just don’t want to hurt any more ponies, I’ve done enough, but if they try to attack us, I’ll fight back.”  With a determined look Night Shadow walked out of the throne room followed by Serenity and Wing Beat, the Elements of Harmony stayed in the throne room with the princess.

Night Shadow storm out of Canterlot Castle mad at Celestia for not even trying to stop the forces Nightmare Moon still had.  “Night, wait up!” Serenity shouted at her friend, as her and Wing Beat tried to catch up to him.  Night Shadow didn’t listen to the two ponies pursuing him; he just continued on.  He went down a random street, not caring where he was going.  Night Shadow kept going down more and more streets, Wing Beat and Serenity never did catch up to him, but they continued following the black unicorn through Canterlot.

Night Shadow suddenly stopped as he looked upon a certain lot in the city; he stood there, unmoving, at the sight of the lot.  Serenity and Wing Beat quickly caught up to the unicorn; Wing Beat understood as why Night Shadow was here, unmoving, Serenity, on the other hoof, was confused at why Night Shadow had stopped at begun to stare at the empty lot.

“Night, what’s wrong?”  Serenity asked him.  Night Shadow looked over to her, tears coming to his eyes while in his mind memories of him and his brother played.

“This… this is the place.  The place where we used to live, until…” Night Shadow was cut off after Serenity kissed him.  Night Shadow was surprised at this his eyes widened when she first made contact, then he began to kiss back.

Night Shadow pulled away and said, “Serenity, thank you,” Night Shadow told the unicorn as he began to hug her.  “Thank you for everything.”

-Manehatten-

Star Shadow looked at the one and only resident of Manehatten they had found in the city.  According to this pony, Night Shadow found a spell that could get him to Canterlot easily. He’s probably already taken the city, Nightmare Moon may be a goddess, but she can be defeated… Star Shadow thought to himself angrily.  Apparently this pony was left behind in the rush to get to Canterlot.  Star Shadow smiled, Well then, if Night Shadow went to Canterlot, it looks like I’ll have to follow him.

Star Shadow looked at Nightfire and Midnight, “Are you ready to get this over with?” He asked them playfully while beaming.  The two ponies nodded at his question, “Well then, I guess it’s time to go to Canterlot, it’s time for Night Shadow to fall, and he shall die at my hooves.”  Star Shadow walked away from his friends beaming with joy.