The Fall of the Night

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

Chapter 8: New Allies

Night Shadow looked at the large city; it was even larger than Canterlot.  As his group approached the gates, two guards stopped them and asked in a loud voice, “What business do you have in Manehatten?”

Twilight approached them and said in a calm voice, “We wish to speak to your leader about the rebellion here.”  One of the guards looked at her with a scowl on his face.

“What about the rebellion?  Are you with Nightmare Moon?”  The guard asked her in an untrusting manner.

“We have rebelled against Nightmare Moon ourselves, and we wish to have a meeting with whoever leads this rebellion.”  Twilight told the guards in an even calmer voice.

“How do we know you’re not lying to us?”  One of the guards asked in a dubious voice, “Give us a good reason to believe you.”

“Well for one thing, I am Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia’s personal student.”  Twilight said hoping that they have heard of her before.  The guard on the left had a look of confusion, while the guard on the right recognized Twilight, when she told them her name.

“Twilight?”  The guard on the right asked her.  How could I have not seen that this was Twilight earlier?  The guard thought to himself, Well it has been two years since I was transferred here to Manehatten…  “Well, Twilight, I’ll get you a meeting as soon as I can.”  The guard said in a respectful tone.

“Thank you.”  Twilight simply replied.  “Is there a place we all can stay inside the city?”

“Yes and no.”  The guard told her in a strict voice, “Only ten of you can enter the city, the rest will have to wait outside, sorry city policy, but the ten of you who do enter will have to stay until our leader allows you to go out, or if you are actually leaving not just being in your camp with your fellow ponies.”  Twilight nodded at the guards orders.

“Okay.  Night Shadow, who do you think should go in?”  Twilight asked wondering herself who should go in, but Night Shadow was the leader of the group, he should make the decision.

“Well in my opinion I think that you, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Lightning Fast, and I should go in, but I’m not sure about the rest though.”  Night Shadow told Twilight, knowing she would know who else to take with them.

“I really don’t know who else, I personally think that the eight of us will be good enough for the time being.”  Twilight told the black unicorn.

“I’ll show you where she is.”  The guard simply stated, as he started walking towards the inner part of the city.  The eight ponies followed him until they reached the center of Manehatten, and they saw a large building with about six or seven floors.  The guard began to walk up the stairs and, again, the eight ponies followed him.  When they reached the seventh floor the guard knocked on the door and from inside they heard a feminine voice simply say, “Come in.”

The guard opened the door and began to walk inside and the eight ponies were right behind him.  Inside the room they saw a unicorn mare with a light brown coat, a curly orange mane, cyan eyes, and a cutie mark of a six pronged star inside of a heart.  “Hello…”  The guard whispers something in her ear, “Twilight Sparkle, I am Serenity, the leader of the rebellion in Manehatten.”  The light brown unicorn mare told Twilight.

“Hello Serenity, as you already know, I am Twilight.  The ponies behind me is my group; the black unicorn, Night Shadow, is the leader of our rebellion.  We are here to make allies with you and your rebellion here, so we have a better chance of taking down Nightmare Moon.”  Twilight told her in a simply yet dignified voice.

Night Shadow bows to Serenity and says, “Hello, like my friend said, I am Night Shadow.”  He looks up at Serenity and continues in a smooth voice, “I would like to introduce the rest of my group here.  They are, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Lightning Fast.”  Each of the six ponies had different reactions when he said their names.  Lightning Fast and Rainbow Dash saluted, Fluttershy took a step back, Rarity simply smiled and flipped her hair, Pinkie Pie jumped in joy, and Applejack smiled.

“So to my understanding, Twilight, you are Princess Celestia’s personal student.”  Serenity said smiling.  Twilight simply nodded.  “Well then, you ponies would make a good ally.”  Serenity told the group, as the group smiled with joy, Serenity smiled even wider.  “Twilight I understand where you are coming from, so I will ally myself with you, but it’s not up to me whether or not our forces ally, it’s up the ponies of Manehatten.  Meet in the town square one hour from now, we will have a meeting there on whether or not if we want to ally ourselves with you.”

“I completely understand.”  Twilight said to the light brown unicorn.  Serenity’s eyes almost had a look of sadness in them.

As eight ponies left the room the guard walked over to where she sat and asked in a concerned voice, “What did you feel in them?”

Serenity looked back at him with sadness in her eyes.  “The lavender unicorn… she… she had a large mixture of emotions, there was hate, sadness, and a small sliver of happiness, but she hasn’t felt much happiness in awhile.  The black unicorn had sadness in him as well, but also happiness.  I think we will find out soon enough…”  Serenity finished.

“What about the others?”  The guard asked his leader.

“Well Lightning Fast seems very loyal to her leader.  The others don’t have too much else about them…”  Serenity told the guard in a happier voice than when she was talking about Twilight, and Night Shadow.  “Now then, find everypony you can get, we’re having a meeting.”

-1 hour later-

Serenity looked upon the crowd she, and her guards had gathered and shouted, “Welcome everypony, we are deciding if we shall ally with the ponies here from Ponyville!”

The eight ponies from the meeting walked up the stairs to get on top of the stage.  Night Shadow was the first to speak, “Ponies of Manehatten, I am Night Shadow, the leader of the ponies from Ponyville!  We are here to gather allies to defeat the tyrant Nightmare Moon and let Princess Celestia rule once again!  We have already felt the presence of battle, and the sadness of losing somepony close to you!  It was Nightmare Moon who attacked the town of Ponyville for no reason; she killed innocent ponies for no good reason!”  Night Shadow looked at the crowd, some of the crowd cheered, but it wasn’t much.  Well I’ve won over someponies in the crowd… Night Shadow thought to himself.

“I ask of you ponies to join the fight for the freedom of Equestria from Nightmare Moon!  Are you with me?!”  Night Shadow asked again into the crowd.  More of them cheered.

Twilight approached the edge of the stage.  “My brother, Shining Armor, has died at the hands of one of Nightmare Moon’s ponies!”  Twilight shouted into the crowd with tears beginning to come down her cheeks.  “He stood up to Nightmare Moon and lost his life!  He broke out of the Canterlot dungeons to warn of the assault of Ponyville, and Nightmare Moon killed him right in front of me!  He didn’t deserve to die!”  Twilight shouted into the speechless, wide-eyed crowd, they were shocked at what had happened to her older brother, and the guards who knew the white unicorn saluted and took off anything that was on their heads, while Night Shadow, and the other seven ponies who are in Twilight’s group looked away, unable to see their friend crying.  “Who is with us?!”  Twilight then asked the crowd of ponies.  The crowd erupted into cheers.

Serenity felt the sadness coming from Twilight and began to cry herself.  Well it looks like they have a new ally, we will fight with them.  Serenity thought to herself as she wiped the tears from her eyes.  Serenity walked to where Twilight stood and shouted to the crowd, “Well it looks like we made a decision, we will ally ourselves with the ponies from Ponyville!”  Serenity had a beaming smile upon her face.  “FOR SHINING ARMOR!”  Serenity shouted, and she heard the crowd shout it back.

-Two hours after the meeting-

Night Shadow finished the story of what had happened at the Battle of Ponyville, and what everypony in the group went through.  Tears came to Serenity’s eyes, especially when Night Shadow got to the parts where Shining Armor died, and what had happened to him as a foal.  “It is now clear to me that the ponies of Manehatten have made the right decision.  We will stand by your side through this war with you as our leader, Night Shadow.”  Serenity told them, practically giving her rights as commander to Night Shadow.  Who knew, a lowly thief could become a great leader.  Serenity smiled at the thought.  I hope we win; we have to for Celestia’s sake.

-Canterlot-

Wing Beat couldn’t believe it, after Nightmare Moon said Winter Breeze and him were completely safe, and then their house burned down killing Winter Breeze in the process.  Wing Beat entered the throne room and yelled at Nightmare Moon, “Why?!  Why did you lie to me?!”  Wing Beat wanted an answer, and wanted one now.

“I didn’t lie to you.”  Nightmare Moon simply said without any emotion.  “You just need to learn the consequence for failure.”  Wing Beat’s eyes widened at what she just said.

“Wait, you killed her?”  Wing Beat asked her rage coming to him, but somehow he was containing it.

Nightmare Moon looked at the green pegasus and told him, “In a way… I did order somepony to kill her.”  Wing Beat was furious, but he still contained it.  She will pay for this.  Wing Beat thought to himself as he slowly walked out of the room.  I will get my revenge, but first I have a reunion with somepony who was right, I never should have sided with her.  Wing Beat began to go to the one place Night Shadow would probably be, Manehatten.

-Manehatten-

Star Shadow looked at his brother from the crowd he was in.  Twilight was rambling on about her dead brother, Shining Armor, to Star Shadow that was one of his best memories.  Star Shadow let out a small laugh as the ponies around cheered; all they were doing was giving there selves a death sentence.  Tonight, Star Shadow thought, tonight we strike, and the so called leader will die by Nightfire’s, Midnight’s, and my hooves.  Tonight will be a wonderful night to remember.  Star Shadow let out another small laugh.

“What’s so funny?”  Nightfire asked his friend.

“Oh it’s nothing, just thinking about tonight.”  Star Shadow told his friend while beaming.

“Star Shadow you are one messed up pony… but that’s why we’re friends, right?”  Nightfire told his friend as well smiling.

“Yep.  Tonight will be a night to remember.”  Star Shadow told his friend, “But remember, keep Rainbow Dash alive, I have business with her.”  Star Shadow remembered what it was like in flight school with her and gave a small smile.

“What type of business?”  Nightfire asked playfully with a wink, knowing how Star Shadow felt about his old friend from flight school.

“Shut up.”  Star Shadow said in an annoyed voice.  “Before I tell Midnight something you don’t what her to know.”  Nightfire’s mouth shut instantly.  Tonight, tonight will be so much fun.  Star Shadow thought to himself again.