Fear of the moonby Prince MonochromeChaptersPrologDusk RisesUnto the forest of black8-legged showdownCary onDawn fallsThe forest can killOrigin of AgonyFacing fearDawn risesThe next awakeningPrologIt was the dead of night. The moon was at the top of the dark sky and shinning bright along with the stars. Luna was in her room filling out papers. The fire roared in the fire place and shot out sparks every now and then. The cold wind blew outside, and it would sometimes blow in threw the open window. But the fire kept her warm. “…Luna..” a voice whispered. “What?” Luna put down her quill and started looking around her room. “Who is there? Show yourself.” “…Luna…” the voice continued. “We demand to know who you are!” Luna started yelling. “…Luna” The voice grew louder. Luna jumped and turned around and saw a strange mare standing behind her. She giggled. “Good evening.” She chuckled. Than in an instant Luna’s vision turned black. She started struggling, but she couldn’t move her legs were bound. “Who are you!?” She demanded. “How could you not remember me? …You know what, it has been at least a thousand years since we last met. Never mind, I guess you shouldn’t remember me.” The mare started laughing, she than took the blind fold off that she put on Luna. She saw her. A purple mare, with a black messy mane with purple points, and her tail looked the same, and as she looked down at her hooves her purple color started fading into black. “It’s been a while hasn’t it?” “We demand-“ “My name is Agony.” “…Who?” “Of course you don’t remember, again, thousand years.” “Why can we not move?” “Old binding spell I used. Don’t worry, it’ll ware off, eventually.” “Where are we?” “Sweet Celestia you’re full of questions!” The mare whined. “You’re in the Ever-Free. Right before the bridge that leads to the old castle.” Luna looked behind the mare and saw the old stone ruins. “Why did you bring-“ “Okay, you know what. I’ll let you figure that one out, as for me. I need to stay on schedule, come on.” She started dragging Luna behind her as she crossed the bridge. “Why are we, ow!” She cried out as she slid across the rugged wood. “Why are we going into the old castle?” “No offense your majesty. But, Do you ever shut up?” “How dare you speak to us like that. We-“ “Are a princess, you think I don’t know that? You’re the famous princes of the night, your also the famous Nightmare Moon.” “…What are you saying?” “Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago you attempted to turn day into night, for all eternity, and because of that, I’ve admired you, I thought of you as a hero.” She paused as she released her magic hold of Luna. “And since then, I wanted to be like you. I wanted to be some pony that every pony ells would fear, and now, I’m finally going to make that happen. I’ve been trapped in time for the last thousand years, waiting for you to rescue me, to save me from that retched black abyss, I was hoping that we could be together, side by side, just like you promised.” “I promised no such thing!” Luna argued. “Yes you did!” Agony argued back. “You said that I would be your apprentice, and that you would teach me how to be like you! But you forgot about me! When you made your grand return you forgot about me! But now that I’m back, I’ll finally get my revenge on the world. I’ll change you Luna, I’ll help you.” “What do you mean “Help me” “I’ll will help you reawaken Nightmare Moon.” “What?!” “Look at the floor beneath you Luna. That is an arcane circle, the most advanced type of magic, and if I’m correct, the particular circle should turn you back.” “And if it doesn’t?’ “I don’t know, this is the first time I tried it. Ready?” “No!” “To bad.” Agony laughed. She shot part of the ceiling and a large part of the stone fell down and landed in an opened space between two line and caused the circle to start glowing. It turned from white, to red, and finally to a blackish color. Luna started screaming in pain as a black mist started rising out from her. The black mist flew from her to the alter behind Agony. “No, No! This shouldn’t be happening!” Agony yelled. She raced up to the alter and attempted to trap the mist in a magic bubble. But it managed to break free and it attack Agony and sent her flying. She landed at the edge of the circle. She got up and saw it trying to attack her again, but before it got close Agony whipped away part of the circle and the glow went away along with the mist. “Apparently, that’s what happens if you get the circle wrong-“ “You foolish foal! Do you know what you’ve just done! You almost reawakened that horrid beast!’ “You say it like it’s a bad thing.” Agony smiled and started walking down the stairs to the lower level. “I’ll be right back, I need to get my spell book.’ “What about us?!” “You, uh, hmm. You can just, stay here and, I don’t know talk yourself? I don’t know, do what you want, just stay here.” Luna growled at her as she continued walking and when she was out of sight she started yelling and demanding her to come back and release her. Agony ignored her and kept walking. Dusk RisesSeven hours later the sun has risen, but the sky appears as if something is wrong. Twilight looked outside and saw the moon right on the edge of the horizon. She was about to come to a conclusion about what was happening, right when she was about to turn around and start talking there was a burping noise and a flash of green light. “Hey Twilight,” Spike started. “Message from the Princess.” “Thanks spike.” She said happily as she took the scroll, when she opened it her face turned white at what she read. “Spike come on we need to go.” “Uh, where?” “We need to get the others, something bad happened.” “What happened?” “Luna’s gone missing. She disappeared last night” “What do we do?” Spike started panicking. “Right now we have to get the others, princess Celestia wanted to see us all in Canterlot.” She continued as she levitated spike onto her back. After that Twilight raced out the door. An hour later on the train ride to Canterlot, the others were finally told what happened. “So she just disappeared?” Rainbow dash asked in confusion. ‘That’s what the letter said, in fact that’s pretty much all the letter said.” “That doesn’t make sense. Who would kidnap princess Luna?” Rarity asked. “I don’t know, but I can already tell it has something to do with wanting to reincarnate Nightmare Moon.” Twilight started worrying . “Well whoever they are, I hope their prepared to deal with us,” Apple Jack said with bravery. “Yeah, they’ll be no match for the six of us!” Rainbow dash cheered. When they arrived at Canterlot the train stopped in front of the main gate. “Why are we stopping?” Apple jack asked. “You six need to get off here, Princess’s order,” The conductor said as he entered the car “But we aren’t even in the city!” Rainbow complained. “Sorry, but princess’s Celestia requested that you six depart here.” They all started groaning as the picked up their stuff and started getting off the train, and as they walked out the door they saw Celestia standing outside the car. “Princess?” Twilight asked in confusion. “Twilight, thank you for coming in this urgent matter.” “What’s going on?” “Princes Luna was kidnapped during the middle of the night, we were doing an investigation of the castle but-“ “But luckily for all of you I was out on a midnight stroll through the city when I saw a strange pony dragging an unconscious princess through the streets” Discord interrupted. “And how do we know you didn’t do it?!” Rainbow demanded as she flew out the door. She was right up against his face. “What, who me? Why I’d never do something like that-“ “Yet you’d turn Pony-Ville into chaos city, and manage to kidnap both princess without trying.” A familiar voce interrupted. They all turned around and saw Shining Armor and Cadence. “Shining Armor, Cadence!” Twilight cheered as she ran up and hugged them. “It’s nice to see you to Twily.” He sighed as both him and Cadence smiled. “So Discord, you were saying something about a strange mare?” “Well I WAS, until a RUDE pony interrupted me. Now as I was saying I saw the mare yadda, yadda, yadda, she left the city and I followed her to the Ever Free forest.” “Why would they take her there?” Cadence asked. “I wish I knew, but whatever their doing we have to stop them.” Celestia interrupted. She raised her horn and in a flash of light she teleported all of them into the main chamber of the ruined castle. “Why are we here?” Twilight asked. “The question dear Twilight, is why wouldn’t we be here? I saw that weirdo drag her here.” “Sister are you here?! Can you hear me?!” “Sister!” Luna called from the upper level. They all raised up the stairs and saw Luna lying in the middle of a white chalk circle. “Luna!” Celestia yelled as she ran over to her. “What happened?!” “It is a long story, but right now all you need to know is that-“ “Is that I’m trying to bring back the greatest mare who ever lived.” A mysterious voice said from a distance. They looked at the altar and saw Agony. “Who are you?!” Celestia demanded. “Here we go again. My name is Agony. The Black thorn of Equestria, the sun’s pain, and the shadow of the moon.” “Why do you want my sister?!” “I’m trying to bring back a legend.” “What legend do you speak of?” “The legend of nightmare Moon.” “Why would you bring her back, she’s a monster!” Twilight yelled. “To you maybe! To me, she was a hero, she was my idle. But you took her from me. You turned her back into, that.” She pointed at Luna. “Because of you, Nightmare Moon is no more, and because of that, I was trapped in time, for a thousand years!” “Please, I’m sorry for trapping you like that but, you cannot bring her back into this world!” “To bad princess,” Agony paused as she walked off the alter. “See that white ring beneath you? That is known as arcane, the most powerful of magic. I’ve been studying these types of spells for years now, and if finally managed to master them. Once that last line is connected, Nightmare Moon will be reborn, and Luna will cease to exist.” “What do you mean?” Twilight started to panic. “Once the circle is complete, Luna will be treated as a sacrifice, her soul will be removed from her current body, and placed into a new one. And as a result, that body will be destroyed-“ “You can’t do that!” Celestia interrupted. “To bad princess! It will be done, and you will not stop me!” She shot a beam of magic at the ceiling again and same as last time a large piece of stone fell and connected the two lines. And same as last time the ring started changing colors. Now as the ring glowed Luna started screaming in pain again, but instead of her turning into her, the black mist rose from her body again and flew over to the altar. “No! Not again!” Agony was about to erase the circle but before she could the mist formed its own circle using its self. “That, that looks like the transformation circle” Agony whispered to herself. "You know what, you can take Luna back, if I can’t rule side by side with my idol, I’ll rule on my own." Unto the forest of blackIt was midnight somehow, earlier it was noon but now the moon was directly over head with no sign of the sun anywhere. There was a dark forest filled with dead trees and plants everywhere. All the trees and plants were black and looked like they were charred in a fire. Crows and ravens were everywhere and started sounding as a purple cloud flew from the moon and landed on the mud covered ground. The cloud started turning solid and eventually revealed its self to be Twilight. She groaned as she stood up. “My head, wait where am I? Hello?!” she started wandering around checking the surroundings. She looked at all the plants around her. “What are these things? These aren’t normal plants.” She froze as she heard a young filly crying in the distance. “Hello?! Is some pony there? I must be hearing things-“The crying started again. “Hello! I know your there where are you?!” She stopped and listened, she put her hoof up to her ear to amplify the noise, it took a while but she figured out where it was coming from, she started running towards it. “Hello!? It’s alright I’m here-“ She followed the noise but there was nothing there. She turned around to head back to where she started but the crying reappeared. She groaned and started listening to it again. She followed it and this time ended up in a large opening. “Hello! Who ever’s there, just stay where you are! If you keep moving I won’t be able to find you!” She wondered around the opening waiting for the crying to start again. Right when it started the crows and ravens started cawing. “Shhush!” She told them in an annoyed tone. She put her hoof to her ear, the crying was gone but she just waited there. And same as earlier right when it started the crows started cawing again. “Shush, be quite!” She told them again. She held up her hoof one more time and again right when the crying started the crows interrupted. Twilight growled. “I said shush!” She yelled as she picked up a rock and threw it at the bird sitting on a branch. The bird fell straight to the ground with a thud and started flapping its wings frantically and loudly cawing. As it did that more birds flew out of the canopy and headed towards it. “…Uhh, woops,” She said nervously. The black birds flew together into one giant cloud than attacked her. As they flew towards her she screamed and started running deeper into the forest. As she ran she came up with an idea. She raised her horn and teleported; the black birds did the same. They disappeared into thin air leaving nothing but a few feathers behind. When she was shore they were gone she poked her head out from behind a tree. She stood there breathing heavily, she sat down and attempted to catch her breath. When she stood back up the crying started again. She raised her hoof to her ear and closed her eyes. She listened closely to the sound. It was finally clear, she heard it, but it was farther away than it sounded. She opened her eyes and looked straight forward. She lowered her hoof. She was amazed by how far away the filly really is. She walked to one of the many black wood trees. “These are all hollow.” She started. “The sound goes to one tree and makes it echo, and another tree copies that sound. So all I have to do is keep by the trees and find out which tree is louder so I can tell how close it is to whoever’s crying.” She closed her eyes and listened. After a minute she opened her eyes again and headed left. She did that at every opening, and after 3 hours of wandering around she arrived at a large opening with a single colossal tree in the center of it. “Hello?” “…Hello? Who are you?” a young filly replied. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, I’m here to help you.” “…No…no pony can help me.” “How come?” “We’re stuck here, as long as she watches over us.” “She?” “The mare, the one that brought you here.” “Agony?” “That’s her.” “Listen stay where you are. I’ll be right there…where are you?” “Behind the tree.” “…uhh?” “The big tree.” Twilight laughed nervously. “Okay, uh, thanks, hold on.” Twilight ran over to the tree and headed towards the back of it, she looked down towards the roots and saw her, a small pony, a dark purple coat, black mane and tail, and deep purple eyes. “You found me…” The young mare said with sadness “Yeah, why wouldn’t I?” “No pony has ever found me.” “Why?” “The mare wants me to suffer. She trapped me here years ago, and I’ve been here ever since.” “Years? How many years?” “Is Nightmare Moon back?” “No, but Agony took her place.” “…Oh…I’ve been trapped here for over ten thousand years.” “Ten thousand years!?” Twilight shouted. “Yeah, if you don’t escape than you’ll be trapped here to.” “How old are you?” the filly started crying. “I’m only eight.” She cried. “How could you have been trapped here for this long? Nightmare Moon’s only been banished for a thousand.’ “It’s the tempest lock spell. She casted it on the jewel and now, when a day passes out there a year passes in here.” “…A year?” The filly shook her head. “Listen.” Twilight started as she held the filly’s head. “I promise I’ll get you out of here.” “Really?” “Yes, I will not let you spend any more of your life in here. I’ll get you out of here than we’ll battle Agony and stop her.” The filly whipped the tears away than hugged Twilight. She then picked her up and placed her on her back. “Okay so which way do we go?” the filly pondered her thoughts than came up with a conclusion. “We need to get up there.” She pointed to the purple moon. “How do we get up there?” “On the other end of the forest there’s a tower that leads up to the sky. Then there’s a bridge that leads straight to the moon.” “Why didn’t you go there?” “I was to scared.” Twilight smiled nervously as she walked into the brush. 8-legged showdown“So what’s your name?” Twilight asked. “What?” “Your name?” “I, I don’t remember.” “You don’t?” “No, I’m sorry. I’ve been in solitude for so long I forgot.” “Oh, ok than.” “Sorry.” “Don’t worry it’s ok. I guess it isn’t important.” “…What’s your name?” Oh, my names Twilight Sparkle.” “You’re a princess.” “Yeah, I kind of just got turned into one after I finished a spell.” “Did the spell turn you into one?” “What, oh, no, do you know Starswirl the Bearded?” “The famous pony?” “Yeah, I finished one of his spells and Princess Celestia turned me into an alicorn.” “Really? Can I be a princess to?” Twilight giggled. “When we get out of here I’ll see what I can do.” The young filly smiled. “But until then we have to get out of here.” Twilight continued walking, but suddenly stopped. “Did you hear that?” She asked. “Hear what?” They paused. The woods wee silent for a while, and as they started moving there was a quiet hissing noise. “…No, they found us.” “What? Who found us?” “The black arachnids.” “Spiders?” “They aren’t normal spiders. They’re really bug and scary.” “How big can they be?” “They’re bigger than you.” Twilight froze solid. “Bigger than-, how is that possible?” “Like I said, they aren’t normal spiders, their monsters, they went dormant thousands of years ago, reawakened by something.” The hissing grew louder. “Please, Twilight we have to go! They’ll hurt us!” “Hurt us how?” “They’ll eat us! Please we have to keep moving or they’ll eat us!” Twilight started running, she tried to out run the beasts but the hissing kept growing louder. She and the filly started to panic, they kept looking into the tree line, there was nothing there, but somehow they were still being followed. And out of nowhere, a colossal black spider jumped out of a tree and block her path. The two started screaming. “What is that!?” Twilight screamed. “It’s the black arachnid! It found us!” The spider started hissing as it approached them. “What do we do?!” “The black arachnid is known as a dream spider, they feast off of dreams and nightmares that every living creature has. As long as were awake it can’t feed, and if it can’t feed it can’t hunt.” “So as long as we’re awake we’re safe?” “Sort of, it can still bite us, but only if we’re a threat to it or it’s nest.” “What do we do?” “Stand still!” Twilight stopped moving and stood completely still. “The dream spider senses movement as a threat, as long as we stand still it won’t attack.” As they stood there the spider started walking around them, after it circled them a few times it stopped in front of them and lied down. “…now what?” Twilight whispered. “The dream spider is challenging us.” “To?” “A stare down. Don’t break eye contact or ells.” “Or ells what?” “It has a web the is covered with fumes that induce sleep, if we lose it will coat us with that web and wait.” “Wait for what?” “The dream spider can only feast on a dram that has been alive for a week, anything shorter and it can’t feed.” “Ok, so, stand here, look at it, don’t move, and don’t brake eye contact, that it?” “Yeah that’s it?” “And how do we know we beat it?” “It can’t go any longer than ten days without feeding, by the looks of it, it already went about nine days and several hours, were lucky, right now all we have to do is wait for it to die of hunger.” “Got it.” Twilight ended. She stood there staring at the spider, and after an entire hour the spider started twitching. It got up and attempted to walk away, but as it took its fifth step it flipped onto its side and died. “…We, won” “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Twilight replied as she got up. “No pony ever win’s a showdown with them. They usually give up, or go mad and run.” “Weird, guess we we’re just lucky, come on let’s get out of here before any more of those show up.” She continued walking into the black forest. She turned around to take one look at the spider, she turned around just in time to see the giant beast dissolve into smaller spiders, and they all scattered off. “…did you see that?” “Oh, yeah forgot, dream spiders tend to continue living even in death, when it dies it turns it’s body into about a million smaller spiders and they continue it’s life.’ “That’s kind of, creepy.” “Guess they disappeared for a reason.” The small pony laughed nervously as Twilight continued walking. Cary on“I think we should rest here, I’m getting tired,” Twilight said as she sat down under one of the many dead trees. The filly jumped off her back and landed into a patch of dry mud. “So, before we run into anything ells, is there anything I should know about?” “Know about?” the filly repeated her “Yeah, like any other dangerous things?” “Well, I guess so. First of all there are more than just dream spiders here-“ “Good to know.” Twilight interrupted sarcastically. “Sorry, any way, there are also black scorpions.” “And what do they do?” “They, uh, you know what, you don’t want to know.” “Yeah, I probably don’t.” “Their are spectral crows and ravens.” “Spectral?” “Yeah, they have, powers.” “What kind of powers?” “they can sense fear with in living creatures, they can summon others when it’s in pain-“ “Bet it can teleport.” “No, last time I checked they can’t.” “Then why do they just vanish into thin air.” “They, wit, how did you know about that?” “…oh, well I kind of ran into, a few.” “how many?” The young pony became irritated. “…a lot.” “What did you do?” “I, might have, threw a rock at one.” “…oh no.” The pony became scared. She ran off and jumped into one of the hollow trees. “What’s wrong-?” “You have to hide! Last pony who angered them, Hide!” Twilight started panicking, than out of nowhere she did the same as the filly and jumped into a tree. A few seconds later the sky turned completely black as the moon became eclipsed by something. “What is that?” Twilight whispered. “It’s them, they’re here for you.” “Why me?” “You angered them.” “I’m sorry but-“ “Shuush!” the filly interrupted, a while later the sky returned along with the faded light. “Okay, they’re gone.” She started climbing out of the tree. “Help!” Twilight cried out, she was stuck in the tree. The pony walked over to her, grabbed her hoof, and attempted to pull her out of the tree. “Ow ow ow!” Twilight started shouting, and in an instant she flew right out of the tree an landed on a pile of twigs. “…ow” she said one last time. “I’m so sorry, I was only trying to help!” she started panicking “Don’t worry, ow, I’m okay.” As Twilight stood up she quickly fell back down moaning and shouting in pain. “What happened?!” “Ow, I think I twisted my ankle.” “I’m so SO sorry!” “Hey it’s okay, calm down, it’s not your fault-“ “Yes it is! When I tried pulling you out of the tree you must have gotten hurt.” She started crying. Twilight couldn’t help but to feel bad, it was her fault that she got hurt, but she didn’t want to make her feel vena worse. “Shh, it’s okay calm down,” she told her as she lifted her head and whipped way her tears.”It’s okay, I’m hurt so what, I can walk it off, it’s not like I’m going to die.” “…I’m sorry” she said one last time. “I forgive you, come on, let’s get out of here.” She stood up and started limping towards the tower. The filly stood there, she stared at Twilight as she walked away. “Are you alright!?” Twilight shouted towards her. She shook her head and raced towards her. “Wait here!” She told her than ran off. Twilight stood there confused. A few seconds later she came back with some sort of carpet woven out of black vines. She than raced over behind Twilight and pushed her on to it. “Uh, what are you doing?” “I’m trying to make it up to you, since you’ve been carrying me this entire time, I thought that I could return the favor.” Twilight giggled as she lied down on the black vines. The filly raced over to a lose vine, picked it up, and started dragging the others along with it. “Your, pretty strong for young filly.” “It’s a spell I used, It’ll ware off in an hour.” She replied. And with determination she pulled her threw the forest. “So your using a spell to give you strength?” “Yeah, I’m actually really weak.” She sighed. “You know what, you kind of remind me of myself.” “How?” “Well, you have pretty strong magic.” “Yeah, magic was the only thing I could train while I was here.” “I bet it is. What kind of spells do you use?” “…mostly invisibility spells to hide me from everything.” “Why didn’t you use it when all those birds showed up?” “I can’t use magic when I’m scared. I don’t know why, it just won’t work.” “Hmm. Well when we get out of here, I could help you with that.” “You will?” the pony started becoming exited. “Sure, I could help you learn a few new spells, and help you get past that magic block.” The filly started cheering, she started slowing down when her cheering died. “Aww!” ‘What’s wrong?” “The spell wore off.” “Wow an hour went by fast.” Twilight stood up and shook her leg to see if it was still in pain, the pain was gone and she walked off the woven vines and picked up the young pony. “Come on, let’s get going.” She placed her on her back and trotted off. “So, we were talking about all the dangerous stuff here right? What ells is their?” “Hmm? Oh right, well other than animals there are also plants that have a mind of their own, or something like that.” “Like?” “hmm…ever heard of Ivy Weed?” “Ivy Weed?! That stuff went extinct millions of years ago!” “The black forest houses all that is gone in the real world.” “Black…-I’ve heard of this place. I read about it in a book, it said that it disappeared when Celestia and Luna took rule over Equestria.” “They hid it.” “Hid it?” “It was too dangerous, to many lives were lost on the explorations of it.” “…How do you know all this.” The filly side. “I don’t know, it’s like I knew about it when I got here. I want to figure out how I know, and who I am.” “I forgot that you couldn’t remember your name, don’t worry you’ll remember it eventually.” The filly smiled. Dawn falls“Give us back our friend!” Rainbow dash demanded. “Make me.” Agony replied. “Now listen here you varmit, either you give us back Twilight or ells!” “Either you bleh bleh bleh or blah!” She taunted with a childish tone. “Like I have to listen to any of you! If you haven’t noticed, you don’t stand a chance against me!” “They might not, but we do!” Celestia interrupted as she and Luna stood up. “…Hah! Funny, for a second there I thought you were serious! Listen to me, none of stand a chance against me, I’m the most powerful unicorn in the world! I’ve mastered spells that not even you two could learn!” “As if!” Rainbow dash interrupted. “Don’t believe me? Fine then, I’ll show you.” She lifted her horn and it started glowing with an intense black light, as it glowed all the black ooze encasing the room moved towards her and into her horn. She lowered her head and pointed her horn towards the two princess and in an instant a colossal beam of black energy shot towards them. They dodge it and it crashed into the wall leaving a gaping hole. “See that?” Every pony stood where they were and stared at the hole that used to be a wall. “That’s what happens if you doubt me.” She used her first spell and coated the room with the ooze again and absorbed it again. “Now, watch what it does to a pony.” She lowered her horn and pointed it towards Flutter shy. “And since you look like the weakest, might as well start with you.” She shot the beam again. Right before it hit her, Rainbow dash pushed her out of the way and sacrificed herself. She let lose a horrific shrieking noise, and as the black fog cleared, it revealed her as a skeleton. “Rainbow!” The other four screamed. “That’s it! I will not let you continue this rein of evil!” “Bring it on Sunshine.” Agony laughed. Celestia growled at her, she than used her own magic to attack. She shot a beam of light filled magic. Agony steped to the side and it hit the ground. “…That it?” Agony chuckled. Celestia attacked again, this time Agony opened her wings and created ac black bubble around herself, and as the magic hit it, it turned black and was redirected at Celestia. She got hit and fell to the ground. “I expected better from you princess, I thought you were the greatest pony that ever existed.” “…Silence.” She mumbled. “Sorry what? Could you say that again?” “Silence.” “Oh, I thought you might have said something imprt-“ “Silence!” She started getting back up. “You do not talk to me that way, I am the princess of this land!” “You’re a foolish mare that’s what you are! You think you’re the best, you think your better than every pony, you’re not! Your nothing!” Agony stepped down from the altar. “For the last thousand years I have been able to watch you, I’ve been able to watch what you do, and after what saw, you don’t deserve to rule this land! You banished your own sister to the moon, encased a living creature in stone, banished a misunderstood queen in to a darker land, and turned a pony into shadows and banished him beneath the ice of the arctic! You are the cruelest mare in this world!” Celestia was stunned. “You don’t deserve to rule, after everything you did.” Celestia grew angry, and out of nowhere she used her own spell against her, but instead she coated the room in a white colored oozed and shot out a white beam of magic. Agony stood there and did nothing, and when she was hit the magic curved around her. When the dust cleared, it revealed her to be still standing, unhurt. “…How?” “You can’t kill shadows with light, you can’t kill night with day, and you can’t kill me by yourself.” She grinned sinisterly. She walked back to the alter and stood there with the grin still on her face. “You know what, since I’m “Nice” I’ll give you a chance.” She looked over towards the skeletal remains of Rainbow dash and out of nowhere a pillar of black smoke rose out of the ground and incased her, when it vanished she was turned back to normal. “You can have your friend back, but you’re not allowed to leave, until you beat me. Sound fare.” Agony chuckled. While every pony was distracted by her Discord got up and shook his head attempting to get his focus back. “What happened? How long have I been out?” “oh I forgot about you.” “…Right we were fighting you weren’t we. Alright you prepare for a real fight!” “What are you talking about?” Agony asked with un-amusement. “I’m talking about a real fight, against a being of pure chaos.” He snapped his claws, and instantly Agony was tied down by black vines. “What is this!?” “It’s a special little plant that has been growing for years now, to be honest I was wondering when I’d ever use it again.” “What does this have to do with chaos?” “Just wait the chaos will be here any minute.” He snapped his claws again and this time took away her horn and wings. “Better?” Discord asked, attempting not to laugh. “Ok now you’re just annoying me.” Agony stomped on the ground and the vines suddenly died and her horn and wings re-grew. “Clever…” “I’ve been practicing, now, are you done annoying me?” “Almost, I got one more trick up my sleeve,” he said as he pulled a card out of his wrist. He snapped his claw one last time and disappeared leaving the card with Be Right Back written on it. “…I really hate that guy.” Agony mumbled. The forest can killThe night sky began to grow darker, the moon started to disappear behind the black clouds, the air grew colder with every passing second. The two ponies kept moving, despite how dark it was and how cold it became. “I’m freezing.” Twilight complained. “You never said anything about it getting this cold.” “Sorry, the moon usually provides all the heat, and light.” “We’re going to have to start a fire soon.” “Why not now? “ the pony suggested, she jumped off of Twilight’s back. “I can get a few branches from the brush, make a fire and we could carry it with us.” “Well, it sounds like a good idea but, how are we supposed to carry it?” “Ohh! We could be like an explorer in a dark temple or cave! We can carry it on a stick, like a torch!” “Ok than.” Twilight agreed with her happily. The filly then ran into the forest and came back with a pile of sticks stacked on her back; she dropped all of them on the ground. “Ok stand back-“ “Wait! Can I light the fire?” “…Sure, I guess that would be alright,” Twilight took a few steps backwards. “I always wanted to use this spell.” She lowered her horn and started concentrating, she stood there with her horn facing the pile of sticks. “…Do you need any, help?” “No, I can do this. I just to focus.” She continued standing there. Twilight smiled and raised her horn, and in an instant the pile combusted into flames. “I did it!” the pony started cheering. “Nice job, I don’t think I’ve ever met a unicorn as good as you.” Twilight smiled. “When we get out of here, I can already tell that you’re going to get really good at magic.” “You think so?” “I know so, come on let’s get moving.” The filly picked up one of the sticks and jumped onto Twilights back as she started moving, they then continued wandering towards the tower. Four hours later they made it much closer to the base of the tower. “Look we’re almost there, a little longer and we’ll-“ she paused as she stumbled over something. “What is this?” “Oh-no, Ivy Weed. This isn’t good.” “Why? What’s wrong?” “Move, you have to get out of it!” Twilight used her magic and teleported out of the black vines. “We were so close to.” The filly moaned. “What’s wrong? It’s just a plant.” “No, Ivy Weed is more than a plant, it has magic powers.” “Magic, powers?” “Yeah, it sucks the life out of everything within a distance.” “And that distance is?” “Well, right now their saplings so were safe, if they were any bigger then it would be draining you of your life, blood and magic.” “My magic?” “Yeah, it does that.” “Weird.” Twilight picked up one of the many sticks on the ground and threw it into the Ivy Weed patch, the vines started moving around and eventually broke the stick. “It has a mind of its own,” “You don’t say.” Twilight replied, she looked around the area attempting o find an alternate path. “looks like it’s everywhere.” “I guess we’re stuck here than,” “Don’t say that I know we can get out of-“ Twilight paused then continued talking. “Hand me the torch.” The filly handed her the flaming stick and she threw it into the Ivy Weed, and as it hit the ground there were high pitched shrieking noises and all the plants started moving away from the fire. “I didn’t know they did that.” “Well you do now,” Twilight hopped over the thin line the plant was still making and picked the torch back up, she then threw again and the same thing happened. “To be honest I was thinking we could burn all the plants-“ She jumped into the torches light again. “But I guess they have some sort of fear towards fire.” “Or light, did you notice how this area was completely dark until we started that fire?” “Huh, you could be right.” She threw the torch one more time then hopped threw the light and onto the other side of the Ivy Weed patch. The two started cheering but stopped as the ground started shaking. “What was that?” “…Dragon claws.” “Dragon claws? What are they?” “More plants, except, worse” When she stopped talking a tree rose out of the ground. “Whoa,” “…I think we should run.” “Why?” “The Dragon claw attacks everything around it, interesting fact about them, they’re posed.” “By?” “Pony spirits.” And in an instant the tree reshaped it’s self and the top of it attempted to slash the two but the quickly dodged it. “I can see why it’s called a Dragon claw.” The tree slashed at them again, this time from the side. It managed to hit them and send them flying. Agony fell off Twilight’s back but Twilight was slammed into a tree. “Twilight, are you okay?!” “Yeah I’m fine.” She slowly stood up. “That’s a strong tree.” “This doesn’t make sense-“ “What doesn’t?’ “Dragon claws aren’t supposed to move, something placed it there.” “How could some pony move it? It was underground.” “…Agony, she’s changing this place” “How is she doing that?” “…Her power. She’s getting stronger.” “What do we do?” “Easy, run.” “…Run? Oh, right it’s a tree isn’t it.” Twilight picked up the filly and started running towards the tower. The tree burrowed into the ground and followed them. “You should probably run faster, it’s following us.” “Following-it’s a tree!” “It’s a haunted tree, and it’s right behind us.” Twilight started running faster, the tree kept following them. When they made it to the base of the tower they attempted to climb it but weren’t able to. “How do we climb it.” “Theirs a ladder on the other side.” “…Oh.” Twilight ran around to the other side of the tower, and as she started climbing the rusted ladder the tree re appeared and dragged her down. It picked her up and threw her away from the tower, the filly was still hanging on to it but she flew back into the trees. “Twilight!” “Get to the top of the tower!” Twilight yelled from the top of a tree. “You have to keep going, no matter what!” She started climbing the ladder, Twilight jumped out of the tree and stood there, staring at the Dragon claw waiting for it to attack again. “Come on,” she whispered. The tree quickly burrowed into the ground and headed towards her, she started running. The tree sprouted out of the ground and Twilight jumped right over it and flew towards the ladder, but it grabbed her hind leg and slammed her on the ground. And as it was about to attack for the last time, there was a loud yelling noise and the filly landed right on it, it started swinging back and forth attempting to throw her off. “What are you doing?!” “Saving you! Run! Get out of here! I know you have friends out there, I know they’ll miss you if you don’t get out of here! I have no pony waiting for me! You have them! Now run, get out of here!” She continuously flew back and forth as the tree swung it’s self. Twilight got up and ran to the ladder, she turned around and saw her still hanging on to the tree, it managed to throw her off and she went tumbling towards Twilight, the tree started moving again. “Twilight,” the pony started talking with little breath still left in her. “Please, run.” “No, I can’t just leave you here.” “Please.” Twilight looked up as the tree appeared out of the ground, and using all her magic she incased it in flames, it started screaming and swinging back and forth attempting to put out the flames, but it was too late, it fell down as the flames drew the life out of it. “Why…” “What?” “Why did you stay? Why did you help me?” “Because you deserve to get out of here.” “No I don’t, this is my home, I deserve to live here.” “…What?” “I remembered who I am. I’m Agony.” “…No.” “Yes, I’m her, I’m that monster.” “You’re not a monster.” “Yes I am,’ “No, listen to me, your nothing like that Agony,” “How am I not like her?” “…Your special.” The younger Agony looked up at her. “Just like all the stuff in this forest, your special. Your nice.” “…” “Come on, let’s get out of here.” Agony smiled, she got up and started climbing the up the ladder and Twilight followed her. Origin of Agony“So, you lit the fire, not me?” Agony said disappointedly. “Yeah, sorry.” “It’s okay, it’s nice to know your helping me.” The ladder stopped, Agony reached the top of it and climbed off. “So, now that we reach the top,” Twilight paused as she climbed off onto the stone walk way. “Where do we head from here?” “Up to the moon.” Agony pointed to the purple ball of light. “We climb a little hire from her and there should be a bridge leading to it.” The two continued climbing up to the top of the tower, and as they climbed hire the tower stared to shake. “What’s happening?!” Agony looked over the edge of the walk way and saw dozens of spiders scaling the tower after them. “Spiders, a lot of spiders.” “What do they want?” “I don’t know but I really think we should run.” They started running upwards towards the top, and when they did, the problem grew worse. “Where’s the bridge?!” Agony started freaking out. “The bridge is gone! Why is it gone!?” “Agony calm down.” “I can’t, the bridge is gone! We’re going to be stuck here forever!” “Agony don’t say that, I promised that I’d get us out of here, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.” Twilight walked over to the edge of the spire. She tightened her focused and then out of nowhere a bridge appeared made out of magic. Twilight started walking across it and Agony quickly followed her. They got half way across before the spiders made it to the spire. “Uh, Twilight we have a problem,” Twilight turned around and saw them right before the bridge vanished beneath her. The two started plummeting to the ground. When they were less than an inch from it they stopped, Twilight looked up and saw she was connected to a web. “…Are we dead?” Agony asked as she uncovered her eyes. “No, but we probably will be any second now.” They started moving upwards. “I can’t believe we got this far, but failed.” “Agony,” she looked over to her. “Don’t say that, a pony never fails until they quit.” Agony faintly smiled. They reached the spire again and were pulled over the edge. Twilight and Agony jumped up and were ready to fight, but instead the hoard of spiders just stood there. After a few seconds they all bowed to the two ponies. “…Uh, Agony do you know anything about this?” “No, I don’t think so.” One of the spiders began making clicking noises in an attempt to communicate with them. “What’s it doing?” Twilight whispered to Agony. “I think it’s trying to talk to us.” “I am trying to speak with you.” The two gasped with amazement as the spider spoke with a feminine voice. “You two have entered our home and killed one our own.” “We’re sorry about that but we were just defending ourselves.” “We didn’t really kill it any way.” Agony added, the colossal spiders faced her and she behind Twilight. “She’s right, it died of hunger.” “Be that as it may you are still trespassing within our home.” “We were trapped here by a pony named Nightmare Agony.” “Her. I see, we did not know that she has banished you here. We apologize.” “It’s okay, we understand, you were just trying to defend your home.” “Since you have been trapped here, we would like to aid you in your escape.” “Really?” “Yes, the bridge has been taken down long ago, but, thou it may be gone we can still walk upon it.” The spider kneeled down allowing the two to climb onto it. “Allow me to escort you to freedom.” Twilight and Agony smiled and climbed onto her back, she stood up and started walking towards the moon. She stepped of the spire top and a path way of light appeared beneath her as she walked forwards. “look at the world we live in.” the two looked down. “The pony’s hatred caused this, our home used to be filled with life, green plants and colorful flowers bloomed, but a single seed took it all. Her hatred caused the growth of the Ivy Weed, and as she took the lives of innocent creatures the dragon claws started to appear.” “So, this is all because of Nightmare Agony?” “Indeed, this is all because of her.” Agony started growing more upset as the conversation continued. “This is my fault.” “Agony?” “I used to control that body, but now I’m trapped here, stuck until she grows weak and gives up.” “Young child, you had nothing to do with this, you were the one who kept our world alive, it was her who killed it.” “I know but, when I was born I gained a second spirit that grew to be evil, as I got older it started getting stronger and when I met Nightmare Moon for the first time, it was enough to release the evil side of me. And ever since then I’ve been trapped here.” “So that mare has been living within you since then?” “Yeah,” “Then she shall be real once you are freed.” “What do you mean?” “Once you are freed she shall become her own pony and so will you.” “So, does that mean I don’t have to suffer for what she does?” “Yes.” Agony started smiling. “We are here, all you two have to do is step threw the portal, and you’ll be reunited with your friends.” “Thanks for bringing us here, uhm?” “Queen Carnay.” “Thank you, Queen Carnay.” Twilight jumped off her back and vanished into the ball of light. Agony hesitated and then followed her. Facing fear“Come on Celestia, do your worst, I’m waiting.” She just stood there staring at her. “Come on, I’m waiting.” Agony kept taunting her, but she continued to do nothing. “No? Any pony ells want to attack?” The others did the same. “Pathetic, to think that any of you posed as an actual threat,” As Agony stepped down from the alter a purple mist appeared from the gem on her necklace. It flew from the gem and stopped in front of Celestia, it then began to change into a solid form. “How?” as the mist shifted its form became more clear and eventually turned into a single pony. “Twilight!” the others yelled as the raced towards her. “What happened to you?” “It’s a long story, I’ll explain later. “How,” Agony started stumbling back up to the altar. “How did you escape the black forest? No pony ever escapes!” “I had help from a pony that was locked away years ago.” Twilight replied. Just then a second cloud of mist appeared and landed next to her. It started the change form as well and turned into the young filly. “You! How?! This isn’t possible!” “You might as well give up now Agony, you just lost!” Twilight demanded. “That’s what you think! I still have your power, which means I’m still strong!” “That might be true, but it’s eleven against one, you don’t stand a chance.” Agony rolled her eyes and covered the room with the black ooze again. “Twilight,” she faced Celestia. “Be careful, this is her strongest attack.” Twilight nodde her head then turned back. “You should stand down now while you still have the chance.” “…No” “…Fine, I warned you, but oh well.” She pulled all the black towards her and readied herself, Twilight stood her ground, and without any hesitation, Agony unleashed all the magic, Twilight instantly pulled up a shield and the beam curved around her and hit the wall behind her. “Well played,” Agony responded with a sarcastic tone. “Is that the best you can do?” “Sadly, yes. But look on the bright side, I can do it as much as I want.” She lifted her horn and used the spell again, this time she didn’t have to take back all the darkness, she just pointed her horn at Twilight and unleashed all the magic, since Twilight was distracted she didn’t have time to shield herself so she jumped out of the way and the beam shot right past her. “Congratulations little Ms. twinkle hooves, you aren’t dead” “How did you do that, I thought you had to-“ “You can do anything when your powerful.” And again with no warning she used the spell again, Twilight dodge it but it managed to hit her tail. “Ha! Got you this time!” she started laughing, but yelped as she was hit by a beam of magic. “Who did that!?” “I did.” Shining armor walked up and stood next to Twilight. “Oh, I remember you.” “Excuse me?” he replied in confusion. “Wow, it’s only been a few years…How could you forget me?!” “Do you really know her?” Twilight asked. “Of course he knows me, he used to date me.” “He did what?” Cadence asked in confusion. “He used to do what now?” “Your husband, used to date me. He was nice, until he figured out that I was a fan of Nightmare Moon-” “I swear I’ve never met her before in my life!” He interrupted. Some of the others tried not to laugh, while the others seemed to be disappointed. “Right, what was I talking about again?” “Something about lowering the moon?” Twilight interrupted attempting to fool her. “Funny, you weren’t even close to fooling me but funny, oh right now I remember.” She used her magic and levitated all four of the princess into the air. “I was just about to kill y6ou four so I could take rule over Equestria.” She casted the spell again, and just when it was about to hit them, Discord reappeared and teleported them away. “What the?!” “Good evening , Ms…whoever you are” “Discord, why are you here?” “Oh I’m just trying to help my friends.” “And they told you to help them?” “That’s a little insulting you know,” in a quick flash of light he appeared behind her.”But now that I think of it they could have told me to save them, and by that I mean those ponies over there could have sent me a letter telling me to save them.” Agony quickly turned around and slashed her horn at him, but he disappeared the instant she started moving. “Ooohh, some pony is cranky.” “Shut up you twisted freak.” “Sticks and stones may break my bones but-“ he grunted as he was shot out of the air and landed head first on the ground.”Names will never hurt me.” He continued while dazed. “You about done?” Discord started getting up. “Not quite,” Discord snapped his claw and a small army of royal guards appeared. “I forgot to mention, I went back to canter lot to get some back up.” “So Agony,” Twilight interrupted. “You ready to give up now? Since right now it’s a hundred against one.” Agony started laughing. “Do you honestly think that a few Pegasus guards are going to stop me?” She continued laughing then at random she tripped and fell to the ground, she looked down at her hooves and saw a ring of yellow magic binding them together, she looked up and saw ten unicorn guards standing at the back of the room. “Oh, I see,” She stood up and removed the magic bindings. “Ok you might have brighten an army with you, but it’s still no match,” her voice started changing. She raised her horn and a dim light started glowing, some of the guards started charging towards her, but when they got close the turned into smoke and flew into her necklace. She lowered her horn and eyes started glowing purple. “You should know by now that you can’t win,” the unicorn guards teleported to the front of the room and got ready to cast the shield spell. “You’re nothing compared to me, your weak compared to me,” She lifted her horn again and this time half the Pegasus guards disappeared. “Your all WEAK! You have no right to rule this kingdom!” and using the spell one last time the rest of the guards disappeared. “Stop!” Celestia yelled as if she was in pain. “You can’t do this!” “Silence!” Agony yelled. “I’ve had enough of this! You will all parish!” “No!” the younger agony yelled. She ran in front of all the others, and when Agony attack she drew it towards her, she was then sent flying to the back of the stone room. “Agony!” Twilight yelled as she raced towards her. “Twilight, what did you say?” Rainbow asked as she followed her. “This is Agony,” “Wait, what?” “But, if that’s Agony then who’s she?” “I’m her, or at least I used to be, now that she is no longer part of me, I’m my own pony, from now on I truly am Nightmare Agony.” She laughed manically. Twilight started crying as the younger Agony’s breath started slowing. “Twilight-“ she groaned “…Agony, are you ok?” “I’m cold.” She continued. “It’s ok, I promise you you’ll be fine.” She started crying more. “No, I won’t be.” “Agony, please just don’t give up.” “It’s ok-“ she interrupted. “I know I won’t make it, I wasn’t going to live forever.” She reached up and hugged her. “even thou you made all those promises, I don’t mind that they’ll be broken, I don’t mind that I won’t be able to master magic, and I don’t mind that I won’t be a princess. You freed me, and that’s all I wanted.” Agony’s breath’s stopped as she let go of Twilight. Nightmare Agony started laughing hysterically. “I’m free! I’m finally free! I don’t have to deal with that pest anymore!” she continued laughing. Twilight slowly stood up, she turned around and faced her. “What are you looking at-?” “How could you do something like this?!” she started yelling. “She was just a filly!” “She was a reached and unbearable pest, she was constantly draining my power, she deserved to die!” Twilight growled at her and attack, she dodge it without effort. “I made promises to her, and I meant them,” she attacked again, this time she managed to hit her and she screamed. “Bring her back!” “Never!” Twilight attack one last time, and this time Agony blocked her attack and casted her own, she summoned a black orb above her and threw it at all of them, and before it could hit there was a white light and a force field made out of purple aura appeared around them. The black ball exploded and took out almost half the room. “How did you do that!? You should all be dead!” “None of us did that.” They turned around and saw the younger Agony standing up, her eyes were glowing a light purple color. “Agony?’ “GAAAHHHH! Why won’t you ever die!” She used the same spell again, the shield stayed up and blocked it again. “Agony, keep going we can beat her!” Twilight yelled with enthusiasm. Agony started moving forwards and the others started moving with her. “What are you doing!” Nightmare Agony yelled as she continued attacking. Her attacks grew weaker as the approached her. “Stop!” she yelled, the others continued moving, and eventually Nightmare Agony stopped attacking and fell to the ground. “Ready to give up?” Twilight asked with a smug voice. “Never.” She growled w as she panted heavily. Dawn risesAs Nightmare Agony lied there the gem on her necklace started glowing, then instantly multiple clouds of colored smoke flew out of it and flew out of the ld castle. “No…stop…you fools.” Agony attempted to fight but she fell back to the ground. She lied their unable to move due to exaction, the younger Agony lowered the shield and ,returned back to her normal self. “…What happened?” she asked. “Agony!” Twilight raced towards her and hinged her. “Twilight would you kindly tell us, who that is” Apple jack asked “Right sorry. This is Agony.” “And your hugging her why?” “Well, you know what, I think now would be a good time to tell you. When I was she took my power, I was taken to a world that was lost years ago,” “And what world would that be?” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “Te black forest.” “The black- How did you end up there?! I removed it from existence.” “Princess, you did. But the gem in her necklace is inchanted to house all forgotten thing.” “I’m still going to kill you all.” Nightmare Agony interrupted as she lied on the ground. “While I was there, I met Agony, younger her, and she started telling me about all the stuff that hides in the forest and about the older her and the gem. The gem had a temporal lock on it,” “First off, who cares? Second, a what?” Discord interrupted. “The temporal lock can speed up or slow down the speed of time in sertant areas, while we were in there it was slowed down, so I was trapped in there for about ten hours. Anyway, I met her and we traveled together so we could get out, and we ended up bonding with each other, and before I knew it, she became family to me,” Agony smiled and hugged her, but the moment was broken as Nightmare Agony let lose a blood curdling scream as a black figure rose out of the gem on her necklace. It flew into the air and disappeared into thin air, then a second later the moon started moving revealing the sun. As they all started cheering Nightmare Agony started screaming again as she started changing back to normal. Her wings turned into ash along with the faded purple armor she was wearing, her screams died down after her wings changed. An hour later the moon was fully out of the sky, all the ponies were outside of the temple. “It’s a beautiful day,” Celestia said to herself as she looked up to the sky. “Mhmm.” Twilight agreed with her. “I’ll kill you all!” Agony yelled as she lied bonded on the ground. “Calm down Agony, at least I’m letting you live-“ “I’d rather burn in tartaros!” she interrupted. “Agony, after what you did that would be an option, killing all those innocent ponies-“ “For the last time, they…are not…dead! They have to die on their own when I take their power!” Celestia turned away and rolled her eyes. “Princess!” a royal guard yelled as he flew towards her. “Princess, are you ok? I’m sorry, I don’t know how but I ended up back at the castle.” “Don’t worry I’m fine. Where are the others?” “Back at the castle. Why?” “I need you to go back and bring my carriage along with something to carry Agony in.” “I demand to be killed instead-“ “Yes your majesty.” The guard then flew off. “…Why most you torment me!?” Agony ranted, Celestia giggled. “Princess, I need to ask you something.” “What is it Twilight?” “When I was in the forest with Agony, I made a few promises with her and one of them I thought would mean a lot to her.” “What is it?” Twilight covered hid her mouth and Celestia leaned close and she started whispering something to her. She smiled and started walking over to the younger Agony. “Agony?” “Yes princess?” “Twilight told me that she promised you a few things and I was thining that I should help you with them.” “Really?” “Of course, since she would be busy with her friends, I thought it would be best if I trained you with you magic.” “Really?!” She started smiling. “Yup, and for the other one I think it would be a good idea.” Celestia used her magic and lifted Agony into the air, there was a flash of light and a second later she was gently placed back on the ground. She looked at herself thinking something would be different. “Nothing happened.” “You sure about that? I’m pretty sure I see something different,” “I’m pretty sure nothing happened.” “Does that mean you always had wings?” “Wings-?” Agony unfolded her new wings and stared at them. “I never had wings before.” “Well, congratulations you do now, Princess Agony.” Agony smiled and started cheering, she then rushed over to Twilight and hugged her. “Thank you so much Twilight!” “Your welcome.” “But, why did you make me a princess?” “I made a promise remember? I’d see what I could do?” Agony smiled and continued hugging her. A few minutes later the royal guards returned with Celestia’s carriage and a cage. “Alright Agony, say good bye to your friends, it’s time to go to the castle.” “Wait, princess?” “Yes?” “If I go to the castle with you, will I ever be able to see my friends again?” “Of course, they can visit any time they want.” “Ok, by every pony.” She started racing towards the carriage. As Celestia sat down, Agony started flapping her wings to fly into it, a second later Luna joined them. “Cadince, would you and shinning armor like a ride back to the crystal kingdom?” “No thanks, we’ll take the train back.” “Your choice. Guards don’t forget the mare.” She added as she point to the older Agony. They picked her up and carried her to the cage, the then threw her in, closed the steel bar gate and started caring her off to the castle. “I swear I will kill you all! You will all suffer!” She yelled as she vanished into the distance. “So discord, will you like a ride?” “Nah, I’ve got to be somewhere in, uh, now I guess. Ta-Ta princesses!” “He’s weird.” Agony said as she looked up to Celestia.” “I know, I live with him.” Agony giggled. “Good luck on the trip back to Pony-Ville.” Celestia said right before the Pegasus guards carried her off. The others waved goodbye to her then began their journey home. The next awakeningAgony started approaching the altar. “Where do you think you’re going!” Rainbow dash demanded as she chased after Agony. She used her magic and summoned a wall of black flames to separate her and Rainbow. “On that altar, is an arcane circle that will make me the next Nightmare Moon.” She continued walking. “Please you must stop! There is nothing to gain from bringing her back-!” “Enough! I don’t want to hear it! No matter what you say, I will bring her back.” “Not if I can help it!” Rainbow flew over the wall of flames and attempted to tackle her, but she shot another beam of magic that sent her all the way to the other side of the chamber. “Rainbow!” The other 5 yelled as the ran over to her. “Now if your all done interrupting me, I’d like to get this over with so I can raise the moon.” She walked into the dark flamed circle and stood completely still, and in a minute she was engulfed in a pillar of black fire. She started laughing manically, but the laughs quickly turned into shrieks of pain. The screams grew louder, and the pillar of fire started expanding until it turned into a pitch black sphere. The sphere started shrinking, until it vanished and what was left was a strange dense metal orb. The orb started to crack and eventually broke and out of it was her. Agony had changed into a different form of Nightmare Moon. Her main and tail were black, her coat and eyes were purple, she was wearing the same uniform as Nightmare Moon but with different color. She started looking at herself than out of nowhere she busted out into laughter. “This is incredible, I’ve never felt so powerful.” “Nightmare Moon!?” Celestia started yelling at her. “Close, I wish I was her but oh well.” “Wait, Agony?” Luna interrupted. “Not anymore Luna. From this way forward I will be known as Nightmare Agony!” She yelled and the entire stone castle started shaking. “Huh, not bad.” “You fool, do you know how dangerous this is!?” Celestia started scalding her. “Oh, I forgot about you. Hold on a second I need to fix something.” She ducked her head down and started raising it in an arched shape, and as she did that the moon slowly eclipsed the sun. “Enough! Lower the moon immediately!” “Or ells what?” “Or ells all go kung-fu and start attacking!” Discord interrupted as he took out a black belt and wrapped it around his eyes. “…Seriously? Discord? You’re going to send that freak after me?” “Excuse me?! For your information lady I am a spirit of chaos!” “Last I heard you got turned good by a small yellow weakling.” “I ENJOY being good!” “That’s too bad, I was watching over you for a while, thinking that you might want to rule Equestria with me. But oh well.” “Ha! You can’t fool me, Now prepare to be atta-“ He grunted as he was shot with magic and blasted against the wall. “You know what, you go ahead and rule the world, I’ll just be here.” He continued while disoriented. “Agony, as the princes of Equestria I demand you surrender!” “Surrender?! Are you kidding!? I’m stronger than you! What are you going to do to me?!” She started laughing. “Silence!” Celestia attempted to attack but she was tied down by something. “Pour pathetic Celestia, thinking you can beat Nightmare Agony, the most powerful pony in existence. You know what, I think I’m just going to go and do some evil stuff. Let me know when you get the strength to beat me.” As she attempted to teleport away a beam of magic came out of nowhere and shot her causing her to stumble. “Who did that!?” “I did!” Twilight announced. “…Do I know you?” “My name is Twilight Sparkle.” “…Never heard of you.” “It doesn’t matter if you have or not, I will not let you ruin Equestria.” “Aww, you pore naive unicorn, like you can stop me. If Celestia can’t, I doubt you can.” “I might not be able to, but I might as well try!” “Bring it on!” The two started to stare each other down, waiting for the other to attack first so that they could counter it. “…Well?” “You first Agony.” Twilight replied with disgust. Agony growled at her and attacked with a spell that summoned black tentacles that grabbed her and immobilized her. “Your turn Twilight.” Agony laughed. Twilight struggled to free herself from the tentacles but she was unsuccessful. “No? You don’t want to attack me? Okay, I guess I’ll just go again.” After that she shot a beam of black energy that headed for Celestia. “No!” Twilight screamed. She teleported in front of the path of the beam and took the shot. She opened her eyes to see if she was still alive or hurt in any way. “…Ha! Your spell did nothing!” “Did it?” Agony replied smugly. Twilight looked down and saw that her hooves were staring to faze away into smoke. “Well Twilight I guess this is good bye.” “What do you mean?” “That was a special spell I was working on, I was aiming for the princes but since you took the shot instead. Now you should start fazing away and I should end up absorbing you and your power and add it to myself.” Twilight was frozen solid, she was scared from what she just heard. “Say good bye to your friends and family Twilight, this is the last you’ll ever see them.” Twilight was still frozen, and when she finally attempted to speak she finally fazed into a cloud of purple smoke. The cloud than flew into the jewel in Agony’s necklace. She started laughing, but stopped as she started feeling pain. She lost her balance and knelled down, and as she stood up wings started forming on her back. “…Ha…ha ha! Incredible, I’m an Alicorn…-wait! She was a princess!?” “What do you mean?” “The only way for me to grow wings is to either take the power of an Alicorn princess or a Pegasus!” “Ha! I can’t believe it took you this long to figure out.” Rainbow dash taunted as she started to get back up. “Silence!” Agony roared as she incased the room in a thick black ooze.
PrologIt was the dead of night. The moon was at the top of the dark sky and shinning bright along with the stars. Luna was in her room filling out papers. The fire roared in the fire place and shot out sparks every now and then. The cold wind blew outside, and it would sometimes blow in threw the open window. But the fire kept her warm. “…Luna..” a voice whispered. “What?” Luna put down her quill and started looking around her room. “Who is there? Show yourself.” “…Luna…” the voice continued. “We demand to know who you are!” Luna started yelling. “…Luna” The voice grew louder. Luna jumped and turned around and saw a strange mare standing behind her. She giggled. “Good evening.” She chuckled. Than in an instant Luna’s vision turned black. She started struggling, but she couldn’t move her legs were bound. “Who are you!?” She demanded. “How could you not remember me? …You know what, it has been at least a thousand years since we last met. Never mind, I guess you shouldn’t remember me.” The mare started laughing, she than took the blind fold off that she put on Luna. She saw her. A purple mare, with a black messy mane with purple points, and her tail looked the same, and as she looked down at her hooves her purple color started fading into black. “It’s been a while hasn’t it?” “We demand-“ “My name is Agony.” “…Who?” “Of course you don’t remember, again, thousand years.” “Why can we not move?” “Old binding spell I used. Don’t worry, it’ll ware off, eventually.” “Where are we?” “Sweet Celestia you’re full of questions!” The mare whined. “You’re in the Ever-Free. Right before the bridge that leads to the old castle.” Luna looked behind the mare and saw the old stone ruins. “Why did you bring-“ “Okay, you know what. I’ll let you figure that one out, as for me. I need to stay on schedule, come on.” She started dragging Luna behind her as she crossed the bridge. “Why are we, ow!” She cried out as she slid across the rugged wood. “Why are we going into the old castle?” “No offense your majesty. But, Do you ever shut up?” “How dare you speak to us like that. We-“ “Are a princess, you think I don’t know that? You’re the famous princes of the night, your also the famous Nightmare Moon.” “…What are you saying?” “Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago you attempted to turn day into night, for all eternity, and because of that, I’ve admired you, I thought of you as a hero.” She paused as she released her magic hold of Luna. “And since then, I wanted to be like you. I wanted to be some pony that every pony ells would fear, and now, I’m finally going to make that happen. I’ve been trapped in time for the last thousand years, waiting for you to rescue me, to save me from that retched black abyss, I was hoping that we could be together, side by side, just like you promised.” “I promised no such thing!” Luna argued. “Yes you did!” Agony argued back. “You said that I would be your apprentice, and that you would teach me how to be like you! But you forgot about me! When you made your grand return you forgot about me! But now that I’m back, I’ll finally get my revenge on the world. I’ll change you Luna, I’ll help you.” “What do you mean “Help me” “I’ll will help you reawaken Nightmare Moon.” “What?!” “Look at the floor beneath you Luna. That is an arcane circle, the most advanced type of magic, and if I’m correct, the particular circle should turn you back.” “And if it doesn’t?’ “I don’t know, this is the first time I tried it. Ready?” “No!” “To bad.” Agony laughed. She shot part of the ceiling and a large part of the stone fell down and landed in an opened space between two line and caused the circle to start glowing. It turned from white, to red, and finally to a blackish color. Luna started screaming in pain as a black mist started rising out from her. The black mist flew from her to the alter behind Agony. “No, No! This shouldn’t be happening!” Agony yelled. She raced up to the alter and attempted to trap the mist in a magic bubble. But it managed to break free and it attack Agony and sent her flying. She landed at the edge of the circle. She got up and saw it trying to attack her again, but before it got close Agony whipped away part of the circle and the glow went away along with the mist. “Apparently, that’s what happens if you get the circle wrong-“ “You foolish foal! Do you know what you’ve just done! You almost reawakened that horrid beast!’ “You say it like it’s a bad thing.” Agony smiled and started walking down the stairs to the lower level. “I’ll be right back, I need to get my spell book.’ “What about us?!” “You, uh, hmm. You can just, stay here and, I don’t know talk yourself? I don’t know, do what you want, just stay here.” Luna growled at her as she continued walking and when she was out of sight she started yelling and demanding her to come back and release her. Agony ignored her and kept walking.
Dusk RisesSeven hours later the sun has risen, but the sky appears as if something is wrong. Twilight looked outside and saw the moon right on the edge of the horizon. She was about to come to a conclusion about what was happening, right when she was about to turn around and start talking there was a burping noise and a flash of green light. “Hey Twilight,” Spike started. “Message from the Princess.” “Thanks spike.” She said happily as she took the scroll, when she opened it her face turned white at what she read. “Spike come on we need to go.” “Uh, where?” “We need to get the others, something bad happened.” “What happened?” “Luna’s gone missing. She disappeared last night” “What do we do?” Spike started panicking. “Right now we have to get the others, princess Celestia wanted to see us all in Canterlot.” She continued as she levitated spike onto her back. After that Twilight raced out the door. An hour later on the train ride to Canterlot, the others were finally told what happened. “So she just disappeared?” Rainbow dash asked in confusion. ‘That’s what the letter said, in fact that’s pretty much all the letter said.” “That doesn’t make sense. Who would kidnap princess Luna?” Rarity asked. “I don’t know, but I can already tell it has something to do with wanting to reincarnate Nightmare Moon.” Twilight started worrying . “Well whoever they are, I hope their prepared to deal with us,” Apple Jack said with bravery. “Yeah, they’ll be no match for the six of us!” Rainbow dash cheered. When they arrived at Canterlot the train stopped in front of the main gate. “Why are we stopping?” Apple jack asked. “You six need to get off here, Princess’s order,” The conductor said as he entered the car “But we aren’t even in the city!” Rainbow complained. “Sorry, but princess’s Celestia requested that you six depart here.” They all started groaning as the picked up their stuff and started getting off the train, and as they walked out the door they saw Celestia standing outside the car. “Princess?” Twilight asked in confusion. “Twilight, thank you for coming in this urgent matter.” “What’s going on?” “Princes Luna was kidnapped during the middle of the night, we were doing an investigation of the castle but-“ “But luckily for all of you I was out on a midnight stroll through the city when I saw a strange pony dragging an unconscious princess through the streets” Discord interrupted. “And how do we know you didn’t do it?!” Rainbow demanded as she flew out the door. She was right up against his face. “What, who me? Why I’d never do something like that-“ “Yet you’d turn Pony-Ville into chaos city, and manage to kidnap both princess without trying.” A familiar voce interrupted. They all turned around and saw Shining Armor and Cadence. “Shining Armor, Cadence!” Twilight cheered as she ran up and hugged them. “It’s nice to see you to Twily.” He sighed as both him and Cadence smiled. “So Discord, you were saying something about a strange mare?” “Well I WAS, until a RUDE pony interrupted me. Now as I was saying I saw the mare yadda, yadda, yadda, she left the city and I followed her to the Ever Free forest.” “Why would they take her there?” Cadence asked. “I wish I knew, but whatever their doing we have to stop them.” Celestia interrupted. She raised her horn and in a flash of light she teleported all of them into the main chamber of the ruined castle. “Why are we here?” Twilight asked. “The question dear Twilight, is why wouldn’t we be here? I saw that weirdo drag her here.” “Sister are you here?! Can you hear me?!” “Sister!” Luna called from the upper level. They all raised up the stairs and saw Luna lying in the middle of a white chalk circle. “Luna!” Celestia yelled as she ran over to her. “What happened?!” “It is a long story, but right now all you need to know is that-“ “Is that I’m trying to bring back the greatest mare who ever lived.” A mysterious voice said from a distance. They looked at the altar and saw Agony. “Who are you?!” Celestia demanded. “Here we go again. My name is Agony. The Black thorn of Equestria, the sun’s pain, and the shadow of the moon.” “Why do you want my sister?!” “I’m trying to bring back a legend.” “What legend do you speak of?” “The legend of nightmare Moon.” “Why would you bring her back, she’s a monster!” Twilight yelled. “To you maybe! To me, she was a hero, she was my idle. But you took her from me. You turned her back into, that.” She pointed at Luna. “Because of you, Nightmare Moon is no more, and because of that, I was trapped in time, for a thousand years!” “Please, I’m sorry for trapping you like that but, you cannot bring her back into this world!” “To bad princess,” Agony paused as she walked off the alter. “See that white ring beneath you? That is known as arcane, the most powerful of magic. I’ve been studying these types of spells for years now, and if finally managed to master them. Once that last line is connected, Nightmare Moon will be reborn, and Luna will cease to exist.” “What do you mean?” Twilight started to panic. “Once the circle is complete, Luna will be treated as a sacrifice, her soul will be removed from her current body, and placed into a new one. And as a result, that body will be destroyed-“ “You can’t do that!” Celestia interrupted. “To bad princess! It will be done, and you will not stop me!” She shot a beam of magic at the ceiling again and same as last time a large piece of stone fell and connected the two lines. And same as last time the ring started changing colors. Now as the ring glowed Luna started screaming in pain again, but instead of her turning into her, the black mist rose from her body again and flew over to the altar. “No! Not again!” Agony was about to erase the circle but before she could the mist formed its own circle using its self. “That, that looks like the transformation circle” Agony whispered to herself. "You know what, you can take Luna back, if I can’t rule side by side with my idol, I’ll rule on my own."
Unto the forest of blackIt was midnight somehow, earlier it was noon but now the moon was directly over head with no sign of the sun anywhere. There was a dark forest filled with dead trees and plants everywhere. All the trees and plants were black and looked like they were charred in a fire. Crows and ravens were everywhere and started sounding as a purple cloud flew from the moon and landed on the mud covered ground. The cloud started turning solid and eventually revealed its self to be Twilight. She groaned as she stood up. “My head, wait where am I? Hello?!” she started wandering around checking the surroundings. She looked at all the plants around her. “What are these things? These aren’t normal plants.” She froze as she heard a young filly crying in the distance. “Hello?! Is some pony there? I must be hearing things-“The crying started again. “Hello! I know your there where are you?!” She stopped and listened, she put her hoof up to her ear to amplify the noise, it took a while but she figured out where it was coming from, she started running towards it. “Hello!? It’s alright I’m here-“ She followed the noise but there was nothing there. She turned around to head back to where she started but the crying reappeared. She groaned and started listening to it again. She followed it and this time ended up in a large opening. “Hello! Who ever’s there, just stay where you are! If you keep moving I won’t be able to find you!” She wondered around the opening waiting for the crying to start again. Right when it started the crows and ravens started cawing. “Shhush!” She told them in an annoyed tone. She put her hoof to her ear, the crying was gone but she just waited there. And same as earlier right when it started the crows started cawing again. “Shush, be quite!” She told them again. She held up her hoof one more time and again right when the crying started the crows interrupted. Twilight growled. “I said shush!” She yelled as she picked up a rock and threw it at the bird sitting on a branch. The bird fell straight to the ground with a thud and started flapping its wings frantically and loudly cawing. As it did that more birds flew out of the canopy and headed towards it. “…Uhh, woops,” She said nervously. The black birds flew together into one giant cloud than attacked her. As they flew towards her she screamed and started running deeper into the forest. As she ran she came up with an idea. She raised her horn and teleported; the black birds did the same. They disappeared into thin air leaving nothing but a few feathers behind. When she was shore they were gone she poked her head out from behind a tree. She stood there breathing heavily, she sat down and attempted to catch her breath. When she stood back up the crying started again. She raised her hoof to her ear and closed her eyes. She listened closely to the sound. It was finally clear, she heard it, but it was farther away than it sounded. She opened her eyes and looked straight forward. She lowered her hoof. She was amazed by how far away the filly really is. She walked to one of the many black wood trees. “These are all hollow.” She started. “The sound goes to one tree and makes it echo, and another tree copies that sound. So all I have to do is keep by the trees and find out which tree is louder so I can tell how close it is to whoever’s crying.” She closed her eyes and listened. After a minute she opened her eyes again and headed left. She did that at every opening, and after 3 hours of wandering around she arrived at a large opening with a single colossal tree in the center of it. “Hello?” “…Hello? Who are you?” a young filly replied. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, I’m here to help you.” “…No…no pony can help me.” “How come?” “We’re stuck here, as long as she watches over us.” “She?” “The mare, the one that brought you here.” “Agony?” “That’s her.” “Listen stay where you are. I’ll be right there…where are you?” “Behind the tree.” “…uhh?” “The big tree.” Twilight laughed nervously. “Okay, uh, thanks, hold on.” Twilight ran over to the tree and headed towards the back of it, she looked down towards the roots and saw her, a small pony, a dark purple coat, black mane and tail, and deep purple eyes. “You found me…” The young mare said with sadness “Yeah, why wouldn’t I?” “No pony has ever found me.” “Why?” “The mare wants me to suffer. She trapped me here years ago, and I’ve been here ever since.” “Years? How many years?” “Is Nightmare Moon back?” “No, but Agony took her place.” “…Oh…I’ve been trapped here for over ten thousand years.” “Ten thousand years!?” Twilight shouted. “Yeah, if you don’t escape than you’ll be trapped here to.” “How old are you?” the filly started crying. “I’m only eight.” She cried. “How could you have been trapped here for this long? Nightmare Moon’s only been banished for a thousand.’ “It’s the tempest lock spell. She casted it on the jewel and now, when a day passes out there a year passes in here.” “…A year?” The filly shook her head. “Listen.” Twilight started as she held the filly’s head. “I promise I’ll get you out of here.” “Really?” “Yes, I will not let you spend any more of your life in here. I’ll get you out of here than we’ll battle Agony and stop her.” The filly whipped the tears away than hugged Twilight. She then picked her up and placed her on her back. “Okay so which way do we go?” the filly pondered her thoughts than came up with a conclusion. “We need to get up there.” She pointed to the purple moon. “How do we get up there?” “On the other end of the forest there’s a tower that leads up to the sky. Then there’s a bridge that leads straight to the moon.” “Why didn’t you go there?” “I was to scared.” Twilight smiled nervously as she walked into the brush.
8-legged showdown“So what’s your name?” Twilight asked. “What?” “Your name?” “I, I don’t remember.” “You don’t?” “No, I’m sorry. I’ve been in solitude for so long I forgot.” “Oh, ok than.” “Sorry.” “Don’t worry it’s ok. I guess it isn’t important.” “…What’s your name?” Oh, my names Twilight Sparkle.” “You’re a princess.” “Yeah, I kind of just got turned into one after I finished a spell.” “Did the spell turn you into one?” “What, oh, no, do you know Starswirl the Bearded?” “The famous pony?” “Yeah, I finished one of his spells and Princess Celestia turned me into an alicorn.” “Really? Can I be a princess to?” Twilight giggled. “When we get out of here I’ll see what I can do.” The young filly smiled. “But until then we have to get out of here.” Twilight continued walking, but suddenly stopped. “Did you hear that?” She asked. “Hear what?” They paused. The woods wee silent for a while, and as they started moving there was a quiet hissing noise. “…No, they found us.” “What? Who found us?” “The black arachnids.” “Spiders?” “They aren’t normal spiders. They’re really bug and scary.” “How big can they be?” “They’re bigger than you.” Twilight froze solid. “Bigger than-, how is that possible?” “Like I said, they aren’t normal spiders, their monsters, they went dormant thousands of years ago, reawakened by something.” The hissing grew louder. “Please, Twilight we have to go! They’ll hurt us!” “Hurt us how?” “They’ll eat us! Please we have to keep moving or they’ll eat us!” Twilight started running, she tried to out run the beasts but the hissing kept growing louder. She and the filly started to panic, they kept looking into the tree line, there was nothing there, but somehow they were still being followed. And out of nowhere, a colossal black spider jumped out of a tree and block her path. The two started screaming. “What is that!?” Twilight screamed. “It’s the black arachnid! It found us!” The spider started hissing as it approached them. “What do we do?!” “The black arachnid is known as a dream spider, they feast off of dreams and nightmares that every living creature has. As long as were awake it can’t feed, and if it can’t feed it can’t hunt.” “So as long as we’re awake we’re safe?” “Sort of, it can still bite us, but only if we’re a threat to it or it’s nest.” “What do we do?” “Stand still!” Twilight stopped moving and stood completely still. “The dream spider senses movement as a threat, as long as we stand still it won’t attack.” As they stood there the spider started walking around them, after it circled them a few times it stopped in front of them and lied down. “…now what?” Twilight whispered. “The dream spider is challenging us.” “To?” “A stare down. Don’t break eye contact or ells.” “Or ells what?” “It has a web the is covered with fumes that induce sleep, if we lose it will coat us with that web and wait.” “Wait for what?” “The dream spider can only feast on a dram that has been alive for a week, anything shorter and it can’t feed.” “Ok, so, stand here, look at it, don’t move, and don’t brake eye contact, that it?” “Yeah that’s it?” “And how do we know we beat it?” “It can’t go any longer than ten days without feeding, by the looks of it, it already went about nine days and several hours, were lucky, right now all we have to do is wait for it to die of hunger.” “Got it.” Twilight ended. She stood there staring at the spider, and after an entire hour the spider started twitching. It got up and attempted to walk away, but as it took its fifth step it flipped onto its side and died. “…We, won” “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” Twilight replied as she got up. “No pony ever win’s a showdown with them. They usually give up, or go mad and run.” “Weird, guess we we’re just lucky, come on let’s get out of here before any more of those show up.” She continued walking into the black forest. She turned around to take one look at the spider, she turned around just in time to see the giant beast dissolve into smaller spiders, and they all scattered off. “…did you see that?” “Oh, yeah forgot, dream spiders tend to continue living even in death, when it dies it turns it’s body into about a million smaller spiders and they continue it’s life.’ “That’s kind of, creepy.” “Guess they disappeared for a reason.” The small pony laughed nervously as Twilight continued walking.
Cary on“I think we should rest here, I’m getting tired,” Twilight said as she sat down under one of the many dead trees. The filly jumped off her back and landed into a patch of dry mud. “So, before we run into anything ells, is there anything I should know about?” “Know about?” the filly repeated her “Yeah, like any other dangerous things?” “Well, I guess so. First of all there are more than just dream spiders here-“ “Good to know.” Twilight interrupted sarcastically. “Sorry, any way, there are also black scorpions.” “And what do they do?” “They, uh, you know what, you don’t want to know.” “Yeah, I probably don’t.” “Their are spectral crows and ravens.” “Spectral?” “Yeah, they have, powers.” “What kind of powers?” “they can sense fear with in living creatures, they can summon others when it’s in pain-“ “Bet it can teleport.” “No, last time I checked they can’t.” “Then why do they just vanish into thin air.” “They, wit, how did you know about that?” “…oh, well I kind of ran into, a few.” “how many?” The young pony became irritated. “…a lot.” “What did you do?” “I, might have, threw a rock at one.” “…oh no.” The pony became scared. She ran off and jumped into one of the hollow trees. “What’s wrong-?” “You have to hide! Last pony who angered them, Hide!” Twilight started panicking, than out of nowhere she did the same as the filly and jumped into a tree. A few seconds later the sky turned completely black as the moon became eclipsed by something. “What is that?” Twilight whispered. “It’s them, they’re here for you.” “Why me?” “You angered them.” “I’m sorry but-“ “Shuush!” the filly interrupted, a while later the sky returned along with the faded light. “Okay, they’re gone.” She started climbing out of the tree. “Help!” Twilight cried out, she was stuck in the tree. The pony walked over to her, grabbed her hoof, and attempted to pull her out of the tree. “Ow ow ow!” Twilight started shouting, and in an instant she flew right out of the tree an landed on a pile of twigs. “…ow” she said one last time. “I’m so sorry, I was only trying to help!” she started panicking “Don’t worry, ow, I’m okay.” As Twilight stood up she quickly fell back down moaning and shouting in pain. “What happened?!” “Ow, I think I twisted my ankle.” “I’m so SO sorry!” “Hey it’s okay, calm down, it’s not your fault-“ “Yes it is! When I tried pulling you out of the tree you must have gotten hurt.” She started crying. Twilight couldn’t help but to feel bad, it was her fault that she got hurt, but she didn’t want to make her feel vena worse. “Shh, it’s okay calm down,” she told her as she lifted her head and whipped way her tears.”It’s okay, I’m hurt so what, I can walk it off, it’s not like I’m going to die.” “…I’m sorry” she said one last time. “I forgive you, come on, let’s get out of here.” She stood up and started limping towards the tower. The filly stood there, she stared at Twilight as she walked away. “Are you alright!?” Twilight shouted towards her. She shook her head and raced towards her. “Wait here!” She told her than ran off. Twilight stood there confused. A few seconds later she came back with some sort of carpet woven out of black vines. She than raced over behind Twilight and pushed her on to it. “Uh, what are you doing?” “I’m trying to make it up to you, since you’ve been carrying me this entire time, I thought that I could return the favor.” Twilight giggled as she lied down on the black vines. The filly raced over to a lose vine, picked it up, and started dragging the others along with it. “Your, pretty strong for young filly.” “It’s a spell I used, It’ll ware off in an hour.” She replied. And with determination she pulled her threw the forest. “So your using a spell to give you strength?” “Yeah, I’m actually really weak.” She sighed. “You know what, you kind of remind me of myself.” “How?” “Well, you have pretty strong magic.” “Yeah, magic was the only thing I could train while I was here.” “I bet it is. What kind of spells do you use?” “…mostly invisibility spells to hide me from everything.” “Why didn’t you use it when all those birds showed up?” “I can’t use magic when I’m scared. I don’t know why, it just won’t work.” “Hmm. Well when we get out of here, I could help you with that.” “You will?” the pony started becoming exited. “Sure, I could help you learn a few new spells, and help you get past that magic block.” The filly started cheering, she started slowing down when her cheering died. “Aww!” ‘What’s wrong?” “The spell wore off.” “Wow an hour went by fast.” Twilight stood up and shook her leg to see if it was still in pain, the pain was gone and she walked off the woven vines and picked up the young pony. “Come on, let’s get going.” She placed her on her back and trotted off. “So, we were talking about all the dangerous stuff here right? What ells is their?” “Hmm? Oh right, well other than animals there are also plants that have a mind of their own, or something like that.” “Like?” “hmm…ever heard of Ivy Weed?” “Ivy Weed?! That stuff went extinct millions of years ago!” “The black forest houses all that is gone in the real world.” “Black…-I’ve heard of this place. I read about it in a book, it said that it disappeared when Celestia and Luna took rule over Equestria.” “They hid it.” “Hid it?” “It was too dangerous, to many lives were lost on the explorations of it.” “…How do you know all this.” The filly side. “I don’t know, it’s like I knew about it when I got here. I want to figure out how I know, and who I am.” “I forgot that you couldn’t remember your name, don’t worry you’ll remember it eventually.” The filly smiled.
Dawn falls“Give us back our friend!” Rainbow dash demanded. “Make me.” Agony replied. “Now listen here you varmit, either you give us back Twilight or ells!” “Either you bleh bleh bleh or blah!” She taunted with a childish tone. “Like I have to listen to any of you! If you haven’t noticed, you don’t stand a chance against me!” “They might not, but we do!” Celestia interrupted as she and Luna stood up. “…Hah! Funny, for a second there I thought you were serious! Listen to me, none of stand a chance against me, I’m the most powerful unicorn in the world! I’ve mastered spells that not even you two could learn!” “As if!” Rainbow dash interrupted. “Don’t believe me? Fine then, I’ll show you.” She lifted her horn and it started glowing with an intense black light, as it glowed all the black ooze encasing the room moved towards her and into her horn. She lowered her head and pointed her horn towards the two princess and in an instant a colossal beam of black energy shot towards them. They dodge it and it crashed into the wall leaving a gaping hole. “See that?” Every pony stood where they were and stared at the hole that used to be a wall. “That’s what happens if you doubt me.” She used her first spell and coated the room with the ooze again and absorbed it again. “Now, watch what it does to a pony.” She lowered her horn and pointed it towards Flutter shy. “And since you look like the weakest, might as well start with you.” She shot the beam again. Right before it hit her, Rainbow dash pushed her out of the way and sacrificed herself. She let lose a horrific shrieking noise, and as the black fog cleared, it revealed her as a skeleton. “Rainbow!” The other four screamed. “That’s it! I will not let you continue this rein of evil!” “Bring it on Sunshine.” Agony laughed. Celestia growled at her, she than used her own magic to attack. She shot a beam of light filled magic. Agony steped to the side and it hit the ground. “…That it?” Agony chuckled. Celestia attacked again, this time Agony opened her wings and created ac black bubble around herself, and as the magic hit it, it turned black and was redirected at Celestia. She got hit and fell to the ground. “I expected better from you princess, I thought you were the greatest pony that ever existed.” “…Silence.” She mumbled. “Sorry what? Could you say that again?” “Silence.” “Oh, I thought you might have said something imprt-“ “Silence!” She started getting back up. “You do not talk to me that way, I am the princess of this land!” “You’re a foolish mare that’s what you are! You think you’re the best, you think your better than every pony, you’re not! Your nothing!” Agony stepped down from the altar. “For the last thousand years I have been able to watch you, I’ve been able to watch what you do, and after what saw, you don’t deserve to rule this land! You banished your own sister to the moon, encased a living creature in stone, banished a misunderstood queen in to a darker land, and turned a pony into shadows and banished him beneath the ice of the arctic! You are the cruelest mare in this world!” Celestia was stunned. “You don’t deserve to rule, after everything you did.” Celestia grew angry, and out of nowhere she used her own spell against her, but instead she coated the room in a white colored oozed and shot out a white beam of magic. Agony stood there and did nothing, and when she was hit the magic curved around her. When the dust cleared, it revealed her to be still standing, unhurt. “…How?” “You can’t kill shadows with light, you can’t kill night with day, and you can’t kill me by yourself.” She grinned sinisterly. She walked back to the alter and stood there with the grin still on her face. “You know what, since I’m “Nice” I’ll give you a chance.” She looked over towards the skeletal remains of Rainbow dash and out of nowhere a pillar of black smoke rose out of the ground and incased her, when it vanished she was turned back to normal. “You can have your friend back, but you’re not allowed to leave, until you beat me. Sound fare.” Agony chuckled. While every pony was distracted by her Discord got up and shook his head attempting to get his focus back. “What happened? How long have I been out?” “oh I forgot about you.” “…Right we were fighting you weren’t we. Alright you prepare for a real fight!” “What are you talking about?” Agony asked with un-amusement. “I’m talking about a real fight, against a being of pure chaos.” He snapped his claws, and instantly Agony was tied down by black vines. “What is this!?” “It’s a special little plant that has been growing for years now, to be honest I was wondering when I’d ever use it again.” “What does this have to do with chaos?” “Just wait the chaos will be here any minute.” He snapped his claws again and this time took away her horn and wings. “Better?” Discord asked, attempting not to laugh. “Ok now you’re just annoying me.” Agony stomped on the ground and the vines suddenly died and her horn and wings re-grew. “Clever…” “I’ve been practicing, now, are you done annoying me?” “Almost, I got one more trick up my sleeve,” he said as he pulled a card out of his wrist. He snapped his claw one last time and disappeared leaving the card with Be Right Back written on it. “…I really hate that guy.” Agony mumbled.
The forest can killThe night sky began to grow darker, the moon started to disappear behind the black clouds, the air grew colder with every passing second. The two ponies kept moving, despite how dark it was and how cold it became. “I’m freezing.” Twilight complained. “You never said anything about it getting this cold.” “Sorry, the moon usually provides all the heat, and light.” “We’re going to have to start a fire soon.” “Why not now? “ the pony suggested, she jumped off of Twilight’s back. “I can get a few branches from the brush, make a fire and we could carry it with us.” “Well, it sounds like a good idea but, how are we supposed to carry it?” “Ohh! We could be like an explorer in a dark temple or cave! We can carry it on a stick, like a torch!” “Ok than.” Twilight agreed with her happily. The filly then ran into the forest and came back with a pile of sticks stacked on her back; she dropped all of them on the ground. “Ok stand back-“ “Wait! Can I light the fire?” “…Sure, I guess that would be alright,” Twilight took a few steps backwards. “I always wanted to use this spell.” She lowered her horn and started concentrating, she stood there with her horn facing the pile of sticks. “…Do you need any, help?” “No, I can do this. I just to focus.” She continued standing there. Twilight smiled and raised her horn, and in an instant the pile combusted into flames. “I did it!” the pony started cheering. “Nice job, I don’t think I’ve ever met a unicorn as good as you.” Twilight smiled. “When we get out of here, I can already tell that you’re going to get really good at magic.” “You think so?” “I know so, come on let’s get moving.” The filly picked up one of the sticks and jumped onto Twilights back as she started moving, they then continued wandering towards the tower. Four hours later they made it much closer to the base of the tower. “Look we’re almost there, a little longer and we’ll-“ she paused as she stumbled over something. “What is this?” “Oh-no, Ivy Weed. This isn’t good.” “Why? What’s wrong?” “Move, you have to get out of it!” Twilight used her magic and teleported out of the black vines. “We were so close to.” The filly moaned. “What’s wrong? It’s just a plant.” “No, Ivy Weed is more than a plant, it has magic powers.” “Magic, powers?” “Yeah, it sucks the life out of everything within a distance.” “And that distance is?” “Well, right now their saplings so were safe, if they were any bigger then it would be draining you of your life, blood and magic.” “My magic?” “Yeah, it does that.” “Weird.” Twilight picked up one of the many sticks on the ground and threw it into the Ivy Weed patch, the vines started moving around and eventually broke the stick. “It has a mind of its own,” “You don’t say.” Twilight replied, she looked around the area attempting o find an alternate path. “looks like it’s everywhere.” “I guess we’re stuck here than,” “Don’t say that I know we can get out of-“ Twilight paused then continued talking. “Hand me the torch.” The filly handed her the flaming stick and she threw it into the Ivy Weed, and as it hit the ground there were high pitched shrieking noises and all the plants started moving away from the fire. “I didn’t know they did that.” “Well you do now,” Twilight hopped over the thin line the plant was still making and picked the torch back up, she then threw again and the same thing happened. “To be honest I was thinking we could burn all the plants-“ She jumped into the torches light again. “But I guess they have some sort of fear towards fire.” “Or light, did you notice how this area was completely dark until we started that fire?” “Huh, you could be right.” She threw the torch one more time then hopped threw the light and onto the other side of the Ivy Weed patch. The two started cheering but stopped as the ground started shaking. “What was that?” “…Dragon claws.” “Dragon claws? What are they?” “More plants, except, worse” When she stopped talking a tree rose out of the ground. “Whoa,” “…I think we should run.” “Why?” “The Dragon claw attacks everything around it, interesting fact about them, they’re posed.” “By?” “Pony spirits.” And in an instant the tree reshaped it’s self and the top of it attempted to slash the two but the quickly dodged it. “I can see why it’s called a Dragon claw.” The tree slashed at them again, this time from the side. It managed to hit them and send them flying. Agony fell off Twilight’s back but Twilight was slammed into a tree. “Twilight, are you okay?!” “Yeah I’m fine.” She slowly stood up. “That’s a strong tree.” “This doesn’t make sense-“ “What doesn’t?’ “Dragon claws aren’t supposed to move, something placed it there.” “How could some pony move it? It was underground.” “…Agony, she’s changing this place” “How is she doing that?” “…Her power. She’s getting stronger.” “What do we do?” “Easy, run.” “…Run? Oh, right it’s a tree isn’t it.” Twilight picked up the filly and started running towards the tower. The tree burrowed into the ground and followed them. “You should probably run faster, it’s following us.” “Following-it’s a tree!” “It’s a haunted tree, and it’s right behind us.” Twilight started running faster, the tree kept following them. When they made it to the base of the tower they attempted to climb it but weren’t able to. “How do we climb it.” “Theirs a ladder on the other side.” “…Oh.” Twilight ran around to the other side of the tower, and as she started climbing the rusted ladder the tree re appeared and dragged her down. It picked her up and threw her away from the tower, the filly was still hanging on to it but she flew back into the trees. “Twilight!” “Get to the top of the tower!” Twilight yelled from the top of a tree. “You have to keep going, no matter what!” She started climbing the ladder, Twilight jumped out of the tree and stood there, staring at the Dragon claw waiting for it to attack again. “Come on,” she whispered. The tree quickly burrowed into the ground and headed towards her, she started running. The tree sprouted out of the ground and Twilight jumped right over it and flew towards the ladder, but it grabbed her hind leg and slammed her on the ground. And as it was about to attack for the last time, there was a loud yelling noise and the filly landed right on it, it started swinging back and forth attempting to throw her off. “What are you doing?!” “Saving you! Run! Get out of here! I know you have friends out there, I know they’ll miss you if you don’t get out of here! I have no pony waiting for me! You have them! Now run, get out of here!” She continuously flew back and forth as the tree swung it’s self. Twilight got up and ran to the ladder, she turned around and saw her still hanging on to the tree, it managed to throw her off and she went tumbling towards Twilight, the tree started moving again. “Twilight,” the pony started talking with little breath still left in her. “Please, run.” “No, I can’t just leave you here.” “Please.” Twilight looked up as the tree appeared out of the ground, and using all her magic she incased it in flames, it started screaming and swinging back and forth attempting to put out the flames, but it was too late, it fell down as the flames drew the life out of it. “Why…” “What?” “Why did you stay? Why did you help me?” “Because you deserve to get out of here.” “No I don’t, this is my home, I deserve to live here.” “…What?” “I remembered who I am. I’m Agony.” “…No.” “Yes, I’m her, I’m that monster.” “You’re not a monster.” “Yes I am,’ “No, listen to me, your nothing like that Agony,” “How am I not like her?” “…Your special.” The younger Agony looked up at her. “Just like all the stuff in this forest, your special. Your nice.” “…” “Come on, let’s get out of here.” Agony smiled, she got up and started climbing the up the ladder and Twilight followed her.
Origin of Agony“So, you lit the fire, not me?” Agony said disappointedly. “Yeah, sorry.” “It’s okay, it’s nice to know your helping me.” The ladder stopped, Agony reached the top of it and climbed off. “So, now that we reach the top,” Twilight paused as she climbed off onto the stone walk way. “Where do we head from here?” “Up to the moon.” Agony pointed to the purple ball of light. “We climb a little hire from her and there should be a bridge leading to it.” The two continued climbing up to the top of the tower, and as they climbed hire the tower stared to shake. “What’s happening?!” Agony looked over the edge of the walk way and saw dozens of spiders scaling the tower after them. “Spiders, a lot of spiders.” “What do they want?” “I don’t know but I really think we should run.” They started running upwards towards the top, and when they did, the problem grew worse. “Where’s the bridge?!” Agony started freaking out. “The bridge is gone! Why is it gone!?” “Agony calm down.” “I can’t, the bridge is gone! We’re going to be stuck here forever!” “Agony don’t say that, I promised that I’d get us out of here, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.” Twilight walked over to the edge of the spire. She tightened her focused and then out of nowhere a bridge appeared made out of magic. Twilight started walking across it and Agony quickly followed her. They got half way across before the spiders made it to the spire. “Uh, Twilight we have a problem,” Twilight turned around and saw them right before the bridge vanished beneath her. The two started plummeting to the ground. When they were less than an inch from it they stopped, Twilight looked up and saw she was connected to a web. “…Are we dead?” Agony asked as she uncovered her eyes. “No, but we probably will be any second now.” They started moving upwards. “I can’t believe we got this far, but failed.” “Agony,” she looked over to her. “Don’t say that, a pony never fails until they quit.” Agony faintly smiled. They reached the spire again and were pulled over the edge. Twilight and Agony jumped up and were ready to fight, but instead the hoard of spiders just stood there. After a few seconds they all bowed to the two ponies. “…Uh, Agony do you know anything about this?” “No, I don’t think so.” One of the spiders began making clicking noises in an attempt to communicate with them. “What’s it doing?” Twilight whispered to Agony. “I think it’s trying to talk to us.” “I am trying to speak with you.” The two gasped with amazement as the spider spoke with a feminine voice. “You two have entered our home and killed one our own.” “We’re sorry about that but we were just defending ourselves.” “We didn’t really kill it any way.” Agony added, the colossal spiders faced her and she behind Twilight. “She’s right, it died of hunger.” “Be that as it may you are still trespassing within our home.” “We were trapped here by a pony named Nightmare Agony.” “Her. I see, we did not know that she has banished you here. We apologize.” “It’s okay, we understand, you were just trying to defend your home.” “Since you have been trapped here, we would like to aid you in your escape.” “Really?” “Yes, the bridge has been taken down long ago, but, thou it may be gone we can still walk upon it.” The spider kneeled down allowing the two to climb onto it. “Allow me to escort you to freedom.” Twilight and Agony smiled and climbed onto her back, she stood up and started walking towards the moon. She stepped of the spire top and a path way of light appeared beneath her as she walked forwards. “look at the world we live in.” the two looked down. “The pony’s hatred caused this, our home used to be filled with life, green plants and colorful flowers bloomed, but a single seed took it all. Her hatred caused the growth of the Ivy Weed, and as she took the lives of innocent creatures the dragon claws started to appear.” “So, this is all because of Nightmare Agony?” “Indeed, this is all because of her.” Agony started growing more upset as the conversation continued. “This is my fault.” “Agony?” “I used to control that body, but now I’m trapped here, stuck until she grows weak and gives up.” “Young child, you had nothing to do with this, you were the one who kept our world alive, it was her who killed it.” “I know but, when I was born I gained a second spirit that grew to be evil, as I got older it started getting stronger and when I met Nightmare Moon for the first time, it was enough to release the evil side of me. And ever since then I’ve been trapped here.” “So that mare has been living within you since then?” “Yeah,” “Then she shall be real once you are freed.” “What do you mean?” “Once you are freed she shall become her own pony and so will you.” “So, does that mean I don’t have to suffer for what she does?” “Yes.” Agony started smiling. “We are here, all you two have to do is step threw the portal, and you’ll be reunited with your friends.” “Thanks for bringing us here, uhm?” “Queen Carnay.” “Thank you, Queen Carnay.” Twilight jumped off her back and vanished into the ball of light. Agony hesitated and then followed her.
Facing fear“Come on Celestia, do your worst, I’m waiting.” She just stood there staring at her. “Come on, I’m waiting.” Agony kept taunting her, but she continued to do nothing. “No? Any pony ells want to attack?” The others did the same. “Pathetic, to think that any of you posed as an actual threat,” As Agony stepped down from the alter a purple mist appeared from the gem on her necklace. It flew from the gem and stopped in front of Celestia, it then began to change into a solid form. “How?” as the mist shifted its form became more clear and eventually turned into a single pony. “Twilight!” the others yelled as the raced towards her. “What happened to you?” “It’s a long story, I’ll explain later. “How,” Agony started stumbling back up to the altar. “How did you escape the black forest? No pony ever escapes!” “I had help from a pony that was locked away years ago.” Twilight replied. Just then a second cloud of mist appeared and landed next to her. It started the change form as well and turned into the young filly. “You! How?! This isn’t possible!” “You might as well give up now Agony, you just lost!” Twilight demanded. “That’s what you think! I still have your power, which means I’m still strong!” “That might be true, but it’s eleven against one, you don’t stand a chance.” Agony rolled her eyes and covered the room with the black ooze again. “Twilight,” she faced Celestia. “Be careful, this is her strongest attack.” Twilight nodde her head then turned back. “You should stand down now while you still have the chance.” “…No” “…Fine, I warned you, but oh well.” She pulled all the black towards her and readied herself, Twilight stood her ground, and without any hesitation, Agony unleashed all the magic, Twilight instantly pulled up a shield and the beam curved around her and hit the wall behind her. “Well played,” Agony responded with a sarcastic tone. “Is that the best you can do?” “Sadly, yes. But look on the bright side, I can do it as much as I want.” She lifted her horn and used the spell again, this time she didn’t have to take back all the darkness, she just pointed her horn at Twilight and unleashed all the magic, since Twilight was distracted she didn’t have time to shield herself so she jumped out of the way and the beam shot right past her. “Congratulations little Ms. twinkle hooves, you aren’t dead” “How did you do that, I thought you had to-“ “You can do anything when your powerful.” And again with no warning she used the spell again, Twilight dodge it but it managed to hit her tail. “Ha! Got you this time!” she started laughing, but yelped as she was hit by a beam of magic. “Who did that!?” “I did.” Shining armor walked up and stood next to Twilight. “Oh, I remember you.” “Excuse me?” he replied in confusion. “Wow, it’s only been a few years…How could you forget me?!” “Do you really know her?” Twilight asked. “Of course he knows me, he used to date me.” “He did what?” Cadence asked in confusion. “He used to do what now?” “Your husband, used to date me. He was nice, until he figured out that I was a fan of Nightmare Moon-” “I swear I’ve never met her before in my life!” He interrupted. Some of the others tried not to laugh, while the others seemed to be disappointed. “Right, what was I talking about again?” “Something about lowering the moon?” Twilight interrupted attempting to fool her. “Funny, you weren’t even close to fooling me but funny, oh right now I remember.” She used her magic and levitated all four of the princess into the air. “I was just about to kill y6ou four so I could take rule over Equestria.” She casted the spell again, and just when it was about to hit them, Discord reappeared and teleported them away. “What the?!” “Good evening , Ms…whoever you are” “Discord, why are you here?” “Oh I’m just trying to help my friends.” “And they told you to help them?” “That’s a little insulting you know,” in a quick flash of light he appeared behind her.”But now that I think of it they could have told me to save them, and by that I mean those ponies over there could have sent me a letter telling me to save them.” Agony quickly turned around and slashed her horn at him, but he disappeared the instant she started moving. “Ooohh, some pony is cranky.” “Shut up you twisted freak.” “Sticks and stones may break my bones but-“ he grunted as he was shot out of the air and landed head first on the ground.”Names will never hurt me.” He continued while dazed. “You about done?” Discord started getting up. “Not quite,” Discord snapped his claw and a small army of royal guards appeared. “I forgot to mention, I went back to canter lot to get some back up.” “So Agony,” Twilight interrupted. “You ready to give up now? Since right now it’s a hundred against one.” Agony started laughing. “Do you honestly think that a few Pegasus guards are going to stop me?” She continued laughing then at random she tripped and fell to the ground, she looked down at her hooves and saw a ring of yellow magic binding them together, she looked up and saw ten unicorn guards standing at the back of the room. “Oh, I see,” She stood up and removed the magic bindings. “Ok you might have brighten an army with you, but it’s still no match,” her voice started changing. She raised her horn and a dim light started glowing, some of the guards started charging towards her, but when they got close the turned into smoke and flew into her necklace. She lowered her horn and eyes started glowing purple. “You should know by now that you can’t win,” the unicorn guards teleported to the front of the room and got ready to cast the shield spell. “You’re nothing compared to me, your weak compared to me,” She lifted her horn again and this time half the Pegasus guards disappeared. “Your all WEAK! You have no right to rule this kingdom!” and using the spell one last time the rest of the guards disappeared. “Stop!” Celestia yelled as if she was in pain. “You can’t do this!” “Silence!” Agony yelled. “I’ve had enough of this! You will all parish!” “No!” the younger agony yelled. She ran in front of all the others, and when Agony attack she drew it towards her, she was then sent flying to the back of the stone room. “Agony!” Twilight yelled as she raced towards her. “Twilight, what did you say?” Rainbow asked as she followed her. “This is Agony,” “Wait, what?” “But, if that’s Agony then who’s she?” “I’m her, or at least I used to be, now that she is no longer part of me, I’m my own pony, from now on I truly am Nightmare Agony.” She laughed manically. Twilight started crying as the younger Agony’s breath started slowing. “Twilight-“ she groaned “…Agony, are you ok?” “I’m cold.” She continued. “It’s ok, I promise you you’ll be fine.” She started crying more. “No, I won’t be.” “Agony, please just don’t give up.” “It’s ok-“ she interrupted. “I know I won’t make it, I wasn’t going to live forever.” She reached up and hugged her. “even thou you made all those promises, I don’t mind that they’ll be broken, I don’t mind that I won’t be able to master magic, and I don’t mind that I won’t be a princess. You freed me, and that’s all I wanted.” Agony’s breath’s stopped as she let go of Twilight. Nightmare Agony started laughing hysterically. “I’m free! I’m finally free! I don’t have to deal with that pest anymore!” she continued laughing. Twilight slowly stood up, she turned around and faced her. “What are you looking at-?” “How could you do something like this?!” she started yelling. “She was just a filly!” “She was a reached and unbearable pest, she was constantly draining my power, she deserved to die!” Twilight growled at her and attack, she dodge it without effort. “I made promises to her, and I meant them,” she attacked again, this time she managed to hit her and she screamed. “Bring her back!” “Never!” Twilight attack one last time, and this time Agony blocked her attack and casted her own, she summoned a black orb above her and threw it at all of them, and before it could hit there was a white light and a force field made out of purple aura appeared around them. The black ball exploded and took out almost half the room. “How did you do that!? You should all be dead!” “None of us did that.” They turned around and saw the younger Agony standing up, her eyes were glowing a light purple color. “Agony?’ “GAAAHHHH! Why won’t you ever die!” She used the same spell again, the shield stayed up and blocked it again. “Agony, keep going we can beat her!” Twilight yelled with enthusiasm. Agony started moving forwards and the others started moving with her. “What are you doing!” Nightmare Agony yelled as she continued attacking. Her attacks grew weaker as the approached her. “Stop!” she yelled, the others continued moving, and eventually Nightmare Agony stopped attacking and fell to the ground. “Ready to give up?” Twilight asked with a smug voice. “Never.” She growled w as she panted heavily.
Dawn risesAs Nightmare Agony lied there the gem on her necklace started glowing, then instantly multiple clouds of colored smoke flew out of it and flew out of the ld castle. “No…stop…you fools.” Agony attempted to fight but she fell back to the ground. She lied their unable to move due to exaction, the younger Agony lowered the shield and ,returned back to her normal self. “…What happened?” she asked. “Agony!” Twilight raced towards her and hinged her. “Twilight would you kindly tell us, who that is” Apple jack asked “Right sorry. This is Agony.” “And your hugging her why?” “Well, you know what, I think now would be a good time to tell you. When I was she took my power, I was taken to a world that was lost years ago,” “And what world would that be?” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “Te black forest.” “The black- How did you end up there?! I removed it from existence.” “Princess, you did. But the gem in her necklace is inchanted to house all forgotten thing.” “I’m still going to kill you all.” Nightmare Agony interrupted as she lied on the ground. “While I was there, I met Agony, younger her, and she started telling me about all the stuff that hides in the forest and about the older her and the gem. The gem had a temporal lock on it,” “First off, who cares? Second, a what?” Discord interrupted. “The temporal lock can speed up or slow down the speed of time in sertant areas, while we were in there it was slowed down, so I was trapped in there for about ten hours. Anyway, I met her and we traveled together so we could get out, and we ended up bonding with each other, and before I knew it, she became family to me,” Agony smiled and hugged her, but the moment was broken as Nightmare Agony let lose a blood curdling scream as a black figure rose out of the gem on her necklace. It flew into the air and disappeared into thin air, then a second later the moon started moving revealing the sun. As they all started cheering Nightmare Agony started screaming again as she started changing back to normal. Her wings turned into ash along with the faded purple armor she was wearing, her screams died down after her wings changed. An hour later the moon was fully out of the sky, all the ponies were outside of the temple. “It’s a beautiful day,” Celestia said to herself as she looked up to the sky. “Mhmm.” Twilight agreed with her. “I’ll kill you all!” Agony yelled as she lied bonded on the ground. “Calm down Agony, at least I’m letting you live-“ “I’d rather burn in tartaros!” she interrupted. “Agony, after what you did that would be an option, killing all those innocent ponies-“ “For the last time, they…are not…dead! They have to die on their own when I take their power!” Celestia turned away and rolled her eyes. “Princess!” a royal guard yelled as he flew towards her. “Princess, are you ok? I’m sorry, I don’t know how but I ended up back at the castle.” “Don’t worry I’m fine. Where are the others?” “Back at the castle. Why?” “I need you to go back and bring my carriage along with something to carry Agony in.” “I demand to be killed instead-“ “Yes your majesty.” The guard then flew off. “…Why most you torment me!?” Agony ranted, Celestia giggled. “Princess, I need to ask you something.” “What is it Twilight?” “When I was in the forest with Agony, I made a few promises with her and one of them I thought would mean a lot to her.” “What is it?” Twilight covered hid her mouth and Celestia leaned close and she started whispering something to her. She smiled and started walking over to the younger Agony. “Agony?” “Yes princess?” “Twilight told me that she promised you a few things and I was thining that I should help you with them.” “Really?” “Of course, since she would be busy with her friends, I thought it would be best if I trained you with you magic.” “Really?!” She started smiling. “Yup, and for the other one I think it would be a good idea.” Celestia used her magic and lifted Agony into the air, there was a flash of light and a second later she was gently placed back on the ground. She looked at herself thinking something would be different. “Nothing happened.” “You sure about that? I’m pretty sure I see something different,” “I’m pretty sure nothing happened.” “Does that mean you always had wings?” “Wings-?” Agony unfolded her new wings and stared at them. “I never had wings before.” “Well, congratulations you do now, Princess Agony.” Agony smiled and started cheering, she then rushed over to Twilight and hugged her. “Thank you so much Twilight!” “Your welcome.” “But, why did you make me a princess?” “I made a promise remember? I’d see what I could do?” Agony smiled and continued hugging her. A few minutes later the royal guards returned with Celestia’s carriage and a cage. “Alright Agony, say good bye to your friends, it’s time to go to the castle.” “Wait, princess?” “Yes?” “If I go to the castle with you, will I ever be able to see my friends again?” “Of course, they can visit any time they want.” “Ok, by every pony.” She started racing towards the carriage. As Celestia sat down, Agony started flapping her wings to fly into it, a second later Luna joined them. “Cadince, would you and shinning armor like a ride back to the crystal kingdom?” “No thanks, we’ll take the train back.” “Your choice. Guards don’t forget the mare.” She added as she point to the older Agony. They picked her up and carried her to the cage, the then threw her in, closed the steel bar gate and started caring her off to the castle. “I swear I will kill you all! You will all suffer!” She yelled as she vanished into the distance. “So discord, will you like a ride?” “Nah, I’ve got to be somewhere in, uh, now I guess. Ta-Ta princesses!” “He’s weird.” Agony said as she looked up to Celestia.” “I know, I live with him.” Agony giggled. “Good luck on the trip back to Pony-Ville.” Celestia said right before the Pegasus guards carried her off. The others waved goodbye to her then began their journey home.
The next awakeningAgony started approaching the altar. “Where do you think you’re going!” Rainbow dash demanded as she chased after Agony. She used her magic and summoned a wall of black flames to separate her and Rainbow. “On that altar, is an arcane circle that will make me the next Nightmare Moon.” She continued walking. “Please you must stop! There is nothing to gain from bringing her back-!” “Enough! I don’t want to hear it! No matter what you say, I will bring her back.” “Not if I can help it!” Rainbow flew over the wall of flames and attempted to tackle her, but she shot another beam of magic that sent her all the way to the other side of the chamber. “Rainbow!” The other 5 yelled as the ran over to her. “Now if your all done interrupting me, I’d like to get this over with so I can raise the moon.” She walked into the dark flamed circle and stood completely still, and in a minute she was engulfed in a pillar of black fire. She started laughing manically, but the laughs quickly turned into shrieks of pain. The screams grew louder, and the pillar of fire started expanding until it turned into a pitch black sphere. The sphere started shrinking, until it vanished and what was left was a strange dense metal orb. The orb started to crack and eventually broke and out of it was her. Agony had changed into a different form of Nightmare Moon. Her main and tail were black, her coat and eyes were purple, she was wearing the same uniform as Nightmare Moon but with different color. She started looking at herself than out of nowhere she busted out into laughter. “This is incredible, I’ve never felt so powerful.” “Nightmare Moon!?” Celestia started yelling at her. “Close, I wish I was her but oh well.” “Wait, Agony?” Luna interrupted. “Not anymore Luna. From this way forward I will be known as Nightmare Agony!” She yelled and the entire stone castle started shaking. “Huh, not bad.” “You fool, do you know how dangerous this is!?” Celestia started scalding her. “Oh, I forgot about you. Hold on a second I need to fix something.” She ducked her head down and started raising it in an arched shape, and as she did that the moon slowly eclipsed the sun. “Enough! Lower the moon immediately!” “Or ells what?” “Or ells all go kung-fu and start attacking!” Discord interrupted as he took out a black belt and wrapped it around his eyes. “…Seriously? Discord? You’re going to send that freak after me?” “Excuse me?! For your information lady I am a spirit of chaos!” “Last I heard you got turned good by a small yellow weakling.” “I ENJOY being good!” “That’s too bad, I was watching over you for a while, thinking that you might want to rule Equestria with me. But oh well.” “Ha! You can’t fool me, Now prepare to be atta-“ He grunted as he was shot with magic and blasted against the wall. “You know what, you go ahead and rule the world, I’ll just be here.” He continued while disoriented. “Agony, as the princes of Equestria I demand you surrender!” “Surrender?! Are you kidding!? I’m stronger than you! What are you going to do to me?!” She started laughing. “Silence!” Celestia attempted to attack but she was tied down by something. “Pour pathetic Celestia, thinking you can beat Nightmare Agony, the most powerful pony in existence. You know what, I think I’m just going to go and do some evil stuff. Let me know when you get the strength to beat me.” As she attempted to teleport away a beam of magic came out of nowhere and shot her causing her to stumble. “Who did that!?” “I did!” Twilight announced. “…Do I know you?” “My name is Twilight Sparkle.” “…Never heard of you.” “It doesn’t matter if you have or not, I will not let you ruin Equestria.” “Aww, you pore naive unicorn, like you can stop me. If Celestia can’t, I doubt you can.” “I might not be able to, but I might as well try!” “Bring it on!” The two started to stare each other down, waiting for the other to attack first so that they could counter it. “…Well?” “You first Agony.” Twilight replied with disgust. Agony growled at her and attacked with a spell that summoned black tentacles that grabbed her and immobilized her. “Your turn Twilight.” Agony laughed. Twilight struggled to free herself from the tentacles but she was unsuccessful. “No? You don’t want to attack me? Okay, I guess I’ll just go again.” After that she shot a beam of black energy that headed for Celestia. “No!” Twilight screamed. She teleported in front of the path of the beam and took the shot. She opened her eyes to see if she was still alive or hurt in any way. “…Ha! Your spell did nothing!” “Did it?” Agony replied smugly. Twilight looked down and saw that her hooves were staring to faze away into smoke. “Well Twilight I guess this is good bye.” “What do you mean?” “That was a special spell I was working on, I was aiming for the princes but since you took the shot instead. Now you should start fazing away and I should end up absorbing you and your power and add it to myself.” Twilight was frozen solid, she was scared from what she just heard. “Say good bye to your friends and family Twilight, this is the last you’ll ever see them.” Twilight was still frozen, and when she finally attempted to speak she finally fazed into a cloud of purple smoke. The cloud than flew into the jewel in Agony’s necklace. She started laughing, but stopped as she started feeling pain. She lost her balance and knelled down, and as she stood up wings started forming on her back. “…Ha…ha ha! Incredible, I’m an Alicorn…-wait! She was a princess!?” “What do you mean?” “The only way for me to grow wings is to either take the power of an Alicorn princess or a Pegasus!” “Ha! I can’t believe it took you this long to figure out.” Rainbow dash taunted as she started to get back up. “Silence!” Agony roared as she incased the room in a thick black ooze.
