Eclipsed Moon:The Beginning.

The full moon glistened through Nightmare's bedroom window.She hadn't got sleep for about a week.Her bruises and cuts wouldn't let her soothe down and sleep.She had been beat by her father,King Sombra,for years.No matter what she did,nothing made him proud of her.Last week she had successfully brought some fear to the Crystal Empire but once she told her father he beat her.Her twin brother Soul Reaper was no help.All he would do is stand there and watch as his only sister got the hell beaten out of her.Nightmare then sat up in bed and stared at her hooves.If only she knew why her father abused her then she could fix it.She could have the father she always dreamed of having.She sighed and got out of bed then walked to her window to watch the moon.Looking at the moon always made her smile.She loved how it shone up in the night sky,glistening lovely.All of a sudden she heard her voice."Eclipsed Nightmare,come down please." That voice was none other than her mother,Queen Dark Shade.Nightmare quickly turned and ran down the spiral stairs.She couldn't wait to see her mother again,after all she was the only one who really cared for her."I'm here mother!I'm here!" Nightmare saw her mother sitting on the couch next to Soul Reaper."Eclipsed,your here.Im glad your okai." Nightmare galloped into her mothers arms and held her.She had missed her mothers hugs for a long time."Your gonna kill her Eclipsed." Soul Reaper joked and chuckled.Soul did love his sister but had always sided with his father.Dark Shade smiled warmly at her little filly and spoke soothingly,"My dearest,has he been abusing you again?" Nightmare hesitated then spoke with a shaking voice,"Y..Yes,he beat me again,but please mother do not say anything.I don't want you taking the hits for me any longer." Dark Shade stared at her bruised daughter,examining her wounds carefully.Suddenly Dark Shade's horn glowed with a dark-silver aura and she touched it to her daughters forehead.Nightmare glowed the same aura and her wounds started healing.Nightmare looked at her arms,legs and hooves seeing that there was not a bruise or cut to be seen."Now,go get some sleep.I know you have not been sleeping and that is bad for you.Go on,get to bed before he returns." Nightmare nodded and trotted up the spiral stairs.Once she got to the top she turned right and past a corridor filled with pictures of her mother,father and Soul Reaper.At the end of the hall was one picture she..she just could not comprehend even with all the thinking she does.It was a picture of her and her father,smiling.How could he have smiled then and not now?She stared at the picture for a good while then looked away quickly.She did not want to be seen awake by her father.She then trotted to her room at the end of a right corridor and walked inside.She got into bed and settled in now that her wounds were gone."Goodnight to you all..." she then drifted into a settling dream of her family.