A Wish Upon the Moon

1000 years ago...

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An orange-brown unicorn passed from behind a column, revealing himself to Nightmare Moon's backside. He had watched the whole painful thing. He felt something from her. It was pain, sorrow, and regret. The feeling of confusion and sadness had consumed her mind.

He stood there for a moment, going over what he was about to do, and say. The stallion looked at her staring up at her home planet, shivering, and keeping back tears.

The stallion took a step forward. Nightmare was still unaware of his presence. He opened his mouth and spoke words.

"You're in pain." He started walking forward towards the balcony that Nightmare Moon was on.

She looked back with a tear that was about to jump from the bottom of her jaw. She gave the stallion a surprised look. "Wh-who are you?".

The stallion giggled a bit. "You'll know me soon enough." He looked down at the ground to hide his face for a moment. "In one-thousand years." He looked at Nightmare again. "You'll see me once, but I won't recognize you as I do now, and then I'll see you again in quite a few years. But no more spoilers. The point is that I'm here to help."

Nightmare Moon moved her whole body towards the stallion and put on an angry face. "Help me? Help me!?" She pointed an accusing hoof at the stallion. "Thou can not help me! It is my sister who needs help!"

This didn't intimidate the stallion at all, he just kept on walking until he reached the edge of the balcony.

"Are you sad?" He asked.

Nightmare stomped both forehooves and the whole castle shook. "NO!!!"

The stallion kept a straight face and looked her deep in the eyes. "Then why are you crying?"

Nightmare lifted a hoof to her face, and felt tears falling from her eyes. She took a few steps back and sat on the ground. "I-I..."

The stallion stepped up to her and wiped the tears from her eyes with his hoof. "No one payed attention to the beauty of your moon, did they?"

Nightmare looked into the stallions eyes with her tear filled ones, it looked like her whole entire face was about to shatter with sadness. "No."

"Would you have not done this if even one loved your moon."

"No."

"I did. I always did. Every night I go out there, and see what light that it spreads. It helps me not be afraid of the dark, it guides me, and makes me feel safe."

"Y-you're kidding."

The stallion nodded in reply. "I have to go now. Goodbye Nightmare Moon. Remember, I was never a dream, and you'll find me wherever you go. I'll find you too."

"Wait! Bu-" Nightmare was cut of with the sound and flash of the stallions disappearance.

"I-I'll be," The dark mare looked down, "alone...".

She wept again.

I was always curious about mirrors. Reflections. But of vision. It doesn't tell you who you are, it tells you what you look like, but if you look at it that way, it doesn't matter what you look like, it's who you are that matters. What happens on the inside is all that matters.

There have been other things, like if a mirror is actually a portal to another dimension. I guess that could be a theory now that all of this crazy jazz has just happened in front of my eyes.

Apart from that, I now had a chance to look at what I looked like, and my new awesome shades. Let me just say: So, much, swag.

I never usually liked using that word, but it was necessary in this case. I was a beautiful chocolate brown, with a yellow-golden, pointy mane, and to top it all off, I had some amazing party glasses to go along with it all. So, much, swag. (Hate that word, but it's so perfect to describe myself with.)

To make even the "top it off" even toppier, I was a unicorn. A beautiful, and perfect unicorn. No flaws, no malfunctions. Just pure... swag.

But even apart from how awesome I looked, I haven't seen Twilight anywhere in the party. I knew where she probably went; her room. So I decided to go up there.

After avoiding a few small mobs, and pushing through the amount of thickness of the party (In which was surprisingly large.), I finally made it to the stairs up to Twilight's room. I walked up the stairs with ease (Nailed it!) and found Twilight rolling around in bed trying to cover her ears with her pillow.

I walked up the few more stairs that were left up to her bed. She didn't seem to notice me, so I just blurted, "Hey Twilight, what're you doing all alone?".

I knew exactly what she was doing alone.

She looked towards me, I was sitting at the end of the bed. "Trying to avoid all the crazy ponies down there and GET SOME SLEEP!!!!" Twilight yelled.

(Nailed it again!) I didn't flinch at all at her actions, I just stood my ground and said, "Well why are you trying to sleep? We all have to stay up for the Summer Sun Celebration. Why don't you get down there and mingle while you have the chance?"

Twilight sat up in bed. "Because I'll probably never see them again. It's not like I'll be coming back he- Wait, Quartz I just remembered I need to have a talk with you."

*Ding!* There went my imagination thinking of millions of things that she could be asking: Where I came from, what are my hobbies, if I'm a kind of homo sapien from another dimension, all of that.

And here comes me going along like I'm a normal per-, er, pony. "About what?"

"Who are your parents? I need to contact them and say that I found you."

*DING* An excuse. "I don't have parents" Sheepish smile, SHEEPISH SMILE!!! I gave her a sheepish smile.

"You don't have parents? What about an orphanage, or some sort of parental guardian?"

Yes, she didn't notice the sheepish smile. These ponies are so gullible. I shook my head. "Nope."

She eyed me closely with a death glare. Now here's me thinking, Smile, and stand still or else she will love and tolerate the SPIT, out of you. You want to stay, you want to stay, please let me stay!

Twilight instantly popped up with a smile after about forty-five seconds and smiled, "Okay! Want to stay here until I find your... well... owner?"

I wagged my tail and barked playfully. (Oh, my gosh, I CAN WAG, MY , TAIL!!!!)

"Great. Glad we've gotten that established."

(...Nailed it again!)

That was when Spike popped through the door and said, "Hey guys, it's time to go to the celebration. Let's go!"

All the way there, I'm gonna see Nightmare Moon tonight, YAY!!!!!!

o)O(o<

Seeing the two doors open to the Town Hall, felt like having two giant doors being opened for you as a red carpet is being rolled out, it's amazing! But no, that isn't even the best of it, I get to see Nightmare Moon in person! Or pony, I don't know how that works, but it does, and I am flipping happy because of it.

Now we're walking through the thick crowd of colorful pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies, and as I've mentioned, I feel pretty good, and I mean, really good. I feel as if I could blow up the world and walk on the sunshine! But I kind of like this place, so I won't blow it up, and walking on the sun would kind of hurt, so I wouldn't really consider doing that.

We took a seat near the front of the crowd. I sat to the right of Twilight, and Spike on the other side.

I took some time to look at my surroundings, and saw curtains, and ponies, and birds on a perch, and Fluttershy, and more ponies, and a dragon, and wood, and Mayor Mare, and Derpy, and even more ponies. That's just a fact here, there are ponies.

I was just observing a chair when Twilight leaned over to me and said, "Umm, Quartz, I forgot to tell you that I'm going back to Canterlot in the morning, so you can't exactly stay with me while I'm here. Perhaps you might want to stay at the Library while I'm in Canterlot, or perhaps I could get you into an orphanage.

I turned my head slightly towards her, but not completely, and said, "No thanks, you won't need to." I shifted my head forward towards the stage.

Twilight raised an eyebrow, but she quickly pulled her attention to the stage again.

After about two minutes of waiting, the show finally started. The chatter instantly died, and Mayor Mare begun with a few opening words, in which translated into, "Now presenting, Nightmare Night instead of the Summer Sun Celebration!". Then the birds began to chirp, and the curtains began to unfold to reveal, (Big surprise.) nothing!!!!

The whole room gasped for air for some reason. Though I just went, *squee*, and giggled in delight. Then, (As expected.) a dark smoke twisted and turned throughout the room, until it landed on the stage where Celestia was supposed to be, and then formed itself into, NIGHTMARE MOON!!!!

DUN, DUN, DUN!!!!!!

The whole room gasped once again, and started to tremble in fear. I heard Rainbow Dash from across the room saying, "Hey! What did you do with the Princess!"

My thoughts...

In the little fillies room...

*BOOM* *gasp* *grunt* *BOOOOOM!!!!*

"A-are you ok in there your majesty?"

"Yes I am, *BOOM*, fine. Just got some, *grunt*, royal duties to take care of."

"I hope you don't mind me saying, but I think the Celebration has started."

"I'm pretty sure they can have me not there for about fiftee-*BOOM*... thirty minutes."

Nightmare Moon put a hoof to her chest and stared down at Rainbow Dash, "Oh, you mean your goddess of the sun and moon? Like you would even notice the moon anyway, she is probably just known for the sun. But look at this, she just abandoned all of you and left this empty stage for me to land on."

*BOOM* "*huff*...that one hurt... Shouldn't have held it in all day."

Nightmare Moon giggled slightly, "Oh well, now that I'm back there will now be eternal night, FOREVER!!!!". She laughed maniacally and reared in place while doing so.

She set her hooves on the ground and looked around the room. "You'll have to get used to the view of the stars and moon from now on, unless you already have. Who does like the moon here, who appreciates it?"

This is a bit out of script. I thought.

"What? No pony?" She scanned the room again, and saw one hoof up.

It was mine.

I didn't even realize I did it when I did, but I did, and now here was Nightmare Moon staring at me wide eyed, and surprised.

That answer was also the absolute truth. Every night, when I went in the dark, I didn't see it as dark, I only looked at the light that was still there, and the last lights were the moon and the stars. I loved them, they made me feel safe. I couldn't resist when she asked me that question, I had to answer.

Nightmare Moon stepped forward, still wearing that surprised look. "You..."

Twilight immediately slammed my hoof down with hers and stepped forward in front of the crowd. She then yelled out Nightmare Moon's name to grab her attention. The only attention she got was from the audience, because only the audience didn't know who Nightmare Moon was. (That's it, too long of a name, I'm calling her N.M., work for you? Great.)

"You need to stop this N.M.!" Twilight yelled, "You can't go on like this! It's wrong!"

N.M. completely ignored her and went into her gas form, only instead of heading out of Town Hall, she headed towards me.

I immediately sprang backwards and began to run saying, "HOLY BUCKSHOTS!!!!!"

But soon her shadow caught me, and everything went black.