I Could Never Live Without You

Disclaimer 1: I do not own “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” or its characters.  They are property of Hasbro Studios and DHX media.

Disclaimer 2: I do not own the original idea of this story.  It belongs to anyone who had similar ideas in the past.

“I Could Never Live Without You”

By TwilightSparkle3562

Chapter 1

                                           “Why Would Luna Do This?”

Twilight Sparkle could not believe where she was.  One moment she was in Ponyville with her friends and the next, after drinking a time travel potion that Zecora had given her, she was standing in the old castle of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.  You see, the two princesses had gone missing, thanks to out of control plants that Discord had planted and Twilight and her friends were tasked with finding them, dead or alive.  They had to have something if anything they could use to find them.  But, Zecora had a magic potion that could allow whoever drank it to see the past events of Equestria.  However, Twilight had not realized where she was.

“Where am I?” she called to herself, but a royal and stern voice came out from behind one of the thrones and emerging was Princess Luna, with a look of anger deep in her face.

“Not another step!” said the Royal Princess of the Night, much to Twilight’s confusion.  Twilight then ran over to her and was thinking that she was really standing right in front of her.

“Princess Luna,” replied Twilight as she ran up to her.  “Where are we?  Why did you and Celestia disappear?”

But then, Twilight began to get a chilling response from Luna, almost as if she didn’t acknowledge Twilight’s presence at all.  From the way she saw it, Luna was talking to Twilight as if she was talking to Princess Celestia.

“Did you really expect me to sit idly by while they all basked in your precious light?” asked Luna coldly, a hint of sarcasm in her voice as she stared down at Twilight.

“Precious Light?” wondered Twilight, thinking Luna had gone crazy.

“There can only be one princess in Equestria!” shouted Luna as she came up to a small bridge that gapped between her throne and Celestia’s.  Twilight could not prepare herself for what was about to happen next as the princess of the night, reared up in anger.

“And that princess will be me!” she roared as came back down and destroyed the bridge, her eyes flashing bright white in anger.  Just then, a platoon of dark shadows came up from behind Luna, followed by a dark round circle that crept up to the sun and blocked its light from the room as a stained glass window broke into millions of tiny pieces.  Twilight watched in horror as a tornado of shadows began to swirl around Luna, enveloping her from view.  Soon, that tornado transformed into a fireball and then after a moment, the fireball disintegrated and another larger eclipse emerged for a brief second as a dark pony figure emerged with purple armor, dark blue eyes and razor sharp teeth.

The creature began to cackle evilly as she landed back on the destroyed bridge, her wings opened and the throne room was covered in shear darkness.  Twilight was so scared that her wings were folded back into place as she looked in disbelief at what she was seeing before her very eyes.

“Luna, it’s not possible!” Twilight thought to herself as she stepped back in terror.  “You’re Nightmare Moon again.  Why?”

Nightmare Moon snarled as she stepped forward towards Twilight and then raised her horn towards a statue of Celestia and fired a beam at it, destroying the statue and then raised her beam over the glass ceiling, shattering it and causing large rocks to fall onto Twilight.  Fearing for her life, the youngest princess of Equestria ran out of the way and managed to dodge the rocks as she fell down while Celestia entered the throne room, surveying the damage that her younger sister had caused.

Seeing her target fly up, Nightmare Moon fired another blast at her sister which Celestia managed to dodge at the last minute.  Thinking Luna had gone nuts again, Twilight ran in front of her mentor, trying to protect her from Nightmare Moon’s fury.

“Luna!” cried Twilight, trying to talk some sense into her.  “Think of how long you were banished to the moon.  You’ll give us no choice, but to send you back there if you don’t stop!”

But, Celestia was not willing to be protected by her faithful student and tried to talk some sense into Luna just as much as Twilight herself.

“Luna, I will not fight you!” begged Celestia, her face filled with betrayal and hurt.  “You must lower the moon, it is your duty!”

“Luna?” mocked Nightmare Moon, ignoring her sister’s desperate pleas.  “I am Nightmare Moon!”

Knowing that all was lost, Twilight looked on in disbelief as the former princess of the night came towards them, stalking them like a lion to a wildebeest.

“I have but one royal duty now,” she hissed, raising her magic charged horn at Celestia.  “To destroy you!”

Nightmare Moon fired a beam of dark magic at Celestia , but the elder princess of Equestria acted fast and leaped up into the air, dodging the beam that was meant for her.

“And where do you think you’re going?” laughed Nightmare Moon as she gave chase on her sister.  Knowing that her mentor was in danger, Twilight took flight and joined the chase, desperate to protect her mentor at all costs.  For a few moments, Celestia dodged each blast of magic that Nightmare Moon fired at her with the blasts instead hitting the castle.  Finally, Nightmare Moon seized an opportunity and fired a blast right at Celestia’s chest, causing her older sister to scream in pain and agony as she fell to the castle floor below.

“CELESTIA!” shouted Twilight as she flew down towards downed mentor as Nightmare Moon cackled in victory, knowing that her sister was dead.

Landing towards where her mentor had fallen, Twilight looked at Celestia’s unconscious and at that moment, her worst fears were realized: Princess Celestia, her mentor since she was filly was dead.

“No,” cried Twilight, her eyes filling with tears.  “Why would Luna do this? Why now?”

As Twilight sobbed, she suddenly felt a rustle and at that moment, she opened her eyes, crying as hard as she could while Spike had stepped back in surprise.  She opened her tear filled eyes to see that she was back in the library, but the light was turned on and Spike was out of his bed.  The baby dragon was concerned for her well-being and had to do whatever it took to make Twilight feel better.

“Twilight, its okay,” he said, coming back towards her.  “You just had a nightmare, that’s all.”

“Spike,” sobbed Twilight, as she lowered her head in sadness.  “It was awful.  I was living that vision, the moment I saw Celestia lying dead!”

It seemed that Spike had not realized until that moment where Twilight was reliving the moment she saw the night that Celestia had banished Luna to the moon.  There was a moment where Twilight was sobbing uncontrollably and her friends and Zecora didn’t know what it was while Discord had found it to be quite amusing.

Until then, Twilight had never told Spike or her friends or even the royal sisters themselves for that matter about that dark moment.  But, that was all about to change…