The Element's of Chaos
Nightmares of Stone and Moonlight
Previous ChapterNext ChapterMoonlight was trapped. An invisible shield was keeping her from moving, she saw two alicorns, one was white and had a rainbow colored mane, the second one looked smaller and was made of dark blue colors. Moonlight was confused, she thought she was the only one, she saw them approaching Discord! The taller one said, "Play time is over for you Discord." Moonlight was shocked, what was this alicorn talking about? She watched the conversation between the two go on for a while until the two alicorns pulled out six colorful looking gemstones. She watched as Discord said, "Oh! What have you got there?" The older alicorn said, "The Elements of Harmony." The younger one said, "And with them we shall defeat you!" Moonlight needed to stop this! Just then the shield then had disappeared! Moonlight ran as fast as she could to stop them but it was to late, she saw a powerful rainbow beam shoot out of the gems and turned Discord to stone. Moonlight was shocked, who would do this! She stopped dead in her tracks and looked down, she was hurt. She was scared and alone, she wanted her friends she wanted Discord back. Moonlight began to cry, through her tear stained eyes she could see ponies circling the statue of Discord and the two alicorns. They all seemed..... happy. Moonlight did not want to watch this anymore. She felt something touch her and then her world went black.
Star Dim hated walking in dirt and mud, but she knew her friend meant more. Just then she fell off a small cliff and fell into a pond. Star Dim was getting very annoyed when she saw a cave up ahead and heard a small noise, she slowly walked forward. At least it would be dry in there. When she got inside she used her magic to levitate all the water off of her mane and coat and splashed it all into the pond. She walked ahead and saw a small fire, she did not know why it was there but for now she raced over and got warm very quickly, she looked ahead and gasped, there on the other side of the fire she could just barely make out somepony on the other side......Moonlight. Star walked around the fire quickly and looked down, Moonlight was lying on the floor of the cave she had what looked like a bunch of leaves woven together wrapped around her. She looked sad, Star could hear small gasps of breath and crying. She looked near Moonlights eyes and saw a thin stream of tears flowing down her face. Every few seconds she would twitch and move. Star Dim walked to the edge of the cave, Cotton had told them if one of them found Moonlight to give the others a signal, the first thing she could think of was light. She used her magic to create a black light and swirled it around in the sky, she hoped the others would notice.
Chocolate Pie was sad, she missed her friend. After they had all split up Chocolate found a quiet place to cry. Her mane had become very flat, compared to her usual springy mane. It was like her energy had been stored up in a balloon, and now, it popped. After crying for half an hour she figured she had better start looking for Moonlight. She looked under small pebbles and inside streams. She even tried asking the fish if they had seen her, but they would all shake their heads and swim away. After a while of that Chocolate was ready to cry again when she saw light. It was a black swirling light, not very far from where she was. She figured it must be Star Dim, that meant she had found Moonlight! Chocolate Pie's mane sprang up quickly and said, "Hang on Moonlight! I'm coming!"
Cotton Feathers was getting tired, she had been flying for hours and she still had not found any trace of Moonlight. She had searched inside the thickest clouds, in the trees, and any other high spot Moonlight could be hiding in. Cotton stopped and rested on a cloud for a bit. She was tired and very sad, Moonlight had been her friend since they were both fillies. Every day Cotton would go to flight school and come home showing Moonlight all the knew skills she learned. She felt awful knowing she made her friend feel so bad. She remembered how Moonlight was always fascinated by what their world was like. How it was always mixed up and everything was upside down. Thinking of Moonlight made Cotton cry. Just then she saw a black trail of light in the sky. It swirled and made many crazy patterns. It must be Star Dim. She found Moonlight! Cotton jumped off the cloud and flew towards the black trail.
Discord had been trying to stay calm. This was the most he had ever worried about anything! He decided that if he could not find her then maybe he could still go into her mind and find out where she was. He disappeared quickly, when he looked around at first nothing looked different. Had the spell done nothing, he looked in the distance and he saw Moonlight. But she looked like she could not move, Discord looked ahead of her and saw himself! Two alicorns walked by and turned towards the other Discord. He did not know who these ponies were and he could not here what they were saying. But after a while the two alicorns pulled out six colorful gemstones. They cast a spell causing them to glow and shoot out a rainbow beam, Discord saw Moonlight trying to move as if something was wrong. Then he saw it, Moonlight was trapped inside a shield. The rainbow trailed off right towards the other Discord and turned him to stone! Discord could not believe this. After watching he saw Moonlight break free and rush towards the statue. After she stopped, he saw her looking around as other ponies came towards the two alicorns and clapping their hooves. Moonlight began crying. He knew she was probably scared out of her mind. He went over to her and touched her, as he did she fell to the ground. This way she would not have to see anything. He snapped his claw and vanished.
Star Dim was getting tired, she was just about to give up when she saw Chocolate Pie running through the trees. She looked at the sky and saw Cotton Feathers flying down. When they came close enough she stopped and said, "Finally, I thought I was going to die!" Chocolate giggled and said, "Did you find Moonlight? Did you? Did you? Did yo-" Cotton shoved her hoof against Chocolate's mouth and turned to Star. Then Star Dim said, "In here but you have to be very quiet." They followed her in to the cave where the found the fire, Star Dim pushed them away from it and said, "She is right there but be very quiet darling." Chocolate was the first to notice her wet eyes and said, "What is wrong? She looks like something awful happened." Star Dim said, "I do not exactly know why she is still crying, perhaps she is having a nightmare." Cotton shook her head and said, "Oh please! Nothing scares Moony! She may act shy at times around ponies, but seriously.... I have seen stand up to and calm a manticore!" Star Dim gave Cotton an annoyed look and said, "Then it must have something to do with us." After a while of just staring at Moonlight watching her sleep Star Dim said, "I am going to get Discord." Star jumped up and used her magic, a flash appeared and Star disappeared. After fifteen seconds went by and Star Dim returned with Discord. Chocolate said, "Wow! That was really fast." Star rolled her eyes and walked over to Moonlight and pointed at her with her hoof slowly. Discord walked over to Moonlight and gently touched her. Surprisingly Moonlight stopped crying and appeared calmer, her breathing began to get slower, and she even smiled a bit. Discord snapped his fingers and brought them all back. The girls sat on the floor and waited.
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