A Human Turned Pony Named Dragon

It had been hours since me and the element of love set off to wherever this other element was. (I decided id just start calling her Love since the element of love was a bit of a mouth full.) She told me the element we were going to save was the element of fear and bravery. She said that it was a special element because most opposing elements were separate while this one was two in one, but there was a problem, long ago a event of great envy took place. To try and stop one of the two princesses from loosing her way the element of bravery was to be used to help her see her way. When the element had made contact with the princess it looked as though it might work but as quickly as bravery set in fear did the same and the princesses already growing envy became stronger. Her sister used six other element on the corrupted princess and banished her and the element of fear and bravery to the moon for a thousand years, but there was a night she returned and was going to cast the world into eternal darkness and was almost successful, but thanks to six mares finding the elements of harmony and using there power they pushed fear from the princess and in doing so cast the element of fear and bravery out as well. Since then the element has stayed in the castle of the princesses in the Everfree Forest to afraid to leave thanks to the element being filled with fear from those thousand years years of banishment with the princess that was only more angry and filled with envy than before.

I had walked with love as she told me this and i couldn't believe it. Being banished to the moon, eternal darkness, just where am i exactly? I had agreed to help because I really did want to help them, but I have so many questions about this place and I don't know how much help I can be. She said the spell chose me, well I hope it chose right.

We walked for about another hour and the sun had start to set. on are way here we walked past a town. Love told me we had come from the White Tail Woods near the base of the Smokey Mountain, and that the town we passed was called Ponyville.

The forest in front of me, the Everfree Forest from what Love told me, was dark and the trees were very close together, the only way to get through without to much effort was the path that seemed to cut deep into the forest. "The castle is about half an hours walk from the entrance, we can stop and rest here for the night or go in its up to you" she looked ancius and was shaking a little and i couldn't just take a break if she would worry all night.

"Nah i'm fine we can go now" I said and she visibly relaxed. "lets go" I said as I began walking into the forest.

As Love had said it took about half an hour and we had made it to the castle. The ruins were large and probably held a lot of ancient knowledge within. The dark walls and tall towers made it look as regal as any other caste would which makes me wonder what it looked like when it was still all in one piece.

We walked into the castle and Love led me up one of the stair cases that let to the top of of of its towers. She stopped in front of the door to the mane room of the tower and turned to me. "I cant help you, we have tried to talk to her and she will not listen to us. It is up to you now" she said then in a flash she went back inside of me where the rest of the elements were.

I took a step forward and pushed the door open revealing a dark room with pillars along the sides, a couple of the walls had holes in them but the room itself was still holding its own against the crumbling parts of the castle. What stood out though was the shadowy figure sitting on the floor facing away from me. She looked Like Love when it came to her body type but thats where it ended. Her body was a dark black, and her mane and tail seemed to be a blackish grey.

I stepped forward into the room my hooves clattering on the floor, at this the mare turned around her silver eyes full of fear and terror. She jumped up and turned to me backing away and fleeing from me. Looking at her once more I could see that she looked weak and frail. I felt like i needed to help her now more than ever, but how was I going to get her to calm down? Suddenly an idea hit me.

I walked to the middle of the room and i sat down, at this point the mare was up against he rear wall trying to look as small as possible. So I just sat, and i continued to sit, my plan was to make her get curious of why I was there and approach me on her own. So I waited and would wait as long as possible.

Hours had passed and the mare seemed to stop shaking, she now was looking at me trying to figure out why i wasn't attacking her most likely. It had become late into the night and the moons light was showing through the holes in the walls. I noticed

she looked like she was having a inner debate, most likely trying to decide to approach me or not, after all curiosity can make someone do something they normally wouldn't do.

A couple more minutes passed and the mare had seemed to become more confident. She slowly walked over to me where I lay on the ground. I smiled at her which made her stop for a second but then she started walking again until she was a few feet from me and she sat down. She paused for a moment looking at me and then she spoke. "H-hello" she said nervously "wh-who are you?"

"I'm someone who wants to help you, you have been here for a long time right?" she nodded and looked down "why?"

"I'm a-afraid..." she started to cry, it wasn't a cry of desperation but one of true sadness. She was alone here, she had no way of knowing what the world was like it had been a thousand years of nothing but fear, and now she was abandoned and left to fear the world that left her.

"Well if your afraid why not face your fear?" I asked

"H-how do I do that? I d-don't remember h-how..." She had forgotten a thousand years and she had forgotten who she truly was. All she new was fear and without bravery fear takes a hold of you.

"I know we just met, but can you let me help you? I want you to remember how, I want you to remember who you use to be, but to do that you must join me." I held out my hoove to her and she flinched but after she looked at it and then into my eyes. For a second she said nothing and seemed to have another debate with herself then she nodded and slowly reached out and grabbed my hoove with her own, a second later and she glowed and flashed inside of me just like love and the other element had, but this time I felt her there I felt all her pain and fear, and for a second I thought it was going to be to much for me, but then I felt something else. It was bravery it was a small feeling but I held onto it and I refused to let it go, and slowly the fear went away until it was the same as it always had been, that fear that shows you what is dangerous and what you should worry about, it was no longer the overwhelming fear. Bravery had also gone back to its normal self, it grew to the point where it showed you when to face your fears and when to fight. They had balanced each other out and the presence of the two elements subsided joining the other elements.

A few seconds passed and then there was a flash of light, then in front of me stood the element i had just saved she was smiling and was crying tears of happyness. "Thanks you! Thank you so much!" She said as she jumped onto me hugging me tight. for a second I wasn't sure what to do but then I smiled and returned the embrace. "You saved me, you brought back the bravery inside of my that I forgot I had! How could I ever thank you?" The element of fear and bravery said while she continued to hug me.

"you dont need to do anything i was happy to help" I said "but what do I call you? Your both fear and bravery." I was kind of confused on that part.

"Well when I was inside the princess she was called Nightmare Moon, so why not call me Nightmare?" She said

"Okay Nightmare it is then" I said smiling as she continued to hug me. It felt nice to have helped her but I still wasn't sure if I was the right one to help them, I really do hope that spell didn't mess up and pick me on accident. I guess i'll just have to try my best and see what happens. "So what now?" I asked.

"well there's something id like you to do for me" she said

"Sure what can I do to help?" I asked

"I want you to do what you did for me for these five, I want you to help them find there way for I have watched and felt there sadness, and they need someone like you" she flared her horn and five images floated in front of me, five that needed help and I was going to give them that help they needed.