The Nightmare

by Wrangle Wolfe

Rating: everyone
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, Original Character, Tragedy, Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1140

Celestia has a talk with Nightmare moon before she tries to bring eternal darkness.

Nightmare Moon has something important to say to Celestia before she plunges the world into eternal darkness. She has a big story to tell, and it may change Celestia's view on the entire Nightmare Moon incident. And she'll find out that this whole thing started before she even thought it did.

Published 2014-05-27 03:20:05 UTC
Last updated 2014-05-27 03:20:05 UTC

Before the End

I sat down and watched the moon in all of its silver beauty. The wolves decided that it was beautiful too, as they sang for the full moon. But their song, although meant for the moon's beauty, also had sadness to it. They howled solemnly, knowing all too well that something bad was going to happen; the moon had changed. Looking into the natural nightlight, anypony would usually see the Mare in the Moon, but not anymore. No, tonight was the thousandth year since it happened. No longer was the powerful dark magic banished on the massive rock we call a moon. No, now it was much... closer. It was here.

"I love your moon dearest sister..." I whispered into the coolness of the night.

"Then why not let it be... infinite?" An evil voice whispered into my ear.

"Because, sister, it's the balance of the sun and the moon that makes ponies happy. If the land was plunged into eternal darkness, what would happen to the plants, the animals, and the ponies?"

"Oh, is that right? So does that mean it would be perfect with eternal day light?" She questioned.

"Oh, heavens no! That would be as bad as eternal night! The temperature would rise, ponies would get a lot less sleep, and let's not even think about the plants, food and animals drying up." I shuttered at the thought of everypony and everything drying up and dying off.

"That still does not change the fact that ponies love you more than they love me." She whispered.

"No... that is not true!"

"Then WHY am I HERE? Why am I a Nightmare? A MONSTER!?"

"Because you envied me, wanted to be like me, wanted everything I had. You couldn't stand that the ponies slept through your night, and were up and about during the day. You didn't understand why. But the reason ponies slept at night was to gain enough energy for my day. Without your night, the ponies would succumb to exhaustion. Your night was loved more than you knew, but your jealousy masked your knowledge..."

"Sh-shut up! Just. Shut. UP! You're annoying, you know that!" Nightmare yelled then, after a pause, chuckled darkly. "It doesn't matter... Luna can't hear you... And also, it doesn't matter about Luna... What about... me?"

My eyes widened. Surely she wasn't--

"Yes, yes, nopony loves ME right? The nightmare that took your sister and made her into a monster, right? Well let me tell you something Celestia, I haven't been loved for my whole entire life! Ever since I was born, I've been despised and hated. I was actually a nice and positive mare, but when I gave Luna my power... her negative energy sky rocketed and now... now I am a monster. A monster YOU created. I was watching you two for a while before I decided to let Luna have my stored up power, and I have to say Celestia, you were horrible. You sat there and watched your only family descend into the darkness, didn't try to talk her at all because of your big pile of paperwork that you looked over every day. Now tell me, is paperwork more important than family?" She asked as if every word she said felt awful in her mouth.

I sat there with a blank face. Of course paperwork was nowhere near as important as family. But I had failed to realize that all of those years back. How? How could I have let this happen right in front of my eyes? I was foolish, dumb, an idiot. And there as no way to fix what I had already done. A tear fell out of my eye as I tried to stay in a normal posture.

"No... no, family is... m-more important than... paperwork. A-and I... I'm sorry but... I failed to realize this... all of those years back. I was foolish."

"That you were. And you know what? I forgive you and the ponies of Equestria. You know I tried to convince Luna to stop what she was doing. It's just... AUGH! AHH! N-no! Damn you Celestia! You're trying to bring back the old me! The one who was foolish and naive enough to trust and believe others! You're trying to make me feel sorry for you! It's ponies like you that formed the new me! The SMARTER me!" She yelled.

You're corrupted. This is not you nightmare... I thought to myself.

"And then you... YOU! I Tried to talk to you. I tried to make you help me. But you only listened with your eyes, not your heart. You saw me as evil and sent me away. You didn't know you sent me to the moon, did you? Heh, you were such a beginner at magic at that time, you couldn't control it much at that time. All you knew was how to raise the sun and do basic spells. You were capable of more, but you didn't have the knowledge or control to try different spells. And... I died on the moon and became nothing more than powerful magic. Powerful magic that was not used... untouched for so many years and it was very painful. But then... I found enough strength to get back to Equestria, and I tried to do good once again. And then this happened. So you know what Celestia? I give up. This is what you want? Well, you've got it."

My eyes widened in recognition. This mess started when I was a teenager! No, it couldn't be...

"L-lunar Eclipse? Oh... oh my mother. I... I just. I sent you to... the moon? I... you were a carnivorous pony that ate meat and scared ponies to death! You could control magic although you were a pegasus! You scared everypony! I... I didn't listen to you and now this... this happened. N-no... I created... this whole mess... I-I-I didn't. No..." I stuttered in disbelief.

"You recognize me. Heh, I'll give you credit for that; you still have a wonderful memory. Oh, and about the carnivorous thing, if you had listened before sending me to the moon, you would've found out that I was actually an omnivore." That was the last thing she said before disappearing.

I sat there and cried. I created all the pain I ever went through in life. I made the nightmare. I caused fear, anger, and sadness all across Equestria.

It was all me.

Author's Note

Yeah, so I hope you notice that I sneak in a little character named Lunar Eclipse into my stories. It's fun using my pony self in my stories, and I seem to fit into any type of story! Um... Constructive Criticism is greatly appreciated and I hope you like!

P.S. I'm thinking of making an Epilogue... should I do that?