The Night's Return.

The Night’s Return

Pre-reader - Brandon Anderson

All Image credit - MarioMaster02

Written by - Anonymo
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Twilight Sparkle glared in pure fear and anticipation at the realization that her only hope to save Equestria from plunging into the eternal darkness that was Nightmare Moon’s ambition was destroyed from the powerful hooves of the evil mare. Mouth reaching the floor, the hopeless mare looked up to the dark entity in agitation, picking up her jaw to stall for more time, her only possible hope to get out of the forbidden castle herself, she had no idea where her friends were at the moment, she could only hope they were safe.

The frightened unicorn’s thoughts were torn away as a loud, dark laughter cut through her being, sending shivers down her spine. “You little fool! Thinking you could defeat me, now you will never see your princess, or your sun.” The dark mare stopped for a moment, staring the small unicorn down, making Twilight put her head down in shame of her recent failure to Princess Celestia. “The night will last forever!” Nightmare said, laughing more at her success in defeating the ‘little fool.’

‘Think Twilight! Desperate times here call for desperate measures, I could use destruction magic to possibly stun her, or stall her into giving me more time to come up with a new plan. Wait! But Princess Celestia told me to never ever use destruction magic! But! The fate of Equestria is in my hooves, and some rules were made to be broken! …. Right?’ The mare, realizing her only option to possibly get out of such a horrid situation, called upon her magic for something she didn’t think she would ever possibly need to use, a magic bolt. Twilight spun the magic and shaped it into a bolt of pure magic, simply over-packed with magic just like you would a snowball. Easy. With one last thought and once last glance at the alicorn ahead of her, Twilight flung the bolt of magic at her target.

Time nearly slowed down for Twilight, the bolt, feeling like it would never make it to Nightmare Moon, the burning feeling of anticipation and impatience growing in her chest. The bolt hit her target dead on, or rather, whatever was in front of her target. It took a few seconds to sink in, but the lavender unicorn noticed, Nightmare had put up a complex magical barrier to protect her from projectiles coming towards her.

“Bow before your queen you weak disgrace for a unicorn! Bow before me or feel my true powers!” Nightmare Moon said, full of confidence that the mare before her could do her no damage. The foolish unicorn only smirked at her words and rosen confidence. ‘Who is this fool? I will murder her!’ Nightmare Moon prepared two of her magic bolts, and launched them at the stupid mare.

Twilight attempted to dodge the two missiles of magic, only to get her left and right side of her body scorched by the unknown magic that the powerful alicorn possessed. The only problem for Twilight was the fact that there was a shield spell blocking all her attacks, and it definitely had to go. Calling upon her magic once more, she quickly undid the ‘complex’ spell that the alicorn had used to barricade herself with a field of magic. ‘Did she even notice? Oh well. Lets just be careful Twilight.’ Twilight shot 2 flaming bolts of magic towards Nightmare, 1 hitting the mare in the chest and another hitting the wing opened by her side, with a sickening crunch announcing that it had been broken.

Nightmare Moon yelled out in pain, and quickly lost her focus on the mare that just disabled her. ‘How can a unicorn be so powerful? This... this can’t be happening! fight back!’ Nightmare’s instincts rolled in, shooting a parade of magical bolts at the unicorn, pushing herself to the limit. The brightness from the assault of magical bolts from her own horn caused the dark alicorn to close her eyes.

10 seconds later

Nightmare opened her eyes again, panting from her lost energy and forward effort to stop the over powered unicorn. Her draconic eyes looked across the room, only to realize that the mare in question was nowhere to be seen. “No!” Nightmare yelled in frustration, realizing her target must of gotten away somehow, probably teleportation.

The soft recognizable sound of hooves hitting stone caused the alicorn to look behind her in curiosity and a new found spark of fear of the mysterious unicorn. Horn glowing, and eyes brighter than the sun itself to look at, was the magically disappearing unicorn, obviously under the influence of magical power the unicorn could not fully control. ‘Her raw power must outmatch Celestia herself!’ Nightmare fell to the ground, something had paralyzed her, a magic which must of drained her fatigue until there was none left.

Nightmare failed to stand up, getting hit with magic bolt after magic bolt, each dealing the same amount of dissatisfying and power draining pain. “No... no..” The barrage of magical bullets had stopped, and the alicorn had nearly no power at all, it would take a little while to regenerate her powers. She wondered if she could perform any spells at all right now, let alone basic levitation.

Twilight stood in front of the dark mare, towering over her. Nightmare was completely on the ground, she had fallen. Twilight herself was almost panting also, although she wouldn’t admit it to Nightmare Moon, she was completely drained of her power. ‘Just.. try.. to.. look intimidating’ The unicorn thought in between soft breaths. “Nightmare Moon... give up and release Princess Celestia!”

The alicorn was slightly amused by the unicorns enthusiasm, the mare had also wanted her sister to be released, what was she to her? Nightmare Moon’s subliminal mind sent a message to her conscious, bringing her back to the earlier thoughts of any spells she could possibly cast, and she did, have one. It was a spell that summons a magical bracelet to put around a unicorn's horn, to prevent any type of spells being casted from the said unicorn. Without even the simplest of thought, the dark mare summoned one and aimed it towards the mysterious unicorn without any type of hesitation and the speed of an eagle.

Nightmare Moon watched as the unicorn looked up at the strange device on her horn, as if studying it. She watched, amused by how wide the unicorns eyes went when she was struck with realization of what had happened to her horn.

“It won’t work!” Twilight Sparkle yelled, attempting to cast a spell, only to fall down and cry out in pain as electricity went through her body and caused her to fall to the ground, being more or equal to as weak as the alicorn in front of her.

Nightmare Moon stood up on shaky hooves, balancing herself correctly then walking over to the mare, an annoyed expression plastered on her face. “I can not bring myself to lie... you are rather, powerful, I am impressed by the amount of magic your body holds, you truly are unique aren’t you?” Nightmare said circling the fallen mare with a smile of success on her muzzle. “Tell me, who are you, and do not think to lie or I will personally end your worthless life.”

Twilight raised her head to look into the dark alicorn’s eyes in front of her, truly dark and menacing. “I-I’m.. Twilight Sp-Sparkle.” The mare confessed, stuttering as her words tripped on fear.

“Not just your name you dimwit, I want details!”

The unicorn knew not to piss her off any more, scared for her own head. “I-I study magic at Canterlot, I-I’m Princess Celestia’s personal protégé” She said truthfully.

Nightmare Moon’s raised an eyebrow, and frowned even more. “Oh how obvious it is...” Nightmare mocked.

“How obvious what is?”

“You don’t see it? All the signs? You almost brought me down! It would only make sense for that tyrant to notice your power and try to limit you so that you can never know how powerful you really are.” Nightmare stepped back a little. “Now let me guess, she never had even taught you destruction magic yet has she?” The alicorn looked over the unicorn’s face and saw her answer. “I knew it.. you see Twilight Sparkle, I could teach you so many new powers.” Nightmare Moon said laying down in front of Twilight. “All that precious power of yours wasted...” The alicorn raised a hoof, rubbing it against the lavender mares cheek, getting a visible shudder for response.

Twilight thought back...

Flashback

The small filly snuggled against her mentor, savoring the warmth that she felt, and closed her eyes in relaxation. A voice from next to her startled her.

“What new have you learned my faithful student?” Princess Celestia questioned.

“Oh Oh! I found this book in the archives called ‘Destruction Magic: For Beginners’ and learned a spell named magic bolt!” The excited filly chirped. After a few seconds, and no response, she looked back at her mentor, only to see she wasn’t smiling back.

“Twilight!” The sternness and anger in Celestia’s voice was clear, this was the first time she had ever heard her so mad. “I told you to not go in the archives! That section is forbidden! And if I ever see you there again, I’ll suspend you from your studies! Is that clear?” Celestia said, using unnecessary amounts of volume and losing her princess nature..

The filly felt tears come to her eyes, she didn’t know, she was only trying to impress the princess. Twilight sobbed, crying out loud, seeking her mentor for comfort, only to see her piercing glare staring at her, leaving her room.

Flashback

“No.. you're just trying to trick me! I .. I” Twilight started, only to be cut off again.

“You know it's true, do not be a fool... you started to learn the one thing that could destroy her, although you had every right to learn it, she took it away from you.” The alicorn said, with more sternness, and a hint of annoyance showing she wasn’t going to keep being so patient with her. “Once I take my rightful place on the throne, I could have you rule beside me, I could teach you more spells than Celestia could have ever taught you, under a circumstance that is... only if you decide to become my.... slave.” The threatening close lunar alicorn said, passing her boundaries and getting closer to the progressingly corrupted mare.

“No!” Twilight leaped up and galloped as fast as her hooves could take her towards the small passageway towards the end of the castle. The entrance was so close.. only steps away and... stop?

A blue aura surrounded her hooves, levitating her, and putting more and more pressure on her hooves until snap.

Twilight cried in pain, her two front hooves broke, tears rolling down her cheeks as the pain didn’t subside, but got worse. The burning pain felt like it was throughout her entire body, not just in her hooves, she could do nothing but scream out in pain as her broken hooves dropped the aura and also dropped her, making her fall towards the ground and land on her two broken hooves.

“Stop! Please make it stop!” The pained mare cried out in agony hoping for anything to save the day, but all the hope was lost as she felt herself being levitated again, and fearing the worse, screamed out again. “No! Please please! Not again! I’m-”

The mare was cut short, as she disappeared into the mane of Nightmare Moon. Taking a quick glance up at her mane, she eyed it. “I’ll deal with you later..”

“Finally, time to get, what is rightfully mine!” A horribly laughter echoed throughout the old sisters castle, until eventually, it stopped when the alicorn in question, teleported herself.

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Authors note - Dang this took me two hours to write, mostly because I'm completely sleep deprived. had to keep searching more youtube for some good songs to listen to while writing this. Side Note - I won’t wait 5 years to upload another chapter. It will be 3 days at the most for each new chapter.

YES THIS WILL BE A MOONLIGHT SHIPPING.