Let Sleeper Dogs Lie

Let Sleeper Dogs Lie

by neorenamon

Princess Luna awoke to a strange feeling.  A mixture of a sharp headache and a hollow feeling of yearning, as if something precious to her had been torn away leaving a jagged edge on her soul.  She slowly opened her eyes to see an oddly familiar, yet slightly different pair of slightly different eyes looking back at her hungrily.  But all she could see was eyes, as if she were suffering from tunnel vision.

'NIGHTMARE MOON?!' thought Luna.

The creature smiled back with a mouthful of shark-like teeth as it replied, 'No, not Nightmare Moon.  We are so much more than just that.  Call us... NIGHTMARE LUNA!'  She was all but nose to nose with her.

Her vision continued to expand as she could see more and more of Nightmare Luna's face, mane and neck.  There was a number of distinct differences between her looks and those of Nightmare Moon.  For one, she didn't bother to wear Nightmare Moon's silver skull cap.  Second, her most prominent canines looked like the fangs of a vampire fruitbat.  She leaned back as Luna found that her breasts were on the same scale as her own.  When she gazed into her mane, she could see the Blood Moon crossing it from one side to another.

'Yes!' hissed N L, 'It's the same Blood Moon you saw more than 1,000 years ago!  The last thing you ever saw before you transformed into Nightmare Moon!'

'This is surely just a nightmare!' she replied, 'A dream we are suffering after we passed out earlier!'

'If this is just a mere nightmare, than you should surely be able to awaken at any time.'

Luna tried and tried in vain, but she could not wake up.  All she could do was squirm on the couch she remembered she had passed out on, but she was now tightly bound with thin silk ropes from hoof up as far as she could see on herself.  Her mouth was also tightly tied, so she realized she was not speaking with her own voice.  They seemed to be speaking one mind to another.

'Tell us where big sister and Miss Rarity have been taken!'

She laughed as she replied, 'You are helpless before us, and yet you think that you can make demands of us?!  How utterly amusing and foalish you are!'  N L blinked before she continued, 'If you MUST know, each of them has been taken away for some... quality time... with their own Nightmare counterparts.'

There was a sound in a place she couldn't see.  Nightmare Luna was also looking over the back of the sofa at something.

'YOU THERE!' she hissed, 'Nightmare Chrysalis or something!  We demand you take the hideous pink ball of blue eyed fluff and take it someplace else IMMEDIATELY!'  She looked back at Luna as she said, 'It seems a few random nightmares came to life as well as us.  We swear it must be some sort of cosmic vengeance leveled against us for our past actions.'

Luna struggled with all her strength, and yet it was totally in vain.

There was a derisive snort following by the sound of licking like that of a small dog.

'We care not where you go!' she added, 'As long as it is VERY FAR AWAY FROM US!'

She could hear a door open further away, and then slammed closed very hard.

'YOU ARE A USELESS PRETENDER!'

When she looked back at Luna, she blinked as if she had lost her entire train of thought.

'Uhhh,' thought Luna, 'You were going to tell us all about your dark and evil plans?!'

'See?!' she replied, 'Those two... *FREAKS!..** really just throw us off our stride!  Good riddance to bad nightmares, we say!'  She blinked again.  'Oh right.  Evil plans.  Well, it's not so hard to imagine.  I plan to take you over and replace you back in Canterlot along with your big sister.*'

'FIEND!' she hissed, 'You shall surely not get away with this!'

'Or what?  Your precious little Elements of Harmony will defeat us yet again?'

'As they have defeated Nightmare Moon, Discord and King Sombra, they shall surely beat the likes of YOU!'

She blinked a moment before she asked, 'Discwho?  King Somewhat?'

'Then Nightmare Luna doesn't know all that we know!' she thought.

'You know we just heard that, right?' said Nightmare Luna as she leaned down and licked Luna's nose.

'BLAST IT ALL!'

Her crown was plucked from her forehead and waved before her very eyes as Nightmare Luna asked, 'Have you ever wondered why Celestia gave you a jet black crown?  The same color as the Endless Void?  It looks so empty... so pointless... like the blackness in your own heart that has been still festering for years and years.  To this very day, your beloved Celestia still looks upon you with suspicion and fear, *even if she cannot admit it to herself!***'

'YOU LIE!!'

'DO WE REALLY, LITTLE SPOILED PRINCESS?!'

Luna was left huffing, puffing and snorting through her nose for moments before she thought, 'So what do you plan to do to us in the meantime?'

'We are in the midst of a glorious dungeon such as he one owned by Miss Rarity, and you have to ask that?!'

Luna gulped hard.