Living with the Night

Chapter 10

Nightmare Night

The human stretched his arms as he made his way through the door to his home. He perked up when he saw Luna sitting on the couch playing Minecraft. She was so entranced by the digital world that she didn’t hear the man enter.

Oh this is too perfect. The human quietly snuck up behind her and took in a deep breath. “SSSSSSSSS”

“CREEPER!” Luna jumped in her seat as she let out a small squeal. She spun around to see the stunned man.

“I’m not sure whether to laugh or squee.” The man felt himself being levitated up towards the ceiling. “Oh come on Lu. I was just playing!”

“As are we. It’s called Twister.” She said as she twirled her finger and the man started spinning in mid air.

“I think I’m gonna be sick!” He said as Luna dropped him on the couch and crossed her arms. “Sheesh, what crawled up your flank?”

“It’s Nightmare Night.” She grumbled.

“Why do you hate it? That’s like Santa hating Christmas.” Luna sighed a blew a piece of her blue mane out of her face.

“Tell us what you know of Nightmare Night.” Connor bit his lip and tried to remember one of Twi’s boring lectures on Equestria.

“It’s about kids getting candy and offering them to Nightmare Moon so they wouldn’t get eat...oh.” The man face palmed as he put the pieces together. “Still broken up about the whole thousand years of darkness thing huh?” Luna only gave him a dark look confirming his theory. “I thought you, Twilight, and the others worked all that out.”

“With them, yes. The rest of Equestria, not so much.” Her ears dropped to the side giving her a cute sad look.

Damn it brain. Focus! He thought as he shook his head.

“Care to elaborate?”

“Most of Equestria is still frightened of me. I have tried forming relationships with ponies using a disguise like this one, but when I reveal myself they all act the same.” Connor raised an eyebrow. “They run away in fear.” The mare hung her head in shame.

“Well, you did try to overthrow Celestia and cover the world in darkness.”

“Thanks for the reminder.” She said in a shaky tone as she curled her legs up to her chest. Connor silently cursed himself and put and arm around her.

“For a thousand years ponies believed Nightmare Moon was this crazy freak of nature.” Luna hugged her legs tighter. “That’s what they thought for generations, they can’t just stop thinking like immediately. It’s gonna take time for them to adjust. Hell, I went through the same thing.” Luna looked at the man in confusion.

“How do you mean?”

“During my first month in this town, I must have gotten chased out of it about a dozen times.” Luna was shocked at the words. From what she’s seen the town ponies treated the man like any other stallion.

“They chased you out of town?”

“Yup. Torches, pitchforks, everything but the kitchen sink. Wait, no there was that one incident with Colgate.” He groaned. “Thankfully I can run fast and Twilight is a good public speaker. Wanna know why they chased me out?” Luna shrugged. “It was because they had never seen anything like me before and they were really scared. The though that there was another form of intelligent life outside this world had never crossed their minds.” Luna rested her head against the man’s shoulder.

“Why didn’t you fight back?”

“That would have only made things worse. Then they’d get even more violent.”

“How did you change their minds?”

“It wasn’t easy. I really had to work at it. In time they saw that I wasn’t as dangerous as they thought I was. Not to mention having Twi and her friends backing me up helped.” The man felt his face redden as Luna nuzzled his shoulder.

“We are still not sure about going tonight.”

“How about you go as Azure and not Princess Luna? View your holiday from their perspective.” Luna tilted her head up and bit her lip.

“We do not have a costume.”

“Throw something together. You still have that housekeeper outfit.” He joked.

“I supposed we could....wait. How did you know we still had it?” Luna squinted at the man.

“Um, lucky guess?” Luna’s horn glowed and tried to read the man’s mind. Rubber ducky you’re the one. You make bath time so much fun! Luna raised an eyebrow as the man grinned.

“So you’ve shielded your mind?” The man gave a cocky nod. “No matter, we have other methods to extract information!” Connor felt his body fly off the couch and was pinned by magical tethers and the Princess of the night sitting on him.

Damn, she’s heavy for her size.

“We heard that!”

“Let me up!”

“No. I think it’s time for an interrogation.” She cooed. Connor’s eyes shrank as he thought of all the torture methods this mare could do, whips, chains, some were kind of hot. The Princess’s horn glowed and the man felt his shirt phase off his body and his blush levels increased as Luna reached behind her back and plucked one of her blue feathers from her wing.

“No, not that!” He begged.

“Yes, that!” She levitated the feather next to the man’s ribs and started rubbing it against his exposed skin. The man was biting his lip so she wouldn’t hear the laughter he was holding back. “Your resistance is impressive. However, it shall be in vain!” She withdrew another feather and started working on his other side.

“G-goddamn it L-Luna!” He managed to breathe out.

“The tickles have been doubled!” She yelled as the man’s will was broken and he started laughing hysterically.

“A plague on your house witch!” He yelled through the tears. Luna looked down at the man and smirked. Her smile faded when she saw the large scar on the middle of his chest. There was also a large one coming from his top right shoulder going down in a diagonal way. She also spied a smaller scar on his side. Connor felt the Princess’s magical grip falter and made his counter attack. He twisted his back and managed to pin the Princess so she was now on her chest.

“Payback time!” He said with a twisted smile. Luna’s horn started to glow but felt something latch onto the bone. “Not so fast Little Ms. Magic.”

“L-let go of our horn!” She said trying to hide her blush.

“Nope.” He said as he picked up one of her feathers and brushed it across the back of her neck making her shiver. Luna blushed harder when she felt the feather brush across the back of her ear. Luna’s face reddened and she was stifling her moans.

“Y-you f-fiend!” Connor ignored her and continued to mess with her ears while holding onto her horn to block her magic. Luna felt a familiar sensation brewing in her gut and let out a gasp. The gasp suddenly turned into a loud moan and a small bit of magic sparkled from her horn. The display made Connor let go. Luna looked at him and hid her blushing cheeks.

“I think you’ve suffered enough.” He grinned.

“I-I think I’ll take a shower.” The mare then vanished in a flash of blue light. Connor shrugged and went to go get his costume on. Luna was inside the bathroom and turned the water on while she stifled her moans as the warm water hit against her fur.

He could have at least finished.

S-silence!

Oh come now, you liked the way he was playing with you. Luna bit her lip and her face went crimson. The way he was dominating your body and had his hand on your horn. Luna couldn’t fight her urges anymore. She leaned her back against the tiled wall and ran her hands through her fur. The Princess cupped her left breast ad gave it a gentle squeeze while her other hand reached down towards her lower lips and started rubbing.

Luna let out a low pitched whine as she gripped tighter on her breast and started to massage it. She closed her eyes as she imagined the human pressing his wet body against hers. His hands running across her fur and digging into her soft skin. The human’s mouth was on her breast and his canines were playing with her erect nipple sending sparks of passion to every inch of her form. Luna’s tail curled around his body brining him closer to her.

“Oh~” She moaned as Connor broke the embrace and stood up straight. From this angle, Luna could see the droplets of water going down his flesh and panted. The human pressed his lips against hers and hooked his left arm around her mid section while the other trailed down towards her vagina. As the man found her button Luna moaned into his lip and felt her mind going crazy.

“R-right there! That’s my spot!”

“As you wish Princess.” Connor spun Luna around so her back was pressing against his chest. Luna could feel his throbbing member against her butt cheeks and moaned as he cupped her right breast. He reached down and inserted his index and middle finger into her lower lips. Luna threw both her hands around the man’s neck and brought him into a deeper kiss. She could feel a familiar force building up inside her as the man slowly twisted his fingers inside her snatch.

“I-I’m...Almost there! Don’t stop!” She said through the moans and the motions quickened. Soon the feeling that had been building up had been unleashed and her juices flooded out. “AAAAH!” She arched her back and her body tensed while she panted heavily. When she opened her eyes reality set in. The human was not in the tub with her. Luna finished cleaning herself off and stepped out of the tub to dry off.

I’m such a messed up mare aren’t I? She thought as she looked at her reflection.

Yes, Luna, yes you are. Feel better after letting all that out?

A bit.

Just a teaser of what’s to come if you play your cards right. Luna shook her head and looked at herself in the mirror. Something caught her eye. She looked down between her breasts and saw a large black scar that was covered by her fleshy mounds. The mare looked at it in the mirror and hung her head. “He wouldn’t want someone that’s shattered.”

“Um Luna.” The man’s voice caught her attention. “We’ve got company.”

“I shall be down in a second.” Luna summoned a pair of pants and a T-shirt before making her way down the stairs. She froze when she saw her sister sitting on the couch.

“Hello Lulu.” She smiled.

“Sister? What brings you here?” The Princess asked as she blinked.

“I wanted to see how Ponyville celebrates Nightmare Night. I heard you caused quite the stir last time around.” Luna blushed brightly and hung her head. The two heard footsteps and turned to see the man wearing white face make up, a long red coat that was parted in the middle to show his bare chest. He was also wearing a wig that looked similar to his normal hair color only it was much longer.

“Connor?” Luna asked. “Who are you supposed to be?”

“Gabriel Belmont.”

“Who?” Celestia asked.

“Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness.” Connor groaned. “What about you two?” Celestia

“An angel.” She giggled as she made a halo of light appear above her.

“What about you Luna?”

“We do not have a costume.”

“I can handle that.” Celestia chimed. “We’ll catch up with you later.”

“Okay, c’mon Nero.” The dog got up from its bed and followed it’s owner. After the duo left, Celestia gave her sister a sly grin.

“Why are you looking at me like that Tia?”

“You’ll see.” She snapped her fingers and a box fell into Luna’s hands. “There’s your costume.” Luna opened the box and her face went a dark shade of red.

“Surely you jest.”

“It’s up to you if want to wear it or not.” Luna looked at the articles of clothing and grumbled as she went to get changed.

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Connor made his way through the town and saw that the festival was in full swing. Vinyl was dressed as a cat and was on the turntables. The man made his way over to AJ who was dressed as a scarecrow and Caramel was wearing a similar looking outfit.

“Hey guys.” The man said with a smile.

“Howdy partner.” The orange farmer smiled. “Where’s Azure at?”

“She and her sister are getting their costumes on.”

“Her sister?” Applejack gulped.

“Yeah, you remember Sunny. Right?” He said with a toothy grin.

“R-right.” She said as a rainbow haired Daring Do and a light blue winged Shadow bolt flew up to them.

“Sup guys?” Dash asked.

“Not much. Just got here myself.” Connor said.

“Howdy.” A deep voice caught their attention. The group all turned to see Mac in a Frankenstein costume. What shocked them more was his pink maned lab assistant.

“Fluttershy?” The group said in shock.

“Um...hi.” She said as she hid behind the red giant.

“You left your house on Nightmare Night?” Dash said.

“Please don’t remind me.” She whined as Mac put an arm around her.

“Good for you Shy.” Caramel said. “You’re finally facing-”

“Boo!” The yellow mare then let out a screech and froze before falling over. As she froze, Connor could have sworn he heard a goat noise. Beside the petrified mare was a laughing Rainbow Dash.

“Dash! That ain’t funny. Ya know how Shy is.” AJ said as she crossed her arms.

“Oh don’t get hay in your panties. It’s all in good fun.” Dash heard a cracking noise and turned around to see Mac glaring down at her. The emerald green eyes of death seemed to cut through her soul and she was frozen on the spot.

“Not. Funny.” The red stallion said.

“S-sorry Mac I-” Dash then felt something shock her and she jumped ten feet in the air. The group looked to see the yellow winged scientist with a dark storm cloud beside her.

“What? It’s all in good fun.” The group all let out a laugh at the yellow mare’s words. Dash was just reminded of the number one rule: ‘Don’t mess with the Shy.’ The group was then joined by a purple maned witch in a silk black dress and a grey winged zombie.

“Good evening darlings.” Rarity chimed. “Fluttershy, I’m so glad you decided to come out tonight.” Shy nodded with a weak smile.

“Anyone seen Twi?”

“Over here!” The group all turned and sighed in disappointment. The scholar was wearing a light purple blouse and a tan skirt. She was also wearing her horn rimmed glasses. Beside her was an armor clad Comet.

“Twilight, what the hell?” Connor groaned.

“What? Since last year’s costume didn’t go over well I decided on a costume more contemporary.”

“So you’re a librarian?” Soarin asked.

“No, a teacher.” The group sighed and decided to leave it alone. Comet, who was donning a cape and a spandex suit. Connor guessed he was some sort of super hero. Suddenly a large pink duck appeared before the group and let out a loud quack.

“Hey!” Pinkie chimed as she popped up next to the group along with a dark blue furred pirate. “Wow, your guys’ costumes are awesome!” Connor looked at Thunder and Soarin and saw both their wings erect and jaws hanging low.

“What’s with them?”

“Partner, ya might wanna turn around.” Mac pointed. The man turned and his eyes shrank. Sunny was in a white leather top that left her stomach exposed and matching pants. A pair of white feathered wings were also coming from her back and she had the halo from before. Azure was donning a black leather corset that left a good portion of her cleavage showing and exposed her belly button. Her wings were dark and bat pony like. She also had horns coming from a headband.

Conor was using all of his control to not make one of those ridiculous nose bleeds like he’d seen in anime. Foreign animation aside, he noticed that Luna’s face was about as red as Mac’s fur.

“Sunny this is embarrassing!” Luna whined.

“Oh lighten up Azure.” Pinkie then rushed up and looked the mare over.

“Damn! You two are looking fine!”

“Thank you Pinkie.” Sunny said.

“I still feel so weird.” Luna said as she crossed her arms under her breast making them stick out even more.

“Come now Azure.” Celestia said as she stepped behind her sister. “Besides if you’ve got them, flaunt them.” The white pony reached under her sister’s arms and gave her breasts a quick, but hard squeeze. Luna let out a yelp of surprise and the stallions felt warm blood running down from their noses.

“Th-that’s not funny!” Luna frowned.

“C’mon everypony.” AJ said.

“Ahem.” Connor said.

“Oh don’t you start getting all politically correct on me buster.” The farmer said as the man pouted. The group made their way into the heart of the festival where several games were set up. Luna noticed that she was getting some dirty looks from mares and the stallions seemed to be gawking over her. Connor ran into Pip who was dressed as a cowboy.

“Hey Pip, how goes the candy grabbing?”

“Awesome! Look at our haul!” The colt’s bag was practically overflowing with candy. Luna smiled at the colt as he ran off. Luna watched Connor go over to Twilight and whisper something in her ear. She gave a nod and the two snuck away for a moment before the mayor, who was wearing a mummy outfit, tapped the mic and got on stage.

“Good evening everypony and welcome to this year’s Nightmare Night festival!” She said as the crowd cheered. “We have Princess Twilight Sparkle here to kick off the events.” The crowd saw Twilight teleport onto the stage and smiled.

“Good evening everypony,I just want to officially welcome you to the Nightmare Night festival and-” The lights and microphone cut out and everypony was squinting to see something. The lights started to flicker. In the shadows a tall bipedal figure moving onto the stage. When the lights turned back on the crowd gasped. Twilight turned around to see a nine foot tall creature wearing a bloodied smock, holding a knife that was as long as it’s body and a large metal pyramid was fixed where it’s head would be.

The creature raised the large blade and sliced the purple Alicorn in two. The crowd screamed as the two halves that were once Twilight Sparkle fell to the side. Ponies fainted and turned snow white as the creature looked out at them and pointed the large knife. The creature dropped the blade and the two halves of the Princess became two wholes. The creature started dancing along side the Alicorn duo. At the end, the creature jumped down in front of Dash who was frozen.

“Boop.” A familiar voice said as the creature poked her nose.

“The buck!?” She yelled as the creature removed it’s mask showing the man.

“Oh man, your guys’ faces wee priceless!” He barreled over in laughter.

“That was SO not cool!” Dash yelled as she shook the human.

“Hey, don’t look at me. It was Twi’s idea.” He pointed to the now single purple Alicorn.

“That was for putting hot sauce in my drink for the tenth time.” She smiled in victory. The group hear another loud laugh and saw Sunny barreling over.

“Oh my ribs!” She chimed. “By the maker, I haven’t done something like that in ages.” The white mare wiped a tear from her eye.

“You were in on it?” AJ asked.

“But of course. I used an illusion spell to make the two Twilights follow Connor’s moves.”

“No amount of magic on the planet could make Twilight dance.” The man stated.

“Hey!” The lavender librarian pouted. Connor looked around and saw that they were short one dark blue demon mare.

“Hey, where’d Azure go?” The man asked as he looked around.

“She said she was going for a walk in the park.” Pinkie said. “Which s weird considering it was just after you started dancing.”

“Think she got scared?” Dash asked.

“Not likely.” Connor said with a sigh. “Mind giving me some normal clothes Sunny? It’s cold.” Sunny snapped her fingers and he was dressed in a normal pair of street clothes appeared on his body. “Thanks, I’ll go get Azure.” He whistled and his loyal canine companion came charging up to him before the two made their way towards the park.

The man made his way into the park thinking of where the mare could have gone. His ear twitched when he heard some sniffling sounds coming from a side path. He followed the small dirt trail to see a familiar blue Unicorn mare in a sexy demon outfit sitting in front of a statue of Nightmare Moon. Connor made sure they were alone before continuing. “Luna?”

The mare turned around and saw that her beautiful blue eyes had tears in them. The fur under her eyes was already soaked and the whites of her eyes were red. She quickly stood up and wiped the tears away.

“Wh-what do you want?” Her tone was shaky.

“I just came to see if you were okay.” He said as he walked towards her. “You kinda left the group unannounced.”

“And why should you care?” Her tone shifted to one that could cut through steel.

“What do you mean? You’re my friend. Why shouldn’t I care?” The mare frowned causing more tears to well up in her eyes. “Luna, what’s wrong?”

“How everypony acts at my expense! They are celebrating the fact that I was imprisoned.” The mare turned around and face the statue while she sniffled. Nero walked up to her and pushed her elbow with his nose. “You could never imagine the pain I felt of being locked up for a thousand years! No one can!” Luna slumped to the ground and cried as she hugged her knees.

The mare heard the man walk up next to her and was about to tell him to leave her be. She felt the man’s jacket around her shoulders and heard the man gulp.

“You’re half right.” Luna looked at the man while she sniffled. “I’m not a thousand years old, but I know what it’s like to be locked up.”

“What do you mean?” The man took a deep breath and gathered his strength.

“I was in prison for a year. A year I’ll never get back.” Luna tried to scramble to her hooves but the man held her wrist. “I can explain.”

“I want the truth!” She said with a huff.

“Fair enough. First thing you should know is that I am and always was innocent.” Luna sat back down beside the man and focused on his words. “I was twenty-two, just out of college and I’d gotten my degree in criminal justice. I always wanted to be a police officer.”

“Why?”

“They always helped people, and my home, New York City, has a lot of crime.” He sighed. “Anyway, I was dating my college sweet heart, Anna Jenkins.” Luna saw the man’s eyes sharped at the name. “We’d met after the first few months at New York University, turns out we went to the same high school. We clicked, stared dating, blah, blah, blah. She was in college to be a lawyer.”

“What was she like?” Luna asked.

“She was smart, pretty and passionate. I was lucky to have her.” The man dropped his head in shame. “Then it all went to shit. I found out later that she was just using me to get to my older brother Chris.” Luna gasped.

“She’d had a thing for him since high school, but he never noticed her. I caught her trying to seduce him and he rejected her. We had a massive fight and we broke up.” The man started to shake as he continued. “An hour later, two detectives from the SVU branch of the NYPD show up at my doorstep.”

“SVU?”

“Special Victims Unit. They handle rape cases, molestation, child abuse, real nasty shit like that.” He sighed. “Turns out Anna told her father, the chief of police, that I had raped her and the two detectives arrested me.”

“But you didn’t do anything! Right?”

“Of course not!” He snapped at the Princess who cringed back. “Sorry. I just get on edge when people ask me that. No matter what someone or somepony has done in their life, they don’t deserve that.” He felt a shiver go through his body. “I was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in Rikers Island.”

“But you were innocent!”

“No court system is perfect. They found my DNA in her since we’d had sex the night before I caught her. Apparently that along with her testimony was enough for a conviction.” Luna wrapped her arms and put her wing around him. “Thanks to detective Gavin, the man who originally arrested me, found out that Anna had lied. I was released a year into my sentence. She was then arrested for false accusation and went to a correctional facility for three years.”

“Bitch deserved more.” Luna snarled.

“Yeah especially since she screwed my career.” Luna looked at him in confusion. “You can’t be a police officer if you have a criminal record.”

“But, you were proven innocent.”

“Doesn’t matter. No station would hire an accused rapist.” He hung his head in shame. “That bitch took everything from me, my career, my integrity and made me break my promise.”

“What promise?” The man felt his heart rate spiking and tried to control himself. Connor reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. He opened one of the folds and pulled out an old picture that had been folded many times and handed it to the Princess. The picture showed five people, four boys and one girl. The four all had light to dark blond hair while the one boy in the middle had dark brown.

“I told you that my mom left my family right?” Luna nodded at the words. “I’m responsible for that and why I wanted to be a cop.”

“I don’t understand.” Connor gulped.

“I’ve never told anyone this. I’m the product of my mother’s rape.” There was shame present in his voice and Luna held him tighter. “I don’t blame her for leaving. Every time she saw me she was reminded of that horrible experience. My dad resented me for it.”

“What about your siblings?”

“They didn’t care. They treated me like I wasn’t any different.” He hung his head low.

“I-I had no idea.”

“Don’t beat yourself up. I don’t like to talk about it.” He swallowed and looked at the mare. “My point is, you need to put the past behind you.”

“I’m not sure I can.” She said with a guilty look.

“Okay, so you did some bad things, but you’re trying your best to correct them. That’s all you can do. You have a second chance to make things right.” Luna looked at the man and sniffled. “A wise man once said this; ‘Your past doesn’t define who you are, it just gives you the starting point for who you’re going to be.’”

“Who said that?”

“My grandpa. He may have been a crazy Irishman, but he was a good guy.” He chuckled. “He was more of a father to me than my old man was.” The man put an arm around the mare and she sniffled. Twilight, and the others know that you’re not Nightmare Moon, I know that too. It’ll just take some time for everyone else to realize it.”

“How long?”

“I don’t have a crystal ball. You have to understand that these are simple town ponies, the common clay of society. You know, morons.” Luna giggled. Damn her giggle was adorable! “Look you can go back home and sulk, or you can go back to the party and have some fun.” He said as he got up. Luna looked at the statue and sighed. Connor blinked and thought of something. “Hang on, stay here. I’ll be right back. Nero stay.” The dog looked at Luna who stared at him.

“Lovely weather tonight.” The dog only tilted it’s head in confusion. “Now we’re talking to dogs. We must be going crazy.” Luna waited for ten minutes until the man returned with a few rolls of toilet paper and a carton of eggs.

“Why do you have those?”

“Old human tradition. On Halloween, Earth’s version of Nightmare Night, people go Trick or Treating. If they don’t get a treat, then they trick.” He faced the statue. “Hey Moony, got any sweets?” The statue remained still. “No? Too bad for you.” The man picked up one of the eggs and threw it against the statue, hitting it in the ribs. “Damn it.” He offered Luna an egg and the mare smiled. She launched the egg and it splatted against the statue’s face.

“Nice shot.” The two emptied the carton and switched to the toilet paper. within ten minutes the scary statue looked more like a mummy. “Ya know the mayor is probably going to kill whoever did this come morning.”

“Oh please, it’s a statue of me after all and I’ll do whatever I want to it.” The mare snapped her fingers and the statue flipped upside down and was balancing on it’s horn.

“Feel better?”

“Much. Thank you.” she took the man’s hand in her own and started walking. “Come, the night is still young after all.” She pulled on his arm.

“Okay hold your horses.” He chuckled as the mare dragged him through the park.