Darkness

Daring Do was close to the top of the alter she didn't know why the Griffin bandits had stole a lot of artifacts for some mad ritual. What it was to do she didn't know but given the artifacts included the armor of Nightmare Moon, a cursed sword said to drive it's wielder insane, and the dried blood of the last recorded necromancer... Daring Do stopped and shook her head 'Why the buck do they keep this stuff?' She thought before she continued to the top. She reached the top of the alter perched atop a high temple in the middle of the badlands on top of a mesa in the center of a canyon.... 'Who the buck builds these thing in places like this? Once just once can't the point of world dooming power and ritual be in a tranquil meadow with malt shop?' She thought as she caught her breath.

"Ahhh, Daring Do, Your just in time to see the world shrouded eternal darkness!" Shouted the unicorn as a pair of griffons grab her.

"What! Your trying to revive Nightmare Moon?" Shouted Daring as she struggled in the grasp of the two griffons.

He smiled and laughed. "No she is just a bounce. The spell requires the rebirth of one born of darkness and suffering. Dried blood of a undead, ignited by sparks off the blade of a cursed sword. Will bring her back and free the dark ones from there eternal prison." With a the full power of his magic he struck the alters to with cursed sword, sparks burst forth, igniting blood powder.

The flames that grew from it where a sickly blue green and seemed to wrap around the armor shards witch started glowing and mending. Then they raised up taking the form of a alicorn. With a piercing cry it let out a a wave of dark magic. The Griffins holding her let go to cover there ears. This causing them to drop her. With was a good thing as the ring of dark magic passed through the unicorn and his griffon thugs they shrieked in pain as there bodies where burned up from where it touches them out leaving blackened bone.

The reborn Nightmare Moon stepped off the alter table and looked at the Daring Do and said. "Who am I?"

Daring looked up in confusion. "What do you mean?"she asked.

"I have no memory of who or what I am." Said Nightmare Moon. She turned to pace showing that she had the purple color patch in the same place as Luna's black fur patch but no cutie mark. She stopped and looked at Daring "Try as I might I can only remember three names and I know none are mine, Twilight Sparkle, Luna, and Celestia.... who are they to me?" asked Nightmare Moon.

"Ok. Um... I can't answer all  your questions. But I can take you to two of them. Princesses Celestia and Luna!" said Daring. In her head she was panicking. 'Please don't eat me. Please don't eat me. Please don't eat me.'

Nightmare Moon smiled showing her dagger like teeth. "Please do. It's unsettling not knowing who I am. Or my purpose in the world..." she fidgets nervously looking at the setting sun.

"Right I can understand that we all are born with out a cutie mark. Just let me wrap that cursed sword in a sun blessed cloth so it doesn't hurt any more ponies or anything else." said Daring before doing so. She then looked at Nightmare Moon. "Ok. Can you fly?" She asked receiving a nod from Nightmare she took wing. "Ok follow me I'll take you to them." She glanced back at to see Nightmare Moon close behind. 'Well this will make one amazing book.'

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A forgotten tomb

A stone coffin burst open and human woman with blue skin, dressed in pinkish red dress with blue sleeves and pants, rises from it. She smiles behind the yellow tag hanging from her cap that matches her dress. "Neehow" she said before opening her eyes to see a empty dilapidated and forgotten tomb. "Geeze sis your spell worked to bad you had to give up your body to do it. Wounder if the other two were saved." She started to the door. After a minute of walking Hsien-ko walked out in to the night sky.

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A ancient castle long Forgotten and over run.

Morrigan stretched as she woke in lid less coffin of her last lover, his bones lay as dust next to her.  "I see that woman was able to save me with her spell. Funny is it not Demitri." She said running her fingers though the bone dust. "To think I the queen of the demon world would be chosen to be a light of hope if the world returned to darkness. How long has it been I wonder." She got up bat wings sprout from her back and head, as her clothes change to a skin tight leotard from her lacy night gown. She strutted to a muss covered window and blasted it open to see the night sky. "Oh.... That feeling in the air So many dark stalkers rising to feed on the living of this new age and none know it's coming. I wonder how they will take the knowledge that there saviors are in themselves, one with the dark." She flew off in to the night sky with giggle and mischievous smile on her lips.

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Canterlot museum of prepony history.

A cat statue one of the only art pieces to survive the the march of time unscathed, stated to glow then move. Then it turned in to the cat girl Felicia. "Oh, wow, am I stiff. Maybe I should have taken a tomb or coffin like the others did." She looked around then read the her display stand aloud. "The grate Cat goddess of the perpony time? One of last surviving intact statues from this time. "Oh I guess even in my sleep I was famous. Oh well maybe I can do a show for the people of this time to. After I help stop the bad dark ones." She turns back in to a cat and bounds away.

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Across the world

The energy released by the rebirth of Nightmare Moon caused many monsters demons and devils. To be born, awaken and or rise from forgotten graves and tombs. But with the rise of the evil came  three lights of hope. Three Darkstalkers that are chosen to be heroes when the darkness returns.