How Did I Get Here?
The Return of Nightmare Moon
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"uuuuuugh."I say as I open my eyes to see a pale green wall along with a giant window to my right, I look out the window to see that its a beautiful day with clear sky's, I sigh and then I hear the door open, I snap my head towords the the door to find a lot of pain in my neck, I flinch at the pain, then I slowly look up to see non other than princess Celestia, and her personal student Twilight Sparkle (did I mention that Twilight is my personal favorite character from the show),
"hello, I'm glad to see that you're awake!" princess Celestia greets with a happy smile,
"glad to be awake" I answer back with a smile and then add in a fake curiosity look "And you are?" I ask although I already know who they are, "oh, sorry, I am Princess Celestia, and this is my personal student Twilight Sparkle and her number one assistant spike." she finishes off as Twilight trots up to me,
"Hello, it's nice to see that you're up and well!" I smile and nod at their comments then the princess frowns and says,
" I'm sorry, but i don't think i cought your name?" then I started to freak out, would I tell them my real name or my oc's, probably the oc's name,because it seems I went under a transformation, wings horn the hole shabang, I shake my head and answer them,
" my name is Starry Night."
"I'm sorry, but this just came to me princess, where is he going to be staying, after all, we did find him in the royal gardens." Twilight asks the princess she considers the thought,
" why don't you stay with us in the castle so we can learn about each other, after all, you are an Alicorn!" this surprises the others and they take a second look at my back to see my fancy wings that look like they were built for speed then they trail their eyes up to my forehead, which was decorated with a dark blue horn that is blunt at the tip, almost like Twilight's.
"So you shall be staying in the room two doors next to my chambers, and we will meet at 12 o'clock to descuss the terms on the summer sun celebration this year, would you like to come with Twilight? I plan on sending her to this years location, Ponyville to make some friends, she's always so busy studying that she never makes any friends." she says with a frown, I smile having known this already and answer,
" Yes, that would very pleasurable!"she smiles and looks at me,
"You know, you remind me of my sister, she loved to too speak in the old equestrian languadge, and you, from what I can tell, are very similar."I smile at this comment
" does the mean to speaketh as thy speaketh?" I tease, and she starts to break down in laghter she's even to the point of crying.
"oooooohoooo, uhu" she finishes her laughter and put on a more serious look" anyways you will be leaving in a few minutes you can stay and accompany me." and right as she finishes up her explanation a letter appeared,
" Twilight I presume?" I dont even know why I said that, of course it's Twilight and she's probably telling Celestia about the Mare in the Moon. And I was right, every last bit of it.
My dearest teacher,
My continuing studys of pony magic have led me to discover that something really bad is about to happen, For you see, the mythical Mare in the Moon is in fact Nightmare Moon, and she's about to return to Equestria, and bring with her eternal night! Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy does not come true. I await your Quick responce. your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle she imeadiatly pulles out a scroll and ink well, as well as a quill, and wrights;
My dearest, most faithful student Twilight. You know that I value your diligence and trust you completely... But you simply must stop reading those dusty old books! I smile from what I heard then get up from my sitting position and follow the directions to Twilight's home, I see that she is just about to board the chariot and I call out for them both,
"Hey Twilight, Hey Spike!" they turn around to see me trotting towords them,
"oh hey Starry Night, what are you doing here?" she asks me,
" please, just call me Star, and for what i'm doing here, Celestia sent me to follow you to Ponyville, and by the way Twi. how long have you been looking up information on Nightmare Moon?" she blushes, " it's o.k. if you don't want to tell me." with that all three of us board the chariot and we take off.
Spike breaks the silence with a loud *burp* and out came a letter and it read;
My dear Twilight,
there is more to a young pony's life than studying, so i'm sending you and Star to supervise the preparation in this years location: Ponyville. And, I have an even more essencial task for you to complete: make some friends!
Then that folows with Spike trying to keep the mood up, "look on the bright side, Twilight. The princess arranged for you to stay in a library. Doesn't that make you happy?" Twilight perks up and gives us a cocky look,
"Yes, yes it does. you know why? Because I'm right! I'll check on the preparations as fast as I can, then get to the library to find some proof of Nightmare Moon."
"then... when will you make friends, like the princess said?" spike says questioning Twilight's idea,
" She said to check on preparations. I am her student, and I'll do my royal duty, but the fate of Equestria does not rest on me making friends. Thank you, sir's."
Then I see Pinkie Pie and star slowing down, and wonder, how could she always have so much energy all the time "Maybe the ponies in Ponyville have interesting things to talk about. come on, Twilight just try!" he says, twilight sighs and says,
"Um... Hello?" and of course does that long crazy gasp in the middle of the air, I decide to come up to them saying,
" very interesting indeed!" spike just gives me a curiosity look
"where did you go?" I get a little nervous
" uuuh, hungry?" great idea, make him more curious,
"what ever." he says with a sigh and takes a scroll from behind his back "Summer Sun Celebration official overseer's checklist. Number one, banquet preparations: Sweet Apple Acres." then out of nowhere "Yeehaw" that follows by a loud *thump*
"*sigh* let's get this over with... Good afternoon. My name is Twilight Sparkle..." all the sudden, out of nowhere Apple Jack appears right in front of Twilight and shakes her hand so hard that it keeps going after she let go.
"Well howdy-doo, Miss Twilight, a pleasure makin' your acquaintance. I'm Applejack. We here at Sweet Apple Acres sure do like making new friends!" this surprises Twilight,
"Friends? Actually I.." apple jack lets go of her hoof and intterrupts her
"So, what can I do you for?" Applejack asks, spike stops Twilight's hoof from falling off, we both snicker with Twilight giving us the stink eye. "Well, I am in fact here to supervise preparations for for the Summer Sun Celebration. And your in charge of the food?" right after that my stomach grumbles at the word, luckily but nobody noticed, then I here the next comment and back away so I don't get stampeded
" We sure as sugar are! Would you care to sample some?" she asks, Twilight puts on a suspicious look and says
"As long as it doesn't take too long..." then Applejack run for the triangle, ringing the triangle, she yells
"Soup's on, everypony!" haha they missed me we appear in front of a table and then Applejack goes through the entire apple family that I don't want to list.
A few minutes later we leave Sweet Apple Acres stuffed,"Food's all taken care of, next is the weather." that's right, I forgot that the pegasus here controll the weather, and that reminds me, I have a totally unusable horn and pair of wings.
" Ugh... I ate to much pie..." then Spike takes the conversation again.
"Hmm, there's supposed to be a Pegasus pony named rainbow dash clearing the clouds." we look up,
" well, she's not doing a very good job, is she?" oh crap, *WHAM*
"oooof." I say, rainbow laughs,
" Uh, 'scuse me? here lemme help you." she get's a rain cloud and pours it on us, " Oops, I guess I overdid it. Um, uh, how about this? My very own patented Rain-Blow Dry. No no. don't thank me you're quite welcome." then rainbow and spike burst out laughing and I look at twilight and I join them, because for some reason, my Mane was fine.
Twilight try's not to let her anger out,
" Let me guess. You're rainbow dash."
"the one and only. why, you heard of me?"
I heard you were supposed to be keeping the sky clear. *sigh* I'm twilight sparkle, this Starry night and spike, and the princess sent me here to check on the weather."
"Yeah, yeah, that'll be a snap. i'll do it in a jiffy. just as soon as I'm done practicing."
"practicing for what?"
The Wonderbolts! They're gonna perform at the celebration tomorrow, and I'm gonna show them my stuff!"
"The Wonderbolts?"
"Yep!"
" The most talented flyers in all of Equestria?"
"That's them!"
"Pfft! Please. They'd never accept a Pegasus who can't even keep the sky clear for one measly day."
"Hey, I could clear this sky in ten seconds flat."
"Prove it."Twilight says squinting at rainbow dash, I start counting "1...2...3..."
"And a loop around and wham, what did I tell you. Ten seconds flat, I never leave Ponyville hangin'. You should see the look on your face. Ha! you're a laugh, can't wait to hang out with you guys some more.
"Wow, she's amazing!"Spike says playing with Twilight's mane
"well you'll be seeing more of that, along with a full of herself attitude." I mumble to myself,
"what did you say?" Spike says,
" nothing, just talking to myself." we reach our destination and walk in to see Rarity, oh boy here goes
"Beautiful..." spike says with hearts in his eyes."
"Yes, the decor is coming along nicely. This ought'a be quick. I'll be at the library in no time. Beautiful indeed." but Spike was looking at something else
"Not the decor, her!" she says pointing to Rarity mumbling to herself about ribbons,
"No, no, no, oh! Goodness no." but spike didn't care for what she was looking, but more of the pony herself
"How are my spines? Are they straight?" Twilight and me roll our eyes at this comment and I say,
"Well, well, well, looks like somepony has a crush." he blushes.
"Good afternoon..." Twilight says trying to catch a conversation with Rarity.
"Just a moment, please! I'm in the Zone' as it were. Oh, yes! Sparkle always does the trick, does it not? Why, Rarity, you are a talent. Mow, um, how can I help yohoohoohoo! Oh my stars, darling! Whatever happened to your coiffure?!"
"Oh you, mean my mane? Well, it's a long story. I'm Just here to check on the decorations, and than i'll be out of your hair!"
"My hair what about your hair?' Rarity answers then shoves, Twilight to Carosel boutique. After a couple of dresses she put on Twi she finishes on a vest with many different colored gems, Rarity picks up the conversation "Now go on, my dear. You were telling me where you're from."
At that very moment Twilight looked like her eyes were going to pop out,
"I've... been sent... from Canterlot... to, oof." Rarity looked surprised and lets go of the lace she was pulling on the back of Twi.
"Canterlot?! Oh, I am so envious! The glamor, the sophistication! I have always dreamed of living there! I can't wait to hear all about it! We're gonna be the best of friends, you and I... Emeralds?! What was I thinking? Let me get you some rubies!" she walks off and Twilight starts trotting the oposit way
"Quick, Before she decides to dye my coat a new color!" I grab bite her tail on her way by me,
"No you don't, you're going to need that outfit for the celebration tomorrow, and I need a suit as well, and I think this is the only place that gives me weird looks because I'm an Alicorn." this catches Rarity's attention
"Alicorn, where?" then she finds me again waving, "You're the Alicorn? I've don't think heard of you before?" then Twilight answers for me, "you probley wouldn't have, we found him in the royal gardens a couple days ago, his name is Starry Night." she says pointing with a hoof to me, I hold out my hoof
" nice to meet you." she shakes it,
" the pleasures all mine, and did I hear you correct, you need a suit?" I nod
"yup, and I was thinking of a normal suit with a blue under shirt and black suit maybe some hoof cuffs."
We are now on our way to meet Fluttershy and Rarity was nice enough to give me some diamond hoof cuffs and put it all on the house, even through in a small tux and bow tie for Spike. "okay guys, we're coming up to Fluttershy, you might want to be gentle with her, she's really shy" Spike nods but Twilight tilts her head
" How do you know that?" I smile and point my hoof at my head,
"Alicorn hearing, Alicorns can hear things that nomal pony's can't at a certain distance, and how i know that, because I've been hearing how this pony named Fluttershy is supper shy but her music is beautiful, and she certainly does do well with animals." Twilight nods and we continue to the spot where we hear Fluttershy's birds sing a beautiful song,
" hello." Twilight says, the birds fly in all directions, scattering from their perch, " Oh my, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to frighten your birds. I'm just here to check up on the music and it's sounding beautiful. I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is Starry night. What's your name?"
"Um... I'm Fluttershy." she says in her very quiet voice
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
"Um...my name is Fluttershy" she says in her even quietter voice.
"Didn't quite catch that"
"Well, um, It Look's like your birds are back, so I guess everything's in order. Keep up the good work!" Fluttershy sqeales "Okay. Well that was easy." Twilight says to Spike, who just walked out of the bushes, I shuffle a little so that the Fluttershy that just zoomed by me did knock me over as well,
"A baby dragon! Oh I've seen a baby dragon before. He so cute!" it looks like Spike likes were this is going,
"Well, well, well..." Spike says looking at me trying to help Twilight up,
"Oh my he talks. I didn't know dragons could talk. That's just so incredibly wonderful I, I just don't know what to say!" Twilight finally gets on her hoofs again,
" Well, in that case we'd better be going." but Fluttershy wasn't giving up just yet
"Wait, wait! What's his name?" Spike answered that question,
" I'm Spike." Fluttershy was still amazed by this feat,
" Hi Spike, I'm Fluttershy. Wow, a talking dragon! And what do dragons talk about?" Spike was a little confused by this question
"Well, what do you want to know?" Spike was catching the gist,
" Absolutely everything." Twilight and me groan, because we both know how long Spike has been alive,
" Well... I started out as a cute little purple and green egg..." that's when I blotted out, even though I was a little curious about his life, 'cause all I really know is how long he's been alive, and I know what's going to happen in then library, and I agree with Twi, library's should be quiet because it's a place of studying and reading, and we arive at the library.
"... and that's the story of my whole entire life, Well, up until today. Do you wanna hear about today?"
"Oh, yes, please!"
Twilight turns around and separates the two "I am so sorry, how did we get here so fast? This is were Star and I are staying while in Ponyville and my poor baby dragon need his sleep." Spike, however, thinks differently
"No I don't... Whoa!" twilight literaly bucks Spike off her back and Twilight decides to use her baby voice
"Aww, wook at dat, he's so sweepy he can't even keep his widdle bawance!" Fluttershy seems to have taken the bait
"Poor thing, you simply must go to bed..." Fluttershy says picking Spike up off the ground and fly's inside, but Twilight rushes inside and pushes Fluttershy out
"Yes, yes, We'll get right on that. Well, g'night!" then she slams the door shut in Fluttershy's face, Spike doesn't like this behavior
"Huh. Rude much?"
"Sorry, Spike, but I have to convince the Princess that Nightmare Moon is coming, and we're running out of time! we just need to be alone so we can study without a bunch of crazy ponies trying to make friends all the time. Now, where's the light?"
at that very moment, the flicked on and I duck and cover my ears to hear a bunch of ponies yell "SURPRISE!!!" then I see Pinkie bounce up to us "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, and I threw this party just for you! Were you surprised? Were ya? Were ya? Huh huh huh?" Twilight recovers from nearly having a heart attack
"Very surprised. Libraries are supposed to be quiet." but Pinkie doesn't get the message
"Well that's silly! What kind od welcome party would this be if it were quiet? I mean, duh, bo-ring! Y'see, I saw you when you first got here, remember? You were all "hello" and I was all *gasp*, remember? Y'see I've never saw you before and if I've never saw you before that means you're new, 'cause I know everypony, and I mean everypony in Ponyville! And if your new, that meant you haven't met anyone yet, and if you haven't met anyone yet, you must not have any friends, and if you don't have any friends, you must be lonely, and that made me so sad, then I had an idea, and that's why I went *gasp*! I must throw a great big ginormous super-duper spectacular welcome party and invite everyone in Ponyville! See? And now you have lots of friends!" I wasn't listening to Pinkie, first of all because I already knew what she was saying, and because I was trying to stop Twi from drinking an entire glass of hot sauce, but it's already to late, she just chugged the entire glass and in the middle of the air with steam coming out of her ears and fire replacing her hair, rushing to the room next to mine I knock on the door and hear Twi yell "come in!" I open the door to see Twi laying on her bed, hair clean and everything,
" Hey Twi, I was just wondering if you would like to watch the moon rise with me? It's rather beautiful." she sighs and says
"Okay, I have nothing better to do." we walk outside to see the moon rising and the stars lined up against the moon then we could see the shadow of the Mare in the Moon. I look down to see my wing has covered Twilight she was blushing then I blush too
"uuh, sorry, didn't know I did that. Look at the moon, so beautiful, so disapointing to know that the Mare in the Moon is going to use it for-granted." Twilight looks up at me and smiles, then frowns hearing me say that
" So you believe me, I thought you consider me crazy too." I just shake my head and put my wing over her again
"No, I never said anything like that, in fact I never said anything at all." she looks up then rehearses the myth,
"On the day of the thousandth year the star will guide Nightmare Moon's escape, I hope the princess is right." I nod and add
"Come on, lets go inside, we can go and take a nap, we'll need the rest for what's coming up." It's Twilight's turn to nod, it was Twi's turn to hold on to me,
"please stay with me, I don't know how long it will take for me to sleep, and I feel safer with you around." I nod and say
" Okay, just give me a second to get the extra bed in the adic." I close my eyes and imagine the bed upstairs to start to hover, then I open the door to the adic, after a couple more minutes there was a second bed in Twi's room, and I get in it and close my eyes proud of myself because this was the first time I used telekinesis.
"Wake up, come on star wake up!" I open my eyes to see Twilight right in front of me,
"Aah, oh, hey Twi, what's up? Is it time to go to the raising of the sun?" she nods her head, I get up and pick up my suit that Rarity gave to us, levitating it, I put it on, Twi put's her vest on, "come on, Celestia arranged for me and you to stand next to her during the raising of the sun, we need to get there soon if we are going to make it!" Twilight get a little excided about this, I open the door for Twilight. On the way there we look up to see that the moon is on it's decent. We arrive to see Celestia on stage rehearsing for what is coming,
"Hello, your majesty, we're here." Twilight and me bow, she nods her head to tell us that we may rise,
"Hello Twilight, hello Starry Night, how's your stay in Ponyville doing?" she says with a warm smile
" Please, call me Star, and the stay here has been delightful, one of the pony's here even gave me this suit, Twi the vest that you see now, and Spike a small suit!" she smiles and says
"Why I think you two have already made some friends!" she reaches down and hugs us both, *ding* *dong* *ding* *dong* Celestia looks up and points us to our position "You two will be standing in the same place when I come out okay." we nod, right as Celestia disappeared backstage, the crowd of pony's come in, I spread my wings and me and Twilight's horn glows with aura, we hold the door with our magic, and I amplify my voice so everypony can hear me,
"WELCOME, EVERYPONY, PLEASE TAKE A SEAT, THE PRINCESS SHALL BE OUT IN A MOMENT!" Twilight was amazed at how I was able to amplify my voice,
"How did you do that? Nopony has been able to use that type of magic in years!" I smile
"Maybe I'm different though!" I go over and hug her, she blushes, and I go back to my spot smiling, then I notice the five mares we just meet, I use my magic to call them over,
"WOULD THE FOLLOWING MARES COME TO THE STAGE PLEASE, APPLEJACK, RARITY, PINKIE PIE, FLUTTERSHY, AND RAINBOW DASH, YOU ARE NOT IN TROUBLE, WE JUST WANT TO TALK!" they look at each other and walk up to the stage seeing me smiling, they smile back I wave my hoof to tell them to come up, Rarity's the first to talk
"Darling, you and Twilight look marvelous in those outfits." I smile
"all thanks to a very generous pony I meet!" Rarity blushes, then Applejack speaks
"Sugarcube, why are you standing next to where the Princess is supposed to be standing?" I smile again
"Because before Twi and me came to Ponyville, me and Celestia had a little talk about what we were going to do at this time, I came up with me and Twilight standing next to her during the show, and me being an Alicorn and Twilight being a personal student of the Princess made it possible!"
"WHAT!!!" everybody yelled, I spread my wings,
"That's right I forgot to tell you, I'm an Alicorn and Twi's the personal student of the Princess! Anyways you better get back to you seats, the Princess is going to be coming out soon!" they nod and leave. Right after they sat down the presentation started,
"Fillies and gentlecolts, as mayor of Ponyville, it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the summer sun celebration!" I blot out after that, to come back into the living when Dark blue mist comes for nowhere, then a blast of magic comes from behind the curtains heading straight for Twilight! I jump in front of her charging a shield spell, I release the spell but the magic is too strong, it breaks through my shield only to hit me, right after that the spells kick in, I grow taller, my coat grows darker, my mane becomes like Nightmare Moon's, all wavy and blue, and my eyes become a cat's. I stand still to have dark blue armor appear on me, then Nightmare moon step's out from behind the curtains smiling,
"My dear subjects, I hope the little show I put on for you, though I was aiming more for the purple pony, but whatever, I feel lot of powerful magic in this one as well."
"Thank you, my queen." I say with a low bow, but someone didn't like what was going on,
"Where is princess Celestia?" but Nightmare Moon wouldn't take it,
"Why? Am I not royal enough for you? Do you not know who I am? Didn't you see the signs?" that's when Twilight steped up
"I did! And I know who you are, you are The Mare in the Moon, Nightmare Moon. And I have just one question for you, what have you done to Star?" Nightmare Moon likes where this is going,
"What? This? I just changed him with a simple transformation spell and a mind controll spell, so he's all mine, he obays every order I make!" she's getting giddey but Mayor Mare wasn't giving up,
"Get her, she knows where the Princess is and how to free that pony, that's when I stepped in front of the guards before they could reach Nightmare,
"You will not touch my queen!" I say throwing them off to the side, then I see Twilight running outside the window for the library, the evil side of me want's to stop her, but I make sure the spell doesn't even reach my horn, I turn to the villan "should we go?" she nods and we disinteagrate into her mist.
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