The Dark Side of Equestria

"Princess!" Tasuku exclaimed while bowing his head. "What are you doing here?".

"Hello to you too, Tasuku, you may rise," Princess Celestia greeted.

"I'm sorry, I've been a little jumpy since the incident that happened this morning, um, good morning Princess. If I may ask, what are you doing here?".

"It is alright Tasuku, to answer your question, I was looking for my sister, Princess Lynx.".

"Not to alarm you, Dear Princess, but everyone is at the hospital because Princess Lynx had to be rushed to the hospital this morning, this is what the incident this morning was.".

"Oh my goodness!" Fluttershy exclaimed.

"Is she alright?" Applejack asked, eyes full of concern.

Thud!

Everyone turned behind them to find Lynx, wrist bandaged and eyes full of determination. Even though she stood up firmly for a few moments, she began to lose her balance, but, just before she fell to the ground, Applejack and Fluttershy ran to her side to help their friend stand.

"Whoa there sugercube!" Applejack exclaimed. "I can tell just by looking at ya, ya need to go back to the hospital."

"I'm fine, AJ," the wounded princess said giving Applejack a reassuring smile." Plus there are far more important things than my health, like all of Equestria.".

"If you say so Ly.".

"Anyway, I assume you heard the news, Celestia," Lynx said, getting back on her hooves to confront her sister.

"Yes, I have, little sister. You know you can call me Tia," Princess Celestia answered.

"I rather not, Celestia.".

There was an awkward and uncomfortable pause.

"Well I have to prepare for battle, again," Lynx snapped, walking past everyone.

"W-well alright, I guess I will talk to you, sister," Celestia said turning away.

"No... I need to say what's on my mind..." Princess Lynx thought.

"You know what? It was your fault!" Lynx said, pointing a hoof at Celestia.

"Excuse me?" Princess Celestia asked.

"It was your fault that Luna turned into Nightmare Moon. I always tried to help her, but she didn't want my help, she wanted yours! She even came to you, but you pushed her away, like you do with everyone else! If it wasn't for your ignorance my adopted parents wouldn't have died that way!".

"Now hold on, 'Princess Lynx'!" Rarity interrupted. "You cannot, and I mean you cannot, talk to the Princess of Equestria that way!".

"Rarity! This is one of those things where ya need to put yer hoof where yer mouth is!" Applejack said. " She hasn't seen her sister in years! Ly and Princess Celestia need to work this out!".

"Thank you, Applejack," Lynx thanked. "Anyway, another thing, you never do anything by yourself, you always tell the girls to go and do all your dirty work, why don't you get off your rump and do things yourself, you're like a goddess for goodness sake?!".

Princess Celestia was speechless. There was another awkward silence.

Then, suddenly, the immortal princess began to walk towards her little sister, in fear that she was about to hit her, Lynx flinched, but, instead of a hoof across the face, she felt arms around her shoulders.

"I know, Lynx, and I regret it so much, I know that if it was not for me, you wouldn't have had to keep it in for so long. I wish I could reverse time just to stop Luna, but, sadly, no one has made that spell or potion yet. All I can say is that I am so sorry that you had to go through, all because of me."

Lynx began to start to cry into her big sister's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Tia! I shouldn't blame it all on you! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" Lynx sobbed hugging her big sister back.

Princess Celestia began to teary-eye also.

"I am not the one you should be apologizing to, little sister.".

An hour later...

"Lynx! Snap out of it!" Princess Diamond said, clapping her hooves in front of Lynx, trying to snap her out of the sea of thought.

"Oh yeah, battle strategy!" Lynx began.  "Okay, as we know from all these 'sightings' that have been popping up in the Everfree Forest, we know that Brax is back so this is what we need to do. We attack him in his weak spot when he least expects it.".

"Are you sure we need to use this strategy?" Prince Keith questioned.

"I'm sure, we, of course, don't need to attack now, we will just double our scouts and guards around the perimeters of the castle and The Dark Side, this shows we are ready for him, but he won't expect it when we take them all in by sun rise. At least that's what he'll think we're doing, we'll actually have them hidden," Lynx clarified. "Everyone got that?".

"Yes, Princess!" the head of the guard saluted.

"Now, go!" Lynx shouted.

With that, the head of the guard galloped off to give off Lynx's orders.

Lynx sighed and leaned back into her chair, holding her head in her hooves.

"Hey Lynx, can I talk to you?" Keith asked.

Lynx sighed again. "Yeah.".

Lynx got up from her chair and followed Prince Keith into the hallway in between their bedrooms.

"Okay, we need to talk," Keith said.

"Alright, shoot," Lynx answered.

"I just wanna ask why didn't you tell me you were there when Luna turned into Nightmare Moon? Better yet, why didn't you tell me were really over a thousand years old?"

"Who told you?".

"You and Mary don't know how to shut a door.".

Lynx sighed "Look I'm sorry, I just didn't want to talk about it to you because you would just say I was being over-dramatic when I say I wasn't over it.".

"Because that is! I'm sorry you went through that, but that is bull honkey if you hold a grudge over that!".

"I can't help it-"

"Yes you can!".

"No I can't just-"

"Yes you can-"

"Will you listen for one second?!".

"There is no reason for you to hold a grudge over something so stupid for so long!".

"I'm trying to explain!".

"You know what, there is no point in arguing over something stupid! Just explain!".

Lynx looked at the ground, she knew he would just ignore her and say that the reason was stupid, what's the point in trying?

Prince Keith's face contorted in anger, he opened the door to his room, slammed it behind him, and slid down the door to sit down. Lynx repeated this sequence.

Lynx began to cry until she heard a tapping at her window. She wiped away her tears and started walking towards the balcony window.

"Rainbow Dash?" Lynx thought.

But when Lynx moved the curtains away from the window, she saw a big green dragon with purple wings.

"Dynasty!" Lynx shouted, running onto the balcony to hug the dragon's neck.

"Hello, Lynx," Dynasty said, wrapping and arm around the alicorn's body.

"Where have you been?" Lynx asked, letting go of the dragon.

"Just went home to visit my family," Dynasty answered, letting go also.

"How have they been?".

"My mom finally got better.".

"That's good.".

"You've been crying.".

"Yeah, Keith and I had a fight.".

"What about?".

"Just about the whole Nightmare Moon thing, and why I never told him.".

"Well, you shouldn't keep things from your boyfriend, but I don't think y'all should have a fight about, y'all just need to sit down and talk about it.".

"I know, I think he was just worried about me because of the whole hospital thing that happened this morning.".

"I heard about that," Dynasty said, getting a quick look at Lynx's wrapped-up wrist." That's the main reason I came back to see if you're okay, and, to be honest, I think you need to stay in the hospital.".

"I know, but I have a kingdom to defend, my personal health is not important, Brax is back.".

"Oh my gosh! Not again.".

"Now you see why I left?".

"I do, um, by the way, I think someone is about to knock.".

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"Physic," Lynx said, turning back to Dynasty.

"That is my power, I'll come back later, Lynx," Dynasty said taking off.

TDSOE Fun Fact #1: All dragons have one special power, for example: Seeing things others can't, Physic, being able to shoot water and fire, etc.

"See ya, Bonehead," Lynx said, walking towards the door.

Lynx opened the door.

It was Prince Keith.

"I'm sorry, Lynx. I shouldn't have yelled at you, I'm just worried about you and-"

Keith was interrupted by a kiss by Princess Lynx.

"You talk too much," Lynx said while breaking the kiss and then connecting it again.

...

That night...

"Hello?" Princess Mary asked, questioning the dark abyss she was in. "Anyone here?".

"Yes, Princess Mary, I am here," Brax answered, stepping out so that Mary could see him.

"You! Stay back!" Mary cried, attempting to shoot him with a blast of magic, but ultimately failed.

"There's no need for that, dear Mary, I just had a proposal for you.".

"There is no way in heck I would negotiate  with you!".

"Oh come on, I know you have been reading my Dark Magic books I left in the library, I know you want to learn.".

"No I don't! I read those out of curiosity!".

"Oh really?".

Brax's horn glowed with his dark magic, then it threw magic at Mary, blasting her with the magic.

"Now do you want to join my side?" Brax asked, holding out a hoof towards Mary.

"Yes, Brax.".