The Brightest Light, Cast it's Darkest Shadow

by nightmare_of_the_moon

Rating: teen
Tags: Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Main 6, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, Adventure
Length: 2262

Nightmare Moon is down, but not out. As she make her way in the mind's of the mane six and try to bring out the darkness in their hearts.

Twilight sparkle and her friends, the elements of harmony has stop nightmare moon. But not for good, as her shadow follows twilight and friends, seeking a new host for her reign over equstria. Will the elements of harmony able to fight nightmare moon's influences, or they will fall into darkness.
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Hello my little nightmares, I am glad to see my first story turned out well. I will made changes to the story and/or cover to be best fited. It will take time to get these chapters out , but I, your queen of the night shall do my very best to get this story out.
-Nightmare of the Moon

Published 2015-03-31 04:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-15 17:29:38 UTC

Prologe-The longest night on the longest day

It was a dark night tonight, the moon was at it's peck with the stars aline in Celestia's night. It was like any other night that princess Celestia gives her little ponies. But tonight however was different as a trail of indigo smoke that enters the Everfree forest.

The indigo smoke floating a good hundred meters I'm the forest. It enters a clearing, then stop as six ponies came into view, headed to The Castle of The Pony Sister. The first was a white unicorn mare named Rarity, with a purple mane and tail,and a cutie mark of three blue gems. The way she trotted about while avoiding any mud or dirt, tells she is more of a nobel rather than a tailor in a small backwater town like Ponyville.

Then came the two pegasi,the one with a rainbow mane and tail was Rainbows Dash, with a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark. The other was a shy mare with her butterscotch yellow fur was called Futtershy, with her pink mane and tail, while having three butterflys as her cutie mark. Two earth ponies fallow behind the pegasi. One on the left was a organ mare with a southern style hat was Applejack, her cutie mark was three red apples. On the right was a very odd pink mare Pinkie pie, bouncing around with her fluffy mane and tail, with an impossibly bis smilie. The last was an purple unicorn with an indigo mane and tail with a pink strip leading the group Twilight sparkle, with her cutie mark being magic as five stars encircled a larger star.

The six mare enter the castle, unknowingly being followed by the indigo smoke. Inside five stones radiating of powerful magic waiting to be sparked to life. The Twilight stayed with the stones while the others was looking around. The indigo smoke charged at the unicorn and the stones, taking them to the nearest tower leaving the others behind.

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The smoke drop the Twilight and place the stones at the other end of the room around it. Then the indigo smoke turn black as it forms and becomes bones and flesh. It grow into a tall ponie, but no ordinary pony. It's fire as b black as night with both wings and horn. The most unique about this mare was her mane and tail, both represent the starry night sky in a nonexistent breeze. It's eyes are more a kin to dragons with it cat like slit eyes with the color of turquoise in a lighter turquoise where the white would have been. It gave devilish smilie, and laugh like a madmare while bearing sharp teeths of a predator. As the purple unicorn stared in horror at the alicorn before her, noneed other then mare in the moon.

Nightmare moon.

With the stones in sight, the Twilight with new found determination ready to change at nightmare. "Your kidding, your kidding right? " nightmare moon said with slight annoyance in her tone. The mare change at nightmare with her horn lite up in a purple light, then nightmare answer in kind. As the two close the distance between, then the Twilight's horn grow brighter and as they about to clash her vanish. Nightmare moon look back and see the Twilight reappear next to the stones. The Twilight lowered her head and said "Just one spark" as her horn glowed. "Come on, come on" saying in desperation, then the stones started to glow in the same color as the mare's horn.

In a act of haste nightmare moon change at Twilight sparkle to stop her from activating the stones. As nightmare moon appear before the unicorn, the stones launch the Twilight to the other side of the room. "No,No!" nightmare moon exclaimed as the stones grow brighter then they did before. Victory was in the Twilight sparkle' s grasps. Then the light of the stones faded away. The Twilight gasp in shock and yelling "But where was the sixth element!". Nightmare moon laugh as she destroy the stones into pieces. Nightmare moon look that the mare who try to stop her.

" You little fool, thinking you can defend me !" she yelled with a voice the rattle the sky."Now you will never see your princess or your sun!" She said. And finally with all of her might shout at the night sky "THE NIGHT WILL LAST FOREVER!!!" and laugh as victory is at hand. With a look of defeat, Twilight say not a word, dumbstruck by the fact that not only she failed cor mentor Celestia, also the world. But off in the distance under the laughter of Nightmare Moon, she heard her companies. As she listed to them, realization struck her and come with a spark.

She looked back a Nightmare Moon, "You think you can destroy the elements of harmony just like that?" Twilight exclaimed. And with a new found confidence she yelled "Because the spirit of the elements of harmony are right here!" As Twilight finish her sentence, the remains of the broken stones began to light up. The prices than to life into the air air, as Nightmare Moon began to feel a bit of unease.

Twilight turn to her left "Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represent the spirit of honesty." Pieces of the stones encircle Applejack and the other girls respectively. "Futtershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion, represent the spirit of kindness. Pinkie pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represent the spirit of laughter. Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with am meaningful gift, represent the spirit of generosity. And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own heart's desire, represent the spirit of loyalty."

As Twilight continue with her speech, Nightmare Moon watch as the one thing that can stop her rear it's ugly head. But there was still one chance before everything hose to ruin "You still don't have the sixth element. The spark didn't work." For once she hope with all her being that she was right. Twilight look to Nightmare Moon with seriousness "But it did, a different kind of spark." She looked back to the girls "I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, to see you, how much I cared about you. The spark ignited inside me when I realized that all ...... are my friends!"

After she was done, appeared over their heads was the sixth stone. As the elements finally came together, they glow into a blinding light that forced Nightmare Moon to shield her eyes with her wing. "You see Nightmare Moon, when those elements, are ignited by the .... the spark that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element ..... The element of magic!" Than the elements glow ever brighter as the elements began to reform anew. Nightmare Moon look as a feeling she had not felt in her lifetime.

Pure and utter terror.

Than a rainbow sky rocket from the elements towards her. All she can do was scream "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" than everything was black as she was ripped apart by a rainbow.

Author's Note

Thank you for reading so far. It's been great try for the first time to write as story as this. Try to understand, not only that I'm doing may first story, but my first story spin off the show.
Thanks for your understanding, and enjoy story .:pinkiehappy:
also I may need to edit a few here and there. But will get it right eventually.

Chapter 1 - Her beginning, Their end

Nightmare Moon raises her in order to shield her eyes from the blinding light from her sister's Sun. After a few seconds to readjusting her eyes, she notice that she is relatively in one piece. She laugh and laugh, and laughed ' A piety dear sister that our little elements of harmony had failed to stop Me! now nothing can stop me from taking my rightful rule and bring about eternal nigh-'

"Indeed you do."

Nightmare Moon froze in place as she knew all too well whose voice it was. 'Celestia!' To utter that name taste like venom in her mouth. Looking over, she see Celestia standings before her. All it took is a look at her, and all the emotions that she keep for a thousand years starts to boil back up. Alll those years of anger, pain, betrayal, and most of all HATE! 'This time I'm going to seal her away into the the bucking sun, instead of the crystal caves under cantrlot!'

A voice called out of her enraged state "Princess Celestia!" Nightmare Moon looks in the other direction where the voice called out, and seeing Twilight and friends who have failed to stop her bowing to Celestia. The respect she wanted, the love she deserved, and wasted on that witch.

"So you dare show yourself to me, after your little elements of harmony failed to defeat me!" Noticing that nopony acknowledging her. Already at the wits end, her cried in a vengeful fury "You dare to ignore me! Your rightful queen!" still nopony even looking her direction."Well, be prepare for no mercy and see why I am THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT!!!" readying herself to strick Celestia as she is walking towards her. Within sticking range, jumping into the air, rushing towards celestia.

As she comes into contact with Celestia, Nightmare Moon passes right through her with no resistance. Landing back onto the ground, she was baffled to say the least. Looking back behind where Celestia is moving towards to. What she doesn't expect to see is another pony, where she was original was when the elements hit her.

That pony was princess Luna, now cowering on her side before Celestia. She was Stunned as the site of her other half was here without Nightmare as a separate being. 'The elements of harmony must have separated her from me, but no matter. As long as Luna has hate in her heart, we will be one once more' with that in mind, all Nightmare has to do is wait for Luna to call for her and take on Celestia. "It's been a thousand years since I've seen you like this." Celestia speaks as she kneels down to her little sister. "Let put our differences behind us, we were meant to rule together little sister."

Nightmare felt a her magic slipping away from her. Looking over the Luna seeing she is thinking over her sister's words. 'No, don't do it Luna! She is lying to you!' Nightmare words fall on daft ears, as she realizes she in no longer on a physical plane and just nothing but a gathering of magic with a mind of it's own. Said magic was dwindling away as Luna's hate slowly remove from her heart. Celestia finally ask Luna,"will you accept my friendship?" 'No! Don't listen to her Luna. She was the reason that was were banished to the moon! We can still take equestria, just keep the hate and don't like it-.' "YES! I've missed you so much big sister!!" Luna crying into her sister's shoulder.

With that declaration, the hateful magic that bound Nightmare to Luna shatters, as Nightmare began to feel weak from all the magic that she had vanishing to thin air and falls into unconsciousness.

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Nightmare awakes once more from her trip from the void, only to find nopony in sight. The moon was hight up in the equestrian sky. 'We isn't this just peachy.' She tries to move, but with no success. As her body is too drained from her lack of magic which, what little magic she has left, was keep her current form as a single being and not a mess on the floor.'Curse you Celestia, if not for you I wouldn't be in this undignified predicament!' Forcing her mind and will to a now intangible form, slowly a mass rise from the weaken magical mass. A hooves form touching the ground as it lay, steadily rising and give it a new body

Most of Nightmare's body as it was before, and slightly transparent.
Looking up to the moon, her former prison as a reminder of what was she without.' You may hate me, and shunned my night' she said, no more above a whisper,but steadily growing in volume. 'You can imprison me in my own moon for a thousand years and hit me with a god-damn rainbow!' The volume and fury of her voice much a like the royal canterlot voice shake the ground and crumbles the castle of the royal pony sisters at the final declaration,'BUT YOU MAY NEVER, EVER TAKE LUNA AWAY FROM ME!!!!'

Now bring her voice down in hope that nopony heard that,' Once my power is restored, I'll be coming for you Celestia. I will destroy you with the very tools you sought to destroy me. Then, and only then when your groveling at my hooves, begging for your life, I will end you and take back Luna. This I swear.'

Author's Note

Hello my little nightmares, I am pleased than you mange to stay for so long. I will be bringing more chapters and I am the learning magic that work this place. Rest a sure that your queen of the night shall wait for your comments and bring entertainment like never before!

Nightmare of the Moon