"Woo!!!" My ear twitches for the hundredth time as I hear another shout.
There`s a party being held in the main hall, for the royal sisters. Oh, wait- for Celestia.
I`m not in the main hall, so that would dislodge yet ANOTHER celebration for me, me and the night. I gaze at the bright ball of fire that my dear sister watches over.
"FOR CELESTIA!!! FOR THE SUN!!!" I grab my ears with my hooves and cling to the ground as a craze of a thousand ponies cheer for a toast in Celestia`s grace.
They havent noticed my absence, has Tia? Surely shed have noticed me not in my proper place- or has she yet forgotten too?
Tears build up in my eyes, which I quickly levitate away.
Being sunset, me AND my sister would be able to be awake at the same time, though thats still a little early for me. Im normally up at dusk.
The sun slowly lowers as the party starts to near its end. Its suppose to end so I can get to work- Pfft- they should just keep partying.
It`s not like my not being there really affects them anyways.
"CELESTIA!!! THE QUEEN OF EQUESTRIA!!!" I gasp. I do not cover my ears.
What. Did. They. Just. Say?
I clench my hooves- if that`s possible. I bite my mouth, holding back tears.
So now, now they totally throw me out of the picture? Surely Tia`ll tell them off.
I`m too tiny to do that, but she can. She can... Avenge me for that spine breaking... Cheer.
No.
She won`t do that, why would she?
She didn`t do that last time, in the marketplace.
Me and Celestia were walking through the plaza of Canterlot, accompanied by a dozen or so Pegasi guards.
We never bought anything, not after I refused the thing we had come for.
It was my birthday, and to celebrate it- me and Tia were going around Canterlot, buying and admiring stuff. I loved the idea as I had not actually gotten to know my kingdom, being so young- even though i`m still young.
I had seen Celestia come home with a diamond cut statue of her pet phoenix one day two years ago, and I fell in LOVE with the detail of it, it had a sort of... Fire to it. Like the presence of a ruby stood at it`s core.
She promised we could get one on my six birthday.
Here was that day.
She had told me the shop made things for the rich and royals, of course the princesses got their orders free.
I happily bounced up and down as we trotted down near the shop, the sign in view- reading "Cuts of passion".
I was blushing- so many ponies stopped and stared, of which Tia nodded and said hello appropriately, I instead would go 'Hi!' in a squeaky tone.
We come by a group of ponies whom seem to be having a conversation about my dear sister just as we pass by.
THEY ruined my birthday.
As one teal pony, a stallion with mid-blue bangs, sees us, he elbows his friends, and they suddenly begin to cheer for Celestia- breaking the idol chatter of other ponies.
The whole market looks at the group, who shout, "THE PRINCESS! CELESTIA, OUR PRINCESS!".
They take the drift and begin cheering on too.
I found it alright at my age, oblivious to my name never being mentioned, but hay- who cares? Its not like theyll ever go so far as to call Tia a- "QUEEN!!! OUR ONE TRUE RULER, OUR ONE TRUE LEADER!!! QUEEN CELESTIA!!!".
I stop hopping for a moment.
When did TIA become queen?
-wait, where does that put me?!- I think quickly.
-Am I not a princess, by the books thats only by mother and daughter, therefore stating I could not be a princess!- I panic.
Holding my breath, I shout within my head, thinking of the possibilities which in end, led to un-natural endings.
Stupid childish brain. Stupid imagination.
I stop and realize Celestia`s down the street, right by the shop.
-Oh no! don`t forget about it, Tia!- I rush, momentarily forgetting about royal positions.
But my mind cripples back to it again, as they still cheer the wretched words 'Queen' as the place of Tia.
I start to tear up.
Where am I? What about me? Why dont I ever get to play Queen, if its a game?
I sift through the million questions all generated by that one word.
Celestia acts as if it`s normal though, the cheering.
That word.
I catch up to her, yet she doesn`t notice my teary eyes, or my quivering mouth, my trembling muzzle.
She nudges me to go inside, saying something about choosing what gem and cut I`d like. I walk in, head down- trying to get Tia to notice my pain.
She doesn`t.
The shop is a vibrant purple, stacked with shelves of different blocks of stones and small gems and even some cuts, like dogs and Celestia, and the sun... And no Luna. Nothing of me.
Saddening.
I look for a nice block to get my mind and thoughts away from those horrible ponies. The jade, marble, opal? No, too light.
Ruby? Too fire like, not enough cool.
What about Emerald, or Amethyst? No emerald, but maybe amethyst and... Sapphire!
I gallop up to a deep blue saphire block and levitate a mid-intensity Amethyst chunk from another shelf to the blue gem.
"Is this what you wish for, Luna?" Celestia asks, taking hold of the two gems with her golden aura.
"Y-yeah?" I reply lowly, that... That dumb word in my head.
"Well, then. What cut would you like it as?".
"Um..." I think- that`s a hard one! I never actually had a pet, my only friend is Tia, sadly... My hold is the moon.
"Luna?" Tia asks, a little worrisome.
"Y-yes, Tia?" I reply, still thinking of a design.
"Are you having trouble?" She gives me an eyebrow.
I panic - she knows? About the word? Or... Or It`s just the cut?! Yeah, the cut- just go with the cut-
"Yeah. I don`t know what to get it as" I state sadly.
"What about... Say... Your favorite, Favorite-"
"ANIMAL!!!" I cry in glee, as I put a bat into view and the crescent moon behind it, the bat being perched on it`s lower tip.
"Alright..." Celestia explains the design to a crystal coated pony.
I don`t hear the whole conversation, but I do hear the ordering rules, "Of course! Only the highest royalty gets theirs free!".
I again cripple down to the facts- the facts I know.
1) I have a serious case of Switching emotions in a snap.
2) I`m not royal. Not by the majority of our kingdom!
"No" I flatly say, loud enough to get both my sister and the shopkeeper`s attention.
Celestia stares oddly, "What is it, Luna?".
"I d-" I stop myself short. Im about to refuse something Ive wanted for SO LONG.
Sniffling, I continue, "I don`t deserve it".
-Why did I say that?! Stupid brain!-
"Luna. How can you say that?" Celestia lowers her face to nudge me, but I shift away.
My voice is dull, and rough.
"You heard what they said".
"Who said what?".
"Queen". I look down at my hooves, a tear streaming down my right cheek.
"Oh, Luna. Their just really involved in the politics of royal-"
"NO. Their not. They praise you as their own!" I growl, and back up towards the door.
"Luna?".
"It`s exactly what they said! Your our one true ruler!" I shout at her, making a scene.
Thankfully no guards came in with us, or I`d have a hard time right now doing anything.
"Luna, what have you gotten your mind into?!" Celestia advances towards me.
-No, No, No. Get away...-
"GET AWAY!!!" I scream, my eyes struck with tears, making Celestia look like a giant white fuzzy blob.
"Luna!!! Come back here!".
"No! *sniffle* I-Im not a princess! N-not if y-your Queen! Then... Then-" Im cut off.
"HALT THOU WHINING!!!" Celestia shouts in a royal yell at me.
I Stiffen. I`ve told her before, that hurts my ears. But I still need to advance.
"LUNA! they do not mean-" Now I cut her off.
"Then what of me?! If they hail to you, who are my followers? Bats?! STARS!? A STUPID COLD ROCK!?!?" I stop abruptly.
-Oh no-
It is against our order while ruling to insult the powers we contain. I attempt to hold myself together as Celestia comes closer to me.
Her expression is NOT one of forgiving, only hatred. But I need to press on- to prove something.
-Come on, Brain! Think! Use your stupid creativity and- Got it!-
"And what about YOU?! They worship you because of WHAT?! YOU BRING A GIGANTIC BALL OF FIRE INTO THE SKY EACH DAY?! SOME STUPID STAR THAT JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO CONTROL?!?!!" I frantically run out the door.
I know it won`t be pretty tonight when she gets home, but I think I can avoid her by flying ahead.
So much for my birthday...
In the castle, for the rest of the day, I can hear that WORD ring around town, as Celestia apparently decided to go ahead through town, on my birthday.
Leaving, going ahead without me...
I bet she still went to the theater too. And on the picnic. And to the coral artistry.
I ball up on the ground, a tiny light blue mass, and begin to let it out. Tears rush down.
"W-why... Why does everypony shun my night? Why d-do they sh-shun me?!" I cry out at no pony.
By now I`m covered in wet salty, tears.
I cant hold it in. Im too frail to fight back, to make a difference.
"TIA!!!".
See? She never stood up for me.
She never will.
I get up and levitate my crown onto my head.
- It`s going to be a long night... Maybe the night crawlers will come and see me...But- they are kind of scary...-
I shrug off the thought.
Over by my deep blue covered bed, on my night-stand, sits a deep sapphire and amethyst statue. Celestia had went ahead and got it after I left.
she shouldn`t have.
Doing that basically took me on a guilt trip.
Sighing, I flash-back again to that night.
Sitting on the railing of Celestia`s room, I gaze out at my moon, rearranging stars into certain patterns.
Tia`s laying down In her open door room, sifting through rolls of papers and scrolls, marking some, throwing out others. She seems to be mumbling something, it sounds like a song I know...
I find myself randomly singing it, too. A bad habit of mine.
I learned it when we were in a "financial slope", heading for a cliff of nearly no bits at all.
I don`t really care about that, what is a baby to an army of bankers?
Nadda, sadda, nothing.
In my most adult like voice I have, I sing to myself the lyrics;
"Everywhere`s, freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity".
I pause, Tia is so content. As if we never even got into a fight.
"Tax the rich, Feed the poor. Til` there are, no rich no more?"
I Stop, and begin to walk up to Tia. She looks at me, and lowers her papers to listen to what I have to say, as I for some reason still sing,
"I`d love to change the world".
"But I don`t know what to do".
Celestia puts a hoof at mine, as if assuring me something.
"So i`ll leave it up to you!" I sing, carrying out the ending word.
"It`s alright, dear sister". Tia nuzzles me and we set off again in our own thing. I stop singing the song.
Back into reality, I listen to see if the 'party' is over. I don`t hear any screaming cheers...
"Oh, Luna!" Tia walks through my door, clearly happy and joyful. I don`t think she noticed my absence.
"T-Tia... What is thou doing, you should be going to bed, dear sister" I reply flatly in my equestrian voice.
"Oh, yes yes, I know. Did you enjoy the celebration? They served a feast of dishes, including my favorite!" She stands to see if I`ll respond.
"Yes" I lie.
"I loved it. It was most splendid".
"Great! I`m glad you liked it! Well, on to our duties then", She walks off, closing my spruce door silently.
I sigh.
She didn`t notice.
She didnt notice her own sisters absence.
I whimper softly, a few drops of salty water flowing down my cheeks.
I should perform my duty.
Walking outside, I use my power and create a seemingly endless connection to the moon and my soul.
I lift my head up to the sky, wishing for the moon to come up, and watching it slowly make it`s way up into the sky, allowing stars to begin to reveal themselves. One pattern, showing a bat- has been in the sky since I first saw them. That was ages ago.
Ages, and yet- me and Tia STILL haven`t unlocked our full potential in the sun and moon.
Her hair is pink, yet our mother`s was the literal definition of fire.
Mine isnt even flowing, its just a short style that has a bland light blue, contradicting the flowing night sky of my father`s mane.
-Maybe the Night Crawlers can help me-
-No. No. Their too... Mean-
I pause, watching the moon to make sure it stays up. At our age, we still don`t have enough power to FULLY control the spheres we own.
The moon shines with an extra gleam tonight, as if it pities me. Pitying me, heh.
I walk around on my marble balcony, thinking.
-What would get the ponies attention?-
-I`ve tried parties, I went into the marketplace alone even!-
I shoot up, eyes widening at a realization. The legend waker!
He knows EVERYTHING!
-probably even that i`m thinking about actually thinking of seeing him!-
I levitate a satchel to my bed, put a few items in there, including my favorite plushy, a bat that has blue eyes.
Yeah... This great Deity that I was going to was super SUPER scary. And weird...
Once I finish, I fly out onto the balcony.
The flight to the deep cave he lives in is only a small one, near the tree of harmony actually!
-Alright. Go ask him, leave, do that task, return to fame- I recite instructions in my head.
Taking off, I fly into the starry sky. Being about an hour until I get there, I think on my past some more.
One year, during my sister`s birthday, she decided to have a party.
Some yellow mare with brown hair calling herself "Cheese bun" was the planner. She was crazy.
I had no intention of being bored during the planning though so I decided to help her. I set up balloons and lights, that sort of thing.
Apparently she knew a friend who`d be PERFECT for the music.
When asked if it was Hooftoven, she made a pfft sound and laughed, saying it wasn`t any of THAT boring junk.
I found that very odd. Classical was the popular item in music these days.
But no, she said her friend was called Disco Scratch, and that she had invented something 'Dubstep'.
When I first heard it, It was like love at first sight.
Celestia on the other hoof, wouldnt be able to know of it til her party started.
Clearly they did not know my dear sister.
Tia liked her songs in the classical tune of Gala`s current players, Baltimare Melody and Flute Heartstrings.
Baltimare was my favorite, to be truthful.
Flute sung this weird song a lot... Something about the.... Dovakiin? She called it The Dovakiin comes.
Eh.
On the hour before Tia`s birthday was beginning, A grey unicorn mare walked in with a bunch of speakers.
The DJ. Her hair was a mid-blue with Light pink highlights.
She was, and still is (if you believe... certain things) the live ancestor of Vynal Scratch. Her, eh, I think 100th grandmother?
Or let`s just say GREAT GREAT grandmother.
As I was, Disco set up her speakers in an orderly fashion. Larger stumpier speakers on bottom, and then five layers of other speakers eventually leading to the small square one on the top.
Disco mostly just wore Pink tinted shades, made by herself- but otherwise her eye color was a bright crimson. Or dull red, at times it seemed to change, almost by emotion and hunger, if my observations were correct.
Finally, when the hour came for Tia`s time- I found myself uncomfortably twitching in my royal marble seat.
Tia wasn`t going to like the music.
As soon as those dumb bows and letters of laws were read in turn for some political achievement, Disco began her music.
Oh thank my sister she started out slow, with a simple piano tune... for maybe 20 seconds. A light blue pegasus got on stand by a microphone. We were pretty advanced a thousand years ago.
And suddenly, just as Tia was seemingly used to the piano tempo, Disco broke out a... Well, killer beat!
I thought it was awesome, Tia was just in shock. Then the pegasus began singing, yet his voice sounded altered, making some parts inaudible, yet it went perfectly with the instrumental part of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akalsWJ6L-M
"Look in the mirror, what do you see".
"Can it see you, and who could it be".
"The empty eyes, stare back in fear".
"The hopeless gaze, the face in mirror".
The song went on as Tia seemingly kept her ears pinned to her head with her crown.
-I should have warned them-
As some rich ponies came and asked Tia about the music, I could see Tia shake her head and sigh, or give some 'Idk' sort of thing to them. As for me and the other fillies? WE LOVED IT.
"You don`t need to run my child".
"The darkness will hide us".
"We will survive my child".
"Their love will provide us".
The beat slowed, so I had taken to leave from dancing. Tia seemed to have an eyebrow raised at the last sentence...
The beat suddenly got faster again, and within no time at all... It began again, with a lot of different sounds, and I practically buried myself in the music.
The Yellow haired blue pegasus`s cutie mark seemed to represent this music, as it showed some techno symbol.
I could swear, during the non-vocal music stage, his appearance would flicker from that of a pony, to that of some insect creature, with the body of a pony, yet having a horn AND wings. Though it was too fast, these changes, and the most color difference I could see was the occasional blue eye instead of green, or fangs...
I shoved away the observations as some figure of my imagination.
The song went on, so me and the others had got back to dancing or humming the song.
"In the mirror, who could it be?".
"I can see, what isn`t me".
"What is this, that i`ve become".
"I can feel, it the need for love!".
The Dub-step only part began again, I found myself seeing what Tia was up to.
Instead of the regular conversation, though, she was whispering something to a few of her royal guards. I could barely make out the conversation, being on the other side of the room.
"That pony... Yes... Synthis... Something... Strange, I know... Please, set... Up".
She thought the stage singer seemed, 'Strange'? DUH.
-There`s got to be something else-
I watched the guards set up some mirror`s.
They were taking the song seriously.
I face-hoofed, laughing onto my back. Thank goodness no pony noticed.
Tia, went up to a button. It was made of crystal.
The lyrics started back up, and unless it was my imagination, Tia seemed to rock her head to the beat, acting as if nothing happened.
"The cold glass, shows the truth".
"I can`t hide, my heart from you!".
"And all the secrets, I held inside".
"In front of the mirror they can`t hide".
The music slowly died down, with a chorus of cheers and boos from the adults, and basically only the former with the children.
We whooped and bounced, asking for more.
I looked back at the singer, Synthis.
There was a saddening expression on his face.
-why?-
The mirrors that had stood around the room, all reflected him.
Tia waved a hoof at one her guards, who nodded and called to more guards. They would then ready their magic, at something, aiming towards the doors of which most of the ponies had originally come through. A quick glance through the side door near the stage showed there were more doors.
-Okay...-
What happened next I think surprised everypony.
Tia slid into some hostile position, and with her horn aimed at Synthis, yelled, "Show your true self, traitor!".
Synthis raised his right hoof and his ears went back, clearly showing he was frightened, and to some level confused.
"W-what do you mean?" was his response.
"You very well know what I mean".
"...".
"Guards! The mirror, now!" She ordered her gold-clad ponies, whom used their already charged horns to bring some giant mirror through the door.
Well, it wasn`t GIANT. But it was decorated and taller than a normal pony.
This came to be the mirror that Twilight Sparkle went through.
Synthis froze.
Some direct level of fear was resonating from him. I paused, wondering why. It was a darn MIRROR!
"Charge it", Tia sighed. Her guards did as she said and began pulsing magic through the big oval glass.
It gave off wisps of blue and black, and even green light.
The reflection of Synthis in the mirror wavered.
And then changed.
Into the same insectoid creature I had originally saw. Ponies gaped and screamed, but after that it seemed blurry.
It was the first time I had seen a changeling.
He shivered, and yelled out, "Leave me alone!" and ran.
Something happened, all I know is that he escaped, which i`m grateful for. I either blacked out or got knocked out.
Flying through the night sky, I smile.
Changelings are wonderful, beautiful creatures. They eat love, yet their feared as monsters.
I sigh as I pick up pace, almost at the den of the Legend Waker.
Author's Note
PLEASE READ THIS; I know I used one present and one past tense flash back.
That was because the way Luna had perceived these events.
In her head, one memory was quite fresh and disturbing, while the other was just... Strange.
I hope you like it~ I worked two and half days on this chapter .
(I know, I know. That`s not long 
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A large tree with spiral designs comes into view as Luna comes close to the den.
Near the tree stands a large mossy entrance, covered in vines and writing of another language. I sigh as I land on the soft grass.
A light breeze blows through the area, carrying the sweet smell of honey and... Cinnamon?
I shrug it off as one of Zecora`s new soups carrying out here.
As I walk into the entrance, the honey smell is replaced with literal death, and the other with a metallic scent.
Blood.
I shiver as I continue, and in what little light I have from a hole in the top of the chamber, I can see there are dead bodies everywhere. My hooves splash in blood, staining my fur. And a few skeletons lay around. In one corner of the lighted areas, I swear I can see a familiar magician`s hat, with dangling bells around the base of it...
I breathe away the illusion, and continue.
Of course it doesn`t take long now. I grow near a large cliff, like one from a canyon, surrounded as if it were a peninsula with an abyss to replace the water. I continue on to it, stopping at a small pedestal.
"L-Legend Waker? I come in wish of-" I studder, until stopped by a resonating growl from the abyss below me.
I make a large gulp sound.
"Who disturbs my slumber..." The deep voice almost slithers into my head, rather than around my ears, though still echoing in the cavern.
"I-It is the princess, of the night, sir" I face-hoof. What good am I if I can`t talk straight?!
"I... See" The voice seems closer, come near the light. I`ll be able to see what this all mighty creature looks like soon.
"Yes. I... I come looking for advice, or a m-miracle", I stop from speaking as I begin to see two red glowing eyes coming up from the abyss.
Wait, make that three eyes, or four. Yeah, four.
"What, Luna..." It knows my name, "do you wish for?". It`s closer...
I whimper.
The head of the creature finally reaches the light. I gasp in horror.
-The THING, or dragon, had been decaying alive.
Its scales were jet black, well except the grey rotting remains of it, and it had two ram horns on each side of its head that reversed into it, almost literally. It`s jaw was- twisted. The bottom hung on partially side-ways like a beat up animatronic.
The rest of the body appeared, his claws were terribly long and curved to unknown angles. They were also a rotten green/tan.
His top back was in pretty good shape, having LONG spikes come out, curved and angled, black with a few stains of crimson.
The tail. It had more spikes on it, all cluttered together, with more blood, and yet the tip of the tail seemed to bath in the color of red.
It was shaped like a large scythe, large enough to take down a whole house, it seemed.
And lastly there was the wings. They stretched out at least 70 feet each, and were decayed beyond flight. Yet Legend, he was flying.
The claws at the bend of the wing curved like the feet.
"Admiring me?" the dragon asked as it flew in front of me.
"O-Of course! Your very-" I`m interrupted.
"I know that`s a lie. I look like a ship that sunk a thousand years ago!" It looks at itself, then at me.
"heh..." It was true. He did.
"Now. What do you wish for, princess?" It asked, echoing the chamber repeatedly.
"I-I wish for every pony to finally notice me... To love me, to respect me..." I look down at my hooves.
"Your wish... Explain it more" It asks, landing on a large enough cliff in the chasm, only it`s eyes showing in the dark.
"Nopony ever mentions my name. They all bask in my dear sister`s light. They bow to her and shun me... Nopony loves me," I whimper.
"Your sister does, the moon does, the stars do." It replies in a lighter tone than dark.
"I-I know. But thats... Not enough", I begin, "I cant talk to the stars, the moon, the night crawlers are... Scary, and my dear sister acts as if everypony is RIGHT to praise her!".
"Well. What of that... Political arrangement that`s been going around in your head lately, hmm?" He beckons towards my head with a claw, reaching in to the light so I may see.
"Oh... Queen? Right. RIGHT. They call her queen! And me... NOTHING." I cry out, angry at his testing questions.
"..." He does not reply.
After a long silence, I begin to sing to myself, trying to calm down.
"Population, keeps on breeding".
"Nation bleeding, still more feeding. Economy", I grow louder, though unintentional.
"Life is funny, skies are sunny".
"Bees make honey, who needs money? Monopoly" I sing the last part as if it is meant for him, the Legend waker.
"I`d love to change the world!" I stare at him, giving off a powerful vibe, but it fades away just as soon as it starts.
"But I don`t know what to do", I ruffle my wings, wiping away a chill that came in through the entrance to the doorway, where unknowing to me, the black silhouette of a fearsome alicorn flashes in the light.
"So i`ll leave it up to, you!" I stop, breathing. The dragon nods, and flies back in front of me, until landing on the ground.
"Your test is finished". He smiles, revealing blood dripping fangs, rows and rows, nothing but teeth. I do not see a tongue.
"T-test?!" I gasp.
"Yes. I thought about eating you, youd make a very magical potion-like snack, may even heal some of my... lets say, Lost flesh." he laughs, and I just make a studdered, 'heh'.
"Oh, cheer up. I wont kill you, unlike poor Star swirl... but I must say, you wont be... you" He sighs.
"Me? I-I..." I hold a hoof to my chin, thinking.
-Not me? How is that possible? What would I be? More of what would I be like?-
I decide to accept. It will get me respect, after all.
"Yes, sir. I accept your, offer".
He jumps back into the air. And with certain beats of his wings, blue, purple, and black magic flows out, surrounding me.
Almost to where I can`t see, I look at my hooves, they seem to be turning black...
"You will be feared, and respected..." He goes on, asking if i`m sure.
"Yes, i`m sure of this" I reply in a more raspy, echo-like tone.
"That is all I need to hear", my vision goes black.
The sunset appears before me, a battle-field of oranges, reds, and yellows.
I bathe in the last bit of light covering my black hooves, the blue shoe armor glazing with reflection.
"Tonight, I shall win", my voice is that of an older mares now, deep yet also cunning in a way.
"Tonight, they will come to respect me" I spit the words out.
"Tonight. They come to FEAR me!" I laugh at the air, something I had begun to take up as a habit.
I stare out at the setting egg, my dear sister`s setting oval of some pale white. I snort, bored.
but of course, some idea just has to pop into my head, adding to the plan of Celestia`s downfall.
"Well, wouldnt it be a *disaster*, if by some chance, the moon rose in reverse cycle? Causing, an... Eclipse? Oh, wouldnt that just be horrific?!" I laugh again, a long menacing laugh.
I decide to get up to a better position to perform my magic.
Ruffling my midnight color bat wings, I take off with one beat into the air, soon settling upon a rocky cliff, jutting out of a small mountain side.
-The sun is just so... boring. Maybe I should just speed up the process... No. I must wait-
Maybe some thoughts for the count, I mean why not? I`ve another hour before our... Action, takes place.
I was currently working on making a drawing of my sister, when some guards interrupted me, asking me about some stray dragon. I became very excited, and pursued them as they asked other ponies of it... Bringing my drawing of course.
We stopped only after 50 rooms to take a break, or they did- and even unknowing that I had come in the first place, I kept up the search.
eventually one pony, feather dance, said that she had saw something huge and purple go by earlier, but that her son, Balgruuf, had tracked it to where it rested, a den near Canterlot.
She had also said that Celestia decided to go, bringing about a dozen guards with her too.
I had stressed out, worrying about the darned creature, I guess its because they were so rare, or it was purple, or some other immature reason. Maybe I cared about its safety?
I soon found the dragon, along with more than just a dozen guards.
Tia was armored up and held a golden scythe wrapped in her magic.
"Tia? What are you-" I tried to ask, but I knew.
They were gonna kill it.
"GROAR!!!" It swiped at a guard, who dodged the blunt attack and sliced a deep cut into the arm of the beast. When I looked closely, in the darker reaches of the cave, I swear I could see something oval shaped, a few of them... They seemed purple too, with green spots, like the spikes on this dragon.
"Three in, now! four to the other, circle- form one, action two!" Celestia ordered her ponies.
They did as they were told, and attacked the dragon at certain positions.
I drew the dragon with some crudely rough marks.
I could of swore the ovals were eggs...
"Gra..." The dragon whimpered/growled as the ponies cut his neck and arms.
"WAIT!!! Stop, he`s not... bad..." Tia glared at me through the corner of her eye. I stepped back, lowering my head.
"Ra... Grah!" The dragon had begun to fall. I glanced up, and in my view, he was falling towards the eggs. I had took a chance, and without warning, gave my wings a bust, dashing under the Tia, who called for me, and then flying above the shoulder to get at an egg.
His fist busted the one I was going for, so I had retried at another. Smashed. They were eggs after all... Dead ones.
I flew at the ceiling, and with my magic, aimed for all the eggs.
I only got one out of there... Sadly. The rest were crushed as I brought them up- either by the dragon, or by the pressure of my magic.
I flew out of the rising dust, an egg soon following.
The rest of the ponies had left.
As if this never happened, even Tia left!
-But hadn`t she even called for me when I went in?-
Rocks crumbled in front of the den, confirming that anything in there, was there for good now. I crippled at my hooves, laying the egg down near a rock.
Sweat had been beading down my neck, and I noticed that one of my eyes was infuriated with dust.
The dragon, I know could tell, was a blunt figure with thick green spikes and purple scales, and his eyes layed open, blue gems of faded life. His fists were open, the palm filled with a pool of blood.
I sighed, making a connection with this little soon to be dragon and myself.
We were alone.
That dragon egg had not hatched for at least one-thousand years after this.
The sun was now in the right position for my moon.
I get up, rubbing my hoof on my leg, and prepare a charge on my horn. Luckily, i`m right near dear Tia.
Right where her window is in perfect view of me, of what she has made me. Nightmare Moon.
I watch as Tia is on her balcony, currently oblivious to my presence.
-That fool still thinks i`m in my room!- I scowl.
Now is the time.
I raise my hoof, and stomp it hard on the ground, wisps of dark blue aura slithering out. I point my horn to the sun, and use my power to create link to the moon, and drag that link to sun`s position.
Slowly, now, the moon begins to rise backwards towards the sun.
An eclipse will happen soon. Oh, too soon.
Celestia wavers from her current scroll, and looks over at her falling sun.
Her eyes widen.
"W-what the-" She looks at me. She holds the face of true fear and terror.
I laugh out, "Oh, dear Tia! Are you truly THAT scared?!".
Her face begins to become confused, along with teary eyes and a quivering lip.
"L-luna?" She backs up, into her room. I laugh more. This is SO much FUN!!!
"Oh Tia? Oh our queen, did you NOT see the signs?" I confirm her horrors.
"Luna! W-what have you d-done?!" she begins to cry.
"lighten up, Celestia! Take a look at the beauty in the sky!" I look around, the twilight dusk sky, the breeze in the air, a few distant screams.
"B-but... The moon? You must bring it down, Luna!" she screams at me.
"Stop. calling me that, for my name... Is NIGHTMARE MOON!!!" I laugh at the air.
"L-Luna..." She attempts to charge her energy into the sun, but to no avail. I control it now.
I charge a shot at her, my blue aura flashing in her direction- but she evades and flies into the sky. I shoot it again, but she dodges it.
"Dont run from me, once your done, ill be queen!!!" I fly after her, swirling so I can burst my wings in an embrace. She attempts a light shot at me, easily fizzled out from my radiating power.
She stops, and so do I.
"Why, Luna? why..." She awaits my answer.
"I`d love to change the world!" I sing, maybe it`ll transfer it better if I start at the last verse.
"But I don`t know what to do", the sun is officially blocked out by my moon.
"So i`ll leave it up to you!" I close my eyes, and then open them, blue fire blazing out.
"Ah,Ah. But I don`t know what to do!!!" I carry out the last word, leaving an emotional scar on Tia.
"But I don`t know what to, do! Ah,ah."
She shoots at me, which I counter, and give her a shot in the gut with my dark magic. She falls.
Into the ceiling of my room. The glass sprays over her beaten fur.
-It can`t be this easy...- I fly down into my chamber.
It may have been a horribly bad thing that my room sat directly beside the throne room.
Never the less, I land directly on Tia,causing her to raise her hooves to her face. Her horn is charged, but I don`t know what for.
I flicker my magic onto her fizzling horn, which soon wisps out into nothing.
She closes her eyes in defeat.
I continue, "But I don`t know what to do!" I smile as I prepare my magic, ready to send Tia`s soul to the void...
"Wow, wow, oh wow oh oh...!" A bright light appears behind my bedroom door, and Tia flickers her magic, whispering softly.
"I`m sorry, Lullay".
I`m taken back by some unknown force, causing me to crush my bed frame as I land flat on my night-stand, breaking my glass bat and moon statue.
I pay no mind to that, only to my broken side. It`s numb...
Celestia gets up, and only gives me a vacant stare.
I smile in my dry, yet oddly normal voice, "T-tia?". She sighs, a long tear tracking down her cheek.
I can see what attacked me now. An element of... Harmony.
I whimper, what is going to do with that?
"I`m sorry, Luna. This... Must be done". She gathers the rest of the elements, and they begin circling her, a fit of color blinding my nocturnal eyes.
"Tia?!" I gasp.
The light becomes too much to bare for my eyes, but I watch on.
"Luna, forgive me", I can barely hear her.
The light engulfs my vision, numbness engulfing my body all over.
"TIA!!!".
"But I don`t know what to, do".
Celestia sighs, tears escaping her scratched limping body. She stares out at the moon, a mare with a long horn now dotting the sphere like a reminder- Luna`s prison. The seal to keep her at bay.
Tia whispers, "So i`ll leave it up to, you".
She sighs, wanting to scream at the world.
-Why, Luna?!-
Why... She falls onto the ground. It was a quick yet terrifying battle. All because of, what? The word? Queen?
They didn`t... Mean it...
-Oh, quit it, Tia. it`s all your fault-
"Oh, Luna" Tia sighs, looked down at the ground.
She wants to change the world... Luna... But can`t.
I have to, I have to do it. I whimper.
"But I don`t know what to do"
