The Mane Twelve

Luna's eyes are blindfolded as she is dragged by a strange somepony. During the cold dark hours of the night, Luna had no idea she would get kidnapped as she raised the moon one more time. What did the mysterious somepony want? Ransom? The throne? Luna was not sure. But she knew that Celestia would find her. She was certain that she would do anything to find her.

Luna's powers were for some reason useless. She tried teleporting away from there or using telekinesis to disarm the enemy but it was all worthless. Nothing worked.

She felt a sudden stop and immediately a bonk in the head and her she faded into the darkness. It seemed like minutes after she had woken up. Her head felt like a million tons. Although the room was kinda dark with only a little light coming from the holes of the One of them slowly approached Luna and looked at her weirdly. He bent over and his face was only a few intches away from hers.

"F...Fo...Food..." he hardly said

His appearance was gross. His eyes were dark from his probable lack of sleep and his skin seemed like he had gone through a war. There were cuts and missing pieces of his own flesh everywhere. His fur, dark green and dirty to the bone. He raised his hoof to reveal that it had been eaten away, the bone being visible and the maggots crawling to his shoulder. How could he raise it when it was just the bone? He slowly petted Luna's head. His breath was deap and Luna could feel it.

"Famine, stay away from the mare," said one of the other alicorns seriously.

Famine turned around and looked at him. He was petriffied by that mysterious alicorn. He turned back to look at Luna and slowly moved away from her, just like the way he had approached her. The mysterious alicorn made a step forward. He was well dressed, unlike Famine, and his appearance seemed like he had come from a royal and rich clan. He seemed rather serious and judging by his overall image, he seemed trustworthy. Luna kept wonderng why was he with them. He came close to Luna and bowed.

"My queen," he said with respect coming out of his mouth, "Welcome back."

Luna was cofused. Queen? She was a princess. The true ruler of Equestria was her sister, Celestia. That made her panic even more.

"T-This is some sort of misunderstanding. I am not a queen. I'm Princess Luna."

"I'd like to beg the differ my queen." said the alicorn still keeping his bowed position.

"You heard the bitch Pestilence," said a third voice from behind, a rather rough and harcore one.

Pestilence turned around and faced at the thrid alicorn.

"War, show some respect towards the queen." he said, always keeping his cool.

"Face the facts Pestilence, she's not our queen yet. We need the crown." said the alicorn, revealing himself from the shadows.

War was somewhat like the opposite of Famine. He was outgoing, brutal and violent.

He wore bright shining armor and looked like he came from the Great Battle Over Equestria. He seemed like Commaned Hurricane himself, but red and with fire coming out of his eyes. In his back, an enormous axe was held completely made out of gold.

"I indeed know the facts War, yet I have the decency to respect our queen."

Luna was starting to realise what was going on. Famine, War, Pestilence. Those weren't ordinary names for alicorns. But for divine beings. She looked at them in shock and tried to remember what she had read in the books.

"It's no use remembering little filly," said a forth voice, "one who has forgotten his past and decided to follow the future can no longer return to his memories and journey through them."

The fourth and final alicorn revealed himself. He wore a mask representing a creature with black skin like the darkness it was born in, bright yellow eyes like the setting sun and long mane like his endless life. Luna was more afraid of him than the other three combined. He was Death.

"D-Death..." she hardly said.

The three alicorns looked at Death. He walked towards them and looked at Luna, his golden eyes staring right into her soul.

"Death..." they said as well.

Death looked at each and every one of them respectfully. Famine looked down, War nodded and Pestilence bowed to him. It seemed that Death was the most powerful of the four. Death turned to Luna and focused on her once again.

"I am glad to see you again...sister."

Luna looked at him in shock. This monster...her brother? Impossible. A creature so malevolent like the divine and endless Death related to Luna? Why didn't Celestia ever talk about him?

"You seem as if you saw a ghost." said Death and took out his Grand Scythe, an enormous and powerful scythe extremely sharp in the edges, slightly damaged and a little rusty from all the ages it was used to rip the souls off of innocent ponies. He looked at it and then looked at Luna again. He slowly pointed it at Luna, the charged and assaulted her. Luna quickly closed her eyes. However, she opened them again to find that she hadn't died. Instead, she was free. She wasn't bound anymore.

"Consider this action as a favour from me." said Death. "Come," he continued, "let us talk in privacy." he concluded and turned around, starting to walk towards a corridor.

Luna stayed at her position for a while and looked at him. She then faced the other three. Death turned around.

"Well?" he said.

"Y-Yes." she replied and ran towards him, keeping a small distance between her and him. She didn't want to approach a lot the Incarnation of Death himself. As they walked down the corridor, there was complete silence. All that could be heard was the sound of a cricket singing. As soon as they walked past him, Luna watched him slowly disintergrating. It was Death's aura. Luna had a gift when it came to recognising auras in ponies. Death's however seemed both strange and unusual but so familiar and friendly at the same time, like he really was related to her. That made Luna even more confused. The two alicorns reached a lake outside an old warehouse where they came from. The lake however seemed peculiar. Its waters seemed black and the surroundings were plain and lifeless, covered in deserts and brutal four-legged creatures murdering each other.

"W-Where are we Death?" she said looking at her reflection in the lake.

"Our existance in this world is rather temporary, as one who has not disintergrated from the maggots of the ground cannot feel the present nature of these surroundings." he said.

He noticed Luna looking at herself in the waters and not paying much attention to anything else happening around her.

"Ah," he said slightly excited, "The Lake of Confrontation it is you look yourself at? Beware though, that the pony's reflecton in these blackened waters only reveal's its true nature, sometimes good and sometimes as bad as this dimension. I can only reflect myself in these waters and only I can activate its abilities."

Death raised his hoof and pointed it at the water. Suddenly, his hoof peeled and blood started dripping from it, slowly falling into the lake. His hoof then slowly started regenerating after that.

"Now you can gaze upon your true self and face the truth behind the real Princess of the Night."

Luna looked at her reflection slowly shifting into a creature that came out of the darkness like Death. It growed fangs and claws and its eyes looked at Luna like she was its worst enemy. Luna looked away.

"Looking somewhere else than your true destiny only makes you angrier, it only develops the darkness and its hate towards you."

"But wait Death, if this reflection is me, then..." she turned around once again but no sooner had she turned than the demon came out of the lake and pulled her inside. Inside the lake, Luna could hardly breathe, struggling to see inside the dark waters of the lake. Suddenly, she started hearing a voice. It wasn't Death's however.

"Luna...Free me..." said the voice. It was a feminin voice. She turned around and around to locate the mare but she could see nothing. Then, the lake brightened and glowing ponies started decending from the bottoms.

"It's her. Nightmare Moon." said one of the ponies"

The ponies started talking all together and judging her.

"It's all your fault-"  "How could you-"  "She was just a filly-"

Luna couldn't stand all the accusements. She quickly shut her ears and closed her eyes. Yet she could still hear them. All her guilt made her lose her breath even faster. She was going to die. Like this? Being accused by crimes she didn't commit?

"A dark end for a pony of darkness..." whispered Luna, "I can't...please...LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Suddenly, darkness started coming out from Luna's soul, forming into ponies that assaulted the glowing ones, sending them back to the abyss of the lake. Luna opened her eyes but they weren't the same anymore. They were filled with hate, with darkeness.

Death was sitting outside of the lake, next to a dry and old branch, that seemed to have been chopped down by the time and the terribly strong sandstorms. He looked at the lake one more time. He saw a hoof coming out of the lake. It was Luna. She was coming out. As she rised, Death gave out a grin.

"It's pleasant to have you back...Queen of Darkness, Nightmare Moon."

Nightmare Moon had risen once again from her ashes. Defeated once by the Elements of Harmony, she was once again alive, with flesh and blood. Death's grin got even darker. Her appearance though seemed more sinister than her past. Her coat was darker, the darkest it could get with eyes full of darkness, with the look of a dragon. Her armor, shining like the moon itself, crafted from harcore Obsidian with spikes coming out and her mane was Sparkly Black. Her appearance now resmebled more to Death.

"It is indeed nice to be back." said Nightmare Moon with an arrogant and rude voice.

Death was now sure that he had gained his long lost sister back. Yet he needed to make sure that she was here to stay this time. Nightmare Moon at that time gazed upon her land, now recognisable by her, the Land of Demise, the world she had created herself. Only her and her commanders, the Four Ponies of the Apocalypse could enter this dimension. Death took advantage of this chance and backstabbed her with the Grand Scythe. She spit blood from her mouth and fell to the ground. Death sniffed.

"You didn't change at all then, sister." he said and walked away.

He didn't notice that Nightmare Moon was slowly getting up and recovering her wound.

"HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT?!" she shouted at him.

Death turned around and grinned once again.

"Come Nightmare. Let us walk onto the ground where only its mighty rulers and those not belonging here can step their hoof. We have a lot to discuss."

Nightmare Moon decided to accept and soon the two alicorns started walking into the dust of the dessert. As they were walking, they looked around at the mindless creatures staring at them but not being able to touch them.

"Those existing in this universe can only see what meets their eye The supernatural cannot exist in a world of reality." said Death, having suddenly stopped.

He gazed upon the moon and his golden eyes shined upon his mask.

"It is almost time for that uncontrolable by anypony to be freed once again."

"What is it that you mean brother?" said Nightmare Moon looking at Death in wonder.

Suddenly, Nightmare Moon felt her heart had stopped beating. She could hardly breathe and fell to the ground struggling to survive.

"Manipulate the inner darkness and its overall control will be obtained. Utilise your advantages and dispose of the disadvantages." said Death to Nightmare Moon. Yet she wasn't paying attention to him at all.

Nightamare Moon couldn't stand the pain and fainted. She found herself inside a big room yet empty. Its colour was bright blue like her night. Squinting her eyes, trying to see till the end of the room, she could see another pony looking at her. Nightmare Moon started walking towards the mysterious pony. As she approached it, she started to realised her location and the pony that had joined her. The pony was Luna, Princess of the Night. Luna pointed her hoof on a random spot and a table flashed out of nowhere with two chairs.

"Sit Nightmare Moon. We need to speak."

"I don't make negotiations with inferiors." said Nightmare Moon arrogantly.

"Hm. You took over me again. Do you find yourself powerful?"

Nightmare Moon looked at Luna with a look of superiority.

"I am stronger and cleverer than you, little bug. What makes you think I'm not powerful?"

Luna smiled looking at the ground and turned around.

"I saw from this here location you come out and me come in. You were watching me all this time. From inside."

Nightmare Moon looked at her in curiostiy.

"What are you implying?"

Luna turned around and faced Nightmare Moon. She then raised her hoof and pointed it at her.

"You're weak and you know it Nightmare Moon. You're just like me. Or, better implied, you are me."

Nightmare now looked at her in shock. The room suddenly started becoming smaller and reaching for the two ponies. Nightmare Moon started to panic.

"No...NO! I control you!"

"I don't think so. Time to finish you once and for all."

The walls had reached Nightmare so close that they were now moments away from her and Luna at the same time.

"B-But if I die, you die as well."

Luna put he hoof down and calmed her expression.

"That's a risk I'm willing to take." she said seriously, "Goodbye...forever."

Luna then closed her eyes. Nightmare Moon was petrified. So that was now the end for both of them. Nightmare Moon at first thought that she was bluffing. However, Luna was always too serious for a joke so overdone. She decided to follow Luna's actions and calmed down, slowly closing her eyes as well.

"Goodbye...Luna." whispered Nightmare Moon.

Suddenly, the sound of a slash was heard and the walls around the two alicorns were disintergrated into ash. Both Nightmare Moon and Luna opened their eyes and looked at each other in surprise.

"I strongly apologise for the damage. But you gave me no choice." said a voice.

The two mares turned to their left to look at Death.

"B-But this is my inner soul. You're not allowed here." said Luna startled.

"Trust me dear sister, when one's soul fades away from the world of the living, the Grim Reaper is called upon to gather the lingering sentiments. Now, you are my property." said Death and raised his hoof.

Luna then started to be pulled away, towards Death arm. That meant that she...had died. Luna had actually killed herself. As she was sucked by Death, Nightmare Moon looked at him with her most petrified expression and her feelings being sunk with Luna as well.

After Luna was sucked right into Death's body, he turned and looked at Nightmare Moon. His yellow, hollow eyes looked at her as he gave out another one of his dark grins.

"Now the creature of light has vanquished. You...are complete." said Death with slight excitement, keeping his dark tone and expression.

Nightmare Moon opened her eyes wide open. She was back to the real world and got up. Death was sitting at the sand watching two monsters eat themselves and keeping silent. His scythe was stabbed in the sand, and his mask was hanging on it.

"Death..." said Nightmare Moon hardly.

Death raised his head, took his mask, put it on and looked at her.

"Look at the moon and reflect your true nature now sister. You are complete."

Nightmare said nothing. Instead, she realised that actions spoke louder than words. She raised her head and looked at the moon. Suddenly, an image flashed inside her head repeatadly. Her vision blurred and her body started aching. Her eyes then blackened and her skin turned shiny black, with claws growing out of her hooves and her mane turning sparkly dark blue as well as her fangs growing bigger in size. She was transforming to that monster from the reflection of the lake. She could harldy speak and could not control her movements. Death sat and gazed at her transormation, slowly getting up and picking his scythe. Once the transformation was complete, Nightmare Moon was lying faint on the sand.

"Welcome into the world of existance, Nightmare Chaos."

The creature raised itself on its hooves. It focused its sight on Death.

"D-De-Death..." it said to him.

"Rest," said Death, "Let us walk back. The commanders need to be informed about your creation."

They soon started walkng back to the werehouse, Nightmare Chaos slowly following Death. As they entered back into the room where they came from, the three other commanders looked at the creature.

"Ah, your Majesty. You are once again back." said Pestilence and bowed one more time.

The vile creature stared upon him and its dark eyes pierced into his soul. Pestilence stepped back. War kept quiet and stood in detention. Famine lied down and looked at his new ruler, keeing his mouth shut, afraid not to cause any more damage to himself.

"Commanders, hear me," said the creature, now being able to talk, "The New Chaos Republic will be brought back to life as I was. Prepare yourselves for a journey to Equestria. Pestilence. War. Famine. And Death."

Pestilence nodded. War gave out a huge grin and Famine seemed quite excited now. Death decided to speak no more. His part was done and now he only needed to complete the final part of the reincarnation of the Republic.

But what was the Chaos Republic that made the Ponies of the Apocalypse so hyper? Legend had it that it had been formed ever since the birth of Princess Luna but she herself had no idea about it. The four Ponies chosen as her guardians were these four, at that time having different names and appearances. The Republic was a conspiracy to overthrow Celestia and prepare Luna to take her place as a tyrrant. It was formed by the guardians' fathers. The guardians however were kind to Luna. These four were kind and caring for Luna. They made everything in their power to make her the best Princess of the night. Yet, Luna gave in to her jealousy and became Nightmare Moon. Celestia, along with the four alicorns hid from Nightmare Moon as she formed her new kingdom known as the New Chaos Republic with the help of the conspirators. As soon as Celestia used the Elements of Harmony on Nightmare Moon, the Republic fell. However, Celestia had completely forgotten that the four alicorns that helped her had a special bond with Luna and when she vanished, they vanished to the darkness too. The oldest pony put the blame on Celestia and promised revenge. The second one swore to destroy the kingdom. The third wished for everything to be his and the fourth wished for everyone to die from the worst death. After a thousand years imprisoned, the Republic was now just a myth only remebered by those four. However, year by year their appearance changed and their attitude as well. The older one could not face himself again and hid behind a mask. The second gave in to his violent part. The third one wished everything for himself and became greedy whereas the fourth one suffered from his own curse, not being able to die however. It was then when the Four Ponies of the Apocalypse were born. Their presence on Equestria was obvious from the results of ponies' greed ending up in war an then in famine, resulting in death. The Four Ponies of the Apocalypse decided to watch over Luna from the Land of Demise, the closest place to Luna, monitoring her every move and action, carefully analysing her and figuring out how to ressurect Nightmare Moon to create the Republic once again. Now their plan had officially begun. And with Nightmare Chaos being over a million times worse than Nightmare Moon, the destruction of Equestria and the fall of Celestia was inevitable. Now, they were unstoppable.