Of Seized Shadows and Light

"The Element of Magic!" The purple unicorn levitated into the air with five other ponies. A white aura surrounded her and the others. An orb was built of these foundations and the reborn Elements of Harmony unleashed the magic of friendship upon Nightmare Moon. Two rainbow ribbons intertwined each other and formed into a single ribbon. The magic ribbon then began to rise until it made a curve and descended downwards towards the Mare in the Moon.

She shrieked  "no!~" as this magic descended upon her. But she caught herself in time before the magic pulverized her and formed a quick defense spell. She was wrapped in the ribbons of rainbow and began to compress her into oblivion. She felt the pain of the magic from the transformation spell. Her body being contorted into her previous form of her weak self. She screamed in agony, she had to stand until the magic was done. She was Nightmare Moon, she was not about to succumb to what had banished her previously. She held her ground against the magic that oppressed her. She kept holding against it until it was finished. The magic had exhausted itself, in return Nightmare Moon was weakened. The joints in her legs grew weak and she collapsed to the ground. She still remained in her Nightmare body had not transformed.

The light around her began to be filled with the light of her sisters daylight. She saw that the ponies levitated back to the ground and then began to embrace one another and began to celebrate their so called victory against her. A blinding light then filled the room and a pony came out of nowhere. This pony happened to be her very so called sister, her name was Princess Celestia. In her appearance she was white, her mane flowing with the colors of the sky throughout the day. She bore a horn that carried magic she did not deserve for she was weak against her foes. She carried wings upon herself that were useless for traveling and even less for combat. In her wake, the ponies who had bodies of yellow, orange (which was a hideous color), blue, white, and pink bowed before this false princess. The purple one though ran up to Celestia and stayed near her leg and gave a smile to her. The purple unicorn then spoke words that Nightmare Moon did not care about. All that mattered is that she must rise above these pathetic creatures and become something more, something more powerful. To fall before the elements of Harmony, such a weak weapon it was, was almost like humiliation to her.

Then she remembered what was stored in her mind. A dagger that seeped with darkness that could teleport her to any location she would like to be at in the known universe. She rose up from the light stained ground slowly. She then conjured the knife from her mind. From her mind a knife was conjured, its blade was straight, the material of the blade was darker than obsidian itself. A dark aura rose from the blade itself. The handle was made of a matter that defies description that even Star Swirled the Bearded could not comprehend (if he was still alive). She stood at the platform and all of the ponies began looking at her with Celestia being in delay behind them. All seven of them looked there with questioning yet worried faces. Nightmare Moon began to laugh demonically, her voice was hoarse. She then laughed and began to ready the knife to the bottom of her naked chest. She place it closer until it pained her to place it that close to her flesh. The ponies all began to look terrified as if she were about to kill herself they all began running up to her to stop her before she cut her throat. But they were too late, she made the move and sliced open her throat,  but instead of blood seeping out, there was a dark aura seeping out.

A vortex appeared over Nightmare Moon's head and it began to slowly consume her. The ponies were halted in their tracks in the wake of the vortex opening. Nightmare Moon was eaten up entirely by the vortex and the dagger was then dropped afterwards with a clinking sound. Now the dagger was an old, battered down one with no special enchantments to it. In wake of the vortex opening and sucking Nightmare Moon the seven ponies who stood before Nightmare Moon being eaten by the vortex were only left with two conclusions, either Nightmare Moon just killed herself. Or that she fled in time before they could catch her.

The Moon,

Two minutes after Nightmare Moon getting away...

Nightmare Moon laid unconscious on the cold surface of the moon in the middle of a crater. The darkness of space lingered above her head, the cold, gray rock underneath her body. This was Nightmare Moon's home. The thousand years she endured and she banished herself back her again for it was somewhere she was most familiar with. It would be an ideal place to start her legacy and begin an empire that no pony would ever predict or be able to retaliate against.

The dark aura from the blade that she cut herself with rose from her body as she laid there, motionless, almost as if she was dead. She then sprouted back to the reality that she was in. She quickly arose from her state of unconsciousness and looked around her only to reveal to herself that she safely landed back on the moon. Nightmare Moon then noticed that she was in the middle of a large crater, she looked around and noticed that there was a glow wherever she looked. She then began questioning it's presence. She looked towards the ground and it glowed. She then noticed her eyes were glowing the color that was almost a cyan color but had a more pale tone to it. She was transforming already, the blade she cut herself with already began the transforming process of her body, it was the eyes first, she wondered what was next.

She eventually stopped thinking about what was next and realized what she had to do was find a way out of the crater she was in. She eventually found a safe place to teleport to that was outside the crater. She filled her horn with magic and then casted the spell that teleported her to the location she desired. Nightmare Moon then suddenly appeared on the surface of the moon and had a full view of the planet that awaited her arrival. She gave a slight smirk and looked towards it.

"I will have all of their dreams crushed and their light eaten. I never got to truly show what I am capable of to those pathetic ponies. All of them and their leaders, even my sister will bow to me and is inevitable."