a Nightmare to Remember

The morning came by quickly and Mari tech awoke to the sounds of the same blue feathered creature yesterday. Twilight and spike already made breakfast, and twilight recommended finding a job that suites her. Being a jack of all trades she thought of going for a medical position, an area she was very skilled at.

Mari went to the job board to find a medical job. She didn’t find anything worthwhile on the board so she went back to twilight’s home.

“I didn’t find anything worthwhile on the board” Mari said sadly

“Well why don’t you go to the Ponyville general hospital and see if they have a position open?”

“Ehh sure i’ll go over and check”

Mari went to the hospital and checked with the mare at the counter.

“Hello and welcome to ponyville general hospital, how may we help you” the white mare with bubblegum striped mane and the red cross cutiemark said

"Hello i’m actually looking for a medical position”

“Why we have a couple openings, we have part-time nurse, medicine manufacturing, surgeon, and check-up doctor.”

“I think i will go with part-time nurse and if at all possible, medicine manufacturing.”

“Sure we can do that, one question, how is your medical skills?”

“I have been practicing advanced medicine for 30 years”

“really? you don’t look that old”

Mari chuckled “yeah you wouldn’t believe my age”

“Really? I'm interested now”

“145”

“What that’s impossible! You aren’t an alicorn”

“True, I’m a nightmare”

“What’s a nightmare?”

“Old race of ponies with an advanced civilization. I can go into it more if i have a job”

“Well consider yourself hired”

Both ponies shaked hooves and Mari went on her way back to Twilight.

Mari walked by many other ponies, none she took interest in. She thought of finding a special somepony to spend their life with because she knew she would outlive any of the ponies in town, even Twilight. Mari dwelled deeply on that thought.

When Mari got to twilight’s house which she decided to call home for now, Twilight was at a table reading on books about nightmare myths. When Mari spoke twilight jumped.

“Hey Twilight i’m back”

“OH CELESTIA…. oh sorry you scared me”

“Sorry, and who’s Celestia?”

“She is one of the rulers of Equestria”

“One of?”

“Yeah there are 4 princesses and two rulers. the other is Luna who is Celestia’s sister”

“Who are the other two princesses”

“Me and princess Cadance”

“You’re a princess?”

Twilight flexed her wings to prove that she has the powers of all 3 races of ponies.

“Ok ok you don’t need to show off” Mari smiled

“Well it is an amazing feat, but aren’t you an alicorn because you have the build of an earth pony, the wings of a pegasus, and the magic ability of a unicorn?”

“ Well i am on a technical scale but my race would be nightmare, it’s an entire race of its own”

“Oh i see then” Twilight shifted uneasily

“Twilight are you ok” Mari said noticing her expression, her atmosphere, and her movements

Twilight was in her own world for a sec “wait what?”

“Twilight you are anxious, i can tell”

“H-how do you know?”

“Social psychology degree. Got it in my 6th year of college”

“6 years?”

“Well we usually go to about 30-35 years of college”

“Wow that must cost a lot”

“No not really, it’s all paid for by our government”

“That's amazing, we have to pay a lot for college”

Both Mari and Twilight sat in silence for a while until Twilight decided to break it.

“So what do nightmares do for fun?”

“Mainly sports, but i’m not a sporty pony”

“I figured”

Mari decided to ignore that.

“Other than that we have magic duels to see who is more dominant”

“Sounds like fun, maybe we could have a duel, i haven’t had one since Trixie”

“Are you sure? Because nightmare magic is dangerous and unstable”

“Oh i’m sure i’ll be fine”

“Ok if you say so”

Both ponies went out into the streets and into a small field. Mari tech used her magic to make a small arena.

“Thats pretty impressive” Twilight said smartly

“That’s just the beginning” Mari tech retorted

After that statement both ponies got into position to duel. they both counted down.

“1”

“2’

‘3’

“DUEL”

After those words were said Twilight released a ball of pure energy at Mari, it didn’t affect her in any way.

“How is that possible?”

Mari Tech chuckled and did strange movements with her hooves. One by one huge beams of fire wooshed past twilight almost hitting her, after a couple beams Mari threw what appeared to be a small pineapple like ball made of magic, after 3 seconds the ball exploded knocking Twilight 5 feet back.

“First one to get knocked back, i win”

“Wow that was impressive, i can’t believe you shrugged off a mana blast”

“Nightmare’s have a passive 75% magic resistance”

“Aww no fair”

Mari chuckled and the arena fell back into the ground again. Both Mari and Twilight went back home. Twilight seemed to be excited for some reason.

“Twilight you seem excited”

Twilight was caught off guard “Huh-what? oh it’s just because Celestia is visiting me tomorrow.”

“Wait she is? Well you should send that letter about me to her so she is prepared and is not caught off guard”

“I doubt she will be caught off guard but if you want me to then i will”

Twilight walked into the other room to get the letter, when she got back she gave it to spike and sent it to Celestia.