Celestia talking

Nightmare Moon talking

Luna speaking

Time skips

Hey there, my name is Scorpio, I am 6'3" with Jet black hair going down to the bottom of my shoulder blades but braided, and pale skin, I have violet eyes and I am naturally nocturnal, I have had extensive combat training from my dad who was in a black ops team while he was in the USMC. I am a sharpshooter and can practically snipe with a pistol. So I guess you guys are going to be joining me for the foreseeable future of my life. Well lets go.

So I was sitting in my dorm room after a parkour trip in St. Paul, I'm wearing my shadow camo ACU pants, my black athletic pants that go under the ACU pants, my black skin tight sports shirt, a shadow camo hoodie, a shadow camo ACU jacket, and black tactical combat boots built for stealth. I have replaced the velcro on my ACUs with buttons so that it doesn't make me noisy as hell. I also have a steel backpack I created specifically for parkour so that it has a soft back to it but a hard steel case for the front. I have a first aid kit in it, a windproof lighter, a Glock 17 pistol with 2 spare mags, 1 Ka-Bar, and a change of the same clothes. I have 3 Ka-Bars on me in various places, a CZ 75 B pistol in a shoulder holster and a Glock 40 on the other shoulder. I have three spare mags for both. I also have a full 50 count throwing knife belt diagonal across my chest, and a set of Legolas style hunting knifes made of titanium and steel, both strapped to my thighs.

I walked out of the dorm and took a deep breath of the cool night air of Minnesota in October. I live in Marshal, MN for college at SMSU, I'm a Junior and my older brother Nathan is a senior and getting a math degree, while I'm still deciding what to major in. It's a small town, not much of anything and it still smells weird to me, but my brother says you get used to it. I sit down on a bench after wandering for a bit, and look up at the moon. I have always had this strange fascination with the moon, my parents say it's because I'm nocturnal that it makes sense for me to be attached to the moon. I think back to the meeting for the club I started last month, its the only reason I'm allowed to have my weapons in my dorm room, the club is a self defense and combat club so we get to keep our weapons, however the Dean doesn't know about the guns and I plan to keep it that way. I realize that's not something that normally happens but my family knows the Dean of the college, so he allowed it after seeing me and my brother spar. So I was sitting on the bench when I heard a voice.

"Whats this? A young one out in the light of our prison?"

"Who's there?" I called out

"I are the being that resides in the moon. I am Nightmare Moon." Nightmare Moon said

I looked up at the moon and could see that there was no longer a face in the moon but instead what looks like a unicorn head is there, I started to think about what this could mean.

"What are you thinking about young one?"

"Why did you call the moon your prison?"

"My sister banished me to the moon on my world, but my time to return is almost upon me."

"How long have you been in the moon?"

"I have been in here for 999 years, and 359 days"

"Why are you in your prison?"

"I am in a war with my sister, and I fear I may not survive our next encounter."

I thought about this for a moment, should I offer my help or not. On one hand I have my family, but they never did care all that much about me and Nathan always told me I was the kind of person to help someone in need. And on the other hand I have the fact that her life is in danger of being extinguished. I thought about it for a few more minutes, then I finally said something.

"Well in that case I offer you my aid so that you might survive this next encounter."

She sounded shocked when she responded "Are you sure?"

"Yes." I responded without a moments hesitation

"Then prepare yourself, this will hurt"

I started to feel my body being ripped into trillions of tiny pieces . I could only scream at the pain I was feeling. It felt as if all of my nerves were being lit on fire while I was being torn apart and put back together in another place. New knowledge started to pour into my brain of a world I had never seen of before. The land of Equestria calls it Equus, but the other countries and creatures all have their own names for it, but above all else it is their home. I can see a kingdom in the north of Equestria called the Crystal Empire, it is an empire ruled by a beautiful woman with dark gray fur, a curved horn, a long jet black mane and tail, she radiated power and magic. I started thinking to myself that at some point in time I will need to visit this empire but that will have to wait until after the I deal with the problem of Nightmare Moon and her sister wanting to kill each other.

When I started to wake up, I opened my eyes to see stars, billions upon billions of stars. I sit up and looked around only to find myself looking at the cratered surface of the moon. I look to the left and see a planet that looked similar to Earth but the continents are different, it takes me a moment to realize I am looking at Equus. I started to wonder how I'm still alive on the moon without a space suit or something like that , when I heard a sound to my right, wait a second... sound? I'm in space I shouldn't be able to hear anything.

"Does it not look beautiful?"

I look to the right and take in the sight of a woman with pitch black fur, teal eyes with reptilian slit pupils, black feathered wings and a long black horn, her mane and tail are blue, and have this ethereal look to them with stars inside them, she is wearing black battle armor that has white dots like stars on it, there is what looks like an ink blot with a crescent moon on the left of the chest plate, she is fairly attractive. Like the gray woman I had seen in my earlier vision she radiated power and magic, but there is something else underneath it. A certain feeling of evil. I will need to watch out for that.

"Yes, it is beautiful" I say. And I am telling the truth, it is beautiful.

"you were out for several days, there is mere minutes till our return. I will place you at my old castle in case we need to retreat there."

"Alright"

"You should know that the process of bringing you here has given your body channels for magic, maybe you should practice while waiting for us"

This shocked me, but I could only nod in response. I could feel this twisting and pulling feeling in my gut and unlike earlier this transportation is like falling through a tunnel. I start to wake up and noticed I am on the floor of an old crumbling castle, when I got into a sitting position I tried to look at my surroundings. I look to the left and see that the walls are crumbling and moss is growing on them, there is a tapestry with a man and woman, the man is wearing a crown made of suns forged into the metal and the woman is wearing a crown with the cosmos and galaxies forged into it. I then look to the right and see that the wall was completely gone, what I can see beyond is a vast forest not unlike the ones on earth.

To the front of me is a raised dais with two thrones on it, these were either the thrones of the couple in the tapestry or it was the thrones of Nightmare Moon and her sister. I started to walk over to the thrones to inspect them, the throne on the left is gold and silver with suns of all colors in strategic locations all over it. The throne on the right is black and silver with moons and galaxies seemingly placed at random, but if I look close enough they are in an interesting pattern. I take off my backpack an set it down in between the thrones, then I proceeded to take off my ACU jacket and drape it over the back of the throne on the right. I walk to the front of the throne on the right that I think I will call the 'Cosmic Throne' and sit down, and start to meditate, I focused on finding these magic channels that Nightmare spoke of. I thought about magic for a few minutes and realized that it is the manipulation of the bodies energy through a focus point. Now usually the focus point for a human using magic would be a wand or a staff, but if I focus it through the bone in one of my fingers I could theoretically use that as a focus.

I wonder what I should try to do? Maybe levitation? No, too cliche... Oh I know! I started focusing the energy inside myself through the bones in my index finger and point at a pile of rubble in the corner. Okay now I just have to focus and... I open my eyes in time to see a column of destructive fire fly out from my finger and start to burn away at the moss on the rubble, I could feel the energy leaving through my finger. I focused and cut off the energy going to my finger and condensed it into a sphere in my core, when I look back up I'm surprised to see that the flames are still burning and that they are melting the rubble. I figured that I should probably try to put it out, so once again I focused the energy and instead of thinking about fire, I start thinking about water this time instead of fire. I look at the rubble and will the magic to respond to my will, and water shoots out from my finger and extinguishes the flames.

TWO HOURS LATER

After a fair amount of practice I feel that I have a fairly good grasp on the Flame, Water, Fireball, Ice, and Levitation spells, the hardest one to figure out was the Ice spell. I was startled out of my thoughts when I heard the sound of running, I look up and see Nightmare teleport in while the door that I hadn't even noticed burst open. Through the door run in six girls, going from left to right; there is a pink furred girl with blue eyes, wearing a pink and blue swirl t-shirt, a pink skirt with a mark of three balloons on it, she is about 5'6", she is wearing blue stockings and shoes, her mane and tail are really curly and kinda bouncy as well as pink. The next one has a kinda orange fur, teal/green eyes, she is about 5'9",she is wearing a tan stetson hat, cowboy pants, cowboy boots, a leather vest over a red flannel, and her blond mane is tied in a ponytail and her tail is the same, she has a mark of three apples on her pants. The next has pure white fur, blue eyes, a white horn, and a curled purple mane and tail, she is wearing heels and I'm not sure how she ran in those without breaking a foot, as well as a pure white sundress, she is around 5'5" without the heels on. Next is a girl with lavender fur, a dark purple mane and tail with a pink stripe through the middle of both, a lavender horn, and violet eyes, she is 5'9", she is wearing a black tank top, black and green striped stockings, a black knee length skirt, black and green tennis shoes that look suspiciously like chucks from my world, and black and green striped fingerless gloves that go just past her elbows she has a mark of a large pinkish purple star surrounded by five smaller white stars on her skirt. Next is a yellow furred girl with a pink mane and tail, yellow feathered wings, and sky blue eyes, she is 5'2" she is wearing a golden sweater with slits in the back for her wings, green pants, and brown tennis shoes, she has a mark of three butterflies on her pants. The last girl has cyan fur, magenta eyes, a rainbow mane and tail, cyan feathered wings, she is 5'7" she is wearing a black sports bra, black athletic shorts, and black running shoes, she has a mark of a white cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt coming out of it on her shorts.

For some reason I cant hear anything that is being said, but I could feel the emotions in the room. The lavender girl is saying something, and then the six started floating in the air while necklaces started forming on the girls with their respective marks, and a crown forms on the lavender girls head with the large star from her mark on it. there is an energy flowing between the six and I realized that now is my chance to do something about the evil inside Nightmare, I look over at Nightmare and see that she is trying to sneak out of the room. I get up and tackle her to the floor, the energy in between the jewelry is coming to a peak and a rainbow beam shoots at me and Nightmare. The rainbow beam hits us and instead of the pain or death I was expecting I find myself holding a young girl of about eight years of age, it seems that the beam reverted her age and she no longer has the evil presence inside her. I stood up cradling the now young Nightmare, who has Light blue hair now and dark blue fur, only to almost fall over from an unexpected weight on my back, I turn my head and see pitch black feathery wings coming from my back. I adjust my stance to account for the new appendages on my back, after I can stand straight I try to move my new wings but I cant feel them and they aren't moving. I then notice that my shadow has something coming off its head, so I reach up and what I'm not expecting is for pain to shoot through my skull when I smack my hand against a bone like protrusion from my head.

Okay I'm going to be calm and just take this in stride like I always do, I do my best to look up but all I can see is about three inches of the top of my horn, it's pitch black like my wings, and my hair seems to have taken that color as well and if I'm correct then when I look behind me then I am going to see a tail as well. I don't even bother looking so instead i look at my exposed arm only to see that I now have pure white fur, I walk over to the thrones and set Nightmare down on the now dubbed 'Solar Throne'. I grab my ACU jacket and cut two slits for my wings in the back with one of my knifes, next I pull out a new shirt from my backpack and do the same to it before putting it on, after that I put the jacket on and pull my wings through as best I can since I still cant feel them. Once my ACU jacket is on I pick up my backpack and grab my Glock 17 and put it in the holster on my pistol belt, while the two spare mags go in my slots for them on my jacket. The medical kit goes into my pocket on my right thigh and my knives go in various places on my person, the spare change of athletic pants goes in my left thigh pocket. I place the backpack down again and turn to the six girls who like Nightmare are unconscious, so I sit on the cosmic throne and after a few minutes there is a flash of white light and a tall woman of 6'1" appears, she has pure white fur like mine, but her mane and tail are blue, green, purple, and pink while ethereal like the older version of Nightmare, white feathered wings, a long white horn, and she has pink eyes, she is wearing a long flowing white dress, golden regalia and a golden crown, she has a necklace with a symbol of the sun on it.

The woman looked at me in shocks and starts muttering to herself about another Alicorn, I wonder if she means like the mythological creature on earth called an Alicorn. I look at her and before I say anything I decide that she must be royalty based off the regalia

"Why do you speak of Alicorns majesty?"

She looks shocked for a moment and responds with "You are an Alicorn, I did not know that another one of us existed other than myself, my sister, and my niece. By the way, my name is Celestia and as a fellow Alicorn you will be considered by the inhabitants of Equestria to be royalty and do not need to address me by a title."

"In all honesty Celestia, I wasn't an Alicorn until the beam from those jewelry hit me while I was holding down Nightmare Moon"

We will need to discuss this later at the palace in Canterlot, where is my sister?

I look to my right and notice that Nightmare has been awake for who knows how long, and is looking at me in confusion.

Who is this sister? And why is the castle looking like it has not seen use in many years?

Confused I asked "Nightmare, how do you not remember me? You brought me here to assist you but there was an evil in you that caused me to help these six girls."

Nightmare? My name is Luna, and I do not recall bringing you anywhere.

"I will explain it later, we need to get these girls to somewhere safer than a crumbling castle"

THE NEXT NIGHT AT CANTERLOT CASTLE

Yesterday I was told all about the Nightmare incident that led to Luna being banished to the moon, I also learned that Celestia and Luna are the princesses and rule as a diarchy, as well as that I can use my wings once I gain feeling in them which the royal doctor told me will happen within about a week but I will have to build up wing strength and back strength before I can even think about flying. Celestia will be tutoring me in magic while Luna is resting and recovering her magic, I informed Celestia of what spells I had figured out and she said that it was amazing that I could do elemental spells already. Since I am an Alicorn I was given the position Prince, and my title would be discovered once I discover what my talent is, they have this thing called a cutie mark that appears on both shoulders. The cutie marks represent your special talent, I think the reason humans don't get them is because we don't have magic and also humans can have multiple talents.

Once I had explained what had happened to Luna and Celestia, Luna apologized to me and in return I told her that it was not her fault and that I would always do it again for someone in need. I was told that the six girls in the order described earlier are Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. Twilight Sparkle or Twilight as she goes by is an interesting person to talk to, she has an interest in just about any field of magic you could think of and quite a few things that don't have to do with magic. When I was told I should get some sleep as it is now night I informed the princesses that I'm nocturnal and asked if there was an astronomy tower, after I said and asked that Luna started jumping in joy, grabbed my hand and started dragging me through the hallways. Did I mention that she has grown from an eight year old to a 16 year old in the span of only a day, she brought me to the astronomy tower and sat me down on a chair while she sat on one next to me.

"So I take it by your reaction that either you are nocturnal as well, or you really like astronomy?"

"I am indeed nocturnal and I also happen to love astronomy considering that it was my mother and I that shaped the night sky." This shocked me, but I had a reason I wished to come here

"In that case I have a question"

"Go ahead and ask."

"Do you have a star named VY Canis Majoris?"

Luna looked at me a bit startled at the question. "Yes we have a star named that, it is a Hypergiant and the largest star I created. My mother made larger ones, why do you ask?"

When I heard this I felt a strange feeling in my gut. "Is there a star approximately 1to 1.2 kiloparsecs away called Sol?"

"Yes there is. How do you know this?" She was looking at me strangely.

"The star Sol is the star that my planet orbits around."

I am sorry to say that it is impossible to get there at the moment." I could tell that she was being genuine about her apology

"I was expecting that."

We sat in silence for a while until I got hungry and asked Luna if she wished to get breakfast with me, She once again got super excited and started dragging me to a smaller dining room than the one I saw earlier. Luna called in a chef and asked for two plates of waffles, I asked the chef if there was any bacon and got a scared look in return. I looked at Luna and asked what was wrong.

"Our people cannot eat meat and it is considered a predatory trait."

I lifted up my lips and showed my slightly longer that average canines, then put my hands down. "While I am now an Alicorn I still retain the ability to eat meat and I am assuming that because of this I will still need meat."

Luna calmed down a bit and asked the chef to find the griffon chef that cooks whenever the carnivorous diplomats are there. About ten minutes later a man with black feathers instead of fur and black wings on his back walked in and asked what we needed, I explained my situation and he said he would make me some. I thanked him then looked over at Luna, when I looked at her she smiled and I noticed something.

"Luna don't freak out but would you please show me your teeth?"

She looked confused but opened her mouth anyway, what I saw confirmed that I saw what I thought I had.

"Please don't freak out, but I think some of Nightmare Moons physical features did not leave you seeing as you now have canines."

Luna took this exactly as I thought she would and flipped out, she didn't make a lot of noise but she started panicking and hyperventilating until I stood up walked over to her and hugged her while rubbing small circles in the middle of her back. The chef came back with the food and we ate in silence, after we ate we returned to the astronomy tower and started chatting about our lives up until that point.

TO BE CONTINUED

List of Weapons so far and ammo count
1. Glock 17 with 51 9x19 rounds with 17 rounds per magazine
2. Glock 40 with 60 10mm rounds with 15 rounds per magazine
3. CZ 75 B with 64 9mm rounds with 16 rounds per magazine
4. 4 Ka-Bars
5. 50 throwing knives
6. 2 hunting knives

Author's Note

Hello everyone who reads this, I hope you liked this chapter but I understand if you didn't. The information about VY Canis Majoris is what I could find from various astronomy websites that are usually able to be trusted, and I apologize for any errors. Please leave a comment about what I need to do better on.
Nightmare Moon didn't speak in old English since she didn't in the show, and I am not very good at writting old English so I had that carry over to Luna.

See you all later