Sunny Moonlight

by xMistyStarx

Rating: everyone
Tags: Mystery, Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad, Changelings, Original Character
Length: 2302

What if your whole life was fake? What if all the friends you knew were only your imagination, but what would happen if it was all a dream

A foal, born with a curse, is unconscious for her entire life. Little did she know about her past, nor does she know something else that may haunt her forever.

Published 2016-05-03 16:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2017-03-29 22:33:58 UTC

Awoken

Her hooves clopped against the cold floor, the light following her. She created blast of pure magic, a beam shot from her, screeching following from the light. A few red sparks flew from it, as she took off on another run through the school halls. Tail flowing behind her, she flicked it in a fast motion, a powerful mini tornado sucking up orange particles from the light. It screeched again in pain. Hoof clopping continued again, as she, with her hind-leg, bucked the locker door behind her, yellow and green sparks flashing out.

This close.... just a little harder... She then stopped, then in silence arched her back, eyes glowing white, flame pushing through her body, as she leaped upon the light, growling, pushing out blue, indigo and violet., then the light faded, as a white, winged creature emerged. In a fast change of attitude, she went on her knees, petting the thing. It was like a mix between pony, lion, wolf, and eagle. Her mane was brown, eyes white. She had majestic alicorn wings, though the lack of horn. Her cutie mark was a brown paw, and this 'pony' also carried a fox tail.

Cheers were heard behind the two mares, as ponies stomped their hooves in awe. Her friends, Lily Blossom, ThunderClap, Darkie Storm, Cupcake, Misty Glow, and Star Bliss, stepped up to her. Darkie blushed a bit, hiding his cheeks with his mane. With his magic, he levitated the hero over in a short hug, along with the rest of her friends.
"Sunny.... hey, uhm, g-good job- great job... y-you're really a hero...." His eyes closed, as he hugged Sunny shyly, the rest of her friends giggling.

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Reaching home, Sunny Moonlight grasped the journal off her desk with her magic. She always wondered, though... why did she have these powers? Why was she so different? These questions were not once answered, as the black pegasus opened the book, again with magic. She took a feather out from her mane, then dipped it in cold ink.

Dear diary,

Today, I have learned more about my special talents and powers, and I may never figure them out. Not even Celestia knows what... or who I am... One day I will, but for now, I must learn to be a normal filly, like the others. From now on, I hold it as secret. This very day, I have defeated my own friend, Lunar Brite, from a spreading sickness, know as the Midnight Plague. Though it may seem simple, it takes a pony's magic, transforming it into dark magic. Once the magic level is high enough, it takes over the entire body, infecting the nervous system, leaving them in a dark trance. Nopony today has dealt with this thing, but I, one mare, have done it on my own. Sometimes, when I look outside, at the sun and moon, and Twilight, that beautiful time of day that comes and the love around town, maybe it's the magic that we all have inside, gives me the feeling that something in my life is missing. Something big. One day I shall discover it, even if it's the last thing I do.

Sincerely,

Sunny Moonlight

Sunny closed the journal with a sigh, then watched the sun lower behind the hills and mountain tops, and the moon rise into the sky. She dazed out, her magic settling from the previous events. Her heart rate slowed and the breeze became quiet and still, as her eyes fluttered, taking a last look around, before her eyes shut tight.

"HAULT!" a booming, yet calming voice called. Sunny fluttered her eyes back open to see she was dreaming. A pony figure stood before her bed, as she hit herself in the head. She really wasn't dreaming.
"T-This must be a dream...." she told herself. The figure sighed sadly, a tear rolling down her left cheek.

"I'm..... afraid so, my little pony," she said, putting a hoof over her shoulder. Sunny's muscles tightened as she started to sob.

"I-I...I have to wake up... please!" she cried, the whole scene before then starting to melt like candle wax. Sunny cried, burying her face in the pony's chest. Laying a hoof over her back, she wiped her eyes, looking at the crying filly.

"D-Don't be alarmed, my little pony. For I am Luna, the Princess of the night,"

"B-But there are n-no princesses in Mareizona... I-I'm dreaming, aren't I?" she said, between sniffs. Luna nodded. Sunny stuffed her face back into her chest, as the whole room went black.
"Allow me to show you something. Something... about your past,"

"M-My past?" Sunny asked, perking up. Her meaning of life, her answer to life, was finally going to be answered. Luna then zapped them into a swirling, hungry black hole, the two appearing in the hospital in Ponyville.

"W-What is this place? A... hospital? Why are you an alicorn?" she asked, Luna sticking her hoof into her mouth.
"Watch, and you'll see."

The doctors rushed in, bawling, blue mare,soaking up the bed, in anger, pain, and sadness. A nurse took up a foal in her lap, which had black fur and a raggedy blue mane and tail. Her wings were large, yet weak, and the foal only cried. It's eyes opened, presenting blue dots for eyes. The blue mare balled harder, as a colt came in, giving her a breathing mask to calm down.

" Just hold still, you can't have this foal start out her life with her mother crying, can you?" He then shot an injection in the mare's hoof, knocking her out. Sunny winced, as she watched the mare, eyes closed, on the bed. The foal continued to cry and kick, as the nurse lifted her up, giving her a bottle.

"Send in the manager, stat! GO, GO GO!!! I Told you to gallop, not trot! GO!" The nurse yelled as the foal drifted off. Turning around, she gasped, slapping the foal, eyes widening. It cried again, this time harder. The nurse then grabbed a box of syringes and liquids. Leaving the foal next to her knocked out parent. A colt burst in the room.

"Sunny, please! Look it's your dad!" The colt said, cradling the foal. It grasped onto his fur, and giggled. Not being able to keep awake, the foal yawned, closing her eyes, snoring soundly. The colt then jumped up off the bed."No.... please.... Celestia!!! NO!" NOT MY FOAL, N-NO! PLEASE! PLEASE, HAVE MERCY!" He cried and bawled, fainting on the very spot, the sleeping foal in his hooves.

Sunny looked to Luna who was sobbing a bit herself. She gathered herself, face tear stained, then looked to the black pegasus.
"So? What's the big deal? The foal fell asleep, and she'll wake up again. Why'd you bring me here?" Sunny asked. Luna sighed.
"It's that..... well, the foal... was cursed." She mumbled out.

"W-What? B-But how?" Sunny asked. Luna looked to the ceiling, sighing again.

"It... was my fault. Not long ago, In our world, after I reformed from Nightmare Moon, the spirit affected.... y- um, the foal. It was said, that if she slept the first day she was born, she'd be in an everlasting trance, until true friendship has awoken her," Luna stated, turning to Sunny. She tilted her head.

"Okay, I get that part, but WHY did you bring me here? Since you're 'Princess of the Night', then go in that pony's dream and wake her with friendship!" Sunny said, rolling her eyes, not prepared for what would happen next.

"Remember when I said "Your past"?" Luna said, Sunny getting a bad feeling in her stomach. "For have I been in the dreams of this pony, presently,"

"I-I.... don't understand," Sunny asked, looking at the indigo alicorn.

"Sunny," Luna said quietly. "That foal... was you." With that, Sunny shrunk back in disgust.

"Oh, I get it! It's one of those stand up jokes, right?" she said, realizing that Luna was serious. She pointed towards the room through the glass, as the mare woke up slowly, then her baby blue eyes showing through the glass, startling Sunny. She remembered everything now. It came like lightning at first, then struck in her head as one single word slipped through her muzzle.
"M-mom...?"

Memories

Sunny woke up, her heart beating fast like a cheetah. It was still dark, barely and light peaking out of the cracks between curtain and window. She held her chest tightly, grasping the fur on it. She exhaled and inhaled, and repeated several times. She felt tears well up in her eyes. She could only make out some words before collapsing onto her pillow.

"I-It..... was only...... a.... dream........" She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. She opened them again, seeing the familiar Princess once again. Sunny closed her eyes tighter and tighter. She began to sob quietly, and the Princess of the Night lowered her head.
"I.... I wanna wake up, Princess.... I wanna remember... w-what happened.... where are my parents?" Sunny whispered. Princess Luna simply nodded.
"We shall see,"

.......

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The dark room was now a simple, small little house. It was quiet and gloomy, yet the decor and the lights shining through the glass and windows didn't seem to match. In the center were two ponies. One cyan mare with a horn, and a pegasus colt. The colt was embracing the mare, his hooves rapped around the shoulder of the mare.

Sunny stared mindlessly at the couple.
"A-are those my..... my... parents?" Sun asked. Luna nodded once again. Sunny slowly walked towards them. She seemed tranced in the two cuddling on the couch, and in their hooves.... was a familiar foal.
"That was me....." Sunny whispered to herself.

The foal yawned, as it turned to it's side peacefully. The couple were crying..... they were crying as if they would die... as if it was the end. Luna put a hoof towards Sunny.

"W-what's going on.... why are they crying? And... and didn't I- I mean the foal fall into the trance? How did I wake up?" Sunny asked. Luna sighed, tears rolling down her cheek.

"I sacrificed my own foal, my child.... to save you,"

Sunny woke up, and yet this time, she didn't have a single tear. The sun was up, and she only sat there, watching the birds fly across the morning skies.
"I need to talk to.... that Princess again...If it was real, then my parents could still be alive," Sunny told herself, trying to trick herself into thinking positive. Then, she heard a bang from the downstairs window and a voice call "HEY!!! COME DOWN HERE SUNNY,WE GOT A SUPRISE FOR YOU!!!"

She teleported herself outside to the group. Darkie hugged her tightly.
"I'm glad you're awake.... I...I had something to ask you-" He was cut off by Lily.

"Okay, so we planned like, a totally awesome day today, so.... you in the mood for it?" Lily asked, as the others grinned wide. Sunny winced."Uhh.... yeah... Sure." she said, hugging her friends, and secretly flashing a smile at Darkie. In return, he heavily blushed.

"I sacrificed my own foal, my child.... to save you...."

"U-uh, who said that?" Sunny asked in fear. Lily turned back to look at her friend.
"Said what? Chill, girl you've probably been reading too much!" Lily returned to her slow walking pace with the group. Sunny looked down.
"Too many books..... she's probably right......"

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Lily trotted in the dimness of dawn next to her friend. She furrowed her brows. "Hey, you okay, Sunny?" The others turned in her direction in a mix of confusion and worry. Sunny flinched. "O-Oh, yeah, I'm totally fine, don't worry, guys... I just.... I just didn't sleep well last night!" she answered, a bit too quickly.

Luckily for her, nopony seemed to notice. Lily only nodded, and inched closer to her. "Alright, but just know if anything's wrong, you can come to us- your friends!" Lily Blossom grinned, and Sunny returned a fake one.

You know you can't trust them...

"Wh-Who's there?" Sunny whispered in fear, her friends engaged on conversation.

You call them friends, but you know they'd betray you in a second...

"No, they... they would never...." Sunny whispered again, but then stopped walking for a second. Realizing she was getting a few stares from other ponies, she caught up to her friends.

If only they knew.....

"Leave me alone.....! Just.... g-get out...." Sunny's throat began to get sore, so she gulped it down, whatever that feeling was.

Your friends could become you worst enemies.....

"Stop...... stop!" Her voice was just above a whisper now, but still, noone took notice.

Just.....

"Leave my mind- get out!" She was fully audible now, and Darkie's ears twitched, though he was busy speaking with the others, and Sunny knew this.

Like.....

"Urgh....! Just... go.... away!" She was covering her ears by flattening them against her head. It just wouldn't go away!

THAT.

"Get...... OUT!" Sunny cried, tears streaming down her face and soaking her face fur. The group turned to stare at her in such a strange way, she couldn't read their expressions. It was as if time stopped, nothing moved, but the howl of wind. The disbeliving expression that hurt her most was Darkie's. He looked as if he'd seen a ghost. A ghost that murdered someone if front of him, yes.

That was his expression: Pure, cold horror.

Author's Note

I am so sorry it took a year to get back to this story! I'm back now, and hopefully I'll be working on it MUCH more often! :yay:

Edit:I finished this chapter, and I can't apologize enough for not getting to this like a year ago, but I'm back, so.... not like anyone reads this, anyway ;-;