That One Nightmare History

by The prince of the night

Rating: teen
Tags: Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mystery, Adventure, Twilight Sparkle, Gore, Princess Celestia, Dark, Nightmare Moon
Length: 3153

There's one thing Shadow Wolf hates more than anything, Day and Sun, he never got it as a colt. All the time it was, 'Princess Celestia is the greatest!'. It's the night's turn to shine

Shadow Wolf is the son of Captain Morning Night and Lady Flower Shine, he's a student of Princess Celestia, like Twilight. They grew up knowing each other and learning the same spells, there's one thing they don't have in common, the love they have for the day and night. Twilight, Day, and Shadow Wolf, Night. Once their families meet at the birthday party for Shadow Wolf, he let's a out secret about his love for the night. He wished he meet Nightmare Moon and wanted her to win the battle. Or did he let out that secret? Years Later, Twilight's a element of Harmony. Then what's Shadow Wolf? A Night Guard. That's what he is. Will these two remain friends? Or will their friendship die out?

Published 2016-06-29 05:20:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-07-05 01:59:23 UTC

The dream of Nightmare Moon

"There was once was two princesses, one bless with the power to rise the sun and one with the power to rise the moon. Both were rulers of Equestria. But with a jealousy of one growing and growing, the other princess didn't notice. Until the day were the jealousy went on a stage, one can't save another one, the princess went into a Nightmare form." As the teacher began to finish the story of the princesses, a young colt sighed. He wished that the part of the battle came up. He had never heard the story before, his parents wouldn't let him.

Once the teacher finished the story, she turned to him and asked him a question. She knew that he had never heard the story before, and she wanted to know if he liked the story.

"Did you like the Story, Shadow Wolf?" Cheerliee asked the young colt. The colt had a black mane with red eyes and a grey fur. The colt watched as every eye turned to face him for the answer.

"It was cool. But did Nightmare Moon really lose?"

"Yes she did."

Shadow Wolf sighed, he wished that Nightmare Moon won. That way it would night all the time! But she didn't. By looks of it, Princess Celestia would rule Equestira until her time is up. But she won't. She's been alive for thousands of years and there's no changing that. Unless Nightmare Moon came back and killed her!

"What if Nightmare Moon came back and battle Princess Celestia, but won?"

"Then we would have to fight for freedom."

When would Nightmare Moon win for once? What would it take to beat Princess Celestia? Shadow Wolf hoped that one day Nightmare Moon would win, but that was 1% chance out of 100. Princess Celestia was too strong to beat.

Shadow Wolf walked through the halls of the castle. He passed soldiers that gave a smile to him. He was their captain's son after all. And his father was training a stallion named Shining Armor to be captain. Shadow Wolf passed soldiers in training, one of them was Shining Armor, and the one training them was his father's friend, Light Bow.

He went inside his room of the castle, his mother, Flower Shine, hugged him. She told him that Princess Celestia need to see him in 30 minutes. He washed up and headed towards the throne room, he passed many guards on duty. Once he was in the throne, Celestia welcomed him.

"You wanted to see me?"

"I did. First, how was school?"

"Fine Princess. But, did you really fight Nightmare Moon?"

"Yes I did."

'Wow. And here I thought you just used some thing like an element.'

The talk went on for an hour, before a young filly came in. She stopped and looked at the colt. He was a unicorn like her, he stepped out of her way and sat on the ground. The filly started to talk with Celestia, until she called Shadow Wolf up. He went up to her and waited until she was done talking to the filly.

"Shadow Wolf," Celestia started to say, "Meet Twilight Sparkle."

"Hi..."

"Hello. Princess, who is he?"

"Twilight, this is my first student, Shadow Wolf, he's goes to another school for History."

Shadow Wolf left to go see his father, Morning Night. He always wanted to be a guard like his dad, not for the day, but for the night. Once he found his father, he ran up and jumped on him. He and his friends were talking about some things for the little colt's birthday. The guards laughed and made Morning Night smile.

Morning Night hugged his son and tickled him. Shadow Wolf, once he stopped laughing, ran off to see his mother. When he looked for his mother, he saw a family photo of his family when he was born, Shadow Wolf smiled. He had never seen what he looked like as a baby. But he had seen pictures.

He ran outside in the garden, and found his mother with her friend, Flyer fight, he was a strong Pegasus. He was a light red Pegasus with orange eyes. His mane was like a light sundown with night coming in. Shadow Wolf loved to see him race and beat all the other Pegasus.

"Flyer Fight!"

"Hey Shadow Wolf! You grew!"

His mother smiled, she knew that whenever Flyer Fight came, he would be playing with her son. Flyer Fight would put Shadow Wolf on his back and fly around for a bit.

Once the day was over, Shadow Wolf made his way over to the window. Where he watched the moon rise, he sighed. Then he saw a shadow on the moon. It was a shadow of a mare. The mare in the moon. Shadow Wolf was shocked, he had heard of 'The mare in the moon' before, but he didn't think it was true.

'Nightmare Moon! Cool!'

Maybe there was a chance that Nightmare Moon could return, maybe just maybe, he could be a guard of the night for her. That would make him happy. So happy.

'I wish that Nightmare Moon was still here...'

Shadow Wolf went back to his bed and got under the covers. He closed his eyes and slowly went to sleep. He wanted to dream of Nightmare Moon, to dream of meeting her. The one who was a hero to him. He didn't care if she was the bad guy, he thought of her as a hero. Not Princess Celestia. She was just a normal pony to him.

DREAM OF NIGHTMARE MOON

Shadow Wolf walked around the castle, it was night time and the guards were sleeping. Most where. He came to two sets of doors, both had the moon on them. He slowly opened to doors and saw a mare. She was in armor. Black armor.

"W-Who are you?" Shadow Wolf asked.

"Nightmare Moon. And your Shadow Wolf."

"How did you know?"

"I've been watching you. You think of me as a hero."

Shadow Wolf was shocked, she was right. But, wasn't she on the moon still? How did she end up here? And why? Did Princess Celestia know?

"Do not fear child. The night still has a chance to shine."

"It does?"

"All you need to do, is become a night guard and make sure that the elements of harmony are destroyed."

Destroyed? The elements of harmony? But how? And why would he need to make sure they were? Shadow Wolf didn't get it, but he would try to make sure the elements were destroyed.

END OF DREAM

Was it really his job to get rid of the elements? If it was, he was going to do it with pride. For Nightmare Moon!

The Wolf Moon cutiemark

A few days passed since the dream and Shadow Wolf couldn't get anymore happy. Twilight, went on with her lessons with Shadow Wolf and Princess Celestia. What the two little ponies didn't expect, was Celestia wanted the two ponies to have one day together. Shadow Wolf didn't look happy about that, but Twilight would do anything for Celestia.

Half-way into the day and Twilight was non-stop talking about her brother and the lessons they had with Celestia. Shadow Wolf started to get board and Twilight didn't see that. Once he had enough, he jumped on Twilight making her scream.

"What the heck Shadow Wolf!"

"Would you shut up? I get it! 'Princess Celestia is great!' " Shadow Wolf said in a mocking tone. Twilight, who didn't take that so well, got annoyed very fast.

"You don't know who your talking about!"

"I do know! I'm talking about Princess Celestia!"

Twilight got Shadow Wolf off of her and started to fight with him. Princess Celestia over heard their fight and went inside the room they were in. Shadow Wolf stopped talking the moment he saw Celestia, but Twilight didn't. She didn't even know that Celestia was in the room.

"You never know when Celestia could banish you!"

"That's enough Twilight Sparkle!"

That wasn't Shadow Wolf that said that, it was Celestia. Twilight stopped talking, Celestia saw that Shadow was crying, yet Twilight knew that he was faking it. Or she thought he was, until he ran out of the room. Celestia gave Twilight a mad face and ran out of the room, hoping to catch up with her first student.

After thinking about what she saw, Twilight also ran after Shadow Wolf. She passed his father and mother talking and passed her own family. She found Celestia and Shadow Wolf talking about something, as Twilight got closer, she heard something that she didn't think she would hear.

"Princess, I feel like Twilight doesn't really like me...."

"Shadow Wolf, I know that she's doesn't. But in time, she will."

"Hope so Princess."

Twilight watched the scene for a bit longer until, she left. Shadow didn't think that she would be that mean to him, after all, she did say some mean things to him. It wasn't his fault that he didn't give any love to Celestia like Twilight. All Twilight did was talk about how great the princess was, she didn't even give any love to the night.

CELESTIA'S POV

I kept hearing that Morning Night and Flower Shine's son didn't get much sleep at night. He was either up and looking at the moon or reading books about the night and the moon. I knew that he was a night pony, a pony that Luna wanted to see and get to know. After a while, I saw him getting more good at his spells.

Twilight, on the other hoof, was a different story. She wanted to know all kinds of spells and she didn't want to practice any spells she knew already. Whenever I saw her doing a spell and wanted to show me, I saw that Shadow Wolf was doing something else. Another spell I didn't know.

He said that he wanted to show me and Twilight soon, I was glad. But Twilight wasn't. I kept on asking her what was wrong, but she didn't tell me. I knew that one day they would Elements of Harmony, Twilight as the element of Magic and Shadow Wolf as the forgotten element. The Element of Forgiving. It was lost millions of years ago, now with Shadow Wolf around, it would return.

"Okay! I got it! Princess, Twilight! I can show you now!" Shadow Wolf came running up to us.

"That's great Shadow Wolf. Twilight, let's go."

We followed Shadow Wolf to the.....room that belonged to my sister. I didn't think he would show us here, but how did he know that this room was even here? When he said that he was going to perform the spell, Twilight sat beside me.

We saw Shadow Wolf float up and start to glow, he made a shadow of a wolf appear on the moon. When he was done, his flank started to glow. We all looked at his flank and saw his cutiemark. It was a shadow of a wolf in front of the moon, the wolf moon cutiemark. He was the element of forgiving.

SHADOW WOLF'S POV

Finally! My cutiemark! Yes! I know that Twilight got her cutiemark when she joined Princess Celestia's class, yet my cutiemark is cool! I bet my mother and father are going to love it.

I found my parents talking outside in the garden, I ran up to them and began to talk my heart out.

"Wow there sport! Clam down and then tell us."

"Mom, Dad! I got my cutiemark!"

My parents were shocked, but I could tell they were happy. My dad picked me up and started to spin me around, my mom laughed. I loved my parents more than anything! I hope that Twilight and Princess Celestia are happy for me.

THIRD PERSON POV

As the day passed, Shadow Wolf became more worried about the spells coming up. But he knew that the spells would be helpful later in life. Once each class was finished, he spent time with his mother and father, when he was with his father, he would try on his father's helmet. When he was with his mother, he would help with the flowers. There was one thing that was making him be mean to Twilight........

Nightmare Moon. She kept on making him believe that she was going to make the day more popular than the night. And that didn't fit well with him. Could Nightmare Moon be telling the truth to him? Or was it a lie?

Birthday Party and Families meet

Shadow Wolf watched as the sun rose, it was his birthday today. His parents told him to meet them in the throne room, he was also told that Celestia wanted to see him in the throne room. He walked to the throne room with happy birthday being said to him by the guards, when he reached the doors of the throne room, Shining Armor came running up to him.

"Hey Shadow Wolf! I'm Shining Armor, Twilight's older brother."

"Captain in training right?"

"Yup. Let's go in."

The two went inside and the room was filled with balloons and presents, Shadow Wolf got confused, shouldn't they have this somewhere else? Once he reached the throne, there was a note sitting on the Princess's throne.

Dear Shadow Wolf,

As you know today is your birthday. It is also the same day, I banish Nightmare moon to the moon.

I want you to look out the window, once you do, go to the room where you showed me and twilight

spell you worked on. You should find your gift from me there.

From your teacher Princess Celestia.

Shadow Wolf looked around to find Shining Armor, but didn't see him anywhere. He walked to the doors and went to the room, he didn't get it. Why did Celestia want him to go the room with the moon doors? He didn't even know what the room was called or who owned it.

It only took him about 30 minutes to get there, he found that the doors were opened. Who opened them? Did Celestia open them? Or did someone else. Before he stepped in, another stallion came running up to him. But this time, it wasn't Shining Armor.

"Hello, I'm Twilight's father, Night Light."

"Hello. I'm Shadow Wolf."

"Well, let's go in."

Why did every pony suddenly have to go with in? Shadow Wolf knew they were just going to leave without him hearing or knowing they were leaving, so why bother? Walking in the room left uneasy somehow, right on a table was a note. Great another note. Was this his gift from his teacher? If it was, it was so lame and idiotic. Yet this time, it wasn't from Celestia, it was from his own mother.

Dear Shadow Wolf,

As you may know, the princess told you that your gift was in this room,

Don't be hurt if you can't find it right away. It is in the room. But hidden.

Think dear, what's the one place you know the most about the room?

Once you know, go look there.

Love, mom or mommy.

Shadow thought about what the note said, then he remembered. The place where he got he's cutie mark!

Twilight ran though out the castle placing notes in every room Shadow Wolf would have to go into. As she placed the last note, she heard hoof steps coming in her direction. She fasten her paste and headed towards the throne room, where she found her family and Shadow Wolf's family. They weren't talking to each other at all.

"Alright," Twilight began," the notes are placed. I heard hoof steps when I placed the last note."

"He must be close." Shining said with a happy tone.

"He finds things very fast."

"That's why he's our son, right Flower Shine?"

"Right Morning Night."

After a while of waiting, the throne room doors opened, and walking though was a young colt. Once he was in the middle of the throne room, every pony yelled surprised.

"You guys didn't have to." Shadow said.

"It's something we needed to do son."

"Here." Twilight said to Shadow Wolf.

When Shadow opened the present, he was shocked. It was a guard helmet, just like the one his father had but it was a night guard helmet. He looked at every pony, his family, Twilight's family, and some of his friends he made at the school. He saw his father nod and smile.

"Once your old enough son, you can join the night guard team."

"Really? I thought you'd want me to join the day guard team."

His father laughed, his laugh was cut short when the princess came along. Her smile was bright like always, but she had something to give the young colt.

"I keep on seeing you looking at the moon, so I had a friend make you this." Princess Celestia said."

The present was a figure of the moon. Shadow Wolf smiled and hugged Celestia and started to look back and forth at the helmet and the figure, he knew that he could join the day team but the night team was always like a dream to him. This was the best birthday ever.

After a while, Twilight and Shadow saw their families talking about something. Until they knew that their families were going to be friends for a long time.

"I have to say Night Light, your son is a great listener. He'll be a great captain."

"Thanks Morning Night."

"Flower Shine, could you help me with some of my flowers sometime?"

"I would love to Twilight Velvet."

For the whole night, Shadow Wolf was looking at his helmet. Once he even felt a little sad that he couldn't meet Nightmare Moon in pony, but he knew that it would be sometime before she could be free. He was wiling to wait to meet Nightmare Moon.

When Shadow Wolf was sleeping, his parents were talking about something. Something like....making sure he doesn't betray Celestia or something.

"I'm telling you Flower, what if he does betray her?"

"Morning, I don't think he would. I mean, he's her first student! There's just no way he could betray her."

"What if he does?"

"If he betrays her than there's nothing that can be done! Not even being reformed. It's his choice to betray her or not."

"I hope he doesn't. Celestia's too important to betray."

"He might not think that though. He's different than most ponies, and you know that."

'Wish I didn't know that though.'

Would Shadow Wolf actually betray Celestia like that? Or would he betray Nightmare Moon? After all, he had many friends already. What would he need more than that? The victory of Nightmare Moon?