Inheritance of the moon

Awakening the following morning had done nothing for his mood, there was something going on and it was now solely after him it seemed. "Three...two...one..." As if on cue a large amount of letters flooded through his mail slot, this had become a morning routine as Derpy had not intention of letting sleep the morning away, whether she knew it or not. Of course he had been informed that he should sift through the mail, find what was his, and send the rest back to the post office. Normally none of it was for him, only his second day in Ponyville had seen him anything truly special, then there were letters from his parents which he cherished. Floating the rather intimating pile of letters to him he would begin his morning routine, two letters, one from his parents and one...from Canterlot? Setting aside the one from Canterlot he would read the letter from his parents while preparing breakfast.

The letter consisted of thoughts and well wishes from his parents, dreams and hopes that he might find whatever he was looking for. Little did they know he had found something and didn't exactly want it, the scorn of a shade or whatever wasn't a very bright spot in his life. Breakfast on the other hoof was something he hoped would be good, after all who could possibly go wrong with waffles and syrup? Hot and sweet, waffles was exactly what he needed then, his spirits lifted he went back for the other letter.

Unlike the last unexpected letter this one did not feel heavier than it should, no gift was included but the words he hoped were good ones.

Greetings Midnight Breeze

In writing we hope that this letter finds you well, we have been watching you very closely and your endeavors have

not gone unnoticed. Know that what you face is not something many can defeat alone, even I could not stand

long against it's clawing grasp. From night to night we watch you struggle and watch you sinking into depression.

This fate we would not wish upon my worst of allies or closest of friends, it is hatred, it is sorrow, it is fear, and it

is evil. But you fight it better than I had, this are happier times and you have help that we never had, know it or

not but you will succeed. You must succeed, have faith in your own strength, your own feelings, and above

all you must have faith in yourself. From here the fight only gets harder, we have the utmost faith in you.

Princess Luna

P.S. Seems we cannot get over the royal we, we all have our struggles...we as in every pony not 'we' as in we.

At first Midnight had to reread the letter a few times to trying and fully understand what was written. By the third time he found himself smiling, it honestly touched him that the princess cared enough to show concern. It also struck him funny that she would include her own struggle, he had course noticed the use of we instead of I and thought it odd. Setting the letter down he would head towards the bathroom to prepare for the day ahead, only making it half way he would stop and blink. "Wait she's watching me." Quickly Midnight would look around the house looking for anything, not knowing what he only came to one conclusion, warm against his chest sat the necklace, it must have been how. "Stalker..."

Cleaning himself up didn't take long, a come through the mane and a rinse with magic was all it took. "Alright then, I'll talk to Twilight." It wasn't an easy decision since Luna thought so highly of him but he needed the help, his skills just weren't enough. Stepping out in the day he was greeted by a flash down pour, flash snow fall, and a bwahahaha. It sounded so familiar that it had to be Rainbow Dasy, and it so happened that he was not prepared for the prank.

"Oh my gosh I can't believe you fell for it! Payback tastes so sweet!" Rainbow giggled as she rolled around the cloud. "You should have seen your face, it was like!" Trying to copy Midnight's very annoyed face she failed miserably. "Lets see you top that! You can't!"

Midnight however didn't think that was quite right, in fact when his horn began to glow Rainbow sat straight up on the cloud. "You can't reach me!" When the glowing didn't stop she began to panic ever so slightly. "Oh no no no no!" Using her hind legs to kick off the cloud the rainbow maned pegasus tried to get away, when she didn't move she panicked even more. "Not fair! Magic's like cheating and and and dang." A slight over glow occurred as he pulled all the water and snow from him and ground. "What...eep!" A large ball of snow and water collided with prankster mare, which in turn caused her to flop to the ground. "Too...cooooold, cold Midnight just cold." Well it did make him feel better so it must not have been.

"Go inside and dry off, I have a few towels in the closet. Oh and remember all's fair in love and pranks, at least that's what I read." Books were so informative sometimes and helped in situations just like this. Not waiting to see what Rainbow Dash did he would start is walk towards the library, going around town rather than through it just in case Rainbow Dash decided to strike back.

At about the same time another rainbow streaked mare flew across the sky, her colors were noticeably darker than Rainbow Dash's, but not enough so to cause panic what so ever in the town. After all Night Mare Moon was taken care of and what could be worse than that right? "Foolish ponies, they should know that hatred shall soon be upon them!" But not before she took care of the meddlesome Midnight Breeze! That one stallion brought a large amount of hate to her, not that it was a bad feeling but he hated that someone would dare oppose her! "AH! I'll get him!" Doing a loop de loop to make herself appear normal she set out to find him! "Where are you?!"

From her height it wouldn't take long for Shade to find her the annoyance and he seemed in high spirits? How was that even possible! Did he not know that she was hunting him, that hatred was going to be his downfall! "How dare he?!" From here she angled downwards towards the stallion, he couldn't see this coming. "Victory!"

It was a more than likely thought, it just didn't seem to be the case. Midnight, thanks to Rainbow Dash's earlier prank he was in fact on edge and ready for anything coming from the sky. A dark spec was coming straight at him from above, yelling something about victory? The color didn't look right though, this dot wasn't the sky blue and rainbow maned mare, no a sinking suspicion told him it was the shade after him once again. With a sigh he would take a stronger stance, maybe tonight's prank wasn't all bad?

The distance was crossed in roughly fifteen to twenty seconds, clearly not as fast as Rainbow Dash.

Why is he just standing there? Hatred thought as she flew directly at him, something rainbow's directness was definitely getting to her as she saw nothing wrong with this approach. "You're going down Midnight Breeze!" That was until she was twenty feet or so from him and just stopped dead in her wings. "What/!" Hatred struggled and flared as much as she could but to no avail, apparently if there was nothing to press against then there was no force to break the telekinesis.

Midnight found himself staring at the mare, his horn was glowing bright with a little bit of over glow to signify how much effort this took. He was after all a stallion of the night and it was no longer the full moon, thus his magic was weaker. This fact was not something Hatred missed and while she might be defeated now it was an acceptable defeat. At least until she began to spin around and around, the speed was gaining as well. "Put....me....down..!" Oh madness could a shade get sick?

"Can't you leave me alone for one day?" Midnight asked, his voice was a bit strained as he focused on the magic rather than the words. "I'm not going to give up!" Angry? Not quite the words for it, high annoyed seemed to fit all the better. This attempt had been really sad to be honest, knowing the real Rainbow Dash really showed how under powered the shade was. "Just go away." The magic would burst from his horn as he once again sent the shade flying off towards the ever free, the spinning had done it's job quite well as she flew in an uncontrolled zig zag. "I'd rather go against Rainbow Dash any day, at least she's fun." Fun wasn't the right word again but it seemed to fit well enough and so he would continue towards the tree house to speak with Twilight.

"Tree tree tree!" There were lots of trees and more than she remembered, Hatred's eyes were all loopy and so she was seeing triples of the trees. It was no surprise to her that more than one tree hit her on the rather rough landing. Moments would pass before she regained her bearings and stood up. "He beat me again but I learned, oh yes I learned." With wobbly steps she would begin to change once again, the shadows wrapped and danced around as he form changed. "He tires during the day so something with a bit more energy should do quite nicely." Speaking Hatred's voice changed from Rainbow's voice to Pinkie's, though a slightly more insane version of it.