A figure stood on the balcony of the hall.

She (I'm assuming she's a she) was about as tall as Celestia. Her fur was pitch black, both her mane and tail were dark blue and dotted with stars. Her wings were sharp and angular and a sharp black horn protruded from her head. Her eyes, teal-green and cat-like, were completely cold as she scanned the crowd.

"Oh, my beloved subjects. It's been so long since I've seen your precious little sun-loving faces."

A shout sounded somewhere, followed by the sound of furious flapping wings.

The figure cackled. "Why? Am I not royal enough for you?" A hint of anger crept into her voice. "Don't you know who I am?"

She leaned towards the bird choir, frightening them away. "Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?" She turned to the other pony on the balcony. "Did you not recall the legend? DID YOU NOT SEE THE SIGNS?"

"I did, and I know who you are." A lone light magenta-lavender unicorn spoke. The crowd parted in front of me. I squeezed through the ponies and to the front, watching the dark mare on the balcony.

"You're the Mare in the Moon," she continued, "Nightmare Moon."

Everypony gasped.

Nightmare Moon smiled. "Well, well, well. Somepony who remembers me. Then you also know why I'm here."

The unicorn in front of me started to stutter. "You're here to...to..." She lowered her head, afraid to say anymore.

Nightmare Moon laughed. "Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, the Night will last FOREVER!"

More evil laughter. It was accompanied by lightning and thunder from her mane.

I swear, it's like she read a book on how to be evil.

"Really? You'd expect ponies to remember you after you've been away for a thousand years?" The crowd parted. I stepped forth.

Nightmare Moon stilled.

I continued. "Also, with the 'evil laughter' thing, that's just cheesy."

Her eyes narrowed. "Who are you, you little foal, to tell me what I should do?"

I smirked. "The same foal who can do this!" In an instant, a gaping hole appeared behind her and some burnt hair.

All the rest of the ponies gasped and ran towards the exit, including the unicorn. She stared at me, shook her head in shock, and left with a purple sleeping lizard-like creature.

The hall became empty of the other ponies.

Nightmare Moon sputtered. "But-How? That's impossible! You're an Earth pony! Unless-" She stopped and sneered. "You're Celestia."

"Maybe~!" With that, I applied another illusion to make me look like Celestia. Her eyes widened. Her horn lit up.

"Come and fight me, you lowly coward!" A beam shot from her horn and towards me. I teleported away and behind her.

"Too slow."In a singsong voice, I shot a beam at her, but she blocked with with a shield. She then proceeded to shoot beams at me.

I teleported around while mocking her.

"Nope!"

"Can't catch me!"

"That was waaaaay too slow."

"Combat Tips 101: Actually hit the target."

"Really Lulu, you need to let it go~"

At the last comment, she screamed with anger, and a beam hit my leg.

"That hurt."

I didn't bother to look down, but I felt the wound heal. I started flying up into the sky with the moon behind me. Then I hovered in midair.

Nightmare Moon scoffed. "You think such lowly tricks would work on me?" She fired another beam, but was easily dodged.

I raised an eyebrow. "I didn't want you to follow me anyways." I lit up my horn, light gathering at the tip of my horn. "But here, I'll give you this."

The light grew bigger and rivaled the light of the moon both in size and intensity.

Nightmare Moon used her wing to block the light from her eyes. "What are you doing?"

"Something I've been wanting to do for a long time."

I "threw" the light down to the hall. It bounced on the floor a few times, then stopped.

I grinned wildly. "A magic nuke~"

The light detonated.

It let out a flash brighter than the sun, completely obliterating the hall. A shock-wave traveled through the air, shattering a quite few windows. And eardrums.

Smoke rose into a mushroom-shaped cloud.

Satisfied, I fell to the ground and blacked out.

Nightmare Moon stumbled and collapsed near the tree-like library. She was covered in magic burns, but they were slowly healing.

She was both stunned and confused.

Stunned because of the amount of magic that pony put in the spell and confused because Celestia hadn't attacked her before and did now.

That was truly a mystery.

She turned into smoke and observed what happened in the library.

".....Elements of Harmony..."

Oh, so these fools want to try and defeat her?

She flew towards the Everfree Forest, while a plan formulated in her mind...

Author's Note

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