Luna and the ten Spirit Sigils

~THRID PONY POV~

Daichi's mental core

Diachi had been practicing what his new mental form thus he was also practicing his new physical body. but the intruder, they must be sly  but good!  the first trap meant to discourage only gave them the power to conquer the next which was meant to be an unsolvable riddle. now two unwelcome guests at the door. well, last trick.

luna gazed at a marvel of a mind when nightmare moon blocked her path. "bite my flank if this is too easy. luna don't you find it strange all the power is running, but not even a guard to be found? no, he is in there I can sense it. let me flush him out his beasts have something we need! or at the very, least they promised me and the dark gets its due. send me on recon."

"yes, okay. but if you were to be injured how will you manage?" luna asked.

` "us sigil beasts are comprised of heart-matter thus if we're too badly hurt we returned to our keeper's rune. but that is a normal case because of our disconnect I need to be careful I could vanish to nothing if I take to much punishment. just in case I take the final blow,  please now I was not in my right mind when we first met now I'm my true form I know you must hate me with a fury unrivalled, but I love you in all your flaws because your flaws help make me. goodbye, i hope we meet up soon."and with that, the mare in the moon dashed into the central sanctum.

nightmare moon's hooves clip-clopped over the flagstone she started to notice a numbness in her hooves after only a few steps. nightmare looked to see her lower legs partially encased in stone heeding something telling Moon what must be done to ensure survival the anthro alicorn took wing. right into a finely spun web of thread.

"no! i am caught! woe is i, who came for what was promised! may this be the end of the nightmare goddess? did she come ill equip to battle such a cunning foe? surely the master of this realm has pity on a poor foal?"

the bindings undid themselves and respun into a full-size pony plushie whose coat kept shifting between snow white and soot black.

"you've come far but this the rome of my mind and here I. AM. *GOD!*** prepare for the true fight begins now!" the plushie roared most excellently intimidating fashion. a monkey-like monster wreathed in a white veil of feathers I wore a simplistic robe of cream stitched with gold. the other was much more imposing plum armored minotaur with dragon's claws and instead of bull's horns, upon his head was a set of ram's horns.

nightmare's fingernails grew into talons and said talons grew a ball of pitch black energy. "I don't know and for the life, I share and to be frank what you want.  I don't care one way or the other. I'm just here to make sure my keeper doesn't have to dirty her hooves. now nightmare barrage!"twenty black pony busts with burning crimson red eyes shot at the dreamer.

the power this sigil had in my space was simply intoxicating. the damage repaired itself diablo was aching for a brawl.

diablo have your fun. but only faint not return. you understand? yes, Daichi. I understand. the one with the horns proceeded to shred the midnight mare's previous attack. "congrats you, my dear kin have peaked our curiosity. may i have aq name or does 'that dark beast' suffice?"

"you must have forgotten your own manners and code. when asking a mare her name you must offer your own first."

"diablo."

"excuse me?"

"*huff* my name is 'diablo arch-fiend conscious'

"that wasn't so hard I'm; nightmare moon,the mare in the moon,bearer of the eternal night.

"nightmare?"

"mmmn?"

"let's cut to the meat of the matter. 'final form, midnight'" diablo materializing a small shield with a silver ram's head on the front.

"well if you insist. 'open alpha locks,midnight harvest'"a summoning circle slid its runes into place then burst into moondust leaving a beautiful scythe with a shining crescent moon blade attached to the end of a shooting star

with arms, in hand, they clashed blow after blow was struck but the demon and the nightmare drew even.

"we have reached a stalemate.we'll be stuck if one of us does not forfeit."

"this is whare typical I'd be the nice mon and let you go. but I'm having too much fun!!!"

" the I must ,good night!"

"moon wait. what would it take to keep playing?"

"I want the ritual to bind me to my keeper. and safe passage these mental corridors."

"done and done! now, can call your keeper hiding in the wings."

"how do I know this is not a trap set to ensnare my keeper?

"trust my lies, for they are the only truth I can bare. that I swear to luna goddess to all the dark ones," he said cheekily, the sound of a smirk in his voice.

"then you swear to my keeper. I don't know whether to be offended or grateful." nightmare moon

"now you surely lie! she would....... oh, my, no! little brother 'final form, true fusion'."

a white ball emitting black smoke came from the center of the winged monkey and the arch-fiend faded into a black ball with white smoke. the balls spun closer and closer till their mass merged into one giant sphere billowing gray smoke.the mighty orb shrunk to nothing leaving a mix of both, only his wings were now black. "I am now De-Angelo keeper of the gate of here after. face me and feel your doom! solar plexus impact!"

a  silver-white staff hit nightmare in the gut hard.

"call this match a draw and leave now and we will let you the key to my mind's dream-core. satisfactory? yes or no? after all De-Angelo does not fight dirty unless outmatched. nightmare moon, was it now? your keeper dream walked in a closed of mind that tells me a lot of both your potential but you yourself lack the cut and polish befitting such a gemstone in the rough. good morn and goodbye." the cloth doll pony.

"the moon! luna still needs to lower the moon!oh no no no NO!!! Moon you silly mare'wake'!" nightmare fading back into her keeper's mind and heart like so much pitch black molten wax. luna woke with a start soaked in her own sweat. she rose,"damn that banana, truffle, hay fries quiche Tia warned me but did I listen?",and made her way to her balcony to maintain the celestial cycle once more.

"nightmare i may be, but then what is i swimming in your soul and heart?" a unamused voice in the back of her skull.

"Moon??"

"Your one and only."

"Moon I've dealt with spilled minds and fractured minds but you take the cake. what are you?" luna asked bewildered.

"i am a construct of you at your most basic meant fight for my rune seal keeper, that would be you dearest luna.

~dawn~everfree forest~

a honey cream coated alicorn stallion and a young dragconuqus doe made of the most powerful monsters of the surrounding forest. were slumbering in a clearing that looked like it was ripped from candy land in the middle was a lake chocolate milk.

the blanket at the top the sleeping pair shifted and folded into an earth pony plushie complete with button eyes

"waky! waky! morning role calls or no foraging. that means hungry bellies. we're going by camp safety procedure so; name, age, allegiance, sigil beast final form.

"john, 15.7, balance,"a blind dragon with a set of weighing scales and white judges' robes appeared before the stallion.

"diechi, 16.2, light and dark." de-Angelo loomed over the cloth stallion.

"Alexia,14.5, *cough, cough* chaos  *hack, whezze*"a knight in tarnished armor holding a yo-yo that ha seen better days.

the white alicorn offered a check up.but the doe waved it off with a paw.

"john under the states we're in we must conserve our power. now to breakfast all these sweets. now breakfast food by chaos. whhooo i shouldn't haaave doonnnnne that."

"alexia we need to get you help i sence the lack of order woven with happiness.come can you move? no? then get on my back."