The Nightmare Verse

1. The First of Gorpondret

The planet ceased its motion
The moon wept in the sky
The grass turned to fire beneath us
His tongue swept the forests clean

They were enthralled by the new visitor that bled forth from the hole in reality!

"SAVIOR! SAVIOR!" the Ponies cried! Oh the hope in their eyes as her beauty took hold of them!

I, however, felt no such glee, for I had seen her emerge from the hole! A large, vaguely spherical mass of tentacles and and spires of bone! Her one large eye never moved, as if it was able to take in all things at all times, and her stench was like manure and rot! Yes, her very form was like that of a rotting eye pulled from some great Daemon, and she screamed in pain as she was exposed to our world!

but I beheld a great light, and she closed her great eye, and the light took form around her, and she was transformed into a being of radiance and glory! Yes! Yes! She was taking the form of a great Alicorn! Her mane was like the stars in the sky waving before us, and her cutie mark was one of hope and beauty! A harp and sword! The mark of gods was adorned her, and she galloped through the sky, and a great trail of gold followed her, and the sky seemed to sing great melodies as she filled Equestria with light and pure awe!

They sang! The Ponies sang at her glory! They wept! Oh how they wept as she brought light to their fleeting lives!

And they came! They came and i thought finally someone shall put an end to this madness, for they refused to heed my words! But them! Oh the great heroes! The ones who were once called the Elements of harmony! I had thought them lost, and I am sure they had lost much hope, but they stood before me!

But it was not to be.

I pleaded! I pleaded as Celestia had pleaded with me! They were taken! They could not break from her intoxicating beauty, and she had them as she had most others!

And how i mourned them! How I mourned these once great Mares!

And what of Celestia? Had she fallen to the spell of this beast?

No, and the truth pains me even more! Dear Celestia! Kind, caring, wonderful Celestia! Her body was unable to resist, and, in saving me from Gredvan, she had become weak, and this great mass of filth had grabbed her, and taken her form! YES! THIS BEAST DEVOURED MY PRINCESS, AND TAKEN A FORM LIKE HERS!

I am in great sorrow as I write, for even after all of these years, her death was among the hardest thing I was forced to bare! But oh damned Gorpondret! OH DAMNED NEGLORIK! YOU TOOK THEM ALL! EVERY FRIEND! ALL OF MY FAMILY! THE ONES I HELD DEAR!

And yet I lived. And yet i live. And I feel you. I smell you through the crust of the earth, and I am sickened. I am sickened because I was never able to stop you, and I was never able to avenge them!

I apologize, as I have veered from the task at hand, and laid my heart bare on this these papers, but I feel that to truly grasp the horror that Equestria fell under, you must also know how the individual felt, and how they were tormented by these great godless things!

As was said, Equestria had been ravaged by tornadoes as she arrived, and she would insult us yet again! Gorpondret calmed the air, and stopped the tornadoes, causing the ponies to heap even more praise onto her! Her name was upon all of their tongues, and she took great joy in the prayers and praises she was given!

This went on for 21 days, and the planet was in ecstasy, and the very air smelled of sweet honey, and the singing soothed all it reached.

Fools! All of them fools, for they bought into this gaudy display of false godhood! And they would all pay for there faith in this deceptive messiah they so adored!

And I first enjoyed the look on their faces! Oh how bitter I was! When the food turned to rot in thier mouths, and the grass burst into fire, and they screamed and cried, I smiled, for just a moment.

For Celestia. For Celestia I smiled, for the ones who turned from her were being punished!

But my face soon fell to horror! The warriors of harmony fell! They screamed and contorted on the ground as thier bodies transformed and burst from the inside!

Oh dear Pinkie Pie! Her screams of joy turning to those of agony!
Oh dear Fluttershy! Her own animals turned on her as she was changed, and she was reduced to nothing!
Oh dear Applejack! Her strength meant nothing to this godless abomination!
Oh dear Rarity! Her beauty changed to horror!
Oh dear Rainbow! She fought back the returning tornadoes as hard as she could, yet was unable to withstand them, and she was torn apart by the great force!
And oh dear Spike! Oh DEAREST spike! You were trampled by those who fled from this being they just moments before worshiped!

And oh dear Twilight!

Oh dear, dear Twilight!

You only watched. You watched with such glee as this began, and you were unable to save them.

Your family in the north! Your dear Princess! Your greatest friends! Your assistant who was as a son to you!

All gone, and yet you write this pointless tome!

Oh dear Twilight!

You were alone, and still 6 were to come.