The Nine to Free Them All

Meanwhile with Nightmare Moon

THOSE FOALS THINK THEY CAN CHALLENGE ME!! NIGHTMARE MOON!!! I watched those six wretched mares enter the forest. MY FORREST!!! I will show these foals what happens to them when they enter my forest! I hope you perish foul demon! That infernal mare has been fighting me since my return. I thought this is what you wanted was it not? To become beloved by all who doubted you and to throw your sister from the spotlight? Oh my I forgot, OUR sister. I thought as I faked the most innocent voice I could muster. SHE IS MY SISTER, DEMON!!!! I couldn't help myself but laugh at her pointless efforts to escape. Now now, don't struggle or you might get yourself hurt. I mocked her, but she continued to struggle and sent a shock of pain to her. AAAAAHHHHHHH!! She shrieked and stopped resisting. Good I can finally plan to stop those mares now. Somepony help me.

Back to our wannabe heroes

I could sense Nightmares presence like it was an aura that was leading me to her, but we didn't want that. We wanted to ambush them at the castle. More importantly when Twilight and Nightmare Moon face off during the show. So we looked and looked until we came across six mares facing off with a manticore. We all know who those mares are. The white unicorn with a curled purple mane and tail named Rarity just bucked the manticore in the face. We knew how this all ended so we just stuck to the shadows and followed the path until we met a pretty sizeable obstacle. A wailing sea serpent. Fantastic. I wonder if I can use telepathy. I focused on Draugr and said in my mind Any ideas? He looked shocked for a moment but then copied me and said,

We can't engage in direct contact but maybe we can summon or make a bridge across.

I focused on Johnny and said, We need you to see if we can make a bridge. He simply nodded and unsheathed his longsword and sliced through a tree like butter. The tree proceeded to fall across the gap and form a sturdy bridge. Blunt, but effective.

"Excellent work Johny."

"No problem" He said with bravado.

"We must make haste to the castle. We run short on time my friends." He then pointed up stream to the serpent talking to Rarity.

"Wheres Shadowfax when you need him" I grumble

We picked up the pace towards the royal pony sisters castle but then we remembered a problem...

"The bridge" Ah piss

We cannot change the future now. They must fight their own battles. Then an idea popped in my head. Can we teleport? They all shrugged in response. Boy, you lot are helpful. I figured id give it a go and focused on the other side of the ravine and-

CRACK!!

I looked around and sure enough, I was on the other side of the ravine. The process reminded me a lot about disaperating from Harry Potter but not quite the same. I looked back at them and said Focus on the spot you want to end up at.

CRACK!! CRACK!! CRACK!!

Several snaps of displaced air could be heard and standing before me were my 8 Nazgul. And from there we finally proceeded to the castle unnoticed by Nightmare due to the mares distracting her. When we got there we knew we had mere minutes to surround the upper floor in the shadows. And so we waited. We could hear talking and the clopping of hooves. Then a bright flash and Twilight appeared with the stone elements. Another bright flash revealed Nightmare Moon in all her glory. We watched the monologue play out until our time came. Nightmare had just destroyed the elements when we came out of the shadow using the Nazgul screech, which plunged fear into the heart of even Nightmare Moon. We charged, longswords outstretched, ready cleave.We had surrounded her when she, as we predicted, blasted us away. She was gazing upon us with horror filled eyes until she saw the elements of harmony gathering. She was charging up a spell to shoot at them until my fist collided with her skull. She was sent sliding across the floor to the other side of the room. My Nazgul were staying to the sidelines to let me dual Nightmare alone. She got up and conjured a midnight blue halberd and charged.

It was a naive charge, but I clashed with her anyway and we were at a standoff until she broke it and made a swing for my leg which I parried and made an upper swing, which she dodged. We parried and dodged until I swung low at her hoof and grazed with my blade. She shrieked out in pain, so I took that opportunity to pull my arm back and slam the hilt of my sword into her head and she fell backwards, dazed. I had noticed a faint glowing in my peripheral vision and turned just in time to see the elements fire their spell which I narrowly escaped by disaperating out of there and in the middle of the forest. Seconds later and my fellow nazgul joined me. And now we must journey off to make our home somewhere until we are needed once again.

Back to the drama in the castle of the two royal pony sisters

P.O.V Twilight

My mind was reeling at what had just happened. One moment I was with my friends, ready to take down Nightmare Moon and the next thing I knew nine bipedal creatures in black robes were in a heated battle with Nightmare Moon. I took that moment to gather the elements and hit Nightmare, but not the other creepy hooded figure. Who were they and why did they help us? I started to get up and then I saw my teacher, Princess Celestia, stand by the window.

"Princess!" I squeaked and bowed.

"There is no need to bow right now Twilight. There is a matter I must attend to." The princess said before looking at a midnight blue mare huddled on the floor.

TO BE CONTINUED...