The Legend of "The Darkside of the Moon"

Diamond Dancer lurches up in bed. She pants heavily and her eyes bulge from their sockets. She swallows the lump in her throat. She can still feel the monster breathing down her neck. Then she remembers: she is unable to feel anything. Her disease grants her invulnerability in exchange for a short life and no sense of touch. She gulps down the glass of water on the beside table and looks at the clock. Mid afternoon. With no work and nothing planned, she picks up the book to continue reading where she left off.

"You will rue the day you were---!"

Tirek's threat was cut short by an ivory hoof to the cheek. A pair of rear hooves kick him in his gut.

"I will make you into rue!" the ivory tricorn snarled as she body slams the centaur, twice her size, to the ground.

Tirek roared and fired a blast of magic at the insolent pony. The pony absorbs the blast with her right hoof and smirked at Tirek. A hoof to the face wiped off his smile. He levitated into the air by crimson magic and all his limbs are snapped in half.

The pony crushed his face into the dirt. "Beg for mercy," she hissed in his ear.

"Enough!" a voice shouted behind her.

The tricorn rolled her pale yellow eyes and punched the centaur one last time to knock him out.

"He is defeated, leave him alone," Princess Celestia said.

"He yet draws breath," the pony countered coldly.

"He will be tried and sentenced," Princess Luna input as she walked next to her friend.

"No, he will be sent to Tarturus," Princess Celestia stated.

"What?" Princess Luna walked up to her sister, "After everything he has done? He needs to be executed! The ponies will demand it!"

"For his crimes, he will be sent to Tarturus. There he will not be any danger to--"

Crunch.

The sisters turned their heads to the sickening sound.

"For his crimes-- death," the ivory tricorn said as she stepped over the centaur's body.

Princess Celestia gaped at Tirek's crushed neck and glowered at the pony walking away, "How dare you!" She jumped and landed in front of the pony. "Killing him was not your decision!"

The ivory tricorn's nostrils flared in anger. "You are right. It is Luna and your decision. You are always ignoring her and doing things your way!"

"I know what is best for my little ponies!" Celestia declared.

"The buck you do!" the pony shouted and lunged at the white alicorn

"ENOUGH!" Luna yelled and held the fiery tricorn with blue magic. "It is done," she said to her friend. She turned to her sister and said, "They are my ponies, too."

Celestia's anger dissipated and she frowned, "Luna, I didn't mean--"

Luna cut her sister off, "We will send Tirek's body to his family along with our apologies."

As the midnight alicorn and ivory tricorn walked away to leave Celestia alone with the centaur corpse, the tricorn looked back and narrowed her eyes at the alabaster alicorn.

The defeat of Tirek is the first time the Darkside of the Moon was publicly seen and mentioned by eyewitnesses. Witnesses only claim to see a white unicorn with the Princesses but I can safely assume that unicorn is the Darkside of the Moon. Why? Because Princess Luna would not have allowed any other pony fight with her against Tirek. No documents exist say who killed Tirek but I for one am thankful that he is not around anymore.

"Whoa. Tirek was bad bizness," Diamond Dancer squeaks.

A knock on the door interrupts her thoughts. She throws herself off the bed, accidentally, and scrambles to her hooves. A couple minutes later and she is downstairs at the front door.

"Who is it?" Diamond shouts at the door.

"Mailmare!" Ditzy announces. "Got an important message for you!"

Diamond fumbles with the locks on the door and opens the door a smidge to see the light gray Pegasus. Ditzy Doo reaches into a mailbag to retrieve a letter. She passes the letter to the filly, who accepts the letter with her mouth.

"Thanks," Diamond squeaks with the letter between her teeth.

"No problem!" Ditzy replies and flies off.

Diamond quickly returns inside the house and locks the door behind her. She trots over to the kitchen to read the letter and prepare a bowl of cereal for breakfast. The letter has a royal seal which is quickly broken.
The letter had only a time and place written.

Ten. Night Court.

Gee, now her curiosity is piqued. Waiting is going to kill her.

Princess Luna keeps weighing the idea over in her head. Her sister is naturally against the idea and Luna. . . was above anxious and nervous. The decision can wait later, her Servants had waited patiently long enough.

"My loyal Servants," she begins and the four ponies go to attention, "a grave situation is at hoof. An object of a powerful and dangerous nature has been stolen. The EBI has concluded that the object has been taken to the Human world."

Virga, the Night Champion, a dark blue pegasus, shifts on his hooves and a quiet sigh leaves him. Diamond notices his odd behavior and dozens of questions buzz in her head.

"The artifact that has been stolen is called the Orb of Chaos. As its name implies, the Orb of Chaos contains chaos magic and if unleashed or harnessed, I fear for the lives of Humans and ponies. The Human world works much differently than our world. Although, recent exposure to Equestrian magic has begun to fill their world with magic which makes Humans even more dangerous and why they would seek the orb."

"Your Majesty," Nettleglum, the Night Steward, a purple earth pony, begins, "if some pony went directly to the orb from the Human world then that would mean they had prior knowledge of the orb."

"Precisely," Princess Luna affirms and nods. "Tonight you will learn about the Human world and their customs and tomorrow you four will be going."

Princess Twilight enters through a side door and trots over to the group, beaming from ear to ear, "Study time!"

Dinky uses all her restraint to keep from jumping with joy. Diamond groans inwardly and feels sleep already calling her.