Lullaby on the Moon

by My Sister Tia

Rating: everyone
Tags: Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Sad, Nightmare Moon, Tragedy
Length: 1437

Luna battles her feelings of remorse, and her terrible mistake, Nighmare Moon.

Update: Second chapter will be updated before more chapters are posted. Additionally, I am not writing right now, but there will be more.

Luna, princess of the moon,the night, and the stars, has always been sad about the disrespect from her own ponies that were supposed to follow her as equally as they did with her older sister, princess of the sun and the day.
She just never expected to be sent to the moon, to only talk to one pony- herself. More specificlly, Nightmare Moon. In a tough battle of emotions, she learns to calm down a bit more, and hide her tears, for when all were to someday be gathered near, in the future that is yet to come.

Loosely based on the fan-made song Lullaby for a Princess. An attempted all on my own (with slight help) story. I am going to change the name once I think of a new one!

A big thank you to my editor, My Little Epona!

The picture used for this story is not mine.

Published 2020-02-12 16:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2020-09-16 12:56:30 UTC

Fate has Been Cruel

Author's Note

This is for fun, and I would be happy if it gets popular, but i don´t mind if it just just something I just do for fun, with no one enjoying it. A big thank you to those who choose to read it for their own enjoyment as well!

Fate has Been Cruel

I am Princess Luna, ruler of the night, the moon, and the stars. I raise the moon when night time comes, put the constellations up in the sky, and visit the many ponies´s dreams every night.
Or at least, I used to be Princess Luna. Now, all I am is Nightmare Moon, known to all ponies as not the wise and kind ruler I once tried to be, but as a nightmare made to destroy all good, with her eternal night. And even worse than it all is that now I am isolated from all the ponies, including my very own sister, the very one who had banished me herself.
I know this may be quite a change, from ruler of the night, to the very nightmare of the night, but I shall explain it all to those who are willing to listen.

In my younger years, with my kind and helpful sister, Princess Celestia, it was quite fun to be ruling with her. While she took care of the day, I took care of the night.
But this is not quite as easy as it may seem. During the day, she would bring the sun up, deal with political affairs and public appearances, then lower the sun again at the end of the day. I would then raise the moon into the sky, and visit those same ponies´s dreams. Sometimes, it would bring me great delight to do so, while others, it was only emotionally depriving, bringing sadness, sorrows, pain, fear, and sometimes even guilt, to me.
This would always wear me out when it did, with so many dreams to visit each and every night. But then, when I feel like going to sleep in the daytime, I can´t, because I am a princess that has to sometimes go to really long formal meetings, public gatherings, and holiday celebrations. Getting even just a little sleep to myself would be rare, making it only more and more difficult to do my regular duties. This was slowly starting to turn my heart colder and colder, smaller and smaller, darker and darker. Until I finally did the unthinkable.

One night, I was sick and tired of this old tiring routine, and while I was entering a pony´s dream, I noticed that they had noticed me. No pony had ever done that before, in or out of a dream, so I would normally be happy about it. But my cold heart only interpreted the kind gesture as a doing of hatred, and I especially got mad when they had asked me to give them a hoof shake. I only yelled at them about how it was simply useless for me to do such a thing, because I thought that they were trying to mock me, for not having as many who loved me, or cared about me, or even acknowledge me for once. Then, I turned their dream of sunny fields, a bright sun, and lots of beautiful forests to the dark night sky, with a glowing full moon that kept trying to force them to the ground. I left them to scream and yell, stuck inside their dream until they woke up. On that very night, I had created my fist nightmare. Instead of being emotionally draining, it gave me a sense of power and strength.

I soon started creating more and more nightmares for pony after pony, until they all feared me. I did not mind, however, because I was only getting more and more powerful, powerful enough to confront my sister Tia for the throne. So that I would not only rule the night, but to also rule the day, by overthrowing her from her throne of loving and adoring ponies who would do anything for their ruler of their precious day princess. But not if it was the nightmare that had haunted their dreams. I would then have the power to do anything I wanted, especially to have at least one pony enjoy her over reign over Celestia´s pitiful, weak self, compared to the Nightmare of the night.
But first, I had to ruin one more pony´s dream; my sister´s.

When I entered her dream, I saw her raising the sun, surrounded by ponies cheering and singing. They were all celebrating her rule, not mine. They were all celebrating the sun, and not the moon, my moon. I also saw that my dream self was right beside her, celebrating more than all the others combined. I was enraged, and sent all the dream ponies into the castle dungeon. I then made everything dark, the sun disappear, replaced by the massive, glowing moon. I sent my dream self to attack her next. They were using all manner of spells to try and get to her, but it was all nothing compared to what I would do. I then sent a jolting sensation into her real body, to wake her up, scared as a filly.
A filly that would want to run and flee from me, the nightmare, and from her precious crown. I was ready to banish her from this land, forever.

In the throne room, I awaited her arrival, standing on the balcony in the center of the room. Soon enough, in about a minute, she was finally there, easy to send away from my soon-to-be kingdom.
I prepared myself to look at her one last time before she was gone, the one that I saw through eyes of hate and jealousy. When she arrived, I took in all the additional power that I could grasp from the moon, before becoming the true nightmare that I was inside; even worse, and more cold hearted than I had ever been before. My teeth sparpened, and my eyes narrowed into slits. My mane turned to a thick cloud of dark blue smoke, wafting in its non-existent breeze. My coat turned black, wings taking on a sharper, bat-like form. Glistening blue armor appeared on my limbs, sparkling like crystal.
It was all part of my big plan to send her away from my life forever. I then gave an evil laugh, glad that I had finally gotten so close to having all the attention that I thought I had deserved. But her reaction was not one out of terror, but instead out of love. She told me that she would not fight me, and that I should just calm down. But the darkness had already taken my heart, and it was already too late to turn back, even if I had wanted to.

I then started attacking her--but for real this time, not in a dream. I attacked her with very powerful beams of magic from my horn, trying to send her away from what was now my kingdom.
It was no use, she kept dodging them or blocking them with her own magical sheilds. I decided to take this battle outside of the castle, and shot a beam that purposely missed her- instead hitting the wall.
Seeing another way to get away, she got out of there, quickly. This was all getting easier and easier than I thought it would.

Following her to complete getting my revenge back at her, I kept trying, all the while maneuvering through the sky to keep up with her--I was still getting used to these new wings.
Then, after a few tries, a long beam of bright blue shot straight into her heart. It looked as if my job was done, and she would go away forever, too intimidated to even try coming back. But then, I saw her get up, more boldly this time.
Then, she flew up into the sky with her pitiful-looking gems, held within the aurora of her horn's magic, and flew up to where I was. She spun them around herself, and I thought was just to use it as a pitiful little shield.
She had just been asking to get hit again, so I did a heavy blast of a distance-teleportation spell at her, but then she used those little gems to give me an even more powerful blast--which I then realized were really the elements of harmony, more powerful than anything known to mare-kind.
I was then flung backwards, towards the thing right behind me-the moon.

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