Golden Touch

The Old Darkness seethed. It had allowed itself to be beaten by a mere boy. Now it was trapped inside a stone hand waiting imprisonment again. It would not allow that to happen. It may be trapped, but the boy had made one fatal flaw. He had set the stone down near the Ice Devil.

Even though it meant the Old Darkness would have to abandon it's power it suck refuge with the Ice Devil. Since they both came from the same place it was easy to pull itself away from it's power, and attached itself to the Ice Devil, sure it would regain form once the Ice Devil won.

But the boy had to interfere again. The maker and the glint managed to get on either side of the Ice Devil, and now were using the obsidian mirrors to send it back to the Other Darkness. The two mirror quarters snapped together, pulling the Ice Devil, and the Old Darkness into the black void.

As they traveled through the darkness the Old Darkness felt rage seize it. It had been waiting so long for this day, trapped in the London Stone, only to be defeated by a boy maker, and a glint! It was then that it felt a slight tug. It was so slight that he almost didn't know it was there.

It was then it made a snap decision. It decided it'd rather go to wherever this tug took it, then back to the Other Darkness. So it followed the tug, and left the Ice Devil to continue on it's way back to that place.

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Luna let out a sad sigh. She stood in front of her obsidian mirror. There was another behind her. Celestia always said that she had a weird taste, but Luna disagreed. She stared at her reflection in the midnight black mirror, and let out another sad sigh. "Why does nopony take notice of my night?" she wondered.

"I know. They are quite beautiful." said a voice. Luna's head quickly whipped around, looking for the source of the voice only to find nopony was there. She turned back to the mirror, thinking it was a trick. That was when she noticed something weird. A section of the mirror seemed darker than the other spots.

It was like this spot didn't absorb light, instead destroyed it. It was then the voice spoke again, "You work so hard on your nights, and yet they are not appreciated."

"Who are you?!" she asked quickly.

"I am someone who understands." the voice said. It was then that she realized that the voice was not coming from anywhere in the room, instead it was inside her mind.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I understand how you feel." the voice said again, "You are not appreciated, even though you should be." Luna couldn't help, but finding herself agreeing with the voice.

"I know. Everypony just seems to sleep through the nights I work so hard to make." she said.

"Well I can help them appreciate you." the voice said in a tone that Luna was unable to resist.

"Really? What is it?" she asked.

"First I'll need some power." the voice told her.

"So you want me to give you some of my power?" she asked it, confused.

"No. I want to be you." it said. Suddenly a dark tendril shot out of the mirror, and wrapped itself around Luna's horn. Luna tried to resist, but it was already too late. The Old Darkness had taken over her body. She was now taller with a jet black coat, and a mane that looked like the night sky.

She opened her green, piercing draconian eyes, and spoke, "We are Nightmare Moon."

That was 1000 years ago.