An Ally of Nightmare

The trio and the creature were almost at the border of the mountain, walking silently without a word to each other. However, the trio have been wanting something from the creature that they gave to him...

"So... We haven't heard where you come from, Mr... Creature," Cozy Glow said to the nightmare beast.

"Yes, we've all told you our stories, and now I think it's your turn," Said Tirek.

"You know that we're all in pain, so now it's your turn to tell us what your motivation of pain is," Says Chrysalis.

"Of course, of course. Where shall I start?" The creature said.

"How about the beginning, were you always like this?" Said Tirek.

"No, I was once whole as Chrysalis once was. If this is your choice, I only warn you that this is no tale for those faint of heart and feeling," The creature stated.

"I'm fairly certain we can handle any story that comes our way," Chrysalis said with a smirk.

"If this story is relative to the tune you were humming, I might cry again..." Cozy said sweetly and truthfully.

The creature simply stared into darkness, whistling the same tune as he began to observe in the beginning of his life…

There was nothing but darkness all around, a void of blackness and nothingness.

Then, a pair of eyes opened to see a very elegant and beautiful dragoness and a strange monster with a strange head and burning eyes.

"I was once a rare species of dragon. A dragon that would be charged to protect all of the Cosmos. My dragonflight was the chosen brood of the Titans of Light, the devoted guardians of their beloved creations, the children of stars, the avatars of spirits."

"We were... the Neutron Starwyrms."

"The Titans of Light themselves have proven to be the most powerful entities of the Multiverse, and have given only a small piece of their power to five individual dragons that started out as small drakes. They were of course: Alexstrasza, Ysera, Nozdormu, Kalecgos, and Neltharion. Eonar granted Alexstrasza the powers of Life and Ysera the powers of Dreams, Aman'Thul granted Nozdormu the powers of Time, Norgannon had first granted Malygos the powers of Magic until he became corrupt, and now the powers of Magic are given to Kalecgos, and Khaz'Goroth granted Neltharion the powers of the Elements. Over time, seeing the young Aspects doing good with their powers unto Azeroth, the Titans that granted them a small piece of their power, began to see them as their own children, and they taught them everything about their powers as mothers and fathers."

The pair of eyes looked happy and comforted at the sight of their mother.

"Alexstrasza was the primary guardian of all living things in the Titans' place as they discussed an important matter."

"Then she had me. And I was named 'Nutron'."

"However, my mother began to feel a terrible corruption of the mind in the world. With what little choice she had left... she sent me to a world far from the reach of her enemies, in hopes of a new dragonflight to be born, uncorrupted."

The pair of eyes saw themselves being sent through a portal and through the fabrics of space and time. Once they passed through, the portal closed behind the eyes, and they saw that they were on a strange world without a sky, but countless stars.

"I was sent here, the Equestrian Universe, but not in Equestria herself."

The pair of eyes began to cry for their mother for hours. The only thing that came was a strange creature never seen before.

That creature... was Princess Luna herself.

"The Princess of Night found me on her beloved moon in the Dreamscape realm. Seeing as I was supposedly abandoned, and seeing no guardian around to nourish me, she decided to raise me herself."

Princess Luna took the baby dragon to Equestria and showed him to her big sister, Celestia. The two sisters were only fillies at the time as their parents ruled over Equestria.

The eyes looked to see a dark lavanderish-blue filly and a snowy-white filly looking at him with warm smiles and comforting eyes.

"The Two Sisters gave me a prosperous and happy life, and Luna was my new mother. She would often take me to the moon and its beautiful Dreamscape Palace."

The pair of eyes were as tall as a filly and saw an older Luna and Celestia talking with their father, sadness in their eyes.

"But of course, their subjects did not take me so kindly..."

The eyes looked around at the ponies sneering or just glaring at him, same even intimidated to even by near him. He did not understand why.

Next the eyes found themselves in darkness, fear and sorrow as they felt many beatings from commonfolk fillies and colts of the kingdom, insulting him for what he was and very much enjoying the abuse they were inflicting him with.

Then they stopped and decided to leave him in the dirt as they mocked him with laughter.

And the same thing occurred over and over...

The fillies and colts endlessly tormenting him. They kick him until he is unconscious...

They insult him until he cries...

And they assault him with many things until he is bruised, scarred or scratched all over. They even dared to skin parts of him for his very thick scales for their own decorative fashions.

"But it did not last for a lifetime when she came..."

One filly was about to throw a rock at him until he was suddenly zapped away and blown into a cart of apples.

The fillies looked up to see a horribly enraged older Luna with gnashing teeth and glowing white eyes, a thunderstorm to accompany her as she kept assaulting her dragon's abusers until they ran and screamed in fear, not wanting to be incinerated by their own princess.

She turned to see her poor dragon child broken, scarred, bruised and scratched all over, same of his scales were even skinned off of him and his spines and ear fins were very tattered.

Luna held the dragon in her arms very tenderly, but the dragon whimpered and whined in so much pain that he had been enduring for over 6 months. Luna sobbed very much for her child that she damned herself for not having seen this any sooner.

Next, the eyes saw themselves on Luna's back, fillies behind her soaring with her to the moon. Yet he was still very much afraid of the fillies and colts she took with her.

"Luna's Children of the Night had pity for me seeing Celestia's commonfolk inflicting unseen torment on my very being, resulting them to care very much for me and protect me if they could when they came to Canterlot for Luna."

The pair of eyes saw three fillies looking at him curiously, but he was terrified and hid under a bed hissing fearfully.

The fillies backed off slowly as they didn't want to further frighten him. One of them pulled out a small gem colored like Luna's magic and gently threw to him.

He slowly came a little closer to the light, and then took the gem under the bed with him at an amazing speed.

A couple years later the eyes were munching on the same type of gem while they were watching a small filly looking at him softly.

He picked up the gem in his mouth and slowly approached the filly, wanting to try something.

The filly smiled softly as she saw the little dragon coming closer, putting her head on the ground.

The eyes stopped and placed the gem in front of the filly, waiting to see if she would take. She did, but she didn't eat it. He was confused only for a sharp second until he remembered that ponies don't really eat gems like dragons do.

Next the eyes found themselves among the fillies on a small blanket with many shapes of the moon and stars, eating the same gemstone they always fed him. They chatted amongst themselves as they were discussing what they could do to prove to Celestia's subjects that he wasn't a threat.

But the eyes knew that Celestia's subjects only treated him so because of him being a dragon and not a pony.

Then finally, the pair of eyes saw themselves lying with a trio of filly-sisters that vowed to protect him no matter the cost, even if their own parents forbid them to come anywhere near him. He smiled warmly, feeling that at last he could trust these ponies and their beloved Princess-mother...

"I thought they were worthy of my trust..."

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"But how wrong I very.. much.. was..."

The pair of eyes saw their transformed mother fighting their aunt. Then they saw their aunt bringing out strange colorful rocks. Seeing that their aunt was about to blast at their mother, the eyes quickly flew up to their mother...

The eyes and their mother were banished to the moon, their mother being furious and angry.

"Once her banishment had begun, she became a monster..."

The pair of eyes were thrown all over their mother's chamber, crashing into furniture and walls, bruises and cuts all over their body.

His former brothers and sisters that he thought he could trust mocked him with laughter and became the very same abusers that Celestia's subjects were.

Next, the pair of eyes were being whipped upon or spat upon by their former brothers and sisters, the dream creatures throwing rocks at him.

Then they saw themselves being kicked or scratched by the ponies, and their mother smiling sinisterly at him.

Finally, the last thing they saw was a dagger coming towards them in the face, turning everything black.

"One day, we took it no longer..."

When the young dragon felt a slap on his left cheek, he bared his claws and felt them scratch his mother's right cheek. After a few moments of silence, the Alicorn monster left, leaving the poor tormented dragon alone in the room.

Nutron slumped on his haunches and started crying into his lap, feeling that his life of torment, abuse, neglect and abandonment would never cease.

"And then... our fate... had come."

When the dragon heard his mother coming closer, he suddenly felt his wings torn off of his body, feeling the blood gush from his back and onto the ground and his body. Next, he felt his feet, forearms, tail and jaws cut off from his body, more blood gushing out. Then, he felt himself being lifted into the air and slammed to the ground multiple times, knocking him unconscious. And finally, he felt a massive jab in his chest and a burst through his back, squeaking and groaning in pain...

"M-Mom....... W-Why-y-y.....?" He uttered with a sob.

"Because, little beast....... You were never my child." Nightmare whispered sinisterly.

And then...... He was lifeless after his last sobbing breath.....

"We were mutilated..."

Nightmare Moon started dissecting and ripping the drakeling limb to organ.

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"Disembowled..."

Nightmare Moon carried a large sack that was dripping with fresh blood across the halls towards the Graveyard.

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"Thrown away..."

Once Nightmare Moon took the sack to the graveyard, she placed it by a dead tree with an evil grin.

"Enjoy the darkness," She gawked, then she laughed sinisterly and walked away.

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Many of his former brothers and sisters came to his grave and always partied over it, littered it with rotten garbage, pouring wine on the tombstone

"But, in a way... we were saved..."

After 20 years had passed, the bag was old and rough and attracted flies because of a very powerful stench from it. Then, these black branches with crimson-red crystal scythes came out of the ground with this black and red portal underneath the sack, and pulled it in. Then the portal vanished.

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A small dragon body was placed into a hybridization chrysalis, and two figures were experimenting on him. The first had a humanoid torso, but he had the legs of a goat, his hair was brownish-red and his skin was crimson red, and he had very large goat horns on his head. The second had the full body of a man, but he had an octopus head and tentacle fingers, his skin was purple and his eyes were burning yellow.

The red figure inserted an orb of nightmare while the purple figure infused an orb of shadow inside of an chrysalis. Then they fired a beam of nightmare and shadow together into it. Then, the dragon inside started to change in appearance. His scales started to brighten into a greyish color, his fur began to shed, and his horns and tail began to deteriorate into something new.

"The mutation is beginning, Nightmare Lord." Said another man-goat figure to a nightmare flame.

”Excellent...” The flame said happily.

The figure looked at the chrysalis with hoping eyes. "Come on, Ruby Drakeling... Come on," He said quietly. The dragon's new form was almost finished...

"But we failed to be made again..."

But then, tragedy struck when the dragon simply burst into the crystal's the creature would eat.

The figure sighed in disappointment. ”The mutation has failed...”

"Try again, Morphael,"

"Yes, Nightmare Lord." The figure known as Morphael told his comrades to return to work.

"And many a time, we failed..."

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The two infusers filled more nightmare and shadow into the chrysalis.

The dragon started forming again, but then the heart monitor gave out a long beep.

"We failed..."

Morphael looked over at the infusers and saw them show the dragon's brain deteriorating rapidly and turning into dead tissue and rotten holes. He sighed again.

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"And failed..."

Next, the dragon started bulging, and the bubbles popped with living tumors of Nightmare and Void coming out of him.

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"And failed..."

Then, various parts of the dragon started detaching and falling limp with blood of Nightmare on the ground.

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"And so forth..."

Then, the dragon turned to crystal and shattered.

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Then, a vital organ would simply burst or deteriorate.

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Finally, the dragon would keep bursting into crystals.

Every time he was remade, the dragon would go through these bizarre events, and the Nightmare Lord’s followers would grow much more despair.

"All of this for over 8,000 years..."

8,347 years later...

Morphael was looking over the structured vision and schematics of the hybrid he was trying to create, wondering where he always went wrong.

Finally deciding to give up, the scientist took the body and the nightmare and void orbs over to a portal and through them in.

"After those times... we finally returned..."

The body and the crystals were found by Archipelago and Emerald Shine. But the same failing process went on, over and over and over again for 126 years.

”And at last... we were born again...”

Archipelago looked over at a container of the crystals and simply gazed. Then, something caught his eye within the orbs, looking back and forth at the two for a moment. The scientist gasped, "That's it!" Then he grabbed the two and placed them into another container together.

They started morphing with each other, transforming into this blood red mist and grey smoke with this tarry black mass leaking out in the center. Then Archipelago took the container with the mass to the lab.

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Archipelago placed the corruptive mass into a larger container, along with a vial of the Nightmare itself. Once the scientist pushed the pad, the process began to start.

"So... what are you thinking about naming it?" Emerald asked.

Archipelago started thinking. He looked at the screen as it told him that the base genome was Neutron Starwyrm.

"I think I will name him... 'Nytbane'."

The creature was made, and thus... his life had taken the toll...

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Present Day...

Then the creature known as Nytbane, the Dreadbane NM-H hybrid Mark 6, finally whistled out the end of the tune. Cozy Glow was simply in tears from the tune, Chrysalis simply gave a sympathetic look, and Tirek was simply astonished by how much this hybrid had gone through, and he here he stands- alive and walking.

"And so they perfected a creature that would be born to become the very skin of fear, made to erupt, spread and connect to all livings things that worship the moon, recreating them into vessels for my protection. To be made empty.. Dank.. Vile.. and Cruel..."

"...You..." Chrysalis said.

"Yes..."

Chrysalis now began to feel very sad and empathetic, only imagining what going through all that this creature has endured could have felt like.

"...They beat you and harmed... They discarded you and left you for the grave..."

"...And here I am, born to live with this eternal torment from my countless short-living deaths... My bleeding heart, never beating... My mind, bound to corruption... My soul, irredeemably shattered... Never to be whole again..." Nytbane finished.

Chrysalis simply couldn't think about these things and pecked Nytbane on the cheek very affectionately.

"You are truly worthy of my empathy..." She said.

Nytbane simply nodded at the statement. "Not all beings are simply born with a happy life, but they always learn to talk it over... unlike us villains."

"So your motivation of pain is the pony race?" Asks Tirek.

"Not them in general, but also the one who listened to lies of the moon ghoul."

"Ahh... So Princess Luna started all of this with you?" Asked Chrysalis.

"Yes... And they will all... feel... my... PAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINNN!!!!!"

Nytbane's body and eyes glowed a pure bloody light, and he released a mighty shockwave of Nightmare and plagued the entire base of the mountain itself with such twisted vegetation, eroded rocks and greatly polluted lakes and rivers with muck, diseases and the rotten corpses of every animal that lived on this mountain, under the influence of the nightmare.

The villains were very much frightened of Nytbane's power and shook uncontrollably until Nytbane simply huffed mists of noxious red air from his nostrils, showing great indications of anger, devastation and grief if he had the emotions to do so.

Cozy Glow slowly came to Nytbane and hugged him with so much empathy.

“D-Don't be angry, Nytbane. We’ll help you get revenge on Luna. And we promise that we won’t do anything mean to you also. Right guys?”

“Of course,” Says Chrysalis.

“Obviously,” Says Tirek.

Nytbane didn't respond, he simply stared on into the blackness of his dead vision as he still huffed the dangerous air from his nostrils, the veins inside him pulsating very frightfully.

Then the quartet was silent for a moment. The villain trio looked at each other and nodded.

"Nytbane?” Chrysalis asked.

The hybrid turned his gaze to Chrysalis’ heart.

“We were wondering, if it’s not too much of a concern to you… Perhaps you would like to join us back at Grogar's Lair? It's not exactly home as it is at your old one, but at least it doesn't get very cold inside," Said Chrysalis.

“Yeah, I can show you where my room is if you’d like. It’s a little small, but I think we can make a little more space,” Cozy offered.

“Although, there isn’t really anything ‘horrifying’ that you can feed on,” Tirek pointed.

“But I can make cupcakes,” Cozy remarked.

Nytbane started thinking on the offer. Being part dragon, it was dangerously cold on this mountain, but he did have the ability to store up more body fat to keep out the cold. And being up on this mountain was rather a little lonely, so he wouldn’t mind a little company. However, he took the word ‘cupcakes’ into account, which meant that he would have to make his own fuel of nightmare. However, that didn’t bother him.

"My faithful comrades, I would very much like to accept the offer, but I am afraid that I am not ready to reveal myself to your foes yet. But know that I will always be present within the mind of your hearts. I wish you all I farewell." Says the hybrid, then he released Cozy and flew back up the mountain, leaving the villains to know that he would be a very potential ally for them when needed.

What they didn't know was that Nytbane was watching them from above, the phrase Cozy said to him when she came up to him after his outburst.

"D-Don't be angry, Nytbane. We'll help get revenge on Luna, and we promise not to be mean to you either, right guys?"

"Of course."

"Obviously."

Nytbane's eye started to cry a pure power, but it was not nightmare.

"A promise... to me .....is not good enough.....anymore....... Cozy....."