The True Master of Chaos

Screams came from all directions as ponies fled from Luna. She did not know why this was happening. The once-peaceful village was an inferno, somehow it had been set on fire. ‘How did I get here?’  Luna thought to herself, before using her magic to stop a young unicorn from sprinting away,

“Sir, what is happening? What’s wrong with-?”

The unicorn dropped to the ground, quivering like a beaten animal, “p-p-please don’t hurt me! I-I’ll do anything you want! Please” The near-foal whimpered.

“What? But I-”

“D-don’t hurt me. Please, Nightmare no. Don’t!” Terror was written all over his face,

That name made Luna’s heart skip several beats. Now, she was panicked. Luna had no idea what was going on. She she turned and backed up, stepping in a puddle. Luna looked down and gasped. Instead of her own, darkish blue reflection there was a coal-black horse with green, dragon like eyes staring right at her.

“No,” She screamed, seeing the reflection mirror whatever she did. “It can’t be!"

"It is." a sinister voice was heard in the back of her head.

Luna froze as she recognized it as her tormentor. "You are gone! I got rid of you!"

"You will never be free of me. You can strip my force from you, but I will always be a part of you. We are not as different as you might think. Deep down, you know you are just as corrupt and evil as I am."

"No..."

"You will always have me within you, no matter what you do. I will live forevor."

No... NO!!!!!”

Princess Luna shot up from her sleep as she came from the nightmare. She shook her head, trying to clear those thoughts from her mind. Her body was dripping with sweat. Her nerves finally began to calm down after a few moments. She then glanced over to her clock.

“6:58 PM, huh? Perfect, two minutes before its time.” Luna mumbles to herself. She tries to roll over, but her mind kept racing, preparing her for what was coming within the next 100 seconds. Glancing outside, she notices the sun being lowered behind the mountains. “Damn it!”

Rolling back over, she taps the button on the top of her clock, shutting off the timer. Climbing out of bed, she stretched her ankles as she walks to the bathroom, but when she walks past her closet mirror, she couldn't help but stop and look at what she has become.

Luna had grown into quite the Mare; her height was near equal to Celestia, down by only a few inches. Her whole body had grown in size, becoming longer and taller, yet still keeping a sleek, shapely curve to her frame. Her hair had grown darker, becoming a deep royal blue. But perhaps the biggest difference was her mane and wings.

Luna’s mane had slowly started to flow over the years from her energy, but now it reached its true beauty. The mane was a midnight blue, and thousands of stars spotted throughout, shining brighter than the clearest nights. It was now as long as Celestia’s long mane.

And her wings had grown considerably in width and length. They were much too  large to fold by her sides, and now had to carry them up and over her back. This didn’t bother her, since it felt natural for wings this size to not fold.

Luna’s change in appearance so suddenly was due to the thousand years as Nightmare Moon. Since Luna was young when she was corrupted, her body was still undeveloped. And after she was freed from that evil control, her body reverted back to the form it naturally had.

Since Luna was an alicorn, though, her age had not changed, and the magic within her began to naturally change her body at a much faster rate, allowing her to catch up to what she would normally look like.

She turned around, so that her flank was facing the mirror. She then began to flip her hair so that it flowed as she turned back towards the mirror, giving herself a lustful glance. Standing on her hind legs, she put her fore hooves on her hips, and giving a little swing as she took a few steps.

Luna was so indulged with eying herself, it took the knock on her door to break her concentration, “princess, is everything all right?” asked a concerned voice of a servant.

Luna immediately snapped back to reality, “OH, y-yes. I’m just getting up.”

“Oh. We were all wondering why you haven’t moved the moon.”

“I’m fine I ju- THE MOON!” Luna screamed. She ran out to her balcony and looked out to the growing darkness. She was so caught up with herself that she did not realize the sun had completely set. “I forgot to raise the moon!”

Her long, blue horn begins to glow, when suddenly the large, glowing white mass rises up from below the horizon, casting a glow as it climbs. Luna focused intently, positioning the moon in its spot.

Relieved that was over, she turns back to her room to get cleaned.

“Caught admiring yourself, sister?” someone whispered.

Luna was startled by the sudden voice from her balcony. She flips around, then calms when she sees her older sister floating outside the window, giggling to herself.

Turning a bright red, she says, “what!? No no no! I-I just”, suddenly, she frowns at Celestia, “what were you doing spying on me anyway?”

“Ha-ha, I wasn’t spying; I had noticed that you had not begun to raise the moon, so I came down to check if you were ok. As I was flying down, I just happened to notice you through the window, looking at yourself in the mirror”

Luna became flushed with embarrassment again, tapping her hoof on the ground.

“Oh sister, you shouldn’t be ashamed.” Celestia said as she came in through the balcony, “you have grown into a beautiful mare.” She draped one of her wings over her younger sister. Celestia always knew how to make a pony feel better about themselves. I was the same when I had realized changes about myself.”

“Really? You?” Luna asked surprisingly, “I never figured you to be the… flaunting type.”

“Ha-ha! Well, I wasn’t, but as you grow you do like to enjoy what you are given.”

Luna smiled, but suddenly remembered the dream she had, the horror of the ponies that ran from her. Celestia noticed she was upset about something, and tried to give her comfort.

“Mother and father would have been proud.” She then lifts Luna’s head to look in her eyes, “he would be proud too-”

Luna’s Eyes shot open at that last statement, “Don’t, sister!”, Luna snapped. Pushing Celestia’s wing off, she runs over to the bathroom and slams the door behind her, leaving a shocked sister in the room.

Celestia realized that Luna was still suffering from the nightmare Moon incident. ‘Who wouldn’t be’ Celestia thought to herself. Luna was forced to commit crimes against what she wanted, and had to watch as this was happening.

Celestia then thought of her master, and what happened that night a thousand years ago.  “She still blames herself” Celestia whispered under her breath. Walking over to the balcony, she takes flight, but not before she hears the sniffles coming from the bathroom.

Inside, Luna stares at herself in the mirror, when powerful memories return to her, visions of attacking the many ponies she loved. She envisions of when her sister was lying on the ground, beaten and covered in blood, begging for her life, when a powerful figure comes to protect her. It is the eyes of that pony looking up at her that bothers her most now. She still remembers those eyes so vividly, filled with hurt and sadness to what had to be done.

Luna couldn’t control it anymore. She falls to the ground, curling into a tight ball on the floor, and letting the tears pour from her eyes.

“I’m so sorry,” she whispers between her sobs, “I’m so sorry, master!”