My Shabbos on the moon was rather uneventful. I spent the day reading, praying, and talking to Luna. I tried being extra nice to Twilight, but she was in a bit too much shock after finding out her teacher is a genocidal maniac to talk to anyone. I had a feeling that she still was clinging on to some hope that Celestia was truly a good pony, but I knew it wasn’t the case.

“Noah, I still can’t really accept the fact that Celestia would do something like this!” Twilight says to me moments before Shabbos ends, and she was to return to Equestria to find the “Element Bearers”.

“Well, accept it. I have, Luna has, and frankly, you should too. You saw Nightmare Moon’s vision of Earth in the past, and what she did, both to my people and to humans in general. How could anyone possibly remain loyal to someone like this?!” I say, hoping to use my impeccable Talmudic reasoning to get this concept through Twilight’s skull.

“I… I don’t know. I do know that I must be going now.” Twilight says, as she walks over to Luna and asks her to teleport her back to Ponyville, where she can continue her mission as planned. Luna does so, leaving the two of us on the moon in silence. I guess that means Shabbos is over, since we didn’t use magic today.

“Shavua Tov, Noah.” Nightmare Moon says to me, using her magic to set up for Havdalah.

“Shavua Tov, Luna.” I replied. I make the brachos for Havdalah, and I am surprised how good Equestrian Besamim smells! After Havdalah, Luna gets quite serious.

“Alright, now that Shabbos is over, you are going to try and summon a Shaid. I gave you the incantation, and I want you to see if it can work. If anything bad happens, I will fix it. Trust me.” Luna says, smiling.

Oh well, I didn't put summoning demons on my list of things to do today, but if Luna wants me to do something, I go ahead and do it. Just as I was finished setting up all the necessary things for the ritual, I saw something enter the lunar citadel. It was the pegasus golem! It landed in front of me, and deactivated, dropping a piece of parchment from its mouth.

“Ah, your golem came back, Noah! Your Shaid summoning will have to wait. I must see what this scroll contains!” Luna says, picking up the scroll with her magic, opening it to reveal the contents inside.

“I actually didn’t know golems could write, Luna!” I say, quite surprised with the results of my handiwork.

“Well, Noah, the intelligence of a golem reflects its creator. It only makes sense that the golem of a prodigy would be literate!” Luna says, giggling.

“Neat! Okay, so what does the papyrus scroll say?” I ask Luna, who hands me the scroll to look for myself. To be honest, it is pretty cool to look at something with your mind holding it in place. What I found inside the scroll was nothing too serious, just a rather crude map of Equestria, combined with a list of key military bases that Celestia uses to house her guard.

“Your golem collected crucial information, dear. I am quite pleased!” Nightmare Moon says, recollecting the scroll for herself, and presumably teleporting it somewhere safe.

“So, where were we? Ah, we were about to summon a Shaid. Go on, you won’t die or anything!” As I said before, if anything happens, I will protect you, as I have with your people for 3500 years. Be at ease, and let your magic do it’s thing.”

I make the incantation, recite the names of G-d, and wait patiently, seeing if anything will happen due to my spell.

Something DOES happen. No Shaid shows up, but my mind begins to snap, and my body floats in the air, convulsing rapidly, with blood coming out of my nostrils. I fell unconscious, somehow reverting to my human form.

“Shit! I have to save him!” Luna says, using her lunar energy to expel whatever ungodly force entered my body, purging it from existence. “Oh, poor Noah!” Nightmare Moon says, using her magic to try and heal me.

I don’t even hear Nightmare Moon, all I hear is this voice. A shrill voice that sounds like a little girl whispering in my ear.

“YOUR HEBREW FAITH IS NOTHING BUT AN OPIUM, KILLING THE PAIN OF WHAT IS REALLY THERE, NOTHING EXISTS BUT THE PURIFYING LIGHT OF THE SUN!”

I see an image of something so horrible and eldritch that I can’t fully describe it, but I can try. It’s equine in shape, but so radiant in color that the light could be darkness, and the darkness could be light. It’s mane and wings were plasma, and it was snorting flames.”

“I’ve found you, Noah the Hebrew. You aren’t safe anywhere. Be it on Earth or in the care of my sister. I will find you, and I will kill you, along with the rest of your disgusting race. I am going to finish what I started in Europe!” The voice begins to laugh, and my eyes lose their color.

“Shit. Celestia must have found Noah. This isn’t good, this isn’t good at all!” Luna says, afraid of what her elder sister could be doing to me.

PONYVILLE, EQUESTRIA

While I am trying to summon a demon from Jewish folklore to the moon, Twilight is busy thinking about the necessary steps needed to meet her future element bearers. Even if her loyalty to Celestia was wavering, and quickly at that, she still needs to pretend that she has fealty to the sovereign, lest she be exiled from Equestria, or worse.

“Twilight, are you okay?” A baby dragon asks, climbing up onto Twilight’s bed, seeing his friend upset.

“Well, kind of, Spike. I spent the night on the moon with Nightmare Moon, and I found out she isn’t really evil. Celestia has been lying to me for years!”

Spike is shocked. Celestia, of all ponies, a liar? That seemed so unlikely to him that he burst out into laughter. “You are seriously falling for that stuff? You realize that a villain would be the most likely to make stuff up to draw sympathy to their cause. You are really gullible, Twilight!” Spike says, laughing some more.

“Normally, I would be inclined to believe you, but she found this Earthling boy, turned him into a unicorn, and they seem to be getting along quite nicely. Besides, I found out the young colt is part of a magical race of Earthlings called “Jews”. They are gifted in magic that rivals even my own! I am quite fascinated by this group, and I intend to study them further. They seem to be obsessed with their history and ritual, and their food is good. I had this amazing thing called potato kugel on the moon, it tasted like heaven!” Twilight says, thinking about the delicious comfort food that Luna and I fed her.

“Maybe you just need a good night’s sleep. Celestia has been there for you since you were a filly. It would be absurd to abandon her now, after meeting Nightmare Moon and her pet “Jew”. Spike says, trying to reassure his friend that everything will be okay.

“I would have a much better time sleeping if that colt didn’t show me images of what happened to his people eighty years ago…” Twilight says, thinking about the images that Luna and I showed her of what happened in Europe during the war. “N… Nightmare Moon says that Celestia did that to his race on purpose, because Nightmare Moon likes his people. There were children in those cattle cars, Spike! Human children, taken away from their homes and suffocated to death and burned alive!”

Twilight says, crying. She couldn’t get the images out of her head. The little girl with the red jacket, taken from her mother and shot to death point blank. The babies. The poor babies, grabbed from their mother and smothered to death, just because they were Jewish babies. The young boys tied to a wooden pole, with their holy books wrapped around them, engulfed in flames. The crematoria... She couldn’t stop thinking about it.

“Spike. Nopony who is kind would have done this even to their worst enemy! Celestia must be stopped. Noah told me 6 million of his people were slaughtered over five years! 6 million men, women, and children! Imagine how massive a number that is, Spike. Celestia didn’t even flinch, letting that human man kill these people. She stood there, watched, and ate cake! Just because Luna was audacious enough to demand equal treatment by her sister.

“Oh man, this Nightmare Moon lady must be crazy.” Spike thinks to himself as he hugs his friend, who is bawling her eyes out. She can’t possibly be loyal to Celestia anymore, after what Nightmare Moon and I showed her about my history.

The only thing Twilight is loyal to right now is those poor Jewish children who will never see the light of day, whose futures will never be realized.

“Alright, Spike. I am switching teams! Tomorrow, I begin preparing for war!”

Author's Note

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

GLOSSARY:

Shavua Tov: Traditional Jewish greeting upon the completion of Shabbos. Lit means “good week”

Havdalah: ceremony marking the transition between the end of Shabbos and the start of a new week. The ceremony involves lighting a multi-wick candle, usually made out of beeswax, reciting a Bracha on wine, and smelling a spice.

Besamim: Hebrew for spices. One of the ritual artifacts used for the Havdalah ceremony.