Diamonds and Dreams

Rarity looks around her room as she adjusts to her new reality, despite sleeping well, she feels an overwhelming sense of grogginess, looking at the calendar she sees that it is the weekend and decides to fall back to sleep.

Curling up into her blankets, Rarity finds no trouble dozing off. She sleeps for about ten more minutes before waking up again fully rested.

Dragging herself out of bed, she goes through her daily routine of sewing dresses and hanging out with her friends.

The day flies by so quickly that before she knows it, it's time for bed. The alabaster unicorn prepares for the night ahead, deep in thought as she thinks to herself 'I might try to take on the Nightmare side of me tonight, I don't think she's that powerful yet,' Rarity says to herself.

Rarity tucks herself in and drifts off to sleep, she finds herself in the astral plane again, spheres dancing around in open space as she monitors the dreams, once making sure the dreams are sound, Rarity dives deeper into her slumber, beginning to dream herself.

As she dreams, she laughs and chuckles to herself as new ideas for dresses dance around her, and adoring customers come to her eager to place orders.

Rarity delights in her dream, enjoying the limelight and admiration, until the colors start to fade, and the orders the customers had placed were now stamped with a big red canceled.

Thunder claps as Rarity's home blows away and a sinister laugh fills the air as Nightmare Rarity approaches her.

Fear creeps into Rarity's mind as she starts to breathe heavily

Sinister laughter fills the air as her nightmare form appears in front of her, mane flowing freely as she grins evilly.

Rarity's heart races as she looks upon her Nightmare form, a look of determination slowly creeping on her face as she finally shakes off her shock and slowly inches a few feet closer to her Nightmare self.

Her evil counterpart stands there looking up at the sky, watching as the dreams dance happily in the air.

"Well well well, look who I found, my other personality," Nightmare Rarity says as she returns her attention to Rarity, her voice cold and intimidating, causing Rarity to quiver a bit.

"What are you talking about?" Rarity asks, trying to fake bravado.

"Oh, you don't know? How precious you are," Nightmare Rarity cooed as she came closer to the terrified pony. "You are my second personality, since Nightmare Moon conceived you through her and embedded you with the last of her reserve power, I am you, the real you," Nightmare Rarity chimed as Rarity's eyes widened.

"N-no, it's not true, you're lying," Rarity says while breathing heavily.

"Search your feelings, Rarity; you know it to be true," Nightmare Rarity replied.

"N-no, you're lying, I am the real Rarity," the alabaster unicorn said, tearing up at the new information swirling through her head.

Nightmare Rarity chuckled, seeing this display of denial amuses her. "Rarity, my sweet other personality, it is true, I very much couldn't show myself so soon, so I hid, and created a front so no one would banish me, I'm sure you understand, " Nightmare Rarity said as she started to absorb Rarity into her body

Before Rarity could react, she found herself plunged into her worst fears as while being absorbed, disappointed clients were surrounding her house.

"The size isn't right," "The dress fell apart in the wash," "The color doesn't suit me," the mob called out as Rarity tried to think of damage control.

But before she could address the issues, she found herself standing in the presence of Sapphire Shores.

"Rarity, there's no easy way to say this, but you're fired from the position of my fashion designer," Sapphire said, leaving Rarity breathless.

"B-but why?" Rarity asked.

"New information has come to light that you plagiarise designs and fabrics from Suri Polomare, she came to me and told me how you came to her to ask to borrow some fabric for accents, and in good faith she gave you a whole roll of fabric and you used it for the whole design," Sapphire replied as Suri grinned.

"No, that's not true," Rarity protested, only to have Sapphire look even more disappointed.

"I can overlook some things, but this I can't, and your lying and denying makes it even worse, you should be ashamed of yourself," Sapphire says as Rarity hides her face.

"No, no, It's not true, I didn't copy her, she copied me," Rarity says as Nightmare Rarity hovers above her.

"Yes, give into fear and dread, let me take over and you will be more powerful than anypony, you'll be more powerful than the princesses," Nightmare Rarity says as she starts to fully envelop Rarity in her darkness.

Before she could fully consume Rarity, a magic blast shot through her causing Nightmare Rarity to bellow in pain as she loses control and starts to lose her grip on Rarity.

"Leave her alone," Luna says as she stands over Rarity, horn flaring as she protects her.

"Oh, but of course, Your Highness, I should have known mommy would come to the rescue, but come on, let me consume her, let Nightmare Moon consume you, and together, we'll be unstoppable,"

Luna ignites her horn and stands over Rarity. "Back off," Luna barked as Nightmare Rarity smirked.

"Of course, your Highness, but know this, Rarity, mommy won't always be here to rescue you, I will get free, mark my words," Nightmare Rarity said as she teleported away.

Rarity shivers in fear as Luna sits down beside her and caresses her mane. "There there, Rarity, it's alright," Luna said as Rarity started to hyperventilate.

Luna looks up at the dreams floating around as Rarity tries to calm down.

As soon as Rarity calmed down she stood up, still shaken. "T-thank you for saving me, but is it true, am I really just a second personality for the nightmare form?" Rarity asks.

Luna sighs as she strokes Rarity's mane. "The only one that can truly answer that is you, dear," Luna says as she tries to comfort Rarity.

"Please, if you want to be my mother then tell me, am I just a second personality, don't give me the dime store answer, please just step up and be a mother," Rarity snapped back, anger and fear riding her voice as she tears up.

"I am, and I'm sorry, I can't tell you, I believe you are the primary personality, but I am not the one that needs to believe it, you do," Luna replied, remaining calm even though Rarity's words stung.

"I-I'm not sure I do," Rarity says as she starts to shake, her breathing speeding up as she enters the fetal position.

Luna gently strokes her head as she tries to calm down Rarity. "Shhhhh, it's alright, just breathe," Luna coos as Rarity lays her head down in her lap.

Luna and Rarity sit there in silence as Luna takes over dream surveillance, she watches as the dreams float around them. Luna looks at Rarity who has fallen asleep. Luna smiled at Rarity who had finally calmed down, but feared she would still be worried.

Luna looked back up and smiled again. Among the dreams an orb came floating down, Luna peered inside and saw a memory of her, she was in the fetal position, crying and shaking as she rocked back and forth. 'Who am I, am I really a personality?' She called out as she winched in fear. She watched as Celestia came in and comforted her, wrapping her wing around her as she booped her nose to hers.

A tear flows down Luna's face as she listens to her sister's kind words. The memory floats back up as Rarity wakes up.

"Hmmm what was that, a nightmare that needs fixing?" Rarity asks.

"No, it was a good memory," Luna replied as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"What was it?" Rarity asks as Luna smiles.

"I'll tell you about when you wake, you should get more sleep, I'll take care of the dream realm," Luna said as she ignited her horn and touched Rarity's forehead.

As soon as Luna touched her forehead, Rarity found herself in a black void, she felt an overwhelming sense of calmness and safety as she fell asleep in her dream.