Luna was currently sitting at her seat on the dining room table. Face nervous, yet serious as she considered an action.

Her breach of privacy last night was quite unforgiveable, especially without a proper reason as to why she did it. Yet, what she saw itself was something of great concern. The fact that a pony of Equestria, even if they were an adult now, had suffered such a heavy past was not something she could let go as a ruler Equestria.

So it was something Luna needed to discuss with Celestia. But the problem still stood.

Just how should she tell her sister?

Forcefully making her sister's friend to have such a dream was already in the 'never fucking do it without reason' category. Added on top of the fact that she saw something that she absolutely should not have made it that much more offensive.

"Ugh." Luna grabbed her head as she dropped it on the table.

With a small swing of the door, a slightly shaking mare in a maid outfit walked in. "Um, w-would you like anything, Princess Luna?" She asked with clear fear in her voice.

Jolting slightly at the sudden voice, Luna straightened herself. "Would thee repeat thineself?"

The maid was shivering as she barely held herself together. "W-would you like a-anything, your highness?"

"Ah, yes. We would like a simple latte. That is all." With that, she sent the maid away as she slumped back down on the table.

After plenty of interactions with her citizens, Luna had made an observation that even the most idiotic of ponies wouldn't notice. Everpony, except only a few absolutely feared her. It had been so ridiculously obvious to her.

It hurt her. So much so that even a single emotion other than fear gave her some sort of relief. Even if, that emotion was something quite negative.

She grew a small frown as she found herself pondering on that ever important green pony. No matter how she thought about it, he didn't make sense.

The downright chill inducing glare, impossible to obtain without taking lives. And judging by how sharp it was, he had shed more than his fair share of blood. It truly baffled Luna why her sister had not dealt with this pony. The thought of her sister being tricked occurred to Luna more than once, but she could not act on it due to one other instance.

"Just how does he know about-"

"Luna?" Celestia walked in with a slightly shocked face as she disturbed Luna's monologue. "It's rare to see you of all ponies up this early." She commented happily with an exhausted smile on her face.

"I, had a concern. Why does thee look so tired? Thou art usually a morning pony, as they say." Luna commented with a hint of worry.

"Not really, it takes me half an hour on average to get out of bed." Celestia slowly walked to the table and took her seat before replying. "It's because I, also had a concern." She said with a small frown. "You remember the friend I told you about?"

"Yes, Natural Remedy. What of him?"

"Well, first of all, he seems to have come from a millennia ago."

Luna blanked.

"What?"

"He's from a millennia ago." Celestia repeated as if it was the most common thing.

Blinking several times to fully sober up, Luna simply stared at her sister.

"Yes, I was quite surprised too when I first found out." Celestia added on. "Well, that's only part of the issue. I'm more concerned with what he actually experienced from that time." She spoke with the tiniest of frowns.

Suddenly, the door to the dining table opened as a butler walked in. He held a tray with two steaming cups and a plate of waffles. Skillfully placing one cup in front of Luna and the rest in front of Celestia.

"Thank you, Steel Mask." Celestia said with a warm smile.

"It is my pleasure, your highnesses." He gave a simple bow and left.

"Pray tell, does thou know the names of everypony that works here." Luna asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Of course." Celestia replied happily. "You should learn, even from the highest esteemed guests from Saddle Arabia, to the humblest of workers in Rockville. Each and every single one of them makes up some part of life." She explained calmly with a smile. "And I've known Steel Mask for nine years now." She quickly added with a wink.

Luna gave a chuckle and a lighthearted eye roll before finally taking a sip from her coffee. "Hmm, I'm not sure if this beverage actually affect me anymore." She spoke as she stared at her cup.

"Don't increase the dosage, Luna. We both know what happened after your first cup." Celestia warned with a bite of her waffle. "Coffee is supposed to be a light kick to wake you up when you need to, not a random burst of energy that will undoubtedly leave you with a crash"

Luna shivered in slight fear as she remembered the time she found herself with the worst headache she had ever felt, added on the fact of how she could not do a single thing to prevent it as she felt as if she had no energy.

"Anyways, back to the matter of Remedy." Celestia sipped her tea to wash down her waffles. "If possible, I'd like you to take a visit there. I don't know if you already know, but I'd like you to meet somepony else." She said with her warm smile.

Luna only sipped her drink as a thousand thoughts went through her. Though, with both a pony she barely knows, and her own sister telling her, she could only guess she should take the visit.

"Your ass is not going to be walking on that leg anytime soon." Remedy told me with a stern stare.

"I won't then." I replied as I felt my face muscles tensing. We've been doing this shit for ten minutes by now.

"That's not the fucking problem." His face had a trembling smile with an annoyed frown. "The problem, is that you're now one leg short. Therefore, diminishing your ability to either run or fight by at least half"

I took a deep breath to try and relax myself as I felt the strained smile on my face threatening to crumble. "Remedy. I need to take a piss. And you're not letting me go in private." I calmly explained.

"Letting you go alone would be leaving you defenseless"

"Bitch, did you feel like watching me piss or something?!" I finally snapped.

He completely froze as his hoof held his chin. His face completely lost in thought.

"What the fuck are you thinking so hard about?!" I asked louder than I intended.

"I'm contemplating how traumatizing that would be." He answered with a serious face.

I felt myself blank.

"Remedy." I calmly addressed him. "Go fuck yourself. I'll be back in thirty." I told him and turned to leave.

I heard him sigh as I walked over to the bushes.

Finally, that prick. The hell got into him, suddenly being that overprotective. Well, I guess it feels nicer than usual.

Walking with a slightly blurry mind, I stretch to hear a few pops. There was a random chicken here for some reason, though, it ran away. I heard some chirps echoing through the area.

"Pretty lively today." I mumbled and walked further in.

This fucking leg is an actual problem though. Seriously, I'm pretty damn sure cragadiles don't do all that hiding shit. I still remember that presentation I had to do in the academy.

I stop on the spot as I think back to when I encountered it.

"I punched it, right? No, I, pulled it away." I muttered as I remembered the cloudy memory.

Staring at my hoof with a curious thought, I turned to a random tree. And with a small shout, I punched it.

"Ow, fuck!" I slowly pulled my now hurting hoof back and continued to walk.

That was a stupid fucking idea.

As I spend a minute or two more, peacefully walking through the calm forest, I finally reach my destination. Pretty much at the barrier, as far away from the camp as possible. The reason I chose to walk so far away was just hygiene issues, like, shitting near the camp is just a bad decision in general.

And the other reason of course, was to practice a little something.

Releasing a deep breath, I take a seat and concentrate. Deeper, make yourself disappear from the world. Then, feel the world itself. Spread your senses, feel the light coming from above. Hear the sounds and pass through it. Predict the winds and follow its path. Then, finally, become the true opposite of light.

Inhaling deeply, I felt the air coming to me, only to dissipate as if I didn't exist. Then, I opened my eyes.

I felt my skin becoming slightly burnt from the sunlight. Slowly, I raised a hoof, and took a single step. Entering a completely different world, I was in a pitch black void.

Fucking finally!

Willing my now ethereal body to move forward, I felt myself jumping from shade to shade. Any and all shadows that were created, even by the tiniest of grass on the ground to the largest of trees, they were all a part of this empty world.

Suddenly feeling like I was empty, I quickly exited the world and was thrown out of the shadows.

"Oof." I let out a pained sound as I slid down the tree I got slammed into. Laying there whilst heavily breathing, I slowly started to laugh. "Fuck yes! This body is finally starting to get used to it." I talked happily as I inspected my hoof.

It always had a pure dark fur, but now it's different. Anypony can look and tell the difference. Instead of it just being dark colored, it looks like it's not something physical. With a deep breath, I released it and eased my body.

Nocturnal magic. Novices can't do all that shadow traversing, but I already have over two thousand years worth of experience. Not to mention the full century worth knowledge about it that I had to learn about from dad.

"This body is still pretty shitty though." I commented and spat out some blood.

Even with all my experience, it still takes me a full ten minutes of full concentration just to use it for a few seconds. This body just has way too little magic, though, it's probably because of the damn barrier.

I've thought of a few theories over the time I spent here. Yet, there's only one I think is actually plausible. When I first came here, I had that weird ass dream being captured by vines. It's obvious, those lights sealed away pretty much everything related to magic in this body. And just like Remedy, I'm slowly gaining more strength.

But that still leaves questions. Just what the hell is this barrier? What's its purpose? Who made it?

*Sigh*

"This shit is really complicated." I said and stood up.

I still need to take a leak.

Behind those bushes should do it.

As I relieved myself, I had a strange premonition that today would be shitty. Well, shittier than the average monster attack we've been getting. The fuck is up with that actually? Why are random ass monsters just deciding to suddenly attack. Just blaming it all on the randomness of the Everfree feels pretty dumb.

"Ugh." I groaned from annoyance.

Is this what Remedy keeps fucking doing every time he gets distracted? It's ridiculously infuriating.

"Whatever." I mumbled to myself as I finished my business and turned around to leave. "What the fuck?!" I cussed and jumped back at the bitch that appeared.

"Hello, Night." She greeted with a poker face.

"Ugh." I physically groaned as I a dragged my hoof over my face. "What the fuck do you want?" I asked Luna with a tired voice.

"Well, I had thought that we should have a proper talk, about the events that took." She said with that usual shit. Then again, I was doing the same thing when I first got stuck here.

"Alright." I need to see where this goes. "What did we of all ponies need to talk about?"

She stayed silent for a few seconds, her lips clearly trembling. Is she holding back anger, or shame?

"We need to discuss the matter of our failed fusion." She spoke clearly.

"What about it?" I was starting to get impatient. Her appearance alone was starting to piss me off.

"I am, sorry for losing control." She said with a nervous look.

I stayed silent. Seconds slowly pass as I kept meeting her stare. And for each second that passed, I was getting more pissed.

"That it?" I asked with a chuckle, gripping onto the last shred of hope I had.

"What?" She was confused.

Fucking what?

Ha!

No fucking way.

"You bitch." I replied, holding back so much damn anger, that I felt like I was suffocating.

She was taken aback. Shit, I was taken aback.

"The audacity." I muttered as I felt my face slowly cracking. "Did you really, really think, that you could just say that shit so, so fucking, shit I can't even find the words. You, what the fuck did you think was gonna happen? Did you think I was just gonna say 'ok' and apologize back? Like some damn foal's story?" I was chuckling, somehow finding this hilarious.

"I, had hoped." She was fucking shameless.

I finally stopped laughing as I stared at her. She flinched and I felt the slightest tingling sensation of magic being gathered. I must've let out killing intent without realizing it.

"Hey. Luna." I addressed her. "Do you really think, that we suffered the same amount?" This question was serious. Her answer will decide fucking everything.

She was befuddled, her eyes traveling everywhere. That poker face long gone.

"I thought we did." She was serious. "Was I not right? We lost our own minds, and was imprisoned on the moon for a thousand years."

"Seriously?" I asked and took a step forward. "Are you really not fucking with me?" I took another step forward and directly in front of her. "You," I pointed a hoof at her, "do not have it as shitty as me."

I could see her being visibly frustrated. She really doesn't understand shit does she?

"What is it!? What makes thee, a bigger victim?" She asked.

"Fucking, EVERYTHING!" I was taking deep breaths not to fucking kill her right now. "You." I pushed her back slightly as I pointed at her. "Lost nothing."

"What!?" How the fuck, dare she become enraged. "Do you have any idea, what it's like for me? To be hated, and feared, to the point where getting a single drink, is like torture. To be unable to rest easy in your own home. To not be able to even run into a pony, and have them not run away. Do you know how terrible that feels?"

"Oh, boo-fucking-hoo! Strangers don't trust you anymore, so fucking sad! Let me tell you what's really tragic. Not getting that second chance." I'm done with this idiot. "You do all that royal shit, I know, I was also a ruler once. You're the Dream Guardian, Protector of The Night, it's all that you got because you cared for your citizens. Do you know what it feels like, to not be able to do that anymore? Have you ever felt the anguish, the absolute torture, of knowing that everything you cared for, is gone. Have you ever felt that?" Her face was tense, probably unable to fully understand what I was saying. "No, you haven't, because I can already venture a guess. You have Celestia, you have your kingdom, you actually got a whole ass life to live. I don't have any of that left. Now stop fucking bothering me." I started to walk back to the camp.

"I-wait." She said something as I felt something.

With the smallest of tingling sensations, I fully stopped and stared around.

"Uph." I was suddenly slammed into. "Ugh." With that groan, I found myself on the ground with a fading vision.

Right as I started to faint, a random tremor managed to wake me. Sitting up with a gasp for breath, I looked around to find a dragon being blasted by magic.

It roared in anger as Luna stood her ground in front of it.

"Wait, what?" I muttered and took another look.

There's no real reasons dragons would attack ponies, not this time at least. Actually, they would, though I don't think any old dragon would be fighting with Luna. Is this another monster attack?

Then it stood up fully and inhaled deeply. Oh, it's a wyvern, not a dragon. It exhaled fire as Luna fought against it with her magic.

Finally standing up, I looked around, trying to find something to use. I left the damn knife back at the camp.

*ROAR!!!*

An absolutely terrifying scream echoed throughout the entire forest. It didn't come from the wyvern.

"At least I'm not fighting whatever the fuck that is." I mumbled and ran to the wyvern.

As a green pony was flung into the air, high above the tree tops and near the clouds, he put the knife he held in his left hoof into his mouth. And with that left hoof, he grabbed his right shoulder and with a few rotating motions, he pushed it in as a loud popping sound came out.

He flung his right hoof a few times to get used to it before looking down to the ground.

And a jaw bigger than his entire body came down on him.

With a stone in hoof, I was holding tightly from the wyvern's neck, slowly trying to climb up to its head. Though, it swinging around like a buffalo really didn't help with the situation.

"Fucking watch it!" I yelled at Luna as her spell flew over my head.

She was about to say something, but hesitated as I felt something wrong.

"Get off!" I heard Luna's distant voice.

Wait, distant?

I looked down, only to look upwards and hang on tighter. This fucking thing was flying.

I managed to drop the rock because of that.

"Holy shit. Okay, okay, I need to think." I talked to the air and thought about the choices I have. "Oh, right, fuck." I realized a power I have.

Taking a deep breath, I started to concentrate. Careful, I haven't done a dangerous spell like this during that banishment.

The magic in my body is low, but I just need a single moment of connection to kill this thing.

I felt constant tremors as Luna kept spamming the thing with spells. How is this thing so strong though? Even if Luna is weakened, it's not something that should take her more than a few attacks to deal with.

Guide my own magic, turn to the shadow as you feel yourself lose all physical aspects. To be able to go any and everywhere you like. Enter the crevices, crawl through the smallest spaces, and find a part of yourself already existing there, and strike.

I pushed, then instantly pulled as spikes upon spikes emerged from the wyvern. Blood splattered through the air as the wyvern was frozen in place. I let out a tired breath as I disconnected my magic, allowing my hooves to be in the physical world again.

"Oh, fuck." I cussed as I felt gravity working its magic.

"Night! Grab on!" Luna was falling down next to me, holding out a hoof.

"Fuck you." I had no hesitation as I positioned myself on top of the dying wyvern.

I can use it to cushion the impact, and then roll away to minimize the damage. Thankfully, we didn't fly too high.

Just as I was thinking that, we reached the ground, forcing me to finally let go of the wyvern as I rolled on its body and onto the ground. Finally stopping by slamming into a tree, I lay there for a bit and catch my breath.

Aren't I getting slammed into trees too much lately? Wonder if I'll get any back problems because of this.

Hehe. I managed to use nocturnal magic with this body. I know for a fact that not a single other can do this. I can finally stick it to Remedy for calling me weak.

*ROAR!!!*

Hearing that loud noise once again, I opened my eyes and started to stand up. Though, I fell back down as I was quickly reminded of my injured leg.

"Ah fuck." I mumbled to myself.

"Night!" Fucking seriously? "Are you alright? What were you thinking?!" Luna came running over as she stood over me.

I'm just, so done with this girl.

"For fuck's sake, stop bothering me. And stop calling me that." I said as I stood up, and turned to leave.

I'm so fucking tired right now.

"No, Night, seriously." She grabbed my shoulder.

I turned around and punched her.

"Agh." She had a small bruise on her cheek as I struggled to hold myself back further.

"I don't know what kind of delusion you think you're living in, but we, are not friends. In fact, I don't even if we ever were, or I was just some, tool, ready to use whenever you needed to. Meeting you was the worst fucking mistake I ever made." I finally told her.

*ROAR!!!*

I heard that noise again, this time much closer as I turned around.

There it was, Remedy riding a bloodied wyvern. He was looking at the sky before he finally noticed me. And the wyvern was falling down, with plenty of tears in its wings.

Looking at the one I managed to kill, I looked at the one he was riding.

"It's fucking massive." About thrice the size actually.

Only other creature I know that's that big is Lord Torch.

"LOOK OUT BELOW!" I vaguely heard Remedy yell out as I turned to dodge.

What the fuck?

Luna was just sitting there with a hollow look.

"Fucking damn it." If she dies, Celestia will come and blah, blah, blah the usual shit. "HEY!" I shouted and grabbed her by the shoulders. "STOP BITCHING AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" I yelled and looked back at the wyvern. "OH SHIT!" I cussed and shut my eyes to brace for impact.

Though, all I felt was a strong breeze.

Slowly opening my eyes, I realized that the wyvern missed me, no, I got moved. I felt something behind me. It was Luna, I guess she teleported us or something.

I got up with a grunt as I coughed a bit from the dust that rose.

"Is it true?" Luna suddenly asked me.

"What was that?"

"Is it true, that you meeting me was your biggest regret?" She asked coldly.

"Luna, don't you get it? Meeting you, not only cost my country to fall, it caused my species in its entirety to disappear. There isn't even a single chance of me birthing a pure nocturnal because of the damn fusion. So, yes, it is my biggest regret." I cracked my neck and turned to the fallen wyvern. "I don't have anything else to say to you"

"You alive?!" Remedy yelled out from behind a dust cloud.

"What the fuck were you thinking asshole!" I yelled back and started walking towards him.

"Not really a lot when you're flung over the clouds." He replied casually as he came over, pulling the knife out of the wyvern's wing.

"The fuck you mea-" I suddenly lost all energy and fell down.

"Whoa, easy there." He caught me as I collapsed. "Adrenaline is one hell of a drug."

"I want grilled meat." I managed to let out before passing out.

"Seriously?" Remedy mumbled and put Moon on his back.

Putting the knife in his mouth, Remedy looked to their guest. His gaze was a cold one that judged Luna harshly.

"You apologized." He took a guess.

Luna woke from her slumber with a small jump, and stared back at Remedy. "I thought I did." She answered with a defeated voice.

Seconds slowly pass as Remedy simply stared.

"An apology. It's something you say to acknowledge your mistake, and to seek forgiveness. Not to give closure to yourself." He calmly said before walking away.

Author's Note

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I'm finally back! For real this time. I don't have any other tests and shit for the rest of Summer. Well, a driver's test but that's not super time consuming.

Anyways, I thought I should finally address the relationship between Moon and Luna. So, I decided to make this chapter a lot more dramatic than it would've been. I mean, come on, I named this chapter fucking 'Construction' when I started it. So, this one was rewritten.

And as always, thanks for reading!