True Fear

*Warning some scenes of these chapters contain gore and violate language. Please if you are sensitive to either of these please just vist one of the other stories.*

Her voice filled the room as she felt her very being began to tear apart piece by piece. The six figures who had fired the beam continued their assault. She struggled to find a way out of this torture. In leap of faith she left her body to her shadowy form but, in her place the princess known as Luna lied in her weaken state. She quickly was glad that this happened because Luna's body covered and protected her from the beam's harmful effect. In her current state she slowly felt tired. She thought to herself that the consept of sleep had escaped her besides this moment. She quickly understood that something was wrong.

Her shadow like figure faded to nothing, but a single spot of a shadow. The light dimed and she faded away losing the will to survive. The now eight figures being the orginal six, a white coated alicorn and Luna, Night's number one enemy. They left without searching for the remains of Night. That spot of shadowy aura grew and grew but time wasn't measured for noone was there. The shadowy aura grew and there stood a figure not Night's figure, but another. He looked around for someone, anyone. "Anyone there?" he asked, but with no reply. A single tear fell down his right eye, but then his face tightened up and some shadow resembling aura sparked around him as a crocked grin spread across his snout.

The shadow like unicorn figure trotted over to the exit of the castle. As his hoof touched the sunlight, poring out of cracked themed glass. His hoof dissolved and he quickly yanked back to examine his hoof or what had become of it. His grin straightened and he saw that his hoof had completly vanished. It slowly reappeared as a shadow-like hoof that flowed like waves at the beach. He looked over the rest of his body to find the same results. He fell to the floor in realization that he was but a simple shadow. He cried himself to sleep.

As he awoke hours later he heard the sounds of crickets and crocks. He trotted out and was greeted with a nice cold breeze. He looked up to see the bright moon and stars up in the dark blue night sky. He even saw a figure, a familiar figure flying in the air. He waved her down. As he was bum barded with memories...

"Prince Lavaliere!"

A light blue pegasus with a gray mane and tail form his old age, ran up to him and was panting. He had the regulation pegasus guard armor and his cutie mark resembled a blue shield but with dents and battle marks on it.

"Prince, please don't run off like that."

"Then how can we have fun then" the prince giggled

"Shouldn't we go to your chamber if you want to play?"

"I all ready explored my room I want to see the rest of the world!" the prince exclaimed.

"Well at least slow down I can't keep up, I'm not as young as I use to be."

"Ok I will Leo Clear Sea of the third flight battalion" the prince said with a giggle.

The old pegasus also laughed when his full name was used.

*bong...bong...bong*

"Three rings... Prince you know what to do, right?"

"Yes... but... Leo what is...?" the prince stuttered.

"There is no time, now move!"

The young prince galloped away as fast as he could to his chamber. He heard battles commencing in each room as he passed by each one. He sped on focused full heartly on reaching his room. He bumped into a towering figure. He didn't even get to look up but he heard...

"Lavaliere run!"

He galloped pass the figure and looked back for a second to see two figures facing each other, one was Luna and the other was a shadow resemblence of an alicorn.

"Run!!!!"

The prince started to gallop again but was stopped as he turned around again to see a towering shadow like figure laughing as it held his tail in it's dark aura. The prince closed his eyes as his world fell around him...

The figure turned and headed straight towards him. She landed and looked up at him.

"What are you doing here... you should be dead and why does thow stay in that state?"

He opened his mouth to answer, but not a word came out.

"Are you thi Nightmare? Or some other creature?"

Again his jaw moved but nothing came out. She slowely turned around.

"Good night, strange creature." and prepared to take off.

"Wait?"

She quickly turns around to see shadowy droplets fall from his face.

"What is wrong, little one?"

"Don't you... remeber me? the voice was a slight whisper and shakened.

She waits a few minutes. As she searched through her memories.

"No, you aren't familiar. Should you be, little one?"

In responce, dark droplets continue to fall into a heavy stream of what looked like tears.

"Please don't cry, little..."

She stared at the ground below the shadow creature. The ground was covered black and the black puddle slowly crept towards her. She jumped into the air. The shadows on the ground flew up and formed as a figure the pure full color of black besides the eyes that glowed. The dark form glared at the princess of the night and reformed to her design. It smiled and smashed her down to the ground.

"Creature, stop this!"

She shouted for his help as she wiped away the blood from her fall. The dark red liquid dripped form her gaping wound on her left side. She grunted as her horn ligt up for but a second and her flesh slowly regrew then her fur followed. He looked up from his tears to see the two fighting. He leaped up hit the shadow like figure when they colied they remodled to a ball of dark mass and then they split to refigure themselves. The shadow alicorn quickly wrapped its hoof around his head and flung him to the wall. It laughed as he crashed into the wall.

Luna looked at him and helped him up.

"What is your name?"

"Lavaliere... ." another whisper uttered from him.

"Lavaliere...? Your really... Prince Lavaliere!? But..."

The princess of the night is interuptted with a contiuning dark chuckle from the flying shadow-like figure.

What a sad and small family reuion."

"What have you done to him!?"

Oh him, I just helped him that is all. He is now a better pony.

You... you beast! I'm a monster now not a pony! You... you will pay!!"

His eyes dimmed as the light faded away from his once shining eyes.

Oh, is the spoiled little rich prince having anger issues?"

She chuckled again but felt sharp pain hit her gut. As she gasped for air she heard a yell from above her. Turning to face the owner she saw nothing just empty space, fully seeing nothing but two slightly ligt bulbs of light. The black smoke consumed her whole. The cloud fell to the ground and dissipated as it touch the floor of the stone castle. The princess looked at the lone figure in midst of the cloud.

"Lavaliere..."

"Leave me alone... I am nothing more then a monster now, please leave..."

"We will not just... leave you..."

" Leave!"

The ground around him started the bend and remold. She jumped back and flew away.

He lowered his head from facing the moon princess to the ground and let loss his waterfall of tears.