The Cry of the Moon

by Razor Wing58

Rating: everyone
Tags: Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, Original Character, Tragedy
Length: 3570

They say no one can hear you scream in space. But no one knows the true pain that dwells on the dark side of the moon. The pain and heartbreak Luna had to go through.Only a mother in morn would understand her loss. This is why the moon cries.

This is a story of the moon and the true pain they lay on the dark side of it. The pain and suffering that no mother should ever go through.
In her banishment to the moon, Princess Luna would not only feel alone be she would also be broken. The pain of the loss of a foal is something no mother should ever go through.
For the next thousand years Luna would morn her lost child and plot her revenge on the sister who let her die.

Art By: *CosmicUnicorn

Published 2012-12-21 02:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-17 03:13:10 UTC

Banishment

Chapter One

Banishment

A long time ago someone told me that you could hear nothing in space. But I beg to differ. I remember the first time I heard the story about the cry of the moon. It was said to have happened right after Princess Luna was banished for rising against her sister Princess Celestia. It’s a sad story really. Would you like to hear it? Well it all started over a thousand years ago when Equestria was still young. The princesses of night and day ruled together in peace. Luna was Princess of the Night, and Celestia was Princess of the Day. But as you know Luna was upset with the ponies as they played in the day and slept during the nights she made for them. It was as if they loved her sister more than her. So in her anger she used dark magic to make the night last forever, and turning herself into Nightmare Moon. You know about how Celestia used the Elements of Harmony to banish and imprison her on the moon for a thousand years. But this is the story about what happened while she was on the moon. This is the cry of the moon.

On the moon, Nightmare Moon had just been banished there.

“Celestia, how could you do this to me! I’m your sister! You bitch! How dare you send me to this cold lifeless rock! You will pay for this! Mark my word, I will have my vengeance! I will return! And the night will last forever!”

Nightmare Moon was still a bit in control of Luna’s mind but she was now stuck on the moon. Stuck in a cold vacuum of darkness made of the night skies she created. The view gave the earth she was once on, and in the distance the very sun her sister controlled. She took in her surroundings and saw how lifeless it was.

“Put me on the cold rock. With no subjects to rule over, no place to live, no food, no water, nothing, that hag is so luck I’m immortal. She pretty much put me up here to die. Well if that is her true plan then I will deal with her on my return.”

Nightmare would roam the barren white rock for the first few days of her exile. Staying on the light side of the moon to keep warm, she would watch as the world turned. Seeing all the other lands around the world, only knowing of Equestria her whole life this was eye opening for her. As days turned into weeks she was starting to learn how to channel both sides of herself. Nightmare Moon would change into Luna, and Luna would change into Nightmare Moon, and one time she even learned how to split her two halves into their own bodies. It would be the only company she would have on the moon.

“Nightmare, I must know. Do you think our reaction was too much? I mean after being here for nearly a month now I’m starting to think we may have over reacted?”

“We did what we saw was fair. Those ungrateful ponies did not care for the beautiful night sky we made for them. They did not want to see the moon and starts we placed in such wonderful figures for them in the sky. They did not wish to see the mighty Leo or powerful and loving Ursa Major and Minor. They shunned our hard work and disrespected us. Our course of action was the most fitting.”

“But Nightmare, look at where we are. We're stuck on the moon in exile. Banished to the very thing we created. The sun of the night as one of our students called it. Oh he must be so worried about us right now. He was such a faithful student. I hope he is alright.”

“He will be fine. But if he was a true faithful student he would have found a way to get us back by now. If you ask me he is a failure, not worthy to serve under the princess of the night.”

“Nightmare that is not fair. He is only but a normal unicorn. Granted he has power, but Star Swirl is still young and learning. And besides…He is great colt and he would never let us down.”

More time would pass, Luna and Nightmare would come to peace with their punishment. They were now in their third month of banishment. The sun would rise and the earth would turn. The days on the moon were just a bit longer than the days on earth. The time just seemed to pass so slowly there. Watching the little town of Canterlot wake every morning and watching them blow their candles out every night. But being princess of the night she still had control of the night sky. And to let her sister know that Luna and Nightmare Moon came up with an idea. This would let all the ponies in the world and back at Equestria know that she was still Princess of the Night.

“Are you sure this will work Nightmare? It seems all for not to me.”

“Trust me Luna this will let everybody in the world know we are still here. And that we still rule the night. We are the Princess of the Night right?”

“Yes your right. I just think it’s a bit much. But I do want the other ponies and my sister to know that I am still alright.”

The two worked the whole lunar day to finish what would be seen from earth like a mare on the moon. The legend of the Mare on the Moon had been born. Many ponies saw this phenomenon all over the world. The story of Princess Luna spread around the world fast. But once Celestia caught wind of this and saw it for herself one night she was furious. She saw this as an act of defiance, to get ponies to rise against her and fallow Nightmare Moon and her ways. So what Celestia would do next would not only stop Nightmare Moon, but put an end to her magic for the rest of her banishment. Celestia gathered the power of four starts in the sky and sealed Nightmares magic, thus not allowing Luna to use her magic either. But in doing this she would force Nightmare Moon back into Luna’s body and force something that would scar Luna for the rest of her immortal life.

“What in the name of the moon was that?" Breathing heavily after having Nightmare put back inside of her, her horn lets out little sparks as she loses her magical ability. "What is happening to me? What is going on? Nightmare? Nightmare Moon can you hear me? Nightmare Moon where are you? Celestia why would you do this to me? What have I done to deserve such punishment?" All of the sudden she feels something wet running down her hind legs. And then sharp pain shoots through her stomach. The pain stops and comes back every few minutes. "Ahhhhhhhh! What is…..happening to me? AGGGGHHHGGGGHHHH!!! What is this? No……could it be? No no no no no not here. Not now. AHHHHHHH! I had a feeling I was……but I didn’t want to believe it……but now I see…AHHHHGGGGGHHHHHH!......I…. am…. With foal.”

Death of Dawn

Chapter two

Death of Dawn

Luna continued to scream in pain as her contractions intensify. “Ahhhhhhhhhh! This pain….it’s…. unbearable. Luna tried to use her magic to sooth her pain. But it was no use. Her power had been completely drained from her sister’s spell. AHHHHHHH! Why…. of all times why now? This hurts…..so much…. AHHHHHhhh! Tia! If you can hear me…..make this pain end. There is no reason to punish me like this.”

But Luna’s cries fell on deaf ears. Celestia had sent her to the moon with no way of contacting her. She truly made sure that Luna’s banishment would be a quiet one. So no matter how much Luna screamed, no matter how much she cried there was nothing her sister could do to help her.

Luna would spend the next lunar day in labor. No medication to sooth her pain, no magic to make the foal birth easier, no nothing. She was in the worst pain ever and could do nothing about it. Or in what she thought was the worst pain.

Lying on her side barely breathing, her hind legs are soaked with blood and embryonic fluid. Her contractions had become even more unbearable as they would make her slip in and out of consciousness.

“Celesita……..please……. help me. Can you……..not see the…..pain that I am in? Please……if you really are my sister……then feel my pain…. save me. Ahhhh…. and if not me……at least… ahhhhh…..save the foal. Bring the foal back to Equestria. Ahhhhhh…..Please Tia…..please.”

But just as Luna was about to give in to the pain she gave one last push with whatever strength she had left and her foal was born. Luna lifted her head and looked at her foal. All of the pain, the suffering, the blood and tears had all become worth it. Her foal was here with her. She pulled the foal closer to her and began to clean it off. As she cleaned her foal she could see that it was a little filly. Her coat was a sky ash blue, her mane and tail were just like Luna’s but a bit lighter. As Luna looked at her foal tears of began to run down her face. But these were no longer tears of pain, but tears of joy. Luan was no longer alone on the moon. She had someone to spend the rest of her banishment with. She had something to live for. She was now a mother, and was the happiest she could ever be….so she thought.

“Oh my sweet little foal. You’re finally here. Welcome to the moon, this is going to be your home for a while. But don’t worry, mommies got you. And I will never let anything happen to you. For the rest of our immortal lives I promise I will not let anything come between us. Luna then nuzzled the foals face. My sweet and dearest beacon of light and hope, my…… Dawn. That will be your name, Lunar Dawn.”

Luna had never been happier. But her happiness was going to be short lived. Her beacon of light and hope was about to go out.

Luna pulled her foal Dawn closer to her to keep her warm. But as she pulled her to her chest she could feel something was wrong. Something was not right….

"Dawn?" No response. "Lunar Dawn?" She nudges the foal but it does not move. Now Luna starts to get frantic. "Lunar Dawn wake up. Come on baby…. move…move for mommy…..move for me.”

Right then and there Luna realized that lunar Dawn was not breathing. She stood to her hooves putting her ear to the foal’s chest. Its heart beat was very shallow and she was not breathing. With the foal being born in space on the moon there was no air for it to breathe in. The foal had never taken its first breath of life. The foal was mortal and about to fade away……

"Breathe! Please breathe! Take my last breathe……I held it for you! There you go... Good girl……Breathe…..Breathe…… Brea-.....please no......It...It can't already be gone! That air was supposed to last for-…… Please! Celestia! Send some air! Can't you see she's suffocating?! Stay with mama. Stay with mama. Stay with-...Stay......You were to be my dawn..."

It was done…. The foal had died. Without taking her first true breath of air she suffocated in the vacuum of space. She died slowly. Feeling no pain, no suffering…. she just faded away into the darkness. Lunar Dawn…. was no more….

Screaming and crying for her foal to come back….“Lunar Dawn!!! Don’t leave me! Come back! Please…..please come back to mommy!” Nudging and nuzzling the foal. “Please! Just wake up….. Just breath…..Please just wake up…. Just live for me.” Sobbing over the foal. “Please Dawn…. Just wake up…..just…wake up…..please.”

Luna sat there with the corps of her foal Lunar Dawn. Tears ran down her face as she replayed the events that happened. She blamed herself for not being strong enough to care for her foal. She hated herself for not being able to save her foal. Luna was a broken mare. And as she cried over her foal the sun started to make its way over the moon. Luna looked up at the rising sun with the tears of pain running down her face. And as she saw the sun her tears of pain and sadness turned into tears of anger and rage.

“CELESTIA!!! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU KILLED MY FOAL AND YOU DARE SHOW YOUR FACE TO ME! I SWEAR YOU MY SISTER YOU WILL PAY FOR THE DEATH OF MY FOAL!!! YOU KILLED HER AND YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE! ONCE MY THOUSAND YEARS ARE UP YOU WILL PAY! YOU WILL FEEL MY PAIN! I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS! AND YOU WILL KNOW THE PAIN OF MY NEVER ENDING DARKNESS! I SWEAR ON THE DEATH OF MY FOAL….”looks at Dawn’s corps… “YOU WILL PAY!”

Luna saw the sunrise as her sister mocking her and her loss. The audacity of her sister to raise the sun on her foals death. Celestia had crossed the line. Being banished was bad enough but now… Celestia had the blood of her sister’s foal on her hooves. Luna would avenge her foal, even if she had to throw all of Equestria into total darkness.

“You will pay Celestia. If it’s the last thing I do…..You will pay.”Etching in a stone reads “Here lies Lunar Dawn. The Princess of the Night”“Now to begin my training and plot my revenge on my bitch of a sister.”

Rise of the Moon

Many days had passed since the death of Lunar Dawn. Luna sat at her grave site mourning over her loss. Focusing on the pain, hurt, sadness, rage and anger as she sat still, not moving from that spot at all. Soon days turned into weeks, weeks into months, months into years until it clicked. She snapped. She couldn’t take it any longer. Her foal was to be avenged at all coasts. As the years went on she moved from her place and looked back at Equestria…

In a shallow voice. “So Equestria it looks like my sister has brought you the night again. Enjoy it while it last for a little while. For soon it last forever. And Celestia…Oh Celestia do I have plans for you. You banished me to an unforgiving wasteland, you take my powers from me to make me weak, you forced me to go into foal birth early killing my child, and then you ignore my cry and let her die here. Oh yes my sister, I’m counting the days till my return. And upon that day you will know my pain, you will know my sorrow, you will know my wrath and you will know my darkness. I swear it.”

As Luna’s hate and anger began to fester in her heart she could feel some of her power coming back. She would meditate on it and concentrate on the hate within her. As she did this over the next two hundred years dark magic started to fill her body. And as she continued her darker side started to return…Nightmare Moon was back.

A voice in her head. “Well well my dear Luna. It seems her magic was not strong enough to keep you down. Keep this going child. Soon you will be strong enough to take her and Equestria for yourself.” “Celestia crossed the line taking my light magic from me. She left a door wide open for me to take on this new dark magic that is coursing through my body. It feels my pain and makes me stronger” “That’s good Luna. Soon the darkness will come unto you and give you great power. See what Tia failed to do was tell you the perks of dark magic.” “Perks you say? Perks like what?”

As Luna talked with Nightmare Moon she started to learn more of the power of dark magic. It was nothing like light magic. Light magic was gentle, soft, and worked on all things good. But Dark magic was rough, harsh, and worked on all things evil and sad. With the pain of losing a child, the betrayal of a sister and the loneliness of being banished for a thousand years she had more than enough power to fuel her new dark lust.

   For the next five-hundred years she trained, she plotted, she mourned, and she put together everything she would have to do to take over all of Equestria.

“So my dear Luna do you think you are ready to execute the plan?”  “Oh I am more than ready. All of this pain inside is ready to be unleashed on those who shunned me. For all of those who forgot about me on this dark rock.  For the sister who killed my child. They will know my pain, my suffering, my anguish…My wrath.” "Our wrath will spread across the land like the shadow of the night that covers the land. And all of Canterlot and all of Ponyvill and all of Equestria will bow to their true ruler.”

For the next three-hundred years she fine tuned skills, she ran simulations of how to take down the Canterlot guard and all the palace defenses. She remembered an old palace where she could take Celestia and lock her up as she takes over the palace. Everything was plotted down to a tee. Her mind was now a train with no breaks and ready to run through anything that would stand in her way.

“The time is growing nigh. Soon we will be freed of this prison. Soon we will sweep across the land like a raging wildfire. We will cleanse the world of the Sun and bathe it the waters of retribution that is the wrath of the Moon. Luna…Are you ready for this?” Luna was sitting at the grave site she had made for her daughter. “I’m sorry my child. But I have to leave you soon. Where I am going you would have loved to see. The city…The palace…All of Equestria lit up at night by the night sky I made. Oh Lunar Dawn…I’m so sorry I cannot bring you with me. Maybe if I were strong enough to have kept you alive. If I had the power to send you back to Earth maybe you would be waiting for me. All the things I could have done to save you…but…I just…*starts to cry* I just wasn’t strong enough for you.” “Luna…I know you are still hurting. *puts wing over her* I am still hurting myself as well. But don’t let this cloud your mind. Don’t let it make you question your judgment. But let it fuel your anger and hasten your steps to our goal. Don’t let her have died in vain. We will avenge her. And you will have your revenge against the sister that banished you. And I will take my rightful place as the true ruler of Equestria.” Nightmare looked at how Luna’s demeanor didn’t change. But she could feel her pain starting to overwhelm her anger. She knew this was not going to be easy. “Nightmare…can you just take control of this mission? All of the sudden my heart…just isn’t in the right place to do this.” “What! We are only but a few days away from the celestial alignment that will set us free and you can’t go through with it? We have come too far for you to just give up!” “Nightmare please just take over my body and use me. I can’t do this anymore because…it’s wrong. As much as I hate my sister for what happened she had no control over the outcome.” “So what about our plan? What about the revenge? What about your daughter?” Luna looked at the grave again remembering all the pain she went through. “There was nothing we could have done for her. Even if she went to full term she still would have died and there would have been nothing we could have done to save her.” Nightmare looked down at Luna with nothing but discuss in her eyes. “You are weak. You are worthless and are a waste of power. Your motives may have changed but mine are still just. I will use your body as a vessel to house my power. And I will be in full control.” “Very well. Just…make it quick”

As Luna offered her body to Nightmare Moon she could the pure darkness taking over her body. But before she was fully consumed by the darkness she looked at the grave one last time with her own eyes. But soon after she was taken over by the darkness she could not feel anything anymore. Nightmare Moon was now in full control. And with only a few days left until the Summer Sun Celebration Nightmare Moon had only one thing on her mind.

“Celestia…I’m coming for you. And soon all of Equestria will know the never ending darkness that is my pain.”

Dark Side of the Moon

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