Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters
One Minute After Elements of Harmony Activation
Nightmare Moon
For the longest time she just stared, her mouth slack like a drawbridge and her eyes wider than a black hole.
The lavender mare who had just tried to send her back to the moon was the spitting image of her long-dead daughter.
It was impossible.
And yet...there was something about her, but her mind battled itself into a stupor.
NO. Twilight is DEAD. It MUST be a trick of Celestia's to distract us!
But why use the elements as a distraction when they could have banished me back to the moon? That doesn't make sense. Maybe...
NO. It is impossible, the dead remain dead. This is nothing but a sick hallucination, an illusion cast by the elements to draw us into a trap!
But she looks so much like my daughter, like my little foal.
A groan interrupted her thoughts and she realized that she had to act quickly, she was not alone in there after all.
Nightmare quickly took stock of the element bearers as she stood not ten hooves from the other alicorn.
The mare was unmoving, unconscious except for the small rising and falling of her chest as she breathed gently, as if only dreaming.
The others however, seemed to be coming back to a state of awareness as they shook off the aftereffects of using the elements.
The orange mare with a trio of apples on her flank and a brown Stetson hat flicked her eyelids as she slowly clambered to her hooves, casting a weary gaze around the room. Nightmare watched as her eyes locked onto her own body, her pupils dilating to pinpricks smaller than a pebble.
"Y-you?! But how?! Them elements were supposed to get rid of ya!!"
Before the orange earth pony could do or say anything else, Nightmare sent her flying with a quick lash of magic. She flew through the air until she crashed back down onto the floor, knocked out, gagged, and bound in a dark blue wrap of magic. Her element had flown off and clattered loudly like a broken bell on the stone.
"HEY!! Nopony hurts my friends!"
Nightmare swung quickly around just in time to dodge a multicolored blur that flew past her at a speed that would shatter bones. She then shot another binding spell that grabbed the rogue pegasus like a noose as the aforementioned mare flew back around for second pass. As the magic took effect, she plummeted to the floor with a sickening crunch, her nose bleeding and a foreleg bent at an odd angle as she closed her eyes and lost consciousness.
Another bell tolled sweetly as the element of loyalty rebounded across the room.
Nightmare got back up and cast her piercing gaze at the other four. The alicorn was still out cold, the white unicorn was standing but tittering on the edge of her hooves in a nervous canter, and the yellow pegasus was in a corner, crying her eyes out and whimpering pathetically in an incoherent blubber. The other earth pony was nowhere to be seen.
Where's the pink one?
"BANZAI!!"
Just as the black alicorn looked up at the source of the battle-cry, a mass of pink fur collided with her head and wrapped her hooves around her horn.
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Heir of the Nightmare
FanficA thousand years ago, Princess Celestia banished her sister to the moon, that much we know. What wasn't known, and what Celestia kept secret was that before her banishment, Luna had given birth to a foal. Now a thousand years later, as Nightmare ret...
