We'd walked to the festivities. We played games, ate food, and talked for a bit. Some small conversation that wasn't anything that unusual.
Pinkie, she's something. Wired girl, but she likes to help others and make them feel cheerful. Pinkie, she'd comforted me when I was deterred. I wanted to say thank you to her, "Umm, pink… "Then she interrupted me mid-sentence.
"Look, we're here!" It seemed that the reception was going to be at Rarities. I looked then, and I groaned, "Ugh." We are back here… great. I hope she doesn't notice… "Oh, welcome, my dear friends. Tonight, you'll find a tremendous occasion so enjoy— then she turned around and saw me; with excitement in her voice, she pushed some of her guests aside and dashed to me, and said bombastically, "My Celestia, sweet prince Dusk, you came to see me? You little Dickens." She was bestowing greetings to all personally. But at that moment we got to the entrance she ran to me, two years; two years older Rarity was than me a-and well, I was at that age. Marriage isn't in my mission to commit, yet when you reach the age of fifteen, you're considered an adult. But I'm seventeen, not even engaged I. was still a Bachelor. Luckily, also my brother. He is the captain of the royal guard, so he doesn't have time for a relationship with someone. "Rarity!" Pinkie hugged Rarity with a bubbly expression on her.
"Pi-Pinkie, yes, good to see you too. I don't want to be rude, but there are more guests I have I have to converse with." She was right. There were more people behind us. And telling us to walk in or leave, "Excuse us!"
"Move aside!"
"Are you two just standing there?"
"We have to I turned again and, demon, not was Miss. Rarity. Is this Rarity!? Hold a minute I, It's my imagination…. "Please reframes from quarreling, or I have to ask you to depart." The silence was left, and no one blinked an eye. They knew if they said something t, they wouldn't be able to enjoy the festivities. Back then, when saw her first, I believed a monster was in front of our perspective view. But no; it was Rarity, with a more terrifying smile than a usual smile. This smile was… in a way, shockingly similar to what my mother would give Shining and me. And every single time she would say our names and certainly put her hands on our shoulders, we knew behind us was a terrifying look and we would start to jolt. "Now, Mr. Dusk, please enter." She appeared different. Or the same, I didn't know anymore. Her attitude was like a... "Bit." Two-sided.
accessories?" I walked to the entrance; behind me was Pinkie, following in my footsteps. As we put our first step inside, glimpsing around the décor, which was more gorgeous than the first time. Everything and everybody looked as if we were at Canterlot's court hall. But this was a lighter version... more minor than the original. Maybe she was inspired by the original? The dedication absorbed me. She went to create this. I peeked at my surroundings and saw a huge group—all in formal attire. I felt... "I'm back." Saying it to myself, a sense of satisfaction was shown on my face. "There's a smile!" leaping on me— Pinkie called it, I was able to glean one, once again. This is amazing, how did she know the architecture of the inward dance foyer? Sauntering along; the view of the gathering made me go back to some moments of my childhood, happy moments that would adore to re-lived. The music too. The tintinnabulation of the instruments and waltz, fragile sent of sweetness encircling me. Henceforth, the celebration could go on without any problems. In the distance on the right side, Rainbow was on the top of an inverted staircase having a triangular shape. And she seemed bored out of her mind and Just standing with her first on her face. And her wings were covered. Those from the Pegasi family can make their wings smaller when they are on land but expand them when they go to the skies. Then by the punch ball, it was pinkie, drinking and eating the food. She was having fun. Then, Apple Jack. She was with her family. Brother, sister, and— grandmother. They seem to have a great time. What were their names… Oh, the big one they called him, Big Mac. But his real name was Macintosh. And sister, Apple Bloom. Looking at her another glance she might be the same, or, one year younger than Spike. Then, Granny Smith. She just sitting on a chair, staring at her three grandchildren. They look like a happy family. "Dusk!" Spike howled at me, "Dusk, it's almost time for the ceremony." He notified.
Abruptly the symphony was at a halt and in a corner, I could see Fluttershy was by the stage with the birds she was training to play the Entrance of the Princess. Thus, Mayor Mare walked into the center stage to announce the summer sun celebration to commence. "Gentlewomen in addition to Cavaliers on the ground floor, it is an honor to announce the beginning of the Summer sun celebration!" in just a few moments, our town will witness the magic of the sunrise, and spree this, the longest day of the year!" I could still see Rainbow bored like she wanted this to end quickly. "Boring" She doesn't have any patience, does she? I put a perception spell to hear and look around. Besides, Miss. Dash, I could hear Fluttershy telling her Birds to get ready. And see the excitement on Apple blooms' — — telling her brother, well see the princess? That was adorable. While her brother replied with an; "Eeyp!" and Rarity, was pleased with the outcome of today's reception. "I thank you all for coming, and staying awake for this marvelous occasion!" The mayor kept on talking a bit longer. "This is exciting, isn't it? "Yeah!"
"I know, I'm so excited too! The princess is coming any minute now to celebrate the festival." Pikamina was so pumped up that made me as well but a tiny bit. Then the mayor was her last phrase of the speech, "This will be a day to remember! It is my greatest pleasure to officially introduce, and welcome our guests of honor, our ruler, and protector, our sovereign of the three tribes, Princess Celestia Equestris!" Rarity slowly opens the curtain to show the presence of the princess and her glory, but as we are prepared, the only thing we all were was… nothing. She wasn't there. Not one single trace of her. Then suddenly, a was started to chuckle maniacally. "Bwa-gaaahh ha-ha-ha!!" All in fright, not knowing what was going on, and in a panic. A magic circle appeared an unknown voice began to say something. "Well…" her voice was seductive and alluring. "…it's good to see you once more; my loyal subjects." She had a very surprising conference, "Hey! That's not the Princess!" Pinkie was mystified. I was in a cold sweat, "my dear subjects, rejoice. Your true queen retains her return." This wasn't happening… Nightmare Moon had returned. This was a thousand moons; the thousand-year come back at midnight.
They were all stunned, in fear of the unusual circumstance that was happening in front of their eyes. They didn't know, what was happening. Or who she was, but I did. Nightmare Moon came back from her imprisonment and this is the end. "What?!" "Where's the princess?!" the town folk were concerned. This is occurring. Tonight, she'll try to enslave us with force. I asked myself. Slowly, she moved toward us. Glimpsing side to side, as she was examining all of us. Then, she spoke, "Thou long for Celestia? Does my crow In no longer count, since I was imprisoned a thousand years?" "Am I not worthy of your devotion?" This was getting out of hand. Everyone scattered in dismay, "B-big bro!" Spike looks frightened. I was so unnerved. Unexpectedly, the mayor met face to face with outrage and displeasure, "What have you done with our princess?!"
"Ha-ha! Do you want to know?" disrespectful she sounded, but arrogant in her tone.
The mayor undertook action. "Royal guard! Seize her!" she called for backup. The guards flapped and galloped too, they were surrounded but as they had their weapons and magic ready too, it comes across even they weren't powerful enough to defeat her. Mist, like a raven, enclosed them. "Consume and absorb; puppets of shadow, take on shape". "Cuileanan de Sgàil!" Her voice echoed while chanting her spell. The incantation— is an old language that we still use today. This made someone's flesh creep out. Unknown creatures of darkness formed in numerous groups. Giant heads with fangs and eyes began to attack the royal guard. "Ker-wham!" the stabbing through armor; falling defense injured.
"Did you think I've ever given you a chance to lay a hand on me?" one after another; guards faltering to the deepest of deaths Abyss. "Crunch, crunch". They have been injured. Blood dripping on the floor, "Aahh!!" "The horror!" They all yelled; "Princess Celestia, save us." While they were cowering on the Conners.
"Insignificant beings like you have one purpose in this world…"
"…To serve as a meal!" Her words came out from that beast of shadows. They were about to devour more of the Knights guards when suddenly, Rainbow, dashed in a scramble. Knocking down one shadow monster on the floor, "Slam!" is she taunting the ruler of the night. is she mad?! We all looked at this point, Rainbow vs Nightmare Moon, this not going to end up being a victory, but a slaughter. "Rainbow come back you don't know what you're doing!" Applejack calls Rainbow to flee. Applejack was right, this was no time to play the hero. "I don't know who, you are, but there's no excuse for trying to eat others!" As we glimpse what is occurring, Nightmare Moon snickers at her as if this was an amusing joke. "O~oh, and what do we have here? A young naysayer who is willing to, defy us?"
"I see you don't understand your situation. But… I am a queen that listens to her subjects." An optimistic superiority she showed this so-called proclaimed queen. Willing to listen? Is this true or a trap? Her appearance was: body covered with a suit-like black armor. It had the design of the goddess of the hunt and moon. Her hair was lanky and bright. It gleams like stars. And dabbled as the wind blew. Her wings, as the flower is known, are the black rose. Her physique is sylph-like. "Oh, well, your Highness, what I like is…" Rainbow paused for a bit for a more dramatic approach. And to finish her assertion, she answered with, "that you return to the damned hole you came from!" she bolted as fast as possible but, "Oh you little one… do you think you can harm me?" Nightmare escaped from the attack from Rainbow Dash. Turning herself into vapor. This made Rainbow furious.
"Eh? Did I run through her, How?" She was confused. And not realizing that she dodged the assault off hers in a second. "No! She swung away, That damn monster!"
"Errgrr!!! I vow I'll give her a good kick... In the… flank…" Her hostility later veered around, the only thing she felt at that moment, was fear. Nightmare Moon was behind her back.
"Rainbow, look out!" a screech of worry reached the ears of Rainbow Dash but, as she curled her head behind a shadow bargain it was an attack.
"Oglindi!": Translation( Reflect!) I used a shield spell to stop the attacks. At the same time, I saw Fluttershy in discomfort from Rainbow Dash's injuries. She fell to the ground and smashed into a stack of tables, good for her that my spell diminished the damage, or she would be in a position worst than some bruises. Fluttershy rode to Rainbow to examine her. Tears fell down her face. "Impressive. You saved her just in time."
"Huh?"
"Grr!"I was boiling mad.
That deflection alteration, I did to her attack, was to nullify the damage she was about to, give to Rainbow. She was fine but unconscious for a few hours, "how dare she!" I could hear villagers, some of which were being pushed or assaulted by the ghostly figures. Their wailing; anxiety give consumption of the jet horror surrounding them. Some clapping; stagnant, but menacing a form of heckling. Is she making fun of me? "that protection was effective enough, enough to reduce the impact of that poor member of the Pegasus clan. She said it in an attempt to give rise. "She would have been in ashes if it weren't for you." She was boasting about her egotistical utterances to me. "You have my respect, you young man. Allow me to inaugurate who I am." I stopped her introduction, "I know who you are, you're the mare on the moon… Nightmare Moon! Then, she used a spell herself. "Flotain!?" This was the word for float; which would either make something or someone raised to the air. You could use the word flotation: which a higher than then Flotain. It allows the user of this incantation to make themselves float at the same time, and use additional spells as consequential as needed.
"That's not possible!"
"It's a lie!"
"Is it just an old tale!?" They were all skeptical that this in—front of them was the Nightmare Moon.
"Oh, Celestia!..." Rarity alarmed.
"It can't be!" Apple Jack down founded.
"?... Who?" And Pinkie, she was… pinkie. Not recognizing the massive destructive affirmed terror.
While Fluttershy was cold in shock, Rainbow asked her what happened. All bruised and she was almost available to understand what was going on. Her vision was blurry, and she was incapable of moving. Still able to listen. The townspeople, frightened, "Oh, my little ones! Fear not. Rejoice!"
"The sun has fallen so that the night would last forever! And you'll witness the birth of a new age." Nightmare Moon boasts and, at the same time, claims to be the saver, too, all of which make Celestia the evil dictator. "And you, noble child… would you honor me by stating your name?" She asked in a formal pleasantry. In which case, the right thing to do was to answer her. I stared at her in silence for a few moments; I began to initiate my name to her, "My name is Dusk Shine. Princess Celestia's most loyal student." As I was done revealing my essence to her, she began to say that anything that Celestia possessed would be hers. That included me in that equation.
What? I would never be hers! No, even if she forces it out of me. My life is mine, and only mine alone. That's what I thought, but… then, something out of the blue changed that. At the moment she said that to me, she— What else what she committed was the first-ever outcome I'd hoped wouldn't happen; maybe shortly. The aftermath was humongous, I wasn't ready, and I met was stunned. 'Muach!' my eyes were opened. What's she doing to me— Rarity's head was stunned mode. And Just looking. It was long enough to put anyone and including me in a dazed state. "Even her loyal student will belong to… me! Ha-ha-ha-ha!!" She faded away in the air as a fog cloud, while I just stood there. "We will meet again, Dusk Shine." As she fled to the windows in the night as she laughed. "Dusk! Dusk wake up!" I was out a bit; In the thought of what nightmare moon did to me, she kissed me Di–Did I get my f–first kiss!? Especially from Nightmare Moon? Not knowing the shaking from Spike moving my body, back and forth, yelling at me to come to— it took me a few seconds to regain composure. "Eh?" "Spike? Where is— NO-O!! She's gone!" I rolled my head around to see; she was gone, nowhere near. That includes those demons. The residents were off sight. And merely the girls, Spike, and I were left. I told Spike to go back to the oak tree library to get information. That maybe there's something to save everyone. "Let's go." Dragging Spike by the claw hand. What is she aiming at? And is there something we don't comprehend her true adjective? Hold on… there are those 'jewels'. In the book, it said these elements were used to stop any threat that Equestria fought against. But I don't recall— We have to find that book. As we sprinted to the library, the vexation kept on going in any way, we set in motion. The cries of all; were all-over the alleyways. We'd had to hurry. There was no time to waste.
In a few minutes, we got there, I hold on to the doorknob and twisted it. Nothing. The door was shut: I tried pulling and ramming at it with my shoulder. Then, we broke the door, got in, and scurried to the higher floor, "come on Spike, we're almost there."
"Huff! I'm coming." He was out of breath. So, I lifted him to the top. We entered the gallery and scattered a huge amount of novels, staking them in piles. Glimpsing them one by one. Not that one! or that one! I don't have an eternity. None of us have an eternity. "No…. elements, elements, elements…" "slam." I closed the books with distress.
"Arrg!!" I throw books to the ground, angrily.
"There's… no… this isn't… there's nothing in this book. How can we defeat Nightmare Moon without the elements of harmony!?"
"Spike…!"
"Eh, what… yeah… we have to stop Nightmare…" Spike was drowsy. He couldn't stay awake. Mostly because he was still a child; not an adult. I kept on looking shelf by Shelf, trifling this became. Suddenly, someone jumped out of nowhere, Rainbow inaugurated me. Asking me to question after question, pointing her eyes as darts, and exhorted what we're the elements of harmony, my 'intention' for me arriving in Pony-Ville.
"How did you know about Nightmare Moon, huh!?... Are you a spy!?"
A spy? "What?" instantaneously, Apple Jack stopped Rainbow. That she needs to… simmer down.
"Simmer down, Sally. Ah, reckon he knows what's going on dont'cha dusk?"
"Wait he saved Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy tried to shed light on the fact that I saved Rainbow from being a meal, by the fags of that nightmare beast.
"I don't remember anything about that." Oh, maybe because, I saved you. Of course, she wouldn't, she was out of it for the majority of the conversation.
Out of the blue, Rarity wrapped her arms around me. Primarily, while covering my mouth. She was trying to defend me; in her own awkward—smattering way. "Well, he did, so don't lay a single wing, not feather on
Him. He's a victim as well! He was violated by that monster! "She was being a drama diva; then letting go of me. I was off from her grip. She made a spectacle as if she was performing a play. She kept on babbling on and on. "That evil— creature desecrated the purity of noble prince Shine!" Then, as she talked, I asked Apple Jack a question.
"Is she always like this?" I would say this, it wasn't a fun experience having my 'first' taken away from the enemy. But I think Rarity is giving it a bit of a stretch.
"Ah barely know her."
It took me a period too, to answer. They wanted a reply to my knowledge of Nightmare Moon. So I gave them how I learned all about her, and why. "Huff…, okay, I think it's time for me to, tell you how, I know all about tonight's commotion." I took a deep breath and provide a calm demeanor. "I read all about the predictions of Nightmare Moon'. Some mysterious objects are called the elements of harmony: They are the only able items, but… I don't know what they are, where to find them… I don't even know what they do." Suddenly, the unusual happened. Pinkie found the book. "Elements of Harmony: a reference guide."
"How did you find that!"
"It was under" 'E'.
How did I not think of that!? The alphabetical order. I used some additional methods, for example, chronological patterns, sequential patterns, spatial patterns, compare and contrast, and even order of importance. How did I forget the most used of all methods of organization!? I– told Pinkie to give me the book, "Pinkie, the book, now!" she gave me the book, and as opened it I skimmed through the pages. And found a significant detail of these items.
"They are six elements of harmony, but barely five are known: honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, and loyalty. The six-element is a complete mystery. It is said, the last location of the five elements was in the castle of the royal sisters. Its whereabouts are now what is known as the… Ever-Free Forest.
As I said the location; all five of them flinched when I said the name. And they began to say the name. A sentence for each of them.
"There're."
"In…"
"The…"
"Ever-Free…"
"Forest?!
I didn't understand why they were afraid. And what was this forest so terrible for them to get too excited like this? So I just asked each other. First, Pinkie Pie told me if I was crazy for me thinking of going to the Everfree forest. And Rarity agreed with her. While Applejack and Rainbow we're willing to come with me, but…
"… …The gesture, I do appreciate it. But I think I'll rectify it on my own. I'll be back as shortly as possible." I activated a teleportation spell. As I started the spell, I left quickly. "Glans!" (Gleam!) A shining light covered the room, and as such, I vanished.