Nightmare Moon walked across the moon, her hooves making huge dents in its surface. Pathetic ponies! Sure, they love Celestia, but what do I get? Their love, their compassion? NO!! I get their hate and fear. I’ll show them. I’ll show them ALL!

“I can help you,” a voice whispered in her ear.

She turned around.

“Who are you?” she snarled

“Just a friend,” the voice said.

“Show yourself” Nightmare Moon yelled. The air in front of her shimmered, then a beast with the hands of an eagle and a lion, the feet of a dragon and moose, the tail of a sea serpent, and a long brown gray neck with a sadistic smile on its face appeared in front of her.
“Hello Luna….or should I say, Nightmare Moon?”

“Discord” she growled, and her horn started to glow a sickly dark blue.

“Whoa! I don’t want to fight. I just came to strike a deal,” Discord laughed

“What is it?” she said as her horn dulled a little bit. Discord slithered over to her and put a paw on her shoulder. “I can provide a way out,” he whispered in her ear.

Nightmare Moon’s eyes widened for a second but she shook her head. “What do you want in return for it?” she asked.

“An heir” he whispered in her ear. Her eyes widened and Discord smirked. With the situation she is in I wouldn’t be surprised if she agrees

“Fine, but I want to know how you will do it. I’ve been here for 1000 years and I haven’t found a way out” she said.

“I’m glad you brought that up. You see, Princess Celestia made one mistake in trapping you here.”

“And that is?” Nightmare Moon asked.

“Well, as you know she is the being of the Sun,” Discord said. “The thing is, in one day the eclipse is coming and that will drain all of her powers away and that is when you escape.”

“With my knowledge and your…how do I say this…brute strength we will be able to get you out of this hell hole. So what do ya say Nightmare?” Discord asked.

“I’ll do it” she said eagerly but then remembered the condition. She glared at him a bit then shrugged. She would need someone to rule with her so this worked out just fine although she would of preferred her mate to be less…insane. However, she had learned to take what she could get and she was definitely taking this.

End Of Prologue.

Chapter one

Black Magic stumbled along the side walk in Canterlot, his wings drooping while ponies recoiled in fear. He saw the fear on their faces and nearly cried.

“Why me?” he said. With his head down he trudged along to his apartment. He climbed up the stairs to the top floor and sighed. He wasn’t surprised to see a guard colt waiting for him. “Black Magic, sir” he said.

“Yes?” he asked. The guard started to sweat and Black Magic could see the fear on his face.

“Erm, I have a letter for you from Princess Celestia,” the guard said as he handed him the letter. Wasting no time, he flew off towards the castle. Black Magic just lowered his head and walked inside. He placed the letter on the table and looked at his apartment. He looked at the picture of him and his adoptive mother, Princess Celestia. She had insisted that he live in the castle with her but he had refused. He could maybe manage walking through the town without loosing it but if he lived in the castle everyone would quiver in fear of him. Then he might get angry and reveal his true form.

So he had just chose this small apartment at the edge of town. He liked it, it was small but it had a fairly good place to train. He could only do magic at night. He remembered the rhyme Celestia had made for him when he was a filly. “Pegasus by day, unicorn by night, don’t get angry or you’ll give everyone a fright.” It had sounded innocent enough, so only if a pony knew him did it make sense.

His eyes flickered over the bookshelf and his bed. His gaze settled upon a huge heap of scrolls. He had stolen them from the castle’s secret library in the basement. It held scrolls of all the most ancient and forbidden magic known to Equestria. After reading one –it was about shape shifting – he had decided that he liked them, so he used his magic to levitate about 20 of them, and left.