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Man of War

by tallestbrony

Chapter 100: Chapter 99 Nightmare Night

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Chapter 99 Nightmare Night

Chapter 99 Nightmare Night

Well...we've got a minute left. Almost everyone had a moment of either silent tears or light sobs, don't blame them. This is suppose to be emotional. I look around the room to see everyone looking down, keeping their eyes shut as they contemplate their past.

Thirty seconds.

Luna's crying. I want to go hold her, But Celestia's doing it for me. I have a feeling I know who she's thinking about, I even thought about them.

Fifteen seconds.

Storm shed a few tears, I wonder who for. Maybe Breaker, though I doubt it. Maybe his father.

Five seconds.

I stand up and get everyone's attention... three... two... one...

"OK, times up everyone." I say, getting murmurs from everyone. "Thank you for attending this, I appreciate you wanting to share what little culture I have."

"And thank you for sharing it with us." Celestia says as she stands up. "It was a privilege to be able to experience... may I have a word with you though?" She asks as she goes into the kitchen. I glance to Luna before I follow after her.

"What do you need?" I ask as she faces me in the kitchen.

"I was really touched by this. I feel as if this is something that everypony should experience. With your permission, may I make this a permanent part of Nightmare Night." I take a step back when she asked this.

"Of course. Die Memoria should be experienced by everyone." I say, feeling extremely honored.

"Thank you Miles."

"Its funny though, this was always something that was done underground. It was technically illegal, and now its becoming part of a national holiday..."

"Its something truly special and I wish for everypony to be a part of it." I nod to her and walk back to the living room. I feel... I don't know... good? I shake it off and walk back to the living room, finding everyone talking among themselves. I walk up beside Luna, who's talking with Twilight and Storm, and listen to their conversation.

"... doesn't know. Hey Miles! That was... very touching, to say the least." Twilight says as the three of them smile to me.

"Ok, whats going on?" I ask as they glance to one another.

"What are you talking about? We were just talking about our reflections." Luna says innocently as she bats her eyes.

"Right. So when does your plan take effect?"

"After Nightmare Night." Storm says, getting Twilight to punch him... then shake the pain out of her hoof.

"What happens after Nightmare Night?" Celestia asks as she approaches the group. They fall silent as they try to think of an answer, making an awkward silence.

"Your highness." A day guard says, getting Celestia's attention. She leans down and lets him whisper something into her ear as she thinks about whatever he's saying.

"Hmm... no. My sister has barely returned and already has plans to leave tomorrow, so I will spend my entire evening by her side. Let somepony in the royal family take care of that and any other matters that may come up tonight." She says as she takes her place by her side. Luna puts on a weak smile as she glances to me and then back to her.

"I'm so glad to hear that sister." Luna says as she leans against her, giving me a scared look. I laugh a little as I just smile back to her. It's a shame that I won't get to spend time with her. But at the same time, it's probably good to have her spend some alone time with Celestia.

"So... what are you going to be for Nightmare Night Miles?" Celestia asks. I look around and try to figure out what the fuck she's talking about.

"Uh... huh?"

"You dress up for Nightmare Night ." Storm says flatly.

"So let me get this straight. For a holiday, you dress up. But for every normal day it's common place to just walk around naked." Everyone just stares at me as I try to find the logic in this... nope, none.

"Miles... stop being a perv." Storm says as he escorts Twilight away.

"What I do?" I ask, getting Celestia to shake her head at me. They both walk away from me, Luna laughing lightly. "I'm still lost over here.... why am I the pervert?!" I ask as they walk away, getting ignored.

"Miles darling?" Rarity asks as she and Pinkie approach me. "Do you have a costume for tonight?"

"Uh... no."

"Well why don't-"

"YOU CAN BE A GHOST!" Pinkie yells as she jumps up and runs up stairs. Moments later she tosses a sheet over me and cuts two holes for me to look out of. "Perfect!"

"Y-yes... perfect." Rarity says weakly.

"Okay... what's a ghost?" They look at me in disbelief before just walking way, shaking their heads. "What? Is it don't answer anything Miles asks day or something? Come on." I say as I pull the sheet off. They continue to ignore me, so I decide it must be a pony thing. With nothing better to do, I head over to the dinning room to grab some more food.


Perspective: Luna
7:00pm

Miles's Die Memoria was touching, but now its time for the fun to begin.

"Are you ready?" Celestia asks as we circle above Ponyville one more time. I grow an evil smile as I glance over to her and nod. With a powerful flap, Celestia propels herself forward, creating storm clouds that cover Ponyville. I charge my horn and start creating powerful bolts of lighting and deafening thunder, hopefully gaining the attention of the villagers. I keep up the weather control until I feel Celestia begin to take over, so I prep myself for the royal Canterlot voice.

"CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE! I, YOUR PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, HAVE RETURNED.... HUNGRY!!"I flap my wings as hard as possible, sending myself towards the ground as fast as possible. I slam into the town square right before a group of dressed up ponies and begin laughing maniacally. "MUAH-HAHAHAHAH! WHERE IS MY OFFERING? NONE? THEN BRING FORTH THE CHILDREN!" I yell, making all of the children before me scream and run away in terror. All of the adults left begin laughing with me as we watch them, and Pinkie Pie, run; screaming their heads off.

"Welcome Princess Luna to our towns little festival." The mayor, who's dressed up as a jester, says as she approaches me. "It is an honor to have you grace our town once again. Please enjoy the festivities and have some fun." She says, getting cheers from the crowd around me.

"And thank you for having me." I say as they bow to me. I bow back and begin to walk through the town square, having Celestia land beside me and accompany me everywhere.

"That was quit the entrance sister." She says as we look at the stalls and costumes.

"Yeah... though I wish I could have made a costume that would hold during flight... imagine their responses if a basilisk had landed in town square."

"I imagine that would cause quit the stir." She says, getting us both to giggle as a group of children run up to me.

"Hi Princess Luna!" Yells Pip as the group presents a pile of candy. "That was super awesome! Are you going to scare us some more?" He asks as the group leans closer.

"Mmmm... maybe. This seems to be a worthy offering... for now." I say as I levitate up a gum drop and eat it, glancing over to Celestia as she rolls her eyes.

"Yay! Okay, we'll go get some more candy for you then! Bye!" He says as he runs off with the group of laughing kids. I levitate the candy and continue walking with Celestia.

"That's just not fair." She says as I eat a chocolate bar.

"You could have any piece of candy you want."

"I know... but my diet..."

"Tia, it's Nightmare Night. Everypony over eats." I say as I levitate a portion of the pile to her. She eyes it for a second before she finally takes it and begins to eat a jaw breaker.

"*sigh* please don't let me go over board."

"I'll try. Now lets go have some fun." We head over to a giant wooden tub where we find Applejack, who's dressed as some kind of plant creature.

"Howdy Princesses! Care ta bob fer an apple?"

"I think we'll pass for now." I say as a grey pegasis, wearing paper muffin holders, pops out of the water and pulls the plug. "Where is everypony else?"

"Aw, they're here an there. Ah know Pinkie's with the kids, but ah don't know about everypony else." She says as a dark cloud moves above her. I smile and wait for...

BANG

"AH!" Applejack yells as a lightning bolt shoots down behind her. She jumps up and lands inside the Tub, hiding from the laughing Rainbow Dash. "Dash! Ya nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Hahaha, aw calm down, it's all in good fun." Rainbow Dash says... or Batmare I should say.

"OH OH! I see Sweetie Bell and Applebloom! Lets go scare them!" Scootaloo/Robyn the filly wonder says as she points off in the distance.

"Alright, but this time I want you to do the lightning."

"But.."

"No buts. I'm sure you'll do just fine, now lets go scare your friends before they go inside." Rainbow says before she grabs their cloud and flies away. Celestia and I look to each other for a bit before we chuckle to one another.

"Well, that was interesting. Lets go and walk about the town some more." Celestia says as she begins to walk off. I nod to Applejack before I follow after her. I glance at her pile to see that she's about a fifth of the way through it... I wonder how log it will take her to take to finish it... "Hello Twilight, Storm, where are the two of you heading?" I look over to see Twilight as Moon Drifter the Lost and Storm as... I'm not sure. He has a green vest with a black under shirt. His head is wrapped in black cloth with his muzzle wrapped in a green cloth.... I don't get it.

"Hello Princesses, very nice entrance. We're on our way to the corn maze over at Sweet Apple Acres. Care to join us?"

"Uh... I think my sister and I will walk through Ponyville some more before we try that. Why don't you two go and have fun." Celestia says. I glance at her for a second before I look back to them.

"If you say so. I hear Miles and Big Mac booby trapped to to scare ponies as they go through it." Storm says as they wave goodbye and run off for Sweet Apple Acres. Miles and Big Mac..... oh my.

"Celestia, why didn't you want to do the maze?" I ask, secretly wanting to do it just to see Miles.

"Luna... if you've read Twilight's last friendship reports... for the past two months, you'd know that they aren't going in to.... you know what. Never mind. Lets just go and see whats happening in the market district." She says as she walks off at a brisk pace. I laugh a bit until I realize what we just avoided. Sorry Miles... that's for you to find... again...

"Well... what do you want to do then? Because just walking around sounds kind of boring." I say as I follow after her. I glance at the pile to see she's about a third of the way through it.. this is pure evil.

"Well... I don't know exactly. This isn't usually my thing. What do you want to do?"

"Hmm..."

Twenty Minutes Later

"LUNA! This is crazy!" Celestia says in a hushed tone.

"SHH! They'll hear us!" I whisper back as we lay down in our cloud, watching Twilight and Storm below us try to navigate through the maze. Time for payback. They've been very flirty throughout the entire maze, and I think they know their getting into the more secluded section of the maze. Twilight keeps rubbing up against Storm, using him to calm her own nerves as they trot from dead end to dead end. They've come close to kissing a couples of times, but other couples stopped them. "Ok.. on the count of three..."

"Why do we have to do this?"

"One..."

"This doesn't seem right..."

"Two..."

"Do I have to?"

"THREE!" As Twilight and Storm lean in to kiss we teleport down before them and scream out together "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Twilight jumps into the air and lands on her back, frozen in embarrassment as Storm just stares at us.

"Hi, so how long have you two been following us?" He asks nonchalantly.

"How are you not scared?" Celestia asks.

"Spartan." He says as he looks Twilight over. "Think she'll be alright?" I stare at her for a second, and after a few leg twitches I just shrug.

"I'm sure she'll be fine. Now le..."

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW

"AAAAAHHHHHH!" I yell as I fall to my back, frozen in fear. Celestia had jumped back and brought out an energy sword as Storm jump up to the cloud we were on. We all look for the noise, but can't seem to be able to find it.

"What was that!" Celestia asks as she looks around for the source of the noise.

"I don't know...it sounded like a..." Storm starts to say as he floats down but stops mid sentence as he stares down the path. We all look down to see..... an Ursa major staring at us. I get to my hooves and stare at in disbelief as it growls at us.

"What should we do?" I ask Celestia as we all stare down the beast. Before anypony could answer it lunges at us, mouth wide open as it tries to eat us whole. Celestia and I were about to counter attack it when it burst into smoke, fogging up the entire maze so we can only see a few feet in front of ourselves. "THAT'S NOT FUNNY MILES!" I yell out as I hear somepony laughing in the background.

"That jerk!" Celestia says as she tries to blow the fog away, but fails to. "OK, you got us. Very funny." I snap around as I hear something run behind me, then back around as I hear it run behind me again.

"Miles.... this isn't funny..." I say weakly as we all back up against each other.

"What do you think they're planning?" Twilight asks shakily.

"Boo."

"AAAAHHHH!" We all yell as we jump around to find Big Mac behind us, wearing a grim reaper costume. The instant we see him the fog suddenly dissipates, giving us a perfect view of the area around us.

"Big Mac! What the buck!" Storm says as he walks towards him.

"What? Its a corn maze. The point is ta scare ya." He says as he starts to walk off.

"Where's Miles, I need to kick his flank right now." Celestia says as we follow after him.

"Miles was never here. He was goin ta help, but decided ta go get candy instead." Big Mac says as he continues to walk off.

"But... then what was with that Ursa major? And all that fog?" I ask as we follow him around a corner. He pauses and looks back to all of us with a look of confusion.

"Uh... what fog an what Ursa major?"

"OK. Now we know you're plotting with Miles. The giant bear entity and the immovable fog. We all saw it." Twilight says matter of factly.

"Uh... I didn't see anything around y'all. Same night sky, same corn maze..."

"Sure you did Big Mac."Storm says as he walks up to him. "And this would happen to be a set up to scare us again, would it?" Before anypony could ask a light fog start to fill the area again, though much more slowly this time. "OOOOO, scary Big Mac."

"Miles, don't do that again.... please." I call out as the fog gets thicker and thicker. We hear something run around us again, making my heart race again. "Miles, I'm serious, stop!" I spin from side to side as the running continues to grow faster and fast.

"Bark bark bark!"

"AH!" I spin around to find Lupus and Hati running out of the fog and going straight for me. They seem scared as they cower underneath me. "Lupus? Hati? What's wrong?" I ask, getting them to whine lightly.

"Somethin gots them spooked good." Big Mac says as he looks out into the fog.

"Why don't we just teleport out of here?" Twilight asks.

"Won't work." Big Mac says. "Before Miles left I had him enchant the field so nopony could teleport out. I had twelve unicorns trying to get out before we opened up. The only way out is through the exit."

"Why would you do that?" Storm asks.

"Ah didn't think somethin like this would happen." Celestia tries to teleport out, but every time she just flashes back into the same spot.

"I guess we need to do it the old fashion way." I say as I start to walk down the path, legs trembling as I go. Everypony follows after me as I lead them down the path and come up to our first fork. "Left or right Big Mac?"

"I don't know."

"How could you not know? You made the maze." Twilight says.

"Yeah... but ah think its been changing cause ah've been lost fer almost an hour now." Celestia walks up beside me and looks down both paths.

"Sister... do.. do you think this is the work of Discord?" I ask quietly.

"I certainly hope not. Lets just keep moving." She says as she continues down the left path. We follow after her, keeping our heads low as we watch for any sudden movements.

GGGRRRRR

We all freeze as a low growl come from all directions. My eyes dart from side to side as as I try to find the source of the noise, but I don't see anything.

"Will you play with us?" We all spin around to two fillies standing down the path, both looking identical. Having pale white coats, brown tails and manes and light blue dresses on. "Come play with us forever and ever and ever..."

"I think now would be a good time to run." Storm says as we all begin to back away from the two fillies. As we step away from them, they start to walk towards us.

"PLAY WITH US! PLAY! FOREVER AND EVER!" They scream as their faces begin to turn demented, stretching out as they bear their dagger like teeth at us. Their heads nearly split in half as they open up wider and wider. Before anything else could happen we all turn and ran as fast as we could run, some of us screaming along the way.... or maybe that was just me. We make blind turns as their shrieks follow after us. I lose track of time as we continue to run, stopping once the screams die suddenly end.

"What do we do know?" I ask as we all pant.

"Why don't one of you jus fly up?" Big Mac asks.

KER-FACEHOOF

Celestia, Storm and I all facehoof at once as we realize our stupidity. With a heavy sigh Storm flaps his wings and takes off into the air. Celestia and I glance to each other before we follow after him, levitating the other two along with us. The second we get air born the fog disappears and we make it back to the edge with no problems what so ever. Big Mac looks down to the entrance before he grabs a nearby sign and moves it to the closed side.

"Hey guys."

"AH!" We all yell as we turn around to find Miles, eating candy from a massive bag. "You know, I may not be the expert, but I don't think you're suppose to fly out of the maze..."

"Why were you scaring us so much!" Celestia yells at him, getting a confused look in response.

"Uh... I've been in town getting candy the entire time you've been in there." He says as he pulls out some more and begins to eat.

"But what about the fog and the Ursa major and the wolves being scared and..." Twilight starts to say in a panic.

"Look, I don't know what to say. What ever was scaring you is probably still in there, becuase it wasn't me." We all glance back to the maze and stare at it, fearing what ever may still be in there.

Perspective: Miles
One Hour Later

Well... after an hour of disenchanting and searching for something that wasn't there I finally head back to Ponyville for the festivities. I want to believe Luna and the others that there was something out there, they honestly seemed scared enough. But after personally searching the entire field three times and coming up empty handed... yeah, no. Whatever was out there is either very elusive, left before I searched, or doesn't exist. Well... I guess it's time for me to mess with Luna... too soon?





NAAAAAH! I'm sure she'll be fine. Especially with what I have planned.

Perspective: Luna

With a sigh I take another sip from my pumpkin shake as I lay my head on the table. With Miles searching out the field for whatever was out there, Celestia and I decided to go somewhere public to relax. So we went to Sugarcube Corner. They have a bunch of tables set up outside as the cakes run around filling out orders for ponies at different tables.

"You know what I also find odd?" Celestia says as she stops eating her strawberry shake; shake number three.

"You mean besides the haunted corn maze?"

"Well... yes. It's how... how to word this correctly... it seems that Ponyville is... getting accustom to us being around." She says as she glances around.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, with every visit we make here, it seems that the residents seem to treat us like any other pony. Not to say they're being disrespectful or anything bad, but.... well..."

"I know what you mean." I says as I pick my head up and glance around at all of the ponies going about their business. "Any other city and we would be surrounded by worshipers and paparazzi. But here... its... we're just average ponies that everypony bows to when they greet them." Celestia nods to me as she finishes up her shake.

"Would you like another one your highness?" Mrs. Cake asks as she walks up to us.

"If you wou..."

"No! I mean, I think another one is simply out of the question, with her diet and all." I say, making Celestia go wide eyed as she thinks about all of the treats she's had tonight.

"Okay then, you two have a spooky Nightmare Night then." She says with a chuckle as she moves to the next table.

"Well.... I'm going to blow up now." Celestia says as she drops her head onto the table.

"No you won't, you didn't even have that much." I say as I try to reassure her. In actuality she had A LOT of candy, some pie, the shakes, several apples, several different punches.... she might blow up.

"HIYA Princesses!" Pinkie says as she hops up to us. I giggle a bit at her costume. She's a shark, with her head inside the mouth and her tail making up the tail of the shark.

"Mmmm." Celestia grumbles from the table.

"Uh-oh, we have a pouty mcsaddyton! I know exactly how to fix that! Come with me." She says before hopping away. I glance back to Celestia and poke her a couple of times until she looks up to me.

"Shall we?"

"*sigh* very well." She says as she stands up and starts to walk off towards the bouncing pink mare. I giggle a bit before I follow after her. We make it to a stage with a dancing area, the next song starting as we approach the side lines. There's a white unicorn bobbing her head at the turn tables as a mass of ponies dance before her. I bob my head, finding odd to hear my own evil voice speaking. Then again, when the young DJ asked to make the song I was too excited to not try my best at it.

"I still can't believe what a great job Vinyl did on this song." I say as I bob my head along. This new form of music is still a little foreign to me, but I enjoy it none the less.

"Yes, though I find it a bit disturbing that you recorded yourself saying that so evilly, but it came out very well done." Celestia says with a smile as she watches the crowd move in beat with the music. I look forward but do a double take as I see Miles throw a sheet over me as he slides before me and plant a solid kiss on my lips.







WHAT DOES HE THINK HE'S DOING! My eyes dart from Miles to Celestia as he continues to kiss me,holding onto me as he presses his lips hard against me. I try to pull away, but every time he just leans in and continues to kiss me. I start hitting him, twisting from side to side as he continues his kiss.

"Lun.... Luna?" Celestia says as she looks around. I stop fighting with Miles and stare at her.... wait..... how can I see her through the sheet? I glance over to Miles, who reaches beneath himself and reaches out... making his hand disappear.

"Invisibility enchantment." He whispers into my ear. I look at him and stare as I try to connect the dots.

"Jerk." I say in a hushed whisper as I hit him a couple times. He laughs a bit before he gives me another kiss, but this time I return it. He quickly pulls away and runs off, making me reappear beside Celestia.

"Luna! Where did you go?" Celestia asks.

"... just... the little fillies room." I say as I watch the hazy figure move through the crowd.

Perspective: Big Mac
2:00am

I glance around the barn to make sure that the coast is clear before I head inside. I head to the second story and walk towards the back...

"BOO!" I jump a bit before I collect myself.

"Very funny."

"Well I thought so. So, was it as amazing as I told you it would be?

"Eeyup." I say before I toss her a bag of bits.

"Was there ever any doubt."


Author's Note

Sout out to Cheesus for picking Pinkies costume and Tallestbrony for the song (Luna's Fury by bagpipe brony. Next is the Q/A Special! Brony on!

Next Chapter: Q/A Special #1 Estimated time remaining: 64 Hours, 39 Minutes
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