Ponyville

Nightmare Night

(Tomas POV)

"Thanks for letting us sleep here for the night Twilight."

Stepping in the library, I was immediately assaulted by the smell of old books and ink, looking around I saw books, books as far as the eye can see. "You live in a library?" I find it odd how I didn't notice before, especially with the sign outside.

Twilight looked back at me, sheepishly, "Yeah.... but don't worry there is enough room for you, the princess, and the rest of your team to sleep in."

'I doubt that...'

"Of course one of you is going to have to sleep on the floor, and the couch...."

'knew there wasn't going to be enough room.' Rubbing the back of my neck, I sighed, "Well beggars can't be choosers." It's been two hours since Dox left, and we've finally got Screwball to get enough control of her new Pokémon powers enough so we won't have to worry about her destroying anything. Everyone else had gone out to enjoy the party, unfortunately the guards who brought us here are too tired from caring all five of us here, so Twilight was kind enough to let us sleep here for the night. "Say Twilight when does Nightmare night end?"

Looking at the clock, she answered, "Well it's ten-thirty right now, so around an hour and thirty minutes." Noticing my fallen expression, she changed the subject, "Sooo since your here, I hope you don't mind to answering a couple of questions?" She looked at me with hopeful eyes.

"*sigh* Sure go ahea-!"

Apparently 'go ahead' was all she needed, as I was suddenly assaulted with barrage a barrage of questions, "WHATAREYOU?WHAT'SAPOKEMON?CANYOUDOMAGIC?HOWDIDYOUBULIDTHATMACHINEBACKINCANTERLOT?HOWOLDAREYOU?WHATISYOURSPECIESLIKE?DOYOULIKEBOOKS?"

Instantly I clamped her mouth shut, "Whoa,Twilight one at a time please?"

Blushing she took a moment to recompose herself, "Sorry..." She clears her throat, she summons up a quill and a piece of paper, "So what is a Pokémon?"

"A Pokémon is a creature with the ability to control any force of nature such as fire, water, grass, electric, etc. Pokémon come in many shapes and sizes, from what I know of there are over 750 species of Pokémon, but only 695 if you don't count the legendries."

I waited there for a few seconds for another question, when it didn't come I started to worry, but before I could speak, Twilight finally spoke up, "695 different species...." Seeing that she was about to explode, I made my way to confront her, until... "But that's impossible!" I covered my ears at the volume of her voice, "If there really was 695 species of Pokémon in Equestria then I'm pretty sure somepony would have notice."

"Unless they're hiding."

"Yes unless- wait what? Why?"

Looking over at Twilight, I rubbed the bridge of my nose, "Twilight, back then Pokémon sightings where extremely rare in Equestria, I mean they did happen, but it was still very rare. When ponies saw how much power our Pokémon had, some of those ponies wanted to hunt down their own Pokémon, in hopes of having a strong ally, but what ended up happening instead was that they made enemies, reports would often come in about how a noble was found dead because he ended up trespassing in a nest of Beedrills. 34 of those Pokémon started a war against ponykind and almost caused a mass genocide all in the name of their god-king." I repressed the memories that were threatening to come back,  "After the Phantom war, Pokémon where hunted down because ponies feared their power. I honestly don't know if new species came up while our imprisonment, but I highly doubt it. 22 of those species belong to us and they're all the last of their kind, I'm pretty sure a few went extinct, the 34 species of ghost went into hiding, the legendries stayed inside a pocket dimension, never really coming out, and the rest who knows? They could still be alive or gone extinct as well."

I waited there for what felt like an eternity, finally Twilight spoke, "But-how-why would they fight against each other? Why not have peace instead?"

"Ponies feared the Pokémon's power, and when a army of ghost type Pokémon attacked, everypony decided that they were too dangerous to be left alone. There was one Pokémon who wanted peace between the two warring sides, his name was Pharaoh, Pharaoh the Cofagrigas, he wasn't like other ghost types, he truly wanted peace...." One of the only few who truly didn't want the senseless violence to continue....

"Why should we trust you?!"

"We can't trust him! He's one of them!"

"Traitor!"

"The phantoms and the living can never find peace, not until one of them destroyers the other."

"HE IS DEFECTATIVE! EXTERMENATE HIM!"

"EXTERMENTATE! EXTERMENATE!"

"Savages! Savages! Dirty stinking devils!~"

"HAHAHAHA! DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?! YOU TRAITOR!"

"Tomas, do you think that Pokémon and ponies can truly live in peace?"

".........."

"Hehehe, that's okay, you don't have to answer, your silence says enough...."

"CHIMMME!"

"-mas! Tomas!"

I jumped at the sound of Twilight yelling, turning to her I saw her look at me with a worried expression, "What's wrong?"

"You've been silent for a few minutes, are you okay?"

I shrugged of her worry, "I'm fine Twilight just tired, is it all right with you if I go to bed right now?"

Twilight didn't look convince, but she knew she couldn't do anything, "*sigh* The guest room is the right, upstairs." I nodded and left, wanting to be alone for the rest of the night.

"Celestia...."

"Celestia...."

"CELESTIA!!!!"

"*gasp*"

Celestia's eyes shot open, immediately she scanned the room for anything out of the ordinary, "It's just a dream, it's just a dream." Getting out of bed, she made her way to the mirror, "He's gone, he's not coming back, you've made sure of it. Nopony will ever suffer from his cruelty again....."

"Ha. ha. ha."

Celestia's eyes widen, immediately her eyes scanned every inch of the room, "Who- who's there?!"

"ha. ha. ha.", Celestia looked at her the source of the laughter and saw her reflection in the mirror, laughing at her.

"What?"

Her reflection turned towards her slowly, she immediately regretted every laying eyes on the corrupted image of her, her reflection had blood red eyes, her fur darkened to the point of being a light gray, her horn twisted and gnarled, her most disturbing feature was the ever widening smile, "Hello Celestia, did you miss me? I missed you.... HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"No... not you..."