Author's Notes:

I must apologize in advance. I am not very clear in the head due to my medication and relaxers after my surgery of having a tapeworm removed. Forgive me if there are mistake.

Anyway, I have been asked if this Caribou thing will be in any of my stories, and I'm sick of it.

Here is another chapter, which will hint where the Caribou stand in my stories.

Hope you enjoy this chapter.

Derrick strode down the only hallway still intact in the ancient castle with a purpose at hand, making his way down the engulfing darkness that called to him as strongly as the symbols glowing on the walls around him and not even bothering to look back and see his queen following him on shaky hooves. Despite the shock that transpired as soon as Nightmare Moon observed the overhanging curtain in the destroyed throne room, Derrick became very nervous yet astounded by the fact that he no longer needed a torch to light his way. . . though it would have felt much better to have one for easing his nerves. Even with Nightmare Moon carrying one, he did not like the idea of seeing perfectly in the dark.

Passing right by his new friend, who wanted nothing more than his attention, he entered a disheveled room and saw in the darkness what must have been the barracks. Rusted swords and deteriorated spears with broken shields were spread across the entire room as he stepped inside, hoping to find more answers to his mysterious past with this kingdom.

"Incredible," he whispered, but the hollow room echoed his voice and Nightmare Moon picked up his amazement, though the reason behind it, she wasn't sure.

"What is incredible?" She asked, kicking the useless weapons away as Derrick stepped further out of the light in her torch.

"I'm scared shitless, but this is awesome." Derrick told her as he turned around to face her. To his surprise, his loving mare was stunned to the point of gawking at him, yet he ignored it. "I can see in the dark, I don't need any light to see. It's strange that everything is a light purple, but I can see clearly."

"Your eyes are purple," Nightmare Moon pointed, staring at the purple iris' as they pulsed. Of course, this development troubled the alicorn, and she glared at Derrick with concern.

"What's wrong?" He asked, tilting his head. If it hadn't been a dire situation of mystery and escape, he would have been pounced just now for acting so adorable.

"I am not comfortable with this," she said, confusing the man whilst taking his chin into her hoof, forcing him to gaze mere inches away from her. She stared at these purple eyes with scrutiny before releasing him and answering in a dark tone:

"This castle is doing something to you; it's awakening all of your power and I'm not fond of it. It may be dangerous to have your magic develop so quickly in this place."

"I feel fine though," Derrick chuckled as he approached her for a kiss, but as tender as he was, Nightmare Moon was not letting it go, even with a loving and delicious kiss of his lips. "Nightmare Moon, I promise you that I feel fine."

"For now, but what if something else takes hold?" She questioned seriously as she leaned into his chest, holding him tightly while the feeling of his hands touched her neck. "Fear is something I would prefer never expressing, but I am terrified right now. Something is happening to you, and I don't know what it is."

"So it's a bad thing?"

"No, the changes make you more alluring. However, it could be potentially dangerous; there's thousands of years that separate you from this reality and the reality you were banished too."

"Separate realities?" Derrick reiterated, scratching his chin curiously.

"Could we not find a means of escape and return with your mother?" Nightmare Moon suggested, almost pleading against her lover while the room ignited with more symbols. Derrick shook his head.

"No, I need answers and I'm going to find them here. We were brought here for a reason." Derrick countered with a much more serious tone than he would us. Nightmare Moon actually smiled and was aroused, as it was hoped for in the beginning:

He was starting to act his own man and make the orders.

And Sombra thought he wasn't ready to be a ruler.

"You're starting to take matters into your own hands, and nopony is here to see it. Such a shame that I'm only here to witness your growth." Nightmare Moon sighed with a shake of her head. What was worth noting to Derrick was she never complimented him that way. "Nevertheless, informing them will be just as good when we find the answers you're seeking and escape this place. Soon I hope, I feel as though I'm on the moon once more."

"Well, let's get a move on and find out why we were brought here." Derrick shot back as he found another door, becoming quickly irritated by the alicorn's relentless affection.

"And here I thought I was going to be the stallion in our relationship." She giggled in the end, pressing on with her human, although there was still the annoying factor of the Omni-Drake becoming too attached to Derrick while their expedition continued.

She made haste through the door with the creature following closely to the man, nuzzling and cooing as he pet her affectionately. If it hadn't been for quick wit and a keen eye, Nightmare Moon would have been bashed on the side of her head by that wagging tail. She scowled at the beast with every intention of elimination. She could not stand having the love of her human focused on the Omni-Drake, and it burned inside her as the next room opened up.

I will pluck every feather off your body and make you extinct if you don't stop, you annoying, oversized prick.

"You're quite the lover, aren't you?" Derrick laughed, stopping to hug the head of this majestic creature. The Omni-Drake invited the response with a coo and flapped her wings happily. Derrick turned to his extremely jealous mate, who was grinding her teeth, and told her with joy in his tone:

"I'm keeping her, but a name is needed."

Nightmare Moon stopped, as dead as the skeletons around them and pushed to hide her rage with a forced smile, though it was clear as the light in the new sector of the castle that she was against. Derrick may have been oblivious before, but he could tell by the twitching eye and grinding of her teeth that she was beyond pissed off.

"What a wonderful idea, my love." She said dangerously, shaking all over as he smiled evilly. Derrick turned his attention back to the Omni-Drake and sparked an idea of great fun and stupidity to get under the alicorn's skin. He chuckled at his large friend and kissed her on the snout, and the results were as expected. He needed one more push though, just to see if Nightmare Moon was really in love with him or downright obsessed.

"Zelda will be your name, because it's a badass name," he looked back at Nightmare Moon and saw that her eyes turned white as spontaneously combusted into blue fire. "And you will sleep with us."

Zelda seemed to be a fitting name. The Omni-Drake accepted it with a powerful bark before licking his cheek aggressively. However, the ignited alicorn felt her tolerance for Derrick's teasing snap like a twig in her head, and she approached at lightning speed with the two separated. The fire was gone as fast as it appeared, but the burning fury of a mare who is obsessed and in love glowed in her eyes as she reared up to his shoulders and growled threateningly.

"Do not test me. I will murder that beast and steal your virginity if you keep pushing your luck."

Nightmare Moon had the habit of getting what she wanted, but this was more than she would reveal. This seemed to be the only plausible solution however, but she was not taking any chance of their companion stealing Derrick from her.

"I'm not a virgin," Derrick chuckled nervously beneath monster towering over him, his eyes batting back and forth before the sting of her fangs drew blood from his neck.

"You have not bred a mare, so that's close enough to a virginity." She hissed in her royal voice, licking the wound before his magic closed the wound, as if it never existed.

"Anyway. . . lets get. . . going. . ." Derrick struggled to articulate more of the situation. It was impossible though, as it had been confirmed just how deep the alicorn's feelings were. Each second of fearing the goddess was tingling with kissing and nipping him in order to calm herself, and it made his senses run wild as Zelda tilted her head curiously. "Before. . . you know. . ." He immediately averted the softening gaze of his queen, searching for any reason to change the subject.

"Perhaps I should just make my mark now," Nightmare Moon implied sternly, giving her lord a toothy grin. She pushed him until his back was against a wall, and made it so her emphasis was made with harsh rubbing his crotch. "Maybe I should take this advantage and claim what is rightfully mine. Tis only fair since you were intentionally aggravating me by giving that beast your affection."

"Perhaps you should calm down and think before our relationship goes south. . ." he responded with a thousand thoughts running his head at once, trying to hold the mare at bay. There was bemusement in Nightmare Moon's eyes.

"Do you really believe I would fall for that?" She asked, turning away. Derrick flinched at her question but yelped when she lifted her tail and retreated against him. Her loins now rubbed harshly against his erection, and he bit his lip with the mental fortitude of a monk as she looked back and moaned.

"Could you honestly say that you would leave me?" Nightmare Moon asked, moaning lightly whilst rubbing up and down on his trapped bulge. "Because I know you would never say such a thing. I made sure of it with that tonic you drank."

Derrick's eyes widened, and he did his best to summon any shred of anger in his heart. But the more he thought about Nightmare Moon the harder it was to look or think different about her.

"You. . . are. . ."

"No, I'm speaking the truth," she giggled maliciously, Finally, she had seen enough of her lord suffering and released his bulge from her dripping lips. However, she was not done, she rounded the man and pulled him into an inescapable hug. "The tonic you believed to be medicine was actually my blood."

"Why?" Derrick panted, snaking his arms to adjust his pants. Nightmare Moon giggled at his ignorance and rewarded it with a lick to his lips.

"I could not take any chances. I had to make sure that the man I love is forever mine, so I took some of blood and used a very ancient spell to bond our minds and souls together." She mused, nuzzling his chest. "Be angry if you wish, but I know how you feel right now. You're excited to have a mare so possessive. You love it and you love me."

"I never said I. . ." Derrick was without denial or resolve of that statement. He sighed at the mare as she laughed in the crook of his neck, which was his way of admitting defeat to her. He hated it though, to be fooled and read like an open book. His skin crawled with disgust of being so obvious as she kissed him tenderly.

"Besides, I will never allow you the chance to leave me, even if you had good reason." Nightmare Moon sighed contently and steeled the matter as her victory. "I am not Celestia or Luna. I am not benevolent like them. I will kill anypony who gets between us. I will rip this world apart to keep us together."

"Just my luck. . . " Derrick mused as he pushed the mare away in one fluid motion, leaving her to resume his search and adjust his throbbing bulge. His eyes narrowed on the new room being completely destroyed by age and battle, but to his luck there was a small pond and water flowing from the wall while Zelda drank from it. He noticed, however, that this was not a new room, for there was a nest of rock and large leaves in the back. He was glad to see that the creature made her way towards it and rested lazily in the leaves.

"That's a relief," he said to himself, but his attention was caught by Nightmare Moon. He heard her giggle and looked over his shoulder to see the alicorn winking at him and blowing a kiss before following him.

"Love you, my lord." She punctuated her meaning with another surprise bite to the neck when he turned away, and licked the wound clean. Derrick ignored it though, he was too endowed with curiosity, mostly due to the same symbols lighting up the room as his stomach growled.

"Think we'll find anything to eat in here?" He asked his mare, although he didn't know why.

"Maybe," she shrugged, and then wrapped her wings around his waist. "Or we could eat eachother?"

"After a few dates, yes." He snipped, grinning proudly after stepping away from the alicorn to leave her in the simmering of his rejection. He could hear the pony snort and growl whilst approaching the pond, and chuckled at his victory.

"You are no fun," Nightmare Moon pouted.

"I wonder if there is something in here?" Derrick asked himself, with noticable frustration in his tone. He gazed into the pond for a good minute before seeing quite a number of fish swimming in an out of a small cave at the bottom. His eyes lit up with shimmering refraction of the fishes' scales and bolted from the ground with the dark moon queen staring at him quizzically.

"We'll rest here," he told her but kept his attention on finding necessary materials for his hair-brained idea.

"Why?" Nightmare Moon barked.

"We've been walking for hours, our only source of food and water is the pond and the fish, and we can't leave together since magic doesn't work on me; that means teleportation is out of the question, so we will set up a camp for the night." Derrick spun around and found Nightmare Moon growling lowly through her pursed lips. "We can have a romantic campfire, just the two of us to keep eachother warm. I'll even consider this our first date." The mare in question immediately smiled and proceeded to pick up dry sticks around her, the victorious man smiling proudly at his mare as she piled them up.

"I'll start on the fire." She chirped, trotting happily to find more wood.

Meanwhile. . .

Raven marched repeatedly around the throne room with a single purpose once the guards returned with ill news, leaving what was a unicorn that muttered how Derrick is best gone forever, a now broken and mumbling mess with his soul stripped from his body and devoured in an instant. Despite the faith she had in her student for all these years, she, physical and emotionally, became the living nightmare that nopony had seen in over fifteen hundred years. She wished for a miracle from the heavens, and when her fellow royals offered advice or comfort, she spat it back at them and continued to stomp around them furiously.

Dropping another guard to his rump, she turned to the leader of the squad and snarled, frightening every pony in the room, even the mighty Sombra.

"Where is my son!?" She roared, her voice blasting a very unlucky cadet through a wall. Her attention remained on the quivering leader who had yet found the courage to speak.

"My lady. . . we. . .w-we can't—" His words were cut short by the lack of breath escaping him. He blinked at the empress and tried to exhale, then realized that she had done something to him. He looked down to see blood was oozing from his throat before the entire world darkened in an instant.

The other guards watched as their leader's head fell off his neck, some cringing while others looked away to release the contents of their stomachs.

"Useless maggot!" Raven snapped without a shred of remorse for the stallion she beheaded. She turned to the other guards and targeted them, and then asked with all of her power engulfing the throne room:

"Does anypony here have a clue as to where my son and student have gone!?"

One guard stepped forward, but beneath that fiery maternal gaze, he was with little to no courage in his heart. He was on the verge of wetting himself as she approached with a menacing snarl escaping her shining fangs. This was without a doubt the most terrifying goddess in existence and he realized why she was the night mother.

"I may. . . have some. . . idea. . ." He stuttered.

Raven lowered herself to the guard's eye level and narrowed on him before telling him in a deadly tone.

"Your idea better be great, because if not, I will drag you to your house and make you watch as I devour the souls of your wife and foals."

"I was in the astrodome. . ." He uttered, and Raven raised an eyebrow at him. "I saw. . . the light that took. . . Lord Derrick."

"Go on," she drawled.

He gulped loudly and turned away from the goddess, gesturing her to follow.

"If my lady would please follow, I can show you where the light had landed." He said a little more bravely, although the slight wetting of his his underbelly said differently.

Raven was not in the mood for games, but what choice did she have at the time. Her baby was taken from her, just like the first time but right from under her nose, and by a force that she had no recollection of. She sighed deeply and stood up, shaking her head of all the frustration before taking a few steps. However, her attention shot to the doors as they opened with a very familiar pony carrying something small on her back. She glared at Raven with the utmost intention of making her presence very clear whilst marching inside with many of the nightmare guards floating in her magic, unconscious or mangled.

Everyone in the room gawked; Black Hole Sun, Sombra, Chrysalis, even Discord, and all the alicorn did was throw the guards she incapacitated to Raven before flying to meet her at eye. It wasn't until they met eye to eye that the remaining guards who survived, crawled in and began begging for the empress to forgive them.

"Luna. . ." Raven gasped.

"Where is my mate?" Luna asked in a dangerous tone, pressing her head against Raven's. "Where. Is. Derrick?"

"Does he really matter to you, traitor?" Chrysalis chuckled.

She was certainly bold. Everyone knew that and worried for the changeling, as it was seen in Luna's expression when she turned to Chrysalis, there was nothing but rage and fury burning in the cores of her eyes as she retreated from the surprised empress. She resorted to desperate measures. She rose above the changeling queen with a flap of her wings and began building magic into her horn quickly and dangerously, before soaring into Chrysalis with a large beam that struck her directly in the chest and sent her threw a wall. Clearly, Luna was on a rampage and not going to stop until she was given what was desired.

"He means everything to me!" Luna bellowed, sending beam after beam of her power throughout the room, striking wildly against anyone and anything. "NOW GIVE HIM BACK!"

There was not a word to be shared between Derrick and Nightmare Moon as they took to resting near the fire he built near the pond. . . it was nothing out of the ordinary, but to the dark moon queen, it was his way of proving that he can take care of them during the night. The atmosphere around the disheveled cavern was quite warm and inviting. . . it was actually very romantic. Nightmare Moon had quietly slipped her wings around the man as he ate the cooked fish she skinned and cleaned in seconds. Both she and Derrick were quite comfortable in Zelda's fur, so the latter of their situation did not matter, which was the best thing, because Nightmare Moon had plans for the man. The torment a little while back was the first step to winning him over, the rest of her attempt would be relentless though.

"Derrick. . ." Nightmare Moon's voiced whined softly in his ear. He was falling for this mare more and more with every day they spend together, but she could wait for him to finish. He turned to the alicorn pouting at him and sniffling as she caressed his torso with her wings. His stomach called at that moment. So, he turned away and went back to eating the fish he caught and cooked, down to bone and toss the remains into the fire.

"Baby. . ." Nightmare Moon continued, this time nestling in his neck, which was a serious turn-on. He was not the same as most men who have a clingy lover. He preferred a lady that latched onto him than be away, though he could go without the tender rubbing of her hoof on his crotch. Nightmare Moon began nipping on the side of his neck to grab his attention and rouse him. She was not going to let this night be ruined.

I am not going to sleep at all.

"As nice as this is, I am bored." She whined, drawing blood off his neck. Derrick groaned and tried to move away, but Nightmare Moon would not be ignored or denied. She wrapped both of her wings around his arms and pulled him back so she was in his neck again. She whined and snorted and continued her attack:

"Let's ask some questions," she kissed him gently on the neck. "What do you think about us having babies?"

Derrick immediately choked on this fish slipping down his throat. He coughed and gagged harshly until the bite was heaved out of his mouth and caught by Zelda. Both lovers cringed at the beast for such thing but remained focused on the question she purposely threw out there.

"Babies. . ." Derrick said hesitantly, drinking some of the water he gathered as she nodded her head. "As in you and I having babies? Is that even possible?"

"You are half-alicorn, so it should be relatively easy for us to breed." Nightmare Moon answered with a wide smile, scaring the man a little. "But there are some potions that allow different species to have hybrid children."

"I see," he pondered the idea for a moment, although nervously whilst keeping the mare's hooves at bay. "But what made you want to bring this up?"

"You are my mate," Nightmare Moon reminded him. "And I have been thinking about having a few foals when we reach that point."

"And how many foals are you wanting?" He furrowed his brow as she giggled and kissed his cheek.

"Not many, just seven or eight foals."

"That many?" He laughed, panicking a little while she held him in place and spoke thoughtfully about her fantasy. As if it wasn't bad enough that she was trying to get his clothes off, now he had this to worry about.

"I figured that before having foals we will marry and will go to tartarus and slaughter a few prisoners. I hear the hellfire queen needs some help executing the caribou." She explained with glee, her eyes sparkling with the imagination of her lord beheading the king. "We could stay at her empire, you can learn more about our kind and start your reign by killing Dainn. After that, we can start a family."

Nightmare Moon turned to him and laughed with joy, nuzzling him lovingly as he processed her idea of this honeymoon.

"Wouldn't that be so exciting?" She chirped.

Derrick fell back and passed out.