Twilight Sparkle and her friends welcomed Queen Luna. She was also an Alicorn like Twilight and Celestia, with a blue coat and a sparkling mane. Queen Luna ruled over the Moon Kingdom, and protected the secrets and treasures of the night. While the Sun Kingdom's signature color was yellow, the Moon Kingdom's signature color was blue. Twilight bowed to her beloved aunt.

"Aunt Luna! How was your trip? I could hardly wait for you to get here!" The Princess remarked.

Queen Luna smiled. "The trip was calming, I am so glad to visit you and my sister once again. The Kingdom looks brighter and better the last time we visited."

Queen Celestia turned to her sister. "I'll have the servants take your bags to your room sister."

The Moon Queen nodded. "Very well, would it be alright if we took a walk around your garden? We are a little tired from the journey and would love to relax."

Celestia smiled. "Of course, you and I can walk together while Twilight spends the evening with her friends. Tomorrow you two can spend all day together."

"That would be wonderful sister."

Together the two rulers walked outside towards the Royal Gardens. Twilight turned to her friends, who all grinned at her. Twilight smiled back.

"Well you heard the Queen, lets have fun!" Rainbow Dash said.

The six friends ran about the castle to begin their adventure, the moon was almost in the sky and they weren't going to waste a second of this valuable time! Together they read stories, sang songs, tried on new outfits the Princess had received, and had fun all night long.

The moon was now high in the sky, Twilight looked up at the large grandfather clock at the top of the staircase, it was ten o' clock. The Princess turned to her friends.

"Well, I suppose we should all head to our rooms and call it a night."

"Ah agree," Applejack stated. "Ah'm ready ta hit the hay."

"Yeah! I'm beat." Rainbow added.

Pinkie Pie smiled. "Well goodnight everypony!"

The six friends all said their good nights to each other. And they all departed to the rooms Queen Celestia had arranged for them to stay in. Twilight smiled as her friends all found their bedrooms and shut the doors behind them. Twilight sighed and prepared to make her way to her own bedroom, on the way she found her Aunt Luna walking towards her.

"Oh Twilight! We were just going to our room, we cannot wait to spend a delightful time with you tomorrow. So far we are enjoying our visit."

"That's fantastic Aunt Luna! I can't wait for tomorrow!" Princess Twilight said with a smile.

The two hugged, Twilight loved it when her aunt came to visit. She always gave the day a bit of mystery. And it was great to see her mother spend time with her sister. When they broke the hug Twilight watched as Luna turned into a black Alicorn with long wings.

"Well, I'm off to raise the stars and paint the night sky. Goodnight Twilight Sparkle."

"Goodnight Aunt Luna." Twilight replied.

Luna stopped her. "During the night, you shall address me as Nightmare Moon."

Twilight giggled, whenever the moon came out Luna turned into a being of darkness called Nightmare Moon. When she was young Twilight used to be a little scared around Nightmare Moon, but as she got older she grew used to it during her aunt's visits.

"Sorry," Twilight apologized. "Goodnight Nightmare Moon."

Luna accepted the statement and walked off to find her room, with her dusty blue mane trailing behind. Twilight continued to walk to her room, she trotted up the crystal staircase and walked through the hall filled with light. Twilight found her mother about to go into her room, the Queen turned to face her daughter. And have her a gentle smile, one that warmed the young Princesses heart.

"Goodnight Twilight dear. Sweet dreams...."

The Princess nodded, "Thank you, Mother I wish you pleasant dreams as well."

The two royals opened the doors got their quarters and shut them in unison with a loud slam. Twilight crawled into her warm, soft bed. She pulled the blankets over her body, and put her head on a giant pillow. Using her magic the Princess shut off all the lights in her room. Slowly a deep sleep fell over her and her eyes shut gently. Just as she fell asleep, Spike walked in. He didn't want to wake her so he quietly tiptoed over to his bed and crawled in. He pulled his tiny blanket over his scaly body and fell asleep.

Princess Twilight found herself surrounded by fog. It clouded around her and trapped her. The ground felt cold and the moon was out, it was just barely visible through the thick fog.

"Where am I?" Twilight asked herself.

Suddenly part of the fog cleared allowing Twilight to walk deeper into the rest of the cloud. She felt herself bump into something hard. She backed up and rubbed her head, she looked up to see a giant stone statue in front her. It didn't look like anything she had ever seen. It was a creature that was tall and slender, and it looked like it had body parts made up of different animals.

"What is this?" Twilight asked herself, by before she could do anything she heard a voice. It was quiet but calming.

"Twilight Sparkle......." The voice whispered.

"Who's there?" Twilight called out

"Twilight......."

The Princess looked up at the statue. The sky began to turn a dark shade of red, then she saw the statue was breaking. Small cracks began to form, the voice got louder.

"Come to me Twilight....."

Twilight Sparkle began to get nervous. This was beginning to scare her. The statue was now even more cracked apart. The lines glowed a bright red. And the creatures eyes began to glow. The voice got louder.

"Come to ME Twilight Sparkle!"

Twilight was now truly terrified, the creature was beginning to break of parts of stone still holding on to his body. She could make out an eagle claw and a lion paw that had broken away. The Princess began to run into the fog, anything to get her away. Then she stopped, she could hear the sound of a creature walking on the ground.

"Come to me, my dear....." The voice whispered in a soothing tone.

The Princess remained frozen as the voice spoke to her, something about it kept her from moving. She could hear the creature getting closer, yet she stayed put. It was almost as if she wanted to stay where she was. Then it grew silent, Twilight began to wonder why the sound had stopped and where the creature had gone. She quickly got her answer. She felt something pick her up and cover her eyes. It gently caressed her face and put what felt like a claw in her mane.

"Who are you?" Twilight asked. "Show yourself."

But the creature did not listen, it continued to touch her and slowly her body began to relax. Twilight sighed quietly and her eyes began to shut. But she forced them open and broke out of her trance.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Twilight demanded.

Twilight felt whatever that was covering her eyes being taken away. The Princess looked up at who was holding her. What she saw terrified her, it was creature with the most frightening face, it's glowing eyes stared straight into her soul, teeth sharp like knives. Twilight felt so overwhelmed she fainted in the creatures arms. And her world grew pitch black.

Princess Celestia was having a vision, in the dream she saw her kingdom. The ponies were happy and were playing in the meadows, others were walking along the fine cobblestone paths enjoying the company they had. Then everything changed, she saw her daughter and she didn't look like herself. Her coat was much darker, and her eyes had a deep yellow glow.  Standing behind her was a creature so hideous and terrifying, and yet Queen Celestia could see it caressing her face, whispering things into her ear with what looked like a lion paw wrapped around her; gently kissing her forehead. Celestia had never been so terrified or disgusted in her entire life. What came next made everything worse, her kingdom was now filled with chaos and destruction. Everything was turned upside down, and ponies were fleeing with terrified looks on their faces.

"No! What is happening?" Celestia cried.

The Queen gasped in shock as she watched everything being covered in insanity and ugliness. It made tears form in her eyes to see her subjects unhappy. But it made her even more sad to see her only daughter being taken by an awful creature who was overpowering her with his cursed magic. But then Celestia could make out something else. In the shadow of the creature towering over everypony and laughing maniacally; a dark figure lurked, which appeared to look like a pony. Celestia could see nothing more then a blurred outline of the figure.

"What is that?" The Queen asked herself.

The figure moved slowly and when she could see part of it she realized it was a pony. It apparently had a deep blue coat because Celestia had seen it's dark blue muzzle. It looked like a Unicorn but the Queen could have sworn she saw Pegasus wings too. The pony grinned wickedly while looking at the creature, but when it turned away she could see it frown, a slight blush spread across the pony's face followed by a few crystal like tears. The Queen awoke with a small scream.

"Ahh!"

Her sister who had heard the scream and was out on her nightly fly came through the window. She quickly stopped and looked at Celestia.

"Sister, are you alright?"

Celestia eyed her sister, now Nightmare Moon and sighed.

"It's nothing Luna, I was falling asleep and I thought I heard a strange noise, it was only the guards. I can assure you I'm perfectly fine."

Nightmare Moon glared at her sister. After a few moments she nodded. "Very well."

And with that the black Alicorn flew into the night sky once again, Celestia gasped and drew in a large gulp of air. Then she slowly exhaled, and got underneath the blankets once again. What was it that she had just seen? Who was that creature and that pony? And why was her daughter with them in the dream?

The creature holding Princess Twilight Sparkle laughed. So this was her up close, she was rather pretty and was very strong. But she resisted him quite a bit, no matter. He would change that, when she finally came to him and chose to be with him, all of her flaws would be removed.  Soon she would belong to him, but first he needed a way to make a way to put his plan into action. At last when an idea struck him, he gently set the Princess down on the grass. First he needed to put the kingdom under some of his power, then he needed to deal with Queen Celestia. The creature vanished and left the Princess.

"Moonlight dearest, I need you."

Discord called out, in no time at all the Alicorn was in front of him.

"Yes Discord?" She asked, ready to do anything he asked of her. "Is there something you need?"

The Draconequus smirked, she was always ready when called. "Yes there is, tomorrow I have a little task for you to complete, and you must do this before any of those ponies are awake. Do you understand?"

Moonlight Chaos nodded. "Yes my Lord."

Discord walked towards her and quietly told exactly what he wanted her to do. Tomorrow those ponies would be in for a big surprise. Next Chapter: A Kingdom of Darkness Estimated time remaining: 60 Minutes