Do you know a man named Alan Wake?, the question echoed in Twilight's mind as she slowly turned her head, "There is NO WAY she can know about that or him." "Nyx, honey where did you hear that name?" She asked clearly disturbed.

     "In my dream last night you see...," Nyx trails off thinking of what to say next, She hear a voice "Psst Nyx can you hear me?" Nyx stood up straight at the voice, "Moon is that you?", she asked mentally back, finding Nightmare Moon was not physically present, she had thought Moon was just part of her dreams.

     "of course,I told you I was real. It's nice to be able to talk to you outside of dreams, so how is... oh I see..." Moon manifests herself, Nyx saw she was a slightly transparent mass of blue dust that formed into a pony, then she looked at Twilight a moment, then said "Well you going to talk to her or not?" Nyx pushed back her chair and started picking up the shattered bits of plate "Let's clean this up first. Then we can talk." Twilight nodded but kept staring at Nyx the entire time, a worried expression on her face.

      The pair moved to the living room where they sat down on the same couch form Nyx's dream. She started going into what had happened the previous evening, "So you woke up and found Nightmare Moon right where we're sitting?" Nyx nodded "And she wanted to be friends?" Another nod was Nyx's answer "Ok... I vaguely recall her zapping me, but...it was just a dream right? You just imagined it all."

      "But mom I can hear her, she just spoke to me like minutes ago, am I crazy?" Twilight put her hoof on her daughter's shoulder "I believe you Nyx, but can you prove it?"

     "Quick show her the book," Nyx told Twilight to give her a moment, then goes to retrieve the book from her room. The problem was, she had no idea where it was.

     Nyx walks into her room and looks around, from the door her bed is neatly made next to it a small bookshelf fully stocked of course, a mirror off to the right near the window, a vanity desk off to the right and finally next to the mirror her old Nightmare Armor still spotless as ever. "It's most likely under your pillow Nyx," Moon said, thinking logically, Nyx quickly finds the book and inspects it, "Creeping Darkness, huh, sounds like a horror story".

"You could say that, did I mention it's based on real events?" Nightmare comments then looks at the armor stand "Why do you keep this, if you don't mind me asking?" she asks, Nyx ponders the question before saying "It's... a reminder of what I was and what I could become".

"Really? Hmm, wise beyond your years if you ask me. Now lets get downstairs before your mother goes 'Lesson Zero' on us".

Suddenly a voice shouts "I HEARD THAT!" Pinkie Pie pops out of a small potted plant on the bedside table, "That's my job," she then proceeds to slowly sink back into the pot with a smile, "Ok let's just go, I wonder how she does that?" Nightmare says slightly panicked.

"It's Pinkie Pie don't question it" Nyx said following the confused Mare giggling.

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     Nyx came down to find Twilight pacing the ground floor of their tree home, she looks up and asks "Ok, you said you wanted to show me something?" Nyx shows her the book, the cover itself was as black as her coat. with a colorful picture of Twilight standing in front of the shadows of her friends, the night sky and Nightmare Moon in the back ground. She stairs at the book then notices the author "Alan wake, published by Pen Stroke? hmm never heard of him," Moon snickered at that before asking Nyx, "Mind if I take over a moment? It's been some time since I've spoken to her." Nyx  nervously looks at her before telling her "Don't try anything funny, She's scared as is." after which Nyx's head flicks to the ceiling and her eye flicker to blue.

     Twilight who had been flipping through the book, thus not noticing her daughters conversation, now stares at her daughter in complete parental panicked silence, then hears the voice of the one mare she didn't want to hear come out of that mouth, "Hello Twilight, it's been some time." Moon greets Twilight she starts to slowly step backwords, "Now now, clam down. Nyx is perfectly safe," to prove it she released Nyx asking her to say something, anything "Mom it's ok, relax," Nyx say's before Moon takes over again, Twilight stops dead and growls lighting her horn "WHO aRe you?" Rolling the r.

     "Long story short do you not recall back in Emblem that a basket washed up on shore? If so you remember I wrote telling you I'd be back. Well I am although not I quite like expected, her I am. Don't worry about Nyx she's perfectly safe from any harm I could cause her." Twilight recalled the moment and tried to speak Twilight not believing her commands "Release my daughter, NOW!"

       "Then how are we to talk face to face Miss Sparkle?" Moon replied, Twilight calmed "I know a way," she walked over to her desk and brought out some paper along with some blue dust in a bottle, "You can write on this, this dust is supposed to let spirits right on paper, supposed to anyway." To test is Twilight asked a few simple questions "Who are you, what do you want and why are you here?" The dust on the paper started to form words "Nightmare Moon, as far as I'm aware. I simply wish to introduce myself to you at the moment, and why I'm here? I do not know myself Twilight, I appear to have just been drawn to Nyx it would seem." Moon then asked a question of her own "Can you see me Twilight?"

     "No I can't see you at all." Twilight says to the paper turning to Nyx, who said in own voice said "She's right next to me Twilight. Give me a minute." she proceeded to have another private conversation with Moon.

      "What'd you have in mind to fix this?",

      "Oh ya know just a little something that should be hehe, enlightening," Nyx thinks for a few minute then gaps "OH HELL NO! I. am. Not doing that AGAIN. Even if I was not the one that did it in the first place,"  Twilight was about to ask what she said but decided against it, Nyx glared at Nightmare Moon who stares at her perplexed, she settles on "Well you got a better idea? Besides this is not the same I promise on my life, well what's left of it."

      "What's it do this time, tell me now."

      "It will grant her 1: The ability to see me, 2:She can see in the dark with 'those' eyes which are not purely cosmetic this time, and lastly since its a wisp of your magic her, magic powerful as it is will have a deeper well to draw from, oh if you don't mind I suggest you make this one special in that Twilight can also do this to others, ya know just so she understands it."

     Nyx nods and turns to her mother, "Ok twilight hold still, I promise this wont hurt, I hope," "Well your the vote of confidence clearly" Nightmare thinks as Nyx takes a slow breath, then lighting her horn summons a small ball of magic, she breaths into it and it turns dark purple. it then sprouts wings and floats toward twilight and bumps at her mouth. "What you want me to open my mouth?" Twilight asks raising an eyebrow, the wisp nods so Twilight does just that then, the familiar feeling of Nightmare Moon's blessing washes over her, a feeling of drowning "AGH No, Agh aaaa..." , "Relax Mrs. Sparkle!" Moon commands mentally

     "OK that hurt" Twilight redundantly states recovering from the pain, "Well you were trying to resist it there, my apology's Mrs. Sparkle" Moon says now visible to Twilight and boy did her eyes get even wider, "Oh, my, Faust, you really are... I...i, UGh," she groaned, her mind unable to process what she saw, she facehooves and says "I think I should ask Rarity for a drink." slowly coming to terms with her present reality, she sat on the couch which she had originally stored in the basement, it was a nice touch to the libraries décor.

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      After a Twilight calmed down a bit she proceeds to ask questions "Ok, just to make sure your who I think you are, 2 things: 1 did I not find you hiding under the covers of a bed in a castle and you were left there by Nightmare Moon? And 2 did you... kill me?" Nyx turns her head and look at Nightmare Moon with pleading eyes, "Yes on both accounts Twilight, although technically at the time that wasn't 'this' me,"

"You... you killed my mother?" Nyx asked quivering, "Yes and then died in order to save her from it. And then I came back in order to thwart Nexus's plan, but here we are."

"Well now that I know you're the 'Real McCoy' why have you chosen to reveal your self now and not sooner?" Twilight Questioned.

      "That's an easy one, getting your sprit intertwined with another is very disorienting, in fact I had to do some catching up by going through Nyx's memories up till the Cult got ahold of her. Even so I chose to keep to myself for Nyx's sake, I saw no reason to remove her in place of myself. By the way both of you, that Blessing you dealt with before was not something I came up with, well 'this me' anyway,"

"Right, so Luna didn't remove you last night why?,"

      "So your the little snitch that sent her at me!" Twilight flinched, "Don't get me wrong I'm more then a little pissed about that," Moon yelled, but she calmed, "But at the same time it was to be expected,  I used a spell to subdue her, then after showing her some trinkets she just left. I'm sorry for blasting you last night the less who know of me the better right now."

"Alright, so anything else I should know?," Twilight said not acknowledging the apology.

     "Just one thing, the blessing does have one thing you might find a little... disconcerting at first, to put it simply each blessing has a minor consciousness, it purpose is to protect you from mental attacks like say the Changelings mind control or worse come to worse Nyx or myself become the Mare your familiar with, also they will, well, 'mold' themselves to you so in a sense you might end up talking to yourself, literally," as if on cue a form appears next to Twilight that has teal slit eyes, black coat, no cutie mark or other features.

     "Um hello?" Twilight asks confussed, "Hello Twilight," it says back in a monotone voice.

      "So you are? I mean what should I call you?" it thought for a moment "I don't know, that's up to you, but I suppose Star would do,"

      "Star huh, you are this consciousness she spoke of?", it nods "Ok Star, I take it you got that from ether my cutie mark or my love of star gazing,"

      "You could say that, don't worry fore I shall not interfere in your life in anyway unless you permit it. As Mrs. Moon just stated I will most likely not look like this next time you see me, most likely I'll be a unicorn similar to yourself with a few differences like my voice. Also I may have a similar mark to yours, what exactly is unclear." Twilight nods and the presumed 'spirit' vanishes visually into her, she sighs "Well that's going to need getting used to, huh ok Nyx lets get you ready for school, I'm gonna go do some research on this and probably go see if Pinkie or AJ has any cider left," Nyx turns her head having started for he room, "Careful mom you don't ever drink, sept that cheep cider at Hearths Warming,"

"I know honey sorry I, I just need to relax a bit," Twilight states sadness written on her face.

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       As Nyx went off to school Twilight Decided to test her new "Mental companion". She called on "It" "Star you there?" It appeared,

      "Yes Twilight?" it's voice at changed to that a female "I see your adjusting quickly. I like that, but take your time if you must. Now I wanted to ask you a few questions, if that's ok?" The pony nods "I will answer as much as I can Miss Sparkle, but first off it's worth saying we are like....Children in the sense that we learn from you as you learn and experience things." Twilight nods and continues.

     She sat on the couch with star across from her, she picked up a clipboard and asked "So Star What do you consider yourself? Are you a Spirit? a separate consciousness?" Star thought a bit "I am... a conscious being, but I have no true body, a ghost then for lake of better words." Twilight takes notes "Ok and if I may ask, What do you think of Nightmare Moon, do even know who she is?" Star nods "I, that is to say 'We' as whole think..."

    "Wait you just said 'as a whole' why?"

    "Because Miss Sparkle I am just one of many blessing consciousness', we are all the same being, technically. The blessing at first has no life in it, however as it matures we come to exist, in short while the Blessing is 'alive' it uses us to reach out and see the world, not that it doesn't though you of course but...It's complicated." Twilight Look almost terrified "Relax Miss Sparkle, The blessing itself is symbiotic and not harmful what so ever, we simply exist as a by product. You see as the blessing evolves as Nyx will tell you some of them fought back but, Nightmare Moon and Nyx are our masters and can control us, but not if we don't want them to. Do we see them as mothers? I guess you could put it that way." Again Twilight writes this down. "So do you Seek one another," Star looked confused "You know mating?" Star almost looks horrified, then blushed "No" she says quickly, "No need for such things you see."

      Twilight now goes for more cosmetic questions "So how do you change your appearance, and why do you model your selves after your hosts?" Star says the living feel more comfortable talking to themselves or rather there own species then a just a voice, "That's creepy, just my option, Right well you answered the why, not the how."

     "Think of changeling magic, its built into are form, we can shift into any form we please if we wanted to, still we model after are hosts so they are more comfortable with us."

   Many more notes later and Twilight decides to test some theory's "You said you are like Children? Does that mean you only know what your host knows?" Star nods and adds "We can exchange information as we wish, so for example I could tell you that your brother is talking to some of the guards in Canterlot right now." curiosity peaked Twilight asks a question in thought "You want to know how many bullets J.J keeps in his coat? A odd request and the answers is "I don't know I can't see into his protected pockets. We are not omni point Twilight, we only know what we are shared, say you had sex with someone, do you really want all of us to know that?" Blushing, Twilight nods continuing to write notes.

     "Ok so if I understand this right you can do, basically what your host can right? how about we try some magic, my trick list should do," Twenty minutes pass as Star preforms each trick flawlessly, "Impressive, you model your skill after me as well?" he shakes his head "For the sake of protecting you, we share are combined knowledge of magic among other things, I could tell you how to take apart and put back together a firearm blindfolded which you had no experience with other then seeing it for instance." Twilight says she'd test that later.

    "Since I plan on getting a drink at Sugercube Corner, maybe I'll test you on the way sound good?" Star smirks with a "Bring it on." before that though Twilight tried a few more tests "Ok I'm going to ask you for a book and you have to find it, sound fun?"

     "Ask away mistress," Twilight flinches, finding it uncomfortable to be called as a mistress, then thinks of a book "Find me.... the first volume of Celestia famous speeches, uncensored version." Star walks over to the nonfiction section, looks under C and slides his hoof along the shelf "Here it is," he floats the book in front of Twilight who nods Approvingly, "Alright find me... the list of the arcane elements latest version," Star finds it with ease to the point he sits back down and just pulls it out of the shelf with her magic. four books later Twilight is satisfied and Star actually looks a little board "So you do have feeling and emotions." Star frowns "That hurts miss Sparkle, still you could have asked."

     "Action speaks louder then words as they say." Twilight said, Star nods in agreement. "Just so I know you are a girl right?" Star pauses a moment then Twilight sees her body shift a little bones and organs clearly moving into and out of place "That looks painful," seconds later Star start to look like a more defined pony and smiles "It's not, it comes natural to us, I could turn into that drake of yours if you like, or..." she grins mischievously "The Stallion of your dreams?" Twilight swore if she could change color she would be red "Why I oughta....Ya know what I'll let that slid nice to visualize what I'm looking for in life right?" Star nods in agreement. Twilight then tells her to disappear and she would head out for town.

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     Twilight grabbed her saddle bag and leaves the library, she decides to take the scenic route, Ponyville was the quite little town she had rolled into a few years ago, even so she greeted a few ponies she passed on the way. "You can hear me right?" she asks Star testing her mental thought, "Hard not to given I'm in your head," Twilight then tests Stars knowledge, she thinks of her friends and asks if Star can name them "Miss Sparkle were not stupid, we know some things by heart even if you don't want us to. Still Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, you also had or still have Minuette, Lemon Hearts, Twinkleshine, Moon Dancer and Lyra Heartstrings if I recall for friends" Twilight was stunned, "Very good my faithful student." she paused "Wow I sound like Celestia." She then made a turn and spotted the school in the distance "Who teaches there and how many children are in it? Oh you can show yourself now since where alone."

     Star appeared and had copied Twilight's coat and having pink hair manifests and says "A Miss Cheerilee and give or take 20 or so students." Twilight then points in the direction of Nightstone castle and asks "Do you know....Which cell I stayed in?" Star says the very last cell, then is asked how many windows the thrown room has "8, maybe more. We don't know everything, why would we archive something like that?"

     "Archive?" Twilight asks puzzled by the choice of words.

    "Lets just say we live in are own little world Twilight, keeps us sane ya know, the inside of ones mind is rather, 'dull' after a while."

     Twilight finds this new revelation to be absolutely fascinating, "Well let's go to Sugercube Corner, you will have to tell me about this world some time." Twilight walks though town with Star at her side and took in the tranquility of the little town, ponies going about the day, chatting each other up, foals running though the streets playing various games, others chatting about whatever kids talked about, and others reading books, reminding her of her own youth "Not the social type are you?" Twilight shakes her head "Only since I came to Ponyville. Books where my friends, I had my family but that was about it."

     Star then states a tried and true set of words "Not everything can be learned from Books Twilight, trust me we of all ponies would know that all to well, are world slowly builds itself and we draw from our hosts, in some ways we are smarter then even Celestia, that says a lot, but like ponies if we don't know something we will learn from are own experience, like say a river, build a bridge but if we don't know that we would try logical methods to get around it." Star goes on and on about how they gather information and put it to use.

     Twilight walks into an ally to have Star disappear only to get jumped by with a knife, "Hand over your bits sweetheart, capsh?" Star just looks at him "Go fuck yourself and your mother," she swats the knife aside, imbedding it in the wall and jabs her horn into the guys throat, he coughs and clutches his neck, "Stop you'll kill him!" Twilight says pulling Star back "He'll be fine, just a flesh wound. I probably didn't hit his vocal cords, probably. Are you ok Miss Sparkle?" Twilight looks at the thug, he wasn't going anywhere, she leans out of the ally and calls for a policemen, a militia guard comes over and Twilight gives him the sum of situation, "Thank you Mam, He'll be taken care of, have a nice day," he drags the poor stallion off still dripping blood.

    Star disappears and apologizes for her actions "Well now let's go get that drink shall we?" Twilight heads off to Surgercube Corner in even more of drink then ever.

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