Author's Notes:

Well here it the third chapter an I hope you enjoy it. This chapter is mostly backstory and such so not much for the main plot.

Also here is what Gregar normally looks like when he is beasted out

One more little note I had, this chapter was going to be around 5000-7000 more words, but my editor said to put the rest of this chapter in the next one, so chapter 4 is already underway.

All rights belong to their respective owners, the only thing I own is the story. Until next time.

It has been one week since the changeling attack on Canterlot, and Celestia was having a hard time. After Chrysalis surrendered and agreed to a treaty between Changelings and Ponies, some of the nobles were demanding the changelings be put into the dungeons instead of community service. Celestia had had enough of them and said day court would not resume until she deemed they are more calm and collected with their thoughts. Now she is standing in front of her personal study room in the castle.

“I swear, one of these days those nobles will drive me to drinking.” She says to herself as she remembers all of the comments said about her decision.

“Well I would expect that comment from Nightmare not you dear sister.” Celestia looks to her right and sees Luna walking up towards her. She is wearing Jeans and a dark blue long sleeve shirt, while Celestia is wearing one of her dresses that fits her form well.

Celestia smiles slightly “That may be true, but they are so demanding during the recent century.” Celestia then scowls “Especially Blueblood, I swear all he thinks about is his own damn self than the good of Equestria.”

Luna giggles softly “My my, the calm Celestia showing a bit of emotion this must be trying times indeed.”

Celestia then faces Luna with a worried look “You should know why.”

Luna returns the same look. “I know, but is it wise to leave Nightmare in the blind like this. I mean she knows him the best, Gregar was the one who was able to get her out of her shell. Not me, not you, him.”

Celestia sighs heavily “I know, I mean he is held dear to her heart. Now time to get this on with, they aren’t getting any younger.”

“Agreed.” Then Celestia opens the doors and sees Twilight and her friends along with Cadence, Shining Armor and Chrysalis sitting around the room, While Rainbow Dash and Chrysalis are glaring at each other. Celestia and Luna walk inside and shut the doors behind them and sit in some chairs in the room. Celestia lightly coughs into her fist to grab their attention, Rainbow Dash and Chrysalis are the last ones to look at her.

“Now before I begin the story I promised you, any questions?” Celestia looks around and see none speak up until….

“Yeah, why is SHE here?” Rainbow Dash asks while pointing towards Chrysalis.

Celestia brings two fingers to her head and massages her forehead “Rainbow Dash if you have forgotten, I invited her here. She has just as much reason to be here as you do.”

Before Rainbow Dash can say anything more Twilight shushes her. Rainbow Dash grumbles to herself but complies.

Seeing no other interruptions coming Celestia begins. “Well as you all know, the being that was seen at the wedding is called Gregar. Now Gregar has been around for three thousand years now.” Celestia pauses as she looks at the shocked expressions with mild amusement. “Gregar is an interesting being so to speak. He is both metal, or cybernetic being as he says, and flesh and blood.”

Twilight raises her hand “Um, Princess how can that be possible? I mean how can one be both Flesh and metal?”

“I asked the very same question and he replied with that it would be too hard for us, ponies in general, to understand.”

“I see.” Twilight says, slightly downcast at the lack of information. While everyone else, save Luna, is still confused.

“I can however say he has three different forms.” This piques Twilights and everyone else's interest. “The form you saw him in is known as his “Beast Out” form. While his other forms are known as his true form and human form. I have personally never seen his true form but he has told me that nothing can stop him if he goes into that form. He rarely is in his Human form so to speak, saying for precautions that he stays beasted out. I can’t say if that is the complete truth on the matter but I would rather leave it be for now. Now his beast out form is highly dangerous, as you have no doubt seen already.” She then gets nods in agreement. “While in this form his speed, strength, and stamina are all increased beyond measure. He also has a unique form of weapons that only ones like him can use called Battle Chips. They range from swords all the way to ranged weapons. He can even combine some of them to make more powerful versions of them as he calls Program Advances. I have se-” The door to the study is then opened and in walks the one pony she was hoping to not talk to yet, Nightmare Moon.

“Good afternoon everypony.” She is wearing a purple pullover while wearing black jeans. She walks in and sits down on a chair across from Celestia. “Sorry I’m late, had a little trouble leaving the Griffon Empire. So what were you discussing?”

Celestia is hesitant in saying so and shares a look with Luna, and they are both worried.

“Is what you were discussing something private?” She asks as she feels uncomfortable with the silence hanging in the air.

Then Pinkie is the one who breaks it. “We were just discussing about how Gregar saved all of us from the Changeling invasion and-”

Pinkie is cut off when Nightmare narrows her eyes at Pinkie.

“How do you know that name?”

Pinkie, unfazed, continues “ Was all like bam, pow, wacha,” emphasizing this with various motions. “I mean I never se-”

Nightmares eye then become slitted “Pinkie, what are you really discussing?” she hisses.

“Celestia was going to explain about him.” As soon as she finished saying that the temperature in the room dropped by twenty degrees. Very slowly Nightmare gets up and walks over to Celestia. NIghtmare is looking at the ground when she stops in front of her.

“When were you going to tell me this?” Nightmare asked Celestia with slight venom in her voice.

Celestia gulps and shakily begins “W-Well sometime after you got back from the empire.”

Nightmare then brings her head up and looks Celestia in the eyes. Celestia can notice the cold and sad look in Nightmare’s eyes.

“You should know better than anypony that he, Gregar, holds something of mine that I thought I lost fifteen hundred years ago. My Love.”

Nightmares eyes then glow white as she grits her teeth and grabs ahold of Celestia and yells at her in the Royal Canterlot Voice. “AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO WITHHOLD THIS FROM ME?!?! I thought I was your sister.” Nightmare then begins to calm down as her eyes are starting to water “I thought you would know better than this.” Nightmare then falls to her knees while still holding onto Celestia. Celestia then gets off her chair and embraces Nightmare.

“I know I shouldn’t have withheld this from you, but I didn’t want you chasing after him.”

“Why?”

“Because his memories are not all there. He started to remember you and I could tell it was hurting his mind trying to figure out why.” Celestia eyes begin to water as she hears Nightmare crying softly into her shoulder. “I am sorry for not telling you.”

After a few minutes Nightmare finally lets go of Celestia and walks back to her chair.
“Sorry about that everypony, I tend to get a little emotional when his name is said.” Nightmare says with a sheepish smile while rubbing the back of her head.

“Um, I know this is most likely on some of the others mind but I want to be one to ask it first.” Chrysalis then let out a big sigh. “But did you say Love? Are you telling me that you are in love with him?”

Nightmare Moon nodded “You heard that correctly.”

“What?” Chrysalis said with a straight face.

Nightmare then rubbed her head. “Celestia, how much did you tell them about Gregar?”

“Just about his weapons and his forms.” Celestia replied.

“Good, because I will be the one to explain more about him.”

Twilight then interrupted “If it is not too much trouble Princess Nightmare Moon, could you also explain what happened that got you trapped on the moon.” As soon as Twilight finished saying that, she got mixed stares thrown at her. Her friends were giving her shocked stares, well except Pinkie who had a smile on her face. Cadance and Shining Armour paled, well as pale as Shining could get anyway. Luna gave her a glare while Chrysalis gave an intrigued look. Celestia just gave her a sad look. Nightmare only gave an eyebrow rise. Twilight then slowly wilted under all the stares. But before Twilight could say anything Nightmare spoke.

“I guess you deserve some insight of what happened, but that will come after I have explained more about Gregar, well more insight on who he is actually. Sound fair?”

Twilight slowly nodded, but she still felt Lunas glare.

Nightmare glared at Luna “Luna quit it, she only asked. I am the one to cause us both that problem.” Nightmare then sighed. “Well let's start this crazy ride.”

Nightmare took a moment before she began. “Alright, now his forms are difficult to understand for one main reason. The metal that his beast out form is not natural. It is a type of cybernetic forming metal.”

Twilight raises her hand “Um how do you know about it if he said it is too hard for us to comprehend?”

Nightmare then smacked her forehead “Damn it, I forgot about that.” She then dragged her hand down her face and let go. “Alright let's start at the beginning then, the very beginning. Now he originally is not of Equis he comes from a place called Earth. He arrived here after going to a convention.”

“What's a convention?” Twilight interrupted. Nightmare just gave her a deadpan stare.

“It’s a place where people go to have fun and meet others. That is all I am saying for now, so be quiet and listen. Now he went as Gregar a being from, if I remember a video game they were called, a Megaman Battle Network game. He then met a merchant who was selling a better version of the gauntlets he was wearing. Once he bought them he got transported here, and things got really bad, horrible even. Twilight go ahead and ask your question.”

“Well, how do you know this stuff?”

“In time you will know.” Then Nightmare gets worried and slightly starts shaking. “Well when he arrived here he was clueless and started to get scared. Yes you heard me correctly. Not even ten minutes later some griffons captured him and told him they will lead him somewhere safe.” Nightmare then starts shaking with more force and her eyes are watering. “It wasn’t like that at all. You see when he arrived at where they were taking him, his fate back then was sealed. He spent the next one hundred years as a slave and treated as nothing more than a caged animal.” All except Luna and Celestia gave out shocked gasps, while Pinkie lost her smile and her mane became straight. “He was forced to kill against his will,” Nightmare grips the arms of her chair “The bastard king, RazorBeak, wanted to break and mold him into the perfect Killing Machine. For fifteen years Gregar disobeyed the king and tried his hardest to escape that hell. But yet he never could escape, he eventually gave into it and he became lost in his own mind. While all this happened his main thought on his mind was waiting for the right time to escape and kill the king.”

Twilight raises her hand to interrupt, albeit with a pale face. Nightmare nods for her to ask her question. “What exactly happened to him?”

Nightmare then freely lets tears fall as she replies “Every form of torture was done to him. He died so many times that not even he could count. The only thing that he was saved from was becoming a sex slave, because as the king had said he wanted Gregar to become a killing machine not something who would give into desires of a sex slave.”

Chrysalis then raises her hand as well, Nightmare nods while wiping tears away. “Wait, died? How exactly can he die?”

“He is immortal. He can die but not permanently, he will always come back to life. From what I can remember there is only one thing that can truly kill him. I don’t remember what it was called, but he has told me that he can use it and his power becomes strong enough to take on gods.”

Twilight then goes wide eyed “You mean he can easily take on you three and win with that power?” she says while pointing to Luna, Celestia, and Nightmare Moon.

Nightmare smirks though her eyes are still watered “Even without that power he could still beat the three of us and win.” All eyes look upon the three sisters in disbelief. Celestia rolls her eyes and nods.

“So he beat me without any trouble is what you are saying. Just how strong is he?” Chrysalis says.

“If he truly wanted to end the fight, he most likely would have gone for you first. I think he wanted you to realize that going through with this endeavor would’ve ended in disaster. Now lets get back on track shall we? Eventually there was a war between the ponies and griffons, and the king decided that was the perfect time to test Gregar's abilities. Gregar fought, although reluctantly, and all because of him the griffons were gaining ground fast. Then the king got mortally wounded in the fifth year of the war, Gregar was near when that happened so he swept in and took the power that the king held close and finished off Razorbeak himself. After that Gregar left and the tide of the war quickly changed in favor of the ponies. When he did leave it seemed as if he just up and vanished without a trace. The griffons decided to isolate themselves until a new king would be inducted mainly to create better relations between the griffons and ponies. One year after the war Gregar finally made his appearance known, he saved our father, Solaris, from becoming food for dragons. Our father thought that was going to be his end, but Gregar decided to spare him and help him. Gregar said he spared him because he saw the determination in his eyes to see his family again. When Gergar made it back to the castle with him we were in shock.”

Celestia raises her hand as she and Nightmare share a silent conversation, Nightmare nods. “I will give a little insight on this. When this happened Luna was only 10 years old at the time. I saw Gregar and, well I was more or less shaking in fear of him. I was wary of what he would do to us all, especially Luna. As Gregar was going to leave our father decided to do something that surprised us all, he asked him if he would like to stay here. We were all shocked in hearing this considering Gregar's past, but our father said there could be some good in him if we treat him as a friend. Then Luna decided to go up to him and asked if he wanted to play some games with her. At first I was about ready to go and attack him until I heard his response, he said yes. Luna was overjoyed and dragged him off to play. I was in pure disbelief while my father was chuckling to himself.”

Twilight then raises her hand and Celestia nods to her. “Um where is Princess Nightmare Moon in all this, I mean we heard slightly about you and Luna but what about her.” She said while pointing to said alicorn.

Nightmare chuckles a little before speaking “Well I will take over yet again Celestia.” Celestia nods and Nightmare sighs. “You see I was a LOT different back then than I was now. I was more like Fluttershy you see.” Nightmare pauses a little to see all the looks she was given. They all give her looks of disbelief. She laughs at this “I know, hard to believe considering how I act now. Well you see I would barely leave my room because I was afraid of the outside world. But when night had fallen I would travel amongst the dreamscape and help with any nightmares ponies had back then. I had much more confidence in myself during my travels in the dreamscape. But that all changed when I felt Gregar's presence in the dreamscape. For one whole month I tried to find out what was causing him so much pain. Now before I continue I would like to point out that the way I would help ponies with their dreams is I would take upon their fears and pain as my own to have a better idea of how to help them. Now when I finally cracked the shell around his mind, suffice to say I was horrified. Now I already explained what happened to him so I don’t need to say much more. But when I found out about it and still couldn’t find out a way to help him after three hours I did the one thing I thought I would never do, l left my room to personally help him.”

Nightmare was horrified with what she learned, this Gregar had gone through so much horror and yet he was still sane. She still remembers his cries of pain and anguish as he is torn limb from limb and eaten whole. Just thinking about it brought her close to throwing up. She then got up and walked to her door, but then stopped.

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‘Should I really do this, I mean I bare- NO I need to help him. I don’t want anypony or anyone to suffer like this.’ Nightmare then nodded to herself and opened her door. She cautiously stepped outside and silently closed her door. She looked to her left and right and saw no one coming, she casted an invisibility spell on herself. As the dark blue glow faded there was nothing in the hallways. She silently made her way to Gregar's door. When she made it she lifted her hand to the knob then stopped.

‘What do I say to him, I mean I don’t know how to interact well with my own family. And I am going into his room. all. by. myself.’ She then blushes to herself. ‘Wait, what do I do, WHAT DO I DO!’ As she silently debates with herself a small part of herself starts to tell her to go in and help him. She remembers that no matter who it is, none should suffer from being alone.

She looks up and steels herself ‘Now or never, time to get this done.’

She opens the door and then shuts the door behind her. She looks upon Gregar silently sleeping in bed as if nothing is wrong. His body is not even moving but as she steps closer she can clearly feel his distress. She stops right over him and ends the invisibility spell. Nightmare looks over him and notices how he looks, the bladed claws that can kill with a single swipe. The moon then shines in his room and better Illuminates it. She sees him sleeping on a simple bed with a drawer on the right side of it. As she is about to touch him to wake him up, he gets up himself. He grabs her by the throat and pins her to the wall with his blades dangerously close to her throat. Gregar is breathing heavily as he notices who he has pinned. He looks in her eyes and notices the clearly evident fear in them. He lets her go as she drops to the floor. She looks up at him as he walks back to the bed and sits down.

“What are you doing here?” Gregar asks Nightmare, she jumps a little at hearing his voice. His voice, holds a hidden danger to it.

“I-I wanted to talk to y-you.” Nightmare answers while her fear is still there.

“You want to talk to me?” Nightmare nods. “Why?”

Nightmare then stands up and rubs her arm. “W-Well to s-see how I-I could help you with the horrors that haunt your dreams.” As she finishes that statement she feels the piercing glare of Gregar upon herself. Like a predator that has set its sight upon its prey.

“Why did you think it was a good idea to go through my mind and look upon what happened to me?” Gregar says while growling slightly, his eyes then take upon a yellow, ungodly like glow.

Nightmare is then shaking and stuttering as she answers “W-W-When I f-felt y-your presence in the d-dreamscape I-I wanted t-to find what was bothering y-you. Because I am the princess of d-d-dreams I can walk amongst the dreams and I can also heal others of the nightmares by taking upon the pain of others as if their pain was my own. S-So when I felt your pain and suffering I wanted to do everything in my power to help.”

Gregars then chuckles, but it sounds hollow “Help? Help me? That is pretty bold to say for someone who has been through so much. Why do you think I deserve the help?”

Nightmare then gets bold and walks over to Gregar and stands in front of him. “Because no one should go through this type of pain and deal with it alone. Even if you don’t want the help I will do so regardless.” She then kneels and grabs ahold of one of his hands, he is slightly surprised that she would do something like this. “I want to be there for you, to be a friend in your time of need.” Tears are threatening to flow out of her eyes as she continues “What you went through was something not many can simply overcome. The fact that you have is something that I wish I had, the hope that I can see the light of day after going through the deepest pits of tartarus.”

She stops as she feels his hands move and hold onto hers. She looks up and notices he is looking down, but she sees something she thought she would never see from him: tears. She sees him shaking slightly as tears are flowing from his eyes.

“Why? I don’t des-”

“NO, don’t say that. You DO deserve the help. Even if no one will do so, I will be there to help you. Even if I am treated as an outcast because of it I will help you. I don’t want to see someone who was wrongfully taken and forced against their will to do something they didn’t want to do.”

Gregar then looks up and stares into Nightmares eyes and he sees not only tears but fierce determination in them. He returns her kindness with a warm smile, as best as he could anyway. As Nightmare looks into his eyes she sees thanks in them. She smiles at him and then lets go of his hands and embraces him. He is surprised at this and freezes at first. Then he feels the warmth that she gives off from being in contact with him and he embraces her back. After a few minutes Nightmare realizes what she is doing as her eyes shoot open and her whole face becomes red.

‘What am I doing?’ She then feels the warmth he is giving off even through the armour. Her eyes are then starting to get heavy as one thought remains in her head. ‘This strangely feels nice.’ She then smiles softly and falls asleep.

Twilight then raises her hand and Nightmare nods. “You are telling me you fell asleep in his arms?!”

Nightmares cheeks then turn red as she rubs the back of her head. “Yeah I did.” She then chuckles as she remembers the following morning was interesting. “But I will say this, when my mother went to wake me up for breakfast, well she found out I wasn’t there at all. She at first feared I had somehow ran off. Shortly afterwards the whole castle was on alert trying to find me. My father then decided to check in on Gregar to see if he had found me. As soon as the door was opened, my father got the shock of his life. There I was sleeping peacefully in Gregars bed as he was sitting in a chair silently watching over me, making sure no harm would come to me during the night.”

Cadence then decided to raise her hand, NIghtmare raises an eyebrow but nods anyway. “What kind of relationship did you have with Gregar if you don’t mind me asking.”

Nightmare then smiles softly as a lone tear falls down her cheek. Cadence was about to say something until Nightmare beat her to it. “It is fine, just remembering some happier times. But before I answer that,” She turns toward Celestia. “Celestia do you still have the two items?”

Celestia eyes slightly widen before she gives a smile and nods. Celestia holds out her hand and her horn lights up. A flash goes off in the room and Celestia holds a small black box in her hand. She tosses it to Nightmare who looks inside the box. She sighs and then closes it and gets up and walks over to Cadence and gives it to her.

“I think it would be better if this answers the question.” Cadence hesitantly takes and slowly opens it. As she looks upon the contents of the box she covers her mouth and her eyes widen at the sight. She then looks up at Nightmare who smiles at her and nods. Shining Armor and Chrysalis then decide to look upon the box. Shinings jaw drops as he looks back at Nightmare and Chrysalis’s eyes widen.

“Well, aren’t you going to say something?”

Cadence then drops her hands as she basically shouts. “You’re married to him?!?!”

Nightmare chuckles a little and nods. “Yeah, shocker isn’t it.” Nightmare then holds out her hand to take the box back. “I wonder if it still fits.” She then takes one of the rings out of the box and puts it on. It slides in right on finger and she looks upon it in a tearful remembrance. She is then thrust back to reality when Rarity grabs ahold of her hand and marvels upon the ring.

“My word this ring is beautiful beyond comprehension. It’s like he trapped the colors of the rainbow in the gems.” Rarity is still fawning over the ring with its unique features as her friends and Shining Armor give her a deadpan stare. Cadence and Chrysalis try to hold back laughter at this while Celestia gives a smile. Luna couldn’t hold it any longer and laughed out loud gaining Rarity’s attention. Her face then becomes red in embarrassment as she looks at Nightmare. NIghtmare just raises an eyebrow with an amused smile.

“Eheh, whoops my bad.” Rarity rubs the back of her head and goes to sit back down.

Nightmare chuckles a little at this, “Well that was something to learn.” She then goes back to her seat, still wearing her ring.

Chrysalis then speaks up “Well now that we know this, how long have you been married anyway?”

Nightmare then raises her hand to her chin “If you don’t count the fifteen hundred years that he spent asleep and myself on the moon, seven years.”

Cadence then asks “So did you two ever have sex?”

All attention then goes right to Cadence as she keeps a straight face, yet her eyes show a honest curiosity. Nightmare slightly blushes as she shakes her head no.

“You mean you are still-”

“A virgin, yes.” Nightmare finishes for Cadence.

“I thought you two would have done something like that with how long you’ve known each other.”

“No we didn’t and if I am being honest I will say I don’t mind it at all anyway. Though partially I wish we did at some point.” Nightmare then shakes her head of some thoughts that entered her mind. “Anyway after my father and Gregar talked about what happened he was relieved in the end but shocked that I would do something like that. As time went on I quickly adopted the way Gregar spoke and gained confidence in myself. After Luna was around one hundred years old my father asked something of Gregar, to help train myself, her and Celestia.”

Twilight raised her hand. “Train you, why?”

“Well back then it wasn’t as peaceful as it is now. And after some persuasion from my father Gregar reluctantly agreed, but made no promises that we wouldn’t get hurt.” Nightmare then chuckles to herself and Celestia knows why, as she looks away in embarrassment.

Cadence notices this “Um Aunty Celestia is there something that happened?”

Celestia nods and looks at NIghtmare who just gives her a cheeky smile. She looks at Luna who just smirks at her.

Celestia sighs “Yes something happened. After one month of training, well it was brutal. I could barely stand it anymore and I yelled at him saying this was pointless. He replied with how so. I said to him that we are more than strong enough to take on any threat that happens upon Equestria. He then challenged me to a fight saying if I could beat him then I no longer needed to be trained. Well I accepted thinking I could easily beat him. Suffice to say I had a bit of Rainbow Dash’s personality back then. Well I went after him with everything I had and it did nothing at all. I got angry at him because he was critiquing the way I fought as we were fighting. As I thought I had the upper hand in the fight he quickly ended it in one strike. He barely even tried to fight me, as if it were a game. When I heard that I snapped and used all my magic for one strike. When that happened the ground around me turned to glass and I launched a concentrated beam of pure sunlight at him. When I gained control of myself I honestly thought I had killed him. Nightmare and Luna looked at me in horror at what I did.. Then I heard crunching of glass coming towards me and out of the smoke trail that was left behind came Gregar lightly scorched and scratched but other than that completely fine. I stared in pure disbelief at this, he took a blast of pure sunlight to the face and walked out just fine. He then told me that he has some magic resistance since he had no magic himself. I asked him how he even survived and he told me that I was a lot weaker than I thought. I was angry then I realized who I was talking to. I sighed and continued on the with the torture that was his training.” Celestia finished and saw the looks she got from her sisters. She rolled her eyes then looked at everyone else and saw they all had different looks.

Twilight look in disbelief at what she heard while her friends just had wide eyes, and Pinkie’s jaw dropped. Celestia chuckled a little at this and then motioned for Nightmare to pick up where she left off.

“Well I think it is time to move onward with my portion of the story. You see after we had the training from Gregar we all could easily take on an Ursa Minor, but it took all three of us to even take on an Ursa Major. The training not only increased our strength it also increased our magic and our stamina. Our magic was more potent and we could last longer in battle as well.”

Chrysalis then raises her hand, Nightmare nods. “So if that was the case then how did I beat you, Celestia?”

Many eyebrows were raised while Nightmare just gave Celestia a deadpan stare. “Yeah, how DID you lose?” Nightmare asked.

Celestia then looks down at the floor thinking it is the most interesting thing in here. She then finally replied “When both Luna and Nightmare got sent to the moon I couldn't continue training because it brought back bad memories. Then when they came back I didn’t want to train again because it didn’t feel right without Gregar.”

Chrysalis then raised an eyebrow and said “So I beat you because you were out of practice basically?” Celestia hesitantly nods while Chrysalis facepalms.

Nightmare still keeps her deadpan look “You know the first thing Gregar will do once he learns of this is put you back on training so you can lose all that cake weight, right?”

Celestia then goes red in the face with anger “I did NOT gain any cake weight.” She then huffs in annoyance and looks away from Nightmare “It is my comfort food ok.” She crosses her arms under her chest and huffs in annoyance again.

“You just proved my point.” Nightmare then shakes her head with a smile. “Anyway back on track. After that a lot of things happened that wouldn’t do much than just add to this drawing on. I will say this though after one thousand years I finally mustered the courage to ask Gregar to go out with me. Because as my sisters pointed out whenever a chance would rise they would tease me about how I liked him and such. So I finally did and well I was overjoyed that he did say yes. Then some four hundred years later he asked for my hand in marriage, I was shocked beyond belief that he was the one to ask me. I was in tears and of course said yes.” Nightmare had a smile on her face and then a look of pure sadness adorned it. “Then seven years later, My life became hell. An enemy of ours did something to us, mostly myself that I could never forgive.” Nightmare then tears up as she remembers fluently what happened back then. “Because of this it lead to myself and Luna ending up on the moon.”

Nightmare Moon, Luna, Celestia, and Gregar are standing on one side of a snowy battlefield while on the other side is Sombra (A/N she doesn’t say Sombra specifically when explaining this, because spoilers.) glaring at them as he snarls in defiance.

“You all will bow before the true king of Equestria, for none is better to rule than I.” He smirks as he raises his sword and points it at the four.

Gregar deadpans “Really, you think you can beat the four of us and win?” He facepalms “I heard of stupid before, but this is a whole new level of stupid.”

Sombras smirk remains “Joke all you want, but I only need to defeat one of you for you all to crumble.”

They all get ready to fight “Bring it on then smoky.”

The fight that happened was short, and as expected the sisters and Gregar won.

“Really, you resisted and yet you knew this would happen in the end, why?”

“Because I needed to do this!” Sombra then turns into darkness and launches himself at Gregar and surrounds him. Shortly afterward Gregar is looking at the ground on his knees. Nightmare Moon kicks Sombra away as soon as he materializes and prepares to seal him away.

Sombra laughs “Seal me away, but it won’t stop what will come next. Besides, seal me away and the empire comes with.” He then disappears and the empire slowly fades as well.

Celestia sighs “I wish this could have been avoided, but how could we have known he would do this. If only if we knew what Sombra had done sooner.”

Nightmare then walks over to Gregar to check on him. “Gregar, are you alright?”

Gregar says nothing as his breathing becomes heavy.

Nightmare becomes worried “Gregar please tell me what’s wrong.”

“Run now.”

Nightmare’s eyes widen “What? No I won’t!” She then kneels in front of him “What is going on, please tell me what is wrong!"
Celestia and Luna overhear this and as they walk closer they feel something very wrong with Gregar.

“Nightmare get away from him now!” Luna shouts at Nightmare.

Nightmare turns her head and is about to say something before she hears deep growling coming from Gregar. When she turns around she sees Gregar looking at her and his irises are no longer yellow, but blood red. Soon a dark aura surrounds him and his armor turns black. Nightmare lets go and is about to teleport when he grabs ahold of her and punches her in the gut and slams her into the ground repeatedly. He then tosses her away and Luna quickly goes to catch her. Celestia then prepares to fight Gregar.

Luna catches Nightmare and begins healing her with her magic. “Nightmare what were you thinking? You should have listened to us and got away quickly!”

“Something happened to him, I just need to find out what.” she weakly replies.

“I know something has happened with him, but we need to find a way to stop him first.”

Celestia is having a hard time trying to even put up a defense against Gregar. Every time she goes to block he feints and strikes elsewhere. Like a cat playing with it’s prey. Minutes go by as she is waiting for Luna to heal Nightmare that she has acquired a fair amount of injuries herself. Her right arm is bruised and bleeding while her left arm is broken. She is on one knee while holding her arm, waiting for Gregar to make his move. Then Nightmare and Luna come up and push him back with a magic blast.

“We need to use the elements on him, Nightmare do you think you can restrain him?” Celestia asked while being helped up.

Nightmare’s eyes widen. “WHAT?! NO I WON'T DO THAT!”

“Nightmare you have to!”

“No, I will not restrain him like so long ago! I can’t do that to him!”

“But-”

“I WON’T!”

Luna then has enough “THEN WHAT BETTER IDEA DO YOU HAVE NIGHTMARE! I KNOW YOU ARE MARRIED TO HIM, BUT IF WE WANT TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN WE HAVE TO DO THIS! SO STOP ACTING LIKE THIS AND DO IT!!”

Nightmare is wided eyed and grits her teeth as she is about to retort, then she thinks about it. She then bites her lip as tears are threatening to come out of her eyes. Blood is coming from where she bit herself and sighs sadly. “Fine, I’ll do it.” she says with no emotion.

She walks forward as she remembers what had happened to him. Caged and beaten everyday, being treated as nothing more than an animal created for killing anything it sets its eyes on, an unstoppable killer. Nightmare stops and readies her magic as she hears Gregar coming. She looks behind her out of the corner of her eye and sees Celestia and Luna preparing the elements. Tears then start coming from her eyes and Gregar bursts forward and she quickly summons chains made of shadows and halt his progress. Gregar roars in defiance as the chains are already starting to break.

“HURRY, I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I WILL BE ABLE TO HOLD HIM!”

Then out of the corner of her eyes she sees a rainbow beam launch at Gregar as he breaks free from the chains. When the beam hits he screams/roars in pain. After a few seconds the beam disperses and Gregar falls to his knees and lands in the snow and Nightmare rushes forward. As she reaches him he then leans forwards and his face lands in the snow. She crouches down and turns him over to put his head in her lap. His eyes slowly open, but they look like they are fading.

Nightmare smiles as tears are still flowing from her eyes. “Are you alright?”

“With you here I am.” he says weakly, with what assumes to be a cheeky smile.

Nightmare shakes her head “Always with the remarks.” Then her face becomes a worried look “Are you sure you are alright?”

Gregar closes his eyes and slowly opens them again, but the color seems to be fading fast “No, I’m not. When you used the elements on me it stopped the dark chip Sombra inserted into me from taking over any further. It came at a cost though, it kickstarted a reboot sequence. Basically I will enter a very long sleep until the corruption is gone.”

More tears are coming out of Nightmares eyes and she holds back a sob as she hears this “For how long?”

Gregar sighs “I don’t know and most likely my memories will become affected.” He then looks up as he sees the tears fall from her eyes. He brings a hand up to her face and wipes some tears away from her face, NIghtmare holds his hand there with one of her own. “Don’t cry my dear, I am not going to die. I am only going to sleep for a while.”

“It feels like you are dying though...” when shes says this his armor slowly starts turning black again. Gregar winces in pain and clutches his chest. His eyes are fading even further.

“I need to sleep now, otherwise I’m afraid I might kill you.” He looks at her one more time “Please don’t cry anymore, I will see you again one day.” He then closes his eyes and he goes still. His arm falls and Nightmare feels for any warmth from him. She finds no warmth coming from him at all, only cold. She then buries her head into his chest and openly cries for her loss. Luna and Celestia look upon this and shed a few tears themselves.

“We need to seal him away,” Nightmare hears what Celestia says but doesn’t say anything “because I believe if he is woken up before the time is right he might go on an unstoppable rampage.”

“Alright lets go...” Nightmare says as she wipes the tears from her eyes. She picks Gregar up in her magic and soon all three of them teleport back to their castle. The following day they begin working on a room for Gregar to sleep in. Because the room will be barren except for a bed they quickly finish it.

“There all done.” Celestia says as the room is finished. She then turns towards Nightmare and Luna “I know this is hard for me to say but even like this we shouldn’t come down here for anything, it will only bring back the fact of what we have done to him.” Celestia looks down and sheds a lone tear “I hope he will forgive us one day.” Celestia then uses her magic and closes the door to the room. She and Luna walk away while Nightmare lingers and watches as the room is completely sealed off. After a few minutes she turns around and never looks back. Everyone who is in the castle can clearly feel how heavy the loss of Gregar was to the three of them. Celestia engrosses herself in her work to try and get over the fact that he will not come back for a while. Luna is saddened that she lost a good friend, but she will be happy to see him again. Nightmare Moon has it the worst, after a few days she went back to her reclusive self and rarely was seen outside her room or talked with her sisters.

A whole year goes by and Celestia was hoping that Luna and Nightmare would’ve gotten over the fact that Gregar would return one day. But Nightmare has not gotten over the fact at what happened.

She is sitting on her bed, hugging her knees close to her body as she silently recalls what happened. She hates herself for having to something like this to her beloved, and she hates the one who made the decision even more.

‘Celestia is the one who caused all this to happen, she was the one who took him away from me.’ Her eyes then become slitted as she says this. ‘I will make her pay, but how? I don’t kn-’ She is cut off from this as she hears knocking at her door. She stays silent letting it continue.

“Nightmare, I was wondering if I could talk to you about something.” Luna's voice is heard from the other side of the door. Nightmare is about to tell her to go away, then relents. Her eyes go back to normal and she then sits on the edge of the bed facing the door as she uses her magic to open the door. she sees Luna standing with a look of uncertainty on her face.

“What is it?” Nightmare asks, and Luna rubs her arm as she looks upon Nightmare.

“Before I begin, are you alright?”

“Not really, but I think I have been in my room long enough.” Nightmare says with a sad smile, though it is forced.

Luna gives a small smile at that then begins “What I want to talk to you about is that I feel as if my night isn’t as appreciated Celestia’s day. I mean I get why our ponies need to sleep, but it would be nice if they would stay up a little longer. I would ask Celestia, but I don’t know what to say. So would you help me?” Luna looks towards Nightmare with pleading eyes. Nightmare raises a hand to her chin and looks down in thought.

‘Hmm, she is uncertain that her night goes unnoticed. It almost seems that Celestia is the main cause for a lot of things.’ inwardly she gets a malicious grin as a plan comes to fruition ‘Yes I have a perfect idea’. NIghtmare then smiles and looks toward Luna. “Of course I will help you, and I think I know a place where we would find an Idea.”

“Really? Where?” as Luna tilts her head to enunciate her confusion.

“The castle library.” Nightmare simply replies. Luna blushed in embarrassment as she did not think to look there. Nightmare then gets up and leads Luna to the library to begin their search. Hours go by and they both find a book they need.

‘This is perfect, now I only need to figure out how to get Celestia to give into this.’ Nightmare says as she reads the contents of a locked book.

“Nightmare, come over here I found something that might work.” Luna calls out to Nightmare. Nightmare gets up and sees what Luna has found.

“What have you found?”

“I have found out something that would work for both me and Tia. An eclipse, and we can use a spell to have the sun or moon go over them when either of them are in the sky.” Luna then looks up at Nightmare with a smile, which slowly fades “Though I feel lately that Celestia is forcing herself away from us. Like she doesn’t want to spend any time with us at all.” Luna’s eyes get misty and looks down “I’m afraid she might reject this idea or completely ignore me.”

Nightmare then grins as her eyes become slitted and the shadows around them become tendrils and slowly make their way to Luna. Nightmare cups Lunas chin in her hand “Don’t worry Luna, I think she will listen to us. Just let me handle everything.” She then has Luna look up and Luna gasps as she sees the evil look Nightmare has. Luna has a look of fear on her face. Luna tries back away from Nightmare but her grip is too strong. Then she feels something wrap around her waist. NIghtmare lets go of Luna as Luna looks down at herself and she sees she is slowly being pulled into a dark portal beneath her. Luna struggles to get out of the grip but more and more tendrils of darkness grab ahold of her and before she is swallowed she looks at Nightmare one more time.

“Why sister? Why are you doing this?” Luna desperately asks Nightmare Moon.

“Why? Because with your help, whether you were going to help me or not, I will bring Celestia to her knees so she can realize that it was her fault that this happened to Gregar. Don’t worry Luna, just go to sleep.” NIghtmare’s horn then lights up dark blue and a sleeping spell is used on Luna. Luna falls unconscious as she is swallowed into the portal. It then goes over and merges with Nightmares shadow as she feels herself become stronger.

“Now time to get Celestia.” Nightmare then uses her magic and turns into Luna. As she walks the halls she silently goes over what she will say to Celestia for this to work. She stops in front of Celestia’s chambers and adorns Lunas worried look. She then knocks on the the door and she hears Celestia say enter.

Nightmare enters and Celestia looks up and smiles at her then becomes worried at what she sees. “Luna what is wrong, are you alright?” Celestia says as she gets up and walks over to Nightmare.

Nightmare rubs her arm before she begins as her voice is disguised as Luna’s “W-Well lately I have been feeling like my night is not as appreciated as your day.”

Celestia then softly smiles “But your night is appreciated, it is as important as the day I bring.”

‘Bitch’ Nightmares says to herself “T-That may be true, but I don’t feel like that is happening at all. I feel as if I am slowly drifting in the background with our subjects while you are getting all the attention.” Nightmare then forces hers eyes to get watery as she looks at Celestia “With Nightmare becoming like her old self again I feel we are no longer a family. I feel as if you don’t care about me or Nightmare anymore, like you push yourself away from us.”

Celestia eyes widen in shock “Have I really been acting like that Luna?” she asks in worry.

Nightmare nods her head. Celestia covers her mouth as her own eyes become watery then quickly embraces her. “I am so so sorry it has been like this. I feel that without Gregar here it has been a lot more quiet.” Nightmare tenses up and nearly gives her position away as Celestia says his name.”Tell me Luna, is there anything I can do to help?" Celestia asks as she pulls away from Nightmare.

“There is something, but I don’t know if you would like it.”

“Ask and you will know my answer.” Celestia says as she dries her eyes.

“Well I was wondering if we could do an eclipse, where the moon is in front of the sun tomorrow and one day the sun is in front of the moon.”

“So a Lunar and Solar eclipse correct?”

Nightmare nods her head.

Celestia softly smiles “That sounds like a wonderful Idea.”

Nightmare forces herself to go wide eyed and fakes a huge smile. "You mean it?”

Celestia nods and Nightmare forces herself to hug Celestia “Oh thank you so much Tia!"

Celestia hugs her back “You’re welcome Luna, let's begin tomorrow then ok?”

Nightmare nods her head and heads off and as she closes the doors to Celestia’s chamber she grins and her eyes become slitted as she teleports to Lunas room.

‘Soon Celestia, you will fall.’

The following morning Nightmare and Celestia begin the Solar eclipse. They had agreed to have it last thirty minutes. Soon an hour has gone by and the eclipse is still up there.

Celestia then goes to the throne room where they started it. “Luna, where are you? I thought it was to last thirty minutes.” Celestia says while looking around the room for her.

“Oh but dear sister, having it be like that a little longer never hurt right?” NIghtmare says.

Celestia sighs “Well I wish you would’ve have told me. But where are you now?”

“Oh, I’m around. But tell me Celestia why did you distance yourself from us?”

Celestia tilts her head in confusion “What do you mean exactly?”

Celestia then notice that the throne room has gotten darker, as if the shadows are closing in on her. “What I mean is, why did you think it was a good idea to distance yourself from myself and Nightmare after we sealed Gregar?"

Then the shadows are slowly approaching Celestia and she backs away “I thought that we all needed to cope with this loss, I thought that if we all dealt with this in our own way we would become closer.”

Nightmare grits her teeth in anger and the shadows respond to her anger by making the throne room dark. “You thought it would be a good idea to just distance yourself from your family for what? So your own family would fade into the background!?” She says with venom in her voice.

Celestia becomes shocked “What are you talking about Luna? I nev-”

Celestia is cut off as she hears an evil laugh coming from all around her in the darkness. “Luna isn’t here anymore dear sister.” The darkness recedes from the throne room and Nightmare is sitting on her throne with her disguise gone.

“Nightmare?!” Celestia asks surprised. “Where is Luna?”

Nightmare smirks “Oh don’t worry, she is just sleeping right now.” Nightmare then raises her hand as a portal appears and the tendrils bring out Luna. Celestia stares in disbelief at Nightmare as the portal swallows Luna again.

Nightmare then looks at Celestia with a dark look and rises up from her throne. “You see, dear sister, I thought long and hard about why this all happened. And do you want to know what I found? That this all happened because you didn’t think to check in on the Crystal Empire and see what had happened. If you had been more informed, then Gregar would still be here.” She finishes with a sneer towards Celestia.

“What? Sombra was the one who cut off communication with the Crystal Empire. All of us were going in blind.”

Nightmare then growls at Celestia as her eyes become slitted. “I have had enough of your voice Celestia, prepare yourself.” Nightmare then launched herself at Celesta. Celestia quickly teleports away from there and summons her armor. Celestia draws her sword but is reluctant to use it. NIghtmare sneers at her and summons her own weapon. She holds her arms out and the shadows form around her and slowly shape themselves into a pair of scythes. She then flicks them outward and the blades come out, and they glow in the moonlight. She throws one of them towards Celestia and she runs forward as well. Celestia dodges the scythe and then blocks the downward slash from Nightmare. Celestia starts to struggle against Nightmare until she is struck in the leg. She crumbles and Nightmare kicks her away. Nightmare then picks up the scythe she threw and looks upon the blade as it is stained with Celestia’s blood. Celestia is then getting up and slowly healing her leg as she looks upon where she was struck. The blade of the scythe cleanly cut through the armor as if it were paper.

‘I am going to have to be careful when she uses her scythes otherwise I think she might kill me.’ Celestia says to herself. Celestia finishes healing herself and looks upon Nightmare as she has one scythe that is a lot bigger than her previous ones. Nightmare is leaning against the scythe as if she was waiting for her to finish healing herself.

“You waited?” Celestia asked confused.

“Of course, I mean it would be too easy to finish you off if you were hurt like that.” Nightmare then picks up her scythe and then gets into a combat stance. “Now shall we continue this dance?”

Nightmare then once again launches herself towards Celestia and gives her time only to block each strike. Celestia is starting to feel like this is all a game to Nightmare, when she suddenly uses her magic and gets behind NIghtmare and uses her magic to power up her punch and the resulting impact sends Nightmare into a few walls.

“Is this some sort of game to you Nightmare?” Celestia asked as she walks towards Nightmare as she feels a little blood trickle down her face. “Is holding Luna against her will and becoming something like this all some sort of twisted game to you?”

Nightmare then laughs and it sounds as if it is coming from all around Celestia. “A game, really? That is what you honestly think this is?” Nightmare then rushes forward faster than before, as if she were a blur. She quickly disarms Celestia and punches her in the gut and grabs her by the throat and starts choking her. “This isn’t a game or some fucked up dream Celestia, this is actually happening. This could’ve been avoided if you didn’t think that avoiding us was a good idea.”

Celestia tries to break out of Nightmares grip, but it is futile so she tries to reason with Nightmare. “I admit it was wrong to do, but you are taking this too far. What would Gregar thi-ACK!" Celestia cries out as Nightmare tightens her grip on her throat.

Nightmare growls at Celestia as her teeth slowly turn into fangs and her slitted eyes narrow at Celestia “Don’t you dare say his name. You lost the right to say his name after you used the elements on him.” Nightmare then grins maliciously “Now I offer you two choices here, One: Surrender yourself and join Luna in a deep slumber and your magic is then added to my own, or Two: Continue to resist and I drain you of your magic and I then kill you. Which will it be?” She finishes with a smirk.

‘Either option ends with her gaining my magic, what can I do?’ Celestia says to herself. She then remembers one thing that could hopefully end this. ‘Please let this end with me admitting my own mistake and not with me making my biggest regret.’

Celestia then grits her teeth and makes a fist and launches it at Nightmare and Nightmare grabs her fist. “Too easy and predictable.” Nightmare says, still smirking at Celestia. However her smirk is gone as she sees Celestia smirk at her.

“That may be true, but that means I can do this.” Celestia then kicks Nightmare in the gut and she lets her go. Celestia then flies away.

Nightmare lets her get a head start and starts laughing as she puts a hand to her head. She then has a huge disturbing grin on her face. “So option two it is. All the more fun for me to kill you then CELESTIA!!” Nightmare then launches herself in the air and uses her wings to fly after Celestia. Celestia looks behind her and sees Nightmare closing fast. She launches magic blasts behind her as Nightmare does the same. Soon Celestia gets hit and loses altitude as Nightmare comes in and grabs ahold of Celestia's leg and starts spinning her. Nightmare then lets go and Celestia stops herself in midair. Celestia begins to gather magic to attack Nightmare with, and Nightmare does the same. After a minute of building their magic they launch their beams at each other and a huge shockwave is at the epicenter.

‘Just a little longer, then I can get my- oh no.’ Celestia then sees that beams are getting closer to her as her eyes widen. She tries to focus more into her magic but Nightmare gains the advantage and the beam hits Celestia. She gets knocked back into the castle and she slowly gets up as the battle is taking its toll on Celestia.

‘I need to get the elements to try and cleanse Nightmare of her madness.’ Celestia starts to make her way towards the chamber of the elements. She is using the wall as a balance to keep herself standing. She makes it a couple of steps when she hears a whistling coming from behind her. Before she can turn around a sickening squelch is heard as she looks down and her eyes widen as she sees a scythe blade sticking out of her. She doesn’t see any blood on the blade but she feels herself getting weaker. She hears hoofsteps coming behind her and sees Nightmare slowly making her way towards her. As Nightmare is walking it is as if the shadows themselves are coming off of her.

“It hurts, doesn’t it? You see the blade is slowing draining you of not just your magic, but your life force as well.” Nightmare then has a huge grin on her face. “You see Celestia, when I kill you everything will be better. Gregar will awaken and when he asks what happened to you I will say you got too greedy for power and myself and Luna had to put you down because there was no other option. I will even make sure that Luna will see that this actually happened. Now come Celestia, meet your death with some grace.”

Celestia grits her teeth and says “No.”

Nightmare then has a fake pout on her face “No? Why not?” then it turns back into her grin.

Celestia then charges magic into her hands and starts putting pressure onto the blade. “Because, I will not let you win. I will see that you are healed of this madness.” Celestia says as she looks into Nightmare Moons eyes and on the outside she sees anger, but as she looks deeper into her eyes she sees untold grief. Soon cracking is heard and the blade breaks and creates a massive explosion and a smokescreen engulfs the area. Celestia gets knocked into the pedestal that holds the Elements of Harmony. The element of magic then is released from its place and lands next to Celestia. Time suddenly slows down as she looks up and sees Nightmare with her scythe ready to take her head.

Celestia closes her eyes ‘Please save me, I beg of you save me.’ Then Celestia opens her eyes and all the elements respond to her plea and a shock wave is sent out and hits Nightmare.

Nightmares eyes widen in shock “What did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!” she screeches as she is struggling against an invisible force.

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Celestias eyes then return to normal as she sees Nightmare struggling against the pull of the elements. Nightmare then looks at Celestia and she is shocked at what she sees. Nightmares eyes have returned to normal and she is crying.

“Celestia, whats going on?” Nightmare asks worriedly. Then she starts leaving faster and Celestia races after her. Nightmare holds her hand out for Celestia to take and she reaches out for her.

“Nightmare just hang on I’m coming!”

“Hurry, please!”

Celestia keeps trying to get to Nightmare to bring her back. ‘Please don’t go, PLEASE DON’T GO!’ suddenly it looks as if Luna has broken free from the spell that was holding her as she appears right next to Nightmare with her arm reaching out for Celestia. She then tries her hardest to reach her sisters. As she reaches them something happens.

Nightmare then says “Celestia I’m so sor-” another shockwave hits and Celestia gets hits back towards the castle and is knocked unconscious. Later Celestia wakes up and sees moonlight coming from above. She holds her head in pain as she sits up. She looks around herself and sees the destruction that was caused. She then looks up at the moon and notices something that was never there before. The image of a mare in the moon. At first Celestia looks at this in confusion, then it slowly dawns on her as her eyes become misty.

“No, please don’t let this be true.” she says with a breaking voice. She then uses her magic to scan the moon. Tears then openly pour from her eyes as she realises what she has done. “I-It can’t be true.” She then looks towards the elements and sees them back in their pedestals and tries using them again. As soon as she tries, the elements remain inactive to her.

Celestia slumps forward and her tears are staining the floor beneath her. “Luna, Nightmare. I am so so sorry.”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Her cry of anguish is heard for miles around. For now Celestia realises how much she has lost with just one single decision. For her ultimate regret has come true. She unknowingly banished her own sisters to the moon and she has to live with that decision for the rest of her life.

When the tale was done, not an eye was dry, even Rainbow Dash admitted she had shed tears.

“So you see out of all that had happened, Luna was only caught in the crossfire.” Nightmare said while wiping her eyes. “I was selfish and acted like a brat.”

Celestia nodded “And I acted like I didn’t care about my own family, and look at what happened because of it.”

Nightmare then looks around to all of them “Well that is the tale, any after thoughts or questions?”

Cadence then raises her hand “You must love him very much then.”

“I do, I mean it was him alone that was able to break me out of my shell. He showed me many wonderful and beautiful sights that I couldn’t say no when he asked to wed me. I owe him much, and all I did was mope and let my grief spurn thoughts I would never actually think of doing.” Nightmare sighs “There is much I regret, but as long as we do not repeat our mistakes of old, it will be better.”

Cadence smiles then slowly it turns into a mischievous smirk “Well I know of some ways you can repay him. I can give you some pointers on bedroom experience, and I can help you-” Cadence then shuts up as her mouth is zipped shut. She looks at Nightmare who is giving her a glare as her cheeks are tinted pink.

“Shining Armor, you need to make sure Cadence knows when it is appropriate to talk about bedroom activities.”

Shining Armor rubs the back of his head “Sorry Princess, it is just that when it starts to get about those topics she gets a little invested, just like how she likes to play matchmaker.”

Chrysalis then raises her hand “What will you do when you meet him again?”

Nightmare raises a hand to her chin in thought “I don’t know, but I know I will look forward to that moment when I can meet him again.” After about a minute of waiting and no one else was raising their hands Nightmare ends it. “Well if that is all I would like to speak with Luna and Celestia in private please.” Everyone then gets up and starts to leave Cadence is the last to leave as she winks at Nightmare and the magic ends so she can speak again.

When the doors close Nightmare sighs heavily “You know Celestia I didn’t think Cadence would become like this when you told me.”

Celestia giggles “I’m sorry about that, but I knew the topic of love would be interesting around her especially when it comes to the moments about bedroom experience and activities.”

Nightmare deadpans at Celestia “If I didn’t know better I would say Cadence enjoys talking about such stuff in vivid detail.”
Celestia then rubs the back of her head and blushes in embarrassment.

“You’re serious?” Celestia nods and Nightmare facepalms “I swear she is a pervert. But if I might ask, how would you know.”

“I really don’t want to talk about it.”

“Highly embarrassing?”

Celestia nods and Nightmare and Luna chuckle at that.

Luna then speaks up “You know Celestia, why are the nobles like they are now?”

“Well after my depression they decided to act as how they saw fit. At first I let them be considering there was nothing wrong that happened. However I quickly learned that the lower classes were starting to suffer because of it. I then saw to it to let rule over them or else Equestria would be much different.” Celestia then huffs in annoyance “It doesn’t help that more than half of them are selfish pricks.” She then clears her throat and speaks in a fake regal tone “I mean it is like they have a stick shoved so far up their asses that their noses are permanently sticking in the air as if trying to reach the moon.”

All three of them share a laugh at that.

Nightmare calms down as she looks down “You know, I miss these times we had. But soon Gregar will return and some changes will happen.”

“Don’t remind me of what I will go through again.” Celestia slouches in her chair “I mean when he hears of what happened he is going to be disappointed then he will put me through torture for ignoring the training.”

Luna chuckles a little “Well yes you had that coming, but don’t worry I believe he may go easy on you.”

Celestia rolls her eyes and smiles “Sure he will, sure he will.”

Nightmare chuckles and then looks out a window. ‘Soon Gregar, I will see you again.’

I open my eyes and see that I am resting underneath a tree with shade covering me. I bring a hand to my face and I see not a clawed gauntlet, but a hand. I see a little down that a sleeve of a longsleeve shirt is covering my arm. I then notice a weight on my chest and look down. I see Nightmare Moon sleeping peacefully with a smile on her face. I then run my hand through her mane as I look up through the leaves. I then scratch behind her ears and I get a coo of approval in response.

“Hmm, that feels nice.” She says as she looks up at me and smiles.

I smile back “I’m glad you like it.” I then wrap my hands around her waist and bring her closer to me. She squeaks a little in surprise then rests her head on my shoulder and nuzzles me.

She sighs in content “I never want this moment to end.”

“I know what you mean. I never thought I would ever fall in love, or for that matter get married.”

She giggles as she closes her eyes “Same here.” We both sit there just enjoying each others company. Then suddenly a voice is heard, but it sounds like a distorted child's voice.

“But all good things must come to an end.”

My vision then goes dark and shortly afterward light comes back. I look around and see a dark horizon and Nightmare is nowhere to be seen as well. I stand up and my vision changes to tunnels vision. I sway a little then shake my head to clear it. My vision returns and I have no idea where I am. I look all around me and see only an island in the distance. I look down and see red water. As I look down at myself I see myself in blue jeans and sneakers. I have a gray longsleeve shirt with a blue t-shirt over it. I run a hand across my Navi mark and feel fabric. I then look at my reflection in the water, which is weird that I can. I see piercing yellow eyes stare back with shoulder length black hair. I then crouch down and dip a finger in the water. I bring it back and rub it across two fingers. Instead of it rolling across, it stains my fingers.

My eyes widen in realization “Blood?!” I then stand back up “Where am I?”

I start walking towards the island, but it seems as if it is getting further out of reach the closer I get.

“Gregar!!” I hear NIghtmare’s voice call out to me and I look around for her.

“Nightmare! Where are you?”

I then panic a little then I hear some kind of singing but it is faint and I can’t make it out. I then hear Nightmare cry out in pain and I run away from the island as it came from behind me. I keep running and I hear the singing getting louder. I look behind me and the island is still the same distance away. I look up and see a black moon in sky and it is giving off a red glow.

“Ashes, Ashes we all. fall. down.” After that I hear something fall and a sickening crunch come from above. I look up and step back in horror. Above with a noose around her neck is Nightmare Moon. She is slowly swinging and I look upon her as I see countless scratches upon her and a pair of rusty scissors are sticking out of her left eye. I hold a hand to my mouth and try not to vomit at this sight. Then the smell hits me, it smells like rotting flesh and I quickly get on my knees and throw up. After my stomach is freed from whatever was in it I stand back up and try to beast out.

‘Synchro activate, Beast Out!’ I expect the flash of light that normally happens but it doesn’t. I then hear footsteps behind me and I look and see something that brings me a feeling of dread.

An alicorn filly is walking towards me with a wide grin on her face. She is wearing a red dress. Her horn has cracks running along it and one of her eyes is black while the other is a normal eye with a teal iris. It looks as if she is crying blood, but she then opens her wings and I see that they are rotting as I can see flesh barely hanging onto the bone. She keeps walking forward at me and I try to move but can’t. Then beneath me the water churns and I see a table appear and lift me up. I slam down onto it by an unknown force and try to sit up. As I try my wrists and ankles are tied down restricting my movement.

“So Daddy, are you comfortable?” I hear the filly say in a distorted voice.

“Daddy?” I ask in confusion.

She giggles as she looks at me “Of course, you’re my Daddy.”

I grit my teeth and continue trying to break from the bonds “Like hell I am!”

Her grin is still there “Oh but you are, I mean I was born when you slaughtered all those who crossed your path. And besides I am sure you remember the saying, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.’” She then has another pair of rusty scissors and she brings them above my right eye. I then get a good look at her face and see that her right eye isn’t an eye at all, there is nothing there. I then look at her left eye and see that her eye looks like Nightmares.

“Oh I see you have noticed, Mommy was so helpful with giving her eye.” I look back at Nightmare and I realize what happened.

“You cut her eye out?!”

She giggles “Nope, Her eye became mine as I plunged these scissors into her eye. I saw her squirm. And her cries of anguish? Beautiful. You should’ve heard her cry out for you as I put a noose around her neck and let her fall. It was so beautiful to watch her dying squirms as her soul left her body. Now time for that eye.” She then plunges her scissors into my eye and I scream as I feel them cut into me. As I look upon her with my left eye I see her right eye socket is slowly being filled with a regular one with yellow irises. She then decides to slowly pull out the scissors and I can feel it dragging against my skull. As she pulls out I feel faint as she has the demonic grin on her face still.

“Well that was fun, now lets see how long you can hold out.” She then lowers the table and walks around till she is behind me. she stares down at me as she gets ready to strike me with the scissors. Without another word I feel her repeatedly stab into my face and my body twitches with each one. Time slows down around me as I see specks of blood fly out every time she stabs me. She then stabs me in the left eye and everything goes dark.