(Ponyville Florist Shop, Roseluck’s P.O.V)

I can’t believe my luck, for the last three days, my sisters have been trying to give me advice on dating, and it’s more embarrassing than having stage fright on the biggest performance in Equestria. “I just had to open my big mouth didn’t I?” I said to myself as I sat at my desk going through the shipment schedules for next month. “Daisy’s shipment comes in the next two weeks, Lilly’s shipment comes in next week, and mine comes in three days.” I thought to myself as I looked over our special orders. After I looked through everything, I took out my diary and began to start my newest entry.

“Dear Diary,

Three days ago, I had been through a lot with the latest shipments of special flowers for that bouquet, I was almost late for the delivery until I accidentally bumped into somepony. He had a gray coat, a black mane and tail with a silver streak, and what seemed like three obsidian stones for a cutie mark. His grey eyes looked right into mine and helped me out by picking up the bouquet in a really quick and fashionable manor. I was astounded by this and when he levitated them over to me, I felt my heart fluttering as if they had sprouted wings. I honestly could not stop thinking about him since then and I felt like the feelings inside of me were about to explode if I don’t tell him soon. I plan on doing that today and I really hope things turn out well.”

As I finished my diary entry, I heard the door to my room opening and I had to hide my diary from my sisters as quickly as possible to save myself from any further embarrassment. I quickly hid it inside a drawer and pulled out some other papers to disguise what I was doing so that I looked like I was actually looking through something important.

“Hey Rosie, what are you doing?” my sister Lilly asked when she and Daisy entered my room as I had to think of something fast! “N-nothing girls, I’m just looking over the shipment schedules for next month that’s all.” I said in a serious tone, hoping that she’d just accept it and leave me alone.

“Are you sure that’s all you’re doing?” Daisy asked with a sly smirk on her face. “I think you’re hiding something.” she said in a sing-song voice. Daisy always used her sing-song voice to coax information out of me, but after living with her for about twenty years, I found a way to evade her prying eyes. “Hey look Lily’s looking through your Play Colt collection!” I yelled as I saw Lilly looking through Daisy’s mailbox, since I’m the accountant of the family.

“Lilly stop looking at my stuff!” Daisy whined, completely falling for my trick to get them both out of my room and business.”I’ve got to talk to Obsidian today, or else another mare might steal him from me!” I thought to myself as I opened my bedroom window and climbed out silently to avoid detection from my two bickering sisters. “While those two are bickering, there’s nothing stopping me from getting my stallion.” I thought to myself as I casually walked through town hoping to spot him while he’s out and about.

(Twilight’s Castle, Minuette’s P.O.V)

Ever since I saw Twilight learn that teeth enhancement spell, I’ve been working up the courage to ask Obsidian to teach it to me. I would have asked Twilight, but she’d probably go into her nerd mode and explain for hours on end, One time during school, she gave a 2 hour lecture on Equestrian history going through every detail. “If I learn this spell, I’m going to write the greatest medical advancement thesis that’ll go down in history!” I thought as I paced in my guest room. I heard a door open and close, the sound was a little distant, since it was as silent as a graveyard in the castle. “That’s probably him, now’s my chance!” I whispered to myself.

As I suspected, I saw that somepony was in the hallway with a bowl of gems outside of the library. “Hey Obsidian can I talk to you for a minute?” I asked, only to realize that it was Spike. The baby dragon looked at me with a surprised look on his face. “I guess he wasn’t expecting me to be here.” I summarized from his current facial expression.”Oh sorry Spike, I must’ve confused you for Dark Obsidian.” I said to the little dragon. “Do you know where he went by any chance” I said as I batted my eyelashes at him.

“He’s out taking a walk to clear his mind.” Spike said with a smile. “Great thanks, little buddy!” I said as I gave him a quick hug before running out the front door and into town to find Obsidian.

(Ponyville Market, Obsidian’s P.O.V.)

After Twilight had perfected the spell, I was impressed by her determination. But after a dream where I met my Father, he was still alive in the North. I was relieved, but this also pleased me, how that we can both take down the Princesses and reconquer our kingdom. But after the dream, I was getting some headaches but were minor, but still irritating. “Twilight, I need to head outside and clear my mind, I’ll be back in a few hours.” I said to her trying to hide the pain inside my mind. She didn’t seem to notice and replied.

“Sure, I need to send Celestia a letter about the spell you taught me.” Twilight said as I left out the door and into Ponyville.

After a few minutes, I walked through the streets of town avoiding ponies and keeping to myself so I could be rid of my headache that slowly got more and more painful. “Damn these headaches!” I thought to myself as the pain persisted to make my life even more miserable than it already was. To think when this day could not get any worse, it unfortunately did as Roseluck ran up to me. “Oh no, I’ve suffered so much the first time I got her out of my head!” I thought to myself as the rose mare came up to me panting as if she had tried to run out of my Father’s torture room.

“Obsidian, there you are… I’ve been meaning.... to talk… to you.” she panted heavily to catch her breath as I put on my fake smile once more. But as fate loved to hate me so much, the dentist mare, Minuette, ran up from behind me as I turned to see her. “Obsidian, I need to talk to you.” She then saw Roseluck behind me and quirked an eyebrow. “Um, hi Roseluck?”

I felt like an awkward moment brush over us as the mares looked over at each other with questionable faces and asking each other questions about what they were going to tell me.

“Um, can you wait, what I have to say to Obsidian is pretty important.” Roseluck started as Minuette was taken aback for a moment and she began to get fired up inside. “Mine is much more important than yours, Rosie.” Roseluck gasped with either anger or horror and got fired up as well.

“Don’t ever call me that and mine is way more important than yours!” I began to enjoy this, the hate within one another made me smile as the bickering continued. Some ponies looked at this to wonder what was going on, but as much as this amused me, I had to get out of this to avoid the hoof-pointing that I was the one who started it and I swiftly left the area as the mare’s arguing continued. “That was one of the best moments in my life.” I thought happily as I heard the sound of hoofs slapping in the distance to notify me that those two were really going at it, but it only stopped me from thinking of the headaches as they came back to me.

“I need some solitude, somewhere they wouldn’t find me.” I said to myself as I saw a scary forest not too far away and in my mind one word was said. “Perfect.”

(3rd P.O.V)

After Dark Obsidian slipped out of Roseluck’s and Minuette’s argument, the two mares did not even notice his absence and were blinded by their hatred for one another.”Mine’s more important!” Minuette shouted. “No, Mine is!” Roseluck shot back as Minuette let out her rage with one punch with her left hoof to Roseluck’s cheek. Roseluck stumbled back a little and held her cheek and the hatred broke loose as both mares tackled each other, biting, punching and kicking, one another.”I hate you!” Minuette shouted in anger. “I hate you even more!” Roseluck shouted in response. As the two continued their fight, Roseluck looked to see that Obsidian was no longer in the area and Minuette saw this to. "Great, now I've lost my crush and I'll never tell him how I feel." Roseluck sighed as she lied down sadly. "W-wait, you like Obsidian?" Minuette asked a little surprised.

"Yeah, why do you like him too?" Roseluck asked as Minuette blushed a bit. "I do, the spell he used to eat crystals captivated me and I was wondering if he'd show me how it works." Minuette replied leaving Roseluck a little surprised as well. "You know I've actually liked you for some time and maybe we could form a herd with Obsidian." Roseluck suggested as Minuette extended her hoof to Rose. "I'd think that would be wonderful." Minuette said with a smile as Roseluck used it to pick herself up. "I'm also really sorry about what happened." Minuette apologized. "I'm sorry too, let's just clean ourselves up and find Obsidian." Roseluck replied with a smile as the two mares rekindled their friendship.

(Everfree Forest, Obsidian’s PO.V)

It has been a few minutes after entering the Forest and for some reason, I felt the headaches getting stronger as I progressed through the forest. “Why won’t this damn headache go away!” I screamed on the inside as I looked beyond a treeline to see a castle in ruins. I felt a strange sense come over me as if I had to go inside the ruins as much as my body rejected the idea.

I slowly and cautiously entered the castle that seemed to have been falling apart for quite some time. Some fallen pillars, rubble of stone, and decaying furnishing were everywhere as if this castle had been attacked. I entered into the large throne room that seemed to have two large thrones with tattered, but still hanging tapestries over one representing a white alicorn on the left and one with a blue alicorn on the right. “This must’ve been where the Royal Wretches must’ve lived, but why is this place battle damaged?” I asked myself as I looked all around the throne room to see rubble and debris scattered throughout what remains of the castle. “What happened here? Did somepony fight them, or what?” I asked myself once more, but that’s when my head began to throb like crazy, like something in me was dying on the inside and something else was created in its place, then my vision became as dark as the void.

After a few moments, I awoke to find myself in the same castle, but it looked like it wasn’t in ruins. “This is really strange, what’s going on here?!” I asked angrily. My question was soon answered when I heard the moonraiser. “Not another step!” she said looking pretty pissed at something. “Did you really expect me to sit idly by while they all basked in your glorious, precious light?!” she said with hatred in her voice. “There can only be one princess in Equestria, and that princess will be ME!”

I was confused as to whom she was speaking to but, that’s when it happened, the moonraiser decided to not lower the moon, and she was engulfed in the shadow of the moon, and what I saw next made my heart flutter a little, the moonraiser completely changed into a mare of darkness, a mare of evil. The sun raiser looked very concerned, but she didn’t fight back instead she said “Luna I will not fight you, you must lower the moon, it is your duty!” The new moonraiser looked confused for a moment as if that wasn’t her name. that’s when she said it “Luna? I am Nightmare Moon! I have but one royal duty now, To destroy You!”

I felt my heart flutter when she said that and shot a beam of magic at the sun raiser. The coward sun raiser tried to flee, but the mare of my dreams quickly followed her while saying “And where do you think you’re going?”, then she took flight then took multiple shots at the sun raiser, but hit parts of the castle. “Now I know why this place looks this way, it’s all because of that gorgeous mare!” I thought joyfully. I continued to watch the fight and to my surprise my idol hit the sun raiser, knocking her out of the sky, and back into the throne room.

The sun raiser rose to her hooves and said “Oh dear sister, I am sorry, but you have given me no choice, but to use these.”. She opened up a compartment the floor that contained the very objects that defeated Father, the Elements of Harmony. As the sun raiser gathered the elements and they spun around her and she glowed brighter, then she ascended into the sky to face Nightmare Moon. Nightmare charged up another blast of magic and the sun raiser did the same all while shedding tears, and she shot a rainbow blast of magic and it collided with Nightmare’s, but the sun raiser’s blast easily overpowered Nightmare’s and the last word to leave her mouth was “NOOOOO!” as the rainbow blast sent her flying straight into the moon and then a strange formation of a mare’s face formed on the moon’s surface signifying that she had been sealed inside of it.

The vision I was having ended in a flash of a bright white light that forced me to close my eyes so I wouldn’t be blinded by it. After blinking my eyes to restore my vision to its clear state, then I saw myself back in the castle ruins. “I know what you saw, it was my descent into darkness, the day I truly forgot who I was.” A voice said from behind me, I turned around and I saw the moonraiser, in her original form before she became Nightmare Moon. “I’m going to guess that Nightmare Moon has been purged from her heart thanks to Twilight and her other friends.” I thought to myself as I looked at the moonraiser.

“I am Luna, and you must be the Dark Obsidian that has been mentioned in my friend Twilight’s letters to my sister. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” she said extending her hoof out for some reason, possibly a friendly greeting.

Author's Notes:

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