I stood there, waiting for Discord. After a few minutes of waiting, I started to get impatience. Maybe he left. But how? Without his magic, he couldn't fly. What was even at the bottom of the cliff? It didn't matter, he could still use his magic. Of course, he said he couldn't. Unless he was lying. But if he was lying, he would have left when I kept asking him why he was here and I didn't believe it was a prank. He could be telling the truth.

But magic couldn't just stop working. Somepony would need to do something. Discord was the only one here who could block magic. He wouldn't block his magic, though. It meant to much to him. Was he telling the truth? If he didn't stop our magic, then who did? What was going on? I waited a little while for Discord, but he didn't come up from the cliff. Maybe he found another way around and left. It was time to leave.

I turned around and started heading my way out of the cemetery. I looked around at the graves. I didn't realize how many ponies died and were buried here. I didn't realize how quickly many ponies died in one day. I remember that I had wondered how many ponies go here? Surely Discord and I weren't the only ones. But it still hit me. Ponies come here to grieve. So why was Discord here? What would someone like him want to do in a cemetery? But what I really wanted to know was why he wouldn't tell me why he was here? Was it bad? He said it was important to him. What in the wide, wide, world of Equestria would be important to him here? It was then I remember the grave Discord was looking at. Was that the reason why he was here.

I trotted to the grave Discord was looking at. He seems upset as if he knew whoever was buried here. Did he know them? It would explain why he wouldn't tell me. Nopony liked to talk about death. Especially when it's about loved ones who have died. I knew how it felt. Even now it was hard to live without my parents. It was hard to face the world where all my friends and families would someday die without me. I wouldn't be able to join them. I would move on without them and soon they became a forgotten memory. Which was the reason why I never liked making friends. I always knew how it would end. I sometimes wondered if living forever was a blessing or a curse. Maybe Discord knew how it felt. Maybe he too lost someone close to him.

I trotted closer to the tombstone and read what was on it:

Dusty

A friend, sister, mother, and wife

You will be miss and loved always

"Dusty?"I said out loud.

Did Discord know her or knew her I should say? Was she his friend at one point in his life? Now my mind was full of questions. How did they meet? When did they meet? How did she die? When did she die? How well did he know her? Were they close and if so, how close? I felt bad for Discord. He never really had a lot of friends, so even losing one would hurt him. I for one knew how that felt. Losing one was like losing a ton. I also knew that Discord had problems making friends as well as keeping them. It was one of the reasons why we could relate well to each other on a more personal level then we could to anypony else. We understood what we were both going through. It was a hard and painful road we were on. And yet, it seems that no pony knew that, not even Celestia could tell what we were going through.

I will be honest, I was never always the best toward Discord. I always thought Discord was hopeless, cruel, mean, selfish, rude, and just plain rotten. I thought he was someone who only cared about himself and no pony else. Even after he said he was so-called "reformed", I didn't like him that much. I tried to keep far away from him as possible. To my surprise, it had worked. We rarely spoke to each other. Discord was more Celestia's friend than mine. And I was completely fine with that. Celestia told me to at least give him a chance like she did. But after betraying us for Tirek, I gave up on him. Not that I had any hope for him from the start. I thought he would never change. I always thought he was a selfish jerk he had shown himself to be. But I was wrong.

My efforts to stay away from him prove to be in vain, when Celestia sent me on a mission to go into Discord's dreams. She told me that Discord was sleepwalking in ponyville and as a result, it causes his chaotic power to wreak havoc on ponyville. Sleepwalking was a sign of nightmares. Something that a pony feared. But what did Discord fear? That was what Celestia sent me to find out. I wasn't pleased, but I had a job to do and no matter what, I had to help them. Even if it was Discord. I thought I would go into his dreams, find out his fear, get out and never speak to him ever again. That was how I thought it would happen. But life had other plans.

In his dreams, I found out a lot of things about Discord. Things that I never knew. Things that nopony knew about Discord. Though he was chaotic, a part of him wanted to be organized. A part of him didn't want to be chaotic. A part of him wanted to fit in. He wanted to fit into the world that would never accept him the way he was. He scared of being alone and friendless. He was worried that nopony would stay with him and he would lose everypony around.

He would never admit it to anypony, but he had no choice but to admitted to me. I never thought I would see that side of Discord. I never excepted that I would see that part of Discord. The part of him that was afraid of himself. The part of him that was still struggling and had problems with fitting in. A part of him that was so lonely. Just like me. That day, I found out that we did have some things in common. It made it easier for me to talk to him. To let some things out. I told him things that I struggled with. I told him things that I never even told Celestia. And he told me things that he never told anypony else, not even to Fluttershy. Which to me is saying a lot.

I looked up at the sky, then looked back at the grave. I felt a tear came down from one of my eyes. Maybe he didn't know Dusty. Maybe he was upset because he felt her pain. Because he knew what it was like to be separated from the world. I knew what it was like too. He was stone for over 1000 years and I was stuck on the moon for 1000 years. Time stopped for us, but not for everpony else. Life continues on without us. Everypony moved on like as if nothing change. Soon we became nothing more than a distant memory. No one remembered us.

No one knew who we were. It was as if we were dead. Maybe that was why he was upset. Maybe that was why he wouldn't tell me. He wouldn't admit it. But I didn't blame him, I wouldn't either. It's hard to talk about death. I turned my head back toward the cliff to see if Discord was there. He wasn't. Maybe he found another way around and left.

"You waited long enough, Luna," I said to myself. " Let's go home."

I turned the opposite direction of the grave and started making my way out of the cemetery. I still couldn't use my magic for the unknown reason, ( which I thought Discord had something to do with) so I spread out wings ready to take the flight back to Canterlot. Just when I was about to take off, I heard a voice that would change everything.

"It's the ponies like you that I love."

I froze. Who said that? I turned around and there standing at the same grave I was looking at was an old griffin. She lifted up her head and looked at me. "I like the ones who take the time to pity the dead." She smiled at me. Where did she come from? I was standing there not even a minute ago. I didn't hear anypony nearby. I was going ask her where she came from, but something told me not too.

So instead I said: " I wouldn't say I pity them."

"But you respect them. Not a lot of ponies take the time to just have a moment of silence for them."

"Yes, I do care for them, but I-" I started to say, but I didn't think it was a good idea to tell her why I was really there. "I don't go here a lot. I don't have time to do things like this."

"But the times that you do means the world to them. It's nice that you do take a moment for them," She said.

"Well, when you see a lot of your friends died, it becomes normal things," I replied harshly.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. But yet, you still honor their memories. It seems that everypony is naive. They say they understand, but they don't."

I nodded." I agree with you on that one. But why are you here?"

"To honor our kind. It's always good to let them know we are still here for them."

"Our kind?" I asked very confusedly.

"Sorry...I didn't mean it like that. it's just that there's not a lot of ponies that are like you and I. I tend to separate us from them. I'm sorry if I offended you."

I just looked at her. I didn't know what to said. It was always clear that not many ponies thought like us. But it wasn't like we were in our own group or were a different species. Why would she use the term "Our kind"? Either way, why would that offend me?

"No. You're okay. It didn't offend me what so ever," I said. It was the only thing I could say.

"Oh good. I'm glad to hear that. At lease, I know somepony can understand me."

"What do you mean?" I asked

"I mean many fear death, but we are among the few who don't," She said cheerfully.

I sign sadly."I can't say that's all true. I mean I can't say I don't fear death because I do"

"You don't and I can say that you don't." She walked up to me and put her talon on my cheek." You hate losing everyone you love because of death, but you don't fear it. You know it will come and you can accept that."

"So what?" I asked coldly. "What does that mean?'

"It means you are stronger than most ponies."

I stood there for a moment in silence. I barely knew her. But in such a short amount of time, I could tell she understood me better than most ponies I knew. How? She wasn't even trying. I smiled. It was little moments like this that meant the world to me. It meant a lot to find somepony that understood me not as a princess, but as a pony.

"Ummm, thank you," I said.

"You're welcome. Besides, it's the dead we really need to fear," she replied calmly. I looked at her weirdly. Now, what did she mean? She was nice but very odd. Kinda like Pinkie Pie. But I didn't want to be rude to someone who was being nice to me.

"I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean," I said.

"Fearing death is when you fear that you or someone you know is going to die. Fearing the dead is when you fear the ones that already did."

"Already did what? Please be more clear with your answer," I said.

She smiled." Easy...die. The ones that already did die."

The second I heard though words, I felt something change within me. Something was happening to me. I started to sweat. I felt really hot as if I was on fire. I started shaking and I didn't even know why. I felt something wrong. I didn't know what was wrong, but I felt like something wasn't right. I felt something dark. I couldn't explain it, but I felt really sick. Even more sick than I already was. What was wrong with me? Why was I feeling like this?

"But you already knew that," she said.

"Knew what?" I asked. " What I fear?"

"Yes. But our kind must fear them. A part of us has too."

"Okay, what?" I asked.

Something was off about her. She wasn't normal. I wanted to get away from the Griffin that was being so nice to me. But why? She didn't do anything wrong. So why was I acting this way? It was as if I was scared of her. Why would I be? She was Griffin and I was an alicorn. I could easily take her down if needed. But that was when I remembered: I couldn't use my magic. Was she causing it? How? She didn't have magic. She couldn't stop magic, even if her life depended on it. Griffin didn't have magic. So how could she use magic? Why was I feeling like this? What was wrong with me?

"Well, you know."

"Know what? I don't know what you mean," I said.

"Our kind...you know that-"

"No, I don't know. What do you mean by "Our kind?" I said. " You're not making any sense. I don't know what you're talking about."

"Wait, you really don't know?" She asked sadly.

I signed." I'm afraid I don't."

There was a long moment of silence.

"No, no, no. It can't be. It just... no, no, no. NO, NO, NO, NO! You don't know?"

She looked down at the ground and back at the grave. She started to breathe very heavily. She looked back at me and that joy she had within her disappeared. Her smile faded and turned into pure anger. I stood there clueless. I had no idea what was going on. Why was she acting this way? Was it what I said? I really didn't know what she was talking about. To me, it sounded as if she didn't believe me.

"I'm sorry, did I say something wrong? It looks like I have upset you," I said trying to calm her down.

"You damn right you upset me. You were meant to be different. You weren't meant to be like them. You were meant to be like us. You're lying. I know you are. You do know the truth. You're just hiding it because of them. Right? I'm right?"

"Don't you understand me? I really don't know what you're talking about." Maybe it was time to tell her why I was really there. "I think you have the wrong pony. I didn't come here because I wanted to. I was here-"

"And then there are the bitches who mock us. They look at us like trash. They refuse to believe we exist. They forget all about us and act like we were never there, to begin with. You were meant to be different. Why aren't you different?!" She yelled as she was stomping closer to me. I was stepping back away from her. What was she talking about? Why was she so mad at me?

"I don't know what you're talking about. Please, just calm down."

"Calm down. CALM DOWN?! How can I calm down? I'm so tired of ponies making fun of us. They don't know how hard it is for us. They don't know how much we go through. They don't know how much we suffer. You do though. You out of all of us should know. You have been put through so much. So why are you doing this? Why, why?!"

"Look!" I shouted. " I'm sorry that I upset you. But I really have no clue what you are talking about. But you need-"

"Shut up. SHUT UP! Just shut up. I don't want to hear anything from you!" She screamed.

Normally, I would have gotten angry and yelled at her with the Canterlot voice for disrespecting a princess, but I didn't. I wasn't mad at her. I was scared. But why? Why was I scared of a griffin? All she was doing was yelling. It wasn't right, but even then. Why was I scared?

"It's the ponies like you that makes me mad. Well, not this time. I had enough of this. You can not end up like them. I don't care what I have to do. You will not end up like them. I won't allow it."

I was speechless. I had no idea what to say or what to do. What did she have in mind for me? I knew whatever it was it was not good. This Griffin was crazy. I was just hoping that Discord would appear and help me out. But I knew it wouldn't happen. He would be long gone by now. I had to get out of there. I had to leave before she tried to do anything to me. But what could an old Griffin do to me? I guess at that moment, I really didn't want to find out.

"I have to go. I have somewhere to be. So I best be going," I said as I quickly turned around to leave. But right as I faced the other way, she was standing right in front of me. Even closer than before. I jumped back and yelped.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked. I turned my head back to where she was standing before (not even a second ago) and back to where she was standing now.

"How did you-" I couldn't finish.

"You don't remember. Don't you?" she asked.

"Remember what?" The feeling I had before was even stronger now. My heart was pounding and I felt my whole body boiling up inside. The worst part was I didn't know why.

"You'll see. You'll see real soon," she said with a wicked smile. With that, I started trotted backward. There was clearly something wrong with her and I wasn't going to stay and see what she had planned for me. I trotted as far as I could but it didn't last long. I felt my back legs bumped into something hard. I stopped and looked back. It was the grave she was looking at. The stay one I was looking at before. I turned my head back to her.

"What do you want from me?" I asked. I tried my best to not show that I was scared, but I wasn't doing a good job at it.

"I want you to remember. I want you to see the truth. Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to refresh your memory."

That was when I had enough. I wasn't going to put up with this. I wasn't going to put up with her. I spread out my wings and was going to fly away when suddenly dark vines sprang up from the ground and wrapped around my legs. I gasped as the vines pulled and pinned me to the ground. Fear rushed through my body as I fought against the vines. It took me 10 seconds before I realized my struggles were pointless. The vines grasp was too strong as they pinned me with no remorse. The griffin walked up to me as I continued to struggle. She bends down and put her claws on my left wing. Her face was right up against mine, but all I could do was laid there with fear. There was nothing more I could do. It was then I wished that Discord was here to help me.

"Don't worry," She said as she grasped my wing. She then made a large creepy smile."I only want you to see the truth. This won't hurt too badly."

I was about to ask her what she was going to do to me (even though I had a pretty good idea) when she answered me with her actions. In an instant, I heard and felt a loud crack. A rush of pain shivered up my spine. Just like that, she broke my wing her with her bear claws. I screamed very loudly as I felt tears in my eyes and blood coming out of my wing. I stared at my wing to examine what had happened. Blood oozed as I could see my bones had ripped right through my skin.

"Now you are free to go," The griffin said as she closed her eyes and bowed. The vines released me and retreated into the ground. I stood up as I tried to stop crying. It just hurt so much. Pain and fear then left my body as anger now burned in me like a flame. Who was she to do something like this to a princess?

"You bitch, I will have you arrested for this and thrown into the dungeons." I was angry but I still kept my distance. I was ready to run if she tried anything else.

"Don't be mad Luna, I only want to release you from your chains." She seemed different now, a little darker." I will be merciful upon you, though. I won't show you too much."

"Who the hell do you think you are!? " I screamed."Telling me you will be merciful to me? Do you know who I am? You should be on your knees begging me for my mercy."

She laughed."I don't think I'm going to do that." She seemed to be mocking me.

"Well, good. I wouldn't give you mercy even if you begged me. Not after this."

"Fine then, I'll show you all of it, princess!"

She crouched down as her body began to peel. Her skin fell off and became black as she became several feet taller. I stood there in shocked. I had no clue what my eyes were seeing. It almost felt unreal. She jumped at me as her jaw opened several meters. I screamed and closed my eyes, but death did not follow. Instead, she vanished into a black mist.

"What the hell was that!?"

I meant to say that in my head but I was simply far to stun to try or even care. I had totally forgotten that my wing was snapped in half, but I was quickly reminded as pain swept through my body once again. I looked back to my wings. It looked bad. How did she break it so easily? She didn't even try. She couldn't have been that strong, right? But what I really wanted to know was how did she do that with the vines? She can't have magic. So how did she do that? Maybe she was the one who stopped my magic. But then again, how? I was getting more questions than answers. But at that moment, I knew I had to get out of there and fast. I didn't even waste a second. I ran as fast as I could. Faster then I have even run in my life. But just as I thought I was free, that was when I saw it.

A pony about 3 feet taller than me. It looked like it had been skinned. For all, I could see was muscles, bones, and blood. It had no eyes with teeth that were far too big for its mouth. It opened its mouth and let out a demonic roar. I turned and ran as fast as my legs would carry me.

Unfortunately for me, it had friends, lots of friends. All around me were creatures that were meant to be ponies but we're far from it. Some were small with only half a body. Some were headless with a body of metal instead of skin. Others were huge and had skin that looked like it had been burned with blood oozing from its mouth and eyes. I was surrounded by ponies...monsters. It was so unreal. It was like I was in a horror film or worse, hell.

Anypony that looked alive and real was being ripped apart by the monsters. They cried and screamed for their lives. Some even tried fighting back and run away. None were lucky. I had to getaway. But just as turned around, I was face to face with the one I first saw. I panicked, my eyes widened as the creature began to move towards me, bringing its shadows and other creatures with it. I turned and ran. I couldn't fly, nor run forever. But I knew I had to getaway. I wished that Discord would show up and save me. I knew he wouldn't be able to help a lot, but at least, I wouldn't have felt so alone.

I could feel the creatures behind me. They were quickly gaining up to me. I could practically smell its breath over my shoulder; it reeked of blood. I dared not to look back. I just kept running. But I was losing a lot of blood and my broken wing made it harder to run. I was losing too much energy. It didn't take long for them to catch up to me.

The creature suddenly pounced onto me, burying its teeth deep within my back. I felt my rib cage crack and an unimaginable amount of pain course through my whole body. The creature began thrashing and throwing me around and I screamed. My vision became red and blurry as I felt my blood run across my body. The creature threw me like a ragdoll, shattering several more bones. With one final throw, my body was lurched forwards and skidded across the ground. I couldn't move, I couldn't fight, I couldn't getaway. I just laid there as more creatures came up to me. I closed my eyes, preparing myself for what was going to happen next. Many of the smaller ones started biting me. I could feel their claws digging through my insides and ripping my limbs apart. I didn't scream, though. I didn't have the strength to scream anymore. Even when I tried to scream, the creature I first encounter coughed up blood into my mouth. That was when I remembered.

"Fine then, I'll show you all of it, princess!"

Was this what she meant? That I would die by creatures that were beyond death itself? Would I die by these demons? I looked up only to see one of them holding a torch that was lit. My eyes widened. I was praying and hoping that they weren't going to use it on me. But as the creature got closer, my hopes faded. It took one final look at me, then drop the torch. It didn't take long at all. I was quickly lit up into flames. I screamed and screamed and screamed, waiting for my body to finally give up and died. Even with me on fire, the creatures were still attacking me. Still screaming, I closed eyes, waiting for my painful death to come.

"Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna!" The demons mocked me.

"Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna!" I continued to scream.

"Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna!" The voices turned into one and started to change. It was calmer but alarming.

"Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna, Luna!" It started to sound familiar, but I was far too scared to open my eyes. I could still feel the pain coursing through my body.

"Luna, open your damn eyes. It's me, Discord!"

I now heard his voice, but I continued to scream. I felt him shaking me over and over again. But I still wouldn't open my eyes. It wasn't until I felt a slap across my face when I finally opened up my eyes. The bodies, the creatures, the flames that surrounded me were gone. Everything was normal as if nothing happened. It was just the graves, me and Discord.

"What the heck was going on, Luna? I was freaking out when I heard you screaming. But when I found you, you were laying on the ground, screaming while tossing and turning.”

At this point, I was beyond stunned. What just happen? I didn't even know.

"You didn't see?"

"See what, Luna?" I could tell that he was concerned.

"The monsters...ponies being ripped apart...fire everywhere..." I didn't know what to say.

"Luna, slow down. You're not making any sense. Even for me."

I couldn't speak. All I did was looked around utterly shock. Everything that just happened was hard to even comprehend. It was too much for me. I finally felt my body giving out.

"Luna, Luna stay with me. Luna, Luna, Luna!" Was the last thing I heard before my world trailed off into a mist of blackness.

Author's Notes:

This chapter took a little bit more time to write, but I got it done. Hope you liked it. Thanks to ShadowstarEX for the edit and the bad words. I also thank Grammarly for being a site that actually makes a difference in my writing. You should try it. It really works.

Till next time!!!!!