(Back to the past, on the day Arden and Zecora finally admitted their feelings. Session for his third time on the arenas)

"What are you doing?" Nightmare asked as Arden pressed his forehead against the floor. "Are you finally acknowledging my powers? Are you finally admitting that I am your queen?"

"No," Arden replied without moving. "I am apologizing for any harm I might have brought your way in the last two nights. I was not myself, but that is inexcusable. When we are in here, I am the one depending upon your abilities. I only remember bits and pieces of the night when we found the two doors. And I am not proud of what I remember. No amount of hurt justifies being that aggressive towards you. Especially when you've been coming to me every night and aiding me in my healing."

Arden stopped his speech for a moment in order to breath. "I didn't show any sort of regard towards your efforts or safety. And I can only imagine what I might have done in the second night."

"Lift your head, peasant," Nightmare Moon said almost commanding him. "Stand proud, for your humility is acknowledged."

Arden let out a sigh of relief. 'A bit demanding. But I’m very glad she doesn't hold it against me.' He thought as he got back on his hooves and looked at her.

"Is the helmet new?" He asked while gazing at the blue piece of armor. "I think that you look better without it, but...given the fact that we are heading into battle. I think it's a good call to have it."

"Y-yes, it is new," Nightmare replied looking away. "Now, let us chase the monsters!" she said before walking out of the room.

Arden felt a smile form in his face, she was the same, even with his major screw up. Scratching the back of his head, Arden thanked whoever watched over him and made him so blessed by having so many good-hearted beings that were in his path. Quickly following Nightmare, Arden found himself opening the door for an arena bathed in golden sunlight.

Arden allowed his eyes to get comfortable with the lighting, once his head didn't hurt any longer, Arden looked around. Right by his side, a mushroom thirteen was standing by him. It held a black book in its little claws, it looked upwards at Arden. Then it lifted the book opening the tome.

"Um, I know you guys, in particular, aren't hostile...but why are you showing me..." Arden stopped mid-sentence, the book had statistics on him. His height, his attack power, his magical abilities, and his battle traits. It was all in a different language, a bunch of symbols. One word seemed to be highlighted in red, Arden reached for it. Once his fingers touched the paper, the word shifted into letters he understood, it also had an explanation on the words.

"Berserker? By abdicating defense, he can bring greater strength to his blows? Wrath's revenge...the greater the damage he receives...the stronger his blows?" Arden tilted his head as he read those words. "What did I do during these last two sessions?"

"What are you staring at?" Nightmare inquired from behind Arden. When she saw the mushroom, Arden noticed she was acting weird around the little creature. "Why is it here?"

"I think this little guy is keeping data on us for this little tournament," Arden replied looking back at the book. Turning a few pages he saw more letters he could actually read. "E.P? 236? Stock..." Arden touched the last word and list emerged from the pages.

It had many items, many of them were accompanied by a red 'x' by the name. Only a handful of them didn't have those markings. The only problem was that the names were once again in letters Arden could read.

"Body armor? Mind anklet? What are these things?" Arden turned around to face Nightmare again. "What?"

"You can read these?" The response he got was a positive nod. "You got to teach me these later. If you don't mind that is."

"Seeking knowledge? Didn't take you for a scholar. You acted more like a barbarian."

"Regarding the question, yes. Now about the insult, I'll have you know that I was a medical student. A doctor in training if you may. I just happened to land in a bunch of unfortunate situations."

"I think you just weren't cut out for it," Nightmare said smirking. Arden rolled his eyes at her remarks. "Either way, you seem a bit curious about the book's contents. Show me what you want to know and I'll translate."

"Thanks!"

With a translator to aid him. Arden figured out what the book was, putting it simply the book was a menu of sorts. From defeating the creatures they got items that gave them small advantages in the fights. The little icons indicated that the one who held the item couldn't use it. There also 'Evolution Points' those were used to increase their statistics. Apparently, the battle traits were something that emerged based on how they fought. Arden had only two, Nightmare...she had plenty. 'Magical knight', 'Aerial soldier', 'Baku devourer', the list kept going.

Arden also figured out how to equip the items, the only thing he could equip were buttons that appeared on his wrists and brooches that appeared on his lapel, but he could only equip one. Since he didn't want to take off the other brooch he had. It was the first gift he ever got that wasn't related to any mission or requirements for his training. Even if it came from a being that wants to take over his mind.

'At the very least...her new get-up looks nice. The blue and silver really do suit her.' Arden thought once they were both done equipping themselves.

"Now, forward to battle!"

(A week later, present session)

"Luna, slowly move away from it."

"Does thou think that We are afraid of such a creature? It is nothing but the kind watchdog of Tartarus."

"The one you know of might be, but this one? It only yields to two beings, the god of the underworld, and an angry ancient Greek hero. And you are neither. So, back away. Before one of them decides to make you into a snack."

Luna completely ignored the warnings Arden gave her, she simply stepped closer to the gigantic, black, three-headed dog that stared at her with its red eyes. Luna slowly raised her hand in an attempt to pet the dog, then she stood still while the dog slowly approached her. Luna must have believed everything was under control until she jumped backward. Avoiding the loss of her arm to the massive beast's jaws, Luna started running as soon as she noticed the dog didn't take her dodging very kindly.

"BAD DOG! YOU ARE A VERY BAD DOG! DOWN! I SAID DOOOOOOOWN!"

"YOU STUPID MUTT!" Arden shouted as he tossed his weapon straight at the Cerberus’ left head, hitting its eye.

The dog stopped chasing Luna, the three heads stared at Arden. Arden gulped as he slowly walked sideways, the monster turned around and positioned itself ready to jump at Arden.

‘I fucking hate this dog,’ Arden thought before he started to run like crazy, just as Cerberus hopped towards him.

Arden jumped up right before the dog hit the ground creating a shockwave. ‘Knowing how he actually fights is a good thing.’ Arden looked back at it and saw the creature make the central head move back as both of the rights and left heads swung to the sides. Given the distance between him and the dog, Arden knew what came up next.

‘Fuck this fight! I found it more entertaining when it happened on a screen!’

Arden jumped and used his arms to keep the dog’s upper jaws from bitting him, while his feet used the lower teeth of the creature’s heads as platforms. Looking forward, Arden saw the central head snarling at him, droll rolled down its teeth as it prepared to lunge at Arden.

‘Don’t fuck it up, Don’t fuck it up, Don’t fuck it up!’ Arden thought as he directed both heads down while using them to propel himself upward, straight into the path of the central head's lunge.

Stretching both his arms and legs, Arden kept Cerberus from using him as the next dish. The head shook violently to the sides as Arden held on for dear life. Arden looked to his left, another head was going straight for him. Arden quickly forced the lower jaw downwards and stood on the upper teeth, then he jumped as high as he could.

"Grab on!" Arden heard as he started his ascension, instinctively reaching towards the voice Arden was carried away. Arden looked down and saw the dog was still at a loss as to what just happened.

"Luna! Toss me with everything you have at Cerberus!"

"Are thou insane?!"

"JUST DO IT!"

"Thou are on your own!" Luna shouted as she spun around and tossed him directly at the dog’s back.

Arden clenched his fist and swung at the base of the neck of the central head. The impact made the dog fall to the ground, Arden rolled down to the side and hit the ground. Getting up as fast as he could, Arden started to punch the dog’s torso as fast as he could. Cerberus started to roll over and go towards the edge, Arden felt his fists hurting as he kept punching it and since the body was moving, Arden had to keep moving forward to hit the dog.

When he landed the final blow, the dog flew off the arena hit the wall and fell into the pit. Arden stood there by the edge panting hard as he fell on his behind. The sound of flapping wings made him look back.

"Thou needs to attend to a doctor," Luna said crossing her arms and looking down at him. "How were thou able to send such a creature flying like that?"

"T-those...battle traits...you saw...back in the book," Arden said in between his breathing, "t-they...gave me...a boost in strength..."

"Very well. Then are We correct to assume this victory made us reach the first ranking in this tournament?"

"You can bet your moon on that!" Arden said giving her a thumbs up, Luna simply rolled her eyes at his remark.

The room around them started to dissolve, eventually returning to the shapes of the previous ones. At the center of the room, there was a pedestal with a trophy on top of it. The trophy was a black urn with the three heads of Cerberus carved into it, it had two oddly-shaped handles placed by its sides. Arden got back on his feet and walked towards his weapon.

"I guess we are ready to get the other side of that door," Aredn said picking up the sword. The weapon disappeared in a flash of light. "I guess we won't be needing them anymore. I kinda liked the idea of using them. Unless..." Arden extended his arm and closed his hand, almost as if he was grabbing Oathkeeper. "...I don't know what I was expecting."

"Are thou going to make us wait?" Luna asked opening the door back to the previous room. "Your time is short, let us see what lies beyond the locked door."

Arden shrugged and headed towards the trophy, he grabbed it and went after Luna. She was waiting by the locked door, Arden went towards the empty pedestal and placed the urn there. The weight of the urn made the pedestal sink into the ground, a clicking sound echoed through the room. Suddenly, the stone wall started to crack and crumble until there was only a regular door made out of wood.

Arden looked at Luna. She had her arms crossed and was tapping her hooves on the ground. "I'll open it, just thought you would have some sort of comment about the door."

"There is no need for comment. Just let us see what lies beyond."

Arden laughed at that. ‘Guess being stuck alone makes you way easier to impress,’ he thought as he grabbed the doorknob and twisted it. Beyond it, a scenario a bit different than the previous ones laid in wait. An enormous tower reached out to an almost invisible ceiling, giving it the impression that what was above them was the sky.

Arden entered the room and walked around the tower, though its height was impressive, the diameter was way smaller. A very odd construction, to say the least. It looked like it could crumble at any given moment.

The tower had a stairs running by its side. Every now and then Arden could see the stairs stopping by a door, and at the opposite side, on the exact level, there was another door and more stairs. The world started to become harder to see, Arden had just finished walking around the building when he heard Luna's voice from behind him.

"These constructs never cease to amaze."

"Glad you liked it," Arden replied looking at the fading image Luna of disguised as Nightmare. "Thank you for the help. Without you and Nightmare I would still be stuck in the center room."

"We suppose we should also thank thee for providing such entertaining nights. Be grateful mortal! For we shall continue to assist thee through these trials."

"And this lowly mortal thanks thee," Arden replying bowing to her. Then in a sudden movement, he stood up straight and laughed. "Sorry, I can't keep too serious with you around. It would be weird. Seriously though, thank you! Let’s keep up the good work!"

And with that, Arden woke up. Returning to Zecora, returning to reality.

(The following night)

“Just a second. These locks are getting harder to unlock without making it tighter,” Nightmare heard as she felt her body being moved around, a clicking sound came forth and she felt her limbs coming free. She took off the blindfold and the gag before standing up.

“Took you long enough,” Nightmare said tossing the blindfold and gag to the side. This night she returned to her dresses, and also made a few accessories using a bit of magic and minerals from the moon. Luna helped her out with ideas on the shapes. The only thing that remained was the helmet.

‘Now that he acknowledges my strength, I need to make him acknowledge my beauty. Then he shall drop his guard and I can turn him into my servant...and toy.’

“Sorry, I was afraid of making your situation a bit more precarious by removing the wrong lock.”

“There is no need to bother, it no longer bothers me,” Nightmare replied before thinking about what she said.

“Okay...so you like it now?” Nightmare turned quickly around and pushed Wolf towards the wall that was behind him.

“Don’t you dare to assume or say anything about this to anypony, you better forget what you just heard,” she said in a stern tone while pointing at him with a calm smile on her lips. Making sure that she was very close to him, just so that he could pay attention to every detail she carefully laid out for him. The blue lipstick that stood out from the rest of her coat making her lips more visible, the eyeshadows on her eyelids, both with a touch of magic to make it sparkle in the light.

“I don’t know what you're talking about,” Wolf replied before dispersing and reappearing by her side. “How about we go to the tower before I start to forget more stuff? I'm very old after all.”

Nightmare raised an eyebrow at that. “How old are you?”

“Last I checked...two thousand years old,” Wolf said while heading towards the next rooms.

‘Immortal, eh? Or maybe he has a very long lifespan.’

Nightmare followed the tall creature. Before long she was at the base of the tower. Wolf walked to the base of the stairs and started to climb, Nightmare opened her wings and flew up.

‘Let’s see how high this goes.’ Nightmare thought as she flew up. However, her ascension was stopped by an invisible wall that she discovered by faceplanting on it.

“I guess that means no cheating.” Nightmare heard from behind her.

Nightmare looked back to see Wolf climbing the stairs, changing her course she landed in front of him and started to climb on hoof. It took a few moments, but they reached a strangely shaped door. A red insignia was carved in it, the insignia was pulsating with the same rhythm of a heart.

‘I don’t know this symbol...’

Nightmare looked back to Wolf and saw him staring at the door. He suddenly let out a laugh that sounded a bit forced, almost as if he was worried or embarrassed by something.

“I guess one of us will be having a lot of fun,” he said reaching for the door. A bright red light blinded Nightmare for a few seconds when her sight returned she saw that she was at a different place, alone.

“Wolf? WOLF?!” Nightmare yelled as she looked around. The room she where was it looked like some sort of holding cell, or a disposal area, being used to gruesome dreams and dark themes. She watched the floor covered in blood and viscera. Skulls were visible ornamenting the walls along with spines and corpses, limbs were scattered across the floor. The marks on those body parts indicated that they were ripped off from their original places.

Torn muscles, ripped torsos, mangled bodies, and faces of creatures she didn’t recognize were hanging from chains that came out of the ceiling where she could see a sky as red as blood through the rusty metal grates above her head and below her hooves. Nightmare looked at herself, her body seemed to be covered by some sort of green armor. She realized she was wearing a helmet because of the fog her breathing generated on the glass.

Suddenly, the glass lit up and the fog disappeared. Small displays appeared before her eyes, on the left side there was a blue bar with the number two hundred fifty by it, above it a thinner green bar with the number one hundred fifty by its side. On the right, the drawing of something she didn't recognize accompanied by a blue bar and numbers. Underneath it, there were five red bars and four green ones.

“Nightmare!” Nightmare jumped as she heard that, the voice was Wolf’s, however, he was nowhere to be seen. “Can you hear me?”

“I can hear you. But I can’t see you.”

“Just give me a moment,” There was silence and suddenly a little circle appeared above the bars on her left side. “Okay...I turned into VEGA.”

“What are you talking about? Where are you?”

“Uh, don’t freak out. But technically speaking...I’m inside your suit.”

“I’m taking this off!” Nightmare exclaimed before trying to rip off the helmet.

“Calm down! If you take these off they will tear you apart! It’s like I am an artificial soul that inhabits the armor! I’m here only for support and information! I can’t touch you or do anything to you. So calm down!”

“Who are “they”?”

“Er...are you familiar with the concept of demons?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, basically you’re what they fear. You are in a version of hell where a being they refer to as the “Slayer” massacres hell’s inhabitants. So, once we get through that door. Get ready to fight.”

As soon as Wolf finished saying that, a series of images of objects she didn’t know appeared in front of her. Where her eyes focused the object was highlighted, Nightmare stopped at what looked the simplest. Something started to move around her waist, Nightmare looked at it, one of the pockets on the belt was moving. Nightmare opened it and the object jumped off the pocket.

“Super shotgun? Easy to handle and massive damage. Good for close quarters. There is a little switch by the handle, press it and then grab the barrel. Pull it down and take the shells out. The pocket in front of the one you took the weapon out has the shells for it. It can hold two shells for each use. The trigger underneath the barrel needs to be pulled, just like a crossbow.”

“How are you familiar with these?”

“I hate these things. This was based off some weapons that existed back where I came from. I won’t deny they can have their uses in situations like these. Let’s leave it at that and turn these demons to stains on the walls. A fair trade for all the lives they took.” Wolf’s voice sounded bitter, he mentioned he was a healer in training. Maybe it had something to do with that.

Nightmare just nodded before heading towards the door, the markings on it were unfamiliar to her. As soon as she touched its surface, a flow of red energy ran through her arm. Just as suddenly as the flow started, it stopped, and a number appeared as a projection on her arm.

“One hundred? Is this our target?”

“I guess that’s the case. Mind I if say something, I think it is very appropriate?” Wolf asked, his voice sounded excited.

“As long as you don’t say anything stupid. Proceed.”

“They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you. You will be worse. Rip and tear, until it is done”

Nightmare heard the stone door moving, taking a few steps back she saw that beyond it. A wide arena with a thin layer of blood covering the floor, rusted metal spikes, and grates where all around the place. Chains rattled and dangled from the walls, Nightmare took a few steps in and red whirlwind appeared on the floor. From within it, A huge black creature with a white skull appeared.

“Hell knight! That thing is quick, keep moving and don't let it get too close.”

The monster roared at Nightmare and leaped toward her.

Nightmare rolled forward, passing right underneath the monster’s attack. Quickly turning around, Nightmare placed the gun’s end at the creature’s knee. Pulling the trigger, the creature’s leg was severed from its body. The monster let out a deafening roar as it swiped its claw trying to slice Nightmare. Ducking, she dodged the monster's attack while repositioning herself in front of him.

She placed the barrel’s end at the monster’s mouth and pulled the trigger. There was only a clicking sound, she pulled it again and again. Nothing, Nightmare felt the creature’s grip upon her torso. The monster prepared to grab her neck with its other claw, Nightmare held the weapon by the barrel and swung it at the creature’s skull. The monster’s head swung to the side and it dropped her, Nightmare saw an orange aura around the beast.

“Finish him with your hands!” Nightmare reacted on instinct, she jumped straight at the monster’s head. Grabbing its jaw and skull, Nightmare tore them apart and then beat the skull using the jaw. "That wasn't exactly how you use a shotgun...but effective nevertheless."

The creature’s body fell to the ground before it slowly dissolved itself into red energy, a bunch of blue capsules popped out the knight. The capsules stayed on the ground, Nightmare was about to reach for them when she heard screams and roars from all around her.

Looking around, Nightmare saw monsters crawling down the walls. Others hovered down using some sort of weird metal thing she didn’t recognize, there are some others that materialized on the floor. Some sort of twisted creature with flesh coming out of what looked like remnants of armor, small and fragile looking creatures crawled out of the ground.

“We got imps, possessed soldiers, and a Mancubus! Nightmare! Run and reload your weapon!”

Nightmare tried to do as he had instructed her, but being unacquainted with the weapon she only managed to drop it while running. Taking Wolf’s advice, Nightmare ran and ran around the arena, dodging the endless assault of fireballs and projectiles that were fired her way. When Nightmare was near a huge bloating monster with green armor and what looked like two canons in its hands.

“Use this! Press the button with your right thumb and then tear that thing to shreds!” Wolf’s voice made her reach for the pocket where she took the first weapon out. A strange device with an orange handle jumped out of the pocket, doing as she was told, Nightmare pressed the button.

The device let out a sound like it was roaring, black smoke came out of it. Nightmare pierced the monster's stomach, the machine kept roaring while she tore through the monster’s flesh until she opened a road straight to the monster's shoulder. Looking at the result, Nightmare let out a terrifying laugh. She jumped off the monster’s corpse and saw a red orb right behind it.

Nightmare jumped and grabbed it, a surge of rage and power ran through her mind. Nightmare could hear voices in her head screaming and ordering her to crush her opponents.

“Nightmare, what are you doing?” Nightmare ignored Luna’s voice.

“Luna?! How are you here?”

“Wolf?! How can you hear me?”

While the two quieter voices argued, Nightmare heeded the third voices’ requests and rushed the monsters. Tearing their limbs with her bare hands, Nightmare kept slaughtering the demons like they were made of paper.

“RIP AND TEAR! DIE YOU PUTRID PILE OF FLESH!” Nightmare roared as she used a creature’s legs to remove the head of the another that was trying to attack her.

“Nightmare?!”

“She got the berserker pack, didn’t she?”

“I’LL TEAR OUT YOUR GUTS! I WILL BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR CHILDREN!”

“...”

“KNEEL BEFORE THE MISTRESS OF THE NIGHT!”

“Luna, I hold no responsibility for what comes out of her mouth right now.”

“This...”

“Luna, please don’t kill me.”

“This...”

“I swear that this is temporary.”

Their voices were becoming clearer, the rage was subsiding. Nightmare was becoming calmer, and her body was heavy.

“This looks entertaining!”

“Pleas-....wait, what?”

“Nightmare, please let us try!”

Nightmare obliged to the request, her vision was slightly hazy due after the voices telling her to kill went completely quiet. She then sat back and watched Luna have her way with the creatures, pulling out different weapons out of her pockets, Luna slaughtered them with ease. It was almost unnatural how easily she was following Wolf’s instructions. Nightmare could hear her laughing, she could see what she was doing to the demons. It was the most fun she and Luna ever had in a while, and that was only the beginning. For all the corpses they pilled up, they only reduced the number to seventy-five.

“I think the number is actually a percentage. So we need to-”

“BOW BEFORE YOUR PRINCESS!”

“Holy shit! She pulled out the Gatling gun!”

“That ought to be fun. I need to try that out later.”

“And I thought I was insane.”

A rainstorm of projectiles fell towards the monsters as the weapon made a rattling noise. The door at the end of the arena opened, Nightmare watched Luna rush towards the door and ripped the demons to shreds using the weapon Wolf referred to as 'Gatling gun'. Luna caught a yellow orb while doing so. Suddenly, Luna started to move faster than usual.

“FASTER! FASTER! FASTER! The night is young and we seek their demise!”

“Nightmare, should I be concerned with both of you enjoying this too much?”

“I do not know what you’re talking about.”

By the time she reached the top of the stairs, Luna had reduced the percentage to forty-eight percent. Around that time, the yellow aura that was around their body disappeared. Luna started to pant and placed her hand over her chest, it didn't take long for her to lean on a wall by the door.

“Better switch, Luna.”

“You two can do that so seamlessly. It’s kinda cree-. Hostiles, six crawling from the ceiling!”

“Reduce them to ash, Nightmare.”

“You two already swapped?! Never mind! Use this one!”

Nightmare reached for her pockets and pulled out a white weapon, quickly pointing the weapon to the demons, Nightmare pulled the trigger and held it. The weapon didn’t fire, but her helmet showed a blue bar filling up. The weapon shook as a blue glow emerged from its top, the demons drew ever nearer.

“Let go of the trigger now!”

Nightmare Moon did as commanded and a massive blue beam shot through all the demons, making them drop to the floor like ragdolls before their bodies turned into red energy and dispersed. forty-five percent were left.

“Meet the Gauss Cannon. Enjoy it while you can, because I’ll make sure none of these things ever stay with either you or Luna.”

Nightmare ignored his remark and kicked the next door open, the following room revealed to be an enormous round platform suspended by old chains that looked a bit precarious. At the center, multiple demons were hopping around and growling, some roared and screeched as they seemed to try and advance towards her. Nightmare prepared another blast with the weapon she had in hand, however, just as she started to charge the blast, a monster with pink skin covered in red scales charged at Nightmare.

Nightmare jumped over the attacker, the moment it went underneath the door Nightmare had come through, a blade fell down and separated the creature into two. Still charging the shot, Nightmare pointed at the crowd of howls and screams and fired the beam. Corpses fell as the remaining adversaries looked at their fallen comrades and then ran towards Nightmare in a crazed frenzy. She tried to charge another shot, however, the weapon just made a weird sound and it didn’t charge up.

“Nightmare! Use this one! Jump and then shot in a straight line!”

Nightmare tossed the weapon aside and did as Wolf told her to, heavy green weapon came out. Jumping as high she was able, due to the weapon’s weight limiting that, she pulled the trigger. A green energy orb shot from the barrel, green lighting shot from it. Each lighting strike connected to a demon, that was stopped on their tracks. They fell to the ground screaming while they clawed their own bodies, almost as if they wanted to get the energy out.

The sphere kept going until it hit the door on the opposite side, it exploded. The demons that were agonizing on the floor, started to explode one by one. Five percent remained after that attack, Nightmare looked at the weapon and smiled. She walked towards the center of the platform, no demons materialized as Nightmare passed through the center.

“Nightmare! Above you! A baron of hell!”

The warning came too late, the demon landed behind her and grabbed her. Tearing the gun away from her hands, it tossed Nightmare to the floor making her bounce and nearly fall off the edge. She pulled herself up and then stood up as fast as she could.

“Are you okay?!”

“Nightmare, your armor was depleted. From now on you’ll feel the damage. You’re low on ammo and fuel. Get to the door!”

“And run away from the fight?”

“Do you want to win?”

“Yes.”

”Then do as I say!”

Nightmare ran towards the door while trying to evade the attack from the monster when she was halfway through. Another weapon popped out from her pocket, a small one-handed weapon.

“Run backward, then leap toward the door! Then shoot the chains!”

“I like the way you think!”

Nightmare Moon did as she was told to, shooting the chains as she traveled through the air. One shot per chain caused the platform to start shaking and made it less stable, once the last chain was severed, the platform fell and the Baron fell into the pit while roaring. Nightmare looked at the number on her arm turned to zero.

“And that’s a wrap! Got to say that you two seem to be more insane than me. And that's saying something.”

“That was a quick way to end it. Nicely done,” She replied ignoring his remark.

“Are you being nice to a commoner? Ok, we lost her doctor!”

“I-I mean, that was an adequate method to solve the problem.”

The room started to dissolve, it didn't take long for Nightmare to find herself inside a dark blue room. Nightmare looked at her hands and realized that the armor was gone, Nightmare also felt a weight on her shoulders. Looking up, she saw Wolf sitting on her shoulders with his arms crossed. He looked down on her and tilted his head.

“I was kinda wondering why I was so tall,” he said before dispersing and reforming himself in front of her. “All that and we only got through one floor...That makes me worry a bit,” Wolf said heading towards the door. He opened it and stepped outside. Nightmare followed.

“I think you might want to be thankful for all we just did,” Nightmare said looking down. They had actually made a lot of ground towards the top. And they had access to even more now.

“I guess so,” Wolf commented carefully looking down to the floor, one of his hands was trembling a bit. Nightmare gave him a little tap on the back making him lose his balance and then grabbed him before pulling him back towards her. “What was that for?!”

“Afraid of height are we?”

“Very much! I have a bit of a bad record with falls. Therefore I’m more cautious! Don’t do that ever again!” He pushed her away and nearly fell again. Nightmare grabbed him by the hand and pulled him to the door. “Thanks.”

“Don’t mention it.” Wolf stared at her for a few moments in silence after Nightmare said that.

‘Good, I think this is working. This is what it will take to get you to be my little soldier. My little puppet...my toy.’

The world around her started to fade, time was up again. After a few seconds, Nightmare found herself back on the moon. Being back to her room, Nightmare went to her chair by the window and looked back to the planet she aimed to rule.

‘I’ll have it all, then Luna won’t have to worry anymore.’

“You can’t...trust...”

Author's Notes:

Alright! Sorry for the delay, trying to keep up with everything takes a lot of effort and getting these with the quality I want makes this take longer.

Thank you for reading all of this. Please tell me what you think about the chapter!

Thought of the day:

Write and create, the acts that set the stage.
Reading and imagining sets all into motion.
Though the imagination of the reader is of great importance,
Never forget that the writer also bears a heavy burden.
So please tell me before I leave:
Can you bear the burden of setting these lives?
Can you care for the beings you create? Or are they just words on a monitor or paper?