Nightmare Moon grunted loudly as she slammed into the wet ground of the Everfree Forest. Sliding a few feet, she came to a stop next to a tall spruce tree. Panting, the mare shook her head and clenched her eyes shut tightly, groaning in pain. She was pretty sure she had broken her rear left leg on impact. Red hot pulses of pain coursed through said leg, making Nightmare grit her teeth as she attempted to stand up. Rain poured down from above, dripping off the leaves and landing on her bruised body. The light tapping of water hitting her armor, piercing the otherwise quiet rainstorm.

Flapping her wings to steady herself, Nightmare Moon began limping forward towards the main path about 20 feet ahead of her. It's where she had been aiming when she made re-entry to the planet, but had missed it by a couple dozen feet due to the cloud cover. Before she could pull away it was too late, and she had slammed into a thick elm tree before bouncing off its branches and coming to a stop by the spruce tree.

Reaching the path a minute later, she looked both ways down it. Nopony. With warm tears dripping down her cheeks, mixing with rain water, Nightmare Moon began limping east down the overgrown path.

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After a half hour of trotting in that direction, she came to a break in the trees. A massive clearing with a daisy field rolling over green hills. Pushing herself to move forward, she took weight off her broken leg using her wings. She couldn't fly due to her flight feathers having been singed off upon re-entry, and she was very lucky most of her feathers and fur were there to keep her slightly warm from the cold rain. As she continued along the path, she noticed a very old and dilapidated looking wooden sign standing next to a tree. Moving closer to it, the mare used her magic to brush away the vines and overgrowth covering it.

"Welcome to Ponyville, Village of Harmony"
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Nightmare Moon stared at the sign for a minute, rain dripping from her muzzle as she read the name.

"Ponyville..." she whispered quietly to herself.

Looking up, she continued down the path and up a hillside. When she reached the top, she got a good view of the valley below her. Letting out a small gasp, the mare of darkness collapsed onto her side, staring down at the ruins of the once bustling little town. Half of the buildings were either collapsed or simply not there anymore, and the other half were still standing but badly damaged. No lights were visible from where she lay, covering her mouth with a hoof, she began to cry. Why? How? When? What did this? Dozens of questions raced through her mind as her vision blurred and fresh tears rolled down her cheeks. She knew she had been gone for some time, but she expected at least Ponyville to still be around.

Forcing herself to get up, Nightmare Moon slowly made her way into town. As she passed the old structures, the only sounds she heard was the wind blowing through the streets and the rain bouncing off the buildings around her. Looking ahead, she saw Sugarcube Corner, it's wooden sign hanging halfhazardly by a single chain and windows shattered beyond recognition. Limping forward, the princess pushed open the weathered door and fell inside. Panting, she looked up and over at the old fireplace. Reaching out with her hooves, Nightmare Moon pulled herself forward. Surprisingly the fireplace still had wood inside. Gasping, she weakly lit her horn and set the logs on fire. Closing her eyes, Nightmare relaxed her body and sniffled, her breathing still thick and heavy.

"Hello?" A voiced called out suddenly. "Is anypony in here?"

Nightmare Moon gasped and grunted, trying to get up and hide in a closet to her left. The voice had come from upstairs. Whimpering softly, the mare fell back to floor as she tried to sit up, too weak to do anything but lay there on her side as tears ran down her face.

"Hello??" The voice called out again. Hoofsteps sounded from above her as someone came downstairs.

Swallowing the growing lump in her throat, she knew she would be spotted if she didn't hide. Trying to get up once more, her legs wobbled underneath her and the princess once more fell to the floor with a hard thud. As she landed however, her broken leg hit a chair leg and Nightmare let out a cry of pain.

"Ahhhhh!!" She shrieked, panting as she clenched her eyes shut tightly. The hoofsteps quickened as the pony came downstairs into the room. Nightmare heard him come closer as the floor vibrated with each step.

"No... please.. don't hurt me," she pleaded softly, curling up as best she could and covering her body with her wings. A calm and soft voice whispered from above her as the pony kneeled next to her.

"Relax ma'am, I'm not going to hurt you."

Opening her eyes, the princess looked up at the stallion leaning over her. He was all white, with a blue mane. A long horn protruded from his head and a pair of large feathery white wings lay folded on his back.

"My name is Polar, Polar Icestorm. I am the keeper of Ponyville. I mean you no harm miss..." he let the word trail off in a "and your name is?" way.

"Luna.. Princess Luna," Nightmare Moon said quietly.

"Wait.. THE Luna? From the ancient stories of olden Equestria?"

Nightmare nodded softly and shivered.

"Y-yes.. please don't hurt me. I didn't mean to intrude on your home.."

Polar shook his head, smiling politely.

"It's no problem at all Princess Luna. Let me take a look at that leg, looks like you busted it pretty badly." He said, running a hoof over it very softly to feel for the break. Nightmare watched, as the stallion lit his horn and pointed it at her leg. Gasping, she pulled her leg away and cried out in pain as Polar lay a hoof on her side.

"Hey hey, its alright. Relax, I'm going to use a bone mending spell to fix it," he said. Nightmare looked at him, ears folded down. "I promise, you'll be okay Luna."

Princess Luna slowly moved her leg back down and continued watching him. Leaning over her broken leg once more, Polar lit his horn as a softly blue mist of magic shot out and began covering Nightmare Moons leg. The spell had a numbing effect for a few seconds, then everything felt cool, then warm, then cool again as the mist faded and Polar sat back up.

"There, I wouldn't stand on it for a day or so though. The new bone is still pretty tender and fragile. You can stay here with me as long as you need to," he said. Standing up and going to the nearby closet. Opening it, Polar got out a blanket, a towel, a pillow, and a mattress of some kind. The mattress was thin and crumpled up however. Trotting back over to her, the white stallion set the mattress down and lit his horn. As he grabbed the towel from the pile, the mattress began to magically fill with air. Luna looked over at it in wonder. Polar noticed her gaze and smiled.

"What? Never seen an air mattress before?" He asked chuckling, Nightmare shook her head. "Well, I'd give you my bed upstairs but it's really worn and not comfortable at all. Plus you need to stay by the fire to warm up. Oh, which reminds me. Can you dry off? Or do you need some help?" He asked, holding up the towel. Nightmare Moon knew she was in no condition to do anything for herself if she couldn't even move a few feet.

"I.. I'll require your help Polar. However... I ask you please to not touch me.. wrongfully." She whispered quietly. The stallion nodded, a more serious look crossing his face.

"I understand princess, I give you my word on Celestia that I will respect your private areas. I am not like most stallions. My father raised me to respect mares." Polar said, taking her armor off and setting it aside. Setting the towel over her, he began to dry her off. Running the warm towel through her mane and across her stomach. After a minute, he tossed it aside and stood up.

"There we go, all dry. I'll go fetch you some water and vegetable soup. I just made a fresh pot, then we can talk and get to know one another better."

Princess Luna nodded and closed her eyes, covering herself with a wing as Polar trotted away into the kitchen.

Hello! And welcome to my new story involving Luna as the main character. You may have noticed I gave her feathered wings instead of bat wings. I found it would be interesting to make her half transformed instead of fully. Thanks for reading the first chapter, I hope there will be many more to come as this is a story I've been wanting to write since September last year but didn't have the time to. I hope it gets a lot of thumbs up, and good comments. I will advise you though, future chapters will have sexually explicit content. So view at your own discretion. Other than that, I'm happy to have you here.