"It's a Moon Thing Chapter 8"
By lulzies (https://pastebin.com/u/lulzies)

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Created on: Sunday 2nd of September 2012 10:57:58 AM CDT
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Chapter 8

>Celestia’s usual white coat suddenly drains of life, turning pale.
>She stares at something behind you, as if you were invisible.
>Your moment of anger is suddenly interrupted by her lack of reaction.
“C-celestia?”
>Maybe you pushed too far.
>She lost it.
>She’ll now whoop your ass to the moon and shove bananas and moon rock up your ass until you go fat.
>And you’ll probably commit suicide if you had a gut.
“Something I said?”
>”L-L-L-“ Celestia begins to stutter.
“L- what?”
>Celestia goes silent, and slowly raises a hoof to point behind you.
>The hoof in question is shaking like a leaf.
>You groan in frustration, and turn around.
>You see two teary emerald eyes staring right at you, slowly turning violent.
>Your own face drain of color and you immediately turn back to your seat.
>You take one last look at Celestia, and mutter which would be your last words.
“Fuck.”
>Of course, you had other worlds to say.
>Your trail of thought was quickly cut away by the sudden explosion of dark magic.
>As you hit the table with your face, you already have a clear idea who it is.
>Nightmare moon.

>You only awake to screams and shrieks of ponies.
>You slowly lift yourself up, fragments of the table sliding off your arm.
>You pick off some broken pieces of the ceiling off your head.
>You slowly get up, taking note of the cracked and fallen table under you.
>Surely your head can’t be that hard.
>You see the fallen chandelier on the table as well, broken glass is littered everywhere.
>Walls seems to have been chipped away, you see cracks and inner workings of walls everywhere.
>You limp your way to the windows, all shattered, revealing the city below, covered in chaos.
>Darkness slowly covers the landscape, the screams and panic increasing in volume.
>You rest on one of the walls, nursing your wounds.
>You’re pretty sure someone dropped the damn ceiling on you.
>You begin your path down a familiar hallway, right to Luna’s room.
>Well, your conscience won’t stop bugging you about fucking things up this bad.
>The castle seems deserted.
>You can hear echoes of ponies moving here and there, but none enter your sight.
>The bright sunlight is slowly fading away, as you see a certain energy forcing it down.
>The celestial body soon disappears behind the horizon, taking away the light.
>The castle is bathed in darkness, and you find yourself blind for a while.
>You stumble around, hunched like an idiot, with arms going about like feelers.
>Your movement is slowed to a crawl- because you were actually on the ground.
>Your eyes slowly adjust, picking up small illuminations.
>The entire castle is dead silent now, which only adds to the eerie chill down your spine.
>You walk on your toes, minimizing your movements.
>But thanks to your uncoordinated movements, your footsteps echo through the halls louder than ever.
>You freeze and you hear one of the doors creak open.
>It comes to a stop half way through.
>You hold your breath, and brace yourself for what monstrosities might come.
>You hear whispers behind the room, and suddenly- the door kicks open.
>It slams to the wall, and bounces back to close.
>Nightmare Moon really knows how to scare you.

>Pinkie grasped the door knob again, and began to push it again.
>”I-I don’t think that’s a great idea, Pinkie, what if they have-“ Fluttershy squeaked, and retreated into her mane. “M-M-Monsters?”
>The pink mare turned to her friend, and frowned.
>”There are no monsters, silly! It’s just dark and great evil is loose!”
>”Great evil?” Fluttershy gasped.
>”Who will EET YOUR SOUUUUULLL” Pinkie stood on her hind legs, and made circling movements with her front.
>Fluttershy let out an even larger squeak, and hid her face.
>Pinkie turned to the door again, and continued her stealth operations.

>You jump at the sight of the door opening up again.
>It stops halfway through again, and you catch a glimpse of a pink hoof.
>Does that look familiar to you?
>Yes, yes it does.

>”P-pinkie, why do you keep pushing that door?”
>”Because,” Pinkie hissed in her hushed shout. “I want it to open perfectly.”
>She waved Fluttershy away, and slowly opened the door.
>It creaked loudly, signaling their location.
“Hey girls!” Your head pops in.
>The two jump back, wrap around each other, and scream loudly.
>And in turn, you scream back.
>Fluttershy stops some way through, but Pinkie and you are going strong.
>After what felt like hours, the two of you stop, gasping for air.
>And once you grabbed a mouthful of air-
“IWONTHECONTEST”
>”IWONTHECONTEST”
>The two of you exclaim at the same time.
“Draw?”
>Pinkie thinks for a while, placing a hoof under her chin.
>”Hmmmmm…” She eyes you carefully, her eyeball actually sticking out to look up and down.
>She smiles, and grabs your hand.
>You don’t even.
>She gives it a firm shake.
>”DRAW!”
>She pulls out a pencil and a notebook.
“No, Pinkie, we have to-“
>”Aren’t you ponies subtle?” You hear a voice behind you.
>You turn around and see Twilight and the rest of the crew, clicking their tongues in raw disdain.
>”Pinkie, I thought I told you to stay quiet and get Fluttershy!”
>”I did, Twilight! Here she is!”
>Twilight doesn’t look very amused.
>”Right, Anon, you coming with us?”
“Yeah, out of here- right?”
>Twilight looks confused.
>”What about Princess Celestia? She’s battling Nightmare Moon!”
“So what, she’s-“ You pause, shot at by Twilight’s cold glare.
“I mean, go team Capri-Sun!”

>And so here you were, going with the Elements of Harmony to battle Nightmare with Celestia.
>To be frank, you were going to watch, maybe throw in some assuring words.
>Boy, it felt good to watch girls fight.
>You enter Luna’s room, initiated by a welcoming blinding light.
>When that subsides, you look up to see Celestia, locked in a beam-combat with Nightmare.
>Nightmare fought back with her shadows, and a navy blue aura.
>The two were even in combat.
>Well, almost.
>Nightmare wraps the room in a pitch black, tar-like substance.
>A limb begins to form behind Celestia, ready to strike her.
>”Girls! We ready?” Twilight shouts to her friends.
>They all nod in unison.
>And you’re just watching.
>As Twilight’s eyes began to glow, Celestia smiled.
>Got you again, Nightmare.
>You watch in awe as the Elements of Harmony began to charge, and-
>Poof, the glow is gone.
>In a blink of an eye, the six mares are knocked from their positions.
>Celestia watches her pupil get swept by the very appendage.
>”Fool! You’d believe I’d fall for the same trick?” Nightmare shouted.
>She began to cackle, as her magic increased in power.
>The shadows began to envelop Celestia, weakening her.
>Her smile faltered, and the look of pure terror filled her eyes.
>It desperately rolled around, searching for a reprieve.
>And then, it stopped on you.
>The cursed, magenta iris.
>You know what she is saying.
“No.” You say, crossing your arms.
>The eye silently begs at you.
“No matter how long you stare, it ain’t gonna work.”
>You look away, only to see your downed ‘friends’
>You never liked Rainbow Dash anyway.
>But you can’t help feeling bad.
>It was sorta your fault.
>You probably shouldn’t have shouted too hard.
>Maybe next time you’ll write Celestia a mean letter.
>If you get a next time.
>You jump right into the center of the room.
“Oh, fine, fuck!” You groan audibly.
“Nightmare!” You shout.
>Her maddened gaze falls on you, and you flinch at the invisible weight.
>”Anon?” You hear another familiar voice.
>The darkness suddenly pulls away, leaving the room spotless.
>It retreats into Nightmare’s body.
>And in a pop, Nightmare is back as Ol’ Luna.
>She quickly trots up to you, climbing up to your face.
>”Are you here to apologize and make up?” She asks gleefully.
>You grind your neck to Celestia, who is now lying on the floor, spent.
>She smiles and shrugs.
>You sigh.
“Y-yeah, I’m here to make it up. But first-“
>You are already blocking her lips with a finger.
“Can I talk to Nightmare?”
>”Nightmare? But she is so dangerous!”
“Precisely why.”
>”Anon, what are you-“ Celestia asks from the floor.
“Shh, I got this.” You silence her. “Will you let her out?”
>”I-I’ll try…” Luna’s spirit drops.
>She clenches her eyes, and begins to focus.
>All the shadow in the room begins to crawl to Luna.
>The darkness swirls around her, until you see Nightmare.
>She has the same idea with Luna, most likely.
>She goes up to your face again, barely an inch away.
>Seriously, this is getting old.
>”I knew you’d pick the better half of us.” She speaks in a sultry voice.
“C-can we talk?”
>Nightmare looks around the room, and looks at you as if you were an idiot.
>”No time like the present?”
“No, I mean- alone, somewhere solitary?”
>Her smile stretches wider.
>”Oh? Is that what you want?”
>She winks at you.
>You think your balls shrunk a little.
>Nightmare pulls away, and looks down in an unreadable expression.
>You turn to Celestia, to give an assuring smile.

>Celestia lay on the cold marble floor, watching Anonymous screw it all up.
>He said a few words, and Nightmare smiled.
>She thinks she saw Nightmare wink.
>As Nightmare pulled away from the conversation, Anonymous turned to smile and give a thumbs up.
>And that’s when you saw it.
>Nightmare opened her mouth, revealing her sharp canines.
>She brought them to Anonymous’ neck, whose eyes widened in shock.
>As soon as she bit him, Nightmare slowly melted away, slowly flowing into Anonymous.
>His face goes pale, and he goes limp.
>Nightmare is gone, and Luna plops to the floor.
>Anonymous, clutching his bleeding neck- falls to the floor as well- unmoving.
>Luna innocently comes up next to him, and nudged him with her snout.
>”Anon?” She whispered.
>Anonymous did not respond.
>”Anonymous?” She asked, through her tears.

>You shake the dust off you head, and slowly stand up.
>”So, what was this business you wanted?” You hear Nightmare above your head.
>She backs away slightly as you get up, giving you some room.
“W-where am I?” You stagger, as you try to get a hold of yourself.
>”That depends, Anon.” Nightmare smiles.

[For the ones who read the one-shot]

>”See, what did I tell you, isn’t the meeting nice?” Luna smiled as she poured the tea into the cup.
>Tiny goblets of the liquid flew away slowly dropping on the grey ground.
>”Isn’t this great, Anon?” Luna sipped on her tea.
>She sighed and looked back to Equestria, a small green world on the planet.
>She then looked over to your body, encased in an air bubble.
>You were still breathing, but unresponsive.
>Twilight said it was a coma.
>Luna watched your peaceful expression.
>”Enough tea with you, Anony.”
>She lifted her kettle, and pointed at someone else.
>She then put on an odd cap, and spoke with it.
>“And other Anon?” She asked to the white figure.