/ Taken/ Story: The Prince Of Darkness/ by ShadowStallion/-/
Nightmare Moon sat upon her throne that was now rubble. She looked upon the spot where the elements of harmony vanquished her... no not vanquish but torn from her host. She carried a solid form but not the soul to make her strong. She rose from her seat and paced around her throne room pondering what she could do to regain her former power. She stopped in front of a shattered window and gazed out at the setting sun, wishing it would be the last. How she despised Celestia's power. She thought about that word, power. She trotted towards the center room where the stones where once placed. She favored this location since it held the strongest dark power within her castle. The pillar in the center played more than just the role of holding the stone, it could be used to hone in traces of dark energy much like her own. She summoned up the weak amount of magic she had left in her body and activated the pillar. A dark mist surrounded it as the holders lit up. The pieces of stone that were destroyed in the other room reformed as they flew to their original place of resting. A dark light that was invisible to the naked eye, fired into the sky making the stars illuminate brighter than they already were.
She scanned distant worlds that are unable to be seen or haven't been documented. She closed her eyes as her magic unfurled in the vast darkness of the sky. After several hours with no results, she found it futile to continue. Just as her magic began to die down, she caught a glimpse of a faint trail of magic coming from a distant. Going for it, she put her magic into overdrive, putting all she had into it. Reaching a world that was mostly water, she began honing in on the location of her future partner.
Once she found him, she thought of him as a strange hairless ape that wore clothes. He wore a shirt with some creatures like himself on the front wearing some what disturbing masks. He had a long coat that went down to his ankles. His boots were black with a steel plate on the toe. The clothes on his legs were baggy and had chains hanging on the sides. Getting a good look at his face, she was able to figure out his name.
"Derek Mars? Odd name for a creature. Maybe it holds a meaning." She looked through the atlas of life that was written in the stars. She had to look quick, she sensed her magic dwindling.
"Mar... the roman god of war." She learned that Derek was quite possibly the descendant of a god that existed in his world ages ago. "A descendant of a god of war, how perfect." She pulled her magic from the pillar and looked towards a doorway. Using her magic, she summoned a portal in the door frame and prepared to charge through it.
A lone man walked down a dark alley, making his way to his apartment. He took long drags off his cigarette, relishing in the smooth menthol. Sometimes he wished he could get away from it all, not like anyone would miss him. His mother died when he was young and father didn't care much for him, his father kicked him out as soon as he was eighteen and never once talked to him since. Every relationship he had ended with them leaving for no specific reason or they just lost all interest in him. He couldn't keep a stable job since his boss always found someone better for the job. The only he found that kept him going was studying roman mythology. He looked at the setting sun in front of him and sighed. Sometimes he wished the sun would set and just stay down. Looking up into the cloudy sky, signaling that it was about to snow.
"Fuck I hate Minnesota." He said under his foggy breath. He tossed the rest of his cigarette in a patch of snow. As he continued walking, a spark flashed before him, making him stop in his tracks. Sparks flew from no where, swirling into a vortex. A bright purple oval appeared before his eyes, making his body shake in fear of what it his. His breath caught in his throat making it hard to breath.
"I found you... My prince of the night." He turned to face the person who spoke, only to find another portal. "Prepare yourself... for your future." A creature baring a horn and wings bolted out of the portal towards him. With it's shoulder, it knocked him through the portal and in a flash they were both gone.
He shakily recovered and got to his feet, trying the best he could to regain the breath that was knocked out of him. Leaning against a cold stone wall, he took in his surroundings.
"What the hell?" He said in ragged breaths. Looking around the new area, he started to panic. Questions of how he got here and where here is.
"Enjoy what you see? I hope so it will be your new home." He turned to the voice and saw what looked like a pony, only with wings and a horn.
" I say again, what the hell?" She chuckled at his reaction and walked up to him. He reached in his pocket and pulled out a switch blade knife. "Just stay away from me. And we can all walk away from this unharmed." Her horn illuminated as a purple smoke wrapped around his head.
"Just rest for now my dark prince." He suddenly felt insanely tired as he lost feeling in his legs, forcing him to collapse on the hard floor. She approached him and stood over his limp body. She could feel it the closer she got. He certainly carried a strong magic within him. She leaned down and breathed in his scent before giving a small smile. "You simply reek of magic, you just need to learn how to use it." She sat down and tried to levitate his body, but to no avail.
"...Damn it." Taking the collar of his coat into her mouth, she dragged him through the hallways to her bed chambers.
Derek awoke slowly, feeling as if he spent the entire night drinking the strongest alcohol there was. The bed he was on was tattered torn to pieces. "Jesus fuck, this bed looks like Jason and Freddy had rough sex on it."
"I assure you, no one had sex on my bed." He looked at the pony before him and groaned. "But if you wish for rough sex, I'm sure I can find somepony for you." She said with a grin. Derek got off the bed and stumbled towards her. She stood about the same height, give or take an inch.
"I'll have to pass on that. Now I think I deserve some god damn answers." She only smiled and leaned in to nuzzle his neck while inhaling his scent. He pushed her away and backed up. "Look stay away from me, I just want some answers and I want to leave."
"Forgive me for my actions. Your magic is quite... Intoxicating." She said the last word with a hint of a seductive tone. "Tell me. Do you feel that in your chest and within your mind?"
"All I feel is the sudden urge to shit myself cause this is freaking me out." She raised an eyebrow at the strange way he described his nervousness. "Look deeper. Feel it resonate from your body and mixing with my magic."
"Magic? Look lady...thing. Your weirding me out. Just show me the way out and I'll be on my merry way."
"I'm afraid not Derek. I need you. You have what I need and you will give it to me. Take a seat so we can talk." He couldn't retort for some reason. He felt as if he had no choice. He took off his trench coat and pulled out his pack of cigarettes before cautiously sitting down, keeping his eyes fixated on her.
"Okay, start talking."
"Let me start off by introducing myself, my name is Nightmare Moon. I already know all about you so you don't need to introduce yourself. Let me ask you a question. What do you think of the sun?" Derek shrugged before answering.
"I don't know, bright, hurts my eyes, makes shit too hot..."
"An evil pony who must pay?" He looked around in thought.
"I don't think the sun is a pony."
"Not the sun itself, but the one who controls it is. She is nothing but an evil pony who cannot accept the night. Tell me, If you could get rid of the sun, would you?"
"maybe, the downside is that without the sun crops are impossible to grow. The world will slowly get colder..."
"You must remember, our world is much different from yours. With our magic we'll get through it all. You know what, I will let you choose to show that I'm not so bad. Will you help me bring this world to it's rightful state of being. Eternal night?" Derek thought deeply for a while as he went over what happened in the short amount of time. First he was taken from his world by a magical talking pony thing. Said pony thing has some kind of affection towards him and she want's him to help take over this world and bring about eternal night. Well this is weird. He got up and started walking around the room, thinking about what he should do. Would it really matter if he stayed here where he might make something of himself.
"I don't think I can do this. What you plan to do is just evil. I mean, taking over the world let alone a simple country is just evil." She smiled at him, obviously amused at his reaction.
"Good, evil... It's all about perception my prince. They say it's evil if you bring about harm to somepony. But what if that somepony deserved the harm. Is it still evil, or an act of good? What if taking control of a world is the only way to revolutionize it? Answer me this, is it evil if all I want to do is bring a better world my ponies?" In a way, he had to agree with her. It was almost terrifying that they thought alike.
"No this isn't the same. Sometimes wanting a better a world can lead to genocides and such."
"So you're saying wanting eternal night will end up killing possibly thousands of ponies? My you are a strange one indeed." Derek sighed and pulled a cigarette out of his pack and lit it. Nightmare cocked her head and looked at the cigarette with curiosity. "What is that?"
"It's a cigarette, what do think it is." She shook her head at his rude tone.
"You didn't have to be rude you know?" He took a drag and blew the smoke in her face, making her cough.
"How's that for rude?" She glared at him but relaxed knowing that she had to remain calm to win him over. "I thought it over." She looked up at him with hopeful eyes.
"That was... quick. How could you decide so fast?" He shrugged and stood up again.
"What can I say, I'm a fast thinker. Always have been." He sighed and looked her in the eyes. "I decided to stay." She refrained from leaping with joy at his words of agreement. "First off... Anyway we can clean this place up? To be honest it's a total shit hole." She gave him a dead panned look for insulting her home. She slowly realized that he is going to require a lot of work to perfect into a proper prince.
The day went by rather quick with all the talking they did to get to know each other. The day ended with Nightmare going out and looking for a certain meal that she wished she never agreed to obtain and leaving Derek to clean up a bit around the castle. He heard the sound of hoofsteps and turned to face the doorway that they were coming from. She entered with a sickened look dawning her face with the reason why following her. A dead rabbit was being levitated by her magic. She threw the rabbit across the room to his feet.
"There's your bucking rabbit." He laughed at her getting an angry glare. "And what may I ask is so funny?"
"Your choice of words. You said bucking in replace of fucking. Rather entertaining to say the least." She shook her head and walked to her bed. "Hey Moony..."
"Did you just call me Moony?" She asked with a cocked eyebrow.
"Yeah, I figured it's shorter than Nightmare Moon." She shook her head in annoyance. "Could you go get some firewood?"
"What for?"
"Well for starters it gets cold at night and I can't really eat this raw." He said while dangling the rabbit by its feet.
"Isn't it enough that I killed that innocent creature?!"
"Killing that thing really bothered you huh? Not so bad ass are you now?" He said as he walked up to her.
"Believe it or not, I'm not a killer. I have sympathy for living creatures too you know."
"Aww, you're just a little softy aren't you?" He said in a playful tone as he pinched her cheek. She knocked his hand away with a swing of her hoof.
"I don't need your attitude right now. I'll get the wood for warmth, not because I condone your carnivorous ways." She stormed out of the castle. Derek smirked at her reaction and found it kind of adorable. He gave a small chuckle and pulled out his switch blade while grabbing a branch off of a tree breaking through one of the windows. He carved the stick into a skewer. He then grabbed the rabbit and began the process of gutting and skinning it.
"What is that awful smell?" She asked as she walked in. He picked up a piece of the entrails and wiggled it.
"What do you think?" He tossed it towards her, making her jump back like five feet. He laughed and tossed the rest of the insides out the window.
"That... That's just cruel." She said as her face went pale. "How could you do something like that?"
"Same way I can do this..." He shoved the skewer through the rabbit getting Nightmare's jaw to drop. "I'm hungry." He snapped his fingers to get her attention. Once she looked up, he pointed up. "What's on the next floor up? I was gonna go check it out but the stairs are broken completely."
"You can only get up there by using wings or your magic." He face palmed when she brought up magic but shrugged in off since he didn't want to get into an argument about it. He looked around and noticed a hole in the ceiling leading up the next floor.
"Hold this for a second." He put the stick the in her mouth which she grimaced at. He picked up a few stones and placed them up against the wall. Walking back next to her, she looked at him with a confused look thinking 'He's gonna be useless'. Using a running start, he ran up the stones. Using them for foot placements, he scaled the wall up to the hole incredibly fast getting a surprised gasp from his roommate. 'Okay, I take that back, he isn't useless'.
"There's a shit ton of books up here!"
"Is that It?"
"No there appears to be a bunch of sex toys and lubricants. Nightmare you naughty girl!"
"Wait what no, there shouldn't be any-" He poked his head through the hole with a smile.
"Got ya. Nah it's nothing but old dusty books up here." He swung down head first before dropping down. He picked up the skewered rabbit and gave her a smile before walking to the spot where the fire wood was. Nightmare Moon began walk around him to get a good look and taking mental notes. She wanted to see how much he could do.
"How did you do that, Scale the wall so easy?" He place the rabbit above the fire on a flat rock.
"It's call parkour or free running. I used to do it all the time back in my world."
"Do you posses any other special talents?" He thought deep on what else he could do.
"Only other things I can do are hunt and shooting." He said as he slowly rotated the rabbit. "That's about it, sorry to disappoint."
"What's shooting?" Nightmare asked the human she was beginning to get very interested in.
"You know, to shoot things with a bow or gun. If you could send me back for a bit I could grab some things I need and show you what shooting is." She would be lying if she said that she wasn't interested. She contemplated letting him go for a bit only to get some supplies. She looked at him with a serious look.
"Promise to come back?" She asked. He nodded in response. "Say it." He sighed and returned the serious look.
"I promise I will come back." She exhaled in relief.
"I can send you tomorrow, my magic is a little weak right now." Derek nodded and gave a sincere smile. He stood up and walked back towards the hole leading up. She looked at him inquisitively which he caught.
"I thought I saw a bed up there so I was gonna get some shut eye. You don't mind do you?"
"Uh no, not at all. I just figured you would be more comfortable sleeping on my bed..." Her voice trailed off as she realized that she was seeming a bit forward and didn't want to risk scaring him off. He thought about it for a moment. It would get exhausting climbing up and down all the time and that bed was pretty comfy, plus if he was hungry and had some more delicious rabbit, it would pay off to be closer... maybe they have spices here.
Derek's mouth began to water as he thought about food, something he always tended to do.
"Derek?" He shook his head as the calm voice invaded his ears.
"Hmm? Oh right, yeah I guess I could sleep down here. What could happen?"
'so much if you let me' Nightmare thought as he approached the bed. In a way it was good for him to be close to her as much as possible. Because of how much magic he had in him, she would absorb some of it. The closer they were, the more she got.
He climbed in first and got underneath the covers. The bed was surprisingly warm despite the thin blanket. She hesitantly walked closer with shaking hooves. Her nerves were starting to get the best of her. She stopped right next to the bed and stared at it like it was some strange creature. 'Come on Nightmare, you're a bucking goddess of the night. Not some common filth... just get in, get close and then-' Her thought was cut off as Derek reached across the bed, grabbed her and pulled her in. She squeaked in surprise from the sudden movement. It was definitely not expected. He held her close as he chuckled at her behavior.
"You know, for a supposed goddess of the night, you sure are a shy one." She lightly blushed and subtly huddled closer to him.
A few minutes passed and she felt sleep slowly begin to take her... until a certain asshole decided to mess with her. She felt his hand caress and stroke her side. She felt his breath against her neck, showing how close his mouth was.
"Out in the middle of the forest, no one around. Just me and you. Imagine what we could do..." She felt his lips brush against her neck. She was tempted to turn around and just take him then and there. All she wanted was to... "Too bad it won't happen." KICK HIM IN THE DICK! He laughed quietly as he got out of bed. She noticed that all he was wearing was a thin piece of clothing that covered his pelvis. 'When did he take his clothes off?'
She followed him outside where he sat on a stone block smoking a cigarette. He sat there looking up at the starlit sky with a small smile on his face.
"I don't think there is anything in the world that I like better than the night sky. It always seemed to put my mind at ease." He looked over at her and let his smile widen. She looked away from him, trying to focus on anything but him. "Pink is a nice shade on you." He finished with a light chuckle. "We got a big day tomorrow huh?" She slowly nodded. Even though he agreed he would return, she still had her doubts. He stood up and patted her head as he walked passed her.
"Might as well get some actual sleep then. Don't worry, I wont get you all hot and bothered this time." He said with a grin.
"Yeah... we should. But I swear if you do that again, you will regret it dearly." He laughed and waved a hand at her, dismissing her 'threat'.
"Sure I will Moony, sure I will."