Spring stood before Nightmare Moon with a small frown upon her muzzle. Her face was scrunched up in a conflicted expression. "Moony, has anyone ever hit you?" She asked in a soft voice.
Nightmare Moon looked up from hooves with a quizzical look "No...Why?" She replied. Spring squirmed a bit "Daddy told me not to tell but i trust you." She murmured taking a deep breath "Daddy hit me today and bruised my forehead..." She said frowning.
Nightmare Moon reared on her hind legs flapping her wings in anger "How dare he lay a hoof on you. After all that you've been through!!!" She snarled. Spring flinched a bit before giving her a painful forced smile "It's fine...I deserve it anyway...for being a bat pony and all" She said cautiously biting back the sinking feeling in her chest that kept choking her.
Nightmare Moon looked at her in surprise and disbelief. "You regret being a child of the night..." She murmured flinching back as if the foal had striked her. Spring shook her head quickly "No it's just...I wonder what it's like to be normal like the other ponies" She whispered under her breath. Nightmare Moon nodded with a look of reluctant sympathy and realization. Nightmare Moon gasped before focusing.
Suddenly the dreamscape changed and they were sitting in a familar room. Her father's room stood before them and she could see her father happy with an unknown mare. They held each other close in a warm embrace. "Why are we watching my father and this strange mare?" She questioned. Nightmare Moon nodded her head back to the couple in a silent request to keep watching.
The mare then said something in her father's ear and his eyes opened wide in suprise as he said something back to her. "What are they saying" Spring questioned. Nightmare Moon held a hoove to her muzzle "That is irrelevant right now" She replied turning the young foal rather forcefully.
The mare nodded confirming what her father had said as she smiled happily. Her father sat on his haunches lifting the mare up and into his warm embrace and they laughed happily.
"The mare is pretty" Spring murmured to Nightmare Moon. The black alicorn smiled "I'm glad you think so considering that's where you get your wings from, Little Fang" She whispered back making the little bat pony gasp. "THAT'S MY MOM!!!" She screeched making the alicorn wince and nod.
Nightmare Moon looked enviously at her "This is the day, your father learned of your conception" She murmured "Tis quite beautiful...Like a good ending to a love story of sorts"
Spring looked at her "Why do people think you're evil...I mean you're nice to me and you're so helpful" The foal said. "I've done terrible- No! You haven't, Celestia is at fault. Who ignores their sister like that and pushes her to become a monster..." Spring interupted. Nightmare Moon sighed "You'll understand more when you're older, My Little Fang" She murmured backing away.
"Isn't that what you told me...She hurt you...She ignored you...Did you lie about that" The foal whispered in a hurt voice walking towards her. The black mare turned her head away "No...But my account is biased" She said in a shaky voice. "Coward!" The foal screamed making the alicorn's eyes widen. "You choose to just accept the punishment for something that is not your fault because you're scared aren't you" She spat.
The black alicorn's eyes quickly narrowed in anger as she silently listened to the child. "Why can't you just go into your sister's dream like you're coming into mine and explain your actions!" She screamed. "BECAUSE IT WON'T BRING ME BACK" Nightmare bellowed her voice booming off the walls of the dreamscape.
The foal flinched a bit but didn't back down "What do you mean?" She asked curiously. Nightmare sighed "I was banished by the power of the Elements of Harmony not my sister...Even if she wanted to bring me back it is impossible" She said solemnly. The foal's eyes narrowed "That sounds more like a pathetic excuse" She growled.
The nightmare stood shocked by the foal's honesty. "Would you like to see my true form" She whispered to the foal hoping to prove her point. Spring nodded tilting her head slightly at the random request. The black mare was then engulfed in a white light and her form became smaller until she stood only a few inches taller than the foal.
The white light faded and there stood a gorgeous bluish purple mare with a soft blue mane similar to her own. "See...I'm too weak and disgusting" She said in a younger voice lowering her head.
Spring frowned and walked up to the mare. "I don't see it...I see a pretty alicorn princess who has been through a lot. Her self-esteem may be low but she's strong, I can see it." She said sitting on her haunches.
The small blue alicorn's form shook as large tears rolled down her face. "You don't understand" She cried softly. The young bat pony looked at her "Never will if you don't explain" Spring giggled trying to lighten the mood.
The dreamscape swirled, becoming a beautiful field of cherry blossom trees. The pale pink petals falling on the two mares embracing them in their warm scent.
"..." Luna sucked in a breath attempting to explain. Spring laid on her back as she looked up at the beautiful sky "I don't know why you attempt to hurt yourself by mentally abusing yourself but don't you think it's time to embrace that you've made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. But you're still beautiful, Moony" She said softly nuzzling the young alicorn.
A ruby glow spread across the young alicorn's face "Sometimes...I feel like I don't deserve you..." Luna murmured laying a hoof on the young foal. "When you come back from the moon, I'll be an adult so maybe...we can...Ya know be friends" Spring whispered not hearing Luna's comment.
The young alicorn nodded with a small smile. Spring thought about a radio and a white boom box appeared next to her. "Let's dance, Moony!" She giggled turning on the radio and doing an awkward little wiggle.
Luna stood stiffly watching the foal dance "I'm not much of a dancer..." She mumbled. Spring bounced over to her and grabbed her hooves "I dance when I get sad so i thought..." The foal trailed off giving Luna her puppy dog eyes. Luna growled softly before hesitantly wiggling her flank to the beat of the music.
Spring giggled "Come on, Moony, why the long face? You look like you're being held against your will" She chirped. Luna grumbled something along the lines of 'I am' before twirling around. She then lost her footing and fell on her flank.
Spring smiled before bursting out in a fit of giggles. Luna chuckled a bit under her breath taking her mind off of their earlier conversation.
Spring and Luna danced the night away as Spring attempted to do back flips. Luna's heart began to feel full after almost one thousand years of loneliness. An unfamiliar warm emotion started to constrict it.
But unfortunately it would be that last time the two saw each other for many years as Spring's new life story began...
