A/N: Now that the hype is finished and probably most of the fans are gone. We are going to have to make do with what we can make and please the rest.
The time difference will be the whole season finished so the changes are: Twilight an alicorn, apology given, and everything set up to the surprise.
Now I know that everything is placed and speed up, but it's only because of I don't know what to put for that time frame. Unlike what most people think I will not place Twilight straight into princess job because Celestia told her that she will continue her studies with the study of princess studies to prepare her. We don't know the details of season 4 so it's all speculation.
One last note, I know this is out of season, but I'm going to do a nightmare night festival for my plan. Don't bother me on that.
Now on with the chapter.
"Speaking"
'Thoughts'
The park was bustling with activity as numerous ponies roamed about trying to get things finished for the concert. Primus suggested the idea of a concert for Nightmare Night. If it all goes well then he can secretly release Nightmare Moon without causing a mass panic. In the town of Ponyville stands and decorations are set up for Nightmare Night as foals ran around the town planning their fun times when it comes.
During the set up major things has happened. The biggest thing was that Twilight became an alicorn for finishing up the spell that changed her friend's cutie marks. Now declared a princess, she prepares for both lines of studies, one that she has been doing ever since she came to Ponyville and another for her preparing to be a princess. So she can still enjoy her wonderful and happy life.
Another is Primus apologizing to Celestia, but she also did so too. That night was spent together with nopony else, just those two, in Celestia's quarters. Even then Celestia explained why she called Amelia a monster. Turns out that she was afraid for Primus's safety and he might die again like last time. After reassuring her that he's strong enough to take her on just in case then Celestia let up on the over protectiveness. It was one of those times that Primus felt truly happy as he slept peacefully with her.
Another is that Discord has been reformed into sort of a good guy and is now lightening the load for Celestia. Sometimes literally by making some papers to disappear into the fire place. To say that Celestia was pissed was an understatement.
The last is that with Nightmare Night coming up, it made Primus's plan with Nightmare Moon easier. Now he can release her from Luna with everything that she has. Thing is, Celestia wasn't taking it well, but after explaining what he did when he went to see Nightmare then she calmed down before blowing up like last time.
Now all there is left to do is finish up the final preparations for the concert, as Primus needed special effects for the hidden release of Nightmare. Even though the unicorn...or should I say alicorn, wasn't exactly pleased with his idea.
"You want to do what!?" Twilight screeched, her new wings flapping in irritation. She still hasn't got to controlling them, but Rainbow has been helping with flying and covering the mirror of emotions.
Primus sighed heavily as he has to explain things all over again. "Nightmare has turned over a new leaf, just like Discord. I need her help and she needs us to help her. After all, locked in another body just watching what that body does and feels all day is not real to her. We have to help her."
"Still Nightmare Moon, the one evil alicorn who wants to turn the land into total darkness forever. You want to release that?" Twilight said, pointing an accusing hoof at him.
Primus just nods his head. "Yes and I'll take full responsibilities for any consequences that may happen."
Twilight breathes out like her foal sitter taught her how to do a few times as her wings flapped up and down as she breathed, then calmed down. "Fine I'll help, but don't think this will roll right with me."
Primus nods and head towards the stage where he can make the final preparations, but not before one last thing. "Oh, and that book you finished, that actually came from my private library. And even then the things that would have happened to you would have happened to me, so Celestia decided to take it and use it to test you. Funny, huh?"
Primus stared at the shocked alicorn that had her wings on the ground and mouth wide open. He watched with a raised eyebrow as Spike came up, without a costume for Nightmare Night, to her and closed her mouth and folded her wings onto her back...then smacks her across the face. She immediately came out of the shock. "Why did you do that!?"
Spike just shrugged and crossed his arms. "Rainbow told me how having your wings on the ground like yours was is dangerous especially for somepony like you, so she put me in charge for keeping you safe from regular day to day activities."
Twilight sighs as relief came to her slowly and ears fold back. "Thanks Spike, it's just that with recent events that happened it just caught up to me is all." She looks toward where Primus is supposed to be, but he has already left. "Besides Primus asked me to do special effects to hide his real plan for releasing Nightmare Moon, because I am a very well educated in the study of illusions."
Spike hugs Twilight around the neck as Twilight hugs him back. "Just have the elements ready just in case." He ran his claws over her purple wings. "When I heard that these wings came in I became even more worried because now you have to face the dangers of the sky as well as land, so be careful okay?"
Twilight blushes bright red as she felt Spike run his clawed hand over her sensitive wings. "I will Spike." She hugs him tighter and then let go of him. "Now I have to prepare the spells and luckily I have time because the real releasing will happen during the second song." She gave a small chastised kiss on Spike's scaled lips for a few moments then pulls back. "You'll get more once this concert is finished."
Spike nods dumbly as he watches Twilight walking away, her tail swishing side to side and giving him a great view, which is probably her doing this on purpose to give him a taste for later. He shakes his head and looks away, but still blushes from the lasting mental image. He tries to get rid of those thoughts and heads toward the crowd to watch the concert.
Primus tunes his guitar as he prepared to play some very deep bass for their first song. Behind him stood Luna as she hurriedly but carefully spilled some of her collected blood on the stage with some notes from Primus on how to place them. The curtain is closed so the audience doesn't see the princess of the night spilling blood onto the floor as that will definitely degrade her status from a princess to possible murderer.
Luna wipes her forehead to not let her sweat destroy almost an hour of work, which is two minutes in Primus's case. The blood ward she is making was designed to release the multiple souls inside of somepony and make the souls that was stuck inside the body have their own if they have seen it or recently made a body for the ritual. The ritual just gives a tearing feeling because it rips the soul trapped inside and pulls them into the plane that the real body is on.
The downside is that this ward creates one huge lightshow and that is why Primus needs Twilight to cover it up with special effects. And since this is nightmare night then he has the perfect song in mind just for this. But now he and the rest of the band have to warm up the audience for their most frightful show seen around here.
He finishes tuning up as Luna and Vinyl came up to him and nod their signaling that everything is set. Primus smiles and tells Vinyl to raise the curtains and prepare the audience while he leads Luna to the middle and told her to lie down. Vinyl goes to her DJ set while Strings preps his guitar. She hits a switch near her set to pull the curtain to the side as Primus retakes his place on the left side, from the audience's point of view and Strings on the right, while she hangs around the middle.
The audience consisted of everypony from Ponyville wearing their Nightmare Night costumes, including Celestia and Chrysalis in the background, although Chrysalis went as another Celestia. They were all talking amongst themselves, waiting for the concert to begin, even Celestia and Chrysalis were talking to each other and by the looks of it having a great time. When the curtain pulled back they all turned their attention to the stage, but what shocked them was Luna lying down on the floor of the stage. The crowd began to whisper between themselves about what could happen while the two high regales looks on in question.
Primus and Strings turn to each to other and String gives him a nod to begin. Primus nods back and begins to play the first repeat notes.
(Monster by Skillet)(Don't own, but like.)(Play it if you have it or use YouTube and visualize the next performance.)
Strings
Primus
Primus began to play the same notes twice before Strings joined in and started to sing.
The secret side of me I never let you see
I keep it caged, but I can't control it
Luna started to leak out some dark colored magical aura from her body.
So stay away from me, the beast is ugly
I feel the rage and I just can't hold it
Vinyl started to join with some drums from her DJ set as Luna's leg started to change into a darker coat color.
It's scratching on the walls, in the closet, in the halls
It comes awake, and I can't control it
A dark smoky cloud started to appear behind her and cover her up until it got to her head.
Hiding under the bed, in my body, in my head
Why won't somebody come and save me from this, make it end?
Nightmare Moon image appeared briefly as Luna tries to get up on her hooves.
I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Luna's coat briefly changes back and forth between hers and a darker color.
I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Nightmare Moon's head appears overhead Luna, the smoke making the shape for a moment.
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
Luna finally gets up looking slightly dazed, but that was actually the ward underneath her turning on and draining power from her to start the spell.
My secret side I keep hid under lock and keys
I keep it caged, but I can't control it
Luna wraps her forelegs around herself, trying a last resort kind of way to contain something.
'Cause if I let him out he'll tear me up, break me down
Why won't somebody come and save me from this, make it end?
Luna's forelegs gets thrown to the side as Nightmare shows up and covers Luna's body making herself in a perfect image, but only for a few moments before Luna takes over and locks her back in. The crowd screams, thinking that Nightmare Moon is back, but then calms down when Luna appears again.
I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Luna's coat changes color again, going back and forth Nightmare's and hers with Nightmare's lasting longer.
I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
A full body image of Nightmare Moon comes out of the smoke, looking like she was just freed and walks calmly over to Luna.
I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Luna collapses to the ground and curls up trying to protect herself while Nightmare Moon brings her head closer to Luna's.
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
Luna lashes out with her foreleg and hits Nightmare back into the smoke cloud, making her disappear again.
It's hiding in the dark, it's teeth are razor sharp
There's no escape for me, it wants my soul, it wants my heart
Nightmare Moon shows up all around at different times making it seem like she's stalking Luna from the dark.
No one can hear me scream, maybe it's just a dream
Maybe it's inside of me, stop this monster
Luna looks around trying to find help to get rid of the monster inside of her. On the stage floor the ward glows brighter and changes from a red to dark blue before settling down again. Primus stops playing with Vinyl as Strings takes over for a bit.
I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Strings voice changes to a low growl as he said monster, done by Vinyl's voice changer on her set. Primus and Vinyl start up again after he finishes. Luna's coat changes again, symbolizing that Nightmare is near.
I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Nightmare appears again, taking over Luna's place and silently laughing that she had won.
I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Nightmare then looks at herself as she feels something coming.
I've gotta lose control, he something radical
I must confess that I feel like a monster
Nightmare screams silently as her body starts to make cracks all along her body with bright lights coming out of it. Her shell then explodes, leaving Luna on the floor of the stage like she is just sleeping.
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
The smoke dissipates into nothing as they all finish. The crowd cheers and stomps so loud that Primus can feel the vibrations on his lungs. While Strings and Vinyl waved to the crowd Primus went over to Luna to check on her condition.
Luna gets up and just stays sitting down, taking deep breaths. When she sees Primus walking over she smiles slightly then turns serious. "I hope you know what you are doing. That song may have turned Nightmare Moon as an even eviler monster."
Primus huffs and shakes his head telling that is not the case. "They think its part of the show so really she is still the same as ever. Now when we do the next part she will be silently released and the crowd won't notice."
Luna looks out to the crowd as the cheering started to die down and some ponies went to take a short break when Vinyl told everypony that they were going to take a five minute break. "I just hope that they can accept her for who she is and not what...like me." She said the last part out quietly.
Primus smiles, making her feel more at ease. "They will," Luna sighs as she feels some weight off her shoulders. "After all they wanted to be scared so let's give them a scare." Luna starts to chuckle as she remembers her first Nightmare Night when she finally had fun.
Primus feels a tap on his leg and looks down. He sees a tendril of magic and follows it to Twilight. He leads Luna away and places her behind the curtain where she can watch the crowd. Meanwhile, Primus walks over to Twilight who is beaming brightly.
"Something wrong?"
Twilight lets up her smile as she probably calming down. "No, actually all the spells for the special effects are ready and so are the conventional means to pull off what you're doing."
Primus nods in acknowledgement. "Good. Now this sheet will the places mark where you use the magic and conventional tricks. Try to time it to the lyrics." He said handing her the lyrics sheet.
Twilight looks it over and tries to remember the places as Primus walks away. Since this next just requires one guitar and lots of ponies singing, Primus will be stepping back and Octavia coming in to sing as well. When they all reached Vinyl's set she took out some head microphones that will actually change their voice to a creepier version based on who is it. Vinyl programs the voice changer to prepare to change the voice as the song goes on. Strings take place right by the set while Primus and Octavia takes their place near the edge of the stage. During that movement Primus grabs his cloak he left on the side and puts it on, hood up of course. He nods at Luna and Twilight to get ready as Vinyl plays the background music.
(Here Comes Halloween by Marilyn Mason, Nightmare Night version)(Crank that YouTube back up because we got another. Try to follow.)
Strings
Primus
Octavia
Primus, Octavia, Vinyl
Nightmare Moon
Everypony
Strings starts to play on guitar as Vinyl plays deep drums in the background.
Colts and fillies of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Nightmare Night
Smoke began to fill the stage and spill creepily slow into the crowd as the ponies look at the smoke with apprehension.
This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Nightmare Night, everypony make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everypony scream
In this town of Nightmare Night
Primus suddenly appears behind a group of foals at the edge of the crowd, looking creepily at them with his black red dragon eyes. The group of foals didn't move as they felt a presence behind them.
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
Octavia appears behind another group of foals on the other side of the crowd, wearing almost the same black cloak that Primus is wearing.
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Hooves like snakes and spiders in my mane
They both disappear into the shadows as the groups of ponies looks around trying to find them.
This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!
In this town we call home
Everypony hail to the pumpkin song
Luna walks calmly onto the stage and steps onto the blood ward without anypony from the crowd knowing what is going on with her.
In this town, don't we love it now?
Everypony's waiting for the next surprise
Primus then picks up an unsuspecting foal and flies a few feet into the air. He holds the foal by the sides and then tucks it in like a newborn. He points to a nearby alleyway.
Round that corner, stallion hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...
Scream! This is Nightmare Night
Red 'n' black, slimy green
Primus drops the foal back down as they said scream, into the waiting legs of a mare that looks like its mother as she holds the foal close.
Aren't you scared?
The ward under Luna starts to light up, but it remains hidden by the smoke. Luna feels herself losing more energy and lies down as she feels the process about to begin.
Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Everypony scream, everypony scream
In our town of Nightmare Night!
Primus gets behind another group of foals close to the stage.
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
Octavia does the same on the other end.
I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your mane
Nightmare Moon suddenly pops up where Luna was and rears up to the starry sky.
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
Everypony screams as they see Nightmare Moon, but it slowly dies down over time as they think it must be part of the show.
This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!
Primus and Octavia appears on stage next to Nightmare Moon and starts to eerily move along to the music
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare
Nightmare, Primus, and Octavia heads into the smoke and disappears.
That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Nightmare Night
In this town
Don't we love it now?
Primus and Octavia rises up next to Vinyl's set and just stands right on the sides of it.
Everypony's waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Nightmare Night, everypony scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy
Nightmare floats up through the smoke, licking her lips all the while.
Our stallion jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everypony hail to the Pumpkin King, now!
Everypony starts to tremble as the sight of the queen of the night flying above them.
This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!
Primus, Octavia, Strings come together as they bring their heads together, with Vinyl leaving her recording on and placing her head on top of the group.
In this town we call home
Everypony hail to the pumpkin song
Everypony instantly separated as they walked calmly to their first places.
La la la la-la-la, La la la la-la-la
la-la-la,WHEEEEEE!
The smoke covers up the group on the stage, but leaves Nightmare uncovered.
Ha ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa
She looks out creepily toward the crowd.
Happy Nightmare Night everypony
The smoke covers up Nightmare and as she is hidden from view, she floats down to the floor. There she meets up with Primus as Luna walks up to them. He gives an approving smile to both of them for the show and they face to the crowd. The smoke was still there, but the crowd of ponies is cheering even louder than before from the last song.
The smoke finally dissipates and shows Strings, Vinyl, and Octavia near Vinyl's DJ set waving at the crowd, while Primus, Luna, and Nightmare stands over to the other end waving too. The crowd cheers louder, but then spots Nightmare standing next to Luna. They quiet down slowly but steadily as they see that she is real.
Nightmare sighs and looks over to Primus for help. He looks to the audience as they huddle against one another. "Yes, this is Nightmare Moon, but she is a changed mare." Primus notices that his voice is still in the creepy version. He looks at Vinyl with a glare as she chuckles nervously and hits a switch. Primus clears his throat. "Testing, testing. Is this thing on?" He taps his microphone headset. When he hears his voice to normal then he continues. "She has renounced her ways and wants to help us." The crowd still remained apprehensive to this predicament. "Remember Discord, changed by Fluttershy to help Celestia, well Nightmare changed to our side to help us in our latest problem. If you have your own problems then take it up with me."
Everypony in the audience looks at each other than back at Primus and shakes their head no. Obviously they didn't want to go against the master swordspony in the entire kingdom.
Nightmare started to walk down the stage and through the audience as they parted a way for her. She started to head to where the two Celestias sat waiting. The guards that were watching them took up places in front of them, but with glare from Primus to send them away back to where they were. Nightmare stops in front of them as they study her for any sign of wrongdoing.
Nightmare sighs and sits down as she averts her eyes. "I'm sorry for anything that has happened in the past. I wasn't thinking straight and blinded by jealously." She looks at both the Celestias, not knowing which is which. "Can you ever forgive me?" Her eyes brimmed with tears.
The Celestias looks at each and nod in sync. "Okay." The one the left said.
Nightmare breathes a sighs of relief as she wipes her eyes. "On one condition." The one on the right said.
Nightmare looks between the two of them waiting for an answer. "Well don't keep us waiting." She was right as all of the ponies waited for the answer.
The one on the right smirks. "You must love Primus like we do."
Nightmare nods her head before the realization of the words hit her. Her jaw drops at the implications. "Wait…You can't think that I love that idiot." She points a hoof back to the stage.
"HEY!"
The Celestia on the right smiles. "Actually we can see it in your eyes whenever you look and talk about him."
Nightmare growls and bends her head down so nopony can see her red cheeks. "I don't love him." She growls out.
Both of the Celestias giggled into their hoofs. "Not yet, anyway." The right one said.
Nightmare just groans again and bends her head down even more. Both of the Celestias giggled as they embarrassed the queen of the night, leaving her bright red. Primus chuckles in his throat as he leaves the stage, taking Luna with him and leaving the others to do their own thing.
When they all meet up Nightmare still has her head and will barely look at Primus. The two Celestias's giggling turned into laughter as they further embarrassed Nightmare. Primus places his hoof on Nightmare's back and rubs in between her wings, easing her worries.
Primus glares at the Celestias, making their laughter die down. His eye turns sharp and swirls inside. "Change back." He said coldly.
The two Celestias look at each other before the on the left changes into Chrysalis with a green flame. They look worriedly at Primus, fearing for going too far with the jokes. When somepony that Primus cares about cries he takes action, except for the ones caused by him.
Primus growls, making the sound of the Timberwolves's growl in the Everfree Forest. "Don't do this again. Right now, she is at a fragile state and can't take anything that looks and feels like rejection. So watch what your next choices of words are."
The two herd members nod fearfully, knowingly been on the receiving end of Primus's threats. Primus stops rubbing Nightmare and walks to Twilight to help clean up the blood ward left behind, leaving Luna to help the emotional mess. The crowd left a long time ago to enjoy the rest of the festival.
Luna shakes her head at the situation left behind. "Not again, don't you start crying now." They all look at her. "Primus means well for everypony and you should too. You're lucky to have him as a future mate and even then he can protect you tenfold." Everypony looks at each other as Luna keeps talking. "If he hurts you emotionally or physically then that means he's doing it for a reason." All of mares of the head, except possibly Nightmare, look down as the words set in. "It also means he loves you very much and maybe up to the point that he would let you run his life because he trusts you completely. He cares for you so far that he would be at your side in a heartbeat…well for him that would be a millisecond. Any case, you should try to be friendlier to each other. The reason he does this is because he has probably seen a lot of heartbreak because of a misunderstanding and he's is fearing that the same thing will happen to you." Luna then walks away to enjoy the night with the other ponies.
The three mares look at each other. Celestia holds out her hoof. "Friends and lovers of each other, shared equally."
Chrysalis stares at the hoof, but smiles and places a hoof over Celestia's. "Friends and lovers."
Nightmare soon feels two sets of eyes on her, waiting for an answer. She sighs and places a hoof on top of theirs. "Friends, but the lovers will maybe come later…maybe." Putting empathies on the word maybe.
They all sigh in relief, but their family time was interrupted by a scream.
"EVERYPONY RUN, IT'S THE CHANGLINGS!"
The three mares look towards the fair and see Changelings flying about with spears and bows in hoofs. Nightmare and Celestia turn their heads to Chrysalis and sees that she has the look of horror across her face as the slaughtering continues. The Changelings were laughing manically and not even bothering to feed off of anything, not even real solid food from the booths.
Chrysalis starts to cry at the fact that her former hive is actually killing instead of at least taking a little emotion. She runs to the booths and tackles the nearest Changeling, ignoring the cries Celestia and Nightmare. She holds it down and continues crying and getting madder. The Changeling hiss, but it dies down quickly as it sees its attacker.
Chrysalis's words came out as choked sobs. "Why are you doing this?"
The Changeling chatters in its natural language. Nopony except Chrysalis understood.
Her eyes widen at what the Changeling said and backs off. The Changeling gives the former queen a look of regret and flies off to continue in the assault. Primus runs past her, making her mane fly with the wind as he past, scraping his swords along the ground, leaving her shocked at what is really going on.
Primus leaps into the air and pulls his sword back as he spies the Changeling on the ground. The Changeling looks up in time to see its reaper.
Primus breathing quickens as his adrenaline spreads throughout his body. Time seemed to slow down as he can see every dust and blood flying through the air. His eyes lock on one of the Changelings as it looks up at him. He brings his sword back, ready for a slashing motion to the ground as he falls.
The Changeling hisses, but to Primus he hears it in slow motion. As he got closer, time seemed to speed up. The Changeling brings its spear up to block the attack. Their weapons met and the sound of clanging metal reverberated across the area.
Well the songs were a shitty long time to handle, but luckily I was able to finish it in two days. Now the long part at the bottom was, as you guessed it, a cliffhanger. I should be able to have the next one out next week because I'm going to be book for the rest of the week.
Any case, read and review.
Wolfdragon, out.
