Part 4. A Nightmare's Fury.
Princess Luna flies south, speeding through the nighttime sky, heading for the desert wastelands. Heading to what she had seen as Mist spoke of her first memory. Heading to the site of an event that happened 1003 years ago, all the while hearing Mist's voice in her memory "I know it was you, I know what you did to me." Mist had been thanking Luna for a great kindness she had done her. Now Luna was thinking of how well those words were going to align in a completely different way. She hoped she was wrong, she prayed she was wrong. Tears streamed back along her neck as she flew swiftly on, still hearing Mist's voice in her memory "I will forever be your friend no matter what," and still feeling that warm energy from the tears Mist had shed on her in joy.
Nightmare Moon raged. Furious. She had almost defeated her sister. Princess Celestia was powerful but Nightmare Moon was more so. She should be in Equestria right now, presiding over a new age of eternal night. All the ponies would bow to her alone, but Celestia had used the elements of harmony. Celestia's own power combined with that of the six elements of harmony had stripped her of most of her powers and banished her alone and defeated to the moon. Nightmare Moon looked back toward the world she had lost, hatred filling her heart. Hatred of her sister Princess Celestia. ("Stop Moon, let it go!") a small whisper of Luna's personality pleaded. Nightmare Moon ignored it. She was in control now. Running along the moon's surface the nightmare uses the only power she had left, that of manipulating things with her horn's magic. She lifted stones and threw them with iridescent blue magic in to other stones and watched as they shattered in slow motion. ("Nothing could grow in eternal night. Everything would freeze and die.") "Stop already, Luna, it's too late, I lost. You should be happy." Nightmare Moon shouted in her mind. ("It is the truth. I lost as well. We lost. I must pay for your arrogance as well.")
Seeing a tall lunar mountain Moon ran to it. Scrambling to the top she surveyed her new empire. Barren, bleak and lifeless. The moon was a silent, colorless vista of emptiness. The rage and hatred of Celestia grew as she looked out upon her new prison. "I had just wanted to defeat my sister so the ponies would love and acknowledge me!" ("They would have feared you, why cant you see that?") "I'm fine with fear, just as long as they bow to me. ("You are talking to yourself, you realize that makes you insane?") "Well then so are you Luna..." ("Look at what your foolish wants cost us.") Nightmare Moon looked back up to see a beautiful blue-green world, so far away and out of reach. She could tell the exact spot where the now ruined castle of the two sisters stood. She looked with dragon-like eyes and imagined Celestia there, recovering from the battle, attended by all the court's royal ponies. "As long as Celestia lives and holds the elements of harmony we shall be trapped here," Moon thought to herself. While watching the blue-green plant with hate and fury filled eyes a movement caught the corner of her vision. A brilliant ice blue comet was passing by the moon, making its way in it's swift and silent orbit of Celestia's sun. Nightmare Moon's eyes narrowed and she smiled. "I cant leave the moon," she thought."I don't have all my powers but I can reach out and change the path of that comet. I'll send it right down, crashing into the castle. The blast will kill Celestia and with her death the elements of harmony will release my powers back to me. Ah ha ha, I haven't finished this fight yet." Nightmare moon thought to herself. ("No Moon, that's our sister!") the quiet voice of Luna pleaded. "Who banished us to the moon!" ("You gave her no choice.") "And now she gives me none!" Moon shouted once more in her mind at the nagging voice of her kinder and more compassionate personality. ("Stop please. Don't do this!") Nightmare Moon ignored her quiet and gentle voice of reason. She fired up the last of her horn's magic, brilliant iridescent blue energy flared around it. ("No. Please, you will kill hundreds of ponies!") Luna's words went unheeded.
Nightmare Moon concentrated and directed her force around the comet. She pulled, changing it's trajectory, sending it on a path that would cause it to fall directly onto the castle. She felt her power draining, somehow being drawn from her by the comet. Still she concentrated until she was sure of making a direct hit. Luna watched, also feeling the power failing, being drawn in by the comet. It was physically drawing her power from her. Nightmare Moon tried to fight the draw to no avail, her power failing. Luna waited, feeling this as well. She couldn't stop the comet from hitting the planet, but she could hope to ruin Moon's aim. Just before the brilliant ice blue comet drained her of the last of her magic Luna pushed with one last effort. The magic was all gone, Nightmare Moon was now no longer a threat to anypony. Luna had pushed the comet enough to send it harmlessly crashing in to the southern desert wastelands of Equestria. Nightmare Moon watched as the comet began to drift off target. A fury built in her and she screamed in her mind. "YOU FOOL, LUNA!" She paused, containing her rage "You have doomed us. We are now trapped here." ("Yes, But I saved our sister Princess Celestia and hundreds of innocent ponies. Now you will have to let it go.")
Somewhere in the southern desert wastelands of Equestria, 1003 years ago, a brilliant ice blue comet came falling from the sky. Fast and hard it impacted into the ground. Sizzling and crackling with immense energy, it exploded on contact, blasting an odd circular impact crater that infused the very ground with it's energy. It blasted a hole through time 25,000 years into the past where on that very spot a brave but dying mare was also infused with it's energy. She was healed and pulled back through time and left in a desert wasteland, stripped of her personal memories and forever changed.