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disclaimer: I don't own My Little Pony

Before we start, just to let you guys know: this was a request from my baby cousin and before this, I haven't watched My little pony so if there are any mistakes that would offend any fans than I must apologize. I was able to get a talk to someone, a consultant, who is a fan of the show to help me out. Luckily I was able to find the first episode online since I don't have Netflix.

Chapter 1: The Mare in the moon

In the middle of the night, sitting on a balcony sat a purple unicorn with a navy blue mane with a pink streak, on her left back leg was an image of a pink star surrounded by smaller stars. The mark is known as a "Cutie Mark" which is something that shows a pony's talent. She was looking up in the moon as she examined the pony shape that was on the surface. "'The Mare in the moon', a tale of a dark mare sealed away for a thousand years. It is said that on the thousandth anniversary of her being sealed, she will be freed and eternal night will fall over all of Equestria." She looked back down to the book she had in front of her "I know Princess Celestia said it was nothing but an old pony's tale but ….." her horn gained a violet aura as she used her magic to close the book and float above her head as she went inside and placed it back into one of the shelves. As she was leaving she saw her faithful assistant Spike, who was a baby purple dragon with green spikes and a light lime green underbelly. He had fallen asleep with a few books on top of him. She smiled as she levitated him, placed him in his little basket bed and tucked him in. She left the Royal Library and made her way to her quarters in the castle. "Why am I even thinking about this? I mean sure, the timing is convenient and the fading image on the moon is a dead give away." she gave a small nervous chuckle as her nerves began to worsen "yeah! it's nothing but a pony tale." She was now on autopilot and didn't notice that she had made it to her room. She went into her bed as she continued to mumble to herself. She moved into her bed and was now laying down under her bedsheets. "Whether it is an old Pony's tale or not I should tell Princess Celestia."

"...make friends"

Twilight and her assistant/friend/little brother figure (not sure which to use), Spike were right now arriving at Ponyvile by way of a flying chariot that was being pulled by two Pegasi. She was grumbling to herself as this was not what she wanted. She was hoping that bringing up this matter to Celestia would get the Alicorn to begin some sort of countermeasure. Instead, she was sent off to this town in order to oversee the preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration (is that right?). She departed the chariot and gave thanks to the two who brought her here before going back to where she sat, used her magic to take out a small dark aqua blue hooded cape that had some small white stars on it, and put it on.

Spike took a scroll that was used to be a checklist of what they needed to do as he spoke to Twilight "come on Twilight, it's not that bad to make friends." as he said this a pony grew closer to them

The Mare was a pink pony with a puffy messy mane and tail, on her flank was a mark of three ballons and behind her ear was a red and white swirl lollipop. The Mare stopped in front of the two and stared

Spike gestured to the mare and said: "come on Twilight say hello."

Twilight felt extremely nervous as she gave a meek "uuuhh Hello…."

The pink Mare jumped a few feet into the air, spread out her legs and gave a shocked "GAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSPPPP!" before she disappeared, dashing away in the air, leaving the Lolipop spinning in the air until it followed the pink mare.

Twilight turned her head in the direction the mare went and gave a confused look "well that was weird and how did that lollipop…...never mind

Twilight and spike made their way to their first destination as Spike looked over the checklist "Number One: Banquette preparations, Sweet Apple Acres."

"YEEEEE HHAAAA!"

Both Twilight and Spike looked over to where the yell came from and they saw it was another mare

The mare had an orange coat with a yellow mane and tail, each tied with a red band. She had white freckles on her cheeks and wore a cowgirl hat. Her cutie mark was of three apples.

Twilight dropped her head and sighed "let's just get this over with." she got closer to the orange mare. When she was close enough, she closed her eyes and spoke in a polite voice "Good afternoon. My name is Twilight sparkle….." Twilight suddenly felt one of her hooves began to shake up and down rapidly

"Well, Howdy doo miss Twilight! A pleasure making your acquaintance. I'm Applejack, we here at Sweet Apple Acres, sure do like making new friends."

Twilight had finished meeting Applejack's whole family and was making her way through town as she felt her stomach ache due to: "ugh I ate too much pie." After she finished saying that, she couldn't help but smile as she thought about how close the whole family were. Her smile became a sad one but she quickly shook it off when she heard spike say.

"Hmm, there's suppose to be a pegasus named Rainbow Dash clearing up the sky of the clouds."

Twilight looked up to see that the sky was full of clouds "well she isn't doing a very good job….oooff" Twilight found herself being tackled by a rainbow blur and was now in a puddle of mud with a mare on top of her

The new mare had sky blue fur with a rainbow streaked mane and tail. She had a cobalt blue bandana around her neck and her cutie mark was a cloud with a lightning bolt, with the lightning colored in rainbow colors much like her mane.

Twilight knew right then and there that this was Rainbow Dash as the name fit the coloration of the mare. She looked at the mare on her and asked "can you get off me please"

Rainbow dash chuckled sheepishly "sorry." she then got off Twilight and saw that both of them were covered in "oops uh ...hang on, let me help you out with that…."

Twilight stopped Dash before she could move "it's ok, just give me a second…"She concentrated her magic in her horn and suddenly the mud that was on both mares dispersed off them.

Dash was surprised to see that she was now clean "wow thanks. Nice to meetcha, I'm Rainbow Dash"

Twilight smiled at Dash "I'm Twilight Sparkle and I heard that you were supposed to clear the sky but it seems that you haven't even started." She looked up to see that Rainbow dash was now relaxing on a cloud

"Yeah yeah I'll get to that...once I'm done practicing"

Twilight was confused about what she could be practicing for "for what?"

Dash turned around and pointed to a poster that was on a nearby poster and excitingly said "The Wonderbolts! They are performing at the celebration tomorrow and I'm going to show them my stuff."

Twilight smirked as she came up with a way to get Rainbow Dash to do the job "The Wonderbolts, the best flyers in all of Equestria."

"Tha~at's right!"

'I hope this works' "please they would never pay attention to someone who can't even keep the skies clear for five minutes."

Dash looked insulted at this "Hey I can clear the sky in ten seconds if I wanted to."

Twilight smirked 'yes, it worked' she then looked at Dash and squinted her eyes "prove it."

Dash felt her competitive side take over and she went off, kicking, hitting and dashing through clouds. She finished it of by doing a loop de loop through a few clouds "loop de loop aaaand done. Ten. seconds. Flat." she landed on the rail of a bridge that was close "I'd never leave Ponyville hanging

Twilight and Spike were in aw at how fast Rainbow Dash was able to clear the sky.

Twilight was thinking 'I only did that so she could at least start but I didn't think she would finish that quickly.'

Spike could only say "wow"

Rainbow Dash flew over them upside down "hah hah you should see the look on your aces. Heh heh, your a riot Twilight Sparkle. Can't wait to hang out some more." she then turned around and gave a wave "but I gotta get back to practicing so see ya!"

Twilight and Spike were now entering the building they were going to use for Celestia to appear.

As they walked in Spike said "beautiful."

Twilight smiled as she looked around the interior "yes the decorations are coming out nicely, this shouldn't take long, I'll be at the library in no time." 'and find out more about Nightmare Moon'

Spike shook his head "not that, her"

Twilight looked to where Spike pointed at and saw that he was pointing at a unicorn going through a few ribbon decorations with her magic. The unicorn had white fur with a mane and tail stylized in a manner that showed that she was a "proper" pony. Around her neck was a necklace that had a Saffire gem.

Spike began fiddling with his spines "how are my spines? Are they straight?"

Twilight smiled at the little dragon before going to the white unicorn "Good afternoon"

"One moment I am in the zone as it were." She looked through a few more ribbons "No. no. no. Ah ha" after going through some ribbons, she found a red ribbon that she used her magic to wrap around a pole "yes this color always works. Why Rarity you are a talent" the now known Rarity turned to Twilight "now how can I help you? Oh, my word!"

Twilight was surprised at the exclamation "What? What is it?"

Rarity moved closer to Twilight and lifted Twilight's cape "your cape is all dirty and has a tear in it."

Twilight's eyes grew wide and turned her head to see that Rarity was right "oh no!" She used her magic to remove the cape and brought it in front of her. Her ears dropped as she looked at it

Rarity had noticed the solemn look on Twilight and spoke: "don't worry Darling, I can replace it for you…."

Twilight quickly looked a bit horrified as she shook her head "no! This is important to me. My mother gave this to me." she looked sadly at her cape

Rarity grew a determined look as she smiled at Twilight "if you would like, I would be able to repair it for you."

Twilight gained a small look of hope "can you?"

Rarity nodded as she used her magic to take the article of clothing. "Don't worry darling, I will get this cleaned up and fixed in no time" she used her magic to levitate a bag that was placed to the side. Out of the bag came a pair of scissors, a spool of thread, and a needle before she began to mend the tear.

Twilight watched as the white mare began to mend the cape. After a few minutes, she had her cape back on her. Twilight looked at the cape on her and could hardly tell that there was a tear "thank you. You did an amazing job fixing it"

Rarity smiled as at the praise "you are quite welcome. Now was there something you needed from me before I repaired it."

Twilight turned back to Rarity "oh yes, I came here in order to check up on the decorations."

"Oh yes, they are coming along splendidly. I should be done in time for tonight's celebration."

Twilight nodded "oh good. We can check that off the list then as well. Spike….?" she turned to Spike and could see that the little dragon still giving the white mare a lovestruck look. She smiled as she used her magic to pick him up and placed him on her back. She looked to Rarity and bowed her head "thank you very much for my cape and good luck in finishing the decorations." she began to leave and both mares waved at each other.

"Isn't she wonderful~"

Twilight looked to Spike who was sitting on her back "focus casanova (someone who is passionate about women and has many girlfriends [1]), what's next on the list?"

Spike coughed into his fist before looking at the list that was in his hand "oh uh... Music! It's the last one."

When he finished saying that they heard birds chirping in a musical tone. They moved to look beyond a bush to see a pegasus being a maestro to a group of different colored birds

The pegasus had a yellow coat and a long flowy pink mane and tail. On her flank was a mark of three pink winged butterflies. In her mane was a white flower that didn't move regardless of her movement in the air.

The mare was flying in front of a tree that had a group of birds and she heard one of them tweeting off-key. "Oh my, um stop please everyone." she flew to be close to the blue jay that was off-tempo "excuse me sir, I mean no offense but your rhythm is just a teeny tiny bit off." seeing the bird nod in understanding she flew back to her original position "now follow me, please. A one, a two, a one, two, three…."

"Hello!"

The shout had startled her and scared the birds away. She looked down to see a purple unicorn

Twilight noticed what she had done and looked apologetically "oh I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you off your birds. I'm just here to check up on the music and it sounded beautiful." Twilight watched the pegasus float down in front of her.

Once the yellow mare landed, she kicked the ground and looked away

Twilight gave an awkward after a few seconds of silence. She cleared her throat "I'm Twilight Sparkle, what's your name"

The yellow mare looked anywhere but Twilight's eyes and mumble "I'm…"

"What was that?"

"I'm…"

"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that..."

The pegasus squeaked as she took a step back

Twilight looked up to see that the birds that flew away had returned "well looks like your birds are back so I'll leave you to it. Keep up the good music." she expected an answer but when she didn't receive one she chuckled nervously "well bye."

The yellow mare had her hair covering her face and looked up to see through a few strands to see the unicorn leaving. Her eyes widened when she saw that a baby dragon came out of the bushes "A baby dragon!"

Twilight heard the yellow mare and turned her head to look behind her. She saw the quick movement of the said mare, and she remembered what happened earlier with Rainbow Dash and she moved just in time to get out of the way. Twilight was surprised by the quick change in demeanor (attitude or mood) and watched as spike talked to the pegasus.

Twilight was making her way to the library as the yellow pegasus who she heard was named Fluttershy, was speaking to spike who was riding on Twilight's back. She was grumbling to herself as she saw that the library was just ahead

"...And that's my whole life, well up until today. To you want to hear about today?"

Fluttershy smiled and nodded "oh yes I would like that."

Twilight was happy that they had made it and turned around "I'm sorry about this but it seems that we have made it to the library and from what I can see it's close to Spike's bedtime." She said while looking up to the sky seeing that it was now dusk.

Spike looked behind him towards Twilight "but I'm not tired ye….."

Twilight jerked herself to get Spike to fall to the ground. "Aw he so sweepy he can't keep his wittle bawance." she then gave a forced smile to Fluttershy

Fluttershy swooped in and picked Spike up and floated in the air "aw poor little thing. We simply must get him to bed." she then flew into the library ready to put the baby dragon to sleep

Twilight dashed in and pushed Fluttershy out the door "and I will. Thank you so much. Bye." she then slammed the door in Fluttershy's face

Once Twilight and Spike were inside Spike turned to Twilight "that was rude you know"

"I know Spike but I have to get the information I need." Twilight looked around to see that the lights were off and she couldn't see anything "now where is the light switch?"

Suddenly the lights turned on and a loud "SURPRISE!" was heard

Twilight looked around to see that the library was packed full with ponies. She sighed as she realized that she wouldn't be able to look up the book she needed. Suddenly the pink pony that she said "Hello" to when she first arrived popped up in front of her

"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie. I threw this surprise party just for you!" the now-named Pinkie Pie began to bounce around and over her "were you surprised? Huh? Were you, were you, were you?"

Twilight rolled her eyes as she walked deeper into the library or party "yes I was. Since I thought that libraries are meant to be quiet."

Pinkie got in close and smiled "then it wouldn't be a party silly."

Twilight could only sigh at this

Twilight was sitting on her bed, as the party was still going on downstairs. She was looking outside and at the moon as she was lost in her own thoughts. 'The Mare in the Moon…..' she was brought out her thoughts when someone opened the door. She looked to see it was Spike

"Come on Twilight! Pinkie is about to start 'Pin the Tail on the Pony', wanna play?"

"No! All the ponies in this town are crazy! Do you know what time it is?"

"It's the eve of the Summer Sun Celebration. Everypony has to stay up to watch the princess raise the sun." Spike then looked at her with a small bit of pity "you really should lighten up Twilight, it's a party."

Twilight began to repeat what he said in a mocking tone "beb me ebe be be. De be be be" (I just felt like putting that in). Twilight got up from her bed and looked at the moon again "I was hoping to learn more about the elements of Harmony but turns out that I can't even get the time to do that. I really hope that my worries are for nothing…..but….."

Spike suddenly came back in "come on Twilight, it's time to watch the sunrise!"

Twilight was extremely nervous now. The celebration was about to start and she couldn't help but keep her mind going through several thoughts a mile a minute.

Spike was standing next to Twilight and looked worried at his friend as he could tell that she was concerned about something

She was brought out of her thoughts when Pinkie popped up

"Isn't this exciting!? Are you excited? cause I'm excited. I've never been so excited in my life! Except for the time that you said 'hello' and I was like GAAAAASSSP! But who can top that"

Twilight looked forward when she heard the birds meant to announce the princess' arrival, with Fluttershy being the maestro.

Soon a spotlight was shined on an elderly mare that had a pair of glasses on her snout "Fillys and gentle colts! As mayor of Ponyville, it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration!"

As the mayor continued her speech, Twilight felt her nerves grow even tenser and she looked up to the moon in time to see the image that was on the moon disappear. 'It's gone! That can only mean….!'

"...bringer of harmony of all of Equestria: Princess Celestia!"

Rarity took her cue to and used her teeth to pull on a rope that pulled the curtains on the balcony above everyone.

Much to everypony's shock and panic, the princess that they were waiting for was not there.

Twilight grew worried at this and began backing away until she was near the back of the whole crowd. As the rest of the ponies began to panic at what the disappearance of the princess, Twilight was the first to notice a dark mist begin to appear where the princess should have been.

Pinkie screamed a few seconds later as she had also noticed the mist.

Everyone looked to the balcony once more in time to see the mist form into a dark mare.

The Alicorn had a coat of ebony and her mane and tail were like flowing streams of the night sky. She wore a helmet that went down her neck and had a chest piece that had a crescent moon symbol on it. On her flank was the symbol of a Crescent moon with small white stars surrounding it.

"Ah my beloved subjects. It's been so long since I've seen your precious Sun-loving faces," she said as she sneered at the crowd who were cowering at the sight of her

Rainbow dash grew angry at her "what did you do to our princess!" she flew towards the alicorn but was stopped by Applejack who grabbed her tail with her teeth

"Whoa there nelly!"

The dark Alicorn laughed "Why? am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am?"

"I do."

Everypony in the crowd began to part and made a path for Twilight

Twilight was looking at the Alicorn, not with a look of anger but of sadness "you're ….the mare in the moon: Nightmare Moon."

"Mwuahaha than you know what it is that I plan on doing."

Twilight's ears dropped "you …." she swallowed as she tried to answer "you plan to…"

Nightmare Moon smiled down at the little Unicorn "you know, don't you? Yes, I can see it in your eyes. You fear what's to come." she then looked to the rest of the crowd "I hoped you all enjoyed the sun for it shall never rise again. The Eternal night has begun, now and forever!" her mane began to swirl in the air and began to spread out into the sky, dark clouds formed lightning began to strike the ground causing everypony to run around in panic

Twilight didn't move as she looked at the alicorn in sadness. A single tear fell from her eye as she spoke softly "please don't do this…..mother."

End of chapter

If you have read the note I put at the top you know I am not a watcher of the show. If I have made a mistake her then let me know so I can fix it.

Had to watch the first episode repeatedly in order for me to get some things right. And in my honest opinion, it's not a bad show, it's just a typical kids show but I can see the appeal to it

I added some accessories to the characters because when I watched the episode I questioned why Applejack had a hat if no one else had to wear anything. It's also how I came up with a sort of concept. Not sure if it has been used before but here it is

If any of you have tips, on the show, that you can give me that please tell me.

Also, this will not be my main focus so updates will be irregular

Had fun with the image though. took me about 45 minutes to draw but the coloration was a pain to get close to right. I still think it came out great though. Hope you loke it "Kay"

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