"Lunaaaa!" Luna jerks up awake from her nightmare. "I... what!?" "M-Luna, Celestia is having that nightmare again wich means it's time for the next step! 'Destroying The Nightmares That Plague You'." "No! Nonono! Do I have to?" "Yes you must be pure to enter dreams." Moon Beamer said. "Oh alright." Luna replied reluctantly.
"So where are we going?" Luna asked shifting from hoof to hoof nervously. "Not 'we' you. And you a-are heading to Nightmare Forest." Moon Beamer replied shakily. "But that's... that's on... the dark side of the moon!" Luna shouted running ahead. You see Nightmare Forest is the place where every single pony's darkest fears are sent so they can no longer haunt the ponies below. Today, Luna, in order to be pure would have to live through, or face her fear. It depends on what her fear is, some ponies fear a thing or another pony while others fear a moment in their life that will probably never come. Luna's fear? Well, be patient and you may just learn it! Ahh, it seems they have arrived. "This is the border between the light side of the moon and the dark side I can take you no further." Moon Beamer whispered to her queen and friend. "I - I understand. Thank you for journeying this far thy friend." Luna walked nervously away from her little friend. "Goodbye." She called over her shoulder as she journey further into the dark. To save my sister. She repeated to herself. After about the hundredth time of thinking this she arrived at the forest. "It truly is beautiful." She said to no one. It's true Nightmare Forest was beautiful. Their were thousands of lightly glowing trees, vines hanging down from each of them three glowing orbs per vine. Each orb was a different color, also each orb had a pony's Cutie Mark etched into it. Luna instantly knew what these orbs contained. They each contained... "Nightmares." Yep that's right my alicorn friend each orb contained a different pony's worst nightmare. Fascinating. As Princess Twilight Sparkle would say, I wish I had my notepad! Now for Luna all that's left to do is find her orb and open it for only the pony the orb belonged to could open that orb!
"There." There in all it's dark - blue glowing Luna's flank mark etched into it glory, was Luna's orb. "Ahh! No not yet! Why couldn't thy fiendish object be farther back!?" Luna was shocked to find her orb so close to the front of the forest! "For Celestia!" She charged at the evil thing and stopped when her muzzle was a feather - length away. She warily tapped it. Everything went black.
Luna felt like she was falling, her muzzle was sealed shut. She couldn't move she was frozen, stiched to the ground. "Luna! I will not fight you." Was that... yes! Celestia! "Ah ha! But you must." Someone spoke. "Lower the moon it is your duty!" Celestia cried. Luna tried to speak to say, 'Yes! Of course!' found she could not not. The mysterious pony spoke again. "I have but one royal duty now! To destroy you!" Luna stunned found it was herself saying these evil things to her sister. Luna shot a beam at her sister, silently apologizing for what she knew she was about to do. Her sister had dodged her previous attack but couldn't keep this up for much longer. Luna unwillingly shot another beam a... death blow at her sister. Her sister tried and... failed to dodge the attack. "No!" Luna finding she could move again ran to her sister's side. "No! No no no! This wasn't supposed to happen!" Luna whimpered. Celestia, weakened, colasped falling to her knees. "I'm sorry." Celestia whispered. "I'm so sorry for not being a better sister." Luna cried as her sister died. "Mwahahaha!" Luna's evil self laughed wickedly. The laugh bouncing through the room. "Yes I shall rule now! For I am Nightmare Moon!" "No. No you won't." Luna told her fiendish counterpart, or Nightmare Moon. "Have you lost it!? Of course I shall rule Equestria. Tis my destiny." "I am the reason you exist now I will be the reason you disappear." Luna muttered darkly. "I'm ending this." She says in a demonic voice.
She launches a laser at the fiend who murdered her sister. "Ha! I'm amused at your foolishness. Nopony but Nopony can defeat me!" Nightmare Moon laughed. "Nopony but me." Luna responds with new found courage. "Well if you insist on challenging your queen." Nightmare Moon yawns and shoots at Luna. "YOU'RE NO QUEEN OF MINE!" Luna shouts as she dodges and shoots some lasers of her own. Nightmare Moon is hit in the wing grounding her. "I will not fall!" She shouts. "You just did as, you just fell from the sky. Ha!" Luna taunts then laughs at her joke. Nightmare Moon responds by grounding Luna. "Who fell now smart-pony?" Nightmare Moon giggles creepily. Luna and Nightmare Moon circle each other. Scanning for weak points. There! Luna spots it right on Nightmare Moon's flank. Shoot her Cutie Mark, shoot her down. Luna aims fires up her magic and...BOOM! Nightmare Moon is struck down. "Nooooo!" Nightmare Moon cries as she fades away. Everything goes black.
Luna wakes up in the forest, her orb beside her. There is a note on the orb saying:
I now contain the first ingredient to getting your power.
"Well best be getting home!" Luna says cheerfully as she picks up the orb.
Little does she know a dark presence watches her every step.
Should I bump up the rating?