Lucid Nightmare (Rough Draft - Cliff Notes only)

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As stated in the title these are simply rough draft cliff notes meaning this is NOT the final product or even a first rough draft, but rather an idea of how the story is going to progress. The intention of this is to see the constructive criticism and feedback of those who read this and whether or not it is worth writing about. Without further delay, here are the cliff notes.
 
 
**I regret this already…**
 
((NOTE: This takes place anywhere within generation 4 AFTER the first King Sombra encounter with the Mane Six at the Crystal Empire as he is mentioned, but not a key element.))
 
(Now a unicorn, Nyx is a natural blood related daughter of parent OCs as opposed to being a direct reincarnation of Nightmare Moon, but that’ll come soon).
 
Father often has little or no time for Nyx, but does love her more than she realizes. He is currently in charge of working on a new spell to simply scare off enemies before they even get close. This time he got the offer from the princesses themselves, well sort of, or was more of a call out to the best mages in Equestria, though her father might not exactly qualify. Infact he has more of a track record of being a thief when trying to provide for his family.
 
Mother “shows more love” for Nyx, but the type that could make her grow up to think only the successful are important in life. This obviously seems to be taking shots at Nyx’s father in a subtle enough way for Nyx, but not enough for her dad who knows what his wife meant about his early police record.
 
Part of Edit 1: Nyx usually likes to prove herself by learning many critical things that she can such as different types of helpful spells and even physically being able to be better in shape whether she is good at these things or not, she tries mainly because her Mother does not want her to end up like her father and Nyx subconsciously therefore fears failing and would hate herself for it.
 
One day after taking a break from hard studying and, well, attempts at working out, Nyx is reading yet another news paper about the great deeds of the Mane Six and seems to be an admirer of Twilight in particular claiming “she’s my favorite!”. Though Nyx received some anxiety when she hears her parents argue yet again this time about how “you shouldn’t talk to Nyx that way about me” and with the wife replying “because of how you use to ‘provide’ for us you missed my whole pregnancy! You’re lucky the judge was lenient!”. Nyx isn’t ignorant, she already knew this, but it still hurts to bring up. Nyx does get excited again when she finishes her article and it says that Twilight is planning on going around Ponyville to see if anypony needs advice on friendship.
 
Part of Edit 1: Nyx’s Father seems to be half asleep during his time working on his project which is most times really considering how dedicated he is to it. During these moments anytime he stumbles accidentally to sleep for even a moment, while having the project active with the magic spell needed to mold it, Nyx’s Father gains visions of nightmarish creatures before waking up in a panic before going back to work with shaky hooves.
 
Nyx tells her father she is going to say hi to Twilight, one of the local heroes. In reality Nyx actually goes out to tell Twilight that her parents would like Nyx to learn about friendship from Twilight. Twilight looks up and sees her father wave not knowing that Nyx is doing more than just saying hi. Twilight agrees to watch her while her father is busy researching within Ponyville Archives even though Nyx is supposed to be there with him, he unfortunately doesn’t notice due to being sleep deprived trying to earn money while Nyx’s mother blows it all on frivolous things. Nyx’s mom thinks Nyx is off to go play at the park believing “she’s probably made some friends”.
 
Nyx and Twilight spend much time the past few days learning about each other as Nyx during this time still goes home at night to her exhausted and mentally drained father to sleep there and her dad really sees no problem as thanks to his exhaustion he is unaware of just how gone Nyx is during this time. Her Mother trusts Twilight for now realizing that’s where Nyx has been going, but grows more and more suspicious about how different Nyx is acting than from how her Mother taught Nyx to act for example now Nyx seems more relaxed about her studies and workouts.
 
During this time Twilight has been hearing more and more about Nyx’s parents and is more worried about Nyx’s mom and even states that the mentality she is teaching Nyx isn’t healthy. Nyx doesn’t really see it and is more focused on the fact that at least her mother pays more attention to her. Twilight tries to explain that sometimes just because someone pays more attention to you it doesn’t mean they aren’t hurting you in a different way. Seeing how it’s bothering Nyx, Twilight drops the subject.
 
Nyx has been lying to Twilight about her father’s permission to learn from her and out of guilt finally reveals that she should have stayed with her father, that he nor her mother didn’t ask Twilight to watch her because of “how much she taught others of friendship”, but rather Nyx was supposed to just stay at the Archives period. Twilight is understandably upset and tells Nyx she should return home.
 
Father turns out to be using the shards of Nightmare Moon’s armor from the Castle of the Two Sister’s as he reluctantly reveals to Nyx who really just wanted to know what was keeping her father busier than usual. Her father claims that this is the perfect key to scare future villains away and the Princesses will be surprised by it. Nyx is admittingly happy for her dad, but is saddened once more when her desire to spend time with her father is declined again.
 
Twilight doesn’t dwell on Nyx’s lie for too long and when she goes to see Nyx to talk it out now back at Nyx’s house at a town near Ponyville, her Mother insists that Twilight should go away claiming “you are confusing my daughter” disappointing both Twilight and Nyx.
 
Nyx after Twilight leaves is fed up at her Father who after she sees him fallen asleep with his head on his desk, Nyx decides to kick him awake. They have a heated conversation and her father lays some brutal honesty about how “life never just hands you what you want, that it will instead take from you, and that you need to take from life instead of waiting to get lucky”. This is the last straw for Nyx as while she seems to accept what her father says through a brief moment of subdue expression, she soon afterwards shouts “I hate you” and out of rage her magic accidentally sparks her father’s project and it backfires at Nyx.
 
Hours turn into three days in the hospital as Nyx seems to wake up, but her eyes seem blind, though she claims her vision is fine. Personality wise Nyx seems very to herself and quiet now as her parents think she hasn’t fully recovered. Twilight was unaware that she was in the hospital and when she sees Twilight in the middle of town one day she finds this out the hard way. Nyx gets upset thinking Twilight didn’t care and Twilight sees her eyes begin to change, that they seem “eerily familiar”. Nyx just storms off angerily.
 
Part of Edit1: Nyx is off by herself in the middle of her old town, this time venturing perhaps a little too far as she has gotten lost. She can simply head back the way she came, however going any further and she definitely won’t find anything familiar. At this point she just wants to fall asleep and never wake up, feeling like she let everypony down. However Nyx is confronted by somepony who seems to know the area and claims that this is her turf, though kidding of course as she sees how scared Nyx is the white unicorn pony just laughs while Nyx becomes unamused. This unicorn appears to be trying to smoke, but failed claiming that she “hates the d**n taste”. The white unicorn seems to be wearing rebellious attire as her mane and eyes are golden like the sun. Nyx and the mysterious unicorn talk about pressures of society and ultimately the white unicorn tells Nyx that despite all that “bulls’’’” that it is up to Nyx to decide who she really wants to be and shouldn’t let anypony say otherwise. When Nyx asks for her name the white unicorn says her name is Hemera, but she rather go by, well, let us just say the name can be misconstrued as something else even though that is most likely it’s intent. Hemera tells Nyx she’s gotta go, but not without Nyx tells her that one way to “look cool” without actually having to light the cigarette is to use a smoke spell and focus it at the tip of her mouth to make the illusion of blowing smoke. Hemera plays it off like she knew that and Nyx merely smirks while rolling hers before they both decide to head back to where they need to be, but not without Hemera saying that if she needs to talk again then she’ll be around these parts at the same time.
 
Nyx later is found by Twilight again who has been contacted by her parents and have told her the whole story. Nyx shares her side of the story while seemingly being back to her old self, yet she still is oddly enough changing to some nightmarish vision. Despite many attempts, Nyx just isn’t reverting back.
 
Overtime Nyx seems to have random outbursts as her body grows darker and eyes sharper. Worried, Nyx runs away one day as her parents try to calm her down only to end up in an argument with each other about how to raise her. Nyx out of fear heads to Twilight and she admits that she doesn’t feel like herself and when Twilight asks what exactly happened and why she ended up at the hospital that Nyx brings up the Nightmare Moon shards.
 
Twilight ends up bringing Nyx back to her parents who seem to have being busy calling people to see if they’ve seen Nyx. Twilight explains that while they can’t change their situation, that they shouldn’t be fighting each other, because it could blind you to what is happening to the people you care about. Her parents reluctantly agree and admit that they should have mentioned everything to Twilight when they first contacted her instead of focusing on who’s right and who’s wrong. Though before they could admit that to Nyx, she seems to be gone as a trail of dark energy is left behind.
 
As Twilight and Nyx’s parents scower the place following the energy that is soon fading, they meet up in the middle of town and in the distance a tall figure comes their way with a wavy mane– Princess Luna. Twilight sighs out of relief and before Nyx’s parents can ask Luna why she’s here, Luna answers as she cuts them off with “somepony stole the nightmare shards from the Canterlot Storage. That area is near the mage sign up sheet just two blocks down. I assume you know something about it?”
 
Though before her father could confess, he hears desperate cries; ones of fear, sorrow, and desperation as what they find is a young Nyx being consumed by a Nightmare.
 
“You are right Father, Mother. I am going to take from life what it never gave me– my success!” -Nightmare Moon
 
Nyx is now on a quest to make not just villains, but according to her “future villains” fear the world if they dare commit any crimes believing this will end her Father’s worries as well as make her family finally feel like it accomplished something. Her powers are now on Par with the original Nightmare Moon and Luna claims that if she isn’t turned back then she will become unstoppable due to how quickly Luna learned to use her new Nightmare Magic when she was no longer neutralized on the Moon.
 
“For most the night will last forever, but for some the night will be the last thing they ever see.” -Nightmare Moon referring to those who commit crime.
 
One of Nightmare Moon’s newest abilities is her being able to put those she desires into a never ending dream, particularly nightmares. She also seems to be able to manipulate how dark and area is and can cast hallucinations to those who get near her as well as cast shadow creatures from ponies very shadows made of fear magic similar to how Celestia demonstrated what it could do during the return of King Sombra.
 
Twilight, Luna, and now Celestia agree that the only way to stop her is to overwhelm all her senses. Luna will go into the dream realm and awake those from sleep, Celestia will fend off the shadows, and Twilight must try and remind Nyx of who she truly is.
 
In the end by thinking of Hemera’s and Twilight’s words, Nyx manages to gain enough control to put Nightmare Moon away, but she doesn’t know for how long. Nyx confesses that she “didn’t want to be a hero or a villain, just somepony that can make all the fighting stop and maybe even find her own way” thus making her earlier comments as Nightmare Moon genuine after all regarding her families struggle. Her parents decide that maybe Twilight can help her control her magic one step at a time of course considering the power difference. Twilight agrees after they make arrangements that the parents will always make time together to see Nyx and Nyx also promises to learn that work itself is very important and she should respect that of her father and mother.
 
Part of Edit 1: Princess Celestia has invited Nyx’s Father over to discuss with him that at the moment her sister Princess Luna has taken it upon herself to try and be rid of the shards for good. When Nyx’s Father asked why exactly he is there, Celestia tells him that while he caused a near tragedy to Equestria, that there is a way to redeem himself. Nyx’s Father tells her he is willing to do whatever it takes to show that he is more than a mere thief. Celestia nods and tells him it is remarkable that he can technically bring out inner demons and was wondering if he could help her with her own. Before Nyx’s Father could ask what she means by that, Celestia asks for his name and Nyx’s Father responds “That would be Spell Nexus”.
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