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Read "The Bridge: A Shimmer in the Dark" here! www.fimfiction.net/story/33407…
This is a tale of three realms never meant to meet having a chance intersection. Two of the realms are the worlds of Equestria and their respective accompanying parallel worlds, those across mirrors and populated by humans. One is the Equestria many would know, but the other is an Equestria that went down a similar; but distinct path. This was a grimmer world of ponies, still full of joy and happiness but without the constant peace. Enemies from the past continued to threaten ponykind to this day, despite the similar actions taken to defeat them. Perhaps the change was caused by an insignificant factor, perhaps it was caused by the even greater darkness that swelled into Princess Luna’s heart than in the other Equestria, leading her to launch a second dark age even after Princess Celestia managed to defeat her.
That dark age’s aftershocks were responsible for the various cultists and dark magic users that periodically stirred trouble for the population at large. Centuries later and whatever change responsible for the divergence a thousand years earlier continued to split the path in the present. This time Princess Celestia, wanting a family ever since the loss of her sister, adopted a promising young filly named Sunset Shimmer. Years later and Sunset, not Twilight Sparkle, proved to be a magical prodigy and hatched the egg of a baby earth drake. It was Sunset Shimmer who found herself sent to Ponyville by her mother and teacher, and it was Sunset who coincidentally found herself a bearer of the long lost Elements of Harmony alongside six of the locals.
Nightmare Moon and her cultist army of power-crazed ponies and demonic monstrosities were largely beaten down after a great battle across the Everfree and nearby Ponyville. Nightmare Moon was physically reverted to Princess Luna, but in this time and place, the change was just a loss of power and not psyche. Luna was still driven to monstrousness, still harboring a hatred for her big sister and those who defeated her army, forcing her to be confined to Canterlot while Celestia worked to try and reconnect with her sibling. But even as her life seemed to calm back down, aside from a sadly eventful reunion with a magic school rival turned criminal, Sunset Shimmer was restless. The Everfree was as unwelcoming as it had been on a nice day, but lately it seemed like something was even worse with it. Exactly what remained elusive, but the nagging feeling of dread was too strong for the headstrong princess to ignore. And while she had softened to a degree since her arrival, she still wasn’t quite at the point of including others with her ploys, both to keep them running smoothly and to keep others out of danger. Thusly, she set off alone before sunrise, leaving none to know where she’d gone.
And that is what has happened so far in this Equestria many know not. As for the third realm involved? Well, let’s just say as different as the two Equestrias are from one another; neither would have any context for what they’d soon encounter from the world beyond. There were giants upon the earth those days, and those days had come again.
Story created by tarbano and Evowizard
Nightmare Moon is owned by Hasbro
Nightmare Moon's design inspired by InuHoshi-to-DarkPen (Queen of the Eternal Night - Nightmare Moon)
This is a tale of three realms never meant to meet having a chance intersection. Two of the realms are the worlds of Equestria and their respective accompanying parallel worlds, those across mirrors and populated by humans. One is the Equestria many would know, but the other is an Equestria that went down a similar; but distinct path. This was a grimmer world of ponies, still full of joy and happiness but without the constant peace. Enemies from the past continued to threaten ponykind to this day, despite the similar actions taken to defeat them. Perhaps the change was caused by an insignificant factor, perhaps it was caused by the even greater darkness that swelled into Princess Luna’s heart than in the other Equestria, leading her to launch a second dark age even after Princess Celestia managed to defeat her.
That dark age’s aftershocks were responsible for the various cultists and dark magic users that periodically stirred trouble for the population at large. Centuries later and whatever change responsible for the divergence a thousand years earlier continued to split the path in the present. This time Princess Celestia, wanting a family ever since the loss of her sister, adopted a promising young filly named Sunset Shimmer. Years later and Sunset, not Twilight Sparkle, proved to be a magical prodigy and hatched the egg of a baby earth drake. It was Sunset Shimmer who found herself sent to Ponyville by her mother and teacher, and it was Sunset who coincidentally found herself a bearer of the long lost Elements of Harmony alongside six of the locals.
Nightmare Moon and her cultist army of power-crazed ponies and demonic monstrosities were largely beaten down after a great battle across the Everfree and nearby Ponyville. Nightmare Moon was physically reverted to Princess Luna, but in this time and place, the change was just a loss of power and not psyche. Luna was still driven to monstrousness, still harboring a hatred for her big sister and those who defeated her army, forcing her to be confined to Canterlot while Celestia worked to try and reconnect with her sibling. But even as her life seemed to calm back down, aside from a sadly eventful reunion with a magic school rival turned criminal, Sunset Shimmer was restless. The Everfree was as unwelcoming as it had been on a nice day, but lately it seemed like something was even worse with it. Exactly what remained elusive, but the nagging feeling of dread was too strong for the headstrong princess to ignore. And while she had softened to a degree since her arrival, she still wasn’t quite at the point of including others with her ploys, both to keep them running smoothly and to keep others out of danger. Thusly, she set off alone before sunrise, leaving none to know where she’d gone.
And that is what has happened so far in this Equestria many know not. As for the third realm involved? Well, let’s just say as different as the two Equestrias are from one another; neither would have any context for what they’d soon encounter from the world beyond. There were giants upon the earth those days, and those days had come again.
Story created by tarbano and Evowizard
Nightmare Moon is owned by Hasbro
Nightmare Moon's design inspired by InuHoshi-to-DarkPen (Queen of the Eternal Night - Nightmare Moon)
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Like how she got bat wings in this alternative universe.