Okay Everypony, here is the next story in Cadance and Alex's universe!

Please note that this story will be very dark at points. In fact I would go so far as to warn you that if you disliked Luna's Chronicle in The Royal Break Up Chronicles, then you should definitely be wary of reading this.

But since you lot are glutton for punishment, I know you're all going to read it anyway XD

In any case welcome to The Endless Nightmare, the third story in the series.

Prepare yourselves, this one is going to make you shiver…

Begin!

The Endless Nightmare

(Part one- The Mad Queen)

"Get...somepony...Princess!"

"Alex…can…hear…"

"Honey…open….eyes!"

"Who…this...LITTLE COLT!"

"Quick…weak pulse…stretcher!"

"Not breathing…defibrillator…"

"ALEX!"

I opened my eyes to find myself lying in the middle of an alleyway. Looking up I noticed that the moon was in the sky, confusing me somewhat.

"The moon? Wasn't it around nine in the morning a few moments ago?"

I quickly clambered onto my feet and made my way out of the alleyway sluggishly, noticing just how woozy I felt as I did so.

"Ugh…I feel like I just hoof bumped a wall with my face…"

As I made my way out of the alleyway, I quickly realized that I wasn't in Canterlot anymore. In fact as I looked around I quickly summarized that I was actually in some sort of town.

But there was one problem…

The town was completely abandoned.

In fact as I wandered through the ghost town I noticed that many of the buildings were barely standing. Many were covered in moss, mould and dirt. And the ones that weren't were half destroyed or falling apart.

All of a sudden I heard a large number of screams ahead of me. But before I could do anything, a purple Unicorn mare with an eye patch teleported not a few feet in front of me.

She looked…familiar…couldn't have been much older than her early twenties at most.

The Unicorn noticed me immediately, her eye widening in shock as she stared at me.

"Alex?" she stammered, her voice caught between surprise and…sadness?

"Uhh yeah, I'm Alex," I replied cautiously.

Her eye widened even further at this, but before she could say anything else a spear landed a mere inch away from her stomach. She leapt up into the air in a panic and quickly ran over to me, hiding behind my legs and shivering in fear.

There was that familiar feeling again…

Before I could focus any further on that, five stallions wearing blue armour came charging around the corner, their spears raised to throw…until they noticed me that is.

Upon noticing me, all of them dropped their spears in shock, their mouths open and their eyes wide. A Pegasi within the group quickly blanched and flew as fast as he could in the opposite direction.

"Impossible…" one of them whispered. "You're dead…I was there when…impossible…"

He seemed to snap out of his shock when he noticed the quivering mare behind me. As if on cue, each of them raised their spears once again and aimed them right at me.

"S-Sir, King A-Alexander Sir, please s-step aside," stammered the obvious leader of the group. "I-I don't w-want t-to hurt you, b-but the Queen has d-demanded Sparkles death. W-We can take y-you to the Queen a-afterwards…"

"KING ALEXANDER?!"

All of them were quite obviously terrified for some reason. I could tell that they weren't afraid of me in particular…but rather something else…perhaps this Queen.

"Queen? Queen who?" I asked, trying my utmost not to panic as they raised their spears a little higher.

"Q-Queen Cadance your Highness," he replied with difficulty.

Queen…Cadance? Why would my lover be the Queen?

"Cadance? What about Celestia?" I asked, a little more fiercely this time. It seemed that for whatever reason, these stallions were too afraid to actually harm me.

"And what did they mean by calling me a King?"

All of them looked at each other warily before turning their attention back to me.

"P-Princess Celestia has been removed from power and imprisoned within the Crystal Catacombs for well over seven years."

"What…?"

"What about Princess Luna?" I asked, the fear of revealing my future knowledge vanishing momentarily.

"She was imprisoned along with Princess Celestia," the stallion answered awkwardly, his eyes looking in every direction but my own.

"She…what is going on?!"

The stallion suddenly shook his head rapidly and aimed the spear back at me once again.

"Your Highness I'm g-going to have to ask you t-to move!" he half demanded, half stammered.

I grimaced at the spears and momentarily considered making a break for it…but one look at the shaking mare behind me was enough to quell that cowardly thought.

"No," I denied, spreading my arms wide.

The stallions all looked at each other and nodded once, before turning their attention back to me and raising their spears once more.

"Then we're sorry sir…but we won't risk the wrath of our Queen…"

Just as they were about to throw the spears, a large blast of magical energy smashed into the ground behind them, causing each and every one of them to fly in random directions. Three of them hit a crumbling home, causing it to collapse on them and silence their screams, smoke filling the air rapidly. The last one however was rolling on the ground in pain as he tried to get up.

I took the momentary distraction to gesture at the mare to run, only to get a fierce look in return.

"I'm not leaving you Alex!" she growled determinedly.

I merely stared at her for but a moment…before kneeling down and embracing the Unicorn warmly.

"Yes you are Sparky," I replied affectionately, smiling slightly as the mare gasped in surprise.

"How did you know?" she stammered in shock.

I released her from my arms and pushed her away, speaking softly yet rapidly as I did so.

"You're my little Sister, of course I'd recognize you…Now go!"

The mare…Twilight looked at me, her lip trembling and hooves shaking…but one nod from me was enough to get her running.

Running from whatever had so callously attacked those stallions from behind, deserved or no.

And so I turned to face said attacker. My hands were shaking ever so slightly as I saw the silhouette of a Pony walking towards me, their horn aglow and their…wings flared?

The smoke suddenly cleared as their horn glowed a little brighter...revealing my apparent saviour to me.

"Beloved…is…is it really you?" she asked, tears in her eyes as she gracefully prowled over to me.

She looked different from what I could remember, especially when I pictured her cartoon counterpart. She was darker, even more beautiful and yet a single glance was all it took to warn me how dangerous she truly was.

The Alicorn snapped me out of my thoughts as she pressed the tip of her wing to my cheek, stroking it ever so softly…smiling as I returned her affection automatically, my fingers brushing against her face gently as I stared at her, unsure what to do.

I was very surprised when her mane didn't lose its magical properties.

"It is you…" she whispered, disbelief and hurt obvious in her expression as her lips trembled uncontrollably. "You died in my hooves and yet…it's you, you're really here!"

Before I could so much as ASK why everypony thought I was dead, she pushed me down onto the ground and leapt on top of me, burying her muzzle into my neck as she wept joyous tears.

"It's you, it's you, it's you!" she repeated, happiness laced within her voice.

She moved her muzzle from my neck and pressed it against my lips before I could do anything. To my surprise I actually found myself returning the gesture, my arms wrapping themselves around her and tightening, much to her delight.

It was only once I regained my senses that I pushed her off of me and tried my best to back away.

"But those stallions said-"

"Exactly what I told them to say, should this situation ever occur," she interrupted, a smile adorning her muzzle as she prowled towards me…much like a tiger would its prey.

"Ever occur? Who in their right mind would ever plan for this?

"Where is she?" I demanded, glaring at her as best I could…only for said glare to disappear as my back hit a wall and she reached me, trailing her left hoof up my leg slowly whilst gazing at me affectionately.

"Imprisoned within the catacombs alongside Celestia," she answered simply. "Just as she should be for taking what is not hers."

"Not hers?" I repeated, confusion filling me up as I contemplated her statement.

"Don't you remember?" she asked, tilting her head cutely as she gazed at me lovingly.

"Remember what?"

She blinked at my question before shaking her head and grinning at me playfully.

"That I'm yours…and you…you are mine Xander," said Queen Luna.

"Xander?" I repeated, confusion obviously evident on my face as Luna cocked her head once more.

"That is your name isn't it?" she asked confusedly. "Alexander, Xander. Both are yours are they not?"

"Xander? I suppose it could be a nickname for me, taken from my original name."

Before I could think any further on the subject I felt a slightly wet tongue drag itself up my cheek, snapping me out of my thoughts and onto the cause of said lick.

I tried instinctively to back away as I realized just how close Luna's face was to mine. It was all for nought however as the Night Princess…the Queen of the night, wrapped her hooves around my neck and nuzzled my nose with her snout playfully.

"I'm not entirely sure why you are so…hesitant to be close to me beloved," she began unhappily. "But rest assured that whatever Celestia and…and that mare have done to you will be undone."

"They haven't done anything to me!" I argued, now really trying my utmost to push her off of me. "I don't feel anything for you, I don't even know you!"

As soon as the words left my mouth I knew that I had said the wrong thing.

Luna's eyes widened greatly at this admission...only to narrow dangerously as tears threatened to escape their edges. She let go of me and backed away, her gaze looking at me and yet…past me, as though she was within deep thought.

It was only through strained hearing that I heard the almost incoherent mumble that escaped her lips.

"Monsters…"

What?

"Uh L-Luna wha-"

I never managed to finish my question…

"THE BOTH OF THEM ARE MONSTERS!" she screamed furiously. "WAS IT NOT ENOUGH TO TAKE HIM FROM ME SISTER?! WAS YOUR JEALOUSLY SO GREAT THAT YOU HAD TO WIPE ME FROM HIS MEMORY TOO?!"

What happened next was probably quite foolish on my behalf, but I was never one to leave a mare in distress.

And so in the midst of her ranting and raving, I stood up shakily and made my way over to her…and then I put a comforting hand on her back.

The results were instantaneous.

Luna's eyes snapped onto me for all of a second before she swiped at me, hitting me slap bang in the face and sending me flying into a crumbling house. Said house then had the honour of collapsing on top of me, pinning me beneath it and crushing my body.

To be honest I have no idea how I didn't die there and then, nor how I managed to stay conscious though the white hot pain in my left leg. What I do know however is Luna and her horrified screams as she used her magic to lift the building off of me.

This puzzled me slightly…for magic and I have never agreed with each other.

I quickly noticed Luna's terrified expression as she threw the buildings remains into the sky, apparently not caring whether or not they landed on someone else. She then ran over to me quickly and began to check me over with her…magic?

"I'm so sorry sweetheart!" she blubbered inconsolably. "J-Just don't move. I can heal you, I swear!"

Obviously I must have taken more damage than I thought for to be reacting like she was.

Her horn's glow became brighter as she pointed it down at me, enveloping my body in an aura that was sure to die.

"L-Luna…it…w-won't work…" I gasped painfully.

"Hush beloved, it w-will work!"

And to my utter disbelief…it did work.

Luna's magical aura caressed my body ever so gently as it began to patch me up. Everywhere that was apparently damaged became comfortably warm, as though I had been lying close to a fire.

It was the first time I had ever felt magic…and it felt nice. Every ache, pain and itch that bothered me was swept away by the flow of soothing bliss that enveloped my form…before eventually fading away along with Luna's magic.

Said Alicorn instantly attempted to touch my cheek, but with what she had just done foremost in my mind, her touching me was the last thing I wanted. In fact all I wanted to do at that moment was get as far away from her as I could.

And so I did, scrambling to my feet and running as fast I could in the opposite direction.

Unfortunately for me, a soft flow of warmth wrapped itself around my body and began to drag me back. I tried my utmost to fight against it, to call upon my magical resistance and banish the offending…l-lovely…offending glow away from me.

But it was all for nothing, and try as I might to fight against it, the glow simply ignored every attempt.

Eventually I was forcibly, though gently, turned around to face Luna's sorrowful expression.

"X-Xander I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I swear," she began pleadingly. "I didn't even realize it was you until…until the building collapsed on you."

"I-I don't care!" I stuttered, fear coursing through me for the first time in a long time. "Just let me go!"

Luna's lower lip began to tremble as I said this, her eyes were brimming with unshed tears and her ear were splayed back in sadness.

Then without any warning she magically pulled me into a rather comfy yet desperate embrace, wrapping her wings around me tightly as she placed her face directly in front of mine…my nose and her snout almost touching…brushing against the other, her breath warming my skin ever so slightly.

"I'm sorry Xander…but that's one request I can never grant you," she whispered, sadness laced in her tone. "You have forgotten what we once shared…but I haven't and I never will."

Her expression suddenly became quite…determined and yet her eyes shone with something that truly frightened me.

"I can never give you the memories and emotions that Celestia stole from you my love…But I promise you that I can give you new ones. I will…We will make new memories together and eventually you will love me as I do you."

In all honesty, the sheer madness that shone from her eyes as she swore this scared the crap out of me.

She said that she loved me, but all I saw was obsession, possessiveness…and…yeah. Yeah there was love there, lots of it…it reminded me of Cadance and the love that she constantly showed me every day.

"I don't love you, I love Cadance!" I snapped harshly…although it was all for nought as Luna's expression only became that much more determined…and calm…dangerously calm.

"That will change beloved," she said soothingly.

And in that moment she opened her mouth to speak again, Luna softly pressed her muzzle against my neck, soft yet warm kisses trailing against it for every pause she made.

"You will love me…Care for me…Want me…And forget all about her."

Ugh…every touch, every kiss against my skin left behind such pleasurable heat. It was actually almost impossible for me to think…to ignore her words as they echoed within my mind.

And then without any warning she let me go, her magic gently placing me back on my feet as she backed away and smiled at me serenely.

She then walked over to where the one remaining stallion was still groaning in pain…and looked down at him with a sort of calm fury.

"Look at me," she ordered softly.

The stallion, who at this point was obviously quite unable to move very much, moved his head up to look at Luna. His eyes on the other hand were looking down at the cracked stone, something that Luna didn't particularly like.

This was made evident when she pressed down on his broken forehoof…without a single look of regret on her face as the stallion screamed in pain.

I instantly made to move over there and push her off of him, the fact that he had tried to kill me with a spear irrelevant as my instincts screamed at me to help him. The moment I moved however, Luna turned to look at me…and I couldn't stop myself from freezing in fear at her cold expression.

"Don't interfere beloved," she ordered dangerously, her horn glowing briefly in a warning.

She turned back to the screaming stallion and raised her hoof off of him, prompting me to breathe a sigh of relief.

I really shouldn't have though…

The stallion still refused to look up at her…and it was this that made Luna stamp her hoof down on his broken limb, forcing me into wincing at the sound of an audible snap as the bone literally shattered beneath the flesh.

If the stallion's screams were horrifying before…they were absolutely petrifying now.

"Last warning!" Luna snapped viciously. "Look at your QUEEN!"

The stallion finally obeyed and shakily gazed up at her, much to Luna's happiness as she removed her hoof from his foreleg and smiled down at him gently.

"There, isn't that better young one," she soothed, both of her forehooves now stroking the whimpering stallions mane in an almost motherly fashion.

"I-it h-hurts…" he sobbed pitifully.

I couldn't believe how young he sounded. In armour they all looked alike so I could never tell how old they were by appearance, but this stallion sounded around my age…maybe younger.

"I know sweetie, but it's okay…I'm going to make it go away."

I don't know how, but I knew what was going to happen before it did. And so I made to move and push her away from the sobbing stallion…but yet again her gaze caught my own and I froze on the spot.

And it was because of my cowardice that he died.

Without any warning, Luna moved her hooves gently down to his neck…only to forcibly grasp it and snap it harshly to one side.

The light in his eyes vanished quickly as his head hit the floor, blood dripping from his muzzle as his tongue lolled out of his mouth lifelessly.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I was fucking terrified of what I had just witnessed. Actually scratch that.

Luna fucking terrified me!

And the moment she looked up at me, her eyes rapidly changing from their emotionless look into something cheerful…

"Was that as fun for you?" she asked jubilantly, her body slowly getting up as she began to make her way over to me.

"Fuck this!"

I used every single ounce of my energy and fucking legged it.

Why she didn't just envelop me in her magic I had no idea. But in all honesty I didn't care, I just wanted to get as far away from her as I possibly could.

Thankfully the night was helpful in keeping me hidden, and so as I weaved my way in and out of the broken town I was immensely grateful at the number of shadowed areas I could hide in.

Eventually I noticed a medium sized building that didn't look like it would collapse on me the moment I stepped foot inside. And so it was with haste that I practically ran through the door and looked for a place to hide.

To my surprise the building actually looked like a school of some sort. There were numerous desks and chairs, some broken whilst others were merely gathering rot.

I actually felt my curiosity compelling me to inspect some of the classrooms.

But as the sound of a door opening reached my ears, said curiosity was rapidly replaced by fear.

"Xander…"

Luna's voice carried my nickname through the corridor. It echoed all around me and sent shivers up my spine.

I moved as fast as I could into what appeared to be the schools bathroom. It was a bit small but the numerous stalls made for hopefully good hiding spots.

And so as I heard the almost inaudible sound of wings flapping nearby, I fearfully rushed into one of them and closed it as quietly as I could behind me.

I barely managed to regain my breath before Luna's hauntingly beautiful voice reached my ears…and it was CLOSE.

"Come out, come out wherever you are," she sang happily. "Don't make me find you first!"

"Is this just a game to her?!"

I literally felt my heart skip a beat as the sound of hooves reached my ears.

She couldn't have been more than a few feet away.

"I can hear your heartbeat beloved," she crooned adoringly.

I had to bit my lip in order to stop myself from gasping.

"Oooh it's getting faster!"

The sound of clopping stopped just outside my stall…I could hear her calm breathing directly on the opposite side of the door.

"Hmm I wonder where he could be," she chimed delightedly.

"She knows, she knows, she fucking knows!"

To my surprise however, it was not the sound of my stall opening that came next…but rather the sound of Luna trotting away, her hoofsteps becoming more distant by the second.

Until eventually I couldn't hear her at all.

I waited in that stall for what must have been at least ten minutes. But during all that time, not a single sound was heard other than my own breath.

Ultimately my idiocy overpowered my common sense and I opened my stall quietly, before stepping outside of it and looking around.

There was nopony there.

With slight hesitation I crept out of the bathroom and looked around the corner. To my relief however there wasn't a soul in sight, and so I made to step outside.

Only to freeze as I felt the unmistakable sensation of someone breathing on my neck.

"Found you…" she whispered playfully.

End Of Part One

Okay so basically the chapters will be about this long. I'm aiming for four chappy's at the most, but it may be three instead. I never planned for this to be particularly long if I'm being honest.

If you have any questions then either Pm me or just chuck it in a review.

Peace Everypony :D