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Chapter 1
The Tale of Two Sisters
There lived two sisters that governed the land they lived in. Both gifted with the talent to move the sun, moon, and stars. Both of their powers combined are unparalleled and unmatched by any that stood against them. For years they protected what they cherished and have seen grow as years came and went. But as every story has their ups, it also has its downs. Luna, the youngest of the siblings, controlled the night, moon, and stars. Try as she may, night after night she expressed her passion in shaping the night sky and celestial bodies in the sky, but to her sad reality nopony ever noticed this because while all the hard work she did they all slumbered in the safety of their homes. She grew upset upon this realization, “Why? Why does no pony come to marvel the beauty of thy night sky? We move thy night, thy sky, thy moon but alas none come and gaze at what we thrive to show all”. Because of this Luna grew jealous at her older sister.
Celestia, the older of the two sisters, governed the day and moved the sun. When she raised the sun life commenced. When the sun was high upon the sky everypony came and marveled at the beauty of the sunrise and sundown. They all adored the day more than the night. It brought a smile to her face when she would see everypony interact and show praise when the sun was up. All this did was make the younger of the two more bitter and heartbroken.
As time went by Luna grew to hate the sun, “Why does our older sibling get the praise and attention of her day and everypony shun thy night?” “Because everypony adores your sister and that accursed sun, all in the meantime they shun our night while our moon weeps in loneliness” Luna looked around at the voice she had just heard. It had startled her, but she could not find anything. She was just alone in the room. Her eyes traveled to a mirror in her room. She saw a figure in it, it was a mare, her coat was black as night and her mane was a darker shade of blue than her own mane. What got Luna the most were her eyes. Those dragon shaped eyes “Who are you?” Luna asked. The image just laughed “We are you” It simply responded.” Thou speaketh lies, we will not ask again, Who are you?” The mare in the mirror just kept laughing “Silly Luna, My answer is yet the same, We are you, well more specific, we are that voice in the back of thy head, the one that wonders why our sister Celestia gets all the praise and attention when we are left alone during our night, The hate when everypony adores the day than thy night. Tell me Luna, why do you continue to overwork thy self every night when the outcome is yet the same? You don’t need Celestia, you are capable enough to not only move the moon and its stars but also the sun.
Luna just stood there bewildered. Standing in front of her in the mirror was her inner thoughts and desires reflected as a mare. When she came to this realization she tried to ignore that voice in her head. But everything it kept telling her kept influencing her decision in turning on her sister, but how could she turn on her sister, she was her sister, her only family, But the voice kept pestering and pestering.
The more she listened to her inner voice to more right it seemed, until the point where she could not take it anymore and gave in, “Luna you know now what you must do. These ponies in Equestria will learn to love thy night sooner or later, they will love something eventually if it is eternal. Luna grant this night an ETERNAL NIGHT!!!” “but how would we do this?” Luna asked. Her inner voice responded “It is simple Luna…You Need More Power” “More Power? But how?” Luna questioned “You have a darkness in you Luna, all you have to do is give in and embrace it”
Luna looked at the mirror. Would overthrowing her sister and bringing an eternal night over Equestria make it all better? She moved towards the window and peeked outside. It was the middle of the day, and she could see all the smiling faces of everypony as they continued to do their everyday business. How it disgusted her to no end, nopony even batted an eye for her at night. She moved to the mirror once more. No more thoughts, no more going back, what she was about to do she would see it through to the end, “Mare in the mirror, tell us what is need to be done” “Please call us Nightmare, Nightmare Moon and as what needs to be done, just listen carefully.”
“That is all to report your majesty.”
“Very well then, Thank you Sky Fire you may go back to your post.” As Sky Fire left the room Celestia sighed. One problem solved, it looks like the hydra won’t be causing trouble for a while. Her thoughts lingered on her sister Luna, she has been rather distant lately and that glare she keeps giving her. She can’t understand what has brought this on. Last time they had talked it ended in an argument. To her understanding Luna wanted her sister to cut the day short to have the night last longer. She tried to make her understand that the time lapses between the sun and the moon will majorly affect life as a whole. She tried to make her understand that day and night shared equally in time and brought a balance. She had denied her sister’s request but was gifted a glare and a snarl in return. “Mother, Father what should I do?” she prayed to her parents.
“Your Majesty!” Celestia’s thoughts were cut short when her doors lunged open and Sky Fire ran into the throne room. “What troubles you Sky Fire?” She asked
“It’s the moon your majesty why is it rising?” Sky Fire worriedly replied. “The Moon?” She moved to her balcony and saw the sky, she did indeed see the moon moving upwards to the sky. She looked down at the city below her and noticed that everypony stopped and looked up to the sky to witness what was happening. She looked up at the sky once more then realized that the moon was heading for the sun.
Everypony was anticipating as the moon grew closer and closer to the sun. “Luna what are you doing?” There was an explosion in the ceiling that had taken Celestia by surprise. “Isn’t it beautiful Celestia, our moon in a matter of seconds will consume the daylight and bring everlasting darkness across Equestria.” The figure that crashed through the ceiling spoke.
“Who- what- Luna is that you what is the meaning of this sister.” Celestia asked
“Luna is no longer here what you are witnessing dear sister is a new mare that will govern over the night eternal. For I am Luna no more I am Nightmare Moon and I am here to usurp you my dear Celestia” Nightmare answered with a crazed smile.
Celestia could not believe what she was witnessing, this mare that had some similarities to her sister was standing in front of her, her coat was black as night and her mane was a darker shade of blue than Luna’s. She gave out an aura of evil intent but that same aura felt familiar, this was her sister? Why was this happening? she just stood there with no idea on how to react to this predicament. This was her sister why was she doing this? “Lun-“ “For far too long have we been ignored, for far too long have you been praised and adored by all around as we are shunned and given no credit but it ends now for by getting rid of you Celestia all of Equestria will love me and the night with no choice what so ever. I will bring upon an eternal night across the land, give it time but they will learn and cope with a new look on life.”
“Sister have you gone insane?!” Celestia asked. “HAhaha….Oh dear Celestia I haven’t gone insane, I just opened my eyes to the predicament that has been presented to me, But there is no need to explain anymore. Come Celestia we can do this easily or we can do this the hard way your choice.”
“So it seems that you have chosen the darker path of life because of Envy, I cannot let you do this Luna, our parents raised us better, but if you have chosen this path my sister I will stop you!”
“Bold claim Celesita, this is why we are at odds for when you seek the need to stop me I seek the need for more power! With it I shall control the moon and sun!"
“And were supposed to be sisters.”
“Sisters…Right”
Celestia awoke in the middle of the night. She had that dream again. The same damn dream were her sister had turned on her and fought her, but it is no dream it is in fact a reminder of what had happened. The outcome is the same. Celestia defeats her sister and banishes her to the moon for a millennia. She wished there could have been a different outcome. She thinks of one every passing moment. How she regrets ever doing the deed. She couldn’t save her sister, instead of solving the problem she just put it on hiatus. She would cross that bridge when she had to, which was approximately 24 years from now.
“Well what do we have here? Are you going to weep for her now?” A voice mocked her. She knew exactly how it was. “Discord even though you are trapped in stone you still find a way to irritate me to no ends.” Discord just laughed
“What do you want Discord” Celestia demanded. In front of her fireplace the fire that was burning took the form of the Draconequus. “Nothing really, just the sight of your displeasure brings me comfort.” Answered Discord.
“How are you able to do this? You are trapped.” Replied Celestia. “Hold your tongue Celestia for I am trapped but not dead. Yes I am limited in movement but limitless in power. As each day passes by I grow stronger. For when there is good bad follows close by, Chaos is ever present and I feed of it.”
“You Bluff!” Celestia challenged. “Ha ever so naïve, fine don’t bother believing but one warning Celestia do not underestimate me, you aren’t able to hold the Elements of Harmony anymore and the seal weakens as time passes by it will be a matter of time before you start seeing chocolate rain all over the place, cause nopony likes nonfat milk, it’s a stupid gimmick and everyone knows about it.” Celestia knew Discord was one to not handle lightly but at the same time his gimmicks were of bad taste. “Discord there is nothing that you can throw at me that I can’t handle.” Celestia replied. The fire went out and all grew silent. Celestia had to rekindle the flames in the firewood to get the fire started again.
It was silent. Then laughter was heard. Nonstop laughter all around her room. Discords voice boomed all over the room. “Fine but I had warned you, now let’s put your cockiness to the test shall we? Let’s see how you cope in a new surrounding with no knowledge of the world you are in. What will you do?”
Celestia stood at all fours on guard waiting for something to happen. After a minute or two nothing happened and all was silent, but then a chill ran down her spine. The room was getting colder and colder. The feeling of dread came upon her. She tried to move but could not. Then in a blink of an eye the floor started to glow. Celestia took notice of it and realized she was on top of a star in a circle with an inverted cross in the middle. The circle started to glow red. She started to panic. It seemed as time started to slow down as she was being sucked down to the ground. She never felt so powerless in a situation such like this. The glow had consumed her. The red light dimmed and then disappeared. The room was empty.
The first thing that came to Celestia’s mind was that her body ached, the floor was freakishly cold, and felt weak. When she opened her eyes she took her surroundings. She was lying on a marble floor; she looked up on the walls and to her sides. She could not recognize any of it. It looked like she was inside a castle of sorts, but what caught her eye was a figure in front of her. She had never seen anything like it. It was a statue. It had the features to recognize it to be feminine and was covered in a robe. It did not have hooves but it had paw like arms. They were clasped together in a praying manner. It looked peaceful to her. She then noticed another figure on top of her hanging in some kind of shrine. It was another figure hanging from a cross. It looked like this one had male features but this statue the figure that was there looked mistreated and battered and it was looking down at her. She could not shake the weird feeling she was experiencing at the moment. She tried to get up but failed and landed on the floor hard.
She looked at herself puzzled to find out what was wrong, did she get surprise.