The Night Falls, but Day Breaks – Chapter 3
The bed was warm and the blankets were perfectly cocooning her from the early morning chill. She was starting to drift back off to sleep again when a soft knock and the sound of the door opening shook the cobwebs from her eyes.
“Sister?” Luna walked fully into the room after making eye contact. “Are you feeling better today?”
Celestia stretched feeling every muscle and joint give off a delightful little release that had her starting to drift off again when she forced her tired eyes back open again. “I am as well as can be expected.” She gave her sister a tired, but contented smile to try and drive away the look of concern. “And how are you today?”
“Worried.”
Celestia was glad that Luna always spoke her thoughts rather than keeping them bottled up like she had once done with her emotions. “Do not worry for me, sister, I am just tired.”
Luna’s frown deepened. “It is not only you I am worried for. You have convinced me that she is ready to lead on her own, but Discord’s spell-”
“Has worked perfectly for over two years now.”
“And what happens when he grows bored or loses the last of his friends to time or apathy? Are you sure that his solution is truly permanent?”
Celestia’s eyes drifted closed. “Yes, Luna, because his spell didn’t put the sun and moon in motion, it was just the messenger.”
“Messenger? To whom?”
‘Still that touch of over doing how she speaks,’ Celestia thought to herself. It made her smile. “To our parents. They put everything into motion and have decided they like the idea so much that they’re doing it everywhere; though, they did decide that it was the planets that should do the moving rather than the sun. I’m not really sure why.”
Luna sat down next to the bed, causing Celestia to pull back out of the half-formed dream that had started to take her. “I will escort you the entire way. Now, if need be.”
Without asking, Celestia knew what her sister meant. “I don’t think an escort is needed, Luna. You are still greatly loved here and Twilight values your counsel even more than mine these days. Besides, dying isn’t so bad. I get to sleep in every day and they keep sending me extra sweets whenever I want them.”
“You are not dying.” Luna said it defiantly, but her head was turned away.
“Luna… dear, sweet, Luna… I am. I’ve given my all and soon I go to join our parents.”
“And you shall not journey alone!” Her anger was too easy to see through, the trails left by the tears still shined out as she glared at Celestia.
“Luna, you have-”
“Nothing you can say will change my mind. You know just as well as I do that death is but one step during life, not an end to it. I will not be dying, but I am going with you.”
Celestia reached out from the covers to feel Luna’s cheek and watched as her sister leaned into the gentle caress and let her tears flow. “My dear, sweet, Luna, words cannot contain how well I love you.”
With that Luna dove to her sister and the two held each other and wept out of joy and sadness and all things said and unsaid between. “There could be no greater punishment than to be separated from you. I have had to do so once, but I will never allow that again.”
They lay there together for a long time, sharing stories and laughter and as much love as they could and in the evening when Luna awoke, she found her beloved sister had already started her journey. After writing a hastily scrawled note she vanished from the room taking her sister’s body with her.
As the news spread in the days that followed, Equestria went into a state of mourning. It was decreed that the day the sisters had left would be forever a day of remembrance of both their great deeds, but also in honor of all who gave their all to their country.
It was a few months later when none other than the ruler of the land, Princess Twilight Sparkle, discovered what was at first believed to be a new star. In a royal proclamation sent out to every corner of the land it was declared that the new star would be called ‘The Sisters’ and that it was so named because it was actually two stars that orbited around one another so closely that they could not be identified separately except on the most clear of nights with the most powerful telescope in the whole world.