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// The Harmony Returns 
// Story: When the Harmony Was Broken 
// by Ink Pot 
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The Harmony Returns


Many times I have been thinking,
The memory of my actions forever stinging,
How you could have so easily forgiven me.
I had done many horrible deeds
That I don’t believe the pain will recede,
Something I want to keep under lock and key.

After a thousand years, my bonds were broken.
After a thousand years, I had finally woken.
I wanted to seek my vengeance.
In my prison, I dreamed of tearing you asunder,
To leave your day plundered,
But like me, you too went through your own penance. 

Like me you have suffered
Your remorse it did smother
The light that shone in your eyes.
Brighter than your sun they did burn
Which I long for their return
And be removed from self-loathing’s ties.

Both of us cried when we saw
Each other with hearts so raw.
You, I never thought
Would weep tears of joy
Unabashed, unrestrained, with no decoy
As if you have forgotten the misery I had brought.

My forgiveness is what you beseeched.
As much as I want to mend the breach
I cannot forgive when there was no wrong.
It was me, not you, who put everyone in danger
To you I became a stranger
Because I was not strong.

I am the failure
And the one who turned traitor.
I wish things had turned out different.
So much time we had lost
But that was our cost
For us to no longer be so ignorant.

Yes, over again we shall start.
To that clover covered glen we’ll embark.
We will watch the flowers bloom as the mist rolls,
And our gloom will be forgotten 
As we play in the rains of autumn
With the thunder making their clashing tolls.

The past is something that needs no more thinking
Because of future laughter, my cheeks will be stinging.
Your forgiveness shows how much you love me,
And together we’ll move on from past deeds.
My love for you sister will never recede,
And will never be bound by any lock or key.


Luna stood outside of her sister’s door in the dead of night. She fiddled with the folded up piece as she thought about the past few days. It has only been five days since the elements were used to free her, and since then, she regained her full strength, no longer stuck in her younger form. She and her sister had been walking carefully around each other. It has been a thousand years since they had last been together, and neither knew how to act around the other. That night Luna sat down and wrote the thoughts she had over the past few days, but now she was nervous. She did not know how Celestia would react to her words. With a deep breath, she bent down to slide the note under the door. She wanted to give her sister some space while she read it. Once it disappeared through the crack, Luna quickly trotted back to her room where she paced for a moment before she sat on her bed, starting out into the night sky. 

There was tentative knock after a few minutes, and Luna told whomever it was they could enter. Celestia entered her bedroom with the note in her magical yellow grip. The sister’s stared at each other for a moment before Celestia lunged across the room, and pulled Luna in a tight hug, crying into moon princess’ shoulder as she yelled I love you in a trembling voice. Luna returned the hug with a few tears leaking down her face as well. When they finally pulled apart, Celestia asked in a shy voice if she could sleep with Luna tonight. Luna could not refuse the request. 

For the first time in a long time, the sun and moon were at peace.