//------------------------------// // Ch.1 // Story: Celestia's Sacrifice // by Thunder Seethe //------------------------------// Celestia's Sacrifice Thunder Seethe Special Thanks: AppleMLP < Editor Ch.1 - Hitting Reality Dear My Beloved Sister Luna, Hi Luna... I'm... I guess what I want to start off with is... I have been a terrible sister. Forgive me. I have told lies that spread throughout Equestria. I'm sorry! You may not know what happened to you, so I will explain. I'm sorry for what you're about to read. Ever since the beginning of our monarchy, we have been given the attribute to raise the sun, and raise the moon. You probably know that, so I won't waste time getting into it. My time is running short. The whole Nightmare Moon thing is a lie... a lie that I had created. What really happened... was something that was all my fault. My overreaction that caused you to be banished to the moon. It was unjustified, and for that I can only hope for your forgiveness. This is the story I have remembered for over a thousand years Luna. I remember it like it was yesterday, and hopefully you'll remember some of this. It was another day, we were only a few hundred years old at the time. You were still aged like a filly, and I more as a teen. I was fascinated with spells, and their attributes, so I took the will on trying to create my own. We were closer than ever at the time, so I thought... why not test it on you, as it isn't to do any harm. It was meant to treat ponies who were depressed, and needed help to move on. It was supposed to help... "Luna? Luna!?" The young princess called out to her beloved younger sister. "Yes sister?" Luna came prancing in the room with a book enveloped by the dark purple aura from her magic. "Do you mind if I test something on you? It won't hurt or harm you in any way. I promise." "Okay, what is it supposed to do?" "Well, with the recent economic problems, many ponies are getting depressed. So this spell is supposed to help them feel better and happier!" Celestia said with much enthusiasm. This would be her first spell that she had created. The younger sister replied with a large smile, and violently nodded her head. Princess Celestia had sparked up her spell, and cast it upon her sister who began to shimmer bright yellow. This went on for a few minutes, but there was no result. No change. "Was that it Tia?" "I... I guess so, maybe I should do more studying on this spell. Sorry if I bothered you." This is probably because she's not sad or anything... I should have thought that through, maybe I could find a volunteer who is actually depressed about something. She thought to herself. "Don't worry about it... can you read me a story?" "Sorry Lulu, I gotta find out what I've done wrong. Maybe... hmm." The older sister continued her studying about what went wrong with her spell as her younger sister went out to find someone who will actually read her a story. The older princess decided to put it on hold while she went to drink tea, but never got back to it. The spell forever laid in the book, which soon became known to her as, "The Book of Failed Spells." She meant well with that spell, but she didn't bother to look at the spell she actually cast. Instead, she just looked around for a spell that's already been created and tested. She was successful on that, but due to her apathy of the spell she cast, it would greatly affect not only Luna's future, but greatly affect Celestia as well. As they aged more and more throughout the centuries, they had grown apart. They wouldn't speak to each other. Luna wouldn't speak to her older sister, as Celestia would not speak to her younger sister. The more they grew apart, the more they had arguments. It was usually the battle of wits, so Luna usually lost since she's four-hundred years younger than her sister. ++++ Over the course of three more long years, the older sister has stumbled upon some old books of her failed spells that she had promised herself she would make them work. For some reason, she felt provoked to open them up, so she did. The book of failure was in now in her presence. She scanned through the spells heedlessly until she stumbled upon the spell she tested on her sister. She looked at it more and more, each time with more dedication and persistence. It was then when she heard a crash coming from Luna's room. "What could that little twerp be up to now!" Celestia thought as she slammed the book shut, and tossed it to a near corner. She walked up the stairs to her little sisters room, and expected a huge mess with her little sister crying. The older sister opened the door slowly to peek at the turmoil in the room. But, everything was the same in the room itself. Her round bed with a crescent moon and star was neatly done, the purple floor and walls were still its same shade, the walls still glistened with the sparkly stars, everything was as it should be. But Luna had something in her hoofs. She tried her best to cover it with her small filly body, but it failed miserably. What she had found, did not only surprise her, but it also enraged her. "Sister! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-" "You broke it! That was the only memory of our parents!" "I-I know, but please, don't be mad." The Luna pleaded as she received no mercy from her older sister. Tears were flushing down her eyes, and began forming a puddle around her small purple body. "Don't be mad? How can I not be mad when you have destroyed the only thing we have left of them!?" Princess Celestia's horn started glowing, but she was too infuriated to even notice that she was about to cast a spell on her sister. They were both young and new to being an alicorn; despite being a few centuries old. "I'm sorry..." A golden aura besieged Luna's body. Celestia's eyes were closed and clad with tears. She didn't know what was about to happen. The older princess blinked a few times and saw the crying Luna sitting in the puddle of tears with the ornament with sentimental value in her hoofs slowly become translucent. Luna had well known what was going to happen, but didn't speak up because her tears were too caught up in her throat. Her final words before unjustified banishment were as soft and mellifluous. "I'm so sorry sister... I hope you will forgive me in time." Luna was now transparent with only the slight image of her still being there. She was like a ghost, and that's when the older princess had opened her eyes. Just when it was too late to stop the spell. "Luna!" She charged for her sister faster than a boulder would resign to gravity, but it was too late for that. Luna had been banished to the moon for a thousand years. "No!" Princess Celestia exclaimed as she plopped herself on the floor and hitting her hoofs against the nearest wall. She blinked, she hit her head on the wall multiple times, she looked around the castle, under her bed, under the couch... she wanted this to be a dream; a nightmare. She wanted to wake up, but it was reality. She had sent her sister to the moon.