((Hey. This is my first Fan-Fiction. That about sums up why it sucks so much, also because I was in a rush to finish. Because of a certain blog I’ve been angry at. Let’s just hope I continue this shall we?))
The Beginning of a Great Friendship
By:askgrimdarkscootaloo
“Princess Luna!” said a soft voice. Luna woke up with a startle. Her pupils shrinking as she feels the cold floor under her hoofs and wings “It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this” said the same melody tone. She saw an Alicorn trot up towards her, only to kneel. She felt freighted, scared, and vulnerable. “We were meant to rule together, little sister” Luna then felt regret, pain and sorrow. She winced and looked away “Will you accept my friend ship?” The Alicorn stood over her casting a shadow, she only felt like a spear had been shoved through her heart at the offer. Luna jumped up from the cold floor and ran into other Alicorn.
“I’m so sorry, I missed you so much big sister!” Luna cried under her sister’s head.
“I’ve missed you too” came the same lovely voice, but with the sound of sorrow in her voice.
“Pfft WAHHH-Hey! Do you know what this calls for? A PARTY!” Luna hadn’t noticed the other ponies in the room with her. Specifically the one who was crying just a moment ago, She saw a pink pony with curled up pink hair with the same pink coat and party balloons as her cutie mark, she had a beautiful blue necklace on, It looked very familiar to the one that had entrapped her a thous-No, It couldn’t be. She was free! Free from the Nightmare that once was, she was free to be a normal pony again! No, She couldn’t be a ‘Normal pony’ she was an alicorn, The same alicorn that had tried to take over Equestria.
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Without another moment spare, Luna was picked up by her sister and carried out on her back towards her sister’s marvellous chariot, leaving the six ponies to sit there mystified by what her sister said earlier. She spoke with such a weak tone she hadn’t noticed earlier, “Celestia? When can I have one of those?” She spoke like a foal! Luna couldn’t be so easily distracted! She was just freed from that nightmare and she was thinking about getting a chariot?
“Maybe, when you grow up a little.” Celestia said with a little laugh, Amused by her little joke, She let Luna down into her chariot softly, She had just been reunited with her sister after one-thousand years of solitary on the moon and she was already making jokes “Too soon?” she said as she hoped in with Luna, The little princess know as Luna simply looked at her with a bit of relief and angry at Celestia’s joke as she sat at the corner of the golden chariot, pulled by guards with their golden armor, And have the edges look like golden wings with golden wheels. Celestia then lifted her sister chin “You must not worry, everything is going to be fine. Trust me, As soon as we get to the castle I will show you things from which you could not image” And with Celestia waving a hoof at the guards, they began their accent to the wonderful, safe haven, known as Canterlot.
As soon as Luna’s hoof reached her very dusty one-thousand, year old bed chambers. Luna fluttered over the dust and hovered over her dark blue, purple rimed blanket on her princess seized bed, she cast a spell to which all the dust on her bed vanished, Luna slowly crawled into her bed and with a light shiver, remembering her last night on the moon.
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“Soon my dear sister, Soon I will be free from this dusty rock” Nightmare proceeds to kick some dust, from the gray and very cold ground, and see it float into endless space. “Soon I will have my revenge and soon I will rule with a golden hoof. You were always very fond of gold, It would only be appropriate to mock you with it.” Luna felt a surge of magic curse through her body; it felt like electricity, without the pain and with more, Blue? She didn’t know. all she knew was that she was going back, back to the same ponies that fought against her, against the night itself. They will pay for their acts, pay for what they have done to her temple, they will pay for everything that has befallen the princess of the night, and they will know true misery.
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Luna woke with a startle again, for the 48th time this year Luna has been waking up in the middle of the afternoon, remembering her memories, only…they weren’t hers, they were Nightmare’s memories. She remembered all the awful ways that Nightmare thought of torturing the ponies, the Pegasus and Unicorns alike, how many ways Nightmare planed on hurting the Princess of Equestria, Celestia. Hated her, she would never let anything happen to her kingdom, to subjects, to her sister…
“Luna! It’s time for you to meet our subjects.” Celestia said with a joyful tone as she opened the curtains to reveal a blinding light, Luna merely pulled the covers over her head, trying to get back to sleep Celestia said with a much more serious tone “It is Nightmare Night after all. I have a meeting with some very important ponies in Fillydelphia, you’re going to have to go out sometime or later, what better time than now? You could learn something new! My star pupil Twilight Sparkle lives in The Ponyville Library, You and her would make great friends, She is learning about-“She was interrupted as a pillow flew to meet her snout with a very tired Luna looking around her room.
It has been quiet the improvement then when she first stepped into it again for the first time in ages, There was two book shelf’s full of history books to her left in the corner of the wall, and at her right was a table that was a mess with papers and maps of her stars. She wondered how her stars could move on their own without being pulled, pushed, or told where to go? She found it magnificent. Luna was on the verge of figuring out how to control the wind. She would have to continue that for another day, right now she has to get primed for her big opening at Nightmare Night
Nightmare night was only 4 hours away, Luna had ordered that her guards look to her specifications; she had her own chariot, and had a reason to lie about her speaking in the awful Canterlot voice. She absolutely hated her royal canter lot voice! It was too loud, it hurt her throat and she didn’t like to scare anypony, but her sister was clear to make it look like she was new to everything so she could make Twilight Sparkle learn another lesson about friendship. Luna didn’t like the idea of doing this, but it was the only chance she could get out of the castle and away from her studies for a day. Then she would be at it again, learning about the universe and everything in modern Equestria. But she had a task to do, Scare the ponies of Ponyville, gain trust, ruin it, have Twilight solve it like she supposedly always does.
Luna knew that Celestia’s star pupil, Twilight Star Sparkle, Will help her through her ‘problems’. Luna put on her robe, cast a simple illusion spell on her guards so they look more appropriate for the event and she even learned how to control the wind with only a couple of strained minutes it was easy. She then hoped into HER chariot and mimicking her sister, waved a hoof acknowledging that she was there and ready the two guards flew leapt into the air and started pulling Luna to the middle of the Ponyville.
Princess Luna made the clouds swirl and electricity flash as she rode down towards her subjects, She was going to do something regretful, she knew it, but she also knew it was a good plan ((I am just going to assume you have watched Nightmare Night…I hope you have.)) In all honesty, Princess Luna did have quiet the fun time, acting of course. She did feel regret and sorrow when she got angry, but in the end she had to admit it was the most fun she had in over two-thousand years! The Elements of Harmony were kinder then she had expected. But, like everything else, the day ended.
Princess Luna felt sad at the end of the day; she just made friends with The Elements of Harmony! They were the ones she should thank for freeing her of the awful cures. Luna was left walking, head down, to her chariot knowing she won’t see her new friends for a long while, but at least she got of the castle for once, Feeling the nice, cool breeze of autumn wind against her mane and coat. Luna trotted up to her chariot when four hooded figures appeared out of now where, Luna was stop in mid-trot when one of the hooded figures lifted its hood to reveal a gorgeous curly, royal blue mane with a white as snow mane. “Hello Princess of the Night.” Luna felt she knew this pony. She didn’t see this pony before, but she seemed familiar. “When I first saw you I was excited, Now I see that you need to be enlightened, my dear. Come with us and we will help you” Luna watched as the other three hooded ponies walked into a nearby ally, dragging one dead guard behind them.
“What happened to my other guard?” Luna said with a bit of worriedness in her voice. Just then one of the other two ponies lifted its hood and came out of the shadows. There stood a blue coated, lighter blue maned, unicorn. She looked extravagant. The mare looked at Luna with a sly smile, and returned to lurking in the shadows of the building they were walking behind.
“Oh… I see that you already know me, and by that symbol on your neck. I would say you are the last of The Lunar Republic.” Luna said now calm. Taking note that her necklace was a crystal replica of Luna’s own cutie mark, a Crescent Moon.
“My name is Rarity, and no we are not the last, there are more. I must inform you my Queen that we were exited and relived when you came back over a year ago. We were starting to believe that you were trapped there for eternity.” Luna then realized who this white coated unicorn was.
“You are the Element of Generosity, are you not?” Luna said as they stopped at door that looked like a dumpster.
“That is indeed, correct, Princess. I must ask you, how well do you know your sister.” Rarity said as one of the other hooded figures knocked on the door in a sequence. “Your sister Celestia is not who you think she is. She may seem like the best princess Equestria could have. But she has done things that none of us could comprehend. Celestia ordered the lives of many political ponies threating to reveal the truth. The truth that she was the reason Night Mare Moon corrupted you, she released it… She was hoping that it would do what it did, and give herself time to corrupt young minds and create an army of her own. You were to powerful, she was getting weak and she knew that when you were gone, you would lose everything, be so naive and lose your followers. Though you have lost almost everything, our accentors told us about you, all the stories and battles, every lost temple and lost soul will not perish in vain. Now, we the last of the Lunar Republic, We want revenge.” The blue mare knocked on the dumpster in a rhythmic tone, it opened and they went in. Rarity followed the others into the building. But Luna had other things on her mind right now, she was too distracted with her thoughts to recognise that the ponies were gone and it had just started raining. Luna knew it was true, and was sad, and confused. She hung to the words she spoke ‘Celestia released it’ Celestia, her own sister, corrupted her so she could banish her… Luna felt a hoof on her shoulder.
“I know it’s hard to hear it so flat and plain like that Princess, but it’s what drives us further, it makes us want to fight. The only problem is that we never really fought anything; there hasn’t been a war for over one thousand five hundred years, five hundred years before you were banished, though I am sure you don’t remember it… We better hurry and get inside, we don’t want the Princess getting sick now do we?” The blue mare said finishing her story with a joke. The two mares started towards the door. “Oh. By the way, my name is Trixie.” Her voice was a bit rough, but had a nice smoothness to it.
Luna was immediately greeted by the ponies in the small building, most of them gave her gifts others just simply shook her hoof. This came as a surprise to her, she was expecting to…well...she didn’t know, she didn’t know what to expect from being stuck on the moon for one thousand years. The building itself was small and looked ready to fall at any moment, inside looked no different. There were ponies bustling around trying to get to the other rooms in the building, there were tons of desks with a computer and papers everywhere on them. When Luna entered the each room, more ponies greeted her with smiles and a happy tune in their voice. “Why do these ponies sound happy to see me and not scared like the ones I meet earlier?” Luna said as she was urged to come into another room.
“These ponies are all happy because of you. You give these ponies hope for just existing, Hope that they can finally overthrow Celestia and replace her with you.” Rarity said with a soft voice. Luna followed her into a bigger room then the others. “Here we are. This is the place where we organize our plans and other things” Luna saw that this place was just as old and dusty then the others. but for some reason it looked better. She couldn’t quiet place her hoof on it but as she walked towards the table in the middle of the large room, she noticed two ponies she saw at the celebration just twenty minutes ago, There was Big Macintosh and Ditzy Doo. Ditzy Doo had her left eye looking right and her right eye looking left, though Luna didn’t mind that very much, but what she did mind was that there was a map of Ponyville on the table.
“We could distract the guards here” Ditzy pointed at the map, “Then we cou-…” The grey pegasus stopped to stare at the princess “Oh! My apologies princess, If I knew you were coming I would be here so soon, I would of-“ Ditzy tried to say but was cut off by the princess.
“What is this?” Luna said with a concern.
Ditzy scrambled to roll up the map. “This was nothing! Uh…Muffin?” The gray mare said in innocence.
“Ditzy dear, as you would know. This is the princess, the one who will bring harmony across the land Equestria. I would suggest you head home for the night. Come back here at 5:00 PM. Remember to cover your tracks. We don’t want another incident with the royal guards.” Rarity interjected.
Ditzy Doo looked down in embarrassment. “Again…I am sorry for that. I was just trying to-“ She was cut off by two earth ponies who had barged into the room panting and gasping for air.
One of the two had seemed to have their left leg cut open and was bleeding furiously when the other one said. “The perimeters.” He said weakly.
“What about them?” Rarity said as she helped the one with the cut knee onto the table next to the scrolls.
The one on the ground got up slowly, only to stumble onto Luna. “They are in the building” he said, the he fell to the ground exhausted. Before Luna could react, Rarity healed the other one’s knee and laid him down on the table.
“Well, I guess the investigation went sooner than expected. Luna, we must hurry.” She said in an almost calm tone…almost. Rarity dashed to down were the Earth ponies had entered. Luna followed in suit, along with Ditzy Doo and Big Mac.
As they ran out the door, the building shook, most likely an explosion and caused ponies to fall out of their desks. “This Way!” Rarity called out as she ran towards the fire exit. As they opened the door Luna stopped.
“Where Is Ditzy?!” Luna cried over the all the ponies rushing out of the door towards Rarity.
Luna could see her mouth move as she shook her head to the ground but quickly looked back at Luna. “I Think She Is Going To Try and Save the Scrolls! Meet us at the Boutique!” Rarity yelled back before her, Big Mac, and Trixie ran out the door along with the other ponies running in fear. Luna had noticed that most of them were scared, they didn’t know what was happening. They never fought in a war, they most likely never even got into a fight. Luna quickly forgot about the situation and bolted towards the where she met the grey mare.
“No, no, no, no!” Came a familiar voice as Luna reached the door. “I left them Right here! Uh!” Luna ran into the room to find the grey mare looking under the table. “Its not like they can just get up and tro-“ She was cut off once again.
“Ditzy! What are you doing?! We have to leave or this place is goi-“Luna stopped mid-sentence only to notice the explosions had stopped. “Hurry! We don’t have much time befo-“ The wall to their right exploded with the books on the previously intact book shelf flying in every direction. Luna fell to the ground. The air was full of dust and it smelt like smoke, Luna looked up slowly to notice the Royal Guards of Celestia were the reason the wall came down, they were currently trotting on top of the debris with a proud yet stern look on their face, when the look down towards the princess and the grey mare. They raised their hoof and the next thing the princess saw was the darkness.