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// Prologue 
// Story: According To Time 
// by illWillPress 
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   The Wonderbolts soared through the air, performing amazing stunts and tricks, leaving the on looking audience in awe. What they didn't know was what had just transpired. During the beauty of this day, power was shown and power was taken. On the floor lay one loved by many with its great power striped from its very being.                                                                                            

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Princess Luna gleefully galloped through the hallways of the castle with her royal guards at her sides on her way to visit her sister, who had been feeling ill.

I have a very bad feeling about this, the guard to Luna's left thought to himself.

As Luna quickly approached her sister's chamber, a chill went down her spine. She had been having strange, unexplainable, dreams. Going near her sister always gave her the strangest of feelings. Touching her would nearly cause her to faint from sudden exhaustion. What they both didn't know was that a war waged in her very soul, Celestia vs. Time. This war did not last long of course, for the strength of Time easily overwhelmed Celestia's soul. Luna slowly opened the door, trying not to wake her possibly sleeping sister.

"Sister?" Luna asked, hoping to see what used to be her cheerful, vibrant sister.

As she slowly peeked through the doorway, what see saw horrified her. She instantly launched herself at her sister, needing to know if her beloved sister was still breathing. What she saw on the floor of Celestia's room was not her. Her mane no longer flowed, but it was nothing but a dull pink color. She was missing her horn and wings, as if they were never there. But what horrified Luna most was her sister's wide open grey eyes. Luna couldn't look at her sister any longer, for she was already in tears for what she thought was the loss of her sister.

By now Luna's guards had already rushed in, investigating the scene. Luna was leaned against the wall outside her sister's room, her eyes flowing with tears.


"Tia," Luna cried quietly to herself, "What happened, why did you have to leave me like this?"

Luna continued to cry, her eyes closed, tears flowing. Her mind was racing with thoughts of who would ever kill her beloved sister. Memories of the wonderful times they had together. All she wanted was to open her eyes and see her sister, back to her normal, graceful, self. When her mind started to slow she could here a voice.

That's Tia's voice! Luna thought to herself with overwhelming joy.

"Luna, Luna, open your eyes...." Her sister's voice began to trail off as she slowly opened he eyes, her vision still clouded with tears.

"...Tia..." Luna said weakly.

As the princess opened her eyes she did not see her sister, what she saw was a royal guard screaming to her to open her eyes and listen.

"Princess, PRINCESS LUNA! WE NEED TO GET YOU OUT OF HERE NOW!"

"Wha-"

Before the princess could say one word, she was stopped by a hoof being shoved in her mouth.

"No time to talk we need to get you to the bunker, NOW!"

Instantly she was surrounded royal guards. To Luna everything was a blur of colors. As she was forced through twists and turns, her hooves where barely touching the ground. Soon she reached the bunker, it was in a section not even she, the princess herself, had even seen nor heard of. The hallway carved in to the mountain seemed to go on for miles. Once they reached the bunker, it seemed even longer before she got any answers, until one stallion finally spoke up.

"Princess Luna," the guard spoke clear but seemed to be hiding something, “We have taken you here for your own protection.  It is clear something unknown has attacked your sister. We needed to get you here so whatever got to her, wouldn't get to you."

Princess Luna spoke obvious fear in her voice. "But what of my sister, is she really dead?"

"From what I've heard, your sister is alive but on the brink of death. She has lost all her power, and she can’t even more, she can only see and hear."

Luna began to sob deeply once more, but these where tears of joy for now she knew her sister was still alive. At that moment the door to the bunker burst open in what seemed to be a blur of white. They past by her not giving her a single glance, but as they pasted time seemed to slow when she was looking directly at Celestia. When Luna saw Celestia she did not see a fear in her big sister eyes but she saw...peace. Looking into her sisters eyes, Luna knew soon she would be gone. The doctors quickly took Celestia to what looked like an entire hospital all in one room. Wasting no time, Luna strode to her sister.

Using her royal Canterlot voice, Luna spoke. "STAND ASIDE; LET ME SPEAK TO MY DEAR SISTER!"

"BUT LUNA," one doctor spoke almost as loud as Luna, “IF WE STOP NOW, CELESTIA WILL DIE!"

Luna returned to her usual voice. “Do not fret, my loyal subject, for there is no hope for my sister..."

Luna slowly walked over to her sister, and to everypony's surprise, Celestia spoke, in almost her normal voice. “Luna, my dearest sister, you must not waste any time, the Great of Few must be gathered..." Celestia's voice faded away, and with that, she was gone.

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The sun set early that day, Celestia was given a princesses burial and the news of her untimely death spread like wild fire through out Equestria. Luna was the last pony standing at her sister's grave after the ceremony. All was quite except for the rain for the weather team saw it fit the melancholy everypony felt, but Luna soon heard a voice that sound like a lone man but also like a collection of voices. The voice seemed to surround her yet it also seemed to just be in her head. But the words where clear and it simply said: "the Time has come." Hearing that made her slip out of her trance-like state and that's when she noticed something.... she hadn't set the sun that day.

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