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// Prologue 
// Story: By the Light of the Moon 
// by AwesomeRainbowDash 
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"RUN! TAKE THE CHILDREN!!!" an Alicorn shouted to his wife. "o..o..oh.. ok.", she gulped.

Tears were streaming down Solaria's face as she grabbed the two fillies with her amber magic. As she looked down at the burning city she collapsed into a heap. "Solaria?"  turned and saw his wife on the ground.

"SOLARIA!!!" He flew over to her and knelt down. The two fillies, the eldest named Celestia and the younger Luna. Celestia was tugging on her mother's hoof, saying, "Mommy? Mommy? Are you asleep? Wake up, Mommy!" Luna, instead, was more interested in the vast night sky that loomed overhead. She cocked her head sideways and stared up at the heavenly bodies. Nightshade looked down at his dead wife. Tears were running down his face and he shouted in his Royal Alicornia Voice, "WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!".

Luna turned around and wobbled towards her father. Celestia buried her face in Solaria's starry mane. She began to weep,  and as her tears fell on Solaria's coat, golden light appeared where they fell. Luna looked up from her father's arms and saw the light. Her face immediately turned into a frown. That light was... too bright, and Luna knew that something was up. She was also the tiniest bit jealous, too. Nightshade looked up to see what Luna was looking at. He ignored the magic bombs flying around them in all directions. What he saw shocked and amazed him.

Tia was standing above her dead mother, eyes glowing pure white and pink mane seeming to flow with a supernatural wind. She looked at the pitch black sky with no trace of sun or moon and suddenly a golden crown encrusted with a jewel appeared on her head. She looked at her father, and he nodded, gulping. She grabbed the little light-blue maned filly with her light green magic. "Dada!" Luna screamed, but Celestia flew up in the sky as fast as her young wings could take her. Luna watched, horrified, as alicorns below them started to fall over, dead. Celestia climbed into the atmosphere faster and faster and when she broke through it with a spectacular rainbow of colours her mane seemed to grab a few, turning her pink mane into a rainbow of green, pink, blue and blue-green. *

Luna stared at her sister. A twinge of jealousy pierced her heart. Why does Tia get all the good stuff? She isn't even the... nicest filly...


Celestia continued to fly through space. For ten years they journeyed. Luna managed to fly on her own and Celestia used her magic to conjure up food and water in magical airtight packages. "COME ON!" She shouted at her younger sis. "Okay, Tia. You dont have to yell like that -"I YES I DO!!!" Celestia stopped, and looked at her sister, who had tears in her eyes. "Aww... what have I done... you know I didn't mean that..." Luna turned around and looked out in the distance. "Hay, Tia?" "Yes?" "What is... that?" Luna pointed her hoof to a planet about 2 light years away. "What's that thing?" Celestia looked at it. "I don't know, but were going to find out." 

To be CONTINUED!!!!!! (dun dun DUUUNNN)


*Yes, Alicorns can "breathe" in space :P