Chapter two
Death of Dawn
Luna continued to scream in pain as her contractions intensify.
“Ahhhhhhhhhh! This pain…it’s…unbearable.”
Luna tried to use her magic to sooth her pain. But it was no use. Her power had been completely drained from her sister’s spell.
“AHHHHHHH! Why…of all times why now? This hurts…so much…AHHHHHhhh!” *Luna looked up at the Earth and screamed out to it*. Tia! If you can hear me…please have mercy on me and make this pain end. There is no reason to punish me like this.”
But Luna’s cries fell on deaf ears. Celestia had sent her to the moon with no way of contacting her. She truly made sure that Luna’s banishment would be a silent one. So no matter how much Luna screamed, no matter how much she cried there was nothing her sister could do to help her.
Luna would spend the next lunar day in labor. No medication to sooth her pain, no magic to make the foal birth easier, she was giving a natural foal birth. She was in the worst pain ever and could do nothing about it. Or in what she thought was the worst pain.
Lying on her side barely breathing, her hind legs are soaked with blood and embryonic fluid. Her contractions had become even more unbearable as they would make her slip in and out of consciousness.
“Celesita…please…help me. Can you…not see the…pain that I am in? Please…if you really are my sister…then feel my pain…save me. Ahhhh…and if not me…at least…ahhhhh…save the foal. Bring the foal back to Equestria. Ahhhhhh…Please Tia…please.”
But just as Luna was about to give in to the pain she gave one last push with whatever strength she had left and her foal was born. Luna lifted her head and looked at her foal. All of the pain, the suffering, the blood and tears had all become worth it. Her foal was here with her. She pulled the foal closer to her and began to clean it off. As she cleaned her foal she could see that it was a little filly. Her coat was a sky ash blue, her mane and tail sparkled like the night sky just like Luna’s but a bit lighter. As Luna looked at her foal tears of began to run down her face. But these were no longer tears of pain, but tears of joy. Luan was no longer alone on the moon. She had someone to spend the rest of her banishment with. She had something to live for. She was now a mother, and was the happiest she could ever be…so she thought.
Luna had regained her breath and was starting to calm down.
“Oh my sweet little foal. You are finally here. *chuckle* Welcome to the moon, this is going to be your home for a while. But don’t worry, mommy will take care of you. And I will never let anything happen to you. For the rest of our immortal lives I promise I will not let anything come between us. *Luna then nuzzled the foals face*. My sweet and dearest beacon of light and hope. My...Hmm what should I name you love? Moon Beam? Night Shade? *Just then it hit her*. Dawn. That will be your name, Lunar Dawn. Princess Lunar Dawn of the Night.”
Luna had never been happier. But her happiness was going to be short lived. Her beacon of light and hope was about to go out.
Luna pulled her foal Dawn closer to her to keep her warm. But as she pulled her to her chest she could feel something was wrong. Something was not right….
"Dawn? *No response*. Lunar Dawn? *She nudges the foal but it does not move. Now Luan starts to get frantic*. Lunar Dawn wake up. Come on baby…move…move for mommy…move for me.”
Right then and there Luna realized that Lunar Dawn was not breathing. She stood to her hooves putting her ear to the foal’s chest. Its heart beat was very shallow and she was not breathing. She had forgotten that with the foal being born on the moon there was no air for it to breathe in. The foal had never taken its first breath of life, the foal was mortal and about to fade away.
Frantic and trying to resuscitate the foal.
"Breathe! Please breathe! Take my last breathe…I held it for you! There you go... Good girl…Breathe…Breathe…*But the foal was not responding* Brea-....please no...It...It can't already be gone! That air was supposed to last for-… * Luna looked to the Earth and cried out and begged to her sister*. Please! Celestia! Send some air! Can't you see she's suffocating?! Stay with mama. Stay with mama. Stay with-...Stay...No…You were to be my dawn..."
It was done. The foal had died. Without taking her first true breath of air she suffocated in the vacuum of space. She died slowly. Feeling no pain and did not suffering she just faded away into the darkness. Lunar Dawn was no more.
Screaming and crying for her foal to come back
“Lunar Dawn!!! Don’t leave me! Come back! Please…please come back to mommy!” *Nudging and nuzzling the foal.* “Please! Just wake up…Just breath…Please just wake up…Just live for me.” *Sobbing over the foal tears streaming down her face*. “Please Dawn…Just wake up…just…wake up…please.”
Luna sat there with the corps of her foal Lunar Dawn. Tears ran down her face as she replayed the events that happened. She blamed herself for not being strong enough to care for her foal. She hated herself for not being able to save her foal. Luna was a broken mare. As she cried over her foal the sun started to make its way over the moon. Luna looked up at the rising sun with the tears of pain running down her face. And as she saw the sun her tears of pain and sadness turned into tears of anger and rage.
“CELESTIA!!! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU KILLED MY FOAL AND YOU DARE SHOW YOUR FACE TO ME! I SWEAR YOU MY SISTER YOU WILL PAY FOR THE DEATH OF MY FOAL!!! YOU KILLED HER AND YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE! ONCE MY THOUSAND YEARS ARE UP YOU WILL PAY! YOU WILL FEEL MY PAIN! I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS! AND YOU WILL KNOW THE PAIN OF MY NEVER ENDING DARKNESS! I SWEAR ON THE DEATH OF MY FOAL…”*She looked down at Dawn’s corps under her wing*. “YOU WILL PAY!”
Luna saw the sunrise as her sister mocking her and her loss. The audacity of her sister to raise the sun on her foal’s death was unforgivable. Celestia had crossed the line, being banished was bad enough but now Celestia had the blood of her sister’s foal on her hooves. Luna would avenge her foal, even if she had to throw all of Equestria into total darkness.
“You will pay Celestia. If it’s the last thing I do…You. Will. Pay.”
Etching in a stone reads “Here lies Lunar Dawn. The Princess of the Night”
“Now to begin my training to summon the dark magic inside me, and plot my revenge on my bitch of a sister. Nightmare will return.”