~Luna pov~
"Keep your weight evenly distributed" Luna yelled to the young alicorn who was fighting a large reindeer that had been conjured up. She had been out here for a few hours training the mare and Luna was proud to announce that the mare fought like thats all she ever did. "Yes, keep him confused, make sure you give no sign of your attack and if a sign is accidentally given, do something different" Luna yelled, she had known Shard for a long time, longer then Shard realized, she'd heard of Shard and decided to become as much of a guardian angel as she possibly could.
"Your doing well, now, lets move onto defense" Luna said and before Shard could say anything, made the deer fight with more vigor then it previously had, but Shard defended and attacked same as she had previously, it was all natural to her and Luna was proud of the progress they had made in their short time here. She slammed her hoof down on the rock she was standing on "Shard, night is almost over and I must return to Equestria, I shall meet you tomorrow night, Farewell" she announced as the deer dissolved in the air and Luna lifted off into the and flew south to Equestria.
Luna flew at speeds that no normal creature could achieve and she took pride in that ability and within an hour of flight, the Canterlot Castle was in sight. Luna fluttered her wings as she landed on the balcony of the throne room and was confronted by her older sister "Luna, where have you been, i've been worried sick and I couldn't start the day worrying this much" Celestia cried at the sight of her sister. "Calm thy self sister, I was only off to the north" she calmly explained to her sister, but it only seemed to put her sister more on edge "The North, Luna, what if Sombra had found you, you heard what he did to his daughter" Celestia blurted out and began to cry, which Luna found odd.
"Relax sister, Sombra lied and spread that rumor so the other rulers would fear him while he looked for his daughter" Luna said, emphasizing the word Looked. "How would you know sister, you haven't seen her" Celestia said and continued to cry and confusing Luna even more. "Actually, I was just with her and she seemed fine to me" Luna said and Celestia stopped crying and looked at Luna with eyes of utter shock. "Sh- shes alive?" Celestia stuttered and began to cry more then she had before, but they were of fear or sorrow, but of joy, and that confused Luna to the max.
"Why do you seem so concerned about Princess Shard?" Luna asked her sister who seemed to have gotten herself under control. "Well, um, its not her fault who her father is and from what i've heard, shes a nice mare" Celestia said nervously "Oh, would you look at the time, Sunrise, Love you Lulu, bye" and with that, Celestia scurried away and flew off the balcony to began the day. Luna hadn't believed her sister, maybe she was hiding something, but this was her sister, why would she hide someting, but Luna remembered something now, Celestia had disappeared a few years ago and when she had returned, had a grievous scar on her neck and refused to talk about her time away, maybe that ad something to do with it.
She decided to let the matter lie til her sister returned so she could ask her about it, she headed to her chambers and opened to large, navy blue door that lead into her room. There was a large blue sapphire sitting on a black pedestal in the center of the room, she approached it and cast an spell on it, the spell was a powerful one that took alot of energy and Luna was beginning to use it often, it was a scrying spell that allowed her to view the future.
She looked towards the future of the Umbra Tribe and saw a change, it wasn't long in the future, maybe a year or two, but there was a dramatic change from when she'd view the future yesterday, the village was more populated then before and Tarandrus was no longer leader she saw, but someone new, fairly young with a great many scars, Luna gazed upon their new leader with pride, her intervention had saved the tribe. The spell ended and Luna smiled warmly at the sapphire, she realized how early it was and Luna needed sleep now, she abandoned the pedestal and slipped into her bed and under the sheet and in moments sleep claimed her.
~Shard pov~
Shard watched Luna fly away, she barely felt exhaustion even though she had been practicing for hours and hadn't had a single break. She felt pride in her progress and she saw the village n the distance, she flapped her wings and flew towards the village, only a few of the villagers were out and they gave no sign of noticing her. She landed in the center of the village and quickly located Nix's hut, she yawned and stepped towards the hut when she heard loud hoofsteps behind her. She turned and saw Tarandrus coming towards her "Mare, where have you been, everyones been searching for you" he said as he approached her, but Shard just ignored him, turned around, trotted into Nix's hut, and crawled into the large empty bed, patiently waiting for sleep.
~Sombra pov~
Sombra paced in his throne room "Where could she be" he kept whispering to himself, his guards had tracked her magically, but had lost her suddenly about two days ago. He stopped his pacing and glared at the wall, on it was a large painting of Sombra, wearing his crown, no armor, but he still wore his cape, and a tiny Shard wearing a copy of his crown, only golden and a little smaller then his own, but too large for her. He remembered that day, she had said she'd never grow into the crown, but he had assured her that she would when she was older, he had been right. "WHY DID YOU ABANDON ME!" he screamed at the painting, he tore it off the wall and started to tear it apart, most of what remained of it were small shreds, but one large piece remained, it was her painted face.
Sombra froze at the sight of it, the artist who ad painted it had assured him the painting would come out perfectly, at the time, it had, but now, he saw every beautiful feature of his daughters face and every happy emotion in her eyes, now, it was far from perfect. He screamed and his horn became surrounded by a black aura and a large black crystal appeared from the ground and stabbed the painting Shard and from the point of stabbing, black flames spread and soon, engulfed it. Sombra came to his sense and realized what he'd just done, he tried frantically to smother the flames, but they refused to die, soon it was gone and Sombra starred at the spot where it had been, he felt only despair now. He dropped down and did something he hadn't done in years, he cried.