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// Chapter 1 
// Story: The New Lunar Republic: The Dawn 
// by Wilfred Warfstache 
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My mind was going blurry, becoming nothing but a fog of what I remembered. "I can't believe I've done this." I said. "Has it really come to this? Have I really come to the point were I can no longer be around anypony? Heh heh, I guess we are all just pawns to the game of fate." A crystal slowly starts to from around my body as the spell takes it's toll. My mind is racing, telling me this is a mistake, that there has to be another way. But I know all to well that that isn't the case. I know that if I stop now there may be no way of being with her again. As the crystal slowly envelops my body, finally reaching my head, I can think of only one mare. I say my last words before I go into a deep slumber. "Don't worry Luna, I'll be seeing you soon...

A few years earlier...

It was a beautiful day in the land of Equestria, the sun was high in the sky, the birds were chirping, the flowers were swaying in the gentle breeze. A small cottage near the Everfree Forest is where I lived in. It wasn't a big house, not that we would need one. The outside of my house was big enough as it was, I had plenty of space to play, practice in becoming a guard for the Princesses of Equestria, trying to use my changeling powers, and what not. It was a normal day just like any other. I was in the middle practicing jumping from tree to tree without using my wing when suddenly...

"DAWN! IT'S TIME TO COME INSIDE, IT WILL BE NIGHT TIME SOON!" called a female voice from with in the cottage. When she said this I got spooked and fell off to far to the right of the tree I was trying to land on. When I landed I felt a sharp pain on my left wing. When I got up I saw that my left wing had bent backwards at the middle. Being half changeling I was partly alright. The reason why I wasn't fully alright though, was because I'm also half pony. I'm the son of my pegasus father, Silver Wing, and my changeling mother, Roseta. My father is an average pegasus with a coffee brown coat, dark brown and mane and tail coloring that had a little silver highlights in his mane, with crimson green eyes. The reason he was named Silver Wing, was because of the oddity of his wings being, instead of a brown, were a silver color. My mother was the everyday changeling, having a slimmer figure being female. She had a lighter shade of black for her coloring and her eyes were a light rosy red.
"YOU'D BETTER LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER DAWN! YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THE EVERFREE FOREST CAN BE WHEN NIGHT FALLS!" called my father.
"I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!" I called back to them to them. I soon got up after, dusted my self off, tried to unbend my wing to no avail, and made my way home. When I got there I opened the door and went inside of the warm, fire lit house and made my way to the kitchen here my mother was at.
"Dawn, could you get your father out of his garden, he's been working on it all day lon- Oh my, honey are you alright!? What happens? Did something attack you in the forest!" my mother said panicked over my half bent wing. She started to pace rapidly in place thinking that something bad had really happened to me in the forest.
"No mother," I replied, "I only lost my balance when I was jumping from tree to tree."
"And why in the world would you be jumping from tree to tree?" She questioned.
"I was only trying to test my athleticism and maneuverability around small spaces." I tell her with a small blush creeping on to my cheeks.
"And what for would you need to do that for? You aren't dreaming still about becoming a royal guard are you?"
"It's not a dream, it's what I am going to do when I grow up!" I yelled back.
"What's all the commotion about?" asks my father who happened to walk in.
"Nothing just talking to mother is all." I tell him.
"Nothing? You bent your wing for bucks sake!" She yelled back at me. "He has been outside trying to become more like a ninja like always dear."  "Why would he do that?" my father asks me.
"Because I'm going to be a royal guard when I grow up!" 
"But they won't accept changeling, or halfers for that matter, and you know that Dawn." 
"Your father is right, now let me see about that wing." she says as she leads me to the waiting room in our house to fix my wing. I look at my self in the mirror in the room to see if there was any more serios injuries that I might have missed. Fortunately enough there weren't any. I looked back at the reflection of my changeling self. I had cyan blue eyes with a smooth black changeling body with no holes in of my hooves, tail, wings, or mane. I then let out a small yelp of surprise when my mother suddenly unbend my wing with a bit of force.
"Dawn you really should be more careful. We don't want your wings to get permanently bent now do we?" she asked with a little laugh.
"Oh come now, don't be so sensitive Dawn." responded my father after hearing my yelp.
"It didn't hurt, I was only caught off guard when she unbent my wing." I said with a huff. "Now, hold still Dawn, we don't want you to hurt your self further now do we? Asked my mother as she checked for any other bruises on my wing.
"Mother, I'll be fine as long as I don't fall out of any more trees." I said with a small chuckle.
"Now, don't be going all dare devil and start doing stunts that'll just end up with you in the hospital you hear?" my father said. "Hay, I'm just training to become part of the royal guard, not some sort of crazy assassin!" (Unknown to me though how wrong I was...)
"Oh, come now Dawn we may not be at complete peace in Equestria, but we both know that we do not have any need for those kind of things in the battles that the Princess' go into with the neighboring lands." 
"Yes, I know mother, I know." I look outside the window an I notice that the moon has already risen. I always had a thing for the night, it's almost like it was calling out to me.
"Well it's getting pretty late, come on son,Roseta, let's go eat." my father said to my mother and me, breaking my thought of the night as we walk to the dinning room. After eating a delicious soup (mother always was a good cook) I went to bed to rest up for the night. As I lay my tired body on my bed I can only think of how beautiful the night is. I think about the one who controls the night, Princess Luna, and how majestic she must be when she rises the moon.
"I wish the night would last longer, then maybe I would meet her. I would thank her for her for bringing the beauty that is the night." I say as my mind finally go to sleep, preparing for the next day. Unknown to me I would meet her soon, and not in the way I expected...