In the cool evening air of Equestria, Luna, an Alicorn with great power and the second Princess and co-ruler of Equestria, raises the moon from its slumber by using her horn erecting out of her forehead with an aerie glow. The night sky lights up as the sun sets behind the mountains; littered with shining stars, great art works of constellations, distant nebulas and the moon shinning bright with the Princess’ pride.
"Is it even possible to make your night more beautiful?" Celestia spoke up, coming up from behind and stood beside her little sister on the balcony. The alabaster Alicorn nuzzles her sisters’ cheek with sisterly love.
"Yes, dear sister, We’re thinking of new designs for the constellations. But it's a work in progress." she answered in old tongue, though, a little more refined and looked up at the night sky, trying to find imperfections to fix.
Celestia nuzzled her once more, "Well, goodnight, baby sister. It is nice having you back." she started walking back in quietly and down the flight of spiraling stairs.
"Goodnight Tia… It's nice being back." Luna replied while looking back at her sister leaving.
Suddenly, she then felt a surge of cosmic energy around her. She quickly looked back to the world and looked around for the source on the ground, but all she saw were the streets lights of Canterlot and the distant Ponyville and the dark mountains and forests.
Then a flash of light caught her eye and looked up to see what looks like a bright falling star, but something about was out of place. It arched through the sky, flaring as if it was burning with great power, brightening the land under it as it pasted by swiftly and made a great flash of light in the northern kingdom.
She quickly teleports herself to her room and grabbed a piece of paper and a quill make of her own feather dipped in ink. She quickly wrote down on the paper, rolled it up, wraps it with a blue ribbon, drips the melted wax from the glowing candle and magically sends it away with a flash. She stayed in her room and mumbled to herself as she worked vigorously, using her calculative mind to measure where the object might have fallen on a map by using various rulers, protractors, composes and etcetera. But with how it made its own course corrections in mid flight, she wasn’t too sure where exactly it might have landed.
Triple checking her work, she rolls up her map and put it aside for later use, but than her sister barges in with a smile on her face.
“Luna! I didn’t know you could summon Northern Lights!” she quickly goes over and hugs her confused sister, “Was that what the surge was?” she looked down at her with a proud smile.
Luna blinks a couple times before she smiled with a nod, “Yes! W-We did that, yes.” she stuttered a little and crossed her fore hooves but kept her best smile she could.
Celestias’ smile widens and hugs her again with her wings, “I’m proud of you, Luna. Have a goodnight.” she said with a nuzzle before going out of her room.
When her sister left, Luna quickly scrambles up to her hooves and galloped over to her window to see a vast and momentous ribbons of light, changing colors as they waved like flags. She teleports herself back on the balcony and looked up at the sky before to where the falling object landed.
She wasn’t proud of lying to her sister but first she needed to be sure the object wasn’t a threat to the world.
The next morning, Luna packed a few things in her saddlebag, her map included and wore a dark, warm cloak to keep her warm from the frozen tundra. She heard the doors to her bedchambers being knocked on before they opened.
"Sister? Where are you going?" she heard Celestia.
Luna puts on her saddlebag under the cloak and faced her sister; "To the northern kingdom, dear sister." she answered and went past her kin to the hall.
Celestia quickly followed her down, "The Crystal Empire? May I ask why?" she asked curiously.
Luna was caught off guard by her question. She was hoping she got out the castle before her sister noticed, "Uuh… just for a little, ah, v-visit, to see how our niece is doing, sister." she answered and put on her fake smile.
“Ah! Nice to know your trying to connect with our dear niece Cadence.” Celestia happily as Luna mentally sighed in relief that she bought it.
They both got out and Luna speeded up to her dark icy blue carriage strapped to two Bat ponies with winter coats of their own. She got in and waved to her sister, "W-We’ll see you in the evening, Tia." she bid goodbye to her sister.
“I said hi to Cadence, okay.” Celestia and waved as well. The carriage started going. Celestia continued waving to her sister.
Luna sat back on her carriage, sighed in relief and put her saddlebag to her side. She then started wondering what in the world she saw last night. Maybe a stray meteor or a space junk of some sort, she hoped anyways. The space is a vast place, who knows what lurks there.
After a couple hours, the air around her started to feel cool and chilly. She poked her head out the window and saw the crystal palace up ahead, bright and shinning as usual with a barrier around it. As they crossed the barrier, the air around them quickly dispels the cold, warming their bodies.
They landed down under the palace beside the Crystal Heart and Luna got out with her saddlebag on. She sees Princess Cadence waiting for her a few meters beside the spinning heart.
She smiled and went up to the pink Alicorn, "Good morning, young niece." she greeted happily.
Cadence nodded with a smile of her own, "Good morning to you too, Aunty Luna. How was your trip?" she greeted back as they nuzzled one another.
“It was pleasantly quiet.” she replied and started going in the castle with her niece by her side.
They both went through the crystal halls with two crystal mare maids tagging along in their tow. "So are you sure what you saw was true in the letter?" Cadence asked her with slight concern in her tone.
Luna nodded, "Yes, We are sure, young niece. We may be older than Canterlot itself but our mind is still young." she answered and both got in a dining room. The room was large just like the palace Luna lived in, but this one was made of crystal like the rest of the castle.
They both got to the end of the long table and sat themselves down by one another. They quietly ate and spoke.
"Have you told Aunty Celestia yet?" Cadence asked and took a bite from her pancakes.
Luna lightly shook her head, "Not yet. We must be sure what We saw is no threat to the world." she answered and picked up a cup of water with her magic and tipped it on her lips.
"Then I would like to come along with you, Aunty." Cadence said to her, "This is my home and I must know if it's in danger or not." she said to her, looking at the other Princess, lightly frowning in determination.
Luna sighed, "Then so be it." Luna answered and finished her breakfast, Cadence as well.
Cadence looked at the maid standing a few feet beside her, "I will be out for an hour or two. inform the rest of the staff and my husband." she said to the maid and she nodded before going off in a prance. She looked at Luna, "When will we start going?" she asked.
Luna finished her cup of water and set it on the table, "Sooner the better." she answered.
They got out of the crystal palace; Cadence had a white cloak on and a fluffy hat. Cadence looked at Luna, "Do you know where it landed?" she asked and both got in front of Luna's carriage.
Luna opened the door to her carriage for her, "We measured its trajectory and speed in our bedchambers last night." she got in with her and closed the carriage door then took out a map of the northern kingdom out of her saddlebag. Cadence awed at the work her aunt had done to the map with a red pencil, and there was a red circle on the map near her kingdom, "It should be around in this area." she pointed out.
The carriage started moving and flew off towards the supposed crash site.
They flew around, trying to find a crater of some sort for an hour now, but haven't found anything yet.
Luna sighed, defeat now starting creep in her, that is until her niece shouted and pointed out through a window.
"There! The crater!" Cadence point on the other side of the carriage. Luna quickly went beside her and looked to where she was pointing.
There it was, a small dent about a mile away. She stock out her head from the window and looked at the bat ponies and pointed, "Head towards the crater! A mile that way!" she yelled and they both nodded and set a new course by banking.
They landed down on the snowy ground not long after and the two Princesses got out the carriage to take a look. Cadence gaps; the crater was thirty feet wide and dug down in the ground at least half that in a near perfect dome, making a layer of hardened glass in the very center.
Luna then spots something in the glassy center and started going down. As she got to the glassy ground, she felt it was still a little warm. She got to the center and found… claw prints, four of them to be precise.
She then followed the prints in the glass and onto the snowy ground. She got back up on the flat ground and followed the prints till it ended suddenly. She looked around and saw a dozen or so light streaks on the snow to the sides of the prints.
She took out a piece of parchment and a pencil. She sketched out the four clawed prints, the streaks to the side, the crater and made a few notes. She then took a few samples from the glass and the snowy ground in small glass bottles, capped with a cork.
Cadence went up beside her while Luna put the papers and bottles in her saddlebag, "What does this mean?" she asked her in concern.
Luna looked at her and pointed to the claw prints, "We have a new creature loose, young niece." she answered. She watched as Cadence went up to the prints. Luna looked at the direction the prints were going and her eyes went wide as it quick clicks in her mind, "It's heading south to Equestria!" she yelled and flew over to her carriage.
Cadence quickly got back to her and got in the carriage with her, "We must warn Aunty Celestia." she said to her and Luna nodded in agreement. Then the carriage started going back the crystal palace in haste.
As the carriage went, a pair of blue eyes followed them as it rested on a mountain top nearby. Studying them curiously on where it landed on the small world. It heard the blue one say something about ‘Equestria’ to the pink one. Nowhere else to go, it set its sights on a destination to find answers to his developing questions.