Twilight briskly walked back to her study. She had thought that her teacher had taught her everything. But, she didn't teach her about this.
Twilight began to question Celestia's motives behind this. "To protect everypony in Equestria," Celestia had said to her. She began to wonder if she was hiding anything else. Twilight quickly put those thoughts to rest as she remembered why she had come back here. Twilight sat in her chair and opened the book to page one.
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Celestia rules over the peaceful nation of Equestria with her younger sister Luna. Celestia and Luna are both kind and caring rulers. Celestia brings forth the day and Luna brings forth the night. Ponies loved Celestia's day but shunned and slept through Luna's beautiful star filled night.
Luna being the ever-watchful princess of the night took notice of this but shrugged it off sure that deep down everypony loved her night just as much as Celestia's day.
Luna had a close relationship with Celestia and would talk to her sister about her troubles, most of which concerned how she continuously thought that other ponies didn't like her night. Celestia would always tell her that ponies do love her night and are thankful that they are given a time to rest. Luna would always think about what she said and came to the same conclusion every time. "if they loved my night, then why do they sleep through it?" Luna thought to herself.
Each year a celebration was held to celebrate the sun. It was officially named the Summer Sun Celebration. The celebration was held in honor of Celestia and the sun. Celestia would raise the sun in front of all her loyal pony subjects.
Luna always had conflicting emotions about the event. She felt jealous that her sister got so much more attention then her. Yet, she also felt happy for her sister and the praise she received.
Luna's mind kept drifting back to how she is much less loved then her sister. Being a princess she thought that she deserved just as much love and attention as Celestia did.
Looking out over the kingdom she realized that not everypony was asleep. Feeling curious she decided to investigate.
Luna arriving at her destination found who she was looking for. It was the one pony still awake at this late hour whereas all the others were asleep, He was wide awake and looking through an object that Luna has not seen before. She saw that it had multiple dials and was a long tube with a small part the stallion was looking into and had a slightly rounded end. "what might thou be doing at this late hour?" Luna inquired the stallion with her booming royal voice. The stallion having been unaware of his visitor nearly jumped out of his skin at the booming volume of Luna's voice.
"Yu...your majesty! It is a pleasure to meet you."
"What is thee still doing up at this late hour with this strange device?!"
"Oh! This is called a telescope. It is used to view the stars on beautiful nights such as this. I was using it to well... View the stars."
"Would thee mind if I take a look?!"
"No, not at all."
Luna carefully walks over to the telescope and inspects it for a moment before placing her eye onto the same spot she saw the stallion placing his. What she saw amazed her. Looking through the telescope she got to see the stars and the moon so much closer then she could've dreamed before. She saw that some of the stars made various shapes and other areas where filled with vibrant displays of color and designs.
"It is run by magic your majesty. If you would like to make the view better or even allow for farther or closer sight then adjust it with your magic." Luna gives him a slight nod as she begins to adjust it.
"It is wonderful looking through this telescope! I see why thee would enjoy it!"
"If I may, why are you here? As much as I enjoy getting to have a conversation with you I am wondering why you came here in the first place"
"You... you enjoy talking to me!?"
"Well... of course I do. You do a wonderful thing for us equestrians."
"And what might that be!"
"You bring forth the night."
"You really think it's wonderful?!"
"Yes I do, you bring this night sky to us all, you bring us a time to rest ourselves from the tiring day, you bring us all a wonderful thing known as night."
"Thank you, you have no idea how much it means to me to hear somepony say that! Before I go though, could I have thou name?!"
"Yes your majesty yo-"
"Enough with the formalitys! Call me Luna!"
"Yes your ma... er... I mean Luna. My name is Lunar Glow."
"It is a beautiful name my dear Lunar Glow! Perhaps we could meet here again tomarrow!"
"I'm sure I can do that for you Luna"
With that Luna gave him a smile and rose off into the night. Luna had actually found a pony who enjoys her night and loves her for it unlike those other ponies. She thought that as long as she had Lunar Glow she would be fine.
Luna set off the next night and arrived at where they decided to meet. Lunar Glow wasn't there so Luna made herself a little cozy spot on the grass to lay-down awaiting his arrival. Minutes went by and he still wasn't there. An hour had finally passed and she thought that something might be wrong.
Luna went out into the nearest village to look for him she went house to house looking for him getting many surprised looks while she did. Eventually one kindly old mare gave her directions to his house. She arrived at his door and knocked loudly. A few moments later the door swung open with an angry stallion on the other side. He was about to give her a piece of his mind when he saw who it was. "Your majesty! What can we do for you."
"I am looking for Lunar Glow! I was told he lives here! Is that correct!" The stallion began to look as if he was about to burst into tears at his sons name
"He... did live here."
"What doth thou mean by did?!"
"He was" *the stallion begins to let out a few tears* "found dead this morning."
Luna was very shocked by this news and did not know exactly how to respond. The one pony who had ever even told her how much he appreciated her was now gone. Before the stallion could even continue she flew up with a look of despair on her face.
Luna retreated back to the castle and fled to her room to morn her newly found friend.
Luna sat in seclusion in her dark room. She had lost the one pony she knew had loved her and her night. She knew that all the others didn't love her quite as much or at all for that matter.
Luna grew increasingly jealous that her sister had so much love and attention and she just lost the one pony who loved her just as much. Anger sat like a lump of lead in her heart. She grew resentful of the day as darkness filled her heart and mind. Dawning a nearby helmet she slowly became Nightmare Moon. Filled with the desire to eliminate the day forever she cast a spell over her moon that allowed only her to control its movements. Knowing the moon was secure she began to think up what she would do when Celestia came to her in the morning demanding her to lower the moon. She could think of only one thing as a devious smile crept onto her face.