[Stella's POV]
As we approached Canterlot I took some time to relax in my room. I laid back in the bed and looked up at the ceiling. I started to think about everything that has happened in just thirty-six hours. My homeland lost, my mother possibly dead, my sister finding out about her real family. My sister...
What had I done. With my mother most likely gone I just doomed my only biological relative. I started to get a weird churning inside my stomach. What I did felt justified at that moment in time but I knew now that what I did was terribly wrong. I also knew that I needed to be the sole ruler of Concordia if I were to ever get revenge for the death of my father. I got up and headed for the room my sister was being held in. I was almost to the room when the door opened and I saw Lightning Haze walk out followed by two guards.
[Lightning's POV]
I had to find some way... anyway that I could prove I was the eldest daughter of Princess Rosetta.
"Guards could I use the restroom?" they looked back and forth to each other and then nodded. The guards untied me and escorted me out the door and just outside the door was Stella. The guards took a defensive stance ready to attack me if needed. This made my plan a lot easier.
"Can I talk with my Si...sinister friend alone please" Stella said... It sounded like she was about to say something else. It's like Stella wanted me to attack her. The guards looking puzzled nodded and left the area. I was just about to attack her again when she looked at me with tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong Stella?" I sat there and watched as the princess broke down in front of me. I don't know what came over me, but I pulled her into a hug and silently stroked her mane a bit. It felt kind of awkward to me at first. I had no idea how to be a good older sister, but this just felt right. She pulled away from the hug.
"Look lightning what I did earlier was wrong of me, but you have to understand why I did it. My father was assassinated by someone we never found. All they did was leave a note on his body that said we will be back for the kingdom. I believe the same assassins are finally making their move on Concordia. If you were discovered to be of the royal bloodline the people would surely outcast us both thinking that we would lie to the people just as mother did. I need to win back Concordia, to take my revenge. I plan on killing them personally. So now do you understand? I can't have you come to the surface as a long lost heir to the throne. I just couldn't bare the thought of you being so mad at me as to try and kill me as you did earlier." Stella's words hung in the air around me almost as if they were tangible. I pulled her into another hug. This one seemingly less awkward.
"You didn't have to torch the letter though. You could of just explained it to me. Sure I probably would of still wanted to tell people, but we could of talked about it Stella. I'm not mad just... disappointed in you and I'm sorry I attacked you earlier, it was wrong of me." At these words of mine Stella burst into tears. The guards poked their heads in the hallway to tell us we had arrived and then seeing us hugging they were utterly confused and decided to give us some privacy.
"Well do you think we could at least tell Celestia and Luna? They need to know about it... for Concordia." I said. Stella looked not exactly at me but behind me as if deep in thought.
"Ughhh... Aunt Celestia is gonna kill me for destroying the letter..." Stella said with the slightest hint of fear in her voice. We gathered our personal belongings and got off the train. We were greeted by Lilly and Scarlet as we stepped onto the platform. It was night time now, which if the books are true meant Luna is awake and Celestia is asleep.
"Uhmm Stella?... Are Celestia and Luna actually our aunts?" The weird thought occurred to me that it was never mentioned that the regal sisters had another sister or that Princess Rosetta had one at all.
"Hehe no silly that's just what we call them, kinda like how I refer to Cadence and Twilight as our cousins." She laughed as if this were SO obvious. Our conversation was abruptly interrupted by the landing of a blackish blue mare with a flowing blue mane. This must be the "Princess of the night" Luna. She looked at the guards and without even talking they took our stuff into the castle.
"You must be Princess Luna. Nice to meet you I am Lightning Haze. Princess Stella and I have come from Concordia seeking you and your sisters help." I said. Luna just looked back and forth between me and Stella and then she looked up at the moon.
"We have been expecting you, we received news that Concordia had fallen under anarchy and that you and your mother have been dethroned. The guards have already gone to awaken my dear sister. She shall be here shortly. Thou was told of yours and Stella's arrivals but who are your companions?" Luna looked nervously at Lunar Lilly and kept eye lock with her. Lilly looked in awe at the magnicant alicorn before her. Luna knelt down to Lilly's level.
"My little pony what is thy name?" Before the quivering form could answer they were cut short by Celestia galloping out of the castle toward us.
"Oh thank goodness Stella your okay and... oh who are your friends." Stella seemed frozen in time. She stood there in silence not making a single sound for a minute or so. I decided to say it for her.
"I'm Lightning Haze, the other mare is Scarlet Cloud, and the fillys name is Lunar Lilly but everypony calls her Lilly." I said noting Luna's shocked look at the mention of Scarlet's and Lilly's names.
"We'll it's a pleasure to meet you all. Let's continue this conversation in the morning shall we? I'm sure everypony here is tired. Although I need to talk with Stella and Lightning first the rest of you may go on." Celestia motioned for Stella and I to follow her.