//------------------------------// // Lunas story // Story: Lunas Diary: How a new magical friendship was born. // by keam //------------------------------// Luna’s diary: How a new, magical friendship was born! Dear diary, many, many years ago, there were a couple of friends that shared a magical friendship together. But, as I said, it was many years ago, and now I'm going to tell you about how a new, magical friendship was born! It all started with one young unicorn and a young alicorn in a changing room in Canterlot together with their parents on Hearts Warming Eve. One of the two fillies was nervous and her mother tried to explain that it was nothing to be nervous about. Then, suddenly, the mother heard someone say: "Ah know that voice! If it ain't Twilight Sparkle!" Twilight Sparkle recognised the person who said it as Apple Jack, an old friend of hers. She only knew one pony (and her family) that spoke with that southern accent. Together with Apple Jack, two small, orange coated earth ponies with brown and yellow manes walked in to the room. Behind them came another old friend of hers, Pinkie Pie, jumping in to the room, and with her another small earth pony with pink coat and brown mane. After Pinkie Pie and her child came Rainbow Dash, Flutter Shy and Rarity together with their children. It took Twilight a second to realise that they all where standing there, in front of her, with their children. Now, they presented their children: Apple Jack presented her children, Jake and Jackie. Twilight presented her daughter, Starlight. Rarity her daughter Shimmer. Flutter Shy her children Molly and Johnny Apple. Rainbow Dash her son Speed. And Pinkie Pie her daughter Cookie. When they had introduced their children a baby dragon appeared. He presented himself as Samir, and said that his dad, Spike, had told him that it was here that they who would be in the show were. Twilight recognised the baby as the child of the baby dragon she had raised during her time in Ponyville! Then Apple Jack, Twilight and all the others except for the children left the room, because the show started soon and they had to find their places. I saw them from the royal balcony making their way through the crowd. When they had found their places they discovered that next to them was princess Skyla, Twilight's niece, and she was very happy to see her aunt. But the happiness was far too soon ended. Just when they were supposed to start singing The Hearts Warming Eve Carol, my sister, Celestia, came in to the room. She told us that King Sombra had returned and that this time he was seeking for a personal revenge on them! The Elements of Harmony were the only way to stop him! She then distributed the Elements of Harmony to Twilight and her friends. Seconds later King Sombra appeared in the door. Ponies screamed in fear. Big, black crystals were starting to cover the walls and the floor. Twilight and her friends told their children to hide. Then they used the Elements of Harmony on King Sombra. But something went terribly wrong. When the power from the Elements hit King Sombra, lots of smoke appeared, and when it was possible to see anything again, we saw King Sombra disappear. Because it could be dangerous, we decided not to follow him. Instead we started to discuss why the Elements of Harmony hadn't worked the way they should. Twilight Sparkle and her friends realised that it had been many years since they last were gathered all together, because they had all been so busy. Apple Jack on the Apple farm, Rarity and Twilight in Canterlot, Rainbow Dash in Cloudsdale and Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in Ponyville... Suddenly, someone asked where the children were. We realised that they were gone! Soon someone found the crown that belonged to the Queen Platina-dress abandoned on the ground and understood that they had gone the same way as King Sombra. I had never seen my sister so afraid and I thought that if something happened to the children, she would blame herself, and I felt the same.... I have been told afterwards what happened afte the children left the room. This is what I have been told: The children had seen that the Elements of Harmony didn´t work the way they should, and Starlight got an idea and said to the others: " Maybe we can use the elements? After all, we're the children of the carers of the elements!" "Thats a great idea" Speed said and the others agreed. So the children sneaked out in the hallway together with Samir to look for King Sombra. Later on they would realise what a stupid idea this was! During the time it hade taken for us to discover that the children were gone, they had reached a big room covered with huge black crystals on the inside of the walls. As soon as they had taken their first step into the room, huge black crystals grew out of the ground separating them from each other! Only Jake and Jackie and Molly and Johnny Apple weren´t separated. Because they still could talk to each other, they soon decided to keep on going into the room. Molly Apple, a pegasus with yellow coat and pink and orange mane, and her brother, Johnny Apple, an earth pony with a red coat and a dark pink mane had recieved much shyness from their mother, Fluttershy, and were hard to convince. When Shimmer came to the end of the room, there was two huge doors built entierly of those huge black crystals. When the white coated unicorn opened one of the doors, she discovered that it led back to the room where me, my sister and the parents were in the middle of a loud discussion about whether we should follow the kids or not. She could easily use the door to go back into the room and pretend like she never had been gone! But then she saw the crown that belonged to her Queen Platina-dress! She remembered that she dropped it in the hallway and understood that they would know that she had left the room anyway. Besides, what kind of friend would she be if she just left her friends? No, it was better to pick the other door, that, to her happiness, led out of the room to the hallway. When Speed, Rainbow Dash's son, a dark blue pegasus with a rainbow coloured mane, came to the end of the room, he too saw a door made entirely of those huge black crystals. But it was only one instead of two this time. On the left side of the door, there was a table with a plate with sandwiches and a chair. Speed sat down and started to eat, but when he had eaten the first sandwich he came to think about that the others probably were as hungry as he was. He should bring the other sandwiches to his friends, so they could eat them when they met again! So he walked through the door with the sandwiches. By now my sister, Twilight, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Skyla and me had left the room and started to search for the kids. But we got a problem: Canterlot Castle was huge! So it took a long time before any of us found the kids. When Cookie came to the end of the big room (with crystals inside, remember?) she also found a big door made of crystals. Before she could open it, big shadows with scary faces flew in front of it and covered it. She got scared and took a step back, but she remembered a story her mother had told her about once when she and her friends had been scared. They had been on a adventure and seen scary faces on trees in the Everfree forest. She had remembered how she had learned to deal with being afraid of the darkness through laughing and laughed to make them disappear! So Cookie tried the same and succeeded. Now she could go through the door out in the hallway. Now the really interesting part of what happened in that room begins: When Molly and Johnny Apple came to the end of the room they also found a door made of crystals. On it there was a little note that said : If you want to pass through this door, a truth must be told. They tried loads of truths without any luck. After a while Molly decided to tell a truth she had never thought she would tell out load: She said that she often had been lying in bed at night wondering who her grandparents were, and every time she tried to ask her dad, or her aunts Apple Jack and Apple Bloom, they had started to cry and run away! Molly started to cry, but suddenly she felt someone was hugging her! When she looked up she discovered that it was Skyla, a dark pink alicorn with a yellow and purple mane, the princess from the Crystal Empire that she had been seeing in the audience during the show. But what was she doing here? The truth was that Skyla had been out searching for the kids and found the room and chose one of the ways, and as she was rounding a corner she heard Molly tell the truth to the wall. She had felt sympathy for Molly, since both her grandmother and grandfather had been dead long before she was born. It had taken many years before her mother, princess Cadence, had been willing to tell her what she knew about them and about what that had happened to them, which wasn´t much, since she just had been a baby when they died. Then, all three of them, (Johnny Apple just stood quiet and watched what happened), realised that the door had opened up! So they walked out in the hallway and met the others. Me, my sister, Twilight Sparkle and her friends had by now also found our way to the room with the crystals. But before we could enter the room, black crystals blocked the door, making it impossible for us to pass. While me and my sister were too busy trying diffrent spells to destroy the crystals, Twilight realised something and said: "Skyla isn't with us any more!" "Sch, listen! Do you hear the song?" Apple Jack asked. "But, but...mhp!"she began, but Rainbow Dash put a hoof over her mouth and said: "For Celestia's sake, just listen!" We all listened, Twilight with Rainbow Dash hoof over the mouth so she would keep quiet and me and my sister taking a break in our attempts to find a spell that could break the crystals. The song that was flowing throw the air was sung in an ancient way of speaking, wich hadn´t been used since before the great war against the chaosbringers. It was probably only my sister and I who truly understood the message the song was giving us. "I don't think you have to worry about Skyla, Twilight" I said. "How in the name of Equestria can you be so sure about that!?" Twilight, who finally had got Ranbow Dash's hoof off her mouth, replied in a very annoyed tone. She was probably nervous about her niece running around alone in the castle when King Sombra could be waiting around any corner. "Unlike you, me and my sister understand the message the song is trying to give us" my sister replied in a tone that usually ment that she was disappointed in Twilight. It was like when Twilight enchanted every pony in Ponyville and couldn´t stop the spell, just becuse she wanted to have something to report to my sister. (Seriously, she thought that if she didn´t report in time, she would be sent back to Magic Kindergarden!) "What does it say?" Rarity asked, amazed by the beautiful song. "It talks about a daughter of the crystals" I whispered into the silence the song left in the room." It's probably Skyla, and that she has found the Elements, some of them born within the hearts of their carers. Some of them still waiting for the moment when their carers have proven that they are worthy to carry the elements within their hearts" Then, suddenly, we heard a familiar voice saying: "So, you are chasing children that think they can beat King Sombra?" Everyone turned around, seeing Discord standing in a dark corner. "Discord!" Flutter shy cried and ran towards Discord, who picked her up so that they could hug each other. "Discord? What in the entire nation are you doing here!?" Apple Jack suspiciously said, still remembering the time he turned her corn into popcorn and all the clouds into candy floss. "I must say that I wonder about that too" Celestia said "because if I don´t remember wrong you are supposed to be far away from Canterlot." She was using a voice that I only had heard my sister use one time before: The time when I ran away from the castle without telling her where I was going or when I would be back. The voice made me feel like a little filly again, waiting for my sister to decide my punishment. "And what if someone saw you? How are we supposed to prove that they won't have to be afraid of you any more?" I said, no longer having that feeling of being a filly again. "If you must know, I actually heard that King Sombra has returned and thought I could help! And Luna, you know I can make myself invisible." So we agreed to let Discord help us save the children. Discord removed the crystals so we could pass through the room. No one asked how he did it. When we came out in the hallway on the other side, we found all the children sitting on the floor and sharing the plate with sandwiches. Happy gestures were exchanged when the children reunited with their mothers. "Wow! Is that really Discord, the last draconicus alive?" the children said with excited voices as they noticed Discord. "Yes, my name is Discord, I am a draconicus and probably the last of my kind." Discord didn't show any emotions. But I could recognise a sad tone who only the ones that know what they were looking for could hear. I have used it myself far more times than I can remember. Never on purpose. It´s just something that you do when you talk about something that makes you sad and unhappy, even though you don´t want to show it. And unfortunately, it had happened more times than I wish it had ... "Excuse me, but I do think we have got a more important question to deal with right now?" my sister asked using a very soft but determined tone. "Yes. What are we going to do next?" I asked all the people in the room." Are we going back to the theatre room with the children?" "Of course we have to go back to the room with the children!" Pinkie Pie said, suddenly totally serious and grown-up. I barely recognised her when she wasn’t jumping up and down in her usual Pinkie excitement. " I just can't let anything happen to Cookie because I didn't take time enough to walk the short way back to the room with her!" Pinkie Pie was 100% serious. I didn´t even think it was possible for her to BE serious. "Okay, let's do that!" I said. So we started to walk back. But suddenly, Discord stopped and he said: "There is darkness in the room, I think King Sombra is there!" Then, I felt it, pushing on my mind. Just like if it knew that I have weak resistance against dark magic since I was Nightmare Moon for a thousand years. "But.. We left dad in there!" all the foals except Jake and Jackie said in unison. I couldn’t hear what the answers were. I fell to the floor as the dark forces pushed harder on my mind. I heard my sister ask: "Luna! Are you okay?" Her voice sounded as if it had been screamed over a large distance, or through glass. I could hear that she was worried. I heard Twilight and her friends too, but I could't hear what they were saying. "The darkness... it is pushing on my mind..." I managed to say, falling back in to the ancient way of speaking in which I still speak when I'm nervous or distressed. What actually happened from there and a while one have I been told many years later. I don't remember anything except from darkness . The others say that I blacked out after saying that last sentences. One lonely night when it was only me and my sister, she told what happened from her perspective and how she felt. Here is her story: "Luna! Are you okay?" Celestia said. "Luna! What happened?" Twilight and her friends asked her. "The darkness... it is pushing on my mind.." I said. Then she understood what was happening, And she told the others: "Luna is weak against dark magic since she was Nightmare Moon for a thousand years. We must defeat King Sombra or Luna won't make it!" She was on the verge of crying, but she knew that she must stand confident and powerful in front of the kids. But sometimes it's so very hard to be the one that everybody believe in... The tears were slipping down her face now and it was nothing she could do about it. Sometimes it is a relief to cry. "Celestia, are you all right?" Twilight asked. "Yes.. But we need to defeat King Sombra! For my sister's sake." Celestia realised that she had sat down on the ground. It was probably this combined with the fact that she cried that had made Twilight worry about her. During all those years as her personal student, she hadn´t seen her cry a single time. But now she did. "And for the sake of Flash Century, Big Mackintosh, Donut Joe, Soarin, Fancy Pants and the others that are trapped inside that room!" Twilight and her friends answered and she could hear the sadness in their voices as they spoke. So many lives were depending on the children. The fact that the Element of Kindness still hadn´t proven it self worthy worried Celestia. If no pony was proven worthy of every element, the Elements would not work. And she thought Skyla knew it too. But she didn't have to worry for long. Loud screams were heard and when she turned around she could see big black crystals separating Jake and Jackie from the others. Not until many, many years later Jake and Jackie told us what their trial had been. And I wish they never had to go through that. If it had been me, I would have failed. The trial was this: Jake and Jackie had to walk through a crystal door and when they came out on the other side they were back home on the Apple farm, Sweet Apple Acres. But something was wrong. All kindness had been taken away from the farm and from Ponyville. All their friends and family were there, but they didn´t know what kindness was. So they had to teach the ponies about kindness. Jackie confessed that she failed and forgot what kindness was. If it wasn´t for Jake, Jackie would probably never had return from that world.(Apple Jack was deeply chocked that it had been so close that she lost her child without knowing it!). But Jake succeded and saved his sister. And they returned. Everyone that was left in the room (and awake, I can´t say anything, I was unconscious) had sworn that they only were gone a few seconds, but for Jake and Jackie it had felt like days. But as quickly as the happiness started to spread through the room, as quickly was it ended. "Starlight!" Twilight suddenly screamed. "Mom! Help!" Starlight answered before the black crystals closed arouned her. What happened to Starlight when she was cut off from everybody else confused my sister at first, since the trial was the same as the one Shimmer had got, despite the fact that this time she practicly could have changed the future. But then she remembered something she once read. It gave her a theory about why there were now two persons who were worthy the Elements of Harmony: Loyalty. A smile played accross her face. Clever, clever Clover! But then she came to think of me and the smile disappeared. Are we going to confront King Sombra before someone else disappears? she asked. All the Elements are gathered. "Yes! Let's save all those poor, innocent people!" Surprisingly enough it was Fluttershy who according to my sister stepped in front! All her shyness was blown away. It was almost as chocking to see Fluttershy with out shyness as seeing Pinkie Pie serious, according to my sister. And I know what a shock it was to see Pinkie Pie serious. So they started to walk down the long hallway to the doors that lead to the room were we hold the Heart´s Warming Eve play every year. (I always take care of the set up of the play by myself becuse I think it´s fun and my sister lets me. Even though it's a little bit childish and unroyal...) Then they suddenly heard some one say: "Twilight Sparkle!" From somewhere behind a nearby statue a blue-gray unicorn with a yellow mane jumped out in the hallway. It took Twilights brain some seconeds to recognize the unicorn mare as Dinkie Doo, Ditzy Doo´s daughter. "Dinkie! It's been a while! What are you doing here?" Twilight asked. "Dinkie Doo! You idiot!" said two familiar voices. From behind another sculpture a brown earth pony with a dark brown mane and an hourglass cutiemark jumped out in the hallway. A gray pegasus mare with yellow mane and six bubbles as cutiemark flying on her back, which scientifically isn´t possible, lowered herself from the roof, turned around and landed on the floor. Twilight quickly recognised the stallion as Dr.Whooves and the mare as Ditzy Doo, normally called Derpy, Dinkies mother. "What if they are imposters!" Derpy continued. "Uhum, We are not imposters, I guarantee you" my sister said with her royal voice, the voice Derpy and Dr.Whooves most likely had heard her use before. "Okay, if you say so. My name is Ditzy Doo or Derpy if you like. This is my stallion mate Dr. Whooves and my daughter Dinkie." Then a big laugh was heard in the room. "Ha,ha,ha! I have never sen something as funny as that! A pegasus flying up side down! And those eyes!" Discord laughed, Forgetting to stay invisible. "Yes, very funny Discord. It was you who did that as a little joke I assume?" Celestia said with a sharp and dissapointed voice. "Actually, your higness, my mare friend can do that without any chaos magic" Dr.Whooves gently said "And her eyes have always been like that." "Ooh, I see" my sister answered slightly embarrassed "I am terribly sorry Ditzy. And to you too Discord. Seems like you haven´t done anything wrong this time" "Hmpf, I already knew that!" Discord answered with pretended irritation. Then he burst out in laughter. "Ha,ha! It´s okay Cele. Do you really think I would be mad at you!?" "No. But we need to continue our confrontation of King Sombra." "Okay. We wait here" Dr.Whooves, Derpy and Dinkie answered. "Good. If we succeed, my sister will need you when she awakes." "Yes, Sir! I mean, miss!" Derpy answered and Celestia knew that the royal guard would have sounded the same way that she did, they always used “sir” instead of “miss” and then corrected them selfs. She had since long stopped paing attention to that misstake. So they started to walk down the hall with Discord following them invisible in the air. Then, Twilight came to think of something and looked at her friends. She said: "T-t-the Elements have disappered!" "Well, of course!" Discord answered matter of factly "When the Element of Harmony Magic is created, the other Elements will reappear." By now, they were in front of the door. So they opened it and walked inside. In the room there were many circles of big crystals that were big enough to contain one or a hand full of ponies. It was probably how he had dealt with the big crowd that had been there to watch the play and the children that had been in the show. But at least none of them seemed to be hurt. Samir, who was walking a few steps behind everybody else, took a step forward and fell through the floor! Help! he shouted, scared that none would notice that he was gone. "Samir has fallen through the floor!" Discord, who had better hearing than any pony, shouted. He had heard Samir's call for help. Since the hole in the floor was pretty small, it was only Speed who could fly down and help Samir up, out of the hole. Then Samir realised something! When he had heard Discord´s voice telling the others that he had fallen through the floor, when he had seen the other's worried faces looking down at him and asking him if he was okay, he had felt so happy to see the faces of the ponies he had known for less than a day, to hear their voices. Wait, wasn´t that how Twilight Sparkle had felt when she became the Element of Harmony Magic according to his dad, Spike? "Celestia! What an honour to see you! But wait, where is your sister? Was she unable to come?" It was a dark voice Celestia knew belonged to King Sombra followed by a laugh from Discords side. This was the longest sentence Twilight and her friend ever heard King Sombra say. "King Sombra!" my sister said, spotting King Sombra in a dark corner of the room "We are here to defeat you!" "With what? The Elements of Uselessness?" King Sombra answered. Another laughter was heard from Discord, who emmediatly recieved a look from Celestia that was so sharp that it could have cut though walls. "No. With the Elements of Harmony". "Laughter!" Pinkie Pie said and Cookie took a step forward. Cookie had proven herself worthy through laughing the monsters away. "Honesty!" Skyla said and Molly stepped forward. Molly had proven herself worthy by reveling a secred without lying. "Kindness!" Apple Jack said and Jake stepped forward. Jake had proven himself worthy through teaching ponies about kindness. "Generosity!" Rainbow Dash said and Speed stepped forward. Speed had proven himself worthy by sharing the sandwiches with the others. "Loyalty!" Twilight said and Starlight stepped forward. Starlight had proven herself worthy by not leaving her friends or changing the future. "And Magic!" Celestia said and Samir took a step forward. The Elements appeared around their necks and on Samir's head. "No!" Starlight said loudly. Everypony looked at her as if she was crazy. Why deny that she was one of the carers? Only Celestia knew and smiled to herself. "Shimmer deserves the Element of Harmony Loyalty. She has also proven herself worthy" Starlight said and took of the Element and gave it to Shimmer who took a step forward and put on the Element. Then, a bright light appeared around Starlight and lifted her up high in the air. When she landed, she had a necklace that looked like the Elements of Harmony. The gem in the middle was shaped like a heart. "Compassion!" Celestia said. "What? What are you talking about?" Discord asked. "The seventh Element of Harmony! The forgotten one!" Celestia said. "But, there are only six. How can there be seven?" Twilight asked. Everypony, even King Sombra, was listening to Celestia. "I was reading Clover the Clevers personal journal" Celestia begun "when I found a secret compartment. It contained a letter to Clovers daughter. There, she revealed her biggest secret. There was a seventh Element of Harmony. It was the griffins that had chosen it, and they choose Compassion. But when Clover cast the spell that enchanted the gems, something went wrong. The seventh Element wasn´t representing pure compassion as it was ment to do. Instead, it was only a necklace with a gem that absorbed compassion. But the six others worked anyway, so it didn´t matter. Clover figured out that if it was filled with enough compassion, it would turn into an Element that representated pure compassion. But she didn´t know how much compassion it could absorb, so she hid it in a place where she thought it would come to absorb much compassion and never told anybody about it. But she left one single thing that would reveal her biggest failure and success. And it was that letter. She didn´t tell where she hid it, but it must have been in here somewhere" Celestia finished her story. "Great story Celestia! But kids, use the Elements on King Sombra before it is too late!" Discord said this with a big smile playing across his face, he simply loved whatching other people geting in to trubel! So the children used the Elements of Harmony and lots of smoke appeared. For a moment Celestia feared that they had failed again. But when the smoke disappeared, they could see that the only thing left of King Sombra was a little circle of ash. They were soon surrounded by ponies that had been let free from their crystal prisons. But Celestia could only think of me. I must say that I was very confused when I woke up. I felt the pushing darkness lifting from my mind and I tried to open my eyes. The first thing I saw when I woke up was six bubbles. The six bubbles turned out to be Miss Ditzy Doo´s cutiemark, since she was sitting in front of me and kept watching while Dr.Whooves sat behind me and kept watch so they could protect me no matter witch way the attack came from. Miss Dinkie Doo gave a little frightened scream when I tried to sit up. I turned towards her and said with the kindest and softest and most unfrightening voice I had: "No need to be scared! I am not evil!" I tried to give her a kind smile too, but I don´t know if it was so good. "Sorry your highness!" Dinkie Doo said. "I was just not prepared for that you would sit up, you had been so still all the time. I was just not prepared." "Luna!" I heard my sister say and I turned around "Thank Equestria you're okay! I don´t know what I would have done if you died. I don´t know if I could handle raising both sun and moon again!" "Celestia! I am so glad you're okay! You saved my life!" I ran towards her and hugged her. I hadn't been so glad to see my sister since I turned back from Nightmare Moon! "I am glad to see you too, Luna" my sister said and hugged me back "But it was actually Samir, Shimmer, Cookie, Starlight, Molly, Jake and Speed that saved you." Then I looked at the clock on the wall and said: "It is a half an hour after sunrise. And I didn't rise the moon or the stars tonight. You should probably go and raise the sun. Then everybody will know that everything is alright and that the threat is out of the way." "You are right, Luna. Will you all join me and my sister on the balcony when I raise the sun?" she asked Twilight and her friends and their boyfriends, husbands and fiancees and children. And, of course, Miss Ditzy Doo and her family. "Yes! It would be an honour!" everypony answered. I never get tired of watching my sister raise the sun, and she says that she loves to see me raise the moon and the stars. So have it been all since I got my cutiemark and raised the moon for the first time. So there we all were, standing and watching the sun rise. Twilight, Starlight and Flash Century. Flutter Shy, Big Mackintosh, Molly and Johny Apple. Rainbow Dash, Soarin and Speed. Apple Jack, Jackie and Jake. Pinkie Pie, Donut Joe (as Twilight and her friends call him, why, I don´t know.) and Cookie. Rarity, Fancy Pants and Shimmer. Ditzy Doo, Dr Whoof and Dinkie Doo. Spike, Harmony and Samir (Harmony and Spike were waiting at the balcony already when we came) on the snow- and icecovered balcony. All together watching my sister raising the sun, the winter sun that make the ice look like crystals... And like Pinkie Pie said, the snow look like sugar... And that is the end of one story. But I am sure there will be more stories to tell for whoever will read this in the future.. Good Night my dear diary... Yours, Luna, The Princess of the Night.