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// Lullay, Moon Princess 
// Story: The Lullabies 
// by Aqua Shimmer 
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	Luna sat on the cold, dusty surface of the sad and barren moon. She fought back tears as she stared at the planet below. She was suddenly overwhelmed with anger. She how dare Tia had done this to her! She was supposed to be her older sister!! She wasn't supposed to do this sort of thing to her younger sibling!!! Luna shook her head, causing the anger to leave in a purple mist that was all to familiar to the young princess.

"Hello, Nightmare." The black alicorn formed from the mist next to the young princess. "How are you?"

"Hello, Luna. and I'm fine. Would be better if we weren't stuck here." Luna turned her head to the dark being, who seemed to be deep in thought and staring at the planet below.

"Maybe you shouldn't have tried to bring about nighttime eternal." Nightmare seemed to shrug the comment off, as if it didn't matter.

"It would have worked if those blasted elements hadn't banished us." Luna glared at her. "What?"

"It's your fault we're even here! If you didn't do that, we would be in the castle with Tia, protecting the pony population instead of sitting in a wasteland for a thousand years before we can return!!!" Nightmare snapped her head away from the sky to look at the younger pony.

"My fault?! What do you mean MY fault?! If anything, it's your stupid older sister fault!! she's the one who sent us here after all!! Or did you forget that?"

"NO!!! IT'S YOUR FAULT!!!!!" The two glared at each other before Luna sighed and sat down. She couldn't win against the black alicorn. It was impossible. She closed her eyes before staring down at the planet. Her home. Her real home. Not just a rock.

"Fate has been cruel and order unkind." Luna stiffened at the all to familiar voice of her elder sister. She looked behind her and her eyes widened with shock. There stood a faint image of her sister. The white alicorn seemed to be crying. Luna stared at her sister and felt tears well up in her eyes. "How can I have sent you away? the blame was my own, the punishment yours. The harmony's silent today."

"NO! IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, TIA!!!" Nightmare rolled her eyes. Luna ignored her and kept yelling at her elder sibling.

"So great was her reign, so brilliant her glory, that long was the shadow she cast. Which fell dark upon the young sister she loved, and grew only darker as days and nights passed. Lullay, moon princess. Goodnight sister mine. Rest now in moonlight's embrace." Luna walked up to her sister and reached out to touch her, only for her hoof to go straight through, proving her sister was not really there. Luna sat down and started crying.

"Carry the peace and the coolness of night. And carry my sorrow in kind. Luna you're loved so much more than you know. Forgive me for being so blind." The tears were falling in vast numbers by that point and there was no way to stop them.

"I do! Tia!! Please stop blaming yourself!!!"

"Soon did that pony take notice that others did not give her sister her due. And neither had she loved her as she deserved. She watched as her sister's unhappiness grew. But such is the way of the lime-light, it sweetly takes hold of the mind of its host. And that foolish pony did nothing to stop, the destruction of one who had needed her most." Luna kept crying as she listened. Tia couldn't hear her. But she just couldn't give up. She kept yelling at her sister.

"Bare up my lullaby, winds of the Earth. Through cloud and through sky and through space. Carry the peace and the coolness of night. And carry my sorrow in kind. Luna you're loved so much more than you know. May troubles be far from your mind. And forgive me for being so blind."

"Tia...." Luna stared at her sister in complete shock. How was this possible? How could Tia blame herself so much when it was Luna's fault for believing what Nightmare had said.

"The years now before us, fearful and unknown. I never imagined, I'd face them on my own. May these thousand winters, swiftly pass I pray. I love you, I miss you. All these miles away. May all these dreams be, sweet tonight. Safe upon her bed of moonlight. And know not of sadness, pain, or care. And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you there. Sleep... Sleep... Sleep..." Luna stared at the image of her sister as it started fading. Luna snapped out of it as it began to disappear.

"NO!!! TIA!!!! COME BACK!!!! DON'T LEAE ME HERE!!!!!! TIA!!!!!!!!!" Luna watched as the sun princess completely disappeared.

"Looks like she left you alone again."

"Shut up..."

"At least she reconized it was her fault.  This was just a lame attempt at an apology. She doesn't really care. She ju-"

"I SAID SHUT UP NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!" The dark pony blinked at Luna's sudden outburst. "YOU DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO JUDGE HER!!!!! SHE CARES ABOUT ME MUCH MORE THAN YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!" Nightmare blinked a few times before Luna's words sank in.

"So you're going to push the only one who was there for you away? Fine. But she doesn't care. If she did, don't you think she would have stopped this from happening?" Without skipping a beat, Nightmare disappeared, leaving Luna alone once again.