**Chapter 2**
Knock, knock.
"Come in."
"Hi, Luna, we-
"Tell us already!" Solar Flare yelled, interrupting Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow just jumped to stand next to her sisters, who had barged into the room when Solar Flare had come yelling through the doorway.
Luna gave them each a smile and scanned the Rainstorm, Rainbow Dash and Solar Flare. Her eyes rested on Solar, penetrating the mare's emerald eyes with her own. Whatever she had to say to her must've been serious, right?
"Is it just me, or do you have a bald spot?" Luna said, fully serious looking...
Just as Rainstorm was about to comment, the moon princess collapsed on the floor, belly shaking with laughter.
"Rain, do I really have a bald spot?" asked Solar with a deadpan expression.
"Yes..." The wite mare chuckled before saying, "...No."
Rainbow Dash was the next to fall down with laughter. She loved laughing at her sisters, admittedly...
Rainbow waited slightly awkwardly for her twins to laugh along again, or at least smile.
However, Solarflare and Rainstorm's faces turned serious as they exchanged glances.
"Luna, I love your joke and all, but we came here to talk to you. You know that very well."
Getting up, Luna stopped laughing, sighed, and said, "Please follow me."
Solarflare suddenly grinned, then dashed into the room Luna was walking to, closely followed by Rainstorm and Rainbow Dash. Once inside, the three pegasi took it in. It looked pretty plain, compared to the other rooms in the immense castle.
It had very plush-looking sofas (which brought back the memory of when a certain group of sisters had jumped happily onto a not-so-happy mom's bed), a desk with a swivel chair behind it, two big windows providing much sunlight, and finally, a tiny waterfall in a corner, flowing gently into a pool of water, which cast faint rainbows across the room.
Each pony sat down at a sofa (they were very bouncy and this time, none of the three siblings could resist acting a bit silly), with the exception of Luna, who took a seat at the swivel chair.
"Well, I suppose you should know what's happening out there. You see, there's group of ponies dedicated to bringing ba- I mean, taking over Equesrtia and making all of it's citizens believe in their...er...religion, I guess would be the proper word. To do this, they have trapped Celestia, in the S-Sun." Luna's voice broke at the word 'Sun'.
"I'm afraid that's all you need to know, and all I can tell you." She went on briefly.
"Wow, wow, wow. What do you mean, 'all I can tell you'?! We came to get the truth!" Rainstorm asked, giving Luna a quizzical stare.
"It is, just a shorter version of it."
With a reproachful 'hmmm', the pegasi walked slowly to the door, glanced back, then closed it.
The dark blue Alicorn at the desk slumped in her chair, letting her face finally show how tired she REALLY was. Her wings drooped to the ground, and a regretful feeling creeped up slowly on Luna.
"If only they knew the whole story."
* ~~~~~~~~~~*
The cloud door to Rainbow Dash, Solarflare and Rainstorm's room opened, then closed as the three close-to-twins sprawled out on a pile of beanbags.
"What'd you girls think about Luna's explanation?" Solarflare, as always, started the conversation.
"I would say confusing, but kind of helpful if you think about it." Rainstorm said.
"In which way was that helpful?" Rainbow Dash groaned.
"Well, if you put aside the 'all I can tell you' part, it kind of gave us an explanation." Solarflare pointed out.
Rainstorm nodded her thanks to her orange sister, then said, "Uh-huh. that was probably most of what Luna knew, and she probably couldn't tell us the rest because it was something confidential. We sometimes forget, there's always something we don't know, like it or not."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure you guys are right. Let's just go along with it."
"I agree."
"Me too."
"Then it's decided. We believe Luna's explanation for now."