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// Chapter 1 = The Commanders and the Admiral 
// Story: Battle of the Moon and Sun 
// by EASTON 
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Canterlot Castle: Throne Room Fifteen years later
Princess Luna sat in her throne alongside her daughter Twilight Sparkle, awaiting  for the four unicorns she had chosen to help her on the crisis that would soon begin. Tomorrow her sister would return.

Meanwhile, Luna turned to se her daughter. She had grown in to a beautiful, strong mare. A year after her arrival, the two had developed a relationship of mother-daughter and a year after that everypony in Equestria was aware of it and referred to Twilight with the title of: 'Young Princess'.
Luna could still remember the day Twilight got her cutie mark; six months after the little filly became her student, Luna was at the Academy doing her yearly progress check before the young ones went on vacation for Hearth's Warming and when she reached Twilight's class the teacher had assigned them each a certain spell they had been taught in class and Twilight got tasked with transfiguration, a temporary spell that transforms one thing to another and she would have to turn a rock in to potted plant. When her turn came she was determined to do her best since all Luna had taught her was either theoretical or basic control, there had not been any actual spells and she wanted to show her progress to the princess; but when it came to it she had a hard time casting the spell until a loud explosion was heard scaring Twilight, causing her to misfire and hit her teacher turning her in to a tree. This caused Twilight to start worrying but Luna calmed her down and returned the teacher to her original form. Later at the castle the two had a conversation about how it had all been a accident and even if Luna had not been there, the spell was temporary and there would be no harm done. Luna, then told Twilight that the incident showed her great potencial for magic and she should be proud to which the little filly smiled and at the same time got her cutie mark; and after seeing it she started bouncing saying: 'Yes!'. Her mark was shrouded like Luna's but instead of black it was a dark blue like the former's fur, and the mark itself was six hearts of the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple forming a hexagon, representing her desire to help other which was not unusual on fillies that had been abandoned or had lost their parents leaving them orphaned; and at the center was a six pointed star which Luna recognized as the element of magic rotated about 45 degrees.
Eventually she found out about Luna's sister and seven years ago she asked her mother to train her like the four unicorns she had chosen to help her. Luna was a little hesitant at first but she had know for quite some time that her daughter had Harmony magic flowing through her, a power that one in a million had and only a fraction of them had used it, much less master it. But she was confident in Twilight and decided to train her and teach her a spell that only somepony with Harmony magic could use. It was also declared that Twilight would be the highest ranking member of the Equestria military force, only under Luna herself, under the rank of 'Admiral'.

The four unicorns that had obtained the rank of 'Commander', showed up for the meeting that had been scheduled. Four mares under the names of: Moon Dancer, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer and Trixie all with a magic related cutie mark. Luna, not only had she sensed their potencial, but was quite aware of their acts of loyalty that some would not believe, not for their greatness but for their meaning.
Moon Dancer, a school-friend of Twilight, found out that two of her friends, Lemmon Hearts and Twinkleshine, had become members of a revolutionary group that called themselves the 'Solar Soldiers' and despite the great pain in her heart she reported them. The guards that took her report stated that she arrived in tears almost not wanting to confess, given the fact those mares were two of her closest friends.
Sunset, had displayed loyalty to the moon from a very early point in her life. The day she got her cutie mark, she arrived at open court in tears asking the princess to remove her cutie mark seeing that it had turned out to be a sun, a mark most ponies related to the mare that, according to legend, had been banished to the moon. Luna calmed down the small filly who then decided that her actions would not be decided by the sun on her flank.
Starlight showed loyalty when she travelled half the land on own just being a young filly to protect her friend Sunburst. The day he got his cutie mark, a solar flare, his parents showed themselves proud and told him it was his destiny and they would train him to overthrow the princess and that was why they put the word sun in his name. But he knew that was not right so he asked Starlight to save him from his parents and go tell the princess. During her journey she obtained her cutie mark and when she finally reached Canterlot she told the tale to the princess. Both of the young ponies were placed in an orphanage in Canterlot: there the two helped each other further their talents: Sunburst, magic theory and Starlight, spell casting; a perfect team, now a couple.
And Trixie had recovered an ancient artifact: the 'Alicorn amulet'. It was said that the mythical amulet was created by Celestia to give it somepony the power of and replace her sister with a mage so she could be only ruler.
Luna trained them and taught them spells to help them defend Equestria.

Twilight and four Commanders had each received a ancient spell that only the six mares and Cadenza knew about, and an epithet so that their every day life friends and family would not become targets.
Twilight: 'Daydream Spell' "Admiral Dreemur"
Moon Dancer: 'Midnight Spell' "Commander Crystal"
Sunset Shimmer: 'Demon Spell' "Commander Nova"
Starlight Glimmer: 'Phoenix Spell' "Commander Philomena"
Trixie: 'Knight Spell' "Commander Galacta"

Luna stood up from her throne and spoke, "Now it is time you receive your missions for tomorrow..."