[Romance tag is minor. Maybe...]
watch the animation first before reading
1000's of years ago, when Princess Luna realizes that no pony loves her nights, she creates a new race of ponies, the Children of the Night.More than a thousand years have past and the Children of the Night are long forgotten. But they did not leave. They waited a thousand years for their Princess, and now she has returned. With only a few ponies left they realize that they will not last forever. A young mare, Nightly Red has heard every story about how the Children of the Night came to be from the Elders. All different stories with a common denominator, the princess. She then took a risk, she wanted to know the true story, She went to Canterlot to hear the real story from Luna herself. This is the story of her adventure.