That night princess Luna stood on the balcony of her chambers looking out into night. She had always found serenity in the silence of the night, unfortunately the weather thought differently treating Luna to a rather bad storm. Luna was still going over the day’s events in her mind when there was a loud crash behind her, as the photo of her and her big sister fell on the floor. “Silly thing it’s always falling off the table” Luna said picking up the photo and placing back on the table. “Oh it’s cracked right down the middle” she said in exasperation, just as a rather large bolt of lightning streaked across the sky.

Luna jumped as the window suddenly burst open letting a rather chilly breeze in. Luna shivered and walked over to the window and was just about to close it when a loud knock on her door caused her to jump in surprise yet again. “Who is it?” she called out, there was no answer. Luna began to get nervous, something wasn’t right. She began to move toward the door as another flash of lightning lit up the night sky, but that wasn’t all it lit up, across the room a shadowy figure appeared in the window frame.

Luna trembled in fear when she saw the daggers glistening in the moonlight and backed slowly toward the wall. “N…N…No, please don’t hurt me” Luna whimpered as the creature walked slowly toward her. Luna felt her legs give out as she slid down the wall tears streaming from her face.

Luna couldn’t process what was happening, ‘N…No, I’m going to die, this thing is going to kill me’ she thought. Her mind was reeling, should she try to fight this thing or just try to flee. There was no time to debate she had to choose one or the other. The creature was now upon her, its hand reaching for her, it was now or never.

Luna felt her instinct to run take over and she tried to flee the creature but to her horror found that she couldn’t move; she was paralyzed by fear. She felt the creature’s hand close around her neck and begin to tighten. Luna felt herself being lifted into the air and she kicked her legs frantically trying to escape the creature’s grip but it only laughed at her feeble attempts to free herself.

‘This is it. I’m going to die’ Luna thought, she had never given much thought about dying. ‘I wonder if I’ll go to heaven’ she asked herself. She still had so many questions left answered, so many things she had not done. A single tear formed in her eye as she thought about her sister ‘Celestia will be devastated. She might not even be able to carry out her duties as princess any more’.

Luna felt the creatures grip tighten even more as it further squeezed the life out of her. As Luna’s world went black her heart began to slow her last thought again strayed to her sister ‘I’m sorry Tia I have always loved you… goodbye.’ Luna’s eyes closed and her heart, beating its final beat, stopped. Her body went limp and the single tear on her eyes rolled down her cheek and onto the floor…

***

In Celestia’s room…

…Celestia awoke, her fur adorned with sweat ‘something’s wrong’ she thought. She couldn’t feel her sister’s presence anymore. Celestia immediately got out of bed and raced to her sister’s room desperately hoping everything was fine and that she would find her sister gazing at the stars as she often did.

Celestia rounded the last corner and could finally see Luna’s bedroom door. She broke into a sprint and burst through the door only to find Luna lying on the ground motionless. “Luna!” cried Celestia running over to her sister and shaking her “Luna! Luna! Please wake up Luna!” Celestia screamed tears flowing down her cheeks “Please don’t leave me”.

Celestia cradled her sister in her hooves whispering softly to her “I love you dearest sister, I do and now I’ll never get the chance to tell just how much you meant to me” Celestia looked around the room for any sign of what might have caused her sister’s death. She noticed it immediately a glint of light reflected off a single dagger stuck in the wall and next to it a message written in blood (a part of Celestia noted that this blood was not her sister’s) ‘Tick tock, the Night is finished and a new Day shall rise, but take heed, or the hour of Twilight will surely follow suit.’

Rage filled Celestia as she read the message, she now knew who had killed her beloved sister and she let a bloodcurdling scream of rage which woke Twilight Sparkle from her slumber…

***

Twilight Sparkle’s room…

“What in the wide world of Equestria was that” Twilight said to herself as she jumped out of bed falling flat on her face at the same time. “ARGH, ouch” she cursed under her breath but quickly regained her composure and bolted off to find the princess. On her way to Celestia’s room she noticed that many ponies were running towards Princess Luna’s chambers. Twilight decided to take a slight detour to Luna’s room.

Upon arriving at Luna’s chamber she was greeted with mass hysteria and sorrow as ponies everywhere held each other, weeping. Twilight fought her way through the crowd toward Luna’s door and burst inside only to wish she hadn’t, for there was Celestia cradling her lifeless sister in her hooves crying softly and rocking back and forth. “Princess what happened here?” asked Twilight.

Celestia looked up and Twilight could clearly see that her eyes were bloodshot from crying. Twilight felt her heart falter and she rushed embraced Celestia as she cried into her chest. Twilight could feel tears spring into her eyes, “I’m so sorry princess” she managed to say, before, she too found herself crying freely….

…to be continued

END CHAPTER 2

Author's Note

Oh man! that was some intense writing. Sorry this chapter's so short I am going away for awhile and I really wanted to write this before I left. Let me know in the comments if you liked it. I plan to have lots more epic fight scenes and "Tragedy" (as well as longer chapters) much to come. Remember Favourite and Like this story. CYA!!!!!