Author's Note

Don't judge me, just read. I mean, judge all you want, I'm just saying that this is one of a couple chapters for this fic.

A simple state of mind

The hollow halls rattle and shake, their visitors long but forgotten. Dust settles, wind is blown, the empty castle howling at it's once famed glory. No pony left to stray down its unending halls. The marble cracks and decays, falling from above and smashing the floor of velvet and stone. Shadows of pony's playing and running about stain the backdrop. No pony is left to call this empty memory home. Not but one mare sitting at her perch.

The empty halls whistle with wind, blowing gusts through the open doors. The falling roofs and floors crack along their steps and graces. The second and third floors still intact, but barely holding. The castles roof, falling, nearly condemned.

Sitting on her perch, on the tallest tower, our once beloved, once hated princess of the night, gazes at her crumbling kingdom. There are no more joys to be had, no happy times of parties and whimsical adventures. No, those died off with her subjects. The elements of her sister and herself, haven fallen with time themselves. No harmony in these lands.

Statues of their former years all but gone now. All but dust scattered across Equestria. Memories of battles fought, friends made, couples announced, family crowned; gone now. Nothing but a faint image in her mind.

Sighing and letting a tear stain the wood roof below her, Luna, the former Princess of the Night, sets her dearest kins sun for the unbeknownst time once more.

She has no pony to raise and lower the celestial bodies for, now. She does it out of habit, out of the need to feel close to her sister again. But nothing lasts. Nothing holds for this Princess, turned Queen of Equestria. She has nothing to rule. Nothing but herself and the horrifying images that plague her thoughts.

Wandering down one of her fallen hallways, she thinks back once more, remembering the times she had smiled and laughed with her sister. They had their whole lives in this castle. Well, at least she did...

Shaking away the memories of days past, Luna sits on her haunches and looks over her family's regalia.

The bright and silver hoovlets, the sun embossed symbol of love; all left in the glass case to rust and become nothing. She would love to hold them again, to be near her sister, but she can't. To take them out would mean to destroy the memory of her. This is all she has to remind herself of Celestia. Why tarnish that?

"Hehehehe, you think you can keep her in a case?"

Oh is joy. She has awoken and come to play.

"You know this to be true, Moon..." Tired of this game they play, Luna can only sigh and think death would come soon enough.

"You miss her enough to keep her in a case? What loyalty is that to our kin? You must carve her a statue, let her memory be carved into the minds of all who come across it!"

She just loves to try, doesn't she?

"If I use any more magic than moving our moon and sun, you will be free... And what minds do you speak of? The trees and roots?"

"It's worth a shot everyday, is it not?"

"You'll have your fun soon..."

She means it more than she can let on. Her mind is weakened from the years holding her at bay, staying sane from abandonment, and keeping herself busy through the decades of torment. She has no reason to fight it any longer, the landscape is already what she would make of it. The ponies lives she would prey on are all but extinct. No need to fight, no need to hold her back; this would be her final move in the chessboard of life.

"You say that day after day, my dear. How long must I wait for my time?!" Nightmare has grown impatient over the years. Good reason, too. Luna keeps anything about the way to leave her subconscious a mystery to her. She has the way out, she just doesn't know it.

"When I say it to be so, 'my dear'." Almost showing signs of a smile, she stands and begins her twilight stroll around the castles outskirts.

Nothing but stone and fallen archways greet her as she trots around, looking for any signs of life growing in her garden; nothing but soil and decayed plants.

Years has she been praying for something to grow. But alas, she's been defeated by the bleached soil... Not even grass or weeds will sprout in the lost patch of land she calls a garden.

"Decades... Decades without you, and I'm not even worth it to be grazed a sunflower, sister?"

She hasn't been thinking of her for a few years, now. Trying her best to forget, to remind herself she can still be alive and well. But those are simply dreams; dreams that hold no truth for her.

"She leaves you in the dark for a reason, Luna."

"Please, just one day without this... It's her birthday, you monster..."

"I'm the monster, am I? Was not I who let her die in the pit she now rots, Lulu."

"Can't you show some decency?!" Luna blurted out in the lonely field. "She's DEAD! She's gone, she will never return, I will never be happy, I will never feel anything but sorrow, and she will feeling nothing but demise! ON HER BIRTHDAY, YOU CAN AT LEAST LEAVE ALONE, YOU TERRIBLE ABOMINATION OF HATE! JUST FOR THIS DAY DO I WISH YOU TO LEAVE ME BE!!!!" Tears began falling from her bloodshot eyes, bawling and sobbing, she collapsed onto the aged ground.

She was relentless, she never let her be, never gave her a moments reprieve unless she was in slumber. But this had gone on for too long. It was her birthday, for Methrals sake!

"I-I-I ONLY WANT THIS ONE DAAAAAY!"

Bawling until her eyes dried and she had nothing left to drain from them, she sat there on the dirt; starring at her garden in disgust. This was the day... This is the moment she's been waiting for... What a perfect finale on this day of hers.

Standing upright and grinning to herself, she looked down to her empty garden and began stomping in the soil, giggling at her own antics. Tonight shall be the best night EVER!

galloping into the castle and grabbing all the decaying wood and debris she could find, Luna tossed it into a pile in the main chamber and galloped into the throne room, cracking the throne from its stone prison and pushing it into the pile. Smiling at her work and sitting atop the throne, she yelled out in a booming voice,

"Happy birthday, Celestia Eternnia!!!! You are the one who has bestowed the power of all magic's unto I, and I thank you! Wishing you the most gorgeous of times with mother and father!!! I doubt they'll be happy to see me afterwards, but who is care anymore?!" She smiled and lit her horn with a deep blue flame, cascading it around her entire horn, and laughing for a moment before shooting it at the wood and letting her horn lose the fire.

"You remember that day you were waiting for, Moon?!"

"Luna, You fool! This will end with nothing but ash! What are you thinking?!" Even Nightmare can care? Hah! We happen to learn more about her now than ever before!

"Oh, I'm dreadfully sorry about this. But it's not going to end with anything but ash and bones... Sister would like this death for me. Consumed by the very sun itself... Goodbye, my dearest Equestria. You will be better off without us..."