Author's Note

Short chapter. Marks the beginning of the end.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 - A Family Divided

"CELESTIA!" Luna yelled, standing outside the door that led into Celestia's bedroom. The same bedroom where Celestia had been hiding the last four days. "I have something I need you to explain to me! NOW!"

Luna was outraged. Not only was there a cell that had been recorded as off limits during the time of Solar's imprisonment, but it was blatantly recorded in another book that Solar Eclipse resided in that same cell.

To Luna's surprise, the doorway to Celestia's bedroom creaked open slowly. Luna proceeded to speed things up by throwing the door open with her hoof. Luna was ready to interrogate her sister for answers.

However, Luna was taken back when she saw that her sister was not standing behind the door like she had expected, but standing on the far side of the room, looking out of the only window in the room.

"You really do force my hoof sometimes, Luna" Celestia said calmly, still looking out the window.

Luna galloped to the center of the room, so that she could not be shut out again, and stomped her front hooves on the ground. "Why did you not tell me, that you were keeping Solar Eclipse locked up in the dungeon?!"

Celestia sighed. "Why did you betray me, by actually believing in that pathetic waste of an alicorn's story?"

"HE IS NOT A...Wait...what?! How do you know I believe his story? Have...have you been spying on me?!"

"I HAVE, and I can not BELIEVE that you, my own sister, would believe that horrible lie of a story he told you!" Celestia was now yelling on a scale close to Luna's.

Guards were now gathering outside the still open doorway into Celestia's bedroom.

"And I can't believe that you would imprison and torture our own brother! What kind of monster does that to their family?" Luna was losing her ability to yell, and was starting to form tears in her eyes. The fact that Celestia had done such a horrid thing was too much for the lunar princess to bare. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Celestia was back into her previous, calm voice. "You were too young to know. It would have been too much to bare. It appears that it still is." Celestia finished, looking at Luna for the first time, and seeing the tears rolling down her cheeks.

Luna could also see Celestia's face for the first time now as well. Her face had a serious expression, but it wasn't enough to mask the pure anger that resided underneath. "W-Why did you do that to him?"

Celestia snorted. "I was protecting us from him, if he took the kingdom from us once, who's to say he wouldn't do it again?"

"Okay...that makes sense, but why try to take his powers away from him?" Luna said, trying not to let more tears escape her eyes.

"I wanted his powers so that I could make it easier for the both of us to do our duties."

Luna's sadness, was quickly replaced with rage. "OH THAT HIS PONYSHIT AND YOU KNOW IT! You wanted his powers for your own selfish greed!"

The guards recoiled from the door, as the room and hallway shook with the force behind Luna's voice. Celestia finally turned the whole way around to talk to her sister face-to-face. "YOU'RE RIGHT, IT IS! I wanted his powers for myself! Who cares?! You couldn't have them! You were just a stupid little naive FILLY!"

"But I was still a Princess of Equestria!"

"It doesn't matter now! It's not like he let me have them!"

"Yea, he didn't! I'm glad he didn't." Luna spoke through clenched teeth.

Luna loosened her body and sighed. "Celestia. Do...Do you know the punishment for torturing another pony?"

"I'm sorry. It must have slipped my mind. Could you remind me what it is?" The sarcasm in Celestia's tone was palpable.

"It is a royal execution you idiot!"

"Are you saying I should be executed?" Celestia gawked.

"You have to pay for what you've done, and if a royal execution is the consequence...than yes!" Luna was now full blown crying. She didn't want to kill her sister, but Celestia had to be punished for what she had done to Solar, no matter what.

Celestia deadpanned. She raised her head high, and smile down at Luna. "Luna, do you know what the punishment is for treason in Equestria?"

"No..." Luna responded, confused by her sister's sudden shift in attitude.

"A royal execution, and as far as I'm conserned, harboring an enemy of Equestria, aiding them, and conspiring against a Princess of Equestria...is all treason."

Luna stood in the center of the room wide eyed, mouth agape. "Y-y-you...don't mean."

"As Princess Celestia of Equestria. I hereby charge Princess Luna of Equestria, with treason of the highest possible degree, and sentence her to death, by royal execution." Celestia looked over Luna and saw a large group of guards standing behind her. "GUARDS!" Celestia shouted. "Lock this traitor in the dungeon."

Luna gasped, and flung into action, as she was quickly surrounded by spears pointed at her. She unfolded her wings, shot over the guards, and past Celestia, crashing through the window and flying off.

She looked back to see if she was being followed, and screamed when she saw a giant ball of yellow fire, flying straight for her. She only had seconds before impact, and decided to teleport away. Just as the fireball reached her tail, and began searing it away, she diss appeared in a flash of magic.

Luna collapsed into the floor of the Golden Oaks Library in Ponyville. "TWILIGHT!"