Chapter 1. Introductions

Introductions

Always the same, everynight the same, nopony loves the night as I do, hmph no pony loves me!

Oh, Luna, don't do this to yourself, if anything you still have your sister, dear sweet Cee, even after Nightmare Moon she still loves me.  I don't deserve such kindness,  if they don't like my night then so be it, I like it and so does Cee, I hope.

Luna did this to herself everynight, pondering her social-status amongst EVERYPONY!   Somewhere off in a field outside of Ponyville a sillouhette appears from the library, the purple pony then cotinues to the crest of the hill thinking to herself

Oh, Twi it's late you shouldn't be out.  One side of her mind says, but the other speaks louder: Buuuuuut, why waste a beautiful night like this?  just a few more steps and the glare, as small as it may be, will be gone and you can watch the stars twinkle.  This thought elated her, afterall one of her favourite things to do was spend a night alone watching the stars; it was peacefu,l she told herself.

And if even possible another pony, half-way across Equestria, was already analyzing the heavens, this pony enjoyed the night, she had to, her ENTIRE family history was entertwined with that of Luna's.  Afterall one of her ancestors saved the princess from death and was granted the best gift she could give; she made him a special body-guard, and since then they lived within the beck-and-call of the night-goddess, even during her darker history.  This pony, through careful breeding, was an alicorn.  Her coat was very similar to the goddess even down to her Cutie-Mark, which was granted at birth as a mark of her position to the royal sister.  Due to this breeding she was also granted a natural affinity for magic, she was so powerful she even had a passive abliity to read minds.  This power didn't over look the princesses, though the Sun goddess was less suseptible to this power.  This Alicorn or rather Sol loved the idea of the heavens being filled with stars and other bodies.  She knew enough of these beautiful objects that she named one that she saw:  the Phiolic Nebula, named for her pet Phiolic, a beast of her own creation.  When she inquired about this perticular object Luna chuckled and tod her that her name was much more creative than what she herself had named it: the Crab Nebula.  Sol thought about paying a visit to the Night Goddess but though against it, ironicaly quite the opposite of what this lonely princess hoped for.  Maybe tomorrow, maybe...  She couldn't be closer to the truth of this thought.  As always, she fell asleep in her childhood house, its empty embrace wraping her, comforting her.  And at this same time the purple pony, in her solace, fell asleep on the crest of the hill.

"L-Lu?"  The cream colored Alicorn asked.  "Have you been awake all night?"

"Yeah,"  The Dark Pony replied.  "Is it time to raise the Sun?"

"Yes,"  The Elder Princess replied with a yawn, before raising the bright orb, its rays falling across Equstia.  Luna's eyes took a second to become accostomed to the new light.

"Are you tired?"

"No, do I look it?"  Sincerity in her voice

"Yes, you look sick; almost like you've been up for a couple days now.  You've been doing some thinking, I presume?"  She was right.

"Yeah, the murders, I just, I think its my fault."

"Don't be silly.  Of cour-"  She was cut off.

"It is my fault, I, I did something you should know about..."  She was about to break down, the truth having dawned on her.

"Did you do it?"  Disbelief falling on her face.

"No but it's my fault, I just know it."