The Sun Goes Dark

"Twilight, I don't think I can do this much longer. I can't raise the sun, moon, and all the stars! What am I supposed to do? I should've thought about this sooner!" Luna ran a hoof through her mane.

"Calm down, princess. We can help you make it through this!" Twilight stood tall to show she meant what she said. "We won't let you down!"

"Yeah! We are so super-y duper proud of you for making this supery-dupery extremely confuzzling worse-than-rainbows decision! Rainbows....."

"PLEASE DON'T BRING THAT UP!" Rainbow Dash covered her face with her hooves. "It was ONE time!"

Rarity hadn't even noticed Rainbow's breakdown. "Pinkie, how are rainbows spicy to you, yet you're able to pour a whole bottle of hot sauce in your mouth and not even flinch?"

"I dunno! It's just the way it is!" The pink pony replied before bouncing out of the room.

"Don't worry about Pinkie, Luna. I usually I just drown her out." Twilight smiled nervously at the older princess.

Once Twilight and her friends were gone, Luna gave her best attempt to set the sun and raise the moon, but she had to stay up all night to raise the stars. By the time she finished, she did not have enough power left to raise the sun the next morning. She tried, and tried, but never succeeded "I've failed," she looked up at the dark sky. "I... I can't do it."

Luna tried everyday to raise the sun on her own, but when she finally did, she still wasn't satisfied. She went on for weeks to satisfy this urge to prove her power, but she just couldn't. It drove her mad. Every morning, she would look in the mirror to see she was slowly changing, slowly becoming her worst fear: Nightmare Moon.