A Thousand Years Later...

Celestia embraced me, her soft fur smelling like a summers day. "Luna. You have forgotten me, have you not?" Guilt pierced me in my guts, and I gently nodded.

"Yes... I know not of you. Nor do I know of this place..." She sighed to hear that.

"Understandable... Here." Her horn illuminated with a beautiful colour, lilac. My eyes filled with memories that the body had watched.

"But... Tia, We remember not of our spell... How will we raise our moon?" Celestia had the best poker face I had ever seen. I couldn't tell what she was thinking at all. The door suddenly interrupted, and Celestia gave a call.

"Enter!" A lavender pony trotted towards her, her purple and pink mane flowing in the breeze she had forged out of her rush.

"Oh, Luna. This is my former personal protégé, now Princess, Twilight Andromeda Sparkle."

"I don't really like the middle name, Princess. And you can just call me Twilight." She humbly said, grinning. "Wait, Luna and I have already met... My first day in Ponyville, Nightmare Night, My brother, Shining Armour and Cadence's wedding, and another multiple times to follow that?"

"Twilight, we must talk." The lavender alicorn galloped after her idol. Celestia's head poked out from behind the door, and she beamed as she told me to await her return. I cheerily nodded my head, my body filled with warmth. As she disappeared behind the wall, I darted to the balcony, and was met with the most beautiful sight. All of Equestria was there, right in front of her, in all of its glorious pride.

I spread my... Wings. God, I'm not used to saying that. I leapt of the balcony, soon regretting it. I flapped them hard, but I couldn't get airborne. My wings couldn't lift this body, and I was plummeting to the ground like a meteor... Only more gracefully, a shooting star, perhaps. I was seconds away from the ground... Milliseconds in fact. I trapped my breath tightly in my lungs, they were screaming out as I should've been. Gravity was not an ally... It never was.

I did fall, fall on top of a cyan blob. Puzzled, I looked closer at the blurry figure. "Who art thou?"  I asked, placing the bottom of my muzzle upon my hoof.

"Uh, what?" It's voice was full of attitude and sass, anything but modest.

"I repeat, who art thou?"

"You don't recognise me? I'm Rainbow Dash. Element of loyalty. No no, don't thank me for saving you. But why didn't you fly?" I blushed a little, eyeing my useless wings.

"Well... I..."

"Did'ya clip them?"

My ears twitched, I could lie... It wouldn't be that embarrassing. Princess of the moon, Lunar Princess, of the rulers of Equestria, can't fly. I hid my face behind my wings before speaking.

"Indeed... I was making the moon rise when I hit a tree branch and fell on a *mutter mutter*"

"If I got my hooves on that *mutter mutter*, it would be in really big trouble!" Another voice yelled. Pinkie Pie, it was.

"Well, wanna spend the day with us?" Rainbow grinned, Pinkie Pie nodding quickly. I didn't have anything else to do, so I agreed. They tugged me and threw me on the wall. "We're pranking somepony. You know them."

"Celestia?"

"No, Discord. We found out his realm entrance is over there. That's why he knows everything bout the castle. We are going to..." They whispered their evil plot to me and how I was an advantage. It was perfect... Terrible, but perfect.

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As they left the room, Celestia beamed as she told Luna to await her return. She then trotted after her student, she knew that Luna wasn't the kind to eavesdrop. "What is it, Princess?"

"Luna. Remember the changeling attack of Canterlot?"

"Yes, Your highness." Twilight replied.

"The love magic did not conquer Chrysalis, but one whom swapped identities with Chrysalis shortly after you and your friends went to retrieve the elements."

"So... Chrysalis lurks still in Canterlot?"

"No. She did. She took my place and attempted to banish me and my sister, Luna. Her power was cut short because of the love magic, however. She locked my sister onto the moon, but I interfered with her spell. I could not undo the banishment, only Chrysalis could, like the Trixie incident with the alicorn amulet. There was a magical lock connecting to the power sources." "I was unable to remove her from the moon and return to our realm, so I sent her to the land much like the one you visited. The one of Canterlot High, but slightly different. They call it, Earth."

"To her, it was 20 or so years, to us, a fortnight. I, myself, made a deal with Chrysalis. I would give her a piece of land outside Equestria for her hive to live in. They could strive for many years, and in exchange, she must never upset the balance of harmony of our land again. And if she did, she would be forced to meet the consequences of her crimes. She agreed. Harnessing all the power I had, and borrowing of the Sun, I managed to send a small army to Luna, to tell her to return. I gave a bit of my magic to a loyal guard so that they may be able to return with her. It seems having her magic taken away has made Luna forget Equestria and all she witness inside it. Strangely, my memory spell does not work with her... She remembers it all for a second, then it's like a vacuum sucks it all back in to the dark side of her mind to rot and be forgotten..."

Twilight clasped her hooves onto her mouth, it was tragic. It was more than tragic, it was impossible. Celestia lowered her head in sorrow and despair...