Today was like any other for Luna, she lowered the moon so her sister could raise the sun, had breakfast, and was currently listening to a court meeting with her sister. "You stole my mother's necklace!" shouted one pony.

"I did no such thing!" cried the other. Luna was trying hard not to laugh, it was a ridiculous, especially since she was sure that the stolen necklace was around the defendants neck.

"Order, order in the court!" The noise died down,"Thank you, now can you provide anything that shows what the necklace looked like Miss Rain?"

"I can actually, this is a picture of my mother wearing the necklace, this picture was taken yesterday, and now the necklace is gone." The judge levitated the photo to his face for inspection. After staring at it for a few moments he lowered the photo.

"I see,and it is the same necklace around your neck. The necklace is to be returned to Miss Rain, that concludes the trial. Your dismissed," the judge turned to leave and ponies began filing out of the court room through the large double doors.

The next few hours went by slowly and having nothing more to do Luna returned to her room. The room was large and simple, it consisted of a bed, nightstand and a desk with a lamp and some scrolls, Quills and ink. There was also a bookshelf with some history books, novels and Luna's diary in the very back. She pulled out one of the history books and flopped down on her bed to get comfortable. Luna flipped to the page she had left off at last night. She found that a lot of interesting things in the last thousand years. Luna had been reading for a few hours before she heard a knock on her door. She lowered the book and said,"come in."

A white alicorn stepped in and shut the door. "Hey Lulu, what are you reading?" Celestia asked.

Luna showed her the cover and said," I sure missed a lot in the last thousand years."

Celestia looked sympathetic,"well your here now Luna. Tell you what, how about we go out, anywhere you want."

"Really?"

"Really. So where do you want to go?"

Luna thought about this for a second before she heard her stomach growling. Luna and Celestia laughed before she answered,"well how about we go out to eat?"

"Ok little sister, besides i'm hungry to, Let's go without the guards." Celestia and Luna walked out of Luna's room and told the guards that they were heading out and wished to go alone.

*******

"Welcome, what would you like princess Luna,"the waiter asked.

"Could i get a cucumber sandwich?"

"Of course, coming right up," the waiter turned to leave.

"Well Lulu, what do you think?"

"I think that this is great Tia, it feels nice to go somewhere and not have people looking at me in fear or disgust." Luna looked down as she remembered life before she became Nightmare Moon.

Celestia looked at Luna and said,"there is bound to be a long adjustment period. for you and every pony else. Things will go back to normal soon..... or as normal as it could possibly get."

"Ya, AS normal as it can get. It will never be entirely normal again. Most could forgive that but not all. On top of that no one will ever forget what i tried to do."

The waiter returned levitating some trays behind and apologized about the wait as she sat them down in front of Luna and Celestia. "It's not a problem," Luna said. "It looks delicious, thank you."

Luna levitated her sandwich to her mouth and took a bite out of it.

"Alright Luna, where are we going after this?"

"That lake in the park is still there right?"

Celestia smiled,"Completely untouched. I didn't let anyhitng happen to it, I knew about how much you liked it and made sure it was still there for when you returned."

Luna looked up at her sister,"You did that for me?"

"If I had to choose between saving you and keeping the throne the answer would still be to save you."

"I don't deserve something like that."

"Luna, you have no idea what your talking about."

"But what about Nightmare Moon?"

"That was just as much my fault as it was yours."

"What do you mean sister?" Luna asked setting down her sandwich.

"You were going through a hard time and I was always so busy with my job or wishing to be alone that I never bothered to notice how you must have felt. If I had just set my work aside for a few moments to pay attention to you Nightmare Moon may have never been. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you when you were there for me little sister." Celestia said as she looked down at her food. The two sisters quickly finished their meal. Luna made sure that the waiter got a generous tip while Celestia paid for the meal.

"Well Tia, are we ready?"Luna said impatiently wanting to see the lake again after a thousand years.

"Yes Lulu, we can go now," Celestia said chuckling.

They reached the park and Luna noticed that it was completely untouched. "Tia, you did more than make sure the lake was still there. The whole place looks EXACTLY like it did a thousand years ago."

"Well I thought you would like to see at least one familiar thing when you returned."

Luna walked up to the lake and stepped into the shallows. All at once memories of all the good times she had here came flooding into her mind. Luna couldn't help but give a small smile as she thought about the stallion she met here. Of course this was followed by the day the darkness took control of him and she quickly brushed the memory aside. "Well Luna, what do you think?" Celestia said snapping her back into the present.

"It's perfect, thank you Tia, I really needed something familiar right about now."

"I thought you might, anyway let get back before the guards send out a search party because we came home late."

Luna laughed and they began the walk home. Just as they walked in the doors to the castle a guard came running up to them. "Princess Luna, Princess Celestia, it's good that you came back when you did."

Luna and Celestia looked at each other before Luna spoke," What seems to be the problem?"

"Well---uh---Princess Cadence is in the throne room, she requested an audience with you. There is also, umm, someone with her. Come with me," The guard said turning back the way he came. Luna and Celestia looked at each other and shrugged before following the guard into the throne room. When they reached the door to the throne room the guard said,"Would you like me to come with you princess?"

"No thank you, you can wait out here," Luna said as the doors to the throne room opened.

"Of course your majesty."

Luna and Celestia walked in to the throne room where they were met by the smiling face of Cadence. "Aunt Luna, so glad you came," She said.

"Of course, now we were told that someone accompanied you here?"

"Oh right," Cadence stepped aside to reveal a tall figure behind her.

"Luna, it's been such a long time."

Luna took a few steps back gaping,"Sombra!"

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, maybe I will get a new one out as soon as tomorrow but you know, no promises. Also if you know who did the cover art tell them I love it. Again feed back would be nice, knowing what you all think will really improve my skills for future fics. This is my first I'm really proud of it so far. Keep your eye out for the next chapter.