Season 1 - Chapter 1/3 Nopony to raise the Sun or the Moon (edited) (Sad, Tragedy)
Princess Sunset Shimmer slowly opened her beautiful teal blue eyes.
If she had slept a little longer, she would have seen sun rays peeking through her closed eyelids from her ongoing ‘raise and lower the sun spell’; however, there is not going to be a sun shining today. Also, during this ‘extended’ night, the moonlight from the moon is not going to be present either, and there is a logical explanation for this boycott catastrophe.
It is a 1,000 years after the loss of Equestria’s two most favorite princesses – the Royal Sisters Celestia and Luna. Princesses Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle, the adopted princess ‘sisters’ are now being crowned the ‘replacements’ of the original Royal Sisters and have to bear the weight of the whole of Equestria on their heads. Furthermore, even having the now full-time responsibility to carry the weight of the astronomical round objects of the Sun and Moon every day is too heartbreaking...
A single tear cascades down the Flame Princess’s cheek as she remembers the reason why she and her adopted sister are about to be crowned “High” princesses of Equestria. At the moment, Sunset thinks that being a ‘higher’ princess than she already is just an excuse to add a greater workload onto her and Twilight. It is just a title to remind the girls why they are becoming ‘high’ princesses in the first place…they are around to replace the late Royal Sisters; and in reality, they have ALWAYS been around in order to replace the royal sisters at some point in time. Sunset made the terrible mistake of falling asleep while thinking about these painful memories; because now, they were about to follow her in the form of nightmares.
------------------------------------------- …..The tragic loss of the royal sisters…..1,000 years ago…. ---------------------------------------------------------
This message is of high importance and has been signed with Princess Sunset Shimmer's new royal seal. Please read NOW!!
May 16th.
It is the year 60,600.
8:16 pm. It the first Summer of the 100th generation of Equestria in the complete Princess Twilight Sparkle generation.
We regret to inform you,
But we have urgent news that you must tend to immediately. In light of the latest development, unfortunately, there was a tragic explosion that occurred during the field of battle that the princesses were in. It had more power than a Nuclear weapon and destroyed everything in its path. Now, please understand, the princesses WERE ready to leave and ascend to Heaven. They knew and agreed wholeheartedly that their time would come since they were so old, and that this was their last day being in Equestria.
It really was their only way to die, and only their chance to be able to see their parents again. We apologize, but Equestria is still shaken up by the news; so much in fact that they want YOU TWO to try and replace the two sisters. However, you have a choice…replace the Royal sisters and bear their responsibilities, or…stay as you are. We don’t mind, as long as you do not try to accidentally destroy us in your distressed state, as the Princesses’ deaths were not out fault.
We confide in your sadness…and apologize for the miserable news that especially you two will have to bear. Speak to you soon your Majesties!
Signed with sorrow,
The Equestrian Delegates.
Sunset Shimmer’s shining royal blue tears cascaded onto the piece of paper that had been opened from the envelope she was holding. The princess of forgiveness HAD to tell Twilight, she didn’t care HOW busy she was! After a session of crying, and mourning, Twilight would be alerted to the fact that their personal mentor and her sister were now....DEAD.
For the first hour and fifteen minutes...Sunset Shimmer wept. She cried, wailed and gnashed her teeth. She sunk into a small fit of depression. The Royal Sisters were GONE. Never to be seen again! This was one of the worst tragedies that could ever befall Equestria.
Sunset then bawled and wailed like she had never done before. All the shame and pain she had caused for the kids of the EG human world, all of the horrible taunts from the sirens; all of the backbiting from the humans when they thought that Sunset was behind things...was NOTHING compared to this!
Even the fear of her Demon form, the terror Sirens in their true forms, and even the thought of what terrifying evil creatures from Equestria could have accomplished in the human world could not have caused Sunset to writhe in as much agony as she was now.
The torment of Midnight Sparkle or distressing thought of the despair that Gaia Everfree would have inflicted if she had succeeded in capturing the Canterlot High kids at Camp Everfree. Or, even if there was an event where she or any other creature had tried to destroy Earth and Equestria, THIS event could not have prepared her for the reality that was her mentor’s death. Sunset cried so much, that her teal blue eyes, were being transformed from their color to red in just one minute! It was all too much…all too horrifically…PARALYZING....
Sunset Shimmer suddenly felt light-headed, then collapsed to the ground…and fainted.
…………20 minutes later……………...
Twilight Sparkle cantered lightly towards the door of Canterlot Castle. The elderly princess had just flown in from ruling at her Castle of Friendship to her second home. She had gotten there in record time, and she was excited to see Sunset again, even though she had to keep her ongoing light spell going since both princesses were refusing to raise their respective celestial objects.
As she trotted, she thought about all the changes that had been made to Canterlot – and even Equestria – in thousands of years. The Pony Nation was now even more of a gigantic Utopia; (or Ponytopia), than ever before; now-a-days whenever Equestria was under attack, there would always be help during battle; be it by Griffon, Sea serpent, Yak, or any other kind of creature; especially whenever the Everfree forest invades.
Twilight opened the door to the castle and made her way to the library. She then realized how lucky and blessed she was that she had been able to reach out to the whole of her world, and most other worlds successfully; (with all of her friends’ help of course!) Twilight whistled as she thought these things, then slowed down, in case something important was going on inside the library. She then realigned her glasses so that they would not slip off her nose. Afterwards, she opened the door to the quiet library with her hoof. She had an uneasy feeling about today...
Creeeeeaaaaaaaak!
As Twilight opened the door, she suddenly stopped moving. After all of the magical occurrences she had dealt with all her life, Twilight could tell when something was up. At the moment, she could tell that something had gone HORRIBLY wrong. She felt as if all of the emotion had been drained completely from the room even though it was normally so lively; as if…something distressful had caused everypony to become appalled at some kind of terrible news; and she hoped that Sunset was the messenger, and not the one that was harmed; since she would most likely be alive to tell the tale of why the room no longer felt peaceful and jovial.
Twilight was very cautious when she stepped into the grand hall of the library. She then carefully shut the door behind her with her magic, and tiptoed around the room, trying to find her best friend and adopted sister…Sunset Shimmer. Twilight carefully avoided knocking over the towers of spell books that were in her path of getting to the upper flight of the library. She then flew up the stairs, while avoiding the rest of the book piles, (even though she was flying as fast as a rocket); and made her way upstairs, and to the middle of the floor to where Sunset Shimmer was.
Twilight was relieved to find out that Sunset was still alive and breathing, but wondered if she had been knocked out. Twilight then scanned Sunset’s body for physical injuries with her magic, then finally realized that the only damage done was mental; including the fact that Sunset’s heart was somehow beating at a rapid pace. Twilight then used a ‘wake up slap’ move spell on her sister to wake her up, though she did execute it very gently.
“Wake up, Sunset!” Twilight whispered in a plea, “Please be OK!”
SNORT!
“Yawwwwwwww.”
Sunset Shimmer yawned loudly and asked, “Mmm….Twilight! Hey…what time is it? *Gasp!* Also…w…w…what day is it?!”
“It’s 9:36 pm at the end of World war 111, Sunset”, Twilight calmly explained, “Though...it’s only World War III for the humans. In this war, the Human world, Equestria and the Serpentine have finally stopped fighting…due to a serious explosion. Hopefully the Princesses were able to get away in time…since nothing remained. They probably teleported though...they're strong; so they’ll be fine.”
Sunset Shimmer gasped in horror again.
“Uh…um…oh…NO!”, Sunset started, “I hate to burst your bubble Twilight, but…the Princesses are NOT coming back.”
“What do you mean?” Twilight asked, then blinked.
“I mean”, Sunset responded, “That the Princesses are NOT coming back from the war; they have left Equestria…and even the Pony world!”
“So…they’re in another world?” Twilight asked, oblivious as to what her older sister meant.
“Sigh...Oh, Twilight…sometimes you are pretty thick-skulled for somepony who's as brainy as me…,” Sunset chastised, then face-hoofed. “Don’t you get it?! They ARE in another world, but they are in the one above the clouds! You know...the world where all the good and correct Creator-choosing ponies and creatures go.”
“Wait…you must mean the good, awesome and pure place…*GASP!* Are you talking about the one that is the opposite of Tartarus; where your spirit flies UP to get there...not down?!” Twilight exclaimed, preparing to faint.
Sunset Shimmer teleported right behind her little sister in advance in order to catch her after the next 10 seconds in which it will take for the realization to completely sink into Twilight’s mind.
“Y….You…m-mean…th…that…”, Twilight trembled and tried to muster the courage to say the words, “The Princesses got hit by the nuclear explosion….and-and…they couldn’t ge-ge-get out of there in time…and-and…the…they…they…!”
No…I don’t believe this! II can’t say it….Twilight though: I can’t, and WON’T admit it!
Because the now tear-shedding (as well as violently shaking) Twilight couldn’t bring herself to say it; Sunset or course, said it for her.
“Died?” A seemingly unaltered, but now teary-eyed and secretly incredulous looking Sunset Shimmer finished off.
Twilight suddenly fell backwards into Sunset’s open hooves and bawled. The river of tears that streamed out of the friendship-loving star princess was so great, that it was about to destroy the whole library in minutes. Sunset had to magically trap Twilight up in a force field just to save even HERSELF from having her whole body soaked to the bone; though her hair was already that way from the first second of Twilight’s outburst.
“S-hic…s-hic…so…let-hic…let me get this straight…" Twilight could still barely speak due to her immense sobbing.
"The Princesses got trapped in the nuclear explosion that emerged from all of the fighters lighting up each other's weapons, as well as them accidentally finding the nuclear bomb that had been planted underground from 50,000 years ago?!” Twilight’s voice sounded warbly and emanated from the field.
Twilight’s tears were filling up the force field with so much water that it was filling up at a rapid pace, almost as if Pinkie Pie was the one that was crying. It was like that pony’s water storage was inexhaustible! Sunset Shimmer had to cause the water to disappear with her magic, in order to save her friend from drowning in her own watershed.
Sunset nodded.
“And nopony TOLD US?!” Twilight yelled.
“Well…not exactly NO pony…”, Sunset explained, using her magic to psychically remove the read envelope from earlier from atop a mountainous pile of books. She then read every single word that was on the letter.
“I’m sorry...I meant to tell you…I just HAD to let you know…but then….I…fainted.”
“Ohhhh”, Twilight replied, “I see! The Equestrian delegates were so distraught by the catastrophe that occurred on the battlefield, they didn’t alert Equestria, or us….right away!”
“I think that’s true…”, Sunset agreed, “It’s a plausible answer!”
“S…so….the Princesses died from the explosion and went….to….HEAVEN?! Never to be seen again…unless we can die...? I guess -sniff- it’ll take a while for it to be our time huh…?”
“Yes Twilight”, Sunset agreed, laying a comforting wing on her sister’s forcefield, “But think about it THIS way; at least they are together with Mother Faust, the original Alicorns, the full-blooded Draconiquii, the First humans, and the true Creator!”
Twilight nodded and finally stopped releasing her waterlog tears.
She then smiled, closed her eyes, then replied, “I need to rest now…thank you for everything…Sunshine.”
Sunset was extremely relieved for Twilight’s now calm demeanor.
Whew..it’s over! She thought.
Sunset was also ecstatic at the notion of being called by her pet name of ‘Sunshine’, and decided to return the favor to her sleeping sister.
“You're welcome…’Moonlight.’"
The lavender alicorn fainted, though, she somehow fell asleep at the same time. Her big sister then cantered to the highest flight, where the Princesses’ rooms are and set Twilight in her bed carefully. The princess then stroked her sister’s mane lovingly; hoping that she will get over the loss of Celestia and Luna one day. The golden pony then pulled up the covers, gave Twilight her new doll, Smarty-Pants number 1000, and kissed her on the forehead. Sunset then magically lifted her own bed into Twilight’s room in case her sister had nightmares. Afterwards, Sunset climbed into bed, said her prayers, and then fell asleep. However, right before falling into an extremely deep sleep, the two young princesses thought the same thing at exactly the same time:
I cannot live without the Royal Sisters, especially without Celestia; and I know Equestria cannot either. They are too special or amazing for us to completely replace. With the true Creator’s consent, we hope to resurrect both princesses someday, even if it takes one thousand years. If Philomena agrees to resurrect them with her tears and feathers, that would be wonderful! From then on, the Royal Sisters will be called by a name referring to Phoenixes that has never been recorded in any timeline history. When we succeed in our resurrection plan, God-willing, we will dub them:
The Pheonix Mentors!!!
Author's Note
Yes, there ARE Christian themes in this story, and so far I hope you like my idea! :D 
This story is thousands of years into the future, and Sunset and Twilight are not completely immortal.
The mane 6 and most of the main characters are princesses! 
They are not OP though..except maybe Pinkie! XD ;) 
