Author's Note

Yay! The 2nd Chapter guys! Hope you enjoy!

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A purple alicorn trotted to the castle gates. It was surrounded with royal guards. All of them were in two lines, leaving a gap in the middle that was leading to the entrance, waiting for the return of the two sisters.

Two figures then appeared in the sky, not far from where they were standing.

"Princess, look!" A royal guard cried out, who caught Twilight's attention.

She squinted her eyes to figure out what they were. She saw a white and dark blue alicorn approaching the castle, certain in her head that they were Celestia and Luna.

"It's them!" Twilight exclaimed joyfully, bringing a smile to all the guards standing there.

Celestia and Luna touched down in front of Twilight and the guards. Twilight bowed down in respect, so did Luna. Celestia was too busy observing her souvenir to even bother.

After all that, the guards reassembled and went off their seperate ways neatly.

Twilight spoke up,
“You guys are back! So, how was it??" Twilight exclaimed with joy and curiosity.
“It was rather, fascinating Twilight” Luna replied with a smile.

She looked at her sister, who was still constantly admiring the crystal. Her smile faded, and replaced it with an annoyed look.

“Ahem?”.

Celestia turned around, “Um.. Yeah it was nice”. She then turned around again to admire the crystal and proceeded to walk inside to the castle. Twilight and Luna exchanged their worried glances.

“What’s gotten into her?” Twilight spoke up with worry.
”I.. don’t know, that was a tiny crystal from the cave we visited earlier, I don’t know why Celestia was acting odd since she found it," Luna glanced back at the castle.
Twilight started to look a bit more worried, "How odd?".
Luna looked back at Twilight, "Very," Luna exclaimed.
Twilight got even more worried,"Oh my," She exclaimed quietly.

Luna hung her head low.

"I'm afraid that there could be something sinister inside that crystal," She exclaimed.
Twilight gave a shocked look on her face,"Sinister? Oh come on Luna, she could be letting stress get into her," Twilight replied, trying to lighten the mood.
Luna glanced at her for a second, then looked away, "She wouldn't explain the random tantrums she throws every few minutes,Twilight. She's gotten ticked off easily lately.." Luna replied in disappointment.
"Well, that doesn't sound like her at all..." Twilight replied, regaining the memories of how patient and kind Celestia was during those days where she was in her School for Gifted Unicorns.

Luna continued to hang her head low again.

Twilight replied, “I think you’ve better have a look at it, just to make sure everything's okay- but it’s getting late, or isn’t it supposed to get late?”.

Luna gave a shocked face, and turned to look outside.

“Oh wait, I’m supposed to raise the moon!”. She exclaimed, then ran towards the castle.
"Goodbye Twilight!" Luna exclaimed before going in.
"Oh! Um,Bye! I need to go back to Ponyville as well!" Twilight exclaimed as she headed to the train station.

“Tia? Where are you?”. Luna looked around the castle halls, scanning every room in the castle.

She then ran to her room, and spotted Celestia just, standing there looking at the crystal that she placed in front of the fireplace she had. Luna was confused, even Philomena gave her a strange look from her porch.

“Celestia what are you doing in here?! We need to get out there!” She exclaimed as she attempted to drag her sister out of the room.

Celestia turned around with a frown,“Right, let’s go and, get this over with” She exclaimed.

"Good," Luna said as she ran out the door.

Celestia stood up to leave, then glanced back at her crystal.
She started to lift the crystal up with her magic, but Luna caught her and took over the crystal.

”THAT, is not coming,” She exclaimed sternly as she placed the crystal back where it was, glaring at it with disgust.

She then ran out the door once more. Celestia turned around and looked at it one last time, before she reluctantly left her room.

Luna arrived at the balcony where they raise and lower the sun and moon. Her sister followed. She waited for her sister to lower the sun.

“Any minute now”,she whispered quietly, just loud enough for Celestia to hear.

Nothing happened.

A minute passed, Luna finally faced her sister and saw her Celestia’s eyes glowing red. She wasn't moving either, she only stood still, looking off into the sun.

”Celestia?! Are you okay?!” Luna exclaimed with worry.

Celestia shook off the glow.

”I-I’m fine,” She exclaimed as she focused once again and ignited her horn.

She let her magic lower the sun as Luna raised the moon. After that, a brief silence fell upon them.

"Are you sure you’re fine?” Luna checked one last time.
”Yes I‘m sure,” Celestia replied walked back inside, proceeding to her room. Luna was suspicious and yet, worried about her sister’s mysterious behaviour.

"You've been acting very odd since you got that thing," Luna spoke up as they walked together.
Celestia looked at her sister for a bit, then she looked forward again.
"You didn't even greet Twilight when we got back from that cave," She said again, trying to catch her attention.
"Do we have to go through this again?!" Celestia snapped at her with fury.

Luna only stood dead in her tracks, dumbfounded.

"I do not want to hear any of this, ever again," Celestia exclaimed as she angrily trotted back to her room.
"Fine!" Luna exclaimed as they parted ways.

She started heading to her room, but she suddenly thought of a plan to find out what was going on with her sister and the crystal she was obsessed with.

“That’s it," Luna exclaimed with a smirk as the plan formed in her mind. “I’m getting that crystal tonight”.