Darkness within Evil without

by fiskefyren

Rating: teen
Tags: Princess Celestia, Dark, Sad, Nightmare Moon, Princess Luna, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Twilight Sparkle
Length: 6361

Celestia's council is not happy about how Celestia has decided to let Luna stay in Equestria, fearing that Nightmare Moon might return! So one of its chairmans takes action and it is not for the better. This story takes place a short while after the first two episodes. Luna is having problems fitting in and is being hated by almost everypony and Twilight is still very new at the whole friendship thing.

Published 2011-12-06 21:44:53 UTC
Last updated 2011-12-07 12:06:15 UTC

Chapter 2: Bedtime Story (v1)

Soon after Celestia found herself slowly caress the back of her beloved sister, who was slowly drifting off to sleep as she had tucked her in her royal solar bedchambers. Luna did have her own but ever since Twilight Sparkle and her friends had freed her from Nightmare Moon, she and Celestia had been sleeping together. “I love you Lune, my dearest sister, my most pernicious one; I would have traded my immortal life for you to be by my side.” Celestia said softly. “For a 1000 years I have looked upon the moon, waiting for the day the stars would aid in your escape.” Celestia had felt an overwhelming need to explain everything to Luna, so she leaned in closer to the lunar princess, as she slowly began her tale, knowing that Luna’s soul and subconscious would listen to her every word.

I recall every single little detail from the day not to long ago, where the stars had freed their goddess from a 1000 years of captivity on the moon, my little sister, Luna. The same day where I told the destined one, my faithful and beloved student Twilight Sparkle by letter that she should go make herself some friends.

I’ll never forgot how fearful I was when I wrote that letter for the destined one, as I gazed out of my huge window in my private chambers, watching the stars making their way towards their lunar goddess. The only thoughts went through my head was the wishful thoughts and hopes of everything would go according to plan. And as the evening closed, I took off from my palace and made my way for Ponyville. I had never been so nervous in my entire life, centuries had passed since that fateful day where Luna had been possessed and turn into that awful creature, Nightmare Moon.

It was the day of her release; I stood behind curtains from which I could hear the major of Ponyville giving her speech for the longest day of the year, the summer sun celebration.

-

There Celestia stood, in all her might when she all of a sudden felt the stars intertwine. A 1000 years of loneliness, a 1000 years of torment was about to have its perhaps final conclusion. She took a deep breath as she said to herself “Now it’s all or nothing, be brave Tia.” and then, not seconds later she could feel dark magic behind her, creeping over the floor, making its way towards the solar princess.

“Hello, Luna.” I said dryly to the forming shadows in the room with a face of stone, trying not to let my feelings getting the better of me. This was after all not Luna who was in control of this nightmarish creature of the night. The mare of the moon would surely explore this if Celestia allowed herself to be too emotional.

A tall pitch black mare with wicked bright turquoise draconian eyes appeared out of the dark magical shadows. “That’s not my name anymore, dear sister.” The creature spoke with a cold and callous voice. It was none other than the dreaded Nightmare Moon herself, but why did it call Celestia for sister all of a sudden? It had never done that before. “But I’m surprised,” The mare of the moon continued with her relaxed tone. “I’m sure you know why that I’m here. And yet you seem unprepared to face me.” But then face began to turn into a grim expression. “Do you really think you can beat me just like this?!” She started to sound angry. “Its been a 1000 years, and over that time I have only grown more powerful with the hate that I feel for you. And also I’ve learned to tap deeper into my powers, I cannot be stopped! Not this time! Do you hear me?!” There were such hate and pain in her eyes that tears began to take shape in her eyes. She seemed to be aware of this as she blinked them away.

Celestia was a bit taken back by this, these feelings that she could sense from the mare of the moon. Nightmare Moon hadn’t been like this a 1000 years ago when she fought her with half of the power of the elements of harmony, it was as if the thing that had possessed Luna had somehow merged its personality with hers. Maybe the mare of the moon had become mad from her 1000 year imprisonment?

“You sound different,” Celestia replied, clearly ignoring what Nightmare Moon had just yelled at her. Nightmare Moon narrowed her eyes at this, staring deeply into Celestia’s soft eyes. “maybe my sister’s kindness and love have rubbed off on you. I guess it would have been impossible even for you to not being affected by Luna’s spirit over these centuries where you have possessed her body.” Not getting a reply from the mare of the moon the princess pressed her effort a little further. “Maybe if I sealed you away again for another 1000 years, the two of you might become one.” Celestia teased, the shadow figure did not look to please at the comment whatsoever, but did still not speak. Celestria had probably hit a nerve.

They looked at each other for a bit. It looked like Nightmare Moon was holding back tears, maybe she had pressed a bit too hard, maybe she needed to use another kind of strategy. If Nightmare Moon had truly picked up some traces of Luna, then maybe she could. “Luna…” Celestia started. But she was very quickly cutoff before she got to say anything else.

“STOP!” Nightmare Moon yelled angrily at her, with a face of pure horror and rage. Tears again began to form in the eyes, but this time more uncontrollably as they started to run down her pitch black cheeks. “STOP CALLING ME THAT!” In all of her existence, Celestia had never seen such a pained face before. Luna’s soul was truly in scrambles within this monster. Celestia’s ears lowered, she was really hurt by this sight and what the monster had said. It was almost as if those words had come from Luna herself. But Celestia knew that wasn’t the case, she could feel Luna deep within this nightmarish form, I could feel her true heart calling out to me, but it was almost as if she was slumbering, caught in a everlasting dream or rather a nightmare. But she was tossing and turning in her endless dream, probably feeling the presence of her big sister nearby, but unable to reach her because of an overwhelming evil presence that was engulfing her.

But even so, for truth to be told princess Celestia started to feel a bit sorry for this poor creature, it was no longer a master of its own feelings. Stealing half of its now persona from Luna. So Celestia reminded herself of the pain Nightmare Moon had cursed her and many other ponies back those 1000 years ago, true they were all dead and the mare of the moon was only heard of it stories. Celestia was the only being alive that knew of her to be true.

Now they stood directly in front of each other, both with their ears hanging low, Celestia with narrow sad eyes and Nightmare Moon with closed tear dripping eyes.

“I know you’re in there! Please hold out Luna! Soon you will be free again and we shall both enjoy both my sunrise and your moonlight!” Celestia cried out, losing the control of her emotions by seeing the sadden feature of her greatest foe and deep underneath her greatest love.

“Ha!” Nightmare Moon laughed scornfully. “Do you really think one little unicorn will be able to defeat me?!” she said as she desperately tried to shake the tears off her face.

Celestia looked puzzled and a bit shocked at her. “Aw… don’t look at me like that, dear sister. You and I share the same rare magical blood, the blood of a alicorn. Your thoughts, your dreams, and your feelings are mine as much as they are yours. But luckily for me I can control what of mine you may see.” Nightmare Moon said.

“It doesn’t matter if you know of my plans or not.” Celesita sharply replied. “With the power of friendship you’ll return to me, and with the power of my love you’ll remain with me. Never again will either of us have to be alone.” She said in a threatening tone, to make sure the mare of the moon got the message.

Nightmare Moon just stood there with a wicked grin. “Hopeless words spoken by a hopeless princess, I’ll make this land forever dark with my gorgeous moonlight! Your student will fail against my might! If friendship is their weapon then I’ll BREAK IT!” she spat at the solar princess.

“I believe as much in my faithful student as I do in my dearest sister, they will prevail.” Celestia told Nightmare Moon in a hard tone. “But you on the other hand, you’ll be vanquished from her body, I swear it!” Celestia took a firm step towards the shadowy form of the former lunar princess. “Twilight was born on the exact day of the one and only lunar eclipse that has ever occurred in all of pony history, where a spark of Luna fell from the moon and entered a newly born foal, turning her from an earth pony into a unicorn with incredible magical powers. She’ll not only use the power of friendship and love against you, but also the very power that you use the power of the lunar princess!” Celestia finished off.

The mare of the moon looked at her for a bit before she turned her back to her. “Humph, enough of this.” She said. “As my parting gift, I’ll allow you to stay here, so that you can witness me crushing your elements of harmony, your so called destined one and all of her stupid friends. And then I’ll come for you and banish you to the moon so you can see your sister’s eternal night for all eternity!” She laughed. “You can try to stop me if you want to, but I don’t think your student would like the result very much.” She smirked. “Now you’ll have to excuse me, I have to address my subjects.” She said as she left Celestia behind the curtains as she entered the balcony, announcing her return to all of Equestria.

-

And from there we all know the story, as the elements of harmony fought though quite a hectic day where Nightmare Moon tested their friendship, trying desperately to break you apart. And then you were finally freed from Nightmare Moon by the hoofs of Twilight Sparkle, her friends and their power of friendship. Celestia smiled.

-

“Oh, dear little sister.” She said. Did you know that every time I rose your moon, for every single day I would stand there, sometimes even for hours, just looking at your beautiful moon? I’ve always regretting my actions from those 1000 years ago. I should have seen the signs, I should have been more thoughtful, I should have been better to listen and to see your sadness, but I failed in all these aspects. If I had just known then that monster would never have been able to posses your then fragile heart. I wasn’t worthy of being your big sister. And the price of my failure was the birth of Nightmare Moon by that evil entity that consumed your injured heart. It would never have been able to possess you if only I had been a better sister. But as much as I love you Luna, I couldn’t let Nightmare Moon starve our subjects to death, and I know you agree with me. So with a heavy heart I faced the mare of the moon and banished her to the moon, not having the strength to split you apart from the creature within, particularly as I could only use half of the elements powers as I had lost the other part of me; my little sister.

I’m really disappointed in myself, not only for not being the big sister you needed and should have had, but also that you became your own savior. You, Twilight and her friends did all the real work, while I just merely pushed Twilight in the right direction. All I did was sitting ideally by hoping that Twilight would indeed save you. It’s a little silly to think about really, where I the mighty solar princess couldn’t help a small foal could.

I don’t know how it all happened but some years ago, when the lunar eclipse happened I looked upon its breathtaking beauty, but also with undreamt off fear, for a moment I thought Nightmare Moon had broken free, but then something happened. Something very strange indeed, I could feel it before I could see it, a part of you left the moon. I don’t think I have ever reacted that fast to anything in my entire life. The moment I saw something fall from the moon I threw myself over the balcony and flew as fast as I could towards the falling object, even using all of my magic to amplify my haste.

My search came to an end at a small house. I slowly walked closer towards the house, with both fear and hope in my pony heart. It felt as if my mind was breaking apart from all my thoughts, all of my lonely days ran though my head like an uncontrollable storm. And wondering if you had somehow escaped, the stars had not yet aligned for your escape. But as I came to the window I saw a magical sight, in the small house where several ponies, and the mare was giving birth, and then I saw it! Your little something hit the newly born foal right on the forehead and seconds later the smallest and cutest unicorn horn sprung forth, her fur turned purple and he cutie mark appeared, making her the first pony in all of Equestria to receive her mark at birth.

Twilight Sparkle had been born an earth pony but your magic had turned her into a unicorn with remarkable magical prowess. It was the happiest I had felt for almost a 1000 years! I saw hope, I became so joyous that I started to cry out there in the middle of the night at some strangers house. I made a mental note to myself that I would take her as my apprentice and teach her everything she would need to know for your return to Equestria; because your soul had somehow selected her as the destined one. I’m not sure how Twilight would take it if I told her that was the reason I took her under my wing, but even so at first I only took her because of my desires for you; Luna, I still grew fund of her over the years that I taught her about magic.

From that day on, every time I rose your moon I looked at its beauty and said to myself, the wait is soon over and then I would whisper to the moon, Lune, this time I won’t fail you, the wait is soon over, just a little longer my dear sister.
For a 1000 year I had been immensely sorrowful. Nothing I’ll ever say nor do can ever make me forgive myself for what happened. But I promise you, I’ll do all I can to make up for all of it! Finally you have returned to be by my side once again, as the ruler of the night, as an equal to the ponydom, the place that you should never have left in the first. After waiting and suffering for centuries, you are finally here again and this time I’ll make everything right.

“But for now, sleep and dream well my precious.” Celestia finished off with a sugar sweet voice as she kissed her sister on the forehead, before leaving her bedchambers to lower the moon and raise the sun. “Be here for me, always.” She said, as she left her sleeping beauty to her restful dream.

As Celestia came to the door she threw one last look over her shoulder to gaze at Luna’s sleeping form, while she thought back to the evening where they had shared a royal bath. Where Celestia had told Luna how she had been possessed and turned into Nightmare Moon a 1000 years ago, opening up to each other about their past pain. The both had embraced each other as they had been crying on each other shoulders, letting out some of their pent-up pain.

Celestia smiled as she closed the door to her private chambers, hoping for a bright future with her little sister.

Author’s note:
When I wrote this chapter I was pretty disappointed with it, it took me forever to finish (like 2 weeks or such) and it was hardly any joy to write. I just wanted to tell what “really” happened during the first two episodes, as well as telling how come only Twilight Sparkle could save Luna when Celestia apparently couldn’t (which is why she banished her to the moon I would assume). And I also feel like I horrible failed at making Nightmare Moon seem insane. My idea was that Luna has been resting in an endless dream, making the 1000 years on the moon pass like it was mere months (also why Luna feels like Celestia had suffered more than she did), but as for Nightmare Moon, she was suppose to become ape shit crazy because she didn’t have the luxury of an endless dream like Luna did. Nightmare Moon was pretty much awoke 24/364/1000 and her only comfort was that she could see Luna’s dreams and thus kind of adopted some of Luna’s personality, also truly making her (Nightmare Moon) believe that she was indeed Celestia’s sister, but not by the name of Luna, she was after all, Nightmare Moon (hope it made sense to you guys). At least I got the background story covered now, so now I can finally write what I wanted to write, my little fluffy love story that is! *sigh* Also I more than once wasn’t really sure where to part the text as the entire chapter was pretty much just Celestia telling us a story, but I hope its good enough, or else I’ll have to take a closer look at it some other time.

And yes I know that Twilight Sparkles parents hare both unicorns, but I wanted to make the connection between Twilight and Luna all that more meaningful and special. That could also explain why Twilight had been so bad at using her magic at some point as she didn’t have parents to teach her how to use her ‘gifts’.

Anyway thanks for reading thus far and I hope you can still enjoy my failure of a second chapter. And as always please comment! <3

PS. In the next chapter Twilight Sparkle enters!

Chapter 1: The Council Meeting (v1.2)

Author’s note:
A fair warning before reading: I’m dyslexic and English is my 2nd language. Now you have been warned!

In a matter of fact; this was the first MLP FIM fanfic I started to write, I just never got around to finish it, well not before now at least. I’ve finished the first two chapters (chapter 2 will be uploaded tomorrow), but I’m not really sure when I’ll continue on this one as I have some other stories I’m also working on, plus I have an upcoming exam that needs some looking into.

But for now; please enjoy my story and don’t forget to comment! <3

The story:
The moon was slowly making its way over the night sky, closing ever nearer to its decent. It had been quite a long and stressful night for the poor solar princess, as a heatedly council meeting was taking place inside the walls of the ponydom’s tall and mighty sky castle.

“She’s a threat to all of us!” a small dark grey earth pony huffed angrily at the ruler of all of Equestria, the solar princess, princess Celestia who was sitting pleasantly in her throne. A crowd of royal ponies was sitting around in the huge throne room, being the members of Celestia’s council.

“Luna is a threat to no pony.” Celestia mildly replied. This wasn’t the first time somepony from the council had approached the solar princess regarding their concern of the lunar princess might become Nightmare Moon once more and Celestia was not without understanding because she knew what it is like to be driven by fear rather than by heart. But they should really cut the poor thing some slack, hardly had she been freed from her 1000 years slumber on the moon, but also the imprisonment of Nightmare Moon. And now everypony just wanted to get rid of her again just as soon as she had returned to her sister who had so dreadfully missed her little shining star for an entire millennium, but this time Celestia would make everything right. She would fight for Luna’s rights even if it would cost her, her own.

“Maybe she isn’t in her current state of mind, but how can you guarantee us; the council that Nightmare Moon will never reappear?” The stallion asked, not only to Celestia as he turned around looking over all of the chairmen of the council, clearly wanted to be heard by everypony.

Celestia looked at the faces of the council, more than she would have liked to see; she saw them making gestures of agreeing, such as nodding mildly and looking at each other sharing a few words of agreement. She had to take a stand, making sure the council would never get to hurt Luna. She would allow no pony to hurt her precious sister. “As long as Luna never feels true sadness, then Nightmare Moon will never return.” It looked like he was about to say something as he turn around facing the solar princess once again, but just as he opened his mouth, Celesita continued “I’ll take the full responsibility as her older sister, and do all within my power to keep her happy and ensure that Nightmare Moon never awakens.”

The grey chairman was famous in his own right, he was the lowest nobility to ever have become a member of the council and that along was quite a feat, but something even stranger about this stallion was that he was the oldest in all of the ponydom to have not yet received his cuite mark. Everything that he owned, even his title as Baron he had fought viciously for to gain, making him quite an extraordinary pony in his own right. He was not a royalty born by blood; he had acquired his title as Baron from another Baron which he and his town rebelled against, before it became a part of Celestia’s ponydom. It was said that the now chairman Von Slemmer and his townsflock had lived a sad and depressing life under a tyrannical rule by the hands of the once Baron of the town. He was strong in mind and belief, but his body was little and weak. He had a pale dark grey fur, like he wasn’t getting much sunshine.

“I have come forth for this entire council as one of its chairmen today to represent one of our greatest concerns” The chairman Von Slemmer continued “and most of us do not believe in the way that her highness has chosen to deal with this situation at hand and we therefore demand a vote between its members to decide what should be done about the problem.”
Celestia rose from her throne “Von Slemmer, I’ll only say this once, I’m not going to impression my sister nor banish her from my ponydom.” She said in a harsh tune.

“But…” the chairman pleaded.

“Your voice has been heard, I assure you chairman, but family business will not become a part of this council” the solar answered as she could feel her temper beginning to slip. “and all of you will have to come to terms with that Luna in time, when she’s ready to share the throne with me; we’ll be equal in all ways.” Celestia finished.

“Humph… you’ll doom us all princess Celestia, a 1000 years ago she almost starved all of ponykind to death, destroying our entire race!” Celastia’s entire face changed at this. “I sincerely doubt your judgment of character and your true intents with the welfare of all ponies in this ponydom.” Von Slemmer spat back at her, his voice filled with rancour.

“ENOUGH!” Celestia yelled as she stomped her left hoof hard into the palace floor, making a booming sound alongside a small shockwave hard enough to make Von Slemmer’s legs shake a bit by the shear magical force that was unleashed form the impact. “I’ll not stand for these insults and accusations against my little sister, particularly when she’s not around to defend herself. My sister is no monster and the monster that had once possessed her has been sealed away!” she took in a small breath “Did I make myself clear; chairman?”

A bit stunned by her sudden outburst of rage and power, the chairman stammered out a low “Q-Quite…” as he lower his head a bit, so that he was no longer facing the solar princess, as he added “your highness.” in a low and insolent mannered voice that she could hardly hear. She narrowed her eyes at this just a bit, but not enough for anyone to notice unless they would stand right next to her.

“Know your place Baron.” Celestia said with enraged eyes. She has only addressed Von Slemmer as Baron in the council meetings when she wanted to remind the dear chairman that he was the lowest of nobility within the ranks of the chairmen. “And don’t forget that the council was founded by me only because I wanted insight of my growing ponydom and of cause to listen to your voices and concerns so that I may make better decisions upon them and your advices. But this is not a democracy.” She said as she lowered herself onto her throne once more. “Now, you may take your seat Von Slemmer, this case is closed and it’ll only be reopened again if I so desire.”

The chairman took one last look at her before he bowed to her “As you wish your highness, please forgive me for overstepping my authority.” He finished as his bow came to an end and as he returned to his seat amongst the other chairmen of the council.

Celestia took a look at the entire council she really wanted and really needed to ensure them somehow. “My dear council,” She started “As long as my sister; princess Luna is shown respect, trust, kindness and love; Nightmare Moon will never become an issues ever again, the words chairman Von Slemmer spoke would only ensure the return of Nightmare Moon as it would break her spirit and surely let Nightmare Moon return from her prison.” She still kept her eyes at them, it seemed to have some effect. Some of the tense stairs that she had gotten from the whole ordeal with the chairman Baron Herr Von Slemmer seemed to becoming softer once more. Von Slemmer surely know how to rally a crowd, Celesta thought for herself. That is probably how he came to acquire all the influence that he has.

“Now if anypony wants to add some other matter to this council meeting?” Not a word was said in the entire hall. “Good, then I’ll call this council meeting for today, over.”

The princess was the first one to leave the grand hall. That was how tradition was; the council members must remain seated until their ruler or rulers take their leave. As Celestia came closer to the big door leaving the room she felt a familiar entity, her little gem.

“You know it’s rude to listen by the doors, right my dear sister?” Celestia spoke with a huge smile pasted on her face, every time she saw Luna or felt her presence she couldn’t help to smile, Luna was after all the other part of her heart and soul. Celestia had missed her sister so much for the last 1000 years that her heart would skip a beat every time she laid her eyes upon her beautiful night blue sister.

“I know,” Luna responded “but it’s the only way I get to know what is going on since you’ll never really tell me what they say about me.” Looking a little to the side almost as if regretting something.

“I’m sorry…” Celestia spoke, looking hurtful. “Its just that I don’t want you to hear those words of unjust mistrust and fear towards you. You deserve better.”

Lune went over to her sister and put her hoofs on Celestia’s shoulders looking deep into her sisters eyes. “I’m sorry that I’m causing you so much trouble sister Tia.” Luna said lowly clearly expressing her discomfort in bringing so many problems to her elder sister.

Celestia smiled. “Don’t worry so much dear sister, I’ll take care of it, I promise. I’ll never let you feel true sorrow ever again.” She said, as she nuzzled the lunar princess’ mane. “But I’ll ask you again to consider coming to the next council meeting. The sooner we get to share the throne the sooner they will accept you as their lunar princess.”

Luna put her hoofs back to the floor again. “I don’t know Tia.” She started “I don’t think they would speak their true mind if I was by your side under the council meetings.”

“Hmm,” Celestia hummed. “I’ve already closed the topic towards you, so they’ll never speak ill of you again in count. But please, just think about it. Okay? That’s all I ask of.” Celestia said with a soft and caring voice, making Luna realize that she truly felt that this would be for better.

“Okay sis, I’ll think about it.” Luna said, as she smiled at Celestia’s cheerful face.

“They seem to think that they are the rulers around here, so you need to take them with a grain of salt.” Celestia said.
Luna’s smile began to fade as she looked down into the floor. “I really screwed up… before, 1000 years ago no pony ever noticed me, now they all just hate me.” She almost whispered.

“That wasn’t you my sweet.” Celestia said seeing Luna’s gloomy expression.

“Don’t say that! Nightmare moon is as much a part of me as I’m.” Luna told Celestia in a hard voice, almost at the brink of crying.

“Do you truly believe that Lulu?” Luna didn’t show a sign of a reply, so Celestia tried to press the issue a bit more, hoping to make Luna see it wasn’t her fault at all. “Lulu, do you remember that I was there when you transformed into Nightmare moon?” Luna looked up at her sister, looking like she wanted to know where her sister would go with this. “I came to you asking, no pleading for you to lower the moon once again, but already there I was too late. I saw how it consumed your weaken heart that were no longer yours to control. When I came to you, you had been possessed by an evil entity that I never heard of nor seen before in all of my existence. I was too weak to stop it, so I’m the one at fault here, I should have seen it all, somehow…” Celestia trailed off as tears started to form in her eyes. “You should never apologize to me sister, I was the one who did not see the signs. I’m the one to blame for Nightmare Moon’s rise. If I had just fixed your broken heart it would never had been able to consume you.” The tears started to drip from her sorrowful face “There didn’t go a day by where I haven’t thought of you for these last 1000 years.”

“I-I know,” Luna stammered for a bit. “I mean, it used my body and my powers against you and everypony else.”

Celestia signed at her little sister. “You need to see it in another perspective, dear sister.” She told Luna. “Yes, it is true that it used your body and your power to infuse its own evil desires, but even so, you cannot be blamed for that. That would makes as much sense as to blame a snake for being a predator, it cannot help it was born that way.” Celestia tried to counsel her sister.

“I know what you’re trying to get at Tia, but even so, and even though that your right, I still don’t feel it within me.” Luna said with a bitter voice.

Celestia just looked at her lunar sister while she bit her bottom lip. If Luna continues down this path of self-doubt then Nightmare Moon might return once more, she thought. She had to do something, she couldn’t let what happened a millennium ago occur once more! A thought suddenly stroke Celestia, as she thought back to ‘the summer sun celebration’ where Nightmare Moon had addressed her before she went onto the balcony announcing her return, that was the first time she saw Luna or at least some of her in a 1000 years. But she had to wonder; if Luna had been born evil, would her persona have been like Nightmare Moon’s? The creature that had possessed Luna is a parasite like entity that would normally had wander from host to host, as it would suck out its host’s very essence to keep itself alive, but when its host was immortal, then what would happen to it? Had it become as much a prisoner in Luna as Luna had in it? Never before in its existence would it have lived with its host, and especially not for a 1000 years, which must really have done a number on its psyche, Celestia wondered. It had probably found some ease in Luna, who was sleeping inside of it. Maybe it really had assimilation some of Luna’s persona to keep itself secure and sane, which might have been why it had addressed Celestia as its sister and still claimed that it wasn’t Luna anymore when they first meet after all those years.

“Tia?” A soft voice suddenly asked, breaking Celestia from her deep thoughts.

The solar princess looked a little dumbfounded at Luna as she snapped back to reality. “Sorry, I’m just really saddened that I’m unable to spend more time with you Lulu.” She lied innocently, not wanting to make it any harder on the poor mare. First thing tomorrow Celestia thought, she had to find a way to create a more happy life for her precious sister, perhaps she should sent her to her faithful student Twilight? She wondered, maybe some friends was all she needed to get her minds off things. But then again, that could so easily backfire, what if they didn’t embrace her? They would probably fear her, because to most ponies she and Nightmare Moon was the one and the same mare.

“That’s okay Tia.” Luna told her sister softly with a sugar sweet voice that melted Celestia’s ancient heart.

“Tell me Lulu,” Celestia asked her little sister. “do you still have those unpleasant dreams?” She asked Luna as she thought back to some of the times where she noticed Luna turning and touching around in the bed while she was sleeping, obviously having nightmares.

“Sometimes I still dream about her, the things she did and that things she might do if she returns, but not as much anymore.” Luna mildly replied. “Once a while; I do have pleasant dreams as well.”

“About her?” Celestia asked in an odd way.

“Uhm… no… about something else.” She said with a little blush forming on her cheeks as she thought about a silly filly dream she had about her and Celestia that was having a picnic in the royal garden a summer evening, but her faithful student had also been there which she was a bit puzzled about this as she thought about it. She had never really meet Twilight, and she seemed to appear in all of her dreams. And even more confusing; why did she always feel silly whenever she was near and why did she always have such a strong need to just sit or stay closer by her? True she did fight her when she was under the control of Nightmare Moon but Luna herself never really had any contact with the lavender mare.

Celestia too was in thought as her thoughts once more drifted off to Nightmare Moon and to some of the complications that had followed, such as Von Slemmer. She was quite sad that there are ponies like Von Slemmer that would probably never accept Luna no matter what she did, having too much hate in their little pony hearts. Even if the creature had been killed ponies like him would probably still distrust and hate Luna. Evidently some ponies just never can forgive and forget and sadly they are almost always the ones whose hate will be their own undoing and thus suffer the most.

“Come Lulu,” Celestia said. “Let’s go to my chambers so I can tuck you in.”

“But I haven’t lowered the moon yet.” Luna replied.

“Not to worry my dear, I’ll take care of that.” Luna raised an eye brow at this, almost as if Celestia didn’t think she could take care of her own duties anymore, but Celestia just smiled at this. “I just want to tuck you in before my daily duties begin. Beside I also want to tell you a little story before your night is over.” She finished as they made their way towards the solar princess’s bedchamber.