Mornings in Canterlot are always spectacular, due to the sun goddess Celestia Living in the city, with the sun rising in such a way the colors of the sky all come on display all at once before the calm blue takes over. For many mornings are tranquil and beloved, but for others, like Celestia, they are a pain.

"Sister, I simply do not understand how you manage to wake up so easily." A Groggy and slightly grumpy Celestia says while brushing her mane.

"I do not know, it just comes naturally to me." Luna states while munching on some pancakes brought in by a maid.

Celestia grumbles as she finishes brushing her mane, which goes back to its 'ethereal' state of constant 'being blown in the wind even though your inside'-ness. She picks up a newspaper delivered to her before the morning by a servant and begins to skim through the news.

"Lucky you luna, Have you tried this tea? I ordered it from The Human kingdom of Paragon, quite a interesting flavor." Celestia says while taking a sip and offering a cup to her sister.

"Well i guess ill try it-" Luna is cut off when Celestia does a spit take onto her, As she reads the headlines to the newspaper she ignored out of habit. "SISTER! Why have thou spitteth upo- ahem- why did you spit on me!" Luna demands as she casts a spell to dry herself off.

"Read this!" Celestia yells as she shoves the newspaper in Luna's face.

"Tia i don't understand why this is a-" Luna stops her sentence as she gazes upon the 6 letter title..

"Unification of The New Human Empire"

Luna is taken aback as she rereads the title then goes onto read the paragraphs below. "Tia! This cannot be true? The humans are always a warlike race that constantly bicker over themselves! How is it possible they have unified?!" Luna states, flabbergasted.

"I do not know but i feel the next council of nations is going to be interesting, for it comes up at the beginning of next year, only a month away. I guess we will have to remove a few dozen seats from the table.."

Celestia calms herself down as Luna frantically reads the paper for more information, Celestia walks to the balcony and watches over the city, noticing how news stands and shops are quite busy today most likely to the recent news. She sighs and remembers back to the days of the old human empire. More than 1300 years ago, even before discord arrived...

1300 Years ago..

Human Griffin and Equestrian Triple border.

Mid day..

Celestia stands alongside her sister as she watches the equestrian royal guards standing in formation on the hill, with their griffin allies above and beside them. Their king being slain in a recent engagement with the humans and thus the griffins hold a resentment for them. The humans have been on a rampage conquering much of Equestria and the Griffin lands, but have been pushed back by a combined effort by the two sides. With them being pushed back into their borders after 3 years of bloody fighting and slaughter on both sides, the humans are on the ropes, and this battle will determine if the human empire lives, or dies. And On the opposite side of a valley from the Equestrian/Griffin forces is the human army, roughly equal in size to the combined armies of Equestria and the Griffin kingdom, with their standard heavy armored infantry in front with their large rectangular shields and shortswords, while the equestrians rely on their long halberds and small bucklers. Both armies waiting for the other to make the first move. Standing as still as possible to not show any weakness. For 3 days this has been going on, each trying to find some disadvantage they can exploit. Soon a trumpet plays and the humans begin to march forward towards them, giving up their hill advantage in favor of engaging the enemy.

Celestia has been expecting this and when the humans cross halfway into the valley she shoots a magical flare into the sky, causing the humans to stop and raise their shields expecting arrow fire, Yet something else rains from the sky. Pegassi and griffins. They drop down behind the heavy infantry and cut down the Human archers who attempt to shoot them out of the sky, with minimal success due to them being rushed in training. The Human infantry try to rush back to help their auxiliaries until the blare of a horn signals the combined equestrian and griffin forces to charge, pinning the humans on both sides.

As the Equestrian Halberds meet Human shields the slaughter begins, humans fighting bravely and ferociously yet being surrounded they are squished together so compactly they couldn't bring their arms to bear. Celestia herself joins the battle only to narrowly avoid a javelin to the back as the Human Centurion stands alone to fight her in single combat. She accepts and summons her own magical halberd as the human prepares another pilum as a rallying cry from the Humans manage to route the flanking pegassi and griffins and allow the humans to focus on the Equestrian heavy infantry.

Celestia narrows her eyes as she orders her own troops to let her deal with this one human. The Human doing the same, preparing to hurl a javelin before Celestia fires a magical bolt at him, causing him to block with his shield. She charges the human and stabs at him only to be deflected by his large shield, which he uses to make a stab at celestia, only to find his pilum to bounce off her armor and bend.

Swearing in his native tongue, He draws his sword as Celestia makes to bring her halberd's ax head down on him only barely missing as the human dodges to the side and charges her with his shield raised, causing her to be hit with it and drop her halberd causing it to disappear. She quickly summons a shield spell to stop a potentially fatal stab at her as she summons her longsword and kicks his shield out of his hands, knocking the human back a few feet leaving him with only his shortsword to use. Quick to gain on her advantage Celestia makes a stab at the human only to be deflected by the short sword and having to narrowly avoid a slash at her head.

With both parties ignoring the ongoing battle and circling around each-other, waiting for the other to make the first move, only for the human to trip on a rock and fall causing Celestia to rush forward and prepare to slice downwards, only to take a handful of dirt and dust to the face, getting in her eyes and having her trip and drop her weapon as she rubs her eyes. Her Humanish isnt very good but she swore she heard him say something along the lines of 'pocket sand'.

Quckly the human gets up and stabs at Celestia, managing to stab her through her armor into her abdomen, causing a shriek to come from her. She quickly blasts the human off her with a knockback spell and digs the sword from her, wincing in the progress. She casts a minor healing spell to help as she gets up and limps over to the human who is disorientated from the spell. Celestia kneels over him and raises his own blade above him, The human makes eye contact with the young Celestia before she ends his life with a stab to the neck.

Slowly Celestia begins to realise how heavily she is breathing and how much her wound hurts. She grasps her wound to see her hand coated in blood. Soon she hears her own men cheer as she notices the battle for the first time since the duel began, The human forces have been routed or slaughtered, though with many casualties on the Equestrian/Griffin side. Before She can celebrate she goes unconsious from her wounds...

1300 Years later...

Celestia puts her hand over her scar that has stuck with her ever since, the blade being made of a rare metal that wounds made by it rarely heal. She looks over to her ancient suit of armor, her signature halberd, longsword and her newer rifle and officers pistol hanging by it, with the exact same sword framed on the wall.. It all seemed so long ago, yet so recent for her.

"Tia.. You are remembering the battle again?" Luna asks her sister.

"Yes.. I simply cannot forget it, was the first time i personally took a life, and the first time i nearly died.." Celestia states. She sighs as she look over the sun that is in the sky, hoping this new empire wont be like the last...

Author's Note

OK new story, hope you like it. Leave any comments on spelling mistakes or plotholes i missed. Also just for the sake of mentioning, tech level is WW1 to WW2 tech, and anthro in case you didnt see the 'anthro' tag.