Chapter 1

“There’s something in my schedule yet?” Asked Celestia to her secretary while stretches her legs and wings before set the Sun.

“No your highness, that was the last one.” Said Raven Inkwell.

“Well, I think we’re done today” spoke Celestia while the Sun lowers on the horizon.

“Yes, your highness” Said Raven.

Celestia began to walk in direction of her bedroom, but before she left the throne room, she spoke to the other mare again.

“Raven?”

“Yes, princess?”

“This week was a really long and exhaustive, take the weekend off. We see on Monday morning”

“Oh, thank you princess.” Said Raven while Celestia walks through the hallway to her bedroom.

Is almost 01:00 AM and Celestia still working, even after finish her turn as a princess of the day, there’s a lot to do. She’s tired and looks to a pile of papers on her desk that demand her attention “Isn’t nothing so urgent that can’t wait until morning” She thought while left the desk in direction of the bathroom. After a relaxing warm bath, the princess walks to her bed.

Laying on bed, she thinks on her life, how many ponies she meet on all those centuries, who was her friends when she was just a common mare. She remembers her early years, when she was only a young pony with nothing to worry, when her only responsibility was her young sister Luna and not a kingdom with so many ponies that she can’t even count. " Oh Luna," she think about all those centuries of solitude after banish her sister to the Moon “ I can’t even imagine how you felt, alone in that place for a millennia. How I could be so blind, how I could ignore you and makes you felt that you was unloved? How I could banish you, the pony I loved more than myself?

For thousand years, she thought every night about it, She really did the right thing? Being the judge, jury and executor for her own sister? Banish Luna without offer her a chance to redeem herself? through this pain, she remembers all the joyful moments that she had, all the ponies who helped her in more than a millennia of life and thinks about that who one day was her most talented and loved student. Using her magic, she grabs a photo on her nightstand desk, is a image of her and a young unicorn, both are smiling. A lot of memories came to her mind, they soon transforms in tears of pain and sadness to her eyes. She gently touches the photography with her hoof, “I miss you so much my little sunshine, hope you come home soon and maybe someday you can forgive me for my mistakes”. She embraces the photo and sleep.

In her dreams she sees a lot of young ponies playing together, her attention is catch by a yellow unicorn filly with a fiery mane who is running and laughing with the others. The image changes, the young unicorn is now a teenager, her pupil, the princess sees a shadow cross the unicorn’s eyes but she ignores. Now she and the young unicorn is on the castle library, the girl scream with the princess but there’s no sound, but this is unnecessary, Celestia had those words carved deep in her heart.

Now there's only darkness, the unicorn has gone, Celestia is sit in front of a mirror, the same that years ago the young unicorn crossed, “She will never come back, why I expect she will? There’s nothing that can makes she wish come back to Equestria. I've messed all up” The princess looks to the ground and close her eyes when feel a touch on her shoulder. She turns her head and sees the night princess at her side.

Luna sees a deep sadness on her sister eyes, unfortunately this is not the first time she found Celestia this way, she have this same nightmare once or twice a week. See her sister living this again and again, hurts deep the night princess heart. She sits and place a wing over Celestia.

“This dream again sister?” Said Luna dissolving the image with her wings. “Tia, to this nightmare have a end, you both need to talk and move on with your lives, even if apart” Luna's voice is firm, but kind at same time, she know Celestia still blaming herself, but for her own experience, she also know that forgive herself is one of the most important steps to left the past in the past.

Celestia said nothing, she look to the ground and let a long sigh escapes.

“You’re right Luna, if I don't talk to her, I'll regret for the rest of my life." Celestia spoke with a bit of sadness on her voice.

"Now sister, is time to have a good dream, since you have to rise the sun in a few hours." Said Luna leaving Celestia with kiss on the cheek and a dream full of cakes.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the mirror, is Saturday, 01:30 AM

Sunset Shimmer is awake in your apartment while the girls are sleeping after the sleepover. She grabs her journal and writes to Twilight.

Dear princess Twilight,
Hope I won't wake-up you with this message. How are the things back in Equestria? A lot of friendship problems to solve? Here in Canterlot High is everything ok, no one was affected by equestrian magic. Our new magics become better day after day, I think in this point here and in Equestria magic works the same way, more practice, more control. Change the subject a little, I want you opinion about a thing. I was thinking a lot in goes back to Equestria, i mean, I've been there twice before, but this time is different. I want to apologize with princess Celestia, when i leave Equestria, said awful things to her. There's so many things i need to spoke to her, and I'm not sure if i had enough courage to face her after all I did, but every time i see principal Celestia, I'm fell so bad and small not knowing what the princess thinks of me. I need to talk to her to move on, turn this page of my life, i know this sounds (looks) selfish and maybe are, but I can't still living without saying to her that I'm so sorry for all things I have done before.

Some minutes latter, Sunset's journal starts to glow, she's received a answer.

Sunset, I already said you don't need call me princess, we're friends, there's no need for all this formalism. I'm happy with your progress with the geodes magic, even not knowing how they arrived on the crystal cave near the Everfree camp. I presume they work like the elements of harmony here from Equestria, so there's elements in other worlds? I don't know but can be, right? Unfortunately only Starswirl knows how the mirror works and I don't think he is happy with us jumping through the worlds. Sometime ago Equestria and other mirror world almost was destroyed by this, but this is a story for other moment.

Turning the subject back, I will be more than happy if you comes here, after all in your last visit we can't talk. I'm sure princess Celestia will be happier than me meeting you, every time we meet she asks about you, she really miss you Sunset. If you want, I can arrange a meeting for you two.

Say to the girls they will be welcome if want come, and i guess Rarity is dying of curiosity to see the castle, and I really want to talk with your world Twilight Sparkle, I think we have a lot in common.

Before Sunset could answer, she receives another message.

Why you don't spend the weekend here in Equestria? So we can see princess Celestia tomorrow afternoon.

Sunset look to the text in her journal for some seconds before answer.

I'm not sure if I'm ready Twilight. You want know, damn it, I'm going to Equestria face the princess! I would have to do it sooner or later. Just don't forget, if she burns me until ashes, I'll blame and spook you every night for the rest of you immortal alicorn life ;-) Jokes apart, I'll ask the girls if they wanna go with me.

When Sunset dropped the pen, Pinkie touched her back and said: "I'm in". In another situation this could be weird, but is Pinkie, thinks Sunset, so she just tilt her head.

On the morning, after the girls awakes, Sunset talks about princess Twilight invite, while she talks, Pinkie sat on the floor, holding her backpack waiting the talk ends. The girls agree this is so sudden, but would be impolite if they don't accept.

"I don't know if are a good idea change our weekend plans this sudden. What I would say to my parents? I can't tell I going to the magical land of talking ponies, this sounds crazy, well my life was been quite uncommon last months" Said Twilight.

"Just say that you goes visit a friend who lives outside the city darling." Pointed Rarity.

"But it's a lie" Said Applejack

"Not really my dear Applejack, is just a half true. Princess Twilight lives in Equestria, that's technically outside our city, so if Twilight here says we are visiting a friend who lives out of Canterlot city, is true."

"You must admit she have a good point here". Said Pinkie to Applejack

"I won't agree, but is fine for me" Said Applejack.

Sunset sees that Twilight isn't saying nothing. She touches her friend's shoulder.

"What's the problem Twilly, something worries you?"

"I'm don't know if i must go. Princess Twilight and I barely know each other, we just talk for a minute or two last time we see, not to count is a quite strange talk to her, since we look very similar and we are alternate versions one of other. She's a magical pony princess for another dimension and I'm just a girl who looks like her".

Sunset give a sweet smile to the purple girl.

"Twilly, she asks you to goes for Equestria just for talk to you, she wanna be your friend, like us."

Twilight sighs and looks in Sunset eyes.

"Fine, I go. This could be fun right?"

Author's Note

Dear reader, thanks for reading my story, I hope you enjoy (or enjoied if you already read). If there's something that don't makes sense is because english is not my first language, so I'm not so good writing, or I'm just a bad writter, you decide. Anyway if you have some sugestion, I'll be happy reading these.