“Many years have passed since the moon turned upon the sun and ponykind was forced to make a most terrible choice, and yet I feel like it was yesterday. I stood guard for our princess during the day, and when I took my post I saw her speaking with her sister.

If only we, as subjects, knew what our neglect was doing to the princess of the night! Then we might never...

Nevermind…

The princess of our night turned upon Celestia, princess of our day, and they waged a fierce battle. The towers of our castle rocked and many fell under their might! A gorge was rent onto the earth that stretches nigh as far as the eye can see.

The long night, some called it. The time when our night princess went to war with her own sister…

……

The sun rose. The dawn of the final day.

An angry, flaming red ball of fire that overcame the dark of the night. On that third morning Princess Celestia appeared like a demon, wreathed in fire. Those who stepped into the sunlight were quickly afflicted with terrible burns from the heat. Grass began to shrivel. The canopies of trees erupting into fire. Around us the very world began to burn in HER fury.

An angry, betrayed goddess furious with the hand fate had dealt her…. The peals of broken laughter we could hear hiding within the castle sent chills down our spines. She was no longer the kind princess that we had doted upon. She would burn us all…. The ponies here in Everfree… The ponies back home in the Foal Mountain settlement… I wonder if the ice up in the north was melting to.

……

Much to our sorrow…. First Minister Clear Sight passed from the heat on the sixth day.

We had to put a stop to it. How could we truly choose between two evils? A mare who would place the whole of Equestria into an eternal night or….

Or a mare who wanted to burn Equestria of all that caused her such pain….

May our forebears forgive us for the choice we made. A group of our best left to aid Nightmare Moon in battle. That was the last we ever saw of them. After a quarter cycle of the royal timepiece, the sun flared an angry red once again before it faded into it’s normal gentle yellow… then dimmed as night overtook it… And then it was gone. To all of us who saw this we didn’t know what to feel….

The sky was dark, and the moon shown overhead triumphant.

I thought…’May our remaining goddess have mercy on us’…. “

Captain Gleaming Targe, ~~First Solar Regiment~~ Eighth Lunar battalion

Author's Note

Well, here I am to try to give writing a try. Wish me luck.