On the highest peak of Paradise island, Princess Diana and a few of her fellow Amazons stare at the night sky for their study of the constellations, finding the absolute beauty in all of the night's stars. But Diana wasn't staring at the sky, but rather at the island shores where the moon's reflecting in the waters closet to their home. This wasn't unnoticed by her fellows.

"Just look up, Princess!" A violet earth pony yelled her instructions to the alicorn princess.

Diana doesn't look back at her instructor, but spoke back to her. "I've seen them before, Star Gaser." Diana replied as she continued to aim her scope at the beach.

"And so you've learned all there is to learn?" Star Gaser asked sarcastically. "The skies have revealed their mysteries to you, have they?

"You know that is not what I'm saying." Diana replied, putting her scope down with her magic. What she didn't see was her friend, Kasia, was watching the two ponies talk.

"What I know that every time you join us in our observations, you refuse to turn your eye up, but instead insist upon casting your gase out, Diana, and I don't understand why." Star Gaser pointed her hoof from the sky to the shore to visualize it to Diana.

Diana just smiled. "But you do, sister. You just don't feel it."

"That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard." Kasia said with laughter, making herself known to the rest of the Amazons in the room.

Diana soon giggled with her. "I suppose it is rather silly." She replied to Kasia

Later, they were excused by Star Gaser to leave the mountain top after the end of class, leaving Diana and Kasia to walk down the stairs from the mountain to the arch at the bottom of it.

"You vex Star Gaser on purpose, Diana." Kasia told Diana about half way down. Diana could fly down the mountain with her wings, but since Kasia is a unicorn, Diana would rather walk with her friend.

Diana has a face of concern. "You know I don't, Kasia. I can see the beauty of the sky, I can see the poetry in it's motion." Diana takes a pause in her sentence as she and Kasia have to jump over a couple missing stairs that were still in reconstruction after Diana was knocked into them during a hour of flying last week. She then continued her conversation. "All of you remember before you arrived on the Island. You can recall the world you left, even if the memories of it bring you pain. On the other hand, I've never seen what lies beyond our shores." Diana said as soon as they reached the arch. "Have you ever wondered why my goes to the horizon instead of the skies?" She asked Kasia when she spotted the moonlight's reflection in the fountain at the island square, which is where they arrived.

In the cathedral square of the island, where a large majority of the markets are, the Amazons interact with each other as sisters in hooves. Diana and Kasia are at the lower left end of the square as Diana is heading back the her mother's palace.

On the way there, Kasia talks with Diana of the time before arrival on the island. "Anyway, I'd sooner forget what I remember, my friend. My life as a mare slain at the hands of the stallion who took offense at my refusal of him?" She shutters at remembering her painful past, Diana putting a hoof over her shoulder, Kasia then changes the subject. "That is the world beyond, Diana, and I doubt very little has changed. The Princesses of Equestria who have helped our Queen grant us eternal life and a thousand years of peace. They ask little of us in return."

"I know." Diana simply said to her best friend as they got closer to her home.

"You also know what was said about the empire that we, the Princesses, and their guard have endured when we fought the dark king who cursed the empire he ruled vanish from this plain of existence when he seemed defeated." Kasia reminded Diana with this information.

This information rang a bell to Diana. "I remember being taught this information from Antiope. She said when the empire vanished, the ponies who were its subject also vanished, never seen again." Diana could recall sitting in shock when she told this when she was a little filly.

"I know, I'm just afraid of that happening to you if you were to leave the island." Kasia said out of concern as they have reached the large and spacious palace where Queen Hippoltya resides when not interacting with her fellow Amazons. "Well, here we are."

"I wouldn't expect my mother to be home so early, especially with the upcoming games." Diana joked about her mother's lateness.

"Ah, I'm so excited for this year's games! I hope to compete this time, I have been practicing just as much as you do." Kasia squealed with excitement and anticipation.

Diana then had a giggling smirk. "You have been practicing alright, when you aren't spending time stuck in a book you have read hundreds of time." Diana said as she walked to the front door.

"You read some too!" Kasia giggled before she gave Diana a hug. "I hope you have a plasent sleep and have many great dreams, your highness."

"I hope the same for you." Diana said, then she and Kasia got out of the hug before she opened the gigantic doors to get inside the palace and she is in the great hall. The great hall was massive with many decorations to fill the massive room. It has statues of mares wielding spears, swords and, and bows in their hooves, medium size vases containing beautiful plants, tapestries displaying historic moments of the Amazons, including Diana's creation. The tapestry having a image of Queen Hippolyta holding the newly born Diana with her magic. Unlike many babies, Diana was sculpted from clay by her mother and brought to life by Celestia and Luna as a final gift for Hippolyta.

"Daughter." A voice is heard from the other side of the room, the voice coming from Queen Hippolyta herself.

Diana is shocked at seeing her mother at home rather early. "Mother, I thought you wouldn't be home from planning the games until 10:30."

"You sound disappointed." Hippolyta said as she walked to her daughter.

Diana looked nervous liked she believed she offended her mother. "Oh no, I'm not disappointed, I'm glad to see you home."

Mother and daughter stared at each other until they started laughing at what each has said in the last 30 seconds, until Hippolyta hugged her mother. "How was tonight's lessons?" She asked her daughter.

"Nothing out of the ordinary. I was just told that I stare at the sea more than I do the sky." Diana recounted the night's events.

"You must think the water is prettier then, though the moon does look beautiful in it." Hippolyta joked with Diana. "Tomorrow, I'm practicing my skills with my bow with Philppus and Antiope, would you join us? Or are you too fatigued from staying the night with your friends in class to go shooting with the Queen?" Hippolyta asked Diana.

Diana gave a reply. "I'm not much in the mood to shoot with the queen, but it would make me very happy to shoot with my mother." Diana let herself be kissed on the forehead by her mother, her mother making sure to not interlock their alicorn horns.

Author's Note

Welcome to chapter one of my first story, I hoped everypony enjoyed themselves with this chapter and wish to see more.