POV Luna

I let out a deep sigh, tonight had been full of meetings with nobles and trying to reintegrate the Thestral population into Pony Society, I am quite proud of my children of the night for hiding so well but it was so frustrating to find them. My muscles are still tense from what Prince Blueblood said, the insults he had so casually thrown at my children of the night. The hallways are echoing with the sounds of my hoof falls in tune with the flow of my midnight blue dress as I wander the castle trying to desperately ease my muscles of that striking intensity. My mind slowly drifts to parts old and best left forgotten, parts full of blood, fire, and the same damn intensity in my muscles.

*BUMP*

"Ow what the....?"

I look up at what had just brought me out of my calming emptiness, it was a door, a door I was all to familiar with. The castle had many doors, some that led nowhere, others that hadn't been opened under my sisters orders, but this one was opened to all but lead to my favorite room. The Observatory. I smirk a bit at this and mutter to myself "Perhaps a look at my night sky will sooth my thoughts and ease my nerves."

As I enter the room I take a deep breath, while the room didn't have a particularly interesting smell, in fact it smelled like nothing, just that empty smell was comforting to me. That combined with the wide open room with the map of the stars covering the dome shaped ceiling and a telescope just outside on the balcony, could no one ask for anything better. I had grown to enjoy solitude like this over what I used to love to do in my past, after all in times of peace no one had any use for a sword. I walk to the telescope to look at my all to familiar stars and see if I could notice any differences in them. As I look through the telescope I see it had been set to look at my moon, I shudder a bit as I stare at it, my old prison where I was alone with nothing but my madness.

As I look to the moon I notice something odd, something just a bit of ways passed it, what could be their? I slowly adjust the telescope to its max setting, and with it I can just barely make out what I see.

"By all the stars in my night...."

I see a fortress, floating in the great empty of space. A fortress made of steel and glowed with faint magical lights, all around it were smaller metallic things that kinda resembled bugs if I was to be honest. I quickly move away from the telescope and rush out of the Observatory, I must inform my sister of what I had discovered.

POV Celestia.

"I'm gonna get you my sweet! And your delicious Todo too!" I cackle as I fly after the delicious vanilla cake.

The cake ran with its éclair in hand, the aforementioned éclair barking at me as the cake ran. Suddenly I feel a rumbling all around me and slowly my dream fades away.

"NOOOOOO!!! MY PRECIOUS!!!" I cry out as slowly the cake fades into nothing and slips through my grasp when I reach for it.

I am awakened to the sight of my sister, who looks rather panicked, shaking me in my bed. I grumble a little and look outside, seeing it is still night outside.

"Lulu" I grumble out "What is the matter? It's still night out and I know for a fact it isn't time to raise the sun."

My sister suddenly grabs my hand in hers and says "No time, gotta show you now!" and drags me out of my bed, despite all I had on was my favorite banana patterned nightgown.

As we rush past halls and doorways, climbing stairways and going down stairways, we eventually burst through the observatory door.

I look around briefly and ask "Ok sister what am I suppose to be seeing?"

''Look through the telescope, it should show you everything you should need to see."

I decide to comply with my sisters wish and look through the telescope, what I see is a large fortress like construction made entirely out of metal. My jaw drops in shock at this, I had heard of some old griffin named Hawking who predicted that extraterrestrial life had to exist beyond our own stars. I had wrote him off as a crackpot, oh how that old bird is probably rolling in his grave laughing his head off, granted that could happen since by now he probably is only bones. I shiver at this thought and look to my sister who looked deeply worried. I could only guess what she was thinking but I probably was having the same thoughts as her, 'Were these alien friends? Were they our enemies? What were their plans? What were all those other metallic objects up their? Were those ships? were they preparing a invasion?'

I take a deep breath and say with as much as I could muster "We need to contact Twilight and Cadence, have them come here so we can show them and quietly discuss our next course of action."

Luna nods and says "I will go and inform the Night Secretary to prepare a letter for you to send to them first thing in the morning sister....if you would like I could use a spell to send you back to sleep.'

''I would deeply appreciate that sister, thank you"

Me and my sister head back to my bedroom where I slip underneath the covers. As I do I look up to my younger sister as she prepares the spell and say "Goodnight Lulu..."

She smiles warmly and says "Good night Tia, sweet dreams." and just as horn releases the spell I drift back to sleep, chasing my cake and her éclair again.

Author's Note

Hey everyone hope you enjoy this story, this is my first time writing so any advice would be awesome

Just to note I may switch between first person and third person between chapter's.