When the darkness comes

          (This chapter is a flashback. Just trying to clear that up to those who were confused.)

“I think she's waking up, doctor."

             “Good tell the Council, and someone please get her a glass of water."

    As the two voices trotted out of her room, Celestia slowly open her eyes, meeting only a bright light from nearly; her eyes adjusted. She craned her head towards the room's window. It was still dark and it was also was beginning raining.

'Still dark' she weakly thought. The battle with her sister had worn her out to the extent of her powers. She opened her eyes and then closes them. She does this for a couple of minutes until the door to her room creaked open.

"Your majesty, I brought some water for you," A nurse called out, opening the door with a class of water in the nurse's magical aura.

The nurse hovers the water near Celestia's mouth. She arched her head towards the glass, taking a slip. After she was done, the nurse places the water near a desk next to Celestia bed.

"Is there anything you need, your majesty?" The nurse asked.

Celestia nodded. "Yes, I was wondering where am I, and where my sister is? My memory is a little fuzzy." The nurse went wide eyed.

"Is there something wrong, nurse?" Celestia asked.

"No, no there nothing wrong you’re in canterlot, your majesty...I...I need to see the doctor." The nurse quickly responded and trotted out of her room, leaving a confused, Injured, princess.

       ' Well that was strange.' She thought as she looked towards the window again. The rain begins to battle against the window as thunderstorms crackled through the darken skies. Celestia could see the lanterns hovering in the air by their owners as they tried to get out of the storm.

Canterlot had changed a lot in the past thousand years since she and her sister had moved from that Castle in the Everfree forest. She remembers the time when she and her sister used to play in the forest with their mother and the Guardian .

She stops at that thought. Tears began to appear in her eyes as the recent memories of her mother's friend begin to set in.

Ever sense me and my sister were born in our old home in the Everfree forest; before our mother and our family abandoned the castle when the war with Discord was drawing to a close. I never wonder why our mother and uncle, Lunar, left the place. There was nothing wrong with it (well except living in a spooky forest.) they had never explain why we have to leave, maybe because of the Guardian's recent passing.

The Guardian was....different than us at the castle; our Guardian that....man.

What a strange name for his species, Man.

Our mother will always tell us about him on how she met him in a zebra village (present day Zwanda) near the borders of the griffon tribes, working with the chieftain on fixing water well during a drought, during one of her travels with her brother to search for an alicorn artifact that was hidden there.

She never told me or my sister about this artifact she and my uncle had kept in our former home; she and the guardian always warns us to never go near it, even the door itself was not to be open by us.

Yet I and my sister had grown close to the guardian over our years as fillies, even one time, during dinner in the great dining hall. Luna accidentally called him 'papa' when she asked for more water. It was...weird at the time. It was first time I ever heard Luna say that to our Guardian. It was very awkward at the dinner table, luckily our uncle wasn't home at the time, and he was out, getting supplies from nearly towns near the forest; every time I see him and the Guardian together, they always...glared at each other. Sometimes they'll fight; they don't always fight around me or Luna though; after the dinner, my mother and the Guardian to our study. I can’t ever hear what they're

I don't know why they fight all the time; sometimes I can hear my uncle said about him being a negative influence on me and Luna. The Guardian has never told us to do anything bad; he just plays with us almost all the time, well when our mother calls to him in having a little talk in her bedroom. Their talks would last for hours on end; I don't why they have these talks. When their 'talks' ended in the middle of the night, the Guardian will always come out first, hearing his heavy footsteps, exhausted and sweating showed on his face. Later mother would come out as well, exhausted and sweating as the Guardian; her legs were shaking, barely handing on. I never understand why she has these talks with him.

Is she asking him to move something in her room? Need someone to talk to about personal problems that her uncle couldn't help? Or maybe mother is...in a relationship with---.

Her train of though was interrupted when the cracks of thunder begin again in the ongoing storm, illuminated her room. She wasn't scared of the lighting, despite her young. The Pegasus had moved in clouds to clear the....blood from across Equestria. The bodies of the solders have been retrieved from the battlefields all across the kingdom.

The kingdom will mourn for its children, but it will not give in to chaos.

The mothers will weep for their sons and husbands, yet their souls will not be broken.

The children will cry for their parents, but they will always be with them.

The people will suffer from this for generations to come, yet we still prevail.

Song: Johnny cash- hurt

I hurt myself today to see if I still feel.

Yet except the one goddess in her hospital bed, weeping liked a child. The memories of her sister flood through her mind.

I focus on the pain, the only thing that real.

The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.

She remembers the time when she plays with her sister in the Everfree, playing tag, laughing and having fun.

Try to kill it all the way, but I remember everything.

What have I become, my sweetest friend.

The memories of the battle return to her mind, she weeps even more.

Everyone I know goes away in the end.

She remembers her royal guards getting killed during the battle; she remembers every one of them through her years as their leader. One of them was father, a brother, a son to someone, yet they will never experience their entire lives.

And you will have my empire of dirt.

As old memories flow through her mind, she remembers the drama of polices in the throne room, Barley anything could get down and she and her sister are powerless to stop it. If only mother wasn't killed by poison, she would find a way to stop it.

I will let you down. I will make you hurt.

The stresses of a princess ruling a country is hard on her, yet the suffering of ponies had ended.

I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar's chair.

Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair.

The families of the soldiers, who died in battle, want Celestia to be bringing them back, but no. The goddess can't. She is not a true god. After that they lost faith in her.

Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear.

Time has passed so long for the sisters. Their childless nature had been long gone; a new nature has overcome them. Leading a nation, their feelings had been long gone now.

You are someone else. I am still right here.

What have I become, my sweetest friend.

Everyone I know goes away in the end.

A new batch of tears formed in Celestia's eyes, streaming down her cheeks. The memories keep on flowing through her now, She finally realized now that is her fault for her sister downfall. The ignorance of her actions had broken her connection to the elements of Harmony. Now the elements will be sit idly at the abandoned ruins of her once childhood home.

They will wait in slumber until they would be awakened by six ponies that follow the true values of friendship, even if Equestria would come under threat, they will not help.

And you could have it all, my empire of dirt.

I would let you down. I will make you hurt.

If I could start again, a million miles away.

Celestia looked out to the window again, seeing the rain had stopped and the clouds moving away, revealing her sister moon. More tears leaked out of her eyes.

“Luna...I'm....so...S-sorry." She wiped her eyes with her covers, attempting to remove any evidence of her crying.

I would keep myself.

She stops when a knock came to her door.

“Celle, may I come in?" A familiar voice asked.

“Yes you may...Aunt Europa."

The door slowly opens; her aunt slowly walks towards her bed, concern in her eyes.

Her aunt had those green sapphire eyes that made anyone feel…welcome. Her fur is dark with stripes around her legs, due to her mother’s zebra ancestry. Her mane was dark olive with bits of red steaks in it.

“I have…heard about luna.” She said, blowing the bits of hair from her eyes. Celestia didn’t reply, just looking down to her hooves.

"It’s not your fault, my child.”

Silence

“Speak to me, Celle. What happened?”

More silence

“Please, Celle talk---.” She was interrupted as her niece throws her arms around her, crying on her shoulder. Europa rubs her hooves to her niece’s back, comforting the poor child.

‘I have lost a friend, my stepsister, and now my niece.’ Europa thought sadly as the suppressed memories of the Guardian funeral during the war with Discord. Her stepsister’s during the aftermath of the war, and now her niece, lulu is banish to the moon.

She looks through the window, seeing her niece moon; now covered with the face of Princess of the Night, looking down on her.

“Lulu please be strong up there.” She muttered as a single tear shed on her face.

I would find a way.

(Yes I know it short, but hey I got life as everyone else on this planet, but this is the beginning of this story; next chapter will focus on the war with Zebras and if any of you are asking what Prometheus looks like, well I'm keeping that for a secret for now.)

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