A young Princess Celestia mourned in silence as she held her head high as she quietly walked through one of the many dark corridors of the Royal Castle in Everfree Forest. The torches that has lit up the corridor had died long ago, thankfully the soft glow of her magic lit up the corridor enough for her to walk without bumping into anything. She turned her head slightly to look at the shining moon that was risen high into the sky.

She gave a soft sad smile as she thought about how beautiful her sister always made the sky each night, without fail. But it faltered and died as soon as her thoughts drifted to the events of the previous week. She flexed her right-wing without thinking, the wing was still sore from the events of last week. For a month, Luna and Celestia had to go into hiding in their own country because Discord, a...creature they trusted, betrayed them to the worst degree possible. Three weeks it took them to track down the mysterious elements Starswirl mentioned to them before he disappeared.

Then...They fought. Luna and Discord always picked on each other, constantly making fun of each other and empty threats of violence but during that fight, they followed through on each and every one of them. Luna often threatened she would use the power of the moon to break every bone in Discord's body, to her credit, if Discord didn't have the magic that he does, she would have been successful and killed him in the process. Discord always threatened he could easily beat them within minutes if they tried to defeat him in a battle. Celestia flinched as she remembered how Discord blasted her full force with magic, slamming her into a jagged mountain. Causing her right-wing to snap painfully, echoing in her ears before she tumbled down the mountain.

Celestia never admitted it to Luna but she loved Discord, and he loved her, a fact only she and Discord knew about. Luna could barely stand him so when Luna found Celestia laying in a pool of her own blood with the elements scattered around her, she didn't hesitate to pick them up and use her magic to pick Celestia up and fly towards Discord with one last final warning to stop.

Celestia could barely remember what happened after that. Discord became distracted at the sight of Celestia's broken state. Celestia had to remain conscious but was barely holding on as Luna told her they had no choice. They had no more time. They had to stop him there and then or they would both be killed. So, Celestia agreed. She flared up her horn with one more burst of magic, connecting it to Luna's magic and within seconds her best friend was nothing but a statue in the middle of a field.

It hurt. It hurt her heart more than any broken bone or head injury could. It felt like somepony stabbed her one million times in the heart before ripping it out. Luna and Celestia collapsed in front of the statue almost immediately, too drained from the battle to move any longer. Hopping the guards would be able to scramble back together to go search for them.

"I am sorry, Tia. I know he was your friend."

Luna didn't understand. She couldn't possibly understand what they had done. Not that it was any fault of Luna's. Celestia never told her. But that didn't stop resentment and anger from flaring up, directed at Luna, Discord and herself. But, like a good leader, she pushed it down to the deepest darkest areas of her mind and nodded.

"It had to be done."

The truth hurt. Celestia's eyes watered as she quickly used her healed wing to wipe them away as she could hear a door being opened near her. She turned to see a nervous bat pony guard opening the door slightly. Clearing looking for her.

"Princess Celestia?"

"Yes?" Celestia asked, praying her voice was steady, not showing any sign of weakness. The bat pony gulped and straightened his posture in an attempt to be more confident and professional as he raised his chin. Celestia smirked internally as she thought about how new he must be to the job.

"Princess Luna is looking for you, she has re-"

"Tell Princess Luna, I am unavailable tonight." Celestia interrupted a bit hastily. A wave of guilt hit her hard as she continued to speak. "I will be in the Library doing research."

"Y-yes, Princess." The guard nodded. He hesitated before leaving the corridor. Leaving her alone in the dark corridor. Celestia wasn't lying, not exactly. She was headed to the Library, ever since the fight, Celestia had been trying to find something, anything in Starswirl's notes or any books about them in the Library. Hoping to find answers to what the elements did, what they meant. Hypothetically, she could have taken off to see Luna. To do some stargazing like when they were unicorns but now...Now, she couldn't be around Luna. Not right now. Luna reminded her too much of the final moments of the battle. How cold and calculating Luna looked and sounds as they banished Discord. Celestia had no right to feel that way.

But that didn't stop the hurt. The pain. They both did the magic to contain him and yet for some unknown reason to Celestia, she hated how uncaring Luna was to what they did. She moved on, she didn't feel a gaping hole in her life like Celestia did.

She didn't understand why Luna had been isolating herself, even before Discord went mad with Chaos magic, why she was so cold to her and most ponies for months now. But Celestia had reached the point where she didn't want to know anymore. She shoved the concern for her sister away like she had been doing with most of her personal issues lately, in favour of focusing on something she chose to be more important. Whether it was governing the country or magical studies.

Celestia sighed as she looked up to the beautiful night sky. Before shaking her head, reminding herself she had work to do and trotted towards the next door to her journey for the Library.

-End of Chapter One-

Author's Note

AN:

I hope you guys liked the story so far! Idk how updates are going to go because I have college, work and art to keep up with. It has been a while since I have written a story so I hope I can finish this. If you have any thoughts or ideas, please let me know in the comments! Thank you for reading.

I will be making an official cover for this soon hopefully. :)