I ran as fast as I could. Though, I had no real idea why. I did not see mother follow me out of the little cave and into the forrest. And I doubt she could do anything if she DID find me...

Had I really said...

No, I can not show weakness now. I must be stronger than they were. My siblings and my mother...basically taken from me!

Fools. No, idiots!

As I continued to gallop and dodge through the thick, dark trees, I yelled, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS TO ME!?"

Dang it.

Traitors, all of them.

I could tell-

Tell that my siblings were just as weak as mother now was!

...

I wasn't crying, crying shows weakness. I was- I was angry, again, it is all I could seemingly do...

Am I the weak one?

No...

I have to be strong.

I will finish mother's plans.

I shall avenge my family.

And I can't wait to kill Celestia.

(Calm.)

"That's irrational," I thought out loud, "I have to wait, gather my strength, let my enemy become lazy and complacent towards me before attacking viciously and without mercy."

Luna galloped as fast as she could to her sister, the thought of being back with her brought joy to Luna's thawing heart. She had made mistakes, the least she could do was to ask for counsel from her older sister on what to do next.

She stopped when she found her sister in their old, decrepit castle. It was unbelievable to her, so much time had passed since they...fought, since she lost herself to her anger and jealousy, since she had been banished. All the time that had passed...Luna's memories of the moon are hazy, like her mind is protecting itself from the trauma, the pain. Or maybe the memories were taken when whatever darkness took hold of her mind had left. But even then, from what she remembers, time on the moon did not fully make sense to her mind. What a strange place she controlled...

"S-sister!" she exclaimed.

"Yes, Luna, why the urgency? Are you hurt?" her sister replied.

"N-No! It's- I saw her. She was down by the tree of harmony, she seems to ha-"

"The tree of harmony?!" Celestia practically yelled, before regaining her royal composure, "Is it well?"

"Yes, it seems to have calmed or controlled her, I don't know which. But when I came closer, she jolted awake and sh- she... she said..."

Luna broke down on the floor, crying, feeling hopeless, feeling betrayed.

Her sister was quickly by her side and tried calming the crying mare, "Sister, dear, please, it is all right. Everything is alright. You must tell me what transpired. Sh sh sh."

The elements of harmony were coming closer, worry evident in their faces. Worry and...pity.

"She said she will only come with her true mother," the blue alicorn broke down once again.

"Mother..." Celestia had to mull on those words.

Luna wouldn't care about...unless...

No...am I an aunt?

"Luna, please, we are trying to help you, but you must calm down!"

Her sister seems to get at least some hold on her composure.

"Good! Good, now Luna, will you answer this simple question for me, ok? Am I...an aunt?"

I could see the shock in her face, and the faces of the elements of harmony...right, they were still here. Agh, this has not gone according to plan at all! Everything should have fit into place! This...everything has gone wrong!

(Calm yourself, Celestia. You have managed to strike peace with the Griffons, you can deal with family matters...if they even are family matters at all. Ha.)

A whisper returned, "Yes..."

The element's mouths practically hit the floor.

That is why Luna was so insistent on talking to the other two...

"Ok, Luna, it will be all right. We must make sure that the other two are also doing well, understand?"

"Yes," her sister said as she got up and we began trotting back to Ponyville.

The princess of Equestria, along with the ex-princess of the Night and the elements of harmony returned to the small town. Such large happenings easily shake up order out in the country side, and news spread like wildfire.

It was Celestia's hope, therefore, to settle down Ponyville's citizens before they can rile each other up too much. The unscheduled night time likely already kicked the press and rumor mills into action creating false or scarily true gossip, which would take years to filter out properly.

The two remaining remaining children of Ex-Princess Luna immediately perked up when they noticed their mother approach, simultaneously exclaiming, "Mother!"

Their hug wasn't one of just public relations, of course, everypony present could see that it was what was needed at the moment.

"Mother, wh- what happened?" Valiant Shadow asked.

"'Tis all right now, my-- children. This will take much explanation, but we shan't remain enemies of princess Celestia any longer," was the reply.

"What?" her children asked, before Valiant continued, "We...but our training-"

"Was for naught," interjected Luna, "We no longer wish pain to Celestia, and she returns favour."

"Oh...in that case," Valiant began, motioning for Night to jump in as well, "We are sorry, Princess Celestia of Equestria."

Celestia nodded and stated, "You are forgiven, niece and nephew," she could not help but smile at the last part.

Valiant and Night bow before their aunt, "We will help repay any damages we have caused."

Celestia only responded in a nod, with a smirk. It seems harmony has returned to her nation, and it will hopefully prosper now that her sister has returned and the elements of harmony have bearers once again.

The only thing Celestia worries, is the third child of her sister, she does not know what the future bears.

She worries it may be pain.

A few years later.

"Harmony was doing splendidly...even if Princess Twilight's new school of friendship seemed to often times sow discord. A group of six students from the school seem to show, however, that peace and friendship amongst the spectrum of species was not only possible, but beneficial. They had helped the tree of harmony grow stronger then ever before!

The changelings, who had brought pain and despair on multiple occasions before had now been reformed, and-under new leadership-had become a wonderful advocate of harmony itself. One of their kind is even part of the aforementioned group of students.

The frozen north has been shown to be capable of housing life comfortably, when Twilight and her friends defeated a dark mage-who had trapped the mythical Chrystal Empire-and released all of its citizens. It is currently ruled by Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, the princess of love, and her husband, former captain of the royal guard, Shining Armor, with whom she brought life to an alicorn filly, princess Flurry Heart.

Another likely reason for the large amounts of harmony, is the control of the chaos spirit Discord himself! The spirit has previously caused much peril to Equestria and its inhabitants, but he has been reformed-once again by Twilight and her friends-and has converted into an advocate of harm-"

I had to turn off the crystal viewing sphere. Otherwise I may throw up from all the propaganda that they are spewing through that thing. I twisted my eyes at the thought of that newfangled technology.

Ugh...

"I better start packing up camp," I muttered, "Don't want to miss my timing window."

I have spent the last years going from place to place.......meditating, ugh (the thought made me shiver), to try to come up with a plan of attack for Equestira. I have become much better at controlling my own emotions without my...siblings being around to annoy the heck out of me.

I think.

"Finally, a good idea out'a ya!" said my companion.

A pony of some sort. I didn't really know all that well, since she never shows herself. Lint, she calls herself, and she always wears a large piece of cloth over her body, like a cloak. She doesn't look like a hag, not really at least, for the cloth seems to have an intricate pattern full of right angles-made of some metallic yarn-woven into it.

She is good company, she knows when to shut up and let me steep, but she can be quite annoying at times.

I don't think she has a bad bone in her body...if she has one, she may be a ghost for all I know.

"Why are you so eager for me to leave? You said you wouldn't come with me, past the boarder of the desert. Did you change you mind, or are you happy to get rid of me?" I asked.

"Wha- Why would I wanna get rid of ya?!" she said with more than a little surprise in her voice, "I just want to see you succeed. You have been nice to me...nicer than others."

"Um...you're welcome?" her comment had somewhat stumped me, "I...think we should start heading towards the boarder of the desert....you will join me to that point, won't you?"

"Yes. I will."

So we started heading north, towards my future...my destiny. After having it be robbed from me multiple times, I have decided to put as many odds as possible in my favour.

Firstly, from what I have gathered from some of the sources I have deemed worthy of my trust, my brother has joined the royal guard. The day guard, to be exact...traitor, willing to protect the one who took everything from us at the drop of a hat! That being said, the day guard will be doing a one week drill trip, with the night guard filling up some of the day guard's duties. That should make sure that he stays out of my mane.

Secondly, my sister should be no problem whatsoever. She has been staying in Ponyville, the town where we first came to Equestria. Supposedly, she resides with one of the element bearers, a very reserved pegasus who has quite the affinity for animals.

And lastly, mother...my sources indicated that she may be on a visit in Ponyville as well, during the later half of the week.

If I play my cards right, I should be able to slip into the frozen north and cut out a part of Celestia's brigade, Princess Cadence. She appears to be quite the poor fighter, so I will try to attack her when she is alone and not protected by her husband, former captain of the royal guard.

Once I have taken care of her, I will go for Princess Sparkle, princess of friendship. I believe I can take her on, if she isn't prepared for me, so I will have to get to her via a long range teleport, decreasing my odds of winning by a small amount, but we trained for this.

For so many years...only for us to fail...

I will not let mother down again. (Like she did me?)

Lastly, while mother travels to the little town Sparkle calls home, I will strike Celestia.

It should work. It has to work.

I can prove to mother that I am capable of finishing what she has starter, what she has failed to do. I can prove to everyone that we are the true rulers of Equestria! I can prove to Dave that I am capable of revenge, I can be the monster the white unicorn wants.

I felt something bump into my side. Lint. She looked worried.

"You're starting ta sound like an angry wolf again."

That was my biggest threat of defeat. It wasn't the strength of my foes, it wasn't a fault in my plans, it wasn't even my own weakness.

It was my anger.

My anger always came in the way of my thoughts, of my rationality. When I wanted to do anything, I either cut the knot or, on very few occasions, slowly untangle it. I needed to stay calm. My mission, my destiny, it depended on my temper. I had to either stay focused, or risk losing it all.

That was not an option.

I began calming down again, "Thank you," I said calmly.

In return, I received a nod.

We began walking northbound. The journey out of the desert would only take about 6 hours or so, but the frozen north was a weeks long journey away...if I wanted to be careful to not be spotted. Who knows what that scheming princess had in store for me.

...

Six hours later.

The journey hadn't been all that bad, so far. Over the past few years, I had traversed the desert a hoof-full of times with Lint.

But this time her companion was odd, she hadn't said a single thing the entire journey. I can't tell if she simply-finally-ran out of useless facts, or if she was somber that we would be saying our last goodbyes soon. She did tell me that she may visit me when I succeed, but I don't know if that was her trying to cheer us up, or if she actually plans on doing so.

The mare-if she is equine-is difficult to read. Anypony would be, if you can't see their face or any other feature of their bodies. I DID know that she is a quadruped, judging by her gait...quadruped...what an odd word, didn't think I knew such a definition. Welp, she walked on 4 legs.

...

There it was, the edge of the desert.

Haven't left this place in a little bit. It's very odd to me that I consider it similar to the moon, but I guess I need some form of my attachment to my prior home.

"This means goodbye," I began, "unless you DO want to join me?"

Which would likely end in chaos...

"No, I gotta stay here. But it has been a pleasure getting to meet ya! I hope to see you again one day..."

"Yup...," this was getting awkward, "Well, I want to thank you for being...friendly, I will try to visit."

"Yes," she said, but as I turned around, she did put something into my saddle bad, "I almost forgot the present I made ya!"

"Oh, thanks...I am sorry, I have none to return."

"You don't need to return one, knowing you was a nice present," she finished with a quick wave.

So she had claws. That certainly narrowed down what she was.

"Goodbye."

"Byeeee."

So I went off, to Equestria.

To my destiny.

Author's Note

1.) I want to apologize for taking so long to write anything else. Midterms is my only real excuse. (Who knew double bonds could do that!)
2.) Don't worry about Lint, I did not want to suddenly make a whole different story in the middle of this one, more info will follow. (Though, the missing context may make this read a bit odd.)
2.5.) Yes, her backstory will be stupid, but I really want to write it now.
3.) I am still not 100% happy with what I am writing, and judging by the like/dislike ratio, neither are you-the readers-if there is something I could change about my approach (well, maybe except for "the story sucks") I would appreciate being told so.
4.) I can sadly only release one chapter today, if I find the time, I will get another out tomorrow. I hope that I can write more over thanksgiving. Again, sorry.