Little Luna

"I really REALLY need to pee!" Sweetie Belle whined.

A golden chariot, held by two pegasus stallions in gold armour, was heading towards a darkened land.

"Well, you should have gone before we left." Rarity replied with a huff.

In the chariot was five mares and four fillies. One of those fillies happened to be the co-ruler of Equestria, a.k.a Princess Luna.

"But I didn't!" Sweetie whinged.

"Urg! Stop with this annoying whining!" Luna moaned.

"But I really-what's that?" Sweetie pointed to a pink glimmer.

Luna rose from her seat. "Rarity. Sweetie Belle. Try and reduce the amount of magic you use. Your magic is too weak to be used constantly. Twilight, do the same. You maybe a master at magic but it won't last long."

"Why?" Rarity questioned.

"That's the Equestrian border. Once you've left it, all magic is weaker. That is why Tia is getting weaker. Even though she has goddess-like powers, it will still weaken her. I hope Tia is okay."

Applebloom lay a hoof on Luna's shoulder.

"Ah'm sure she'll be jast fine."

Luna smiled at Applebloom.

Everypony shivered as they crossed the border and exited Equestria.

"Here we are Miss Twilight Sparkle."

"Thank you sirs."

They all jumped out of the chariot, as two other guards in blue walked up.

"Guten tag! Sie sind Twilight Sparkle?" One of them asked.

"Ja, Sie konnen Englisch sprechen?" Twilight spoke fluently.

"Yes, of course." The pegasus guard replied.

"Thank you very much. I do appreciate that you have welcomed us to your land."

"Ah yes. But you are very lucky." The unicorn guard said as they began walking into the castle.

"Why's that?" Scootaloo hopped over.

"Well young one, our security has been breached."

"How?"

"My, what a curious little filly."

The pegasus guard spoke up. "Too curious."

"Oh hush hush, Schild. Young ones are always curious."

"If you don't mind me saying, but who are you?" Rarity asked.

"Well, my fair pony, I am Sterndeuter. Which means in your language, Stargazer. And my dear pegasus friend is Schild. That means protect. We are both guards for our king, Fürst the first."

"We are here."

They all stopped in front of a gaint, big brown door.

Luna gazed around at the walls of the hallway.

She noticed a lot of blue alicorns, stars and moons.

She walked closer to a picture. A picture that stood out more than any other picture. A picture of a mare. A nightmare.

"Luna? Come on!" Pinkie yelled.

The wild pink pony bounced over.

She squinted at the picture Luna was staring at.

"Hey! That looks like Ni-."

"The king awaits." The pegasus guard boomed, interupting Pinkie's sentence.

Pinkie growled, as she doesn't like being interupted, but being Pinkie, she skipped over and sang, "Okie Dokie Lokie!"

Luna trotted in as well and glared at the pegasus.

But no sooner had she entered, she let out a blood curdling scream.

"TIA!"

Celestia stood next to the King's throne. But her hair was no longer flowing. It drooped down her neck. All tangled. Her usually pristine pearly white coat was now dullened and grey. Her crown, necklace and shoes were grubby and dented.

Luna ran up to Celstia, and instantly hugged her.

"Omigosh! Tia! Are you okay?"

"Yes Luna. I am fine." She croaked.

Celestia moved slightly, but what grabbed Luna's attention was a noise. A changling niose.

Luna looked behind her sister and noticed large metal chains attached to Celestia's leg.

"Your highness." Twilight and the others bowed before the King.

Fürst the first was a brown earth pony with scarlet red hair. He had a midnight blue cape and a bronze crown upon his head.

"How dare you?" Luna yelled.

"How dare I? Whatever do you mean?" The King asked innocently.

"You have my sister in chains!"

"Your sister? I'm sorry little filly, but Celestia's sister is no more."

"What? What are you going on about?"

"You see the great and powerful Luna got sent to the moon."

"The great and powerful? Isn't that Trixie's saying?" Twilight whispered.

"We owe our lives to the oh nightly one."

"Why?"

"A dark and evil spirit plagued the land. We never knew it's name but we called it the Shadow. It stole our children and poisoned our food. Then, Princess Luna Eclipse came to our land and banished the monster. Unfortunately, as she tried to get rid of the spirit, her disgraceful sister threw her to the moon. Never to be seen again."

"Well, that's a lie. Luna is right there." Scootaloo pointed.

"No you stupid filly! Luna is no more! For all we know she could be dead!"

"Wait! Where's Dashie?"

"Who?"

"Rainbow Miriam Dashery! You've kept her captive! Where is she?" Twilight demanded.

"Oh, you mean the Dashery mare. Hahaha! Quite a fiesty one she is. Schild! Bring Mrs Dashery up! Pronto!"

"Yes sir!" The pegasus guard saluted and walked away.

About three minutes later, the doors opened. Revealing the pegasus and a chained up Rainbow Dash.

"Dashie! Are you okay?"

"Never better Pinkie." Rainbow said sarcasticlly.

"She is going to be executed in...half an hour."

"What? No!"

"And the same with Celestia. Hahaha!"

Luna's blood boiled.

"Listen mister! I am the Princess of the Night! I am Princess Luna!"

"She's right you know. You should agree otherwhise you might lose your hearing." Rainbow sniggered.

Schild looked over at Fürst. Fürst nodded back.

Schild pulled out a knife and plunged it into Rainbow's stomach.

"RAINBOW!"

"Oh horseapples." Rainbow croaked as she fell to the floor.

Luna's temper rose. Her coat began to darken. Her hair grew. So did her wings and horn.

The girls ran over to Rainbow, who was trying to get back up.

"Wow! This is going to be the best day ever! Not only have I enslave the ruler of the sun, but I have finally got my revenge on the Dashery family!"

Luna looked around.

First at her sister.

Then at Rainbow and the girls.

"That....is....IT!" Luna screamed.

In a burst of light, a black alicorn stood in Luna's place.

"Ah! It's N-N-Nightmare Moon! The spirit that plagued our land!"

"WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, YOU SCUM!" Nightmare yelled in the royal canterlot voice.

"Please don't hurt me."

"DON'T TEMPT US! SINCE WE HAVE  RE-ENTERED YOUR CASTLE WE HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTED! YOU SELFISH STALLION DON'T DESERVE THE TITLE OF A KING!" She walked closer to the shivering king.

"WHO KNOWS, I MAY WANT A TASTE OF BLOOD. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME." Nightmare laughed.

"No, please. Take the rainbow one. She's dying. She's not worthy."

"NOT WORTHY? YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT SHE IS NOT WORTHY?!"

"She murdered my grandfather and my father." The king whimpered.

"TIS A LIE! HER ANCESTORS MURDERED THEM NOT HER! SHE HAS HELPED SAVED EQUESTRIA FROM CERTAIN DOOM! HER ANCESTORS SAVED US FROM MURDER! SHE HAS SAVED US FROM MURDER!"

"But she-she..."

"IS A SWORDSPONY. WE KNOW. BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE."

"Back off from our King you monster!" Schild yelled.

Now while everypony was shivering in their coats, Twilight and Celestia knew that this was still Luna. Although, she was midnight black with blue flowing hair, you could tell that it wasn't Nightmare Moon.

Her eyes.

Nightmare's eyes were ice blue with a thin pupil.

The Nightmare Moon in-front of them had aquamarine eyes with a large pupil.

"WHAT'S THE PROBLEM NOW?!"

"You! How come you're here? Right now?"

"The elements of harmony."

The King gasped.

"Die Elemente der Harmonie!"

Sterndeuter walked over.

"But die Elemente der Harmonie were lost."

"No. They are in the souls of six ponies." Celestia croaked.

"What? Who?"

"Them." Celestia pointed to the Mane Six.

"That is not possible."

"Oh it is. That is how Nightmare Moon was destroyed..." Black smoke surrounded the alicorn. "..and I became free."  Once the smoke disappered, the King and the guards bowed.

"Oh your highness."

"I am very disappointed in you."

"Oh Princess Luna, we are so sorry."

"Yeah but sorry isn't going to help Rainbow."

"But she is enemy."

"No she is a saviour. Without her me and Celestia would not be alive."

"How do ya mean Princess?" Applejack asked.

"I-I-ahh-" Rainbow stood up. "Commander Rainbow Miriam Dashery of the Equestrian Army, reporting for duty, your Highness." Rainbow bowed before collapsing to the ground.

"Sterndeuter. Nehmen Sie den Verletzten ein, um Ihre Burg Arzt. Und schnell!" Luna demaned.

"Ja, eure Hoheit." The unicorn guard trotted over and helped Rainbow stand up. He walked her out, supporting her with his magic. Fluttershy and Applejack quickly followed.

"Luna!"

"Yes Twilight?"

"How are you...you again?"

"It's the same outbreak I had when I really turned into Nightmare Moon. I had the magic of a proper alicorn. I had the magic to turn my self into an alicorn again." Luna then turned to Fürst. "Release my sister. Now."

"Y-Y-Yes. Schild! Release Celestia!"

Schild trotted over to Celetia an unlocked her chains.

As soon as she was released, she walked over to Luna.

"Oh Tia. I'm glad you're safe."

"Thank you Luna. I'm proud of you."

"Whatever do you mean sister? My temper got the best of me."

"I know but I am glad that earlier, you told me what happened. Luna, I know you try to be independant, and secretive, but I'm glad you are finally speaking up. I hated the sister who sat quietly in corner. Alone."

"I'm sorry for getting into this mess."

"What's there to be sorry about? It was an accident."

"Thank you Tia." Luna's horn glowed and tapped Celestia's.

Instantly, Celestia's coat turned pearly white, her jewellery and shoes shone brightly again, and her hair resumed it's flowing vibrant state.

"No, thank you Luna. I couldn't ask for a better little sister." She smiled.

"Fürst, I want, no, demand you to improve your attitude. From now on Equestria will merge forces with Germaney. Creating a peacer world for both of our ponies." Celestia spoke with more confidence than before.

"Yes, of course. All hail the Solar Schwestern." Schild and Fürst said in sync.

"Err..ya highness." Applejack walked in. "Tha chariot is ready."

"What about Rainbow Dash?" Scootaloo asked.

"She's comin with us. But we ave got ta hurry. So we can her ta tha Ponyville Hospital."

"Okay AJ." Pinkie, Twilight and Rarity walked out.

"Good bye Princesses. Again I am sorry."

"It's okay."

"Come ya rascals!" Applejack ushered the Crusaders onto the chariot.

"Umm, Applejack, darling, where is Twilight? She's not sitting next to Celestia. And I have no idea where Luna is either." Rarity asked.

At that point, Twilight and Luna came walking up to the chariot. With an injured pegasus behind. Twilight  was using her magic to support Rainbow Dash from collapsing. Luna helped with her bandages, as the Germane doctor was not...well...good for a doctor.

"They need a new doctor."

"I'm suprised that they're all alive still. He thought that hacking off a limb woulg stop a headache." Twilight laughed.

"It would. Well, it would at least get rid of the headache." Luna giggled.

Twilight began laughing hysterically. Her magic flickered.

"Twi!" Applebloom shouted.

Twilight calmed down when she realised Rainbow Dash was swaying slightly.

"Twi, can we just get out of here already." Rainbow croaked.

"Errr, yes. Sorry."

On the trip back, Scootaloo hugged Rainbow as she slipped in and out of consciousness, Rarity asked how Celestia kept her mane so shiny (the secret is too be an over one thousand year old alicorn with goddess-like powers...that and Hoity Toity's new range of conditioner), Applejack was chatting to Pinkie who was going on and on and on and on....and on, Fluttershy sang quietly with Applebloom and Sweetiebelle to keep their hopes high, Luna sat next to Twilight.

"Thank you."

"What for?"

"Duh! Everything! You released me from my darkened doom, and you became my friend. I-I...I never had a friend."

"Why?"

"I was royalty. Even though I went to private school, no pony liked me. They were either too scared cause I was a royal, or it was because I was too shy. Tia was my only friend. But it was never the same."

"Aww Luna."

"Nopony came to my birthdays. Again, only Tia. Our mother and father died before I got my cutiemark. They were murdered by enemies during an attack. You're my first friend. You and the others, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Sweetiebelle, Scootaloo and Applebloom, are my best friends. Thank you." Luna brought Twilight into a rib-crunching hug.

"Thank you so much."