Chapter 1: Prologue

I've seen many works putting Celestia and Luna in alternate scenarios, Celestia being the evil one that tries to have her half of the day forever while Luna is the one that defeats her corrupted sister and banishes her to her symbolizing celestial object for a millenia. Now I've been inspired to write how it might had happened.

I own nothing. MLP: FIM is not mine and belongs to Hasbro. I don't own the cover image either. It's called "Solar Flare" by LeStrangeLady on devianart.

Enjoy the story.

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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there were two regal sisters who ruled together and created harmony for all the land.

To do this, the eldest used her celestial powers to raise the sun at dawn. The younger brought out the moon to begin the night.

Thus, the two sisters maintained balance for their kingdom and their subjects, all the different types of ponies.

But as time went on, the elder sister became proud. Her day was loved and enjoyed by all the ponies of Equestria, who relished and played in the warm light of her sun. The love and adoration from her loyal subjects only made her feel more powerful and important as the days passed. As such, she soon felt the need to be the full ruler of Equestria, ruling over the entire land.

But there was one thing that stood in her path. Something that made her resentful.

While the ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, she previously thought they only shunned and slept through her sister's beautiful night. But that was before she stood awake long enough to see her sister's night.

There, in the midst of the blackened sky, came forth an unimaginable type of beauty to her. From out of the darkness came forth a multitude of stars, a heaven above. In the night, a type of mysterious beauty came forth, one that the few that stayed awake got to see. Stars twinkled above, the occasional shooting stars ran across the sky, the silver moon glowed gently over the sleeping ponies heads, casting it's gently rays of moonlight. And governing all over it, all over this loveliness she had never taken an interest before, was her younger sister.

And in the elder mare's heart, she felt jealousy taking root. She felt envy towards her younger sister for having such great beauty in her night sky while her daytime had none of it. She felt anger towards her younger sister's night for having a beauty and calming effect that the ponies felt soothed by. They cherished her night and took comfort to rest under it, while worked and slaved away under her own sun's burning light. And within the jealousy in her heart also grew a deep darkness of its own that only grew stronger as time passed.

One fateful day, the elder sister refused to lower the sun to make way for the night. The younger sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the older one's heart had transformed her into a wicked mare of harsh, blazing light.

Solar Flare.

She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal day so that her light would be just as appreciated, if not more, then her sister's nighttime. But under the burning light of the day, the ponies soon grew tired, but could not sleep peacefully through the scorching heat and blaze of the sun. And without rest, they grew tired and unbearably pained under the light. And without the restfulness of the night to refresh them, they no longer played or relished under the sun. Crops began to shrivel up, no longer with the coolness of the night to give rest to them either. In a moment of desperation, the ponies begged the younger sister to help them.

Reluctantly, the younger sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom.

The Elements of Harmony.

Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her elder sister, and banished her permanently in the sun.

The younger sister took on responsibility for both moon and sun, and harmony has been maintained in Equestria for generations since.

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The sun glowed brightly on this day. The ruler of all of Equestria took note how brightly it shone, even more than it had come pass a millennia or so ago. The princess shook her head and squinted through the burning light of the sun. In her vision, she could barely make out the darker colored spots that marred it surface, collecting together to form a head of a pony. The sunspots of Solar Flare many called them.

She sighed and lifted up her wings to shield her face from the blazing light before retreating into the calm, soothing shade of her room. Before she disappeared into the shadows of the castle though, she took one last fleeting glance at the sunlight, then the sun. She sighed as she knew the millennia since then was coming to its final days.

Her hooves clicked against the smooth, marble floor as she walked into her room, shut the glass window, covered them with the deep blue curtains and went over to her bed to rest. Her strength was starting wain already, she could feel it. It wouldn't be too long now till she would be weakened enough to be defeated by the threat that was soon to come.

As she rested her head against the softness of her pillow, her eyes shut and her lips moved in silent words, as she had done for almost a millennia now.

"Sister, for a thousand years I have prayed you hear my words; please forgive me. In just a few days you will be free of your flaming prison and will return to exact your revenge and complete your goal over all of Equestria and all who live in it. I only pray now that my millenia's worth of patience and my choices made in anticipation to this day has paid off and that when the time comes, you will be free of your light-covered, darkened state of body and mind."

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This story will be very short, as will the chapters be. They'll really just be altered scenes and obstacles that the Mane 6 will have to face, now that it's Solar Flare and not Nightmare Moon they have to face. Please leave a review with some feedback, it's always appreciated and I'll see you next time. Sincerely, v.t.7