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

Chapter 2: Bright, Blazing, Burning

So how this is going to go is like this. Each of the different scenes where Twilight is helped/saved by one of the Mane 6 will be an entire chapter or so, but the challenge will be altered due to the changed villain. This will continue until the final scene.

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The day came sooner then she wanted it to. The day she had been odiously anticipating for the past millennium had finally come. The Eve of the Summer Sun celebration.

"A bit ironic," she thought to herself. Though it was originally named in her honor as the Evening Sky Celebration, after less of a decade or so she decided to change it to the Summer Sun Celebration for the memory of her sister, despite a very few knowing that she existed anymore. She had been foretold this story time and time again, what would happen on this, the longest day of the thousandth year. She supposed it was fitting though, that today was the summer solstice and when 'she' would return.

For the first time in a thousand years she would see 'her' again.

This year, the year it would all go down, she would be presenting herself in Ponyville, to dazzle the citizens and dazzle them with her display of first rising and then later setting the sun, providing the denizens of Equestria with the warm glow of the sun and the beauty the light shed before descending into the calm dark of night, bringing forth serenity and a type of mysterious loveliness.

Only today as the dawn rose, she feared it would never set again.

Still, after a millennium of imagining how this event would go, it had given her enough time to come up with a plan for this. A backup if you will, in case the worse was to come.

She only hoped the ones she assigned to complete the task were able to stand firm and push through the trials that laid ahead.

The Mayor of Ponyville's voice reached her ears. She was standing behind the curtain, ready for her cue to be called and to come out before everyone. But as the words of the pony went on, her focus came to outside the window where the tiniest bit of the sun could be seen, just the thinnest sliver of the burning ball could be seen.

Even though it wasn't originally hers to control, years of moving it across the sky along with her moon had given her time to bond with the celestial object. she could feel the warmth of the core reaching to the surface burning inside her chest. When she closed her eyes, it wa sliek she could feel the light behind her closed eyelids. And sometimes she could even see the sun itself. After all, since it was a star and her night sky already had thousands of them already. The Sun was just another star as them, but was closer and gave light and light to the land.

But now as she closed her eyes and stared at the Sun through some unknown, mystical vision, she could see the sunspots that marred the surface fade, erasing themselves like they were never there.

All of a sudden, she felt a hot, fiery feeling come up her legs. The words of the Mayor's speech droned doubt and grew muffled. Her eyes didn't need to open for her to see and know what was happening.

A bright white portal of blazing light came out from under the floor and expanded under her. Burning tentacles extended, sought her out and wrapped themselves over her hooves and legs, binding her to the floor. She could easily escape, she had magic. She could easily blast them back or cause them to unwind just enough for her to escape. But she remained still and allowed them to climb up and wrap around the rest of her body.

As one grew close to her head, she tipped up her face and looked up, letting it wound around her neck before reaching her head. All she could hear now was the silent crackling of the burning heat, a sound no other could hear. The fiery heat burned through her fur and into her skin, yet it remained unmarred.

Her eyes started to roll up in her head as she began to lose consciousness form the entanglement. The last thing she could recall as the light consumed her was the final fanfare to announce her presence to the crowd before them.

How unfortunate that she would never make it.

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The crowd gasped in awe and in fear as the sun raised up, but not exactly the brilliant spectacle they were looking for. The light seemed much harsher and bright, more like desert rays in the midst of a drought instead of the serene, soft light of morning. To everyone's sudden shock, when the rays faded and all eyes could see and turn towards the balcony where stood not their beloved princes Luna, but instead a frightfully-looking mare.

Her fur was as black as ebony, deeply contrasting on her mane that flicked with flames of gold and orange. An armor of brilliant gold and crimson scarlet coated her body, including a helmet of the same metal that covered her head and long, pointed horn. A set of large, black wings stood out from behind her back, each of the long feather shafts rimmed with a glowing, ember orange.

Her eyes were a brilliant magenta, sent bin a lighter-colored eye white, and her slitted pupils focused and narrowed on the crowd before her. Her mouth quirked up into a smirk and revealed a set of pointed teeth, very uncommon amongst the Equestrian race. A deep chuckle escaped her that as she surveyed the audience from the balcony.

"Oh my beloved subjects, it's been so long since I've seen your precious, little, night-loving faces," she said. Her voice was as smooth as silk yet it held a tinge of malice at the end.

"What did you do with our princess," called out a pegasus from the crowd and she tried to fly towards her, only to be held back by her tail by an earth pony.

"Why, am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am," she asked, glaring at her.

"Ooh, ooh, more guessing games. Uh, Burny Mane. How about Flame Princess? No, Hotty Ember, Hotty-" called out another, hyperactive earth pony, only to be shut up by a cupcake pushed into her mouth by the other earth pony. The mysterious dark alicorn narrowed before sweeping across the balcony, leaning in towards the others who were responsible for the celebration activities.

"Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?" She moved close to a timid pegasus that cringed and tried to curl up to protect herself. "Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?"

"I did." The alicorn looked up from the unicorn she as towering over and into the audience towards a purple unicorn staring stoically down before her. "And I know who you are. You're the mare in the sun, Solar Flare." The audience gasped in surprise as the the now named Solar Flare grinned evilly and stood up again.

"Well, well, well. Somepony who remembers me," she said softly, before narrowing down at her. "Then you also know why I'm here."

"You're here to.. to...," the unicorn said fearfully and stuttered, gulping audibly and she shrank before the cackling legendary creature of everlasting sunlight.

"Remember this day, little ponies, for it is your fate. From this moment forth... the day shall last forever!"

As the crazed mare laughed, her mane of burning fire roared up and swirled around the ceiling. Sunlight streamed through the windows at blinding levels and lightning flashed up above. Many ponies covered their eyes to prevent being blinded by the sight.

And in the midst of them, the unicorn stared with her eyes half-closed at the living myth in fear and worry. For her, for her princess and mentor, for the entire land of Equestria.

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Sorry if I've taken a bit, life's been a bit busy for me, but fear into, I have not forgotten this story. And for those who are Adventure Time fans out there, yes, I did think of Flame Princess when I was writing the names. You're welcome. I was considering the ways how Celestia might had disappeared in the first episode, considering that we don't even see her until the end of the second part. I figured since Nightmare Moon's form can turn into a smoky, dark mist that can move at high speed and that her hair can be used like tentacles, like how she held the Elements of Harmony, Solar Flare's power much be similar and should have about the same usability as hers.

Thanks for reading this new chapter, look out for the next ones coming soon. Please leave a review and some feedback, it's always appreciated, and have a good day.

Solar Flare: BECAUSE IT WILL LAST FOREVER! MUHUHAHAHHAHAAH!

Me: No! Just... just have a good day everybody. Sincerely, v.t.7