Princess Luna stood among the remains of the castle her and her sister had called home when they were just foals. Bestowed with such great power, held such great futures. Until the jealously came.

Luna closed her eyes, and tried to imagine the castle as it once was, before the fight. She remembered the harsh words.

“You can raise the sun and the moon! Why do you need me?!”

“Because you're my sister. I want it to be where we rule side by side.”

“You only gave me that positon to make me feel special! I hear what that group of ponies say about you, sister. While I don't agree with their methods, I want to tell them how right they are!”

“How can you say such things?”

“Ponies love and adore you! They all forget about me! When the night I work so hard to make comes, ponies hide indoors and act terrified! Like all I bring is evil and destruction!”

“They're not terrified of your night, sister. They're afraid of what happens at night. That is not your fault.”

“No! It happens because it's YOUR fault! And I'm the one who suffers for it!” Luna stamped a hoof.

Celestia was silent. She could never be mad at her sister, no matter how harsh the words. But something about the bad things at night that happened because of her, hurting her sister's pride and breaking her heart, made the alicorn realize that her reach was further than she thought.

“I'm sorry. If anything I have done causes things to affect you, then I am sorry. I only wanted us to rule side by side. Show everypony how we care for them, just as much as they adore us.”

“I don't see any Pony Tales about me.” Luna snapped. “All I see is Celestia this, and Celestia that. I'm sick of it! If you want us to rule side by side, why not convince the ponies to acknowledge me as your equal?”

“It is not my place to dictate what they think and do. I am a Princess, not a tyrant.”

Luna bit her tongue, trying not to say anything that could widen the rift any further than it was. She knew Celestia better than anyone. She knew she could be manipulative, rather it was for sinister purposes or not, she still could be.

Was she doing that now? Was she only telling her sister what she wanted to hear?

Luna's eyes snapped open before the memory could continue, and wiped the tears from her eyes. That was a far as she could remember. After that, it was all a blank.

“Did I really do those things? Did I really try to bring about eternal darkness?” she asked herself. The memories between those events were still faded, and painful to try and dechiper. Could it be, that Celestia wanted her...

No! How could she ever think of her sister like that? With a final sigh, she quit trying to file her memories, and instead began cantering through the halls. She saw the room where she was defeated, still a mess, the broken stone orbs representing the Elements of Harmony still littered the battlefield.

Celestia talked a lot about the Elements of Harmony. Luna thought it ironic that they had such useless artifacts. Sure they had a few friends, like the head of the royal guard, and their caretaker when they were foals, but nowhere near enough to actually make the things work as they should.

All the ponies rush to kiss Celestia's feet and worship the ground she walks on, yet they never take the time to get to know her. Just, casual conversation, her viewpoint on things that didn't need to be taken as law.

Sometimes, it felt downright tolitarian, especially when that group of ponies would pull their little propoganda stunts. She could tell her sister hated enforcing such laws, but deperate times...

After her return from her sentence, and to her normal self, Luna couldn't help but wonder what happened to those ponies, especially that cute blue unicorn that was the supposed leader. A lot had changed in a thousand years, which to her was a blink of en eye. Like waking up from a bad dream. Celestia had ascended to the throne, she raised both the sun and moon, and Luna was left to fade with the memories of the old pony tales that did mention her.

Most of the tales written about Celestia after Luna's banishment, forgone mentioning her entirely, except for that one story.

The pony who was once destined to rule side by side with her sister, had been reduced to an opening chapter.

That hurt her on a level more than ignoring her night did. She didn't even want to bother with attending the Gala, figuring everypony would stare at this foriegn alicorn. The ones that grew up only hearing that one story, would see her as a monster. Those that didn't would view her as an outsider.

There was only one alicorn ruler now, and it would take a lot of adjustment to accept two. Not only on the trust level, but the political, eceonomical, and all the pointless minutia. She was a burdden to her sister even when repentant. She had to stay strong, for both their sakes. Celestia gave her love to each and every pony, and as such, she feels their pain. The six who are tied to the Elements must be anguishing to her.

No...all the personal matters would be saved for later. After this oncoming storm was suppressed, and Celestia was in better spirits. The last thing she needed, was a repeat of before.