Princess Luna looked out the vast Canterlot window. Surely, she thought her lips quivering. Somepony cares about my night? Luna was responsible for raising the moon, and keeping watch over her subjects from dusk to dawn. She lowered the moon to make way for the sun. The sun. Luna scoffed. What does that thing have that I don’t? She often wondered why everypony even liked the sun. Everypony would always say, “Look at gorgeous Celestia!” “The glorious day!” “Who’s that little blue filly?” “I’ve only seen her in paintings.” They didn't even recognize her. They didn’t even seem to notice the she was cast with the burden of raising and lowering the moon.  She just wanted somepony to love her. She wanted to feel appreciated. She just wanted to be loved… She sniffled, as bitter tears streaked from her beautiful cyan eyes.

“Nopony loves me…” She weeped. “Nopony cares about me…” Luna cried and sobbed but there was nopony to help her. To even comfort her. And yet where was Celestia? Probably helping Clear Ray learn a new spell. This made her cry even harder. Not even Celestia was here to help her. Celestia with her brilliant white coat, shining purple eyes, and beautiful rainbow colored mane that floated on an invisible wind. She was so beautiful, so pure. The thought made Luna repulse.  I am hideous... she thought, choking back tears, almost gasping in the meantime. Unloved, unwanted, even my own sister couldn’t possibly love this repulsive thing that was supposed to be her sister. Just like my repugnant, unappreciated night. Luna shuddered as she remembered her sister. Where was she when Luna was at her darkest fears as she shed tears? Too caught up in Equestria, to caught up to even help her subjects. Luna made it seem like nothing was wrong but on the inside, she was dying each day. A mask she wore. A mask of lies and sorrow with nopony to break it to see what was inside. A shell encased something bittersweet and repulsed by the world. A chrysalis holding a newborn butterfly.

The princess of the sliver moon looked in the mirror that was defined and curved like Luna’s cutie mark by the side of the window. Each of these mirrors were there so the princesses could fix themselves on last time before going to judge at the royal court as Celestia’s sun shaped mirror was on the other side.The mirror so sheer, radiant aligned with the stars of Luna’s light that nopony knew. Luna looked at her reflection. The mirror was so precise and pristine. She knew this wasn’t what she wanted to look like. After Sombra’s scarring touch, the young and dejected princess would never think of herself as beautiful perhaps ever again. Luna was fearful for she longed for somepony to love her or be loved again. But ponies cruel nature of being so ignorant by their own selfish problems, they couldn’t grasp what was beyond the curtain of another. Luna looked at her reflection once more, and smashed her head into the precise and pristine mirror while she quietly whispered,

”I hate you…”

Chapter 2

Blood thick and atramentous profusely streamed from Luna’s forehead along with her horn, down between her cyan eyes. Tiny pieces of her flesh splintered and shivered across her face. The mirror, cracked and smeared with cruor, dropped little pieces of the once silver beauty. Luna rushed to feel her horn to make sure it was okay. Celestia always said after they had defeated Sombra that she must always keep her most prized possession safe. “You must keep this safe Luna… The safety of Equestria comes first. Sit up and stop fussing with the gash on your leg, the court is coming.” She wanted to see her sister badly, maybe try to get her mind off of the safety of Equestria at least once. Luna conjured a napkin out of thin air and wiped the plasma off of her dark muzzle. Dawn was arriving and Celestia had ordered her to stay by the window. 100 years ago, Celestia and Luna would raise the sun and moon together. They were happy back then. But now, Celestia had driven apart from Luna, a great rift between little sister and big.

Luna closed her eyes, for it was time to lower the moon. Luna’s horn glowed, as the moon was covered in her magic. She grunted as the heavy weight, was pulled down from the sky. Immediately she saw a soft orange light beam from the horizon. The orange glow turned to amber as the sun rose into the clouds with ease. Luna panted. Even through all her years taught by Starswirl, she still had quite some trouble with raising and lowering the orb of night. Nopony even noticed the moon go down, nopony was even sad to see the my moon go…

***

Luna needed to see her sister. Luna hung her head still slightly covered with blood, and walked out of the vast hallway.

When she came to a purple room with the sun and the moon entwined on it, she happened to notice that the moon was smaller than the sun. Sighing, she knocked with a silver shoe upon her leg.

“Hello, uhh…” The advisor said, adjusting his spectacles but kept looking at his papers instead of Luna herself.

“Princess Luna, please it’s important,” Luna mummered quietly.

“Be right back your highness,” The advisor spoke. Luna could hear Celestia teaching Clear Ray a new spell.

“Your majesty, Princess Luna wishes to speak with you,” The advisor aforementioned. The white alicorn sighed.

“Right at this moment? Clear Ray, try harder. You must not fail, you must be prepared. We weren’t when King Sombra rose to power, and we will not fail now! We must be ready to face a threat like that again or something might happen like how Sombra destroyed the entire Crystal Empire, every shard of it gone!” Celestia shouted.

“I will try harder. Princess, perhaps it would be wise for you to make time for your sister,” Clear Ray suggested.

“No Clear Ray, I’m sure Luna can wait. Try harder than that. You must accomplish this spell.” Celestia barked.

“Princess, your sister wishes to speak with you now,” The advisor piped up.

“Alright. Just this once, Clear Ray I better see you achieve this spell by the Summer Sun Celebration,” Celestia said. The gray unicorn levitated his quill and ink and scrolls, and left through the purple doors.

“Hello Luna, what a beautiful day it is!” Clear smiled as he walked in the hallway.

“A beautiful day indeed,” Luna sighed. Luna walked into the practice room with her head down her eyes not looking at her sister.

“Sister,” Luna whispered.

“Yes Luna,” Celestia asked a tad bit irritated.

“I just wanted to talk…” Luna said hushful. Raising her head to talk to Celestia.

“Luna…”

“Please Celestia…”

“Luna, I love you dearly but I have duties to respond to, does this topic you will be discussing with me have anything to do with the safety of Equestria?” Celestia said more softly than the last time she spoke. “What time is it? Luna, it almost time for moonrise!”

“I know… but I was thinking maybe we could talk about…”

“Luna please, you have a duty to fulfill, we will talk tomorrow I promise.”

“That’s what you say all the time.” Luna sighed, hung her hand once more, and left the practice room. Next Chapter: Meeting the Clear Estimated time remaining: 30 Minutes