Ichigo held the book tightly in his hand. Whatever is the reason for ponies disliking Luna apparently can be found in it. What did Tight mean when he told him he didn’t like what Celestia did?There are infinite possibilities what she could have done, she is a goddess. Characters like her can do anything they want.

Ichigo proceeded to his room, he had a few things to learn about Luna and he didn’t like the overall reaction that Tight gave him after he asked about Luna. She is a little nervous from what he observed, she is also a goddess that is hated. Why don’t others fear her? She could blast them to space probably, of course the title of a god could be given by anyone significantly weaker. Therefore, Luna could know being’s way more powerful then she is, and she could call this being a god.

Ichigo looked upon the book he held, it didn’t look special. The cover of the book didn’t have anything written on it. Ichigo opened a random page somewhere in the middle, the book was pretty thick. Ichigo has laid his eyes on the page two hundred and fifty-seven. He proceeded to read a few sentences from it.

(…)Starswirl the Bearded together with his fellow pillars have fought with the beast made out of shadow. the beast eyes white like the light many have claimed to see in death froze their hearts. Yet the Shadow Pony only has strengthened their wills and their goal to defeat him. The Pillars from which one was their friend, have been brought into the soundless and lifeless Limbo(…)

Ichigo closed the book after reading the weird, and quite dark paragraph.

This seemed to look like a Legend or perhaps and fairy tale rather than some legit source that may tell him something. Then again, if he gave him this book and also stated he doesn’t like what Celestia did, maybe she has changed the legends and stories familiar to what he just read? Luna is a goddess, legends often tell about the cruelty or good hearts of gods.

‘Maybe there is something to it’

To this hour his hollow didn’t say a thing, Ichigo was worried, as his hollows absence could mean troubles for him if he would ever want to do something more. For example, fire a nameless Getsuga for the sake of saving someone. It wouldn’t probably happen, but if Discords cage he closed Mūnroau in is still holding him inside. It only proofs even more Ichigo has to train and perhaps get stronger and more aware of the world.

Ichigo, was close to his chamber, a few more turns and he will see his doors, he even started to memorize some places in this palace. It's quite comfy, but its to big, what the hell. How can they live inside of here? Imagine having a house this large, with no one helping you clean the floors. Horror, nightmare, hell!

Equestria is a spinoff of Europe and America. The bigger the Palace, means that the Empire is stronger, who knows maybe somewhere right now a country goes bankrupt because of such actions? Ichigo was almost there, he had to only go a little bit faster and he would arrive in a very short amount of time.

Ichigo walked faster. The tensions were very high, he was a little stressed, he didn’t know what he could read from the book he got. He feared he might himself start hating on Luna. Although it seemed for now to be unlikely he would. He didn’t intend on even trying to be hostile to Luna, even if he wanted to, he wouldn’t. Why? She is a goddamn ruler of a country, he would get pretty much destroyed inside of Equestria.

Ichigo was just before the doors that lead inside of his chamber, he opened them and went inside. He closed them behind. Trying to make as little as possible noise he could. He took of the turban on his head, he didn’t like the clothes he wore, but then again, he might stay in them for a while. Its night, he won’t be harassed by maids and other staff members asking about food or something to drink.

Ichigo placed the book on the bed, right next to his clothes he took off before he decided to wear what he currently has on. He brought himself some water and drunk a little.He checked if he had drawn the curtains before he went away, and he indeed did. No one is going to spy on him, well, without counting in the broken doors outside onto his balcony of course.

“I still didn’t come up with a good story” The teenager hissed at himself.

He looked at the object laying on his bed, he walked up to it and grabbed the book, he held it close to himself. He membered the pages. Ichigo sat on his bed, and then fell on the pillows. Multiple thousands of scenarios flew through is head, it was, scary. What could Luna have done? Or more importantly what could have Celestia had done?

Ichigo placed his finger on the side of the pages, he then with his fingers opened the book. He saw the number in the bottom left and right corners, it read page forty-five and forty-six. Ichigo went one page further. The first thing he noticed was that he entered a new chapter, he looked at the upper part of the page.

Ichigo already didn’t like the chapters name, what can it possibly mean by ‘Luna’s Fall’? Ichigo started to read the first sentences, they described her life, one thousand years ago! Incredible, but understandable, she is an immortal goddess. Ichigo read further down, Luna had a happy life from what he could see.

She was a beautiful mare and her fur was blueberry blue, her hair were also shorter from the description. She was also smaller and way younger, Celestia to his surprise had a pink mane. She was also smaller and younger, more aggressive and stubborn like a teenage girl would be back home in Japan, or anywhere in the world.

Luna liked to learn about the night sky, the book also described her power to control the night sky. Luna could change the color of the stars, but she had to do it with much patience, as the process for the stars to change their colors is very long and takes four days. Luna could also force her own constellations and draw them in the sky or increase the brightness of some stars so that they may form the constellation.

Luna was able to move the night sky to her linking, but she had to concentrate and the process took much time and preparations. Luna could tell the moon to move as she likes, she could control the waves in the sea due to the moons power, the moon could lend her some of its power, so that Luna could transmutate ores into what it seemed to be an ore made specially for her by the world.

A particular long paragraph got Ichigo’s attention.

Princess Luna, a beauty many desired to claim, but her parents wouldn’t allow one to simply marry her or perhaps get into her mind and make her do bad decisions. Manipulators from many realms, ponies and other species have traveled to meet the divine goddess. Avatars of the Gryphon pantheons, unbreakable minotaur warriors powered by the spirits of the ancestors. Almost invincible crystal ponies of the cold north. Princess Luna was made a diplomat, tough how to talk and how to get what she wants from other rulers, she was the mouth of Equestria’s relations, and her look worked especially on the opposite sex, if lucky, Luna was able to break apart entire families that ruled over other countries that were counterparts of the Alicorns. Yet her charm was weak and worked for a short amount of time, in such situations her sister, Celestia, has worked hard so that Equestria may gain as much as possible from the disputes inside of other Empires.

Ichigo read with interest that paragraph, Luna was once beautiful because she was younger, he can’t really tell if she is beautiful, she looks pretty and maybe a little cute. But he could say this about any other female pony he has seen, the ponies have big eyes, charming smiles, great physique. They look like cartoon characters you just think are pretty because they are well drawn.

Luna was the face of Equestria’s diplomacy, she made deals and she was the negotiator, she was taught to be a pony that would, with words, not action, solve problems. Celestia was probably taught to rule and do. While Luna would use her image to hide any harsh decisions Celestia would make to ensure Equestrian safety and power. Basically, pure and heartless without emotions politics.

He read the first page, he didn’t quite understand how could this chapter describe Luna’s fall, she seemed to be fine, of course he still have a few pages to go. It could be the author starts from the good side to later show what happened to make her fall. Ichigo’s opinion about Luna still stood high and saw her as worthy friend material for the future.

Ichigo also got to know there are indeed other powerful beings, like those mentioned avatars of the gryphon pantheon. He wondered, how strong can these creatures be, how far from their power is he. Would he be also considered one of them if he showed his full potential? Probably not, he can only attack, not create like proper Gods and familiar to that beings.

Ichigo has the power, but he doesn’t have the skill, even if he could indeed be like a god and create things with his reiatsu. How would it look like? How could a god of death create life? Objects, why not, but life?

Ichigo proceeded to read further, this time it seemed the page presented him with more information about Lunas’ relations with her sister, and also bout her more private life. Where the hell did this book come from and more importantly who wrote it? Isn’t this supposed to be private stuff? Not to mention it’s about the princesses.

Ichigo read, and read, currently he was gaining information how Luna behaved and how she reacted to things, it also showed her change as she was older and begin to become an adult. Her fur became darker, not to much but it did from the description, her hair became made out of space, but they still remained short and reached her shoulders.

Luna almost in all of her meetings succeeded and she came out victorious from debates. Her parents were proud of it and they sent her presents and other various objects she could desire. Therefore, she learned that she always gets what she wants, Celestia on the other hand was under strict rule. Celestia was taught that every line she makes for a label must be straight.

Celestia was jealous that she didn’t have as much as her sister, but she learned to overcome her bad emotions quickly while Luna using her skill always showed them to everyone and gained something from her outbreaks of anger, sadness, or if she envied someone. When her parents stopped giving her valuable remunerations for her work she became colder and less acceptable of new ideas for some odd reason, she became close minded, staying in the past.

She became a spoiled child so to say, Alicorns live way longer, therefore a pony reaches adulthood in the age of eighteen just like back home. While alicorns when they are twenty-five. The book says she was nineteen when it happened, she was still a child and already some sick motherfuckers wanted to marry her and have sex!

Despicable, how could they? To this day even back home there are countries that allow such inhuman and immoral actions to take place! Ichigo thought Equestria would be better, but it seemed every world has its own common bad sides.

From what he has learned reading half of what is on page forty-eight, he could tell that Luna became a little greedy and didn’t quite like the idea of not receiving something for her hard work, her parents did make a mistake that changed her, it’s probably one of the reason she will fall when he reads further.

Ichigo didn’t stop, he looked once more at what he read so that he may perhaps find something he missed or accidently skipped. He didn’t find such a line, Ichigo proceeded to read further what the book has for him.

Celestia and Luna from time to time had small disputes, sister fights that were on the same level of seven-year old’s that fight for a cookie. Nothing special. Luna wanted to learn what Celestia was learning and she wanted to have some rulership too, while Celestia wanted to see the world and know other cultures, perhaps meet a ruler, their desires have changed. Luna wanted something Celestia held and Celestia wanted to give it up in exchange for Luna's time with other nobles.

Luna didn’t quite like the idea of giving something and losing it, especially when she didn’t receive anything from her parents lately. Luna apparently tried to convince her sister with her skills to give up some of her work for exchange for nothing! Luna was sure of victory, and indeed Celestia agreed and they made a deal, which left Luna with more meetings, discussions and work to do then Celestia had. Luna felt betrayed by the world, and she agreed to give Celestia a try to talk with a local noble that wanted to ask for permission of building an orphanage for non-ponies in the city. Ichigo didn’t find more information about that, there is also no mentioning of Luna getting punished for a failure, which left him only to guess Celestia succeeded.

Luna became more and more mature, her breast have grown, and she was less curvy. Luna and Celestia have greatly suffered when their parents died, and Discord has taken over Equestria. Discord didn’t quite like a unified country for ponies, where the three tribes leave peacefully under two rulers. Ichigo didn’t know what the three tribes were, but he guessed the author meant the unicorns, earth ponies and Pegasus’s.

Ichigo turned to another page, and he wished he didn’t.

There was a civil war that stopped Equestrian progress and liberty for four hundred years. He was responsible for the stagnation of Equestrian Technology, many riots and uprisings that demanded better living conditions that were brutally put down with his magic of chaos. Discord was responsible for the annexation of what it seemed to be some uninhabited Islands by the Gryphon Empire.

Discord was also the main enemy Celestia and Luna fought with, here Luna is described to look exactly like right now. Dark blue fur, tall and with the same almost flat breasts she has, her mane long and still made out of space. Her muzzle apparently got longer, and her eyes narrowed a little. She with Celestia reached their adulthood to that point.

They used something called the elements of harmony. This weapon has imprisoned Discord in stone and to this day has been like this without any change. Ichigo starched his head after reading the following sentences, as he was surprised greatly there is something that could have imprisoned him for so long, Discord has impressive amounts of power.

Ichigo went further, he read about Luna’s part in rebuilding Equestria, ponies loved her, and they sung and hailed her name! Special holidays were made in different parts of Equestria for her and for Celestia, together with some autonomous events where only she or Celestia are praised. Such events were disallowed, they could spark tensions between the two.

Ichigo closed the book for a minute, he had to think about what he has just read thru. Discord was responsible for countless deaths and he wasn’t put to death but instead imprisoned forever? That bastard deserves to get some good capital punishment for dinner! Of course, it could be that Discord is immortal in the true definition of the word, and he simply cannot die.

Luna with Celestia seemed to be quite loved by the ponies, they agreed on many things and they wanted their ponies to live a happy life. Luna and Celestia fought Discord for many years and succeeded, he didn’t see or read anything that could make her “fall” from that point, as if Luna has changed suddenly and violently from the peaceful and beloved ruler into a hated and disrespected wench.

Ichigo read further, this time the crystal ponies and the Crystal Empire was mentioned once more in the book. Ichigo was interested in that topic, he started to be interested in the Equestrian History, or Luna’s biography at the moment. This was creepy, he was reading about the private life of a person who probably trusts him.

Luna and Celestia have encountered an evil unicorn King that has claimed the Crystal Empire north to Equestria. An independent state of ponies that have their own culture, history and magic. Crystal Ponies are ponies of Crystal Skin and are extremely resistant to magic and cold. They aren’t touched by electricity and fire only hurt them when it's twice as hot.

The crystal ponies seemed to be a better version of normal ponies that live in Equestria, as if the crystal ponies were a higher on the race charts. Pretty weird, back home you’d be assaulted by god knows what groups claiming that no race is better than the other, and here visibly it is the case. Ichigo doesn’t poses the information to tell if the crystal ponies are more intelligent and clever then normal ponies, but there is a chance they are.

Ichigo was presented with some emotional crisis that happened to Luna and Celestia, the princesses seemed to have a small crush on that guy. They tried with words and with peaceful agreements turn him back to light. They didn’t succeed, the sisters blamed each other for this, but soon they forgive each other and agreed that there was no way of stopping the darkness that overtook Sombra.

The Princesses have defeated him, Luna was one of the main caster of a spell she knew to imprison Sombra in a cloud of shadow. Sombra using the darkness he possessed and his own skill in magic made the whole Crystal Empire disappear just like that! With the Empire he vanished too for an unknown amount of time, the spell won’t last forever and the Empire will return with Sombra back to Equis.

Ichigo was speechless, the guy just poofed a country out of existence, he poofed an Empire out of existence, and Empires are big! Celestia and Luna couldn’t stop him from doing this! They are goddesses! What kind of magic was that? What amounts of reiatsu could he have possessed to accomplish such a feat?

Luna was saddened by the disappearance of the Crystal Empire, she gave much care and much love to crystal ponies that were in Equestria when the accident happened. She was the main reason for a crystal Pony minority surviving for a long time until their kind has disappeared after generations. tales about crystal ponies that lived among normal ponies to this day fill shelves of libraries.

Ichigo feel better to know Luna cared about something, maybe he could use this in the future, it would give him some more time to fix Luna’s bad look on the world and also help her become more energetic and less sad. She needs someone to talk to her, there probably are ponies that are opened to her, she fears to find them.

Ichigo went one more page, this time the action was described to happen exactly one thousand years ago.

Princess Luna has grown jealous of her sister’s renown and prestige, the ponies worked under her sun and slept under her night. Luna was jealous that no pony wanted to giver her night an any attention, she cursed every hour a pony spent in bed rather than to at least peak at the stars, she was happy to know that young ones got together and shared their love in the night. She was jealous not even one party, or birthday, or holiday happened in the night, that ponies wouldn’t even mind to go and sit, to stare at the sky, without Celestia’s sun blinding them.

This escalated quickly, Luna was jealous of attention and that no one wanted to look at her night sky? It’s a shitty reason to get jealous for, but then again, it's hers and she tries her best to make the ponies happy. They repay her with nothing, not even ten minutes of attention. Scientists and other astronomers don’t really count in as it’s their job to stare at the sky.

Luna, tried to fight her sadness and she tried to make it into happiness, she tried potions, magic and even a psychologist. She looked for something that would make her ponies look at the sky and finally say that it is beautiful, she wanted just one thing. One small thing. One minute of appreciation, one minute to thank her for that period of time. To hear her ponies, say the night is a peaceful period of time, and not a cover for thieves and criminals.

Ichigo felt sorry for Luna and what she had to go thru, he felt sad himself while reading about it, it had to be a torture to see them not respond with any form of loyalty towards her after she gives them time to sleep from an entire day of working. She loved her citizens like Celestia, and for a parent even two words are more valuable than anything in the world. It was a very dirty and painful move from the side of the ponies to make Luna literally become irrelevant in their lives.

Luna wanted to make one of her nights special, she worked days and nights, she stayed home for entire weeks working on new constellations and nebulas in the sky, she had everything planned, even how waves in the water would move, Luna wanted to make her sister day look like a tyrant who held the ponies on a chain. Already back there she was driven by the desire to win and to defeat her sister, her love to her sister was equal to the desire of being better.

That was quite terrifying, that Luna has lost her control over her goals and she wanted her sisters to look worse she wanted to be better. She wanted to be finally loved once more, something she had the right to have. It might sound weird, but it was understandable. Celestia isn’t mentioned even trying to help Luna, but it could be the chapter only focuses on Luna.

Luna chose the day when the Sun is in the sky for the longest amount of time, as it can’t be moved by Celestia earlier for reasons to this day unknown (…)

Luna choose that exact day to humiliate her sister? He shouldn’t say it, but it was a good decision, the most important day for Celestia’s sun being the time for Luna’s comeback? It was a cruel move against her sister.

(…) Of course, the ponies ignored her efforts, she cried and her Sister felt sorry and she tried to speaker with her, but Celestia thought that it would be better to leave Luna alone (…)

The more Ichigo reads, the more he wants to know how did this book come to exist? Who wrote it and why does Tight Grip have it? Was this made by someone who studied the Princesses? Perhaps a historian or a group of educated individuals who got the permission to create this object?

Princess Luna was driven insane by the actions of the ponies, she became furious and her hatred towards Celestia was astonishing, she had enough of her sister’s rulership and her being just a shadow cast by her sister’s posture. Inside of Lunas soul, darkness kept on grooving changing the once beautiful and smart ruler into a demon, a partial reincarnation of true evil driven by emotions known to all on daily bases.

It seemed that Luna was overtaken by darkness? It changed her, she became insane, it’s not her fault that she was controlled by an outside force. That is stupid, she was mentally unstable at that point she was sad she wanted to be loved. She shouldn’t be judged so hard! Are they insane? The whole thing will happen over again!

Princess Luna had enough, when the time to lower the moon came, she didn’t do it. She left it up in the sky, her sister seeked her worried something has happened, but princess Celestia found her sister in the castle fine and uninjured by anything. The two sisters talked and while Luna was expressing her anger, while she made it visible she suffered the darkness luring inside of her came outside, in a flash of blue and purple light. The palace shook, the whole old castle and the nearby villages were destroyed by an earthquake.

So indeed, darkness took over her, she wanted appreciation and she received none of it even when she deserved it.

Princess Celestia asked her sister what is she doing and that she didn’t know she suffers so much. That she could have told her, that both of them could find a solution to that problem. Luna emerged from the shadow in a changed form, she became as powerful as her sister, as tall as her. Her body resembled her sister body, her face, her wings, and almost every detail wasn’t changed. Luna’s body shape was now a perfect copy of Celestia. She became a perfect suiting shadow she was for a long time.

That hurt Ichigo internally, the darkness in her turned her even more into what she was seen as.

Ichigo read the description of Luna’s changed form, she was all back and had a purple tint over her black fur, her hair resembled pure night sky, without any other colors then blue, and white for the sparkling stars. Not even a little orange or red was in her hair like right now. She had grown sharp vampire like teeth.

Luna is also a piebald pony, and her purple spots are a background for her cutie mark, that of course is located near her ass cheeks. For some odd reason, only there and nowhere else.

Ichigo went one more page further, that was the last one, page fifty-one.

Here it was described how Celestia and Luna have fought and how Luna made an eclipse of Celestia’s sun therefore keeping the night for a longer amount of time. Celestia knew tricks and had more experience in battle, Luna served in most times as a diplomat. Celestia also wanted her sister safe, so she battled with most foes. Luna took the name of Nightmare Moon, it was assumed she wanted to have a very weak connection to her previous life that has ended with her transformation. Luna has battled and with anger and without much strategy she tried to defeat her sister.

Luna needed more strength, therefore she used dark magic to drain the lifeforce of ponies nearby and strengthen herself with tie life-energy. She drained a small town inhabited, at that time, by two hundred ponies. Luna started from the kindergarten, foals and fillies contained the most magic, and with the strength she gotten from them she drained others faster.

At that point Ichigo has partially died inside. A large chunk of his good opinion about Luna was endangered, he couldn’t think she would go so far, he understands she was mentally sick, he even understands her anger and her ill wishes to feel upon Celestia. He thought, that she would at least remain sane enough and be a good ruler, yet it seemed her revenge also touched the innocent.

Ichigo already had enough to know what she did, and what was the main reason for other to hate her. It came from things she has done while in a fury, while her ire was inextinguishable. He doesn’t really have anything to change her situation with, he can’t really help her right now. Even now he himself started to doubt Luna’s true goals back then.

He begin to read further once more, to end the story he began.

Princess Celestia used the Elements of Harmony, a sacred weapon that was known to be wielded by rulers or simple peasants with pure hearts. She used its magic to banish her sister onto the moon, so that her sister may not pose a threat to others. Princess Celestia with her magic drove the moon down, Princess Luna even if she wanted, couldn’t stop her sister. As the elements of Harmony blocked her magic. There is a prophecy, saying that at the exact same day Luna fell and Nightmare Moon rose, she will return after one thousand years…

At that point the chapter ended, the next one had something to do with the other realms, it also had five pages in length.

Ichigo couldn’t believe that after reading five pages his whole opinion about someone so powerful, and friendly towards him may change. Ichigo was left broken into thousands of shards that fell on different tiles, each one a different way of accepting and reacting to what he just read. Ichigo sighed and closed the book, he hid it under his pillows for now.

Ichigo tried to think how old could that book be, it looked good, and it wasn’t touched by time, it was fresh so to speak. It could have gotten a year or two if not more, maybe five and that’s it. Then again, maybe this book was repaired with magic? If one evil unicorn can poof an empire out of existence, why wouldn’t there be a possibility to keep an old book together?

Then again…he had a idea, quite unlikely one, that could end badly, but what if Luna helped him with Blueblood? She would repair her status, she would raise up in the hearts of the ponies. Luna is also stuck in medieval times from what he heard. She may react aggressively and really unpredictable, he would first have to indoctrinate her into the topic and then reveal the secret.

On the other hand…It could only bring more harm. Make Luna fall even lower as haters from all around Equestria will start theories. Telling others that she knew it earlier but didn’t want to react, and asking questions like:

“Why didn’t she tell her sister?”

Ichigo took his zanpakuto and placed it on his lap, he sat on his bed and prepared to mediate and try and release his hollow from the ‘cage’ Discord has placed him in. Why everything that is hard, and is sad, requires strength and endurance, falls on his shoulders?

Author's Notes:

Hey guys, how’s a goin’? I wanted to release this chapter on Friday but it seems I got lazy so I wrote it today. Sorry for the grammar, still looking for an editor (:

I hope you like the chapter, please remember to comment on the story it warms me up. Every comment is a hug for sad Luna.

Can I ask you a question since you read this AU further down? Yes? Cool, do those fucking birds anger you in the morning?