“What did that thing do with my sister? And how does she know who I am?” pondered Princess Celestia as she paced the hallways of her palace. “Never mind, this is no time for questions; I need to save Luna! Save Equestria! Mother and Father worked so hard to create this land, and I cannot let it slip through my hooves!”

All of a sudden, an idea popped up. “Wait, that’s it- Mother and Father! There’s a spell that can bring them back to life for a couple minutes, but I’ve been too afraid to try it. But this is an emergency so I’ll do it anyway.”

The princess practiced the spell all day, and eventually got it. She then went to the two gravestones where her parents rested, an area she’d been too depressed to visit for months.

“Come on..please work...” Celestia mumbled to herself while preparing the spell. After a few minutes, two ghostly figures appeared. In place of back legs they had ghost tails. One, her mother, looked angelic, and it wasn’t because she was dead. She had long light green hair that flowed a bit from her head, a snow white coat, and slippers with vines that twisted and turned up her legs. Her cutie mark was a planet earth. The other spirit, her father, had a very dark blue coat, and white hair that looked like a comet shooting across the sky. His cutie mark was a clump of seven stars.

“Mother! Father!” the delighted princess said.

“Tia! We’ve missed you so much!” Queen Evergreen replied. King Nightingale simply nodded; he was a stallion of few words.

“I have summoned you for help with an emergency. Luna has been hurt.” Celestia told her parents in a somber tone.

“Oh no! What happened?”

“Well I had sent her out to raise the moon in the Everfree Forest when suddenly I heard her calling me for help. By the time I got there an alicorn the same size as me was there. She said something about how the sun would never rise again, and somehow she has prevented the moon from going down. I thought only Father and Luna had that power since it was taken away from the unicorns. Is there something I don’t know?”

The king’s expression froze. “What did the mare look like?”

“Almost black coat, purple mist like mane and tail, catlike eyes.”

Then Nightingale’s face twisted into an expression of pure terror. “Oh no.”

After a brief summary of what had happened all those years ago, Celestia’s father finished, “Nyx has likely taken over Luna’s body for revenge. You must wield the elements upon her to get your sister back.”

Aghast at the fact she would have to use something she used against her worst enemy, the princess asked, “Are you sure?”

“It is the only option. Hopefully they will put Luna in control again and force Nyx out, but they could also do something else entirely. You will have to risk it.”

“Fine. Where can I find the elements?”

“In the castle ~~~~~,” Evergreen answered. She and the king seemed a bit more transparent.

“The castle what?” a confused Celestia asked. Then she realized. “Oh no! They’re fading away! The few minutes are almost up!”

“WAAAAITTTT!” she reached her hoof her hoof out, but her parents had vanished. “Horse feathers. I can’t use the spell again for at least a week. But I can’t wait that long. Nightmare Moon may be too powerful by then. I have to find the elements myself.”

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