Luna as per her usual routine was putting her beautiful moon into the sky as her sister lowered her sun. Then her sister would sleep and she would work on her duties which like always included, reading mail, checking on night mares, and helping out scared fillies and colts. She began with her mail, levitating one up to her eyes and slowly cutting it open with her magic.
The first one had a Royal symble on it, it looked like ther manticore symbol. With her magic she lifted the parchment from is encasing and read "Ha doth thou Manticore King think he will get a different answer when asking not of Tia, denied" she said in a normal tone. It was a leter this pesky king had been sending for weeks, he wanted Equestrian land, they wouldn't give it to him, but he knew not to take it by force and challenge the ruling sisters. Quickly she stamped a red denial stamp, conjured up a new envelope and sent the letter back to the king.
She opened then another, but before she could read it a shreak was herd within the Echoing halls of the Castle, then a thud. She quickly reacted getting to her hoves and opening the door with her magic.
"You, follow thy, be ready for combat. You get help!" She neighed orders to the two bat pony gaurds. Her hoves raced under her, the other following her in close behind. She knew that cry all to well, Tia was in trouble.
She quickly found herself in Tia's room, the moon shining through an open window, a churning windblowing up the curtains. In the shadows lay a limp body, blood just in veiw. As she came close her fears materialized, there she lay stiff on the cold hard ground. "Tia..?"