The Land of theMoon
The letter from the East
Hi, I have not write a long time ago. Communications are very difficult in this place; it is the inconvenient of fighting in this vast desert which extends to the East coast of Equestria. Elunas couldn't choose worst.
Do you remember? A few letters ago I promised to tell you why Elunans fight for. Well, you are lucky today.
During the campaign for the conquest of Maryquesh I met an old man, wise in the scriptures of the faithful to the Moon. Being kind to him he decided to answer my question.
I really hope you receive this letter, my sister, for you to have a good news, maybe a cover for the newspaper you work for at Fillydelphia.
Equestria knows that I miss its clear shores and fishing there. Since I am here I cannot stop thinking on my boat and the painful decision that I made on sale it. May Celestia can forgive me for believe that coming here with my friends was a worth venture to tell my grandchildren.
Now that everybody is dead and I am tired, I feel to tell this to my descendant, if I had any after I get out of here, it would be…, How can I explain it? Horrible!
I thank Heaven you are not here and I hope Celestia heard my prayer. I do not want to be here serving to the army of our Princess. We are not even going for what they tell us: fighting for freedom. What a fiasco they teach to children at schools! If that was the real reason I swear that we would be heroes. If I have learned something in this land besides my military training, that is all of us are ponies; Celestians, Elunans, does it matter; we are not so different after all. We fight for which we have aside, we fight under the same sun and the same moon, we write letters to our families. I do not understand what are our differences when the half of the day is night.
I think I went off topic, but since I heard that old man I have no more reasons to fight for. I just want to go back home and fishing again at Fillydelphia.
Elunans, at the same at us, have their own legend about how Equestria was created. Start the same like in the school; Princess Celestia rising the sun and her younger sister brought the night before she was locked into the moon, in a perfect balance where all the ponies were equal to the eyes of the armony.
However, at the Middle East, at the only city in that time a thousand years ago, in Joerusalem, the sun burned like thousand hells making all the activities were made during the sunset and nights. People of the desert were the only ones at the whole Equestria who remain all night long watching the beautiful starry night their Princess gave to them as gratitude for their loyalty, the Elunas, those who are now fighting with.
Luna decided to give to her desert subjects the gift of an eternal night, so they have not to bear the infernal sun of the day, but then a misfortune came. Celestia, thirsty of power and tire of her sister Luna used her magic to lock her away to govern both sides of the day. After that no other pony on Joerusalem saw their goddess again and angry, they declared war to the sun and to the kingdom of Equestria, conquering all other towns at the East and making them loyal to the moon for five hundred years.
Then, and this we know already for the history classes, Princess Celestria sent troops of the kingdom to fight against to the Elunas through another five hundred years of pain and suffering.
No matter what they say at school I do not see any progress; hardly we have conquered Maryquesh and now we head towards to the city of Anagistam, which will take months to be conquered by the army of the sun.
While we going from water to water and survive to the unpredictable attacks of the militia, there are also some rumors, words they say to scare higher and lower members of the Celestia's army, about in the middle of the year, during the Sunset Sun Celebration, one thousand years will be fulfilled since the mare of the moon was imprisoned and, once the day comes, she will return with unimaginable power accompanied by her army to destroying completely the army of the sun, and will conquest the kingdom of Equestria.
I am finishing my letter, ink is low. That is the story of the Elunas, that is what they believe and why they fighting for; they want the land is theirs, not for Equestria. They are fools as we are, but they live here and know the land as the palm of their hand, and they will not leaving it
To my dear sister Summer Wind of Fillydelphia, with love. Fish Net.
P.S. If one day you are visiting cousins Rarity and Sweetie Bell at Ponyville, give them my love and tell them that I miss them as much as you.