I don't own My Little Pony as all you know.
This chapter is just a little introduction to the true history beginning on the next one.
This story is not narrated by me, therefore she has two universes, the normal universe and the story of the narrator, the latter showing little in the Introduction and in short stretches at the beginning and/or end of some chapters, at the same time act as an introduction to another story.
The older sister was sitting on an armchair at the edge of a window in one of the highest floors of an apartment. Outside the sky was seen, full of multi-colored stars, a lake where another girl admired the ducks swimming, and later, a forest. A simple view, but the girl liked her. In the distance could be heard the sound of a storm that never came up there, and that protection was what teen girl liked best.
She got a lock of her long pink hair behind her ear and turned her attention back to the book that she had open on her lap. A few more minutes of reading, then she heard the room's door opening and turned to it. There stood her younger sister, with a sleepy expression and somewhat frightened.
"Can't sleep because of the storm?" The oldest put the book on the table next her and smiled maternally to the youngest.
"I had a nightmare, Sunshine." The newest muttered, sitting in the arm of the chair in which her sister, apparently Sunshine arm - although the name sounded strange for a girl, perhaps a nickname - was.
"Don't worry, Moonlight, it was just a silly nightmare." Sunshine hugged her little sister. "Want me to stay with you until you sleep?"
"I'm not a baby!" Moonlight answered, at first serious, but then smiled back. "But we could do something fun instead of going to sleep. Why don't you tell me a story? You always know a lot of them." She suggested.
"You know I've exhausted my stories last week, Moon." Sunshine muttered, then thought for a moment. "Or maybe... I think I have one more."
"It's about what?" Moon jumped into the carpet, lively.
"About two princesses, a king and and an evil queen, also about dragons and shadows." Sunshine sat on the carpet in front of her sister.
"Sounds like one of those fairy-tales-with-no-fairies, Sun!" Moon protested.
"Speaking like this just sounds a bit cliché, but I assure you it's nothing of what you're thinking. No Once Upon a Time, magic mirrors, poisoned apples, sleeping princesses, charming princes, not even a happily ever after yet. Our tale takes place in a not-so-distant realm, a kingdom inhabited by ponies. But if you are thinking of a sunny, colorful and happy kingdom, think again. It was a kingdom covered by the cloak of darkness..."
"Like here?" Moon interrupted, looking through the window at the always starry sky.
"No. The moon and the stars that illuminate us not lit that kingdom, only darkness and fear reigned there. The queen, Nightmare, was a cruel tyrant, known as the queen of nightmares, because that was the largest domain of her powers. It was said that she belonged to a forgotten world and a long destroyed race. Little is known about them, except that they controlled powerful dark magic. Nobody had the courage to face her directly, but two kingdoms stood like a fortress in the pole.
One of these kingdoms was ruled by a unicorn king, who sought at all costs to a spell that could end the evil reign of Nightmare, coming to deepen the study of chaos magic.
The other kingdom was ruled by the last adult Alicorn Princess in Equestria, after the race had been cruelly decimated by Nightmare.
Our story begins with the death of the princess and the beginning of a new life for her daughters, the sisters Celestia and Luna.