Chapter 2

One last night here on this beautiful moon. I cannot believe I have been here for this long of time...I did truly deserve this spot. Even worse is that I don't think I'll be seeing my old friends when this is over tomorrow...if they'll even consider me to be a friend.

Looking at the Earth for all these years and not being able to go back to it really has set a tone on my dismembered life. I was trusted with these alicorn wings and I failed Princess Luna miserably...I was also entrusted with some of the most powerful magic in Equestria and still I fell to the likeness of the darkness.

Can I really be that weak, but at the same time, be that strong...?

I'm ashamed of myself for even giving in to that pathetic darkness. I am a lot stronger than that...or at least I was stronger than that...*sigh*...now I can't even perform the most basic of spells...

This must have been how Princess Luna felt when she was banished here. I love the moon very much and the astrological signs and signals, but having them around all day and all night is getting a bit irritable. Eternal night surely would have been a bad thing if Princess Celestia had fallen to her younger sister.

*sigh*...please...let me go home...I miss Princess Twilight very much...

It's finally time! This is the day I have waited over a thousand years!

The day I am released from captivity on the moon.

The stars are aligning themselves along both of my sides and forming this sort of path for me to travel down. The path travels from my current location on the moon all the way to what seems like Equestria, assuming Equestrian borders have remained the same. I started walking down the path, only to be swept up and taken by the stars themselves, making this journey go by a lot quicker.

I looked around me and saw all of the stars that have kept me company over the years fly right by my head. As I got closer to the earth, the ride gradually got slower, up until the point where I was actually on my hooves again. It was the first time in over a thousand years where I was on my hooves under the influence of gravity and it felt very weird. I started flapping my wings and slowly started hovering in the air. Flying was a bit more of a natural instinct to me now that I've had my wings for over a thousand years.

"Where am I?" I spoke to nopony in particular.

I looked around, trying to familiarize myself with the scenery once more, but couldn't remember anything at all. Since it was night, I figured I'd fly in one direction high up in the sky so that I can see where anything was. After flying for maybe about ten minutes, I saw a very large, crystallized castle ahead of me.

"Is that the Crystal Castle?" I asked myself.

I flew over towards the castle and dropped down to the ground slowly, touching base with my hooves. I staggered over to the front of the castle and was immediately stopped by a strong looking guard.

"Halt!" He shouted at me. "State your name and business!"

"M-my name is Prince Lunar Nights," I sheepishly answered, "don't you recognize me?"

"There is no such Prince by that name in Equestria!" The guard continued. "What is your real name and what is your business with Princess Twilight Sparkle?"

"Princess Twilight?" I asked. "This castle is Twilight's?"

"State your name and business!" The guard roared, holding up a spear at me.

"Whoa, whoa!" I frighteningly spoke, shuffling back a bit.

Just then, the front of the doors had begun to open. Out stepped a pony, although it was too dark to see who exactly it was. The guard, still holding up the spear towards my neck, turned around and acknowledged the pony walking out of this castle.

"Going home for the evening, Miss Rarity?" He asked.

"Rarity?" I repeated. How's that possible? She should be dead...dead for over nine hundred years...How is she still alive...?

"Most certainly, kind sir," Rarity answered. She noticed the spear being held up to my neck and asked the guard a question a bit quietly, although I could still hear it, but barely. "Who is this pony we have here?"

"He claims to be a Prince," the guard replied, "a Prince by the name of...Lunar Nights."

"'Lunar Nights'!?" Rarity screeched, moving out of the way and stopping next to me. She looked me over before continuing to talk.

"R-Rarity?" I asked before she spoke.

"Sir," Rarity told the guard, "would you mind removing the spear from Lunar's neck?"

"But he is a threat to Princess Twilight!" The guard continued, shoving the spear a bit closer to my skin.

"No he's not." Rarity defended. "He's a Prince. He was the Colt in the Moon. Haven't you heard of that legend, dear?"

"This is the Colt in the Moon?" The guard replied, pulling the spear only slightly away.

Rarity nodded. "Yes. Now if you could be so nice as to take the spear away, I'll gladly explain everything to you, darling."

"If that is what you want, Miss Rarity," the guard softly spoke, "so be it." He then removed the spear from my neck, allowing me to stand back up straight.

Thank Celestia... I told myself.

"Are you alright, dear?" Rarity asked me, placing something over my back, something that felt much like feathers.

"Uh, yeah..." I spoke, "R-Rarity?"

"I see you remember me," Rarity smiled, "or really, you remember my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother."

That explains one thing... I thought. "Your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother?" I repeated.

"I'm not the same Rarity you knew." Rarity continued.

This should make for an interesting story... I told myself.