"is it really right for me to be called a princess Celestia?" I asked her as she poured me a cup of tea with her magic. "i... don't think I deserve to be called a princess." she merely gave me a kind smile.

"Derpy... from what I remember father telling me before he disappeared all who become an alicorn have proved themselves worthy in some way or they will prove themselves in the future." she slowly set down the teapot onto the table as I itched my newly uncovered wing. "and I believe that you will show them all that you deserve the honor of being called princess." after she spoke she brought up her own cup of tea and took a drink out of it.

I gave a small sigh as I blew onto my own cup of tea to cool it down slightly before I took a small sip, ooh cinnamon. "but how will I know if I get that honor?" I then asked her as she stopped moving for a moment and lowered her cup of tea and gave me a warm smile.

"when they themselves call you princess." I could tell that she knew I was still unsure of myself. "let me tell you a story..." I looked her straight in the eyes. "it is about when my sister and I first began our rule. When Discord was defeated the first time we became overconfident in our power due to the Elements of Harmony. We had our first castle created and we stood side by side to rule over Equestria... and with overconfidence... created many problems..." she stayed silent for a few moments before she continued. "due to our overconfidence we overlooked many small problems and put all our resources towards the biggest of the problems with one of those being keeping the unification of the three pony tribes but since we overlooked the small problems..."

"they turned into bigger ones over time which in turn made more small problems... a never-ending cycle." she nodded at my input before she continued after taking a sip of tea.

"I was concerned with how things were going while my sister being younger then I was still didn't see what we were causing with our overconfidence thinking we could rule perfectly. When I realized it the crime was a daily occurrence due to our mistakes so I immediately rectified it by creating the royal guard. At first, the royal guard was corrupt and I needed to keep an eye on it and push more of my work onto my sister so I could fix the problems. It took many years until it was adequate enough that I didn't have to watch over it but that didn't end my problems..." she looked to her right as I looked to the wall to see a painted picture of Celestia in the sun and Princess Luna in the moon.

"it started another problem with your sister didn't it?" she nodded. "but why?"

"during her banishment, I realized that that was the start of her turning into what she had become in Nightmare Moon. She thought that since I was the most favored I needed little work to stay everyponies favorite and she strived harder to do what she could to gain recognition... she thought she was making progress and she was, albeit slowly, but was heartbroken when I took back my own duties from her. I didn't know it at the time but she felt I had betrayed her by denying her the chance of more work to become recognized... and it became worse when she realized that our subjects preferred the day greatly to her night, overlooking our subjects that preferred the night over her day as they were so few. She lasted for 3 years when she realized this before it happened..." she gained a saddened look in her eyes as I gave her a look of pity before I answered what happened to her.

"she turned into Nightmare Moon." she nodded in response as she calmly took a sip of tea once more. "then... what happened after she was banished?" she gave me a sigh.

"I was honored as a hero of the day and what little support my sister had turned against her soon after her banishment, except for the threstal's of course but they quickly hid themselves away when they realized what she was becoming and that was the final straw for her," she told me as I was confused by what she said.

"why did they hide away? Were they afraid of something?" she nodded to my questions.

"back then the threstal's were treated as monsters and something somepony would tell their foals to make them behave. The only support they had was my sister when she first found them. They were reluctant at first thinking she was acting the same... until they watched her bring up the one thing they could stay safe under... the moon. To them, darkness was their ally and the night brought that to them perfectly considering they tended to be born of dark colors which helped them hide at night. So when my sister disappeared ponies would have hunted them down to make sure they couldn't bring her back so they left before my sister turned into what she was going to turn into... but they did force her to speed up her plans which caused her to make mistakes when she and I fought." I picked up my own cup of tea as I took a sip of it and began to process what she was telling me before another question popped into my head.

"but they came back didn't they?" she nodded with a small smile on her face.

"that they did..." she then gave me a small frown before she continued. "but they were still feared because no record of them was ever kept and they were treated as unknowns. But they knew my sister had changed when I announced that she had returned and she was almost immediately approached by the leader of the threstal race the next day to see if it was true. When she found that it was it took her a few months but soon the message to all of the threstal's was received by them all and quite a few of them came together and requested something that made my sister proud as well as I... can you guess what it was?" I brought my head back to see if I could figure out what changed after Princess Luna returned to Equestria to co-rule with her sister. Then my eyes widened in realization as I blurted it out with a smile.

"the lunar guard!" she smiled and nodded at my answer.

"they created the guard to help prevent another being like Nightmare Moon to ever grace Equestria from ever happening again. My sister was so overjoyed that it reminded me of when I created the royal guard... although the lunar guard's creation had only a few problems to deal with which annoyed me to no end." I almost snorted the tea up my nose as I couldn't restrain a smile coming onto my face. " I believe it is time..." I was confused when she put down her empty teacup before she stood up.

"time? Time for what?" I asked as I quickly set down my cup as she calmly walked past me. I hurried to my hooves as I quickly joined her at the door.

"time... for you to meet my sister."