Prologue
Little to nothing power when first born into Equestria, Cosmic, firstly named Full Sky, had only wished to know why her sister, Phoenix Pit, was such a brat. It was only during their filly years that Cosmic felt not included with her sister's play time of that she was confused. Everyone was allowed to play with the older princess, but not her. She fell into a glum, and over years depression, and even in months anger. Feeling left out by your own family isn't so nice for a child to experience. Never. She'd try coming up to her mother's room and try to coax the Queen to watch her work the stars in the sky, to see them shine and twinkle but the Queen turned a blind eye foolishly. Full Sky didn't have any friends truthfully, she'd coax a guard to be childish now and then, get at least an hour to talk and act like a normal kid. But the guard would go on and the filly would find herself alone without a person to at least make her feel like she was alive...
Long she hid away from the dark life she possessed, growing angry at the civilization and the ponies that were her subjects. She'd always growl "Why now?" as she raised the moon and stars to see all hide away in their homes. Growls turned to snarls, anger turned her blind. She'd raise the moon, she let her subjects sleep, but she grew tired and bored with only raising something that had the strength to raise itself every evening.
Blind as I said, she turned into something heartless, something dark, something neglected. She pulled files from every corner of her work to find one fault that has been done without her doing and grew even angrier when she had. For the past hundred years her sister had been a gluttonous brat. More prices raised, more bills passed out. Full Sky could only look outside at night in her secluded tower of which sadly she could not find any difference like before. The dark night overhead felt dull, all that she had tried had died out as no one stayed outside or glanced outside their windows to see.
Even during the Winter solstice, no one came to see her rise the moon.
She felt like giving up, "Nothing would be better than to give the moon back to Grandmother Luna." she proposed. To that day she promised to leave the moon to its own accord she flew off to whatever place she found inhabited and at least blow off some steam.
But town after town, all places she had seen in the past thriving had died out like her hope. Landing in one town in particular, the farms had been sold out by companies, grass barely grew, orphanages and homeless shelters filled to the brim, she had only needed one piece of evidence to reveal why such a beautiful place had fallen into ruin.
A notice.
A single notice on the town hall doors, nailed in on the empty building was the most ludicrous note of higher taxes she'd ever seen. "a thousand bits every month... That amount should be for only an entire year."
She'd only have to fly back now to Canterlot and put two and two together.
And it was more than two and two. More like a million and a million stamped into every corner possible. the floor's littered with gold, throne bigger than life and for Celestia's sake, that bratty older sister of her's.
"Sister? Why is this happening?"
"Haven't you heard Sky? Canterlot is the most richest capital in all of Equestria!"
Full Sky combed up the stairs with a tired glaze over her eyes. "But our country is dying because of all these taxes!"
"So? Pick off the thin strips of this wretched country and all you have left are the ones who can survive." Phoenix Pit stood up from her solid gold throne with encrusted jewels. "Besides, mother won't mind."
"She will when she finds out you've been killing Equestria all these years!"
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