Darkness of the Sun

*Luna’s POV*

I drift in to sleep. This is how I took care of the night by sleeping. Irony, sleeping in the job… but I don’t just sleep. I use my magic to turn my conscience or some might say my spirit to go out of my sleeping body into other pony’s dream. But since my body is resting, and I am in the state of dreaming, my body will be fully rested so I can live in the day time. In another words when I do work I feel renewed.

As I went into Star’s Dream I found myself in the forest looking at the town made out of stone just like Canterlot but of course in much smaller scale. It took not long for me to know where I was. The town was the ruin I was currently sleeping. But the town looked so lively, ponies were there from young to old even though it was night they were having party, for what? I don’t know. I decide to go nearer the ponies that were in the dream can’t see me, but the owner of the dream can see me. In this case I do not wish to be found. They looked really happy. I went even nearer so I could hear what they were saying.

“Its best birthday party for young master Eclipse,” One pony said.

“Ya, he is becoming 200 years old now,” The other replied.

‘200 YEARS OLD!’ I never knew who could live that much other than me and Tia,’ I thought. But it could be possible since it was dream.

I moved my location so that I can hear other ponies talk.

“Mommy what is this flower?” A little filly asked.

“It’s a Rose-of-Sharon, it signifies eternity, master Eclipse loves them,” Replied the mare who seemed to be the filly’s mother.

‘I would want to see this master Eclipse, must be important…,’ I thought.

“Hello master Eclipse,” I heard, I turned to look at the said master.

The young master who lived for 200 years was younger than what I thought. In fact he was just a little unicorn colt who seemed to be 7 or 8 years old. But I noticed something; he had wings, a bat wings. But how? I thought loyal blood line was the only alicorn, and alicorn with bat wings?

“Impossible,” I said inwardly.

“Where is Joyful?” The young master asked.

“She is over there playing,” said the pony with the smile.

“Thank you,” the alicorn colt said with the cute voice and ran to the direction of the filly.

I smiled at the sight. Until one arrow fly and hit the smiling filly. Filly screamed and died bleeding. The party became a kill zone in matter of seconds, there were arrows flying from everywhere. The colt was gone by the time I looked back. The rain of arrow stopped and ponies with swords charged in. I couldn’t I identify their faces. They started to kill everypony they could see. They light the fire in the house with ponies still in it. They even slit open young filly’s throat and leave the filly die slowly. I couldn’t bear to look at it. I couldn’t even cry at the event. The smell of burning flash and the blood filled the air. It was too much, the scream of the dying pony echoed the forest. In the ground the blood flowed like river, body of the dead filled the ground. The scream got less and less as the number of dead rises. A minute later they dragged two ponies. One was stallion the other was unicorn mare. The stallion had horn and the bat wing which were identical to the colt’s wing. The mare looked like the stallion’s wife. They were the colt’s parents.

“What are you doing here?” a voice came from behind me.

I turned to see Star standing behind me.

“T…this…i…is it…,” I tried to say something and Star cut me off.

“Night mare?” he asked. I nodded. “No, it’s my memory… and those are my parents,”

I turned around to see the two ponies from earlier being hanged, dangling lifelessly.

I couldn’t say anything. Then I saw a pony overlooking the whole event from the cliff and gestured the other pony to leave and the ponies left, leaving behind all the dead body and burning house. Then the rain poured, and the dream ended.

I opened my eye and found myself in the room. I felt tear flowing down my face. I got up and stand with 3 good hooves of mine and got out of the room. When I went out I saw Star staring at me. Then I started crying. He came to me and hugged me, the warmth of his body made me cry even more. A few minute later he carried me outside the building to cool me off.

“This place used to be happy place with laughter, love, care, fun… now it’s just me alone,” Star said with sad tone. “I am Star Eclipse, son of Black Eclipse and Sweet Victory. The dream that you saw was my past, my memory of everypony I knew dying. If you ask how I survived, I was hiding inside that tree, where my parents were hanged,” He gestured the huge tree with small hole on the bottom of the stump.

“Star I… I am so sorry I looked in to your dream, I shouldn’t have…,” I apologized. I felt my eye getting wet again.

“Doesn’t matter, but who are you? How can you look into other pony’s dream?” He asked.

“I am Luna princess of the night…, it’s my job to look into dream of the people and guide them or save them from fear…, which in this case I failed…,” I said with sad tone.

Star chuckled at the statement. “You failed badly,” He said. “We are here,” He said stopping.

It was just outside of the town there was a large field with hundreds of flat stone with words carved on it… It was tomb stones, hundreds of them, all died in this town in that brutal massacre. There was tree tomb stone right at the start of the field.

“The first two are my parents and the other one is… well a close friend of mine,” He said.

Here lies Joyful Heart

My good friend

My comforter

My Love…,

“Was Joyful Heart your very special some pony?” I asked after reading the tomb stone.

“I loved her but she didn’t know… I wanted to tell her I loved her on my birthday… I couldn’t,” I saw a small drop of tear running down his cheek. “Let’s go back,” he said turning around walking toward the mansion with me on his back.

As I looked at him my heart felt heavy, after all that has happened to him, yet I felt warm feeling deep inside my heart, I wasn’t fool, I could see that I was falling for him.

I had a lots of question but it has to wait, for now I wanted to enjoy this ride on his back...