Random tales of The Princesses and the Mane Six
A Midnight Stroll... or... Close Enough to it...... (part 1)
Previous ChapterLuna laid sprawled across her bed, a hard days work behind her and a good restful night ahead. She had already raised the moon, the stars shone bright in the clear night sky. With a flick of her magic the window flew open letting in the cool autumn breeze into her room. A soft gust of wind ruffled her soft silk sheets and Luna rolled around in them letting the stress leave her body and relaxation in. Soon she would have to take a 'midnight stroll', as she like to call them, but right now she wanted this time to herself before checking to make sure her ponies were having no nightmares.
A knock came to her door and Luna let out an irritated sigh. Why couldn't be left to her own devices? She unceremoniously gets up from her bed and strolls over to the door before flinging the double doors with her magic. She smiled at the pony at her door. It was one of the castle servants. "Yes, my little pony?"
The mare smiled. "Your highness, I thought you would like a cup of tea before you went to bed?" she presented a small tray which had a tea cub, a few sugar cubs in a ceramic bowl and the tea pot.
Luna's smile widened at the sight. "Why thank you... no pony has ever done this for me in a long while. It's much appreciated." The tray was then engulfed by the blue aura and lifted into the air. "You have a well sleep."
The mare bowed, her muzzle almost touching the ground. "As for you, your highness."
Luna carried the tray inside her room and silently closed the doors. She trotted over to her bed and set the tray on the night stand and silently poured the tea into the cup, then two sugar cubs. She stirred the liquid for a moment before taking a sip. Jasmine, she always loved Jasmine tea. She preferred it sweeter than most did, which went as a rule of thumb for most teas with her. She took another sip of the tea before setting it down and laid back on the bed again.
Luna flared her wings out and stretched them, her feathers rustling for a moment. After a moment she folded them in again rolled onto her belly, lifting the tea cup to her lips again and sipping then setting it down once more. Luna then fluffed her pillows, all twenty of them which seemed a bit excessive to her, but the maids didn't seem to think so. Either way they were comfortable. Luna rested her head down and closed her eyes. Soon she would be checking on her subjects...
Luna woke, her mind a little fuzzy but her vision clear as day. She let out small yawn and got up from the cold hard floor she was on, which looked like an empty void with thousands and thousands of multicolored lights filling it. The lights, or stars, ranged from a blood red to a soft shade of ocean blue to the sharp white lights that hurt your eyes if you looked at them too long. And then, there were the black holes. The seemingly invisible tortures of the universe and in this case: dreams, were only visible when another star passed behind them revealing a small central black circle and the area around it being deformed, crushed and stretch in a patter that almost looked like ripples in water.
These black holes were the things Luna was looking for in this dream-scape as they represented bad dreams, nightmares that ponies across Equestria were having. And so, with her task laid before her she began her trek through the star-littered field of blackness. The problem with finding these black holes is that they constantly moving where as the stars of normal dreams stayed in a single solitary place for that night, though they always seemed to stay in a certain area like they were in an large room. They had room to move but stayed in the same area overall. Again, like before, these rules didn't apply to the black holes.
For a black hole, if there was room another star wasn't occupying it had the chance of being there, which only made Luna's task of finding them all the more difficult. Of course she couldn't get to them all, even with the slowing of time in this realm. There were simply too many ponies and too much area to cover at once. Now, had there been two of her, or maybe if she could some how figure out how to get Twilight to assist her in finding them, that would be a different story. But twas was not the case.
Luna came to a very open area and her horn lit up brightly before several white orbs of light spread out in a circular motion from it lighting up the area. After walking around it a few moments she finally spotted it. A few feet from one of the lights she could see the ripple of the space and went up to it, the rest of the lights dimming out. She leaned her head down, eyes closed and gently snaked her horn into the black hole, sending her to the desired pony's dream.
Luna opened her eyes and gasped in surprise at what she saw. Around her was destruction, more destruction and nothing but destruction. It was Ponyville, the homes of ponies lay fallen, beaten and burning from the inside out. The smoke rose into the smog filled air, the thick black clouds looming over and blocking out what little sun could be seen left. The town hall was crumbled to the ground, the first floor still standing with large pieces of wood poking out from the top and crashing through the walls.
In front of the town hall sat a single throne made of whatever could be found and in it sat a single mare. Her yellow coat was dirty, her long pink flowing mane tangled and covered in mud while she proudly wore gleaming chrome armor which reflected the light of the fire in a very neat fashion. The mare's wings were bent at the tip of the feathers, worn, dirty and frayed. Least to say they needed a good preening.
Next to her was a small white bunny, terrified, and had a collar around his neck with a leash attached. The yellow mare- Fluttershy -held the leash in hoof looking very bored. "Angle!" she roared, the bunny jumping in terror. "Send the message to the troops we move at dusk. Tonight, we dine in hel-" she stopped as a pony in black clad armor came up, whispering something in her ear. She looked at him with disbelief. "What? Copyrighted? Fine! I'll just find a new line then!" she screamed in utter furry.
Luna looked on in shock. Fluttershy, of all ponies, dreaming of this?! Something was troubling her greatly, and she must hel-
Luna's thoughts were cut off as she felt her leg being poked. She looked down to see Fluttershy standing there in her usual shy self, still wearing the armor. Her hoof brushed across the dirt road, her eyes fixed down. "F-Fluttershy?" Fluttershy glanced up for a moment, her cheeks rosy red. "W-What..."
"S-Sorry... I... can't help but enjoy myself sometimes..." Fluttershy whispered with a shy smile. "Ummm..."
"Perhaps I should go." Luna stated, backing away slowly. Fluttershy only nodded in return as Luna disappeared back into the star filled void. With a shaky sigh she set to go onto the next pony, hoping their dreams won't be so... chaotic.
Author's Note
Part 1: complete
Parts 2-6 coming up along with parts 2-4 of PCRPMC
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