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Luke grumbled as he looks at his watch again. It read 8:23, but Alex was supposed to be meeting him at straight up 8 PM. Alex was Luke's soon-to-be girlfriend, and was extremely excited to ask her out. He was lifelong friends with Alex, and was planning to ask her out after seeing a movie with her. She'll be here... I know it. She's just late. He thinks to himself, looking around again. Suddenly, he feels what he assumes to be a raindrop land on his head. Looking up, he sees nothing, and is about to keep looking for Alex. But the he notices the moon. Luke was in awe of two things: How he never noticed it, and how large it was. He continues to stare up at the moon, mindlessly.

As time passes while he looks up, he feels as if he was asleep, but more alert than he ever had been. He tries to understand this sensation, but fails to even move from his spot. Luke watches the moon slowly rise and fall, dumbstruck by it's beauty. As the moon begins to fall over the distance, he feels warmth behind him. Finally turning away, he sees sees the sun, beginning it's ascension into the sky.

Wait... The sun..? How long have I been out here? He asks himself, looking at his watch in a hurry. It read 6:57, and Luke begins to run home. Nonono... How could I have spent that long waiting? He thinks to himself, before getting back to his house. "Hey, I'm home!" He quickly shouts to his parents, ignoring their screams asking where he was. Luke hurries to get ready for school, and feels his head begin to throb. Moaning, he takes it as he was being tired, and continues to get ready. He throwing on a jacket, he reaches for his backpack to leave, but feels his consciousness begin to fade. Falling to the ground, his vision blurs and he pass out. Getting darker, The only thing that stayed was the faint outline of the moon he had seen the night before. Even that begins to fade, and he passes out completely.

Princess Luna trots throughout her castle in Canterlot, happy as could be. She looks out the windows lining the halls, and watches the moon as she continues on her way in the hall. It truly was elegant, and her night was as beautiful as it could possibly be. She breaks her vision from the her moon, and continues on her way to visit her sister. The cold castle echoed her hoofsteps, as Luna stepped into the throne room. She entered to see Celestia speaking to a guard quietly. As she approached, Celestia stopped her conversation with the guard, and greets Luna with a large hug. "Hello there, sister." Luna says as she pulls back from the hug. The two spoke briefly about the state of Equestria, before saying their goodbyes.

The blue mare leaves the room, glancing again at the moon. Her horn begins to slowly radiate a dull pain. Rubbing her forehead, she returns to her lookout to continue her watch of the night. She watches the night, as the pain from her horn begins to grow larger and larger. The pain grew to the point where she was unable to continue her watch, and she simply returned to her bedroom. Rolling into her bed she laid herself out in pain, as she looked out her window. Some time later, the sun began to rise, and the pain grew exponentially. Luna's consciousness begins to fade, and her eyes close shut.

Luke feels the light of the sun begin to beam down onto his face, and he begins to stir. He feels the heat begin to beam heat down onto his face, and the light making sleep impossible. Luke feels himself laying on a mattress. Ah... Mom must have moved me to my bed... I was only a few feet away from it after all. Knowing sleep would not be possible with the brightness of the sun beaming down from a nearby window.

Luke reaches to rub his face, but notices something is wrong based on that short feeling alone: His fingers were gone. He couldn't feel or move theme at all. Shooting his eyes open, all he sees in his face is a dark blue nub. "W-what the hell is going on?!?" He shrieks, freaked out by the color and lack of fingers. Then, he noticed the second thing that was off: His voice. "Wait..." He utters slowly. Yeah, it's much higher... He thinks to himself, beginning to look around the room he was in. "This isn't my room, either..."

Just then, Luke's confusion begins to rise even more, as a white horse wearing armor bursts into the door, shouting. "Princess! Are you alright?" the stallion asked, bowing before the bed Luke was sitting in.

Blinking, Luke feels uneasy, not sure what he should say. "Uh... me?" he asks, pointing the blue nub of an arm at himself.

"Yes, Princess Luna. You shouted earlier and I rushed over to see what was the matter," the stallion says, looking at Luke with a confused expression.

"Uhm... You can go. I just saw a rather large bug," Luke says, assuming the role of this 'Princess Luna' person while he figures out what to do.

"Very well, Princess. I shall leave you alone now," the horse said, leaving the room.

Okay... I'm alone again... Luke thinks to himself, attempting to get out of the bed like he normally would. As soon as he tried to stand, he fell flat to the ground. Okay, well, THAT didn't work. Luke begins to push himself up, standing on all fours. Strangely for Luke, this felt somehow... right. He was able to move about normally on all fours, or at least easier than he could earlier. Moving normally, he begins to move to a mirror he spotted in the room. His jaw drops, and he steps closer to the mirror. His reflection showed a horse with wings and a horn staring back at him. A star-studded mane and tail flowing as if the night sky was still out. Wait... That white horse that came in here... he said princess... Luke realizes he's not just a talking horse in a weird room: He's a female talking horse in a weird room.