II

Rentus

Ren woke up in a cold sweat and shot straight up. He was breathing hard and fast, now trying to make sense of what he had just seen.

Why am I breathing so hard? Ren's stomach suddenly rumbled. Maybe the better question is WHY am I craving muffins? He thought to himself, he then scanned the room. “Oh.” He said audibly as he saw what happened to the room. Large lances of ice were sticking out of the ground and they were piercing through the walls, tables, shelves and even the ceiling. Ren hopped out of bed and put his hands on the ground. His hands started to glow the usual silver and slowly the ice sank back into the ground, but there were still rips in the carpet though. Ren then looked at the damage of the room and bit his lip. “Damn it, and I just cleaned this place too.”

He sighed and sat back down on the bed, falling back and putting his hand on his head. His thoughts focused on the creature that called itself Luna that invaded his dream. That couldn’t have been real. He then took his hand off his face to examine it. Yet I touched her. She was undeniably alive. I felt her heart beat. I could feel her breath. Ren suddenly realized how delusional he sounded. Vivid dreams were something he was used to after all. “Nah. It’s just a dream, it can’t be real.”

Then there was a knock at the door. Ren groaned.

“It’s open.” There was the sound of the door opening followed by footsteps.

“Wow, you sure did a number on this place didn’t you?” The voice said. Ren, still laying down, lifted his head to see the blonde woman standing in front of him.

“Is it that late already, Dae?” He said while studying her. She was hearing her street clothes, denim shorts that show most of her legs, and a tight shirt that had Bacchus’ logo on it, Ren set his head back down so he would not stare. It was a well known fact among the New Age’s that he never really did well around girls, especially if they were pretty. Dae gave a playful laugh and sat by Ren on the bed.

“It’s been a good five hours Ren.” Ren then turned his head to see the clock. It read eight-thirty Nox time. Ren sighed.

“It seemed like only five minutes in my dream.” She laughed and laid a couple of inches away from where Ren was laying. He couldn’t help but blush.

“Well, that’s usually how it goes with dreams, although dreams can be signs you know, the Gods could be showing you something.” Ren couldn’t help but laugh.

“Well, then the Gods must be pretty weird showing me what I saw.” She rolled on her side using her arm to prop her head.

“Tell me about it, maybe I could interpret it for you.” Ren smiled.

“I honestly doubt you could get anything from it. It was a little abstract.” She gave him a little shove.

“Just tell me about it, errand boy.” She teased. Ren's resistance faltered after she dropped her little name for him. How could he resist?

“Well, in the dream I was-” Then there was a loud knock at the door, then a large man wearing a polo shirt and jeans walked in.

“I thought I would find you here, Dae.” The big man said. Dae got up and pouted.

“Aww, you always gotta come at the worst times Bacchus.” The man scratched his long, greyish-brown hair.

“Well, you left your post early." His narrowed his eyes at Dae. "Two hours early." His mood instantly shifted to one amusement as he noticed Dae sitting close to Ren. "Also, I didn’t know that you two have a thing.” Ren’s face turned a deep red.

“I-It’s not like that!” he stuttered. Dae and Bacchus both laughed. Dae walked past Bacchus and waved at Ren.

“You are gonna have to talk to me about that dream later, errand boy.” She walked out of the hotel room, Bacchus closing the door behind her. He waited a moment until he couldn't hear any footsteps outside, the smile fading from his face.

“What in the fuckin’ hell was that?” His eyes turned grim.

“Well,” Ren said quietly, confused at Bacchus' abrupt anger. “She said that she wanted to talk and she said she would swing by and then that just happened.” Bacchus sighed and sat on a chair that was beside a table next to the bed.

“I never thought this would be a problem, but now I guess I better tell ya. You know what Faust and little Lux do for the Tri right?” Ren nodded his head.

“They go and take out key targets for the Triumvirate that are linked to the Magi and they get any information they can, the Tri give them extra for that.” Bacchus nodded.

“They go in and they kill and take any files they can grab, there’s no need to know what’s on them. I give them the job, they go do it. Right?” Ren nodded, and Bacchus continued. “Then why in hell would we need someone who can gather info?” Ren thought of this before, yet he couldn’t think of an answer at the time. Bacchus took the silence as his answer. “The New Age Caesars specialize in one thing, kid. We kill and we steal.” He sighed. “I hoped that I would have proved it by now, but every time I get close I end up back at square one.” Ren shook his head.

“I don’t get it, why did the Tri send Dae here if she is useless to us?” Bacchus looked up.

“Well, the way divisions of Caesars work is they stay in their designated group until they die and their identities are kept secret from everyone else. You know, to keep Caesars on the downlow. But, if you are the only one alive in your division you are sent to another.” Ren leaned forward, becoming a little irritated.

“So she has been in other groups. What does that matter?” Bacchus slumped in his chair.

“Well, this wouldn’t be a problem normally. But, she has been in three other groups, Three. Intelligence gathering divisions for that matter. From what I could gather, these groups were all assigned to scout on Magi facilities to see if they could find anything. The people in her divisions were killed silently by Magi while she was elsewhere. Once, I can call it coincidence, two maybe, but three mother fuckin’ times? That is too suspicious to ignore.”

“If all of this is true, I still don’t understand why is she with us.” Bacchus shifted in his chair and straightened up.

“It means she is a potential threat Ren, so we had better be wary of her. If my suspicions prove true, we might have to do what us merc divisions do best.” Ren, shocked, rose to his feet.

“You can’t kill her! She’s innocent!” Bacchus stayed seated and looked up at Ren.

“It is a risk even having her around at all. She knows too much, and she’s learning more about us even as we speak.” Ren’s rage grew with every word.

“What could be so important about what she knows?” Bacchus’ hands began to glow a faint red, but the glow faded as soon as it began. He looked away.

“That’s Triumvirate business kid. I can’t tell you.” Ren’s body began to glow and then an icicle burst from the ground and almost impaled Bacchus through the throat.

“Damnit calm, down!” Ren then realized what was going on and sat back down, putting his head in his hands. The spike went back into the ground. Bacchus walked up to Ren and put his hand on his shoulder.

“You have to understand kid, she is a danger that has to be taken care of. She could cause a lot of people to get hurt or even die.” Ren shook his head.

“I don’t want that to happen, but she’s still my friend.” Bacchus gave out a sigh.

“Kid, that’s what traitors want you to think. Ever heard of a wolf in sheep’s clothing?” He tossed his bottle into a garbage can, there was the sound of glass breaking as in went in. “All I’m sayin’ is, tread lightly and don’t let her into your head, ‘cause literally she will get inside your head and sort through your memories like a filing cabinet.” Ren blinked, realizing something in the last times he met Dae.

“What would happen if you are affected by it?” Ren asked somewhat panicking. Bacchus thought for a second.

“Well, it would seem like random memories would just jump in your head for no reason, yet if you are resistant of talking about it it’s harder to see.” He shrugged. “That’s what her file said at least.” Bacchus’ eyes widened in realization. “Damnit kid, don’t tell me she trying something on you.” Ren shook his head.

“I don’t think she has seen the past. She keeps asking me about the past, so she couldn’t have gotten anything important yet.” Bacchus nodded and smiled.

“Good deduction kid. I seems like Uncle Bacchus is starting to rub onta ya.” He then got up and patted Ren on the head. “Don’t leave the room for a while alright? Faust and Luxie are coming home sooner than expected, Luxie called me to say that they were at their location already, so don’t worry you won’t be alone for long.” He looked at his watch. “Hmm, better get going, I’ll deliver some food to the place in the morning,” He walked to the small table beside the door that was unharmed by the spikes and placed some Denarius on the table. “That should cover it,” He stopped as he opened the door.

“I’m sorry about this Ren, I really am, but it’s just how it is. You know; the way the world is.” Ren nodded. Bacchus smiled. “Get some sleep kid, you need it.” Bacchus then left Ren with his thoughts. He layed on his bed, thinking.

Can she really be a traitor? She has been nothing but good to me. His thoughts flooded around him but it just made his head hurt.

“Oh, damn it all to hell.” He said he was tired of thinking about all this. It was too depressing. His thoughts then shifted back to his dream, and the alicorn thing named Luna. I did take an ability from her, guess it can’t hurt to try it out. A feeling of stupid spontaneousness overwhelmed Ren better judgement. “Imma try it out.” He then closed his eyes and thought of the ability he remembered Luna using. His body started to glow silver, he felt the room shift around him and then he fell on the ground hitting a hard surface.

He got up scratching his head. He looked around him and saw that the hotel room had disappeared and was replaced by large black void. He stood up. Then in front of him shot out a gold picture frame that had nothing in it. Ren confused stuck his hand through it, it passed right through. “I don’t know what I was expecting.” He then looked around at the blackness and closed his eyes focusing his energy, which made him glow silver. But when he opened his eyes the blackness remained. “Now I done goofed.”

Twilight

I can’t believe that I’m actually doing this. Twilight thought to herself as she walked with Lyra in the castle halls. Lyra couldn’t handle her excitement, so much so that she was literally hopping down the halls like a certain pink pony she knew.

“Omigosh this is going to be great! We are going to learn so much stuff and then maybe we can figure out where the humans are or where they went andmaybewecanmeetoneandtheycanbeourfriendandwecanprocreateand-” Twilight intervened, cutting off the rambling unicorn.

“Calm down, Lyra. You're acting too much like Pinkie Pie, and quite frankly, it’s scaring me.” That incident last year with the mirror pool made Twilight remember that the world couldn’t take more than one Pinkie Pie. “And what was that about procreate-” Lyra suddenly pointed a door in front of them.

“Hey look we’re here!” There was a massive door that stood before them. It was decorated with a gold frame with etchings of books on them. There was also a small sign next to it that said Archives in case you couldn’t tell what it was. “Let’s go inside Twilight!” Yelled Twilight as she hopped toward the door trying to use magic to open it, but no avail and she slammed into the marble door. Twilight rolled her eyes.

“That’s what you get for not listening to what I said earlier.” Twilight helped Lyra to her feet. “The door can only be opened by alicorn magic, so nopony can look at important documents and other things except for us princesses.”

“Hey, do you think Celestia’s ‘personal collection’ is in here?” Lyra asked bluntly, actually pondering if the Canterlot archives hid them. “I've always wonder what human porn is like.” Twilight shot a glare over to Lyra. Lyra gave a nervous laugh. “I’m just kidding, jeez.”

If she finds anything like that in there I’m burning it on the spot. Twilight focused her magic and the door glowed a faint purple and with a loud creak the door slowly opened. When they stepped forward they got a better look of the archives.

It was quite literally books as far as the eye could see. Even Twilight, who can speed read about three books an hour, could never hope gain the achievement of reading every book there. Lyra stared in awestruck wonder as she scanned the vast collection.

“Where in Equestria can we find the human por-I mean books here.” Twilight began walking down the long halls of books and shrugged.

“Find the H section, don’t you know the Dewey Decimal System?” They wandered for what seemed like an hour before they reached the 12000 section which was myths and legends.

“My Celestia, why are there so many books?” Lyra asked tiredly having lost all her energy from the long walk. “This suuuucks.” Twilight, a little tired herself, answered.

“Well, you were the one who kept begging me to take you here. You're going to have to reap what you sow-” Twilight then, not noticing where she was heading slammed horn first into a tower of books which seemed to be twenty feet tall. The tower wobbled a bit before falling in front of them, landing with an echo-producing thud. There came a scream when the books hit the ground. Which Twilight and Lyra quickly went to the source of the scream. Under the pile of books came a muffled voice.

“Geb dah fubbin boks oufa meee pwease.” They quickly used their magic to push the books out of the way to see who was underneath. It was none other than the princess of the night herself Luna, looking quite agitated. “Thank you Twilight Sparkle and-” Her gaze went over to Lyra who was nervously laughing and waving her hoof. “Might I ask why she is in the archives?” Lyra then spoke before Twilight could answer for her.

“Well you see, Twilight thought it would be a super-cool idea to go into the archives to study humans and maybe find out more about them, mostly their reproductive system and-” Twilight slammed a book into Lyra’s face to keep her quiet. Twilight then spoke with her face red with embarrassment.

“Lyra wanted to see if there was any information about human’s here and I thought that this would be the best place, I was resistant at first but I finally caved and we will be leaving now, come on Lyra let’s-” Luna raised a hoof causing Twilight to stop talking.

“I happen to also be studying humans at the moment and I am in need of a certain book. I could use a couple extra eyes to help me.” Lyra shot up and nodded.

“Of course princess! We will help in anyway we can, right Twi?” Twilight of course agreed, what choice did she have? This could be a strike on her record or something, and she felt obligated to do so having knocked an entire tower of books onto Luna. After a couple of hours passed, Luna and Lyra were searching through the books as Twilight put them back in the order that they came, then they found what they were looking for.

This was an old leather and string bound book, about three inches thick, that’s titled. Remnants: A book of all things lost and forgotten. Luna smiled as she lifted the tome up with her magic and began to shift through the pages.

“What’s in it Luna? Anything good?” Lyra asked as Luna scanned the pages of the book. She gave a groan.

“Well, as you probably know, Lyra, it seemed as if humans just fell of the face of Equis and the books, the ones that we have access to at least, say this. I also have had no luck finding anything that says otherwise, but there are somethings that we might have adapted from human society that we might not even know, or some that we might not even invented yet.” She showed the book between Lyra and Twilight. “Look at this!”

The book showed what looked like a small box with numbers on buttons. It went on to say that this small machine could solve any mathematical equation, as long as you could punch the numbers in.

“This is impossible!” Twilight said audibly which caused Lyra and Luna to look at her and laugh a little.

“Oh, but there is more.” Luna stated as they shifted through the pages of the book. There were things that humans could talk to each other from hundreds of miles away, instinct mailing via a thing called the “Internet” which is said that it was the greatest source of information, more information than even the archives had. There was so much in this book Twilight wanted to take it and go into a thorough study of it, there was so much that she didn’t study about the world she went to in the mirror, but it was Luna’s book though. Luna sighed and shook her head.

“It still isn’t what I’m looking for though.” She said throwing the book aside. Lyra looked at her as if she was crazy.

“Are you in your right mind? This stuff is amazing! What could you be looking for that could be better than this?” Luna was rubbing her face, as if she was trying to stay awake. Twilight then noticed how tired she looked. She had bags under her eyes and she yawned loudly.

“Luna, how long have you been down here?” Twilight asked and she came beside Luna as she sighed.

“I came down here as soon as my sister rose the sun.” Twilight’s eyes grew to the size of dinner plates.

“You came here without even a wink of sleep?” Twilight asked shocked. Luna just nodded and stumbled to get up.

“Maybe I should get some sleep before I have to get back to doing nothing.” She began to walk the path to the entrance. “Twilight, could you hold onto that book for me please?” She gave a tired smile to Twilight, as if she knew that she would want it.

“Of course she will! I shall also look after it, princess!” Lyra said holding the book with her magic. Then Luna stumbled her way down the hallway. Lyra then winked at Twilight. “Well, it’s not a human biology book, but it’s a start.” Twilight rolled her eyes. What could have been so important that she would miss out on her sleep, and for humans no less! The thought confused Twilight but she soon shrugged it off and began to walk out of the archives with Lyra skimming over the book she had acquired.

Luna

It felt like an eternity before Luna finally reached the stairwell to her room. She couldn’t believe that it was already four in the evening, was she really there for that long? The sad thing is, she couldn’t find anything about this New Florence or any evidence of humans living underground. Her thoughts began to wander as she ascended the stairs to her chambers.

Could it have been nothing? Then she thought back to when he wrapped his arms around her. She felt his sorrow, his childish joy. It had to be real. He had to be real.

By the time she reached her chambers she couldn’t think any longer. I had forgotten how tired this made me. She sighed dejectedly as she near the top of the stairs. Maybe I’m too old for this. Am I getting old? When she walked into her room the first thing she did was stare into the mirror. She gave herself a good long look. She had dark circles around her eyes and her mane was tangled and matted, she sighed. I hope nopony saw me like this. She used her horn to have the curtains block out the sunlight before flopping onto her bed and closing the curtains around her bed too. With the set of curtains combined it blocked most light and maybe now she could finally get some sleep. Maybe I could dream myself up a prettier look.

Sleep came quickly, soon after that dreams. This dream was more pleasant than the others, and the dream also fixed her appearance. She was at her courtroom, yet it was far more elaborate than usual and surprisingly filled with ponies. There was a literal line of ponies waiting to have an audience with her. She looked around and smiled. It’s good to be the queen. She finally felt as if she was a vital part of the kingdom other than just raising and lowering the moon, even if she knew that this all was just a dream. But that didn’t mean she couldn’t enjoy it. She raised her hoof to silence the crowd.

“I will now take the first appeal.” There were hoofsteps and then a familiar voice spoke loudly.

“Luna, where the fuck am I?” Luna, shocked by the sudden interruption, took a once over of who would use such language. It was the human from the portrait, his hair still covering his silver eyes, and he was staring around at the courtroom.

“It’s you! Wah-How did you-” Ren smiled and walked toward her scratching his head.

“Well, you know how Caesar’s can use abilities kinda like your magic stuff? Well, I can kinda take other people’s and use them myself. It’s kind of complicated.” When he reached the throne he turned to see the courtroom as a whole. He gave a whistle. “Nice place by the way. I stay at a hotel room, and it’s nice but definitely not this nice.” The man’s gaze met Luna he gave a smile. “Sooo. Where am I?” Luna gave a cough and straightened up.

“I do not believe I got your name, Mr..?” He looked shocked and gave and oh.

“Ha, I thought you caught my name before I woke up.” He flipped his hair back and put it into a small ponytail with a rubber band he acquired in his pocket. “Rentus. You can call me Ren if you want, everyone else does.” Luna nodded. Finally, one answer down; a million left to go. Ren went to her sister’s throne and sat on it, resting his head on one arm and his legs on the other. “So miss Luna or is it Misses? Anyway can you please tell me where the hell I am?” Luna looked over slightly angered at the fact that he was sitting on her sister’s throne, yet she knew he didn’t know any better. She simply used her magic to lift him off. He was startled at first and then just gave plain look at her.

“You are in Canterlot, the capital city of Equestria, and you are standing inside of our great castle.” Ren raised his brow.

“Our? Are there more, what were they called, princesses?” Luna dropped Ren onto his feet. He then dusted the sparkles left from her magic.

“Yes, there are four princesses. Myself, my sister Celestia, the ruler of the Crystal Empire Cadence, and the newly crowned Twilight Sparkle.” Ren had a big grin on his face and started to giggle. Luna gave him a strange look. “What so funny?” Ren’s laughter then broke out and he fell to the floor. He then started trying to talk.

“Those…..Name’s are so….stupid!” He continued laughing, until Luna picked him up with her magic and flung him across the room, knowing from previous experience how durable he actually was. He phased through the dream ponies and pegasi and slid across the floor, eventually impacting the opposite wall. Sure enough, he looked completely unharmed, just like the last time.

“OW. That hurt!” He said waving his hands about as he was laying on the ground. Luna confused stood from her throne and walked across the floor.

“So, how did you say you got here?” Ren looked at her with a grumpy face.

“You fling me across the room and you want me to answer questions? I thought we were friends.” Luna rolled her eyes.

“Then how about since we both don’t know much about each other we ask one, give one. Deal?” Ren sighed.

“Fine, but can we go somewhere else? There are no chairs here except your thrones, and you got mad at me for sitting on them.” Luna gave a sigh and the room shifted into her bed chamber. Ren gave a clap. “Well, this castle is really well decorated.” Luna walked over to a couch that was surrounded by a couple of other chairs. She sat on the couch and motioned Ren to sit down. He immediately did so. His eyes still scanning the room, primarily the curtains, which had beams of moonlight cutting through a small part of it. Luna coughed and Ren’s focus was back to her. Maybe I can get some answers.

“So, how exactly did you invade my dream?” Luna asked. Ren took a breath.

“Well, as I said it’s complicated. Like I said before, Caesars have a special power…” Luna cocked her head.

“Power? As a singular one? I could have swore you’ve used many different abilities.” Ren gave a smile.

“That’s right. Most Caesars can only use one power. I can take other Caesars powers, but I can only know three at a time..” Luna was confused and Ren could obviously see it. “Well, you got a pen and paper?” Luna nodded. She then conjured a quill and paper complete with inkwell and set it on the table. Ren looked disappointed. “Wow, you guys sure live in dark times….” His hand glowed a faint silver and it picked the quill up and dipped it in the ink and began to write. “Sorry if it’s sloppy, if I try to touch it it would just go through me.” Then he was finished he set the quill down and gave a sigh. Luna looked at the picture which had a bunch of writing. She could barely make out what the four big words on the paper spelt out.

~~Ice~~ ----->Telekinesis------->Stone and Terra------>Dreams

Luna stared at the crude drawing. “So, if you were to learn another ability, you would lose the ability to use Telekinesis, correct?” Ren smiled and gave a nod.

“Yes, you got it. I know many, yet master none.” He leaned forward. “So now it’s my turn to ask you something. Where is this Equestria?” Luna thought for a second. If this man has been underground all of this life, it would be a really big shock to show him, yet… She looked over to the curtains.

“Open the curtain and see for yourself.” Ren gave a laugh and walked to the curtains.

“Alright, I don’t know if there is anything that I haven't-” Then he pushed aside the curtains and stood there staring into the night. His eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. Luna couldn’t help but smile. I wonder if I looked like that when I saw his city. Ren walked onto the balcony out of sight, and Luna slowly went over to see what her human friend thought of seeing the sky for the first time.

When Luna reached the balcony she saw Ren staring at the sky above him resting his arms on the railing. His gaze went all around him. He looked at Luna with a face of absolute awe.

“This isn’t real. It just can’t be...” Luna went beside him and gestured to her custom-made night sky.

“Is this acceptable for your answer?” Ren didn’t seem to hear her, for he was too busy trying to comprehend what the actual fuck he was seeing.

“There is no ceiling.. and what is that rock up there?” He raised his hand up as if he could touch the moon. “When I left the facility five years ago, I was introduced into the world around me. I was utterly speechless. I thought I knew what the Terra was like, but this?” He closed his fist and he sighed. “This is the surface, right?”

Luna nodded. “That space up there is called the sky, the big rock is called the moon. When the moon is out, it is called night, and when the sun is out, it is called day.” Ren looked at Luna who was now standing beside him.

“What’s the sun?” Luna smiled at his naïve enthusiasm. It’s as if I'm teaching a foal.

“It’s kind of like the moon, but it’s on fire.” Ren’s eyes shot toward Luna.

“THAT BUT ON FIRE?” He said as he pointed toward the moon. “That sounds so metal!” He looked around more. “Hey, is that a village?” He pointed to a small town in the far distance. Luna laughed.

“Yes, that town is called Ponyville.” Ren laughed again.

“More stupid names, seriously everything here sounds like it was made for small girls. No offense.” He said half heartedly. Luna just rolled her eyes, she was getting used to Ren’s rudeness, but like a child he does not know better. He is not accustomed to their kind yet. “This place is beautiful. There is so much vegetation here, it has a really natural beauty to it. Unlike crystal or rocks, they are still and not as, well, alive as plant life.”

“Are there a lot of forests and jungles where you come from?” Luna asked. Ren nodded and gave a smile.

“Well, we need oxygen to breath.”

“You need the sun to grow plants.” Luna said plainly. Ren looked at Luna.

“I thought you would catch onto this.” Ren said as he set his back to the railing and crossing his arms. “The crystals that are above a majority of the Terra give off a special light, this light can stimulate the photosynthesis needed to make plants grow. There are, however, some areas of the Terra that the crystals cannot grow proper life or there would be an overabundance of it. And as for weather-” He then turned his head to the horizon. “This place, it seems more natural and-”

As he went on comparing and contrasting the differences of plant life Luna stared and listened closely and stared at the human before her, and it seemed as if for only a moment. Rentus’ eyes didn’t seem so empty. A small wisp of something illuminated in those silver pools. Curiosity perhaps? There was so much that she still did not understand about him, or this “Terra” where he came from. Can a whole race really be thriving right under our hooves? Luna thought still staring at Ren. Eventually Ren stopped talking.

“Hey, you alright? Did I lose ya?” She shook herself to come back to reality.

“Oh, sorry what did you say?” Ren groaned and put his face in his hands. “I must apologize. It’s just difficult to believe that humans, a race that dissapeared of the face of Equis, turns out is living deep underground.” Ren gave a sarcastic laugh.

“First, not human, Caesar, and you think I believed this stuff at first? Some weird species that I have never heard of that comes to me in a dream and starts saying that there is life on the surface, which was said to have been uninhabitable? It seem awfully strange. You are lucky I got that power from you or else I probably would have believed anything.” Then an idea seemed to hit Ren and he smiled. “Hey how ‘bout this?” He went up to Luna and put his hands on her shoulders.

Why do I have a bad feeling about this? Luna thought to herself. Ren smiled and got close to her head, their noses almost touching.

“I am kind of stuck here, if you can teach me how to use this we can go into each other’s dreams right?” Luna thought for a moment.

“I guess that would be possible, it seems at least we are in the same time frame and if you were to have the patience to learn it.” Ren nodded.

“So maybe if we ever catch each other dreaming, say if you go into my dreams I can teach and show you around the Terra and when I go into your dreams you can show me your kingdom. Sounds fair, right?” There it was again, that spark in his eyes. Luna couldn’t help but beam with utter excitement. She couldn’t find any information from texts, even in the royal archives. What better way to find answers then from the source!

“I guess this could be both an educational and enjoyable activity. So I see that can be done.” Ren then wrapped his arms around her.

“Thanks Luna! You’re the best you know that?” Luna couldn’t help but blush.

Well, he just excited I guess. She patted him on the back and he jumped right up.

“So, let’s get started. How about showing me how to get back to my body?” Luna nodded and led him back into her bedchambers to demonstrate.

“The first thing you must have is a sound body and mind, then-” She went on explaining the basic elements of magic. He quickly caught on.

“Alright, so if I disappear you know why alright? It’s been good seeing you.” He gave a deep breath and closed his eyes. The silver aura flowed around and him and he faded from her sight. Luna was surprised.

“He catches on quick to say the least.” She was left alone in her dream. Alone with her thoughts. If there are humans and what Rentus is called, Caesars was it, right under the ground, what could they be doing down there? For a few moments she started getting second thoughts about all that was going on. Was this really a good idea?

Author's Note

YES! MADE THE DEADLINE! Oh yeah, and school's starting up soon too. Goody.