Scaling Love

by Krokorokok

An encounter with the moon (Or, Chapter 8: 'I heard you like gaming')

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=PoV: Mike. 1st person=

I was suddenly awoken from my sleep with a strong shove to my right shoulder. I stood up, shook my head, and looked around, finding out that I am not in Barbs room anymore.

'Shit'

I began to panic. This is not Barbs room at all! It was really, really dark. I could hardly see anything. That was until I began to see smoke filling up the room. It was giving off a really faint blue light, enabling me to see a figure that was approaching me. I panicked even more, backing off slowly so that I could at least get some distance. That was until I felt something hard pressed up against my back.

"Oh god....Please don't hurt me!" I said rather pathetically. The figure gradually came closer to me. I was still really scared, that was until it spoke.

"Now. Why should we hurt a creature that Twilight Sparkle wrote about?" it said, in a feminine and regal tone that still held authority.

"W-Wha..?" I asked dumbly. I was so confused at the point of time. Who is she? What is she? Why am I still here?!?

The faint blue light sparkled once before it shone brightly, illuminating the room, enabling me to see who or what is this thing. In front of me stood a female......Alicorn, I think is the name. Her dark blue fur coat seemed to shine and her ethereal mane and tail twinkled like the stars. She was wearing a dark blue dress encrusted with, what I assumed to be, diamonds with a purple trim. She was also wearing a dark blue crown with a necklace, a silver crescent moon being held by two dark blue chains and a pair of silver crescent moon earrings.

I assessed the situation. 'Okay. Think! Twilight said something about Equestria having 3 Alicorns. Once of them is in a place called the....Crystal Empire, I think it was. The other 2 being in a place called Canterlot, if I'm not wrong' I thought.

'Yea! Not to mention Twilight said that all three are princesses' I heard my conscious say

'Wait....Princesses.....Alicorns....She's a princess!!' I mentally yelled out loud, my eyes bulging out.

"W-Wait.....A-Aren't you...." I stuttered, trying to think with the best of my ability, who she is.

'I remembered both of the princesses names is linked with the sun and the moon, if I'm not wrong'

'Hmm...Well...With the amount of dark colors....I bet she is her name is linked with the moon. But what is it?! Argh!' I mentally yelled out again. I am now frustrated. I can't remember her name! And Twilight told me about them like....a couple of hours ago!

"Yes....?" I heard her say.

'If I'm not wrong, the first letter is an L.Was it Lux? Lulu?' my conscious began to come up with names. That was until I suddenly remembered.

"LUNA! You're Princess Luna!" I yelled out. When I said this, she smiled and began to clap.

"Bravo! It seems Twilight Sparkle has told you many things about us, correct?" Luna asked. I assumed she was talking about herself.

"She did actually. In that you're the sister of another princess. Erm...Princess....I can't really remember. All I can think of is that Barb sometimes calls her 'Sunbutt' " I said. Once the word left my mouth, Luna began to guffaw. She was trying so hard to hold in her laughter. But failed in the end when she exploded into a fit of laughter.

"HAHAHAHAHA!! Hah! Hahah! Hahahaha!!" she laughed uncontrollably.

"Eer...Are...you alright, Miss Luna?" I asked, a nervous smile appearing.

She soon calmed down, still chuckling for a while. "Hehehe. Yes, I am most certainly fine. Goodness....I have not laughed like that since Eris threw a pie at my sister during a meeting" she said, smiling at me. I nodded slowly, my nervous smile still plastered onto my face.

"Ooookay.....Can you tell me, why the heck am I here? Even better, where are we?" I asked her.

"We are in a place I call the 'Dream Zone'. Tis the place I have created to check on my little ponies dreams. After all, I not called the 'Night Guardian' for nothing you know" she said, giving me a smirk.

Okay. 1 question down. 1 more to go.

"So....Why am I here then?" I asked.

"As for why you are here, it's simple. I wanted to check on whether Twilight Sparkle speaks the truth when she said there is a new being currently in Ponyville. Not only that, I also want to tell you that my sister is planning on visiting you tomorrow" she replied.

I nodded in acknowledgement. "Okay then. I thought I was sen-Your sister is coming tomorrow?!" I asked her shockingly, to which she just nodded. Great.....just great. I sighed before facing her again. "Besides wanted to see whether Twilight was right, is there any other reason why I'm here?" I asked.

"Yes actually. I read from one of Twilight's 3 letters about you that you're a gamer, yes?" she asked. This caught my interest. Why did she want to know?

"Why?" I countered her question.

"Well....I am a gamer myself. And to tell you the honest truth, my sister is one as well" she replied. This actually caught me off-guard. 2 of the princesses are gamers? This....would be most interesting. I wonder how good she is....

"So! How about a round of gaming?" I heard her say from my right. I turned towards her, now surprised to see 2 controllers and, from what I can guess, this world's version of the Xbox 360. I shrugged my shoulders before replying "Sure".

"So what are we playing?" I asked her.

"One of our favorites. Soul Calibur 4" she replied, starting up the game.

There was only 1 thing going through my head when she said this. I just stood there, rooted to the ground, one of her hand passing me a controller, her face screaming 'Prepare yourself'.

"Wait what?"

She tilted her head. "What is the matter Micheal? Afraid of losing?" she asked, a grin forming across her face.

I sheepishly smiled at her. "W-Well....I....don't really play fighting games. But I'll try" I replied, grabbing the controller, sitting next to her.

She smiled before turning back to look at me. "Let the games begin then"

=PoV: 3rd person=

On the screen currently displayed a multitude of characters. Luna began to think what character should she pick while Mike just sat there, absolutely having no idea of what to do. "There's a random button there. So feel free to use it" Luna said, not taking her eyes off the screen. Mike thought for a while longer, sighing in the end as he had no idea what each of the characters could do. He clicked on the picture with the '?' and the game chose what person he would be playing as, which is, to his most utter surprise, Yoda.

"The hell..." he muttered to himself. He knew that for one thing, Yoda is in the Star Wars franchise. Him being in this game was surprising to say the least. What shocked him the most is that he looks the exact same back from his world, which meant 2 things. It's either these ponies have a gateway to the Earth or Yoda just looks like that through different worlds. Luna smiled before picking Darth Vadar's apprentice, Starkiller.

"Let us make this interesting. Shall we?" Luna asked, picking a random map to play in, looking at Mike a while later.

"Ho boy.....I swear. I will get my but kicked" Mike muttered, loud enough for the lunar princess to hear.

"That is what we are intending, Micheal. Now....Prepare thyself!" Luna yelled out loud as soon as the game started.

What Mike did not know of is that he will, indeed, be getting his butt kicked.

Hard


Author's Note

Sorry that this chapter is really short. I have a massive influx of homework to do, not to mention a project that I have to hand in soon.
I am also sorry if this chapter isn't up to your expectations. I will try to find some time to update this story again soon.
Besides that, I hope you guys like this! See ya next time!

(P.S. Again, feel free to point out any mistakes.)

(Update: I replaced what game Luna and Mike played, as well as lengthened the story)
(RE-Updated. For the sake of correcting a tiny error)

(To Riku: I apologies if it is not what you were hoping)

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