Personies

The life in Equestria had become quite predictable for our heroes, Twilight is still trying to get used to being a princess, Rainbow Dash takes care of the weather above Ponyville and is working on her flying skills to impress the Wonderbolts even more than she already did, Rarity has become known for her incredible designs all over Equestria although more often than not works overtime to finish her orders, Applejack like always is hard working at Sweet Apple Acres together with her family,

Fluttershy looks after the woodland critters day in, day out, and of course Pinkie Pie does whatever she feels like doing, also it became harder to make anypony laugh.

The only noticeable change is the more depressed mood of the citizens of Ponyville over the last few weeks, there were much less smiles on the ponies faces than usual.

Twilight’s suspicion about this weird occurrence grew more and more with each passing day.

She just knew that this can’t be an normal phenomenon, so she decided to write a letter to princess Celestia to ask if she knew anything about this or at least had an idea what was going on.

As soon as Celestia´s answer came in Twilight read it:

Here in Canterlot happens the same thing, when I’m right all of Equestria is in great danger come to me we have to discuss what we want to do now, bring your friends along, I also invited Cadence and Shining Armor.

That wasn´t quite the answer Twilight hoped for but soon she will know more and so she and her friends went to Canterlot.

On the train to canterlot

Spike looked out the window of the train sighed and asked

"Was it always so foggy up here? I mean I know we are passing through mountains but still… I can´t even see Ponyville from here."

With a questioning look on her face Twilight glances over to Rainbow Dash, she noticed and responded

"What? We pegasai have nothing to do with this, the weather factory hasn´t announced any thick fog."

"You sure you didn´t just slept when they announced it?" Applejack asked Rainbow with a smirk on her face.

"Oh come on, I take my job serious! You should know what a hard worker I am Applejack!"

"Oh boy this will be a long train ride" Twilight thought to herself.

Meanwhile in the throne room of Celestia

Celestia is talking to a cloaked figure.

"I hope you are wrong but if you are right then we need to be prepared..."

The figure interrupts the princess.

"My princess as I told you there is nothing we can do from here, our only hope is that the harbinger of harmony are strong enough for this task."

Celestia stares outside the large stained glass window.

"I guess we just need to have faith in them."Her look changed to a troubled expression and said quietly to herself "How can I have faith in them when I even doubt that I could stand such an ordeal."

"Finally! We are out of that train." Rainbow said while stretching her legs.

"It would have been much more pleasant when you and Applejack hadn´t yelled at each other the whole time."Rarity spoke.

"Rarity please not you too, this is not the time or place for fighting!" Twilight said with an angry look on her face."Lets just go to the castle!"

The friends arrive at the castle and are immediately guided to the throne room, where Celestia already awaits them.

"Princess Celestia!“ Everypony bowed before her

"It´s nice to see all...but why haven´t you brought Pinkie Pie along with you?"

Our heroes turn around "but she was with us in the train!"

"maybe she just got herself something to eat" Fluttershy said questioning.

"I doubt that." The strange figure spoke as he entered the throne room alongside princess Luna.

The young ponies have a puzzled look on their faces.

Who might that strange pony be they ask themselves.

Luna walks up to Celestia.

"Sister our guest told me there was a way I can help them on their journey."

"But Luna I don´t want to lose you again… I couldn´t bear the guild if something happens to you."

"Don´t worry my princes your sister will be safe she wont go directly into the other world, she can use her ability of interacting in dreams to help them from here."

Rainbow Dash interrupts the three standing before the throne.

"HELLO don´t ignore us! What do you mean with Pinkie´s not getting herself something to eat?! Do you know where she is?! And who are you anyways? I wanna know what’s going on!"

"Well yes, forgive me my manners bearer of loyalty. Princess is it all right with you if I instruct them?"

Celestia nods.

"Well you probably noticed already the change in behavior of the normal ponies, that’s one of the things this menace brings with it. The sudden disappearance of your friend also means that we don´t have much time before we have to make our first step or everything will be lost."

"What is this “menace” you are talking about?" Twilight steps forward while asking.

"Oh right you need to know what you have to fight it, well… how do I put it? All your desires, your thoughts, wishes,… your worst fears,… the things you hide from everyone else, it all exists in some kind of “dream”-world it isn´t dangerous on its own but somehow this world became more powerful and is leaking into this world.“

"So we have to fight against a manifested dream?" Rarity says in a pert manner.

"To keep it simple… yes, but there are a few problems first: You can´t enter this world whenever you want, there are only specific timeframes you can enter. Second: the world changes depending on who was dragged into it and the thoughts of the outside world about that person and third: there are some nasty things in this world and they react more violently then normal so there will be some tough fights ahead of you."

" Well I´m taking my leave now I have to prepare some things for the mission, come to the mirror room when you are ready bearer of harmony." With that the cloaked pony heads for the exit.

The ponies are left in confusion the first who speaks up is Rainbow Dash

"Ok am I the only one who thinks this guy is fishy? I mean come on this whole thing about sounds like a bad fan fiction of daring do!"

Fluttershy whimpers "It really sounded scary and don´t get me started on the fighting part."

"I don’t know about y´all but this guy seems as trustworthy as a worm in an applebox."

"Applejack is right someone who doesn´t even show is face to us is not leaving a good first impression"Rarity replied.

"Enough!" Luna yelled at the ponies, her sudden outburst even startled Celestia.

"I will also assist you so if you can´t trust him at least trust me!"

Twilight finally spoke up."We will trust you Luna because you are our friend, but beforehand I want to know who this pony is."

Instead of Luna Celestia replied

"Understandable  he first arrived here when the behavior of everypony started to change, he said he could help and explained to me everything he just told you, I didn´t believe him at first, but the situation only got worse so I requested him to show me this other world… and he did, what I saw was terrible, so when what he said is right and this other world tries to creep into our then we can´t take any chances."

"Why is he wearing this cloak and it seemed he was also wearing some kind of mask."

"I was wondering about this  too, he told me he just doesn´t like to show himself and this mask was something like an air cleaner I think he called it a gasmask."

"And gave he his name to you?"

"Oh yes he said we could call him Hunk."