Chapter 7- A Gray Sky

Luna stood in front of the wooden table that held every spell book she could find, pertaining to dream location spells.

Luna had gone to the palace library, in hopes of finding any possible way to locate her brother. She truly did want to ask him what he was doing, and why Celestia would be unhappy about him being alive.

The spells acted like echolocation. The spell she liked the most out of the three she found, sent a magical wave from the caster's horn, through the dream realm, into the pony's head that the dream existed with, into the pony's real life body, ping the location of the body, and travel all the way back, into the casters horn, and reveal the pony's location to them.

The only problem was, each dream comes and goes at will, and Luna never knows when she will be moved to a different dream. This also caused complications, due to the fact that the spell she chose, took quite a large amount of time to perform, and complete.

She would most likely only have about a five minute time window to perform the spell and locate Solar Eclipse.

She memorized the spell slowly, making sure to pick out every detail. Seeing as it took almost an entire day's time to find all of the appropriate spell books, followed by finding the most fitting spell, Luna decided to head back to her dream room early. She could also tell night was coming by the fact that she just felt plain tired.

She entered her dream room, and slowly closed the massive steel door behind her. She quickly strode up to, and onto her cushioned pedestal. Turning back around to face the door, she waited.

Waiting was always the most difficult part, not that Luna didn't have patience, but that some of her duties lied in the dream realm, and she often felt that she was slacking off at her job if she waited too long.

Exactly twenty minuets after she had lied down, all of the little white lights that were once invisible, suddenly shot out into the rooms walls. Flying in all different directions, the stars travelled to their final destinations for the night, and stopped, to occupy their own special position.

Luna sighed in relief, and shut her eyes. It was not difficult for Luna to enter the dream realm, it just took immense concentration. Being that the room was silent, she got to work immediately. She quickly emptied her mind of all, and any wandering thoughts, and focused a tiny constant stream of magic into her horn so that it was constantly filled with magic, without her having to direct it in her mind.

Now, she waited for that special feeling she got, whenever she entered the dream realm. It didn't take long, as Luna soon felt a prickly-warm sensation flood over her body from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail.

Now she just had to wait for the dreams to pick her up as her conscious floated around the dreams that occupied her nightly realm.

Unlike Celestia's astral plain, Luna was not capable of walking through it, or opening her eyes until she knew she was in a dream.

She entered a couple dreams, one of a pony who's crush fell in love with them. One of a filly leaving school permanently to go on top secret missions. And oddly enough, that same dream of a candy built world.

She then flew into a dream with a rather loud gust of wind. She could feel wind flowing through her mane and tail, and the sensation of grass on her hooves. She proceeded to open her eyes.

To her surprise, she was standing at the edge of a cliff, a rather tall one at that. She could see that the sky was filled with gray clouds, with the sun just barely peeking through one spot, casting a peaceful orange glow across all of the area around her.

The ground around her for miles was covered in tall yellow grass. What caught her attention was the one and only tree that she could see, resting in the middle of a field, directly in front of her, a little more that three hundred yards from the base of the cliff.

Most of all, underneath that tree, lying in the shade, was Solar Eclipse.

She quickly got to work starting the echolocation spell, as she flew off the cliff and down toward Solar Eclipse. To Luna's optimistic surprise, Solar genuinely looked happy. He had a small smile, and his eyes were peacefully closed. His head was tilted toward the sun, which was directly in front of him, hidden by clouds in the sky.

It almost seemed as if the sun's rays were washing over him, but instead of filling him with fear, they filled him with peace, and tranquility.

Luna had landed in the grass beside her brother.

"Hello, Luna." Solar said calmly without bothering to open an eye.

"H-how did you...know it was me?" Luna said, lying down closely to her brother.

"Who else would enter into my dream without me knowing."

"So I take it you are having quite the lucid dream then?" Luna asked, forming a gentle smile on her face.

For the first time sense Luna had arrived, Solar opened his eyes and quickly looked around at their surroundings. "It does appear that way, doesn't it?"

"It appears so..." Luna responded.

The time came for her to start the spell. She focused the spell in her mind, and started flow in her horn. Just as she had begun she noticed that Solar's eyes had shot open wide, but he was not staring at anything particular.

Solar looked directly at his younger sister, and his bottom eyelid on his right eye twitched wildly. "L-L-Luna...w-what did you just d-d-d-do?" Solar asked rather calmly.

"Um...what do you mean?" Luna responded, trying to convince Solar with a rather sheepish smile.

"You cast a location spell on me didn't you?" Solar said, eyes returning to normal size, but still twitching.

Luna was dumbfounded. How could he have known what she had cast on him? There was no possible way.

"How...do you know I did that spell?

"It is my dream you are messing with, so most anything you would cast on me, I would feel. But that," Solar exclaimed pointing at Luna's horn, "was really noticeable. Plus, it hit me like a rock to my head."

Luna blushed a little at being caught. "I just wanted to know where you were so I could ask you some questions, and talk a little."

"Luna that's great! I'd love to talk a little. However, I am already meeting Twilight tomorrow. I followed her to one of her friends houses, and they discussed my presence, even though I was invisible. Once Twilight left, I approached her, and asked if she wanted to talk to me, or ask questions. Just like you do too apaerently."

"Well, how will I know where you are?"

"Your spell should be coming back any second now."

Right after Solar had finished his sentence, Luna received an audible ping from her horn. Her eyes lit up, and she jumped up quickly, wrapping the still lying Solar Eclipse in a large hug. "Thank you Solar. I will see you tomorrow."

Luna walked away from her brother, who continued to look at the sky, now slightly less gray. She finally had the oppertunity to receive the answers to her gnawing questions. Luna could not have been happier, and by the looks of it, neither could Solar Eclipse.

Author's Note

I know this is an exceptionally short chapter, and I honestly have no excuses. This was just a difficult chapter to write, because I didn't want to advance the Luna section of the story faster that me Solar Eclipse Twilight part. I am also still trying to slow down my writing, and add more description and emotion, which I realize I lack some of. Also I'm trying to stop having so many run-on sentences. Those are just some of the problems that I have notices and am trying to improve upon. If you notice any other major, concerning issues, let me know please.

Also like normal now, let me know what you all think on how the story is progressing. Im also going to ask about what you think of my original character, and his personality and traits. I am aware that he doesn't have much of a personality as of get, but I am working within a certain situation. Also about the other characters and their developments.

Thanks for reading :D