Battle: Dream Luna, and Explanations

Nova patiently waited within his dream, the normally peaceful landscape of his mind was replaced with a war torn field, the sky covered with smoke and dark clouds.
He could "see" Luna quickly approaching towards his mind, her anger slowly rising.

Luna soared through the realm of dreams, blind to all else but one single window.
"How dare he!" She thought to herself. "Not only embarrassing me in front of the others, but tainting my mind with his power, I will show him why I control the realm of dreams."
Disregarding her usual caution, she flew straight into Nova's dream, fully syncing herself with his dream.

Nova didn't even flinch when Luna landed in front of him, the earth cracking under her hooves, in an instant, Luna's form was covered In armor, her scythe appearing next to her. "Luna, for what it's worth, I'm-" Nova started. Luna quickly cut him off.
"Save it, I no longer care for your words Nova, now either prepare thyself, or I will cut you down." She threatened him.
Nova smile lightly. "My Luna, you're being quite bold, forcing your way into my mind like this." He started, as he talked, his smile slowly turned sinister.
"You want to fight? fine, but you're playing on my home turf, hope you're ready for a thrashing."

(Music Start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ssyanpbnzw)

Without another word, Luna dove into the air and lunged towards Nova, bring her scythe across the cut him in two, to her surprise Nova somehow managed to cartwheel around the attack, his entire body dropped into a relaxed, yet battle ready stance, a sudden burst of energy shot out of his right arm, and a small, strangely shaped sword appeared in his hand.

She quickly turned around and lunged at him again, using her magic to propel herself faster than before, However, just as she swung her scythe, Nova reacted with almost blinding speed, swinging his weapon to meet hers mid swing, only for hers to bounce off, leaving her wide open.
Nova didn't waste a second, with a quick step he struck Luna several times, the blade seemed to glide within his grip, finishing with a quick kick before jumping back a small distance, once again falling into his fluid battle stance.

It was at this point Luna realised a few things, one was that she was glad this was the dream realm and her actual body wouldn't be hurt, the second was that charging Nova would never work, and the last being that she was In a lot of pain.
She quickly picked herself back up and focused her eyes on Nova, and without warning, her horn shot out a small missile of magic into the sky of Nova's dream, exploding into a massive ring filled with arcane runes, just as Nova looked up towards it, several massive bolts of magic started to rain down towards him.

With barely enough time to react, he quickly charged forwards to avoid the first of the massive projectiles, the ground exploding wherever they landed, however, he was quickly stopped by a large pile of earth Luna had pulled out and throw towards him.
Quickly regaining his footing, Nova once again charge forwards, taking care to avoid the onslaught of arcane magic currently falling towards him, Luna quickly formed a shield around herself before flying towards him, however, just before the two of the got close enough to clash blades, Nova lowered his body and slid across the ground, making Luna's swing go wide.

Attempting to once again taking advantage of the Princesses opening, he swung upwards, only for Luna's shield to send him flying in the opposite direction, right into one of the bolts of arcane falling from above. Luna turned and smirked, pleased she had finally found a way around Nova's battling style, only for a massive lash of light magic to cut her across the front of her body.
Nova was crouching low to the ground, in his left arm, he held his shield, meanwhile his right arm outstretched outwards towards Luna, glowing with power.

Luna attempted to pick herself back up, the burning sensation almost overwhelming her, but before she could stand, a golden hammer suddenly slammed into her, exploding into a brilliant golden light, Nova was slowly walking towards her, and once again, before she even had the chance to recover properly, and explosion of light suddenly shot out from within her.

Those three attacks alone had almost caused Luna to lose focus on keeping her own body tangible within the dream, she struggled to look up, only to see Nova standing above her almost broken form, an evil smile slowly came across his face, slowly lifting his shield above his head, the last thing Luna saw in that dream was the corner of his shield coming down towards her neck.

(Music end)

Luna's eyes quickly shot open, almost screaming in fear and pain, her mind reeling from being forcefully pushed out of the dream, panicking, she looked around her room, only for her bloodshot eyes to prevent her from seeing straight.
She quickly lowered her forelegs to the ground, wanting to stand up so she could steady her mind, only succeeding in falling face first into the thankfully soft carpet.
As the room spun all around her, she realised she had one last task to perform before she could allow herself to give in to her exhaustion.
Slowly gathering her magic, she barely managed to lower her moon, allowing for her sisters sun to slowly rise in the distance, sighing, she finally closed her eyes, passing out on the floor.

(Optional Music)

Meanwhile, on a dirt road somewhere, Nova eyes slowly cracked open, with his right eye almost completely bloodshot, he forced himself to sit up, grasping his head in pain from the previous battle, he look up to the sky just to see the sun slowly rising, he sighed as he picked himself up and dusted himself off, getting ready for the day ahead.

Nova simply sat at the front of his companions portable home, staring ahead at the road in front of him, it wasn't before long that he heard the door on the other side quietly open and close, a slightly messing looking Trixie appearing next to him, a small piece of toast floating next to her.
"Morning." Nova said as he scooted over, she sighed as she jumped up next to him.

Nova took the chance to quickly look over Trixie, unlike most of the time, she had yet to don on her cape and hat, her normally well groomed hair seemed to stick out in places, and she was chewing quite loudly on a piece of toast.

With all this information, Nova quickly came to the conclusion that Trixie was not a morning person, and decided to keep quiet until she had properly woken up.
After Trixie finish off the rest of her toast, she quickly used her magic to fix her hair and threw her cape around her shoulders, sighing, she finally looked over toward Nova.
"Trixie wishes to talk about what happened back at the trade post, mainly what you did to those ponies and why." She said, her face completely void of any emotions.

"Okay, guess I'll go in that order as well, first, I used my extremely awesome yet dangerous powers to fight off a bunch of attempted murders, second.... no wait I just answered both your question at the same time." He replied, giving her a small smile.

She stared at Nova for a few seconds, her face scrunching up in thought, Nova took this opportunity to poke the tip of her snout, causing her to sneeze.
"You scrunch your face up like that and you're going to get wrinkles, besides, its to early to be doing any proper thinking." He said as he stretched out his body.
Trixie gave an annoyed groan before replying.

"Why do you keep avoiding Trixie's questions, would it not be easier if you just decided to comply?" She asked, getting a sigh from Nova.
"Look, its not that I don't want to answer your questions, it's that I don't really have an answer for all of them." He said, looking away from her.

Trixie 'hmphed' in response, already getting tired of Nova's excuses. "Then can you answer this one question?" She asked, Nova turned back to face her.
Trixie's entire persona had changed, the usually boastful, proud show mare had a worried, even scared look on her face.
"Is Trixie...... am.... I.... safe around you?" She muttered out.

Nova didn't know how to respond to this sudden change of character straight away, and after a few tense moments of silence, he let out a sigh.
"Look, those guys back there? they tried to smash my head in with a rock, as far as I'm concerned, scum like that don't deserve to breathe the same air as others." He started explaining, further worrying her.

"However, it was still wrong, there were so many ways I could have dealt with the situation, but I ended up picking the easy way out." Nova reached out towards Trixie, she flinched as he started patting the top of her head.

"As far as I know, you're one of the only ponies I've met that's been willing to put up with my bloody antics, so don't worry yourself." He moved his hand off her.
"I'm sorry if I scared you."

She stared at Nova for a while, a black expression on her face, she sighed and looked away, before grinning and using her magic summon her hat.
"Trixie accepts your apology, now no more of this sappy stuff, we still have a lot of road ahead of us." She stated as she slowly forced the wheels on her home to move forwards.

Nova gave her small smile, turning his eyes towards the road, he could still feel that she wasn't completely comfortable around him, but he was glad she hadn't asked him to leave either.

Author's Note

Man, real life has its way of keeping me busy.
Also sorry if the battle was a bit short, Kinda saving a long battle for a different chapter.