Journey to the Brother Side of Equestria

Lumin looked around and saw many things she expected to see in her sleeping friend's dream: flying dolphins, ponies with hearts over their heads, letters spelling "Amore" everywhere, and beautiful flowers. The one thing that stood out was that her brother was alive. Aurora was there too, and she said something that was a little too fuzzy to make out. That must be the dream Aurora, not the real one. Lumin thought to herself. Dear Star Swirl, this Dreamwalking stuff is confusing! I wish I was back home!

Suddenly, a pink aura glowed from her horn, even though she wasn't trying to cast a spell. She looked down to her front right hoof, and a snake had bitten it. This must be how I return to the normal version of Equestria. Lumin thought. Just like the last line of the poem!

"Did it work, Aria?!" Lumin didn't even need to open her eyes to know who asked that. Only Aurora had ever called her Aria.

"All until the moment I was bitten by the snake." Lumin quoted the last line of Star Swirl's poem. "Just like in the poem!"

"I was just reading that while you were Dreamwalking!" Aurora exclaimed "A line before it said that you could travel to places you could not reach while awake!"

"That means I really can find my lost brother!" Lumin exclaimed excitedly. "What are we twiddling our hooves here for?! Go to sleep so I can enter your dream next!"

"I don't think so, Aria!" Aurora exclaimed. "Number one: I'm not tired! Number two: You haven't fully explored Dolphin's dream yet! What if there's something you missed? Something that could lead you to your brother? You have to look again, Aria, you just have to!"

Lumin rolled her eyes. Typical Aurora Lumin thought to herself. She cast the Dreamwalking spell again, this time with feeling. She reentered Dolphin's dream, and this time, she would avoid any snakes until she got some viable answers.

Lumin looked around and saw the same things as before, but this time a bit less fuzzy. she thought to herself This time, as Star Swirl is my witness, I must do this right! And she would. She knew it. She just didn't know when. Or how. Or in whose dream. Lumin looked around again, and this time she saw something shocking. While earlier the ponies were frolicking in a flowery field playing games and saying lovey-dovey things, now they were wallowing in... whatever it is that ponies wallow in. What happened whilst I was gone? Lumin thought to herself. Something absolutely terrible I presume!

Mysteries were everywhere in the realm of magic, Lumin thought to herself, and what happened here was sure as Tartarus one of them. And then she thought in silence for a while, then thought Doctor Obvious. Then to her uttermost surprise, she couldn't quite believe her pony eyes. Lumin saw an Ursa Magna, the third biggest of the Ursa Species. Why would DD dream about a constellation creature that had nothing to do with love? Constellation creatures are pretty rare. How did she even know what the Ursa Magna looked like?

So many questions, so little time. A snake was bound to come sooner or later, and with one bite from that, Lumin would be awake again before she could say "Amniomorphic". Maybe it would help if I moved around. Lumin thought to herself. It is a Dreamwalking spell after all.

"Wow, Aria!" a familiar, cheerful voice exclaimed with excitement. "You were standing there like a statue for the past twenty-two minutes, and now, poof! You're walking again!"

"Twenty-two minutes?" Lumin asked. "I gotta know, when is the time now again?"

"Time is 5... no, 4:30 PM!" Aurora answered with a smile. "Why?" She asked.

Lumin couldn't break the fifth wall, so she had to lie. Good thing I'm not Applejack! she thought to herself before saying "I'm late for a date with Caramel! He said 'tomorrow at 4' yesterday!"

Shortly after hearing the lie, a snake slithered up to Lumin and bit her on the flank. They must come when I lie, like the Serpentinae in Star Swirl's "Two-Headed Mythological Mysteries", one of my favourite books! She looked at the snakes and noticed that they had two heads. A single Serpentina was fairly easy to elude, but twelve? She could not give up! Lumin quickly used a teleportation spell, her brilliant pink magical aura flashing in her disappearance. But the Serpentinae slithered very quickly to where she was. She teleported to the Ponyville Hot Air Balloon, then took to the sky.

Lumin Aria wondered why she didn't do this sooner. No snake, not even a Serpentina, could fly! And she had a bird's-eye-view of Ponyville from here! What could stop her now? Just then, Princess Dolphin Dream flew up and crashed into the ropes of the balloon, sending Lumin fleeting to her doom. Wait Princess Dolphin Dream? Lumin wondered. Then she remembered. Of course! This is her dream, she could do or be anything she wanted to! Too bad she decided to be an Alicorn Princess still learning to fly. As Lumin fell to her doom (not death, she was only twenty feet above the ground.) she said one final sentence. A five word sentence that even she couldn't hear herself say. And then a Serpentina bit her on the flank.

"What about this time, Aria? What did you find this time?" Aurora asked, returning Lumin's train of thought to her.

"Nothing interesting." Lumin lied.