Journey to the Brother Side of Equestria

"So what do we do now, Aria?" Aurora asked worriedly. "What if we never find your lost brother?"

"We will, Aurora!" Lumin replied. "We just need to find the real Dolphin Dream and ask her if she remembers what she dreamed about."

"What good would that do?" Aurora asked. "We've already been up all night!"

"I know, I know," Lumin replied "But if she remembers her dreams, maybe she'll understand that they weren't created by her subconscious alone! Maybe she'll know that I had something to do with it!"

"You still haven't told me what happened in those dreams, Aria! I gotta know!" Aurora replied. "This doesn't make any sense!"

"I didn't think I needed to, and you would probably just get scared anyway! All you need to know is that I got bitten by a snake in the end!" Lumin responded.

"What kind of snake was it?" Aurora asked. "A Queen Cobra? Or a Black Python? Maybe a Rattlesnake? Please tell me!"

Lumin thought about that for a while. I don't want to tell the truth, that I saw a Serpentina, the scariest type of snake in Equestria. "It was a, uh... Copperhead!" She lied.

"Oh, Aria, you silly filly!" Aurora replied. "Copperheads aren't scary! If it was a Viper or a Python, or maybe even a two-headed mythologial Serpentina, then maybe I'd be scared, but if it was just a Cop-"

Lumin cut her off "It was a Serpentina!" Then she added " Sorry I lied. I just didn't want you to be scared. Anyway, even though this idea is kinda on the wing, Dolphin might be our only chance at finding my brother."

"Um, Aria?" Aurora asked.

"Yes Aurora?" Lumin replied.

"Do you remember what I said to you during the Meteor Shower?" Aurora asked.

"No." Lumin answered. "What did you say?"

"I said 'Once!' as a part of a sentence," Lumin replied "but before I could finish, I was interrupted by the shock and awe of the shooting stars flying through the galaxies!"

"And how were you going to end that sentence?" Lumin asked.

And then Aurora whispered into Lumin's ear, inaudibly to those around them. She whispered a sentence that would forever remain in Lumin's heart. A sentence that she would not could not ever forget, even in a thousand years. A sentence that not anypony, or anybody, in any universe, real or not, would ever say or hear again.

"That was truly beautiful!" Lumin replied, crying. "Of all the things I've heard, that was the most moving. But enough about that, we need to find Dolphin now! We can have a teary moment later when we find my brother, and she might be the only one who can help us find him!"

"Okie dokie lokie!" Aurora exclaimed, copying Pinkie Pie. "Whenever you're ready, shine your way!"

Lumin rolled her eyes at the last sentence. Of course she would say that. Luminum means "Light" in Latin. She thought. And lights shine. Maybe she meant something more? She wondered. Nah. Nothing like that... But she did say that sentence to me... Forget it, brain! Ignore what the heart says!

"Let's go now!" Lumin exclaimed, half with excitement, half with angst. "She'll probably want us to explain her latest dream anyway."

Lumin and Aurora ran across Ponyville, as neither of them wanted to waste their magical energy on a teleportation spell. They didn't care that it was 5:00 AM, or that they've been up all night. They just wanted to find Dolphin Dream.

When they got a steady pace going, Aurora asked Lumin "What was your dream really about, Aria? I know you lied when you said 'Nothing interesting' and I just wanted to know why you sounded all frantic! You were almost as frantic as I am when I speak without commas!"

"Aurora," Lumin replied, "for the millionth time, there is no punctuation when ponies speak! Stop breaking the fifth wall!"

"I just told you at 3:46 AM," Aurora replied "that it's called the fourth wall, Aria!"

"It doesn't matter what it's called, Aurora!" Lumin exclaimed with anger. "What matters is that we get there quickly!"

"There?" Aurora asked. "We're already here!"

Lumin looked around and saw a familiar mare. A female Unicorn mare with a lilac coat, iris mane and tail with a light glaucous streak, raspberry rose eyes, and a cutie mark of two encircling dolphins; one light glaucous and one iris. I've done it! she thought to herself. I've finally found DD!