You know... future me, being trapped here on the moon has surprisingly been relaxing. I don't have anything to worry about and the view looks great! Of course I do miss my friends; Celestia, Starswirl, Crys-... Anyways, Celestia has been sending me food every week, probably hoping that I can survive up here and come back a brand new mare. That is, if I can go back. Sweet Celestia, I hope I can go back. But, let's not linger on that, she also send me my old diary with this week's delivery, the one she gave me when I was still a foal. I found an entry that seems to fit into this autobiography quite well. I thought it may be better to put that in rather than to force myself to remember the experience myself. Heh, maybe you can sell this when you get back to Equestria. If you get back. If we get back. Dear me, I'm going to go look for some alcohol... again.

Dear Diary,

The rest of my day has just been a game of "Stay Awake For 24 Hours." Since I slept all night last night, there was no way I'd be able to sleep today. I normally sleep during the day, after all, I am the princess of the night. But by the time my night came, I was too tired to use my magic to go into Chrysi's dream. So I had to stay awake all day and night so that I can catch some Zs during the day and when I wake up, I'll raise the moon & go into Chrysalis' dream! How is it that I've lived for eons & that's the most complicated plan I've come up with so far?

After I stayed awake for an entire 24 hours and slept during the day, all I can say is thank Celestia for coffee (literally, she made me coffee at some point), I finally made it into Chrysi's dream world.

Strangely enough, when I finally got some rest, I had a repeat of the same dream from 2 nights before. It was all the same, right down to it being Sombra who attacks me. The only difference was that there was a purple & green glow around his eyes. Like the kind you'd find on a unicorn's horn while they'd perform magic (the difference, of course, being that it's around his eyes). I'd guess my dreams were telling me that Sombra is a threat, but how could that be, he seemed so nice? Maybe it's because I was sleep deprived. Note to self: don't go off your normal sleeping schedule ever again!

Right before I went into Chrysi's dream, I started having some self-doubt. Out of nowhere I started asking myself if this really is a good idea. I mean, dreams are gateways into a pony's psychi (at least that's what Starswirl keeps telling me), is it right to enter her dream without permission? Well, I haven't questioned my motivations before, so I went right in!

I'm not sure what I was expecting going in, maybe a land made of cookies & milk that goes on as far as the eye can see? Ooh, maybe a dream about me!? Oh my me, can't you just imagine!? Either way, that's not what I got. :(

I flared my horn & performed a long-distance Dream Weaver spell on Chrysalis to find myself in... the Chrystal Kindom. Not gonna lie, I was hoping for a bit more. To be fair, the place looked very detailed, like a portrait. The dream world looked exactly like the kingdom Chrysi calls home.

I looked around to find myself right next to the crystal heart in front of the castle Chrysalis & Symfore lived in (I've gotta visit this in real life one day). I heard Chrysi & another voice coming down one alley, & saw somepony else's shadow coming down another. I pulled off an invisibility spell as quickly as possible & made sure to not make a peep.

I couldn't make out exactly what Chrysi was saying, something about love & Sombra. Even though she was saying all of this quite loudly, like she was yelling at whoever was in the alley across from the one she was in, I was paying more attention to being silent.

When Chrysalis came out & revealed herself to me, I could see she was alone. I could swear I heard 2 voices, I'm pretty sure I did. Chrysi's voice was a bit on the weird side, it was like hearing 2 voices come out the one mouth, it was strange to say the least. Her appearance was somewhat normal, though. She looked like herself, albeit a bit taller & older.

I looked at the other alley to see Sombra coming out of it. He, like Chrysi, looked like himself, again being a bit taller & older. Unlike Chrysi, though, he didn't speak. He, instead, just gave this menacing smile, a lot like what I saw in my dreams. The instinctual side of me wanted to get between the 2 & protect my little Chrysalis. But then I remembered Starswirl mentioning something about this. I believe he said to not interact with the ones in the dream in case the dream may suddenly reject my presence & kick me out because it would then know I was in it. Dreams are weird! So my next instinct was to just leave, but a larger part of me just wanted to see where this was going, so I stuck around.

Both Sombra & Chrysalis moved forward until they were face-to-face with me right between the 2. Even though I was just inches away at this point, they didn't notice me. But, with both of them surrounding me, I couldn't help but have a tiny squeak escape my lips, luckily, they either didn't notice or didn't care. Most likely the former. With both Chrysi & Sombra so close, I was slightly scared for my life. I didn't care that I technically can't die when in somepony's dream unless it was due to an outside force, these 2 were weirding me out! It didn't help that Sombra's smile seemed to have been permanently etched onto his face.

I looked over to Chrysi to see her own face start to adorn the same smile Sombra was wearing (though she totally pulled it off better). Just then, I was kicked out of the dream, most likely because it was over. That tends to happen when the dream or nightmare is done.

I started hearing Celestia's hooves walking on the ground towards my bedroom. I open my door to see her tilting her head to the stairs, obviously telling me to go with her to lower the moon. Strange, I was in that 1 dream for most of the night. Normally, a dream would last for about an hour at most(picked that up from the year or so I've been doing this). I do my duty & come straight here to record all of my findings from Chrysi's dream into you! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sleep, that was a heck of a long night.

Love,

Princess Luna

Author's Note

I know, this took forever to come out & I'm sorry about that. Like I said last chapter, I've been busy, mostly with school. But, summer is coming, so I should be able to update a lot more often than I am right now.

A quick talk about the last chapter, it's my favorite! It was easily the most fun I've ever had writing this story & I'm proud at how terrible I could make it! Of course, it was an April Fools chapter & it has absolutely nothing to do with the overall story. But I still love it!

This was an interesting chapter to write for multiple reasons. First of all, I had absolutely no idea how to start & end this chapter, just what it would mostly be focused around. No big deal, that's basically every chapter. But I seriously had no idea! This actually started out being a normal chapter, but obviously, it's not.

While I was writing, I realized that this chapter in particular would work a lot better if it was written like a diary entry. I like the idea that the whole experience was a bit too much for Luna to write again. Plus, it let me write about how the moon has been. That was something I've always wanted to do in the story, but never really had a chance to do, so I like being able to do so here! Not to mention, it allowed me to write lazily like I do in the author's notes! Personally, I've never written in a diary or been a teenaged girl, but I imagine that it's something like this.

I actually wrote in the diary to maybe make a midquel at some point. Now that I've decided not to, it became completely useless... until now.

I'm still not sure when this story is going to end, I don't know why, but that's something I've been thinking about. Probably because I know exactly what I'll be doing on FIMfiction after the story's over & done with. I'm planning on ending it by 2016.

I've also been thinking about rewriting the first 2 chapters. They bother the shit out of me just by how horrible they are. Maybe if I have time later on. And since the chapters are named after songs, it's very likely that I'll change the title to be named after an album. The obvious name is Dark Side Of The Moon, but I've also been toying with A Hard Days Night, Eclipse, & Mind Games. But that's all if I decide to change the name at all.

Also, as a writer, I love foreshadowing! That is literally this entire chapter & I'm proud of how this came out.

There was a lot of exposition about how the Dream Weaver spell works, it's not that I don't know all the rules with the spell, I'm just not good with exposition & I don't want an entire chapter dedicated to the rules of Dream Weaver.

That should be everything, so thank you for reading & I hope you enjoyed!