Luna glared blankly at the moon, aware of the fact she was walking within the Astral World which was the general Dream Purgatory. This moon was the same moon of the real world, as it reflected the night and what the night was in the material world, but Luna could not feel it. She was aware of the fact the moon radiated a force which she understood, but she could not feel this force, whether it be gravity or magic or astral energy, she could not feel it no matter how hard she tried.
"I wield that same power," Luna said calmly. "As much as I do move that power, I can't feel it? What am I to the moon? Just a speck of dust? Is a dream the same way?"
Whatever did she mean? She did not know, as her logic limiters were severely low and burned out in this perplexed madness which she called a dream.
"You call that perplexed madness?" Discord announced from the moon as he floated down with the assistance of an umbrella.
Luna noticed him upon adjusting her eyes. Was he in her dream? Or rather... part of it? "Discord? What are you doing here? I was not aware you had the ability to dream walk."
"My dear Luna, dreamwalking is a form of magic, surely something I can accomplish. As a pony I know would say, all it takes is a hop, skip, and a jump." Discord did the "Hop, Skip, and Jump" to show Luna exactly what he meant. "Magic isn't too hard for me to accomplish, since I have Chaos Magic."
"Care to explain how that works?" Luna asked as she smiled in curiosity. She closed in on Discord, who chuckled at her advances.
"My my, You're so different from Celestia, Luna! So much like a filly, you are. You certainly have a certain spark to you that Celestia doesn't have."
The setting turned into a wide open ocean, deep and a dark blue, swarming with golden figures which seemed to circle around both Luna and Discord. Luna managed to bend the dream to keep herself standing in mid-air, and one of the golden figures lunged up from the water to eat them both, but whatever Luna and Discord were standing upon blocked it and snapped its neck easily. The alicorn princess giggled at the event rather freely, not bothered by the visuals as she was well aware she was in a dream.
"Really, Discord? Are you trying to spook me? My, even the Cutie Mark Crusaders have spookier dreams than this," Luna told him with a laugh, summoning a storm within the dream and churning the ocean to raise with the waves all of the golden figures, showing them to be massive whale sharks with rows and rows of razor sharp teeth. "What? I've been in the Moon for a thousand years, but even I am aware that whale sharks do not have teeth like this. In fact, don't they eat krill?"
"Meh, who cares?" Discord replied in an uninterested tone, snapping the dream to a dark forest. "That wasn't an attempt to try to scare you. I just want to have a Dream Duel with you."
“Dream duel? Do you really wish to have such an altercation with me?” Luna asked him with a cocky tone. “You do know who you’re talking to, don’t you?”
“I’m speaking to Princess Celestia’s younger sister, Princess Luna, aren’t I?”
“That’s not what I meant!” Luna was engulfed by a dark magic, and suddenly morphed herself into Nightmare Moon. She stood tall and brandished a sword with a moon shaped guard. The moon shone down on her as the terrain returned to which it was before.
Discord applauded Luna’s power and control over this Dream Realm. “I’d imagine you had been perfecting this power for quite some time now, correct?”
“You are correct. This is a Dream. This is my realm. I control all and see all. Princess of the Night, the Princess of Dreams and Illusion. Is that hard to understand for you?”
Discord took control of the realm and turned it into a Minecraft terrain infused with a burning war-themed Call of Duty setting. Laughing in delight and spread out his arms and breathed in the chaos of the situation. Not nearly enough. “Don’t get on my case--”
Discord pulled a suitcase from under Luna’s hooves, causing her to fall. “--Fine, this is your realm, but I’ll show you I’m just as good at controlling it that you are.”
“Is that a challenge?” Luna growled, fixing her mane and standing up to point her sword at Discord.
“I did call for a ‘Dream Duel,’ didn’t I?”
Luna dodged a massive meteorite of blocks and guns shooting in omnidirectional laser beams coming from Discord, who was standing on a planetoid-sized white Kraken which leaked oil from the suckers in its tentacles. She had taken about 50 damage, and checked her health bar to see if that was significant in any way.
“I can’t cancel out this dream of his,” Luna growled to herself, taking her sword and clashing with the fifth tentacle of the Kraken, being launched back into the wall of a mountain and flipping up the side acrobatically. Getting to the top, she felt more control over this side of the dream realm.
Of course, the space in which the participant of the Dream Duel occupied is what they controlled. Discord, having the Kraken on his side, was able to occupy more than 80% of the battlefield, so the small part which Luna had with her miniscule body compared to the Kraken was to be used wisely. And luckily for her, the Kraken did not move.
“I see you are unable to move from your spot, Discord! I’ll turn your dream into a Nightmare!” Luna shouted at the top of her lungs, summoning with her sword a white headless horse only 10% of the size of the Kraken. “Now, let’s end this and prove that you’ve come to the wrong neighborhood!!”
“Oh calm down, Luna, I haven’t used my final attack yet. I’ve merely been playing with you,” Discord said to her from the top of the Kraken. “The real question is, how the hay can you hear me from down there? And… vice versa?”
Luna kicked the flank of the headless horse and shot it towards the Kraken. The horse burst into black flames and spewed a trail of infinitely looping, swirling and multiplying rainbows. The sky lit up with a moon of rainbow auras and threatened to destroy everything in its wake. “Take this, Discord! Years of dream invading and gaming have really paid off for me!!”
Discord brought together all ten tentacles of the Kraken and charged a hyper-condensed blast of chaos too chaotic to contain, and it blasted random spawning enemies of every video game to ever exist. The black nothingness of the orb of Chaos spawned worlds which collided with the current dream realm, and Luna had to summon her own worlds and minions to combat Discord’s.
“Give it up, Luna! I have 80% of the field, and you only have 20%! There’s nothing you can dream of to stop me! You can’t even stop me in your dreams, sadly!” Discord cackled. He lowered the orb of spewing chaos and continued to laugh while doing so. “I’ll be honest, this is the most fun I’ve had in a long time, Luna! We should do this more often!”
Luna smiled as the entire world turned to sketches under the intense light of her attack clashing with Discord’s. “I can very much so say the same!” Luna exclaimed as her mane flowed ever so more fiercely. She took this time to her advantage and twirled her sword around her body six times, each time unleashing an Element of Harmony, each tainted with her own magic so she could use them all with the utmost efficiency.
“Wh-What are you doing?!” Discord cried, watching as Luna’s attack tore straight through his and triggered a massive neutron-sized explosion which took the battle to space as it tore apart the entire terrain and sent the Kraken hurdling into the vast spatial abyss of the above. “Holy Faust!” And Discord, in a vision, saw a heavenly Fausticorn descending upon him. “Is this how I shall pay for my sins, oh great creator?”
Faust embraced him gently, and Discord felt warm suddenly, as if nothing else around him mattered at all, as if everything else had never happened in this whole Dream Duel ordeal. It felt nice for once. He felt at ease.
“Do you feel okay, Discord?” Faust asked him.
“Why… I feel free.”
Luna shot up from the dream earth below and ripped through the rest of Discord’s attack, and this woke Discord up from his trance. But Faust still held onto him, making him be unable to move. “You may have had control of the Dream Realm’s world down below, but up here is the Dream Void! Where none other than she who created the Realm itself may decide destiny!”
Discord was marveled at the pure badass level which Luna had escalated to. As her mane was a dark light flashing and her eyes shone like stars, she held in her hands a massive sword, with the hilt of the sword being a full moon crowned by a waxing and waning moon. The blade was black, but the handle was white, and Luna spun the sword to make these colors fuse for a grey. But that was not it. That was only the beginning.
Using the Dreaming Elements of Harmony, Luna stopped time around her, turning every single color in the Realm and the Void to a photonegative, and simply slashing the Kraken in half with one fell swoop, decimating each and every atom of it until the fire energy within its being released itself all at once, triggering an explosion to light up the whole galaxy in a bursting rainbow of stars and magnetic auroras of heavenly proportions, unseen and undescribed in any media to ever exist.
Luna spotted Discord fleeing from Faust, who disappeared into the light as she was only part of an illusion played on Discord, and she zoomed towards him like a hawk targeting its prey. Holding her sword in both hands, Luna prepared to swing at him to claim her victory and end the duel.
“Luna! Wake up this instant!!!”
Luna knew that voice all too well. She quickly opened her eyes to find Celestia standing over her bed, glaring at her angrily. “T-T-Tia?! Wha...What has you so--” Luna yawned “--upset? Huh?”
“Why don’t you take a look at all the angry letters sent to me by ponies and other creatures all over the world saying that somepony was tampering with their dreams and turning them into traumatizing nightmares?!” Celestia boomed at her.
Luna was dumbfounded, and she chuckled while scratching her head. “Yeah… Sorry about that… Discord and I were having a ‘Dream Duel’...”
“Dream Duel?!” Celestia screamed. “Then do it in your dream and your dream alone! If you do things like that in the Dream Purgatory, then the effects will be played on all dreams being had all over the known universe! Another mess up like that and you could rouse Faust’s creativity and end up triggering an apocalypse unseen by anypony to date! Imagine the trauma the fillies and colts feel, imagine how hard it will be to cope with the effects of these horrors! What were you thinking?--”
Luna had given up on listening a while back. Luckily for her, she had learned to sleep with her eyes open.
