Dream manipulation

by THEJamiboi

Rating: mature
Tags: Princess Luna, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Sex
Length: 6006

After her experience with lamia Twilight, Princess Luna was curious to know what it felt like to be the lamia, rather than the victim... Shad just happened to be the perfect pony to try this fact on.

After her experience with lamia Twilight, Princess Luna was curious to know what it felt like to be the lamia, rather than the victim... Shad just happened to be the perfect pony to try this fact on.

Oh look, another story featuring transformation into a lamia... This time in a dream... The original character belongs to a friend of mine who's helped me out a lot on DA, so this was my way of paying him back. :)

And yes, his second name is a joke, he made it up himself so I don't think he'll feel offended if we laugh at it a little, just don't be mean about it.

Shad Oregano belongs to: http://howdyx.deviantart.com/

Tags: Lamia, snakepony, naga, hypnosis, hypnotised, hypnotized

Published 2015-05-25 16:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-05-25 16:50:01 UTC

Dream manipulation

Author's Note

*Is sat on a chair tapping my hoof against the floor* ...Here we are again... The warning area... Do I even need... No I don't think I do, I'll just list it off for you.

Contains hypnosis, sex, transformation, an orgy of ponies and various other kinky stuff. There you were warned... Also is it me or am I getting even more perverted? Either way, enjoy! :)

Dream manipulation

Several days ago, Princess Luna had visited a strange dream, the dreamer had been the former personal student of her older sister Celestia, Princess Twilight… However the mare had appeared a little less… Normal. She appeared to be in the form of an old race Luna was familiar with, lamias. Yet how had she discovered them? More importantly how had she acquired a method to turn INTO one of them? Luna, sadly, had made no progress in discovering the answers to these questions, then again her mind hadn’t been particularly focused on the endeavour. She’d spent a couple of nights doing something a lot different.

Luna had a way of categorising dreams and had brought up a selection of dreams that ponies were having related to snakes. Several, obviously, had been nightmares, which Luna had had to make a detour to fix. Some of the others appeared innocent, just a couple ponies handling and messaging the snakes, enjoying the memory of scales against their hooves. Then Luna had stumbled across a particularly favourable dream.

A bright white earth pony stallion, with a blue mane and tail with a black streak, summer sky blue eyes and a snake with a chef’s hat cutie mark, had been having an odd dream. He appeared to be suspended up in the air below a large oak by several snakes, all of various colours and patterns. He was almost fully coiled and the snakes appeared to be sliding over his body, sticking their tongues out and exploring the odd pony, who simply stared up at the trees above with a vacant smile. His eyes, however, were pulsing softly with ring of various colours… As if hypnotised. The pony fit most of what Luna had been looking for. Since her… Close encounter with lamia Twilight, Luna had wondered what it felt like to be the lamia rather than the victim. Seemed she had found a subject who might just be suggestable to her idea.

Luna had then spent the next day meditating, first bringing up the image of lamia Twilight, and past memories of pervious lamias she’d met, then she began to, sort of, cut and paste their personal body parts to herself. Changing her rear hooves to a tail, matching her coat and mane, the top of the tail dotted with stars like a pattern, her eyes as slits and a forked tongue and fangs. Finally she imagined the eyes of Twilight but instead spreading over her own and, instead of a vacant smile on her face, a vacant smile on the stallion and a grin on Luna’s. Finally, as the sun began to set, Luna stood up and let the night spread over the sky. Now she would simply have to wait for the stallion to fall asleep.

Said stallion, whose actual name was Shad Oregano, was currently staring from a comfortable vantage point in his house. Shad was a chef, though he generally worked from Ponyville, he had gone on a trip after being requested to work at a fancy restaurant within Manehattan, he wasn’t enjoying it slightly. His boss was always snapping at him for no reason and he felt as if he were being treated as a lower level pony, he’d be glad when it was all over and he could go back home. Shad had been given a house to stay in whilst on the exchange, though it was a little bit of a distance from the main town, but this hardly bothered the stallion. He didn’t fancy trying to sleep through all the night time noise. And it’d scare his pet snake Sunshine, a golden yellow reticulated python. Shad had a slight (Understatement coming up) snake fetish which had appealed to what Luna was after, as well as a slight (Double understatement!) hypnosis fetish. The idea of being mentally forced into doing something you wouldn’t normally somehow appealed to Shad, though non-violently preferably.

Shad had no idea that both his fetishes had played a significant part in him being chosen for a… Test, Luna wished to perform. Though he wouldn’t regret it even slightly. Shad stretched his hooves over his head yawning, turning, he stumbled sleepily and flopped onto his bed and rolled over, his covers wrapping around him like a fluffy snake. Shad sighed and drifted off to a peaceful sleep… Luna’s magical trigger was pulled.

Luna had a knack for knowing when certain ponies were asleep, she simply had to know whom she was waiting for to fall asleep. As soon as Shad entered the land of dreams a slight noise, like a single alarm sound, went off in Luna’s mind, the Princess grinned and prepared to visit the particular ponies dream.

Luna stood before the door leading to the vacant dreamland of Shad, though Luna planned to change that. But first she had to take on the respected form. Luna sat down, this wasn’t likely to be easy. Luna hadn’t done anything quite like this in dreams. Luna imagined an image of herself, not difficult. Next she began to watch as her rear hooves joined together to form a sort of large solitary hoof, Luna felt an odd tug at her legs but didn’t open her eyes. Next she imagined the new body part growing and curling, scales forming out of the fur and changing colour along the belly, the same star pattern along the top. Luna’s image grinned, sticking a forked tongue out between four fangs seductively and Luna smiled as her eyes finally turned to slits before beautiful multi-coloured rings spread over them. Luna opened her real eyes and glanced down.

It had gone perfectly. The image had become reality for Luna, she now supported a great dark blue almost black and night sky blue tail, with a white star pattern over the top. Luna had been a little worried her hooves would simply turn into short snake tails and she wouldn’t be able to move, but it seemed to have worked fantastically. Luna made her tail shift, seemed she had feeling in all of it now to-smack! Luna had attempted to walk like she always did in pony form and her tail had surged oddly forward and caused her to fall flat on her face. Okay, so not perfect, she’d have to spend a minute or two getting used to just sliding around on her new tail.

Once Luna was confident she wouldn’t fall flat on her face, and embarrass herself in front of the stallion, she turned to the door and slid inside. Shad appeared to be currently having a dreamless sleep, perfect. Luna had been manipulating and changing dreams for millennia, making a simple forest appear was a synch, and the second she did so Shad appeared. Luna jumped up and curled her body around a tree, quickly fading into the canopy where the stallion wouldn’t see her. Now to see if he really did love snakes.

Shad blinked glancing around the dream forest. This was odd, he’d had dreams set in forests before but he hadn’t been focusing on them, yet this one was in great detail… Strange. And nothing else seemed to be happening, shrugging Shad decided that standing around wouldn’t help him so he began to walk in the direction he had appeared, which greatly helped Luna set up by sliding a little ahead of Shad.

Shad continued to traverse through the forest, rapidly becoming bored. His mind began to wander, wondering if he could summon any snakes to occupy the dream when he pushed a branch aside. Shad had broken into a small clearing, though tree branches still hung overhead, blocking out the sky. And hanging from those branches were lots and lots of snake coils, gently swaying like small hammocks. Instantly interested in the dream again, Shad approached the closest coil. He’d never seen a colour pattern like it before, dark blue nearly black with a night sky blue belly and white star patterns. Odd, then again it was a dream. Oh yeah it was a dream.

Shad smiled slightly and reached up before gently tugging the coil down, it slid down into his hooves without the slightest bit of resistance. Without even a brief moment of hesitation Shad draped the coil around his neck and began moving on to grab more coils, which he wrapped around his body, over his shoulders, any part of his body he could convince this odd tail to wrap around he did. He only stopped when the tail suddenly, having almost completely submerged him in scales, clenched around him and pulled him into the air. Shad hug, swaying as if on a ship, above the ground. But he simply gasped in surprise then his mouth split into a smile and he lay against the tail, allowing it to ruffle through his hair.

Luna was pleasantly surprised to watch Shad coil himself up with Luna’s tail, waiting until the ample time when he had almost buried himself in her new lamia tail, then lifting him to the centre of the clearing. She had expecting a bit of panic then but the odd stallion continued to be at peace with the situation, and Luna couldn’t resist running a coil of her tail through his mane, to see what it felt like. Gathering her wits Luna prepared to appear, for real, to the stallion… And begin the second phase.

Shad managed to wriggle a single hoof out of the coils, and gently ran it along the scales. It was always nice to have dreams like this

“Hello, my little pony.” The voice was soft and gentle… And very close. Shad raised his head and glanced around, searching for its owner “Up a little.” The voice cooed and Shad complied. He’d half expected hypnosis, but was slightly disappointed when only a pair of slitted green eyes stared at him… Connected to the Princess of the night. Okay so Shad was now flabbergasted by the fact he had a Princess in his dream. And his amazement only increased as he followed her body to the snake tail he was currently cuddling up to… Well this suddenly became very awkward.

Luna flexed her tail, causing it to feel like Shad was begin gently brushed by several scaly hooves messaging him. He sighed then blinked attempting to martial his mind

“P-Princess what are you doing here?” Luna raised an eyebrow then smiled

“Why I’m just ensuring my subjects have pleasant dreams.” She whispered as her tail curled around Shad’s ear “That and I wanted to see what I could do with this form and you seemed like the perfect pony, Shad.” The way Luna curled his name was oddly intoxicating and Shad shivered as a result. Luna chuckled softly as Shad (She simply knew that was his name, it was one of those unexplainable miracles… That or she probably looked at the name on the dream door) continued to be embarrassed as his fetish was played up by the Princess.

Luna pulled one of her coils upward and Shad spun around so he faced the ground, spinning like a yo-yo on the end of a foals hoof. Shad blinked the dizziness away as he felt another weight join that of Luna’s coils against his back. The feeling of soft breath on the back of his neck registered and he gasped, turning rigid in surprise

“So you like to be coiled up… Any other fetishes I could… Satisfy?” Luna purred. Shad contemplated the question for a second, before blushing as he answered

“Hypnotise me, please?” He whispered and he heard Luna’s satisfied chuckle

“Gladly.” She whispered.

Shad was rolled over several times, feeling oddly like a fly in a spider’s web as more of Luna’s tail wrapped around his body, making it several coils thick and only his head and the edges of his rear hooves visible

“Now, just watch my eyes and breath slowly.” Luna whispered as Shad blinked his eyes back to normal focus, and they locked with Luna’s. Only Luna’s eyes were no longer her natural green, instead, deep pools of changing colours were spreading over her eyes, drawing Shad in. His whole body naturally relaxed and as he continued to watch, the land around them, the trees, the grass, all of it seemed to fade into blurry colours before the pair seemed to be suspended from a single tree within a sea of colours. Shad’s mouth stretched into a vacant minded smile and Luna grinned, Shad was really submissive.

Luna glanced around the now colour filled dream. It was strange to be suspended from, what looked like, a floating tree. But, then again, Shad was currently under hypnosis and his mind wasn’t really functioning, it simply created what it needed. And that was easy, something for Luna to hold onto while she coiled him up. As her thoughts turned full circle, Luna looked down at the helpless pony and grinned. Luna glanced at Shad’s pulsing eyes, nopony home who was going to object, excellent. Luna shifted her coils around so that Shad’s head was buried, but the area along the top of his rear legs was visible.

Luna glanced up at the barely visible eyes of Shad again, she had a moment of embarrassed doubt, but it was beaten into submission by the reminding thought of what Twilight had done to her… Now she planned to be the hunter instead of the prey

“Hay Shad, I have a question,” Luna whispered and Shad moaned in response, Luna let magic slowly flow through her horn and she aimed around Shad’s crotch, Shad shivered as the disembodied feeling of some sort of vibration began to stimulate him, a soft bluish glow radiating from his crotch “How much does this turn you on?” Luna sent a mental message that, to put it simply, pushed every single one of Shad’s buttons in the right way at the same time.

An odd muffled cry escaped Shad and he thrashed, the movement reduced to a slight twitch in his restraints, in response to all the unfamiliar stimuli

“It feels good doesn’t it?” Luna purred “How my eyes assist in making you feel so relaxed. Without a care in the world. How my magic wraps around you and strokes you in all the right ways. How my tail squeezes into every little cranny of your body making you melt in relaxation.” Luna’s voice was soft and slow, and a very sexy voice that would make most ponies simply moan from hearing it. Luna curled her pony half around as her tail pulled on the top half of Shad, moving him into a position so he might have been standing on his rear legs, if he was on the ground. Luna wrapped her hooves over her coils around Shad’s neck and squeezed them, the coils pressing into Shad’s neck. Luna let her magic peak and Shad groaned as the odd vibrating magic sped up.

Shad managed to look up enough to see Luna then closed his eyes and moaned as semen began to shoot out of his penis. Luna rested her horn against Shad’s head and her magic formed an odd bubble helmet before it sank into his head. He wouldn’t be waking up any time soon. Shad opened his eyes, drooling in pleasure

“Was that nice?” Luna whispered and Shad nodded sluggishly in answer “I’m glad you liked that, because we’re not done… In fact that was just the start. A sweet little taster, shall we move up a notch?” Another nod.

Luna lowered her pony half down as well as tilting Shad back up so he was at a downward lying angle, as if he were going down a slide… But stuck in a cocoon. Luna positioned herself around the bottom of Shad’s scaly prison and grinned up at him. Luna licked her lips with her forked tongue before running it along Shad’s member. Shad gasped and then sighed as Luna continued to lick his penis like a lollipop, drenching it in saliva. Luna glanced up to see the reaction she was getting from licking and enjoyed the sounds Shad made, every time her tongue made contact. Luna leaned up a little and forced one of the forks in her tongue right inside the tip of Shad’s penis. Shad had never experienced a better feeling and shook as if being electrocuted then failed to hold in his orgasm. Luna backed up as semen began to shoot out of Shad’s penis, then gladly licked it up

“Let see how you react. Let the hypnosis fade, Shad.” Luna whispered. Slowly the forest began to return to the dream and then Shad blinked his eyes back to their normal blue.

Shad glanced around then finally looked down at Luna and his eyes contracted in surprise, embarrassment and slight fear

“Hello.” Luna hummed blowing air softly onto Shad’s member, emitting a moan from the stallion, causing Luna to chuckle

“You’re really perverted, letting me do this without any objection.” Luna whispered, lowering the gag around Shad’s mouth

“I-I’m sorry Princess.” Shad whispered attempting to hide within the muscly coils around him

“No apologies needed, I’m just teasing… Both metaphorically and literally.” Luna said booping her nose against Shad’s penis causing the poor stallion to moan again

“H-how am I still d-dreaming?” He managed

“Oh come on now Shad, surly the Princess of the night, who has traversed dreams for millennia, knows how to keep a pony asleep.” Luna said.

Luna began to climb up the cocoon of coils towards Shad’s head

“In fact I can manipulate every aspect of this dream.” Luna whispered before clapping her hooves together. The pair dropped to the forest floor and Shad rolled away, but ended up pressed up against something, something that immediately hugged him. Shad looked up into the pulsing eyes of a random mare he’d never seen before. Shad glanced around noticing five other mares, smiling vacant minded smiles as they slowly crawled onto his body

“P-Princess?” Shad asked uncertainly

“Oh don’t fight, it’ll only delay the inevitable fun.” Luna whispered as her whole tail began to encase the seven ponies.

The first mare propped herself against Shad’s chest and leaned down, Shad struggled before four of the other mares each sat on one of his hooves, and he had the odd feeling that they were rubbing their vagina’s up along his hooves because there was the sudden feeling of dampness. The final mare was hidden, but Shad felt what she was doing rather than saw it. Something soft began to encase his penis then move up and down it. All the mares moaned like an odd angel chorus of stimulus and Shad’s head flopped back onto a coil that was moving in.

Shad watched as various coils began to wrap around the mares, pinning their fore legs above their heads as the coils brushed and slid along their bodies, the mares closing their eyes as they enjoyed the sensation of being constricted. It was all very well done and added to the effect it was having on Shad. The mare tending to Shad’s penis was beginning to move faster and his front left hoof mare had orgasmed already, it was really hard to focus on anything but how amazing this all felt. Luna appeared above the mare kissing Shad, her eyes were pulsing slowly with three colours in her eyes at the most. Shad’s eyes widened but he went no further than a light trance, an occasional ring moving over his eyes

“How is it?” Luna whispered and all the mares moaned simultaneously

“G-good.” Shad admitted and Luna’s grin widened

“Have you ever encountered trigger hypnosis?” Shad’s eyes, if they could have, widened in understanding

“W-wait Princess…”

“The pleasure is ten times better.” Shad cried out in surprised and his whole body shook, emitting various pitches of sounds from each of the mares.

Luna began to curl the end of her tail around, visible to Shad, she forced it within the plot of the mare kissing Shad. Her hooves, on Shad’s shoulders, tightened considerably

“I know another trick with dreams,” Luna whispered “I can meld part of your mind to all the pleasure these mares are feeling.” Shad gulped but said nothing in objection as Luna’s eyes sped up and her horn began to glow once more. Shad’s eyes would have crossed to watch the horn touch between his eyes, but he was forced to watch the spirals emitting from Luna’s eyes. There was an odd feeling of warmth spreading across Shad’s head then everything went mental. Shad could feel Luna’s tail thrashing around within the kissing mare’s plot, he could still feeling his penis within one of the mare’s vagina but also the pleasure of being entered at the same time. And then there were the four grinding against his hooves. Shad thrashed around but that just made it worse… Or better in a sense. Shad rapidly reached and passed climax and let out a low moan as he orgasmed into one of the mares.

Luna let her eyes returned to normal and Shad allowed his head to flop to the side, now he no longer had to hold it up to watch Luna’s eyes. He could still feel the sensation of all the mares fading arousal, but they were all moving around for some reason. The one kissing him switched to his bottom left hoof, the one who had been riding his penis moved up to kiss him and have Luna’s tail forced up her plot and one of the leg grinding mares eagerly climbed onto Shad’s penis

“H-how am I still…” Shad’s words trailed away but Luna chuckled

“It’s a dream… You’ll never run out of stamina or arousal here.” Luna said Shad sighed as the whole system of four of the mares grinding against him, one kissing him and one riding him began again.

This method continued for several minutes, sometimes Luna would throw in a bit of hypnosis to change things up. And at one point one of the mares who was about to kiss him instead sat on his face, and he instinctively licked her vagina like a soft fleshly lollipop. Finally after every one of the mares had been orgasmed into, the six mares stood up and moved into a circle around Shad and stared at him, with vacant smiling faces, all waiting for Luna’s next order.

Shad continued to lay upon the forest floor but watched as Luna formed a sort of platform with her tail, like a little stage

“Make a throne for him out of your bodies and make him love sitting upon it.” Luna said the mares nodded as one and walked up to Shad, grabbing him and dragging him over to the pile of coils. One of the mares sat down and Shad was pushed so he lent against her, two of the other mares sat beside the first and wrapped both of his front hooves in theirs. Two more lay down alongside Shad with their heads on his rear hooves staring up at him. Finally the last one sat upon Shad’s lap, leaning against his right side and with her cheek against the base of his neck, she reached down with one of her hooves and begun to gently stroke Shad’s penis, the stallion blushing as the hypnotised mare smiled up at him. Luna smiled, looking at the mares forming a living pony chair for the lucky stallion… But there was still a space on Shad’s left…

Luna slowly approached the ponies and lay herself down on the opposite side to the mare tending to Shad. Luna ran the end of her tail along the mare’s cheek and she closed her eyes in submission, enjoying her mistress’ touch. Luna turned to look at Shad who was glancing around at each of the mares and grinned. Shad finally looked back at the grinning lamia Princess and gulped. Luna continued to smile even as she nodded for the mare next to her to lean down and use her nose to lower the scales around the top of her tail down. The scales folded away like armour and revealed the Princess’ vagina

“Now,” Luna whispered tilting her head slightly “It’s MY turn.”

Luna moved like a snake striking some prey and Shad’s penis hit the very back wall of Luna’s vagina as she jumped on him. The stallion, unprepared, shouted out in ecstasy and the six mares made various cooing noises and began to pepper him with kisses, or slowly run their tongues along his body, gasping for air. The effect adding to his arousal

“Y-you’re cheating, w-with all t-aaahhh-these mares.” Shad gasped, sounding not at all angry. Luna simply chuckled as Shad continued to pitifully moan in his living restraints. Luna hadn’t even given the mares the order to do this, this was Shad’s imagination doing it. It was very entertaining to have control of a pony without even using hypnosis.

Luna continued to grind along Shad’s penis for several minutes, the stallion having a sudden change in stamina. Luna smirked up at the panting stallion and nodded to the mare on Shad’s right. Shad watched as the end of Luna’s tail began to curl under the mare, who was licking his front right leg slowly. The mare moaned as scales slipped between her legs and tenderly rubbed her vagina. Luna’s tail continued up the mare’s body and around her neck before bridging to the next mare, one of the mares lying down like the side of a chair. Shad turned his head to watch the tail slip under the mare’s legs like the first, her head tilting back into a drooling opened mouth face of ecstasy. Luna’s tail curled up along the mare’s stomach and around her neck and leapt to the next mare. The first mare forming the back of Shad’s chair. The tail, like with the two mares before, curled between the mare’s legs but instead curled along up her back, against her spine, causing the mare to physically shiver. The tail made its collar around her neck and jumped to the next mare. This continued, Luna snaking her tail between the mare’s thighs to tenderly rub them, drawing soft sounds of love and moans from them, Luna’s tail would then curl around their necks and they all began to lick the muscly scales, they also continued to message Shad’s body with their free hooves.

Shad leaned back into the living throne allowing his eyes to close and simply enjoy all that he was receiving. In doing so his body decided now was the time to cum. Shad grunted in surprise, his eyes snapping open, as semen shot within Luna, who closed her eyes, her pony body shivering in delight. When Shad was done Luna smirked at him

“You’ll have to visit Canterlot sometime, so we can do this for real.” Luna whispered

“Are you asking me on a date?” Shad asked, unable to blush more

“No… I’m telling you what will happen. You’re a chef correct?” Shad nodded and Luna smiled “I think the kitchen could use a new member.” Shad smiled embarrassingly as Luna ran her tongue along his cheek.

Luna finally detached herself from Shad and the six mares ran off into the forest, disappearing like phantoms. Shad looked up at Luna, a little disappointed

“Are you going?” He asked Luna nodded with a slight smile

“I am afraid there is another pony I must visit. Don’t worry, it’s a mare.” Luna whispered as a flash of jealousy crossed Shad’s face and Luna giggled at the fact “But since you liked this so much…” Luna’s horn glowed, encasing herself in her magical aura, pony body and tail. The shape of Luna moved to the side like a replica and another Princess Luna lamia appeared. She was eyeing Shad up and down with a seductive grin

“I’ll leave a little of myself to entertain you, see you in Canterlot. I’ll send you a letter myself, Shad.” Luna said as a purple door appeared out of thin air. Luna opened the door and glanced back, the replica of herself was already coiling Shad up and forcing his penis within her vagina to continue his fun. Now, to business.

“Hay where am I?” Twilight Sparkle was surprised to find that her dream had been interrupted, she still appeared to be in her lamia form but she was now seated within what looked like a police interrogation room. Quite suddenly, a door matching her fur, with the frame the colour of her mane, that had her cutie mark on the top appeared, it opened and the Princess of the night slid in. It took Twilight a second to realise her mind had in fact provided the correct word to describe how the Princess was moving. Luna now had a tail, matching her fur and mane… Interesting

“Hello Twilight.” Luna said, imitating an interrogator very well

“Hello Princess.” Twilight said slowly

“I have a few questions… Namely about the form you’re currently in.” Oh dear.

Luna slid up to the table and sat down, her tail forming a seat

“How did you discover the lamias race?” Luna asked. Straight to the point

“Recently a lamia was found in the Everfree by a mare… She thought I would like to study him a little and…” Twilight’s face flushed slightly “His name is Pine Woods, he lives with a mare named Lemon Glaze within Ponyville.” Twilight concluded

“How did you manage to get into this form… Unlike me you had to physically change to be like this in a dream.” Twilight gulped

“I asked if I could have a couple of his scales and made a potion that turns normal ponies temporarily into a lamia…” Luna betrayed no emotion and Twilight was beginning to shift nervously

“Final question.” Luna said in a soft voice, Twilight gulped “May I have some?”

Twilight blinked as the question went to her mind but refused to believe she’d heard it

“Sorry?” Twilight asked baffled

“May I have some of the transformation potion… I have tested this form on a pony and wish to do so again in the waking world.” Despite all her experience Luna failed to suppress a small blush. Twilight actually managed a small smile

“Of course Princess, I’ll send you some in the morning.”

“Excellent. I shall return you to your dream with Pine, did you say?” Luna smiled as Twilight lit up like a beacon “I have a letter I need to send… And a… Certain lamia’s dream to visit.” Twilight blinked in confusion as Luna disappeared back into the door she’d entered from. She might have thought about it, had Pine not reappeared, grinning

“Hello Sparkle.”

“Uh oh.”

Shad blinked awake as a ray of light shone through a crack in the curtains. The first thing to register in his mind was the severe dampness under the covers, what a mess. The second was the time! It was late afternoon, his shift would almost be over by now. Shad sat up and groaned holding his head in his hooves. He then slid off the bed and stumbled away into the bathroom and into the shower, letting the water cascade down his body, washing away all the sweat from the dream. Shad became oddly still and quiet as he thought of that dream, imagining Luna’s eyes… Shad shook his head and finished washing himself, and half way through drying himself he heard what he’d been dreading; knocking. Or more like somepony trying to kick in the door.

Shad sighed sadly and walked towards the door, clicking it open. Sure enough Shad’s boss had turned up. Shad’s boss was a rather small cookie golden brown mare with an icing white mane and tail, her cutie mark a star above a fancy cake

“Shad Oregano?” She hissed, Shad nodded “Where were you when your shift started?” Again that deadly voice like a viper… With a machine gun

“I…I slept in.” Shad said lamely

“Slept in? How did you manage to sleep in so late!?”

“Princess Luna visited my dream.” Shad’s boss laughed, a laugh without any humour behind it

“Is that so? And what did she do, offer you a job, because if you don’t do some quick thinking you’ll be looking for one once I’ve spoken to your boss back in Ponyville.” It was at that point Shad decided to shift his hooves and stepped on the mail.

Instinctively he looked down, and sitting neatly on his welcoming mat of a coiled snake was a letter in deep dark blue… With Luna’s seal. Shad picked up the letter and opened it

“What do you think you’re doing, ignoring your boss?”

“You’re not my boss.” Shad whispered

“Pardon? If I’m not, who is?” But Shad’s excitement couldn’t be extinguished, not even by his boss’s anger

“According to this… Princess Luna is.” Shad held the letter up grinning. It was a request for employment at Canterlot castle. Shad’s boss opened her mouth and, for once, no sound escaped

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to be gladly packing for my new job.” Shad nodded politely and shut the door in her face, holding a hoof to his mouth when the door had closed to stop him laughing at her horrified face. She’d just lost a top employee AND been humiliated. Shad, however was over the moon

“Canterlot here I come!” Shad said out loud.

Luna had received the parcel from Twilight as the sun began it’s decent, within was the lamia potion, which she immediately took. After a brief wave of pain Luna had the matching tail from her dream. Now to meet the new chef. Shad had been transported from Manehattan by a carriage Luna sent, two night guards, looking a little drowsy, saluted him as he climbed aboard. It was an amazing experience to see Canterlot, and to know he’d soon live there, he couldn’t wait. Shad was taken immediately to the kitchen and given a brief tour by the head chef, then he was summoned to Luna’s chambers. Shad watched, from a window a little down the hall from Luna’s room, the sun set and Luna’s skyward artwork appeared

“Shad Oregano, Princess Luna will see you now.” One of the guards said as he walked past

“Where are you going?” Shad asked

“The Princess had relieved us for the night early, said she didn’t want anypony around here, besides you.” Shad turned as the pair of guards walked away, a blush clear on his face.

Shad pushed the door open to Luna’s room, it was really beautiful. Like a picture of land at night, hills clearly etched into the carpet by expert shadowing. The walls had actual constellations that Shad recognised over a night sky with a full moon on the ceiling. A number of small bookshelves and draws sat along one wall, near a small desk beside a window, with a circle of stars around it, curtains closed from Canterlot. The desk was, strangely, clear aside from a few small jars of ink and quills. The final thing in the room was a large circular bed with moon white curtains around it, pushed against the far wall. Curled up on the bed, grinning, was the Princess of the night, Luna, in her lamia form

“I promised.” She whispered “Now let’s see if it’s true that reality is better than a dream.” Luna said coaxing Shad to step closer with a little hypnosis. Shad didn’t resist.