Author's Note

Sorry its been so long, anyways this chapter is why Im going to change it from teen to mature, it's going to get a lot... more everything and there is a chapter later that isn't the most family friendly, sorry all. Hope you enjoy

36: Do Dragons Dream of Burning Sheep Finale

I looked around at the scenery we were brought into, it was next to a forest that had a tree that looked very familiar in the distance… wait is that? “Huh, she must really miss this place if she dreams about it.”

“Oh, we are figuring you know who’s dream this is then, since we were flung into it by happenstance from the collapse of Magic’s dream, would you believe us if we told you that was wielded by Celestia?” Luna asked.

I nodded, “Makes sense, no offense but she raises the sun, and it is a tad bit larger than the moon… by a lot.” I said that last bit quietly.

Luna harrumphed but said nothing in response, “Well since we are here, we might as well tell you who this element belonged to.”

“Celestia I’m guessing?” I countered before she could say anything, at which she pouted, “What? She’s kind enough as is these days, it makes the most sense, again no offense, but you’d sooner charge into battle with an axe wearing a stethoscope and you’d probably shout ‘HUZZAH’ or something.”

Luna blinked in utter surprise and mild fear, “How did you know about Dr. Choppy?”

“Dr. what? Anyways, since it’s these two last I’m a bit more invested in stopping them from becoming corrupted, come on, She can’t be far, probably taking care of some animals.” I said, making my way quickly to the house.

As we rounded the corner of the tree… do trees have corners? We saw an unusual sight.

Luna snickered, “Seems like the animals, or animal in this case, are taking care of her.” She said as we saw a massive Angel Bunny running a brush through her hair, her cooing happily at the treatment, “Seems sometimes she’s the one who likes being treated like the pet.”

“I know she does.” I said quietly.

“What was that dear nephew?” Luna asked in a voice that was way too innocent for my liking.

I quickly stepped forward away from her, “N-Nothing!” I said just as quickly, too quickly, thankfully a distraction just showed up, “Look the Tantabus!” I said pointing at the dark figure that had much more defining features now, instead of just a mass of stars as the face she had a proper face, although it was still slightly transparent and stars were still flowing around her now visible skin. She, yes I’m calling the Tantabus a she now because its been taking on the form of a female for a while now but since it’s so close to looking like a living creature might as well give it a gender. Anyways, she was now more proportioned out having been inside of twilight’s body, so that was neat, she also looked a breath more intelligent, not that she looked stupid but, that’s besides the point.

“I feel like we should be stopping her.” I spoke out, and yet we did nothing as the Tantabus took over the massive Angel Bunny turning him into some weird dragon bunny hybrid.

“Huh actually quite fitting if you ask me, little bugger is a devil if he doesn’t like you or trust you.” I was about to step into the scene before Shy saw what happened to her beloved pet, but I was a hair too late and she turned around as the brush turned into sharp claws across her scalp.

“Oh my…” And quickening my pace, “You must be the Tantabus, would you care to talk?”

Demon Bunny looked down at her confused and hesitant but nodded and left the bunny’s body, leaving normal Angel behind, well as normal as a two story tall rabbit could be.

Shy looked at the Tantabus in her true form. “Well, you are quite pretty, though you don’t seem bad. So, if you don’t mind me asking, why are you haunting all our dreams, giving us nightmares?”

The Tantabus was beyond stunned this was the second being to ask her why she did what she did and not try and punch her in the face with no provocation, of course the last time this happened she was blasted in the shoulder so she was understably wary, “I… I was created to do this. TO create nightmares, to torture ponies.”

Shy nodded along as she listened, “I heard, though I think it was wrong of the princess to create life to do just that I still believe it’s up to you to change that, after all, you could’ve done so much more than make Angel look scary couldn’t you?”

Tantabus smirked, “Easily, I could’ve lined your dream with the worst eldritch horrors your mind could come up with and some it could never even begin to comprehend, I could have broken your mind to an irreparable degree, made you a vegetable for life.”

Fluttershy just smiled motherly in response, “Because that’s what you were made to do and there is nothing wrong with that, and yet, you didn’t do it, nor did you do it to any of the others I’m assuming, since Chris would not like any of that.”

Tantabus blinked, “You… are a very intuitive pony, and yes you are correct I very easily could have… but something about that male for everyone has put a damper on the real power I could use to end him. I wish I could figure out what it was.”

“Oh I can answer that for you, if you would like.” Shy offered.

Tantabus raised an eyebrow, “Yes I would like that…. Please?” She asked hesitantly.

“It’s love, not all the same kind though mind you, I think, and these are just guesses. Who have you gone to before me?”

Tantabus paused in thought, “Shadow Bolt, Timber Jack, Nightmarity, Midnight Sparkle.” She listed off the ponies.

“I see, well let’s go in order, Rainbow Dash is most likely love in a friendly rival sort of way, she wants to prove she can beat him, she knows he wasn’t going at 100% even if she won’t confront him about it.” In the distance I winced at that, she knew? Crap.

“Apple Jack, I feel is more love for us and what he means to everyone more so than for herself, don’t get me wrong, she likes Chris, but I’d say out of everyone, those two have the least amount of interactions.”

“Rarity and Chris, have a strong friendship, one he’s admitted to not expecting to form at all, and maybe on her end there is a bit of a crush, they all might have some level of crush on him actually. Sorry, I’m getting off topic, she loves him for his ability to test her ability to design around such and ever changing body shape as well as work on clothes for a royal since Twilight won’t let her make clothes for her.”

“Twilight, is the exception to the crush thing, She’s his sister… through adoption and marriage, so it’s sisterly love, but love nonetheless.”

“That explains why even full powered with dark magic behind it felt like it still wouldn’t end him.” Tantabus interjected, “What about you, the last one, and the one that resides in his head?”

Fluttershy mouthed that last part before understanding what she meant, “Oh you must mean Ixis, to be honest I’m not sure, but I think she sees him as her son, so once again family love. As for Pinkie and I, we love him the same way for different reasons. If you’d like, you can possess me if it would make it easier to understand.”

Once again Tantabus was stunned, absolutely flabbergasted, but she didn’t pass up an opportunity when it showed up, so she took possession of the usually timid pegasus, as before Fluttershy grew in height, if only slightly, her wings became larger than they already were, her coat turning a warm shade of orange and her hair and tail turning rust red, also it did not go unnoticed that her bust increased in size as well. She was only in her for a grand total of 20 seconds before she popped out with a defeated sigh, she now looked more whole, with a much more ample bust to boot.

“I see… you wish to fix him… no not fix, balance him out. Care for him.” Tantabus said.

Shy nodded, now back to normal, though her clothes were stretched and a bit loose on her now, “We all do, some of us more than others, myself probably the greatest, he’s been hurt quite a bit in the past and nearly died for us, we’d do anything to help him.”

Tantabus nodded once more, solemnly, “I understand. It’s a noble thing to do, a kind thing to do, a generous thing to do, a loyal thing to do, an honest thing to do, a magical thing to accomplish, but it can only be fully done with laughter in his life.” She turned and tore a hole into the next dream.

Shy looked at her, “You aren’t going to hurt them are you?”

“I do not wish to anymore, but if they get in the way of my goal again I may have no choice.”

“And what is your goal?”

Tantabus turned towards the pegasus, a sad smile on her face, but a hopeful gleam in her eyes, “To become my own. Christopher… Mother, I know you are there, I know you have been the entire time, if you wish to end this, meet me in Laughter’s dream.” And with that she was gone.

We walked up to shy who was still sitting in the grass but happily smiled up at me, “Hello Christopher, Princess Luna.”

I kneeled down, and tried not to look down her loose shirt, though it was something she was well used to me doing at this point, but ya know trying to be modest for my Aunt, “You ok Shy?”

“Oh yes, quite ok, thank you for asking though. Are you going after the Tantabus, she doesn’t seem so bad, more sad than anything.” She said.

I nodded in agreement, “Yeah, I noticed, and yes we are going after her, but I have… an idea on how to help. Just wake up and go join the girls, we have a few things left to take care of.”

“Okay, just be careful, I love you.” She said before fading away to wake up, sending Luna and I into the void between dreams.

I turned to my aunt, “So…. what do we do? We can’t get rid of her. Not anymore, not after that.”

Luna rubbed her temples, “We know we know, we just don’t know what to do about it.”

“Well I’m sure we’ll have plenty of time to figure it out in Pinkie’s dream, come on.” I said as the next and last door appeared.

We stepped through and found ourselves in an ever expanding field of grass and flowers, in the distance we saw myself, Fluttershy, Goldy, Pinkie and two more smaller Kirin, one a deep red and the other a very pale shade of blue running around chasing one another. That scene hit me hard that’s what Pinkie saw our kids looking like.

“Oh Pinks….” I said quietly, though my musings were cut short by a voice next to me.

“Beautiful isn’t it.”

I turned my head to see it came from Tantabus, who was looking at the scene with sparkling violet eyes and slit pupils, fur that was midnight blue leading up into her hair, horn, and feathers which tapered off into lighter blue, her hair having swirls of stars fading into nothing, though she still looking slightly transparent, still not whole.

“So… you said this is where we end this, what did you mean by that?” I asked her.

She sighed, never taking her eyes off the scene, “That depends on you two, either you kill me or you help me, either way is a win-win I suppose depending on how you look at it.”

That didn’t sit comfortably with me, “Why do you want to be your own?”

At that she looked at me, her gaze intense, “Do you have any idea what being created to torture, to bring pain and suffering is like?” I had no response to that so I opted to say nothing, “Of course not, it’s not fun, but I can’t blame the one who created me, after all she felt it was a just way to atone for sins that were not her own.” Luna winced at that, “But that is neither here nor there, the reason I want to be my own is I want to get away from that, going after the element bearers has… opened up my eyes to what I could be instead of what I was made to be or what others see me as. However I never had a real way to achieve my goal from the start, to be honest my only plan was to give creatures nightmares so horrid and foul that Mother would have no choice but to listen to my demands and figure out a way to give me my own life, however that plan backfired thanks to you, you very strange creature. So now I am at a loss at what to do.”

I stared at her before pulling her into a hug, Tantabus blushed, I could feel the heat radiate off of her somehow, “W-what are you doing?”

“Giving you a hug, it makes others feel better, you can ask Pinkie about it if you want.” I looked up at Luna, not letting go of Tantabus, who was wiggling against my grasp, “Can you give her her own life, her own being?”

Luna pondered that question for a moment but before she got to answer the skies turned pitch black and a loud heart shattering scream of despair came from the pink pony in the distance.

I looked down at Tantabus, “Are you doing this?”

“N-No I wouldn’t, I don’t want to do this anymore.” She said, clearly upset about this herself.

“She’s correct nephew, this is Laughter’s own mind and I know all too well how a nightmare can corrupt laughter, listen.” Luna said, prompting us to listen closer, under the howling wind and rustling grass we hear quiet, broken, maniacal laughter.

“Can’t you help her Luna?”

“Nay, we may not be holding 7 dreams together but any interruption in our concentration more than to fire small bolts of magic would send us to your mindscape and leave this one to torment until we could locate her in the dreamscape.”

I looked at Tantabus once more, “Can you help her, please? I don’t know if I can snap her out of this.” She nodded in response, turning into a black smoke cloud and taking control of Pinkie, and for a solid minute there was silence, we thought it worked, we were wrong.

The sky shook with thunder as the laughing only grew louder and worse and Pinkie transformed, her body like the others growing in size, her hair straightened out, and nearly blood red, her coat however stayed the bright pink it normally was, her cutie mark on the other hand transformed from three balloons into 3 spiked flails, noticeably her uh… cutie marks, looked bigger too, yup her cutie marks.

“Oh fantastic.” I deadpanned, I walked up to the deranged pony, “Hey, it’s me Chrissy, your soon to be husband?”

“Oh hi Chrissy… wait no that doesn’t sound right… I mean DIE chrissy!!!” She shouted out before smacking me into the ground with a spiked hammer.

I slowly pulled myself out of the crater, “Ok that’s new, why do you have a hammer?”

“Why, didn’t you know? All the insane pink haired girls have hammers!!” She said, this time slamming the hammer in my side, sending me skipping across the ground like a rock over water.

I finally skidded to a halt, spitting out chunks of dirt and grass, “Ok, she’s stronger than Apple Jack and somehow faster than Rainbow Dash… not fun…. Not fun at all…” Then I blinked, “DID YOU JUST REFERENCE WHAT I THINK YOU DID?!” I shouted out at her, “BAD PINKIE, BAD!!”

In a split second she was in front of me, grinning in such a way that would haunt until I died, hell probably after too, hey I just noticed she isn’t fast she’s using her weird powers to warp…. Fucking bullshit chaos control is what that is.

Pinkie tilted her head while still smiling, “No… not Pinkie Pie.”

“Let me guess Pinkie Die, or Painful Pie.” I suggested.

She actually smiled wider at that, a small demonic giggle coming out her throat, “You’re cute but no, I was thinking, Slaughter, after all you can’t spell it without LAUGHTER!!” And right on cue a lightning bolt struck behind her, rattling the ground and sending chunks of topsoil everywhere, “And you my, delicious snack.” She said, loling out a tongue that would put venom to shame, licked up my neck and across my face, “Shall be my first plaything.”

I blinked, “You know… I should be absolutely terrified by this and yet…”

Slaughter looked down, instantly catching what I was saying before smirking, “Maybe little dragon, if you survive this, Pinkie will be willing to indulge you in that.”

I swallowed some spit that pooled in my throat before I was slammed back into the ground by my throat, “Fair enough.” I coughed out, holding up a hand, “Though, this wasn’t fair….”

“All is fair in love and and this happens to be both, so prepare yourself for the worst monster you have ever seen!” She shouted out, simply floating into the air, before summoning a hammer that was far too large for any reasonable usage, this did not however stop her from being it down upon me several times.

However after a few minutes of this passed, she stopped, “Fight back damn you! FIGHT BACK!” She said bringing down the hammer one more time, only this time, instead of opting to being a nail in a wooden plank I caught it dead on.

“I’m not going to fight you Pinkie, I love you too much for that.” I told her, hearing her voice hitch and the wicked smile vanish into a grimace.

“I SAID FIGHT BACK!! KILL ME LIKE THE MONSTER I AM!!! Please… I don’t deserve love….” At this she ripped the hammer from my hand and lifted it above her once more, nearly quintupling it in size before dropping it down upon me one last time, her face stained with tears.

I growled, my fist came up fast and hard, harder than it ever has before and completely obliterated the hammer into nothing, “No.” was all I said.

“Y-you destroyed it.” She stammered out.

I flew up to her, “I did, and everything it stood for, your fears, your pain, your hatred, your sorrows, your worries, everything you hate about yourself was in that hammer and I destroyed it. And I’ll do it again as many times as it takes.” I hugged her tightly, not letting her go, never letting her go.

She finally let go, the darkness faded and Tantabus was finally free, she gave me an apologetic look but I just gave her a look saying it wasn’t her fault. Pinkie cried in my arms for what felt like hours but it was only minutes before she sniffled and wiped her eyes clear.

“Thank you Chrissy.” She said, nuzzling my chest.

“Of course Pinks”

“Soooo about Slaughter and that particular thing….” She trailed off. I leaned in close to her and whispered something, “WHAT I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOUR ARM OR YOUR TAIL!!” I whispered in her ear again, “TWO?! PINKIE WANT!” Once more a whisper, “Oooohhh sounds fun.” She said with a happy shiver, and one more whisper, “But I’ve been saying all this out loud which is super embarrassing as your aunt is right there and the Tantabus is fanning herself heavily?”

I sighed, “Yes Pinkie, now wake up before you dig yourself into a deeper hole.”

Pinkie nodded and grinned before fading away shouting, “I WANT YOU TO GET DEEP IN MY HOLE!!!”

I smacked myself in the face and groaned, “I walked into that one….” Before I had time to even be properly embarrassed we were flung back into my mind scape, Tantabus on board too.

After we recovered from that Ixis cleared her throat, “Well that was interesting, so what do we do about her?” I gave her a grateful glance for changing any possible other subject.

“Well we have an idea but it would take a lot of magic and dream power, specifically the entire town of Ponyville.” Luna stated, “However, it would take some time to connect that many mindscapes.”

“Couldn’t you just use mine as an anchor again?” I asked.

“Nah, this only worked so well because of how you are connected to the girls.” The Tantabus explained, though she got glares from both Luna and Ixis, “Wait he doesn’t know? He has the right to know.” She looked at the pair before sighing and shrugging, “Fine, whatever.”

“Anyways as she said you have a strong connection with the element bearers and holding the entire town tied to your mind would shatter even our sister’s mindscape, no we shall use ourselves as the anchor, though it will be taxing on us but it should suffice to get enough magic and dream magic to form a way for The Tantabus to ‘become her own’ as she says.” Luna said.

“Right well now that that’s settled, out of his head please time to wake up.” Ixis said too quickly.

~Back in the waking world a few minutes prior~

“Woah nelly, two?” AJ asked, making Pinkie nod.

“How big?” Rainbow asked, Pinkie gestured to her arm in length and held her hands in a wide circle for girth making Rainbow whistle at the impressive size.

“To be fair darling's it could have just been because of the dream.” Rarity spoke up, bringing the heated mood down at the thought.

However Fluttershy spoke up, “A-Actually they’re slightly bigger than that.”

“WHAT?!” They all cried out, except Twilight who buried her head in her hands and folded her wings above her head, trying to block out as much sound as she could, it wasn’t working.

Fluttershy stammered, “A-About 5 inches longer on the top one and 3 inches on the bottom and about the same thickness for both but thicker than Pinkie described.”

“Holy Moly Guacamole!!” Pinkie shouted, wiggling in her chair.

“Hoo doggy, but… I dun figured we’d see any of it by now, I ain’t gonna lie I got curious to what humans looked like in their skimpy so I looked in a book and they didn’t seem like they had 2 let alone anything that…. Impressive. They also don’t got sheaths like Stallions do to hide all their bits.” AJ said, garnering looks from everyone, to which she just shrugged, “Oh like none of you was curious.” They had no response to that, not even Twilight, but her curiosity was purely scientific, nothing more he was her brother after all.

“You know… now that I think about it all the times I measured Christopher I think I would’ve seen or at least, and pardon the language, Celestia damn felt something.” Rarity said.

Rainbow looked at her long time friend, “Yeah Shy what’s up with that?”

“Oh… well he has a slit that they hide in until he’s… ready.” She explained.

“Wait… Chris has a cloaca?” Twilight asked.

Shy shook her head, “No, no excrement comes out of it, just his… things.”

Twilight nodded, “Right he’s a dragon or part dragon, I honestly shouldn’t even be surprised.” At that they all looked at her, to which she gave them a dead panned stare, “I live with a teenage dragon who sleeps until 4 in the afternoon so sometimes when I come to wake him up I see things I’m not supposed to, also, he likes to think he’s slick with hiding his… ‘comic books’.”

“That… actually makes sense.” AJ said.

“Of course it does, what did you think I peeped on either of them? Ew no, they may not be blood related to me but I do NOT think of them like that, especially Spike, ew gross no thank you.” She stuck out her tongue and shuddered in disgust, “Anyways, I’m assuming it happened with one of his ice splosions, but the question is which one.”

“The first one.” Shy answered, “He didn’t notice due to all the panic until days after, which is surprising because I guess he didn’t use the restroom or was so out of it he didn’t notice, but one morning he woke up screaming about a giant snake in the bed while I was downstairs. I thought that was strange because Ms. Titano went to Hollow Shades to be with her Family but I ran upstairs to check and their he was staring shocked at well… his giant snake and then I guess seeing me made his second one show and he fainted… mostly from shock, not blood flow.”

“Oh…” Was all anyone could say before Pinkie finally connected something, “Wait… he’s been plowing you with those monsters for years.”

“No wonder your delivery was so easy, even for a pony, you were taking something twice the size of Goldy when she was first came out.” Rainbow said.

“Four times actually.” Shy squeaked out.

“Wait four times… you took both… at the same time… in the same? Damn Shy, I’m impressed but also confused, I’ve seen you naked when we change at the gym, you don’t look wrecked at all which I thought was strange even after having Goldy.” Dash said.

“Oh… yeah that runs in my family for the mares, we stretch a lot and snap back just as easily. I think it’s because one of my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmothers was a dragon or something just as large, no idea.” Shy said.

“Ok well we learned quite a bit about our friends today and I think Pinkie should probably take a shower before she leaves and you should burn that chair Rarity.” Twilight said, before footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs.

“Hey girls what's all the convo about?” Chris asked, walking to the fridge and grabbing the pitcher of water and pouring himself a glass of water, which instantly chilled as it hit the glass.

Rarity gave him a well practiced smile, “Oh nothing that need worry you Christopher, just mare talk.”

He shrugged and finished off his glass of water, “Alright, well I’m heading home, I’m tired, Luna should be able to fill you in, Shy see if Goldy wants to and could stay with Auntie Twilight. Oh and a few things, Shy squeaks and a lot like a chew toy being messed with, and hell she likes being a chew toy. Has a thing for predator and prey. Also… something smells like cotton candy… I bet it would taste…. Delicious.” He said with a low rumbling growl, enough to shake certain ponies to their bone, following with a heavy slap of his tail against the floor, “Anyways, I’ll see you girls later.” With that he left the boutique.

“Crap, forgot he had better hearing than most.” AJ said blushing deeply, the others nodding before Twilight just groaned in annoyance and sunk lower in her seat.

Shy was just making quiet squeaking noises and was pinker than Pinkie or would be if Pinkie wasn’t a deep shade of red and having steam come out her ears, “Pinkie…. Want….”

Luna came down the stairs looking at the scene in utter bewilderment but explained the plan nonetheless. The girls left to their devices, all but one, flustered to an extent, Twilight took Goldy and Spike to the castle and Pinkie and Shy left to go see Chris.

That night next to none of Ponyville slept for several hours except for the foals, one very heavy sleeper of a dragon, and one librarian who had good sense to soundproof her rooms.

~The next evening~

“Greetings everyone, we hope you are ready for tonight.” Princess Luna said, addressing the Elements, Chris, Goldy, and Spike.

“Ready as ever Moon Pie.” PInkie said wobbling a bit.

“Are you ok Miss Pie?” The moon deity asked the baker.

“Yepperoni, just a bit wobbly from last night still.” Pinkie explained, though the real meaning was lost on Luna, who responded in a way that only those in the know would find amusing.

“Indeed, your trials the prior night are not any I would wish on even my worst foes.” Luna said in agreement. Rainbow snorted at that.

“I hope not, if it could put me through the wringer not many ponies would be able to handle such an insurmountable feat.” Pinkie replied, not missing up on the opportunity. Apple Jack giggled at that.
“Quite, it seemed to be a long and hard battle you fought through for quite some time, and we won’t lie, it will be an even longer and harder battle going forward, but you shall have Christopher and The Shy One to help you take it all in at your own pace and move on from it feeling better than ever.” Luna side with a supportive smile. And at that the Earth Pony farm mare and the Rainbow dyed pegasus bursted into full guffaws on the ground with Pinkie grinning from ear to ear. Shy on the other hand was blushing profusely and even Rarity was tittering.

“Ok ok, enough pulling a prank on the modernly inept moon goddess, we have a job to do tonight.” I said, finally deciding enough was enough.

“We do not understand what was so humorous we were just wishing our future niece in law the best of luck in her recovery from last night’s endeavors.” Luna said confused as she was led away from the group to the center of town, at which the entire group, save Goldy and Spike who were just as lost, broke down and laughed so hard they started crying.

30 minutes after they recovered mostly, Rainbow was still complaining her sides hurt, we were all within the dream realm with the rest of town, Luna was in a sphere of pure dream magic, connecting everyone to her, so I guess it was my job to address the crowd, I cleared my throat and gained the attention of the town I called home.

“Attention creatures of Ponyville!” I called out, getting several his and hellos back, “It's good to see you all, and first I would like to formally apologize for last night.” The adults there blushed, some were mad, others were whatever, most were jealous. HA, “Anyways Princess Luna has gathered you here tonight to help with a dilemma that only we can, her daughter is in a bit of a pickle.”

“She has a daughter?”

“Since when?”

“Who is she?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Is she single?”

“Is she? What? I mean technically yes, anyways, that is her over there, Her name is Tan…. I mean…. Dawning Light or just Dawn… she has been trapped in the dream realm for some time now and Princess Luna has recently figured out a way to free her but we need your help to do it, we need you to dream your wildest dreams and aim whatever energy that creates at her, with any luck, mixing it with the elements of harmony, or what power they left behind will be enough to free her, are you ready to help your princess reclaim something that was lost to her?!” I called out, looking at the newly christened dawn who just beamed at the name.

“YES!”

“YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!”

“EEEEEEYYYUUUPP!”

“Alright Ponyville… I know we don’t get to say this often and not have collateral with it but go buck wild!” I shouted out. And one by one each pony let their wildest dreams and fantasies happen, thankfully none of them…. Raunchy. I think, that Jam Pony is really fucking weird.

I flew down to Dawn, “How’s it coming?”

“I… I don’t… oh thats…. Tingly.” She said as she started to glow.

“Good good, that’s…. That’s…. Lyra and Bon Bon literally joined at the hip.” I cocked my head to the side, “HEY YOU TWO, I KNOW YOU’RE MARRIED BUT THAT’S RIDICULOUS WHERE DO YOU EVEN…. YOU KNOW WHAT NEVER MIND, DON’T NEED YOU THINKING ABOUT IT CUZ THEN IT’LL JUST HAPPEN, HAVE FUN... or whatever.” I said as they shrugged and ran (scuttled) off?

I looked around and saw filthy rich flying by on a cloud of money shooting money beams at… are those evil coin purses? What? Wait is that… is Big Mac a princess, is that Knight Spike riding on his back, what is he holding is that cane with Twilight’s head on it? Before I could question that further a Muffin with grey wings flew by… I just…. Huh? Then a deafening roar echoed through the streets and a massive dragon stood gazing down at everything before it spotted me and waved happily and called out in a booming voice, “Hi daddy, mommy, momma Pinkie.” Before stomping off into the distance.

“Ok before this gets crazier.” A loud explosion went off behind me and a giant snail made of scissors slithered by, “Like I was saying before this gets any crazier are you good Dawn?”

“YEP!” Her voice echoed. I gave the girls a thumbs up and they gave me a nod, summoning their ‘Rainbow Power’ as Spike called, but it quickly faded away and reformed into the elements themselves before firing off the Rainbow of Harmony towards Dawn however , nothing happened.

“Ok what is going on?” I asked loudly.

“Must be Luna she must still be holding onto her past and her mistakes, it’s keeping me tied to the dream realm.” Dawn explained, her voice all distorted.

I sighed and walked over to Luna, tapping on her bubble, “Hey Moon Butt, you gotta let go of this self hatred and self loathing for a mistake you didn’t do, something that happened in the past.”

Luna winced and strained in pain against the amount of effort this took for even her, “We…. cannot…. we still have yet….. to atone for what…. we have done.”

I shoved my hand through her bubble and slapped her, “Sorry to pop your bubble, literally Princess, but look around you, you have the town of the most skittish ponies on the planet willingly helping you save your ‘long lost’ daughter when literally 2 years ago they still thought you were Nightmare Moon proper, and Dawn looks like Nightmare Moon with hair dye thrown in there. And that's the thing, she’s your daughter, you created a life, intentionally or not through your past mistakes, hell she is your past mistakes incarnate but she's trying to be more than that.

Can you really sit here and let yourself sulk about the past, about your failures, and the failures of others when your literal living breathing failure is trying to be more than the only thing she knows she is? Is that fair to her, is it fair to you?”

Luna looked at Dawn, at the conglomeration of her failures, she almost put her Ponies in danger once more with the Tantabus, she truly did not learn. But here it was, a new name, one of hope and a bright future, trying it’s… no her best to be more than she was born as… she was all Luna hoped and wished to be. Luna looked at her hard and deep and realized that yes, this WAS… no IS her daughter and she loves her, for if not for her she would not be who she is today. With one last sigh Princess Luna closed her eyes and finally, truly forgave herself and then, the world went white.