I'd fallen asleep peacefully that night even after the attack on the palace. I had gotten rather good at controlling my own dreams and putting magical wards up to protect my mind from my enemies, but I never expected one of the ponies may be able to attempt to enter my dreams. I sat quietly in my usual favorite dream, on top of a small hill under a large oak tree, the sun high in the sky and a small creek running through the field in front of me as far as the eye could see. Just as I decided to start some of my training, I felt somebody attempting to enter my dream, not forcefully, more like they were expecting to be able to walk right in with no resistance. Closing my eyes I focus on this presence in an attempt to figure out who the intruder is only to discover that Princess Luna is standing in what seems like a void, looking quizzically at the invisible barrier that bars her way. Seeing that it is the princess I feel it would be safe to let her in for now, if she planned to do me harm she likely would have tried to enter by force.

I open a small rift in the barrier and Luna walks through, after which I change my dream so that she is standing next to me. "Good evening princess, I had no idea that you had the power to enter anothers dream."

"Yes Sir Mikail, We have the power to enter another ponies dreams and alter or observe them." She explains while looking around at my dream. "We saw that thou were dreaming as well and thought we would see what a humans dream was like, though we did not expect to be halted by a barrier."

I smirked slightly at her observation, if Luna couldn't enter my dreams then that should mean that no other pony will have the power to break the barrier. "There are those from my world who would attempt to attack the minds of their enemies while they slept, most of us who feel we'd be such danger learn to place a ward around our consciousness to protect both our dreams and our waking thoughts." I explain as I conjure a group of human bandits around myself and begin to fight them off, easily dropping them all with only the use of my hands. Luna looks on at the show, completely stunned and seemingly trying to comprehend what she is seeing. "As you can see I have also trained myself to be able to control my own dreams so that I may train here while I sleep," I continue as the bandits all fade back into nothing, "back on Terra I don't have much other time to myself whilst I am fulfilling contracts and jobs so I had to find another way to hone my skills." finishing my explanation I walk back over to Luna who has been intently listening to every word, and conjure a table and benches for us to sit at. "Though princess I must ask that you refrain from attempting to enter my dreams in the future as this is a very personal place for me and I enjoy my privacy here." I conclude my request and a pair of goblets full of fine wine appear on the table. I pick up the one closest to me and sip from it, sitting back to relax against the back of the bench.

Luna levitates the goblet up to her mouth and sips from it, seeming to enjoy the wine before replacing on the table. "We will respect your request Sir Mikail, we understand why thou would want to maintain the sanctity of your dreams in an unfamiliar place such as Equestria." She says, removing herself from the bench. "Though we would eventually like to question thou as to how you are capable of such control and your methods of training for it."

I simply nod at her request and open a door out of my dream for her, "I may eventually decide to disclose that information to you, but until I feel I can trust you and your sister, there are many things I shall be keeping a secret. I hope you can understand your majesty." I reply confidently as I walk her to the door. She walks through it and leaves, only giving me a questioning glance as she left as if she was trying to understand why I'd keep my methods secret from her. I close the door behind her and continue with my training, moving on to practicing my more intense magic now that I am in private.

I once again summon a group of bandits around me, all of them wearing ragtag clothing and small shoulder plates and half plates of armor here and there. Some of the carrying daggers, while other wielded all different types of sword and hatchets. They all gave a battle cry and come running toward me, I quickly unsheathe my dagger and deftly cut the throat of the nearest bandit, while letting his comrade next to him slip by as he swung his long curved sword at me. I spin around and jump into the air doing a backflip as I pull out several daggers, channeling arcane power into them and willing it to become fire. The blades burst into flames and I throw them at three bandits as they turn to see me in the air only for the blades to hit them each square between the eyes, killing them and engulfing their bodies in flames. Landing softly I quickly channel more arcane power into my free hand, willing it to become air and knocking away the last 10 bandits with a massive gust of wind. Then without hesitating I channel the air around me, becoming as swift and as agile as the wind itself, effortlessly cutting down the remaining bandits with my dagger. The bandits dissolve once again into nothing, but are quickly resummoned for my battle to resume, I continue training, aware that Luna was still attempting to watch me through the veil of my barrier...

Author's Note

Sorry for the temporary lack of updates everybody. My laptop took longer than expected to come back from the repair center but I will now be planning to release at least one chapter per night, this once is a bit short but I promise that the action will start picking up and the chapters will become longer soon. Thanks again to all who favorite and enjoy my story!