when dreams cross dreams

by DreamyBlaze

chapter 1: Luna and her new student

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"Times have really changes huh," Princess Luna said.

It has been a couple of weeks since the Nightmare Moon incident.  Luna, trying to catch up with the times, had been looking into her subjects dreams more often and was also glad that the dreams of her subjects were normal at best.  The Lunar princess was actually expecting a couple of dreams to be out of her subjects control since there exist just as many dangers in dreams as in the waking world.  Since this dream seemed stable, she decides to move to the next dream.

When the Princess got there, she was completely shocked at what she saw.  Right before her eyes was the most impossible dream she had seen in centuries.

Eight dreams were playing at once and she could tell that it was eight dreams since she could feel the presence of eight ponies as alive and not just images.  She has seen shared dreams sure but not of this size and magnitude without outside help and every time she had seen shared dreams, everyone interacted between each other but in this dream, the dreams were separate yet mixing.  To be more precise, in a normal shared dream there is only one world shared by everyone but in this one, there were EIGHT different worlds mixing together causing a massive mess.  Another common point in shared dreams is the interactions between the ponies, for example they try to make a dream that everyone would enjoy or fight over who dreams what since ponies like to dream of different things.  Not this one though.  Everypony was running and playing without a care in the world.

The Lunar Princess started walking around, looking at the scene before her.  The dream was both beautiful and strange at once.  One part of the dream was covered with a beautiful forest that was mostly blue, almost as if in water, thanks to the fact that you could see fishes and a blue bodied with a darker blue mane male unicorn, which may I add, was barely noticeable as he blended with the blue forest like surrounding, swimming around.  Another was also a forest except green and made up of only flowers and inside was a unicorn mare twirling as if the ground was ice while holding a stick with flowers on its ends.  In between both forests was a room with two earth pony mares playing video games inside in couch with a pegasus colt.  Next to the blue forest was what looked to be a fashion show with an earth pony posing for a screaming crowd.  Apparently, from Luna's eyes, part of the crowd was cut in half around the area where the blue forest and show mixed.  Near the flower forest layed  two similar looking parks and both parks had something similar going on.  In one, a young earth pony colt was playing with a young dragoness.  In the other park, both the really young colt and dragon were having a picnic.  Close to the parks layed what to us looked like a japanese castle and in it was a fight between ninja ponies against a pegasus mare, who apparently was also a ninja.  In the last one was a unicorn colt or at least that's what Luna though he was since she couldn't see him properly.  He was also fighting something but the fashion show was in the way of where the colt was fighting.  Whatever the colt was fighting was, the princess couldn't see it, or even where he was because it was the only dream that didn't mix properly.  For whatever reason, they didn't notice her enter and seeing as this looked like a very delicate and unstable dream, she decided not to mess with it, especially since there were far too many ponies in the dream.

After she finished looking, she noticed that one of the ponies that was in control of the dream was going to crash into another.  "Watch out!!!" Screamed the Lunar Princess.  To her surprise, the ponies went through each other like ghost and the strangest part, or at least for the Princess, was that they didn't look at each other almost like they weren't even there.

After a while of freak outs over happenings in the dream, the Lunar Princess notices it was time for the night to begin so she decided to leave.  As she left the dream, eight pair of eyes turned to her direction, then to each other and nodded.  After that, one of the eight ponies, the young unicorn stallion that was fighting, chased the Lunar Princess.

Back in Canterlot Castle, the princess was getting herself ready to rest for a while and just enjoy her own dream.  Once she fell asleep, she sensed a strange presence in her dream.

"Who's there!? Show thyself!" Commanded the Lunar Princess.

"Of course, my princess."

Luna turned immediately only to see one of the eight ponies from the strange shared dream right behind her bowing like a knight.  She immediately backed away from the stallion the moment she saw him.

"Who are thee and how has thou enter our dream?". Questioned the princess, while preparing herself for the worst.

" I am Dreamy Blaze," answered the mysterious stallion, "and I'm here to thank thee for visiting m... our dream and worrying about us, it means the world to me and my seven  friends."  Suddenly changing from a serious attitude to a relaxed one the stallion said, "As for the second question, all I had to do was follow you and I did it so that I can see that you, Princess Luna, had an awesome yet relaxing dream, as well as the whole thank you part from earlier."

Now that Princess Luna could see him properly, the stallion had white fur with a very light yellow mane, to the point that it almost looked white.  His mane was also unnaturally long for a stallion since it almost reached his feet and just as unnaturally it looked really soft too, but it also had chameleon tail like look.  He was wearing a red suit that could very easily have been confused for a skin tight suit if it wasn't  for the fact that you could see some areas where it stretched out a lot, specially at the part that reached the hand and whooves.  On his chest was triangular chest plate that had very thin black stripes going from the top to the point at the bottom.  The whole chest plate was a slightly stronger yellow when compared to his mane.  He wore light blue shoes that clashed horribly with his clothes.  He wore a red bird like helmet on top his head and his could only be seen through yellow triangles on the helmet.  Behind him was a massive green cape.

Luna was shocked at what the stallion had just  said.  For centuries, she has never found another pony that could travel through dreams before but what really caught her off guard was his last bit of information.  He wanted her to have a good dream.  He wanted to give the princess of the night a good dream.  If Princess Luna had been raised differently she would of have laughed in his face at the comment because we're talking about Princess Luna here, the princess of the night, the one in charge of making sure other ponies got good dreams.

Instead though, she gave him a chance to prove his story but was still prepared for anything.  "Alright if thou thinkst thee can make us enjoy ourselves, we will make sure you get a reward." Said the princess, hiding the worry she had from allowing a complete stranger to mess with her head as well as hiding many other questions she had.

"Good!  Now what should the theme be?" The stallion then sat down crossing his legs thinking after a chair materialized behind him.  "... I know! I'm going to base it on on nightmare moon's..."

"What!?" Princess Luna screamed.  She screamed so loud the stallion fell off the chair.

"What was that for?" asked the stallion while raising his hand and pointing at the sky.

"Are thou saying I'd be happiest as Nightmare Moon than something else!?" exclaimed the Lunar Princess.

"I was going to say  origins." explained the stallion while getting up.  "I know the pain nightmare Moon caused you but if you think about it carefully, there are something from her to make a dream you might like."

The stallion could tell the princess was still not sure about it.  "Please forgive me but I don't..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the stallion blinded her with a piece of cloth with so much speed that she couldn't  even react.  "No peaking now..."

Before the princess could voice her questions, her surroundings started to become very loud.

"What have I done?" Princess Luna thought to herself while trying desperately to remove her blindfold.  The blindfold was stuck to her like tree sap on a tree.

Her surroundings suddenly became very quiet until the stallions spoke up.

"Done!" Said the stallion, "You can remove the blindfold now."

The princess still in terror, had just removed her blindfold to see something she was not expecting at all.  Right before her was all of Canterlot in front of her, cheering for the Lunar Princess as they looked up to her from below, like if it was just another regular old day of festivities.

"Whaaat? I thought thou said the dream was based on our time as Nightmare Moon?" Asked the now very confused Lunar Princess.

"I said the origins of Nightmare Moon.  If you're curious how I know that it's because I had gone to your sisters dreams to see if I can do something to make her more relaxed because you know, she is a ruler of Equestria after all.  While doing so, i learned about her sweet tooth problem and I attempted to convince her to not eat as many sweets."  Blaze said, "I failed, horribly.  I think she started eating even more after that."

After suppressing a small chuckle and regaining her composure, the lunar princess spoke up with shock in her voice after realizing what was going on or better said, what he had just done.  "What, when... never mind how in Equestria can you do all of this," asked Luna, pointing at the massive crowd of ponies, "I have never found another pony with this type of ability and skill before, except for me of course."

"It was years of care and practice causing dreams and nightmares to random ponies that I learned how to do this properly.  Doing this is practically my life because I was stuck here with no way out for a couple of years."  he said.  He got close to Princess Luna and whispered "It was not pretty."

For the first time that night, Luna felt relaxed around the intruder, to the point that she started to like him since he didn't appear to be scared of her while everybody else still was.  She found herself enjoying the way the colt acted around her, being silly all the while being respectful.  She also felt somewhat sympathetic at what he said but didn't press on just in case it would make him sad.

She turned to look at him but noticed that he appeared to be much shorter than before.  After some thought, as well as looking around, she realized that she herself was as tall as her sister in the waking world.  She turned to her right and saw her sister Celestia.  She looked exactly how Luna looked outside the dream.

"This is what I meant by basing it on Nightmare Moon," the stallion said, "I saw your sister dreaming about the reason why you turned into nightmare moon, so, through a couple of adjustments and experimenting, I made it so that your are the older one as well as the more popular one."

After the explanation, and a bit of cheering from the crowd, Blaze, the now much younger Celestia and Luna enjoyed the rest of the dream while having a lot of fun.  She played, worked and pranked some of the staff alongside Celestia and Blaze.  Everything felt so real to Luna, which felt new to her as she had never had such realistic dreams before.

After seeing what he was capable of, she decided to do something she never thought she would do. "Dreamy Blaze," said Luna looking at the stallion in the eyes, "how would thee think of becoming my student?"

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