My Little Pony: Sisterly Convergence

Chapter 3

A million stars decorated the canvas of the sky, distant nebulas spiraled, convulsed, and tensed, planets collided and turned all within an eyes notice. The deep darkness that engulfed the scene was impenetrable, yet the light of the stars punctured the fabric. Through this ocean of light and dark, Luna soared from plain to plain, catching a glimpse at one or the other dream.

Mostly, she saw confusing slide shows of images, all whirled together. A puppy with three heads chasing a red ball, a yellow filly with a megaphone for a mouth, a sea serpent in bride gown next to a white stallion with enormous muscles. Strange things all of them, but nothing that needed her guidance.

It were nights like these she enjoyed spending time in the Dreamscape, her own personal realm. In the leanest of Canterlot Castle’s towers, there was a room just beneath the roof, narrow, so very narrow, where she had set up her headquarters. From this room, furnished only with some blankets, curtains, and pillows, she freed her mind to let it wander through Equestria, guarding the dreams of all ponies into a peaceful direction, so their sleep may be pleasant.

Luna herself felt rather unsatisfied tonight. The conversation with Celestia earlier didn’t let her come to rest. Her sister was in love, she had told her so. But who could have been able to catch the eye of her sister? Which pony could possibly be to her liking?

Luna realized how giddy she had become.

Very well, dear sister, if you won’t tell me, I’m going to find out myself, she thought with mischief.

At the speed of a thought, her bodiless self was in Celestia’s private chambers, where said mare slumbered peacefully. Luna concentrated and was inside her sister’s dream. Although Celestia had warned her that she didn’t like it, when Luna came sniffing around in her dreams, she could do little to prevent Luna from doing so.

As she found herself, Luna observed the scene quickly. Celestia dreamed of the Canterlot Gardens, lying under a tall oak, a sparrow and a robin sitting on her half stretched wing, singing a duet, while a few beams of sunlight pierced the thick canopy and fell on her alabaster coat. It was such a peaceful scene, serene, tranquil, and elegant as Celestia herself.

Luna watched silently for a moment, not wanting to show herself to her sister. Instead, she stepped closer and smiled down warmly on Celestia. When she stopped to look a little longer, somebody stepped right through her, walking over to Celestia, who looked up, and her smile widened.

Only, Luna didn’t stop walking as she had intended, well, not Luna-Luna, but rather Celestia’s-dream-Luna. Shocked, the real Luna watched how her dream self trotted over to her sister, lay down next to her and exchange a kiss. Not the kiss on the cheek how they sometimes did, but a lover’s kiss. She watched the scene unravel, as Celestia draped a wing around her, and Luna snuggled up against her sister’s body.

“Well hello, my love.” Dream Luna smiled. Hearing her dream-self say those words made the real Luna’s eyes widen.

“Hello to you as well.” Celestia smiled back as they nuzzled. The real Luna backed up as this happened, a look of shock, disgust and disbelief was written all over her face. Celestia sighed and gazed out into the horizon. “What a glorious day, isn’t it?”

“Yes, and it’s all thanks to you.” Dream Luna told her.

“Thank you, Luna.” Celestia said gratefully as Dream Luna snuggled closer to her.

It was Dream Luna’s turn to sigh now. “I’m so glad you decided to confess when you did…” she expressed.

The real Princess Luna looked confused. “What?” she thought. “Confessed what? How is this happening?”

“As am I. To be honest I was afraid by how you would react, but now that we are together… I only wish I could have told you sooner.” Celestia told the Dream Luna.

“Well, we’re together now, and that’s all that matters.” Dream Luna said closing her eyes and nearly falling asleep.

“Yes, I suppose it is…” Celestia agreed sweetly. “Now…”

Celestia nuzzled her dream sister again, to get her to wake up a little and look her in the eye.

“How about a kiss for your marefriend?”

“Marefriend?” Luna echoed in her mind, fear beginning to overwhelm her.

“Oh, it would my pleasure…” The dream version of Luna smiled again as she raised her muzzle towards her older sister, while Celestia herself began to lower her’s.

Luna watched with wide eyes as they prepared to kiss again until finally she could not take it anymore.

“NO!” she screamed.

Jolting up from the soft pillows, Luna woke in her chamber, her pulse racing, and sweat on her forehead. As she panted feverishly, images of what was happening in Celestia’s dream kept flashing over and over again in her mind, it was if she was trying to make sense of them, trying to figure out what they mean. But she couldn’t think of anything, nor could she admit what she saw, it was too great for her.

“What… what was that?” she quietly asked herself. This couldn’t be true, this mustn’t be true. She loved her sister, of course she did, but not this way. Celestia was a beautiful mare, tall, lean, elegant, but Luna had never taken interest in a mare. She had played with the thought, but actually trying it was written on another page.

Plus, it was her sister who dreamt about her. Both herself and Celestia were often the target of desire, she had seen enough dreams. Sometimes it was flattering how her subjects viewed her, yet Celestia longing for her little sister in such a way…

This was outrageous. Under all circumstances, Luna had to keep this to herself. For now at least.

With a troubled mind, Luna set out to watch over the dreams of everypony, except for her sister’s, those she would avoid for quite some time now.

Eventually all the unanswered questions that she had gotten from Celestia’s dream finally piqued her curiosity. She had to know why her sister dreamt such a thing and the only way to find that out was to ask her personally, she knew that she would be in a bit of trouble when her sister learned that she had been snooping around in her dreams but she did not care. As far as she was concerned, Celestia was in more trouble than she was.

She quickly got out of her bed, walked over to her bedroom door and magically pushed it open with great force. She trotted out of the room and made her way down the hall with a serious expression and it didn’t look like anything was going to slow her down.

After going around a corner, Luna started to go down another corridor and approached the doors of her sister’s chambers. Two guards, who were normally posted outside the doors remained stone faced and focused until they noticed Princess Luna approaching them.

“Princess Luna!” one of them said as he and his fellow guard saluted her. Luna stood before the guards, steely eyed.

“Is my sister still asleep?” she questioned.

“Yes ma’am.” The other guard nodded. “Is there a problem?”

“Something like that. I need to speak with her,” Luna told them.

“Princess, with all due respect… I don’t think you should be disturbing Princess Celestia’s sleep like…” the first guard began.

“I said, I need to speak with her.” The Princess of the Night said even more firmly. “The two of you can leave. Now.”

Not wanting to anger their Princess anymore than she already seemed to be the guards quickly exchanged glances, turned and trotted away. Now alone, Luna turned her attention back to the door and sighed before magically opening them and entering the room. The doors closed behind her.

Her moon shone its silvery light through the two arched windows into the room and lay like a blanket on her sister’s body. As much as part of her didn’t want to disturb her sister while she slept her mind was set on getting answers and she would get them, one way or another.

“Celestia, awaken!” Luna said, loudly , and sure enough Celestia began to wake from her dream, which Luna still personally found revolting.

“Oh… Luna? What is… going on?” Celestia asked a bit groggy, as she sat up. “Is everything alright?”

“No. I need to talk to you about something.” Her younger sister stated firmly. “It is important.”

The Princess of the Day looked concerned. “Oh dear… what is it? Did you find something troubling while you were drifting through the dream realm?”

“You could say that.” Luna replied still looking dead serious.

“What was it?” Celestia inquired, interested.

“It is,” she began, though now suddenly she found it hard to choose the right words. “While I was underway, I-” Again she broke mid-sentence. She sighed, annoyed.

“Luna, please, calm down. Take a breath, take some time and tell me what is troubling you.”

Just as she was told, Luna settled her still agitated mind to a degree that allowed her to formulate a clear sentence.

“I saw you. The dream you. You were dreaming something. Do you remember what it was?”

Celestia shuffled in her blankets, folds forming on her forehead as she thought. “I can’t seem to do so. I don’t possess your skills in dream-wandering.”

“Well,” Luna said, growing nervous. “There was you. You were lying under a tree in the Gardens, and there was somepony else.”

“Oh?” Celestia cocked an eyebrow. Was it only her imagination, the way the light came in, or was there a slight blush appearing on Celestia’s face? “Who was it, sweet sister?”

Luna’s lips clenched and formed a hard line. ”It was me. Not the real me, mind you, a dream doppelganger of me. You get the idea.” She blew the air through her nostrils and said, “And I went over to you, laid down beside you, and then I kissed you. Is there anything I might need to know?”

Celestia swallowed dryly. She bit her lips, searching for an answer. She knew she should have set up some sort of defense. There were only two options now: Lie to her, and tell her that it was just an unlucky coincidence, and it meant nothing.

Or she could tell her the truth.

Both seemed to lead to equally disastrous results. On the other hoof, she remembered the times when she bore the element of honesty. Those golden times seemed to have left a spark in her. Celestia braced herself and started for a response.

“Luna, sit down here please,” she said calmly, patting the spot next to her. As her sister did so, she continued. “See, the reason I dreamt of you like that is because I… I… I…”

Celestia tried but deep down she just didn’t think she had it in her to spit it out and the fact that her beloved sister was staring at her with her gorgeous bluish-green eyes was not helping.

“Yes? What is it? Speak up!” Princess Luna practically demanded, growing impatient.

Celestia started fumbling the brim of her covers, tried to look away from Luna, but couldn’t. She bit her lip. Why was this so hard? I love you. Easy as that. Only three words, three little words.

“I-” she started, “Luna, I-” Again, she broke.

“Sister, either you tell me now, or so help me, I’ll invade your mind and find out myself!” she threatened.

Back to the wall, Celestia brain short wired. Faster than Luna could comprehend, her head snapped forward and she placed a firm and fleeting kiss on her incredibly soft lips. Luna’s eyes became as wide as dinner plates as this happened and put her hooves on her sister as she tried to break the kiss but Celestia kept her from doing so. While Luna couldn’t believe what was happening and felt completely disgusted as she let out muffled yells, Celestia enjoyed tasting and kissing her sister, considering it a dream come true, before Luna suddenly and finally pulled back, dropping to the floor with a incredibly shocked look on her face.

She scrambled back from the bed, dragging herself with her hooves and wings until she reached the door. Breathing heavily, she stared at Celestia. “Sister… what in the name of Equestria was that supposed to mean?! Why did you even do that!!?” she shrieked, her voice shrill with anger, disgust and confusion.

Celestia felt a great deal of embarrassment and shame for her impulsive action as well as a great deal of sadness from her sister’s reaction, which was something she had feared greatly. But now that she had done it there was no going back and nothing held her back from finally saying it.

“Because… because I love you, Luna,” she finally confessed. Her eyes sought the contact of those of Luna’s, found it, but what other things she found in them, she didn’t wish for.

“Sister,” Luna brought forth, “that is not an acceptable reason. In case you overlooked, we are siblings! I may have only been in this era for several moons but even I know that what you just did was morally and socially wrong! What madness has befallen you? Explain yourself!”

Celestia saw how upset her sister was and glanced away with a thoughtful look as she tried to think of a way to explain it to her but she couldn’t come up with much… “I… it is… hard to explain… Luna…” she admitted to her.

“I am a smart mare, explain it to me!” Luna demanded. “Ponies don’t just do this Tia, especially not you! I have to believe that there is a reason for this!”

This was bad. If she didn’t react quickly now, there was a good chance Luna would leave her for a long time. Frantically, she wrought her brain. “Luna, please. Thousand years without you, my moon, it tore me apart and left me broken. I don’t know how to act around you, every time I see you, I’m hot and cold at the same time. I want to jump and cheer when we hug, you brighten up every dark day for me! Luna, believe me, I was just as confused as you are right now. Nevertheless have I come to accept my feelings. Just like the sun and moon we are bound together by a greater force. Won’t you look inside yourself? Look deep, and you will find feelings of similar nature, I am certain. Only, one thing, dear sister: Do not cast me away!”

Luna’s gaze was cold and steely, she absorbed everything Celestia said but didn’t say anything, she didn’t even blink. The silence in the bedroom was deafening and it drove Celestia crazy. Now she knew how Luna felt earlier when she took so long confessing how she felt.

“Luna please… please… say something…” The Princess of the Day pleaded.

But Luna stayed quiet. The only sounds she made were the clopping of her hooves on the marble, and the silent creak as she opened the door to leave her sister’s chambers. Celestia watched her go, tear in eye, and as the door fell shut, the tears rolled down her cheeks. She sobbed into the sheets and her pillow, hugging it close for comfort, however small it may be.

Red-eyed and still shaken by sobs, she fell into a dreamless sleep, uncertain what the morrow would bring.

Outside, Luna listened to her sister cry, listened as her snorts grew more quiet and finally died down. Only when she was certain that Celestia was asleep, she wandered off into her own chambers, irritated, confused, and very, very tired.