Even though it was only a day that had passed since I had my cuffs. It couldn't stop the nightmares that were manifesting in my mind. The smell of sea water that splashed on my face as I see the tsunami destroying the gas station in front of me. In slow motion, I was frozen, unable to do anything as it came closer and closer to me.

'Please, not again.' I thought. I was getting sick of this, the feeling of reliving my near-death experience. I had no idea how to stop this and to be honest a lot of things were passing through my mind. I couldn't process anything I was thinking as my heart beats at an accelerated rate.

Suddenly the wall of sea froze as I felt my body loosening up to hear a familiar voice. “I see that you’re having trouble with this particular part in your nightmare Trey,” Luna said as she walked in front of me when I was trembling on the cracked tile floor.

I was having my nightmare again, and Luna stopped it. Like you would do on a DVD, she reversed the tsunami and all of its destruction. I wiped the tears from my eyes, as I sat on the floor.

“I was able to somewhat move on from the passing of my relatives, however…” I hit the tile with a clenched fist and pointed to the slowed Tsunami, “This right here is causing me so much pain that it’s happening over and over again. It will go away, but I just need to get my mind off of it. Maybe my room will help me to clear my head.”

Luna looked around her surroundings as the tsunami began to disappear and my old room began to form. Where I was sitting, the floor changed into a bed and raised me up to knee level. Then the white walls formed as I felt the soft blanket under my hands and legs. Luna took a seat at my desk chair when it rose as well as my desk and desktop. I sighed as I looked at my wall and a big poster formed that was the tsunami that nearly ended my life. The ends of the poster seem to embed itself into the wall making cracks into the foundation, almost like it was spreading.

“Better?” The Lunar Princess asked as she looked at the poster and seemed to frown.

I nodded with a solemn smile, “A little...” I reached my foot over and kicked the chair lightly to make Luna spin 360 degrees two times. It was quite interesting to see the Princess of the night spinning in my old chair, which made me smirk, "Now I'm feeling better."

Luna laughed when she looked back at me, “Very funny, but let’s get what matters out of the way, I can’t get rid of it by visiting every night.” Her horn illuminated as she levitated a large marble that held my reliving experience with the Tsunami. “This isn’t a type of PTSD, Trey, you're making yourself do this and it’s hurting you in the process as you can see on your wall.”

Sighing I turn my back, trying to not look at it, so I could lay back on the bed, “I have no idea how I’m making myself…”

“Don’t lie, who do you think you’re dealing with?” She said firmly. "I've dealt with many ponies who had this type of behavior and your no exception. Your heart might be alright, but your mind is trying to tell you what is going on."

Deep down, I knew what was going on, but I just didn't have enough time to think. I put my hand on my chest and clenched my shirt as I slowly began to realize why I've been having this dream over and over again.

I turned around to face the wall which seemed to be getting bigger and trying to destroy itself. Then I glanced at Luna who was giving me feelings that I shouldn't be feeling. Then I looked down, “I think I should have died…” I muttered.

The Lunar Princess’s ears perked up, “…Say that again?”

“…I should have died on Earth, I should have darted into that Tsunami and let it take me. I know it’s wrong, my heart says I’m here to stay, but my brain is telling me I shouldn’t have survived that madness.” I didn't want to tell her everything because it would have been awkward, but this was a bigger issue as I felt my throat tightening up, “I feel so worthless, I have no idea what to do, and I’m a foreigner in Equestria and I know I won’t be accepted into Canterlot.” Tears were going down my cheeks as I took a deep breath, “It’s a stupid reason, but it keeps me from getting perky all the time, I wish this sadness, this darkness was taken away from me. I hate it so-“

My speech was stopped when Luna interrupted me loudly, “YOU ARE NOT WORTHLESS TREY!” The room seemed to shake when she used her Royal Canterlot voice.

"But-”

She cleared her throat and looked at me with a stern face, “No buts about it! I know the path that you’re going through and it will lead to suffering. You know as well as I where this will lead if you don’t stop.”

“It will lead to…” Then it clicked, 'Nightmare Moon' I thought as I sighed as I wiped my tears away from my vision, “So I guess jealousy isn't just what Nightmare wants?"

“Exactly, I know jealousy was the main focus of the Nightmare Moon, but that doesn’t mean depression or wishing death wouldn’t be out of the question.” She seemed a little down when saying that almost getting teary-eyed, I was going to ask her what's wrong, but she shook her head.

“Luna…” I sniffed as I got some sort of understanding from her, “I’ll try… It will take some time, but I’ll try to get over that hurdle… As long as you can be there for me.”

Luna put her hooves on my hand with a small smile, “For that alone, I will help you along the way. It’s not going to be every night, but maybe some dream sessions and one-on-one therapy will be in order.”

“That sounds great, Luna. I would like that very much…” She pulled away as we looked at each other, “When do we start?”

She leaned forward as if she was going to kiss me, but just nuzzled my cheek with affection, “Just meet me in the dining area for breakfast and we’ll discuss it further.”

This nuzzle alone stunned me and caused me to not listen to what she said. I felt my cheeks burn as I smiled like an idiot and my dreamscape was turning into darkness. My eyes opening to the morning sun touching the ceiling of my room with an aroused boner once again.

I get up slightly as I touched my cheek. I was silent for a bit as I realized what happened in the dream, but at the same time, I didn’t want to believe it.

“I got nuzzled by Princess Luna…” I say as I blushed and shook my head, “Surely it was just to comfort me?” The silence was all I got as I hurried to the washroom to splash some water on my face. Looking at the mirror, I pointed at myself, “You are a lucky bucker…”

Just as Luna said, she was waiting for me in the dining room after I got dressed and ready to go. I could see that my plate was already set for me with a silver dome covering it from getting cold. I took a seat and pulled that off while taking in the smell of eggs and pancakes.

“Good morning Trey,” Luna spoke as I looked up with a smile.

“Good morning to you as well, Luna.” I greeted back as I grabbed my fork and began to dig in.

The conversation between Luna and me was very light-hearted. We smiled as we talked to one another, laughed or giggled about certain aspects of Luna’s Dream realm while helping other ponies. When I finished with my plate, Luna’s expression was unreadable.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“I wanted to ask you, what did you think of Petra when you met her at the shop?” She asked.

‘Well thank heavens I wasn’t drinking my Orange Juice.’ I thought as I took a safe drink and put it down, “What did you want to know?” I wondered.

Her eyes seem to move down, “Well, um, that is…”

I sighed as I tried to get to the point, “About her being a Nymph?”

Her blush was all the answer I needed as she nodded, “Y-Yes… you’re not bothered with it?”

“I was weirded out if that’s what you’re asking,” I said leaning back on my chair as the Unicorn servants levitated the leftover empty plates and carried them back to the kitchen.

“Is sex taboo on Earth?” She asked.

Feeling my cheeks warm up from what I was trying to say I cleared my throat, “While I am ok with countries celebrating the body like Equestria, I grew up where it was a sacred thing between a partner or significant other. It's going to take a bit to get used to 'those' customs." I said air quoting those in the process.

"There's another question I wish to ask," I nod as she continued, "Are you Polygamous or Monogamous?"

"Monogamous, but I always wondered what Polygamy would be like, to be honest," I said blushing a bit.

"It's a common practice in Equestria since the population of mares overrun the stallion by 1/3. Celestia had her fair share of suitors while I was away, but hasn't had a new suitor in awhile even before my return." Luna explained which she resumed eating her breakfast.

I let out a laugh, "I do believe she's going to have a suitor if a certain draconequus keeps her occupied."

She gave me a smirk as she took a sip of her coffee, "Indeed. I still got to discuss that with her." Her attention was turned to the door as Celestia herself walked into the dining room, her face was unreadable as she sighed.

"Good morning Tia." Luna greeted.

"Morning Luna, Trey." I nod as she sat right next to her sister.

"Morning Celestia, you seem out of it, is something wrong?" I asked.

The Solar Princess was silent for a bit until the servant brought her favorite morning tea. She took a sip, "Before I get to the news, how are your cuffs? Anything wrong with them since yesterday?"

I blinked as I looked at my wrist, "I almost didn't even know if I had them on this morning... Huh." I checked my sister's necklace and it was around my neck as I clenched the lapis lazuli crystal which felt a little warm. Probably from my excess body heat.

Luna gave me a small smile, "Well it is magical after all, don't want you to be uncomfortable by adjusting them all the time." That made smile a bit as I scratched my cheek.

Celestia giggled as she took another sip, "I see that your fitting in our humble abode. I just wanted to inform you that, Luna will be taking you to Ponyville to introduce you to the town."

"Oh?" Luna and I said in unison, "What about the therapy sessions?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I was getting to that sister," The Solar princess continued, "I know about the therapy sessions you and my sister are going to have. While I approve of this, I feel that your sessions shouldn't just be in Canterlot or this Castle." Celestia informed, "That said, Twilight would like to see you Trey and test somethings about why your body is collecting magic and see if you could release it."

I nodded, "I understand that I was wondering if I could use magic myself and I think going over to Twilight's Castle would be the best thing."

Luna looked at her sister, "I know that I'm going with him because of the therapy lessons, but there is something else at work here?"

"Yes, before I went to bed last night, Petra informed me that her shop was beginning to get hot. When she inspected the cooling Talisman and noticed it was cracked. The Talisman has a property where it absorbs magic to keep the heat at bay." She took a drink, "Even though Trey had absorbed magic, the amount of output he let out was equivalent of an average Unicorn pouring his magic into one single spell. The only way you could be able to crack, or even, shatter the Talisman you would need Twilight before she was a Princess."

That... That's was some news I probably shouldn't have heard, but I'm glad that she was honest with me. I looked at my wrists as I flexed my fingers. I tried to remember fan stories of what people would do in this situation: if I could control magic and use it then I'm going to get taught.

"So Luna would be teaching me while having our sessions?" I asked making the Lunar Princess blink.

"Y-Your asking me to be your teacher? Why not Twilight?" She asked looking a bit confused.

I coughed while clearing my throat, "Well, while Twilight would be the candidate to teach me, I feel like she's going to be busy with some friendship problems."

"How can you tell?" Celestia asked curiously.

"Well... The show in my world is still continuing so... I would imagine that she and her friends will become busy and..." My fingers were twiddling around as I felt my cheeks burn up, "I just prefer you, isn't at a crime?"

Seeing Luna turn from confused to having a realization expression to then blushing to my compliment. She looked into my eyes, "I-I understand..." Her head turns to her sister who had a smug face, "E-Excuse me Trey, Sister." Her horn lights up as she teleported out of the room with a pop.

'Did I say something wrong?' I thought as I scratched my head, but when I looked at Celestia, her expression was serious. I laughed nervously, "S-Something o-on your mind Celestia?"

Her serious manner turned to a smile and a giggle, "Sorry for doing that, I can't keep a serious face for long." She finished giggling, "You like my sister, don't you Trey?"

I looked down as I nodded slowly, "...Is it that obvious?..." 'I mean she is my favorite princess.' I thought as I twiddled my fingers.

"A word of advice," I looked up at her, "Make sure to take things slow. She hasn't had a suitor at all and she's relatively new to pony's or you complimenting her."

I gulped, "Noted, anything else?"

The Solar Princess got up and stretched her wings, she teleported in a badge that had the sun and moon symbol and levitated it to my hands, "While you're off, Luna might be called back and this will be your ticket was back to Canterlot if that happens." I put the badge into my front right pocket as she continued, "Make sure not to interrupt her when she has her Night Court." She made her way to the exit, but turned her head with a smirk, "Also the halls have ears, so make sure you don't have too much fun." Celestia winked as she trotted away.

When she left, I planted my forehead to the table with a groan, "Trollestia is somewhat accurate here... Great." My cheeks seem to cool down when touching the cold table as I tried to think about what to do next.

After recovering from an embarrassing situation, I was told by one of the maids to wait at the Castle entrance for Luna when I got out of the dining room. I nodded and quickly made my way back to the room to wear some regular clothes. It wasn’t much, just a blue shirt and jean shorts were put on as I looked in the mirror to adjust my hair a bit. ‘Why am I getting so worked up for?’ I asked myself in thought as the memory of Luna nuzzled me showed when I closed my eyes.

"Get over it..."

I shot my head up and looked behind me. I blinked and I could have sworn someone was standing right next to me. It sent shivers up my spine. Looking at the mirror, I noticed that my right cuff had a black stain on it, not to mention that I could've sworn the crystal glowed a bit as well. I looked down and rubbed it my cuff as my other hand grabbed my necklace. My necklace seems to feel fine and once I removed my finger, it was gone.

"Alright... Weird." I mumbled as I quickly made an exit and went towards the entrance. Luckily, no pony was there with the exception of the Royal Guard posted by.

I waited for a bit, pushed my back against the wall, and closed my eyes while I did. Not even a minute I hear footsteps coming towards the entrance. When I opened my eyes, they were a bit blurred and I used my fists to rub my eyelids. Once I opened them, I saw a blue Pegasus pony who had a light blue mane and cyan eyes.

"Hello, Trey." I was startled by Princess Luna's voice coming out of her and she giggled from that, "I see that my disguise is working?" She smiled.

I placed my hand over my beating heart, "Certainly surprised me, whew..."

"Oh hush now, I didn't scare you that badly," Luna said as she began to walk away.

I began to walk beside her, "I wasn't prepared for it. Is that illusion magic or altering magic?" I asked.

"I'm surprised that you know of such things Trey," Luna turned her head to glance at me.

"Well I read a lot of books about fantasy and fiction when I was growing up, plus my sister just loved that I read it to her for a bedtime story," I explained.

"Interesting, if you must know, it's just an illusion spell, there is a spell that can make me into any forms for a short while, but I feel drained for doing so." She said as the guards let us out of the gates when she gestured towards them.

"Are you sure that I'm allowed to get out of here?" I asked.

"Celestia finished making preparations for you in Canterlot, however, you'll be making your first appearance here in the streets." She looked behind me, "She was very thorough on what your case was to the public, so if anything happens, I'll be here to protect you."

"I'm probably going to regret this, but how was this spread around? Newspaper?" I wondered as I thought about other ways to let anyone know about the news in Equestria. It's not like everypony has dragon fire to communicate instantly.

Luna and I passed several blocks to when I saw the train tracks in view. She looked back and gave me a small smile, "I'll explain more once we get inside the train, understand?"

I nodded as the I noticed that ponies were staring at us. Not sure how I feel when they look at me that way, judging me as I walked. I felt more conscious about it and which made me asked a question. How long would it take for them to accept me?

I shook these thoughts away as 'Luna' pulled out a badge underneath her wing as we went into the train station. This badge had a royal symbol of Celestia and Luna's cutie mark combined into a single circle. 'Luna' went to the ticket master and flashed the badge, "Two tickets please." Without hesitation, he passed the ticket to her, turned her head and gestured me to grab them. Which I did and the next thing I knew we were inside the train, specifically in the VIP train car.

The train car had it's separate rooms, around three, four if you included the bathroom and showers. Each room was set to have two couches, one on each wall and a nice built-in table that has a small kettle with a selection of making tea or coffee. 'Luna' took her seat on the left side and I took the right. They were really comfortable when I sat on them, causing my back to pop.

I see the Pegasus ruffled her feathers and shuddered, "Did you just pop your back?"

I nodded, "Yeah, did that gross you out?"

"It... Did. It caught me off guard." She slightly fidgets, but got comfortable eventually.

"Well, now we're even on getting off our guard," I smirked.

That got her to giggle, "Sure." I see her 'horn' illuminating as she turns on the kettle, "Now, let's explain what has happened when you arrived."

I gulped, "While you explain, you could let me fix your drink." Grabbing the tea packet and coffee mix, "Coffee or Tea?"

"Very well, I'll have some green tea." She said as her 'horn' was put out. "As you fix it listen very carefully, you've arrived in this world assuming you were by yourself?" I nodded, "While that is correct, objects from your world have been appearing in many places in and outside of Equestria." The kettle was beginning to boil, "Once we got word of this, we kept it quiet from you so we could confirm that these objects were foreign." Her horn lit up again to teleport in a picture, "This is the Everfree forest, could you identify what is on this image? Twilight was able to identify it because she went to the other realm."

I looked at the picture and saw a pile of trash, but giving a better look at it, there was a phone, some different sweets and chips that seem to be muddy and wet, "It's a cell phone, candy, and chips from Earth."

Luna nodded as she teleported the photo away, "The same answer as Twilights." I heard the train's whistle as the train prepared to move, "Now there are other objects that appeared, but as you could see, pony's started to panic. Once we confirmed that it was, in fact, your world, we had to fess up in a meeting full of political leaders." There was a jolt as the train began to move and the conductor muffled shout, 'Next stop Ponyville!', Luna continued, "I'll spare you the long explanation, we told them that you were here with us and explained the situation."

"So you told everyone who was there about me? Was I just ratted out?" I asked as Luna shook her head.

"You didn't request your presence to be a secret did you?" She got me there, and I suppose that it would have caused trouble if I did keep my existence secret. Then I realized what happened when I met that one pony during the Royal Court. Luna saw this too as if she read my mind, "The newspapers were still fresh when you and I walked towards the line so ponies were surprised, to say the least, or say startled by your sudden appearance."

"I didn't give them enough time to think about my presence." I sighed.

"It's not your fault, we had to hold our tongue from telling you any of this because it is involving with the royal crown and it's connections," Luna explained.

The kettled dinged as I turned it off and pulled out a cup for her. Once prepared, I got myself one, tossed in two sugarcubes and mixed.

"Thank you, Trey, I hope this explanation eases some of your questions." She said grabbing the cup and taking a sip.

I took a drink from my cup and placed it back on the table, "I... I'm a bit sad that you and Celestia kept it a secret from me, but at the same time I understand, your world has rules it has to follow. I really can't get in the way of that, it would complicate things a bit."

Luna nodded, "Yes, it would. We had to explain everything a be truthful about anything were involved with. Ever since my return, my sister had to explain to everyone about why I wasn't corrupt, I had to spend my first couple of months in my room." She looked out the window, "It's sad yes, but it gave me some time to recoup."

I rest my arms on the table, "I suppose that I'm the same, except for the nightmare thing." She looked at me, "I'm still new in Equestria and I need to make a good impression and I guess Celestia thought it would be good to visit Ponyville first."

Luna looked down at her tea, "Correct Trey, and oh, once more thing. Since I'm in this form you can call me Lumen. Calling me Luna would raise some eyebrows." She said.

"Alright, Lumen." She looked up at me with a small smile, "Did I say something wrong?"

"N-no, I just realized that I've been explaining about your presence that we haven't started the counseling. Silly me." Luna laughed.

"Oh! Right, the counseling! Might as well get it started then." I said laying back on the couch as I looked out the window to my right to only see darkness as the train went through a tunnel.

When the light returned, I looked to Luna who gave me a small smile, "We shall."

Thus, Luna began her counseling and I felt I was getting closer by getting to know her. The train continued down the mountain towards Ponyville as we exchanged words that would help me out in the end.

Author's Note

*Surfaces from the depths of the college ocean and breathes*
Hey there readers... It's been two months since I've uploaded the last chapter.
Here's what's happening:
One, college is killing me to where I barely have enough time to write.
Two, having a part-time job on top of college work is very difficult.
Three, two of the three classes are certification classes and I have to study hard to achieve it.
Four, spring semester is ending and I'm job hunting for my desired dream job.
Five, I'm also working on a personal project that's slowly coming together.
Six, my editor cannot be with me all the time to edit these chapters.
Seven, three chapters, including this one, have been written just need to be edited.

So I hope you all can understand where I'm coming from and the next chapter will be released whenever my editor and I have time. Please leave a comment on what you think and if there are any errors at all!
*Takes a breath and dives down back into the college ocean*