Inheritance of the moon

To say that something more odd than this moment had happened before would be a lie. Never once in all his life had he been set a drift some where so strange, it was like a cloud if he'd ever been in one before. Around him he could see sparkles that burned like stars in the distance and what he felt....emotions? Loneliness, sorrow, fear, and...curiosity? Worse he could struggle, not that it did any good because he never moved, sure he could flail about like an idiot but for no reason.

"Figures...I rush to see what's going on and something like this happens." There was only one thing he could compare this too, floating in water, but even that didn't quite feel right. "Lets see....ran from the library, heard a scary laugh, rushed to town hall, then got hit by a purple cloud." And now suddenly he felt as if he was being watched from all around him, causing goosebumps to spread across his body. "Who's there?" Jerking his head back there would be a pop from his neck. "Ow..." Add that to his luck as well, at least he still felt pain so he was alive, maybe.

Unbeknownst to him the mist was slowly beginning to form a shape, a purple mare. For the first time in a thousand years she had a shape of her own and better there was another pony! But...it was another pony and her other self was causing trouble for all the ponies she could see, and see she could through the eyes of Nightmare Moon. Fear wrapped her mind for that is what she was, nothing more than the innocence left, the true Princess Luna. Slowly her form would begin to dissipate, starting with her hooves, she just couldn't face another pony not now....Wait he'd already noticed her how was that possible, even here she was no more than a figment of her own mind. The missed stopped and reformed thus a sign of her own resolve strengthening. "H..Hello.." Drat her voice sounded frightened and shy even to herself!

The voice took no more than a few seconds to register, though he wasn't completely sure if he'd heard it with his ears or in his head. "Princess Luna?" With the realization came a form of gravity, sinking just slightly his hooves found purchase within the mist, finally he could feel his legs! That alone was almost blissful! The feeling however didn't last long as he realized that standing before him was the goddess of the moon, in the flesh and mist? Wait how did he know that, certain in his waking life since now it had to be a dream, he'd never heard of her but here she was.

Mean while in the waking world...

"Oh sweet Celestia he's out cold!" Running around in meaningless circles was Sunny, who was quite clearly freaking out. "What happened? What do I do? Where in Celestia's name was the doctor! "Never around when I need help! WHY?!" He was after all her responsibility, in an odd new to town way. "And why am I freaking out?!" Of course she wasn't the only one freaking out, Celestia was gone and Nightmare Moon was here with eternal night. But only she was panicking over over Midnight. And next was totally predictable, to everyone but her self, she tripped over Midnight's legs. Face planting hard she sighed, desperately needing to calm down.

Back in La La Land...

"Ow!" Something slammed into his leg hard, what the buck? Even that only distracted him for only a moment or two. Shaking his leg a few times he'd turn back to the entity that held the majority of his attention. "Princess? Where am I and how do I know who you are?" Cause really what was freaking him out more, not knowing where he was or the fact that a princess was standing before him, not just any princess either but Princess Luna who just happened to be the goddess of the moon. Another little thing she was which wasn't so little was that she was also Nightmare Moon.

The dark stallion intrigued her, some part of her at least. Was it because she had quite literally been alone for a thousand years? "Um...I am..." Still she sounded frightened, but now more shy. She was making progress, sort of. ""This is...well my mind and I mean mine..." What little left of her there was at least, and really she felt small in her own mind. "But...you can call me Luna." More progress! 'Yay' Yikes even that sounded meek!

"All right then....Luna. Why am I here?" Now that was the real question, why was he here? it bothered him to no extent that he'd not come of his own free will, not that he would have. Really who would choose to go into Nightmare....err....Princess Luna. "Oh I'm Midnight Breeze." His mother would have scolded him hard for being so rude, just because he grew up on the road didn't mean he could act like it.

"Oh I know! Sorry....I don't know why you're here..." Cautiously she would walk around Midnight, knowing he couldn't hurt her her, could he? No it was impossible after all it was her mind and not his, then again he was here after all so who knew maybe it was his mind? Ahaha she was starting to panic for no reason. Then she noticed his cutie mark which in truth shocked her, a crescent blue moon. "Why is your cutie mark a blue moon?"

From shy to sudden, could Luna make up her mind? Well obviously he was in it and it turned out she couldn't, great. "I got it a few weeks ago on my birthday, there was a blue moon and it well....it was beautiful." In truth there had been nothing more beautiful he'd ever seen in his whole life, getting it on his flank had been wonderful, it even made up for him not getting it till then. Wait was Luna blushing?!

Yes clearly she was blushing and worse she knew it! Taking a few step backs she'd grind a hoof against the ground? Ground yeah whatever it was. "Th...thank you...I made those just before..." Before she'd become Nightmare Moon and they held great power since it was so rare, possibly once every twenty years or so. "At least I did some good before." Deep down it meant a lot that the moon meant so much to some pony. Maybe just maybe she could be useful again, happy even, but she was scared...Before becoming what she was and being imprisoned she'd done evil things to not only Equestria but to her dear sister.

The emotions he felt around him stirred, pushing him too and fro, it was nauseating. "Luna? Are you all right?" Slowly the area around him started to dissolve, and her with it. "Luna!" Then things started to get dark, now he'd never feared the dark but this was worrying. Was it something he said? "What's going..." Thud! "Ow!"

'Thank you Midnight.'

Back in the awfully painful waking world...

"Ow!" Jerking Midnight turned over to rub his aching head, he'd been dropped! "Where am I now?" A look around quickly answered that for him, he was back in Ponyville...looking up at a guilty looking Sunny...who clearly dropped him.