Twilight Sparkle tossed and turned in her bed, as she slept another one of those dreams played deep in the recesses of her mind. The night air was stiffening and hot but it wasn't the reason she couldn't keep still in her sleep. Sometimes she would have this one dream, other times it would be something else. Not one of them had yet to make any logical sense to her, and just once she'd like to know just what the dreams meant. This time she fouynd herself back in that bosy she had when she crossed that mirror into the other world, but there was something different about her body this time.
As pony Twilight slept uncomfortably, her new self was light blue, almost like that Sonata Dusk girl she faced on her second bout in the mirror verse. Like that version of herself, Twilight was in that strange body she had that she still hadn't quite gotten used too. Yet for some reason, this body felt like one she'd been born into and felt perfectly normal. She stood before a massive crowd chanting a single word over and over again as it made her feel, stronger. More powerful than she'd ever felt as a unicorn, and also very different. As a pony princess, Twilight often felt like she could kind and compassionate to everypony around her, but this form? She felt as if she could conqure the world without anyone to stop her!
"Hello Casper HIGH! Tell me who you love!" She found herself saying then accepting her new name. No longer Twilight Sparkle the princess of friendship, she accepted her title as her droves of admirers chanted it to her. EMBER! EMBER! She felt like she never had before, she accepted this new power of admiration willingly, then she woke up. Yes Twilight woke in her castle library with the sheets and blankets coiled around her, and her dragon Spike sleeping blissfully unaware in his little bed not far away.
"UGH! Another ONE!" Twilight said softly under her breath so as not to wake Spike. She hated it when she had these dreams, if only because she never understood what they meant. Even after all she had ever been through, and every trial she ever faced, Twilight still couldn't understand what these dreams meant. Sometimes she was this human girl with black hair running around with these other guys chasing after spectral beings, other times she found herself with horribly white skin and red and black hair swinging around a big sledge hammer with a red diamond and heart on one end.
These dreams really wouldn't bother her so much if she could just figure out what they meant, were they windows to other lives she lived and didn't even know it? Or was proof to the idea that if you have a past, it can be multiple choice? Twilight struggled to get back to sleep, hopefully this time she wouldn't be bothered with....
She was the ebony haired girl again, a bit of a loner, but with a very open mind. A m ind willing to believe the dead in this world she lived in had no rest. She was the only student of about four others in a class. It was almost like being back in Celestia's school for gifted unicorns again, only without the large among of students interested in the course. She never knew who she was in this form, at least it wasn't as...malevolent as the last one. A bit more unsocial even when compared to how she used to be, but wiling to have some kind of connection to someone.
Then she was a little male, a boy. A bit selfish but only because of her age. She was a bit greedy but always willing to do what's right for others. A heart still in the right place. Then she was just a tiny infant. Barley able to say more than a few babbles of incoherent baby talk. Yet even in a form like that she still felt some thing one call..a bond. A bond she felt when it came to her big brother Shining Armor, she was still the little sibling that had a big one to look up to admire more than anything else in the wold. She liked it when she took this form, but dreams have a habit of snatching you away from the ones you enjoy most.
Twilight found herself as a red haired woman in the guise of the living, but she was dead. Well not really dead, but stuck in the thin line between living and dead. She felt the need to...feed. Not of emotions the way she did as the blue girl, but off the hopes and joys of youth itself. She found herself in an office deceiving those who trusted her the most, she woke with the words..."Keep the mind icy sharp" on her lips.
"Stupid dreams...they used to be pretty straight forward and simple, now...I just don't know what to make of them." Twilight thought about asking the matron of sleep what they may have meant, but Princess Luna had so much to deal with these days. Twilight only huffed, fluffed her pillow, and tried to get some sleep without any more dreams that only felt more like questions without answers. She tucked her hooves in to her body and yawned as her eyes fluttered softly closed, then open. Then closed again as she drifted off into a sleep that was finally dreamless.
Spike cracked a few eggs over the frying pan, even though she was princess, Twilight often felt that she wasn't going to be waited on hoof and hock by servants or cooks. She still appreciated it when Spike did those cute little gestures for her, it was always a bit of reminder of how before the mane six, Spike was the closest thing to a best friend she had. Spike placed a plate of toast and a glass of OJ in front of Twilight as she sat looking even more tired than she was when she to bed. Her mane all messy and her head in her hooves.
"Jeez Twilight, you look terrible, bad night's sleep last night." He asked the purple allicorn as he scratched her behind the ear softly.
"I had those dreams again last night Spike, I keep seeing these other words and I'm in other roles...lives I might have lived or will live someday..." She said as she began munching on some toast. Spike sighed softly and hugged her lovingly.
"Dreams are just dreams Twi, you can't explain them all...Not even Princess Luna can tell what all the dreams she watches over mean." He said as Twilght cooed softly and cheered up a bit as they hugged.
"I guess you're right spike, still i wish I could understand that one with the human girl with blonde hair and the giant chainsaw..." She said blushing hard at retelling THAT one to him.
"Twilight?" Spike asked as she resumed eating.
"Hmmmm?" She replied looking up from her meal.
"No more apple pie before bed."
"Noted Spike." Was all she could say.
