Blood Moon

Princess Luna, who had a near death experience after her battle with Twilight Sparkle now lays in a coma. During this experience it was Lyra Heartstrings who revived her and has been advised to stay by her side so that she will perhaps recover more quickly. Part of her staying beside Luna involved traveling with her to the Crystal Empire for her recovery.

Three months had passed since her battle with Twilight and Luna still laid unconscious in a hospital in the Crystal Empire. While her body had healed for the most part, the psychological trauma of her battle caused her to remain in a coma. Not too long after her near death experiences her slumber was so deep that she would not even have dreams but as time passed and her sleep was not quite as deep, she began to dream. The earlier ones concerned the doctors as they were about her battle with Twilight and caused her to scream loudly and seemed to give her psychological stress. Eventually though they became much more peaceful and pleasant.

On a calm morning in the Crystal Empire the sun was shining in the window on Luna. By her side, as she had been for the past three months was Lyra. That morning Cadence had also decided to pay her a visit when she began to mumble a little bit. While Cadence thought she was maybe just having a dream, Lyra had a different feeling. She looked at Cadence and said, "Your Majesty, I have a feeling she might be waking up."

Cadence replied, "I'm not sure if she will wake up yet. I have a feeling that her brain will need a lot more rest."

As soon as she finished saying this Luna opened her eyes. She looked around and saw the two mares and then wondered why she was in a hospital bed. She asked, "Lyra, Cadence why am I in a hospital bed?"

Lyra asked, "Your Majesty, do you remember that night in Ponyville and your battle with Twilight?"

Luna shook her head and asked, "Battle with Twilight? Why would I have a battle with Twilight?"

Lyra realized that given the trauma of that night, that Luna may not remember much about it. She asked, "Your Majesty, what do you last remember?"

Luna replied, "The last thing I remember was going out with Applejack and Pinkie to find Fluttershy and Twilight because they had become vamponies and we had to stop them from killing anypony else."

Lyra asked, "Anything else?"

Luna laid there for a moment deep in thought. Lyra could tell Cadence was about to say something so she put her hoof up as a way of saying "don't say anything."

After a few minutes of silence Luna began to cry, "And Twilight killed Applejack and Pinkie! She killed Fluttershy too and that made her bigger, stronger and more powerful."

Lyra put her hoof around Luna and replied, "I know this is tough for you your Majesty but we need to know everything that you remember from that night."

Luna's crying only became stronger, "And then she came after me! We got into a horrible fight. It was either I killed her or she killed me!"

Luna's breathing again became more erratic and her heart beat became more erratic so Lyra knew she had to calm her down. She put her hoof around her and replied, "Your Majesty, you need to calm down. We don't want you to have a heart attack."

Luna laid there quietly until she felt that she could continue without getting so emotional, "Well I remember during that fight that I managed to break her horn off and began stabbing her with it. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't kill her and even worse, her horn grew back and she became even stronger."

Lyra asked, "What else?"

Luna sat there for a moment trying to remain calm before continuing, "I remember taking to the sky and her doing the same. I remember striking her with energy to stretch her out vertically and then I rammed my horn straight into her heart and fired an immense amount of energy into her, blowing her to bits."

Lyra asked, "Anything else?"

Luna continued, "And then I remember standing by a gurney watching the doctor's discuss how they would revive me" she began to smile as she continued, "then I remember seeing the light and being reunited with my sister." Luna paused for a minute and continued, "And then besides my sister, I saw Her. I saw LaurFa."

This caused both Lyra and Cadence's jaws to drop. While they did believe in a Creator, they never imagined that a pony would be able to meet LaurFa. Lyra asked, "And what did your interaction with Her go?"

Luna replied, "Well I remember asking her if I had passed and she let me know I did BUT she also said that my time in this world was not over yet." She reached her wing over to Lyra and continued, "And she showed me a vision of you trying to revive me." She sat up, pulled Lyra close to her and continued, "Thank you Dear Lyra. Thank you for saving my life."

Lyra was about to say something when Luna tried to get out of her bed. She tried to stand up but stumbled as the muscles in her legs had deteriorated significantly. This caused Luna to sigh in disgust causing Cadence to say, "Luna, you have been laying in bed for three months and you have lost a lot of leg muscle. Chances are you are going to need a lot of physical therapy to get your legs built back up to where you can walk."

Luna tried flapping her wings but was unable to get airborne. Lyra said, "And I have a feeling the same will be true with your wings."

Luna again sighed in disgust but then remembered something, her royal duties. She asked, "Cadence, Lyra, what has happened with Equestria without me raising and lowering the moon and sun? Has Equestria frozen over? Who has been handling the day to day affairs I usually handle?"

Cadence replied, "Well it was tough training them but some of the unicorn guard were able to learn to do it. It took a dozen of them to do it but they managed and Shining Armor headed to Canterlot to handle the government affairs."

Luna again tried to stand and was able to, just barely given that she was using her wing to hold on to the bed railing. She sighed, "Well that is good but I want to know something, when can I go home and take over my responsibilities?"

Lyra walked up to Luna, put her hoof around her and replied, "Once you get enough leg muscle built back up that you can walk without any trouble."

Cadence sighed, "It will depend on how fast you get your muscle built back up. I can talk to the doctor about getting your therapy started tomorrow...."

Luna interrupted, "No. I want to start it today. I want to hurry up, get this done and get home."

Cadence replied, "Well alright. I'll talk to the doctor in the physical therapy department and see if I can get you started today."

Luna sighed in disgust as Cadence walked out the door. She looked at Lyra and asked, "Lyra, you don't know any spells to restore muscle do you?"

Lyra replied, "I wish I did. I would go to the library and see if I could find one but everypony has said that since I revived you, that I need to stay by your side to aid in your healing."

Luna knew about the belief and realized that the best option was Lyra's presence and therapy, therapy that would likely be painful at first.