The hunt for love

Luna was in her room, pondering what her sister had just said. "He's the perfect person that can be sent? He found out how his father died by different means?" Luna walked around her dark blue rug for what seemed like the hundredth time. "How other could he have found out that his father died unless . . . he . . . was . . . there. . . . Oh . . ." Luna stopped walking and just stared at the wall with the answer right there in her mind. "He found out, because he was there when he died." Luna sighed and walked to her balcony and stared out into the Everfree Forest as she went back to her duties watching over the dreams of everypony, that is until one, just one, caught her attention, coming from the middle of the Everfree Forest, one that seemed to not only be a dream, but more of a bad memory. She frowned at the thought of what Brian could be going through in his mind now. "I have to do something to help him in his dreams. And maybe while I'm at it, I will find out more about him than I know." With that, Luna Charged up her magic and went into Brian's dream, knowing little of what she will find.

I sat there on a six story building with a .50 cal. with my father. I smiled as I looked through the scope and shot another terrorist behind a wall shooting at soldiers. "Another one down" I looked at my father as he put a tally mark on a piece of paper. "Alright my turn to see who wins." I switched with my father as I looked through a pair of binoculars down at the battlefield. "Lets see if you can beat me this time dad. Last time we did this you lost twenty bucks, lets see if you can get them back." Brian's father loaded the gun and shot at a terrorist down the street behind a car. "Thats one son" I put a tally mark on the piece of paper. "Up here, we are safe from the battle ahead as we take down the enemies from far away." I chuckled as he saw another enemy fall to the ground. "Another one down" I put another tally mark on the paper. "Just three more kills and you will beat me dad, to bad there is only two bullets left. Your going to have to go ahead and pay up." "No, I'll just have to improvise" My father shot two more terrorists and then got up and loaded a pistol. "I'm going to beat you this time son." He started to walk down the stairs. I only sighed. "Why do you always have to be so stubborn." I got up and grabbed the .50 cal. and started to run down the stairs only to stop when my father ran back up. "RUN!" I turned around and started to run back up. "Why are we running back up?" Thats when I heard the explosion and felt the building rock side to side. "Holy shit!" I fell down, but quickly got back up and finally got to the top. "What are we going to do now?" "Now, we wait" I felt the building start to fall to the side. "ARE YOU CRAZY! WE'LL DIE FROM THE FALL!" "NOT UNLESS YOU TIME IT RIGHT!" I watched as picked me up and started to count down with his fingers. "3 ... 2 ... 1 ... JUMP" I jumped off of the building as I landed on another building and rolled forward and stood up laughing. "Dad, you were right! Its all about the timing ... Dad?" I turned around and he wasn't there. "No ... Dad where are you?" I yelled as I started to go down the stairs to see if he jumped to late and landed into one of the rooms. When I didn't find him, I ran to the building with my pistol in hand and found him, covered in rubble and barely breathing. "DAD!" I started to move the broken walls off of him and then picked him up slowly. "I'll get you out of here, then we can go back to the farm and continue farming." I started to run towards the others, only to turn down one street and find some terrorists. "SHIT!" I ran behind a wall as they fired at us. "DAMN IT!" I reached into my holster and pulled out an army issued pistol and shot it over the cover. "DAMN IT ALL!" I slowly put my dad onto the ground. "I'll be back dad, I'm going to get these guys and then come back for you." I ran from the cover to another building and began shooting at the terrorists from there. I ran around the building to flank them as they closed in on me. "Time to get them from behind" I poked my head around the corner to look for the terrorists, only to find them where I left dad. "Damn it!" I looked at him as he raised his hands in defeat with a small smile. He looked at me and winked as a grenade fell out of his hands onto the ground and exploded. "NOOOOO!!!!" I jumped up from my nightmare.

Luna stood up and stumbled backwards from the shock of seeing death and defeat. "He . . . He saw his father die right in front of him . . . Nopony should ever have to see that."

I got up and gathered all my gear as I put out the fire and splashed the coals with water. "Sigh, alright, time to get moving." I walked through the river and kept walking through the forest in the night. 'I don't care what the cost is now anymore. I'm getting Applejack free and getting her back to ponyville.' I walked on top of a hill and looked down at the bad lands. Its ash covered ground as a volcano in the distance bellowed out said ash, the holes in random places going down as far as I could see, and in the middle of it all, was another mountain with a castle about the same size of the mountain next to each other. 'I know where to go now, there was nowhere else the changelings could be. Time to strike back to save Applejack, to save the one I love.'