Spike groaned as his eyes slowly opened, waking up. His senses felt clouded as he looked around the room blearily. It took a few seconds for his vision to come into focus, but once it did he soon saw the looming forms of his adoptive sister Twilight and Starlight looking at him in concern.

“Oh thank Celestia, you’re awake.” Twilight sighed in relief.

“What happened?” Spiked groaned as he tried to sit up, only for a magical aura to push him back down.

“You came crashing through the roof is what happened.” Starlight told him bluntly. “Also, you’re not moving since you look like you’ve been through Tartarus and back.”

Spike moaned to himself at her statement and just slumps back onto the bed. “That’s the third time today that’s happened.”

“Wait, today?!” Twilight cried. “What happened today that did this to you?” She growled flaring her magic which made both the dragon and unicorn nervous. Spike was about to respond, until he soon realized he was face to chest with her large breasts and couldn’t help but stare at them a little making him blush. He shook himself out of his it and focused on the concerned face of his sister.

“Nopony, Twi, I did this myself,” Spike told her which made her expression turn blank at his statement.

“But...but how did you hurt your head then?” Twilight questioned looking at the bandage.

“Well for starters…” And Spike told the girls about his unlucky streak he had the past day and how it gave him his injuries flinching at the memory he explained what happened from being dragged around by the orthros, healed by Fluttershy, and him crashing back home from drinking Zecora’s potion and how he landed back home.

“And there you have it,” he finished.

“Oh Celestia, poachers?” Starlight said in concern, turning to Twilight who now seemed to be deep in thought.

“Yeah, hopefully, Celestia and Luna will catch onto where they might be hiding when they get back.”

“It’s funny you mention that,” Starlight told him, standing up from his bed. “The letter we got after you left, it says that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna’s meeting with the council delegates abroad went well.”

“Guess that’s good news,” he sighed. “What time is it anyway, and how long was I out? Also, any idea when they will be back?”

“The letter said they might return tonight or early in the morning but we’re not sure.” Twilight began. “As for how long, it’s already night time since you were unconscious for six hours.”

“Wait, six hours?!”

“You took a serious bump when you crashed through our roof,” Starlight added pointing at the bandage wrapped around his head. “It’s already nine pm,” She added pointing towards the window. Luna’s moon was already out and about.

“Man, it’s been that long?” He slumped back onto the bed.

“Yep, we were waiting on you to wake up so we could understand what exactly happened.” Twilight added, “Did Zecora give you anything specific?”

“I’m not so sure. What I do know is it tasted awful and made me bounce around her place like I was a pinball.”

“Ouch. So what did Zecora find out from your nightmares?” Starlight asked.

Spike was about to reply, but stopped short, thinking that he shouldn’t tell them the details of his nightmare. He took a deep breath and started, “It’s similar to what I told you girls. I think I may have to wait on Luna since not even Zecora knows what’s wrong with me. I'm not sure the potion she gave me is going to work.”

“Don’t worry, Spike. I’m sure that whatever is going on, we’ll get through this.” She smiled and leaned over, giving him a hug. Spike, of course, winds up getting flustered again as his face got buried between Twilight’s heavenly bosom, the soft plush feel of her breasts made the dragon glow a bright red. One part of him wanting to get his head out of her bountiful pair, the other more carnal part was telling him to bury his maw on them and see how much he could take in his hands and mouth.

Starlight hummed in thought before standing up. “You know, this might be an unorthodox solution, but, since Zecora already tried, would you like to try another method to help your nightmares while we wait for Princess Luna?” she asked Spike.

“Like what?”

“Like hypnosis” She suggested with a light smile. Twilight and Spike only looked back at Starlight with deadpanned stares.

“What?” Starlight asked in confusion

The lavender mare let go of the drake and crossed her arms. “You remember what happened the last time that you tried that?”

Starlight thought back on the time she made that attempt when Twilight asked for her help.

Starlight cringed to herself at the memory and looked back at the two nervously.

“Oh, come on, how was I supposed to know that Pinkie was going to barge in at that moment?” Starlight said defensively.

“Well you didn’t finish the spell after that,” Spike pointed out.

Starlight groaned giving him a deadpan stare. “Thanks for rubbing it in, Spike,” She said sarcastically. “But I fixed her later that week didn’t I? Plus, Twilight is now no longer afraid of ladybugs.”

Spike then thought of something. “Why didn’t you finish it by the way?”

“I was about to, but someone borrowed the book at the time and didn’t return it until a few days later. I hadn’t even reached the end of the spell,” she explained. “But hey, Twilight is better now right?”

“Yeah, when she yelled at a kite to stop looking at her while laughing maniacally,” Spike countered, making Starlight stutter in her words trying to come up with a response, but she had nothing. She just huffed and walked towards the door, frustration and defeat on her face.

“Just forget it, okay?” Starlight added storming out of the room, and slamming the door behind her leaving Twilight and Spike alone.

“Well that happened.” Spike said in surprise as he laid himself back down onto the bed. Twilight gets up from the bed and looks down at Spike.

“I’m going to go try and calm her down.” Twilight walked towards the door. “But I think it would be best since the potion didn’t work for you, that you send a letter to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and explain what’s been happening to you over the past few weeks.” She left the room going after the fuming unicorn leaving Spike alone.

‘I’m not even sure what to tell the princesses or my friends for that matter.’ Spike thought to himself as he got up from his bed and walked over to his dresser. He looked into the mirror and saw most of the damage that he sustained today, all because he was bottling up his nightmares. That and a series of unfortunate events. ‘Zecora is the only one who knows what’s going on, so how are the girls gonna take that whatever this is may actually kill them?’

Spike contemplated on his thoughts about what he should tell them. He needed help and, despite their royal titles, Celestia was like a mother to him and Luna was more of an aunt. Either way, they would find out sooner or later. Making up his mind, he took out a couple sheets of paper as well as a quill and ink, and sat down at his desk.

Dear Princess…

Nah too formal. He crumples it into a ball and starts again. Hello mo… He discarded that one too.

I can’t believe I almost called her mom, ok. Spike just breathe, just think this through. Clearing his mind the drake tried one more time.

Dear Princess Celestia, this is Spike. Although I wish for this to be a casual letter or some type of friendship report, I’m afraid this time it's not the case, you see lately I have been having these…unpleasant dreams of mine. I know that this seems like a very simple subject that can be cured with the help of Zecora or somepony else, yet, unfortunately, it appears that the problem might be harder to solve than with a simple potion.

Normally, I wouldn’t bother you or princess Luna with these kind of things but, truth be told, I’m afraid and I don’t know what else to do. Twilight too is out of options and this seems like the only thing left… I suppose you would like to know the details of my nightmare and why they seems so hard to get rid of, so I will try to give you the short version of them.

I keep seeing a sea of flames after I get taken over by this strange dragon spirit, and I don’t know what he wants or why he was doing what he was doing. I haven't been able to sleep properly for weeks because of it.

There you have it, I’m sorry if this end up be for nothing and if you think you have any better idea by all means please, let me know. I’m willing to try anything at this point. I hope either of you could come up with some solution for what’s been happening to me.

Your favorite dragon concordant, Spike

Spike then rolled the paper up and blew onto the scroll with his green flames magically sending it straight to the princesses; he walked back to his bed, hoping that Zecora’s potion worked on him.

‘If the potion doesn’t work, I hope Celestia and Luna will think of something for this,’ he thought to himself, as he closes his eyes and soon falls asleep.

-Canterlot-

It was evening under the night sky as most ponies would be asleep while others had the nightshift. A lone carriage was flying through the night sky as it was on its way to a specific location, the capital of Equestria, Canterlot. The Entire city featured numerous towers of ivory white with golden spires and many waterfalls and rivers running throughout the city like the veins of a beating heart. Seeing the majestic white pillars and walls of the city built into one of the tallest mountains in existence, made them wonder how such a magnificent city was able to almost float on the mountain cliffs.

The carriage was being pulled by the royal guard assigned to escort it back to the castle, and soon they passed by several buildings ranging from the towering ivory spires overlooking the rest of the city, and some local hotspots that some if the upper class go to. Several night guard could be seen patrolling the near empty streets of the capital while some of its citizens could be seen walking along the cobblestone roads to wherever their destination lay. All of this could be seen by the carriages two passengers who looked fondly over their kingdom, glad to be finally home.

The passengers were none other than princesses Celestia and Luna who have recently returned from their royal duties at the council meeting with most of the neighboring countries. Seeing as they were almost home, they decided to engage in a little small talk while they watched their magnificent white city gleam under the Luna’s beautiful moonlight.

“We’re almost home sister.” Luna stretched her arms.

Celestia only sighed as she continued to look out the window admiring the stars of the night. “I’m glad that we got to meet the others.” Celestia began, turning back to face her sister. “The meeting went well for everyone, and it’s been a while since Amira and I have spoken with one another.”

“Indeed sister. Ever since Twilight opened her school of friendship, peace between the other countries has been growing.”

“That’s true. So much in fact that Queen Rainshine was thinking of letting some of the younglings into Twilight’s school to see if the Kirin could be reintegrated into society.”

“I’m happy to see that she’s willing to reintroduce her kind to the rest of the world.”

“It makes me wonder how the new generation will like the school after being exiled for so long.”

“I know.” Luna looked back outside the window. “We should be arriving back into Canterlot shortly.”

The carriage soon touched down outside Canterlot castle and was greeted by a detail of royal guards who had been waiting. a moment later the door opened and the two sisters walked out while the detail bowed to them.

“Your Majesties, it’s a pleasure to see you have returned safely.”

“Thank you, lieutenant Storm Shield, we are happy to be back; now if you’ll excuse us we had a long flight and wish to retire for the night.”

“As you wish, your highness, will there be anything else?”

“No, thank you Lieutenant, that will be all.” Luna replied. “You and the rest can retire for tonight.”

The lieutenant nodded and he and the rest of the guard dispersed walking back to the carriage and pulling it back to storage. Celestia and Luna walked towards their castle home and were met by a couple of kneeling guards who greeted their royal majesties.

“You can rise now, my little ponies,” Celestia smiled at them. “You’re dismissed for tonight, my sister and I have had a long journey and wish to be left in the privacy of our chambers.”

“Of course, your highness, you two have a good night now.” The two princesses passed them and walked inside the castle. Their heels clicked loudly against the marble floor as they strolled the now empty halls of the castle, passing the occasional night guard or castle staff wandering the halls.

After walking through the many halls of the castle, they soon found Celestia’s bedchambers. Upon opening the door the could see the room was covered in a royal purple all along it’s walls with a large queen sized circular bed emblazoned with a sun right in the middle with matching purple sheets. At the left of the room was a large purple and pink dresser with a mirror attached while an assortment of makeup, perfume, and a couple hair brushes were lying on top the dresser.

Next to the dresser were several bookcases filled with many books and scrolls, some were of friendship reports her dear friend Twilight Sparkle sent to her the past few years while she was her student. What filled the rest of the shelves were scrolls of ancient spells or tomes she had collected personally over the centuries. To the rear end of the room, was a couch set up next to a pair of glass double doors that led outside to a balcony for Celestia to bring out the beautiful morning sun; when night falls Luna would bring out the majestic moon and the extravagant starry sky.

Celestia sighed, glad that she and her sister could finally rest after their long trip. She then began to stretch her limbs and wings out, accentuating what many mares and stallions called a body fit for a goddess. Her royal rainbow colored mane cascaded down her back like a multicolored waterfall of light blue, green, pink, and periwinkle that constantly moved to an unseen breeze while her tail lazily swished from side to side.

Her tall nine foot one inch frame frame towered over many of her subjects and under her beige colored evening dress was a body built like one of Canterlot’s finest royal guard yet traced by the shapely swell of her curves topped with a pair of large pure white wings on her back that many would mistakenly call delicate or angelic but to the trained eye of a pegasus or any flying race for that matter would notice her wings were lined with plenty of muscle at the base connecting to her upper back and along the edges of the feathery pair indicating their capability of lifting the alicorn up into the air with no less than a single snap of her wings.

This gave the mare a voluptuous form that was a borderline hourglass, but covered in a small soft layer of fat from the occasional seven-layer cake she would ask the chefs to make when she felt stressed. Giving her body a balance of both well-toned muscle and exquisite curve that made stallions turn their heads in awe and mares willing to claw each other over to have a body like hers.

And if that wasn’t what grabbed many suitors or the attention of her fellow rulers, then it was her enormous bust that strained against her dress. Her impressive KK cup breasts were the talk of many jealous females that wished their chests were as big as the sun princess. They were very perky and well rounded in a perfect pair of globes as they lay atop the mares upper torso and were now currently showing off a large valley of cleavage that left much to the imagination of anypony who looked. Celestia didn’t mind some of the looks she got whenever she or her sister went out on errands but at times the two sisters did wish whoever they met didn’t stare at their chests quite so openly.

Celestia then lifted up her perfectly well-sculpted legs and a golden aura began to glow off of her nearly two-foot long horn as she manipulated her magic to take off her shoes and lay them neatly in a small cubby next to her nightstand. She rubbed at her hooves, relieved at the feeling of them no longer being constrained, and took a glance at her legs. They were long, slender, and very fit for a mare like herself; she snaked her eyes up to her strong thighs that added some curve to her form but soon stopped at a long open slit in her dress that revealed a pair of hips that were absolutely perfect for birthing many strong healthy children if she were to bear any.

Luna was on par with her sister with how much she had changed after integrating with society over the years since she was reformed; she had grown into a figure nearly identical to the Princess of the Sun. She was much similar to her sister but was smaller and slimmer in several areas on her body. As her blue wings folded behind her, Luna easily stood at eight feet four inches in frame. As she looked out onto the balcony, her crystal blue mane flowed in the nonexistent wind along with her tail. Despite being the younger sister of Celestia, she had a body to rival her after having her magic recovered.

Her blue regal evening dress rested against her curves, as the blue amazonian alicorn crossed her well-muscled arms under her heavy bust. Her stomach was flat and spending most of her time with training herself these past few years had left her in very fit condition with a six-pack on her stomach. She believed she grew soft after her return and trained many times during the day while she was recovering since she was more of a traditionalist. She was still on par with her sister being a double JJ cup bust that swelled within her dress making a large amount of cleavage that left many drooling as well as her toned curved flank that bared her crescent moon cutie mark underneath.

Her legs were sculpted like Celestia’s but were more toned showing off her firm thighs that rippled with muscle. She thought back one day when she had heard her training partner say that she could shatter bricks with her thighs. She was more muscular than her sister since Celestia was more lax in her training, trading it off for yoga or meditation. Overall, her physique was very similar to Celestia’s and on rare occasions, the two would compete with each other to see who was better.

Both sisters walked back inside, and Celestia headed towards her bed, sitting down on the soft mattress. She looked over to her and patted one side of the bed, wanting her sister to sit with her. Luna joined her and both alicorns sighed finally able to relax.

“Quite the peaceful night, sister.” Luna began as they sat back enjoying their moment of relief.

“Indeed it is, sister. With the amounts of threats that we’ve faced in the past, it’s amazing how quiet things have been recently, not to mention how much has changed as well.”

“What do you mean?” Luna asked turning to her sister in confusion.

“Ever since I met Twilight and taken her as my personal student, she has accomplished so much in the past five years.” Celestia began, turning towards her dresser looking at a picture frame placed on top of it. Using her horn, she illuminated the picture frame in a golden glow and floated it towards her direction and she stared at it fondly.

“It still feels like it was yesterday when I took her in.” The photo revealed Celestia and a very young Twilight smiling brightly while the alicorn held Spike when he was just a baby sucking on his tail. The photo was taken inside Celestia’s room and everyone had warm happy smiles on their faces.

“I wish I would’ve met them when they were younger. If only I wasn’t Nightmare Moon at the time, I would’ve liked to see Twilight as a young filly and Spike when he was just hatched. He must’ve been so adorable at the time.”

“You would’ve loved to meet them when they were younger, Luna.” Celestia smiled at her. “It was something that I will cherish forever.”

“I know.” She looked at the young dragon that was happily playing with his tail and smiled. Luna was happy looking at the infant drake, but her smile slowly crept into a frown as she turned to the window and looked outside at the moon. ‘I just hope we can give “them” another chance.’ Celestia seeing her sister’s look soon caught on to what it meant as her sister stared at moon sadly, her royal blue mane glittering in the moonlight.

“You’ve been thinking about it again haven’t you?” Celestia began, while placing a hand on her shoulder.

She nodded, looking out to the window. “Yes, Tia, I have. And I keep wondering to myself are we doing the right thing?”

“Of course we are, Luna. We made an agreement a thousand years ago, and it’s the only way to ensure Equestria’s safety.”

“That’s not what I meant, Tia, and you know it.” She turned to her, a troubled look plastered on her face. “Is this fair at all to Spike and what he’s required to do. After my return I was terrified that we missed our chance and I had left our country in jeopardy because of my selfishness.” She gripped on the seat tightly, nearly ripping the upholstery, but then relaxed and took a deep breath.

“I guess, what I mean is that with what we promised... do you think Spike would really agree to this?”

“What other choice do we have Luna? I don’t like it either, but it’s our only hope to ensure that Equestria has a future,” Celestia added walking from her bed. She looked outside the doors to the balcony. “I’m troubled by more than you since Spike is my son, I wish we didn’t have to be forced to do this to him. But we can’t let any innocent ponies feel his wrath for what the ancestors of our subjects did to ‘them’. It’s not our choice to make since, ‘he,’ made it for us,” Celestia emphasized with a sigh, “And we must honor it when Spike comes of age.”

“We know, sister, but when will we be sure he’s of age?” Luna inquired. “I thought the necessary age needed was eighteen, and yet, Spike is twenty one now, shouldn’t we prepare him for the consummation of the deal?”

“‘He,’ mentioned that he’ll be of age when Spike gets his wings. But, ‘he,’ also mentioned on how Spike would gain visions of what would happen if we didn’t agree to his deal.”

“Has Spike mentioned anything about these visions?” Celestia asked her sister.

“None so far, all I’ve seen was pleasant dreams of his friends and the occasional wet dream towards the element of generosity.” Luna giggled.

“I see he still has that crush on her.” Celestia smiled. “What I heard from Cadence was it was turning into love the last time she visited them.”

“I thought he grew out of his crush.”

“Apparently he did not,” she grinned, but then turned back to a solemn smile “But I see your point, Luna. Maybe he hasn’t gotten anything yet, otherwise, we would've seen something from him by now, sometimes I can’t help but worry for him.” Celestia set the picture back onto the dresser. Then out of nowhere, a puff of green smoke appeared and a scroll materialized out magically with the royal seal of the friendship council on it.

“It appears to be from Spike.” She caught the scroll as it fell into her hand and untied the ribbon attached to it. Celestia opened it and began to read. Luna noticed a combination of emotions run through her sisters face from worry, to shock, then finally a look of both alarm and of a concerned mother. She put down the letter and turned to Luna a grim look of fear and concern on her face.

“Sister, what is it?”

“It’s from Spike, himself.” Celestia handed her the letter. She read it and a look of realization soon dawned on her as she turned back to her sister. “We must see to this at once,” Celestia stated firmly.

“What do we do, sister? If he’s having this nightmare, then that’s a sure sign that we need to act fast.”

“I know, Luna, but as of right now we need to investigate what exactly has been going on and see what has been bothering my son.”

“I’ll visit him in the dream realm and find out.” Luna replied, her eyes showing undying determination.

“I’ll go too. I believe that whatever the case may be we need to be certain so we can prepare, Lulu.”

“Very well, Tia, let’s get ourselves ready then,” Luna stated as her sister laid back on the bed and awaited for her to commence the spell. Her horn began to glow a dark blue as she sat on the bed focusing her magic onto themselves and began projecting their consciousness into the dream world.

-Dream Realm-

The two alicorn sisters opened their eyes to find a large, endless, black and blue colored void with an immeasurable number of silver trees known as memory trees. Each tree had a series of cutie marks on the trunk indicating the ponies the tree belonged to. Everyone had a glowing orb on the tip of a branch which held the dreams of all their subjects. Various colors ranged on the dreams that each of the ponies carried.

Blue was the color of a pony having a happy dream which was normal, green was jealousy, pink meant a very positive dream, gray was that of somepony feeling sad or depressed, yellow was when a dream was full of anger, brown and white meant they were either worried or paranoid, and purple and red showed that somepony was either in love or having a rather steamy dream. Luna had lost count at how many of those dreams she had walked in on only to find out they involved either her, her sister, or both of them teaming up. Some had gone so far as to imagine the princesses giving themselves to bear whoever it was children and make that dreamer their new ruler. That last memory unnerved Luna a little, she had seen many strange and disturbing dreams ever since she returned, and sometimes wished she could use her magic on herself to wipe her memory of them.

“Good, we’re here now. All we need to do is search for Spike’s memory and find out if Spike’s nightmare is what we believe it is. So I suggest, Tia, that you-” The second Luna turned around, she found Celestia to be nowhere in sight. “Tia…?” she called out but got no answer; she waited for a few moments but did not see her anywhere. Sighing to herself she began walking in search of her.

“Sometimes I wonder if I’m the mature one in the family,” she mumbled to herself as she looked for her older sister. She walked amongst the ethereal trees in hoping to find Celestia. After about five minutes of walking through the realm, she noticed one of the trees was flashing, indicating that someone had entered the dream. One of the orbs was glowing a bright red color.

“Oh no,” Luna said to herself, as she knew what the color ment. She moved towards the glowing tree, and a door below the tree soon opened to reveal a very flustered Celestia walking out. Luna noticed her expression change from shock to embarrassed as her face became bright red. Sighing as she walked towards her sister, that look all too familiar to her.

“I take it that you walked into something you wish you hadn’t?” Luna asked as she held her hand out to a blushing Celestia. She only nodded in response as she took her sisters hand and walked away from the tree.

“I never knew ponies can have those types of dreams,” Celestia mumbled to herself.

“You need to be more careful, Tia, you could easily get lost if you don’t know your way around here.”

“Why, I’ve visited the dream realm with you before and helped with dispelling many of our subjects nightmares too. I’m completely capable of handling things as much as you are Luna.”

“Oh really, then remind me of the time where you first helped me out in clearing someponies nightmare and you ended up walking into the dream of one stallion who was in the middle of having sex with his harem in a mud puddle, sound familiar?”

Celestia flinched when she brought up that memory. “Please don’t bring that up, I can’t look at strawberry jelly the same way ever again.” She cringed as her body shuddered at the thought.

“Regardless, let me lead, and let us find Spikes dream now.” Luna began walking while Celestia followed behind her.

“Then why must you lead when I’m perfectly capable of finding my way around here?”

“Because you’re not thinking clearly right now, Tia. You just walked into another stallions dream where he was doing who knows what with how red your face was,” Luna followed up, and Celestia’s cheeks started to turn pink again.

“So what? I’m not a helpless filly that doesn’t know what she’s doing,” she said defensively.

“You’re worried about Spike, I understand, but we won’t find him if you just try dashing ahead without thinking. This isn’t like you, Tia.” Celestia was surprised by her sister's statement but soon realized that she was right, running around in a panic wasn’t going to help anyone.

She then took a deep breath and let it out. ”You’re right, Luna...It’s just...he’s like a son to me. I know that what we promised contradicts it. But whenever I look at him, I still see that little baby dragon in my arms who’s sucking on his tail without any concern for the world.” she replied as her eyes grew misty.

“I may not have met Spike when he was hatched, but I’ve seen how close you were to him. And I doubt that he would want to see you like this,” she said putting a comforting hand on her sister’s shoulder. Celestia smiled at her words and wiped her eyes. “And I’m sure when the time comes we tell him, he’ll understand. Now let’s go find your son and see what is going on.” She smiled and turned around spreading her wings and lifting herself up into the air with Celestia behind her.

They flew for a couple of minutes scanning the dreamscape for the one dragon they sought after. Soon enough, Luna pointed down to the very tree they were looking for. They landed in front of it. It’s purple crystalline structure looked similar to the Tree of Harmony, only instead of the elements on it’s branches it had the dreams of it’s bearers hanging off of each tip. Every orb glowed as bright as Celestia’s sun and with a different color as well.

At the first orb was Applejack which was colored in blue, pink, and yellow indicating she was feeling cheer and happiness but the yellow indicated she also had something on her mind. Next was Rainbow dash who’s colors were similar, the only difference was there was the color orange instead of yellow, meaning she was impatient over something. After that was Fluttershy where there was a mix of blue, pink, and purple that meant that she was having a nice dream and was probably with somepony special, but then the two sisters noticed the orb’s color shift from its original palette to a bright red, it seemed the pegasus was really enjoying her dream now.

They both looked at each other in slight surprise remembering on how shy and timid she usually was but shrugged figuring since it was a dream she had nothing to worry about. They turned back to the tree and noticed the fourth orb was Pinkie Pies and unsurprisingly to the two, it was entirely pink and whatever was happening they imagined she was either throwing a party or cheering someone up or both. Turning to the next orb, they found Rarity’s which was grey at first but then changed into a mix of blue, purple, and pink meaning she was happy with whatever was happening. Lastly they saw Twilights orb where it was in the colors of orange, green, and brown which told them she was feeling restless while also jealous, but why she was feeling that last emotion the alicorns weren’t sure.

Finally Luna and Celestia saw Spikes orb and what they saw unnerved them, it was a shadowy inky black mixed with a deep blood red that seemed to almost pulsate and swirl with some dark unforseen power. On the dream orb was a marking indicating who’s dream it was, a mark that the royal sisters were all too familiar with.

“Is that Spikes?” Asked Celestia who grew worried from the state the orb was in and the possibility of what her adopted son must be going through now.

“Indeed it is, Tia, and it’s not good. Whatever’s happening he’s in the middle of a nightmare. A serious one I take it.” The Lunar Princesses’ brow furrowed knowing full well that most nightmares occurring in a pony's dream orb were usually the color black, but this was beyond a normal nightmare and they both knew it.

“Can you dissolve it?” Celestia asked trying hard not to let her maternal instincts take over in a situation as delicate as this. Knowing her sister and that this was no normal nightmare either she let her take the lead on what to do.

“I’ll try, but we can’t be sure what will happen,” Luna stated as she looked at the ominous sphere as it pulsed with malice. She began focusing her magic through her horn before directing her magic and firing a bright blue beam at it. When it made contact, its surface began to vibrate and shiver at the beams touch, and, for a few moments, it seemed to shrink in size. Luna smiled thinking that it was working as she continued using her magic to make the orb change color from black and red to a light pink. Suddenly, the orb pulsed and shifted back to black and red growing bigger in size.

Luna poured more of her magic into the spell as she struggled with the sudden pressure that began to grow. Luna grunted as the unknown force kept pushing against her magic, almost like it was aware that she was trying to get rid of it. She kept kept fighting but could feel it forcing her back until suddenly a bright flash engulfed the sisters and a blast of energy knocked Luna off her hooves and flat on her back. Celestia, in a panic, rushed to her sisters aide as she knelt in front of the stunned mare and helped her up.

“Luna, are you alright?” Celestia asked, as Luna slowly got up from the knock back. Luna opened her eyes seeing stars from the sudden surge of magic. She shook it off, dispersing the magical feedback.

“I’m ok, Tia.” She had to steady herself from the dizziness after the knockback. She then looked up and began to wonder on the sudden push from earlier. “I think, ‘he,’ was responsible for this,” she said, pointing at the dark black and red orb that was now back to how they first found it.

“Either to prevent us from interfering or to protect him from anypony entering his mind, at least until he matures.”

“And that means we can’t try to diminish it from the outside,” Luna added, dusting herself off. “We have to go inside the dream to try and see for ourselves if it’s what we suspect.”

“It appears that way.” Both mares channeled their magic through their horns and prepared themselves to enter the dream. They walked up to the orb and with a joint effort combined their magic to form a much stronger beam, hoping to cut through the orb just enough to create the small opening they needed.

They looked to each other and then back to the black mass engulfing Spikes dream and fired two magical beams from their horns. It seemed to have an effect on the orb in front of them, rather than trying to dispel the nightmare they were able to make a small opening in the orb.

At last the opening was wide enough for them to walk through, but they soon noticed that it was beginning close. Hitting it with magic again, they tried their best to keep it open but it was futile and simply kept shrinking. With no other options, the sisters ran up to the opening and jumped through it into the dream.

-Spike’s Dream-

Spike eyes felt heavy as he started to slowly wake up and was met with the sight of a large black void surrounding him from every direction. Confused, Spike stood up and looked everywhere but could see nothing but blackness. Suddenly, Spike saw a small gray sphere appear right in front of him. It fluttered to and fro around his head but then shot forward ahead of him.

Feeling curious, he started to walk, following the sphere and hoping it would lead him to answers. Spike kept following it for around a minute until the orb stopped and hovered for a few moments before it began to glow. It grew brighter and brighter to the point where Spike had to shield his eyes; then, just as quick as it began, the light disappeared. He brought down his hand to find the sphere no longer there; in its place sat a large stone statue of a dragon that he didn’t recognize.

“Who is this?” A look of confusion grew on his face, knitting his brow he looked closely at the stone dragon. The statue was of a dragon that seemed to be of prestige based on what Ember told him that the only dragons who were respected enough were given a burial and sometimes had a headstone carved in their likeness along with their family crest to identify who they were.

Spike looked at the center of the dragon and a mark was carved on his chest, but it had a symbol that he didn’t understand. Soon the same orb that he was following moved around him in circles, making him dizzy.

Spike watched as the orb continued flying around him until it stopped mid air and then floated towards the statue and to his confusion was absorbed by it. A moment later, a white aura shined around the dragon statue and Spike could almost feel the dragon in him was being drawn towards it.

He slowly walked up until he was just a few inches away from it and looked up into the cold gray lifeless eyes, but when he did, it almost felt like the eyes themselves were alive boring straight into his soul.

“This is creepy…” Spike said moved the last few steps towards the statue. He felt the pull become stronger as he lifted his hand bringing it closer until it made contact with the stony surface. Spike didn’t feel anything for a moment until suddenly he saw the black void began to shift and change, he looked back at the statue but watched as it began to disintegrate into smoke. The last thing Spike saw of the statue were its eyes which let off a sinister red glow before vanishing.

“W-what’s going on?” He asked himself as the world around him slowly started to change shape and form into a warped and twisted reality that he dreamed up earlier. Spike was soon blinded by a sea of flames that flashed before his eyes until the flames died down. What he saw next, left the drake full of horror and dread.

“No…” He could only look on in horror as he was back in the exact same spot he was once in before, but it was much worse than he imagined. Standing right before him was the fiery remains of the school of friendship in nothing more than a pile of rubble, there was nothing left standing.

“Wha? What happened to the school?” He asked aloud as he walked forward still in shock. He took three more steps until his foot landed in a large puddle. ‘Huh?’

Spike looked down and soon realized what he stepped in. It was warm, wet, and he smelled the iron like aroma hitting his nose, he stood in a pool of blood. Spike was disturbed by this and immediately stepped out of it desperately wiping his clawed feet on the ground.

‘Blood? Not again.’ Spike thought to himself, slowly walking backwards in both shock and fear.. ‘Where did it all come from?’

He was brought out of his thought when his back hit something behind him; he turned around and was horrified by the sight. Right in front of the drake was Gallus, who was pinned to the wall by his wings and his intestines were spilling out from where his stomach was and piled at Spikes feet.

“G-gallus?” Spike spoke up. “Wh-why?” Spike walked away from the mutilated gryphon and ended up stumbling over something on the ground. He groaned from the landing and rubbed his forehead. He felt something wet on his right hand and looked down to see even more blood on the floor.

“Gah!” He screamed as he jumped to a devastating sight, Yona and Sandbar dead on the ground. Yona’s eyes were gone and replaced with her horns as they appeared to be gouged out. Sandbar looked like he had one of his own arms shoved into his muzzle after being was torn off.

“Y-yona and Sandbar too?” Spike was in full-blown panic mode when he saw more of the corpses in front of him. There were other students around him on the floor, their bodies twisted and mutilated to the point of no return.

“Please, no…” Spike ran through the remains of his once alive friends and some of the students he has gotten to know, wanting to see if anypony was alive. He kept running until he slipped and fell face first into the ground. Spike groaned and got to his hands and knees; when he lifted up his head, he was now looking into the dead lifeless eyes of Silverstream whose head was decapitated from her body a few feet away.

Startled, Spike quickly crawled backwards until he had his back against the opposite wall, he looked over at her body and saw that it was covered in deep gashes all along her back and one of her wings was severed. Feeling nauseous the drake got to his feet and stumbled away hoping to find somepony that might still be alive.

‘Ok...ok...this can’t be re real, it just can’t. Why is everypony like this?’ He thought to himself as he walked towards the mutilated bodies of the students. He kept walking, hoping to find at least one pony or creature alive, but all he found was dead bodies everywhere he went.

Spike needed to brave on, hoping to find anyone that was left in the school; he reached the other side of the building and found the surrounding area was completely scorched with nothing left of the structure or any plant life.

“Come on, there has to be somepony left alive…” Spike thought to himself as he continued running through the rubble. He looked forward and stopped when he noticed a figure.

“Wh-what is that?” He said as he looked off into the distance to see something suspended in midair. He moved forward as the figure became larger and larger. It wasn’t until Spike was ibky a few feet away that he recognized that it was the hanging remains of Ocellus, Spike was horrified seeing the bloody dripping remains of her corpse as her body was torn in two. Her insides were hanging out, trailing along the wall while her legs and pelvis lay on the floor beneath her and when he looked up he saw that her head was impaled onto the tip of a pike, a look of horror and despair plastered on her face.

Spike feeling overwhelmed from seeing all of his dead friends torn to pieces and the smell of death filling his nostrils felt bile begin to rise up in the back of his throat, he stumbled over to the nearest crumbling wall and vomited all over. After a few moments of heaving, Spike stood back up, wiping his mouth, thinking about what had caused this and why he was seeing these flashes of death and destruction.

“This can’t be happening.” He thought to himself and soon realized after everyone he saw, he noticed that a certain dragoness is missing. Spike was brought out of his thoughts when he heard a loud groan behind him, turning around Spike was surprised to find a battered and bruised Smolder limping up to him. She was covered in cuts and bruises all over her body and was missing her right wing on her back. She looked as if a Cerberus chewed her up and spat her out like a used toy.

“Smolder!” Spike shouted rushing towards the injured dragoness. He was horrified on the injuries she sustained, but was glad that she was alive. “What happened?”

Smolder wearily opened her eyes to see Spike looking towards her. He reached out with his hand when suddenly, Smolders eyes went wide in shock. Her mouth opened up to speak, but only a small gurgle could be heard. It was soon followed up, by the dragoness coughing up blood. Spike grew worried until he felt a warm solid surface surrounding his hand.

They both look down and Spike just stares in shock as he sees his arm rammed through Smolder’s torso. He wasn’t even sure how it happened as he only held out his hand. Smolder slowly looked at a terrified Spike with tears in her eyes and uttered a single word.

“W...why…?” That was her final breath before Smolders eyes begin to turn grey and her body started to flake turning into dust, while the rest of her body started to fall apart in Spike’s hand until the dragoness was nothing more than a pile of ashes at his feet.

Spike was truly horrified at what just happened. He had hoped to help her but she suddenly died by his hands. He slumped to the floor, grief and despair flooding his mind as tears began to well up in his eyes.

“Why? What did I ever do to deserve any of this?” He said as the tears flowing from his eyes fell to the floor. The world around him soon began to change again as he cried, unsure of what was going to happen next. Spike was filled with a plethora of emotions from everything he’s seen; sorrow, fear, greif, anger, and despair.

All of his friends dying in front of him and he wanted nothing more than for this nightmare to end. He stopped crying as he looked around himself to see nothing but a black void.

“Why?” A voice called out to him making the purple dragon flinch. He looked up searching for the voice only to find nothing. Turning around, he was shocked to see the body of Smolder standing in front of him, a gaunt version of her former self.

“S-smolder?” Spike asked in fear and confusion. “Wh-what happened to you.”

“You happened,” she said in a dark tone. “You killed us.”

“What did we ever do to deserve this?” Another voice called out making the shocked dragon flinch. Spike turns around to where the voice came from and his blood runs cold. He found the rest of Smolder’s friends; Sandbar, Yona, Silver Stream, Gallus and Occelus were all in a dark grey shroud as they stared at Spike with dark eyes, crying blood to the floor.

“Why? Why did you do this to us?” Gallus added with disgust in his voice. “What did we ever do to you?”

“No please, it wasn’t my fault!”

“You...you did this to us!”

“No it wasn’t me!” He begged.

“You betrayed us.”

“I didn’t.”

“Then why did you kill us?” Ocellus added, bloody tears dripping from her face. “Aren’t we your friends

“Yona, not understand why Spike hurt us.”

“Why….why….why….why….why….why….why….”

“Please make it stop.” Spike said as he covered his face as tears streamed down his face.

“Why….why….why….why….why….why….why….”

“Why, Spike?” A voice called out to Spike. His heart almost as he recognized that voice all too well. That very voice came from behind him and he turned around to see a ghoulish version of the very mare he grew up to know as Twilight Sparkle along with the rest of his friends in varying states of decay and gore in his previous dream who were all surrounding him in a circle.

“Why did you betray us like this, Spike?” Twilight said in an empty tone. “I thought we were your friends.”

“But y-you are my friends!”

“Then why did you hurt us?” Pinkie asked. “I can’t throw any of my parties or give ponies hugs if my limbs are torn off.”

“And why did ya cut off ma head!?” Applejack snarled, still holding her severed head in her arm. “You got any idea how I'm gonna explain this to mah family?”

“You promised you would never be like them, Spike!” Fluttershy sobbed as tears of blood ran down her face. “You monster!”

“N-n-no t-th-that’s n-n-not true.”

“I knew I shouldn’t have trusted you!” Rainbow Dash added glaring daggers at him. “Look at what you bucking did to me!! Because of you I can’t fly anymore!”

“And I should never have thought of giving you a chance Spikey-Wikey, I thought you were devoted to me, I thought you loved me?!” She cried.

“But...but I do love you Rarity, please you gotta believe me!”

“You are no better than a dragon that lives with who it loves… just a bunch of shiny stones and useless trinkets.”

“I’ve raised you my entire life and this is how you repay all of us?” Twilight added, bloody tears rolling down her face.

“Why, Spike….why?” They said in unison. While everyone else repeated the word over and over, echoing in the drakes mind like a gong ringing.

“Why… why… why… why… why… why… why!”

“No…”

WHY…. WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY!!

“Please...no more…”

WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY….WHY!!!

“THAT’S ENOUGH!!!” A voice boomed causing Spike to jump up in shock. He looked over to where the voices came from and saw two shadows standing near him. Both were mares and had furious looks on their faces from what was happening. They soon channeled their magic through their horns. The sudden dark figures around him vanished only leaving a starry filled void behind from where they once stood. Both mares immediately ran to Spike’s aide and saw his teary distraught face full of fear and anguish.

-3rd POV-

A portal opened within the dream pocket and Celestia and Luna arrived into Spike’s dream to see where they were.

“Okay, sister, we’re here.”Luna added, stretching her limbs. “We should hurry and find Spike.”

“I just hope that my fears are only of my imagination, sister.” Celestia began with a look of fear on her face as she crossed her arms under her breasts. Luna was about to say something, until they heard strange noises coming from the right of them.

“What is that noise?”

“I don’t know.”

The two quickly rushed through the dream until they came across a horrifying sight, Spike was surrounded by mutilated and gory doubles of his friends and themselves while blaming him for their states making the young drake sob in fear and horror.

“SPIKE!!” Celestia shouted in shock from what she was seeing. She tried calling to him, but the distraught drake was unresponsive. Luna, of course, wasn’t having any of this.

“THAT’S ENOUGH!!!” Luna’s voice boomed out in the dream as she turned to her sister with an angered and determined look. Celestia of course, joined her sister as both mares charged as much magic into their horns as they possibly could to dispel the nightmare that surrounded the young drake.

The dopplegangers cried in agony when they spell struck them all and they vanished away from Spike, leaving the distraught drake in shock. Both mares rushed to the drake, hoping that they weren’t too late to draw him out.

“Spike! Spike! Snap out of it!” Celestia shouted as she shook her adoptive son repeatedly with Luna by her side hoping that Spike was alright.

“Sir, Spike! Please wake up!”

Spike opens his eyes wide and looks at the solar and lunar monarchs before him, both safe and sound and not a scratch on them. Before they can say anything the young drake lunged at them and wrapped them both in a powerful hug and began to cry silently, making the sisters hug him back while shrouding him in their wings.

“You’re both alive…” Spike said through his teary eyes then began sobbing uncontrollably.

“It’s ok, sweetie, we’re here; it’s all over now,” Celestia said hugging Spike tighter, her heart broke when she saw her son having to go though such a horrifying ordeal and wished she could’ve been here sooner for him. Luna may not have known Spike that well, but she at least wanted to see that he was all right, but seeing him so distraught and frightened like this made her feel weak. It was as if she wasn’t there for him like she should have been.

They stayed that way for several minutes while the young drake cried and cried in the sisters embrace. Each of them stroking his back and whispering words of encouragement that everything was going to be okay, Celestia hummed in her son’s ear while she stroked at his head until all she and her sister heard was Spikes sniffling as he slowly began to calm down.

“Are you feeling better now Spike?” Luna asked as she began to unfurl her wings from the group hug.

“I-I feel a little better now, thanks for asking.” Spike smiled.

Celestia stayed there nuzzling her cheek on the dragon’s head and felt guilty on not being there for him when he needed her.

“Oh, Spike, honey, I’m so sorry. I wish we came here sooner so you didn’t have to suffer so much. I’m such a horrible mother letting this happen to my baby.” She sniffled as fresh tears started to fall from the solar princess’s face. Luna looked at the two and could only feel frustration for what she realized and felt helpless on how she couldn’t do anything for him. After a couple minutes, Spike had stopped crying and took a couple of deep breaths to calm himself before he looked up at both of his caretakers.

“Now, Spike, we obtained your letter about your nightmares and I’m sorry that we weren’t here to do anything about it,” Luna began as she got closer to the young dragon. “Now could you explain to us on when they started happening?”

“Well… it started about a month ago, a little after Sludge left Ponyville. I was still feeling depressed about his visit so all I wanted then was to just sleep, but that’s where the trouble started…”

“You mean... your nightmares?” Celestia asked.

Spike nodded. “Yeah...every time I close my eyes all I could see was death and destruction all around me and somehow…. I’m the cause of it.” Spike shuddered as memories of the same nightmare plagued his mind. “I can still hear everyone’s voices of the ponies that I might kill and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to stop it from happening.” Spike hugged his arms close together shivering

“You...you were killing ponies?” Luna asked in utter shock.

“Great goddesses above…” Celestia said with fear plastered on her face. She looked back to her younger sister and a similar look of fear also appeared on her. She then turned back to her son and placed her hands on his shoulders to get his attention. Her heart cracked when she saw the look of complete helplessness on her sons face and wished she could just take him away from this nightmare and give him the love and comfort he needed, telling him that everything will be ok.

“What’s happening to me, mom, I’m scared and I don’t know what this nightmare is supposed to mean for me. Or even why I’m having them in the first place.” Spike looked down at his hands as visions of them soaked blood appeared from the back of his mind. He was brought out of his thoughts when Celestia brought her fingers to his chin and made him look at her.

“Spike this is very important, and I wouldn’t ask unless it was...do you remember any specific details about your nightmare you could describe to us?”

“Well...there was this spirit or ghost or whatever that kinda looked liked me, but it wasn’t me.” Spike began. “I also remember on how I looked at my reflection in a puddle and how I was in an older and more monstrous state...it reminded me of when I changed on my birthday.” He added sadly while his mother softly gripped his shoulders in encouragement to keep going.

“Anything else?” Luna added.

“It spoke in a dark gruff voice when he….he…. killed the both of you.” Spike said somberly, almost choking on the words. “I don’t know what he wanted, but he said specifically on how he wanted Equestria to suffer the same way his people did.” Spike finished, lowering his head sadly. “So far that’s everything I know.”

Celestia and Luna looked at Spike as they absorbed what he told them. Both mares soon looked at each other in both fear and recognition. The now understood on what they had to do.

“This could only mean one thing.”

“Indeed sister. It is time to settle an old debt, otherwise all of Equestria is doomed to ‘his’ wrath.”

Spike noticed the look on both of their faces and could tell that they were thinking hard about what he told them.

“Wait… do you two know something…?” Spike squinted his eyes in suspicion. “Is there something you’re not telling me?”

“As much as we want to tell you, Spike, we can’t. Not right now at least,” Celestia began. This of course, started to anger Spike as he clenched his fist and looked up at his adoptive mother and aunt.

“But why, why can’t you tell me now!? Why can’t you tell about what has been happening to me for the past fucking month?!”

“Now, Spike-”

“Don’t, ‘Now, Spike,’ me!” He shouted, breathing a little fire as tears began to roll down his face once again, his stress overwhelming him. “You have no idea what it’s like trying to hold all of this back from the girls for past month and trying to make up excuses just so they don’t worry! I feel If I have another nightmare like this one, I may eventually snap!”

“Spike, please-”

“What else have you been hiding from me about all of this, huh!? Why can’t you just tell me about what’s been happening to me!?”

“It would be better if we show you, Spike,” Celestia began and took a breath to calm her nerves. She placed both of her hands on his shoulders looking directly into his eyes which showed a mix of frustration, confusion and fear.
“There is a place beyond Equestria that we can take you to that will answer all of your questions, and it is the reason why we have to show you because it’s very important that you understand. Okay, sweetie?”

Spikes anger faded as looked into his mother’s eyes seeing them show nothing but honesty he took a deep breath and slowly let it out until he started to feel calm and looked back to his adoptive mother who was now staring back at him in concern.

“And you promise you’ll tell me everything that’s been going on, nothing left out?”

“Spike, me and Luna Pinkie Promise that we will tell you anything you ask us about what’s been going on. But we can only do that if we take you where we need to go first in order to do that.”

Spike turned to his aunt. “And you swear that you will answer all my questions when we get to wherever you need to take me to?”

“Nothing will be left out Spike. I can assure you on that, and I can vouch for my sister on how important this is.” Luna added kneeling down towards the young drake. “We swear on our crowns and to you as your family that all will be explained when the time comes and you’ll know about everything.” She said doing the motions of the promise along with her sister.

Spike stared into his mother’s eyes, the one pony he looked up to the most in his life who always was there when he was back in Canterlot. Whenever Twilight was studying in class, Celestia would always find the time to look after Spike in any way she could. Whether it was reading him a story, teaching him how to use his fire, or patching him up whenever he was hurt. She was the one light in Spikes life who was always loving and supportive of him aside from Twilight or her family.

Even though he didn’t know Luna well when he first met her, she at least wanted to understand on how much time has changed and how she wanted to be in Spike’s life. When Spike sent letters to Luna about how he was doing, she would smile knowing that he was alright and had somepony to talk to after she returned. There were a few times where he would have small nightmares, not counting the ones that he’s seeing at the moment, and Luna always dispelled them before they became too much for him.

“Okay, I believe you,” Spike said as he fully calmed down letting out another breath to steady himself.

“Thank you, Spike.”

“We truly appreciate this, Spike,” Celestia smiled.

Both amazon mares hugged the young drake and Spike tried his best to hug them back. He then realized what he was touching as he looked down and noticed that he was groping each of the mares’ breasts. Spike blushed removing his hands from the amazon’s bosoms and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

“Hehe, sorry…” Spike said in a nervous tone.

“Spike, it’s quite alright.” Celestia smiled. “It’s just a normal male reaction seeing as you’ve been around the girls for quite awhile.”

“That reminds me, mom, I’ve been… feeling these strange… urges whenever I’m around the girls and whenever this happens I feel… drawn to them. Almost as if it’s, I don’t know... some form of attraction towards the girls.”

Luna rose her brows in slight surprise. “Really, anything else you’ve been feeling when around any of the girls, Spike?”

“Well…” Spike blushed a little when he started thinking about Twilight and the rest of his friends. “I spent a little time with each of the girls and was going through some emotional changes as well. I’m just not sure what they mean.”

“What do you mean by these feelings dear?” Celestia asked.

“Well, I only felt that way about Rarity before, but now I feel strange whenever I’m around Twilight or the girls,” Spike added, thinking back to when he talked to Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Starlight, Trixie, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash yesterday. He then remembered how he acted around them from feeling them up, to staring at their assets, or even when he couldn’t stop thinking about seeing them naked, it almost unnerved him.

“And this doesn’t happen to be a hormonal change does it?”

“No, I only started noticing shortly after my nightmares began. I just started to see the girls in a different light is all.” The two sisters looked at each other a small smirk appeared on their faces.

‘I think somepony’s in love.’ Luna thought to herself looking at her sister with a smile.

‘At least he made a choice to love who he wanted. We sacrificed that experience for the greater good of equestria, and for Spike.’ Celestia replied mentally, a small frown appeared on her face but she managed to dispel it without her son noticing. She turned back to Spike smiling at him.

“We can talk about that later, Spike.” Luna smiled as she channeled her magic to open up a portal. “For now we will prepare for when we come to retreive you in the morning.”

“If all goes well, Spike, we’ll be staying for a few days.” Celestia added walking towards her sister. “But you can’t explain this to any of the girls since this will be short notice, until we return from our business.”

“Okay.” Spike smiled as both mares stepped through the portal and walked through, and just as Celestia passed through she turned around to look back to her son.

“Get some rest now, sweetie, you’re going to need it for the trip; I love you.”

“I love you too... mom.” Spike then watched the royal sisters leave and the portal soon closed behind them. He at least felt that he could get some proper sleep now that the nightmares were over at the moment. Spike looked around and soon the starry void he was in changed into a sunny beach. A hammock tied to a couple of palm trees, seeing this Spike smiled and set himself on the hammock and closing his eyes relaxing contendly while he heard the gentle lapping of the waves.

He was brought out of his moment when a shadow appeared over him and when Spike opened his eyes he saw Rarity standing beside him holding a brightly colored drink in her hand. She wore a scantily clad seashell made bikini, he then realized he was in white swim trunks decorated with blue and yellow palm trees.

Spike grinned widely loving the sight of the mare and took the drink and took a sip from it, a moment later he then felt her place her large breasts against him as she pins him against the hammock giving the drake an unprecedented view beneath her bikini. Spike only had one thought running through his mind when he rested on the hammock with Rarity’s breasts in his face.

“Best. Dream. Ever.”

-Canterlot-

Luna’s horn glowed as she finished using her magic on Spike giving a good dream for the night. She smiled when she saw her nephew grin a little to himself in his sleep and she could tell what he was dreaming about through her magic, via a small screen she had conjured.

“There, that should do it. No doubt he’ll have pleasant dreams for the rest of the night, won’t he sister?”

“Indeed, sister,” Celestia replied as the two walked through the portal and appeared back in Celestia’s chambers, it was still nighttime and the clock hanging opposite from her bed read two AM in the morning which meant they have plenty of time to prepare for what they needed to do. But they first needed some sleep after the events that played out today, they would worry about Spike in the morning.

Author's Note

Sorry it took so long, but my and my friend phoenixcolt45 wanted to iron out the details in this story. Things will heat up further into the chapter as time goes on, but I do hope you'll be willing to keep up with this series. Credit goes out to Path_Of_Cloud for edits of the chapter. Seriously, you've been a big help.