Twinkling Dreams

by vicakukac200

Rating: everyone
Tags: Twinkleshine, Adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark
Length: 8318

Twinkleshine gets two mysterious books, one helping her, one leading her into another world full of danger.

Twinkleshine one day looks around in her home and finds two interesting books.
One with the capability for speaking and one with a strange power, what can bring Twinkleshine into a completely another world. That world is the dreamworld. In that world, her task is to fulfill other's dreams for the future, but this is a very dangerous mission, so much danger awaits, but she has the determination to do what she need to do there.
But this long journey may will tear apart a friendship.

Published 2018-04-30 17:10:07 UTC
Last updated 2018-07-07 21:25:38 UTC

Prologue

A light ivory colored unicorn mare wakes up in her home in Canterlot. Her name is Twinkleshine. She had a really uneasy night with her nightmare where the world just goes black without any light source.
She stares at her white ceiling and after a little while, stands up from her bed. Next to her huge bed there is a little drawer what has a few books on the top. Her friend, Minuette gave those to her. As she stares at the books she starts thinking.

"If I recall well, today we don't have anything to do together. I should start reading them already. They just stand there for a long time"

She levitates the book on the top to herself. The light colored mare opens the book with her light blue magic and starts reading the book.
The book is about a mythical unicorn who could make other ponies wishes come true.

"Anypony can do this...." Thinks Twinkleshine. "Anypony can make somepony other's wish to be reality if she tries hard enough"

"You know, that isn't that easy as you think" She hears a lot deeper voice from her own room. "You can think this is the task that anypony can do with a little hard work, but you are wrong. Really, really wrong. Making ponies wish to come true is the most dangerous mission. And I need to say this, but you are the chosen one for this quest. If you take the chance."

"W-where are you...?" asks the unicorn under her pink mane. You can tell by her voice that she is really scared. She has zero idea where the deep voice comes from.

"I'm the book you idiot..." The voice takes a deep breath. "Who gave you me?" asks the deep voice.

"Uhm... My friend Minuette. She gave me all of the books what you can.... See? On the drawer."

"Not a princess? How strange! Well, I'm sorry for the rude introduction, but think that a myth is stupid when you are going to be the one who does it, it's kinda hurts."

"I'm Twinkleshine. Do you have a name?" asks the unicorn with curiosity.

"You can call me Guider if you want, but I'm fine without a name. I see in your book tower a brown book that has the same pattern as I do. It has a unique ability. I'll explain it, just find it. And do not open it yet." talks the book.

"Can that book talk too?" Asks Twinkleshine while looking for the other book. She finds it and levitates it too.

"No it isn't as talkative as me. So that brown book is the portal to the dream world"

"Isn't the dream world princess Luna's territory?" The unicorn mare slightly tilts her head.

"There are two dreamworlds. One where Princess Luna guards the ponies dreams during sleeping. And one is for their future dreams like.... Becoming the greatest wizard in all of Equestria. And in THIS dreamworld you need to risk your life, to make somepony's dream come true."

"Can I choose whose dream I want to fulfill?" Twinkleshine's thoughts runs towards her friends.

"Not every time, but sometimes you can do it. Bigger the dream, harder your mission." Explains it Guider. "And I can go with you to the dream world, so I suggest you to keep me close to you. I'm useful."

"Okay." The unicorn's look jumps between the two books.

"And I'm not the one who decided to go to X pony's dream, will I ever know whose pony's dream it was?"

"Not every time, but sometimes you can know." Think the book a little. "Oh and please, do not say about me anything to anypony."

"Got it.... So what's next?" Twinkleshine a little more hesitant.

"Do you want to try your luck?" Asks the book while the pony stares at her. "I can chose to how hard it'll be. I don't want you to die in your first try trust me."

"Let's do it!" Says the mare with excitement.

"Hold me close to yourself and open the other book." Murmurs Guider.

"Oookay." She levitates the book closer to her, and carefully she opens it. As soon as it's open it absorbs both, the unicorn and the book.

Chapter one

The ivory colored mare land on her face into a new land, and the blue book lands next to her.

"Auch...." She murmurs after getting up from the ground.

Twinkleshine looks around and sees a huge forest around her. The trees are at least sixteen times taller than her. The greenery lets a lot of light come trough it, but it still has it's creepy vibe. She is standing on a dirt path that branches into three other paths.

"Where the hay are we?" Asks the unicorn levitating the blue book next to herself.

"In the dream world, smarty pants" Guider sounds really disappointed. "So what path do you want to go on?"

"Wich path leads to good things?" She asks hopefully.

"I don't think that any of them would lead towards good things" Murmurs the book's deep voice. "But most likely they aren't that dangerous. I think it's a child's dream, so this isn't a huge dream."

"But kids has big dreams!" the unicorn glares at the book.

"Not this one. I said that I don't want you to die on your first mission!"

"Okay... So... Let's take the middle one!" Twinkleshine starts to walk on the middle path. She levitates the book close to her.

"Are there impossible dreams...? Like for a pony to become an alicorn?"

"That Twilight Sparkle did it, didn't she?" Guider is still sounds disappointed.

"Then to become a dragon or a griff..." Murmurs the pony as she walks.

"Well... Yeah there are impossible dreams. In those cases you need to find the hole and jump out of it. You can't do much more." Explains it the blue book.

"Okay, thanks!" Says the unicorn smiling.

"Can I ask you a question too?" Murmurs Guider. Twinkleshine nods as an answer. "Why did you went into this so easily?" The pink fluffy maned pony tilts her head.

"What do you mean?" Asks while she looks around. "This forest is creepy, I hope this path will lead us out!"

"I said that this is going to be a dangerous task. But you just jumped into it. And you didn't even freak out totally when I talked to you at the beginning" He starts to be a little excited

"Why?" His voice calms down.

"I really don't know" The unicorn laughs awkwardly. "I would like to make other's dreams come true... Normally I have no idea how could I do that... So why not? Even if it's dangerous, I'm in... I want to help!" explains the unicorn after a little awkward silence.

"That's really nice of you" murmurs the book.

"Hey there's the path's end!" Says Twinkleshine with a huge smile and starts running towards it.

They arrive to a field. A huge grassy field, with beautiful sky and little, friendly trees around it.

"This doesn't look that bad...."Murmurs Twinkleshine. Guider bursts out in laughter. "What is it?"

"This is a really special case... This is what happens, when you find a dead dream. The pony doesn't want that dream anymore and it replaces itself with something peaceful." Explains it the book.

"So the paths mean that she has multiple dreams?" Twinkleshine starts thinking.

"Could you put me to the ground? I can find out what this pony's dream was" The fluffy maned unicorn nods and puts the book down with her magic. "This pony is a blind filly... And she wanted to see the world around her. So this is just funny because she gave up on this dream, AND it was an impossible dream. I think the portal back to your world will appear soon."

"O-okay" murmurs the ivory unicorn.

"What's wrong? You didn't have to do anything so this was a success!" Says the book with an excited tone.

"It may turned out as a success, but I didn't do anything to reach that success! It's just like my cutiemark!" Twinkleshine gets a little angry than she normally is. Guider leaves her alone for now.

A blue shining portal appears. She steps into it and she land on her own bed.

"At least this isn't as hard as the dirt path was" she gets up and looks out of her window "What it's already dark?!" Her jaw drops.

"Yeah... The time goes faster in the dreamworld..." murmurs the blue book "And if you open the brown book now it won't be completely blank. And you will need a spell to activate it from now on."

"Okay" She yawns a huge. "Good Night!" She says and lays on her bed and falls asleep really fast.

"She is a strange mare!" Sighs the book and stays silent for the rest of the night.

Chapter two

"Twinkleshine!" Talks a blue unicorn to Twinkleshine. "Twinkleshine!" She starts to be louder. "Equestria to Twinkleshine, Twinkleshine please answer!" She nearly shouts. It's enough to bring back the fluffy maned unicorn to the ground. They are sitting in a little cafe in Canterlot. All three of them levitates a cup full of coffee.

"Uhm... Sorry Minuette... I'm a little bit distracted" Murmurs the ivory colored unicorn.

"What happened?" Asks Lemon Hearts.

"Nothing... I'm just a little tired. I went to bed late" She didn't expected this to come out so easily. "By the way, I looked into two books that you gave me Minuette, where did you get those?" Twinkleshine watcher her friend with curiosity.

"I can't remember very well... What books?" asks the blue unicorn mare back.

"A blue and a brown one with the same pattern" Answers Twinkleshine.

"I didn't give you any book like that. I gave you green and red books. Without any pattern." Says the blue mare after a little time.

"O-okay... I don't feel very well, I'll go home. Bye girls!" and the ivory mare trots off.
She runs home. Levitates the talking book to her bed with a little more force than she should.

"Auch! I have feeling too and I would like if you won't throw my everywhere!" Says the book.

"Can't you remember who brought you into my house?" The pony stares at the book angrily. She somehow wants to find out who gave the books to her.

"Calm down girl" Sighs the book. "I was asleep. I was on a bookshelf in Princess Celestia's private library and after that I woke up here"

"You belong to Princess Celestia?!" Twinkleshine's face turns into pale white.

"Don't worry, she would be happy to know that I'm with a pony who is that crazy to jump into dangerous dreams." Talks the deep voice scornfully.

"Speaking of dangerous dreams... Will you teach me that spell?" The fluffy maned mare starts to be excited.

"Just say kuldj at while you touch the book's open page with your horn." Says Guider while Twinkleshine levitates it to herself. She opens the other book on a blank page.

"Kuldj at" Says the magic world and the brown book absorbs the other book and the mare once again.

They land in another forest. Twinkleshine once again, on her face. The forest's greenery is more closed than the last one's, and the trees are lot smaller. There are way more paths.

"Twelve paths..." Says the unicorn after standing up. "Let's go this way" and she starts going on the seventh one.

The forest gets darker every step. They might take the wrong path, but Twinkleshine doesn't want to turn back. She really wants to help as much as she can. Strangely there aren't any sounds coming from the woods. Not even the wind running trough the leaves, but Twinkleshine feels a little breeze around her.

They arrive to a huge, old mansion. It's made out of bricks, the wall is full of ivy, it has a dark grey tile roof. The sky is gray, like it doesn't have any life there left.

"Is this an old mare's dream or something...? It's like nearly out of life..." Asks Twinkleshine hesitating if she needs to move closer.

"Yes indeed, you always have little hints about the pony. And it is an old mare's dreamworld." Talks the book after a little time.

"So I guess let's go inside!" The unicorn starts going towards the mansion's entrance. "The elders know what is possible and what isn't, right? So it can't be that bad..."She stares at the huge, dark wood door. With her electric blue magic she opens the heavy door that opens with a huge creak that runs over Twinkleshine's back."This is creepy for an old mare..." mumbles the pony stepping into the dark house.

They find them self in a dark corridor with bunch of doors and stairs at the end of it. All of the doors has the same faded brown color, the wall is faded light blue with bunch of dirt and dust on it. Twinkleshine feels a breeze running trough the room. The unicorn makes a little light with her glowing horn.

"This is creepy!" The mare can hear her echo.

"I just realized..." Talks the book "That I could create a little dreamworld to you just to get used to these atmospheres..." Guider sighs at the end. "Well, right into the deep water, never mind." He tries to sound positive, but he knows what type of dream it is and he don't want to tell it yet.

Twinkleshine heads towards the first door on her right. She opens it with her electric blue magic. The door falls out of it's place and nearly lands on Twinkleshine, but she was quick enough to avoid it.

She looks into the room. It's a little kitchen. The pots and frying pans lay on the ground randomly, a table is flipped to it's side, like a robber were there. She looks into the kitchen cabinets, finding a bunch of broken plates and glasses.

"Do we need to look every room?" Asks the pony looking worried towards the other doors.

"You need to find one thing, that will summon the portal to your own world."Answers the book. After that a creepy laugh can be heard from upstairs.

Twinkleshine looks towards the stairs worried. Her ears go down and she steps a half step back. She gulps, her ears go back up, strengthens the light of her horn and dashes upstairs.

As soon as she takes the last step on the stairs something black jumps into her face. She shoots an electric blue beam at it and disappears.

"What the hay are you doing!?" The blue book shouts at her, his echo is really loud

"You said that completing these is a dangerous... So if I walk into the danger I'll be closer to the success!" The mare has now the disappointed tone in her voice.

They are in another little corridor with dusty old wooden doors, but those are painted dark blue. She hears cracking sound from the last door on the left. She walks over there. She hears hoofsteps walking up and down in the room.

"Do you really want to do this?" Whispers Guider.

"I need to take the risk!" Whispers back and as fast as she can opens the door.

In the torned bedroom a shadowy pony walks. She looks at the unicorn and jumps towards her screaming a really loud and shrill one.

Twinkleshine manages to teleport out of it's way, dropping the book. She notices a light source in the room, coming from under the torn bed.

Her eyes spark in excitement, she levitates the bed to the shadowy pony's face, pushing it to the wall and on't let it free.
She looks what was under it and she finds half eaten breakfasts, bunch of dust and a glowing, dusty old book.

"So is this the thing I need to find to get out of here?" Asks while she levitates the glowing and the talking book near her.

"Uhm..." Guider became speechless "Y-yes"

"Yay!" Twinkleshine jumps a little.

"Wow... You are scary!" Says the blue book. "Oh my sweet Celestia... You just throw a whole bed to a creature that could easily kill you!"

"I want to meet my friends once more you know..." Murmurs the mare. "And I want to make somepony's dream to come true!" smiles happily while the portal back appears in the room. "By the way you touched the ground so you can tell the wish, right?" Asks the pony while stepping to the portal.

"Well... I think you really don't want to know that" Says Guider while he lands on the floor and the pony lands on the top of her wardrobe.

"What was the dream?" She jumps down picking up the book with her blue magic.

"It was.... Ugh..." the fluffy maned unicorn angrily stares at him. "You don't make this any easier!" Twinkleshine can hear a deep breath taking from the book. "It was to... Die..." Mumbles Guider.

"Wh-What!? Can somepony dream about that!?" She shouts at the book."So that means I killed a pony with this!?"

"Calm down, they will call the police if you shout things like that. And no. The dreams doesn't become true this fast. It needs a little time. But most likely it'll happen in a few days"

"Well this was her dream..." Looks at her bed and jumps into it "Good night" And she puts down the book on the drawer.

Chapter three

"Did you get better, Twinkleshine?" Asks Lemon Hearts when the three pony meet up in the train station.

"Yeah, I'm fine now. I can't wait to see Lyra again!"

"Yeah, it's been one week!"Says Minuette with a smile on her face.

"By the way Twinky, why is your bag looks so heavy?" Looks the yellow unicorn towards the ivory pony's backpack.

"I'll bring books with myself this time. I hope it isn't problem!" Says panicking a little. Guider said not to talk about this thing, so she hopes they won't ask.

Meanwhile the train towards Ponyville arrives and the three pony gets on it. They find a sit for all of them.

"By the way, why isn't Moondancer coming?" The ivory unicorn asks while she stares out of the window.

"She said that she has some things to settle so she can't come with us." Answers the question Minuette.

"Hmp" The pink fluffy maned unicorn watches the mountains run away as the train goes.

"So what are your plans to do in Ponyville.... Beside meeting Lyra again"

'Going to the dreamworld... Risk my life to make somepony's dream come true..... That's all of my plans...' Think Twinkleshine without saying anything out loud.

The train slowly stops letting out a huge amount of steam. The little group of unicorns get off the train. Their friend waits for them there and as soon as they notice each other they greet each other.

"Girls!" Lyra Heartstring really excited to see her friends again

"We have so much thing to do!" She squeezes a little the unicorns from Canterlot with her hug.

"And we have so much to talk about!" the yellow unicorn jumps excitedly.

"Twinkleshine?" Turns the mint unicorn to Twinkleshine "Are you alright?"

"Hmp?" The unicorn tilts her head a little. "Oh, I'm totally fine, I may didn't sleep enough, sorry!" Scratches the back of her head.

"Did you read those books you brought along?" Minuette brings up the question.

"Kinda..." mumbles the ivory pony.

"You risked your life to kill somepony..."Starts Guider talking from her backpack, causing Twinkleshine to panic."Don't worry they can't hear me yet" Laughs at the pony. "I said that you need to avoid bringing this dream thing up... Do you think I would reveal myself!?" He hits a disappointed tone again.

"You should rest a little! Everypony, let's go to my house first! And put Twinkleshine to a bed so she can sleep!" Says Lyra and starts trotting away. Her friends start to trot after her except from the mare in question.

"No wait I'm okay!" She shouts, but the others doesn't really hear her so she trots after them.

She catches up after the others arrived to Lyra's house and waited for the ivory unicorn for one minute.

"Girls, I'm absolutely fine! I'm just a little tired that's all!" Mumbles the mare with fluffy pink mane.

"And that's more than enough for you to sleep a little!" Says Lyra as she opens the door.

"But-" Twinkleshine tries to say something but her friends doesn't let her.

"No buts!" Says Lemon Heart and she pushes her ivory colored friend inside the house, towards the closest bed.

"Have a nice rest, Twinky!" They say with a smile while they push the unicorn to a bed and leave the room and the house.

Twinkleshine looks after them while they leave the street where Lyra lives. She sighs.

"What do you think when will they come back?" Asks the pony from Guider while she levitates him out of her backpack.

"Your friends not mine!" Murmurs the blue book.

"Okay..." Says the unicorn and levitates the books to her. She keeps the blue one next to her while she opens the brown book. She touches a blank page with her horn. "Kuldj at" she says the magic worlds and the brown book absorbs her and the blue book once again.

They arrive to another forest. Twinkleshine manages to not fall on her nose, but she still can't land on her hoofs yet. The trees are really tall, but not as tall as the first forest they dropped in. The greenery let a bunch of light trough it. The pony stands up groaning and she lifts up the dark blue book with her electric blue magic. They look at how many paths they have. And they see just one.

"Wow it's really rare to see just one path here... They are usually impossible dreams"

"So there I need to find a hole, right?" Tries to remember back the first mission she went in these worlds.

"Yes. And it's super dangerous, because it's so big dream it's really hard to get out." Explains the dark blue book.

"Well, I don't have much choice, so let's do this..." murmurs the pony and starts trotting towards the danger.

"You are crazy!" Sighs Guider.

"I'll take this as a compliment, okay?" She concentrates to stay on the little path.

After a little time they arrive to a meadow. This isn't as peaceful as the first one. It's full of moving vines. The unicorn teleports on a tree to look around.

"I see the hole on the other side of this moving vine field." She says while she jumps back down to the ground. "But I saw a little space to avoid the vines and go behind the trees to reach that place."

"Go on, your choices, I won't disagree" Murmurs a little angrily.

"So what was that" She concentrates a little. "What the hay are you doing!?" Twinkleshine tries to imitate the book's voice. "Last time?"

"But you just ran into it!" mumbles the book awkwardly.

The pony starts going while she keeps the book close to herself as she tries to fit trough the bushes with thorns. While she keeps pushing trough little holes between branches she gets a lot of wound and it's starts to get harder and harder to get trough, she gets more serious wounds.

Twinkleshine starts to worry if she choose the wrong way, but she can't turn back now. She keeps moving forward and a branch grabs her back legs, the spikes dig into her skin very deeply.

She shoot a blue laser beam at it from her horn and the spiky vine lets her go. She starts going as fast as she can fighting her way trough the braches that tries to attack her.

"Can I get a clear sight to that hole?" The ivory pony talks in panic and tries to look at the hole, but she can't see it clearly.

"Shoot..." She keeps fighting trough her way, and tries to have a look at the hole she saw from the tree. "Come on...." she gets a bunch of wounds thanks to the spiked vines. "There!" She can see the hole clearly and teleports above hole and she falls into it.

She arrives back to Ponyville with bunch of wounds and the books on the back of her head.

"This wasn't so nice" She stands up while she levitates the books next to her backpack she left behind. "Now how will I hide these...?" she looks over her body. It is really painful to her, but she doesn't want to show it.

"Unfortunately, that is your problem and if I can hear well, your friends coming." If he had a face he would have an evil smile right now.

"You enjoy this... Don't you?" The unicorn murmurs angrily towards the book while the door opens behind her.

"TWINKLESHINE!" All of her friends became pale white.

"What happened to you? We looked everywhere, we even asked a few pegasus to help us search!" Minuette shouts at her because she was really worried.

"And how did you get so many wounds...?" Asks Lyra really worried.

"I... Uhm... Got a little lost I couldn't sleep so I went for a walks and some strange creature attacked me. I couldn't see what it was, it happened so suddenly." She brings out the best lie she could find.

"Wow. You are really scary. They bought it... By the way why didn't you teleported there sooner?" Talks the book mainly to himself, but Twinkleshine can't ignore it totally her eyes stare at it a little, but she turns back to her friends.

"You will get better soon!" Says the yellow unicorn.

Chapter four

Twinkleshine wakes up in Canterlot. A few days passed after she could go back to the dreamworld. She would like to do that, but Guider didn't let her to do that. She still has a bunch of wounds mostly on her back legs.

"Will you let me go back to there today!?" Asks the pony impatiently. "I want to help ponies! I can't do that if you hold me back!" She starts to calm down a little. "Please!"

"Fine..." sighs the blue book "But your condition will be worse you know!" He gets to be angry now. "I said that I don't want you to die!"

"I can take care of myself you don't have to worry!" She levitates the brown book to herself, opening it.

"Do you really want to die?!" The talking book is really upset now.

"Kuldj at" Says the pony touching the brown book with her horn.

And Twinkleshine manages to land on her four hooves. She catches the falling book with her magic and keeps it close to herself. She looks around.

They arrive to a beach this time. It's really deserted. They just see a little wooden pier with six little wooden boats. Twinkleshine just stares at them.

"Did you never see a boat?!" The book is angry and disappointed at the same time.

"It's just... This isn't a forest..." Murmurs the pony looking at the fourth boat and starts going towards it. She steps in and sits down. The boat starts to move by itself.

"Not everypony has a forest in their dreamworld" Says a little more calmly than before. "And just to say that, the waters are more dangerous than the houses and fields with killing vines..."

"Okay-okay" Murmurs the ivory unicorn.

As they travel with the little boat Twinkleshine notices that the water is starts to get darker and darker. She wonders what kind of pony has this dreamworld.

Suddenly a huge octopus-like creature appears from the water. At least ten times big as Twinkleshine herself. She gets terrified of the sight of the creature, but she notices something sparkling on the monster's back. She collects all the courage she has and makes platforms on the water to run on, but an enormous wave washes her off. She barely, but manages to swim near the surface, she tasted the salty sea water. The salt in the sea burns the wounds that didn't healed properly, so she has more problem with the swimming.

'This thing keeps moving there is no way I could teleport properly' Thinks the unicorn in the water while she stands up on another blue platform she created. 'And I can't levitate myself there...'

She looks around panicking, she notices that the blue book is on the boat and he is about to be bury under a huge wave. The pony saves the book just in time.

"Do you have an idea to get up there?" Asks from the book.

"Make platforms with your magic up to that place?" Guider would have an are you serious face right now if he had a face.

"I can't this spell only works on water." Answers the unicorn.

"Then I have no idea. I have spells inside me, but I don't know if those can help you out right now." Think the book.

"You know, that sounds so stupid and... This will sound stupid too... Will you let me look into you?" She slightly laughs.

"I'm a book what do you expect...?" He has more disappointed tone than before.

"You have feelings and I don't want to hurt them sorry!" She makes a shield around herself while she reads. After a little while she closes the book. "Hmp... "

"So...?" asks the book impatiently.

"If i can get behind it, I'll have the opportunity to run on it, because it's back is really strong and doesn't feel much on it." when she says that the huge creature shows it's back to the little duo. "Opportunity." Twinkleshine murmurs under her nose and starts running towards it using her platforms on the surface of the water. She manages to jump on it.

She runs up on the creature's back without a problem she finds a little flower what is shining brightly. She levitates it to herself and grabs it with her hoof. The enormous creature disappears below her and she falls to the water. She tries to get to the surface.

A whirlpool catches her. It pulls her down into the darkness. Water starts to fill her lungs.

She opens her eyes after a little time, she sees her friends above her. All worried, the book next to her, both of them soaked by seawater.

"Twinkleshine, would you care to explain this...?" Asks Minuette a little angrily while she helps up the ivory pony.

"Uh... I-i I don't remember what happened..." Mumbles.

"Well the important thing is that you are relatively fine" Sighs Lemon Hearts.

"You girls should leave... I'm going to be fine now thanks!" And the pink, fluffy maned mare starts to go towards the door opening it with her blue magic.

"Okay..." sighs the two mare and leaves the house. "Bye!"

"Bye!" And Twinkleshine closes the door behind them. She turns towards the book. "How did you bring them here?"

"I have powers that you don't know about... You will catch a cold. Dry your coat and mane." Says Guider without emotion in his voice.

"O-okay" Mumbles the mare and walks towards the bathroom for a towel.

"I can't believe this mare..." If he would be a pony he would facehoof himself.

Chapter five

"So, Twinkleshine.... What did you learn?" Asks Guider after hours of lame monologue about safety.

"I shouldn't run into danger, I shouldn't be reckless..." Says Twinkleshine bored. "So now, will you tell me more about your powers..?" Now she finally gets a little excited.

"Nope, I want to surprise you with those time to time. And you can't kill me because I'm just a living magic..." He says with smug in his voice.

"If you are a magic... There is a counter magic... I can find that...." Thinks the unicorn with a little evil smirk on her face, but Guider just laughs really loudly.

"Funny girl, I'm a magic from another, more powerful dimension than this. Equestrian magic doesn't have much effect on me." Explains it the book after the unsure stare from the mare.

"Well, thanks for the information!" Laughs the mare.

"Just..." The book tries to put together his thoughts. "Just go to the dreamworld... And do the job without dieing...."

"Actually... You said that I can choose whose dream I make reality with this..." Says the mare while levitates the brown book to her.

"You're not ready for that, sorry. You can do it after you are used to this situation and this will be the fifth time, this isn't the right amount of time for that..."

"Poor thing..." Mumbles the pony while sits down.

"You want to help your friends with their dreams?" Guider hits a really caring tone. It is strange for both of them, but they just jump it over.

"Yeah... I want to help my friends first, and after that anypony else can come...." She sits on her bed and puts the two book next to her.

"You lied to them and you put this thing before them. Do you think it is alright?" Speaks the blue book.

"I don't want to lie to them, but you asked me to do so. And I'm not putting the travelling to an another world before them! I still hang out with them!" Twinkleshine yawns a huge. "And they were the ones whose left me in Lyra's house alone!" She gets a little angry.

"Well, I didn't say that you need to lie to them... Just don't talk about it." Twinkleshine still can't understand how can a book talk.

"In my situation lie to them and not talking about this is the one and the same thing... You won't let me say that it happened in a brown book..." Murmurs the ivory unicorn under her pink, fluffy mane.

"Yeah... You are right... I didn't think it trough." The book pauses for a little time. "You said something about your cutiemark after the first dream you have been. Ir it was in the dream world I'm not sure.... But what was that?"

"Oh... That... When I earned my cutiemark I don't know what was I doing... I'm not sure if the mark on my flank means astrology or talent in magic or what..." murmurs the mare staring towards her window.

"You don't know what were you doing?" The book seems surprised... At least his voice.

"Nopony were looking and I did the usual things so I don't have much idea, nopony knows how much time passed till anypony noticed it... So I have no idea when did I get my cutiemark...." Murmurs Twinkleshine."And I don't know for sure what is three starts mean..."

"Well, what if it's for wishing stars? You make those dreams come true when ponies wish something for a star. And if you don't like this idea, just look at it like this for a little time. As long as you have the portal and me!" His voice turns really cheerful. The pony slightly smiles.

"Thanks... I can do that I think. But with my friends is still a problem... If I spend more time in the dreamworld I can choose the pony I want to help I guess" She lies down on her back yawning again.

"Yep! More time more control of the situation." Guider stops a little. "I guess that doesn't make you feel better..."

"If I want to help them, I need to hang out with them less... Perfect!" She tries to imitate a happy voice. "What am I going to do?" Her voice changes back to a more serious tone.

"That's unfortunately depends on you." Mumbles the blue book.

"How long time those dreams take?" Asks the ivory unicorn blinking slowly.

"Well, it depends, but mostly you take three or four hours, but with the time these will be longer." Explains the book a little confused. "Why?"

"Than, I can't do these in the night, that's too much sleep being skipped... I need a tight schedule and maybe I can manage being with my friends and doing stuff in the dreamworld..." She yawns once again, closing her eyes. "But that can wait till tomorrow..."

"Night, Twinkleshine." Says the book and the pony falls asleep with a much higher mood than she came home.

Chapter six

"I need to go girls, see you soon!" Not waiting for her friends respond, Twinkleshine trots away as fast as she can.

She storms in her house, not really caring about anything, just dashes to her bedroom. The electric blue magic aura surrounds her horn and the two books.

"Hooo, Twinkleshine!" The blue book sounds surprised. It's completely understandable, the pony just rushed into the house.

"Kuldj at" Twinkleshine says the magic word while she touches the brown book's blank page with her horn.

Twinkleshine handles the landing this time really easily. She lands on her four hoof, and catches Guider in the air.
She looks around. They are in a forest again, with tall trees, but they aren't as tall as the first forest's trees. She sees four path and a built road.

"What is that road means?" The ivory unicorn slightly tilts her head.

"This appears if the pony has a dream he or she never will give up." The book answers the question after a little thinking time.

"Can that be impossible dream?" The pony is a little afraid of the answer and the book can hear that in her voice.

"Unfortunately, they can be. And they are in sixty percent of the time." Again, the book waits for a little and than he answers the questions.

"Why are you taking so much time to answer these questions, what do you want to hide from me?" Twinkleshine is impatient for this right now.

"I don't want to hide anything, I'm an open book, but I want to be clear what I'm talking about." Guider explains it calmly.

"Oookay..." She somehow can't trust the book right now and she is in a hurry. She wants to be back home to sleep. She doesn't have much time to waste, she trots on the road.

The forest's trees start to be smaller and smaller and the road starts to fall apart in the forest, she hardly, follows the road's broken pieces. She starts to think that this isn't a sure dream. And when she finds the last pieces of the torn apart road she looks up and finds, surprisingly, Canterlot. Or a place that really looks like it.

They start to wander around the dream Canterlot. After every step the city gets darker and darker, the unicorn needs to make plus light with her magic to see there. Electric blue light surrounds her and the dark blue book.

"I'm kinda scared..." Murmurs the pony under her nose trying to look as far as she can in the darkness. She strengthens her horn's light.

"I don't understand why" Guider tries to sound surprised, but he is scared a little bit. He feels that this isn't going to be easy.

A few pony made out of fading colored light starts to appear. They seem like ponies from Canterlot. A blue light pony bumps into Twinkleshine. As she looks there to apologize, she notices the pony to be Minuette.

"Oh... Uhm, I'm sorry Minuette!" Murmurs as she steps one backwards.

The fading light Minuette hisses at Twinkleshine like a changeling, and black void come out of the blue pony and reaches towards Twinkleshine.

It grabs around her neck and tries to choice her, fortunately she is quick enough to react and make the pony disappear with it's black void using an electric blue beam.

"Oh my sweet Celestia... This is frightening!" She stops a little and looks around. The other fading light canterlotian ponies start to wander closer to her letting out more dark void from them self reaching for the ivory unicorn.

Panicking she runs as fast as she can trying to avoid ponies and their dark void. She needs to shoot a few with her magic, but she can't shoot at all of it.

"Have an idea?" Asks the pony panting. She keeps running as fast as she can.

"What is the most important place in Canterlot...?" The book hits an are you kidding me tone.

"Oh! The castle!" And with more strength she runs towards it.

There are more and more fading light ponies around her, she barely can get away from a few of them. And when she arrives to the castle, her face turns pale white. There are way too many light pony to fight against them.

Twinkleshine climbs up a little tree, getting a clear view to the hallway, but there are just way too much light pony to fight.

"Can I run into the danger now..?" Asks while looks down to the light ponies. They grab her hooves to drag her down from the tree.

"Up to you but I prefer you to not die..." He murmurs back angrily.

"Thank you!" She teleports in and rushes as fast as she can fighting her way trough, blasting the ponies one by one, jumping over them if she can, she gets really tired. And she bursts into the throne room finally managing to lock out the fading light ponies with their black void things.

Twinkleshine starts to loom around to find the glowing thing and she notices something glowing behind the throne. As she steps closer to it, two new fading light appears and forms the princess of the sun and moon. A huge panic wave goes trough the mare. And for a moment she can't even move.

Grabbing the opportunity the princess Celestia looking light pony shoots a black beam at the unicorn and she can't really dodge it. Fortunately it just causes a huge wound on the right side of her body. Not a serious injury.

Twinkleshine doesn't see better choice but teleporting to the throne and try to reach the glowing thing. She does that, but she can't reach and a dark thing grabs her hooves and tries to drag her towards the two princess but they them self start to get close.

The ivory mare struggle against the black thing with all of her strength and keeps trying to reach the thing behind the throne. And she manages it.

The black thing lets her hooves go and the light ponies fade away. She falls to the floor. Blankly stares in front of her and after a few seconds she takes a look what does she holds in her right hoof and it is a blanket.

"Oh my sweet Celestia this... Is worse than those vines in that impossible dream..." She talks mostly to herself.

"Well, you made it out alive... There is the portal back go your home." Says the blue book.

"My schedule!" The pony jumps up running trough the white portal in the middle of the room and she arrives to her bed.

"What time is it?" She looks at her clock and just as she planned, it's late. "Night, Guider" Murmurs and lays down on her bed while the book arrives to the floor.

"Good night, crazy unicorn..." Sighs the book not so loud.

Chapter seven

"Twinkleshine, don't say that you need to run again!" Moondancer asks worried noticing her friend's expression.

"I'm really sorry girls..." Mumbles the unicorn in question. "I have a realy tight schedule right now, I'm really sorry!" Twinkleshine starts to back away from her friends preparing to trot home.

"It's okay, we understand..." Mumbles Lemon Hearts not looking at her ivory friend.

"Bye girls!" And Twinkleshine trots away.

"I hope Twinky won't leave us here like Twilight did..." Mumbles Moondancer worried as she looks towards the trotting unicorn.

"Let's hope so... And if she does that... It's her choice... You can't do much..." Murmurs Minuette under her nose a little angrily.

As her friends continue their way on the streets of Canterlot, Twinkleshine arrives to her home. Scaring Guider again.

"Twinkleshine, I would be happy if you don't do this...." Murmurs angrily while electric blue magic aura surrounds him.

"I don't care." She levitates the blue book to her and touches it's blank page with her horn. "Kuldj at"

As they arrive the unicorn manages to levitate herself and the book down to safety landing.

This time it is a not so tall spruce forest that doesn't let much light trough it's greenery. There are sixteen paths there.

"Wow... This pony is sure a dreamer...." Murmus Guider. "Prepare for impossible dreams!" Warns the pony about the danger. In these situations the impossible dream is the most likely.

"Okay..." Mumbles the pony and starts going on the first one. As she goes on the little dirt path it splits into two.

"Wow... I did not expect a big dreamer like this pony could be..." Murmurs Guider."Which one do you want to choose?" Twinkleshine pauses a little and she takes the second path.

"By the way, is that possible to be in your own dream?" Twinkleshine asks curiously, looking at the book.

"No, it is impossible. You can't choose it or accidentally get there." Answers Guider after a little pause.

"You pause sooo much... That is confusing, do you know that?" The unicorn sighs.

"Sorry..." Murmurs the book under his non-existing nose.

The ivory unicorn arrives to a swamp with her book friend. It's a typical fairytale-like swamp. Green fog is everywhere, it's really smelly, the trees are small, greenish blue.

As our favorite ivory unicorn looks around she notices some strange creatures in the swamp's water. She isn't sure what are they because she can't really tell if they are living creatures or not, but she think they are crocodiles, but she is wrong. They are hippos. Pony eating hippos.

"This is just the best..." Murmurs under her nose and she looks around for possibilities. "Can you see what are those in there?" Asks from the book while she keeps looking around.

"Not really, sorry..." Murmurs the book. "Not like I have eyes to see with...." He would roll his eyes if he could.

"You are a living book, I'm sure you can see with magic...." Rolls Twinkleshine her electric blue eyes. She notices something shining in the water. In the middle of the creatures whose floating in the swamp's water. "Can I turn back...?" asks the pink maned pony as she glances backwards.

"You will lose a day with that..." Says the book. "And you want to meet your friends, don't you?"

"Okay..." The pony lets out a deep sigh. After a little staring at the unknown creatures she goes closer to the swamp's dirty water.

Twinkleshine uses the platform making spell and she steps on the first one. As she walks on those platforms she sees that those are hippos, not crocodiles, so she realizes that her situation is worse than she tought is.

She looks into the water and she sees something mowing fastly towards her. As she looks at the hippos they start to notice the ivory pony on the top of the swamp water. They don't come at her yet, but she can see the intention on them.
The glowing thing starts moving as she steps on another platform. Twinkleshine blocks down for a moment because she realizes that the glowing stuff she needs to find isn't hidden because it is a fish. She lets out an annoyed growl and walks towards the glowing fish on the top of her platforms. The hippos start their attack and and Twinkleshine needs to run on her magic, but she isn't sure how should she time the appearing and disappearing water-walking platforms. Few times her back or front hooves sink in the water slightly and in those time something bites her. Cute little friendly piranhas. If she has to catch one she might won't have that big problem, but the fish fastly swims away every time the bpony gets close to it, unfortunately for her.

A hippo gets her back left hoof nearly making a hole into it, but before it's fang could actually break trough her bones Twinkleshine manages to teleport away from it, and with a huge luck she lands really near to the glowing fish. She reaches out while five more piranhas bite into her skin and touches the glowing creature's sticky skin.

The bites stop. Everything stops and the pony comes back to the swamp water's surface and tries to breath. Without realizing what is happening the ivory unicorn arrives back to her home.

She is soaked and the bites really hurt, the pain what the hippo caused on her leg is incredible. She tries to care about the wounds, but it still really bad.

"Are you happy with this...?" Asks the blue book with a caring tone. "Do you still think this worth the effort to do?" He really doesn't want anypony to get hurt in these dreams, but he knows somepony has to do it or dreams might won't come true.

"As long as..." Twinkleshine bites into her tongue to suppress curse words because of the pain. "I help ponies with this... It's worth it." She barely can stand up from the floor and walks to her bed. Limping pretty badly.

"But this... Isn't the perfect job for ponies like you... Who have friends whose care about her..." The book says watching how hardly the pony is moving with his invisible eyes.

"They would understand..." Twinkleshine mumbles as she gets into her bed. "Good night, Guider" She says while trying to fall asleep, every little movement hurts her, so that isn't the easiest task.