The light faded away as she stepped into what looked to be a torn up bedroom; Mizuki could barely make out her surroundings, the room faintly illuminated by the moonlight from the collapsed ceiling. The walls stacked with dark bricks, while the floor was layered with old and mossy wood and a torn up rug. Turning around, she would find that the door leading back into that strange place from her dreams had now lead into a short hallway that turned to a flight of stairs.

Taking a lighter out from her bag, she brought it up to one of the old torches before igniting it, stuffing the lighter back into her bag. "what am I going to do..?" She sat down on the old creaky bed, looking down at her two pairs of claws. Mizuki quietly contemplated her bizarre transformation, all of this was frankly too much to handle, to much to garner a proper reaction from her. "This could be some weird trip.. maybe that guy in the cloak drugged me.. but.." she looked up, staring down the dark hallway before rolling into the bed, staring up at the shining moon. "If you are here Akio.. let your big sis rest for a bit." She slid an arm over her eyes to block the light from her vision, before slowly drifting to sleep.

From the shadows, a whisp shot out and traveled down the hall, flying through the castle until it reached the throne room where it took its true form, a dark gray pegasus kneeled at the bottom of the steps. "Your highness, we have an intruder in the castle, they seemed to have.. manifested out from nowhere, they had fallen asleep in the old guest quarters in the north eastern wing." At the top of the steps, sitting upon a ruined stone throne, cushioned by an old pillow; was a dark blue alicorn with a beautifully blue mane that seemed almost translucent, and flowed on windless air. "Then a guest they shall remain.. come morning treat them as such, then we wish to speak to our newfound visitor."
"Of course, lady luna." The pegasai bowed once more before taking his leave into a puff of smoke. Luna sighed and scratched at her chin, pondering the new arrival before a small black figure came up from the floor, twitching incoherently, it's antennae flicking about over its shining yellow eyes. Luna glanced down at the creature and gave it a small smile. "Let us hope it's a friend, yes?"

Mizuki felt the warm beams of sunlight hit her face, just barely peaking through the trees and into the broken ceiling above her, her eyes fluttered open just a tad; enough to spot a possum sniffing curiously at her face. She let out a surprised yelp and quickly sat up, bumping her head on a low hanging wooden beam as the rodent scurried back into whatever hole it crawled out of, she quietly cursed under her breath and rubbed her head and gazed around the well lit room. Her eyes focused on her hands which had been replaced by soft fuzzy paws of the sorts, with sharp red claws at the end.

Her attention moving to a shattered mirror, what chunks of the reflective glass still remained gave her a clear enough image of what she had become. Grey and black tufts of fur covered her body, her face had elongated into a fox like snout, red bits of fur coated the ends of her lips and around her sharp, predatory eyes while a long red mane hung from her head, being held together by a singular bluish orb near the end her hair. "Alright.. definitely wasnt drugged.. and I'm not dreaming or else I wouldn't have a raging headache.. damned old wood.. where am I exactly...?"

"Your in Lady Lunas Castle of course." Mizuki jumped a bit before she turned towards the sound of the voice, spotting a maroon colored mare In a neat dress holding a clipboard close to her chest. "You're a... talking.. horse..?"
The equines muzzle scrunched up, quite offended by the remark. "I beg your pardon? I'm a royal servant of Luna herself! Not some cheap breeding stool..!" "Wait, no, that's not what I meant..!" The mare didn't give her time to explain herself before she turned and walked out the door, Mizuki quickly followed behind, scratching the back of her head.

"My name is Scarlett Dawn, I have been assigned by lady luna to acquire you and bring you down for breakfast, it's recommended that you show the utmost respect for royalty of course." She stated rather blankly. "Now before we enter, I'm going to use a spell on you that'll allow you to see past this little illusion." Scarlett raised her hand towards Mizuki, a glowing green ward had appeared across her hand; before Mizukis very eyes the dusty old ruins had morphed into a beautiful white hallway with lavender rugs and hanging tapestries. "Uh.. wow.. that's a neat trick." "Trick?!" Scarlett glared at Mizuki, offended at the very notion that the spell was nothing more than a magicians party gimmick. "It took me fifteen years just to learn it, and an additional ten to master! Controlling a illusion to this scale takes alot of mana and more then just one pony to keep it stable!" "Woah woah alright, chill.. I'm just.. blown away is all." Mizuki's eyes danced around her new surroundings while Scarlett harumphed and continued down the hallway to a large pair of pearly white doors with Mizuki close behind. "Remember to be on your best behavior.. your lucky Lady Luna doesn't mind informalities, other wise I'd have you out of those rags and into something more proper." With a wave of her hand, Scarlett casted a spell to open the large doors wide open.

Inside were black bipedal creatures with glowing yellow eyes, standing guard at each pillar that ran along the center of the large room. "Quite menacing.. whatever they are." Mizuki said. "Heartless, and don't let their appearances fool you, they can be quite sweet when unprovoked." Mizuki took a glance at one of the twitching heartless, it was about 5'6" in height and had what looked like two antennae coming out of the back of its head and hanging down to its back.

Mizuki was stopped by a hand across her chest, she glanced over at Scarlett who slowly got onto one knee, before Mizuki asked what she was doing Scarlett had smacked her in the stomach making the zoroark double over onto her knee as well.

There was a bright flash of light from the top of the staircase ahead before a sweet, but authoritative voice echoed through the room. "Rise." Scarlett rose to her feet first, followed by Mizuki who was giving the mare a dirty look before her gaze traveled to the top of the stairs and to a tall throne. Sitting in that throne was a beautifully blue mare sitting comfortably in the cushioned seat, smiling down directly at Mizuki was Lady Luna herself. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you, we hope you can be a friend, and not a fiend.

Author's Note

I am so sorry this took so long to get out. In all honesty I didn't know what to write for the longest time and I'm so glad I could comfortably publish this. First off all thank you all for your patience, it's been one hell of a year and my mind was just.. elsewhere. But now here I am, hopefully I can keep writing this story as it's always in the back of my head. And please I hope you enjoy this chapter, feedback is always appreciated.

P.S. sorry if it's on the shorter side..