The Student of Luna, Princess of the Night

The Student of Luna, Princess of the Night

First Dream

“Keep an eye on it,” Luna warned while guiding Trixie back up to their rooms. “The amulet should always be someplace where you can reach it easily.”

“Yes, your highness.”

Luna slowed down while Trixie kept walking towards her room. It’d been a while since she heard Trixie call her that. Usually, it’s from either respect, or the fact that she doesn’t feel right with calling Luna by her name. Something about that bothered Luna. She watched Trixie round a corner, and then sat. “I can… feel her hoof steps.”

Trixie walked along, tired, and the amulet bobbing up and down with her every trot. Trixie didn’t know it, and neither did Luna, but with it being a part of her, she could feel its every motion. She thought about it for a minute, and then got a wicked idea. The princess was not without a sense of pleasure, after all. If she wished, Luna could take control of the moon amulet for a short while. She shook the idea away, and headed for her room.

The princess was still resilient towards trying to build a relationship with Trixie that went beyond just friendship. The mare was, after all, her student. Still, something about her made Princess Luna feel differently about that. She had everything Luna liked in a mare, as far as likability went for her. A well kept mane, a nice attitude when not on edge, and so, very many occurrences where she and the princess caught each other doing rather personal things.

The night Luna watched Trixie pleasure herself wasn’t the last. At least three other times, she took a peak, but the most recent was a little over a week ago. Luna wondered if her student wasn’t feeling good. Sure, she acted pleasant on the trip, but once in the castle walls, she blanked out. Trixie hardly even realized she’d walked off without saying goodnight to Luna. It might’ve been a trivial thing to anypony else, but not to Luna.

She was starting to feel as though if she didn’t pursue a more emotional relationship with Trixie, she might never truly be Trixie’s friend at all. She’d just be the teacher that pushed her student away, and piled books on her. Then she’d leave that student in the library to read, and read whether she liked to or not. In the end, once inside her bedroom, Luna sat down upon her dresser, and showed Trixie through the reflection using magic.

She sat on her bed, the amulet sitting next to her on the nightstand. An odd mist was hovering around Trixie, and Luna smiled. “Though she’s asleep, she’s also dreaming… She’s in her room.”

Luna peered in, and Trixie indeed sat on her bed, the amulet in her hooves. Everything now was what Luna chose to do. She knew the amulet had strong powers beyond even her comprehension, and toying with it before Trixie was able to get used to it would be irresponsible. However, within a dream that's under Luna's watchful eye, physical laws can be broken. Training within the dream would be permanent in the real world, meaning everything Trixie learned in her dreams with the princess would stay with her when she woke up. After all, there were some less difficult secrets Luna could teach her pupil now.

She finally decided to step forward, and out of the shadows. Trixie, who looked rather grey came into color and looked at her with a gasp. “Luna!”

“Calm thyself, Trixie. We come here to-”

“What’s with the voice?” Trixie asked, cutting Luna off completely.

“Let me speak,” Luna said. “I sometimes forget I’m in a dream, and start speaking in the old way.”

Trixie snickered. “Well, what’re you doing here? Trixie’s heard the legends of you being able to enter others’ dreams, but never thought they were true!”

Luna nodded with a grin. “Yes, they’re all true, but I’m here to learn you.”

“... You mean teach me.”

Luna’s muzzle scrunched up. “Err, yes, that’s what I meant.”

“They said learn instead of teach back then?” Trixie asked, holding in a few chuckles.

Luna turned towards the amulet, rose it up into the air along with Trixie and started carrying her to the window while getting her coat. Luna decided to leave the hat, though. Despite it all still being nothing more but a dream, some sense of reality remained. “Wait, where are we going? Luna? Your highness?”

Soon Trixie was staring out at the land coated in darkness. Below her was, for some reason, a moat filled with rather angry looking alligators. “Your lesson will be flying!”

Trixie screamed, piercing Luna’s ears. Then, she said in a panic, “I can’t fly, and are the gators really necessary?!”

Luna sighed. Ignoring that, she quickly equipped Trixie’s coat along with the amulet to holt it in place. She tapped it three times, no more, no less, and sprang a pair of wings onto Trixie’s back. They weren’t like Luna’s or Celestia’s at all. They were made of dense, white fog, and were shaped pointy. Luna set Trixie down, the smoke passing by her arms and connecting to the amulet itself, and asked, “Think you can do it now, Trixie?”

“It’s only a dream, right?”

Luna looked down at the moat, and said, “Well, I’ve never tried this before with somepony. The training stays with you, but if you die… I honestly don’t know. I suppose you’ll have to make sure you don’t die, huh?”

Trixie jumped back, onto the wall on the opposite side that stretched rather deep down. “I’m not going through that window, and you can’t make me!”

Out the window she went, screaming frantically and swishing her hooves wildly. Luna soon jumped through, too, and dived down toward the mare at high speeds, catching her just in time. A second more, and Trixie would’ve been chomped. She still had her eyes closed, but now covered as well, but she was doing it. Even though it was in a dream, she was flying higher and higher, into the air like a balloon with Luna's help. “You can open your eyes now,” Luna voiced.

As she did, Trixie looked up to see the clouds getting closer, silver lining each one. The sun came up on the distance with the moon passing right by it. Trixie smiled, taking in fresh air. She was eventually let go, and Luna came up close beside her. Instinctively, Trixie started flapping her wings. Then, Luna took a dive for the ground below. For whatever reason, Trixie did the same, and fell right behind her, She followed every move, dodging cloud after cloud easily. There was much more to Trixie than even Luna could've ever expected.

Finally, right at the last second, Trixie straightened out, the grass below her just barely brushing the tufts of her chest. She could see Luna just up there, dodging some storm clouds like nothing. Trixie quickly got level with her, and came level with the teacher. Once in her peripheral vision where Luna could see Trixie clearly, she huffed, “Is that all?” Luna came down slowly, and Trixie did the same.

As Luna landed perfectly, her pupil made an embarrassing crash right into what felt like a rough bush. The dream they were just in had ended, and a new one took its place. Luna helped Trixie up, and then looked out at the forming illusion. Trixie rubbed her head while stepping forward, and asked, “Where are we?”

Luna answered, “In your dream, wherever that is.”

Before the two ponies was a small waterfall, steaming hot water gushing down from the rocks above. The small lake that rested peacefully next to Trixie and Luna’s hooves had a dense fog about it that made things hard to see. Soon, as Trixie got to looking around more, she realized just where her thoughts had led her and Luna to. “My uncle used to take me here…”

Luna’s ears perked up. “Cheap Trick... Wasn’t that his name?”

Trixie nodded. “A few years prior to him dying, he took me here when I was still young. I’m surprised I remember it at all now. I’d spend time in these warm waters while he napped.” She smiled. "He was always napping..."

Luna was tempted to lead Trixie into the inviting waters, but resisted. It was time they both woke up anyway, and it wasn’t the time for that just yet. “Trixie,” Luna said, catching her attention. “It’s time I left. Sorry, but I need to raised the moon in a bit.”

Trixie lowered her head in a bowing manner, then looked back up. “I’ll see you later tonight, then?”

Luna continued to smile while saying, “Right when you get up. I warn you, though, I’ll be ready to try out your amulet's flying powers by then, in the real world.”

Trixie gulped. With a sneer, Luna disappeared, and the dream Trixie was in soon broke all around her. She’d awaken with a start, look around the room, and sigh, holding her head. When her eyes finally fell upon that amulet, she remembered Luna’s words, and then locked herself in the bathroom out of fear for flying.