--The void between worlds--

The void is an empty place, a realm that is meant to keep realities apart from each other. At this point in time, it was anything but empty.

Aidan flies through the void, following a trail of energies from his quarry. He fears that the world they escape to would not be prepared for their dark powers. The Nine Masters of Shadows, ancient arcanist who fused their powers with elementals of darkness. What the Nine planned was still a mystery to him, but it could not bode well.

The trail leads him to a tear in the void, which increases his concern. 'The void is not something easy to breach, taking either immense spiritual or magical power. The Masters of Shadows should not have been able to make such a breach, until they've had time to recover' Aidan thinks to himself.

He did not have much more time to think as a large blueish purple mass of energy attempted to enter the void from the breach, before it was forcefully pulled back. The trail he follows leads directly into it, which leaves Aidan with little choice. He steels himself and flies through the breach before it could be closed.

--The Dreamworld: Ponyville--

The other side of the breach was quite a strange sight for Aidan. It looks like the entire village is engaged in battle with the large mass of energy, and they seemed intent on preventing it from escaping through any of the breach in reality in could create.

The second thing he was noticed that he entered a dreamworld. If there is one thing Aidan would know for certain in any world, it would be dreams. Here he has true power. In his reality or another it did not matter, he was the Demiurge of Nightmares, champion of Erebus-the Shadow of Dreams one of the greater powers of his world.

From the moment he entered the dream world, Aidan gained partial dominion over it. True control seems split between the mass of energy, a feminine figure in a night blue dress patterned with the evening sky, and Aidan himself.

The feminine figure is busy concentrating on keeping the combined dreams of the entire village together, while the other denizens of the dream seem to be busy keeping the energy mass contained. The energy mass looks like it is gaining the upper hand, taking a form that visually resembles a much larger and more sinister form of the figure in the blue dress.

The energy being begins to approach one of the breaches, ready to leave the dreamworld. Six other females approach and one begins to speak to the lady in the blue dress. What is said, Aidan can not make out. Whatever it was, it has an effect on the energy being. The being of energy shrinks in form and power, before merging with lady in blue.

Aidan tokes the opportunity the distraction of everyone focusing on the defeat of the energy being. He reaches out, using his power over dreams to seal the breaches in reality. Just as he finishes sealing the last one, the dream ends and Aidan is forcefully expelled.

--Ponyville, Castle of Friendship: Twilight's bedroom--
--Point of focus: Twilight--

Twilight awakens with a gasp before exclaiming happily. "Luna did it!"

In the other beds, positioned in a circle around Twilight's room. The other girls begin to wake up at the sudden noise. Rainbow Dash lets out an audible yawn as she stretches an arm up, getting the kinks out of her muscles.

"She sure did" Applejack replies. "Only I'm not exactly sure, what she did."

"Luna created the Tantabus to punish herself. The worse she felt, the more power it had. But once she finally forgave herself for what nightmare moon did-." Twilight explained.

"-POOF!" Spike added in from over in his bed.

Suddenly there is a gasp of surprise from Fluttershy, as she is looking to the floor at the center of the room from her bed. She is pointing at two figures lying on the ground. One of the figures is quite obviously an exhausted princess Luna, and looking to be sleeping peacefully. The other is one they have never seen before.

Lying on the ground a few feet away from Princess Luna is an unknown male with black hair and dressed in strange garments. He is clad in an expertly made longcoat, underneath the coat is what most would call a wizardly robe. The robe itself seems to have a fire and sun motif in design, while the coat is reinforced with subtle small chains made of a light grey and nearly white metal. On his belt is a sheathed curved sword, with sky blue sheath with several silver owl feathers dangling from the cord used to hold it to his belt.

"Who the hay is that!?" exclaims Rainbow Dash. Only to be distracted by a screech from Rarity who is now covering herself fully with her blanket. This reminds Rainbow that she herself is currently only wearing a very old sports top and shorts.

"Uh Twilight, think you can put some sort of shield over him so we can change without him waking up and seeing us?" Apple Jack adds in what some of the girls are now starting to think.

Before Twilight could even answer or start her spell, the male sits up. He extends a hand, and waves it around in front of him before speaking, "Well, this is unexpected."

This causes each and every girl to let out an "Eep" and pull blankets up to their neck in reaction.

The noise causes him to shift his head slightly, he seems to be focusing on hearing rather than seeing. He slowly rises to his feet while speaking. "Blind and surrounded, how nostalgic."

"WHAT!?" scream all the girls in unison. The sound causing Princess Luna to awaken.

"Why are you all shouting!?" she exclaims, sitting up as she looks around trying to ascertain the situation. It only takes her a moment to notice the male figure standing near where she is sitting on the floor. She quickly rises to her feet and faces the figure. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" She shouts in the royal canterlot voice

Author's Note

Yes, some of the lines are identical as to the ones used in the episode 'Do princesses dream of magic sheep' It is very small section, so I hope it will be forgiven. The episode was just the ideal point to start my story off of, and the lines did not need to be changed until they spotted Aidan.