Equestria's new Moon

--Canterlot Castle: Guest room--
-After Sunset-

Aidan flops into the extravagant bed that was provided to him, exhausted from sightseeing. Making mental note to not let Pinkie Pie pick the desert ever again, that was way too much ice cream. Still, he can't help but smile. It has been a long time since he's had this much fun, as exhausting as it was.

Meanwhile, Cale flies up to the chandelier. He perches on it, while examining the room and making notes of all entrances and exits. He eventually chooses a spot and moves to nest on top of a wardrobe. It gives him good view of both the window and the door, the perfect spot to guard from. As Cale got to his work of guarding for the night, Aidan was already falling asleep.

--Dreamrealm--

Luna walks the realm of dreams, protecting the dreams of her subject. A task only she can do, and one she takes seriously. This evening she begins her search for another purpose. Luna looks for dreams that do not belong to ponies, namely those of the new guest and those he hunts for. Suddenly she is surprised by someone else speaking.

"Well, this is quite the organized dreamscape. Completely different from the ones back home." Aidan walks up to her and waves. "Although in my world, it's mostly split between the various lords of nightmares."

"You surprised me!" Luna says with a slight squeak in her voice. "How are you here? We are the only pony with the magic to dreamwalk."

"It's a rare gift in my world. Though I don't exactly have it either." Aidan's explanation just seems to confuse Luna, so he decides to clarify. "Other than those worshiped as gods, there are other powers that serve the two beings that created my reality. Where gods and goddesses are powers well above normal mortals, those servants are above gods. One of them is named Erebus, the shadow of dreams. Through my adventures, I gained his attention and he granted gifts. Even if he is more interested in the fear aspects of dreams, nothing prevents me from using it in other ways."

"That is quite the tale, and it seems you have had quite the interesting life." Luna can't help but smile, part of her happy to have company during her normally solitary vigil. "Perhaps you can help. We were looking for the dreams of the dark mages you are searching for."

Aidan shakes his head and says, "They gave up their mortality centuries ago, and as such they no longer sleep. It would be better to stop nightmares, as they can draw power from fear. If we do locate an area with an increased number of nightmares, that will give us a starting point to search from."

"We shall double our vigil. You can count on us." Luna states proudly.

"If you do need any help with particularly difficult nightmares, do not hesitate to ask." Aidan says as he looks through various dreams. "But for the moment, I have some pony that I need to pay back for too much ice cream." That said, he steps into the dream of a certain pink party pony. As he leaves, Luna can't help but smile, dream guarding may have gotten a little more interesting.

--Pinkie's dream--

Pinkie is bouncing around Ponyville, greeting everyone she meets and making them laugh and having an overall great day. Without any warning it begins to rain, and the ground is getting covered in ice cream.

What is a Pinkie to do in such a situation!? Why open her mouth and look up to the sky, which causes the rain to instantly stop. "Now that's just mean. You can't have it rain ice cream and make it stop before I can taste it." She looks around the sky and shakes a fist at it. "Discord, I know you can hear me!"

"Who's Discord?" Aidan says as he appears next to her, causing Pinkie to jump.

"But how can you surprise me!? I'm Pinkie Pie, I do the surprising!" she points at Aidan, visibly confused. "I have Pinkie sense!"

"Oh, I'll need to ask about that later. But to answer your first question, this is a dream and I have taken over the script." He floats around her, sitting on a cloud. "And the ice cream rain was payback for that bowl the size of me, that you made me eat half of."

"I told you that you didn't have to eat more than you wanted!" Pinkie defends herself with the truth.

"A likely story. Putting sweets in front of someone who has been on military style rations for the past year. Who'd have self control in that situation!? No one, that's who!" That's when Aidan breaks, and can't keep up the angry glare. "I really should thank you for it. Even if I regret everything about it right now."

"For a while there I thought you were really mad at me." She looks around, then up to the sky. "So you gonna make it up!?"

Aidan just nods and the ice cream rain resumes. "Yeah, you deserve it."

Pinkie dances in the rain, happily eating up the ice cream.

"I also figured that if there was someone that would not freak out if I showed up in their dream, it would be you." Aidan continues to float along, following Pinkie.

"That's true. Oooh!, can you change it to cupcakes?" She asks with the biggest smile. Aidan doesn't even answer, the rain merely switches to cupcakes.

"It's a dream, and now that you've been made aware. You can pretty much change it how you want. Just don't let the power go to your head." He says, only now realizing his mistake.

"Too late!" Is all that is heard as Pinkie dives into the side of a Canterlot castle sized cake.

Aidan just shakes his head at the sight. At least a dream won't cause sugar sickness he thinks to himself.
"Have pleasant dreams Pinkie. I'm heading to my own little dream section now."

The only response heard from the hole in the cake is "Okie Dokie Lokie!"