A Roegadyn in Equestria

A Roegadyn in Equestria.

Chapter 59: See Red? How About Yellow?

*Point of view: Daddy*
*Location: Unknown*
*Time: Unknown*

Absolutely nothing could be seen or heard, that could possibly indicate as to where the current scene was. Especially with it being completely shrouded in a thick gray mist that comprised pretty much everything. This including the entire ground. But an elderly male's voice soon came through loud and clear as he was plainly agitated.

This turning out to be that of Daddy from just before he took on the form of Master Roshi of the anime called Dragon Ball. So, instead of his usual goofy tone of voice. This time it came much rougher and commanding as it boomed. Which was a very different contrast to how he is in his other form.

“How could they have possibly learnt of my plans? So careful I was when making contact with the Merchants! Only to have a puppet sent in to assassinate not only the Merchant, but the boy as well. If only my movements weren't so restricted!” The air began to rumble after hearing the voice giving a low growl that echoed from nowhere, yet at the same time, from every direction to show his great displeasure.

After a few seconds of this, the voice died down to a more manageable level before it continued in a solemn tone of voice. “To think after every misfortune that has come across his way, that he would even go as far as to throw his life into the fray just to help that girl that was about to send him into another world.”

That was when a number of colored lights began to appear one after another high above the ground. Before they all slowly lowered and began converging on one another so that they were now forming a semicircle, which was comprised of over a dozen sources.

Among these, were also a number of items comprising of a single bracelet, a large leather-bound book, an old style dark blue telephone with the circular dial system. There was even a singular curved horn that was long and white. The last item of these, being a box with a lid that was floating nearby. What could be seen inside was a few pieces of paper and what appeared to be a container of sorts with a shimmering silver liquid that could be seen through one of the see-through panels on the side, just before the lid was placed back on top.

The voice of Daddy then said the following, while it seemed to converge on one spot so that it was now moving from place to place and giving a quick sigh. “The boy can't possibly handle these in his current state. There is no choice but to hold on to a majority until the time is right. For now, he should have these at least. I only hope that he survives long enough to receive the rest. How I detest the feeling of being so helpless… If only I could do more.”

Two of the glowing lights came forth so that they were now leaving the others. And as the image zoomed in on those. It was plain to see that one had the drawing of a shield, as the other had one that resembled that of a four-pointed throwing star and a circle with three sharp lines going out. In a bright flash of white and gold, these were gone without a trace before the voice spoke up again.

“If I only known sooner. Then maybe, I could have spared you from that heartache... Curse the one that blocked my vision for so long!” From there, the voice could be heard speaking more words, but they were becoming so muddled that they were completely unrecognizable as everything began to go dark. The last thing that could be seen, were the items themselves before those also started to grow dim. Only to be replaced with another person's voice that was beginning to echo in the background as it was getting louder and louder.

*Point of view: Daddy*
*Location: The other side*
*Time: The present*

“Daddy… Daddy! Daddy!!! Daddy!!!!!!!!! Come on, wake up already you old fart! Don't make me get Mother in here to destroy another one of your magazines!” And with, that everything was blanketed in white from a sudden bright light from above. Daddy, who is laying on his back on the couch, ended up bouncing right off of it and fell face first onto the carpeted floor.

At the same time, he was releasing the most masculine war cry that no one ever bore witness to. Which turned out to be him pretty much imitating that of a whaling cat that got its tail stepped on with the way he was floundering about and screaming and saying gibberish for a few seconds before they started to make sense.

“No! No! That heartless harpy! Don't you dare touch my babies! Do you know how hard it took me to find them? How much blood, sweat and tears I ended up shedding in order to build my collection?! I would rather die than let you murder one of them again!” It took him a few seconds before his vision was fully cleared after waking up so abruptly. Only to catch the sight of one of his children standing overhead and giving him an unamused stare, as he laid there almost motionless now and giving a weak chuckle as he spoke up and waving at her.

“Oh! Hey there Little Moon!” The girl only frowned at him before she stood up straight with her hands placed onto her hips and giving him an unamused look before responding to that. “Just how long are you going to wait until you give Mother's gift to him? It's been over a month now!” Daddy turned over to grab onto the edge of the couch to get himself onto his feet and brushed himself off, before glancing at the end table and seeing the odd, see-through orb with the shifting stars inside, before answering his daughter.

“Eh? Ah that? I just want to find out what it is before I do that. This is Mother we're talking about. Even we don't know what she can be up to! For all we know, it could turn him into a blank slate again. It could possibly change his personality. It could even send them to another world where Equus is ruled by Discord! By the Seven hell’s, he could even be reunited with-.”

Daddy had stopped himself in mid-sentence and started to give an overly exaggerated cough as a form of distraction. Along with him hitting his chest repeatedly with the side of his fist to drive the point home, before continuing as if nothing had even been said after the Discord topic. Of course, Little Moon was now tapping her foot and giving him the death glare, before her characters thick accent kicked in. “Okay Daddy, spill it! You know something about his past, don't you? Neither you or Little Light is telling me anything about him from back when he was on Earth!”

“I see Brex as a little brother... Err... Okay... Mabey more of a little brother, that's in a big body. So, would that make him? A little big brother or a big-little brother?” Clearly getting agitated even with herself. Little Moon shook her head quickly before getting back on the original topic. “Come on, give me anything! I hate being in the dark like this!”

Daddy already went over and grabbed onto the orb and was examining it some more by bringing it up to his eyes and lifting his glasses slightly with the other hand, as he replied to Little Moon. “I'm really sorry, but we can't really say much about him. It's up to the kid to recall it on his own.” Little Moon rushed up and grabbed on to Daddy by the scruff of his collar when she heard that and was now shaking him above her own head.

This got a very loud scared shriek from the man, as his eyes were beginning to spin with the sudden motion that his daughter was making with his own body that was now high in the air. A number of items began to fall out of his clothing one after another, which consisted of the following as they made clattering sounds on the carpeted floor.

“His extra pair of glasses, the orb he was examining, a few dirty magazines of different variations of holidays, his walking stick, a few hammers and chisels, three toy frogs that managed to land right next to one another so that they were sitting up straight and making the sounds in order that resembled an old jingle for a beer commercial.

There were also few more magazines. These obviously not from Earth, as the models weren't even by pedal and the words were extremely complex with their lettering. These mostly of species that ranged greatly in color and a few even had multiple limbs.

Little Moon continued to shake Daddy some more and a few more items began to spill from underneath his jacket. A miniaturized version of a golden double-headed axe, some wind-up chattering teeth, a rubber duck, some crazy googly eyes sunglasses and a bazooka with some letters that spelled out “Party time!” Little Moon stopped to look down and soon gave Daddy a look straight into his slowly stopping eyes that were swirling around. Without even looking down and sounding as though he was about to throw up. Daddy tried to reply.

“I can explain a lot of those. As for the eyeglasses, I do not know where those came from, but as for the Bazooka, I have a permit!” Little Moon got even more angrier as she let go with one of her arms and began to twirl Daddy around until he was nothing but a blur in the air, before letting go and sending him flying through the large television and the wall on the other side until he was sliding face first across the grass on the front lawn. As he was flying, Daddy was screaming before his mouth was full of grass and dirt after coming to a stop.

All the while, she was screaming at the top of her lungs and closing her eyes. Which showed her to be having quite a fit. “Why won't you tell me anything about my big little brother! I hate you Daddy!” Little Moon then stomped off to another part of the house while also yelling out some random curse words in a number of languages from Earth. None of them being nice in the least.

As Daddy was laying there and weakly holding up his arm, as if trying to plead with his daughter to not be too angry. Another person's head slowly came poking out of the side of the hole and towards the right from within the house.

This turning out to be the one that was using the character from Cowboy Bebop, known as Jet and he was not looking all that great with the way he was rubbing his face with his hand going down and squinting at the damage between his fingers. He then called out to Daddy with a tone that just said that he was completely over what was happening. “You're going to have to say something to her sooner or later... I'm getting really sick and tired of fixing this place up if she's going to end up doing this sort of stuff to you on a daily basis. Even I have my limits.”

Daddy spat out the dirt before he got himself out of the ground and went back into the house through the front door. Only to find that Jet was already at work with using his power to fix everything that was just broken. Once the final cracks had disappeared, both he and Daddy plopped right down on the couch, before the smaller one of the two spoke up. “I have absolutely no idea on what I'm supposed to say to her. You know what her aspect is, right? There's no possible way I can tell her about his past.”

Jet just taken out a carton of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and was about to light it, when it was knocked out of his hand by Daddy, who was now wielding his walking stick and giving him a stern look. So instead, Jet brought out a piece of gum and threw it into his mouth, before replying to the old man's words and sitting back into the chair with his arms crossed behind his head. “I know that you and Little Light know quite a bit about him. But the rest of us are pretty much in the dark the same as her. Knowing you, it's probably a good reason. But still, this is starting to get old fast.

“Eventually it's all going to get a lot more awkward now that Mother is about to move back in with us.” Daddy ended up flinching at the sound of Mother being mentioned and started to sweat quite profusely, while twiddling his fingers in front of himself and trying not to look as nervous as he felt. Jet then continued. “You know she's going to get really upset if she sees Little Moon in such a state, you know that right?”

Daddy released a long sigh, as he leaned forward and used his elbows to support himself on his knees before speaking in a worn-out tone. “Yeah, yeah. I get you there. It's just been so long since all of us stayed under one... This isn't really a roof, right? More like a realm? I've kind of forgotten what we're going with.” Jet answered while giving an exhausted sigh of his own.

“How many times do I have to explain it? Where inside of a pocket dimension that's being held by our incorporeal energy fields. If you want to think of it in terms that you can understand easily, then we're in another universe that is… Hmm, I want to say point, zero-zero-zero seven seconds out of sync with all of the other realities.” Daddy had a pondering expression as he tapped his chin before exclaiming. “Ah! I see! So we're kind of like in a gated community!”

Jets eyes just drooped as his facial expressions fell, before replying to that in a sarcastic tone which was laid on pretty thick, as he looked straight ahead with a thousand-mile stare. “Yeah... We're like living in a gated community... Anyway, we should get back on the topic of little Moon. Something should at least be thrown out there so she feels a little better. How about you at least run it past me and we can figure out if it's okay to tell her?”

Daddy was looking a little hesitant at first, but after glancing towards the section of the house that he knew that Little Moon had stormed off towards. He finally relented and began to whisper into Jets left ear. After several seconds had gone by, the pair slowly pulled away from one another and looked straight ahead. There was an awkward silence before the larger one of the two spoke up in a hushed tone. “I can see why you would be a little hesitant about saying even that much.”

After letting out another long sigh, Jet continued. “We've been around a long time and we've seen and heard pretty much everything. This is the same for each one of us and that includes Little Moon. I guess the real problem is… How attached she's gotten to the kid. That will be the biggest factor.” He then released yet another sigh, before his voice got a little lighter. “Think of it on the bright side, at least it's better for him now and a good portion of that is thanks to Little Moon herself.”

“What I'm trying to say is... I wouldn't tell her as much as what you did for me, but you could throw in a little here and there. She's a big girl after all. It's not like she will intentionally break our laws and go straight to Earth just so that she could-.” Jets voice was stopped by Daddy slapping a hand over his mouth without any sort of warning at such a speed, that it caused the air to blow around the room.

The man was just looking down at the smaller person with a very unamused look, that soon turned into confusion after seeing the terrified expression on Daddy's face as he was looking at something that was on the other side of the two of them. This was followed after a long stretch of silence by the voice of Little Moon, and she was giving the both of them a cold lifeless stare down that made them flinch. “You’ll tell him, but not me? Spill it! Or I will make sure I spill you all over this floor!”

Either it was an optical illusion or Little Moon was changing her size. But the both of them were now looking up at a far larger version of the girl and she dwarfed them in size to where they were pretty much no bigger than action figures by comparison. In her right hand, appeared a sizable frying pan and it was already giving off a glowing blue light as it was lightly being swing into her free hand repeatedly to show she was ready for a fight.

Daddy was practically huddled behind Jet and was now using him as a makeshift barricade, while poking his eye over the guy's shoulder and quickly stuttering in a response to the threat. “We're going to need Little Light to be here for this part...” As for Jet, he was clearly looking towards the front door before his eyes shifted to look at the other two in his room. This was followed with him saying just under his breath and in a terrified tone. “I'm not really needed for this, right?”

Little Moon gave the smallest of nods to him before he bolted for the door and leaving a smoky outline of his body that was still in a sitting pose. Daddy held out his left hand as to try and catch him while falling over and was screaming out. Only for the two to exchange the next set of words.

“COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD!”

“Hey this is between you and her!”

“It's your fault this happened, come back and take responsibility!”

“No thanks! I'm a builder not a fighter and she scares the shit out of me! I didn't even think I could shit! Why?! Oh why, did I not build a toilet in this place, now I got to do that before I crap my pants! Why did we pick living forms?!”

When Jet made it out of the house and slammed the door behind himself. All that remained was a terrified Daddy, who is trying to inch away from his daughter that was clearly getting her frying pan for use, obviously for something other than cooking. It didn't take long before the shadow showing the outline of Little Moon could be seen slowly creeping over Daddy, as he gave her a pathetic little smile before saying, “I guess we should go find Little Light now... Hoho-Hooo... Why me? Aren't the old supposed to get treated with respect?”

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Location: Aboard the airship that is heading to Las Pegasus*
*Time: Six-fifteen at night*

Brex was currently laying down in his bed after accepting that it was originally placed there for Princess Celestia. Alongside of him, were his two maids that were laying nearly naked against him as they wore nothing but their lingerie. Which consisted of one wearing a light-colored bra and panties. As the other one wore darker colors of nearly black to match both of their hair colors.

Not much really happened after getting situated in their room. Although Brex really needed to calm himself a little so he just went to go lie down on the mattress. Without so much is giving any type of order, his maids undress themselves and climbed in as well so that they were in their current position with their eyes closed and resting peacefully. While his eyes from behind his mask we're still open and staring straight up at the ceiling for some time.

With a slow glance over to each of them. He began to think to himself. “They really haven't had much time with me as of late now, have they? These leisurely moments are quite enjoyable when there's not some big emergency happening.” While doing this, his eyes went back to them and as their forms were being taken in. The right hand of Lin moved to his crotch and began to lightly rub along the area and also giving an absent-minded hum of appreciation even though the fabric was keeping them apart.

The motion ended up causing Brex to get a little heated down there as his member was now showing signs of coming to life with the continued stroking across the fibers with the Changelings gentle touching. Although, before anything else could happen. There was a light knock that was coming through their door.

Which had the effect of causing Lin to stop and to pick up her head by a few inches in order to glance at the door with an unamused look on her face. Afterwards, she laid her head so that it was up against Brex as she casually said, “My Lord, It's Zecora.”

In the past, Brex would immediately follow that up with a question as to how she knew, but over their time together. Brex discovered that both Rin and Lin were able to discern a person's identity through detecting their emotions, this was possible even if they were divided by a wall. So, in this case, a simple door was hardly anything. Soon, Zecora’s voice came through not even a second later to prove Lin's prediction.

“I hope that I am not disturbing. I do believe that it is time for them to serve the evening meal and thought perhaps we can all go as one.” Brex called out to her without even making any effort to move a muscle. “Give us a few minutes and we'll meet you there, or you could just wait outside the door.” This was followed with a short pause before He heard her replying. “I do not mind at all, so I shall wait.”

And with that, Rin rolled off to the left as Lin did the same towards the right side of the bed in order to get dressed again. Although, they seemed rather reluctant with how slow they were going and it felt as though the two of them were trying to give him a type of reverse strip tease show. Especially with the way they were slowly pulling up their stockings and bending over to show their tails.

Of course, this was working on him pretty well and he wished they could have continued with the snuggling. As for Brex, he looked down to his robes and wondered if he should try to wear something else, but thought otherwise for the time being and left it as it was.

When the door to his room was finally opened by Rin. Brex was met by the sight of Zecora, who was standing in the middle of the hallway and she was wearing her usual attire. Although the front was now partly open instead of fully closed up to reveal her wearing a loincloth that acted as a mini skirt.

He was even able to see that the top was fairly close to a bikini and was made of the same material. What caught his attention was how there was some bone buttons being used but a few were undone and made it perfectly obvious that the zebra was intentionally trying to show her cleavage a little more.

Which ended up showing off that she had a pair of D-cup breasts that threatened to fall out if she were to undo just one more of the buttons. It looked to have been made from a fur pelt belonging to a creature with white and black stripes. Brex could easily tell that it was not from a zebra, but that of a creature with long fur.

Instead of her usual mohawk hairstyle. Zecora had actually combed it into something else. On a Second glance, Brex could tell that it was more than that. Especially with the way she was smelling a little different. He assumed that it was from the shampoos provided in the bathroom so she must have taken a bath with them during the time they were apart. Even if he himself had not used them, Brex could have easily smelled them during his short time of examining the one in his room. As the scent from their bottles filled the air easily.

Now that he looked back on it. Brex didn't really remember seeing anything that look like a fully functional bathroom at Zecora’s, aside from a small room that he remembered seeing to have a toilet. That was when he came to the conclusion that Zecora must have normally bathed in the river.

From behind his mask, Brex couldn't help but to think back to his beginnings in the Ever Free Forest. At the time, he did very much the same thing to get clean. He quickly started to talk to Zecora after stepping out of the room and with his two maid’s right on his heels.

“I take it you took full advantage of what was offered in the bathrooms? With how you have your hair down, you remind me of another that I knew. We're ready to go if you are.” What Brex said was not a lie, especially with the way she reminded him so much of the character from, Oh My Goddess, known as Urd.

If she had a tan skin similar to that of Rory and more human-like features. Then he probably would have easily mistaken her for another displaced that came as that character. Zecora gave a curt nod before giving her reply. Although, there was a slight blush on her cheeks while doing so.

“And just who would I be reminding you of? If you don't mind me being a little personal. I only ask out of pure curiosity, since my current hairstyle has forced you to recall.” Brex and the rest of them began to walk down the corridor as he took a few seconds to think about what he was going to say. Afterwards, he replied with the following, although he would keep a few things out. There wasn't any real need to emphasize the girl’s curves and voluptuous breasts.

“Her name is Urd. A tall and dark bronze female with back-length silvery gray hair. She has waist-length hair strands hanging in the front with part of it framing her face from the front on the left side. While a part on her hairline reveals her forehead and brown eyes.”

“She would be quite tall and was known to have a fondness for brewing potions. She has two younger sisters and is known to have a tendency to stick her nose into the love life of one of them. Urd could be rather blunt and often takes things to the extreme without thinking too much ahead of what she was originally aiming for, but she's still a good girl at heart.”

As he was saying all of this, both of his maids would look towards him, while trying to keep their faces pointing straight ahead so that they could focus on what he was saying. This was obviously a topic that he had not brought up before, so it was drawing their interest with it being new to the both of them as well. As for Zecora, her expression began to soften as her eyes drifted lower towards the ground and showing a small smile before she replied.

“It seems that you know this one quite well. Was she a former lover of yours? Perhaps that your heart still dwells?” Brex shook his head before answering with a small laugh at the beginning. “Oh no, nothing of the sort. I can guarantee that she did not even know of my existence.”

“More of it being a story passed down. I myself have never met this girl but with the way the story was told, her image was pretty easy to come up with in one’s mind.” There was no way he was going to say that he had memories of himself watching that show at least a dozen times over.

The scene of the four moves on to them being in the dining area where many others were currently gathered. But thanks to the size of the ship and how it was constructed, the area was quite spacious so there were plenty of round tables that could easily have sat six people at each one.

Along the walls, there were crystal-type torches that was keeping the place pretty well-lit, along with a couple of chandeliers that went down the middle of the ceiling as the whole room was shaped more along the lines of a rectangle. From a glance, he could tell that the seating capacity was roughly one-hundred and fifty ponies. Which was soon confirmed easily with there being a plaque that indicated it on one of the walls.

Zecora, along with his maids. All ordered salads with various types of vegetables thrown in. But as for Brex, he had nothing. When the orders were first put in, Zecora was curious as to why he was not getting anything to eat and try to persuade him into placing an order of his own. But in the end, he just simply waved It off and change the subject back to what they were in the middle of talking about. That just so happened to be about the person that Brex was mentioning only a while ago.

Making sure to line up certain parts of the story with this world. He explained it to be about a young male that was going to school. First, he was quite short and didn't have all that many friends, except for a group that he was a part of that were into old types of technology and was inspired to come up with his own. Although, it turned out that his luck wasn't really all that great. As one unfortunate accident after another would occur, which would send his life into a downward spiral of depression.

Or at least that's what it would have turned out to be, if it wasn't for a very unlikely series of events to happen. One day, when he had practically given up and was on the verge of going back home. He had gotten a mysterious message in the form of a scroll that was just lying on his desk. On it with some writing that mysteriously began to appear on the paper as though it was being written in real time for him to see.

At first, the kid thought that it was some type of prank, with the one on the other end trying to explain themselves to be from a help office and that he was selected to be the next one that they were to lend assistance to. The kid then went over to grab a nearby quill in order to write his response, hoping that it would go through to whoever was on the other side in order to call their bluff and say that it was a scam and he didn’t want anything to do with it all.

The writing that appeared next, conveyed that they were truly what they were saying to be and notified him that a representative would soon arrive in order to grant him one desire. He was even more suspicious of this and was about to go and make sure that his door was locked out of fear of something happening to him.

But before he was even able to do so. The scroll began to give off a light and it was slowly filling the room with a warm glow that only got brighter and brighter over the course of several seconds. There was also another light source similar to the first and that one was coming from a mirror within his room.

Out of it came a female that was clothed and a flowing dress that was comprised of blue and white fabrics that could have flowed easily with the slightest bit of wind. Along most of her body, one could see various types of jewelry made of gold and silver that glistened as she came out of the mirror head first. Clearly frightened, the kid tried to get away. But was frozen in place as he watched her landing on to the floor only a few paces away.

From that point on, Brex began to explain as she introduced herself as a Goddess and that due to his horrible misfortune, he was granted the chance to have his heart's most wanted desire granted. The self-proclaimed Goddess even explained as to what he could wish for, which was literally anything at all. Whether it would be being popular with the females, or even have all the riches in the world.

There was even mention of him possibly him ruling the entire world himself and become a king or wishing for its utter destruction. All he was to do, was to just say the words. Of course, the Goddess told him that they would not have chosen one for the wish if they new he would go for the last option. For they saw him as a gentle soul and was worthy of the opportunity.

In the end, the kid was awestruck by this goddess’s beauty and her sweet nature. Which conveyed such purity and kindness, that without even realizing it, he had given his wish. Upon hearing it, the Goddess was startled and before she could say a word, there was a radiant light that came off of her body before going dim after several seconds went by. As soon as the light had died down completely, did she go back to the scroll and start to write down something.

All the while, the kid was very confused as to what occurred. But was soon told by her, that his wish was heard and granted by her superiors. He then asked what exactly was the wish that was granted. The Goddess approached him and with a gentle smile as she looked into his eyes and told him that his wish to be with her forever, was approved.

So, from then on, he began to live with the Goddess and although his luck turned for the better. The boy would continue to have one adventure after another that would literally be dropped on his doorstep. All the while, learning about his feelings and growing ever so closer with the Goddess. Even the Goddess herself, who was new to it all. Was developing feelings for him as well.

Brex also went on to add at the end that the character that Zecora reminded him of, turned out to be the Goddesses older sister that soon came into the mix later on in their long story and had a habit of poking her nose into their love life. All in order to progress their romance. However, her methods would go into the extremes and would end up completely out of hand. Only to end up in one failure after another.

By the end of the tale. Not only was the three at his table fully immersed and now wanting to know what was to happen next. There were even a few calls from some of the nearby tables of ponies that wanted him to continue as well. So that meant that the audience turned out to be most of those, if not all within the dining room. That was when he realized that the whole place had gone completely silent in order to hear him out. Thankfully enough, none of them got to see the blush on his face, all thanks to his mask.

From that point on. Brex was pretty much stuck with how he was getting the puppy dog eyes from Not only Rin and Lin. But the rest of the passengers as well. From behind is mask, he couldn't help but to have this very droopy expression that just portrayed his displeasure from accidentally putting himself into such a situation and eventually he caved in. He then thought the following. “Oh wow... Why do I feel like I just stepped into a hornet's nest? This is going to be a long three-day flight, isn't it...?”

*Point of view: Princess Luna*
*Location: Canterlot castle*
*Time: Nine-Thirty at night*

Luna was in the middle of walking through one of the many hallways that was basking in her Moon's light. All of it coming from the many rows of large windows. Each one of her steps echoed as it reverberated off of both the stone walls and floor to indicate that not many were in the hallways apart from herself and a few of the night guards stationed here and there.

As she was passing one of the windows. She came to a stop and began to peer through so that she was looking up at her moon. She then leaned in and placed her elbows onto the ledge, as she began to contemplate on the events of that day. She had just gone into the throne room to try and meet up with her older sister, but found that she was nowhere to be found within.

Luna checked the dining room next, but she wasn't there either. Then the garden and lastly the library. But still, there was no sign of Celestia. Afterwards, she went to the last place she could think of, which was her sister's bedroom and once she arrived at the front door, she found that the two guards that were stationed outside were on high alert. Which meant that the one that she was searching for was most likely within.

Luna knocked on Celestia's chambers door and called out. “Sister, is there something amiss? You were not in the throne room and I became worried.” She quickly got a reply from Celestia which consisted of, “Please come in Luna.” She wasn't quite sure, but she had this feeling that the tone that Celestia was using, conveyed discomfort. Of course, she took the invitation and came on inside and close the door behind herself.

What she saw within was her sister sitting on the bed and giving her an obviously fake innocent smile. If that wasn't enough, the visible sweating was a dead giveaway for Luna, as she came closer and sat on the bed so she was on the right side of Celestia before speaking. “Sister? Pray tell us to why you are in your room at this time of day? It is only half past four and there is still a great deal of time before we must switch the Sun and Moon.”

Luna's eyes were looking straight into her sisters before they began to lower to take notice of the outfit Celestia was wearing and couldn't help herself but the comment on it almost immediately. While at the same time, her right eyebrow is beginning to rise oh so slightly. “Pardon me if I am mistaken, but is that not a different dress from what you wore this morning? When last I saw, you were mostly wearing white. This has more colors in line with your mane.”

Celestia's eyes went wide for but a fraction of a second before returning to what they were. The white mare replying to that with an even bigger smile. “Oh… This? Yes, I did change. I had a small accident earlier and my dress got messy while going through the garden. I took a small break and I might have not have been watching where I ended up stepping. You know how it is.”

Luna just went ahead with this and accepted what Celestia said, before she took her by the hand and started to stand up to try and lead them both to having their time together. However, Luna did this so quickly that it had caught her older sister off guard and when she began to pull, Celestia was partially pulled off the bed. As a result, she gave a quick grunt of pain before freezing in place.

After hearing that. Lunar released Celestia's hand and stood in front of her sister that was now trying to carefully sit back down. All the while, keeping her face from contorting in pain. Luna's gaze hardened as she stared down at her sister that was now at a lower elevation thanks to their standing and sitting perspectives. Luna then started to talk in a slow and deliberate tone to convey that she didn't want to be led around the bush.

“Dear sister, I have been a part of many battles, so I know when I hear an injury. What has thou done this time?” Luna slipped just a tiny bit into her old way of speaking when asking that question to really drive it in that she was not playing around and she knew that Celestia had noticed this as well, after giving a slight wince before speaking herself. Celestia was even partly looking away as she did.

“It's not really a lie that my outfit got messed up and I needed to change... I may have gotten a little impatient… and.” Celestia let that draw out for a few seconds, before saying the rest as quickly as she could and closing her eyes tight at the same time. “And I might have teleported just outside of Ponyville on the dirt roads in order to try and get a glimpse of Gambit!”

After that was said, there was nothing but silence that filled the room for a good number of seconds. During that time, Celestia was holding a pose that suggested that she was waiting to be struck by something and Luna was just staring straight at her with an unamused look that barely budged an inch.

Not even the sound of their breathing could be heard with them both holding their breath. That was until Luna released a heavy breath of air through her nostrils and started to talk, while pacing slowly back and forth in front of her sister as though she were a parent that was about the scold their child.

Celestia's eyes began to slowly open as she watched this going on and as the seconds went by, she began to relax and lower her guard. However, that turned into a really bad idea, as she was unprepared for Luna to do the following. First the younger one of the sisters went and used a spell that shot in all directions from her horn and collided with every surface of the room to create a soundproof barrier.

Then, Luna got right up into Celestia's face and grabbed onto both of the alabaster mare’s arms just above the elbows in order to hold her still. Lastly, Luna began to yell at the top of her lungs in quite a vulgar way of speech, that was really close to the Canterlot voice level. “Hast thou gone mad! I beg of thee hath not gotten into an altercation with him! What could possibly have been said and done this time?! Of all the irresponsible! What could possibly have compelled thee?!”

Celestia's face was almost blown back from sheer force of Luna’s voice for a few seconds, before she hurriedly replied to that with her eyes going wide and head shaking frantically. “No! Nothing of that sort. I have done nothing wrong; I swear! I didn't even get into town before it all happened!”

Luna was now pressing her face right up against her sisters so that they were now muzzled to muzzle and forehead to forehead, while staring straight into her older sister's eyes with a death glare. There was even a small hint of a feral growl that escaped the edge of the lunar princess’s lips along with a few twitches of her right eye to show her irritation was flaring up and was near its breaking point.

Luna then said in almost a whisper. “Dear sister… Although you're the eldest of us, I swear. If you did anything to anger him this time, then I will do what Nightmare did and slap the bitch out of you!” Celestia looked utterly shocked at the vulgar talk as Luna continued. “I may not remember too much from beyond our fight with him, but I do remember that bit!” Celestia's eyes were almost as big as dinner plates as she began to talk very slowly, while having this expression that she was fully remembering the experience in her mind.

“I swear Luna! The incident today had nothing to do with Gambit. I never even got to see him!” Luna then backed off and took a few steps away so that she was still staring down at her sister. And for a brief instant, she began to wonder in her mind as to why she was compelled to say such things. There was this small part that was ready to throttle her own big sister if anything was done to gambit by her actions.

It was fully aware to Luna that Gambit was far stronger than any male. But the very notion that Celestia could have done something to him again, had sparked something within that compelled her to use such language. Moreover, was the confusion as to the word choice, considering that she had never used them before or even heard of another saying them around herself. That was when she started to hear her sister talking and pushed those thoughts away so that she could fully focus on what was being said.

*Point of view: Princess Celestia*
*Location: Canterlot, castle throne room*
*Time: Three-Thirty in the afternoon*

Celestia Just finished with the last of the petitions to have an audience with her and now had a relieved look on her face after the throne room was cleared out. Normally, there would be so many trying to get an audience, that they would end up having to wait until the next day because of their time running out. But luckily for her, the number was quite low so she was able to get done a lot faster than she normally would have.

Seeing as she got a good hour or maybe an extra hour and a half before Luna was to wake up. Celestia had this devilish thought creeping into her mind about taking a quick trip to Ponyville in order to get a glimpse of Gambit. She surely thought that she could get there and back without anyone being the wiser, especially if she was going to use a spell to disguise her appearance.

To start off her plan. Celestia informed the guards that she will be going to her room for the time being to catch up on some paperwork that was left behind. This was followed with her doing just that by going into her room with a quick teleportation spell. When it came to the paperwork that she had previously mentioned. That turned out to be a large rolled up piece of parchment containing the map of the general area and even Ponyville near the edge.

After taking several seconds to go over the map. Celestia pointed to a single spot just to the South, where a small road was indicated. After looking around to see just where it was connecting to, Celestia could tell that it must have not been used very often with it leading to the middle of nowhere and decided to use that as a point to teleport into.

The solar princess didn't want to take the chance of going straight to Ponyville and being discovered almost instantly. Her plan required her to use a long-range teleportation spell and upon arrival. She would cast the illusion spell and continue the rest of the way on hoof. Once her mind was made up, Celestia did just that and gave a bright flash of light from her horn.

When Celestia's spell was finished, she found herself in the middle of the road she was aiming for. But after a quick glance in a distance, she could tell that she was a little off from her calculations. Instead of being less than ten minutes away on ground. She was more like an hour and started to grumble to herself about needing to practice her magic more when it came to something other than lifting teacups or papers with a levitation spell. Clearly over the years, she has become quite rusty and promised herself to get right on that after the visit.

Only a few seconds had gone by and she hadn't had a chance to use the disguising spell before there was a big sound coming up from behind that caught her attention and caused Celestia to turn on the spot out of surprise. What she saw was a large yellow bird and it was coming to a screeching stop as both of its legs were digging a trench into the ground and kicking up quite a bit of dirt in the prosses.

When it finally came to a stop. There was a large amount of dirt that came flying by in the form of a thick cloud, which lasted a good several seconds before the wind cleared it all away. During this, Celestia was having a slight coughing fit and using her hand to block as much as she could from going into her mouth, as her eyes tried to squint to get a clear view of the figure that was barely made out through the dissipating brown veil.

Once her vision was completely restored. Celestia found herself standing before a creature that was taller than even herself. Its form was indeed that of a large chicken of sorts, but she did vaguely remember one of her subjects talking about a creature that did fit its description and it went by the name of a Chocobo. The body was covered in yellow feathers and a saddle of sorts was securely fixed to its back.

The Chocobo was staring straight down at her and slightly turning its head to the left in order to allow one of its eyes to get a clear look at her. As Celestia was looking into those orbs, the creature was giving short chirps that any other type of bird would make.

It then slightly tilted its head, which looked quite adorable to Celestia. She was just about to say something to it when she noticed it coming to a complete freeze. All the while, still having its eyes locked on her and this caused the mare to have a confused expression after witnessing the sudden change in its behavior.

After the Chocobo blinked a few times. She could see her own reflection in its eyes as her confusion soon turned into panic as its eyes instantly narrowed at her. Which gave the impression that she was not very much cared for.

This was immediately followed with the creature spinning on the spot without warning so that its tail was pointing straight at herself. But before she could do anything, Celestia was kicked straight in the stomach and sent flying a good dozen meters before slamming into the side of a tree that was just barely able to keep itself from falling over from the impact of her thrown body.

Before she was able to regain her senses from the sudden attack. Celestia's blurred vision allowed her to catch the creature flapping both of its short wings to its sides and giving out a multitude of sounds to indicate that it was far from being happy at all. This was then accompanied with it charging head first and jumping at the last possible second in order to deliver a powerful flying kick. A kick that was clearly aimed right for Celestia's now screaming face.

But Celestia was able to use a teleportation spell to appear in the middle of the road so that she was now behind it and witnessed how it demolished the tree with that single kick. As the tree was slowly toppling over, the Chocobo turned its gays towards her after seeming to pick up where she was and began to scratch at the ground to indicate that it was still not done.

Even though this creature was still trying to attack her. Celestia couldn't bring herself to retaliate. Clearly, she had done something that warranted this, but she had no idea as to what it could have been and held up her arms in a placating gesture to try and get it to calm down.

Although, it seemed that the Chocobo wanted nothing to do with her trying to lessen the friction between them both and it charged yet again. In response, Celestia channeled some magic through both her horn and hands in order to cast a binding spell onto the Chocobo as it got halfway between its starting position and where she was in the road.

This created some golden bands to appear out of the ground as soon as a magical circle appeared right as the Chocobo stepped right on the ground where it was. These shot right up and grab onto different sections of the Chocobo, which consisted of mostly its legs and around its neck. It started to instantly thrash as it came to a grinding stop, due to the binding spell and Celestia began to relax as she let out a heavy breath that she was holding in.

Thinking that she had everything well in hand. Celestia had let her guard down and the Chocobo took full advantage of this and flexed its muscles in order to try and break loose. After a few seconds of this, it started to take a few steps forward. Although it started off extremely slow at first, it was now rapidly gaining speed. There was even this slight red glowing aura that was surrounding its body as it gave off these menacing chirps while doing so.

The Chocobo then threw its head up and started to flap its wings a few times before there was a small explosion of green light that encompassed its form. Once the light had subsided, Celestia could see that her bindings were now cracking and falling to pieces within seconds. Once the last thread was broken, the magical circle on the ground disappeared and the Chocobo was right back to charging at a blinding pace and closed the distance before Celestia could think to do anything in response.

This resulted in a full body side tackle, as the Chocobo turned and rammed into Celestia. Some of her clothing got torn up thanks to the armor that was placed on the saddle and even though Celestia herself was thrown a couple of meters back and went into a tumble. The Chocobo used the impact to stop itself and was now standing on both of its legs again. From the posture it was giving off, it was clearly ready to go for another round.

By the time she had gotten back onto her hoofs. Celestia was already getting charged at again. This time, the alabaster mare thrusted both of her hands forward and sent a shockwave in the creature’s general direction in hopes of pushing it back.

Of course, Celestia had far more power to do a great amount of damage, but she just couldn't bring herself to actually inflict any harm to the Chocobo in front of her. If only she could figure out what it was that prompted this sudden change of attitude from the gentle creature, she first saw it as.

But just as the wave was about to make contact with the Chocobo to force it away. There was a pulse that emanated from it in the form of a barrier that was comprised of many segmented sections of polygons of light. This lasted for the briefest of instances. That was when her wave made contact, but instead of it pushing. It was merely dispelled as if something much more powerful had collided with it instead. In a way, it was no better than trying to stop a charging rhino with a white picket fence.

Still not wanting to cause any undue harm. Celestia quickly took to the air so that she can be out of its range. However, before she can make it more than four meters off of the ground. She saw how the Chocobo was squawking angrily, while also flapping its wings and there was this sudden rush of air that could be seen flowing straight towards its body and an enveloping it.

Then, it's body began to glow yellow as its feathers began to bristle. Lastly, it did a number of other squawks before it's suddenly vanished after making multiple after images that seem to go in different directions. Only to immediately disperse after separating hardly a few hoofs away.

Celestia could only find herself blinking dumbfoundedly at what just had happened. For all she knew, the Chocobo's were a new breed of creature that were quite tame and none of what she knew had even mentioned them having these strange abilities. Her attention was brought to one of the trees nearby that gave off a strong rattling sound as the top shook quite violently. This happened again with another one off to her left and then a third time with a tree on her right side.

There was a sudden sound that could be heard coming from the front and the next thing she knew; she saw a yellow blur coming at her at such speed that she could barely even make out its form before she was suddenly hit in the stomach once again.

This had allowed her only a fraction of a second to notice that it was the Chocobo again and the amount of force it used, along with the speed, was making a visible funnel of wind that was being displaced from the kick it used to strike her with.

This move sent her flying to one of the treetops and crashed through a number of the branches until landing on the ground with a heavy thud. All the while, her eyes were pretty much bulging out from the impact. She also screamed and let out quite a few grunts of pain as each one of the branches collided into different areas of her body. One of which, even smacked her in the forehead and caused her to go a little dizzy for a few seconds as a result.

Celestia was now on her stomach, along with her arms, legs and wings spread out and uncomfortable angles. The right side of her face was now pressing into the dirt and grass and just as she had slowly begun to lift it. Another attack came down from above and slammed right into her lower spine and displaced the ground underneath as her body was pushed even deeper. This elicited a loud scream from the solar monarch, as her eyes were forced to bug out yet again.

This was soon followed by the creature constantly jumping up and down and slamming both of its legs down on the princess repeatedly for what seemed like forever. But was actually for a good ten or twelve seconds before it all stopped. Celestia's dress was pretty much torn to shreds thanks to the branches and the repeated stomping of the bird. Her entire body was twitching from the pain as her right hand was pathetically outstretched of the shallow hole as if begging for anyone nearby to lend assistance.

Seemingly left alone for several seconds after that. Celestia attempted to get up but her body was just a little numb from the thrashing and all she could do was let out a small tiny, voiceless cry of pain, while her right hand attempted to claw at the ground in order to pull herself away from where she was. But as she was doing this, there was the sound of dirt being displaced. So, she ended up turning her head to see what it was and her eyes turned to that of both pleading and disbelief.

Right there, just about a dozen yards away. Was the Chocobo at the edge of the road and it was using its feet to scratch away at the dirt and was already making a hole. Once it seemed that it was at least three or four hoofs deep. The Chocobo stopped and was coming right for Celestia once again.

Who is now shaking her head desperately to show that she may have had an idea as to what was to come. She had tried to look away in order to find something to grab onto, but it was too late. The Chocobo already reached down with its beak and had caught on to a section of her dress that was still intact. Now dragging her slowly towards the hole, she was kicking to try and get away.

Once she had gotten close to the hole. She figured that she would just be tossed in, but instead. The Chocobo decided to do one more act. Celestia was then roughly spun while it held on tightly to her dress until they were pretty much a blur with how fast they were going. The Chocobo then released its grip. Which in turn, launched Celestia straight up after a quick jerking motion was made to change the trajectory they were spinning at.

Quickly, it followed up by doing another disappearing act, only to re-appear right above Celestia and it was already in a form of frontwards flip after coming out of a tucked in form and struck her with a leg, which then sent her hurdling right into the hole and created a dust cloud to be shot out upon entry. Celestia gave out a loud cry of pain upon making a loud thud that quickly reverberated. As her arms and legs could be seen sticking out of the sides of the hole, along with the wings that now had their feathers completely misaligned by now.

All she could do was to stare up into the sky as her eyes were clearly spinning and letting out small moans of discomfort. The head of the Chocobo was now seen as it was looking into the hole. It then gave off a weird bird like sound, that sounded a lot like a sneeze or perhaps a cough before it was pulled away out of her sight. A few seconds later, Celestia could now hear the sound of scratching as some dirt was kicked into the hole and was now covering a part of her midsection before she ended up blacking out.

*Point of view: Princess Luna*
*Location: Canterlot castle, in the hallway*
*Time: In the present*

Luna found herself having a giggling fit, while looking at her reflection after we calling what her sister went over. But even that came to a stop after going through with letting her older sister know about the current events. Celestia was completely appalled upon getting word of there being a possible Herd Cult member in Ponyville. Even more so when it turned out to be the mare friend of one of her special agents.

Seeing as her sister was still rather messed up and would require a full night of sleep to even be able to walk around without so much as screaming and pain. Luna went ahead and left out the rest of the report in concern to last night's activities at the local bar. Truly, the last thing she wanted to do was to aggravate her sister's condition and chose to relay this on the next day. There was no doubt that Celestia might try something if she knew that gambit was going on a trip and still so close.

Seeing as they were now down to a single unit that could keep an eye on Gambit. All she could do is wait till the end of the night to be able to have any type of update. So, after leaving her reflection, Luna went towards her bed chambers to get ready for tonight's patrol. Although, during the walk, Luna would constantly recall bits and pieces of her older sister's story and would have a small chuckle at random intervals while walking down the hallway. Which only confused a couple of her night guards.

After giving her usual orders to not be disturbed, unless a matter of importance were to occur to the guards outside of her door. Luna immediately got herself comfortable after climbing into her large bed and pulling up the sheets. Once her horn was glowing, it only took a few seconds before she was now in the Realm of Dreams.

From there, she saw how she was in the middle of the starry sky and surrounded by dream bubbles of varying intensities in regards to their coloring and went on her way to slay the nightmares. One by one she would check and dive into those that desperately required her assistance. For most of the night, it was of the usual variety, whether it be the troubles of their day or the stallions being plagued by nightmares involving them under the thumb of some dastardly mare.

Luna would swoop in and change it to one that would give them a peaceful night's rest. Unfortunately, when one of these stallions would see her. Their first reaction would be to run in terror. She knew it was not due to her once being that of Nightmare Moon, but just for the fact that she was a mare in general. It was safe to say that it still hurt her none the less.

Honestly, the only males that she has had the chance to talk to and not get that run and flee reaction was from her new nephew, Prince Blue Blood, then there are Shining armor and Sir Fancy Pants. Of course, last but not least would be Gambit. She would be lying if she herself didn’t have the same thoughts of sneaking to see him in person. Thankfully she seemed to have more willpower in that department. Perhaps it was from knowing that she could see him whenever he slept that kept her in check.

However, when she progressed in her patrols and got around to checking on Ponyville. Luna immediately noticed how Gambits large dream bubble was nowhere to be found in that cluster of Ponies. Ironically enough, Luna mistakenly forgot that he was not in town and this caused her to show some disappointment. It wasn’t like she was always able to see him but just knowing this made it seem different and she didn’t quite like it.

Although, she did find a few dreamers that ended up calling her inside with the way their dreams were giving off a nightmarish vibe. The first belonging to a mare that she had not needed to see as of yet, with a reddish mane and a cutie mark of a rose on her clothing.

The mare was within a facsimile of Ponyville, although the buildings and sky were pretty misshaped and the coloring was completely off. When Luna arrived, the mare was in the middle of asking the dream constructs of other ponies if they had seen Gambit. But no matter how hard she tried, none of them were giving her any notice to indicate that they even knew that she was even there to begin with and kept on their merry way.

Luna pondered as to why this counted as a nightmare. Also, why was this mare so frantic to be in search of him. Eventually, the mare had gone through nearly a quarter of the town and now found herself in the middle of the town square. It was there, that she was sitting on a bench and openly crying. Having seen more than enough. Luna made herself known to the mare and sat on the other end of the bench and called out in her usual sweet tone that she was only able to give while consoling those being affected by a nightmare.

“Young one... Please be at ease, for this is not but a dream.” And with that. Luna used her magic to take hold of the nightmare and cause the immediate surrounding to look more normal, as the warped building began to fix themselves as her magic washed over each and every one of them. The mare looked around and saw what was happening before returning her gaze to Luna. Now seeing who it was, she was showing a shock expression as she got into a bow after taking herself off of the bench.

Luna then said to her, while motioning to where the mare was previously sitting. “Please, there will be none of that now. Why don't you go ahead and sit back down and tell me what is it that is causing you such turmoil.” When the mare heard this, she immediately return to the bench and the two of them began to exchange words.

“As you may have already surmised, I am Princess Luna. May I have yours?”

“I-I'm Rose... I'm very sorry but I don't quite know how to act around nobility.”

“That is quite all right Miss Rose. I am merely here to lend assistance as the dream realm is under my protection. Now, as for my earlier question, could you please elaborate on just who it is you are so adamantly searching for? To be so thorough and looking high and low in the way you have, could only imply that you are very troubled by his absence.”

“It's my friend… Gambit.”

“Gambit, you say? And just why would you be having a nightmare about him?”

“Excuse me Princess Luna, but how do you know it's a him?”

“Oh, I have my ways and the name does not sound as though it belongs to a mare if I am being truthful. But please, do continue.”

“I-I guess, I'm just really worked up about him leaving Ponyville...”

“Why are you sure that this Gambit is leaving Ponyville? Did he say he was?”

“Uh-huh! He'll be gone for a while. He only just told me yesterday and left on the train this morning. I suppose I got the time messed up in here and thought it had already been weeks since he left and I just started to panic. It just seems that no one bothered to react when I mentioned his name. I was scared that if they all forgot, then I might too.”

“I see how it is Miss Rose. Is it right for me to assume that he will be going somewhere that could possibly be dangerous and that is the cause of your worries?”

“That's just it Princess... He kept making it vague as to where he was going, but I could just tell that he was doing it intentionally. He even left his mare friend behind.”

“Excuse me, did you say that he left his mayor friend in Ponyville?”

“Yes, yes, he did...”

“Well, there you have it. Do you not think that that would be a good enough reason for him to come back when his business was concluded?”

“I-I guess that's right. I don't really know why I was freaking out so much. After all, he is the strongest person in the town, if one was to go off of what I heard.”

“Oh? I see so this Gambit could be considered a capable male? If so, then he would be a rarity, as those are not very common from what I have been told.”

That was when the dream began to respond to Rose, as she was clearly thinking on Gambit. The area before them was now transforming itself to take on the background of somewhere else that was not a part of the park. It then showed images going from one to the next with the two interacting with one another.

First, it began with their encounter where Rose was scared enough to faint when he showed up inside of their shop one night when it was about to close. The mare upon seeing that, reached up and was now scratching at the back of her neck, while giving a weak smile and spoke up before it went to the next scene. “I kind of got spooked there.” This ended up getting a wry smile from Luna, as she gave a small nod and returned her attention back to the images.

The next showed Gambit and her at a café and a familiar incident occurred that involved the waitress and a very annoying noble mare. After that, it went a few more times from one location to the next. Luna ended up raising an eyebrow upon seeing the familiarity between these two. And whenever there was a scene that Gambit was patting her on the head, Luna couldn't help but to have a small frown before realizing what she was doing and returned to her normal facial expression.

The two weren't particularly close, as they were merely passing by one another for one reason or the next. But as time went on, Luna began to notice how Gambit was slowly opening up as he was only saying a few words in the beginning. But was now having a solid conversation, along with being a bit more expressive. Even with his face always being covered.

Apparently, Rose had seen Gambit from time to time when she was at a distance and these were depicting him to be doing one job or another. Either it was gardening or assisting with the reconstruction of Ponyville after some type of calamity occurred. The last of the memories that they both viewed were fragments of their time in the bar and Rose witnessing the girl that was undoubtedly Rory Mercury and Gambit singing their song on a stage.

Of course, upon hearing this. Luna got some mixed reactions that she was having a hard time with concealing. When it came to the first song, Luna could easily see that there was a strong bond between this dark mare and Gambit. Which caused a somewhat uncomfortable feeling to be felt in her chest for just a moment. Although, at the same time, she was captivated by the song itself and most of the lyrics got stuck in her mind.

Now when it came to the time that Gambit and Rory were singing together. Luna's draw practically dropped at lightning speed, as her eyes went wide at the spectacle. To see Gambit being so expressive, even with a mask on and singing in such a way was not anything that she had expected to witness. The next set of words escaped her lips as she casually let them slip. “Oh my, I didn't take him for a dancer.”

Rose came in after giving a small giggle. “Haha-Haha, it took all of us by surprise! I was so happy to see that he was being this animated. I could tell that he would still be working on it when it comes to me, but whenever Rory's around he's a lot more at ease.” That was when Rose’s eyes became down casted and the memories began to fade. Upon noticing the change in the mare’s demeanor, Luna quickly asked, “Please, tell me what it is that has you trouble now?”

Rose only shook her head lately before answering in a very worried tone, as she was looking at her hands that were now twiddling her thumbs. “I know that I should be happy that Rory is still here, so he has a reason to come back. But at the same time, I worry that she should have gone with him.” Luna replied to that while looking a little skeptical. “Could it be that you have developed feelings for this Gambit? Although, I am rather confused as to your insistence in pushing another mare to be with him, if that were the case.”

She gave a small smile before glancing at Luna for a few seconds and then returning them back to her hands as she gave an answer. “I suppose you could say I have, but not in the way you think. I already know that he distrusts mare’s and it took a while for him to get close to me. However, I can't help but see him more like a… Big brother.”

“I see. Could you possibly elaborate on these feelings?”

“The best way I can describe it would have to be... … It would have to be, that I have always wanted a brother. I don't really see Gambit as a romantic partner. I do feel safer when he's around. I don't know what it is really. You might find this hard to believe, when he's around, I get this feeling that nothing can really do me any harm. I grew up on stories of the old days when the stallions would stand up and be strong. Gambit is what I hope that all the others could become.”

The mare then shook her head a little bit and smiled a bit more as she continued. “There's this mare that I know called Applejack and I wouldn't say we're close friends. We do talk from time to time. She has this big brother that she looks up to a lot. Unlike most of the males in town, her brother is pretty strong from what she says due to him working on the farm. I've never really said it out loud, but I’m really envious of Applejack for it.”

Luna was now tapping her chin as her eyes were now trailing straight up as she was showing signs of being in deep thought. She then said, “A large stallion you say? I cannot say I have come across any since my return that matches that description. Well, unless you count this Gambit that you've shown me in your stories. Perhaps I should pay him a visit in his own dream when I'm done here?”

That was when Luna heard a loud gasp that was coming from Rose and saw how she had gotten up off of the bench and was now waving her hands frantically and shaking her head in kind. The eyes of the mare were wide with panic, as she quickly stammered out a response. “Please, please Princess, don’t do that! Big Mac would not do well if you were to show up in his dream!”

Now being completely taken aback by the mare’s sudden outburst. Luna was now a little wary and slowly asked her next question. “I suppose there is a good explanation as to why I shouldn't?” This was immediately followed with Rose looking towards the ground, while holding on to her left arm before she spoke and a depressed tone.

“Applejack's brother doesn't do very well with any mare that's not a part of the family. For the longest time, he's actively avoided anything that would cause him to leave the farm. He can't even stand being in a direct line of sight with another mare without running off. I doubt aside from Applejack and the rest of the family, that he's even had a proper conversation with any of us in town.”

Luna's eyes were now looking really sharp, as she looked ahead after hearing about this stallion being in such a state. She was almost certain that if there was such a male within Ponyville. Then odds where she would have picked up on his nightmares, but not once sense her return, did she ever come across this Big Mac in need of her help. So, after giving herself a moment to calm down. Luna then asked, “Could you tell me why he would be so distant?”

Rose went back to sitting down as she began to recall what she remembered. Although, it had been some time and she herself was not there. The rumors were the following. Apparently, Big Mac was the only male in school at the time and he wasn't really all that big to begin with. Even though he didn't speak all that much, Big Mac had a way with words to convey what he meant.”

“However, the colt was constantly being picked on by a couple of the filly's. Sure, some of the others did tell the teacher but even then, the mare who was running the school at the time didn't do much at all to stop it. From what I hear, she was pretty much encouraging it. They said that Big Mac really wasn't acting like other colts by doing the sissy things that they would normally be up to.”

“So, in the end, there was this one incident that involved a number of the filly's and the teacher that caused Big Mac to never return to school again. There's a rumor that I heard once. Apparently, the teacher got fired soon after this was found out, but even I still, don't know the details as to what it was. Although, I can't prove it, I'm pretty sure that one of them was a part of it was that Lyra Heartstrings.”

Inside her mind, Luna instantly recalled that name from the previous report. She then started to think to herself. “Hmm, this Lyra Heartstrings has been like this since she was a filly. Obviously, this was due to child upbringing. I'll make sure to make it a priority to do some investigation onto her parents when I am done tonight with my duties.”

After these thoughts were done, she turned her attention back to Rose before saying, “I see your point. Very well, I will not see him directly. Although, if he should have a nightmare, I will make sure to not be seen and leave as soon as possible so that his privacy will be kept intact and not cause him any undue distress.”

This got a relieved sigh from Rose, as she clutched her hands close to her chest before saying the following. “Thank you, Princess Luna. I don't know what I would do if I was the reason you went to see him and he was no longer able to go to sleep comfortably with the idea that a mare would be able to go into his dreams. Even if the mare turns out to be one of our princesses.”

After taking a quick look around to see that the dream was no longer giving off that detestable impression of a nightmare. Luna said her goodbyes after placing rose’s dream on a more relaxing one, by bringing out one of her older memories and disappearing after a flash of light. Once Luna was out and about once again to continue with her patrol of Ponyville. She saw that there weren't very many nightmares and recognized one of them to be that of Rainbow Dash yet again.

Of course, for Luna. This had been a nightly occurrence, with only a few days here and there where it would be a normal night. But it seemed as though Rainbow Dash was still having some trouble with reconciling with Gambit. Which happened to be a problem that she herself was pretty good at seeing with her sister being the forefront of her thoughts on that very subject.

After receiving the detailed reports of their last altercation with Rainbow Dash, that just so happened to be when she was accusing him of having illegal activities with an underage mare. The level of nightmare for the Pegasus only spiked in response. But not to that of requiring Luna to jump in. She did in fact give Rainbow a warning that her sleeping mind would remember constantly, so that the waking one would feel some type of drive to do what was needed to alleviate the stress.

After checking on Rainbow for a moment. Luna didn't really have to go far at all, before she came across another dream bubble that was almost close enough to touch the one that she was just at. After parting the outer areas to peek inside. Luna's eyes went wide upon seeing a Griffin. Sure, the princess of the night would have eventually discovered that there was a female Griffin within Ponyville. Although, not once before did this one ever have a nightmare that warranted her to look within.

Luna was just about to go in and see just what might be the problem and was already lighting her horn up. Just when She was ready to cast a spell however, was when the bubble popped. Not only that, but the one belonging the Rainbow Dash also went through a similar fate. Going off of how close they were in the dream realm. Luna surmised that the griffon must have awoken and caused the blue Pegasus to wake as well.

*Point of view: Third Person*
*Location: Fluttershy's house*

Within the small house that was constructed in a way that it resembled mostly that of a mound covered with grass. There was a large cushioned bed that was oval in shape, and within it was arresting Chocobo with its saddles and leg guards sitting near the edge and near its head. Its legs were currently tucked in underneath and with the help of its wings, the head itself was covered and giving out this soft cooing noise that could be heard gently throughout the quiet house.

Within the same room, there was a couch and a table with a number of small critters standing or sitting on them. One of said critters, turned out to be a white rabbit that was crossing its arms and giving the Chocobo a dubious stare, while also lightly tapping its left foot on the couch. The others were looking on curiously with both fascination and wonder. There was even a couple of chickens that wandered close by in order to get a better look, but kept the respectful distance for their larger cousin that was still sound asleep.

Soon, Fluttershy came into the room and was in the middle of carrying a small bowl full of water and a white wash rag that was draped over the edge. The bowl was placed right next to the large bed being used by the Chocobo and began to dip the cloth to the warm water that can still be seen giving some steam on the surface in order to clean up the dirt that was accumulated on the Chocobo's talons.

As she was doing this. Fluttershy would hum to herself now and then, while speaking to herself in a low volume to make sure that she didn't disturb her current patient. “You poor thing, I couldn't find any injuries. It’s clear that you were no more than exhausted. You should be good in a day or two… Although, I have no idea who you belong to. I do hope that you forgive me for going through that bag on your saddle, but I didn't find anything at all inside to give me a clue. I really hoped to find some indication as to your rider’s identity so that I could let them know you're here.”

Fluttershy's body chose that moment to let out a yawn as she covered her mouth in a dainty fashion. Clearly, upon taking care of her animal friends and getting help from Barry the Bear to get her new guest back to her Cottage safely. Had exhausted the Pegasus, as her eyes became quite droopy and letting out a second yawn that turned out to be so adorable, that a number of the animals, including Angel Bunny. Ended up doing the, Awww! face.

The next thing to happen, was the mare practically falling asleep while still kneeling down on her knees. This was quickly followed with her leaning in and pretty much using the Chocobo as an oversized plushie and passing out. All the while, she went and dug her face into the soft yellow feathers and released a small sigh at the level of comfiness she was getting from the yellow animal.