Princess of His Dreams

Sky Scribbles was trying very hard to keep the butterflies at bay as he followed Princess Luna down the Canterlot Castle corridors back towards the Guardian's Tower. It certainly wasn't helped by the fact that both he and the Princess of the Night were diapered underneath their clothing; her cloak and his onesie. The fact that he could hear his own diaper crinkle underneath his uniform, but not hers as they passed some of the night patrols gave him all the proof he needed that the enchantments on the garments were indeed working.

He also imagined if the guards would be able to keep their composure if Luna actually walked through the castle in just a diaper, wondering how ingrained their training was.

They crossed the exterior battlements, and ascended the cobblestone steps up to the top of the tower, opening the door, and bypassing the fog barrier into the nursery.

Sky took quiet breaths as Luna led him over to the single window overlooking the limitless expanse of the dream realm. He looked out at the field of stars and nebulae, reminding himself of what the princess told him; everything he needed was in his heart and head.

"I will take you to your sanctuary, where you will equip yourself. From there, you are on your own for your trials," Luna told him, offering him her left hoof.

Sky took another deep breath, then took her hoof, and spread his wings. She spread hers, and lifted off, pulling him up and out the window. The pegasus tried to take it in as best he could; was he supposed to feel completely weightless in this ethereal place? If so, how would it be possible for him to control his momentum?

He tried to unwrap his mind from around what he knew in reality as Luna continued to guide him through the expanse. Perhaps just as time and space could be bent and shifted, momentum could as well.

Luna shifted her wings, and her figure appeared to slow as a full-length mirror slowly materialized below them. The frame glowed, revealing a transparent surface upon which the alicorn and pegasus landed softly on.

"Here, you will equip yourself to face the lesser nightmares of the realm. Face the mirror, and picture what your protection will be. Do keep in mind, you will have to also not appear so menacing as to frighten the ponies you are aiding," Luna told him.

Sky looked at his reflection in the mirror, wondering how to augment his black onesie. He recalled what he had heard Applejack tell the town when they were helping with Luna's tantabus...

'You can be anything in a dream.'

The pegasus took a deep breath, and looked at himself one last time in the mirror before slowly closing his eyes, bringing forth a mental image of appropriate equipment with which he could face down the lesser nightmares of Equestria, but at the same time, not appear as a nightmare himself to the slumbering equines he was here to help.

When he exhaled and opened his eyes, he laid eyes on his reflection again, and found his head wrapped in a black cowl, masking all but his eyes. The onesie had been expanded to include his legs, almost entirely shrouding him in a breathable black fabric.

Just to make sure that his imagination had absolutely gotten it right, he looked down at his front hooves, raised one up to look at the jeweled silver fetlock guard, and barely twitched; a blazing blade of blue fire erupted out of the jewel, turning his hooves into formidable weapons. He twitched his right hoof again, and the meter-long blade of fire and light retracted back into the jewel.

He took another breath as he set his hoof back down on the transparent floor, and turned to face his princess.

"Okay, that is awesome," Sky admitted, unable to hide the giddy grin underneath the cowl.

Luna nodded with a smile. Her horn lit up, and a door materialized opposite the mirror. It was just a door and its frame; no wall of any kind, but Sky knew that in this realm, nothing was at it seemed.

"Your trials begin on the other side of that door, Sky. You are on your own from here. Best of luck, Hopeful. If you succeed, I will see you back in the tower," she told him.

Sky gave her another determined nod as he turned to face the door, thinking silently to himself as he stepped towards it and reached for the door knob.

'And if I do not succeed, may the otherworldly forces that bested me take me painlessly to the other side, because I do not want to return to you a failure, my princess... Wow, melodramatic much, Sky? Sheesh. Talk about cheesy.'