I poked at the breakfast in front of me as I watched all the ponies make idle conversation. It was disheartening to realize that I didn't have enough life experience to contribute. The harvest this year was looking to be a good one, an interesting book was coming out within the week, a squirrel had some interesting things to say about a new resident of Whitetail woods, all mundane things I couldn't relate too. Except for that last one. I was little miffed that that squirrel could have helped had he felt like it. Eventually, Luna noticed my despondence.

"Sir Elfilis? Is breakfast not to your liking?"

"No. I mean, yes, it tastes good, but I ended up snacking when I woke up." Luna looked pretty excited to ask me something just then, but Twilight got to it first.

"Did you get something from the guards barracks? There aren't many food places inside the castle."

"Ah, no, I teleported some food into my room shortly after I got up. My portals tend to find things for me without asking." Luna was vibrating in her seat. "Yes Luna? Is there something you want to say?" Celestia snickered into her tea from her spot at the table.

"Are you sure you transported it? Absolutely positive?" That was a leading question, she was waiting to tell me I'm wrong.

"... No. I suppose I don't know if I am teleporting objects or not. Why?" She pouted a little bit as Twilight frowned in thought. Everypony else was just listening, but they were probably as confused as I was.

"Thou could have played along. Regardless, I ask because of a fantastic discovery I made last night!"

"Was this before or after you attacked me in my bed?" And there I went putting my foot-hoof-thing in my mouth.

"The Princess attacked you?"

"I don' think he meant literally Pinkie." Thank you Applejack, for being the voice of reason.

"Wait, was that an innuendo then?"

"Rainbow! Don't be so crass. To imply such a thing about royalty, honestly." Thank you Rarity, I've had enough of that nonsense from Frontline already.

"Er, the discovery took place as I attacked you?"

"Okay, Luna didn't attack me, enough. What was this big discovery? I'm assuming its about my abilities."

"Right, apologies. Yes, we discovered what may be the most powerful and useful of your new abilities. Last night, I attempted to dream walk-" Even after all she said about being scared of it, she still went and did it that night? "- and found myself inside of your dream."

"Hold on, Princess Luna can enters ponies dreams? How does that work? Is it some kind of spell?" Well, if Twilight didn't know then the rest of the table was probably completely in the dark.

"It is magical in nature, but my sister does not truly cast a spell to enter the dream realm so much as she directly sends magic into it. Thats from my own limited understanding however, I was never able to accomplish it. My talents lay elsewhere." That was just begging to be asked about in the future, what did she consider equal to entering an imaginary world?

"It is a close enough description Tia, but as I was saying, I entered Sir Elfilis's dream. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, nearly empty, full of nothing but shapeless purple dream-stuffs as far as the eye could see."

"Dream Matter." That was not a voluntary utterance on my part. It spilled from my lips like a dam had broken.

"Pardon?"

"Sorry Luna. It has a name, it's Dream Matter. I just, well, know it. I don't think I can elaborate."

"... Well a thousand years ago we would have argued with thou about the nature of matter, but I suppose with what I know now it will serve as a better name then 'dream-stuff.' Your dream was empty and I could not find you, so I shouted 'Art thou out here,' emphasis on the 'Art.'" I was started to get excited, I remembered the photograph, I could follow this thread of clues. "Your dream, took the word and used it transform the Dream Matter into interpretations of it. There were many, but most were blurred and 'half-baked,' I believe the term is."

"Yuck! Why would anypony half-bake something? That's just crazy! Why I remember when my sisters tried to-" Pinkie kept moving animatedly, with her lips moving at hyper speed even as no sound escaped the magenta bubble that had formed around her head. Celestia looked wryly at her student as she flushed into her seat.

"Er, regardless, there was one portrait that stood out among all the others. It was of myself, and it is, far as I can tell, a perfect copy of your memory of our conversation earlier that day."

"It is a perfect photocopy of that moment. I almost want to say it was better then I could have remembered it. And, I'm guessing it was interesting enough that when it started to disappear, you tried to follow it."

"Yes, following this 'photocopy' through the portal was one of the most surreal feelings, and when I had come back to senses, I realized that I had just woken you up by dropping what should have been an entirely imaginary object on you."

"You also dropped yourself."

"SO AS YOU CAN SEE, your powers allow you to create material objects in the immaterial realm, and then smoothly add them to our realm through your unique portals. It's amazing I hope you realize! Not even the most advanced of spells can create from nothing, and you are able to do so with thought alone!"

"And apparently they don't have to be my thoughts either, given what I wanted was a way to cool down and instead I got a pallet of wood and a princess." Luna was definitely blushing as she mock-glared at me, but Twilight and the other didn't give her a chance to snap back.

"You can literally make dreams real? I thought was just some weird flight school mumbo-jumbo." It definitely seemed in character to me that Rainbow would hear an inspirational quote and think it was just some boring school motto.

"You can have cake whenever you want! Just go snooze, and when you wake you'll have all the donuts you could think of." You get one guess on who said that.

"Oh I have so many dresses I could never complete, if I could just dream them into existence, there wouldn't be a pony in the world who could leave my boutique unsatisfied!" I actually didn't know she was a fashionista, Spike just kept telling me about how pretty she was. I wondered where the baby dragon was at the moment, but then another thought bowled over the rest.

"Who the hell wears clothes-"

"But what's the difference between this and creating an object with magic? It has to be something about the composition right? Are dream objects more stable? I know that magically created objects suffer from enhanced entropy but-"

"That is exactly the difference my dear student. Magically created objects are made with magic, of magic, from magic, and will always, without exception, return to magic. Useful for quick solutions-" At this Celestia tapped her golden shoes together over the table before they broke like glass and disappeared. "But there is a reason there are no spells for creating food from magic, not even for emergencies. That portrait, which is now hanging proudly in the study, may actually be more durable than one would expect from canvas and lumber." Luna took over from here.

"Indeed. I could always feel the dream world around you, pushing against the barrier that keeps it seperate, but even I did not think you would be able to make true constructs. The fact that you can do so while asleep is astounding, but it does mean we will need to spend time on learning how to control it. We would not wish for you to have a bad dream only to wake to it made real." I just noticed a problem in her argument.

"Luna?"

"Yes?"

"I wasn't sleeping when that portal opened. I had been struggling that whole night." She just looked at me, expression unchanging from her curious smile. And then her eyes rolled up into her head as her head slammed into the empty plate in front of her. I stood up, worried as the rest of the room began to shout and run to her. Before Celestia was able to make it though, Luna appeared to just, stop existing. No flash of light, no sound, she was just there one moment and gone the next.

It was the next moment when a star portal opened up above the table, dumped a couple dozen framed pictures on it, before depositing Luna at speed, cracking the table in half.

"How did I not realize?! I could see your dream even as you spoke to us, of course it- Grk!" She had been excitedly turning picture after picture over to see each one before she froze at one in particular. Everypony else at the now-useless table was too busy staring at her in shock as I floated over the mess to see what had shocked her out of her manic muttering.

"... What's the problem? It's just you?" It was the moment she fell bottom first out of the portal.

"W-well, yes, it just looks like, I'm, we, er..." I didn't get it? I figured my embarrassment over nudity was a leftover of a furless life, but even the guards armor didn't cover up their privates. Probably to avoid chafing. "That is, it looks as if I am, ah, lifting my tail for you..." And now she was blushing. I was still confused. Like, I understood now that she felt like the picture looked as if she was showing off but... I looked at the bearers of harmony, who were all blushing (with Applejack, Rainbow, and Pinkie trying not giggle as well), and I looked to Celestia who was trying to hide behind her tiny teacup, before I looked back at Luna and the picture.

"But, all of you always have your tail up?"

I received no explanation in the end, just an apology from Celestia for snorting tea into my collar of fur. Luna left with the picture bashedly, and met up with us a short while later with a light dusting of pink still adorning her cheeks. The solar sister ushered us all out of the trashed room and took us to Twilights study, saying that if we were going to be discussing my powers and origins that we may as well do it someplace where her student could write down the important details. The walk over was weird though, Celestia insisted on having a guard escort and Rarity and Fluttershy were trying to explain the difference between the resting tail and the 'fuck-me' tail. They didn't use those words. One of the guards, who could only be Frontline under that armor tried to take over and 'give examples,' but I couldn't spot the difference.

When we were finally all settled down in the study and the guards were dismissed, it was time for the Fecto-Forgo-Elfilis lecture. Twilight had a notebook out and was taking frantic notes as the two princesses told her and the others what they remembered of Fecto's story. It was Rainbow Dash who finally couldn't help herself. She interrupted when they finished discussing Fecto's absurd attack potential, and how he had lost anyway.

"Hold on! Time out! A bad guy powerful enough to throw our planet like a hoofball and it only took two heroes to beat him? How powerful were they? Were they ponies?" This did bring Luna and Celestia short.

"I am curious as well Sir Elfilis," I know Luna, curious seems to be your default state. "Who was the hero who could split the soul? All you had told me was that he was unassuming." I started trying to find the words to describe Kirby, but passed that up for a new idea.

"So first off, there were arguably three heroes, Elfilin, Bandanna Waddle Dee (that one got some looks), and the most important to the story is Kirby. I was going to try to describe him, but how about I stretch my magical muscles and try to show you?" They scooted closer in excitement as I raised my hand to open a portal, bringing my memory of what Kirby looked like to my mind. And they waited, and waited, and started to look at me confused. I was growing frustrated, I could draw the picture myself damn it! Draw a circle, dot the eyes, and a great big smile! Why was this the picture that I couldn't conjure?

"Art thou alright?" I dropped my hand with a sigh.

"I know what he looks like, it is extremely clear to me, but," I summoned an apple to my hand. "For once, my powers have refused to work even as I was trying to use them."

"Um, maybe, you could talk about him out loud?"

"That's a great idea Fluttershy!" Twilight brought out her notebook again. "Saying it out loud could help him solidify the image in his head, and even if it doesn't work, we'll still have a working description!"

"It's worth a shot. Okay, so, he's round and puffy, he's as pink as Pinkie Pie ("YAY"), his arms are just two little stubs that stick out the sides, he has big red shoes, blushing cheeks, very wide expressive eyes, and he has a smile that never seems to be gone for long." Everypony was just looking at me. Twilight had long stopped writing down the description. "I did say he was an unassuming hero. I'm pretty sure he would barely stand as high as your legs."

"Well, yeah, but he doesn't really sound cool, you know? Sounds like a cute animal Fluttershy would take care of." Following Rainbow, Pinkie said the words that hit me like a sledgehammer.

"Aw! Rainbow! Kirby sounds like a Friend!"

"That's exactly right. Kirby is shaped like a Friend." Everypony looked at Elfilis in shock, the ground under his feet had just splintered and shot sawdust into the air as the pressure in the air built. A star-shaped portal appeared above all of them and launched a purple foal-sized object into the floor, shockingly doing no damage and just bounced a few times before the portal disappeared.

And then it moved, and it stood up on it's pink shoes as it moved its tiny purple arms in a wobbly motion to try to keep balance before it look up at them with curious pink eyes that glowed under their own power. And then he smiled wide, and said-

"Hiiiiiiii~"

Author's Note

Meet Phantom Kirby everybody. Twilight is never going to get the full story if Elfilis keeps dropping surprises left right and center, but it's not his fault. Really.

Let me know if it seems like I'm overdoing it with the whole nudity thing, I don't know if I'll change anything but I would like to know people's opinion on it.

Made a very minor edit of the last chapter to make this one flow a little better, it's probably not worth looking for and it's not something I'm going to do often.