My eyes open. I stare at the ceiling. I feel nauseous. What happened last night?

I sit up, putting a hoof to my head, rubbing at my temple. I look around, then stare in front of me. That dream I had.. unlike most dreams I’ve had, I felt.. everything. The grass and twigs under my feet, the wind, my dream-self feeling sad, feeling the tears roll down my face. I rub a hoof along my cheek, dragging down, and plopping it beside me. I look out the window. The sun starts to rise.

”Oh hey, good morning, ZJ.”

I dart my head towards Ace, seeing him rub an eye, trying to wipe out the sleepiness.

”Surprised that you woke up before me since all that happened last night. You were pretty wasted.”

He let out a chuckle, and stretched his arms. He looked back at me, glaring slightly.

”You okay though? You don’t have a headache do you?”

I drew my gaze to the window, the sun passed the horizon and now about to set perfectly in the sky. I look back, rubbing my head.

”Y-Yeah. Yeah I’ll be fine.”

Ace nodded.

”Need some water? I’ll get you some.”

I shook my head no, lost in thought, but then nodded yes for water, and Ace made a small smile, got up, and went to a cupboard and grabbed a cup.

I looked out the window again, remembering that I needed to talk to Luna. Ace came back with the water, and I grabbed it with my hooves and chugged it a bit, realizing I was dehydrated as hell.

”Hey Shadow.”

”Yeah? What’s up?”

I took a few moments to think of what to say, took the last sip out of the cup.

”Do you think Twilight knows where Luna is?”

Ace jolted a bit from the question, and tilted his head.

”Princess Luna? I-I mean, she should be around here somewhere.. why?”

I turned to the window, then back at Ace.

”I saw her in my dream, and wanted to talk to her, well in the waking world of course.”

Ace’s eyebrows raised, and nodded his head.

”You can go ask Princess Twilight, course she’ll know where Princess Luna is.” Do you want me to come with?”

I thought about the dream, thinking that if I say I’m actually a human, he’ll probably freak out, think I’m weird, maybe not be friends with me… yeah, can’t let that happen.

”I think I’ll go by myself, just me and Luna. Thanks for being here with me though.”

Ace smiled.

”Of course dude! I got your back! We can talk to Twlight at breakfast since it’s in like.. 15 minutes.”

My eyes widened a bit and I bolted off the bed going to the bathroom, Ace did as well. After a bit, me and Ace found the room with the huge ass table in it, all the Maine 6 ponies sitting and talking and laughing, and already starting to eat.

”Hey! Good morning ZJ and Shadow Ace. Come take a seat!”

Twilight said, 2 empty seats in between Twilight and Rainbow Dash. I took the seat next to Twilight, and Shadow Ace sat next to Rainbow Dash. There were already pancakes on the plate, with chocolate chips and whipped cream to top it off. I just looked at the pancakes, then at Twilight, who was scarfing the last one down, smiling. She noticed I looked her way, and swallowed her food before speaking.

”You alright ZJ? Don’t like pancakes?”

She said, pointing at them. I shrugged, but then remembered why I felt uneasy. Unsure what to say about wanting to speak to Luna.
Hopefully she’ll understand.

”Do you know where Luna is? I need to speak to her about.. something.”

Twilight was drinking some orange juice, coughed a little, and wiped her mouth with a napkin.

”Princess Luna? Is everything alright?”

”No no.. yeah everything is alright.. I just have to talk to her about something.. uh, personal.”

Twilight cocked her head to one side, but then put on a gentle smile.

”Of course ZJ. After breakfast, I’ll bring you to her. Okay?”

I nodded, and Twilight pat my back. She offered some orange juice and helped me pour it into the cup, and we all ate breakfast. Twilight talked about the past fights, all the mares going on adventures, even as small things, like FlytterShy overcoming her fear of dragons.

Eventually, breakfast was done, and Twilight tapped me on the shoulder.

”You ready?”

I finished the last sip of OJ, and nodded, turning to Ace and telling him that I will be back soon. He hugged me and I got off the chair, following Twilight to the thrown room.

Twilight asked again if everything was alright, and said it was okay to talk to her if I needed anything. I wasn’t sure to say I saw Luna in my dream, and if I did, I thought that she would wanna hear what I had to say to her from curiosity. I just said it was a bit private, but I would come back to Twilight later for results. She felt alright with that answer, and we reached the thrown room.

I shivered a bit. Celestia was there too. I just wanted to talk to Luna about it, and looked at her. They were both looking directly at me, and I looked down a bit, trying to hide my nervousness. But of course that shows it. Twilight waved and quietly said, ‘good luck’, and closed the doors.

She just… left me here? I guess I said to much about it being to personal that she didn’t wanna intrude on something that great… I guess it kind of is.. since I’m going to talk to Luna that I’m.. I’m a human. I slowly turned back around, and saw them still looking my way. Sitting there elegantly. I began to walk more closer to them, to get a better view, since I just remembered I need glasses, and that when I went into this world, I didn’t have any on. That’s another matter to deal with later. I stopped a good distance away, and looked over at Luna. She just looked down at me, as well as Celestia. I opened my mouth to say something, but realized I didn't have any words to say. Then Celestia started to speak.

"Are you the one for the personal castle tour?"

I was surprised that she talked first.. but a tour?

"Yes. I assume that you are, ZJ?"

I nodded, eventually Luna looking over at Celestia and her giving her a nod, Luna getting up off the thrown and flying over, landing gracefully next to me and walking towards the exit, me following behind.

We decided to head to the garden, me walking through the doors, a few ferrets running out between my legs, and running away to a bush, one of the ferrets looking back at me, then running away. Luna took a seat near a tree, and I did the same.

”So, you are human. That doesn’t make any difference here, but it has been a while since me and my sister have seen one. I believe a few decades.”

”What happened to them?”

I asked, Luna’s face changing a bit to a slight sorrow.

”Like most things, a war. Eventually leading to everyone destroying themselves to where.. there isn’t a trace at all to them. Only relics remain.”

I gazed at the ground, wondering what kind of relics these ponies had.

”I do know of this one relic, but it is not from your kind. The Masdifah necklace shows the true forms of creatures that disguise themselves to blend in with ponies, eventually taking pony by pony, and devouring them. They eventually caught on to this one pony, the Masdifah, and cut the head off, and retrieved the necklace. The last time I remember it being left was somewhere in Estern Equestria. Other than that, I have no clue on where it is.”

She closed her eyes and a flash of her horn, a paper appeared right in between me and her, a scroll, unrolling it and showing the necklace. A diamond shape with looks to be like outwards arrows at each line of the diamond.

”If you do want to find it, I will give you this.. and ZJ.”

I glance at her.

”I told my sister about you, and she will keep your secret safe.”

I felt a little unsure, but I nodded.

”That’s fine. Just hope nothing bad happens later.”

She smiled kindly and put a wing around me.

”Nothing will, believe in it.”

I just nodded. She rolled it back up and handed it to me, but then the scroll fell to the ground, remembering that I couldn’t pick it up. I make a nervous slant smile, and she smiled back as well.

”I can help you with that, if you don’t mind a little permanent magic in you.”

”I don’t mind, guess I’ll be finally able to lift things without ponies looking at me weird.”

We both chuckle, and she stood up, getting ready to perform the spell. Her horn glowed, and shot out towards me, me flinching, my horn beginning to glow teal, then go out. She handed me the scroll, and I looked at it, me looking back up at Luna again.

”Just concentrate on lifting it up. It will work when you know you have it on you, even in a bag.”

I look back down at the scroll, and I see the hues of the magic change to mine. Teal. My eyes widen. I thought of moving it to the right, and it moved, I smirked. Luna smiled back, knowing that she has helped enough.

”Am I able to teleport things?”

She nodded.

”Yes, you can. You just have to remember a place you would like to place it, and to bring something to you, you have to think of the last place you put it.”

My smirk faded, knowing I will not remember shit.

”Ahh, I got a bad memory.”

I said, bonking the side of my head. I did have an idea though.

”You will be fine. The spell has that with it as well. Just make sure to not cast many spells on yourself, or they will get mixed together, and depending on what they are, won’t turn out well.”

I nodded, looking at the parchment and watched it fly behind me, and slide into my hood, forgetting about it, and feeling the magic disappear.

”Thank you, Luna.”

She smiled.

”Of course. If you need anything else, you can ask Twilight to send a note to my sister, and she will give it to me.”

I felt like going in for a hug, but I respected her boundaries and nodded. We both walked out, and actually met Ace, and the Maine 6 walking out from this stairway. Right. Today was the day to go home, me remembering now that I didn’t pack, but saw that Rarity was holding my suitcase in her magic along with some of hers.

”Oh, thank you Rarity, almost forgot today we were leaving.”

I said. As she get next to me, I took the suitcase without hesitation, and they all seemed astonished. I smiled a little awkwardly, looking back at Luna, and she just smiled, and walked away, waving goodbye to us all. They all looked back at me.

”She helped.”

I said, and all of them nodded. On the way home, Twilight did want to know a little bit about what me and Luna talked about, and I just said that we talked about this dream I had, talking about how I feared being unwanted, and she just hugged me and told me that everything would be fine, and I got plenty of friends to go to if I had any other concerns. I smiled a bit. Of course I can’t tell them the truth, fear of it spreading and causing people to not like me anymore. The thought trailed away as we made it back to Ponyville, using my magic now to pick up my suitcase and heading out.

On our way back, Ace got stopped by a pony with a suit on, talking about how this certain house was vacant now, and was asking him if he still wanted to grab it, and Ace smiled and nodded, looking at me. A few houses down from Ace. Awesome.

Author's Note

This might be the last chapter with pictures since I am getting busy in real life, but I will try to continue each chapter.

Thanks for understanding!