Loona danced to the thrumming music. She was surrounded by people she distantly knew. She couldn't pick them out, but also didn't care as she worked through the evening with a pumped arm and a loud shout.

She did notice when a large pony casually emerged from the crowd. "Luna?! When the hell did you get to, you know, hell?"

Luna raised a hoof to wave in a loose circle. "We aren't in hell, my loyal guard. We are in your dream. Do you mind my presence?"

Loona looked around the club and the other people dancing. "I'm not doing anything worth guarding you for, am I?"

Luna chuckled. "Not quite. I'm here because I want to see your world. This is where you came from. A place of dancing and night. You were so curious to see me." She waved a hoof at the room. "This is me being curious about you."

Loona rubbed behind her head. "Freaky, but sure, yeah? Thanks for being honest about it." She looked around with sharper eyes. "Wow, I remember this place, but there was a rocking bee of a demon right there." Thinking of it, and pointing, conjured her forth to call down to the dancing crowd. "There she is."

Luna looked the demon over, then Loona, and shrugged. "Are all creatures of your world canine? She looks like another of you more than a bee."

"She's relaxing." Loona hiked a thumb up at Beelzebub. "Tick her off and she'll get way more like a bee, and trouble, in an instant."

"Who's your friend?" As if summoned, Beelzebub landed next to them. "Hits me like a classy lady." She winked at Luna. "And I like those when they wander past."

Luna lifted her head with quiet pride, standing tall and upright. "Loona has been in my employ for some time. I am Princess Luna of Equestria, ruler of the night and moon."

Beelzebub snapped her fingers. "A foreign noble? Loona! You've been hiding this on me?" She threw an arm over Loona and drew her close. "Tell me all the deets."

Loona let out a nervous laugh, her eyes still on Luna. "If this is a dream, how real is she?"

Luna shrugged at that. "As real as you wish her to be, and as fake as you want it as well. If she bothers you, make her not be there. She seems quite bold in her approach to things."

"Bold, yeah." Luna looked up at where Beelzebub had returned to watching over the dance instead of being next to Luna. "Not bad at all, but I'm not in the mood to talk to myself." She moved in, grabbing one of Luna's legs. "So, you didn't go invading a dancing dream just to not dance, did you?"

Luna flicked her tail in surprise, but let Loona tug her towards the dance floor. "I suppose I didn't? This is not like what I expected of Hell, though. Where is the pain?" She waved a hoof at the dancers. "They all seem to be having a good time."

"Their pain starts tomorrow morning." Loona swept Luna up off her forehooves and into a bipedal dance with her. "Most of them drank too much, ate too much, and probably partied too hard, all at the same time. They'll regret it for a day or two, then come rushing back for more."

Luna looked them over again. "Ah, so it is the pain of a self-inflicted pleasure, not the torture you made it out to be."

Loona grabbed Luna's other front hoof to dance. "Depends on which ring you're on. This one's Gluttony. If you're not being a dirty little gutton, why are you here?" She touched her nose to Luna's. "A fun little sin, and so very versatile if you think about it."

Luna lifted an eyebrow. "And what does that mean?"

Loona kept her close, their noses together. "It's not just food. It's anything. You can be gluttonous in pleasure, in sleep. Gluttonous dancing with an alien creature? You're trying that right now." She dipped Luna back sharply, going in with her. "Naughty mare."

Luna smirked at Loona and pushed forward. She took control of the dance with a sweep of a leg behind Loona's. She leaned in and nuzzled Loona's throat, teeth nipping flesh.

Loona growled, though her expression twisted into a smile as she shivered. "Damn, mmf, girl. You're getting into this." She moved at Luna's direction for a change as if curious to see where the pony was headed. "Tell me the damned truth. What do you see when you look at me, really?"

Luna chuckled softly, leaning in. "An unusual creature who challenges everything I think I know." Her breath ran along Loona's fur, drawing another soft sound. "And you've been so good to me."

Loona laughed softly, letting Luna lead the dance through the crowd of half-nonspecific dream creatures. "You really think I'm good? Me?"

Luna smirked. "Who knows better what makes you good than a ruler?" Luna's magic tugged at Loona's tail. "You show a genuine interest, in the night, and its ruler. Is it wrong that, perhaps, I like the idea of being a 'dirty glutton' once in a while?"

Loona growled aloud, and it wasn't just a sound of pleasure as she pushed forward. This time, Luna let her take control and spin her around. She drew her hips against the pony's side, then tipped her off balance and down to her back knees. She eagerly bit, returning the grooming along Luna's exposed throat. "I'm a dog, a hound! Aren't you worried, princess, of being seen getting too close to that?"

Luna shook her head slowly. "If I am your ruler, then it is only fair I rule every part of you." She reached back to stroke Loona's cheek with her hoof. "Your culture, even if this is only your idea of it, has little sway over me." She pressed in for a kiss, and the words between them died away in that moment of exchange.

Loona took a breath and leaned in. "Yeah, maybe you aren't wrong about that."

Luna stood and pulled Loona close to her side. "Let's go somewhere else."

The club vanished around them, and they reformed in a quiet field with stars filling the sky.

Luna sank to her haunches, then her belly there on the soft grass. "As fun as that dance was, there were so many, when I only wanted to speak to one of them."

Loona settled onto her ass and crossed her legs as she sat next to Luna. "I do a lot better one-on-one, but it seemed you were doing pretty well yourself."

Luna snorted with laughter. "I do not often 'cut a rug' as they put it." She reached out a hoof across the grass. "I am a creature stuck between two realms."

"How so?" Loona considered that stretched arm, one hand flexing with temptation. "Which two? Noble and commoner?"

"Ha, maybe a bit of that." Luna mused on it. "But more the past, and the present. For me, it was a long boring day. For everypony else, over a thousand moons had come and gone. Generations slipped past me, and I was thrust out into a world that seemed as alien to me as I imagine it did for you when you first came."

Loona nodded slowly at that. Her hand touched Luna's hoof and squeezed softly. "Yeah, I had some culture shock, I guess."

Luna nodded. "I did as well. You see, when I was born, there were no cars!" She snorted at the idea. "Nor lights to allow ponies to do as they wished at any time of the day. The innovations are many, from what seem banal to those who live in it, to those that wonder even them." She drew a long sigh. "I'm still getting used to it all. Does it bother you, working for a living fossil?"

Loona shook her head. "If I'd been afraid of something like that, I wouldn't be working for a pair of princesses who've been alive since forever." She smiled at Luna's quiet laughter. "You're not a fossil, by the way. Those don't change. You do. It hurts because you are." She ran a finger up along Loona's leg. "Step by step, but you're figuring it out."

Luna nodded at that. "Aye. I am changing, as is the world." Her gaze slid over to watch Loona. "I want you to know I'm proud of you."

Loona jerked up, ears pricking. "Proud of me? What the fuck did I do? I mean, thanks, but what'd I do, seriously?"

Luna slid up onto her haunches. "You had a chance for an easy job. You could have already returned home, but instead, you were distracted by another thing entirely."

Loona felt her cheeks heating up. "W-wait. You know what I was there for, in the first place?" She shook her head. "What gave it away?"

Luna glanced off with a thoughtful hum. "My sister and I have always had good intuition about these things. Your father is not very quiet either. If you were trying to be quiet about it, he would have to have gone some time ago." She shuddered to imagine it. "To imagine, that curious device would have ended me, and you would have been paid."

"Yeah." Loona shrugged lamely. "Yeah, that woulda been that. But I couldn't. I still don't want to."

Luna put a hoof to Luna's nose. "Your turn. Tell me why."

Loona considered, but her hands ran out of ideas and she just laughed. "You got me. Fuck it if I know!" She leaned in towards Luna. "Something about you I don't want to see dead." She gave a little growl. "Us dogs prefer to howl at the moon, not fill it with lead."

Luna smiled quietly and reached up to touch Loona's cheek again. "I think you do like me."

Loona rolled her eyes, but let the words pass. "Yeah, well." She swallowed thickly, her large tongue feeling a bit too large at that moment. "A-and what about you? Do you, um, too?"

Luna chuckled and leaned closer with an answer. Her lips brushed Loona's with that word murmured between them, then their kiss came together.

Loona pushed back against Luna, her arms slipping around the alicorn as she pulled her close with a deepening of that kiss, and then the start of a more vigorous dance. Luna's hoof dragged across Loona's side, feeling the curves of the hellhound's form in broad sweeps.

The two fell into the grass and into one another's grasp. Luna got on top, wings flared out. "Quite bold of you. I accept then."

Loona blinked up at Luna. "What do you accept?"

Luna pointed down with a hoof, then back at herself. "You and I are now courting."

Loona stared quietly and slowly sat upright. "Wait. What?"

Luna gave her a quiet nod.

Loona rubbed behind her head and considered that. "You're going to have to tell me what 'courting' entails. Is that like we're girlfriends?"

"Close. A step before." She made a step-back motion with her forehooves. "We are discovering what we like, and do not like, about one another, to find if we wish to enter a proper relationship or not. It is a formal step, more popular among nobles than common-folk." Luna leaned back in with a soft kiss to Loona's cheek. "But, I am allowed to do things like this."

Loona hummed thoughtfully to herself, then chuckled. "Not how it typically works where I come from. You see someone you like, you grab it. You grab them. Feeling extra spicy? That may change what part of them you grab, and you tell them. They either grab you back, shove you away, or swing a punch depending on how they feel about the idea. Either way, everyone's nice and clear."

Luna smiled. "I like mine, though yours does have a certain charm." She leaned in against Loona's chest, her muzzle rubbing along it. "For now, shall we continue to get to know one another?" She rolled an ear back. "Though, I do have a question only a biped could answer, and I would only ask one I am at least courting."

Loona rolled a hand. "Ask?"

Luna tapped her nose against one of Loona's breasts. "Why are yours so high up here? And why so large? Mine are much lower, and smaller. Near invisible, really. But bipeds sometime have them so... grossly apparent, as if they thirst to show them off to the world. Why?"

Loona stared blankly at Luna, then burst into laughter.

Author's Note

Luna is the mistress of dreams, and in one, she gains a courter, and becomes one herself. She is pleased with this development.

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