Luna's Dream

Prologue

     Gasping, Luna woke up. She looked around. She was in her bedroom... nothing had happened. She looked outside at her sister's beautiful sun, soon to set. She wished she didn't sleep so long, now if she was to raise the moon, she'd be a little tired and couldn't attend Fancy Pants's dinner party.

     She was thinking about the dream she just had- no, no, it wasn't a dream. She could remember everything about it, during the dream, she could remember the stuff you'd forget during dreams, she didn't seem to had been taking any part in it at all, and nothing was the strange thing you'd see in dreams. But there was something strange about it. It was... really weird. Ponies... they looked as though they were angry, tired, and sad all at the same time. Most were injured. There was a lot of blood....

     She found herself walking to the castle doctor. She walked past the door. Embarrassed, she turned around and walked in. After the doctor prodded around, mostly at her eyes, he said, "How late were you up last night?"

     "Um... well.... Last night was Nightmare Night... and I had to set the moon down... and I stayed up for a little bit... er... I fell asleep when my sister's sun was almost at the top of the sky... so... uh... just before noon," she stammered, a little worried.

     The doctor pondered this for a minute. "I think you had a hallucination."

     "What!?!" Luna sat down, hard. "B- but...."

     "You were up too late," the doctor said sternly. "You should sleep a bit more, then raise to moon, then go back to sleep. Drink this," he added, giving her a glass of water. She gulped it down, not quite convinced.

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     She had done what the doctor had prescribed, but the "hallucination" wasn't going away. Three times it came back, all times with scenes relating to war, blood, crime, and death.

     She decided to be her own doctor. That castle doctor would still treat her like a commoner. It wasn't pride, exactly... well, maybe it was. She always was her mother's favorite, and therefore pampered.

     "Luna," she told herself, "It's not a hallucination. You are not going crazy."

     She decided it was a vision. Maybe of some epic pony war in the distant future or something. Maybe it was like that story... somebody had visions of the future... he used it for money.... But she wouldn't. She was already a princess, why would she want money?

      She heard a knock on her door. "Come in," she called.

      Princess Celestia walked in. "You're late," she said kindly.

      Glancing up at the window, she saw a moonless and starless night. "Oh!" she said. "Sorry, I was a little preoccupied."

      Walking with her sister outside, she raised the moon and stars. Celestia noticed something was up with her little sister. "What is wrong, Luna?" she asked gracefully. "You can tell me."

     Luna looked up into her sister's kind, wise, knowing eyes. "Nothing, sister," she replied. "Nothing at all."