Luna's Dream

Chapter One: When Dreams Come True

    Luna sighed. Another vision. When would they stop? Nightmare Night was months ago, it's Hearth Warming Eve for Faust's sake! This vision seemed... longer. And more real. "Knock it off, brain," she told herself. "It's just a normal one."

    She thought about it for a second. The longer she thought, the more she doubted that they were normal visions. They were more frequent lately. And longer. And... more real. One time, she had thought that she had barged in on a military meeting, due to everypony looking at her. And one time, she actually felt the wind. If they were visions, they couldn't possibly acknowledge her as a part of the vision.

    What's happening?

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    Okay, that was not a normal vision at all. Somepony just talked to her. In her vision. A lavender mare, a pegasus, with a dark green mane, seemingly hiding from something, alone, and one leg with a bandage. It was a very short conversation. Starting with, "Who are you!? How did you get here!? Are you a goddamn spy?!!" from the lavender pony. Now, that was just weird. Didn't everypony know Luna, goddess of the moon? The one who Celestia banished with the Elements of Harmony? After a few seconds, Luna had said, "Uh... I'm Luna. You know... I raise the moon? I was banished to the moon for a thousand years? I had became Nightmare Moon? Don't tell me you don't know me!"

    "Er... no, I don't. Last time I checked, the moon raises itself."

    At that, the vision had dissipated. "What!?" Luna gasped. "So, in my vision, the moon raises itself? Uhh... how...?"

    Shaking her head, she gave a good hard thought or two. Or eighty. She had come up with one conclusion. She was either dreaming, or what she saw was another Equestria. Both of those ideas were baloney. But, she had to go with the first one. Come on, another Equestria? That in and of itself was a really stupid idea.

    Okay, maybe it isn't. Luna read up in the Canterlot Library, and there was one book... one... but nevertheless a book... about different Equestrias. Only two are known, this one and the royal Princess's homeland. "Wow," Luna thought for a while. " I thought my homeland was here.... Wait a second...."

    She lapsed into a state of deep thought. When she was snapped back into reality, she was thinking about the visions. "How did I get them? Why me? Why on Nightmare Night?" A million questions were running through her brain. She got up and resolved to ask her sister.

    She walked through the many palace hallways. Ever other time she opened a door, she thought she heard footsteps. She was almost there when she thought she heard a yell. She began to break into a run for the door to the throne room. She closed her eyes, running as fast as she felt Rainbow Dash could fly....

    CRASH. She ran straight into... something. It wasn't fur... it wasn't stone... it wasn't metal... yet it wasn't smooth wood either. She opened her eyes. "A tree?!" she said out loud. She at first began to wonder why a tree was in the middle of the castle hallway, but then, she looked around. She wasn't in the castle. In fact, she wasn't even in Canterlot. It looked like she was in... the Everfree forest? But... it felt different. Usually, it's like something was watching her from beyond that tree... a robber pony was going to jump on her... hostile animals lurked behind every corner... but now, it felt like there was no life at all. No robber pony, no animals, no 'something'.... She began to walk around in the bright sunlight. She heard rustling.

    "Who's there?" she heard a vaguely familiar, but hoarse voice say, at about the same time as she.

    A familiarly-shaded violet hoof stepped out from behind the tree, and along with it, the unmistakable shape of a unicorn. Luna had already guessed it, but now she knew- despite the bandages, dark green uniform, and blood, it was unmistakable.... It was clearly Twilight Sparkle.

    "T-Twilight!" Luna gasped. "What happened?"

    Afterwards Luna thought she was quite stupid to greet her that way, as these ponies had no idea who she was or what she did. That being so, this Twilight hesitated before retorting, "I don't know who you are or where you came from or how you know my name, but if you're part of the Empire, you can go to hell, along with all your miserable friends."

    Luna felt breathless. The Empire.... She had never heard of any empire before. "What empire?" asked Luna.

    Twilight said nothing, instead just looking at Luna in an odd way, as though she thought Luna was not right in the head, at the same time as Twilight felt extremely irate.

    "Whoever they are, I can assure you-" Luna started, but passed out mid-sentence.