"Now! What have we gone over so far?" Luna said, walking back and forth in front of Rune.

Princess Luna and Rune were standing in a massive field of Nightshade flowers, the stars were shining like diamonds, the moon was full, massive, like it was enveloping the black sky. Luna paced back and forth in front of Rune.

"Lunar magic requires focus, discipline, and imagination." Rune confidently answered.

"Correct!" Luna replied. "Now tell me why we should teach you Lunar magic, our signature craft."

Ever since the "incident" where Rune and Dusk were trapped within Rune's mind and Rune's "little" punishment and jail time, he and Luna were able to spend more time together. Yet Rune still hasn't been able to confess his feelings. Kinda pathetic but Rune wants to enjoy his time with Luna first. Luna, who is now aware that Rune has some higher respect for her, has also come around to accepting that Rune should not be treated as purely a student but more so as a good friend. So they have been spending more time together and have now opened up a little more towards each other. Even referring to each other in a casual manner. So now Rune wants to learn the same kind of magic Princess Luna uses.

"Because I feel that you magic is beautiful and should be shared with everypony." Rune answered just as confidently as before. "So everypony can see its beauty!"

Luna hid her subtle blush across her face. "A kind reason but whether you can learn is not up to us but my that." Luna pointed her hoof at the moon.

"The moon shall decide?" Rune was confused.

"Yes!" Luna said with pride. "Just like our mother, who brought us here to learn, so I have brought you Rune. If the moon decrees that you are worthy, then we shall teach you Lunar magic!"

"Alright!" Rune leap for joy. "Where do I start?"

Luna used her magic to pick up several small stones that were around them. Using careful precision, Luna placed the stones in the design of two crescent moons with a full moon between them.

"Stand within the circle Rune." Luna looked at Rune. "Then connect with the moon!"

Rune stood within the circle of stones, there seemed to be no change. Looking straight at the moon, Rune stared and stared. Suddenly, there was a bright flash, a surge shot through his body. It felt like Rune's mind was pulled from him. When he was able to register what was around him, Rune was staring at the moon......from space.

"WOW!" Rune shouted. "So this is the moon? It looks so much better up close!"

Before Rune could focus on the moon, Rune's mind rejoined his body. He was back facing Luna. The look on Luna's face was one of pride.

"Congratulations Rune!" Luna was excited. "The moon deemed you worthy!"

Rune's smile stretched from ear to ear. "When do we start?"

"Right now!" Luna raised her horn, glowing blue in color.

Several small stars flickered from her horn. Twirling and dancing around Luna, slowly moving up and around her body. The stars then flew away from Luna and now circled around Rune. Twirling, flashing and spinning around Rune, the stars spun and flew around Rune's flank and up his body until they reached his horn. Without activating it, Rune's horn glowed orange, but slowly began to change color. The orange became darker and darker. The stars absorbing themselves within Rune's horn. When the last star entered Rune's horn, his horn's aura changed, from its former orange glow, to a darker, indigo glow.

"And so we have taught you your first spell in Luna magic young Rune." Luna stated.

"Really?" Rune asked. "I don't feel any different."

Luna let out a small giggle. "We said the same thing when our mother showed us this magic." Luna then looked around, trying to find something. then she stopped and stared at a flower. "I want you to look at this flower."

Rune was confused. "Wait what?"

"Look at this flower." Luna repeated.

Rune bent over and intensely began to stare at the flower, as if something was supposed to happen.

"No no no." Luna instructed. "Do not look at this flower with your eyes, but with the moon."

"..........What does that mean?" Rune asked.

"You are still a novice, so you require the night moon's shine." Luna explained. "But when you channel yourself to the moon, you will see as the moon sees."

So changing his direction, Rune then stared at the moon.

He stared and stared........and stared.......and nothing.......

"Activate your magic first." Luna said. "And believe that the moon is your eyes."

Rune nodded, trying not to break what little patience and concentration he had.

He lifted his horn, its new indigo aura glowed in the moon's light. Rune didn't know why but his eyes felt heavy, he couldn't keep them open any longer. When his eyes shut, Rune felt the same "out of body" feeling as before, but this time it felt lighter, less stressful.

'What the Buck?' Rune thought aloud to himself.

He had no difficulty seeing, thing was, he was now seeing Luna and himself; from a bird's eye view.

Luna lifted her head, facing the moon. "Rune?" She said, pointing towards the Nightshade to the side of her. "How many petals are on this flower besides us?"

There was no reply. Rune's body showed very little sign of change.

"There is exactly 758,493 Nightshades around us. 3,792,465 petals." A voice spoke from Rune's body. It sounded like Rune, but it was more echoed, almost like a Royal Canterlot Voice.

Luna quickly turned to Rune's body. His body was rapidly sweating, a small amount of blood was trickling out of his nose. His eyes were rolled behind his head and his face was twitching.

"RUNE?!" Luna shouted, knocking Rune out of the circle, severing the link between him and the moon.

"Rune? Are you okay?!" Luna desperately asked Rune.

In her haste to stop the spell, Luna knocked Rune onto his back. Rune slowly opened his eyes, seeing that Luna was on top of him.

"Rune?" Luna hugged Rune. "Are you unharmed?"

"Yes I'm fine." Rune responded. "But shouldn't we do this the other way around?"

Luna didn't know what he meant, until she saw the position they were both in.

"Oh we are sorry Rune!" Luna quickly got up, a faint blush on her face. "If you can make jokes, then you should be fine."

"Yeah yeah yeah." Rune replied. "So did it work?"

"The spell?" Luna replied. "Yes, but the problem was it worked too well. Maybe starting you on a full moon was an error in our judgment. We were able to do this when we were younger but you are not an Alicorn."

"Yeah." Rune said. "I have to say that spell was interesting. I saw everything around us. I was even able to count all the leaves on those tree." Rune gestured by sweeping across the trees at the far end of the Nightshade field.

"And this is why your body suffered." Luna responded. "You were meant to focus on ONE flower, not everything! You are infinity lucky that your mind simply didn't explode from the pressure!"

"Noted." Rune jokingly responded, wiping the blood from his nose. "So before the sun has to rise, wanna have some tea?"

"We'd like that." Luna kindly answered.

Luna's horn glowed and both herself and Rune instantly teleported back to the Ponyville library. Sitting at the kitchen table, Rune was brewing some tea as Luna sat at the kitchen table.

"It should be a few moments." Rune smiled.

"It is no problem Rune." Luna responded. "We are patient. How about you, are you feeling better?"

"Yes. A lot better." Rune replied with a grin.

The tea finished brewing. Both Rune and Luna sat at the kitchen table enjoying their tea.

"So." Luna asked, sipping teas. "How fares that other spell we asked you to practice?"

"It's going well I guess." Rune responded, drinking his teas. "I've gotten the hang of controlling my own dream." His mind immediately wandered to his most recent dream. Something about him in a massive orgy with about 5 or 6 Lunas. But he quickly stopped the thought, for fear that Luna might of seen that thought. "But I haven't been able to enter other ponies dreams. How do you do it?"

Luna, finishing her tea. Walked over to Rune, gave him a simple, friendly kiss on the cheek. "Maybe one day we'll show you Rune."

Rune's face blushed out.

"But the sun shall rise in a couple hours." Luna continued. "We shall depart to bed. Good night Rune."

Luna then teleported herself away. Leaving Rune in the kitchen.

"Hhhhmmmmm" Rune hummed. "Guess I should go to bed too."

Rune finished his tea. Walked to his room and plopped onto the bed, sound asleep. In the corner of the room, a dark figure emerged from the shadowy corner.

"I thought he'd never fall asleep." The figure quietly whispered to itself.

Emerging from the shadows was Spike. Quickly but quietly making his way to the sleeping Rune, Spike pulled out a pair of small scissors. Gently moving through Rune's mane, Spike found his target: Rune's Locket. Cutting the cord that held it on Rune's neck, Spike made off with the locket.

Stealing into the night, Spike made his way to the Carousel Boutique. Within, Rarity lay on her Victorian couch, waiting for Spike's return.

"I have it Rarity!" Spike said, bursting into the Boutique.

"Oh Spikey-Wikey!" Rarity jumped from her couch in joy towards Spike.

Using her magic to take the locket from Spike's claws. Her eyes gleamed with the sparks of victory.

"Oh Spike!" Rarity embraced Spike in a very close, very sensual hug.

"Anything for you Rarity." Spike struggled to say, he was too busy enjoying himself. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"No no Spike." Rarity answered, placing the locket on her work desk. "Just be sure not to tell anypony that you did this. Okay?"

"Of course!" Spike replied. "But why did you want me to take Rune's Locket?"

Spike's train of curious thought was stopped by the feeling of Rairty's lips on his cheek.

"Nothing to worry about Spikey-Wikey." Rarity replied. "Now run along before Dusk notices you're gone."

Spike kinda floated away, out of the Boutique, leaving Rarity alone with the locket.

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The residents of the Ponyville library woke peacefully and enjoyed the breakfast an overly happy Spike was preparing. Spike stacked mountains of pancakes, waffles, eggs and toast all over the table.

"Uh Spike?" Dusk asked. "I'm not going to question why you're so happy, just why did you cook SO much food?"

"Oh no reason." Spike slyly replied. "I just wanted to-"

BBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM

Spike was interrupted by the sound of a loud explosion coming from Rune's room.

Before anypony could ask, they heard Rune shouting.

"LOST? LOST! IT'S LOST!?" Rune shouted.

Dusk, Trixie and Spike ran straight to Rune's room, Dusk kicked in the door. Rune's room looked as though a massive storm of magical chaos struck it. Everything was scattered everywhere. Furniture was flipped over.

"Rune?!" Dusk shouted, getting Rune's attention. "What happened?"

Rune looked over at the shocked and confused crowd.

"Nothing." He lied. "Nothing at all."

Rune made his way out of his room, slowly walking past the small group.

"Rune where are you going?" Dusk asked.

"I'm going out for a walk." Rune replied in a monotone voice. "Just please stay out of my room until I get back."

Rune closed the front door behind him and he was gone.

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Rarity was infuriated.

As she paced back and forth inside her room, she stared intensely at the locket.

"How do I open you?!" She shouted at it. "What is in here that Rune so desperately wants hidden?"

In her state of anger, Rarity's mind wandered to what made her do all this.

"I don't know if I was able to be with my darling Dusk." She said aloud to herself. "All I remember is that Dusk was in my grasp, then Rune.........Rune sent that skank Trixie to ruin my plan."

Rarity calmed down a little. "But when I woke up, I was covered in my darling's love juices. So I had to of done the deed with him."

Rarity then walked over the large mobile mirror that lay in the corner of her room. Showing all all her curves and features to the mirror, Rarity was still rather angry.

"But if I was able to be with Dusk, then why didn't I get pregnant?" Rarity looked back at the locket. "But I know Trixie hasn't gotten pregnant either. So I still have a chance."

Using her magic to smash the locket this way and that way, across her room, bashing walls, the ceiling and the floor. The locket didn't even have a scratch, ding, or dent.

"WHAT....ARE...YOU......HIDING.....RUNE????" Rarity shouted, trying her hardest to break open the locket. Resorting to blasting it with magic attack after attack. "WHAT....IS....THIS...MADE....OF.?????"

Giving up on that approach, Rarity looked back at her mirror. She was stunning but there were some aspects that she didn't like. Her mane, which should normally be all curls and silky smooth, was a tattered mess, her eyes had heavy bags. Looks like she stayed up all night trying to open that locket.

"I can't let this little thing ruin my complexity. It's unladylike!" Rarity walked over to grab some towels. "I'll take a relaxing bath and have some beauty rest." She intensely stared at the locket. "Then I WILL open you!"

As Rarity left the room to do her business, a small figure made it's way into the room. It was Sweetie Bell. Creeping across the room, not looking for anything in particular. Until she saw the shiny locket.

"Oh what's this?" Sweetie's eyes sparkled with excitement.

Picking up the locket, Sweetie tried to open it. To no avail.

"Hmmmm......" Sweetie hummed. Her mind wandered to an overjoyed Rarity praising Sweetie for opening the locket.

"Maybe if I open this..." Sweetie said to herself. "Then Rarity might say what a good mare I am, and not be so hard on me!"

Sweetie ran out the door, with the locket dangling from her mouth.

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The town of Ponyville. It was calm, it was peaceful..........

BBBBAAAAAANNNNNGGGGG*FlipCCCCRRRRRAAAASSSSSHHHHH BBBOOOOOOOMMM

Countless townsponies were running for their lives. The houses and building were literally being flipped into the air, only to crash back down.

"What in the Sam'Hay is going on?" Applejack shouted, running from her apple stand to see what the commotion was.

Running down the road, Applejack was hit by an incoming Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow?" Apple said, getting up to her feet. "What in tar-nation is going on?"

"It's Rune!" Dash shouted. "He started randomly flipping building and blowing holes in walls!"

"Rune?!" Applejack was shocked but not that surprised. "I knew he was random but I never would of guessed he would start flipping the houses."

"Yeah so I tried to stop him." Dash replied. "But he just stared at me and I was sent flying."

"We should go to Dusk and see if he knows anything." Applejack suggested.

"But what do we do about Rune?" Dash asked.

"Go get Dusk." Applejack said. "I'll get everypony to safety."

Both Rainbow Dash and Applejack went their separate ways.

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Back at their tree house, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell were pacing around the room. Various hardware and farming tools lay around the room, all broken, dented or destroyed. In the center of the room was a small crate with the locket on it. Around the locket were some shards of broken metal. Guess they've been trying to crack open that locket to no avail.

"This has go to be the hardest thing in the world." Scootaloo said aloud.

"Yeah Sweetie Bell." Apple Bloom said. "I don't think we're cut out to be Cutie Mark Jewelers."

"I don't understand." Sweetie Bell replied. "Why is this thing so hard to open?"

Sweetie Bell picked up another large mallet. Swinging down with great force, the locket not only shattered the hammer but the impact broke the crate it was on. This knocked back Sweetie to one of the walls.

"Sweetie?!" Both Apple Bloom and Scootaloo ran to Sweetie.

"I don't think we can do this." Apple Bloom suggested.

"She's right." Scootaloo said. "Let's give it back to Rarity before she see's it missing.

"You're right." Sweetie Bell reluctantly agreed. "I just hope Rarity won't be mad."

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Dusk, Trixie and Spike were cleaning up the library, when they heard the sudden smashing sound of flipping buildings.

"What was that?!" Trixie shouted.

"I don't know." Dusk ran to the door, opening it to see that some of the nearby houses were either destroyed or upside down.

"DDDUUUUUUSSSSKKK!!!" Shouted Rainbow Dash as she flew as fast as she could, crashing into Dusk, knocking books over by their impact.

"Dusk?!" Trixie and Spike ran over, helping Dusk and Dash up.

"Rainbow Dash?" Dusk said. "What's going on out there?"

"Don't Know!" Dash very rapidly tried to explain. "Rune....Flipping out.....Flying houses everywhere!......Need help....."

Dusk was able to shut Dash up by putting his hoof to her mouth.

"Okay." Dusk calmly sighed. "So Rune just randomly started to literally flip buildings over?"

Rainbow Dash nodded.

"Okay. Get the others." Dusk instructed. "Spike, you stay here if Rune returns. Trixie, you come with me."

Dash made off like a bullet.

"But where are we going?" Trixie asked.

"We're gonna stop Rune!" Dusk responded.