As Mystogan dreamed, he was fighting off more aragami with his old team, reliving the memory of a mission where they were actually having fun while killing off the enemy. As he was cutting and slicing through the enemy, the dream seemed to fade all together. A new area appeared, one that was a large lake surrounded by trees and the moon sky shone brightly in the night sky. He looks around wondering where exactly this place is. The sound of flapping wings comes from above, revealing it to be the lunar princess herself. Mystogan brought his weapon to rest on his shoulder like it was just a wooden sword

"Tch, you got a lot of nerve showing up in my mind as I sleep, 'princess'. What do you want?"

Luna was quiet at first, avoiding eye contact with him as she rubbed her arm a bit.

"I-I have come to apologize for what I did. For both snooping through your dreams and throwing you into the wall the other day.."

Mystogan arched a brow as he places a hand on his hip.

"Did you decide to come and say sorry? Or did your sister make you?"

"Well..a little of both actually."

Mystogan shakes his head and turns away from the princess, walking away a bit.

"You let your anger and royal position get the better of you, princess. That is the sign of a ruler who will fall without a doubt. Either by her subjects, or by those close to her."

Mystogan didn't know it, but he had brought up a rather sensitive subject. Especially since she has been through what he was describing. She looks down and closes her eyes. then looked back at him.

"Its like you know me, but you never even met me..."

"Princess, I accept your apology. But what you did wasn't right, and you know it. I may be here in this world, but that doesn't mean I should submit to its rulers simply because one of them thinks that ALL creatures should bow down and lick their boots. More so, you invaded my dreams and learned things about me without my consent. I am not sure if it was you or your sister who thought of the idea. But all you had to do was ask and took the time to get to know me. Where I am from, that's how friends are made. Getting close to one another. Not throwing their power around."

Luna went quiet for another moment, her eyes meeting his once he turns back around to face her. She approaches him slowly. He grips his weapon tightly, the leather of his gloves stretching. She gets within four feet of him and drops to her knees, bowing to him slightly. Mystogan's eyes widen at this.

"Please...forgive me for my action, Raven..I did not want things to go this way. Please..."

"Princess, get off your knees. You really think you have to sink so low as to beg for forgiveness on your knees? Come on, up."

She nods and quickly gets to her hooves, looking down at him with hopeful eyes. Mystogan let's out a sigh, looking up at her.

"I forgive you princess, it really didn't hurt all the much.."

She gave a soft smile

"But, you do have trust to rebuild. As does your sister. As far as friendship goes...we will see what happens after I think on it. Agreed?"

Luna gave a small nod, opening her arms out with big teal eyes as if saying 'hug?'. Mystogan shook his head in response.

"No hugs yet princess. Let things progress. If they go in the right way, I will be happy to accept hugs from you and your sister. Please give it time. I hate that I am being cold towards you, but recent events have caused me to do so. Do you understand?"

She lowered her arms and gave a sad nod. Mystogan walked over to her, his scythe still resting on his shoulder. He reaches up with his free hand and pats her shoulder.

"Don't get discouraged princess. If it makes you feel any better, here is some advice. Be yourself around potential friends. Tell them they don't have to treat you like you are a powerful leader and bow to their every whim. Instead, relax around them, laugh and carry on conversations. Like you do with your sister I am sure. Be like that, and you will gain many friends. Just be careful of the friends you make. They may stab you in the back. So be selective. This is coming from my experience anyways."

Luna listened intently to his words, logging them in her mind as he spoke. He nodded and released his hand from her shoulder, walking passed her as she stood there. She spun around and called out to him.

"Raven!"

He stopped and turned slightly.

"Hm?"

"Thank you...for forgiving me and allowing me to start over."

Mystogan simply nodded and starred up at the moon.

"So then..you can get into people's dreams at will?"

Luna nodded.

"It's usually for helping other ponies with their nightmares so they can sleep better. I usually go into them and banish the nightmares and give them better dreams."

"Ah, I can imagine your subjects are rather grateful for what you do for them."

"They seem to be..but I am just so socially awkward with them..I was banished for over a thousand years after all from my last rage outbreak."

Mystogan quickly turned to her with wide eyes.

"A thousand years?! How old are you and your sister exactly?"

"Centuries."

"And yet you two don't look a day over twenty-five. Immortality has been kind to you both, I won't lie."

Luna looked away with a slight blush, she quickly changed the subject. Eyeing his weapon.

"What...exactly is that? And how are you able to wield it with such ease?"

Mystogan lifted his scythe up and twirls it around his hand, just to show it off.

"Well, this is my god arc. Its what i use to destroy the aragami and devour them as well. As my weapon is actually an aragami itself. When ever it takes a chunk out of aragami, it endows me with the enemy's power for a short time."

"Could I...try hand hold it?"

Mystogan arched a brow and walked over to her, holding the handle out to her.

"Even with your amazonian size, you may not be able to hold it, but give it a shot."

As soon as she wrapped her hands around it, Mystogan lets go. Suddenly she is pulled down to the ground with a loud metallic thud and lets out an "Oof!" as she struggles to pick it up, barely getting the handle off the ground.

"How in Equestria do you even use this thing?! It's soooo heavy!"

"Well, a god arc is a part of a god eater. It is designed for that specific god eater, and no one else can use it. If another god eater tried to use another god eater's god arc. the results can be deadly towards them. I have seen it happen. The other god eater was comatose for nearly a month because of it. But seeing as you aren't a god eater, it will simply be too heavy for you to wield. Even with all the muscle you could have. the most you would be able to do is what you are doing now."

He leans down and picks up the weapon as if it was just a stick, twirling it again and resting it back on his shoulder. Luna's mouth was agape at how easy and effortless he used it. She also noticed the other part of the weapon that had a large metal barrel on it.

"And the barrel?"

"That is for my gun mode. My weapons is what they call a 'new type'. It can shift from its current for to a blast cannon."

He takes the weapon in both hands, and the weapon fluidly transforms into a gun like weapon that he holds at his side by two handles, resting it at his hip.

"My goodness...if our army had technology like that..."

"You would need to have your army becoming carriers of oracle cells first, princess. And its a VERY rough process. You would have to worry about compatibility. And when they aren't, its a grotesque sight. So before you go getting any ideas. You need to know that."

Luna nodded understandingly.

"So...where is your..god arc now? I have never seen you with it in our world."

Mystogan lets out a sigh and looks down at his weapon after in transforms back.

"Unfortunately...Soururīpā is probably laying in the battle field where I was taken from."

Luna tilts her head at the name.

"...Soururīpā..?"

"The name I gave her when she was given to me. Its means 'Soul Reaper' in my native language. You see, I scythe is an instrument of death, used by death. I am not sure if you have an entity here called the 'Grim Reaper', but he is believed to be the one who comes to get you when you are moments from dying. A tall cloaked figure that is a skeleton and wields a scythe. He harvests the souls of the dead just as a farmer uses a scythe to harvest the crops."

Luna lowers her ears at the thought, she looks away from him.

"And...why did you choose the scythe out of all the weapons they had?"

"it's simple princess. I enjoy killing aragami. I don't show it when in battle. But I get satisfaction out of cutting off each and every one of their limbs. And when I do slip in battle and reveal my passion, my teammates often stayed out of my way. You can say I get a sick pleasure out of watching them with their last moments as I bury my scythe into their head. After all, they took someone from me I cared about. But that's a story for another time. Anyways, its about time for me to wake up, see you around princess."

"Raven...I need to know..for the safety of my kingdom and my subjects. Do you bare any ill will towards us and our world?"

Mystogan simply shook his head.

"All you need to know, is that I don't forgive, and I don't forget those who take from me or hurt others I care for. Who knows, maybe Soururīpā will fall into my hands again one day, and I will be able to use her to defend my new friends here. But that is just wishful thinking I suppose. Anyways, see you later."

The dream was fading as he was waking up. He opens his eyes, starring up at the ceiling. Letting out a quiet sigh so as to not wake Rarity, who was still clinging to his form like a plushy. He carefully removed himself from her, replacing his body with a pilow, which Rarity clung to and giggled in her sleep. Mystogan got dressed, looking into the mirror at his upper body. The large claw scars that now covered his body fully closed, no way these were ever going away, that's for sure. He finally got fully dressed and made his way downstairs and out the door. Walking down the street in the early morning hours. As he walked along, he felt strange, like eyes were weighting heavy on his body. He stops in the middle of the square, his eyes quickly shifting towards the direction he felt the gaze. He could have sworn he saw something pink and poofy disappear. He heard hoofsteps coming from his side, he shifted his gaze again, nothing.

"Look, if you are trying to mug me or something, I have no currency or anything of value here. So back off."

Just then he was suddenly tackled from the side, he and his attacker rolled and tumbled across the ground for a few moments, Mystogan ended up on top and straddling over the stranger with his hand around their neck and a punch pulled and ready to release. Blinking as he saw who it was who tackled him. She was a pink pony with pinky poofy hair, light blue eyes that starred at him widelyi and in shock and a bit of fear. She had her arms held over her rather ample bust, close to a D cup, a little more than Twilight's. And she was a little plump, but it added to her sexy curves. The outfit she wore was also mostly pink, a pink sleevless shirt and a pink skirt that showed off her rather wide hips. He sighs and stands up from straddling her, offering his hand to her to help her up.

"You know, it's not smart to tackle someone who is used to being attacked from behind or to the side. Could end badly."

She looked up at him for a moment, hesitating to grab his hand, but she does eventually.

"S-sorry sir..I just get really excited when somepony new comes into town, and you are definitly new and if I haven't seen you before then you aren't my friend and I can't have that because everyone is my friend and I know every pony here and-"

Mystogan reaches up and places a finger on her lips.

"Calm down, take a breath."

She does so and nods.

"Hi, I am Pinkie Pie, residential party pony of this town. And who are you?"

"The name I can give you for now is Raven. My real name is for friends only."

"Ooooh a secret! Well I would like to be your friend! And I need to throw you a 'welcome to Ponyville' party! You are new here after all!"

"That isn't necessary Pinkie Pie."

"But it is! That way you can meet everyone who attends, so you can have more friends!"

"Pinkie please....I already get enough odd gazes during my time here."

"Oh don't worry about it, Raven. Once you get to know them all, they will give you nothing but smiles, and smiles are always good!"

"...You aren't going to take no for an answer are you?"

She closes her eyes and smiles the biggest smile, shaking her head. He sighs and facepalms.

"Fine, I will show up, but only because I can't deny that you are rather adorable...in an annoying sense."

"Hehe! I look forward to seeing you at Sugarcube Corner later then! Bye-bye!"

And before he could speak, she was gone.

"Oh boy. What have I gotten myself into..?"

After his morning walk, he returns to Rarity's, once he makes his way in, he sees that she was already getting started on breakfast, she smiles at him and walks over, hugging him against her body.

"And where did you wander off to? I wake up to find that my cuddle partner was replaced with a pillow..was hoping to shower you with nuzzles when I awoke."

He smiles warmly and nuzzles into ehr chest, knowing she doesn't mind it.

"Well,I have to get back inn the swing of my old routine. Waking up early and going on morning walks and all. Though I did meet a rather..odd and over energetic pony. And apparently I am forced to attend a party she is throwing for me."

Rarity could help but laugh, covering her mouth as it fell to a giggle.

"Ahaa, you ran into Pinkie Pie then?"

"More like she tackled me to the ground and almost got her face smashed in if I hadn't seen who she was. She needs to be more careful when she does things like that."

Rarity nodded to him, running her fingers through his hair gently as he rested his head on her bust.

"I know darling. But that's just how she is. Please just take it in stride. She is just a super friendly pony is all, and wants her friends to smile."

"I suppose I can understand that. But frankly...I am nervous. She said there was going to be a lot of ponies there...I hardly know anyone around here other than you and Sweetie."

"Well, think of it as a new experience dear, and if it makes you feel any better, Sweetie and I will accompany you there."

Mystogan sighs and pulls away from Rarity, seeing the slight disappointment in her eyes as their little cuddle session ended.

"That would definitely help me out..."

"Good! Now sit down, breakfast is almost ready."

Author's Notes:

Here you go guys, one more before bed!

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