Scared of me? Scared? Why would she of been scared of me? Was it something I did? Did I do something wrong? My eyes launched open as I awake in a lake of my own sweat and an enormous headache. Eight times I have awoken and they were only getting worse. I turned to gaze upon Hope for a brief moment who was still resting peacefully less than a meter from me. I am surprised yet very glad that throughout the night I had not disturbed her in any way by waking her up or anything. "At least you are well," I sighed at her in sleep and stretched for a few moments receiving a little of delight over the last time I awoken to find the painkiller had completely worn off placing me in a plethora of discomfort to understate the torture by magnitudes.

I attempted to rest my eyes and fall into slumber; however, the seconds turned into what felt like minutes, which felt like hours, which felt like days, months, and years. I felt eased to know that I have someone close to my proximity yet the identity of her left me uncertain. I finally could not take it any longer and with care I flailed myself off the mattress to put my hooves firmly on the ground. "Just calm down Bladz you are going to be alright. Stop letting things get to you so easily. I understand you have been having a long and confusing month but that is no reason to prevent yourself from getting some sleep" I scolded myself, immediately engaging in an internal dispute over if I should ignore myself or not. Drinking some water will help me clear my mind and the exercise will help me cope a little bit with the stress. I fumbled to open the door and proceeded out the door without another breath contemplating on my concerns.

The castle was still pitch black in the night and judging on my knowledge of sleep patterns I concluded that the new day had begun; however, daylight was nowhere approaching. Another thing that quickly became evident to me was just how little I could recall of the layouts of the castle as I passed the same atrium enough times laying somewhere that I have clue about that I could probably recall every detail of the design that was painted on the ceiling. I find it hard to believe that a kitchen or a dining area of any major royal establishment this size could be so troublesome to find, although yet again I do find it hard to believe as well that I am staying in a foreign empire castle without extensive study of diplomacy, or anything dealing with foreign areas under that logic.

"You seem a little lost."

"Well I guess I could say I am glad to see you Miss Luna," I stated in recognition of the voice.

"Having trouble sleeping?"

"Yeah; Hope said..."

"What Hope stated was most likely for your ears alone or she would've said it around you and I's ears together. So what are you after anyway?"

"Was looking for the kitchen or something so I could get a drink of water. I was also planning on trotting around to stretch my legs but as you can probably tell, I have already experienced my fair share of that for one night."

"Have you tried the stairs?" Luna motioned towards a large flight of stairs that laid in front of us slightly to the right. Luna was more amused by my annoyance with the suggestion than I would have liked; however, I did not take much insult as my thirst was hastily accumulating. "Your mannerisms and actions really do serve as a pleasant form of entertainment during my precious night." Luna punned taking lead down the stairs with me. "I guess it aids in allowing me to trust you a little, even if I barely have met you."

"I do not know how you define trust but okay, I guess."

"Well I trust you enough to not try to beat your mane in for sleeping in Hope's room."

"I can explain that!"

"No need I understand Hope's reason for it, the room that the other two are in works well yet three would be pushing comforts. Hope as well I can see believing that there is nothing wrong with either; probably because as we both are completely aware, trying to wake that young mare up is a challenge in itself and one that I personally would not enjoy to undertake in. Do not tell her that I said this but I rather fight a battalion of dragons than wake her up; would require less energy and I have a better chance of surviving the encounter."

"You trying to say that she is not much of a morning pony?"

"Well no, she wakes up well but I am less likely to starve to death waiting for a dragon army to surrender or retreat than wait on her to get up."

"Nice use of overexaggerated sarcasm." I responded to her as we entered the dining area.

"I try my best," Luna grinned and she fumbled through a cupboard and pulled out a simple glass cup that she filled with water and handed to me. "Our cooking staff will not be delighted to find a dish awaiting them in the morning but  a single cup is not going to push anyone even close to the edge; not after my stunts."

"Like what?"

"Well, let me just say that last year I discovered the miracle that is ice cream thanks to Celestia, while the staff discovered the lesser miracle of what the castle looks like after Luna discovers the miracle of ice cream. Took them a week to get all the stickiness off everything and took me a month to lose all the weight it gave me as a cruel, sick joke. I learned a valuable lesson about the meaning of family that day and it was delicious.""

"How did you not ever have ice cream before?"

"Well, that thing you were talking about earlier known as fear, well it can have some negative results if you let it get to you. I mean it is nothing major, just me trying to establish eternal darkness over the land which ended with me getting trapped in the moon for a thousand years but it is okay!"

"What?" I questioned pulling the glass from my face after taking a sip.

"It is what can happen when you let things get to you. You never stop learning and meeting new people and you will be amazed with what people can teach you. In my case I let jealousy get the best of me and instead of talking it out with my sister I tried to take over the day because people sleep through my night. Now I just remember that during the night young fillies and  aged stallions alike will lie asleep and dream; and sometimes I would argue that dreams are much better than reality. They give us a median which we can control, even if sometimes we forget that. Dreams allow us to express our happiness and sorrows, our delights and hardships, and in dreams we can learn to face our fears."

"In honesty the ability to enter dreams sounds stalker or creep status; however, you work as the mediator I take it."

"I guess you could say that. I have to admit, it feels better to fight nightmares than cause them like I used to do though. Not everypony has began to trust me yet; however, I still do not see a reason for that to hinder me from assisting them now. Some ponies can just be stubborn and accepting me is a lot harder to do than it is for others like Twilight. I mean do not get me wrong there were disputes over it with many celebrating and others disputing, but over time people are being to accept the idea of Princess Twilight, while I have experienced a much slower rate." Luna explained in despair.

"Sometimes it is best to not be accepted because it leaves us not too distracted with the things that too often cause us to go blind and allows us to see the things that we need to see." I determined upon taking my final sip of water and placing the glass in a sink. "I was never one to make many friends but that left me more time to read and write and think and explore the sciences should I can get an understanding of it myself. I like having friends but for most of my life my books were my friends and my sister was my best friend; if I ever wanted to do something my books would always be there to allow me to do it, especially after Lord Armonia supplied me with access to his library."

"Oh! He gave you full access to the serentian royal archives? That is unusual of what I would expect of his yet I honestly do not know him very well."

"Well not exactly; it is a different library of his."

Oh, okay then. Anyway want to come with me?"

"Where are you going?"

"Well I told you that I watch over ponies and their dreams. Well I cannot do it by just laying around."

"You are just going to enter a random's person dream at will!"

"Well I could do that but I find that very inefficient. See how it works is fairly simple but complex to understand. Every pony has two separate domains that they exist in, the mind and the body, that constantly interact and depend on each other, and there is an essence that exist in every pony that connects us all in a way. To understand what I am trying to say you can visualize an apple orchard with the trees serving as the body and the apples serving as the mind, while the water in the soil connect all the trees together. Essentially it is this field of magic that touches everything and by manipulating this I can allow my mind to enter that of another's."

"Who or what taught you the ability to control such unusual magic?"

"Do not recall; however, it is not controlling because I cannot force my way into people's dreams. The magic we are discussing demands assurance from all participants. Luckily for us the unconscious is very responsive to needs and even if the conscious mind refuses it, the unconscious will override the order to allow what it deems best. In fact, I am pretty sure this magic is also associated with the formation of cutie marks or something of the nature because cutie marks are one of the .things that every pony will experience regardless of type." Luna responded receding from the dining area forcing me to follow.

"Okay and about Celestia and Hope, how did they join before into my dream?" I inquired to her.

"Well you see the thing was that we did not visit you, you visited us. I connected them to me and then you joined me so they never were connected directly to you, we all meet through connections with me."

"I see, I understand what happened then. How are you planning on me to help you then if you have to place them in a reality you created for them?"

Luna stopped in her tracks and provided me with her attention. "Bladz, one of the things that have crossed my mind recently was the fact that you not only defended against a powerful illusionary attack by me, but incinerated it. If a pony can figure out a way to follow me to assist another pony by manipulating a force of magic that we do not understand it would be you. You have the talent in magic to at least give it a fair attempt."

“Well if I have learned anything about magic from my studies at the academy, which is not much since I learned most of the basics in my youth from books before I even started, it is that more powerful magic can essentially be broken down into categories. Yes I thought I did not know nature magic when I did but I can assure you that I do not know how to manipulate magic to intrude on another’s mind, nor do we even know what category that would falls under?”

“Well I would be probably the last one to assist you in categories and identification as education was not much of my thing; I learn better through experience and really the only magic I know if those that others have taught me or I learned on my own.”

“I know what you mean by that,” I nodded. “The academy that I am gladly no longer attending has never really taught me anything cool or interesting when it comes to magic. I was approaching the middle grades before the class even attempted levitation of anything heavier than I few pounds. I had been doing that already for years!”

“Did you show off a little or maybe even act like it was too difficult just to mess with the class?” Luna questioned taking a renewed interest in our discussion.

“Well I guess you can say I showed off a little. While the were working on how to pick up a textbook, I might of picked up every bookshelf, table, and desk in the classroom and flipped them upside-down faster than anyone else could even pick up their book.”

“Nice one! Anyway, try not to think of it as intrusion we are asking after all sort of.” Luna stretched her neck out towards the ceiling and her eyes sought to pull a star out of the night through the wall above. "I just do not understand it."

"Understand what?" I demanded in puzzle.

"Nothing," Luna stated snapping out of her daze. "Well let us give it a try; after all, everything not tried will always be impossible."

"So how do you enter them anyway? Do you use a spell setting? Do you have to be asleep? Do you just think it?"

"No, no and not quite; you cannot think here with this, you just have to know what you will do and then let your magic do the rest," Luna explained placing me in an even greater doubt. I closed my eyes and pushed myself to steady breathing. The castle's silence allowed me to hear Luna's heartbeat as well as my own as I plunged myself into calmness and sparked my horn with magical aura just as I was advised..

Well I guess this could be worse although I do not feel any different. Okay you have to believe that you can do this. I took a deep breath in and opened my eyes for a brief moment to see Luna watching me with anticipation. You are not knowing, you are just think! Not wanting to disappoint her I decided to give it my full attention and with a final breath I concentrated.

My concentration was broken abruptly by a weird fluttering of my heartbeat forcing me to open my eyes to find Luna with a slight grin engulfed in trepidation. "Well that is disappointing," I commented to her noticing no change in the environment besides for a light bluish tint that was painted on everything because of the light that radiated from my horn.

"If that is disappointing I would hate to see what you call satisfying." she proclianed.

"Come again?"

"We are inside the aura! How did you do that! We both were just standing and suddenly you turned to a bluish mist and when I looked down I was turning to a bluish mist and here we are regenerated as mist inside of some median! Did you turn us into pure magic?"

"I highly doubt that; however, what you probably saw was your mind linking with this magic. Aren't you used to this?"

"no, no, no, and no again! I link directly with people! I have idea where we are, well I have an idea where we are, but I have no idea how you got us here!"

"You said to enter! Where were you expecting me to go, it is not like I can join you mind and what ever or who ever esle where we are going. Did you not think this out?"

"To be honest I though it was not going to work."

"Well I guess it did work" I exclaimed seriously before breaking into laughter at the complete irony of being lost mentally now both metaphorically and now physically. "what now?"

"We look for people who need our help, nightmares and situations of extreme distress causes disruptions in this field; we just have to observe until we find a big enough disturbance to indicate that someone needs our help."

"Fair enough," I nodded stretching out my hooves and laying myself down on the ground. "So how long will that take?" Luna placed herself beside me taking on an expression of despair. "I'll take that as we may be here for a while."

"They do not happen as often as you may think and I usually am busy watching the stars and assuring that the night is running smoothly as well." Luna placed her head down upon the flooring and closed her eyes. "We will know when we are needed, trust me the disturbance will be unmistakable." Luna pulled herself up and flew straight up launching herself out a open window disappearing from my sight. A few moments past before Luna dragged herself back inside the window turning to me, "You know I would of prefered you as a pegasus right now."

"If I was a pegasus I would not be her right now," I challenged.

"You mind if I carry you?"

"I would not recomend that with my leg being injured."

"You think that would of been fixed as being in a stat of magic?"

"Well now that you mention it I do not understand why it is still harmed. Although I do understand what you mean by you will not miss it; I have this unmistakable feeling of a migraine right now from just outside the castle."

"What? You can sense it? When I said it was unmistakable I mean you can see disturbances visually? You sure I cannot pick you up and carry you or at least to levitate you?" Luna attempted to pick me up with her magic; however, as she did so she was collapsed in exhaustion. "Or maybe not?"

"Figured that" I commanded, "I am too heavy for you to hold me in our current state because we are synced by magic, using magic will draw away from your sync and could possibly synchronize you. It is okay I can walk, it is not like my leg is giving me crippling pain I will run out behind you." Luna moved her head in agreeance launching herself out the window and me to the nearest door that I could remeber to the outside. When I placed my hooves on the outside ground I gazed upon the stars to see luna motioning towards a location south of our position and by sensing a general origin of the disturbance I nodded and was on my way towards the area.

Drawing in towards the area was weird because with every step that gave me this sensation that I was drawing closer I felt at the same time farther away. The streets were empty; however, I could not tell if this was the truth for reality. The sensation intensified to a crippling point when I stopped upon a small residence that somewhat out-of-place being surrounded by larger homes in all directions. Luna took root beside me now that I had arrived at the location and I could tell by her hesitation she was questioning the reason for such an outlier as well.

"So now what?" I posed to Luna.

"We try to enter; if we have permission then we will be allowed to do so." Luna stated then paused once more. I motioned to the front of the door and lifted my right foreleg. "I just do not know how we will do that though in this form?" she sighed as I placed my hoof upon the door. My hoof phased through the door and my body followed in surprise landing hard on what appeared to be a street  in mint condition yet aged with time's nature.

"Luna. where are we? Luna? Princess Luna? Princess Luna!?" I screamed out finding no entrance or exit to which I could have entered. Stay calm, just stay calm! It is not like you are trapped her realistically. You are simply in a dream. Not your own dream but nevertheless a dream! "Princess Luna! Princess! Princess Luna!!" I lowered myself and attempted to make myself as tiny as I could because of a factor of extreme uncertainty that left me feeling like prey instead of protecting whom ever from the predator that is nightmares.

"What is wrong?" a smooth voice inquired behind me. I turned to find an older green pegasus filly staring down at me in question. "Something troubling you sir?"

"I am sorry but do I know you from somewhere?" I asked.

"Well I would sure hope so but you may of saw me as bigger, and taller, and older, and well basically not a filly," she informed me trying to form a smile.

"Is this your dream or nightmare?"

"Why no silly! I have been here only as long as you have! Or maybe a little bit after? Or maybe a little bit before? I do not know anymore!" The filly threw her fore hooves up in defeat.

"Well okay then? Have you seen a taller mare around her with wings and a horn?"

"If you are worrying about Luna is do not worry, just try to remember that those you need will always be there for you, even if it not in the way you can understand.." The filly smiled and tilted her head before running off into the shadows and disappearing from sight leaving me still disoriented.

"Bladz! There you are! Sorry we got separated!" Luna exclaimed landing beside me. "I do not know how we managed to get separated but nice work figuring out a way to enter this dream sphere!"

"you do not understand how glad I am to see you; however, did you know that filly?"

"What filly? I have not seen anyone or anything her except building and streets, this place is too dark. I have no idea who is having this dream but I can tell you I cannot find him or her." The ground rumbled from under our hooves as in the distance we turned to witness a sky reaching build trumble to its foundation. "Or maybe we just did?" I took off towards the rubble while Luna took flight and trailed behind me flying very low.

I arrived at the foundation site in disbelief about how such a large building could collapse like that without a sort of external force.that was excessive enough by what I could tell, and neither could Luna from her reaction. I did my best to push debris aside widening the size of the perimeter to inspect the damages. "You see anything out of the ordinary her?" she questioned. "And I do not mean the fact that there is a fallen building?" I shook my head to indicate a negative for there was nothing meaningful here and the building appeared to of been empty upon collapse. "Check the left and I will investigate the right. A building does not fall on its own like this and must follow logic, even if that logic is not realistic, there had to be a reason or a cause for the collapse."

I trotted over to the left section and began to push debris in all directions unmasking a plethora of broken concrete originating from the above and the below. The only place that appeared to have dodged this disaster in this area was a small patch of concrete that by sheer luck dodged the collapse while being surrounded by destruction. The middle of a pile of debris closer to the building's foundation revealed an empty picture frame with the glass laying beside. The glass was shattered but upon inspection the friction of the collapse has melted much of the glass to have the sharp edges take on a smooth quality.

"Bladz! Come here!" Luna demanded from her side of the building. I stampeded over in concern and found Luna hovering pointing downwards to a massive pile of debris where a single orange hoof was departing from. I began to rip the carnage out of the way alongside Luna, digging our way down to the injured pony. Digging we began to uncover a middle-aged stallion suffering in agony.

"What happened? You need help, hold on we will try to assist you!" I informed the orange stallion.

"I am not the one you are looking for," the stallion groaned. "He left to find assistance; however, I know he will not find it. This tower has fallen and damaged those that are innocent. The collapse put strain on the surrounding area and without proper action the destruction can spread beyond our beliefs."

"What do you mean? This building has already fallen and the damage has been done, it cannot fall again and cause more damage." Luna commanded.

"But a stone from this building can be used to knock down others and without the stone the building cannot be made complete again. You will see in time Bladz" the stallion declared and then vanished into shadows.

"What was that about?" Luna asked openly. "This is the weirdest nightmare I have been in and trust me when I say I have been in some weird ones."

"I can imagine. He said my name and it never stated it? Anyway, there is another pony here who's dream this is and considering how this building is blocking the road here I would assume that he followed the road in the opposite direction with no sence of location."

"You think so?"

"Better than nothing" I justified beginning to trail the street.

"True; I will hunt for this pony from the skies," Luna agreed following behind taking off airbound. "He did not say anything about what this pony looked like did he?"

"Not that I recall, but he did say he so we know we are looking for a male." Luna nodded and raced off upwards to get a wider view. I did not travel fifty feet when a stallion charged up from my front in exaustion.

"You there! You are traveling in this direction! Did you see the fallen building? My friend needs help!"

"It is okay, everything is fine. Your friend is fine, you are simply dreaming. I am sure he is fine in reality." I told him.

"No he is not! They are coming! I know they are! They are coming to spread destruction through what we have lost! We have to be brave and stand up for ourselves and our people!"

"What do you mean we?" I questioned to him.

"We must!" He screamed blistering my eardrums. He suddenly disappeared from sight and he fused together with the sound waves that collided with the ground sparking shockwaves. I struggled to keep my balance as the vibrations intensified and I did my best to figure a way out of this place. The surrounding city began to collapse around me and skies started to glitch.

"Hold still" a voice declared as the white stallion I had seen before when I was defending against Luna appeared charging towards me and knocked me upon its back without a moment's slow-down. "You have to get out of here!" The unicorn sparked a rainbow aura and a portal of light opened in front of us. We launched ourselves through it placing us outside of the door Luna and I entered from. "Where is Luna?"

"I do not know? Who are you?" I posed to him. The door opened once more and Luna was thrown out disoriented by the green pegasus filly. "You again!"

"We have no time to explain this Bladz! You already know what you are wondering, all you have to do is figure out what it is that you know and understand it!" The stallion stated and both he and filly turned to colored mists and faded into the magical aura.

"What pushed me? I was flying along and suddenly there was a loud shout and I was pushed through a random portal."

"I would not worry about it?" I ignited my horn turning us both into a magic aura that rushed back into the castle. I blacked out for a moment but when I opened my eyes I was back in my physical body and Luna was as well lost in an overwhelming amount of confusion I judged by her facial expression. "I am going to bed again Ms. Luna, thank you for this experience."

"You are welcome but what just happened?" she inquired. I sighed a long sigh and nodded a single nod at her. "You do not understand it either do you?" I nodded once more. "Okay then Bladz, I should be the one thanking you for your assistance really. I do not know how I would of handled that one by myself. Thank you."

"Well good night once more."

"Good night!"  She took lead as we returned to the outside of Hope's room. "And Bladz."

"Hmm?"

"I will probably not see you again tomorrow before you guys depart so do we a favor. Make sure you maintain the state of happiness."

"You mean about Hope?"

"No, I mean you." she commanded causing me to be taken back by surprise. "Just do it for me please because there is something I understood tonight and it would be best if you maintain your positive and bright atmosphere."

"Thank you princess." I bowed.

"Thank you" Luna hesitated to say something else and then fell silent.

"Tonight has a beautiful sky; nice work you did." Luna blushed and then smiled opening the door for me. I walked inside past her noticing a single tear drop fall under gravity from her.