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The Lunar Rainbow: Part Six

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The Lunar Rainbow: Part 6


"Princess, what is to be done?"

"Princess, if he makes it much further in there may be no stopping him"

"Princess, what is your command?"

It was as though Luna were invisible. Captains of the Pegasus, Unicorn, and Earth-pony guards were all soliciting Princess Celestia's attention while she tried to catch her breath, but none of them paid the slightest attention to Luna. Twilight wanted to kick them. Luna herself was helping Celestia remain standing, heaving her up by the side, and seemed too busy to notice that she was being ignored.

"Twilight Sparkle" Celestia said, and for all her exhaustion she seemed wholly in command of the situation. Twilight approached closer at the Princess' beckoning.
"You and your friends must flee from here. There is no telling what accidental damage the Dreamer may cause now. Luna and I shall remain here and think of a way to-"

"Princess, we're not leaving you alone to face him" Twilight interrupted, firmly. Celestia paused, and stared hard at Twilight. Twilight knew the look that Celestia seemed to be trying to hold back: the look of disappointment, of frowning admonition, the expression that Twilight had always dreaded when she had studied under her in Canterlot, few times though it may have been given.

"Twilight Sparkle, listen to me" Celestia said, a little more forcefully. "The fates that could befall you and your friends if you proceed are too terrible to speak of. I beseech you, turn back and let us handle this" Twilight looked into her mentor's lavender coloured eyes. It felt strange, as though something fundamental in the world, a solid irredeemable truth, had proven false. To look up into the majestic countenance of her mentor, the person in the world she had never before refused, never ignored, always believed in and trusted, and to give the answer...

"I'm sorry" Twilight said, quietly. "I can't do that. Even if my friends won't, I will stay. I won't leave the both of you alone" she looked at the two Princess', Celestia tired and frowning, Luna looking slightly amazed. Twilight gave Luna a determined frown.
"I won't let you be alone"

"An' neither will I" Applejack put in, earnestly.

"Nor us!" Pinkie said, pulling Fluttershy into a playful headlock-like hug. Fluttershy gave an awkward smile, but nodded as well.

"We never leave our friends" Rainbow Dash said, and despite the flowerbed that was once her tail sticking out awkwardly behindher, she struck a rather impressive figure.
Twilight felt her heart well up with emotion at these furious declarations, and thought of Rarity. She knew what she would have said in this situation, and it made her feel even warmer to think of it. Princess Celestia and Luna both looked at them, Celestia with a troubled expression, Luna looking sincerely touched. Nothing was said, but Celestia broke eye contact with Twilight, and sighed, looking reluctantly resigned.

"I ask only" Celestia said, eventually "that you do nothing that you know will endanger yourselves. Just distract him until we can think of something. I could never forgive myself if anything were to happen to any of you"

"Should we accompany them, Princess?" the unicorn captain asked.

"Take a squad and protect them, keep them out of harm's way" Celestia ordered. "But keep the majority on standby should we need to resort to... a desperate measure" the captain nodded, while Celestia turned away, looking supremely troubled.
"Retreat further back, give plenty of space between us. We'll need preparation time"

As the horde of guard ponies retreated further back with the Princess', Twilight and her friends watched for a few moments, before they and their guards turned simultaneously to stare, with grim determination, into the potential destruction of Equestria. Ominously, a rather large and black cloud had formed over the Dreamer as he lumbered forward, stretching over the sky like a malevolent shadow. The cloud glowed momentarily, and a rumble of thunder could be heard.

"Right" Twilight said, uneasily "Does anyone have a plan?" there was a silence, while everypony stared agape at Twilight, as though she had just said something insane.

"Uh... you don't have one?" Rainbow Dash asked, incredulously. "You're the brainiac, coming up with plans is what you do" she stated, gesturing forcefully as though she couldn't grasp the concept of a plan-less Twilight. Twilight herself felt a little self conscious about it all, for Rainbow Dash did actually have a point there. Plans were what she did; it was practically her raison d'être

"I... I have one" she said, trying to sound confident. After a few moments of everyone staring at her expectantly, she lowered her head and went on, quietly
"I just don't know what it is yet" there was a collective exhaling of breath, as though they had all refrained themselves from sighing.

"I have a plan"

The group all looked around at this, uneasy expressions on their faces. Pinkie grinned back at them, eagerly. Twilight felt trickles of unease sinking into her abdomen.

"Oh" Twilight said, trying to sound interested, rather than reluctant. "Really?" Pinkie nodded, all bubbly cheerfulness in her wide, slightly mad blue eyes. Twilight looked carefully around at her friends. Applejack's lips were scrunched up, as though trying not to voice what she wanted to say. Fluttershy was looking determinately in a different direction, her pink mane hiding her face. Rainbow Dash was the least discreet, and stared openly at Pinkie with a disbelieving raised eyebrow, her lip curled. Twilight understood their disbelief, but as she looked into Pinkie's cheerful and eager face, she felt rather guilty. She looked towards the Dreamer, and made her decision.
"Okay, Pinkie. What's your idea?"

"Oh, it's a good one!" Pinkie began, appearing quite suddenly at Twilight's side. Recovering from the sudden threat of heart failure, Twilight tried to give Pinkie a look of interest.
"Okay, first Rainbow Dash has to go to the top of that cloud, and make it look like a twirled up cone" she said, pointing at the giant grey cloud looming over the Dreamer. Twilight waited for her to continue, but Pinkie just stared expectantly at Rainbow Dash. Dash stared back, then after a few moments, turned to Twilight, as though asking for confirmation. Twilight gave her a "just do it" sort of look. Dash rolled her eyes, and with a streak of rainbow and a shower of petals, zoomed up toward the cloud.
"Now Twilight, you have to pull the cloud down enough with your magic so that Applejack can rope it down just below the twirl Dashie is making"

"Rrrright" Twilight said. Then after a little pause "Why?"

"You'll see, you'll see!" Pinkie assured her, airly. "Just wait a bit until Dash gets a good spin on it" with that, she sped off, shouting admonitions to Rainbow Dash, as the latter zoomed round and round the cloud, twisting it into the desired shape.

"Fluttershy, could you perhaps try and use some of your animal charm, maybe get him to pause for a few minutes?" Twilight asked Fluttershy, gesturing at the Dreamer as he took yet another humongous step forward. The yellow pony looked up at the giant reptile, unsure.

"Well... I suppose I... he's not a dragon at least" she said, the last part almost as though to herself. She spread her wings elegantly, and began her modest ascent towards the giant turtle, or tortoise, or whatever he was.

"Just be careful not to get hit by any stray magic!" Twilight yelled after her. After a few moments, she looked to her right, and saw Applejack staring up at the cloud with a rather glum expression. Twilight had a feeling that she was watching Rainbow Dash, rather than the cloud.

"AJ" Twilight began. Applejack gave a guilty jerk.

"U-Uh yeah... Twilight? What?" Twilight merely looked at her for a good long while. Applejack seemed to find it hard to meet her eye.

"Don't you love her back?" she said, quietly. Applejack blushed, in and of itself an extraordinary thing for her. She stuttered for a few moments, trying and failing to articulate her words.
"She told me, after your fight in the library" Twilight explained, in the manner of a parent finding out that their child has drugs in their bag that they were just holding for a friend. Applejack scowled.

"T'aint none of yer business, Twilight!" she snapped, angrily. The guards, who had formed a wide perimeter around them, looked back. Applejack paused, and lowered her voice.
"It's mah business, and you need to just stay out of it"

"Applejack, I'm your friend. You can tell m-"

"Ah don't want to talk about it, y'hear?" Applejack hissed. Twilight almost stopped there. The ferocious look on Applejack's face almost looked murderous. It was so vastly different from any look that had previously been on Applejack's face, that Twilight had the uncomfortable feeling that she was stepping into a place it may be more advisable not to tread upon.
"Just you forget whatever she told ya, got it?" Twilight hesitated, but then she frowned, and squared her shoulders.

"No" Applejack looked surprised for a second, but then her face darkened warningly. "Applejack, just tell me why; you have to have a reason for why you refused when she asked"

"Ah told you" Applejack said, in a low and threatening tone "T'ain't none of yer business"

"Stop being stubborn!" Twilight stomped a hoof, irritably. Applejack was turning slowly red in the face, she looked like a living thermometer.
"The way she told it, she practically held out her heart to you, and you rejected her. Why?"

"Drop. It!" Applejack snarled.

"Answer me!"

"No!"

"Tell me why!" the last few exchanges had become progressively louder, until now, where Applejack let out a cry of mingled frustration and rage, and leapt forward with a shout of "That does it!". She and Twilight rolled around on the floor, Twilight trying to push off the orange pony, while Applejack tried to hold her down. There was no contest; Applejack was stronger than Twilight was, and the purple pony found herself pinned to the ground, Applejack's hooves holding down her front legs. The guard ponies could hardly be expected to not notice, and several of them leapt forward to separate the two of them. Applejack kicked and twisted, and pulled herself from their grips, then backed away, looking ruffled and furious. Twilight gently released herself from them slackened holds when they seemed to consider the danger passed. The two stood regarding each other for a little while; Twilight was genuinely shocked by what Applejack had just done. Applejack seemed to be regretting what she had done, but she was breathing hard, the redness in her face had not gone.

"Ah didn't want her to change!" Applejack bellowed. The sound echoed throughout the hills, even over the sound of continued booms of the Dreamer's footsteps. There was a somewhat protracted pause. Twilight fancied she saw a streak of rainbow out of the corner of her eye alter its course.

"You didn't want... her to change?" Twilight asked. The guards all returned to their positions, apparently with some sense of tact that this wasn't a conversation they should be hearing. Applejack sat down, tensed up, and looked as though she were angrily holding back tears. Twilight tentatively came to sit in front of her.

"It was early in the morning, yesterday" Applejack said, sounding as though she had a sudden cough. "She... she came to the farm and... she weren't herself. She weren't Rainbow Dash" Twilight puzzled over this for a moment or two.

"In what way?" Twilight asked, wondering what on Equestria this meant. Applejack, still not looking at Twilight, began making distracted gestures to expound on what she was saying.

"She had her hair all... proper looking, like the kinda thing Rarity woulda set her heart on. She was talkin' all fancy like, reminded me of my auntie Orange, and for some reason ah couldn't touch upon, she had these little decor cupcakes" Twilight listened with mounting understanding. She knew of all of Rainbow Dash's activities, and the reason for why she performed them, but it had baffled her as to why following the advice of the book had failed. But now she thought she understood, and Applejack now confirmed her suspicion.
"She told me she loved me, but..."

"But you... don't love her back?" Twilight prompted. Applejack's head jerked upwards, and with the colour rushing back to her face, suddenly looked all alarm.

"No!" she exclaimed, but then seemed to realise how loud she had become again, and lowered her voice.
"No, ah... ah do" these words seemed to shock even her as she said them. She paused, a little smile twisting her lips, but then it vanished and she went on, looking as miserable as before "it's just... ah was afraid that if I said yes, then... she'd stay like that. That she would change" she ended, quietly.

"Change?" Twilight asked, looking confused. "How could Rainbow Dash ever change?"

"She had frou frou hair, cupcakes, and was talkin' like she was in the Big Apple" Applejack said in a deadpan voice, still cracked and strained.
"Y'all tell me how that ain't different" Twilight realised that she did have a point there.

"Guys!" Pinkie Pie yelled, popping up between them very suddenly. "Do you not hear me!?" she asked, grabbing Twilight's face and looking frantic.
"Dashie's done! You have to do it now!" she went on, pulling Applejack's shoulder and turning her around to face the cloud in the sky. The two ponies noticed for the first time, that the Dreamer had halted, and seemed to be conversing energetically in a low, rumbling voice. Even more surprising than this occurrence, was that Fluttershy was laughing, apparently quite amused at what he was saying to her. The cloud had now been effectively spun into what resembled the top of an ice-cream cone, and was hovering very low with Rainbow Dash holding it in place.
Applejack, pulling out a length of rope from somewhere, quickly lassoed the cloud with unerring aim, tugging around its middle so that it straightened out a bit. Twilight was impressed that she could manage it mere moments after such an emotional upheaval. She was, Twilight had always supposed, made of tougher stuff than that.
"Now, Twilight!" Pinkie yelled, excitedly.

"Now what?" Twilight asked, bemused.

"Quick, while Fluttershy has him distracted!"

"Quick, what!?" Twilight asked, irritably.

"Didn't I mention that bit?" Pinkie asked, blankly.

"Pinkie!" Twilight snapped.

"Turn it into a cupcake!"

"A cu-!?" Twilight began, but gave her head an impatient shake. There was no point arguing or inquiring about it; nothing would be achieved. Raising her horn up high, she concentrated her thoughts on the appropriate spell. With a flash of pink-purple light, there was a popping sound, and the cloud changed into a massive cupcake, pink icing, hundreds and thousands, and a cherry adorning its top. The cupcake fell to the ground, making no sound, but giving a bounce rather like a sponge would, right in the path of the Dreamer. The massive reptile, who had just been nodding wisely at something Fluttershy was saying, noticed the giant confection, and picked it up, looking interested. Fluttershy stopped speaking, and everypony watched once again with great expectation at the Dreamer. He gave a ponderous throaty noise, then bit into the cupcake with his sharp mouth. Everypony saw the wrinkles on his face strain, his eyes grow wider, and his back arch a little. After a painful silence, he gave a great spluttering cough, spraying a great shower of cake crumbs and spit over a wide arc in front of him. Twilight managed to erect a magical barrier around herself, but Pinkie, Applejack, and many of the guard ponies were drenched in white chunks of cake and tortoise slobber.

"Okay, you don't like it. Say it, don't spray it" Pinkie said, darkly, trying ineffectively to wipe the gunk out of her mane.

"Seriously" Applejack grumbled "No manners. Ah thought you said he was gentleman-like"

"My sincerest apologies" the Dreamer rumbled "But if I may be permitted to say, I believe there could have been a little more effort put into quality over quantity in that particular confection"

"Well no one did permit you" Twilight muttered, feeling stung. At that moment, the Dreamer gave a particularly loud groan, and everyone's hairs stood on end. Twilight's insides gave a writhe, and she knew, without knowing how she knew, that each and every pony there knew what was going to happen before it happened.  She saw Pinkie Pie turn her head slowly around to face the Dreamer, looking like an allegory of someone tragic and sad out of a horror novel. The world gave an enormous lurch, as though it were a creature trying to shrug something off of its shoulders, and everything froze: The Dreamer, Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, everyone seemed frozen in attitudes of half finished actions. Twilight saw all of this, feeling displaced from time, as though she were seeing it all from outside of reality. Then the strangest thing yet began to happen. The world turned beneath them, slowly at first, but then it accelerated, faster and faster, the hills and grass zoomed passed them, flowing like a giant, unending rug beneath their feet. Then it abruptly stopped.
The world had returned to its usual state of apparent stillness, but now somewhere entirely different. The moment the world had righted itself, Twilight felt herself unfreeze, and suddenly had the impression that something like an invisible wall had just slammed into her, jarring her senses and unsteadying her mind. She was brought back to her surroundings by a shout of surprise. Looking up, she saw Princess' Luna and Celestia, shock on both of their faces, as the world began to speed up again.

Twilight had no way of knowing how long she was trapped in that strange warp, all she knew was that at some point, she felt herself unfreeze once again, and braced for the feeling of hitting a hard surface. Panicked shouts, terrified cries, familiar voices; Twilight opened her eyes again, and realised that they had appeared on the outskirts of... Ponyville!

"No" Twilight gasped, her view of Ponyville swimming in front of her. She jumped as Fluttershy crashed with as much grace as anyone could crash, into the ground next to her, she too looking very dizzy and disorientated, but otherwise unharmed.
"No, not here" Twilight said, more loudly.

"Twilight Sparkle" Princess Celestia descended beside her, followed closely by Princess Luna. Several of her guards also followed, although most of those who had been transported along with them were all looking as equally out of it as Twilight felt. There came a great rumbling from above, the Dreamer clearing his throat.

"Oh dear..." he said, sounding as though he suddenly had a stomach bug. "That never did agree with me" like an old person with indigestion, he bent forward, one hand at his torso and the other at his brow, looking slightly dizzy.

"What happened?" Princess Luna asked, urgently "Why has he come here?"

"I don't know. We..." Twilight was having trouble collecting her thoughts. Pinkie Pie hopped onto the scene, her twitching and shudders renewed. Twilight sincerely hoped that the 'doozy' had nothing to do with the Dreamer, but these were not high hopes.

"We gave him a giant cupcake" she said, cheerfully. The Princess' looked taken aback, and then turned to Twilight, their expressions clearly expressive of desiring an explaantion.

"A giant cupcake?" Celestia asked, eyebrow raised. Twilight nodded, a little uncomfortably.

"Yes. I think that it would have worked, it was Pinkie's idea... only-"

"Only it tasted terrible" Pinkie said, pulling a floaty chunk of cake from nowhere and cramming it into her mouth.
"Soooo te'w'able" she said, her voice muffled and cake crumbs flying everywhere. Twilight and the two Princess' gave her identical wide stares for a moment or two, then Celestia cleared her throat.

"Quite. Well, we must stop him from entering Ponyville" she said, as they all felt the thunderous booms of the Dreamer's footsteps as he roamed closer to the town in search of interesting things. Below they saw the Ponies of Ponyville running and screaming in all directions. The scene was utter chaos and disorder, the kind of scene Discord might have found amusing had there been a few buildings moving about in the background.  To Twilight's horror, as the Dreamer drew closer, this actually began to happen. With a curious sensation like wearing something made out of the colour orange, the world gave an odd twist, and several of the outlying buildings of Ponyville raised themselves on thick, sharp legs like giant spiders, and began moving around.
"Or... any further in" Celestia amended. Luna took flight once again, heading for the town. Twilight pounded after her, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy all running after her, Rainbow Dash bringing up the rear as she had had to fly from some distance further back. As they all arrived into the town, they found Luna in the square, raised on her hind legs and calling out desperately to the surrounding ponies. Many ponies had stopped, and directed their frightened gazes at her.

"Citizens of Ponyville!" Luna called in a loud, impressive voice. "Please! You must move quickly and-" she got no further than this. The Dreamer gave a particularly loud stomp of his foot as he drew closer to the town, and Luna's words were lost in a flurry of screams.

"She brought that thing here!" one pony yelled over the clamour.

"It is her dread beast! Come to punish us!"

"No!" Luna cried over the screaming and accusations. "This is not my doing! Please, I'm trying to help!" at this point, Princess Celestia descended beside Luna. Twilight had pushed through the crowd to the two Princess' in the centre, Applejack and Pinkie Pie close behind her as Rainbow Dash made a path through the Pegasi, Fluttershy on her tail. Twilight stopped abruptly, feeling more shocked than she had at any revelation or surprise she had experienced that day. Princess Celestia looked angry. Not just cross, but genuinely, deeply vexed. In a voice louder and more commanding than any other, she raised a hoof, and a bright ray of sunlight fell down onto the square, dazzling the occupants. The Dreamer's footsteps halted momentarily.

"Citizens of Ponyville" she began. Every pony fell instantly quiet. "You will move quickly, and calmly, out of the town. Madam Mayor, you will lead them to the nearest safe point" the Mayor jumped primly to attention, looking somewhat afraid, not of the Dreamer or Luna, but of Celestia, whose forbidding gaze was aimed directly at her. Twilight found it extremely disconcerting how Celestia, who was all elegance and beauty, could come off so intimidating.
Luna looked dejected, her flowing mane the colour of the midnight sky actually drooping with sadness. Celestia turned to her, and seemed to be muttering encouragement, but Luna did not seem altogether cheered. There came a renewed crash of a footfall, and as they all looked around, they all felt the disagreeable sensation of the sound of leaves in a low wind smack them hard across the face. As they all recovered from this sensation, they heard the roar of flowing water, and looked aghast at a huge quantity of bright green water, like a green tinted river rushed through the town towards them. Pinkie screamed, Applejack gave a loud "Tarnation!" of shock, and Twilight felt her voice fail her.

"Come on!" Applejack yelled, trying to pull Twilight away, but in her stupefied state she was quite unequal to movement. Pinkie zoomed up to them, and began pushing her as well, but then gave a "whoop!" sound, as she was pulled unexpectedly into the air. Twilight shook herself from her state of awed horror, as she too was pulled magically into the air, and lowered softly on the roof of a building. She looked down at the approaching flood, and felt the building give a slight lurch as the green water slammed into it. The water didn't seem poisoned or contaminated, just tinted the wrong colour, as though whatever made water blue had suddenly decided that it should be green. None-the-less, Twilight felt no compulsion to touch or be touched by the water. As she looked into the square, she saw a stall full of cuddly toys get washed away by the strange water, and quite suddenly give a flash of bright red light, and explode into a flock of flamingos.
The two Princess' landed next to them all on the roof, and Twilight realised it had been them who had saved her and Pinkie. Applejack was set on her hooves not two second later, carried by Rainbow Dash; both of them were determinately avoiding each other's eyes.

"We have no choice" Luna said, sounding deeply troubled as the Dreamer loomed high over the town.
"I'm going to try to speak to him. At the very least, I might convince him to move away from here; away from the citizens"

"Will he listen, though?" Twilight asked. Luna frowned slightly.

"I do not know. But I have to try" she said. She spread her wings, and rose into the air. Celestia unfurled her own wings, and followed closely.

"Do not fear for us, Twilight Sparkle" Celestia said, looking back at them reassuringly. Twilight couldn't not fear for them; her insides writhed horribly as she watched them both rise up to the shadowy figure of the Dreamer, the sun hanging behind him like a halo, leaving his large, rounded head in total shadow. It terrified Twilight to see Celestia and Luna so small and bright, flying upwards into the great shadow of the colossus.

Luna came to a point level with the Dreamer's eye, keeping a respectful distance so that the elderly reptile could keep her in focus. The Dreamer groaned, and then caught sight of her. His face contorted slightly in concentration, and his eyes swivelled this way and that until he got her properly in focus. He looked rather annoyed still though, as though he had an ache somewhere he couldn't quite ease. He rumbled into speech.

"Please, my sincerest apologies, but I cannot talk at the moment. I have a mounting headache, you know" he said, pressing a massive set of rounded claws to his forehead, and rubbing at it gently.

"I ask" Luna said, clearly, but in a voice she hoped not loud enough that it would aggravate the Dreamer.
"That you please turn away from this place. You are causing suffering to the inhabitants here" the Dreamer made no reply but to give a pronounced groan, as though his headache were growing larger. Luna did not back down, but hovered with all the authority she could muster, frowning pointedly at the Dreamer. The Dreamer lowered his head slightly, still rubbing his forehead.

"Leave me be" he said curtly.

"I cannot. As Princess of these lands, I cannot allow you to continue spreading such magical chaos. Please, turn-" she got no further than this. Once again came a strange sensation of magic beginning. The world's light seemed to turn around, as though light were no longer coming from the sun, but that the world were shining light up at it. The sensation disappeared as quickly as it had come, but a bright green light appeared between Luna and the Dreamer. Luna had no time to react. Her eyes widened and her mouth opened, perhaps to say something, or to scream.
Twilight and her friends far below, all gasped. Twilight cried out "Princess!"

The moment seemed trapped in some perverse state of adrenaline-induced slowness, like the world were no longer able to keep up with event as they began to occur. The light expanded in front of the Princess of the Night, and Luna stared, terrified, as her sister appeared in front of her. A bright flash of white appeared in front of the green light, and the world drained of colour for the briefest moment. A loud bang, as though of thunder directly overhead, and the light slowly dimmed out. Every eye followed what happened next, but no pony could believe it. Twilight and her friends, Luna, the ponies of Ponyville outside of the town, even the Dreamer, all watched the figure of Princess Celestia, flying backwards, singed and ragged, her wings like a ruined mystical cloak. She fell, reality still working in its agonising sense of slow-motion, to the town below, and before anyone had a chance to act, even to speak, she smashed into the roof of a flooded house, and disappeared from sight

If there was sound after the sickening crash of splintered wood and canvas, then Twilight was unaware of it. To her, the entire world had fallen silent in disgust at what had just happened. In the distance, she could make out the ponies of Ponyville, like one immense, multicoloured creature with hundreds of staring eyes frozen on a hillside above the green waters. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, even Pinkie Pie had all fallen into a statuesque stillness, the colour drained from their faces.

"Princess..." Twilight squeaked, feeling two streaks of warmth falling down her cold face. The sound of the wind returned, slow at first, but then quicker and louder. All around, as though the world were recoiling from the event, everything returned to its natural state of time, and began to turn dark. Twilight looked up like someone in a dream, and saw that the sun had vanished. In its place, hanging like a giant, blank eye above them, was the moon, brighter and larger than Twilight had ever seen it. A growing sense of fear pumped through Twilight's veins like a living thing reaching out cold tendrils, as she heard a voice sound inside her head. As before, it seemed to reach her by some other means than her ears, but unlike before, it was now low, cold, and strong. It could have reached through stone and earth to reach its listener, broken iron and steel, and rend the minds of ponies to bleak insanity.

"You..." Luna breathed. Twilight continued to stare upwards. The moon was surrounded on all sides by a solid wall of black clouds that blended so perfectly with the sky that it looked as though there were no stars, just the huge, white surface of the moon.
"You-" Luna said louder, cold fury simmering in her voice. High above, Twilight saw her, her hair growing dark again, her mane had once again become the ephemeral mist of midnight sky twinkling with stars. Her eyes flashed white as the shadows all around began to judder and tremble, like living things tearing themselves from a surface, reaching out misshapen claws into the waking world.

"How DARE you!" Luna roared, as a great crack of thunder boomed, and a bone-white streak of lightning illuminated the darkened world around them.


- to be continued
Good grief, too much homework I should be doing right now, only one or two chapters to go I should think


Part Five: [link]

Part Seven: [link]


Characters except for the Dreamer: Hasbro

Story and the Dreamer: Daniel-Gleebits
© 2011 - 2024 Daniel-Gleebits
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Need ending! =T_T=