The wind howled outside in a snowstorm that brought visibility down to something like three hooves, but that was alright with me as I was sitting in a comfortable armchair close to a crackling fireplace while sipping a big cup of steaming hot tea.
Luna was laying across the chair across from mine, a book floating before her. She looked relaxed. I liked that, usually she was thinking of something or working on something.
Getting her to take an night off was rare… and I hadn’t managed it today either, but I did help her with the paperwork to get her half a night off.
...Which sadly meant that we only got a couple of hours before I needed to go to bed and get to work.
But it was worth it to give her some time off.
Finishing my tea, I slipped off the chair and put the cup on the table, crossing over to her. She looked up from her book,
“Going to bed?” She asked.
I nodded and moved in to give her a small kiss, “Yeah, getting to that time,” I agreed, “Somepony needs to make sure that the Nightmare population stays low.”
Luna smiled and nodded, giving me a small nuzzle, “I’ll join you in a bit for a sweep of the foals dreams.”
We had mostly split it up like that. Luna liked to help ponies and she really enjoyed helping foals, so we had split it up. She did foals dreams and I handled the adults.
It worked well, let her spend more time on each one that needed her and I hunted Nightmares. Foals rarely generated a Nightmare, they mostly came from adult ponies… but they sure loved to eat the dreams of foals.
I knocked them down before they got strong enough to do so and if they somehow got past me, they had to deal with Luna.
Those poor, poor bastards.
I nodded, “Good night, My Sky,” I said and then headed into the bedroom.
“Good Night, My Page. And good hunting.”
I winked at her and then trotted inside and jumped onto the bed. This was the worst thing with our staggered sleep schedules. When Sunset was here, she was deep asleep long before I went to bed. Luna went to bed at least five hours after me.
I really missed going to sleep or waking up with her. Or with Sunset. It was all staggered, but sadly it was the best compromise we had come up with.
Just because it was the best didn’t mean I liked it though.
Settling down, I closed my eyes and shifted my wings, getting comfortable before I sighed and cast a quick sleeping spell, sending me off to the dream realm. If I didn’t, my brain would just keep whirling and thinking about all the problems I had to handle until I finally fell asleep an hour later.
I didn’t have time for that.
The dream realm formed around me, sparkling stars all around as I took a deep breath and spread my wings, stretching for a second.
Okay then, let’s get to work.
I filtered through the dreams, sending all the nice and neutral ones away leaving me with the bad ones. The dark whirling portals appeared before me.
Hundreds. Thousands.
Oh well, let’s get to work.
At least I had a quick way of doing it, I didn’t need to enter every dream to look, just touch my horn to it and check before canceling the bad dream and sending the now clear silvery portal on it’s way, it’s occupant now dreaming peacefully.
Even so, luckily dream speed was dream speed or I’d still be at it for days.
But dreams moved at their own speed and-
I paused and blinked as the next portal appeared before me. Midnight. Her dream portal was a dark, dark silvery shimmer, almost whirling.
Not a sign of a Nightmare, but… she was having a bad dream. A bad, bad dream. Of the wake up screaming kind.
I couldn’t just cancel it and leave it at that. She had been through enough already, I wanted to help her if I could.
So I touched my horn to her dreamportal and stepped through the pitch black and whirling silvery surface.
2 chapters in one day? Hiver, you are spoiling us. Thank you.
I have really strong feeling about theme of Midnight's nightmare. Poor girl, fear of losing home and close ones forever is terrifing.
Nightmares be warned. Luna has no mercy to those who dare harm a Foal's dream and has a wrath that makes the Doom Slayer proud!
The whole talk about dreams reminded me about Tantabus and I don't remember Luna creating it/her in this world
Can't Luna create Tantabus as their child, foal in a way to help with dreams and nightmares?
🎶Into the Great Wide Open!🎶
And when Blank Page enters Midnight's bad dream, Que Megalovania https://youtu.be/dy6YawDDGRM
It is the Witching hour.
happy for more chapter's XD
She's either dreamer of that or about how everything in her world is on fire with a missing piece of the Elements of Harmony.
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The tone is so different that it was clearly a coincidence, and yet two Undertale references.
Dont Page used to use Nightmares as energy drink alternative? Or do i mix up storys...
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I was about to contradict you so hard the servers might suffer a meltdown from a sick burn... Than i remembered i mixed up storys... Damn...
This story need some more lore
This storyline and 'Off the Mark' are the best on Fimfiction at the moment ♡
Discord: Oh Cadance~! I just used my bootleg dream-walking ability and noticed some Midnight Sparkle activity alongside Page! Let's get to work Senpa--Shining Armor? What's wrong?
*Shining stops knocking on the bedroom door*
Shining Armor: Cadance is refusing to come out. Apparently some...creature...informed her that she hasn't accomplished anything and her life is a running joke.
*pathetic crying heard from the other side*
Discord: Oh yeah that did happen didn't it? There's nothing with being a running joke...look at my existence! Plus there's only so much she can do considering Hiver's update schedule. She shouldn't take that...creature's...opinion so seriously.
Shining Armor: Well she is so can you help me with this? Page's nonsense can wait.
Discord: *sigh* Ok then...as Cadance's second husbando...
Shining Armor: EXCUSE YOU?!
Discord: ...I will help our crystal ship junkie of a wife! Besides it's not like Hiver will do any interesting in the next chapter or two!
*Activating hopeful foreshadowing...pretty please??*
Why do I feel Herma Mora's tentacles writhing in the distance? It would make sense considering what came out of the portal, but let's hope for something else. I don't want Midnight's world to be turned into apocrypha. Though that might be a possible outcome if twilight didn't make friends and staued holed away studying, addicted to the feeling of learning.
Ok.. after someone mentioned it. What if they did get the portal to the right place? O.o
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Yes. But that would be far less funny than poor Page writing something as awful as Twilight.
Thanks for the new chapter! Looking forward to the update!
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*Reality tearing *
???: "D̵̦̤́̍i̵̭̍š̵͕c̷̞͌̃͝o̶̡̫̺͔̾͗r̸̻͑̂̀d̷̥͔̃ͅ ̶̠̖̮̫̀s̸̏͒͒͜t̵̙͉̗̆͗̓̚ǫ̴̹͉̞͐̀̚p̴̡̣̈̀̔ ̷̻̊ŝ̵̡̡̭̻̈́ë̴̡̲̮͚̎͊͂n̶̥̠̳̉̅ͅd̴̜͛́̄ĩ̸̠̫͓̃̕͝n̷̞͇͍̤̑͒g̷̳͇͆͗̃͜ ̶͇̳̊͠m̷̗͔̹͠e̵̼̝̓̑̈́͝ ̵̧̱̙̮͝C̵̲̎a̴̩͎͕͗̔d̴͍͓̾̓͋͝ͅè̶̱̯͖̋n̴̩͝c̴̦͗ě̴̦͗̕͝'̸̟͋͌̀̕ṣ̴̡͖̗̈͘ ̴̰̭̠̔̓̆l̸͔̣͗̒͂͋e̵̢̦̮̘̽̅ẅ̶͉́͋̕d̶̟̠̈ ̷̝̯̩́̀̇p̵͉̈́̿h̵̲̟͖̊̊̾̇ͅo̵͚̍t̴̜̬̹̽̀́̎o̶͙̾̌s̸͔͍̫̙̽́̄̀.̷̟̊͒͘
̵̣͛̾̈́Y̷̳̓͌ͅő̵̧̮͕̘ű̴͙͈̙̣͝ ̸̛̩̏̒̚w̸̭̹̳͍̌̈́ó̵̝̃̓̀n̴̺̒̆͐̈͜'̴̼͈̦̦̎́́͘t̴̢̢̙̥͆̌ ̷̟͒̈́͋b̴̢̲͓̮̆̅̍̂r̴̼̭͒ͅį̵̒͌̚b̸̡͇̞̔̐͋e̵̛̱̙̖̅͆ ̵̳̀̎̈́͊m̸̅̒̐̉ͅé̴͕͂̈́̓ ̵̪͙̟̫͛̏͝͝ẅ̶̦̣́͘͠i̸̲̫̩̼͂̽t̴͔̪̻̫̏ĥ̶̡̗̉̚ ̶̆̄̐̒ͅṯ̵̳͖̽̕h̴̰̤̉ḛ̷̀͐͋͘s̵͓͓͐͒ē̷̡̤͖̲͒̄!"
*From the tear, in reality, falls out not so small stack of photos*
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???: "E̴̪͓͖̦͌v̵͙̰̇̓e̵̹͐̔n̵̺̾͐ ̴̣̗͚̣̃t̷͙̟͛ḧ̸̖̥̳͈̂o̷͈̫͊ư̸͉͍̈g̶̜̯̝͐̇̓̕h̴͍͍͒ ̵̛͇̲͛̎̈t̸̤̬͓̒̂͑̚ḩ̴̒̽̉e̶̗͎͎̍͑͝y̷̺̲̫̞̎ ̵͉̤̳̓̈̈́̎a̵̛̫͈r̷̯͂e̷͚̭̱̮͛͝ ̶̫̪̺̈͌ĝ̴̦̠̒̊͛o̸̩͐̾̓o̸̺͇̓̓̓d̷̢͑͆.̸͈̰͖̆"
*Sewing of reality*
* Shining goes over to the photos, while doing so looks at Discord then at the stack of lewds*
Shining Armor: "Where.....when did yo-HEY THESE ARE FROM MY COLLECTION!"
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Shining Armor: "What? It was one of my birthday presents"
Maybe talk to Starlight about coming up with some kind of time-displacey enchantment that can set the bedroom into its own little bubble of psuedo-timey-wimeyness so that when you walk in, it's always just as the others walk in, and when you all walk out after sleep, you're all deposited outside at the correct time for your various shifts.
Because what good is magic if you can't use ridiculously gratuitous amounts of it to solve minor personal inconveniences?!
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Damn fine points!
Watch him walk right into tentacle porn. LOL
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Amen.
Blank Page and Luna should catch and tame a Nightmare Parasite, maybe they can train it into becoming a cannibal and lighten the load of the two dream walker!
Blank Page to the dream rescue!
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I note this down, a great idea for one of my stories.
The comment section is a goldmine in ideas and entertaining reading material.