After my talk with Luna I went back to the cottage where I turned in for the night. Again I was brought to the dream realm watching Fluttershy’s worst fears be realized as I saw the dream version of me be dragged off by Luna and Luna scolding Fluttershy for allowing me stay with her I sat there for awhile before I decided I'd had enough and banished the nightmare from Fluttershy’s dreamscape.
“Fluttershy you really need to get a hold of yourself.” I said as the dream fell apart around me. “I can't sleep with nightmares infesting themselves into the dreams of the ponies that I care about.”
“I know I just can never stop thinking about the worst case scenario. It's just I can't bear losing you after all you are family to me screwball it may not seem it but I can't help feeling that losing you would make me lose a part of me”. She said as she grabbed me in a hug.
“it's alright just relax I talked to Luna tonight she has no plans on sending me back unless I fuck up”. I say to settle her nerves
“speaking of Luna she should be here by now I'm going to go find her I'll be back later if I don't come back by the end of the night I'll see you in the morning.” and with that I left.
I searched the dream realm for awhile before I stumbled upon a subconscious I'd never seen before so I entered, to my dismay it was the realm of my mother's dreams and it was a wreck, the world was a crumbled version of equestria mixed in with some sci-fi fantasy shit and in the middle of it a flag I never thought I'd see in my life the new Lunar republic flag.
I saw Luna off in the distance crumpled up on the ground injured. I rushed over to her to see if there was anything I could do to help her out.
“Mother how did this happen.” I asked her.
“The Tantabus has attacked me a demon of my own creation to punish me for my crimes against the ponies as nightmare moon.” weakly replied Luna.
“Why must you punish yourself for normal pony emotions going a little to far, you should talk your emotions out with a professional not turn to self harm.” I inquired.
“Because no professional understands my regret and my fear.” Luna retorted as she slowly raised herself up from the broken street.
“I get that but damaging yourself doesn't help solve the problem, what if canterlot was invaded while you are in this weakened state you'd never be able to defend the city and celestia isn't up at this time do you think that a problem like that can be solved by just a few guards no it needs someone powerful enough to save us and you're one of the most powerful ponies in this world.” I defended “ I will take care of the tantabus for you and weaken it to a state that would be easy to contain you're on your own after that I'll restore some energy for you but in the end you make the call, but I highly recommend you get rid of this fiend once and for all.” As I finish I run away to find this tantabus.
When I reach this monstrosity I realize it's actually not bad looking on other circumstances I would have preserved such a creature but it had been allowed to gain too much control too much strength it had to go with that I let out a burst of energy that shrunk it down to the size of a hoof and put a beacon spell on it so that way those who enter this dream realm will always know where the tantabus resides. Then I flew back to Luna.
“Now mother I have a question for you why am I not an alicorn seeing how I am the spawn of you and the most powerful chaos god I know.” I curiously asked remembering my train of thoughts from last night.
“The answer to that my dear is simple I sealed your powers the day you were born I could not control your magical outbursts at the time nor could you contain them now the power you possess will one day surpass mine and discord’s but for now you power is just being slowly released from the bonds it is contained in that's why you aren't alicorn your starting from the base and working your way up. This is also the reason you may run out of energy so quickly you have yet to unlock your full potential because of this once you're body can fully handle this power without lashing out in bursts of uncontrolled magic you will probably revert into your true form but your body can't handle the power yet.” Luna explained.
“So I will slowly gain the magic of Pegasus and unicorn as my control of my power increases but for now I'm at the earth pony stage because their magic is the easiest to contain.” I confirmed.
“Exactly now I believe you have a day to start and an eventful day for you is about begin.” Luna said as she forced me to wake from her dream realm.
I woke with a start pondering what she had said about me working up from an earth pony to an alicorn ‘ I can handle them individually why wouldn't I be able to control them all at once how much power could I possibly possess what if I just broke the binding a little bit’ I shook the thought I couldn't risk it the way she was talking my power might level ponyville if I'm not careful I'll wait for it for the most part plus I might be able to control the regular form of a Pegasus and unicorn but they have much lower supplies of magic than alicorns and chaos gods.
“Screwball breakfast.” Is the only words that broke me out of my train of thoughts.