“Press please,” Doctor Stead Beat ordered, the earth pony having his hoof firmly on my left wing.
I tried to do as he ordered and my wing semi responded. Twitching once and then pressing against his hoof, slowly pushing him back.
A day since I woke up, most of that had been spend just sleeping but the wings were starting to respond and do what I wanted them to.
Sometimes. If I was lucky. Mostly they just did their own thing.
Nodding to himself, the Earth Pony picked up his notepad and scribbled something down with the quill held in his mouth, “Thank you, your highness,” he said around it.
I cringed at that, “None of that, I'm not any higher rank than I was a week ago, doc.”
He just raised an eyebrow at me and I sighed, folding my wings again.
“...If you have to, sir is sufficient. But I have a name you know.”
“I'm well aware, sir,” He easily agreed, “Well, as far as I can tell you are a healthy alicorn. Though to be fair, the only baseline of a new alicorn I have examined is Princess Twilight Sparkle. But as far as I can tell, you are adapting well. Just one more test if you please.”
At my nod, he exited the room and then pushed a cart in with a machine on top into the bedroom. One I recognized from when I first arrived in Equestria. It was a magic strength meter.
Basically, a heavy pressurized and reinforced rubber balloon attached to a pressure gauge. You squeezed at it with your magic and the meter went up and from that they calculated your magical strength.
There were more accurate methods because not all unicorns had the same kind of talent for telekinesis but it was often good enough and it was a hell of a lot faster than the other ones.
He reached up and adjusted it before he nodded at me, “Squeeze, please.”
Nodding I walked up and wrapped my magic around the sphere before I poured on the power and squeezed as hard as I could. I held for several moments as hard as I could before I let go.
Steady Beat frowned at the meter and then at his notes before he looked over at me, “As hard as you can, sir.”
I blinked at him, “I did,” I said but tried again, gritting my teeth in effort before I let go.
He frowned and then looked over at Luna where she was lounging on the bed, “Your Highness, if you would? I think it may be broken.”
Luna hmmed and jumped off the bed, making her way over before her horn lit up and she slowly and calmly crushed the rubber sphere until the meter reached the red line before letting go. She didn't even look like she was exerting herself, “It seems to be working, doctor.”
I flicked my ears and looked between Luna and the machine, “How did I do, doc?”
“About twice as much as when you tried last according to your journal. But that was when you first arrived in Equestria, just before you first left the hospital. I would say over fifty percent of that could be accounted for simply by getting used to your magic.”
Steady Beat was one of the few ponies in existence that knew my origins.
I frowned at the rubber sphere at that. That's odd. You would think becoming a gorram Alicorn would increase your magical strength. At least that was my understanding.
Luna nodded, “Thank you, Doctor,” she said with a smile, “we will take it from here.”
“Of course, Princess,” he said and bowed to her before he bowed to me as well before turning to leave.
“That's odd,” I finally said, glancing up at my horn, “am I broken?”
Luna smiled and nuzzled, “I actually had some theories about it already. I thought something like this might happen.”
I frowned up at her, “You did?”
“Mmm,” She agreed, “Two. One is that most of the magical surge that caused your ascension belonged to other ponies. Once it was done, it moved on and returned to their owners.”
I tapped my hoof against the floor in thought and slowly nodded, “I guess that kinda make sense.”
“That is one possibility. Another is that your realm is not well aligned with that sort of thing,” Luna explained, “The same reason as why my sister for all her power is almost completely unable to learn dream magic. It is too far from her realm.”
Now that was a strange thought. I had a realm of power now. Whatever now that was.
“So what is it you can't do?”
Luna smiled and nosed at my ear, “Firemagic. I can barely cause enough of a spark to start a campfire. Also, Chloromancy. Can't do it at all. Earth pony magic or not, I just can't affect plantlife directly.”
Turning my head I looked back at my mark before I turned to look up at Luna, “Well, easy to test. Bed?”
That got a brilliant grin from her, “I think that's more Cadance's realm.”
I blushed softly.
One, not what I meant.
Two, Shining Armor was one lucky bastard.
I poked her with my hoof, “Dreams. Not that,” I said before I continued with a grin, “Maybe later.”
She stuck her tongue out at me and lead the way to the bed. I settled down and closed my eyes before opening them again in a big white chamber.
Exactly like I wanted it to be. It took a moment and then Luna walked in through the doors as they slid open before closing behind her.
She looked around in slight surprise, taking in the large red button on the floor and the large 01 on the wall.
“Welcome to dream testing chamber zero one. Testing will begin in three, two, ooooo...” The voice was cut off in a crackle of static.
She flicked her ears at the sudden voice before making her way over to me, “Page?”
I shrugged my wings, “Seemed fitting.” was all I said with a smile.
Luna tilted her head in question before she shook her head, dismissing it, “I'll change the dream, you resist.”
“Very well.”
Her horn lit up and put her considerable magical weight and ability to shift reality around us. Her magic had felt like an ocean pressing down at me once. It was still heavy and a real struggle, but I could keep things steady.
Luna's eyes widened in surprise at me before she frowned and redoubled her efforts, her horn lighting up and her mane darkening like the night sky in effort. This time to collapse the dream and wake us up. I just looked at her, feeling her effort and magic and... wow. I wouldn't call it anywhere near easy, but I had power to pour into it now.
I could hold her off in here.
Slowly letting up the pressure, Luna looked down at me before she smiled, “I guess this only confirms what I already knew,” she said after a moment as she moved closer until her nose almost touched mine.
I smiled up at her, “Oh?”
“You're the stallion of my dreams,” she murmured before she kissed me.
So corny, so awesome.
Shame on you, Page! Stolen your marefriends domain.
Not sure whether to read in GLaDOS's voice, or Cave Johnson's.
God damn it Luna.....
so he can do what he want in dreams .... AWESOME
Luna your such a tease and corny
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he doesn t steal her domain because her domain his the night in general ( night sky , moon and dreams) . her power is not specialized on dreams .
Page on the other hoof is specialized on stories and like they said what is a dream if not a story ?
He is able to learn some combat magic right? Perhaps, recreate spells or attacks from other manga/fictions. Kinda like dreaming those moves.
Really
Yep
Hahahahah....
This should also help with his combat magic...
7405352 Hey as long as it's not Wheatley we should be okay... I think... maybe... Page might want to make potatoes illegal and fast....
And people were scared that Page would become to powerful. So what is Pages realm?
Dreaming? Hmmmm... Prince Blank Page the prince of Dreams. Hmm two guardians of dreams....I like it good job Hiver.
And that ending so god damn corny/cheesy and I loved it!
-BFBL
...!!! Crazy story idea for Page to write, inspired by 7405352 and 7405416, Portal and Portal 2 ponified!!!
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7405450 It's not the sort of thing that works as a book. Portal is all about the puzzles, which you can't properly show in a book.
D'aww
Fortunately being friends to a pun fiend, I am inured against the excessive amount of pain such a terrible pun would engender.
Doesn't mean it don't sting, though. A water balloon has your name on it, author.
Corny as a field of corn but sweet as honey
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... Is there a reason his coat keeps getting more red with each image? First two stories had him with a brown coat... And I'm pretty sure you've drawn then all.
*edit* It's more clear on my desktop computer as brown than my phone, but the phone had it with a red hue for some reason. Great image by the way.
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But, I bet it would make a good interactive dream for somepony else. That's the kind of gift you'd do for somepony like Swift Spear to try and get back in his good graces.
Once again the ability of Hiver to write a truly corny turn of frase without it turning into corn surup is shown.
Luna's dialog is funny.
It's like her entire accent is now one giant orgasm.
Oh gods Luna, any more corniness and you're getting spontaneously moustached!
7405742 Yeah but that just worked to say Page is now the ruler of dreams. She gets a pass!
7405614 i see him as an amber brown. The first pics I did were hand drawn, the cover and the last one are digitally painted.
Might wanna check your resolution, might be me, but I see that unmistakably as brown. Course this could be a blue dress white dress thing.
Thanks!
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So Pages affinity has to do with creativity and imagination, that is interesting. I wander if he can have the power to inspirer creativity in others and that his own writing skill , and when he faced Tirek he was living his own adventures that has written and be the hero of his on epic story facing an evil enemy, against impossible odds he overcoming him even when he could have runaway anytime he wanted to, and his example can serve to inspire acts of heroism in others for future generations. I think that in that moment he was perfectly in line with his cutie mark and was what allowed him to ascend because it.
7405813 That's not the way it is in this story. Just the first story took up more than a year of time. I distinctly recall an error 404 joke in regards to the number of days Page had spent in Equestria at that point, and that was 2 stories ago.
7405493 Hmm... I guess you're right...
Yup. The whole entire trilogy for that one pun
7405453 Ohhh!! this pick should be posted at the end of the chapter where he wakes up and realizes the wings.
Very well drawn.
So much cheesiness.
So damn good!
Imagination and Creativity covers A Lot, and I meant A Lot of things. And he seems to be the alicorn of said domain...
He might not be straight up leading-the-charge-on-the-frontline kind of guy, but he can make said frontline charge successful.
This metaphor seems odd, but it works.
Well, most relationship are cheesy when no one is looking. It is one of the proffs that a relationship is stable is that the people in it can be silly with each other. People often try to protray couples as always being romantic but in my experiance it is the ones that can have fun together that can have the truly stable long term relationships. Evidece my grandparents that are in there 70 and have been maried for over 54 years. Yes they got maried when they were 16.
7406839 Thank yah
I like it, but if it is just dreams, it seems a bit unfair he just gets a rehash of what his marefriend already can do tremendously well. I mean, Luna's last line even says "my dreams", as if a double entenre that dreams are her domain. Hope he gets some unique pegasus/earth pony abilities. Maybe he'll be really good at cloud manipulation? Seems like a 'creative' discipline. He could also get some 'innovator' abilities.
If his realm is creativity/imagination, I have trouble understanding how he wouldn't get a magic boost. I mean, magic is often described as imposing your will on reality. I guess pony magic works differently.
I want to know how the heck Luna ascended. Her origin story in this has her as a pegasus, so I guess you could say she was originally good at nighttime operations, but... moving from that to controlling the moon? Who controlled it before her? How did both she and her sister ascend at the same time? It all seems a bit iffy.
Okay I just wanna list the horrible consequences of what this means:
1. Discord won't be fully reformed.
2. The box will never be opened.
3. Twilight will never find her purpose as Princess of Friendship.
4. There will be no castle or Map.
5. Starlight's Village will continue to thrive.
Among other things.
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Upsides? Starlight doesn't rape the timeline, and Thorax doesn't make the changeling race hideous.
Fuck
7922014 I know it's rather late, but if I remember correctly, Cadence was originally a Pegasus as well. Wish we knew how she got her powers in Canon, but obviously it can happen
Facehoof. That pun was terrible.
That pun at the end had soo much cheese, Twilight should be terrified of it! It also had enough corny-ness to be worth of the Great Cornholio (and perhaps finally give him that TP for his bunghole). Insert "children of the corn" joke here. That pun had all the subtlety of an alien leaving weird marks in a man's corn field.
I declare myself the king of pointless corn puns. So take that, and shove it up your corn hole... or something.
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My bunghole will not wait!
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Cave Johnsons of course!
Testing chamber created by Cave Johnson's cousin, Magic Johnson.
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Don't be silly. Dreams aren't her domain. Protecting foals is her domain. Stopping nightmares just happens to be a part of it.
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just got around to reading the comments here. Aren't all ponies in stable relationships?
Booo, alright so it seems he won't get much of an upgrade strenghtwise, I hope he learns to use his wings, and at least has a decent powerup magicwise.
*Sigh*Damn it, I both hate and love that last pun.