One Way Trip

by SoulSpirit


Princess, Canterlot, and the dream again

“Princess!” Twilight approached  Luna and performed a respectful bow.

I wondered, Is it wrong of me to not feel guilty of now bowing?

“You requested my attention?” I asked with a deadpan expression.

“We have urgent business to discuss, ” she said.

“We? Does this involve Celestia too?” It was only after I finished the question did I realize how taboo the question sounded.

“We still speak old equestrian,” she replied.  It made sense and after I processed it, the language someone seemed familiar to me.

“Enough, we require you to come back to Canterlot with us at once, Luna commanded.  

What I said next surprised the princess, librarian, and dragon alike: “No.”

“You shall,” Luna commanded.

“Maybe ‘no’  wasn’t what I exactly meant,” I replied, with a hint of humility in my voice.

“What does thy mean?”

“Why?”

Luna paused, then smiled, “It’s been over a thousand years since we encountered one as bold as thee. Very well then, it’s about thy dream.”

“How do you know about that? The only pony I’ve told of it is Twilight here and she barely convinced me to tell her,” I responded, confused and slightly betrayed.

“We entered the dream, remember?”

I stood their, staring, mouth open. What the fuck? I now turned to Twilight,”From what Celestia has told me, you’re smart and good at giving explanations. So please, explain. How?”

Twilight obliged: “To make it simple and quick, alicorns possess magical power that far exceed any other magical being. But they also have a domain, a specialty over which they rule, if you will. Celestia controlled the sun and moon, but has now bestowed control of the moon to Luna. Luna rules the night along the dream realm.”

Damn, she really is good with explanations.

I replied, “That’s all I need to understand that, but why concern yourself with somepony such as me, let alone the silly little dream I had? Honestly, I didn’t expect you to over worry like Twilight over such an insignificant little thing.”

“It is not!” both Luna and Twilight declared in almost perfect sync.

I smirked, “Only if Twilight comes.”

“Thee have no power or right to demand anything of us!” Luna shouted in the royal Canterlot voice I once heard Celestia use. She quickly calmed down and started to look intrigued, “amuse us. Tell why thee would ask of this.”

“I don’t know if I will be coming back,” I looked over my shoulder to Twilight. “ She owes me some magic lessons.”


I came along, but not without being promised I could choose whoever I wanted to give me my magic lessons. I didn’t have to choose immediately, though. I didn’t tell Luna  that I was considering either her or Celestia for these lessons. I had multiple reasons for this. Most importantly, I didn’t want anyone else to learn about my current situation, at least just not yet. A small part of me also was considering choosing them as little payback for dragging my ass back and forth across Equestria without advance notice.

Luna and I were still making our way to Canterlot on a flying carriage being pulled by her personal guard-- the lunar guard. They are in appearance the negative of the solar guard. They are notable for their black coats, dark blue eyes with a black slit in the middle for the pupil, leathery bat like wings as if they are a pegasus, and black armor with a crescent moon. Luna explained that the armor for both the solar and lunar guard are enchanted to make them look identical, meant for confidentiality. Makes sense, I wouldn’t want the enemy to find out who I am, where I live and kill me in my sleep. Although I was curious, after my earlier outburst, I didn’t dare question why they are only male guard.  That query would have to wait for another time.

“Sorry for giving you shit earlier. I am not to sure why I did, I said to Luna.

“It actually felt kinda refreshing in a way,” she smiled back.  

My confusion being painfully obvious: “Excuse me?”

“It’s just like our sister told us. It feels nice to be treated equally instead of like royalty sometimes,” Luna explained.

“Must be  pain in the ass really. It didn’t feel quite right to me when Celestia’s messenger kept calling me ‘Sir’,” I replied

“It is, Luna sighed.  We spent the rest of our journey in silence.  


After pulling a few maneuvers, the guard slowly came to  a land in a private sector of the castle grounds.

“I don’t know how, but  that flight was somewhat refreshing for the mind. Don’t you agree, Luna?” I called over my shoulder, making my way to retreat from the platform.

“We most certainly do,” answered Luna.

“To the throne room?” I wasn’t  looking a her as I asked this. My eyes were busy adoring the night sky. Sparkling white gems cascading across the decelent black plane of space, contrasting with the bright crescent moon.

Luns shook her head, “No. we shall be going to our chambers. This is a private matter and our sister is already asleep.”

A tiny window of fun just presented itself.

“You know, what you just said could be taken the wrong way by everypony else here if you know what I mean.” Turning my eyes over to see Luna’s face as I finished saying that. Despite her coat being dark blue, nearly black, I can still see her face go red as she got flustered.

Score! Mental celebration going on.

Unfortunately for me though, she quickly recovered. How boring!


After a short walk, we found ourselves right in front of Luna’s personal chambers. I don’t know how, but through my horn, I could feel an intense power coming from this room. I followed in right behind Luna closely as she led me into her chambers. The colors of her room were gorgeous, ranging in a variety of shades of black and blue. It almost felt like she mad the whole night sky in here before she pu-

“SLEEP!” Followed by a flash, then nothing.


There I was, standing in the unfortunately familiar morphed, checkered plane. Standing before a shapeless figure. I could feel a sense of confidence manifesting within me.

Gotta admit, I looked well prepared for a fight.

Wait, am I seeing my self? I questioned. I must be dreaming. I’m not going to complain though, this is by far the most intriguing one yet.

I saw myself standing there with many filled weapon holsters and sheaths wrapped around various parts of my body. It even looked a little epic, I even have a tattered clock, white as holy light, and the ripped edges were smoldering with a glowing blue and gold. My weaponry consisted of two sets of twin swords, each hoisted of both sides of my barrel, a shield with an emblem of some kind, a chakram on both shoulders hanging firmly on their hooks. Snug around each leg were two sets (each) of hoisted daggers, fore on each, and throwing knifes, twelve on each leg.

“Shit! That’s badass.” I admitted. Then the dream sorta paused like a video. “Wait, I didn’t do that.”

“Because we did.” Luna said, approaching from behind. She made me jump a tad bit on the inside. “And we admit, thou does look quite heroic.” She paused before continuing. “And more lethal than most other warriors we’ve seen in our life.” The dream resumed as Luna finished speaking, but the dream me and the shapeless figure continued to do nothing but stand there as a hated, but familiar, voice took over the conversation.

“Lulu! I’m trying to give our off world friend here a sporting chance and here you go interrupting. How rude!” Declared the voice. *Snap!*. Then there she was, seated in a dream replica of her and Celestia’s throne, and her muzzle literally zipped closed. “You can talk to him when he and I are done, and we almost are. I only need to tell him my reminder then I am out! We shall meet on the field of battle, you with weapon at hoof. There we shall fight to determine fate itself. I would recommend starting training right away.”

*Poof!*

Luna came rushing to meet me from where she was seated, her muzzle back to normal, rather quickly. “We knew it was no dream.” Declared Luna, looking panicked.

“Friend of yours?” I deadpanned.

“An old enemy of ours and our sister. He goes by the name Discord. He is the Spirit of chaos itself. His history is not a pretty one. How is your magic control?”

“I don’t even know how to activate it,.” I conceded with some embarrassment.

“That is bad indeed. You must choose your teacher now.”

“If I tell you who, you have to make it happen,” I said, luring her into my amusing plan.

“Fine! Who?” She demanded.

I smirked, “Twilight Sparkle.”

Luna sighed, “We should have seen that coming.”