The Moon Student and the Sun Student

by Twilight Star


The next day…

Twilight Sparkle woke up with the sun on her face, she opened her eyes with a smile before getting up and grabbing some books to read. After all, she didn’t want to disappoint Celestia, she wanted to be the best student Celestia ever had. She put the books on the bed and began to read them. After two hours of reading, she heard a knock on the door, “Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are waiting for you for breakfast”, said Celestia’s guard.

 Twilight Sparkle sighed, maybe she could continue with her reading after the meal.


 Twilight Sparkle opened the door to the dining room and saw that Celestia and Luna were on the table, except Sunset Shimmer that hasn’t appeared yet, Twilight Sparkle felt proud of herself, she arrived before Sunset Shimmer, Surely Celestia would be proud, She came over and sat down next to Celestia, “oh, good morning, my student”, greeted Celestia with a smile.

 “Good morning, princess”, said Twilight Sparkle.

 “Where’s Sunset Shimmer?” asked Luna.

 As if to answer, Sunset Shimmer appeared in the door, sleep present on her face, “I’m sorry, princess, but-” yawned Sunset Shimmer. “I stayed up late last night and didn’t sleep as much as I should have, sorry”

 Luna smiled, “no problem, Sunset, I’m glad you enjoy my night”

 Sunset Shimmer went up to Luna to sit next to her, “what will have for breakfast?” asked Sunset Shimmer.

 “Pancakes!” replied Celestia cheerfully before giving pancakes with faces to each one who was at the table with her magic.

 Luna looked at her pancake, “That sounds good, sister”, said Luna with a smile as she stared at her pancake.

  “My pancake has a smile”, said Sunset Shimmer staring at her pancake.

  Luna looked at the pancake at Sunset Shimmer, “Yeah”

 “Do you always make pancakes for your sister, princess?” asked Twilight Sparkle looking at Celestia.

 “Yes, Twilight”, replied Celestia.

 “That’s very sweet of you”, said Twilight Sparkle with a smile.

 Sunset Shimmer swallowed a slice of the pancake before looking at Luna and asking, “Not wanting to be rude, princess, but when will our lessons begin?”

 “Today”, replied Luna.

 “Are you going to teach us the spells, princess?” asked Twilight Sparkle with a hopeful smile as she looked at Celestia.

 “Yes, I’m going to teach you and Luna’s going to teach Sunset Shimmer”, replied Celestia.

 Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer started jumping of joy. Celestia and Luna couldn’t stop thinking that their students remembered them much when they were fillies.


 Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Luna and Celestia had all finished eating, and they were in the castle garden for their classes. Twilight Sparkle was with Celestia on one side of the garden while Sunset Shimmer and Luna on the other side of the garden, “what spell are you going to teach me, princess?” asked Twilight Sparkle interested.

  “The teleportation spell”, replied Celestia.

 “How do you do it, princess?” asked Twilight Sparkle curiously.

 “You should think about where you want to go and then use your magic to go to the place you thought”, replied Celestia.

 “It sounds easy”, said Twilight Sparkle with a smile. “I’ll try”

 Twilight Sparkle thought of a spot before using the magic of her horn, the pink aura enveloped her before she teleported alongside Celestia, “I did it, princess!” exclaimed Twilight Sparkle excitedly.

 “Congratulations, my student, I am proud of you”, said Celestia with a smile.

 “And now what do we do? We’re stay watching your sister and Sunset Shimmer or we stayed inside the castle?” asked Twilight Sparkle.

 “Let’s watch from afar,” replied Celestia.

 Celestia and Twilight Sparkle sat on their haunches before looking at Sunset Shimmer and Luna from afar.

 Sunset Shimmer was trying to teleport, but unfortunately she couldn’t. Why couldn’t she? She was thinking about the place, so why couldn’t she? Sunset Shimmer fell to the ground before rising and looking at Luna with sad eyes, “I can’t, sorry,” said Sunset Shimmer sadly.

 Luna embraced Sunset Shimmer with a wing, “don’t be sad, Sunset, not all unicorn magic is equal, your magic ability will develop over time”, said Luna with a benevolent smile.

 “Okay”, said Sunset Shimmer now with a small smile on her face.

 Luna and Sunset Shimmer suddenly felt the sensation of being watched and looked where Celestia and Twilight Sparkle were. Luna and Sunset Shimmer went to them, “we’re done today, you too?” asked Luna.

 “We also broke up, Twilight Sparkle was able to teleport”, replied Celestia before looking at Twilight Sparkle with a smile.

 Sunset Shimmer began to worry. Twilight Sparkle Was able to teleport? How? Well, she didn’t want to be the best magic unicorn of all time, but she wanted Luna to be proud of her.

 Celestia looked up at the sky, “looks like the end of another day,” replied Celestia. “Twilight, would you like to see me lower the sun?”

 “Yes!” exclaimed Twilight Sparkle cheerfully.

 “Sunset would you like to see me raise the moon?” asked Luna.

 “Yes,” replied Sunset Shimmer with a big smile on her face.

Celestia used her magic to lower the sun, Twilight Sparkle was amazed at this, she always imagined that someday she would be able to raise and lower the sun.

 After Celestia lowered the sun, Luna used her magic to lift the moon. Sunset Shimmer can’t help but smile when she saw the moon rise.

 When Luna had finished raising the moon, the two unicorn foals clapped their hooves, smiles on their faces. Twilight Sparkle went to Celestia, “that was lovely to see, princess!” exclaimed Twilight Sparkle cheerfully.

 Sunset Shimmer went up to Luna, “It was the most beautiful moonrise I’ve ever seen in my entire life”, said Sunset Shimmer with a smile.

 Luna couldn’t help but smile at Sunset Shimmer’s words. She really was glad that a pony in Equestria liked her night.


 Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer had already dined and were already in their rooms, Twilight Sparkle took the books she had left in bed and began read again.


Sunset Shimmer was looking at the night sky on the porch, she was so distracted looking she didn’t even see a figure walking up to the balcony of Sunset Shimmer, “I see you really like to stay awake on my night”, said Luna with a smile.

 Sunset Shimmer looked at Luna, “oh! Hi princess! Yes, I really like”, said Sunset Shimmer with a smile.

 “That’s really good, Sunset”, said Luna before her smile faded.

 “Princess? What happened? Was it something I said?” asked Sunset Shimmer.

 Luna looked at Sunset Shimmer, “Well, Sunset, I want to tell you something”, replied Luna.

 “You can talk, I’m listening to you”, said Sunset Shimmer.

 “It’s just that never before hasn’t a pony loved my night like you, and I feel grateful for you loving the night I bring”, said Luna.

 “Thank you, Princess,” replied Sunset Shimmer. “Actually, it was obvious that I like your night, after all, my name is related to the night”

 Luna laughed cheerfully, “Yes, Sunset”, agreed Luna.

 “Is it your duty to just raise and lower the moon?” asked Sunset Shimmer.

 Luna shook her head. “No, I must protect the ponies from nightmares too”, replied Luna.

 “Wow, how can you do that?” asked Sunset Shimmer.

 “I have to enter the world of dreams”, replied Luna.

 “And how can ordinary ponies come into this world?” asked Sunset Shimmer curiously.

“If the pony stays by my side and close his eyes, it’s possible”, replied Luna.

 “This is so cool! Can I go see?” asked Sunset Shimmer excitedly.

 “Yes, stay on my side and close your eyes,” replied Luna.

 Sunset Shimmer approached Luna and closed her eyes. Luna used her magic so she and Sunset Shimmer would enter the dream world. When Luna opened her eyes, she and Sunset Shimmer were already in the dream world. There were several doors in row. Luna looked at Sunset Shimmer and saw that she was still with her eyes closed, “Sunset, you can open your eyes now”, said Luna.

 Sunset Shimmer opened her eyes and looked around, “wow”, was all Sunset Shimmer could say.

 “Each door has a Cutie Mark of a pony, and each door has a color depending on the state of the pony’s dream”, explained Luna.

 “You seem to have a very difficult job”, said Sunset Shimmer.

 “Yeah, but I’m used to it”, replied Luna.

 Sunset Shimmer yawned, “I’d like to go back to the real world to sleep, okay?” asked Sunset Shimmer sleepily. “How do you get out of the dream world?”

 “The same thing you do to get in”, replied Luna.

 Sunset Shimmer closed her eyes for Luna to use the spell to get out of the dream world, Luna closed her eyes as she used her magic to make her and Sunset Shimmer come out of the dream world. Luna opened her eyes, “ready, Sunset, now you can sleep”, said Luna.

 But Sunset Shimmer didn’t respond, “Sunset?” asked Luna worriedly before looking at the floor and seeing Sunset Shimmer sleeping.

 Luna smiled before catching Sunset Shimmer with her magic and entering into the Sunset Shimmer room and putting her on the bed and blanketing, “sweet dreams, Sunset”, said Luna in a motherly voice before kissing Sunset Shimmer on her forehead and going to the dreams world.