“Bye Celestia! Bye Luna!” Prince Blueblood says in a fake voice. “Always a pleasure!” He waits for the doors to be opened for him.
The two Princess Sisters bid their half blood nephew goodbye. They wave their hands daintily till the door of the Royal Dining Room closes. Celestia hears her sister mutter, “Thou knowest the way out!” as she pleasantly says, “Have a safe trip home!”
“LUNA! I cannot believe you said that! What if he heard you?” Princess Celestia exclaims!
“The food was filling… the company dining with us was not.” Princess Luna says as a matter of fact.
The sisters sat there in quietude for a bit letting their encounter with their nephew to subside from their systems. There was still some bread and butter left on the table and they decided to pick on it. The wine glasses were refilled and in need of finishing anyhow.
“On my Royal Agenda, there is to be a garden party here in a couple hours around 3 o’clock.” Celestia breaks the silence. “What’s on yours?”
Luna clears her throat “Sleep. My agenda lacks productivity today unlike thee. I shall check my emails and then nap.”
Upset, Celestia says, “How lucky you are, little sister… I need to excuse myself right now. I must get ready to tend to the arrival of the guests and make sure everything is running smoothly.”
“Thou shalt not leave by thyself. I will depart with thee.” Luna stands up.
Feeling a food coma, the two of them stand up rather slowly and waddle to the door vowing to each other they weren’t eating again till the next day. The sisters hugged each other at the door and went the opposite directions in the hallway.
Princess Luna was admiring the stain glass windows on the way back to her bed chamber. The castle lights were not on but the sun was shining through illuminating the walls perfectly with the colours. She was glad she had nothing productive to do today. Luna was feeling lazy and ultra bloated. Her tummy was content and her mind kept calling for her bed.
A few minutes later Luna opened her door and hopped, back first, into her bed. She rests her head on arms staring up at the ceiling. She hadn’t bothered turning on the lights so the glow in the dark stars were lit. Turning her head she sees her laptop and remembers she wanted to check her emails prior to her mid day slumbering.
The computer screen shouted bright white at her face. Luna’s eyes quickly adjusted. She opened her emails. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Chain letter from Celestia. Spam. Spam. Antique Shopping Sale. Spam. Spam. Horoscope. Spam. Rainbow Dash. Spam. Another Chain letter from Celestia. Spam. Luna’s mind read. She chose Rainbow Dash. That was the most appealing.
Luna sat up to read the email. Her eyes widened while reading it in Rainbow Dash’s voice. It read with such urgency. The horn on her forehead lit up zapping her phone to her hand. She sent Dash a text saying to expect her presence in an hour’s time. She was happy and worried at the same time. Happy to be able to do something worthwhile by visiting a fellow family friend… and worried for what the matter could be!
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“ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou-ThankYou For coming over right away, Princess Luna! You don’t even know! Come on inside!” Rainbow Dash says excitedly.
“Thouest must calm thyself. I am here to help. What seems to be thy problem, Rainbow Dash?” she says with the biggest look of concern. Princess Luna let Dash lead them to the living room. She comforts Dash more by placing her arm around her.
“Well, I…” Rainbow Dash starts out, “…haven’t really been sleeping. I’m usually okay… but now I’m not.”
“What do you mean by not okay?”
“Fluttershy has always had nightmare problems. But, lately, they are out of whack! So, what I am trying to ask… is… well… I know you’re able to help since you are technically the Goddess of Night… Ummm… well….”
“Yes, Rainbow Dash?”
“Can I trouble you to cast some sort of sleeping spell to keep her calm at night? So she can wake up as refreshed as me and be happy? Please? Is there something you can do?” The sound of a boiling tea kettle pot starts to whistle in the kitchen. “Hold your thought, Princess… I made us some tea!”
She leaves Luna to her thoughts but returns quickly. All she was able to say was, “Rainbow Dash” getting cut off to an apology, “So sorry, Princess… Fluttershy usually is the hostess to the mostest in this household… all I am allowed to do is make tea, and I’m not really that great at that…”
“Thou hath tried. And I thank thee so kindly.” She takes the cup and takes a sip before answering Rainbow Dash’s request. “There is a solution. There is a Zebra woman thou may recall and she hath a potion Fluttershy and thou can take.”
“Me!?” Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened. “Why would I have to take the potion if Fluttershy is the one that needs a peaceful sleep?
“Thou protects her, am I right? Or am I wrong?” Princess Luna’s Royal Voice started to peak out.
“I do, always and forever.” Dash says shrinking into her Butch Chair.
“This potion I speak of let’s thou join in each other’s dreams. 5 minutes of sleep in regular time equals to one hour in the dream realm. Thou can seek out what is bothering thy wife. And thou can also play and create a world as well if thy wished.”
“And it’s perfectly safe, Princess?” Dash questions, for safety precautions.
“Thou trusts me, not!? Thee who hath looketh for help from me because of thy knowledge of me, questions? I grant thee the help!”
“I am so sorry, Princess Luna. You’re 100% right. I did ask for your help and I trust you completely.” Rainbow Dash sits back upright smiling with certainty, not shrinking into her seat anymore.
“Good. Escort me to Zecora’s hut in the forest. She will give thou instructions on what to do so thy wife and thee shall worry not.”
Promptly they got up. Rainbow Dash takes their tea back into the kitchen. She saw where Fluttershy kept the disposable ‘to go’ cups were (Dash sometime’s ran late in the morning), poured the tea in, wrote a quick note on the refrigerator’s dry erase board and started to head into the Forest with the Princess. I asked for this…! she thought.
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The sun has set and the moon arose to play. The weather may have become warmer during the day, but the night was still sometimes as chilly as winter. Tonight was one of those “sometimes”. Fluttershy entered a dark and quiet home which didn’t last that long as she quickly turned on all the lights. She entered the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
Before she swung the fridge open, she saw the note left for her.
“My FLUTTERS <3
I’m out with Princess Luna right now and will probably be home after you read this, give or take a minute or two! I love you!
Your Rainbow <3”
As if on cue, the door swings open. “HEY, BABE! I’M HOME!” Rainbow Dash shouts and has a grin from ear to ear. Entering the kitchen she swoops Fluttershy into the air and twirls her around kissing her. “I have the BEST news for you ever! What’s for dinner?”
“What’s up, Dashie?” says Fluttershy, blushing. “We have leftovers tonight… if that’s okay with you…”
“Yeah, that’s cool. I’ll set the table! We can talk about it while we eat!” She gently lands both of them back onto the floor and starts her little chore.
As they eat she fills Fluttershy in on what she did today with Princess Luna and the visit to Zecora’s hut in the forest. They transfer to the living room to have their dessert and cuddle watching television. It was Fluttershy’s turn to pick what movie they put in. As per usual, it was something really girly and sappy, so Dash didn’t mind talking over the film.
“…AND that brings us to now and you up to speed… what do you think, Flutters?” Dash ends her speech.
“Well, I-I am tired right now… we can move our cuddling to bed and finish this movie my next turn to pick?” Fluttershy says yawning. “I trust Princess Luna. I trust you even more so, let’s test this potion out Dashie… I love you!” She snuggles into Dash.
You really are adorable Fluttershy. I know this is going to work. I love you more than you know. Rainbow Dash thinks to herself. She places their ice cream bowls on the coffee table figuring she’ll clear them in the morning. She takes Fluttershy into her arms and flies them both upstairs to their room. “I love you, back!” she says out loud.
While Fluttershy finishes getting ready for bed, Dash pours out the contents of the bag Zecora gave her and rereads the instructions. It read, “Only one teaspoon each and that will automatically wake you up when your alarm goes off. A couple minor warnings: Whoever’s dream you’re in, don’t alter things too much because you won’t be able to control your subconscious from chasing after you. Also, try to keep in mind day to day night to night which world is the real world. Sweet Dreams!”
Dash looks up and sees Fluttershy come back and says, “Ready, Babe?” She receives a head nod. With that, she patted the other side of the bed letting Fluttershy know “Come here already, You!” Carefully pouring a teaspoon for Fluttershy and one for herself, a simple kiss on the lips and they take the potion together. They lay themselves down in a comfortable position in each other’s arms and drift to sleep within seconds.
*******
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash find themselves downstairs in their living room on the couch looking at each other confused. Everything felt normal and neither of them felt tired. But, they just went to sleep right? Outside the window was night time. Rainbow Dash left the ice cream bowls on the coffee table though, and the table is cleared of anything that may have been on there that day.
“I think we’re in our dreams now, Fluttershy.” Dash whispers.
“Da-dashie… why are you whispering?” Fluttershy rapidly gets scared and clings onto her Rainbow.
“I don’t know… I thought I had to!”
“Wh-what do we do now?” Fluttershy holds Dash tighter.
“Anything we want! WATCH!” Dash tells her worrywart lover. She starts imagining a circle clearing and trees surrounding it as a protection and blinked her eyes. Automatically, their living room changed to the outdoors and daytime.
Fluttershy lessens her grip by a notch. Her jaw drops and she gasps in awe. “Oh, wow.”
Rainbow Dash wiggles free and shoots up into the air and calls out to Fluttershy. “COME UP HERE!!! IT’S LIKE OUR REALITY WHEN WE’RE AWAKE!” With that, she was joined.
“This really is beautiful, Dashie…” Fluttershy says smiling holding Dash’s hand in hers. She leans over to kiss her Savior.
“This we can build to be our safety zone. If either of us drift apart from each other and sense trouble, we can always picture this place and we’ll simply come back here in a blink. Let’s paint this picture Flutters! You try!”
“O-okay… how about…” Fluttershy thinks for a moment “…how about we have a body of water over there to the east.” She blinked her eyes towards what felt like east and an endless sea formed before their very eyes… waves hitting a gorgeous shore line.
“Let’s build something to relax in.” suggests Dash. She imagines four walls in the center of the clearing with no roof top. There are no doors but a mail slot on the south wall. Why? Who knows. On the west wall was a way in just by walking in as long as whoever it was, if not either of them, trying to come in was safe and not an intruder. Inside the four walls, she places a bed inside and a table with flowers in a vase. She finishes off by blinking and it suddenly appears. “Isn’t this awesome!?”
“That’s interesting, Dashie… I’m going to imagine a house on the northwest side of our clearing on top of a hill. It can be an olive green ranch style house with a white picket fence.” Fluttershy blinks as well having her creation appear. First, the hill forming upwards rising so they can see. Then a house popped up above that.
“Who’s that for?” Rainbow Dash questions.
“Silly, that’s for our friends, just in case any of them are able to dream like this as well… it’s always a good idea to have a guest room… or in this case, a guest house! I mean, if that’s okay…” Fluttershy says in a hushed voice.
“Of course it’s okay, silly!” Rainbow Dash tackles her and kisses her, hearing a little “Yay” as she does so. Dash then flies away not as fast as she could. They go on playing their version of ‘tag’ in the skies involving giggling, kissing, and hugging attacks till Fluttershy naughtily suggests they test out their made bed inside the four walls.
After what seemed like hours of fun filled bed activities, Fluttershy asks “How do you know our dream safety zone is our safety zone and not a different one that just seems like ours if we had to come back here from danger?”
“Well, Flutters… we should have something off only we will know that is off.”
“Like what, Dashie?” she looks at her inquisitively.
“Ummm, we have our clearing surrounded by trees… that’s earth. You created an endless sea… that’s water… we feel a breeze even if we’re not flying so that’s air… we should have a tree that forever burns! It won’t ever burn to the ground or anything. Just the top of the tree is burning. That will be our fire element! We’ll have it burning on the north side of these walls.”
Fluttershy kisses Dash. “You’re amazing and awesome. I am so glad I have you. I love you! How did you come up with that?”
“I love you more…” She gets up and she has them flying above where the roof should have been. Picturing a tree with the top burning she blinks and it grew upwards facing them. “I just asked myself, what would Daring Doo, do?” They both laugh at that.
An extremely loud piercing sound booms in as an alert. !!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! Fluttershy got frightened and held on to Dash. “Is that a fire alarm!? Did we set off a fire alarm!?”
Dash kisses Fluttershy’s forehead. “No, Babe… that’s our alarm clock! It’s time for us to wake up!”
*******
!!!BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! rang through Rainbow Dash’s ear. She hit the snooze button looking over at Fluttershy. A smile forms on her face because she knows Fluttershy is pretending to sleep so she can snuggle longer. She kisses Fluttershy’s cheek and whispers softly, “How do you feel, Sunshine?”
“Mmmm!” Fluttershy turns around slowly opening her eyes to look into Dash’s. She kisses her on the lips. “Amazing!”
“You slept all the way through!” Dash said beaming.
“I did! I am so greatful!” Fluttershy proclaims kissing Dash again.
Just for Fluttershy and only for Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash says the sappiest thing that came to mind. “Just know that I’m always here, right beside you, protecting you from your fears!”
“Oh, I love you so.”
“No, I love you.”
They laid there in bed and rolled out after a couple more “snooze button” hits.