//------------------------------// // Luna // Story: Looking for Equestria // by the darkside phoenix //------------------------------// I had been in Equestria for almost a decade, and I had developed a routine, I would go on a journey in a random direction I would chose in the map I had, it would take me about a year no matter the direction I took, sometimes even more, I would then return to Canterlot castle and stay there for a couple months before going out again. Despite it being a routine I actually enjoyed it a lot, every direction the map would take me was a different adventure, and this had made me forget about my old life, my own world. Well except for one thing, despite the adventures I had, I knew I was lonely, really lonely, I had left behind everyone I knew and I spent most of my time completely alone, no one would join me in my year-long adventures, and I only knew one person where I was, I could only talk to one, this was Luna, she made the couple months I spent in the castle feel easier, better than anything else during the course of the years, I didn't felt lonely during the months I was with Luna, I had found a really good friend, and it felt different from the friends I had in my home world, even though i didn't knew why. Luna became a really important part of my life in Equestria, and I noticed I had become important for her too, I was the only link she had with the part of her kingdom she had never seen before, and she was the only one I could be with, even if she wouldn't go in the adventures with me I knew she felt like she was there while i was telling her the story of my trip. I noticed something else while I was in the castle, I noticed Luna was also really lonely, as I had to spend most of the daylight time hidden in my room I still could look out my window and see what was happening, during this time I was able to see Luna, she would go around town watching over her subjects, she would sometimes buy some things, but I never saw her in the company of somepony, she was always alone and during the time I spent with her, I noticed two things, at the start i noticed how lonely she normally was, and after a while I noticed how much she cared about our friendship. After some time we became really close, to the point she had stopped using her royal tone with me, I didn't knew if she actually knew how to talk "normally" or if she was just imitating my way of speaking, this happened one night that we were walking around the castle grounds, it was really late and we both decided to go to sleep to our respective rooms, when she said goodnight she said two things that really surprised me, her exact phrase was "goodnight, I hope to see you again tomorrow, Moon Fire.". The phrase surprised me to the point I didn't answer to this, when she noticed I was mute she talked back and asked me what was wrong, I said I was confused about the name she had used to address me, "Moon Fire" and i asked what it was and why she had used it to address me, she smiled when I made this question and her answer was something that really surprised me, she said she had thought about it for a while and that in the case I were a pony that would be my name, she also said I would be an Alicorn. This answer made me giggle, and my reaction made Luna blush as she thought I was making fun of her, I stopped laughing and told her it was an honor for that she would have thought of a name for me as if I were a pony, it made me think she considered me an equal to her and her kind, I then told her she could address to me as "Moon Fire" every time she wanted, we then parted ways. It was after this that I noticed, thinking about the whole conversation in retrospect, that she had stopped using the royal tone on me, which made me really happy. I was really happy about my new life, my adventures, my whole life in Equestria, and my relationship with Luna, I had left my old life in the past, and the only thing I now cared about was how I would spend my following days in Equestria.