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// just my luck... 
// Story: a nightmare of a fiasco 
// by CasperSantiq 
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	The last thing I remembered was a high pitch squeal and a big box. That being said, I found myself in a rather odd dream... to say the least about it. The moon was high above, stars glistened, and the meadow was a... I don't rightly know how to describe the beauty of it all. All the flora was glowing, the bugs were skittering about, and a few birds, although they were obviously of an ancient variety, were spectacular in their flight.
I slowly rose to my hooves as I tried to figure out how I came to this kind of dream. Nothing I had been seeing today would have given me a dream like this one.
"You are correct..." a voice whispered through the foliage. An angelic murmur if I ever heard one before. I turned to follow the sound, finding a  slight bit of bush blocking my path, if I were to call it that. I slowly trotted towards the bush, wondering why my dream would have somepony else in it. I raised my left fore hoof  ready to turn aside the bush, "Tis' not yours to dream..."
"Oh, sweet stars above, let me live." I heard a light gasp as I pushed the foliage aside. the sight I beheld was of a mystical pond surrounding a small island, upon witch I saw a beautiful sight indeed. In a bed of clouds and starlight, an Alicorn of midnight blue and stars for a mane and tail lay. She was held in place by an array of chains and locks of pure darkness, a feel of regret and sorrow permeated here.
She shuffled a bit, as if she tried to get a bit more comfortable with such chains on her, a blush light across her cheeks. "We demand you stop gawking in such a rude manor and come closer, we have little time to talk."
Numbly, I nodded and slowly made my way down to a bridge of rocks barely sticking up from the surface of the pond. The grass a lunar blue, tickled my fetlocks. A light hum resonated about as I placed my fore hoof down on the first stone, sending a small ripple across the ponds surface. Notes sounded off as I trotted across the path to the island. As the last stone rang a clear note, one of the locks on the chain faded away, allowing her to stretch her neck a bit more as the chain relented its hold. the fore mentioned chain dissipating to a black cloud.
"OHhhh... what a relief, we thought that we would never know another night without a neck ache." her languid neck sensually rolling, swaying back and forth. After a few seconds I heard a loud pop, making me jolt up a little.
I rubbed the back of my neck,"Um.. princess... are you...?"
"Yes, we art thine teachers sister. Tell us, why doth thou pray to the stars instead of her sun?" she leveled a fierce gaze at me.
"Uh.. um... well... cause I always though they surpassed the sun in every way. they are my guide, my inspiration." I looked up at the sky, waving my hoof at the stars, not noticing the gleam of tears in her eyes, "They are a beauty to behold and a wonder to look upon... if only they were a constant so that I could look upon them any time. that would be special indeed."
I dropped my sight back to her, noticing tears spilling from her eyes. I gasped and made towards her, thinking I had said something wrong.
"You think they're beautiful?..." she smiled and pulled me in, hugging me. "You give us reason to celebrate young one, we praise you for finding us worthy of praise once more. For this we shall gran thee the greatest of boons, once we escape this, thou shall be mine consort!"
She let me go, pointing to the sky in a royal decree manor and I blushed lightly, rubbing my fore legs together bashfully. "Awwww... WHAT?!? Wait, who are you?! I know for a fact that there is only one princess of Equestria, and you are not her!" I pointed my left fore hoof at her.
Sigh... "Thou... truly doth not know of thee? our sister hat not told our subjects of our glory?" she pouted and turned away, a single tear glinted on her cheek. "We.. are forgotten? heh... thou can leave any time, just leave us here to fade away..."
"No."
"What?" her ears popped up. "Doth thou not... wish to leave us?"
"No one deserves to be alone like this, especially somepony like you." I stood up and trotted over to her side, I sat and placed my fore hoof on her withers, "I-I w-will, I will be your consort. Just... what is your name?"
She turned towards me, surprise clear across her face. "Thou truly means it? thou shalt be mine consort?" I nodded, "Tis' most glorious of nights!" she raised a foreleg shouting to the sky, "When we art free thou shall be mine, and we shall make Equestria see the beauty of the night once more!"
I rubbed the ringing from my ears, "Your name, please? you still haven't told me your name. eheh... I'm Du-"
"Dusk Shine, we know. our name is Princess Luna, Herald of the night, keeper of the moon, Protector of dreams, And goddess of fertility!but we art still virgin..." with that last part, I had to lean in to barely catch.
Relief  flooded me, "Oh, whew, I though I would get the worst end of a cougar there for a second." I wiped my brow.
She tilted her head to the side, "Why would thou be getting mauled by a Mountain lion? We thought that thee would be the one doing the protecting of our kingdom."
I shook my head, "It's just a phrase. just ignore it." I blinked a couple times, light beginning to flood my eyes, "Wait, when will I be able to see you-"
"Again?!" I jolted up, knocking somepony over. I had just woken up, the town hall was just as I had last seen it. "Barb? BARB!"
"Whoa there Dusk, you just got knocked the buck out by 'miss' prissy here, say your sorry." Barb glared at the white pony on my other side, a mare by the looks of it, who seemed to be trying to not be seen.
As I leveled a glare of my own at her she shrunk back onto her haunches, "Oh.. um, sorry about that... But you snuck up on me, and I don't think I should be the one to apologize, you.. You!" she adopted a snobby facade, a feeble attempt to shift blame.
"You just assaulted the princesses personal student, I think you don't have any room to talk, miss. Besides, you probably had been told that we would be checking up on the decorations for the Summer Sun Celebration, you should have expected us." I looked around, the decorations were already up. sequins ran along the side, rolls of fabric hung from rafters, a few pins and gems were strewn in with the design. "Well, consider this your first warning, the setup is asymetrical and lacks most of her colors. try to get in theme here and you might have a half presentable decoration going."
With that, I levitated Barb onto my back and trotted out, leaving her flabbergasted.
"Wow, Dusk, you could have just gone easy on her, she obviously tries to impress with her work, just try and not take... what ever out on her." 
she tapped my ear, "What did happen? your eyes flashed white before you conked out back there, I was worried."
"Sigh... just call it a divine... call. I met somepony I will tell you about later, just... hold on ok? lets' get this done and over with, I want to see what else we can dig up on this 'Mare in the Moon'."