Chapter Nine - Luna
Luna stared around the dream realm. She had not been dragged into a pony’s mind in a very long time; only the elite unicorns could attempt to probe the minds of the ponies, and only one unicon had enough of her trust to do so.
She turned her eyes to the one other moving object in the dream realm.
It was Artemis. Oh Faust, he was so… mmm.
She smiled, doing what she believed was called boggling the stallion.
Luna’s eyes traced over his figure; eying his strong legs with approval, licking her lips as she saw his beauti- er, handsome ethereal mane dance elegantly in the non-existent wind, and his flanks… mmm!
The other alicorn spun around, his horn glowing and eyes wide! She let out a little meep; he must have heard her boggling him!
“Luna!” He was obviously surprised, but for some reason his was horn dimming. She let out a sigh of relief; he didn’t care that she was boggling him!
“Artemis,” she did her best to imitate her sister now, hoping that she appeared as serene as Celestia did. “It is wonderful to see you again, but I would like to ask you a dual question.” She had to focus her mind on the matter at hoof though; how she was here and where here was.
Mimicking her older sister, she tried to strut over to him, feeling ridiculous as she- Why was he backing up and why did he just cause a torc to appear on his natural form? Had she done something wrong?
“Y-yes Luna?” Artemis's ears went back, the tips reddening as he blushed.
Luna giggled softly, her worries vanishing. She was doing a good job! Huzzah!
“Did you recently fall asleep, as in the last minute or so?” She reigned in her mind, trying to figure out this little problem. Maybe, just maybe, they were -
Her heart raced at that possibility!
Artemis blinked, and then nodded his head.
“What is the-” Artemis started to speak but Luna had to go on this strand of thought before she lost it. She halted him with a raised hoof, causing him to raise an eyebrow. He looked so cute when he did that!
“Why and how did you bring me here?” She had to know, please let it be what she thought!
“What?” he blinked, surprised at this piece of information. Yes! “I brought you here?” His eyes went wide, missing her obvious joy! “How-” he paused, his eyes settling back on her. She was lucky that she was able to have a more reasonable face on before he saw her excitement. “How do you know I brought you here?”
Luna let out an annoyed huff of air before speaking to him again, annoyed that he clearly hadn’t come to the same resolution as she did. “Because, I know when somepony drags a mind into another’s quite well. I have dealt with alp and mara before.”
Artemis let out a bit of a shudder, and for good reason. Alp and mara were true monsters to deal with, and the one set of races she was glad was extinct.
“As have I, Luna,” he let out a soft nicker, probably remembering the harder cases that he’d had to deal with. She didn’t wish to go over the memories of the past, content to leave them to the faded history books. “But to the point at hoof, I do not know how I brought you here or if I even did.”
At that word, both of their eyes darted around the dream realm, a question looming over their heads.
“Luna, is this my dream realm or yours?” The question snapped Luna’s head back to Artemis as it was a bit of a concern to her now that she thought of it.
“I have no idea Artemis,” Luna frowned, wondering how deep this connection between them was now. “While I am unsure of the exact answer, this does require some more information to form a better hypothesis to determine which dream realm this belongs to. Tell me, what has happened while we have been in the other’s realm?”
Artemis wiped away a tear, clearly enjoying what Luna did to Bluebelle. He had been in stitches ever since she told him about that trick of hers. It was a fairly common practice; one that Tia had sadly used on her more than once…
“I still cannot believe you did that to that fool Blueblood,” Luna laughed, seeing Artemis start to relax, which made her smile. “It was a work of art, although I do swear I had heard the line from somewhere...” It would drive her upwards the ceiling, as she believed it was called, until she figured it out.
“Perhaps,” Artemis smiled, which made Luna’s heart swoon. “I do know I have seen two versions of the play, with the latter being far more enjoyable…”
“Yes, I know exactly what you are talking about!” Luna pointed a hoof at him, poking his nose. She blushed at her silliness, a bit worried that Artemis would be uncomfortable with her touching him as she’d picked out he had some reservation about being touched in his tale of his time in her realm. He hadn’t said it, but it was clearly there.
Instead of shutting her out, Artemis just wrinkled his nose and smirked at her. “A thousand curses, as I cannot remember what it was!” She pouted, sitting back down, relieved that she had not crossed a line with him. “Perhaps I will ask Twi- Dusk and his friends what it is…”
“Indeed…” He sighed. She desperately wished to know what he was worried about now, as she understood what it meant to carry burdens for so long. “Do you have enough potion for another trip to… our dream realm?”
Artemis was a bit unnerved by the fact that their own private dream realms had merged. But what had really worried them was that neither of them were able to influence it anymore. Their souls might be entwined now, and this brought forth many implications, none of which Luna, and clearly not Artemis, were comfortable with. What if Celestia and Solaris were to be put in this state if they were to meet again?
“Ye-yes, I did send Celestia to make enough for a few night travels,” Luna answered, tracing a hoof across the floor, her heart starting to race. “But I assume that Twilight Sparkle and Dusk Shine will both wish to come and examine this pr-” Her eyes went wide, realizing she had nearly made a grave mistake. “No, not problem…” she frowned, seeing his sigh of relief. “‘Situation’.”
“Ye-yes,” he stuttered, smiling at his cute little blush that was on his cheeks. “I am sure that those two ponies will be able to bring a non-clouded mind to this situation, and hopefully explain everything.”
She froze as her mind raced to the one possible situation that she was deathly afraid of admitting. Looking across herself, Luna saw the same fear on Artemis’s face.
He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out, clearly too troubled to say anything.
Luna placed a hoof on his shoulder, pleading silently with him to relax by her eyes alone. By Faust, was she this bad too?
“I do not know if it was because of us that our older siblings acted the way they did, but tonight we will know.” Luna hoped that Artemis didn’t see her worries or sadness, remembering how hard everything was now in this new world. Artemis was the sole pony that could understand that pain, and for the chance it was all false would be heart wrenching.
“Wh-” he squeaked out, trying to build up the confidence to ask that dreaded question. “What if-”
“We will not think of what-ifs Artemis,” Luna said smoothly and firmly, forcing him to be at ease. Even if that was the cause, so be it! They would have each other, and she would have the one pony that would never cease loving her! “We will deal with that possibility if and once it comes to be, understood?”
He nodded his head, and to her surprise, he gave her a gentle nuzzling.
She was sure, everything was going to be just fi-
Damn cliffhangers
Compared to the earlier chapters these chapters lacked comedy...don't get me wrong it was well written but could have been more exciting...my opinion anyways...
Could have been more interesting...
I wonder how Twilight intends to escape the embrace of Artemis? And how many pictures Discord took for future blackmail materiel.
Luna seems to be more perverted than Artemis. Anyhow, great chapter. I want to see how Dusk and Twilight will react when they meet each other and I REALLY want to see a reencounter between Celestia and Solaris. I hope the next chapter comes soon.
The gak is back! The gak is back!
One by land, two by sea!!!
she wants the D
Come on, let's fight! Get on my level sun! Hype battle! I fight for my friends!
Wait... it's not a fight?
4748133 Cliffhangers make the world go around.
Great chapters. I enjoyed them. I can't wait for the next ones. I like how you have it cut off in the same way in both chapter. Great job.
4748133 yup
4748150 I will go fix it....stupideditorswere supposetocatchthis
4748162 It's not always going to be funny, there will be some serious moments. The comedy is a strong aspect in this story but not an overriding one, nor will it be.
4748174 Me too!
4748199 I have written that out already and oooooo, idea!
4748212 Luna is a bit more...agressive in her approach, heheh. That you will have to wait and see, and me too, me too
4748216 I half know what that is from
4748230 but will she get the D with the law of irony being it place?
4748255 ya ya, I get it!
4748404 .....
4748435 Oh yes, yes they do. They also make us writers feel wonderful!
4748469 Thank you!
4748569 I swear, ONE MORE PERSON! ONE MORE!
4748634 The half with American history or the half with Paul Revere?
Ha! I'm a pre-reader, so it isn't my problem!
4748150 I grew up watching that saturday mornings. I still watch it sometimes. God those were some great saturdays.I probably watched the whole series 3 times back then and Enter the shadow realm was the best season.
4748656 The gak was a bit weird, but I got the one by yadadada.
4748660 same here. I remember gettign up early and watching that show.
Great, I feel old now!
4748634
What? I would love to see them play children's card game or a Let's play of Asura's Wrath.
4748675 sorry, just got annoyed with the duel jokes.
And it would be so sweet.
4748634 well if Lunas not getting it it then Celestia sure will because her and Solaris are horny mofos
4748634 ok...I catch your drift...
4748668 Didn't watch Yugioh. I proffered DBZ and Gundam.
This was entertaining you receive 4 out of 5 yays
Darn you arogant whipper-snappers. Stop making ME feel ancient .
My saturday mornings were in the good ole days of gen 1 Transformers and Voltron. And that was NOT a long time ago. (merely thirty something years )
4749086 Celestia is not that bad.
4749805 That's Arty's nickname for his brother
4750642 that's great to hear!
4750832 never!
4753321 Thank you! I hope you enjoy the rest!
And the world implodes because having the wrong Royal Moon destroys it.
4754895 No because it was pissing off the Pickolo pony...
Awesome, but damn that cliffhanger! I so love Artemis and Luna their relationship. I wonder what will happen in the next chapter. Stay golden and I hope we will see the next chapter soon.
4754928
Who the What now? There is no such thing as a Kamekian Pony, Until I genetically create one.
Still We got ourselves some dream walkers in a Dreamscape they cannot control. Oh they are so fucked.
4755026 Heheh, thank you. It is fun to to write that simple scene out. I am glad you like their building relationship and maybe just aamybe you will see what happens next soon.
4755070 It could be worse. Mr Popony could be there. And are you sure they are fucked?
4755098
Depends, they can have sex now without consequence...
Or they are stuck and still have sex through it all.
4755146 Where did this mention of sex come from?
... Boggle is a game. The word(s) you're looking for is ogle and ogling.
4758000
THAT'S THE JOKE!
4758011 ... S'not very funny. (Granted, it's midnight, but still...)
4758149 Agree to disagree?
4755502
Just an idea, besides they ARE attracted to one another.
Is it okay if I make cover art/fanart for this story?
4760444 You don't need to ask, just go ahead!
Selfcest with Artemis and Luna but no clop? What the hell is wrong with you!
4772871 First off, don't yell at me. Secondly, there can be love without sex. Thirdly, let me tell the story before you jump down my throat
4760444 how goes the fan art?
4760444
Hey, goes the art work?