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Chapter 3

Luna's sleeping schedule has got to be the strangest part of her day. For the past week or so, I've watched her sleep at practically random intervals. Sometimes she's up and about during the day, and other times she around during the night. She tends to fall asleep after some random tasks are finished, and yet she makes it look as though every breath she takes was planned and dated.

‘Talk about stressful,’ I think. ‘How does she do all this?’

I suppose that's just the life of a princess in Equestria. It's all super fun, until you get bombarded with so many duties you no longer have a social life.

As of now, Luna was heading for the dining hall for breakfast, even though it was lunch time. The tired mare walked in, grabbed a pineapple with her magical grip, and inhaled the fruit in a single chomp.

“Morning Lulu,” Celestia said, gently lifting a fork with a piece of a salad toi her mouth. “Sleep well?”

“Meh.”

“Any special plans or activities today?”

“Meh.”

“I see… so I guess I can paint the walls of your bedroom pink?”

…

“Luna?”

Unfortunately, Luna had fallen unconscious, her face resting on her thankfully empty plate. Celestia simply chuckled at the sight, and walked up to her sleeping sister.

“I suppose I can take one or two of your duties today, let's see what you have.” Pulling a list from seemingly nowhere, Celestia looked over what I could only guess were Luna's duties. “Hmmm, the dinner with Fancy Pants and the meeting with the EEA shouldn't be too much of a hassle. Allow me to take these off your list dear sister.”

Crossing the two out, Celestia left the list for Luna on the table, clear for her to see what her sister had already claimed. After Celestia left, I took a look at the checklist myself.

‘Meeting with the Captain of the Night Guard, opening three shops, approving and/or denying company leases. Damn, what don't these princesses do?’ My wonderings went unanswered however, and so I just sat patiently, waiting for Luna to wake up.

Then five minutes passed. Then ten. Then thirty. The passing of an hour was coming up, and according to the checklist, Luna didn't have that kind of time. If she slept any longer, she'd miss her meeting with the Captain of the Night Guard. If she wanted to make it, then I had no choice.

“Luna…”

“...”

“Luna…”

“Mmm… mmph.”

“Luna!”

“I'm awake! I'm awake!” Luna shouted, roused from her slumber. She closed her eyes, a hoof rubbing her muzzle as she groaned internally. “Ugh… what time is it?”

A quick peak to a window to her left, and Luna was immediately able to register, don't ask me how, that it was getting close to three, which was when she was supposed to meet with the Captain of the Night Guard.

“Oh faust!” Luna shouted, scrambling from her seat and rushing out of her room. She bolted down hallways and corridors, servants and guards barely managing to get out of the way before she flew by them. Making it to her office in just under a minute, Luna grabbed several papers that had been placed on her desk and jettisoned them to the room next to hers. A sudden yelp from Task Master was all I heard before Luna shut her doors, organized the room with a whirlwind of magic, and then sat in her chair, like this rapid motion of panicked activity was some sort of practiced skill. And in a way, it was.

A moment or two later, the door to Luna's office opened, and a bat pony- no sorry, thestral, walked inside.

“Good day, your highness,” the stallion said bowing.

“Arise, Captain Black Wind. I trust you have a reason to call for this meeting?”

“Indeed, your highness.” After a quick glance backward, another creature came in and stood parallel to the pony soldier.

It was an odd beast. The creature had a feline form and eyes, but the ears, fangs, and wings of a bat, appearing to be some sort of cat-bat hybrid. In its mouth was some strange bottle, a green flame within it.

“Two days ago, a small town about ten miles south of the Crystal Empire was found demolished. The buildings had been burnt to the ground, and whatever remained was still burning with these green flames. The fires don't seem to go out, no matter what we do, and our familiars are wary of the flames. My familiar Nocturnis is only holding the flames in the bottle because I directly ordered him to.”

Luna grabbed the bottle with her magic and lifted it to herself with suspicion. As she investigated that however, my attention was drawn to the cat-bat, who I shall henceforth address as batcat.

If I heard him right, batcat was Black Wind’s familiar, which was interesting, since I had never seen nor heard of familiars existing in the My Little Pony universe before. The being was definitely unnatural, even by Equestria's standards, and sat patiently as if waiting for some sort of command. If I focused hard enough, I could see strands of light connecting batcat to Black Wind.

‘Weird,’ I thought. ‘I wonder if Luna has a familiar?’

“- but we still have yet to find the source.” In my focus of batcat, I hadn't realised Black Wind had been talking.

“Hmmm… this is very troubling indeed,” responded calmly.

“How shall we respond?”

“Hmmm, how to indeed?” Luna pondered the question for a bit before coming up with what she believed to be at least a temporary solution. “Increase the amount of guards in the cities and towns up north, and start circling patrols in the area.”

“Very well princess.”

“If your men do find the source of the flames, they are not to engage unless the creature is attacking civilians understood? We need to know what we're dealing with if we want a chance in subduing it.”

“Yes your highness. I'll make the arrangements right away.” And with that, Black Wind left, batcat jumping onto his back and riding away with him. Luna took another look at the bottled green flames, before calling out. “Task Master! Take this to the vault!”

The white unicorn calmly walked forward from her office and grasped the bottle in her magic before leaving without a word. Luna sat back, searching her memories, which I could visibly see as she looked, in case this was some old foe who had risen once more. Unfortunately, the past yielded nothing, so Luna dropped her inquiries. She could ponder the attack later, for now, she had other duties to attend to.

As Luna went on her way, I decided to try and figure out what else I could do here. I was in the mind of princess Luna, there must be something I can do other than watch her think.

It took me a while, but I eventually found that I could access Luna’s memories myself. Hundreds of small panels appeared in front of me, allowing me to cycle through them like a slideshow. These panels were labeled according to what was in them: good memories, bad memories, favorite memories, important memories. I decided to search through some of her favorites.

Tapping that panel, the other slides seemed to disappear as more slides came to replace them. Cycling through those, I stopped at one that occurred around 1500 years ago. The memory was titled, a new kingdom. Wondering just what this new kingdom was, I tapped it, and the memory began to play.

Luna was walking down the streets of a town, buildings being erected almost everywhere you looked. In the distance, I could see some sort of castle being constructed.

“So dearest sister, whatist thou think of our kingdom thus far?” a voice to the left asked.

“Methinks it is all coming about wonderfully mine sibling.” The way they were talking, as well as the time period, made me wonder if this was when they were first building the castle of the two sisters.

“Indeed,” the pony from the left responded, stepping into view. The multicolored hair and the white fur pretty much gave away that this was Celestia I was looking at. “The city of Everfree, the first settlement erected after that monster’s defeat, shall henceforth stand as a symbol of freedom for all to see!”

‘If only they knew.’ The memory would've continued, but I decided to search other visions of the past. Scrolling through those windows of history, I took in glimpses of battles and warfields, of politics and foreign nations, of ponies and places long gone.

But my viewings were soon interrupted when something Luna was doing caught my eye. Luna, at some point, had made her way to her personal quarters. She trotted briskly onto her personal balcony, and watched the sun as it shone in the sky.

Soon the golden ball of warmth and light began to dip towards the horizon, and once it disappeared, that same magical construct formed itself in Luna’s mind, raising the moon from its position beyond the mountains and placing itself high above the earth it watched over.

“There we are, another beautiful night,” Luna said, dotting the sky with stars. With that done, Luna turned to return to her duties.

But then she stopped.

Quickly pulling out her list, I thought perhaps Luna had forgotten where to go. But after checking her next task and rolling up the paper, the lunar monarch smiled to herself.

“I suppose I have a little time.” She approached a drape that hung against her wall. Moving it aside revealed a hidden door, one she opened and trotted up the stairs it revealed.

Up and up to the tip of the tower, Luna continued to ascend. Finally reaching the very top, she pushed open a trapdoor, revealing a small room illuminated by the moonlight coming in from a single window.

The room had two large, strange, arcane symbols in the center of the floor. Candles surrounded the edges, and incense was placed about the room. Luna sat in the middle of one of the circles, closed her eyes, and began to focus.

“Dicentem,” She began to chant. “Exite de bellator spiritus, custos animae meae. Bekon dico vobis: protector meus, imago mea spiritualis patronum, te, ut ostendam in me unum atque unicum tuum, dominus aeternam. Fac tibi nota mihi, quam levasti manum tuam ut ille solus protegere et voco hic et nunc!”

With each and every word, the candles began to go out, soon replacing the flames of amber, with plumes of blue. I could practically feel the magic gathering in the room, encompassing everything it touched.

And that's when I felt the pull.

“Revela ante te, ostende te vero forma, et stabit sicut primum et ultima defensionis forma! Familiarus!” And with that sentence ended, I felt my body, my essence, being pulled somewhere else. It hurt, it felt wrong, and I was not okay with being subjugated to this magic of which I had no understanding. So instead of letting it consume me, I fought tooth and nail against the magical draw, and soon the pulling stopped. The flames of the candles went out, and the magic dissipated.

A brief moment of silence filled the air, only to be filled by an angry growl.

“Argh! Why can I not get this spell to work? Why will you not show yourself my familiar?”

‘Familiar? What the hell is she-’ then I remembered batcat from earlier, and that made all the more confusing.

Why the hell would a spell used to create a familiar affect me in any way? I get that Luna's magic passed through here, but no spell she ever cast had ever seemed to involve me in any way, so why would-

And then something clicked. Something that answered all of my questions.

Why was I here? Why was I trapped in Luna’s mind? Why did that spell affect me? It all made perfect sense to me now.

I, was princess Luna's familiar.

Author's Note:

Hello everyone! Sorry for the wait, finals has taken up all of my time. But with summer coming up I hope to speed up the rate at which I post stuff.

Anyway, now we learn of the main plot point you all knew already, especially if you had read the first version. Anyways, hope you all enjoy!

Also, if you're wondering, here's what Luna was saying. I used Latin Google translate so don't trust it to be gramitacally correct or anything:

Dicentem: Exite de bellator spiritus, custos animae meae. Bekon dico vobis: protector meus, imago mea spiritualis patronum, te, ut ostendam in me unum atque unicum tuum, dominus aeternam. Fac tibi nota mihi, quam levasti manum tuam ut ille solus protegere et voco hic et nunc!

Translates to:

Come forth, warrior of my spirit, guardian of my soul. I bekon you, my phantom protector, my spiritual patron, to show yourself to me, your one and only, eternal master. Make yourself known to me, the one you are sworn to sole protect, as I call you here, and now!

And,

Revela ante te, ostende te vero forma, et stabit sicut primum et ultima defensionis forma!

Translates to:

Reveal yourself, show your true form, and stand as my first and final form of defense!

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