I woke up to the smell of food, waffles with maple syrup. Then I looked around, this wasn't Luna's room, everything in the room looked... plastic and fake.
Still, the cloud bed I was over was quite comfortable. I took a bite of the cloud and ate it getting disappointed that it tasted like water. I looked myself over, I still was in Luna's body but was wearing a Powerpuff Girls nightgown, weird.
Then breakfast floated to me, held in a familiar colored aura, it felt a lot like my own magic actually. It was waffles and orange juice, and toast with strawberry jam.
"Oops, I forgot the tray!" The voice of a small girl said. Then a wooded tray floated under the breakfast. Then the food landed in the tray slowly.
"Who are you? What's going on?" I asked but I got no answer and the food tray landed in the cloud without sinking.
Still... the food smelled good.
I ate the breakfast slowly, savoring it. Then I jumped to the floor and exited the room , finding myself in a land made of chocolate.
"Hi!" Said the voice again, this time in front of her. It was... a mini Princess Luna? What?
I kicked herself, it hurt and the filly Luna in front of me didn't disappear.
"Hi, why I am here and who are you?"
"I... I don't know? And... I... uhh... bye!" The filly unicorn then threw a smoke bomb and ran away. I chased after the mini me and then...
And then I woke up... for real this time.
The thing about being Princess Luna I probably hate the most, is being nocturnal. Breakfast was okay but after that I had to go to sleep, and no, apparently Dream Walking doesn't count as sleeping.
I sleep for a few hours and woke up screaming, thankfully not remembering my nightmares. That made me miss the mini Luna dream.
I decided to take a long bath and play with a ruber ducky that somehow was in my tub.
Maybe it was my sister idea? It was distracting at least.
After that I asked the guards outside my room to sent me a maid.
I ended with a nervous looking earth pony mare.
"Is... is something wrong your highness?" The coffee brown pony asked while trembling.
I took out a brush from under my pillow, doing my very best to not smile as that would have scared her even more. Then have it to her.
"Brush my coat servant."
"What? I mean... yes princess!"
Having my coat brushed was relaxing, despite how nervous she was, the earth mare did a good show.
"You did well, what is your name servant?"
"Toffee Sparkle your highness."
I raised an eyebrow "Are you related to a Twilight Sparkle?"
"Not as far as I know Princess."
'Must be a coincidence then.'
"Very well, you can leave."
The fact she almost couldn't stop herself from running when she left hurt a bit.
'Calm down Luna, trust is something that must be earned.'
Two days later, after that weird dream with mini me, I said goodbye to Moon Dancer as she left in the train to Appleloosa, she didn't seem very happy with her new job.
Most ponies were keeping their distance from me, but that was probably because of the guards my sister had following me and because I was a princess and unlike Celestia, most ponies didn't know me.
No of course it wasn't fear because I had been Nightmare Moon, don't be silly!
I felt... not great or less guilty but definitely better about my choice. The trip would be good for Moon Dancer, possible crush on Twilight Sparkle or not.
And about myself? I really wanted to try something.
"Pinkamena Diane Pie, if you do not appear here right now I will exile your whole family to the Badlands."
I waited a few minutes, nothing happened.
The Royal Guards looked at me in confusion.
"Nevermind, I just wanted to see if that silly mare was following me around. I am not really gonna exile anypony to the Badlands... today."
I then turned and started to walk back to the castle, thinking about it, Moon Dancer might also had been grumpy because the train left at five in the morning. But I am not a day pony, okay? Early morning is the best you can get from me.
But then I changed my mind and I walked right into Joe's Donuts, somehow it was open at this hour but the one in the counter wasn't Joe but an old mare, maybe his mother?
So I ate donuts and forced the guards to eat donuts too, I even paid instead of using my royal right of getting it free, because otherwise they would feel my ire.
Despite what fanon had taught me about Luna being addicted to caffeine, I actually just drank a glass of milk.
Then I was back in the castle in time to see my sister out of her morning shower. That she usually took later, but me messing the moon had forced her to take it at about six AM.
She was not a happy pony even If I had been the one working all night dealing with dream problems. Well mostly failing at entering dreams but I did help Fluttershy yesterday a bit at least.
I smiled and nuzzled her neck.
"Good and glorious morning dear sister! Fair Moon Dancer has left on her mission and I ate these delicious things called Donuts, even if I failed to meet Joe of the Donuts."
Celestia chuckled at hearing me.
"Luna why do you talk like that? I know you can speak modern Equis."
"Oh that's true but I am the royal princess sister no pony knows; so I decided to play being the weird one. I am still out of date in many things."
"Hence why you took the guards to eat donuts?"
"Yes but is true we didn't had those before... Let's call it my time out on the moon."
And that soured everypony mood, even mine, great job substitute Luna! You failed Lunar Replacement, you Destroyer Moon Moron you...
"Eh, I am going to take my morning nap. Dreamwalking is not really sleeping. See you for lunch? Don't be afraid to wake me for it... just use a long stick, I might bite."
Meanwhile back in Ponyville...
"So you too were visited by Princess Luna in your dreams?" Spike asked in an enthusiastic tone.
"Yes. She... she told me some useful advice." Fluttershy said as she hid her face behind her pink mane.
"Is that why Rainbow Dash is wearing a dress and complaining about it?"
"Well... I might have offered her a reward if she got used to wearing it and went to a fancy lunch with me. at Canterlot. Bye Spike, our carriage is here now."
"Bye and good luck. Now what I was doing so early? Ah yes, I had to take out the trash."
Trash collectors picked trash early in the morning in Ponyville, while in Canterlot they did so at night.
Spike wondered, What was Princess Luna doing right now?
Said princess turned out to be sleeping while she drooled to a pillow and called it mister Sparky.
And in said princess dream, she was playing tag with a much smaller and younger version of herself.
"So... who are you?" I said after what it seemed hours of playing tag. Time inside dreams was relative after all.
"I am Princess Luna!" The mini me said smiling.
Oh... this could be good or could be horrible. Good because it meant something of Princess Luna mind and personality was left in her body, horrible because If she somehow took control over our body it would be with the personality of a little filly.
Considering how powerful an alicorn could be, that wasn't good.
And mini Luna did explain were I was getting that information and magic skills I had been pulling without knowing how.
Still... maybe I could take Celestia to meet mini Luna? I would have to make sure Celestia wasn't aware in the dream, but playing with mini Luna would probably help both her and mini me.
Briefly I considered turning Celestia into a small filly... well maybe when Discord got free?Iis not like it would make things worse by then and I had to research how to do that spell first.
"So, ever head the story of Princess Wonna who got stuck in the Moon?"
"No, tell me!"
'Celestia, Luna, I have no clue what's going on but one day I will get the two of you together... I promise.'
UPDATE
Syrup not sirrup
Why is this on hiatus?
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Yes, it took a while.
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Because I do not know if I can do frequent updates. It took me months just to write this chapter and is kinda short.
YEY!!!!!
Nice to see this pop up, again. In fact, I was just looking through a lot of old stories the other day and lamenting how many remain unfinished. Glad you are semi-back, and I wish you luck in your endeavors.
HIC EN SPIRITUM
SED NON INCORPORE
EVOKARE LEMURES DE MORTUIS
DECRETUM ESPUGNARE
DE ANGELUS BALBERITH
EN INFERNO INREMEABLIS
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Odd, that's usually the incantation to raise me from my grave, perhaps it's different for everyone?
I hope you had a good New Years, and thank you for the chapter.
An update? Yay. Sorry, I’m drained of energy and don’t feel like acting like I have it right now.
You take your time on this and it’ll be fine. You rush and the apple goes rotten, goes bad or whatever.
I forgot that she was hiding her true self. Not something I like but at least she isn't a character with two minds again.
I'm not sure if I want to ask what she did with Fluttershy.
Well thank you for the update, but not sure if I will like where this is going.
I mean on one side we have Luna still existing in her body? - on the other side she is at least not actively manipulating her or using the body yet.
Then I noticed (human?)is pretending to be Luna, to be honest I mostly noticed this in my last comment that I didn't really liked the fact.
I guess I'm a bit dissapointed when I think about all the potential interessting scenes/reactions. that could have happened otherwise.
edit: I think I know why i liked this so far, I think I like your writing style but not sure if that is enough here.
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Yay?
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Thank you.
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I had several ideas for this chapter amd I ended using them all.
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Ok.
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With a title like "Lunar Replacement" I honesty don't know what you were expecting of this story.
The basic premise is a human dying, replacing Luna and being unable to tell anypony because not only she fears for her safety, but because Celestia could go crazy and destroy Equestria.
Mini Luna is there to explain the ability to use magic and weird memories that come and go.
If it makes you feel better, our Lunar Replacement has no human body and she is starring to act a lot like a weird Luna.
Also this is an alternate Equestria as seen in a previous chapter. Twilight doesn't have a brother and Cadence is a pegasus.
So the MC can't relly on show knowledge too much.
The sad tag is there for a reason, the real Luna is gone and all that's left are mini Luna and fragments of memories.
That's all I can say without spoiling too much.
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not sure if that has to mean she acts exactly like her, could mean she is just like a second sister to Celestia even when she knows it's not exactly Luna.
well it is better to understand know what that Luna exactly is at least.
Well okay that doesn't makes the story bad, but I still have to decite for myself if I'm still in the mood for That Luna or that Celestia.
So if I understood it right you said it's not because Luna might be forced by some kind of magic to not tell Celestia about it right?
I can't decite if Celestia being that fragile is interessting right now or overdone and with that I mean not my thing at the moment.
I wish you good luck with the story now that it continues again, but I will have to see if I'm in the mood for it and continue to come back.
I might start from the beginning again and then decite what to do with the story.
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Celestia being fragile and capable of a "Luna into Nightmare Moon like breakdown" is canon; see the episode were Celestia and Luna switched cutie marks.
Granted it wasn't Canon when I wrote that in this story but now it is.
Twilight Sparkle went nuts over being unable to write a friendship report. The communist pony almost broke time and destroyed the multiverse because she had lost her only friend and hated Twilight Sparkle.
Now imagine losing the only family you have left, and finding out it had been replaced by a fake.
Sounds bad? Now inagine the typical pony reaction to that and add Solar Alicorn powers.
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That's not really important to me, it's more an explanation as to why it can happen in your story I think. In my opinion not everything has to happen like it does int he show.
Now like I said, your the one who decitedes where the story is going it can happen, but it doesn't has to happen.
Now that we are talking about the the only thing I say is that it doesn't have to happen.
to be honest sometimes those kind of explanations seems a bit uhhhm to easy to me.
The show is the show I suppose and will probably only show this and that because it's probably still meant for younger kids.
At least when I try to image a more grown up version or something like that I think it's possible for different stuff to happen to them.
You really don't need to explain that to me, I won't let my opinion on this chage so easily.
In german I could probably explain it better, not sure why I said this much since I already said I'm just not in the mood.
Like I already said I'm not sure if I'm in the mood for this at the moment, maybe I liked it more the last time I was reading it, but my taste has probably changed a bit over the last two years.
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Heh, I am starting to doubt the competence of the current MLP staff. Or just the management.
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They had the communist pony basically become the main character.
But to be fair having Celestia and Luna bickering like actual sisters is one of the good things of the new episodes.
And the MC in this fanfic is scared and keeps finding reasons to be scared. Who wouldn't be in her situation?
Princess Wonna who got stuck in the Moon
...Woona?
This might be adorable.
Ooo Luna as Woona I guess this could hardly get more cute
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Technically, she is a leveller. A 18 century movement that ended badly and tragic but gave a start to modern liberalism.
I have to wonder what his real name is. Well, O assume she's actually a guy because of how he reacted to suddenly being Luna. Also wondering if he'll ever find a way to reverse what happened to him or not. It would be rather depressing if he was forced to give up his life because it was demanded he do so for others sakes.
Some reward? Mean in a sex way?
I might help here or there, already spotting a few typos.
Great chapter, Wona and Tia dream wrestling? To cute! ♡