Chapter 1
The moon shone across the clearing, turning the dew covered grass and trees glint like silver. The sky was clear and the air slightly cool like a summer's night.
But Luna's side was warm against mine.
Sighing softly, I leaned against her, looking up at the stars and moon high above, the stars sparkling, not a cloud in the skies, the sky perfectly clear. It was the perfect night.
Chuckling, I flicked my ears at her insistent nuzzles, her wing pulling me closer to her side. There was a sudden crack in the forest behind us, causing us both to freeze.
Turning my head, I looked back into the darkness, “...Hello?”
Silence.
The wind picked up slightly, the woods starting to creek all around us and the light slowly shifted. The shadows growing longer and darker, sharper as the moon far above seemed to tint red.
Things moved in the forest and Luna shifted next to me, causing me to turn back to her with a growing feeling of dread.
What I saw, was not Luna. It was like a mix of Luna and Chrysalis if they had been dead for five years. Shining chitin and rotting flesh, sharp teeth with half the lower jaw missing. Her wing across my back was nothing but bone.
I stared at her for a long moment before I sighed and rolled my eyes, “Finally. Took you long enough, I thought I would need to wait all night.”
An application of will and I teleported out from under the wing before stomping my hoof against the ground. Waves of white light radiated out from where my hoof hit the ground and where they touched, things dissolved away, leaving nothing but white behind.
Reality melted and faded away into a brightly lit room, perhaps ten meters across in all directions. Pure white walls, ceiling and floor. Other than myself and one more thing, the room was empty.
Before me, across the room there was a floating cloud of dark smoke, constantly shifting shape. I could see things in it. Ponies in pain, Xenomorphs, other horrible things I remember having seen in movies, games, real life.
It hissed at me, turning into a kind of pony/changeling/tiger hybrid.
Rolling my eyes again, I willed at it and the creature was bound in chains and shackles of pure bright light.
“Stop that. Couldn't you have come a bit earlier? Now I overslept. But I figured I would give you another twenty minutes or so.”
It was a Night Terror. Or at least that was the name Luna had given them. Basically they were primitive spirit creatures formed by the fear and worry of ponies. They lived in the dream world, feeding off fear and terror they caused by entering happy dreams and turning them into nightmares. Not all nightmares were caused by them. But ever had a happy dream that turned into a nightmare halfway through? That was a Night Terror.
They were not dangerous. Not beyond causing some lack of sleep or possibly traumatizing some particularly sensitive pony. But they were annoying so Luna hunted them down and cleared them out whenever she could.
Since Luna started to teach me dream magic, I found that there was actually a branch of magic I was really good at. It was more willpower and imagination than anything else, at least as long as you stayed in your own head.
I couldn't leap from dream to dream all night like Luna, it was simply too draining. But in here? In my head?
In here I was god.
Luna could override me, but she had to really, really work to do it and she cheated by simply throwing more power at it.
I suspected it had something to do with my special talent. Stories... what were dreams if not stories?
The Night Terror struggles and growled, hissing and shifting from shape to shape. I could feel it trying to change the dream.
I didn't let it.
I couldn't chase them down like Luna could. It simply took to much energy to move to another dream for it to be practical for me.
...So instead I put up a trap. When I was hunting, I crafted a dream that just radiated happiness through the dreamworld. It was like bait, these things loved to change dreams into horrors. The happier dream the better as it got a stronger reaction they could feed off.
I half closed my eyes and took a slow deep breath before lighting my horn up. It was all mnemonics of course, I wasn't actually casting magic in here. The beam of light speared the spirit creature and it dissolved, turning into sparkles before flowing into me.
Like every other time, I suddenly felt like I just gulped down half a liter of energy drink.
Bloody hell, that had been a big one!
...Those things gathered up energy when they fed. Emotions turned into magic. All that had to go somewhere when the creature is destroyed, you couldn't simply destroy energy, even magical energy had to go somewhere.
Luna just grounded it into herself, she didn't even notice the boost. I did.
Oh, it didn't actually make me any more powerful, well, not in the long run. It was usually used up before lunch simply doing normal things like telekinesis. One decent combat spell would burn through it all at once.
This one was unusually big though, might last til mid afternoon. No, wait, we were going into the Everfree Forest today. That will likely be quite a drain.
Looking around the empty white room, I then shrugged. Might as well wake up.
The light faded away into nothing and I opened my eyes to reveal Twilight Sparkles' guestroom. The sun was already beaming in through the window, revealing that I had been right about the time. It was mid morning. Stretching with a groan, I yawned before rolling off the bed onto my hooves.
“Good Morning, Skitter.” I grumbled, rubbing my eyes. Bloody hell, even with that energy boost, I hate mornings. I need some tea.
Silence. No answer.
Huh.
Bending down I looked beneath the bed to find the Changeling missing. Damn, I really must have overslept if even Skitter got tired of waiting for me to wake up.
Shaking my head I trotted over to the door and headed down stairs in search of food.
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A new Hiver story! This pleases me.
Always nice to see another one up!
Well this is cool. Can't wait for the next chapter, whenever you update your stories.
the funny thing is i was going to re-read thees stores tomorrow because i was going threw my online bookshelf and thought that the stores deserve a re-read.
I don't mean to be a stickler in your side but,
Perhaps it should be the second one?
Hmm, not really sure what to do to this one, but it should be revised to make more sense. Maybe like this:
That was all i could see that would leave others a potential "problem" (not sure what to call it). Although, I really am quite happy that I am able to continue reading your stories. With a fresh one to boot, too!
Somewhat of a cold open without any sense of what is/was going on leading into this, but then again it is also the third story of a series, so it is presumed one will be familiar with the events prior to the dream. Seems a good start, but forgot how short you keep your chapters. I'll probably be going back to reread the first two stories to refresh myself on them as well. Looking forward to seeing what you do though, and more romance with Luna and Blank Page.
Also, should be posted within the hour.
Woohoo! Finally, a third story has arrived!
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Jumping directly into action? I like it!
I was thinking about this series recently. It's good to see it back again!
I am soooo thrilled that his begins again! Can't wait to see what Page does next
Nice to see Blank Page again! Already a new favorite, can't wait to see what you have in wait for us now
Well I at least get to read this story chapter to chapter the last two sat in my 'read later' shelf until they were finished and I got to binge read them. But that means I have to wait for updates and when you through us a cliffhanger it will be even worse. Also instant fav and up vote from me.
And I have to remember to create a shelf for this story and it's prequel's to mark them properly.
Oh ya kinda went of on a tangent there great chapter and besides a few grammatical errors here and there It fine. So off to a great start and can't wait for more.
I'll read you later.
-BFBL
Omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It continues!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!! How did i not know!?!?!?!
Ahhhhhh mussstyt readd!
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Same! I must consume all of this!
Oh, crap! How did I miss this thing? Well, the good news is now I get 40-something chapters to read!!
7409416 Yeah same here, except I missed the party. Now I've got to read the whole story
7434863 make that the three of us, I missed another webbysode of the suit life of blank page
And here I thought that Luna was the only one who could move between dreams... or effect the dreams of others at all. At least, that seems to be the canon explanation. This fic might have it be different.
Hmm.
Dream within a dream?
Random is what they are.
Seriously, one time in my dreams vacuum cleaners ate people. They sucked them up and spat out their skeletons.
Another time everything was really alien to me. Except trees.
Trees were normal. And instead of the planet curving downward to form a sphere it curved upward. And a massive tsunami was coming, really tall, not thick, but it was going really slowly. Then everything around me started turning into chocolate bars.
Like Cadbury chocolate bars that were still in its wrapping.
And those aren't even the worst.
A few years ago I had a dream that I had gotten an omnitrix, the one from the original Ben ten, and a massive one the size of an elephant was chasing me.
At some point my parents turned up while I was running through my house and told me to run or something, then they started inflating like balloons. This was a nightmare by the way.
I was absolutely terrified for some reason.
As lucid dreams,
A while ago I was really sick. I realised I was dreaming because I was in my old house but I had moved recently, so, because I was sick I was really thirsty, and I thought, "let's get a drink of water," or something along those lines, and I proceeded to drink water until I woke up.
And last but not least, I woke up crying and really sad, but I don't remember the dream....
This was intended to be a small comment but turned into this.
Somehow.
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Did you know The Terminator was inspired by a nightmare? Some metal robot dude crawled out of a fire and attacked James Cameron.
BTW, half of my "small" comments (here on FimFiction and on other websites) end up being several paragraphs long. I guess that's how I roll, or something.
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oi, i am not lazy. not a lot of ponies die very often. i am not lazy this is just where i go for vacation.
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One dream, I had woke up asking my mother for an apple. I hadn't even recognized the kitchen we were in. I was about 6 or 7 at the time.
Dreams are your mind processing the previous days experiences. You will have several dreams in one night. They typically only last a couple minutes. I dozed fir about five minutes once, I had three dreams, I don't remember two of them, and the third I was jumping really high around an old wooden ship shooting baddies. It got weird when it started sinking.
I once dreamt that I was fighting a pirate who was sitting on a toilet in a polka dot filled landscape. I had a laser gun but it wouldn't work. The pirate swung his sword at me, I tripped and collided with a blue dot, and fell through the dot into my body.
Story three next, time to read.
Magic Red Bull
Nice!
Time to binge read another 50 chapters
Dream Lord Blank Page, this sure has a nice ring to it!
👍
Into another read through
Quite the power up between stories.
Guess the emotion crisis is over already...
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*Doctor River Song slaps Tirek with a censor bar*