Entering the space between dreams, I looked around. It was different during the day.
Much emptier of the dreams of ponies. Not to say that there were no dreams here. Ponies that were sick, night workers... lazy teenagers.
But much emptier. Instead of portals stretching out into the distance of what seemed to be eternity, there were only a few thousands of them drifting through.
Stretching my wings, I made a motion with my hoof, focusing some magic to bring up what I had come to call the control matrix. It was of course not any more real than anything else in here, just a mental representation of what I was actually doing, but it did make things easier to work with.
I spent a minute or so filtering through the dreams, ordering the disturbed ones before me before I went to each portal and personally checked how they looked from the outside.
Nightmare or a feeding Night Terror.
Finally reaching the last one with a nightmare, I tapped it with my hoof, canceling the dream and bringing the upset mirror disk back to it's normal smooth image.
I then spread my wings and flashed across the non-existent landscape of the space between dreams to a dream realm I knew very well.
Smiling to myself, I checked my wings and mane before I trotted in through the silver disk and what seemed like reality faded into view around me, leaving me in what appeared to be the tower back home. I smiled wider at the sight that greeted me.
Luna was on the bed, sparks and lines of lights floating around her.
“What are you up to, love?” I asked as I moved to jump up and lay down beside to her.
Luna smiled and spared me a quick nuzzle at my ear before turning back to the floating lights, “I'm working on an shield design. If I manage it, it will be faster to cast without losing any strength.”
“Hmm. Interesting,” I said and shifted to lean against her side, nosing along her neck. She shivered and the lights collapsed.
She smiled and turned her head to my nose, “Am I ignoring you?”
“I want my Luna time. And I can't get it during normal times and I miss you.”
Her wing settled across mine and she gave me a quick kiss, “How are things going?”
“...Well enough,” I answered and leaned against her. “I can technically fly and move in more or less the direction I want to. Neither Sparky or I is willing to clear me for solo flight yet so I'll likely stay another week or two. At least until I manage to get back onto the ground without risking breaking something or someone.”
I just felt lucky that alicorns had the entire earth pony hardness or I would likely had broken something during my first... well, I wouldn't call them flights...
“Sparky?” she asked, sounding amused.
“She hate being called that. So I do everytime I get a chance.”
Luna snorted and nipped at my ear, “But you are flying?”
I nodded. “I can get into the air. Not sure I would call it flying yet,” I sighed and nuzzled. “But yeah. We are taking a nap on a cloud above the outskirts of the Everfree forest. No ponies that could see us out here and it's much easier when I look like myself.”
Nodding, Luna smirked. “So what you are telling me is that you are sleeping with Twilight?”
“I am,” I agreed with a grave nod before bobbing my eyebrows at her. “Wanna watch? I bet you can teleport to us are in a couple of jumps.”
“Maybe at some point in the future,” Luna teased and nuzzled between my ears before sticking her tongue out at me. “I'll let you know.”
And there is my blush. Damn it, I should know I shouldn't allow myself to get into those kinds of games with either of the heavenly sisters. Luna is not quite as savage as Celestia, but she is still damn good at it.
Shaking my head, I nuzzled at her neck. “So how are things in Canterlot?”
“Pretty much the same as always. Nobles with branches up their behinds, people bitching about irrelevant things. Tons of paperwork and ever changing fashions. I heard from my maids that saddles are making a comeback in fine fashion.”
I never could understand fashion. Then again, I was male so I guess that came with the territory. Mostly, I left that to women and just enjoyed the end result.
I nodded and stretched my wings. “Anyone questioning why I'm gone?”
She shook her head and rolled onto her side, relaxing as she eyed me. “Not really. They know you left Canterlot for a good while before and seemed to accept the story easily enough. There was an article in the papers and everything.”
“Goody.”
I was taking some time away from the stress of Canterlot to study and work on my magic, while finishing up the last parts of my new book. It was the complete truth.
We just didn't clarify that it was my Pegasus and Earth Pony magic I was trying to get a handle on and not my unicorn magic.
Of course, most of my Earth Pony magic was 'don't break in half by hitting something'. I'm almost glad I'm not as strong as Sparks. Apparently, she broke a couple of things before she got a handle on hers.
I leaned against her side. “How's Skitter doing?” I asked. Skitter was still in Canterlot taking her own lessons with Celestia.
“Very well, from what I know,” Luna answered. “We talk most evenings... but I can't help but wonder why you asked my sister to help teach her and not me.”
“Well... to be honest, Celestia has experience in teaching it with Cadence,” I admitted, looking up at her as I rolled and stretched out on my back before I smiled slightly, “... I may also have been a bit selfish in not wanting to cut down on you and me time.”
“There is that,” Luna agreed before she smiled and nuzzled. “But you should get back to your practice. Unless you wish to continue while right next to Twilight...”
I sighed and shook my head, “...Better not.”
“Good luck, My Page,” Lune said and gave me a hug with her wing. “See you again tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow. Sweet dreams, love,” I answered and nuzzled at her cheek before allowing myself to wake up.
I blinked at the bright sunlight and suppressed a yawn, before raising my head, stretching, and turning my head to find Twilight watching me.
“How long was I out?” I asked. “Hope I didn't keep you waiting.”
Twilight shook her head and looked away, out over the forest below. “Only fifteen minutes or so. We both needed a break anyway.”
Nodding I got up and stretched my wings before folding them again. “Want to continue?”
Smiling, Twilight turned back to me again and nodded. “Yes. But we should wrap up in an hour or so, I need to prepare for tonight.”
“Astronomy, right?”
“Right.”
ITS HERE!!!
YES! ITS FINALLY HERE!!!
Thank you Hiver! Love ya babe
My daily dose of happiness has returned!
7897712 sadly not daily this time. Due to finally getting a job, my writing time have been cut down by a lot. Until I find a closer place to live and don't need to commute 3+ hours a day, I had to cut down to one part every two days. Sorry.
Yay! New story!
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No problem dude.
That's still great.
Licked the plate clean and ready for more tomorrow.
Great having you back Hiver!
New Hiver story, excellent. Recently reread the past three ones, greatly looking forward to this. Glad to have you back, for however many days/weeks it'll take for this one to be posted to completion!
an should be a.
the are should be removed.
Only errors that I saw present in this chapter, it seems a good start to another story, Hiver.
Yay!!! Glad to be reading this works again.
7897716 Jeeze man... I know your pain. Only just cut my own commute down from 3+ hours daily to 50mins or so daily.
Hehe, you know. the whole 'Hammer the cube' thing could be taken in a figurative way, maybe channel Zecora while meditating around it to 'find the answer to the enigma that wraps the question'.
Oh, here it is, The Sequel!
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Well, now is as good of a time as any to re-read the previous stories, time to binge the series!
Oh, it's back — back again.
'Secret of Flying' not the most grand of titles, so I'll be expecting some lovely slice-of-life.
Next novel: Top Gun!
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Aww yea, excellent! Glad you're back! We've been waiting so patiently, and it paid off!
Welcome back!
"So I do everytime?"
"So, I do it every time" is the grammatically correct way to say it.
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Oh shoot, that's my name. I'm gonna have to check this story out some time
Good to have you back Hiver. Can't bloody wait.
it is back!!!
Awesome!
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Read the first stories in the series otherwise you'll be incredibly lost.
Woohoo! Hiver has graced us with his presence once again, can't wait to see what happens
7898738 Will do. Thanks for the heads up.
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH HIIIVVVEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR
7898055 My reaction exactly xD
HUZZAH!
Nice to see this come out. I wonder how jelly Shining is going to get once he finds out. Or heaven forbid Blueblood.
*snuggles up into my blanket with chocolate milk* I'M READY FOR BLANK PAGE'S NEXT ADVENTURE!
Anyway can't wait see how you develop this story now that the canon no longer applies as much. (I however do hope to see Blank Page smacking Starlight in the face tho...pretty please)
Aahhh... it starts off sweet already. Will happily follow this!
I just finished reading the backlog of stories in this series after starting at the beginning earlier today. The only errors I saw were "have"s where 'has' was apropriate, some instances of inconsistant tenses, and putting 'a's before words starting with vowel sounds. Other than those things it was a great read! Please keep it up!
Again, this just bothers me. I feel like Twilight is overpowered enough with 'Element of Magic' enhanced unicorn magic. It bothers me that you make her prodigiously powerful in both of the other magics as well. I'm not saying you need to make Page stronger; I think you should make Twilight and Cadence seem a little weaker. If only to make the gap between the 'new female alicorns' and 'new male alicorn' not so ridiculous. They should all have strengths and weaknesses, but so far you have just said 'Twilight is good at everything' and 'Page is only good at dream magic'.
Example: Make Twilight very weak with earth pony magic, and only average with pegasus magic. Something along the lines of 'the mystical' not resonating with 'the natural'. Weather is a mix of magic and nature in Equestria, but growth is still pretty much a (regulated) natural process. Conversely, Page could be at least average in both.
Bottom line/tldr: Your OC is not a Mary Sue. In fact, he is such an average character that he makes your almost-canon Twilight look even more like a Mary Sue by comparison. So you still wind up with a Mary Sue in your story, which makes it annoying to read.
Fly away
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I would have kept going. Twilight can fly away if things get awkward. Or she can just stay and watch, I wont judge.
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I get it, it is true, but you have to see it as in domains, Twilight is the Alicorn of Magic, call magic frienship or whatever, but magic. That includes Earth and pegaus magic. Now learning how to aply that magic would be different, I can't imagine her being better than rainbow dash, or Applejack. Twilight is power but no finese in anything not unicorn. Unicorn magic she earned.
I would hope rather, that page was stronger, that his domains made him better at new things. Something like manipulation magic, or cheering people up, or inspiring creativity. In the same way that candence can manipulate love.
Page should be taking the place of a muse somehow, have something that makes him special. Dream magic just doesn't cut it for me either, at least he could do the mentioned before things through dream magic, go to ponies dreams and inspire them.
Give him a good ear for music and painting in the same way that Luna had even after 1000 years absent.
At the end of it all, in my head I can only thing that he is not only young as an alicor, but new to magic and ponies too, he has grown an absurd amount for only what, 3 years?
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Twilight might be a Mary Sue from this perspective, when there's nothing going on, and mostly in training what is essentially alicorn 101.
From what I've seen from this series so far, is that Twilight absolutely sucks in being a people person (ponies pony?), easily distracted, and barely useful outside of what we know of her in canon. And since the story is mostly from Page's perspective, we don't know of how many fuckups Twilight had done on her own.
Basically, she seems like a Mary Sue because the story as of now doesn't really explore beyond what she should be good at.
Great chapters. Its funny how mutch i enjoy it still re-reading it.
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Page is the beginning of a hard working fellow that owns his way to greatness, no higher destiny named Harmony is guiding him. He owns his success and everyone either supports him for their gain or try to cling to him in vain.
Except the best fashion designers are all males...
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its because some men can see both sides
Damn fine verbal sparring, keeps the mind sharp for when his tongue has to be a razor edge towards nobels and other problem making individuals