I opened my eyes and scrambled out of bed, rolling onto my hooves, almost landing on a sleeping Amber, “What the ever-loving fuck was that!?”
Amber burst into action, slamming me down against the floor beneath her before she was properly awake, scanning the room.
“...Ow.”
Note to self, do not scare changelings when they are asleep. If it didn't involve getting a close look on the grain in the wooden floor, then I would have been a lot more impressed.
“Amber, get off me!” I grumbled and struggled out from beneath the changeling.
“But sir, there might be...”
“Yes, but it's not here.” I said and lit up my horn, lifting her off me as I got back onto my hooves. Damn it, that got my feathers in a mess again.
I flapped my wings a couple of times which got most of them into order just as the door slammed open to reveal Sunset, “Page?” she asked, her horn lit up by a spell, the energies of a second spell shimmering along it as she kept her magic ready to either attack or defend, “What's going on?”
Amber struggled in my magic and I slowly set her down, forcing myself to slow down and think. “Something... bad,” I finally said, “but not here so you can drop your magic,” I explained and looked at Amber. “That goes for you too.”
The Changeling didn't look overly happy about it, but she settled down, her wings against her back, “Sir? What is going on?”
I shook my head and then shrugged my wings, “Something... strange... in the dream realm. Ponies dreaming blank dreams. I may be freaking out over nothing, but I need to contact Luna at once,” I said and got up, moving past Sunset and heading for Twilight's room.
Kinda amazing she and Spike was asleep for it all.
Glancing back revealed that both Sunset and Amber followed along, looking worried. Well, Sunset did. Amber looked mostly alert, her eyes scanning the dark hallway.
“Twilight? Spike?” I asked as I knocked on the door, “Twilight, I need to borrow your PDA for a moment.”
There was a moment before a sleepy looking Twilight opened the door, “...My what?”
“Personal Dragon Assistant.” I clarified, “I need to get a message to Luna now. I can't wait until our next nap update.”
“He can't have sent to Princess Luna, only to Princess Celestia.”
“But Celestia can relay it.”
There have to be a easier way of doing this. There must be spells or something.
Twilight frowned at me, “What's going on?”
I just sighed, “I have no idea. I might be panicking about nothing, but when I find ponies dreaming about... nothing. Nothing at all... then I'm going to freak. I need to know if this is something I need to be panicking about.”
She nodded, “We'll meet you down in the kitchen, I need to wake Spike.”
...He is seriously not up yet? How the hell, not even I would sleep through this.
Nodding, I turned and headed past Sunset, “I'll get some tea put on.” I said and rubbed my eyes, stretching my wings again on the way down the stairs, “...What time is it anyway?”
“Around one or so.” Sunset supplied and ran her magic through her mane, spinning it into a braid so she didn't need to deal with it.
“...That explains why it feels like I have been asleep for two hours. I have.” I sighed and moved to light up the stove and put the kettle on. Time for some quadruple strength of what passed for the local earl grey.
I then looked back at my guard and student/pain in my flank/sparring partner, “You two don't need to be up, go back to sleep.”
“No offense, but if someone is going around turning ponies’ dreams into nothing, I'll stay awake.” Sunset answered as she settled down by the table.
By the time the water was done Twilight was walking down the stairs with a sleepy looking dragon laying on her back.
“Give me a second and I'll write a note.” I said and moved to get a quill and paper, “Sunset, you are on tea duty.”
Finding something to write with and on, I scribbled down a quick note to Celestia to give it to Luna asap as well as an explanation about what I found... and an apology for waking her if it turned out to be something normal.
I would feel very silly if it did turn out to be normal, but I had never seen it before and it didn't... it didn't feel right. Better safe than sorry.
I rolled it up and tied some string around it before returning and handing it over to Spike, “Here. Sorry for waking you.”
He just grumbled and blew green fire at it, causing it to literally go up in smoke. With that I settled down by the table, taking the steaming hot cup of tea that Sunset offered me, “Thanks.”
She just nodded and poured some for everyone at the table before getting a cup for herself as she settled down next to Twilight.
Everything settled down to silence as I floated my cup before me, simply taking in the scent of the tea for now. Everyone else looked some degree of drowsy. Spike had gone back to sleep against the table while Amber looked alert, constantly turning her head.
I'm going to feel like such a idiot if this turns out to be false alarm.
There were maybe fifteen minutes with very little conversation before Spike suddenly jerked awake and burped out a flame of green flame that made a rolled up scroll to form in midair. I snagged it from midair and quickly read it before I looked at the rest, “Stay awake whatever you do. Do not go asleep. I'm going to return to the dreaming, Luna needs to talk to me.”
This was bad.
Discord? Could it be Discord?
Oh No Blank Dreams
Sounds like my life...
Regardless I have enjoyed every chapter so far and will wait for more.
My guess on who this is
Annnd here comes starlight
Awwww, too short! Oh well, reset the clock.
As an added source of Fun to anyone else reading this:
Before Page became rich with he Star Wars Book what did the do for money?
well if this is the our town thing I hope you do a better job with Twilight's explanation to sunlight glimmer on why her friends are so important. "I don't why my friends are so important" what kind of line was that!?!? I'm sure a five year old would have joined me in slamming my head on to a table spouting "the elements of harmony... you know the things that defeated discord, nightmare moon, tirek..." of course tirek didn't get defeated by the elements this time around but still... I know how! prevent her escape in the first place! then there is no stupid idoit line to begin with!
*Shovels fuel into the hype train labeled 'Adventure!'*
"All aboard while we wait for this hype to get rolling!"
I am curious why people are suggesting Starlight Glimmer.
We're off the rails of canon expectation now with Tirek's defeat taking a different direction. For all we know, the blank dreams could be like the Nothing from Neverending Story.
*Grabs popcorn* The author has a blank page of unwritten possibilities here...
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He was getting monthly stipend from the government.
7928790 well, actually, you never dream 'nothing', you always dream something, just don't remember it every time. Unless you talking about some kind of endless void in your dream. Then you should be worried.
7928857 Remember that one song in the season 5 opener? Here are a few lines from it.
In our town, in our town
We work as a team
You can't have a nightmare
If you never dream
Haven't read more than te title but I am compelled to say this, no matter if it has been said before:
The secrey to flying is rather simple. Throw yourself at te ground and miss.
The trick is to distract yourself completely and utterly at the very last second so you forget you are falling, and then bam you are flying. Just remember to not think about pesky things like gravity, lest it realize you should, in fact, be falling at that moment.
7928893 ... I can't believe I didn't catch that.
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Such lines are widely open for interpretation, but I can see the connection you suggest. We'll have to wait and see.
Let's take stock of how much Blank Page has altered the time line:
Twilight doesn't fix the friendship problems at CHS nor does Sunset use the Element. Thus, no big flash of Equestrian Magic to attract the Sirens. Thus, that world stays pretty much quiet and ordinary.
Page defeated Tirek, thus Twilight doesn't figure out the Keys for the box, thus no Friendship Castle.
So... I'm calling this now: Blank Page and Amber go to the place the ponies having hose non-dreams are. Though I would not be surprised if Luna sends a few of the Guard that way an hour after he leaves, just in case he needs backup. And I would also not be too surprised if Luna went that way herself an hour after that. (Yes, I do picture Luna in this timeline to be a bit of a worrier about her consort.)
We forget about possible Discord influence. Right now, he is wanted criminal, who probably feel endangered. Who know what he do, especially with being avatar of chaos. And I doubt he manage to hold himself silent and unseen for long time, not this type of charakter.
He number of words in these chapters is too damn low
Holy mother and Moses...
I like Earl Grey too. Gonna get some.
7928870 Partial credit. He had a job after that, but before becoming a writer.
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It's mostly the line in the song "our town".
Seems to fit perfectly.
If it is someone else, I'll gladly take the surprise.
7929349 Didn't he work in a bookstore?
7929455 THATS IT!!! He worked there until the owner, I think his name was "Loose Leaf", retired and closed the store.
You know, I'd completely forgotten than Discord just sort of buggered off in the end of the last story.
...that's going to come back to bite them in the collective butt, isn't it?
An insomniac joins Our Town. "At least I sleep just as well as anyone else."
The "timer" on this chapter in my feed is messed up. Before I started reading it said it was posted at about 1:30 a.m. and had said that it was posted around 10 hours ago. It was 9:15 a.m. at the time! Just thought you might get a kick out of it.
7929715 Hah!
Shit, I'm caught up.
7930182 welcome to the fold
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Yep yep. Especially since Discord will be still considering Tirek as a friend, Blank Page pretty much has a target on his flank.
Personally I'm hoping for Blank Page to team up with Fluttershy on an adventure against Discord~!
(PS to Hiver...feel free to steal my idea...because you know have done it before...)
Don't really think its Discord's style but he has been missing for a while and no one knows what has happened with him so... It's possible if not unexpected.
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Could be an equal sign pony. As unexpected way to find out as it would be.
(Edit: I wasnt aware of the ...opening song in episode 92 when I said this. (As Silvak pointed out.) Must of been my subconscious trying to remind what was said in it.)
7928822
living on a crown given allowance wasn't he? Been a while...
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I don't believe Hiver is crazy enough to keep, let alone repeat that line. Could be wrong though, might find away to make it hilarious.
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7928857
Very true.
7928893 decided to uncover spoiler box...
Holy shit!! That could be a massive spoiler! Nicely pointed out though. Glad someone has good memory.
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Tirek may of taken discord's power. If I remember correctly: canon had it as soon as Tirek didn't need Discord anymore he took his powers, it was never confirmed what happened to him beyond Celestia and who she told that he had in fact teamed up with Tirek. He may of been betrayed without us knowing. Feel free to correct me.
7931460 Tirek takes Discord's magic after capturing the Elements minus Twilight, hence unless something changed to suit this story's canon, I believe Discord is still at full power.
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Yes that is not something I question, either Tirek kept the alliance and therefore Discord kept his powers or at the end of Tirek's life he got them back. My point was meant to be about whether he cares about Tirek's death enough to dislike Page.
Now thinking on it, I'm pretty sure Tirek was killed before the alliance ended. Given that, by Blank Page own words...
...he has not effected Twilight's time line directly to the point of nonrecognition, nor Discord.
At this point I believe Tirek was killed before he discovered about Twilight being a Alicorn and in turn, her friends, given that his death was during the initial visit to where he believed all princesses were. The Alliance was still there and Discord was messing with Shinning Amour and the rest of the guards. It is likely Discord is concerned what Fluttershy will think of him, or more importantly to him, that she may help capture him. We also don't know if Discord knows how Page killed Tirek as he may have been keeping his distance? Discord is simply too much of a unknown when it comes to people writing about him. I guess we will know what Hiver had planned as it comes.
I believe it is a little too early for the Season 5 then again without the Cutie Map it's hard to tell. Hmmmguess that the Season 5 finale is not possible thanks to the map not being present. Otherwise it would have been ano automatic win for her. However there is one lingering culprit that was stated to be a thing present before said season: the Tantabus.
7931429 He did do a little, then he got a job at a book store for a while.
7932022
Ah Yes! I remeber that. Ahh sweet nostalgia. Well remembered. Thanks
7932168 Thank you!
im confused, is spike a fax machine or a PDA?
7932386 Fax
7932511 im half tempted to write one of those "X has been replaced by Y" fics
I'd complain that the Nothing Dreams are only coming up NOW, but even according to the show, Starlight's village was being built within the 4-ish months between "Maud Pie" and "The Cutie Map, Part 1", so her equality cult (and her way to store cutie marks) is actually pretty new by the time Twilight comes across it.
7928857
Way (a full year) behind you and the story is already done, but...
7928857
Eyyyyyyyy!
7928857
Why are they sugessting that? Twilight doesn't have the map or the castel yet, it was the map in the castle that sent her to the village.
So, on a reread, I have no idea what this letter is saying.
First, it should be "Do not go back to sleep."
Next, presumably this letter is from Celestia, since, you know, she needs to talk to Luna, but...
1) Luna is presumably awake at night, thus why Blank didn't think to contact her that way.
2) Why return 'to the dreaming' if Celestia needs to talk to Luna?
Edit:I'm a dumbass. It wasn't Page reading the letter out loud, but giving orders.
I'm not ashamed to admit I snorted at 'PDA'.
Im pretty sure Starlight Glimmer Equality spell is ripping parts of ones Soul out or has heavy mind control / will weakening aspects. Probably both
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You can’t have a nightmare, if you never dream!
Luna to the rescue! Time to have a epic entrance!
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If you never dream, that how can you see your future self surrounded by ones wishes
So, in this AU, Spike can only send messages to Celestia, instead of wherever he wants. Interesting. 🤔
Since nobody has pointed out the typo for Hiver to ignore because he's too busy writing new material, that should be "Spike can't send to Princess Luna..."