“You said you were bored,” I said with a grin, “Mare up.”
Sunset stuck her tongue out at me, “Next time, we bring more books,” she said and looked around the dream of a forest clearing. The middle of the clearing was a bonfire, lighting the area up as the moon shined high above.
The forest around were dark and full of terrors.
Literally.
“So…” she asked and turned next to me, scanning the edges of the clearing, “No cheating?”
“No dream powers,” I said, “I get taken down, I wake up. You get taken down, we both wake up.”
Her side touched mine and I could see her swallowing, “Uhm… Page? What kind of monsters are there?”
“You tell me, I told the dream to use your nightmares as a base.”
“…Oh Luna…”
“What?”
“I watched a lot of horror movies on Earth!”
With that, a metal skeleton in jeans and a leather jacket with burning red eyes stepped into the light of the clearing. It’s minigun quickly spinning up.
I stared for a second.
Oh.
…Not good.
This may turn out to be a rather short endeavor.
Gathering my magic, I threw up the strongest kinetic barrier shield as I could. The night exploded in a horrible roar as I could feel the shield sparkle and be pummeled hard.
“SUNSET!” I yelled as I struggled to keep the shield up and solid. Luckily, I didn’t need to wait more than a couple of seconds before a burning log smacked the terminator over the head hard enough make it stumble.
It stopped firing and I dropped the shield to smash it with a spear of ice before it could re-aim. It went down in a shower of sparks.
“You have disturbing dreams!” I said, turning to the unicorn.
“I didn’t really run into horror stories like these before coming to earth, don’t blame me, blame the gore obsessed monkeys!” Sunset shouted right back before the air filled with a hissing sound.
One I would recognize anywhere.
Nope! Nope! Nope!
The black chitin covered and razor sharp creature pounced from the shadows and I blasted it from the air, “No! Go away! Go away! Go away!” I yelled as I pummeled it into the ground with small log Sunset had thrown at the robot, “Go away! Go away!”
The log slowly melted as acid splashed.
“…You have issues,” Sunset commented from next to me as she stared at the mess before turning to me, “How in Equestria can you be friends with changelings?”
“Totally different!” I said and shook her head, “I don’t like those things!”
I may have been permanently scared by watching those movies when I was nine.
Next thing wandering out from the shadows was a big human wearing a white hockey mask.
I glanced at Sunset and she nodded at me before we ran to flank the dream monster.
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An hour later, I dropped down on the ground, struggling to catch my breath of the not air. The words of Morpheus came to mind.
'Do you think that’s air you’re breathing?'
In this case, yes it was. Because I was following the rules of the dream. Kinda. As Sunset dropped down next to me, struggling to for her own breath, I flexed my powers over the dream and cleaned up the site, sending broken robots and monsters away, leaving only the clearing and sparkling bonfire.
“…That was exhausting,” Sunset managed to groan, “Is my horn going to hurt like this tomorrow?”
“No, just dream stuff,” I said and brushed dust off her back with my wing, “Want it to go away?”
“Yes please?”
I flexed the dream again, cleaning away the dust from us as well as the leaves and small branches stuck in her long mane, “Better?”
“Much,” she groaned softly and shifted to lean against my side, “Thanks.”
“Welcome. Bored still?”
That got a small laugh from her and she shook her head, “No. Not really. Let’s not do that again anytime soon.”
“Agreed,” I said as I nodded and sighed, relaxing and watching the fire for a couple of seconds before I turned to her, “Maybe letting your dream pick attackers wasn’t the best thing,”
“Yeah, no kidding,” she agreed and turned to me, her horn clicking against mine as I suddenly found her nose millimetres from mine as our eyes met.
All of a sudden, I became very aware how close and warm she was, and how large and light green, almost blue her beautiful eyes were.
She slowly moved closer, her nose touching mine and I met her half way, pulling her closer with my wing as I kissed her.
Action movie cliche XD
Woooooo! It's happening people! It's finally happening!
U.S.S. Page Shimmer off on its maiden voyage. We've watched'em build the ship for a good while and now... good times.
I'm with them. I'd run too for the nearly unstoppable, nearly immortal terror that is Jason Vorhees. Only thing that would be worse is fucking Chucky.
Eh, so much for the comment from last page, I guess.
This is going to end badly.
Then Page wakes up from his dream within a dream
Suspension Bridge Effect, as it is. Adrenaline surge tends to cause such things.
reactiongifs.com/wp-content/gallery/omg/RDJ_Woah.gif . It’s beautiful!
Then Luna, having secretly watched it, makes her presence known by taking a picture of them kissing and flees to Cadance's dream.
.....wait....
.....Hiver...I love you man, but if this is Luna...
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Nope.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/6/68/Sunset_Shimmer_ID_EGFF.png/revision/latest?cb=20180220214422
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXv1ttGN2Hk
Their eye colours are almost identical however.
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That would be awsome
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Very good times.... here's to hopping they continue being awsome
Luna, having decided to surprise Page, pops into his dream just as he and Sunset kiss.
Realizing that they are not alone and noticing the princess, Sunset let out an "eep" while Page tried to stammer out an explanation.
Luna raised a hoof to silence both of them. "My Page. I have but one thing to say to you now... "Threeway.""
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This.
Also, the herd has begun. Let us add the Twilight.
Honestly, I think most people would NOPE! the hell off if we met a real life xenomorph. Just, unlike this chapter, filled with girlyman screaming.
Welp time for Luna to charge him with adultery
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I right cliked and loopet it it is headack indusing
I wonder if they'll try to explain this away due to the post-combat rush.
Ball's in their court, now.
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Heh, my sis let me watch the original Alien when i was just a scrub. The grown ups were scary, but it's those face hugging f#$%s that gave me nightmares for days.
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It’s the eyes that drew him in!
Fluttershy. Your next!
I can't help but worry about little Sunset Shimmer seeing these movies for the first time after being used to the (likely) much milder Equestrian style of horror stories.
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Oh dear.
Well, that happened. Rather anticlimactic.
Why do i get the feeling they are going to be back to back across the room from each other when they wake up?.... Oh well, till then:
https://youtu.be/p9wuWj4X2G4?t=4m10s
MEANWHILE
Princess Cadance: ha...haha...hahaha...HAHAHAHAHA! THE TIME HAS COME!
... oh goddammit, you were doing so well. You managed to get this far without setting up a harem, but I suppose you could only fight down bad habits for so long. I was actually enjoying you pointedly not doing the expected thing.
I'm gonna drop out of this story now, because I'm afraid that from here on out I'll just be counting down until Skitter and Twi get in on things - because of course they will, the only question is if you'll throw Celly in to round things out - and quite frankly there hasn't been much of a story worth speaking of since Tirek.
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I don't think it'll get that bad, Twilight may be included simply because she is Sunset's marefriend, but she may not.
Just because a trope was included doesn't mean it's the worst version of it, a skilled enough writer can make any trope work for them and I'm willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt. I understand if it's not your cup of tea, but it's only just getting brought around, so we don't know where it will go from here.
Finally
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Yeah, all of that is true. But you see, I've read a lot from Hiver not just here, but also on Spacebattles/Sufficient Velocity, in a variety of settings. And these things just keep. on. happening. I liked this story because it didn't seem to be the case here... and now it is.
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As far as i know, i have only done something even remotely similar once. The planeswalking dragon story. I guess there was also caitians in trek, but that wasn't with the main character. Well, not really anyway.
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I'm thinking of the three main stories you do: this, the MTG and Star Trek ones. I think I've read 1-3 other stories from you, but I think you put the kibosh on them. Maybe you're doing other stuff in between those main three, but if so I've not seen them.
Two of those three are (becoming) straight up harem slice of life stories with short bursts of story that quickly and easily get resolved, and the other that you claim isn't a harem fic features hundreds of iterations of the same root personality... and even if only half of them find someone that's still a metric fuckton of people dating what is essentially the same person. Oh, and when it seemed like you got bored of the main character and their nice life, you introduced a new iteration of that character and had them find someone new. You'll have to forgive me if I'm inclined to lump this in with the others.
It's fine that you just want to write slice of life and fluff. I just get bored and annoyed with that.
I am starting to thing the story is starting stall with this dream of theirs.
Oh~ that is satisfying. Thanks for that Hiver.
I wonder if there will be a cute meep afterword.
THERE BETTER BE SNUGGLES AFTERWARD!
Oh my shining stars they finally kissed the colt finally stallioned up and kissed his mare. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. This is just such a relief. After TWO ENTIRE STORIES worth of them flirting and they finally kiss.
FINALLY!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE THEY STARTED BEING "FRIENDS"
Their just friends, right? WRONG
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Might as well. But then there’s also Starlight.
And Skitter.
And I’m sure Celestia and Clear Skies will want in.
And Amber....
And the mane 6... good lord this is the slipperiest slope.
I'm not the biggest fan of this change of events in all honesty. The casualness of this whole love triangle was rather ridiculous. Unfortunatly anyone can see it coming but many hoped and prayed it wouldn't happen. To me its just, "Hey baby, lets just take our marriage, the love we share, and our relationship and throw it out the window because it never mattered!"
And for some crazy and stupid reason, she's fine with that too?
Sorry, but my interest for this line of stories has just dropped drastically.
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Cadance: "YES!! After all that planning, construction of the ship has FINALLY begun!"
Luna: "You know, this is going to end up as big as the Death Star from Page's stories...?"
Cadance *in Darth Vader's voice*: "Don't be put off by this
techn-uh-hormonal terror you're constructing. The power of the Page's will is insignificant next to the power of Love!"Luna *in Moff Tarkin's voice* "You'd better be right, Lord Cadance. We're taking an aweful risk."
Cadance: "Don't worry. I made sure to seal off that exhaust port with the biggest and thickest ponyhole cover I could find. Nopony's blowing up one of MY ships!"
basised.com/phoenix/files/2018/05/stay-calm-gif.gif
Sees the last line of the chapter:
That's all.
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To be honest, in the MLP universe the mare/stallion ratio is heavily skewed towards more mares than stallions, so having a matching of 1 to 1 would probably be the more out of place thing. It's why a lot of stories expand on herds because it makes sense, and you even see it in nature. Where a herd has the alpha male who have all the females, and then maybe a beta male or two.
And I dont see that reasoning you think its wrong that someone can love more than 1 person, or that their significant other might be ok with it. Just because he has a thing for starlight as well, doesn't mean suddenly he wouldn't love Luna, and Luna is probably comfortable with the knowledge that Page wouldn't stop loving her for someone else. Besides the fact that she is ancient compared to Page, and lets be honest, a lot of things that we concern ourselves with since we are very mortal, beings that are immortal/Ageless wouldn't see as important.
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Ratio hasn't been mentioned in this story and herding is solely a fandom thing. And I can get biblical if I wanted to with the multiple lovers part. But its my opinion, this story has just taken a turn that it honestly shouldn't and has rather taken away from what it started and has met a cleche that gets old without the proper build up.
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Are you stating that one male being with more than one female is only a fandom thing? Because Herds are definitely a thing in the animal kingdom. Just want to clarify if you're meaning Herds, or the actual relationship meaning that the fandom gives herding.
Also I generally don't bring religion into discussions as everyone has different beliefs, but I do seem to remember lots of polygamy in the bible, Moses had 2 wives, and King David had 8.
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I know what a herd is, I know what a harem is in refernece to the animal kingdom. Coincidently, they have 2 seperate meanings. One is a large group the other is an actual group of mates. Need I remind you that these are not dumb animals, they are essentially reskinned people. Cannon as per the show, there is no herding, its a strictly fandom creation. And while people in the bible had multiple wives, it is also explicitly stated to not have more than one wife time and time again.
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As we already know that the ratios of mares to stallions in the show are weighted towards more mares (and since he doesn't mention it in the story we can assume it is along the lines of the canon until told otherwise), we can extrapolate that in a society where there are more mares than stallions that it is logical that there would be polygamy. They may not be dumb animals, but in their society and how it would've evolved it wouldn't make sense for it to be monogamous. As for it herds being Canon, the show has not made any indications that herding is/was never a thing, and while you may say since it doesn't show up in the show it's not Canon, the show doesn't distinctly say it's not a thing. So its in the grey area of yes it would make sense as Canon, but is never mentioned in the show.
As for looking at them as re-skinned people, that is incorrect, they are very different than us in a lot of ways. This is why, for me at least, I enjoy well written HiE stories, as there is usually always a culture clash. So I think you do them a disservice in calling them re-skinned people as they are not people but ponies, with their own Culture and beliefs.
In the bible it is stated that Kings/Bishops/Deacons should have no more than 1 wife, but it is not specifically prohibited for the rest if the general public.