Chapter 2
Princess Luna's Nightmare
Neo was running as fast as he could through the Everfree Forest while carrying a gun. He was shooting at creatures that were trying to attack him as he ran and his friends, the mane 6 were galloping right behind him. Neo kept running with the mane 6 right behind him and they were all trying to get the to Castle of the 2 sisters. They knew something was happening there and they had to stop whatever was happening. The mane 6 were wearing their elements of harmony and Neo was wearing his white hockey mask.
When they got to the castle, Neo broke down the door and he and the mane 6 began making their way to the throne room.
Inside the throne room stood Princess Luna and she appeared to be waiting for something. When Neo and the mane 6 got into the throne room, Princess Luna stayed where she was and kept waiting. Then a small sphere of black smoke appeared behind her outside of the castle.
Luna looked back at the sphere and said, "Greetings, Tantabus. I am ready. Do your worst."
Then the Tantabus eclipsed the sun. Luna grunted and acted like something was happening to her. Neo and the mane 6 watched in horror as the eclipse's shadow enveloped Luna.
"Princess Luna's turning into Nightmare Moon again!" shouted Twilight.
Then Nightmare Moon appeared when the shadow disappeared and she laughed an evil laugh.
"Over my dead body," said Neo. "Let's go girls."
Then the mane 6 activated the elements of harmony, turning them into the rainbow power ponies with their long manes and colorful coats. Then the mane 6 transformed Neo into the rainbow ninja and they were ready to go.
Neo and the mane 6 fired beams of multicolored light at Nightmare Moon. At first Nightmare Moon tried to resist it and kept laughing. Nightmare Moon stopped laughing when she saw the tantabus open a portal and disappear into it.
"Wait!" said Nightmare Moon. "What is it doing?! No! It's gone!"
Then the multicolored light beams surrounded Nightmare Moon and turned her back into Princess Luna. Neo flew up to Princess Luna and gave her a hug, grateful that she was okay. The mane 6 joined in the hug and they all shared a group hug.
Princess Luna woke up in her bed, she breathed hard and seemed very concerned about the dream she just had.
"What? My dream ended... happily? That. Cannot. Happen!"
The next day, Neo and the mane 6 were at the Ponyville Spa Center. Neo was relaxing in the steam room while the mane 6 and Spike were getting massages. The mane 6 seemed very tired and so did Neo, Neo almost fell over when coming out of the steam room.
"Neo, are you alright?" asked Twilight.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Neo replied. "I'm just tired as hell. Remind me never to practice concerts until 1:00 in the morning ever again."
"I'm tired too," said Twilight.
"So am I," said Rarity. "I didn't get my normal beauty sleep last night."
"I'm plumb tuckered out as well," said Applejack.
Fluttershy yawned and said, "I even went to bed early last night... but then I had a really scary nightmare."
"Me too," said the rest of the ponies.
"So did I," said Neo. "My dream was really weird."
"What did you dream about?" asked Twilight.
"At first, I dreamed about a guy in a red and green sweater with a hat. And he had knives on his fingers."
Rainbow Dash widened her eyes, "Whoa, really?"
"Yeah, but he wasn't that bad," said Neo. "He warned me about something that was going around. Then I saw this creature that seemed to made out of blue smoke."
"I dreamt about a blue smoke thingy too!" exclaimed Fluttershy.
Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie said, "Me too."
"So what? Probably just a coincidence," said Rainbow Dash.
"That's an awfully big coincidence," said Twilight.
"Huh. I wonder why I didn't have that nightmare," said Spike. "I slept great!"
"So then, what could've given us all the same nightmare?" asked Rarity.
"I don't know," said Twilight, "But I do know who might."
"Don't worry Twilight," said Neo. "I'll write a letter to her."
Neo took out a device from his pocket, pushed a button on it and the device became a laptop with a printer included with it. Neo began typing a letter to Princess Luna on the laptop.
Dear Princess Luna,
Last night my friends and I all dreamt of a creature made of blue smoke. I'm sure you're very busy, but when you have the chance, please let me know if you have any idea what it could mean.
Sincerely yours,
Neo.
P.S. I hope we can spend some more time together very soon.
Then Neo printed out the letter and he had Spike send it off to Princess Luna.
A few seconds after Spike sent off the letter, Princess Luna quickly came into the room and said, "Which of you saw the creature of blue smoke in your nightmare?!"
"Damn, that was fast," said Neo.
"We all did, except Spike," said Twilight.
"Did you encounter this creature as well?" asked Neo.
"The Tantabus is a creature of my nightmares," said Princess Luna. "I don't know where it came from, but it showed up in my dreams only 3 days ago. It escaped from my slumbers yesterday."
"But how did it get into ours?" asked Fluttershy.
"The Tantabus is like a parasite," said Princess Luna. "It feeds on ponies' dreams and turns them into nightmares. The more dreams it consumes, the stronger it becomes. My dreams must no longer be enough for it. Now it seeks others to infect and corrupt. It must have learned of you six and Neo from seeing you in my dream."
"I wonder why it didn't feed on my dreams," said Spike.
"Uh, so Smokey gave us bad dreams," said Rainbow Dash. "What's so bad about that?"
"I saw that the Tantabus had grown more powerful," said Princess Luna. "But I did not realize that power was enough to enable it to escape my dreams. If its power grows, it could very well find a way to escape into the real world. It could turn all of Equestria into a living nightmare!"
"Okay, okay, okay, I take it back! That does sound bad! Really bad!" exclaimed Rainbow Dash.
"Hmmm, I wonder if Freddy knows how to stop this Tantabus creature," said Neo. "I wonder if he knows where it came from."
End of chapter 2.