She woke with a scream causing her partner to snap awake. "Luna! Whats wrong, has something happened?" the frighten mare just laid there shivering. "there was something there, something in the darkness we ran be it followed us. Then a flash of fangs and then the light nothing but the emptiness of light...we can not go back don't make us go back." twilight hugged her close as she continued to shiver. "it was just a nightmare, just a dream theirs nothing to worry about." slowly her breathing returned to normal as she felt the safety of twilight's embrace. As day light slowly filled into the room she felt her weariness return sleep finally taking her again.
Slowly twilight got up and taking care not to wake Luna, left to check on the damage from the night before. The day had started as a crawl, several ponys needing to be shooed home from varies corners of the library, AJ and rarity had been found in the bathtub the shower apparently being run all night from whatever antics they had come to, with a sigh she woke to two telling them that they had better pay her back for the night. As spike turned up from between the cushions with a lampshade on his head she couldn't help but break out in a set of giggles. The day trudged on with the hangover trio slowly joining in on the cleaning. All was going along smoothly until a crash came from the floor above, quickly every pony raced to see several books flying about the room, one striking spike hard in the face as he reached the room first. Luna lay on the bed her horn glowing powerfully as face scrunched up from the nightmare, "what should we do?" cried twilight as she watched luna's body stretch and contract, the sight tore at her and tears quickly wet her cheeks. "um..um..dream steal! Just like with pumpkin cake" rarity piped as the memory struck, twilight gasped forgetting all about how she had told her how rarity had helped the cakes out by taking little pumpkins nightmares as they were starting to blow holes in the walls, quickly she recited the spell and gently rested her horn to luna's her eyes filled with darkness as everything the the room stopped and fell to the floor.
The darkness was all that she saw as she walked along in silence, no stars, no moon, just the darkness. Slow a sound came to twilight, a sound like she was trotting through water. She looked down to see the ground had turned into a crimson ocean, she shivered as she became aware of what it was. Slowly she continued on she needed to find the source. "you don't belong here little one" a voice, deep and old filled the area as she spun around trying to find it. "but Im a princess you gotta let me pass" the new voice had come from near her and at once she knew who it belong to slowly a ghost of an image appeared, a young filly much younger then twilight looked up at a large dark flaming mass two large red eyes stared back at the filly unmoving. "Im'a tell my daddy on you." a deafening growl filled the area causing twilight to cover her ears but the image just stood there defiant as ever. "fine then ill just have to find sister and she'll make you move." slowly the image turned and faded into nothingness, twilight looked back up to see the two eyes shift suddenly to her. "you don't belong here little one." with that the mass fell forward like an avalanche, she turned to run but the ground around her had turned to thick vines cutting deeply into her skin. She tried but it was no use the thing was getting closer, she curled into a ball hopping that it would pass over her, just as it was about to consume her she heard a sound of something running, it didn't sound like hoof beats but something else, something closer to paw pads?
Slowly the world filtered into view the day had filled the room with warmth even with the coming winter months. The bight and colorful main of princess Celestia brought back to reality, "twilight sparkle...you never cease to amaze me." she tried to stand but felt as if her legs were hollow. "i wouldn't try that my dear you've been down for a whole month." she looked around to notice that Luna had been resting against her a wing draped over twilight's back. "princess Celestia ? A whole month? What happened I remember...remember." Luna stirred slightly as she spoke. "she hasn't left your side since the party, even refused to raise the moon until you awoke. As I take it you had stolen one of her nightmares to ease her pain that is when you left us my dear, you've been asleep for a month, your friends stayed for as long as they could before I sent them home...the pink one nearly downed the whole palace from her crying." a slight smile played across Celestia's lips as she told her, they shared a slight giggle at that before twilight came to realize that she was back in the palace. Its high vaulted ceilings, long ornate windows draped by impossible fine silks. She had been in this room before but could not put her hoof on it. "princess...about ...is she-" again her companion stirred as her name was spoken. "yes shes alright my little pony, she has been a wreck when awake but when she slept beside you she no longer awoke...she has been having these dreams for awhile now and Im glad that she can find comfort in you my dear."