A area filled to the brim of fluffy partially pink clouds. Some of them gently floating by in dazed unorganized fashion, most of them were pushed back to the corners and created a room of clouds. There was a thin layer of warm spring fog that made the room blurry were one could barely tell where one cloud ended and another began. "What…what is this place? How did we get here?"
"The beginning, or at least the beginning for Shimmer Light." Before Replete could even ask who this pony was a burst of fiery lights busted into the room. Comets of comically colored spheres of light and heat were shooting around, leaving streaks of dust particles that light up the area. The lights were zooming overhead crashing into everything except the two of them. Some of the lights transformed into lines and other oddly structured angles that pierced the area clearing up the room and letting the first sight of the sky shine through. The sky was quiet young of early morning with a baby blue color. This alone wasn't truly terrifying, no what was truly dreadful was the booming noise. Noises of an unreadable language that shock the room. It was a noise that dug deep into ones subconscious as it tried to make sense of what it knew were words. A noise that buzzed your very fiber of being, leaving a warm comforting hum. "It truly is beautiful. A wild mess with no order or any structure that can only be seen as something beautiful. See these lines so random which no purpose or direction, they will continue to move around for months destroying this area in order to create the structures a more detailed dream."
"This…place is someponies dream?"
"Yes. What you are seeing are just the basic elements of Shimmer's dream. The world right now is a confusing mess of light and sound to her and so are her dreams." The room radiated a warm heat as a steady beat of a heart dialed down the concaving random noises from earlier. The beating was so comforting wrapping Replete in the warm sensation of a hug. Agena just stared blankly at the chaos ahead of them, it's face still of any emotion but trails of glistening sand tinkled out of the corner of it's eyes. "How nice it must be to be born so naïve, lacking any knowledge of your soundings. Filled only with the must primal of sensations and sense to fill you in." Agena gracefully walked towards the very center of the room as all the cosmos of lights formed towards it, the lights warped together forming a single solitary sphere of light. "Replete is only you can feel what this little one is feeling right now. So confused and terrified, yet there is joy. She is so happy to be here, to know there is so many sights and sounds that she will experience. How I envy her, how I envy you." Agena dipped her head to slightly rub the sphere of light as more tears of sand dripped down the being motionless face.
"I can't remember much of my colthood to be honest with you. But I do remember being so scared of my surroundings, yet the feelings of adventure and joy would envelope that fear. It can be scary at times not knowing the things around you."
"Yet even with the concept of fear, I can not help but envy your kind. Why I have hidden the fear and anxiety that darkens my scenery just for you. After your rather rude comment, I feel you are not ready to see entirety of a dream. Yet with these terrors I am still jealous. So naïve, so simple, but living your lives to the fullest. Every species in your world can be so similar yet still be so vastly different. So fragile yet so strong…oh how I wish to have ben born like you, instead of just existing." Replete had many question he wished to ask Agena, 'How can one just exist', 'Are there more than just it that just exist', 'how was she made'. Yet looking at this deities' shattered stature of perfection left no words escaping his lips.
"Is that why you brought me to this place? To show me our differences?"
Agena gently smiled as it gently wiped away that last of its' oddity of tears. "Kind of Replete. I brought you here to experience to birth of dreams, or least the birth of someponies else's dream. To see the pure oncoming of emotions one pony can create in a dream. It is dreams like these that I love the most. So strong and filled with such complex unslaught of emotions that I cannot help but take the remaining segments of these feelings. If only for a moment to feel the feelings you ponies feel."
"So what now?"
"Now…now if you chose I can show you the entirety of my world. Every creation, every dream that still exists. I will show you the development of dreams as well as the beginning of nightmares. I can show you a world unlike anything you have ever seen"
"But why? Why me?"
"I wont lie to you Replete that I have a small selfish reason for my decision." A door appeared. While being nothing out of the ordinary compared to its appearance, Replete knew better than to believe it lead to anything normal. "Please step inside Replete." The door opened on its own, revealing a giant library. A cold blue carven sized room filled with stacks upon stacks of books. The very bookcases themselves created chaos of a labyrinth. This itself was an amazing sight to see; yet Replete was far more star stroke over seeing a famous purple alicorn. She was just sitting there reading from a large pile of books. Her head deep into a book that had no text to determine what it is. She was not aware of anything going around her as the pile of finished books vanished and a new pile was replaced. "Replete please follow me there is something you need to see."
"Um okay…but isn't that princess Twilight!"
Agena barely gaze a glance towards Twilight as a small roaring storm of white smoke stated to fill the room. "Yes. Please try not to disturb her, for one as many times she has visited my library there is little to nothing that can get her away from those books. So please stop gawking ad follow me, leave the princess to dream." Before he could respond Agena just casually trotted towards the maze of bookcases. Replete had to gallop in the confusing mess of an area to just follow the creature. It was a sea of twists and turns with multiple dead ends. And Replete was positive there was a brief time he found himself upside down as well as going backwards. But finally Replete caught up to the destination Agena wanted to show him, a single empty bookcase.
"Okay…what am I looking at?"
Agena just smiled as she leaned down to match his height before easily stating, "This is your self Replete. You see this entire library is filled with the stories authors have created in their dreams. Stories and poems of all authors in Equstria and beyond, all in this library, all except for you."
"That's probably a good thing…many ponies tell me my stories aren't very good. They say that they lack something. And try all my might I just can't seem to make them any good. You should be happy none of my stories are here." Replete could hardly believe the words he was saying. Sure all the things were true, but he had never once said them out loud. Sure at first he loved when he got his cutiemark, all his life he wanted entertain ponies with stories and tales of adventures. To know that he made other ponies happy was drove him into being an author. But years went by and what few ponies that had read his work were never truly impressed. What sort of pony was he, when he failed to uphold not only his purpose, but also the only thing he felt good at doing. He started living a life of grey gloom, living life as a shadow rather than a pony. Never truly living life, only treading down a life of misery and sorrow. He never talked to anypony nor made any friends. He just lived alone barely living at all. Living this shamble of a destiny left Replete seeking countless supplies of hard 'grape juice' in order to escape his pitiful life.
"Replete Epic do not talk like that. I know you can be somepony great. That is why I brought you here. I can give you inspiration! I can make you something to be proud about. Not only will you become a better writer but you will also become a greater pony. But for now it is time to wake up Replete. I will see you next time…in your dreams."
(Will anybody actually believe me when I say I had the idea of having Twilight dream of reading books before the latest episode. Well it doesn't matter, as long as you people continue to read my story. I'm still thinking of what will be the next subject matter discussed in the next chapter. If you have any idea, please comment. Thank you.)