A/N: Alright, here's another chapter. :) Also, the song in this chapter is "The Silent Man" by Dream Theater.

chipmunkfanantic: Of course, very true about that.

mariobrain64: ...I see. Well, I can't really help you in making a fanfiction of an HiE fanfic, so I don't have advice. Sorry. :(

godzillafan1: No, you're mistaken. He did get his answer, but isn't questioning his feelings for Twilight.

I open my eyes slowly, but without the blur coming in through my eyes. To me, it's a bit strange. Everything around me seems to be black, like I was placed in the dark. No really, it was like pitch black when I got in. I couldn't see anything at all, but the color of dark. There wasn't any sound in the black environment, so I couldn't tell what would be coming.

"Hello?" I called out into the dark. Only the sound of my voice echoed into the dark, carrying on what seemed infinitely before fading into nothing.

I was able to keep moving my hands and body about the infinite world, walking about in the silence that came forth and haunted me. But this kind of haunting was different, I wasn't even scared of what would pop out of the dark. It felt like I was in a place where I could place in my own thoughts and think about solutions to forget my past.

I close my eyes in the black, and begin to think. I needed to find an environment in this realm that I could fit into. My mind begins to conjure up a ground for me to walk on, and a clear sky that I could look up and smile at. I didn't really need to worry about the light; my mind would already make it for me. I open my eyes and continue to focus.

I could see a dot of light ahead of me, and it seemed to be very white, as if something was already inside of the realm I was placed into. I walk forward slowly, towards the dot of light. It starts to expand larger by every step I take. I continue ascending towards the light, unaware of what I might see next with my own eyes.

It was an opening into a bright clear forest from under a dark tunnel that I was coming out of. The sun was peeking through the trees, brightening up the forest path for me to see. A few birds which I knew as seagulls came flying by the tunnel a few times. That's funny… seagulls don't usually fly through forests, so it's very unusual for this to happen. I peek out of the tunnel opening and take quick looks to my left and right. The brick walls for the tunnel seemed to go out infinitely, like it was forever.

"Don't be curious Brayden. Come forward into the forest where I can see you." A female voice says to me. My heads turns towards the forest where the voice emerged from. I haven't completely recognized that tone yet. It has been a while since I ever got a dream.

I walk forward slowly from the tunnel and down the dirt path. The trees above me looked really unusual, the structure I could tell were mixtures of Birch and Pine. Not really a perfect combination, but I didn't really mind the environmental weirdness. I took a look at the grass, all freshly cut as if a lawnmower came into the forest by itself and did every single line of grass. There wasn't even a single long piece anywhere. No animals roamed the forest, but I could hear the sounds of birds all about the place.

My path ended and I seemed to be face to face with a fern bush, it seemed really huge too. Just like the brick walls, this one also seemed to go on for miles without end. Why was everything so weird in this realm? Who was telling me to come?

"Come closer." The voice spoke again, which meant to tell me to go in through the fern bush.

I take a look at the fern bush and place my hand onto its branches to make sure it's not a trap or anything. It isn't, that's a relief. I begin to proceed forward through the bush, not letting the branches try and hit me in any of my eyes. Trust me, I need them to see what happens next. A streak of light seems to uncover what would be in the next area of forest grounds, and pull the branch back.

It was a garden with black roses growing through scattered parts of soil that lay around the open area. The waterfall on the top of the rocks came down quite peaceful and didn't seem all that wild and dangerous, it was more calm. A few insects buzzed around, and would peek about to see me looking at the environment before passing on with their own stuff to do. A bench sits alone in the sunlight, with an umbrella of red and white perched above it to give shade.

I make my way out of the bushes and walk slowly again. My bare feet are touching the dry and sweet grass below me, still having freshly-cut look. I approach towards the bench and turn around, lowering down to sit.

Everything seemed to be at peace while I sat there, the birds continued to chirp and the water continued to softly run into the small pond. But there were two things that I didn't seem to get whatsoever. Why did I come out of a dark tunnel into this landscape? Why did everything seem so weird? It's something I didn't get, so why was I here anyway?

"Amazing, isn't it Brayden?" That same female voice says behind me.

Wait a minute… I know that tone. I slowly turned around to who was behind me saying this. I can see that dark phthalo blue flowing mane. No… it can't be. I was face to face with a black winged alicorn looking down at me with her moderate cyan cat-like eyes. She was smiling with a look that would seem like she was taking revenge. Nightmare Moon.

I jumped back as soon as I laid my own eyes on her eyes. No, it couldn't be… she was banished from my dreams, so what was she doing here?

"I… I thought Princess Luna told you never to come back!" I told her, sounding a little braver.

Nightmare trotted around the back of the bench to the front, giving a bit of a dark chuckle. She proceeds to take a seat on the same bench with me. "You silly boy, your emotions have been making me stronger. I'm now able to bypass back into your dreams." She said.

Wait… I was dreaming? No I couldn't be. I just only remember going to take a nap on Fluttershy's couch after an exhausting morning. It's not my fault that Discord was acting all silly and both I and she had to tell him off to relax about it. Doesn't sound that hard, does it? Believe me, it's harder than it seems.

"What is it you want Nightmare?" I asked; mostly ready to pounce forward towards to attack her if she tried anything funny towards me.

Nightmare Moon was silent for a few moments, and then placed her hoof onto her other hoof. "Well, I wanted to apologize for how I was scaring you in the last dream you encountered me. My actions were wrong and somehow, I had that feeling come to me that I still cared for you." She said.

"Wait, what?" I said, completely shocked to what Nightmare Moon might be trying to tell me. "Whoa there, I'm already in a relationship with Princess Twilight, so your chances of trying to win my heart are zero, zip, and zilch!"

"But you thought you'd have a crush on me." Nightmare claimed.

I sighed and said "But Nightmare, that thought was only when I was beginning to watch the show." I kept a careful eye on her to make sure she wasn't going to pull any of her tricks on me. Any moment, she could try to attack me again.

"Well because your emotions outside the dream world have powered me, I am a few steps closer to returning to Equestria." Nightmare Moon said, and offered her hoof to me. "If you join me, you can help me return to Equestria and rightfully take the throne of Celestia."

I knew that was coming. "Oh no! I'm not helping you with that!" I said, raising my arms to decline her tempting offer and rose up forward to get up off the bench.

"Now now Brayden, keep sitting... don't go so suddenly." Nightmare Moon said. Her wavy mane caught and blocked me from moving away from the bench. So I just sit back down and keep looking at the dark mare and her cunning smile.

"Why are you doing this, Nightmare Moon?" I asked her.

"Well, I needed a weaker body to power me. And thanks to you, I've also been able to get into your each of your friends' dreams. It makes me stronger, and soon enough they'll be too weak to use their Elements of Harmony against me!" Nightmare Moon stated to me, beginning to reveal her evil plan to take over Equestria. "Once I get strong enough, I'll be able to return into my full form. I don't really care to use Princess Luna as a tool, it failed when Twilight and her friends defeated me."

I raised an eyebrow, suspicious of what'll happen when she returns. "And then what happens next?" I asked, fearing what she will say next.

"Then, I can block the sun with Luna's moon to signal my return. This is something that I've wanted all this time…" Nightmare Moon said with a dark chuckle. "In other words, I want the night… to last… forever!"

I moved my hand towards her hoof and gave it a tap to snap some sense back into her. "But what about Princess Celestia?" I asked.

Nightmare Moon laughs in a cunning way equal to her smile. She finally looks back down at me, saying "My dear boy, I shall kidnap Celestia. It'll be revenge for imprisoning me in the moon for a thousand years, and being a coward to fight me upon my return."

Anger began to grow inside of me when Nightmare told me she was going to kidnap the princess. I would try to get up, but Nightmare's moving mane kept me from doing so. "Don't you dare hurt her!" I shouted at her, gritting my teeth hidden behind my lips.

Nightmare Moon laughed in success and placed her hoof onto my shoulder. "It's a shame you weren't the one to fall for me. You and I could have ruled Equestria together in eternal night!" She said. "But as I said before, it's a shame that you had to go for that pathetic Twilight."

"How dare you say that about her!" I said aggressively, letting my autism get the best of me. At that moment, I literally felt like punching Nightmare Moon's snout in. But… of course knowing me, it's not nice to hit a female.

Nightmare Moon just keeps a vicious looking smirk on her face, as if she has already planned something for me that quickly already. "Well then… I suppose you want to see how much power I've been drawing back into me since I first came into your dreams. Your friends have also been helping me return to my true self." She told me. "The Elements just simply won't work this time for me!"

"Didn't they give them to the Tree of Harmony to save Equestria though?" I asked just to snap her off from her train of thought.

She pauses and thinks for a moment. Finally, her smirk grows into a smile and she uses her right hoof to start petting me on the head as if I was hers. "My dear boy, I thank you for giving me that detail. Your friends would still be defeated either way." She tells me, starting to gently stroke my hair with her dark hoof.

I couldn't even move any of my hands to push Nightmare Moon's hoof away from me. They felt locked in place on my lap, just holding onto one another. All I could just do was stare at the cat-like eyes of the dark mare, feeling myself getting drained of what else was happening around me. Why did I even say that Twilight and her friends gave the elements back to the tree where they came from in the first place?

Nightmare Moon's eyes keep staring at me while she's still giving my hair a stroke, with me unable to move from her tempting eyes that glowed brightly blue together, getting me to keep a close eye on her. The eyes begin to glow brighter by each second that passed. I could see Nightmare Moon's head moving closer towards me, looking like she was going to give me a kiss. This is something I didn't want, but I was in a dream so at this point the nightmare was taking over.

A quick image flashed before my eyes, but quick enough for me to know what they were before snapping back to Nightmare Moon. The image was a blood red sky being bathed by a dark shadow looming over the clouds, with its two claws open at each side. The town of Ponyville seemed to be growing into shadows and everypony that I knew had grown weak and helpless. What did the image mean? Who was that shadow looming over? There also had to be a reason why the sky had begun to grow red.

I had enough strength to push Nightmare Moon's hoof away from me. This stopped her from moving forward to give me her kiss. She seemed to look rather surprised when I had done so, and her hoofs were back in a normal stance. My anger inside already gone full blown and burst like a bubble. "No! I don't want this to be done to me, I've never trusted after you tried to hurt Twilight from the very start and I never will! If you do, I swear to Celestia that I'll send you back to wherever you first came from!" I shouted angrily at Nightmare.

Nightmare Moon tried to reach out slowly to me. "Brayden, I-"

"I don't want to hear it! You've already been screwing with the dreams of my best friend Fluttershy! What else have you only cared for? NOTHING!" I shouted, angrily towards Nightmare Moon. She seemed rather now shocked and surprised by my outburst towards her, with her ears flopping into a sad point of stance. "All you've only cared about was wanting your eternal night! Do we want it? No! Without sunlight, we'll all die!"

"I was just w-" Nightmare Moon tried to say.

"It doesn't work like that Nightmare!" I continued to scold at her. "Life is an important means to everypony or anyone in any world, fictional or not! You've always just been so jealous that you couldn't take it whatsoever when anypony refused to bow before you, and when nothing goes your way, you whine and rant on about how the night will last forever! But nu-uh, not while I'm here the night isn't going to be eternal!"

I was letting my anger get the best of me. I didn't seem to care when I could see the wet tears start to form slowly into Nightmare's eyes while listening to me rant at her. "I don't care whether you don't have your way, you don't have the crown to order these ponies around! You know what you'd do if you were running as Princess of Equestria. You'd be a fascist princess, except you'll refuse to raise the sun in either way possible!"

"Brayden… please…" Nightmare Moon says quietly and upset. The tears in her eyes slowly began to crawl down onto her cheeks.

"Plants and crops wouldn't grow! Everything would freeze in a winter that you'll create! Everything around you will die and probably end up like the fourth planet in the solar system I once used to live in! You'll have nobody to blame but yourself for the mess if it happens! IT'LL BE YOUR FAULT!" I continued to rabble, still not caring if Nightmare Moon was on the verge of crying. "I won't let you hurt the princesses or any of the ponies! All you've ever done to them was cause hell and fear into their own hearts when you returned in Princess Luna's body!"

"BRAYDEN, PLEASE STOP!" Nightmare Moon shouted to me, using her own Royal Canterlot Voice as power to snap me out of my rant. She finally turns back forward, looks down and I see her close her eyes and begin to sob.

I start to slowly calm down and lower the pressure that the anger was giving me. Look at the mess that I've made… I shouldn't have yelled at Nightmare Moon like that. I just had to sit there and watch Nightmare Moon's agony from the pain and jealousy that she suffered from through the years of forming inside Princess Luna. I felt bad for her and the attitude I made, that rain clouds began to form and slowly let out their rain drops, falling onto Nightmare Moon's coat and mane.

I couldn't just let the dark mare suffer through what she had done. I began to scoot up a little closer to her, while she continued to sob excessively. Every scoot that I made, she'd let out a bit of a sniffle. "Nightmare?" I asked her, calmly and regretful.

"What?!" Nightmare Moon upsettingly yells and turns to me, her eyes still watering and I swear that I saw a bit of red in them.

I placed my right hand on her right hoof and held onto it gently. "It wasn't entirely your fault Nightmare Moon." I gently said to her.

Nightmare Moon just sniffles loudly, putting a caring look on my own face. "B-But everything I've ever done has always gone to waste. Nopony even likes me…" She told me, sounding upset.

I moved my left hand and was now holding onto each of her hooves. "You have one who likes you. Well, not in a loving way. But a friendly way." I told her, sounding very caring. "If you weren't the first villain I knew… well, I probably wouldn't have gotten into the show in the first place. Princess Luna probably would've picked someone else to come to Equestria."

Nightmare Moon sort of forms a very small smile that I can see visibly. If I had yelled at Princess Celestia like how I did to Nightmare Moon, she would've probably had me sent to the moon for that. But I knew her though, she was far too kind to send me to whether she'd banish me to. Besides, if Celestia did get mad at me, her sister would most likely be at my defense to protect and tell her otherwise to keep trusting me.

"Why… thank you. You're the first friend that I've ever had." Nightmare Moon says to me a bit softly, and we both share looks at each other.

"If I may Nightmare Moon, since you are an alicorn. Can I have permission to hug you?" I asked her, curious after what I did.

Nightmare Moon just nods and says "Okay." I gently place my arms around the dark mare and began to give her a friendly hug. She too is wrapping her hooves around my waist, squeezing me gently.

The hug seems to last for a bit of time, and Nightmare has stopped the sobbing. I decided to let go from giving her a hug. Something feels wrong though; my hands are stuck on the back of her coat. She also began to squeeze me a little more. "Nightmare Moon, I think you can let go now." I stated.

She softly began to chuckle, and then let out into a roar of laughter. No… it can't be. I just changed her around, and she's still acting this way. Her squeeze turns into a dangerous one where it starts to feel like she is choking me. I couldn't even breathe, minus how I was dreaming in a dream.

"Silly Brayden, you really think that I'd be your friend after all? The night will always be my only friend." Nightmare Moon states and ignites her horn.

I can feel that dark aura around me, freezing me in place. The power of the dark alicorn's aura stated to drain me, beginning to have me feel weak and a bit tired. Finally, she pulls me off of her and tosses me off the bench and onto the soft ground.

"Wha- But I thought you changed!" I told her, looking up at her. "Please Nightmare, you don't want to be banished again!"

Nightmare Moon's anger got set off as soon as I mentioned about her being banished again. She let out a growl and began to charge up her horn, mostly ready to fire a beam of darkness at me. I managed to get up off the grassy ground before she could fire at me with her magic of pure evil.

The ground erupted out small piles of dirt when I picked myself up off of the ground. I then turned back to Nightmare Moon. She had sat up off of the bench, aimed towards me with her horn. "I told you to never mention my banishment again!" She yells at me.

"I'm just trying to help you snap out of this!" I shouted to put some sense into her mind on what she was doing. "You don't want it to happen again."

Nightmare Moon's anger grew higher at this point and she was growling. "Then you give me no choice Brayden, I'll have to destroy you!" She shouted at me and fired another dark beam towards me.

The beam hit the ground in front of me and blew up more dirt. The force of the impact had sent me flying backwards. I flew through the air for somewhat brief moments and ended up hitting the ground with my face first into the grass. I slowly rose my head and could see Nightmare Moon standing over me with that cunning smile on her face. She was beginning to laugh at how weak I was from her own magic.

"I don't understand, Nightmare Moon! You were just crying a few minutes ago!" I told her, knowing that I somewhat got her into tears.

"Oh that?" Nightmare Moon asks, and gives another bone-chilling laugh. "Why I was faking, but I had to push out tears in some way. But enough talk, it's time for you to die."

I could see the aura of her dark magic begin to flow into her horn, ready to fire away at any moment. I had no choice but to place my head down into my arms on the ground. I just about knew that this wasn't going to end well.

"STOP THIS AT ONCE, NIGHTMARE MOON!" A voice boomed in the sky. This voice I knew caught both me and Nightmare's attention, interrupting her magic and disrupting the magic on her horn. I looked up from the ground and could see Nightmare Moon turning her head towards the sky, looking at the moon that had appeared. The moon had let out a flash and I could see a midnight blue colour in the sky, floating down from the circular shaped moon.

It was Princess Luna, and she seemed to look rather angry towards Nightmare Moon for what she almost was about to do. She flapped her wings closely to the ground and began to have a stare down with the dark mare. Both of them were giving each other dirty glares.

"Ah hello again, Princess Luna. It's delightful to see you again after days." Nightmare Moon said to her, glaring at the princess of the night with her blue cat eyes. "I trust you must've come when you sensed that your friend here had a nightmare that he'll remember always."

"Leave him alone!" Princess Luna shouted towards her in that angry tone, ready to fire her magic anytime.

Nightmare Moon chuckled deep and loud. She takes a breath and says "Well, it's too bad. He's been helping me with his emotions. He has made me grow stronger by every unhappy emotion and fear he has faced. I am close to returning to Equestria."

Princess Luna gasped and said "Wait… you don't mean…"

"Yes, it's true. Once I return, your powers will not work on me whatsoever. And the night… will last… FOREVER!" Nightmare Moon stated out loud, finally letting out a sinister and evil laugh.

I got up off of the ground when she was busy staring at Princess Luna. It would be a good time right now for me to run from the scene while I can. I turn the opposite direction away from Nightmare Moon and start running towards that direction.

"That won't do you any good Brayden!" Nightmare Moon says, and her magic brings up a wall to block me from running away.

While Nightmare Moon was distracted with me, I managed to turn around in time to catch Princess Luna and what she was doing to do. Her horn alit and began to fire one of her magical beams. The beam passed by Nightmare Moon, missing her. Princess Luna finally flaps her wings and floats up into the air again. She flows close to my location, landing in front of me face to face with Nightmare.

"Oh, you're going to protect Brayden now? I've completely forgotten how mother-like you can be to any of Equestria's subjects." Nightmare sarcastically stated with a small chuckle at the end.

"What's important here is that Brayden here is my friend, and you are trying to hurt him." Princess Luna stated brave and angry. She was in front of me, so I couldn't really see the emotions on her face. "Why must you have to torment anypony since I was free from your control?"

"Revenge, Princess Luna. Sweet revenge." Nightmare Moon states with a smirk on her face. "That's why he must die."

"I won't let you hurt him in any way." Princess Luna said to her.

Silence begins to gap between the two alicorns once again, in a deep stare down. I just stood them behind Princess Luna, watching the entire thing all the way through. The stare down only last about twenty seconds though. I felt really short though.

Nightmare Moon lets out a huff of angered breath. "Fine then, Luna. You win this round again. But if I were you or Brayden, I'd watch the skies… and watch your back." She says angrily in defeat. Nightmare Moon finally lets her mane grow in size and cover up her, transforming her into a cloud. She stays there for a few moments, and then the cloud form floats up into the sky and disappears over the hillside, bringing the storm clouds away and revealing the night.

Princess Luna finally turns around to me, looking concerned about my safety. This is probably the second time she has saved me now, so I thank her for saving me again.

"Are you alright, Brayden?" Princess Luna asked with question in the tone of her voice.

I nodded and said "Yes, I'm alright. But I thought you banished Nightmare Moon from entering my dreams again."

"That I did. I'm not sure how she was able to bypass the banishment." Princess Luna said to me, rather worried about what Nightmare Moon was already planning by now.

"I also just realized something; you've saved me two times now." I told her, putting a smile on my face. I keep looking up at the princess of the night to try and put even a small smile on her face.

She does grow a bit of a smile on her mouth. She nods in agreement to what I had said a few moments ago. All I think is she must be relieved to see that I am safe and sound. But there is something about her when I see her. Princess Luna reminds me of an aunt that I have never had.

"I thought I'd be dead right there if you never came on time." I said, wiping a bit of my forehead in a relief. It's not like I would be able to have magic to defend myself. She wasn't really there when I was attempting to fight the leader of a timberwolf pack.

I then looked towards my friend, and asked "Permission to hug you for saving me?"

Princess Luna nods with a smile and stretches her right front hoof forward a bit to accept the hug. I wrap my arms around her neck and gently give her a gentle and friendly hug. She has her hoof around my waist. The hug finally lasts for a few moments, then we both let go of each other's friendly hug and smile at each other.

"So, how has your life in Equestria been doing so far?" She finally asks me, breaking the silence between me and her.

"It's been doing good Princess Luna. I've made a bunch of friends with everypony. A few of them still say that they know me from the papers, and to tell you… it's a bit mildly annoying to deal with. Hasn't everypony already known about me?" I said, getting a bit of a chuckle out of the princess.

"Well, all of them are curious. They all want to get to know you and see why you came to Equestria. But be careful not to be let down by others. A few of the unicorns disagree with you being a civilian here in this land, a few who will do everything in their path to insult you." Princess Luna said to me, and giving me that careful warning.

"Like Prince Blueblood?" I asked in question, raising an eyebrow.

Princess Luna thought for a moment. "He dislikes anypony who isn't a unicorn just like him. According to what you are thinking, you tend to think about him as a fascist."

I looked quite surprised when she had told me this detail. "How… how did you know that?!" I asked with amazement on how she guessed that answer. At the same time, I also looked as frightened as a jackrabbit.

Princess Luna seemed to smile again, placing her left hoof onto my right shoulder to calm me down a bit. "Now, I can see how frightened you are for thinking Blueblood as a fascist. You have no need to fear about the consequence. There won't be any for you, since you are different among us."

"So, a foreign creature?" I asked her.

"Of course Brayden, but I would just refer to you as just Brayden. It's much better than calling you 'human'." Princess Luna told me, her soft hoof still on my shoulder.

Something catches my attention and I could hear the soft sound of distant music coming from the hills. I turn towards that sound of the tune. Princess Luna takes her hoof off of my right shoulder and gently places it back on the soft grass.

The music grows a bit louder, surrounding the area around both me and Princess Luna. It was the soft beat of drums and the hum of a synth playing in peace, with the soft acoustic guitar playing that same rhythm over and over, waiting for someone or somepony to start singing.

"Hey… I know this song." I said, in realization when I found out who had played this music. It was a band that I had listened to a lot while I was back on Earth.

I turn around towards Princess Luna, she stands there with her smile still on her own face. "Would you care to sing it to me?" She asks me, placing her left front hoof on her chest.

I nod and allow myself to get myself prepared to start singing the song at the right timing that the rhythm started played. I keep my eyes on Princess Luna while she waits for me to sing. I slowly breathe in some air and begin to start singing softly.

A question well served

Is silence like a fever,

A voice never heard

Or a message with no receiver?

Pray they won't ask

Behind the stained glass

There's always one more mask

Has man been a victim

Of his woman, of his father?

If he elects not to bother

Will he suffocate their faith?

Desperate to fall

Behind the great wall

That separates us all

When there is reason tonight I'm awake

When there's no answer arrive the silent man

If there is balance tonight he's awake

If they have to suffer there lies the silent man

Sin without deceivers

A god with no believers

I could sail by on the winds of silence

And maybe they won't notice

But this time I think it'd be better if I swim

When there is reason tonight I'm awake

When there's no answer arrive the silent man

If there is balance tonight he's awake

If they have to suffer there lies the silent man

There lies the silent man

The music fades off with the soft exit in its outro. Princess Luna keeps smiling, she was sitting on the soft grass and she claps both of her hooves together, congratulating me for singing so good. I take a bit of a bow.

"You sing really well. I'm impressed." Princess Luna told me.

I sheepishly grin a bit. "Well, it comes from experience back on Earth." I told her.

The environment fades around us, showing us in the dream dimension. No wonder the waterfall seemed to act calm, which in my eyes was weird. The ground below me is no longer grass, but some sort of weird glowing white lights below us.

Princess Luna looks at me with both of her eyes. "The dream realm is a beautiful place, is it not?" She asks me.

"Everything just seems weird around me every time I enter this realm in sleep." I said to her.

"Indeed, but there is no time when you are here. You can make the time itself in your own dreams." Princess Luna tells me.

"I did have one dream while I was back on Earth. I was able to meet Rainbow Dash in some sort of country side. But the environment around-" I told her.

She interrupted "The environment around you was from a video game you played on Earth."

"Why… yes." I said to her, amazed how far she's probably gone into my mind.

In the distance, I could hear the sound of a door closing. Fluttershy must have gotten home from what I can remember, she had to go get some groceries last time I saw her before taking a nap.

Princess Luna places her right front hoof onto my left hand, and I turn back to her, facing her. "Brayden, my dear friend. It is time for you to wake up." She says to me with a smile on her face.

"That soon, Luna? We were just getting started to talk, so why must it end so early?" I asked her, disappointed I couldn't ask her more questions.

Princess Luna kept her smile, raising an eyebrow. "You are going to Canterlot with Rarity, are you?" She asks me.

"Yes, she invited me. I just have to tell her that I'm coming." I told her.

"While you're there, you can join me and my older sister Celestia for some tea. I formerly apologize for her not being able to talk with you longer, but you'll be able to get to know her more when you do." Princess Luna offered to me.

"I accept your offer. I've wanted to speak and befriend your sister." I said to her.

Princess Luna giggled and said "You're already friends with her. She's trusted you since she first saw you and still does. In fact, I caught her saying something that something wonderful will happen with you most likely soon."

"What will happen to me?" I asked, sounding a bit curious.

"I do not know, Brayden. I cannot tell you." Princess Luna told me. "I must depart now, but we will meet again soon in Canterlot."

"Of course Princess Luna. By the way, permission to hug you goodbye?" I asked her.

Princess Luna smiles and says "Of course Brayden. Permission accepted." I walk forward slowly, wrapping my hands around her neck gently, and she has her hoof around my waist. Both of us shared the friendly hug, and after a few moments we let go again.

The wind slowly picked up, carrying Princess Luna off of the ground of light and towards the circular moon. She flies off and becomes a small blur before a flash of white surrounds the dream realm and me in the process.

I slowly open my eyes, catching a light yellow blur in front of me. The blur ends up clearing up, and I could finally see who was in front of me. It was Fluttershy, and she seemed to be rather delighted to see me awake.

"Had a good nap, Brayden?" She asks me, placing her hoof onto my loose hand.

"Well, it was wild. That's all I could say." I just said to her, smiling at my best friend.

Fluttershy rolls her eyes happily, and then turns her head towards the kitchen. "Could you come into the kitchen and help me out with putting the groceries away?"

I slowly get up off of the couch and stand up on my two feet. "Sure." I said, accepting her offer to help her.

Fluttershy smiles and takes her soft hoof off of my hand, and trotting towards the kitchen with a smile. I walk forward slowly, joining my best friend to help her out.

But what worried me the most is how Nightmare Moon would return, and what she was planning to do to both me and Princess Luna.