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MLP: The Last Mage - WorldWalker128



A Human recieved an odd inheritance from a dead relative and seeks out answers in another world

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Chapter 20 and Epilogue

Chapter 20

Luna bucked Salda in the face, cracking her enemy's beak and stunning her. Luna then lowered her head, spun around, and threw her body weight into a charge that plunged her horn into her foe's chest, just barely missing her heart. Luna placed her front hooves against Salda's body and pushed off, pulling her bloodied horn free. Salda shrieked in pain and mauled Luna's neck, tearing four bloodied lines into one side of her neck and nicking an ear. Luna whinnied and shied away, leaving herself vulnerable to attack. Salda leaped at this chance and then found that her prey was no longer where she'd expected. Luna had created an image of herself and made her real self invisible, and while Salda attacked the image Luna swept underneath her and bucked her again, this time in the underbelly. A sound cracking came from the places that Luna kicked and before Salda had a chance to curl up shield herself or try to escape Luna kicked her again. This time there was no crack, but a squelching sound as something important was crushed from the impact. Salda made a gurlging sound and coughed up blood. Her wing beats slowed and she began to drift, and eventually fall towards the ground.

Breathing heavily, Luna watched her plummet down and land with a faint thud. Turning away from the dead queen, Luna looked up to the palace and using her Royal Voice declared that Salda, queen of the Griffons, was dead. A cheer drifted down from the palace and Luna enjoyed it a moment while catching her breath before looking for her student. He was no where in the immediate area, so she began looking above her. No, he is not there either. She focused hr magic into a homing spell, and released the spell. It pointed her down, and to her right until she was looking near the base of the mountain. There she saw two figures lying on the ground and she flew over to them frantically, wondering if either of them still lived. The first body she checked turned out to be dead with several holes in his back and was lying face down on top of an Alicorn horn, and Jacob's staff. The second was alive, and held one of the small Human weapons in his hand. His eyes were closed and his face as white as a her sister's hide, but he was awake, and he was Jacob.

“Did we win?” He asked in a small voice. Luna grinned.

“We did indeed! Our kingdom is safe once more!” He nodded and also smiled right up until a large black Dragon landed with a crash behind Luna. Luna spun and stared open-mouthed at a very bloody, very injured Drahngov.

“Not safe yet, I think, little prey!” With one great clawed hand he smacked Luna's body into the sheer rock wall behind her and she fell to the ground unconscious.

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Up in the palace Trixie was, for the first time in her life, begging the last pony she thought she'd ever ask for help. All who had watched the fight had seen Drahgov coming and only a few of them had been in any position to be able to fly down and attempt to help, but none of them were close enough.

“Twilight, you have to get me down there! We can save them!”

Us? Trixie, I don't know about you, but the last time I tried to block just his breath I failed. If not for Jacob's help, I'd be dead right now.”

“So you're just going to let him die now?!”

Celestia had jumped from the balcony the moment she had seen Drahgov approaching, and was even now winging her way down to where her sister and Jacob lay helpless on the ground, but there was no way she could get there in time short of teleporting, and her mind was too distracted for that.

“I never thought I'd find myself saying this, Twilight, but Trixie is right!” Rarity said. “If there is any chance that we can be of help, then we must at least try!” The others voiced similar opinions

Twilight sighed, knowing they were right but getting the feeling that they were all going to regret this she prepared the spell and they warped down near to where Luna now lay on the ground motionless.

“Oh no!” Fluttershy gasped, and without thinking flew to her side to see if she was alive.

“Ah, I see that more prey have come! Good, I could use some desert once I finish with these two.” Drahgov said, his shadow now covering both Fluttershy and Luna. Fluttershy looked up at his enormous size and cringed against Luna.

Rainbow Dash flew around his head, trying to distract him. “Away from me, little insect!” He swatted at her too, but unlike Luna, whom had not expected an attack, Rainbow Dash dodged every attack and even poked him in the eyes a few times. He growled in annoyance and tried to catch her between his jaws, again to no avail. Rainbow Dash blew a raspberry at him and then zipped out of reach again.

Rarity lifted Luna's body with her magic and Applejack and Fluttershy pushed her away from the 'fight'. Twilight, Pinkie Pie, and Trixie ran to Jacob, who had once more with a shaky hand lifted the pistol, (even though it was almost completely useless in this situation) and began shooting Drahgov with it. He aimed at the head when Rainbow Dash was not in the way and tried to hit an open eye, but missed each time. When it clicked twice he dropped it and set his one good arm on his chest.

“Jacob, are you okay? Why are you just lying there?” Twilight asked. Jacob turned his head.

“My left leg is broken and so is my right arm. Every time I twitch either limb they hurt. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon unless you can levitate or teleport me out of here.”

“Here!” Trixie said, pulling at the horn strapped to her arm. “Heal yourself!”

“Healing magic isn't that easy, Trixie. He can't heal himself when it comes to broken bones.” Trixie looked at Twilight and raised an eyebrow and motioned with her head to Jacob. “I can't help him with that either.”

“Then we'll just have to take this guy down first!” Trixie said determinedly and turned to face Drahgov. Nervous, Twilight did the same.

Celestia reached Luna, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy first and sent them all back to the palace infirmary when she was sure that her sister could live without a healing first and hurried on hoof to where the others were still annoying Drahgov.

Trixie was hurling a few broken rocks that had been lying at the base of the rock wall at him, to little effect, Twilight kept zapping him with magic, and Rainbow Dash kept zipping around his head to then zip to and kick a joint on his wings.

Drahgov, having had enough of this annoying little game unfolded his wings, dug his claws into the ground and flapped as hard as he could four times, blasting the wind created by them forward. Rainbow Dash was blown tumbling head over hooves through the air and eventually crashed. Both Twilight and Trixie were knocked over and pushed against the rock wall, and Pinkie Pie had gripped a rock protruding from the ground and hung on like her life depended on it. When he folded his wings again Pinkie stood up, looked at her tumbled friends and glared the Dragon and reached a hoof into her mane and pulled a long, tube-shaped Human weapon out of it that was longer than she was and aimed it at him. It was an RPG launcher.

“Ever wonder what fire and smoke taste like!?” She asked him in her Scary-Pie voice. Drahgov blinked and raised an eye-ridge at the odd question.

“You do realize that you're asking a Dragon if he wonders what fire and smoke taste like, do you not?” This time it was Pinkie Pie that blinked.

“Oh. Well have you ever wondered what metal tastes like?”

“No I have not, though I do have to wonder if you taste like cotton candy.” He reached a clawed hand out and Pinkie Pie launched the RPG in the end at him. It collided with his arm and exploded, taking the lower half of it off. Her weapon now useless, Pinkie tossed the launcher aside and ran to Twilight and Trixie, trying to shake them awake. Trixie was already awake and pushed Pinkie away before getting back to her feet.

By this time Celestia thought they had done enough and intervened by trapping the stunned Drahgov in a inverted barrier spell: others could enter if they wanted, but no one inside would be able to leave it unless she willed it.

His arm still gushing blood Drahgov stared at the part of his arm that was no lnger attached in horror. He was trembling, as if seeing his own blood and severed limbs were more horrifying than all the lives he'd thrown away of both his own people and others.

For someone such as him, perhaps it is. But maybe now he sees and understands what war can bring. He'll know it even more when he returns to his nation a failure, and all the angry mothers, fathers, and mates that did not go with him turn on him. That perhaps is more fitting a punishment than any I could inflict on hm: his own race hating him. If he is only shunned he will be getting off lucky. Likely they'll tear him apart a piece at a time while he still lives. Celestia had these thoughts in a cold, detached way. She felt no pity for the creature to her left now trying to stop the bleeding as his mind returned to him.

Celestia approached her subjects that were still in the process of recovering. Rainbow Dash was the last to join them, walking unsteadily with her eyes rotating in their sockets.

“Ugh, is is finally over?” Rainbow Dash asked when her eyes straightened out. Celestia nodded.

“Yes, my brave little ponies. This time, it really is.” They all let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground.

Epilogue

The Griffons were not happy about hearing that they'd lost after so many of them had died fighting both the Dragons and a few pockets of Human and Pony resistance in the city, but their next queen in line to rule, whom turned out to be Gilda (who was not sad to hear of her aunt's demise), told them that considering how many Dragons had been killed by the Human weapons that if they had continued to wage war it would only have cost even more of their lives. They returned home with no further incident.

What few Dragon 'soldiers' that had survived the invasion returned home telling horror stories of what they'd faced, and cautioned the rest of their race not to bring the Pony race to anger, which had made powerful and dangerous allies.

Drahgov went down in Draconic history as the worst leader in their history, though to be fair if the Griffon queen had not betrayed him things would have turned out vastly different. But they had not, and Drahgov was exiled from the Dragon lands. He eventually found a good-sized island in the middle of the planet's equator and made his home there, surviving off of fish and other oceanic denizens. There he would live long after every short-lived creature that had stood against him and their children and grandchildren had grown old and died, including the Humans, who often lived two and a half times that of the Ponykind, and would continue to live there until an earthquake would cause a Tsunami and bury the island and himself while he slept more than five hundred years after his defeat.

Despite the hostilities shown for many years to most of Dragonkind, Spike was welcomed back with open arms as was his sister, whom had at one point helped a group of ponies that had become trapped in the under-city tunnels dug by the Diamond Dogs escape back to the surface world, and then joined others in searching for more survivors. Both of their names were added to the list of Dragon-Heroes that had stood (and in most cases fell) in the defense of the Pony towns during the 'Two-leg Turn-point War' as it eventually would come to be called.

Spike did for a time go back with his sister to meet his parents, and they were very happy to know that their son and daughter had survived and that Spike was happy living amongst Ponykind.

Melinda Jones was never seen in Equestria again, nor ever on Earth (or at least, not Jacob's version of Earth). She returned home to her family for a brief time who were amazed to see that she was in fact, alive. In time she again took to the family trade of Maker's Mercenaries, but this time did not go it alone. Her youngest sibling went with her and together they helped ignite a war between two religious factions that would end with the annihilation of a third that would, two hundred years after their task was complete, try to make peace between the two.

“But, I thought we were the good guys, sis!” Melinda sighed and shook her head sadly. Innocence was not a thing lost without sorrow, and she wished it could have been put of fa little longer for her little brother.

“Not always, Reed. That's why we're Mercenaries and not Heroes.” Melinda added another Deity Mark to the collection around her neck and wondered briefly if Jacob had indeed decided to take her old job. “Not every God, Goddess, or Maker is a good being. Some of them are complete jerks.”

“Then why do our family work for them?”

“Because...” She stopped. Her father had become Maker's Mercenary because he'd given up on life at one point and they offered him a new one before he met their mother, and he felt grateful to the three Goddess sisters, but why did she make contracts with beings she didn't like? “Well, I guess we all have different reasons. Some of us do it for power, others do it for fun. As for me, I don't remember anymore!” She clapped a hand on his shoulder. “Tell you what, you pick the next one we work for. If he or she turns out to be a jerk, we'll tell them to find someone else to do their dirty work!” Reed's face lit up and he nodded.

After the Humans were sure that the war was over some of them volunteered to stay and help rebuild the city, but most of them went back to their world bringing stories both good and bad of what they'd seen. Other Humans came to help rebuild Canterlot and to see this magnificent world that they had heard so much about. No one that went returned to Earth without reluctance and promised themselves that they'd come back some day even if they never actually did.

Several trading arrangements were made with direct involvement of the Queen of the UK at the insistence of princess Luna, who made frequent visits to Earth every other month for the next several years.

Reginald had the time of his life studying Human cultures until the day he died with a computer mouse made especially for hooves under one leg and a ink pen in the other. Because of Reginald's devotion to the study of Human cultures both current and extinct they were able to determine that the Greek myths of many strange creatures could in fact be found in many of the wilder locations of the world nicknamed by Humankind at large as 'Mythica' for all its mythical creatures. In time Mythica became the official name for the Primary World.

A new school founded on the grounds near the Stone Arch Gateway was named after him, and both Humans, Ponies, and even the Draconic race studied there as the years marched on.

Rainbow Dash became a member of the Wonderbolts (of course!) and later on so would Scootaloo. Both of them would perform on their team in both worlds on multiple occasions constantly outdoing Human flight tech and encouraging engineers to make better and better machinery. It would not be until after Rainbow Dash had died of old age and Scootaloo had retired that they would finally succeed. Rainbow Dash would have two daughters and one son, and Scootaloo would only have one daughter before her mate would die in an accident.

Fluttershy only returned to the Human world once, and this was to acquire several books on animal anatomy so that she could better care for the animals of her world. She did eventually learn to dance on two legs, and once in a competition displayed her talents, and Lyra, who also attempted this lost, and was jealous. Fluttershy would have no children, but she often said that caring for her animals was enough for her.

Pinkie Pie would spend most of the rest of her life on Earth, sampling sweets the world over in competitions held specifically so that she would be the one sampling them. Pinkie Pie would eventually have three children, all of them sons. The father would try his best to teach them to not eat sweets every day, and would fail miserably thanks to his mate not helping and encouraging the opposite.

Rarity became one of the most popular ponies as far as the clothing industry on Earth was concerned, and she eventually started her own company, which made millions in multiple currencies on Earth every other month, and as for bits in Equestria...at the time that she did it they had not yet figured out an exchange rate. Rarity would not have any children, because her busy work schedule would make it impossible for her to form a lasting relationship with anypony.

Applejack's ruined orchard would in time be replanted, but it took her a long time to do so even with help from her friends and several business partners.

Big Macintosh would spend the rest of his life working on the Apple farm, and not once regreted it. Applebloom eventually did indeed get her Cutie Mark, as did her friends, but each of them several months apart.

Granny Smith...with no body to bury they buried her cane instead under one of the Apple trees that had not been burnt or destroyed by the Dragon raid. It was a sad occasion, and all of Ponyville came to it to offer condolences. Applejack would have one son that would die of an illness that not even magic or the best Human vets could heal, and sh would also have two more daughters, who would grow up healthy and strong. Big Macintosh would have one son, and Applebloom would grow up and have several children as well.

Twilight Sparkle, with no house to go back to in Ponyville stayed in the royal palace to complete her studies in magic. Once a week she would go to Ponyville to visit her friends (if they were in town) and they'd hang out for a day, and then she'd return to Canterlot to resume her studies. Twilight would have one boy and one girl, and her mate would be one of the younger guards that had survived the defense of the city.

Trixie would stay and learn under princess Luna alongside Jacob Lighthand for twelve years. Jacob only stayed for eight, and then he moved away from everyone and everypony and fell out of modern history for a decade. Trixie eventually would forge a staff of her own using Melinda's horn and a second horn given to her by princess Luna from one of the executed prisoners. When Luna finally said that Trixie was ready to graduate she once more took the title 'Great and Powerful' and toured Mythica competing against ponies the world-over. She was bested by a few of them, but normally she would win out. When she was done two more years would have passed and then she would get a notice from princess Celestia requesting that she go looking for her old friend Jacob. She would gather her things and do so immediately. She would search for six more years before finding him again.

Roger and Agatha Lighthand would move back to Earth and stay there periodically getting visits from their son until he disappeared. After two years of not hearing from him they would intercept Luna on her way back home and ask what had happened to him and then ask her for the favor of sending someone to look for him. Both he and she would die in a mysterious car accident four year later.

Veedar (at Jacob's insistence) would one day be allowed out of the dungeon and would be escorted at all times in the event that he should have a vision so that it could be averted. He would also see Jacob's mother and father die and try to save them. He made it into Earth, said where it would happen, and then mere seconds before arrival would begin weeping, saying that they were too slow.

Veedar would eventually become depressed from all the failed attempts to save those that he predicted would die and would later hang himself after his guards had left him for the night.

Golden Rosa, aka The Creepy Servant, would never stop trying to convince Jacob to...ride her saddle until the day he left, and after he vanished she would later find a Human that did say yes, and together they made several little centaurs, thus proving that yet another Greek myth was, in fact, true.

The alien pilot of the box-shaped UFO would crash in Everfree forest and encounter Ditzy Doo, aka Derpy Hooves, and then go on many incredible time-and-space adventures together, including almost being eaten by the Serpents after they came in through the Diamond Dog tunnels. They would also be part of the reason that Jacob went missing for a decade.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^

“As for me myself, well, I guess you'll just have to read my next journal, won't you?” I slapped the journal that had once belonged to my ancestor, and now belonged to me, shut. At long last it had finally run out of pages. I carried it over to the now-adolescent Spike and asked him to send it to Princess Luna.

“Are you sure that you don't want to give it to her yourself?” Spike asked me, fidgeting.

“Yes, Spike. Quite sure. How is everyone, by the way?”

“They miss you. A lot. You really should go visit them, Jake. Twilight and Rainbow Dash especially. They think you're dead.” I sighed.

“Perhaps that's for the best. It was the Doc that told me how all this will end, and almost none of it involved me. I get the feeling that I'm not meant to be part of this world's history anymore. At least, not the current history.”

“I take it that you want me to keep it a secret that I've heard from you, then?” Spike looked very guilty about something. When he saw that I suspected this he began to sweat like Applejack did. Applejack was a terrible liar.

Spi-i-i-ike?” I said, my volume slowly increasing as I stretched out his name. “What are you hiding?”

“SURPRISE!!!” I found myself covered in confetti and five ponies. The sixth stood behind a confetti canon.

“Now wut wer ya sayin' about not being part of our history?” Applejack asked, giving me a noogie with a hoof.

“You're not leaving just yet, Magic-man! You still owe me a race!” Rainbow Dash declared, dressed in her Wonderbolt outfit.

“Dear heavens! Just what have you been doing that your pants and shirt look so...ratty?!” Rarity gasped, looking appalled. “I made those for you before you left the first time, and they looked nothing like that!

“I know you don't really much care for cake, so I made donuts instead! Jelly filled!” The ever-cheerful Pinkie Pie, holding a box of Donuts that had her face of the box.

“It seems you've forgotten what a friend is again!” Twilight said, frowning at me. “You've made Fluttershy cry!” I looked at Fluttershy, who sniffed and looked sad. Once again, I felt like a jerk.

“I'm sorry for not being honest with you girls, I thought that if everyone thought I was dead that it would be easier-”

“The Great and Powerful Trixie finds the also-powerful Jacob to be a moron when it comes to predicting emotional reaction!” Said a rather lovely young woman as she walked into the cave that was now Spike's winter home in the warmer climate of Equestria. In one hand she carried staff not unlike my own.

“Oh. My. Maker! Trixie?!” I gasped, not believing. Whereas Trixie had been cute the last time I saw her, she was hot now.

“The one and only!” She said, grinning, and twirled. She was wearing my old cape that I'd left behind at the palace and spread her arms out. “Now as I said before, you're being a moro-” She stopped and stared at me. “You can't have aged more than two years since I last saw you! How is this possible?!”

“I can explain that!” A yellow-eyed Pegasus that I'd come to know very well over the past two years said as she trotted into the cave. A second Pegsasus, this one brown and male with an hourglass for a Cutie Mark trotted in a little faster and clapped a hoof over her mouth.

“Nope! No she can't, ladies!” He began pulling her back outside when he was suddenly surrounded and he chuckled nervously. He leaned closer to his Pegasus companion and whispered that she'd really might have done it this time. “Uh...here! Anyone want a muffin? It's banana-nut!” He held one up and grinned nervously.

Trixie pointed her staff at him and picked him up and set him down on a stone table that Spike used.

“Talk.” She said, giving him a stare that much resembled the one that Fluttershy used. The Pegasus pony that I had come to know as Doc, or as he preferred to be called, The Doctor, sighed.

“I guess there's no way out of it this time. What would you like to know?”

“EVERYTHING!” They all yelled at him in unison. Doc looked at me as if begging for help. I said nothing, but shrugged.

“Well, everything would take longer than the rest of your lives to tell, but I should be able to at least clear up his being missing long before then. Shall I?” The Doctor cleared his throat and clapped his front hooves together. “RIGHT! Now, to start with, just as a warning to you, I was not there for all of it, but Jake here can tell you the rest!”

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Cue this music for the Author's Note, if you care to: Dying To Live (Poets of The Fall) http://youtu.be/OOsTw4-9mHw

And that's it for this one. I n all honesty I had intended to do a completely different ending (two, actually). In one Salda would be killed by Luna first, and then she'd try to help Jacob with his broken arm and leg beat Zandar, but he'd blast her away and then begin heading for her to take her horn as well. Trixie, watching form above would call down to him and toss him her Unicorn horn. It would stab into the ground an, under excruciating pain Jacob would crawl to it, take it, and then teleport himself to Zandar's feet, and then, focusing on the ground beneath them, teleport them both three meters underground, suffocating them both but ensuring victory for Equestria. Needless to say, the main six would be upset about this turn of events, as would be his parents, and even Trixie. (This one may or may not have had a alternate for it as well in which Lady Luck, the Deity that had been ensuring his survival throughout the story would save him and have a conversation with him, and offer him Melinda's old job under her as a Maker's Mercenary. Equestria and Earth would think him dead and she'd drop him off two hundred years in the future, and Discord would be on the loose again but without anyone to wield the Elements of Harmony against him, which would be where the next story picked up.) If I had decided against the Lady Luck ending, he would have been dead, and that would have been the end of Jacob.

The second ending would take us a chapter farther back, and the Humans would utterly annihilate the Dragons with almost no casualties for either them or the Ponies. The Griffon queen would metaphorically pee herself and turn feathered tail and run back to her kingdom and rush to renew the truce between her people and the Equestrian nation. Peace would be restored, and life would go back to a semblance of normal for Jacob P. Lighthand. Unfortunately, he would outlive his friends and eventually it would jump to a scene of him standing in the stained-glass hall looking at images of the main six. Spike would be there with him, and they'd have a conversation about their longevity in comparison with the pony race. At one point Spike would hand him box that contained two horns in it. A white horn, and a purple one.

“They told me to give these to you after they were gone.” He would say, and Jacob would only stare at them for a moment, then he'd look at the stained glass images and run a hand over the cold, and lifeless likenesses. He'd sink to his knees and start crying, saying in between sobs that he did not want their horns, he wanted them. He wanted them to be standing here with him to see the prosperity that the uniting of their races had brought both worlds!

“What is the point of having magic when you can't even preserve the lives of those you care about?!” He would yell, and then fling his staff away from him. It would bounce on the tiling and eventually roll to a stop against Luna's hooves. Luna would join him and place a wing over him.

“Everything has their time, Jacob Lighthand. One day, even I and my sister shall pass beyond this world. It will not be for many milenia, but our time will eventually come as well. We have to accept this as a part of life, otherwise we shall go mad. To try and fight it only goes against nature.”

“It would not be the first time my people have done such a thing.” Jacob would say, and he would slowly rise and retrieve his staff. Spike would place the lid back on the box and wordlessly, Jacob would accept it and hug it closely. He would then use his magic to teleport himself into the now-nearly-safe Everfree forest. Back to where it all had begun. He would make his way to Zecora's old house, which though abandoned, still stood.

Recalling an old legend amongst the Zebras that she had once told him during his continued lessons with Luna, he would set out for the twisted heart of the Everfree forest, looking for The Necro Walk. The Paths of the Dead. There he would try to find the main six again to speak with them, but he would not find his friends as he knew them. Instead, he would find warped and twisted versions of them as he stepped out of The Necro Walk and into a Flipside Dimension. In it Humans were Predators rather than Omnivores, and sported fangs instead of what we had. Dragons feared them, and Griffons were used as mounts, and the Pony race were treated as cattle. Humans still lived in the Echo Dimension, but it was because they were banished there rather than performing a heroic sacrifice. All Unicorns would have their horns removed when they attempted to use magic, and periodically they would be shaved down. Twilight Sparkle would be among them. Jacob would be confused upon his arrival, and to the shock of the local pony populous he would heal this Twilight and use the horn from the Twilight he knew to replace the once that had been stolen from her.

In this world Humans lived to be about fifty, whereas Ponies could live (if they were not eaten) to be nearly eighty, and when he stepped out of The Necro Walk it for some reason that I had not yet come up with yet reverted him to the time in which he first stepped into Equestria when he was younger, his age reverting along with it, but none of his knowledge.

And other than him encountering a predatory female version of himself and them having an argument and later a fight, I had not thought that much farther.


So you tell me, which ending do you like better? The one that opens the opportunity for him to Travel with The Doctor and Ditzy (The one that I've attached to this story, which will involve Equestria coming to Earth's rescue), the one where he dies (or gets saved by Lady Luck and goes into the future to fight Discord), or The Necro Walk?

The one with the highest likes within...let's say a week I will use as the basis to write a sequel. I had wanted to go with the one chosen, but you've been a great audience, and I've never attempted a fic with Doctor Who(oves) before, and I'll cater to your whims. It'll prolly be fun either way.

NOTE: THE VOTING IS FINISHED, AND THE NEXT 'CHAPTER' OF THIS STORY WILL LINK YOU TO THE TWO SEQUELS.

Author's Note:

By the way, it occurred to me today (02/10/2017) that while most people probably don't care one way or the other, you might not know who 'The Last Mage' actually is. It's actualyl NOT Jacob, but his ancestor. If it had been Jacob, then the title would have been different. Being a mage requires a LOT of magical experience, and Jacob, despite being assisted and trained by those who had LOADS of experience with magic had been using it for less than a year. He has a lot of power to throw around, but that hardly made him an expert in it.