Chase, a young teenager with a plethora of resorces, finds a filly Luna on the night of a winter soltice Lunar Eclipse
Chase, a teenage Arch-Mage of the lunar creed, Finds a filly Princess Luna on the night of pure lunar magic, The Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse. Chase, being the head of the Lunar Creed, takes Luna as his daughter on an immortal's journey, just a quest that never ends, and leaves the Creed to his new moon, his second in command. Now enough of the description and lets see what happens.
"Arch-Mage, the times have come. The eclipse of this eon is starting in five minutes." says one of my students of the lunar arts.
"Very well, start the preparations." I reply.
"Already under way."
"Once again, very well, I will meet the creed at the circle. Now go." I wave the student off, and he takes his leave. I stand from the chair I was sitting in, and grab my stave in my right hand, then exit my private study, heading to the center of The Hall of the Lunar Creed, a castle I inherited from my father, the last arch-mage.
Upon entering the courtyard, I am met with the entire creed standing around the circle, waiting for me to begin the thousands of years old ritual, the opening of the lunar portal to the higher realm.
"Fellow mages and apprentices, the time has come upon us to open the lunar portal once more." I tell the entire creed, I clear my throat before continuing, "I will allow my most prestigious mage through, along with myself, and a few select others. I will be leaving the Creed in the capable hands of my new moon. However, if the portal fails, I will be taking whatever came through the backfire with me on the immortal's journey, leaving the creed to my new moon." I earn a cheer for this, and I tap my stave on the ground once for silence. I notice the moon moving into position.
" 'Tis time to begin, mages! Lend me your power!" I say as I hold my stave in both hands holding it vertically above the ground. The other mages hold their staves out to me, while their apprentices hold their wands out, channeling their magic to me. My stave, with the moonstones set inside of it, starts to glow a deep blue. This process continues until the moon is in position. I start the incantation of the lunar portal.
"Come now, lunar portal, be awakend to the realm of my existence, unseen light whose source I lack, Come too, portal of old, to the lunar creed: Come now, faithful folk, hateful masters, barbaric fires: Come now hidden powers of the world of the lunar plane: Come dark, come new, Come Watcher at the Lunar-Bed. A sign of my desire here is inked with magic and essence And carried to the edge of the spirit's hedge: Come now, dark lunar portal, and use us well, Come now, wielding all the powers of hell, And see my will manifest, by moon and shadowed forest. First an omen, the Moon's own talk; A game of masks, a witch's road, a reversed walk; Then a witching, a counterclockwise turn, A creed of signs, a seven fold charm, 'Ere the art is accomplished at my behest." When I finished I slam my stave into the center of the lunar circle. The magic in my stave transfers to the circle.
I leave my stave where it was and start the chant.
"The arch-mage asketh for thy portal to open, oh sacred moon." I continue the chant as the rest of the creed joins me. power starts to weave around my stave and forms into a large sphere of swirling hues of blue. I hold up a hand and the creed stops chanting. I motion for the select few to join me by my side. after they took up their positions I start my way forward. As soon as I am about to enter the portal explodes knocking out all but me. I look at my stave and the creature that is next to it on the ground, unconscious. I pick up the creature, and look it over. It has the shape of a horse's foal, but has a unicorns horn and a pair of pegasus wings. The foal is a filly and has a deep blue coat and a light blue mane. I turn and pull the robe off of a nearby mage and wrap the foal in it. I then pull my staff from the circle and return to my private study, to prepare for our journey.
I enter my private study and close then lock the door. I then lay the filly on my bed and start to think of a name for her.
"What shall I call you child of the moon?" I ask aloud to no one.
The moon, now completely out of it's eclipse shines onto the filly and a scroll appears next to her. I pick it up, knowing it was from the goddess of the moon, and read its contents.
'Dear Arch-Mage Chase, I have heard your plea to enter the lunar plane, and have declined. Instead i gift you with this alicorn named Luna from the realm Equus. Raise her as your own daughter and wait for the reward. I leave the rest to you.
From the moon,
Goddess, Izanami."
I look upon the alicorn foal with a new honor and pride.
I start packing my belongings in an enchanted satchel and also food for me and Luna. Once finished i hold Luna in my left arm, and my stave in my right. I then set off on my journey.
I wake from my dream remembering when all this happened a few years ago. Luna and I are now living in a cabin in a forest in Japan.
"Father, are you alright?" asks Luna. Luna is now five years old, her horn is now six inches long. She is currently learning how to use her magic.
"Yes, It was just a remembrance." I tell my daughter as I sit up.
"Want to talk about it?" She asks in that cute voice of hers.
"It was about the day I received you from the moon goddess." She nods, already knowing the memory.
"Oh, that one." She pauses then asks, "Father, can we do some star gazing tonight?" I chuckle knowing i couldn't tell her no. I nod and pick her up as i stand, she giggles at my actions.
It has been seven years since then. Luna now is full grown, can use a plethora of magic spells and even gained the mark of her destiny. I am now waiting on the say of the goddess when to return her to her original realm. She knows that she is not from here and know that one day she will leave. The goddess sends us letters telling of Luna's sister Celestia, who will come to take her home. I have hid nothing from Luna since i have obtained her on that faithful night.
It has been seventeen years since i received Luna from the goddess. I fear our time is growing short.
"Father, I feel a magic foreboding about this day." Says Luna with slightly squinted eyes.
"Do you think it is time?" I ask with worry evident in my voice.
"I believe so." There is a knock at the cabins door. I stand knowing who is there.
I open the door to a large white alicorn with a flowing mane of light blue, green, and pink.
"Celestia, you have finally arrived after all these years." I tell her with a bow, fully aware that she and my daughter are Princesses in the realm Equus. Celestia looks surprised, but then her gaze turns grim.
"WHERE IS MY SISTER?! I DEMAND THAT YOU RETURN HER NOW!" She shouts at me, voice seething with anger. I summon my stave in a flash of Lunar magic. I take a defensive stance ready for hostile actions to be sent my way.
"Please calm yourself, she is in perfect health, also I would not want to have a fight in which the odds are stacked to my opponents favor." I tell her with warning in my voice. She visibly calms and nods. I step aside and allow her entrance to my, and Luna's, home.
"Where is my sister?" she asks with hostility still apparent in her voice. Just as she asks this Luna walks into the frontroom of our small home.
"Luna..." Celestia looks to be on the brink of tears, but she visible holds them back, "Come little sister, lets go home."
"No Celestia, this is my new home, for I was reborn into this world."
"Luna, how can you choose this world over your own?" asks Celestia.
"Because now I have a father to love who is there for me."
"Oh, I see, this creature has corrupted you. I was hoping not to have to do this but you leave me no choice. I now have to take you home by force." At this Celestia starts charging her horn, readying whatever magic she was about to use, but I stop her with a simple sapping spell.
"I'm sorry Celestia, but I can't let you do that. For you see, Luna was a gift to me from the Lunar Goddess, and is also my only daughter. I give you three choices. You can leave and never return. You can take us both with you, or you can try to face the wrath of my lunar magic." All the while i'm talking my stave is building its dark blue glow, "So what is your decision?"
Celestia seems to think this over for a few minutes before replying, "Fine, I will bring you both with me. I hope you can be friendly." I nod my head and my stave stops glowing.
"Let us gather a few belongings before we leave." i tell to Celestia as me and Luna turn to the bedroom/study to grab a few items. I grab my 'Tome of Lunar Spells', and Luna grabs the robe i made for her on her sixteenth birthday, as well as her own tome of spells. We both return to Celestia at the same time and nod to her. Celestia charges her horn and we are off in a bright flash of light.
We appear in a throne room. I drop to my knees breathing hard.
"Father are you alright?" asks Luna as she drapes a hoof over my back.
"Yes, or at least I will be, my body is not use to that amount of magic use." I reply, "So Celestia, may I ask why you tried to leave me behind?" I glare at her as I ask this.
"Because you do not belong here, I'm surprised you survived the trip here, your magic is stronger then I thought." replies Celestia with a glare of her own. We both start charging our magic into our tools, her into her horn, and me into my stave. Luna moves to the side.
Celestia is the first to attack, with a beam of pure energy. I summon a mana shield and deflect her beam off into some windows. I then ready myself for her next attack. She shoots a fire ball at me and I just smile and absorb it into my magic stores.
"Oh, so you can absorb fire balls, well lets see how much fire you can take!" With that she starts throwing fire at me left and right, so I absorb every strike into my stores.
After sixty fire balls my stores are full so I start deflecting her attacks. She stops when I do this.
"I see you have had enough fire, but let me ask this, where did you put the fire?" She grins as though she won but I just chuckle and say, "I absorbed the magic fire into my own stores, and now I can use it as I see fit." Her grin disappears and instead she just shoots another beam at me so I return the attack with one of my own. It turns into a battle of power and the collision point of the beams is nearing my stave so I pump more magic into my attack. The power is evened out and the collision point is stationary in the middle of the two powerfully lethal beams of magic. Celestia starts breathing heavy after a couple minutes of this and as her power starts to weaken. I back off so that I don't hurt her. I may be strict and ruthless but I don't harm the innocent.
Once her magic is spent I stop the beam and she just slides back a foot from what was left of my beam.
"Why... did... you stop?" She asks out of breath.
"Because I don't harm the innocent. That is the first rule of the Lunar Creed." I answer her. I rest my magic.
"But... why...stop...I attacked...you." She asks, still out of breath.
"You were only trying to protect your subjects and your sister. Now please allow me to share what magic I have left with you so we may speak on better terms." She nods her head and I give her half of my magic.
"Thank you, but may I ask you something?"
"But of coarse, you may ask anything."
"Why did you say received her as a gift from the Lunar Goddess, and besides that, who is the Lunar Goddess?"
"Well the first answer is going to be a slightly long story, so please don't ask anything else until I am finished otherwise I will forget previous questions." She nods so I continue, "Okay, so, Luna was gifted to me on the night of pure Lunar magic, the night of the winter solstice as well as a lunar eclipse. This occurs every thousand years, and on the day of pure lunar magic, the arch-mage of the Lunar Creed can open a portal to the higher realms. I am the arch-mage of the current Lunar Creed, which is why you couldn't beat me when my stores of mana were full, but i also doubt that was your full power, I'm getting off topic. So seventeen years ago was the last night of pure lunar magic, so I tried to open a portal to the higher lunar realm, but the lunar goddess decided otherwise, changing my destiny to being a father to Luna." I pause for input from Luna, but she stays silent so I continued, "Now for the other answer. The Lunar goddess is the creator of all moons and also the creator of lunar magic. So the Lunar Creed worships her and her decisions." A Lunar scroll appears in front of me so I grab it and read its contents.
Dear Arch-Mage Chase,
The rest of this letter is to the princess Celestia.
The rest of the message was illegible to me so I hold it out to Celestia saying, "Seems as though the Lunar Goddess wishes to explain herself to you." She takes the scroll into her magical grasp, and after she reads it she looks at me with tears in her eyes as she says, "I'm so sorry for harming you when you raised my sister as well as protected her from your world's cruelty. How can you ever forgive me?"
"I never even started to doubt your actions for I already knew what was going to happen. You don't need my forgiveness for you will always have it." I reply with a soft smile. Celestia starts to cry silently so I walk up to her and hold my arms out. She immediately wraps her hooves around me, quietly sobbing into my shoulder. She pulls away after she calms, her vibrant flowing mane now hangs down by her shoulders and is a soft sparkling pink.
"You can stay here at the castle until you've found a place to live, but if you so choose, you may live here." Says Celestia. I just nod my head and look to Luna asking, "Where will we live?" and she replies with a simple, "Here father." so I nod to Celestia and she nods back.
"Feather Touch will be your servant here at the castle, so Miss Touch?" Celestia calls to a white unicorn. The unicorn walks over to Celestia.
"Will you show the Arch-Mage to his room, you will be his servant whenever he is here."
"Yes Princess." Replied the unicorn with a nod, "Follow me sir." I just smile and nod. The unicorn shows me out of the throne room and through the castle, eventualy leading to the room i would be staying in.
I turn to the young unicorn and say, "Thank you. I know I would have gotten lost on my way here."
"No problem sir, it is my job to serve the princesses and if they want me to serve you then I am at your beck and call." She replies, "I do have one question."
"Go ahead, ask."
"What is your name?"
"Well, I'm in a new world with a new destiny, so I say my old name does not suit me. Hmm. Just call me Lunar." I tell her, "And may I ask what your name is? I'm afraid I wasn't listening to Celestia when she said it."
"My name is Feather Touch. I am your servant here at the palace."
"Well Feather, would you like to join me for some tea? I would like to know more about Equestria, and you." She nods and asks, "What kind of tea would you like?"
"I would like jasmine tea." I tell her.
"What is jasmine? I don't think Equestria has that plant."
"Oh silly me." I summon a jasmine flower and hand it to Feather, "This is a jasmine flower, used to make a lovely tasting tea in my realm." I tell her as I summon multiple jasmine flowers that are still alive and set them all over the room.
"Oh my, it's a beautiful flower. Are you sure this is used in tea?"
"But of coarse. Its was a tradition in my realm to drink tea, and jasmine tea was one of the most commonly drank." She nods and says, "I will return soon." I nod and head inside.
There is a knock at the door so I open the door to see Feather Touch there levitating the tea I asked for, as well as some small bakery goods. I step aside, allowing her entrance. She walks up to a table, and sets down the tray. She then pours two cups and sets them on oppossite sides of the table.
"Sir, how do you like your tea?" I look at Feather and say," Please Ms.Touch, call me by my name. I hate it when others call me sir, makes me feel old. Also I like my tea with a tablespoon of honey, with a bit of cream." She nods and continues her work. Once she is done, we both sit down and take a sip of our tea.
"You were right, Jasmine tea is delicious." says Feather, looking at her tea in wonder.
"I know it is, it was also very exspensive were I come from, for it only grew in a very hard to find climate." I tell her with a smile. I pick a muffin up off of the tray, and split it open. I butter the inside of the muffin and take a bite.
"Mmm, the cooks here know what they're doing. This is the best muffin I've had in years." I say as I set the muffin down. I then stand and walk over to a nearby window. I look out opon the new world I was in and sigh. I then take off my Lunar mage robe, and hang it on a post of my bed. I then take a look at the archmage symbols drawn over my entire body, except for my face of coarse.
"If I'm not asking to much, what are those markings on your arms?" asks Feather.
"These are the symbols of an archmage. I earned these when I mastered the art of Lunar magic." I tell her as I walk back over to the table and sit back down.
"Is there a reason behind them?"
"Three acually. The first is just to show that I'm Archmage. The second is a power enhacment, they boost my power fifty fold. Third, is that it is a tradition."
"How are they a power enhancement?"
"It is easier to show you." I say as I ready what is left of my stores. I channel my magic into my arms, through my hands, and into a ball of shadow that hovers above my hands by a couple inches. I then notice my markings start to glow and make the ball larger. I absorb the magic back into my stores with a sigh, and look at Feather.
I take another bite of my muffin as I wait for her to say something. She never does.
"I didn't ever think I would amaze someone ever again." I say as I finish my muffin.
"How...I... can you teach me the ways of your magic?" She asks. I raise one of my eyebrows.
"You don't even know me that well, yet you ask a complete stranger to teach you the ways of one of the most dangerous magics of all?" I ask Feather. She nods her head. I chuckle and say, " Well, thats the first time anyone has said that. Usually nobody would even say that. Truth be told Lunar magic is very easy to learn. I will train you, if you are willing to help me in return, outside of your duties." I tell her with a smirk.
"What do you need help with?" She asks.
"I need help with a spell tonight." I say as my smile turns to a grin.
"Of coarse I'll help... What does the spell do?"
"Well I'm not as powerfull as I use to be, hence the spell I will be preforming tonight. The spell I am going to use is a spell to restore my youth. I was fourteen when I cast the legendary spell. That was when I was at my maximun potential. Ever since then I have lost powers I never wanted to loose. This spell also slows my aging process down to about ten percent of my natural aging speed."
"Oh my, age spells are some of the most advanced magic here. Even the princesses can bairly use age spells." I just raise my eyebrows and drink some of my tea.
"Well all I'm going to need you to do is to help me gather magic from this worlds moon."
"Oh, ok I can do that, with a little instruction." I smile and finish my tea. I look back out the window and see that it is almost sunset. I get another knock on my door. I walk over and open said door.
"Yes?" I ask to a gaurd pony.
"Princess Celestia has asked to see you." said the gaurd.
"I'll be there in a few minutes." I reply. The gaurd nods and walks off. I close the door and head back to the table to get my robe. I pull the robe on and walk back to the door. Before I left, I turned to Feather Touch and said, "Be prepared to help me at midnight, my aprentice." She nods so I step out side of the doorway and follow a gaurd to the princess.
I enter a grand doorway to see Celestia glaring at me. I sigh and ask, "What did I do this time?"
"Well first, you didn't teach Luna how to raise ,and lower, the moon. Second, I am drained from our... Disagreement so I can't lower the sun. I have asked for your presence to see if you could do our duties for us tonight." says Celestia. I just raise an eyebrow.
"The reason Luna can't raise and lower the moon is because she never had to in my world. I am also drained by our battle and need the moon to be in the sky if I am going to replenish any of my magic. If I was seventeen years younger I could do what you ask of me in a heartbeat." I tell the Princess. just then Luna walks into the room me and Celestia were in.
"Father, I still have plenty of magic. I could lend you my magic for you to do this task." says Luna as she takes a seat next to me.
"Yet I can't controll your magic, remember what happened the first time we tried this?"
"Yes, but we are in a different world. You might be able to now." I think about this for a few minutes, coming up with the solid solution of what the people of my world would say. Something along the lines of 'YOLO.'
I sigh and say, "Fine but this is only to be a skill we use in an emergency after this."
Celestia nods and says, "Very well, let us head to the highest balcony." We all stand and make our way out of the room. Followed by gaurds, probably to make sure I don't do anything, we made our way up quite a few flights of stairs.
Once we reach the top, I was wishing to never do this again, ever.
"My body is to old for this crap." I mutter under my breath. I catch my breath, and stand at my full height. I take what little magic I have left to summon my stave. The moon crystals were all drained, and were completely black. I hold the stave in my right hand, as I hold my left out to Luna.
I nod and she fires her magic at me, I begin to absorb it. My stave is storing magic first, told by the moon crystals slowly lighting back up. The last crystal on my stave was glowing a pure white, so I switched the flow to my own stores easily. This is where it always became dangerous in the past. I already knew that I probably wouldn't be able to control the power of an alicorn, but continued anways.
Pain started to form in my tantien as it tried it's best to absorb the new type of magic. I then cry out in pain as my tantien reached full and rejected the rest of the magic, making it fill my life force. I continued crying out untill I was back to my teenage self. I then start to ignore the pain as I continued to absorb more and more. My stores of my teenage body were immensely larger then my thirty year old body's. I continued to absorb more and more untill I felt the pain starting to return. That was when I nodded my head for Luna to stop.
She stopped, and I threw off my robe, preparing to release the magic I had in a briliant display of power that I had only done once before. I twirl my stave around in a tight circle before slamming the end into the floor. My spell diagram floated above the ground before it shot a beam towards both horizons. One beam was a golden color, and it was flying straight at the sun. The other was a pure silver, it was flying to the east horizon, where the moon was barely peaking over the edge of said horizon. I felt the beams contact the celestial bodies. I started to rotate my stave in a very slow clock-wise turn. The sun and moon were pain stakingly slow in lowering and raising.
My stores were draining faster then they ever had before. I put more physical strength into rotating my stave, but it barely sped up. My personal stores were gone, the sun was almost set, but the moon was only halve way over the eastern horizon. When the sun set completely the golden beam returned to my stave, and bringing the moon into the sky was a little easier. I added more strength into rotating my stave. The moon was three quarter over the horizon. I watched as each moon crystal stated to dim down completely. The moon was almost over the horizon, so I poured what was left of my strength into bringing the moon up.
The moon then cleared the horizon, just in time with my crystals, foe they were completely drained. I fell to my knees breathing hard as my age returned to me. Once I was thirty one, again, I rose to my feet, leaning heavily on my stave for support. I was breathing very hard, for the task I had just acomplished was suppose to be immpossible. I then felt my strenght being replenished as the moon fed magic into me.
I had enough strenght to walk on my own so I bannished my stave back to my room.
"Good night Celestia. Goodnight my dear daughter." I say as I start walking back to my room.
"Feather, I wish to speak with you." I call out, as I sit in a chair, and wait for the off white unicorn to appear.
"What do you need sir?" asks Feather as she walks through a door in the left wall.
"It seems this moon can supply me with more power to use even greater spells. I was even able to use a forbidden spell today." I tell her as I rest my chin on my fist.
"What spell was it?"
"It was the spell to raise and lower the sun and the moon." Feather looks at me in awe.
"Come Feather, follow me out onto the balcony." I say as I stand and head for the glass doors. I swing the doors open and the moon shines, undistorted, onto me. I could feel the power flowing into my stores. Feather Joins me at my side.
"This is how you gather magic. First you have to let go of all emotions, it might help to take a few deep breaths, in through the nose, out the mouth." She does as instructed, then nods.
"Next, you have to allow the moon to help you, you don't controll the moon's magic, you guide it in the way you want it to work."
"You should feel or see a diference in your magic's center, or were you magic stores are located in your body." My stores are reaching full. I could tell as my markings were slowly pulsing with magic. I could see a change in Feather as she absorbs magic from the moon.
A scroll materializes in front of me, so I grab it and read it.
Archmage Chase, I am warning you about a large increase in magic that is on the moon that you are drawing power from. It seems to be coming from another alicorn, however I'm not sure as there seems to be two alicorns there. I advise you to be careful.
From the Lunar Realm,
The Lunar Goddess.
I reread the letter to be sure I read it correctly.
"Artermis, this is starting to hurt." says Feather.
"Stop gathering, that means your stores are full." I tell her as I look up to the moon. I summon my stave and tap it on the ground.
"Spell of sight, eyes of the startgazer." I say as I channel my magic into my eyes. I look at the moon with my enhaced vission. My eyes start to zoom in on the moon, giving me more detail. I can see the outline of a structure, so I zoom in more. What I saw made the spell end. I drop to my knees and say, "Goddess help us." in a hushed voice.
"Are you okay Artermis?" asks Feather, pulling me back into reality.
"Yes, just a side effect of the sight spell I used." I lie to her as I stand up again.
"Alright, ready to help me return to my top form?" I ask as I ready my magic once more. Feather nods with a determined look.
"Good, let's begin." I say as I stand. I point the top of my stave at the ground and say, "Circle creation."
The floor glows a few moment before it dies down, leaving a mage's circle on the ground. I channel my magic into my stave and say, " Now would be a good time to start, Feather. Otherwise this spell will kill me." Feather's horn starts to glow a saffire blue as I feel magic returning to my stores.
"Forbidden spell of the Archmage, Reversed Aging." I shout. The mage's cricle starts to glow a deep blue, and starts to return my youth. I supply the circle with magic, making it keep the spell going. I start to feel the spell take hold, and can feel my age melt away from me. My skin tans back to that of a half indian. My hair regains it bright blond color. I gain a little height as well as some of my muscle mass. I feel my arthritis leave my hands and knees. I watch as my markings start to glow, and move on my body. The markings were becoming more prominent, and pulsed with magic, timed with my heartbeat. I felt Feather's magic stop. I assumed she was drained. I push more of my power into the circle, and say, "Forbidden spell, Age seal."
The circle's glow intensifies, and I continue feeding magic into it. The circle levitates me off of the ground with a low but gentle hum of power. I then watch as the circle floats up off of the ground and burns itself onto the back of my left hand. I clench my jaw, and flex all my muscles to keep me from sceaming in pain. The only sound that comes from me are deep growls, and grunts.
The spell ends, and I am slowly set back on the ground. As soon as my feet make contact with the balcony floor, gravity immeadiatly returns, and I collapse to my knees, breathing heavily. I get one last look at the symbol on my hand before everything turns black.
I wake with a groan. I keep my eyes closed, for I don't know if the sun is up or not. I slowly open my eyes, in case the room I'm in is bright.
As soon as my eyes are open, I can see the ceiling, it was an off white. The smell of medicine, and filtered air, is easily noticed.
And, I'm in a hospital. I think to myself question is, where in Equestria am I?
I look around the room and see a small window over on my left, two doors on opposite walls, and a sleeping form on a reclining chair. I try to get a better look at the sleeping form on the chair.
I could see small sparkles coming from the form's mane, also the mane is flowing slowly. That narrows it down to two ponies at least.
"Lu Lu, is that you?" I ask. The form mummbles something. I sit up, and cast a powered down illumination spell. A small orb of light blue light, slightly brightens the room. I see that the form is indeed my daughter. I pull the covers aside to see if I still had my clothes.
I didn't have anything on, except for my undergarments. I sigh on the inside, hoping that nobody saw what I had there. I take a look at the markings that color my body, watching as they pulse a blue light, in tune with my heart. I brighten the orb at the center of the room a little as I move to the edge of my bed. I summon my clothing in a flash of magic.
I start clothing myself by pulling up my pants. I then pull on the mage's tunic.(minus the skirt.) I then strap on my leather socks (just basically soft leather moccasins with straps on my shins.) I then pull on my formed leather boots.
I walk over to my daughter and say, "Lu Lu, its time to wake up." Luna stirs in her sleep, but doesn't wake. I decide to have a little fun at my daghter's expence. I extinguish the light orb and say in the deepest voice as growl in Luna's ear, "Wake up young goddess and lower the moon."
This makes Luna jump from her chair and immeadeatly light up the room with her horn as it blazes with magic. I burst into laughter and fall on my back from said laughter.
"FATHER I AM INSULTED BY YOUR JOKE!!!" says Luna once she saw me. I just laugh harder.
"Father, please stop. That acutually frightened me." says Luna as her eyes tear up. I see this and the laughter I had died right then and there. I stand up and hug my daughter.
"I'm sorry my little Luna. I was just trying to have a little fun." I say as I rub her back. She returns my hug.
"You haven't called me that for a few years." says Luna as she hugs me harder, "I don't want to loose you dad." Luna starts to cry.
"Now now. remember how I said magic could fix that?"
"Yeah."
"How do I look?" I ask as I pull away.
"You... look... young?" she says in confusion. I put up my left hand, which is covered in a bandage. I start to unwrap it when a voice says, "Sir, I highly recomend not taking that off. You were severly burned."
"I know. It is the side effect of a forbbiden spell I used. It should be healed over now." I say as I continue unwrapping my bandaging.
"Sir I highly doubt that." I just ignore the nurse, and continue what I was doing.
"Sir-"
"I'm sorry nurse, but I hate being called 'sir'. I may be thirty years old, but I'm not that old!" I say as I turn around, my markings pulsing a deep purple.
"Now please, leave me and my daughter alone." I say as I turn around once more. In a flash af dark lunar magic the rest of the bandaging is cut off of my hand. I look over the seal on the back of my left hand as it too pulses with my heart.
"Father... Is that the seal mark of that spell?" asks Luna.
"Yes it is the seal of the age reverse spell. As well as the anti-aging spell." I say as I continue to watch the seal pulse a bright red.
"How much did you reduce your aging?" asks Luna with a grim voice.
"I reduced it down to ten percent." I say as I look up to her.
"How long untill you reach your original age?"
"It will take a hundred and seventy years until I have to use the spell again, then it will take even longer then that. Every time I use the spell it will keep me at this age, and will preserve my memories until I have to use it again. I will fix the memory problem tonight, but for now, lets head home."
"And what of your sanity?"
"Unaffected."
"And your soul?"
"Unaffected."
"And your power?"
"That is the trick. I have much larger stores in this body, but , in the rare event, I need more, the seal will open and give me the full stores of my older body. Temporarily returning me to my previous body."
"What if you forget to use the spell?"
"Then I will return to the age at which I started the spell. I will age normaly until I cast the spell again."
"And what of me? What happens when you loose me?" I hear another body enter the room.
"Luna, I thought you knew that alicorns were Immortal." Says Celestia.
"What? How?" asks Luna.
"It is because we have too much magic to use, and we were created that way." replied Celestia.
"So there, I see no problem with this spell." I say as I sit down on the bed I had rested in that night, or day.
"Celestia, how long was I out?" I ask.
"About all day." says a stallion as he enters through the door. I feel my face fall into one of bordom.
"Now I'm doctor Quick Suture. I am here to check up on you, and maybe check you out of the hospital." I sigh and just nod.
"Something wrong Archmage?" asks Celestia.
"No, I just hate hospitals, all the rules and reasons for me to stay longer. And I have also renamed myself as Artermis." I answer with a sigh at the end.
"Well Artermis, I need to make sure you're healthy before you leave." says Dr. Swift Suture.
"Doctor, let me ask you this. Have you any knowledge on the human anatomy?"
"No."
"Then you have no way to tell if I'm healthy or not. Hell, my daughter here has more knowlegde than you, and she has only dealt with me for seventeen years." I say as I stand up, "I can tell you I'm as healthy as I have been the last time my body was this old. Which, for a human, is perfect."
"Are you sure, father?" asks Luna.
"Yes, I returned to the age of when I recieved you." I say with a smile.
"Well if you know that you're healthy then I will put down that you healed by personal magical means." says the doctor, "Your free to leave sir."
I grimace a little at the 'sir' part, but none the less, smile and say, "Thanks for watching over me."
"Your welcome." says the doctor as he leave the room.
"Can we return home? Or do I have to do your jobs again?" I ask with heavy sarcasm in my voice.
"Father, I still havn't learned to raise the moon as Celestia does." says Luna with a hint of sorrow in her voice.
"Hey, I will raise the moon untill you learn how, alright?" I say as I put my hand on her cheek. She nods.
"Alright, shall we go?" asks Celestia. Luna and I nod. We all left the room in silence, heading for the balcony I used last time.
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As we traveled, we picked up Feather Touch, since she is my aprentice. And I wanted her to see my new power.
We made it out onto the balcony.
"Do I need to set the sun as well?" I ask Celestia. She shakes her head, "No I can do this now, I was just drained from our argument. That is why I had you do this yesterday." I nod to her and say, "When you are ready Princess." I summon my stave, which is filled to the brim with magic. I raise an eyebrow at this, and look at Feather.
"I refilled it when you passed out from your spell, I hope that is okay."
"It's fine, just ask me before hand, for if you touched it with your hoof, you would have been cursed." I tell her as I turn to the eastern horizon.
"Lets begin." says Celestia. I nod and slam the end of my stave onto the floor, making a circle apear. This one was half the size of the first one, for I was only contolling one celestial body, not two.
I watch as the silver beam of magic shoots off to the eastern horizon. Celestia was doing the same with her horn, except hers was to the sun. I pumped magic into the beam, and it in return starts to raise the moon.
I didn't have to rotate my stave this time, because I wasn't controlling both the sun, and moon.
The moon starts to rise, and the sky darkens. I could tell Celstia was holding pace with me. I grin and pump more magic into my beam, making the moon speed up a little. Celestia probably sences this and speeds up the sun a bit.
Both the orbs were in postion in the sky, and were now making there own ways across the skies of each side of the planet. I release my hold on the magic I was using and lift my stave up from the center of the circle.
Said circle dissappears and I turn to Celestia.
"Well that was much easier than I thought it would be." I say as I lean on my stave a little.
"What do you mean 'easier'? You collapsed last time." says Celestia.
"Well this body has a much larger store for magic." I say, "I didn't even use half of my magic."
"Hmm, well that is deffinetly something, but enough talk, how about some dinner?" We all nod in agrement, and head to the Dinning hall.
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We all make it to the dinning hall, except for Feather Touch, for she was still a servant. I walked into the hall behind Celestia, with Luna by my side. Celestia sits at the head of the table, next to a White unicorn stallion with a blonde main, and another White unicorn stallion with a blue main. I notice another alicorn. This one had a light pink coat, with a multi colored mane of purple, dark pink and a bright pale yellow. I notice she also had a tiara on her head, wich must mean she is also a princess.
I see Celestia gesture to a chair that is one away from the pink alicor. I nod and take my seat. Luna is right next to me. I watch as a waiter gives me a red menu, and the others green ones. I furrow my brow but pick it up none the less. I open it to see script that I couldn't read. I sigh.
"What is wrong Father?" asks Luna.
"It seems I can't read the written version of this world's language." I say with a frown. I then get a memmory of an old spell that was almost forgoten.
"Celestia, I have a request for you."
"What is it Archmage?" She asks.
"Will you ablige to me using a knowlegde copy spell so that I may learn the written form of your language?"
"You can't read Equestrian?" She asks with her brow furrowed.
"No. All I see are a lot of symbols that I can't make sence of. My written form of this language, which is called English on my world, is written entirly different."
"How so?" she asks. I just summon a simple pen and paper to me, with a little magic, and wrote the sentence This is what English looks like. on it. I then float it over to her.
"That is how we humans wrote English, or in your case, Equestrian."
"This is what you read in your world? Looks difficult."
"That is why I wish to use the spell. I could also copy the written form of the english language into your mind, that is if you allow me to do said spell."
"I see no trouble with it." She says.
"Thank you. All you need to do is think of the written form of your language, and I will do the rest." I say as I prepare a hand spell. I force my fingers into a hand sign and-
"Aunty, this is absurd. You're letting this rubbish into your mind. Have you gone mad?" Asks the blonde stallion.
"Prince Blue Blood, this is not the time or place." replies Celestia.
"I don't care. What if he messes with your memories?" I hold my hand up, signalling for Celestia to stop.
"Because if I did that, the spell I used would backfire, causing me severe damage to my brain." I say to the young Prince. I blink before he replied.
"I... I don't believe you. You shouldn't even be in here you foul creature."
"Still your tongue boy." I say with an edge of anger, my markings pulsing a deep purple.
"I will not. And who are you to tell me what to do?" I summon my stave and stand from my seat.
"I am the Lunar Creed's Archmage, and I shall not be taken lightly."
"You, an archmage? Please I could beat you in my sleep." I start to charge my magic, but Luna puts a hoof on my shoulder. I calm my magic.
"Yes, I am thirty one years old." I say with more anger. My markings were now pulsing a pure black. \ "Ha, you can't lie to me. You look, and sound, like a child." This throws me over the edge. I could feel my magic flare, and burn with the power of anger.
"You will learn your place in the world you small brat." I say as I levitate various sharp objects into the air.
"What are you?" asks Blue Blood fear evident in his voice.
"I am Arterims, Lunar Archmage, and you will learn to respect others." I say as I fling all the sharp utensils at him.
The utensils hit a sheild. I imeadiatly saw Celestia's horn was alight.
"SILENCE. IF YOU WISH TO FIGHT EACH OTHER, YOU WILL DO SO IN THE TRAINING FEILD!!!" says Celestia with an all comanding voice before I felt myself being teleported.
I land in a large feild that has a track and equipment stewn around. I then see Blue Blood In front of me about thirty yards away
"Great, now look at what you did." says Blue Blood. I just start gathering magic for the coming fight.
"And, What are you doing?" He asks.
"I'm preparing to kick your ass boy." I say with venom in my voice.
"Why? What have I done to you?" This comment infuriates me. I feel the slight pain, telling me my stores are full.
"You...YOU HAVE INSULTED THE WAYS OF LUNAR MAGIC, AND YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR INSULENCE!!!" I shout at the so called 'Prince' with an amplified voice.
"I have done no such thing." I start to charge my magic into my stave.
"Lunar Spell, Ethreal bastard sword." I say as my stave conjures a huge sword. I drop my stave and grab said sword with both hands. I then take a fighting stance looking at Blue Blood.
"What is that?" He asks.
"Come here and find out you fool." I say waiting on him, "Or do I have to come over there myself you high class, pish posh, waist of magic, and life force, myself!" I spit at him for good measure.
"You will take your words back!"
"I will not unless you beat me." I reply.
"If that is what you want then fine!" He shouts. He rushes me with his horn charged. I just sink into a lower stance.
As he is galloping at me he fires a magic bolt. I just smirk and let my sword absorb the hit. He is now ten yards away. I just reposition my sword and wait. He runs at me and I side step at the last possible second, bringing my sword down on his rear left leg. He screams in pain, and I just stand there with my sword at the ready.
"Ready to quit you colt?" I ask.
"I will have your head, foul creature." He growls at me. I just smirk. He lights his horn and fires multiple bolts at me. I just absorb them into my sword. I could see my sword glowing brighter with each attack. I start deflecting attacks.
"Had... enough?" Asks Blue Blood, breathing heavily.
"Where do you think you magic bolts went?" I ask as though I hadn't been swinging the huge sword around for a few minutes. I just hold up my blade, which is glowing fairly bright.
"How?"
"An answer I will always love...Magic." I say as I start to channel energy into my blade, which in turn glows brighter.
"What are you going to do?"
"Ever notice how I havn't even used my magic this entire time. And the one grave mistake you made was attacking me under the moon." I say.
Realization crosses his face. My sword is now out-shining the moon itself. I point the tip of the blade at Blue Blood.
"Lunar...Torent!" I say. My blade unleashes its pent up magic in a massive blast of power. I stop it right before it hits him.
"Do you yeild you foal?" I ask.
"I will never yeild to such filth." says Blue Blood with false pride. I just sigh and let the blast continue. I sit there and watch as I see Blue Blood screaming in pain as the torent of magic tears at his flesh.
After the blast finished it's job, I look at Blue Blood to see his body covered in bleeding injuries. His blood is literally blue. I walk up yo him and say, "If you apoligize for what you did, I will heal you enough so that you won't die from this." I wait for a couple seconds before he nods his head in defeat. I take that as an apoligy and start to heal his body.
I could hear a few sickening cracks and pops as bone realined itself, and joints reconnocted.
I stop when the only wounds left were superficial. I then put a magic flare on him and walk away. I pick up my stave, and banish the ethreal bastard sword, then head towards the castle.
