//------------------------------// // A New Friend? part 1 // Story: What Kind of Magic is This? // by Greed and Giving //------------------------------// What kind of Magic is This? Chapter 2: A New Friend? Twilight was exhausted from the Magic training she’s been going through for the last two weeks, even Jace was very surprised at how fast she has learned to conjure and control the Blue Mana that runs through the world. Right now Jace is off to find some of his friends, whom he did not name but said that they will help with her training. Twilight is in her new room meditating as instructed by Jace, to keep her reservations of Mana full, when she feels a presence that is both familiar yet dangerous at the same time. “Who are you and what do want?” Twilight asks this presence. “You can sense me, well that is a first for anyone on any plane to do. So you are the new Planeswalker I’ve heard about.” the voice is female, and a little shocked at being found out, though she finds it oddly refreshing for it to happen. Twilight goes to look at where the voice has come from but then she is blinded by a spell she has never experienced before. “What have you done to me, I can’t see, HEL..hmmmf!” Twilight tries to scream out, but a hand is placed over her mouth. “Quiet girl, or I will slit your throat.” the woman says causing Twilight to freeze. “Good you don’t seem to be completely stupid, now as to what I have done to your eyes is a temporary blinding spell you that I don’t kill you if your eyes were to meet mine, now do you understand?” she asks Twilight while removing her hand from her mouth. “Yes I do, though why didn’t you just cover you eyes instead?” This get a laugh out of the woman which is just a touch scary. “Well then I wouldn’t be able to see you, and you would get scared of the way I look.” the woman said while walking around Twilight, looking her over as best she could. “In all my life I’ve never seen a creature like you, though you look like a Satyr mated with a horse, but you’re not the weirdest thing I’ve seen.” Twilight knows what she is talking about when she mentioned the Satyr, because Jace had taken her to the plane of Theros to teach her how to use her planeswalking ability. She seen what most Satyrs do for fun and was glad Pinkie Pie was not there at that time. “Are you going to tell me who you are, or will I have to guess.” Twilight said with a little more anger that what was needed. “I can sense your Manas, both are Green and Black, which are Golgari colors.” This shocks the woman more than when she was found out the first time by this new Planeswalker. “I am Vraska and how are you able to know what Mana I control?” Vraska asks with curiosity in her voice. “Are you able to see my form through this ability, or does it only work on the colors?” Twilight thinks this over for a few moments before asking “Why do you want to know if I can see you or not with it, I’m still trying to understand it myself. But no I can’t see what you look like, even though I can get a general idea when your emotions flare.” Well that seemed to stop Vraska in her tracks. ‘How can this be possible, how can she be this strong, if not stronger than regular Planeswalker?’ Vraska thinks for a minute. ‘I’m going to have to study her some more so that I may have to find out.’ While Vraska was doing this Twilight was trying to figure out the right spell to end the enchantment that blinded her, but before she could Vraska removes it from her. “Well new Planeswalker, I will have to talk to you another day, for I’m on my way to speak with Jarad, head of the Golgari Guild, but know this we will speak again for you are a fascinating being. Now goodbye.” and with that Vraska is gone, like she was never there. Two Hours Later Jace has returned with two of his friends and fellow Planeswalkers when Twilight told him about what had happened. “So you’re telling me that you met Vraska the Unseen and she didn’t kill you, that is a very surprising thing to hear in all the planes of existence.” Nissa Revane stated while looking at Twilight with a non-believing look on her face. “Why not Nissa, it’s not like it hadn’t happened before with a couple of us when certain other more powerful Planeswalkers took an interest.” Nahiri asked “I know that a few of our friends had teachers that were like us.” Just as they were starting to get into an argument a new being appears in the room from nowhere. “She is telling the truth about Vraska being here and talking to her, for I was watching it happen.” Ral Zarek says after his little Teleporting show. “And why were you watching this happen without doing anything, Ral Zarek, you know she is dangerous?” Jace asked Twilight is now confused about this new person in her room and what did he want.