//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Knowledge of the Knowledge seeker // Story: The Legacy of Magic // by Solaris Rin Ursa //------------------------------// Chapter 1: Knowledge of the Knowledge seeker As the sun shined in between the curtains of the window, it shone onto a empty bed where Twilight would have been sleeping. Well that is if she wasn’t at the desk on the other side of the room with her head planted among half scribbled on papers. A little after the sun was fully raised a small purple dragon opened the door and walked over to the desk where Twilight was asleep. Putting his clawed hand on her shoulder and shaking her lightly, to try to wake the sleeping unicorn “Comeon Twilight you need to wake up… we were supposed to eat breakfast with the Princesses.” Lifting her head up off the desk twilight looked around the room and then down at the purple dragon. “Hehe… sorry about that Spike must have dozed off in the middle of writing.” getting up out of the chair and following Spike out of the room she used her magic to correct her mane. “Its alright Twilight, although what were you up for most of the night doing anyways?” the dragon wondered as he led the unicorn down the hall towards the dining room. The look in unicorns eyes was all the dragon needed to know its was either research or about some book she found. Frowning, Twilight found herself explaining in depth about the book she found last night in Princes Celestia’s personal library. After a full rundown about what she could find out about the book, or in this case what she couldn’t find out. In about ten minutes they arrived at the overly decorated golden doors to the dining room where the Princesses were waiting for them. As the doors swung open and Spike and Twilight walked in they found the Princesses already finished their breakfast/dinner and were enjoying some tea. Switching her attention from her conversation with Luna, Celestia turned to welcome the newcomers. “Hello Twilight and Spike glad you could make it, tea?” Taking a seat across from the two sisters twilight faced diarchy of the sun. “yes please, and sorry I’m late I didn’t get much sleep last night.” the unicorn stated blushing a bit. “We can tell, although you have me curious to why you didn’t sleep last night.” Luna pondered looking the purple unicorn over and seeing the bags under her eyes. “It's not like you to be late for something like this seeing to how you always get worked up over your schedule.” “Well I kinda got caught up in researching something last night, although I found absolutely nothing about it in any of the history books let alone any of the magic books.” sighing twilight took a sip from her recently poured cup of tea. “That does sound interesting, pretell what were you researching?” Celestia asked with her usual smile as she sipped her own tea. “To be honest Princess I was wondering if you could tell me… I found a book in your personal study that I haven’t seen before, and I could have sworn I have read every one of those books at least ten times.” setting down her tea Twilight rubbed her forehead with a hoof. “All I know is that it is some kind of journal of someone named Cerulean.” After hearing that name Celestia’s face scrunched up as she mused about what her student said. After a bit she spoke up putting down her tea and giving Twilight her full attention. “Ah well, there would be nothing in any books about him.” Twilight just stared at Celestia with a slight frown “what do you mean there is nothing in any of the books about him? And just who is he anyways?” Searching for the right words to say Celestia settled on the truth of what she knew. “A very powerful mage from a long long time ago, he prefered to stay out of the way of everyone and was content to just spend all his time practicing the magical arts. He was as you put it a isolationist, and went to very great lengths to not be known to many.” pausing for a second to take a sip of her tea that was held aloft in her golden aurora she spared a sideways glance at Luna. “Other than the basics I don’t even know much about him, and even Starswirl who worked with him on occasion knew very little i’ll be it more than me.” Taking a second to contemplate what Princess Celestia said felt unsure of what to think of what little info they had of this Cerulean. On one hoof he kept to himself and never caused any problems, on the other hoof he was a powerful mage that used dark magic. Luna looking between the two and then at spike decided to put her own words in on the matter. “Ok well that explains that, so how about we get you two something to eat now shall we?” And with that Luna called over one of the chefs and ordered Twilight some food as they carried on with more normal conversations. After eating and Luna calling it a day she decided to take her leave for some well deserved sleep. After Luna was gone Celestia and Twilight talked for a bit longer before Celestia took her own leave to handle day court. “So you ready to catch the train back to ponyville twilight?” spike asked after Celestia left. Looking out the window from across the table Twilight turned to spike to address his question. “Yeah lets go don’t want to be late for the train too.” as they walked out of the dining room and into the main she couldn’t get her mind off the mystery that was Cerulean.