Lilac opened the door to a small workshop located on the fourth floor, she saw her brother sitting there, well more like she saw his wings.
She walked closer and peered over Chris’ shoulder, “Well I was going to ask if you wanted to join us downstairs for a movie marathon but I see you’re busy.”
She looked down to see a tiny humanoid figure made of dark blue ice shambling about, “So what are you doing exactly?”
~Chris’ POV~
I blinked, my sister's voice distracting me, making the little project I was working on fall apart and shatter. I sighed and sat back in the desk chair I was on, leaning my head back, looking up at the ceiling, “Well, I was trying to see if I could remotely control my ice structures from a distance, or at all really.”
“Oh and how’s that going?”
I tilted my head far to the right to look at her, “Bout as well as you would expect, I can control simple objects with relative ease, such as spikes, swords, balls of ice, etc. but something like that miniature ice golem takes a bit more energy and concentration. I’m guessing it’s mostly due to the lack of magic in our world.”
Lilac pulled up a chair and sat down next to me, “Ok, so not the greatest, but why are you doing any of this in the first place.”
I shrugged, “Not much else to do at the moment. That and i'm curious as to how far I can expand my powers, I tested a good bit of them on my travels and even came up with a few new ones, but they’re all heavily combat based, very little involve strategy, hell even the newest one I got is less strategy and more combat, or at least all of the uses I can think of.”
She nodded, some understanding showing in her eyes, “You know… you’ve never told me about what your powers entail exactly.”
I sat up straight and gave her a quizzical look, “Didn’t think you’d be interested, besides didn’t you say something about a movie marathon.”
“I’m interested in anything that involves your time away big brother… or should I call you little brother?” She smirked at my annoyed look before continuing, “Also, they should be fine it’s just the Harry Potter movies, I’ve seen the with the girls more times than I can count.”
“Fair enough where should I start?”
“How about what each of your new body parts do and then we can get more complicated from there.”
I nodded, sounded like a solid plan, “Alright well the first thing that ever showed up for me were my eyes, it actually took awhile for me to notice them as everyone else kept pointing them out instead of me immediately noticing.”
“I’m guessing your uh… eye of darkness, for lack of a better description, hasn’t always been there?”
I shook my head, “Lost it fighting a dark tyrant remember? Though it didn’t start to manifest until a year after, give or take a few months. However both eyes have different abilities, my normal eye has better vision in the dark, not perfect but much better than what any human or pony has, I can also see very slight thermal signatures with it if I pump some magic into it but it takes a bit too much effort to be worth it considering my other eye can do something much more useful.”
“What like x ray vision or something like that?”
I laughed, “Nah, I’m not superman. It can see the thaumological energies of pretty much any and everything and can even filter out certain things if I concentrate.”
“Thaumo-what?”
“Right, sorry, magic. My eye can see the magic of any and everything.”
“Oh, do I have any magic?” She asked, holding her arms out, obviously giving me invitation to scan her person.
I sighed and took off the eye patch, my dark eye flickering into existence and sight coming with it, if not a bit distorted with the mashing of two visions. I closed my other eye to lessen the headache this would cause. I scanned over Lilac’s body, and to my surprise I did indeed find very faint magical energy but it was weaker than even what a rock back in Equestria would give off.
“Huh neat….” I took the opportunity to look through the house, it was mostly black space with outlines of structures, until I spotted a tiny white speck blinking around the house, it looked oddly in the shape of a… NO FUCKING WAY, I KNEW THAT MOTHER FUCKER HAD SOMETHING GOING ON.
After getting over that i continued scanning the house until I saw a bunch of different colored magical signatures, all gathered where the living room would be. Then in the corner of my vision I noticed a much brighter light shining from somewhere, it was coming from below me and I looked straight down and a good distance away there was a ball of pure golden energy, is that? Well color me surprised, that was the earth’s magic and it looked like it was trying to push against something, like it had been plugged up eons ago, or maybe it hadn’t popped it’s top once and it’s getting antsy.
“Also neat.”
She looked at me confused, “What’s neat?”
I blinked and looked at Lilac again, putting my eye patch back on, my vision going slightly skewed until I adjusted, “Well three things. One; you do have a very very weak magic in your person, and I’m guessing most everyone does, but it could just be because of your interactions with us. 2; Cookie is one magical fucking cat, and 3; the world might be getting magic within the next, oh I don’t know 200 years if that swirling mass of restless magic located in the center of the earth’s core is anything to go by.”
“Huh…”
“Right? Moving on, next was really the rest of my head, horns included, you remember me telling you about icesplosions how its the draconic magic in me exploding outward, mingling with the world’s magic and then it gets absorbed back into me as my own magic, essentially giving me a massive power boost.” At her nod I continued, “Right first one was bit of a doozy to say the least, but It gave me my horns, teeth, hearing, sense of smell, stomach, throat, and my tongue, something that I really never put much thought into so I never mention it to anyone.”
“That’s a lot, why so much?”
I shrugged, “I'm guessing it's like when all you do is work out and you haven’t tried to do anything gentle for a while so when you first try to you put in too much force and it kind of goes awry, but you know better next time. So my horns didn’t really give me anything specific, I think it just gave me an overall stat boost and larger magic reserves allowing me to do stronger spells and the such, I’ll get to those. My mouth and throat and stomach bits though those gave me some practical things for day to day life. Teeth and stomach gave me the ability to consume gem stones and other hard stones and minerals, only 2 things in Equestria can resist a dragon’s teeth, it’s what my tooth brushes are made out of, hella expensive but you know, royalty and all that.”
“Ok first of all, you can eat gems, aren’t they expensive as hell?”
“Not as much on Equestria, things like rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds. Things we find valuable and ‘rare’ here are in abundance in Equestria, on the flip side there are crystals, stones, minerals, and various other stone and carbon based things that don’t exist on earth and those are expensive.”
“Ok, second of all, are they sensitive, you horns I mean?”
I gave her a deadpanned look, “Pull on them.”
“What?”
“Pull them, flick them, whatever.” She did so, albeit, hesitantly, “No pain whatsoever, just bone, it would only hurt if you snapped them off as there is blood flowing deep inside of them and a few nerves and even then it would feel like if you cut a nail a bit too low, nothing major just annoying and it would eventually grow back entirely if not a bit uneven. Now what really sucks is that at the base, they itch horribly due to them growing since i'm still technically a “young adult” for dragons. They won’t be done growing until I’m about…. 50 so yeah.”
She frowned, “Well that’s sucky, you said your throat and tongue changed too, what do they do?”
I chuckled and lolled my tongue out to its maximum length, it being about a foot long, and it being forked at the end, this cause her to gasp and back away a bit as I quickly flexed it upwards, the tip flickering a bit. I sucked it back into my mouth, “Don’t ask where it all fits because I have no idea, it sits in my mouth like a normal tongue but I have no idea where the rest goes. As for what it does, other than making me really good in bed, it allows me to actually taste the gems and smell scents much better in combination with my nose. Nose gets a general wiff, transfers the scents to my tongue which gives me specifics, very helpful combined with the whole vision stuff.”
“Ok, really didn’t need to hear about your nightly habits, though if that’s the case, thank you for closing your vents before hand.” She said with a heavy blush, not looking me in the eyes.
I chuckled, “Nah, haven’t done anything yet, i think, I did wake up with a strange taste in my mouth one morning, maybe subconsciously did something to Shy.” I finished with a shrugged, I conjured up a small spinning top and spun it in place, “So my throat is a bit more of a generalization, it more has to do with the structure of my vocal chords and how everything interacts with one another in this general area. I can speak and verbally understand any language, no idea how to write it nor do I really know how to read it without any previous knowledge. Except French and maybe Spanish. So really I can hold a conversation but I could not write a letter in an language save English, French, possibly Spanish, oh and Draconian. Also I can make various dragon noises, It’s pretty neat.”
“Oh, can you do some.”
I nodded, and opened my mouth slightly, and set my jaw back some before a sound that was a mix of a caw and a croak came out. I followed it with some clicking noises that a human should not be able to make, i threw in some whistling and a few yelps and squeaks/chirps. Yes dragons chirp it’s more of a thing you do towards mates and children… as I involuntarily found out one night back in Equestria.
Lilac was smiling widely, “Ok that's pretty cool, but can you roar?” I nodded, “Can you roar now?” I shook my head, “Aw, why not?”
“Unless you want every cop in the county here I’d rather not. I forgot to explain my ears, obviously along with the language translations, they also give me increased hearing and pinpoint accuracy. Basically i'm a beast.”
She nodded, “I’ll say, so what about all the other accessories?”
“You mean my tail and wings? Well, like I said, the actually visible dragon bits mainly gave me stat boosts, large ones. But what they can do on their own… well my tail is completely prehensile.” I demonstrated by grabbing a pen out of the cup with my tail and scribbling a stick figure on a sheet of paper that was off to the side, “Also, due to the scales and my semi shape shifting powers regarding my draconic parts, sans my wings and horns, can’t control their size, so really just my tail for whatever reason. I can increase the length and thickness of my tail to an extent to form a small barrier around me by wrapping it around myself. I’m essentially magic resistant, certain magicks can hurt me, such as dark magic or other draconic magic. I’m slash resistant, stabbing can still hurt if aimed right, bashing still hurts but there has to be a lot of force, and I mean a lot, like getting hit by something with the equivalent force of a meteor smashing into the planet for it to really hurt.”
Lilac whistled, “Damn, I know you’ve always been able to take a punch but that’s insane.”
“You’re telling me, nothing has been able to properly hurt me since I was hospitalized years ago. My wings same thing that my tail can do, just also gave me flight and my biggest boost in speed. My tail gave me my biggest boost in defense and I’m assuming my horns gave me a huge boost in attack.”
“Can you show me how fast?”
“Sorta, the room is pretty small.” I got up from the chair, and went to my room, grabbed the lamp on my nightstand and made my way back to workshop I was in, setting the lamp down on the desk. “How long was I gone?”
“10 seconds, is that lamp from your room?” I nodded, “Holy crap that would take like 5 minutes to just get there and 5 more to get back, not to mention moving your nightstand and unplugging everything. So should have taken you about 12 to 15 minutes.”
“Told you, I’m fast, only person faster than me is Rainbow, and maybe Celestia and Luna. I think Cadance could probably reach my speed, but she’s never had reason to so it would take a lot. Luna and Celestia have seen life times worth of battles so it was most definitely needed for them.”
“That is absolutely terrifying, and that’s the fastest you can go?”
“Nah, give me open air and a straight line I can reach insane speeds at least for humans, I think several hundreds. Though I also technically cheat and have magic backing me up and boosting me a good chunk.”
“Huh. how about strength and stamina?”
“I could easily lift your car if I wanted to, and do you really want to know my stamina cuz that’s kinda grass considering you’re my sister.” I said with a chuckle.
“Ew, no not like that, just how long can you run or fly or whatever, and the car, easily? That’s 3 tons.”
I shrugged, “It's honestly like lifting a box full of clothes for me, but my stamina I guess it’s a lot, i was able to run several hundred miles only needing to walk for a break for 2 days so… yeah, a lot.”
“Damn bro, that’s crazy, all that just from turning into a dragon? Will it be like a permanent transformation when its done?”
“Nah, I should be able to freely transform back. Now, would you like to know the spells I can do?”
She got visibly excited at the prospect of seeing actual magic, “Yes, please, can you do stuff like levitation or light spells, or unlocking locks, you know stuff like that?”
I raised an eyebrow, “You mean like, in Harry Potter? No, my magic is simply restricted to ice, snow, and cold. So out of all of those i could probably unlock locks through a few means.”
Lilac rolled her hand, “Such as?”
I picked up a pen, “Well i could freeze it to the point to where it just shatters.” I froze the plastic barrel solid and gave it a little bit of pressure, causing it to crumble in my hand, leaving just the ink chamber and tip left.
“Or i could force ice into the mechanism of the lock itself, forming it into the shape of the proper key.” I said as I made a new barrel for the pen out of clear ice.
“Ok, that is cool, no pun intended. What other spells can you do?”
“Well, the freezing thing is just basic ice magic of what i can do, now making the barrel o the pen, is technically very weak ice make magic.”
“Ice make magic… that sounds familiar.”
I chuckled, “It should my powers decided to take form from Fairy Tail.”
“Wait you mean like the anime?” I nodded, “Oh my god, that’s dumb.”
“Hey, it’s just what the magic decided it would be easiest for me to understand how to use it. However, unlike Fairy Tail I don’t need to exactly have a spell for the ice make bits of my magic, only the draconic infusions of my magic.”
“Wait, draconic infusions? I though all your magic was dragon magic?”
“Ah, right I should explain I suppose, all of my magic is dragon magic. But, there are certain things I do that infuse huge amount of my draconic magic into it, some of them I can’t show in the house due to how destructive they are, but some I can.
I’ll get to those but first let me show off my basic magic. Hmmm, how about my spikes and what not.”
I formed five spikes of sparkling ice around my head, and they just floated there until I lifted my hand and pointed it at the far wall. The ice spikes all pointed to the spot my hand was pointing at an at the flick of my wrist they flew towards the wall and before they hit I flicked my wrist to the right, making them take a sharp turn in that direction and as they got closer to the center of the room I flicked my hand upwards and Spread my fingers apart, my palm facing up. The spikes flew away from one another until I clenched my hand into a fist causing them to come back together at blistering speed until they collided with one another and exploding into a shower of fine ice particles.
“Whoa, is that what you were talking about earlier? Controlling your ice?”
“That’s exactly what I was talking about, they’re simple constructs, anything more complex needs a lot of my draconic magi to make move and proper use of, and while I could do it, i would be useless afterwards.”
“Damn, that sucks… wait, if the spikes are easier to control can’t you just use those as like simple drones? After all why would you need to control golems for reconnaissance if your base senses are as good as they are?”
I held up a hand to rebuke her but it hit me that she was correct, “Shit, you’re right, I could probably just feed in some basic form of my senses into the spikes and pump some extra draconic magic with simple instructions into the spike to make them fly about without my constant need of input. I’ll have to test that out soon. Oh, also, I can make it snow, hail, sleet, etcetera.” I said as i held up my hand, a small cloud forming in the room and snowflakes beginning to fall.
“Oh, wow, I bet that's useful on a hot day.”
I groaned, “You have no idea, I hated the heat before, but due to my magic I’m actually weaker in heat.”
“Oh, have you been ok sleeping in your room? I know I’ve had the heat on lately.”
I nodded, “Yeah, it’s fine, since I'm essentially mostly human here it doesn’t bother me that much, and I know the girls appreciate it due to them not being used to having no fur.”
“So what else?”
I closed my eyes in thought, “Oh! There was something else I’ve been working on in secret.”
“Oh?”
“Yep, you know how water and Ice kind of refracts light and distorts images when looking through them? I’ve been working on seeing if I can use some of that logic plus the rule breaking effects of magic to use ice that I could form on my skin as better defenses to refract light around me and turn me invisible.”
“Wait, you’re trying to turn invisible? Show me.”
“Alright.” I held up my hand and formed ice around it, evident by the glinting shininess my hand now had in the light. I took a deep breath and concentrated some more draconic magic into it and slow my hand faded away and once I felt it was gone enough I relaxed some. Now my hand was completely gone, and the only thing you could see was some waviness in the place it was at.
“Holy shit, it’s really gone, I mean this close up I can see the waviness of the ice there but from a distance or in the dark or if you were staying still at a close dance it would be pretty hard to see.”
That put a smile on my face, that means I could probably implement it in my other spell and constructs, to an extent.
“Ok so I only have a bit of magic left and i can show off two of my actual spells before I’m out first is my most common.” I took a deep breath, a bright blue magic circle composed of different ruins and the symbol of a dragon appearing in the center of it formed over my hands, “Hyōryū no Tsume…” Slowly ice formed over my fingers, forming into the shape of claws until they ended in a razor sharp point, “These are the-”
“Claws of the Ice dragon, I got the translation, as rough as it was. So, what do they do exactly?”
I scoffed, “Well excuse me, I’m just going off what my brain tells me, anyways, they are razor sharp and pretty durable, I could easily slice through most metals, but that doesn’t mean they’re indestructible, in fact, most things I’ve fought against have been able to shatter or fend off against them well enough, so it’s not something I can use in extra long fights. I have another variation but I haven’t exactly perfected it yet. Though they do have uses outside of fighting, they allow me to climb virtually any surface, and if there is a surface I can’t climb I can fly. I could go into more depth, but the tiny details aren’t really that important.” I shook my hands and the claws cracked and powderized off my fingers.
“The next spell is a little more interesting and the only one I perfected to this extent.” I balled up my right hand into a fist and placed my left hand on the flat spiral part of the fist. I noticed Lilac shiver and her breath started to form white puffs in the air.
“Sorry Lily, it’ll warm up soon, but to do this I have to pour the rest of my magic into this and it’s going to get cold. Ice Dragon’s…” I let out a long breath, the temperature of the air dropping drastically, “Perfect Frozen Sword.” I pulled my fist away from my hand a dark blue blade forming as I did so until I stopped and moved my open palm from its position. The sword resembled a basic broadsword except the engraving of a dragon on the blade itself. I twirled the sword in my hand, just to get acquainted with its weight once more and what not, of course it was perfect because it was formed by magic but still.
As I was twirling it, trails of ice formed where the tip of the blade sliced through the air, normally I would show off, actually I was about to but then the ice sword shattered and I reverted back to just plain old human, “Well that was quick, so what did you notice about the sword that was different than the claws?”
“Other than your use of English, why was that?”
I shrugged, “To be honest its just because I don’t want to butcher Japanese more than I already do so I use it with the ones I’m slightly more confident about.”
She shook her head and sighed, “You’re such a nerd, but I guess the color of the blade was darker than the claws.”
My smile widened into a beaming smile, “Very good, yep, and what do you think that means?”
“Well considering you said ‘Perfect Frozen Sword,’ I’m assuming its more stable and more deadly?” She guessed with a shrug.
“Ding ding ding, we have a winner.” I chuckled at my own antics, “You’re correct, it is more stable and much much deadlier. So much so that anything it strikes immediately starts to freeze over faster than a living creature would realize, and as you so it’s so cold the tip creates ice and snow as it passes through the air.”
She stared at me in shock, “What would possess you to make something like that, freeze over something before it can realize it, wouldn’t that kill them?”
“Nah, I try not to kill, Shy would kill me, it just freezes them, they;re more in a state of hibernation.”
“Ok, good, I don’t want to think my brother is a killer.”
I frowned at that, would she really think I would resort to something like that? I mean I have been gone for 17 years by her perspective, so I suppose it’s only fair, I sighed, letting the issue go, “Well, I’m tapped out of power, why don’t we go and watch the movies with the others?”
I got started to move towards the door when Lilac grabbed my arm, stopping me, “Chris… You need to go see Drea, I think seeing you would do her some good. Let her know you… didn’t completely abandoned us.” She looked deep into my eyes, the hurt from me leaving still very evident.
I sighed and nodded, bringing my free hand up to her cheek, “I promise, I’ll go see her baby sis, I promise, come on, let’s go.” She thanked me and left the room, I followed suit, not before looking back at this room for the last time, I let out a deep sigh, flicked the light switched and closed the door.