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// A Celestial and Lunar Master 
// Story: The Genie 
// by Silver Butcher 
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Dragon Spike and Kirin Spike were in a heated game of 5th Dimensional chess that had so far lasted almost a full year, watching in silence the Breezie and Llama were waiting to see what Kirin would do and watched as he moved the Hyrda-mancer three spaces to the right and summoned a Hydra Knight to his side, Dragon countered this by moving his Randomizer Dolphin to move all their pieces at random, much to the Kirin's irritation.
"Stop using that stupid Dolphin," Kirin demanded "You've used it every third turn for the last three months!"
"And it's working!" Dragon shot back "Soon luck will be on my side,"
"If luck was on your side I'd instantly use my Randomizer Dolphin to take your semi ok formation away,"
"Not if I use my Cosmic owl!"
"Your owl still has a 98 turn cool down before you can use it next,"
"I'll wait," Spike replied with a smile "I'll win eventually,"
"Don't we technically win and lose regardless?" Breezie asked, Earning a glare for all the other Spikes instantly "Oh come on, you all thought it, that's why I said it!" Before Spike could begin arguing with himself he felt it, while with most of his master he didn't notice them until they were about to rub the lamp thanks to Starswirls wish he could feel that Luna and Celestia were about to find him and he instantly ended the chess game and his multiple forms were all sitting in a movie theater as the outside world appeared on a movie screen.
The Lamp was resting in the branches of a small tree that had grown in the middle of a mostly empty field, sitting next to the tree, and unaware of the lamp, sat Luna and Celestia, the two looked worn and tired, from the look of them they were barely adults, telling Spike that only a few years had passed since Starswirls last wish.
"Another dead end," Luna sighed as Celestia leaned against the tree "Sister I think it's time to accept that we might never find him,"
"We can't give up," Celestia insisted "We managed to track him to that cave with the crystal tree,"
"That was a year ago, and we've found nothing since, all we've found since then is that the lamp he had on his desk is also gone, and as far as we know he took it with him to where ever he went,"
"He said he was going to take care of the pony of shadows, and the fact that there's still light in the world shows that he did just that so we know he won," Celestia made a frustrated noise and kicked the tree she was leaning against, her ear's perked when the shock of her kick caused the lamp the fall from its perch and land with a clank against the hard earth. The two sisters looked to the sound and stood dumbfounded as they looked at the old oil lamp that had belonged to their teacher.
"What?" Luna demanded as she looked up at the tree in confusion "That can't be Starswirls lamp," Celestia used her magic to pick it up and looked it over.
"It is!" She declared "It has the same carvings, and on the bottom, it's faded but Starswirl stamped his Cutie mark on it," Celestia rubbed her hoof against the faded ink, clearly reminiscing her lost mentor, when the lamp began violently shaking and she dropped it from her magic and smoke began billowing from it and started taking shape as Spike emerged in his Llama form.
"Oh man," he cried out as he immediately started winding his neck 360 degrees "I can't even begin to tell you how much I hate it in there," as Spike continued spinning his head Celestia lit her horn and pointed her attack at Spike, who ignored her for the time being and continued spinning his neck and began prancing in place, enjoying being free from the lamp.
"What is this, who are you," Celestia demanded.
"Who am I?" Spike asked playfully "Who are you? Rubbing my lamp, bringing me here, then pointing a loaded horn at me,"
"This lamp belonged to our mentor and-"
"Ah good old Starswirl," Spike said with a sigh "my second favorite master, without a doubt. But regardless this Lamp was his for a few years but I've lived in it for thousands of years," Spike unwound his neck, and his head spun for a second before he looked at Celestia as she stared him down. "Alright master, maybe unload the horn, and let's talk about this reasonably, introductions maybe?" Celestia looked taken aback at being called Master and called Spike on it.
"Master?"
"You rub the genie lamp, you become the genie's master," Celestia shook her head at the word genie and instantly came around.
"I wish-" She attempted to say only to be cut off.
"whoa, whoa, whoa," Spike said fastly, knowing she was about to wish for Starswirl to return, "you should probably know that if you wish to know where Starswirl is or wish for him to appear before you, you might destroy the future,"
"What?" Celestia demanded.
"I can't explain any more than that, it might also destroy the future, the best I can do for you is that you can't go looking for him until someone finds something of his that is lost,"
"Why should I trust you?" Celestia demanded, "You're a Genie. If the stories are true about your kind..."
"Those stories were written by a Pirate that was too full of himself to listen to me, he used all of his wishes in like 5 minutes, and he waisted the first one on something he already had," Spike could tell that he hadn't won her over and changed tactics.
"Alright, if you really wanna risk it, you could waist a wish and wish for me to tell you if I'm lying or-"
"I wish for you to tell me the truth," Celestia said instantly.
"Wow, ok," Spike said as he held his hooves "No one's ever called me on that, props," Spike's eyes began glowing and he cried out in a booming voice "Your wish is granted," one of the black lines disappeared and Spike said flatly "I have not yet said anything to you that wasn't true,"
"Dangit," Celestia said as she flattened her ears "I did not just waste a wish on that,"
"oh you did," Spike Confirmed "you waisted it like no tomorrow," Spike snickered at Celestia and she intern rubbed the lamp and sucked him back into it "That's a cheap shot!" Spike managed to cry out before being forced back inside, Spike slid along the bottom for a moment and a bed materialized in his way and caught him like a ball in a mitt, it flopped over and expanded as the other versions of his himself all appeared in order of when they were formed and all materialized a Nightcap  "And now we wait for her to get over the fact that she totally waisted her first wish," Llama declared as he clapped his hooves and the lamp went dark as he all got comfortable.



It had been well over an hour since Celestia had made her first wish and all the forms of Spike were now in a dog pile as half of him napped and half of his stood at the ready, Spike figured Celestia was waiting to summon him again in private and this proved true as she and Luna made their way into Starswirls old home and Luna locked the door and covered the windows.
Celestia made her way to the center of the first floor and rubbed the lamp, instead of a Llama she got a Breezie and Spike saw her doing her best not to laugh at the sudden size change.
"Relax," Spike said waving his hands at her "I'm a Genie, I can basically look like anything,"
"Maybe some warning next time," Celestia said as she did her best to not die of laughter, Luna's reaction was similar but she continued to say nothing as she stood her ground at the front of what Spike figured was now the de-funked Library.
"Alright Genie," Celestia said as she looked at Spike with as calm of a gaze as she could "I would like you to tell me anything you might know about Discord,"
"That Chaos dude?" Spike asked casually as he took full form and flopped on the ragged old couch he had lain on so many times in the past "Can't tell you much past that he and I haven't met yet,"
"Do you plan to work for him? Overthrow him?" Celestia asked as she looked at the Genie "If tales of your kind are true your just as powerful, if not more so, than him,"
"Maybe, but he ain't enslaved to a lamp, and I am, also enslaving all of Equestria sounds like, supper generic, that's what all the powerful creatures do, naw when I get out of this lamp I'm a Retire," Celestia looked at Spike before he pointed at her "B.T Dubs, Your first wish is still in effect, I still can't lie to you,"
"Alright, then I wish for a way to defeat Discord," Celestia said with determination, Spike's eye's started glowing and his Blackeye lines decreased to one for each eye.
"Your Wish is Granted," he declared as a scroll appeared in front of Celestia, she grabbed it with her magic and found herself looking at a single sentence.
"Go to the tree of Harmony," Celestia read aloud, looking back at her sister, who shrugged, the two looked back at Spike and he pointed back at the scroll, which was now a map, directing them to the cave containing the tree. "We must depart," Celestia said as she rolled up the scroll and picked up the lamp, "I'll put this back on Starswirls old desk pillow, the spells are weak but they will last long enough for us to return, Celestia moved to the desk and the rubbed the lamp.
"Oh come on," Spike complained as she was sucked back in and crashed into his sleeping forms. "You don't have to suck me back in after every wish, it ain't like I can make a run for it," Spike grumbled angrily as his other forms all complained about him sitting on himself.



Spike and his over selves were all arguing with one another about the simple things in life.
"It's been two years," Breezie groaned as he rolled along the floor of the lamp "When is she coming back for us,"
"It hasn't been two years," Llama replied as he walked in a circle, his neck spinning the opposite direction that he walked "It's been three and a half,"
"Feels like it's been five, "Dragon shot back as he and Kirin messed with a scale model of Equestria.
"It hasn't been that long," Kirin snorted back as he sat next to the area with the Kirin tribe and watched Rainshine go about her daily business as ruler.
"How would you know," Breezie shot back "You just sit there and watch Rainshine all day like a total creep,"
"And you don't spy on the Breezies?" Kirin asked back, earning a gasp from Breezie.
"It sounds so bad when you say it that way," He said dramatically, before adding "Think of a different way to say it," Before Kirin could respond the lamp was suddenly rubbed, and all of Spike was caught off guard and Randomly chose the Kirin to pop out, He stretched and looked down at his master, and was surprised to find it wasn't Celestia, but Luna.
"So how's my favorite princess of the moon doing?" He asked casually, the look in her eye was all he needed for an answer "Angry by the look of it," Spike noted as he looked down at her before he could say anything else Luna lit her horn, and Spike was plucked out of the air and slammed to the floor "Although enraged might be more accurate," Spike noted as he looked up at her from the floor.	
"For my first wish," Luna said with a smile "I wish for power strong enough to defeat my sister,"  Spike's eyes started glowing and his three lines went down to two.
"Your Wish is Granted," he declared, he saw no Physical change in Luna but could feel her magical prowess shoot through the roof in an almost literal sense as the old building began crumbling around them, Luna lit her horn and with the lamp enveloped in her magic she took flight, Spike turned into a cloud of mist and followed after.
"So, Master, how long was I just kind of left on the table for?"
"30 or so years," Luna replied.
"Alright I was kind of against this but now I hope you give Celestia a solid thrashing," Spike said with a noticeable tone of irritation in his voice.
"Genie, my second wish," Luna said suddenly "I wish that when the time is right my body will look like a nightmare, to strike fear into my sister before our fight.
"One Nightmare Moon coming up," Spike said as the lines around his eyes cracked away "Your wish is granted," Luna smiled and he suspected her third wish was to be something along the lines of the world being able to thrive in the light of the moon but instead of making a third wish she rubbed the lamp and he was sucked back in.
"Oh come the heck on," Spike said angrily "Stop sucking me back in here it sucks, it's cramped, and these other guys never shut up,"
"We're you!" his duplicated all yelled back angrily.
"Oh, you wanna make this a thing?" Kirin said, "Cause I'll kick the snot out of myself if I have to!"



The Spikes all lay battered and bruised, the lamp looked like a war zone, and the Spikes were all in pain.
"I told you," Kirin said as he fixed his broken leg, "I told you I'd kick my own.."
"Oh just shut up," Dragon said as he felt the lamp being rubbed, Spike emerged, and before him was a destroyed castle and Celestia crying as she held the lamp in her hooves, above them Spike could see the mare in the moon.
"Hm, she still had one wish left," Spike said as he looked up at the moon, Celestia didn't show any sign of caring about that or the fact that Spike was now a Dragon. "So...are you sure this was the best time to call me out? I'm not all that good at comforting so..."
"I'd like to make my final wish," Celestia said as she attempted to rid herself of the tears "I wish that this lamp was sealed away for as long as my sister is to be sealed and that only a pony who deserved to find it will find it after,"
"Oh man, this is gonna suck," Spike groaned before lighting his eyes "Your wish is granted," Celestia dropped the lamp and Spike quickly added "Oh, in about a thousand years say high to Twilight Sparkle for me, you're gonna love her," Celestia looked back as the Genie gave her a thumbs up before being sucked up, the Lamp Spun on the spot and shot straight up into the night sky, seemingly becoming one with the stars as it did so.