Twilight was excited to teach Crimson something about friendship in Equestria.
"Twilight, you don't have to drag me after school. I can walk alone." said Crimson, who was clearly concerned.
"Sorry, I just thought. I have a lesson now, but I haven't prepared anything for the students. Twilight said thoughtfully.
As soon as she entered the classroom with Crimson, her students looked at him curiously.
“Thanks to the student, today we have a guest from a land outside of Equestri. The sea that I will introduce is Prince Crimson who comes from the Chyland Empire. Twilight said softly.
"Twilight, I can introduce myself, try it yourself and you caught me," said Crimson, who began to tease Twilight.
"Well, as I said Prince, Crimson comes from the Hyland empire, and we ..." Twilight saw the schoolgirl laughing at something as she turned to see Crimson laughing at her.
"Sorry, go on," Crimson said with a smile.
- As I was to say, he will give us a lesson about his home. Twilight turned and winked at him. Crimson knew he would have to answer for what he did, but found it a challenge.
"It's good that Twilight sat down with the students, I will fulfill your request to get to know my house better," Crimson said as Twilight sat down with her students.
Crimson opened a portal and spoke to everyone.
"This is a good time to talk about the Empire." he pulled out a map which he stuck on the blackboard. Twilight couldn't believe how big the empire was on the map. Compared to Equestri and the Griffin continent, there were several continents. His map showed the Empire scattered across the continent, where their capital was located. And a few smaller ones on neighboring continents. The Crimson Kingdom stretched across numerous islands and archipelagos, and even two peninsulas on two different continents. Twilight was intrigued by the fact that the kingdom of Crimson was separated from the empire by a great ocean and other kingdoms.
She also noted that the Empire has many more cities and is almost twice the size of Equestria in terms of area.
"Crimson, can you tell me how the Empire was created?" Twilight asked him.
"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you through the Tale." Crimson said.
<Story>
So this story is passed down from generation to generation. We mysteriously appeared on our corner and built our capital. But the problem was many, many and hostile to each other, and when we had to face them, we had to fight them. We were lonely, but our advantage was that we were inventive and united, even though we not only consisted of ponies but also ponies that joined us. From our capital, we created symbols of wealth, wisdom and magnificent buildings that were created only in our capital. We were not an empire, and we knew nothing outside of our city. But my ancestors had ruled the city for generations, they all trusted them for many reasons, but most of all because they cared for the city and its inhabitants. When the jealousy of all our neighbors reached this level, they hated us for this city and formed a coalition to raze the city to the ground. When the city was under siege, it was protected by the inhabitants, and later the first emperor of the Aridal Eripus Empire, who commanded the defense of our capital, the Great Altar.
"Crimson is wrong with me, you told me earlier that the first emperor was the Dark Star." asked Twilight, feeling cheated.
"Twilight, I didn't cheat you. His full name was Emperor Aridal Eripus Dark Star. But everyone called him Dark Star. And his wife had the full name of Aleria Korit Perfect Star. In addition, in the empire, we use more names because they can be repeated, for example my full name is: Pirru Iridal Oerasus Telar Repidus Dragonphenix Dark Flame Crimson Brust.
"But why use the name Crimson Brust?" Twilight asked angrily.
"Honestly, Crimson Brust is the nickname my friend in school gave me because I exploded with a crimson blast of magic. And I liked it so much that I preferred this name to my real name. And my real name is Dark Flame" he smiled and Twilight couldn't believe it everybody in the empire, a friend and surely his parents called him Crimson Brust because he preferred to call him that.
"You can go on with Crimson," Twilight said, even though she wanted to say Flame and understood why it just sounded better to him.
<story continuation>
As the city seemed to be falling, the winter that had come in the first days of summer suddenly began. Nobody knew why.
All the besiegers withdrew because of this, but left a small army which we easily defeated. The problem was that the city was in ruins and many neighborhoods uninhabitable. So it was decided to cordon off the completely abandoned district. Materials for building and repairing the wall were collected from the devastated districts. It was not known, however, when they would return, so many townspeople began to establish cults, although they did not believe any gods. One day someone found magic pearls full of mysterious powers. It turned out that they gather in different places each winter. Later, the court architects built a pearl temple with magic pearls and remnants of materials. Many townspeople began to pray that the winter would last longer. And then it turned out that the temple allowed the blessing to be discovered with these gems, no one knew which one, but we figured out how to use them much more effectively. The first district built only of pearls was created, which we called Garth, or holy gardens. And then Holy Wrath, special enchanted pearls that unleashed the power that helped keep the invaders out of the city.
After the snow, Dark Star carried out a huge program of creating and establishing new cities. He even led the first group of scouts to draw the first map. When we left our capital, we saw a world full of mysteries and unknown things, but that never stopped us. Then he said, “You want to know the world. You won't recognize him from school. "was a confirmation that the world we had been learning for generations was completely different from the one we were discovering. And so an empire was born out of the will to explore the world.
“This is a very interesting story about the Crimson. Well, the student asks about the Hyland Empire? " Crimson asked. Although the story helped Twilight understand the story a bit, he wanted to know more. She had an irresistible urge to learn more about the Empire.
Only six students raised their hands: Galus, Ocelus, Sanbar, Silverstream, Smolder and Yona.
"Okay, Gallus will ask your question first." Twilight said
- I have a question. How is your study? Gallus asked.
- And you mean, do we have our own school too? Truth? Crimson said.
"Exactly, are there schools like Canterlocia that only teach peculiarities or schools that teach to read and write?" Gallus said.
"A school for gifted unicorns only! What is a school attended only by the nobility?" Crimson asked with deadly disapproval.
- This is not a school where foals with extraordinary magical abilities attend and expand their knowledge of how to control their magic. For example, I was Celestia's favorite student. Because Celestia started this school. Twilight said, but what she heard shocked her a lot.
"Well, don't be offended by Twilight, but your magical learning system is weak. It's too warm, I only spent a few days here and I didn't notice anything that would surprise me. But seeing your gaze, his face says ... "
Twilight rays interrupted his speech. Twilight angrily shot out her magic at what he heard that he had chosen Celesti's Science of Magic. Crimson did not seem surprised by the development. Twilight thinks the Crimson did something with the magic, but as the dust settled he saw that the Crimson had all the power of the beam she fired from, and all the power turned into a small ball that Twilight hit when she suddenly fired.
“I see, this is magic. I can concentrate all the magic of the rays in this little sphere. I'm fine, and I didn't even use the horn. Crimson said.
- Yes, prove to me that Crimson wants to take care of this. But how do you prove it's true? Twilight asked, feeling a sudden pain in the corner.
"Twilight is metal dimerite rings that block unicorn magic. Cannot be removed by magic while wearing it, only can be removed by hand, proves magic can be used with anyone." He said coolly, taking the ring off her.
"Where do you want to duel in front of school?" Twilight asked him, but he didn't need an answer that Crimson agreed.
<in front of school>
"Twilight, you don't have to prove to Crimson that magic can only use unicorns, but you yourself said that the magic of friendship lives in all of us." asked Spike, who was worried about the two.
"No, Spike, I can't let Crimson ruin Celesti's good name," Twilight said as she prepared for the witchcraft duel.
- Twilight, please, not only as a student, but also as a teacher. Don't make mistakes, as if you provoked a duel with Trixie. but Twilight was no longer listening, just standing in front of Crimson.
"Twilight, do you really want to challenge magic?" Crimson asked.
- Yes, I'm sure. I won't let you choose Celesti schools. she replied angrily.
"The first spell is yours," said Crimson.
Twilight, without thinking long, cast a few rays at Crimson. Though Crimson wore only dimerite rings, the rays pierced him as if through a fog. Nobody could believe that Crimson had turned into an intangible, hazy black pony.
- Magic like that is nothing. I'll show you real magic. Suddenly a thundercloud appeared out of nowhere in the sky, even though it was sunny all day.
"Lightning," Crimson said, firing a bolt at Twilight.
Twilight shielded herself with a shield, but felt him shift a few meters back.
Twilight concentrated all her magic and feelings. Powerful rays similar to the one with which she fought Tireek shot out. Everyone was passionate about this matzo, but more passionate about what Crimson was doing.
The crimson spread its wings in front of him without any scae.
Meanwhile, something arose that focused all the magic of the beam and turned it into a sphere the size of a sphere. Crimson threw this ball so high that it exploded on sky, scattering the clouds, but with an extremely beautiful explosion.
"Twilight is about to show you true magic" Crimson's body burned in as a powerful flame suddenly shot out from all over body towards Twilight, which resembled the dragon.
Twilight because she never used so much magic. When she saw this, she felt fear seep through her skull which became scared and she couldn't move because she felt her legs are made of cotton wool.
Everyone saw Twilight engulf the flames. And Crimson fell lifeless to the ground.
"TWILIGHT! CRIMSON!" the girls screamed, and Spike couldn't believe what had happened.
"No Crimson, I must admit you know a lot more about magic than I do"
"Twilight, or you admit I was right, you are not taught by magic"
- I didn't say that.
When everyone heard voices of fear, they turned to see Crimson and Twilight standing behind them as if everything was alright, holding a something warm to drink.
"But ... but when we saw the magic duel, you are incapable or just delusional," said Rarity.
" Do you really believe in this fake blow between us?" they came down together.
"Oh yeah," Applejack said.
Twilight and Crimson can't help but laugh.
- It's just an illusion. They said together when the whole field of the duel came back jagby nothing happened.
Spike tearfully lunged at Twilight and hugged her
Sorry, Spike, that was the last time. Twilight said hugging him.
- So where were you in the duel? Rainbow Dash asked.
" We weren't at school all day, we talked about magic in the castle. And the spell we wrote together at breakfast time. At all didn't notice or listen to us talking about it. Illusions looked and acted like us, but with some differences. So the spells worked great, "Crimson said. When everyone was shaking their heads like that, and some clapping their hands.
- You were right about that proverb. You can learn more when you are not limited by school. And a warning to you that even our eyes can deceive us. Well, student, we are finishing the lesson today. Twilight said.
Crimson and Twilight entered the castle with the cups and talked and laughed.
And Starlight, Spike and Mane 6 couldn't believe it.
"They must love each other very much," Rarity said.
"I tell you this from the very beginning." Spike said furiously.
But what about Cherry Pie, Sprint, and Blizzard, they would sneak out of school whenever they got the chance and spend time together just like they did in school days, doing what they did best, doing their chores best.