A hundred years had passed since Maximilian was brought to Equestria. A lot had happened during this time. Maximilian had made the right decision when he sent his guard to aid the dragonics. The nymphs had help from a group of rogue mages, who disliked the Guild and attacked the dragon nation. The nymphs were allies with enemies of the Guild and they used the weakened position of the Guild, since Maximilian‘s personal guard was gone, to attack directly. This caused the third great war of magic, leading to the death of thousands and thousands of people on both sides. The Council of Elders used the war to frame Maximilian for treason. Maximilian, unable to prove innocence, was then exiled from the Guild, after handing the position of head of the Guild and the title of Master Mage to his student, who became the first female human leader of the Guild.
Maximilian returned during his exile to Earth, his home planet and continued his studies there. He already had a masters in physics, but he wanted to broaden his horizon, so he began studying chemistry. Both subjects had some importance in magical theory, as Maximilian used physics to improve certain spells he worked on. Chemistry was nothing else than alchemy, which up until then Maximilian mostly ignored, since he never saw a real use in it. After finishing his masters in chemistry, Maximilian began to travel through the worlds he knew. He never returned on own will to Equestria, because he didn‘t want to. He meet many old friends and many new ones.
After his travel, he received a message from his former student, asking him to become a teacher at the mage school. Maximilian agreed and returned to the Guild. To his surprise, his student did a excellent job at leading the Guild. She was loved by it‘s citizen as well as the council. Maximilian himself was during his time by his subject, though hated by the council. He began working as a teacher for offensive magic in the last years of the school, where a student could decide, in which subject he wanted to deepen his knowledge. Maximilian was happy with his work, since his student respected him, as they knew that Maximilian was the leading authority, when came to offensive spells. That was until he disappeared again.
Maximilian was just leaving the empty classroom, heading towards his apartment, as he notice a magical pull on his body. Before it could gain complete hold of his body, Maximilian realised the origin of the spell and teleported there.
Twilight Sparkle used the spell, Celestia taught her, after the last major crisis about a thousand years ago. The spell was supposed to summon a powerful creature, which you would help them in times of need. Twilight asked her friend to help her with the spell, since they were the elements of harmony. They were concentrated on the spell, they didn‘t notice the being appearing in the middle of the room, which as it appear, said “WHAT THE FUCK, CELESTIA! I thought I made myself clear that I do not care about your problems. So before you could summon me with that annoying spell, I better come on my own will.“
Twilight and her friends were dumbfounded. They never seen a creature like this before and this creature was insulting their princess. Also it knew that is was supposed to be summoned.
Maximilian turn around to look at the room, wondering where he was and why he could teleport there. As he continued scanning the room, he notices the six ponies, two normal ponies, two pegasis and two unicorn. There were no alicorns like the last time he was here.
He noticed, that the purple unicorn stood up and asks “Who are you and why did you insult the princess?“, then the pony with the cowboy hat now said “Yeah, tell us why ya insulted our princess or ya‘ll be sorry.“
“My name is Maximilian Wolf and I am a human Master Mage. Sometime ago, our Princesses summoned me to defeat a demon. I then told them to never summon me again. If you would excuse me, I have to go now, unless the reason you summoned me is important.“ Maximilian said, turning heading for the door to leave.
“Oh no, you don‘t just leave after insulting the princess.“ says the pegasus with the rainbow mane.
Maximilian just raised a brow and asks “And what will you do?“
The rainbow one responded “Applejack and I will beat the crap out of you until you say sorry, won‘t we?“ “We‘ll sure do, Rainbow Dash.“ answered the cowgirl pony named Applejack as she was preparing her attack.
Maximilian just shook his head and said “Shadow blades“ and from his shadow blade like figures appeared, which stop just the necks of his attackers.
“I don‘t want to hurt anyone. Whether I insult your princess or not, would be a problem between me and her. So is someone here, who isn‘t a hothead like these two? Just tell me the problem.“ Maximilian said.
The purple one now step forward and introduced herself “Hello mister Wolf, my name is Twilight Sparkle and I am the personal student of Celestia, who disappeared about two days ago along with her sister. We think, something evil has alicorn-napped them. The two, who attack you, are Applejack and Rainbow Dash and the three next to me are Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. We mean no harm, so if would please undo the spell?“
Maximilian removed the blades from their necks and sat down.
“So Celestia and Luna disappeared, sure they didn’t just miscast some spell?“ Maximilian says.
Applejack narrowed her eyes and said “Watch your tone, fella. Ya‘re talking about the two most powerful beings in Equestria.“
“Really, they‘re the two most powerful beings in this place? I see something nearly as powerful right before me.“ Maximilian said, as his eyes turned into demonic eyes.
Maximilian had time during his travel, so he took sometime meditating and find peace with the two other personalities inside him, which was good for all of them. They were allowed more control and Maximilian got demonic eyes and angel wings. Both extremely useful, especially the eyes, since arch-demon are able to see the flow of energy or magic. So Maximilian uses the ability to check the power of the beings around him, the only problem with it, that the living being with demonic eyes was really scary to most people, so Maximilian has a seal on them most of the time, which hides them.
Twilight backed away from Maximilian. His eyes just became like the eyes of Nightmare Moon. Maybe they did something wrong with the spell and brought the evil to them. She wasn‘t sure what to do. He seemed friendly, but he could be faking it. Twilight didn‘t want to take any risks, so she summon an attack spell, she found in one of Celestia‘s book.
“Light, that gives us day,
come and burn my foe away.
Protect those, which I hold dear,
till the enemy is gone and the room is clear.“
Maximilian knew the spell, Light Arrows. It itself wasn‘t something special, but in the way she chanted it, it was. It would protect her and her friends, while attacking him. Several beams of light appeared and headed towards Maximilian. He now just said two things, first “Yggdrasil“ and his staff appeared then “Consuming Darkness“. The light was sucked into Maximilian‘s spell, as he was much stronger and experience than Twilight, though she already for her age above average was.
As the light return, Maximilian said “Amazing spell for a girl your age. Many of my students would have problems, making up a chant like this. I must say, that Celestia did good work. But could we return to the problem at hand.“
Pinkie now said “THAT WAS AMAZING! First your eyes became all evil and then Twilight made those awesome light thingies and then your staff thingie appeared out of thin air and then everything was dark. OHMYGOD! YOU NEED TO DO THAT AT ONE OF MY PARTIES!“
Rainbow now mentioned “Yeah, that was pretty cool, but you are still a evil person.“
Twilight interrupted them now, saying “Girls, please calm down. I am sorry, that I attack you. It just surprised me, that your eyes changed like that. But we should possible go to Canterlot, where they were last seen.“
“I like that idea. Let‘s go“ Maximilian agrees and takes his staff and touched the ground with it‘s bottom end. Suddenly a circle of light appears and after a second they are all standing in the throne hall of the princesses, where Maximilian first was in Equestria. The ponies were confused at how fast they got here and Twilight was surprised at how easy he made it look.
“Now come on, you never mass-teleported somewhere?“ Maximilian asks, as Rarity replies “Well, we never did it in such fashion. Or with such ease. I mean Canterlot is a three hour train ride from Ponyville.“
“Now tell me what has the last thing, you know, happened here?“ Maximilian asked, as he turned around in the room, using his demonic eyes to check for abnormalities in the flow of magic.
As Maximilian examined the room, Twilight told him what happened. “The princesses were holding court, as they usually do. Listening to the problems of common ponies, so they could be taken care of and everypony could live in happiness. Then they took a break. The guards left the room and Celestia and Luna remind in it. The guards, which stood in front of the door, said that the princesses had a heated discussion, but this wasn‘t something unusual after holding court. As the guards enter, after their lunch break, the princesses were nowhere to be found. The guards then proceeded to check the entirety of Canterlot and still nothing and that was about it.“
Maximilian turn to the ponies and said “I can‘t find anything in this room. Maybe we should split up and you girls check the private rooms, while I check the rest of the castle.“ The girls agreed, though Applejack wasn‘t sure if he was telling the truth. It might just that she didn‘t like him from the entrance he made, when they summoned him, so she decided to ignore the feeling.
Maximilian felt bad for lying to them. He did notice something, something he didn‘t like. Something he only saw once, while travelling with a friend. Something he couldn‘t fix on his own. And this something was a crack.