When Wistala finish her meal, she was in a bit of a miss; bits of her meal were all over her snout and claws. Being the orderly dragoness that she was, she started to wipe off meal from her snout and lick her claw clean (think of a cat cleaning itself). Once done she look toward Celestia and said, “Thank you and sorry you had to see that, baby dragons are known to lose themselves when they get hungry. As for your invention, I guess I accept it.” Celestia smile and motion Wistala to follow her. With a series of wings flapping the group was in the air heading for the castle. Wistala was only a few meters behind Celestia, while the two guards were behind Wistala keeping a tab on her. Tempest was looking beyond Wistala, just trying to watch where he was going. However, ShadowStrike was keeping a constant look at Wistala; a look that was saying that if Wistala made one “false move” ShadowStrike would attack.
The flight didn’t take too long to the castle and shortly they landed on the steps of a door on the side of the castle and Celestia order her guards, “Tempest go get a group and search for any sign of Wistala’s rider. ShadowStrike can you please inform my sister to meet me at the throne room.” The two guards nodded their heads and both of them lifted off heading in two different directions while Celestia and Wistala walk through the door. The door led into what Wistala gather to be the throne room which was huge and long hallway; there were stain glasses windows line along the walls, each one seems to tell a story. Celestia and Wistala walk to one of the end of the hall were two thrones sat on top of a small inclined plan. There were also two more guards, who were unicorns instead of pegasus, which Celestia told them to leave, which they promptly respond. Celestia went and sat on the on the gold color throne with red velvet cushion with a star that sat on top of the throne. Wistala look to the other throne and its design was obsidian color with dark midnight blue velvet cushion, with a crest moon on top of the throne.
The sound of quickly opened doors vibrated throughout the hall which caused Wistala to look behind her to see another equine. This one had the same features as Celestia, but was a bit smaller than Celestia, her mane and tail look like a living night sky, and had the magic of the element of darkness radiating around her. Wistala was slightly disturbed by these, since she never trust anyone who use the element of darkness, but she wasn’t sensing the same type of vibe she normal gets when she near darkness. Instead of despair, dooms, and evil sense of darkness, she sense comforted, hope, peace, and to Wistala shock, good. The new member came galloping toward Wistala with an astonish look on her face, “So this is the visitor from the other world sister? It look so different from our type of dragons.” She walked around an unconformable Wistala making observation and asking question. “Thou have wings, so aren’t thou able to fly? Can thou walk on your hind legs? How old are you? Are you able to…”
Wistala, getting a bit frustrated, release a small flash of electricity out, which made the newcomer stop talking with a look that was both in shock and awe. “Yes, only when I’m a bit older, and I’m at least two years old in human’s years.” Wistala look back at Celestia, “I take it that she is your sister.”
Celestia, with an amused look, answer Wistala, “Yes this is my sister Princess Luna, co-ruler of Equestria.” Luna looked up from a parchment (that she got from somewhere) with a happy smile and went back to taking notes. “I hope that you won’t mind if we ask you question, if that all right with you that is.”
“Sure, normally Jack does all the talking. What do you want to know,” Wistala ask.
Luna quickly asked, “How old are you in dragon’s years?”
“To other dragons I’m conceder a hatchling, just starting out in life. It takes about 150 years for a dragon to be conceder a teenager, and another few hundreds of years to be conceder an adult. However, the knowledge of language, hunting, and the ability to use magic is past down from parent to hatchling.”
“What kind of magic can you use,” Celestia ask.
“I truly don’t know. As a hatchling my magically abilities are still limited, but I can use any basic spell base on any of the eight elements of magic.”
“So that how you were able to send small sparks of lightning out,” Luna interrupted.
“Yes. Normal dragons are only attuned to one of the element plane of magic; either in light, darkness, fire, wind, water, earth, ice, or energy. I’m a special case, and with the help of a Dragon Amulet I can change to a different element whenever I want; although, I normal stick to the element of energy.”
“What’s a Dragon Amulet?”
“A powerful magic object given to the people of Lore who are worthy to be DragonLords. Its help those to be able to use powerful weapons and spell that are beyond normal standers, be able speak the natural tongue of the dragons, and for a limited time aloud young dragons, like myself, to grow to adulthood. However this drains the magic from the amulet and needs an hour to full recharge. Jack mostly used his amulet for the weapons and magic part, and only used the adulthood method on me when there are battles he can’t fight by himself and needs my help.”
“Can you tell me what Jack is like,” Celestia ask.
“Jack? Well he is your normal “save the day” hero. Don’t get me wrong, he doesn’t care about the fame or the glory that come with it (mostly), he the type of person that will fight for those who can’t defend for themselves, to stop evil, and to have a grand adventure. He does his best trying to save everyone from the dangers of Lore,” Wistala look down on the floor and spoke g softly, “but sometimes he comes in too late to save all of them.” She looked back up to the two princesses, “anything else?”
Celestia got up from her throne and said, “I think that’s enough for now. How about a tour of Canterlot to help past the time and to help you know what our world is like.” Wistala agree saying that it would help take her mind off of Jack. Celestia look at Luna, “You should get ready to raise the moon, for the sun is starting to set.” A thought ran through Wistala when she heard that. If Luna control the moon that means Celestia control the sun, making them as strong as the element avatars of light and darkness, which made her a bit uncomfortable.
Celestia led Wistala to a balcony that overlooks the city. From there Wistala got a good look of the populist of Canterlot. Most of the ponies were dress in fancy clothes and hats, most of them had horns and some didn’t. They were all walking doing task that they need to finish for end of the day, and some of them had their head tilted high in the air. She also saw Pegasus flying about in the air, some of them were moving, to her surprised, clouds out of the area. The whole area reminded her of the time her and Jack visited Swordhaven once. “So Wistala is there anything you want to know,” Celestia ask.
“Where are the other elements?” Celestia look at Wistala with questionable look. “You and Luna are the embodiments of light and darkness, so where are the others elements?”
“I think our two worlds are different than what you think. Yes, Luna and I are the embodiments of light and darkness, but our main elements are different than your main. Our main elements are called the Elements of Harmony, which are Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honest, Loyalty, and Magic. We do have the other the elements but they are not our primary elements.” Wistala was a bit confused of what she heard. How can a world have the eight elements not as their primary, but as their secondary? The Element of Harmony was all based on personalities with the exception of magic; how can magic be an element? Her head was starting to hurt.
The day went as Wistala ask different type of questions about Equestria’s history, and Celestia was happy to answer. She learned that Equestria is a peaceful place, not having a war for nearly a thousand years, the events of Nightmare Moon and Discord and many other things. The sun set and the moon rose, and there was still no word about Jack whereabouts. Sudden there was a swirl of smoke and a scroll appeared right in front of Celestia. Celestia open the scroll and read it, then with a smile she said, “Well Wistala it seem that Jack was found in Ponyville by my student Twilight.” Wistala smile to herself, delight to hear that Jack was ok. “It also seemed that Twilight was able to learn a little bit of Lore herself and gave me a copy of her notes. There no time for them to come tonight, but I will send them a group to pick them up, along with the rest of Twilight friends.”
“Why are you bringing others here?”
“Oh, because they would want to come anyway once they found out about Jack in the morning,” Celestia answer in a merry way. Celestia left Wistala and went to a room that was adjacent to the balcony. Wistala watch the night come to take its place in the havens; glad that Jack is ok, and had meted with Celestia’s student. She was eager to meet up with Jack, but she could wait a few more hours. Her eyes were starting to get heavy from needed sleep. Ironic that no matter how hard she tries to act as an adult, she was still a hatchling that still needs its sleep, its food, and its…Celestia came back with a scroll and with some of her magic made it burn up in a cloud of smoke. “There, they should get my message soon and I also told Tempest to ready some chariots to pick them up by afternoon tomorrow. Now I need to find a place for you to sleep for tonight, any preface?”
“Any warm place will do,” she answered.
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It was late in the night, and somewhere in a cave a lone unicorn was pacing around, talking out loud. “YOU’RE CRAZY! Sneaking into one pony house is easy but sneaking into the royal vault is impossible.” He stopped his pacing, like he was listing to someone and then said, “Yes I want to save her, but..,” he stop and his face wince as if he was being yell at. “Fine but it going to take time to build them, I’m going to need your help too.” With that he went to the cave entrance, he stop for a moment to look at a crystal formation, and then continue on to gather what he needs for tomorrow raid.
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