They didn’t want to lose this castle so quickly, that was clear. So they agreed grumpily.
"Well, what are your hobbies?"
Mabruk looked at Molly with a wide grin.
"Jokes, pranks! It is so boring here, if there’s no one who understands the fun. I like to a little bit of 'chaos’."
Molly became suspicious.
"If these are harmless pranks, we have no objection. But if you do something like you did it to Amalthea and Schmendrick, we will not tolerate it." Molly made clear.
"All right, all right." "I will take the amount of my pranks on a ' minimum'." Mabruk said sullenly.
Before they could say anything else, Mabruk disappeared with a spell in a gray fog. Lir, Schmendrick and Molly were concerned that Mabruk could harm the unicorns. So Lir and Molly made their way into the forest to inform the others about Mabruk.
"The King's reign of terror must end one and for all. I'll try to find a way to wipe out all memories of the Kingdom of Haggard. I want to no Unicorn relive more fear. Meanwhile I will retire to the library, to find out something there maybe. You can accompany me if you want, magician. ", said Amalthea to Schmendrick.
Since then Amalthea moved back into the library with Schmendrick. Luna was with Molly and Lir outside in the forest was playing with them with so much joy. Amalthea didn’t want to bother Luna if she could help her. But no matter what she tried, no matter what she sought, it seemed not to work. It took months, until both ended up to the last shelf. Although Mabruk wanted to offer his help, but these were rejected because he didn’t came with enough seriousness. When Schmendrick and Amalthea had read the last book, they broke off the search.
"Oh, that’s senseless. We will never find a way to undo the past."
Mabruk suddenly appeared.
"Has someone said something about ‘undo the past’?"
"Yes. What do you know about it?"
Mabruk shrugged his shoulders. "What do I know? I have never used this spell."
"There really is a spell for this?" asked Amalthea. "Can you tell me?"
"Perhaps. But to do this you have to promise that I can stay here."
Amalthea was confused.
"What do mean with you stay?"
"You'll see about that." Mabruk said grinning.
"I don’t exactly understand what you mean, wizard. But I agree."
"Very good…"
Amalthea couldn’t trust her ears about that what Mabruk told her. He actually told her a spell that can be used to completely forget the past. However, it had a price: This country would be a paradise. But to keep the peace at this place, all humans have to go. Also, the natural conditions such as weather and time of day must be regulated by the unicorns because physics won’t work longer like in human world. Amalthea was amazed and appalled at the same time about that spell. That’s what Mabruk was trying to say. He wanted to stay. But that was not feasible because of the spell, thought Amalthea.
"Thanks for your help, Mabruk. But I don't know if I can keep my promise. If the spell changes everything…"Amalthea said worried.
"Just relax. I take care of myself. Just make sure that you then can handle this “control of weather and daytime” thingy."
That was the problem. Amalthea did not know how she should do this. Check the weather conditions and at the same time like the times of the day? It was almost impossible for a single Unicorn.
"I've heard you and I will help you, sister." Luna said, who was just looking after Amalthea.
"Luna? You should play outside with the others."
"I did. That was fun. And now I want to be with you again."
"Good, Luna. But you have to understand that it is a big responsibility. How would you like to help me?"
"I want to care about the Moon, because I love it. He is like the Sun, but you can look at its beauty without to go blind. And he gives light in the night, too."
"Can you handle it? Are you sure, this isn’t too big for you?"
"I've been practicing hard, big sister. I think I need a few times more, but I can do that."
"Well. If you want to do this, then this is your job now. Then I will take care of the Sun and the weather. But what we’re going to do with Molly, Schmendrick, and Lir? I really like them, but also the well-being of the unicorns is my responsibility. But there is no other option. Do you have any idea how we could bring the three humans to safety, Mabruk?"
Mabruk began to grin again.
"Oh, sure I have. I should protect three people from one of the powerful spells. What should I do? Should I create a parallel universe for humans instead for unicorns?" replied Mabruk sarcastically.
Amalthea was wide-eyed. How Mabruk did came up with such ideas? But on the other side: The idea was not so stupid after all. However, Amalthea didn’t even know how this should work. She looked again at Mabruk and wanted to hear more about this plan. It was the only idea after all.
"Oh, you are serious? HAHAHA! ", laughed the magician," so that was actually meant to be a joke.' But...I could imagine creating something like that. I just want a consideration for that, of course."
Amalthea was surprised that Mabruk had a spell. But she didn’t like that always want a consideration when he should do something. After all, he was welfare of all living beings.
"I appreciate your offer, old Wizard. This could be the saving grace for the three humans. But what do you want for it?"
"I want to be free. Only these “Low Level” jokes and pranks that you allowed me. I would like to unfold myself again to free, you understand?"
Amalthea was concerned. Should she allow Mabruk just to play all jokes and pranks he wanted? The question sounded totally insane, but this was the only opportunity that remained to find a new home for Molly, Schmendrick, and Lir.
"I accept your claims, magician. But be warned, as before, if you harm any unicorn, there is a consequence for you."
"Yes, and if we cannot send you away, we will turn you into stone."
Mabruk kept laughing at the little Luna.
"In stone? Seriously? You can’t even cast a large transformation spell, but want to turn equal living creatures into stone? This is just hilarious." Mabruk rolled laughing on the floor.
Amalthea took Luna in protection.
"We hope that it will never come so far, sorcerer, for both sides, as wizards and unicorns."
After Mabruk again calmed, he stood up and took his Scepter in his hand. He muttered a few words which became louder. Slowly a storm appeared outside. The sky turned dark. Lir, Schmendrick and Molly saw that the spark of glamour came from the Castle and ran as fast as they could. When they arrived, they saw that Mabruk’s spell circled Amalthea and Luna.
"NO! What are you doing with them, Mabruk? Let them go." Schmendrick yelped and ran the Throne Hall up to the bookshelves.
Amalthea and Luna wanted to tell him that this is a big misunderstanding. But they had to concentrate for the magic. Schmendrick went between Mabruk and the unicorns and started to recite a counter spell. This showed no effect, Mabruk didn’t react about that. He also was deeply focused on his magic. Slowly everyone realized how the environment began to change. The painting of King Haggard slowly disappeared from the walls and everything went...kind of flat. The details on the stone wall disappeared as well, and the landscape that they could see through the windows was getting very colorful. As well the cloths were now more luminous, pleasant and friendly. As even the throne room was filled with the magic, Amalthea and Luna lit up brightly. Schmendrick tried anything to stop it. He gave up at this moment, when he realized through the window how all unicorns slowly began to lift off from the ground. All were now caught in Mabruk's magical spell. They also started to light up like Amalthea and Luna. When it became too bright, the three humans had to shut their eyes in case of not being dazzled. Then there was a big bang and the bright shine was slowly disappearing. When the humans opened their eyes again, they saw a big rainbow wave out of the window which flew at the sky across the whole country. They had never seen anything like it. The landscape was no longer the same. The water, the meadows and the air. Everything went just to perfection. But they quickly concentrate on Amalthea and Luna, who slowly ceased to shine. As they were visible again, the three could not believe their eyes. Amalthea and Luna have also transformed: Amalthea's mane has changed into a bigger on which now consisted of the colours turquoise, green, blue and pink instead of silver. Also Luna had changed. Her mane was dark blue and shimmering. When they took a closer look, the shimmer looked like an amount of thousand small stars which she wore in her mane. They noticed the biggest change to the body itself: the face was smaller, the eyes were larger. Now you could clearly see the eye color of the two unicorns. On the body of itself, the unicorns, the three noticed another big change: Amalthea and Luna had wings. They were half-transformed into two Pegasi, but these wings were different. They were larger than those of the other Pegasi they had seen so far.
"Amalthea! Luna! Are you all right?"
The two unicorns came back to their senses. Amalthea replied exhausted:
"What happened? Is everything alright? Are you all doing well? How are the other unicorns?"
As Amalthea was sane again, she ran as quickly as possible the throne room down to the entrance gate. She went through the gate, but stopped for the first time she looked at the outside. It was all different. The landscape, the sky and the forest. She carefully walked towards the Woods, but she saw from afar that the unicorns also changed. Their fur now had all different colors. The same happened to their mane. They looked beautiful. But Amalthea understands quickly that she transformed, too. When she had resigned with the idea, she thought herself that it is still better to be transformed into a human.
Human? Of course! For a brief moment, she forgot that she must take care of the humans to leave this place. It would be not easy. Amalthea didn’t want to let them go, she had experienced so much here, however, many things were connected with the horrible past. It was bound to happen, because there is no other way. She had to do it for her unicorns. So Amalthea went back to the "Castle of the two sisters" and went through the throne room until she was back at the group.
"Amalthea, did you see it? How does it look like out there?" Molly asked.
"It looks just perfect. I had imagined the Kingdom exactly like this. How did you that do, Mabruk?"
Mabruk had to sit for the first time to this effort. He relied on his sceptre.
"Amalthea…I had not much to do. Your magic and your idea of a perfect Kingdom were almost enough to make this.
Take a look around, this is your Kingdom, Amalthea. Or should I say Queen Amalthea?"
"Queen?" But why?" she asked excitedly.
Mabruk smirked.
"Schmendrick, could you please explain her, what creature she is?"
Schmendrick looked exactly at Amalthea. It took a few minutes until he found a suitable word.
"That cannot be. You're actually a..."
"What am I, Schmendrick? Tell me please." Said Amalthea concerned.
"You're an alicorn, Amalthea. You and Luna have both transformed into alicorns. I can hardly believe what I see. You are now In charge of all properties that have been given to the various unicorns in the course of time. With Luna you're the most powerful unicorns since the legend."
Amalthea was not prepared for that. She was completely caught off by the events which happened over the last minutes. Luna was very happy about her new look. She looked amazed at her new wings and her fur. But Amalthea has not enjoyed at first. She wanted to make sure that really everything had gone well. Suddenly, Mabruk panicked, as he jumped up and went down the stairs to the throne room.
"Mabruk, what is it? Where are you going?" Molly called after him.
"My clock! I didn’t think about it as I performed the magic. I hope it's still there."
He ran down to the grand hall, which looked also different now. The tiles were clean and the hall shone bright. The torches were on fire and lit up the entire hall. There, where the clock stood once, there was now a large mirror. It was fitted with eye-catching embellishments. Horseshoe symbols were scattered on the base of the mirror and 11 pink gems were scattered on the edge of the mirror.
"Ah, the portal is still there. Very good. I couldn’t forgive myself when I would destroy my great invention." Mabruk rejoiced.
"Why? The clock is gone? There is only a mirror left." Noticed Schmendrick.
"The clock is unimportant. It’s just about the portal. That's no ordinary mirror. This is the same portal, through which you went all the time. I'm just wondering how we can now enter the portal, since the mirror is blocking the portal. "Although..."
Mabruk slowly approached the mirror. He groped the bottom off and the edge. Finally he touched the mirror itself, which soon lit up at the spot, where Mabruk touched the mirror. He was visibly relieved.
"The portal is still there. It is the mirror surface. You can just walk through the mirror. I wonder whether the portal has still the same goal."
Mabruk went through the portal. All were like perplexed. What will happen now? Is Mabruk okay? Amalthea was hoping that he would come right back from the portal and would say that everything is still okay.
"I guess this can take a while with the old man. We should sit down and wait." Lir joked.
"I must tell you something..." Amalthea said to the humans "It is very important that you listen to me carefully."
"We’re listening to you, Amalthea." Molly said.
"When this all is over, we must say goodbye from each other unfortunately. The spell that Mabruk had summoned up has that complies what I wanted. But there is a consideration. We unicorns can live here in peace, but no human is allowed to live with us."
The words shocked everyone. They didn’t want to leave Amalthea, especially Lir. They knew each other now for so long time.
“Amalthea. We were by your side the whole time. We will not disturb your peace." Molly pleaded.
"I'm sorry, that are the terms of the spell. But I have an agreement with Mabruk that he has found a solution for you. I hope he keeps his promise."
"And what, if not?" Where we would go, Amalthea?" Molly said desperately.
The alicorn was unsure. Before she could respond however, Mabruk appeared out of the portal with a big smile.