Chapter 6
“Are you sure this will work?” Skitter asked as she looked up at the Moon marked door before us.
“Fairly.” I answered as I removed the medallion from around my neck, taking it in my hoof, “If it still works like Luna left it.”
It had been over a thousand years after all. Still the door did seem well preserved.
Stepping forward, I closed my eyes as I took the medallion in my left hoof before rubbing the front against the door while thinking of pink hamsters playing drums.
The medallion was the key but you needed to know how to turn it.
The door shone a soft blue before the light faded away. Taking a step back I put the medallion back around my neck.
“Was that's it?” Skitter asked as she gave the door a wary look.
“Should be.”
With that, I stepped up and pushed the door open to reveal a set of chambers in Luna's colors. Dark blues and some purples and blacks. The room was dusty as predicted, but it was intact, even the window.
I turned to Skitter, “Wait here.” before I slowly crossed the threshold. The air smelled stale. Nobody had been here in... a long time.
The furniture reminded me of what Luna had picked out for the tower when she returned. Dark woods of high quality. The same kind of carved works.
Everything was covered by a layer of dust but looked untouched. Books laying where they had been put down, even a empty glass and a bottle of wine. It was open so what remained of the wine was in a clump at the bottom.
She used to live here. This was her private chambers.
I moved slowly and carefully as not to touch anything. Even having been not only invited, but asked to go here, I still felt like I was intruding.
Adjusting the bags on my back, I moved past the book shelves to the second door, pushing it open with my hoof. This one wasn't locked and smoothly swung open with a slight squeak, my horn lightning the way to help the light from outside the windows.
The bedroom was in worse condition. Something had hit one of the walls and the windows were broken. There was rubble across the floor, but some sort of preservation spells were clearly still working as the wood and books were not completely gone.
Oh, the stuff closest to the hole was pretty decayed, but even just the next shelf looked like it had simply been there a couple of decades. The next after that looked... well, not new, but it didn't look like it had been subject to the elements.
I really wanted to look into those books, but they were not what I was after.
Walking over I looked out over the forest far below, taking in the sunlight for a moment before I continued over to what remained of the bed and the nightside table next to it.
Now... let's see.
I tapped my hoof firmly against the outer right corner on the top of the nightside table. Nothing.
Slamming my hoof down on the same spot again there was a click and a hidden compartment swung open on the side. Excellent. I really didn't like the idea of dragging the entire thing back to Luna in case the hidden compartment didn't open. I didn't want to risk hurting it if I tried to take it apart.
Kneeling down, I peeked into the hidden compartment before pulling out an ornate jewelry box about two decimeters a side and a decimeter thick.
Nodding to myself, I pulled my scarf from my bag and wrapping it up before gently putting it back in my bag. I didn't know what was in it, but it was clearly important and personal for Luna.
If she felt like telling me later, then she would.
Getting back up, I looked around. I had what I was looking for. A book on a desk by the inner wall drew my attention. Mostly because it was laying open like it had just been left there.
Walking over I peered at the pages. The language was old. Well, no surprise there, it was a thousand years old after all.
Frowning down at the page, I put my hoof on the desk as I tried to decipher the old faded text. It was something about using emotions to use your magic in different ways. In this case, anger.
That sounded... like dark magic to me. How about we don't do that.
...Then again...
I did meant to look into that. It affected Ponies' minds, but... I wasn't really a pony. Not where it mattered. The problem was that there was not a lot of information about dark magic and I didn't want to ask Luna about it.
Also, I really wanted to avoid turning into Dark Page. For one thing, I'm not sure I would look good in a lot of dark leather. Even more importantly it would hurt Luna. I couldn't do that.
But it wouldn't hurt to read a bit about it, would it?
Settling down, I carefully turned the pages back to start from the beginning.
“Page! Sir! Are you alright!?”
I looked up from the book, “Huh?” That was Skitter. “Yeah, I'm fine. Why?”
“You have been in there for hours.” She yelled from outside the chambers, “Did you find what you were looking for?”
“Oh... Uhm yeah.” I said and turned to look out at the sun. Crap, I really had been here for hours! It was almost mid day! Only felt like minutes.
I just got lost in my reading, even with the horribly antiquated language and hoof writing the book had been fascinating. Oh, what it was talking about seemed evil as all hell. It was not just using emotions in your magic, it also talked about draining energy from ponies and had some seriously nasty spells in it. Like spells to flay ponies.
Really Evil, but also fascinating. I had never even seen spells with calculations even close to those before, a completely different structure compared to most spells.
Also, really advanced, I wouldn't be able to cast half of the spells in that book even if I, for some twisted reason, wanted to. Not that I would ever even try most of those. They were just... wrong.
Shaking my head, I got up and closed the book and slit it into my pack before and heading back out to Skitter, “Sorry for making you wait, I got distracted by a book.” I explained with a small cringe.
Skitter just shook her head, “You could have warned me, sir.”
“Sorry.” I mumbled and turned to reseal the chambers, feeling rather bad for leaving her alone out here for some stupid book.
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New class unlocked: Dark Mage! This couldn't possibly have any of those things mentioned in the story title.
Cue foreboding music...
This is always how it starts. The Dark Side is alluring and seductive. Page really should have known better; you don't just read the book, the book reads YOU as well.
Be wary, Page; an open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
Well, humans ARE a bit too curious for their own good.
Let us hope that Luna detects that Dark book and does away with it before it can cause Page any harm.
I don't know what bothers me more, the use of the decimeter measurement, or that I converted it to inches in my head.
~8"x8"x4" btw
On the plus side, not all "Dark" Mages and/or Wizards were "evil". Its the majority 98% of them that are massive deushbags. Also those flaying spells are not evil. Just depends on how you use them. Chopped fruit and veg without extra cleanup.
Bright side of life and all that.
I'm not concerned about this dark magic. Having a Dark Magician is important if you want to beat the Blue Eyes White Dragon.
You should never have read that book Page this is going to bite you in the butt. Okay I'm calling it Nightmare...no Night-Stallion Page is going to be a thing.
Also another good chapter can't wait for more.
Read ya later-BFBL
Darth Page achieved
You shouldn't have done that.
Cue exorcist music....
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mlpforums.com/uploads/post_images/sig-3766615.come_to_the_dark_side____we_have_cookies__by_mrjeppmikk-d4um9t3.jpg Luke: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: "No. I am your baker."
Luke: "No. No. That's not true. That's IMPOSSIBLE!"
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The tale of Luke Ryewalker.
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I actually was very happy to see it, because I've been trying to wean myself off feet and inches (I'm Canadian. We got stuck most of the way through a switch to metric.) and, while I can't wrap my intuition around using high-count centimetres or fractions of a meter to represent lengths in that range, decimetres are easy and using them explicitly helps to remind me of their existence.
(As a point of reference, I can always remember that my hand is roughly a decimetre wide when I fold my thumb in.)
Reading dark magic is almost as bad as performing it, worse if you're reading it out loud.
I would really laugh if he has no reaction to the dark magic, then the story goes on to continue as slice-of-life-plus-'dark'-magic.
Slice of life cake: Now comes in dark chocolate!
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They did a ridiculous thing in the States. They teach a combination of Metric and the English Inches system, plus methods of conversion.
Then scratch their heads when about sixty percent of school kids have problems.
I wish they'd just pick one; but this is America. We always have to be different.
Be easier to switch to the Metric TBH. That's what Europe uses. Hell, the U.K. doesn't even use the Inches system anymore.
MetricVsImperial
how it is nowdays
7294683 Ah yes, the Blue Eyes White Dragon, AKA the "Super-Rare-Awesome-Chocolatey-Fudge-Coated-Mega-Super-Card".
Might I suggest you change the bold part to "spell was".
I think you meant "mean".
Dude. You wrote ponified Star Wars and you don't remember your Yoda? For shame...
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pretty sure he is already a stallion that stalks mares (a mare) in the night. oh, wait, that isn't what you meant.
That book should have been thrown out to rot.
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Ignorance makes for a poor defence. You need to understand your enemy.
I thought we decided not to go down this path.
I think you ment " my horn lighting the way" not " my horn lightning the way".👍🏻
Hehe yeah, kinda sucks you in...
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Considering how long ago this story was written, I know this is a bit late, but looking through a few recent quotes, this potential error was brought to my attention:
No shit, Sherlock!
Of course the room's going to be in shambles, after you shoot a freaking lightning bolt into it! 
Do you have any idea of the supersonic overpressure that a lightning bolt generates to even create such tremendously loud thundering booms that lightning are known for, Lord Page!!!??? 
And "Something had hit one of the walls and the windows were broken" you studiously observed??--something, perhaps, like your freaking LIGHTNING bolt you shot into there when you opened the door!?
or did you perhaps mean "lighting"?
Darth Page
Ah-h missed opportunity for a bad gag.
s/b “slid”
Sorry, I was distracted laughing about the lightning error the last time I was here—which is still there, btw. Meh, might as well keep it. It’s funnier that way, especially when future readers see my post about it.
Now I have the idea of Luna getting drunk to psyche herself up to change and take on Celestia. Drunk Nightmare Moon
Necronemon or what the Demon books name again?
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Necronomicon is the book youre thinking about
the one book to rule them all
I can see it now:
A unicorn steps out of the shadows. It's Blank Page but he looks different. Darker. Then you see it. He's wearing eyeliner! That's when you know this isn't Blank Page. This Pony has gone emo! This gothic Pony was Nightmare Page! *dun dun duuuunnn*
I apologize for nothing
Magnificent opportunity to rescue books of old, a expedition should recover anything still there.
Great chapter !
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...and in the darkness bind them.
Get it? 'Cause they're books. 📚
I'll show myself out...
Maybe it has lightsaber spells on it?
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Nice
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This made me cackle,nice
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He's still using a lightning bolt as his "flash"light I see.
*FLASH!*
Now, I don't see.
Too bad Neighsayer wasn't around to witness that... Old boy would have shit a cinderblock right then and there if he had.