A young mare, Twilight Sparkle finds herself in the services of royalty after losing her master, what will lie ahead of the talented mage and what will the future hold for her being taught by Queen Moon herself.
Twilight, an orphan from a small village dreamed of becoming a master mage, at the age of nineteen she ran away from the orphanage as no pony ever did adopt her. Travelling around she looked for a tutor, she finally found one but her student days were limited, when she lost her 'Master' she was changed, physically and magically, what happens when she comes to Canterlot and meets Queen Moon.
My first Militia Fic, have a read and give me some feedback to see if you like it, it is also the first time I tried a quick journal chapter, hope to see you interested in my Fic, Serra.
It has been three months since I have been traveling to find a tutor, I had found an elderly mare a few week back but she refused to teach me, still I don't think she would be any worth studying under due to her only knowing transportation Magic.
Apart from that I got a tip off for another tutor who goes to a local tavern here in Stetville, I will be going there Tonight and seeing if I can get him to Teach me.
Month 3, Week 2, Thursday
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No luck, I could not find the Tutor, I stayed all night and for the most part I cant recall seeing him but I met up with the person who tipped me off, it seems I was duped.
Also it was the first time I had mead, it is also the reason I cant remember most of the night and also the reason I have a head ache at the moment, I have to figure out a way to get a better source than ask the nearest person, it always ends bad.
Month 4, Week 1, Monday
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It has been a few weeks since Stetville, I have traveled north in hope to find a more Magic orientated Village or City, I have come across a small town with a few mages but they seem to be kept to themselves and only teach close relatives, I only have a slight chance of getting them to teach me.
Month 4, Week 2, Tuesday
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I should have never stopped there, I was ridiculed and then chased out, I can only hope I never seen that old witchs face again in this life or the next, I am planning on traveling north again, this time in hopes of something more than this latest en devour.
Month 5, Week ???, ???
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I am writing this as a last will, I have fallen into a crevice with no hope of escape, If anyone see this, Will you please return it to the elderly mare if she is still alive who lives in the Orphanage in Saddle Dale Prairie, and if you are reading this Miss Glint, thank you for taking care of me as a filly, I am sorry I ran away from the Village.
New Start, Month 1, Week 1, Thursday
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I did not die but I came close to death, Finally I have found him, I now have a Tutor but he says he doesn't have a name, so I just call him "The Master", He was the one who saved me.
It was quite spectacular, I was about to give up on calling out when he popped into existence like magic, er...... I mean with magic, you know writing in ink sucks, never mind.
Month 1, Week 4, Monday
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I have been training with Teleportation magic for three weeks now and have mastered it enough to cover a distance of nearly three hundred lengths of a stride, The Master says we are to train at strengthening my magic by using this spell to get to our next destination.
Year 2, Month 9, Week 4, Tuesday
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We came across a cave that had an Ursa Major today, It was relatively the largest living thing I've seen apart from when we studied dragons, It had two cubs also quite interesting. The Master told me not to get close but Instead I masked myself with some illusion magic and a Scent spell and decided to take a closer look, Went to the bottom of the barrel though when momma bear decided I was her cub as well, had to wait quite some time to slip away from her.
Year 3, Month 7, Week 3, Saturday
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The Master has said that we should train with survival Magic, and that I should train in a more harsh environment and so The Master has decided we should head to Mount Bail, there is apparently a shrine there for mages where at the top of the hude mountain there is a magic retained haven for those of the aspiring Mages.
Year 3, Month 8, Week 1, Tuesday
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We began the ascent today, It is hard climbing here at the bottom, I cant even begin to fathom how I am going to climb the rest.
The Master said to climb the mountain to the top would take around Two weeks and that if I lost my concentration for a second and loose my hoofing I would more than likely fall to my death as the air on the mountain is too thick of Mana that it would be impossible to know where I would end up if I used my teleportation magic.
Year 3, Month 8, Week 2, Wednesday
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I had found many things weird today but the weirdest of all was that the Master finally told me his real name, Nightlight Sparkle, it made me laugh so hard but Master seem to be relieved that I didn't know he name, still its funny to hear my Master was called Sparkle, makes him kind of girly.
It is weird to say, I feel that it is getting physically harder to ascend the mountain but I feel that when we stop I fully recover from any ailment, Master said it was due to the Mana coming from the ore in the mountain, still feels really weird, today we trained instead of moving up the mount.
Another thing I found weird was that my mana pool inside my body feels tremendously larger than yesterday and it feels like I am bursting with magic.
Year 3, Month 8, Week 3, Monday
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We are nearing the peak, the landmark we past a few hours ago said that there was only half a day climb left to the haven I am oh so looking forward to seeing, we stopped to have the last bit of rations we have left, after this it seems if e don't reach the peak we may as well throw ourselves off the mountain.
Twilight placed the book into her backpack and removed a leaf covered piece of meat, freshly caught before the journey they had to cover it with quite a bit of salt to keep it from going stale, "eee," Twilight gulped before gnawing through the last piece of food she had, "So Master, were nearly there, Its taken a while"
The Master always wore a dark purple robe, he also gave one to Twilight when she began her apprenticeship, his whispering mane dreaded out of the hood of the robe in a light silver, his coat was ash grey, "Calm yourself child, remember even if we are near the peak, do not lose focus, one wrong move and.."
"Yeah, Yeah, I know it is certain doom for myself, Don't worry gramps, I got this," Twilight licked her lips then finished off the rest of her water pack.
"Ha, what you got is no patience and arrogance to boot, now C'mon lets see if you can keep up with this gramps, eh"
Both shared a giggle as they rose from the cave they sat, the blizzard roared through their robes as they exited the cave. A few hours passed as the light on top of the mountain could be seen, "Were nearly there Twilight, keep up with me," both were nearly there, The Master clambered up to a ledge and turned around leaning over the edge putting a hoof out to help Twilight up.
"Heh, you old coot, I said I got this didn't I," Twilight slowly made it up as The Master retracted back to the ledge watching her, "Heh, you just watch," Slow ragged breathes escaped her dry parched mouth, her arrogance was her undoing this time, her numb hooves could never feel that the rock she held began to release from the mountain side, *CRACK* suddenly Twilight began to see the world in slow motion, she watched as the Master leap forward to the ledge and shouted, she could not hear him.
"TWILIGHT!!, NO NOT ANOTHER ONE!!" He began casting, suddenly he replaced his student and was the one falling now, he mouthed something feeling content that she was now safe.
Twilight landed on the ledge where her Master was sat, she saw him where she was now, his final words she saw him mouth, "Goodbye Twilight," then he disappeared behind the whiteness of the blizzard, I knew that spell, he taught me it, replacing one creatures position with your own, I thought that was one of the most useless spells he could teach. Tears came to the corner of her eyes, as the tear dropped it froze and hit the Snow that hugged her hooves.
After numerous hours Twilight ascended the last bit of the mountain alone, upon reaching the peak she collapsed across the magical thresh-hold onto luscious green grass, the inhabitants of the peak helped her recover and she slept.
Year 3, Month 8, Week 4, Friday
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It has been over a week since I lost my Master to this horrible mountain, today I will use the runes in the courtyard to get back to the bottom of the mountain, I tried to train like my Master taught me but it is too much to be here, its time I returned to society, I'm going back home, if I am welcomed there any more.
Year 3, Month 9, Week 2, Saturday
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I have been feeling very weird as of late, Master warned me when we began the ascent that when we returned from the mountain there could be side affects because of the sudden change of the Mana, it started to hurt yesterday, my horn has began to grow slowly, I hope this doesn't last long.
Year 3, Month 9, Week 3, Wednesday
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I am close to the nearest city now, I think it is called Canterlot, the Queen resides here but at the moment I am more worried for myself than the qualms of meeting royalty, my magic has swelled inside my body and I am showing signs of losing control, just yesterday my magic exploded a boulder I was resting on, and before that even a nest of birds, I did not mean to do so, I gave them a quick burial and carried on.
There is supposedly a really good Health system in Canterlot and hopefully they can stop this ailment that has come over me, If not I am sure that this, this will be my final entry into my Tomb of knowledge, if so, I am glad to be joining Master, I welcome my fate be it alive or my death.
Twilight closed the Tomb and placed it back in her backpack and carried on the path toward Canterlot.
Twilight slowly made her way to the capitol, her steps were beginning to get lazy as her hooves threaded the dirt, short ragged breathes escaped her as the build of magic was becoming too much to handle, "Haah, nearly......... there," Canterlot could now be seen, the vast town and then she could see the Castle next to the mountain, once she saw this her mind began to relax more, it was a mistake.
Canterlot Castle, Thrown room of Queen Moon
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A crowd of ponies stood in front of their Queens throne, one or two did not adorn the noble's obscenely over the top attire, one pony in particular had a very pompous outfit on as he was reciting his declaration to his Queen, "If I may your highness, in all due respect I find it appalling that you would fund that dirty little run down orphanage and not fund our diamond reserve, please reconsider your action, it would be in favor of your majesties funds as well as ours," bowing but never releasing the scowl he had Petty Pocket bowed.
"For the fifth and Last time, the orphanage needs the money more than you and your brood, you have money coming out of the wazoo"
"Your highness, what a wazoo?"
"Never mind that, the answer now and will always be no, anyway it is too late for me to take back the money, we are already implementing the furnishings we have supplied, if you bring this up again in my court I will see to it that your title and house is nothing but dirt under our hooves if you carry on this farce, begone now, court adjourned," The Queen rose from her throne and moved to the right where a mare with a board and quill waited, "So then Serra, how long do I have to myself before I have to get back to the drizzle of society to talk about the subject of money again with Petty piss Pocket over there," Earning a giggle from the unicorn.
"I think we can make something up and see to it that the rest of tonight and get some rest," The unicorn had a white coat, her mane closely resembled that of Dj pon3 from club Spinner albeit more refined and neat, it was two toned red and black, funnily enough she had a cutie mark of a Quill and game pad, she liked to play games too much.
"That would be brilliant, maybe you could come around and play some Hoof of the high moon, its new"
"I would be delighted your majesty"
"Oy, when were alone I said to call me Luna or should I start calling you Lady Quill"
"Touche Luna, anyway apart from that escapade earlier with the pompous ponies your free to do as you will, might I suggest a walk in the garden and then sitting down to some tea by the willows"
"As always Darling," Luna let the word Darling roll of her tongue in a sarcastic way, "Come along then, lets go"
The Mare stopped for a second, "Sorry Luna, the six pillars are about to have a meeting, after it is over I shall be right there," The mare bowed before trotting away down the hall.
"Serra Quill, always the busy one that mare, never mind"
In the gardens
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It was around an hour before Serra Quill found the Queen lead by the willow trees, "My Queen, you there I am here now run along," she looked at a stallion who was waiting upon the Queen, "So that was another rather boring meeting, they really do worry over the slightest detail do those pillars"
"So, any worries I myself have to oversee," Luna waited as Serra sat down on the white silk laid out on the grass.
Pulling out her files she lay them down, "Finally I can breathe, this ways a ton, anywho not really but Mammon was discussing with Leviathan how to initialize a better guard for the border between the land and sea, ofcourse as always everypony just thought it was Mammons over imagination of an impending doom so he needs to have a stronger force on the land, Leviathan just nodded in agreement to most of Mammons notions and denied few, apart from that the rest of the Pillars just reported how each sector was doing, weapons crafting from Asmodeus' group are plentiful and the enchantments are ahead of schedule so on that front everything is doing great, now about that Tea," She put her board down and levitated a cup and the teapot in front of her and poured a cup.
"That boy never learns, I gave him the title Mammon because he was the best tactician for the ground forces but instead I get a worrywart, and I suppose Lucifer didn't step in then"
"Not really she was rather aloof of the situation, I think at one point she fell asleep, funny really"
"Well I cant blame her, having the rank of Lucifer is a large task and without a Nemisis in our army she takes the weight of all the decisions herself, I guess we will have to start looking for a suitable candidate for the title of Nemesis, as of now I cant really see any of my ponies having that rank," sighing Luna placed her cup back down, "It has been nearly Thirty years since my last Nemesis left his rank and started to wander the wide world of Equine, I do hope he is okay where ever he is, well that is if he is still alive, he must be quite old now"
A sudden breeze maid both the Queen and the Seneschal cover their faces, "Maybe it is time we head back Luna, don't you think," Serra asked, now releasing her position, a few hours had passed and it was rapidly becoming dark.
"I think you're right, let us go then......." *BOOOM!!!* Luna span her head and faced down to the whitetail woods that was on the border of Canterlot, "What was that?" another explosion sounded off as pure white light spread from within the woods, the Alicorn took no time to wait for any of her guards and with a flap of her strong wing muscles she took off in the direction of the explosion.
Five Minutes Earlier where Twilight was
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Twilights pace had slowed down tremendously, she swayed from side to side as her snail paced walk carried on, "I don't think I'm going to get there in time, It hurts so much now," Twilight could feel the swell of magic, her horn was now aglow in dark purple mist as it leaked out slowly, "I cant do this much more"
Twilights vision blurred as the outlines of the far off castle appeared and dissipated from existence, she was now moving and keeping control by sheer will, "I cant lose control here, this feels so much worse than the previous Swells, I cant let this one out," just minutes before Twilight lost control and let out a small bubble of magic as it exploded a tree trunk into millions of pieces, try as she may though Twilight was rapidly losing strength as she began to release her hold on her magic, she collapsed to her knees momentarily then began to float as a purple orb of magic rapped around her lifting her off the ground.
Seconds later the bubble rapidly expanded and popped sending a shock wave of magical energy that ripped apart everything within a twenty meter radius, it didn't end there, the swell began again as a larger purple bubble surrounded her, she opened her eyes but now they were shining pure white, "Stop, don't, NOO!!", the second shock wave released from her body, this time the destruction reached thirty five meters, again the swell began to grow. Twilight began to struggle to get her magic back in her control.
Twilight heard a thump in the distance, her eyes turned on what it was, a navy blue mare with both wings and horn had landed in front of her, she had never seen anypony look like this, only certain royalty were believed to be like this, "No, stay back, you must run away, get help and stop me, I cant control my energy," even with the warning the blue mare came closer, now with a better look Twilight could see that she was tall, really tall, she walked straight up to her a meter away, Twilight felt that the swell was about to release, "RUN!!"
Luna lent forward and placed her horn upon Twilights, Twilight felt the swell release but there was no shock wave, "What is your name child," dumbfounded Twilight stayed in a paralyzed position, "yoohooo, is there anyone in here," Luna tapped her hoof upon Twilights head, this jolted the mare out of her shock.
"Oh yes, My name is Twilight, just Twilight Miss"
Luna looked Twilight up and down to see the extent of her injuries, "It seems that your magic pool is unstable because you need some training to widen it, do you not train under someone, if not then I can see your life ending rather soon at the rate your pool is growing," she saw the mare wince, "still first things first, you need to fix your wounds and need some new clothes as the ones you have now are rather beaten up for ware, come with me to my castle and I will have my doctors see to you"
"Your castle?"
"You must not be from around here, it would explain why it is so pleasant to be in your company, most ponies just grovel at my hooves or go," Luna started shaking her arms in front of her and made a squeeky voice, "your highness, your highness, and all that crap, well lets hope now you know that I am queen you don't change your attitude to me"
Suddenly Twilight was bowing before her, "I am so sorry your highness"
"See that, thats what I just said, get up," Luna let out an annoyed sigh, "First off, the name is Luna, I keep asking everypony around me to stop with the 'Highness' or 'My Queen', the name is Luna, GOT THAT!"
Twilight was suprised by how.......how............ how common the Queen acted, almost like she just met another pony in a tavern and they started talking normally apart from the drunken slurring that followed usually she seemed more common than royal, "Okay.... erm.. Luna"
"Good, now keep up," Luna turned as a guard came flying over, landing and saluting, then more landed and began cleaning the area seeing as there was no immediate threat to handle but they still had adorned the full armor and weapons for battle just in case, "First Mammon being a worrywart now Asmodeus copies him," she let out another sigh.
"My Queen, Rank Nightfall, Nimbus Smasher at your service," the stallion was in full black obsidian armour and had a weapon that glowed with a blue enchantment.
"Just a lackey then, has the Berrith mobilized to find out what happened"
"Yes my Queen, we have already been assigned our duties based off all the information we have collected, the Berrith have said that Twilight is of no harm to the Queen for now but that myself and Two other fourth rank officers must keep watch over her"
"Fine, you come along too...... wait even better, you and the other two, collect a chariot, its faster t fly than walk and I'm sure that this mare cant move muc......." Luna stopped mid speak as she saw Twilight asleep on the floor, "Well I guess we are really in need of a chariot now"
The guard left and picked up the pair after getting the chariot, once inside the castle doctors moved the now sleeping Twilight to the infirmary and bandaged the cuts and grazes her magic caused, ready to sleep herself she left the interesting mare to sleep and went back to her own quarters.
Twilight began to awake, slowly the light faded into vision as the blurriness of sleep rested for the night again, she could hear a beeping noise and the sound of hoofsteps on what sounded like marble, she mumbled and then tried to get some more sleep, "Wait what," she bolted upright shocking some ponies who were passing her bed, "hehe, sorry"
"No, no, its quite alright dear, how are you feeling, may I take a look at your bandages," Twilight now looked at her body, across her abdomen was rapped cloth, she nodded as a response and sat on the edge of her bed to let the doctor take a look, as he was removing the wrapping he introduced himself, "My name is Heart med, I am the lead medic for Queen Moon, wait a tick, this isn't right, you were injured yesterday, at least enough to need a few weeks in bandages," upon inspection the Doctor noticed that all the Cuts and bruises from yesterday had healed, "this should not be possible"
Suddenly a large Alicorn strode into the room, "It is possible I'm afraid, your looking straight at it, there is no denying it, I can explain it if you want, she uses her magic to heal herself constantly much like an Alicorn does but not on as great a level, are you conscious of this Twilight"
Twilight blushed slightly, "Not really but I do know how to do it, since I went to mount bail I have had some............ some side effects, like yesterday with my Mana pool, it keeps growing and I don't know what to do with it"
" I asked yesterday but there are two things bothering me Twilight, first I asked about a tutor, you couldn't have been without one to enter into Mount Bail territory and then there is your name, what is your last name"
Again Luna noticed Twilight wince when she was talking about a tutor, "Well I did have a tutor, he died though while saving me, I began to fall when I slipped off the edge of the mountain and he did a replacement spell on me falling himself, as for my last name, I am an orphan, I don't have one"
"What was your Tutors name"
"I did not know it for many years, I got familiar with the name ' The Master' but just days before he died he told me his name, Nightlight Sparkle," A tear fell from Twilights face as she suppressed a sob.
Luna went wide eyed with shock and then exhaled, "Nightlight Sparkle, it must be fate,.......... Twilight what would you say if you joined my army and trained directly under me," this caused all in the area to stop what they were doing and listen in on the conversation.
"I would be grateful, but being in the army seems a bit"
"Don't worry, you will be taught to control your Mana Pool and you wont have any responsibilities of a normal lackey of the army, you will only answer to me"
The Doctor looked shocked as he spoke in a hurried tone, "But my Queen, she is so young to hold the title of.." he was cut off by her glaring.
Confused by what the look on Luna's face toward the doctor meant she decided to ignore it, "So I would become your apprentice"
Stopping looking at the Doctor Luna turned and smiled at Twilight, "yep, I would teach you more magic than you could shake a stick at, first though follow me"
"Riiight~" Twilight got up and removed the rest of the bandaging before she rapped her torn up purple robe around her, she followed her Queen to where ever she was being taken.
The court table room
Serra Quill was in a relatively peaceful afternoon in her office, after yesterday the Queen came back with a mare who was assuredly the one responsible for the two explosions albeit not her fault, just another morning in the duties of a seneschal, her doors opened as Said Queen and Said Mare entered, "Hello my Queen, what may I help you with today"
"Shh, you with the sarcastic voice"
"your fault for scaring me yesterday"
"What, really, scaring you, damn I did a fine job, you don't scare easy"
"Oh shut your face"
Twilight was baffled, "you do know your speaking to a Queen right"
"What this old fart, we've been friends since I was but a foal, she took me in as an orphan"
Luna rolled her eyes, " anyway, Twilight, this is Serra, usually she is only like this when we are alone due to formalities between the royals but she knows that you are being treated like a guest of common relations, meaning I don't give a buck how she acts towards me same as she wont be surprised if you called me Luna"
"Riiiight~"
"Anyway, I want to discuss you becoming my apprentice"
The seneschal in the room did a double take upon what she just heard, "WHAT!! wait..wait..wait.. you mean to say you wanna make her the.." Luna made the eyes again, "Fine, I'll just shut up then"
"Twilight, can I ask, how many spell routes had you mastered under the tutelage of Nightlight," Luna took a seat at the table across from Serra and then insinuated Twilight to sit on the seat next to her.
Twilight sat down before going into detail, "well I was taught all Teleportation magic, transformation magic, Alteration magic, Enchanting, Summoning magic, all of the light path has been covered but the darker path of magic The Master only taught me a little, Destruction magic I learned partly and Assassin magic like Scent proofing and Invisibility was taught to me, apart from that Master didn't do much from that, he said he would not teach me anything above a class A magic that could harm another Pony," Luna face looked stoic but her mouth was curled into a smile as she faced Serra who looked quite dumbfounded.
Luna turned back to Twilight, "That is a lot more than I thought you would have been taught and you even have some Dark magic spells, quite amazing, now I think I should tell you about how my army ranking system works, for this I will have Serra hear draw a diagram on that whiteboard," snapping Serra out of her stupor the mare began to trot over to the board and scribble down the ranks, "Now this will be kind of boring but If I am to teach you, you will have to know the army you are entering, it doesn't matter if you don't remember it all because there will be quite an intake in this session," Nodding at Serra her seneschal began the explanation.
"Okay here is the Ranking system Lunas army runs by," she pointed to a board that read~
All ranks bottom to top Earth pony~ Apprentice ~ under the watch of a Lieutenant Soldier ~ takes orders from the Captain Lieutenant ~ Takes orders from the captain and trains Apprentices Captain ~ takes orders from the Berriths ~~~~~ Unicorn~ Acolyte ~ under the watch of the mages Castor ~ takes orders from the Master's Mage ~ Takes orders from the Master's and trains acolytes Master ~ takes orders from the Berriths ~~~~~ Pegasus~ Apprentice ~ under the watch from Stealth Flyer ~ takes orders from the nightfall Stealth ~ takes orders from the nightfall and trains the Apprentices Nightfall ~ Takes orders from the Berriths ~~~~~ Berrith ~ takes orders from the Abbadon, controls the armies movements Abbadon ~initiates orders from the Astaroth and oversees the work the Berriths do. Astaroth ~ plans how the Army should move and issues orders from the Six Pillars The six pillars ~ Lucifer, Mammon, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Beezlebub, Belphagor Nemesis ~ second only to the Queen, she is only put into battle when needed. She or He are given this title because of their unrelenting force, they are much like a fortress moving, as soon as this piece is played upon the board it means end game
"Quite confusing at first I know, first off their is the basic four ranks, one through three is the trainees and then you have rank four that commands the trainees, above them is the berrith. The Berrith move the army and oversee projects that the basic ranks do, their is three to each section, the sections are, Crafting, ground, navel, air, magic, and there is a sixth one but they have no berriths, they cannot be used due to their lack of skill in that section. Next we have the abbadon, The abbadon are the ones who train the Berrith to do a better job and watch them, near the end of the Abbadons career they choose Two of the three Berriths to replace them to oversee the next set of Berriths due to usually one of the Berriths usually leaving rank to make a family, their is only Two Abbadons per section. Lastly in the common ranks we have the Asteroth, these are the top of the normal part of the army, they plan and command how the army should move and what projects they work on, they only report to the six pillars and the queen at the moment, So how does it look so far"
"Confusing but I'm keeping up, I think," Twilight was focusing on taking in all the information.
"Now for the more advanced section of the army, there are six ponies elected to become Pillars, a Pillar is a pony who outclass' all in their field of work and gains that title, these titles are Lucifer, Strongest of the six, commander of the Unicorns, Leviathan, Commander of the Navel army, Mammon, Commander of the Earth ponies, Asmodeus, Commander of the smiting guild, Belphagor, Second strongest and right hoof to Lucifer, and Beezlebub, Commander of the Assassins. That is the Six pillars," Serra was about to carry on as Luna interrupted her.
"Lastly there is one more rank, the highest given to an officer of the army, Nemesis, this is my left hoof of god and my right hoof of the devil, this pony out ranks all apart from myself and is the leader of the six Pillars, quick and adept on the field, enormousness ability to adapt, in their own ethnic background they have to be unique and very different, almost like that of an Alicorn they cannot be weak, finally they study directly under my tutelage and train to be the most lethal weapon Equine has," As soon as she stopped she saw Twilight realize what she was saying, not only that but a slight bit of fear was thrown in there as well.
Twilight struggled to speak, "You.......y..y..you cant mean me, I-I cant be the Nemesis, I don't know any true attacking spells and I haven't had a fight with a pony in my life"
"If I know Nightlight he made you at least try to go against something dangerous even with defensive spells,"
"No he never.... wait you knew master?"
"Its no surpirse he was the last Nemesis"
"WHAT!" Twilight began to hyperventilate as shock after shock hit her.
Serra rushed over to her with a paper bag, "Breathe in and out in this, C'mon, breathe Twilight, breathe," Slowly Twilight calmed down.
"Okay so Master was the Nemesis, that means what then?"
Luna thought for a second, "Well it could mean a variety of things, he only left his position due to thinking he wasn't good enough for the role any more what was pish posh, it could mean he was grooming you to become the Nemesis, that would be why he took you to Mount Bail, you as I would presume had quite little Mana reserves and struggled to do magic before I guess," Twilight nodded, "Well the reason he never taught you higher than class A or dark magic was that they take a ridiculous amount of magic to cast, meaning if your Mana pool emptied whilst casting you would die, this way visiting the mountain unlocked your........your.... whats the word.... you could say faucet and turned it on but without the training he was going to give you atop of Mount Bail it seems your pool went out of control and still is until I train you, apart from that, I would guess he was just plainly teaching you magic, now which would you choose, there really is only one path, its either become the Nemesis or wait to explode into tiny iddy bitty pieces, your choice," A sinister grin came across Luna's face as Serra rolled her eyes.
"So what do I have to do then as a Nemesis"
"The Nemesis"
"Whatever, so what do I do then?"
"Nothing, you just relax and learn under my wing, train here in the castle and give it a few years you will be the most powerful unicorn this world has seen, Come now lets get to training"
Twilight stood up facing her new tutor, "Already, its only been like an hour since I woke up and around a minute since I agreed to become your Apprentice officially"
"It isn't official yet," Serra interjected.
Luna turned around, "Ah, yeah we have to do that thingy"
Twilight looked confused, "What thingy"
Serra facehooved, "Y'know you might be our Queen but your a bit dizzy in the head sometimes, the thingy," she moved her hooves up and down in a doctor evil fashion whilst saying thingy as best as he could, "is the official announcement of the future Nemesis and Apprentice of the Queen"
Twilight reared up, "All fancy n'shit"
Serra blurted out a laugh as well as did Luna, "YEAH, HA, HAHA, all fancy and shit, awww Twilight I can see this being a ............ colorful relationship"
All three mares left the room and headed to the training facilities near Lunas personal quarters leaving one person left in the room.
"The new Nemesis Eh, this is gunna be big," the voice snickered and lurked back off into the darkness.
It wasn't long before they arrived at the destination, throughout the journey Twilight quietly thought over her new position, letting questions rise to the surface of her mind, Why does she want me to be the Nemesis, I cant be qualified to be it, I don't know anything about a battle and I am not that great at magic, even my Rune has not appeared yet, she didn't have to think long though as she walked straight into the back of the Queen and fell over, "Upgh, Ow, sorry Guess I wasn't paying attention," Luna looked at her for a second and then extended a hoof for her.
"It's quite alright I know that after that and the thought of the ascension ceremony will be occupying your mind for a while but I think that we need to push forward with your Mana stability training, so, did Nightlight teach you how to enter into your inner state," Luna moved into the middle of the room where cushions littered the floor, "Sit here we are going to train by spiritual shifting today"
"He did, it took me a while but I can now enter it easily, why?"
"Well there is a way to see your Mana pool by entering this state, in this state I am going to teach you to control how much your 'Faucet' will be turned on, so to only let the amount of magic you need through, after doing this exercise for a few months you should be able to do this without entering the spiritual state," Luna closed her eyes, slowly the wind picked up around her, "imagine that there is a ball of liquid where your stomach is, concentrate on that ball of energy and then enter the inner state, once you have achieved inner state you must concentrate your mind solely on this point in your stomach, if you have done this right you will enter to where your energies lie, after you achieve this I will instruct you on your next task," Luna opened her eyes and the wind stopped, she got up leaving Twilight on the cushions, "I will be in my quarter for a few minutes as I have paper work to attend to, I shall be back in two hours, begin your training"
Twilight had begone her training, she tried and tried again to enter her pool but every time she was blocked by some unknown force, time was quickly passing and the Queen would be back soon, she was running out of time, Dammit, she expects me to just get this, it proves the point I shouldn't be the Nemesis, I cant even do this small thing, then Luna came striding back into the room with Serra in tow, Serra moved over to the far desked and almost dropped everything she was carrying.
Luna moved over to where she was sat before, "So do we have any luck in entering your energy pool or are we stuck?"
Twilight humphed, "This is why I don't get you wanting me to be Nemesis, I really cant do this at all, I really try but every time I feel something stopping me, why do you want me to be the Nemesis, I'm useless," Twilights ears drooped down and she sighed, "I don't even know what you see in me"
Luna moved over and lifted Twilights chin, looking straight into her eyes she pulled her into a hug, "you're not useless Twilight, you questioning your worth shows this, you're thinking too hard about this, just remember a capitol was never built in a day, so is true to a soldiers worth," Luna released the hug but kept ahold of her arms, "I chose you for your ability to adapt and since you have so much ability to learn, my best unicorn at the moment only has mastered five paths of magic and she took around six years to attain the rank she has now, can I ask how long you have been learning to exceed that amount?"
"Nearly four years"
"See that, you have an amazing ability to adapt to magic, its not amazing its rather near impossible and now you have the magic reserves to use them at will, give it another two years under my tutelage you will learn all paths of magic and I will teach you to command an army, power will be at the tips of your hooves and you wont know what to do with it, so believe in yourself, that is the reason you cannot attain your center, the force that is stopping you is you yourself, have faith in your abilities and reach for your Pool again"
Twilight readied herself again, breathing deeply she began, the air in the room thickened with Mana, swirling energy began to trace the contours of Twilights body as she concetrated, "Feel where your energy lies Twilight, center your mind solely on that point, clear all other thoughts and enter that place," Twilight suddenly opened her eyes as they glowed pure white, then she breathes out as the light dissapeared and she closed her eyes.
Riverside
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Twilight awoke in a place unexplained by words, stair cases shot off in all directions, the roof, walls, everywhere and lead to different places, then she could feel magic pulling at her mind as she heard a voice, it was quiet at first but as she listened it became clearer but retained an echo to it, "I see it worked, now you should be within your own mind, this is the doorway to ones soul, this is also where Dark magic that manipulates the mind begins, but that is for another day. Twilight, I want you to now imagine memories in the form of threads," Twilight did as she was told, somehow long threads began to shoot off following the stair cases, she tried to speak to tell Luna she had done this but found she could not.
"While you are in here you will not be able to speak," Twilight turned as she saw Luna in an ephemeral form drift from her left, "you must speak through the mind, not through your body, remember this is not the real world, this is your body"
It took Twilight a few minutes to be able to get the hang of speaking within this space, "I have done as asked, how can you be here?"
"All in due time Twilight, now I want you to concentrate on the threads, find the most magical memory you have, the one most enriched with Mana, once you have it and are certain you have the right one, follow it, it will lead you down the right path to your pool"
Twilight followed her Queens orders again, she sifted through her mind, one by one the threads dissipated until only one remained, she grabbed it within her grasp and began following it, Luna followed behind her, she went up a staircase and then through a walk way, a few minutes later they found themselves in front of a door.
The door was rather big, it was around the size of how tall Luna was and as big as two royal guards across, it looked like cracked black marble and had tanzenite gems littered across it, shapes formed across the door, the shapes would move as Twilight looked at them, one second she could see a book, the next it was a bird flying over the moon, it kept changing, morphing in a way, then she turned back to Luna, "What is this door, what do the symbols mean?"
"That my dear student is for you to decide, many will never see this door but the meaning will naturally come to them, they find what it means in other forms but this door is the walkway to your Mana pool and I am afraid that this is as far as I can go without affecting your magic, you will still hear me, trust me, enter and we will begin your training," Luna pointed at the door as she disappeared from sight.
Twilight turned to the door once again, the image upon the door was still moving, she found something strange though, as she stepped forward the gems on the door began to glow lavender light, closer and closer they began to shine, she started to move her hoof to the surface of the door, just before it touched she held back due to hesitating, she gulped her last bit of resolve as she pressed upon the door, the light encased everything as she had to cover from the light, as she opened them again she breathed sharply at what she saw, going wide eyed.
Bright blue skies in a full three sixty view around her, she stood upon a surface that felt solid but moved like water, it emanated energy, a few clouds drifted through the sky as she took in where she was, "Are you surprised Twilight, this is your center, this is what we wanted to achieve, every unicorn has internal Mana that pools all together, you should be able to see it now"
"I think I see it but I don't believe it, if........ if this is my Mana I really don't think it should look like this," Twilight lifted her leg as she felt Mana rise up from the surface and into her leg, the surface of the "water" began to tremble slightly as it did, "This place that holds my Mana, I think its growing"
"I know, now we need to stop it before it becomes too much for a unicorn body, now we don't have to filter through all the bull shit, I am sure you know some magic manipulation training, this will be much like that, I want you to bend down and place a hoof on the serface of the Mana, draw as much Mana into a ball away from the surface you think you would need per cast," Twilight did as she was told, like running water it drifted upwards into a ball that rippled slightly, "Once you have done this we have to make a funnel for you magic, it sounds confusing but it isn't, once we have it in place you will naturally burn Mana constantly so that you will have only as much as you want at once, now imagine that the place you are in now is something else much more controllable, have it as a river or a stream, once it has been done, dam the river so that it stills the Mana and only lets it through as you need it"
Once again she did as told, beads of sweat formed upon her forehead as she concentrated, the seeming ocean of Mana rippled and began to shift, it started to shrink as the scenery changed, stones formed to control where the Mana flowed, trees began to sprout on either side of its banks, the Mana rushed through very fast like it was rapids, Twilight imagined damming the river as a large piece of Lavender magic slowed the river as it began filtering the Mana to but a trickle, "I did it, now what?"
"Good, that wasn't so bad, it will be shaky at first and we might have to constantly check this for a while to see if it holds, now I want you to retrieve the orb of Mana you took from the original pool, this serves as the origin point, what we have done is mold the original pool to work how you want it to but doing so means you could not pull that from your center, you needed some of the origin to do that, now place the orb at the far end of the river so that the Mana that trickled through the dam gets soaked into it and we are done with this training once you have one that," Twilight quickly fitted the last order, moving with precision as she implemented the last part, once she did so she released her control on her spell and awoke back in Luna's Training room.
"Well that's it for today Twilight, but before we go I want you to try casting something, not too harsh just to test your control and get to know what we really did today,"
"Okay but what spell, there a few I could use"
"Nothing too fancy, erm....... how about casting a light ball, simple and not too strenuous," Luna offered, Twilight nodded and began the spell, usually it was really easy to cast but she was finding it difficult but after a moment she found her magic and a ball of light pink floated above her.
"That's weird, I struggled for a moment, then all of a sudden I got a serge of Mana rush when I wanted to cast," Twilight was looking over her hooves to see if there was any difference, to Twilight it felt like before she went o mount bail how she had to exert a large effort to cast but then when she concentrated it reverted to when she had an abundance of Mana at her disposal, "Its........ Its like I had barely anything and then a massive amount of controlled magic flooded out of me"
"This is what we achieved today, when we changed the origin of your pool to that of a controlled form it bend more freely to your will, it will lie dormant and burn excess when it isn't needed and when you want to cast your subconscious mind will release the spell barrier to let Mana through, its relatively simple on the surface but for the next week atleast I want you to check on your pool like we did today for any changes, also I have noticed something, you need to go and get your horn checked it seems it is growing to much and has cracked meaning the outer layer has pushed apart, if you eave it, it could hinder your training at a later date, so you understand Twilight," Like reciting a list she finalized in a matter-of-factually-tone.
Twilight reached up to her forehead, what was just a little nub before had seemed to grow a lot longer since she got to Canterlot, by the base of the horn was a cracked broken outer layer of the original outer parts of her horn and then for another six or seven center meters a new horn had grown out, "Thats new, guess I haven't looked in a mirror for a while, hehe, I'll go get it checked out now, I'll be back at lunch," Twilight waved to her mentor who returned the gesture and went over to talk to Serra who started some menial tasks, then she set off for the palaces infirmary.
Twilight was sat on a seat where she was asked to wait for a personnel of the infirmary to become free to help her with her horn, as she wasn't in any pain she was the least of the worries for today, supposedly the captain of the guards wanted to teach the new apprentices a few things and pushed them too far, most came back with a few cuts and bruises but some weren't so lucky and actually broke some stuff, apart from that it was calm in there, in fact Twilight enjoyed the seat because of trying to find the Infirmary in the first place, she left the Queen without actually asking for directions and after she realized she didn't want t go back and embarrass herself so she ended up asking a guard, who by the way unknowingly to Twilight had only just been put on duty inside the castle and made up a story as to where it was, there fore sending her in the opposite direction to where it actually was. Eventually she asked another guard again after realizing she had been duped, then she swore if she found that guard again he would be at the infirmary for a colon exam due to his helmet being shoved where the sun doesn't shine.
"Miss... er.. Miss Twilight, if you would come over here, my assistant will attend to you, she is very good at what she does and has had many hoof on experience," A mare with big tinted pink glass' gestured to a curtain where a shadow was moving back and forth in the air, "Come now we don't have all day, Fluttershy, will you help this girl, she needs her horn tending to"
An audible Eeep could be heard as the mare came into view, a soft tone of yellow coat and Pink long hair that covered her left side of her face, she also adorned the nurses outfit, "Just one second, angel get down here right now," A small bunny was stood on top of the cupboard with an angry face, he slapped his leg a few times to show his annoyance for some reason, "I'm sorry okay, please come down, if you do when we get home today I will make you a really large pudding," The rabbit shook its head and stomped again, "TV privileges as well?" he did the same, "And you can stay awake till ten?" The rabbit seemed to be in though but eventually nodded much to the pleasure of the mare as he hopped off onto her cap and then onto the bed, "Good, now just stay there while I help this lady"
"Errr.... Hi, erm Fluttershy wasn't it, whats with the rabbit seems kinda grouchy," Twilight said, suddenly the left overs of the end of a carrot came flying at her head as she dodged it and glared at the furry ball of annoying sat making raspberries at her, "that thing has one mean streak"
"Oh no, hes really not like this usually but today I forgot his favorite food and he got mad, apologies for making you wait. So then its your horn I have to look at?" Fluttershy said as she came closer to look at her.
Twilight looked up and then moved her bangs off of the area to look at, "Yep, I was told if the old bone stayed there it could get nasty for me later so I need to get it removed If I can," she put the bangs back down and looked forward to see a pair of eyes really close to her face, "WOAH! you scared me," Fluttershy bolted back with a blushed face.
"Sorry, I just wanted a closer look, It doesn't look too bad really, the old bone is braking away from the skin so I don't think we will have any trouble with removing it, plus once we have done that the horn can then grow properly to the length it is needed to grow, one sec," Fluttershy moved over to a tall cupboard where the bunny was moments ago, she began rooting around for what she needed to remove the excess bones, "Oh right, how could I forget," She stretched her wings as she started to lift up, moving to the more higher shelves she opened it and grabbed a blue folded case out and closed the draw back up flying back down to the bed, "Okay if you will just come and sit here for me we can get started," She patted the bed next to her and Twilight complied sitting there.
"If it at all stings at any point you must tell me straight away, the nerves in the horn can be damaged easily if not handled with care, so any pain what so ever immediately stop me, okay," Twilight nodded in response, Fluttershy began by clipping Twilights bangs back and then opened the blue case where a bandage and several plasters were at one side and then a scalpel, needle, medical wire and a pair of tweezers laid at the other side.
"You're not gonna be using any knifes or anything are you? I don't much like the thought of that being near my face," beads of sweat began to form on her head, Fluttershy looked like she was about to have a heart attack at the question.
"Oh no, I wont be doing that, I cant in fact without a senior medic around," Twilight breathed a sigh of relief, "what I will be using is these Tweezers and with gently dislodge the bone as they are already very loose, okay stay still and it'll only take a minute or so," As she said, it didn't hurt in the slightest, the mare had the most gentlest touch even better than a unicorn what was more so amazing, one by one the pieces came out without any trouble until the last piece dinked against the bottom of the metal pan they where being put in to, "all done, now we just put a little sanitize on the open wound and rap it until it closes the wound, in two days it should have closed, once it has...."
Twilight interrupted her, "Its okay, all I needed help with was getting them out as I cant see them very well, as four how it is now a quick spell should close it faster," Twilights horn glowed a lavender hue as the small gap around it began to close up to the horn itself, "There we go, thanks for the help shy"
"Shy?"
"Yeah, Y'know, like an abbreviation of your name"
"Oh, hehe, Rainbow usually calls me that too"
"Rainbow? whos that?"
"She is part of the Asteroth for Asmodeus' Pegasi air brigade, she is nice but a bit hot headed"
"AM NOT!"
Both Twilight and Fluttershy jumped as a chromatic haired mare flew next to them, "I am not that hot headed"
Fluttershy raised an eyebrow at her friend sending a meassage saying 'really' to her, "Okay, maybe a little, anyway I came here for a bandage, one of the young apprentices was about to nose dive straight to his death when his Stealth wasn't looking, luckily I was there to correct his path of landing but it earned me this nasty graze doing so, so I chewed that fecker out by sluggin his Stealth, teach them both a lesson, now hes got the crappers to clean for a month"
Fluttershy winced slightly at the vulgarity of her words, Twilight didn't mind much though as her language was rather different in front of ponies she knew too, "So, whos the new face, let me guess, Acolyte done a tricky thingy wrong and got put in the Infirmary"
Twilight snorted out of humor, "Tricky thingy? really?, and no I am not an acolyte, I'm er......... well I'm"
"C'mon, spit it out"
"Don't push her like that Rainbow, its not nice," Rainbow just hoofed and pressed on with the matter.
Twilight steeled herself, "I am Queen Moons personal student," she was surprised when she found the eager pegasus had looked away for a second when something caught her eye, Rainbow noticed Twilight said something and turned back.
"Sorry, wuzzat you said?"
"Queen Moons student"
"Who?"
"Me," she placed a hoof on her chest to gesture who she meant further.
Rainbow stood there for a second with wide eyes before she fell on the bed laughing, "HA! as if, Ya pullin mah wing, Haah, your a funny one Twilight," Twilight just stood there in all seriousness, "No shit huh, you the real deal then?"
"Like I said, Queen and me, Tutor and Student"
Fluttershy turned to Twilight as her eyes bolted open as far as they could, "T-t-t-then that means y-y-your the n-n..........nemesis, I am so sorry for being rude, sorryformakingyouwaitearlierandthenhavingyoufixmymistakeandrainbowbeingdisrespectful"
"Calm down, sheesh I knew this would happen," Twilight sighed, "Anyways I have to go now, the Queen will be waiting for me at the dining halls, it was nice meeting you both," Twilight said as she moved to leave.
Rainbow moved over to Fluttershys ear, "She seemed a bit small for a Nemesis, wonder how she got into that position?" Fluttershy just simply shrugged as she turned to pick up Angel.
"Still I think she was really nice"
"But she did look like she did just come out of a garbage bin, did you see those clothes, ripped to shreds, I wonder what she would do if she met her," the chromatic hair began to shiver slightly as she thought over that idea, "I would feel sorry for anyone having been put in front of that frilly loving mare"
The dining halls
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Twilight arrived slightly late, she moved to where Luna was sat and bowed, "I am so sorry for being late................. Queen?"
Serra moved into the room and chuckled slightly at the sight and moved over to Twilight, "you wont find any luck here, use a dispelling chant and you will see," then she took a seat next to the still Queen.
Twilight used the spell and got a surprise, Luna had cast an illusion spell and actually was sleeping rather unbecomingly of a queen with her head over the back of the chair and drool coming out of her mouth, Serra had to cover her mouth from nearly bursting out in laughter as Twilight looked shocked, This is a Queen, really? guess there ain't much to royalty any more, "Queen Moon, excuse me, Queen..............." Her patience grew thin, more than likely because when she was with the master he did the same thing ever now and then, "fine," Twilight moved over and picked up Two round silver serving trays and came back to the Queen, "If you don't wanna wake up this will make you," Serra began to chuckle slightly as she knew exactly what she was doing, Twilight spread her arms with one of each tray in both hooves and then slammed them together right next to Lunas head, "LUNAAAA! WAKE THE BUCK UP!!!!"
The Queen in her shock castes the gravity spell and everything began to fall to the ceiling, them included, seconds later when they have landed on the roof with a thud some guards rush in to see what has happened to the Queen as they too began to drift upwards, kicking and flailing all the way up, it was really funny it was like those old black and white films with the fast paced gimmick, though at this point three out of five in the room weren't looking too amused. Luna reversed the spell as everything fell back down, although she marked her hooves with magic so that she could walk down the wall vertically, "So then, just one question.......... WHAT THE BUCK!!" both Serra and Twilight were squirming on the floor gasping for air because of laughing to much, Luna cringed and had a red hue tinted over her blue as she strained a hoof and aimed it at Twilights and then Serras head, hitting them each once.
"Ow, what did I do"
"You laughed is what you did, and you could have stopped her from doing that, as for you, your gunna have fun now, after dinner I think its time you got a new outfit, as currently what you have is a tad bit................ bitty," Twilight didn't much like the grin that was plastered on her Queens face.
Will I regret what I just did
Inside the royal fitting room
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"Opal, Don't play with Mommies yarn please, I need that for this new ensemble of Fabulous," the mare was at work making Dress' for her work when a guard came over to her doorway and knocked.
"Miss Rarity, The Queen wishes to have your company tonight, she requests you be ready in ten minute and she will supply what is needed for you to work with"
"Oh well, I'll be there in just a second, let me gather some necessities, actually come over here a minute.
In Lina's Quarters
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Twilight sat on a chair to the left of the room as Luna was sat marking some papers, a guard moved to the door as he announced, "Lady Rarity is here as per requested from her Majesty, I will leave now and be right outside when needed," Luna turned around and got up from her seat as a White coated women moved into the room, she also had a very dark purple mane.
"Darling it has been far too long, what has it been three weeks now, time flies by sooo fast lately it seems I cant keep up, how are you feeling, I am guessing another social event is coming and you need something rather catching to wear?" the mare seemed to be quite prissy to Twilight, usually she didn't get on well with nobles, there had been a few times where she slugged one for a stupid reason but that's another story for another day.
Luna shook her head as she embraced her friend in a quick hug, "I am afraid that is not the case today, today I wanted you to meet my protegee and to get her fitted into her role if you know what I mean"
"Why of course, wait, a student, that means, shes gonna be the but.......but, oh this is big, I've done royalty weddings and all sorts but making the attire of the Nemesis will be the greatest achievement of my life," Stars could be physically seen in the mares eyes as she swooned with ideas, Luna turned her head and winked at Twilight with a mischievous grin mouthy 'gotcha' to her, "We will get started immediately, come this way um...... I still don't have your name Darling, best to know that first before we start getting hot and bothered about clothes"
Twilight pulled herself from the clashing stare of her tutor, "The name is Twilight"
"Last name?"
"Just Twilight"
"Oh.......................... ooooh, Okay, well then Twilight, follow me, we have to measure and then I will start to work my magic.
This is gonna be a long day, As she thought the mare ran her ragged as she had her try nearly two dozen different outfits until she decided on the outfit that said I am the Nemesis as she said, it did look intimidating but it had some femininity to it so as not to scare off the little marehood Twilight had, "Well it fits, not too bad but can I still keep my robe," the robe was in shreds and pieces by now.
Rarity looked at it before wincing, "Yor cant be serious darling, that is awful, it will clash with the manifique of the outfit," Rarity noticed the sad look on Twilights face, "but guess I could make it into a sash for you to where as a belt," Twilights ears perked up and she smiled, "Just give me a second," Rarity began to take away the ripped parts and create a sash long enough to fit around Twilight comfortably, "Here Darling, oh wait, that looks even better I like it"
Twilight stood as she looked over her attire, A black long sleeved jacket with a semi cape that fell over her right shoulder that was clasped onto the buttons of the jacket, Six stringed buttons held the coat together, her robe turned sash was tied at and angle around her left side, Black pants with patterns down the side adorned her bottom half, Black gloves were also on her hands, "I seem rather............ well I don't know"
"Authoritative Darling, being the leader of the Queens army means you have to dress the part or you will embarrass the Queen, anyway, it has gotten rather late and I am sure the Queen would like to see the fruits of our hardship, lets go"
They both traveled the halls until they hit Luna's study, weirdly when Twilight approached both guards knelt on there left knees and bowed, "Nemesis, the Queen awaits inside," they waited for some reason, then Twilight caught on, she motioned for them to get up and they did, the guard on the left knocked three times and then waited for the answer what came as 'what is it', "My Queen, the Nemesis and the Royal fitter are here to see you"
"Let them in," the guard opened the door as they both entered, Rarity gave a dainty bow as Twilight quickly followed suit, "come in I wont be a minute, just got to file these last two papers and that will be me for tonight, no nagging soundbox Serra tomorrow if I do this"
Luna only took a moment before she turned around and saw both of them, "you really have outdone yourself this time Rarity, it looks fantastic, I love the purple lace around the buttons and the side off cape, very authoritative"
"Exactly darling, I'm glad you thought of that, that was the word I was working towards, but I let a few things slide for the femininity, such as this sash, at first I did not think it would work but now it looks just dashing"
"Thank you for your service, you will be handsomely payed, by tomorrow it will be in your personal savings, now If you wish you can stay I just have something to discuss with my student"
"I would love to but my little baby needs feeding, opal must be starved, plus I need my beauty sleep for tomorrow, big day, big day indeed, I cant count how many orders I received for that, anywho, Tatta, I will see you tomorrow at the ceremony," Rarity said as she waved and left.
Twilight put the pieces together in her head, "did she just say ceremony"
"Yes," Luna nodded, "yours to be in fact, we have to do it in order for you to truly be my student, don't worry only a couple thousand will be in attendance, *Thud*, "Oh my, well, if your like this tomorrow I cant see you being my student for long," Luna laughed as she picked Twilights unconscious body off the floor and lead her over her sofa that was in her room before moving to her bed to sleep as well, "as Rarity said, big day tomorrow and I have to go see how the ceremony slash party planner is doing with preparations, no doubt she is pointing that canon at my windows again, It cost a fortune the last time we had a ceremony inside, I hope it isn't the same again," She sighed and then laid her head down, falling asleep.
