The Demon's Within

Luna smiled as she lifted up Ravestorm off the ground.

"So, how was your meeting with Shadow Midnight?" Luna asked.

"He told me a lot of things, I don't think he trusts me, but he has agreed to let me use his powers." Ravestorm said with a smile.

"What was it that made him do that?" Luna asked with curiosity.

"Well, I can't tell you that right now, but I want to know, how does this training work?" Ravestorm asked as Luna pulled out a big chart.

"Well you see, we here at ESDF have a simple type of training. We train our warriors in three steps. 1. We train our warriors on their set spells, 2. We train their hoof-to-hoof combat, and 3. We give them a sword of their choosing." Luna explained.

"Wait, I have a few questions. What do you mean by set?" Ravestorm asked.

"Oh, I guess I forgot to explain. You see, inside of an unicorn they are born with the ability to use both light and dark magic, however unicorns also are gifted with an extra ability, so gifted unicorns can use two extra abilities. For example, Red Blaze here is a gifted unicorn; he can use Light, Dark, Fire, and Earth magic's. However, Allicorns like me can use all the magic's." Luna said with a smile.

"So, how do we find out my extra ability or abilities?" Ravestorm asked.

"Well, normally ponies would have to spend several days figuring it out by using various spells. But the ESDF has its own magic machine. Come Rave." Luna said as the three walked into a white room, it looked like one of those prison rooms where insane people are kept, it was a pure white room with white walls; it had nothing in it except this tiny little machine in the middle of the room. Ravestorm took a closer look at it, it had a hoof slot.

"What is the there a hoof slot?" Ravestorm asked.

"This machine works like a energy absorber. First you stick your hoof in and it pricks your hoof enough for a single drop of blood to come out, it analyzes it and shows you which magic's you can do." Luna explained.

"Why does it need blood?" Ravestorm asked a bit afraid.

"Well, magic runs in an unicorns blood." Luna explained.

"Do I have to?" He asked with a frightened expression.

"Well, we can just wait several days as the Dark Sun slowly grows in power." Luna said.

"NO!" Ravestorm said sticking his hoof into the slot, like Luna said he felt a small prick in his hoof as the machine started making strange noises. Luna walked over as the machine started to rumble, a Bing was heard as Luna's eyes widened.

"What is it? What happened?" Ravestorm asked with a very, very scared expression.

"Ravestorm, you are a very rare breed. It seems that you have three types of magic. Only unicorns with very rare blood can have this. You have Fire, Thunder, and Ice abilities." Luna said as Ravestorm smiled.

"Oh thank goodness, I thought I had no magical abilities at all." Ravestorm said with a smile as he pulled his arm out of the hoof slot.

"You can't take this ability lightly, this means that you have a HUGE advantage over the opponent. With that assortment of magic's, you can take down a lot of opponents." Luna said.

"Advantage? But there are ponies much stronger than me." Ravestorm said.

"Well, you have the magic advantage. You see magic's have their strengths and their weaknesses. Fire beats Ice, Water beats Fire, Thunder beats water, Earth beats Thunder, Ice beats Earth. Light and Dark are equal forces, the really don't have a weakness nor a strength. With your abilities, you can beat Ice, Water, and Earth, but you are weak to Water, Earth, and Fire. It's a weird concept for you because you can both lose and win against Earth and Water, but your weakness is Fire, even though that is one of your abilities." Luna explained.

"Wait, Red Blaze told me there were advanced abilities. Can you explain that for me please?" Ravestorm asked.

"Okay Ravestorm. There are the advanced magic's; there are Inferno, Hydro, Shock, Earth Shatter, Blizzard, Holy, and Shadow magic's. Inferno being the advanced version of Fire, Hydro being the advanced version of Water, Shock being the advanced version of Thunder, Earth Shatter being the advanced version of Earth, Blizzard being the advanced version of Ice, Holy being the advanced version of Light, and Shadow being the advanced version of Shadow. Though a gifted unicorn can use more types of magic's, they can only use one advanced magic. But there is no machine that can decide that for you, only you can find out by searching inside of your soul." Luna said.

"Well, I want to know mine." Ravestorm said.

"You know that means I am going to have to send you inside your soul. When Red Blaze did it, he was terrified. You can only find it if you have a strong spirit." Luna said.

"I am ready." He said with a determined look.

"Okay then, here goes nothing." Luna said as she pressed a hoof against his forehead as Ravestorm collapsed on the ground.

*Inside of his mind*

Ravestorm opened his eyes as he was lying down on a huge building. He looked around, as all he could see was other building beside it, and the sky. There was a poll on the side, he looked up the long poll as there was a pony on it, he couldn't see who it was but it was defiantly equine. The pony jumped off the poll and landed behind Ravestorm. Ravestorm looked around as he looked at the pony, the pony had a white coat on, on the bottom of the coat, and it looked cut. The pony had a short white mane. Ravestorm couldn't see his face because the pony was turned around.

"Who are you?" Ravestorm asked.

"It seems that you have no manners." The pony said with a laugh, the pony's voice did sound like a stallion, but it had a playful sound to it too. The pony turned around as Ravestorm looked at him. The pony was defiantly stallion, he had a white coat and his eyes were closed. What shocked Ravestorm the most was his snake-like features, the stallion had a large snake-like smile across his face and his eyes were narrowed in slits. "I have no name, I am your soul." The stallion said.

"What do you mean my soul? A pony can't be my soul." Ravestorm said with a confused expression.

"Princess Luna really doesn't tell you much does she? Oh well, I guess I have to explain everything myself then. When a unicorn looks for his advanced magic, he has to come face-to-face with his soul, a unicorn can't simply ask his soul what his advanced magic is, and he has to learn it from their souls. You can call me Ichi. I will teach you how to acquire your advanced magic." Ichi said with his snake-like smile keeping intact. Ravestorm just had this feeling that Ichi would kill him in a second, but he had to trust him, for now.

"Okay….How do we train?" Ravestorm asked.

"Come with me." Ichi said as he walked to the edge of the large building and jumped off.

"WAIT!" Ravestorm yelled as he looked over the edge of the building. "Huh?" He asked himself as Ichi suddenly teleported. "W...What!?" Ravestorm yelled as he took a few steps back.

"Why did Ichi do that?" Ravestorm asked himself as he gathered up the courage to stand on the edge. "Well, I hope this works." Ravestorm said as he jumped off the building, he screamed as he was suddenly teleported as well.