My little Luna: Power of the Lunar Arch-Mage

I enter my chambers and throw my robe off of me.

"Feather, I wish to speak with you." I call out, as I sit in a chair, and wait for the off white unicorn to appear.

"What do you need sir?" asks Feather as she walks through a door in the left wall.

"It seems this moon can supply me with more power to use even greater spells. I was even able to use a forbidden spell today." I tell her as I rest my chin on my fist.

"What spell was it?"

"It was the spell to raise and lower the sun and the moon." Feather looks at me in awe.

"Come Feather, follow me out onto the balcony." I say as I stand and head for the glass doors. I swing the doors open and the moon shines, undistorted, onto me. I could feel the power flowing into my stores. Feather Joins me at my side.

"This is how you gather magic. First you have to let go of all emotions, it might help to take a few deep breaths, in through the nose, out the mouth." She does as instructed, then nods.

"Next, you have to allow the moon to help you, you don't controll the moon's magic, you guide it in the way you want it to work."

"You should feel or see a diference in your magic's center, or were you magic stores are located in your body." My stores are reaching full. I could tell as my markings were slowly pulsing with magic. I could see a change in Feather as she absorbs magic from the moon.

A scroll materializes in front of me, so I grab it and read it.

Archmage Chase,
I am warning you about a large increase in magic that is on the moon that you are drawing power from. It seems to be coming from another alicorn, however I'm not sure as there seems to be two alicorns there. I advise you to be careful.

From the Lunar Realm,

The Lunar Goddess.

I reread the letter to be sure I read it correctly.

"Artermis, this is starting to hurt." says Feather.

"Stop gathering, that means your stores are full." I tell her as I look up to the moon. I summon my stave and tap it on the ground.

"Spell of sight, eyes of the startgazer." I say as I channel my magic into my eyes. I look at the moon with my enhaced vission. My eyes start to zoom in on the moon, giving me more detail. I can see the outline of a structure, so I zoom in more. What I saw made the spell end. I drop to my knees and say, "Goddess help us." in a hushed voice.

"Are you okay Artermis?" asks Feather, pulling me back into reality.

"Yes, just a side effect of the sight spell I used." I lie to her as I stand up again.

"Alright, ready to help me return to my top form?" I ask as I ready my magic once more. Feather nods with a determined look.

"Good, let's begin." I say as I stand. I point the top of my stave at the ground and say, "Circle creation."

The floor glows a few moment before it dies down, leaving a mage's circle on the ground. I channel my magic into my stave and say, " Now would be a good time to start, Feather. Otherwise this spell will kill me." Feather's horn starts to glow a saffire blue as I feel magic returning to my stores.

"Forbidden spell of the Archmage, Reversed Aging." I shout. The mage's cricle starts to glow a deep blue, and starts to return my youth. I supply the circle with magic, making it keep the spell going. I start to feel the spell take hold, and can feel my age melt away from me. My skin tans back to that of a half indian. My hair regains it bright blond color. I gain a little height as well as some of my muscle mass. I feel my arthritis leave my hands and knees. I watch as my markings start to glow, and move on my body. The markings were becoming more prominent, and pulsed with magic, timed with my heartbeat. I felt Feather's magic stop. I assumed she was drained. I push more of my power into the circle,
and say, "Forbidden spell, Age seal."

The circle's glow intensifies, and I continue feeding magic into it. The circle levitates me off of the ground with a low but gentle hum of power. I then watch as the circle floats up off of the ground and burns itself onto the back of my left hand. I clench my jaw, and flex all my muscles to keep me from sceaming in pain. The only sound that comes from me are deep growls, and grunts.

The spell ends, and I am slowly set back on the ground. As soon as my feet make contact with the balcony floor, gravity immeadiatly returns, and I collapse to my knees, breathing heavily. I get one last look at the symbol on my hand before everything turns black.

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I wake with a groan. I keep my eyes closed, for I don't know if the sun is up or not. I slowly open my eyes, in case the room I'm in is bright.

As soon as my eyes are open, I can see the ceiling, it was an off white. The smell of medicine, and filtered air, is easily noticed.

And, I'm in a hospital. I think to myself question is, where in Equestria am I?

I look around the room and see a small window over on my left, two doors on opposite walls, and a sleeping form on a reclining chair. I try to get a better look at the sleeping form on the chair.

I could see small sparkles coming from the form's mane, also the mane is flowing slowly. That narrows it down to two ponies at least.

"Lu Lu, is that you?" I ask. The form mummbles something. I sit up, and cast a powered down illumination spell. A small orb of light blue light, slightly brightens the room. I see that the form is indeed my daughter. I pull the covers aside to see if I still had my clothes.

I didn't have anything on, except for my undergarments. I sigh on the inside, hoping that nobody saw what I had there. I take a look at the markings that color my body, watching as they pulse a blue light, in tune with my heart. I brighten the orb at the center of the room a little as I move to the edge of my bed. I summon my clothing in a flash of magic.

I start clothing myself by pulling up my pants. I then pull on the mage's tunic.(minus the skirt.) I then strap on my leather socks (just basically soft leather moccasins with straps on my shins.) I then pull on my formed leather boots.

I walk over to my daughter and say, "Lu Lu, its time to wake up." Luna stirs in her sleep, but doesn't wake. I decide to have a little fun at my daghter's expence. I extinguish the light orb and say in the deepest voice as growl in Luna's ear, "Wake up young goddess and lower the moon."

This makes Luna jump from her chair and immeadeatly light up the room with her horn as it blazes with magic. I burst into laughter and fall on my back from said laughter.

"FATHER I AM INSULTED BY YOUR JOKE!!!" says Luna once she saw me. I just laugh harder.

"Father, please stop. That acutually frightened me." says Luna as her eyes tear up. I see this and the laughter I had died right then and there. I stand up and hug my daughter.

"I'm sorry my little Luna. I was just trying to have a little fun." I say as I rub her back. She returns my hug.

"You haven't called me that for a few years." says Luna as she hugs me harder, "I don't want to loose you dad." Luna starts to cry.

"Now now. remember how I said magic could fix that?"

"Yeah."

"How do I look?" I ask as I pull away.

"You... look... young?" she says in confusion. I put up my left hand, which is covered in a bandage. I start to unwrap it when a voice says, "Sir, I highly recomend not taking that off. You were severly burned."

"I know. It is the side effect of a forbbiden spell I used. It should be healed over now." I say as I continue unwrapping my bandaging.

"Sir I highly doubt that." I just ignore the nurse, and continue what I was doing.

"Sir-"

"I'm sorry nurse, but I hate being called 'sir'. I may be thirty years old, but I'm not that old!" I say as I turn around, my markings pulsing a deep purple.

"Now please, leave me and my daughter alone." I say as I turn around once more. In a flash af dark lunar magic the rest of the bandaging is cut off of my hand. I look over the seal on the back of my left hand as it too pulses with my heart.

"Father... Is that the seal mark of that spell?" asks Luna.

"Yes it is the seal of the age reverse spell. As well as the anti-aging spell." I say as I continue to watch the seal pulse a bright red.

"How much did you reduce your aging?" asks Luna with a grim voice.

"I reduced it down to ten percent." I say as I look up to her.

"How long untill you reach your original age?"

"It will take a hundred and seventy years until I have to use the spell again, then it will take even longer then that. Every time I use the spell it will keep me at this age, and will preserve my memories until I have to use it again. I will fix the memory problem tonight, but for now, lets head home."

"And what of your sanity?"

"Unaffected."

"And your soul?"

"Unaffected."

"And your power?"

"That is the trick. I have much larger stores in this body, but , in the rare event, I need more, the seal will open and give me the full stores of my older body. Temporarily returning me to my previous body."

"What if you forget to use the spell?"

"Then I will return to the age at which I started the spell. I will age normaly until I cast the spell again."

"And what of me? What happens when you loose me?" I hear another body enter the room.

"Luna, I thought you knew that alicorns were Immortal." Says Celestia.

"What? How?" asks Luna.

"It is because we have too much magic to use, and we were created that way." replied Celestia.

"So there, I see no problem with this spell." I say as I sit down on the bed I had rested in that night, or day.

"Celestia, how long was I out?" I ask.

"About all day." says a stallion as he enters through the door. I feel my face fall into one of bordom.

"Now I'm doctor Quick Suture. I am here to check up on you, and maybe check you out of the hospital." I sigh and just nod.

"Something wrong Archmage?" asks Celestia.

"No, I just hate hospitals, all the rules and reasons for me to stay longer. And I have also renamed myself as Artermis." I answer with a sigh at the end.

"Well Artermis, I need to make sure you're healthy before you leave." says Dr. Swift Suture.

"Doctor, let me ask you this. Have you any knowledge on the human anatomy?"

"No."

"Then you have no way to tell if I'm healthy or not. Hell, my daughter here has more knowlegde than you, and she has only dealt with me for seventeen years." I say as I stand up, "I can tell you I'm as healthy as I have been the last time my body was this old. Which, for a human, is perfect."

"Are you sure, father?" asks Luna.

"Yes, I returned to the age of when I recieved you." I say with a smile.

"Well if you know that you're healthy then I will put down that you healed by personal magical means." says the doctor, "Your free to leave sir."

I grimace a little at the 'sir' part, but none the less, smile and say, "Thanks for watching over me."

"Your welcome." says the doctor as he leave the room.

"Can we return home? Or do I have to do your jobs again?" I ask with heavy sarcasm in my voice.

"Father, I still havn't learned to raise the moon as Celestia does." says Luna with a hint of sorrow in her voice.

"Hey, I will raise the moon untill you learn how, alright?" I say as I put my hand on her cheek. She nods.

"Alright, shall we go?" asks Celestia. Luna and I nod. We all left the room in silence, heading for the balcony I used last time.

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As we traveled, we picked up Feather Touch, since she is my aprentice. And I wanted her to see my new power.

We made it out onto the balcony.

"Do I need to set the sun as well?" I ask Celestia. She shakes her head, "No I can do this now, I was just drained from our argument. That is why I had you do this yesterday." I nod to her and say, "When you are ready Princess." I summon my stave, which is filled to the brim with magic. I raise an eyebrow at this, and look at Feather.

"I refilled it when you passed out from your spell, I hope that is okay."

"It's fine, just ask me before hand, for if you touched it with your hoof, you would have been cursed." I tell her as I turn to the eastern horizon.

"Lets begin." says Celestia. I nod and slam the end of my stave onto the floor, making a circle apear. This one was half the size of the first one, for I was only contolling one celestial body, not two.

I watch as the silver beam of magic shoots off to the eastern horizon. Celestia was doing the same with her horn, except hers was to the sun. I pumped magic into the beam, and it in return starts to raise the moon.

I didn't have to rotate my stave this time, because I wasn't controlling both the sun, and moon.

The moon starts to rise, and the sky darkens. I could tell Celstia was holding pace with me. I grin and pump more magic into my beam, making the moon speed up a little. Celestia probably sences this and speeds up the sun a bit.

Both the orbs were in postion in the sky, and were now making there own ways across the skies of each side of the planet. I release my hold on the magic I was using and lift my stave up from the center of the circle.

Said circle dissappears and I turn to Celestia.

"Well that was much easier than I thought it would be." I say as I lean on my stave a little.

"What do you mean 'easier'? You collapsed last time." says Celestia.

"Well this body has a much larger store for magic." I say, "I didn't even use half of my magic."

"Hmm, well that is deffinetly something, but enough talk, how about some dinner?" We all nod in agrement, and head to the Dinning hall.

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We all make it to the dinning hall, except for Feather Touch, for she was still a servant. I walked into the hall behind Celestia, with Luna by my side. Celestia sits at the head of the table, next to a White unicorn stallion with a blonde main, and another White unicorn stallion with a blue main. I notice another alicorn. This one had a light pink coat, with a multi colored mane of purple, dark pink and a bright pale yellow. I notice she also had a tiara on her head, wich must mean she is also a princess.

I see Celestia gesture to a chair that is one away from the pink alicor. I nod and take my seat. Luna is right next to me. I watch as a waiter gives me a red menu, and the others green ones. I furrow my brow but pick it up none the less. I open it to see script that I couldn't read. I sigh.

"What is wrong Father?" asks Luna.

"It seems I can't read the written version of this world's language." I say with a frown. I then get a memmory of an old spell that was almost forgoten.

"Celestia, I have a request for you."

"What is it Archmage?" She asks.

"Will you ablige to me using a knowlegde copy spell so that I may learn the written form of your language?"

"You can't read Equestrian?" She asks with her brow furrowed.

"No. All I see are a lot of symbols that I can't make sence of. My written form of this language, which is called English on my world, is written entirly different."

"How so?" she asks. I just summon a simple pen and paper to me, with a little magic, and wrote the sentence This is what English looks like. on it. I then float it over to her.

"That is how we humans wrote English, or in your case, Equestrian."

"This is what you read in your world? Looks difficult."

"That is why I wish to use the spell. I could also copy the written form of the english language into your mind, that is if you allow me to do said spell."

"I see no trouble with it." She says.

"Thank you. All you need to do is think of the written form of your language, and I will do the rest." I say as I prepare a hand spell. I force my fingers into a hand sign and-

"Aunty, this is absurd. You're letting this rubbish into your mind. Have you gone mad?" Asks the blonde stallion.

"Prince Blue Blood, this is not the time or place." replies Celestia.

"I don't care. What if he messes with your memories?" I hold my hand up, signalling for Celestia to stop.

"Because if I did that, the spell I used would backfire, causing me severe damage to my brain." I say to the young Prince. I blink before he replied.

"I... I don't believe you. You shouldn't even be in here you foul creature."

"Still your tongue boy." I say with an edge of anger, my markings pulsing a deep purple.

"I will not. And who are you to tell me what to do?" I summon my stave and stand from my seat.

"I am the Lunar Creed's Archmage, and I shall not be taken lightly."

"You, an archmage? Please I could beat you in my sleep." I start to charge my magic, but Luna puts a hoof on my shoulder. I calm my magic.

"Yes, I am thirty one years old." I say with more anger. My markings were now pulsing a pure black.
\ "Ha, you can't lie to me. You look, and sound, like a child." This throws me over the edge. I could feel my magic flare, and burn with the power of anger.

"You will learn your place in the world you small brat." I say as I levitate various sharp objects into the air.

"What are you?" asks Blue Blood fear evident in his voice.

"I am Arterims, Lunar Archmage, and you will learn to respect others." I say as I fling all the sharp utensils at him.

The utensils hit a sheild. I imeadiatly saw Celestia's horn was alight.

"SILENCE. IF YOU WISH TO FIGHT EACH OTHER, YOU WILL DO SO IN THE TRAINING FEILD!!!" says Celestia with an all comanding voice before I felt myself being teleported.

I land in a large feild that has a track and equipment stewn around. I then see Blue Blood In front of me about thirty yards away