The Future of Magic

The future of magic

Chapter 3: a dragon's tears

Aquaris and Afina were temporarily blind as the lights came on and the curtains pulled open, they had just walked inside to be greeted by a surprise party.

When Aquaris regained his vision, he saw decorations, food, and various ponies invited to the party.

"Hey Aqua, how do you like my Decorations for your 'Welcome-To-Equestria-Party'?" Pinkie said as she walked up to him. He looked behind her to see Rarity, Aj, Dash, Fluttershy, and also some of the other town's ponies.

He looked back down to pinkie, "great, but I must ask, how'd you get in my house?"

"It's a secret" She said in her bubbly tone. Making Aquaris have a troubled look, she used a hoof to push Aquaris closer to the group of ponies.

"Hello again Aquaris, after from what I guessed in measurements, I made you something that will fit perfectly. Also I made something for you too Afina" Rarity said as she levitated a wrapped up set of clothes to them.

Aquaris un-wrapped it to find a pair of dark gray cargo pants, along the lengths of the legs were streams of various hues of blue, the shirt that matched was black with his crest on the front, while the symbol for the terrans was on the left shoulder. When Afina unraveled the wrapped up gift she received, it was a set of tail bracelets, each could be either slid or clipped on.

"Let me Afina." Aquaris said as he picked the up and slid the bracelets down her tail until they were in there tight, each equally spaced apart, each equally beautiful.

"Thanks Rarity I really appreciate this, how much will cost?" Aquaris asked as he felt the soft fabric that made-up the shirt and pants.

"None Darling, it's my and spike's gift to you as a warm welcome here." Rarity said as she looked over to spike who was enjoying one of Pinkie's cupcakes. "Ah, my little spikey wikey, always wanting to help and assist me, he even provided publicity to ponies in Canterlot and that spread up to Cloudsdale. Ive done requests from Spitfire, Princess Luna, and even photo finish."

Aquaris bumped Afina lightly and whispered into her earhole, Afina blushed a bright red remembering her nickname she got when she was on Terra.

Afina shook her head and looked up, she saw how spike acted when he was talking to Rarity, she giggled when he misspoke an attempted to correct himself. She then was about to walk over to the small buffet offered for guests but she was halted when she had a flashback.

Her face scrunched up and she seemed to be on the verge of tears, Aquaris, mind if I step out for a second?" Afina asked as Aquaris looked down. Seeing a face he's seen plenty of times.

Aquaris nodded and stepped aside letting her walk out the door, outside Afina made her way to the nearest bush, she crawled in it and burst into tears. She cried for ten minutes before uttering something in her original dragon tongue.

"why Rarius?" she whimpered, "why must It be where 'ever I go I see you or someone like you, Rarius… come to me… comfort me, (sniffle)… Rarius… will I ever see you again?" Afina said in a sniffle.

"Excuse me but who is Rarius?" Afina looked up to see Cadence and Armor.

"How'd you understand me… only a handful of people know what I say?" Afina said as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"Call it a mare's intuition, now who is this Rarius?" Cadence said quietly as she looked up, checking that no pony was around.

Afina grabbed the necklace and clicked the side, it split apart to show a small picture in it, Cadence looked closely to see another human, he was holding Afina, he had in general a different look than Aquaris, kind of like rarity to an extent but more masculine and obviously human.

"That's Rarius." Afina said quietly to Cadence as she looked away, "its taboo for me to love a human when born of the flight I was born in." Afina said as she hung her head down.

"Flight?"

"Dragons on terra are separated into flights, by dragon law I'm restricted to only mate and copulate with silver scaled dragons like myself, because of my flight, someone I know, someone who looks kind of like and also acts kind of like you, is fighting for the removal of said law." Afina said as she scratched her head.

Cadence nodded and decided to see what Afina fully looked like, when she pulled her out via magic she saw probably the most beautiful dragon on both pony and dragon standards, her body wasn't scaly like a dragons but smooth and shiny, it seem to sheen in the sunlight, her thousands of tiny white spines acted like a well-kept mane, on the sides of her head were six ivory thorns, three on each side, the top two having golden rings piercing them, her figure was slender, her chest was broad, and her eyes, they shined like crystals any male dragon or colt could stare in them for hours.

Afina blushed as she noticed Cadence basically inspecting her.

"Sorry, but how is it a dragoness like yourself, un-wed?"

Afina blushes and turns Away, "like I said I love Rarius, it may be taboo but the heart wants what the heart wants, I just hope the Versian removes the law so I don't die for it… sigh… I would die in a heartbeat to save his life, but I wouldn't die to be with him for a moment just to run and potentially never come back." Afina said saddened as she turned and walked her way back to Aquaris's.

"Wait… what if you expressed your love to him on this world?" cadence asked as she followed the drake, shining Armor following in suite after the two.

"Well it could work, but if my birth parents hear even a whisper or rumor of it, then they would pursue me, even off Terra." Afina said as she sighed knowing well of the dangers.

"What is the punishment?"

"For males, they will be forced to mate with the strongest female they know personally till exhausted to death. Females since you want to get the most pure eggs out of a female I am,.. forced to mate and lay eggs till I die from lack of rest…" Afina said as she shivered in fear at the mere mentioning of it. "It's instestual… for both genders"

Cadence and Armor both gasped. She simply loving a human would have her forced to mate with her own father… talk about Taboo on a federal scale.

"I'm sorry, but I must go, everyone at the party will be wondering where I am if I stay away too long." Afina started walking up to the door of Aquaris's place.

"Honey… lets go talk to Aquaris; we need to see if we can help her." Cadence said quietly to Armor.

"But cadi, can we eve-…" Armor was cut off by Cadence using her magic to close his mouth

"yes we can, we may have just met her, but I am the princess of love, and if I find a soul who wants to love some pony, or someone in this case but is forced to not do so by law, then it is my duty to fight against that law, with whoever this Prince Versian is." Cadence said loud enough to where Afina heard it.

Back inside Armor and Cadence saw Aquaris, and the others saw this battle take place on a projection on the wall. "So let me get this straight, these monsters the size of castles destroy these cities, and the only real weapon against them are machines that rival in size?" Spike asked as he watched the battle of the movie, a bowl of popcorn in his lap.

"Yeah, the kaiju get bigger than that, they adapt to fight the jaeger units, and new jaeger are built to fight the adaptations.

"Seems rather barbaric to me." Rarity said as she drank her tea

"Well it's war, you'd think that the humans in the movie would give up after enough jaeger losses or civilian casualties, but they don't, you could say it's a human's will to survive." Aquaris said as he used his telekinesis to pick up some of the popcorn and nibbled on the floating ball of it. "oh here's my favorite part."

On the screen the kaiju fell with machine standing tall, inside one of the pilots spoke, 'let's check for a pulse' outside the machine armed it's plasma cannon and rained a barrage of the energy based rounds into the carcass of the kaiju, after it was nothing but a ribcage the same pilot spoke again. 'no pulse' he smirked as the cannon disarmed.

"Aquaris can we speak to you?" Cadence asked catching most of the ponies off guard, Aquaris turned his head around to see them,

"Sure one second," Aquaris gets up and heads into a room he gestures them to follow, inside the room was a small conservatory, four chairs sat around a glass top table. "So what is this about?" Aquaris said as he opened a small cupboard and pulled out three glass bottles with a red label around its center.

"It's about Afina; she mentioned something of a law about being with some Rarius." Cadence asked as she sat in the chair as best she could. Armor did as well.

"well it is true what she said about the law, most of the other dragon flight's fight against this law but most silver scales are arrogant and believe they are the most dominate breed of dragon and don't heed their words." Aquaris said as he got out a ring like object and pulled the lids off the bottle heads. "Want a coke; it'll keep your mind cool." Aquaris put the bottles on the table and sat across form them.

Cadence picks up the bottle and sips its contents, "mmm… it's quite sweet… thank you." Cadence set the bottle down and sighed, "so first off, to you who is Rarius?"

"He is one of my best friends, Rarius and I've been through all lot with the others of my inner circle… godlike beings wanting to control Terra, a lot in general… Afina for the

longest time has been helping him and his boutique, when was told about that law, she was crying for at least two days, I tried to have her eat but she wouldn't even look at any food I gave her." Aquaris sighed and took a swing from his coke bottle. "when she finally calmed down I got her back into her routine, I lessened her chores and did them myself, even tried to make her like her old cheery self."

"Wait in your journal you mentioned about being able to polymorph her into a human." Armor said giving a simple solution that might or might not work

"yes I did, but she is still a dragon, if there was rumor of a young unknown women that laid dragon eggs that ended up hatching into silver dragons, then not only is both her and Rarius's lives at risk, but so are the hatchlings.

Aquaris opened his hand and a scroll appeared in it, he opened it and rolled it out on the table. On it was a list of rules and punishments of Afina's flight.

"by no circumstances shall you; marry, mate with, or even have attractions to non-dragons, penalty for doing so will lead to forced mating with birth parents till death from exhaustion."

Cadence looked down seeing the rest of the list, some rules worked well with said punishment, but the rule on same sex relationships was a bit much.

"Wow, even when Equestria was in its forming of a country the laws weren't this bad or restricting." Armor said as he remembered the history books he held interest in.

"Yeah… any other dragon flight is better than this; they could mate with whoever or whatever they wanted or even with someone of the same sex." Aquaris crossed his arms, "to me I think the Idea of it is just a pile of hell-bug shtako I tell you, I find it bad that they still hold her under their law even though she has a citizen ship, saying she Is a legal non-human terran. " Aquaris said irked.

"I understand but what do you mean when you say shtako?" Armor said as he drank his coke to be half full (not half empty).

"Well 'shtako' is just one of many words that a certain alien species use to swear, I use it versus the English/ equestrian versions. " Aquaris said as he scratched the back of his head.

Armor rolled his eyes, cadence was still looking over the list, she gasped and pushed the scroll away.

Aquaris looked at the last rule on the list, it read.

"if a female bears eggs of a human male, then she will be buried alive, clawless, toothless, and with her eggs." Aquaris was silent as he read the law; Cadence was upset about how brutal the punishment was, just by bearing the children of a human.

"Listen if you want to fight this against the silver flight then I'm beside you as well as Versian, but we have to wait till I can get a way home." Aquaris said as he got up and went through the door.

Aquaris went upstairs; all the ponies at the party were still watching the movie or eating the snacks offered, all but one. When Aquaris opened the door to his and Afina's room he saw her crying on the bed, Rarity trying her best to comfort her.

"Aquaris… tell me when we get home; I want to see him again… I don't care if they want to do what the law says I love him and I want to tell him I do…" Afina sobbed as she wiped her eyes of the tears, Rarity looked up at Aquaris, a look of true concern plastered on her face.

"Calm down dear, you'll see him again, I promise you that…" Rarity used her hoof to rub Afina's sprawled out hair back in order.

Aquaris decided to get the one thing that had always comforted her in the past, a stuffed dragon doll, Aquaris sat on the bed rubbed Afina's arm before having the doll placed in her grasp, as if by instinct she held it close to her chest, it lightly squeaked as she hugged it.

"I want to go home Aquaris… I just want to go home." Afina muttered quietly in her sobs.

"Don't worry Afina, I'll get you home or by Solaris I will die trying." Aquaris said as he kissed her forehead and went out of the room, he gestured Rarity to follow.

"What are you going to do Aquaris?" Rarity asked as Aquaris closed the door

"What I always do… find a way to fix this, first I need her to eat something." Aquaris said as he began walking down the stairs Rarity following in suite, "you seem to remind her of him Rarity, I don't blame you but at the same time, you seem to calm her down as well for the same reason." They snuck passed the others and into the kitchen.

"What are you going to make her?" Rarity asked as Aquaris opened the refrigerator and debated what to pull out. "Given how sad and how much she Is crying, she can't eat something that will fill her too much."

"Well I was originally planning a spice Chocobo for dinner, but I need something she can easily keep down… maybe some of my home made sushi." Aquaris pulled from the fridge two different fish halves, a bag of shrimp, and a bit of clustered crab legs, he went to the counter and placed the dead marine animals on a cutting board. He pulled out a fillet and cutting knife and began sharpening them.

"Anything we could help with Aquaris?" Aquaris turned to see that Rarity had gotten the others,

"yeah… if you can help with what I'm preparing for Afina and for dinner in general." Aquaris skinned the first fish half and pulled a plier like tool and deboned. "Fluttershy can you see if you calm her down so she can eat… we might as well clean up the party décor," Aquaris said as Fluttershy nodded and went upstairs.

"I'll do it Aqua." Pinkie bounced happily as she went to clean up the decorations.

Aquaris chuckled at her bubbly attitude, and began working on the other fish, "Rarity can you fill that kettle with water and get it heated up?" Rarity did so and placed the kettle on the electric stove Aquaris pressed a few buttons to start the kettle, he also placed a pot full of water and started to heat up that water for rice.

After about roughly twelve minutes Aquaris had prepared a plate of various sushi for Afina, while a whole plethora of sushi waited for Aquaris and the others, "Aquaris… no offense but we don't really eat mea-…" Rainbow said as she was cut off by Aquaris.

"Fish is a meat that even vegetarians on terra will eat, it's soft and falls easily apart, also sushi is quite good, if you don't want any sushi ill mix up a quick salad." Aquaris said cutting off dash as he took the plate and a cup of tea upstairs, "Rarity don't use the same tea leaves I used in Afina's tea glass, that mix will knock you out cold within an instant, use the other box labeled spiced apple.

Aquaris opened the door and saw Afina still upset but not as badly, "wow shy, you did a good job she is much calmer now." Aquaris sat on the bed and shook her lightly; she looked up, her normal baby blue eyes bloodshot from her crying. "Here Afina, eat this." Aquaris said as he levitated the piece of sushi in front of her maw.

She shook her head keeping her mouth shut, "Afina if you don't eat I'll have to force you and I don't want to do that. If you want me to get us home, then you have to be patient and a part of that is keeping yourself fed." Afina finally gave up and opened her mouth, accepting the raw fish and rice.

"good girl… sigh… Afina I promise you that I'll get you home, I'll help you express your love to Rarius, and ill defend you from those laws." Aquaris whispered in her earhole as she ate the rest of the sushi. He put the tea cup in front of her face and tilted it as Afina put her lips to it, she drank the sleep aid and within a mere few seconds passed out from the tea leaves knockout properties.

After tucking her into his bed he closed the door as he exited and went downstairs, in the dining room Cadence and Armor were talking with rest of the mane of the mane six. "So how is the Crystal Kingdom without that mean old sombra?" Dash asked them.

"It's been good, but you have to carry around any cold weather clothing every time you want to go on patrol outside the city." Armor replied

"Well isn't the inside feel like an average spring in ponyville?"

"Yeah but the stuff his meant to hold heat in and absorb more if possible, so it gets real warm real fast when you wear it in the dome." Armor said as he noticed Aquaris walk in.

"Thanks for waiting on me…" Aquaris went to a cabinet pulling out nine plates and small dipping bowls, he set the table and filled each dipping bowl with soy sauce, he pulled out chopsticks for himself (he preferred eating sushi the original way. For dash, shy, pinkie, and AJ he used some forks and used magic to attach them to their hoofs. Cadence stared at this and decided to spark an idea in Aquaris's mind

"Why don't you turn them into humans, temporally that is?" She was right and Aquaris could easily one up on that.

"well I can… also I know how to enchant things so I can easily just make an item such as jewelry as a perfect way to change them into humans, without wasting time to caste the polymorph spell, for ill do it normally but tomorrow I need to find enough gold and the appropriate gems to make necklaces to polymorph you ponies at your own will whenever and wherever you want." Aquaris said as he stood up and opened his hands.

The room flashed bright and dimmed down quickly, all of them were human including spike, Rarity, Cadence, and Armor.

"wow, that's impressive…" everyone said looking themselves and eachother over, Aquaris looked at each of them but when he looked at Cadence his nose bled.

"Umm Aquaris… your bleeding…" Fluttershy said as she handed him a napkin.

Aquaris blushed and took the napkin and put it to his face, "sorry… that usually doesn't happen… my apologies Cadence." Aquaris said before he pinched his nose to stop the bleeding.

When Aquaris mentioned the apology was for her she immediately blushed red, Armor sneered a bit but then realized that it couldn't be helped.

"Well let's eat." Pinkie said as she took a yellow tail on a rice patty and bit into it, all the humanized ponies gasped aside from pinkie, "wow it's pretty good." They all then realized, with this new form may have come new taste buds as well. Aquaris sighed and made a plate and used his chopsticks to eat, surprisingly Rarity was the next to try this.

"Well, it's not a five star restaurant good… but it is still quite delicious." Rarity said after downing the bite, on queue the others tried and to Aquaris's satisfaction they liked it.

During their meal they chatted, Aquaris told of some of his life to them and even showed them some of the happier bits, one of them showed he and his friends on the beach.

Flash back

Aquaris, sat in the shade of an umbrella, the hot sun too much for his taste, in his hand was a book titled, The tenno, space ninja's or magic ninja's?.

"Yo Aquaris, check me out!" a voice said in the distance, a guy bit taller than Aquaris came into view, he was surfing, to be precise he was performing a handstand on his surf board, his short rainbow hair darkened by the salt water, a pair of red flight goggles over his eyes

"Carful blitz, one slip up and Jack's going to have to fish you out." Aquaris said as he put the book down and looked at the view, he saw Afina building a massive sand fort, Rarius was tanning on a lounge chair, two other humans were at opposite sides of a table paddles in their hands, they passed a small ball between each other over a short net. Aquaris turned his head and watched as his other friend, was resting in the shade of a palm tree. A chocolate furred bunny resting in his lap, "Leon, how much longer you going to be a rock in the shade, we came here to have some fun and you've sat there roughly thirty minutes." Aquaris said over to Leon.

"Sorry Aquaris… heh heh… I might take a quick swim… c'mon moa."

"Bunneary!" the small bunny known as angle' Moa hopped after Leon.

"Wait that bunny can talk?" Armor asked outside of the flashback.

"yeah, Angle' Moa or Moa for short is a bunneary, she can speak only her name but if she ingested a vocalizer stone, she can speak normal human speech".

Aquaris closed the memory and put it at future point and played it.

It was sunset the waters were calm, the sun red on the horizon, the seagulls chirped as they glided in the sea breeze. In front of Aquaris were Afina and Rarius, they sat next to each other the others sitting beside Aquaris.

"What a good day to have a day at the beach, right Afina?" Rarius asked as he looked down at the young dragon,

"Yeah… it was… (Sigh)," Afina said as she looked down.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing… it's nothing…"

Rarius picked her up and had her in his lap, "go on tell me, I won't laugh."

"(Sigh)… well I thought you and I would share that pikalu fruit I got you…" Afina said as light blush on her face, near unnoticeable by the light.

"Yeah… sorry, blitz talked to fast for me to say no… I think I got something better though, and I know you'll enjoy it." Rarius smiled and changed the way that he held her, "close your eyes." Afina did so.

Rarius leaned in an kissed her smooth silver forehead, all of them in the memory cheered, including Aquaris.

Blitz could be heard teasing them after he pulled away, "hey Rarius!, Afina! You think you're goanna make a clutch of eggs when you get home?!" Blizt said as he flew over them in circles,

"hey that was only to make up for what you did Blitz, also I think Afina wouldn't be ready for a clutch yet until she finds a mate." Rarius yelled as he attempted to hit Blitz with magic bolts.

Memory end due to force close

"Why is she in love with him? Afina that is." Rarity asked as Aquaris's eyes stopped glowing.

"it was love at first sight, he was in charge of decorating the summer solstice festival that Afina and I were to supervise… she was jaw dropped at how handsome Rarius was and immediately was head over heels for him" Aquaris said as he picked up the plates and placed them In a hydrifuge. (A spacey-er dishwasher… it's sounds funny)

"How'd she figure out she couldn't well?" Fluttershy asked as she moved a loose strand of hair into place.

"A week after the memory you saw… a photo-shoot happened for Rarius Dragon scale dresses. Afina attended for she donated scales for the dresses."

"Wait but, she has no scales…"

"She dose, but the lines that make scales noticeable are very easy to miss" Aquaris added as he put the left over quarter plate of sushi into the fridge. "After the shoot, they stopped at a small shop for some more interesting materials specifically fabricated for dragons to wear it, preventing irritation of scales and destruction of the fabric as they rub against each other… either way Rarius told her wait outside, he was going to make her something to surprise her and didn't want her to see what he had bought."

Aquaris gestured them to enter the now cleaned up living room, he sat down in a recliner and continued, "She waited, two fully grown silver dragons approached her, her birth parents. Her mother Ember strike and her father… Mobius. They threatened her with death if she chose to stay with Rarius, after a while of arguing her own Father breathed fire at her, most dragons can't take the heat of other dragon's fire, the burn healed quickly after she shed the burnt scales, either way after that she ran off. Rarius ran outside to see her flying off and the dragons staring at him."

"Sorry to interrupt but, why is it that they fear humans and Dragons being together?"

"When a dragon kin is born, they will normally look like a normal human or dragon but, contain higher intelligence, can earn a crest, it varies on the mated pair, and it could lead to any of the three basic human variations. I don't see any negative effects, the chances of bad stuff happening is as equal as any normal human birth, so I don't see why in the name of oblivion they see it banned from their flight." Aquaris said slightly irritated.

"I see… Spike you feeling alright little buddy?" Armor asked as he noticed spike held his stomach,

"not really, I think princess Celestia's sending a- (burp)… letter" a spurt of green flames came from the human dragons' mouth and a rolled up parchment materialized, a small seal held it wrapped, the seal was different it was golden but had a different emblem on it, Cadence noticed it as the one Aquaris had on his shirt.

"It's for you Aquaris, I think so any way." Cadence said as spike opened it.

"Well it is, and it's written in a different way." He cleared his throat.

"dear Aquaris, if you received this message and reply to it, we'd be most grateful and relived, the spell used it to send this to Afina didn't work so we sent it to the nearest Dragon closest to your Arcane signature so if the dragon complies we have a way of communication, it will take some time for a friend of ours to contact you, since she can't seem to find you with ease. Note when she dose contact you it will only be for a short period due to her busy schedule, until then every week send a letter to use telling us of you and Afina's status and also on where you are and what is the local population like. I look forward to hear from you soon, Prince Solaris." Spike said as he read through the letter.

"Well that's good… I wonder if I can have him deliver something of great use to us all to me when I write back to him…" Aquaris got up and held out his hand for the letter, spike complied and handed him the letter, "Rarity I sense your concern for Afina, if wish to stay here to check on her you can and you can use the guest room." Rarity simply nodded in response.

"Well I have to go home, Angel is probably wondering where I am and he gets cranky If I don't feed him around this time." Fluttershy said before realizing she was still human, "um… Aquaris?"

"Oh yeah sorry…" in a bright flash every pony was back to normal within seconds. "All of you come by tomorrow if you can to pick up the items I will have enchanted for a self-controlled human form, I'll see if Twilight can mail you both yours." Aquaris said as he started up the stairs.

"Oh yeah pinkie… thanks for the party, it meant a lot to us both… I just Afina would've been able to enjoy it."

"No problem Aqua, it's what I do." Pinkie said before she made her way out, knowing she has things to do as well.

When Aquaris was out of sight from the stairwell the others left aside from Rarity, she debated over to stay and keep watch of Afina, or go home?

"I don't have any requests for anything, so I could stay… but will sweetie handle… wait she is sleeping over with Applebloom." Rarity thought to herself putting a hoof to her snout. "What the hay I'll stay besides, Aquaris was right, aside from Fluttershy she seems relatively calm with me, poor thing she must have been through more than Aquaris has ever been."

Rarity made her way upstairs, the guest room was open and the bed was made, she passed it and made her way to Aquaris's room, when she closed the door behind her she noticed that Afina was still asleep, "Afina?" she walked closer to and used a hoof to shake her, instead it was squished as if it was pillows.

Rarity pulled the covers away to show that it was some pillows and her stuffed dragon plush. "AFINA!?" Rarity was searching the room all over for her; she noticed that blaze was chirping on her perch. From being friends with Fluttershy for so long you pick up how to understand birds.

"She left; she also took the dragon stone." Blaze chirped as she pointed a wing at the open window. Aquaris walked in a cup of steaming coffee in his hand.

"What happened?" Aquaris walked in hearing both Rarity's yell and Blaze's Chirping

"Afina ran… I don't know why… if she's run into the Everfree forest we have to find her fast." Rarity said receiving a nod from Aquaris,

"Blaze what did you see?" Aquaris put an index finger to her chest which glowed for a brief second.

"She got up in tears, muttered something I couldn't understand, took that dragon crystal, also that sapphire sphere, and flew out the window." Blaze said as her chirps were turned to eligible English words.

"Alright thanks Blaze… Rarity can you get the others? I might need some help" Aquaris said as he went to his closest and pulled out a combat staff. Rarity nodded and made her way out Aquaris following just behind her. outside Rarity went to go get the others, while Aquaris went to get Twilight.

"Twilight… I need some help… Twilight." Aquaris said as he knocked on the door with his staff. He heard a clicking sound and noticed Twilight was rubbing her eyes looking Down at Aquaris, "sorry to wake you but I need help Afina's gone missing and I need some pony who knows the forest as a guide."

"Why'd she go missing?" Twilight asked a bit confused.

"Let me in and I'll explain it while we wait for Rarity to get the others." Aquaris heared a click on the door as it opened. He looked up and smiled "I see you learned the 'Arcane lock' spell already."

"Yeah it was easy, saves time too, problem is spike can't lock the door or get in without me now." She said as she made her was down the ladder leading from the upper floor.

"There is a way to make a permanent arcane key which unlocks the locks you made as long as you made the key." Aquaris said as he closed the door behind him after stepping in. "alright it started maybe ten minutes after I left."

Five minutes late

"Ok… well I don't know what to say but… she really loves him that much?"

"yeah… she catches him under mistletoe a lot when he had are midwinter's eve party… but this is only the second time she's ran off like this the first time was from being teased because she loved a human by other dragons of different flights." Aquaris scratched his head and sighed. "After that she was more… how should I put this, active in a sexual manner… I got her the dragon crystal to relive those urges and even bought her various gem spheres to… add variety"

"Ok… bit odd but I can see the point… who teased her?"

"Some older females who were mated with humans, they teased her about being a virgin… listen I'd rather not talk about this personal in my family…" Aquaris said turning his head away.

"Sorry… curiosity got the best of me… oh Rarity did you get the girls?" Rairty walked in with the others waiting outside

"Almost Darling, Fluttershy probably might know where to start and she is one the way to the forest… I hope Afina's ok..."

"I do too Rarity…Alright let's go…" Aquaris got up, staff in hand and determination in his eyes. They set off For EverFree forest.