The Future of Magic

The future of magic

Chapter 4: A spa trip to euphoria

The mane 6 and Aquaris kept walking on the dirt trail a small sphere of light floated in front of them, lighting the area up, a trail of claw prints was paralel to the the path.

Every so often they would call for her to no aval, suddenly they heared a scream.

"Afina!" Aquaris yelled as he charged forward a battle stance ready, staff tightly gripped.

"Aquaris wait!" Twilight yelled as she chased after him, the others following fast after them.

When they caught up they saw Aquaris defending himself from a manticore, Afina soaked with water tighlty held in it's tails grip. It Struck at the sheild Aquaris produced, it dropped quickly and Aquaris dished out a varity of attacks upon it, "let her go you monster!" Aquaris yelled as he stood back and shot a rivers worth of water at the manticore with tremendous foce.

It rarwed as the blast of Water pushed it back… it didn't stop there Aquaris came Again and focused on the plated Scorpion tail. Aquaris landed on it's back and charged up his staff, he slammed the tip into the back of it and realesed a shockwave through out it's body. It rawred again as it fell onto it's stomach.

"Aquaris wait don't try to…" Fluttershy yelled as Aquaris used his magic to uncurl the manticore's tail, "Aquaris it wont work, he's too strong… on the back of his neck use that spell you used a moment ago, their neck is more solid a dirrect impact like that will only put it to sleep."

Aquaris nodded and did so it rawred again before passing out its tail loosening a bit. "wow, you took him out singal handedly… I thought you as an egghead like Twilight but, you got some style." Dash said Aquaris climbed off the sleeping manticore.

"thanks dash, in dire situations of any kind, humans get this adrenaline rush and go all out… also various insticnts for me it was an older siblings goal to keep youngers one safe even though she is eighteen in dragon years." Aquaris put his staff on his back and pulled Afina out of it's grasp

"Thanks Aquaris, for not killing him… but he normally doesn't attack anyone, especially dragons."

"You have to teach me how to do that, the book I borrowed isn't on combat spells." Twilight said as she gawked at the sonic quake spell.

"I will… but I need time, and I need to make sure Afina is safe and sound, I may be holding her but one the dragon crystal isn't here nor is her sapphire orb… they were rather hard to find and tricky to configure." Aquaris replied as he put Afina on his back, allowing himself to carry her more easily.

"Aquaris… I'm sorry…" Afina mumbled in her sleep.

"What does this crystal look like?" Rarity asked as Twilight created another light sphere, mostly out of sheer luck attempting at it.

"like this" Aquaris opened his hand showing a projection of the crystal, "it naturally glows so it won't be too hard to find, the gem orbs ,magically attempt to keep close to the dragon crystal so if we find the crystal we find the orb." Dash took flight seeing if she could see it from above the tree line; all of them split up while Aquaris set Afina down and produced a small shield over her. And started in a direction the others didn't.

Minutes later Aquaris was staring at the entrance of a massive cave, he could hear all sorts of various creatures inside, he was about to go in until "Aquaris I think we found it!" Aquaris heard Twilight yell from a distance

"Alright on my way." Aquaris replied as he sprinted in the direction of the voice

When Aquaris came into a clearing he saw a massive pond, the others had made their way to Twilight and were staring in awe at the glowing waters caused by the crystal's presence, the dragon crystal sat on a boulder in the center of the pool, the orb rolling around it. Aquaris sat on a nearby stump and undid his boots, he also removed his socks and left the socks siting just outside the mouth of his foot wear.

Aquaris focus his energy into his feet and took a step onto the pool, instead of going in the water his foot stopped at the surface, when he put his weight on it, he didn't fall in, he stood on it as if it was solid. Dash poked a hoof at the water seeing it react normally to her.

"The water walking spell, easy to cast but tricky to keep active, as long as I stay focused I can walk on the water's surface." Aquaris said as he slowly made his way to the boulder, each step only made a small ripple, otherwise the pond was still. As Aquaris reached the center of the pond he picked up the crystal and the orb.

"Aquaris look out!" AJ yelled as Aquaris was hit squarely in the face with a magic bolt

"Argh… huh the crystal." Aquaris said regaining his stance and focus on the water, as the crystal was pulled to the source of the attack. Aquaris grabbed it with his own magic causing it to shake back and forth between him and the one hiding in the shadows. "let go, this crystal is meant for my draconic little sister!" Aquaris yelled as he pulled harder on it.

"and I need it for a show assistant, I hypnotized and sent that manticore to get her away from it, when I saw what It could do I knew I could use it well." A familiar voice said from the shadows "besides, it seems kind of selfish that she uses it just so she has some pony to talk to." The pull on the crystal tensed up.

For three minutes the two argued as they played tug of war with the crystal, Fluttershy had gone back and picked up Afina, when she returned Aquaris was about to grab the crystal with his hand, he then used his other hand to pull the other pony who was pulling on the crystal, a light blue unicorn flew over Aquaris and into the water, she was wearing a light purple wizard cap and cape. She was now soaking wet for obvious reasons.

"Trixie! How many times are you going to try to rebuild this broken career?" Twilight said as she walked up to the edge of the pond. "Remember that Celestia offered that position of being her court unicorn but you denied it for this."

"I don't care about that, I want to fulfill my dream and with that crystal I could be legendary." Trixie said as she stood up in the pond. Water dripping from her fur, Aquaris noticed she was quite dirty even with that short dip in the pond, her eyes looked tired; in general she looked in pretty bad shape.

"Listen… Trixie, I have many reasons why you shouldn't even try to use this… reason number one is that the crystal basically spawns an exact copy of you as a dragon and the opposite gender, two the created dragon is primed and ready to mate." Aquaris said as he pocketed the crystal, "so if you put on a show with that crystal you'll be accused of public indecency."

All of the ponies' jaws dropped, a crystal designed to produce a non-relationship sex partner. "Aquaris… we can talk about that later… right now can you maybe get Trixie to have some sense knocked into her."

Aquaris nodded and stepped into the water, he waded over to the now backing up Trixie, he put a hand turned her head and focused his energy, "see what would happen if you had the stone,"

Trixie stood in a crowd of ponies, watching a future self of her with the crystal, the crowd applauded as the light blue drake appeared before her eyes. After a few tricks involving the dragon, he smirked and tackled her, and began mating with her, the crowd gasped and fled, the Trixie on the stage was in tears as the dragon kept at its sole purpose of creation. The Trixie that was of the now fled crowd watched as each time that drake thrusted, her career was shattered piece by piece.

The illusion ended with Trixie's eyes wide and her pupils small, "keep that thing away from me…" she muttered gesturing about the crystal. Aquaris backed up as he lowered his hand, "Twilight… I think ill take that offer if it's still open." Trixie said as she walked out of the pond.

"Aquaris what did you show her?"

"what would've happened, Twilight… I used a spell to see into the future of an alternate reality were she took the crystal and kept it." Aquaris stepped out of the pond as well, "ill wipe that bit of memory from her mind and make it to where I convinced her with other reasons… c'mon lets go before some wild beasts come and try to get us." Aquaris put his hand again to her head, erasing what she just saw and putting a new one in it's place.

Hours later the group made it back to ponyville, Trixie went with Twilight to her library convinced and finally wanting to get somewhere in life aside from this shattered career as a show pony, the others split off aside from Rarity who was following Aquaris who was carrying the sleeping Drake.

"so that crystal… dose it-…"

"Yeah… I bought it so she can calm her urges during heat season… but I realized that Trixie said Afina was talking to the crystal's creation, she is truly saving her first for Rarius…" Aquaris said as he pulled the crystal from his pocket.

"When did she start her first season?"

"about three years ago when she was twelve in dragon years… she was sweating and wouldn't stay still, when the last days came by she was panting heavily but still didn't mate, every two months is a heat season for virgin dragons, after she mates once it's every four months." Aquaris said as he opened the front door to his house.

He set Afina on the couch and felt her head for any temperature change, "will she be alright?"

"yeah… she will be… listen you can go to bed, ill make sure she doesn't go anywhere" Aquaris sat on the couch and put her head in his lap, she slept peacefully.

Rartiy walked up stairs to the guest room, she lied on the bed and closed her eyes, "hopefully she'll recover from this… hopefully" she thought as she fell asleep

Midnight

Afina in her dreams was wondering through the forest, it was morning and a low mist hung in the air, "where am I?" Afina said as she kept walking her voice echoed through the cluster of trees.

"you are in the grotto of dreams young Afina" an ethereal voice said from the mist, Princess Luna walked out of the mist, but something was different, a dark blue aura outlined her sleek form.

"how are you here?"

"I can see and be in other's dreams… and also in a sense toy with them a bit… for example." Her horn glowed for a second, a moment later Afina collapsed panting in short breathes… "like make you experience an orgasm without any form of physical interaction." Luna giggled as Afina regained her composer with a blush going along her snout.

"Please don't do that again…" she said turning her head away blushing hard,

"Sorry but given your situation I thought it would help, you still are a virgin, I just made you experience one. Is all." Said as she gestured Afina to follow.

As they walked Afina noticed various portals of all sorts of dreams, some good, some bad, some full of love, and some full of just some of the most wrong things she's seen. "Here is my sister's dream… I've always wondered why she dreamed of cake." Afina looked at the portal seeing Celestia on a massive mountain sized cake, it made her taste buds water as she stared at it. "Come along Afina." Afina shook her head of the thoughts of cake and kept following Luna. Eventually Luna stopped in front of a different portal, Afina stopped to see the dream she is actually dreaming, she is resting in the arms of Rarius, a smug grin on her face as she was held by him.

"I must admit you look adorable asleep in this dream… matter of fact that is how you are here, when your dream self falls asleep you enter the dream grotto" Luna explained as she turned to Afina "Great it's inception… never liked that movie… music was good but the idea of a drug that allows stealing memories from someone possible, is just weird." Afina said as she shook her head as it hung down. "Listen… umm can I get out of here, I just feel a little uncomfortable when I can see everypony's dreams especially the private ones…" Afina said as she looked up at Luna.

"Well it is almost sunrise, although it doesn't seem like it we've been here for about five hours." Luna said as Afina's jaw dropped, "Also don't worry about what I did to you earlier, I'm pretty sure you didn't leak any juices out… I think." Afina blushed a deep red as Luna brought that up." Either way Afina it is good to meet you in a more one on one without Aquaris, we'll be meeting soon in the real world I can feel it." The world faded away and so did Luna.

That morning in Canterlot castle

Princess Luna awoke as it was time to lower the moon for her sister to raise it, it was one of the week's where she has a daytime schedule, as she walked down stairs stopping as a patrol of tuckered out night guards passed by, they saluted her before the continued on with their walk back to their barracks.

Luna slowly made her way to the smaller personal dining hall where small dinner parties and princesses ate when they didn't need to eat with about fifty nobles and diplomats. Inside was a note form Celestia, requesting to head to the private gardens for breakfast. Upon arrival she understands why.

Celestia and Discord former enemy to a lot of ponies sat across the table as they enjoyed breakfast, ever since Fluttershy reformed him, he went on an interdiemsional vacation, and he was now telling what he's seen. "It's been to long Discord when we were actually friendly to each other." Celestia commented as she sipped her tea.

"Indeed, I believe when you and Luna were just fillies, and I was my whelp of a draconaquise." Discord replied before they noticed Luna had walked in and sat down, "ah if it isn't young Luna, oh here I got yah something form this odd fellow, says this little guy fits a pony like you with a love for the night like a stocking." Discord pulled a decent sized present out of nowhere and set it down, as Luna unwrapped he present, a small fox like creature pulled itself out of the box, it's fur was the same as Luna's, a white crescent moon pattern over its left eye.

"Oh it's adorable!" Luna picked up the small fox like creature with her magic. It nuzzled her face as it was pulled closer. "And it's so sweet."

Discord had a smile on his face as he pulled out another one and passed it to Celestia, when she unwrapped it, Celestia was surprised to find that its contents were, aside from packing peanuts was a few large bottles of red wine labeled 'solar eclipse merlot'.

"Thank you Discord… where'd you get this?"

"On another world called Terra as they put it, it was inhabited by these humans… so odd they were, barely any fur for mammals, they knew magic, but what surprised me is how more advance they were."

"Well we know what these humans are, one almost crushed Celestia and I. What advancements do they have though?" Luna added as her new pet played with her mane.

"too much to explain it and so little time to do so in, besides I have to do my part in keeping the forces of nature in equalization." He stood up and stretched, "every pony needs a little chaos to keep all this peace and order in check after all." Discord made his exit via teleportation leaving the sisters to discuss with one another.

"I do appreciate his self-control on how much chaos he causes… plenty tolerable and sometimes quite funny." Luna giggled as she turned back to see the small pet of hers now asleep on her back.

"I agree Lulu… either way some other news, Cadence and Shining Armor have almost gotten the new crystal princess, into her state of mind she'll need for governing the crystal ponies… oh yes, Twilight sent me a letter this morning, she has learned some of Aquaris' spells but also tells me that he has a journal of unfinished spells that he has with him all the time." Celestia set the letter in front of table showing what she meant. "They are supposed to meet up today to practice study each other's spells."

"Which reminds me, you know that other young dragon, Afina?"

"Yes"

"well last night I was talking to her via her dream and I realized she has had an emotional breakdown, from what is saw from her memory Cadence knows more and I shall ask her when she returns to Canterlot." Luna said as she used her magic to pick up a spoon to eat a grapefruit half.

Celestia put a hoof to her snout pondering for a moment, the noise of a portal opening was heard, behind them a creature almost like Discord walked out of it, it's body feathery, it's head was bird like, it had a dragons left wing and a insect's right one, it left leg was of minotaur it's right was a canine, both its arms were also canine, but one had a sharp bone poking out the elbow of it. "Whoa… it worked." The creature holds up a small vial of blood, judging by its voice and composer it was a female, she pockets the vial before checking around her, "oh hello, I am looking for Aquaris Aritinon." It spoke in a sly voice.

"Who are you?" Celestia asked completely ignoring the other beings question, her horn glowing

"I am Nemesis a Chimera that is also the goddess of Mischief, I'm not going to hurt anyone so, can you please not point that at me, I sense the amount of power you can generate and I do not like it." Nemesis spoke as she stretched her tail.

Celestia lowered her stance a bit; she also noticed that its tail was tipped with a silver bell ball, and she had a bag on her side with no form of connection between her and it. "Ok… why are you here?"

"Well I was supposed to teleport to Aquaris and give him this." She held out a small ring like object, it looked like it was supposed to be bigger, but was shrunken to easily carry, "but Instead I was taken here, say do you know where I can find him?"

"I was going to send him a letter of request to come here, so he could find a way to get home." Celestia added.

"well, this ring is a transportable version of a star-gate, a device capable of opening a rift and allowing anyone or anything to go into it and reach a new destination on the other side, pretty cool huh?" Nemesis said she tossed it in the air over her head and catching it behind her head.

"Well yes… wait it's a way for him to go home?"

"Not just, it is a door to many worlds, by simply punching the right code in, the gate will take you the gate of that world. You could go to each other's worlds any time you want." Nemesis added before noticing the tiara on both Celestia's and Luna's heads. "I'm guessing you're royalty?"

"yes… why do you ask?"

"I am a very busy goddess so I can't stay long, if you can hold onto this and give it to him, I can be on my way to my job." Nemesis tossed the star-gate towards Celestia.

"ok… what do we say, Somepony named Nemesis teleported from nowhere and gave us miniature Star-gate?" Luna said as she finished her grapefruit.

"yes that would work perfectly… now, au revoir I have to go and torment some people with CHOCLATE RAIN!" she said in a deep tone as she poofed into nothing.

Luna's eyes went wide as she realized something, "she did seem a lot like…"

"Discord…" Celestia finished after realizing it too.

Over in ponyville

"Forty eight… forty nine… fifty…" Aquaris counted as he did pushups in the middle of the living room

Afina was sipping at a glass of Lon-Lon milk as she watched recorded shows, she had cheered up a lot thanks to Luna, but she still was a tad bit sad. Rarity walked down the steps her hair in a mess due to her normal morning routine stuff at the boutique, "morning Rarity, sleep well?" Afina asked as before sipping her milk again.

"good darling… how are you feeling?"

"better than last night… sorry about causing so much trouble last night…" Afina held her head down in apology,

"no need to dear… you were in love with somepony you wanted to be with for the rest of your life, I promised last night too, ill make sure you'll see him again and be able to love him as you want to." Rarity said cheering the young dragoness up immensely. Rarity turned around to see a shirtless Aquaris doing sit-ups, his body shined with sweat as he did his workout.

"Liking the view Rarity?" Aquaris teased as he continued his sit ups, Rarity said nothing but blushed, that's when she felt something tugging on her mane, when she turned to look at it, it was already groomed in her usual style. There you go, now you don't need to hide as you make your way home to clean your mane up." Aquaris finished his sit ups and used a small towel to wipe his face off of the sweat.

"Thanks Aquaris… if you don't mind I have to go, I'm meeting with Fluttershy at the spa today and I need to get some breakfast and make sure Sweetiebelle is home." Rarity turned and made her way to the door,

"Go one ahead, I don't mind, tell shy I said hi and also thank her for helping me last night, what she told me about the manticore helped." Aquaris stood up and stretched his sore arms before telekinetically picking up a buttered corn muffin and bit into it.

"Will do Aquaris" Rarity closed the door behind her and set off to home.

"Aquaris don't mind me asking much but, when do you plan on working on a way home?" Afina asked as she finished her milk

"I was reading on stable long distance portals, you ran off and I forgot about going back to it… but I did learn that if we had a Star-gate, we can easily dial in are way home." Aquaris said as he sat down and scratched behind her side spikes. "From what I read from that letter from Solaris, he said someone would come to give me something to help us… I hope it is a star-gate or something to teleport us…"

Afina stretched her wings, "well if we can maybe we can head to that spa… I need a wing massage and I think something therapeutic would help." Afina hinted as she went to clean the glass that had her milk in.

"Ok… we'll head to the spa and see what they offer, but after we're heading to Twilight's for the rest of the day." Aquaris went to grab his bag and shirt. "C'mon Afina, the sooner we get there the longer we can be there." Aquaris opened the door to let her through and locked it behind them.

Five minutes of walking later

Aquaris went to the side of the door to see prices while Afina sat in the shade of a nearby umbrella of a patio that was owned by the restaurant next door. "Let's see, standard treatment twenty bits, dragons is thirty… hmm, premium." Aquaris looked the list. "Rare offer on onetime use VIP passes… premium treatment and more. One hundred and twenty bits per pony, gryphon, or dragon… wow that is a great deal given the premium is massage, mud bath, seaweed wrap, sauna treatment, hoof/claw care for mare/dragonesses, and finally free drinks while in the spa tub." Aquaris spoke as he read with Afina in earshot.

"So what are we getting Aquaris?"

"The onetime VIP passes, we have plenty of bits and I can convert more from the credits we have if need be." Aquaris opened the door letting her in before going in himself.

"Welcome, I'm Lotus."

"And I'm Aloe." Aquaris's jaw dropped, "Twins… by Solaris why is it somany spas are run by siblings?." Aquaris thought a s the Twins introduced themselves he shook his head out his train of thought and pulled out a bag full of bits.

"yes, I would two of those VIP passes, dose it cover hu-…" Aquaris said as the guest bell rang. Aquaris looked behind him to see Rarity and Fluttershy.

"Ah Ms. Rarity, Ms. Fluttershy right on time… your usual will ready momentarily."

"Excellent oh hello Aquaris, didn't know you wanted a spa trip yourself, could've asked you and Afina to come along too if I knew." Rarity said as Afina and Aquaris were handed unlimited use VIP passes.

"Wait what?" Aquaris said as he noticed the passes were different and he didn't pay the price for them.

"Ms. Rarity is the main contributor to this spa, her other five main friends and yourself are given VIP passes, it was her real gift to you for giving her more than enough Idea's for her masterpieces of clothing." Aloe said as she pushed and Afina to their massages.

Aquaris noticed the spa staff was mostly mares aside from a handful of colts who were servicing some guests, some were cleaning, and two were at the bar making mixed drinks. (Upgrading :D)

"Since you are requesting the VIP treatment, Lotus and I will be servicing you. Now for yourself Mr., Aquaris, I see you have spare clothes, there is a changing room over there you can use, and Ms. Afina follow me and I'll start with your massage." Aloe guided Afina to her Massage room while Lotus waited for Aquaris.

"so tell me, I've noticed that you and Aloe have the same cutie mark." Aquaris said as he began changing clothes.

"Yeah… we are almost pure Twins minus are fur and mane colors… it's the first real occurrence of two of the same Cutie marks." Lotus answered as Aquaris slipped on a pair of Dark blue/ Aqua blue swim trunks and tightened it. Put his other Clothes in his bag and walked out of the changing room.

"Ok Mr. Aquaris follow me to your Massage room, what would like a bit of music, scented candles, or maybe a book?" Lotus Asked as they entered the small cube room with a massage bed in the center, various cabinets went around the sides, plenty of space between them of course.

Aquaris lied down on the bed and closed his eyes waiting for Lotus to work her magic with her hooves. As time passed Aquaris was in bliss as she got all his pressure points and sore spots, she even managed to relax the pulled muscle in his right leg.

"Oh by Solaris Lotus… I haven't had a good massage like this since I was on Terra…. Ahhh so much better" Aquaris said, lotus giggled as she thought to herself, keeping her massage mostly on his in pain pressure points.

"He is so complementary and quite attractive even if he is different… I might enjoy giving his 'second massage' later." Lotus thought as she kept at it, a smile crept on her face as she was close to finishing his shoulders.

Minutes later

Aquaris and Afina relaxed in the sauna, the steam filled their pores as both relaxed on the wooden benches along the walls, across the room, both Aloe and lotus sat next each other, whispering about their two new customers. "I say Mr. Aquaris first, he looks like he'll be a whole lot of fun. " Lotus whispered, both out of sight since of the thick amounts of steam, "then Ms. Afina what do you say about her?"

"Something simple, she told me in different words that her cherry is still fresh and not popped, she is saving for some human like Mr. Aquaris" Aloe added as she craned her neck a bit.

"Hmm… maybe vibration therapy?" Lotus giggled as leaned over and put more water on the hot coals in the center of the room.

After roughly ten minutes of detoxing, Afina and Aquaris and Afina got their other treatments, while Afina had her claws and spines filed, polished to shine like a mirror, and sharpened, Aquaris sat in the Jacuzzi, he wrote into his book with his phoenix quill and the infinite quick drying ink bottle, after he heard Afina gasp after Aloe filled a soft spot on her tail spine.

He chuckled to himself and set the book down as he relaxed into the Jacuzzi, he noticed one wasn't on, the water was still, probably cold, and like the one he was in, not chlorinated. He pondered for a moment and had idea popped in into his head, he scanned around the spa to see a massive fish tank, the fish in large wooden water filled buckets as the tank was cleaned.

He used his magic to lift on of the buckets over to the colder tub and dumped them in there, he repeated going unnoticed by the Twins or anypony for that matter.

"I know darling, he is such a gental colt… and little Afina so cute but you have to admit that she is a hassle, so young and full of energy, but she dose do her share of work." Aquaris lowered himself in the hottub the bubbles hiding him, he cast a spell to hear what they said perfectly.

"she dosen't seem that bad Rarity, what do you mean though of her share?"

"when you were in the kitchen getting more tea, Aquaris explained that she works. Aquaris pays her an alloance to for her hard work, but she dosen't buy anything… aside from maybe a few sweets." Rarity added as they stepped into the tub not sitting on Aquaris but also not notticeing him. "huh? Who's book is this?" Rairty picked up the book and opened it. Aquaris facepalmed as he relized he was writing in his book.

"what's written in it?" Fluttershy scooted closer to Rarity, her left back leg almost hitting Aquaris's side.

"it's mostly entries on spells... oh this is Aquaris's." Rarity answered flipping through the pages noticing mentionings of Afina and his friends… oh my... caught under the misltoe." Fluttershy looked at the page seeing Aquaris with Afina, both blushing immensly in the picture. Aquaris was wearing a santa cap while Afina wore a pair of reindeer antlers, in the background was a large tree adorned with decorations.

They flipped through the pages, curiosity pushing them on. As they kept on they saw, more pictures, some normal, Some incredibly funny.

"oh my… is that?"

"yes I think it is dear." Both Rarity stared at the picture, it wasn't funny or normal. It showed six humans, Afina, a creature compoised of various animals like discord and a large insect like creature, it had six legs each with a thin flap of skin between them, it was all boney and utterly grotesque. The sub note read.

" Metmorph looks good on camera, maybe that film company looking for a good actor for their horror movie would consider him as the perfect one."

"hmmm…" Rarity flipped to the very back to find a sort of index, one was list of various people, she searched for Metamorph and flipped to the page of him.

"King Metamorph… lord of the changling brood of the Elysian woods, his existance was unkown but the threat of his brood was minimal. During the wedding of Prince Versian and a Sterling Amera, he took the place of Versian and siphoned of fthe love from most of the guests and the ability to syphon love allows him to cast powerful as mass recall, bile surge, and mass paraliyz."

Rarity and shy looked at eachother, feeling a sense of dejavu with this.

"when I discovered that Versian was being replace by this Changling I confronted him… only to be pushed through about twelve floors, into the old abbandoned crystal mines under the palace, honestly to this day I still wonder why no one noticed me. I located versian asleep in the caverns the real one. After escaping and interupting the wedding ceramony, he chnaged to original shape and called his minions, Solaris directly engaged him and magic beam dual, due to the amount of energyMetamorph abosrbed he quickly beat Solaris, but also drained his energy reserves dry. When Amera and Versian disposed of him via shockwave that was formed from the love for eachother."

Rarity and Fluttershy were surprised, was it sheer coincidence or was this fake. "Hi Rarity, Hi Fluttershy… mind if I join you?" Above the water a certain teal unicorn was at the steps of the tub.

"Not at all Lyra, come in, this feels great." Lyra stepped into the tub, Aquaris shifted to a semi comfortable position under the water so they don't bump him and blow his cover. "how is it going dear?"

"Great… but I want to talk to that human; I want to ask him so many questions."

"He has a name you know, it's Aquaris." Rarity added, disliking how she addresses him as just a human. "He was here, but I haven't seen him, matter of fact his book is here."

Lyra was wide eyed, Aquaris mentally sweated as Lyra was begging to read it, luckily for him Afina's treatment was done and she was climbing the steps of the tub. "Hey Rarity… Fluttershy and you are?" Afina climbed into the tub, she sat on Aquaris's hand before he could move, she kept quiet about it, knowing Aquaris's past and spying antics.

"I'm Lyra heartstrings, are you the dragon that lives with that human? What's he like? Is he nice? Is he cool? Is he a good lover? Is he-, "Afina cut her off, with a claw to her snout?

"Lyra please clam down… and don't ask her that personal of stuff or she won't answer any questions, go before she decides to burn you." Rarity added as Afina let go of Lyra's snout, without a word she left the hot tub and went to the other one, with the fish occupants.

"sorry about that Afina… how are you feeling?" Fluttershy asked, more comfortable with the drake than Aquaris.

"I'm better, Princess Luna and I talked when I was in some sort of dream world, wow boy… I didn't know she could do what she did either… it calmed my heat down a bunch though" Afina said a small smile on her face and a blush across her face.

"Oh Afina you naughty dragoness… say where is Aquaris, his book is here but he isn't… did he go to the bar or something?" Rarity asked as she showed Aquaris's book and other stuff.

"That's the funny thing, he's right here… he tends to meditate under water while keeping a water breathing spell active. Afina moved a bit and used her tail to help him sit up on the bench in the tub.

"Cough*… wow… roughly ten minutes… of being under there… ugh" Aquaris coughed up, as a pair of gills on the sides of his neck closed and disappeared

"Were you spying on us?"

"Me? No… I was in a meditative state; if I was physically touched then I would awaken from that state." Aquaris answered as he noticed his book and magically picked it up with his other stuff.

"Ok… you know Aquaris Twilight came by to see if you were here, she said she has something urgent for you." Fluttershy said as she brushed her mane with her hoof.

"Ok… Afina you can stay and have the rest of your treatments, I'll go see what Twilight wants." Aquaris got out of the tub. As he stepped down he noticed that Lyra was covered in fish that were held onto her by a firm grip of their maws. "Oops… Those may have been carnivorous fish" Aquaris thought as he went to a changing room.

Five minutes later Aquaris was changed and on his way out, he told the Twins he needed to be somewhere and to finish Afina's treatments, they simply bowed and told him to have a nice day before going over to give Afina her next treatment.

Stepping outside, he put his sunglasses on and set off to Twilights.