The Alicorn's Paths:1)The Flames of the Sun

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Princess Celestia sitting at her throne, alone and depressed. Seeking to enjoy the warmth of a stallion once again, but does not seek any old stallion of the earth pony, Pegasi, or Unicorn races... She seeks a male alicorn. One to breed with, and resurrect the Alicorn race. She wants to have a family, from her own womb with the of a husband whom she could love forever. She used to believe it was impossible for such to happen, but one day on her throne, she was contacted by a creature from another planet, from another galaxy.

"Hello? I presume this is the ruler of this planet?" A voice sounded inside Celestia's head.

About to speak aloud, Celestia thought it'd be better not to. "Not Quite, I am the Ruler of Equestia, not the whole planet. Might I ask whom this is?"

"I am Dral, Dragonic Prince of Drobashtiun. I noticed activity in a nearby galaxy, yours. Now I've come around to visit."

Dragonic? Prince? "Do you wish permission to visit us? If so your more than welcome to visit, I'm quite interested in meeting a dragon capable of complex magic."

"Complex?" -Dral chuckled- "Indeed, and I thank your generosity."

Almost Immediately afterwords, in the center of the Throne room, whisks of blood red magic spiraled into a condensing vortex, taking shape to a large Dragonic form.

The figure in the red vortex solidified with a Purple Flash leaving behind the following creature:

"Hmmm, I suspect you are the one I spoke with? Hm, I never caught your name." Dral said with voice rumbling the air in a deep roar.

"Oh, How rude of me to forget my manners, I am Celestia." She said, adorned with a sheepish look. "I am Ruler of not only Equestia, but am also the caretaker of our Sun."

"Oh, you're bound to a Celestial... Oh, how amusing!" Dral said with a chuckle. " Tell me, were you born with your binds, gifted your power, or did you step your bounds and use a soul tether to bind yourself to a Celestial body?"

"There is more than one way to be bound? I've only heard of being gifted this power." Said Celestia.

"Indeed so, I'm one who was born with a unique counterpart, as the Void must always have a counterpart else all existence will torn apart. so it must be passed down in a family, and if it doesn't get a new host in a family tree, it will host itself in the next born."

"I see, We have a Few who hold bindings on this planet."

"Ahh, Unique! How many?"

"Four"

"Oh wow, I expected a couple more."

"And one of them is a plague amongst our society."

"Really now?, As long he,she don't mess with me, I won't squash him,her like a bug!"

Celestia couldn't help but facehoof at how accurate that was."She IS a Bug."

Dral chuckled.

There was a awkward silence for a minute or so.

"Well, your presence is very... soothing but it's probably too much for an average unicorn to handle."

"Really? Your race not well developed amongst magical capacities?" Dral immediately constrained his magical aura to condense in closer proximity to his skin making a shield like aura of magic.

"Our race is developed but we've never been contacted by beings from other planets so we couldn't compare ourselves until now."

"I'm going to take a guess your magical prowess would be likable to a newborn dragon."

"So your race is very developed? what about machinery?"

"We may not come close to what humans are capable of with machinery, but we're developed better than most. We also hold mechanical feats that not even a human can replicate."

"Have any infinite storage spells that don't require constant feeding of magic? We currently have all our magi working on such a spell, with no prevail." Celestia said while thinking to herself. 'I Thought Humans were only in mythology.'

"I revoke my previous guess, a newborn dragon is probably capable of wiping your existence." Dral sighs. "Yes, I know of two spells that can do so."

"Do tell, I'd love to see the faces of all our magi when I tell them that all their Grants are being revoked."

Dral Chuckled at the thought. "It's a void spell, somewhat complex... actually might be really complex for you. but its a matter of pushing a pocket into space and time, and locking it up. kinda like a pocket dimension that is kept stable by the dimension it resides in. I'll tell you more at another time, cause I've decided to reside here for a little while, help your race develop quickly or just outright teach all my spells to a renown figure who can teach it them-self. But I'm not entirely sure that our casting bases are similar and if not I'm going to have to learn your Casting Bases to convert them over or teach your entire population the casting Base that profits dragons the most.

"Well, Welcome to Equestria, were going to have to catch you up on modern events and our history if your going to stay here awhile. Glad to hear that your willing to help us develop and I have a request for you."

"Request? Depends..."

"My personal student Twilight Sparkle has a baby Dragon as pet and friend an-"

"There are Dragons here on this planet too?"

"Yes, but can I finish?"

"Oh, right. Sorry, go on."

"My Student's pet and friend, Spike the Dragon could benefit from learning your casting base as all the dragons on our planet can only use basic magic, or spells given by enchanted flames. So, I'm asking to teach spike Both our casting bases if possible."

"Well it depends on the kind of dragon he is."

"Amethyst with a highly Magic infused blood line."

"Amethyst you say? My sister is a Amethyst..."

"Hm, but how well are Amethyst Dragons with Magic?"

"I'm scared to the bone of my sister, and shes only a baby dragon!"

"Whats so special about Amethyst Dragons?"

"Oh nothing much, just that they can survive being hit by a meteorite, being thrown into a planet that's about to go super nova and survive the super nova that throws them inside a flaming gas ball like your sun and think that all that was a massage and jacuzzi, then not only that but they can hit harder than a Meteorite that weighs a billion metric tons." Dral took a moment to think, and remembered something. "Oh yea, not to mention they can learn magic ridiculously fast, and have Magic regeneration rivaled only by the caretaker of the Void, Me. and to put it in perspective, my magic regenerates from empty to full in half an hour, a Amethyst Dragon's magic takes only a single hour to do the same."

"Oh, my... it would take me a month! and for a normal Unicorn it would take about one and a half."

"Only a month to a month and a half? that's actually pretty good."

"Really? It always seemed pretty bad."

"At least your not like the serpents of Syrosgracavica, it takes five years for them to go from empty to full."

Celestia now held her Magical ability in a new light. No longer urging for her Celestial powers to Regen faster.

Dral let out a short chuckle. "Hah! you were urging your Celestial powers to regen faster!"

"You can sense my conversations with my Counterpart?"

"You cant sense mine? Actually if you could've you'd be laughing your a- Flank off."

"Why is that?"

"All past caretakers were black in some form of way cause they all got toasted by the sun raging at their uncivil actions and misuse of their power. And well... the Essence of the Void said something along the lines of "That white horse must be used to being in heat." A moment has passed. "Hey, Solar! Void can hear you as long as I'm here!" Dral Chuckled. (Solar was complaining how she can't burn Void to a crisp cause Void isn't tangible.) Solar was outraged at being eavesdropped by Void. (who she admired, but Void is too 'thick headed' to pick up on Solars flirtatious moves.) And it seems to be that Solars' admiration has rubbed onto Celestia as she too was falling for Dral.

Ignoring her insult, Celestia said. "Void really seems to rile up Solar. I've never seen her like this."

"Oh, they're friends. -Both Solar and Void screamed 'WHAT?'- You can tell with how they talk, they know each other like we know our own names. and they know more about each other than the other Essences with the exception of sun and moon." Solar and Void hearing what Dral just said realized the truth in his words. they knew each other better than anyone else. Not even their Caretakers know them on this level. They agreed on a truce.

Dral remembered something. "Oh yea, i think i overheard a bit about you from the essences... I believe you have a sister who caretakes Lunar?"

"Yes, my sister's name is Luna."

"Lu..." Dral bust out laughing hysterically.

"Alright, alright, I know our names relate to our counterparts with only a single letter change at the end our names."

"Oh that is Priceless!"

"We got that. How about we get you up to date on history and events so you can have a easy stay here on our planet?"