The Alicorn's Paths:1)The Flames of the Sun
Lonely Princesses, and the New Arival!
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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?"
The Alicorn's Paths:1)The Flames of the Sun
As Dral and Celestia started for the Archives, Luna Burst threw the throne doors, "Tia! Did you eat the last of the... choco...late... cake..." A short moment passes as Luna and Dral stared at each other with Celestia looking between the two with confusion plastered cleanly across her face.
"Hello?" Dral said, breaking the Silence.
"OH, MY GOSH TIA! HE'S SOOOOOO ADORABLE!!" Luna shouted in the Royal Canterlot Voice, while flying into Dral fore legs sprayed open wide for a hug, Latching onto Dral's Neck.
"Your Sister?" Dral Said, trying to physically remove Luna from his neck.
"Yes, she's my younger sister. The Holder of Lunar."
Dral's ears suddenly shot up. Lunar noticed Void's presence and was now talking to Void, She was saying something along the lines at how Void was so strong and how Lunar loved strong guys, and some very inappropriate things. Things that made Luna stare into space, wide eyed with cheeks flourishing with heat.
"Lunar! Your caretaker can hear you!" Dral yelled.
A Shadowed Silver Dust flowed from Luna taking form into an alicorn beside Luna. The form it took looked like this:
"Hello Luna, and Caretaker of Void." The alicorn said. "I am Lunar."
"Oh boy... so she can manifest too." A voice sounded from seemingly everywhere. "Hmm, I might as well take form as a pony too."
Pitch Black fog pored from Dral and took form as the following:
"Void, this is rare for you to manifest." Dral said in a surprised tone.
"Sister, might as well manifest your essence too." Luna said.
A Strange light manifested from Celestia's Necklace, taking form beside Celestia, into the following figure.
(Credit for this image goes to ZoruaAwesome on deviant art.)
"Mother?!" Both Celestia and Luna cried out. The Royal Sisters Glomped their mother but fazed right threw her.
"Ouch!" - "OOOoohhh!" The Royal sisters cried.
This is for people who don't know what a Glomp is.
Back to the story.
"Yes, my Fillies. Though I probably should of warned you immidiately but im intangible right now."
"Solar, are you just imitating their mother?" Dral Questioned.
"No, I really am their mother."
"How did you conceive as an essence?" Dral pressed on.
"An Advanced form of manifestation."
Dral took a moment to think at how she achieved a form of manifestation that lets reproduction.
"If your trying to figure out ho-"
"I figured it out."
"Really? Your not even an essence."
"You used a solidifying manifestation in conjunction with a transformation spell via Genetic rewrite."
"How the..."
"Your secret has just been cracked, Solar!" Lunar said mockingly, as she always wanted to know how Solar Achived such.
"You still don't know how to cast a Transformation spell that uses a Genetic rewrite method." Solar returned, killing Lunar's parade of glee.
"But I do." Dral said, Grabbing Lunar's Full Attention.
"That explains how you figured it out." Solar said in defeat.
"AHEM!" Luna shouted.
"Oh right... I think you two deserve an explanation..."
After a explanation from Solar about how her form of manifestation was taking a toll on her energy, and had to return to being an essence, and how she gifted her power to Celestia after she left. A thought crossed the Sisters' minds.
"Wait, Who was our Father?" Both Sisters' asked.
"Starfield, an Alicorn."
"What happened to him?" Luna spouted before her sister.
"He died in a massive war, trying to protect you two when you both were still young and fragile." Solar said with a Depressed tone.
"But Alicorns are Immortal!" Luna Spouted again." - 'Is she talking about the war that discord started to take control? I'll have to ask her later.'
"Oh right you two have never met a pony who was Alicorn by birth. Only the Alicorns bound to a Essence are Immortal, However an Alicorn from birth doesn't need an essence as they in a way are their own essence, and because of that they can get much stronger than an alicorn by essence, as they can grow their magical pools themselves."
"What the likelihood for a Pony to be born Alicorn?" Dral questioned.
"It not a matter of chance, it's whether or not both parents are alicorns, If both side are, they are guaranteed to have an alicorn baby."
After a moment Both Celestia and Luna Realized that with a certain Dragonic prince, whom knows how to transform via Genetic Rewrite that permits reproduction, whom ALSO is a holder of an essence... One of the two could have a family. With this realization...
The War for Love Has Begun.
"Lemme guess, Alicorn's gene relies on the magic from both parties to activate." Dral said with a feeling that he now became prey.
"Precisely."
"Hey Dral, I'm going back, I'm not really needed here, plus manifestation is not easy." Void said while Dispersing into the air.
"Yea me too..." Lunar said. Dispersing into Luna.
There was an Awkward silence...
"Uhhh, Bye" Solar said, immediately disappearing with a flash.
"Well... Shall we move on?" Dral said, cutting into the silence.
"WHAT?" Luna shouted.
"LUNA!, He means to what we were doing before you burst into the room!"
"Oh... What were you doing anyway? Nothing inappropriate I'd hope" Luna said shooting Celestia a look of rivalry.
"Aww, Hell No!" Dral Shouted, Rumbling the throne room.
"We were on our way to the Archives to get Dral here accustomed to our life style, our history, and events." Celestia said feeling degraded from dral's response.
"Oh! I say I should teach him... Considering I had to when I returned from my 1000 years on the moon."
"You had to correct your Equestrian."
"And the gap of History!"
"I have a proposal -both Celestia's and Luna's attention shot to Dral at the word 'Proposal'- How about You both teach me?"
Celestia and Luna both sighed and agreed, they caught on to their childish argument and dubbed it a better idea to not bicker In front of the one whey want to swoon. And so they walked to the Archives, attracting the attention of all the guards and noblemen, who all look dumbfounded. Not only was Luna up during the day, but they were walking and talking with a Dragon that had an aura that made him look like his barriers were up.
"Here it is, the Millennial Archives." Celestia said as Dral walked in.
"Small." Dral said flatly.
"SMALL?!" Luna said in a surprised tone.
"In comparison to some of the smaller libraries from my home world... this would be considered tiny. If you walked into the largest Library we have you would see a library literally over a million time larger. So I think it'd take me only a half hour to read all this."
Celestia and Luna both shared a similar face of being dumbfound.
"Oh wait... I'm not sure if our written language is the same... I can already tell that our verbal is the same so that's good."
Dral Levitated a single book out from the nearest shelf up to him to read. "I can't read this."
"Maybe because its a Spell book." Luna pointed out.
Dral Facepalmed. "Well that clears that our Casting Bases are different, But might also mean our writing is different."
Celestia Levitated a book over to Dral for him to read, but when he activated his magic to levitate it himself, she felt her magic shatter under his magic. She ignored the oddity.
"Oh Thank Drovbrek! It's the same Writing!"
In seconds Dral finished the book, and placed it off to the side, and started to levitate books to and from him as he read entire books in mere minutes. Levitating waiting books to his left, and finished books placed neatly on the ground to his right, and a couple books here and there were placed behind him, Luna later noticed the ones behind him were spell books. Minutes later, Dral took a moment on one book... Novice Magic The book read. placing it in front of him he went back to the spell books behind him for the Intermediate Magic, Moderate Magic, Difficult Magic, Advanced Magic, Ridiculous Magic, Near-Impossible Magic, God-like Magic, Theoretical Magic and put those books in front of him too, leaving behind the Spell books. And finished up reading the books to his left. During the entire time Celestia and Luna chatted casually about castle matters and Luna complaining about being tired.
"Before I delve into the magic books, whats the difference between the spell books and the magic books?"
"The Magic Books are the Bases, If you look into the spell books, with each spell has a Difficulty rating next to it. You need to read the Corresponding book to be able to understand what the spell's runes are and how to cast it and what the formulas are that it'll be relating to." Celestia said.
"So definitely read the Magic books first." Dral said flatly.
"Yes." Luna said.
Dral Went threw the Magic Books at a much slower pace, Celestia later noticing he was memorizing it word for word instead of grasping a summary like he was before. After about ten minutes he finished all the Magic books, including the Theoretical Magic that Both Celestia and Luna couldn't understand a single word of. He took a long time on the Theoretical Magic. When he put down the book, Celestia asked a question...
"Were you able to understand that last book?"
"Yea took a bit of connecting the strings but yes."
"Well thou has achieved the impossible." Luna stated.
"What you don't understand it?"
"Nope, the only one other than you that has ever understood what is in that book is Starswirl the Bearded... considering he's the one who wrote it." Celestia remarked.
"The other Magic Books too." Luna added.
"Is he the creator of all your magic?"
"He created everything past telekinesis, so yes." Luna said.
"Hmm I see. Now for the spell books."
"Oh did you find the book called Shenaniganizer's Casting?" Celestia asked.
"Yea"
"If you can understand or cast a single spell in that book, you'll be legendary amongst our race." Luna Said.
Dral Chuckled and Did the same with the Spell books as he did with the Magic Books, Memorized them. 15 minutes later and 85,373 spells later Including the ones in the Shenaniganizer's Casting book.
"Well... it seems to be your race would rather use more magic to cut out casting complexity."
"According to the Magi in our Magical Lab, it was kept that way cause it is least exponential to the load you give it than any other method." Celestia said.
"More like most exponential, You ponies use a terrible method of teleportation, you use a entire Dimension for teleportation, you'd be better off using essencing in conjunction with mass effect fields.
"Mass Effect Fields?" Luna questioned.
"Oh right, it was in the Shenaniganizer's Casting book, and I know it in Dragonic. It's basically a magical cannon with the force of an Ion Cannon."
"Ion Cannon?" Celestia questioned.
"Oh I would guess its the same as Luna's 'Star Spear' except it needs a much heftier price, so I would also guess 'Star Spear' to be a dimmed down version of Ion Cannon.
"HOW DO THEE KNOW OF THY STAR SPEAR?" yelled Luna, feeling protective of her favorite spell. - "Dear Faust... that sounds dangerous!" Said Celestia.
"Void can overhear Lunar, as in when she is casting it for you."
"Lulu! you told me it was from your own power." said Celestia.
"Quit bickering!" Dral said, causing Celestia and Luna to Immediately stop. "Better, now I think a tour would be appropriate?"
Both Celestia and Luna Jumped at the opportunity(with screaming and yelling) to be alone with Dral.
"Whoa! I say Celestia gives the tour! Luna, I know your nocturnal, so you go to bed Missy!"
"I am a Princess! you are to refer to me as one!"
"Missy."
Luna sighed and did as she was told, being completely embarrassed not only in front of her sister but by the one she wants to swoon.
Celestia couldn't help but chuckle to herself, Immediately stopping when Solar had something to say about it.... even though Solar was laughing herself but she muted that from Celestia's ears.
"Madam? May I have the permission to have a tour with thee?"
"Oh don't start that madam stuff on me, I'm sick of it."
"Heh, I'll take that as a yes, but first let me take form to something more convenient." Dral said, while mentally asking Void if I can make a modification to his earlier manifestation and use it for his new form, Easily getting a yes, Dral began the transformation.
Summoning a spinning Blood Red Circle around himself with runes of many sorts, and magical feeding circles where condensed magic pored into forming a spinning swirl of magic, after a minute Dral began a Chant of "Verious Gurious Gamilm Juro Derious Polu Mefric Derizenkin" repeated five times, after the fifth time, he stopped with the lines of the Spinning Red Circle with Runes about now curving up forming a sphere with two rings on top. Immediately after forming a sphere, the liquid magic that was once poring into the holes in the circle were now filling in the sphere up with the blood red liquid. As the Magic filled up behind the circles, lines, and runes, The writing on the sphere turned black. When the Sphere filled up completely, it started a powerful Pulsation of Magic. As the Pulses hit Celestia she struggled to stay conscious from being hit with ridiculously powerful magic, but managed to overpower the disorienting pulses. After fifty Pulses the Magical Sphere started glowing and Shrank to just a little bigger than a Pony. A moment later, It dropped to the ground like a liquid and evaporated into nothing. Leaving behind Dral, in the following form: