Crystal Empire

Luna stood over the corpse of the unicorn who was once Somber Heart. His battered frame was emaciated and sickly looking. She had a look of pity. "I'm sorry you had to find dark magic in this life too, my prince. But you will be back, I know it. I knew it since the day I saw you 2000 years ago. I know it today" Luna summoned Nadir and cut open the soft ground. She summoned a coffin made of crystal, and cast a spell on Somber Heart, to remove the physical marring of the dark magic. She set him in the coffin on a bed of dark blue roses. Luna closed her eyes as she set the lid of the coffin on, then she contemplated bringing him back. She could do it. She animated the doll Tyrannus gave her and made a new species out of it. She could just shed a few tears and have him back in her hooves.

It would have been wrong. But it wasn't fair, Celestia had a lover, why couldn't she have hers? It was NEVER FAIR, Celestia was mother's favorite child, everypony loved Celestia, everypony wants to be Celestia's student, Celestia is the supreme diarch, Luna could just vomit at the name Celestia. Here was Luna's crowning achievement, a wizard whose name should be remembered throughout history, but because of his crippling fear of changelings and his desire to keep what happened to him from happening to everypony else, His name was erased from the history books.

Luna stopped herself from crying, it would only make things worse. She remembered the reincarnation spell she put on Somber Heart. She would check the dreamscape to see if it worked for the 5th time. . . .

Sparrow looked at the jewel he had created, it was red all the way through. it seemed to be very dense.

Rarity used a gem identifying spell on it. The jewel was an Ajia, a rare gem that refracts and concentrates light. They were very rare in nature and nearly impossible to recreate. Yet, here was an Ajia, without a single flaw in it, all from Sparrow stepping on a lump of coal. "Sparrow, what kind of magic do you know?"

"Uh. . ." He did remember the spell that the purple alicorn used, he also remembered both spells Rarity used on him. Maybe there was a name for them? "T-telekinesis, Sleep, G-glamour, a-and. . . ." He tried to remember the spell he used, it was a spell that made gems. . . ."G-gem making?"

Rarity smiled "The last spell you used is called compress carbon, Sorry to correct you"

"I-it's alright"

Rarity grabbed the Ajia with telekinesis and held it up to sunlight. If it was a true Ajia of 23 karat or higher value, it should create a beam of concentrated light. It started to focus the light coming through the window. Then, instead of a beam of harmless light, it shot out a beam of concentrated sunlight that blew a mannequin in half.

Sparrow ducked when he heard the small explosion. "R-Rarity, are y-you alright?"

"Yes Sparrow, I was just seeing what type of gemstone you made. It seems that this a 42 karat Ajia. . ."

"I d-don't know wh-what you're talking about"

"It's a rare type of gem that requires an extreme amount of skill to make. They also concentrate and refract light"

Sparrow sat up "But I'm not skilled with magic or anything"

Rarity shrugged "Your cutie mark says otherwise. Do you mind if I make this into a necklace?"

"S-sure, I-I mean y-you can have i-it as a g-gift at th-this point"

Rarity smiled brightly, the she realized that she needed to show Sparrow where he would be staying. "Sparrow, I'm going to need to show you your room"

"O-okay. . .uh. . ."

"Don't worry, I'm only going to have you come with me so I can unlock the guest bedroom."

"Oh"

Rarity and Sparrow headed towards the guest room. Rarity opened the door using magic and ushered Sparrow inside. There was a single bed and a dresser in the room, along with a window.

"This will be your room for your extended rehabilitation. If it's not to your liking just let me know and I can change it" Rarity said with a smile.

"I-it's f-fine, truly"

"Alright darling, whatever you say."

Sparrow fiddled a bit with his signet necklace, so much had happened within a short period of time, it was starting to take its toll. He took one good look at the guest bed and fell right into it, ragged and tired.

Rarity sighed, she still had a few dress orders left to fill out. Sparrow falling asleep in the guest bed didn't help matters. She opened her sewing kit and started working on the next order.

Canterlot, a few hours later

Celestia lowered the sun as she stepped off her throne. She made sure to ring the bell to signify that the day court was over. She had a slight headache for some reason, probably from allergies or something, the ringing of the bell made her wince.

One of the guards noticed "Are you okay princess?"

"Yes, I'm fine, thank you for your concern" she said as she continued down the hallway to her personal study and bedroom. She opened the door and sat down at her desk. She had to figure out who had gotten into the sealed archives and figure out why they wanted a list of her former students. There had to be a reason behind it. . .

She heard a floor panel creak behind her. Damn, right in my blind spot! Celestia whirled around to confront the intruder as she reached for her emergency blade. She froze when she saw the figure.

"Well hello Celestia, so nice to see you after all 700 of these years. It's a shame to see you so paranoid"

Celestia looked him dead-on. He was bright white, she could see his glow, even in the dark, his mane was pink and obsidian, and refracted the light from her candle like crystal. Then she saw the stitches and scars covering his face, the rest was obscured by a robe.

"Lynchinus, you're supposed to be dead, not even changelings can live past 500 years"

Lynchinus adopted a smug look "You even remember my name? How flattering! But you know exactly how I circumvented that little thing called mortality"

"You were always the crafty student weren't you?"

"Your taste in students dropped after Queen-in-Waiting Caliphora. Face it, you're a poor judge of character, Sunset Shimmer being the best example" He held the smug grin.

"I shouldn't have taught y- "

"But you did, I used to be a little, gifted colt. But you saw my power and ripped my innocence away, taught me how to kill, had me lead your army, kill nobles you didn't like. And you killed my father. Hypocrite"

"You little shit, I was planing to offer you REDEMPTION! I'll strangle you until that body returns to your phylactery!" Celestia screamed as she grabbed the nearby blade with her magic.

Lynchinus's smile changed to a smirk when he saw Celestia lunge. "You've grown rusty, teacher, I expected more. Now witness, Mode of Light!" he said as two shining blades came out of his forelegs. He managed to effortlessly block her lunge.

"I'm not here to kill you Celestia, I'm merely here to say hello. And tell you that somepony is investigating my father's identity, I found evidence of somepony going through my mother's house" he said as he broke off from Celestia and kicked her away. "Tally ho!"

Celestia wasn't expecting the sudden blow to her underbelly, but she managed to catch herself and land in her chair, unscathed. Lynchinus was gone.

There was a sudden knock on the door followed by "Princess, are you okay in there? That was a lot of noise we heard"

Celestia didn't have time for this "Yes, I'm fine, I just tripped and fell"

The guards departed from the door. Lynchinus had just confirmed Celestia's suspicion that somepony was looking for answers to the origin of Somber Heart. She had to find out who . . . .

Author's Note

Whew, sorry that took so long, lots of homework and parties the last weekend.

Anyhow, Hows the story looking? Is it looking fine? Are there any plot holes we can sail a glacier through?

I recommend listening to the music that goes with Lynchinus. It explains his character a lot.