The Pentagram

Lots of exposition. Sorry.

I, for once, was not reflecting on the previous days events when I slept. I was lucid dreaming. As the dreamwalker Luna for all I know may be real, I set the rules of my dream to be as concrete as I can, focusing raw magic energy into it. The rule was simple. Only I have dream manipulating powers in this dream.

I expanded the space in the dream, expanding and expanding until it was bigger than the solar system. That should delay them. It was then that I felt an intrusion on my dream, two minds, from reality they came.

I opened my book. I would use magic, as to give them a chance. Now what does the book tell me today?

Sorcery

The Rule of Three: Thrice spoken, once fulfilled.

Sorcery is the control of one mind by another. It ranges from glamours and illusions to control and destruction, and is capable of producing effects that last as long as the mind of the victim exists.

In order to cast a sorcerous spell, the Sorcerer must make eye contact with his victim and speak the necessary enchantment. Eye contact is absolutely necessary, making the gaze of the sorcerer shunned by all sane individuals. The sorcerer then focuses his talent and pronounces the spell three times, and the magic is made.

The length of the spell involved depends on the power of the desired effect, and can range from a few words to a lengthy speech. The Sorcerer must speak it correctly three times, and then spend a portion of his own life force to power the spell, or, in special cases, raw magic energy. This means that any given Sorcerer can perform only a very limited number of spells in his lifetime, and that Sorcerers are very reluctant to use their craft. Indeed, older Sorcerers tend to look at their profession as a curse of sorts.

A simple sorcerous spell is this: Anata wa dare ga, watashi wa, majutsu-shi wa, watashi no mahō de haiki-mono o oku watashi no shutsugen de, noboru taiyō no kono tochi o bōtoku, anata no kōdaina kegare o oidasudarou!

Upon speaking it thrice and expending energy, it will send the target back to it's home.

"This should be sufficient." I said briskly. "It should deal with them very quickly." I smirked, and began waiting.

The Royal Sisters finished teleporting in.

"Archmage, would thou come with us? We merely want thou to learn how to control thy powers so thou doth not harm anypony." said the tall, white one.

"I would've hoped you had realized this already, but I knew you didn't know. Otherwise I would either already be dead or imprisoned." I said in an annoyed way.

"What doth thou mean?" inquired Luna. "If thou mean that thou stole from our castle, we already know."

"Watch." I said flatly.

I changed the view from a white expanse to the forest from yesterday, at the start of my walk.

"What is this forest called?" I asked.

"It is called the Everfree, after our fathers wish for it's creatures to become ever free..." Luna trailed off.

"And you, who are you?" I said inquisitively to the white one.

"I am Princess Celestia, the Sun Shepard." she said.

"What do those titles mean, anyway?" I questioningly said, head tilted.

"We raise the sun- " Celestia said, " -and we raise the moon." Luna finished.

"Hold on," I said, holding my hands up and stopping the image behind me right before the timberwolf came into view. "Bullcrap. The earth orbits the sun and the moon earth. The sun is an enormous ball of hydrogen gas undergoing a fusion reaction that produces heat, light and helium, while the moon is a ball of rock twenty-seven percent of the Earth's size."

They shared a look, then burst out laughing.

"Thou art quite the jester," Luna told me. "The sun and moon are balls of rock, of equal size to each other, filled with magic. They emit light with the magic, bringing day and night as we move them around the planet. They are about one-hundred twenty-eighths of the size of Equus. And what is earth?"

"Earth is the name of the planet I'm from. Earth orbits it sun, which I told you about. It's moon orbits it. The moon's light is a reflection of the suns, even if it is more beautiful. And even if they are rocks of that size, there is no way that you could move them. They would weigh... give me a minute... four and six thousand eight hundred seventy-five ten-thousandths multiplied by ten to the power of twenty-two kilograms, which would take.. give me another minute... roughly one and five-thousand, six-hundred, twenty-five times ten to the power of twenty-one newtons of force. And that'sSo, what you said cannot be true without you being considered a demigod." I finished triumphantly.

"Yes, many consider us demigods for our level of thaumic power." Celestia said coolly.

"Whatever..." I sighed, continuing the memory.

The timberwolf came into view, shocking the royal sisters.

"What is that?!" they asked, panic in their voice.

"I call it a timberwolf. That one's a pup, I would wager." I said, regret in my tone, easily audible.

"How did it come to be?" they inquired, their voices trembling.

"My magic has an adverse reaction on this worlds magic. I suspect that was the true reason behind my dreams polluting the astral plane. It is slowly corrupting any area I use it with chaos, fusing creature into beasts like these, creating ominous fog and the like." I explained.

The manticore became visible. They gasped again.

"I call this one a manticore." I told them.

"I have no idea why this happens, but I would think that it would be in the best interests of your country to deal with me in some form. After all, were I to go to your capital, chaos would reign." I sighed once more.

Apparently I said something wrong, as they breathed out one word and began to attack me.

"Discord." their breath carrying hatred for that word or whatever it meant.

They charged me straight on. That was a mistake for them, and fortunate for me.

I looked them straight in their eyes.

"Anata wa dare ga, watashi wa, majutsu-shi wa, watashi no mahō de haiki-mono o oku watashi no shutsugen de, noboru taiyō no kono tochi o bōtoku, anata no kōdaina kegare o oidasudarou!" I yelled at them.

"Anata wa dare ga, watashi wa, majutsu-shi wa, watashi no mahō de haiki-mono o oku watashi no shutsugen de, noboru taiyō no kono tochi o bōtoku, anata no kōdaina kegare o oidasudarou!" I screamed this time.

"Anata wa dare ga, watashi wa, majutsu-shi wa, watashi no mahō de haiki-mono o oku watashi no shutsugen de, noboru taiyō no kono tochi o bōtoku, anata no kōdaina kegare o oidasudarou!" My throat was raw.

I thrust my magic into the semi-visible pathway my gaze and words had made into their minds.

Suddenly, their eyes glazed over and they turned back, teleporting out.

I contracted the dream-bubble so they could get out faster, and woke up.

I got up, out of bed, took a shower, ate, and then allowed myself to dwell on what had happened in my dream. Since I was in lucid control of my dream, that meant that at least one of them was actually a dreamwalker. And if they had that much magic, knew how to use it, and were royalty... I shuddered at what a powerful enemy I had just made.

The Royal Sisters Celstia and Luna were awakening, having been forced by their own mind to exit the Astral Plane.

Luna groaned, and sat up. She was opening her eyes, when she saw that she was no longer in the Astral Plane at all, when only her magic should have been able to evict her, even a lucid dreamer shouldn't have been able to do it, and that was all the archmage was in the respect of dreams, not a top-notch oneiromancer and dreamwalker like Princess Luna.

"Sister, we have been sent out of the dream! Only we should have been able of doing that, not even Discord could evict us from his dreams when he was aware they were dreams unless he had... That insolent beast! He used sorcery on us, and made us return here!" Luna growled.

Celestia woke and stretched. She went back over Luna's words and short up.

"That could not hast been unintentional. He did this on purpose. However, all it did was make us leave his dream. Instead of destroying our minds as he could hath. So he didn't want conflict." reasoned Celestia".

"Yes..." said Luna, trailing into thought.

Trying to both prepare and to find something to do, I opened my book once more.

Transmutation and Transfiguration

The Principle of Components: The parts make up the whole.

The Doctrine of the Soul: You can change structure, but not soul.

The Rule of Will: The will must overcome.

This book, as you may have figured out by now, is enchanted. It give you the right knowledge at the right time.

Now that you know elemental magic and sorcery, you can achieve both an offshoot of elemental magic, transmutation, and an offshoot of transmutation and sorcery, transfiguration and since elemental magic is in itself an offshoot of thaumaturgy, transfiguration is a blend of two main branches. It obeys a combination of the laws from both, which essentially boils down to the Principle of Sympathy making it so that you need the components of something to create it.

As such, you cannot use air to make sugar without the air containing hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. As such, sugars, starches, lactose, and other carbohydrates could be made in a normal atmosphere on Earth or Equus, but would not work in a pure oxygen environment. It could even synthesize fats, proteins, and vitamins when provided with nitrogen. Minerals, however, are harder to come by, as they many times include things like iron and magnesium. However, any food can be made with things found in the atmosphere as long as you can supply the metals and the like for minerals. Using magic such as this, one could subsist completely on the atmosphere and metals if they could perform this magic.

Thanks to elemental magic, you can change somethings shape but not it's essential nature. Here, that means that you can change somethings structure but not it's soul. Transfiguration is different than transmutation in the way that transfiguration is transmutation of something alive into something else alive. Transmutation's specific rule is that you have to overcome the will of something to change it's soul. With transmutation, you could shapeshift, but the important part is that using transmutation to change something alive, they would become an abomination over time because their soul rejected their mind and body. So by using energy and will in the same way as sorcery, you can change the soul to match the mind and body.

Normally I would tell you a basic spell for this, but seeing as it is simply limited by what you can imagine and what power you can provide, simply imagine the end result and focus magic, and it should work. Make sure to imagine outside and inside of the body, and to change the soul and mind to match.

“What a wonderful reality this is for the most powerful beings in all the realms to be geeks,” I happily remarked before glancing at my pet timberwolf. “You have my undying gratitude.” I said to the book.

I turned to the timberwolf, and focused my energy, designing it's mind to be that of a cat, but with loyalty to me and psionic ability, not to mention that it had full sentience and sapience. It's soul matched, but was changed to be resistant to dreamwalkers. It's body was that of a black kitten with four totally white eyes, two smaller and higher on it's face. It's nose was black, and it's whiskers were invisible. It mouth was white, and it was adorable. It's name used to be Vodka Mutini, but is now Doctor Meowgon. It is my favorite non-humanoid (trolloid?) character from Homestuck, but with the ability to telepathically communicate with me and become an adorable scientist using telekenetic ability.

Yeeesssssss.

I released it, and Unnamed Unimportant Side Character Number Five became Doctor Meowgon Spengler.

I had a new companion.

One that could talk to me and I knew would be loyal to me.

I had a friend.

I smiled.

I quickly changed my soul and mind to be resistant to dreamwalkers.

I opened my mind to Doctor Meowgon.

Hello, Vincent.

I grinned.

He already knew my name.

"Hello Meowgon." I said.

"It's good to finally meet you. What would you like to do?"

Well, Meowgon's stomach rumbled. I could use some food.

"Okay." I closed my eyes, and started a transmutation. I activated it, and I synthesized steak and other cuts of beef from manticore meat.

I gave him a reasonably proportioned slab of meat and he quickly devoured it, and drank from his bowl.

I looked out and illusionary window. It showed the outside from the inside, and hid the view from the outside without having to make one-way glass.

I had a little time left before I should go to sleep. My eyes widened.

"Where did the time go!?" I shouted, startled.

Reading. Reading and magic. Transfiguring me took up a lot of time.

"Well, what should I do now?" I asked, stumped.

Belly rub?

Doctor Meowgon had rolled over, making his kitty belly visible. I chuckled, and began rubbing his soft furry kitty belly. I let my grin come back in full force, and laughed heartily. It was nice, having someone to talk to. I could finally let loose and have fun. And I had a cat. Cats are essential. I was thinking on the webcomic of his character's origin, when I had an epiphany.

I got up, and I set to work, pulling knowledge from myself and resources from the world, synthesizing things with alchemy.

What are you doing Vincent?

"I'm making something great!" I said, excited.

In the end, I had a black laptop with a white cat head instead of the Dell or Apple emblem on the top. I took word and made a desk and chair, and jettisoned more rock from the tower, promptly filling it with magic infused granite. magic flowed through it, converted right by the desk into electricity. I quickly made a charger, and plugged the laptop in so it's already-full battery wouldn't lower.

"Doesn't have internet access, though..." I mumbled. "Ah well."

A laptop?

"Yep. Already has a specialized operating system made from a combination of Windows Ten and Linux," I stated with pride. "Linux lets me hack better, while Windows Ten helps out for this..."

I alchemized *snrk snrk snrk* a holographic projector and attached it to the ceiling and electricity. An unstarted program appeared, floating in the air above my closed 'labtop' (cause I'm a scientist you see. Professor Asteri.) and I opened the laptop. I alchemized a pair of goggles and put them on my forehead. Programming mock ~ATH programs and then pouring magic into them to see what'll happen is a dangerous hobby.

I entered this code:

import author Archmage;

import object O1, O2, O7;

import universe Equestria;

import abstraction author's_friends_and_family, pony_prime_universe_at_end_of_season_four;

~ATH(!author) {

    SET[O1, author]

    SET[O2, author's_friends_and_family]

    SET[O7, Equestria]

    BIND[O7, pony_prime_universe_at_end_of_season_four]

    BIND[O1, O7]

    BIND[O2, O7]

} EXECUTE(THIS);

THIS.DIE();

I saved it. It was a joke, but now I'm just depressed. I shut off my computer. I close it. I go to bed, like Meowgon had. There was no sleep for me that night. For that program would send me and my friends and family to Equestria.