Chapters Up the airy mountain,William Allingham The Fairies.
Faerie Politica
To whomever is reading this, if you expected some grand insight into the realm of the Fay than I must say, sucks to be you. This isn't a guide to Faerie life, and it certainly doesn't explain much about Faerie lore, well maybe a little. This is a story about a part of my life, if you wish to read and discover than go ahead, else lay this back down wherever you found it so another who may wish to read can uncover it in time.
So you decided to read this. Great! First off, introductions. My name is Callidus Aurora, and I am a Faerie. A Pixie in fact. Before we go any further I'm going to explain some things about Faeries.
First off there are many kinds of Faeries: Pixies, Nixies, Grigs, Kobolds, Brownies, Sylphs, Hags, Leprechauns, Clurichauns, and Nymphs, just to name a few. Now all of these kinds of Fay are split into two groups, The Fay Diurnal and The Fay Nocturnal, the Day and Night Faeries respectively.
Now the main difference between these two groups is where they draw their magical energies from. The Day Faeries draw power from the Sun, and the Night Faeries draw power from the Moon and Stars. This caused a sort of civil war about one-hundred millenniums ago, don't ask me, as I hadn't been born till long after this ended. Since the war ended the Night and Day Faeries have had an uneasy peace, to say the least. Let's just say that having one of each standing within twenty inches of another, without a shouting match escalating could be considered a miracle.
Now the physical differences between the two are quite obvious. The Day Faeries' complexions range from pale yellows, to greens, to light browns. The Night Faeries are dark red, blue and purple in coloration.
Anyways both of these groups are ruled by a Queen and a Fool. No I don't mean an idiot. The Fool is the title given to the most powerful male Faerie, it was derived from how well they could trick the Big Folk (that's you by the way), or how well they could fool them. It is essentially the Faerie equivalent of a king, but Faeries don't have kings.
Now that that's all out of they way, I can start telling you my story. It begins with my birth, well actually it would begin slightly before that. You see, I'm different from all the other Faeries. Why you may ask? Well the answer is quite simple. I'm a cross. My father was The Fool of the Day Faeries, and my mother was the Queen of the Night Faeries. This left me in a very difficult position, as no matter where I went, the faeries there would scorn me. I couldn't even hide as one or the other, I just looked too different.
Firstly my height, I was just over an inch and a half, an inch being the average height of the Fay, in their natural forms. Next off my wings are quite a bit larger than many others', adding an entire half inch to my height, and pointed, as opposed to rounded, at the tips. Finally, and most obvious, my coloration. My wings are a deep purple, with bright yellow crescents on them. My skin is pale blue, and my eyes are bright red. My hair is a dark red, verging on brown, and is cropped short around my head. This made me really stand out, and made it really hard to make any friends.
In fact, the vast majority of my friends weren't even of The Fay. I used to hang out with one of the Big Folk I met, I heard he's a pretty famous author now. James always made me laugh with how he pictured The Fay. Anyways, hanging out with Big Folk just made it even harder to get friends among The Fay, and I suppose that it was what started me on this journey in the first place. Actually, I suppose that my journey was also started by my magic. As both a Day Faerie and Night Faerie, I could draw on the powers of the heavens at any time, and far more that any other could, it also removed the need for me to sleep, not that I don't sleep, I just don't need to. This lead me to learn more obscure and rare magics when I had nothing better to do, which was normally when everyone else was sleeping. In fact I picked up a large amount of useful skills in my days and night alone.
Now my story starts at a certain time, in the Castle of the Day. I had just arrived to visit my father, and the Queen of the Day wasn't happy about it. I can't really blame her for it, really who wants to see the child of your husband and your most hated rival? But I've dealt with things like this before, so I ignored all the shouting. I unloaded my things and walked into the throne room. That's when it happened.
"I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU EVEN RECOGNIZE HER! SHE"LL PROBABLY END UP ANOTHER LY ERG!"
And then there was silence. Deafening silence. For those of you who don't know Ly Erg was a faerie who had an uncontrollable urge to kill, he would disguise himself as one of the Big Folk, and join soldiers in battles. Joining in a war is forbidden, unless it's a war that's amongst the Fay, or between the Fay and another race. Ly Erg was the first Faerie to ever be Banished, and stripped of his race.
Being compared to such a figure is the worst insult that our kind can give. Even the one who spoke it, the Queen of the Day, had a slight look of horror on her face. As I walked up to the dais, the only sound that could be heard were my footsteps, and then a sharp SLAP , which rang out through the throne room. I was furious, and I did something incredibly stupid and reckless.
"I reject you. I refute you. And I cut ALL bonds with you and all who stand with you."
There was a collective intake of breath as everyone heard what I had said. I had just recited the Severance, an ancient ritual that cuts all ties with a place. Everyone there is to be considered a stranger, and nothing there, asides what you have on you, can be yours.
I pulled out a silver dagger, and stabbed it through my hand, completing the ritual. Then I did something even more reckless. I preformed the Opening.
"I leave this place, this unknown land. To where none have tread before, and where none shall come without my knowlage."
The Opening is the second half of the Severance, and has been preformed even less. It allows the one who has severed to go to a place where no other Faeries have ever been before, and essentially become the steward of that place.
I then thrust the dagger into a nearby wall, causing a sharp SHRIEK , as the now enchanted metal cut deep into the stone. Thrusting down, I brought the dagger to the floor, and then pulled it sideways, along the ground, before finally pulling up again to meet the place where the cut started.
The stone of the wall faded away, replaced with a portal of blazing light. I turned around and looked out across the room.
"Hello, and goodbye, strangers. Such a shame that I haven't had time to get to know you."
Then I walked through the portal, knowing that it would remain, should any wish to follow me, and than everything was gone.
A/N
So how was it? Good? Bad? Please give me your honest opinion. If it's bad tell me what can be done to fix it. Also please let me know of any grammatical or spelling errors. Also the Faerie lore in this is made of multiple different sources of folk lore, as well as some things I made up to make the story work. If any of you any Faerie lore that you want to see, or be referenced to in this story, just tell me in the comments.
To readers of my other stories:
[Me] : Alright brain, what should I do for Young Gods?Seriously? Okay.
True story.
The woods are full of fairies! The trees are alive:Unknown
Faerie Sylva
So there I was. A brand new land, full of new possibilities, abounding with endless potential, and I had jack. Well I had some, but not much. After a quick inventory, resulting in: two silver daggers, one carving knife (also silver), one small bag made of spider silk, one dried strawberry, a bowstring (also spider silk), and the clothes on my back (yet again spider silk, but died bright red and green); I decided to do ... something. Honestly, I was still pretty furious, and needed to calm down. I decided that a bowstring without a bow is pretty useless, so I should get to work on one of those soon. I also decided to look out for twigs and stones that I could use to make arrows. I also kept my eye out for anything I could eat (just for the record all Fay are herbivorous, regardless of any myths you may have heard), cause a strawberry won't last forever.
After a quick survey of my surroundings, I deduced that I was in ... a forest. With no real point of reference, and the fact that it wouldn't be any fun if I just flew above the canopy to see how big this place was, I headed off in a random direction.
After a few hours, with several berries, newly made arrows, and a soon-to-be bow, I sat back on a tree branch and began carving. Shortly after finishing the bow, stringing, and testing it, I heard a quiet voice, and some heavy footsteps.IF YOU EVEN TOUCH HER I WILL END YOU! " And that ended that line of thought.
The town was full of horses. Horses with tattoos. I found it hilarious, don't ask why. But my assumption was correct. Not only are there more pegasi here, but there are also unicorns! I mean, unicorns left our world ages ago, just before the Faerie War. I guess that they came here. Looking around the town one building in particular caught my eye. It was a tree. A tree, with a house inside it. It's a tree, I'm a faerie. Do the math.
Inside the tree I could see where all the wood had gone. It was a library, I hope, cause one person owning that many books, is a bit nutty. The occupants of the librar-tree, were one lavender unicorn, and a, I'm guessing dragon. The unicorn was magicking (I assume it was magic, 'cause her horn was glowing, and so was the dragon), the dragon into a little cot.
"But Twilight, I'm not tired." *yawn*
"Oh Spike. You still need to take naps, you are only a baby dragon."
Called it.
"Spike, I'm going out. Fluttershy said she wanted me to help with some sick animals. If you take any books of the shelves, be sure to put them back wherever you found them, and don't forget to catalog which ones you read."
"Mnrphf"
This gave me a brilliant idea. Library full of books? Check. The only witness around is sleeping? Check. The apparent librarian, "Twilight" is a complete nut-job when it comes to being organized? Check. This was going to be good.
About two hours and several hundred books later, the library was completely tidy. But the books were all organized alphabetically. By the first letter. Of the third chapter. I had actually read a few of the books. mostly just a few history books, and information on the surrounding area. Turns out I was in a place called "Equestria" which was mainly inhabited by...not horses, but ponies. Well I was close. I had just cut off a slab of the tree to carve into a fiddle, when "Twilight" came back in.
She was deep in thought, and walked about five feet inside, before she looked at the books. She looked back to what she was doing then looked at the books again. And again. And again. Then her eye gave a slight twitch, her entire body spasmed, then she promptly fell over, unconscious. The thud of her fall woke up the sleeping dragon, who quickly rushed over to her, calling her name. The he noticed the books. He closed his eyes, and murmured what could have been a prayer, then peeked back at the books. He let out a long sigh, hauled the unicorn up to her bed, than came back down and started to reorganize the books. I was howling with laughter at this point. Man I needed that.
I figured that I would mess around with the dragon at a later time, as he was apparently just a baby, and reorganizing the whole library would probably be very stressful for him. I'm not evil, I just enjoy a good prank. I figured that this tree is a good a place as any to make a house, so I started on carving myself out a few rooms in the upper level of the trunk, where nothing had been carved yet. It gave me plenty of room. Enough for a bedroom, a sitting room, a kitchen, a workroom, and a study. Then I needed some furniture, so I flew out and found a few mushrooms I could use as chairs and a larger one I could use as a bed, I picked them up, and brought them back to my new abode, using my magic to prevent them from deteriorating. After a few more trips around, I gathered some materials that I would need, and began to work throughout the night, making a few tables, a loom, a few chests, and a cold box, as well as spinning some spider web into silk, for some finery, like bedsheets, and curtains.
'I think I'm going to like it here.'
A/N
That's all folks.
-Eathlome
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.Neil Gaiman
Faerie Iocos
I was up all night. I finished making the loom with a few hours before dawn. I then spent my time spinning some thread. Once I had finished I went down to see if the dragon had finished reorganizing the library and, much to my surprise, he had. But he had passed out while walking to bed. I figured that he shouldn't sleep on the floor, so I picked him up and placed him in his bed. I used telekinesis, I'm not strong enough to pick up a dragon, he's at least a hundred times larger than me. I even had to draw on the Power of the Stars to help my magic, he was so heavy. What did this dragon eat, rocks?
After I put the dragon to bed I decided to explore the rest of the town, because I really didn't get a chance to before. During my look around I spotted a very strange group of clouds. Upon further investigation I discovered that it was a house! How cool is that? A house, made of clouds. But even better, it offered a huge array of tricks to choose from. Flying around the house I quickly found the bedroom. Sleeping in it was a cyan pegasus, with a very colorful mane. I glanced up to the ceiling, than back down to the sleeper, than back to the ceiling. I started rearranging the furniture, and where the doors opened to (clouds are very easy to move here). After my preparations were complete I flew up to the cloud above the bed and started drifting through it, collecting water droplets. Once I had a pony-head sized ball of water I positioned it over the pegasus.
"Bombs away."
Splash!
snore
It turns out that that pegasus could sleep through anything. I was a bit disheartened by the fact that my prank didn't work out as planned, but I quickly thought up a new one. Looking over the sleeping pegasus' messy chromatic mane, I decided that a makeover was in order. After spending about thirty minutes combing and than curling her mane, I added the finishing touch. A big pink bow with a sticking charm, it'll come off in about a week. I also made her mane uncutable, so she had to suffer through it.
Deciding that this prank would be best to view the results of later, I went back to the town and floated around some more. After some exploration, and familiarizing myself with the general layout of the town, I flew back to my home for a snack. While eating my meal, a succulent blueberry, I heard an ear-piercing shriek, then after a few minutes, another. Shortly followed by a rather large CRASH , which nearly knocked me over.
Flying out to see what the commotion was, I found myself facing a very hilarious scene. Take one purple unicorn, add one frustrated cyan pegasus, throw them in a pile of about forty books, then smash it into a wall. That's about what I saw, and what happened next, priceless.
"Twi! You gotta help me! I've tried everything! I can't get it off! I even tried cutting it! Do something magic! Anything! I don't care, just get it off!"
At this point the pegasus had grabbed the unicorn by the shoulders(?), and was shaking her back and forth. The unicorn kinda resembled a lavender bobble-head. I was gasping for air, I was laughing so hard.
"Rainbow ... Rainbow ... RAINBOW DASH!!"
"What!"
"Calm down."
"Oops, heh heh, sorry Twi."
"So, what's wrong?"
"This!"
I had never before heard any piece of fabric referred to so vehemently.
"The bow?"
"Yes, I tried everything! But I just can't get it off!"
"Um..."
"I mean I tried pulling it off, then untying it. Hay! I even tried cutting it off, but nothing worked."
"So what do you want me to do?"
"Can't you just cook up some magic thingy to get it off?"
"Well first I would have to find out what happened to it. Now hold still."
The unicorn's horn started glowing and I managed to stop giggling. I would finally get to see some unicorn magic up close. I had hoped that I might figure out how it worked. No such luck.
"Hmmmm. That's ... odd."
"What is it Twi? Can you get it off?"
"I don't know what happened. This is some sort of magic I've never seen before, and it's far more powerful than mine. The only ones who have this amount of power are the Princesses."
"Are you saying that Princess Celestia or Princess Luna did this? Why would they do that, I'm the Element of Loyalty."
"Well, there is another option ... but..."
"C'mon, out with it Twi! Who do you think did this?"
The pegasus slammed her hooves together rather violently. I was really glad that they couldn't see me.
"Well ... it might ... just might ... be Discord?"
The pagasus was silent for a second, then she burst out laughing.
"Really Twi? You think that Discord did this? He's a statue, he can't do squat."
I decided that now would be an excellent time to practice my ventriloquism. I sent a deep laugh around the room, and both ponies jumped. This caused me to laugh even harder, and the ponies started to glare around the room.
"Discord, show yourself!"
"Yeah, I'll pound you for this!"
"Oh, now why would I do that?" Interesting fact about my ventriloquism, it pulls from the thoughts of the ones who I'm using it on to shape the voice. Basically I sound just like Discord, even though I've never heard him. Also for those of you who don't know, Discord is some God of Chaos and Trickery, and has been sealed in stone multiple times. Other than that, I don't know much about him, so I'm really just winging it.
"You are really no fun at all, don't you like my present? I think it suits you perfectly. A bow for Rainbow."
Rainbow (as I had determined her name to be) rocketed towards where my voice was coming from, and started tearing through the books.
"Nope! Over here!"
I then drew on the Power of the Sun, and used my telekinesis to create a very rough intimation of Discord from the books that were lying around. With a shout Rainbow flew at the construct. Right before she hit, I released the telekinesis, causing the entire pile of books to fall on her. While Rainbow was muttering several profanities, the likes of which I will not repeat ... yet, I glanced around to see where Twilight (the unicorn) had gone. I flew into the next room just in time to see the dragon breath green fire onto a letter, which than vanished.
"Discord! Surrender now! I have just sent a letter to Princess Celestia and she will be here shortly."
I honestly could say that I had not seen that coming. What was I to do? One of the goddess-rulers of this place was coming! So I did the only reasonable thing, I charged up my magical energies, preparing to cast the most sinister spell I could think of. There was a bright flash of light, and the Sun Princess appeared in all her glory. And all her gold, she was wearing a lot of gold. With a bit of cleaning one of her shoes could have made a wonderful bath. Anyways, that's not the point. I let loose my ferocious spell, and the princess was now sporting a very nice wavy mustache, perfectly matching her mane.
What? I panicked, alright? And honestly, I wasn't going to go toe to ... hoof ... with a goddess, I'm not crazy you know. Well, maybe just a little. By the way, her reaction was totally worth it.
"DISCORD! SHOW YOURSELF FIEND! "
"RUN AWAY!"
I flew as quickly as I could, laughing like a maniac. I have only ever had three opportunities to prank a god, and the other two ended with me spending two centuries stuck in Niflhel. Odin never had much of a sense of humor, and Loki never enjoyed being beaten at his own game. Anyway, I didn't want a repeat of that, so I quickly zipped back to the forest that I arrived in, and settled into a hollow of a tree. It was just in time to, a few minutes later my entire body was wracked with pain, it was terrible, I threw up at least twice. Before I blacked out, I had only one thought.
'It was still totally worth it.'
For those of you that are confused as to what happened, that was probably Celestia breaking my spell on Rainbow. Sometimes these things can have a nasty backlash, but I've put up enough wards throughout my life, that I knew that Celestia wasn't fairing much better. Or maybe she was, you can never really tell with gods, but she definitely felt the same amount of pain that I did.
I had recovered a few days later and returned to the town, so while I didn't get to see events unfold, I certainly heard plenty of stories, straight from the horses mouth (get it?). According to the grape vine, and the local newspaper, "The Princesses assure everypony that all reports of Discord's escape are completely unfounded, and the true culprit has been caught and properly punished."
I flew back over to the library to see how my favorite lavender unicorn was doing. I soon found her amidst a floating collection of books about ancient and rare magics.
"Twilight, don't you think you should stop? You've been searching for two days, and you haven't slept at all."
"I can't Spike. The Princess asked me, ME, to try to figure out who was behind this. I know that the papers say that the culprit was caught, but none of us have any real idea about what happened. I can't stop until I find the answers, they have to be in here somewhere! Now grab me those books from the Era of Magical Development, and the series on Obsquere Magyx, oh and..."
Poor thing, she could hardly think. I did the best thing for her. Just a little sleep spell. I winced slightly as all the books suddenly fell to the floor, along with Twilight. Spike (the dragon) face-palmed and rolled his eyes with a sigh, before dragging her up to her bed. He then came back and started to clean up the books. I hit him with a sleep spell as well, and floated him over to his cot. I quickly tidied up the library and put away all the books. I then grabbed a piece of paper and quickly scrawled a quick Sorry. Aside from the actual apology, it would also confuse both of them, and I was pretty sure that their reactions would be great.
I then flew up to my house. I quickly cleaned up the old blueberry, which had started to rot, and grabbed a fresh one. I quickly finished it, and grabbed another one. Don't judge me, I hadn't eaten for a few days. After my meal I decided to have a snooze. Over my many years, I have found that the best way to regain my strength is to take a nap ... although that may be because those naps had taken a few centuries... oh well, better safe than sorry.
A/N
Here we go. The next chapter of Faerie, and the longest one to boot.
I wrote it while listening to this . Did it work?
Anyways continue with the comments, criticism, and corrections.
Thank you one and all.
Also can you tell me how I did for Twilight and RD? I hate it when I make characters ooc, but I'm really bad at recognizing when I do it.
~Eathlome
Why should we strive, with cynic frownEliza Cook
Faerie Moenus
Ugh, I ate too much. Well at least I felt better after the nap. I had woken up a few hours after dawn, and my sleep spell was still holding. I dragged myself out of bed and flew outside, and over to where the yellow pegasus lived. I had remembered there being a small creek there, and I wanted to get washed up. After a nice warm bath (thanks to a small heating spell), I flew over the town, and I noticed something that I probably should have much sooner than I did. It was a sign, on it read:
WELCOME TO PONYVILLE
"...HOW DID I MISS THAT?"
That was when I learned the name of where I was staying. I mean, it really shouldn't have taken me that long to find out, should it have? ...Oh right, back to me. Well, I was just floating by a very strange building. It looked like someone had taken a merry-go-round and dropped it on top of a house. Even more strange was the fact that, despite the early hour, there was someone ... pony? working inside. I couldn't help myself. I flew up to one of the upper windows and entered. After going downstairs I soon found the source of all the commotion. A white unicorn with a purple mane was working furiously on several dresses. What really impressed me though, was her display of magic. I mean she didn't have the raw power of Twilight, but she certainly had finesse. She was holding up several different objects in the air: spools of thread, several different rolls of cloth, and at least thirty needles. But it was how she was holding them. She was only using the barest amount of her power for each item, just enough to keep it in the air.
It was all very impressive, and I spent some time watching. I hadn't even noticed how much time had passed until she put everything away and looked upon her creations.
"Well Rarity, you have done it again."
I looked the outfits over. They were pretty nice. So I did the thing any self respecting faerie would, I pulled all the thread out and watched the newly unmade dresses fall apart, and onto the ground. I didn't quite get the reaction I was after. Rarity, as she called herself, stood silent for a full five seconds, completely still, then it happened.
Oh, just to make explaining this easier, if whoever you are has ever met a banshee, they ain't got nothing on this unicorn. I swear that you could have heard her shriek from the Everfree. She was absolutely fuming, and I mean literally, her eyes had tiny fires in them, and there was smoke pouring from her ears. I did the sensible thing, I ran. Although, I ran laughing the whole way.
I was in the center of Ponyville, I assumed it to be the town square, when I felt a strange chill. Glancing around I saw Twilight running towards me, my note hovering in front of her, with a determined look in her eyes. I was about to bolt when out of nowhere a pink explosion materialized next to Twilight.
"HEY TWI! HOWS IT GOING? WHATCHA DOING? WHERESSPIKE? WHYAREYOURUNNINGTHROUGHTOWNHMMANDWHYAREYOULOOKINGSOWORIEDANDWHYAREYOU - hmpfgd"
Twilight had shoved a hoof into the pink pony's mouth. I had nearly fallen over laughing during her tirade, and oh, it was just too much! I fell on the ground, laughing, and rolling around until I could control myself. I managed to stop in time to hear part of their conversation.
"...cast a tracing spell on this note I found. I'm following it around, because whoever, or what ever has been messing around with us seems to come and go as they choose. This note is my only lead, and this spell it fairly difficult to maintain."
"Don't be a silly filly Twi, you could have just asked me!"
"...What?"
That was said by both Twilight and myself.
"Didn't I tell you I know everypony in Ponyville?"
"Well yes, but Pinkie I don't think-"
"Of course you think, you're Twilight Sparkle, it's your job to think. Actually it's your job to sign out books at the library, so I guess thinking is more of a hobby than a job."
"Pinkie, back to what you were saying, about knowing where our mysterious ... thing is?"
"Oh right. She's right over there. Hi Cal!"
I was speechless, which might I say is quite a feat. I slowly started to float away until:
"Don't leave Cal, we just want to talk. Well actually I want to throw you a Welcome-to-Ponyville party, but Twilight wants to talk."
Now I knew she could definitely see me, which was bad. This "Pinkie" could see through my invisibility, which meant she was:
a) A wild animal (not likely, since she is talking)
b) Another faerie (also not likely, because I would be able to sense that)
c) The wielder of some ferocious hidden magical ability (this might be the answer)
d) One of the Higher Gods, who couldn't care less for things like the basic laws of nature or base constants of reality (jury's still out on this one)
Given the fact that I didn't really want to spend my time as the prisoner/interrogee of a moderately crazed unicorn I decided to leg it ... or wing it, but not in the traditional sense ... I mean I flew really fast.
"Wait! Come back!"
"PINKIE, FOLLOW THAT ... um ... er ... THING!"
"Okie, dokie, lokie"
Now have you ever been chased by a puffy, bouncing pink pony and a nearly rabid unicorn? Well it's moderately terrifying, to say the least. ...If you're laughing right now, you're getting cursed. Anyways after the chase, which was rather fun, looking back on it, I had managed to lose them after flying into the Everfree. I could see that the ponies really didn't want to follow. Pinkie just waved and shouted goodbye, Twilight lowered her head in disappointment, and the pair slowly walked back to Ponyville.
I decided to follow them back, as stealthily as I could while formulating a plan in my mind. We were nearly into town when I had finished my deliberation. I flew up behind Pinkie and tapped her shoulder(?), she glanced at me, then turned away, and then she did a double take. Her eyes got really wide and she took in a huge breath, I quickly put a finger to my lips. Pinkie just nodded with a knowing look and winked.
"What was that Pinkie?"
"Oh nothing Twi."
Now having solved the problem that was Pinkie (for the moment anyways), I headed off back to my home. I decided that I would finish my fiddle, since most of the day was gone and I had nothing else to do. Flying back to the library I settled into a chair with the piece of wood I had decided to carve. I had most of the body done by the time Twilight got back, she didn't say anything to Spike and went straight to bed. I just chuckled to myself and continue to carve.
Once I had finished the body I decided to take a break. I flew outside, to enjoy the night air. The moon was full and I could feel its light filling me with strength. I glanced up at the stars and noticed a strange dark spot. I was curious, so floated up to it. I was really out of it because I forgot to make myself undetectable. I soon found this out when the dark figure turned to face me.
What I saw was a very dark coated Allicorn. This is when I met Luna. And by met I mean we stared at each other for about two minutes. Then she tried to grab me with her magic, and it all went downhill from there.
Pulling on the Power of the Moon, I negated Luna's grasp on me. She looked shocked, and then her eyes narrowed. I dropped, just in time to avoid the irate night goddess from crushing me in her hooves. This is how most of the battle went. Luna would use magic, I would counter with magic pulled from her domain (which she really didn't like, I thought it was pretty hilarious fighting a goddess with her own power), then she would charge at me, and I would evade. This went on for a good twenty minutes.
After very nearly being squired on her horn, I decided to try to be more diplomatic about this.
"Look if this is because I gave your sister a mustache, and not you, all you have to do is ask."
Luna just growled. ...I probably should have mentioned that diplomacy was never my strong point.
"Wait, no, I meant that just because ponies ask Celestia for help, doesn't mean that they'll just ignore you."
Diplomacy was clearly not working, despite my best efforts, so I decided to do something I really hated doing. I quickly flew up high into the air, and summoned about an eighth of my gold stash. The result was amazing. Luna looked up in surprise, just before being burred in an avalanche of gold. After the dust had settled, I flew down and began collecting all my gold. After I had unburied Luna I decided that now would be the best time to flee. But I didn't.
Luna wasn't looking so good, I was almost positive she was unconscious. I landed just in front of her, and slowly approached. Than faster than the eye could see, Luna lunged forward and grabbed me between her hooves.
"We have captured y..."
Luna trailed off once she realized that I had pulled out my bow, knocked two arrows, and pointed them right at her eyes. There was an awkward moment of silence.
"Er...truce?"
"We ... accept, little one."
Luna released me, and I put away my bow. There was another moment of awkward silence, and I decided to try to start up a conversation.
"Sooo ... Princess ... why were you stalking Twilight?"
As soon as the words had left my mouth I winced. Luna though seemed to know what I was trying to ask.
"Well, little one, we had heard from our sister that something," Luna raised an eyebrow at me, I just whistled innocently, "had attacked Ponyville, and Twilight. We decided to protect Twilight, as we owe her a great debt."
"Hmm, makes sense."
"Now we believe that you should come with us, we have much to talk about, and we do not wish to worry our sister."
It took Luna several more minutes to finally convince me to go with her, but she managed in the end. She's much better at diplomacy than me.
"Well then, little one, you know our name, will you not tell us yours?"
"My name is Callidus, Callidus Aurora."
Luna smirked.
"Is that really your name?"
"Yes. Yes it is."
"Well then, Clever Dawn, please come with us."
I was unhappy that she could translate my name, but at least she was wrong. If she had actually found out my True Name having it spoken aloud would have been quite painful. With these thoughts in my mind I landed on Luna's back, and watched the stars as she flew us to Canterlot.
A/N
Hello, one and all! I'm back and writing!
Hope you all enjoyed the latest chapter of Faerie.
I'm not really sure if it went well, and I may be editing it later, so let me know your thoughts on that.
As always let me know if you spot any mistakes, spelling, grammatical or otherwise.
On a different yet related note, how would you feel about me bringing more faeries into the story?
It wouldn't happen for a while, but I want to know if it would be a good idea, or a bad idea.
That's all for now.
~Eathlome
Not a Chapter, Just a notice.
Hey all, sorry about this not being a chapter, but I don't know how many of you checked my blog recently.here.
~Eathlome