Send Me A Remedy

The wind blew through my hair as we scrambled to whatever fate this miracle medicine would provide. I just had to look to the princess to see that it was fifty fifty at best but at least I could enjoy the hours I had left. I saw panicked expressions on everyone we passed except one who locked eyes with me, It was a little human girl and all she did was smile and wave to me as we passed.

"So princess how's this going to shake out?"

"Well Sun you are going to be baptized in the pool of light."

"The what now?"

"The pool of light is the pure conflicting existence of the bath of sin. By putting you in we hope it counter acts the nightmare plague but the life pool is even less predictable than the bath of sin."

"Will I get my magic back sometime soon?"

Her eyes darted from me, "No one can say for certain."

"Let's change the subject, how is Shinning doing?"

"He is recovering nicely and shows no transmission of the plague in his system."

"Well at least I did one thing right."

Her eyes studied me and her expression was half astonished half confused," How did you do something right?"

I felt a cold psychic stare coming from Selene, "I uhhh pulled out all the dark magic from his body." My voice kind of trailed off embarrassed by my own special stupid.

"And where did the dark magic go?" The angry serious tone in her voice was becoming a regular thing now.

"It was kept in my magic reserves because I was magically drained and couldn't flush it from my system, as you found out my body reacted rather negatively."

"Why would you do that!"

"Shining would of died before the day was over if I didn't."

"That explains why neither of you woke up for two days."

"Two days!? What the fuck!"

"You should be lucky you ever opened up your eyes again."

Selene's voice perked up in the back of my head, "You would of been perfectly fine if your magic wasn't restrained by the hex and you aren't going to die drama queen I've made sure of that."

"Thanks my loyal lunar companion."

"Yeah now you're learning, took you long enough."

My blank stare must of told Cadence my mind was else where, "Sun listen to me!"

"Sorry blanked out." Sometimes its hard remembering I'm the only one who can hear the voice in my head.

Cadence just shook her head before continuing, "Okay so after you emerge from the pool it's common to be in crystal form which will be temporary so don't be alarmed but the important thing is your adrenaline and magic will be charged to the max."

I shot a quick thought to Selene, "How does this check out?"

"It will only max out till it irritates the hex then it will Plateau but we could see some strange effect."

I turned my attention back to Cadence, "How long until this is ready?"

"I would say a couple hours but it's important you don't go anywhere. Which makes the next part a lot harder to tell you, we have made contact with a large group of dark magic entities just outside the dome."

"How are we doing?"

"It has been rough but Flash Sentry says we can hold out but there's rumors a larger force is mobilizing."

"If it gets bad I will go out there and there's no negotiating."

Her look was solemn as the words left my mouth, "Lets hope it doesn't come to that." The rest of the ride was silent aside from a few bolts of lightning from the oncoming storm. I wonder if the moon will bless us with its presence tonight.

Castle

Cadence had sent me with a couple of guards as an escort to my room but I requested they take me to the library and they had no problem taking me there. Opening the large crystal door to reveal a large room full from floor to ceiling with books of any imaginable kind but the books didn't hold my attention long as the giant window looking out over the empire took the spotlight. I made my way over and pressed my head to it looking at the distant fighting I was prohibited from joining. A knot formed in my stomach and I lightly punched the glass and turned from the window before I could get sick. As I turned from the glass I saw the door to the library still wide open with many guards staring at me but these guards are.... human! My mouth hung open in surprise and there was laughter and many began to kneel. They were people of ages 15 to 30 all wearing armor and all held hopeful eyes.

One of the younger ones stood up, "Are you really the lost son of Crimson Sun?" I guess it was just common knowledge around here that there was a lost prince or even princes at all and that a royal human family still exists.

"Yes I am..." My real name got caught in my throat and I paused. Selene whispered encouragements in my head. "I am the lost son of Crimson sun ... Apollo Sun." My eyes sealed shut genuinely worried about the reactions. After a couple seconds I peeked and saw a older man walking toward me as he got close he wrapped me in a hug.

He spoke while he hugged me, "Thank you for coming to back to us." Many others followed in suit and as the line thinned out and returned to watching me as I removed my hoodie to reveal the scares covering my torso and I herd a few gasps.

"We aren't a broken people just scarred." I slipped the hoodie back on and most of them bowed and left while others wanted to give words of encouragement and left me alone with my thoughts." I think the bowing thing is always going to creep me out a bit."

Selene chuckled, "That's what Luna used to say."

I turned my attention to the books I had got only hours before and I threw myself in a chair behind desk and cracked open the first book. "Royal fire" there was three pages marked with sticky notes done by Collector, what a nice old lady.

Royal Fire by Crimson Sun

pg:1

The royal fire comes from three main concepts observing, adapting, and applying. These properties can be seen in martial arts combat by the Zebras taking their opponents styles for their own. In royal blood we have a similar concept but with magic, as a normal magic user can't develop new magic without practicing while we have shown the ability to regurgitate spells of ancestors in stressful situations or reproduce power magics we've come in contact with. An example of this was in the battle between the Griffins and Humans for the fertile lands I used a spell called Solar flare where the Sun's rays are concentrated into a beam, I did this without any prior knowledge of the spell. Another example would be my brother Moon's use of a hurricane in the battle against the sirens along side Star Swirl. Both instances were provoked from danger or harm as I had my arm cut off and as my brother put it Star swirl was in grave danger. Chances are I would of been fine with my phoenix healing but my brother acted on instinct saving his and a friends life. Royal fire is ignited by stressful situations leaving a new ability to be used. This leaves me to wonder if this concept could be used to create more magic users among the ever more sterile people of the kingdom. Maybe I could make a spell to bestow magic.

pg: 77

Looking back on history led me to reflect on how magic even got introduced to the creatures that walk this planet. It's hard to understand how the dragons of the Sun and Moon divided there power evenly between the original communities until people like Storm Crescent and Solar Flare were able to create a pact with the dragons which in turn gave them immense power. I have spoken to the dragons in myself and my brothers they all say that the process to making a pact with a strong entity isn't just confined with dragons but anything with magic potential and a ignition of the contract producing a magical artifact with unrivaled power.

pg:357

I found that royal fire can be used in the induction of magical entities that are formless or immortal, this will be what saves us ......

Library

357 ended leaving a sad whisper of what my father was trying to achieve. It also provided more answers than questions which was nice for once but my inner turmoil of how this was going to happen was still in full swing and I couldn't really hope for the concept of royal fire to do all the work. I'm going to learn how to exorcise Sombra and wipe him from this land permanently by either mimicking his magic or burning all traces of his existence from this land.

Selene perked up in my head, "I have another option if you would consider it."

"Induct him like Crimson did with other strong magic entities."

"I was kind of planning on it but I wasn't going to tell you."

"Sun you're such a dick sometimes geez, the reason why you should is he wasn't always like this he was a scholar a long time ago that lost his family to the Griffins and the hate turned him evil but the real him might be able to be reached and he could be very useful in the future."

"Well let's give it a shot then." I pressed my head to the desk and attempted to rest as a shock wave shook the empire. I rose to my feet and the sight of a slight tear in the dome was accompanied by the rushing of soldiers back in a retreat as large creatures was in pursuit. 6 wendigos the size of houses forced their way through the tear in the barrier. I looked into my reflection of the large window as I activated my magic and the green fog and red eye returned.

"How's the magic reserves looking Selene?"

"Functionable, but less than desirable."

"Good." I breathed a long focused breath that filled my lungs and released all the stress through a deep exhale.. "Excel". Like that I was launched through the window at break neck speed flying toward the opposition and despite the fact I was getting ready to fight I can appreciate the feeling of flight or at least this fake flight. I pulled the sword from my belt loop as I approached the ground. The moon sword transformed into its full glory as it sliced one of the behemoths in half. I stabbed Selene into the ground and electrocuted the remains, each bright black blue arc seemed to purge the evil being. The lumbering of another wendigo behind me tipped me off to my next target. With another use of excel and I was sent flipping backwards through the air over the monster. Landing and the light show was back on with a tremendous amount of lightning leaving my finger tips buckling the creature to its knees. My right hand retained its lightning as my left switched to a dark red fire. Bathing the creature in a explosive wave of flames and lightning leaving nothing but a puddle that in fact could be very useful. Reaching out with my magic the water slithered up my right arm were it immediately became electrified and coiled between my elbow and wrist. I turned to the others as they looked in a form of retreat out of the dome. I looked up to the sky lazily throwing a couple lightning bolts into the storm, "Send me a real challenge you undead bastard." I half jogged back to Selene still firmly stuck in the ground.

A slimy voice invaded my head, "Well you should of asked sooner young prince." Collapsing to my knees I saw flashes of Sombra in my head and was struck by intense pain in my heart and chest. I pushed on slipping and sliding dead set on retrieving my sword if he was finally going to show.

Getting within ten feet of my sword and our psychic link disconnected and the flashes died, "Sun look behind you!" I spun on my toes to the sight of a growing mass of dark magic. The wendigos began forming one giant creature resembling........ Sombra. Excel launched me to my sword, ripping it from the ground I spun the sword cleaning it off. Looking the abomination of magic stood about the height of Twilight's castle and still retained its possessors foggy green eyes. It was close enough to get a good excel in for a big hit. Launching from the ground I started my rapid approach to the behemoth. A pit in my stomach formed as a sick smile formed across its face and as I was then then swatted to the ground with the force of a comet. Bouncing I felt my ribs strain and my lose of grip on Selene as my sword was thrown somewhere out of my view.

The loss of my lunar sword left my head open to psychic messages, "Really I thought you were a smarter boy than that, trying the same move three times doesn't work against a good fighter Apollo Sun."

"I should give you more credit." I activated excel but instead of going airborne I was sent flying across the ground towards Sombra's puppet." Stopping thirty feet in front of the puppet I pointed up at his smiling face, "I'm going to use my Excel spell to put your big fat fucking head where I'm standing, I will even give you a reference." Pulling the electrified water down my arm to a giant whip, I slashed the ground leaving a X burned into the spot.

"Someone woke up on a war path this morning,"Sombra's voice mocked.

"Keep talking." I cringed at my own comeback as the words came out.

Time to get this done, Much like my approach I sped across the ground at break neck speeds but unlike my approach I sent my water whip cracking towards his leg. There was a satisfying noise as the snow was singed from the electricity but it failed to penetrate for any effect. The whips area of effect was now my interest point as the humongous creature lunged forward and I dodged shooting between his legs. Seeing the opening I launched up to the back of the knee plunging a lance of fire deep into the area as I kicked off and the lance detonated it came crashing to its hand as its knee separated into two. He wasn't done as his massive head turned to face me mouth open wide but instead of a snarky comment a concentrated blizzard was sent upon me with the full fury of a creature pissed at a missing leg. My view was blanketed by white as I was over taken by chunks of ice and snow. Fearing being trapped I once again sent myself into the air right into the clutches of Sombra.

"That's called being bated young prince."

"You son of a...".The words didn't come fast enough as I was spiked into the ground like a hoofball. I felt even more ribs give protest as they were at best bruised.

I hopped to my feet brushing myself off , "Okay motherfucker lets see how you like getting thrown into the ground." My magic burned hot in my veins as my anger spiked and the ground beneath my feet began to burn fueled by my rage."Gravitos!"The large creature tried to protest but struggled to as the area of effect covered its whole body. Launching into the air Sombra once again tried to swat me to the ground but this time the giant hand was met by a large lance of fire embedding into the hand and detonating leaving giant fingers to fall towards the ground. Landing on the shoulder and wrapping the watery whip around his neck I was once again flying up in the air, chocking the giant but everything that goes up must come down and with all the force and magic I shot towards the ground. Within a instant there was a tug on the whip as resistance formed and then faded as the whip broke through the neck. I came tumbling back down to surface level landing and rolling as a large thud the head hitting the ground with me. I slowly got to my feet and turned to see my good work and I was disappointed as the head of the giant fell only half on the marked X. I held my hand over my head and activated my earth magic which easily detected the moon metal that made up Selene and with a snap of my finger she was back in my hand. "Before you say anything Selene that's my new record without a sword."

"I'm happy you're not dead." It was a tone of half annoyance and half truth, it was what suited her best.

"I have a question though why don't I feel like shit right now or am I just past the whole dieing thing?"

"Lets just say a certain voice in your head took some responsibility for once."

"Which one if I can ask."

"You will definitely meet the scaly bastard soon."

"Always with the indirect answers."

Author's Note

About to smear Sombra off the map in the next chapter and maybe throw in some surprises for the readers interested in the hidden powers Sun possesses. Also it's fun writing like Sun is Kratos from god of war fighting giant creatures all the time.