Celestia was lying in her bed. It had been a long day and she needed rest so she wouldn’t fall asleep in the court, after an hour of simply lying in the bed Celestia got up. Maybe some fresh air will help her. She went on the balcony and looked around. She hated Canterlot.
She hated this place with with every last cell of her body. Everypony was so uptight and snobbish. She hated the castle itself too. It was so delicate, so weak. It would take one strong unicorn to make reduce this place to nothing more than rubble and dust. Celestia sighed. She had no choice, this was her kingdom and she had to lead it. The only thing that could get her out of this routine was a catastrophe, and those were too scarce to enjoy fully.
Celestia looked at the sky. Since Luna came back it was more beautiful than ever. Celestia noticed a small flash in the sky and grinned. Luna seemed to have noticed that she is awake. Celestia still remembered what Luna did when Discord dumped her. Ponies thought Armageddon has come.
She looked at the star. Luna really had worked on this one. It was two colored. Black and white.
Celestia looked how it started going faster and faster.
Suddenly a shock wave shook the sky and the star crashed.
Celestia looked at it, paralyzed by the shock. She shook her head and turned around. Luna was in charge of the night sky. She must know something about it.
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Luna was running to her sisters room. Celestia had to be informed about what was happening. After a few minutes Luna saw Celestia running at her direction. They both stopped.
‘’You saw it too?’’ Celestia asked.
Luna nodded.
‘’What was it?’’
Celestia looked how Luna shivered lightly ‘’There is a storm coming.’’
Celestia put her hooves on Luna’s shoulders ‘’What are you talking about?’’
‘’The Fall of Angels.’’
‘’That was an Angel?’’ Celestia was in shock.
‘’Yes, and he isn’t alone.’’
‘’Two Angels?’’
‘’No.’’ Luna shook her head.
‘’But...’’
‘’I know what I said. But it’s not an Angel. It’s a Demon.’’
Celestia stepped back ‘’Demon? We have to get there before they start fighting. You remember what happened last time?’’
A image of burning landscape and corpses flashed in Lunas mind. She nodded.
‘’Good. Where did it fall?’’
‘’In the Silver forest.’’
‘’We have to go there.’’
Luna only nodded.
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Luna teleported them to the forest. Celestia looked around, this was called The Silver Forest for a reason. Each fall the leaves turned to pure silver. But there was a reason why nopony gathered them. The silver was cursed. If you used it to become rich or make something, you were destined to slowly die.
Celestia shivered, she remembered that once this curse destroyed half of Canterlots population. Suddenly she heard Luna calling her.
‘’I found them.’’
Celestia hurried to her. When she reached Luna her whole body froze. In front of them there was a crater that was at least twenty feet deep. But it wasn’t the size that shocked her, it was what was at the bottom of the crater. The Angel and the Demon.
Celestia had seen Angels a few time, but still stood in awe every time she happened to be blessed by one . Their bodies were much more graceful than a pony could ever hope to be. And now she had to accept that everything she knew about demons seemed to be wrong.Or was it just this one?
Luna leaned her head to the right ‘’Look at their lips.’’
Celestia looked at them ‘’They’re.... moving. What are they saying?’’
‘’Five...four...three...two...No!’’
Both of them suddenly got up and literally bolted out of the crater, but froze as they felt weapons being pressed against their throats; the wielders none other than the Angel and Demon. The Angel was holding a long spear next to Celestia throat, the Demon a scythe next to Lunas.
‘’What are you doing?’’ Celestia slowly asked.
The Angel thought for a moment, then shook his shoulders, ‘’I dunno.’’
Celestia looked in disbelief as both of them moved their weapons away.
The Angel looked at her face for a second and suddenly started laughing ’’You actually thought that we will kill you? How would we find out why are we here?’’
‘’You...don’t know why you’re here?’’ Celestia was shocked by the impossibility of this moment.
‘’Nope.’’ He answered, still smiling. ‘’So, what sort of crap is threatening your country?’’
Celestias mind tried to analyze what was happening. All the Angels she had met were very...polite. This one...wasn’t.
She shook her head. ‘’There is no threat to Equestria. I don’t know why you were sent here.’’
The Demon started speaking, ‘’So let me get this straight. We are stuck here until a major crisis appears, or a Seraphim comes here and we kill him?’’
The Angel shook his head. ‘’No. The Council said that this is a very pressing matter and we have to deal with that before it appears and causes wave effect.’’
‘’Deal with what?’’ Luna asked.
‘’How the hell am I supposed to know? The Council simply says how hard the mission is and drops us in the world. We never know what our mission is!’’ The Angel waved his arms to accentuate his point.
‘’So you don’t know what are you doing here?’’ Celestia tried to understand everything what was happening.
‘’Exactly. So, far as we will be forced to spend some time together we should introduce ourselves. I am Uriel, The Light of God, level two Archangel. ‘’
‘’And I’m Eligos, The Holder of Solomons key. A Demon.’’ The other one waved with his hand.
Celestia straightened her back. ‘’I am Celestia, The ruler of Equestria.’’
‘’Luna, The ruler of Equestria.’’
‘’Good, now that we know each other, take us to your castle and get us some beds.’’ Uriel grinned.
Celestia said nothing. But inside she felt a little annoyed, because of the lack of respect.
Luna lit up her horn and they disappeared.
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Seven men were sitting by a stone table.
‘’Will he succeed?’’ One of them asked.
‘’Hope Seraphiel, hope.’’ Another answered.
‘’Holy,holy,holy...’’The rest chanted.
Uriel was lying in his new bed. Celestia had put them in the rooms that nopony used and they wouldn’t be discovered. Celestia understood that if they would be discovered it wouldn’t be long until somepony would find Angelus Cod, the book of Angels. She had received it right after she became the ruler of Equestria. The book contained what rights do Angels have while being in her kingdom, and also a little about their history. Not much, but enough to understand that Angels appear only in case of great danger.
The door slowly opened and Luna walked in. Uriel simply continued sleeping. Luna slowly walked over his bed and opened her saddlebags. A small object levitated out of them an Luna smiled. She slowly moved the object closer and closer. After all these years she will finally do it.
Suddenly Uriels eyes popped open and he grabbed it. Luna jumped away in shock.
He looked at the object and his eyes turned to Luna ‘’The fuck? A hairbrush? I mean I don’t think that’s the thing you use for killing. A knife would be more useful.’’
Luna blushed ‘’I...We...’’
Uriels hand suddenly was on her cheek, his eyes closed.
He stayed in this position for a second, but then he started laughing ‘’Really? Really? How old are you? Four thousand?’’
‘’Four thousand and half.’’ Luna murmured.
Uriel stopped laughing ‘’And isn’t the this thing...for younger peop- ponies?’’
‘’Everyone has a dream like that.’’
Uriel shook his head ‘’I’m sorry. It’s just that I’m not used to meeting eternal goddesses that have a dream about brushing an Angels hair!’’
‘’Soooo, can I do it?’’ Luna asked.
Uriel sighed ‘’Fine.’’
Luna squealed and levitated the brush.
Uriel looked around the room. This was going to take some time. His eyes stopped by the bookshelf and he started reading the titles.
‘’Magic for Beginners? No way. The art of what to do list? Now that’s just creepy. Ultimate Arcane Magic:Alicorns? It will have to do.’’
Luna grinned as she saw the title of the book ‘’Don’t waste your time with that. A non-alicorn will never be able to perform even the most simple spell.’’
Uriel snickered and opened the first page ‘’Blue Flame, the absolute annihilator.’’
He wiggled his fingers and took a deep breath. Luna looked at him agape, as his hand ignited.
Uriel gave her a confident smile ’’What did you say again?’’
Luna tried to speak, but her jaw was paralyzed by the shock.
‘’I heard voices and...’’ A voice coming from the door started speaking, but stopped.
Luna looked at the door and saw Eligos standing there. A smile was slowly appearing on his face. Suddenly he pulled a camera out of nowhere.
‘’Don’t you fucking dare.’’ Uriel growled.
‘’Everyone will be laughing their ass off when we get back to Arx.’’ He giggled while taking pictures.
‘’I hate you.’’
‘’We have been stuck together for millenniums,and you still can’t come up with anything better?’’ Eligos shook his head.
‘’Just get your sorry demonic ass out of my face.’’ Uriel sighed.
Eligos grinned sinisterly ‘’Whatever you say, pony toy.’’
Uriel growled at him like an animal.
Eligos simply giggled and walked out of the room.
Luna sat motionless for a second, but then continued brushing his hair. Uriel simply returned to the book.
His lips were forming words but not a single sound left his mouth ‘’Liquefactum metalli sanguinem. Damn these ponies have put a lot of effort in making this. Either things have changed since the last time I was here or this book has been hidden. Interesting, how long has it been? And most important, is Litha still alive?’’
Luna giggled a little, as Uriels hair glued to her hoof for a second .
‘’It seems that your hair fill with static electricity pretty fast.’’ Luna smiled.
‘’That’s not electricity. And before you ask, it is magic. Even an Angelic body isn’t able to contain the amount of magic I have obtained at my age. The energy usually is concentrated in the brain and heart, but when there is too much of it, the magic simply concentrates in other parts of body too. For example my hair.’’
Luna looked in shock, how his mane formed into multiple tendrils.
He continued ‘’I can manipulate it at will.But now...Get the hell out of here, before I shove that goddamn brush up your goddamn...’’
Luna didn’t hear the ending, because she was already running out of the room.
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Luna, Celestia, and their guests, Uriel and Eligo were sitting by the breakfast table. Celestia had instructed Uriel and Eligos to come to the table only after the food had been brought there, so the servants wouldn’t see them.
Celestia looked how both the Angel and the Demon simply sat and looked at their plates.
‘’What is it? You don’t like the food?’’ She asked.
Uriel shook his head ‘’No. Simply we are still full with pure energy from the Void. Food is not required so long as we do not perform extremely powerful magical acts.’’
‘’So you don’t need to eat?’’
‘’More or less. We usually consume as much Void energy we can when we get access to it. But we can eat if we want to. And we’ll do it. More power is never bad.’’
‘’Oh, and by the way, do you have strong stomachs?’’ Eligos asked.
Luna grinned ‘’I saw Discords underground chambers. Now THAT needs a strong stomach.’’
‘’Good.’’ Eligos simply said and started eating.
Luna and Celestia almost jumped out of their seats, as the Demon unrolled his tongue. It was long enough for him to be able to eat without leaning closer to the plate. He grabbed the food with it and pulled it back inside. The Angels method of eating was less amazing. He touched the food. Nothing else. But the effect it had on the food was pretty impressive. It turned to dust.
Uriel grinned as he saw their faces ‘’Energy absorption. It breaks down the power that is keeping the matter together.’’
Suddenly the door opened and two ponies walked in. Cadence and her husband.
Uriel and Eligos instantly summoned their weapons and jumped on the table.
''No.'' Luna whispered as she saw a ball of light forming around Cadences horn.
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A/N
Brushie, brushie, brushie.
