Darkness and Magic

That next morning, once everyone had their breakfast, Mitchell and Emilia went off to explore the areas of Manehattan they hadn't seen yet. The two siblings decided to just take a look around town instead of actually going anywhere. They can't really buy anything since they don't have money.

"Was it practical to come here without any money?" Mitchell asked as he looked around at each store they passed.

"No, we really just came so that you could relax a little."

"Yesterday wasn't relaxing at all."

"Sorry about that..."

"No, it wasn't you. It was the girls literally dragging me around the entire day. I was so tired since I couldn't really do anything. I love the girls and all, but that wasn't relaxing in the slightest. Maybe today, I can actually walk, and spend time with my sister. We didn't really spend time together since we were reunited."

"Yeah, this should suffice, right?"

"It should, I mean, I sort of found out last night that you had feelings for me."

"Right. Well, how do you feel about it?"

"I don't know. I kind of expected that knowing the bond we shared. I guess your feelings grew when we got separated. Mine didn't though..."

"Well, you have your possible future wife and kid out there somewhere. I know the situations you get in with the girls are inevitable, but I know that you still care for her."

"I do, but I don't know where she is. Celestia hasn't been able to find any information on her. My baby is still inside her, and I want to make sure they're both safe."

"You better, I want to be an aunt to my brother's kid."

"Alright, I want to find her, but we need to get some information on where she is."

"Yeah, where do you think she is?"

"If my memory serves me right. If they want to hold my spawn in a safe place where it won't do any damage when it's born, then we'll need to look at their high security cities."

"Cities?"

"Well, you know the Magical Vanguard have cities through out the dimensions, so they'll keep her in there so she would be heavily guarded. I doubt they would put her in bad conditions. They wouldn't put the baby in bad conditions in order to extract the power from it. I don't care what any MV official says. They don't have anything to safely remove the dark power from within them. There hasn't been a way ever, so don't expect one while we're still alive sis."

"Yeah, I know. Still, even without your dark power, I'm surprised at the amount of self power you have. While you were out, I decided to read you. Apparently, without your dark power, your power reaches far above any Level 10 mage in The Magical Vanguard."

"Do I surpass any in the Hellfire Brigade."

"Well, you surpass their newest member, Fabien Blaze."

"I never heard of the guy."

"Apparently, his father was in the Hellfire Brigade, and was killed by a trainee of the Magical Vanguard."

"Oh, who was his father?"

"Albert."

"..."

"Wait, did you kill a man named Albert Blaze?"

"It was something our father told me to do. He said that he was planning on enslaving everyone in each dimension under his own rule."

"How?"

"He wanted to inject a concentrated version of every dark power that was taken from each Dark Mage. You know that if the dark power is injected into the wrong person, it'll kill them slowly. He said only the elite will survive, while the weak will be stepped upon by their own boots."

"And your father told you to kill him?"

"Yeah, but I couldn't use my power since he could counter every magic. He said the only way you could kill him, was to use firearms similar to what I'm using now. It was me and my partner that took him out."

"Wait, I heard that his father was killed, but I don't know how."

"My partner and I decided that nothing was going to kill him. So we decided to use a spell that we sort of created over time. It was a spell similar to a rocket launcher, but double in power. We knew that if we combined both our shots, we could kill him. And we actually did so."

"I've never heard of a rocket launcher type spell. Did you not release it to the public?"

"No, we felt that anyone that could learn the skill, would use it in the wrong way."

"I see, that's smart."

"If his son finds out he killed me, he may use his anger to kill me."

"That should be a good thing."

"Yeah, I know, but if you think about it... he might lose all sense of reality and kill everything in his way. Even his own partners."

"Right, that should give us an advantage when he does find out your his father's killer."

"Don't worry. As long as we keep everything on the down low, it should be fine."

The two siblings continued walking until Mitchell caught a glimpse of something along the street vendor area, "What is it Mitchell?"

"Is that... Inception of the Titans? I thought all copies of this novel were destroyed in the factory that produced them. Why is it here in Equestria?"

"I don't know. Perhaps someone salvaged the ruins of the factory. Why, do you want that?"

"Yeah, I was excited when it was finally getting translated from the language of Ostracyce. Emily knows how much I loved this series, and how excited I was when it was getting translated. My Ostracyce wasn't that good upon it's Ostracyce release, but now it's much better than before."

"Do you think that's a Ostracyce copy?"

"Possibly, but we don't have any money. It would've been nice to read this book again."

"I think it's funny to see you geek out sometimes."

"I think it's funny to here you use terms like that."

"Oh shut up. We're not that old to where we can't talk like that."

"It's not age. It's personality. You don't seem like the girl to talk like that."

"How so?"

"Well, you're usually so diligent. I just think it's weird talking like that."

"Diligent?"

"Well, you've grown a lot since we were younger. Before, you were afraid of everything, but I guess after getting separated, you grew more diligent."

"I guess so. Makes sense, but I'm still afraid of thunder though. Think about that for a second. A 25 year old afraid of something like thunder. So childish..."

"Yeah it is hehe. Anyway, where do we go to use a bathroom here?"

"I think we would have to use a- oh wait, there's a human sized bathroom over there."

"Isn't that a little too convenient?"

"Well, we have passed by a few humans since we've been here in Manehattan, so maybe this is a vacation spot for humans."

"Still weird..."

"Oh well, go on in. Don't hold it in."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll see it about a minute."

Emilia nodded as he headed into the bathroom. It was one of those one person bathrooms that you could lock from the inside. In reality, Mitchell didn't need to use the bathroom. He had to check his arms. Recently, he had these cracks forming on his right shoulder. They started forming on his shoulder during his 2 weeks in his study. They're not actual cracks since their isn't any real feeling to it. It looks morel like a tattoo.

Over the course of these last two weeks, it started glowing red or white along the cracks. Right now, it seems like it's moving down his arm, "What is this? I haven't read anything on this...," Mitchell sighed as he walked out to see his sister talking to two other people, "What the? Who are those guys? I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about them."

"Hey big bro."

Mitchell turned to see Emily and the others, "Oh, what's up?"

"Nothing much. Just wondering who those two are."

"That's what I'm trying to figure out."

"Well come on, why don't we go see for ourselves."

Mitchell couldn't help but keep his handgun on standby. He set his hand on the bulge on his hip. He was ready to draw his gun just in case something bad happened. Although, he doubt that they would try anything in public.

"Hey Emilia!"

"Oh, everyone, come on! These are two people from my village. I thought they were dead, but I guess they survived."

Mitchell looked at the two with wide eyes, "Two people from her village. Wait, I thought everyone was killed except my sister. Wait, I've seen these two before."

"This is Jax," He said as he pointed to the one with shorter hair, "and that's Nick," She pointed to the one with long hair, They're brothers. They were driven away from Earth like us, so they were taken into our village. I was already in the village for 10 years, so it was kind of... weird to see kids my age."

"Yeah, most of the kids in our village were young ones," Jax said as he looked at Mitchell. His expression changed instantly when he saw him. Mitchell knew exactly why he was looking at him like that. Soon, his brother did the exact same thing.

"Do you three know each other or something?" Twilight asked.

"Well, you do look familiar. May I ask who you are?"

"He's Mitchell, my-."

"Her brother..."

"Oh, Emilia has talked so much about you a lot during her time in the village. It was literally all she talked about."

"Hey, I talked about other things."

"Yeah, but then it would just lead to another story about your brother. I could tell you care about him a lot," Emilia nodded as Mitchell continued glaring at the two young men, "Well, my brother and I need to go home for the time being, so we must go."

"Where are you staying now?"

"We're staying in an apartment complex on Earth."

"Oh, we should visit them sometime, right Mitchell?"

"Uh, sure thing sis."

"Cool, well, I can't to see your apartment. Bye now."

"Bye, it was nice to meet all of you."

Rarity shook her head as they walked off and said, "We didn't even get to introduce ourselves."

"Yeah, they were quick to leave when we came here. That was quite rude of them to leave like that."

"Well, they probably had to go home for the day. I asked why they were here, but all they told was that it was surprise."

Mitchell didn't like that. He looked at Emily and whispered to her, "Can I talk to you about something in private?" She nodded her head, and followed Mitchell towards a nearby alley way," "Wow, even the alley ways are bigger here than Earth. Anyway...," He looked at Emily, and said, "You don't like those guys, do you?"

"Yeah, you could tell, couldn't you?"

"Yeah, I could see it your eyes. The instant you saw them, your eyes changed from bright, to on the defense."

"Wait what?"

"When you go from one emotion to another, your eyes change color. Like before, they were blue when you were happy earlier, but now it changed instantly when you saw those boys. It seemed they turned green for being on the defensive."

"Wait, I have mood eyes? I never noticed..., but yeah, I don't like those two guys at all."

"Same here, and they're part of the village I attacked."

"Yeah, but your sister didn't react, but those boys certainly did when they saw you."

"Yeah, they definitely remember you. They probably have a reason now to come back. But it seemed like they had a different reason to be here before they even saw you."

"I've seen them somewhere before. Even before the attack on their village."

"How so?"

"I don't know. It's like I've... seen them long before the attack. Maybe..."

"Look, I know that we both don't like them, and from the looks from the others, I doubt they would too. Right now though, we can't risk hurting until we have a valid reason to."

"That doesn't sound like you. What happened over the last few months?"

"I'm growing up Mitchell. People learn to grow up over time you know."

"Yeah, well, go on back to the others. I need to just think about some stuff right now."

"Alright, don't take too long, or your date will get mad."

"She's my sister Emily, so don't call it a date."

"I don't know. You two seemed to be a pretty happy couple. I'm surprised she hasn't attempted to wrap around your arm. Hehe, she has a crush on you."

"What's funny about that? You do too."

"Yeah, but she's your blood related sister. That's what's funny about it."

"I guess, but you kind of have to expect it. Knowing how we were as kids, I guess it would make sense."

"Yeah, mine was instant, but her feelings grew more over time."

"Yeah, she kept trying to convince me that sibling relationship was fine."

"It is."

"Don't you start now."

"Well, the reason those rumors about siblings marrying and their kids having having birth defects is to keep people from marrying their siblings."

"I know, but it's morally wrong."

"There's nothing morally wrong loving someone you truly love."

"I guess not..."

"Love knows no bounds Mitchell," Emily walked off as Mitchell was left baffled at what his sister was trying to do.

It was after his sister was out of sight that his hard started hurting. His ears were ringing, and his vision was getting blurry. Knowing where the perpetrator behind this was, he took out his handgun, and turned around pointing it at Jax and his brother, Nick.

"It's good to see you again, Mitchell."