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"I can't believe that you both talked me into this…" I say as we walked towards the castle, Luna and Cadence were both with me.

Over the years, Luna had been coming to my home to see me teach Cadence my wizard magic, eventually they both used the cute doggy eyes with trembling lip combo to get me to cave at the thought of finally meeting Celestia. Our magic has become greater in power over the last seven years, but we haven't started any new spells, as we were trying to grow in power, Luna had begun to learn the Cleric spells in my book, she's been making great progress in the field of healing, the other parts were a little challenging for her, but she was still making very good progress.

"Well i know that Aunty Tia will like you daddy, it's just her trying to get you to trust her that's going to be a challenge for her." Cadence said from my shoulders, where she was currently riding.

"Tis true… our sister will have to earn thou's trust, just like we did, which will be hard, as our sister is very trusting, if not too trusting of those she meets before getting to know them." Luna said agreeing with Cadence on the topic of trust.

Now, they weren't wrong, it took awhile for me to trust Luna, but now we're as close as can be, I even listen to her problems about how nopony likes her night, even though she's been getting better at the whole, part of the galaxy look in the sky.

"True… that will be a challenge for her, but I think she'll go too far in trying to accomplish that, which will be really annoying." I remark getting both mares to giggle at my statement.

It took about three more minutes to reach the castle gate, guards saluting the princesses while eyeing me, I just saluted them and they nodded in response, letting me in. It took another twenty minutes for us to actually talk to Celestia, a very boring twenty minutes, when she finally arrived at the table in the royal dining hall she paused to look at me before sitting in her chair, which was at the head of the table, we sat there in silence for a good six minutes before Luna said something to break the silence.

"How was thou's day court sister?" She asked glancing at her before going back to the menu she was holding.

"Boring as usual sister, but we must ask, who is this being?" Celestia replied before pointing at me, I raised my eyebrow as if to ask her if she knew how rude she was being.

"If you wish to ask a question about me Celestia, then ask me directly, or don't ask at all." I say startling her slightly before settling down, glaring at me slightly.

"It would be polite to call us princess while thou ist talking to us commoner, or thou will be expelled from our castle." She replied getting Luna to look at her slightly confused as to why she said that.

"Yeah no, I'll call you princess when you've earned my respect and trust Celestia, which Lulu can agree to this, it's hard to do." I reply grabbing an apple and looking at it before glancing right into her eyes. "Not to mention, you'll have both Luna and Cadence against you if you try to expel me from the castle." I say pointing at her before taking a bite out of the apple i grabbed, she glared at me hard while Luna put her hand up to her mouth, trying not to giggle.

"Very well, and how do we earn thou's trust?" She asked looking at me expectantly.

"I don't know, everypony's different, I trusted Cadence completely in half a year, Luna took three years for me to completely trust her, so it might take even longer for you, if you even try to gain my trust." I say shrugging my shoulders in response, she definitely took that as a challenge.

"Very well, we accept thy challenge stranger, we will earn thou's trust by this day next year, so help us Faust!" She declared looking at me with pure determination in her eyes.

"Good luck then Celestia, you'll need it." I say before we continue with dinner.

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It was that night that Cadence came up to me as I was heading towards my guest room Luna gave me for the night.

"Daddy, can we practice summoning magic tonight?" She asked as she tugged on my sleeve.

"Why practice summoning Mi Amore?" I ask, curious as to why she wanted to practice such spells.

"Well, I've been reading the spellbook and i noticed that summoning spells are harder to do correctly, so I wanted to be able to get them down without failing a summons." She explained bouncing her fingers together, it was a simple and sound explanation, so I guess there's no use in not practicing.

"Very well, but let's go outside for this, we wouldn't want to ruin the castle." I said walking out towards the gardens.

It was truly a sight to see, so many flowers in so many different colors, it was beautiful, me and Cadence found an open spot where Luna was actually sitting while watching her sky with concentration, I decided, since Clerics can also summon creatures, that i'll teach her too.

"Hey Luna, how are you tonight?" I ask, snapping her out of her concentration.

"Ah, brother, we didn't notice thou there, we art fine, how art thou tonight?" She replies looking at us in a warm greeting before hugging me.

"Since when did you start calling me brother Luna?" I ask in confusion, because she's never called me that before.

"Sorry, it's just, we feel like thou ist a part of our family, especially since thou listens to us and give advice, supporting us along the way, especially when it comes to our night sky, you let us see a potential that we have never dreamed of before, plus, our niece Cadenza sees you as her father, therefore, you art our brother, making thou a prince of Equestria." She explained the reasoning behind calling me brother.

"Ah, I see, very well then… onto what I wanted to ask you Luna, would you care to join us for a special magic lesson?" I asked, getting her to look at me surprised.

"A special lesson? What is so special about this lesson?" She asks, getting me to chuckle.

"Well, there's one kind of spell that I've been holding off teaching either of you, but Cadence asked me if we could try it tonight, so I agreed, and since your learning Cleric spell, and they can also do this kind of spell, i thought to include you in this lesson." I explained pulling out two books, one being the spellbook while the other was a white journal, much thicker than the spellbook.

"Really? This spell is one that all of us can do?" She asks, I just nod before she walks towards the center of the clearing, excitement and determination in her eyes. "Let us master this spell." She exclaimed putting a fist into the air, ready to start.

"Okay, what this lesson will be about, is summoning, now, there are two different summoning spells, one is called 'Summon Nature's Ally' while the other is called 'Summon Monster', I will be teaching you two the second one, as the first one is for Druids only." I say getting the two to nod, I had their full attention, now i just need to continue the lesson. "Now, both of these spells have ranks, meaning the stronger the summoning spell, the stronger the monster or the more monsters summoned, the ranks are as follows, 'Summon Monster' one, two, three, four, five, all the way up to nine, as that is the strongest summoning spell anypony can do, no matter what." I explain, they nod, following every word I say, I see Celestia out of the corner of my eyes, she's trying to hide while watching us. "Now, at the level you two are at, you both can do a level three summons, which means you can cast levels one to three, now, by casting a level one summoning spell, you can summon up to three rank one monsters, now, these monsters all have a rank and a category, a rank one monster is in the small category, as they are small creatures, so they won't take much space." I continued explaining until I saw Cadence put her hand up. "Yes Cadence?" I ask looking straight at her.

"What's the small category mean?" She asks politely, getting me to smile at her question.

"Excellent question my dear, the small category means how big a creature is, me and Luna here are considered normal category creatures while you are considered a small category creature, so anything you summon from the rank one spell will be either your height or slightly smaller." I explain to them, they both nod in understanding, Celestia is writing everything I've said so far down.

"Okay, so, how do we summon these monsters?" Luna asks getting my attention.

"I was just getting to that Luna, now this white book has every monster you can summon, each level or rank is marked by a colored tab, look at the monsters in between the first two tabs, as those are the monsters you can summon with the first spell, go ahead and decide which monster you want to summon." I say before tossing over the white journal.

I had looked through this journal before as I trained my magic without Cadence, i call pull off a level five summoning with little difficulty, but those are the only level four and five spells i've trained myself in so far for both classes, the book has a page for every monster that a Spellcaster can summon per spell rank with a very detailed colored drawing showing what the monster looks like, they were looking at the first set of monsters, which was eight different monsters, meaning eight pages of first rank monsters, after they both look at the pages for about ten minutes, they toss the book back towards me.

"Found one that you both want to summon?" I ask, putting the book away.

"Yeah, the ‘Fire Beetle'." Cadence says pumping her hands, Luna nods to the statement.

"Okay, let me just set the stage for this summoning." I say before squatting down, my hand sideways against the ground. "Dreck zu Sand und Sand zu Stein." I say, as I twist my hand a hundred and eighty degrees, turning the dirt underneath us to sand and then turning that sand to solid stone.

I learned that some spells could only be casted in German instead of Italian, which is helpful, since I now know every language from Earth(Thank you Merchant!), the girls look at me shocked, as they both know those spells weren't in the spellbook.

"How did you…" Cadence starts to ask before I put a hand up.

"Magic that i won't be able to teach either of you, besides i just did this so we wouldn't burn down the garden summoning something that was on fire, I'll turn it back once we're done." I say answering the question that was in their heads as I stand up.

"Oh… okay." She replies before nodding, Luna also nodded, accepting that answer.

"Alright, so now, both of you close your eyes and imagine the creature you want to summon in your head, five feet in front of you, now repeat after me while accessing your magic: 'Evoca Monster One'." I instruct them, they both cast the spell and two circles of intricate magic used to summon creatures appear at their hooves before two Fire Beetles appear five feet in front of them, both beetles look exactly like they should, the girls look at the beetles in shock and excitement before hugging each other.

"We did it aunty! We made our first summons!" Cadence said while bouncing up and down in the hug.

"Okay, okay, now that i can tell you have the basics down, let's do the other three summoning spells you both can use." I say waving the book in front of me, they looked excited.

We spent the rest of the night practicing their summoning magic, they got really good, I even taught them how to relieve a summoned monster they had out already, I even taught them how to summon tiny creatures within the palm of their hands, they liked that training, as they had to do it tied back to back and without me noticing, it lasted a good five hours before they were able to get free, Celestia watched us patiently waiting until we left the garden to actually try the summoning.

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“Why can't we pull off the spell, we did everything they were told, so why are we failing, we are doing it exactly like them, picturing what we want to summon, we are using our magic, but nothing, so why? Why are we failing?!” I say after my twentieth attempt at doing the same spell, attempting to summon the so called ‘Fire Beetle’ as he called it.

“Maybe because you're using your magic wrong Celestia.” a voice says from behind me, spinning around i see nothing but flowers and trees too small to hide anypony.

“Who ist there? Show thyself!” I call out readying my magic for a stun spell.

“Really Celestia? A stun spell? How naive you truly are for your age.” the voice said, this time to my left, firing the spell, it hit nothing, then the being I met at lunch came out of thin air.

“What art thou doing here creature, shouldn't thou be asleep at this hour?” I asked him, he was getting on my nerves, teaching my sister and niece magic of all ponies, he was messing with me, i know it.

“Yeah, I should, but so should you, so go to sleep Celestia, it won't do you any good to stay up until daybreak.” he says leaning against one of the trees.

“Not until we have mastered the spell thou taught our niece.” I say with determination, he simply shakes his head and walks up to me.

“Fine, I'll teach you the summoning spell, now close your eyes…” he says standing right in front of me, I nod and close my eyes, waiting for the next step. “Okay, now… Coperta del sonno…” he says before I feel sleep take me into the realm of dreams.

Author's Note

Chapter Three! YEAHAHAHAHA! this one was kinda hard, as i wanted to do a twist to Celestia's personality, just for a bit of fun, that's all for now.

Until we see each other again my lovely little night terrors!