Well then, ponies...

several references to my favorite anime, also Zeus says hi. sorry this took longer than i said it would but i'm not gonna wait another day for my editor. also i had a bit of trouble with the demon king's name. If your from america he's Akuto Sai.

They searched for hours before night fell and the majority fell asleep in the streets. I just teleported back to my room and went to bed without bothering with my clothes. When I woke up the now earth pony Twilight was smiling at me, “Nice to see you’re awake, I did a bit of research last night.”

“How nice for you.”

“There was quite a bit of information on you.”

“Yes there is. You’re point?”

“This!”

She clasped a familiar iron collar onto my neck making me freeze. In a flash of light she returned to her unicorn self, “So much better, now we need to talk about your attitude.”

I however was not listening as I freaked out, “No, no, no no no nonononononononono!!!!!!”

I tried to rip the collar off but it stayed firmly in place. “Calm down it’s just a collar that negates magic!”

I thrashed around knocking books down and several other things off their places. After a moment Twilight hit me and I stopped, just stopped. My mind was in another time and place. I looked around and saw only demons but this time, I had my sword at my hip. I drew it and looked around; the cave had a crude wooden door leading to an underground town. The buildings were covered in cracks and looked like they were falling apart. There was a large crystal above be obviously used to light the town. I wandered around but found the town deserted, “Brother will save me, he will, he has to.”

I heard movement behind me and spun around sword at the ready, “Come at me you demon scum! I can fight back this time!”

out of the shadows the demon king stepped out, “Hello again Jacob.”

“Ichiban Ushiro, you will not get anything out of me this time.”

“That remains to be seen, without your powers you can’t hope to beat Peter Hausen let alone me.”

I started shaking as I took a step back, “Draven will save me, just like last time.”

“But he took almost a year; I however will be done in a matter of minutes.”

“I’ve grown since our last fight, even if I don’t have my magic I won’t make it easy for you.”

He just smirked and a dark aura covered his body making his muscles pop out of his shirt and dark symbols appear under his eyes. I tensed my body for the fight but it never came, in a flash of brilliant white light my brother appeared in his fighting robes. From under his hood I could see confusion. Ichiban took a step back shielding his eyes but stood his ground, “So the holy man shows himself.” My brother ignored Ichiban and walked up to me, “Snap out of it Jacob!”

I blinked at his volume and the caves had disappeared, “Huh? What happened to the caves? And where did Ichiban go?”

“It’s alright, they were just delusions.”

“What? But, it seemed so real.”

“How did you get that collar on anyway?”

I touched my neck but didn’t feel the cold metal, “What happened to it?”

“I took it off, now where did it come from?”

I thought real hard before my confused look contorted into one of rage, “SPARKLE!!! I WILL RIP YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!!!”

I sheathed my blade and set the very air around me on fire, fire so powerful buildings a hundred yards away burst into flames. I focused all the flames into my palm and threw it at her house which proceeded to explode in a glorious display of splinter-y carnage. Sparkle landed right in front of me skin burnt and mane singed, “Why?”

“If you had done your research right then you would know.”

With my anger curbed for now I walked away with Draven right next to me, “That seemed like a bit of overkill.”

“Probably was, but it would seem all the fucks I give are falling from the sky.”

“You need to be more careful, you’re getting reckless.”

“Not now Draven, I need to think.”

He nodded albeit hesitantly and walked away leaving me to sit on a bench. While I sat I considered the possibility that I had overreacted. Naw, I was duly justified. As long as Twilight didn’t die that is. I licked my lips and sighed, this is going to bite me in the ass before the day is out. I sat for hours until I felt the bench shift and opened my eye to see Rulia sitting there. “Hi.”

“Hey.”

“So I heard you had a bit of a freak out earlier.”

“I did, bad memories and such.”

“Your brother stopped by and told me.”

“That was, nice of him I guess.”

“He said you used to blow off some steam whenever you remembered that.”

“I will, but right now I need to sit here and breath.”

“Why?”

“It’s always the calmest before the storm.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Not sure, whenever this happens I usually just go off and burn energy. It’s hard to explain.”

“Can I watch?”

“I guess, but you might not want to get too close.”

“Alright.”

I stood up and teleported us to a large plot of land several dozen miles wide. Rulia sat three or four miles away as I forced my magic out, I let it all envelope me and I just let loose. The entire planet shook from the raw energy I put out, several mountains in the distance crumbled under the stress I put on them and pillars of pure magical energy erupted from the ground. Storm clouds formed and let loose red lightning over the entire planet. I let out a primal noise that came from my soul as the pillars grew in size and threatened to tear the planet in half. Just as I reached the apex of my power I stopped, enough energy burned to make me feel better but still a bit drained. I teleported back over to Rulia who was shaking slightly, “I didn’t know you had that kind of power.”

“You have almost as much as I do; I just have more training with it. If that went on I would have lost it.”

“What do you mean?”

“Magic, in its most raw form is an emotion. Let out enough of any emotion and it will consume you, I almost became feral.”

“That’s a scary thought.”

“It is, not like my brother.”

“How so?”

“When he uses magic he becomes smarter. His is directly tied to intelligence while mine is connected to raw power.”

“Since you two are twins shouldn’t your magic be more similar?”

“Nope, magic is determined by the individual. It grows with the person helping mold them as it is molded as well.”

“I should really learn all of this.”

I shrugged, “The majority of wizards have no clue that magic is an emotion, Draven and I know it only because we were trained at the Arcanum. A three, a two, and a one.”

A flash of golden light went off revealing a white alicorn, “Jacob what are you doing!”

I gave a small smile, “Blowing off steam, just a little energy burning.”

“You call that a LITTLE bit of energy!?”

“Of course, you must have heard about the twin prodigies, the higher gods in mortal form.”

“You’re the broken immortals!?”

“My brother and I, but that is neither here nor there. You’ll be happy to know my vacation is nearing an end.”

“Oh thank gods; I don’t think I can take much more of this.”

“Oh you know you’ll get bored without me around.”

“Don’t bet on that.”

“Oh and before I forget you may want to punish Sparkle, she was handling class ten magical items.”

“Class ten, oh why class ten!?”

“She used it on me.”

“Oh no, what do you want to keep quiet about this?”

“I’ll call on a favor later.”

“I was afraid you might say that.”

I nodded and sat down. There was an awkward silence until Rulia smiled, “Oh that reminds me, how is that little dragon doing?”

“Spike? I made a deal with that dragon lady. She’s going to help him with his hormones.”

“I don’t like her.”

“Neither do I, however she is the oldest around. She knows about baby dragons growing more than anything else around.”

“Either one of us could do a better job.

"Yes, we could. But it’s not our place, if we wanted to take him back to our world I’d have to go through a lot of paperwork. Besides with our own children on the way we won’t be able to be able to keep an eye on him.”

She nodded and stood up, “Well then your highness, I bid you a pleasant goodbye.”

She teleported the two of us back into town and sat back on the bench with me in tow. I licked my lips as a few pegasi moved clouds around. I closed my eyes and felt the world around me, a sense of sickening cheerfulness pervaded my senses from almost everything. The wind itself had feelings of its own. I swear this place needed a bit of chaos, just to keep things interesting. Chaos, something unexpected, oh I know just the thing. I gathered some raw magic into my hand and formed it into a ring before getting down on one knee, “Rulia, Princess of flames and dragon queen, will you marry me?”

She smiled and hugged me, “Yes, but why ask now?”

“I figured it was high time I asked, and I wanted a little break of the monotony.”

“You’re terrible.”

“Hey, it’s in the job description.”

She smiled and put her head on my shoulder, “It’s nice here. Too bad we have to leave soon.”

I nodded and smiled, “Well at least we have the wedding to look forward to.”

“I suppose but right after that you have to fight any challengers for my hand.”

“I know but I don’t think it’s going to be a problem. The dragons still have a healthy fear of me. Ever since I fought Olaf.”

“Yeah about that, nobody would tell me what happened to him.”

“I turned him into a human. An old man really, to live the next few years as the creature he hated the most.”

“Wow, I didn’t know you had it in you to be cruel. It’s kind of sexy.”

“Note to self, get torture room.”

“Oh stop it, I know you won’t”

I chuckled and put my arm around her, “Maybe, I have some violent tendencies. So what are we going to name them?”

“It depends on how draconic they are. If they are closer to being a dragon they’ll choose their own names.”

“Ah yes, I envy that all dragons are born knowing their names. Makes everything so simple.”

“You jelly?”

“What?”

“Forge told me to say it; I swear he gets weirder every day.”

“Understandable, he used to be human. You know how quick we can lose our minds.”

“Ya, I remember a little kid that went psycho when he saw me for the first time.”

“I was twelve!”

“And you were adorable! With your cute widdle cheeks and your itty bitty bladder.”

“Oh gods, I swear one of these days you’re going to make me blush so hard my face is going to lite on fire.”

She laughed and cuddled up to me, “You know you can’t stay mad at me.”

I sighed and flashed up a couple glasses filled with rum, “To our future together, may out deaths be glorious.”

“Here, here.”

We chugged the glasses and let out flames at the same time, mine being black and hers being red. “When did you learn to control flames like that?”

“I read the book on the way back.”

“No fair, and here I was thinking I knew magic that you didn’t.”

“You probably do, I’m raw power. No finesse to be found other than forging. I can’t do simple spells, only powerful ones.”

“Then what is flying? That’s a level two spell.”

“I could lift a mountain with me.”

“You’re being a jerk.”

“What? Why? Or how?”

“You keep showing me up.”

“It’s not like I’m trying to.”

“Exactly! You have godly power without even trying! I on the other hand have to concentrate so hard I get a headache whenever I go above a rank six spell!”

“Really? Here let me take a look.”

I put her forehead to mine and entered her mind. When we arrived in there she was in her dragon form and I was a Golem made of pure magic. Our souls stepped forward as I started to explain, “The most likely explanation is that there’s a mental trauma or block that’s causing your magic to build up without release. Being a dragon makes this condition harder to treat but it isn’t life threatening.”

“What kind of magic is this?”

“Basic magic, rank eleven.”

“So what are we looking for?”

“A block, to us it would look like a giant parasite.”

“Like that one?”

She pointed to a rather large plant like creature that seemed to be sucking on something. “Looks like it, now we just need to see what it’s sucking on.”

She grabbed the parasite by the sides and ripped it off cringing a little. What was revealed was a list, with my name on it. On one side it was why she liked me, on the other were the reasons she hated me. On the top of both sides was the same thing: Killed mom. “Well, you certainly have a complex love life.”

“Oh wow, I had forgotten about this.”

“You’ve seen this before?”

“Ya, I wrote it out when we talked for the first time and added onto it from there.”

“Well I’m not entirely sure I can help you with this. It would seem that I’m the problem.”

“So what do I do?”

“No clue, my brother is the one who always dealt with emotional stuff. I just blew everything up.”

“So what do we do now?”

“Something I hoped we wouldn’t have to do. Ask my brother for mental help.”