It was just after the latest evening court in the royal castle and Celestia was taking a small break from politics to rewrite one of Starswirl's unfinished spells. It was an advanced teleportation spell, designed for mass teleportation with minimal effort. Once she believed that she had finished it, she lit up her horn and focused her magic to teleport some stones from one container to another. At least that was what was supposed to happen, but actually nothing happened.
“Another failed attempt,” Celestia sighed, “Maybe I’ll have time to work on it during my next break.” Celestia looked at the clock on the wall and saw that she had been working on the spell for well over an hour. “I have to get some rest for tomorrow, I have another big day of politics and boredom,” Celestia said sarcastically.
On her way to her bed chambers, she passed through the areas where the guards were more spaciously set. When she was walking down the somewhat empty hallway, there was a large crash that sounded throughout the hall. Celestia turned around and saw a creature, judging by its shape it was probably a male. He bore 4 white wings and had silver hair, and he wore a blue and white button down robe. He had similar stature to Celestia, despite being only about an inch or two shorter. The only thing that Celestia knew for certain, was the creature was in pain.
“Guards” Celestia yelled as the two nearest guards came to her aid.
“Yes ma’am,” They said in unison.
“Take this creature to the infirmary,” Celestia said, “He seems to be in a lot of pain.”
“Right away ma’am” they said as they picked him up and somewhat dragged him over to the castle infirmary. His massive height made it hard for the earth pony guards to carry him.
“I hope I’ll be able to take care of this in the morning.” Celestia said to herself, “I need to get some sleep.”
The next morning, before the sun was raised. Celestia woke up earlier than expected, it was about an hour before the sun had to be raised, so falling asleep again was out of the question. She then remembered the somewhat odd looking creature that appeared the previous night. After contemplating for what felt like an hour (which was actually only 5 minutes), the princess decided to go check up on him.
Celestia went down to the castle’s infirmary. After finding the room he was at, she knocked on the door. The nurse who was in charge of watching over him came to the door and opened it. After seeing who it was the nurse let out a bow to greet the princess.
“It is nice to see you princess,” the unicorn nurse said, “You came here to check up on the patient?”
“Yes I did, nurse Gold Flower” Celestia said to the unicorn, “Would you mind if I did so?”
“No, not at all your majesty.” Golden Flower said as she turned to the side, “Come right in.”
Celestia moved over to the bed, and saw the creature resting with a breath mask on his face, “Nurse, would you mind telling me if anything is wrong with the patient?”
“He has 2 broken wings, upper and lower left,” the nurse said, “and he also seems to have a minor concussion.”
“Brother?” the creature said mumbling and shifting his position on the bed.
“Is he waking up” Celestia asked starting to worry a bit
“Not yet, he’s been mumbling like that throughout the night,”she said, “Yet, the few words I’ve managed to get out are: Brother, and the phrase ‘not again’”
“Poor thing,” Celestia said as she put her hand on his cheek, “Sounds like he is suffering from nightmares.” She soon noticed that it was about time to raise the sun. “Nurse, if his condition improves, come and get me.”
“I’ll do my best Princess.” she said as Celestia went out the doors.
Celestia sighed to herself, “When he wakes up, he will probably be scared. Maybe I should introduce myself in an informal manner?” Celestia thought out loud, “No, But I don’t want him to be overwhelmed by meeting The Sun Princess.” Celestia was so deep into her own conversation that she didn’t even notice where she was going.
“Auntie Celestia?” Blueblood asked, “Are you alright? You almost walked into me.”
“Oh hello Blueblood,” Celestia replied in a false excitement which sounded real, “I’m fine, just got a lot on my mind.”
“If you say so.” Blueblood knew that attempting to pry information from Celestia wouldn’t be very fruitful. The last time he tried doing it, he nearly lost his reputation as a noble. “I will see you after breakfast in morning court Auntie.”
“And I hope to see you there as well Blueblood.” Celestia said with a false enthusiasm, as Blueblood walked away. “I just hope he isn’t evil.”
Several days have passed, still no word about the four-winged creature. This was really starting to worry the solar alicorn. Despite keeping her composure, she could stop thinking about what might happen. A creature from another world, that has also severely hurt itself, has come to equestria through unknown means. It may have been magic, or it may have been fate, either way, the castle has a new guest that will probably be there for a while.
Knowing that the odd creature had been in the infirmary for quite some time, Celestia decided to check up on him after evening court finished. On her way to the infirmary, she met up with a young purple unicorn, Twilight Sparkle, her most prized pupil.
“Oh, Princess Celestia,” Twilight said with a bow, “I wasn’t expecting to see you.”
“I could say the same for you, my faithful student,” Celestia said, “What brings you here?”
“I overheard a few guards talking about rumors of something in the infirmary.” Twilight said, “I just wanted to be sure it was just a rumor. That would be if you don’t mind.”
Celestia was visibly shocked, “Oh, and what are these rumors about?” Celestia asked, knowing full well what they were probably about.
“Well,” Twilight said, “The rumors were very vague, but all I could understand when I passed by was something about a pegasus with another set of wings.”
“My dearest Twilight,” Celestia said as they walked to the infirmary, “Have you considered what you would do if they weren’t just rumors?”
“Not really,” Twilight said, a bit ashamed she didn’t think about that possibility, “Though, if I were to do something.” Twilight started up again, “I probably would study the phenomenon, and figure out if extra wings would make one fly faster.”
They arrived at the infirmary sooner than they expected, “Excuse me, Mr. Red Quill, Is He still here.” Celestia emphasized the ‘he’ so Mr. Red Quill knew who she was talking about. Red Quill was the receptionist at the front desk of the infirmary.
“Oh,” Red Quill wasn’t expecting Princess Celestia tonight, “Yes ma’am, He still in room S34”
“Thank you,” Celestia said before she continued to lead twilight to a distant room, “as I was saying, to study abilities unknown to us is common nature.” Celestia said as she opened the door to reveal the odd-looking "pegasus", “But to learn about why it is, or should I say Here, is a completely different story.”
Twilight's eyes widened at the sight of the being. She rushed over to the side of it and stood in amazement, it was a completely unknown species. “You mean to say that you don’t even know what it is?” Twilight asked, “No offense princess.”
“None taken.” Celestia said, “This creature doesn’t seem to be from our world.”
“Brother,” He said, shifting his position, “No, not again,”
“He has family?” Twilight asked no one in particular, “They must be so scared for him.”
“Nurse,” Celestia asked, “Has there been any improvement in his condition?”
“I’m afraid not,” The nurse said, “There has been any noticeable improvement over 5 days.”
“I see,” Celestia said, “Do you know what could be wrong?”
“I’m afraid not,” the nurse said, “If this was simply knocked out, he should’ve woken up by now.”
“Poor thing,” Twilight said as she remembered something, “Princess Celestia, would you mind if I excuse myself, I remember that I have some work to do in my studies.”
“Go right ahead Twilight.” Celestia said, “I still have some other things to do while I’m here.”
Celestia thought about how to help this poor creature. A few minutes had passed until she believed it was time for her to leave. “I think it is time for me to leave,” Celestia said as she moved to the door.
Right before she opened the door the nurse called out to her. “Wait princess,” she said, “I think he is waking up.”
“Ow my head,” He said as he raised his upper body, “Where am I.” He looked around the room. When his eyes fell on the two anthropomorphic ponies, “GAH” he yelled as he fell out of the bed and onto the floor.
The two ponies rushed to his side to help him up. “Are you all right?” Celestia asked as she helped him to his feet.
“Yeah, I’m fine. You two just surprised me” He said as he was pulled up, “Would you mind telling me where I am?”
“You're in Equestria,” Celestia said, “This is nurse Golden Flower, and I am Princess Celestia, the one who Raises the sun. Could we know your name.”
“I am Mael, One of the four Archangels.” He said, giving her a warm smile, “It is nice to meet you Princess.”
“The pleasure is all mine,” Celestia said, returning the smile, but it quickly turned sour, “But I have some bad news.” Celestia said with some sorrow in her voice, “We won’t be able to send you back to your world for the foreseeable future.”
Mael looked down at the floor full of sorrow, then immediately looked back into Celestia’s eyes. “Do not worry about me and my world. There isn’t much need for me there,” He said, before Celestia could speak, he continued, “My world is already at peace. Even if some big calamity would break out, I know that Meliodas and his friends would stop it.”
“But don’t you have family?” Celestia asked
Mael eyes looked to the floor, Celestia knew she accidentally struck a nerve. “I had a brother,” Mael said, “But he sacrificed himself to help end the holy war.”
Celestia frowned, “I’m sorry I asked such a sensitive question.”
“Don’t be,” Mael replied, “You didn’t know about my past, so I won’t hold that against you.”
Author's Note
If you have any ideas to make this story better, don't mind telling me. I am always open for constructive criticism.
P.S. Mael's Grace was Inactive while he was unconscious, and he will have full control over it (Even if it is not canon) so he doesn't accidentally incinerate anyone.
Author's Note
Random Question:
Do you pronounce Mael as "Mah-el" or "May-el"?
Chapter 2 - Memories
Mael had been part of the castle's regular residents for about a week. He was getting rather acquainted around the castle, despite still getting lost around the castle from time to time. Who could blame him, the castle was a labyrinth. On his first night as an actual member of the castle he got lost when looking for his room. When he asked a guard to help show him to his room. Which the guard gratefully led him to his room.
Despite Mael’s rather Intimidating height, he was rather kind and brought a warm atmosphere wherever he went. Except when he is around Blueblood, that dollophead takes the life out of everything with his snobbish nature. It was hard for most people to get on Mael’s bad side, but for some reason Blueblood always managed to do it.
Shortly after Mael’s wing recovered, he decided to take a walk around the castle. To get to know the place better. On his small self tour, he stopped by the library out of curiosity. The library was a maze, within the labyrinth of a castle. When looking through the books in a library he accidently knocked over a purple unicorn, who was being followed by a small purple dragon.
“Sorry about that,” Mael said as he extended a hand to help pick her up. “I should’ve looked where I was going.”
“It’s okay, I should’ve done the same.” Twilight said, taking his hand to help herself up, when her eyes looked upon his massive size and four wings, “Y-your t-the creature.” She stammered in amazement.
“That the first time I’ve been called that.” Mael said, “My name is Mael, what's your name?”
“I’m Twilight Sparkle, and this is my assistant Spike.” She said, gesturing to the small dragon, who waved to him. “What are you exactly? If you don’t mind telling me.”
“Not at all.” Mael said, “I am one of the four Archangels, Elite warriors of the goddess race.”
“Wait, so you're a male member of the goddess race.”
“Yes.” Mael confirmed,
“Does that make you a ‘god’?”
“No it doesn’t, from my world the word ‘goddess’ doesn’t mean female god,” Mael explained, he had similar conversations before with some of the humans from his world, “It's just the name of the race. I think it may have been the fact that our ruler was female.”
“I see,” Twilight said, “you said you were one of the archangels. What exactly is an archangel?”
“An archangel is an Elite warrior of the goddess race,” Mael said, “Each of the archangels were given a part of the Supreme Diety’s power, known as a grace.”
“A grace?” Twilight asked
“Each grace was a piece of magic power.” Mael explained, “There were four graces” Tornado, Ocean, Flash, and Sun. Each one possessed an ability unparalleled to any other magic. Tornado controlled the wind, Ocean controlled water, Flash gave unparalleled speed, and Sun increases one power as the sun rises.”
“Which one do you have?”
“I possess Sun, The strongest of the four.” Mael said, looking down to spike in surprise “Have you seriously been writing a report about what I’ve been saying.”
Twilight knew that they'd been caught. “I asked him to write a small report about you.” Twilight said, being a little embarrassed, “You see, you’re the first of your species here. So in case more came over we would be able to know about them.”
Mael took this surprisingly well. “You don’t need to worry about my race.” Mael said, “But there is a more immediate matter at hand. I think I may be a bit lost.”
“The exit is this way.” Twilight sparkle said, leading the way while letting out a small chuckle. This wasn’t the first time she had to lead someone out of the library's maze.
Mael was in his room leaning on an open window. When Mael wasn’t exploring the large castle, he spent most of his time looking outside. The only reason why he didn’t go outside was because Celestia wasn’t yet sure on how to explain the situation to her ponies if one saw him. Mael extended his arm and made his pointer finger a small porch for a bird to land on. Before ten second had passed, a small red bird landed on Mael’s finger.
Only about a minute had passed when there were a few knocks on the door, scaring the bird away. “The Princess is wanting your acquaintance at her chambers.” A voice commanded through the door. Mael knew if the princess wanted him, it was probably important.
After arriving at the entrance he was stopped by two guards blocking the door with their spears. “State your purpose.” One of them said.
“I believed Celestia wanted to see me.” Mael replied
They immediately removed their spears, and Mael knocked on the door. “Come in,” Celestia said through the door.
Mael opened the door and entered Celestia’s room. She was sitting on a couch made of clouds, overlooking the balcony. “You called for me princess Celestia?” Mael asked.
“I did” Celestia said, “As of right now, you may skip the formalities.” Celestia gestured to the spot on the couch beside her. “Come sit beside me.”
Mael sat down beside Celestia, half expecting to fall through the couch. “Why have you called me here?”
“I am not going to speak to you as a princess, but as a friend.” Celestia said she could tell that Mael was still grieving over his brother’s sacrifice, She also believed that Mael had a troubling past. “I know that losing someone close to you isn’t easy. A thousand years ago, I had a younger sister.” Mael gave Celestia a surprised look . “She was very close to me, her Name was Luna. She ruled the night while I ruled the day. We ruled peacefully until she got jealous of the recognition I got from our subjects when she got almost none.” Celestia started to tear up a bit, “So she became Nightmare Moon to try to defeat me. I tried to reason with her, but I never got through to her.” A small tear fell from Celestia's face, “As a last ditch effort to protect my ponies, I had to banish her to the moon. All she wanted was to be recognized and looked upto like me.”
“Sometimes that's how younger siblings are.” Mael said looking at the moon, “always wanting what their older sibling has that they don’t. At times I got jealous of my brother, Ludociel. For the longest time whenever he would return from battle, he would receive praise and recognition from his skill in combat.” Mael looked into the star filled sky with memories of his brother. “Being his younger brother, members of the goddess race kept laughing at my kind nature, saying ‘Why can’t you be like your brother, and slaughter the demons?’” This statement surprised and scared Celestia. “My brother was one of the very few members of the goddess race that didn’t make fun of me for my kindness, and he even wanted me to surpass him.” Mael was also starting to get teary-eyed at the memories of his brother, “So I trained, and trained, and trained, until I was ever stronger than him. Now I had all the praise and respect I would want, but it all came at a cost.” Mael looked at the ground, not noticing Celestia was looking at him with worry, “Now I am known as ‘The Angel of Death,’ for my power and ability to defeat several thousand demons without trying.” Mael was almost completely sobbing, “But is this what I really wanted? All I wanted was to be respected, and now most of the goddess race is too scared to even approach me.”
“Even if you are ‘The Angel of Death,’ you have been a friend to everyone you’ve met here.” Celestia said, giving him a comforting hug, “Your title doesn’t make you who you are. As the princess of the sun, there are just sometimes I wish I was able to go to my subjects without them worrying about me. Sometimes even the princess of the sun needs a friend.”
Mael was finally able to get his tears under control. “Thank you Celestia, I needed to get that off my chest.” Mael said gratefully.
“I personally think we both needed that.” Celestia said, “I’ve had a lot of guilt building up from banishing my sister.”
“Celestia, would you mind if I asked you a question?” Mael said, “Something small had been bugging me.”
“Not at all,” Celestia said.
“Why did you say that I was probably not going to be able to return home, before I even asked.”
Celestia was a little surprised at the question. “I knew you were more than likely going to ask how to return home.” She said, “Now that I have hindsight, I probably should’ve let you ask that question instead of overwhelming you on your arrival here.”
“I don’t blame you,” Mael said, as the same small red bird flew in and landed on his shoulder, “Oh, hello again.”
“It appears that ‘The Angel of Death’ has found a pet.” Celestia said while letting out a small chuckle at the irony.
“I actually think it is a wild bird.” Mael said, which surprised Celestia, “I think my peaceful demeanor has a calming effect on many creatures.”
“That is believable,” Celestia said, then she paused as she was thinking about something. “Hey, Mael.”
“Yes, Celestia?” Mael asked
“Out of all my long years of life, I haven’t met anyone as kind and compassionate as you.” Celestia said, “To call upon you when I need a friend is a great blessing.”
“Thank you Celestia,” Mael said, “Those words mean a lot to me.”
“Mael, can you keep a small secret for me?” This question made Mael’s Interest spike.
“Sure.” Mael said not knowing what to expect. Almost immediately Celestia leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Mael’s face went red and his wings immediately shot up. Celestia started to chuckle from how flustered Mael had become.
