(Read Desc.) An Emperor's Retirement
Chapter three: meeting
Previous Chapter(Third person POV: Luna)
Her mind was racing at speeds faster than light Was that truly him, or was it just a figment of my imagination? She was unsure of what to do, weather or not to go to where he told her to go, after calming down and thinking it over, she decided to cancel night court for the day and to go there. She exited her room and told the first guard she came across, that she was cancelling night court, and before he could ask a reason as to, 1: why she was awake in the morning, and 2: why she wanted to do that, She teleported away.
(First person POV: Frosty)
I was sitting impatiently on my couch, just waiting for something to happen, I feel horrible for what I did, two hundred and fifty years ago I showed up on that moon, became her friend, and when something happened that I couldn't handle I left and never returned , never contacted her. I abandoned her, when she needed a friend the most, I just Fucking left, like the horrible person I am. Who am I kidding, she probably hates me...
There was a Sudden knock at my door and my heart stopped in my chest, I couldn't breath, I walked towards the door and opened it, I was met with the sight of... Luna.
Time seemed to Freeze as we both looked at each other, She was the first to speak, "I-it truly is thou, F-frosty."
I simply nodded, and said, "Would you like to come in, I have a lot of explaining to do..."
We both made our way to the living room and sat down.
"I'm so, so sorry for what I did, will you ever forgive me..."
"Yes, I already have, but I want to know why"
"Well, when I arrived on the moon of your planet, I was in horrible shape, not physically, but mentally, and emotionally, and when you made advancements on me, I- I- I just couldn't not after what had happened, I just..."
She looked confused and said, you never did tell me much about you, what happened to you, my friend."
"In order to know what happened, I must tell my story from the begining."
"You see, It all began, around... three-hundred and thirteen years ago, when I was sixteen. You see, my species, Palaw, have natural magic, but we don't gain access to it until we are sixteen years of age, once I got my magic, I showed a particular affinity for cryomancy, I had also loved swords all my life, and even owned and trained with one. Now, at this time, my people had six guardians, now, their names don't have translations to modern language, so I will have to say them in ancient Palaw. They were as follows: ⨸⨴⩒⩑⩃ guardian of the caves, ⨈⨛⨐⨆⨁⩂⨶⩆ guardian of the forest, ⨗⨙⨢⨄⨫⨍⨕⨻⨷ guardian of the ocean, ⨀⨷⨨ guardian of the skies, ⨟⨒⨁⨼⨥⩅⪙⪇ guardian of the desert, and ⨓⨸⨡⨘⨒⨇ guardian of the sun."
I paused for a short bit, the continued, " When I was almost seventeen, a horrible curse descended upon my people, almost all of them disappeared, as if they never existed, then our guardians were turned against us they slaughtered most of the remaining people, I was one of the people to challenge them, I still don't truly know how I was able to defeat any of them, but I did. I defeated all of of them... until I got to ⨓⨸⨡⨘⨒⨇, I was almost killed, permanently, by him, but a presence came over me, and she spoke to me, I still remember her words to this day. Fear not, child, I, Icels, goddess of the ice elementals have been watching you, I shall give the power to defeat this evil, and bring your people back on the condition that you serve me. Those were her exact words."
"I assume that you took her offer, then?"
"Yes, I did, she was a part of the reason for my current name, now let me continue my story. First I must explain something though, there are four plains of existence, The physical realm, where most dimensions exist, and where we reside currently. The spiritual or elemental realm, where elementals exist. The void, the place between life and death, and the afterlife, where people go after they die."
"I was taken to the elemental realm, where I was given the name frosty, and given to Icels, she was a very nice person, and in my time there, we grew quite close, I ascended ranks quickly due to my sheer power with ice magic, and my tactical skill, as well as being one of the few people to exist in both a psychical and spiritual sense, after awhile I was given the title of the frost spirit, which meant that I was second only to the goddess herself, we even got married... I was so happy back then."
"But one day, so long ago, I was returning home from a mission in the physical realm, that is it happened..." At this point I was shaking, and my eyes were welling up. I managed to stutter out, "Wh-when I-I got-t b-back, the town, was-was, des-destroyed, ev-ever-yone was d-dead, the m-men, the women, and even the ch-children... and even Icels was critically injured, she died in my hands, I-, I need a minute." At this point, I was a mess, me the great and mighty United Palaw Emperor, The slayer of tyrants, the freer of slaves, and many more titles. Luna then got up and sat down next to me. We exchanged no words, we simply sat like that for several minutes.
I couldn't stop myself from telling the last part of this story "The order elementals, they had recently gotten a new leader, who thought that everyone else was to chaotic, and decided to enslave all of the others, and kill those who resisted... the ice elementals and chaos elementals were the first to go, after seeing what they did, the rest of the elementals surrendered. This is what I learned from Icels before she died, her last act was to give me the rest of her power... I'm not ashamed to say this, but, the only ones of the order elementals who didn't die, were the children, and the few of them that believed their leader to be wrong... the rest... were crushed by a vast army."
"But you said the other ice elementals were dead."
"They were, but I wasn't talking about people, for there are two kinds of elementals, the Sapients and the Mindlessess. The Mindlessess are closer to golems then they are anything else. The ones who weren't killed by me became known as the harmony elementals, in fact, if I recall correctly, the leader of them is the same goddess who created this dimension, very nice lady, she is."
"After that, I wandered around dimensions for an amount of time, until I found the void, which apparently, was where the bastard that cursed my original people lived, so I went there, and kicked his ass, as it turns out, it doesn't matter if you're basically god, if you haven't fought anyone in over a billion years, a very very angry ice person will be able to decimate you easily."
"And how did his people react to that?" Luna asked
"They were actually pretty chill about it, he was a massive dick, according to multiple people. That's actually how I met a good friend of mine, The Grim reaper, or just Grim."
"T-the grim r-reaper!??"
"Yep, and contrary to popular belief, he doesn't go and collect souls, he just makes sure that they are dead before sending them onto the afterlife."
"After wandering for a little bit more, that's when I came here, and that is why I rejected you advances, I simply couldn't handle the idea of having someone get that close to me... I shouldn't have left, though, that's been eating at me for the past two-hundred fifty years"
For a few more minutes, we simply sat with each-other, Luna then asked, "What happened after that?"
"Well, I finally found my home dimension, but when I returned I was horrified at what I saw, my people, were living under the rule of a brutal tyrant, I couldn't let that stand, so I marched right into his throne room, and fucking murdered him, the guards didn't even try to stop me, they just let it happen, but that's not the worst part. After I did that, I took his body, and threw it out and into a crowd of people, once I told them who it was, they went fucking apeshit, those bastards tore his dead body apart like they were starving hyenas fighting over pieces of a carcass, the did unspeakable things to his body, we legitimately couldn't find a single fucking piece Of that asshole's body."
Both of the ponies recoiled not only at the pure heinousness of what he was describing, but also at the amount of profanity he used. "Now, my reign was an... interesting one, I was kind of forced to do it, and they liked me, alot, a little too much even. I Had to be extra careful with how I acted, cause if I made a single mistake, they would march on me with the intent of killing me."
"How do you know that?"
"When ever I would publicly out a government official for being corrupt, they and their families would go missing, only to turn up brutally murdered a few weeks later, Now, I think that is enough for now."
Luna then asked, "So, Frosty, how did you get here."
"Um, uh, I... uh, got a perma-death, so I redeemed my favor with Grim, and asked him to send me to a random dimension rather than home. so I could retire, so, uh, me being here was an accident."
"What exactly do you mean perma-death?"
"Oh, well, Palaw have a special kind of magic, call soul magic, which is basically where the soul is so strongly linked to the body that it gives magic, among other things, such as agelessness, and regenerative immortality, or respawning, which is basically just cheating death, but if a magic cancelling effect is used a Palaw can become mortal until their magic regenerates enough and if they die during that time, then they stay dead."
Luna then looked at me then asked, "How did you die?"
"I got shot, a very large amount of times."
"What series of events led to that happening, Frosty?" Luna asked
"To make a long story short, my empire was at war, they landed on our planet, we cornered them, I killed their leader in a fit a rage, and because I neglected to remove his guards beforehand, I got filled with more holes than a block of swiss cheese."
They both just looked at me with an expression that basically said 'how can you be so casual about the fact that you died'
" What were you shot with?"
I then had to explain what a gun was and how it worked.
Author's Note
I'm currently not entirely sure if Luna and frosty will have a romantic relationship, so I will hold off on adding that tag until I know for sure. Any criticism is welcome.
