Chapter 3: The Rune book

Mason looked around in the underground hallway while Big Mac and Spike scared followed behind Mason. Mason saw a hallway barely lit with a flickering orange glow and a little farther down, double doors slightly spread apart from being opened.

Mason said, "Let's go down this hallway. The more confusing we make our path, the harder it will be to find us."

Spike replied, " Ok, But you enter through those doors first." Mason replied with an unimpressed tone, " sure! You fucking sissies." Has Mason opened one of the double doors slowly? A grating noise that Luna could hear from the Moon passed through the underground hallway. Mason stopped and paused to listen to the silence and send out a rune proximity spell. Mason was in the quiet, dimly lit hallway next to the double doors, and as the proximity spell activated, the girls were still searching the Apple Family Farm.

Mason sighed in relief and said, " The girls are still exploring the farm. But if what Spike said is true, they may not be on the farm. So we need to be quick a find a spot to hide."

Big Mac said while looking around," Ok, what's in that room."

Mason looked in and said, " It's an underground library." Spike replied in a sarcastic tone, "Great; We can distract Twilight with old books." Mason thought to himself as he walked into the library, "That could work with the right books." Has Mason looked around in the library using a scan area rune spell, Mason felt the magic scan four secret rooms. The first two were side by side hidden in the library. The other two were in the lower section of the castle. Mason walked to the two hidden rooms, which were behind a wall and bookshelves. Mason scanned the mechanism looking at two books.

Spike asked, " What in the world are you doing, Mason." Mason replied, " There are two hidden rooms behind this wall and that wall. I was studying the mechanics to unlock the wall. If we hide in these rooms, the girls won't find us."

Big Mac asked, " How do you know that Mason. The girls might find out about us being in the hidden rooms and then were fucked both figurative and literal." Mason replied with confidence , "I know Twilight. Her want for knowledge and learning is something I figured out day one. Plus, I played a prank on her which made her rethink her whole ability of organization." Spike replied to Mason in a dumbfounded look, " Oh, I remember that weekend you made me suffer trying to convince her you were being sarcastic about it and Wait, what about the dust that we are disturbing and our foot prints."

Mason looked around and wrote a runic spell and said, "I have that under control." The spell Mason used took every footstep from the forest to the destroyed castle were flattened or destroyed any and all the footprints that the three made. Mason looked at Big Mac and Spike and said, " It's going to be much more complicated now, thanks to your suggestion Spike." The hidden door opened, and Spike, Big Mac, and Mason walked into the secret room and looked and saw a bunch of artifacts and books. One of the artifacts was a crystal ball that allowed a user to watch the outside world. Mason activated the crystal ball into a projector to watch the girls, which was a brilliant idea because Twilight discovered the dug-out hole.

Twilight looked at Fluttershy and asked, " Can you send some animal down there to find where it goes."
Fluttershy respawned with, " No problem, Twilight, I can send Angel bunny down there to see where it goes."

Twilight smiled and said out loud, " You can run Big Mac and Mason, but you can't hide."

Apple Jack ran over to Twilight and asked, " Well, Ya'll find something Twi, Because we couldn't find nothing on the other....."

Twilight looked at Apple Jack and said, " AJ, It seems like Mason and Big Mac had help." Apple Jack respawned, " How you reckon and who put this 20ft hole in my land."

Twilight said while looking at the hole, " Well, the dirt has claw marks, and the only person with claws is Spike. So Spike helped out Mason and Big Mac." Apple Jack examined the hole more and said, " No, This is older like Spike did it weeks ago."

Fluttershy walked back to Twilight and said," They escaped into the Ever-Free Forest after I had barry, my friendly bear, move the rock that Angel was stuck behind."

Twilight respawned, " Good Job Fluttershy! Now we need a plan of attack."

Rainbow Dash said, "Bad news, they didn't get away by flying, and why don't we bait them out, you know, like have Pinkie throw a fake party for Spike."

Twilight said, " That's not going to work because Mason doesn't like parties or big events. He’s too smart to fall for it and he’s crafty and skilled with redirecting misinformation." While the girls are arguing, Mason reads a book with runic spells of old and other types. Spike and Big Mac are watching the projection laughing and chuckling how there is no way. Twilight and the other girls will find them. Mason looked at the other artifact, a glove covering the forearms and having a bit of magically energy imbued into it. The last artifact was an orb of some kind. Once Mason scanned it, he saw it draws in energy of all types and turns it into magic energy to use. Mason touched it, but the moment Mason grabbed it, the orb entered his body, fusing and becoming part of his magic that allowed him to do magic, making his spell stronger and more efficient.

Big Mac asked, " You good Mason, that bright light made Spike and me jump."

Mason respawned, " Don't worry, I was examining this orb, and it fused with my magic. Now I can do more potent magic that lasts longer and is more robust. You guys hang out here. I'm checking out that other hidden room. Spike and Big Mac go back to watching to projection and notice that the girls are talking to Zecora, who wasn't there to see the trio pass by, so the girls are flying blind, and Spike and Big Mac are loving this watching the girls fail brightens up there day. Mason walks into the other hidden room and sees more orbs of different colors in 7 different chests, all of the same colors in the same chest: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. But the seventh chest was closed by magic which Mason had deduced.

Mason used a rune spell on his hand to open the trunk from the inside. When Mason opened the chest, he saw a book with no title on it. Mason grabbed the book and started reading. Which taught him more about the orbs and how the spheres can help increase anyone's power or increase the amount of energy the anthro or other species hold. The energy balls explained in the book have a point of pure magic that the anthro ponies use to become an alicorn anthro only if the anthro takes a certain amount of energy. Mason took a look at every orb and noticed that the old glove used to grab the balls without the orbs being infused into the person. Mason grabbed one energy ball of each color and the book. Mason read a section about a magic energy input that could turn the specific person immortal, which intrigued Mason because Celestia and Mason could be together if Mason were immortal. Mason set up the orbs into an alchemy circle in the library. While Spike and Big Mac were distracted, seeing the girls give up and set up a trap to capture Mason and Big Mac. Mason finished the set up of the orbs with the last bit of info. Mason setup the formation from the book in the center of the library outside so Big Mac and Spike wouldn't notice him working. The book said in the writing put the person that wants eternal life in the center of the circle with the white glowing orb already absorbed and the other colors in the formation. Mason accidentally tripped over himself into the middle of the ring formation, causing a large shock wave and a pillar of light as Mason was screaming in pain from the spheres slowly entering his body and readjusting bone structure and causing cracking. Big Mac and Spike ran out of the hidden room with the crystal ball in Spike's hand.

Big Mac asked, "What is happening?"

Spike respawned, "I don't know. But we need to leave because the girls are heading to this castle and fast."
While Spike and Big Mac go back into the hidden room and close the door, they watch the girls enter the broken castle and run into the library room, which took them very little time to find. Seeing Mason being the center of the light and clearly in pain, screaming with a bunch of spheres still slowly entering Mason's body. Twilight teleported the Elements of Harmony to the girls and told them to put on the elements, Rarity, AppleJack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie looked at one another and nodded putting the Elements of Harmony on and used it on Mason. The rainbow ray hit the ray of light before Mason, which started to swirl into Mason's body as if Mason’s body was absorbing the energy, and the orbs started to move faster into Mason's body; after a while, Mason stopped screaming, and the light disappeared but Masons body was still stuck in the air. But the spheres were still inching closer and entering Mason's body.

Twilight said in shock, "That pillar of light forced the ray to swirl into Mason's body. I've never seen that happen before."
The rest of the "Main 6" were speechless, and that's when Mason's body took the last sphere of energy.

Mason looked up at Twilight and her friends and said with a smirk, "Hello."

Author's Note

I don't know I'm trying here ok most would just give up and pretend they didn't write this crap but I'm not ok. but if you start being a right shit then I will air out this website with the 12 gage shotgun I keep by my bed ok.