Corruption is Magic

“It seems our Dear Twilight here holds much stock in you Luna.” Alexander says with his toothy grin as we sit at the table in the dining room of the manor. Gaurt sits beside me with one of her hands on my back as I keep my head laid upon the table. Luna and Alexander are sitting at either side of the table with me in the middle.

“Twilight does, However there seems to be much untold about thou, Alexander. Why doth thou seek to replace Celestia as Dear Twilight’s tutor?” Luna asks with a calm face but behind it evident untrust is etched into her features. As soon as I mentioned Alexander to Luna, she went searching for him to ‘question him’ as she put it.

“Ah well I had no intention to replace anyone, simply fill in what was missing in her training. I assume there is something that brought this to your mind?” Alexander says happily and I feel as if a mental game of badminton is playing out in conversation form.

“We have heard thou has taught Twilight of Corruption and other magics.Some magics being magic that…” Luna pauses and looks at me but after a second she reverts her gaze back to Alexander with a determined look on her eyes. “That our sister sought to keep away from the population.” Shooting up I look at Luna in shock and anger.

“You mean she actually held back forms of magic from ponies?” I ask incredulously while my blood boils a bit.

“Thou doesn’t understand Twilight. Celestia… she didn’t care if it did damage to Equestia’s future and it’s development.” Luna says as she lets her mask slide and her ears fall as the mask does so. “The three tribes… The world… it had so much… wrong. It wasn’t like it is now Dear Twilight. Think of it like many copies of Sombra, Chrysalis, or even… Nightmare moon. Just walking around and being part of an organized military.” Luna offers and I look at Luna with narrowed eyes.

“Not all the magics kept from the world was evil magic!” I shout causing Luna to jump slightly but she returns to her stoic regretful look quickly.

“Any magic can be misused, Twilight. Magic tis a tool, the user makes it evil or not.”

“Did she not trust her ponies? Was their loyalty not enough!?” I ask, slamming my fist into the table as I look at Luna in anger. “Was my Loyalty enough to her for her to even teach me?” Tears stream down my face as I grind my teeth looking at Luna who wordlessly takes my words.

“Now now, Twilight. It’s not Luna at fault, Luna is as much of a victim to Celestia as you are from what you have shared with me and what I heard.” Alexander soothingly says and I look at him but in doing so see Gaurt who slowly touches my shoulder and mouths the words ‘It’s okay.’ to me. Taking a deep breath I sit down and look at Luna again.

“I-I’m sorry Princess.”

“Tis alright Dearest Twilight… We understand Thou art hurt learning this… We had planned to push Thy sister into sharing this information with Thou… We were too late however.” Luna explains but after some silence she looks up to Alexander. “Thou said We are a ‘Victim' of Celestia’s. Care to elaborate?”

“Well, you have a Corruption wellspring in you. Not just a minor one at that, the only way you could have possibly gotten that is from a powerful user of corruption but unlike other Wellsprings… Corruption can be taken from a being with a Wellspring. Tell me Luna… do you know of a being that seems to be made of many different creatures?”

“Thou is referring to Discord?”

“Is that his name now?” Alexander chuckles. “For being a brilliant mind he is horrible with names.”

“Doth thou know Discord?” Luna asks in confusion but instead of waiting for Alexander I speak up.

“Discord is Alexander’s student, the one before me. He was to become king of this world but killed everyone who was in the Hierarchy of this world then used the wish granted to the newly crowned kings and queens through the ages to go to our world and cut it off from this world. Betraying Alexander and everyone here.”

“That… that’s where Discord came from?” Luna asks, shocked, getting a happy nod from Alexander.

“He wanted his own world so he could corrupt all on his own. However he was stopped and sealed in stone… Though the details are hazy, Twilight tells me.”

“Hazy?” Luna asks as she looks at me.

“Every book I read had details that failed to line up… as if it was based on a lie. The most prominent is what elements Celestia and you used. Some even fully removed you from the equation. Celestia never answered any of my questions and told me many times she couldn’t remember the finer details.”

“We…” Luna says but pauses as she contemplates something. “We faced Discord… though it was not as simple as the stories likely tell. We both came upon the spreading Chaos lands, prepared and ill prepared all the same. We looked down on the powerful entity known as Discord. Sister had some form of… sense when we were dealing with other wellspring users. She would use the Opposite form of magic in attack form but… she saw something… something that made her hesitate. A hesitation that caused her to be turned from herself into a small rabbit. We… no, I was left alone and with the elements. Discord believing our plan was foiled began to laugh at his easy victory but I used the elements and sealed him in stone.”

“You… you did it.” I say incredulously but with that event cleared up a lightbulb springs alive in my brain. “You dominated him, you beat him and him staying in stone was a constant victory over him draining his corruption. He kept his wellsprings separated meaning the corruption remained feral and not as an alter ego. You however had never known of it so weren’t ready for it so it mixed immediately. The large amount of constant Corruption till he was wrung dry of it also sent it into a Frenzy and likely is what sent you wild.”

“That’s exactly what I feel happened. A plus my Dear.” Alexander chuckles, shooting me a thumbs up when I glance at him.

“That still doesn’t explain why thou believes We are a victim.” Luna explains and I look at her.

“Luna… The elements… Celestia used them on you to banish you right?”

“Yes.”

“Yet we used them to cure you.” I say and as if a switch was flipped in her head Luna’s eyes shrink.

“She…”

“Used us both. She couldn’t have any chances of herself being corrupted. So she let us be unwitting lambs.” I say remembering Shining Armor and Princess Cadence’s wedding when Celestia was bested by Chrysalis.

“Worry not, however. I have an offer for you Luna my Dear.”

“An offer?” Luna asks skeptically with a brow raised.

“Become something more than a Lamb. I offer to you, to become a true being of the night.”

“Art thou offering to make us-”

“A Vampire, I am. This however comes with a string attached. I ask that you work with Twilight, she plans to become Queen so she can open a portal back to your home. She has gone astray and needs support. You also seem to want to help her. That is all I ask.”

“Alexander, you can’t be serious.” I say looking at him but he ignores me.

“You will be stronger, faster, more perspective, but also weak in the daylight. You also will need the blood of the living to nourish you. All other food will only keep you from dying.” I look to Luna who looks at Alexander with a genuine look of interest on her face.

“Luna! You can’t actually be thinking of taking that offer.”

“And why not, We have been ousted by our own ponies, our own sister sought to let thou rot here. Why should we remain as a pony at this point?” Luna says as she looks at me, hurt in her eyes. “The ponies of Equestria may remain awake at night now but they still do not care for us or our night.”

“So you want to become a Vampire?”

“We are already seen as the mother of Vamponys, it’s not like it will change much.” Luna says with a smile and a shrug. “We also are feeling a tad bit rebellious with recent revelations.” Luna says with a smug grin.

“Then we have a deal?” Alexander asks with a wide smile.