An Interesting New Life

Chapter Two : Settling in Part-3
By : The Eternal Star

More than three hours have passed ever since my mother began explaining to me about all categories of Alicorns and their advanced forms, from all the explanation and information my mother gave me regarding it, I can summarize it into a few facts.

The first is that the Alicorn race is divided into eight categories based on their elemental alignment which is one of the following; water, fire, earth, lightning, light, darkness, wind, and force. This elemental alignment is by no means make an Alicorn can only use that type of magic, but rather it makes him/her have a significantly easier time to cast spells of that type while at the same time is more powerful and requires less mana consumption.

The second is that Alicorns can advance their elemental alignments into their advanced forms which would not only result in them gaining access to the advanced branches of it but also strengthen their original elemental alignments and in some rare cases, may alter one's appearances to be more based of their advanced elemental branches.

The following are the advanced types of elemental alignments and their origins I had learned ; ice is the advanced form of water, while blaze is an advanced form of fire, rock is the advanced form of earth, blitz is the advanced form of lightning, aether is an advanced form of light, corruption is an advanced form of darkness, typhoon is advanced form of wind, and telekinetic is advanced form of force.

When I first heard my mother say that darkness's advanced form is called corruption, I thought it was because continuous use of said advanced magic without delay in between uses would result in the corruption of the mind and body of the user.

My mother, however, later clarified that all types of magic are corrupt to Alicorns if not used properly and darkness's advanced form is named corruption is more due to the kind of spells it mostly has is more toward killing your enemy in... an unpleasant manner to say the least.

Mother also explained that darkness's advanced form is named corruption because of the corruption that would take control of the user if not used properly and without proper delay in between uses, which is a common misconception among young Alicorns who had not yet delved into the art of arcane that is magic. All types of magic can corrupt an Alicorn and aether/light magic is no exception as it can just as easily corrupt an Alicorn as corruption/darkness magic.

However, the term 'can as easily corrupt an Alicorn' is more along the lines of all kinds of magic having the same degrees or chances of corruption taking place, it wasn't because it was easy for Alicorn to get corrupted- as a matter of fact, mother said that the last case of Alicorn corrupted with magic is about fifty cycles ago as our body and mind is very resistant toward corruption.

When this topic was taking place, at one point Mother looked at me and said that considering that my magical pathways are something that have never heard of or recorded before, that means I would have a significant magical prowess.

The chance of me getting corrupted is much higher than average but nothing that couldn't be easily prevented by further study into the arcane art and learning the proper way of controlling said arcane art, both of which can be easily achieved if I were to be enrolled in the magical academy.

Hence why my mother is annoyed by my father's insistence that I should instead be enrolled in the combat academy, she wanted me to be able to properly and responsibly control my magical prowess as what would be a harmless water shot if it were to be fired by average Alicorn, could very well be a deadly water cut if I put too much of my mana when casting the spell or hold it on my horn for too long.

In short, she wanted me to be able to control my magic properly so that I wouldn't hurt others accidentally when casting a spell. Last but not least the third topic which is my mother is still theorizing about my possible elemental alignment.

-"And the way you narrowed your eyes at your brother's active personality hints at you being a Water Alicorn, yet your father also had a point that you could be a Force Alicorn as the overall appearance coloration is related to purple.

But your quiet nature as you didn't even cry as you were just born or let out any kind of sound after that is a stark contrast to the cheery and active personality I have seen among most Force Alicorn I have ever met.

This hints at you being a darkness type, yet I see another contrast as you had multiple times gathered my attention which didn't comply with the often quiet and tendencies to avoid attention if possible for most Darkness Alicorns.

So, what is your elemental alignment, my little Critic? You had the personalities of a Water Alicorn yet had the appearance of a Force Alicorn, your quiet nature is like that of a Darkness Alicorn yet you had gathered my attention multiple times.

So again, what is your alignment, my little Critic? Are you secretly a Light Alicorn? Or perhaps a wind one?" Mother asked as she brought her gaze closer to me and widened her eyes in wonder and accusation... did at any point I ever say that their eyes can extend to the size of a small dinner plate?

However, when my mother was about to say something with her gaze still close to me and the definitely not creepy large widened eyes looking at me. The door into the room opened to reveal the now familiar sight of a tall orange Alicorn stallion that is my father and a dark violet annoying Alicorn colt that is my brother, they quickly get themselves inside the room before closing the door behind them.

I then noticed that he was holding some kind of violet box beneath his right wing, huh, I wondered what Father had brought with him. After they closed the door, Father broke up the silence by walking closer to the bed and saying "Hey honey, I'm back, and look at what I have got for you and our little filly Critic here."

He then brought the violet box tucked underneath his wing forward by enveloping it with his magic, dad brought the box closer to Mother and I with Mother enveloped the box with her magic. She quickly opened up the box with her magic and pulled the content out all the while her expression was neutral-curious.

After the content is pulled out, it is revealed to be a huge thick blue book with an interesting coloration of half the side being white while the other half is black, and the front image is of an eclipse. Below the image, I'm pretty sure is the title of the book. The other is a silver ring with an even smaller unknown white gem that seemed to glow a faint white light.

This sight made my mother's eyes widen in surprise as she quickly brought the two items closer to her face and then inspected the book for a few seconds before saying in a surprised, wonder, and happy tone.

"Arcane, I... I don't know what to say really. I suppose I could begin by saying thank you so much Arcane, I have been trying to get this book on my hoof for cycles yet was never able to. Although, now I wonder how you managed to get your hoof on such advanced tome of Aether and Corruption magic? You are neither a Light nor Darkness Alicorn and we both know how much either type of Alicorn prefers to keep their knowledge to themselves?"

Mom then hugged Dad with her wings tightly with me in between them, I don't know exactly what happened in the next few minutes since I was smothered in between their chest. But judging by the smooching sound followed by mom's soft muffled moans, I'm guessing they kiss each other tongue to tongue which makes me a bit baffled at the sheer fact that they do this with Ethern staying in the same room as them.

'Mom? Dad? Did you really have to do that with Ethern in the same room as you two are in? I don't know how courtship or the aging system works in this world, but I suppose it's safe to assume that since Ethern is still in school. He is still below the age of adulthood and thus normally shouldn't be allowed to see this kind of act so openly.

I may not have liked him much, but he's still my brother and I don't want him one day to come into my room and ask if I would like to 'play a game' with him!' I thought in my mind as the soft muffled moan continued until it was no longer a muffled moan as I heard Mother shamelessly moan out loud and I felt her wings begin to stiffen, oh not a wingboner too!

After some squirming like a worm, I managed to stick my head out of the hug and quickly looked upward only for me to see in shock that mom's neck is gently kissed and bitten down by dad as he trailed down her neck ever so slowly.

I set my eyes forward only to see my brother looking at us with a bored and annoyed expression as he rolled his eyes and shook his head a few times while mumbling "Always so openly every time".

The sight of my brother's bored and annoyed expression turned my initial shock into confusion 'Colt, why are you not... I don't know, shocked or something? I mean, seeing your parent doing an intimate act right in front of you surely makes you at the very least shocked right?'

I questioned in my mind as I watched my brother get himself comfortable by summoning a literal chair out of the air beside him and sitting on it, then he opened up his backpack with his wing and pulled out a book with orange cover coloration and flame symbol.

As he began reading the book, Mom's moan gradually got louder until it became an outright scream of pleasure. I looked up to see the cause of said scream was because Dad bit quite hard on Mom's neck. Not hard enough to pierce or injure the skin, but it will leave a bite mark... Is having your neck bitten like that really that much pleasurable?

I know that the neck is a sensitive area and can cause a pleasure sensation, but I don't think it will be pleasurable enough to elicit such a scream of pleasure, or did it? As I pondered that question in my mind, Father let go of Mom's neck and I saw the bite mark that could last for hours if not days judging by how perceiveable the bite mark is.

Mom and Dad then stared at each other faces as the former panted in slight exhaustion, a few seconds later they brought their lips together and kissed for another few seconds before letting go and Mom said in a slightly exhausted but content and happy voice.

"Thank you Arcane, I needed that. It's been quite a while since I had been bitten like that... oh by Empress Kinersia herself! I forgot that we were in a hospital and I just shouted out loud again"

Father let out a chuckle seeing my mother's now embarrassed face as her face pinkened in both arousal from before, and embarrassment at the fact that she just shouted out loud in pleasure right inside the hospital.

He then said in an amused tone "You are always welcome, Aeterna. I got that book as a reward from one of my quest months ago and I was saving it up as a present after you birthed our second foal. Oh, don't worry about the scream, I had placed a silence zone spell so no sound can come in or come out"

At this revelation, Mother let out a relieved sigh as the blush from embarrassment left her face just at the same time as her arousal went off. She then said, "Thank you again Arcane, for you saved me from embarrassment and I will sure to pay you back next time- her gaze turned to the silver ring still in her magical grasp -so this silver horn ring is supposed to be for our little filly Critic here?"

After witnessing the quick change of situation from unexpected intimate moments to casual family stuff, I don't know what I should feel about it. But I suppose it's better that way as I won't have the time even if I wanted to, I couldn't as I looked at the silver horn ring too as Dad said.

"Well, Aeterna. I figured that since our filly would have high magical prowess. This means her chance of accidental spells discharge- especially teleportation -is much higher than other foals, this horn ring would be how we tracked her down and kept check on her condition.

Not only that, but the huge magical reserve she would undoubtedly have due to the abnormal size of the magical pathway, meant that her body would continuously drain the magic around her to fill in the empty reserve, and this horn ring would hasten that process as we both know that, having magical reserve less than a fifth of the max capacity is dangerous for every Alicorn."

After hearing Dad's explanation of the silver horn ring, Mother quickly brought it in her magic right at the top of my forehead where my still small horn is. Then slowly slide it down the horn and I shudder at the intense sensation I get every time the horn ring comes in contact with my horn.

After half a minute the horn ring reached the base of my horn and I felt the horn ring shrink itself perfectly so that it was loose enough to be easily removed, but tight enough so that it wouldn't accidentally fall.

Immediately after that, I began feeling a tingling sensation on my horn down to my neck. It's not uncomfortable- in fact, the longer and stronger the tingling sensation is, I feel more relaxed and energized as a pleasant smile can be seen on my face as my eyelids flutter softly.

Mom must have seen my reaction as she turned her head to face my father and said "You're right, Arcane. The horn ring enchantment certainly worked and she must be feeling empty as this was the first time- if I recall my memories correctly -she had an actual smile."

"Of course, it would work Aeterna, I certainly didn't pay five hundred silvers for a fake item. Anyway, are the observations and scans done honey? If so, what are the results? Did our filly have any other complications?" Dad asked with worry in his voice, fearful at the thought of his filly having extra complications.

Seeing dad worried expression, Mom quickly used one of her forehooves to swipe Father's downed lips upward and said in a reassuring tone "Luckily for us Arcane, our filly Critic didn't have any other active or potential complications other than her eyes- which had been fixed -despite the very extraordinary circumstances. Here, read the report".

She then brought forth with her magic the report text, which Dad quickly grabbed with his telekinesis magic before he read up the report for a few seconds, before letting out a happy and relieved sigh as his expression turned happy with his eyes relaxed and lips showed a happy smile as he said

"That's a relief then, I was so worried that our little filly would have further complications. Kinersia knows what would I do to fix my filly further complications if she were to have it"

Mother smiled at Dad's words and she spun her body and me so that we could see Ethern still reading his book, huh, he and I may have more things in common than I thought. Mother then called out to him by saying "Come here Ethern" and he quickly put his book back and got off the chair before it banished right after it. He then walked closer to the bed before stopping right in front of my still-hugged form as he said.

"So little sis, I'm glad to hear from our parents that you're okay and completely fine with no further complications. Anyway, I have given thoughts on my actions yesterday and... I will admit that what I did is indeed reckless and could be endangering. So I as your big brother Ethern here, am sorry for the mistake he made yesterday, will you forgive him?"

' This colt apparently realized and knew that he had made the mistake of flopping me up and down yesterday, I suppose I could forgive you, big brother. I still don't like you, but at least I now know that you will take responsibility for any mistake you make ' I thought in my mind as I rolled my eyes but nevertheless, nodded my head to make him perceive me as I forgive him for his mistake yesterday.

Seeing my apparent eye-roll and nod, my brother's expression quickly turned happy as his eyes shined with relief and lips turned upward as he brought his face to me in an apparently another hug of wings- what's up with these Alicorns and their likeness toward hugging somepony else with their wings?. After a few seconds, he released his hug and saw that I had narrowed my eyes at him again.

"Oops, sorry little sis. I suppose I was just worried that you would grow up holding grudges for me that when I saw that you had forgiven me I was just so excited and... well, that happened" My brother apologized at me as I let out another eye-roll followed by an annoyed sigh, before nodding my head once again.

Watching our little banter, Mom and Dad laughed happily with Dad gently scrubbing Ethern's back with his wing reassuringly as he said "Well, well, well Ethern. If you wanted to apologize to some pony else with a personality similar to your mother here and yet not very close, like your little sister Critic is.

You need to focus on the conversation and your actions as hugging her after you apologized to her, will cancel any current progress of fixing a relationship. Trust me colt, I learned that from experience.

But anyway, Aeterna. I had a check-in with Doctor Clean regarding whether or not you're still required to stay in the hospital, she said that now you're free to go home since she or the hospital had no longer any reason to keep you. So, let's go home."

"Finally, I'm starting to get bored here and I can't wait to return to my personal lab once again." Mom said as she enveloped me with her magic and began to get herself off of the bed which took a minute or two, after that she moved me with her magic to be on top of her head just behind the large white horn sticking just above her forehead. Mom then looked at the bed beside her and put the blanket back to where it was.

When all of that was done, Mom looked at the rest of the family and said "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get back home". Just like that, my parent and brother began walking out of the room while I had to hold on to my mother's long mane with my new unfamiliar hooves so I wouldn't fall off. My mother's horn glowed blue as her magic enveloped the door handle before she cranked it open.

After all of us had gotten out, Mother closed the door and the blue glow on her horn faded. As my parent and brother were walking along the hospital hallways which looked very similar to a modern hospital with everything from the floor to the ceiling painted white, even the crystal lamps I had seen so far were also glowing a white light.

We passed by several doctors, nurses, and hospital staff with some wearing green clothes, others wearing blue, pink, and the common white one.

The thing is, all of them seemed to always greet Mom and Dad with "Lady Aeterna" or "Lord Arcane" while stopping for a few seconds to slightly bow as we passed by before returning to whatever tasks they were doing before. This makes me wonder if my parent were some sort of nobles or other higher hierarchy rank in an empire.

How did I know this? If the title they were calling my parent isn't obvious enough, at one point I recall my parent saying that I would manage to gather the attention of the Empress herself which if we combined by my mother a few moments ago just said "Oh my Empress Kinersia"? Yeah, the country I'm in is an Empire led by an Empress named Kinersia.

Several minutes had gone by until we saw a wide space where there was a large door made of what I assume to be quartz that led outside the hospital, seeing that we had gotten right in front of the door, my mother said "My little filly, Critic. What you are about to see next is the glorious beauty that is the capital of the Forcinetic Empire, the homeland city of the Force/Telekinetic Alicorn."

My mother then held her magic in one of the door handles while I prepared myself for the new world I was possibly gonna live forever in, then she said the last part "The City of Vistentia!". She opened the door and the magical sight in front of me made my eyes widen in amazement.