„AREN!“ Luna screamed while jerking upwards from her bed, panting heavily. In panic, she looked around the room. Still panting, she slowly began to calm down. It seemed like she only had a nightmare, well every dream involving Aren was a nightmare since she doesn’t like him even a single bit.

Looking around the room she was sleeping in she witnessed that this was not her room. She sat on a bed with white sheets and a white mattress. The walls also looked white and guess what color the curtains had. The sun shined through the closed white curtains, giving the room a subtle pattern on the floor. Luna could only see the room in dampened light, but this was no problem for her. She was the princess of the night and being able to see in darker places was a skill, she always had and appreciated.

Yet, she didn’t recognize this room judging by the looks, but one thing gave away where Luna was right now. The smell. This overly clean and disinfected smell. There was no doubt. She was in a hospital. Instantly panicking, she looked down at her body to inspect it, in order to find the injury she might had, which forced her into a stay in a hospital. She looked over her hooves, and her body, but couldn’t find anything damaged.

Reluctantly she stood up and looked at her own body again. Nothing. Everything was as it should be. Why was she in a hospital? The last thing she remembered was being extremely angry at Aren. Suddenly remembering what happened in her room, she looked up at her horn, and gasped at what she saw. Her horn was OK and looked perfectly normal. She could have sworn that she destroyed it in her anger, so how was it fine?

Her ears turned to the door, when she heard the silent opening of it. She looked to the door and saw a brown unicorn with a white jacket standing there. Upon seeing her, his expression changed to surprise, and he made a quick bow.

“Oh Princess Luna. You are already awake?” Luna looked confused around the room but answered.

“Yes, I am awake, but tell me. Why did I sleep in a hospital? I can’t seem to remember the last night this clearly.” She said with a serious tone in her voice. The doctor seemed to get more nervous, and began shuffling a little.

“My sincerest apologies princess, but I think I am not the right pony to explain what happened last night.” He did another bow, to strengthen his apology. Luna sighed a little inwards, not wanting to show this to one of her subjects. Of course, it wouldn’t be this easy to learn about the events which brought her into the hospital. Oh speaking of hospital.

“Why did I even sleep in this hospital?” She asked with a raised eyebrow, and the doctor could answer this question without problems.

“This I can tell you, princess. We didn’t know what effects the spells had, which general Aren used on you, so we transported your highness into this hospital, just for precautions.” Lunas’ eyes widened. Aren used a spell on her? Why? She shook her head. She had to talk to somepony who knew what was going on. She concentrated on her bond with her sister and found her, but she was not where she anticipated. Turning to the doctor, she asked with a serious voice.

“Why is my sister also in the hospital?” The doctor sighed once. Of course, this question would come sooner or later. He looked pained to the site.

“I think it’s for the best if I show you, your majesty.” He made a short bow again and walked out of the room. “If you could please follow me, your majesty.” He exclaimed while walking away. Luna felt more worried than before but still followed the doctor.

While walking down the hallway, Luna noted that more rooms than normal were occupied. Being the main hospital in Canterlot, didn’t mean that they had many patients. Ponies are extraordinarily resilient to sickness, especially the earth-ponies. A town normally doesn’t need more than one hospital, while villages only need one doctor.

They continued walking and stopped at a patient-room. The doctor knocked three times, and a loud “Come in.” could be heard from the other side, after a while. Opening the door, the doctor motioned for Luna to step into the room. She slowly walked into it, fearing that she may see her sister with a terrible sickness or a dangerous injury. The doctor wasn’t really able to calm her down earlier.

Slowly walking into the room, she looked around. Just like the room she woke up in, this room was entirely colored in the color white, but in comparison to hers, the curtains in this one were open, and the sunlight shined into the room. Looking to her right, she saw two beds. One was clean and apparently no one slept in it, and in the other one.

“SISTER!” Luna cried and ran over to Celestia, who laid in her bed. Celestia was facing to the door, and her whole body was covered in the white blanket. Well, everything except her head obviously. When Luna arrived, she looked down to her sister and saw how she was groaning and moaning. Oh what happened to her? Leaning down, she hugged the head of her sister and began to cry silently.

“Yeah, you might want to let go a little. She obviously doesn’t get any air this way.” Aren told her while sitting on the windowsill. Luna turned her head to him in a bewildered expression, and then looked down again. Her sister squirmed in her grasp with opened eyes. Luna quickly let go, and Celestia pulled back again. Chocking a little, she straightened herself.

“Well, being woken by a loving embrace from my sister, sure sounded better in my imagination.” Celestia said with a smile. Luna blushed a little, but also started smiling. It seems like her sister felt better than expected.

“Tia, what happened? I can’t remember last night.” Celestias’ mood seemed to darken. She obviously didn’t want to tell her sister. Luna noted the nervousness of her sister and grew more nervous and afraid of what she will hear in this room.

“Well misses emotional.” Aren jumped from his windowsill and walked over to her. Luna turned her head to Aren, and Celestia looked disapproving at him. Couldn’t he bring that over more nicely? “Yesterday, you seemed to have lost control over your emotions. Apparently you were so angry that your anger and hate lured an ancient hate-spirit from another dimension to Equestria. The hate-spirit was called Nifret, and she took control over your body.”

Luna had a shocked look in her eyes. She quickly combined the known facts in her head and came to the conclusion that she probably harmed her sister. “Now before you start giving yourself the blame for that. Let me first explain.” She looked back to Aren. “Nifret, like many other hate spirits, searches through the dimensions in order to find their next meal.”

“When someone feels an exceptional amount of hate, she can detect that and travels to that being. When a mind isn’t focused and is torn from hate, it is easy to gain access to. She obviously went into your room and took control over your body, shoving your consciousness and your soul back into a dark corner in your mind. When that happens, they have absolute control over the victim and start feeding on them.”

“The first thing they do is starting to feed on your hate. They consume it, and when they absorbed every last bit of it, they start consuming the rest of your emotions. When only some emotions are amiss, it’s possible to get them back, as long as the rest is still there, but when every emotion is absorbed, they go for the soul, and when also this is finished… well. Then you’re like a glass without water in it.” Aren shook his head, and walked to Luna and looked her deep in the eyes.

“Luna, I dare you to give yourself the blame. It is not your fault what Nifret did, and I can’t use an emotional wreck for a fight against Oran. So don’t you start feeling guilty about this.” Celestia thought it was good that Aren talked to her sister, but she didn’t like the way he did it. It was obvious that he only cared about her health so they can defeat Oran. Well it’s ok, but he didn’t need to tell it to her this directly.

Luna couldn’t decide how to feel. If Aren said that this wasn’t her fault then it obviously wasn’t, but she still felt kind of guilty. Aren slowly went out of her face and went back to his windowsill. “Alright, now for the events of yesterday night.” Luna looked to him. This is what she wanted to know.

“When Nifret took control over your body, she blew away half the castle. Celestia ran to the remains of your room, worrying over what might have happened to you. She saw some rubble move and went down, thinking it was you. Well, the rubble moved, and some black and red alicorn came out, but before Celestia could do anything, she was impaled by its’ horn.” Luna gasped and held a hoof over her muzzle. She looked over to Celestia who slowly nodded.

Luna walked closer to her sister on the bed and placed her hoof over one of Celestias’. They looked at each other. Luna with worry and guilt in her eyes, while Celestia looked with sympathy. She knew that Luna would give herself the blame, and that was why she felt sympathy for her.

“Nifret then threw Celestia down Canterlot, where she got rescued by some soldiers. While they rescued Celestia, Nifret battled against guards and killed five of them in the process. The whole commotion came to Raviens’ attention, and he battled against Nifret.” Aren looked pained to a wall at the side of the room. “The fight didn’t turn out so well.” Luna felt like something shattered in her.

It was no secret that Ravien and Luna were a couple. They always loved each other, especially before he got Chaozai. She only hoped one thing. “Is he still alive?” She asked with worry in her voice. Aren looked to her.

“Barely, but when his body is stable, he will go through a shitton of pain.” He sighed. “Maybe I should tell you this too.” He pointed at Celestia. “I will overforce her soul in order to let her regenerate faster. She already knows this.” Luna looked at Celestia who nodded once. “The body forms the soul and the soul forms the body. If the soul is damaged, the body can heal the soul, and if the body is damaged the soul can heal the body.”

“With my new ability of producing soul with magic, I am able to give her raw soul-energy in order to force her soul to use the overflow of soul to regenerate the body. I can only do this to someone whose health is stable because it takes a toll on the body. It’s somewhat similar to what I did to Rarity, but with two differences. One, I don’t use my own soul. This means, I don’t have any repercussions. Two, Celestia is already on 100% soul while Raritys’ soul was at approximately 70% due to her will to live, in which her soul used its’ own energy to keep her from dying.”

He sighed. “This also means a lot of pain for the body.” Luna kept looking at Celestia, who had a strong look in her eyes. She was ready to get it over with. Luna still pitied Celestia for what she had to go through because of her own inability to control her emotions. “Well let’s continue with the tale of the past night, shall we?” Aren exclaimed from his windowsill.

“Ravien got transported to the hospital, and then Chrysalis battled against Nifret. On this point, I have to praise her for her wit. Through tactic, she was able to damage Nifret, and not only this. She was able to stall her for a very long time, through talking with her. If it weren’t for her skills and plans, you would all probably not be alive right now.” Luna felt that she needed to thank Chrysalis later for this.

“Well then I arrived and banished the spirit from your body. You can get the details from Chrysalis since I don’t want to look like I’m bragging. Well, when Nifret was destroyed, I went to bed-“

“You mean you started sleeping in the middle of the battlefield.” Celestia exclaimed with a sly smile and giggle, to which Aren only rolled his eyes.

“Yes, and you were brought to the hospital. You don’t need to worry about any consequences, by the way.” Then he suddenly had an expression as if he just remembered something, and looked to Celestia. “One thing I forgot to tell you, Celly. I’ve got the whole fight recorded, and for the first lesson, which will be tomorrow by the way, as my apprentice we will go over the fight, and I will explain to you what I did and why. A practical example is always good to see.” Celestia looked dumbfounded.

“You recorded it?” Aren nodded. “The whole kingdom gets attacked by an overpowered opponent and you start recording your fight, like it’s some schoolyard-ramble?” Aren waved dismissively.

“Oh come on. That spell needs no magical energy and no concentration to hold up. I thought ‘Hey, when I am going to fight against someone this strong, then I can use it for teaching my absent apprentice.’ Said and done.” Celestia sighed. Aren was impossible…Why did she need to ask him to be her master?

Luna also didn’t like the fact that he recorded it, but somehow she didn’t have the urge to hurt him anymore, like the last weeks. Yes, she still didn’t like him, but she didn’t have this irresistible urge anymore to do something evil to him.

To explain something, Luna doesn’t have this urge anymore because Nifret fed on her hate and took everything with her, when she lost the connection to Luna. She obviously still didn’t like Aren, and that will probably never change, but the accumulated mountain of hate, which built itself over the course of the last year got taken away. Aren looked around in the room and jumped down from his windowsill.

“Well, time to get this over with.” He looked at Celestia, who nodded with a determined expression on her face. Luna looked a little worried for her sister but went away. It was what she wanted. Aren stepped closer to Celestia and conjured a calmly flowing blue light. He floated it closer to Celestia, and when it touched her, it got sucked in instantly. Some seconds passed where nothing happened until suddenly Celestias’ body jerked and she started gripping the sheets and the bed.

She gritted her teeth and squinted her eyes in an angry expression while groaning. Luna could practically feel the pain from her sister, and she wanted nothing more than to take the pain for herself, so her sister could rest. After a minute, Celestia calmed down and took in a deep breath.

“Seems like we are finished here. Stand up, Celly” Aren told her, and she reluctantly stood up. No pain, no hobbling or anything like this. She could stand without a problem. Using her magic she unwrapped the bandages around her chest, and when they were all unwrapped, she looked at her chest. Nothing, just pure white fur on a normal chest.

“Wait, the doctor said this will be a scar. I don’t see one.” She noted with a confused voice while Aren only smirked.

“Well if I would use your antique healing techniques, you would definitely keep a nasty scar, but well, I don’t. Apart from the soul-energy, I used about eight more spells, to keep you steady during the process. One of them can prevent scars. I will teach you that one too if you want. Of course not, right at the start, but at some time.” Celestia smiled happily and nodded while Luna walked up to her and leaned her head against Celestias’ chest.

“I am so happy that you are alright, big sister.” She sniffled with a tear in her eye. Celestia looked down at her and felt a warm feeling inside of her. She was happy to have such a loving sister.

It’s sad that she won’t be with her forever.

“Alright, I’m ready to go.” Said Celestia while looking at Aren with determined eyes. It was the next day, and Aren and Celestia were standing at the normal training area. Like Aren said, Celestia felt fine and healthy, and she was not the only one who recovered. Ravien was also fine. They both heard the day before that Ravien is stable and Aren overforced his soul. It took a lot longer than with Celestia, and judging by Arens’ explanation it was also way more painful. Yet, Ravien was determined to undergo the procedure in order to begin training again.

Luna and Ravien spent the day together, like the couple they are while Celestia trained her manipulation in elemental-magic. They day went over very slowly because she was nervous. On the next day, she would have her first lesson as Arens’ apprentice. She could finally learn new kinds of magic, without any restraints. Finally, she would come a step closer to the powers that the multiverse offers.

“Good that you are prepared, but we won’t train here.” Aren touched Celestia on her shoulders, and they both vanished.

They reappeared somewhere else. Celestia opened her eyes and was overwhelmed by what she saw. They were standing on a flying stone-platform, which had a width of around 100 meters. The stone was a cold gray and wasn’t completely smooth. Sharp edges, big rocks, little cracks and ravines adorned the stony platform everywhere.

It was obvious that fighting here would be a totally new experience. It was such an uneven terrain, and it would hurt quite a bit if one would slip and fall on a rock or a ravine. She walked around and took the rest of the landscape in.

Looking up, she saw the sky if you could call it a sky. There were dark clouds nearly everywhere with a lot of holes. From the holes could be seen some kind of dark light. It was hard to describe. The air was a thin and cold with a temperate of approximately 10°C (50°F). The low oxygen part of the air would force her to inhale deeper and faster.

She walked to the end of the platform and looked over the edge. She gasped when she saw that even under the platform only the ominous sky was located. This looked interesting, so Celestia tried to take flight, but failed miserably due to the thinness of the air. Well if, she couldn’t fly, she could always use her self-levitation spell.

Normally she didn’t need that spell because she had wings, but in this case it could get in quite handy. Levitating herself over the edge and under the platform, she saw that everywhere around her this ominous sky was located. She couldn’t see any other platforms or water or ground. Just this lonely platform with this sky.

Deciding she had seen enough, she levitated herself back on the platform and walked over to the smirking Aren. “You like it, Celly?” Celestia looked at the sky again.

“It has a feel to it as if this place is sacred. Light is shining from every direction through those cloud-patches which seem to protect the platform.” She looked over to Aren with a genuine smile. “Yes, I like it.”

“Good, then let’s begin, shall we?” He summoned a couch on which he sat down. Patting on the empty space on the couch, he showed Celestia that she should sit down too. She went over to the Couch and sat down on the space, Aren was showing her. Sitting down, she realized that it was unusually comfortable.

Suddenly a big screen appeared in the air, exactly like when Aren was training the immortals and was reviewing the battle. It was showing Nifret and Chrysalis who looked at each other. Suddenly the Aren on the monitor said something and they turned around to him. Celestia didn’t hear the details of the fight, so she was pumped to finally see the fight. It was quite a surprise to see that the Aren on the monitor had a dead serious expression on his face. Judging by this expression, Nifret was no small fish.

“Have you noticed her using an imperator spell on everyone present?” Aren asked her with a serious tone. Imperator spells, she heard from her student what Aren told them about those spells, but Nifret hasn’t moved at all. She shook her head, and Aren reeled the movie back at a seemingly random part. Then he slowed it down to 1/10 speed. He let the thing play again, and she could see how Nifrets’ pupils went over everyone present. Nothing more.

“Whomever she looked at got dragged into her imperator spell, also called IS.” That fast? How can she use around five IS in a tenth of a second? “She used the body-control-imperator-spell, or BCIS for short. This means that the body belongs to her and she can do with it whatever she wants. The consciousness isn’t affected. This kind of IS is extremely weak and extremely strong at the same time.” Celestia looked a little confused.

“There are safety-measures for imperator-spells. One only needs to fortify his consciousness with mental barriers, and it makes the invading of ones mind exceptionally harder. The BCIS is the most basic IS which exists. It’s so basic that it couldn’t even be considered a spell. Basically, what she did, was accumulate all her mental strength and resolve, and shoot it at a target.”

“It’s impossible to defend against this consciously, but it’s not as easy to succeed in using this spell. Imagine a dragon, staring down a raccoon. The raccoon knows through instinct that it couldn’t possibly win, so it tries to run away. If it can’t run away, it gives up and surrenders to its’ opponent. The BCIS works with the same principle.”

“Your instincts realize that you are helplessly inferior to this being, and surrenders its’ control in a last attempt to gain mercy from the threat. So in order for this spell, to work, you need to outclass your opponent by far. I could use this spell without any problems on you and on everyone else on Equestria right now. Yet, if all of you would train for some thousand years, I couldn’t use it anymore.”

“This sounds like a pretty long time, but you also have to take into consideration how long I trained. I fought for over 300,000 years. If you would train for 5,000 more years, I couldn’t control you anymore. So even if I fought and trained 60 times longer than you, it still wouldn’t be enough to control you. This is why this spell is also considered weak.” Celestia nodded slowly but still felt a lump in her stomach.

“Mindcontrol, I don’t like this. It just doesn’t seem ethical or fair to use such spells.” Aren nodded.

“That’s why they are forbidden to use in the A-cluster.” He suddenly remembered something. “Oh that reminds me I think I haven’t told you about other clusters yet, have it?” Celestia shook her head. “Well basically, there are four big clusters and a shitton of small ones. The big clusters go from A to D, and each cluster has over 10,000 dimensions. Each dimension can rule itself, but if something concerns interdimensional affairs, the government of the appropriate cluster decides and judges.”

“You should also know that there is constant war going on in the multiverse.” Celestia looked down to her hooves. Of course, war. Why does the multiverse seem this warfriendly? “Cluster A and D are at constant war. B and C keep to themselves but have multiple wars with smaller clusters.” Aren sighed.

“Interdimensional war is basically the same as normal war. The inhabitants of cluster A hate the ones from D and vice versa. You can volunteer to be a soldier, and take part in the next attack. To win an interdimensional war, you have to destroy or overtake the dimension, the ruler of the cluster is located in. But there are, of course, actions outside of the planning. Namely, inhabitants or soldiers attacking civilians of the other cluster. The incident the day before yesterday, was one such case.” Celestia raised an eyebrow.

“Nifret was an officer from Cluster D, who got imprisoned for being too brutal. She would often go to any dimensions on Cluster A and would mindlessly slaughter civilians. Even if, there was a war, both sides still know that civilians are most likely innocent and shouldn’t get involved.” Celestia wanted to ask something.

“Are you participating in the war, Ary?” Aren winced at the name.

“Are you seriously calling me like this?” Celestia didn’t look amused, and Aren sighed once. “No, I am not participating in it.” Celestia let out a long breath she was withholding. She really didn’t want to go into a war with him. “But they tried to force me once.” This time, Celestia had a quizzical look.

“They never bothered me at the beginning of my journey because Oran said that he and his apprentice, namely me, wouldn’t participate. They didn’t even dare to try to convince him. They just said that they understood and went away. That was about 250,000 years ago. Around 70,000 years ago, Oran and I already went different ways, they tried to convince me, and since I was the apprentice of Oran and he wasn’t around they wanted me for their army.” Aren made a pause.

“What happened then?” Aren continued.

“I refused of course, but they would have none of that. After countless discussions with them, they tried to force me, and sent some high ranking officers to get me.” Aren snickered. “Well, let’s say that every officer who wanted to force me didn’t make it back to make a report.” Celestia looked disapproving. “Hey it’s not my fault if they suddenly attack me out of nowhere.” Celestia sighed.

“After some years and countless attacks, they decided that they would lose more soldiers on me, than I was worth. So at some point, they stopped sending soldiers at me, and let me go my way.” Looking back at the monitor, Aren continued. “We got sidetracked there. I think we should get back to the fight between me and Nifret. Where were we? Oh right, when she used the IS.”

The movie started playing again, Celestia saw how Nifret walked around Aren and was uncomfortably close to him. She couldn’t understand why, but this somehow made her angry, especially when Nifret tried to seduce him. Why was she getting this angry over something like this? Well it didn’t matter. She looked back at the monitor, and saw how Chrysalis shot a fireball at Aren.

To say that Celestia was surprised when the fireball hit, would be an understatement. “I bet you want to know why I let that fireball hit me, am I right?” Celestia nodded, and Aren reeled the movie back to a spot where Nifret and Aren stood close together. Celestia didn’t like this picture.

“Nifret was touching me, and her dangerous horn was dangerously close to me, but my sword was also close to her. You should know the following. Advanced fighter can manipulate magic of their opponents while it is still in their body, but only if the magical-receptors are opened and only if they can touch their opponent. It’s possible to transform all your magic in your body into fire, and you would explode.” Celestia did not feel comfortable with the knowledge that someone could make her explode just by touching her.

“So when she was touching me, I had to abort any spells I used, but I was not the only one. She also had to abort any spells, since I can do the same thing to her. Then we have her horn and my sword. If one of us would have attacked, we would both most likely die since the other one would react instantly. If one of us would have moved back, the other one would be able to use a back-forcing-power-spell. I will explain at some other time what this is, for now you only need to know that this would win the fight for the one who would use it.”

“So in the end, the one who would move first would lose the fight. This was Nifrets’ plan from the beginning and also the reason why she used her IS on the other ones before she went close to me. Using Chrysalis, she was able to get a hit in me, and gain an advantage. If I would have absorbed the spell, I would lose the fight because she could manipulate my magic. So I let myself get hit by her.”

Looking back at the picture, Celestia only now realized how much was going on there. If a normal pony would look at the picture, it would just look like two beings stood together, yet so much was going on there. Aren let the movie play again and went through the fight in the air on slow-motion.

“The first thing that happened was that I instantly used all my passive spells again, which I use for battle. Those are exactly 128. They increase my fighting capability, my reaction time, my strength, my speed, my receptivity and lots more. I could get them up pretty quickly and blocked the slash from behind, which had around 20 enchantment-spells embedded into it. One of my passive spells is aura vision, and thus I was able to distinct the enchantments of one another.”

“Around15 were simple strengthening spells while the remaining five were transporting-weakening-spells. When the weapons clash, those kind of spells get transported over the weapons to the opponent and the only way to defend yourself against such spells, is to dispel them while they make their way over your weapon, or enchant your weapon with counter enchantments. Due to them being extremely difficult to perform, strong masters only use two or three at one time, but Nifret was more than just a strong master. She was a monster.”

Celestia understood what Aren said, but couldn’t imagine the mental stress and the multi-tasking one would need to have to fight like this. Now she could grasp why they needed thousands of years to get this strong. Such speed in thinking is not achieved with some years.

“After this, I summoned two swords with each having 30 enchantments, which were blocked by two swords with the counter-enchantments. You should also note the other things that were happening while we did this.” Other things? Was there more? “Aren zoomed to one of the back legs of Nifret, and Celestia could see that there was a spacerift from which a fireball was coming from. Shortly after, it went into another spacerift, appearing behind Aren. Then it went again into one and came out at her head. If the video wouldn’t be shown in slow-motion she could never see it.

“While we were fighting with the swords, we were also throwing around other spells. The most obvious one of them was the fireball, which went into a shitload of spacerifts. Apart from this, we used a lot more spells, mostly autospells, at different areas, all around our opponent. While enchanting and dispelling the weapons, we had to transport the fireball and also needed to block, and redirect the auto-spells. This was the true extent of the fight.”

“After this, I created markabian-steel and infused it with red color magic. Let me explain something about color-magic. Color-magic is the most advanced form of magic that attacks the soul. Nearly no one can use it, and it is extremely complicated to perform. On top of that, it is pretty ineffective for its’ expenditure.”

“There are seven known colors, which can be conjured with color-magic. The red one makes a crack at the soul, which disrupts the ability to hone your body and magic. Color-magic has two aspects that make it unique. The first one is that it does not kill. You should know that dying only happens when the soul and the body get separated. There is no known possibility to get the soul back into the body without any preparations.”

“Color-magic attacks the soul, but it does not separate the body from the soul. So when my attack would have hit her, she would lose her hone for her body and magic but would not receive any damage. Not her body and not her soul. The second aspect is that there is no known possibility to block color magic. The only known way, is to destroy the medium on which the color-magic moves, namely my markabian-steel.”

“Markabian-steel is the strongest material I can summon. As you see, she used a laser to melt the steel. Equestria is not advanced enough to know what lasers are, so let me explain this too. A laser is nothing more than light, concentrated into a thin beam, which makes this beam extremely hot. Honestly, I am not yet able to conjure a laser. I know the creating-sheet for it, but I am not yet able to create it.”

This was the first time, Celestia heard that Aren was not able to use a spell. This shows that his opponent really was something special.

“I used two spacerifts, to get the beam to attack her, and she used mirrors to reflect it, like the light it was. When it came for me, I used a hard-separation-field in the air to separate it into six different light-beams. Creating some prisms, I changed the path of the light to a complex-color-splitting-light-prism. To create one, you need to create a prism out of arcadian-glass and inflict it with every color you want a beam to be created from.”

“In this case I used all seven colors, and thus seven color-beams appeared. While this was all happening, I needed to dispel and destroy any measures Nifret tried to prevent me with. Like creating additional spacerifts. I was successful in that and was able to combine the seven colors with the fire over her, creating rainbow-fire. The only ones I know who can create rainbow-fire are, The Bearer, Oran, and I.”

“The rainbow-fire was created and attacked Nifret, who blocked it with a massive barrier. Since rainbow-fire isn’t deadly it isn’t especially strong, so she was able to block it with a barrier. Well the good side is that she used up an extreme amount of magical reserves for this barrier. After this, we landed and made a short pause.” The fight really looked impressive until now, and Celestia didn’t want to disturb the flow with a question right now.

“When we began again, she used her trademark spell. It basically puts me into a tunnel with five edges. If anything leaves this area, it and its’ owner, if it’s a spell, receives the combined heat of five laser-beams. This also counts for her. You should also know, that holding this spell up, needs an unreal amount of magic, so she couldn’t hold it up for long.”

“In order to force me to leave the pentagon, she used a wide beam, which would follow me when I evade, so basically, I was fucked.” He then chuckled. “If it weren’t for the new spell.” Celestia looked at the monitor, and saw that a second Aren stepped out of the first one. She wasn’t really impressed since even she could create a magical clone.

“I bet you think this is a magical clone.” Celestia was a little taken aback by Arens’ skill of guessing what she thought but nodded. Aren only smirked. “It isn’t. You should know that there are three things a being consists off. A body, magic, and a soul. You can create an illusion or something that looks like you with magic. This is a magical clone. I did something different.”

“I tried to create this spell for an eternity. I would create a body out of flesh that is exactly like mine, and I would halve my magic, and put one of the halves into this body. The only thing I managed to create was a corpse with my appearance. There was just no way to create another soul.” He snickered.” Well up until some time ago.”

“Do you remember what I said in the hospital? The soul forms the body and the body forms the soul. Basically, I created an exact duplicate of my body, and with my new ability to create soul out of magic, I infused the raw soul energy into the body. The body then shaped the soul exactly like mine and thus created another me. We were two separate beings of the same kind, with half the magic of the original.” Celestia was dumbfounded.

The mirror-pond created a being that was like the original, but what Aren did was different. While the mirror-pond created the copy only out of magic, it never was able to get a soul into it. Thus, the body ran on magical energy and wasn’t under control of the soul. Aren didn’t just simply clone himself. He copied himself and created himself again. This means that there was no original and no copy. Both were the real Aren. Aren just laughed.

“See her face, when she realized that this was no magical copy?” He pointed at the screen, and Celestia saw that Nifret had the same dumbfounded look in her eyes like she earlier. “Well she then didn’t exactly know what I did, and thought that only one of us was the original, and that she needed to hit the right one. She then widened her beam to a width, on which no human could evade it while being in the pentagon.”

Looking at the monitor, she saw that both Arens vanished. “Like I said, no humans. We both changed shape into bugs, and were able to hide in the little space that was not covered with lasers. While Aren one went behind her, Aren two attacked her. She evaded, and Aren one was able to enchant his sword with rainbow-fire. She had to use a shitton of magic to block that one, and even felt a slight magical backlash.”

“We then tried to bring her to use her infamous black-blast, by showing her that her laser was worthless. The black-blast is a spell only she can use. It’s basically, a spell that creates a destructive ultra dense explosion, which eats everything. When she used it, we engulfed it with a barrier in the form of a flask, so the whole force runs down the corridor into the space-rift.”

“The blast turned into a beam, and the other Aren used a raw-energy-saving-stone to absorb the blast. Those stones can absorb any kind of magic and save them inside. The sword around the stone is for directing the energy of the stone outwards. Those stones are, by the way, immensely expensive, and need to cool down for some days after they released their power.”

“So when we absorbed the blast into the sword, we swapped each other, without the weapons of the Aren who was located at Nifret. So then one Aren had one holstered sword, one sword enchanted with the black explosion, and one enchanted with rainbow-fire while the other one had noting.”

“The one at the outside made a barrier with his last remaining magical power, and the one in the inside let the black explosion loose while enchanting it with the rainbow-fire, thus creating a rainbow-fire-explosion.” Celestia looked at it with wide eyes, and saw that one of the Arens and Nifret fell down to the floor, unmoving.

“Let me explain what rainbow-fire does. Every color affects the soul on a different level. Blue, shocks the soul. Yellow creates a cut in the soul. Green pushes the soul and so on and so on. When all of the colors get combined, they practically blast the soul in an uncountable amount of pieces. The soul is parted in too many pieces to repair itself and remains like this in the body. The person stays alive, but is not conscious and can’t do and feel anything.”

“It remains in this state until either the body gets destroyed or a soul-restoration-spell gets cast on the victim. The one Aren went to the other one and fused with him, creating me again. I then went over to Nifret and gathered all the pieces of her soul. I took them out and fused them together, but not without blocking her movement and magic.”

“I opened a spacerift, and threw her soul together with a soul-fire-nuclear-explosion into another dimension, and closed it, thus ending the fight and getting the spirit of hate out of Lunas’ body.” The screen vanished, and Aren threw a stack of around 100 papers at Celestia. “This is a compilation of every spell used in the fight, what they do, and how to use them. I don’t expect you to learn many of those since most of them are extremely advanced, but there were also some basic ones. Try to learn some of them, and look at it again to get an overview of how some kind of spells are used, and in what situations.”

He stood up from the couch. “Tomorrow we will begin with real practice. This was only a lesson to show you how a fight between two strong opponents goes.” Celestia looked through the papers and raised her eyebrow at some of them. “Any questions?”

Oh shit, she had a lot of questions, but somehow in the excitement and the taking in of the new information she forgot them. She tried to remember some questions, but wasn’t able to. In the end, she just shook her head.

Aren then simply transported them back to Equestria. “If you have any questions come to me. You know where you can find me.” Then he walked away.

And Celestia had an ass full of shit to learn.

Author's Note

Damn, I hope this whole explaining doesn't bore you.

And sorry for the long chapter :(