The Unknown History and The Magical Future

Leech leafed through the endless pages of ancient, scared spells. There were malicious curses, powerful blessings, spells on the art of manipulation, incantations of age, and words that bent reality. Some of the spells interested Leech, while others disgusted him. As he flipped the pages more and more appeared. He only desired one though: one to summon the lord of darkness himself, Metus.

The groggy Princess Luna sat up in bed, feeling a slight pounding in the back of her head. Her normally, long flowing hair was tangled and messy. She looked up and saw her sister sitting on the edge of the bed with a golden tray that had upon it a mug filled with hot tea, and a bowl full of soup. The two sisters looked into one another's eyes, and Celestia was the first to speak.

"So, how was the dinner?" Celestia questioned curiously.

"It was actually a lot of fun." Luna responded surprising herself. Celestia then levitated the mug filled with caramel colored liquid towards her sister, who then used her own magic to support it.

"Well then you can tell me all about it at breakfast." She stated before getting up and strolling out of the room.

Leech lifted his face off the cold black pages of the heavy book. He blinked several times before he was fully awake. He then stumbled back in surprise almost falling over. He was turned and looked in the mirror hanging on the wall in his chamber. He stood nearly five feet taller than he had last night, he also realized he felt full of power and energy. He looked back at the book and realized he must have subconsciously adsorbed some of the book's magic. He then used the magic to add many more years to his life and shrink back to his normal height. He had spent most of the night scanning the book for the spell he so desperate wanted. He was now filled with anger, Metus told him it would be here, Leech walked to the table and slammed the book closed. His eyes filled with tears of anger and confusion, one single droplet of rage fell landing on the  hard cover of the foul book. The opus shook vigorously and the cover swung open with the pages flipping wildly, thousands of pages flying by. The motions ceased and the book now laid open with two blank pages. Words written with his tear began to construct themselves on the left page until a single incantation could be seen. Leech spoke the words aloud in a strong, hopeful voice.

"O' great ruler of shadow and darkness, come now before me, I am but a humble servant to you and the crown of malice. Lord of sorrow and sin, gift me with your presence, and show me the evil within." With the closure of his magical speech Metus, deep in the Crystal Cavern, could feel his body being tugged by the Malhornesi's summons. The ancient spell stood strong though, holding the lord of rage. But now Metus was filled with the magic of the young creature's spell and in return he pulled the short pony through time and space until he emerged from shadows in front of the great crimson crystal.

"And that's when he dropped me off here." Luna concluded the story of her adventurous night. Celestia had a broad smile upon her face, she was glad that her sister had had a night to just relax and have fun. Luna seemed to have really enjoyed herself. "He even asked he if I was available anytime next week!" Luna continued. Seeing her sister so filled with joy Celestia hugged her and lifted her up in the air spinning her around.

"That's wonderful Luna! I'm so happy you enjoyed yourself." She said before placing her sister back on the ground.

"I haven't given him an answer though..." Luna said before returning to her waffles. "I don't want to feel as though I'm rushing into a relationship." She explained, poking the waffles with the levitating fork.

"Oh that's fine Luna, I'm sure he will understand." Celestia encouraged her sister, before returning to her own food.

Priscilla walked down the long hallways to Leech's chamber. She realized that morning how Leech must have felt after being tormented by Metus, and sought to go comfort him. She tapped on his door lightly with her hoof and said, "Leech, open the door, it's Priscilla." But there was no answer. Instead she saw smoke rising from under the tall, wooden door. Confused and concerned, Priscilla raised both her front hooves and smashed the doors open. As she brought her hooves down she could see the room was filled with black smoke. Her horn glowed with the familiar while light and the smoke collected itself into a small cloud and puffed out of existence. She then turned to see a black black book laying on a nearby table. She ran to it confirming her suspicions, the book was the magical journal of Metus the lord of shadow. Being one of the first generation Malhornesi, she could read the black tongue the novel was written in and as she read the single incantation one the left page she realized where Leech had gone and how the dark clouds of smoke appeared in his chambers. She then ran from the room only thinking of one thing: she must inform the princesses.

The crimson stone's light flickered and faltered as Metus spoke. "If you want to free your love from her deadly fate, then place your fore hooves on the crystal." The prison that held Metus was supported from the magic of his sister, Amora, and the lord of chaos Discord. Amora's magic was as strong as Metus's, but having Discord's magic also create the prison, the cage just barely holding the lord of darkness, allowing him to commit small feats such as: entering the dreams of nearby ponies, speaking to those close ponies, and conducting small spells on them. All Metus needed was some assistance, Leech  was now fueled with the power of his own malicious book, and held great power. The small, third generation Malhornesi brought both his front hooves up and rested them on the blood red crystal. Leech then felt the powerful energy leaving him, being absorbed by the one trapped in the crystal enchantment. After several minutes he felt the suction cease and he lowered his fore-legs to the ground. Where his hooves had been a moments ago were now large holes with black clouds of smoke leaking out of them. From the two holes cracks spread out all across the magical prison. Then, without warning the bits and pieces fell to the floor revealing a mass of darkness with long tentacles of dark magic expanding from it. At the center of the great shadow loomed two golden eyes. A red hoof with black stripes emerged from the shadows and stepped forward bringing with it the rest of the lord of malice, Metus.

He inhaled deeply taking in the first breathe he had felt in eons. With his exhalation black clouds of darkness and sin left his nostrils, and he turned to the frightened Leech. He laughed, not his usual handsome chuckle that had entranced many, but instead a deep, booming laughter of power. It shook the entire cave and several crystal stalactites fell crashing to the floor. He eventually ceased and the three long horns atop his head each glowed with the darkest black in history and beside Leech now stood his love: Rosetta. He leaned forward and caressed her lips with his. After what seemed like hours the two broke apart, and as Leech looked deeply into the eyes of his love, they flickered. It was an instantaneous, but unmistakable change her normally sky blue eyes blinked to the same golden color as Metus's. She then erupted into black flames. The confused Leech looked to Metus again to see him burst out yet again into the deep, powerful laugh. After several moments he stopped and spoke to the black and white pony. "You foal! You believed me!" He entered yet another fit of dark, horrible laughter, he then paused to speak again. "I'm free! And now I may reek my well ripened revenge. I thank you my dear pony, it couldn't have been done without you, but alas it is now time for me to inform you of my plan. I have no intention to reunite you with your beloved, I'd far rather watch you fill with sorrow and despair at the realization of how foolish you were."  He then left the broken Malhornesi with a earth shaking crack and an explosion of dark magic.