"We'd like the full treatment," Celestia says.

"Very well your Majesties, please follow us to the changing rooms," the pink one tells us.

I lean down to Twilight. "Who are they?" I ask her.

"Oh, the pink mare is Aloe and the blue mare is Lotus, they're sisters that both run the Spa together," she tells me.

"Please pick a locker and place any belongings inside and take the key band once you're done," Lotus tells us.

I was about to follow them inside but Aloe pulls at my arm. "The stallion changing room is over there, Sir," she tells me and points to the right.

"Oh, thank you," I reply and enter. There's plenty of lockers and I pick the one closest to the door, I strip down and place my clothes and equipment inside and take the towel and shorts that are hanging from the locker door. I put the key band on my right wrist, put on the shorts and wrap the large towel around my waist.

I step out of the changing room and a chorus of gasps greets me. I see the others in robes matching their fur colour, their robes are hugging their bodies tightly leaving nothing to the imagination, but what they're staring at is the large scar going from my right shoulder down to my left hip, I look down at it and don't see what the big deal is.

"Adrian... how did thou get such a scar?" Luna asks. Rarity has a hand over her mouth while Twilight, and the Spa sisters all look shocked. Although Celestia looks sad as she already knows how I got it.

"Four months ago, I was knocked out and captured by bandits during my travels, they woke me up by slashing me with a sword for their amusement," I reply and they gasp in horror. "Sufficed to say, I was not happy. I broke free of the poor rope they used to bind me and killed the four of them with my magic, I healed the wound as best as I could, but it was too deep, and so left this scar," I tell them.

Luna walks towards me and trails the scar downwards with her left hand, I smile and hold her hand mid way. "I'm fine, Luna. Didn't we come here to relax?" I ask. Her cheeks turn a dark red and she pulls her hand back.

"Y-Yes, we did," she replies and steps back next to Celestia.

"So what are we doing first?" I ask.

"You'll be in the sauna while we get the tables ready," Aloe replies.

We're taken to a room with hot coals, a bucket of water with a ladle in the centre, and a long bench that encircles it. I sit down on the right side while the others walk in without their robes and are each wearing a bikini, I had to look away just to stop staring at them. Twilight and Rarity sit on the left, Celestia sits in the middle and Luna sits beside me.

I lean my head back against the wall and close my eyes as someone levitates the ladle of water onto coals making steam fill the room, five minutes pass and I feel something lean against me. I open my eyes to see Luna resting her head on my right shoulder, I see Rarity and Twilight staring at us with wide eyes while Celestia is just smiling at us.

I'm just sitting here with a blush on my face. After another five minutes, the door opens. "The tables are ready now," Lotus informs us.

Twilight and Rarity leave first while Celestia follows behind them. I shake Luna and let her know it's time to get out, we leave the room where five tables are set up, the others all pick a table and I get on the last one.

The Princesses got their massages first, then Twilight and Rarity, and then both Aloe and Lotus massage me starting with my shoulders. I sigh as they work out all the tension and turn my muscles into jelly.

They finish and I feel like a new man. The next thing is the girls getting facials of some green goop with cucumber slices over their eyes, I declined having any put on me and went to lie back on a long chair nearby.

For ten minutes or so they chatted among themselves, pretty sure I heard my name mentioned a few times. Aloe then takes us to some mud baths built into the floor, the girls all sink into one each and I hesitate. After some 'encouragement' from the others, I sink into one as well. It actually feels pretty nice, its warm and has a pleasant fragrance.

Twilight then asks me about the magic of the other races from my world.

"The kitsune people are masters of illusion magic. They can create copies of themselves or others and control the copy like a puppet, they can also make you see things that aren't really there. They prefer to be left to their own way of life, some do travel to other cities, but that's probably like eight percent of the population in total," I tell her.

"The elves are more in-tune with nature than the other races, kind of like the cervine here. They can communicate with nature and mainly live in forested areas, although they can use magic, most of them prefer using bows over staffs and swords. The aquarians are merfolk, top half human, bottom half fish, they can breath underwater and control water like it was a part of them, they can also walk on land by creating a pair of legs out of water, though it only lasts a few hours. They can also communicate with sea creatures," I finish telling them.

"Amazing, can you give us a detailed explanation on how human magic fundamentally works? You've already told me what the effects are and how they are cast, but I would like to know how you form the spells," she asks me. Luna looks interested as well, but Celestia already knows from my memories I think.

"Well, There's a flow of mana within our bodies, kind of like how blood flows through your veins. We can channel it to our hands and concentrate it there, we can also enhance the potency of the mana through items like staffs, staves, spell books, weapons, foci, and wands, though they're not required," I explain.

"To change the mana into a specific type of element requires concentration and focus. If you should mess up during the conversion, it could backlash and hurt the caster depending on the element they failed to form. For instance, I was practising the air element all last month and at first failed to form it correctly, resulting in the element destabilising and cutting my hand with sharp blades of air," I tell them.

"I take it you just healed it with your life element?" Twilight asks.

"Yes, that's why mages learn the life element first so they can heal the wounds that they get from learning the other elements. I remember failing the shield element the first time I tried it. I encased both my hands in shields and couldn't pick anything up for ten minutes," I tell them with a chuckle, they also giggle or laugh at that.

"Where was I?" I muttered. "Oh, right! Once you have converted the mana into the sequence of elements you want, you then fuse them together and release the stored mana. Depending on the elements and how you want to release the spell effects what it will do, an arcane based spell will be a beam if you direct the mana forwards, it will become a nova if you release it all around you, and will flow back into you should you self cast it, but self casting an arcane spell is just asking to be hurt. The arcane element has also been known as the death element, as it can heal the undead," I tell them.

"Wait... so does that mean Grogar was a master of the arcane element?" Luna asks.

"I would guess so if he was raising the dead, he would of used it to heal and empower his forces, but the undead can be killed quickly with the life element as it will purify the arcane energies within them," I reply.

"So you would be able to fight an undead head on and win?" Twilight asks.

"I've never fought an undead before, but I guess so. All I have to do is use the life element against them. If I combine the life element with a cold element, not only would I be damaging them, it will also slow them down to a crawl," I reply.

"We really could have used thine help when we first faced Grogar... then maybe we would not have suffered so many losses," Luna says sadly.

I'm not sure how to respond to that.

"You mentioned a spell type called storms before, do they do exactly as it sounds?" Twilight asks.

"Yes, storms are basically elemental walls that hurt or knock-back anyone who walks through them. You channel a shield element first followed by a fire, water, cold, lightning, ice or steam element and cast it in front of you, creating a wall of whatever element you used. A fire storm would set anything ablaze that walked through it while a cold storm would slowly freeze them. The water storm is the weakest as it only pushes anyone that walks through it back out and soaks them, but cast a lightning based spell through it and you'll deal heavy damage to whoever is in or wet near it," I tell her.

"Amazing, is there a reason why all of your spells are more combat based?" she asks.

"On Terra, there are creatures that can be twenty times our size and strength. I guess we evolved to be able to fight off such creatures ourselves without having to grow as big or as strong as them," I reply.

"I see, thank you for explaining it to me, Adrian," she tells me.

"You're welcome," I reply, I then lean back and just relax.

The others chat amongst themselves, mainly Twilight and Celestia discussing what I just told them about.

Lotus returns and asks us to follow her to the showers so we can rinse off the mud and head to the next part. We all step into a room just across the mud baths, I guess to minimise tracking the mud everywhere, and each step into a shower cubicle. I wash off the mud and I'm surprised at how smooth my skin feels.

I step out and dry myself off, the others also step out still wearing their bikinis. Luna leans back and stretches, making her chest stand out, I look away again with a blush on my face.

We're lead back into the main room and into a corner where some lounge chairs are set up and Celestia, Twilight, and Rarity sit down and get their finger nails, hooves, and horns polished and filed. I decide to step into the hot tub next to them and slowly sink into the warm bubbling water, I sigh and just go limp.

A few seconds later Luna joins me and sits beside me. "Are thou enjoying thyself?" she asks.

"To be honest, I was hesitant about this, but it's been rather relaxing and fun," I reply.

She giggles and leans against me again. "We art glad to hear it, most stallions would run away at the mention of going to a Spa," she tells me.

I try to fight my blush returning. "How so? Doesn't seem that bad to me," I say.

"Most think it's more of a mare thing and they'll lose their 'studlyness' just standing in here," she says.

"I still feel as manly since the moment I arrived," I boast.

She giggles and looks up at me as I look back at her, her eyes reflecting the light off the water, making her eyes look like stars in the night sky. She slowly leans forward and I find myself doing the same, our lips were about to touch, but a loud roar from outside snaps us out of it.

"What was that!" Rarity shouts out after her little jump.

I quickly get out the tub and look out the window, a manticore is running through town swatting aside the guards trying to fight it. It looks familiar, it's missing the tip of its tail and has a large scar across the left side of it's face, it also has four patches of missing fur... Wait a minute... it's the same manticore that attacked me when I first arrived!

I frown and head back to the locker room to retrieve my gear, I dry off and equip my armour and weapons.

"Adrian! What are you doing?" Twilight asks.

"That's the same manticore that attacked me when I first arrived! I thought I killed it before, I guess I wasn't thorough enough," I reply.

"So what are you going to do about it? The guards can handle it!" she tells me.

A scream from outside gets our attention, a butter yellow woman with wings and light pink hair in a long pink skirt and green sweater is running away from the beast who is giving chase. I quickly run past the girls and run outside and draw my sword, I channel an earth element into my sword and swing down between them, a straight wall of rock rises between them and the manticore charges head first into it. The wall shatters, but the manticore also falls to the ground with it.

It roars and shakes off the rubble on it as the guards nearby move to surround the beast, I look to the left to see three guards on the ground, one is missing his left arm, the second is missing half of her right wing and a large gash on her stomach. The third, unfortunately, is missing half of his head. I quickly channel an earth and two life elements through my stave and fire the life infused rock between them which explodes in a mist of green energy, closing their wounds at least.

I turn back in time to see the manticore charging at me with an expression of utmost rage and I quickly channel a lightning, arcane, and lightning element in that order and cast the spell. I feel myself pulled forward and vanish for a split second, then reappear behind the manticore feeling slightly dizzy. I'm so glad I decided to learn the teleport spell three days ago, still makes my head feel like I was running around in circles for hours though.

I shake my head and see the manticore looking around for me, I channel three arcane elements and fire the black and red beam at the beast. It turns around and raises its left paw and blocks the beam, I hear everyone watching gasp as the beast roars out in agony, its leg starts to bloat and expand, finally exploding in a shower of blood, bone, and muscle.

It falls to the dirt and writhes in pain while I channel two water elements and soak it, I then channel three cold elements and blast it with a spray of ice. It slows its struggle as I encase it in a thick layer of solid ice. Finally, I channel three earth elements and launch a large rock twice the size of my head through the frozen manticore.

It shatters into hundreds of pieces and the rock rolls to a stop in the middle of the road.

I pant heavily, exhausted from casting so many spells one after another, I fall down to my knees and drop my sword. "ADRIAN!" Luna and the others call out and rush over to me.

I smile at them and look over towards the forest. I squint my eyes and see someone in the shadows of the trees looking at me, I blink once and then they're gone, I then blink a few more times, maybe I'm just seeing things...

I yawn and go limp, I think I'll just take a quick nap.

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