I wake up with Celestia in my arms, she's smiling with her head on my chest, her breathing slow and steady. I stroke her hair and she hums happily. After a few minutes a knock on the door then gets my attention.

"Tia? Are thou alright? Tis time to raise the sun!" Luna asks.

The door opens and Luna walks in. I quickly close my eyes and hear her sneak over, I can feel her lightly shaking Celestia.

"Come on, Tia," Luna says again. I open my right eye slightly and see Luna sigh. "Thou leave us no choice," she says and I see her wrap Celestia's tail around her hand and pulls lightly.

Celestia yelps and her wings shoot out and slap Luna in the face, I couldn't help but laugh at that. I laugh even harder when I see Luna spit out a small white feather.

Celestia glares at Luna with a heavy blush and I simmer down to a chuckle.

"Get up, Tia. Thou art ten minutes late raising the sun," Luna tells her.

"What?" Celestia looks at her clock on the wall, it reads ten past six in the morning. Her eyes slowly widen. "I've never slept in before..." she says to herself.

"We do not blame thee. Adrian is rather cuddly isn't he," Luna tells her with a smirk. Celestia looks at me with her arms still around me.

She smiles and kisses me. "That is true," she says. She then gets out of bed and they both head over to the balcony. I get up and stand behind them and watch as their horns brightly glow with their arms pointing up at the sky, wings spread and slightly hovering off the floor. The moon starts to descend and the sun begins to rise, but my attention is on the two alicorns who are glowing with an aura around them both, looking like angels.

They finish and touch back down on the floor as their auras fade away. Luna looks at me and giggles at my stunned expression. "Did thou enjoy the view?" she says.

I look between the two and nodded. "You were both beautiful," I say making them both blush.

"W-We were speaking of the sky," Luna stammers.

I chuckle. "Sorry, my attention was elsewhere," I reply with a smile.

They both smile as well and each give me a kiss on my cheeks. "That's very sweet of you," Celestia says.

"So, what are we doing today?" I ask them.

Luna speaks up. "We shall be going to the Magic Research and Development Academy to see how we can replicate thy life element," she tells me.

Celestia looks confused. "Why are you trying to replicate it? I understand it would be a great boon to Hospitals and the guard, but I don't think ponies can use his magic. I've read his memories and have even tried casting these elements, nothing happened," she says.

"We have learnt that Adrian's life element can not only heal, but feed changelings," Luna replies.

"You can feed a changeling with out giving any love?" Celestia asks with surprise.

"Apparently. Luna thinks if we can replicate the element, we can get the changelings on our side instead of their Queen's or the gryphon's," I reply.

"That... that actually sounds like a good idea. We could make a new ally while striking a blow to the gryphons," Celestia says.

"Can you bring my leggings here? I have a few gems that can be used to store elements in them to be activated for their effects. It was thought up by dwarves and humans as a form of explosive weapon and or quick burst of healing... kinda forgot I had them actually,"

Luna's horn glows and my leggings appear in her hand. I open the pouch with the gems and pull out two emeralds the size of a human eyeball. they have a dwarven rune etched into them to activate the element within. They both have a single life element in them for a quick burst of healing that heals the holder like a self cast spell. Only really good for healing cuts or bruises.

"When you place and press your thumb on this rune here," I say pointing to a rune that looks like thumb print. "It'll shatter and release its effect. The bigger the gem, the bigger the charge it can hold." I tell her. They're basically dwarven grenades... just using elements instead of gunpowder.

I give one to Luna and the other to Celestia and they look them over. "Tia, these are similar to the crystal wands the guard use are they not?" Luna says.

"You're right ,Lulu," Celestia replies... I snicker a bit, Lulu?

"What?" Luna asks.

"Lulu? That's adorable," I reply.

She blushes. "Yes, well," she says and her horn glows. One of those gem rods appears in her other hand. "Do thou know how to channel an element into a crystal?" she asks me.

"I charged those ones myself," I tell her while pointing at the emerald in her hand.

"Then try to put a life element into this crystal," she tells me and hands me the rod. I place my right hand over it and channel a life element into my hand, I then try to flood it into the clear crystal.

After ten minutes of concentration, it starts to change colour and turns a soft green. I hold it up and see small wisps of magic floating around inside it.

"Did it work?" I ask and hand it back to her.

"Only one way to find out," she says and heads over to the balcony. She points the rod towards the sky and her horn glows. The crystal fires off a bolt of green energy into the sky and the crystal dims in colour.

Luna walks back in. "It works, question is, will it recharge itself?" Luna says.

So we stand there for about ten seconds, watching as the crystal slowly starts to glow green again. "Amazing, we may have just revolutionized our medical and magical arsenal," Luna says.

"So what? I'm going to be charging a lot of crystals then?" I ask. The thought of doing nothing but charging crystals for the rest of my life doesn't sound fun.

"Nay. If thou can charge a large crystal, we can use that to make smaller copies," she replies. Oh thank the heavens for that!

Celestia and I get dressed, me with my armour and weapons and then after a quick breakfast we head down for the Magic Academy north of the Castle. Court has been postponed with the excuse of a more important matter that needs addressing. The looks on the nobles faces was well worth it.

We arrive in a carriage where I help them out and we walk inside, people bow to the Princesses as we walk by them.

We arrive at a door that looks pretty thick which Luna opens and walks in. I follow and see tables with many different crystals and tools on them.

A unicorn woman with white fur and crystal blue hair and eyes walks over to us. "Your Majesties! It's an honour to see you here. What can I do for you?" she asks them.

"Crystal Clear, it is good to see you again," Celestia says. "We're here to help develop a new kind of enchanted crystal," she replies.

Crystal Clear smiles widely. "A new crystal enchantment? What is it, what is it?" she asks bouncing up and down with child like glee.

Luna holds out the life charged crystal wand to her. Crystal snatches it away and examines it closely.

"Princess... what kind of enchantment is this? I don't recognize the magic signature," she asks.

"That would be Sir Adrian's life element inside it. We require a large pure crystal so Adrian can charge it for us," Luna replies.

"Oh! erm, sure. Be right back!" Crystal says and heads through a door in the back.

"What do you plan to do with that wand?" I ask them.

"Well, it would be given to one of the medic guards. Why? Do you want to do something with it?" Celestia asks.

"Yeah, I was actually wondering if I can give it to Thraxx, he can use it to feed himself and not rely on me all the time," I reply.

"That's actually a good idea, we can have one made for Shella as well," she says.

Crystal returns pushing a trolley into the room. It has a large crystal perfectly cut and clear about the size of my torso. "Here you go, our best crystal," she tells us.

I walk over to it and place my hands on it. "I don't know if I'll be able to charge this..." I say.

"Doesn't hurt to try. We can always purge it if you fail," Crystal tells me.

I shrug and start channelling a life element in each hand. "Please don't distract me. This might take an hour or two," I tell them.

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I pant and sit down on the floor, breathing heavily. I look up and see the crystal glowing the same soft green colour as the wand.

"Thou did it!" Luna says excitedly. She kneels down and hugs me.

"So now what do we do with it?" I ask.

"We start putting it into other crystals and enchant them to slowly release the magic within. Changelings would then just have to stand near it and it should feed them. This would be the safest way to do this as giving them wands or other types of enchanted crystals would be a bad idea, as they could be used against us. This way, they would not dare bring their only source of food onto a battlefield," Luna says.

"Sounds good. Do I need to do anything else? I'm rather *yawn* tired from that," I ask and tell her. I probably used about eighty percent of my mana on that.

"Nay, thou can rest. We shall finish the rest," she tells me and kisses my cheek.

"Okay. *Yawn* See ya in a few hours..." I say and fall asleep in Luna's arms.

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Adrian falls asleep on Luna's lap, it's rather adorable to watch. "Luna, can you take Adrian back to your room and then come back with Shella?" I ask her.

"Of course," she replies. She picks Adrian up and exits the room. I walk over to the crystal and watch as the swirling green magic within moves around hypnotically. I place my right hand on it and I can feel the warm magic of his life element flow through my fingertips.

Crystal Clear then brings in several smaller crystals with silver stands for them. She taps the smaller crystals to the larger one and some of the magic is transferred across.

Once all five of them are done, she places a golden brace on top of one of the crystals that will absorb magic from the atmosphere at an accelerated rate. Very slowly, a green mist escapes and surrounds the crystal.

Crystal Clear then does the same for the other crystals. A few minutes later and Luna teleports into the room with Shella beside her. Shella is wearing cleaner clothes now instead of the old torn ones she used to have.

She walks over to the large crystal and stares at it. "Pretty stone," she says.

I kneel down to her. "Hello, Shella. Would you like to help us with something?" I ask her.

She looks at me with a smile. "Okay!" she replies happily. How can she still be so innocent after what she's been through?

"Thank you, we would like to see if you can feed from one of these small crystals," I tell her.

She looks at one of the small crystals and holds her hand out near the green mist. I watch as the mist flows into her hand and after a few seconds, she lets out a small burp. "Excuse me, that tastes just like Adrian's love," she says.

I smile at her. "Thank you, Shella. Would you like some toys to play with? Or some books to read?" I ask her.

She nodded quickly "Uh-huh!" she replies.

I look from the filly to Crystal Clear. "Keep an eye on those crystals, see if they continue to emit magic or if they burn out," I tell her. She nodded and I stand back up, I'm surprised when Shella holds my hand as if waiting for me to do something. "let's go find you something then shall we?"

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I wake up and look around, I'm back in Luna's bed and out of my armour. I get up, yawn and stretch, charging that crystal really drained me. I equip my armour and weapons and head out to find Celestia or Luna.

After ten minutes of searching, I find Celestia in her room with Shella playing with dolls. It seems they haven't noticed me yet as I lean against the door frame.

"Cute," I say with a smile, making them both jump.

"Oh, Adrian. I am glad to see you up," Celestia says.

"Hi, Adrian!" Shella says waving an arm at me.

"Hello, Shella. Feeling better today?" I ask her.

"Uh-huh! Princess Celestia was playing with me!" she says and gently throws a pillow at Celestia while giggling. I laugh as it gets impaled on her horn and slides down to her face.

Celestia just sits there with a blank expression before giggling. "Never in all my years has anypony other than Luna thrown a pillow at me," she says.

"So what happened once I passed out?" I ask.

"We have created five smaller aura crystals and Shella here confirmed that they work," Celestia replies.

Shella waves her left arm in the air. "Yeah! I helped!" she says.

"So what's our next move?" I ask Celestia.

"We shall wait a few days to see if the crystals can hold your life element in them. If they do, we'll then try contacting the town you found in the Badlands and try to convince them to come with us, with Shella's help, to show that we can offer them a better way. We can have a town built for them within Equestria's borders as well," she replies.

"Alright then, sounds good. I'm going to go and practice some more after I get something to eat, I'll see you both later," I tell them and head out to the Dining Hall.

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