After waking up and getting ready for the day. Celestia sent a letter to Twilight and her friends to see if they would like to come and watch. Knowing Twilight, she wouldn't miss this chance to see a new kind of magic.

We all head out to the Training Grounds after breakfast. I'm in my armour, minus the helmet, standing in an open area with everyone else a good ten metres away. Cadence looks nervous standing next to Twilight, who has a notebook and quill ready.

Shining Armour is also here but over with the other guards and doing his best not to look our way...

Discord is also here grinning like an idiot, with some kind of giant white hand clenched shut on his right hand with '#1' on the index finger that's pointing up and waving a little flag with 'Go Adrian Go' written on it with his left... He even has a shirt with my face on it...

I ignore him and tap the orb on the back of my hand. 'Okay, Gaia. What's the first thing I do?' I ask her.

I yelp as she appears in front of me. "First, I will connect my power to you, in which you shall take on your aspect form, just like when you fought the giant. You will then feel my mana flowing into you," she tells me. I just stare at her with wide eyes. "Ah yes, this is just an astral projection of myself. While I can use my power myself in this form, it is only one-tenth of my full power, but channelled through you, it brings out it's full potential," she tells me.

"She's right," Discord says. "Even my power was greatly reduced in my astral form. It's why I was mostly only able to watch over you and intervene when necessary," he tells me.

"Alright. So what do I do once you channel your mana into me?" I ask Gaia.

"Once you have taken your aspect form, you will need to gather both your's and my mana and mix them together. Once done, you just need to cast the spell like you normally would for the life element. Once you have gotten used to this, I shall then teach you how to grow plants and control them," she tells me.

"Okay... let's do this," I say and close my eyes.

"I'm now channelling my mana. Don't resist it, just let it flow within you," she tells me and I feel her mana pushing against me. I tense up and frown, this feels strange. "You need to relax," she tells me.

I take a deep breath and exhale slowly a few times, I feel myself relax and calm down. I can feel something on the back of my neck moving and I open my eyes to see vines crawl over my armour with white flowers on them. I then feel something wrap around the top of my head, I reach up and feel flowers overlapping my crown.

I look around and everything looks different. I can see the energy of the world around me, in the plants and birds flying by, in the people around me. My wives and Cadence all have the strongest glow around them followed by Twilight. I notice Twilight writing in her book with wide eyes.

"Whoa..." I mutter. I notice my voice has a slight echo sound to it.

"Good, you now have access to my power. You need to gather mana from both of us and mould it into your hand or chest. From your hand, you can cast beams, projectiles, or waves. A wave is like a wall that pushes outwards from you and looks like an ocean wave. From your chest, you can cast it as a nova, or a self cast," she tells me.

I look at my right hand and flex my fingers a couple of times. I close my eyes and gather some of my mana into my hand. I then feel for Gaia's mana for a few minutes to get used to having it there. I frown and try to gather some of it.

"Don't force it, take your time and get used to the feeling," she tells me.

I stop and just keep feeling it within me. I sit down on the ground and spend thirty minutes just getting used to it, feeling and pulling at it to test it's limits. Twilight asks what's happening but is shushed instantly.

Once I feel comfortable enough, I gather my mana again and some of Gaia's slowly. I then try to merge them both like I would with two elements. I can feel them mix, but it quickly breaks apart and a visible mist of green mana expels from my hand and fades into the air.

"Not bad for a first attempt, try again," Gaia tells me with an encouraging tone.

I gather the mana again and mix them. I continue trying over the next hour, some stabilising longer than others.

After the fortieth try, I finally I get it stable. "Good," Gaia says. "Aim at one of the targets over there," she tells me while pointing to a target board down the spell range. "To fire it as a projectile you need to just release the mana outward without channelling anymore into it." She tells me.

I aim my palm at the target and release the mana. My arm recoils from the force as a ball of green energy with a thin trail soars down the range and hits the fourth ring and explodes in a mist.

"Very good," she says and smiles. "Now try a beam. To form a beam, do the same as a projectile, but just keep pouring mana into the spell," she tells me.

I merge the mana together again and aim at the target. I release the spell and pour more mana into it. It lasts for a few seconds before breaking apart again.

"Not bad. You did better than Starswirl did on his first try, but you need to practice merging our mana together some more. For the next two hours, I want you to practice mixing our mana together," she tells me.

I sit down and begin practising. Twilight walks over and starts asking Gaia questions like what she is, how old she is, what can her magic do and so on. I also notice one of the flowers on the vines is starting to wilt.

After a couple of hours more of practising to mix our mana together, I can now keep them together for a good five seconds. Not much but it's a start and I still got plenty of time to get better at it.

"Alright, Adrian. We'll stop for today, if you haven't noticed, the white flowers on your vines represent my mana," she tells me. I look to see eighteen out of twenty of them are wilted. "When all the flowers wilt. I can no longer help you and must rest. The reason I'm almost out already is because you still wasted a lot of mine and your mana while merging them," she informs me.

"I see. So how would I go about not wasting it?" I ask her.

"We shall begin that lesson tomorrow, but right now, don't you and Queen Luna have a 'date' to attend," she tells me and giggles.

Date? What date?.. Oh, does she mean our training session together?

I smile at her. "Ah yes, thank you for reminding me," I reply. The vines begin retracting to the back of my neck, but it doesn't feel like it's going inside me. Like there's some kind of portal there.

I feel Gaia's mana is now gone. "Thank you for the lesson, Gaia. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's as well," I say to her, my tone back to normal.

"You're welcome, now I must go and rest. I shall see you tomorrow, Adrian," she tells me a fades away. The orb on my hand turns dull.

I then turn to Luna "Are you ready for our training, Luna?" I ask her.

She smiles and nodded. "We are, but first, we will have lunch and then kick thy flank across the dirt," she replies.

I laugh and we head inside for lunch.

After lunch, Luna did as she said and kicked my ass in training, but I'm getting better and getting more hits on her as well.

"That was good, Adrian. Thou art getting better," Luna tells me.

"Thanks, but I think that'll be all for today before I lose feeling in my legs," I reply and cast a healing spell on myself. Luna bashed the shit out of my thighs and shins, despite the armour.

"ADRIAN!" I hear Twilight yell at me with anger in her tone.

I look towards the Castle and see her stomping towards me with a deep frown and glaring at me with Cadence trying to stop her... Ah shit.

"How could you break Cadence and my Brother apart!" she yells at me. Ignoring Cadence's pleas.

I look to Luna who shrugs and then back at Twilight. "That was actually their choice, Twilight. Shining thought Cadence would be better off with someone who could stay by her side after she admitted she loves me. It wasn't my intention to break them up, but that's just what happened," I tell her.

"But they love each other!" she yells again.

Cadence places her hand on Twilight's shoulder. "Twilight, I do love Shiny... but, I'm scared of the day he will die and I'll remain... I'm scared of never loving again... or choosing to follow Shiny into the afterlife from the depression... Adrian is a kind, caring, and gentle person. He's given me what I've been waiting thirty years for," she tells her and places her hands on her stomach.

Twilight frowns with a pout. "But... what about Shiny? I noticed him looking at you sadly a few times during Adrian's training," she says.

"I know, but we've agreed to remain friends... I do miss being with him, and we both knew this could happen. Even after the warnings auntie Tia gave me," Cadence replies.

Twilight sighs and looks back and walks up to me as she glares at me with a frown again. She looks more adorable than scary when she only comes up to my chest. "You better look after Cadence like your life depended on it then!" she tells me.

"Don't worry, Twilight. I'll treat her just like I do the others," I tell her.

"Good," she says and sighs. "Sorry about shouting at you... it was just seeing Shiny not his usual self that set me off," she tells me.

"I'll see if Shining wants to go out for a drink in a few days, maybe some fishing," I reply. "but right now, I've worked up an appetite," I say and my stomach rumbles. "Are you going to join us, Twilight?" I ask her.

They giggle at me and she nodded, we then head back inside.

Over the last month, I've been practising with merging mine and Gaia's mana. I can now hold it for a good twenty seconds before It breaks apart.

I'm also getting better with mana efficiency and not wasting as much anymore... but not good enough yet according to Gaia.

Twilight and the others went back to Ponyville three weeks ago. Blueblood and Fleur have also been taking trips to Ponyville to visit Rarity.

Shella just laid her eggs two days ago. She's also told me the hatchlings back at the Hive have found families and are growing up well. She's now taking a break from laying eggs for at least a month now.

There's been another attack from the gryphons. This time with a larger group of twenty, but thanks to the mages we got from Terra, they were taken out with only two losses.

We've also got reports of undead along the borders of the Badlands. We've sent some mages with earth pony guards to protect them and pegasi snipers to check the area and take down any they see. Even letters from the minotaurs and cervine were arriving with news of undead attacking them as well. A meeting with all the Alliance leaders will be held in Canterlot within two weeks.

I took Shining out with some other guards for a fishing trip. He was feeling a bit depressed, and I don't blame him, but apparently, he and Silk Sheets bumped into each other and knocked each other over, Silk was on top of Shining and found herself straddling him by accident. She told me she was so embarrassed from it, but he was very polite and even apologised to her. During our fishing, Shining told me she was actually rather cute and would like to see her again. I told him if he likes her, then go and just talk to her.

I brought back some fish for Celestia, Cadence, and I. At dinner, Cadence looked at the cooked fish with a cringe and took a tiny bit with her fork and hesitantly ate it. After chewing it for a bit, her expression softened and her eyes widened. She said it was surprisingly tasty and ate the rest.

Luna and I trained together every evening at the Training Grounds and in the Gym where Celestia and Cadence joined us for a light workout as well.

Cadence is getting used to sleeping with us as she and Celestia now sleep to my left and right to keep pressure off their stomachs. Shella and Luna take turns sleeping on top of me while the other cuddles up to Celestia or Cadence.

Cadence has started to have her morning sickness. I was surprised it took so long before she started feeling it, but I helped her every morning by rubbing her back which she appreciated.

I've taken my wives and Cadence out on another date and we all did one thing they each wanted to do. We all had a pleasant time and grew closer together.

We wake up and we go through our morning routine. A new desk has been added to the room for Cadence to brush her hair at and keep her grooming utensils on.

Shella gets Mavis and I greet my giggling daughter. Her hair is growing longer and so is her horn. Once we're all ready, I head back out with Luna for more aspect training.

Gaia and I are in an open area and continuing to practise with merging mana and mana efficiency. I'm sitting on the ground with my eyes closed and feeling the two manas within me.

Halfway through, I hear someone running towards us. "My Queen. Undead are attacking the border town of Whinniesberg," the voice of a female tells Luna.

I open my eyes and see a guard holding a scroll out to Luna. She takes the scroll and opens it up.

She reads it and frowns. "We see, prepare the two remaining airships and gather as many of the Terran mages as you can get on board," she tells her.

"So we're going to defend the town?" I ask her. That echoing tone still present.

"Yes, and with thy new power, thou shalt be effective in protecting the town from the undead," she replies.

"Alright then, let's get going," I say.

Next Chapter will be a battle with the Undead!

Also... Never wearing a Tuxedo again! Those things itch like crazy!