The spring heat season has past where I got Luna and Shella pregnant while also relieving Celestia and Cadence. Fortunately none of the Castle staff tried to get into my pants this time.

So now Castle life has returned to normal and I can leave my room again. Though I really need to start practising with the fire aspect champion form before the Dragonlord arrives. I've only got about a week or two left by Ember's estimation.

At breakfast Shella reveals our newest daughter to the staff, Twilight, and her friends as well. Everyone fawned over our new daughter who unlike her sister just looks around calmly with wide eyes.

So while Shella is holding Vespula, I'm holding Mavis who is giggling while poking me in the stomach.

Twilight was actually relieved she wasn't a pony during heat season as elves don't go into heat, so she was spared from that discomfort. She spent her time during the week in the Archives with Spike and Ember learning more from her new books while Ember was learning Equestrian history.

Speaking of Ember, Spike took her out on that date and while he said she was rather cold to people, she enjoyed her time out as they shared stories about their lives. He told me he's taking her out on another date in a few days time, I think he's starting to like her more.

Applejack has begun planting some new apple trees on some land Celestia gave her near the Lapis Hive and she's asked me to help grow them quicker. I agreed to help and will head down later today to get started on growing them.

Pinkie is looking better and not as sad anymore while Rainbow dash is now doing fine with just one arm. The weather has been better since she started working here.

Fluttershy has been looking after Keanu with the stable boy when she could and the other animals in the Gardens with her bunny Angel. Although she does miss some of her animal friends, a few of the birds she knew flew up to Canterlot and are now living in the Gardens.

Rarity's store is now up and running where she's got some of her first orders already. Blueblood helps out when he is able to but he mostly stays in the Castle doing paperwork and keeping an eye on the nobles. Lily is also going to school now with Thraxx guarding her at Blueblood's order.

After breakfast was eaten my first stop is visiting Keanu and checking up on him. He's gotten a lot bigger now and it should only be a few more months before I'll be able to ride on him.

Next up was checking in with my parents and their business is still going well, they're even getting orders for some of the Equestrian styles of clothing. Jasmine has even made new friends in the City of Elysium.

I then went to Vortigan to see how he was doing. His family are fine but they had another assassination attempt, no doubt his brother's doing. No one was harmed and the assassin has been dealt with, he was a human with dark skin, but the strange part was his eyes were completely black.

Mages and Enchanters studied the corpse and discovered dark magic in it, and as such the body was quickly destroyed. I believe it was Grogar who was behind it.

Court has been given over to Blueblood today as my lovers along with the girls wanted to see my training in the badlands.

We're flying on the airship to the same place I first practised so I can continue. Infernus and I discussed many methods on why I couldn't breathe fire and our form broke away over the heat season.

The best theory was that I was trying to use his mana for the breath and my mana to keep the form up, when both our manas broke away it destabilized the form resulting in it failing.

So this time I'm going to practice keeping our mana together.

"So what is this dragon form like?" Twilight asks me.

"It's actually a wyvern. Dragons have arms and are more upright in posture while wyverns use their wings as an extra set of legs to move about... You'll see when I practice again," I reply.

Luna is clinging to my left arm with a dopey smile on her face, since her heat she's been really clingy, kinda like Celestia was during the start of her pregnancy.

"I see. How big is your wyvern form compared to an average dragon?" Twilight then asks me.

"Not sure, but I think I'm about half the size of Canterlot Castle at best," I reply and look over the edge of the railings.

The badlands are below us and we're approaching the site I used a week ago.

"Half the size of the Castle!" Twilight exclaims in surprise making a few of the crew jump.

"We believe so, he was rather large. Even bigger than the dragon we fought in the Everfree," Luna tells the stunned elf.

I gently pry Luna off my arm and jump up onto the rail. "Well then, I better get started!" I say and look to Luna. "Why don't you and Tia practice with your aspects as well? Might as well get some training in whilst we're all here," I tell her and then lean back off the side of the ship.

"Adrian!" Twilight yells as I cast my air wings spell and glide down to the ground below.

I land with a slight stumble from stepping on a loose stone but quickly recover. I then gently tap the fire orb on my right hand. 'So, let's try this again shall we?' I ask Infernus.

'Yes, we need to get you to control my champion's form before this Dragonlord Torch arrives,' he tells me.

I close my eyes and take on my new fire combat form as my body turns to lava and barely hovers above the ground as my legs turn into a powerful jet of flames.

I then concentrate and open my eyes as my body morphs once again into the large lava wyvern form. I shudder from the once again strange sensation of having a different body structure.

Shaking my molten limbs to limber up, I start by walking about just to get used to my temporary body... only to end up face first into the ground again. Doesn't help that I can hear the others laughing at me from the airship.

'I feel so heavy and unbalanced...' I think to myself and get back up.

'That is raw power, you are just unused to so much mana flowing through you and being used. Once we're done here you'll feel lighter and have better control over our mana,' Infernus tells me with a huff.

'Alright, so like we discussed, I just need to focus on keeping our mana together while preparing the breath correct?' I ask him.

'That's right, you just need to siphon the mana from your form's core where the focus of mana is kept and pour it into your lungs. The mana is then converted into super-heated flames which you just need to blow out,' he instructs me.

'Sounds simple enough,' I reply.

I take a deep breath and feel around for my mana, it takes me a minute but I find it and gather some of it into my lungs. My chest feels warmer and it also feels like I need to belch badly.

'Good, now release your breath with as much force as you can,' Infernus tells me.

I do as he says and breathe out forcefully, spewing out a torrent of flames... along with the sound of a loud burp causing the ground to shake slightly. I'm glad this form is red and made of molten rock, I'm sure I have an embarrassed blush on my face.

'That was humiliating! You are making a fool out of my champion's form! Now try again and this time without the vulgarity!' Infernus yells at me.

I growl at his hostile attitude but comply. Taking another deep breath and gathering the mana, I release the breath in my lungs and exhale a large plume of flames. This time without the belch.

It only lasted about three seconds before I ran out of air and stopped.

'Much better. Now keep practising until you either get tired or run out of mana,' Infernus tells me still a bit pissed off.

I grumble to myself and take another deep breath.

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I can't believe what I'm seeing... Spike told me about what he saw a week ago, but I didn't think Adrian would be like this! This wyvern form is so different from a dragon!

I pull out one of my notebooks and begin making sketches of Adrian and taking notes on his abilities and such.

Despite that rather... loud burp he let out earlier, his fire breath is more devastating than any dragon I've heard of. The very ground where the flames touched seems to be glass now.

I watch as Adrian stumbles for a bit before collapsing onto the ground as if he was tired, is this form straining him more than he can handle?

Luna quickly jumps overboard followed by Celestia as they head down to him.

"Wow, that's sooo cool!" Rainbow says and then chuckles. "And that belch kinda reminds me of Spike when he received letters from the princess," she then says making Spike blush a bit.

"Letters?" Ember asks confused.

"Spike is able to send letters to anyone he knows by breathing his fire on it while thinking of the individual," I inform her but keep my eyes on Adrian.

"How can you do that? I've never known a dragon to do so," Ember asks Spike.

"Erm... it was due to Celestia's magic that enchanted my fire to do that," he tells her with a sheepish grin.

Ember has a look of thought before looking at me. "Would she be willing to do this for me as well? This would be a helpful ability to have," she asks.

"Oh erm, you can just ask her once she comes back up," I reply and look down to see Adrian standing back up and shaking himself, bits of lava dripping from his body.

"I see, very well I shall ask her later. Right now I'd like to continue with Spike's flying lessons," Ember says and pulls on Spike’s arm.

"Oh! I'll help ya! I'm the fastest pegasus in all of Equestria!" Rainbow offers with glee, a large grin on her face.

"Very well, let us find an open spot away from Adrian as I would not like to be the one to test whether or not if his flames can harm a dragon," Ember replies and jumps overboard with Spike in her arms.

"WAIT!" he yelps as they go over.

Rainbow giggles and flies off after them.

Shella and Cadence are talking to each other about Adrian's form while Fluttershy is hiding behind Rarity. Pinkie and Applejack are just watching Adrian quietly... although I don't remember seeing Pinkie get that box of popcorn a minute ago...

I shake my head and look back down to notice the Princesses keeping their distance from Adrian.

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"Are you alright?" I ask my husband as he twists his neck at odd angles. The heat he is producing making it impossible to get any closer to him.

But his only response is a growl and a couple of nods.

"Can thou not speak in this form?" Luna asks him with a raised eyebrow.

Adrian just sighs and shakes his head.

"I see, but are you sure you're okay?" I ask him again.

His bright orange eyes roll and he nodded again.

"Alright... we'll be nearby if you need us," I tell him and fly off with Luna to an open area so we can begin our own aspect training.

'Are thou sure he will be fine? He looked really tired,' Luna asks me telepathically.

'I think so, he wouldn't push himself too far,' I reply to her.

We land a good distance away from Adrian and get ready ourselves.

'Lux, I've been wondering, do you have a champion form?' I ask him.

'I do, he is a guardian of the heavens themselves, he has six wings with a human body structure. His name is Tiberius the Guardian Angel,' he replies.

An angel? 'What are these angels?' I ask him.

'They are the protectors of heaven and the innocent, they bask in the light of heaven and will even sacrifice themselves to protect those they deem worthy if they have no choice,' he tells me.

'I would like to meet these angels one day,' I think to myself and concentrate on my aspect form.

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I look back to my mate and watch as he breaths another blast of intense flames over the ground, turning it into glass.

'Impressive isn't it? The power our champions can unleash... Though only Starswirl himself has ever managed to use them, even if we aspects were the ones in control and for only minutes at a time,' Umbra tells me.

'And what is thy champion's form?' I ask her.

'My champion is named Night Raven. As the name suggests, she is a raven made of the darkest shadows and is the master of the shadows, she can manipulate all the shadows around her and not even sunlight can affect her. She is about twice your size and cannot be harmed physically,' Umbra replies.

'Would we be able to use this form now?' I ask with excitement.

'Perhaps one day, but you still need to learn your magic combat form first. You took on our physical form first since you prefer physical combat over magical,' she tells me.

I turn away from my husband and concentrate on my own training, I want to be ready for when this Dragonlord arrives and fight by my love's side.

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I gasp for breath after the seventh fire breath, my form then crumbles around me and cools off quickly.

Stepping away from the remains I fly back up to the airship to rest and get a drink.

"That was amazing! What was it like being that big?" Twilight asks me once I land on the deck.

"Heavy mostly, which is making me tired quicker and it feels odd with a different body structure, but other than that it's fine," I reply and take a bottle of water handed to me by one of the crew.

Twilight looks around and then looks back at me. "Since I have my own pool of mana now... Is it possible for me to have an aspect as well?" she asks.

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