Sauron's Second Chance
Chapter 18: Ch 18: The Power of The Ring
Previous Chapter Next ChapterLuna now was watching with open eyes how Sauron concentrated his spell in his both hands. The magic now created a ring and from under him both the energies were shooting up into the heavens. It was truly a beautiful sight, but the power behind it was frightening, she compared to Sauron was nothing. The pure magic and strength behind this was too much for her to understand.
If Sauron somehow turned against them, they would be dead by daylight if not sooner, and she already wanted to talk to Celestia about the research for helping him going back home. Of course from the beginning it was a stupid idea and she didn’t like that, but what can she do against Celestia? Well mostly nothing, because her sister is literally the god of the sun and still their subjects value her way more than her moon.
With the magic all around her, she could feel how it’s affecting the physical world. The clouds were going away and perfectly making an clear sky circleover the city, as if it was in the middle of an cyclone. From the bottom she had a great look in between his legs, she wouldn’t be surprised if she would talk to Sauron and if someone was in her room, the pony would hear also what she was talking, because of the two dimensions noware close to each other thanks to Sauron.
The cold wind also started to affect her, normally she didn’t feel cold and warmth in the Dream world, but now because of Sauron’s strength she is affected by it. She shivered a little bit when the winds blow through her mane, and the coldness from the mountain peaks filled with snow hit her. She then got closer to one of Sauron’s legs.
Indeed the warmth was coming of him and he noticed that she almost was now “hugging” his leg. For him it was really funny, because he didn’t know why was she doing that, and secondly because it just looked silly.
‘Better leave her alone’ and now he was connecting the two orbs
The closer they got the more magic he released, the spell was now encircling him and covering him and shooting into the sky with more strength making the clouds go even further away. From under his legs the fire like magic also was now beginning to head down the place, but only the tip of it and not further away.
The closer the orbs were the more they dissolved and the more his arms were covered by it, the certain point where the two orbs were now looking like little nuts. Sauron was bringing his hands together but when he felled the two orbs dissolve, and now he was technically ready to cast the spell. He was ready to activate the ring, and see what “good” or rather, “damage” he can do.
The heat from his body was now a little bit stronger, Luna felled really light and weirs when the energy was going through her, at the same time she could feel anger and sadness… great sadness in it. It was so strong she herself almost started to cry, but why did his magic have so much sadness? Why is that? Did he lost something great once? Why is this so sad, what did happen to this poor soul?
So much of it you could literally turned it to bricks and build a city out of sadness and sorrow. But the heat coming of his body had a little happiness and the more she felled the sadness the more her heart ached, she wanted to maybe help him… she wanted to help him, she felled like it’s her job right now to purge that sadness from this magic.
She “hugged” his leg more to not feel the cold of the night and she grunted a little bit. There were many thought now racing in her head, to why is that, and to simple ones or stupid even. She in moments her thought changed from why is all this sadness in his magic and if it's related to him, to literally why Sauron’s body is so hot and warm, not even a pony has so much heat in him.
“Mhmmm” she yawned she fell almost “ asleep” and that would make her wake up, she didn’t want to do it, her mind followed with a thought that she wanted to say out loud but she didn’t ‘Why is your body so hot, Lord Sauron?’
-----Celestia and Cadence----
Both the alicorns stood before Luna’s room, before entering they both looked at each other and stayed so until both of them thoughts that it’s just a little awkward and opened the door to Luna's room. The room was dark just like Luna liked, filled with different kinds of gaming accessories Candace ordered to bring from the local shops. Games and other accessories were literally lying on the ground wherever you looked.
“Why does Luna always leave such an mess?” Celestia asked herself in a whisper.
“I dunno, but since the games came out she changed rapidly.” Cadence said hearing Celestia's question that wasn’t really for her.
“Very much, I would rather say.”Celestia said stepping onto a magazine.
She looked at it but she didn’t see what was written on it, so she with her magiclifted the magazine up and the golden aura sprayed light all across the room. Cendence also used her magic and casted a little orb of light into the corner of Lunas room. It didn’t give much but at least she located Luna in her bed smiling a bit…
‘…And blushing?’ Cendence thought when she saw Lunas cheeks.
Celestia however was interested and angry at the magazine that had an very funny and interesting title. It said ‘Celestia's flaws she didn’t expect Luna to have even such things in her room. And she was even more angry because she didn’t tell her about such things, why is it even a thing here in the Crystal Empire? She has to talk “peacefully” with the media about this, because if someone is going to see this-especially shining- then he is going to send all the journalists to prison.
And having an affair with the citizens about lack of liberty and censoring the media, would really only worsen her mental state. She wanted vacations for maybe a month ,and to leave everything to twilight and starlight to govern. She worked even harder when Luna wasn’t here, but on the moon. And it really wasn’t fun to mention that time, she worked two times more than she works now.
But either way she located Luna and together with Cendence shed approached her bed, she was sleeping and probably was now in the Dream World. Celestia also noticed that the anomaly was now so powerful she can’t even contain it or banish it to the moon! Besides that it’s far more powerful than anything she ever faced in her life, well maybe for the divines in the heavens once.
However still it was disturbing ,and she was now about to really go and wake up shining and order him to mobilize all the forces in the city, to face a threat they might not survive through. But she thought about Cendences words, that maybe it will be better to be friendly and not aggressive by having an army as an “hello” to a guest or guests.
Either way now that Celestia with Cendence did the last steps they were about to wake Luna up, Celestia of course also maybe travel to Luna in her mind and by that also know where she is. However she also noticed Luna blushing a little bit, she hoped that something evil isn’t just happening to her in the Dream World.
“Mhmmm…” Luna know had a little smile and she looked like a small puppy, also she moved her wings a little and her legs twitched
Both the princesses had to admit that it was really cute to see it, and their hearts melted a little bit. Celestia in her mind just screamed because Luna always looked cute when she slept, if she just could do a photo of her now. All the subjects around Equestria would have a heart attack from it, and her little smilewas just so cute it would melt all ice and covert the most evil demons to become good.
Cendence also had similar thoughts about her auntie, she had to say that twilight when she was a foal was cute and adorable, but auntie Luna when she sleeps is just the same. She has a smile as if something great was happening, and also she moved her position a little and looked like a little puppy that is cold.
“Lord… Sauron…” she said it with a very sleepy voice and as if it was a question.
Both of the Princesses looked at each other, and thought the same thing just now. ‘Did she just mention Sauron? While… blushing?!’
For Celestia it was something new, and now the thought that Sauron is the strange anomaly . Made her shiver a bit, because it can’t be possible that he is the cause of all this, he can’t be so powerful and skilled with sorcery. There just isn’t a logical way someone like him can hold so much power and she can’t feel it in him until he uses it.
Cadence on the other hand as an princess of love, had in her mind a thousand scenarios what can these signs mean. One of them can be that her auntie just developed feelings for him, another can be that they are having sex right now in the Dream World. One of the scenarios in her head is just telling her they have a romantic moment.
‘I have to update my information about certain things’ Cendence noted when she thought about her documents where she has plans to-as today’s youth and ponies say-“ship” certain ponies.
Celestia now was glancing quickly at Cendences face and then at Luna’s, she knew that her niece was thinking right now. And Celestia didn’t approve this, she can’t approve this. She doesn’t want to approve this information and thoughts as a thing, because there is no possible way it happened so fast and besides…she herself would like to, spend some time to better her Equestria’s and Cadence’s guest.
“…W-Why… are…. y… o.. u.” They heard Luna whisper under her breath .
The also noticed her smile getting a little smaller and her body now was really in a strange position as if she used her hooves for protection or was now holding something very tightly. This didn’t get unnoticed and immediately Celestia wanted to act, but Cadence stopped her and said quietly so that she won’t wake Luna up.
“No.”
Celestia didn’t understand why would Cadence want her not to act, it was clearly something happening to her Sister and she wanted to know what is happening to her. She wanted answers and she didn’t want to get into a fight with her niece, that is getting to independent. She has sadly use more of an radical but peaceful technique, allowing her to make Cadence yield and let her take over.
“Cadence, please let me help Luna” Celestia said and she didn’t even bother to whisper right now.
“No, don’t you understand? She makes diplomacy! Sex and politics come down to one… bucking.”
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Celestia was now really speechless by what Candence said, she didn’t know if this was some kind of joke or something, but she couldn’t stand and see how her sister is now probably being molested or attacked by Sauron. Or that something other is happening making her not feel comfortable while that strange magic has an effect on the outside world.
“So…” Luna started and got attention of both the princesses.
‘So what?!’ Celestia screamed in her head while Cendence just waited.
“…Hot…”
-----Luna and Sauron----
Sauron now was holding his hands in a way as if he just prepared to applause someone, and he wanted to only clap once to cast the spell but before that he needed to activate the ring and strengthen the effect of his spell. Because every time he cast a spell with the ring activated it’s just way much stronger.
So he begin, his ring started to glow orange and the Aura coming of him was gold yellow with maybe some orange too blended in. His eyes also started to glow and he looked like a lion ,right now looking at his enemy ready to strike by jumping and sinking his claws in its pray. His magic now erupted from him and it shoot into the sky with a big beam of orange and white blue light.
But after a while it was disappearing, it looked like as if he summoned so much power he even can’t hold it. In a way it was truth, he had so much power now that he didn’t need that much so he released into the nature ,to evaporate after a while and not to damage the physical world or the castle.
Also he himself started to glow orange from his hand and from the ring down his finger a dark layer of smoke or shadow with the same sparks when he summons his mace or Armor started to cover his hand slowly. It continued further down his arm and it swallowed his armor he had in the Dream World.
Sauron looked at it with an raised eyebrow, did the shadows were a new disguise the ring gives him? Or maybe he becomes something more? Can it be a cocoon for something more? These questions will be going to be hopefully answered, at least it’s what he hoped for. Luna just watched as the strange shadow was starting to cover him, first his arms and now it was heading towards the rest of his body.
And what really was disturbing her was that it was coming from the ring that was full of dark magic, she didn’t know if she should be afraid or do something against that but then when the shadow was now close to almost covering half of torso. The shadow that first covered his finger started to crack and white light erupted from it with little red afterglow.
His ring as always was untouched by things like this, it can be only destroyed by someone more powerful than the ring or him. But the best way is to cast it into the fires where it was created, he remembered that day clearly how he almost controlled all of Middle-Earth, if off for the forsaken elves and their magic.
But as his right hand got revealed his face was now covered and his legs were also to staring and get covered to. His hair hanged into shadow like smoke and his face was now without any mouth,nose,ears or anything like that. His face was now only a dark shadow like layer with darkness coming off him into the air.
‘Scary…’ thought Luna.
His armor was gone and was replaced by a white strange clothes, at first they seemed to be regular robes the priests use. But later she noticed the golden like material used to make very beautiful tiling on it. His legs now were covered by the shadow and she had to let go or else it would go on her.
She looked up and saw now his face getting uncovered, his hair changed and became a little shorter. His eyes color changed to very light lavender and flowers appeared made out of strange lavender light, he had something strange on his hair making them stay together in a very weird not seen in a long time style of a ponytail.
Then smaller rings made out of the same lavender color appeared and started to encircle him, behind his head the same circle from Sauron’s language appeared. She didn’t give it much appreciation, but it was really beautiful writing style of it. It had also to be hard to write it, but it was beautiful. It looked like as if he was an angel and the circling around words was a halo.
However the other rings got her attention, they weren’t here. Does this mean that there is more rings like he has? If yes then maybe it shows that it connects to them. Besides that Sauron now is to powerful, she feels the immense and impossible amounts of magic he has. Slowly she has troubles with breathing and even keeping herself here in the Dream World.
Sauron’s legs that are not getting replaced by the white cloth are without any shoes or boots leaving his feet on the wind. Not that it bothers her, his armor was now a noble looking tunic. Luna looked up and saw that the clouds all disappear behind the mountains. And how did the magic barrier Celestia put to detect magic not break yet, it’s a mystery because it should long ago.
Sauron’s “transformation” was now complete, he looked at his hands and then around him, he noticed his clothing change to that one when he deceived everyone he was Annatar the Lord of the Gifts. He then noticed the lavender rings and he gave to the elven kings, dwarf lords, and mortal men. He spread his hands and the rings followed as if they were a chains, but they weren’t together, they were separate from each other about twelve centimeters.
His ring on his hand was glowing bright yellow and sometimes light orange, the part of the ring poem written on it wasn’t seen because of the light it gave. He looked at the ring and in its reflection he saw his lavender eyes, then also he looked right and left and he saw flowers. Made also out of the same lavender light, of course while almost ready he noticed Luan looking at him with winded eyes.
For her it was a miracle how can something like this happen, one time he had a crown and now he has a halo. Then in moments more rings appeared while he showed his power, that was unbelievable. Besides that his face and yes were just magnificent. She never thought that there can be someone so handsome and admirable looking.
Of course she understood that mares do look beautiful and she also is considered very pretty among the peasants and nobles. But she never expected to see a stallion from a different race being so handsome. And the power behind it, probably all kings want him to marry it’s daughter’s if he isn’t married already. And probably all countries want an alliance with him, to keep their people safe.
----Celestia and Cadence----
She doesn’t know why, or how and even when. But the strange anomaly was now strengthen four if not five times! This is literally impossible, only divines or lesser gods can do something like that. Whatever is Sauron doing with Luna if he is doing something then he is the most powerful being that can freely go around Equis without people bowing to him. Literally he could destroy a mountain, shake armies and even raise an entire continent if he wanted to.
‘This sounds familiar…’
The strange document had the same word in it she just said, about a being able to destroy mountains and shake armies. Is he the threat her mom told her about? If yes then is she going to fight with him? How is she going to even touch him in that state and with such power?! The elements aren’t going to be enough to stop him.
“Enough of this.” said Celestia and she shook her sister a little to tell her that she is waiting for her.
Cadence on the other hand was worried to hear a concerned tone in Celestia's way of speaking, besides the strange magic was now clear as day to fell. Now even unicorns that aren’t skilled to much can feel it probably, she also noticed that the walls were a little more colorful. As if the magic was affecting the outside colors, whatever it is maybe she should wake shining up.
‘But if it isn’t Sauron but someone else’ she wondered and thought about waking shining up, besides its already 4 AM.
‘In four hours Luna will have to bring her moon down’ Cendence thought and was now really debating if she should go and wake shining up
If it is Sauron then it will be pointless, because he is a friend of theirs and he wouldn’t do anything stupid to them by attacking or destroying something. Maybe he will have more fights with Discord, however he saved her little daughter and she is grateful for this ,and she will be forever in debt. He could ask for so many things and get them probably in a week or so. There was no logical argument to make him turn against them
Yes for fighting with Discord Celestia was unfair and tied these two even if Discord started and used magic and Sauron didn’t. He has one point to be angry, the second is that she ordered to stop the research on sending him back home. That would probably make her very angry, and she would have a reason to turn against them and do something not nice.
‘But it’s Celestias fault’ Cendence thought that because of her Aunties mostly racist decisions she will bring war
She didn’t like to think like this, in fact she didn’t even want to ever again think like this. It’s her family and she has to do what the elder say, however her aunt is sometimes really not OK and she has to say something. She understands that the Crystal Empire is a part of Equestria almost but she here orders not her.
But then again Luna is really maybe in deep trouble, however judging by her face and red cheeks somepony can be in other deep trouble but in her…
‘No, stop that thinking’ Cadence said mentally to herself.
Celestia was now waiting for Luna to comeback, but she didn’t even try to comeback. She remain in the same position for a minute or so. Celestia then tried to do the same thing but added some word to it “Luna! Wake up” she screamed but nothing. Luna has chosen not to return, apparently Celestia was now furious because of that.
“Then I’m going to make you.” she said and her him started to glow golden Aura.
----Luna/Sauron----
Luna felt how her sister yelled and tried to wake her up, to bad because she isn’t going to return yet. Her eyes were now concentrated at what will Sauron do now, she wanted to see what he had planned to do with her nightmares. With such an spell he could maybe free all of Equestria from the nightmares now.
‘That would be impossible to even imagine’
Sauron now was ready to do what he had planned to do good two minutes or three ago, this means to free the city or most of the country from the nightmares. It was the most ridiculous thing he had ever done while using the ring, but sometimes he has to such things to later gain more. The energy and magic slowly begin to be sucked into him
At first it was going slowly, but then it gained more and more speed and the air was sucked to. Luna wasn’t being sucked from some reason. The clouds were returning on its place and the light of the moon was slowly being covered. The strange magic seemed to get… weaker? That was something weird happening now, did he just show off or was he scared that it will be too much?
But that wasn’t the reason why Sauron again concentrated the magic, he just wanted it to be done quickly and besides, he has to order his spell what to destroy and the only thing that can “program” the spell to destroy the nightmares. Is to show it what exactly it should touch and why, when and where to end, and not accidently do too much damage or favor other countries.
‘Can’t get to generous’ Sauron ordered to himself.
The magic he released was now returning to him, and he looked like if he just lost the ring and was about to explode, the more magic returned the brighter he got. To the point where the sky was literally black and he was the only source of light. Not even the little lights the fires and torches gave in the city were enough to leave a little light.
Everything seemed to turn into twilight and he was the only thing giving light, Luna had to cover her eyes because she would go blind if she wouldn’t. What was weird that she didn’t fell now anything and she also didn’t feel her sister trying to wake her up. She probably was also wondering what was happening, cause this what he did was considered impossible, but now he proved that it is.
And then it happened, time seemed to slow down when he turned grey and the sky returned to its natural color. Luan opened her eyes to see everything being how it was before he begin what he has done. She looked at Sauron and saw only something similar to vapor holding his hands near the his chest, however within moments the middle of his chest started to glow white.
And Sauron spared again his hands with that the magic escaped him, time was now a puppet to his will. A circle formed around the tower and it stayed like this until he clapped his hands and from it magic erupted as if it was pure water with stallion, mares and flowers around them going through the city.
It was through homes and all the nightmares Luna noticed and felled were diapering with every seconds every aura was gone. With each second everything was left clean without the nightmares or darkness. But Sauron then started to again summon his magic and from the center of his chest straight to his hands magic that had white color followed, and on the end a cloud of lavender flowers formed and were following his movement.
He gathered enough to make a big ball of flowers that were from the lavender light formed, it was weird. She didn’t sense even a tiny bit of it. How was he doing that? His ring was also glowing brightly yellow that meant that he was using it. Then when the ball was ready he only booped it and it shoot into the air and exploded with the flowers petals. This time the wind done its job and the petals were spreaded all across the city, they slowly were falling and Luna tried to touch one
When she did the petal disappeared and a flower started to glow on her hoof, she didn’t know what to do. But then the flower was producing some pollen that was now making new dreams appear, has gone through homes and walls until it met a pony that didn’t have a nice dream and when it entered the ponies mind a green aura appeared.
Luna was shocked how could he do something like that? It is impossible! The wave of horses and ponies,flowers and pollen, petal and other things were now disappearing into the distance and left the city with green Auras. Luna then suddenly saw more light going on in some houses and ponies started to get out and wonder what happened. They didn’t see them because of their invisibility, but Sauron’s spell not only did clean the city from Nightmares.
It was now cleaning the whole Crystal Empire with the houses and farms in the distance. She didn’t sense any nightmares. Sauron’s ring gave last lights before she saw him again emerging in his armor before he activated his ring. She was in awe to see something like that, she wants to know the secrets of this technique.
Sauron then also started to shrink and Luna had to take a few steps back, She still couldn’t believe what she saw. This had to be a dream or something, it’s just impossible for him to do something like that. She has to see herself and follow the strange wave of magic, that now spreaded into three different part’s and some petals still were visible in the distance high in the air, following and falling down.
Sauron turned to see Luna’s mouth hanging open, and he wasn’t surprised by it. He himself wasn’t ready to see himself so powerful. And the information he had only for himself would be too much for her to handle, and it would be better if none of them knew what actually happened while he finally casted the spell.
“What do you think Princess Luna? Is it enough for taking your time in Flurry Heart’s dream?” Sauron’s asked.
But then he saw Luna shake her head and nod slowly still with widen eyes, but then a strange golden aura surrounded her and she looked at herself and let out a sight. Just before that she managed to shoot a beam into the ground, Sauron was surprised by that and jumped a little back, and he looked at Luna and saw her crack a little smile and scared/proud eyes?
‘That’s interesting’ and she disappeared in a little explosion of light.
Sauron looked at the place she shoot the beam, he couldn’t hold his laugh and he had to chuckle a bit. He saw many things and that many things to excuse someone’s behavior. But this was just to hilarious and he had to chuckle a bit. On the ground there was written “BLAME MY SISTER” with capitalized letters
In the end he didn’t have to clap his hands to cast the spell, he chose a more of an ”cooler” way to cast his spell. As the king of Mordor he has to look strong and most things he does have to look interesting, besides it isn’t nice to hold back next to a girl! But this world has other rules that Eru did, and he looked the last time at the writing.
“Hehehe…” he again chuckled and nodded to himself. “That’s definitely new.” He said to himself and then thought about what he can’t say to them, until he gains their trust.
Only a part of the rings power was present