Author's Notes:

Got hit with a burst of inspiration on how to do this today and just had to hammer it out. Let me know what you think

After finishing up the meal, I helped Rainbow clean up the dishes before giving her another kiss. I tried to get my shirt back, but she had claimed it for herself apparently and told me to just head back shirtless to Twi's. I laughed at it at first, then just said “Fuck it.” and took the advice. Once we finished up the dishes, we took a quick shower, with lots of helping each other out. I finally managed to make it out of her place and started to jog back to the library.

I found Twilight already awake and sitting in the Faraday cage meditating. She was so focused that I didn’t even disturb her meditation. I can honestly say that I was extremely proud of her for sticking with it, even when I wasn’t here. Deciding not to disturb her I went inside and down to my room to grab a few things for physical training. After putting them in the appropriate places, I figured that I would show Sparkles a little favoritism and put on a purple shirt that Rarity had made for me.

After brushing my teeth and running out back, I found Twilight right where I left her inside the cage. Walking over I rapped on the door to snap her out of focus. “Hey Sparkles, glad to see that you are sticking to it.”

She jumped at my sudden appearance “M-Magos. I didn’t hear you get back.”

I smiled at her “Don’t worry about it. I have to say, I am very proud of you for showing such dedication to this. I think you are ready for the next step. It’s time to add martial training.”

Twilight looked a little nervous “Um… Mag, I’m a scholar, not a fighter. Why would I ever need martial skills?”

I shrugged “same reason that I make you run. A strong body means a strong mind. You have the mind now. I would be interested to see what we could accomplish by strengthening your body to go with it. Now come out of there. I need to take you down to my room to use some of my training equipment. It has more of a dojo feeling to it as well.”

Twilight seemed a little concerned with having to learn martial skills, but as long as she never had to use them, I wasn’t concerned. I have to admit that I was partly teaching her this as a way for self-defense. I don’t think Twi realized how attractive she is, and with that comes predators. I felt more comfortable knowing that she could take care of herself.

It was at this point that AJ came running up to the house just as we were packing up to go down to the basement. “Howdy Mag, Howdy Twi. What you up to?”

I waived to her “We were just packing up morning training. I was going to walk Twi through some flexibility routines. What’s up with you today sis?”

AJ smiled at me calling her sis before continuing “I was wonderin if Twi would be willing to Help RD and I out down at my farm. We’re lookin to have ourselves an Iron Pony contest to see who is the most athletic.” Turning to Twilight, she asked, “Would you be willing to give us a hand and keep score for us Twi?” Looking back at me she added with a laugh. “You can come to Mag, somepony is going to have to comfort her when she loses.”

I chuckled and looked at Twilight “It’s okay with me if you want to help them out. We can work on your flexibility when we are there between events. What do you say?”

She thought about it for a moment before shrugging “Sure, that sounds like fun. I’ll grab Spike to help out.” After running inside, I walked next to AJ before giving her a hug.

“Hey, how is everyone doing, now that you’re all home?” I asked.

AJ leaned into the hug “we are doing about as well as we can. It was a real shock to find out what happened to mah parents. But I know they can rest in peace now. Thanks to you.” She nuzzled my shoulder “thanks again for that Mag. Other than that, we are already looking to put some of that money to good use. Granny has needed a hip replacement for a while now. We don’t even have to worry about it anymore. We can get all new equipment for the farm and keep Sweet Apple acres running forever now.”

I beamed at her “So have you had to keep Rarity from making new dresses for AppleBloom, Granny and you?”

She grimmised “Yea. She has been going non stop for a bit now. Says that now that I have a title I have to dress the part. How in the sam hill am I supposed to applebuck in a dress?”

I laughed “I have no idea what applebucking is, but I imagine it’s good honest work. She is just going to have to deal with the fact that you are going to be a different kind of noble. The real kind.”

She blushed at that “I am still trying to wrap my head around that.”

She seemed like she wanted to say more, but Twilight and Spike had exited the building and were making their way over to us. Spike spoke up with some enthusiasm. “Let’s get this show on the road. I’m gonna be the announcer.” I chuckled when I notice he had a small stick held in his right hand that he was holding like a Mic.

Waving my hands in the air, I summoned one of the announcer mics that I had stored in my room. Handing it to him I said “There you go little man. An announcer needs a real mic to make announcements with.”

His face lit up “really! You sure you want to let me use it?!”

I put my right hand on the top of his head, surprisingly the central fin was quite soft and bent beneath my hand, allowing me to rub his head as if I were ruffling his nonexistent hair. Looking him dead in the eyes I answered his question “No Spike, I don’t want to let you use it.” His face looked crestfallen for all of a second before I finished speaking “I want you to have it. I have a couple of them lying around, you can at least give this some use. It’s magic so it will work without a speaker.” Thinking about it for a moment. “Just don’t use it late at night and we should be fine. I’ll get you the case latter.

Jumping into the air, he whooped and started to run toward the farm. Twilight walked up next to me and stood on her tiptoes to give me a kiss on the cheek. Resting her head on my shoulder, she spoke “That was the second nicest thing you have done for him already. If I didn’t know better, I would think you were trying to buy my affection through him.”

I wrapped my arm around her and gave her a light, sideways hug. “I would never think that your affection could be purchased so cheaply. I just like to see the little guy happy. He is like the kid brother I never really got.”

We all made our way to the barn to find that Pinks, Rarity, and Fluttershy were already there setting things up. Guess AJ went to them first before coming to get us. After getting everything set up for the competition, we all gathered round to watch. The first few events seemed like they were neck and neck. They did this weird Barrel run thing that Rainbow won.

It looked similar to what happens at a rodeo, only instead of them riding horses. Which now that I think about it, would be really creepy, they ran. Next came a carnival game where you hit the target to make the weight raise to hit the bell. This one was a little different as well. With no mallet, they had to kick the thing.

Rainbow went first and with a firm kick managed to get the bell to go off. During this entire thing, AJ had just been lazing under a tree nearby. After Rainbow hit the bell, she walked over to AJ with a triumphant grin. “Beat That Cowpony!”

AJ leaned her hat back to look at the game. “Sit back and hold onto your socks. Cuz I’m about to blow them off.” She calmly walked up to the game and looked at it for a few moments before turning her back on it. As she pulled her leg back, I realized that this was already over. The way that she was moving make this look like it was second nature to her. Her leg shot back and hit the target with such force the thing exploded into splinters. The weight shot up into the air and blasted the bell clean off.

I was glad that Twilight was there because she managed to stop the thing before it fell on someone's head. “Good job Sparkles. Once we have some more training in you, I expect you to be able to make a catch like that when the weight is headed right for you.”

She looked scared before I added “Don’t worry though. I don’t expect you to be at that level for some time now. When we do start doing stuff like that I will start you off with Wiffle balls.”

She was confused at first before I summoned a whiffle ball and tossed it to her. She caught it and looked at it for a few moments. “This thing is incredibly light. What is it made out of?”

Shrugging I turned back to watch more of the show. “Plastic. A mixture of a bunch of chemicals from where I’m from. I think that one is made of biodegradable corn plastic.” next up on the docket of things to compete in was a lasso competition. Spike sat in the middle of the area with a horned helmet on waiting for them to get it around one of the horns. I could feel his embarrassment from the stands that had been set up at some point. Looking around it seemed that word had gotten out because more and more ponies from the town where showing up to watch. As each event passed the two Mares seemed to be in a dead heat for winning. Each time one would get ahead, the other would come up right behind to tie up the score.

I had noticed that in a few of the events, Rainbow had been using her wings to win. I couldn’t say that I was too happy about seeing her use them. But at the same time, I never heard anyone say that she wasn’t allowed to. It all came down to the final event. A Tug of War over a mud pit. I felt for sure that AJ was going to win this one. However, Rainbow once again used her wings to fly into the air dangling AJ over the mud until her grip slipped and she fell.

After she hit the mud I jumped up to make sure she was alright, Big Mac jumped up as well. We got down into the mud and helped her up. “Thanks, Mag, Thanks, Mac.” She looked up at Rainbow with venom in her eyes. “That was cheatin RD.”

Rainbow landed and scoffed “how did I cheat?”

Growling AJ answer “you used your wings in a bunch of the events. That’s not fair.”

I sighed and asked, “Did anyone say that she wasn’t allowed to use them?”

AJ looked a little hurt. “Well no, but I didn’t think I had to say it. I figured she was have played fair.”

I nodded “I understand AJ. Believe me, I do. But because she was never told that she couldn’t use her wings. We can’t call her out on cheating. You can’t break a rule that doesn’t exist.” Rainbow beamed at me. I looked back at her a little miffed “Not that it means I’m okay with what was done. She could have hurt you with that fall. How about we have one final event that decides once and for all who the Iron pony is? Something where everyone has to play fair. No wings. To keep it even.”

Twi spoke up “What about the running of the leaves tomorrow?”

Cocking my head to the side, “I’m not sure what that is Sparkles.”

She giggled, gods, she was cute when she did that. “It’s okay Mag. The running of the leaves is a tradition where all the ponies of Ponyville run a race through Whitetail woods. The vibrations of the running make the leaves fall from the trees in preparation for winter.”

It looked like the two of them liked the idea because they spit in their hands and shook on it. Figuring that the matter was settled “Well good that that is taken care of.” I looked up and realized that It was quite late in the day already. “Let’s get back to the Library for the night Sparkles. You can show me that book series that you have been telling me about.” Thinking about it for a moment I turned to Pinkie “Hey Pinks, do you think you could think of something for the four of us to do sometime later this week?”

Pinkie zipped up next to me and kissed me on the cheek before answering “You betcha. We are all going to have a bunch of fun together.” She leaned down and stole a kiss from Twilight, one that she wasn’t expecting, going by the shock on her face. I heard Skittles yip in surprise so I can only imagine that Pinks did the same thing to her before disappearing to wherever it is that Pinks goes.

Skittles flew over to me and gave me hug from behind and nuzzled into my next. “Don’t go too rough on her tonight Mag,” she whispered into my ear before zipping away. I blushed when Twi looked at me.

“What did Rainbow mean by don’t go to rough on me tonight Mag?” she was genuinely confused.

I sighed and started to rub my eyes with two fingers of my left hand “Skittles was being pervy. She was trying to make it seem like we were going back to your place to have sex.”

Her face lit up like a Christmas light “W-wah, I-I-I, b-bu.”

I quickly silenced her with a finger “first thing I want to make clear about this relationship Sparkles, we move at your pace.” I said this while looking straight into her eyes. “At no point should you ever feel like I am forcing you into anything. And if you ever feel pressured, please tell me. Okay?”

She let out a sigh of relief “I will Mag.” she took my arm and leaned into my side as we made our way back.

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Perspective shift - Hecate in Canterlot.
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I was halfway through a chapter in this new book that Celestia recommended when I felt a chilling presence that I was very familiar with. My head snapped up having realized that both Celestia and Luna had teleported into my rooms to find out where this power was coming from.

A man appeared before us. His skin pale as death, his eyes nothing but void. Looking up at me I greeted the Black-winged angel of death “Hello Thanatos. What brings you to this realm?” Thanatos and I have known each other for eons. Him being the God of Death and me of Necromancy, we had a working relationship.

His voice chilled the very bones of gods “I have come to fulfill an agreement that was made.”

Celestia spoke this time “What agreement was that? And what agreement could possibly give you a reason to enter my home unannounced?” by the tremor in her voice I could tell that even Celestia was worried.

Thanatos cracked his neck “I made a deal with a mortal many years ago for some work that he did for me. He stopped a plague that was causing my work to back up. So I agreed to keep some items safe for him, then deliver them when the time was right.” he turned to me “you should know the mortal that I speak of Hecate. He was a grand magician, after all, do you remember Merlin?”

The eyes of all three goddesses widened with this news. Luna spoke this time “What is it that Merlin wanted you to deliver?”

He turned to her. “A few things actually, first this set of armor.” a set of armor on a stand appeared before us. It was of western design. A collection of half plate with a dark robe. It seemed to have bells sewn onto the hems near the bottom. The armor itself was of a bright pearlescent sheen. I could not tell what it was made from.

Celestia spoke out in a hushed voice after seeing it “that is the armor of Starswirl. It is made of orichalcum. The entire world’s supply of orichalcum. It is light as a feather but stronger than steel. If it were ever to be damaged, it could repair itself.”

I looked at the armor with more interest now. Thanatos continued “Second, a magical catalyst” A set of golden scales appeared next to the armor on the stand. They seemed to throb with magic. “From what Merlin told me, it was made from a branch of a tree called Harmony.” I looked at Celesta and Luna to find them with shock on their faces. It seemed that Thanatos was near the end of his list

“Third is his personal spell book, written by his own hand” A book on a pedestal appeared next to the armor stand. “And last but not least, the Blade.” Thanatos finished.

All I had to do was look at it to know what blade this was. Its name fell from my lips “Excalibur.”

Thanatos nodded “Merlin had to cheat a bit to make this. Forged from celestial bronze, celestial gold, star metal, stygian iron and bone steel. The madman combined very potent materials to make this blade.”

Celestia and Luna were confused so I thought I would inform them of what this thing was “To give both of you some information, Celestial bronze was a substance used by Greek heroes to slay monsters. Celestial gold was very similar but used by the Romans. Both are completely safe to mortals. Were I to take a blade made of either material and move to cut off a mortals head, it would simply faze through them. I do not know what Star metal is.”

Luna spoke up “It is a metal found here. Once a millennium or so, a star will fall from the sky and hit Equis. If you are skilled, you can remove the star metal from the crater and use it to forge magical items. It is extremely rare, though not as rare as orichalcum.”

Thanatos looked at her with a hint of annoyance “yes, well to finish the description off before I was interrupted, twice. Stygian iron is made from the iron ore found in the underworld, it is then refined and cooled in the river Styx. Unlike celestial bronze or gold, when a monster is killed with it, their essence does not return to the pit. It is absorbed into the blade. As for the final metal, Bone steel is made by mixing bone meal into the raw Iron. Merlin told me that he had used his father’s bones for this.”

The mares looked horrified at this. “How could Starswirl do something so vile as to desecrate his father's grave?!”

Thanatos smirked “The dead, once dead. No longer have a need for a mortal body. Bone steel is not of my pantheon. It is of the Vikings. For them, making bone steel with a loved one' remains is a great honor for them. After forging this together, he tempered the blade in a mixture of the blood of great evil. A final step in making blood iron. It imbues the blade with special properties, making it stronger against it’s chosen foe. In this case, due to the number of mixed blood that Merlin used, I would say that anything evil has much to fear from this blade.”

He set the sword down next to the armor. “With that taken care of, I can finally say that I kept my end of the deal.”

He was about to leave when Hecate stopped him with a question. “Wait, Lord Thanatos, why have you come now?”

Turning back to her he answers with a cold voice “All I know is that Merlin told me, ‘when my seed returns to my homeland, he will have grave need of this.’ that is the only explanation that he gave.” Thanatos then left, melting into shadow.

Hecate looked at the other two goddesses with concern in her eyes “I don’t like the way that he said that. What do you think it means?”

Celestia shivered “Starswirl was incredibly powerful. Had he stayed here, he likely would have become the god of magic. He held the gift of foresight. I am not sure what he meant. But I fear for the lives of my little ponies.” she looked at me with concern in her eyes “I fear for the life of your son.”

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Perspective shift - Magos
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I woke up and dragged myself out of bed. Stretching I went upstairs to start on breakfast. Putting together a healthy breakfast of fruit, yogurt, and granola, I set everything out on the table. Fully expecting to have to drag Sparkles downstairs and out of bed, I was pleasantly surprised to find that she was walking into the room with a towel wrapped around her head, wearing a robe. “Good morning Mag, this looks good. Are you going to be joining us in the running of the leaves?”

I smiled at her, “Sure, sounds fun.”

After finishing up breakfast and putting away the dishes, Twi went back to her room to change, and I went downstairs to shower and change. After finishing that up, we made our way over to the start area. I almost guarantee that a month ago, Twilight would have been breathing hard after walking the entire way here. Now she wasn’t even winded. “You have been doing very well with your morning runs. I notice that you aren’t even out of breath.”

She blushed “Um… I guess that is thanks to you. I have to admit that I was a little nervous at first. But I have to say that you were right. I have been doing my run every day, and well now I have a lot more energy throughout the day. I mean that first week was terrible but after a while. Well… just thanks, Mag.”

I smiled and kissed her cheek. “No problem Sparkles. Let's just have fun today. I figure we can leave our normal run out today. This should be enough.”

The race started just fine, Pinkie was commenting, and Spike was helping her do so from their hot air balloon. AJ and Dash were right up front for the first stretch, but I looked like AJ had tripped over a rock. Twilight stopped to help her up and get her moving again. I just noticed from where I was with the pack. After she dusted herself off, she got right back up to the front. I fell in the pack, not wanting to wear myself out too soon.

Interestingly enough I looked like Rainbow had managed to trip over a small stump. I overheard her mention that she thought that AJ had tipped her. That didn’t make me too happy with her because I knew that AJ wouldn’t do that. The entire reason that they were doing this race was so that they could have a clean and fair competition.

However, it looked like that must have been the straw that broke the camel's back. What followed was some of the most disgusting cheating that I have ever seen. And I have watched Aries cabin compete with each other. One thing after the next, first Rainbow would pull some kind of bullshit, then AJ. By the end of the race, I was just about done with the entire situation. Twi had managed to come in fifth, I was second. We had been sitting down at the finish line for little more than two minutes before the two of them rolled over the finish line, practically wrestling with each other.

I stomped over and pulled them apart by the colors of their shirts. Pulling them back roughly I tossed them to the ground away from each other, they both shut up once I did that. Looking back and forth between the two, then I spit on the ground in the middle. “Are you two about fucking done!? Because I feel like I am more than fucking done with this entire pile of bullshit.”

I looked at AJ “I would expect this kind of shit from a child, even a stranger. But you should know better.” I turned to look at Rainbow, who for some stupid fucking reason had a grin on her face after I had yelled at AJ “And don’t even get me started on how pissed off at you I am Rainbow Dash! Last I was told, you are supposed to be the physical embodiment of Loyalty.”

She flinched at my use of her name, instead of my nickname. “I-I am Mag. W-we just got a little heated.” She started to rub her arm, apparently ashamed of herself.

I was livid at this point “WELL YOU COULD HAVE FUCKING FOOLED ME! WHAT I WITNESSED HAPPENING DURING THIS ENTIRE RACE WAS FUCKING DISGUSTING!” I looked at AJ “YOU LET HER GET TO YOU, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, STARTED TO CHEAT BACK!” Looking back at Rainbow, she looked like she was fighting back the tears “AND YOU….." Now running out of steam "I don’t even want to think about you right now.” I let out a long sigh. “I need some time to think.” Looking over to Pinkie I muttered “you might want to postpone that group date for a bit. I’m really not in the mood.”

I started to gather the myst around me. One of the first things that I had attempted to learn here was teleportation. And at this point I am glad that I did, charging up I flushed away as it looked like Rainbow was about to jump for me. I appeared down in the basement of my room. Slowly walking over to my trunk I unlatched it and dropped myself down, pulling the lid closed behind me and locking from the inside. I really didn’t want to deal with anything at this point.

I was angry, angrier than I had been in a long time. I had opened myself to Rainbow, gods fucking damn it I had sex with her. But if this was the kind of behavior that she thought was okay. I just didn’t know if it was going to work out. I loved her competitiveness. It was a key component of her character, but cheating like she did during that race. I just didn’t know. I dropped into my favorite bowl chair and pulled Excalibur from the table that it was sitting on. I packed the bowl and kept hitting it and refiling it until I couldn’t feel the chair under me. My mind drifted, and I passed out in the chair, no longer able to keep my mind awake.

I drifted into the dream world, nothing really solidifying into a fixed dream. I felt a tugging and found myself in a cavernous hall. Looking around I whistled and talked to myself “wow… this place looks massive.” I looked at the windows and realized that this was the hall of history in Canterlot. “I always liked these windows.”

I voice spoke up behind me, A voice that I had only heard once, one that sent a chill down my spine. “They are rather nice, aren’t they Magos?”

I slowly turned to face her. Hecate, my mother. Even with this being a dream my mouth felt dry “W-what are y-you doing here?” I was terrified. She had never spoken to me before. I didn’t even realize she knew my name. As far as I knew, she was just aware of my existence.

She took a shuddering breath “I asked that you be brought here so that we could talk Magos.” She walked up to me and held her hand out as if to caress my face. I instinctively flinched away, fearful of the touch. I saw her wince “are you truly so afraid of me?”

My resolve hardened. I wasn’t in her realm of power. She couldn’t hurt me here without risking a fight with Celestia and Luna. “N-No. I’m just not very trusting of strangers. My father taught me that.”

I could tell that I hurt her with that statement. And it made me glad. This goddess, this woman had hurt my father in the worst way possible. And in so doing, hurt me as well. Hecate seemed to be...pleading “I’m sorry Magos. I wish I had been allowed to help him. I wanted to save him. But I wasn’t allowed to.” for the first time in my life, I witnessed a Goddess cry. And it broke me.

Barely holding it in I spoke. “W-What do you mean you weren’t allowed to. Y-your a fucking goddess. All you had to do was wave your hand and heal him.” I dropped to my knees, no longer able to keep it going. I was already emotionally compromised because of Rainbow, now this! “All you would have had to do was heal him.” I closed my eyes and started to shake as I began to cry. For the first time in years, I was really crying. Grieving for my loss, crying for what never was.

I felt a warm embrace fold around me, I tried to fight it back. But it was no use. She just held me as I cried. As she held me, I noticed a familiar scent, something that I felt like I knew. It was a mixture of lavender, myrrh, and mint. A strange combination to be sure, but at the same time, it calmed me like nothing else ever had. I felt her kiss my head “I’m so sorry. The fates had already cut his string. There was nothing that I could do. Thanatos had already been called. There was nothing that I could do.”

I don’t know how long we sat there. In a dream, time means nothing. At some point, she had started to hum while petting my head. I don’t know what the tune was, but it was also just so familiar. Finally having calmed down a bit, I pulled back “why do I know that song, and why do I recognize this sent?”

She smiled at me before answering “I would like to think they are good memories of me.” I must have looked confused because she continued “Goddesses are allowed a short amount of time with their mortal children after birth. No more than a week though. I don’t know about the others. But I use my week for every one of my children.” She looked at me with tears in her eyes. The same eyes that I share with her. “I didn’t put you down for that entire week Magos. I couldn’t bear to do so. I have been waiting twenty years to finally hold you again.” the tears began to flow freely. “I knew that if you were removed from the influence of Olympus, that I could finally have a chance at being a mother to one of my children, without them having to ascend to godhood.”

I was blown away. Hecate, my mother… My mother wanted me. She fought to bring me here for the sole reason of having a chance to get to know me, but I had to be sure. I didn’t want to open my heart, only to have it crushed again “Is that why you fought so hard to have me brought her? You wanted to get to know me? T-to be my mom?” I was having a hard time speaking right now. Buy the gods, please if there is any mercy in this cosmos, please let her say yes.

Hecate gave me the kind of smile that I have craved my entire life, the smile of a mother “Yes Magos. W-will you let me?”

A goddess knelt before me, a being that commands respect and fear of Zeus himself. And she was begging me, to let her be apart of my life. I leaned forward and pulled her to me “M-mom!”

The tears started again, but this time they were cleansing tears of joy. My most profound dream had been given to me. Hecate, my mother, had finally shown me that I mattered to her, not as a tool to be used, but as her son.

A cough behind us a short time latter stirred me from my bliss. I turned to see Celestia and Luna standing behind us with smiles on their faces. I coughed and laughed at the same time before asking “did you two help with this?” they nodded, and I pulled away from my mother so that I could pull them both into a hug. “Thank you, both. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If there is anything that I can ever to do to even partially pay you back for this, I beg you, please ask.”

The two sisters looked at each other before slightly blushing and hugging me back “Think nothing of it, Dear Magos.” Said Luna patting my head. They both pulled back, and Luna continued “But there was a secondary reason we drew you here.”

I wiped my eyes to bring myself to focus “Ask away. I will do anything you need me to.” I snapped to attention.

They both laughed before Celestia answered. “There is nothing we need you to do. But we do have a gift for you. Your inheritance, if you will.”

My left eyebrow rose in confusion “Um.... what inheritance. After my dad passed, the state seized everything he owned to be auctioned off to pay his debts.”

I heard my mother hiss behind me, but Celestia continued “I’m afraid it’s not from him Magos. This inheritance is from your many time's great-grandfather. You know him at Merlin.”

My eyes shot open. FUCKING THEE MERLIN. The legendary wizard of western myth. He was my great-grandfather. Then Luna dropped the bomb “We know him as Starswirl the Bearded.” This proved to be too much for me because somehow I passed out during a dream.

I woke to Luna standing over me with her horn glowing, talking to Celestia and my mother “I have no idea how he managed to pass out during a dream. This was certainly strange, waking someone from unconsciousness will keeping him unconscious.”

I groaned and sat up. “What happened. I had a weird dream; Luna said my great-grandfather was Merlin, who was apparently the same guy as Starswirl the Bearded.” I didn’t see any hint from them that it was a dream. “So… I’m part pony then?”

If you have never seen three goddesses facepalm simultaneously before, I highly recommend it. It was the most bizarre thing I have ever witnessed. Celestia spoke “Yes Magos, that does mean that you are part pony. However, more importantly, that means that you are the direct descendant of the greatest magical mind ever known. Had he stayed here, he likely would have ascended to be the god of magic within ten years of his disappearance.”

This was exciting news but not what I was focused on at this point. I was curious about this inheritance “So what did he leave me?”

Waving her hand, my mother summoned a grouping of items. I noticed the blade first off. Walking over to it I pulled it from the rather dull looking leather sheath. The blade glowed, appearing to ripple through the various blended metals, folded over each other hundreds of times. The blade was decorated with a number of strange markings. I could see the greek right away without issues. What looked almost like nordic runes were etched in as well. But the most unusual marks seemed to burn into my mind. Not words, but what seemed to be ideas of magic. Somehome given a written form.

Celestia walked up behind me and slid the blade closed. “It would be best that you do not look directly at the blade just yet. It will take time before you can read that kind of magic. We will have to find out if you can use unicorn magic first.”

That seemed to trigger something within me, I might be able to use the same kind of magic that Twilight can. Fucking sweet.

“Come I will tell you all about the items that your forebearer has left for you.” Celestia pulled me along as she began to tell me about everything that was here, and that it will all be placed in my storage area before I awoke. This really has been an excellent way to make me forget about the issues I was having with Rainbow right now. I will deal with that tomorrow. For right now, I want to spend time with my mom.