Edited 3/11/17

Hilaria didn't want to hear from her anymore, Celestia just confessed to her that she was planning to leave the country soon. What's worse? She had planned that years ago but didn't tell her! How could she? Hilaria though that they were friends, but that wasn't the case.

Was it?

She couldn't stand seeing her, how dare she tells her that she would be leaving in just a month? What did she think that would make her feel?

Hilaria punched the wall, she was so angry at her right now that she-

Are you going to betray her easily again? A voice whispered in her head. Hilaria's eyes widened, leave her again?

She didn't recall ever leaving Celestia...

Hilaria mentally shook her head, the stress must have gotten to her.

Her eyes watered, by why didn't Celestia at least inform her about leaving sooner? Maybe then she could prevent herself from getting too attached to her.

"Tag, you're it! Could you catch me or your princess-ness would stop you?"

"Release Hilaria, I won't forgive anyone who hurts her!!"

"No matter how everyone thinks about you, you are your own person. So what if we both had grown up quickly? It's not like we had any control of that, that's just the way we are."

"Then we just have to get strong together, right?"

Tears were streaming down the lilac haired girl's eyes, she didn't want to let her go away. She wanted to continue to train with Celestia everyday.

Was that too much to ask for?

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Celestia couldn't sleep, the look of hurt of Hilaria's still fresh in her mind. She felt guilty, but she didn't regret her decision about not telling her.

If she did then Hilaria would've put a distance between them. Celestia didn't want that, you can call her selfish, but she just wanted to make a friend.

'Celestia.' A masculine voice called, Celestia paused, there was no one in the room, so why?

She then felt her eyes close without her will for it to.

She felt something warm against her forehead, she opened her eyes to see a stranger's forehead were against hers. She stumbled backwards in surprise.

"Wha- uh, who are you?" She asked, the person had blue hair and eyes, his long hair was braided, his soft eyes looking at Celestia. He was simply beautiful.

"I'm Solomon." The person introduced himself, he was wearing a gentle smile.

Celestia visibly relaxed when she realized that he wasn't an enemy. She then look around, it looked like she was in the middle of a void.

Solomon must have noticed her questioning look, for he quickly answer, "You are sleeping, if you weren't there's no way you would be seeing me."

"Huh?"

"There's no time to waste, I wanted to meet you to give you a mission." Solomon confessed, looked with a serious expression at Celestia.

"Mission?"

Solomon ran a hand through his hair, "Darkness as approaching, if nobody stopes it, many lives would be lost. That's why I want to give you the task of brightening up the world. I want you to stop the darkness from engulfing it."

Celestia froze, "I don't think I have the power to do th-"

"You do." Solomon interrupted harshly, he then smiled. "You have more power than you could imagine, you just have to embrace it."

Celestia looked at her down, then up again at Solomon. "If I have such a power, I would like to protect the world from the darkness."

Solomon grinned, "I'll be counting on you. Take care of yourself."

Celestia couldn't reply to what he said, thought she noticed that his smile was somehow sad. Her heart ached.

Why was she sad too?

Celestia gasped for air, she stood up and went outside the mansion with the secret exit she always used. When she made it out she saw Hilaria staring at her.

She rubbed her eyes, she must've seen wrong, Hilaria couldn't be outside the mansion at this time of night.

Celestia couldn't continue thinking for she threw a coughing fit, Hilaria's eyes were alarmed, she run to Celestia and caught her before she could fall. "Are you alright? Celestia? Celestia?!"

Celestia was pulled away from Hilaria, Hilaria looked at Yunan with a questioning look. "You can go home, young one. I'm going to take care of Celestia."

Hilaria hesitated, "B-But I came here to talk to her. I can't just leave her, not when she's like this."

Yunan studied Hilaria, he then nodded. They both went to Celestia's room, with Yunan carrying Celestia, where they both took care of her. "What's wrong with her? She doesn't seem to have a fever." Hilaria asked.

"It's probably from stress." He answered, before inquiring, "Where are her Celestia's parents?"

"They're not here, they are on a business trip of I heard correctly. They travel a lot."

Yunan narrowed his eyebrows, Celestia's parents were never the type to travel until necessary. So why would they leave on many trips and leave their daughter all alone?

His eyes widened in realization. They couldn't have done that because the didn't want to get close to their daughter while knowing she would have to go with him soon. But could her parents really act towards her like that?

The first time he had met them was when the couple were being attacked by bandits, he had save them and told them what he was. They had led him to their mansion and allowed him to spend the night there as a thanks. That was almost eight years ago, they didn't seem like the type of people to do such thing. There shouldn't be any parents out there who would do that.

Hilaria was staring at Yunan's pained face. What has gotten to him anyway?

The sound of footsteps downstairs caught both Hilaria's and Yunan's attention. They both went downstairs only to find Celestia's parents. By how tired they were, they knew they had just came back from one of their many travels.

However, Yunan's question made both of them freeze, "Horatio, Justina, why are you ignoring your own daughter?"

The couple made no move, though their guilty expressions told Yunan all he needed to know.

Hilaria just raised a brow, confused to what was going on. Ignoring Celestia? She hadn't seen any signs of them doing so, the only thing they did was to travel whenever they had the chance to.

Hilaria's eyes widened in realization, it can't be. They were Celestia's parents, why didn't they stay with her or at least take her with them in their travels. They could have done that much, but they didn't.

"We didn't mean to," Celestia's father said, with a pained face. "It's just.. knowing that she was going to leave us someday, we couldn't face her."

Celestia's mother nodded, "It was too painful for us to face her."

Hilaria clenched her fists, how dare they? How dare parents leave their five year old daughter and travel away from her. Hilaria's parents braver did that, they showed love to her everyday. Yet, these two...

"How dare you?!" Hilaria shouted, earning surprised expressions from the couple and Yunan.

"P-Princess!" Celestia's mother stuttered.

"I'm not going to forgive you two, never. You just used the excuse of your own weaknesses to justify yourselves in leaving you daughter? Unforgivable!"

"Me and Celestia are going to leave tomorrow, " Yunan informed Celestia's parents. "I may never understand your reasons, but try to think of what you did for now." Yunan put his hand on Hilaria's shoulder, "Let's go now." Then they both disappeared in an instant.

Celestia, who heard the commotion, made her way downstairs. She remembered seeing Hilaria, and hearing Yunan's voice before she lost consciousness. Maybe that was them downstairs.

She was surprised when she saw her parents, she ran quickly and hugged them. "Mama! Papa! You're back!" She exclaimed happily, but for some reason, she started to hear sobbing. She watched her mother cry aggressively, hugging Celestia so tightly that the latter thought she might die of the loss of oxygen.

"We're so sorry, dearest!" Her mother sobbed, Celestia blinked her eyes in confusion. What were they apologizing for?

Her father patted Celestia's head when he noticed her confused expression. Celestia smiled, "You know, I missed you so much! I always wondered why you were so close yet so far away from me. But now I'm relieved, if you're here with me, even if the whole world rejects to us, I know we'll forever be able to smile."

For some reason, her parents cried harder.

Celestia blinked, was there something wrong?

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"We'll be leaving now." Yunan told Celestia's parents, who were hugging Celestia tightly.

Yunan noticed that something was different from the day before but didn't say anything. He was glad that they all sorted out things between them before their departure.

After they said their goodbyes, Yunan and Celestia were on their way to the outside of the kingdom when someone hit Celestia's back.

The impact sent her flying to the floor, with he person on top of her, arms wrapped around her tightly, "You idiot! How could you be leaving already without even saying anything?!" Hilaria yelled, she was on her way to Celestia's mansion when she saw them, imagine if she came anytime after, she wouldn't have been able to say goodbye then, would she?

"Can you get up? I feel like I'm being squished!"

"But the sooner I get up the sooner you'll disappear so.. don't wanna!"

Yunan chuckled.

Eventually, Hilaria left. Celestia would be lying if she said that she didn't feel sadness when she did, but she had to stay strong.

She took one last look back.

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"Where are we?" Celestia questioned with wide eyes, she tried to look at the end of the rift. But that appeared to be impossible, from what she could tell, not even sunlight could reach the end of it.

She pointed at it then looked at Yunan, "You're not telling me that you're live down there, right?"

Yunan just smiled, Celestia face-palmed. How could a person live there? Was it even possible to tell day from night down there?

Yunan took her hand in his, then he jumped.

Celestia paled.

"COULDN'T YOU AT LEAST GIVE ME A WARNING! AHHHHHH! I AM GONNA DIE!!"

Celestia's eyes were closed when she thought she was close to colliding with the ground, though she just kept falling and falling. Does this place have no end?

She felt Yunan float, holding her to him as he slowly set his foot on the ground.

Celestia couldn't describe her strong feeling of happiness when she could at last set her feet on the ground again. She glared at Yunan, a warning from him would've been appreciated.

If he noticed her glare he didn't show it, he just started walking forward. Celestia scowled before following him, not wanting to be left in the dark all alone.

"Why do you live in a dark place?" Celestia questioned, "There's no light, do you live all alone too?"

Yunan paused, he wondered what made her ask that question? She asked something similar back when they were in her country after he had heard her sing.

"Yes." He answered cheerfully, "It is dark and comfortable!"

Celestia's right eye twitched.

She continued following him nonetheless, a small wooden house appeared as they both continued walking. She made a guess and concluded that Yunan was the one who built it since no one would be crazy enough to come down here.

Showing her to her room, Celestia started to unpack. She brought a simple bag with her that contained clothes, money, and other necessities.

But then she remembered what Yunan said.

'The danger that approaching is much more dangerous than you can imagine.'

She still didn't figure out what he meant. What did he mean by saying there was some sort of danger approaching her? How did he know?

'Someone like us.'

She tapped her chin. Perhaps it was time to demand for some answers.

She closed her eyes after she jumped on her bed, her head the pillow.

After some rest.

When she woke up, she had no idea how long she slept. There were no rays of sunlight or any other clue for her to tell. She changes her clothes before going to the living room, she saw Yunan drinking what appears to be tea in the dinning room.

She quickly went there, then sat on a chair. Looking at Yunan in the eyes.

Yunan place the cup back on the table as he sighed. "It is time, is it not?"

Celestia nodded, she was nervous yet curious of his answer. "Why did you bring me here? You claimed that you did because there was danger approaching me, yet you didn't tell me what that danger was, nor did you tell me how you knew that."

"To answer your first question, you and I and two others in the world are a different kind of being from the rest." Yunan explained as he took a sip from his drink.

"Different?" Celestia raised a brow. "How are we different? We are just humans."

"You are a magi." Yunan informed the child who looked even more confused.

"What's a magi?"

"It is a being that is loved by the rukh." Yunan explained, raising his finger. A white bird landed on his finger, stretching its wings.

Celestia's eyes light up, "You can see them too?! I was starting to think I was a freak for seeing them. And you have so many white birds surrounding you... wait, is this how you knew that I was a magi?"

Yunan smiled, it was enough of an answer to Celestia. "You were slowly being approached by them. That is why I came to take you a few months earlier than when I originally intended."

Celestia wanted to ask what he meant by them, but he had told her too much already. And she didn't think he would tell her more anyway, so she hesitantly let it go.

A few days passed, Celestia was starting to get used to the darkness surrounding the house.

As she wondered around she saw something that caught her interest.

There were shelves in the living room ,which had a good amount of books.

She picked one randomly.

Magicians

Magicians are users of magic that are able to converse with and give the Rukh special orders, allowing them to reproduce natural phenomena.

Celestia paused as she remembered when she first met Yunan.

She whispered a command to the rukh, she pointed to one of the men. Even though she couldn't speak yet, the rukh seemed to understand what she meant. Immediately, hot water shot at him, he shouted in pain but then lost consciousness.

Celestia raised a brow, was that what she did back then? Was she a magician? But Yunan said that she was a magi, though he didn't mention the abilities of one.

She decided to continue reading the book, maybe it has some clues?

Because Magicians are more adept at accommodating Magoi than physical combat, their bodies are generally more frail than that of the average human being. To compensate for this, they are naturally able to learn Borg, a defensive spell that blocks malicious attacks. Magicians can, however, train their physical bodies, thus building up their Magoi and enabling them to cast stronger spells.

Celestia skipped many pages as they only talked about the general things about magicians that she could learn later. She was more into satisfying her curiosity right now.

She stopped at a certain page, the contents making her eyes sparkle.

Magicians can be ranked according to the amount of Magoi that they can extract from the Rukh.

Witch Doctors/Fortune Tellers: Witch Doctors, Fortune Tellers, etc. are Magicians that possess a small amount of Magoi inside their body. They are considered to be the lowest rank of Magicians and are unable to do anything significant at all.

Sorcerers: Sorcerers are those that possess a large quantity of Magoi inside their body and are able to use a variety of Magic.

Magi: Magi are those that belong to the top rank. They are often called 'beloved by the Rukh', they are capable of using not only the Magoi that they possess inside their bodies, but also those that belong to the environment. This gives them a higher capacity for Magic compared to the other magicians.

Now that she thinks of it, Yunan did mention something about how the magi were loved by the rukh. So she was a magician.

Turning the pages around quickly as she read, Celestia spent the rest of the day reading.

Wait, scratch that, she spent the rest of the month reading.

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Celestia frowned as she tried to find another book she didn't read.

She found none.

She then glared at the blonde male magi that was sitting on a coach on the other side of the living room. He seemed to have sensed her staring for he turned to give her questioning look.

She had been reading for a full month about magic, isn't this time to try it?

"Yunan I..." she paused, hesitant to say her request, but then went through with it anyway, "I want to to teach me how to use magic."

Yunan couldn't hide his surprise, but agreed regardless.

He was curious of how she would progress. Although he felt relieved that Celestia would start to learn how to defend herself.

He wouldn't have to worry about her as much if she did learn magic.

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Age six

The next ten months flashed in a blur, with Yunan teaching Celestia about the history of magic. He gave her a black staff that was three foot length, taller than Celestia herself.

But she managed.. somehow.

He first taught her how to use her borg. He was slightly surprised by the shape of her borg, eight-headed, the heads of dragons. She was able after training for a few weeks to expand it, using it as a form of attack. Yunan had never seen such an ability before.

He had also taught her a few useful attacks in case she encounters danger when Yunan was not with her.

Celestia was cooking dinner when Yunan caught the scent of the aroma of the food. He went to the kitchen to see Celestia concentrating as she put some vegetables on the pot. She was standing on a chair since she was too short.

Yunan beamed before sitting on a chair, "You didn't have to go through the trouble, Tia."

"I would rather cook than eat your tasteless food, Yun." She deadpanned.

You would think Yunan was the one taking care of Celestia, but it was quite the opposite actually. Yunan didn't know how to cook, thus using his power to create tasteless food. Celestia had volunteered to cook everyday ever since she realized he didn't know how to cook. She cleaned the small house every once in a while, she also accompanied Yunan to the village nearby to buy some food for her to cook.

So it really was Celestia taking care of him.

Although Yunan had tried to learn cooking a few times, every time he thought he succeeded the pot exploded and half the house shattered every time. Celestia would yell at him for being reckless and tell him to never try to cook again.

He wouldn't listen.

Celestia placed the food on the table looking at Yunan. Who was in deep thought. "What's wrong?" Celestia asked when she noticed his troubled look.

Yunan shook his head, "I just think it might be time for us to go outside the Dark Continent for a while. You've trained enough to defend yourself if any trouble was to come."

The female blonde blinked, she then nodded before informing the wandering magi that she was going now to pack.

First aid kit, clothes, books, and many other stuff were stored in Celestia's necklace. She had discovered a a month ago that she could store things in it, which was really helpful seeing hat she would be carrying her things all he way to wherever they were going to if she didn't have that necklace.

She was thankful to whoever gave it to her.

Their first destination was a village which Yunan called the Torran Village. It seemed that the villagers were familiar with Yunan but were a bit wary of Celestia. They would have probably attacked her if she wasn't just a five year old girl.

"Who is that child?" A woman asked sharply, now all the villagers were looking at Celestia who was started to get nervous.

"I have a name, you know?" She retorted in Torran, the whole village gaped at her, even Yunan. She then started to wonder if she did something wrong, "What?"

"You just.." Yunan trailed off.

"How do you know how to speak the Torran language, child?" An old man appeared before the young child.

Celestia's eyes widened when she realized that she just spoke another language accidentally, but somehow she felt familiar with it, nostalgic, like she knew how to speak it, a long time ago. But that couldn't be possible, Celestia was just five, she remembers almost every event that happened in her life.

Then how could she speak the Torran Language?

Ahh, how she wanted a hole to appear for her to hide in right now.

She cleared her throat, "Your language is familiar to me," she smiled sadly, "Though I don't remember when I learned such a language."

The old man furrowed his brow, her answer brought more questions about her than answers. "I'm the chief of the village, please feel at home while you're here." he said.

Celestia watched as the rest of the villagers started relaxing, why were there so afraid of outsiders? Though they didn't seem to be afraid from Yunan. It might be because he is acquainted with them.

She decided to brush off their weird behavior for now, it wouldn't do her any good if she thought about it anyway.

The two magi spent the night there, the next morning they continued their journey. And with the help of Yunan's magic, they had teleported to a town . Celestia could see the sea from where she was.

"Why didn't you use this spell from the start?" She questioned Yunan, who gave her an innocent smile. She looked at him incredulously. "Where are we anyway?"

"We're in Reim Empire." Yunan says.

Celestia looked around, the architecture of the buildings was quite unique.

Celestia and Yunan entered an inn, the sun was setting and it was about to get dark outside. They took a room for the night.

As she tried to sleep, Celestia heard the sound of thunder and looked through the window at the sky. The showers of the rain was merciless, no one was outside.

She was wrong at that one, she realized that when she saw a figure walking slowly near the inn. Celestia was about to return to her bed when suddenly the figure collapsed.

Her eyes widened, she quickly left their room and went downstairs and marched out of the hotel. She was so surprised to find out that the one that collapsed was a small girl with blue hair pulled up into twintail.

She was holding a toddler in her arms, a two year old boy with black hair. But what surprised Celestia was the rukh surrounding the boy. It was similar to how they surrounded Yunan, to how they surrounded her.

It was clear to her, that the black haired boy was without a doubt a..

Magi.