In the Spirit Realm Master Celestia is meditating peacefully when she is attacked by a Spirit Warrior: a horned beast named Tirek who fought against Celestia five hundred years previously. The two battle, and Celestia learns that Tirek has increased...
Peach blossom petals swirl across the floating ruins, angled to look like a yin-yang symbol.
Deep within the ruins, Celestia meditated, yellow light shining from her form, set in the prime of her youth. Her white and gold robes shined with radiance, and her jade staff glowed with the symbol of her and her sister's school.
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"Inner peace..." Celestia breathed in contentment. "Inner peace..." A peach blossom petal landed on her nose. She twitched. "Itchy nose." She blew the petal away, but when it got sucked back in by her breath, she sneezed, blowing the petal away. She grinned. "And back to inner peace."
Unfortunately, her outer peace wouldn't last long. As a familiar, ominous presence brought a frown to Celestia's face, a green blade attached to a chain swung at the alicorn.
Celestia caught the blade, without opening her eyes. She sighed. "Oh, what now?"
She opened her eyes just in time to see another blade coming at her. Humming, the white alicorn tossed the green blade before seizing her staff, knocking the first blade into the second one and sending them soaring away with a spark of jade. She grinned softly, even as her feet planted in a combat stance.
"Tirek," she greeted. "My old friend."
On the other side of the ruins, Tirek emerged from the shadows; a creature with red fur, cloven hooves for feet and a pair of large horns on his head. He wore a pair of black pants that stopped at his shin with a fur pelt wrapped around his waist along with a black sleeveless shirt that hugged at his muscular torso, a series of Jade jewels hung and jingled across his belt. With a yank of two chains wrapped around his wrists, the jade blades retracted to his hands, and his yellow and black eyes glittered darkly as he stared the white alicorn down.
"Master Celestia Solaris," Tirek greeted with a grin. "Our battle may have ended five hundred years ago, but I'm finally back. Ready for a rematch."
Celestia merely chuckled. "Took you long enough."
With a growl of anger, the satyr charged Celestia, cutting aside a stony archway that floated across his path. He hurled his weapons at Celestia, but the Alicorn Master easily jumped away. All the same, she hummed as his attack shattered the foundation she had stood upon.
"You've grown stronger, my friend," Celestia noted, glancing at his hooves before using her staff to draw a symbol with a golden aura before firing it at Tirek. "Haven't missed leg day, yes?"
Though Tirek was hit by the glowing symbol, it didn't seem to deal any damage to him.
"Five hundred years in the Spirit Realm can change you, Celestia," Tirek boasted, moving his hand to his belt. "Can help you pick up a thing or two."
