Once upon a time, Nicol Bolas was on his way back from the market in Mercadia. He was headed to his Meditation Realm to do some thinking. He had been so busy lately because Tezzeret and then Jace had taken the Infinite Consortium from him and he had not plotted how to get it back yet. Also, Liliana was still refusing to join him which was annoying because he could use her powers and solve all her problems, so there was no reason for her not to join him. Sometimes all this planeswalker drama made him long for the days when life was simple. His parents and siblings couldn't planeswalk. Whenever they got really annoying, he would just planeswalk away for a while and they couldn't follow him. But then everything had changed... His cousin Vaevictis had been vaporized by an angry mage. At first everyone thought he was dead and were pretty sad. But then Bolas was chilling on Lorwyn one day when Vaevictis showed up and said hi. Ever since then, Bolas at always felt ill at ease, knowing that others could use the same powers he had. After that, everything got pretty crazy. Bolas got in a big fight with a leviathan planeswalker and managed to not only win but also eat its corpse and gain its powers, but it took over a year and he came home to find that his brothers had both died and his sister blamed him and didn't want to talk to him anymore. Nowadays, he had to deal with lots of wimpy but obnoxious planeswalkers who were always making trouble for him and since his siblings were gone and Vaevictis had planeswalked to who-knows-where, he felt really alone because he had no one of near equal intelligence to chat with. He had even learned clockworking so that he could make other Bolases show up to hang out with him, which was just pathetic.
Bolas realized that he had been so preoccupied with his thoughts that he had accidentally planeswalked to Kamigawa instead of his meditation realm. Bolas grumbled to himself. He hated Kamigawa most of all planes because its inhabitants had been jerks to him in the past. But he had to bring his groceries home and plot the blue planeswalkers' downfall, so he decided to save the destruction of the plane for another time. He closed his eyes and calmly prepared to planeswalk away again.
And that was the point when Bolas's life changed forever.
He saw a beautiful, silvery black dragon flying through the sky. Her long, lithe body twisted as she soared through the sky, her scales sparkling in the late day sun with the light of an evening star. Her presence seemed to suck his life away, leaving him only with longing for the beautiful, perfect figure in front of him. Bolas unfurled his massive wings to fly closer to her. She heard him and turned with a start. Her gorgeous silver eyes glowed with a sparkly light that seemed to come from deep within her soul.
The lovely female dragon quickly saw that he was too dazed to pose any sort of threat to her and giggled at his silly expression. "Hi," she said with a slightly seductive twist of her nimble body. "My name's Kokusho. I'm the evening star. Who are you?"
"B-Bolas," Bolas stuttered awkwardly. He cleared his throat. "My name is Nicol Bolas, Emperor of Madara, Planeswalker Lord of the Multiverse, and Head of the Infinite Consortium." The last part was a bit of a lie, but he wanted to impress her and he figured he would take the Consortium back asap anyway, so it was okay.
Kokusho smiled. She had never met anyone quite like this dragon. There were only five dragons on Kamigawa after all. Her friend Jugan and her best friend forever, Keiga, had both died during the Kami War. Her friend Yosei got torn in half, but was still doing okay; he just looked awful and was a bit weaker now. The only other dragon who was doing fine was Ryusei, her other best friend forever, who had had a huge crush on her forever. She wasn't particularly interested in him like that, but she figured they'd end up together eventually just because there was no one else. Now she looked into Bolas's strong, golden eyes and knew that she would never be alone again. His strong body glistened with golden scales that seemed to capture the glory of the sun in their brilliance. His long curved horns were like a crown upon his majestic head, with the random floating round thing between them like a mighty jewel gracing his noble brow. But most importantly, she could see in his eyes and his very demeanor, a brilliant intelligence like none she had ever encountered, certainly not in dutiful, serious Yosei or tough, fiery Ryu, but not even in gentle, sweet, clever Keiga. The intelligence that shown in Bolas's very soul was a kind only matched by Kokusho herself, who had gotten really bored after the Kami War and studied a bunch of random stuff.
"Hi Bolas," she said with a pretty flitter of her eyelashes.
"Hello," he said smartly. "You may call me Nicol though, my lady." He was hypnotized by this woman and was so scared of frightening her off that he did the unthinkable and acted like a gentleman.
"Teehee," she giggled. "All right, Nicol. You can call me Koku, I suppose. Where are you headed?"
"I was going home to drop off some groceries..." he said hesitantly.
"Okay... Do you want to come back after? You must be new around here cause I haven't seen you before, so I'm sure you'd love a tour of the plane," Koku said flirtily.
Bolas froze. He didn't want to leave this wonderful dragon, even for a moment, but he really didn't want to see Kamigawa either. It was his least favorite for a reason, after all. The last thing he wanted was for some stupid Umezawa to interrupt their date and Kokusho to find out the truth about his relationship to her plane. Plus he didn't really want to carry a bunch of groceries around all day... He suddenly had an idea.
"Actually, Koku, would you like to join me for a tour of my place? I assure you it's like nothing you've ever seen before."
Kokusho looked skeptical, but nodded. "Okay, but this had better not be some sort of weird trap," she said flirtily, but with a hit of intimidation in her musical voice. "If you try to harm me, you will face the full wrath of the evening star, Nicol."
"I would never dream of harming a lady," Bolas said, impressed at the power that rippled through her spines with the threat. "Now please close your eyes..."
Kokusho smirked and gently closed her pretty eyes. Bolas reached around her and held her close to him. He had never tried this before. That stupid Jace had done this once and ended up killing his best friend and losing his girlfriend. But Bolas was not a loser like that. He was an Elder Dragon, the strongest planeswalker ever. He could do this. He felt even more confident as he felt the warmth of Kokusho's body against his own scales. He felt his spark burn brightly within him and envisioned that brightness melting into her warmth and encapsulating both of them. In a moment, he felt the rush of planeswalking, the chill of the Blind Eternities, the fearful twitch of Kokusho as she realized what was happening, the cool, refreshing air of the meditation realm, and finally the wetness of his pool as he accidentally planeswalked into the middle of it.
"What the—" Kokusho gasped, spluttering as she rose to a reasonable depth of the water.
"This is my plane," Bolas gestured dramatically. "It is called Bolas's Meditation Realm because it is where I go to relax and think about stuff."
"It's beautiful," Kokusho said, gazing at the clear, peaceful pools of becoming. "So this is what it means to be a planeswalker? That's pretty epic, Nicol."
"Not as epic as you," Bolas reached for her hand. Kokusho smiled. She leaned forward and pressed her scaly lips to his. At that moment, they knew they would be together forever. Kokusho knew in her heart that Ryu and her friends would not like this, but she didn't mind. Bolas knew that his enemies, family, and allies would cause no end of drama, but for now, he was okay with that. Both dragons were at peace in each other's arms, kissing as they had never kissed before.
They fell asleep later that night, curled beside each other in the pool. Tomorrow would bring hell upon them, but for tonight, everything was perfect for the Evening Star and the Elder Dragon Planeswalker.