happy mother's day! :D in honor of all the moms out there who do fantastic work everyday, AND ONLY THOSE WHO ARE NICE, i'm posting the finale of my little twilight: malistaire is magic! laugh! cry! scream in fear! whatever your reaction while reading, do it with your mom! or maybe not! because this chapter has some adult references! and it offended my own mom! but that's okay! she's used to it! so shield your mom's psyche! and please, enjoy~!

chapter eight: the truth

"twilight!" celestia gasped, and ran to her daughters side.

"oh, what's this?" malistaire said. "princess celestia! i thought you had sent your own daughter in your place while you stayed in your comfy castle."

"you're one to talk, malistaire," celestia sneered. "look at what you've done to that poor filly... turned her into your goon!"

"being my goon isn't the end of the world," malistaire said, and suddenly, his espression went sour. "you seemed to enjoy it."

twilight was horrified. she looked from malistaire to celestia. "p... princess?"

"twilight, i have a confession to make," she said, holding twilight's head in her hooves. "malistaire... is your father."

twilight's eyes went wider than ever before. she started trembling. "wh... but... i... why?!" she asked, crying.

"i will tell you the whole story, twilight sparkle," malisatre said, and began his tale.

"26 years ago, my late wife, sylvia, the life professor before moolinda wu. she was practicing her healing spells, showing them to me. i was always amazed by her prowess, she was the most accomplished wizard i'd ever known, next to ambrose, but i didn't love ambrose, at least not in that way. then, she cast a fairly easy spell, unicornius healthum, and... my life changed forever."

"that's the spell you gave us to come here," twilight said, looking at celestia.

the princess nodded. "it summons a unicorn from equestria to heal a wizard anywhere in the spiral."

malistaire continued. "before me, i saw the most beautiful creature i'd ever seen. tall, slender, and with a multicoloured mane and tail, and the longest horn i'd ever seen. she healed sylvia, and left. and i thought that would be it... but i kept thinking about her. thinking about that unicorn. after that day, i'd sit in on all of sylvia's life practices just to get a glimpse of the creature, until i finally got ahold of a student's unicorn card that had been carelessly left behind in the death classroom - students were constantly losing theier cards. i cast the spell after dark on unicorn way, under the giant unicorn statue. then../. there she was, mane glistening in the moonlight and streetlamps, slowly opening her eyes at me, her lush eyelashes gliding away to reveal the deepest purple eyes."

twilight gasped. she had purple eyes. she got them from her mom.

"i introduced myself... celestia wasn't scared at all to meet a necromancer. she said that any friend of sylvia's was a friend of hers. we became friends rather quickly, and soon i was escaping to unicorn way every night to see my unicorn muse."

"i came across a polymorph spell of cyrus's that would allow celestia to take on human form for a few hours. after that it didn't take long for our relationship to turn sexual. our heated nights of pure pony passion made the mundane days of my professorship easier to bear. we became so close, i even named a world on the wpiral after her. then... one day... sylvia walked in on celestia and i making love in our room. she didnt take it well. we argued, and sylvia threatened to tell ambrose about my frolicking with a focking unicorn of all things. it would have cost me my job, and my wand would have been revoked... i never would have seen celestia again."

"and so you killed her," accused twilight.

"no," celestia said. "i did."

tewilight gasped. celestia continued the story. "i hit sylvia with a spell from my horn, and she got very sick. not even the best life wizards could help her - they tried. i wanted so badly to reverse the spell, but... i knew that if i did, not only would malistaire's job still be on the line, but i was in danger now, too, for attacking a professor. a unicorn has never hurt a human before. she died in a matter of days, and i never told anyone that it was my fault."

"... celestia!" ambrose said, shocked.

"i'm sorry!" celestia begged. "i felt so guilty, and... a few days later... learned that i was pregnant."

"with me?" twilight asked.

"with you." celestia continuted. "malistaire... didn't take kindly to the news. in fact, we hadn't spoken at all since i... attacked sylvia. he was experiencing extreme guilt for having an affair with a unicorn behind his wife's back, which eventually cost both his marriage and his wife... he flew into a rage the last time i saw him, demanding that i never see him again. i left ravenwood for good, gave birth to you, and sent you and your older brother to live with the apple family."

"and the rest is history..." twilight finished. celestia nodded.

"yes," maliastarte said, menacingly, "now that we've finsihed the trip down memory lane... TIME TO DIE, HOMEWRECKER!" he came at celestia and twilight with his staff out.

CLINK!

twilight lookde up. cyrus drake had his own wand out, and was struggling back malistaire's!

"uncle cyrus!" twilight criede.

"RUN!" cyrus shouted.

celestia grabbed twilight and pulled her to saftey. ambrose usedmagic to pull pinkie, fluttershy, and rarity over to him to safety. malistaire kicked cyrus in the gut, causing the myth professor to fall backward and rop his wand.

"GAME OVER, BROTHER!" malistaire said, going in for the kill. twilight started crying. she just learned she had a bald, chimplike uncle, she didn't want to lose him!

then, suddenly... rainbwo death crept up behind malistaire, picking up cyrus' wand. "this is for SYLVIA AND CELESTIA!" she shouted, and stabbed malistaire in the back with it.

"AAARGH!" nekouxheofs siad, falling to the ground, bleeding.

"rainbow!" fluttershy said, reaching out to her friend.

rainbow smiled. "take.. take care of yourselves... and applejack... and tell her... i'm sorry..." she said, before collapsing next to malistaire. they died, side by side, and it started to rain.

malistaire was buried next to the death school, under mortis, the death tree. rainbow jack was buried on the apple family's land, and all her friends and family attended the funeral. ever forgiving, her friends made sure her gravestone said, "RAINBOW DASH: A FIGHTER; A FRIEND."

after a long and grueling recovery period, applejack healed and shared the news of her new romantic relationship with rarity to her family. granny smith was ecstatic.

"well, whaddaya know!" the old pony said. "i sure didn't see that comin', did you, big mac?"

"eeyup" said big mac, and they all laughed.

twilgiht asked princess celestia if shining sentry was malistaire's son, too. celestia explained that no, sentry's father was prince credenza, princess mi amore cadenza's (cadance's) father. so that explained why flurry heart was so darn ugly.

twilight looked the same even when she was ninety. but when she was still young she visited sylvia's grave and laid flowers down on it.

"hi, sylvia," twoiloight said, kicking some dirt, uncomfortable. she said, "i just want to say... i'm sorry. you sounded like a wonderful woman, and i'm just sorry that what happened to you happened."

then, sylvia's ghost came out of her grave. she smoiled at twilight. "twilight sparkle... thank you so much for your kind words. i can rest easier now, knowing my death wasn't in vain." twilight didn't particularly agree, but she smiled because the ghost was happy.

still, twilight just couldn't stay in ponyville any longer. or in canterlot. when malistaire died, the magic he stole from twelight died with him, so she now had only her human magic, and seeing how ravenwood was short a professor, now that halston balestrom was dead, twilight decided to move to wizard city and take up the mantle of storm professor. she named spike chief friendship counsellor in her absence. she said goodbye to her friends and left for her new life.

while twilight was away, pinkie agreed to have sex with discord to help her overcome her fear of mr. cake. unfortunately, princess luna walked in on them, and started screaming. had pinkie not heard the tragic tale of sylvia drake, she would've killed luna on the spot. but she didn't. she killed her marriage, but she didn't kill the princess. later that day she slept with mr. cake. nurse redheart walked in on them but pinkie pie still managed to get pregnant with sextuplets. she gave birth happily and healthily in sugarcube corner's kitchen, whereupon she noticed that only two of the children were mr. cake's, and the rest were discord's.

twilight led a happy life in wizard city. all her students loved her and she even married a zebra game hunter named sir reginald baxby, because she had a thing for italians. the couple had a son, who was turned human during a prank by one of cyrus' students.

one day, though, this same student pulled a prank on bartleby that ended in tragedy, where the grandfather tree exploded, destroying wizard city's only doorway to other worlds on the spiral. twilight cried over the tree's splintered corpse, comforted by her husband and son. she knew she would never see her friends agsain. but, little did she know, that one day her son would manage to visit other worlds...

THE END