This was almost too much to take. Almost being the operative word. I was able to handle it though. Right when the elevator jarred from touching the bottom, my Ipod died. That was great. However, it did remind me about my manners. Gotta keep those up. I pulled my headphones out and put it, along with my dead Ipod back into my pocket. I then looked back up from my pocket to the two people in the room.

The woman had multi colored hair that looked like she did it with magic while the man had a devious look in his eyes. The woman was beautiful beyond compare. Her long hair had sparkles coming out of it along with the colors. She stood about an inch shorter than me, which is surprising since I was 6 feet tall. I didn't know what age she was, but something told me not to ask. She wore a white lab coat with a sun imprint on the side of her waist. Over her left breast was a name card with her picture, a bar code, and the name "Celestia." The name was a bit pretentious but it suit her perfectly. The man was wearing a suit which he seemed not to like, especially since it looked like he purposefully made it all wrinkled. His shirt wasn't tucked in like it was supposed to and he had all the buttons in the wrong spots. He must have really hated that suit. He had brown hair that looked like he gelled it so it stood in every direction. He stood an inch taller than me which made since. He seemed to be in his the right side of his chest was his name tag that had his picture, shockingly he looked nice in clean in it, with his name "Discord" and his own bar code.

I stepped out of the platform and walked towards the pair. The woman, Celestia, gave Discord a mean look before walking away from him and towards me. It seemed that next to them was what looked like a control console. One of them must have been the one who messed with me on the way down. My guess was Discord.

"Hello. I'm so glad you decided to join us. I am Celestia. One of the people who command this facility," Celestia said with a soft, kind, yet commanding voice. It seemed that, to me, one of the people commanding this place always comes to say hello to new comers. She continued with, "This immature man behind me is Discord. He was the one who messed with you on your way down." Said man just smiled and gave a small wave. Something told me he did it to almost everyone he could.

"Hi," I said sheepishly. She was actually quite beautiful, even though she was older than me. "I'm Daemon. So this is where I'm going to be staying for a while?"

Celestia nodded and motioned for me to go to the other elevator. I walked forwards towards said elevator but stopped when Discord said, "I hope to see you again Daemon. Hopefully you won't take my little joke too badly." There was something in his eyes that told me not to trust him.

"I understand, it was just a joke. See ya," I said with a little wave. I continued on my way to the elevator with Celestia behind me.

I entered the elevator and leaned against the back wall. Celestia stopped at the edge of the door and turned around to look Discord in the eyes.

"Try not to break anything or hurt anyone, please?" Celestia said those words with voice that said, "Don't do anything wrong as this is your last chance." She didn't give him a chance to answer as she pressed the lowest button on the console and the door close button. The elevator doors closed quite quickly. It seemed that speed was quite important here, or Celestia used magic to speed up the doors. Her hands did glow golden for a second.. I mentally shrugged it off as not important.

When the elevator started to move downwards, I said, with the most sarcastic voice I could, "Discord obviously seems like a very nice guy. Has a great sense of humor to match."

Celestia gave one solitary laugh and turned towards me. The way she looked at me, I was sure I said something wrong. She was one of the people who ran this place, so did she command that people act their best around her?

Celestia lightened up quickly and said, "I'm so glad that you're acting like yourself around me. People always bend over backwards to give me what they think I want. Personalities and actions included. Except for Discord." At the mention of his chosen name, her expression changed from one of amusement to one of pure demanding. "I truly hope you're nothing like him. Just remember that, while I like people being themselves, I actually want people being the best they can. Morally and productively. If you perform your duties well while still being yourself, then you're good in my book."

To a normal person, Celestia would seem bipolar. To me, she seemed like a person I could get along with. She wanted us to be as productive as we can. If we had to give up our personalities to keep our work going, she would hate that you had to, but wouldn't stop it. Productivity seemed to be her main concern.

I gave my own little laugh and got up from against the wall. "I'm here to research magic for you. I'm not sure what section of magic I'm good at, but I'll help any way I can." I put my hands in my pockets and continued with, "Don't worry about me having to give up my personality. That's what helps me with my magic."

Celestia's smile grew as I talked. I hoped I would be able to walk that talk but I wouldn't be able to find out until I did. "That's good to hear," She said. She put her hands on her hips and continued, "If you're worried about what magic you'll be doing for us, we have a test to find out. I should warn you, it's hard. Only three people in the history of this test, which actually isn't that long, only about four years, has had enough natural skill to be able to do everything in it."

The elevator started to slow down as it reached the bottom level. I quickly said, "I have two more questions. That's it. The first, is this test going to be taken before or after I've had time to rest? Before you answer, the second is am I going to be given my education while down here? I was in the middle of my sophomore year in high school. I don't want to be diploma-less."

The elevator stopped at the bottom floor, but Celestia pressed the button to keep the doors shut. "The answer to your first question is before, as in right now. Your flight here was your rest," Celestia said with a hint of humor. "The answer to your second question is yes. Your education shall continue. Although, how you can do that and study magic will be a hard question to answer. I guess the answer for that is how well you can multi-task. Your days filled with magic and your nights filled with normal day to day studies. It will be rough, but I bet you can do it."

Celestia pressed the door open button after she finished. I felt that I now had to live up to what she said. I blame my foolish nature of falling for a pretty face. On the other side of the opening doors stood another woman, just as beautiful as Celestia. She stood at the same height with, magically changed, blue hair. Her lab coat happened to be black instead and had a moon symbol on the waist. Her name tag said "Luna" on it. She looked at me with a quick glance. In that split second, her eyes said, "Another person to look after."

Luna turned towards Celestia and said, "Sister, there's something you need to see. There's a problem in that room." Celestia seemed shocked down to the bone from that little statement.

She stepped forward and lowered her voice thinking I couldn't hear. I had already found a spell online that increased hearing so, after putting my hand behind me to hide the glow, activated the spell.

"What kind of problem? Big, little, devastating?" Celestia's voice may have been almost quiet but it still held that kind of urgency that you knew she was serious.

"Big," Luna said uncertain. She then tilted her head a bit and said, "Really big."

At those three words, Celestia's face fell from shocked to grave. I just stood there wondering what they meant by 'that room'. Perhaps it was some super secret project to take over the world or something. As much as my mind loved to make me think of a thousand things that could be in this room, none of them were true.

Celestia turned towards me and said, in a grave tone, "Stay here. No matter what, stay here." She then turned around to walk out of the elevator. Luna was already starting to leave towards said room probably.

I said one word in reply, "No."

Celestia turned towards me again and, with the same tone, said, "Of course you will. You don't get a choice."

I just couldn't help smirk. She didn't understand. I wanted to help solve whatever problem she was having. Call it instinct. Whenever there's any kind of trouble, you will always find me there. I'm either the one causing it or the one trying to stop it. I will never just stand there and watch. Nor will I walk away either.

"If I have to spell it out for you, I will. I'm not staying here, I'm going with you. I may not be as strong with magic as you. Lord knows I'm nowhere near as educated in it as you, but I will do what I can to help," I said all this with a straight face, whereas any other time I would be laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Cheesy lines like that made me laugh. I continued, by cutting Luna off, with, "Nothing you say will change my mind. Only way you'll stop me from coming with you is to tie me down, or strike me down with magic. So how about instead of stopping me, you just accept my help?"

Luna, who looked like she was as angry as could be, looked towards Celestia for answers. I could tell Luna wasn't used to being talked to like I was above her. I did try to speak like we were equals but my mind had other ideas. Celestia only answered with her own silent stare going from me to Luna and back. After a few moments, of which Celestia was probably racking her brain trying to decide what to do, she just sighed. Perhaps she finally cracked. If whatever problem they were having could make her collapse to my determination this easily, I might have made the wrong choice. However I couldn't back down now could I?

"If you're that determined to come along, then you have to promise me one thing," Celestia said as she turned towards me again. "You must do exactly as I say, when I say it."

It seemed reasonable enough. I replied with slight nod so we would not waste any more time talking. Luna, who didn't seem to approve but kept quiet, had the same idea. She just turned around and started walking. Celestia followed and so did I. We walked out of the elevator and into what appeared to be a sort of entrance hall. It was a large square one though. Where the elevator I rode on was situated had a second one on its right. Since the room was a, very big, square, on each side were two elevators. Each probably led to different parts of this Pyramid. At the corners of this large room, there were archways that led to long hallways. From what I could see, there were floor escalators in each hallway that probably led to the outside. I started to wonder why they would have such long hallways instead of just having this room near one of the sides. I would have to ask later. One look at this place and you would think it's really weird. All the elevators, escalators, and not one decoration. You'd think a place like this would have some kind of insignia or a symbol. This room just looked like a large white room. Kind of bland if you asked me. Again, I would have to ask about this later.

I finally took notice that, while this was an entrance hall, there was no furniture of any kind. It seemed that this perhaps was just a place people happened to walk through to different parts of the facility. The people I speak of looked like normal people. Friends talking to each other like you would see in a mall. I thought people would be wearing clothes like Celestia and Luna. You know, lab coats, clipboards, that sort of thing. We passed quite a few who gave me a questioning look but then went on to what they were doing.

Luna led us to the elevator directly across from the one I got off. By 'Luna led us,' it's more like I was led by the sisters as Celestia knew where we were going. The elevator was ready and waiting for us as, when we got close, the doors opened and the two sisters stepped in. I followed inside but I stayed near the door. If whatever we were going to face was dangerous, and I know this is silly, I wanted to be the one in the front. I should be the one to face the danger as the two of them are more important then I am.

When the doors to the elevator shut, Luna pulled her I.D. off of her lab coat and held it in front a piece of metal that seemed to be out of place right above the elevator buttons. The metal quickly split in two and, after scanning the I.D., closed again. Then the elevator started to go down. My first thought was, 'If this place is so big already, what could be so dangerous that they would have to dig even deeper just for it?'

Not one of us spoke as we went down. I could tell Luna didn't like the way I had acted earlier by the feeling I was getting. It was like someone was burning holes into my skull. If I looked and found my head smoking, I wouldn't have been surprised. Celestia just seemed to take it all in stride. They were perfect opposites it seemed. Even their symbols were opposites of each other.

As the elevator started to slow down, which marked us getting very close to our new destination, I quickly got into a relaxed stance. If I needed to move quickly, having my arms loose and at my sides were my best bet along with my legs relaxed so I could run quickly.

The elevator finally stopped and opened to reveal a large room full of white padding. Close to the door were a group of men and women in white lab coats like Celestia just without any symbols. They were each standing next to a computer looking at their respective screens intently. They weren't what drew my attention though. What did was the weird lights in the center of the room. In the center of the room was a man surrounded by six very bright lights. These lights seemed to be hurting him as he kept convulsing as if being shocked.