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Like my great-grandfather, and my grandpa, and my father, I also was named Jacob P. So anyway, after work I was minding my own business when the old postman that had been working for the postal service for as far back as anyone in town could remember saw me and pulled over into the wrong lane (fortunately for him there was no one coming) and hailed me. If not for the generosity (or maybe pity) of my mother and father I would have had to crash at my best friend's place, which would have made me feel guilty as heck, even though he's told me several times that I could if I needed to. In short, I was not poor, but I was pretty dang close. I know some of you are laughing at me for that, but things aren't as easy for a guy to move out when the only job you can get involves helping people about as smart as a thumbtack and just as charming find something to wear that 'won't make them look fat' even when a Left 4 Dead fan would yell “BOOMER!” as they walked by. Yeah, that's right: I lived with my parents even up to the age of twenty three. It started out like any other day: Wake up, have breakfast, brush teeth, say hi to my folks and head out the door to work. Lighthand the sixth, my great-grandfather, was no fraud. I mean, how many people claim that they can see the future and are proven frauds in one way or another? Some of my relatives probably were frauds, I have no doubt about that, but after I got that package I knew for certain that Jacob P. But I had no way of knowing that for certain. As I grew older I ceased believing that any of my ancestors used magic and concluded that they had used what was at the time called Alchemy and in modern times called Chemistry.

At the time I believed every word simply because I was a child and thought he was the coolest man in the world next to my own father.

Usually they involved him relating how his own grandfather told him stories from the days when mighty wizards supposedly roamed the world and shaped the world as we know it today. I have but three memories of him and all of them were of him talking about our family heritage. That is, until I received a box of my great-grandfather's things that had been lost in the mail for over thirty years. However, even though there was a valid reason for Dragons becoming extinct (greed), the extinction of Unicorns never was made clear. They hoarded gold and gems and devoured young maidens and fought against those bold, or stupid enough to challenge them. They also usually had smaller front legs, or perhaps even arms. English Dragons could be either wise and admired, or cruel and hated. Oddly enough, the Bible itself makes brief mention of Unicorns, and several countries have multiple legends of dragons, though they differ in form and ability: Chinese Dragons were serpentine, possessing either four or two legs, and were very wise. Now magic is believed to be nothing more than ignorant Humans' excuses for that which could not be explained. Strangely enough those stories stopped cropping up not long after Dragons and Unicorns, if they ever existed at all, were hunted to extinction. Perhaps there were only two, and then dozens of versions were made up of them.

Or perhaps there were not many stories at all. Deleted Scenes and Rejected ideas 2'nd additionĮarth has many legends concerning Dragons, Unicorns, bold knights, and mighty wizards that raised young men up to be kings that forever left their mark on history.Deleted Scenes and Rejected ideas 1'st addition.I may or may not also work on that one from time to time depending on my mood. The direct sequel is now in the works, as to the alternate continuation that lost the vote at the end if anyone cares to read it. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. While the story itself is complete, as readers find errors and point them out to me I'll be going back occasionally to fix them. This fic was also written back before the 5-character-icon-limit was put into effect, so there may be a few more 'main' characters other than what is listed here. This fic was written back before the episode with Iron Will was aired, so expect a few things to be different from what is canon with the show. With only a few hints and a limited store of magic in a world that otherwise lacks magic completely he seeks to know the truth about his family's legends, and his heritage. Login MLP: The Last Mage by WorldWalker128įirst published 30th of October, 2011 A Human recieved an odd inheritance from a dead relative and seeks out answers in another worldĪ seemingly average man in an dull life receives a Unicorn's horn, a magician's cape, and an ancient journal from his now-dead great grandfather after being lost in the postal service for more than 30 years.