Fanfic: Dark Sorcerers Gathered

    It is a scene that would be comical if not for the sheer amount of dark power in the room. Gathered from across time and space in this place are five of the most powerful and evil spell casters in the multi-verse. Although the most famous of them would be those that lost their battles, the darkness makes no mistakes of those it chooses; as before it has chosen those who survived, those that won, albeit the monsters despite their victories in their own worlds lost to the might of magic present in Aesperia and from its champions. Regardless of what world they found themselves on and the native laws governing magic therein the Aesperians won. It is for this reason that the darkness has gathered in its cold dark space these five masters of the dark arts, the fives bastions of evil and among the parallel worlds of their own realities those with the greatest of power who defeated the good that challenged or at least survive them.

 

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    Jafar, the Sultan Sorcerer. This despicable man tricked a youth into delving into an enchanted cave for a magic lamp containing a nearly omnipotent genie. Although the youth escaped his attempt at murdering him for the lamp, with the lamp; a second chance emerged. The youth posed as a prince to gain the favor of the beautiful princess. He nearly succeeded at it; had not Jafar had the boy assassinated, where as a more foolish man would have bribed the guards to knock him out and toss him off a cliff believing the disguised lad to be a real prince and not the one he taken into the desert. No this Jafar recognized him right away and had him stabbed in the back, claiming the lamp for himself. Despite his wish to be sultan the princess and then Sultan refused to bow to him; thus he wished to be the most powerful sorcerer in the world; and no choice was given the Sultan was executed, the princess…her fate better left unwritten, even the parrot was executed as power drove the mad sorcerer beyond even his limits and he tried to oppose Jafar; but with no one of any power to aid him he was killed.

 

     The Genie was removed from the equation, the third wish used to banish it and its lamp on the furthest world from life in the universe to remain there. The kingdom of Jafar’s spread through out the world and is held back only by his own mad tendencies and the kingdoms of power and magic banding together around Agraba, most powerful sorcerer, not more powerful than multiple one’s combined; if only politics were so simple as these others also vie for power only holding back Jafar not defeating him.

 

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    Maleficent, the mistress of evil. It was a joyous occasion, the christening of the newly born princess, the queen was in good health, the king as well, all the kingdom and surrounding rulers had even come; save for one who was uninvited. The neighboring king even brought his eight year old son, as this young boy was to be betrothed to the newly born princess and marry when she was sixteen and he twenty four, uniting the two kingdoms. As the princess lied there the three good faeries descended, a comical trio, yet with amazing powers and unlike most fae no qualms about meddling in mortal affairs. Under the pretence of bestowing gifts they molded the princess as they liked. The first made it so she would grow to be a thing of un-natural beauty, despite the clear fact by looking at her mother she would grow up to be beautiful, granted a gift such as lips red as the rose is something no woman could truly have with out makeup naturally; as the faerie bestowed. The second manipulated her voice, thus the princess would gain a singing voice so melodious the faerie and their kin could enjoy it and not just mortals, a voice to rivals musical instruments and even be in harmony with its self. The third had a gift in mind, a gift of faerie intellect, something they could convince easily to their own ways.

 

    Before the third faerie could grant her “gift” Maleficent appeared, insulted at not being invited, even more so by the words of the good faerie who told her “you weren’t wanted”. In this moment Maleficent thought to invoke a death curse upon the princess; yet a moment passed and she saw the neighboring king and his son and knew the intention of the faeries.

 

    In this moment a far grander plan emerged, and as she twisted her claw like hand over the orb of her staff, as green swirls filled the room filling all with dread even the three faeries she said, “From this day forth the queen shall be barren, the king unable to sire any children. The princess shall indeed grow to be beautiful, with a voice sweeter than the finest treats, however regardless of how she is raised upon the eve of her sixteenth birthday she shall fall into a sleep that will last till dawn; upon awakening she will fall madly in love with the first woman she sees or hears even if she be her own mother or worst enemy. Matters not how much time passes between then or when the meeting takes place, one woman meets her eye and she will never love any prince!”

 

    With a haughty laugh she vanished in green flames. The third faerie tried to rectify the spell, her magic too weak to remove the curse, striking her blind would not work given the specifics of the curse. Her only resolution was to amend the curse so that the princess could fall in love with the prince if he were dressed like a woman and he was the first she saw on that dawn. Allowing also him to not need to dress as such ever before or again, only needed that one time. The spell did not take, the curse was too strong. With the neighboring king’s approval she had no choice, if the prince were to be raised as a princess taught all the manners and dignities of a lady and it was him she first saw upon awakening that dawn then it is he she would fall in love with. This time the spell worked.

 

   To insure it worked the faeries took the princess to an enchanted grove where they would raise her, as beings of magic they insured, the spell would not work with them; however they would bring her back to the castle the eve of her sixteenth birthday, hiding her away till then from Maleficent. The prince despite his protests was henceforth raised as a princess; eventually he came to accept it, and even liked it as he grew older. His features and body became more feminine in form thanks to magic potions provided by their resident enchantress to insure that the princess would fall in love.

 

    It came to pass on the eve of the sixteenth birthday that the princess was snuck into the castle under cover of dark. It all went off with out a hitch, in fact as it turned out the princess had already met the prince on one of his secret outings into the woods, the princess taken by the tomboy she met although confused by her emotions; now not so much so the spell only enforcing her inner feelings for who she met. That dawn however brought a surprise. Maleficent is no fool, not able to find the princess she had targeted the prince, disguised as an enchantress she supplied the potions that would grant feminine beauty and charm; revealing only now that the prince would have to had stopped taking the potions for a period of three days before this dawn or else the final stage would take effect. Indeed this dawn the prince truly had become a princess, which spell influenced her love now fully up to debate.

 

    So the family line of the kingdom was truly ended, although the kingdoms were united, the people in their religious society would not accept the union however. The people of the kingdoms revolted, under fear of having their heads cut off the princess lovers were forced to flee to the one that brought them together, Queen Maleficent, their kingdoms were ruined. The princesses became the apprentices to Maleficent, even giving up their humanity to become like her to avenge their fallen families and courts. The two princesses of darkness would enslave their old kingdoms bringing with them a court of demons and terror. Maleficent had now become an Empress, a ruler of her own, and master of the queens of another kingdom, their powers united they could spread through out the continent creating an empire of darkness.

 

    It is this rare long term planning and cunning for a Maleficent in the multi-verse that attracted the evil being to bring her along, given its experiences with another mistress of magic.

 

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    Hordak, the cybernetic wizard, ruler of Ephemera. His army, the Horde conquered this world many decades ago, their peaceful world was easily run underfoot. Along with his general Skeletor, they attempted to conquer another world, Eternia. They were fought back through the dimensional gate, except for Skeletor who remained behind. Hordak did not leave empty handed for he had kidnapped the infant princess. Having learned however that the royal family of Eternia is genetically set too benevolence he had his greatest geneticists and wizards work together to turn her evil; a deed far more easily done, in fact done  a little too well. She grew to become the cruelest and most evil of his generals, a beauty with a black heart. His methods of raising her however included psychological conditioning…and magic, to insure she obeys his direct orders.

 

   A man came to his world seeking her, this He-man was captured, fooled by her as she pretended to be good. He-man’s life force was drained away to power a powerful weapon that ended the rebellion against the Horde. This woman however, this dark princess has fooled Hordak as she has kept He-man alive, although constantly drained of his power, his energy powering her own secret weapons. The man himself is kept as her own personal sex toy; his cries of being her brother only fueling her evil hearted lust. She would claim the swords he brought with them if only she could undo the spells protecting them from evil. For now and the foreseeable future however Hordak is the ruler of Ephemera and it is him, his army, and his magic that interests the darkness.

 

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    Skeletor, the dark wizard warrior of Eternia. There was once a dark elf of blue skin who desired to rule all of Eternia, a world of wanders, magic, and advanced science. This world however long ago suffered from a cataclysmic spell that caused half the world to be good and half the world to be evil, this dark general united all the tribes of the dark half and lead an assault against the light half. The Elders with the Sorceress (a goddess like woman with a bird motif) used all their power to repel the army, scarring the man in the process. His injury, reducing his head to a skull would have been fatal to anyone else save for this master of Necromancy. His army was fought back and the Elders and Sorceress used their power to erect a great wall separating the two sides of the planet.

 

   Many decades later the wall has come down, the man now known as Skeletor leads a smaller army than before, but his ambitions remain the same. With the Elders gone and the Sorceress confined to her castle as her expenditure of magic before has drained her to the point of having to stay near her crystals to slowly recharge, Skeletor would seem unopposed in his war. The Sorceress had one last card to play as she awarded Prince Adam with a magic sword that turns him into the hulking superman He-man. Off and on the battles went back and forth until this Skeletor sought out a sorceress of his own. Hidden in the depths of the desert was a sorceress known as Evil-Lyn who stayed by herself perfecting her magical powers. Skeletor was able to enlist her aid, with the promise of the power of the Elders which Skeletor had suspected and spies confirmed was the source of He-man’s powers.

 

   Now the good Sorceress is trapped in one of her own crystals while Evil-Lyn controls Castle Grey Skull, He-man’s powers stripped away and his identity revealed. The royal family of Eternia and the so called Masters of the Universe have fled to parts unknown to try and raise their own rebellion as Skeletor now sits on the throne.

 

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   Tireek, the King of the Nightmare Land. This demonic giant centaur conquered a land of beauty, a land over the rainbow from a mundane human world. His first act was to destroy the rainbow gateway, beyond that the denizens of the Dream Land were helpless against him. The strongest adversaries of this land but witches that pledged allegiance to him, talking bees that fell before him, various talking helpless creatures, and multicolored talking ponies which he turned into dragons, some as slaves, some as mystical beasts to aid his further conquests. He is notable to the evil one simply because despite the colorfulness and seeming helplessness of this land of all across the multiverse that the evil one has seen somehow this Tireek was the only one to conquer the Dream Land.