Twilight and the others had been walking for three miles when they heard a commotion to their right.
"What's that?" Fluttershy said.
"Sounds like someone is in trouble!" replied Applejack, and they ran towards the sounds.
They got through some bushes and saw five small flying monsters trying to abduct a small light blue horse, with a white haired human boy trying to stop them, only to get a rope tied around him.
"Oh my! It looks like they're trying to take that... Pony?" Fluttershy said.
"We've gotta' stop them!" replied Twilight.
"Forget it brat! He's coming with us, along with you now!" exclaimed the leader of the monsters said.
"Over my dead body Dweedle!" replied the boy.
"Five on two isn't a fair fight ya' monsters!"
"Huh?" was all the group could say before Applejack charged into the middle of them with a flying buck, sending the fat one flying and making them drop the colt and human. Twilight grabbed the small one with her magic and threw him into a nearby stream.
"Get them!" yelled Dweedle. They were no match for the pony tag team though. Soon Applejack bucked the bird faced one into the stream also, hitting the small one who had just got out of it. She then kicked the leader into the stream, and Twilight managed to hit the last two with a freeze ray and threw them in also. Meanwhile Fluttershy had freed the two from the ropes.
"L-Let's get out of here!" the leader yelled, and the group ran away yelling.
"Those two are worse than Wildfire!" the jester looking one said as they ran.
"I know Booper. But wait until Diabolyn hears about that flying unicorn with magic powers. I've never heard of such a thing," replied Dweedle.
"Are you two alright?" Twilight asked.
"We are now thanks to you showing up," replied the boy.
"Who are you? I've never seen horses like you around here before," asked the light blue colt.
"I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, and this is Applejack and Fluttershy", she replied.
"I'm Dorin, and this is Brutus," replied the boy.
"I can't believe I'm... standing in front of one of those.. humans you described Twilight. I'm.... eep", said Fluttershy.
"So why are you here?" Brutus asked.
"I was trying out a teleportation spell with them and three others when it got messed up and we wound up here. We're not sure where our other three friends wound up. We need to make sure they're not here also before I teleport us back," Twilight said.
"You can teleport with magic? That's awesome!" replied Dorin. "So what's the name of the place you're from?"
"It's called Equestria," replied Applejack.
"You mean it's all horses?" the colt asked.
"Um..Yes. .Actually we're ponies, though there's horses too," replied Fluttershy.
"There's a place like that here called the Sanctuary of the Horses," replied Dorin.
"Fascinating", replied Twilight. "So humans and pon... er, horses co habitat here?"
"Uh Twilight... Our friends..." AJ said.
"Oh, right. Do you know of a way we could find out if our friends are here?" she asked.
"I don't, but I'm sure Wildfire would know," he replied.
"Wild Fire's here? How?" Fluttershy said with a shocked look.
"What do you mean? Wildfire has always been here," Brutus said.
"There's a pony where we're from with the same name," replied Applejack.
"Oh ok," replied the colt.
"We're going to Wildfire right now to tell them about what happened. Follow us," Dorin said. And they began walking.
"So who were those creatures that were trying to take you?" Fluttershy asked.
"That's Diabolyn's goons. They're always trying something, but recently there's been horses disappearing, and it looks like it's them that are behind it. Again," replied the boy.
"Who is Diabolyn?" Asked AJ.
"She's a sorceress who wants to be the ruler of Dar Shan. She's the step sister of princess Sarah's mom, Serana," replied Dorin.
"Oh there's a princess here?" Twilight asked.
"Yes. And if we ever defeat Diabolyn, she will become the queen of Dar Shan," replied Brutus.
"Where's Serana?"
"she's dead. When she married prince Cavan many years ago, Diabolyn tried to disrupt it and take over. Serana banished her, but not before Diabolyn put a curse on her and the prince where a year after they were married, them and their first born child would die," replied Dorin.
"That's horrible!" exclaimed Fluttershy.
"So where's the prince?" Twilight asked.
"Wildfire took both him to the mortal world to escape the curse. And after Sarah was born took her there also just after Serana died. Now whenever Di tries to start trouble, Wildfire goes to the human world to bring Sarah back long enough to foil her plans, The prince briefly returned once also when the Spectres went there to abduct Sarah and bring her back themselves," replied Dorin.
"Mortal world? Specters? What are those?" asked Twi.
"The mortal world is where all humans live. The Specters are the demons that gave Diabolyn her power after she freed them."
"And turned her servants from humans into goons," added Brutus.
"Wow ain't this one big mess," commented Applejack. "So will you ever be able to defeat them"
"Hopefully one day. It will take a large amount of magic and Sarah's amulet to do it," Dorin said.
"Could you help Twilight? You seem to have a lot of magic," asked Brutus.
"I don't know. I'm not sure if my magic would fully work here, and there could be ramifications," she replied.
"Aw' phooey," he replied.
"So is Sarah here now?" asked Fluttershy.
"Yeah. Her and Wildfire are trying to get to the bottom of the horsenapping, but we know the answer now. Hopefully they're back at Alvinar's place by now," Dorin said.
"I can't wait to get there," replied Twilight. "I need to write all of this down. Will this alvinar have some paper and a quill?..." and they continued on.
While all of this was going on, Sarah and Wildfire were returning to Alvinar's house from the other side of Thorinia when one of the Sinti people appeared in front of them.
"Jovar. What's up?" Wildfire asked.
"Something puzzling", he replied. The Sinti were the center of all magic in Dar Shan, and could feel disturbances in the magic force.
"We have detected a brief but high magic force crossing the void to here."
"From the mortal world?" asked Sarah.
"No. It seemed to come from somewhere else. We could also sense another use of magic not long afterwards from the western side of Thorinia."
"We better get back to Alvinar. Something may be happening," the purple horse said. and the two rode off as Jovar disappeared into thin air.
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Back in Rainbow Land, Dash and the others had reached the hill overlooking the castle.
"There it is. Rainbow Castle!" exclaimed Twink. The group stared at it for a minute.
"Oooooh colorful!" commented Pinkie.
"I've never seen a building with so many colors before," added Rarity.
"It looks like something you'd make Pinkie," cracked Dash.
"Let's go!" Twink said. and they headed down the path to the castle.
A few kids in brightly colored outfits were milling around outside when they saw the group approaching.
"Who's that with Twink?" A boy in red said.
"They look like ponies. Look at the one with rainbow mane!" replied a girl in orange.
A girl in a green dress ran into the castle.
"Rainbow!"
"What is it Patty?"
"Twink is coming back to the castle with three brightly colored ponies," she said.
"Really? I didn't think there were any other ponies or horses here," she replied. And she followed Patty out.
Rainbow and the other kids were waiting when the group got there.
"Rainbow!" Twink yelled.
"Where were you Twink?" she asked.
"Murky and Lurky tried to spritenap me. They would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for these ponies," replied Twink, pointing to them. The kids were amazed.
"So these are humans?" whispered Rarity to Dash.
"Yep, not exactly as Twilight described, but still the same", she replied.
"Who are you theree ponies?" Rainbow asked. Dash started to say, but Pinkie cut her off.
"I'm Pinkie Pie. And this is Rainbow Dash and Rarity".
"You have the same name as me?"
"Yep. Funny isn't it? replied Dash.
"Are you from around here?" asked Patty.
"No. We're from a land called Equestria. Our friend teleported us here by accident, and we're looking to see if she's here also along with a couple others," explained Dash.
Rainbow introduced the others, who were known as the Color Kids.
"So how long are you going to be here?" asked Red Butler.
"Thats... the reason we have to find our friend. Without her we're stuck here," replied Rarity. The kids gasped.
"We'll help you find them if they're here," she replied. The others agreed.
"This is great! so what do you do here for fun? We can throw a party for our search party before..." Pinkie said while jumping up and down. Dash interrupted her.
"Pinkie we really don't have time..."
"What's going on Rainbow?"
"Huh?" Dash turned around and came face to face with a white horse with rainbow mane.
"Oh. Starlight this is Rainbow Dash and her friends Pinkie Pie and Rarity. They were teleported to our world by accident and are looking to see if their friends are here too, and they rescued Twink from Murky and Lurky, " Rainbow said.
"Twink was in trouble?" Starlight replied surprised. "What happened?"
"Murky and Lurky tried to spritenap me", replied Twink.
"Now what are they up to?" he asked.
"I don't know but they said they'd get the rest of us too."
"Oh no! why didn't you say that before?" Rainbow Brite said.
"We were so caught up in the introductions I forgot," replied Twink.
"I wouldn't worry about them too much. we roughed them up and sent them running off in some contraption," replied Dash.
"That's their grunge buggy," replied Patty.
"We need to go to the color mine and check on the other sprites," Rainbow said. "And we can look for your friends along the way".
"Let's go then!" replied Dash. Rainbow and Twink got on Starlite and the group headed off.