//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Magical Mirrors // Story: Through the Looking Glass // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Through the Looking Glass Chapter 1: Magical Mirror In an area of the country side close to a town sits an old house that been abandoned for countless years alongside a quiet dusty road overlooking the farmers field towards the town in the distance. Walking down the dusty road a man over 6ft tall walked toward the house looking at a piece of paper then at the house. “This must be the place where our dog was last seen…” He spoke quietly then pulled out his mobile phone “Hey mum I found the place where Leela was last seen, it kind of a creepy place though.” “Alright Wayne be careful. If there a chance Leela’s inside then you need to take a look.” His mum answered through the phone. “Alright going in.” He walks up to the house front door seeing it was clearly opened and the wind making it bash a little and open up again. “That explains how she got in…” He put the phone back in his pocket and walks in taking out his flash light shining it inside the place. “For such an old house it sure survived for a long time without anyone to maintain it…” he walked in hearing the cracks of the floor boards. “Leela! Come one girl! Are you in here?” he shined the light around and heard movement upstairs he walked up them to see a black German Shepard standing there in one of the rooms barking at a dusty old mirror “Leela, come here girl” she turned and saw Wayne coming over to him for a cuddle “Now let’s…” he noticed a strange glow from the mirror only a minor one. “What in hell?” he walked by Leela and she came up beside him as he stared at the mirror and it markings on the frame “Strange markings… wonder who craved this and why it looks new to everything else in this creepy old house…” he wiped some dust off the mirror and stared at his reflection. “Well it must have been the reflection from the sun” he walked over to the window where the light shimmered through the curtains and opened them up and looked to see the moon moving in front of the sun. “I don’t recall hearing about any eclipse happening on the news… better call mum to let her know Leela ok” he dialled the number and his mum answered “hey mum found Leela, by any chance is there a Eclipse happening over there?” His mum on the other side of the phone looked outside “yes, but there was nothing on the news about it, in fact it on the news right now, they saying that the moon is causing a eclipse, but can’t explain how since it shouldn’t happen for another 78 years since 13 years ago…” She said looking at the TV then outside seeing people gathering and talking as wonder how such an event was missed by NASA and other space watchers. Wayne turned to the mirror as everything grow darker by the second shinning his torch at the mirror with the reflection from it coming back on the floor in front of him. “Silly as this sounds it started happening soon as I wiped off some dust from this mirror in front of me, it looks old yet new… can’t really explain it mum.” “That is strange…” She turn to the TV then frowns “That strange it says the centre point of the very eclipse that happening is where you are…” Wayne turn to the view outside as night falls and the sight of the flames from the sun could be seen as the stars shinned. “Enough said, I am getting out of here.” He quickly went out of the room and down the stairs with his dog running as well, she gets out but as he was about to the door slammed shut and locked. Wayne hit it face first and bounced off landing on his back. “Ow… that smarts…” “Wayne are you ok?” the voice came from the phone. “Yeah… the door just suddenly closed and locked itself…” he turned and gasped “Ok officially freaking out here…” “Wayne calm down and tell me what going on” she said calmly as she could He was staring at rainbow colour cartoonish light bursting out from the room he was in shimmering with rainbow dust all over the place. “I am not sure how I could explain it…” He turned the video setting on his phone on and points and she sees it. “What the hell is that?” She said staring at the light from her side of the phone. “Wayne get out of there, smash a window if you have to get out of there now!” Wayne turned to one of the window.s “Alright here goes nothing” he ran for the window and jumped with elbow up and face shielded but as he hits it a rainbow energy field appears and throws him backwards landing by the stairs on his back. “Ow that smarts… double...” He slowly sits up looking at the barrier fade away. “Mum this might sound crazy but I think I am trapped in some sort of magically force field… it sealed around all the windows and doors…” “I can see it… Ok stay put and I will get your brother on the phone and come to the house right away!” ise mum said and hanged up to dial his brothers number up. Wayne stared at the room above the stairs. “Trust me I won’t even dare go up there” he sat on the steps of the stairs staring at the door with the light behind him shimming shadows on the walls and doors. “First our dog goes missing, I find her and now stuck in some strange house behind a magical forcefield...” He grumbled and put his hands on his face and lent on his knees with a deep sigh. While he waited for over ten minutes the car pulled up to the house and both his brother and mum got out heading over to the house to find they couldn’t even touch the door knob cause of a barrier. “Let me in your bloody door!” She hit her fist on the barrier and bounced her off into Wayne’s brother arms and they just stared at it. “Well that worked…” He stared at the sky seeing the sun moved but the moon moving with it “Strange…” “What is?” She looked up and noticed “Ok now what the hell is going on?” “Beats me...” They to see Wayne standing by the window “I see it blocked you off from outside too?” His mum nods “yes we can’t get in and you can’t get out…” Suddenly a news chopper flew over them and around. “Looks like it getting on the headlines… young man trapped in house of rainbow magic… what a laugh that would be…” “A joke is what I do need about now… the only way I can go is through that bloody door where that light still coming from.” He looks over to it. “All the other doors magically locked themselves…” “Magic is just nothing but fake...” His brother muttered and touch the door to find the barrier still there. “Must be something supernatural at work here” “That also means magic on a line…” Their mum replied. About 5 police cars came up and stopped outside the house and the police got out. “Everyone away from the house” “Not a chance, my son in there and I am staying here where I can see him.” His mum snapped at them and they looked at each other for a moment, walking up beside her to see what happening for themselves. Police officers saw him through the window. “Alright it doesn’t seem to be threatening but at the slightest of it is, we be pulling you back ok?” She nods then the male officer came up to the window. “Are you ok?” “Part from being trapped in this creepy old house, fine as a feather…” He turned to the stairs “I think it wants me to go up those stairs but not going to happen, I rather stay here and keep my sanity then take risk up those steps to that room…” Suddenly there was a flash of rainbow energy and it was travelling all around the walls, ceiling, stairs and floor moving towards him in every direction. “Right…” Everyone started to back away from the house as the outside walls started to glow with rainbow light and like a aurora flowing up from it shimming like a dance of colours. “What the hell? Everyone away from the house!” They stepped back as they looked up to the sky as the choppers circle around taking footage of this rainbow aurora that flowing high above the house now. “Studio… are you getting this” a report said from the chopper “It some sort of aurora made out of rainbows…” “We getting it Mike, we seeing but it impossible…” The reporters said from their studio looking at the screen of the live footage. “Wait a minute is it me or is that rainbow starting to pull into the house?” Suddenly the door clicked and Wayne’s mum wasted no time rushing in but stopped by the police holding her back as she watched helplessly. Wayne step back from the light seeing it move in around him. "Mum! Take this!" He toss the book through the field, he wasn't sure how it got through but he had little choice but to turn to the mirror. "Mum sorry..." He ran for the mirror leaping into it. "Wayne!" She cried out not noticing at first the page showed him and a pony touching the same mirror. Magical Lands of Equestria At the lands of Equestria the day had been long and the sun starting to set over the magical kingdom as Princess Celestia stood at her opened window looking out to the sun as it sets. “Another beautiful day has passed.” She turns to see the letter appears “Right on time.” She smiled and opened it up with her horn and starts to read it to herself. Meanwhile near Ponyville Rainbow Dash was finishing up her duties moving some of the clouds around when she noticed something that seem out of place, flying to the forest near the town she could see a dusty road by a house, a very old looking house that haven’t been lived in for a very long time. “That strange I never seen this house before, I been flying all over Ponyville day in and out but never saw this before.” She lands by the house and saw the door opening and closing from the wind. Upon entering the house she saw that everything looked very old and not lived in “Wow I wonder if this place be great for scaring the others in some spoken ghost tales” she smirked as she walked up the steps and noticed a shine, “Whoa look at this mirror” she saw it looked newer to everything else in the house but the mirror covered in dust. “One quick dusting coming…” “Hey Rainbow Dash!” She turned to see Twilight standing there before her with Spik.e “Where did you get this house from?” “Beats me, it was here when I was flying over, only thing that doesn’t look old in this strange place is that mirror.” Dash turned to mirror and rubs it with a front leg to get an reflection of herself “Now that one cool Pony.” She laughed “Hey Twilight look what I found, it looks like a book.” Spike picks it up and Twilight using her magic takes it and opens it. “So what does that old book say?” Dash leaned over her back flying above to see the pages herself. Twilight skimming through saw something that caught her eyes. “This mirror isn’t a mirror, it says here. Upon the sight of a mirror comes belief and from the mirror you will peer through the looking glass upon another world. The magic you see is events that are to come…” She saw an old drawing showing Rainbow Dash rubbing the mirror with her front leg and an odd looking hairless creature wearing clothes on the other side doing the same thing but the mirror was the same on both sides. “Uh oh…” “Wait that me! Wow what am I doing in such an old book doing what I did just…” Rainbow Dash turned and also said “Uh oh…” They all stared at the mirror as it started to shimmer. “Right more dust!” She quickly went to the mirror as the mirror started to unleash waves of energy, Rainbow Dash try to cover it with dust but it wasn't working, she went to the old curtains pulling them over the mirror trying to cover it up. “Rainbow what are you doing!?” She yelled seeing Rainbow Dash trying to cover the mirror up. “Trying to cover it that what!” Rainbow Dash said back to Twilight and the next thing she knew something just as big as her crash into the curtains and her throwing both in the curtains through the door down the stairs, landing on the floor hard with a thud. Twilight had ducked with Spike when this happen and when they got up the mirror seem to be a mirror again part from the magical forcefield around it. Twilight ran out of the room and look at the bottom of the stairs “Rainbow Dash are you alright?” “Yeah… just get me out of this curtain, I can’t see anything and tangled up in it!” Rainbow Dash said trying to get free “Alright! Give me a second!” Using her unicorn magic the curtains was untangled and thrown to the side, the next thing she saw was a yellow Pegasus pony with a brown and black open sleeves jacket on with black and cream mane and tail part from the front orange part of the mane, three bolt black cutie mark on his leg lying there out cold on top of Rainbow Dash, she managing to free herself. “What the heck did he come from?” She said instantly then Twilight look at the mirror then at the unconscious pony then back at Rainbow Dash. “Oh no that not possible, he couldn’t have came out of that mirror it impossible!” Twilight looked at the book “I think he did… Through the looking glass… What if upon travelling to our world he became what we are… or what touched it last” “Right… A hairless creature turned Pegasus pony all because I touched some sticking mirror…” Rainbow Dash replied not believing it for a second “Urg… my head…” Came a voice both turned to see him slowing raising his head looking at both trying to focus. “Wow… It Twilight and Rainbow Dash… Must of dozed off in front of the TV… What a crazy dream…” He looked upon his hand to find a hoof and then looked at them, he stared back at his hoof once more. “Wha… wh…” He head twirled around a few times and fell flat on his front fainted before them. Rainbow Dash turn to Twilight “Ok I guess he did… But what do we do now? We can’t tell anyone of this, if they find out that there some magic mirror that can take you from one world to another but also changing forms it would be classed as dangerous!” “Your right Rainbow Dash, we going to have to hide this house..” Twilight thought of an idea and using her magic and Rainbow Dash’s speed, they moved some of the trees around the house hiding it and Rainbow Dash using her high speed to remove the path as well. Night had already fallen when they finished then look to see the house is barely visible” “Well good work Twilight but what about him?” both turned to the yellow Pegasus pony Spike then said “What about our place Twilight? We could create a cover story or something” “Yeah till we find out more about him and this strange stuff in this bag he was carrying...” Twilight replied. “Rainbow care to give us a hoof?” Rainbow Dash lands on the ground. “Sure thing” then all three slowly carried him away from the house hidden in the trees back to Ponyville, this was going to be one heck of a long night and day to come for the three of them for sure…