Aurthur visits Equestria

by James Fire

Found It....

Looking around with both physical and magical senses, I get the feel of the land around me. I am currently in a mountain range, covered in snow. A blizzard would be hell to get through around here, but right now, the sun is shining, and the sky is clear. Turning my attention to the magical topography of the area, I immediately recoil at the feel of the massive amount of dark magic in the area. The only things I know of that have that much is the devil himself, and the element of Dark magic. But neither of them should be here. I did tell one of my mages back home to place the element in safe keeping, but I didn't think he would throw it through a Gate. I can also feel a fairly weak Gate nearby, damn, that nearly confirms that it is the element.

However, I also feel another presence, something living in the frozen waste. Moving quickly, I attempt to pinpoint the location of the element, hoping that whatever is living hasn't found it yet, that would be bad, even if it wasn't sentient. Finding the centre of the swirling dark magic, I rapidly make my way over to it.

Oh shit. It has not only been found, but it has been found by a pony, a unicorn at that. He looks like a very imposing figure. Wearing battle armour, a blood red horn, purple contrails coming out of his eyes. But right now, it looks as though he is not fully on this plane, like he has been phase-shifted. A shadow of his true self, if you will. But, as I watch, he becomes more and more material, it would seem as if his body is absorbing the Dark Magic from the element. It also looks like he has been corrupted by the Dark Magic, which I am not surprised at. It corrupts everything it touches, unless they have sufficient protections against it. Or enough Light Magic mana to cancel out the Dark Magic mana.

I think it's time for a quick magic introductory course. There are five main types of Magic; High Magic, Blood Magic, Dark Magic, Light Magic, and Elemental Magic. High Magic mana is derived from life. It is the mana used most often, as it is the most plentiful. All living things produce it, and then most expel it into the environment. Blood Magic is the opposite, it is derived from death. And yes, all death. Dying from old age does give off Blood Magic, but so little as to be almost useless. Spilling blood gives much more, as blood itself is a magical ingredient in many potions. Dark Magic is the mana derived from emotions, specifically, negative ones. Dark Magic is by far, the most powerful, but also the least controllable. Finding a well disciplined Dark Magic user is not very easy. I have actually done it, I have one in service to me back home. Light Magic, on the other hand, is very easy to discipline. It derives its power from positive emotions, which are a bit easier to direct and control than negative ones, but they are not as powerful. And finally, we have Elemental Magic. This type actually encompasses many different energies, all of which have an anathema in one of the other ones. There is Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Lightning, Ice, Life, and Metal. I have fairly good control over all of them, but it is very rare to have any Mage with control over more than one Element without using another type of magic to emulate it. So far, I have only observed these ponies using High Magic. Discord also uses it. This is the first instance I have seen an inhabitant of this world use a different type of mana.

Anyway, I don't have the power to face off directly against anyone wielding the element, so I move over to the Gate to study, and perhaps close it. Finding the Gate, I start my very intense study. First, look through it to see where it leads. Yep, there is one of the Gate rooms in Vale city back on Taledine. So I could go home, but I need to at least fix this first. Probing the Gate, I determine that it was only intended to be temporary, but the natural magic here, as well as throwing the element through, caused it to be a bit more permanent. It is still only temporary, but will last a bit longer.

Anyway, I should probably close it, but I can use it to determine the distance from here to Taledine, assuming they are in the same universe, and if they are not in the same universe, there is still a distance factor, the distance between universes. But I am almost certain this is a different universe, as this solar system would not have gone unnoticed in my home universe.

Keeping an eye out for the stallion that has the element, I move closer, and prepare to observe. He stows the element in a saddlebag, and moves away, heading roughly northeast. I follow quietly and slowly, unsure of how to move quietly as a pony. The snow helps though.

I follow him for quite a ways, as well as a time of an hour or more. He finally stops at a cave mouth, and looks around before heading inside. I creep as close as I can without alerting the stallion to my presence, which is actually right outside the cave, off to the side of the opening. And just to make sure, I cast an illusion spell to make my head that is poking around the corner look like the rock of the cave wall.

What I see is not very interesting, at least, not until the stallion opens up the back wall. It just looks like an ordinary cave, nothing really special, well, aside from the fact that there is a perfectly smooth path going through the middle of the floor. But that has nothing on the secret door in the back wall. I sense an expenditure of Dark Magic to open the door, but am unable to pinpoint a specific spell. Well, at least I can use Dark Magic.

He steps through, and the door closes quite quickly behind him.

Author's Note:

Any guesses on who the stallion is?

P.S. It should be obvious.

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