Aurthur visits Equestria

by James Fire

......I Think I May Need Help

Alright, so. I know I can't take on anyone wielding the element of Dark Magic unless I have the element of Light Magic, or the other elements, and I have none of them. So, I need help. I decide to go back to the Gate, to hopefully get help from the royal mages of the Taledine Empire. If I had them, it would be so much easier, not to mention I could get the remaining elements.

So, trotting back, retracing my steps, I return to the site of the Gate. While moving! I think back to how the aura of that stallion felt. It could have been the interference from the element, but I think I recognize the aura. If what I suspect is true, then Equestria is in grave danger. I return to where the Gate was, only to find it closed and sealed.

Well, that puts a damper on my plans. But, there is yet hope. Some quick calculations, and what I know of the power level of the alicorns and Discord, all of us together should be able to overpower the element. The magic of the stallion should be negligible, but we still should have a significant amount of power more than the element, so he should not be of consequence.

Charging up my teleport, I feel a spell being cast, but since it is not directed at me, I ignore it for now.

Appearing in the throne room of the Crystal Castle, I rush up to Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, I learned her name from my time with Twilight Sparkle, and tell her, while reaching out a hoof towards her, "You need to come with me, and hurry, I still need to retrieve Twilight Sparkle before I get Celestia and Luna." She is very surprised at my appearance, not just the fact that a complete stranger is telling her to come with him, but also the fact that he is an alicorn. I register the surprise on her face, after she gets a good look at me, it only stays, perhaps some confusion working its way in there. I look to my back, and, sure enough, see the wings, and I still have my horn.

"Well, it had to come out eventually. Now come, I need your help." I am not sure if mentioning the other alicorns, appearing as an alicorn, or a combination of the two made her decide to trust me.

"Then what are we waiting for, lets go!" She takes my hoof, and I release the teleport spell I have been holding, 'porting us to Twilight Sparkle's Friendship Castle in Ponyville.

I immediately start searching for Twilight Sparkle, telling Mi Amore Cadenza we need to find her quickly. She corrects me, telling me to call her Cadance. She nevertheless starts searching with me. "Twilight Sparkle! Where are you?"

We only have to yell for a few minutes before Twilight Sparkle gallops down the stairs, she really shouldn't do that, coming to a stop right in front of us.

"Cadance! Mana Spark? What are you two doing here? And why is Mana an alicorn?"

I speak first, nearly interrupting Cadance. "Princess Twilight Sparkle" she finally corrects me on this point, saying I should call her Twilight, as all her friends do. Nice to know I am considered a friend. "Fine, Twilight, you need to come with me, Equestria may be in grave danger. I still need to collect Celestia and Luna, and I will explain my alicorn hood later." I hope that she is agreeable, I really don't want to force anyone into anything.

"Then lets go, we can't let a threat to Equestria stay alive and well." Again, I release the teleportation spell I was holding, placing us right in the main courtyard. There is Luna's tower that I climbed way back when. "Head to the throne room, I am going to wake find Luna. Celestia should be there, I will meet you there." Cadance and Twilight head for the throne room, while I teleport up to the top of Luna's tower. I find Luna, sleeping soundly. This is going to be fun. I creep silently up to her bedside, whisk away the blankets, and conjure a fan, and a bucket of water, just in case. I use the fan to blow cool air over Luna, causing her to wake up.

"Who goes there!?" She is now fully awake, and is staring at me, wide-eyed. "Who are you? And how did you get past the guards?" She also takes a good look at me, noticing the wings and horn. "And how are you an alicorn?"

I opted to answer the last question first. "I made myself into an alicorn. I teleported up into your room, and I am Mana Spark. I need you to come to the throne room, the safety of Equestria is at stake." She sits bolt upright at that, moving out of the bed quickly. She grabs her regalia, me, then 'ports us to the throne room.

"Sister! What is this!?" Celestia looks surprised, but whether at that I actually appeared, or me being an alicorn, I cannot tell. But I think she was expecting me to show up at some point, so probably me being an alicorn. Celestia motions for me to speak, as well as commanding the courtiers to leave, knowing that I have all the information she needs and that it might cause a panic if they were to hear it.

"Princesses, I am here to request your help. In the far north, I have found what I suspect may be a devil." Now how to word this? Eh, say it. "He has what is known as the Element of Dark Magic. It is a very powerful magical artifact from my world, placed here by a careless subordinate of mine. I need to retrieve this element, otherwise, existence as we know it may be erased." I appear calm and collected on the outside, but on the inside, I am very worried. If that is indeed the one devil that had a suspicious demise, the world could end very soon. I then show them an image of the stallion that I saw. "This is the pony I saw, I believe it is a devil that has only taken this form to fit in here better."

Everyone else gives out a collective gasp, "Sombra!" And Cadance adds, "How is he still alive? He should have been disintegrated by the Crystal Heart!"

I am curious about how they know him, so I ask. "What did he do here?

"He enslaved the Crystal Empire, and would have conquered the rest of Equestria if he hadn't been defeated. But he won, even in defeat. He cursed himself and the Empire, causing both to disappear for a thousand years. He and the Empire only returned four years ago."

Well, looks like he has an extensive resume, but "He did worse back home. He hunted people for sport, had an entire country as slaves, and the only reason he is not there now is because I supposedly killed him. I thought I had finished the last of his kind off millennia ago. It appears i haven't, I intend to fix that mistake now." That last part caught them a bit off-guard, as they previously had no idea I had killed. But I think they understood that it was necessary for the preservation of existence. Or, at least Celestia and Luna did. "Anyway, any chance someone could contact Discord? We may need his power as well. I am not actually certain of the power the element contains. And it seems to fluctuate as well."

Twilight just casts a spell, bringing Discord into existence, probably literally, in the room. "Aurthur! How nice to see you!" He does an elaborate bow, including having mini Discords on his shoulders bow, and more discord on their shoulders' and on and on. That is really disorienting.

"My pony name is Mana Spark, please use it unless we are alone. I really don't want all the ponies here thinking I am not a pony."

"Well, my sincerest apologies," he pulls out an apology letter, "Mana Spark." Then burns it. I am having some serious doubts about his sincerity. But, we still need him, so I give him the explanation I just gave the princesses. "So, you want me to help? Fine, but only because it would prevent a horrible death for Fluttershy."

"Now that we are all caught up, I will teleport us to the appropriate location. And everyone, please don't resist, I know what I am doing, but if you resist, it becomes much more energy intensive." Twilight's wings pop up again, much to everyone else's amusement, and although they don't say anything, I think there is something I don't know. I really should ask Twilight about it, since she is the one most likely to know why it's happening. It's her body, after all. And with a pop, we are back at the cave mouth.

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