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Friendship is SHOWTIME!! - MangaKamen



A Kamen Rider Crossover Magic – a mysterious force in this world, and each creature possess magic within itself. A gift to many, but to a few, it is nothing but a curse. And when Twilight sees a new form of magic, she'll learn that life is

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Spell 27 - The Joy of Today

Spell 27

The Joy of Today

TTT - TTT

Wizard threw his right claw over the belt buckle just as the rapier was about to connect. “LIQUID – PLEASE!”

When the thin sword slashed through Wizard’s body, Beast’s jeweled eyes widened as the dragon’s body melted into blue water that flew around his body. “W-What the Tartarus!?!”

The water dashed through the air until it crashed into Hellhound’s back and made the Phantom stagger forward. The Phantom spun about to see the water surge about him before it slammed back into his chest. Hellhound growled before he unleashed a powerful flame from its darkened mouth to strike the water.

However, the water surged about the flames before it crashed into Hellhound once more and coiled around the Phantom’s body. When the water solidified, Wizard had Hellhound in a headlock with the dragon’s tail wrapped around the Phantom’s right arm to pull it away from his body. “H-Hey! Get off of me!!”

“Don’t count on it!” Wizard growled before he slammed Hellhound’s face into the dirt using his entire weight into the attack.

Beast growled as he charged towards Wizard, “Get away from my…”

WHAM!

Beast was flung through the air after a green fist slammed into his chest.

“Yeesh, when I came to find you, Hellhound, I wasn’t expecting this kind of headache.”

Wizard lifted up his head to see that what had knocked Beast away was none other than the Phantom known as Minotaur. The Phantom’s red eyes turned towards Wizard and he cracked his knuckles loudly. ‘Two Phantoms?! What’s going on here!?’

Minotaur roared loudly and charged towards Wizard. Before the masked dragon could react, the larger Phantom lifted his fist back and threw it right into Wizard’s head. When the fist connected, Wizard’s body exploded into water and released Hellhound to the ground. “What?”

The water flew through the air and splashed into the ground to form back into Wizard, who sighed with relief, ‘Good thing my Liquid spell was still in effect…’

With a snort, Minotaur latched his hand around Hellhound’s arm and yanked Hellhound to his feet, “What in Hades’ name do you think you’re doing?! Did you get bonked on the head or something?”

Hellhound shook his arm free and waved his hands in front of him, “N-No! You don’t understand it, Minotaur! I have to do this so that…”

“BUFFA! Go, Bu-Bu-Bububu-BUFFA!”

Both Minotaur and Hellhound turned around just in time to see Beast ram into Minotaur, his right shoulder covered with a bull-headed mantle that sent the horned Phantom through the air and over Wizard’s head. Hellhound staggered back as Beast leapt up and down. “YEAH! Now this is what I’m talking about! Hey! Dragon!”

Wizard was swapping rings over his claws as Beast ran towards him, “What?”

“Dibs on the big lug!” Beast laughed as he leapt over Wizard as the magician dragon lifted his left claw up.

‘Well, at least he’s not attacking me,’ Wizard thought to himself as he looked towards Hellhound, the fiery Phantom jumped slightly when he saw the sapphire armored Wizard leer at him.

“Uh… Could we possibly reschedule this fight for later?” Hellhound chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his head.

Wizard didn’t say a word as he messed with his belt buckle and threw his left claw in front of the glowing buckler. “WATER, DRAGON!”

A loud roar erupted from Wizard’s belt as a dragon completely made out of water began to encircle the ring mage. Immediately, Wizard’s body became covered by water. “Jabajaba, Bashan! Zabun, Zabun!”

The water froze and then immediately shattered to release the now blue cloaked Wizard, his armor now resembling that of his Flame Dragon style, only with sapphire demimonde-cut jewels and ice crystals floated through the air. Wizard waved both of his arms up before he spun them around to show off the Water Dragon ring on his claws.

“Oh plop!” Hellhound yelled as he threw his arms to the side, his shadow growing around him. With a slight snicker, Hellhound began to sink into the darkness.

“Trying to run? Not this time!” Wizard yelled as he immediately switched rings on his right claws.

Wizard threw his right claws over his belt buckle and threw his hand up into the air. “LIGHT – PLEASE!”

From his claws, a bright blue light flowed into the air that gleamed into the darkness, casting the shadows away from Hellhound’s body and forced the Phantom to stagger backwards. “GAH! MY SHADOWS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”

“Making sure you never hurt Applebloom!” Wizard roared as he charged forward. When he was in range, the masked dragon leapt into the air and slammed his foot into Hellhound’s chest, forcing the Phantom to the ground. “I won’t let a monster like you hurt such an innocent filly!”

While Wizard was wailing on Hellhound…

CLANK!

Beast’s Dice Saber caught Minotaur’s axe as the two magical beings continued their attacks. Beast chuckled as he leapt back, “Yeah! You better make me earn my meal! A big lug like you will be enough to fill me up for weeks on end!”

Minotaur snorted as he slammed his axe’s blunt end into the ground, “A second mage? Fine! I wasn’t looking for a fight, but now I don’t have a choice.”

“Then let’s start the buffet!” Beast chuckled as he tossed up his Dice Saber into the air and had his tail catch it before he charged towards the Minotaur.

The Phantom pulled his battle axe from the ground and brought it down on Beast, however the armored griffon skidded to the side and spun around, allowing his tail to slash his Dice Saber across Minotaur’s stomach, sparks flew from where the blade met. “GAH!”

Minotaur snarled as he spun about and slammed the axe down at Beast, however, the golden mage turned his body and had the horns of his mantle catch the axe. Minotaur’s eyes widened as the griffon latched onto the handle of the axe and threw it from the Phantom’s hands. With his opponent no long armed, Beast rammed the Buffa Mantle right into Minotaur’s stomach and sent the bull-like Phantom into the air.

“Heh, time for the main dish!” Beast announced as he jumped to his hind legs and used his tail to toss the saber into his talons. When he did, Beast brought his claws to his beak-piece and blew a kiss before he spun the dial on his saber.

Just as Beast was about to slam the ring on his right talon into his sword, Hellhound was flung into Minotaur and caused Beast to halt his attack. “Hey!”

Wizard skidded next to his golden counterpart and lifted his right hand up to fit a new ring on his claws, “Finale!”

“Oi!” Beast growled as he rammed his left shoulder into Wizard. “What the Tartarus do you think you’re doing?!”

“I’m trying to destroy the Phantoms!” Wizard growled back as he shifted his belt.

“You mean you’re hogging the Phantoms!” Beast snarled before he tackled into Wizard.

“The Tartarus?!” Wizard yelped as he and the golden mage fell to the ground. Wizard was about to speak, but then he noticed that Beast had his right talon clenched tightly. As quick as he could, Wizard shifted his head and dodged the punch that Beast threw right at his head. “WATCH IT!”

With his tail and legs, Wizard threw the armored griffon off of his body, surprising Beast as he sailed through the air. A powerful whip of his tail, Wizard got back to his feet just in time to see the top of both Minotaur and Hellhound’s heads disappear into the shadows of the nearby tree. “Damn it!”

With a shake of his head, Wizard’s Water Dragon form faded away, and Haru stood there with his arms and head slumped over. ‘This isn’t going to be easy at all…’

“WAH!”

Haru turned his head to see Beast run forward, his golden form disappeared when he skidded to a halt near Haru and faded back into the goofy Kosuke – Although, the mayonnaise obsessed griffon had his eyes narrowed at the red dragon. “What is your problem!? There were two of them! One for each of us!”

Kosuke gripped Haru’s collar and actually managed to lift the dragon off of his clawed feet. “I need Phantoms in order to live, are you seriously trying to get me killed by the Phantom within me?!?”

This time, Haru barred his teeth and slapped Kosuke’s talons from his neck, “I know your life is at risk, but so are others’ lives! I won’t let any other Gates get…”

“Yeah, yeah, you won’t let them Phantoms go after the…” Kosuke snarled back. But then he stopped as the gears in his head began to turn. “Wait, you said that you’re protecting these ‘Gate’ things, and those are certain kind of individuals right? Was that yellow filly a Gate?”

A sigh escaped from Haru’s mouth, at the very least it looked like this would be the best chance for him to finally explain what a Gate was, “Quite possibly, Phantoms seek out the Gates so that they can…”

Haru stopped when Kosuke lifted his talons up in front of Haru’s face, “I got ya on this. So, if I follow the Gates, then I can get me some primo Phantom bait! And since that scrawny mutt Phantom kept going after that yellow filly, if I find her, then I’ll find the Phantoms!”

“Eh?” Haru was dumbfounded by Kosuke’s logic, and yet, Kosuke did have a point. The Phantom would go after Applebloom, but that wasn’t the point! “N-Now wait a minute! This is an innocent’s life at risk, and I’ll be damned if…”

“NO TIME!” Kosuke laughed loudly as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a couple of odd silver orbs that he tossed into the ground.

Three explosions of smoke erupted around Kosuke and Haru, and made the dragon cough in surprise. “W-What –hack- the Tartarus?!”

When the smoke cleared, Kosuke was nowhere to be seen.

Haru waved his claws in front of his face and brought his claws to his mouth. The dragon then whistled, which summoned Garuda from the air and fly in front of him. “Garuda, I’m heading off to Sweet Apple Acres, do me a favor and let Twilight know that we’ve got a situation.”

Garuda nodded before he flew off, which had Haru dash off in the opposite direction. Unknown to Haru however, Kosuke didn’t run too far, as evident when his head popped out of the bushes nearby with a large smirk on his face. ‘And now to follow him… Thank you brain for this plan.’

TTT – TTT

Meanwhile, outside Golden Oaks library, a single mare trotted up to the door and stopped, her eyes nervously watched the door from behind her rose red mane. ‘I… I shouldn’t b-b-be here… But, I… I need to do t-t-this…’

Slowly, she lifted her hoof up to the door, but then pulled back the green limb. ‘N-No… I can’t ask him, if I do, he’ll know and… And I-I’ll be destroyed! B-B-But… But if I c-c-calmly s-s-surrender, t-then m-maybe he’ll listen to me and w-won’t destroy me…’

That’s when the door opened up to the surprise of the mare and she lowered her head, “PLEASE! DON’T DESTROY ME!!!”

Twilight staggered back at the sudden proclamation by the odd pony before her, “Um, excuse me?”

The rose mane mare lifted her head and breathed a sigh of relief before that nervous look on her face returned. “Um… Is… Is that r-ring mage here?”

Twilight tilted her head slightly, “Haru? No, but does he know you?”

“Um, n-not really,” The mare replied as she looked away from Twilight. “B-But he knows my f-father and u-uncle, they met a few times.”

“Oh, well, is there something I can help you with?” Twilight offered with a gentle smile on her face. “I may not have his crazy ring magic, but I’m no slouch at magic.”

The mare turned back to Twilight and slowly her face smiled slightly – It was then that it hit her. This was her chance. From what she had heard from her mother, the ring mage not only lived with this mare, but protected her – She was a Gate! And if the ring mage wasn’t here, this could be her chance to help her family: But she knew it was only a temporary solution…

“C-Can we t-talk inside?” the mare asked as she lowered her head. “T-This is kind of important…”

“Sure, come on in,” Twilight replied as she gestured with her head.

The rose mane mare gulped as she slowly trotted into the library, with Twilight following behind her. The green mare stopped and looked around the lobby, her eyes gazed upon the books, “W-Wow… The tree’s hallowed out…”

“And yet it still lives,” Twilight stated as she trotted up next to the green mare. “I’ve lived in this tree for a while, and I’ve noticed that even though it’s hallowed out, it’s still very healthy. The leafs on it are still fresh and there’s even a calm nature to it.”

“Yeah, nature is a wondrous thing,” the green mare replied with a smile.

“So, what can I help you with?” Twilight asked as her horn lit up and allowed a book to levitate off of the table in the lobby.

“W-Well, I need to introduce myself,” the mare replied as she backed away from Twilight. The studious mare blinked a few times at the green mare’s actions. “N-Now before I do so, I need to stress that I don’t want trouble, I don’t want to do any harm, and I’m not like the r-rest of my family…”

Twilight was a little unnerved at this sudden proclamation – but stood her ground and allowed the green mare to continue.

“I… I am called Dryad, and I am a Phantom.”

As if to demonstrate that her words were not false, Dryad’s body began to shift and change – And now before Twilight stood a rather small Phantom. She wasn’t even as tall as Twilight on her four hooves, and looked like a mythological sprite that Twilight once read about in her books – a green humanoid with leaf-like armor and vine like hair that had various flowers that covered her eyes.

And now she was on the ground with her head against the floor, “P-Please! D-Don’t be afraid! I-I need help!”

And just as quickly as she transformed, Dryad returned back to her mare form – Her head still on the ground. “I… I have no interest in m-making p-p-ponies go into despair, I j-just need help! I’ll do w-w-what you w-w-want to, just please h-hear me out!”

Twilight didn’t know what to say to this – While her track record with Phantoms wasn’t all that great, this was a chance to learn more about the Phantoms. So carefully, Twilight trotted towards the Phantom and placed a hoof on her back, “It’s alright, I’ll hear you out. Everypony deserves to be heard out, and I’ll do my best to help.”

Dryad lifted her head up and tears actually welled up in the corners of her eyes. “T-Thank you…”

Outside the window of the library, neither mare seemed to notice that a certain green stallion watched as the two mares conversed with each other. ‘Hmm, what an interesting turn of events…’

TTT – TTT

“This had better not some elaborate joke, Mistah Souma.”

“I wouldn’t joke about this sort of thing,” Haru replied as he crossed his arms. “You should know I’m serious about two things – and one of them is Phantoms.”

“Uh huh, and the other’s donuts, right?” Applejack questioned as she eyed the box of confectionaries in the dragon’s claws.

“I’ll have you know that I burn a lot of calories when I use my magic,” Haru sighed with a wag of one of his donuts in his claws. “But that’s beside the point, I’m pretty sure that Applebloom is a gate…”

When Haru had reached Sweet Apple Acres, he found Applejack bucking some apples from the trees near the entrance and had explained to her about how Applebloom was attacked by the Phantom.

Applejack, needless to say, wasn’t too thrilled about that.

“Alright then, what do ya suggest we do then?” the southern mare questioned with her gaze narrowed at the donut munching dragon. “Ah can’t just keep Applebloom at home, she’s got her schoolin’ and has her friends too.”

“I’m not saying that at all,” Haru replied. “What we need to do is find Applebloom first and explain the situation to her. Delicately of course, and we’ll have Kraken keep an eye on her closer than he has so far and…”

“Ya do realize that yer Kraken’s name is Kenny, right?” Applejack pointed out.

Haru replied with a flat look in his eyes, “That doesn’t really matter right now, Kra… Kenny can alert me to if Applebloom is in trouble or not. But if anything does happen then…”

The red dragon would’ve continued if not for the fact that something flew in and knocked the box of donuts out of his claws. Haru quickly got into a defensive stance and looked around. “What the?! Where is it?! Where’s the Phantom?!”

“Uh, Mistah Souma,” Applejack sighed as she tapped Haru’s shoulder with her hoof.

Applejack pointed to where Haru’s doughnuts had landed, there was a small little toy that looked to be made out of wood – with thin wings, a propeller on the front, two plastic red wheels and a rubber band underneath its wooden body.

“Is this what the Phantoms look like now?” Applejack questioned, now she had the flat look in her eyes. “They look like toys?”

“N-No!” Haru coughed out, his cheeks tinted a little pink now. “I… I was just a little surprised by that… That… What is that thing exactly?”

“Ah think I saw this way, Mistah Neato!”

“Good eye, filly!”

Both AJ and Haru turned to the trees just in time to see Applebloom gallop out from behind the trees, Kenny the Kraken atop of her tail. And right on her tail was a familiar goofy griffon who had his tail coiled around an exact copy of the item that slammed into Haru’s doughnuts. The griffon had a large smile on his face as he saw Applejack, “Afternoon, Miss!”

“Applebloom, what in tarnation is going on here?” Applejack questioned as she pointed towards the odd toy that was in front of her. “And what is this thing?”

“It’s a glider,” Kosuke answered as he held up his glider with his tail up to the blonde mare. “It’s a popular toy among griffons, and your sister’s a natural at building and flying them! Not bad for a being that doesn’t have talons or claws too.”

“Ko… Ko… Sorry, but what was yer name again?” Applejack asked. “Yer Fluttershy and Dash’s friend, if I remember, but…”

“Hey, while I don’t mind introductions,” Kosuke snickered with a shrug. “I can easily remember yours, Applejack – I’m the Golden Beast, Kosuke Nitoh!”

“Yeah sis, Mistah Neato’s cool!” Applebloom pointed out as she trotted over to the glider that was on the ground. “He and Mistah Souma even helped me out earlier! And now he’s teaching me how to use these glider things!”

“That’s all well and good, Applebloom, but there’s some things Ah need to talk to ya about,” Applejack stated as she turned towards Kosuke. “And thank ya, Mistah Neato, but Ah really need to talk to mah sister…”

“Aw, just one more flight? Please?” Applebloom asked with her eyes wide, trying to her best to give her sister the puppy dog eye look.

Applejack was about to say no, but then Haru’s words appeared in the back of her head and she sighed, “Alright, just once more. Truth be told, Ah’m kind of curious how these do-dads work.”

Both Kosuke and Applebloom smiled brightly, and Kosuke got to his hind legs and took the glider from his tail. “It’s really simple actually, all you need to do is wind the elastic on these puppies as such.”

With his talons, Kosuke quickly wound the elastic and held it up once he got a good portion of the rubber band wound up. “And then you just set them on the ground, and these things are so realistic…”

Everyone watched as Kosuke placed the glider onto the ground. And the glider sat there not moving.

“Wow, realistic,” Haru stated with a snicker. “The flight’s already delayed.”

“Huh, that’s weird,” Kosuke muttered as he used his tail to brush the side of the glider.

The moment that his tail nudged the balsa wood flyer, Kosuke was repaid with the small flyer being snapped right into his beak. The half-lion/half-eagle staggered back as the glider took off into the air, “GAGH!”

Applejack, Applebloom and even Haru snickered as the griffon shook his talon at the small toy. “Darn thing!”

“I’m certainly liking the toy,” Haru chuckled with his claws up to his mouth.

Karma’s funny sometimes. The moment that Haru said that comment, the glider flew around and smacked him in the back of the head. The dragon’s eyes widened as he staggered forward with the glider falling in between him and Kosuke. The two magically gifted spellcasters looked towards each other before they lifted their legs up and smashed their feet into the glider.

KER-SNAP!

“That was a bit excessive,” Applejack pointed out as she rolled her eyes. “Ah swear, sometimes…”

“Um, Mistah Neato, did ya just have the two gliders?” Applebloom questioned as she looked around the apple tree orchard.

Kosuke snapped out of his blind rage against the small balsa wood toy and rubbed the back of his feathered head. “Oh, uh, y-yeah, sorry about that, little filly, I shouldn’t have gotten…”

“It’s not that,” Applebloom gulped as she stepped back. “Its um, well, we’re kinda surrounded…”

AJ, Haru and Kosuke looked around the orchard and noticed that there hundreds, if not thousands of balsa wood gliders – some in the trees, some on the ground and some that seemed to fly in from Celestia knows where. For some odd reason, the gliders seemed to squeak and chirp in anger.

“Ah don’t like the feel to this,” Applejack admitted as she pulled Applebloom closer to her. “Ah don’t like the look of this…”

“Revenge is a dark, dark thing,” Kosuke chuckled nervously as he backed off.

“Oh come on, it’s just wood,” Haru sighed loudly. “Plastic, and a rubber band. What’s the worst that could…”

And that’s when the gliders flew up into the air, encircling the four, a couple of them slammed into Haru and the others, “OW! RUN! RUN LIKE THE WIND!”

Applejack had already thrown Applebloom on her back and had galloped away from the oncoming glider attack, Haru and Kosuke weren’t as fast and had several gliders slam into them. Haru turned his head towards his fellow mage with his teeth barred, “What the hell is this all about?! How is this even possible?!”

“You’re the mage who doesn’t, OW!” Kosuke yelped as a glider smacked him in the back of the head. “You don’t eat Phantoms! You tell me how this is possible!”

“Tartarus if I know!” Haru shouted back as the two got out of the orchard, however, it was then that they noticed the sheer number of gliders that were after them – Then again, one would doubt one could count so many balsawood gliders with them flying about.

The two mages ran as fast as they could towards the large barn that the Apple Family had, and as quickly as they could, the two mages ducked into the barn with the doors closed behind them.

The two mages breathed a sigh of relief as they slumped to the ground, as the two caught their breathes, Haru leered at Kosuke. “You’re nothing but trouble, you know that right?”

“Trouble? Me?” Kosuke stated back with his tongue dripping with sarcasm. “I don’t know the meaning of the word! I’m just trying to eat so I can have a tomorrow!”

“You’re using that innocent filly as Phantom bait!” Haru growled as he pointed a claw at the griffon.

Kosuke slapped Haru’s claws out of his face, “Please, don’t act like you’re a saint! Isn’t that what you’re doing with your hunt with the Phantoms?”

“Huh?” Haru questioned as he reeled backwards.

“I bet that you just like being the hero,” Kosuke growled with a large smirk on his face. “Being there to save the mares, being there to get that warm feeling in ya…”

“If a Phantom gets a hold of a Gate, the Gate will die!” Haru yelled out.

Kosuke reeled back in surprise. “W-What?”

“When a Gate falls into despair by the hands of a Phantom,” Haru explained as he turned away. “A new Phantom will be born from a Gate’s heart. They take everything from the Gate and appear in the real world – Destroying their dreams, their hopes, their tomorrows, and even their lives.”

The griffon tilted his head slightly, his beak wide open in shock. “I… W-What… You’ve gotta be pulling my leg…”

“You kept running and interrupting me whenever I tried to tell you,” Haru sighed as he closed his eyes. “Sure, I get to the play the hero, but if you’re willing to risk somepony’s life, then I’ll have no choice but to play it!”

“Now hold on a minute!” Kosuke snarled as he got his second wind. “I gotta eat those Phantoms so I can live! Khimera isn’t gonna be satisfied by just drinking the mana in the air, he needs substance and if it’s not the Phantoms’ then it’s gonna be mine! Do you expect me to just give up on my tomorrow?!”

Haru was quiet for a few moments before he took a deep breath and spoke out, “Applebloom’s life is in danger right now.”

“Eh?” Kosuke questioned.

“Today’s life comes before tomorrow’s,” Haru stated as he stood up. “And…”

A loud, echoed screech sounded through the barn and the two mages looked up to see that several gliders were among the higher levels of the barn. Both mages’ eyes widened just in time as the gliders attacked.

“AAAAAAAAAHHHH!”

TTT – TTT

“… I… I see…” Twilight mumbled to herself.

While Haru and Kosuke were being attacked by the gliders, Twilight listened to Dryad’s tale. And although she kept her distance from the Phantom, Twilight couldn’t help but feel sorry for the young mare. In comparison to some other Phantoms, Dryad was calm and even meek – She almost reminded Twilight of Flutterhsy, even when she talked.

But it was the story that Dryad told that tugged at her heartstrings – About how Harpie tried to keep a semblance of a family, and how the minor Phantoms were being threatened to be destroyed by the Phantom known as Medusa.

The name sounded familiar, when Haru finally told Twilight about the mess in Canterlot, he mentioned about a Phantom that was even stronger than Phoenix. And that scared Twilight deep down. ‘Phoenix was a monster – And it took Haru to improve his magic to defeat Phoenix. And even when Haru had his upgraded Dragon form, he said that he couldn’t even touch this Medusa…

‘And she’s here in Ponyville…’

“I didn’t realize that there was a hierarchy for you Phantoms,” Twilight muttered under her breath. “Does that mean you Phantoms don’t even have a choice to terrorize Gates?”

“N-None of us h-had a choice,” Dryad answered back with her head lowered. “B-But, w-while a small n-number of us do t-this out of f-fear, a g-g-good portion love to l-live in sin. Some terrorize, some follow orders, others just do w-w-whatever they w-want… I can’t s-speak on behalf of other Phantoms…

“B-But I… I know my f-family doesn’t w-want to do this! We… We just want to live in peace! Like we did before the Sabbath!”

“And you think Haru can help?” Twilight questioned.

“He’s d-defeated a number of high p-profile Phantoms,” Dryad answered back as she turned away. “And w-w-with another Mage, t-they might be able t-to protect us from M-Medusa and G-Gremlin…”

“Gremlin?” Twilight questioned as thoughts went back to her bestiary of the Phantoms and then there was that odd file of a Phantom that was given to her by… By…

“TWEET!”

Before Twilight could finish, Garuda flew in from an opened window and landed on the horse-head bust in the middle of the table. The crimson familiar flapped his wings a few times to garner the mare’s attention. Twilight nodded at the familiar before she turned to Dryad, “I understand your situation, but if this Medusa is here in Ponyville, then it would probably be better for you to seek asylum outside of Ponyville.”

“B-But, where would I go?” Dryad questioned. “W-Where would be safe?”

“Miss Dryad, I know the perfect place for you to go,” Twilight answered with a reassuring smile on her face. “I can arrange for you to be protected by the Royal Guard of Canterlot – All you and your family would need to do is provide information about the plans of the Phantoms or anything of that sort, and I’m sure that Princess Celestia will be more than willing to aid you and your family.”

Dryad’s eyes widened in surprise as she smiled brightly, “I… I don’t know what to say – T-Thank you!”

“I know what it’s like to protect the ones you love,” Twilight answered. “And I knew that you Phantoms had some good in you, and you reaffirmed my suspicions. Now, I’ll have my assistant write a letter to Celestia and I’ll go get Haru. I need to convince him that you’re not here to hurt anypony and that you need help, so please stay here for the time being.”

“A-Alright,” Dryad answered back

“Spike, you can come out from hiding now,” Twilight announced.

Dryad jumped when she realized that Spike was hiding behind a stack of books near her, “I… I wasn’t hiding, I was just merely organizing some books!”

“Sure,” Twilight chuckled as she trotted over to the horse head bust, allowing Garuda to hop atop of her head. “In any case, can I trust you to get that letter to the Princess immediately?”

Spike saluted towards Twilight, which allowed the mare to smile brightly at the baby dragon. “Thank you Spike, and please make sure that our guest is treated well.”

“Wait, what?” Spike asked as Twilight trotted out the door, Garuda with his wing pointed out. “A-Alright!”

Spike and Dryad looked to each other as the door closed, and both smiled at each other – Both had a rather nervous smile on their faces. Spike whistled as he walked over to the table, “Well, I’ll get on that letter and then I’ll get something to drink for you. Anything specific you’d like?”

“Um, some Earl Gray tea would be nice,” Dryad requested with a slight bow. “But, a-anything is good…”

Outside the window, Sora smiled brightly as a green aura began to surge over his body. “Oooh, Dryad, you naughty little mare… You’re not playing by the rules any more. I guess its high time that I not play by them any more as well.”

TBC

Author's Note:

Attack of the Killer Gliders...

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