The Stallion

Traveling Souls

By, Vason Silversword (Pen name)

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Authors note: this is a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fan Fiction done for the "National Pony Writing Month" hosted by Equestria Daily, also is my first fan fiction. I have little experience in writing novels as it stands right now, and this is an introduction to the characters I'm planning on writing more (and was written on a whim in the first place), so I apologize if this isn't very good (copyright Hasbro, and their respective owners, and stuff). Something to note is that I make a number of assumptions on the fact you have watched the whole first season and know the characters, so if you have not finished the series go do so (and if you have not WHY are you reading fan fiction?). Also this ( {writing like so, without the "()" } ) denotes when someone is speaking quietly, it's faster than just shrinking and un-shrinking text repeatedly. I plan on editing this story eventually, but for now what I have is what I have. So yah, now onto the fan fiction!

Oh, and a little note that I’m going to add here in chapter one, Vason is NOT a self-insert. I just want to make that totally clear; Vason is a name I got attached to after using it for nothing for so long, and I now use it as a username and character. Vason isn’t even all that much like me.

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Chapter 1: The Stallion

A pony walked though the murky Everfree forest in the night. The mud on the ground felt as if it was grasping his hooves, trying in vain to keep him from leaving. He carefully watched everything, he had to mot miss a thing. Something was watching him, and it wasn't pleasant. The wooden staff was gripped calmly, and his eyes we surveying everything around him he could see. Everything from the gnarled bark of the trees, the muddy twig and weed covered ground, and the twisted, unnatural-looking undergrowth of the forest. Everything would have been nerve racking to most ponies, putting them on edge, even without the near-unbearable stench that almost anypony who wasn't used to the worst of stenches would have loathed. A giant green serpent slithered towards him, slowly moving nearer and nearer, being sure to not make a noise, and to stay out of sight. The pony felt a slight breeze on his ear, and tried to flick it away with his ear. The movement caught the already irritated serpent at the right moment, making the it try striking from just too faraway. The pony spun around, staff pointed forward. His weapon caught the serpent at exactly the right moment, the momentum of both the leaping snake, and the wooden staff made the creature fly through the air, and land in a bush. The beast hissed at what it had seen as it's prey, then began to slither into the darkness of the moon-lit forest. It knew that the risks of this hunt were to high, and the probability of succeeding too low.

The pony breathed heavily for a minute, waiting to see if the next hunter would move in as the snake moved out. When nothing more came from the forest, he brought his staff up to his bag, and affixed it to the side by two clips made just for it.
"I... Have to find the end of this forest soon... You have spells to keep yourself awake, you can make it. You just have to keep moving." the pony muttered to himself, words slow and heavy. He drew his hoof up slowly, and began walking once again, and once more took care to be sure that nothing avoided his sight.

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It was a normal day in Ponyville, everypony was off doing their daily routine more-or-less, and everything had gone over, without a crazy happening going on, for the past while. In a field, near a place known as the Everfree forest, there walked the yellow pegasus named Fluttershy, who was wandering around, enjoying the scenery. As she was walked, she saw a number of birds fly from the forest.
"Oh my, what could have startled all those birds at once?" she asked herself, as she looked towards the forest. When she examined the edge of the trees, she noticed that there was something in the forest, walking towards the field. "EEP!" she squeaked, as she saw the thing in the forest. She inched back, as she saw the thing move forward, ever closer. With another squeak, she spun around, to find that she had just backed up into a large rock in the field. When she looked back to the thing in the forest, she saw that the thing's coloring had changed from what looked like black, to a light brown, since she last looked. That caught her by surprise, and she flew back behind the rock. She hid there for a moment. Her pink mane began to appear from behind the rock, as she peeked out, to see what was the thing was. It was a unicorn stallion, who had come out of the forest, and the color change was simply from the light hitting his coat. He was tired-looking, his eyes closed, and his head lowered. He had a light brown coat, and a black mane that was parted to both sides, coming up, then hanging down. He had a scar over his right eye, directly above the eyebrow. The pony also had some kind of well-used armor on, as well as a red cape, with a dark red stripe going around the whole thing, that was connected to the armor by two gold circles on the front and back of his neck. The stripe on the cape left a bit of red on the edge, and in the center, giving off a unique appearance. The brown stallion also carried a large bag that seemed to be carrying a great number of things, as well as a large stick of some sort that was attached to the side of the bag.

As Fluttershy watched with her cyan eyes, she wondered if he was okay, but then, she saw that he attempted to do some kind of magic, and while it startled her, she kept on watching. The stallion's horn had began to glow, and his whole body started to as well, but he struggling to do just that. The glow only lasted for half a second, and with that, he shook his head, and began mumbling to himself. The pony never opened his eyes, or looked up. He took three more steps, stopped, and then tried magic again. The glow was weaker, and shorter, than before. With a third attempt, he managed only to get his horn to glow. With a slow shake of his head, he began to lay down, but only made it halfway down, before falling. Fluttershy had seen him the whole time, and now began to panic a bit.
"Oh my, oh my! W-what do I do?" the pegasus asked herself, unsure if she should try to carry him somewhere, or if she should get help first. She decided it would be best to first move him away from the Everfree forest, just to be sure that he would be safe from all the creatures that dwelt within. She went up to him, grabbed him by the tail, and tried to drag him away from the forest. This, however, proved harder than she expected, as he, and his things, were very heavy. She could not even get him halfway to the rock she had hidden behind when she tried to move him. Fluttershy decided that she should go and try to find help if she planed on moving him to the medical clinic in town. Thus, she flew off to find help.

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The town square was not that far away, and she went there first to try and find somepony to help.
"Help, help! Please? Somepony is injured by the Everfree forest!" she called, however nopony took notice, because she was so quiet that she sounded like she was talking to somepony else, to everypony within earshot.
"Howdy Fluttershy! How's everythin'-" Fluttershy's orange-coated friend Applejack called out, as she came up to her with a cart, but was cut off by said pegasus.
"Applejack, thank goodness! Quick, we need to go help somepony. He's injured by the Everfree forest!" A-also we should probably bring the cart, {i-if that's okay with you}." Fluttershy explained quickly. Applejack knew that this was important, as the shy pegasus was rarely able to interrupt anypony for anything, even when she really needed to. Applejack slid the stetson hat she always wore back to show her blonde hair before speaking.
"Alright, lead the way Fluttershy!" she replied, ready to help her friend with whatever she needed help with.
"This way!" Fluttershy called back, and the two immediately started galloping to the Everfree forest.

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Applejack and Fluttershy made it a decent distance before the earth pony decided to ask her yellow friend what was going on.
"So sugarcube, what d'y'all need mah fer that's so urgent?" she asked, as she has heard less information from Fluttershy than the one time Spike came running to them about their friend Rarity being kidnapped by Diamond Dogs.
"Somepony c-came out of the Everfree forest, and collapsed. I-I couldn't get him to the clinic, s-so I had to get some help, and you were the first pony who helped." explained Fluttershy.
"Alright, then let's hurry up, and go help him!" replied Applejack, as she started to pick up speed to get there.

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The pair made it to the field very quickly, and found that the stallion had not moved, nor had been touched, by anything since the cyan-eyed pony had left.
"T-there he is Applejack!" Fluttershy exclaimed, as she pointed to where the stallion had fallen. The two hurried over to him, and started to move him into the cart immediately. Applejack examined him with her green eyes, something about him seemed familiar, yet distant.
"My, he's a strong lokin' fella! Heavy, too!" Applejack commented as she began to lift him. The two ponies got him moved into the cart, and Applejack got back in front of the cart. "Hey, if ya don't mind, could'ja help me push this here cart. It's rather heavy with him in it, so Ah might need some help." she asked, and Fluttershy nodded.
"Of course, why wouldn't I?" she smiled, and got behind the cart with her fore-hooves on the backboards of the cart, ready to help push. When Applejack started to pull the cart, Fluttershy began pushing, and the two were off to the medical clinic with the stallion.

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They made it most of the way to the medical clinic before Applejack started to slow down a bit. The clinic wasn't far, and the roads made it easier for her to pull the cart.
"Alright Fluttershy, go ahead an' make sure Nurse Redheart ain't doin' nothin' too important, an' don't worry 'bout me; Ah've moved heavier. Get there an' back real quick, ya hear sugarcube?" Applejack said as she pointed Fluttershy onward. The yellow pony decided not to argue, since Applejack was right. She should go ahead, and check with Nurse Redheart. The Pegasus flew over the cart, and went ahead to the clinic as fast as she could.

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Fluttershy reached the clinic quickly, and looked around when she made it inside.
"{Hello, N-Nurse Redheart?}" Fluttershy asked, looking around inside the clinic.
"Oh, hello Fluttershy, no none of your friends are in. What's the reason you're here?" replied Nurse Redheart, making a tiny inside joke.
"Actually, somepony came out of the Everfree forest, and he collapsed. Y-you are open, right?" replied Fluttershy, who was in a hurry.
"Of course I'm open, what should I prepare to get him here?" Nurse Redheart asked, as she got some things ready.
"Applejack is bringing him over right now, and I really should go help her with that. {W-will you be fine on your own, Nurse Redheart?}" answered Fluttershy.
"Of course, go and help Applejack bring him here. I'll be ready in a second on my own." and with that, Nurse Redheart went to get her things ready in the clinic itself, and Fluttershy went back to help Applejack.

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It did nottake long for Fluttershy to reach Applejack, and then it took almost no time at all for them to get back to the clinic. When they did get there, Nurse Redheart was ready for the stallion, and the three of them got him onto a bed with ease. Nurse Redheart asked Fluttershy and Applejack to wait outside. That was, if they were going to wait for him, as it would be a while before she was done. Thus, the two waited in silence, both wondering what was going on with him, both just waiting. After a while, Fluttershy got antsy, and Applejack caught onto this quickly.
"Ah'm sure he'll be fine sugarcube, an' he probably jes needs ta be patched up!" Applejack reassured her yellow friend, who appeared to clam down a bit.
"{I-I... I hope your right...}" mumbled Fluttershy, who was worried about the stallion.
"Are you girls still here?" asked Nurse Redheart, as she came out to check on them. "And if you are wondering about him; he is completely fine. Well, beyond all the strange scars he has on him, but none of them are fresh, so he should be fine. He probably just needs his rest."
"{S-scars? W-why would he have scars?}" Fluttershy asked.
"I would guess that he might do stunts like Rainbow Dash, but he's not a pegasus, and his coat is discolored around the scars, something you just don't see. Anyway, I'm sure you can ask him when he wakes up. Now, you two should go back to whatever it was you were both doing. There's not much of a point in staying here. I'm even going to go over some paperwork, so I won't be open to chat. See you two later." Nurse Redheart explained, and went to the paperwork she had mentioned.
"Alright, Ah'll see you later Fluttershy. We both should get back ta what we were doin'."
"Okay. Bye Applejack, bye Nurse Redheart. Thanks for helping, both of you."

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Applejack went and brought the cart back to her farm. She had to go help Pinkie Pie with some baking, as she was taking an order that needed a large number of apples. Applejack had brought earlier for an order, and, after all she was the town's expert when it came to apples, even more so than her older brother. When the earth pony got to Sugarcube Corner, she was greeted by Ms. Cake, who was at the front desk.
"Oh, hello Applejack, how are you? Pinkie Pie is waiting for you in the kitchen, just so you know." she informed Applejack.
"Why Ah'm fine, an' thank ya very much fer letting me know where Pinkie is. Ah'd stop an' chat, but Ah'm kinda late fer helping Pinkie Pie, so Ah'm just going to hurry on an' help her, if ya don't mind." answered the blonde earth pony, and Ms. Cake shook her head.
"Oh not at all dearie. You should hurry up and help her out. I'll see you later then Applejack."
"Ah'll see ya around Ms. Cake, thanks fer letting me know where Pinkie is."

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Applejack waked into the kitchen, and looked around to find her pink-coated friend.
"Hey Pinkie Pie. Sorry 'bout bein' so late and all. Ah had to help Fluttershy with somethin' real important." Explained Applejack. Pinkie Pie pulled her head back out of the oven, her curly magenta mane falling down when she reached her head straight back. She had already started to get baking since Applejack had taken so long.
"Geez Applejack, I've NEVER seen you THIS late!" Pinkie Pie responded, not annoyed, but surprised at how 'the loyalest of friends and most dependable of ponies' was late to helping her with something she had already committed to earlier. It was even stranger for her because of the fact that she had brought apples earlier, on time no less. "Well, except that one time you tried to harvest Sweet Apple Acres all on your own, but you don't look, OR sound, sleepy..." Pinkie Pie added, her blue eyes drifting to her left slightly, then shifted them to look back at Applejack. "Your not doing that again, ARE you?" Pinkie accused her friend, who baked up a bit, and shook a hoof.
"Oh no, Ah learned mah lesion back then, an' Ah ain't ever makin' THAT mistake again!" she explained, and that was enough to get Pinkie Pie to back off with her intense stare.
"Okie-Dokie-Lokie, but can you tell me about why you were so late, after being early with the apples?" the energetic pony asked, as she tilted her head after 'early'.
"Well," Applejack started her explanation, "Fluttershy was near the Everfree forest fer some reason or another, an' she saw this one fella come out of the forest, an' then collapsed. She then went ta get some help, then Ah saw her, an' helped out. We picked him up, an' brought him to the medical clinic. After that, we waited around a bit to see if he was alright, Nurse Redheart said he was fine, so we left. Then Ah had to go drop off the cart, an' so that's why Ah was so late Pinkie, so... sorry 'bout that."
"Well thanks for letting me know. Who was it by the way Applejack?" asked Pinkie after hearing the explanation.
"Ah don't think y'all would know him sugarcube." answered Applejack, who started getting ready for baking, before the pink pony giggled at her friend's response.
"Silly Applejack! I know EVERPONY in Ponyville! How about you just describe him to me?"
"Well, he's got a light brown coat, was wearing some kinda big bag with a stick attached to it, got a red cape, has a black mane, an'-"
"OOH, OOH, OOH, I KNOW, I KNOW!" Pinkie Pie called out, interrupting Applejack. "He knew Twilight in that one school she went to before she came here to Ponyville, and he also lives here! I'm not too sure about that, but I have seen him and Twilight talking sometimes, so I THINK he lives here. I don't know why he could have a cape though." Pinkie Pie explained, and went back to getting all the ingredients ready for baking.
"Actually Ah know who yer talking about, an' no it's not him. He's a unicorn, an' 'sides the fella who we picked up looks like he could give Big Macintosh some competition, 'least judging from his size." Applejack pointed out, "So, what are we bakin' taday Pinkie?" she asked, and looked over to Pinkie, who and drooped her head a bit, as she did not actually know him. Hwever, the sadness however was very short-lived due to a quick realization.
"*GAAAAAAAAASP!* THERE'S SOMEPONY NEW IN TOWN!" she yelled out, and with that, she zoomed out of the kitchen to somewhere, and Applejack sighed as Pinkie had just simply dashed off, but before even a thought could fully form, Pinkie zoomed back in. "Silly me! I was SOOOO exited about the new pony that I forgot I was IN Sugarcube Corner!"
"At least y'all came back." chuckled Applejack, "Now Ah'll help ya with the party if we have time after we bake, now what was it y'all wanted ta get to first."

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At the same time that Applejack had gotten to Sugarcube Corner, Fluttershy had gotten a book from her house. She was gong to the library that Twilight worked and lived in to return a book. When the pegasus came to the treehouse, she knocked on the door and waited for her lavender-coated friend to answer the door. After a minute, Twilight opened the door with her magic, and Fluttershy came inside.
"Hello Fluttershy what brings you here?" asked Twilight, when she saw her friend come inside. Fluttershy also noticed her pegasus friend Rainbow Dash as well.
"Hello Twilight, hello Rainbow Dash. I just came here to drop this book off that I borrowed Twilight, {I-I'm not interrupting a-anything, a-am I?}" replied the shy pegasus.
"Nope, your not interrupting important anything at all Fluttershy, we're just cleaning up since SOMEPONY nocked over ALL the books in the library, again." Twilight explained, and then she gave Rainbow Dash a sharp glare with her violet eyes.
"Hey, your tree is the best place to crash-land. What else am I supposed to do when I have to land somewhere?" replied Rainbow Dash in her defense, Twilight was going to argue further but figured it would be best to save it for later.
"That's not too important. Could I get the book that you said you were returning, since Dash and I are replacing every single book in the library." responded Twilight.
"Yes, one second, I just need to get it." Fluttershy replied, then opened her bag and grabbed the the book that she had borrowed, and placed it on a table in the middle of the room. "Thank you Twilight, I really enjoyed the book, just like you said I would. A-also i-if you don't mind can I get a glass of water?"
"Sure Fluttershy, here I'll get one right now." the dark-blue maned unicorn answered, then used her magic to bring a glass of water for Fluttershy, without even leaving what she was doing.
"Hey Fluttershy, do you mind if I ask about what you were doing with Applejack earlier, didn't really get a clear look when I was flying overhead. You two looked like you were in some kind of a big rush." asked Rainbow Dash, who had been flying overhead when they were going to get the stallion.
"W-well, I saw this stallion come out of the E-everfree forest, and h-he was incredibly tired and even collapsed. I-I had to help him, but I couldn't, so I had to go get somepony to help me so. I went to the town square, and that's when I ran into Applejack, who had that cart. I asked her to help me out with bringing him to the medical clinic, and she agreed. When we got back to him, we put him in the cart, brought him to the clinic, and that's about it. A-also, he didn't wake up by the time we had left." she explained, holding the water glass in her hooves, shining it nervously.
"Do you mind describing him Fluttershy?" Twilight asked. "I'm wondering if it is somepony I know."
"He's a light brown unicorn with a black mane, and apparently has a number of strange scars on him. He had some kind of armor on, a red cape, a big bag, and some kind of large stick, but besides that I don't know anything." Fluttershy answered, then took a big drink from her glass. "It must be nice not having to not taste books Twilight..." the pink-maned pegasus replied. Twilight started thinking about the description of the stallion, and out of curiosity Rainbow Dash flew over to the stack of books that Twilight was moving books from, picked up the top book with her mouth. All of her rainbow-colored mane stood on end as she cringed at the taste of the history book.
"Yes, definitely on the history books..." whispered Rainbow Dash, "I'm going to get some water now!" Rainbow added before flying into the kitchen.
"Go ahead Rainbow Dash. Anyways, I think you might have picked up an adventurer, judging from what he had on him at least. However, I don't know for sure, but I can't think of any other reasons somepony would be wearing a red cape around..." Twilight pointed out.
"I-I guess that makes sense, {b-but wouldn't that be dangerous?}" replied Fluttershy, who was still worried for the stranger she had rescued.
"Weellllll... I guess it would be, but generally adventures travel in groups for safety, and to help one another accomplish things greater than they could have accomplished alone." the unicorn explained, receiving her friend of some of her worrying.
"That's nice to know." Fluttershy commented before taking a sip of water.
"This guy sounds pretty cool if he is an adventure. Not as cool as the Wonder Bolts, or me, but really, who is. Why don't we all go see if he's awake later today, I think it would be cool to meet him. You two up for it?" Rainbow Dash asked, seeming to be eager to meet him.
"I would love to, how about we see if he's up at seven, and if not we just head back and try again tomorrow?" replied Twilight.
"Well, I'm open as well, so I guess I'll come too, that is, if you don't mind..."
"Alright then, I guess we meet him at seven. Although, are we going to be done in time Twilight?"
"Yah, I'm sure the two of us can be done by then, if we work fast enough, and you should have enough time to go grab something if you have to Fluttershy." Twilight explained.
"You know, I can help you two with the books, if you want some help, well if you need help..."
"I wouldn't want to ask of you to drop whatever plans you might have had Fluttershy, I'm sure we can handle this on our own." Twilight answered, and smiled. "Though another pony would really help. So if you aren't doing anything, then your help would be really appreciated."
"I don't have any other plans today, so I'll help you two out. Just let me know what you need help with." Fluttershy answered, a smile on her face as she tilted her head to the side.

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Elsewhere, in the Everfree forest, a cloaked pegasus flew out from the trees, and looked out over the forest, seeking something. His eyes began to glow, and he looked out over the forest. His eyes caught onto a small town over on the horizon, a shine covering the town. When he blinked his eyes returned to normal, and the glow was gone. "V, V, V, always ahead... Oh well, I must be on my way..." the pegasus mumbled, as he started descending, back into forest. "Won't be you ahead for long." the pegasus said once more, and passed through the canopy of the forest, into its interior.

The Pegasus

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Chapter 2: The Pegasus

It was almost seven. Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle, and Rainbow Dash had finished cleaning up the library a while ago. Spike, Twilight's assistant baby dragon, had been napping when Fluttershy had gotten there. He had decided to pass up on the opportunity to meet an adventurer, mostly due to the fact that adventurers and dragons did not mix well. They began to head to the clinic, and along the way, passed Sugarcube Corner. They decided to say hello to Pinkie Pie, and see what she was up to. Upon reaching the door, it was swung open by the party pony too quickly, as she was wasn't actually looking outside when she first opened it. Then she turned to see that Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy were there in the doorway.
"Oh, hey you three! What brings you here? Me and Applejack here were baking, and just finished." Pinkie Pie explained to her friends, happy to see them.
"We were going to go meet this new pony that Fluttershy and Applejack helped. We were going to see if you wanted to come with us." answered Twilight, "By the way, did Applejack mention him to you?"
"She sure did. We actually spent a little while planing a party for him, but we already finished. I plan sooo many parties, it almost seems they plan themselves these days." Pinkie pointed out, smiling because of her new friend she had never even met.
"Why don't you two come with us, and we can all see if he is up. Twilight here thinks here is an adventurer." Rainbow Dash asked.
"Well THAT explains why the fella's as big as Big Macintosh, an' well Ah got nothing else to do fer the rest of the day, Ah'll come." answered Applejack.
"Of course I'll come silly. Why WOULDN'T I want to meet out new friend!" Pinkie responded with a great big smile.
"Alright, let's go meet this adventurer then!" Twilight proclaimed and the five were off to the clinic, Pinkie itching her forehead, wondering if it was her Pinkie senses, but passed it off as she had never had it before.

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The five chatted along the way about their week, but since it was all rather dull compared to what their weeks have been like. It felt like it took almost no time at all for them to make it to the clinic. They headed in as soon as they got there, and were immediately greeted by Nurse Redheart.
"Oh hello girls!" Nurse Redheart said as she saw five ponies, and was only expecting one or two of them, "I'm guessing this is about that stallion that Fluttershy, and Applejack brought here earlier today?"
"Yup, Twi here wanted to meet him, suspects the fella's an adventurer, or somethin' o tha sort." answered Applejack.
"That I do, Princess Celestia has mentioned them a few times." added Twilight.
"Well," Nurse Redheart started, "I agree with you Twilight, the adventurer theory works, as he has some scars on him. Though they discolor his coat a bit which is odd for scars. Normally scaring either doesn't let the coat grow back, or it's only visible on the skin, if it's a minor scar. That also explains his staff, large bag, cape, and the exhaustion that's made him sleep without moving for all these hours. oh, and don't worry about him too much, his vital signs are fine."
"I hope the silly sleepyhead gets up soon, I have to throw him a party!" Pinkie Pie called out, "How long do you think he'll he out?"
"I'm not sure, he could have little stamina, and just hasn't slept since yesterday. That would mean he would likely wake up in a few hours or less. However, if he has been walking for longer than that, without rest, then he could sleep until this time tomorrow." Nurse Redheart paused for a moment, "but, he could be worse than that. I can't see any reason for that, but it's possible he will be out for a much longer period of time than I had expected, but I don't believe this to be the case."
"Well when somepony needs their rest, they need their rest," mentioned Applejack, "Ah suggest we all check in on him tomorra after lunch, an' see if he's up. If not, we'll jes see what happens then."
"Aounds good, but could those of us who haven't seen him see him?" asked Twilight, who had not gotten to the point of the visit.
"Oh sure, go ahead. He is just resting after all." Nurse Redheart smiled, and brought them to the stallion.

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The next little while was rather uneventful. The stallion was exactly where he was placed, armor, bag, staff, and all. None of the ponies had much else to say about him, so they just kept chatting for a while, and were about to head off.
"Thanks again fer everythin' Nurse!" Applejack called out cas they left.
"Yes, thank you!" added Fluttershy, happy knowing that the adventurer was safe.
"Your welcome all, and it's nice to see you all when one of you ISN'T on a bed, so stay safe!" Nurse Redheart called. Dash smiled, and laughed half-heartedly, as she was often 'scratched up' from tricks gone wrong. As they went outside, they saw that Rarity was coming to the clinic, and three fillies known as The Cutie Mark Crusaders; Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo, were following her. The group was often found doing anything that could lead them to their cutie marks, and rarely trying anything completely safe.
"Hey Rarity, what brings you here?" asked Twilight, who was the first one to notice her.
"Hello darlings. I was watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders today, if you didn't know. They decided they were meant to be tightrope walkers today. As you can all probably tell, they clearly are not." explained Rarity, who was irritated from too much time with the cutie mark crusaders. She was even letting her mane be far messier than she normally allowed it to be.
"Why, you three put yerselves in too much danger, too often fer anypony's preference. Now y'all better keep away from doin' stuff like that, or we might have ta keep y'all separate. Ya hear?" threatened Applejack.
"BUT SIS!"
"BUT APPLEJACK!"
"COME ON APPLEJACK!" the three fillies yelled in disapproval.
"I for one agree with Applejack," Rarity pointed out, "and I'm sure your parents would too Scootaloo. Now, I suggest you three try some normal activities for school fillies like yourself for a while." the comment was sure to get the disapproval of the three fillies, however before they could say anything Fluttershy spoke up.
"You know I agree with Rarity. You three spend far too much time hurt from all your crazy... adventures." Fluttershy walked up to them and patted each of them on the head.
"How is THAT supposed to help us get out cutie marks?" Scootaloo called out, not liking the idea enough to go along with it.
"It wont right now, but later on, I'm sure having had a moment to clear your silly little heads will help you find your cutie marks easier." she explained, and smiled at the three fillies.
"Yes Fluttershy!" they said in unison, not wanting to provoke her into using 'The Stare'.
"I'm glad that you all understand. I'm sure you three will have a good time." the yellow pegasus replied.
"I guess we can do something normal for a change..." mumbled Sweetie Belle. None of them really wanted to go along with the idea, but she knew that she couldn't really do anything else.
"Yah, it can't be all THAT bad... Right?" replied Applebloom.
"It'll be fun for you three, but can you three go in and explain things to Nurse Redheart, I would like to chat for a bit." Rarity asked the three fillies.
"Sure Rarity, come on Crusaders, let's go see Nurse Redheart!" Scootaloo said, as the Cutie Mark Crusaders headed off to the clinic, though slower then they normally would.
"Ugh, they are so much work." Rarity said as they left, her head drooping, "I don't know HOW you can do that Fluttershy. I didn't know it would be possible to get them to agree to something like that."
"Well, as I said; I guess I'm just as good with kids as I am with animals, a-and are you feeling okay Rarity?" Fluttershy explained, and noticed that Rarity's hair was not as well made as it normal is.
"Yes, I'm perfectly fine. I'm just, out of it. It's from filling an order, then watching them the next day. I just need some rest... *sigh* Well, anything interesting happen any of you girls today?"
"There's a new pony in town Rarity!" Pinkie Pie blurted out, "Fluttershy and Applejack helped him over to the clinic and he's been asleep since..." Pinkie tilted her head, and looked at Fluttershy, "When did he fall asleep Fluttershy?"
"Before lunch, I didn't check the time." answered Fluttershy.
"My, somepony just came into town and fell asleep, what manners!" Rarity called out in disapproval, Applejack then decided to explain the situation better.
"Actually Rarity, the fella kinda COLLAPSED, right outside the Everfree forest no less. Ah don't think what y'all might have gone and thought up would be true."
"I think that's because he is an adventurer. He has this armor on, a cape, was-IS carrying a giant bag of stuff on him, and has these weird scars that discolor his fur, or something like that." Twilight added, this caught Rarities attention.
"My my, an ADVENTURER! How heroic..." she smiled at the though of him being an adventurer.
"Sorry to point this out, but remember the LAST time you fantasized about somepony you never met like this." Twilight mentioned, "You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover." Rarity sighed at this.
"Your right, I should... Anyways, I should go make sure that the Cutie Mark Crusaders aren't giving Nurse Redheart too much trouble. Anything else anypony has to say before I'm off?"
"Actually I do." said a voice, when everypony looked, it was sompony in a cloak carrying a large bag. The six stared at him for a while, every pony thought he seemed vaguely familiar, but none of them could tell who he was. "I am here for one by the name of Vason. I have asked, what seems to be, every single pony in this town, and none know his name, or have seen him." The cloaked figure paused for a second, his cloak covered his eyes but they could see that his coat looked like a dark grey, however, the cloak covered everything else they could see. "I am running out of patience, and time. I know he is here, and-wait a minute... what's that aura..." he looked at each of the girls, studying each carefully, having noticed something. He used his hoof to move his hood up just a bit, they could see his eyes were glowing slightly yellow, he squinted them blinked, and covered his eyes before anyone could see them in their natural color, if it wasn't glowing yellow. "I know five of you have seen him, and two have moved him. Tell me where he is, this day has not gone well for me, and every moment I am delayed, the higher the chances of the worst happening for this town." the cloaked figure finished, his voice filled with irritation through the whole speech.
"We don't know any 'Vason' now I recommend you leave sir, this is no way to treat a lady." Rarity answered, light grey feathers became visible at his sides, likely from his unnoticed wings getting ruffled, and then he tilted his head downwards.
"This... This is not the time for games, nor manners. Bad things will befall this land if I cannot find Vason. Where IS HE!" the cloaked figure was now clearly a pegasus, as he had extended his wings outward, "This has been quite a week, I travel all the way here to this foreign land. I fought a hydra in that forest, lost him AGAIN, had to talk to a town full of CRAZY PONIES, WHO ALL HAVE TO BOTHER ME WITH THIS OR THAT, and now... Now I am being stopped by six of them, one likely capable of beating me if she knows the right spells, and is experienced in combat, plus so, so much more." the Pegasus had sat down, and was rubbing his forehead most of the time, but he then stood on all four legs, and continued. "Now, I am now on my last nerve. So tell me, where. HE. IS!" on yelling 'is' he flapped his wings and they burst into flame, like those of a phoenix.
"We don't know any 'Vason' already, so just go you crazy pegasus!" yelled Rainbow Dash who looked ready for a fight, the two stood off. Applejack readied herself as well, but after a moment the Pegasus' fire calmed down, and he tucked his wings back in. His wings were also extinguishing before they hit his sides.
"This, is not the time... This is not a fight to fight... I must be off... There is no reason for such actions..." and with that the pegasus started to walk away, then flapped his wings once, and was gone in a flash of light.
"Well what in tarnations was that all about?" asked Applejack, who was very confused.
"{H-he was s-scary...}" whispered Fluttershy, as she tried to hide behind her hair.
"And was very rude if you ask me, but you have a point Applejack, what WAS that all about?" asked Rarity.
"My forehead's not itchy anymore, was it that?" Pinkie Pie asked herself, but no pony noticed.
"He-he used magic..." Twilight said as she stared at where he had greeted them.
"And what does THAT have to do with anything Twilight? He just looked like he was ready for a fight. I bet I could have taken him on my own just fine." Rainbow Dash boasted.
"He DID use magic, an' clearly had wings... Perhaps he's like Princess Celestia an' Princess Luna, who both have winds an horns?" suggested Applejack.
"No, he could not have been an alicorn, his cloak had no signs of there being a horn Applejack. It was almost flat against his head." Rarity explained.
"Nor any glowing came from under the hood itself when he did any of that. Sure, his eyes glowed, but the glow would be stronger if it were from a horn, and higher up on his head." Twilight pointed out, trying to think of an explanation but could come to none.
"Look, we'll try and figure it out tomorrow. I have to go check on the three fillies, and make sure everything is fine night. Good night everypony." and with that Rarity left to go to the clinic.
"It's getting late y'all, Ah really think that Ah should be getting back ta tha farm as well, see y'all tomorra then. Sorry about having ta go so quick, Ah got ta get some apples in the cellar, since Big Macintosh is out of town, an' get's back in two days." Applejack explained, then started off to Sweet Apple Acres.
"We should all get some rest. I'm sure we can get some answers on this 'Vason' tomorrow." suggested Twilight, though she did not leave.
"Yah, it's getting late so I'll see you all tomorrow then, good night!" Rainbow added, before flying off to her cloud home.
"W-well I-I'm going to go a-as well Twilight, i-if that's okay." Fluttershy said, clearly worried about the event that had just happened.
"I'm going to go home as well, see you both tomorrow!" Pinkie Pie called as she bounced past them towards Sugarcube Corner.
"T-twilight?" the remaining yellow pegasus asked.
"What's up Fluttershy?"
"I-I don't think that..." the yellow pony started, but stopped.
"You don't think what Fluttershy?"
"Well... I just, don't think that everything is quite as it seems... I-I just can't help, but think that that one pony I helped IS that Vason... And if so, then why is that one pegasus after him?" Fluttershy explained, and Twilight shook her head.
"I don't know Fluttershy... All we can really do at this point is wait and hope for the best..." neither said anything for a moment, both thinking about what had just happened.
"Well I-I'm going to go home, good night Twilight."
"Goodnight." the unicorn replied, and the two then started towards their homes.

---

Twilight reached home very quickly, but it had gotten dark by the time she returned. She was going over every book on unusual magic she had, but none had anything about non-unicorn magic like what the pegasus had done.
"Geez Twilight what arei you researching this time," asked Spike, who took a look at how fast she was going through the books and the titles. "Why are you reading about theoretical magic?" Spike knew Twilight usually kept to spell books and things on proven magic. She said it was unproductive to research other ponies theories.
"Today on my way back here with every pony we ran into a Pegasus. He had a cloak on, and was looking for somepony. He went crazy, and almost attacked us, but stopped and started rambling on about 'not here, not the place to fight'. The really weird thing is that he was using magic, something that just isn't possible!" Twilight threw the book down that she was leveraging into the air, "THERE'S NOTHING ON THAT, NOTHING!" she then slammed her head into the table she was sitting at and moaned.
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are alicorns, maybe the 'pegasus' is one too?" Spike suggested this, not being able to think of anything else.
"Ugh, there are only TWO alicorns in all of Equestria, and I'm VERY sure he had no horn. Especially since there was no glow where a horn would be, and even Princess Celestia can't use magic without her... horn... wait... Princess Celestia..." Twilight smiled and shot up from the table, "PRINCESS CELESTIA MIGHT KNOW! Spike, take a note!" Twilight called out and Spike quickly ran and got a quill, paper and ink and was ready to write whatever the purple unicorn needed to have him write down.
"So, what is the note for?" asked Spike.
"You'll see Spike, *ahem*,"

Dear Princess Celestia;

There have been two odd events here in Ponyville today, the first is somepony coming to town through the Everfree forest, who had also collapsed, and was taken to the medical clinic. Normally, I would not bother to write to you about this, with the current knowledge available to me, however I suspect that this pony is an adventurer. With this I feel that informing you is better than not, and is simply in case this is important to you, in any way. The second event has a certain twist in it, and I humbly request any access you have on it. Today, a pegasus came to town looking for a 'Vason'. My friends and I encountered him, and Fluttershy suspects that 'Vason' is that adventurer she rescued. The real reason I write to you is not that he arrived looking for 'Vason', but that he appeared to have used magic without a horn, once to set his wings on fire to look similar to a phoenix, without doing harm to himself, once to make his eyes glow for a reason I cannot tell, and once to do what appeared to be a teleportation spell of some kind. I request any information you can divulge on the subject, and await your quick response.

"Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. Done, send the letter Spike." she finished. Spike rolled up the paper and put a tie on it.
"A magic-wielding pegasus, that's a new one." Spike added, and breathed out a stream of magic green fire, sending it off into the wind, to be received by Princess Celestia shortly.
"I know, I can't find an explanation to why a pegasus could have magic..."
"Maybe, maybe HE'S AN... no aliens don't even make sense to me..." Spike called out, and Twilight giggled at him thinking his own guess was ridiculous.
"Oh Spike, just like you." Twilight looked at the stack of books that she had on the table, "Well since I'm getting a letter from Princess Celestia soon, I should probably put all these back..." Twilight started moving all the books back to their proper place, when Spike belched, and a letter was summoned from the flames. She then grabbed the letter with her magic, and brought it to her, "Okay let's see what Princess Celestia knows about this!"

To my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle,:

I am afraid that I have no explanation to this pegasus whom has access to magic. However, despite my lack of explanations on this, I do have a number of theories on this from what I know about the world, but none that I can explain in a letter. I ask that you prepare for a guest at your library, as I will be sending you company tomorrow. Please do not inform anyone of this letter, nor allow anyone to read it (except somepony who you know will not mention this to anyone for any reason at all). One last thing, nothing can read this letter as it is addressed to you, everything will read something else, and please do not mention this part.

Princess Celestia

Twilight stared at the letter, "No explanations..." She was dumbfounded, she had never seen anything that Princess Celestia didn't know about, ever.
"Well sounds like even the Princess doesn't know, that else does it say Twi?" Spike was curious about this as well.
"She doesn't know anything about this, or at least, nothing she can tell me in a letter. Also-" Twilight paused for a second quickly debating on telling Spike the rest or not.
"Also what Twilight? Something wrong?" Twilight shook her head.
"No nothing at all Spike, but we are going to have a guest over, and they sound important. Let's get everything ready for an important guest!" Spike nodded, and the two got to work.

---

The pegasus that the six mares had encountered stood on a cliff, looking over the town and the Everfree forest, his hood was down, and his dark brown mane was blowing in the wind. Then something came up to him walking on two legs.
"You almost lost your cool, never thought I would see the day you used the 'phoenix wings' trick again. Bua hahaha, so... why didn't you vent your steam on some little measly ponies G?" the pegasus, apparently named G, looked over at the cloaked entity.
"We have known each other for a long time now, however that does NOT mean we work in the same ways, or think the same things. That should be clear to you almost more so than any of us, more than him even." the cloaked figure, laughed and bent over to look G in the eyes.
"Bua, hahaha, good one! He's an idiot, he obviously wouldn't know anything like me. You're spending too much time around him, it's softening your brain, or it's this." the cloaked figure kneed G in the side, who then rubbed the spot with his wing.
"At least I'M not risking a minor 'Eldritch Abomination' event should the worst happen!" yelled G, clearly irritated at the cloaked figure.
"And you-hoo nearly got ready to blow up a whole town. What does THAT say about you?" G turned to the cloaked figure and looked him in the eye.
"J, you would on a WHIM! You would threaten to burn it to the ground every time you asked one of the ponies..." his eyes squinted, "You really are masters darkness..."
"Heh. That I am, that I am. So, what kept G. McFail from finding him." J had a smug look in his face, or so G thought.
"He's asleep, I can't find his aura, and the shine on the town was that one purple unicorns magic aura, and another aura from the other five ponies shared by them all." G answered, and J had slouched in disbelief.
"A UNICORN? You got beat, by a PURPLE unicorn? AH, HAHAHAHAHAHA, BUA HAHAHAHAHAHA, HAH HAH HAH! Haaaaaaahhh." J rubbed his eyes, "That's priceless at it's best man, or should I say *mmmmmmmf*, pony?" while J continued to laugh G turned around, too a breath then took a few steps away from the cliff, "Too much for ya? Aww did I make liddle poneee G cwyyy?" G had enough of this at that point, and bucked J in the chest, who flew off the cliff.
"Go to hell J, I've had enough of you, and NO I was not beat by a 'purple unicorn'. No blows were even exchanged." G was visibly furious at J.
"Man," G thought to himself, "THAT felt good to do, and besides, not even he will have a problem with me kicking J. Actually I'm the one who has the least problem with J." the pegaus told himself, then J jumped back up over the side of the cliff.
"I know you did that knowing fully well I could survive, so I won't do the same, only after breaking your wings." J was pissed at G, but decided just to leave, and when he was gone G went back to his spot and looked at the town.
"I'll find you tomorrow, you'll have to be awake by then..."

A Little Game

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Chapter 3: A Little Game

Twilight had gotten up at a reasonable hour, despite having stayed up late trying to find an answer to this pegasus, and getting ready for this guest Princess Celestial had talked about.
"Geez, who could Princess Celestia get to come here so quickly, and whoever they are they must not do much to be so open..." Twilight mumbled, waiting for whoever it was they were taking in.
"It's almost ten, so I would think that they will be here soon..." Spike mentioned, "I'm going to get something to eat while we wait, it's not like they're about to get here." he added, and headed for the kitchen to get something to eat. Just after he left, there was a nock at the door.
"COMING!" Twilight called, then ran over to the door to open it. Standing outside, there was a unicorn, who she did not recognize. She had a very pale blue coat, a blonde mane, magenta eyes, and she had a cutie mark that appeared to be a scroll with a quill.
"Hello Miss Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia sent me. This is a note from her, please read it inside, and I understand if you do not let me in quite yet." said the unicorn, and then levitated a note to Twilight, who took it with her own magic, and brought in front of herself.
"Umm, well... hello, what's your name?" asked Twilight. She wanted to try to figure out who this was, and began simply with a friendly greeting.
"Twilight Sparkle m-" the unicorn began, and stopped for a second. It seemed that she was searching for the right words to use to explain herself. "Please Twilight, just read the note first, and everything will be explained shortly." she replied, and the purple unicorn nodded.
"Alright, I'll be right back shortly." she replied, then went inside to read the note.

To my faithful student, Twilight Sparkle;

As you might already be able to tell, this is the guest that I mentioned. Please let her in, and all will be explained as soon as possible.

Princess Celestia

Twilight examined the note throughly, trying to find anything wrong with it. Her knowledge of her mentor's font was the basis for how she determined if it was her letter, but the more she examined it, the more she became sure that the note was most definitely Celestia's. She placed it upon the table, and returned to the door to let the guest inside.
"Sorry for not letting you in immediately, I just wanted to be sure it was the Princess' letter." Twilight explained, then stepped to the side, letting the unicorn in.
"Thank you very much Twilight, if you would not mind, would you close the library. This is very important, and we should not be interrupted. Not only that, but we should also only let the most trustworthy of ponies know of this." explained the unicorn.
"Okay, one moment." replied Twilight, before closing the door, flipping the sign outside from 'open' to 'closed', and closing the windows. "Well there we go Princess, we should be fine now, we could go downstairs if you want though, just to be sure." Twilight said, the unicorn smiled.
"My, was it really that obvious to you Twilight?" chuckled Princess Celestia.
"Well I did only socialize mostly with you for a few years." Twilight answered, smiling at knowing her mentor so well.
"Don't be too happy about that Twilight, there is a reason why I let you stay here in Ponyville after all."
"Heh, yaaaaah..." Twilight answered, and remembered how she didn't have any friends at all before she had been sent to Ponyville, and was allowed to stay there by Princess Celestia. "Anyways, can you explain what you have to explain, since I don't know anything about what's going on here." Twilight asked, and Princess Celestia's smile faded to a serious expression.
"Part of the reason I'm here, in person, is to see the adventurer. The name 'Vason' is known in many lands, even in places beyond Equestria. However, he is not so well known here, as most of his work is suppressing evils; a task that is rarely needed here. Now I took this form to be less conspicuous, as whoever may be after this adventurer, may also enjoy causing chaos when possible, and should something happen to me, that would cause a lot of problems here in Equestria."
"Yah it would, wouldn't it. Wait, then why don't you have any guards with you, I'm sure somepony could stay with you, and it wouldn't be that much more apparent." Twilight asked, feeling concerned now for her mentors well-being.
"It would, however, I do know how to protect myself, and I plan on staying with you as often as I can. I won't be here long Twilight. I only plan on seeing that adventurer in order to find out if he truly is 'Vason'. I also want to look at where you met this pegasus, but besides those things, I have nothing to do. I hope I am not intruding on any plans Twilight, am I?"
"Oh not at all Princess, actually my friends and I were going to go see that pony later after lunch, I'm sure you can join us then to see him." Twilight explained, and Celestia chuckled.
"Sounds like a great opportunity. But what sh-" Celestial started to say, before Spike came into the room with some food for himself.
"Hey Twilight, who is this. I missed the whole getting some food." he asked.
"It's me Spike, Princess Celestia. This is a disguise, so that I may be around common ponies, without drawing attention to myself. I almost never use it, nor even have a name in this form, however, I would prefer that this remains between us, and only reveal to others on a need-to-know basis. Maybe to Twilight's friends, but we should keep it for a quiet place, and not mention it unless necessary." Celestia explained, while Spike looked at her with some disbelief, and crossed his arms.
"I'm not convinced on this, why should I believe your the princess?"
"SPIKE! How can you not trust her to be the princess?" Twilight asked, while Spike shook his head and raised an arm.
"But really Twilight; do you have any REAL proof that this is Princess Celestia?" Spike inquired, and Celestia smiled at Spikes skepticism.
"It's good to know you're being very smart about this. If you don't believe me then send a letter. If it is me then it'll come right here. Otherwise, it'll go to wherever Celestia is."
"Alright, I'll try that." Spike replied, and went to go get a scroll.
"Spike, really can't you show some formality to her?" asked Twilight.
"Actually it's fine. I will admit that I debated not even telling you anything besides the absolute mandatory, just to see how you would have been around another pony, rather than me. However, I decided against it to avoid any conflicts." Celestia explained, and just then, a flame flew in front of Celestia, then materialized into a scroll. The disguised alicorn opened it, and found nothing but a circle in the top right corner. "Let me guess, the circle in the top right is just to be sure it IS your note that I just got Spike?"
Spike rubbed the back of his head, and smiled back. "Yah, sorry about not believing your Princess."
"It's quite alright. Now then Twilight, when would it be possible to go see this adventurer?" Celestia asked.
"We should leave after lunch, I already had plans to see him with my friends. Oh also, since you said you didn't want to be noticed as yourself then we need to get a name for you..." Twilight thought about it for a second, "Hey did you ever decide on what that cutie mark is for, since I know for a fact it's not your real one."
"Writer, that's what I went with for it, but I can't think of anything that could be used for a name from that." Celestia explained, then for a moment, tried to think of what she could use.
"How about this?" Spike asked as he placed a quill and ink in front of Celestia.
"A quill... Quill... I actually like that name, thank you Spike." Celestia said with a smile.
"Actually, I meant to write names down, and pick the best one." mentioned Spike.
"I don't think that really matters, but I think it would sound better as a nickname Celestia, though. I can't see somepony with your personality having a nickname, but why would somepony be called Quill?" Twilight added.
"Because of this." Celestia said. She then levitated the quill up over her right ear, and tied a few hairs around it to secure it in place. "I also have a spell that will help with personality, while not necessary, it will greatly help me remain hidden. It allows somepony to change habits, accent, and their general personality to an extent for a day. While it's not enough to fool somepony who knows the pony, while they are trying to see it in them, it will fool anyone who isn't really thinking about it, or doesn't know them." explained Celestia.
"Wow, that sounds really helpful Princess!" Twilight called out. "So, what do we need to do to help?"
"We just need to make a 'Quill', somepony like me but very different." Celestia stated, "What we have to do is basically create a number of personality points of somepony, and that's easier than one would think." Celestia smiled, "Now let's get stated, shall we?"

The three worked for a while on creating a 'Quill'. They had decided that, firstly, there had to be a backstory to why Twilight knew Quill. They decided on going with Quill and Twilight having been friends, however Twilight, due to never having any close friends, never saw her as one. That was, up until she came to Ponyville, then one day needed to contact her once more. Even though the letter had originally been relevant to their studies, they got back in contact about life in general. It was also decided that Quill should have come over for a surprise visit, to see Twilight, and meet these six friends she had heard so much about, but never met.

At that point, the backstory was well enough finished, and 'Quill' needed a personality. After some debate between Celestia's overly informal ideas, and Twilight's somewhat unconvincing ones, Spike suggested an idea. It was liked by Celestia because it was very convincing in her opinion. However, Twilight did not like it as much, but did admit it did make 'Quill' and Princess Celestia, seem like two very different people, but she wasn't sure if she would completely enjoy this personality. After finished 'creating' Quill, the the two talked about what had been happening to them recently, just catching up, and later eating lunch.
"My Twilight, that must have been a VERY interesting event. I'm surprised you didn't mention that in the reports." Celestia, now Quill, said in surprise.
"Oh yah, I guess I didn't write about it... It kinda got put aside by what happened the next day, I just couldn't get the wording right on the report. I'm sure I have a few versions of it laying around somewhere..." Twilight replied, and scratched her head while looking around, trying to remember where it was.
"Hey Twi, didn't you say you were going to go check in on the adventurer after lunch?" Spike asked when he come into the kitchen, having finished his chores.
"Oh I did say I was going to! Umm, well would you mind coming with me, and my friends Prin- err Quill?" Twilight asked.
"I sure would Twi, after all, Quill has yet to meet your friends." she chuckled, ready to meet her friends once more and see how they are when not interacting with royalty.
"Alright, let's get to it then. We should be right on time if we head out right now." Twilight said, as she got up to grab her bags.

---

The two made it to the clinic, at about the same time as everypony else, though Pinkie was a bit late.
"Who is this Twilight? I don't recognize her." asked Rarity, who was the first to notice Quill, and drew everypony's attention over to Twilight and Quill.
"Everypony, this is Quill. We both went to the same school. She is the only pony I could have ever really called a friend from back then, but I guess I just kind of didn't." Twilight explained, "I had to send her a letter one daw about something, and while I was writing it, I realized that we kind of were friends, so we just kept on writing letters to each other."
"I'm here to visit. I decided to just surprise her, and try and meet her friends, whom I assume are all of you. I've heard good things about all of you." Quill smiled.
"Well Quill, on the far left is Applejack." The two shook hooves, Applejack doing so vigorously.
"Nice ta meet y'all Quill!" Applejack said, after shaking hooves.
"Well that is... Quite the hoofshake you have there Applejack, going to feel that for a while..." Quill responded, her front leg still shaking from being shook so much until Twilight stopped her leg from shaking.
"Heh, sorry 'bout that..."
"Anyways, next to Applejack is Rainbow Dash." Twilight introduced, acnd Rainbow Dash flew forward to shake Quills hoof as well.
"Yep, THE one and only, Rainbow Dash!" the cyan pegasus declaired, while Twilight shook her head at the introduction she had heard before.
"Actually I am quite impressed at your ability. I saw your Sonic Rainboom, and I must say; you certainly deserve the title of 'Best Young Flyer'" Quill mentioned, and once finished, Rarity stepped forward.
"Rainbow here is certainly just as every bit boastful as she is skillful I guess, maybe more boastful," Rarity commented.
"HEY!" Rainbow Dash called out.
"It is kinda TRUE Rainbow Dash, you have to admit that much at least. Anyways Quill, that is Rarity who just spoke up."
"It is a pleasure darling, it's nice to know that Twilight did have friends, though not so much that she didn't see you as one." Rarity commented.
"That never really bothered me much. It's nice to met you Rarity, and it's nice to know Twilight isn't just a bookworm anymore as well." Quill replied, smiled, and looked over to Twilight, who rolled her eyes.
"Lastly this is Fluttershy, she's normally very shy. I didn't even catch her name until she saw Spike, then asked him his life story."
"Well it's nice to meet you Fluttershy." Quill said, taking a step towards Fluttershy.
"{Ummm, {hi Quill.}}" Fluttershy peeped, backing up a tiny bit.
"Um, what was that that you just said Fluttershy?" Quill asked.
"It's alright Fluttershy, she is a friend of mine after all." Twilight said, "{She was like this when I first met her, only kinda worse.}" she whispered to Quill, while Fluttershy kept her position.
"Thanks for introducing me to your friends Twilight. Anyways, I actually came along to meet this adventurer that you picked up. Well, the VISIT isn't for that, but for me coming to the clinic that IS half the reason." explained Quill.
"Well then Ah say let's all see if h-" Applejack suggested, but then was cut off.
"HEY TWILIGHT, who's the new pony!?" yelled Pinkie Pie, standing atop Twilight's head, looking her in the eyes.
"EEEK!" yelled Twilight, not expecting her energetic pink friend to appear above her. She ran backwards, and Pinkie fell off Twilight's head. "PINKIE PIE! Don't do that!" Twilight called out, somewhat shocked, and somewhat frightened.
"Oh calm down Twilight, I didn't run off to start a party for her did I?" Pinkie added as she quickly stood up, and looked towards Twilight.
"I can see what you meant about Pinkie Pie being... Pinkie Pie." Quill mentioned, staring at Pinkie Pie wondering how that was possible.
"Hmmmm, you seem... Familiar." Pinkie commented, walking over to Quill. She began staring her in the eye, while Quill backed up nervously. Pinkie kept inching her head forward, and Quill mover her head back. There was a pause for a moment, and all went quiet.
"Oh well! I must just be mistaken. Nice to meet you Quill, I'm Pinkie Pie!" She called out, a big smile on her face, and her hooves in the air.
"Ummm, it's nice to meet you too Pinkie Pie." Quill said half-heartedly, trying to be as enthusiastic as she could. Quill was definitely not expecting Pinkie Pie to be this much 'Pinkie Pie'. She realized that Twilight wasn't ever really exaggerating about her, until somepony spoke.
"S-shouldn't we go check on that adventurer now?" asked Fluttershy.
"Yah, we all should go an' see if he's up." Applejack added, "Come'on, let's see is he's up!"

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The seven didn't see anyone when they first came in, though they figured Nurse Redheart was with the stallion at the moment.
"Nurse Redheart?" called Rarity, to see if she was in the clinic.
"In here, come on in." Nurse Redheart called back. The group could hear the stallion talking to Nurse Redheart, and he had an accent, but a very subtle one. They came in to see that the stallion had removed his bag, and was now on his back rather than his side, though he still wore his armor and cape. "He's awake, but he's keeping his eyes closed to rest a bit more, or so he says." She explained.
"You have guests sir."
The stallion moaned. "Come one you three, we can get at least a little more rest. Plus I'm the one who carries all the stuff!" he mumbled, and was waving a hoof in the air in Nurse Redheart's general direction. She stepped back, and pushed the others back out of the room.
"I can't tell if he's a bit delusional, sleepy, or both, so talking to him may be... Interesting." Nurse Redheart explained, "Sorry to be rude to you all, but I have to get something finished quickly since he's up, and I don't have much time to chat." she explained as she left to finish what it was she had been doing.
"Well time to meet the sleepy head! He didn't sound very delusional if you ask me though." Pinkie Pie commented.

The seven entered the room to find the stallion in the same position as when he was sleeping, only he was facing away from them.
"Hello, are you awake?" asked Twilight.
"Huh, new voice... *YAWN* good morning." He turned over to see the group. "What in the world... am I being visited by talking ponies?" said the stallion with a confused look.
"Yep. Delusional." Dash said, rather sure of that because of the stallions comment.
"Dash really? Do y'all have ta by jump ta conclusions so fast? Maybe he jes don't wake up very quick." Applejack pointer out as the stallion rubbed his face and started taking.
"If this was a dream this would make perfect sense..." he paused and looked at his hooves and blinked, "Oh yah... I apologize for taking strange things, but I'm indeed slow to wake up, and make sense of what's gong on. Could I just get a class of water?" he asked.
"You mean a glass of water?" asked Twilight.
"Hmm? Oh yah, I guess." Twilight then levitated a cup to the water dispenser, filled it and sent it to the stallion. "Thank you." he replied, as he downed the whole thing, "Ah yes, that was good. If you don't mind I could use two more." he asked. Twilight got him two more, he thanked her, and drank the second glass.
"Okay, I should explain any questions you all have, I'm sure I added a few from my sleep-brain." he said, the splashed himself in the face with the third cup, "Just waking myself up. Helps me get my head straight when I wake up." he explained, and Rainbow Dash was the first to ask something.
"Could you explain why in the hay you just went crazy?" He rubbed his forehead then paused when his hoof bumped his horn.
"What th- oh yah. I'm just a heavy sleeper, and I have just walked for three days straight with battles in between, and no sleep. I did get some on the first day but I was woken up by a manticore, and I have been traveling for longer, but that's how long I've gone without sleeping. I would guess some of you might be just as sleepy and delusional if you pulled the same thing, especially you- ummm, well Rainbow Head?"
Rainbow rolled her eyes. "It's Rainbow DASH, you got the last part wrong." she said.
"Heh... At least I got the guess half-right. Anyways, nice to meet you Rainbow Dash. Now let's all introduce ourselves, and all ask a question just to keep this more organized huh?" the stallion said. As he got up and took a valiant pose that he assumed naturally, making everypony all the more sure he was an adventurer.
"OOH, OOH A GAME! I LOVE GAMES! I'm Pinkie Pie, and my question is; Do you like PARTIES?" she asked with enthusiasm, in one breath, and an ear-to-ear grin.
"Heh, not exactly what I meant for that, but well... actually I haven't been to a party in a very long time. I can't really say, nor one from around here, but I'm not much of a 'modern party goer' myself." he explained, Pinkie Pie gasped.
"I REALLY need to throw you a party then!" She smiled at this, the stallion shook his hoof at her.
"Not at the moment, there are much bigger problems at hand. It would be best to save the party for later. I'm sorry to do so, you seem to love parties very much, but I have to find out a number of things first. Once I do, I will gladly come, so long as I can." Pinkie smiled at him being able to come.
"Okie Dokie Lokie, just be sure to come!" Had the stallion thought about it more he would have explained again, he however did not.
"Now then, what is my next question?" he asked, Twilight steppes forward.
"I'll go. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I would like to ask you..." She paused, unsure of asking about the pegasus, or if he was an adventurer.
"Ask... what?" he inquired.
"Well, ummm... I'll go later I can't pick." she said.
"Take your time, just ask later." he said, "Now then who is up next?"
"Ah'm Applejack and Ah wanna ask ya what y'all got all that stuff fer?" The stallion looked at his bag, and looked back.
"Supplies, materials, equipment, some weapons, pretty much anything. Name it, and I likely have it. Going from place to place isn't always easy, sometimes you have to carry a lot of stuff, especially if towns are scarce, like here." he explained, "My staff is for combat, at least with whatever I can use it against realistically."
Fluttershy gave him a worried look. "C-c-combat? L-like f-fighting?" she asked.
"Yes, it's a dangerous world out there miss, especially coming from where I come from to here. Now that you asked your question can I get your name?" he replied, Fluttershy just backed up with a worried look. "Don't worry, I'm not going to bite you just for saying your name." the stallion explained, but before anyone else could say anything Rarity spoke up.
"Her name is Fluttershy, don't worry she's simply shy, that's all. I am Rarity, and my question for you, is if you are some kind of adventurer?"
The stallion nodded. "Yes, at least most say so. Many say that I'm famous, and I guess they are right. Here, however, I'd think my name isn't known, mostly because it's my first time anywhere near here." he explained.
"Two more, who's asking first?"
"I will, my name is Quill, and I believe I might have heard of you. Are you Mr. Silversword?" she asked, his eyes open wide with surprise.
"It-I didn't think that my name would get out HERE, actually I'm amazed that anything I would deal with is out here, I would like to speak to you alone later Miss Quill, if you do not mind." He bowed to her and stood back up. "But first; Twilight, did you decide on a question?" he asked.
"Yes, Rarity got one of them. Can you explain a pegasus with magic?" she asked.
"Hahaha! Twilight Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle." Silversword said, and he shook his head. "Everything has magic, every being, every object, and every entity. It is in the ground we walk upon, in the plants we grow, and the animals we see. The only thing that is needed for the casing of spells is a catalyst, and for a unicorn that catalyst is their horn, and a pinch of focus." He paused to take a breath. "Does that answer your question?" Twilight stared blankly, with a look of disapproval on her face.
"No, it didn't. I don't know about wherever your from, but you have to have a horn to use magic. This pegasus had none, and I'm very sure that setting your wings on fire like a PHOENIX is magic." she closed her eyes and sighed, "Now can you explain?" she opened her eyes to see his wide open and a blank expression on his face.
"Giant white to f-flaming wings, wearing a c-cloak, and a bag like mine?" he asked, clearly worried.
"Yah, why?" Twilight asked, Mr. Silversword ran over to his bag, and swung it over himself, being very quick about getting it on.
"I'm sorry, but I must go NOW. I am known as Vason Silversword, and I have nothing to ask all of you. I must go this is important!" he as clearly hurried, he cast a spell on himself right after getting everything on. "Fairwell, may the good winds of life bring you to happiness, and the bitter ones to wisdom." he said with an amazingly fast tongue. "I hope to see you all in good times and thank you for whatever you have done for me." And with that, he sprinted at the group, leap over them as they ducked down. The just was aimed perfectly, and he was out the door before they knew what had happened.
"Well that was odd..." Pinkie Pie commented.
"I can't believe him. He could have hit any one of us with that jump, and his outfit choice is..." Rarity proclaimed, and by how she spoke, she was clearly not a fan of his armor.
"That was really odd..." Twilight murmured. "But why do you know about him Quill?" Twilight knew there was more to the whole thing that Quill said nothing about, and she wanted to know more.
"Yah, why DO you know about him Quill?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I will explain soon, to all of you, why I am here and what I know. However, this is not the place, we need to go, and we know he is fine for now. Let's find someplace quiet to start the explanation." Quill informed them, and left the room.
"We really should, I'm sure Quill knows a lot about this, zen can clear up so much." Twilight said, following her.
"No point in not joining her, an' if we do, we'll get some answers." Applejack added as she followed the two, and the whole group headed out to where the others were headed.

Questions and Beasts

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Chapter 4: Questions and Beasts

The seven mares made it back to Twilight's house rather quickly. The doors and the windows were closed once to ensure that nopony would interrupt their conversation. They all agreed the basement would be best to make it so nopony could hear or see them. All eyes were on Quill, and all tongue were still. Everypony wanted to know what she had to say, and it was that she knew.

"As you all know I have not told you all everything I know, not even you Twilight, nor will I be explaining everything that I do know immediately, however, I will explain everything you need to know, in time. What I can tell you all is that I do have a special relationship with Princess Celestia similarly to Twilight's, but I know more about 'sensitive subjects' than her. Vason, and most things about him, being some of them." Quill began to explain, and then took a breath to collect her thoughts.
"Now then, it's important that nothing, nothing at ALL, learns about anything I tell you about Vason, his comrades, or what he has done to be as well known as he is, as well as anything that happens involving him in the near future. Not only that, I feel I should let you know that everything that will happen in these next few days will reach Princess Celestia's ears, and anything that should be known to the public, will be known." She paused once more and took a breath.
"I need to know that all of you will not let this information out, and do know that what I am going to tell you may be very hard to stomach knowing. Not only that, it may bring... unfavorably events. I am asking of all of you nothing I do not think you can handle, but know it may be hard. Do you all understand?" There was a pause when Quill finished what she said. Rainbow Dash was the first to stand.
"I'm ready to take on the world if that's what this means."
"Ah'm ready ta do what Ah have ta do, whatever it is." Applejack added.
"I-I..." Twilight started, before stopping.
"It's fine if any of you don't want to do this, this is a very big thing to agree to, and I understand if you feel you cannot agree." Quill explained once more.
"No it's just... Everything says yes in my head but I just.... Just can't say... I just can't agree." Twilight replied. As hard as she tried, a single word could not be utter out of her mouth, as much as she tried to will it out, it just didn't come out.
"I know it's a bad idea, and I should help, but..." Twilight asked herself, knowing that she should just say that one word.
Rarity stood up, showing no fear. "We fear the unknown, it is simply our nature to do so. Sometimes, somepony simply has to take a leap of faith. I'm probably going to regret saying yes to this someday, but yes, I will come."
"Rarity is right, I'll... I'll come as well." Twilight said, having felt inspired by what Rarity said, and was free of the lump in her throat.
"I'm ready, my front right leg is a-twitchin' twitchin'. That means there's going to be a trip soon and I plan on coming!" Pinkie Pie stated. Everypony looked to her, and knew she was right. Pinkie senses were never wrong. Those who had already agreed became a bit restless from this, washing she has spoken up sooner, but none of them changed their mind about agreeing. After a moment, all focus came to a single pony, the one who had not said anything. The yellow pony was trying to hide behind her own hair, and her cyan eyes averted from as much of the group as they could.
"Fluttershy, are you alright?" asked Quill, "It is fine if you don't want to do this. What this could become is a life not for just anypony." Fluttershy kept staring, butbwas thinking.
"I-I... I'm scared of this..." she said.
"Well Fl-" Quill started, but was cut off.
"I-I don't want to do this, I-I think that I may someday with this n-never happened..." Everypony waited a moment to see if she had something else to say. There was an unusual aura about the pegasus, one that they never saw. "But I can't just sit on the sidelines, I-I just couldn't do it." She took a breath, holding everpony in suspense once more. "I-I... Can't..." Again she paused. Fear was struck through her, she could not speak, she could not force out what it was that she wanted to say.
"Sugarcube, nopony would blame ya fer not wantin' ta do this." Applejack told her, trying to make it easier on the yellow pegasus, only to get her to stand.
"No! I could never just sit on the sidelines if this turns into... into what I fear it will, but I have to do what I can to help. To help everypony I can. I... I must do everything I can!" she proclaimed, and Quill nodded.
"I know of adventurers who would pick somepony just for that trait. Now that that has been settled upon, I'm going to tell you a story of what Vason has done. This is not his greatest, or his worst, but I feel best fits with this situation." She closed her eyes and sighed, then took a breath. For a moment, she debated wether or not to tell them why this one, but knew it was best to hide as little as possible. "This is because it is a story I fear may be repeated soon." Quill began to tell them a story, a story that she knew was true, and one that was neither too much for them to handle, or softer than they should hear. Quill chose this story because she had heard reports, or more of whispers, that would suggest what Vason faced in the story was coming. She could tell that history was repeating itself.

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G was on the cliff with his ally J, looking at the town.
"He's awake. I can see him in the town, and I know it was that one mage last time. I was looked for magic auras, not his. Then again it wouldn't have been much better, he was asleep."
"Well then, we going to pillage on the way there?" J asked, some sarcasm in his voice, but not very much.
"Really? I should turn you into a pony just to teach you some humility."
"You know I could just dispel it G?" J pointed out. He sighed, and shook his head. "You really need to work on those threats."
G turned his head and looked at J with a sharp glare. "How about I silence you, then turn you into one. Not a graceful pegasus or a mystic unicorn, but a regular pony. No hands, no magic, no flight, or in your case decent jumping. The ti top it off, no speech. I'm sure you would learn something valuable." G added, nearly growling at his ally, then looked back to the town.
"Heh, your suggesting teaching a snake to not bite by placing it in too small a cage after doing nothing. Everyone that knows us for who we are knows I'm never ganna learn." He then flicked his hair off his forehead to the right and held his arm in place, left arm under it.
"He could." the pegasus stated, making his cloaked ally laugh again.
"COULD! Let's face it, he isn't, and never will." J proclaimed, G sighed.
"You... You certainly work in strange ways... I'll never quite understand you... Will anyone?" G asked himself.
"Or what about her?" The question froze J. Memories flooded back, about someone from long ago who sent letters printed with a rose stamp. However, before he could say anything more, he was interrupted.
"Don't worry, I'm joking J." G replied, then unfurled his wings and started to fly, "Coming with to find, and only find him?" G asked.
"Eh, ponies won't put up much of a fight anyways, let's just find him." J said, then leapt down the mountain.

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Vason sprinted around the entire town, trying to find his way to the forest. He had been searching the town with a very simple spell that told you if a specific person was within the range.
"What was it even called here!?" he asked himself, referring to the forest that he had been in. "And worse, where is he? He surely would have gone in my direction with me being gone so long." He stopped for a second, and examined the ponies around him. He saw a light brown pony with a spiky brown mane, a pale rose-maned mare, a pink-coated blonde maned pony with a flower in her hair, and a grey pegasus who was carrying a large bag, but not who he was looking for. Vason kept on moving, trying to find a forest he could not seem in a town he did not know. The time limit on the spell ended, he sighed, closed his eyes, and his horn began to glow. After a moment, he opened his eyes, and a bright light appeared. He squinted, and tried to see what was causing the light. We his eyes adjusted, he could see what it was that was creating the magical interference, a large tree that had been turned into what seemed to be a library.
"Let's see if who I think is inside is inside..." he said to himself, then he used the spell once more to see if and of the seven were inside, starting with Twilight. The spell shined incredibly brightly, both from the interference that was present, and the fact that Twilight, the target of the spell, was indeed within the range.
"My, that is a lot of magical energy..." he said to himself as he began walking up to the tree, blinking to cancel out the spell, then knocking on the door three times.
"Hello, is this building open?!" he called to whoever was inside. He waited again then nocked twice again, but on the third swing, the door swung open, and he hit the air. Twilight looked outside from inside the treehouse, and a surprised look flashed across her face.
"Vason!" Twilight said in surprise. "Just a moment, I need to finish something quick!" She then closed the door, and a quiet click came from the inside.
"Well... Good thing is that he hasn't gone and destroyed the town... and I never really did answer her question. Hah, What a dashing hero, can't even confirm someone's ready to obliterate a town or not, and can't answers a ladies question..."

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Twilight was quickly back with everypony after teleporting out to see who was at the door.
"Okay it's Vason and I just want to be sure it's fine to invite him in since... Well I don't know if you would flip out if I just let him in here P-Quill." she explained. Her nervousness also made her slip up, and almost call Quill Princess.
"Well go let him in before he leaves, we are just talking about what he has done, if he becomes a problem I'll be sure to make it clear he needs to leave." Quill explained, and with a flash of light Twilight teleported back upstairs to let him in. Not more than a few moments later, the two were at the top of the stairs leading into the basement.
"Hello all, I simply need to ask you a few things quickly, so I'm going to get right to it if none of you mind." He paused to see if anyone objected, and none of them did, so he continued. "Okay, first off I need to know where the forest I came out of is. Any of you?" Dash spoke up first.
"It's south of the town hall, the big building by center of town, the green flag points south just so you know. I picked that up by flying over Ponyville as often as I do." she explained.
"Interesting name for a town. Hmm, oh well. The next thing is where is Gregory, I have tried to find him since I left but to no avail." he explained, and took a moment to breath. "He is the pegasus that you all apparently met yesterday if I am not mistaken. He is an ally of mine, and I must find him immediately." Everypony stared at him, confused because of the mixed descriptions they had made for themselves from when they met him him, the one they had developed in the story, and the one Vason had just given them.

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G flew through the air to the town and J running along next to him, the two were moving at an incredible pace to reach the town, and despite the cliff being a short ways away they made it to the outskirts of the town in almost no time.
"This is the town he's in..." G explained barely winded, "We must mo-" he paused.
"What i-" J started, and paused when he noticed something, "I sense it too Gregor..." G then closed his eyes and looked for something nearby with magic, it was not what he liked to see.
"Shadow beasts..." he whispered, the two flipped around to see a group of entities that took the shale of wolves and were made from a sparkling violet fog with a purple-pink, outline that were heading towards them from a little bit away.
"Grrr... He succeeded in merging his shadows with this... native stuff..." J mumbled, and the pegasus just shook his head.
"I know that, why bother explaining?" Gregor asked, J shook his head slowly.
"I... I don't know... Something compelled me to I dunno, break the fourth wall?" J explained, and Greg just waved his hooves in the air.
"Jackson you moron, we aren't IN a show, or a book." G yelled as his wings shot out in a flash of light, and thin metal blades appeared on them. "Maybe a story one day, but this is not the time!" He then took to the air, and summoned a spear as well. The first few creature had arrived and jumped at them, Jackson moved to his right so fast it seemed it was a teleport, he then drew a sword and slashed into a beast, wounding it.
"Not quite what I'm used to, but this is the best for now..." he said as he dive-bombed the the creatures, ready for battle.
"GERONIMO!"

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"-and yes, he's not out to get me... for the seventh time already." explained Vason as he rubbed his forehead with his hooves.
"He sure looked like he wanted to do something, and he was veeeeeeeery focused on finding you." Pinkie Pie added, Vason moaned.
"You have asked that alone three times Pinkie Pie, and besides that question, which I have explained why twice already, I have only answered Twilight's question from the clinic, and a question about if I really have hit things with pointed metal. So can we PLEASE get to a new question?" Vason asked the group, hoof on his face the whole time.
"The ponies in the story call you a human, but you're a pony. How do you explain that? Also, aren't humans imaginary creatures?" Pinkie Pie asked, Vason's eye started twitching a bit then took a breath.
"One moment, I need to do something real quick." he said, he then walked over to wall and caster a spell, a bubble formed around him, and he placed his head against the wall, he also seemed to be talking, but there was no noise leaving the bubble.
"How is THAT supposed to explain anything I just asked?" Pinkie Pie asked, while everypony stared at Vason. He removed his head from the wall, and dismissed bubble, and returned to answering the question.
"Okay... I feel better now..." Vason began, "The reason why is because of the fact that Greg has access to shapeshifting magic, referee to as Polymorph Spells. He can assume any form he absorbs, and give anyone any form he has access to. He can also change the details of a form, or use details from another to make more unique forms, and mixed ones. Basically I'm a pony-shaped human, because Greg used a polymorph spell on me, and himself." Vason sighed feeling much calmer. "Is that all?"
"You only answered half the question sir, could you explain the reason why a mythical creature exists?" Rarity asked, wanting to know as well.
"I suppose I did not. However, the short answer is that unicorns, pegasi, and talking multi-colored ponies in general are considered mythical creatures. Mythical, is dependent only on the world and location that you are in." Vason explained.
"Very true Vason. Some of the things inn your stories are far beyond the imagination of most ponies, and yet, you still act as if they are just everyday things, which they are to you."
"That is true. I'm still somewhat amazed at how widespread magic is here, and yet how many more limitations it has compared to the that of my world. Now then, is... there... what in the world..." he began, but trailed off. Vason sprinted upstairs to look out the window upstairs.
"We should see what he's looking at." Quill said as she got up to follow, the rest did so as well.

He was looking out the window to a purple glowing sphere of energy in the air and a white beam coming from it to the ground, when everypony got up to the the balcony, there was a rumble in the ground.
"Is there an earthquake!" called Rainbow Dash who saw everything shaking, and a number of books were falling off their shelves downstairs.
"No, no this is bad..." Vason mumbled. "I must go, stay here it's going to be too dangerous for all of you!" he called out, then began to go out to the door, but was blocked by Twilight, who had teleported in front of the door.
"And it's not too dangerous to go alone?" she asked.
"I'm taking this," He levitated up his wooden staff to show everpony. "and even if it's not, well let's just say I'm not left hoofed, and this here is my back left leg." He attempted to get past the lavender mare.
"No, we are going to help you Vason!" she declared, and Vason shook his head and sighed.
"Newbies... This should be enough proof hopefully." he said, then his horn began to glow, every book in the library was removed from the shelves, and moved to the center of the room, even the ones that had fallen out of their place. Before anypony could ask what was going on, his eyes began to glow, and every single book shot out from the center of the room. Everypony thought they were going to be hit by some, but nopony was hit with anything more than some dust and wind.
"Sorted, dusted and pages bent in the book have been flattened and some creases made less noticeable, plus some pages that would come out were fixed. Now I go, the proof of my abilities are present here." he explained, then vanished in a flash of light.
"And he had barely even taken a look in the library itself..." Twilight said to herself.

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Vason ran throughout the town, having had teleported out of Twilight's house, and was running to the place where the explosion was.
"What in the world happened..." he asked himself while he ran to the location where the explosion happened. There were mixed reactions in the streets, some were going to the place to see what caused the explosion, but there was mostly ponies running for their lives from there being an explosion and earthquake. Vason sprinted to the location, and any of the ponies who saw what was happening decoded to flee at the sight that was occurring. Greg and Jackson were fighting the hoards of these beings. The two were surrounded, and were fighting the beasts that just kept coming, their numbers seeming endless to them. Vason continued sprinting to them, and levitated his staff behind him, and enchanted it with magic for battle.

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Earlier
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The group stared at where Vason had just been standing when he had teleported from for a moment, nopony breaking the science.
"And he had barely even taken a look in the library itself..." Twilight said to herself.
"Ah'm surprised at how quick he managed ta do that. That ain't even something y'all can do with all yer practice in libraries an' magic Twi." Applejack commented.
"I... I couldn't do something like that, not that fast with that much accuracy." Twilight humbly answered.
"You know, h-he might have a point. Perhaps we should stay here, he w-would know more about stuff like this than we do, and this is probably going to be very dangerous if we do go. We should stay here and let him do what he needs to do." Fluttershy suggested.
"Ah recon we should help Silver out anyways. He could need our help while we jes' sit here an' do nothin'." answered Applejack.
"No, Fluttershy is right, they do that sort of thing all the time. Not only that, you all are the Elements of Harmony. While it may seem like I might not care about them, you six are far more important to the world than they are, and I would love to help them, but some very bad things could happen if something were to happen to you six." Quill pointed out. Everypony in the room looked to her, mixed reactions on what she had just explained. Arguably the worst was Rariy's glare of suspicion.
"The Elements of Harmony darling? That's not exactly public knowledge." Rarity commented, and leaned forward towards Quill.
"Miss Rarity, I'm not exactly the general public. I know more than I will ever let you know." Quill explained to Rarity.
"How much do you know that you aren't letting on? Are you a spy?" Rainbow Dash added to what Rarity said.
"Girls, I'm sure that Quill means well, and we don't know what WILL hasince if something happens to us since we are the Elements of Harmony. Could we even face what's out there?" Twilight pointed out, coming to assist her mentor. Applejack walked up to Twilight and looked her in the eye, but her hat hid most of her eyes from Twilight's view.
"They got a mighty strong argument Twi. Y'all never mentioned a Quill, ever, and she ain't even told us her real name. Do ya really expect us ta just take her word so quickly?"
"Quill might as well be my name Applejack. Pinkie Pie doesn't go by Pinkamina after all, so why am I that much more suspicious?" Quill asked back, using her knowledge of the group to her advantage.
"And might I add, that nopony ever told you Pinkie's full name. You're not edactly helping your point." Rarity injected.
"I mentioned it in one of my letters to her, it's not like it's a great big secret. Fluttershy, I'm sure you have something to say about this, don't you?" Twilight answered. She was hoping that Fluttershy, being the element of kindness, would surely help her cause.
"Actually... I{-I don't have {anything to say, {Twilight...}}}"
"Really? Not even you, the Element of Kindness, has anything to say? Don't you trust me?"
"I... don't have anything to say."
"Not even just a tiny-little, 'I trust Twilight' Fluttershy?"
"I-I don't want to hurt {anyponies feelings...}" Fluttershy answered. Twilight's pupils shrank as she realized what exactly Fluttershy said meant. Even she wasn't trusting Quill, and Twilight began to become incredibly worried about the situation.
"Looks like there's an agreement here Twi. Why don'tcha explain yerself Quill, o-"
"EVERYPONY STOP IT! JUST STOP IT!" Pinkie Pie yelled. The room fell dead silent, except for Pinkie Pie's heavy breathing. Every pony looked to her as they all waited for what Pinkie Pie had to say. "This... This isn't how the Elements of HARMONY are supposed to act. We're supposed to keep the world in order, so just stop it everypony." The words struck a chord in all of them, and they all lowered their heads at this. Quill came to Pinkie Pie and gave her a hug.
"That's exactly right. However, nopony is perfect, not even Princess Celestia herself. Now then, if you all are determined enough to go out there and help Vason, then I will not stop you." Quill said to calm Pinkie, and to gain the trust of all the ponies once more.
"Okay, then let's get going and see if they need help!" Twilight called out, and the group began out the door to see if Vason needed help.