After a few more minutes of awkward silence, Twilight was the first to speak up. “Um, if I might ask, what are you creatures exactly? I’ve never seen anypony like you before.” By now she had calmed herself enough to realize that whatever these creatures were, they weren’t immediately intent on attacking her. At this Natsu leaned over one of the tables and looked at Twilight. “We’re humans of course. Don’t they have humans in wherever you’re from.” He said, Happy climbing on top of his head. Lucy rolled her eyes. “Weren’t you listening Natsu? She just said she’s never seen beings like us before.” She said, turning back to Twilight. “So if you’re not from the Celestial Spirit world, where are you from?” She asked, inspecting the lavender unicorn in front of her.
Twilight blinked at the red headed…human…as it had called them, and then turned back to the one called Lucy. “Well before I was brought here, I was in Ponyville. A town in the land of Equestria.” She said, her mind switching over to lecture mode. “In Equestria, there are three races of ponies that inhabit the land, Unicorns like myself, the Pegasi that live in the sky, as well as a few that live on the ground, and Earth ponies that work the land. Our world is ruled over by the two alicorn princesses, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Who raise the sun and moon respectively each day.” At this Natsu laughed. “Awesome! Two horses that can lift the sun and moon?” He chuckled and looked at her. He remembered how he helped Erza launch a spear at the moon once. Though it ended up being this big dome over the island instead of the actual moon.
Twilight blinked at him. “Well the term is Alicorns. And yes they do raise the sun and moon. I suppose you humans have someone who does that for your world as well?” At this Lucy shook her head. "Here the sun and moon move on their own." At this the lavender unicorn looked visibly disturbed since she calmed down. "No one to move the sun and moon? But how do they move on their own?" Lucy smiled and explained how the sun, moon, as well as the other planets in their system moved due to the intense gravitational pull of the sun, and that it was in fact the earth moving around the sun rather than the other way around. At this Twilight's mind raced, but the next question she had made itself dominant in her mind. "Where exactly am I?"
At the interruption Lucy stopped. "well you are in the land of Fiore, in the city of Magnolia. This is the Mage guild called Fairy Tail." she smiled, holding up her hand with the guild insignia on it. Twilight looked at the mark and noticed that several others had the mark easily visible, while others were partially obscured or possibly completely hidden by clothing. Her mind then focused in on the word that piqued the most interest. "Mage guild? As in people who can perform magic?" she said, now a bit excited. At this, the one who was partially naked spoke up. "yeah, just about all of us here can use some form or another of magic. Aside from the children or the normal citizens of the city." Lucy rolled her eyes. "Gray your clothes." the one now identified as gray gave a startled shout, as if he didn't even realize he had become uncovered. Twilight blinked at this. "so what kinds of magic are there?"
Natsu smiled and slammed his fists together, a large red circle with the head of a dragon in the design. "my magic is known as dragon slayer magic. I'm the fire dragon slayer." at this twilight had a slight look of protectiveness, thinking to never let this human near spike. Natsu then leaned back. "though it's just called that because we were taught our magic from dragons. There's two other dragon slayers in fairy tail. Wendy and Gajeel." he pointed over to a little girl with a white cat and a larger man with a black one. "Do all dragon slayers have a cat for a pet?" Twilight asked. Natsu blinked at her. "Happy isn't a pet. He's my partner." at this the little blue cat raised a paw. "aye!" twilight jumped a bit. "it can speak? Fascinating." happy smiled. "hey Natsu, is fascinating a good thing?" Natsu looked up. "I think it was a compliment." he said with a smile. Twilight turned back to Lucy. "so what other kinds of magic can be used?" Lucy smiled. "Gray over there uses ice magic." at this, Gray walked over, clothed Once again. He put a fist on top of an open hand, a symbol of a snowflake appearing. "ice make. Statue!" he said, a large piece of ice appearing out of the ground, it rising and shaping into a copy of twilight. The unicorn jumped back at the sudden appearance of the ice even though it was quite warm in the room.
All of the people still watching chuckled at her reaction while many others had gone back to chatting and drinking once they realized the unicorn wasn't a threat. Twilight poked at the statue with a hoof then turned to Lucy. "what kind of magic is yours? You mentioned something about Stellar Spirits before." Lucy smiled and nodded, holding up a ring of keys, some silver and some gold. "I'm what's known as a Stellar mage. We use artifacts known as gate keys to summon Powerful spirits from the Celestial Spirit realm. Each key corresponds to a constellation in the sky. Taurus the bull, cancer the crab, as well as non-zodiac constellations like the lyre, the cross, and Ursa Major." at the mention of the words Ursa Major, Twilight gasped in fear and dove under the nearest table. At this act all o the fairy tail members blinked and looked at her. Natsu leaned upside down and looked under the table at her. "what's up?" he said, tilting his head to the side. Twilight shivered and looked up. "I-In Equestria....both Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are massive creatures capable of great destruction."
At this Lucy blinked and knelt down, looking at twilight. "sorry, I didn't know. But the Ursa Major spirit here is a caregiver spirit, only getting angry when those she's put in charge of are in danger. People buy her key for use if they want or need to go out and want to leave their children in capable hands. I got her as a way to help protect injured comrades during possible large battles." she smiled and held up a silver key with a bear's head on the hold. "open, the gate of the Ursa major. Sharona!" she said, a seal with a keyhole appearing in front of the key, Twilight cowering in fear as she waited. There was a flash of light as a tall woman with a well muscled body, wearing long pants, a sleeveless top that held tight against her, with a bearskin hat, the head on top of her own, covering her brown hair and brown eyes a bit as the arms of the bear went down and covered over her own arms from about halfway down the upper arm, the bear claws covering her hands. While it first it looked like the fur and claws were just a sleeve, if one looked they would see the bear spirit clenching the paws as of they were her own hands.
After a few moments of not hearing the resounding crash that would have marked the entrance of an Ursa Major in Equestria, Twilight peered out from under the table, blinking as she saw the tall woman now standing in front of where she was. She picked herself up from the floor and looked at her. “So this is a celestial spirit? She doesn’t look any different from you other humans.” At this Sharona gave a slight smirk and bent down, easily picking the pony up as if she were a light weight and held her up. “Still think I’m just another human.” Twilight gasped, preparing to teleport before she actually focused on her magic. Her horn glowed its signature lavender color, but she could tell the leylines of this world were somewhat different than in her own. She had to feel out for the magic before she managed to teleport herself back onto the floor behind Lucy. At this act of magic the others stopped and looked at her, Lucy giving a surprised gasp. “You can use magic too?” She said, giving a smile to Sharona as she let her go back to the Celestial realm.
Twilight stopped and straightened herself. “Yes I can. In fact where I’m from all unicorns can use some kinds of magic. Though mostly it pertains to being useful with their special talent. My friend has a talent for designing outfits with beautiful gems so she has a spell that helps her locate gems even if they are buried underground.” She said with a smile. Gray spoke up next, shirtless once again but at least he had pants on still. “That reminds me, what’s with the mark on your hind legs?” he said, pointing to the six pointed star on Twilight’s flank. “Oh, that’s my cutie mark.” Natsu tilted his head. “Cutie mark?” Twilight smiled. “Each pony, at some point in their young life, discovers either their true talent, or something that makes them special, and it becomes visible on their flanks in the form of a cutie mark. My mark is a magic star because my special talent is magic itself.” At this the others smiled. “So what kind of magic can you do?” Asked Natsu, Gray, and Lucy in unison. Twilight gave a light blush and looked away. “W-Well, I don’t really like to brag about my magic.” She said with a smile. “But as you saw, teleportation is one of the tricks I can use. Another is basic levitation that all unicorns can use.” She said, her horn glowing again as she located the leylines. As she focused, a purple aura surrounded Happy, causing the blue cat to float up into the air. Happy laughed and rolled around in the air as he was lifted. Twilight smiled and set him back down on top of the table.
Twilight then turned to Lucy. “Um, not to be a bother, but is it possible for me to go back?” She said, looking at her. Lucy then gasped and facepalmed. “Oh I’m so sorry. I got so excited that it slipped my mind. Um I’m not exactly sure. You were summoned from a different world than the Celestial Realm so I’m not sure how it would work.” Lucy picked out the key with the unicorn head on it, now noticing it was the same lavender color as Twilight rather than the normal deep blue. “Alright so for this to work it has to be mutual consent for closing the gate.” She said, closing her eyes and focusing, Twilight closing her eyes as well. “Close, Gate of the Unicorn.” She calmly chanted, the seal appearing again as Twilight was surrounded by a light and cloud of smoke. After a few seconds the smoke cleared and the purple unicorn was indeed gone. Lucy smiled, looking at the key and hoping that she had gotten sent to the right world.
Twilight kept her eyes closed, once again feeling the ground under her slip away and her magic seem to swell inside her before it calmed down and she felt ground underneath her hooves once again. She slowly opened one eye, then both as she looked around, smiling happily that she had been returned to Ponyville in the same spot she had been when she had watched Rainbow Dash perform her stunt earlier. She then looked up in the sky, gasping a bit as she saw that there were still bits of rainbow in the sky, the Pegasus being visible with her rainbow trail as she flew until she managed to slow herself down enough to land. Twilight thought to herself. ‘This is crazy, I’m sure I was in that world for almost half an hour. Yet only a minute seems to have passed here. Maybe time flow between the worlds is different.” She thought to herself, snapping out of her train of thought as her friend landed near her, questioning her about the trick. She smiled and talked with her for a while more before heading back to the library. This would make an interesting letter for princess Celestia.
Twilight smiled as she walked inside her library, looking over to spike. "boy spike, you wouldn't believe what just happened." she said. Her little dragon assistan turned around with a smile, about to say something, but Twilight's senses were cut off as she felt herself enter the blackness once again, hearing those words once more. "Open! Gate of the Unicorn!"