a wizard in equestria

by The A I


An, odd day to say the least.

The sun rises over Equestria, banishing the dark and the cool night air whilst giving the cloudy skies a light orange hue. In the skies above Ponyville, however, the cloud cover is quickly fading, removed by a familiar rainbow streak.

"OH, Yeah! i gotta have been close to beating my record that time! Ponyville sky cleared in what, 3 seconds? i bet i beat it by miles!" The rainbow maned mare boasts, looking down to her pink maned friend in the streets bellow, who looks up at her, somewhat bashfully.
"w-well, Rainbow... it was close, but you took 8 seconds that time, 2 seconds off the record..." She paws at the ground with her hoof shyly.
"Oh come on, Fluttershy! it's not that big of a deal i guess, always tomorrow!" Rainbowdash says, letting her ego go just for a short while to make sure Fluttershy doesn't feel bad about giving her the bad news of not breaking the record. "Besides, i'm still the fastest and most awesome pony in Ponyville!" she boasts with a grin. She soon descends to hover just above Fluttershy and chuckles. "well i gotta fly now flutters, see ya around!" She calls before shooting off into the sky, presumably to nap on a cloud somewhere.

With a wave goodbye, Fluttershy heads off back towards her small home, unaware of the events that will soon transpire just outside Ponyville. Meanwhile, however, Rainbowdash darts between and around small clouds, looping through them like a large circuit. slowly getting faster, always aiming to impress any onlookers or passer's by. Well, that is until a rogue cloud gets in her way, the dark grey cloud, like hitting a wall, causes Rainbow to almost bounce off it. Now falling, she struggles to regain her composure and flight before she lands in a, tree? "Wait, i wasn't practising over sweet apple acres..." Rainbow wonders, looking around at her surroundings.in front of her, lies a stretch of, very familiar forest, denser, darker, wilder that sweet apple acres could ever be, stretching out as far as the eye can see. To her left and right is much of the same, only, the edges of it are visible where the Everfree ends and Ponyville begins, looking behind her, she see that she has landed a good 100 meters in from the edge of the forest and goes to fly out, only to experience a severe spike of pain through her left wing. Going pale, she looks to her wing to find it wedged between 2 thick branches like a clamp.
"This, is gonna hurt..." she complains before grunting as she tries to pull herself free without damaging her wing, the branches barely letting her go, but taking a handful of feathers with them. Rainbow grimaces, climbing down the tree to try and avoid straining her wing, she stops as there is movements in the thick brush around the tree, thick brush she hadn't noticed until this point due to being distracted by being held captive by a leafless, clearly evil tree that obviously meant to consume her soul for nourishment.


Earlier...


Merasmus eyes the skies wearily, a blue bird of some sort having stolen a sandwich he had found in his pocket not much earlier. Said blue bird watches from a tree above the wizard almost smugly as it pecks away at the stolen food, occasionally letting out a chirp, causing Merasmus to grow frustrated and show said frustration with a heavy sigh. "dammit bird.... fine, you can have my breakfast..." He grumbles before walking deeper into the Everfree, well, he thinks it's deeper anyway. all he realises is that it's further away from the cave he has been living in for the past while.

In his travels into the Everfree that morning, however, he found something quite, peculiar floating down from a tree. A cyan feather, freshly plucked, and that's when he heard the familiar voice of Rainbow Dash and followed it to a tree surrounded by bushes and plant life, plant life he quickly walked and almost tripped through until he reached the tree at it's center, and looked up to come face to face with...

"Merasmus?!" Rainbow cries out in surprise as she finds her face inches away from kissing his goat skull hat, thing, raising an eyebrow. "What are YOU doing HERE?" Rainbow, 'elegantly' inquires, as though by now it wasn't obvious.

"Well, hello to you too, Rainbow Dash, i would ask how do you do, but it seems you crashed." Merasmus replies with a deadpan stare, gesturing to the tree and the multitude of feathers descending from it's branches. "you wouldn't happen to have seen the bird that stole my breakfast mid-crash did you?"

Rainbow cocks her head to the side and frowns accusingly. "oh yeah right, like it stole from you, you probably took it's food and it took it back!" Causing Merasmus to sigh, while not the intent, did at least seem to show that he has been quite frustrated already.

"Look, you help me find my stolen breakfast, and i will owe you a favour, okay?" He huffs, already fed up with the conversation and just wanting to get some food.

"I don't know.... how do i know i can trust you?" Rainbow asks, frowning lightly without the accusatory look to it. She stares him in he eyes as though searching for signs of deceit.

"Fine, fine, i'll prove it..." Merasmus grumbles, rummaging around in his robe before pulling out, a slice of cake. a slice of victoria sponge cake with blue frosting and red circles on top with a white cross inside them. "here, eat this!" Merasmus declares, before shoving said cake into Rainbow's mouth, making her go wide eyed in response. A beep is heard, supposedly from the cake before Rainbow gasps, her wing good as new again.

"FINE, i'll help you. but, only because you fixed my wing, with, whatever that was" The bearer of loyalty grumbles, not exactly happy with this turn of events, but yet, thankful that she wouldnn't need to go back to the hospital and be unable to fly for a time.


Will Merasmus find his sandwich? will rainbow call in that favour? will tia stop eating ccake? you never know! find out in the next edition of, A Wizard in equestria!