I takes a little over two and a half hours but I finished all the books. The last book I read through was on unicorn magic. It seemed like it would be between Solid Script magic and enchantment in complexity. After closing the book and rubbing my eyes, I look to the book and concentrate. Soon after my hand and the book are covered in a blue aura coloured like my hair. I levitate the books back into their places on the shelves. I heard a gasp from the left of me and turn to see Twilight looking at me and then to my aura covered hand in shock. I just smile to her and levitate my glasses and phone back into my purse.
“You can do unicorn magic now too?” Sh asks in shock, coming to sit next to me.
“Sure, I would say that unicorn magic is a little harder than my Solid Script but nowhere near my Enchantments in complexity.” I tell her and get up to stretch. Going to the kitchen and grabbing a glass of water, I come back to Spike having arrived as well and Twilight silently asking for lessons. I just smile at her eagerness and take a seat in the recliner and take out my phone again and then my eastern Solid Script scroll.
“Let’s get started then. This is going to take a while to teach you as Japanese is rather different that the language we are speaking right now.” I warn them, only for Spike and Twilight to both take out notepads with determined expression. I just smile to them and start.
We seem to lose track of time as I teach them the ins and outs of Japanese, Twilight even brining in a blackboard for me to show them Kanakata, Kanji and Hiragana. They are both very attentive students and take notes of almost everything I tell them.
“Ok repeat after me in Japanese, ‘my name is Spike/Twilight.’”
{“Watashi no namae wa Spike/Twilight desu.”} They say together, Spike slipping up a little at the start.
“I am very glad to meet you.”
{“Anata ni ome ni kakaretetotemoureshii.”} They say back without trouble.
“Thank you very much.”
{“Hakushu.”} they reply, and I could tell they were both answering and saying it.
“Douitashimashite {you’re welcome}.” I say to them with a smirk, the duo nodding with their own smile. I get up and stretch, checking the clock to see it is almost six thirty at night.
“Wow, time sure flies by when you are learning something new.” Spike says, seeing the clock as well. We clean up a little and they make sure to keep each of their notes separate from each other so they don’t mix them up.
“Well I don’t know about you two, but after teaching for nearly four hours, I could go for a bite to eat.” I say, putting my stuff back in my purse so I don’t lose it.
“How about we head to Sugar Cube Corner?” Spike suggests. I look to Twilight, who nods and gets a bag of gold coins, bits, and we all walk out the door to the bakery. Looking around as we walk, I notice that the town looks a little abandoned. There was no one around and all the houses looked locked down. After a few quiet minutes we make it to the bakery and I see the door says open but the lights are off.
Confused as to where I have seen this before, I walk to the door and check it, seeing it is unlocked. “The heck?”
“SURPRISE!!” I jump back as I see that almost the entire town is in the room, with streamers, balloons and food. Looking around the crowd, I see the others all smiling, then turn to Twilight and Spike who have big grins on their faces.
“Anatatachi ni hito wa shitte. Soudaro? {You two knew. Didn’t you?}” I ask them out loud, some of the other ponies looking confused at us.
“Hai.” They say together and laugh a bit. I just shake my head and smile. Turning, I find Pinkie staring at us with a tilted head.
“Why are you all talking in gibberish?” She asks to us. We all look to one another and laugh.
“It isn’t gibberish Pinkie, we spent the past few hours leaning Japanese from Lex.” Twilight answers. She and the others get an ‘ah’ face from that answer.
“Anyways, let’s get this party started!” I say out, earning a cheer from the crowd. Pinkie smile and drags me in and to meet some of the residents of the town, like the school teacher Cheerilee, and the spa sisters Aloe and Lotus. Going around and meeting most of the ponies, I am slightly disgruntled by the fact that almost all the adults are taller than me.
“Hey Lex!” Turning I see that it is AppleJack coming up to me with Rainbow and Rarity.
“Hey girls, what’s up?” I ask, leaning on the table a bit.
“Well, we were wondering if you could tell us a bit about yourself since we couldn’t talk all that much before.” Rarity says as she gets a drink from the bowl next to me.
“Well, there isn’t much to say. Back home I am a huge nerd and the oldest of my friends, I can be hotheaded at time and have a problem of making others problems my own and I now have the ability to use magic that was entirely fictional to me before.” I tell them and take a sip of my punch. The others look to me in surprise by the way I talked about myself.
“Wait. What do ya mean yer magic was fictional?” AppleJack asks, and I spot Twilight listening nearby.
“Well, back home my magic and several others are from a story called Fairy Tail. The story takes place in the fictional kingdom of Fiore. There, magic is a tool, used for things like magitech, and an art used for spells. Those who practice the magical arts are wizards and are typically members of guilds, where the wizards are basically bounty hunters, doing varying jobs for just as varying pays.” I explain to them. The group is fascinated by this consept.
“Though, are all of these guilds good?” Rarity asks, having gotten a chair for herself.
I sigh and shake my head. “Not all guilds are good. There are the Dark guilds who typically take part in magical crime. Robbing people, stealing property, even...assassinations.” The girls gasp at this. “A majority of the Dark Guilds are the villains in the story and do things that the protagonists have to beat. Stealing a cursed flute, unfreezing a demon of destruction, trying to take control of a magical weapon that can invert light and dark, even trying to track down one of the most evil and dangerous wizards in history to use as a pawn. Yet, every time, these villains are defeated by the hero’s. The Fairy Tail guild.” I turn to them and show my mark.
“So yer now a member of this guild?” AppleJack asks, to which I shrug.
“I guess? Every guild has their own mark that the members wear. Since I have the Fairy Tail mark, I guess that makes me a member. Though, I don’t think it matters much here in Equestria. Reading through all those history books earlier, I found no mention of any wizard guilds, so I assume they don’t exist here.” I tell them. The group nods at this then Pinkie pops up.
“They why don’t you make one?” She asks and I raise a brow.
“What do you mean Pinkie?” I ask, not really understanding what she means.
“I mean why don’t you make a branch of the Fairy Tail Guild here in Equestria?” She explains. I raise a brown again and think.
“That would be a good idea if anyone aside from Unicorns and Alicorns knew how to use magic, but that isn’t the case from what I have read through so far. Plus just having Equestrian magic users isn’t enough. The guilds are built on the fact that the members have a variety of different magic type users, making some wizards best for certain missions then others. Like having someone who specializes in fire magic going to a desert as opposed to one who uses ice magic.” I explain, finishing my drink. The others nod at my explanation.
“Hey Lex! You going to be standing there talking all night or are you going to come and join in the fun?” Spike calls out next to what looks like a game of pin the tail on the Nightmare. I just chuckle and go over to him with a smile. Even though this world is rather different, fun if fun.
The party goes on for a few more hours before most of the ponies leave to go home for the night. Afterwards it is just me, Twilight, Spike and Pinkie cleaning up the remains of the streamers, balloons and empty paper plates. After we made sure that all the garbage was taken out and that all the dishes were clean, me and the other two walk back to the library to call it a night. But for me, Pinkie’s idea was still bouncing around in my head.
‘Open a branch of Fairy Tail here. How would I even go about that? I would need to get a guild hall built, hire employees, and it isn’t like anyone could become the guild master. But....then why do I want to do it?’ As I think this, and a many other things, my mind just goes out from all the strain I put on it with these thoughts and I fall asleep.