Jason's POV
“Ugh. My head hurts.” I said as I slowly stood up before opening my eyes and seeing that I appeared to be in some sort of underground cove. The ceiling was mostly dirt and had tree roots and plants growing from it. There was a pond in front of me that I could tell held an extremely large amount of magic, due to the fact that I felt rather weak when I got too close to it.
“Well, might as well find a way out of here and see what universe I’m in now.” I said as I reached into the pocket universe that my brother had made for me before he died and pulled out two M1911 pistols that I named Lumos and Umbra. Umbra was a dark purple with some black accents while Lumos was white and gold.
I noticed what looked like a slide made of dirt and grew my wings before flying up the slide. When I reached the top, I landed on the grass and saw that I was surrounded by trees. I flew up to the top of the trees to find an area where I could find a living creature to talk to so I could get to know this universe better, when I saw a large gargoyle like creature. I didn't know what it was but I saw that it was talking to what looked like a character from that show that my brother had forced me to watch, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He had managed to convince me that it would be helpful to know what happens and what it's like in case I ever ended up in a universe based around it.
“Thanks Joe.” I said as I chuckled before I landed and shapeshifted into a pegasus with fur that was half black and half white in an even split down the middle. My mane and tail looked exactly the same as my fur and my cutie mark was that of Yin and Yang that was split in half.
“Time to go say hello!” I said to myself before flying over to the two beings that I saw.
Scorpan's POV
I was talking with Starswirl when I saw a black and white pegasus flying towards us. “Starswirl, were you expecting someone?” I asked while pointing at the pegasus.
Starswirl turned and saw the pegasus and the look on his face became one of concern. “No I was not. I don't know who that is.” Starswirl said as he got in front of me as if he was going to protect me from the pegasus.
The pegasus landed in front of us with a smile on his face. “Hello there my name is Split Duality, nice to meet ya!” The pegasus said while smiling as if nothing was wrong. What happened next surprised me more than anything else.
Starswirl used a spell on the pegasus, that he later explained was supposed to reveal shapeshifters. What happened when the spell came in contact with the pegasus, was that the pegasus started screaming and writhing in pain as the spell seemed to burn him.
Starswirl quickly cancelled the spell as the pegasus reverted into the form of a tall bipedal creature that wore a strange outfit and had two strange weapons sheathed on either side of its body.
“What the fuck was that for?!” The creature asked as it coughed up some blood. “All I did was say hello! I even decided to introduce myself as a pony so I wouldn't scare you and you fucking attack me!” The creature screamed angrily as its skin was black and smoke was coming off of it. The black parts of its skin soon fell off as its body reformed itself.
“I didn't attack you. That was a detection spell.” Starswirl said calmly as he eyed the creature. The creature's eyes widened upon hearing what Starswirl had said.
“Well shit. I guess I’ll have to explain why that hurt me.” The creature said while sighing before smiling. “But first allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jason Monroe and I am a Nephalem, or in my case a half demon-half angel. The form that you see me in at the moment is my human form since people run away screaming monster upon seeing my natural form.” The creature said as it leaned against a nearby tree with a small smirk on its face.