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// An Apocalyptic Alchemist: Part 1 Crossover Chapter 
// Story: My Little Pony- An Apocalyptic Displacment 
// by King Rose 
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Chapter 7- An Apocalyptic Alchemist





Serena POV

I sit in my father's arms while smiling happily and looking off into the clear blue sky. I’m happy knowing that I’m with my family. Dad then sets me down from his arms, making me pout.

“Aw, but I want to be held more!” I whine.

“Serena, why don’t you go play with the garden animals some more?” My dad chuckles as he crouches down to my height, and grins.

“Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…… Fine!” I pout, before hugging him and running off to play with the critters.

I see a fox that looks at me curiously, to which I look back at it. The fox cocks its head to the side and I copy the action. I giggle as it walks over and licks my face, its tongue feels smooth but rough at the same time. I then pet it by rubbing my hand down its back, and the fox’s fur felt like a blanket. An orange, white and living blanket. Suddenly it turns around and bolts off towards the bushes and stops just before the entrance. It looks back at me with green eyes before running into the hedge.

“H-Hey! Wait up!” I call out to the fox.

I run after the animal, and I rush into the dense green foliage, barely keeping sight of the fox that continues to outrun me. I feel my clothes rip in several spots like my legs and arms, as I pass branches that smack my sides and scratch me. Finally, I emerge from the bushes and the fox stops running, allowing me to catch my breath.

“Finally… You stopped running!” I wheeze in between pants. It felt like I was running after the fox for hours. I then look up and gasp at the scene around me.

Before it looked like a normal garden of bushes, but as I looked around right now, my thoughts have changed. It looked like an entire village of foxes and other animals, like otters, hummingbirds, flamingoes, and other varieties of animals, all living here in this secluded area. I then feel a paw tapping my right leg. Looking down, I see it’s the fox I was chasing. He looked worried, so I decided to follow him, and he’d lead me to another fox, who was trapped under a metallic object, which looked like a watch. I leaned down and tried to pick up the watch only to reel my hand back, as some sort of magic leapt out and tried to grab me. I rubbed my hand while glaring at the watch. I gained a determined look in my eyes and reached for the watch again, this time I didn’t pull my hand back as the magic grabbed me and pulled my hand farther towards it, causing me to grab the watch in my hand. I gasped as I heard a calm, yet authoritative voice resonates in my head.

I am the one who constructs and deconstructs, the partner and protector of the moon and sun, I aid the innocent and protect the children if you require aid, call my name and I will come forth, The Crimson Sage.

I stumbled back in surprise and let out a startled yelp. I land on my butt as I breathe heavily and look at the watch in my hand.

“What the heck was that?” I ask myself. “Dad might know,” I mumble before getting nuzzled from two foxes.

I giggle as the foxes nuzzle me in gratitude. I return the favor by giving them both a hug. I then stand up and dust myself off, before waving bye and walking out the way I entered the foliage. My way out was easier than going in, but I did manage to avoid being smacked in the face by several other branches. I then emerge from the bushes once more, and this time I find Zirconis taking a nap under a shady tree, with Dad and Luna sitting next to him and talking.

“Dad!” I yell, catching his attention.

“Is there something you need Serena?” He asked. “Wait, what do you have there?” He noticed the watch in my hand.

“It’s something I found while helping two foxes. I think it’s a watch, but it has weird magic.” I explain as he walks over and I hold out the watch to him.

He gives off a thoughtful expression before plucking the watch out of my hand and his eyes go incredibly wide. After several seconds, his eyes dart to the watch and he mumbled something I couldn’t hear, before raising his voice, Zirconis had woken up and groggily looked over to us.

“I didn’t expect to receive one this early,” Dad told himself.

“Receive one of what Quill?” Luna asked while looking at my dad.

“Well… You remember how I told you that Displaced could receive another Displaced’s tokens right?” Dad asked Luna, nodding in response. “Well… This is one of those tokens.” Dad told her.

Luna gasped before looking at dad in an unbelieving expression: “Are you sure?”

“Well either, I heard an oath, or I’m going insane again, but I’m pretty sure I’m still sane. So this must be a Token.” Dad then pauses and looks around before stating, “I’m gonna call them.” He stated. Not asked, just stated.

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Luna asked with worry woven into her eyes.

“I’m sure, and plus the oath I heard said that they are the protector of the innocent, so that means they aren’t a murderous or insane Displaced like some of the others I’ve heard about.” He says while looking back at the watch. “Well, here goes nothing.” He whispers.

Dad then stands up and walks a few feet in front of us, Zirconis now being much more awake. Dad holds the watch out in front of him, and looks back at us, before sighing and turning back to the watch.

“I call upon The Crimson Sage!” Dad yells.

Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty second and nothing happens. I go to say something when suddenly a bright flash erupts from the watch and blinding us all. After several seconds our vision returns and where the watch dad was holding was, now laid a portal which resonated with green and red energy.

Out of the portal stepped what looked like a tall man with a blonde braid. He was wearing a long red-hooded coat overtop a black suit with silver trim. On his face was an ornate pearl mask with gold outlines on it. On his hand were white gloves.

“Can I even go home anymore,” the man commented as he strained his jacket. “First a green-haired swordsman summons me then I get lost and stuck in a Rwby world on my way back using one of his portals then just as I get back to my own portal wham!” He shouted in anger. “I get pulled here.” He looked over to us. “Hmm, who's the Displaced wise guy?” He held up a gloved fist.

My dad takes a small step forward and with a deep voice, which resonated within the gardens he answered: “That would be me.” Dad tells the man. “There’s no need for a fight.” He stated while raising his hands in a calming way.

“Fairy Tail is the theme this time. Judging on your looks your Acnologia, and a reincarnation at that,” the man spoke in a confident tone. “And if I wanted to fight then I’d fight. There’s not really anything you could do to stop me Former Dragon King. So, what’s your name and why’d you bring me here?”

Dad looks thoughtful for a little bit before answering the man: “Well, first off, my name is Acnori Quill. Just call me Quill though, and my reason for bringing you here is… well… Actually, there’s not really a definitive reason, other than me receiving a Displaced token after only really being here for little more than a week.” Dad explained. “It could also have something to do with me having created my own token only about, a few hours ago,” Dad told the man, before retorting. “And even though I might not be able to stop you, I could certainly try, and I can guarantee you that I’d put up one hell of a fight. And if I went down, there's always Acnologia to back me up.” Dad grinned. “But now it’s time for my question…” Dad said before his grin disappeared and was replaced with a dead serious frown and his eyes narrowed. “How the fuck do you know about my reincarnation?”

“Many ways actually but just chalk it up to my Seith magic and my Soul perception this time Dragon Slayer,” the man shot back. “I see Luna over there and a few others. Ponies this time. I sense to more powerful Magics nearby too. Other Displaced,” he stroked his chin under his mask. This guy could sense Mavis and Zeref. What else can he do?

“I’m hungry!” He said in an embarrassed tone. “Y’all had breakfast yet?”

I decided to speak up at this point: “Well, there should still be some leftovers in the kitchen.” I tell the man. “Dad? Could you and I lead him to the kitchen?” I ask my father.

Just before Dad could answer, a slightly loud grumbling sound emitted from the man’s stomach.

Dad let out a slightly annoyed sigh before pinching the bridge of his nose and saying: “Fine, c’mon Serena, let’s go. If you want some food, then I suggest you follow, or your stomach’s gonna get pretty pissed.” Dad chuckled as I ran over next to him and we began to walk back inside the castle to go to the kitchen.

“Didn’t waste any time on making a move on the Princess of the Night. Aye Dragon of the Apocalypse,” the masked man chuckled as we soon arrived in the kitchen. “Wonder if the Celestia here keeps a stash of cake behind the thrown to? Oh, cereal.”

“Dad, what’s up with this guy? It’s like he went from a demanding force to a food fueled numskull in zero to sixty,” I said as I watched the strange idiot making a bowl of milk and cereal.

“I don’t really know, but let’s just be glad that this is one of the more friendly Displaced,” Dad whispered to me.

“No need to whisper I can hear every word you’re saying,” he said from across the kitchen. “Come sit young ones, join me in my glorious breakfast feast of milk and cereal.”

We both merely stared at the red-robed idiot. “Seriously? What’s this guys deal?”

Dad then smiles and chuckles a little before dropping a bomb: “Actually, I wasn’t the one who made the first move. It was actually Luna.” He told the man eating the cereal, causing the cereal eating man to gain a bewildered look.

“Oh wait a minute. You can’t see my face due to the mask. Sorry and kid,” he turned his head to face me. 

“What?” I glared at this idiot.

“Don’t piss your pants,” he said nonchalantly as he removed his mask to reveal a pair of amber gold eyes the looked down at me. Suddenly a massive wave of pressure washed over everything I nearly passed out trying to find what was causing this force on my body. Then I realized it was the idiot across from me and Dad. 

“Who… are… you?” I managed to wheeze out.

“Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist. Husband to Princess Luna and Partner to Princess Celestia. Father of the twin Star alicorns Morning Star and Solar Eclipse. Uncle to Adam Winger, Sorano Elric, Alexandria Justine, and Natalie Basatin,” he said with fervor. “That answer your question kid?” He asked as he munched on his cereal.

“I… I think so.” I managed to say.

“Jeez…” I could hear dad say as I looked up to see him not affected by the enormous amount of pressure washing over the room. “C-Could you tone down the magical pressure there Edward? You’re gonna make my son pass out.” He said, gesturing to me.

“Oh!” Edward said as he looked at me. He then held up his hand and reached into so sort of space and pulled out a ring and placed it on his finger. The pressure suddenly vanished. “There ya go. Feeling better young one?”

Feeling much better, I shake off the after-effects of the magical pressure: “Yeah, that’s a lot better, thank you.” I told him. “But since you introduced yourself, I’ll introduce myself. I am Serena Acnori, Adopted son of Acnori Quill, and the Eight Element Dragon Slayer.”

“And I am Acnori Quill,” My dad started. “Father of Serena Acnori, Brother to Mavis Vermillion and Zeref Dragneel. Mental houser of The Magic Dragon Slayer Acnologia Acnori and I myself am the Time Dragon Slayer, Former King of all Dragons, and current Partner to Princess Luna.” Dad introduced himself.

“Now that formal introductions are out of the way and that the cereal is gone,” Edward said holding up the empty bowl. “Time for dessert,” he said as he started eating the empty bowl.

“Even I know that’s not normal,” I stared as the strange man finished eating his cereal bowl.

“What?” He stared back at us.

“Why the hell are you eating a bowl?” Dad asked. “I mean, I can eat magic but even I don’t eat fuggin’ bowls.”

“Needed to get a feel of the magic of the world and eating exotic stuff is how I do things,” Edward laughed. “Plus there is that look on your faces. Never gets old!” He held his sides. “Now back to business. What can I do for you Quill?” The alchemist sat back down at the table. 

“Well… I actually need help with figuring out something.” Dad told Edward. “Within the time I’ve been here, the real Fairy Tail Zeref, Mavis, Serena, and Zirconis have ended up here. All of which had been killed by a Dragon Slayer. Serena and Zirconis had been killed by Acnologia, and Zeref and Mavis were inadvertently killed by Natsu Dragneel’s Dragon Magic. However, the Dragon that taught me my magic, Tyrrios, had also arrived here. And if you look out that window and into the Everfree forest, you can see the crater that I made killing the bastard. But what worries me is that… If Tyrrios arrived here… Who’s to say that other villains from Fairy Tail won't arrive here either? I need to find who or what’s been sending them here and I need to stop them.”

“There’s no doubt that more will come for sure,” Edward said nonchalantly. “And if you hand an issue beating the dragon then that just means you need to get strong. You’re a Displaced and what do we do if we’re given the chance at a new life?” He pointed at my dad.

“We take it and make the most of it.” Dad responded. “Also right before my fight with Tyrrios, I had my hair cut but as I went to fight him, it just regrew in like, two seconds. I thought that was weird but, it was probably just Acnologia doing weird shit.” Dad shrugged.

“Maybe,” Edward nodded. “So,” he looked at my dad straight in the eye. The carefree in gaze was gone and the man sitting across from us now was the one who first arrived here. “In order to live the life you want to live here what do you want?”

“Really?” Dad wondered. “In all honesty, all I want is to live peacefully with my new family, but the bitch that we all know called fate, has other plans, and as long as evil and danger are out there in my world… I will protect my loved ones, and I will protect the innocent.” Dad stated. “Plus, I’ve also got to train Serena to use his magic. But also… Me and Acnologia have got to figure out what Tyrrios wanted with Rainbow Dash.” Dad told Edward. “When I fought Tyrrios it seemed as if his magic wasn’t at full blast like there was a seal or a level cap on it. I originally thought it was because of the Everfree’s ability to absorb and dampen magic, but I realized that the Everfree only absorbs, Equestrian Magic, and seeing as Tyrrios was using Fioren Dragon Magic, it wasn’t the Everfree. But as soon as I saw Rainbow bleeding, it seemed as if Tyrrios’ magic was rising, like the seal was being broken.” Dad explained. “And if I’m right, then The Main Six are stronger than we all thought,” Dad told Edward seriously. I’ve never seen my dad this serious before, not even in Fiore was he ever this serious.

“Naturally my young friend. They’re more in tune with this lands magic as they are the physical representation of the Elements of Harmony,” Edward explained. “Eventually they’ll be able to tap into this land’s without needing to use their elements. I’ve heard in some realities that all six eventually ascend to alicornism. But back to Tyrrios. Whenever one crosses the void from anywhere they're usually left in a weakened state due to the effect of the travel. This is true for us Displaced as well. Only those amongst us that have evolved to Void Dwellers or like me that have amassed enough power don’t feel this fatigue. It makes sense that Tyrrios would go after Rainbow Dash is trying to regain his lost power by going oater the nearest source of magic for an ample supply to recharge. Foiran magic and Equestrian magic aren’t all that fundamentally different at the base level. I should know I help Lex develop Dragon Slayer Magic when there was none in her world.”

“Well, that's the thing… When I noticed Tyrrios’ seal, it didn’t feel… Normal. It didn’t feel like it was Fioren, Equestrian, nor Void like. It felt… For lack of a better term, it felt like there was a weakness in his blood. Not in his magic and he didn’t have any fatigue when fighting me as he broke several of my ribs.” Dad told Edward, showing him the bandages. “I didn’t even feel Equestrian magic for the entire duration of our fight, instead I felt… I felt a different type of magic. Like when the FACE was being activated in Fiore with the battle against the dark guild Tartarus, but even then, this was completely different.” Dad told Edward. “It felt more like a plague, was trapped within Tyrrios, and if allowed to be set free, it would take over all of Equiss like the flood from Halo, or rather… something like a virus, and if I’m correct, I’m the cure. Though I don’t think the Elements were involved with Tyrrios wanting Rainbow, I think he just wanted her blood. For what I can’t tell but it must be for something bad. Though Tyrrios won’t be doing much of anything anymore as he is now just a Hiroshima nuclear shadow on the ground.” Dad explained to Edward.

“Pestilence. Hmm…” Edward rubbed his chin. “Could be he wanted to take out Rainbow or infect her with this virus. Pawns are often undervalued in most chess games due to people thinking they have no value other than to be fodder or shields for the royals but that isn’t true,” he explained as he got to his feet. “The thing about a pawn is its promotion to become royalty once it reaches the other side of the board. There is most definitely something else going on here Quill. What it is I can’t say but I can say you’ll have to figure this out.” Edward paced back and forth for a minute. “I wish I could help but without more to go on, I'm just as dead in the water as you are my friend. But I can help you in another way,” he smirked as he points at dad and me.

Dad gave Edward a smirk in response and at this point, I asked: “Help my dad, how?”

“I’m an inter-dimensional Mage with a vast knowledge of your own magic and many others under my belt kid,” Edward placed a hand on his chest. “Not to mention alchemy, weapons, Combat armed and unarmed, and many other skills I’ve acquired over the last fifteen thousand years I’ve been alive. You do the math for a minute?”

“Well… That is impressive, and I don’t doubt your skills. So, I’m gonna ask if you could help me and Acnologia fuse our magic in order to successfully use our Apocalypse Magic. Also, I haven’t unlocked our Dragon Force and our Dragon Form is still locked away. Only yesterday, I unlocked my Time Dragon Secret Art, called Mayan Calendar Devastator.” Dad told Edward.

“I can give you a key but whether you two use it is up to you,” Edward said in his own seriousness. “Just know on you start learning this skill there is stopping your training and it will be very grueling as you must learn to advance skills then combine them into one that every time you use it that you put your very life on the line. Even for minor things.” I looked into this man’s eyes, eyes that could switch between happy and joke to serious in a seconds notice but as I stared all I saw was and empty darkness in a sea of gold. “Are you willing to go through hell to protect your home, Acnori Quill?” He pointed at my father no light in his eyes at all.

“Yes…” Dad told Edward with determination and conviction.

“Very well,” Edward said as he walked in front of dad and clapped his hands together. “You will know Truth Quill and be prepared as it is a monster amongst monsters,” He pulled his hands apart red electric currents very flowing from his fingers. Edward then placed his hands on my father and they both vanished in a storm of lightning and shadows.




Quill POV

As I passed through the portal, I could feel the magical molecules in my body, be forcefully ripped apart, and reassembled several times over, and I could hear Acnologia screech in pain.

“SON OF A BITCH!!!!” I screamed as my left eye slit and turned into a draconic eye.

I roared in pain as a burning sensation ripped through the right side of my face, my torso and my leg. Strained scrapes against bone burned through my ears as pain seared into my limbs. After minutes of this pain, it began to finally subside. Before a pain ripped through my lower back, and my mind fogged in pain. Then it finally finished and the pain left me sore.

“Son of a Nut that hurt,” I complained.

“Oh a visitor,” came a voice from in front of me. “Do tell Acnori Quill. How did you get here and why are you here?” I looked up to see the form of a white silhouette with dust coming off it. It had no feature but that of a wide toothy grin as it appeared to look down on me.

“Back off Truth. I brought him here,” Edward appeared next to me. “You okay Quill?”

“Well other than feeling like my bones ripped each other apart and stitched themselves back together with tape, I’m fine.” I retorted as my voice resonated with two different vocal cords. “And I have a question… Why the hell do I sound like both Acnologia and Quill?” I asked before raising my hand to soothe my shrilling headache, and realizing that my hand was now a dragon claw. I yelp and jump back in surprise. “What the Nut happened!?!?”

“Truth happened,” Truth snickered at my reaction. “You must be what you really are in my domain Dragon of The Apocalypse. Now you want the first half of Edward’s teachings, do you not?” This wicked being stared at me with an eyeless face and a wide grin.

I look at Truth with determination and a draconic smile and I laugh darkly: “Let’s fucking do this.” I cackle insanely.

“Oh so naive little dragon,” Truth put on a cute pout pose. “What will you pay for the power of Alchemy? Equivalent exchange is the rule here. To gain you must give. Pay the toll.”

“I told you it was an ass,” Edward rolled his eyes.

“Well…” I smile lightly. “I’ve already given it up once so… I’ll give up my humanity.” I tell Truth with a light, but sorrowfully nostalgic smile.

“Tsk tsk. So sorry young one but you can’t pay with something you never had in the first place,” Truth chuckled.

“Fair point.” I smile. “But, I’ll give up my left arm,” I tell Truth.

“The payment is set,” The Truth smirked as it held up its left arm and my own arm was then deconstructed and it appeared on the Truth. “I do hope you don’t die of blood on the other side and that you send me more of your world.” The evil Void Dweller smirked at me as it floated out of the way to reveal a giant marble door.

“Well, in my life before being a Displaced… Heh… I had already gotten my left arm from the elbow down ripped off the hard way. And it had to heal naturally, so I expect as much pain. Just hope this time, my Draconic healing will kick in this time.”

“Are you gonna go through your door or not,” Edward said as he was now sitting on my head. “You won’t have the alchemical knowledge and know-how until you do.” He looked at the Truth in disgust. “I hate being here with that thing so… Can we please go?”

“Well, let’s go.” I smile as I walk to the door with Edward still on my head.

“Just let your mind go blank and your body go numb Quill,” Edward advised as we went through my portal.

I walk over to the marble door and see its true form. Its color is navy blue, and it has black and gold accents, and several markings similar to the ones that covered my body also littered the door, with the same illuminating light. I press my right hand onto the door and lightly push, to which the door responds by opening inwards with a phasing slam. I smile and look down at my now armless left shoulder.

“To protect you all,” I whisper to myself.

I then step through the blinding light to enter the next phase of my training. I woke up in the kitchen back in human form with Edward kneeling down at my left. I tried to sit up only to fall on my back. I then felt a sharp pain on my left side and I Looked down to see my new stub. It was tingling with a bet of electricity coming off of it.

“There ya go,” Edward said standing up and then helping me to my feet.

“Well,” I started while wincing at the sting of losing an arm. “At least my dragon healing worked this time.” I chuckled while trying to ignore the continuing sting.

“This is going to cause a problem,” Edward point at my missing left arm. “You’ll need a new arm if you’re going to move on to the next face of your training.”

“I figured as much…” I sighed, before smelling something. “Is that… Metal?”

“Yea why?” Edward raised an eyebrow as he rolled up his right sleeve to reveal an advanced technological arm. “Not your standard automail anymore. Is this what you smelt?”

“Yeah, though I don’t know how I didn’t smell it before,” I told him, before looking at Serena. “Hey, could you go and tell the others that me and Edward are training?” I asked, receiving a nod followed by Serena taking my cloak off and handing it to me. He then ran out of the kitchen to go tell Zirconis and Luna. “Well, what now?” I asked Edward while placing my cloak back around my body, hiding my now missing left arm.

“First things first, you need a new temporary arm before we can even start your next lesson,” Edward remarked as he moved over to a nearby counter. “First I’ll need a few raw materials,” as he said this a spell matrix formed over his hand. He moved his hand across the counter and random materials appeared below it. “Alright,” Edward cracked his knuckles, “Time to get creative.” He held up his right hand and it changed to have many different tools coming from it. The alchemist began to cobble, shape, cut, and form the materials he’d created a few seconds ago. “All done.” He held up a silver metal draconian looking left arm. “I made this from magi-steel to allow magic to flow through it naturally. I sure you’ll get your own arm down the line somewhere but for now, you’ll be using this.” Edward tossed me the arm. “It nearly unbreakable but not nearly as sturdy as my own.”

“Thanks,” I told him while placing it onto the stump of my left arm. It was a perfect fit, and I could feel my nerves attaching themselves to it. After seconds of the process, the arm began to change, its color went from silver to pitch-black with navy-blue draconic markings on it, in the same pattern as my old arm. “Heh, guess my magic took to it well,” I responded clenching the metallic fist to get used to the feeling.

“Good. Now, is there someplace to go where no one would care about mindless violence?” Edward asked outright.

“Well, I suppose that we could use the crater Tyrrios and I fought in. It’s completely devoid of life, as anything that tries to get near it will likely fall into a coma due to the overwhelming amount of Time Magic.” I tell him pointing to the crater.

“Perfect!” He chimed and then snapped his fingers and in an instant, we were in the middle of the crater. “Uff, you weren’t kidding about the time magic. Smells like rank Minotaur crap in here. One moment,” Edward held up his hand and a light began to form in it. Soon the light grew brighter and then died down into a dark blue glow. I looked at the alchemist’s hand and there hovered a strange crystal that radiated with my time magic. I then noticed that air was cleansed from the previous battles magic. “Here you go. And do try and not expelling all of this or you could seriously poison the area.” Edward tossed me the crystal.

“No promises and I was going to point out that about two feet behind you is what remains of Tyrrios,” I told Edward while taking a bite out of the crystal and feeling my magic reenter my body. “And I’m sorry about the magical poisoning but I did basically create a magical nuke.”

“Fine,” he turned around to look at the remains. “First lesson! Think fast!” Edward made a quick turn and in the blink of an eye, he was above me. He brought down his left leg hard. I managed to block but it still sent a shock through my body. I knew if his arm was metal that his leg had to be as well but he shouldn’t be able to move that fast. “Come on Quill think. Use the knowledge in that thick dragon skull of yours.”

I smiled wickedly and with lightning speed, it seemed as if I phased out of reality, but I reappeared next to Edward and grabbed his face with my new left arm, slamming him into the ground causing spiderweb cracks to surround his head with rubble and rocks flying everywhere as a result.

“How’s that for fast?” I asked him still wearing that devilish smile.

“Fast yes but not the reaction I meant for you to have,” Edward smirked as he looked at me. I heard a clap and was forced back by a block of earth that shot up hitting me dead in the face. “I want you to use your alchemy dragon boy, “ he said sitting up.

“Well,” I say, crushing the stone. “I am kinda tricky for the Time Dragon Slayer,” I smirk as the air in front of my chest condenses. “Hehe.” I laugh as I grab the condensed air.

As I grab the air, it quickly morphs into an ethereal-like blade. I run at Edward with blinding speed, and I slam the blade into Edward’s side. Catching him off guard and throwing him away, while also cutting his jacket.

“You ruined my coat,” he said throwing of the red coat. “Swords is it,” he held up his right arm and it opened to allow a hilt of some kind out. Edward hit a switch on the hilt and out shot a black katana shaped blade with a red outline along the edge. He took up a stance and placed the weapon in front of himself. “How familiar are you with Star Wars lore?” He smirked as he charged forward and quickly struck in an unusual pattern. He was keeping me on the defensive.

I smile slightly: “Star Wars? Boy did you pick the wrong nerd to mess with…” I mumbled before leaping back and quickly focusing magic into my arms. “Temporal Dragon Blades!” I yell as lightsaber like swords extend from both my hands, both burning with magic. “Let’s go, Darth Edward!” I joke, charging at him.

“Remember when I said I have a niece who is a Fairy Tail Displaced,” he smirked. I don’t like that look in his eye. “Crimson Dragon Roar!” He roared and a tempest of red dragon magic came for me. “Don’t try and eat it either as you will be severely hurt,” I heard from right next to me. 

I smile before stopping and looking directly at the oncoming magic. I just smile, and just like Natsu, I position my hands in a circular motion, and as soon as it’s about to hit me, I swipe my hands apart. I then take what remains of the crystal made from my magic and smash it in my hands. I start condensing it into a small sphere. I hold out my left arm and grab the pulsating sphere, causing my left arm to ignite into Temporal fire, resulting in me lunging past Edward. I then touch the ground and send the magic into it.

“TIME QUAKE!” I scream out, sending millions of massive vibrations from my arm into the ground, causing Edward to stumble momentarily.

“Are you nuts!” He yelled in anger. “You can use that with the populace so close, Nule Field!”  Edward slapped the ground canceling out the quake. “You’re getting too caught up in this fight kid. Think before you use your powers. You won’t be using any more of your magic either as my Nule Field cancels all magic. What the hell were you thinking using that sort of move?”

Edward pauses for a second, as he’s seeing something wrong with me. Because something is going very wrong: “Damn! IT! Acnologia! WHAT THE HELL!?!?? GAHH!!!” I scream in pain as my eye starts bleeding. Acnologia’s magic is going rampant, and I wasn’t in control.

“I wIlL hAvE tHiS bOdY!!” A voice screeched.

My eyes widen to dinner plates: “N-No, y-you’re dead, you died!!” I yell, before screaming in more pain. Holding my head in shrill terror. “GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!” I roar as my bleeding eye slits and blood flows into the iris of my eye and my magic begins to pulsate and defend against the invading magic.

“Ah, you must be the dead one from his earlier fight,” Edward rolled his eyes. “Sorry but I can’t have you screwing with my apprentice’s brain and you most definitely can’t have his body,” I managed to make out Edward walking over to me and then he thrust his hand into my chest. I felt more pain than ever before as red electricity burst forth from the alchemist’s hand into my body. In the next moment, I was on the ground and Edward was standing above me with a blood-red glowing stone hovering above his palm.

I stared at him and looked mainly at the blood-red stone: “Sorry… About, well… Y’know, using Time Quake to that extent. I meant for it to only affect you and the small radius around you and not… Create an actual earthquake.” I apologized shamefully, looking down at the ground. I then noticed blood dripping from my left cheek. I raised my hand and lightly touched under my eye, and pulled the arm back to see blackening blood, laying almost completely dry on my hand. “Even in death, you manage to ruin my fucking day. Screw you Tyrrios. Screw. You.” I swore. Looking up into the sky I asked. “Acno, you there?” Waiting for a reply I heard. “Y-Yup! All fucking dandy!” Acnologia’s swearing could be heard in my head. “Just went in and barely survived a fight with a mutated Tyrrios who looked triggered as hell, but other than that, I think I’ll live. Good thing Edward helped us, or I don’t think we would’ve made it out alive. Or one of us anyway.” He told me, as I could hear his relieved breathing. I let out an ashamed sigh. “Damn it. Tyrrios was still kicking and had mutated? Something is definitely wrong.” I mumbled before falling flat on my back.

“He’d just keep coming back if I hadn’t turned the bastard’s soul into a Philosopher’s Stone,” Edward said holding out the stone to me in his hand. “What do you want to with it?”

“Hell if I know, but this does present an opportunity.” I pointed out. “Acnologia tells me that Tyrrios had somehow mutated into something… brutal is all he says about it. Don’t know the specifics but it was gruesome. If we can basically dissect Tyrrios, then we might be able to figure out why Tyrrios wanted Rainbow’s blood. And we might figure out what the hell mutated him.” I suggested. “Just try and keep the thing away from me for right now… I don’t think Acno’s going to be able to use his magic too much, but I might be able to go for a bit. Though I might need more practice with Alchemy, I mean, the only real bit of Alchemy I did in the fight was to create that wind blade from the air particles around me. Even then I don’t think that was true Alchemy.”

Edward placed the stone in some form of pocket dimension. “Why do you think I activated my Nule Field. To get you to use alchemy. Let me ask you this, what is the first rule of Alchemy?”

“Equal trade. If you want something of value, you’ve got to give something of equal value. Like say if I wanted to make a scarf, I’d have to sacrifice something with the same value of the scarf, most likely I’d have to give up the base elements that makeup, said scarf.” I answer.

“Yes, a Philosopher Stone is the only thing that can bypass this in the original concept of this law,” Edward held up his hand and red electricity spark and a sword form from it. “Being a living stone I could always bypass this law but I never used it unless I had to. Red lightning magic and Arc of Creation give off the same effect as using the stone in my body.” He tossed the sword to me. “See what can change the sword into and try and add details to what you make. Remember alchemy requires a circle but those who have seen Truth are the circle.” He pointed at me.

“Hmm…” I think carefully about the sword I held. My mind drifts to Time Magic and other mythologies. Then, I get an idea. “Perfect!!” I exclaim as I get to work. “Okay so…” I mumble as I begin to gather supplies. After several minutes I finally got what I need. “Let’s do this.” I pop my neck bones.

I kneel down and place my metal arm on the sword, which is surrounded by different materials. I focus my mind and think of one simple thing. The supplies and sword begin to glow and once they are engulfed in white light the shape begins to shift and swirl into an amalgamation, before snapping into a different form. The once short hilt of the sword was now a long staff-like shape, and a circular-like blade hung from the top of the handle. The light then faded and what was once a sword, was now a scythe. Its handle was pitch-black and the blade had draconic markings on it. I smiled at my work and picked the scythe up before looking back at Edward.

“Nice work but it’s missing something,” he said as he walked over to me. I noticed that he was pulling his hands up. There appeared to be what looked like strings coming from his fingertips. I then felt a tugging coming from my, everywhere. Then it’s was as part of my very self was pulled from me. I saw black energy floating towards Edward and as it did it began to solidify slightly. “Let me see that scythe,” he held up his hand. I handed him the weapon and he began to take the energy he took from my body and using the same threads he wove the energy into the scythe. “Here you go,” Edward floated the scythe back to me it was different though, it felt as if the scythe was apart of me.

“This feels… Right.” I mumbled aloud. “I wonder if the modification I thought of worked,” I asked to no one, which interested Edward. I smiled and spun the scythe in a circular motion, and suddenly stopped it but part of the blade didn’t and stopped when it reached the opposite of the top blade. I was now holding a dual-sided scythe. Like a staff, I set it next to me, and the height on this thing was ridiculous. It was almost twice my height.

“Nice addition and if you’re wondering what I did to the weapon,” Edward held up his right arm and it opens to reveal many different glowing crystals. “I bonded it with your void energy so no one but you can use it, not even Acno can use it. Think of it as an extension of yourself and your magic.” He points to his open arm. “I used a similar technique to create these, there called Sage Stone. Think of them as the magic equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone. Though, these are made from singular elements ranging from fire and to even time.” Edward closed his arm. “Any questions?”

“Not really, but I do have one,” I tell Edward while retracting the bottom blade of my scythe. “Can the Sage Stones use Apocalypse Magic or just Raw Magic?”

“Raw magic is the only stone you’ll ever be able to make Quill,” Edward said with a bit of reserve. “I’m trusting you not to abuse these skills, Quill. Just by making the first Stone in my own world sparked a war with the Minotaurs. I can make you an Apocalypse Stone but only if you promise to use for justice and the protection of those close to you.”

“Edward, I’m not asking you because I want to use them, I’m asking you because they’ll likely help with keeping my magic over Time, Acnologia’s magic over Raw Magic, and out combined magic over The Apocalypse,” I tell him as my hair overshadows my eyes. “I want you to promise me something. If ever we lose control over our magic, especially Apocalypse, then I want you to kill me. Erase my existence.”

Edward smirked. “Nnanhaha!” I then felt a metal fist in my face. “Idiot, you’re so scared of your power that you already resigned yourself to death. No, only if I'm absolutely certain that you can’t do it will I wipe you from existence, got it.”

I spit out a bit of dirt that landed in my mouth, before smiling lightly. “Understood, but I will lose control over most likely Apocalypse one of these days because as fate has established and made clearer than fucking crystals, History tends to repeat itself.” I chuckle.

“Mmm…” Edward looked at me. “Just so you know my Stones power only runs out of magic if there is no magic around it for it to absorb from the air around it and they’ll only break if they’re completely drained dry of their magic.” He turned toward the castle. “Catch,” he tossed me a Sage's Stone. “Let’s make or way back to the castle. I think your marefriend might be getting worried and you need a shower after rolling around in the dirt.”

“Sure,” I grinned. “Let’s go,” I said while getting up and placing the stone in my pocket. “By the way, I’ve got another question. What’s your favorite Star Wars Movie?” I ask. “Mine is the first movie. Episode one."

"Will I grew up watching the originals with my younger brother and you just can't beat the classics or Darth Vader," he remarked as he rubbed his chin. "I was in kindergarten when Episode One came out. Have to say my favorite character in that one had to be Qui Gonn Gin."

“Nice, but if I had to pick one, I’d say young Obi-Wan Kenobi, definitely because of that dual-wielding scene with the Light Sabers against Darth Maul.” I input.

“Jar’kai dual bladed wielding,” Edward said as he looked over his shoulder. “My master was much better in lightsaber combat than I am. Most of my training is substituted from my other sword techniques I’ve picked up over the years. I do have to say its important to learn several forms of combat and to have a few weapons that don’t solely rely on magic as well.”

“Ah, that’s the beauty of my scythe,” I tell him. “For you see, it channels my Time Magic in order to cut through it, allowing me to strike my enemy in frozen time. Y’know those moments with ninjas where they strike so fast, their opponent just falls apart? Well, my scythe, which I appropriately named Time Reaper, allows me to do that, but also puts a limit on my magic output, so I don’t poison the area with Time Magic. Other than that it’s just a normal scythe.” I tell him.

“Tell me this Quill,” He turned to face me. “What will you do when you can’t use any magic at all.” he reached into his pocket space and pulled out a large crystal claymore. “This is a trophy from the Minos Wars. The king had it made to specifically take on Tia and Luna. This sword nullifies magic completely.” He tossed it to me. I caught the weapon and if it wasn’t for dragonic strength then I wouldn’t have been able to lift it.

“Well, for one, I wouldn’t just give up.” I answer. “I’ll do what I did back on Earth when I never had Magic. Become unpredictable, because that’s my specialty. Unpredictability was what got me through tough times back home and so far, it hasn’t failed me.” I respond.

“Good Answer,” He said as the sword returned to where it came from. We soon arrive back at the castle. “How’s your standing with Celestia anyway?”

"We're good friends, and I've helped her with Day Court but when you arrived I had left Day Court because there was a particularly bad Pegasus who just really pissed me off. Duchess Ruby, a bitch with a major pegasi superiority complex. Gave me a headache." I explained.

“Superiority complex,” I nodded. “I hate ones like that. But it’s good to know you’re friends with the Celestia here but keep in mind that the devil was once an angel my friend. I know she’s friendly but Celestia has her fair share of secrets too.” We wandered around the halls. “This place is similar to my own but there are major differences in it. What do we do now? This is your world so I’m not about to muscle in on anything.”

"Oh I know, actually I was there when Luna was freed from Nightmare Moon. Apparently, they made a mural of me with the Main Six fighting Nightmare." I told him.

“Mmm…” Edward stayed silent. He was giving off an air of resentment. “I was still in stone when Tia sealed Luna on the moon. Half insane too. I had to watch her slowly circum to her darkness then watch her while she was on the moon. Sealed away by someone I thought was a friend by alchemagic that I taught to them.” He said with an insane looking smile as he grasped his face.

"..." I stayed silent before looking at him. "Well… You're not in stone anymore nor are you alone now, are you? Just focus on the better memories, and the present, not the past." I place my hand on his shoulder.

“Right,” he said taking in a deep breath and straightening himself up. “I’ll let you lead the way. Oh, I know. Can we go see Mavis and Zeref? Maybe meet up with your kid, girl, and dragon fellow from earlier?”

"Well, you'll actually be surprised to find that Gilda and her daughter are currently staying at our place." I then remember something. "Oh, also," I pull out my wallet. "Watch this!" I opened my wallet and reached my arm down to the elbow inside it. "Wallet dimension!" I joke. "Anyway, it's almost time for… lunch I believe, and I'm cooking, so what'd you like?" I ask putting my wallet away. 

“Surprise me, food is actually more of a luxury for me than a necessity due to my body. And nice to know Gilda has a kid here too. She has a son around seven in my world,” Edward followed me. “And the wallet dimension is a new one for me too. I usually put my stuff in my endless carry bag. My weapons are stored in my Gate of Aries or their own separate dimensions with the exception of my lightsaber.”

"Well, believe it or not, the wallet was a courtesy of The Merchant. The guy who sent both of us here." I tell him. "So was my house and several of my clothes. For a void dweller he's kinda nice. Well, for someone who sends someone most of the time against their will to a different universe.”

“You got one of the nice ones then,” he remarked. “Originally I could care less about the merchants but I’m glad I was sent to Eques. Never would met Faust, her husband, or Celestia and Luna. Never would’ve had my twins if it wasn’t for them. Just be wary of them. Some are nice enough but there's a time when they’ll stop giving you stuff. Usually, it’s when they see you more than will off in your world.”

“That time’s probably already passed, but hey… Least he gave me a loaded fridge.” I point out while shrugging.

“How about we get your crew and head to your house for BBQ,” he commented. “I’ll take care of getting us there. Sound good to you?”

“I’m good with that.” I tell him before getting dead serious. “But I’m cooking.” I threaten.

“I’m a mage, Sage! Scientist doctor etc. But one thing I don’t do is step in someone else’s kitchen. Especially when it’s a man cooking for his friends,” he chuckled. “Trust me, Zebras teach you this the hard way.”

“Oh, I don’t mean it like that, I’m warning you to not even go close to the kitchen while I’m cooking, because I go full Gordon Ramsey, and I roast the ass off of anyone who messes with my cooking. And if you mess up my cooking, then not even all that magical BS you got will save you from my wrath.” I tell him while piercing his soul with my chef gaze.

“Never shoot that gaze at a Louisiana man. We know cooking!” He said give back me stare tenfold.

“Well good to know, because I’ve only been to the Americas once! And that time I went to a convention when I got Displaced, cause I’m Japanese, BOI!!!” I shoot back intensifying my stare even greater. 

Edward and I merely stood there and continue to stare at each other. Neither one of us was going to cave to other’s gaze but if were an actually contest than I probably could’ve held out until the end of the day. Then from around the corner came Serena, Luna, and Zirconis roused the corner down the hall.

"Where were you two?!" Luna yelled at me, galloping over to check if I was hurt. She then noticed my now metal left arm. "Quill!!" She gasped. "Your arm! What did you do?!?!?!!!" She screamed at Edward.

“Back off there princess,” Edward held his own metal hand up to Luna’s face. “I did nothing but open his portal. It was Quill that made the payment for the knowledge and power of alchemy to Truth with his left arm. I merely created a simple draconic themed prosthetic to replace it for the time being. The man knew what he was doing and asking for.” Luna began to light her horn. “Go ahead and blast me if it makes you feel better but know you can’t kill me or even come close to me in terms of power little pony!” Edward shrugged. Luna blast the man straight in the chest. We waited to see what was left once the dust cleared and stand there with a hole straight through him was Edward. Red lightning cackled and his wound quickly closed up. “Like I said you can’t kill me.. Even your midnight form would be enough to keep up with me. Heck even Celestia can’t keep up with me anymore.. He chuckled. “Who’s hungry?”

I place my hand on Luna’s neck and run my fingers through her mane. She looks up at me with worried eyes and I lightly press my lips against her forehead. “Don’t worry Luna. What he’s saying is true, I did give up my left arm so I could learn Alchemy, but it was to better protect you and the rest of my family. Being brought to Equestria I had lost a family, but by meeting you I gained a new one.” I tell her calming her down. “C’mon let’s go, I’m hungry and I’m cooking.” Stealthily gives Edward the Japanese chef glare.

“Enough with the staring already, geez,” Edward remarked as he fixed his clothes. “I already said I don’t mess around In another man’s kitchen. He snapped and we teleported to the main square of Ponyville. “I got us all to town you lead the way to your house.“

I stop my stare and smile. "Right, follow me," I say while leading them through the town. I led them down the main path to a path that led to my house, a secluded place where nothing could harm us. And once we reached the front of my home I stopped and looked at it happily. "Here we are. My home." I told them.

“Quaint,” Edward said as he admired my house. “Reminds me of the house I built in Everfree when I first got back to Equestria from my travels around Eques.”

“Well, actually this house is exactly like the one I lived in, on Earth before becoming a Displaced. This is a gift from The Merchant, and he got it down to the last detail, plus it can restore itself. Like auto repair.” I explained, before walking up and opening the front door. “Zeref! Mavis! We’re home!” I yelled into the house. Then I hear heavy and fast footsteps getting louder and closer when sliding out of the hall is Mavis. She looks at me dead in the eyes. “Oh shit…” I brace myself. “You all might want to make a path.” I tell the others behind me, and they move to one side, out of the way. I hold a thumbs up and then I’m flying out of the house being tackled by my adopted little sister.

“QUILL!!!! YOU’RE OKAY!!!!” She screams hugging me tightly, as I lay flat on the ground, the wind knocked out of me.

“Yeah, Mavis… I’m fine…” I wheeze trying to regain my breath. “Did you have any cookies while I was gone?” I ask looking at her.

She then blushed in embarrassment. “I had maybe one, or two.” She mumbled.

“She had seventy-two, exactly. She was stress eating.” Zeref told me while standing in the door frame. “Good to see your okay Quill.” He smiles.

“The infamous duo of good and evil of Fairy Tail,” I hear Edward chuckle. “I see that you both no longer have your immortality. I wonder what caused that?”

“Actually, they do still have their immortality, it’s just their Ahnkseram death curse was destroyed. And by none other than the Goddess of Death herself. She’s also the one who sent Serena here and turned him into a child.” I told him while getting back up and dusting myself off.

“From the way she just tackled you I’d say she’s on one hell of a sugar rush or she has a crush on you,” Edward teased causing to go red in the face.

“I DON’T HAVE A CRUSH ON QUILL!” She yelled at the alchemist in anger. “Not when I’ve got Zeref.”

“Defensive for a half-pint ain’t she,” Edward chuckled. “And I find it odd how neither of you have asked me who I am or how I got here.”

“Yeah, I just figured that you got here through some weird-ass magic BS.” Zeref says. “After being here less than a week, and knowing the pony Pinkie Pie, I honestly don’t question the weird shit that happens in Equestria.” He chuckles loosely.

“Oh I like him,” Edward pointed at Zeref. “Any ways it’s nice to meet you both. My names Edward Elric the Full Metal alchemist. I’m a Displaced similar to Quill. I was sent to another version of Equestria over fifteen thousand years ago, but seeing as how time really his no meaning for the Displaced outside their native worlds so you can just write that last part off.” 

“Did you break the fourth wall just now? Or am I just imagining that?” Quill mumbles. “Anyway, if you’re wondering what a Displaced is, we’re basically an infinite amount of people who go to a convention, and buy something from this Void Dweller called The Merchant, and whoever the person is dressed up as or whose stuff they buy, they’re sent to a different world, or alternate version of Equestria and become that character. In my case, I was originally Acnologia, but my Humanity was reincarnated on Earth and I bought Acnologia’s necklace from him and was sent here. You all know the rest.” I summarize explain it to Zeref and Mavis.

“Should’ve figured. But that is interesting though. Eh, weirder things have happened.” Zeref shrugs. He then notices my left arm. “And I’m guessing you had a part in Quill’s left arm?” He asked Edward. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he did it to get more power to better protect us.” He grumbled.

“I merely opened the door for him,” Edward shrugged. “But you’re pretty much spot on. He’s got a pretty decent head on his shoulders and a good handle on his alchemy but not quite good enough to start the next phase of his training.”

"Well, hey… you can blame Tyrrios for what happened back in the crater." I point out to Edward. "But yeah. Though I'd like to spark with you sometime. No magic, and no alchemy. Just hand to hand." I grin.

“Mmhmmm…” Edward smirked. “I wouldn’t mind but we’ll have to go somewhere we could really cut loose. First, we need to eat though.”

“My thoughts exactly.” I smile wide.

I walk into the house and out the back porch, finding a grill. I didn’t know it was there becasue the last time I was out here it was pitch-black. I lift it up with my left arm and walk back out to the front, setting it down and calling for Gilda.

“Hey, Gilda! I’m back and I’m making BBQ!” I call to the Griffoness.

“Be right down! Just need to get Mali up!” She calls back. Several seconds later, and Gilda along with a tired Mali in her arms, walk down the stairs.

“Hey, Mali. Nice to see you under better circumstances. How are you doing? How’s your neck?” I ask bending over to meet Mali’s eyes.

“I-I’m doing better, and my neck still feels sore. Mr. Zeref says I shouldn’t talk too much.” Mali shyly responds, hiding her head bashfully in her mother’s feathers.

“That’s good. How’s Rainbow Dash?” I ask Gilda standing back up.

“She’s still unconscious, Zeref says she’ll be asleep for a few more days, but she’s getting better.” She tells me. “But I heard something about you cooking, and from what I hear Zeref and Mavis telling me about you, you’re one hell of a cook.” She grins, and we walk out of the house.

“How bad a Rainbows injuries?” Edward asked in curious tone. “I may be able to help if you want.”

“It’s fairly bad. Her wing was dislocated in several spots but thanks to Zirconis they were healed. Though she has a fever that just keeps getting worse. It’s not a magical illness though, it’s more like -,” Zeref explains before I cut him off.

“Pestilence?” I ask. Zeref nods. “Seems our Pestilence theory might be right Edward.” I cross my arms in front of my chest.

“Good thing I’m a scientist before a magician. If this a draconic illness we may have a big problem on our hands Quill,” Edward looked at me in the eyes. “I might not be able to treat her here. I can create lab equipment but I can only do it a piece at a time and even then if I want a new piece I can just make it on the fly if I’m in the middle of a procedure. Again if this is a draconic illness it could spread quickly if Dash isn’t treated right away. I know dragons usually stay away from ponies in most Equestrias but if this illness is easily transferred from dragon to pony so quickly, it could really be a big problem. There is Spike and his a dragon so if the virus needs a host to stay a live it’d be a safe bet he’d easily be infected but it doesn’t some that the illness is deadly to dragons. I wonder why?” He stroked his chin.

“Likely because this illness is different. If it’s not magical, then it’s probably something I’m more familiar with. Back on Earth, I used to be a Doctor, and in Fiore so was Acnologia. I could take a look, but I’d need a second opinion. Care to help Edward?” I look at him.

“Sure,” Edward nodded. “If there is any more medical treatment to her body that needs to be fixed I can use alchestry to heal the wounds.”

“Let’s go up.” I gesture for him to follow me.

Edward and I walk up the stairs and into the guest bedroom where an unconscious Rainbow Dash laid sweating heavily in the bed, tossing and turning. I walk over and check her temperature first. She was burning up rapidly, and my eyes widen as the temperature of the room was zero degrees fahrenheit. I look back to Edward and motion for him to check her pulse.

“This is close to an illness I’ve seen in Fiore during my time as a doctor. But I was the only doctor who knew about it, because it only happened once. This is husk virus. I don’t know the full details but Acnologia tells me the Husk Virus does exactly what the name says. It tries and takes over the host through their blood, effectively turning them into an emotionless husk of their former self. Though the last known case was during the Dragon Civil War. I’d have to freeze the virus itself and remove it, but it takes a while for the virus to take full effect. However, your Alchemy could help kill the virus. But… I don’t know if this virus had begun to root itself or not. If it has then we have a bad time ahead of us, if not, we could safely remove it with minimal damage.” I explain going into my ‘Doctor’ mode.

“Move over,” Edward pushed me out of the way and put one hand on Dash’s forehead and the other on her chest. His fingertips began to glow as he closed his eyes. “Mmm, mmhmm… ahh no this needs to be fixed. The virus is still in its larval stage but is developing rapidly, I’ll need my. Nanites for this operation. It’s the only way to safely purge the virus from her body without damaging it any further. She took one hell of a hit from that bastard dragon. There were still multiple fractures throughout her entire body. I’ve taken care of them but it would be best if you keep her grounded for at least a week after she wakes up.” He pulled his hands back and I noticed the same strings from earlier that he’d used to pull off a piece of my void energy. “What do you want to do Quill?”

"Well as you said, it'd be safer to use your nanites so I'll try to freeze the virus in time but you'll have to hurry, my magic is drained from fending off Tyrrios." I tell him holding my arms out and letting my time magic freeze Rainbow. "Now I know what that seal on Tyrrios was. Most times this virus doesn't affect Fioren dragons but in very rare cases, it causes them to mutate and go on a rampage. I've had the displeasure of facing multiple victims of this virus. But it only once affected a human. What I want to know is how Tyrrios became a carrier to this virus." I ramble on.

“I can’t tell you that Quill. I’ve never encountered this virus till now,” Edward said as he popped his mechanical arm open and pulls out a large syringe with what looked like glowing rainbow metallic slime. “These are harmony nanites that I developed with my master and my brother during the Cybertron Equestrian War. Long story shirt these little guys have harmony magic infused to their very structure,” he explained as he injected the machines into Rainbow Dash’s fore leg. “They’ll stay in her system fighting of the infection if we can’t nip it all but if we do I’ll ask her if she wants them removed after she wakes up.”

"Okay, if you're right, which you probably are, the nanites will help attack and locate the virus. And I can understand the Alchemy, but now you're telling me that you've got fucking Cybertronians in your world? Jeez. If anything the secondary theme I'll get here would be… Have you heard of the game called Warframe?" I ask.

“Warframe?” Edward tapped his chin. “Yea I’ve heard of it. It was a shooter game that came out earlier in the year that I was Displaced. I never played it as I don’t care for shooters.” He shrugged. “But back to your comment. I don’t have Cybertronians in my world. It was a war I was summoned into. That’s where I met my master and gained some of my powers and technology.” He suddenly got a huge smirk on his face. “That was a fun one. I remember making Shining Armor piss and shit all over the floor just from sheer terror.”

"Oh I wish I was there to see that. But I did scare the shit out of Blue Blood for waking me up." I tell him. "Also, I kicked Tyrrios right in the genitals when we fought. His face was hilarious to look at." I joke.

We noticed that Rainbow was starting to stir. “Your up dude. She’s your patient and friend. I simply an aid.” Edward pointed to the cyan Pegasus.

"Ugh, what the hay? What happened?" Rainbow rubbed her head with her hoof and she looked around to see me. "Quill? Where am I?" She asked.

"Rainbow, what's the last thing you remember? I ask her.

"I remember, going off to find Gilda but finding two dragons, one was trying to attack her. Is she okay!?" Rainbow yelled.

"She's fine Rainbow, but you were injured severely and me and my friend Edward had to remove a virus that would've likely killed you. You're okay now, but you'll have to stay grounded for at least a week." I explain.

"Grounded? For a week? That sucks!" She complains.

"Sorry, but Doctor's orders," I tell her. "Don't make me get Twilight on your ass." I threatened.

“Your incredibly lucky that one of the dragons that attacked you felt sorry for you and shielded you from the one who infected your butt,” Edward added as he leaned against the wall. “Why do all Dashes have to be thick headed.” He murmured. “And I highly recommend you not fly at all and stay with one of your friends Rainbow Dash. I fixed your fractures for the most part but your skeletal structure is pretty much glass at this point.”

“Hey! I’m not that thick-headed.” She argued.

“O Really? Then why did you accuse Zeref and Mavis of being spies the first time you met them?” I asked.

“How do you know about that?!” She screamed.

“... I didn’t until you just told me right now.” I tell her smugly. “But in all seriousness, you need to stay grounded. If you try to fly right now, it could shatter your nervous system, and you’d never be able to fly, walk or do anything else again. That virus did some serious damage to your bones.” I inform her, seeing her pale at the knowledge that she could never move again. “For now I suggest you stay in bed and rest. The nanites Edward injected into you to stop the virus are still working away at it. Just rest and let them do their work, okay?” I ask placing my hand on her shoulder.

“Alright.” She huffs. “I’ll stay here for the time being.” She tells me.

“Good. C’mon let’s get something to eat.” I tell her, helping her get out of the bed.

As Edward, Rainbow and myself walked downstairs, and outside, we’re met with Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie and Spike talking with Luna and the others all with worried faces. When Spike notices us, he runs over to Rainbow and hugged her tightly.

“Rainbow! You’re okay! We were so worried about you!” Spike yells getting the other’s attention.

They all slowly rush over and check to see if Rainbow really was alright. I explain to them what had happened and when they heard the part about the virus they all gaped with shock and Spike paled and clung tightly to Twilight’s foreleg in fear.

“Don’t worry, Edward had a way to destroy the virus, but Rainbow’s skeletal structure was heavily damaged. She won’t be flying for at least a week, if not more.” I tell them.

“You guys need to keep an eye on her to keep her from even hovering. My machines will repair what they can but she’ll have to heal on her own too,” Edward commented causing everypony in the room to turn and stare at him. “Hello, names Edward Elric the Full Metal Alchemist.” He walked out of the room. “I’ll be on the couch.” He waved.

I gave out a sigh before looking at the Mane Six, who were staring shocked at my left arm. “Hmm? Oh, you’re confused about my arm. Well, I gave it up in order to learn Alchemy, so I could better protect you all from what might come. This virus might be one of several events that could lead to an extinction event or another Dragon Civil War, but unlike in Fiore, this one could be against the Equestrian Dragons. But that’s just me being paranoid. Let’s eat.” I tell them while getting the food on the grill and beginning to cook it. “Hey! Edward! If you want some food, you’d better come get it!” I chuckle. “If not then I’ll have your portion!” I taunt.

“What are you screaming about I was second in line right after the Pinkiepedo,” He chewed as he points to Pinkie Pie. “I never question how she pulls half the crap she does but you still have to wonder some,” Pinkie was about to speak up. “And if you say shortcuts then I won’t give a cupcake from my Pinkie,” She quickly went back to stuffing her face. “Any pony else have a question for the guy in red while he feels like answering them?”

“I have one.” Rarity says. “Who makes your clothes? The stitching looked well made! And sturdy.” She praises.

“I make all my clothing myself,” Edward said proudly. “But it’s not made from your everyday thread but gemstone fabric to enhance my elements magic. Originally, I only used it in my and my wife and partner’s armors but as the years went on there was less need for armor as there were fewer wars and battles so I upgrade it a thread form and woven the gems into threads and further into clothes. Only a select few individuals outside my family have a set of these clothes.” He explained then turned to  Applejack. “Now the orange pony with the stetson on her head and apples on her butt.”

“Okay, I for one want to know exactly who you are. You say yer’ name is Edward Elric, and there is some truth to that, but there’s also something more yer’ not telling us.” She accuses. “What are you hiding?” She narrows her eyes.

“Only if Quill is okay with telling you girls the truth will I say it,” He crossed his arms in defiance.

“Fucking fine, you dick. Okay, so you know the multiverse theory?” I ask to which most of the girls nod. “Well the multiverse is a real thing, and I’m from a different world called Earth, but before that, I was the real Acnologia in Fiore but I was reincarnated on Earth when I bought this necklace from someone called The Merchant and I was sent here, and you know the rest.” I look back at Edward. “Good enough?” I ask, letting out an annoyed sigh.

“I never said you had to do it I just said I needed your permission is what I said,” Edward waved his finger in the air. “Like Quill said the multiverse is a thing. I’m basically the same as he is. We’re what you call a Dimensionally Misplaced or Displaced for short. We send out what are called token into the Void to be found by others like us. Quill summoned me here when I was on my way home. Next is the bookworm pony that can destroy a mountain with a single blast if she really wanted to,” He pointed at Twilight.

“Well, I want to know what your world is like.” She asked excitedly, her magic holding a notepad and a quill to write with.

“Not much difference from this one actually,” He shrugged. “I mean, I’m married to Luna and we have two of the cutest twins under the sky. We call them our Twin stars,” He gushed. “Celestia is my partner right after Luna. Oh, we do allow the practice of dark magic in my world. Faust is a Harmony Ninetails. My Twilight in my alchemy apprentice and she’s dating my descendent slash former personal guard Polearm.” He took a breath. “They’re raising the reincarnation of Nightmare Moon, an alicorn filly by the name of Nyx who is as cute as pie. And I have creatures called pokemon in my world. Not to mention I whipped Blueblood into shape from a sack of mush and priss into the next Guard captain right after Shining Armor. Anything else?”

“I have one,” I tell him. “What’s your real name? The one you had before becoming Edward, and when you were Displaced.” I ask.

“Getting kind of personal there Quill,” Edward stood up. “If I tell you depends on your answer. Why do you want to know and why should I tell you?”

“Because I’m hiding a personal secret too,” I tell him. “My older brother went missing at a BlizzCon a long time ago and I was wondering if you’ve heard his name.” I respond. “We’re not really brothers, but he did have a hand in taking care of me when my parents died. His friends who I consider brothers too also disappeared at different times and I’m worried about them.” I explain.

“Sounds like a gamer type Displaced,” He rubbed his chin. “There was a Reinhardt I looked in on using my Rinnegan not too long ago. That could be him. He’s not too old of a Displaced based off his worlds Void Signature. If he finds my token and he is your brother then you can use the watches to video chat with each other. It’s what I do with my family. I spent some time in my long lost little brother’s world not too long ago after he summoned me before I came here. But to answer your question, my old name was Allen Ferris I was Displaced in August 2013 at my home town local Comic-Con be the Name of Geek Con. Sorry, but I’ve probably never come across your older brother or his friends.” he sat back down and continued eats. “Next question.”

“Well, just letting you know, my brother’s name is William Lancer, but I was Displaced November 2019.” I tell him. ‘I was right. He is The Golden Eyed Sage.’ I think looking at Edward “I have one more. This other Fioren mage you met. What’s their name? And what’s their token? If I find it I’d love to meet them.” I tell him.

He reached into his satchel and pulled out a crystal pendant with the Fairy Tail emblem on it. “Her name is Alexandria Justine, Faekage of the Fairy Tail Equestrian Branch. She goes by Lex.” He pulled out a picture with several colorful characters in it, several I can guess are Displaced. “My extended family. The Levy Displaced with the gold streaks in her hair is Lex.”

“... I’m gonna go ahead and guess that if she met me, she might try and attack me because I look exactly like the main villain of the Fairy Tail anime who just so happened to murder almost all of the Fioren Dragons.” I say looking at the image.

“Hmm… as long as your creed is descriptive enough or you some her then I don’t see why she would. You can also call her via the watch,” he pointed to the token in my pocket. “That thing also acts as a small item delivery system as long as the item is no bigger than a broadsword.”

“Damn, so your token essentially acts as a phone in the form of a watch.” I summarize. “All my token is, is a necklace. Plus my creed does say that I’d kill anyone who summons me for evil. So, I might be okay if I met her, though I’m not taking any chances, if I get summoned there by her, then I’m bringing Mavis and Zeref with me. I don’t want to be dying yet.” I tell him. “By the way,” I say taking off my necklace. “Here,” I say tossing Edward my token, and another necklace reforms around my neck. “There’s my token.”

“Thanks,” He places it in his bag. “I’ll put it on my wall with the rest of my tokens once I get back home. Right next to my Hyperbolic Chamber in my lab.” he cracked his neck and stood up again. “Good lunch break,” he pulled out his own watch and popped it open. “Luna,” he said into the watch. The arms began to spin wildly and then a holographic display appeared coming from the face of the watch. On the screen, I saw a human woman with a dark blue horn and wings with astral midnight hair.

“Edward where are you? Its been at least a week since you were summoned,” She squinted at Edward who reluctantly scratcher his head. “I got lost the first time then summoned by my little brother and lost again and then just as I made it back was summoned yet again. But enough of that, how are my little ones?”

“They’re asleep, Tia and I just put them down for the night,” Luna huffed. She then noticed the other Luna. “Full ponies this time. Hurry with your business there, please. The classes are extremely hard to teach and the court is backing up. I never realized how much we relied on your clones. Do be careful and please hurry.”

“Will do Luna,” He smiled. “Tell Tia I love her. Give the twins a kiss good night and tell Faust if she’d been in my Dragon Ale I’ll bury her again.” She smirked and waved goodbye and then Edward closed his watch. He turned to see everyone staring at him. “What?”

“At least I know how the watch works now,” I mumbled.

“Dude? Really? You called your wife in the middle of lunch?” Rainbow asked trying to suppress her laughter.

“Well excuse me for loving my wife and wanting to touch base with her. And you should try teaching a Dark Magic School, help run a nation, and raise two foals all at the same time,” He scowled at the pegasus who shrank back a bit in her seat. “All of you really have no idea how hard your Princesses’ jobs are. I know you’ve, faced a trial but still try and put yourselves in their shoes. Poor Luna has been back barely a week and she’s already mastered current speech which is a record if you ask me. Then she nearly loses Quill. You ponies can be really incentive at  the best moments ya know.”

“Well, I can imagine your pain buddy. I’m a teacher at Cheerilie’s school and I teach Fioren Magical Theory, and P.E. Plus I’ve got Mavis to take care of, and she’s a hell of a handful to deal with. Especially after she ate an entire jar of cookies, when I said she could only have one.” I told him looking at Mavis who blushed in embarrassment. “On top of that, I still have to raise Serena, and look after my friends and family, which trust me, in this Universe, is much harder than you’d think. For one, the Husk Virus, two Fairy Tail characters are appearing from Fiore, and who knows, maybe Fiore itself will appear next? That’ll be fun, especially when Natsu, and Gajeel try and beat the shit out of me.” I rant. “Anyway, I’m done eating and I’m pretty sure I saw some Badlands past the Everfree, so we could brawl there.” I smile. “Should we have an audience?” I ask him.

“I don’t mind an audience but I have a better place if you don’t mind?” Edward smirked as he placed his metal arm on the table and leaned in. The girls drew back a bit at the site of this.

“I’m down,” I responded with a devilish smile. “Where do you have in mind?” I ask cracking my non-metal hand’s knuckles. “Oh and by the way, no weapons, magic, or alchemy. Just a good ol’ fashion hand to hand battle.” I tell him.

“Fine with me and,” He smirked and snapped his fingers and then there was a loud crash that came from outside. “What audience members did you want to bring along beside everyone present here?” He asked as he bade us to follow him out the front door.

“How about the ones present, along with Celestia, Cadence and Shinning?” I ask. “They wouldn’t want to miss a good show. Plus… It’d be good for me to finally let my beast loose. I haven’t let him out for a while. And he’s itching for a fight.” I say while I loosen my muscles.

“Good good,” Edward remarked as we came onto the front lawn. The was a huge marble gate with double doors on my lawn. He snapped again and Celestia, Cadance and Shining Armor appeared next to us. The merely stared at everyone. “We’re going on a trip to my world. That way you don’t have to worry about clean up, I get to go home, and I don’t have to worry about destroying anything here. Sound good to you guys?”

“I’m fine with this,” I say before whispering. “Plus it brings me one step closer to getting Zeref, Mavis, Serena and Zirconis weapons of their own.” I chuckle. “And hey, technically I’m being summoned through this too.” I point out. “Oh, and when you said “We’re going on a trip,” My mind immediately went to, We’re goin’ on a trip in our favorite rocket ship!” I sing before laughing.

“Let me correct you and something Quill. You’re not being summoned but traveling to my world,” Edward explained. “The difference being that you’re not under any form of contract like when summoned. So I can’t send you back by saying “Our Business is done..” You can stay in my world as long as you like and with my new barrier up I don’t have to worry about void contamination either. I can still send you back whenever I feel like it but that’s just me,” He shrugged.

“Fair point.” I shrug back. “Let’s go then. I’m itchin’ for a fight.” I smirk, and approach the gate.

“Let’s go,” he motioned to the gate. The gate opened to reveal a large black emptiness. The ponies were all shaking at the empty space. “Might want to give them a push Quill. See you on the other side.” he jumped into the portal without a second thought.

I roll my eyes and I look back to the others. “C’mon guys, let’s go!” I exclaim causing all of them to smile at my eagerness. They all begin to walk into the gate. Altogether, as a family.

I come out to see a vast spacious room. I looked around and saw that there was a lot of different equipment and various glasses containing odd liquids. I turned to see a wall completely covered in various items. I could only guess that this was the wall of tokens Edward had spoken of earlier. My eye then came to rest on an hourglass-shaped door and a smaller wooden door next to it.

“Took ya long enough,” Edward said from a table he’d been sitting at. “Anyways, welcome to my world and more specifically, my lab. And there’s the rest of them,” he said as the rest of my friends come out of a similar marble gate to the one we had passed through to get here. Suddenly a couple of others came through a door on the other side of the room. One I recognized as Luna from the earlier call and the other must have been Celestia. They were followed by a rainbow Ninetails and humanized versions of everyone one else.

“Well… This is very spacious.” I mumble to myself. “Anyway, nice to meet you all. Name’s Acnori Quill, The Time Dragon Slayer.” I say while giving a polite bow. “And the ponies you see behind me, are my world’s Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Shining Armor, Cadence, and Spike. The three humans here are Zeref Dragneel, Mavis Vermillion, and my son Serena Acnori. The Jade Dragon right there is Zirconis.” I introduce.

“It’s nice to meet all of you,” Celestia said first.

“Lovely to see you all again,” said as she turned to Edward.

“Hello everyone,” the ninetails waved a paw in the air. “Nice to meet you all my names Faust.”

After Luna was done talking with Edward we all sat down in the nearest set of chairs. 

“Questions, anyone,” Edward asked as he looked around.

“I just have one,” I say raising my hand. “Where’s the arena?” I ask with a chuckle.

“We’ll be using the Time Chamber as not to cause a panic amongst my citizens,” he pointed at the hourglass-shaped door. “After my fight with Shining Armor I’d rather not endanger the lives of my people and the chamber is its own pocket dimension with protective wards around the living space. Another upside is no clean up after the fight is over.”

“Well, least there’s that,” I say. “Well, anyways. Want to get to the fight?” I ask smiling.

Edward stood up and walked over to the time chamber door and opened it. “Ladies first,” he motioned to his royals and the ponies. We entered the room and it looked like the Time Chamber of Dragonball Z but with more modern comforts. 

“There’s even a massive outdoor bath down the hallway,” Celestia added as everyone entered the space. 

“Yes but the area for Quill and our knucklehead of a lover is in front of us,” Luna rolled her eyes as she pointed out the expanse of utter white in front of the group.

“I can set it a specific environment if you want Quill,” Edward added.

"Hmm… how about the middle of a canyon? I've always preferred the canyon setting. You know the Saitama vs Genos battle right? I'd like that type of battle plain," I request.

“How about we go with that very same spot then,” Edward smiled as a holographic display popped up in front of him. He started to type on the keyboard. Then the white space changed to match the canyon from One Punch Man. “Will this work for you?”

"Definitely," I respond, walking out into the middle of the canyon. "Where should the others sit while watching us?" I ask.

“I recommend that they stay with us up here in the living quarters,” Edward’s Celestia motioned to an open area. She then floated several cushions for the ponies and chairs for the humans. “If things go how they normally do then this is the safest spot for them to remain without threat of any form of… injury.”

“I agree wholeheartedly sister,” Edward’s Luna nodded. “But we leave the final decision up to you. It’s your choice.” She turned to my friends.

I look at them for a second before my Luna trots over to me. She pecks me on the cheek before flying back over to the others. “Be safe, and don’t get yourself killed.” She tells me.

“Well,” I smile. “It’s as you say, they’d be safer in the living quarters, and on top of that, it’d be a hell of a lot safer for my Rainbow Dash. She’s still recovering and she needs to stay safe. But would they be able to watch the battle?” I ask while looking towards my family.

“Fairy Sphere could barely contain a fight between me and Lex’s Celestia in her solar form last time I had a real fight,” Edward explained. “And I wasn’t even nearly as powerful then as I am now. Even if this fight is just brute strength this time I'm with Tia. Everyone needs to stay up here,” he said firmly as he pointed to the living area. “But I can help with the viewing issue.” More holo-displays popped up and a silver liquid came from Edward and formed into many spheroid floating cameras. “There, now I have no more nanites in my body and they have access to a full 1080 dredged view of the field. Work for you?”

“As long as they’re safe, I’m fine with it,” I answer. “After all,” I hold up my left arm. “I gave this up to keep them safe.” I tighten my metal hand into a fist.

My world’s Mane Six, Spike, Princesses, Shining, and Fioren people leave with Edward’s group to the main area of the chamber, I turned around to face Edward. I look at him with a devilish smile.

“Ready to fight?” I ask.

“That’s why we’re here,” he shrugged with a smirk. “Meet ya at the bottom.” Edward jumped backward off the edge down into the bottom of the canyon on the other side opposite me. “You’ll need to speed up Dragon Slayer.”

I chuckle and step off the ledge of the canyon and drop down into it. Wind whips by my face and my cloak flaps rapidly from the speed. I then land with my metal knuckle to the ground and on my knees in an epic pose, creating a crater beneath me.

“Let’s do this.” I smile.

“Let’s,” Edward threw off his red coat and upper jacket to fully reveal his prosthetic arm. “Seal of Sin; Pride! Release!” His shadow immediately expanded behind and grew multiple eyes and a mouth with jagged teeth.



“Well that’s cool, but ‘Seal of Sin’? You telling me you’ve got the seven deadly sins in you? That is terrifying and awesome at the same exact time.” I said.

“Not exactly the seven deadly sins,” he shrugged. “Just a seal on the powers that’s representative of the seven homunculi from the Fullmetal series,” he said. “Heads up,” he launched himself forward at me. I expected him to try and hit my with metal arm and went to counter but he instead used his left, “Time ten nail punch!” He said as his punch connected. I was sent back aways but then I was hit again and again. Ten times in total while Edward never left his spot from where he first landed his blow.

“Okay, that sucked,” I said spitting out a clump of dirt. “Why is it that dirt always gets in my mouth?” I mumble before standing back up and speeding to fight Edward.

I launch my right fist at him, and as he goes to block and counter it, I grab his arm and throw him into the side of the canyon, and push him deeper into the ground with a spartan kick, causing spider web cracks to crawl from the impact.

He walked out and cracked his neck and then his knuckles with a smirk. He ran around me from side to side leaving afterimages in various spots on the field. Suddenly they all converged on me but instead of images they were all solid hits all across my body. “Here’s a move you might know! Machine Gun Blows!” A tempest of punches hit the front of my body and sent me flying back into the wall of the canyon sending a fissure straight to the top. “Your gonna have to take this seriously Quill or you’re gonna die.”

“Hehehe… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!” I laugh while in the crevasse I was embedded in. “Oh, this what I remember!!!” I yell at him as my adrenaline rises rapidly and my vision goes gold.

My eyes begin to burn with golden light and with an inconceivable amount of speed, I stop right in front of Edward, surprising him. He goes to hit me but his fist phases right through me and I stop next to his metal arm, and I send my fist into his side, causing him to go straight into the canyon side causing a shockwave to destroy some of the canyon side. I launch back at him and grab his face. After grabbing him I throw him into the sky, and I leaped after him. Wearing a smile all the while.

“Yes!” Edward smiles back at me. “Now we’re having fun! Seals of Sin, full release!” He cries out and I feel the massive waves of power coming from him. He quickly corrects himself and kicks off the air and rockets at me. He and I exchange blow after blow and then land on either side of the gorge and then turn and take off in the air once more.  In a flurry of blows and kicks we go at each other landing opposite and then taking off again.

I charge right at him, but jump over him and send my heel into his left side with great force, throwing him into the ground, tumbling away and kicking up a mass amount of dust.

“Oh my,” he got up. “Fancy footwork,” he said dusting off his pants. “Speed isn’t an issue but do you think you can keep up if I transform?”

“Fight or flight. In my case, I’ll fight. So, go ahead and transform. I’ll take anything you throw at me and return it twice as strong!” I yelled at him. My adrenaline began to skyrocket causing cracks in the ground to form and a crater was spacing around me. My eyes burning brighter with golden energy and my tattoos burning with the same golden energy.

“Very well,” Edward said coldly. His shadow then enveloped him and red lightning began to surge from the cocoon. The air around me became thick with some form of red miasma that was coming from the pod. Soon arms sprang from the cocoon and started to tear apart the shell. Before me, stood a demon and then he screamed.


He then looked at me and vanished. I then heard from behind me a growl and felt a sharp pain on my cheek. He tried to go for my head and barely missed landing a pretty good gash on my cheek. He held his clawed hand up and looked at it then flung it out to the side throwing the blood off it and then turn to face me again.

I leapt back in momentary surprise before a sickening scrape of bones against bones emitted from me. I smiled as scales grew up my right arm and began to eat away at my torso finally ending the feast and resting upon my face. I felt more powerful than I ever had. I looked at my body and saw that I looked more draconic. I then looked at the now demonic Edward and bellowed my own roar.
 

“Getting caught up in the moment there Quill,” Edward gargles. “Let’s go!” We took off again and started to exchange blows. I was barely able to keep up with new form of his but I knew he was still holding back on me. “Skill; Mars Bane!” His arms glowed as he knocked his fists together. “Ten times Nail Punch!” He landed the blow into my gut and sent me fly back but instead of a ten hit combo like before I felt a total of twenty in my stomach. I was left coughing up a spew of blood.

I look at him for a few seconds before blinking my eyes. “Oh… Shit.” I say before smiling. “The last person to ever make me bleed in a fight was my brother, but that was only because he was training me in combat,” I tell Edward. “This is getting exciting!!!” I say as my voice deepens into a bellowing roar.

Charging at Edward I throw and land a punch straight into his stomach causing him to spit out a bunch of crimson blood that landed onto the ground. He slid back on the ground a few feet away from me. We looked at each other and in the moment we laughed a bit.

“Damn, you weren’t lying when you said you were strong as hell!” I laughed panting and spitting the blood out of my mouth.

“You got a pretty good right hook yourself, kid,” He chuckled as red electricity sparked from his body and the blood he’d spat up turned to ash. “All better now,” he moved his shoulder in a circular motion. “But the kid gloves are off now,” his arms glowed again. Suddenly he vanished again and that’s when I felt punches landing on opposite sides of my body. His left fist hit my face and his right hit my lower back. “Mars Bane Dual Twenty times Nail Punches.” A consecutive of eighty blows worth of damage was dealt to me and then Edward grabbed me by the face and held me up as he had an evil smirk on his maw. He slammed my head down send cracks in every direction and then started to run with my face still in his grip as he dragged me across the floor of the canyon. He started to then twirl and as he picked enough speed and proceeded to through me across the map.  I landed and then the alchemist landed right on top of me with his fist buried in my gut again “MARS BANE EIGHTY TIMES NAIL PUNCH!” He roared and sent one hundred and sixty blows straight into my body but instead of flying backward a was sent deep into the surrounding stone.

I growled angrily as my rage began to rise. Higher, higher, and higher with each passing second, the inferno that is my anger turned into a massive hurricane of rage. I felt the scales around my body begin to rise and my metallic left arm was blown apart sending shrapnel of metal straight into Edward’s chest. I slowly stood back up and looked directly at Edward, my anger at its limit. Scales formed over my face and became a snout, horns grew from the top of my head and wings sprouted from my back. A tail snaked from my lower back, and I looked at Edward, my eyes no longer glowing gold. They were glowing a deathly red. I could no longer speak, and only seethed out growls and snarls.

“Yes, give in Quill, release the dragon,” Edward roared as he laughed maniacally “ Now that I managed to pull out that form you’ll be to use it once you learn your trigger. Bring it,” he roared as he threw his arms out to either side and charged at my dragon form.

Before Edward could do anything I sent my clawed straight into the side of his chest, cracking his ribs and sending him straight into the side of the canyon.




Quill’s Luna’s POV

I look on in worry as Quill and Edward fight, trading blows and harming each other. I’m worried sick and I wish I could help my beloved Quill.

“Please be okay.” I strain as Quill is sent into the side of the canyon, causing me to gasp. “Quill!” I gasp.

“That one looked like it hurt,” Edward’s Celestia winced as she looked at the screen. “It’s a good thing Edward only released one seal. He did say no weapons were being used in this fight too right?”

“You can relax Luna,” I turned to see the other me next to me. “Edward and Quill are only having a bit of fun. Edward is also trying to teach Quill how to unlock more of himself. If Ed were really serious he would have gone much harder from the start.” She smiled softly at me.

Then Quill explodes from the canyon side, his tattoos glowing golden. Quill then launches at Edward and strikes Edward’s side and destroys part of the canyon side with the shockwave, surprising us.

“Woah! I knew he was strong, but not THAT strong!” Zeref exclaimed as Mavis cheered Quill with Serena. Zirconis just sat slack-jawed.

“Um… I hate to be the spoilsport but Edward just walked out like that hit was just a love tap or something,” Shining Armor pointed a hoove at the screen. “WHO IS THIS GUY ANYWAY?”

“You must have missed a huge part of Ed’s explanation sonny,” Faust snickered at the confused unicorn. “Basically, Ed is the greatest mind and weapon of this world. He stands above even me when it comes in terms of raw power and most definitely intellect. He loves my girls deeply and willingly gave up any chance to return to his homeworld to stay here.”

“Indeed, even from here I can tell Edward’s power and strength, but I can also feel a rivaling power and strength, which is Quill’s power, fighting against Edward’s power.” My sister explains.

Then a massive wave of power roared around the walls and I looked back to the screen to see Edward changing forms.

“I don’t think that’s a good thing, is it?” My Spike asks absentmindedly.

“He took on his demon armor form. I haven’t seen it in a while,”  Edward’s Celestia shuddered as she spoke. “Not since his fight with Sorano. This one looks smaller than the other one though. To think he pulled off all his Sins seal. Quill must be much stronger than any of you had originally let on. Ed hasn’t been pushed this hard in a while, but again he isn’t using anything but his physical strengths. Is that Mars Bane?”

“Indeed it is sister,” Edward’s Luna confirmed. “Quill is in for a lot more more than just a few blows with that.” she looked over to me. “It’s not a technique but a skill that doubles the hits of anything it’s applied to and judging from the amount of damage Quill just took, Ed applied it to a Nail Punch. Think of it as getting hit repeatedly over and over in the same spot. It’s a move that on its own deals a very large amount of damage in a single blow. Paired with Mars Bane, it’s a devastating combo.”

We then hear a huge roar, bigger than what Edward roared. I looked back to Quill to see his body almost completely covered in scales. His eyes burning brighter than anything I’ve ever seen.

“Is that, Quill?” I ask.

I then see Quill get hit by Mar Nane Nail Punches several times again, causing him to spit up blood. Me and the Elements gasp in shock. I gasped in worry but became confused when Quill punched Edward in the stomach and caused him to cough up blood, and they began to laugh by the looks of it.

“Why are they laughing?” My Twilight asked.

“They’re having fun,” Edward’s Twilight remarked. “He always gets like this,” she shook her head.

“It runs in the family,” Polearm, Edward’s descendant slash guard said. “I get lost in the thrill of a good fight too. Think of it like when you’re reading a book that you’re really into. It can also be  a guy of martial arts thing.”

I nod my head and look back to the fight to see Quill getting brutally punched and thrown around the map. I gasp and tears threaten to escape my eyes, and I bring my hooves up to my mouth.

“It looks like Edward has just about achieved his goal,”  Edward’sLuna remarked. “He’d rather push someone to the brink physically than emotionally but it looks like he was trying to get Quill mad too. But why?” she turned to me.

“Uh oh…” I hear Zeref say. We all turn to him. “That’s not good. I’ve seen Acnologia when he’s mad. And just from sensing his power, I can tell Quill is much, much worse.” He says grimly.

I slowly turn to the screen to see Quill climbing out of the ground, his left arm grabbed the ground first but it looked different. That’s when Edward stumbled back with several pieces of metal jutting from his chest. Then Edward was blown back, and a huge amount of dust covered the battlefield. I looked into the dust to see gleaming red eyes looking at Edward. Once the dust settled, I saw Quill. But he had turned into a Dragon, several markings littered his shoulders and his tail was followed by a scythe-like blade, and a massive amount of power caused all of us a momentary amount of nausea.

“That power is almost like that time Ed fought with Lex’s Celestia,”  Edward’s Luna commented as she got to her feet. “I was afraid of this.”

“Sister you don’t mean,” Edward’s Celestia looked at her sister in horror. 

She only nodded in confirmation of something. “Ed has been holding back greatly.”

“And that’s even worse.” Zeref says while his eyes turned into spirals. “I see a seal on Quill’s strength. But from what I can tell, it’s put in place by Acnologia.” Zeref says.

“And that means?” I ask.

“Acnologia’s holding back to.” He says as we all focus on the fight again.

“Great we have a mass of living souls holding back and an apocalypse dragon holding back,” Faust rolled her eyes. “This is exactly what the idiots love. Two meatheads holding back to push each other but my money is on my son-in-law.”

"Well if we're betting, I'm going on Quill. Plus from what he's told us, Acnologia's not the Apocalypse Dragon Slayer. He's the Magic Dragon Slayer, and Quill's the Time Dragon Slayer, but when they're both not holding back and are working in sync, they're both the Apocalypse Dragon Slayer." My Twilight explained.

“You forget that this is a purely physical fight or was until he turned into the Dragon,” Edward’s Twilight shot back. “My teacher is no pushover. As Queen Faust said, he has more power and intelligence than even her.”

“Yes well, that was over seven thousand years ago dear,” Faust added as she rubbed the back of her head. 

“Wait how old is Edward here exactly?” My Cadence asked.

“My uncle is over fifteen thousand years old in this world,” Edward’s Cadence answered her counterpart.

“If Edward would have been using his magic in conjunction with his alchemy and other powers and weapons Quill would’ve been done for from the very start,” The other Luna answered. “He’s kept even his Homunculus power of the table to enjoy the fight. He’s still not even at half power. If his magic draining were on then he’d be at half power and that very bad.”

“Let’s not have Malice come out dear sister,” Edward’s Celestia shot at her sister. “Agreed,” Edward’s Luna nodded in agreement.

“Wait you said magic draining,” my Twilight looked at the other princesses.

“Ed has a natural magic drain ability in his body that takes in the magic around him whether he wants to or not,” Faust said. “He can temporarily turn it off but only for about an hour or so.”

“You also said he has other abilities. What are they?” I asked desperately.

“Many forms of different Magics, something called chakra that allows a plethora of different skills, aura or soul projection, Rinnegan, martial arts, and weapons mastery, etc. he has a good many skills that aren’t magic-based all,” Edward’s Luna said.

“What has Quill been facing out there?” I looked to the field it’s even more worried than I’d had in the last two thousand years combined.

“I don’t like saying it and neither does any pony here but Edward calls himself a demon,” Edward’s Celestia said with a painful look on here face. I could see tears starting to form under her eyes and her sister’s .

"Well then it's a demon vs demon battle." Zeref says. "Because I'm picking up a massive amount of demonic energy emitting from Quill, and it's as much as Edward is emitting. They've both gone demonic." Zeref tells us.

“Luna,” Edward’s Celestia said quickly. “Has Ed really gonna full power?”

Edward’s Luna was using some sort of holo-display keyboard to enlarge the images. “It looks like he's ... getting beaten to a pulp by Quill, what’s he thinking. He should be using his magic or something at least. Quill is just laying into him.”

"He can't. From what I can tell, Edward is a very honorable man, and he wouldn't go back on a deal. Quill wanted a no magic, no alchemy, and no weapons fight. So that's how he's going to fight." Serena said.

“You’re right when it comes to him being honorable little one but there is a difference between honor and being stubborn,” Edward’s Luna remarked. “Your father is out of control and if he’s not roughy back to his senses then we’ll have a very big problem on our hands. I hope Edward gets serious about this soon or we’ll be forced to seal Quill in the Time Chamber.”

"That's not good… is it?" My sister asks.

“Consider it on the scale as if a certain centaur escaped from his bonds and went on a killing spree,” Edward’s Celestia said seriously. “Think if it this way. This place is another Dimension inside another dimension. Edward’s lab is technically separated from our homeworld inside the void. If Quill was sealed in here not even Luna or myself would have the means to get him out. Not even Discoed has power here. The only one who does is Edward and whoever he says has it.”

"I have just one more question," My Pinkie Pie says with genuine worry on her face. "Has any other Displaced ever fought Edward to a draw or rivaled his full power in terms of raw strength?" She asks her eyes never leaving the screen.

“Only two,” Edward’s Luna stated. “His master and his war bound brother Optimus before his first body was destroyed and even then Optimus never magic Edward physical. His master is the only one who has ever actually bested him. He did fight to a draw with Lex’s Celestia but that was before he gained other magic and abilities.”

Suddenly a huge column of red light erupted from the field send a shockwave in every direction. It was as if the very air shaking from fear of something, overwhelming. Everyone’s attention was now back on the screen. Everyone’s jaws hit the floor except for Edward’s Luna and Celestia as they seemed to have seen this phenomenon before.

“Looks like this fight just went from a simple brawl to a clash of straight cataclysms,” Faust remarked.




Edward’s POV

I stood there looking at Quill in dragon form. I had intended to push him to the point he was another at me but it looked as if my part in playing the villain had triggered something else in Quill’s head. It felt as if something was keeping him in this state of constant rage. He must be projecting some sort of image onto me. I was gonna have to break him free of his dragon form before he got out of the Time Chamber. He could do some serious danger even in here though. With our friends in here, they were at a much greater risk than either of us. Quill would never forgive himself if he even scratched someone else in this state.

“GRRRRAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!” The now Draconic Quill roared.

“Oh pissed off I kicked your scaly hide up and down this gorge you overgrown lizard,” I roared back at Quill. If he’s being affected this much I wonder if Acnologia is being suppressed under Quill’s rage to.

“First…. Acnologia….! Will… Die…!” Quill strained to say. “Quill calm down! That Acnologia is dead! Remember you’re now fighting Edward!” A voice echoed.

“Looks like you’re a little confused their Quill,” I felt something trying to calm him down just now. “Whoever you are you better explain who you are and what’s going on,”  I looked around with my eyes as I kept my body still.

Quill stood still just as I did, and never moved a muscle. He was waiting for me to make a move. I was getting antsy just standing around but I couldn’t risk moving until I had a better understanding of what was causing Quill to stay in this state of mind. I then saw a glint off in the distance away just to the left side of Quill behind the dragon head. I then remembered I had used my nanites to create remote viewing cameras for the others to watch the fight.

“I can’t risk the cameras getting his attention and then him moving off to the others,” I mumble to myself. I then moved just to the left and now had Quill’s undivided attention. “Bring it Stink bait!” I yelled as I pointed at Quill.



“GRRRRRRR…” Quill snarled in response.

“Oh Raar yourself, air strike fist!” I yelled and sent a jet of high-pressure air into the center of Quill’s chest. He staggered back slightly and shook his head from side to side. “Come back to your sense you idiot. You have people you’re supposed to protect right.”

“Will… Protect… Family… From… You... First… Acnologia… You… Traitor…!” Quill struggled to say through his rage and different vocal cords.

“He’s trying to come back but it looks like I won’t get his mind clear until his magic runs dry,” I said with a slight annoyance. “He looks like he’s projecting the original Acnologia!s visage onto me from when he turned his back on his humanity, dragons and the world in general,” I sighed. 

“No, Edward you do not understand! The original Acnologia was the one in charge of protecting and taking care of our village in Fiore! But then he betrayed us all and murdered the Village leaving only Quill and his daughter Sonya. That original Acnologia is, or rather was Tyrrios!” The same voice echoed.

“That’s right,” I said as I remembered. “Quill’s previous life took the name of the dragon that destroyed his village. Tyrrios aye, could it be that he’s drawn to me because I still have Tyrrios’s Philosopher Stone.” I thought aloud. “He’s just fighting in a blind rage at this point though, whether he sees me as Tyrrios or Edward doesn’t matter anymore. As soon as he’s done with me he’d move on to the next thing that moved. Wait you mentioned your village, who are you?”

“I’m the Acnologia who witnessed Sonya get murdered. I’m what remained as Quill, who is our humanity, was reincarnated. I’m the Acnologia everyone knows as the one who caused the Fioren Dragons to go extinct. I’m also the only thing keeping Quill from going full genocide mode, or how I like to call it, Extinction Dragon Slayer.” Acnologia tells me.

“What’s going on inside that head that you two share?” I asked.

“Well, the more adrenaline that flows through Quill’s body, the stronger he gets but he’s also more susceptible to losing himself in rage! Oh Shit!” Acnologia yelled before continuing. “And the angrier he gets the more powerful he becomes and causing him to basically rival and eventually causing the Hulk in World Breaker Mode, and Kratos the God of War to say “You need to calm down”. But if they met Extinction Dragon Slayer Quill, they and everyone and thing around him would be dead within seconds! You need to find a way to suppress Quill’s rage! I’m doing what I can but it’s taking all I have just to hold back! Be careful! Because one punch from Extinction Quill can cut a mid-sized moon in half! SHIT! I have to go, good luck!” Acnologia explained before I couldn’t hear him anymore.

“Nanwahhahhaa!” I laughed at his last remark. “A mid-size moon ya say. Nah aha! That’s pretty impressive for one so young. But the way I see it is I have one road to take. First I’ll have let him work out some of that rage and burn through that excess adrenaline then I’ll have beat him to a pulp and after that retrain him until his mind and body realign with each other. I really don’t like this first part,” I said half-heartedly. I looked Quill straight in the eyes and put myself in the evilest villain mindset I could muster. “Come on Quill or are you just gonna stand their and lose everything again, Nahaha! Oh I know once I’m with you I’ll go back to your world and enslave every last creature there and then once their usefulness is used up I turn everything into Philosopher Stones for my personal use! Hahahaha!”

As soon as those words left my demonic mouth, Quill vanished. Only to reappear in front of me and I felt a sharp and massive wave of pain as several of my ribs were cracked and I was sent flying into the wall of the canyon and essentially created a cave from being sent so deep into the wall of the canyon. The only thing I could see was the burning red eyes of Quill, piercing my very being.

“My what big eyes you have *bleck*,” I coughed up blood. ‘Why don’t you just destroy him, Allen, he’s just a lowly dragon, after all, use your magic it’ll be quick.’ “Shut up Malice, you’re not coming out and I can’t finish this fight with our match with using magic.”I murmured and then I looked at Quill. “Is that all you got you lizard because if it is your home will be mine in no time at all, Nayahahah!” I bellowed.

Before I could get up, however, I felt a massive wave of pain flowing everywhere throughout my torso. I could hear the splatter of blood on the ground. I looked down to see the end of Quill's tail embedded into my stomach. I looked back up and was pulled out of the wall forcefully, and was thrown onto the ground. Sliding on the ground leaving a massive trail of blood, I looked at Quill’s tail and saw that it was barreling towards me at high speeds, and I only just barely avoided getting my head cut in half. Quill’s tail went back and left a trail of my blood on the ground as his eyes continued to look straight into my soul.

“Hey Acno, how's it going on your end?” I got to my feet and as the holes in my body closed. “I don’t scare that easily, lizard.” I looked Quill staring the eyes and sent out murderous waves over my own out causing him to step back slightly.

“Well, his rage is going down ever so slightly. But his adrenaline is still rising rapidly and,” Acnologia stops. “Oh poo. Ed, you better brace yourself because… OH SHIT! WATCH OUT!” Acnologia screamed at me, as I looked back to Quill who was barreling at me and I didn’t have enough time to dodge his fist, not that I planning to, which broke right through my chest.

I shouldn’t be surprised but damn did that sting, and it only got worse when Quill ripped his arm out of my chest by pulling it out and ripping my left arm off too, and with one swift motion, Quill back-handed me into the ground.

My healing kicks in instantly but it still hurts like hell have my limbs removed in any form. As soon as my wounds were closed I looked at Quill with a slight twitch under my right eye. “Rage down is what I needed. Even with your adrenaline up, your body won’t be able to stay in sync with your enraged mind.” I smirked. “Acno, will Quill be alright if I Iet loses a bit?”

“Ed, right now, Quill can feel no pain.” He told me. “Go fucking ham.”

“So basically I can show off my true form and knock his fucking block off,” I smiled evilly and began to give of tsunamis of killing aura. “Hope you enjoy an ass-kicking Quill,” I cracked my knuckles. “ Because I’m not going to hold… BACK!!!!”  I yelled and unleashed my power as a column of red energy surrounded me.

My body began to warp and twist as I started to grow to my full height. Soon the scar on my chest opened to reveal my massive golden Rinnegan with and Oroborus in the place of the pupil. My body started to blacken and more eyes opened all over my body then I gain crimson red armor and the eyes showed in every nook and cranny of my body. On my back, I gained my bright silver metal wings with red tips. As usual, I gained an armored tail. My face was covered in blackness with three red eyes on the right side of my face and one gold one on the left. My teeth become pointed like a predator’s. I was now in my true form and at my full height of twelve feet.

I spread my wings and flexed every muscle let out a shattering roar while blowing everything away around me, “RAAAAAWWWRR!!!” I turned to Quill who was still much taller than me but was visibly set back by my actions. “This time you’re my bitch Dragon,” I growled with a smile.

I vanished and reappeared at Quill’s tail end and took him by it. “Upsy daisy,” I said as I easily tossed him into the air. Quill tried to correct his flight path in mid-air but I got above him and slammed both of my feet into his gut driving him back into the ground. “Hehe, I forgot how much fun physical confrontation is,” I jumped back and fluttered on my wings slightly as I touched down. “Aww is the big bad dragon out of breath,” I taunted as Quill breathed heavily, trying to get back on his feet.

“Ed, Quill’s rage is going down fairly fast, whatever you’re doing, keep going. But tone it down a bit, because his adrenaline was cut in half.” Acnologia told me.

“Way to spoil a guys fun when he’s just getting warmed up,” I cracked my neck as I started to give off more wave of killing intent.

“Didn’t say you had to stop, just try not to kill us.” Acnologia corrected.

“Never had such a good punching bag before, Mars Bane,” I said as I shot in front of him. “Chain reaction Paralyzer,” I said as I hit center spots on Quill’s body to slow down his movements. I jumped back and smirked. “It’ll take a few moments to kick in but soon you’ll be completely immobilized by those pressure points I hit.”  I flapped my wings and took off. “Catch me if ya can dragon boy.” I teased.

I scored through the air on my own power with Quill hot on my tail, literally. He swiped at me with his remaining hand but due to my size and his spent energy, he was having a very difficult time keeping up. On top of this, he was starting to feel the effects of my earlier assault. 

“Looks like I can put the last bit of my plan into action,” I smirked as I corrected my flight to face Quill. “Susanoo!” I yelled as I was enveloped in a red giant with a silver right arm and a silver left leg. Using my Susanoo’s weight and positioning myself well above Quill I let gravity do its jump and fill on top of him. I used the Susanoo’s arms and held Quill down. “Now, Wood Style Deep Forest Emergence!” I placed a hand on the ground and then massive trees sprang from the ground and wrapped all around Quills dragon form. The trees acted as tendril and severely restricted his movements. He continued to thrash around but didn’t have the strength to break the trees. Quill kept this up until he was completely paralyzed from my Chain Reaction Paralyzer. 

I placed my hand on the side of my head, “Acno, how are things on your end?”

“One sec…” Acnologia told me before I waited a few seconds. “I absolutely fucking hate the both of you,” Quill said in his normal voice. “Christ, my head hurts. What the hell happened? All I remember is getting pissed and my vision went red.” He told me. “And can you get these fucking vines off me?!” He yelled in annoyance.

“First, they’re trees. Second, you got so pissed that you projected an image of Tyrrios on to me, and third, I kicked your ass in order to get you to return to normal,” I said bending down placing my hand on the ground causing the trees to release Quill. “Good news is now you have access to your dragon mode now.”

“Actually, that was just his Dragon Force… His Dragon Mode would dwarf your twelve-foot form you have right now,” Acnologia told me. “His Dragon Mode is at least twice as big as a full-grown Tirek,” Acnologia explained.

“Can’t wait to fight that,” I smirked. “Shall I unparalyze you?”

“Yes, please.” Quill requested. “Go your ugly,” he remarked as I returned to my human form. “And really, you can fight our Dragon Mode right now. Because our Dragon Mode is the Apocalypse Dragon.” Acnologia added.

“I barely used any of my raw physical power let alone any of my Susanoo and ninjutsu. My Susanoo’s wasn’t even fully developed into its giant state. It was still partially skeletonized,” I said as I returned to my human form. I walked over and nailed Quill right in the gut knocking the wind out of him but also send a shock through his entire body. “There ya go. Feeling better?”

“Really asshole?! Fucking hell!” Quill yelled at me and returned the gesture with a punch of twice the power into my gut, but he used his left fist. “Wait… What the fuck?” Quill said surprised and looked at his now fully Draconic left arm. “When the fuck did this happen?” He asked.

“When you transformed and I don’t recommend you hit me again. The only reason you’re not tithing in pain is due to your dragon scales,” I said as I snapped and we appeared back in the living quarters. “And three, two, one cue the loving maiden,” I said as Quill was immediately tackled by his Luna while I was overseen by my princesses and by overseen I been slapped upside the head by Luna and scolded by Tia. Then came the talk from Quill’s girlfriend also known as screaming at you in the Royal Canterlot Voice.

“WHAT THE EVER LIVING FUCK, YOU SON OF A BITCH?!?!? YOU COULD’VE KILLED QUILL!!!!!!” Quill’s Luna screamed at me, tears flowing from her eyes as she tightened her hug on Quill.

“Luna, calm down! I didn’t die. And plus he had to do that to snap me out of my rage.” Quill tried to calm her down running his left hand through her mane.

“You’re gonna break your boyfriend or suffocate him if you keep squeezing him like that,” I said as I put a finger in my ear. “Damn Royal Canterlot Voice.” My princess merely giggled at my response. “Anyways, I’m sorry if it seemed a bit excessive to you Luna but it was necessary to unlock more of Quills power. Speaking of Quill” I pulled out a vile of red potion and tossed it to him. “Drink it before the adrenaline completely wears off.”

Quill takes the bottle and chugs the potion. “Thanks. Christ… Gave you a run for your money though, didn’t I?” Quill asked me, as he sat up and onto a bed, while still running his left hand through his Luna’s mane.

“I won’t completely deny it but at the same time I won’t confirm it,” I said with a nonchalant smirk. “But you pal,” I said seriously pointing at him. “Need to get a handle on that anger or you’ll end seriously endangering your world and on top of that your lover. Do you seriously want that, again?!” I raised my voice. “Well?” I stared at him straight in the eyes.

“Of course not… That’s why I asked you to kill me if ever I got out of control in my world.” Quill answered Luna shrank back after hearing that.. “And plus… I would have Acnologia to try and stop me as well.”

“You gave him hell to,” I said as I plopped down on a nearby chair. My Luna and Tia looked at each other and nodded. 

“You asked Edward to end your life but did you ask him why he would only do it as a last resort?” They said in unison.

“Because there could’ve been a chance that I was still there. But even if he got me to snap out of it, I would ask him to teleport me somewhere random in my world,” Quill answered, to which his Luna looked at him in worry. “Don’t ask me why. It just feels like there’s something I’d need to do myself.” He tells her.

I shook my head. I stood up and walked over to Quill and looked down my nose at him. “You Idiot!,” I reeled back and let my right arm fly and made him eat metal knuckles for breakfast. “You can’t face rage alone or you’ll end up as I did. Only with the help of Luna, Celestia, and Starswirl working together was I able to be stop in my rage Even then it was only when I was subdued and Luna got the chance to talk me down and brought me back to my senses, but not before I consumed all of the magic and life of what is now the Badlands of this world.”

“Ow! Son of a bitch! Nut you’re right about one thing,” Quill said as he rubbed where I hit him.. “I can be an idiot sometimes.” He chuckled before falling flat on his back. “Jesus, I need a nap.” He complained, causing his group to laugh at his statement.

“Your girl can help you with that. Feel free to yourself the beds here. You’re all more than welcome to stay here and the kitchen is fully stocked and the bath is down the hall,” I said as I walked to the door and all of my friends following me. “As for me, I have a couple of uber-cute foals to check on and Night court to help run. I can send you back home if you prefer.”

Quill weakly and tiredly gives me a thumbs up before sleeping.

“I leave you here for now then, take care him Luna,” I said looking to Quills Luna and then to my own. “Maybe you should stay behind and talk with her and the others. I can handle night court this time.”

“I’ll take care of the Twins tonight you guys stay here, I have a feeling the ponies have a lot of questions and only a few of you, other than Edward, can answer them,” Faust said as she joined me and we walked out of the room.




Quill’s Celestia’s POV

I look to this Edward fellow’s Luna and begin to wonder. What else is out there, and what happened during that fight?

I decided to start with a simple question. “Excuse me?” I speak up. “If I may, who is Edward truly?” I ask this world’s Luna.

She giggled a little and then cleared her throat. “Forgive me I forget my manners some time and so can Ed when he spins summoned and brings others her abruptly.” She went to the kitchen and then returned with a tray with glasses and a pitcher of water. “It’s hard to explain but basically Ed is the same type of being as Quill at his core. They go by the name of Displaced. Beings with great poorer sent to various worlds or versions of Equestria. It seems the have a very similar view of things as well. Ed is, the strongest being I know with only his master being above him, but he is also my husband and father of our children. Does that help any?”

“Yes, that explains quite a bit.” My Twilight responds.

My Rarity clears her throat before shakily asking. “Just, how powerful is Edward?” She stutters.

“Ed is so powerful that he could defeat Celestia and myself with easy, even if we were to be at the peak of our power over two thousand years ago and this was before he gained all of his other powers and Magics,” Edward’s Luna explained.

Zeref then looks at Edward’s Luna and with Spiral-Red eyes, he asks: “How many times have you seen Edward’s true from, or what we saw him use to fight against Quill who was going out of control?” He asks with a monotone voice.

“I’ve only seen it twice before today,” Edward’s Celestia said coldly.

“Today makes my fourth time to see it but he hasn’t had that form for his whole life here,” Edward’s Luna explained. “Only after he came back from death and giving up his chance to return to his original world did he gain that from. It’s actually the manifestation of years of negativity from the souls that were trapped inside his body. Unfortunately, Malice survived the encounter and Upon Ed’s return he took the combined evil back into himself to make sure it didn’t go after someone else or become unleashed on the world he loved.”

“Interesting…” Zeref mumbled.

“U-Uhm… E-Excuse me?” My Fluttershy asked shakily. “W-What was happening during the fight? W-Why was Quill going o-out of control?” She asked still shuttering from the fight. To be honest, seeing what Quill contained, and now knowing that amount of rage was living in our world… It terrifies me.

“It looked as if he had projected some kind of memory onto Edward,” the one known as Polearm interjected. “In training Ed has often told us to use this method in order to test our emotions but try and remain in control. I think Quill may have gone through some form of PTSD during the fight. Ed’s actions were confused or reminded Quill of something that happened long ago and angered him. The fact that he was powerless to stop Ed from laying into him only helped remind him of this old memory. Probably a memory where he couldn’t do anything but watch as everything was taken from him. One where he was angry at his own powerlessness and he swore revenge.”

As soon as Polearm said this Luna’s eyes looked straight at me.

“Sister? What is it?” I asked my sister. “Do you know something about this?” I inquire.

“Yes… This memory… It was likely from the time when his village back in Fiore was incinerated by the Dragon who was sworn to protect the village. Quill’s real name was Acnori back in Fiore, but he changed it once he became the Dragon King. The Dragon was Tyrrios, but back then Tyrrios went by Acnologia. He was the first Acnologia. From what I could tell, Edward’s fighting methods prior to Quill changing was so similar to that of Tyrrios’ that Quill couldn’t differentiate between his memory or reality.” Luna explained, looking down sadly.

“I think Ed was trying to get Quill to unlock his dragon form but at the same time he was trying to teach him how to trigger and harness this form,” Edward’s Twilight added. “He can go overboard when it comes to this sort of thing. He personally trained all of use in a similar manner. He created golems that were specifically tooled to work against our weakness.”

“Yea, like me having a tendency to shoot off without thinking stuff through,” Edward’s Rainbow added jumped in.

“Ya still shoot off on your own,” Edward’s Applejack interrupted with a sly smirk.

“Well, yea but…” Edward’s Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head.

“Edward helped us grow physically stronger in our bodies and unique magic but he didn’t help us in a mental sense,” Edward’s Twilight explained. “But I’m not saying he won’t try either.”

“Ed has helped others this way before,” Edward’s Luna added. “He helped his nephew like this. Unfortunately, he often takes the role of the villain when helping others like this.”

"Well in this case if Acnologia wasn't holding back, it might've ended badly." My sister said, to which I nodded in agreement.

“I’ve seen my husband when he gets serious and if he’d truly thought that Quill was a genuine threat to us in any way or form without some way of bringing back to his senses the Edward wouldn’t have hesitated to end Quill’s life then and there,” Edward’s Luna said seriously before turning to my sister. “That being said I also know it’s like to see him completely consumed by his rage and hatred. He died once already to save this world from himself and gave up the chance to go back to where he one from. I wholeheartedly think Ed does everything he can to protect those he can, no matter what. He goes out of his way to help others no matter the consequences, even if it means that he ends up the bad guy or people absolutely hate him for the rest of their existence.” she said with a lot of sorrow in her voice. “He never turned to others always taking the burden of everything. It wasn’t until an incident during the summoning of our nieces that he, no Malice had inadvertently caused but taking pieces of their souls. Ed did everything he could to make a new body for little Sorano by combining several alchemical and magical techniques along with the help of her siblings. It wasn’t until he spoke with Lex that he actually started to rely on others and started to be open with Tia and myself,” she placed a hand on her sister’s.

“Well, Quill, or rather Acnologia has already been consumed by his rage and hatred once before. It’s how the Dragon King Festival came to be.” Zeref told them. “And he wiped out all Dragons from the face of Fiore and nearly did the same with all Dragon Slayers.” Zeref said sadly. “And the form Quill took during the fight has the same amount of power that Acnologia had on Fiore and nothing and no one could even make a dent on him. And if that was Quill’s Dragon Force, well… Whoever pissed him off to that extent is going to have a Bad Time.” Zeref sighed. “Let’s just be glad that the Extinction Dragon Slayer, is on our side for the time being.”

“Oh yes I almost forgot,” Edward’s Celestia said. “Ed wanted me to ask how long you’d like to stay in our world? And he gave me this,” she pulled out a glowing red stone the color of fresh blood. “He said that this belongs to Quill but to give to you,” She held the stone one up to Zeref. “Ed mentioned that Quill knew what it was but that it would be better for you to hold on to for the time until Quill was ready to use it.”

“Well, you can yeet the damned thing out the window for all we care.” A voice spoke causing Mavis, Zirconis, Zeref, and Serena to jump in shock and slight fear. “Ah, don’t worry, just look next to the passed out Quill.” It said, and so we did, only to see an ethereal Quill, but his left arm was missing and his eyes were a navy-blue, and not Quill’s intimidating-red. The spirit waved at us all. “Hello there, nice to meet you in person and not through Quill’s eyes. You should already know me, I’m Acnologia!” The spirit grinned. “Zeref, when you take the stone, wait… y’ know what, just give it to Celestia. If it’s put in the vault, that’d keep it far away from me and Quill, which is good because of that fucking thing! If’s the remaining magic and the magical prison, for the son of a bitch who infected Rainbow with the Husk Virus, and the fucker who murdered not only our entire village but Sonya as well. That thing is Tyrrios.” Acnologia told us while pointing his middle finger at the stone. “Go fuck yer’ self Tyrrios. Fuck you!” Acnologia said giving the stone the stink-eye.

“It looks like Ed gave you Projection magic during your fight Mr. Acnologia,” Edward’s Luna said before turning to me. “As for that stone, he’s right. You should lock it away where no pony, no no living being can find it. It can dramatically increase magic and perform miracles, except for reviving the dead, not saying that they won’t try though. It’s a good thing Ed only gave Quill Basic alchemy but I have no doubt that he knows what that evil thing is.”

“Why would he give Quill such a dangerous artifact Princess?” My student looked at me with worry in her eyes.

“Likely to do some good with a piece of crap!” Serena shouted in suggestion. “Tyrrios took my sister! So dad killed him for a second time!” Serena cheered as Zeref giggled at the child’s enthusiasm.

“Watch your language Serena,” my sister scolded the little dragon slayer. “Sorry, Luna,” he apologetically said as his gaze turned to the floor.

“The most probable reason is so Quill has more magical access.” Zeref said dropping his giggle and gaining a dead serious look. “According to what Zirconis told me about Tyrrios and his magic, Tyrrios has some of the most powerful magic, rivaling that of Time Dragon Magic. It’s apparently called Lava or Meteor Dragon Slayer Magic. I’m guessing that Quill absorbed some of the Meteor magic and fused it with his own to create Extinction Dragon Magic. So, not only is Quill one half of the literal Apocalypse, he is now a literal Extinction event just waiting to be pissed off.” Zeref exaggerated with a facepalm. “Great… Now Quill actually is the most powerful wizard from Fiore.” Zeref grumbled.

“Have no fear young Zeref,” Edward’s Celestia said with a motherly tone that I was very familiar with. “Quill is a good man with a good soul. He’d rather have himself killed then hurt any of you here. But back to the earlier question. How long do you plan to stay in our world? We need to know if we’re to make the right accommodations for all of you as I don’t think you all want to stay in Ed’s lab let alone the Time Chamber.”

“Well, I should get back, and the Elements all have their own jobs they need to get back to as well,” I say. “So, we should be heading back. My sister, however, will likely want to stay by Quill’s side for his duration.” I smile sweetly.

“Welp, Serena has school tomorrow and I’ll have to go and be a substitute for the currently passed out Dragon Slayer over there, so we have to get going.” Zeref answers.

“I’ll go back home to take care of Serena and Gilda along with Mali,” Mavis says. “How about you Zirconis?”

“I think I’ll go back to take care of Gilda and Mail. It’s the least I could do for being an ass when we first met.” He rubbed his shoulder sheepishly as he looked over at said Griffons, Mali who was passed out and asleep, and Gilda who was halfway passed out.

“I can return all of you in a few days once the void gate to your world restablizes,” Ed said as he came back into the room. “I was kinda hasty in it’s making and it was only stable enough for a one-way trip and I’d rather not risk sending you all back until we have a more stable portal. Let Blue Balls be overwhelmed with taking requests for about three days okay.” He said leaning up against the door. “I’m really sorry about this mess of things but it’ll at least give you some much-needed downtime and me some more time to train or snoring lizardman over there,” he pointed at Quill snuggling up next to Luna. “In how to better use his alchemy and to learn his next skill set for Alchemagic.  I’m very sorry for the trouble I’ve caused you in this.” He bowed his head. “At the least, it’ll take three days at most a week if done right. Is that okay with all of you?” 

“It’s fine Edward. No harm done. And if anything and I’m gone for a few days, I’m sure my world’s Equis’ gravitational pull could move our sun and moon. Though it would make the day go by slower.” I mumbled that last sentence.

“It’s fine bro. No harm done.” Acnologia told Edward giving him a cheeky grin. “Nice to finally meet you in person, by the way.”

“Nice to meet you to Acno,” he said as he walked over and gave Aconolgia a fist bump. “Now let’s get all of you all settle into rooms. We’re in the castle so we have plenty of space,” he clapped his hands together. “Unless you’d all like to stay cramped up in this training room in here. I don’t recommend this either.”

“Thank you for the kind gesture, Edward. C’mon everypony, let’s go to the Castle.” My student told everyone.

“Would you like to help in carrying him?” Edward’s Luna asked my sister softly as she smiled looking down at Quill. “He looks like you could hit him with a log and he wouldn’t wake up.” She giggled. “I have just the room for you two if you don’t mind?”

“Try… Over twelve steel beams, imbued with weight magic to make them heavier than the fucking Canterlot Castle itself. Cause Jesus, if you wake him up now, not even you Edward could stop the bad day ahead of us all. I mean it scared the literal and metaphorical shit out of Blue Blood back in our world.” Acnologia said, before trying to and failing to pick up the passed out Dragon Slayer. “Christ how heavy is this little shit?!” He strained.

“You’re not going to be able to pick anything up man. Your just a projection and not a solid embodiment. You’d have to be separated from Quill completely before you can even try that and I don’t recommend it as your the other half of the Apocalypse Dragon,” Edward explained as he leads us through the lower levels of the castle. I didn’t recognize any of the areas we went through. “I can give you a body if you want but I also have to talk with Quill on it first.” We reached a large wooden door, I recognized this as the study where Twilight and I practiced before I sent her to Ponyville. “This will do as suedo sleepover area until we can get you all individual rooms. We have some foreign dignitaries staying with us and none of the other rooms are prepped. Sorry,” he turned to me. “Would you like to stay with Quill and Luna or with the others?”

“I’d like to make sure my student and the rest of the Elements of Harmony are safe for the time being. Plus it’s as Acnologia says, wake Quill up and you destroy a whole lotta shit.” I whisper to Edward.

“As you wish. There are pillows and sleeping bags in the room for when the girls come for training and extra blankets in the closet. The study has its own washroom and full bath,” he explained. “If you need anything ask the staff or ring the bell. Luna’s let’s get Dragon Boy into a proper be. We’ll set you two up in mine and Luna’s old bedroom. Had to upgrade once we found out about the twins,” he turned to others but then turned around and gave a warm smile. “Good night and have pleasant dreams.” He turned again and I was left with my own party while Edward’s variants followed him.

I smiled softly and walked into the large room filled with sleeping bags, pillows and blankets for all of us. While we were setting up, Gilda had passed out and Zirconis caught her and made her sleeping place with Mali and slept next to them. I saw the look Cadence had and knew that Zirconis had a crush on Gilda. I chuckled silently and got into my own sleeping bag, after a few minutes, the rest of us fell asleep, and following shortly, was me. I was overwhelmed with the need and sweet relief of rest.




End of An Apocalyptic Alchemist: Part 1