“ What in equestria was that.” She whispered before suddenly remembering where she was. She spun round and rocketed towards the one pony who could possibly know something about this. Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight was, using the term very loosely. A normal pony. Not average by any standards but a normal pony nonetheless. She was at the moment reading again. As per usual. She didn't expect anything to happen today of all days. She wondered though how her friends were doing.
She knew they were all busy tonight and she wouldn't bother them if she could help it. She flicked her hair out of her eyes and continued with 'an examination of ionic magic'. In truth she knew nearly everything from the book already but there was a very little amount in it which she didn't know. One of which being the difference between light and dark magic. Twilight smiled as she closed the book at the chapter title 'The darkness'. She knew she was forbidden to study that type of magic until she was taught it thoroughly by Celestia.
She had however, tried to use it on two occasions. One being opening the stairs in the crystal castle and one being her first attempt to open King Sombra's door. She remembered getting the feeling of light headedness. As if she was slowly about to faint by using it. When she asked Celestia about it, she only got a simple don't use it again until I teach you. Some part of her hungered to know just exactly what it was that was making her like that. But if the knowledge of dark magic is anything to go by, she might have been headed towards corruption. And that was not on her list. Twilight levitated the book and rose to its place in the book case and placed it back. She was about to pull out another one before an ear splitting scream shocked from doing that.
“ m..m... MONSTER!!!” Twilight zoomed over to the nearest window and saw ponies from every house coming out to investigate. The purple unicorn scanned the darkness outside as to see who shrieked and found one of the residents standing in front of something. She couldn't see it clearly and it was shrouded in the darkness but it was bigger than any pony. She snapped back round and sprinted to her book case.
“ Come on come on. Where is it.” She panicked as searched through many books. She only took a little under a minute before finally. “ Aha! Found you.” She took a large book simply titled 'Magic' and high tailed it to the door. She only opened before suddenly something crashed straight into her knocking Twilight back into the library.
“ Twilight! Twilight. There's something out there!” Yelled Rainbow. Twilight shook her dizziness and peered out the still open door and she couldn't see anything.
“ Calm down Rainbow. Tell me what happen-”
“ No time. We have to go get the others then find this thing”
“ But rainbow.”
“ I mean I need to teach it a lesson.”
“ Rainbow.”
“ After all I'm the fastest pony in Equestria-”
“ Rainbow!” yelled Twilight. Rainbow Dash looked a her. “ Now first tell me what happened.” She asked. Rainbow nodded and dropped out the air standing in front of her.
“ I don't know exactly. I mean I just heard the screams and flew in and found this thing there. I don't know what it was doing but I had to try and stop whatever it was so I got in front of it and, well yeah I did that and that's when it happened. I felt like I weighed triple, no quadruple my weight. I couldn't open my eyes they were so heavy. But then it vanished. I got up and saw it heading into the everfree.”
Twilight listened and nodded. She became particularly interested about the weight
but stopped herself from asking. She was actually starting to feel pretty scared. Twilight took a moment to compose herself before saying.
“ Right. You get Applejack and Fluttershy and I'll get Rarity and Pinkie pie.”
“ On it.” Rainbow replied before zooming out the library, a rainbow contrail in her wake. Twilight waited for a moment before igniting her horn and she vanished in a bright purple flash.
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In the forest.
The man stood aside his crater. Wondering just what exactly happened back there. He had many ideas but he didn't want to be presumptuous. So instead he ignored whatever it was his mind was telling him. Instead he focused on the life forms here.
Regardless of If they could be civil or not, he knew one thing. He was going to stick out easily unless he found a way to hide. Perhaps he could manipulate himself. He knew that his strength and spirit energy could produce physical objects at will and in what shape or form he desired. But would he be able to change himself. In all honesty, he didn't know if he'd ever changed himself in his last life. He couldn't remember. But if he had done so, then that means this would be so much easier.
The man concentrated for a moment. Remembering the shape and form of the equines back in the town. Suddenly a burst of blue light appeared in front of him and floating there was the shape of an equine. The man studied it and wondered if he could indeed change into it.
“ I wonder.” He muttered to himself. The equine he had made had a pale blue coat and a dark blue mane. He would have it a different colour but with it being created by him, it meant it would be the colour of his energy. Hence the nearly all blue equine.
“ Right. So If I use a disguise like this, then I can find out what exactly what's going on without causing mayhem.” He didn't think it would hurt him. After all it was his spiritual energy he was using. But he only knew four things he could do with it. He could cause the pressure to increase around him, sense things over large distances, suppress his energy and finally he could possibly manipulate himself. He thought for a moment longer and decided against it for the meantime. He didn't want to damage himself beyond repair and he certainly didn't want to possibly kill himself even further. If that was even possible.
“ I'll just, wait a little longer and use you if I have nothing else left.” The man said before the energy in front of him forming the equine, dissipated and disappear. The man turned and headed for a near mountain that loomed over the forest, picking up his pace. He saw small glints of light coming from said mountain and thought it better to be there than anywhere else.
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The elements were gathered at the town square and were discussing what exactly happened. Rainbow Dash was all for charging after whatever it was. Applejack was a little more reasoned than that and wanted to try and talk to it. Twilight wanted to go in and try and talk to it too.
“ What do you girls think?” She asked Pinkie, Fluttershy and Rarity.
“ Twilight I do believe that this thing might be dangerous. Perhaps we should leave it to the professions.” Said Rarity with a huff.
“ Oh yes, I think it would be good to let the royal guard do it I think. Unless you want to go. I'm sorry.” Whispered Fluttershy. Pinkie pie didn't say anything for once but just bounced on the spot looking towards the forest.
“ Now Y'all are bein' foals. I'm sure we might b' able to reason with the thing.” Applejack tried. Twilight nodded at her side.
“ She's right girls. I mean if what you said is anything to go by Rainbow, then its not the creature I'm scared for but the animals in everfree. We have to find it.”
Rarity pawed the ground for a moment. “ Must we go tonight! Can we search for it tomorrow when its daytime instead?” All the girls looked at the forest after that. The darkness made it all the more worse and knowing that, that thing was in there. Nopony would dare enter it. Twilight sighed in defeat and turned back to the group.
“ Rarity's right. Maybe we should just do it tomorrow when we can actually see what's in front of us.” Muttered Twilight.
“ Probably the best thing yah said jus now.” Seconded Applejack. Rarity frowned at her for a moment and turned away, heading to her home. However the slight stumble in her trot as she flicked her eyes around just encase the creature came back was not missed by the group.
“ Right. Fluttershy. Perhaps you should stay at the tree house instead of being so close to the forest.” Said Twilight. “ You too girls. I want us all ready early tomorrow morning.” She added pointing a hoof at Applejack, Pinkie and Rainbow. Pinkie intermediately grinned and was about to yell slumber party but stopped when Fluttershy complained about her animals being alone and that she should take care of them. Twilight tried to convince her otherwise but failed. Instead she sent both Rainbow and Applejack with her to the cottage and Pinkie retreated to her home.
Twilight felt all of the anxiety and fear hit her at that point. Having bottled up and hidden it just to be a strong face wasn't very good. She jumped straight back into her library and found Spike who had come home when all the commotion started.
“ Spike.” She said smiling. Before she could say another word, spike picked up a quill and peace of parchment and grinned back at her.
“ I'm just too good now.”
“ Indeed you are. Now! Dear princess Celestia...”
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The man walked nearly the entire night. Not stopping for anything. In fact he didn't even start to get tired. The small lights on the mountains where now large and numerous. More than that, there was what appeared to be a castle perched upon the side of it. Completely defying gravity.
" Huh. Now that's slightly weird." The man said while getting closer to the castle. He didn't really know if he would get into it very easily but he knew one thing. Nothing was going to stop him.
I'm guessing you can probably tell who it is by now. If not from the cover photo then hopefully by the attitude. Anyway, hope you like it so far.