//------------------------------// // Alright, So I'm Magical: Part One // Story: The Pony-Filled Life of Alexis Creek // by NightmareMoon //------------------------------// I snuck around for a little bit, slowly making my way to Canterlot Castle, where everypony else is heading. I wish I was Daring Do, or at least a pegasus, so I could just fly above this screaming, frantic crowd. But guess what? Of course I can't! Just my luck. I had to go across many dark and mysterious alleyways, and no matter how cliche that sounds it actually was kind of dark and mysterious, in a way where someone could just magically appear out of nowhere. And guess what? Yes. You got it right. I said "someone could just magically appear out of nowhere," and guess who materializes right in front of me? ... No, not the TARDIS. I mean Twilight, or at least a mare that looks considerably like Twilight. "Hello," I mutter. "Who are you?" But whoever it is doesn't seem to hear me. Just my luck. (Luck, I hate you!) When I get closer - as the figure had teleported quite a distance away from me - I see that the figure was wearing a long, purple cape, and a purple hat. And because of my terrible, horrible luck, the figure lifts her hood off. And a hint to who it is: not Twilight. Not anybody I'd like to see, not anybody that can help, not even anybody that is at least nice and helpful and optimistic, like Applejack when it comes to advanced magic history. But it's someone I know all too well. The figure lifts her hood off, a soft blue glow surrounding it. I see a mare with light blue fur, an even lighter, slightly curly Fluttershy-type mane, and light lavender eyes. Trixie. I'm looking her straight in the eye, but she can't see me. I look down. No way. That's not possible! Twilight scanned me before, because I wondered if I had magic; almost every species on Equestria did, anyway. "Nope," she said. Her eyes suddenly grew wide. "No way. You literally have no magic, at all. Every single species I've ever encountered has magic, at least the tiniest mega-Spark." At my confusion she explains that magic is measured in Sparks. "But you... You don't have a single drop. It's like your body is repelling outside forces, because if you live in Equestria, where all matter is magical in some way, you sort of soak it up. Ponies just more than most." "That's cool," I said, not really sure what to respond to that. So, I'm not possible? I don't know if that's terrible, or hilarious. "No, it's not," Twilight said. "That's literally not possible. That goes against the most basic magical formulas. That goes against the entire works of Starswirl the Bearded." If that's true, than Starswirl the Bearded was right. Because in this dark, mysterious alleyway, with the one and only "Great and Powerful" Trixie staring right at me... I've suddenly turned invisible. So what am I, some kind of super-human? I doubt it, really. I'm nothing special. Well, if you don't count the fact that I pretty much go against every single law of magic there is. But then again, magic doesn't need laws. Magic is just sort of… Magic. It can do whatever it wants. But how am I doing this, anyway? It's not like I know how to turn invisible. It just sort of happened. A mistake, I'd call it, even; though an extremely lucky one. Who knows what Trixie is capable of now? She could be some kind of evil, dark lady or something like that. Don't laugh, it's true. We haven't seen her in a season! We don't know what she can do. While I'm thinking about Trixie and wondering if she's changed since season one, somebody else just magically lands from the sky (okay, not the sky. He teleports, but "magically lands from the sky" sounds way better) and poof. Trixie takes a step back, and she starts to look scared. "Hello, Shade," she says. He sort of hisses and doesn't say anything. I can't see what he looks like, since his back is turned. After a series of hisses and raised eyebrows from Trixie, he clears his throat and says: "I am glad you are here, Moon." 'Moon,' or in other words Trixie, takes another step back. "Me, too. I have done what you have asked. Can I go now?" "No, Moon!" He growls. For whatever reason he's sort of… Smokey… Shade… Sombra… Oh, come on! I hate luck! Sombra turns around, and I get a better look at him: a black pony, with some kind of purple gas surrounding him, a matching red horn and cape (that didn't work at all), green and red eyes, fangs, and heavy armor… Eww. So much for "children's cartoon." Not that I ever thought of My Little Pony as a children's cartoon anyway. "You have sent the Elements, then?" She asks. "For the trap? For revenge?" She seems more excited now. Meanwhile, my brain is screaming, "No!" If the Elements are gone, trapped, anybody can just randomly destroy Equestria! Wait. If anybody can just randomly destroy Equestria, why hasn't Sombra done so yet? "Yes," he sighs, looking down. "But I cannot enter the Crystal Empire. The Love Princess's magic is holding up." Oh. That's why. He needs to get in, which means my mission was probably just to keep him out. Which I'll do, even without the help of Twilight. I don't suppose the princess of love, otherwise known as Princess Cadence, will last very long. Alicorn magic doesn't last forever. And then I remember. "Princess Cadence needs our help. Her magic will not last forever! I think that we can do this, but we have to work together. We have to get things right, yes we have to make them see: we can save the Crystal Ponies with their history." I realize how much of an advantage I have now. I know lots about what's going to happen in the episode already. I remember the line, "We have a Crystal Fair to put together!" So it's pretty obvious that I'm going to have to put together a Crystal Fair, or whatever that is. I slowly walk away, and I know what I have to do. I have to go to the Crystal Kingdom, wherever that is. But the problem is, everybody is freaking out. So how will I get there? I grin. This is going to be the craziest thing ever. Thing is, how do you drive a train anyway? I can't even drive a car! I guess I'll have to ignore that fact.