//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Wistala's Tale: Part 1 // Story: PonyFable // by Omega_code //------------------------------// “Fine, but don’t complain if you miss out any fun that will come out of this,” Wistala heard Jack say as he jog towards Lim’s shop. Whatever, Wistala thought; I know that you can handle any sort of trouble that will come out of Lim’s shop. Wistala let out a sigh and a few sparks of electricity came out of her snout, and she went back to her nap. Or at least that would have happen if her stomach didn’t tell her that it needed food. Why do I even try, she thought as got up on all fours and stretch out her wings and body, guess I’m coming anyway Jack. She spread out her wings and with a few strong flaps she was airborne. She took her time getting to Lim’s shop, flying past the townsfolk going through their daily routine. Like Ash, the boy who wanted to be a knight, delivering the daily mail (delivering it late too), Guardians standing at their posts, and other people talking about how their day is going so far for them. She reach Lim’s shop seeing the door slightly ajar, which is good for her since opening doors was Jack’s job. She landed a foot away for the door, sticking her snout in the opening and with a might heave she open the door big enough for her to go through. She entered the shop to see Lim’s display of inventions, weapons, and other things spread throughout the main room. Then she heard Lim’s voice saying, “Now let the wonders of SCIENCE commence,” which was coming from the backroom, or what Lim like to called the Room of SCIENCE (not creative but it’s his shop). So Wistala started to head over there wondering what great wonder of science was going on. She enter the room right at the moment as Jack was turn to purple dust in a big glass cylinder and a few seconds later a purple lighting was discharged from a metal rod. Wistala thought this was all part of Lim’s science demonstration, till Lim ran past Cysero (which was no surprise to her since he was always there when Lim was demonstrating great work of SCIENCE) towards a window of his backyard to look at another big glass cylinder. He looked at it for a while, then turned to Cysero and started saying insulating words to him. It didn’t take Wistala very long to figure out why. “CYSERO DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU ARE IN RIGHT NOW,” Lim said finishing with his insults. “He not the only one Lim,” Wistala furiously shouted out, she waited till Lim turned around to face her to say, “Where is JACK!” Lim only studder a few words that basically said that he doesn’t know, which wasn’t the right answer Wistala want to hear. She accessed her mana and jump up in the air and used a spell. Wistala was instantly thrown towards Lim where she collided with him, sending both of them to the ground. Wistala pinned Lim to the ground, looking at him face to face and said, “You better find out because if you killed Jack, avatars help you, for there will be no place for you to run till you face my wrath.” “Oh you silly dragon,” Cysero said unfazed of what going on, “Jack, was teleported not kill. Captain Science would never put Jack’s life in danger; beside it my fault, I thought this dohicy was some sort of scanner not part of a teleporter till Lim pull the switch. Anyway the reason that I know Jack was teleported is that the machine did what it was made for and didn’t blow up, even though I mess with it. So Jack was teleported to some location but not here or even on Lore.” “WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE NOT ON LORE,” Wistala and Lim said at the same time. “Exactly what I mean, he on another world,” Cysero said in a matter in fact way. “That purple lightning bolt opened a small rip in space sending him to a world that is full of magic. I was able to scene the magic coming out of the rip before it was able to full close. It was magic that felt familiar of nice place I been to once a few years ago, so Jack should be fine.” When Cysero was finish, Wistala slowly got off of Lim’s chest, processing what Cysero said. Cysero lend a hand to Lim to help him up, which Lim accepted. Wistala ask Cysero, “So can you bring Jack back?” “Nope” “WHY!” “Because I don’t know how; I got to the other world by accident and was able to return by accident too. Once I came back to Lore I was going to study the rock, but I had the sudden erge to make a pie with flavor of the color pink and bake some dancing singing cupcakes. I forgot about the rock, and went to do my experiments (by the way dancing singing cupcakes aren’t a good idea, they explode). I just refound the rock yesterday when I was looking for my left sock, and remember what it did to me. I tried to find what kind magic was enacted in the rock by using identification spells on it, but they didn’t work; so I came here to see if any of Lim’s inventions would help.” Wistala, calm down a bit knowing that Jack was ok, but still angry of what just happen; she turn to Lim and said, “Lim you are going to transport me to the world where Jack is and find a way to bring us back. Get Warlic to help you out even.” With that said she grabbed Jack’s backpack and dragged it to the teleport chamber and sat right next to it. Lim look at Wistala about to say something, but she interrupted him saying, “Not right now! Just transport me and fix this mess.” Lim closed the door, hit a button, and flip the switch; in a few seconds Wistala was gone. Lim and Cysero watch in silence as the teleporter did its function; Cysero turn to Lim and said, “I’ll go get Warlic Captain Science, be back in ten seconds flat.” Cysero ran in green flash as Lim thought to himself, I will fix this Wistala and get both you and Jack back. Lim went to one of his drawing broads and got to work. ************************************************************************************* Wistala was had her eyes closed during the transport, soon she felt like she was flying through space (again), and then she was greeted by the sound of birds singing their songs. She opened her eyes only to see a green hedge right in front of her. She notice that she was surrounded by tall green hedges, but she didn’t care, quickly yelling, “JACK, JACK ARE YOU HERE?” She didn’t hear a reply; she flew up and over the hedges to see the area around her. She was in some sort of hedge maze and there was a castle in back ground, and out in the distance there were three flying dots coming her way. Those dots grew to three flying horses, or at least one was the size of a horse the other two were the size of a pony. Not wanting to make her presence know, Wistala dived down into a hedge out of their view, but not out of hers. Soon she heard flaps of wings overhead and then one of them sad, “This is where the lightning bolt struck Princess.” Whoa, Wistala thought, flying horses that can talk, she looked through an opening in the hedge to get a good look of group. The one that was the size of a horse had a white coat with a multi-color mane and tail that was flowing in a non-existing breeze. There was also a single horn coming out of its head too, and Wistala felt powerful magic of the element of light radiating from it. For the other two, one was a black as night and the other was white as fresh fallen snow and both of them were in what look like armor. Wistala guess that the winged-horn one was the princess and the other two are her guards. “Thank you Lieutenant,” the Princess said the black coat pony as they landed in the area where Wistala and Jack’s backpack was transported to. She went towards the backpack look at it and the area around it, her horn softly glowing. Then she look up said, “Is anypony out there, please come out, we want to help you.” How can they know that I’m here, Wistala thought to herself, I’m pretty sure that they didn’t see me when I was in the air. I’m just going to wait for them to leave, and follow them and see if they have Jack. However her stomach had other ideas, like reminding her that she need food by growling at her to feed it, and the Princess must have great hearing for she turned her head right to Wistala’s hiding spot. Traitor, Wistala thought to her stomach, hope they’re truly friendly and stay friendly when they learned that I’m a dragon and not a pony. Wistala made her way of the hedge and presented herself. The equine group was in a state of bewilderment when they saw Wistala come out of the hedge. The two guards swiftly got out of that state and went into a battle stance; which Wistala promptly answer with her own. However the Princess quickly got in front of them raising her wings saying, “Stand down.” The guards gradually lowered their stance, but Wistala keep her up just in case. The Princess spoke to Wistala in a peaceful way, “Please forgive me and my guards for our reaction. It not often we see a young dragon here in Cantorlot; a young dragon that also have its wings too. How about we start again with our introductions, I am Princess Celestia and these two are part of my royal guards.” Celestia glance to the black pony, “she is Lieutenant ShadowStrike,” then she glanced to the white one, “and he is Lieutenant Tempest.” Celestia look back at Wistala and ask, “Would you mind to tell us some information about yourself?” Wistala relax from her stance and answer, “My name is Wistala, and to tell you the truth I’m not really from here. I’m from another world, a world called Lore, and I’m here looking for my rider whose name is Jack. He was transported here by accident and I follow him making sure that he was ok,” her stomach yell at her again, which cause Wistala to blush slightly, “and to feed me (since he forgot to do it this morning). So have you seen Jack?” Celestia looked at Wistala for a moment and said, “I haven’t seen nor heard anything about another strange lightning bolt strike. I send some of my guards to look around to make sure, but I don’t think Jack is here in Cantorlot. For now, let me extend my welcome to the land of Equestira and give you a place to stay while the search of Jack is in progress. We can also give you some of our finest gems for your current hunger. “ “Gems,” Wistala said with a questionable look, “gems are nice if I was building a treasure hoard, but I need meat.” Wistala saw the unease look Celestia was giving her. “Not meaning that I won’t go out and harm anyone of your subjects; it just that Jack keep all of my food in his backpack and he had it enchanted so that he is the only one who can truly use it. “ This is going to be a problem, Wistala thought, no Jack means no food, which means she might lose control of herself and go on a hunger rage, which cause her to go out on a hunt for a suitable meal; maybe they won’t miss a couple of the birds that around here. “I see,” Celestia said, she looked towards the backpack; her horn started to glow and the backpack was lifted up in the air, and went toward Celestia. For a while she turned the backpack in all sorts of positions with an analyzing look. Then she opened the main flap and pulled out a box with the label on its side: Her-Os Dragon Chow: Everything a growing dragon needed (Guarantee to keep that growing dragon full for a full day or your money back). “I believe this is what you want,” Celestia said to Wistala as she set the box in front of the dragon. Wistala was in shock of what she saw because those enchantments were place by Cysero who was a very powerful mage, and if Celestia was able to break those enchantments means that she was powerful as Cysero or perhaps even more powerful than him. However, by now her hunger was getting to her and she pounce on the box, ripping it opening and getting to her meal that was hold off from her too long. Dragonfable is copyright to Artix Entertainment, LLC. MLP: Friendship is Magic is copyright to Hasbro. All charters that belong to their companies are rightfully theirs. This writing is for fun and nothing else. Sorry for blunt ending but I’m be busy with college, writing blocks, and my fight with grammar and spelling. I want to get this part of this story out, so that why it’s going to be in two parts. Tuned in next time as Wistala learn to integrate in this new world full of ponies (and a bit more history of Jack and Wistala) BATTLEON!