//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Familiar Faces // Story: Fairy Tail: The Pony arc // by Tythen //------------------------------// "Uugh..." Twilight groaned "What just happened? Last thing I remembered was that I was opening the door to a town hall that looked like a castle... But I just felt pain after that." Then Twilight started hearing voices "Do you think she'll be ok?" "You guys are seriously reckless without even knowing!" "These ponies look different!" "Some have wings like Happy!" "Some don't have neither wings nor a horn!" "Aye!" "Ugh..." Twilight strained "Must...Wake...Up!" and opened her eyes "Oh! Twilight! You're awake!" Spike exclaimed relieved "Huh? Where am I?" Twilight asked since she was on a bed "You're in the guild infirmary." Spike answered "Huh?" Twilight wasn't in a thinking mood "You know! The Clinic!" Spike tried to make things easier, but Twilight was still unsure "...Sick Bay?" Spike tried once more but Twilight was still unsure due to the knock on her head, Spike sighed "A place where you and the rest are getting patched up." Spike simply explained "We were knocked out? But how?" Twilight was confused "I saw everything because I wasn't knocked out, when you opened the door, six different ponies collided with you and the rest of the group." Spike chuckled "Well behaved huh?" "Spike, I can gather now this isn't a Town Hall." Twilight realised "What is this place?" "From what the other ponies told me, this is a Wizard's guild! It's a place where guild members take up job requests for work. I've introduced your names to the guild members here but you're going to have to do most of the answering. Just so you know, since this is a wizard's guild..." "Yes Spike?" "Every member of this guild are all unicorns!" Spike concluded. "And?" "Rainbow Dash ain't gonna be happy when she finds out." Familiar Faces! "Oh! You're awake now!" Lucy trotted in as she went to check on the Mane 6 "Sorry about what happened. You must be um... Twilight Sparkle right? Its what your little pet told me when he was introducing you guys. I'm Lucy Heartfilia." She introduced shaking Twilight's hoof. "Nice to meet you! Um, no offence but, why does the guild seem to kick ponies out?" Twilight asked "It was unexpected but you see, Fairy Tail always has big fights and brawls every time. So its not that special if someone gets hurt, unless its someone new like you mares! And no, I wasn't part of the brawl, other mares avoid it as well." Lucy explained "So... You ponies always fight often? Are you all friends or enemies?" "We all start brawls these days" Natsu said as he strolled in with a bandage on his head "but everypony's a friend, close partners like Happy and Lucy here, to plain jerks like Gray and Elfman. But we are more than friends, we are all each other's family, our 'Nakama' (japanese for family-like friends). I'm Natsu by the way, sorry for crashing into you." "Its all right, apology accepted." Twilight said happily. "Hey! I think your friends are coming to!" Happy informed Twilight excited. "Ahh! A flying cat! That talks!" Twilight jumped "This is Happy" Natsu introduced "He's an exceed and has been my companion along with Lucy through many jobs and adventures." "Aye!" Happy said in greetings "Wow! I mean um... I've never seen a cat talk and fly before." Twilight said "Well, there are a lot of talking animals around Magnolia." Lucy said "Oh yeah, I'm sure you know our current situation right now. We turned into ponies you see." "I know that." Twilight determinly answered "Because me and my friends were originally talking ponies." Which immediately made everyone silent "Wait... So you know what happened here?" "Yes I do... I decided to talk about it know since I can trust you guys. How about I tell everything once my friends get up?" "We're all up now Twilight" Pinkie Pie exclaimed from her bed. "This ought to be interesting!" Happy mumbled In the Main Hall, Twilight and co were explaining to the members of Fairy Tail about Equestria and its rulers. "So, how did you get here?" Gray asked "My princess who is also my teacher opened a portal to Earth-Land" Twilight answered "She wants to open up to other worlds and form Interdimensional bonds" "So is she the one responsible for turning us into ponies? Is that her welcome gift?" Alzack accused which caused some murmuring. "No! Not at all! Princess Celestia would never do such a thing! That is someone else's doing, the spirit of disharmony and chaos Discord! Ah'm bein honest ere!" AppleJack defended honestly. "You seem to have an accent similar to Alzack and mine Applejack" Bisca wondered "Another Chaotic force?" Mirajane asked "Wait!" Wakaba was shocked "You know another chaotic force Mirajane? Who is it?" "Well..." Mirajane embarrassingly answered "The chaotic force I already know... Is us!" The entire guild fainted after her comment. "I hate to say it... But that is true..." Lucy regretfully agreed "Well, Discord is Chaotically Evil." Rainbow Dash explained "And in this case, your chaotically Good!" Pinkie Pie concluded "Well then, I guess you can say that." Macao blushed from the compliment "But back to the topic, how can we trust you?" Natsu asked "That's a good question. Besides Applejack, how can you be sure about your princess?" Gray added "Hold!!!!" Erza announced "AppleJack can be trusted, she is honest to her heart." "But Erza, how can you tell?" Carla asked "Don't you remember Carla? You were there as well! We all know Applejack's the element of honesty." "Wait... How do you know bout me?" Applejack was stunned "So you mean in this case..." Wendy continued "They are the bearers of the elements of harmony! Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Fluttershy!" Lisanna added "And Discord is the spirit of disharmony. He must have broken out of his stone prison again and came here." Evergreen continued "So Discord was actually the one behind all this!" Mirajane concluded "WOAH! WOAH! WOAH!!!!" Twilight interrupted aghast that a few ponies in the guild from a different world has actually known them before. "How do you actually know us now?" "My sisters, Erza, Wendy, Carla, Evergreen, and I watch a manly show. Apparently, the main characters... are you guys." Elfman answered. "What!? Our adventures are made into a show? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!?" Twilight exclaimed "I was running low on bits!" Pinkie piped up and everyone looked at her. "Wait... You recorded everything we did together?" Rainbow Dash asked shocked "Only up to PG-Rated scenes, you guys actually made a couple of actions that were R-Rated so I deleted that. Sometimes, I stare into the camera during some parts because I know people would be watching!" Everyone was silent. "Okay then... How did you actually get videos of our adventures through different worlds?" Rarity asked "I have NO IDEA!!!" Pinkie cheerfully concluded causing the others to faint. "Sorry about that ponies" Spike announced "If there is something you should know about Pinkie Pie, she can do many things that we have no idea, so we don't question her logic." "Hey! You...you...are" Natsu stuttered uncontrollably pointing at Spike "Umm. What am I? Well I'm..." Spike started answering until Natsu yelled with happiness "YOU'RE A DRAGON!!!!!" and ran to hug Spike "Yes. I am. Can you please get off me?" Spike squealed desperately getting air. "Sorry about that Spike, you see, Natsu has a dragon as a foster parent. I'm sure he'll tell you more on the story." Erza replied. As Natsu was in a deep conversation about his past, Romeo continued the current situation "But even so, though there has been a movie about your adventures, It doesn't sound so convincing for other ponies, but for your relief, I'm convinced!" "I say its a whole load of baloney" Cana remarked and downed a massive barrel of alcohol held by her new small levitation magic everyone acquired when they became ponies. "Don't worry little ponies, she's a heavy drinker" Wakaba comforted the ponies as they were scared by the fact that a pony would be able to drink so much alcohol and not get drunk. Fluttershy was then distracted as she saw the three exceeds and ran over to them. "Oh my! Kitty cats! You're so adorable!" She squealed which frightened Carla causing her to fly to a safe distance "Watch it!" Carla retorted angrily "Oh wow! You can fly and talk! I've never seen an animal like that before!" Fluttershy got even interested oblivious to Carla's comment. "Just so you know, we are known as exceeds but I still don't mind being called a cat!" Happy piped up. "Sorry about that little Exceeds! My name's Fluttershy." She introduced herself "We know! Your little friend told us. Didn't know he was a dragon! A baby one at that though. Anyway, my name's Happy!" "Panther Lily's my name." "I'm Carla" As Fluttershy was busy talking to the exceeds, Lucy decided to know more about them. "So Twilight, was it? Just wondering, since we are learning about each other, what magic do you use?" "Umm... Pardon?" Twilight as unsure what she meant as most ponies in Equestria has the same magic. "Well, In Earth-Land, everyone learns different types of magic. For me, I'm a Celestial Spirit Mage, Its main magic is summoning Celestial Spirits to fight and I summon them by opening their gates to enter this realm." Lucy explained and holding out her keys to show Twilight. "Well, you've certainly got a bunch of them!" Twilight complimented "Silver and Gold keys... Is there a difference?" "Yes! As there's only one key of each constellation in the sky. The silver key represents any type of constellation while the Golden Keys are very rare and powerful as they are the Zodiac keys!" "Zodiacs?" Twilight got interested "Don't you mean Leo and Scorpio and Virgo?" "Why yes! But how do you know?" Lucy asked amazed "Its because there are the same constellations in my world as well!" Twilight explained "In fact, some creatures in my world are named after the constellations." "Very interesting! So yeah, what type of magic do you have?" Lucy went chatting away with Twilight while Rarity got suddenly interested with Gray. "Whatcha lookin at little pony?" He asked Rarity "I'm... I'm just curious about your cutie mark." Rarity replied "Wait, what?" Gray asked confused on what she was talking about. Juvia was eavesdropping misheard what Rarity said and got angry. "That pony, did she just call him cute!? How dare she! Gray-sama is Juvia's I tell you! A third love rival!? First Lucy, then Lisanna and now this marshmallow looking pony!?" Juvia fumed to herself. "Oh I'm sorry! I forgot that you don't know about ponies. A cutie mark is what we call the symbol on your flank." Rarity described pointing at Gray's symbol of his frozen undershirt and boxers. "I see. Care to also explain why everyone has a different mark each?" "A cutie mark is to portray somepony's characteristics that set themselves apart from others. A Cutie Mark can represent somepony's personality, productivity or talent." Rarity lectured while Gray listened carefully. After he finished, he looked at his cutie mark and understood what she meant. "Ahh. So that explains a lot now." "Now then, I am dying to know what your cutie mark is. I find it very intriguing, why is your Cutie Mark show frozen undergarments?" "Well, I can perform Static Ice-Make, I can create any inanimate object from Ice in my own will, be it a sculpture, lance, sword, cannon, anything that doesn't move. You get the gist. I do have a fellow friend who has the same magic as mine but he creates animate ice animals instead." "So it explains the frozen clothes. But what about the clothes?" Rarity further asked "...I have a habit, some would say a very bad habit. When I was a human, I always strip off most of my clothes, leaving only either my pants or I sometimes take that of as well leaving boxers. It is necessary to wear clothes when you are a human but I guess I don't have to bother taking off my clothes since ponies don't wear them!" Gray laughed "Forget I asked about your Cutie Mark" Rarity said feeling a little scarred "Your spiky haired friend talking to dear Spike seems to have a patterned scarf on him! My, that scarf seems to look like the scales of a Dragon!" "Ah! Looks like you've got a great eye of Fashion! Yes it is true that Natsu's scarf does resemble the scales of a Dragon! He is a Fire Dragon Slayer after all! Must be what his cutie mark tells us, see?" Gray agreed pointing at Natsu's symbol of the "No Fire Dragon". "I say! I would like to know the many talents of everypony in this fine Guild! Why don't you and I identify your friends, like what the one with the 3 colourful cards when one of the cards has a bottle of... Alcohol!?" "Oh! That's Cana Alberona, she's a card mage and she's also a heavy drinker like Wakaba said." Gray answered, Juvia got even angrier when she saw Gray having fun picking out Cutie-Marks with Rarity. Spike suddenly let loose some green flame which materialised into a letter amazing Natsu!!! "No way! Your dragon fire can make paper!?" Natsu bursted happily "No no no! My dragon fire is used to transfer letters and messages!" Spike explained and tossed the note to Twilight "I see, so you're a student of a Princess who has Godly powers! It's amazing that somepony can harness the movement of the sun!" Levy sat amazed as she decided to join with Lucy, only for the letter to land straight into her view. "A letter from the Princess already? Wonder what its about..." Twilight said as she read the letter, a crestfallen look of shock and terror ended up on her face "Wait... What's wrong?" Lucy asked "This is not good, the majority of citizens of Canterlot and Ponyville seem to have known about the portal and have come straight here! Flash was knocked into the portal as well so Shining Armor and Princess Cadence have gone to round up everypony and look for Flash!"