//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: A big job! // Story: Fairy Tail: The Pony arc // by Tythen //------------------------------// The Mane 6 was happily chatting away with the Guild Members of Fairy Tail when a loud short rumbling on the ground was heard. Everyone turned in fear to the source of the sound. A very big shadow of a pony was standing in front of the bar counter. "I demand silence from everyone!!!!!" The shadow bellowed and everyone obeyed "Woah!!! He's so big, that is so cool!!!!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed "Ahhh!!!! Who or what in tarnation is that?" Applejack questioned in fear and confusion "Oh! That's our Master of the Guild!" Mirajane calmly answered "Where are the six pony visitors!? Show yourself right now!!!" The giant continued yelling, Fluttershy was completely scared to death hiding behind Happy, Carla and Panther. Makarov however, could sense her fear "Don't worry Yellow one! I won't bite, Unless you come here right now!!!" The master ordered but Fluttershy didn't budge so Rainbow had to drag her straight to him, the Mane 6 gathered in front of the hulking shadow "So you are the six visitors from another world?" The shadow asked inspecting them with his eyes. "Y...Yes sir!" Twilight nervously answered "and I brought along my messenger dragon Spike." Spike waved to make himself present. The Shadow then roared ferociously scaring the six ponies(and dragon) especially Fluttershy. As he was roaring, smokes started flowing out of his body as he starts to change shape, as the Mane 6 watched with frightful eyes, their fear started turning into confusion as the shadow started to shrink in size until an old orange stallion with a grey mane and beard who is as small as a young foal. "Its an honour to meet you!" The old stallion healthily croaked with joy raising his hoofs in greetings. A Big Job! "What the!? You're so tiny now! What happened!?" Rainbow Dash blurted out in confused disappointment "Oh wow!! You can change your size! How can you do that!? Are you an inflatable pony? Do you stuff balloons in your body?" Pinkie Pie kept on pushing weird questions when everyone knew that it was his magic. "Good Morning Master!" Mirajane greeted "Hey Gramps!!!" Natsu and Gray greeted as well "You seem to be respected around here good sir!" Twilight Sparkle complimented then bowed to him "My name is Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends!" She introduced "Amazing!!! Even a talking pony like you have very formal manners! Unlike some of my men..." He looked at Natsu, Gray, etc, then continued "Well of course! I'm the master of this Guild, Makarov Dreyar!" He introduced himself "P...Pleasure to m-meet you sir!" Fluttershy mustered up some courage to greet him "I'm sorry back there. I apologise if I scared any of you widdle cuties!" Makarov apologised "Apology accepted." Applejack said "ANYWAY!!!!! I've have learnt of the current situation we are in now." Makarov addressed. "What is it gramps?" Natsu asked "We are ponies!!!!" He answered causing everyone including the ponies to faint at such as most enlightening moment being ruined by the most obvious realisation. "Speaking of which" Makarov continued "Reports is that its not just us but the entire kingdom of Fiore!" Everyone gasped "The new magic council has been figuring out what was going on. At the same time, the council also had some magic readings that are off the chart in a certain place, that's right here in Magnolia. A portal has appeared on top of a hill near the entrance to Magnolia, its a permanent portal so the caster must have been very powerful. Now, the council does not know about this portal. They only just found the energy readings for it so they don't actually know what its for. I for one, know what this portal is, a portal to another world." The entire guild gasped then Makarov looked at the Mane 6 and Spike "And I presume that you must be the inhabitants of that world?" He asked "Yes, Makarov, or do you want to be called Master?" Twilight asked "Well, you're not a member of my guild." Makarov replied blushing "Besides, don't you have a Princess you follow?" Panther asked "Sure! We are always loyal to the princess, but that doesn't mean we would change our attitude when meeting new people!" Rainbow Dash explained while flying in the air. "Hey! You can fly!" Happy exclaimed "I know! I'm the fastest flyer in my world!!! I'm wonder if anyone's faster than me because I doubt it!!!' Rainbow Dash boasted back "Oh I wouldn't be so sure..." Jet grinned "I may not fly, but I can run extremely fast you know!" "Is this a challenge I'm hearing?" Rainbow Dash taunted "You're on!" Jet agreed. "Oh! Just so you know, Panther, Carla and I are the only ones that have wings." Happy added, Rainbow Dash just froze "Y...You mean, everyone's a unicorn?" Rainbow fearfully asked "Yep!" Natsu gleefully answered "NO!!!!" Rainbow Dash plopped to the ground and started fake crying. "WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!" "Oh! Don't worry!" Lisanna cheered "I can acquire wings with my magic so I can fly against you if you want to. I may not be fast, but at least I could give a challenge for you!" "Yeah! Besides, I wanna race too!" Happy joined in "I may prefer fighting, but I use flying for my battle plan, racing against you may help." Panther agreed "Not interested. Count me out." Carla scoffed "See? We may not fly, but it we would always help one another. Even if its for their boredom!" Lisanna concluded and Rainbow Dash beamed "THERE IS NO TIME FOR THAT!!!!!" Makarov yelled, "We have a job to do together! A big job at that!" Everyone fell silent "Our mission, Porlyusica sent me a letter that a hoard of ponies have been let loose through the portal." Makarov briefed "Not purposely" Levy replied "Some of us read Twilight's letter from her princess." "But everyone in Fiore has turned into ponies! Its going to be hard to tell who's from where!" Gray complained "And that's why its a big mission!" Makarov stated "Umm... About pony catching, I can help with that. My princess has sent me the databases of all the ponies who has gone missing." Twilight piped up "I can tag them using my magic without them knowing, but I can't pinpoint them on where they are." "We'll be sure as glad to help you on rounding up the ponies from our world!" Applejack added "In that case, I think our work has gone a lot more easier! Thanks for helping us out." Makarov thanked joyously. "Now, we are going to split into teams of three!!! You must go around Magnolia and work together to find as many ponies as you can! I have already chosen out all the teams! Once you rounded up some ponies, we will keep them in the Guild and send them all back together! I've built some stables just for this occasion!" Makarov informed "Alright." Erza announced "Here are the teams of three where you will be put together, courtesy of Mirajane and Gildarts. Now that our 6 pony friends have decided to join us, I have assigned each of them to a different team. They will support you as long as you support them as well. Now, the first team..." "Alright! I'm all fired up!!!!!" Natsu growled as he set himself on fire again while Erza announced on who is teaming up with who. "Now, for some significant members, the Rajin Tribe will go together as usual, but Rarity will be joining you." "Oh Yes!!!!" Bickslow said with glee "We get a pony!!!!" as Rarity trotted with them "I'm looking forward to see how you fare." Freed said "I'll do my best!!!!" Rarity guaranteed "You always look your best. That I know." Evergreen chuckled "Let's hope we can find your sister! No matter how annoying she is." "The same to you um... Evergreen was it? You look your best as well! But, how do you know I have a younger sister?" Rarity exclaimed "I watch your show." Evergreen said cunningly "Gray, Juvia, Cana, you will be teaming up with Rainbow Dash here." Erza said and Rainbow Dash flew up to the three "I am so psyched to team up with you! Bet I can find these ponies before you do!" "Calm down Dashie." Gray said "We've yet to exit the guild hall." "Mirajane, Gildarts and I will be taking Applejack with us" Erza said. Applejack tipped her hat to the three "Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel. You three shall have Pinkie Pie." Erza said and Pinkie Pie jumped up at them "Oh my! I'm so excited! Are you excited! I'm actually Nervicited!" Pinkie Pie rambled "Nervicited? That's a new word." Wendy chuckled "Let's hope your strength is as good as Iron!" Gajeel said laughing. "Aww... I'm not with Natsu?" Both Lisanna and Lucy softly spoke but they heard one another and gave each other a glare before looking away. Erza then looked on to the list "Elfman, Wakaba and Macao. The pegasus known as Fluttershy will be with you." The three men went to look for the yellow pony but she was hiding behind Twilight making the same squealing sound when Fluttershy first met Twilight. "Don't worry, those three people are tough. They'll protect you!" Twilight encouraged so Fluttershy walked up to them "Trust me" Macao cheered "I'll protect you!" "No Macao, I'll protect her!" Wakaba butted in "NO!!!!" Elfman roared and stood close to Fluttershy scaring her. "Hey Elfman!" Macao said "You're scaring her now!" Ignoring the two, Elfman came face to Fluttershy "Don't worry little one, I'll make a stallion out of you!!! I promise!" "Y-you promise?" Fluttershy mumbled fearfully "A stallion will always keep his promise!" Elman said. "Finally Twilight, you will be journeying with the triple Ls" Erza focused on Twilight "The Ls?" Twilight asked "They are diligent members of the guild and I've had the honours of travelling with one of them, their names also start with the letter L hence the Triple Ls. They are Lucy, Levy and Lisanna." "WHAT!?!?!?!?" Lucy and Lisanna said together. "Right, these are all your teams! Any team can join up with other teams to accomplish tasks. Remember, the more people work together, you can overcome anything!" Erza noted "But before this mission can begin!!!" Makarov instructed "We need to know our targets! That's why..." "So what are we going to do Master?" Gajeel said "Let's watch some My Little Pony!!!" Makarov exclaimed "WHAT!?!?!?!?!?" The Guild yelled in horror "And I will make sure everyone attends!" Erza addressed materialising two levitating swords "It is imperative to know who and what we are actually catching!" "Oh great. Now we have to watch the pony show?" Lucy grumbled only for a sharp claw grabbing Lucy's flank for an answer. It was Lisanna in her Tigress form: Just a pony with features of a tiger. "Oh you'll won't be disappointed, It will be a good show. I guarantee it." Lisanna whispered "O..Ok." Lucy replied and Lisanna let go. "Ok then! As for you ponies, you don't have to watch with us." Gildarts assured "Okay then! I was thinking of buying a book and reading about the history of this land!" Twilight exclaimed "Egghead..." Rainbow Dash snickered softly "Well then? Shall we go???" Pinkie Pie said "What are we waiting for? We've got a new world to explore!" Fluttershy piped up as loud as she could (which isn't that loud) "Yeehaw!!!!" AppleJack said in agreement and the Mane 6 and Spike headed off.