Spellbooks, Dating and Why Humans don't like the Arcane

by Emerald Oracle


What Has Magic DONE!!!

Twilight was enjoying a cup of tea with her mentor, good friend and now equal, Princess Celestia. Having just returned from her foray into the human world to retrieve her crown (and meet a boy) she was glad to finally relax and not have to worry about another disaster or catastrophe. Right now they were both sitting silently on a veranda, enjoying the magnificent view that only building a palace on the side of a mountain can give. It was calm, serene and nary a sound except the chirping of birds. This is peace, Twilight thought.

"So, did you two make out?" Celestia asked innocently before taking another sip, never opening her light magenta eyes.

Twilight's mouthful of tea was reduced to mist and she sputtered into a incoherent mess as she tried to process what her teacher just said. She began to babble out half-words and frustrated noises as she attempted to answer without embarrassing herself. She was failing, miserably. And she knew it.

"Calm down Twilight, I was only joking." Celestia said with an amused lilt to her voice. "Your relationships with beings of other dimensions do not concern me. You may love whomever you wish."

Once Twilight calmed down she spoke, "Please don't do that, Princess! You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Oh, Twilight." Celestia adopted an apologetic tone, "I am sorry if my little joke caused you any genuine distress. You must admit that becoming attracted to a man from a world so unlike our own to be a little amusing. The mirth is doubled when you find that the man in question also has a doppelganger, a certain guard who is not yet aware that he has won the heart of a newly crowned Princess." After Celestia's monologue she gave a quiet, lilting chuckle in response to Twilight's frustrated and embarrassed fuming.

"Princess-"

"Please, Twilight, I've told you to drop the title. We are equals now, there is no need for it."

"Alright, Prin-I mean, Celestia." Twilight giggled a little before continuing, "To answer your question, no we never kissed. I don't regret it either, it would never have worked. But now..."

"Now?" Celestia said, leaning in, obviously invested in the conversation's topic. This was something Celestia had wanted to have happen for years. Over the years she found romance novels to be poor representatives of the real thing. She honestly envied her counterpart for witnessing Twilight's first crush.

Twilight, however, was in a dilemma. After discovering that she can have a relationship with Flash Sentry she quickly realized the one problem, her Flash didn't know anything. She had developed feelings for another, psychologically identical him. It was still him in essence, but one that didn't see anything beyond the princess he was in charge of.

"Celestia, I need your help..." Twilight said, shyly rubbing her foreleg with a hoof.

"Yes?" Celestia inquired. Was this it, she thought, was she finally going to ask?

"I-" She never got further than that, because Shining Armor teleported onto the veranda, breathless.

"Princess Celestia! An unknown creature has infiltrated the castle grounds! We have it apprehended and locked away in a holding cell, but are unsure of how to approach."

Celestia and Twilight shared worried looks. The last time a 'creature' had been seen in Canterlot, it had been followed by the changeling invasion. This new being had infiltrated Canterlot Castle grounds.

"Twilight and I will head to the holding cells immediately, attend to it until we arrive. Has Luna been informed of this?"

"Yes, your highness."

"Then prepare the creature for questioning. Thank you, Shining Armor."

"Of course your highness," Shining turned to his sister, "See you Twily." And teleported off.

"So Twilight, shall we see what threat to the nation it is today?" Celestia said with a straight face.

"After you."


This is your own fault. You should have finished the circle before running off to watch your silly show.

"MLP is not silly! Besides it's a fictional story, how can we be here if ti doesn't really exist! It doesn't make sense!"

Kenny was currently sitting on a simple chair in a simple, but not wholly unpleasant, room. Nothing but white-washed concrete walls and a table. After landing in a rose bush when the portal ejected them, Kenny had strolled around for about five minutes before the guard had found, tackled, tied, and thrown him into this room. It had happened so fast he almost couldn't believe it. In fact he still didn't.

There are literally an infinite amount of dimensions, one of them was bound to contain a real version of this show. Your mind guided us here.

"Well then pull up the circle again and we can go home, I've been here for less than an hour and already I've been jailed. I've had enough MLP for today."

No, you deserve this for not listening to me. You're gonna stay here until I decide you have had enough. Then we go home.

"What come on! Let's talk about this." Kenny flipped through the pages, but no more script revealed itself. Kenny realized he was getting the silent treatment. From a book. "At least teach me something to get out of here. If this place is anything like the last, unicorns and pegasi roam the earth. Wouldn't the little magic book want to see?"

Kenny gave it a minute before turning the page, ...Fine... I'll teach you one of the most useful of all spells in situations like these.


"Is he ready?" Celestia asked the guard.

"Yes, your highness." Replied the guard in the classic, even tone with as much emotion as Tom the boulder.

"Ahh, good. Sister, you're here." Luna came walking down the hall behind them. They were all gathered around the holding cell's door. With Princess Luna having arrived they could begin to question the creature.

"Am I the only one bothered that no one knows what got in here?" Twilight suddenly said out of the blue. "It could be a brand new species! Do we even know it can communicate? It could have come for diplomatic reasons, and we assaulted it and threw it in a cell!"

"To be fair, the guards did the assaulting and tackling." Luna cut in.

"Hush, Sister." Celestia silenced Luna, "We understand your concerns, Twilight, but the changeling invasion proved there is a possibility that this creature could be hostile. Better that Equestria is safe, and that we are left sorry."

Celestia moved to open the door when a shout radiated from behind.

IGNIS!!

"GET DOWN" The guard tackled Celestia to the ground as the door was blown open by a fireball.

Faintly through the smoke, a tall, dark silhouette ran out the door and down the hall, away from the ponies.

"STOP YOU PROPERTY DESTROYING HEATHEN!!!!!" Luna's Canterlot Voice shook the halls and in no way convinced Kenny from stopping his mad dash. Upon seeing this Luna teleported down the hall. Celestia had risen and Twilight was at her side.

"Princess! Are you alright?" Twilight asked, trying her best not to freak out.

"I am fine Twilight." Celestia assured her, "We must hurry, I fear for my Sister."

Twilight gasped in shock, "You're right! She chased after that thing! What will it do to her!"

"You misunderstand, Twilight. I fear what my Sister will do to it."


"That was not the brightest idea." Kenny muttered as he dashed down the halls of Canterlot. He had planned for the spell to burn away at the lock and he would quietly slip out. Instead he had reduced the entire door into flaming splinters.

In front of all three sovereign rulers of said castle.

Fuck, was all Kenny could come up with on the spot.

He turned a corner and mashed his face directly into Luna's, pretty much accidentally giving her the roughest, and shortest, kiss in the known universe. Their teeth clashed, their lips were both lightly bruised, and Luna was left in a stupor. Kenny did nothing more than wipe his lips and run past her, thanking his god that she was too surprised to pursue.

And so Kenny ran. He kept running down hall after hall in search of a way out. Soon he was too tired to run anymore and he opened a random door and quickly stepped in the room. He closed the door and leaned against. He slid into a sitting position on the floor, taking deep, heavy breaths.

"Is someone there?" An accented voice called. The voice was followed by the one and only Prince Blueblood. He took one look at Kenny and was almost about to shriek when Kenny leapt on him. Kenny forced Blueblood on his back and shut his muzzle with one hand and covering his mouth with the other. He sat on Blue blood's belly to stop him from squirming.

"If you make another noise I will burn that pretty mane of yours into cinders got it?" Kenny said in the most threatening voice he could muster. It was then, as he sat hunched over Blueblood, that Kenny realized the little part of ponies. Blueblood was only four and a half feet from hoof to crown, a full foot and half shorter than him. He was really tall in the MLP world, possibly even beating Celestia in height.

Kenny turned his attention back to Blueblood. "I'm going to leave now, if you do anything to alert the guards I will come back, and you can say goodbye to your coat." He warned. Blueblood gave a curt nod. Kenny let him go and watched Blueblood dash to the bathroom again. Kenny went to leave, hoping that he had convinced Blueblood to keep shut. Just as he was about to exit, Kenny heard the sound of cascading water and he knew Blueblood had been dealt with. At least for a time.

Kenny carefully peeked out the door for any guards and when the coast was clear he rushed down the hallway.

Kenny weaved through the castle again, avoiding the guards as he went, until he came upon a large set of double doors. Thinking this a possible way out, or at least a decent place to hide, he quickly dashed in.

Into a conference room that is.

With all three Princesses.

Twilight gave a sharp gasp, a shocked look on her features.

Luna's face seemed stuck between ecstasy and fury.

Celestia only said one thing,

"Speak of Discord..."

Discord's head peeked around the door frame

"Someone say my name?"