Jonas had been asleep in a bed of foliage in the shade of the Lorianne forest, which was near a small town he called home. Home being wherever he could interact with a group of people without being shunned. It wasn't an easy life for Jonas, having been a bearer of the Kazan curse since the final days of the black crusade, which for Jonas, had been about the time of his eighth birthday. 20 long years of nightmares followed his story and his person. And it's not like its easy to hide the mark of the Kazan curse, it literally engulfed his left hand to the point that his entire arm looked more like the arm of a demon. It hindered the movements of his demonized hand and burned ferociously at times. Thankfully, his curse had been held at bay by a pair of shackles with runes inscribed on them, it wasn't very pretty, but it beat turning into a demon.
This handicap that Jonas had had turned into an advantage. Power still leaked from his arm, spreading to the rest of his body. he learned to control the flow into the arm he could fully control. It gave him an almost super human strength, allowing him to wield even a zanbato in a single hand.
A flash of light and a loud sound of shattering glass woke him from his slumber, and not a moment too soon. Goblins had snuck up on him in his sleep.
"Hehe, I could always use a sparring partner." snickered Jonas.
Jonas reached up to the tree above him and tore a branch down.
"This will work nicely." Jonas had said in a menacing tone.
"C'mere goblins!"
Twilight woke up first. Her gaze looked around to see her friends asleep around her in some sort of open meadow. It was too bright to be the Everfree forest, unless she happened upon an opening in the trees that she was unaware of. Taking one last look around, she realized she had never seen trees like this before. The scent had also been more refreshing than that of the Everfree forest, it wasn't damp and bitter, it was almost sweet and crisp, like a field of flowers.
"AHH!"
A sound shrieked out from some direction, instinctively, she decided to leave a small trail and went to check it out. She decided the more she knew , the less time they would need to spend worrying about it when the rest of her friends woke up.
"BLECH!"
Twilight's concern grew with her pace as she began to speed to the sound of the deathly screams.
"AGH!"
Twilight stopped just short of another break in the trees, there she saw a strange two legged creature mercilessly beating down a group of what she recognized as goblins, there had been quite a few mentions toward goblins in her books. Although scared, she couldn't help but be impressed at the strange creature's strength. One swing nearly tore a goblin in two. Twilight, being fully aware of goblins' naturally brutal nature, decided to help the strange creature. Her horn had begun to glow a powerful purple as she tripped a goblin approaching the creature's backside. Her horn began to glow again, this time a huge limb of a tree came collapsing down on to three more goblins right before the creature's eyes.
The creature had begun to notice the strange phenomenons that had turned the already one sided, or at least in the creature's mind, battle into a pure slaughter. It took a few more occasions until he noticed that there was a small glow coming from the side of a tree every time something strange happened.
The final goblin fell under the combined weight of a sixty-five pound rock and a bludgeon fashioned from a tree branch.
"Sonya, this telekinetic power is a bit odd for your style, I always figured you would just burn them down with one of your firebomb spells."
Twilight jumped at a combination of being discovered and learning the creature could speak Equestrian. She had to resist the urge to teleport away, mostly because she had no idea where she could teleport to.
"Sonya?" the voice grew closer and slightly inquisitive at the lack of response.
Twilight figured the only thing to do was inform the creature that she was not an enemy.
"Wait, please don't come any closer!" Twilight's voice sounded from behind the tree.
"Oh, you're not Sonya, or at least you certainly don't sound like her... Let me at least thank you for helping me out." the creature's somewhat gruff but mostly sensitive voice showed honest desire to show gratitude.
"So please come on out?"
Twilight obliged with the request and stepped out from behind the tree that was shielding her from his sight.
"Wait what... Sonya, is this some kind of joke!?" disbelief clouded the creature's eyes
"No, I'm the one that helped you, but I've never seen anything like you or this place so I'm going to make the assumption you aren't used to my kind either."
'A talking pony...' Jonas thought to himself, 'Well, there is Grubeck, and I know plenty of civilized monsters, the devolution did have some positive side effects...'
"I'm used to ponies, but you're the first one I've seen talk, or perform magic..."
The gears began to click in Twilight's head, "Ah... So I am nowhere near home then, great..."
An expression of confusion appeared on the creature's face, but it was quickly dispelled when the realization dawned upon him, this pony was homeless, if that was even possible for a pony.
"Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt but, if you're lost, why don't we take you to some shelter where you can rest up"
Twilight's ears perked up at the thought of seeing some society, maybe it might let her know where her relative position was.
"Alright, I guess that sounds like a plan Mr..."
"Jonas, just call me Jonas, and you?"
"Twilight Sparkle, but uh... just call me Twilight."
It was at this time Twilight had taken in the sight of the creature who towered over her. He had a muscular build, or what she figured was muscular for his species, he wore a white and blue vest with grey and white bagging cloth pants and shoes. His left foreleg, that he didn't walk on, which Twilight assumed was natural, was blood red and had shackles at the halfway points between joints. His other foreleg appeared to look less menacing, not having the distinct coloring or the claws at the end. Finally she took notice of the sword he had strapped to his side, it was an enormous square sword that looked as heavy as herself. Why he used the stick had confused her.
Jonas had also taken a quick second to examine the soft violet pony before him, he had never seen such a colorful horse before, let alone one that could talk.
"Ok, Twilight, I'll take you over to Elvenguard so we can clear some thing up. Seria loves to see new faces in town."
"Ok thank you Jonas, but we first need to go get my friends."
Jonas's face showed a confused look, 'More ponies?' he thought.
"Huh... I suppose its for the best, Lorianne forest isn't a safe place for people to just wander, ok take me to them, I'll guide them back safely."