//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Strange New World // by moltendaniel //------------------------------// everything here is copied and pasted from microsoft word so it may look bad. sorry “bluegh! Hey Twilight you have a letter from the princess!” spike shouted to twilight after being disturbed whilst re-shelving books after twilight had an all night reading binge. Twilight began to read it and half way through spike started to notice a frown gradually appearing on her face. “Twilight, what’s wrong?” Spike said trying not to look worried. “Spike, we need to get everyone together and head to the Everfree Forest immediately. Princess Celestia said that there was a massive explosion of magic near the old castle ruins and she wants us to check it out” Said twilight whilst trying to keep a brave face. - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 minutes later Twilight and Spike arrived at the castle ruins along with Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash right behind them. “a’h don’t think we should be running roun’ here guys, something don’t sit quite right wit’ me” exclaimed Applejack to the rest of the group. “Don’t worry AJ if anything happens then Twi here can teleport us away to safety so there’s nothing to worry about” said a confident Rainbow Dash flying just above the group. “Rainbow, you know as well as the rest of us that whilst Twilight may be a very talented unicorn she is still unable to perform such a powerful spell. No offence Twilight darling” said Rarity whilst trying not to panic at the amount of dirt and Celestia knows what else that lay on the floor around her. “Don’t worry rarity. I know you didn’t mean to offend me but I do have a bit of a confession to make…I can teleport us all back to safety if anything were to happen. I’ve been practicing a lot and can safely say I can teleport 9 at once in case of emergency” said twilight blushing immensely as she didn’t like to show off her extraordinary magical ability. Everyone excluding Twilight and spike stood there with their mouths agape at the sudden revelation from they just heard. “well darling I-I had no idea you were that strong” said rarity being the first of the group to speak. “yeh Twi I had no idea that you were so stro….” Rainbow exclaimed before stopping at the sight of what appeared to be a massive black circle in the middle of a clearing before exclaiming “hey what the hay is that!”. Everyone turned to see the new discovery and all but twilight looked at it wondering what could have caused it whilst twilight stood there with her mouth agape this time instead of the rest of the group. “it-it…this is impossible” exclaimed twilight looking on in disbelief of what was in front of her. “whatever do you mean darling” asked Rarity who was about to continue before being cut off by the rest of the group asking the same kind of questions as to why what was not possible until twilight finally calmed them down enough so she could speak. “the reason why I said this wasn’t possible is because this is the exit location of a very VERY powerful teleportation spell. The scorch marks on the floor and the remains of magic in the air which shouldn’t be possible as the amount of magic that was left after the spell would disappear quickly, but with the amount of magic I can feel still here is the same amount of magic I would use to teleport all of us back to the library. Now with that amount of magic usage the amount remaining would disappear in 5 minutes yet it took us 20 minutes or so to get here since the explosion happened so by all means this shouldn’t be possible” said twilight whilst trying to dumb it down so the other could understand. All of them except pinkie pie and rainbow dash had just looked at twilight with their mouths agape yet again trying to think of something to say while pinkie looked like she didn’t understand and rainbow looked incredibly bored. Twilight was about to speak again until she noticed small hoof prints that looked like they belonged to a small filly leaving the centre of the black circle and noticed a trail of blood going in the same direction. As she was about to tell everyone a horrible sound was heard. It was the deafening roar of a manticore and twilight knew it came from the direction that the hoof prints were heading. She immediately started galloping to the direction the roar came from. Whilst on the way she explained to the others what she saw and that she thought the manticore’s roar must have been from finding its next meal. All of them gasped and applejack and rainbow dash both got a stern look on their faces as the both raced off leaving the others behind to potentially save an injured filly from the jaws of death. As twilight and the rest neared the location of the roar they heard another roar and the sounds of rainbow dash and applejack fighting off the manticore. Just as they arrived they noticed the manticore running off into the bushes which was a huge shock, but not as much as the one they were about to receive. “Guys I can’t believe you beat a manticore just like that and made it run away, how did you do i….” twilight was cut short when she noticed both of them standing next to each other staring down at something. They all walked over to them and then the shock hit them. Lying on the floor was an injured, badly bleeding little colt that looked barely 5 years old. The poor colt had a very dark purple coat with a black mane and tail with a few highlights of blue in his mane and tail that looked like it almost blended perfectly with his dark mane. ‘He looks like the midnight sky’ thought twilight then looking at his injuries. His wings looked tattered and most probably fractured and his head has a massive injury which was bleeding quite badly as she could see the blood run down his face and horn……”wait, horn! He has wings and a horn!” exclaimed twilight in pure shock. “That don’t matter right now twilight we need to get him some help as soon as possible” said Fluttershy in a panicked voice. Twilight immediately knew what to do and had only enough time to tell her friends “hold your stomachs everyone as this may make you sick” she shouted as she started charging her magic. “What do ya mean twi….”applejack was cut off as all of them were teleported from that dreadful forest and outside of the Ponyville hospital. - - - - - - - - - - - - The sound of thunder outside and the sounds of some ponies throwing up were heard from inside the hospital by a few nurses. Curious they all ran outside to see 7 ponies and a dragon with scorch marks on some of them and a small black circle around them. They looked like they had been burnt slightly but were all fine, all except the little colt that was on the floor unconscious and bleeding badly and battered like he had been mauled by something big. One of the nurses immediately ran back inside the hospital to fetch a gurney to pick up the little foal and get him immediate surgery that was surely needed. “gosh darn it twi, warn us the next time ya gunna do something like tha’!” exclaimed a weary applejack as she picked herself off the ground and immediately turned to check on the little foal. Just as she was about to open her mouth to speak the nurse who had ran inside started rushing out with a few other nurses and a doctor. They carefully picked up the small and now shaking foal and rushed him straight into surgery where they remained for 3 hours. As they waited twilight and the rest of the group had time to recover from the teleport and tell nurse redheart exactly what happened from the moment twilight received the letter to the instant she teleported them all. Spike had even sent a letter to princess Celestia on request of twilight about what happened. No more than 5 minutes passed until the small dragon burped and immediately a letter appeared addressed from the princess informing them that she would be there to see them all and help with healing the alicorn that they had found in the Everfree Forest. 10 minutes later Princess Celestia and Princess Luna arrived to see them all. The moment they walked in twilight rushed over to her mentor and gave her a smile. “Twilight my dearest pupil, I am very proud of you. You managed to teleport from all the way in the Everfree Forest to the Ponyville hospital and not only that, you teleported all your friends with you as well” Celestia said with a smile on her face. “Thank you princess, I don’t think I could have done it except from a few weeks ago my magic started to get a lot stronger so I had been practicing more difficult spells and tried modifying other spells. But I can’t accept your praise as I messed up the teleport spell” exclaimed twilight looking a little down trodden. “Whatever do you mean darling, you teleported us out of that wretched place and managed to get that little foal to the hospital to save his life and we were only a little sick because of it. My pride as a lady may have been hurt slightly because of that but you managed to help save somepony’s life” said rarity whilst trying to cheer up her dear friend. “That’s just it rarity, you shouldn’t have been sick, I don’t know how but I managed to put in a little too much power into that spell which is what made us all ill and singe our manes slightly” said twilight again dumbing it down so that everyone could understand. “That does not matter now Twilight Sparkle, please show us to where the youngling is so we can help with his recovery” asked Princess Celestia with a smile still plastered on her face. Twilight showed both the princesses to the entrance of the surgery room and waited outside for them to return. A little more than 2 hours of constant worrying and pacing back and forth later the princesses along with all the doctors and nurses left the surgery room looking happy knowing that they had saved a young foals life. The head doctor had walked up to twilight and had told her that the colt could be taken home but he needed a lot of rest. So twilight decided to house the colt until they could find out who he was, who his family is, and how they can contact his family. The mane 6 along with Spike princess Celestia and Luna all head towards the library with twilight floating the little colt just to her left and looking constantly at the foal like a mother would normally.