Kuzan sighed as he idly torn some grass from the ground and threw them to the wind. It was late in the morning when they finally reached the end of the forest and on the outskirts of some town. Unfortunately Trixie insisted that he stayed behind because, if he understood her correctly, Kuzan's appearance might cause a panic.
She also asked to borrow his trench cloak for some reason. Unfortunately Trixie kept tripping over it whenever she walked move than a couple feet...or would it be hooves for her?
The former Admiral leaned back and watched the clouds be moved around by pegasi, eyes closing behind the glasses he wore.
'Eh I need to catch up on my sleep anyways.' With that in mind, Kuzan fell into a deep slumber in seconds complete with a bubble coming out of his nose.
'Head down, avoid eye contact and just look for where Twilight Sparkle could be,' Trixie thought as she walked through Ponyville, the site of where all her bad luck began. The showmare cursed when she nearly tripped over the cloak again. 'This thing might be useful for hiding Trixie's identify but its a pain in the flank to walk with!'
The only reason why Trixie was because Kuzan asked her to and considering that he saved her life, she really couldn't say no. From what little words she understood, Kuzan wanted to return to a 'Grand Line' and required a log to do so... She assumed it wasn't the kind of log she was thinking otherwise that problem would have been solved long ago.
Deciding that it would take too long to look for Twilight's home, Trixie asked a random pony, making sure to disguise her voice. "Excuse me but do you know where a Ms. Twilight Sparkle lives?"
The pony, a stallion with an hourglass cutiemark, smiled at her. "Why yes! She lives in the treehouse just down the block and around the corner. Careful though, last I heard is that Twilight was doing an experiment so she might not want any visitors."
"I'm sure she'll make an exception for Tr- I mean me," Trixie mentally hit herself for nearly exposing herself. "Thank you Mr?"
"Oh just the Doctor will do," The stallion gave her a polite nod and went along his way. "I wish you lucky in the future Ms. Trixie because you're going to play a big part in it."
Trixie said a goodbye to him and followed his directions, glad to see that her disguise wor- Wait a minute... How did he know her name and what did he mean by 'playing a big part in the future'?
The former showmare looked down the road she just took and didn't see any sign of the Doctor. Trixie shook her head, mumbling under her breath. "What a weird town."
"Well that experiment was a failure," Spike commented as he and Twilight walked out from the basement, both completely soaked. "You know, exactly what were you trying to do Twilight, other than give the two of us a second morning bath?"
Twilight casted a quick spell to dry the two of them off. "I told you Spike, I was trying to replicate the storm that Everfree had a few days ago. What was supposed to happen was a small easy to control storm that I could study."
"Which somehow turned the basement into a swimming pool," Spike smacked his lips, frowning at the salty taste left in his mouth, and made his way into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. "Why couldn't you just ask Rainbow Dash or a pegsai for help?"
"I tried but appentantly the storm affected all the clouds in the nearby area, making them just like Everfree's clouds. From what I got out of Rainbow Dash, all available Pegsai were called to Cloudsdale to help move all the new clouds into place; even Fluttershy got called to help." Twilight sighed in disappointment. First all her friends had to cancel the picnic due to various reasons and now her excitement at figuring out what kind of storm the Everfree had made resulted in the flooding of her basement.
It was lucky that Twilight moved everything out before beginning her experiment but it didn't change the fact that they just gotten a salty bath.
The two of them heard knocking from the front door, making the librarian smile. 'Maybe helping somepony find a good book will brighten my day.' Walking over to the door, she pulled it open and happily greeted whomever it was.
"Welcome to Golden Oak Library! How may I help you?" A very familiar face greeted her making Twilight gasped in surprise. "Trixie! What-" A hoof found itself in her mouth as Trixie leaned in and whispered.
"Trixie will explain why she's here once we're inside," Quickly moving into the library Trixie removed her hoof, idly wiping it on the floor. "Now you may be wondering why Trixie decided to return but first I require your help."
"My help?" Last time she saw the showmare, she was sure that Trixie would rather eat her own hoof than accept her help. "Why do you need my help?"
The blue unicorn thought about it for a second before she spoke. "Well you see Trixie has this friend that requires a *sigh* log."
"..." Twilight just stared at Trixie for a full ten seconds, her expression filled with surprise and disbelief. "So a friend asked you to find me and request for a log?"
Trixie rolled her eyes at her, annoyance clear as day on her face. "He didn't ask to find you, Trixie just assumed that you might know what he was talking about. Just allow Trixie explain everything a bit more-"
"Hey Twilight who was at the door?" Spike came out of the kitchen wearing his usual apron and his eyes widen when he saw Trixie. "I know you! You're that crazy showmare that led the Ursa Minor into town!"
"If Trixie recalls correctly then it was two foolish colts that led that Ursa Minor into town, not Trixie. Another thing is that Trixie isn't crazy!"
"Well its still partly your fault for bragging to everypony so," The young dragon tried his best to look imtimidating but with the apron on, it was like saying a parasprite looked scary. "What are you doing here?"
"Apparently to ask me for a log as a favor for a friend," Twilight said still in disbelief at Trixie's request, making Spike suddenly laugh and Trixie glare at her.
Spike wiped a tear from his eye, still chuckling from the unexpected answer. "You came to a library to ask for a log? It may be a tree and all but-"
"Let Trixie explain!" She yelled, stomping her hooves in frusation. "First is that Trixie's friend speaks in another language and while it's similar to Equestian, there are some words he simply cannot sound out."
Twilight brought a hoof to her chin in thought. "What race is your friend then? Maybe I could cast a translation spell to help him learn our language faster."
Despite popular belief, there was no such thing as a true translation spell due to many different factors involved. One was anatomy problems as certain races simply couldn't pronounce some words in other languages and another was miscommuncation like a pony saying what they think is a compliment but is actually an insult. The only reason why translation spells were called such was because they helped one learn another language much faster than normal. A griffon that never spoke Equestran before could learn how to do so in the span of three months through usage of the spell and constant practice.
Trixie opened her mouth to respond only for sudden realization to dawn on her face. "Trixie just realized that Trixie doesn't know what exactly is he," She scratched her head in embarrassment, a sheepishly smile on her face. "Trixie can't really describe him much except that he's bipedal, always wears clothes and tall enough to make minotaurs look short. Maybe Trixie should take you to meet him instead."
Twilight nodded her head, summoning her saddlebags and packed a few books on different races of Equis in them along with a couple bits. "That would be better. Come on Spike, I'll just buy breakfast for us." However, just before they left the library, the trio felt the whole tree shake. "What the-"
CRASH!
"TWILIGHT!" Bulk Biceps yelled, brushing off splinters of wood and ran up to the startled unicorn, a hole perfectly in his shape made from his sudden appearance. "We need your help outside of Ponyville!"
"D-did you just run through my wall!? Why didn't you just use the door!?"
"No time to explain! We got to hurry!" Without warning, he suddenly grabbed the mare, placed her on his back, and ran back outside. Unfortunately he did the last part by crashing through another wall, making a second hole. Trixie and Spike shared at startled glance before running after the muscular pegasi.
Meanwhile with Twilight, she was currently holding onto Bulk Biceps' thick neck to prevent herself from falling and yelling into his ear. "Why do you need my help? And why did you run through my walls twice!?"
"I don't know all the detail but- YEAH!" The white pegasi plowed through as he made a turn. "Appentantly Fluttershy might have killed some sort of rare creature!"
"WHAT!" The volume was enough to make him flinch and nearly trumble but Bulk managed to keep running. "Fluttershy?! As in 'couldn't even bring herself to kill a weed' Fluttershy?! How did she of all ponies managed to kill something?!"
"I don't know! I just came to see why was everypony screaming about then Dash told me to get you to see if you could help!" The two were now outside of Ponyville and approaching the outskirts of Everfree. Thanks to the amount of pegasi flying toward one spot, Twilight quickly teleported and appeared right in the middle of the group.
She had to hold back the urge to vomit.
The creature that Fluttershy 'killed' had it's upper and lower body completely separated, the despression of a tree trunk in between the two parts. It's long limbs were spread out and it's head gazed upwards toward some dark storm clouds. Many pegasi were shouting at each other at what to do ranging from 'stitching it back together' to 'getting it to the hospital.' Not to far away, Fluttershy was crying into Rainbow Dash's shoulder, her cries of sorrow enough to make Twilight tear up just from listening.
Dash met her friend's eyes and waved her over. "About time you're here Twilight! Listen, I have no idea how really good you are at magic but can you put this thing back together!?" She motioned toward Fluttershy who was crying hysterically and showed no shows of stopping. "I keep telling Fluttershy that it wasn't her fault and that she couldn't have noticed the creature there when she accidently kicked the storm cloud and made it shoot out lightning. But she keeps blaming herself!"
"ITS ALL MY FAULT!" The pink maned pony sobbed. "I'M A HORRIBLE MURDERDER!"
"No you're not Fluttershy!" Dash looked at Twilight and mouthed. 'Please try!'
Twilight swallowed the lump in her throat and looked at the bisected creature. She had study medical magic before but Twilight doubted that she could put a bisected being back together. Then she heard Fluttershy cry even harder, if it was even possible, and the purple unicorn steeled her nerves.
She was Princess Celestia's student damn it! And if there was a chance to even save this creature then she would give it her all!
"Give me some room!" Twilight yelled over the crowd and they obeyed, all watching nervously as she got close to it. Twilight mentally went over everything she ever read about medical magic, anatomy, and everything else even remotely related to putting something together and gathered her magic.
The crowd watched in awe as Twilight whole body glowed with magical energy, all of it focusing on her horn. Even the Everfree Forest was silent. She opened her eyes, pure white from power, and spoke.
"I need absolute silence and no surprises of any kind," Everypony, even Fluttershy who finally managed to stop crying, nodded their heads. "Okay I'm going to start now-"
The creature's upper body suddenly shot up, startling Twilight so much that she shot all the energy she gathered right into the sky.
"Mommy whats that?" Ditzy looked where her daughter Dinky was pointing and saw a pillar of light shoot into the sky.
"I think Twilight is just practicing some magic."
"Oh okay." The mother and daughter duo went back to enjoying thei time together riding the rides of Manehattan's summer carnival, completely free thanks to Cloudale paying for everything. Ditzy had to hide a smirk, remembering how desperate those head pegasi were to get rid of her.
'Who said that being a flying disaster was all bad.'
Kuzan had no idea what was going on. One moment he was having a good dream about sleeping on a beach and the next, he woke up to see bunch of brightly colored ponies surrounding him. All of them, especially the purple one, were giving him looks of shock and horror.
He yawned and scratched his head, wondering why they were... Oh thats why they were staring at him. He gotten bisected in his sleep...again.
As his lower body reformed, Kuzan waved to them and said, "Arara. Don't worry, this happens a lot whenever I sleep. Now," Lower body fully formed, he stood up and towered over them . "Do any of you sell Log Poses? Preferably New World ones."
And that is when the screaming started.