//------------------------------// // Magic is magic // Story: My Little X Fairy Tail // by BlackJack23 //------------------------------// Zecora hid deeper into the bushes, for the two hydra in front of her where now close to killing each other. As she sat there watching the two monsters battle, she spared a thought to her friends and began to recall the conversation between her and Twilight earlier. "Come on Zecora everyone's going to be at the party, you have to come." "Sorry Twilight but I must say no, for the hydra migration is quite a show. As well as a chance to obtain, the rare ingredient hydra bane." "I understand it's important but, it would mean a lot to everyone if you where." "Very well, my persuasive friend, after I'm done, a party I shall attend." THUD!!!!! The smaller of the two fighting hydra hit the ground hard, causing Zecora to snap out of her day dream and back to the scene in front of here. Now the hydra was down all she needed was some of its blood, leaking from beneath its scales, and she would have enough to last her a thousand potions. She started to move out of her hiding place, towards the dying hydra, when she froze on the spot, she could sense something, something big and powerful, and not just the oversized hydra standing in front of her. No this was magic but, unlike any magic she had felt before, she turned in what she knew to be the direction of Ponyville. She could not believe what she saw, raining down from the sky, directly over Ponyville, was a glorious golden ray of light, she watched in awe as it went on for several seconds before coming to an end. Snapping out of the trance the light put her in, she looked round only to see that she was not the only one captivated by the light. The hydra that had been there had seen it and was now slowly walking towards where the light had been. Quickly seeing this, Zecora took to her hoofs and ran as fast as she could, she know this forest like the back of her hoof, but the hydra was big, her only hope was if she could reach town before it. "Ok, ok, I'm fine, just a little freaked," said Lucy as she got to her hoofs to stand with her friends. Needless to say she had freaked out the most, but then she had just become a pony, she guessed anyone would. After Natsu's screaming fit, the others began to wake up, all took the news of their new body's as a shock, even the normally cool headed Erza. As Twilight and her friends helped the four strange ponies to their hoofs, something became clear. Whatever or whoever they were, they certainly were not from this world. After the four where on their hoofs, and had stopped freaking out, they eventually told their story of who they where, where they came from and of fairy tail, and, once they where finished, Twilight proceeded to tell the four about Equestria and what they had become. "Hold on a sec here, the whole world is ruled by horses," said Natsu, puzzled by this idea. "Pony's..." Twilight said in a huf "...And yes, pretty much, and once Rarity gets back I'll show you what..." Twilight began, before being cut off by the arrival of Rarity and AppleJack carrying a large boutique mirror. "As requested twilight, a mirror, not my best but do be carful." "Will do Rarity, don't worry," Twilight said, rolling here eyes, as she levanted the mirror up allowing the four to get a look at their new bodies. Natsu was shocked, he had a fire orange coat that stood out with his pink spiky mane, he still had his black and gold trim waistcoat and scale patterned scarf, but what shocked him the most was, he had wings, large feathered wing, like the pony who helped him. Then he saw something, his sharp black eyes scanning the rest of his body, while he still had his fairy tail guild mark, in red on his right shoulder, he now had a image on his rear of a roaring red dragon breathing fire. Gray wasn't as surprised, his deep blue mane looked black against his snow white coat, he wore nothing, nothing new to him, but what his deep blue eyes where drawn to most, was the horn sticking out of his head. He then noticed that along with his guild mark, in black on his chest, he now had a a image of a eight pointed ice star on his flank. Lucy wouldn't dare look at first, but as she checked herself over she didn't mind her new look too much, her light blue coat complimented her blond mane, she was still wearing her white top and skirt, as well as her belt which still held her gate keys and whip. Looking at Gray and Natsu, brown eyes scanning them back and forth, then back to her, she noticed she didn't have wings or a horn she was just a regular pony, then looking at her flank and, along with her pink guild mark now on her hoof, she had the image of the night sky with a star constellation in the shape of a key. Finally when Erza's brown eyes met the image in the mirror her jaw nearly hit the floor, her crimson red mane looked almost like blood on her silver coat, she still wore her steel chest plate and now hoof adjusted gauntlets, but what took her and everypony by surprise was, out of her head grew a horn and tucked away between her armour's straps where a pair of wings. She looked at every pony there, only one, the lavender coloured pony called Twilight, had both wings and a horn, a fact everypony else seemed to notice quickly, taking one last look she saw, along with her mark in blue on her left fore leg, an image on her flank of a sword, with the guild mark on the hilt, with fairy wings coming off it. "How did you become an alicorn?" Twilight said puzzled as she looked at Erza's wings tucked behind the armour. Just then, a new scream could be heard, everypony looked to see a yellow and pink Pegasus staring in awe at the small, blue, winged animal standing right in front of her. "HAPPY!!!!!" Yelled Natsu, pushing past Fluttershy, overjoyed that his friend was ok, "how you doing little buddy, it's me Natsu." "Natsu?" said happy, a blank look across his face, then scrunching his face up he made a sound no pony expected. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!" He was nearly crying on the floor with laughter, his friend as a horse, that was too much. After his first laughing fit subsided he looked round to see other ponies like Natsu, but when he caught sight of Lucy, Gray and Erza he burst into laughter once more. "Ok... So your saying you all became horses," said happy, still giggling at the sight of his friends. "Pony's and yes, according to these pony's, I'm a Pegasus, Gray's a unicorn, Lucy's an earth pony and Erza's something called an alicorn," explained Natsu as happy looked him and the others over. "Wait, Pegasus have wings, if you have wings can you fly?" At this Natsu stretched out his wings, giving them some test flaps, a smile began to grow across his face. "NO WAY, THIS IS AWSOME!!!!!!!" He yelled getting only a few feet off the ground, before crashing down with a resounding thud. "Don't worry Natsu I'll teach you, no problem,"said happy with a more up beat tone of voice, however at this Twilight came over to talk to the four new arrivals. "Well all help you get use to your new bodies, but first I need to write a letter to princess Celes..." "Twilight, this Party has to cease, for some strange magic has drawn a beast." "Zecora?... Glad you could make it but errr party's over, wait, what was that about a beast" "THEIR IS A HYDRA HEADING TO PONYVILLE," yelled Twilight frantically grabbing Zecora and shaking her panicked. "Yyyyeeeesssss... As I said before, a magic light is bringing a hydra to your door," Zecora explained breaking Twilights grasp and addressing the group. As the zebra in front of them said this, the four new arrivals looked back at the mark scorched into the ground, putting it all together the group knew that they had something to do with the trouble befalling these ponies. However Natsu saw something he'd had to ask about, standing beside a frantic Twilight he tapped her shoulder causing her head to spin into his face. "Err... This hydra, four heads, orange scales, green eyes" "Yes, how did you..." She started but couldn't finish. Looking in the direction of Natsu's hoof they saw four horrible scaly heads rising above the tree line. "A HYDRA'S HERE EVERYPONY RUN!!!!!!!!," yelled a voice from the distance, causing everypony to grab whatever they had to hoof and run. Watching the scene of panicking ponies before her Twilight quickly grabbed her friends and made a plan. "Ok, so, if we get everypony into the mountains we can head for Canterlot and get the royal gard down here to drive the hydra out, if we move fast we can get everypony..." Just then the giant hydra's tail crashed through a house just as two ponies ran from it. "Twilight," said Erza standing beside the group, "we will hold the hydra off, hopefully long enough for you six to get every... Er... Pony out" "But you can bearly walk, you'll be eaten, just go, we will..." "Twilight, there is no time, we feel that us coming here has brought this on you, and so, we will help to correct it." At this Erza, Gray, Lucy, Natsu and Happy all stepped past them, dead set on fighting the hydra. Turning back Natsu gave twilight a goofy smile. "Don't worry horse face, we're Fairy Tail," said Natsu reassuringly, before Turing to Happy. "Ready little buddy? I'm gunna need a flying lesson" "Ey sir." Each member of the Fairy Tail guild chose a head and headed off to draw its attention. Natsu however ran forward with Happy, wings outstrached trying to get air born. "Come on Natsu, really flap hard, try to get more air under your wings." "I'm trying, dam this is harder than I thought." Flapping his wing as hard as he could Natsu began to feel the ground benth him dissapair only to be replaced by cool air, looking down Natsu saw himself rising higher and higher into the sky, feeling a overwhelming sence of joy, he hovered above in awe at the marvile of flight. "Hay look, I'm flying, I'm really flying." "That's it Natsu now let's get some turn practice, follow me," said Happy, banking right, getting Natsu to follow. After a short lived flying session they quickly got back to the task at hand, the hydra head that was bearing down on a number of terrified ponies. "Over here, you sorry excuse for a lizard." Yelled Natsu, hovering in front of the hydras face, giving it a swift kick causing its green eyes to focus purely on Natsu. Flying for their lives Natsu and happy weaved in and out through the building of ponyville, the hydra head swiftly closing in on them, but as the hydra head was within snapping distance of Natsu's tail, the flying duo quickly ducked through a tight ally, causing the hydra head to slam clean into the buildings. Coming to a hault a short way away they quickly caught their breath. "Dam, we lost it, best we go grab its atten......WAAAAAAAAAAA," yelled Natsu in a terrified panic, as the hydra head that had been chasing the came crashing through the wall they where leaning on. "NATSU!!!!!!!," yelled happy, as he was flung off away from him. "I'm coming little buddy, don't worry," Natsu quickly dived forward, grabbing happy before he hit the ground. "You ok pal." "Nat...su." "It ok, can you make to Twilight and the others." "I'll try, be carful Natsu." "It will take more than some lizard to take down this dragon," and with that he flue off, taking the hydra head with him, leaving the blue feline to make his way to the group of terrified ponies. Erza had quickly drawn the attention of her head, by throwing bricks and rubble from the destroyed building at it, now she was being chased by the monster down into an orchard. Quickly peering round over her shoulder she saw that the head was reeling back, ready to lunge forward and eat her whole. "Come on..." She said to herself, drawing on every bit of strength and concentration she had, "you've defeated monsters three times it's size, come on focus." But no matter how hard she focused, her magic would not come to her, no swords appeared, no new armour, just her powerless alicorn rump ready to feed the beast in front of her. The hydra head came flying towards her at a blinding speed, then out of sheer desperation, just before the hydra had her, she yelled at the top of her lungs "REQUIP!!!!!!!" As she said this her body became engulfed in a golden light, blinding the hydra and causing it to go crashing into the trees. As her old armour was stripped away her hew one quickly formed around her, as the light dispersed you could see she was now clad in plated armour, covering her chest was a large metal flower, along with a large billowing skirt with metal plating at the top. Her wings where now fully extended, clad in the same plated armour that made each feather look like a individual blade, as well as a wing-like headpiece that sat just behind her horn. Along with this she now held in a red glittery mist, a dozen long swords, all circling the air around her. The hydra head, pulling back out of the crushed bark and apples, quickly readied itself for another attack, however Erza was ready for it and as the hydra once again flue towards her, she swung her head forward causing the swords to fly right at the hydra spearing it in the mouth and neck causing it to reel back in pain. Seeing Erza use her magic, Happy couldn't help but smile, all the while Twilight looked shocked as they watched the hydras head run scared. "I should probably explain, Erza uses requip magic allowing her to change weapons, armour and outfits, even in the heat of battle, she's also got hundreds of armours and weapons at her disposal, so their no escaping her no matter what you use in a fight." Gray was struggling in his new body, had nearly tripped a few times and was now facing a real problem, he ran right into a dead end, the hydra head traveling right at him, leaving him no where to run. Just as he was about to accept his fate, the felt a power rising in his horn, a cold and tingling sensation filled his head, rather than his now nonexistent hands, until all he could do was point himself at the hydra and... "ICE MAKE BLOCK," he yelled, at this a cold beam of ice shot out creating a gigantic block of ice, giving the hydra no time to slow down, it crashed full speed into the ice. Clearly stunned by what just happened, the hydra began lifting its head up ready to take vengeance for that, however Gray had quickly recharged his horn and, facing towards the hydra, yelled. "ICE MAKE LANCE," sending out a wave of Icy spears cascading towards the hydra, catching the hydra in the neck causing it to reeled back and flee. "That's Gray for you, as an ice maker wizard he's able to make great structures and weapons from ice," said Happy to the six ponies watching in amazement at the powers these strange ponies posses. Lucy was in real danger, she had lured the hydras head into the middle of town, where it snaked around her cutting off any means of escape. Looming over her it slowly extended its head forward, ready to snap down on her new pony flesh. She fumbled around trying to grab whatever she could, then, flinging her head back, she grabbed one of her gate keys in her mouth, quickly realising which one it was she did here best to call on the spirit. "OPEN GATE OF THE GOLDEN BULL, TAURUS!!!!!!," She yelled as the ground beneath her began to crack and shake. "MOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!, did somebody call my name," said the ten foot tall, black and white, heavily muscular, cow man that came bursting out of the ground along side Lucy, wearing nothing but a loin cloth holding a terrifying golden battle axe, which was almost as big as he was. "Moooo, my miss Lucy, that new animal body of yours mooooooves me in a hole new way, ever though of trying a bovine body, moooooo," he said with a lusty look in his eyes, his jaw nearly on the floor. "Not now Taurus," said Lucy with a clear tone of annoyance, just then the hydras neck began to squeeze around them, ready to crush and eat them both. Seeing the danger Lucy was in Taurus quickly jumped into the air, spinning his axe round before grappling it in both hands swinging it down and imbedding it right into the beasts neck, causing it to cry and hiss in pain, at this the hydra uncoiled itself and fled, hissing the whole time. "Thank for your help Taurus," "How about a victory smooooooch..." And at that Taurus vanished in a flash of gold light. "W...who was that?" Fluttershy said fearfully, gripping Happy tighter in her hoves. Breaking free of Fluttershy's protective grasp, Happy made his way to the front of the small crowd that had gathered round. "Lucy's known as a celestial wizard, able to make contracts with celestial spirits, who she can call on in fights as well as to accomplish other tasks." He said before being sucked back into Fluttershy's embrace. Natsu stared down at the beast below him from his vantage point in the clouds, all four of the hydras heads where now back with its body, it quickly began to make its way towards the growing crowd of terrified ponies below. Looking down Natsu could see that three of the hydra heads all had cuts and slashes riddling their necks, yet one had nothing, he was mad his friends had found their magic and put up a fight and all he had done was get chased. Racing down towards the hydra he attempted to summon his magic, flying faster and faster, aiming right for its chest he yelled... "FIRE DRAGON..." that's as far as he got when one of the heads reeled back and smacked him sending him flying. Suddenly coming too midair, he looked down to see a orange glow racing towards him, it looked to be a bakery of some kind. He crashed down onto the remnants of the building landing right in the heart of a fire, the heat of the blaze surrounded him sending a rush through his body. "Oh man... These flames taste way too sweet," said Natsu breathing in the flames, much to the shock of everypony watching. "What is he," said Rainbow Dash stunned as she watch the orange stallion, standing on the rubble of what was once sugarcube corner, breathing in the fire surrounding him. "Natsu has dragon lungs so he can breath fire, dragon scales so he can absorbe fire, and dragon claws so he can attack with fire," Happy said, addressing the whole town who was now watching the events unfold, "this type of magic was originally use to deal with dragons therefor it's known as, dragon slayer magic." "All right... I'm all fired up," said Natsu taking to the air, bearing right down on the hydra, he inflated his cheeks, taking a deep breath, then... "FIRE DRAGON ROAR!!!!!" He yelled sending a huge ball of fire flying towards the hydra, specifically the untouched head, scorching it's scales turing them black. Not willing to give it any recovery time Natsu clapped his fore hoofs together causing a fire to burst up around him, flapping his wings he dived towards the hydra at full speed, fire blazing from his hoofs and wings, then giving his wings one last flap he rolled forward and... "FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!!!!!!" Sending two waves of flame cascading right at the hydras chest, striking the hydra with enough force to send it reeling backwards, causing it to trip over the remaining buildings and come crashing down. There on the ground before everypony lay the once fearsome hydra, now laying there burnt, cut and impailed. Twilight, her friends and the entire town stood in awe as the four strange, heroic ponies before them, as they stepped forward, lend down, and all said in unison... "PLEASE DON'T MAKE US PAY!!!!!!"