Tales of Epic Fantasy

by Krokorokok


A day in Ponyville (Anna and Natz)

The cast of the 'Epic Battle Fantasy' series, Matt, Natz, Lance and Anna do not belong to me. They all belong to Kupo707, also known as Matt Roszak.


It was a lovely day in the small quaint town of Ponyville. The streets were bustling with ponies going along their daily routine. Selling items in the marketplace, a small dinner serving ponies as well as the generic talking that came with them.

However, the lovely atmosphere would soon change as soon as a pink party pony would enter the scene.

"TWILIGHT!!" the very same pink pony screamed at the top of lungs as she zipped through town at seemingly lightning speed, something that would bring a rainbow maned pegasus to shame.

On the other side of the town, a purple alicorn in the towns library, 'Golden Oaks Library' stopped reading when she heard her name being called. "That's odd. Sounds like Pinkie Pie" Twilight wondered, placing the book down on the nearby table and readjusting her red spectacles.

The very same pony in mind is Twilight Sparkle. She is labeled as the most powerful magic wielder in the entire of Equestria, due to her cutie mark specializing in magic itself. She is also one of the four alicorn princesses of Equestria, also being the youngest of the four. Not only that, she is also one of the bearers of the 'Elements of Harmony', in which her and her five other friends saved Equestria on multiple accounts. However, even with all that fame and power in mind, she didn't mind to live a simple life as an, 'Alicorn Princess Librarian', as what her friends call her.

She was currently wearing her librarian uniform which consisted of a plain white button up blouse underneath her lavender coloured jacket, which adorned the sign of the library on the top right pocket of the jacket, as well as a purple skirt which had her cutie mark on the right side, a pink star in the middle surrounded by five other smaller white stars. Her mane was also neatly tied into a ponytail that was secured in place with a pink star clip.

Standing up, she lightly readjusted her jacket and brushed off any small specs of dust on her jacket. She had asked her friend Rarity to tailor her entire uniform since she owed Twilight a favor. What Twilight asked for a simple librarian uniform, Rarity just 'Tut-Tut' her friend and made her an elegant work of art that, 'Would make any stallions eyes bulge at the sight of a sexy librarian' as what Rarity said.

Walking towards the door, Twilight hoped to at least open the door to see the commotion. However, not even half way through the room, the door burst open revealing a pink pony that looked very worried to say the least.

"TWLIGHTYOUHAVETOCOMEQUICKTHEREISSOMESORTOFALIENBACKATTHEBAKERYANDITLOOKSLIKETHEYNEEDOURHELPWENEEDTOGOOVERTHEREQUICKYOUHAVETOHELPPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!" Pinkie Pie said in the speed of a thousand miles per hour, causing Twilight to reel back slightly her face slightly sour.

"Okay! Pinkie calm down. Say that again, slower please?" Twilight said.

"I said that there's these two alien thingies back at the bakery and they need help!" Pinkie slightly summarized, waving her hands comically in the air.

"Aliens? Um...Alright. I'll send the rest of the girls a letter before we head off, okay?" Twilight asked, causing Pinkie to nod her head furiously before adding, "Be quick!".

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As soon as Twilight sent the letters to the rest of her friends, Pinkie grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the library, yelling "We have to hurry! To the bakery!" before some sort of music popped into her mind.

Once they reached the bakery, the music seemed to stop instantaneously, causing even more confusion to the already confused Twilight. Shaking her head slightly, Twilight heard Pinkie say "They're over here!", before turning her head to where Pinkie was. As soon as she did, her eyes couldn't help but stare at the two females whom were lying on the floor unconscious. Walking towards them, she knelled down took a good look at their faces, surprised to find out that, indeed, they were not from this world. They didn't look anything like what she has seen before. They were kind of like a smaller versions of a minotaur, without the horns.

'This is very odd...I should ask Princess Celestia what they are' Twilight thought, standing up while rubbing her cheek with her hand.

Suddenly, the bakery door flung open, revealing a multitude of ponies Twilight was greatfull to see.

"What's all the commotion about darling?" a refined voiced emanated from the white fur coated unicorn. She was Rarity, a pristine white unicorn with a dark purple mane and tail color. She is the towns personal seamstress and a damn good one too. Her taste in the fashion world always seems to awe any of those whom have seen her works. She was currently wearing her usual business suit, a white button up blouse underneath her dark purple business jacket that adorned many gems as well as a white skirt that had the picture of her cutie mark, three sapphire gems. She was also currently wearing a purple pair of spectacles along with a red scarf around her neck.

"Oh! Hello girls!" Twilight said, smiling at her friends. "Well...Pinkie here seems to have found these two beings. She said they seemingly popped into existence right in front of her"

"Oh my!" a soft squeak seemed to exit the muzzle of the same pony. The pony in particular is Fluttershy, a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane and tail color. Most ponies only know that she lives in a quaint little house near the Everfree forest. But what they don't know is that she is Ponyville's veterinarian. This is also a reason why many animals reside in the big field that she has for a backyard. She was currently wearing a a light green sweatshirt that seemed to be rather big for a mare of her size as well a yellow skirt that has the picture of her cutie mark, which is trio of pink butterflies.

"I know right Flutters!? They just came in like 'BOOP' " Pinkie said, lightly pushing Fluttershy's muzzle, causing a rather cute 'squee' to exit from the pegasus.

"Well ah don't know 'bout you girls, but ah think they seem harmless enough" a voice with a southern twang from the orange pony. Her name is Applejack, an orange southern earth pony with a golden mane and tail color. She is part of the towns Apple Family, where she tends to the towns very own multi-acre apple farm, 'Sweet Apple Acres', along with her older brother Big Macintosh, her younger sister Applebloom and her grandmother Granny Smith. She was currently wearing an orange blouse underneath her slightly tattered brown leather jacket along with an also slightly tattered pair of brown jeans, both of which came courtesy of from her cousin Braeburn. Besides that, she was also wearing her favorite Stetson hat which was a gift from her father before both he and her mother left to 'visit the many wonders of Equestria' as what her father said.

"I'm going with Applejack on this. They don't seem dangerous at all to be honest" a tomboyish voice emanating from the cyan pegasus. This pegasus in particular is Rainbow Dash, a cyan colored pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, thus the name. She is the captain of Ponyville's very own weather team, tending to the weather as well as helping other places with weather problems is needed. She was currently wearing a a cyan tank-top with a winged lightning bolt in the middle as well as a pair of dark blue jeans.

"We should probably wait for them to at least wake up first. Pinkie, besides the two of them, what else have you found?" Twilight asked, causing the pink pony to go "Oh!"

Pinkie then began to rummage behind the counter before pulling out a staff and a bow.

The staff had a light brown wooden handle that seemed to turn more orange as it went up. At the top was a bright sapphire gem that was probably socketed and seemed to be held tightly together by a red ribbon that was tied to form a bow. The bow, however, had a rather simple design. From what seemed to be three branches of a tree tied together by a rather sturdy brown rope with a piece of a very fine, and seeming breakable, string.

"I found these things right beside them when they first arrived" Pinkie said. "I placed them here since the Cakes might suspect something"

"Can I have that staff?" Twilight asked, causing Pinkie to nod before handing her the staff. Just as she touched the staff, Twilight felt a surge of magic energy enter her, causing her to reel back slightly and gasp.

She heard her friends gasp as they quickly went to her. "Twilight darling, are you alright?" Rarity asked, causing Twilight to nod in reply.

"Yea...In fact...I feel more energized...I don't know why" Twilight replied in between breathes. Testing out a hypothesis, she placed the staff gently down and before she knew it, the same magical energy that had entered her dissipated into nothingness. 'So that's where it came from! This staff is causing the magic of the user to be enhanced' Twilight thought.

Moments later, they heard a groan before a voice entered the room. "Nya~...Not the best place I slept" a feminine voice filled the room.

Silently turning around, the girls saw that the orange maned female has finally awoken. Rainbow Dash nudged Twilight softly. "Hey! What do we do now?" she silently asked.

"I don't know. We should probably wait first" Twilight replied, gripping the staff in her hands.

They heard the same female giving off a small yawn before looking around. "Where am I..?" she wondered, looking around the room. They then saw here shaking the other female beside her. "Hey Anna...Wake up" she said hoping that green maned girl would wake up.

"Ugh...Five more minutes mom" the green maned girl replied. They then heard the orange maned girl give a 'Humph!' before replying, "No cake for you then"

"OH! CAKE?! I LOVE CAKE!" Pinkie Pie bursted out, hopping over to both of the now-awoken females.

"Hi there! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name? Oh! I heard you have cake? Do you have cake? huh? Do ya do ya do ya?!" Pinkie bounced in placed, causing the rest of the girls to groan besides Fluttershy.

"Well...there goes our cover" Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes.

They saw both of the females look at them with a mix of awe and shock. It was probably due to never having seen anything like them before. Before anything else could happen, Twilight decided it was best to introduce themselves first.

"Hello there. There's no need to panic, please. We won't harm the both of you. My name is Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie" Twilight said, pointing a finger to herself followed by the names in order, all giving a small 'hello'.

The two girls looked at each other first, the green maned one whispering something in the others ear. After a while, they both nodded before standing up. "Umm..Hi. I'm Natalie and this is my friend Anna" the orange maned girl said, pointing a finger to the girl beside her who gave a small wave.

Before anything else happened, Twilight saw Natalie's eye shrink. Before she could ask what was wrong, Natalie then pointed to the object she was holding. "My Crystal Staff! Where did you find it?!" Natalie asked

Twilight felt slightly relieved, knowing she wanted to know where she found it. "Well, from what Pinkie Pie said, it was just next to you when the both of you arrived. I take it that this bow" Twilight's horn glowed purple, enveloping the bow in the same glow before it slowly came to her "is yours Anna?"

Anna then gasped before looking around her. Her eyes then locked onto the bow before replying. "Yea! That's mine!". Without any hesitation, she went forward and grabbed the bow out of Twilight's magic before thanking her. Twilight smiled before handing the staff back to it's rightful owner, to which Natalie was grateful for.

"Now that that's settled, can we sit down first? I want to ask some questions" Twilight said, using her magic to pull some chairs for her, her friends and for the two guests.

"Ask away I guess" Anna replied, placing her bow gently on her lap.

"Okay. First things first, what are the two of you exactly?" Twilight asked, using her magic to conjure a small notepad, a quill and a small vial of ink.

"Well, we are what you can call humans. A more scientific term, if you want, is 'Homo Sapiens'" Natalie answered, causing Twilight to scribble some stuff on her notepad,

"From what happened to me when I touched your staff, I take it that your world has magic?"

"Yep! In fact, Natalie here is the greatest mage of our world" Anna responded this time, causing Natalie to sheepishly smile.

"Umm...There's still a multitude of spells that I haven't learned yet" Natalie said, a small blush forming on her face.

Twilight couldn't help but grin at this. The greatest mage of her world? This she had to see. "Well...I hope the both of us can learn from each other then. I can't wait to see what spells you can wield!" Twilight excitedly exclaimed, causing her friends to chuckle at her.

Twilight composed herself before asking, "With that in mind, does your staff help you in some sort of way? Besides casting spells" Twilight said, quickly adding the last line.

"Yes actually. All my staffs that I have wielded in my adventures all help me in some way. This staff in particular helps boost my magical prowess by quite a bit, although not as much as one of my other. However, with that, there is also some negative effects that they posses. The staff that I had said, which is called 'Hela's Staff', causes my vitality and my magical capacity to drop, even though it boosts the potency of my magic by quite a lot" Natalie explained, causing Twilight to furiously scribble it down on her notepad.

"Wait, then that means it does the same with your bow, right Anna?" Rarity asked this time round, causing Anna to nod in reply.

"Yep. However, for me, my bow causes not only the spells that I cast to be stronger but all the arrows that I fire to hurt more. However, as what Natz said, some of my other bows also has negative effects. Like causing me to be slower, having lower accuracy and stuff like that, while granting some absurd boosts. I have this one bow called the Eagles Eye that slightly lowers the damage my spells and arrows do but it never fails me to hit every single attack I make. Like I said, absurd stats" Anna said, nodding to herself with her eyes closed.

Once again, both Natalie and Anna saw Twilight furiously scribble down what the both of them have said. Rainbow;s attention then peaked when she heared the word 'Adventure'. "The two of you went of an adventure? Like, to where? Around the world?" Rainbow asked, her interest seemingly caught now.

"True. However, it's not only me and Anna that went on an adventure. The both of us actually have two other teammates that we worked together. Their names are Matthew and Lance and both of them are guys" Natalie answered, causing the girls to 'ooo' in surprise.

"So...What's the other two then? Ah can tell that your a mage of some sorts while Anna herself is an archer" Applejack asked.

"Well...I guess I should start from the beginning of my adventure, all the way before I met Matthew" Natalie started, adjusting her seating posture.

"You see, I actually came from a family of white mages back in my home world in which I was part of a small white mage group, dedicated to learning about the spellcraft of the white mages. I eventually got sick and tired of learning the same old spells day after and day and soon I left wearing the same outfit you see before you and the same staff I am currently holding. This dress is actually a modified version of the one I used to wear, since all the months I spent travelling did a number to the dress" Natalie said.

"I traveled far and wide, learning not only what is considered as white magic back in my world, dealing with the stuff for holy of defensive purposes, but also black magic, dealing with the more destructive magic. Also taking up quests, I also spent the gold I had earned on some other dresses, not only to try and fill my wardrobe but that I could feel it would help me. Eventually, I arrived at a small city where there was a stadium holding a tournament. Winner takes the fame and glory as well as a huge sum of gold. However, downside was that it was a 'fight-to-the-death' sort of tournament" Natalie then heard the girls, even Anna, gasp. "Yea...That was my first thoughts of it but I felt pretty confident in it since almost all the competitors were those melee battlers"

Anyways, long stories short, I made it pretty far up the rankings. My next match was against this golden haired guy name Matthew" Natalie then heard them gasp once again. "Yep. The very same Matthew I know until now. Anyways, I lost the battle rather quickly. I thought he was going to go an all 'Up-in-your-face- sort of strategy since he made his sword disappear but I was fooled, when I saw a bright light from the sky in the shape of the sword. I thought I was going to die at that point, I was scared witless, with me sitting on the floor seemingly paralyzed. However, he spared my life, making the sword of light barely hit me, only landing in between my legs. I quickly left the arena, scared due to the near death experience. I was pretty ragged after that as well, my hair was disheveled and I remember having a nosebleed"

"However, before I could leave the town, I remember Matthew coming up to me with a worried look on his face. He apologized for making me experience that traumatizing moment and asked whether or not I wanted to follow him along on his adventures. Needless to say I didn't hesitate to say yes" Natalie said, having a small blush on her face when she heard some small 'squee' from the girls and with Anna saying how cute that was. "Anyways, after that, me and Matt went around the world doing what he can to help others and to have some fun along the way. Not in that regard Rainbow Dash" Natalie said with an unamused look when Rainbow Dash gave her a look that said 'I bet you did it'.

"Anyways, along the way, we learned of a recent news that there was a person rampaging through a certain part of the world, claiming to want to destroy everything in the world to hope for a new beginning. When we reached the area, there was this giant armored vehicle filled with different stuff, like a magic jammer, causing myself to unable to cast spells and Matt to unable to use his swordplay moves. The pilot of the vehicle was a gunner, using this special device that shoots deadly metal projectiles at rediculous speed. Not only that, but apparently he was able to call for backup, sending in these metallic objects called bombs that explode and deal very huge amounts of damage as well as having absurd accuracy due to this device he dubs the Scanner. Needless to say, we defeated him and that was how me and Matthew met Lance" Natalie concluded, causing the girls, besides Anna, to look at her in shock.

"Woa! That Lance dude wanted to destroy the world before?" Rainbow asked, causing Natalie to nod.

"That's mean! He is a meanie pants!" Pinkie responded, causing Natalie to chuckle.

"Don't worry, he now uses his powers for good and its all water under the bridge now" Natalie said.

Twilight was quiet for the most of the conversations up until she asked, "You said your teammate Matthew was a good swordspony right? How good is he actually?"

Natalie chuckled once more. "It's swordsman actually where I came from and to give you and idea of how powerful he is, he can take and entire magical energy beam directly to the face and he can still to a cartwheel afterwards. I have seen him punched a robot so hard it flew thousands of miles away, leaving a trail of broken terrain. Not only that, but his swords that he wields are all two handed weapons. I have seen many people try to lift them up with both of their hands but none could carry them for a long time and Matthew can do that with only one hand. Heck, I've seen him use two swords before. Nothing else to say other than the entire battlefield he fought in was unrecognizable afterwards" Natalie concluded with a straight face, looking at the many shocked faces.

"Um...Wow..." Rainbow Dash simply said.

"Darn.." Applejack whispered gulping slightly.

"Oh....My...." Fluttershy whimpered in her seat from the thought of the sheer power of a single being.

"Oh dear..." Rarity began fanning herself, not theatrically but due to her body giving more body heat that normal.

"Wowee!" Pinkie's shocked face soon turned into a huge grin, seemingly un-phased by this.

"And I thought Shinning was strong..." Twilight said, stopping her writing.

"Yea! But don't worry though, he's really kind and gentle! Even after a bad start with him" Anna said nodding with a smile.

After a rather long odd silence, Rarity then asked a question that managed to break the atmosphere. "So tell me darling, you said you bought some dresses. May it be too much to let me see them?" she asked, causing some 'Ooo' to come from the rest of the girls.

"Erm..sure. But keep in mind, the clothing I have is actually back at home. I just use my a magic to magically transport them to myself" Natalie explained first.

"OH! A simple transportation spell!" Twilight said in surprise.

Natalie then stood up, grabbing her staff and waving it in the air. Moments later, a bright white glow surrounded her. After a while, when the glow soon died out, the girls then soon found themselves looking at Natalie in a completely new set of clothing, a pure white silk dress with what seemed to have a jacket as well, with a hat on her head and a completely new staff, a pure white metal handle with two white wings with a sapphire crystal in the middle which was held together by a piece of golden string.

"Oh my! That is a stunning dress, darling~!" Rarity answered as she and the rest of the girls came close to take a look at the beautiful dress.

"Thank you! This was given to me when me, Matthew and Lance were trekking along a tundra. We traded some old relics and ancients miniature statues in exchange for this" Natalie fondly recalled how much this entire 'set' saved her during her journey with the two guys in her team.

"I've never really seen you wear that! It looks so pretty!" Anna said, feeling the soft velvety texture of the dress.

Natalie giggled. She was about to say something when there was a sudden explosion in the distance, causing her and the rest of the girls to quickly exit the building. Once outside, they saw that over in the far off distant place, a giant laser tore a castle of the city.

"Natalie! That could be Lance firing off his Hyper Beam! They must be over there!" Anna excitedly said, pulling onto the shoulder of Natalie.

"Come on girls! Somethings wrong in Canterlot. I can feel it" Twilight said as she and the rest of her friends went to the nearby train station with Anna and Natalie behind their tail.

=Meanwhile=

Matthew continue to stare at the mare with his nonchalant look. The atmosphere was heavy and the rest of the guards were rather afraid.

...Up until Matthew laughed, causing everypony except Lance, who was smiling, to flinch.

"Hahaha! I'm just joking about not doing that again. To be honest, do it again! That tickled actually!" Matthew grinned at the mare. He then lowered his sword before pulling out his other hand. "Here, you best be standing up"

Starburst continued to look at the odd creature. Moments ago, she just blasted him with the most powerful spell she knew, leaving him unphased by it. He then proceeded to threaten her not to do it before laughing minutes later saying she should do it again. And now he was helping her! Starburst couldn't comprehend what this creature wanted but she didn't hesitate to grab his hand after a moment of silence.

"There we go! Up once again. Let's try this again shall we? The names Matthew, you can call me Matt for short" Matthew smiled at the mare.

Starburst couldn't help but stare at him as if he was insane. However, if the creature was wanting a fresh start after the bad one she just did, she took the chance to right what she did wrong. "....Starburst" she softly said.

"Nice ta meetcha!" Matthew said, continuing to smile at the mare.

A little further away, Princess Celestia couldn't help but smile knowing that everything was fine for now. She then heard a voice that caused her to jump slightly. "Let me tell me, that Matt is one big softy at heart. Don't let his fiercesome battle moves make you think otherwise" Celestia turned to her right to see that that 'Lance' creature was now beside her, not seeing where he went just now.

Celestia turned back to the sight of a now laughing 'Matt' creature and the face of a slightly slightly flushed Starburst and she couldn't help but smile once again. If what this 'Lance' creature say is true, then she didn't really have to be cautious.

"...I'm happy to hear that..." Celestia answered.