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// Heading Seaward and Story of Aeons 
// Story: MLP: Journey Across Time 
// by B. J. Williams 
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	As Nislatrom was explaining the Great Pony War, a kitsune messenger came in. He sat down on the couch exhausted.
"Who are you?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I have a message for Basil." the kitsune messenger replied. He holds out a scroll and hands it to Basil. He grabbed the messege and opened it up.
"What's it say?" Basil began to read the message.
"Dear Basil," the message said. "The kitsunes have fought the Kelpie greatly and we have weakened them to such a state that one final large blow will bring the end of them. And even better, we have located their base. The bad news is where it is located. It is on Seishintochi, our most sacred island and they are desecrating it. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to go on the island for religious reasons. Only monks and priestesses are allowed on the island. So, we ask you for your aid, we will help create a beachhead for the invasion and provide naval support. I ask you this for the cause of our world. Sincerely, Yabotsu Myobu."
"We need to aid the kitsunes." Basil stated.
"I believe we can do that." Nislatrom replied. "We won't be going out of our way. Smokemane is their leader. Defeating him, will get us the element of greed."
"How come you are so anxious about them?"
"Does it really matter?" Basil sighed.
"Well, at least we know what we are doing next."
"So, who should we bring?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Everyone that wants to beat the Kelpie's asses." He turned to the messenger. "Tell the kitsunes that we will be happy to help them." The messenger was satisfied and Basil gave him a drink of water. The messenger left.
"We will be getting ready to go soon."
A few days went by as the coalition fleet gathered troops lead by the Alicorn was heading toward Kitsunejima. On the Alicorn from Coltabasso was the navy with Basil. On the Hai Qishi were its soldiers with Twilight Sparkle. On the Ironsides from Ponydale were their ponies with Applejack. On the Norseman from Icerim was the Valkyrie with Rainbow Dash. On the Water Strider from the Valley of Outcasts were the outcasts with Fluttershy. On the Prajuit Laut were the rhinos from Badak Hutan with Crash. On the Maji Farasi were the zebras with Rarity. The reason the frost giants didn't participate was they had to deal with the fire giants. These were the ships in the coalition. They would have a few pegasi as messengers.
The trip to Kitsunejima was a near silent one with messages traveling from the ships. Fluttershy was practicing her summoning. She summoned and a circle appeared in the sky. Then, a high speed thing came from the sky. The thing was a giant bird that looked like a tannish phoenix with wing claws.
"Hello." the bird aeon stated. "I am Valefor. It is an honor to meet you."
"I'm Fluttershy." Fluttershy replied. "Nice to meet you."
"Now, is there anything you need to know?"
"Yeah, I don't get the aeons well enough."
"Well, if that is the case, then come with me." Valefor grabbed her with her claws.
"I'll be right back?" She saw the area is frozen as if time stopped.
"I have froze time for a moment." Then, all of the aeons appeared before Fluttershy. Ifrit came. Shiva came. Titan came. Carbuncle came. Leviathan and Ixion came in as well.The latter was described as a gray-colored unicorn with dreadlocks. His horn was the shape and color of a lightning bolt; it was furrier than normal ponies. Anima appeared from the ground, he first appeared in his vertical blue carnivorous plant petals wrapped in chains. They opened up and a brownish creature in bandages appeared. They eyes were black as night with blue irises. On the aeons neck was a necklace that included a picture of her former pony self. This struck fear into Fluttershy.
"Wow, you're scary." Fluttershy said to Anima.
"If you thought this was scary." Anima replied. "You should see my bottom half." Fluttershy tried not to think about it.
"Now, let us call Bahamut." Carbuncle stated.
"You do not need to." Bahamut's voice stated. The voice seemed to echo; the voice was powerful yet is knight-like. "I have already arrived." The light shot down from the skies. A platinum armored dragon appeared. Purple tipped the aeon's wings. Turning on the back of the wings was a golden circle symbolizing the world. His eyes were green. He had a single horn going back and two horns on the sides of his head, one on each side pointing toward the front. They matched the armor. A little bit of celestial energy came from his mouth. Of course, Fluttershy was extremely terrified of him because he was a dragon. He looked down and noticed Fluttershy. "Summoner, what is your name?"
"F… F… Fluttershy." she replied extremely nervously.
"Young Fluttershy. You have nothing to fear from me for you are a summoner. As you know we are the nine aeons. The ones who are the protectors of the summoners. I am Bahamut, the leader of the aeons. I am the most powerful and feared. But you, Fluttershy have shown great ability and kindness with your friendships from various things in the past. So, it is a pleasure to see you at last. And you have earned the honor to see me."
"But what is about you? What is going on here?"
"It is best if we shown you, then told you." A staff appears in the hands of Bahamut and he struck the ground. The setting changed into a field with eight ponies and a dragon. In the background, was a city with extremely advanced technology. "These were our former selves as ponies."
"With the exception of Bahamut who was a dragon." Ixion added.
"Anyway, we have lived in harmony as friends until the invaders came." Then, grey humanoid aliens appeared from the sky to invade the land. "The nine of us were members of a resistance force against the vile beasts. We needed an ultra-powerful weapon to take them down once and for all, but were the ones who had to manage it." As the aliens invaded the crew brought out a giant cobalt case. "We didn't realize what was in the case until we opened it not knowing of the consequences that would occur." The case was opened. Discord blasted out of the box. He destroyed the aliens and screwed up the atmosphere. The ponies and the dragon forced Discord back into his box and sealed him away. Discord refused to go in, so Bahamut sacrificed himself to seal Discord away with his own body. "After sealing Discord, my soul went to the next world and became the first aeon of this world."
"What was even weirder is it caused our spirits to evolve. Instead of moving on to the next world, we became the aeons when we die." Ixion stated. "It also changed the bodies of Carbuncle and Anima as well. Formerly, Carbuncle was a pegasus and Anima was a unicorn. They were too close to each other when they got affected by Discord merging bits of their DNA and making them both into alicorns."
"What happened next?" Fluttershy asked.
"We created a system for the ponies to cope with the celestial freeze." Valefor said.
"I heard of the celestial freeze before. But I don't know what exactly happened."
"After Discord's magic affected the land, the celestial bodies stopped moving. We aeons created a system to help the ponies cope with the new world and it worked for a while."
"But then, our deaths came." Leviathan added with a negative emotion. "After that, the system became more and more corrupted until it was unforgivable."
"I probably think where this is going." Fluttershy added.
"We tried to punish the ponies for their corruption using each of our elements but with no avail." Anima replied.
"We all tried." Carbuncle said. "All except Shiva."
"What did you do, Shiva?" Fluttershy asked. Bahamut noticed the time seal was breaking. 
"Our time here is short, we need to leave." Bahamut said to Fluttershy. "Your friends need you."
"But…" Fluttershy stated.
"Do not worry, young Fluttershy. We will finish up the meeting afterwards." Then, the aeons left. "Don't forget to call for us when needed." Fluttershy then reentered reality. Basil looked out over the waters using a telescope. He looked around until he found a kitsune ship and a kelpie ship.
"All right." Basil shouted. "We've found them. All ships full sail!" The alicorn launched with all sails. The other ships soon followed. They sailed towards the two factions as the kitsune and kelpie opened fire on each other.