"Thanks for the teleport! Go to the castle, you can't miss it! Tell Spike I sent you!" She yelled as she ran around a corner.
Murticuto walked until he saw the castle. It was a giant crystal building that shimmered in the setting sun. He couldn't help but take in the scene. But he couldn't stay there forever.
He walked to the steps and the strap holding the sword he brought undid itself and the sword clanged to the ground.
"Ah! I forgot you were there." He said picking it up and strapping it back on. He walked to the large crystalline doors and knocked fit to wake the dead.
A little purple dragon opened the door. "You must be Spike." He told the little dragon.
"Hey guys! False alarm!" He yelled as around four ponies came out of hiding.
"Why were they all hiding?" Murticuto asked.
"Today is Twilights birthday. Rarity is distracting her while we set it up." Spike told him. "Who are you anyway?"
"I am Murticuto, Twilight will be allowing me to stay here for the time being." He told Spike.
"Oh, that's fine. Come on follow me. I will bring you to one of the guest bedrooms." He said walking back into the doors.
"First may we stop by the library? I have a few books I need to put up." Murticuto asked.
"Sure I don't see why not. How many books are we talking about?" Spike wondered out loud.
"Around fifty seven." Murticuto answered.
"Are they being delivered?" Spike asked.
"No, I have all of them on me." He said as they entered the library. Must be small books. Spike thought.
"Right over here. This spot has been needing to be filled for a while. It just makes the library look bad if a whole section it missing." He told him.
"Is this a blank section?" Murticuto asked.
"Yea." Spike told him.
"Name this section Otherworld Magic." He said tapping the ground with his staff, which cause all the books to fly out of his bag and align themselves perfectly in alphabetical order that took up that whole section.
"So where are we having this party at?" Murticuto asked.
"How did you do that?!" Spike asked.
"Simple levitation magic." Murticuto told him.
"The party is in this room. The others are setting up the decorations." He said. "How did you do that without a horn?" He asked.
"You mean the only ponies who can do magic are unicorns?" He asked.
"Yea. I mean if you count the elements of harmony then no. But usually yes." He told him as they walked into the party room where two pegasi and two earth ponies were setting up games and decorations.
"This room is just to big! We'll never finish in time!" Rainbowdash yelled.
"You call these decorations!" Murticuto boomed as he walked into the room.
"We're tryin our best, sir." Applejack told him.
"He's right Applejack. I told you." Rainbowdash told her friend.
"Girls! Please don't argue." Fluttershy said.
"Don't you worry about decorations." He said whirling his staff around. There was a big flash of light and when everyone was able to see again they were speechless.
There were balloons flying around. Streamers everywhere. Everything they were planning to do. Set up in the blink of an eye.
"Thank ya kindly. We never would've finished this in time." When she finished three fillies cane in the room.
"What happened? We just got started decorating and it all finished!" Sweetie Belle asked angrily.
"I know you wanted to help. But this nice- nice- whatever he is just saved us a lot of trouble." Fluttershy told them.
"Oh, alright. But ya owe us fer this." Applebloom said leading the two other fillies out of the room.
"When's Twilight arriving?" Murticuto asked all of them.
"Shes not supposed to be here for the next two hours." Pinkie Pie told him.
"Well how about I tell you a story while we wait?" He asked. After that they all nodded, walked over to a table and sat down.
"About, one thousand years ago. The evil demon lord Dabura tried to enter my realm and enslave all the inhabitants."
--------Enter Flashback--------
Murticuto was looking out over the vast horizon from the top of his spire.
"Are you sure we will be able to defeat him, master?" His apprentice at the time, Thomas Ward, asked.
"If the nine divines entrusted me with this burden then I think we can have a little more faith in ourselves." He told him.
"I guess your right. But that doesn't mean we can't take it seriously!" He yelled.
"I agree with you all the way. But the best thing to do in this situation is to keep a level head." He said as calmly as possible. "It is time. We head for the portal." He said walking to the stairs. The portal was on the roof of his spire. All the gods could do is chose where he would appear, they were powerless to deal with him directly.
As they walked up the final few steps they could see the demon lord start to take form. It kind of looked like a gargoyle a little bit bigger than a human.
"Murticuto. Come to thwart me, I suppose." He said.
"There is no need." Dabura jumped at that. "Because the second you challenged me, you've already been sent back to the dark hole you crawled out of."
The demon god relaxed for a moment. "I thought you had done something to cripple my power. But you seem over confident in your abilities." Dabura said.
"No, I'm not over confident. I'm just reinforcing what they can do. You see Dabura, I've realized that you never were a real threat to our world." He said trying to bring down the self esteem of the god. "Your power isn't even half of mine alone."
"But I'm not alone." He said as the goddess of strength appeared next to him.
"Demiria. You traitor!" Murticuto yelled.
"I'm not betraying you. I've never agreed I was on your side." She said.
-------------Reality------------
"Everypony, hide. She's coming?" Pinkie whispered.
Whe she finished all the lights dimmed and everyone ducked down and hid behind something. Except Murticuto, who just cloaked himself. She walked into the doors with Rarity and everyone jumped out of hiding and yelled "Surprise!"
"What's all the commotion for everypony?" She asked still recovering from being startled.
"Its your birthday silly filly!" Pinkie told her.
"Oh! I must've been so caught up in my visit with Celestia I've forgotten all about it!" She realized. "I was supposed to go to discuss the annual Market at the castle."
"I completely forgot about that." Rarity said.
"What is this market at the castle?" Murticuto said uncloaking, Twilight was startled again and fell down this time.
"Horse feathers! Murticuto, that was the second time today!" She said standing up.
"The market is just a formality at the palace. Traders come from all around to sell their goods there." Rarity told him.
"Yea! I've heard this is going to be the best one yet!" Rainbowdash yelled.
"Will we be going to this market?" Murticuto asked.
"Oh yes. It is tradition all the princesses attend." Twilight said. "You can come if you want. It's tomorrow." She said.
"I will tag along. It would be a great way to learn the culture here." He said. After that he walked around, ate some food, and conversed with the six ponies and one dragon there. It was about three hours later when he said. "You guys enjoy the party, I think I will turn in for the night. Long day. Spike, can you bring me to my room now?" He asked.
"Sure, come on. It's just down this hall." He followed Spike to a door about halfway down the hall. He opened it and told him.
"Heres your room, if you need anything don't hesitate to ask." He said walking back to the party.
Once Spike was down the hall he went into the room and closed the door. He noticed that some of the walls had armor stands and weapon racks. He took his staff and sword and pit them in one of the racks. He then proceeded to lay his bag down on the desk. When he was done he walked over to the bed and laid down. That bed was the most comfortable bed he has ever laid on.
"I could get used to this." He said closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.
---------The Next Day---------
"Twilight! Were gonna be late!" Spike yelled over a snoring Twilight.
"Huh. AHHHHH! What tike is it Spike!" Twilight yelled. Murticuto was standing in the doorway waiting.
"It's 8:53 Ms. Sparkle." Murticuto told him.
"I told Pinkie we should've ended the party at 11, But no one listens to me. We had to go until 3 AM. This is what happens when we don't follow the schedule." She said gathering her things and putting them in her saddle bags.
"You made a schedule for a party you just arrived at?" Murticuto asked.
"What can I say, I like to be organized." She said getting the last of her things. "We have to hurry, the train leaves in five minutes!" She said running out the door with spike on her back.
Once she was up to speed she took off for the train station. She completely forgot about Murticuto, But he hadn't payed much mind to it. He just used his magic to make some clouds lift him up and her caught up in a matter of seconds. The only thing he could think about is. "What is this thing called a train?"
But he payed no mind to it, sat down his staff on the clouds, laid back, and enjoyed the ride.
When they arrived he saw dozens of ponies getting on a long snake like machine.
"Is this what you call a train?" He asked.
"What you've never seen one?" Twilight answered with another question.
"No, as a matter of fact I haven't." He told her with a hint of sass in his voice.
"Oh. Don't worry, its just like that cloud ride you have but a little more bumpy." She assured him.
They climbed into one of the cars and Murticuto found a seat next to spike and Twilight. All the ponies in that car looked at him with complete disbelief. Some were just surprised about a princess taking the train, but most were wondering what he was.
Murticuto was startled when the train started moving. He has never seen such a contraption. He held onto the seat for dear life.
After what Murticuto thought was forever, they arrived at Canterlot. He was so happy to step off of that train onto nice, stable, land.
"See, I told you that you would like it." She told him.
"Like it! I will never set foot on such a device in my life!" He yelled back at her.
She laughed a little and replied. "Ok, I guess we can just teleport back. Come on we need to go meet the others, they said they would wait by the palace doors for us." She told him as she walked off into the crowd.
Murticuto followed willingly and when they arrived at the palace doors he saw a familiar sight.
"Do my eyes deceive me!" He said as the figure turned to face him.