//------------------------------// // Moonlit Revelations // Story: Human Nature // by Dragonfire2lm //------------------------------// Sunset looked at Manaquire thoughtfully as night fell once more over Equestria. "You want me to bring about your defeat?" she asked. "Yes" "....No" she stated firmly. "And why not?" "You. Are. My. Friend! I refuse to do anything that puts you or anypony else in danger!" Sunset replied firmly. Manaquire sighed. "Oh Sunset....you know as well as I do that I'm only on level one of my grand scheme, if Twilight and her friends fail to uderstnd things where they are now...things in this world are going to get much worse, do you really want all of equestria to see what I can do?" he asked. "Stop me and the entire kingdom escapes a horrible fate, refuse and everything and everypony will suffer" "But I know you don't want to do this, just stop! Just think!" she pleaded "I could very easily turn against you my dear, I am trying to give you the easiest option here" Manaquire stated. Sunset sat down and thought for a minute, and finally sighed. "Rules are ruless, I wrote them after all...." "And who better to bring the players to their places than you eh? Of course you'll need help, I'll have a portal established tomorrow morning, you can take whoever you want" Manaquire explained.before walking out of the room. "If you need me i'll be on the roof". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey Sunset!" Derpy called as the grey mare spotted her friend walking down a hallway. "Oh hey Derpy, something wrong?" Sunset asked, noticing the worried look on her friend's face. "Yeah..well kinda, you remember how we met Lyra at the cafe?" "Sure I do, the three of us where joined by The Doctor as soon as you mentioned your special talent" Sunset replied -------------FLASHBACK-------------- Sunset's coat was hanging on the coatrack near the cafe's entrance. Derpy had ordered a platter of assorted muffins (both Sunset and Derpy found cupcakes too sweet for thier liking), and was soon joined by Derpy's friend Lyra Heartstrings, a sea foam gren unicorn with amber coloured eyes, and a two toned foam green and white mane and tail that was nearly as scruffy looking as Rainbow's with a golden lyre for a cutie mark. "So who's the blank flank Derpy?" Lyra asked casualy. Sunset introduced herself, and Lyra did the same. Five minutes of casual conversation later the three mares started discuccing Cutie Marks. "So Lyra what does yours mean? if you don't mind me asking" Sunset asked. "Well the legend of the lyre is that it has magical properties, any song played on it can calm any pony or animal. My special talemt is kinda different, every song ever created has a passive and active magical power, my cutie mark means I can unlock that magic and perform the spells that the song has hidden within it. like a song to make ponies happy or to change the weather and even to transport myself to other places" Lyra explained. "Wow, that's cool" Sunset replied. "I know, but wait till you hear Derpy's" "You're going to like this" Derpy said with a grin. "My cutie mark is one of a kind, it means I can make cloud portals". "Cloud...Portals?" The last astonished statement came from a brown stallion Sunset reognised as he walked over to them. "Hey Doctor...You remember me right?" Sunset asked the Timepony. "Oh Hello Sunset! So what's this I hear about cloud portals?" The Doctor asked. "It has to do with my affinity for three different elemental magic" Derpy started to explain, but then noticed how confused Sunset and The Doctor were. "You guys don't know about the elemental magics that are a part of all ponies?" Lyra asked. "Uh..No" the former human and Timelord replied simultaneously. "Well to explain it simply, all magic has a base make up of an element, and each of three species of ponies can weild certain types of elemennts and their conresponding magic" Lyra explained. "Earth ponies have Earth, Fauna and Flora. Pegasi have Water, Wind and Lightning and Unicrons have Light, Psychic or Spiritual" "Ok then what about the Princeses?" Sunset asked. "Well from the stuff I learnt here in Canterlot Alicorns have Life, Death and Time. But there are sub-elements that can be derived from the major three of any species, Ice is wind and water, fire comes from light, metal comes from earth and then there's stuff like empathy, telepathy, foresight, healing and even creation and destruction magic that is way more complicated, some ponies are even born with an affinty for multiple elements, and even elements that aren't normal for their species" Lyra hapilly continued. "There's a Pegasus Pony in ponyville that has an affiny with Fauna and healing, most ponies are born with one affinity, two is rare, but I have three, that makes me unique" Derpy explained. "I use Wind and Water to form clouds and make a hole in one, then I vibrate passive lightning magic in the air to make a film of charged water over the hole that connects to where I wanna go and just fly through, then..well I'm there" "Fascinating..." The Doctor muttered, who had been taking notes the entire time. "Wow..wonder my element is?" Sunset wondered out loud. "I can find out for you" Lyra replied "I just need a feather off your wing, and then I go and test it out, I should be done by tonight" --------------------------END FLASHBACK-------------- "So what did Lyra find out or something?" Sunset asked. "Yeah but...something happened" Derpy replied, but before Sunset could ask Lyra trottoed up to them, wearing a pair of saddlebags. "Oh great I found you...Listen something's hapened to The Doctor, I dunno what but i found him...like this" the green unicorn replied. A toy earth pony was hanging out of one of the saddlebags, it was brown, with brown eyes and it was wearing a dark blue suit. Sunset was mesmerised by the toy, but was startled when it blinked. "Doctor?" she asked. "Yes I'm toy...a toy can you believe it? One minute I'm helping Lyra with the element test, the next this great big dragon appears and turns me into a toy...a toy!" The Timepony ranted. "A dragon..." Sunset repeated. "Yes a great big giant black dragon!" "Ok I see where this is going, I think I need to explain something to everypony.." Sunset sighed. One explanation later Sunset atched the faces of her new friends for a reaction; Derpy was a mix of wrry and fear, the Docotr was sympathetic, while Lyra... "You mean to tel lme that this is your fault?" the unicorn asked in shock. "Yes...No...I don't know anymore ok! Look I'm sorry but if i could stop him I would" Sunset replied. "You know..." The Doctor began from his new position atop lyra's head. "Something's been bothering me, if you're a pegasus, then why are so tall?" "Yeah I was wondering that too.." Derpy agreed. "Even your hooves are different from the normal pony, your wings are larger...and I don't remember seeing you with glasses the last time we met" the timepony realised. "What you think its the glasses?" Sunset asked. "Have you taken them off yet?" Derpy asked. "...No I was so tired last night that i just crashed onto Fluttershy's bed and dozed off....you think there's a spell on them?" "Only one way to find out" Lyra commented. Sunset grasped the handle in her hoof and removed her glasses, everything in distance became a fuzzy blur, while she could see everything in front of her with only slightly les clarity than she could with the glasses on. she stared at her hoff, eyes wide in surprise, it was no longer orange, it was now as plain as the hooves on her friends, round and smoth with a thin layer of fur that matched her coat. She looked back up at her friends to find they were staring at her. "What?" she asked. "You have a horn.." Lyra breathed. "Huh?" "You're an alicorn..." Derpy said, stunned. "Huh?" "Look at you, magnificent! Hah! a human Alicorn..Of course! you told us that you created Manaquire, to him you're nothing short of a Goddess, and how are goddesses represented in Equestria? As Alicorns. Oh that's Brilliant!" The Doctor rambled, eyes gleaming with curiousity and wonder. "HUH?" Sunset was still confused by this, even if in some part of her mind it made sense. "Go on look" The Doctor pointed to a window. Sunset tucked her glasses under her wing and walked over to the window and took in her reflection; she was exactly the same, the only chagnes that had occured was that her hooves looked as normal as any pony's, the addition of a spiraled horn and the red streaks in her mane and tail had vanished, However she still lacked a Cutie Mark. Ok so I'm an Alicorn, my mane and tail aren't flowing so that means my er...magic is only at it's full strength while i'm inside the boundaries of Vardos, the world I created (I need to think up a better name for the place), or I'm not a ttrue alicorn like the princesses, the first option is more likely though, the rules state a creatures power cannot esceed the limits of magical power of the world they are in...if only Manaquire would follow that rule then things would be so much easier... Sunset thought. "You ok?" Derpy asked. "Yeah yeah" Sunset replied casually and waed a hoof. "ok I clearly need to 'mare up'. Right one of my own creations is putting Equestria in danger, by my own laws I cannot directly stop him, so therefore I need to travel to his world and gather the original six heroes that have defeated him before, but I need help, if you want to help me then meet me in the throne room tomorrow morning, any questions?" Sunset stated. "Six heroes?" The Doctor asked. "Yeah.." the alicorn replied "Six?" "So?" "Six hereos that defeated him...six elements of harmony" Lyra stated. Sunset mentally face hoofed at her stupidity. "Oh right...I was eight years old when I created them, I didn't even know Equestria existed back then.." she replied. "Well weird then..I guess this explains the test results then" Lyra replied. "You have an afinity for Time, Creation, Telepathy and Emapthy, though Time is the most prominent" "Makes sense..right I think I'll just go find a room and sleep" Sunset stated, putting her glasses back on, and surprisingly she did not change back into a pegasus. The enchantment must've idspelled as soon as I realised what it was She reasoned. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manaquire was on the roof, halfway through downing a large bottle of wine when it suddenly vanished. The dragon frowned and turned around to face the pegasus pony called Time Wing. "I am an Insane, Psychic insomniac, the last thing you should do is take my wine" he growled. Time wing frowned back. "The only time you drink is when you're worried" "Well Tempus, great god of time, why wouldn't i be?" Manaquire snapped. "You've almost taken over this place, nopony can stop you..so why?" the pony he adressed as Tempus asked. "Three events shall doom Equestria, Vardos and all connected to them" Manaquire explained. "I know, I've just helped in cleaning up the second of those events" Tempus replied. Manaquire sighed. "The first shall test their values, the second shall test their power, the third will put the first two too shame, but even then the worst is yet to come" the dragon stated. The pair spent the night talking, and fighting over the various wine bottles Manaquire tried to summon. When the sun rose that morning the pair parted ways, both on opposing sides, but both friends for all eternity. Author's note: yay for the wall o' writing, also I do not encourge excessive drinking in any way...please comment and yes there are spelling/grammar mistakes...with my writing there always will be. ENJOY!