Black and Blue on the Plane of Shadows
“Where are we sugarcube?” Came the call of the orange earth pony who was slowly standing up from her position on the ground. It might be supposed that, after such a powerful spell, all who were involved in it would have little to no consciousness left in them, but all six of the ponies found they had energy to spare. Including Twilight who was shocked to find she wasn't magically fatigued in the least.
“I don’t know, I have no idea." Panic was rising in the librarian's voice as she continued to talk. "I’m sorry. I just lost control. I grabbed onto whatever magic I could to get us out of there. I didn't know that this would happen, lost in a strange world. It's just... my teleportation magic was used during the fight and I didn’t have enough left to take us all out of there.” The magic user said to her friends as she fought down tears, she was blaming herself for this, she had dragged her closest friends, close enough to almost be family, to wherever they were now.
“Oh, It’s alright darling, as long as we stick together I’m sure we can find our way back home.” Came the reply from the white unicorn, her words did little to stop Twilight from blaming herself but it kept her from saying it outloud.
The sun set quickly and the mares found the darkness gathering around them, just as they were about to stand and make their way towards one of the nearby houses a raspy voice caught their ears, “Candy-colored horses? These humans are getting more and more stupid every day if they think that this will do anything to stop us.”
The voice gathered a few chuckles from some similar sounding voices, all of them hidden. Rarity was offended as she turned around with her head held high. With a tone of indignation, she spoke in the general direction the voice had come from, “We are more than some candy-colored horses sirs, we are ladies and we wish to be treated as such.”
Silence followed the words of the unicorn as the hidden bearers of the voices looked at each other in confusion, eventually one of them spoke to another of the group, “Did you just hear that white one talk? I mean, I know this is Innistrad but you have to admit that that is very different.”
One of the mysterious creatures approached from the shadows with a swagger that made all of the mares tense, the creature continued its approach until it stood merely feet away from the lavender mare, at this distance Twilight could see that it was similarly shaped to the other bipeds she had seen as the sun was setting, the only real difference visible at this distance was that it’s skin was very pale in comparison to the pink the other creatures had had.
The creature looked at the horses with a raised eyebrow before yelling over his shoulder to those hidden in the forest, “Doesn’t really matter does it? I’m sure they taste just fine.” A shiver ran down the spines of the mares as the creature charged them, he was faster than his form should allow but he seemed to keep the pace easily. He dashed towards the five mares who were stunned still but was immediately hit across the face by a purple beam of magic from the sixth unfazed unicorn. The creature tumbled backwards towards the trees it had come from, after it stopped tumbling it got to its feet to look at the mare with puzzlement.
“No one eats my friends!” As Twilight shouted these words her friends drew from her courage and they all took fighting stances, the creature merely grinned malevolently as it waved forward a hand, five others that all seemed to be the same as the first creature approached quickly towards the stranded Equestrians.
The vampires were unafraid of the horses’ glares as they approached but were soon sent tumbling head over heels by a buck to the face, a party cannon to the chest, magic to any part of their body or were stopped dead by a death glare from a yellow pegasus until one of her friends could help her out.
When the group of vampires were beaten and all six mares were breathing heavily after the fight a slow clap came from the shadows the blood sucking creatures had come from.
“Impressive, very impressive.” Came a voice, it didn’t sound raspy, rather it sounded quite refined. “It takes more power than I would expect you to have to beat a group of my vampires, well deserving of an applause ladies.” Rarity took appreciation in the last word as she straightened her posture, what emerged from the shadows merely seconds later put her back on edge.
It looked similar to what they had just been fighting but was wearing clothing much more noble, the thing that had set the group on edge again though was the small dried rivers of blood that ran down its face from the mouth. “I haven’t seen another planeswalker on my home plane in a long time, they fear me far too much for that.”
“Stay away.” the purple unicorn said as she charged a burst of magic into her horn, the creature just smiled as he took a few more steps, with a brief pause the mare fired the magic spell at the slowly approaching creature, he smiled as he batted away the bolt in midair causing it fly off far into the night.
Blinking in disbelief the mare fired two more bolts of magic at the approaching monster, with as much ease as before it batted the magic out of the air with a single hand and its smile widened. Eventually it stood directly in front of the mares and it drew a sword from his sheath, the mares backed away in fear from the monster as it took one more step.
The sky was darkened and the six ponies looked up, a creature sailed over them and jumped at the creature that had its sword drawn, faster than the eye could follow the blade cut through the furry attacker and dropped it to the ground. Blood dripped off the edge of the blade and the vampire lifted it to his tongue to taste it. “Lycanthrope, four years of the curse it seems, oh and it had bird for lunch.”
The six ponies might have laughed if it weren’t for the matter of fact tone that the blade wielder spoke with, finally Twilight managed to speak a few words from between her lips as she looked at the monster, “What are you?”
“Well, that is rather rude isn’t it? I am a vampire but you can’t just judge me on that alone, I would assume that with how your white friend there had spoken you would have more manners than that.” As it spoke the tone seemed slightly playful, but it also sounded terrifying.
“It is polite to introduce yourself first sir, I will apologize for my friends behavior if you correct that error in your manners.” Rarity replied, the other five ponies looked at her with shock plain on their face as the thing regarded her coldly.
“You indeed have a point there I apologize for that, it's been far too long since I’ve met a proper lady, unless you count Elspeth, but I’m not sure about her.” The creature said with a nod, “My name is Sorin Markov, vampire lord, and may I just say that it is a pleasure to meet a fellow planeswalker who for once isn’t trying to take my head off.”
“Pleasure to meet you Mister Markov, my name is Rarity and these are my friends, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.” As the white mare spoke the names of her friends they all indicated themselves in some manner. After finishing the mare turned to face the librarian, “You will have to excuse Twilight for her rudeness we have just been through quite the ordeal and we are very unfamiliar with this place.”
Twilight merely looked at Sorin with her jaw low, the vampire lord raised an eyebrow and looked at the purple mare, with this action to break her from her silent amazement she decided to ask the question that was on her mind. “Vampires? Like vamponies?”
Sorin smiled as he looked at the mare, “In all my travels across the planes I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a vampony, you will have to be more specific.”
“They drink blood of other ponies in order to live and are undead.” Said Twilight.
“Ah yes, in that case vampires are much alike vamponies, with the exception that we require human blood rather than that of ponies.” Sorin turned away and looked away into the distance, while he was facing away the ponies all shared a look of worry amongst themselves but quickly hid them behind fake smiles as Sorin turned back to face them. “Well, come along then, can’t have a new planeswalker and her friends get killed when humans overreact to a powerful vampire near their town.”
With those words Markov turned away once again and set off at a brisk pace, the ponies all shared one more look of worry before they set off following the vampire lord, Twilight in front and Fluttershy bringing up the end of the line. After a few steps the escort looked back at the ponies following and raised an eyebrow.
“I wouldn’t pin the shy yellow pegasus as your best fighter, that’s odd.”
“What are you talking about?” Rainbow dash said with a slightly aggravated tone. “She’s at the back, you know, the safest place.”
Sorin’s eyes flickered with rage for a moment before he spoke again, “Do not assume that you know anything about my home plane pegasus, this is Innistrad, the one at the back is usually the first one to be targeted.”
Fluttershy froze at the words and Rainbow quickly switched her spots so that the shy pegasus was in the middle of the group, the pony directly in front of her and behind her grouped up closer to give the shy pegasus a feeling of protection and the group continued on.
“What is a planeswalker?” Twilight asked as the pale vampire led the way.
“You’re a planeswalker, Twilight.” Sorin said over his shoulder as a shadowy building was slowly outlined in the night backdrop.
“W-what?” The mare responded, stunned by the words.
“A planeswalker is a creature with the ability to travel across the different planes of the multiverse. Some event usually causes for the spark to be revealed, it can be a moment of great pain, loss, even joy I’ve heard. I found my spark when I contracted my vampirism, I have been walking the planes for a long time now, leaving my home to fall to this state.”
“Oh” Was all the purple mare said as they continued, moments later they entered the doors of the building that they had been heading to, inside they were greeted with a slew of dead vampires that lay nearly day on the floor, one was conscious enough to have his eyes flicking nervously across the room, as Sorin approached his movement caught the eye of the vampire and he looked at him in horror.
“Who are you? Who am I? Why don’t I remember? What’s going on!” The vampire shouted loudly, with an amazing swing of his blade the vampire was decapitated and Fluttershy let out a squeak.
“Beleren, come on out, I know you're here. I can smell you” Sorin said loudly to the thin air, yet somehow retaining a noble tone of voice. The ponies all adopted looks of confusion, except for Fluttershy who was still looking horrified at the decapitated vampire.
The air shimmered against a nearby wall as an illusion dissipated to reveal a man clad in a blue cloak with cold eyes looking out from under his hood. “Hello Sorin, I received information that a new planeswalker’s spark had been activated and that they had come here. I decided to see the new inductee.”
With a smile to the illusionist the vampire stepped lightly and silently to the side to put the purple mare behind him in full view. “Let me introduce you to Twilight Sparkle, unicorn planeswalker.” Jace’s eyes looked to the unicorn then to the vampire then back to the unicorn again.
“Unicorn planeswalker, just when you think you have it all figured out the multiverse throws the one thing that can still surprise you directly into your face.” Jace said as he slowly approached the librarian, “Next thing you know we’re gonna have a goblin planeswalker on our hands.”
“I have recently heard a rumor about Squee.....” The vampire let the sentence drop off as Jace refused to answer.
“Umm, sir, can you stop getting so close to me, you’re beginning to scare me.” Twilight said as she began to back away from the blue mage. The mage stopped his approach and Twilight stopped her retreat as she looked at the man. It was at this time that a cyan blur dashed past Twilight and flew towards Jace as quickly as she could.
The planeswalker easily sidestepped the mare, when she stopped to avoid crashing into the wall Jace grabbed her easily and Rainbow slumped in his grip, “Equestria, land of ponies.” Jace said as he set the pegasus down on the ground.
“What did yah do to her?” Applejack said as she approached the planeswalker.
“I read her mind and knocked her unconscious, I could have done much worse.” Jace turned his attention to Twilight, “Next time have a better control over your allies, planeswalker Twilight. Otherwise you’ll find them to be missing next time they charge ahead.”
“Well that was rather ungentlemanly of you Jace, violating another’s mind like that.” Sorin said as he looked at the blue mage, Jace returned the glare and silence began to fall, Twilight looked into the distance as her eyes glazed over.
“Vampires, Lycanthropes, Mind Readers, unconscious Rainbow Dash, I didn’t ask for this!” She shouted loudly, drawing the attention of the other two planeswalkers as well as the remainder of her friends.
“No one asks for this Twilight, it is a gift of the multiverse, a gift and a curse.” Jace said as he looked to the mare, “I didn’t learn I even had my gift until months after I had used it, I was fooled by a trusted teacher and stabbed in the back, in my rage I killed someone, or at least, thats what I told myself. After I did I tore the memories from my mind so I wouldn’t have to see it in my mind but I inserted some memories that told me exactly what happened.”
“Why are you telling me this?” The purple mare intoned, “We only just met each other and you’re already telling me your past, why?”
“Because we are planeswalkers, we can walk across multiple dimensions and seldom can we bring anyone with us, we are alone except for among ourselves and we fight for what we believe to be right. It is up to you to use your gift but I have heard only bad news from planeswalkers who refuse their own gift.”
“I think I’ll need to think about this, this is a lot to handle for one day.” Twilight said shakily, Jace nodded his head and Sorin took the opportunity to lead the mare and her friends to a guest bedroom for the remainder of the night, with Applejack carrying Rainbow on her back. The mares had intended to use the remainder of the night to share the events of the day, but all they could manage to do before they fell asleep on the floor was get the cyan mare into the bed to rest as peacefully as she could.
A voice echoed into her head that sounded familiar as she drifted off into sleep, “When you are ready I can teach you Twilight, I will be on this plane for a few more days if you need me.” As she drifted off into sleep she recognized the voice as Jace’s moments before the darkness of slumber overtook her.
Downstairs the vampire was chatting with the blue mage, “Would you have told her that under normal circumstances only the planeswalker can move between the planes and that non-planeswalker friends usually meet horrible ends?” Jace asked.
“Urza would disagree with you in that regard.” Sorin replied as he grinned.
“Urza would disagree with a lot of things, then he would bend the rules of physics to prove he was right all along, I don’t think his opinion would hold much sway right now.” Jace responded as he looked at the smiling vampire with his monotonous expression.
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"You clerics brag about your strength of spirit, yet I take away the tiniest fragment, and you crumple like a rag doll."
—Sorin Markov
(So I think that each chapter will follow a day-night pattern from this point on. Or, in some cases, a day-planeswalk pattern. -N64Fan)
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That said, I've never thought of JAce as being on first-name terms with Sorin, but that's just me.
Also: first post?
536252
Hmmm, good point, I'll swap the part where Sorin is yelling, after that it's kind of just normal.
536396
Well, I was just saying my POV, the story looks great so far, and I haven't seen any others in this vein (if you'll pardon the vampire pun) and I really hope you continue!
536479
Indeed I just felt this story building up inside of me and I just had to let it *bleed out*, of course when I posted it I fully suspected several people to bring up that this story sounded like a *blood line* relative of some other story. When I didn't I was rather interested by the lack of it. I of course appreciate the opinions of all my readers and view them as my *life blood*.
Never could pass up an opportunity for punning around.
-N64Fan
I have been waiting for this for far to long. Thank you, and insta-track.
536522
The puns. . . they burn my soul. . .
537887
Umm, I think that you're thinking a little too far into this lore wise. In my story, where ponies come across planeswalkers, lore is more of a guideline for how the planeswalker act. Ponies aren't apart of the lore right now so I'm really just taking a leap of faith.
538681
Nah, it's okay, on the bright side I know who to talk to if I need info on the lore.
Magic...and ponies.
I'm starting to like this.
Throw in Tezzeret and I'm completely sold on this.
I've been waiting to see how somebody would do a crossover with MTG and MLP, and it's awesome!
honestly I've thought about doing one myself, but got side trackd by other ideas
Man, it's been so long since I played Magic, I pretty much don't know anything about what's going on with the game and its story anymore. I stopped playing around the end of the Mirrodin block, and collected a small number of cards from some of the next few sets after that. So, yeah, I barely even know how planeswalker cards work, and have no idea what any of them are like as storyline characters. I keep expecting Sorin and Jace to attack the ponies, but I guess they really are decent guys?
Urza never got his own card, did he?
Needs Memnarch. (I just like the card /)^3^(\ And yes I know they are not on Mirrodin.)
You know, I feel like I've seen these planeswalker effects before. Also, why is RD Izzet? She feels more mono-red.