My Little Pony: Wizard of Hope

by darkmagician41

The Ring of Hope and the Magic Star Meet

My Little Pony: Wizard of Hope

Chapter 2

The Ring of Hope and the Magic Star Meet

It had been almost a month since Eric has appeared in Ponyville, and had settled in very nicely. Minus one or two problems when it came to his nutritional needs. While the ponies were not strangers to meat eaters since they were omnivorous like Eric, but did not eat any sentient being; they were shocked to hear that he had eaten animals that were sentient in their world but not in his such as cows. He was a hair’s width from swearing on his magic not to eat any meat at all until Fluttershy –in a rare show of bravery- stepped up and reminded the ponies they Eric’s home world and their own were totally different when it came to natural laws as well as humans were the only sentient beings on his world. In the end he just swore on his magic to never eat any sentient being as long as he lived.

At the moment both Dash and Eric were facing each other while in their own respective stances, with Eric wearing a karate style keikogi along with a pair of wudang styles shoes. The only change he made was that instead of wearing the usually belt or Obi, he used the Wizard Driver in belt form to hold the top together. All of it was happily created by Rarity and charmed to resist the usual hazards a normal keikogi would face; he also gave her a few other Chinese/Japanese designs for any creature that came to Ponyville outside of Equestria.

None of that mattered right now as both Human and Pony circled waiting to see which one would make the first move as off to the side, spectators that were either off or had nothing to do were watching the event. There were also some fan-ponies in the crowd, most of them young fillies cheering on Rainbow Dash to win. It would have been the majority but recently a new following has sprung up for Eric –to the human’s surprise- or rather his other persona; Kamen Rider Wizard.

Unlike Rainbow Dash’s fans, which was mostly young mares with the odd colt; all of Eric’s were young colts with a few mares but mostly colts. What really confused Eric was that despite what seemed like an equal gender split to him, his fans was smaller in size. Deciding to worry about it later, he fully focused back on the current objective: sparring with Rainbow Dash.

After the duo circles each other a few times, the prismatic mane pony had enough of waiting and decided to kick start to fight…literally. Ducking a flying kick, Eric swung around the airborne pony and went for a chop to the neck, only for Dash to use her wings flip over the hand and tried to land a punch. Knowing that the Pegasus was a lot stronger then most of her kind –if not a majority- strength wise, he parted the punch to the side before using the same hand to lash out at the sky-blue pony who once again used her wings to get some distance. A second later the two went at it once more.

To the surprise of many ponies that were watched the spar for the first time; the human and Pegasus were even. Any-pony who had at least heard the Pegasus mare knew that she was a master in at least three different styles; two Pegasus and one Earth Pony- to the shock of those who did not know her. She also knew the basics of at least one more Pegasus style shockingly the main Unicorn style as well. The mare was also unnaturally strong for a Pegasus and speedy which caused more than a few scrapes to end in mere seconds.

On the other hand, while Eric didn’t have the strength, speed, nor training that Rainbow Dash had, he did have a longer reach, agility, and flexibility along with something else; knowledge. Where Dash only focused on styles that she had mastered or at least proficient in; Eric knew more styles than she did and in theory could use them at a moment’s notice. His main style, Jeet Kun Dou, emphasized learning new styles and tricks then making them your own so that you can “become like water” as its creator Bruce Lee would say.

He also knew a few styles from other countries besides Japan and China all thanks to the movies and books that were in his house courtesy of the Doctor. All of which he was using to hold his own against the stronger and faster Pegasus mare. After a bit more time blocking, dodging, and taking hits, the two fighters decided it was time to finish this spar. As Rainbow Dash went for a low kick, Eric flipped over the mare and when he landed they were back to back for just a brief moment before they quickly spun around for one final attack.

Two loud “POP's" echoed out into the air as one when both combatants attacked and blocked at the same time. Eric, who went for a chop to Rainbow Dash’s neck, blocked a punch from the mare with his open palm while the Pegasus blocked his attack with the side of her hoof. For a few seconds neither of them moved before they smiled as one and stepped back ending the spar -though the Rider was shaking the hand he blocked with since it sting from the power behind the Pegasus' punch. Barely a second passed before the foals and colts began to cheer as the two walked back to the group with Eric reaching for a nearby water bottle when they got closer.

“That was an awesome spar Dash, thanks!” Eric said with a smile before he took a few swigs of water.

The Pegasus mare just chuckled before she replied, “I should be thanking you for the awesome fights Eric.

The teen just smiled wider as he reached into his bag, pulled out a watch and looked at it before gasping in shock, “I need to get going! AJ wants me at the farm soon!” And with that he grabbed all of his gear and took off, dodging all the colts that had started to crowd around him.

Rainbow Dash just chuckled/giggled at her friend pulled a Pinkie before deciding to find a nice cloud to nap on before she had to clear the clouds.

A few minutes after Eric dashed off to his new house for a change of clothes –the land given to him after he took care of the griffons for a final time by the Mayor and Celestia- he tore out of his house wearing what was his usual work/day clothing. A pair of red dyed blue jeans with the WizarDriver around his waist, black military style boots, a red/white tie-dyed shirt, and a black jacket which he threw on as he shot out of his 1-and-half story house. He stopped near his Rider Machine -a Honda CRF250R if Eric remembered his Kamen Rider Trivia right- that had a silver body with twin gold lines on the sides of where the “engine” was, the headlight was modeled after his Flame Style helmet with yellow lights on the side.

Jumping on the bike, Eric pulled on his helmet and turned it on with a swipe on his Driver On Ring (D-On Ring) before taking off. Even though he was on the outer limits of Ponyville, he was still a good half hour’s walk away from Sweet Apple Acres. The dude from another world only hoped that he wasn’t late.

Wizard of Hope

Second POV: Unknown

As Eric took off for Sweet Apple Acres, a pale mulberry unicorn with violet and rose streaked moderate sapphire blue mane and a Cutie Mark made of a pink-purple six pointed star surrounded by six smaller white stars, walked down the path to same apple farm. To her right was the baby dragon she had hatched years ago for her entrance exam into Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. His scales were the same colors as the Unicorn’s fur except for his underbelly, spikes and ears which were all various shades of green.

“You really need to lighten up Twilight,” the baby dragon said as he walked alongside the unicorn, “Princess Celestia already said that Nightmare Moon was just an old pony’s tail, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

The unicorn did everything she could not to snort in anger as she sharply replied, “My evidence proves otherwise Spike. I just wish I knew why the Princess won’t listen to me.”

Spike sighed as Twilight’s obsessiveness appeared again before looking at the checklist in his claw as he stated, “Well the first place on the Summer Sun Celebration: Overseers Checklist is just ahead; Sweet Apple Acres which is doing the Banquet Preparations.”

Twilight just sighed as she tried to figure out why her teacher –who was usually very supportive and caring- was ignoring all the evidence that pointed to the release of the dreaded Nightmare Moon. Before she could go further into her thought a loud roar tore them apart as they neared the gate to Sweet Apple Acres. Both Twilight and Spike quickly turned around only for their eyes to widen in shock as they saw a strange creature come barreling towards them on a two wheeled contraption that looked kind of looked like the strange contraptions some inventor had built called a bicycle but sounded like a train engine with a deeper and rhythmic tone.

She watched in shock as the strange object raced closer to her, only for the creature on top of it to swing the bicycle around and came to a stop near the fence. A second later the sound was cut off as the creature pulled off the thing on its head and revealed that it was the “human” that had appeared in Ponyville a month ago according to the reports Princess Celestia showed her.

“Sorry about that,” the human said rubbing the back on his head in embarrassment, “I was in a bit of a hurry and didn’t see you there.”

Regaining her bearing, Twilight gave a little cough before she asked, “Yes well, my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is my assistant Spike.” Briefly waving a head to the baby dragon the Princess’s student continued on, “I am here on behalf of Princess Celestia to oversee the final preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration.”

Second POV: Eric

“Well my name is Eric Pendragon,” Eric replied with a smile, “you will want to see Applejack since she is the boss of Sweet Apple Acres.” Swinging his legs off the Machine Winger –his Rider Machine- and placed his helmet on the handlebars before turning to the adorable violet unicorn and her baby dragon assistant. “She is more than likely finishing off the last of the apple trees for her family reunion.”

As Eric led the duo through the gate all three heard a loud “YEEHAW!” That the human instantly recognized as his boss and turned with Twilight and Spike to see Applejack racing towards an apple tree and with a quick turn, buckled all the apples off with ease.

As he started to walk towards the orange earth pony he heard Twilight sigh and softly say, “Let’s get this over with,” before gently clearing her throat and walked forward. “Good afternoon. My name is Twilight Sparkle…”

Next thing Eric knew, Twilight was getting the same welcome that he got when he first met Applejack and could finally see why Rainbow Dash laughed when it happened to him. After the hoof shaking stopped -with the help of Spike who could not help but chuckle a bit- Twilight briefly cleared her throat when Applejack asked what she needed.

“Well, I am in fact here to supervise the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration,” Twilight explained, “And you’re in charge of the food, correct?”

Eric could not help but interrupt the conversation and proudly said, “Applejack here is one of the most premier bakers you will ever find here in Ponyville alongside a couple of other ponies.”

Applejack just pushed her Stetson down some to cover her blush as she replied with, “Well Ah don’t know about Premier, but Ah do know my way around an apple be it bucking it down or baking it up.” With that she looked at Twilight and asked, “Care to try a sample?”

“Well…as long as it doesn’t take too long.”

The second Applejack heard that she quickly went to the nearby dinner bell and rang it a few times before hollering out, “SOUPS ON EVERYPONY!!!”

Without a second to spare, Eric quickly hurdled himself to the side to the confusion of Twilight and Spike, until they were suddenly swept up in a tide wave made up of all the members of the Apple family. As the wave passed Eric popped his head out of the nearby wagon and chuckled with embarrassment, “I forgot how the Apple family gets when it comes to dinner time.”

Jumping out of the wagon, he ambled on over to the nearby gazebo just in time for Applejack to finish introducing her family and Twilight trying to continue on with her job. “…so we’ll be on our way.”

“Aren’t you gonna stay for brunch?” the unicorn from Canterlot and looked down to see a foal with a pale olive coat and brilliant amaranth mane in front of her looking at Twilight with the “Dreaded Puppy-Dog Eyes” or as they call it the “Pony Pout”. Twilight, with as much effort as she could muster, tried to tear herself away from the now nuclear weapons grade adorable filly but it was no use.

“We’ll stay,” Twilight said with a defeated sigh causing all of the Apple Family –who was watching with bated breath- to cheer happily as the feasting began.

Eric just chuckled as he made his way to the filly, knelt down to her and whispered, “I taught you well Apple Bloom,” causing the little filly’s eyes to gain a prankster’s gleam before the two did the pony version of a low-five –hoof pound- then went to get what they could before it all vanished into the black hole stomachs of the Apple Family.

Time skip

About an hour later, Twilight and spike went on to their next destination with Eric tagging along since Applejack gave him the day off thanks to the reunion.

“Well food’s taken care of,” Spike said as he looked at the overseers checklist –not at all bothered by the huge amount of food he just ate since his stomach was like a furnace, “Next is weather.”

“That would be Rainbow Dash’s domain there,” Eric interjected –also not bothered by the food he ate thanks to his new high metabolism- as he looked back at Twilight and could not help but winch in pity.

Behind the two males, poor Twilight moaned pitifully as she was forced to walk on an overfilled stomach, “Ugh…I ate too much pie…”

Chuckling weakly, Eric turned back to Spike as the baby dragon wondered where Dash was, “More the likely she’s practicing for the Wonderbolts or taking a nap.”

Twilight looked around a little mad, “She’s napping where there work to be done? She doesn’t sound very reliable at all.”

Next thing she knew, a multi colored blur slammed into her sending unicorn and blur into a rather large nearby puddle of mud. Eric and Spike quickly raced over to the scene of the crash only for Eric to chuckle as he saw what the blur was.

“Hey Rainbow Dash, have a nice trip?” He said with a Troll Grin on his face.

“Ha, ha.” The Karma Charger wannabe said with groan which Twilight echoed. Hearing the extra groan Rainbow Dash quickly got up and chuckled with more than a bit of embarrassment. “Um, oops….” She said pitifully as she took to the skies, allowing her unfortunate target to get up herself, “Let me help you.”

Taking off, Rainbow Dash quickly came back with a small cloud filled with rainwater –her own coat cleaned of mud. When she got on top of it, she began to jump up and down on the cloud a few times releasing its contents. Unfortunately while this cleaned Twilight of the mud, it left her mane and tail hanging down, heavy with water.

“I…guess I overdid it,” Dash said sheepishly and was about to do something else when Eric decided to intervene having experienced firsthand what Dash was going to do next.

Pulling off his D-On Ring, Eric replaced it with a new ring he acquired thanks to another newest resident in Ponyville along with a couple of other rings. This one had an orange stone embedded in it with a silver dragon’s head near the top and three chains crisscrossing the ring below it. Once he placed it on this right middle finger, Eric swung it over the Hand Author causing both items to glow.

=Bind; Please!=

When Rainbow Dash heard that she quickly froze, only to get roped by a couple of chains and pulled back to Eric. Twilight and Spike both had dropped jaws as they saw Eric holding an orange spell circle in front of him where two metal chains came out and pulled a fuming Dash to him.

“If you’re going to do what I think you’re going to do…” he started as he dissolved the spell circle and chains while taking off the Bind Ring, “It would be a bad idea. Let me just get something from my house.”

With that he pulled on his Connect Ring and swung it over his belt buckle again.

=Connect; Please!=

Summoning the same spell circle as before –but bigger- Eric pushed his hand into it shocking the two newbies to Ponyville as it did not come out the other side. After a few seconds of fumbling, Eric pulled out a couple of towels from his home causing the spell circle to vanish. He offered them to Twilight who took them –after putting her eyes back in her sockets- and began to dry herself. After a few minutes she was fully dried though her hair was still a bit of a mess, and gratefully gave them back to Eric who put them in the dirty clothes bin back at his house with another Connect Circle.

Pushing her burning questions to the side, Twilight turned to Rainbow Dash who was chuckling a bit at the Unicorn pony’s slightly puffy mane/tail. “Let me guess…Your Rainbow Dash.”

That quickly got the multi colored Pegasus’ attention. “THE one and only!” She said proudly before quickly fluttering up to Twilight as she asked, “Why? You heard of me?”

“I Heard you’re supposed to be keeping the skies cleared,” Twilight replied a bit peeved before settling down, “I’m Twilight Sparkle and the Princess sent me to check on the weather.”

As Twilight was introducing herself, Dash grabbed a nearby cloud and reclined on it waving a hoof at the unicorn, “Yeah, Yeah… I’ll do it in a jiffy, just as soon as I’m done practicing.”

Eric did all he could to keep from groaning as he heard that and just stood to the side as he watched Twilight try to get Dash moving by hitting one of her few weak points…Her Ego. As Rainbow Dash was about to use her usual boost of clearing the skies in ten seconds flat –which Eric actually timed and found that it was more like 8.5-9 seconds- the Ring Mage got an idea.

“Hey Dash, how about we have a race as to see who could clear the skies faster.” Eric suggested as he reached into his pocket and pulled out another ring. This one was similar to his Flame Style ring but instead of a round ruby, there was an inverted triangular emerald.

Rainbow Dash perked up as she saw the ring and quickly pointed it out, “That’s your new Hurricane Ring right?”

“Yep,” with a troll grin, “Want to help me test drive this baby in midair?”

A grin was all Rainbow Dash showed before she started to limber up as Eric placed his D-On Ring on his right hand while the Hurricane Ring went on the left hand. Twilight and Spike watched with a bit of curiosity wondering how the wingless human was going to race a Pegasus until the dude from another word swiped his left hand over his buckle one more time.

=Driver On; Please!=

Their curiosity turned to shock as the buckle transformed into its driver form before Eric changed it from spell mode to transformation mode, causing it to sing.

=SHABADOOBIE TATCHI HENSHIN~! SHABADOOBIE TATCHI HENSHIN~! SHABADOOBIE TATCHI HENSHIN~!=

Lifted his right hand up to his face, Eric flipped the goggles on the Hurricane Ring down as he said, “Henshin” Before placing his left hand over the Hand Author. As both Ring and Driver glowed, the Mage pointed his hand up towards the sky –palm up- summoning an emerald green version of his spell circle before placing his hands at his side as the circle came down as the Driver spoke once more.

=HURRICANE; PLEASE! FUU, FUU~! FUU, FUU, FUU, FUU!=

As the spell circle passed over his body, it furnished him his armor as before but the Rubies were replaced with Emeralds with the sides of his chest plates forming three triangles while his helmet now resembled his Hurricane Ring. Twilight’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates as her bottom jaw dropped to the floor from what she saw along with Spike’s.

Eric/Wizard turned to Rainbow Dash with a grin behind his helmet as he asked, “Are you ready?”

“Born Ready!” Dash shouted as she got into a runner’s stance with Eric beside her, “On your mark…”

“Get set,” Wizard added as he also went into a runner stance as green tinted wind started to swirl around him.

With a dual shout of “GO!!!” both Pegasus and Mage took off -with Wizard using his wind power to take to the sky- and began kicking/punching the clouds to scatter them into vapor with Rainbow Dash doing the same –thought she mostly bucked them. The two on the ground watched with UFO wide eyes as the Mage and Pegasus quickly cleared the skies and about ten seconds later both of them landed as they started to compare a cloud count.

“You stole three of my clouds Dash!” Wizard accused with a grin behind his helmet that showed when he dismissed his armor.

“You were just too slow Eric!” Dash boasted as she buffed a hoof on her chest while landing on the nearby bridge, “Even with your new ring I’m still faster than you.”

“We’ll just settle this another time, fly girl,” Eric suggested which the Pegasus nodded in agreement before turning to the still stunned Twilight and Spike.

“See,” Rainbow Dash proudly said, “I never leave Ponyville hanging.”

Seeing the looks still plastered on the unicorn’s face the two best friends could not help but laugh as Dash pointed it out, “You two should see the looks on your faces. You’re a laugh Twilight Sparkle. I can’t wait to hang out some more.” With that she took off waving a hoof to Eric who waved back and then went on to the next destination.

“Wow…” Spike said with awe in his voice, “Those two are amazing.”

Twilight didn’t say a word as she quickly began to race after Eric with Spike forced to follow as fast as he could. “Hey wait for me!!”

For a few minutes, the curious unicorn bombarded Eric with questions on how he did what he did, what his rings/armor was made of, and many other questions revolving around what he just showed. This went on until Eric reminded her what she came to Ponyville to do causing a conflict of interests to arise before the human promised her that he would explain his magic as best he could later on.

With the promise fueling her, Twilight went on to the next pony on the list which Spike checked it off as they entered the Ponyville Town Square pavilion. “Decorations,” he said looking at the list before bringing his head up. “Beautiful…” He uttered in a distant voice.

“Yes, the décor’s coming along nicely,” Twilight said looking at the wonderfully decorated pavilion, “This oughta be quick. I’ll be at the library in no time.” She added making Eric look at her curiously as he wondered why she was so focused on getting to the library as soon as possible –which she had mentioned a few times since Eric tagged along with her. “Beautiful indeed,” she finished until Spike corrected her.

“Not the décor,” he quickly said as he pointed a claw at the one decorating the place, “Her.”

In the middle of the Pavilion, Rarity was sorting out the last of the ribbons to put up trying to find the perfect one. Each ribbon she summoned with her horn was quickly discarded with a, “No,” though one did get a, “Oh my Goodness No.”

Spikes pupils turned into hearts as he watched the beautiful fashionista (?) do her work until he ran a claw over his spikes. “How are my spines?!” he quickly asked, “Are the straight?”

Rolling his eyes at the love struck dragon, Eric walked up to Rarity with a simple wave. “Hey Rarity-Hime,” he started until the white unicorn stopped him.

“Just a moment Eric, I’m ‘in the zone’ as it were,” Rarity politely interrupted as she continued her ribbon sorting, “Thought would you mind retrieving a bag of materials I had accidentally left at your house dear?”

“I think I know where they are Hime-chan,” Eric replied as he switched rings and summoned his Connect spell circle. After digging around a bit he pulled out a small stylish bag that Rarity used to carry her materials for clothes in. “Got it!”

“Thank you dear,” Rarity responded as she placed the last ribbon on a pole in a neat bow. “Oh yes! Sparkle always does the trick, does it not?” She asked placing the last of the ribbons in another bag before turning to Eric. “Now… um, how can I help Eric~aaaAARGH!”

Rarity was shocked when she saw the small mess that was Twilight’s mane and tail, “Oh my stars, darling! Whatever happened to your coiffure?!?!”

“Oh you mean my mane?” Twilight asked a bit confused, “Well, it’s a long story.”

“It was a Karma Charger named Rainbow Dash,” Eric supplied with a shrug.

“Why am I not surprised it is that tom-colt of a mare’s fault,” Rarity replied with a huff.

“Never mind my mane,” Twilight quickly before the conversation could go on further, “I’m just here to check on decorations and then I’ll be out of your hair.’

Eric could not help but face-palm as he heard what Twilight said while Rarity quickly “corrected” her. “Out of MY hair?” she asked stunned by what she just heard and saw, “What about YOUR hair?”

Next thing Twilight knew, Rarity was quickly yet politely pushing her toward her fashion boutique. “Wait!” The Canterlot unicorn shouted in shock, “Where are we going?! HELP!”

With a sigh, Eric followed behind the two unicorns with Spike doing the same but in the style of a lost puppy that was fed, his tail acting like a small propeller as he floated after the beautiful mare.

A few minutes later, Eric stood at the side as he watched Rarity work her true magic; fashion magic that is. After a few misses Rarity finally found the perfect match for Twilight; a white and pale blue saddle/dress (?) that was studded in a tasteful array of small gemstones with a larger emerald on the front.

“Now go on my dear,” Rarity commented as she finished putting the last few touches on the dress, “You were telling me where you’re from.”

Twilight tried to explain why she was in Ponyville as the other mare gripped the last few straps with her teeth and pulled. “I’ve…Been…Sent…From…Canterlot…” She was able to squeak out –as she was being squeezed- before Rarity heard that last word and let go of the straps with a snap.

“Huh, Canterlot?!?!” she asked loudly in surprise before cringing as she heard a crash. Rarity looked up and saw Twilight sprawled across Eric who got slammed by the Canterlot Mare, sending them both into the pony shaped mannequins and creating a big mess.

After digging the two out of the mannequin avalanche and bandaging up Eric –who took the brunt of the damage-, Rarity began to apologize, “Forgive me my dear, but it’s always been a dream of mine to live in Canterlot and showcase my wares to the sophisticated ponies there.”

“Ain’t that the truth,” Eric said as he gently held a bag of ice to a rather large bump on his head, “But Hime-chan does some rather wonderful work. Heck, she even made the clothes that I’m wearing right now!”

Twilight looks at Eric’s clothing and had to admit he did look handsome in them despite not being a pony; then she began to blush at the strange thought. With that she turned to Rarity with a sad smile on her face, “As much as I want to stick around I still have a few more places to go before I’m finished.

Rarity looked at Twilight a bit confused until Eric explained why she was here. “Forgive me Twilight,” She said with a nod of her head as she began to help the Canterlot Mare out of the dress, “I sometimes will let my love of fashion over take my common sense.”

With a bright smile Twilight allowed Rarity to help her take off the dress happy that at least one of the ponies here apologized for their crazy antics. “Not a problem, though I will admit the dress looks very nice.”

“Thank you dear,” Rarity replied with a bright smile of her own “Once you are finished please do come back. I have a few items here that will look simply smashing on you.”

With a wave the trio took off once more with Twilight levitating Spike onto her back as he was still lovestruck. As they continued on their way to the next pony, the mare decided to ask a question that had been on her mind for a while. “What kind of magic did you use on Rainbow Dash, Eric?”

Eric just chuckled knowing that question was coming, “It’s a special kind of magic that I only found out I had when I got to Equestria just a month ago. I really don’t know the mechanics about my magic in-depth but I do know that it is similar to your own magic Twilight.’

“Really?” the mare could not help but say, “How so?”

“Basically,” Eric continued, “My magic is used by having my mana pulled from what I call a Linker Core where I naturally generate my magic into the Hand Author on my WizarDriver here.” He tapped his belt buckle to identify the Hand Author as he continued on, “From there it is further stored and refined with a special stone in the Hand Author called the Grimoire Stone where it stays until I use my Wizard Rings.”

At that Twilight stopped Eric, “how is that possible? I have read that some gems can hold magic if they are manipulated to do so but I never heard of any gems that can cast spells.”

“That’s where a friend of my Shigeru Wajime comes in. You heard of Magic Stones right?”

Twilight nodded her head at that. She had briefly researched that for a term paper once and was fascinated to find out that some special gems already had mana within them naturally but very few ponies had the ability to decipher why they did and usually just purify the magic within the gems. Unfortunately they never seemed as powerful as they once were thought they still were miles above specially grown crystals.

Eric continued on as they slowly neared their destination, “Well, Wajime-san’s special talent lies in ring making or rather ring refining.” Seeing Twilight’s confusion the Rider decided to elaborate, “Basically he can listen to the magic within a Magic Stone and shape both the stone and the magic inside to become a gem for a Wizard Ring without it losing any of its power turning it into a spell for me to use..”

Finally a loose end tied itself into place as all of the speculations and theories Twilight had read finally started to make sense. “So your magic revolves around using the refined Magic Stones as a basis for your spells are limited to the number of rings you have.”

“Pretty Much.”

Before they could continue on, Twilight, Eric, and the recently awakened Spike suddenly heard songbirds singing; and I mean really singing in unison and not randomly. They poked their heads into the nearest bush and saw a familiar Pegasus guiding a small flock of birds through a song. Eric smiled as he saw Fluttershy and quickly turned to Twilight.

“That’s Fluttershy,” he said in a whisper, “She’s the one who doing the opening music for the Summer Sun Celebration. Let me go on first since she is extremely shy around strangers; though I seem to be the only exception.”

As Eric carefully climbed out of the bushes Fluttershy had to briefly stop her choir since one of the birds –a blue jay- was a bit off key. “Hey, Tenshi-chan,” He said walked up to the Pegasus slowly as to not scare off her friends.

“Oh, Hello Eric,” Fluttershy said in her usual quiet voice and a bright smile, “how are you today?”

“Pretty good,” the Rider replied returning the smile, “Just guiding the Overseer from Canterlot around Ponyville after we met at Applejack’s farm.”

At that, Twilight slowly came out of the bushes with a smile on her face startling the Pegasus. Fluttershy quickly tried to hide behind Eric who gently stepped to the side and knelt down to her. “It’s okay Tenshi,” Eric softly said using his nickname for the kind Pegasus, “you know I wouldn’t bring anyone that would harm you or your friends’ right?”

Fluttershy nodded a little her shyness still affecting her so Twilight Decided to take the initiative. “My name is Twilight Sparkle,” the Canterlot Mare said softly, “I was sent by Princess Celestia to check up on the music and it is sounding beautiful.”

“Thank you,’ Fluttershy replied so softly, Twilight almost didn’t hear it. The only reasons it was a ‘loud’ as it was, was thanks to Eric who softly rubbed the Pegasus’ back just in front of her wings.

For a while there was a bit of an awkward silence until Spike decided to pop out of the bushes. Suddenly a gleam appeared in the Pegasus’ eyes that Eric knew very well; both from experience and from his animes. Without warning the Rider quickly grabbed Twilight and jumped back to the mare’s confusion…Which was quickly cleared up a second later.

“A BABY DRAGON!!!” Fluttershy shouted in a happy shock then shouting something that stunned Eric as she rushed the baby dragon and began cuddling him, “OMOCHIKAERI!!!!!”

See that she would have either been sent flying or crushed as flat as a pancake is Eric hadn’t acted, Twilight turned to him with a wide smile, “Thanks Eric. But I thought you said she was shy.”

“Around ponies yes,” the human replied after he returned to the real world somehow seeing the ghost of a certain anime character superimpose herself over Fluttershy briefly. “Animals on the other hand will cause her to lose all shyness and…well you see the results for yourself.”

Both of them turned towards Fluttershy…only to see her race off in a cloud of dust as strange and familiar specter superimposed herself over the Pegasus. Not a second later both Eric and Twilight raced after Fluttershy respectively shouting; “Get back here Fluttershy!!!/Let go of my baby brother!!!”

After almost an hour’s worth of running, Spike was recovered in front of the Ponyville Library, the Golden Oaks Library. Twilight was softly consoling a scared Spike as Fluttershy tried to hide behind her mane in embarrassment. “I’m very sorry Twilight,” the Pegasus said in her usually soft voice but with twice the shyness, “I’m not sure what came over me.”

“Yes well,’ Twilight started as she looked at Celestia’s setting sun, “Well I think I need to put Spike to bed after everything that has happened.” And with that she quickly took the baby dragon inside as Fluttershy looked down with a bit of sadness.

“I’m sorry Fluttershy,” Eric apologized as he gave his friend a small hug, “But I think you were possessed by that piece again.”

“It’s not your fault Eric,” Fluttershy replied with a soft smile, “I-I’m just too weak to stand u-up to it.”

The Rider quickly began to shot that down, “You not weak at all… your big heart just takes over your mind once in awhile.”

Before they could go on Both human and pony heard a loud, “SURPRISE!” coming from inside the library that was very familiar.

“I think Twilight just met Pinkie,” Eric said in a deadpan voice which caused Fluttershy to giggle softly a bit. After that both of them entered the library which was filled with as many of Ponyville’s residents as Pinkie could fit in.

Speaking of the part pony, she was currently trying to talk Twilight’s ears off who was trying just as equally to block her out…Guess who was winning?

With a chuckle Eric decided to try and save Twilight, only for her to accidentally pour some hot sauce into a cup and drink it, thinking it was punch. A few seconds later she high tailed it to the bathroom with her mane and tail on fire. Deciding to give her some space for the moment Eric quickly started to mingle, something he was slowly getting used to thanks to being invited to so many of Pinkie’s parties at the mare’s insistence.

A few hours passed and soon it was nearing time for the Summer Sun Celebration and Eric watched as Spike tried to get Twilight back down to the party only for the poor dragon to walk out without the mare. Deciding to take a chance, Eric slipped into the room and saw Twilight sitting on the bed while looking up at the moon with a worried look on her face.

“Hey Twilight,” the rider called out causing the mare to turn to him, “Are you okay?”

Twilight sighed before turning back towards the moon. “I’m okay Eric,” She said with worry in her voice that did not convince Eric at all.

Taking great care not to hit his head on anything, Eric slowly made his way up to the second floor of the room and sat down next to Twilight on her right. “Doesn’t sound like it to me,” he said softly looking up at the moon with Twilight, “A Bit for your thoughts?”

A brief giggle escaped Twilight’s lips at the corny saying before she sighed sadly, “Since you are new to Equestria; you may not know that I am the personal apprentice to Princess Celestia.”

“You are?” Eric asked in shock before smiling, “Congratulations.”

“Thank you,” Twilight politely replied absently before going on, “but recently I’ve been starting to wonder if the Princess takes me seriously sometimes.”

That confused Eric a lot since the last couple of times he had met the princess she seemed very sincere about listening to all of her subjects and knowing there problems. “What do you mean?”

Instead of answering him, Twilight gave Eric the book she was reading and showed him the passage in it, “Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousand year; the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about everlasting night… A prophecy?”

“Yes,” Twilight admitted, “I found this prophecy when I was researching about Equestria founding and saw that there was another princess who ruled alongside Princess Celestia but was corrupted by darkness and almost brought about eternal night. She was sealed into the moon by the Princess with something called the Elements of Harmony; but a prophecy was made that told of her escape…and this Celebration marks the day she would reappear.”

As she said that her ears started to droop with sadness as she continued on and Eric listened intently, “I told the Princess about my suspicions, but she just passed them off as nothing more than a pony’s tale and sent me here to ‘make friends’.” She then scoffed as her sadness quickly turned to anger, “What use will friends be when it turns out that I was right and Nightmare Moon does return today?”

Eric thought on it for a bit –since his anime instinct started to buzz a bit- and asked, “Are you sure that’s what she said?”

“I don’t have the letter she sent me at the moment,” Twilight sheepishly admitted, “But that’s basically what she said.”

Warning bells started to ring when Twilight said that but kept his mouth shut. Instead he decided to go in a different direction. “Well don’t worry,’ he said causing Twilight to look up at the human, “I’m sure Celestia Ojou-sama is probably preparing for her return if it does happen and doesn’t want you to worry so much. If she does return and you need help…” he held up his right hand towards Twilight showing her the D-On ring with a gentle smile on his face, “…I will be your hope if you ever lose your own.”

Twilight could not help but blush a bit at what Eric said and how he said it until Spike popped out of the door startling them both.

“Common Twilight, Eric, It’s time to watch the sun rise!”

As the baby dragon quickly raced out to the Ponyville Pavilion, Eric stood up and smiled at Twilight. “Guess it’s time to see if the curtain will rise on a new day or an eternal night.” He turned around smoothly…only to bang his head on the low hanging ceiling and letting out an “ITAI!!!!”

The random slapstick comedy that happened in front of her was enough for Twilight to giggle a bit before she smiled. With a smile of his own –pained as it was- Eric walked the mare to the door and towards the pavilion with both of them slightly worried for what may happen. A few minutes later, Every-pony in the town had gathered in the building taking up as much space as they safely could with a few Pegasi hovering in midair to get a better view.

A few seconds after Twilight and Eric founds a place to stand, Pinkie suddenly appeared beside them and began to chatter with them about the festival and how awesome it was going to be. The Rider just rolled his eyes and kept an eye on where Celestia was going to appear. As it near the time of her arrival, Fluttershy began to start up her songbird choir and Mayor Mare stepped out to give her speech.

Eric only half listened to it as he saw Twilight looking around with a bit of worry before staring up at the moon. Deciding to look as well, the Rider’s eyes widen in shock as he watched four stars that were surrounding the moon suddenly get absorbed into it as the series of craters that were shaped to look like a unicorn’s head suddenly disappeared. Soon cloister bells began ringing in Eric’s head as he looked up at where Celestia was going to appear at the same time Rarity opened the curtains to reveal…nothing.

As usual, Pinkie was carefree about the situation as she asked, “Oh, I love guessing games! Is she hiding?”

“Not good,” Eric on the other hand whispered as he quickly got ready for anything while Rarity raced up to the balcony and looked inside.

A second later she came out and shouted, “SHE’S GONE!!!”

Every-pony there gasped in horror at what they heard, except for one…

“Oh! She’s good!”

A second later she too began to gasp as a purple star studded ethereal mist began to form on the balcony and gather into a cloud before it burst apart to reveal an Alicorn but not the one everypony was expecting. She was tall and slender with a pitch black coat with a mane/tail similar to the one that formed her appearance with a dark lavender armor on her head, breast and front legs. Her Cutie mark was a silver crescent moon on a lavender night sky with the same moon on her breastplate.

"Oh, no,” Twilight whispered as she took a few steps back in fear, “Nightmare Moon." Spike on the other hand just fainted when his boss and mother confirmed what he had been secretly dreading.

The dark equine, Nightmare Moon, spoke with a regal tone as she gazed down at the other ponies, an evil smile on her face, "Oh, my beloved subjects: it's been so long since I've seen your precious little sun-loving faces."

Rainbow Dash, always ready for action, quickly demanded, "What did you do with our princess?" She attempted to confront the new arrival head-on, but Applejack quickly clenching down on her tail with her teeth and used all of her strength to hold her back.

Nightmare Moon chuckled malevolently at the cute but pitiful display, "Why: am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am?"

The inappropriately cheerful Pinkie quickly began to jump up and down happily, "Oh, oh: more guessing games! Um, Hokey Smokes? How 'bout Queen Meanie? No, Black Snooty! Black Snoot-" She was cut off when Eric shoved a cupcake in her mouth hoping to keep her alive just in case the dark Alicorn started shooting.

Nightmare scowled as she heard that before turning to the nearby Fluttershy and quickly got into her face scaring the poor Pegasus, "Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years?" She then turned to Rarity and used her surprisingly prehensile tail to keep the poor mare’s face turned towards her as she continued on, "Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?”

"I did!" Twilight called out as Eric stood beside her ready to transform or throw down at a moment’s notice, "and I know who you are: you're the Mare in the Moon, Nightmare Moon!"

More gasps came from the other ponies in the room. Was Twilight really speaking the Truth??? Was this really the dreaded Nightmare Moon???

The dark Alicorn on the other hand seemed impressed, "Well, well, well: some-pony who remembers me. Then you also know why I'm here."

Twilight began to falter and with a gulp, replied with a small stutter, "You're here to... to...!"

Nightmare Moon began to chuckle at the mare’s scared demeanor. "Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth… The night will last FOREVER!”

Her mane then began to extended and spiraled throughout the room, producing both darkness and bolts of lightning as her chuckle soon turned to evil laughter scaring all the ponies in the room. As she did so Eric let off a low growl while his Flame and Hurricane Rings softly glowed in his pocket. If Nightmare Moon wanted Equestria to be in an eternal night; than it was going to be over his dead body! The Dark Alicorn was going to find out what happens when you threatened a Kamen Rider’s home and friends; especially one whose magic was embedded with their hope and courage.

Omake

Fluttershy's Specter

A week after Eric arrived in Ponyville, Fluttershy was happily humming a soft tune as she went about feeding the animals under her care. As she went along, a loud female voice quickly startled her into the air, only for something to grab her as it shouted, "HAU~ OMOCHIKAERI"

Fluttershy looked behind her and was shocked to see a human ghost with light brown -almost golden brown- hair, blue eyes, wearing a white dress with purple bows at the neck and base of her spine with a strange hat on her head.

"W-ho...What a-are you?!?!" Fluttershy stuttered out as the specter cuddled her to the point of being painful.

"I'm Rena Ryuugu!" The Specter squealed out, as she smiled in a happy yet creepy way at the Pegasus, "I'm taking you Home with me!!!"

"MATTE!!!" a voice shouted out making the ghost girl turn to it with Fluttershy still in her arms and to the Pegasus relief saw Eric rushing towards the two with his Driver activated. " I do not know why you are here Ryuugu-san," Eric said as the rest of his friend quickly raced up behind him as he skip to a stop, "but I will not let you take Fluttershy away!"

That did not please in any way shape or form and placed Fluttershy down as a crazed look got into her eyes, "Anyone to tries to take away my cute things," she began to state while pulling out a Nata or Billhook from behind her back as her calm state turned to rage shouting, "WILL NOT BE FORGIVEN!!!"

Quickly ducking under the garden tool turned weapon, Eric quickly transformed and summoned a a sword that was given to him which transformed into the WSG as it passed through the Spell Circle, 'Hope this holds,' he thought to himself as he went to block another slash.

Rena thought for a second that she would be able to pass through the strange sword and cut the interloper, only for the mystic blade to block the Nata, "Nani?!?!" she shouted in shock as Wizard was pushed back a few feet from the force behind the slash.

'Aw Great!,' Wizard thought as he steadied himself, 'Not only is she in Kawaii mode, but she's also in Level 4 or 5 Hinamizawa Syndrome; or somewhere close it. I need to end this soon!'

As the Rider block more attacks -which tore through anything it hit with surprising ease- while dodging others from the spirit; a crazy idea appeared in his mind. Flipping over a wild charge, Wizard quickly landed and stabbed the tip of his new WSG into the ground before summoning his Connect Circle, reached into it, then pulled out a strange slip of paper with Japanese words written down it that read 'Akuryo Taisan'.

"An Ofuda!" Rena shouted in shock before putting on a brave face, "I don't know what you're trying to pull, but you're definitely not a priest!!!" Then with a war cry of "For the cute things!!!" she charged forward, confident that the interloper could not use the charm.

'Please let this work,' Wizard thought as he closed his eyes and began to focus. His Rune Circle appeared beneath his feet and slowly began to rotate as a wind began to pick up around him. "Rin, Pyou, Tou, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!" He began to chant as two specters appeared beside him. One was a young woman the Rider's height with long raven colored hair wearing a strange costume that would cause anyone to blush with embarrassment while the second figure looked like a burning warrior with a wrathful fanged face that glared at the spirit.

Snapping his eyes open with a "HA!!!!" the rippling piece of paper quickly straightened before a fiery aura appears around it. Wizard quickly threw the Ofuda at Rena, pulled out the WSG, and switched it to gun mode before opening the Hand Author on it.

=C'MON SHOOTING! SHAKE HANDS! =

Quickly the Rider swiped his left hand over the WSG's Hand Author before taking aim at the Spirit and the Ofudo between them as the spirits behind him vanished

=FLAME; SHOOTING STRIKE! HI, HI, HI,! HI, HI, HI! =

"FIRE SOUL BIRD!!!" Wizard shouted as he pulled the trigger and launched a fireball at the charm which was quickly absorbed it; then to the astonishment of everyone watching, transformed into a fiery phoenix which let off a rage fill shriek.

"NANI?!?!" Rena shouted in shock and tried to dodge out of the way, but got hit full on. She cried out in pain as her soul was forcefully purified before being sent back to the spirit world.

"Whew," Wizard said as he dismissed his armor, "That was a trip," Eric continued as his friend quickly raced up to him.

"What in tarnation was that Eric?!?!" Applejack asked as Eric rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Just something the Doctor had left in my house for some reason," He replied sheepishly, "I didn't know if it would work but I'm glad it did.

"Well I am glad this fiasco has been quickly taken care of," Rarity said as Fluttershy -who had hug back a bit- gained a strange look in her eyes as her pet rabbit, Angel Bunny, hopped over to see what was going on.

Suddenly a familiar war cry rang out in a totally different voice, "HAU~ OMOCHIKAIRE!!!"

Everyone looked to see Fluttershy cuddling a startled Angel who was staring at his owner in shock.

"I think you may have jinxed us Rarity," Eric pointed out with a sweat drop on the side of his face, "Because Fluttershy's soul looked to have been slightly tainted by Rena."

"Doh!" Rainbow Dash, Who had hung back because of a slight fear of ghosts, said with a facehoof.

End Omake

Author's Note:

Now I'm sure your wondering what an Omake is...It's a technique used in Japanese Comics or Manga so showcase something that happens 'behind the scenes' of a story but is not really a essential part of it. Sometimes it's played for laughs like how Princess Celestia prepared herself for Nightmare Moon's return -which someone already did and I'll link to later- to Fluttershy'd strange behavior when Spike made his appearance.

For those of you who are purists when it comes to the Mane 6's behavior along with other ponies'; you might want to look else where because I will be changing how some of the characters interact with the world. A couple of future examples are two enemies that appeared near the start of the first season.

And now time for your Japanese Translations!!!

Fuu = wind or air
Hime = And informal way of calling someone a Princess, usually used as a nickname or to mock a real princess
Tenshi = Angel
Omochikaeri = I want to take it home (a hint as to who Fluttershy's specter it)
Matte = Wait
Akuryo Taisan = Evil Spirit, Disperse
Rin, Pyou, Tou, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen = Combined into a sentence it means "all warriors have been lined up in formation here"

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