When a guy and a girl go cosplaying as baldur's gate characters and buy a book of the dead from a close friend,they get transported to an equestria where adventure is everything! (A part of the Displaced multiverse)
What happens when a guy wants to get away from his home for a while and recently got an inheritance? He goes to a convention to get his mind of of things. He then meets a highschool friend and buys an Egyptian book and is sent to an Equestria where adventuring gets the inhabitants a living. (Displaced multiverse fic.) (Crossover with the Baldur's gate Games) (rated T for use of certain curse words) (first fic,help is needed)
You know, this isn't what I though of when I said I needed a way of escape. Hold on,let me go back a little,A few minutes back should do it.
A few minutes ago.
The time is June 4th,2015 and I needed a little bit of respite,the reason being is what most people call the "Second Depression" an event most of the elderly in the states think akin to "The Great Depression". It was the last time I got to see my Grandmother,she left me some money in her will,passing her farm and family documents to my Dad. I decided a break would be a necessity,as did my managers after all McDonalds doesn't want a sad guy working on the front counter taking orders with tears in his eyes. They gave me a two week leave, they didn't give me the slip or anything just a two week no pay vacation to get my mind off of things. I decided I would go to my first con in a long time and what better way than to cosplay and impress people? Now was the time to go after all.
My point of interest for this cosplay was a little PS2 game known as Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance,a gauntlet-style game based in the Forgotten Realms set of D&D system. I focused on the second Ps2 game,mostly because it had more character. My character of choice was Ysuran Auondril, A Moon Elf Necromancer.
I had everything I needed even a book to carry like the elf would (My mother gave me her Book of Shadows) the only thing I didn't have was a pair of elvish ears,a dog recently chewed them up. I went with my back up plan and tried to contact a friend,but he was out at a rennisance faire,so I resorted to my third plan,buy a set at the con.
It didn't take long for me to get to the con,as minor traffic altercations didn't happen (thank the Gods). When Iwent inside the conference building I made a beeline for the changing room. Getting in my "Gear" I felt as if I was missing something important,something I needed,It wasn't the ears because I didn't have them yet.
"Son of a fuck,I left my book in the car!" I yelled,mentally kicking my own ass.
I couldn't go back,I spent too much time on my costume to get it dirty,plus blk shows nearly every place you've been to by dust and dirt alone. so I only had one thing to do, buy the ears and a good looking book fit for the cosplay. It couldn't be too hard to do since the con has everything a fantasy nerd like myself would need for emergencies such as my own. I started exploring around,getting pictures with some other people,until I eventually found a shop that I could apply the ears if I bought them. I got around to asking where I could buy creepy looking books around and the lady that applied my ears pointed me to a "little asian man's" store. I followed the directions the lady gave me luckily only having to go a few stalls down. When I arrived I noticed that he was'nt around,so I decided to do a little window shopping, looking at the covers of some books and poking around with others,the faint bootsteps of someone comming knocked me out of my reading stupor,then a voice that sounded like it got grated up by a cheese grater.
"You are a leap away from your usual market,Mister." The voice sounded happy to see me.
I loked up,surprised to see that it was a friend of mine that sold airsoft equipment at a flea market I go to.
"Rick? I didn't know you go sell at cons too." I said, lifting my eyes from the book,eventually setting it down. "How is your stall anyway?" I asked him
He lowered his head,the shine in his eyes dying down. "I had to sell some of my guns for $100 extra or more." He said biting his lower lip.
I followed his gaze,a long silence fell over both of us until I decided to break it. " I'm sorry to hear about it Rick." I said,trying to cheer the man up.
More steps were heard,this time much more quicker and powerful then the stall keeper's. I felt a set of arms wrap around my chest and lift me up,squeezing my air supply.
"Heeeeeeeeeeey you!" A highpitched female voice came from my assaulter
I tried to squirm out of the death grip,my lungs were shrinking the longer I stayed in the vice. I finally got the slip,but fell to the back of my head onto some thin plush carpet.
"Ow! Holy Christ,Blaze!" I yelled,jerking my head forward so my hands can grip my head in pain.
She was currently dressed as the Avariel (Winged Elf),Aerie, from the Pc Baldur's Gate games. Her orange and yellow robes sort reaching her calves.
"Sucks to suck, Zeff!" She stuck her tongue out with her usual grin.
I sighed,getting up and brushing myself free of dust as best as I could. "I sometimes get tired of you Blaze." I said,ending my point with a small cloud of dust flying off of me.
With a few conversations between the two friends of mine I finally spotted a book I could use. It was called "The Solar Litany",the book being accented by white Egyptian writings in wax on the black cover. The book itself looked relatively new ,like it had just been made and hot off the presses. "How much for 'The Solar Litany' book here?" I asked,reaching for a small opening in my armor that led to my wallet. I was stopped short by Rick,raising his hand and shaking his head. "It is yours,I still owe you back at 'Operation: Victoria' man." He said,his face finally contorting to a smile.
I grabbed the book,then I promptly had another,more slim hand on it as well. Blaze had a small hold on it,making it hard to open the book.It was then that I felt a sort of pain worse than Blaze's "Hug of Destruction". Red filled my vision as multiple voices played out in my head like a sick instrument. The voices sounded like the ones I knew closely that died in my life, eventually blacking out at the sound of my deceased grandmother.
Now ,???, 2015?
If you could only see what I am right now,nothing special really just a small valley, an unconscious girl on the ground,a huge burn mark below me and the previously mentioned unconcious girl. I have no idea or any form of an idea where we are right now,it reminded me of The Trade Way from the games, a small dirt road leading to somewhere unknown. I felt my stomach heave a little bit,but nothing came out. I felt my heart beat like the hammer of a revolver being fanned. Between me panicing on what to do and Blaze asleep,my day turned from nice and happy to "what the fuck" in the course of fourty-something minutes. Then as if god himself said "fuck off" I heard voices from the general distance of a click away deciding that I had a few minutes to kill before Blaze and I both get killed by whoever is out here I checked the "Litany",the pages were stuck together with some adhesive,only the first three pages were open to view,they gave me something I could use if I needed it.
The first page gave me some information some I already knew,but information nontheless. It had this to say: "Ysuran Auondril,Necromancer otherwise known as a magician of ill intent by others." The second page had something better,something I could use if the people comming weren't so kind: "Life Drain, You are able to shoot small red darts that saps the energy of your enemy." Finally, the third and last page gave me another useful tidbit: "Shield, You conjure up a small aegis that floats around you,dapeming damage from both missiles and weapons." I sat down next to Blaze,my brows stitching together as her breathing rose and fell.
Whoever was coming,I hoped they had enough mercy to not kill us.
That sign said it all. It was as if God himself came down from the heavens and smacked me with a wet fish. My escorts brought me here to do something,Something I don't quite understand.
Let me track back to an hour ago.
One hour prior to arriving at Ponyville
Blaze was always a heavy sleeper,be it storm or hail. I did my best to leave her be,watching her body rise and fall made me calm down a little from my recent panic attack and cleared my mind. I got up and dusted my gear off and walked over to blaze inspecting her features a little bit more into detail. Her ears were now pointy like an elves (possibly because she had them on when I woke up). I poked at them and felt around for the flap to take the adhesive off,finding no such flap,I got on my stomach and got a closer look at her ear,noting that the small and miniscule rise where the adhesive goes is gone. This set me off as I had a set of the same type on my auditory appendages as well. I stroked my finger over the tip of my ear,where the attachment was supposed to be and rubbed upward,feeling a point. I pinched on and stifled a sharp hiss as a small patch of blood made itself visible on my thumb.
"Damn it!" I whispered harshly to myself under my breath. The pain was too real to be a dream,and blood poured out of the pointed tip like it was actually a part of my ear. What ever happened,both Blaze and Myself have been turned into elves and with the Sunset Litany showing Ysuran's name I believe that wherever we are turned us into our characters, it was like some sort of sick joke to whoever did this to us.
I sat down next to Blaze after pressing a tree leaf from a nearby forest to my ear to staunch the bleeding,it wasn't like I was going to die if I had a small cut,but its better safe than sorry. The voices from earlier have stopped and it made me worry that no one was coming to get us until a shot of purple magic whizzed past me causing me to go flat to my stomach. A soft and stern female voice sounded above me.
"By the laws of he Adventuring court you are hereby placed under questioning,if you fail to comply,you will be brought to the Court for suspicion to using wild and dangerous magic." The voice told me,a stomp to the earth was made to make her point.
I opened my eyes to look at the person or thing talking,only to have my vision obscured my the sun being above her head. I did catch some features though,the person speaking seemed to have a horn and from the corner of my eye,I saw a few purple feathers come off of who or what ever this was. I stood up slowly,my vision gaining a better view of what this thing was. It could stand to an estimated four feet (including the horn),It's "hair" (which was everywhere) was a light lavender the other "hair" ( on the things head) was a midnight purple with a pink stripe running through it,t he horn was lit up purple as well and I could feel the magical energy in the air as the thing charged a spell.
I raised my hands in defense "I'm not going to harm you! I am lost and I don't know where I am!" I yelped,making jazz hands to save me..
The "things" horn died down,giving me a skeptical look. "Then do you accept the questioning?" The thing asked,flicking its tail.
I nodded "Is there somewhere else we can do this? My friend is a heavy sleeper and I don't want to leave her here."
The anomaly nodded "I am Twilight Sparkle the Princess of Friendship and a delegate of the Adventurer's court"
I bit my lip,not telling my name,hopefully she wouldn't press me any,with Blaze in tow I followed Twilight through the forest,promptly getting tackled at the chest and dropping Blaze,waking her up. I wheezed as I tried to get air into my lungs,my back started cramping and it felt as if my chest started to collapse. "F-Fu *Wheeze* Fucking shit...what on the wide world of fuck just hit me?!" I spat out,my arms going into the dirt still trying to get air as the pain in my chest continued.
A semi masculine voice carried out into the air. "Got it Twilight,can we get the reward so I can repay Forge Heater for this awesome shortblade now?"
Twilight's voice became softer in tone. "Rainbow,this Elf has accepted the questioning. You will still get your split of the reward."
Now,Ponyville,2015
Blaze and I learned many cultural norms on the walk over to Ponyville, Language,Geography and the races. The known races on Equis,the planet we we are on, were known as Earth,Unicorns, and Pegasai ponies. A race built for Twilight and three other princesses,they were known as Alicorns. A race of bug ponies,called changelings,Gryphons and much more. I held my head, pinching myself again to make sure this wasn't a sick dream.
We arrived to this area in the town proper,called "The Court" by a sign coming into the district.
Blaze had pulled me back to her "Zef, I'm scared..." she was cut off by a horrifying screech and the sound of hooves clopping to us.
"Sorry to say,but our question session will have to wait until we get rid of this mefit problem!" Twilight said to us then promptly ran off to join the others in her party.
I gave a grimace as a guard fell to an ambush. "Blaze we have to help them."
Seeing some poor Guardsman/pony get struck down was horrific, yet oddly hilarious (though I had to hold my chuckle back due to the presence off Blaze next to me.) We did what any normal "Adventurers" would do in a situation like this, Loot the poor Bastard for our beginning loot and save the town. Blaze looked at me with a nod, my reaction was to nod back,we had this communication system back home wen we would be on the same Airsoft team, Nodding meant we had to split up and help our teammates. Of course by teammates she meant the six ponies that helped us in our time of need. The guard pony stirred a little and he exposed a dagger that was jammed in his ribs. I did my best to take it out but promptly remembered that he would bleed more if I removed the jagged metal. I saw his horn light up and pull the dagger out of his side then close it up as he leaned on the wall. "Yer no help pointy-eared human." My eye twitched that was like getting a big middle finger from god himself and then got smitten afterward. I instantly rose and grabbed the dagger and stormed off to get the magical talking space horse away from me.
I knew I had somehow made it to the front lines on this "battlefield" mostly because the ground was littered with crushed Mephit corpses and Pinkie pie yelling something about "Praising the sun" or some crazy shit like that. I instantly put her in the file "Breaks the 4th wall often" in my head. Pinkie seemed to be in normal human guard wear, the only thing that was odd was the sun insignia on the chest area with an absurdly sized hammer. Twilight was with her, she was wearing armor akin to a knight in training, chainmail, leather boots, and she used a quarter staff that froze mephits in the air and shattered when they made contact to earth. I noticed a few got the slip on the two and that was my sign to help. I sliced madly to get the flying arcane summons, but fell short on some, only doing minor cuts and scrapes. They knocked me off my feet and prepared some spells to end my short existence in magical human/ponyland. I then remembered that I had a book and spells, I flipped open the first page and viewed the contents of the "Shield" spell, with a chant and a flick of the wrist an aegis the size of my sternum protected me from the blows of magic missile and fireballs. I got up and wiped the dust off and looked at them, picking the dagger up, I then looked at "Life Drain" and with a flick of my wrist a red dar cam out and made contact with a Mephit, sapping his life energy and give it to me, where I promptly dispatched of him quickly. The form of the flying monster contacting with the ground in a satisfying crunch was exhilarating, it put a smile on my face when I got done with the other one and kicked him aside. With Twilight and the Pink sun menace handling the bulk of them. I decided on picking the stragglers off.
It took them a few hours to realize that they were loosing and decided to run off into the forest when the sun started to set. There was a call to a town meeting which I obliged to check out when Twilight finally noticed me covered in blood. We walked to the Plaza in silence when Inoticed Blaze and came to her. She regaled me on her part of the story on the other part of town, Lizardfolk had helped the Mephits by providing healing spells and crowd control spells, Luckily the cleric Fluttershy and the local magic college student, Rarity used spell reflections to give the Lizards a taste of their own medicine, after her story I began to start mine until a slate grey pony with emerald green hair started to speak up, Twilight standing by her side .
"Thank you, Everyone for helping protect Ponyville from the longest Mephit attack since my administration as Mayor of this fine town. The Court Delegates are about to begin a discussion on the cost for repairs and will start to put notices on the Adventure Board in town for the hunt on whoever is summoning these monsters. Thank you for your time and have a safe night." The mare walked off, Twilight following quickly behind as the door shut, letting everyone go home and sleep.
Blaze and I walked somewhere, it looked like a park, deciding that a break was needed we sat down, the moon above us getting obscured every now and then by Pegasai moving the clouds.
"Our moon is lovely, is it not my good Elves?" A soft voiced cooed between us I slowly turned to face a horn between my peripherals, which I promptly flipped my shit about my eye getting poked out. "Who the hell are you? Don't you know that I could've gotten my eye poked out by that damn horn?!" I screeched, my chest rising and falling at a rapid pace. "Sorry to surprise you Elf, Our name is Luna to whom do we owe the pleasure?" I got up and bowed. "Zef, My friend here is Blaze." "Tell us 'Zef', dost thou have a place to rest?" She asked tiliting her head With me bowing and all I tried my best not to chuckle. "No, Milady Luna, you mustn't be so kind as to give strangers like us quarter." I shook my head She lifted my head "My sisteer hath felt your power Elf, we must talk to you..to make sure you aren't a threat." My eye twitched. "We saved this town and you think of me as a threat?" I glared into the set of eyes before me. "Tch, fine to prove we aren't a threat let us go see your 'sister'!" My voice hissed.
That's how I learned to keep my anger in check from now on. When Ifinished that Quip to the supposed moon controller, I felt a heavy weight on me and fell into the black abyss known as sleep.
I had the feeling of heat hit my face, the stickiness of sweat peeled off my face as I got off a silk pillowcase. Rolling off I noticed a large silver light overhead, the gargantuan sized spacial body overhead in a high 12 o'clock position in the sky, its been night for some time. I finally wake myself up and get up off the stone floor. Where ever I was the inhabitant was very rich, very important, or both. I notice the faint smell of burning cloth and pitch, wherever this was this didn't have electrical light or oil lamps and resorted to using torches to light the way. I walked out of the door and looked around, noting a shadow coming in from the far left at a marching pace. I twitched my pointy ears and slowly walked out to meet my shadowy friend.
"You're the Elf that Princess Luna brought? Please, come with me." it was a guardspony, one in more exotic looking armor than the ones I saw in Ponyville. Under his golden armor I spotted white fur and a blonde mane, his big blue eyes slightly reminded me of my little brother back home, by now he would be starting in kindergarten at the wonderful age of five. I shook my head free of my memories, I would have to get better connected with my family after I get done here in Equestria..if I can get out that is.
The pony, whom called himself True Shot (the bow around his neck supported his name) led me down a torch lit hallway, passing a few ceramic windows. I looked at these windows and saw that they told little short stories, evident by a plaque underneath showing the achievement to get a window. It seems that if you somehow save Equestria you get a giant window for nopony to see. I decided to bide my time and shorten the trip by looking at these windows.
One seemed to be of six ponies taking down a large creature out of shadow, the eyes were a clear glassy blue color and it had a mouth with fangs as sharp as knives, what threw me off more was the six ponies. They looked so much like the six ponies that protected Ponyville from the mephits earlier this day. They seemed to defeat this thing with something called "The Elements of Harmony", as described on the plaque, it was translated into common by the Equestrians would be my guess, or their native language was similar to ours after assimilating us...well humans actually... into their culture. I walked past another, this time the same ponies are battleing something that is akin to Judas getting mangled by rabid dogs and Doctor Frankenstein had a science-gasm all over this creature, it was a mess, no wonder it got blasted from the deadly prism laser, it must've been in some pain. Apparently this thing was called Discord and he was referred as a god of chaos.
I continued past some more unimportant ones, like an invasion on some place named Canterlot during a royal wedding. A dragon saving an unfound city from some sort of evil. They didn't seem to interest me any unlike these "Elements of Harmony". They were interesting to say the least, to reach ultimate friendship and balance sounded like something a Druid would pull out of their tree hugging coat or something.
I shook my head and looked at another, I seemed to have skipped one because the Elements had changed, and Alicorn sat with the main six after destroying a large centaur demon named Tirek, a monster that apparently sucked the magic out of humans and ponies to make himself more powerful and start making a ruckus. He had what was coming to him apparently, getting jailed into Tartarus until Cerbeus gets distracted again.
True Shot led me to a door and bowed. "It was nice to meet you kind Elf, may your strikes hit true and fair warning, Princess Luna isn't one to take lightly." He then trotted off I took his words with care and opened the door, it led to a massive library. Walls were lined and filled to the brim with books upon books, it was overwhelming and It actually made me anxious. Sure if I was in a room like this with a few snacks and some water I would be lost in my own world, but when I had a task to do I usually do it first. The light hum of some sort of ethereal noise filled the air, grabbing at my curiosity I followed the noise.
Seeing a light blue alicorn next to Twilight, the latter reading a book and the first sipping on a cup of some tea. The light blue nodded at a seat and I sat in it. "Its nice to actually see you, Princess." I remarked, my attention caught at the Pony with her nose in the book. She nodded and passed a cup of tea, which I gladly accepted, despite my hatred of tea it felt as if sand was in my throat.
"Our sister is doing a favor for us, so you will not meet her today, unless she deems it necessary that is." the night Princess stated after swallowing her tea. I quickly nodded and looked at her.
"You wanted to ask some questions right? Like how I got here and all of that?" I asked, sipping some more tea and swish it in my mouth, and promptly drop a cube of sugar in. She nodded and pulled out the Litany with a telekinetic spell.
"You had this with you right? Mind if I ask what it is?" She asked with an eyebrow raised. I looked at the Litany, if I had heat vision I would've burned several holes in it by now. I gave a sigh and looked up.
"First of all you have to know, I'm no elf, I'm a human, and I'm no human from Equestria or Equss or whatever this planet is called. I come from a planet named Earth. On earth I work as a low class citizen and I went to something called a convention, I won't go into much detail, but I bought that book and it ported me here along with my friend Blaze." I stopped short and looked around. "Did you bring her here with you, Princess?" I asked hoping that my friend is doing okay." The princess nodded once more. "Your friend is safe and asleep in Princess Twilight's castle, please continue your story."
I breathed in again, staring at my tea now. "When I woke up I found myself with the abilities as the person I am dressed as...A Moon Elf Necromancer by the name. Ysuran, Blaze also has the abilities of her costume as well." I added on and looked at her.
Princess Luna looked at me as Twilight lowered her book, the magenta colored princess seemed to have wrote all of this down on a small pad of paper. I looked between the two of them as I flushed a little, after the long pause Luna stood up, she seemed to be to the middle of my ribcage in height.
Twilight spoke up. "Ysuran if what you speak is true then you need to back this theory up, If there are other humans like you I want to know about it." She cleared her throat. " I've recently read a book on books that detail spacial travel, mostly multiversal, all one has to do is make a 'Token' up and send it across universes, its taxing but it would probably help you gather information, whenever you visit another human in your position make sure to write it down and see if there is a connection, okay?" She finished off with a flourish and closed her book and pad. I could barely process the information myself but I followed the magenta princess this time into a room.
The room was empty save for a table and chair, I sat down in the chair and looked at my hands. If there were others in my position they must've been in the same predicament as I am right now, or maybe not. I decided on what to do. In my hands I made the