Mage named Spell Tome who makes a portal to Equestria and saves Rainbow.
Specialists are masters of their trade. This one just happens to be good with magic. And this is his story of how he overcame the bleats and grunts that is known as Equestrian to communicate with these strange ponies. And how he could show up Twilight Sparkle with his elemental magic.
(Hey my grammer sucks)(My vocabulary is poor as noticable with the appearence of the 'titter todder' because I don't know what THE $%@! it's called.)
(This ties into another story called 'The Twelve Specialists' and this is a rejected specialist that I've made. I decided to give him a second chance so I made this story for him. Tell me what you think of him.)
"Magic doesn't work that way. It only effects what you understand." -Spell Tome
(YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ THE OTHER STORY TO UNDERSTAND THIS.)
(This is a story about a 'forgotten Specialist' and his experiences with the ponies. If you don't know what I'm talken about then look at "The Twelve Specialists" my other story. It won't tell you a thing about Spell Tome but it shows you what he was supposed to be a part of.)
My staff was made so it could amplify my power. Well not really. A staff is only used to direct the power the mage has. No magic user needs a staff. But hell my marble staff was the best because it had all the powers of the elements.
Spell Tome built a portal in the woods. It was just a circle of vines and twigs. But when magic is applied it becomes a gateway. And mine...
"Is almost done." Said Spell Tome to himself.
Spell Tome holds his staff up to the portal made out of vines. It’s large enough for a man to walk through and it took ages to make. Exactly five years to create. With this he will go dimension to dimension and discover the secrets of the universes he will see.
He packed a backpack with a tent that happens to be bigger on the inside. He also packed a machete and an ax just in case he comes across a forest with some serious fungal growth. He didn’t pack any food. It was best to let your survival instincts take over and learn from the land as much as possible.
“Ok…Lets do this.” He looks back at the hut he lived in for the past few years. ‘I’ll just make another portal and come back when I want to.’
“Ok so tell me again why we need to be here Rainbow?” Said Twilight.
“Well as you know a few months ago I asked Applejack to help me take off faster than I could do on my own. Well now that I’m able to take off faster than I used to I thought I could do the same thing. But get this! If I go fast enough to do a Sonic Rainboom when I take off I can write stuff in the air with rainbows ya know?”
“Ah get it! Ya just want to do some sky writen’ with rainbows. Golly Dash that’s a might cleaver of ya.”
“Thanks AJ. Now Twilight I want you to help out too.”
“Sure thing Rainbow. How can I help?”
“You can help by like using a spell that will make the titter totter thing turn faster!”
“…Rainbow you can do that with oil.”
“Oh yea, I forgot hehe.” She said while rubbing the back of her head.
“It’s all right Rainbow. I don’t have any kind of spell to do that anyway so I’ll just provide moral support.”
Applejack was on top of the platform ready to jump down. “Ya ready Dash?”
“I’m ready!” She said while crouching so she can spring into the air when Applejack hits the platform.
Then Applejack jumps off the platform and slams onto the other end of the titter totter like device and Rainbow takes off too soon.
“Gaw! Sorry AJ I took off too early. Let’s do it again.”
Spell Tome found himself in the middle of a forest with his staff none existent.
“…GOD DAMMIT!” He yelled out loud. His staff didn’t come through and that sucked for him because now he needed a staff or he wouldn’t be able to get back home.
‘Ok don’t think about it now…assess the surroundings.’
Spell Tome looked around and noticed the short trees. They could be jumped to if he wanted so he didn’t need to fight. Wasn’t going to stop him from at least trying to kill something.
“Ok let’s see if this material is good enough.” He walks over to a tree and notices that the wood is pretty flexible. The branches can be moved easily but the solid trunk was thick enough so it was very difficult for one to break them. That’s weird for trees.
He started to walk in a straight line through the forest trying to determine a way out. And maybe even come across any signs of intelligent life.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Ya ready Dash?” Applejack calls out again.
“Ready!”
“Here it comes!” She runs off the platform again and hits the titter totter.
*Boom!*
Rainbow takes off at the right time so her combined take off speed and Applejacks fall speed was combined to allow Rainbow to do a sonic Rainboom once she cleared the ground. But she wasn’t used to going zero to Rainboom like that so she lost control and started to spiral off miles in another direction incapable of leveling out.
“OH NO! RAINBOW!” Yelled out Twilight.
“She’s lost control!” Said Applejack panicked.
“She’s heading toward the Everfree forest! Come on lets go!”
Rainbow plummets to the ground flying at super sonic speeds; Before slamming into the ground and blacking out her wing scrapes a tree and is torn off. Rainbow is now deep into the Everfree forest alone and easy prey for any predator.
Spell Tome admires the tree canopy and notices some interesting flowers. He walks around everything he can’t identify as safe or poisonous. Spell Tome hears an explosion and sees some shockwave of colors in the sky. He was still searching for a reasonable material that could hold magic for a staff but he was curious as to what caused that. Whether it be natural or unnatural. He started to move through the fungal growth.
When Rainbow came too she tried to stand up but immediately fell to the ground wailing in pain. She tries to fight it by flying back to Ponyville but notices her left wing is unresponsive. She looks back at it and notices it’s severed from her body.
“O-oh no no nononononono.” Her voice gets smaller and smaller. “nonono no no…no.” She starts to tear up not from pain but from loss of a wing. To Rainbow her wing was her life. Her special talent is going faster than everyone else in Equestria with the sonic Rainboom. Now she can’t even do that. Her life has no purpose.
“I-I…” She couldn’t find a reasonable explanation for something like this to happen.
Then the bushes start to move. Predators could smell her blood and could hear her cries of pain. Attracting a lot of unwanted attention.
Spell Tome could hear some weird bleats and noises that sounded suspiciously like a horse. Incapable of helping himself he quickly rushes to the clearing he could hear the noises coming from. But on his way there he notices some out of the ordinary growth. He hops into a nearby tree and leaps to the clearing where the animal still is wailing in pain or…sadness?
‘Are those tears?’ Tome thought to himself as he sees a multi colored animal on the ground. ‘Maybe it has some form of inelegance…Oh it’s a herbivore. It doesn’t seem to have claws or any way to catch prey. Is that a wing?’
There was a howling from beyond some of the bushes. Timber wolves approach Rainbow in the clearing.
“Oh no Timber wolves! Please I-I don’t taste good! SOMEPONY! ANY PONY! HELP MEEEEEEEE!” She looks around and sees two timber wolves approaching her ready to kill.
‘Ok that thing is loud…Wait what are those?’ Spell Tome sees the Timber wolves and notices they are held together by magic. ‘OH FINALY! Something held together by magic. I can use their corpses for a new staff.’ Spell Tome looks back at the wounded creature. ‘It did cry before hand. I don’t remember hearing about any other creatures crying other than sentient ones…Fuck it I’m helpin it.’
The two timber wolves approach Rainbow and lunge at her to deliver a killing blow.
*CRACH* the sound of thunder.
Lightning came out of nowhere and struck the two wolves approaching Rainbow Dash; and a bipedal creature comes out of the trees. It jumps onto the alpha males back and thrusts its hands into spine. Ripping out tissue and what looked like muscle from its back. It crumbles lifeless to the ground. The other wolves are too disoriented to understand what happens before the bipedal creature takes out an ax and thrusts it into one of its comrade’s jaws.
There are two wolves left in the pack and they both lunge at the creature. Then it jumps off the alpha males back and runs around a tree. It then swings the ax around the corner nailing another wolf in the mouth, and its head gets cut clean off. The last remaining wolf shows no fear but rather instinct as it continues to fight the creature.
It leaps into the air and pins the creature to the ground only to have a sword jammed into its gut. The wolf lives but is in pain, then the creature angles the sword like object upward toward what is supposed its heart and it stops moving.
‘Ugh this is bull shit!’ Thought Spell Tome as he pushed the creature away from himself. He gets up and assesses the damage.
“Well then…It looks like my work is done…” he looks over to the multicolored creature and he starts to head toward it. ‘Is that…Fear?’
The multi colored Pegasus was cowering as Spell Tome approached it. Then Spell Tome decided it was best to ignore it for now since he had no way of healing it. He had healing magic but it is mediocre compared to how powerful it could get when a staff is built for it. He goes back to the bodies and starts to analyze the corpses.
‘Hmm these creatures seem to have a neon green ointment inside their bodies…Could this act as protein transfer? There is also some muscle fibers that aren’t found in a normal predator…It’s not meat for sure…I-its plant material?’ He stops studying the mechanics of the animal and he decides that there is enough material here to create a proper staff of life.
He immediately gets to work and starts pulling what he believes are plant versions of bones and muscle off of the alpha. He then puts it in a line and levitates it in front of himself. He pours magic into its center and the material starts to band together to form a neon veined staff. At the top it holds the soul of the creature that died. The timber wolf alpha.
All its memories of hunting and leading its pack was downloaded into Spell Tomes mind and all its knowledge of the forest became available. The circular soul was surrounded by a crystalline substance that held the soul that now looked green and physical in a glass ball at the tip of the staff. Vines tried to hug the base of the crystal ball like sphere.
He then turned back to his guest. The multi colored animal. It looked at him confused and it seemed to be examining his cloths and back pack with his tent and other cloths.
“I should seriously set up camp…” Said Spell Tome as he notices the skies getting darker.
He puts down his pack and sets up the small tent that was bigger on the inside. And on the inside it had a king size bed with bathrooms and everything. Even a kitchen and a microwave…(What mages can have microwaves too! Ya racist!)
Spell Tome was finished pitching the tent and light a lantern on the inside. He then exited the tent to bring his backpack in and noticed the multi colored creatures’ wing on the ground.
‘Well I should try to preserve it while I figure out its anatomy.’
He walks over to it and picks it up. At the moment he’s behind the tree that the multi colored creature is lying on the ground in front of. When he emerges the creature lets out a few bleating noises that a horse makes and glares death at him.
‘Damn, I guess its sentient then.’
“It’s ok horsy I won’t eat it.”
He goes into the tent and puts it on a dinner table. ‘Not to eat it of course.’ He heads outside toward the pony and lifts his staff into the air. The pony gets surrounded by a green aura like the neon blood like fluid coming off the dead wolf like creatures. The Rainbow horse thing is lifted into the air and it yelps in pain but ignoring it Spell Tome floats it into the tent.
‘I’ve heard of cool magic but-ow- a tent bigger on the inside is just awesome!-ow’ Rainbow was awed at the size of the tent. In the center was a king sized bed. Though there were wet towels on the ground and Rainbow was laid onto those towels and then she noticed her lower body was numb. ‘T-this whole time I was paralyzed from the waist down!?’
Before she was able to think more about the condition of her body the creature took her wing and put it back on her left side. It started to fuse to where it was supposed to. Rainbow looked up and saw the staff glowing with magic and repairing her body. She let out a tear of joy.
‘To be honest…It’s so cute when its happy.’ Thought Spell Tome as he saw the smiling Rainbow Dash looking up at him with hope in her eyes. ‘I’m hungry…wonder what pony tastes like? Hehe I shouldn’t tell her that I thought that if she’s sentient. And I notice a complete lack of penis so there is no way it’s a he…unless horses are more different from here then they are back at home. Mainly my neighbors’ farm.’
Spell Tome realizes that he would need to feed this thing somehow. ‘Wait those wolves are made of plant material…Maybe this herbivore can eat those.’ He concentrates at the task at hand and tries to fix up the horse. He realizes he still doesn’t know what to do to help it.
Spell Tome finishes what he could and he starts to rub different areas of the animal until it may yelp in pain. He could feel the back legs were obviously broken but also obviously she can’t feel it.
‘Did her spine get severed?’ He raises his hands over her body and she looks in confusion. He puts magic into his hands and forces light into her body; showing all the organs and bones in her body to him. She saw it too and she gasped in surprise. She scans the inside of her body and her eyes catch some oddities that Tome notices as well.
She’s broken in several places…ribs, spine, legs, and internal bleeding. She doesn’t notice the bleeding but she notices the broken bones and she starts hyperventilating while Tome sensed the details.
‘OH CELESTIA HOW AM I ALIVE! I-I should be dead!’ Rainbow’s gratefulness to her savior was replaced by fear and panic. She couldn’t feel her lower body because her spine was indeed broken. Just low enough so it doesn’t affect her very vital organs. It also makes it so she can only feel pain in the spot where it’s not connected. But then.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!” Rainbow feels a wave of pain as her spine is reattached and repaired. The creature seemed to realize his mistake and held his hand in front of her face and Rainbow started to feel a wave of exhaustion.
‘Oh shit shouldn’t have done that so soon!’ He holds his hand in front of the yelping creature.
“Shhhhhshhhhshhhhhhh.” It’s unconscious. “Ok ok gotta work fast.”
Spell Tome started to put bones back into place. He then fixed everything together with a sheet of magic so that the horses’ legs can’t move. He then healed any internal bleeding and reattached veins and arteries that were important. Then when he was done he admired his work. He couldn’t fully heal everything until he knew more about the creature but he knew enough about neurology to be able to reattach the body back to the brain…which was actually a great bit of neurology since its more of a chance thing.
Satisfied with his work he leaves the tent and brings the alpha male and another timber wolf into the tent for the herbivore to eat later. He then picks up the multi colored pony thing that he now nicknames MCP for (Multi Colored Pony) on one side of the king sized bed. Spell Tome raps her in some covers and starts to bring her back from her medically induced coma.
Rainbow was coming too. She looked around and noticed the creature holding her head in both hand and it was doing something to her mind.
“Ugh get outta my head.” She said drowsily.
She noticed the Timber wolf corpses and was appalled that it would bring them into the tent. Then the bipedal creature gets up and walks over to the corpse and rips off what seems to be muscle. It walks back in front of Rainbow and tries to put the meat in her mouth.
“HEY NO WAY! I’m not eating-gwa!” The creature is holding its hand out in front of Rainbow and her mouth is pried open. It then puts the muscle into her mouth and it tastes like plants. Rainbow was so confused she didn’t spit it out nor did she chew it.
The creature waited patiently for her to start eating it. Glaring at her with very convincing eyes that said ‘EAT IT BITCH’. Rainbow would have gulped if she didn’t have the plant muscle in her mouth.
‘If this thing doesn’t eat this then I’m fucked. I can’t feed it so I’ll have to bring it back to wherever its from…Then again that’s not a bad idea. If I manage to learn its language (That I won’t even try at since its bleats and bullshit) then we could have a conversation…Maybe I can study its memory and put it into an overmind through the staff. Yea that’ll give me the ability to understand it.’
Then after glaring at the pony for several minutes its starts to eat the plant muscle from the timber wolves. After a few chews it seemed to decide it liked it. Then after a few more bits it refused to eat any more and I guessed it was full.
The creature starts to make some noises and Rainbow guessed it was trying to talk to her.
“Umm what are you doing? Anyway thanks for saving me anyway. I would’ve died back there.” They sit in silence.
Rainbow remembers all of her friends. ‘Twilight, Applejack…Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, a-and Rarity…They don’t know I’m safe. Am I safe? Is this thing saving me for later?’
Rainbow prayed to Celestia and Luna to protect her for the rest of her experience.
Spell Tome sees distress on its face. ‘Well it defiantly thinks…Yea I should make the connection.’ He lifts both hands and places them on both sides of the creatures head.
‘W-what’s it doing? Is it trying to comfort me? Well it might be trying to since it obviously cares enough t-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH’
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!” A wave a pain shot through Rainbow Dash’s brain. But the pain wasn’t in her brain as well. It seemed to be pain that could be felt between both their faces. She started feeling pain in the other creature as well as her own.
After it was done they looked at each other in silence for a moment. She could feel the creatures emotions, and its body. As if it were a part of her.
“W-what did you do?” She said rhetorically.
“Oh well-“
“ARE YOU TALKING!”
“Yea I’m talking bu-“
“WHY DIDN’T YOU TALK EARLIER!”
“Because I couldn’t understand you earlier.”
“What does that mean?”
“Well I connected us. In a very intimate way actually.”
“I-intimate? Eugh.”
“Well you can feel my body right?”
Rainbow thinks for a moment and she notices she can. She can feel its entire body. “Y-yea…How’d you do that?”
“With elemental life magic.”
“Ok so why did you do that?”
“Because I don’t know how to finish up healing you. And I thought it would be a good idea for the connection to be made so I can feel anything you feel. You know find pain?”
“Find pain?”
“Yea the connection goes both ways. I can feel everything you do. And you can feel everything I do.”
“Whoa…That’s kinda…Creepy.”
“Sorry this WILL get awkward. But you should be dead. I just got to this realm just a few moments ago. Besides I saw how you valued your wings. As you can see I reattached it.”
“Y-yea…flying is what I’m good at. If I were to lose my wings I wouldn’t have a purpose.” They sat in silence while she reflects on how much her wings meant to her.
“So what’s your name? You owe me at least that.”
“Oh Rainbow Dash! Fastest flyer in all of Equestria!” She said proudly. ‘I guess Equestria is the land they live in.’ “You?”
“Hmm? Oh yes call me Spell Tome. I’m the master of elemental magic. Like life magic. The stuff that healed you.”
“What else can you do?”
“Arcane magic. Magic of death. Also water, lightning, fire, air, and earth magic.”
“Magic of d-death?”
“Every element of magic has an opposite. Life and death, fire and water, lightning and earth. I’m trying to discover airs opposite since earth doesn’t dispel that. That’s my purpose and goal.”
“Whoa. Hey my friend Twilight knows a lot of magic. Maybe she can help you out.”
“That’ll be nice. But for now let’s go to bed. I’ll explain more about our situation in the morning. Oh and after the connection goes through its final stages it should be permanent. Oh and I’ll be able to fix you up fast.”
“Wait wouldn’t healing magic be able to just, you know heal me?”
“It’s a lot more complex. Magic I use can only effect what I understand. I don’t understand your body so the magic doesn’t either. Oh hey tomorrow when I finish up you’ll understand what magic feels like!”
“All right. Umm night then.”
“Night.”
Spell Tome gets up and turns the lamp off. Plunging the tent into darkness. Spell Tome goes to the entrance of the tent and closes it tight before joining Rainbow on the bed.
“Hey Spell Tome?”
“Yes?”
“What will happen if one of us dies with this connection?”
“It will feel like we’ve cut off a limb. Like something important was taken from our body. I have a feeling we’ll be the closest friends after this experience.”
“You’re a different species.”
“And so are you. But I’m ok with this connection because I need it to save your life.”
“All right everypony lets go save Rainbow Dash!” Yelled Twilight Sparkle at the group of volunteers.
Twilight’s plan was to go in groups of four. One unicorn in front while flanked by two earth ponies. A pegasi up above the tree canopy so they know where each of the other groups are.
They plan on scanning the entire forest for Rainbow Dash their lost friend. The princess even sent royal guard to scout ahead and clear the forest of any dangerous animals that may approach the search and rescue teams.
After the first day of searching they hunkered down into a camp when the group met up.
Rainbow wakes up the next morning and tries to get up. Only to find a pain shoot through her that wakes up Spell Tome who found his way closer too her…Really close to her. In fact they both seemed to have migrated closer to each other over the night.
“Umm dude?” Said Rainbow.
“Oh hi. Yea this is weird…Maybe the connection didn’t exactly give our bodies the message and we migrated closer together in the night.”
“You sure you just don’t like to cuddle.” Said Rainbow with a mischievous smile.
“Hey I didn’t plan this!”
“WHOA! Umm awkward.” At first Spell Tome didn’t know what Rainbow was talking about until he notice a jabbing sensation followed by pain near Rainbow’s lower body…And his own.
“Oh fuck.”
“Why is it so warm?” Rainbow whispered.
“Umm blood flow…Sorry about that, humans have that every morning…Yea remember when I said it would get awkward?”
“Umm yea I get it now.”
“D-does it bother you?”
“To be honest…No it actually feels a little natural.”
“Not what I expected you to say. Ok well I’d best be fixing you up now. I understand your anatomy a lot better now.”
“Spell Tome.”
“Yea?”
“Get off.” She said with a scowl
“Yes ma’am.” He gets up out of bed.
Spell Tome walks over to his staff and picks it up. He then stands over Rainbow on the side of the bed and uses healing magic to fix up the remaining damaged area’s of her body.
“Ok now what’s MCP?”
“Multi Colored Pony.”
“Well you guessed what I was correctly. Are you a human?”
“YUP! How’d you know?”
“Lyra talks about them all the time.”
“What she say.”
“Something about being hairless, having hands, walking on two legs. You fit that description mostly well. You’re not EXACTLY hairless.”
“Nope. Now try to walk around.”
Rainbow gets out of the bed and starts to walk around. Satisfied with everything being in place she starts to fly around.
“Whoa you can fly?”
“Wait didn’t we go over this?”
“Just checking…”
“Sure you were.”
“Shut up I saved your life!”
“And I’m thankful. Hey why did you save me anyway?”
“Because I wanted to fit in with the indigenous population and if that meant gaining ones favor by saving a life then so be it. Also I needed a translator. You can understand me because the meaning of words is being transferred between us.”
“Transferred? So you mean that I’m the only one who can understand you?”
“Yup. And I expect you to tell me what other people say to me while I’m here. It’s the least you can do after I saved your life.”
“Well ok I agree. But you’d better not pull anything funny ok?”
“Why would I? I went through so much trouble to become part of your society so why would I jeopardize it by pulling anything funny?”
“Well…I don’t know! You’re still not trustworthy to me.”
“I’m ok with that. As long as you’re my guide. Now we best be heading back to wherever you’re from.”
“Ponyville.”
“Wow creative.”
“Thanks it’s a nice place.” She missed his sarcasm.
Spell Tome goes over to a dresser on the right side of his bed and pulls it out. He looked inside and found several robes. Three different types though. One was black and lined with golden silk. Another was green and also lined with golden silk. The last was red…lined with golden silk. He noticed the reoccurring theme of his wardrobe and only took the time to ponder it now.
“Hey what are those?”
“My robes. Best for using magic because they restrict my movement and allow me to rely on my other senses to understand the world around me.”
“Umm OK? How does that help you?”
“It’s complicated.”
“See was that so hard?”
“Well for you maybe.”
“Hey shut up and pack up. I want to go home.”
Spell Tome looks through the wardrobe picks out the green robes. They match his new staff and its bark exterior, conveying his abilities with plants. Or was the misleading image it gave off. He wanted to stray away from the idea that he can do death magic.
He then puts his backpack on and starts to head out of the tent when Rainbow stops him.
“Hey Spell Tome?”
“Yea?”
“Why don’t you leave the backpack in the tent? Wouldn’t it stay here like all the other furniture?”
“…”
“You didn’t even think of that did you?”
“See this connection is beneficial.” Said Spell Tome with a grin as he puts down his backpack on the bed. “Ok now let’s get going.”
“You’re not a very smart human are you?”
“Hey I didn’t go to school but I can at least read!” There was a long pause while Rainbow looked unimpressed. “AND SHOOT LIGHTNING!”
“I’d like to see that.”
Then Spell Tome realized he was hungry…And so was Rainbow. “Hey eat some of that wolf stuff its good for you.”
“What? NO IT’S NOT!”
“Eat it. You’re a herbivore so you can eat plants.”
“I…Those are made of plants?”
“Yea how else did you not die from the insides I gave you?”
“Forced me.” She glared at him.
“Be happy you’re alive.”
“F-fine I’ll…go get more.” She struggled to build up the courage to eat more of the Timber Wolf corpse but eventually she dove in. Feeling her eat and enjoying the taste of plant material going down your throat…It was an enlightening experience for Spell Tome to know what it would be like to only eat plants.
Rainbow rose up out of her morally incorrect meal and notice Spell Tome was hungry too. “Why don’t you try it?”
“I’m not a herbivore like you. I’m an omnivore. I eat meat and plant. Though since I eat both I’m restricted to types of meat and plant…well not meat actually I can eat almost any meat but I’d rather not eat meat unless it’s cooked.”
“Huh ok. Well to be honest I want to know what you meat eaters see in…well meat.”
“I’ll gladly oblige to that curiosity when I find something to eat.”
Rainbow was finished for now. They head out of the tent and Spell Tome folds it up. Tree staff at his side and a soul of the hunter with him he was able to find a way toward ‘hunting grounds’ and steer clear of those.
“So Rainbow do you know where Ponyville is?”
“No. I didn’t get a good look at where it was.”
“It’s ok. Let’s separate. You go that way I go this way. We won’t get lost from each other because of our connection. And trust me it is a very long distance connection. There was a story of a person on another planet and could tell you exactly what the other person was doing.”
“Whoa so that means I can fly in any direction without worry of getting lost?”
“Yup! Go ahead and run off. I’ll try to find which way is north and head that direction.”
“Hey one sec. If you’re good at casting spells and stuff why didn’t you just heal me with a magic spell?”
“Spell magic and elemental magic are two different things. Spell instantly effect what you cast it on. Elemental effect a target over time, sometimes that time is quick and others its slow. But elemental magic you need to understand the workings of the element to be able to us it right. Like how I couldn’t heal you too fast because I didn’t know what you were made of and stuff like that.”
The first night of searching for Rainbow was uneventful and the rescue team gave up and camped out the night. Guards where posted to keep watch at night until it was time to head back out in the morning.
“I hope Rainbow’s ok.” Said Twilight to her group of friends as they set up their sleeping bags.
“Aw don’t worry Twilight. I’m sure she’s just fine.” Said Pinkie Pie.
“But it worries me that she hasn’t flown back on her own. Maybe she got lost or can’t move!”
“Twilight darling, we can’t do her any good by worrying now can we? Let’s just hope she’s ok and we can find her. Rainbow’s a strong individual and she’d never let anything get the best of her.” Said Rarity trying to quell Twilight’s worries.
“Yea! Rainbow is super duper awesome! She’ll find a cloud to rest on or a tree branch so nothing could get to her!” Said Pinkie reassuringly.
“Y-you’re right Pinkie. I shouldn’t be worried about Rainbow. She probably doesn’t know which way Ponyville is. I did see her tumble a lot so maybe she’s just disoriented or something.”
With that everypony goes into silence thinking about the terrible things that could have happened to their friend. No pony wants to think of the worst, but it’s unavoidable.
The next day everyone wakes up with the rise of the sun. All the volunteers are in their groups and return to formation while scanning the forest. A few hours into their search and they find something…
Rainbow soared above the tree canopy and beyond the clouds looking down at the world trying to find something that resembled a town…Nothing. She speeds over to what she believes is the west and continues to search the Everfree for something familiar. About an hour of flying west she sees a line of pegasi in the air looking down.
Rainbow is delighted and rushes over to a pegasi. This particular one was cross eyed.
“DERPY!!!” Yelled Rainbow Dash as she speeds over to her.
“R-Rainbow?” Said Ditzy.
*slam*
Rainbow crashes into Ditzy out of joy and hugs her. “Where are my friends?”
“Five pegasi over to the left. It’s good to see you again Rainbow.”
“Thanks. Didn’t know you would go out of your way to brave the Everfree for me.”
“We were all worried Rainbow. I’ll go call the search off saying we found you.”
Miles back Spell Tome continues to walk in his direction until he feels Rainbow’s joy. Then she seemed to be touching another creature similar to her.
‘She found them.’ Spell Tome turns to meet up with Rainbow back at the safety of ‘Ponyville’ when he noticed some strange aura coming from his staff.
“What the fuck?” He said as the core starts to glow a bright green and it summons Timber wolves from the ground. Their claws were first to rip out of the ground and move earth out of the way to expose the rest of their bodies.
Rainbow finds Fluttershy hovering over the rest of her friends. When she sees Rainbow she starts to tear up and rush over to her.
“RAINBOW!” said Fluttershy
“HUH?” Said a series of voices below her.
“Hey guys!” Yelled Rainbow.
“Rainbow you’re ok!” Said Twilight.
“Yea don’t worry Twilight I’ve got help.”
“Beg yer pardon?” Said AJ
“What do you mean by help?” Started Rarity. “Did you run into a pony who helped you?”
“He’s not exactly a pony Rarity. And he’s actually a few miles east right now. He’ll catch up.”
“OOOOO does that mean I get to throw a party?!”
Rainbow chuckles. “Yea! He did kinda save my life.”
“How’d he save ya?” Said Applejack.
“Umm. Well when I hit the ground I was kinda crippled…And I lost my left wing. He knows healing magic so he was able to fix me up real good.”
“I really doubt that Rainbow. I’ve never heard of healing magic that can do that.” Said Twilight. “Maybe magic that has a chance to cure colds but never have I heard of any magic that can reattach limbs.”
‘Whoa that’s not funny.’ Thought Spell Tome as he looks at the Timber wolves who are now approaching him.
“Back away!” They did started to back up while facing him. They weren’t growling so they didn’t seem interested in being aggressive.
“Whoa…Umm come forward?” Again they comply and start heading toward him.
“Stand at attention!” They puff up their chests in a single file line. ‘This is cool I guess…I don’t need them but why not?’ Spell Tome looks amongst them and finds a particularly larger one amongst them. ‘The alpha.’
“I’m riding you to our destination.” It bows its head and awaits Spell Tome to mount up. Spell Tome looks around to find any vine to use as a harness of some sort so he doesn’t fall off.
‘Wait can’t I just make one?’ he thought.
Spell Tome made plants as his first experiments with life magic. Plants don’t scream when you force them to grow…
“Wait hold on…If I want to show off being a mage I got to look the part right?” He said while making the tent again.
When he was done he went inside and grabbed a few black gloves and put them on. He then put the hood over his head and used magic to make light not reflect off surfaces around his face so he looked faceless when you look into the hood.
“This might be counter productive, but hell I look cool.” He now looked like a typical mage with plant magic.
He went out of the tent were the pack waited for him and he started to grow vines near by with magic. They grew several feet long and he wrapped them around the alpha’s mouth like a muzzle and then he wrapped them on his back so he could carry the tent.
“Hold on Twi maybe I can get him to do something to prove to you he exists…” She scans the area around her.
“Oh I’d love to see this.” Said Twilight in a know it all manor.
“Ok then.” She spots something she was looking for…A cloud. She flies up to it and touches it and she could feel Spell Tome physically stop out of confusion.
“HEY SPELL TOME! SHOOT LIGHTNING!” She kicks the cloud and it shoot a lightning bolt to the ground.
“That was Spell Tome’s elemental magic.” Said Rainbow.
She just noticed her friends mouths open and practically on the floor. Other than Pinkie who was unusually giddy.
“I THINK THIS CALLS FOR A THANK YOU FOR SAVING RAINBOW AND YOU KNOW HOW TO SHOOT LIGHTNING PARTY!” exclaimed the excited mare.
Rainbow Chuckled. “Wait till you see him. He’s pretty cool.”
“Y’all be crazy if ya think I’d agree to this!” Said Applejack. “If yer friend has powers and such why you leading him to Ponyville with that lightning Dash? You said yerself that it ain’t a pony! What if it’s some kinda monster!”
“Monster isn’t far off. But it’s not dangerous. ‘HE’S’ not dangerous.”
“Well all right then, but ah ain’t gunna let my guard down ok? Now come on let’s head home.”
“I hope your friend is well mannered.” Said Rarity.
“Well I hope not. I don’t want another Rarity. Ones enough.” Rarity glares at dash and she responds by laughing.
“I-I hope your friend I-isn’t too scary.” Said Fluttershy.
“Don’t worry Fluttershy…He is.”
“Oh I-I-I-“
“Fluttershy it’s a lot better for you to know he’s scary looking before you meet him so you don’t run at the next terrifying creature that…Wait is he riding Timber wolves?”
All her friends look at her confused as she faces the direction she came from.
The wolves were fast. Faster than any other creature he’s seen. They easily got up to 40mph and dodged every single root that jutted out of the ground just waiting to hinder a traveler.
He got closer and closer to the group of what he believed were ponies and he was just a mile away now.
Rainbow explained the situation to everypony and no one really believed it. Though Lyra got excited when she said it was a human magic user. They all heard the elemental magic that the unknown creature cast and most, if not all, were scared of the idea to just wait while this ‘thing’ catches up.
What brought people to calmness was the fact the Royal Guard were still protecting the group and they would defend them if ever this creature was hostile.
“Umm Rainbow?” Said Applejack. “Yer sure he don’t eat meat?”
“Oh he eats meat. Like a griffon. But he also can eat certain plants if he wants to.”
“Y-y’all are crazy Dash! If he eats meat then that means he eats us!”
“He had the chance to eat me, but he didn’t. So I trust him not to eat anyone.”
“Maybe he just wanted teh getcha to lead him to Ponyville so he can EAT ponies!”
The thought ran through Rainbow’s head and she realized that was a very real possibility.
“I-I didn’t think about that…B-but if its true we can’t do anything to stop him…H-he’s too powerful.”
“What do yeh mean too powerful?” Said Applejack accusingly.
“H-he knows almost every type of magic. He has more magic than Twilight.”
Twilight looked unimpressed. She still didn’t believe that Rainbow met a human that could do more magic than she could.
Spell Tome moved into the open area where there seemed to be many different types of ponies. Though he realized how much of an oddity Rainbow was since she was the color of the rainbow and the rest seemed to have a color scheme of at the very least two colors. What really got him was the terrified faces of most of them.
Spell Tome sends the Timber wolves back into the staff he held out in front of himself. The ponies flinched when he did this but the oppressive atmosphere seemed to recede when the Timber wolves were gone.
Regardless the ponies were still terrified until a pink mare appeared in front of the human.
*Bleat grunt bleat*
“Rainbow tell her I can’t understand her.”
“W-what?” Said Rainbow unsure and confused. “Oh right. Pinkie Pie he can’t understand you.”
The pink pony made more bleats and grunts associated with a horse.
“Hey Rainbow why don’t you point out your friends so I know who I should get to know first.”
“Ok…That right there is Twilight Sparkle. She’s the best pony I know who can do magic. You two will get along well.”
Just then the purple unicorn made some angry noises. Spell Tome probably doesn’t look exactly friendly at the moment. Or well his face doesn’t since he has none at the moment.
“Hey Rainbow. Let’s head to your town for now. We can get acquainted on the way.” He walks up to Rainbow and sits down next to her. Her friends move away only Rainbow doesn’t react.
“Hey you won’t eat my friends will you?”
“Depends. If they give me a reason to defend myself and I accidently kill them while doing so, I might eat them if I’m hungry enough.”
“Wow that was reassuring.” Said Rainbow with a scowl and obvious sarcasm.
“You’re welcome!” he said with a smile that no one could see.
“Yea I think you’d make a better impression if you show them your face.”
*Bleats*
“Yea he has a face AJ. You just can’t see it.”
“AJ is the one with the Stetson right?”
“Yea why?”
“Tell her I think Stetsons are AWESOME!”
Rainbow Chuckles. “AJ he said Stetsons are awesome.” The pony in question just cocked her head to the side and made a very confused noise.
Twilight remained dumbfounded at the human that stood before her friends. The guards were closing in making sure they have pouncing positions near by so they can subdue the creature at a moments notice. The creature doesn’t seem to notice any of the guard ponies.
“Hey Rainbow?”
“Yea Twi?”
“D-do you think he is dangerous?”
“No he’s cool. He won’t eat us. Just don’t attack him and we’re safe.”
“T-that’s a little reassuring.” Said Twilight nervously
“I’d rather not get in a conversation about magic with a go between.” Said Spell Tome.
“What do you mean?” Said Rainbow.
“Well it will get annoying for you to say what Twilight says to me and then what I say to her. It’s best for us to not have full scale conversations until I have a less permanent link with your friends so we can understand each other.”
“Umm ok. All right guys lets go home.”
“Wait where will I stay?”
“I dunno. Twilight you can keep him at the library right?”
I found a position next to Rainbow Dash while walking back to Ponyville. Well Rainbow as actually flying next to me. He now noticed the guards who were doing very well to keep hidden but they were noticeable if you looked in their direction. They seem to think me as mindless because they don’t try to hide when I look in their direction, expecting me not to see them if they don’t move…Fucking hell man, I’m not a dumbass.
Twilight seemed safer around me when Rainbow was near. She found a position next to me and kept giving me nervous glares. She wanted to trust me I could tell. I mean why else would someone try to walk next to you when they were still afraid of you?
“Hey Rainbow?”
“Yea?”
“Ask Twilight if she and I could show each other magic tricks. At least for the night.”
“Sure. Hey Twi before we set up camp, Spell Tome wants to show you his magic. And for you to do the same.”
She froze in place and her thoughts ran through her head faster than Rainbow in a race.
“Sorry I had to show her my magic first you know?”
“NO I DON’T KNOW! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? If this was your idea of getting ponies to like you then it’s a pretty terrible plan!”
“Well calm down there Rainbow. Why not show off my fire power? If others see that I can kill everyone right now they may feel more comfortable knowing I haven’t done so yet.”
“WHAT THE BUCK! YOU BELIEVE SHOWING OFF FIRE MAGIC IS GOING TO GIVE YOU RESPECT?! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! JUST DO WHAT I SAY FOR NOW ON!”
I was about to retort but I realized that if I show I pledge my allegiance to a pony the others will lighten up in a way…I guess…It’s the best option I have now. I bowed my head and went on my knees. I held out both my arms as if to immortalize Rainbow Dash. Some ponies gasped in shock. Some just stared. The guards were so convinced I would attack Rainbow that they began to charge when I started kneeling. Only to halt and stare in awe as I bowed to her. Rainbow on the other hand hovered there hooves crossing her chest and a look of surprise.
After a few hours the group set up camp. And we started to pour into our own tents. Rainbow wanted to stay in the king size bed but she ultimately decided that sleeping near her friends was a lot more rewarding, seeing as she has missed them so much.
I on the other hand…Stayed in my EPIC tent. I also removed the timber wolf corpses with fire so if anyone came in and saw them they wouldn’t freak out. Good move considering a mint unicorn found courage to look inside my tent only to backpedal out of shock and literally walk around the tent to make sure it wasn’t some sort of trick…noob.
Bigger on the inside shit is always worth packing. After a few moments the lavender unicorn made her way inside my tent. She almost backpedaled out of the tent like the other one but made it to the center of the tent. She looked around and of course made some weird grunts and bleats that they call language.
“Whoa its bigger on the inside!” Shouted Twilight.
“Duh! I told you it was!” Said Rainbow still outside the tent. “Hey girls pack up! Let’s go in!”
She came in shortly afterward with her friends with their sleeping bags in tow and all came to a halt when looking on the inside. I on the other hand was sitting on the edge of the bed closest to the door to watch the startled faces of EVERYTHING that came in through that door.
“oooooooh” Said Pinkie…or sounded? Or whatever she made that noise!
“Golly…Ah don’t remember nuttin about unicorn magic that could do this caliber of things.”
“I-I-I-I-Its not possible.” Said Twilight stammering. I almost felt bad for her.
“Oh its possible!” Said Rainbow. “I slept in this tent the first night in the wilderness and you know what? I got used to it within five seconds. Well there was a human that took my fascination away from the tent but you get the idea.”
“Rainbow darling…did you…Sleep with the human? There seems to be one bed.”
“Umm…” the way Rarity put it was embarrassing. “Well yea I did. But w-we didn’t do anything!”
“Oh no no no Rainbow Dash. I was just wondering what it had to say to convince you he wouldn’t hurt you when you were asleep.”
“His name is Spell Tome, Rarity. And yea we were in the same bed but…I was kinda crippled so I didn’t have a say in the matter.”
“I don’t need to understand her to know what she’s talking about Rainbow.” Said Spell Tome with a grin.
“SHUT UP!” Yelled Rainbow which surprised everyone and brought Twilight back to reality while still being amazed. Pinkie was trying to comfort her for not knowing that bigger on the inside magic was possible.
“Oh? You don’t want to go to this morning? Because that did happen ya know?”
“NO IT DIDN’T! That only happened because you’re a gu-“ Rainbow stopped herself when she realized she was giving out free information about that morning with the ‘wood’ incident to all her friends. “Oh horse feathers.”
The one with the Stetson said something that…I could somewhat understand. (“Rainbow?” Said Applejack. “What’s going on?”)
“Umm…Nothing.” Said Rainbow with a sheepish grin.
“Yo Rainbow…” I said with a shocked expression that she could only notice because of the connection.
“Huh?”
“Your friend here…She said Rainbow what’s going on right?”
“Yea? Wait how do you know that?”
“I think I just understood her for a moment.”
“…Hey guys he’s learning Equestrian. PINKIE QUICK TALK TO HIM!”
Then the Pink mare started to pipe up a conversation that…I was so impressed she can grunt so fast…I could make out some words like (Cupcake, the, MAYBEJUSTAPARTY, and an assortment of other words.)
“Yea I’m getting better at this.”
“What you understood that?”
“No but I got some words out of it.”
“Oh ok. So your still learning.”
“Yea maybe the staff is filtering more than just meaning…It may be trying to get me to learn Equestrian.”
“B-but how? Your staff isn’t alive is it?”
“What made you think my staff wasn’t alive?”
“Well it doesn’t move.”
“Trees don’t move either but are they alive?”
“Well…”
“Thought so.”
After a few minutes her friends set up their sleeping bags and I picked them up one by one and placed them on the bed. The last one who’s name was ‘Applejack’ decided to not let me go through the trouble of picking her up and just walked onto the bed. I then swiped Fluttershy’s sleeping bag and made myself a comfortable place on the floor.
It was early in the morning when a sound brought Twilight’s full attention back to the human. She wasn’t able to sleep with all the thoughts running through her head. The sun had barely started to rise and in fact was no were near ready to peek out from the horizon. It was 3:00am. The human undid Fluttershy’s sleeping bag and got up. He didn’t pick up his staff but just calmly strode over to the entrance of the tent. He then opened it up and went outside.
‘Where’s he going?’ Thought Twilight to herself.
She got up and proceeded to silently tip toe out of the tent. She saw the human walking into the gloomy and scary forest alone. She didn’t want the human out of sight for the reason it could try to harm her friends in some way. Like making traps or other things. But the real reason Twilight followed it was because she was curious.
She followed it to a ledge where it hung its feet off the side. Around him flowers grew in great colors. Some more than one. They were physically moving as they grew around the forest floor. Twilight hid behind a bush just ten feet away from him. He then lifted both of his arms forward so they hung over the edge at shoulder level.
He seems to allow his limbs become enveloped by a green substance that for some reason glows just like the staff core. Then to Twilight’s amazement the flowers start to glow in the weak light. The creatures energy must have been going into the flowers because a light blue aura formed around his hands and the flower peddles began to pulse with light blue light across the entire forest. Even the trees began to pulse this color.
It was like a great shockwave of safety. The creepy and gloomy feeling of the forest disappeared in this action alone. Twilight felt almost amazed as he plucked a flower from the ground and it started glowing even brighter than all the rest. Until it looked like a blue inferno in his hand.
It was beautiful. The flowers raw power bent the light around it as if it were holding a great magical force. Then he places the flower in his right hand, while his left turns to point in Twilight’s direction. He lowers it and the bush dies revealing the lavender mare. Twilight freezes in fear and notices the creature motioning to her.
“W-what do you want?” Said Twilight in a near whisper. The creature motions again and she complies. Then it lifts his hand and the bush grows back to life behind her.
The creature then relaxes and waits for Twilight to build enough courage to get closer. She sits a meter away from him on his left. He lets the pulsing flowers ease her worries for a good thirty minutes. The whole time Twilight doesn’t break eye contact with the radiant powerful flower being embraced between his hands.
He then lifts his left hand slowly toward Twilight Sparkle with the flower in hand. She at first doesn’t know what to do.
‘D-does he want me to eat it? Does he want me to hold it? Does he want to eat me?’ She thought to herself.
Then the most unexpected. He places it on top of her ear were it then holds its place on her head caught in her hair. Once the flower made contact with her she could feel the forest.
“T-this is amazing!” She exclaimed. Then she noticed something close. Very close. The human looked unimpressed in that faceless form. He had a face though. She just couldn’t see it until now when power surged through her.
His face looked dull and empty, but full of thought. Looking off at the supposed sunrise that has yet to appear. His face was young yet it held the age of thousands of years of learning an experience. The power the flower granted Twilight could see through the false veils of the light removing magic and she could see the youngest old man of another species.
This young yet old man seemed to be NOT deep in thought but…deep in understanding? Like he’s reflecting on the world pulsating around him. Twilight could fell his very old heart. He defiantly is older than he looks. Way older. She then focused her attention to the tent and could see something that no one else could. The tent room was there but in another dimension so it was bigger on the inside.
“Whoa.”
“Cool huh?” Said the human in a terrible attempt at Equestrian…But it got through.
“W-whoa you talk?”
“Some now.”
“C-can you explain to me why only Rainbow can understand you?”
“…” It didn’t seem to register the question.
“That’s all you learned how to say huh?”
“…”
“Thanks for trying.”
It then looked at her and took the flower out of her hair. To Twilight’s disappointment her ability to sense the world around her vanished with it. And then as he held the flower by the stem as far out over the edge as he could the flower started to lose its glow. Then it faded to a regular flower. Then it started to wither and die…the wind carried its ashes away toward the sunrise that was now beginning to show.
“…You’re not that bad Spell Tome…you’re weird and I don’t understand you…But you haven’t hurt any of us yet and I now know that if you wanted to you could.” She said almost sad and afraid. But reassured in some strange way.
“Twilight?” Said a tomboyish voice from behind them. Spell Tome didn’t move. He just stared out.
“Rainbow?” Said Twilight. Rainbow Dash started to trot over to the pair.
I have the next chapter being made right now but there is also a few things that are going on...
The sequal to 'The Twelve specialists' is coming out soon...or at least one of them. I'm cutting them up so that they all have different things they do to spread peace across the universes and dimensions.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about then don't read...Unless you want to know and go to my channel and look up that story along with 'Nano Swarm in Equestria' as well.
Speaking of Nano Swarm...She's gotten awesome.
Ready for a whole new adventure?
So basically taking a break from this story...Until I'm done and I finally find a good plot to this one XD