Chapter 1: Enter The Arcane World.
Chapter 1: Enter The Arcane World.
Twilight Sparkle was finally ready for the ritual she had found in a new book. A book she knew was illegal as it contained The Arcane, something that has been illegal for thousands of years. Still, she had to do this as the spell is supposed to help with one’s memory, boost one's mind, and see long-lost memories, something she felt she needed as she has a void from her foalhood.
Everything should be in place. She had all the items she needed and the circle is drawn. Now all she needed to do was stand in the middle, pour magic into it, and weave the spell. She checked her list and references from the book one more time before deciding to stand in the middle. She had to get this right. The implications, if it failed, were horrendous.
She finished checking, moved into the middle, and started pouring her magic into the circle and resiting the spell. Everything seemed fine it was shining its colors, from red to blue then white. She waited in anticipation for the spell to work, but nothing seemed to happen. A confused and a little concerned look took its place on her face.
"I swear I had everything rig-," She was cut off as she where suddenly engulfed in white light.
The spell had taken effect, and she found herself floating in the air. She could feel it, the magic, engulfing her. It hurt at first, but then the light just stopped, and she fell to the ground. Before she could recover from her fall, the circle’s color change from white to purple and activated again. This time she did not have the chance to feel anything as the light took over her. Her eyes started shining the same kind of purple, her main flowing and sparkling in the same aura as the spell. She started screaming, her memory flowing through her mind.
Twilight's Lost Memory.
The sun was starting to shine into Twilight's bedroom as small rays began to hit her sleeping form. She started to stir as more rays started to shine through her curteins. Twilights started to awaken slowly. Her sleepy and hazy state vanished right away as she realized what day it was today.
She shot up from her bed and went into her bathroom as she made herself ready for the day. A knock came from her door, and the door slowly opened where a white-ish gray unicorn with a white and pink striped mane stood, Twilight's mother.
"Twilight?, Are you awake? breakfast is ready." Said her mother
"Yes, mom!" she said as she ran past her mother out of the door and down the stairs.
Twilight and her family were eating breakfast, talking, and doing the morning routine. As time past so did the scenery.
Twilight and her parents were walking down Cantorlots streets as they moved closer to the castle's entrance.
Today was an excellent day for Twilight as she would be sleeping the whole weekend with Princess Celestia. Tomorrow was also the anniversary of her cutie mark and her becoming Princess Celestia Person student. It was the best thing to ever happen in her life. Twilight loved Princess Celestia as a teacher, mentor, and mother. Princess Celestia was both strong, Wise, beautiful, and kind. So today will be the best today for Twilight. Twilight was happy with no worry to be together with her beloved mentor and learn many new things and magic. So what was there to worry about.
Twilight woke up a forced slumber, her eyes opening slow and groggily. She was confused at first, but that later turned to worry and fear As she slowly awoke. Looking around was hard as she could not see where she was because of the darkness and her drowsiness.
She was in a very dimly lit room, the only light being a torch in the distance. Nevertheless, she could make out that she was in a cell of some kind and the dampness of the room only confirmed her theory.
She was scared, terrified even, what should have been one of the best days ever being together with Princess Celestia, Is now something else entirely. She started to cry tears maddening her fur. She cried for what felt like hours, screaming for someone to find her, to help her, to take her away from her. She had tried to use her magic many times, but something was blocking it.
“Well, well, well,” – Twilight flicked her attention to the voice, it was a voice of a gruff stallion “what do we have here. When you said you could get the student of Celestia herself, you were not joking,” said the mysteries stallion.
“Of course, boss, have I ever disappointed you,” said a mare's voice. They were now in front of Twilight's cell, but it was hard to see who the ponies were.
“Oh, look who is awake, then we don’t have to force you awake,” she said with a slight sadistic smirk on her face. This scared Twilight even more, and she started crying, tears filling up her eyes.
“oh no, you poor thing,” said the mare in a sincere and sadistic tone.
“Well, now that we have her, we can put our plan into motion, so get everything ready,” said the stallion.
“As you wish, boss.”
The stallion was leaving, and now Twilight was alone with the mare. She never thought a pony would foalnap her, her of all ponies, and of course, she was the one pony they should not have foalnapped. Twilight believed that Princess Celestia would find her fast, but how long can she keep that faith in her mentor.
Twilight tried to be strong for her mentor and wanted to ask her why they did this, but it only came out as a whimpering
“W-W-Why a-a-are y-y-you do-do-ing this,” stammered Twilight, her tone full of fright.
“well, dear, we need someone with strong ties to magic, and we heard from our spies that your talent is magic, so you will be perfect in or experiment... at least we hope you are,” said the mare.
They both turned to the sound of a door opening. Twilight could only hear the sound of heavy hoofsteps. Two stallions came into view, but Twilight could not make out who it was.
The door to her cell opened, and the two stallions walked in while the mare was watching, still smiling her sinister smile.
Twilight backed away from the two stallions but stopped as she hit the wall behind her. She was scared, so scared she was shaking. She looked around for any exit, but all hope was lost for Twilight as the two stallions grabbed her. They did not care about how it hurt or how much she tried to struggle.
”Why are you doing this to me,” mustered Twilight in a pleading tone through her tears.
“Because of your talent, of course,” answered the mare.
Twilight was brought into a big room with a circle on the ground with many weird symbols. She was placed in the middle, being held by magic. Around her, she could see a lot of robed unicorns and some other ponies or creatures. It was hard to tell as they all wore dark purple and crimson red robes with weird symbols.
She then looked down as the circle started to glow. She was terrified. In her panic, she tried using her magic again, realizing she did not have the suppressor on her horn. Trying to use a spell to get out, her horn started to glow as she tried her hardest to use her magic. The glow began to rise, only to suddenly dim. She could see that the circle started to absorb her magic from her horn. She cut her supply off, making the absorption stop.
The ponies and creatures around Twilight started to say incomprehensible words. The circle began to glow brighter, and then as if something started to electrocute her. She started to scream in pain as the circle started to force its magic on her.
Screaming in pain, she was lifted into the air, the magic still forcing itself on her. She could not see. She could not hear. She could only feel the pain.
The spell started to glow, fizzle, lightning started shooting out, then a whirlpool started to form, its colors began to change from white to a deep purple with a reddish hue shooting more lightning.
A pillar of light formed from the whirlpool engulfing Twilight in it. She could feel it enter her. Invade her even. It did not feel like magic. It felt thicker somehow. She could feel the power. Raw power enters her like a train hitting her hard over and over. A surge of energy flowing into her. The pain she felt from this was immense. She felt like breaking apart, but at the same time, being put back together, she felt both dead and alive. Reality felt broken but also whole. She could feel this weird magic invade her, but somehow she could understand it like the energy was alive, and maybe there was something to it.
At the same time in another world.
Maltazar was fighting his way through a horde of Proos foul creatures created out of Demonic Arts. These flesh sacks that you can’t even call a beast anymore.
He was smiting them with whatever he could. Blasting them with fire, freezing them with ice. Killing them with whatever force he could muster.
Maltazar had to stop Thornheart from trying to infect this world with her Abyssle, a power coming from the The Abyss Vale a place for monsters of deformed flesh, blood, and darkness.
Maltazar in place has he is in front of a high lord of the abyss. He cursed under his breath “had she already gotten this far, fuck, I need to stop her.”
But how was he supposed to get around this shit, lord? Damn, this day just keeps getting worse. Gritting his teeth, he gathers energy into his hands and formulating a spell lock.
While creating the spell lock, the lord started to move in and attack. He had to dodge it. He had to get behind the monster, use the spell lock to kill this abomination, and then get to Thornheart and stop her schemes.
He dodged and released another spell to keep the monster at bay and make it lose balance. He got behind the creature and released the spell lock. It hit the High lord directly at the lord started to fade in and out of existence.
Now that the coast was clear, he went to the big door and entered. And There she was Wihnhilda Thornheart, The Witch of The Abyss Vale. He looks around and sees a synched Portal. He will have to destroy that fast.
“HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE, YOU MONGREL” He hears her scream at him.
“I have come to destroy this place, monster. You and your king have no place in this realm.” Says Maltazar In a condescending and angry tone. ‘how can a monster like this even be a part of this realm’ He thinks to himself.
“I WILL DESTROY YOU, AND ALL OTHER CREATURES WILL BE A SACRIFICE TO MY GOD,” she screams in an angry and enthusiastic tone.
“Over my dead body!” He runs over to the portal's structure with a sword in hand and a spell lock in the other. She sees what he is trying to do and starts to throw Death Burn of abyss energy.
“YOU DARE” She screams, firing even more potent spells at him. He dodges as good as he can, but he has to destroy that portal. He has, and he will.
He is right there in front of the structure. He now just have to use the spell lock as he tries to fire the spell. But, unfortunately, he gets hit with a Decay of Abyss and ends up missing, screaming in pain from a direct hit from the spell. He could feel the effect of the spell trying to destroy him, but at least it was not enough to kill him just yet.
He started to think fast, forming a new spell up and a new spell lock, one that at least would destroy this gate. He charges up Force of Fire and fires it at her, as well as some other spells.
He was trying hard in this magic fight, but he was running out while she got more powerful the longer that portal was open. Then he got hit again, this time by an abyssal spear right through his stomach, he started coughing up blood, but right then and there, he got an idea and cast a spell lock, in secret.
“HAHAHA! HE WILL DIE BY MY HAND, YOU LITTLE INSECT.” she starts to walk over to him,
“YOU ARE RIGHT THERE SO CLOSE, BUT IT SEEMS YOU ARE JUST WEAK, LET THE ABYSS EAT EVERYTHING HAT IS HER, AHAHA!” She started to laugh in joy. ‘krgh’ a Sound could be heard from the portal.
She turns to it and sees that it’s starting to crack. Her eyes were wide, “NO!” she screamed.
She went over to the portal to try and fix it, only to hear a burst of laughter. She turned to the dying man.
“It’s over, Wihnhilda, you won’t be a thorn in any once eyes not after this.” He fires his spell lock at her a screams, “Eruption Flare” a Burst of fire hits her, and the portal she screams in agony as she is getting burned by the fire. The structure crumbles, and the portal starts to desynchronize.
The portal starts to burst with its desynchronized energy. A bolt of energy hit her, and she was gone. The same thing happened to Maltazar a little later. Maltazar was too weak to do anything, and as his life was fading, he prayed to Arcadia, not for a second chance or a wish or anything, just a thank you for always being with him. Then he to was gone with nothing left.
Twilight's Lost Memory.
After some time, the spell started to deplete, and laying in the middle of the floor was a lavender filly. The circle dimed down, then stopped glowing all together. The filly was losing her consciousness.
Twilight woke up in the same dark cell she was in last time. Again, it was dark, so dark you could not see a thing. This time they did not even bother to light the torch. She curled up into a ball in the corner of the room and started to whimper until she fell asleep.
While she was asleep, a purplish light could be seen being emitted from her, engulfing her.
Twilight awoke into a purplish and magenta space of stars. She looks around the space, her eyes finally settling on a purplish flame. Then, with a bit of determination, she started to walk over to the flame. As she got closer to it started to move, not like how fire moves, more like how breathing moves.
“He-hello,” asked Twilight the fire, a little bit after she heard a voice.
“Hello there little one”
It was the voice of a stallion. She was scared a little as the voice sounded like it came from everywhere, the voice calm yet firm, it than kindness behind its word with an echoing tone to it. The voice talked again. and again. It sounded like it came from everywhere.
“Are you okay, child?”
” Child?” thought Twilight.
Twilight was turning around, trying to look for the voice, and spoke out to the void of the space.
” Who is speaking, please someone tell me what is happening to me. I am so scared. I just wanna go home.”
And again the voice calm yet kind, firm yet elegant,
” Calm down, Child. I’m right behind”
Twilight turned around and looked at the flame, slowly pulsating like breathing. She saw it glow as the flame started to talk.
” My name is Maltazar, little one.” said the Flame that is now Maltazar.
”Why are you calling me child?”
”Are you not a young one?”
” I am, but I don’t know what ‘child’ is. Do you mean a foal?”
”Is that what you call you’re young once here, A foal are you not human?”
”huwmen? What’s that? I’m a pony, a unicorn, to be more specific.”
”hmm, I see. Well, young one, I’m a human, was a great mage of The Arcane, but now it seems I am nothing but a soul trapped inside you. Could you tell me your name?”
” Oh, yes, I am Twilight Sparkle, the student of Princess Celestia,” said Twilight proudly.
”Oh really. Then you must have quite the talent,” Maltazar was surprised that his host was that capable of a being. He could feel her magical potential.
Maltazar could feel a strain in his being or not his but hers.
Twilight was starting to feel tired even though she was already unconscious. Then she lost her connection to the mindscape.
Everything was black...
Pain, emptiness, fear, and sadness were all Twilight could feel. She could not see the sun from the place she was in. She would have thought that Princess Celestia would have already come for her, but it seems that will not happen, and she has lost hope for it to happen.
Just as a wish to talk to somepony, she asked out into the dark cell.
"Maltazar, are you here?" she slowly said, waiting for a voice to return. She stayed for a little and almost lost hope for him to talk.
"I'm here, Twilight." said the voice of Maltazar.
It scared Twilight a little more so that some voice came out of nowhere, but she calmed down fast.
"Can we talk? I need something to do." Asked the little unicorn in the dark corner of a close to empty cell.
"There are some stories I can tell you, but it would seem right now my memory is a little hazy. I will at least tell you some of the stories that I do remember." Maltazar then talked about things he had done over time. Twilight and Maltazar started chatting for hours and hours. This became their daily routine over the days and weeks.
It mattered not what he was. The best times were when he was there talking about his adventures from his world. It amazed Twilight to hear these stories.
Him talking about how his world was made, or when he was in magic school and became a master. It was amazing how he fought a dragon. They are kind of scary, at least the big ones. Spike is a cutie.
Her heart dropped “oh no, Spike, he is… he is-” she said, starting to tear up “-alone.” She was crying now.
Twilight’s thoughts were interrupted as hoofsteps could be heard outside her cell. Then she heard an all too familiar voice. She knew the voice but not the name belonging to the voice.
“oh, you poor thing, I thought the accommodation would be to your satisfaction, then the rest of those dirty cells. You even got a better bed now, and you are eating better than most here.”
“Anyway, it's time for experimenting again. Hope you are ready~” she sang in joy.
Twilight stuttered from words, “please no more, I just want o to go ‘sniffle’ go home.”
“oh, sorry, my dear, but this will be your new home.”
Twilight started to cry. She could not get home. “poor thing, you don’t have to be sad. after this, you never need to be sad again. Because you will be gone, no more Twilight Sparkle and only Wihn –” The mare was cut short as a rough voice pierced the cellar.
“Why are you here blabbering when you need to get the foal ready.” said a stallion's voice.
“Yes, boss.” – She then looked back at Twilight – “you heard him get your flank up and move else I am gonna make you. and you don’t want that now, do you.” she was angry for being interrupted and more so by that fool.
Twilight found herself in a big open room. There were skulls of different creatures all around a circle in the middle with bridges connecting to it with glowing green water around it. There were fire holders with green-ish flames.
Twilight was brought to the middle of the circle as she has in all of the rituals. But this time, it was different, or it felt different. The circle started to shine as the creatures around begun to sing the ominous chant. A sickening green tendril began to form from the water, moving its way over to Twilight. More minor things started to seep in from the circle of mana that she was standing on. It was getting closer and closer. She could feel the pressure.
Then it touched her, and an overwhelming surge of energy entered her. She felt like she was being ripped apart and put back together, over and over and over and over. But it was far from the last thing she would feel. Her head started to feel like it was being split open, and it was as a massive amount of tendrils began to drill their way into her head.
Maltazar did his best to help Twilight all he could, using almost every bit of his powers just to protect his host. However, he did not care for his own well-being. If he did die, he would join the Arcane Well and be a part of Arcadia's realm. Worst case, he and his host would die, and he wouldn't let her die. She did not deserve that.
Blood was dripping from her nose and eyes. she did not want this. She will not give them what they want, whatever it was. Twilights shot open with a newfound determination. Even with all this pain, she will not give up seeing her family, mother, father, brother, foalsitter, and Princess Celestia.
Her eyes started to glow a purple lavender glow. You could see the light rise from her chest. Then it unleashed an explosion from her, destroying everything close to it, even killing some of the creatures that were just a little too close.
In the middle of the blast zone was a lavender filly with a glow around her. She was just lying there, not able to do much as everything faded to black.
Twilight was sick. She felt like throwing, her head felt like breaking, and her body ached. She tried her hardest just tome try and move herself over to the trashcan to throw op. But, moving felt like 100 knives in every part of her nerves. She felt like she was being thrown around in a tornado. She was overwhelmed with the overflowing emotions making her even sicker and feeling even more pain.
After emptying her stomach, she still tried to get he breathing under control, her emotion, her vary self. She saw everything, but just as fast as it happened, it stopped, but she was far from okay. She could feel, see, taste, hear, and know everything that she has experienced in all her life.
She now knows what had happened to her all those years ago, all the memories she had forgotten from imported to not-so-important to things she wanted to remember to the ones she doesn’t. She could now Remember all of them. And it all made her even sicker. So she laid there on the ground, looking up at the moving ceiling.
After getting her breathing under control and getting some kind of coherent thought out from the knives implanted into her skull, Twilight thought hard on the moments of her voided memories.
"I-I-I w-w-was k-kidnapped," she stammered, almost throwing up from the vibrations her voice made.
"W-Why would they keep this from me? I was gone for so long," Twilight thought long and hard. Still, as with being there again, she could also understand her mentor for doing so. At least there had to be a good reason for the Princess to do such a thing. A flash of Princess Celestia's face came into view the sadness she felt when Twilight was broken.
Yeah, Twilight could kind of understand it now. More thoughts, more flashes, and the more she felt horrible.
"More than that, I was USED!, EXPERIMENTED ON!, and so many other horrible things!"
She needed to calm down. She knew her emotional state was very out of control, and she had to control that. She was angry, but she was also feeling every emotion she had ever felt. Then, in her state of dread, she heard a voice she had never heard before but still somehow felt familiar.
“Please calm down, Twilight Sparkle,” said a voice. It sounded like her voice, but a little deeper, more regal, and had this echo to it like a combination of Nightmare Moon and Queen Chrysalis but as her voice but without the malice but more firm yet kind and calming.
“Who said that? Show yourself!” She was frantically turning around, looking for the voice.
“Please calm down, do the calming exercise that Cadance taught you,” said the voice.
Twilight did just that and calmed down a little. “Who are you? What are you? Where are you?” she asked into the room.
“Try to remember. I have been there with you the whole time from the beginning of that hell, though I do sound a lot different than back then.” said the voice to her.
She tried to remember, and the memory hit her like a fast speeding Rainbow Dash.
“you are that voice I heard after the first experiment they did on me! Are you Maltazar? I thought I just imagined you so that I could cope with the situation, but you are real.”
“That I am. You already know my story. You just need to think about it.”
“But why has your voice change so much? If I remember correctly, you should be male.”
“That is true, Twilight, but after so much time, my soul has slowly become more attuned to your soul. It became more fused with yours when you became an alicorn. I still have my own mind how that works. I don’t really know, but I take it as having two personalities in one body. Still, the other has gained more self as it started to grow its own mana-pool only that I had mine from the start now our mana-pools are intertwined, but it was this ritual that was the final straw to make it so I can come into contact with you again as it gave me power.”
“So you have become more like me as we are closer to become one?” questioned Twilight.
“Yes and no, we are not becoming one, just more connected, that means that the spell that was put on us that kept us apart won’t work on us anymore.”
“Alright, I understand, so that means you can’t get back home anymore as well as get back to your world.”
“I could not get home from the start as my body was destroyed as my mind was placed inside yours, and after all this time, I don’t think having my body back is that good as I have been to used to this female form. I may not have been able to speak with you, but that does not mean I can’t feel or see what you have done as well as all the thoughts that you had too.”
Twilight blushed from the last comment.
“I have now changed from being male to female and all that comes with it. After living inside the mind of a girl for so long, it would not take much time to change perspective myself, may also be why my voice has changed over the time.”
”I also think that with my own gender being changed, I believe a new name is in order. Do you have any idea as to what?
”I don’t know, hmm. How about Midnight Sparkle?
”Yes, yes, that sounds like a good name... you know what? No, it does not sound as good.”
"Alright... Hmm... Twilight, Twilight... Hmm. Evenfall... Evenfall Glow, how does that sound?”
”That is a fitting name. I like it, yes, from now on, I am Evenfall Glow. Evenfall felt proud of the name Twilight has given her.
Twilight was smiling. ”Well, I can’t wait to work with you, Evenfall Glow.” Said Twilight proudly.
Smiling as well, Evenfall was glad to talk to her host again after so long.
”likewise, Twilight Sparkle. Let us uncover these mysteries that have plagued Equestria for all these years.