Prologue.
"Cozy Glow" had been stopped by the young 6, the night was half quiet. As everyone gathered. Below where the artifacts were still lying, an abnormality begins to emerge from the basement.
A dark light comes out and begins to cover things.
Twilight looked shocked “What's going on, they just stopped the ritual. So there shouldn't be anything else.”
The princesses, more Starlight tries to stop it. All the students were running scared, so the other teachers try to corral them.
At that moment, Discord steps in front of Fluttershy and helps stop the dome. Seeing that Discord's magic was more effective, she gives him some time to analyze the situation.
Discord looked concerned “Fluttershy, this dome is chaos magic. That way I can stop it, normally I could alone but something is amplifying the magic and I'm not up to it yet.”
Twilight hearing that starts teleporting the students to the harmony castle. She makes her order “Starlight assemble as many as you can, and go to the castle of friendship. Use the Map to power and create a force field to prevent it from being swallowed by that thing, this magic is some time time-space magic and the Map can. I don't know…”
Starlight saw that it could not avoid starts to make a portal for the students to enter.... “EVERYONE RUN BACK INSIDE!” Various ponies ran out, among them were the foreign students. Yona at that moment makes a loud gallop to call all her classmates.
“All students, follow us. Teacher Starlight make a path for us, go this way.” They all followed Yona’s order
Sandbar grabs Silverstream’s shoulder “Silverstream, Gallus and Smolder help calm the pegasus and lead them to the portal. Ocellus help me take "Cozy Glow" she may be the cause of this, we can't let her go free.”
All following Sandbars orders, Sandbars and Ocellus start dragging the tired Cozy Glow. While she was trying to escape but without energy she couldn't do much.
Rarity, was supporting with what she could in magic to stop the dome, while Fluttershy asked Rainbow Dash to help her with the animals to get them into the portal and at the same time Applejack and Pinkie Pie went inside to look for students inside the school that were out of reach, with Rainbow Dash's speedster busy helping Fluttershy the earth ponies were the fastest ones within reach. They had already finished exploring the east side of the building so there was no more room and they just had to return to the portal that was transporting all the students.
Applejack was stumped “It looks like there is no one else inside the facility. We should leave now while we can…”
As they were running at full speed, they began to hear banging from a room down the corridor.
"Help!"
"We're trapped!"
"Somebody save us!"
The girls were aware of the very familiar voices, so they ran to find out what they had gotten themselves into. When they opened the cleaning room they were not surprised to see three very familiar fillies trapped in there, what they didn't .
Applejack couldn’t believe it “For the name of Celestia and all that is Apples what are they doing in here?”
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were trying to get the buckets and other cleaning tools out of the way. Apple Bloom got up “Sister, glad you could come....”
“We were fighting Cozy Glow.” Sweetie fibbed
“But when we almost had her, she locked us in here.” Scootalo said in denial
Applejack knew it was a lie but, she didn't have time for this sort of thing so she put that off for another time and remembered what she was doing. And more so with the din of things being chaos outside. “You know I don't have time for this, we have to evacuate this place as soon as possible. So let's go.”
Back to the garden.
Things had been half quiet so it seemed that everything was calming down, most of the students and wild animals had evacuated so only the teachers, the princesses and the sisters of the protagonists were missing. Starlight tapped twilight “Twilight, everyone has already gone through the portal. Only you are missing…”
Twilight, seeing that all the students had already passed... She had in mind to keep the enchantment as long as she could so that her friends would pass through first. When she heard a scream inside the school, while a pink party rocket was going full power in their direction.
Pinkie Pie screamed “Look out everyone!”
So before it got out of control, Applejack uses her lasso to send the rocket upwards. As well as using the centripetal force of the rocket to launch her sister and the little ones into the portal while the older ponies land hard. When everything seemed to be under control, a kind of dark force in the form of a bird began to complement the force coming out of the basement, going from being just a dome to an explosion of darkness that would cover everything in its path.
A few moments before at the entrance of Ponyville next to the entrance to the Everfree forest.
“Thank you for showing me the way to this town, I had never come to this part of Equestria and more because I had to come from the Everfree forest. In my adventures I do most of them outside of Equestria but since the Everfree forest is connected to all the oldest places, in addition to having many secrets from the "Age of the sisters". I had to enter from somewhere other than Ponyville in order to research a scroll.”
The one she was talking about was a Pegasus with a sandy brown body, her tail and mane are gray with touches of black. She wore a dark reddish purple robe, a pair of large red glasses, and a gray hat. The vast majority of people know her asAND Yearling novel writer. As he walked, he was very grateful to his guide that he found in the Everfree forest.
“Don't worry, helping is a pleasure for me. In addition to the fact that I know the way to the castle you are looking for well. In addition to that sword that you carry Ak caught my attention.”
The guide accompanying AK Yearling was none other than Zecora, Ponyville's only zebra.
Yearling continued the topic “The truth caught my attention, it is very different from what I am used to. It's a very different and unique crystal, I haven't seen anything like this in my books and I was hoping the princesses would know about it.”
Zecora spoke “There is nothing to fear, this is something interesting since I feel that the writing is very familiar to my culture or so I want to believe and Princess Twilight would help me, maybe she can help me translate, since she is a big fan of all of this.”
Just when I was at the entrance of the castle of friendship, a portal opens with force and a crowd is coming out, no one knew why there was a crowd coming out of the portal, so they all entered the building in front of them out of pure instinct.
Everyone calm down,” Ocellus raised her voice “we're out of the dark dome everyone come in stay calm.”
Gallus butt in “That's not going to work Ocellus, there's no one to listen to us the best we can do is keep them from getting out of line. Help me form a perimeter, Jona help the grounders not crush the little ones.”
Ocellus transforms into a big bear to use his arms to avoid leading everyone towards the castle, at that moment he saw that some of the pegasi were leaving along with some unicorns.
Sandbars jumped in “I'll help with the animals and the unicorns. Smolder and Silverstream you are the fastest at the moment, help me with the ones that are going out of place Smolder are getting out of control.”
Silverstream was unsure “I don't think it's a good time, I can see that the dome is getting closer, we should go in right now before it…”
Just at that moment, 3 ponies, also known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, flew out of the portal. When leaving the portal they hit Smolder, Gallus and Silverstream herself who were flying at the entrance, and then entered the castle by force. Sandbar upon hearing the warning from his winged friends, decided that the best thing was to enter the castles with everyone they could.
“Everyone to the castle quickly!” Sandbar ran as They all entered the castle leaving only Ocellus, Jona and Smolder being the last to enter and close the door with all their strength.
At that moment the dome came to cover all of Ponyville and its surroundings.
Meanwhile on an isolated island in the Pacific.
“This world is really interesting, this temple looks like a temple of Greek culture, however... It's far from Europe. Could it be a piece of what was left of Atlantis? but I see some images of hippogriffs living with human people, so it may be that this place was a key to the development of magic in this world.”
The one who was exploring this deserted island was a golden and red haired girl wearing a black leather vest over an orange short-sleeved shirt, a magenta skirt, and punk-style boots in the same color as her vest. The girl in question was none other than Sunset Shimmer, a former unicorn and a student of princesses Celestia and Twilight.
After what happened with the magic of the "STORM KING" and asking the people on the cruise not to say anything about what had happened, he decided to take some time to review more about this island where there was equestrian magic, or at least so he thought. From what she saw this magic wasn't entirely equestrian, there were some artifacts here but they weren't from equestria from what she saw it was for some kind of ritual or ceremony she was unaware of.
Sunset’s impressed “Truly this place is fascinating. I didn't think that the history of humanity had such things, I always thought that it was just tales that they made up to make sense of their world without magic though… Assassin, Saber. What was the world like in your day? Was there really all that when humanity was not connected by technology?”
Two spiritual beings suddenly materialized at the command of the young human who was there, both servants were of different ethnicities, origins and different clothes but both were from the East unlike Sunset Shimmer's western clothes.
A ninja with red hair with long bangs that covers his red eyes, in addition to a typical Shinobi Shozoku uniform of gray with some red touches. In addition to having a tattoo on his left arm that covered his shoulder, black gloves made of bandages. of always being silent but he had an aura of danger coming off of him, as an assassin it was natural to emanate that aura. This ninja was the famous Fuuma Kotarou was the fifth ninja to bear this title and served as the successor to Houjou Souun of the Sengoku era.
The other was a warrior with divine aura, a red sword like with hints of gold giving it the color of the sun with a brown handle. The warrior's appearance is from his younger years. Rama's eyes are crimson red and match the color of her hair for the most part, as it is blonde-white on top. She has bangs that fall over her face, parted between her eyes, and she has a tall, up-curved lock at the top. Her clothing consists of a sleeveless top, baring her shoulders, divided into three sections. The alignment of the right and left and the decorative shape of the upper one make it look like more feminine clothing. The young warrior was the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa epic who defeated the Demon King Ravana Rama.
Both had been summoned by accident by the ancient unicorn who was exploring an island in the Pacific where she and a whole cruise ship were trapped. I was on that island looking for a portal to that part of the world but; by finding a temple with ancient hieroglyphics.
Saber spoke “The truth is that at least in my period it was a bit complicated to explain for someone who doesn't know much about Hindu culture. I know that Fuuma-dono's period is more popular because of modern culture that takes the liberty of altering our stories a lot. But going back to the topic, if there was a time when humans lived with us the gods, mythical beings among others in the era of the gods.”
That was the response of the great Hindu hero but Fuuma's cold gaze was very different from that of his fellow servant.
“YES” said. The assassin “There were some problems with some bad spirits, onis and the occasional onmyouji invocation but the era of magic attacks was hard to describe. Even for ninjas it was hard to kill onmyouji. It was a dark time for me and my brothers.”
With those words he had made the whole matter of what the ancient ages were like tense. Sunset starts coughing to calm things down and change the subject.
“Well, back to the subject of the investigation, it seems that this island was the base of a great civilization that somehow had an era of peace with our hippogriff brothers. And it seems that recently it has been used to create a ritual that involves this island but; It doesn't appear to be full or at 100% of its original capacity.”
Assassin and Saber both answered “The Holy Grail War.”
When Sunset hears that name again, she begins to remember what happened a few days ago after the whole event of stopping the magic of the "STORM KING" and seeing on her hand some marks with magic never seen before in her life.
They called them Command Spell. As they are the proof that she is a participant in such a ritual and by talking to her servants. At first he did not give importance to the marks thinking that they were part of a burn that was made with the sun or an injury but; when he entered the temple that was inside there was a very peculiar circle. Touching it to be able to examine the magic that was on the ground, the commandos glowed, mowing down Sunset in question and both of them appearing.
“Who are they? What are they?” Sunset questioned
But Saber and Assassin answered her with a question “Who are you? Are you our teacher?”
Sunset was surprised that she fell on her butt and raised her finger asking who they are… “Master...? What are you talking about? Are they the guardians of this temple? Please, I'm not here to harm… I'm just a student who accidentally came to this island. I'm not a tomb raider or anything.”
Sunset waited with some fear what these people could do and if she could get out of this. Both servants were confused, so Saber went over to shake his hand and lift it up. He gently helps her to her feet and gives her a sincere smile. “I'm so sorry I scared you. Can you tell us your name and what are you doing here?”
Sunset calmed down a bit “My name is Sunset Shimmer, former student of Equestria and Princess Celestia. I'm here to investigate a magical abnormality on the island and I happened to come across this temple.”
Saber answered “And with this our contract is made. You can call me Saber and I am one of one of the three knight classes among the seven standard Servant classes summoned for the Holy Grail War. At the moment, I can't say my real name. Nice to meet you, teacher.”
“And I am one of the four cavalry classes among the seven standard Servant classes summoned for the Holy Grail War. Just like my partner I can't reveal my name at the moment however… you can call me Assassin.” He stated
Hearing both things and a summary of what the holy grail is, Sunset gets up and begins to vomit at the entrance to the forest. For someone who has searched for magic to bea Alicorn and the bad things he's done, this ritual was certainly the worst thing he could have gotten himself into. He was scared, he knew how to defend himself against some students and he could use a little magic but; what they described was something he never thought Equestrians could ever do. The world wars, the cold war, 911 among other things were horrible but, I didn't know how to react to humans or rather magicians killing to get power.
Sunset asked “If what they say is true. Why is a ritual taking place here? And why am I the only one who has "these"? I have been here for several days and I have not seen a trace of magic or person here.”
Both servants were confused, because they really felt that something disturbed the Ley Lines of the island. So he asked his teachers to help him explore the island and see what was happening with the ritual of this island, since they only reacted to Sunset's signature magic. After several hours of exploring and seeing that there was nothing more than the hieroglyphics they came to the conclusion that it was some kind of subcategory of the grail war but; it had already finished so it seemed strange to him that it would activate on its own.
Sunset thought about this “From what I see, it had something to do with the magic of the “STORM KING” and the magic that comes from Equestria. It's the only explanation we have left, plus my pendant must have activated it. Now the question is how many more teachers talk about receiving the commands and will they come looking for this place?” Sunset was very thoughtful since she wouldn't know how to react to such a thing, a war where they had to kill each other to get to the true magic… She didn't understand any of that so she wanted to ask Princess Twilight.
“For now let's explore this island and if we see something weird, we'll see what to do. At the moment we must settle in and make a base. I can't just have a makeshift camp anymore, and I still have several days' worth of supplies so I have time to figure out what's going on. They help me?”
“We will be happy to help you.” Said saver
Assassin nods “I will be the shadow that protects her from all evil.”
And with that said they began a relationship of camaraderie.
Returning to the present.
Sunset tilted her head “Well, from what I can see the princess has been too busy to reply and my half month's supply is already running out. I think it will be time to return to Canterlot, the good thing is that I have a scroll made by the princess to connect this portal with the one of the school so we should not go through Equestria. It's time for us to pack up and go back to Canterlot, we have nothing to do here anymore.”
Upon hearing their teacher's order, they decided to help her with the few things she had while Sunset approaches to prepare the scroll, the ritual, and the geode from her body. When everything is ready, his servants come over to give him his camping backpack to put on his back.
Sunset clapped her hands “Ok, now all we have to do is jump and we'll appear at the school portal. I wonder if it will already be night since the time difference already affects me a lot to be honest, I hope I don't arrive in the middle of a magical catastrophe again.”
Sunset begins to sing in Ancient Equestrian to open the scroll to redirect to the CHS. Seeing that there were no problems, she decided to jump and her servants accompanied her through the portal. While she saw a tunnel full of colors and visions of the earth, his geode began to shine but; it wasn't just that but: that she also did the command spells… she had altered the portal and there was nothing to do. “WHAT'S GOING ON?!”
Without being able to say anything, the porter began to be a chaos of colors and there was nothing to do, so her servants approached her and began to move forward to protect her.
Equestria, Castle of friendship present.
In Princess Twilight's library there was a group gathered trying to open a portal with the mirror with the help of the mirror in order to go in search of help. Since several things had happened in the last few days throughout Equestria and the unicorn students who were trying to make a portal to Canterlot with the help of Zecora and Yearling With the princess's notes they had hopes of being able to make contact with the castle of princesses Celestia and Luna but; when everything seemed to work fine and some reddish lights with a touch of gold began to come out of the portal. The students fell back to give Zecora ready with her spear against any enemies that came out of the portal.
The first thing they saw was that a spiral had formed and several shadows were about to go through the portal, so the 2 shadows left. To everyone's surprise, they looked more or less like them. Only with no color and no animal features, the second person came out belly-falling on the ground.
Sunset did understand “What happened? Because the portal brought me to Twilight's Castle of Friendship.”
Zecora jumped in “Intruders, tell us who you work for and why you're here!” Zecora points her spear at the 2 men to prevent them from doing their first action, meanwhile she gets up on 2 legs and approaches Zecora so that she lowers the spear and explains who she is.
Sunset intervenes “Hey, put the spear down, we're not enemies. I am Sunset Shimmer, a unicorn from Canterlot and a student of Princess Twilight, besides that it seems that you have no experience with the spear as soon as you are holding it well with your…”
At that moment something inside Sunset clicked and she sees that it's not ponies that are in front of her but a series of Anthropomorphic beings, despite being in Equestria and she wasn't a unicorn but a human. “What's going on?! Why am I a human if I'm in Equestria?! And who are you invading Equestria?!”
Sandbar walks to her “We're not enemies, we're friends, and we're also students of Princess Twilight. There has been chaos throughout Equestria… Let me explain.”
And so an unexpected ally came to Equestria to help what would soon be called the resistance. Meanwhile in the Kingdom of Dreams, something had disturbed the balance.
Fujimaru Ritsuka was at the Chaldea Security Organization Headquarters, in the middle of a training session with his Servants. They were practicing different combat strategies, evaluating their skills and improving their tactics.
Suddenly, he felt a strange presence in his mind, as if someone or something was trying to communicate with him. At first, he thought it was just his imagination, but the feeling grew stronger and more insistent.
Fujimaru decided to close his eyes and concentrate on the sensation, trying to understand what was happening.
Fujimaru Ritsuka, humanity's last master, found himself in a strange dream world, surrounded by a withered and dark crystal tree. Suddenly, a voice echoed in his head, a voice that seemed to come from everywhere at once.
Suddenly a small purple horse with pegasus wings and a unicorn horn appears in front of him, when he tries to walk towards it she falls on her 4 legs weakened.
"Who are you? Why am I here?" Fujimaru asked cautiously.
"I am the spirit of the Tree of Harmony," the voice replied. "I am the guardian of the harmony of Equestria. As such I have no name, and I need your help Fujimaru Ritsuka. You are the last teacher of humanity, the only one who can help me. As you can see I am weakened and only you can help me."
Fujimaru was puzzled. How could he help a horse in a dream world? More because I Didn't understand anything he was saying. However, before he could ask another question, an unnatural looking dark blue flame of fire came between the spirit of the Tree of Harmony. Anger in his man's voice was heard in the flame.
“A very unreasonable request and there may be a lot of malice from a being that is not from this world!” A familiar voice was heard
The flame burned with a force that seemed capable of destroying anything, and within it was glimpsed the figure of a man. It was Edmond Dantès, Avenger, the avenger of destiny and reality. As a Spirit, he hadn't felt such a strong evil since Discord had planted his seeds in the forest Everfree, but knew How powerful was this being? He did know that it was the kind of removing spirits completely.
"I am Edmond Dantès, Avenger, the protector of my master's dreams. And I am here to destroy you: tree of harmony."
The tree answered “I am not a dangerous being, but; he faced dark beings like your Avenger… But that's not why I'm here.”
Ritsuka was confused “What do you mean by facing beings like Edmond? Are you a counter guardian?”
The tree shook her head “No, I don't know what term you use in your world, but you can say that I am the conscience of my planet or world, whatever you want to call me. And I give you my powers to be pure of heart to fight against evil beings, like him."
The spirit pointed at Avenger with its hoof. Which didn't matter much to him since the horse looked very weak. But Fujimaru had an idea of what kind of identity the spirit that was in front of him is. "You’re like some kind of Counter Force. A security device formed by a world to fend off extinction and you are synonymous with the world you represent. That would be the end of our world."
"I'm interfering because this situation is unreasonable," Edmond replied coldly. "There is no logical explanation for a "tree" needing the help of a human and more than seeking help in the world of dreams. I suspect that there is something more behind all this."
The spirit of the Tree of Harmony protested, saying that it really needed Fujimaru's help to regain its strength and protect the balance of nature in all worlds. Fujimaru was confused, not knowing who to trust. I really did not know how to react to this matter, a human helping a world that does not belong, especially small horses but; As a human and a person, he knew what to do and what to answer. "I accept, I will go to your world to help him."
But finally he decided to believe in the spirit of the Tree of Harmony and help him. Edmond was very angry but; As a protector of his master's dreams, he decided to accompany them on their journey.
Edmond was angry but he couldn't do anything. It was Edmond Dantès, Avenger, the protector of Fujimaru's dreams. Edmond hated the irrationality and malice of the world, and he wasn't sure the request for the tree was legitimate. But Fujimaru was happy because he had accepted the request, and Edmond. “Okay, we'll go but I think we may have help… I know we'll need help. Give me a moment, I'll go for help but it will be difficult to convince some I don't think I can but I hope so.” Angry Edmond decided to go team up. Edmond engulfs himself in flames and disappears...
Meanwhile, Fujimaru approached the little foal to help her up. “I promise I'll save your world…”
She had one more request: “Find the carriers, the elements and finally my son.”
Edmond had returned and had brought companions what was a few moments, here were several minutes in the real world. They were both blushing but the way it showed on their faces was very different. One was of a girl of average height 161 cm tall, dark skinned with short purple hair and wearing a tight black bodysuit and traditional skull mask. She was known as Hassan of Serenity, an Assassin class servant. And she was blushing to go on a solo trip with her teacher, but not in the sense that it really will be just the two of them. But in the sense that she won't have competition from other girls seeking her attention from the only one who can touch her, since his traveling companions were bodyguards in the best sense. That was the thinking of the young assassin, while she was hiding her smile in hermask de calavera his partner was not happy at all.
The other woman was a 160 cm female with long hair tied up in two tails, wearing a white outfit and a pair of glasses. She couldn't be more surprised and blushed because she didn't believe the story of her fellow servant from a world full of talking horses and she wanted to meet her Kouhai so she doesn't make fun of non-human beings. However, seeing where they were and how they gotthere She was trying not to fall in there to roll on the floor, mostly for being so wrong about the whole thing but; more than anything because I never expected that I would have to travel to another world.
The woman in question was Hinako Akuta, Chaldea's former master and current Assassin-class servant just like Serenity.
Fujimaru and his companions who were here had many doubts of why among all of them they had come without embargo when he was going to say something, a cry of painting behind them.
The tree spirit on the floor screaming, looked like that he did not have much time left here in the world of dreams “I don't have much time left,I have passed several things while here. seems like someone else is trying to connect with his world but; I don't have much left time, I leave the rest to you.” The tree spoke in a weak tone.
At that moment a portal appeared to swallow not only a spirit but a gift to all.
Equestria, Castle of Friendship.
A strong light started to leave the map that was in the middle of the castle, those present were trying to discover what was causing it. All they had was afraid that some enemy came out on the map to attack them so only the leader of the place stayed in place, since she was prepared for combat.
Sunset Shimmer ordered “Be careful, it could be a trap!” At that time various humanoid forms they started dating, Sunset surprised they were humans who had just come out.
Fujimaru, as the second human here, he thought they had gone to the wrong place, he shyly asks. “ Is it by any chance that Equestria is where we are right now?”
That was the beginninginteraction from 2 completely different worlds.