My Little Gemcraft

Chapters

Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 1
Chapter 3

Chapter 2

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 2

Ponyville Library
8:23 a.m.

The light of the sun seeped through the windows of the Ponyville Library which slowly illuminated the silent and still library in a soft vibrant yellow. To most people or should I say ponies that visit this library every so often they would find this setting quite tranquil and serene. Although for a certain purple pony who just performed another all-nighter last night and is also slightly sleep deprived she finds that looking at the back of her eyelids would be a more tranquil setting to her than the beautiful, golden light of the sun.

“Ugh… five more minutes,” Twilight grumbles as she raises a hoof to cover her eyes from the sun in hopes of returning to a peaceful sleep.

But the light of the sun only grew in intensity as time progressed and finally after a minute or two it forced the purple mare to finally getting up.

“Fine. Fine. I’m awake.” Twilight says groggily as she pushed herself up off the floor where she was sleeping. “*sigh* I could really go for some coffee right now.”

And as if on cue Spike enters the room from the kitchen with a cup of coffee for Twilight.

“Ask and you shall receive.” Spike says with a small smile on his face while handing it to her.

Twilight smiles and gladly accepts the cup from Spike by using her magic while saying “Thank you Spike.”

“Hey what number one assistant would I be if I didn’t help you with things?” Spike says proudly.

She took a few sips of the hot, dark liquid and felt it slowly warm up her slightly sore body. She took a few more sips before looking towards Spike and gave him an embarrassed smile before saying “Sorry I guess I overdid it last night as well. Guess I broke that Pinkie Promise right?”

“Well that’ll depend are you too tired to start the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration today?” Spike asks her.

Twilight looks at him with a confident smile and says “No I still have enough energy to begin the preparations for the celebration.”

“Then I guess you didn’t break the promise entirely then so no harm done then.” Spike says as he began heading back towards the kitchen.

Just before Spike left the room Twilight then asks “Uh Spike before you leave what is the first preparation project we have to do today Spike?”

“Hmmm let me see…” Spike says as he pulls out a scroll and begins to read it out loud “First we have to go see Applejack about the food preparations at Sweet Apple Acres.”

“Huh wasn’t that the first thing we did for the Summer Sun Celebration last year?” Twilight asks him with memories coming back to her about how she first came to Ponyville and how she met her friends.

“Yeah in fact I think that most of the projects we did last year are in the same order as this year only this time they are not all crammed into one day but spread out throughout the week. Weird.” Spike says with a hint of surprise.

“Hmmm guess it’s just only coincidence I guess.” Twilight replies “At least this time we won’t have to worry about Nightmare Moon though.”

“Yeah that is a good thought to know but now let’s get to the matter at hand, or hoof in your case, do you want to start heading towards Sweet Apple acres right now and get started with the preparations?” Spike asks.

“Sure Spike, but first we have to write a letter to Princess Celestia first.” Twilight replies.

“Sure no problem!” Spike says while pulling out a quill and parchment, but turns back giving Twilight a curious look “But why? Didn’t we just send a friendship report just two days ago?”

“Well it’s just that last night I felt two strange magical disturbances just right after you went to bed.” Twilight explains.

“Oh… well is it anything to be worried about?” Spike asks nervously.

“Hmmm well it’s just that both happened kind of quickly and at the same time so I don’t really know yet, but if both made a disturbance that even I can feel then this event needs investigating and hopefully the Princess felt it as well so she should have some clue as to what it was.” Twilight replies as she began looking out the window as if she expects too see something pop up at anytime that was related to the disturbance.

“Huh I guess you're right about that. Well let’s get this letter on it’s way and head over to Sweet Apple Acres then!” Spike says with a hint of enthusiasm in the last part.

“Right. Ahem! Dear Princess Celestia,” began Twilight.

“It is in my knowledge that last night at somewhere between 10:00 and 10:30 P.M. there were two strange magical disturbances that happened at the same time and I was curious as to what they are. The main reason I am sending this letter to you is in hopes of that you may have some understanding as to what it was that caused these disturbances and to fill me in with some of the details. Any information would be greatly appreciated as I would like to look into the matter. That is all that I have to report at the moment and I hope to see you at the Summer Sun Celebration this year without having any problems like last year’s. Sincerely, Your Faithful Student Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight finishes. “Did you get all that Spike?”

“Yep! You almost tripped me up on that phenomena word but I managed.” Spike says just before rolling the parchment up and letting loose a small, green puff of fire at it to send it to Princess Celestia.

Twilight then puts on her saddle bags and says “Good now let’s head over to Applejack’s shall we Spike?”

“Sure thing sister.” Spike says as he jumps onto her back.

Twilight smiles and uses her magic to open the door, but before she finally exited out of the library a thought entered her mind:

‘I have a feeling that today is going to be a great day!’

40 minutes earlier
Sweet Apple Acres

Today is going to be a bad day for me.

“Ugggggghhh…” was all I could say or should I say groan in my current state as I lay on the ground with sores all over my body but after a moment I did manage to say something else “Why do I feel like the time I drank too much at one of the parties I went to back at the wizard acadamy? Ughhhhh… gotta get up.”

I slowly began to sit myself upriight after a moment or two and looked around. Apparently I was in an orchard of some kind. I looked up at the trees to see that apples grew from them. Then my stomach began growling.

“Ugh yeah yeah quiet down I’ll feed you soon, but first how the hell did I end up here?” I said to myself and my growling stomach until memories of what happened began entering my mind.

“Oh that’s right I decided to use a Gem bomb as a way to banish that Shadow bitch thing and I got banished as well, but if this is what it feels like to get banished I hope I never get banished again!” I said as I slowly got up “Now then time to do an inspection of my body.”

“Fingers. Check.”

“Hands. Check.”

“Arms. Check.”

“Body. Check.”

“Legs. Check.”

“Feet. Check.”

“Beautiful face. Double check.”

“Ability to craft magical gems of untold power?” I say as I focused my mana and a small glow began to erupt in my hands and after a second or two a Grade 1 Bloodbound gem was sitting in my hand which I quickly pocketed it in one of my robe’s pockets. “Hmmm check, but mana is incredibly low at the moment and I can only create grade 1 gems. Man I miss my old mana pool. Oh well I better fix this by eating some of these apples to replenish my body's mana supply.”

I then began climbing up one of the trees that was near me. Thank god that the tree I was climbing had some low branches I could grab and pull myself up, otherwise it would be too strenuous for me. When I finally climbed up to a suitable height I settled and balanced myself on the branch that I was on and plucked one of the apples from the tree. I know stealing is wrong but I don’t have the time or the energy to go looking for the one who owns this orchard.

“Well cheers to another job well done and living on for another day! Go me!” I said as I took a big bite out of the apple.

This apple wasn’t good.

This apple wasn’t even great.

“THIS APPLE IS THE BEST DAMN APPLE I HAVE EVER TASTED!” I exclaimed as I took another huge bite out of it and not long after finishing it I grabbed another and began eating it. “I guess this must be my lucky day then!”

I may soon regret this statement.

Meanwhile at the barn of Sweet Apple Acres

The sun was shining brightly as a rooster began to crow signaling the time for the Apple family to begin their work for the day. Although a certain orange earth pony was already wide awake. Her name was Applejack and she was about to begin her rounds around the apple orchard to inspect how ripe the apples are at the moment in preparation for the Summer Sun Celebration in about a week and maybe even buck a few to get a head start on the food preparations.

“Mmmm-hmm it sure is a good mornin’ for some apple-bucking!” Applejack says enthusiastically as she trots through the apple orchard.

And it was indeed a good morning to be outside. The wind was crisp, cool, and the sun only helped amplify the morning which slowly bathed Appljack’s coat with a warm, but soft glow. Enough to where the orange earth pony began to whistle a nice soft tune to express her enjoyment of the morning. Everything was… perfect.

*BOP!*

At least until a random apple core landed on her head.

“Ow! What the hay was that?” Applejack asks to no one as she looks around.

Her eyes grow wide as she saw apple cores strewn about the bottom of the tree she was at she then looked up to see some big figure up in the tree happily eating some of the Apple Family’s crop.

More specifically her fruits of her labor.

Without asking or even telling her first.

“Blasted varmints.” Applejack says through her clenched teeth as she turned around prepared to buck the tree “NO VARMINT EATS MY CROPS WITHOUT POLIETLY ASKING FIRST!”

She then very roughly bucked the tree that the figure was in.

I was busy eating another apple when suddenly I hear a shout from below me that sort of snapped me out of my apple eating marathon/trance.

“NO VARMINT EATS MY CROPS WITHOUT POLIETLY ASKING FIRST!”

I then feel a powerful strike hit the tree that I was in and I ungracefully fell from it nearly breaking my neck in the process as I landed on the ground.

Whoever did this was going to pay dearly.

“HEY WHATS THE BIG IDEA TO KNOCK SOME GUY OUT OF A TREE YOU IDIO-“ I yell as I looked around for someone.

All that there was, was a small colorful orange horse with some sort of strange hat on its head and some apples painted on its flank. To say the least I was a little disturbed to see no other human around and only this pony in front of me with a surprised look on its face. But what really had me worried was the fact the pony dropped the surprised look almost immediately and was now GLARING at me. This situation both peaked my curiosity and fear at the same time, but mostly my curiosity. So I did what any other wizard would have done.

“Uh what are you and by chance were you the one that knocked me out of the tree?” I asked it.

“I should be asking you that first question you varmint and why were you eating my apple crop?!” it said in a weird accent I couldn’t place my finger on but from the sound of the voice she was female. How horses are able to farm apples from tree did make wonder though.

Although what intrigued me more was that we could speak the same language with no problems since we were both from different dimensions to begin with…, but I’ll figure that reason out later cause right now I am caught between a rock and a very angry female sentient horse.

Guess I’ll have to pull some of my smooth moves on her. Hopefully it also works on sentient horses

“I’m sorry ma’am I truly am I just woke up in your orchard this morning and the first thing I saw was these apples and I was hungry. I would have asked first if it wasn’t for the fact that no one was around. So please I am willing to repay you by giving you this gem I have.” As I tell her this I pull out the gem I created earlier for her to see. “So what do you say this gem should cover the costs right?”

The orange horse looked at it sternly until eventually she says “Nah, we don’t take gems we only take bits as currency here in fact this gem looks like it’s fake because I have never seen a gem with that shape and color before. Are you trying to pull a fast one on me?” She begins looking at me with anger slowly growing in her eyes.

Normally I would try to act as cool and collect as I can be but when someone insults a man’s craft, or more specifically my gemcrafting abilities, that’s like the equivalence of getting slapped in the face!

“FAKE! THIS IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT PURE BLOODBOUND GEMCRAFTING RIGHT HERE LADY! SO SCREW YOU! I AIN’T PAYING YOU A SINGLE COIN OR BIT OR WHATEVER FOR THOSE APPLES IF YOU ARE GOING TO INSULT ME LIKE THAT!” I yelled at her without really thinking.

I would sorely regret that action as the orange horse began glaring daggers at me.

I felt a strange sense of dread some over me as she angrily glared at me and I knew I would probably get my ass handed to me in my current state if I tried to fight her, even if I was at full strength I normally fight from a tower not on foot. So I did what every other coward would do at times like these: Run.

“Hey look there is bear trying to steal some of your apples!” I yelled and pointed in some random direction.

She wasn’t impressed to say the least.

“You are gonna have to do better than that to pull one over me, varmint.” She says to me and began advancing towards me.

“Uh um… aw damn it!” I yelled as I threw my Bloodbound gem towards the ground making it explode upon impact into a cloud of red dust. I used this to begin my escape.

I began running in some random direction. Any direction would do as long as I got as far away from that angry sentient horse! Although with my athletic ability I’ll be lucky if I can get just 20 yards away from her before she catches up and if I remember correctly horses are faster than humans.

I look over my shoulder to see that she was indeed chasing after me and obviously even more peeved after the stunt I just pulled on her. I needed to buy myself some more time and more distance from her.

‘Think Zekeal think! How do you slow down an enemy that is faster than you without using gems?’ I thought to myself when the answer popped into my mind.

“Make them go the long way around!” I exclaim as I focused some of my mana into my hand and turned around and yelled “Wall arise!”

And just like that a stone wall suddenly appeared between me and the orange horse.

“That’ll slow you down!” I exclaimed cockily as I turned and kept running away.

“Ohhhh now you done made me even madder varmint! DON’T THINK CHEAP TRICKS WILL SLOW ME DOWN!” I heard the orange horse yell as she quickly ran around the wall that I just made and kept chasing after me with renewed vigor.

I was amazed at her persistence at trying to catch me. Hell she would probably give the monsters back home a run for their money! But enough reminiscing on the past I gotta make more walls.

As I kept running I kept creating stone walls to block the orange horse’s path which kept her at a safe distance from me, but still she didn’t let up on the chase. To make matters worse I was slowly running out of mana from my current reserves in my body. Dammit how big is this orchard to begin with and when does it end!?

And as if my prayers were answered in that moment I saw the exit of the orchard not too far ahead, but the orange horse was right on my heels. So in one final act to escape her I waited till she was mere feet from me when I used the last bit of my mana to erect a single wall only three times as big across compared to the walls I was currently creating to slow down her.

To say the least it took her by surprise. At least that’s what I could conclude when I heard an audible THUMP come from the other side of the wall as she slammed into the wall while yelling what I thought was a curse "Ah horseapples!" Although I beleived that won’t keep her down for long, but this gave me enough time to run out of the orchard and I decided to add insult to injury by doing what I do best.

Be a smartass.

“Ha! That’s what you get you annoying horse! Remember my name and remember it well cause you were just bested by the best horse! I am the wizard Zekeal Grendale! Remember it!” I yelled out to her mockingly while enjoying every minute of it.

Things were finally looking up for me.

*WHAM!*

Or maybe I should just keep my big trap shut.

“Woah!” I yelled out as I hit something in full run tripping over it and landing face first into the ground.

“Ah! W-what was that Spike?” said a voice that was indeed female.

“I-I don’t know Twilight! Sort of looked like a scarecrow that was alive!” said a voice young but male.

I push myself off the ground and turned around to see another horse this time having a purple mane and coat, a horn was on her forehead which I concluded that she was a unicorn, and has what looks like a star on her flank. To the right of her was a purple lizard with green spikes on his head, spine, and tail. Today just gets more interesting by the minute.

Unfortunately there was no time for questions. I had to get away from here.

“Twilight! Don’t just stand there! Help me catch that varmint! He has been picking at my crops and won’t pay for them!” yells an all too familiar angry orange horse galloping towards me.

“Uh,” was all I could say as I quickly got up and began to run as fast as I can and escape.

At least that’s what I thought was until I suddenly felt my body grow stiff and I was unable to move for some reason. But hey at least I could still move my head.

I looked around to see that a purple aura was surrounding most of my body. I traced the aura back to the purple unicorn whose horn was glowing the same purple aura that was around me.

Wait so they can use magic here as well here!? How can this get any worse?

“Thanks Twilight!”

I spoke too soon. As I was suddenly face to face with an all too familiar orange face.

“So what have you got to say for yourself, varmint?” She asks coldly with a slight scowl.

All I could come up at this time was this phrase:

“Uh is it too late to say I’m sorry?” I ask sheepishly while chuckling nervously soon after.

End of Chapter 2

Well here it is another exciting chapter of My Little Gemcraft! I think it was a good idea for me to update this early or maybe it might be a bad idea since there might be a few grammatical errors in it and the fact that I may have made Applejack’s personality a little too out of character and also the fact that this is going to be a HiE story. But besides my anxiety over this I still had fun writing this chapter and I would like to thank the people who are tracking this story of mine and all those who gave me a thumbs up… wait a minute since when did FIM: Ficition become Youtube with its ratings from stars to thumbs!?

My reaction to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc a.k.a. my small mental break down

Zekeal: Uh right anyway since that the author is currently… “occupied” for the moment, and I do use that term lightly he just wanted to finish up by saying thanks for taking your time to read this story. Also we hope you enjoyed this chapter as well and are excited for the next chapters to follow. So anyway this is Zekeal and Registered Anonymous signing off, check ya’ll later!

Chapter 4

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 4

Ponyville Library
12:18 P.M.

For the past two hours or so Twilight has been asking me a series of questions. The questions mostly pertaining as to what the human anatomy was and other science related things about human species. She was very interested in how my hands and opposable thumbs worked when we began discussing about it. Although I found these questions a tad boring at times, but who was I to turn down a hungry mind from knowledge? But as of right now Twilight looks to be finished with asking these types of questions as she says:

“Alright I think that’s enough information about your human anatomy, biology, and psychology. It’s amazing really at how incredibly different your human bodies are in anatomy, but psychology wise almost the same as to us ponies. Now if you don’t mind may we delve into how you humans use magic? I am quite interested in how you perform magic without a horn like us unicorns and I am interested in this ‘gem crafting’ you are able to do as well.” Twilight says with a joyful smile on her face.

Now things were starting to get interesting.

“Hmmm well where should I begin? Should I tell you about the different types or spells we use or just the basics about how we can control it? Either way it will take a long time to discuss them both.” I say to her with a grin on my face.

“Oh I don’t mind I am always up for long lectures at anytime.” Twilight states as she turns towards her dragon assistant, Spike. “Spike if you would please make some tea for our guest and for me as well?”

“Sure thing Twi!” Spike says as he finishes putting the last of some books into one of the shelves and made his way towards the kitchen.

“I hope you like tea Zekeal,” Twilight says as she turns back towards me.

I chuckle lightly and say “Tea would be quite lovely actually.”

Not even two minutes later Spike was coming out of the kitchen with a teapot and two cups.

“Hmm that was fast.” I say as I looked at the dragon quizzically.

Spike looks at me and says “I’m a dragon remember?” He then proceeds to blow a short stream of green fire out to show me that he used his breath to heat the water.

“Oh right, right sorry I am just still trying to accept that dragons, unicorns, and pegasi are common things here in this dimension.” I then pick up the teapot and poured myself a cup.

“Why? If you have magic then you must have some magical creatures then right?” Twilight asks me.

“Actually yes, yes we do, but they are not like you ponies,” I reply back taking a sip of tea. Mmmmm that’s some good Earl Grey.

“Oh and what are these magical creatures then? Are they friendly?” Twilight asks with a questioning look.

“Uh um well how about I tell you about how we humans use magic, then gemcrafting, and then I’ll tell you about our magical creatures in our world?” I say trying to postpone the inevitable time when I tell her about the monsters that infest my world.

“*sigh* Alright I guess we can do that.” Twilight says as she takes a sip of her tea by using her magic to levitate it up to her mouth. “Now if you will please.”

“Right well first off I guess I should explain how we humans use magic.” I begin “We can use magic, because of a certain energy that we use which can be found in all living things from where I am from called mana.”

Twilight’s eyes light up as she says “And just what does this mana have to do with magic? Or in other words why is it needed?”

“Well we need mana, because it’s like the energy we use to like walk to a certain place or to lift a book up with our hands or something that requires energy for everyday things. Mana on the other hand, or hoof in your case, is used to perform magic spells in our everyday life. Like this for example.” I say as I aim my hand towards the teapot and focus my mana to make it slowly levitate up and pour it to refill my cup.

Twilight was amazed to say the least “Wow that’s amazing you can levitate objects like us too?”

“Yes, but levitating is just a few of the spells I know of and is by far the only spell that uses a very miniscule amount of mana. I was taught this back in my beginner days back at the wizard academy.” I explain with a smug grin on my face.

“Hmmm very interesting,” Twilight says as she takes down more notes “Now if you would please explain to me about how you created all those stone walls from out of nowhere back in Applejack’s orchard.”

“That, Twilight, is what many wizards would call Construction magic. We human wizards tend to use it to build structures with it.” I explained “Although unlike the levitating spell this spell requires a fairly large amount of mana for it to work so it’s a little more complicated.”

I waited until Twilight was finished copying with what I said to her on her parchment of paper before I began again.

“The spell requires the mana to be forcefully pushed together and aimed at the ground where you want to make your structure until eventually, POOF! Where you were aiming at there is now a wall or tower where you were focusing on.” I finished explaining although not in the most scholarly of ways, but hey it gets the point across.

Twilight was looking at me with a raised eyebrow “Poof? Really?”

“Yeah well I wasn’t really paying much attention to those lessons back at the wizard academy alright! Think of it as some sort of dumbed down version of its actual explanation.” I say embarrassingly while I scratched the back of my head.

“*sigh* And how exactly did you manage to pass Wizard Academy then if you didn’t pay attention that much in your classes?” Twilight says with a curiously, annoyed look on her face.

“Well… I had help from my other peers… that’s how I passed.” I said with a weak smile.

“…You cheated didn’t you?” Twilight then says with a deadpanned look.

“Uh um… well yeah on the written exams of course, but I excelled incredibly in my spell application examinations.” I explained with an even weaker smile on my face “Did I forget to mention I barely passed my Wizard training at the wizard academy?”

Twilight had that deadpanned look on her face for a full minute before saying “So… you have more spell smarts than books smarts then?”

“Well yeah I am a man who prefers action over intellectual debates, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like to read books it was just that in the wizard academy they made you go over the same materials over and over again. It just got boring for me and I just had to stop studying for what I was going to be tested on.” I tried explaining to her “I am a wizard and as a wizard I have a craving for knowledge that is slightly unquenchable.”

Twilight looked at me understandingly and says “I understand although I am somewhat the opposite of you as I enjoy re-reading books in fact I think I have already read every book in this library at least three times already. But that’s beside the point may we get back on topic please?”

I was glad she was so understanding to my opinion, but her being able to read every book in here twice just amazed me. She must have incredible reading endurance to be able to pull that off and an incredible love for books. Which gave me the idea of the perfect nickname for her.

“Sure thing Book-worm,” I said to Twilight teasingly.

She looked at me while shaking her head as if she couldn’t believe at what I just said and then nodded at me to let me continue my lecture.

“Anyway, after the tower and wall spells there comes the coup de grace of what being a wizard in my world really means, Gem Crafting.” I said with a hint of excitement in my voice.

“Gem Crafting was an ancient art of magic passed down from generations upon generations of wizards with most tomes and books dating back by about 3,000 years ago. Gem Crafting requires the most concentration and effort out of all the spells that a wizard has in his arsenal.” I slowly explained while getting a sudden glance from Twilight when I said ‘arsenal’ but she brushed it off. I continued explaining.

“When a wizard wants to create a gem through gem crafting they will have to use a fairly decent size of mana to acquire a gem, all gems are categorized into grades ranging from one to twelve, with twelve being the highest, which means it requires a lot of mana to create it, and one being the lowest, which requires the least amount of mana to create it. So in short the higher the gem grade, the more powerful the gem will be.” I then took a moment to sip some of my tea before continuing again “Now that I have explained the fundamentals of Gem Crafting a short demonstration is in order.”

I proceed to open my hand palm up with my five fingers arched towards the center of the palm of my hand. “Now then first I have to concentrate my mana into each of my five fingers…” I say as a light blue aura begins to spread to the tips of each of my fingers. “Now I slowly release the now focused mana to the center of my hand.” The blue aura then gets drawn into the center of my hand from my fingers and begins forming a triangle shape with rounded sides.

“Now I focus on the shape of the gem… then begin hardening it from the inside out,” I say as a red gem slowly materializes in my hand. “And… presto!” I say as the red gem fully materializes in my hand glowing a little “And that’s how you create a gem with magic!”

I looked at Twilight to see the expression on her face. She looked stunned, but incredibly excited from the demonstration I just performed. “T-that was amazing!” She stuttered as she looked at the gem closer.

I chuckle a little and say to her “This is nothing compared to other gems I have created, what you see here is a grade 1 gem, so it’s nothing really special plus I can do this a whole lot faster anyway.”

I then focus again into the palm of my hand and another gem suddenly appears in my hand although this time being the color green instead of red and also being more of a diamond shape instead of a triangle.

This only increased Twilight’s excitement by ten fold at least “*Squee!* That was amazing! How can you do that so fast and with it looking so much more smoothed out!?” She says to me excitedly.

“Years of practice Twilight years of practice… which is where I will begin explaining the more darker side of Gem Crafting.” I then say my face giving a more serious tone.

Twilight’s excitement was slightly halted a little “Huh what do you mean darker side? How could something this amazing have a dark side?”

I smile weakly at her innocent reply and say “Twilight this gem right here,” I raise up the red gem that I created from my demonstration “This gem is called a Bloodbound gem and this one,” I then raise up the green one I just created “This gem is called a Poisonous gem.”

Twilight frowns slightly, “But why are they called by such ugly names? What exactly are they used for?”

I look at her struggling to keep my fake smile on my face “These gems I created are used for battle, Twilight. Being a wizard in my world is not a glamorous job. I am more like a soldier for hire from where I am from than a man of knowledge.”

Twilight’s face turns into a confused frown, “But how!? You went to a Wizard’s academy that taught you all these amazing spells that should help you to create yet why are you using them to destroy!? How can you be just so alright with being a soldier!?”

“Monsters.” I say to Twilight with a solemn face. “Because of Monsters Twilight.”

“Huh what? Monsters? What do you mean Zekeal?” Twilight asks slightly confused.

“The magical creatures I told you about before, the name they are called by in my world are Monsters.” I say to Twilight solemnly “It’s because of these Monsters is the reason why the wizards of my world are considered soldiers or weapons.”

“Wait you fight these Monsters? But why?” Twilight asks again.

“These Monsters infest my world Twilight. They are truly disgusting and evil creatures with no sense of pity about them. Their main purpose is to cause destruction and misery for us humans.” I say seriously “They ravage villages and towns killing every man, woman, and child that lives there so long as there is no wizard present. And even then if there was a wizard there is just be just no complete end to them. When a wizard destroys one of them another ten rise to take its place the next day. It’s like one struggle for survival after the next where I am from Twilight, not like your world with smiles and sunshine, how I envy your world so much.”

I turn away to look out the window which I sigh heavily. I then turn back to Twilight who was stunned and saddened by my tale. She looked to be at a loss of words. I really wished I could have kept quiet about the monsters, but I guess it would have been brought up eventually, so I guess better now than later.

I better help raise her mood a little.

“But that doesn’t mean there are no good things in my world either Twilight. Whenever a wizard destroys a nest of monsters that’s threatening a village a sudden feeling of peace is felt around the area near the nest. Not only will the wizard feel it the villagers will feel it as well making them all calmer and having the sense of dread raised off of their shoulders. And said villagers would proceed to start a huge festival in honor for the wizard for destroying the nest of monsters. Even though the peace would only last for a day or two and another horde of monsters would easily move into the empty nest by the next day and feeling of peace gets replaced with the same gloominess that was once over the village the villagers and the wizard would enjoy this small respite to the fullest and be thankful to be alive for that one day in the world. So even though there may be darkness and hardships in my world Twilight, as long as you endure those hardships you will eventually achieve your goals one by one and there will always be that tiniest sliver of light that will help light your path and guide you through the darkness of the world.” I told her in hopes of cheering her up even though I was not really good at long winded speeches.

Twilight looks up at me sniffing a little, but smiling and says “You would make a better story teller than a wizard Zekeal if you could tell more stories like that.”

I chuckle quietly “Yeah, you are right about that, but anyway I think this is a good time to stop asking questions if that’s alright with you?”

Twilight quickly composes herself a little and says “Yeah it’s alright, plus with the information I have gotten from you I think I have enough to give a full report to Princess Celestia.”

I smile at her and reply “That’s good to hear. Now I was wondering if I can look at some of your books for the time being if that’s alright with you?”

“Sure you may look at as many as you want,” Twilight says with a smile “I’ll just be over here composing the report for Celestia. Call me if you need anything Zekeal.”

“Sure thing Twilight.” I say to her and turned toward the shelves.

I quickly grabbed one of the books from the shelves and looked into it expecting incredible insights of information… but I quickly learned that we may have the same language, but not the same alphabet. This was going to take a while I feared.

Ponyville Library
6:53 P.M.

It took me about a couple of hours and some tutoring from Twilight, but I eventually managed to create a small mediocre translation sheet that translated Equestrian script to my own world’s script. Now I can actually read some of these books now… slowly though, but hey at least I’ll learn something new from this.

The first book I read was apparently about the Princesses of this kingdom and from what it told me Princess Celestia could raise the sun and Princess Luna could raise the moon. Two beings that could raise a sun and/or a moon. The fact that they could was just do that without even straining was amazing by itself while at the same time incredibly frightening to me. Double mental note to self don’t piss off either of them that is if I ever meet them.

I was about to begin another book when I hear Twilight say “Sincerely from your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle alright Spike once you finish writing that last bit please send it to the Princess right away alright?”

“Sure thing Twilight.” Spike says to her as he rolled it up and blew a green flame which caught the letter on fire. I was about to say something about that when I noticed how the ashes flew out the window in a very peculiar way almost magical mind you so I decided not to question it seeing as how Twilight was not angry and still smiling at Spike so I continued my reading.

About an hour later something else happens that I did not expect from Spike. A belch. But this was no ordinary belch because right after said belch a parchment of paper popped out of nowhere near Spike’s mouth which he quickly grabs it and says “It’s from the Princess Twilight!”

Twilight turns towards the dragon from where she was studying and says “Well I was wondering when she would return my letter from this morning and whether she would read the one I just sent, go on and read it Spike.”

“Alrighty then Twilight *ahem* Dear Twilight Sparkle, I am sorry that I could not get back to your letter from this morning, I had a lot of royal duties I had to attend to today and couldn’t get a break to check my letters. For this I apologize. But I am glad you sent me this report about a Human named Zekeal as he also pertains to the magical disturbances you felt the night before.”

Both Twilight’s and my own ears perked up to this new change of development. So apparently my entrance into this world didn’t go entirely unnoticed eh? Spike then continues reading.

“Apparently one of the disturbances from last night was near Sweet Apple Acres and seeing as to how you found this human Zekeal in the vicinity of Sweet Apple Acres just the day after points to one thing. He was one of the magical disturbances.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up as she says “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” She seems very happy at this discovery she just made out of me. I couldn’t help but smile at this, but at the same time wonder if this is how she acts whenever she gets really excited. Spike resumes reading.

“Although the other disturbance that you written down I am having a harder time trying to find I will keep investigating the matter and I also plan on visiting Ponyville sometime on the day after tomorrow to meet Zekeal face to face. I really want to meet with him and see how you two are getting along. I really look forward to it. Sincerely yours, Princess Celestia.”

I was shocked and awed by this. I was going to meet one of the ruler’s of this land, and the best part is that it’s not going to include me getting thrown in a dungeon.

Twilight was ecstatically jumping around all over the place while saying “Oh my gosh Princess Celestia is coming to meet you Zekeal! We have to get you ready for her arrival so tomorrow we’ll have to let you see Rarity about a new set of clothes. I can’t believe this is happening!”

“Woah woah Twilight calm down.” I say to her trying to calm her although it doesn’t look like she will calm down entirely just yet “I am as excited as you or anyone else, but if you keep this up you’ll cause an earthquake!”

Twilight suddenly snaps out of it and smiles embarrassingly “Sorry I guess I sort of overreacted for a moment there.”

“No problem Twilight.” I say to her smiling “And I guess my robe could use a little tailoring to begin with.”

I looked down at my robes to see that they are slightly torn and water worn from days of traveling from town to town back in my world, although the more ragged a wizard’s robe gets means the more experience the wizard is. At least that’s how I pictured what an experienced wizard would look like.

“By the way is this Rarity person another friend of yours Twilight?” I ask her.

Twilight was about to speak until she was interrupted by Spike who says “She is only the most beautiful and respectable mare in all of Ponyville!”

There was no denying it this young dragon had a crush on this Rarity person, not by the fact that he had hearts in his eyes, but by the way he was acting, and to a being who was a pony no less! This world is just full of suprises.

Twilight then interjects with “She is actually the best tailor/dress maker in Ponyville, and she is quite good at what she does.”

“Oh so I am going to have my clothes tailored by a professional eh? That sounds quite nice.” I say to Twilight with a small grin.

“Glad to hear it Zekeal.” Twilight says as she turns toward the stairs “Well I am going to sleep right now, those series of questions and creating that report took a lot out of me. Goodnight Zekeal, goodnight Spike.”

“Goodnight Twilight sweet dreams,” Spike and I said almost at the same time.

“Also Zekeal you can sleep on the couch in the corner there if you want alright?” Twilight says to me as she began climbing the stairs up to her room.

“Thanks Twilight I really appreciate it,” I say to her as I went back over to my chair and began reading another book from the shelf.

“No problem Zekeal,” She says as she enters her room to turn in for the night.

Ponyville Library
9:43 P.M.

Only Spike and I were still awake with me reading my book and him stocking the shelves of the library with books. But it soon came to being only me as Spike finished shelving the last book and began making his way upstairs to call it a night as well. We both said our goodnights to each other and he went to sleep. I was alone in the main room of the library finishing a book about the currency of Equestria and how it worked here. It wasn’t long until my eyes began to get heavy from all this reading. It wasn’t long before I began yawning more and more often and decided it was time to turn in for the night as well. I blew out the candle that was on the study and slowly made my way over towards the couch to lie down on upon it. It felt incredibly comfy and I almost went to sleep immediately with the last thoughts to enter my mind before I went to sleep were ‘Just what was that other magical disturbance that Twilight felt that wasn’t me?’ I then entered into a peaceful slumber on the couch slowly being lulled to sleep by a soft sound.

The sound being so soft that you would have had to listen closely to it.

Closely enough to tell that it was actually a whisper.

Closely enough to tell that the whisper was trying to communicate to me.

That the whisper was trying to tell me something important.

“Why have you come to this place young wizard?”

“You shouldn’t be in this world young wizard.”

“And why have you brought something oh so terrible to this peaceful place young wizard?”

“That will most certainly shatter this world’s peace forever if it’s not stopped by you, young wizard.”

The voice stops and there is nothing, but silence of the pitch black library all around me as I sleep soundly.

End of Chapter 4

Alright another chapter bites the dust! I hope that the long dialogues in this chapter are not too confusing especially that heart-felt speech that Zekeal made in the middle of it and managed to get the point across. Again I hope you all are enjoying this story as it progresses and please don’t hesitate to point out any continuity errors, huge grammatical errors, or characters being incredibly out of character in my story that I may have overlooked ITS GREATLY APPRECIATED AND HELPS THE STORY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!

Zekeal: So hear that you readers! Tear this chapter a new one! So it no mercy!

Zekeal please stop breaking my 4th wall please.

Zekeal: Sorry no can do Registered I have to appear at the end here! It creates more entertainment for the reader at the end of the chapter anyways.

No you are just being a pest Zekeal.

Zekeal: Say what you will it won’t affect me in the slightest.

*sighs* Fine I won’t try to stop you, but if you bring anyone else in here I’ll end you! Anyway this is Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: And Zekeal!

Signing off, check you guys later!

Chapter 5

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 5

Ponyville Library
7:14 A.M.

I slowly awoke from my slumber as the first rays of light entered through the library’s windows. I stirred slowly with my mind telling my body to ‘get up’, but my body decided to reply back with a stubborn ‘no’. Just as my mind was about to give up and let my body go back to sleep again a sudden strong aroma hits my nostrils. The aroma of it being a very strong smell that woke up my mind as well as my body. My body quickly complies to my mind’s command and begins getting up.

“What is that wonderful aroma?” I ask myself groggily as I stretch my body making it pop in some places.

The aroma was coming from the kitchen and I decided to investigate.

As I enter the kitchen I discover that I was not the only one up as I see Twilight and Spike sitting at the kitchen table drinking something from mugs. It took them a moment to notice that I was there with Twilight being the first to notice.

“Oh hello Zekeal, I hope we didn’t wake you,” Twilight says apologetically as she notices me.

“Don’t worry the sun beat you to it first Twilight, by the way what is that earthly smell?” I ask her as I take a seat next to her.

“Oh it’s just some coffee Zekeal? Don’t you have coffee back where you were from?” Twilight asks quizzically.

Oh so the aroma was coffee was it?

“Yes, I have heard of it back in my world Twilight I just never really tried it before due to the fact that it was so expensive. So I just stuck with tea most of the time.” I reply back to her “But I wouldn’t mind trying some if you don’t mind.”

Twilight smiles at me and says “Sure thing Zekeal.” She then proceeds to pour me a cup of coffee with the help of her magic into one other mug and levitates it towards me.

I promptly grab the cup and thank her for it right before I took a sip.

Coffee tastes incredibly horrible.

“Ugh! Why is it so bitter!?” I yell out in disgust.

Twilight rolls her eyes and says “You have to add cream and sugar first Zekeal. Don’t you normally add sugar to your tea if it’s too strong?”

I blinked twice and mentally facepalmed myself for my idiocy. I then proceed to add the cream and sugar from the table into my mug and took another sip.

Better. Much, much better.

The coffee still had a bitter taste to it, but with the cream and sugar in it made the coffee slightly more bearable to me. I sigh as I felt the liquid travel through me warming up my body in the process and making me more steadily awake and filling me with energy.

“This coffee is quite good. Thanks Twilight.” I say to Twilight with a smile on my face.

She returned the smile “No problem Zekeal. Plus you may be in need of it today since you are going to have to help Applejack with her orchard remember?”

I suddenly remember the promise I made with the orange earth pony yesterday. How I promised her that I would pay her back for the apples I ate in her orchard as well as the walls I erected.

“Oh right. Don’t worry I didn’t forget Twilight.” I reply back to her “But I guess I should be getting over there then huh? Since she is more than likely awake by now right?”

“Actually that would be a good idea Zekeal. Plus there won’t be as many ponies out at this time so you won’t really cause much of a panic if you walk by yourself. Plus I have another task to get done today by checking on a friend about the weather forecast for the Summer Sun Celebration.” Twilight says to me.

“Oh and who is this other friend’s name?” I ask curiously.

“Her name is Rainbow Dash and she is a Pegasus pony who controls the weather around here in Ponyville,” Twilight replies back to me.

“Oh alright then, well please tell her that I said “Hi” and I would enjoy meeting her sometime,” I told Twilight, although the real reason that I wanted to meet with Rainbow Dash was to understand how Pegasus can control the weather here in the first place.

“Sure Zekeal. Although I would have to warn you she can be a little big headed at times, but she is actually quite a loyal friend.” Twilight replies back.

I nodded and began making my way towards the door of the library.

“Alright see you some time later Twilight,” I call back to her.

“I’m sure we will Zekeal, also don’t forget we still have to go over to Rarity’s to get your robe tailored up for Princess Celestia’s visit tomorrow.” Twilight replies back to me.

“Sure thing Twilight!” I shout back to her as I exit the Library.

“Now then off to Sweet Apple Acres then,” I say to myself as I begin a slow jog off towards my destination.

Sweet Apple Acres
8:09 A.M.

As I made my way down the dirt path I could make out the red barn of Sweet Apple Acres in the distance and quickened my pace to get myself there faster.

I entered through the front gate of the farm and began looking around for Applejack.

“Now if I was Applejack where would I be-“I began saying to myself right before bumping into some other person or pony for that matter.

I looked forward to see a larger pony, possibly a stallion, with a red coat of fur all over his body with a tuft of orange hair on the top of his head. He was giving me what I could tell a look of neutrality towards me while he moved a straw of hay to one corner of his mouth to the other studying me. This leads to an awkward silence between the two of us for the next moment or two.

“Um uh excuse me, but do you know somepony by the name of Applejack? I am here to clear out the orchard of the stone walls.” I start saying trying to break the silence.

The stallion looks solemnly at me and says “Eeyup.” while motioning his head towards the apple orchard.

I gave him a nod and thanks as I make my way into the apple orchard.

Not even three minutes later I finally find Applejack placing some big, wooden baskets around one of the apple trees.

“Hey Applejack!” I called out to her to grab her attention which it did.

Applejack turned around and waved a hoof at me while smiling. “Glad to see you here so early Zekeal. I thought it would be another three hours before you got here.” She says while chuckling a little.

I sigh and reply back “Hey I might not be the most athletic, but I do have sense of duty to get things done.”

“Fair enough partner. Anyway I take it you are ready to start knocking down your stone walls right?” Applejack asks while she turns around and bucks the apple tree near her making all the apples in it fall into the baskets below.

“Yeah I just needed to let you know I am here and also things might start getting a little noisy one I start tearing down the walls.” I explain to her.

“Not a problem partner you can make as much noise as you want just mind the apple trees alright?” Applejack says to me “Also see me afterwards and I’ll tell you what you’ll have to do to pay off the apple you owe me.”

“Sure thing Applejack I’ll see you in about an hour or so.” I say to her as I walk away towards one of the stone walls I erected.

As I got closer to it I slowly formed a grade 1 gem in my hand and began fusing mana into the gem making it into a gem bomb, but not too dangerous to me or anyone else. At least everything, but the wall I was about to throw the gem bomb at.

I reared back my arm and then threw the gem bomb at the stationary wall and upon impact the wall gets completely destroyed with all the stone slowly turning back into mana and not creating a huge mess with debris. There was also a slight ‘boom’ sound after impact that scared off a couple of birds, but that was to be expected.

I chuckled a little at the sight before me and thought “Best part about creating structures with mana. No messes.”

I then turned my attention back towards the rest of the walls in the orchard and began my task with removing them.

1 hour and 22 minutes later

“And…”

*Boom!*

“Done.” I said to myself as the last of the walls came tumbling down and dissipating into mana.

The task took a little over an hour to complete and took a fair bit of mana, but at least it’s behind me now.

“Woo-whee! You sure did a number on those walls Zekeal.” Applejack compliments me as she trots over to where I am “And without harming any of the apple trees as well.”

I chuckle lightly and reply to her “Well it’s just the way my magic works to begin with AJ.”

“Good enough for me partner, but anyway lets discuss how you’ll pay for them apples you ate.” Applejack says as she trots over to one of the nearby apple trees “I want you to buck or harvest, in your case, ten apple trees.”

I nod to her and say “Sure I can do ten easy!”

I proceed to materialize a gem in my hand and prepared to throw it at one of the trees.

At least until I was interrupted.

“Also you can’t use your magic,” Applejack adds on smiling.

What?

“What?” I ask her in mid-throw almost dropping the gem in my hand onto the ground in my stunned state.

“Ya heard me. You can’t use magic. I allowed you to use your magic for the stone walls before, but that was because it was a special situation.” She explains to me “This time I want you to show me how hard you can work by doing physical labor.”

Physical Labor. Two words that make me shudder just by thinking of it and worst of all I can’t use magic. She must have planned this out for me.

What a clever girl.

I sigh heavily and reply back “Fine. I’ll do it, but are you going to help me?”

“Sorry this is your job to pay off your debt so I can’t help ya,” Applejack says to me grinning mischievously “You’re on your own partner.”

Scratch that she is not a clever girl.

She is the cunning, evil mastermind of all things dealing with debt collecting!

“Surely you can’t be serious Applejack? I can’t climb these trees!” I tell her pleadingly.

“That didn’t stop you from climbing into one and began snaking on my apples,” She replies back with an ear to ear grin.

“… *sigh* Alright so where do I begin?” I say with a sense of defeat in my voice.

“You can start with this one and then any others that have baskets under them,” Applejack explains to me.

I look up at the tree Applejack mentioned. The lowest branch I could see was about where my head was maybe a little higher. This was not going to be a very fun experience for me.

Ponyville Library
12:37 P.M.

Twilight Sparkle and her assistant, Spike were finishing up some last minute chores before going out to see Rainbow Dash and her preparations for the celebration in about a week.

“The Teachings of Teleporting: For Beginners, check. The Complete Biography of Starswirl the Beared, check. And The Studies of Ursa Majors, check! Seems like everything is accounted for Twilight.” Spike calls out to her as he finished shelving the final book in his hands.

“That’s great Spike,” Twilight says as she puts on her satchel harness over her back “Now then let us get on to seeing Rainbow about the weather schedule for the celebration.”

Spike nods in agreement and begins making his way across the room until a certain yell breaks the quiet silence of the library.

“TWILIGHT!”

Not even a second later the door to Twilight’s library almost gets practically destroyed by none other than her friend, Rainbow Dash.

Twilight could only look on to see the door to her home ripped from the hinges from the impact her friend just caused on it. Not only that, but the impact made most of the books that Twilight and Spike just shelved fell and littered the ground around the inside of the library.

“Rainbow! What in the name of Celestia would make you break my door down?!” Twilight practically screamed at her.

“The door can matter later! What’s this rumor about you having some strange creature living with you?” Rainbow Dash explains as she began looking around for said creature “He hasn’t tried anything funny yet?”

Twilight sighs and says “No Rainbow he hasn’t done anything to me that would cause me harm. In fact he is quite nice to say the least, but I appreciate your concern for my safety.”

Rainbow Dash took a moment to think about what Twilight just said and replies “But from the rumors I heard around Ponyville he sounded like a big monkey!”

Twilight giggles for a moment at Rainbow Dash’s comment and replies “Actually that’s a pretty good description for him Rainbow, but as I said before he isn’t dangerous to us ponies.”

“Well that’s a relief, at first I thought I was going to have to rescue you from him using these babies!” Rainbow Dash says while punching in the air like a boxer.

Twilight rolled her eyes for a moment, but not in an annoyed way just in an understanding way. Rainbow Dash was just being Rainbow Dash. Loyal.

“Anyway Rainbow I am glad that you came over actually, Spike and I were about to come looking for you to begin with.” Twilight says trying to change the subject.

“Oh really? Well what can the fastest flyer in Equestria do for you Twi?” Rainbow Dash says beaming with pride.

“I need to know how the weather preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration are coming along Rainbow.” Twilight explains to her.

Rainbow Dash grins and says “The weather is coming along quite nicely, Twi. Nothing, but clear skies for the Celebration in six days.”

“That’s great to hear Rainbow.” Twilight says as she makes a mental note to check off the weather preparations on her checklist “Anyway thanks for telling me that Rainbow now about that door you owe me.”

Rainbow Dash then looks over at the destroyed doorway and back over at Twilight and smiles embarrassingly while saying “Right… uh will a sorry and an I.O.U. suffice for now?”

Twilight just shakes her head and says “No, but I’ll lend a hoof if you want to fix it sometime later today.”

Rainbow Dash nods at Twilight’s offering.

“But for now would you want something to drink?” Twilight asks Rainbow Dash with a warm smile.

“Sure Twi I would really appreciate it and if you don’t mind may I read another one of your Daring Do books?” Rainbow Dash replies back.

“I wouldn’t mind at all Rainbow and I you stay a while maybe you’ll get to meet Zekeal!” Twilight says while heading towards the kitchen.

“Who?” Rainbow Dash asks while grabbing a Daring Do book from the shelf.

“Oh that’s right silly me I forgot to mention his name, Zekeal is the name of the creature that was in those rumors that you heard of around town.” Twilight explains to her as she brings out a tea set.

“Zekeal? What a funny name for a creature. So besides him being nice what else is he like?” Rainbow Dash says as she puts the Daring Do book back on the shelf slowly taking more interest in the creature than her thirst for reading.

“Well it’ll take some time to explain so it would be best for you to sit down if you will Rainbow.” Twilight says as she sits on the couch.

“Alright.” Rainbow Dash replies while settling down on one of the chairs.

“Good now to begin Zekeal is actually a species that his kind calls humans…” Twilight begins explaining to Rainbow Dash of what Zekeal was like.

Sweet Apple Acres
2:45 P.M.

Five hours.

These five hours were the roughest I have ever had.

I had fought hordes and hordes of beasts and monsters back in my world with my powerful magic.

But none of those experiences could have ever prepared me for this strenuous endurance challenge that is known as physical labor.

I had to climb up some of the trees in the orchard, but luckily some of the branches in the trees that I climbed were close enough to other trees that I just had to tightrope across to get from one to another. But, during my time up in the tree I ended up getting a ton of sap all over my wizard’s robe. It was going to take days to get all this sap out! And don’t get me started about the heat, it may have been shady, but the humidity was still getting to me. It really felt like hell for me.

But now it is done. All fifteen trees completely harvested by my hands only. No magic what-so-ever. Good god I feel exhausted.

Oh well whatever doesn’t kill me can only make me stronger.

I was currently up in one of the trees I harvested resting. No sense in trying to find Applejack just yet, and also the fact that I didn’t really want to move an inch from the spot I was resting in.

“ *sigh* Now I know how it feels to be a farmer back where I’m from. I pity those people so much.” I say to myself as I begin to close my eyes prepared to begin sleeping.

“Hey Zekeal are you up there, partner?”

God damn it there goes my nice easy feeling of restfulness.

“Yeah I am up here AJ. I just got done with the last tree you told me to do,” I say to her looking down at her.

“Good! Now we can get on to paying your interest. Another five trees should do it.” Applejack says to me with a grin.

I look down at her with a scared look on my face and she noticed it and began laughing.

“I’m only kidding partner, come on down and I’ll treat ya to a late lunch!” Applejack says to me keeping a warm smile on her face.

“ *sigh* Don’t do that Applejack you almost gave me a heart attack.” I say as I slowly lowered myself down “And thank you, all that I have had this morning was a cup of coffee.”

“Then let’s not stay here anymore. Come follow me back to the farmhouse Zekeal and get something in that stomach of yours.” Applejack says as she led the way back towards her home.

The walk was relatively short and we finally reached the farmhouse. When we entered I felt a sudden sense of homeliness to the place. It felt quite nice.

Applejack then turns towards me and says “Alright so what do you want? We got apple fritters, apple pie, apple cobbler, apple cider….” And so on and so forth with foods that have apples in them.

“Uh do you have some lettuce some other vegetables? I am feeling in the mood for a salad.” I tell her feeling that I had enough apples for one week since yesterday.

“Sure Zekeal.” Applejack says as she opens a cabinet and pulls out a full head of lettuce, a tomato, and carrots “Will this do Zekeal.”

I nod to her and say “This will do just perfectly, thank you.” Then I proceed to fix my salad with the given ingredients and once I finished preparing it I quickly ate it and thanked Applejack for it.

“No problem partner, but why would you eat your salad that fast? You got some place to go?” Applejack asks me with a raised eyebrow.

“Actually I do. Twilight said that we had to go see her friend Rarity to find me a new set of robes.” I explain to her “And I think a new set of robes would do greatly with all this sap in my current pair.”

I then proceed to pull my robe at the edges stretching it to show her and to prove my point.

Applejack chuckles and says “Well then don’t let me stall you for any longer, Zekeal. You go on ahead and leave.”

“Thanks Applejack and thanks for the meal too!” I reply back to her as I leave through the front door of the farmhouse.

“No problem, Zekeal and don’t be a stranger you’re welcomed anytime!” Applejack calls out to me while waving a hoof at me.

I proceed to wave back at her giving a curt no as I make my way down the road back to Ponyville.

I take in a deep breath of fresh air and looked up at the clear blue sky studying it for any alterations or imperfections. I found none. I smile at this and sigh deeply as I continue to admire this calm setting as I walk down the road back to Twilight’s library.

End of Chapter 5

Hey everybody hope you enjoyed this chapter like all the others before and sorry for not updating in a while, real life and fan-fiction do not mix well, but hey the best chili tends to simmer for a while right? But on another note I am currently on my university’s spring break so hopefully if I am not too lazy this spring break I’ll be able to get out another chapter during the week maybe even two. But anyway enough about my personal life remember thumbs up, track, favorite, OR just leave comments about grammatical errors, continuity errors, or how you liked/disliked the chapter as of now. I won’t force you do these things, but they help in some ways.

….Hmmm normally Zekeal would have interrupted by now, I wonder why.

Pinkie Pie: Hey everypony!

What the hell!? Pinkie Pie!? Why are you here!? How did you get here!?

Pinkie: Well duh I got through that hole in the wall over there. *points at the 4th wall*

*I proceed to facepalm myself* I really got to fix that thing, but why are you here to being with?

Pinkie: Well Zekeal told me to say that I am going to be in the next-

*I cut her off by clamping my hand over her mouth* No! Don’t say anything Pinkie Pie! Not another word!

Pinkie: *manages to get my hand off of her mouth* But why? I just wanted to say that I was going to be in the next-

*I proceed to clamp my hand over her mouth again* You know what? Maybe I should just end this here. This is Registered Anonymous…

Pinkie: *muffled* And Pinkie Pie!

Signing off. Check ya’ll later!

Chapter 6

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 6

Near Ponyville Library
3:45 P.M.

The walk from Sweet Apple Acres to Ponyville was quite calm and relaxing. Besides the few moments where a pony or two would notice me and choose to keep their distance from me, everything went quite well.

As I continued walking downs the path through Ponyville taking in the light summer breeze that was flowing through the town, I noticed that most of the town-ponies were making glances at me and began whispering to each other. I didn’t really enjoy being talked about much, but I felt no malice in the whispering made from the ponies so I just shrugged and kept walking on towards the library.

“Hmmm I wonder if Twilight has already gotten her errands done for the day.” I thought to myself as I slowly approached the library.

At least that was until I stopped dead in my tracks while noticing that the door to the library was completely ripped from its hinges. I proceeded to think of the worst possible scenario for this situation.

Someone may have broken into Twilight’s house.

I then began creeping up towards the doorways entrance while forming a Grade 2 Shocking gem in my hand. I was prepared to use it if necessary.

I took a deep breath and proceeded to enter the library.

“Twilight, are you alright?” I call out to see if she was still inside.

Ponyville Library
Five minutes earlier

Rainbow Dash listened through most of Twilight’s lecture about Zekeal even though she almost nodded off on most parts especially about the anatomy and science parts about his species. Although her mood picked up when Twilight began explaining how Zekeal was from a different dimension entirely. This only continued to peak Rainbow Dash’s interests when Twilight began explaining the different kinds of magic Zekeal uses and the monsters he fights that are from his dimension.

“Wait so let me get this straight. This Zekeal guy is a wizard who likes to read almost as much as you, but knows how to kick butt?” Rainbow Dash asks Twilight.

Twilight sighs and says “Well to put it in your terms Rainbow, Zekeal is almost somewhat like that.”

Rainbow Dash then begins imagining a hairless ape wearing a robe and a wizard’s hat while standing on top of a pile of dead monsters while flexing some overly sized biceps.

“Wow he sounds pretty cool, not as cool as me, but still cool.” Rainbow Dash says after her moment of imagining Zekeal “When can I meet him?”

“Hmmm he should be back in a little while-” Twilight began when she was interrupted by another voice.

“Twilight, are you alright?”

I entered the den to see that Twilight was indeed alright and she was talking to a blue, cyan Pegasus with a rainbow tail and mane as well as a rainbow lighting bolt was on her flank. If my hunch was correct this was Twilight’s friend Rainbow Dash that she mentioned before I left for Sweet Apple Acres. Also the fact that she has a rainbow mane and tail was a dead give away.

“Oh hello Zekeal, we were just talking about you just before you came by.” Twilight says to me with a warm smile “And why did you ask if I was alright?”

I look towards her and say “Well the front door was completely ripped from the hinges so I thought somepony broke in.”

Rainbow Dash then chuckles while she flies up to me extending her hoof and says “That’s sort of my fault, by the way my name is Rainbow Dash.”

“My name’s Zekeal Grendale which you no doubt have already heard from Twilight, and it’s nice to meet you too Rainbow Dash.” I tell her while shaking her hoof.

“Nice to meet ya Zeak!” Dash replies to me, apparently giving me the nickname Zeak all of a sudden “But to tell you the truth you don’t look like what I was expecting.”

I look at her quizzically and ask her “Oh really? What were you expecting me to be?”

“I was expecting you to be maybe 20% taller, maybe have a little more muscle, and not wearing glasses.” She proceeds to say to me while flying a circle around while inspecting me.

“Well maybe you shouldn’t judge me so quickly, I may be small but I pack quite a punch with my spells.” I tell her while smirking a little.

Rainbow Dash proceeds to chuckle a little and says “Don’t worry, that much I can agree on totally. Just don’t try to call yourself the fastest here, that title is mine!”

“Hmmm if that’s the case then maybe you should demonstrate your speed for me sometime in the future then,” I tell her with a hint of curiosity in my voice.
Learning how fast the pegasi here go would be quite interesting really.

“I would be more than happy to Zeak!” Rainbow Dash says to me with a big grin on her face “Just as long as you show me how you create those gems that kick major monster butt!”

I chuckle lightly at her comment and reply back “Sure why not? But my gems are used mainly for defensive purposes and very rarely offensive purposes only and not only just for butt kicking Miss Dash.”

“Yeah, sure whatever Zeak.” Rainbow Dash replies back nonchalantly waving her hoof at me.

Twilight then interjects “Anyway I am sorry to have to breakup this interesting conversation, but unfortunately Rainbow, Zekeal and I have small errand to run over to Carousel Boutique.”

“Oh alright Twi I’ll see you two around then,” Rainbow Dash says as she walks towards the broken doorway “And I’ll get started on repairing this door, but first let me go get Pinkie Pie to help me out as well.”

With that Rainbow Dash flew out the doorway out into the blue, cloudless sky.

“So she broke down your door why?” I proceed to ask Twilight again.

Twilight giggles and says “She sort of thought of you as some sort of creature that would probably do some harm to me. She was just being protective.”

“Oh alright.” I reply back to her “So shall we get on over to your friend Rarity’s place then?”

“Sure, let me just see if Spike wants to go-” Twilight begins to say before she is interrupted by none other than Spike himself.

“Ready to go when you are ready Twilight!” Spike says with a hint of enthusiasm in his voice.

‘The feeling of being young and in love, such a strange feeling,’ I thought to myself seeing how the young dragon acted.

Twilight smiles at him and nods to me while saying “Well that’s just about everything shall we get going?”

“Lets,” I reply back to her walking out the door first while followed by Twilight and her dragon Spike.

Just outside Carousel Boutique
4:11 P.M.

Our little group proceeded through Ponyville with relative ease with only the occasional gasp from every passerby.

Although I did notice that more and more ponies were pointing hooves at me and whispering things that I could not hear. Still no sign of malice in these whispers, but they did give off the faint hint of excitement for something occurring later on today. I was starting to get nervous and curious at the same time.

Just what are they hiding from me?

I was snapped out of my train of thought when Twilight says “Well here we are Zekeal Carousel Boutique.”

I look up at the building we stopped in front of, it looked like all the other buildings around it, but looked almost like the building was in a dress of its own. At least that was how I could describe it.

“So this is your friend Rarity’s place eh?” I tell Twilight “Looks pretty fancy.”

“Yeah it does. Plus she makes dresses for a living and creates dresses for some of the most famous ponies in Equestria.” Twilight replies back while making her way towards the door of Carousel Boutique “Also just to warn you she is sort of a fashionista.”

A fashionista? I may not know what a fashionista is, but I doubt it can be something that bad.

Right?

As we proceed to enter the building Twilight is the first to speak up “Hey Rarity are you curre here? If it won’t trouble you much can I ask you a favor?”

The question Twilight asked gets answered almost immeadiately “Yes Twilight I am here and sure darling anything you say, just come into my workshop and tell me what you need.”

The voice sounded very regal to me, almost like someone from royalty or something, but with a hint of generosity in.

As Twilight and I entered the workshop I saw all over the place there were mannequins, fabrics, sewing utensils, and other instruments used for making clothes.

Although the things that caught my eye the most were the dresses, not by the fact they were so expertly stitched together, but by the fact the number of gems on them.

This scared me for a moment or two, because the only reason an article of clothing would have that many gems on it either meant you were well prepared for a monster attack or you were about to make yourself a walking Gem bomb. But I quickly moved the thought out of my head after remembering that these ponies had no gemcrafting magic, these gems on the dresses were just precious minerals.

“Alright darling what is it you wanted me to- WAHAHA!” came a voice that I quickly turned my head to see who it was.

I was looking at a white unicorn with a purple mane and tail and three diamonds for a cutie mark on her flank. She was currently looking at me with a hint of displeasure, horrific, and shocked expressions drawn on her face.

Oh boy this is going to end badly.

“Wait Rarity let me explain this here is friend and he needs-” Twilight began trying to calm down her friend before said friend interrupted her.

“No no no no no no NO! This is simply atrocious, completely horrific, this is just simply the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!” Rarity began shouting at me while she circled me.

Hey I may not be the most handsome person in the world, but come on do I really look that bad?

“This is just simply a slap in the face for everything fashion!” Rarity then exclaims while she examines my robes “When was the last time you had this ‘thing’ washed deary?”

Oh she was mentioning my clothing.

I look at her with a confused look, but managed to reply “Uh about maybe three weeks ago?” while scratching the back of my head in an embarrassed way.

“…Take it off.” Rarity said to me in a stern tone.

“Huh?” I reply back to her with a confused stare.

“You heard me take it off… now.” She says again this time a little more sternness in her voice.

“Uh why?” I reply back starting to get scared.

“I am going to have to wash this ‘thing’ and if you don’t take it off now I’ll just have to take it off for you.” Rarity explains to me still with the stern look in her eyes.

“Oh ok well can I sort of get behind something first and change?” I ask her just before I get lifted off the ground by the magic coming from Rarity’s horn and put behind a changing curtain.

“Yeah this’ll do just fin- whoa hey!” I yell out as I am forcibly removed from my robes by Rarity’s magic.

These ponies keep amazing me every second I spend time with them. This is quite the experience.

A sudden crash is heard as I hit the floor with only my undergarments on.

Even if my pride takes a couple hits here and there.

I proceed to sit up trying to get my bearings all I could hear was “SAP?! Really!? Doesn’t this creature know how to take care of his clothes?!” coming from Rarity as she moves to a different room probably to clean my clothes.

“Hold up Rarity let me help you with those!” says a certain love-struck purple dragon that also enters the same room as Rarity.

I then I hear an all too familiar giggle coming from Twilight.

“Sorry about that Rarity can be a little… eccentric at times, but mostly she is quite nice really.” Twilight says to me from behind the curtain.

“*sigh* No problem I could tell she was a nice person before this incident, although my pride is a little bruised from being man-handled by a pony, or pony-handled in your case.” I reply back to her chuckling.

Twilight smiles at me and replies back “That’s good to hear although don’t you think three weeks is kind of long to not wash your clothing?”

“Well that’s the thing with a wizard’s robe since most wizards, like myself, are always on the road going from one place to another we don’t really get a chance to wash our clothing at times and only on rare occasions.” I explain to her.

“Hmmm interesting, but I hope your species takes more baths than your clothe washing every three weeks.” Twilight replies back with a giggle.

“Don’t worry; we try to take baths at least every two days.” I reply back with a smirk on my face.

“Well if that’s the case you are in need of one then,” Twilight says to me with a smirk.

“True, but can I take one at your place? That is if you have a tub to begin with.” I ask her while poking my head over the curtain.

“Sure you can, and yes I do have a tub its up on the top floor where I sleep,” Twilight replies back.

“Thanks Twi,” I say to her with a nod.

She nods back at me and for the next fifteen minutes we discussed how my time over at Sweet Apple Acres went. I told her everything that happened then even the parts where I was stripped of my magic through a contract to pay off my debt. She giggled at that and replied by saying “That’s Applejack for you”.

We continued discussing the topic until Rarity came back in with my old robe. Only this time the robe is completely clean and sap free. To me my old robe looked like it was brand new.

“There we go dear now this robe is as good as new,” Rarity says to me as she levitates my robe to me which I quickly grab it and put it back on. Wow I can actually feel the cleanliness coming from it.

“Thank you Rarity for cleaning my friend’s robe, but that is not the reason we came here,” Twilight says to Rarity after I walk out from behind the changing curtain.

“It’s not? Then what is it Twilight dear? Oh and where are my manners my name is Rarity and who are you my dear?” Rarity says to Twilight and me.

I look at her and replied back “My name is Zekeal Grendale at your service Miss Rarity and thanks for cleaning my robe, even if you had to rip it off of me.”

“Oh it seems this creature is also a gentlecolt as well and I’m sorry about that Zekeal it’s just, well, it needed to be immediately cleaned.” Rarity says only slightly embarrassed.

I chuckle softly and say “It is not a problem Miss Rarity.”

I suddenly feel a menacing glare aimed right at me and I look over Rarity to see that Spike was glaring at me. Oh boy I must be making him a tad bit jealous.

I better change the subject right now unless I want to wake up with part of my robe a-blazed.

“So uh Rarity the main reason why Twilight and I came here was to ask you if you could make me another robe.” I told her plainly.

“Of course darling I would be more than pleased to make you a new robe, in fact since you are friends with Twilight I’ll even make yours for free.” Rarity replied to me.

“Wow for free? That’s very kind of you Rarity,” I reply back to her.

“Think nothing of it dear, now if you would may I take your measurements? This is really the first time I have ever tried making some clothing for a bipedal creature of your size before,” Rarity says while pulling out a measuring tape “Also how would you want this new robe of yours to look like?”

“Go right ahead Rarity and how I want it to look? Well I don’t really want something too flashy, something that’s durable, and with pockets on the inside, lots and lots of pockets!” I said to her with a small gleam in my eye “Also I want its colors to be like my old robe’s colors.”

With the colors of my old robe being mostly tan all over with green squares and diamonds going around the neckline.

“Are you certain that’s all darling? I can add more if you want and why do you want so many pockets?” Rarity replies back to me while finishing the measurements and heading back over to her workspace.

“I just really like pockets and who knows, it may come in handy some day and don’t worry that’s all that I want on this new robe.” I reply back to her with a smirk.

Rarity smiled and just shook her head and says “Whatever you want dear, whatever you want.”

She then proceeded to get to work on my new robe.

We spent the next few hours talking about what I am and where I came from. We also discussed many stories to help pass the time. Apparently I learned that Twilight and her friends were this country’s heroines and also the bearers of the “Elements of Harmony” and how they defeated Nightmare Moon, also known as Luna before she turned evil, and the Spirit of Chaos: Discord. Their stories were quite interesting almost like something coming from a fairy-tail where the heroes pull off some last minute shenanigans to save the day. Well I am in a world where the main sentient beings are a bunch of talking ponies so I guess that rule does apply here.

We kept discussing up till Rarity finally got finished with my new robe.

“And done!” Rarity says with a hint of enthusiasm in her voice “Please try it on Zekeal, I think you’ll find it quite comfortable.”

She proceeded to levitate my new robe to me where I grabbed it and proceeded to get behind the changing curtain to try it on. After a second or two I got out from behind it.

To say the least I was completely amazed at how it felt as well as how it looked on me. The inside felt like silk, but for some reason it felt as durable as leather to me. I could also feel the multiple pockets Rarity sewn into my robe which I requested for.

“This is possibly the best article of clothing I have ever worn Rarity, you have my thanks.” I told her with a warm smile on my face.

“Aww think nothing of it darling. Consider it a gift.” Rarity replied back to me with a smile of her own on her face.

I continued looking at me in the mirror as Twilight began thanking Rarity for her help with my robes.

“Really thank you Rarity, you really helped us a lot today.” Twilight says to her.

“No problem darling. But if I may ask as to why you had to get Zekeal a new robe on such sort notice?” Rarity asked her with a curious look.

“Well you see Rarity Princess Celestia is coming by tomorrow and she wants to meet with him.” Twilight explained to Rarity.

Rarity’s eyes widened and she replies “Wow! Then I should have taken more care into Zekeal’s robe then if it was made for an event like that.”

Twilight smiles at her friend’s concern and says “Really it is ok Zekeal’s robe is the way he wanted it and we should respect that.”

“*sigh* I guess you are right darling just next time don’t leave a detail like that out please.” Rarity says “Also since we are discussing about the Princess I should just say that I am done preparing the curtains and decorations for the Summer Sun Celebration in a few days, all they need is to be hung up in the ballroom.”

“Excellent Rarity, I was planning on seeing you about that sometime tomorrow, but thanks for telling me anyway.” Twilight says with a hint of relief in her voice.

“Well you know what they say: Why put something off tomorrow when you could finish it today?” Rarity replies back.

“You’re right about that Rarity, anyway I think it is about time for us to get going right Zekeal? Spike?” Twilight calls out to me and Spike.

I was currently taking my time in looking at myself. I felt somewhat sexy with this new robe on for some reason.

Spike in the meanwhile was ogling at Rarity with a loving gaze.
Twilight sighs as she proceeds to pull both of us away from what we were respectfully looking at and placed us at her sides, even though we both still had a trance in our eyes.

Rarity giggled a little at Twilight’s little stunt and says to her “Well you can go on darling hopefully we’ll see each other later on tonight I suppose.”

“Huh what do you mean?” I ask her suddenly snapping out of my trance.

“Oh nothing darling nothing, I can’t ruin a surprise you know.” Rarity says as she returns to her workstation.

I was a little confused at the moment, but that quickly changed as Twilight began heading outside through the doorway which I proceeded to follow her after.

After catching up to her I began to ponder on what Rarity said just before me and Twilight left. A surprise? I wonder what this surprise could be.

But whatever this surprise could be I was not going to be on the receiving end of it that’s for sure. No one surprises a wizard.

“Hey Twilight I sort of have something else to do right now is it alright if I meet up with you back at the library later? Also can you levitate my old robe please, I don’t want it to get wrinkled or dirty after all the work Rarity put into it.” I asked Twilight in the most non suspicious way possible.

“Sure Zekeal, do whatever you want.” Twilight replies to me with a smile.

I give her a nod and a thank you and began walking in a different direction.

Ponyville Library
6:48 P.M.

Twilight Sparkle and her assistant Spike were closing in on the darkened Library and from afar Twilight could see that the door was fixed, a little haphazardly, but fixed none the less.

“Well Rainbow must have finished repairing the door it would seem.” Twilight commented as she continued levitating Zekeal’s robe.

“Yeah now let’s see if it even works,” Spike says as he walks over to it and turns the knob opening it to a darkened room.

“*sigh* that’s right we forgot to light some candles before we left, Spike if you will can you help me-” Twilight began to ask when suddenly a light immediately ignites and brightens the entire room in a yellow glow.

“Surprise!”

Twilight was suddenly taken aback as she looks into her library to see that about half of Ponyville was crowded inside of it.

“What the hay is going on here!?” Twilight exclaims as she enters the library.

Every pony that was inside the library grew silent and looked at her and trying to look for something else that wasn’t there.

“Uh sorry Twi I guess we should have told you first before you left, but you were already heading over to Rarity’s before Pinkie and I came back to work on the party also fixing your door.” came Rainbow Dash’s voice from the crowd as she made her way up to Twilight “But where is Zekeal shouldn’t he be with you?”

“Wait. So this is supposed to be a surprise part for Zekeal?” Twilight asks in a slightly confused state “But why my house?”

“Yeah! Pinkie managed to get the entire town involved in this Twi,” Applejack says as she appears from the crowd “And well isn’t he staying at your place to begin with Twi?”

Twilight thought for a moment and mentally facehoofed “Right that is correct and about Zekeal well he sort of gone off to do something else he should be back in a little while.”

There was an audible groan amongst most of the ponies seeing as the guest of honor was not here yet.

“But where is Pinkie Pie? Shouldn’t she be here as well?” Twilight asked to Rainbow Dash.

“Well she just disappeared not too long ago so I have no idea where she is.” Rainbow Dash replied back.

Twilight sighed and says “Well this is an interesting turn of events.”

Unfortunately for her things were about to get even more interesting.

The lights in the room began to dim slightly and over time they began to flicker slightly due to some unknown force. This quickly grabbed everypony’s attention in the library at least until the lights all went out completely.

“Huh? Alright who is messing with the lights?” Rainbow Dash asks in the darkness.

The room remained quiet until a small set of eight lights began shining from where Twilight’s room was.

“You shouldn’t try to surprise a wizard my equine friends, especially me,” came a voice from where the lights were “It is somewhat a bad omen from where I come from.”

So they planned a surprise party for me eh? That was very thoughtful of these ponies, if it wasn’t for the surprise. Not that I am mad at them or anything I just don’t like being surprised is all. At least if I am not the one surprising that is.

I managed to pull off this little feat of mine by climbing up on the opposite side of Twilight’s tree library. Also thank you Applejack for giving me a little practice in tree climbing today. As for the gems giving off the lights that are around me well that was a no brainer with some simple gemcrafting and levitating. But now that I have them mesmerized by my little trick I think it is time to proceed.

I slowly made my way down the staircases to the library below with a face that showed almost no emotion. With each step I took made a slight creak which made some of the ponies gasp slightly. I really hope I wasn’t scaring them too much.

Once I finally stepped off the staircase I proceeded to speak “But it would seem you are throwing me a party.”

I then stop for a moment and I begin to levitate each gem to a different corner of the room.

“For throwing a party for a wizard like me it is something of an honor for me back where I come from.” I proceeded to say after placing every gem in their respected corners.

“For that I am really honored that you all threw me one and for that,” I then snap my finger making all the lights that were turned off come back on and I had a warm smile on my face “I thank you.”

The room was silent for a moment or two until eventually.

“That was so awesome!” shouted Rainbow Dash from across the room and soon after cheers could be heard coming from all over the place. Well I think that this was a mission accompli-

“HEY MY NAME’S PINKIE PIE WHATS YOURS?” came a voice from right behind me.

I turned my head towards the voice only to come face to face with a pink pony.

All that planning on me not getting surprised, wasted in only two seconds.

“Agh!” I shouted as I fell backwards in comedic fashion landing on my back.

All thanks to a pink pony, named Pinkie Pie.

End of Chapter 6

I really hope this chapter didn’t end too abruptly, but when I wrote that last sentence: “All thanks to a pink pony, named Pinkie Pie.” I just knew that sentence was a good ending sentence for this chapter. Also thanks to a certain person’s antics from the last post-chapter discussion, I won’t name anyone *cough* Zekeal *cough*, I also had to end the chapter early.

Zekeal: Hey!

Quiet Zekeal you are still in fanfiction detention until further notice.

Zekeal: What? I only wanted to make things more interesting by giving some spoilers and stuff. And also one question: why is Pinkie Pie here with me?

*Pinkie Pie is currently tied to a chair with a cloth gag over her mouth, but smiles on thinking that this is a game*

Because I have no idea what else you could have told her to make her spoil more of the story.

Zekeal: Yeah, but don’t you think that is mean?

Don’t you think that bringing someone in to do your dirty work is nice?

Zekeal: …Point taken.

Good. Now back to the readers.

Again thank you for taking your time to read my chapter and go ahead and comment on anything you want whether it be errors, continuity or grammar, or anything that you found interesting in the chapter.

Anyway this is Registered Anonymous.

Zekeal: Zekeal Grendale.

Pinkie Pie: *muffled* And Pinkie Pie!

Signing off check ya’ll later!

Chapter 7

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 7

There I lay, on my back, on the hard, wooden floor of Twilight’s library thinking. Thinking about how a pink haired pony managed to get behind without me knowing or sensing her. How the hell did she do that?

“Hey Mister Wizard are you alright? I hope you are ok because you have a ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party to enjoy!” cheered a certain eccentric pink pony whose head entered my calming view of the library’s ceiling.

I grimaced slightly at her. Could I just have a little while to recover from that sudden surprise?

“Aw come on Mister Grumpy-Pants don’t look at me like that. Instead how about if you turn that frown upside-down and have a cupcake!” Pinkie Pie says to me excitedly while giving me a cupcake that she had in her hooves. How she can grasp a cupcake with her hooves to begin, I have no idea.

I didn’t really have much of a sweet tooth for baked goods to begin with so I shook my head. I received a frown from her soon after.

“What!? But everypony should like sweets!” Pinkie Pie exclaims at me “Why don’t you like sweets? Confess!”

She got up close and personal in my face during the ‘confess’ part. Also she smelled of baked goods.

“Well I am not really into baked goods uh Pinkie Pie was it? But thanks for the offer.” I reply to her while sitting myself up.

Pinkie Pie stares at me and says “Oh is that it then? Well what do you like for party food or even party drinks? Name what you like and I’ll go find it!”

“Uh are you sure Pinkie Pie?” I ask her.

“Of course not silly!” Pinkie says to me with a smile on her face.

I think for a moment and an idea comes to mind “Do you have any hard cider around here Pinkie?”

“Hard cider? …Oh you mean apple cider that makes ponies act funny and silly?” Pinkie says as she begins bouncing around me.

“Yeah that’s the stuff; if you can get me some of that it would be really appreciated.” I reply back to her with a smile forming on my face.

“Okie dokie loki! Be back in a second!” Pinkie says to me as she shoots off through the door with a speed that I thought wasn’t possible for these ponies.

The room was silent for a moment after Pinkie’s sudden exit, but eventually the other party guests began continuing their conversations with one another.

I on the other hand was still trying to take in what has happened in the last few minutes as I sat on the ground. I proceed to turn to Twilight and asked her “Uh can you explain why Pinkie Pie acts like that and how she can run that fast?”

Twilght replies “Funny thing I used to wonder the same way of how Pinkie acts like that some months ago too. I came to the conclusion that Pinkie Pie was just acting like “Pinkie Pie” or to put it more simply she just acts randomly.”

“Is that so?” I state while standing up “Is there anything else that I should know about her?”

“Well she does have this ability to sense future events before they happen, we call it her ‘Pinkie Sense’,” Twilight explained to me as she trots over to a table with punch on it and pours her a glass of it using her magic.

I thought for a moment on this ‘Pinkie Sense’, it sounded very far-fetched to me, but Twilight has known Pinkie longer than me so I took her word for it. “So basically she is like a mystic or psychic?” I asked Twilight.

“Well not really, think of Pinkie’s sense more as an instinct than a magical ability Zekeal.” Twilight replies back while taking a sip of her punch.

Right, like how most animals can sense danger before humans could sense it from where I am from.

“Anyway Zekeal I think you should try mingling with some of the other ponies here,” Twilight suggests to me.

“Sure why not?” I reply to her as I stood back up on my feet.

I looked around the room to find the most interesting looking ponies, unfortunately all of them looked interesting to me so with a quick pick of enie-meanie-minie-moe I chose a group of ponies and made my way over.

“Hey anyone want to hear a funny experience I had back in my world?” I asked the group which they nodded in excitement probably because I was the one who asked first instead of them. I could have asked if they had any questions that I could answer, but that was more of Twilight’s forte and also the fact that this is a party, why not share a couple of stories as well?

I smiled and began my story “Alright it was the day after I took my final exam to pass wizardry school and I was with other fellow wizards at this celebration over at one of the brothels in town.”

The story I told consisted most of the usual events that happen whenever wizards get together to party. Most of these events included drinking till we passed out, levitating and throwing each other out the window, accidently blowing up a section of the brothel with a gem bomb, and finally getting run out of the bar by an angry mob after we did all those other antics. We wizards may be scholars, but we can do some crazy things whenever we get drunk.

‘A- and after we destroyed half of the brothel we were then chased by a mob of other bar patrons and we had to jump and hide in an i-irrigation ditch until morning!” I told the group of ponies who were around me while I tried to hold in my own laughter “Good god that was a horrible time we had!”

The ponies that were around me chuckled and some burst out laughing. I also heard a “Well by the sound of that you deserved it!” coming from one of the ponies. I chuckled at that comment and said “Yeah you are right about that. We eventually had to repair the brothel and repay the owner for it, but the experience was still worth it.”

“But don’t you think that is a bit irresponsible? I mean you are a wizard, aren’t you supposed to be wise and powerful?” asks another pony from the group.

I replied back “Yes it was irresponsible of me to do that and wizards are supposed to act respectably back where I’m from, but you have to understand I was still young at the time and I believed during that time was what’s life worth living if you are not having any fun or enjoying yourself?”

I got a few nods from some of the ponies around me and I decided it was my turn to ask them some questions of my own like their names and occupations in Ponyville, but was cut short when a loud crash came from the door.

I quickly turn around to see that Pinkie Pie was on top of a large wooden barrel coming through the now re-destroyed entrance of the library with a huge smile on her face.

Twilight looked horrified.

Rainbow Dash was laughing at the scene unfold.

Applejack was facehoofing.

Every other pony around me took cover behind whatever furniture there was.

Me on the other hand, I had a big grin on my face for the obvious reason of getting my hands on some alcohol.
Pinkie then slowed down the barrel’s speed as she approached me while saying “Is this what you wanted Zekeal?”

I placed my foot out to help stop the barrel from rolling any further and smiled at her.

“Yes Pinkie, this looks exactly what I wanted,” I told her.

Pinkie proceeded to hop off the barrel and says “Good! Now let’s get this par-tay started!”

She then trotted off towards a weird looking device that looked like a square box with a horn looking object on top of it. She then placed a disc like object on it and moved an object with a point at the end of it onto the disc and turned a crank with her teeth. The next thing that I knew music began playing from it. I found this quite fascinating and began wondering how this contraption worked because the only music I have heard came from instruments and not boxes.

But before I could think of anything else on the matter of the strange box Pinkie bounced over to me and said “Come on Zekeal dance with me!”

I reply back to her “Sure, but first let me have a couple of drinks first alright? I tend to dance a little better when I do.”

“Okie doki lokie!” she says back to me and bounces over to another group of ponies who were already dancing.

I then quickly grabbed a cup and began opening the keg with vigor, because I have lost track of the last time I had good alcohol. Eventually I open the keg and poured me a full pint of it in the cup and took a sip.

Perfect. Simply perfect.

The cider had the sweet taste of apples that were grown on Applejack’s farm and the sweet taste almost completely overpowered the alcohol’s taste. I then downed the first cup and filled me another and did the same to it until I eventually got to my fifth mug and decided that I was good enough to start dancing.

“Alright Pinkie! Let’s dance!” I almost shouted as I walked over to her feeling slightly buzzed.

Meanwhile with Twilight

“Alright Pinkie! Let’s dance!” the shout coming from Zekeal that made Twilight’s head turn towards him. She saw him trying to dance, and keyword is ‘trying’, and completely failing at it. Although it didn’t seem he cared too much.

“For a wizard he is really lax about his appearance and the way he dances,” commented Applejack.

“Yeah, but he seems to be having fun it would seem.” Twilight replied “Also have any of you seen Rarity or Fluttershy yet?”

Before Applejack could reply a voice catches the attention of both mares coming from the door.

“If you are wondering about Fluttershy darling I’m afraid that she won’t be able to make it,” Rarity says as she walks through the destroyed opening of the door over to Twilight and Applejack “And just what happened to your library door?”

Twilight’s eyes widened a little concerned about her friend Fluttershy and asked “Is she alright Rarity? Is she in any trouble?”

“No darling it is nothing serious she just said that her animals were acting strange all day so she decided to look after them instead of joining us tonight,” Rarity replied back “But she said she would come visit some time tomorrow.”

Twilight sighed with relief and smiled “That’s a relief, although why were her animals acting strange?”

“She said she had no idea darling just that something must have spooked them.” Rarity replied.

“Hmmm maybe it could be Timber wolves in the Everfree what do you think Twilight?” Applejack comments while motioning to Twilight.

Twilight thought for a second and says “Well that is a possibility Applejack, but let’s not dwell too much on this subject we should be enjoying ourselves.

The two other mares nodded in approval and proceeded to enjoy the rest of the party that was going on.

The party went on late into the night with fun and merriment although it wasn’t long until everypony began leaving and heading back home exhausted and content from this evening’s festivities.

“Alright so long everypony I hope you all had a wonderful time,” Twilight said to the last of the ponies that were leaving the party.

Once the last few party guests left she levitated the broken door and fitted it back into place in its doorway the best she could. She would have to get it fixed later on tomorrow.

Twilight turned around looked around the place. It was a complete mess. And in the center of it all laid Zekeal completely passed out from after consuming about twenty-one pints of hard cider in one night. He still had the strength to hold the empty cup he was using for his hard cider. Twilight just shook her head at Zekeal’s current state and levitated him up with her magic and laid him on the couch while putting a blanket over him.

“Sweet dreams Zekeal see you in the morning,” Twilight says to the sleeping wizard and proceeded to make her way upstairs to turn in for the night as well.

….Dammit why do I feel cold?

My eyes shoot open only to be staring at a gray sky. I could feel the cold grass beneath me. Just where the hell did I end up? Wasn’t I just at a party at Twilight’s library?

I slowly sat up and looked around to see that I was right beside a dark forest. I tried peering through it, but I couldn’t see more than at most three yards.

Something didn’t feel right about this forest and for some reason I feel drawn towards it.

I stood up and began walking into the forest heeding its call.

After some time of walking in the forest a familiar feeling began coming over me: A sense of dread.

Oh wait now I get it. This is all just a bad dream caused by the cider I had. I just had too many drinks that’s all there is to it. Now then time to dream of something else right about… now.

Everything around me stayed the same.

…Right now.

Everything remained the same still.

…Ok I’ll play along with your little game my subconscious. Let’s see where you’ll lead me in this dream then.

So I kept walking down towards the path towards where I was being drawn towards and as I pressed onwards the scenery around me progressively became darker and more threatening. I knew things were about to come to a climax for this dream or maybe I should now start calling it a nightmare instead, but beside the point I would get my answer one way or another.

After what seemed like another hour of walking I finally came upon a large cave opening where I could feel a large concentration of dread coming from it. This must be the place.

“Step one, walk down the forest path,” came a mysterious voice from out of nowhere.

I jumped slightly at this voice and opened my mouth to question this new voice that entered my mind, but no words came out of my mouth and left me mute. This was troubling.

“Step two, press forward through the unyielding dread,” the mysterious voice said counting off the things I did before coming to this cave.

I didn’t really notice at first, but the scenery around me slowly turned into a pitch black void around me excluding the cave that was in front of me and the ground around me.

“Step three, when you reach the cave call upon the evils that it holds,” says the voice.

I grimaced slightly at this, because I knew what the ‘call’ the voice was mentioning of was. It was actually a ‘monster summoning call’ that we wizards use to summon monsters from caves to destroy them, but since I couldn’t say anything in my mute state there was no way that I was going to say-

“Come forth creatures of dread, come forth beings of darkness, come and face your demise at my hands!” I said.

I covered my mouth in surprise trying to understand what just happened and how I could now speak, but was cut short by the mysterious voice again.

“Step four…,” the voice began and paused for a moment.

During said moment I noticed movement coming from the cave and a large black cloud slowly moved out from the mouth of the cave and slowly surrounded me on this little sliver of land in this dark void that I had left to stand on.

My frown only deepened on my face and I thought to myself ‘Why can’t I just get a straight answer from my dreams and not unfinished riddles?’

The cloud then moved forwards towards me at a fast past and quickly swallowed me up.

Just before everything went black, the voice from before finished with “…become responsible for the seeds you have sown.”

Ponyville Library
7:17 A.M.

My eyes shot open and I quickly sat myself up on the couch and looked around the room in a quick manner as if I was looking for something. Of course this was a terrible idea.

I then felt a sharp pain in my head and I clasp my hands over it and begin massaging my temples trying to lessen the pain.

“Ugh hangovers suck,” I said in my tired and pained state.

I slowly got myself and began making my way towards a still standing table from last night’s party that had a punch bowl, which still had some punch in it, on top of it. Once I reached the table I grabbed the bowl by the sides and began pouring the punch straight into my mouth in hopes of it to relieve my migraine. It only helped a little.

I set down the bowl back onto the table and decided I should get some fresh air, hopefully that’ll clear up my migraine. I then grabbed a piece of paper and a quill and began writing down a note, in sloppy Equestrian mind you, to Twilight that I was going out for some fresh air and if she wondered where I was or needed for something to just look around and ask other ponies if they saw where I went.

Once finished I placed it on the couch where I was once sleeping and made my way towards the door and grabbed the handle. When I pulled on it the door almost popped out of place and I quickly remembered what happened to the door from last night due to Pinkie’s antics. So I quickly stepped out side and fitted the broken door back into its place in the doorway, not fixed but at least it’ll be presentable.

I turned around and then thought about walking down a path outside of Ponyville to help relieve my migraine, only this time not towards Applejack’s apple orchard. As I walked through Ponyville some of the ponies were already out and about heading for work or running errands. Whenever I passed one I gave a short wave and they would give me a nod or a wave back as well. I looked up at the sky and saw that there were no clouds in the sky; today was shaping up to be a very nice day… even if the light around me is hurting my eyes.

After leaving Ponyville I followed the dirt path for a few minutes until I eventually came across another tree house, almost like Twilight’s library, that the road came up to and stopped at. Around the tree house there were chicken coops and other animal homes all around it. So this must be like a zoo or something I thought to myself.

The area surrounding the tree consisted of open patches of grass and a forest right next to it. I looked towards the forest and saw I small path leading into it. And why am I suddenly getting this tingling feeling in the back of my head when I’m looking at it?

I shrugged off the feeling and decided to pay whoever owned this house a visit, but I proceeded with caution, because anyone who lives this far out of Ponyville probably has never even seen me just yet. Don’t want to startle the pony who owns this home too much.

When I got to the door of the tree house I knocked on it. There then came a quiet, soft voice “B-be there in a second.” After a moment or two the door opens slowly revealing the owner of the tree house, a yellow Pegasus pony with pink hair. She quickly let out a soft gasp when she got a good look at me wide eyed and asked me in a timid tone “W-who are you? A-are you by chance the creature everyone was talking about in Ponyville?”

Well at least she has heard of me. I nod to her and say “Yes I am that creature.”

“O-ok then that means you are living with T-Twilight right?” she says while not trying to make eye contact.

I nod to her again “Yes I am living with Twilight.”

“Oh ok w-well would you mind if I ask for your name. I-I mean if that’s ok with you that is if you want to tell me your name.” She says while kicking the dirt with her hoof.

“My name is Zekeal, Zekeal Grendale. And if I may ask for your name miss?” I ask her.

“M-my name is Fluttershy.” She said so quietly I couldn’t hear her.

“Um can you say that again miss I didn’t quite catch that.”

“M-my name is Fluttershy.” She says again a little louder, but still quietly.

I thought about what her name sounded like and asked her “Is your name is Fluttershy, miss?”

Fluttershy nodded while she kept from making eye contact with me. Well her name does suit her very well.

“Well it’s a pleasure of meeting with you Fluttershy,” I told her with a smile, but was quickly turned into a frown when my migraine returned.

Fluttershy took notice of my pain and asked me “U-Um are you alright Zekeal?”

“Yeah I’m fine I just got this bad hangover from the party last night.” I told her while I rubbed my temples on my head.

“Oh you poor thing, please come inside and let me help you with that,” Fluttershy told me in a caring tone of voice.

“No, no I’m ok I just need some fresh air is all,” I say to her.

“No I insist, please come in and letter Doctor Fluttershy take care of you,” she says with a smile on her face and her shy demeanor gone from her face as well.

I couldn’t say no. Even if I wanted too her smile is just too adorable! How could I say no to a face like that? So I caved in and accepted her offer by giving her a short nod and stepping into her home.

Inside her home it looked even more than a zoo than the outside did. There were many other woodland creatures all over the place ranging from birds to squirrels to mice and other rodents.

I walked into the living room and settled down on the couch that was in there. I then turned my attention back to Fluttershy as she began making her way into another room of her home.

“I’ll be back in a little while with a little something to help you with that hangover Zekeal,” Fluttershy told me as she disappeared into the other room.

I sat there on the couch for a few minutes twiddling with my thumbs until I was visited by a white rabbit that hopped onto the table in front of me. It had a scowl on its face.

“Uh hi?” I said to it while getting slightly curious as to why and how this rabbit was scowling at me.

It then began tapping its foot on the table and kept scowling at me as if he was trying to say “Why the hell are you in my home?”

We kept awkwardly staring at each other for the next couple of minutes until eventually Fluttershy came trotting out of the room she went into with a tray of tea and teacups on her back.

“Sorry it took so long Zekeal,” Fluttershy said to me as she saw the rabbit on the table “Oh I see you met Angel I hope you had a nice little discussion when I was gone.”

A nice little discussion doesn’t even come close to what my experience with this rabbit really was. It felt more like we were about to duel each other.

The rabbit then hopped over to Fluttershy and pulled the tray off of Fluttershy’s back and placed it on the table. This rabbit has pretty amazing strength to be able to lift something weighing that much.

“Thank you Angel and if you could pour this nice creature some tea as well,” Fluttershy asked Angel.

Angel looked at her as if she was crazy or something while shaking his head.

“Oh please Angel do this for me I’ll promise you extra carrots for tonight,” Fluttershy tried to bribe him into doing it and amazingly it worked.

Angel picked up the tea kettle and poured it into one of the teacups and set it back down and looked at me with the same angry scowl while he tapped his foot on the table impatiently. So I quickly picked up the teacup and took a long sip from it. Almost instantly I began to feel my migraines slowly go away.

“Thanks Fluttershy and if I may I ask what you put in this tea,” I asked her after taking another sip.

Fluttershy then says “Oh just some medicinal herbs that help with headaches and other herbs that help relax the body.”

“Well I can confirm that the herbs are definitely working their magic on me,” I told her as I set down my cup “So what exactly do you do here in Ponyville Fluttershy? Are you like an animal caretaker?”

“Well yes I am Zekeal I have always loved taking care of animals ever since I was a little filly and it’s the reason I have my cutie mark,” she says while showing her cutie mark to me.

“Hmmm is that so? Well that would explain why you’re so kind to me,” I told her with a smile on my face.

“Y-yeah I just feel so bad for a creature who was in pain or any kind of distress that I just have to help them in some way, it has grown to be more of a maternal instinct for me now-in-days,” Fluttershy says to me “Even if I can be quite shy most of the time.”

“Well it suits you just fine, the maternal instincts I mean, it just shows you are a good individual,” I say to her trying to help boost her confidence.

“Thanks Zekeal that’s very nice of you, I wish I could say the same thing to you, but I don’t really know much about you,” Fluttershy says with a hint of happiness in her voice.

I chuckle under my breath and say “Well I am not really that much of a good individual like you Fluttershy, but thanks for the compliment either way.”

“But you seem like a nice guy Zekeal what could you have done that would not make you a good individual? I’m sorry if I sounded prying.” Fluttershy asks me curiously.

“No, I don’t mind you for prying for answers Fluttershy I am about the same at trying to find answers for I am a wizard,” I said as I make a gem appear in my hand.

“Wow so you can do magic Zekeal?” she said excitedly in a quiet voice.

“Yes Fluttershy I can do magic, but my magic is used more for… self-defense from where I’m from,” I told her.

“Oh so you use it to d-defend yourself from something that is trying to a-attack you?” Fluttershy asks me noticeably getting more worried.

“Yes, but I tried not to go looking for trouble back where I was from.” I told her reassuringly “Sorry if I started to make you scared.”

“No, no I understand it’s sort of the same way here especially inside the Everfree forest,” Fluttershy says to me.

“Oh by the way is the Everfree forest the forest right next to your home by chance?” I asked her with a curious glance.

“Yes actually it is Zekeal,” Fluttershy answers my question.

“Well can I ask you what goes on in the Everfree and how it ended up getting a name for it?” I asked her.

“Well the Everfree forest is in my opinion a very scary place due to the fact that most of the animals that roam inside there are usually very dangerous if provoked, but during the day I usually go into it to find herbs that I can use for some of my animal friends,” she began explaining “But the reason the forest has a name is mostly because it is such a mysterious and weird forest or in other words it is not like the area surrounding it.”

“So the Everfree forest is like the complete opposite of Equestria?” I asked her trying to find a short answer.

“Well sort of, it is still like Equestria just darker and more dangerous,” Fluttershy says to me.

“Hmmm is that so? Well I saw a path leading into the forest and was planning on taking it to explore the forest, would that be ok?” I asked Fluttershy.

“Wait you want to go exploring in the Everfree? By yourself? I don’t think that is such a good idea Zekeal, why don’t you stay here and have some more tea?” Fluttershy said to me worriedly.

“I appreciate your concern Fluttershy, but I really want to go exploring this forest.” I told her “Don’t worry I am an adult I can take care of myself.”

Fluttershy looked up at me worryingly and said with a sigh “Fine, but please be careful there has been something that has been scaring my animal friends since yesterday and from what I could gather it was coming from the forest. I just don’t want you to get hurt, because I couldn’t stop you from going.”

I then reached my hand over to her and gave her a pat on the head and said “Don’t worry Fluttershy, if I get hurt it’ll be my own fault not yours and thank you for the warning.”

I then got up from the couch and walked towards the door and grabbed the handle and pulled it. As I exited Fluttershy’s home I walked towards the forest and before I began to enter it I turned around and gave Fluttershy, who was now standing in the doorway, a short wave and said “Also if you see Twilight come by tell her I’m in the forest and that I’ll be back before lunch!”

She waved her hoof back at me and said “Sure I’ll do that be careful out there Zekeal.”

I gave one final nod and began walking on the forest path going deeper into the forest ahead.

“Step one completed.”

End of Chapter 7

Hey everybody thanks for taking the time to reading my latest chapter of My Little Gemcraft. I am sorry about not updating the story in a while because due to the fact that I was gagged and bound to a chair by Zekeal and Pinkie Pie for the last three weeks. Luckily I got out in time to finish this chapter today.

Zekeal: That is bull-crap and you know it!

Pinkie Pie: Yeah! Take back what you said you big dumb meanie!

Chill you two my version of what happened over the last three weeks was better than telling the readers that my weekends have been busy and that I had a lot of work for classes during the week so I didn’t have much time on my hands to work on this chapter at least until today.

Zekeal: Well you are right about that especially with this whole “March Madness” that’s been going on that thing you call a television.

Exactly so keep quiet you two. But besides that I would like to say thank you for your patience for this chapter and I promise I’ll try to update as soon as possible. Also any feedback on this chapter is appreciated whether it be continuity errors, grammar errors, or anything of that sort go ahead and post them I’ll check into them. But with that said I guess it is time to sign off.

This has been Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: And Zekeal.

Pinkie Pie: …….

…Uh Pinkie what’s up? You are supposed to say your name.

Pinkie Pie: Not until you say sorry to me about that lie you said about Zekeal and me binding you to a chair with a gag in your mouth.

*sigh* Fine Pinkie I am sorry and I Pinkie Pie promise to never do anything like that again.

Pinkie Pie: Apology accepted!

Anyway let us try this again.

This has been Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: And Zekeal.

Pinkie: And Pinkie Pie!

Signing off check ya’ll later.

Chapter 8

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 8 In the darkness of the Everfree forest, where only a few shreds of light could pierce the canopy of the trees and reach the forest floor, the sounds of the creatures that called the forest their home could be heard amongst the bushes and up in the trees. Most of these creatures that would be making these sounds would not be a threat to most travelers passing through. The only creatures that travelers would have to look out for would be the predators especially the ones that hunt in silence. While most of the predators in the Everfree may be nocturnal hunters with the lack of light in the forest it creates an environment that resembles an endless night. Although today things were quite different in the forest for instance the sound of creatures in the bushes and the trees, there were none. The predators of the Everfree that stalked the forest there were none to be seen. There was only silence. A silence that would feel unnerving to any traveler walking through the forest, in fact a traveler would consider this feeling quite… dreadful. But that is to be expected when entering the Everfree forest that is considered to most of pony kind a strange, mysterious, and dangerous place. But the current traveler that is following the road that goes through the forest is not a pony, but a human wizard who entered this forest out of pure curiosity and an idea that something interesting may be hidden deep within it. But you know what they say: Curiosity killed the cat.

Everfree Forest
9:07 A.M.

I walked down the forest path following it closely so that I wouldn’t get lost in the dense forest around me. Fluttershy was right, this forest had eerie feel to it. Not scary just… strange. Maybe it’s just so different from the rest of Equestria is the reason behind its eeriness. But the forest sort of reminds me of my own dimension’s forests filled with their own dangers.

I continued onwards deeper into the forest and further on the dirt path that guided me. I occasionally looked around me to take notice of some of the flora that grew here and tested a couple to see if they could be made into healing tonics. To my amazement though I found that most of the flora were indeed herbs that could be used in tonics and other useful potions, I guess those herbalist classes that I took for electives back in wizard school are paying off now.

I took a couple of samples of the flora and carefully put them in my pocket for later use if need be and have Twilight help me with the names of these plants. I continued gathering different herbs until I caught sight of a patch of blue flowers off to the side of the road.

“Now what do we have here?” I said to myself as I approached it and crouched down near the blue flowers.

From what I could observe about these blue flowers they strangely resembled the way poison ivy grew back in my dimension. So with that good observation in mind I plucked one of the flowers out by using a little bit of levitating magic and carefully placed it in one of the back pockets of my robe. Hopefully I won’t get a rash on my ass after I get back.

I then stood up and continued my journey down the forest path satisfied with what I have found so far. I wanted to see just how far this path would lead me into the forest and if it even had an exit of some sort on the other side. Although for some reason the tingling I was feeling earlier was now coming back almost ten fold now almost as if it was trying to tell me that maybe I should turn back right now. Was I beginning to fear of what could be lurking in the forest or an untold, hidden secret that should have been forgotten? Either way the feeling was slowly adding anxiety onto my mind and made my blood run faster adding onto my adrenaline that was already running through me making me get a strange sensation in my whole body. The feeling was making me progress down the forest path towards whatever lay ahead of me, whether it is for better or for worse.

Ponyville Library
9:51 A.M.

Twilight Sparkle slowly awoke from her peaceful slumber and looked out the window to see that it was almost midday.

“Oh… seems like that party from last night took more out of me than I thought,” She commented on her situation of waking up late.

She proceeded to get out of bed and made her way downstairs. When she finally got down the stairs and into the main area of the library she noticed something amiss. Not by the fact that the room was a complete mess, but by the fact the couch was now vacant.

“Huh where is Zekeal?” Twilight asked herself as she trotted over to the couch to inspect it more.

The first thing that caught her eye was a note lying on top of the blanket that she laid on Zekeal from last night. She picked it up using her magic and the first thing she noticed about it was that it was scribbled in horrible Equestrian and looked sort of rushed.

Twilight then began reading the note out loud “Went out for fresh air will be back later.”

She stared at the note until eventually she sighs and says “Well this will explain where he is; I hope he took into account that he will be meeting the Princess later on today and won’t be late for it.”

Twilight then laid the note back down on the couch and turned her attention to the mess in the library and began to tidy the place up a little before her assistant Spike woke up. While she was tidying up she noticed the cup that Zekeal used for his alcoholic drinks during the party last night. The one he used for his twenty-one pints of Sweet Apple Acre Hard Cider. Enough that could lead to a very bad case of a hangover.

Twilight blinked a couple of times as a scary thought arose in her mind and she says to herself “On second thought maybe I should make certain he is alright and still remembers that he is meeting the Princess today as well and hopefully not lying in a ditch somewhere.”

Twilight dropped everything she was doing at that moment and quickly trotted over to the door and opened it with her magic. And by open she basically pulled the door from the doorway and placed it to the side. She made another mental note to get that door repaired.

Once she was outside she began trotting towards the center of town and began to ask around if anypony saw Zekeal today and where exactly he was at the moment.

Mean while back at the library a certain purple dragon was slowly getting up from his slumber and tiredly made his way downstairs. The sight of the library after the party from last night that greeted him didn’t really help his tired mood knowing that he will be the one to clean it up.

“Aw horseapples,” Spike said under his breath while face-palming.

Everfree Forest
10:03 A.M.

“Maybe I shouldn’t have strayed off the dirt path that I was on,” I said to myself as I proceeded through the underbrush of the forest.

A little while ago I was walking down a dirt path when suddenly I felt the tingling in my head again only this time stronger than ever. Then I get the strange idea of leaving the forest path and to head deeper into the forest using my own sense of direction. I thought I was going crazy for some reason. Especially when I chose to leave the forest path that I was on in the end.

So here I am walking through the underbrush of the forest almost completely lost. I decided to leave a trail of gems on the ground in case if I do end up getting utterly lost. But hey at least the walking is helping me get over what’s left of my hangover so there is a plus. But there is a minus to it as well since I now have a cloud of dread hanging over me. It has been hanging over me ever since I left the forest path and the tingling in my mind isn’t helping either! Almost feels like I’m back in my world trying to navigate through a forest without a map or a compass and there were monsters about.

I was steadily getting annoyed by the situation that I got myself in and was just about to turn around and head back when I suddenly stumbled and tripped over one of the many roots that were embedded into the ground. This didn’t really help my mood much.

“God dammit! Why did I think going this way was such a good idea!?” I yelled almost at the top of my lungs while picking myself up “There isn’t even anything out here!”

I may have spoken too soon.

I looked up as I picked myself up and what I saw almost made me go pale. What lied in front of me was a small meadow in the forest with a large cave in the center of it. From what I could guess the mouth of the cave was at least twelve feet high and six feet across.

This cave was big enough to hold something in it.

And that something could be possibly dangerous to my health.

I carefully stood up and slowly walked forward carefully as my curiosity got the better of me. I walked forward until I was just outside the edges of the meadow and looked around for any signs of other dangers that I was not aware of.

“Step two complete.”

I jumped suddenly from the voice that I heard. I looked around to see just who or what said that, but there was no being around me. I quickly tried to shrug my jumpiness off.

“My mind must be playing tricks on me or something,” I said to myself. I continued to look around for any signs of a huge beast that might live here. There were none. I sighed with relief and made my way over to the mouth of the cave. I looked inside and saw nothing but a thick blackness.

It is strange how a cave is in the middle of the forest as well as being in the middle of a meadow at the same time. This had fishiness written all over it.

I materialized a yellow Triple Damage gem in my hand and proceeded to throw it as hard as I could into the cave. Using the gem as a light source I noticed that the cave was very large and very deep as I saw my gem begin rolling further and further down deep into the cave depths being lost in the blackness. I made the decision of not exploring the cave very quickly.

“I may be curious, but I am not stupid,” I said to myself.

I was about to turn around and head back to the forest path when I felt something that I was not expecting. I felt another being’s presence.

And it felt hostile.

I quickly materialized a gem in my hand and looked all around me searching for where the presence was coming from. I could hear the rustling in the bushes near me and threw the gem-bomb at where the noise was coming from. The gem-bomb promptly explodes on impact, but no sound of a creature in pain or anything for that matter. There was then a rustling noise coming from behind me. I quickly did a turn-around while materializing another gem-bomb and threw it. Again another explosion, but I heard no cry of pain.

I was getting incredibly annoyed by this and I yelled angrily “Dammit! Come forth you damned creature, come forth you annoying being, come forth and face your demise by my hands!”

I shouted out a crudely constructed ‘monster summoning call’ to try and bring out the being that was hiding and/or messing with me.

After my shout there was a sudden silence. I could tell the being must have heard me. Maybe it’ll finally come out of hiding.

And boy did it.

I then heard the sound of ground and dirt shifting to my right and I tried to turn to see what it was when suddenly something erupted from the ground. I quickly covered my face to block the dirt that was flying at me, but suddenly changed when something pounced on top of me and slammed me into the ground knocking the breath out of me.

I kept covering my face when I hit the ground fearing for the worse to happen whether it is my body getting torn apart, my head being ripped off, or some other horrible death. But to my surprise it never came.

Instead of pain the creature was more or less rummaging through my wizard’s cloak. As if it was searching for something.

“Where is the pretty, shiny gems!?” came a somewhat hoarse, raspy voice “I swear I saw creature holding a shiny gem not too long ago!”

I moved my arms from my face and looked at what just tackled me. What I saw reminded me of a dog, but it was humanoid.

“Where!? Where is they!? There is only plants in these pockets!” the voice of the humanoid dog says as it proceeded to search through the rest of my cloak. While also pulling the herbs that I gathered from the forest and throwing them to the sides.

That made me mad.

“Get the hell off of me!” I yelled as I kicked the humanoid dog off of me, not a very strong kick, but still enough to get it off of me.

With a yelp the humanoid dog hit the ground only about two feet away from me and I quickly got up and materialized a gem in my hand.

“Just what are you and what do you want with me?” I told it while threatening to throw a gem-bomb at the dog.

The creature slowly got up and looked at me slightly annoyed at my actions, but reluctantly says “I am a Diamond Dog! I like gems! I search for gems! I take gems! I steal gems from ponies and other creatures like you!”

I stared at the Diamond dog wondering whether or not it was a good idea to kill him or not. On one hand it is trying to steal from me, but at the same time I don’t want to get into a fight that I could avoid and who knows if there are others like it. So I decided to try to outsmart it.

“Alright you see this gem that I have in my hand?” I asked it while holding out the gem I already materialized.

The diamond dog nodded its head quickly and says “Yes, you used gems like that to attack me! But I don’t want gems that go boom!”

“Don’t worry the only reason the gems exploded was that I made them explode by using magic,” I began lying to the diamond dog “Without magic they are just ordinary gems.”

The diamond dog took a minute to process just what it was just told. It looked like it basically understood what I said.

“So… no magic, no boom?” It asks me.

Keywords ‘basically understood’.

With a sigh I say “Yes and there are a ton of them in that cave over there where I threw the yellow gem. It is sort of my stash of gems.”

I pointed towards the cave where I threw my gem into from before and I then say “And you can have every single one of them if you let me leave in peace.”

The diamond dog looked over at the cave and looked back with squinted eyes at me while scowling and says “How do I know that this is not some trick!? You remind me of ponies and they are very tricky! Especially those who attack me!”

Great this being is not as dumb as I thought. Time for a quick changeup.

“Listen how about this then,” I began to say while I slowly materialized ten grade one gems behind my back “How about I give you these gems as a sign of my trust.”

I then show the diamond dog the gems I just materialized behind my back in a nice little pile in my arms.

The diamond dog’s eyes were almost the size of saucers.

“Wow! Such big gems! Me like! Me like a lot!” the diamond dog says while snatching them all out of my hands.

“Now will you let me leave?” I ask the diamond dog with a hint of annoyance.

“Sure, sure go ahead I don’t care. But gems in cave are still mine! All mine!” the diamond dog shouts to me as it heads towards the maw of the cave and enters it with the gems I gave it still in its arms. It quickly disappeared into the darkness of the cave.

I quickly sigh in relief as the diamond dog disappeared from my sight.

“Good riddance,” I said to myself.

Then as I turned around to head back to the forest path when I say under my breath without really thinking “Come forth creatures of dread, come forth beings of darkness, come and face your demise at my hands.”

I blinked twice at what I just whispered under my breath. Now why would I say a monster call right now? There were no monsters around here in fact there should be no monsters here period. Maybe I am just still a little tired from the party last night and my mind’s just playing tricks on me. Today is just a weird day for me, thats all.

“Step three complete.”

…A very weird day.

Meanwhile underground a certain diamond dog was stumbling around in the dark trying to find a nonexistent treasure in the dark.

“Gems, gems, gems! Now where are those gems that creature said was down here!?” the diamond dog asked himself while looking around eagerly.

Using his sharp eyes he quickly scanned the area around him. With his eyes already used to underground travel it was easy to see almost everything around him.

There was nothing except for one lone yellow glowing gem in the darkness.

“What!? But that creature said there were many gems down here! He lied!” the diamond dog shouted while throwing the gems he was already carrying to the ground.

“Grrrr. When I get out of here I’ll make him slave and make him dig for gems! No one tricks a diamond dog and gets away with it!” the diamond dog rants in the darkness. Although during his rant he didn’t notice the scurrying sound in the darkness and it was slowly getting louder.

Then suddenly just outside the ring of light the gem casted another creature entered the light of the yellow gem. It looked like an overgrown bug just barely the size of a chicken. It had what looked like a blue carapace, but with the radiance that was giving off from the yellow gem the carapace looked green. The creature slowly crept its way towards the gem as if it was drawn to it. Once the creature neared the gem it suddenly went into frenzy and began attacking it.

This scene drew the attention of the diamond dog as he looked at it and began growing annoyed by the creature attacking his gems.

“Shoo! Go away you little beetle! These are my gems!” The diamond dog shouted as he then kicked the creature away a couple of feet.

When the creature recovered from the attack it quickly scurried away back into the darkness not to be seen again. Then a new sound began to resonate through the cave. The slow shifting, sliding sound of something incredibly huge.

The diamond dog’s ears perked up at this as he squinted to see just what was making that sound in the darkness. He soon got his answer.

Just outside of the yellow gem’s light source a mammoth of a beast was slowly sliding itself towards the gem. It looked like a giant mass of tentacles and most of its body was blood red. The diamond dog couldn’t even see the face of the new creature with the amount of tentacles it had, but was slowly starting to fear for his own safety after this new development.

“W-what are you?” the diamond dog says noticeably more scared.

The tentacle creature responded by raising one of its big, long tentacles up high into the air and proceeded to bring it down quickly.

“NO DON’T!” the diamond dog shouted for his life as he rose his hands up in order to defend himself even though it wouldn’t help him.

*SMASH!*

The tentacle came down just mere inches away from the diamond dog while crushing only the gems that the diamond dog dropped.

The diamond dog slowly opened his eyes and began to whimper at the fact that he was almost just crushed.

The tentacle beast then began to slowly turn away from the diamond dog and began to slowly drag itself towards the entrance of the cave almost as if it was following a scent path almost like a hunting dog.

The diamond dog was growing more and more confused by the moment. He had so many questions inside his head that he felt like his head was about to burst. But the questions would have to wait as he began to notice that all around him there was movement going on.

Creatures of all shapes and colors slowly arose from the ground and began making their way towards the exit as well.

The diamond dog quickly began hugging the side of the wall for dear life hoping that he would not get swept away by the crowd of creatures that were exiting the cave while not trying to get trampled in the process.

It wouldn’t take long for the creatures to reach the exit of the cave and begin leaving. The smaller creatures that got outside were able to maneuver through the forest with ease while the larger ones had to begin uprooting trees to create a path for themselves. All hell bent on getting somewhere and fast.

After a while the diamond dog was able to exit the cave without getting trampled by some of the larger creatures. The first thing he noticed while exiting was that the creatures were all heading in what looked to be a certain direction. A direction that would take them close to Ponyville.

“Forget this. Gems not worth getting trampled for. Ponies problem now.” Says the diamond dog and with that said he turned around and left the meadow.

Fluttershy’s Cottage
11:28 A.M.

Twilight spent most of the morning trying to find Zekeal and from what some of the ponies in town said he was heading towards Fluttershy’s cottage. Twilight made the choice of heading over to Fluttershy’s to ask her if she has seen Zekeal or not. Then this scene happened.

“HE DID WHAT!?” came the shout of Twilight Sparkle as she stood mouth agape at a now cowering Fluttershy.

“Y-yeah I-I tried to s-stop him Twi-Twilight, but he said h-he would be fine.” Fluttershy said in a timid tone “So I c-chose to let him go on his own. Please don’t be mad at me.”

Twilight sighed with a hint of annoyance in it and says “No Fluttershy I’m not mad at you, but I am annoyed at Zekeal for not taking a guide with him. The Everfree forest is a dangerous place for anypony.”

“Yes I know Twilight, I told Zekeal of all the dangers the forest has, but he still said he would be fine. He must be very brave.” Fluttershy says.

“Either that or he is just too curious for his own good,” Twilight comments.

Twilight then trotted over to one of the windows in the cottage and looked out towards the dark forest. Fluttershy then trots over to her as well and says “J-just why were you looking for Zekeal in the first place Twilight?”

Twilight looks over at Fluttershy and says “Well today the Princess said that she would visit Ponyville and meet Zekeal for the first time and I thought Zekeal forgot about it. But right now I just don’t want to end up explaining to the Princess on how Zekeal was eaten by a hydra or something.”

“Oh…my…” Fluttershy says wide eyed at Twilight’s dark comment “That would be very… hard to explain.”

Twilight nodded her head while looking back out at the forest.

“Well Twilight wpi;d you care for some tea? It’ll probably calm your nerves down a little. That is if you want any.” Fluttershy says to her.

Twilight turned her head again and says with a small smile barely able to hide her anxiety “Yes some tea would do me some good. Thank you Fluttershy.”

“No problem Twilight,” Fluttershy says as she goes into the kitchen area.

Twilight then looks back outside and something catches her eyes.

Coming out of the forest was none other than Zekeal himself.

I managed to follow the forest path back towards Fluttershy’s cottage with relative easy and pretty quickly to boot. The only problem that I am currently facing now is my hunger.

*growl*

Maybe skipping breakfast was a bad idea.

Although it wasn’t long before I got out of the forest and Fluttershy’s cottage was in my sights. I made the decision of going over there first to see if she had anything to curb my appetite for a while.

But it would seem asking Fluttershy for food would have to wait for a bit.

“Zekeal! Why did you go into the Everfree Forest without warning me first?” said the voice of Twilight Sparkle.

I looked back towards Fluttershy’s cottage and in the doorway stood Twilight. She wore a face of disapproval and worry.

I chuckled nervously and said under my breath “Guess I’m sort of in trouble now…”

Slowly I began walking towards Fluttershy’s cottage while scratching the back of my head and wearing the face of a kid who is about to get scolded.

Once I got up to the doorway and in front of Twilight I say to her “Sorry about that Twilight, guess I should have told you, but I got a little too curious you know.”

Twilight shook her head “I understand your desire to learn Zekeal, but please warn me before you do those kinds of things; I just don’t want to see you get hurt or even worse.”

“I understand your concern for me Twilight, but I can take care of myself,” I say to her with an apologetic face “But from now on I promise that if I try to do anything that might be dangerous I’ll ask you first to see if it’s alright.”

Twilight sighs “Thank you Zekeal and I apologize if I’m acting a little… over-the-top.”

“No problem Twilight and instead how about if we just say it was just poor planning on both of our parts?” I asked her with a small smile on my face.

Twilight giggled a little “Yeah maybe it was poor planning on both of our ends.”

We stood there for a moment or two enjoying each others company until Twilight breaks the silence.

“So… did you forget what today is?” Twilight asks.

I thought for a moment. Then another moment. Then another until eventually:

“What was today supposed to be again?” I ask her.

Twilight facehoofed and says “You are supposed to be meeting the Princess today.”

My mind suddenly remembered and I proceed to say “Oh yeah, yeah I was supposed to meet her today wasn’t I? I guess my memory got away from me during last night’s party.”

Twilight shook her head “Well you’re really in luck then, she hasn’t arrived yet so we still got time.”

“That’s good so what do we do until then?” I ask her.

Almost as if on cue we hear the voice of Fluttershy call out “Twilight! The tea is ready!”

Twilight turns her head towards the cottage and says “Well we could have some more tea until then.”

“That sounds lovely,” I say to her and soon after my stomach begins grumbling again “Also do you think she has any spare apples or bread I could eat to help curb my hunger?”

Twilight giggles a little “She should have something to your liking hopefully.”

Twilight then begins trotting over towards the cottage and with me following close behind her. But not before looking up at the sky towards the forest. What I saw sort of made me a little depressed.

‘It looks like it’s going to rain,’ I say to myself as I watched gray clouds begin forming over the forest ‘Oh well it’s only a little rain right? No sense in worrying too much.’

I pushed the thought of the rain aside and made my way towards Fluttershy’s cottage.

Little did I know there was a terrible storm brewing in the forest.

End of Chapter 8

Hello readers I really hoped you enjoyed this chapter in my series and if not well don’t be afraid to tell me your opinions about it. Also any errors I may have missed in the story please voice them to me it will be greatly appreciated.

Zekeal: Hey Registered can we add a romance tag to this story? Its bound to get more views!

No Zekeal that is a terrible idea. I can barely do romance at ALL and to add on to that a human x pony fanfic is sort of frowned upon here. That is if it’s done horribly.

Zekeal: Well if that’s the case then I’ll add the tag myself! Pinkie Pie! Can you come over here for a second?

Pinkie Pie: Sure Zekeal what is it you want me for? *bounces over to Zekeal*

Zekeal: Pinkie Pie… *gets on one knee and holds one of Pinkie Pie’s front hooves* I have always lov-

OH NO YOU DON’T! *grabs Zekeal by the collar of his cloak and throws him into the 4th wall while managing breaking it… again*

Pinkie Pie: Huh? What was he about to say?

Nothing Pinkie Pie it’s best for you not to hear what he wanted to try and say. Anyway best start wrapping this up now.

This has been Registered Anonymous.

Zekeal: *very weakly* Zekeal… ow.

Pinkie Pie: And Pinkie Pie!

Signing off check ya’ll later.

Chapter 9

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 9

Fluttershy’s cottage
11:46A.M.

“Thank you Fluttershy for letting me have something to eat,” I said to Fluttershy as I stuffed my face full of a loaf of bread “I promise I’ll pay you back eventually.”

“N-no you don’t have to pay me back Zekeal. Just the fact that you came back safely is enough for me.” Fluttershy says to me kindly.

“But I don’t want to take advantage over your kindness Fluttershy.” I reply back insisting on paying her back.

“N-no Zekeal it is fine. You are not taking advantage of me I’m just doing what I normally do around other ponies and animals.” Fluttershy explains back to me.

I sigh and finally break down “Fine if you insist Fluttershy I’ll not pay you back. But I want to say again thank you for the food.”

“No problem Zekeal.” Fluttershy smiles at me. Her smile made me feel good on the inside almost like when a mother smiles at her child.

I quickly ate two loaves of bread in a span of five minutes as well as drinking almost half of the teapot. The two ponies were almost gawking at my eating habits during the time.

“Um do humans always eat like this?” Twilight asks me with an eyebrow raised.

I shook my head “No, but skipping breakfast is probably the reason why I am eating like this.”

Both ponies nodded slowly as I grabbed another loaf of bread and began eating it. Even though I am only eating bread, but it beats what I usually got in taverns or at the marketplace back in my own dimension which consisted mostly of cabbage stew.

“S-so Zekeal um what did you do in the Everfree Forest? Did you find anything of interest?” Twilight asks me still slightly disturbed as I practically inhaled the piece of bread into my mouth.

I took a quick sip of tea and began explaining “Well I did find a lot of flora in fact and took samples. In fact I found this strange blue flower in the forest.”

Twilight and Fluttershy suddenly give me a look of concern and Twilight says “Uh by chance was this blue flower one of many of where you found it by chance?”

“Actually yes it was. In fact I have it right here.” I said as I pulled out the blue flower from my pocket using my levitating magic.

Twilight and Fluttershy suddenly gasp once they got a good view of the plant.

Twilight then says quickly “Zekeal that is Poison Joke! Don’t tell me you picked that up using your hands!”

I shook my head “No Twilight I didn’t pick it up with my hands. I used by levitating magic and placed it in my pocket.”

“So none of it touched your body?” Twilight says.

“No none what so ever, but if I may ask why is this flower such a big deal? Would I just get a bad rash on my ass from it?” I asked jokingly.

Twilight facehoofed “No Zekeal you would not get a rash on your posterior, but instead you will get some strange side effects. Like your voice growing deep, a swollen tongue making everything you say into gibberish, or turning you into the size of a hummingbird.”

“Those don’t sound like very serious side effects, more like practical pranks with the use of some magic,” I replied back to Twilight.

“Hence the name ‘Poison Joke’,” Twilight comments

“Right, but that hardly seems harmful,” I began saying before Twilight interrupted me.

“I lost my ability to cast spells once due to walking through a patch of Poison Joke Zekeal.”

I blinked twice and looked back at the flower floating in front of me. Then back to Twilight. And back at the flower. Then back to her. Until I finally say “Well if that’s the case then I have no need for this then.”

I then threw the flower out an open window in the cottage using my magic. Losing the ability to use magic? I don’t think so.

I then turn my attention back to them and say “Well besides finding different kinds of flora in the forest I didn’t really see much of wildlife in there.”

“Really?” asked Fluttershy “B-but that can’t be right there should be a multitude of creatures in the Everfree.”

“Well there weren’t any when I entered and traveled through although I did meet something called a Diamond dog in there,” I replied back.
Both Twilight and Fluttershy’s eyes grew wide after I said the part about the diamond dog.

“A-a diamond d-dog?!” Fluttershy stuttered “H-how did you m-meet with a diamond dog?”

“Well ‘meet’ would not be a good choice of words for the situation I was in,” I began explaining “More like ‘nearly getting robbed from’ would be a better substitute.”

It was Twilight’s turn to talk “The diamond dog didn’t hurt you or anything right?”

“No he just pounced on top of me and went rummaging through my robes trying to find gems,” I answered back “More specifically the gems that I can create using magic.”

“O-oh my… so how did you get away from him? The last time I met a diamond dog they were very mean,” Fluttershy asked.

“Well they may seem mean, but they must be incredibly dumb,” I replied back “I just outsmarted him.”

“And how did you do that?” asked Twilight.

“I gave him a couple of gems and told him that there were more in a nearby cave,” I said to her while smiling “And best part is he believed me! What an idiot!”

“T-that’s not very nice Zekeal,” Fluttershy says with a sterner look on her face “What if some sort of big dangerous animal was sleeping in that cave?”

“Don’t worry,” I replied to her “The cave was as dead as a tomb and why are you worrying so much about a creature that you said was supposed to be very mean.”

Fluttershy then replies “Every living thing should be treated with kindness even if they are mean. At least that’s what I believe in.”

I looked at the yellow Pegasus and replied back “Well he was in my way from continuing my peaceful life and returning back to your cottage. And if something is in my path that’s blocking me, I’ll have no other choice, but to push it out of the way whether it be man, pony, or beast. That is what I believe in Fluttershy.”

“But won’t that choice of path just create more conflicts for you along the way?” Fluttershy began “Don’t you choose more peaceful paths?”

“Yes and I did it with the diamond dog back in the forest,” I started to say while starting to grow weary from this discussion about morals “I chose to bribe him in a peaceful manner instead of causing him to be severely injured or even killed by my magic!”

After my comment the room became suddenly quiet for some time.

Maybe I should have chosen my words more carefully.

“You t-thought of try-trying to k-kill him?” Fluttershy started to stutter with a hint of fear about her.

I stared at the Pegasus and saw that she looked like she was almost on the verge of tears. She must be the most innocent pony I have met in my entire time here.

I sighed a little while scratching the back of my head and said “Yes, yes I did think of causing him harm, but you have to understand Fluttershy not all conflicts can be solved using kindness and friendship especially from where I come from. I just confronted the problem with the ways I learned how to deal with them back in my world. So please understand I don’t enjoy conflicts more than any other person or pony and I don’t enjoy killing other living beings unless I really need to. So please forgive me if I sounded a little extreme just then.”

Fluttershy remained quiet for a while and says “N-no need to apologize. I now understand why you acted like you did. It was just a little unsettling for me thats all.”

I nodded to her “Thank you Fluttershy.”

I then reached out to give her a pat on the head when suddenly I felt a disturbance.

How is this possible?

“Uh Zekeal are you alright?” Twilight asks.

Why here why now?

I quickly got up from where I was sitting and quickly made my way for the door of the cottage.

Why is this happening?

“Zekeal where are you going?” Fluttershy asks “Is something wrong?”

Just how the hell did ‘they’ get here!?

I looked out towards the forest and began fearing more and more. Twilight and Fluttershy were now outside wondering and asking what was the matter with me. I ignored them and kept looking on into the forest until eventually…

“Towers arise!” I shouted as two towers of stone suddenly appeared just beside me and the two ponies.

Twilight and Fluttershy were startled by my sudden outburst especially when the two towers arose.

“Z-Zekeal! What in the name of Equestria are you doing?!” Twilight exclaims.

“Twilight I need you and Fluttershy to go into town and warn all the townsfolk to go into their houses and hide!” I tell her while materializing two gems in both of my hands.

Twilight looked at me confusedly and says “W-what do you mean? What is going on? Is there something you are not telling us?!”

“Listen Twilight we don’t have much time,” I said as I levitated both gems and placed them in the towers “Your town is about to come under attack.”

“By what?” Twilight asks.

“Your town is about to get attacked by monsters Twilight,” I told her while forming another gem in my hand.

“Huh? B-but there are no such things as monsters Zekeal,” Fluttershy says.

Almost right after Fluttershy says that twenty different creatures came rushing out of the forest almost like a pack of wolves. Only these creatures looked more like large version of centipedes with orange carapaces.

“Dammit too late!” I yell as I charged up the gem in my hand turning it into a gembomb and threw it at the group of creatures taking out about half of them creating a big cloud of black and orange ash. The ones that survived were taken down by the magical orbs that were shot from the gem towers.

During the time Fluttershy and Twilight could only gasp at what exited from the forest. Fluttershy then states with a tone of fear in her voice “W-what w-were those creatures? I n-never seen anything l-like them b-before…”

Twilight on the other-hoof knew or at least could guess just what those ‘things’ were.

“Zekeal? Those creatures you just destroyed… were they the monsters you told me about? The ones from your world?” Twilight asks me with a worried tone.

I turn to her with a frown of disappointment on my face and told her in a more calm tone “Yes Twilight, and that is why I need you to go warn everyone in town. There will be more of them coming and I don’t want others getting caught in the crossfire when the monsters reach the town.”

“But wouldn’t you be able to hold them off right here?” Twilight asks me.

“Sorry, but if I tried holding off the monsters from this position I would be quickly overwhelmed. I’m sorry Twilight, but I have to ask if I could use your library and your town for this fight.” I asked her.

Twilight then says “But what if those monsters break into other ponies’ houses during the fight?”

“Don’t worry these bastards will try to kill only me first before they even try to attack anyone or anypony else.” I reply to her.

She sighs and then says “Fine. But I have two questions that need to be answered. Why are these monsters after you and only you and how did they get here?”

Memories of what happened at the cave entered my mind and how I ended up calling the monsters back then. That would explain why they are coming from the forest, but how they got here was still a little harder to guess. Maybe some monsters got sucked into the banishment spell when I used it on that Shadow bitch. But that still doesn’t explain why there are so many of them. Even if about twenty of them got sucked in, it still would have taken days, even weeks before the monsters could reproduce enough to make a horde this size. Just what made them reproduce so quickly?!

I decided to think about it later since that time was of the essence so I gave Twilight a simple answer “I guess they just don’t like me and my magic and as for how they got here it may have been sort of my fault. I’ll explain later just please go and warn the town!”

“Fine, but I expect a full explanation when this is all over! Come on Fluttershy.” Twilight says as she turns and begins to gallop away.

“A-are you s-sure my animals will be safe Zekeal?” Fluttershy asks me with fear hinting her voice.

I turn to her and gave her a reassuring smile “Don’t worry they’ll be safe I swear it on my life.”

She nods and says “Alright, but please be safe yourself… I wish that there was another way besides hurting these creatures to make them stop attacking.”

Fluttershy then takes off and flies after Twilight.

“Me too Fluttershy, me too.” I reply to her she leaves. I then turn around and looked back at the forest.

“Well it is just you and me you persistent bastards! You just don’t know when to quit don’t you?” I shout towards the forest. Then a new group of monsters slowly began to exit from the forest only this time they are larger, but fewer of them.

I then materialize a gem in one hand and with the other hand I used to create another tower. I then began to charge up the gem for another gembomb.

“Well I have only one thing to say to you and you know what it is?!” I shout at them as I reared back to throw the gembomb “Get the hell outta my way!”

I felt a light rain begin to hit my head as I threw my gembomb straight at the group of monsters in front of me.

On the outskirts of Ponyville the sound of hooves could be heard as Twilight and Fluttershy galloped, or in Fluttershy’s case flew, as fast as their bodies could allow them to go.

“Alright Fluttershy when we get to Ponyville I want you to go and warn as many ponies as you can. I will try to get in contact with the mayor.” Twilight says with urgency.

“Alright Twilight I will,” Fluttershy replies back.

The two ponies continued their way towards Ponyville when another voice catches their attentions.

“Hey Twilight! Fluttershy!”

Twilight and Fluttershy turn their heads towards the voice in the sky to see that the voice belonged to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash then flew lower to the ground and kept pace with Twilight and Fluttershy and asks “What are you guys in a rush for? Is something a matter?”

Twilight looks at her and explains “Yes Rainbow there is something a matter, but I don’t have much time to explain the whole situation.”

“Well if that’s the case what can I do to help?” Rainbow Dash says.

Twilight thought for a moment and then says “Can you tell Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie to meet at the library? I have a feeling that we should have the Elements of Harmony all together just in case.”

“Woah. The situation must be terri-bad then.” Rainbow Dash replies.

“Don’t worry just round up the girls and I’ll explain everything at the library.” Twilight says.

“Sure you can count on me!” Rainbow Dash says as she flies away with a streak of rainbow behind her.

Twilight watched as Rainbow Dash flew away and sighs “I hope we have enough time to warn Ponyville.”

So Twilight and Fluttershy continued their way towards Ponyville and immediately split up to warn the town of the impending danger with Fluttershy warning town ponies and Twilight telling the mayor about the situation. It wasn’t long before all of Ponyville was in an uproar about this sudden turn of events. Most of its citizens went galloping back into their houses, locking doors, and some boarding their windows.

It wasn’t long after all the commotion that the town looked completely deserted. A ghost town if you may. There was an eerie silence about the town with the only beings walking the streets right now were two ponies.

“W-wow everyone s-sure did hide quickly.” Fluttershy commented as she and Twilight walked through the deserted streets.

Twilight nodded “Well the ponies of Ponyville have a knack at panicking and hiding quickly.” Twilight thinks back to all the times Ponyville was in a panic whether it was from Parasprites to the whole Zecora debacle.

“Anyway it is best we get back to the library now, our friends may be waiting for us,” Twilight says to Fluttershy as she begins to trot in the direction of the library. Twilight then notices that raindrops begin to fall on her head and she looks at the sky. She then says “Strange… wasn’t it supposed to be sunny today?”

Ponyville Library
12:52 P.M.

Outside of the library Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie were standing around the front door of the library discussing what the whole situation was about.

“So what do you girls think this situation is about?” Applejack says while turning to Rainbow Dash “You said that it was… ‘terri-bad’ Rainbow Dash?”

“Well it sounded terri-bad from the way Twilight said it to me,” Rainbow Dash replies.

“Oh oh oh! Maybe she and Fluttershy ran out of cupcake mix! Maybe that’s it!” Pinkie Pie suggests while bouncing up and down.

“Dear I don’t think that running out of cupcake mix would be that bad of a situation,” Rarity explains to Pinkie Pie.

“Well whatever it is we’ll figure it out soon. In fact here comes Twilight and Fluttershy right now!” Applejack says as she points a hoof in the direction of Twilight and Fluttershy.

As soon as Twilight got close enough she was immediately bombarded with an assortment of questions. Most of which pertaining as to what the situation was and why she needed them all to come to the library.

Twilight began to explain what had transpired not too long ago at Fluttershy’s cottage and what Zekeal told her. The group’s questions began to slowly die down and eventually stop. The group just listened intently on what their purple unicorn friend had to say.

Once Twilight was finished she says “And that’s what this situation is about, do you all understand.”

Twilight looked at her group of friends and noticed that they were unusually quiet, even Pinkie Pie was strangely quiet.

Rainbow Dash was the first to speak “So Zeak is currently fighting off these monsters by himself right now?”

“Yeah, but he said that he would eventually meet us here soon.” Twilight replies.

“But what ah wants to know is how these ‘monsters’ got here in the first place,” Applejack says “These things just don’t happen by accident.”

“Zekeal said that he would explain that subject in further when he gets here,” Twilight answers and then turns towards Rainbow Dash “Hey Dash do you know why its cloudy? Wasn’t the forecast supposed to call for clear skies?”

Rainbow Dash nods “Yeah, but the strange thing is the weather suddenly began acting like the Everfree forest’s weather right before I met you and Fluttershy. I was meaning to ask you about it, but you got me side tracked with this monster attack stuff.”

Twilight replies “Huh that is strange, could it have something related with the monsters?”

All six of the ponies in the group began to think about that subject for a moment or two until a yell broke their concentrations.

“Twilight! Get everyone inside the library NOW!”

The group turned towards where the yell was shouted from and saw Zekeal running around a corner towards the group.

Three minutes earlier

My breathe was heavy as I continued to sprint towards Ponyville after making my strategic retreat from the horde of monsters that were probably not too far behind me. Luckily when I did my retreat the monsters that were coming out were heavily armored, but very slow so I took my chances at running then.

During the waves after Twilight and Fluttershy left I noticed that most of the monsters were incredibly weak at first. But during the waves some of the smaller monsters tried to flank me by going a longer way out of the forest almost completely avoiding my towers. Cunning bastards I’ll give them that.

Although it has always surprised me as to why monsters send their weaker ones first and strongest last. Guess it’s just to weed out the weaklings.

At last I see the houses of Ponyville just in the distance. From what I could see most of the town looked deserted. My guess would be that Twilight and Fluttershy did their jobs quite well. Then I noticed some boards on the windows of some houses. Maybe they did their jobs ‘too’ well.

Oh well better safe than sorry I guess.

I quickly went around a turn and peered down the road towards Twilight’s library and noticed her and her friends standing just outside. I was slightly puzzled as to why she would bring her friends along then the fact that they are all really national heroes helped me understand why. They probably think they could help in some way. How nice.

Although all good intentions aside I had to get them inside quick I can already sense the monsters already getting past my defenses back at Fluttershy’s cottage.

I inhaled deeply and at the top of my lungs I yell “Twilight! Get everyone inside the library now!”

All six of their heads turn towards me as I continued to sprint towards them I could see Twilight give me a quick nod as she moved all the girls into the library. It wasn’t long before I came running through the doorway as well. I took notice that we still haven’t repaired Twilight’s door yet. This is going to be a problem.

I managed to stop myself and placed both hands on my knees as I took in quick breaths. I was never really good at cardio anyway.

I looked up to see that everyone was staring at me. Almost looks like they want an explanation.

“Listen, everyone, I know you all have questions as to what is going on right now, but I don’t have much time as of now,” I said to them “Although I have a good idea that the reason the monsters are attacking us probably has to do with something I did in the forest.”

They all looked at me and Twilight says “So what you are saying is that it was your fault for the monsters?”

I sigh disappointedly and say “Yes I am sorry for this to happen and I promise I’ll make things right.”

“Well I am just glad that you got back alright.” Fluttershy says.

“Yeah and don’t be sorry at least you are taking action for your own actions partner.” Applejack says to me with a smile.

I smile at the ‘quick to forgive’ behavior these ponies have and then say “Alright then I guess I have to get on with my next step: creating my mana pool.”

I was given some curious looks and raised eyebrows and I say to them “Uh it would be best just to watch and see.”

I then proceeded to the center of the library and began generating mana in both of my hands. I continued this until eventually I felt that I have enough mana to begin a mana pool and then threw the blue orb into the wooden floor beneath me. I could feel myself begin to connect with the library it seemed things were going easier than I thoug-

“Woah!” I suddenly say out loud as I felt a huge expanse of mana suddenly come surging into me. It felt like I was under water in a huge ocean for a moment. I knew that this tree was magical, but… I never thought it would have mana in it let alone this huge expanse of mana. This tree is not what it appears to be.

“Zekeal are you alright?” Twilight asks me with concern written on her face.

I nod to her and between deep breaths I say “Yeah I am alright it’s just that there was already some mana stored in this tree and a lot of it to boot. I’m just surprised is all.”

“What!? But how is that possible?” Twilight asks me.

I look to her and say “I don’t really know Twilight, but that can wait for later. The monsters will be soon upon us.”

“Alright, but I must ask is there anything we can do to help?” Twilight asks me.

I nod to her and say “Yes you can in fact could you and Rarity create a magical barrier around the library? That way the monsters won’t be able to get into the library that easily.”

“Sure we can do that, but due to its size it won’t last long under constant pressure.” Twilight warns me.

“Don’t worry I’ll make certain not to let too many get through,” I tell her.

I then turn to everypony else and say “Alright I am going to need look outs to tell me where the monsters are going to be coming from so I can counter their attacks. Applejack, Pinkie Pie I want you to be looking out of the windows and yell if you see any coming from the east or west.”

“Will do partner,” Applejack replies.

“Okie doki lokie!” Pinkie Pie says.

“Now Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy I need you two to scan the north and south outside during the fight in case if any try to attack our flanks can you do that for me?” I ask.

“No problem you can count on me!” Rainbow Dash says with enthusiasm.

“U-uh I don’t know, b-but I’ll try my best.” Fluttershy says timidly.

.”Thank you,” I say to them all with a smile “Your help is greatly appreciated now then everyone get ready.”

I then get up and walk outside I could sense the monsters slowly approaching Ponyville and I quickly raised three towers right in front of the library and quickly created three grade nine gems with incredible ease. The large supply of mana from the tree was really helping a lot already. Normally I wouldn’t even have enough mana to create just one grade three gem.

I then noticed that a purple shield slowly took form around the library.

“Hey Zeak I see a lot of baddies heading this way! Get ready!” the voice of Rainbow Dash came from above me.

It then began to rain a little harder but I didn’t mind because I had a grin forming on my face as I began to think of how this whole day started with sunshine and now it’s all rainy. Funny how things change in just a couple of hours.

I sigh contently and then say under my breath “Come on then you persistent bastards I’m right here.”

I then materialized a gem in my hand and prepared to throw it as the first wave of monsters slowly came from around the corner into the town of Ponyville.

End of Chapter 9

Alright I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and please remember to point out any continuity errors, grammar errors, or anything for that matter-

Zekeal: You know what, this is really annoying me you know.

Uh what?

Zekeal: And I think some of your readers are probably annoyed by this as well.

Zekeal what are you talking about?

Zekeal: I’m talking about you always ending the chapter with this ‘give me feedback on errors’ thing. You’ve been doing it for the past eight chapters I think the readers get it already.

…True, but its my story so I do what I want and this little section is just to blow some steam off from all the writer’s blocks I have been getting through-out this chapter.

Zekeal: *sighs* Fine, do what you want. As for now I am going to help Pinkie Pie get a bun in the oven.

Alright…. Wait a second. HE WOULDN’T! *runs into the kitchen to see that Zekeal is helping Pinkie Pie put two loaves of bread into the kitchen oven*

Zekeal: …What? Don’t tell me you thought I meant that in a sexual way? *grins mischievously*

*face-palms* Just… just shut up and help me end this session.

Zekeal: Fine.

*sighs* Well this has been Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: Zekeal,

Pinkie Pie: And Pinkie Pie!

Signing off check ya’ll later and to those who are having exams at this time I wish you the best of luck on them.

Chapter 1

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!

Chapter 1

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*crack*

Do you know when a day is going to be a bad day?

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Like if you find a hole in the sole of your shoe or a fly in your breakfast?

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Or if you have this superstition that if you do something on a certain day at a certain time you’ll be cursed to have a bad day the next day?

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Well let’s just say that I have one of those superstitions.

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The superstition being that if I shave my facial hair off on a Thursday night while being intoxicated by an alcoholic beverage-

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*poof poof poof poof!*

the next day will be filled with a shitstorm of trouble for myself.

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Like the shitstorm of trouble I’m in right now with me getting assaulted by a seemingly never ending army of monsters that just popped out of a forest like nobody’s business.

*crack crack crack crack crack crack crack crack crack poof crack crack poof poof crack*

I mean come on I moved myself to this part of the world to get away from these bastards but ever since the rumors of some guy who released something called the “Forgotten” started to pop up, everything has been going to shit. I don’t even believe in rumors.

*crack crack crack crack crack poof crack crack crack crack*

Well no sense in complaining about it now at least the mass horde of monsters I have been facing have been relatively weak but by god they come in waves by the boat loads.

*crack crack crack crack crack poof crack crack crack*

But luckily I have been holding back most of them with my Gem towers I’ve constructed alongside the pathway towards my home, I also set up Gem traps directly on the pathway as well to trip them up even more, and if they are persistent enough I just banish them back to the forest and let them run the path back to my home AGAIN although it seems to make them more persistent and costs more mana to banish them if they get here again. But it is not a huge problem for me since they usually die on their second try plus I am a capable wizard and the fact that my mana pool is so large now after increasing it so much today I doubt they can even touch me. Boy do I feel powerful today.

*crack crack crack crack crack*

But by the sound of it the number of monsters dying out there right now sounds like there are very few left on the path. I take a quick look out my window to see that there were indeed a few monsters left out there. Persistent little buggers.

*crack crack crack*

I chuckle quietly and then suddenly, out of my sense of confidence, I decided to shout a taunt them.

“Think you could kill me you persistent bastards! I’ve had to deal with wolves more troubling and more deadly than you lot!”

*crack crack… crack*

The final monsters that were left on the path were destroyed into a cloud of black dust as the hail of projectiles my gems fired upon them finally hit.

“ *Sigh* About damn time you all died.” I said under my breath as I took a sip of water from my water sack. I was exhausted from the battle. Physically no mentally yes, even though my mana pool may be large the constant stress of the battle was still heavy on my mind so I sat in my chair and began contemplating on what just happened today.

“Let me see I was attacked by a horde of monsters from the forest all day today. No doubt a sign that it’s already been infested with them so either I can A) abandon this house and find a new place to stay. Or B) stay here, hold out, and fight them off until I kill off every single one of them.”

I contemplated my choices for a long time, which that long time being relatively five seconds long.

“I’m staying!” I said to myself stubbornly. I knew I could hold those bastards off easily with them being this weak and if I move myself to some place new it would just make me leave behind this large mana pool I have already created. Why waste it? Also add on to that I’ve found a place that I find somewhat peaceful and can possibly settle down at least until this monster business is over with so I decided that I’m not going to let some ugly ass monsters force me out of my home and by god I’ll make it clear to them that I’m here to stay!

I then got up and walked over to the window and at the top of my lungs I yelled:

“YOU HEAR THAT YOU PERSISTENT BASTARDS! TRY AS YOU WILL I AM NOT MOVING OUT OF MY HOME! SO GO AHEAD AND SEND ME YOUR BEST MONSTERS YOU GOT! Hell, send that “Forgotten” thing after me if ya’ll want even though it’s only a rumor!”

Suddenly something happened that I didn’t expect.

Silence.

Complete and utter silence.

Not a peaceful silence but an eerie silence, a cold silence… A dead silence.

Not even the animals around here gave a single sound or even stirred.

I was slightly unnerved by this but didn’t pay much attention to it. I looked out towards the forest and saw no movement.

“…Hmph if you think that the silent treatment is going to work on me you have another thing coming, pansies.”

I turned away from the window and began making my way towards my table to work on some new strategies for my next battle. No doubt they’ll be back tomorrow to have another run so I chose to begin preparing… or at least that’s what I thought.

Suddenly my body tenses up, a freezing chill ran down my spine, a heavy cloud of dread was upon me, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up. This could only mean one thing to me.

Something was still out there.

Something wanted me dead.

Something was out there that had bad news written all over it.

And unlike the other monsters from todayI can feel its presence even this far from the forest.

To put it bluntly I felt scared. Scared but not scared enough to lose my confidence or panic. Just… stunned by the sudden change in power level from the monsters I faced through out the day today. It just incredibly different.

I walked back over towards the window slowly and peered out to see just what was making that presence. I scanned the tree line for anything until finally I see a figure just outside the forests entrance.

Not a huge monstrous figure I was expecting but, a small, thin one. I studied the figure to understand just what I was seeing and concluded that the figure belonged to a young woman. Although I concluded already that this was not an ordinary young woman to begin with.

Not just from the fact that she seemed to have pitch, black hair and gray looking skin.

Not just by the fact that she just exited a forest that was currently infested with monsters.

Not even the fact that the clouds became incredibly dark all of a sudden.

It was the fact that the presence I am feeling right now is coming 100% from her.

From what I could tell she was looking directly at my home and possibly at me in the window. It was unnerving to me to say the least, but I kept my cool. At least for the moment.

The young woman was still standing there over near the forest for a long time. Then she did something that I found quite peculiar. She began slowly walking towards me home… right on the same path where all my towers and traps are located. I began thinking:

“Is she nuts?! It will only make her an easier target for my towers and traps and I doubt she can be that heavily armored being that small, thin, and wearing what appeared to be rags. She won’t last a second but, what is up with this presence about her that gives me a bad feeling?”

I quickly got my answer when she entered the range of my first Gem tower. The gem I set in this first tower was probably the most powerful out of all the towers on the field. Reason being is because it is a triple prism grade 7 gem consisting of the powers of Bloodbound, Slowing, and Multiple Damage. Not only can it slow down the target upon impact with its Slowing ability, but each kill it gets the more powerful it becomes with the help of the Bloodbound ability it has, and with all the kills I already got on it today it is already overpowered enough, and with the Multiple Damage perk it also has it can increase the damage even more by at least three. There was no way she was going to get past this-

She was already past the first Gem tower without it even firing upon her.

At that moment I immediately knew she was no run of the mill monster.

She is something truly horrible.

She is something that should not exist in this world.

She is something that should just come from rumors or legends.

I felt the blood slowly drain from my face knowing that this monster would definitely be the end of me if she got her hands on me. I quickly snapped back out of my daze and looked back out the window.

She was already over half of the way along the path. I had to think of something fast to delay her and also a plan to deal with her.

I could throw gem bombs at her, but after seeing that the gems didn’t even activate when she neared them I decided to “throw” away that idea. This thought gave me a slight chuckle even though I was facing certain death. Might as well make the most out of it.

I could banish her back to the forest, but that’ll only buy me time and who knows how much mana it would take to banish her to begin with.

I looked back out. She was now three-quarters of the way here.

“Dammit think Zekeal think!” I told myself in hopes of a plan of something amazing would enter my mind.

Then as if a candle suddenly lit up inside of my mind I came up with an idea. A reckless and stupid one, but hell I’ll give it a shot.

I quickly began bringing all the gems from the towers in the field over towards my home and began combining them all into one incredibly powerful gem, one that’ll hopefully make my plan a possible reality. After combining them all I finally looked down at my creation:

A Prismatic Gem.

A gem of eight different colors and eight different powers all wrapped inside.

Bloodbound.

Mana Gathering.

Multiple Damage.

Chain Hit.

Poisonous.

Shocking.

Slowing.

Armor Tearing.

It’s absolutely the most beautiful gem to create by most wizards and most feared by monsters just by the shear intensity of damage this baby can deal out but it requires both time and incredible amounts of mana to build one from scratch. One of which I didn’t seem to have right now.

I quickly looked out the window to see how far she was and how much more time I had.

She wasn’t outside.

“Huh?! Where did she go-“

Suddenly I hear the creaking of the door downstairs and the sound of footsteps coming from below.

She was already inside my home and I still needed more time to complete my plan.

More creaking is heard coming from my staircase this time. She must be coming up the stairs. Dammit I need more time!

Slowly her small figure emerged from the staircase to the top floor and after climbing the final step she turns and begins walking towards me.

“Back you foul temptress!” I yell as I try to use a banishment spell on her to see if I could actually banish her to begin with.

Nothing happens.

I try again.

Nothing happens.

I try AGAIN.

…Nothing happens she remains where she is standing. Apparently she stopped just a couple of feet away from me as I begun to try and banish her.

Right now I couldn’t come up with anything else I could do right now to buy time. So I did the only logical thing I thought I could do: Ask her a question.

“What in the hell are you?” I ask it as if it could give an answer.

She cocks her head to the side slightly as if thinking about my question. I could see that she was indeed something that wasn’t human. Her skin was indeed gray, white, and dead looking. Her pitch black hair was long and went down to her knees, she wore what looked like a gown although it was tattered in some areas. Her facial features were that of a young woman, very convincing to the untrained eye, although I can’t see her eyes at all through her hair that was draped in front of her face. I can see her nose and mouth still both looking gray and white completely void of any blood. She seemed so peaceful yet dangerous at the same time that I was somewhat enjoying the silence for the moment, although that all changed when she finally spoke.

“I… have many names.” She says in a low, sweet tone of voice which sent chills down my spine. “Shade, Demoness, Shadow Queen, or what you wizards like to call me The Forgotten.”

I looked at her wide eyed as she says this thinking that those rumors were actually true and that she would come after me of all people. I know I was a powerful wizard, but I knew there were even more powerful wizards than me out there. So I decided to use that as a rebuttal.

“Bullshit! Why would you come after me!? I only just finished wizardry school, which I barely passed if I may add, so why go after me than some insanely powerful wizard that are possibly three times my own age and have more wisdom?! That just doesn’t make sense and I think I know why! You are not the Forgotten! You are some sort of monster that is pretending to be her! You are an imposter!” I yelled at her… but by god I am used to giving bullshit explanations in the past but this was just me pulling stuff out of my ass! And worst of all I have probably just insulted a very powerful being that’ll try and kill me in the worst possible way! Well I guess its goodbye cruel world nice knowing ya!

She stood silent for a moment then she says to me “…Hmmm you say you have no wisdom in your mind yet what you say is incredibly true so either you are really cunning or you just have incredible dumb luck… I think its more of the latter.” She says and after a long pause “But either way I might as well give you the honor of knowing that I am indeed not The Forgotten.”

I was stunned that my bluff was actually true and stunned even more that I was not dead yet. Truly that left me speechless for a moment, but I didn’t forget the task of buying myself time for my final plan I had and if talking to her will buy me that time I’ll gladly take it.

“Uh yeah so you are not the Forgotten so what does that make you then?” I ask her.

As I look at her I swear I could see a small smile slowly appearing on her face and then she says “I am actually a Shadow that serves under The Forgotten.”

Well that answered one of my many questions but her being in cahoots with this “Forgotten” thing doesn’t ease my worries. Let me see how much info and time I can get out of her.

“So what’s up with this strange ability to disable my Gem towers eh?” I ask her “It’s pretty amazing and troubling for me if I may add.”

“Oh that’s just another ability that the Forgotten taught me. Quite helpful when I am dealing with other pesky wizards that get in my path like yourself.” She says as her smile seems to slowly begin to grow even wider “But thank you for the compliment. Normally other wizards would try to conjure up some sort of attack spell to try and slay me.”

“And *gulp* just what do you do to these other wizards you encounter after you um defeat them?” I asked her dreading the answer.

“Oh I just drain their mana and life force from them by possessing their dead bodies which will make me more powerful for future conflicts, but you I may treat differently this time. I’ll just posses you and let your body live on until I tire of it and then completely drain of what life that’s left in it.” She says with a creepy smile on her face.

“S-so you plan on keeping me alive, well that’s somewhat thoughtful of you and I guess I sort of thank you.” I say to her as I begin putting the final touches on my plan.

“Oh and one other thing I already know of what you are planning with that gem behind you.” She says nonchalantly.

I flinched as I hear her say those words. ‘Has she already found out about my plan?!’ I thought to myself.

She giggles for a moment and says slyly “You’re planning on using that gem behind your back by turning it into a Gem bomb which you will infuse it with whatever mana you have left and use it in a last ditch effort to destroy me while also destroying yourself as well. A very valiant plan, but it will fail in the end as how many other dozen wizards have tried against me already tried against me. It won’t even leave a scratch on me.”

Now.

Now is the time for me to surprise her.

I started out with a chuckle which slowly went up to an uproariously long drawn out laugh. What she guessed was no where near what I came up with. So I did what every other smartass person I knew did whenever they found somebody thinking that they were right but were actually horribly wrong: Tell the person just how wrong he or she is.

She lost her smile after my laughing tirade and looked a little peeved, although I couldn’t see her eyes to see if she was glaring at me but her scowl I could see, at what I just said but I chose to tell her off anyway ignoring the consequences. “Bitch you have no idea of how wrong you are! Here let me tell exactly how wrong you are!”

“I am not some valiant hero out here to save the day!”

“I am not some martyr who will give their life for wizard kind!”

“I am just a wizard who wants to live the life that he wants. But since you are in my way on my path towards the life I want to live I guess I have no choice but to push you out of the way to get to it!”

She looks at me, at least thats what I think she is doing with all that hair in her face, very intensely for a few moments after my little speech, but quickly regains her calm composure.

“Well if what you say is true then how exactly how are you going to “push” me out of the way? It’s already near impossible to kill me, but you already know that anyway.” She says to me with hints of anger in her voice.

“It’s quite simple really. I’ll banish you.” I tell her with a smirk on my face.

“You’ll what?” She says to me with a confused look “If you haven’t already noticed you have already tried that.”

“Yeah, but this banishment spell I came up with is much more powerful than you think. Tell me what would happen if I were to infuse this Prismatic gem with the rest of my mana?” I tell her while holding it up.

“With the amount of mana you have it will become quite unstable and more than likely blow up after about a minute after infusing which would take out everything in a quarter mile radius of here.” She says to me, apparently she knows her gems. Well she is a girl and all, but that’s beside the point.

“Right, but during that minute the gem will do something else while in its unstable state during that time!” I tell her with the smirk growing on my face.

“Yes it would increase the amount mana that was infused into the gem by a hundred fold.” She explains. “But why would you- …wait don’t tell me you are planning to-“

I smile a shit eating grin as I interrupt her “Oh yes I plan on using this Prismatic gem not to kill you, but to banish you!” I tell her as I finally infuse the last of my mana into the gem making it glow a full spectrum of colors in my hand.

“You foolish wizard! If you use that gem to banish me from the distance you are from me you’ll be caught in the banishment’s spell range as well! And with the amount of power the gem has it’ll not only banish us from here it’ll banish us both to a different dimension entirely!” She practically screams at me.

“Well I didn’t take much consideration about how powerful this banishment would be to begin with, but I just knew I had to push out of the way some how. Now then without further ado SEE YA IN HELL BITCH!” I yell as I throw the still glowing Prismatic gem onto the ground in-between me and her shattering it on the ground creating huge wave of colorful lights around us as it begins sucking us in to it’s banishment spell.

“You dirty wizard! What have you done!? Just exactly who are you!?” She yells at me as she gets sucked in fully.

“Remember my name bitch and remember it well! My name is Zekeal Grendale! And I am the wizard who banished your sorry ass!” I yell at her with a smug grin.

“I swear Zekeal! Where ever you end up I sweare I will find and I will end you!” She yells out her final words she gets sucked in.

The banishment spell was still sucking me towards it even after she got banished.

“Hmph well she was incredibly tough opponent oh well.” I say as I slowly get pulled in. “Hmmm I wonder what other dimensions look like? Who knows I may actually find some place to settle down in this one. Wouldn’t that be great?” I then get pulled in quickly and before I knew it I was out like a light.

Ponyville Library
9:53 P.M.

Inside the library in the small town of Ponyville there lived a purple unicorn by the name of Twilight Sparkle. She was currently looking through books filled with either magic spells, history, or some mixture of the two subjects in search of information that she could study on. She really did enjoy studying new things even though new subjects tended to turn peaceful nights into all-nighters for her.

“Twilight! Are you still up?” Twilight also has a baby dragon assistant called Spike. “I swear if you keep studying like this you’ll burn yourself out.”

Even though Twilight may be his guardian Spike tends to act more like the guardian of Twilight instead. But that doesn’t mean she is a bad person.

“Sorry Spike, but I am just so fascinated by this new book I found that I just have to read it tonight!” Twilight says to Spike with a twinkle in her eye.

“ *sighs* Fine Twilight whatever you say just don’t end up falling asleep on a pile of books again it’s bad for your back.” Spike says worryingly. “Also you have to start getting ready for the preparation for Summer Sun Celebration that’s in a few days. And if you are out cold on a pile of books, who will help plan and organize the event?”

“Don’t worry Spike I promise I won’t forget about that.” Twilight replies.

“Pinkie Pie Promise?” Spike asks again with a more intent stare.

“*sighs* Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Twilight says while doing the little gestures that came along with it while smiling all the way through.

Spike chuckles and turns to head off to bed “Thanks and good night Twilight. See you in the morning.”

“Yeah see you in the morning Spike.” Twilight says before turning her attention to her book. “Now where was I?”

She began reading more of the book until she suddenly felt two strange, magical disturbances, one being incredibly powerful the other being less powerful than the first.

“Huh. That was interesting just what in Celestia’s name could have caused those two disturbances in the first place.” Twilight says. “Hmm I better write a letter to the Princess some time tomorrow and ask her what those two disturbances were.”

Twilight then turned her attention back to the book and began reading. But little did she know that those disturbances that she felt will change her life and the lives of her friends in the days to come.

End Chapter 1

Hello readers if you are reading this then I would like to thank you for taking your time in reading this little beginning chapter of my story series that I created and hopefully I don’t have too many grammatical errors but since I don’t have any proof readers and this is my first story on this site so well… there may be some mistakes here and there that I overlooked. I also hope I got Twilight’s and Spike’s personalities right as well in the chapter. Although I had a fun time writing this chapter so I hope you enjoyed reading it as well. Also yes this is going to be a Gemcraft/My Little Pony Crossover since well it’s never been before and if you don’t know what Gemcraft is to begin with then take note of this website right here:

http://gemcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Gemcraft_Wiki

Anyway that is all I wanted to say so I’ll check you guys later! Bye!

~Registered Anonymous

Zekeal: WAIT WAIT WAIT! What about me!?

*sighs* What now Zekeal?

Zekeal: I want some more screen time!

*sighs heavily* Zekeal you were in 90% of the first chapter in fact if it wasn’t for the fact that I put Twilight and Spike in the final part of this chapter this story may not have even get past the pre-readers! And you are just taking up more of readers’ time from reading other fanfics that could be better than this!

Zekeal: Better fanfics… THAN THIS!? WHY I NEVER!

*sighs* Here have nachos and lets not talk about this again.

Zekeal: …Deal.

Thank you. Anyway sorry for the 4th wall breaking moment there now see ya later!

Chapter 3

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 3

Sweet Apple Acres
9:13 a.m.

I am truly amazed. Really I am.

So far today not only have I found out that there are sentient beings in this dimension, but also the fact that they are multi colored horses, and said talking horses can talk in the same language that I can talk in, and the fact that some of these horses know how to use magic.

But strangely enough I am taking this situation very well. Truth be told a normal person, that is not a wizard, would be completely freaked out by this, but seeing as how I am a wizard to begin with my curiosity to learn about new things outweighs my fears which also explains my still firm grasp on my sanity. Hopefully the end this venture will be an insightful learning experience for me.

Like right now for example, I have just found out that these horses know how to tie knots with rope. Found this little tid-bit of info out as they began tying me up just a few seconds ago with me lying on my stomach. Not that I really am enjoying this experience all that much, but hey at least I’m learning.

I then begin to hear the purple one and the orange one start talking about me so I raise my head up so I could get a better view of the conversation also to hear it better.

“Um AJ I understand your reasoning behind capturing this… creature, but don’t you think tying him up might be a little… extreme?” Twilight asks while she finished tying a knot of rope around the creature’s hands and ankles “With him being sentient and all.”

“I know Twilight, but you have to understand that this varmint did some crazy magic stuff when I was chasing him in the orchard,” AJ says as she began pacing in front of the creature “he was able to make walls of stone appear out of thin air!”

“W-well that’s intriguing AJ, but that doesn’t mean he is entirely dangerous.” Twilight replies as she turns toward the creature and asks it “Isn’t that right? You are not trying to hurt anypony right? By the way my name is Twilight Sparkle.”

I blink twice at her question, not only at the fact that she used anypony instead of anybody, but by the fact that she was not jumping to conclusions by thinking of me as some sort of monster just yet.

I felt a little more secure around this one than I did the orange one so I decided to answer her question.

“Well let’s see uh Miss Twilight is it? I don’t plan on hurting anyone er anypony as long as I am not threatened to be harmed as well.” I stated to her. “Although as first impressions go this is kind of a step in the wrong direction don’t you think?” I then say motioning towards my tied up appendages.

The one called Twilight looks down at me with an embarrassed smile and says “Sorry it’s just that you are a new creature that I have never seen before and well I didn’t want you to end up hurting yourself also do you find what you just said ironic? With you stealing from AJ’s apple orchard, not paying for it, and running away and if I remember correctly stealing is not a good first impression either.”

Now it was my turn to be slightly embarrassed, but I still replied “Touché Miss Twilight, touché. I’ll agree with what you said, but I was not in my right state of mind at the time, because during that time your orange friend here decided to insult my gem crafting skills which made me mad and well made me act like the way I acted.”

“Well maybe that was AJ’s opinion at the time which you shouldn’t get mad at another pony’s opinion, and when you say gem crafting are you like a jeweler?” Twilight asks me with a hint of curiosity.

I chuckle at her statement apparently these horses have no idea of what Gem crafting is.

“True I should have not gotten too mad at her and no Miss Twilight I am not a jeweler I am a wizard who creates gems from magic, but if it was her opinion then she would have had some sort of knowledge of what gem crafting is actually is to begin with, so yes it was her opinion, but it was her opinion on some other profession.” I explain to her in the best way possible to not try to sound too confusing.

The face on the unicorn suddenly brightens when I mentioned that I am a wizard which she quickly begins asking a series of questions “Wow so you are a wizard? What kind of spells do you know? What kind of magic do you deal with besides making gems? Do other wizards where you come from look like you? Actually where did you come from? What’s it like there?” And so on and so forth. Apparently she has an insatiable hunger for knowledge just like me.

But for now it was the time being it was the orange horse named AJ’s turn to speak “As much as I like a game of twenty questions can we stick to the matter at hoof? The matter being as to how you are going to pay for all those apples you ate in my orchard and don’t get me started about the stone walls that you sprouted up in my orchard as well!” She then began glaring at me expecting an answer.

To tell the truth I felt a little ashamed of myself, it was sort of childish of me to run from her to begin with and these horses seemed understanding enough so I might as well try to make up for the apples and apologize to her. “I understand that you are angry that I stole from you and also about erecting all those stone walls in your orchard. For that I am truly sorry and I should have known better at the time. I promise to you that I’ll pay back for all the apples some time in the future and help clear out the walls in your orchard.” I said with a determined gaze.

She looked at me with a deepening stare studying me as if to see if I was telling the truth or not. I soon got my answer.

“Apology accepted, partner.” AJ says with a smile on her face “And as for the bits you owe me and the walls you created you can begin work tomorrow if you like.”

I look at her with a confused look and began to ask “But how can you trust me so suddenly now than just a minute ago?”

“Well with the apology and the promise you gave me I couldn’t detect the slightest hint of dishonesty from you.” AJ replies “By the way my name is Applejack. It’s a pleasure to meet ya partner.” So that’s what AJ means then.

My confused face then turns into a face of relief, although I began chuckling as I then proceed to say “I would shake your hoof if it wasn’t for the fact that I am tied up at the moment.”

“That can be fixed.” Says Twilight as she undid the knots on my hands and ankles.

As the knots became undone I stood up and began to massage my wrists and stretch my arms and legs while nodding thanks to Twilight who I noticed had backed up slightly no doubt intimidated from the height of my body I was almost twice as tall as her although she continued to smile none the less.

I turn to Applejack who had her hoof extended to me which I promptly grabbed it with my right hand. She seemed astonished at how my hand could grab her hoof so firmly, but seemed to dismiss this as she began shaking my hand with a force that nearly made me lose my grip. For her size she seemed quite strong.

“By the way those apples were incredibly delicious; you really know how to do your craft well.” I tell her with a playful smirk.

“Thanks, partner and I guess your gems looked pretty nice as well,” Applejack says to me as she shakes my hand.

“No problem and thank you for the complement. Oh and by the way you can call me by my real name Zekeal. Zekeal Grendale, as you should already know.” I said with a smile on my face remembering my little outburst I said to her before I was tied up.

“Fine then Zekeal it’s been a pleasure to meet you this time compared to last time.” Applejack says to me with a big grin as we both stop shaking and as I let go of her hoof. “But as of right now I should be getting on with the preparations for the celebration in about a week.”

“Celebrations for what?” I ask until I was interrupted by Twilight.

“OH that’s right! AJ how are you and your family coming along with the food preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration? I was chosen again to oversee the preparations for this year as well.” Twilight asks and explains to Applejack.

“Well besides the interruptions from this morning everything, as a whole, is coming around quite nicely! I say we should have enough apple trees bucked for the celebration in three days.” Explains Applejack smiling brightly.

During Twilight’s and Applejack’s conversation I noticed that the purple lizard from before was standing beside Twilight also listening in on the conversation and pulled out a parchment of paper and checked off a small box with what looked like a picture of an apple beside it.

“So… who and what are you?” I ask the purple lizard out of curiousity.

The purple lizard jumped a little by my sudden question, but replied back to me “Uh who me? Uh I’m Spike and I am Twilight’s number one dragon assistant.”

Dragon huh? Now that is really intriguing.

“So you are a dragon huh? Well why are you so small Spike?” I ask it.

“Well you see I am still just a baby dragon so I won’t become bigger until later on.” He replies back.

“Hmmm makes sense although does that mean you breath fire and eat meat?” as I ask him another question.

“Well I can breath fire, but I am more partial to eating gems instead of meat,” Spike replies to me.

Hmmm a dragon that eats gems. Almost sounds like the complete opposite of what the stories back home depicted of dragons.

“Hmmm well if you like gems then how about this?” I say as I used a small bit of my mana to create a Grade 1 Slowing gem “Care to give my gems a taste?”

“Oh boy would I!” The dragon replies as he grabs the blue gem from my hand.

I knew that my gems were made for defense purposes only but seeing as how the gem I gave him was of a low grade it shouldn’t affect him too much.

And with the way he is scarfing down the gem he is apparently enjoying it.

“Wow that gem was amazing! It tasted very cold at first, but quickly the feeling disappeared and tasted more like a sapphire.” Spike explained to me with noticeable enjoyment from the gem.

“Heh glad you enjoyed my gem Spike even though where I come from gems are not considered a delicacy, but your compliment is still noted,” I tell him while patting him on the head.

Twilight looked back at us and gave a small smile at me bonding with her dragon assistant. She then turned back to Applejack and said “Well I’m glad to hear you are doing well Applejack I hope I’ll see you after you get finished with the preparations for the celebration.”

“Thanks sugarcube, but please come by any time in the next day or two I promise it won’t hurt our work progress on the farm,” says Applejack as she turns to me “And I hope you’ll be ready by tomorrow to start paying off your debt to me Zekeal.”

“I’ll be more than ready by tomorrow Applejack, goodbye.” I reply back to her as she turns around and heads off back towards the orchard.

“Well seems like you’re going to be in need of a place to stay huh?” Twilight says to me.

I look at her and reply back with my own question “Yeah, but where should I stay exactly? Are there any places for rent?”

“Well there are really no places to rent in Ponyville and since the barn is going to be filled up with apples in the coming days that strikes out Applejack’s place as a choice so why don’t you stay at my library then?” Twilight interjects with her own solution to my housing problem.

My eyes immediately light up at the mention of a library as her home, but I quickly remembered my manners and reply “Thanks for the offer Twilight, but I can find a place of my own whether it be a cave or something.”

“No I insist Zekeal plus it would probably be for the best since that not everyone in Ponyville would be too… “thrilled” to see you let alone meet you.” She replies back with a sheepish look.

“What would be the problem exactly? Would they run screaming inside their houses and hide from me like some sort of monster?” I ask her with a playful grin on my face knowing that that can’t possibly be it.

“Actually that’s just it they WOULD run and hide from you like you were a monster,” she says slightly embarrassed.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised really if any of these horses ended up in my dimension they would have been treated like monsters as well. Although we wouldn’t have ran and more than likely ran them out of town or something.

“Oh… well then I don’t want to be a nuisance then to you or any one else.” I say to her with a sympathetic look on my face.

“No. Don’t worry you won’t be a nuisance Zekeal.” Twilight says to me with a welcoming look.

“…Alright. But first can I at least do one thing first? It’ll make me feel more comfortable when I enter your home.” I ask her.

“Sure, you can do anything Zekeal as long as it’ll make you feel more comfortable to stay at my library.” She replies with a smile.

I sigh and smile back at her “Thanks Twilight and now let me get this thing over with,” I say as I look into her eyes with a serious look while putting a fist over my heart.

“As by the unwritten codes of wizards dictates since you are allowing me a place to stay, a place to eat, and a place to gain knowledge from, I swear upon my honor as a wizard that I will help, serve, and protect you and this village for as long as I am allowed here. With this statement I make myself bounded upon this oath.” I say with what I would consider too serious compared to the way I usually act.

Twilight was a little stunned by what I just said and then asks me curiously “Uh just what exactly was that you just did Zekeal?”

I slowly broke my serious face with a smile at her and explained “What I just did was what I and most wizards call a “Wizard’s oath”. It’s when we promise someone, whether it be a lord, a duke, or a peasant, that we will serve them for as long as we are taken care of and fed by them, but it’s more of a sign of respect towards the person who is allowing us to live in their village and home so it’s just more of an out of common courtesy thing amongst us wizards towards other people.”

She nods her head and smiles at me saying “Well thank you Zekeal for saying that to me although I doubt you’ll need to do much protecting for this village as we rarely get attacked by anything around here.”

“Yeah I could sorta guess that there isn’t much as to danger around here with the sun shining and colored horses all around,” I reply and then ask her “Anyway now that that’s out of the way, may we begin heading towards your library?”

“Sure thing Zekeal and how about if we pass the time by you telling me how you ended up in Applejack’s apple orchard to begin with?” She asks me.

“Sure in fact I think you’ll be interested in how I got here in the first place,” I reply back as we began heading down the path away from the apple orchard.

Outside of Ponyville
10:22 a.m.

“So let me get this straight you are actually from another dimension entirely?!” Twilight says quite surprised as I finished telling my story.

I told her the story of how I “accidently” sent myself here while excluding the parts when I was attacked by monsters along with that Shadow bitch as well. I didn’t want to startle her too much right now with the monsters and all, but I still plan on explaining to her about the monsters of my world later on. Hopefully it won’t come back to bite me in the ass too much.

“Yes, yes I am,” I answer Twilight’s question.

“Wow so you ended up here by botched spell?” asks Spike “Almost sounds like one of Twilight’s off days.”

“Oh Spike he was just probably testing a new spell out probably and it just backfired like he said,” Twilight says to Spike with a hint of embarrassment. “Although what was the name of the spell you were trying to perform again?”

“It’s called a “Banishment” spell Twilight, if we need to send something to someplace else we just use this spell and poof! It’s gone.” I explained in full.

“Oh that sort of sounds like the time Princess Celestia banished Princess Luna to the moon,” Twilight states matter-of-factly.

“Now it’s my turn to ask some questions Twilight like who is this Princess Celestia and Princess Luna? And why did this Celestia person er pony send Luna to the moon? ” I ask.

Twilight beams and says “They are both sisters and co-rulers of the land of Equestria, which you are currently in right now, and the reason behind Princess Celestia banishing Princess Luna to the moon was because about a thousand years ago Princess Luna turned into Nightmare Moon and tried to make night eternal in Equestria.”

I was a little speechless at the moment when I heard that both of these Princesses were well over one thousand years old. I mean I was impressed, normally the wizards from where I’m from usually live to be about 200 or something and that’s if they use advanced restoration spells and are lucky enough not to get torn to shreds by monsters. Also the fact that this Celestia person could banish a person or pony to the moon was incredible I may not me a mathematician or an astronomer, but the moon should be incredibly far away the last time I checked. Also it sounded like this country was under a monarchy, never really liked leaders all that much, but hey these ones might be different right? And the name of the country being Equestria didn’t surprise me with all these Equines, although I could be worse they could have called it PonyLand. I shudder intensely at that thought.

I was snapped out of my train of thought when Twilight says “Hey Zekeal we are about to enter Ponyville keep close and try not to look too intimidating okay?”

I looked forward to see that there was indeed a village coming up, what surprised me the most was that it looked like a normal human village only… more colorful with less brown and dark dreariness.

“Alright whatever you say Twilight.” I say as I got closer to her.

As we entered the village I looked around to see that there were other different ponies all around some with horns and some with, which surprised me, wings. So there are some ponies that could fly eh? But back to the matter at hand, most of which were staring at me cautiously, but other than that they didn’t really entirely freak out, although some of the mothers shooed their children back inside. Maybe it was because of Twilight standing near me and guiding me through town that kept most of them calm. Which got me thinking what standing was Twilight in this village to begin with.

“Hey Twilight uh not to sound intruding, but what is your standing in this village?” I ask her quietly.

She looks back at me and says “Well you could call me the Librarian in Ponyville, but I am actually here to study the magics of friendship and send reports to Princess Celesitia, I am her student after all.”

Magics of Friendship? I’ll have to make a mental note to ask her about that some time in the future. But the thing that made me wide eyed was the fact that she was studying under one of the rulers of a nation!

“Wait so you are a student under the teachings of the ruler of this country!? Then that must make you a very powerful wizard… uh or unicorn then?” I ask her intently.

“Uh well I’m not exactly all that powerful and I am still learning and-“ Twilight began blushing a little but was interrupted by Spike.

“She is the best at magic in all of Ponyville! In fact there was this one time that she put an Ursa Minor to sleep by using her magic.” Spike proudly said.

“Wait what’s an Ursa Minor,” I ask out of curiosity.

Twilight quickly interjects Spike before he could say anything and says nervously “Oh it’s nothing, nothing at all don’t mind Spike I’m not really that powerful to begin with it was just a lucky break.”

Hmmm so she is powerful and modest as well. We may just get along just fine.

“Alright then let’s change the subject shall we? Like how long till we get to this library of yours?” I ask.

“It shouldn’t be too far actually we should be aproa- *bump*” Twilight tries to say before she bumps into another pony.

The pony that was standing before us looked pink with poofy hair. If not for the fact she wasn’t wearing a funny hat I would have mistook her for a jester.

Twilight manages to regain her balance and looks at the pink pony before asking “Oh hello Pinkie Pie how are you doing?”

The pink pony named Pinkie Pie was looking straight at me not breaking eye contact. I felt a weird uneasiness about this especially with the silence that was coming from her. I decided to break that silence.

“Uh hello?” I ask her while waving uncomfortably which she immediately gave me a response.

Pinkie Pie then suddenly jumps and hangs in the air for what felt like five seconds, which made me wonder what magic could have caused that, while giving off a huge gasp before eventually dropping back down to the ground and taking off in some other random direction at an amazing speed.

“Uh what was all that about?” I ask Twilight.

“*sigh* Well that pony’s name is Pinkie Pie and she is actually one of my other friends that live in Ponyville and the reason she acted like that was, because well I think she went off to go plan a surprise party or a welcome to Ponyville party for you.” Twilight states “She did the same thing to me when I moved to Ponyville.”

“A p-party?” I say loosely. “Why would she want to throw me a party?”

“Well have you seen the images on our flanks right?” Twilight states.

“Yeah,” I say to her.

“Well these are called Cutie Marks and they depict what we are good at,” Twilight explains.

“Oh so they explain what you do as a profession right?” I state trying to answer my own question.

“Actually that’s a good answer, like my cutie mark represents magic and studying, while Pinkie’s cutie mark is of three balloons which means she is good at throwing parties.” Twilight explains even more.

“Oh ok now I got it… but when will she throw me this party? I hope there will be alcohol at this party as well!” I happily say to her.

“Well you see Pinkie Pie throws parties at random and when you least expect them so there is no telling when she’ll throw one.” Twilight says to me. “And about alcohol it is usually frowned upon here in Equestria, but we tend to accept hard cider on special occasions.”

I was a little disappointed by this, but at least they had hard cider here. So some alcohol is better than no alcohol to me.

“Alright well I think that a party would still be good with hard cider just so long as I don’t end up getting too drunk and waking up in some bed with a pony that I don’t know of.” I chuckle a little at my lewd joke although it seems that Twilight was a little annoyed by it. “Sorry I couldn’t help myself.”

“Do most of your species act like this?” she asks.

“Well not all the time we tend to just make jokes every once in a while to liven the mood you know?” I say to her.

“Fair enough, but please try to keep your mind out of the gutter,” Twilight says to me smiling while rolling her eyes.

“Fine, I’ll try,” I tell her.

“Good,” Twilight replies “Now then I would like to welcome you to my home also known as the Ponyville Library!”

I look forward to see that there was a huge tree with windows in it and looked completely hollowed out… and is that an observatory on the top level!? How the tree was still living was a mystery in of itself, but just by looking at it I could tell this place would make a great place for my new mana pool. I could just feel the magic the tree was giving off. It felt exhilarating.

“Quite the treehouse you got here Twilight,” I say to her.

She giggles and says “If you think the outside is great get ready to check the inside.”

We began entering the treehouse with me having some trouble trying to get through the door, but that was to be expected with my size and all. When we were all finally inside I looked around to see a wizard’s dream. Books upon unread books littered the shelves. It took all the strength I had to keep myself from diving into the shelves and begin reading them.

“Impressive huh?” Twilight asks with a smile.

“Quite the collection Twilight, quite the collection,” I say to her quite impressed if I may add. “If I may Twilight can I look at a few of these books? I am quite interested in reading up about this country’s culture and traditions.”

“Sure you can, but first can I ask you a couple more questions about yourself? I just want to make a report and send it to Princess Celestia. If you don’t mind?” Twilight asks me.

“Uh sure Twilight I guess I can answer a couple more questions just as long as it won’t get me thrown into a dungeon or get me banished to the moon.” I tell her with a slight chuckle.

“I promise Princess Celestia is a kind ruler and won’t just simply banish you to the moon for no reason,” Twilight states while still smiling.

“Fine I’ll take your word for it, let’s get started then,” I say as I sit in a chair that was nearby.

“Alright first off what is your species’ name?” Twilight asks.

“The name of my species is called humans.” I say with a grin on my face knowing that this will only one of the long list of questions this purple pony will have for me.

End of chapter 3

I really hope I didn’t end this chapter too abruptly for you guys, but it was nearing the 10th and 11th page on Word and I tend to start loosing focus to the story by around that time. So to avoid too many errors I stop at around page 11. But that’s beside the point. I really hope that all of you are enjoying this story, and please leave a comment whether it be about some errors I may have overlooked, continuity errors, or words of encouragement and advice I will gladly take into consideration and hopefully makes this story a little more enjoyable, but I am not forcing you to so do what you will.

Zekeal: Ah come on the story is good as it is Registered! No sense in changing it!

Zekeal please leave I am trying to have a conversation with the readers and I don’t want you messing it up for me!

Zekeal: Fine, fine…. Can I have more nachos then?

Fine. Here. Also you are still going to repair my 4th wall.

Zekeal: Fine whatever. *proceeds to eat the nachos*

Anyway with that out of the way this is Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: And Zekeal!

Signing off, check ya’ll later. Also I won’t be updating the chapters as quickly as much as I already have been since I have midterms this week so… see ya when I get done with all that.