My Little Klay World: Klay is Magic

Chapter Three - The Klaymen Escape (With Very Little Difficulty)

Twilight Sparkle sat in her kitchen, her hooves laid out on the table, shaking and shivering. Her horn was glowing with a magenta aura as she telekinetically held a cup of tea in her magical grasp. Her mind was racing with so many thoughts, but the one that kept popping up again and again was of the bloodied klayman head.

The klaymen, speaking of which, were still downstairs in her private study. What they were doing right now, Twilight couldn't say, nor could she have cared about at this moment. What with that single thought repeatedly playing itself over and over like a video tape in her head, she couldn't really think to care about anything else right now.

What she had witnessed was a klayman killing another one of his kind. Whether it was intentional or not, a great sin had been committed right here in her home. A terrible atrocity that would have been punishable in her world with a lifetime in the dungeons of Canterlot Castle, or even banishment, exile from the land of Equestria.

But the rest of the klaymen...They didn't do or say anything. They just stared for a minute, and went on talking about bowling and ice cream! They didn't even care that one of their own had been murdered right there and then. It was as if that sort of thing...

Twilight's pupils shrunk as a new thought entered her mind, and she very nearly dropped her cup.

What if...What if this sort of thing was common where they came from? What if this mad display of violence was a way of life for them? What if this wasn't the worst thing she had witnessed, but just a sample of what was yet to come? She brought her hooves up to her face as a sudden fear came over her, ensnaring her in its cold and terrible grasp.

Had she accidentally brought a violent race into this world? Had she put all of Equestria in great danger? If these klaymen could kill their own kind without so much as showing a tiny hint of regret or guilt, then if they were ever to be exposed to the public, to other ponies...

All she wanted was to meet other species from different worlds. She had casted that spell with such rashness. Such disregard for the possibility that whatever she brought into this world would potentially be harmful and dangerous. She didn't even think of anything else other than to sate her thirst for knowledge and discover new wonders beyond her home.

There was one thing, and only one thing to do.

Twilight Sparkle knew what had to be done. She had to send these things back to their own world. Back to whatever burning, decaying hell from whence they came.

But there was just one problem. One that she hadn't even thought about before in her excitement, until now.

Her spell was designed to bring beings into her world.

But not return them.

Twilight groaned. ''What in the world of Equestria have I done?''

Just then, Twilight heard the front door open and close, followed by a familiar voice. ''Twilight! I'm back from Rarity's!''

Twilight rushed from the kitchen into the main hall, where she was greeted by her trusted aide, the baby dragon known as Spike. He was carrying a small bag filled with an assortment of gems and jewels, no doubt given to him by the Element of Generosity herself. Most likely, the little dragon had been assisting her in hunting for more precious stones to use in her crafting of clothes and fabrics.

The little dragon smiled cheerfully as Twilight ran up to him, the gems in his bag jingling together as he released his grip on it. ''Hey, Twilight! Sorry I took so -''

''OhSpikeIthinkImighthavedonesomethingterribleIusedaspellihadbeenworkingonforalomstamonthnowandithinki'vemadeaterriblemistake!'', were the words that rushed out of her mouth, and it was then Spike noticed the look of panic on her face.

''Wait, what's going on?'' questioned Spike, taken aback by the sudden outburst.

Twilight took a second to calm herself using an old trick that Princess Cadence had taught her, before she spoke again, this time not blurting out her sentence as if it was a whole word. ''Spike, I performed a spell a few hours ago that brought these...creatures, into our world, and I think that it might have been a great mistake.'' The alicorn sighed and hung her head. ''The creatures are downstairs in the private study chamber. I don't know what they're doing, but I don't think they're intelligent enough to devise a plan to escape confinement. So I at least have some time to find a way to send them back to where they came from before things really get out of control.''

When she finished talking, Twilight lifted her head to look at Spike, but saw him looking out of the window, a look of worry on his face, a claw brought beneath his chin. ''Spike? Have you listened to a word I said? This is serious!'' exclaimed the annoyed alicorn.

''Um, Twilight?'' the little dragon began, ''Those creatures you mentioned...Are they big, blue, and look kinda like those humans we met when we went to that other world through the mirror?''

Twilight, surprised by his question, tilted her head to the side. ''Yes, they are! How did you know?''

Spike turned to face the princess, and pointed towards something outside the window. ''Because that's exactly what's crawling out of the basement window right now.''

''WHAT!?''

Twilight shot past Spike, nearly knocking him over, and went straight towards the window, and sure enough, she saw, just as Spike had said, the blue klaymen climbing out of the small window that acted as the only source of natural light during the day, when she wasn't using her machines and scientific equipment for experiments and what-not. hat's more, they had obviously been doing it for a bit, because she could see that some klaymen had already made it into the town itself.

Twilight groaned, her mind cursing herself for not being more cautious, for having thought that these things weren't intelligent. Perhaps they weren't, but they clearly had enough of a brain - if they even had those - to know how to escape through a window that was too high for them to reach.

Wait...Too high for them to...

Twilight bolted for the basement door and flung it open. She galloped down the stairs, Spike soon following her. How did they get through the window if they couldn't reach it by themselves? What could they have used as a make-shift ladder?

She stopped once she saw what they had improvised to use in their escape.

The klaymen had made a rope.

And the rope was made from what appeared to be the intestines of the dead klayman from earlier.

Somehow, and to the alicorn's great puzzlement, the klaymen had managed to find a grappling hook, and tied their deceased companion's organic 'rope' to it, and had used that to reach the window.

These klaymen. They were perhaps smarter than she thought. Of course, their method of escape was, well, unnerving and disgusting, but nevertheless, they were smart.

And that was why they were all the more dangerous to allow to roam free in Ponyville.

Twilight rushed to the stairs and made the ascent upwards, grabbing Spike with her magic as she darted past him, levitating him upon her back as she kept moving.

''H-hey! What's goin' on, Twilight? Where are we going? asked the clearly confused dragon.

''We're going to find those creatures, and solve the problem before it becomes a BIGGER problem, Spike,'' was the response he received from the purple pony.

Spike sighed and face-clawed. ''Why does something always happen when I go over to Rarity's?''