Gate of Friendship

Twilight's face lit up with joy at my response.

"I have so many questions. But where do I start?" Twilight asked herself.

"Uh. What kind of animals are there where you're from?" Fluttershy asked.

"Let's see. We have cats, dogs, birds, lizards, insects, fishes--,” I counted off.

"Dragons?" Twilight interrupted.

"Nope. They're just myths where I'm from."

"Where are you from anyway?"

"I told you already, it's complicated."

"How's it complicated? Do you not remember?"

"I remember. It's just... that... the only person who can locate my home is the Princess."

"Well, could try to describe it for us?"

"Sure. It's kinda like Ponyville except the area is bigger, the houses are bigger, and the population is..."

"Bigger?"

"Exactly."

"Does everypony like you have wings?"

"Nope. No one does."

"Then why do you have them?”

"I have no idea."

"What kind of fashion do they have?" Rarity asked.

"I don't keep up on fashion. But I know if we took one piece of clothing from a different designer, we would touch the sky and
possibly beyond."

Rarity had a huge smile on her face. Twilight's eyes suddenly widened, even bigger than last time.

"I'm late! Sorry about this everypony. Trevor, do you have anywhere to stay?" She asked in a hurry.

"Nope."

"Then you can stay with me. Let's go."

We both ran out the door.

"See ya later!" Pinkie Pie yelled.

I gave them a thumbs-up before we were out of sight. When me and Twilight went inside the tree house, Spike was facing away from us and holding a checklist sheet of spells.

"You ready, Twilight?" Spike asked.

"Spike." Twilight said.

"Yes?"

Spike looked behind him and focused his sight on me.

"This is Trevor. He was the one we saw yesterday, and he'll be staying with us until he can get home.”

Spike reached out his right claw towards me.

"Nice too meet you, Trevor. I'm Spike."

I shook his claw.

"Nice to meet you as well," I said.

"So are you ready for the spells?" Spike asked Twilight.

"Yep. Let's get started,” she replied.

Twilight practiced the spells on herself and Spike for about an hour. The spells were mostly to change ones vision to black and white, sepia tone, distortion in color and shapes, things like that.

"Alright, the next one is..."

Spike stop himself and had a bit of a concerned look on him.

"What is it Spike?"

"The next spell is a nightmare spell. Whoever the spell is used on will become a nightmare within them.”

"I'll test this one,” I volunteered.

"Are you sure Trevor?" Twilight asked.

"Indeed, I am.”

“Okay, if you're sure.”

Twilight's horn had a purple aura around it. The same aura surrounded me and made me grow taller. I didn't notice any other difference.

Was that it? Did she do the wrong spell?

"Well, how do I look?”

Spike and Twilight got on the ground and covered their ears.

"Please, whatever you did, don't do it again. It emits a high pitch noise when you do it."

What?

I looked in the mirror and saw that I had been turned into, out of all the nightmarish creatures in mythology and legend, Slenderman.

You gotta be joking. I don't even believe he exists. How could he be a nightmare from within me?

I was about to say something, but I quickly put a hand over my nonexistent mouth.

"The spell should wear off very soon,” Twilight informed.

A few seconds later, I started to shrink down.

"You weren't exaggerating when you said 'very soon.' But that was certainly an interesting experience,” I said.

"Who, or what, was that thing anyway?"

"It's a very mysterious creature titled 'The Slenderman.' Basically if you see him you're marked by him to haunt you until
you're captured by him. And once you're captured by him... well nobody--"

"Nopony."

"Whatever. No one knows what happens. When you're captured you're never heard from again."

"Wow," Spike commented.

"I haven't read about that before," Twilight said.

"Now on to spell number twenty-five. The growing spell."

Growing spell..? Where have I heard that before?

Twilight's horn glowed and the purple aura went around Spike's nose. Within seconds he grew a mustache. He looked at
himself in a mirror, looking satisfied with his brown handlebar mustache.

"Oh ho yeah. Hello Rarity,” Spike said slyly.

Twilight giggled while I rubbed my beard.

"Sorry Romeo, but it's gotta go,” Twilight said.

Spike tried to keep it, but Twilight used another spell to get rid of it in a flash.

"Don't worry. Girls are more into beards anyway," I whispered to Spike.

"Really?" He asked.

"Aye."

Lies.

"Now that we're done with that. Trevor, why don't we walk around Ponyville for a little bit, It might help you learn the area,”
Twilight said.

"Sure, why not.”

“Can I come too?” Spike asked.

“Are all your chores done?”

“Finished them this morning.”

“Okay, you can come then.”

The three of us headed towards downtown. The town looked very similar to the show itself. Though it wasn't that surprising
seeing the similarities.

"Gangway! Coming through!" Someone up ahead of us announced.

I looked up the road and saw Snips and Snails running towards us. They ran into Spike and carried him off.

"Snips, Snails, what's going on?" Spike asked.

Snips and Snails stopped in their tracks. Spike flew off of Snips and into the side of a building.

"Haven't you heard? There's a new unicorn in town," Snails said.

"Yeah. They say she has more magic than any unicorn ever," Snips said.

"Tis a bold claim indeed," I commented.

"Who are you?" Snails asked.

"The name's Trevor. Nice to meet you lads.”

"Where is this new unicorn?" Twilight asked.

"She's in the town square. Come on."

Snips and Snails took off.

Wait, I think things are starting to come back to me. Yeah, this is the time when-- Oh Gorlog not her.

We followed them to the town square. Pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies surrounded a yellow mobile hut. We made our way to the front where we met the rest of the mane 6.

"Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the great and powerful Trixie!" An unseen speaker
announced.

The stage unfolded. In the background of the stage were cardboard cutouts of planets and star, while on the front of the
stage were trumpets. A flash of sparkles appeared on stage and in the middle was Trixie. The crowed oohed and aww'd at the display.

That's not impressive.

"Now watch in awe as the great and powerful Trixie preforms the greatest feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes,"
Trixie said.

Now begins the third-person talking.

Mini fireworks shot out of the trumpets.

"My, my. What boasting," Rarity said.

"Oh come on, no pony is as good as Twi--" Spike began to complain.

He stopped himself once he remembered he was next to Rarity.

"I-I mean, uh. Hey, Rarity,” Spike tried to recover smoothly.

Them some wise words of wisdom came back to him.

"Beard!" He yelled as he ran off.

I couldn't help but smile and chuckle.

"There's nothing wrong with being talented is there?" Twilight asked.

"Course not. Unless you're showin' it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons," Applejack replied.

"Just because one can preform lots of magic does not mean they are better than the rest of us," Rarity pointed out.

"Especially when you have me around, being the best than the rest of us," Rainbow Dash commented.

Me and Applejack gave her a deathly stare. Rainbow Dash directed her sight on me and reflected my stare.

You're very good at holding grudges, aren't you?

She looked back towards the stage.

"I mean, uh. Magic schmagic. Boo,” Rainbow Dash jeered.

Trixie looked down at us.

"I see we have some neigh-sayers in the audience," Trixie said.

I'll have to kill her for that one.

"Who is so ignorant to challenge me, the great and powerful Trixe. The most powerful unicorn in Equestria!?” She
challenged.

“Does thou knows who you really are?" I muttered.

"Besides, Twilight--" Spike began to counter.

"Shhh, Spike," Twilight interrupted.

Twilight scooted Spike to the back of the crowd. Trixie's mini fireworks went off again and Rainbow Dash flew on the stage.

"So 'great and powerful Trixie.' what makes you think you're so awesome anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked spitefully.

"Why, only the great and powerful Trixie had the magic to vanquish the dreaded Ursa Major," Trixie said.

Twilight and Spike came back just in time to see another set of mini firework go off. The explostion formed into a blue bear
with a star on it's head.

"When all hope was lost, the ponies of Hoofington had no one to turn to. But the great and powerful Trixe stepped in, and
with her awesome magic, vanquish the Ursa Major, and sent it back crawling to it's cave deep within the Everfree Forest."

"That settles it," Snips concluded.

"Trixie truly is the most magical, most talented, and most awesome unicorn in all of Ponyville," Snails said.

"No. In all of Equestria."

"How do you know? You didn't see it. And besides Twi--" Spike began to counter again

Twilight magically put a zipper on his mouth and closed it.

"Ha ha ha. It's true my enthusiastic little admirers. Trixie most certainly is the best in Ponyville," Trixie said.

The crowd went silent. I crouched down and leaned close to Twilight.

"I have a plan that could end this foolishness," I whispered.

"What is it?" Twilight asked quietly.

"The nightmare spell. Use it on me."

"Why? How would that help?" Twilight asked.

"Trust me, but tell everyone--"

"Everypony," me and Twilight corrected at the same time.

"To cover their ears."

"Don't believe the great and powerful Trixie? Well then, I challenge you, Ponyvillians. Anything you can do, I can do better,"
Trixie said.

"Challenge accept, fool!" I said confidently, cracking my fingers.

"And what can you do?" Trixie asked.

"Just watch."

I stepped on stage and shooed Rainbow Dash away.

"With the help of my friend Twilight,” I said.

Twilight's horn began to glow and the purple aura surrounded me. Once I started growing taller I knew that it had worked.
Everybody looked amazed or terrified. When I saw that ponies were starting to cover their ears, I took a deep breath and screamed at the top of my lungs. Trixie got on the ground and covered her ears. I could hear the groans of different ponies over my window-shattering scream. When I finished screaming I met Trixie face-to-face. Her face looked calm and cool, but in her eyes I saw fear.

Scared yet?

A few seconds later the spell wore off.

"Let's see you do better." I whispered.

"Um. Unfortunately for you, the great and powerful Trixie is tired of preforming magical feats beyond comprehension," Trixie
said, trying to act brave.

"Very well. I will leave you to your simple parlor tricks," I said.

After I had stepped off the stage moments later, the crowd started to disband and Trixie packed up the stage portion of her
mobile home. Me and Twilight headed back to the tree house while Spike talked to Snips and Snails.

"So, what was your plan?" Twilight asked.

"Doing what the spell did. I became a nightmare within me and tried to scare her out of town. Though, by the look of it, it didn't work. Why didn't you show her up when you had the chance?"

"You saw how they reacted to Trixie. If I went up there and showed off my magic, I would have lost my friends."

"Mahogany. There's a difference between claiming a title and earning one."

"It's the same thing."

I face-palmed.

"So about my living conditions.”

"You can live with me. If you give me more information about you and where you came from. And test some of my spells."

She smiled at the deal.

This can't end well.

"Alright. I accept your conditions.”

We shook on it.