Equestria, a New World. (Undergoing rewrite)

by Vinnoe

4. Guide

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  I open my eyes, and immediately I feel as if my nose is broken. I get up and I touch my nose and i felt a sharp pain causing me to wince. I go ahead and drink one of my few health potions, which instantly snapped my nose together with a cool feeling. I then go ahead and touch my nose again and there was no pain. I always did something like that, as if I feel it didn't work or something. I look at the walls for the first time and I noticed that this must be a living wood tree. Then I look at the walls. I must have had my jaw drop to the floor to the sheer amount of books. I couldn't even comprehend it, I immediately started looking through for one that had spells in it. Good spells. But then I realized something. I won't be able to cast them, because they aren't made for mana. I turned around to see Twilight right behind me, and immediately felt my heart rate get so dangerously high that I might have a heart attack.

  I took a moment to take deep breaths to get my heart rate back down before saying "Don't sneak up on people. You nearly killed me."

  "Couldn't you hear me trotting down the stairs?" Twilight asked.

  "No. I was busy looking through book titles to find a spell that would be useful to me. Well, one that I can actually CAST." I said, annoyed.

  "There are tons of spells here, why can't you ca- oh yeah. you can't because you use mana. Not normal magic." She said, then seemed to remember something. "I DO have one book  that contains a spell that nobody can use. Maybe you could?" pointing with her hoof at a particularly dusty book near the bottom. When I bent over and read the title. Water Bolt. I immediately felt excited and clapped before grabbing the book and shooting one at the ceiling. I would have casted more but I only have 20 mana. and only 4 fallen stars. So I won't be able to craft any mana crystals just yet. When I looked at the bolt I shot, I realized I shot it at an angle in which it will hit twilight, not knowing how much health she has, I shoved her out of the way and took the blow myself. I felt a wet, but very painful feeling on the left side of me under my rib cage. My armor blocked out some of the damage but I still took much of the blow.

  "What was that fo-" Twilight said looking angry, until she realized why I had shoved her out of the way.

  "Water bolt. It actually hurt." I said already healing. "Just give me a sec and i'll be completely fine."

"How will you be fine?! You were hit by an unknown spell!" Twilight said, almost seeming a little crazy.

  I raised my left eyebrow in a questioning look "What do you mean? It wouldn't matter if it was fatal." I said, gaining an odd look. "What? Aren't any of you immortal?"

  "A-are you saying you're a god?" she said.

  "No. Are you an idiot? Gods don't exist." I said. "Terrarians. Aka me and a rumored Disciple of the Spirit of Dar-" I heard a faint screaming, which seemed to get louder with every second until it didn't actually get any louder. "Who the hell is screaming?" I asked, noticing twilight was looking at something. I turned around, only to face someone familiar. Someone who was now covered in large cuts and was bleeding profusely.

  "Wait. Cody, is that you?!" I asked, shaking him, getting his attention.

  "N-Nightshade? Where were you?" He asked, seemingly calming down. "Where am I?"

  "How did you get here? Why do you look so wounded?. Drink this" I said, handing him a healing potion, which closed up most of his wounds.

  "I d-don't know... But this guy, he said he was the Disciple. He attacked us. With a blade that looked remarkably familiar." He said, calming even more, but obviously distressed.

  "Are Wilbur and Emily safe? And theres something you don't know? I'm surprised." I asked.

  "No. They are running for their lives." He said.

  "Hold on a second. Why did this guy just show up out of nowhere?" Twilight asked.

  "You have no sympathy for someone who would have died? That's just cold Twilight" I said, glaring.

  "Says the pony who kills things." She retorted.

  "That's different. Those are evil." I said

  "Do they really deserve to die?" Twilight asked. I thought about it for a moment.

  "Yes. They kill people. In the most painful ways possible." I said. Just then, I heard the flapping of wings. Not feathered wings. More bat wings than anything. I thought nothing of it.

  "Those wingbeats... they sound like the disciples wings." Cody said. Then I became very worried. "The Disciple is dangerous. I heard he's more powerful than the eater of worlds, maybe even stronger than Plantera."

  "Plantera?" Both Twilight and I asked at the same time.

  "The jungle guardian. Plantera is exactly what it sounds like. A plant. But anyone who has fought him, Didn't come back. But Nightshade, you're near immortality gives you an advantage. It allows you to try again, and again, and again as many times as you want. Effectively making it so you will eventually find a way to defeat it." Cody said, before walking to one of the couches and fell asleep.

  "... He fell asleep faster than I did." I said, surprised.

  "Really? You just went ahead and fell asleep in midair. I think you still hold the record." Twilight said. "Both of you fell asleep faster than Rainbow Dash. And she sleeps. A lot."

  "Okay? I'm going to go find the portal that's in the Everfree. See you in maybe, 5-6 minutes? You know what. Do you know how to teleport?" I asked. Surprising myself because I never ask anyone to go with me on my little 'Adventures'.

  "Yes, why?" Twilight answered, actually looking like she's thinking all the possibilities about what I might reply.

  "Well, it might help me that if you came along with me, just in case one of those uhhh.. Manticores comes along and tries to  kill us? Because my weapons just didn't scratch it when I first got here. That, and I think you want to see the portal." I said, noticing something like a speck of dust, which was very small, and apparently... Purple, fly in front of my eye and land on my right hand. I felt dark energy just POURING out of it, as if it was... Oh shit. The corruption is here.

  "Well now that I think of it, I do want to see the portal." She said, now looking at me. "What you looking at?" She must have seen the fear on my face, because she then said, "Whats wrong?"

  "You know about the corruption I told you all about? Apparently it's uh, here. In Equestria. Because this speck of what I think might be dust, or a spore, is releasing so much dark energy. That, and it's purple." I said, not sure what to do with it. "I need to find someplace to destroy this. Know any place with lava in it? Or put it in the ground in a place where it can't spread. Preferably something with tons of clay. I mean tons. Because it can't corrupt clay. It will just remain there, doing completely nothing and we can forget about it. Or we could purify it. But we have no means of doing so." I said, calming myself down. "You know what, just put it in a jar for now. It won't do any harm that way and we can figure out what to do with it later."

  Twilight looked at me as if I was crazy and said "I don't sense any dark energy coming from it. You're lying. I don't see how a speck of regular dust could harm us." Then with that she used her magic and took it out of my hand and opened the door then dropped it on the ground. "lets just go see the portal."

  "... Fine. Don't say I didn't warn you." I said and walked out the door and in the direction of the portal. She will see when we get back. We went to where the portal the was, and to add to my fear, the portal was gone, without a trace.

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