The Odd Visitor to Equestria

Princess Celestia was hearing out one of her subjects as he was asking for help because his village was infested with rodents that had eaten or destroyed all of his village crops. Suddenly he was knocked back as a small colorful vortex. Immediately she called for their new guard commander.

Their new guard commander ran in to the room. Princess Celestia ordered him to go fetch the other Princesses. He saluted and ran out of the throne room. He arrived at a pavilion where he found a Pegasus guard and ordered him to do two things. First go inform Princess Twilight Sparkle that she was needed in Canterlot for an urgent matter, then why he was in Ponyville to go find Rainbow Dash and tell her that she needs to fly to the Crystal Empire as fast as possible to inform Princess Cadence that she is urgently needed in Canterlot. The guard took off flying.

The guard commander ran to go find Princess Luna as fast as he could. It certainly didn't help that he didn’t know where she was. No Princess Luna had her own guard that didn’t answer to him and because of that he always had trouble finding her. His second in command ran over to him as he entering another pavilion “sir, I was ordered to have you come back to the throne room”.

“No I have to find Princess Luna” he shouted in frustration.

“Sir she is in the throne room” he replied coolly.

The guard commander was relieved, and then frustration whit this took him over had he ran to the throne room. As he entered he had a familiar daydream of smacking Princess Luna’s personal guard commander for keeping him out of the loop.

Twilight was sitting down for lunch when suddenly she heard the sound of clanging armor. She looked up and saw an armored Pegasus racing towards her very fast. He veered off and landed about ten feet away from her. He started “Princess Twilight” he gasped “Princess Celestia has ordered you back to Canterlot there’s something urgent”.

Twilight was confused “What’s going on”.

The guard was surprised “I am sorry Princess but I wasn’t told. All I know is that you need to get to Canterlot as soon as possible and that you need to tell me where Rainbow Dash is”.

Twilight was still confused “why do you need to find Rainbow Dash?”

“I was ordered to have her fly to the Crystal Empire to get Princess Cadance and Shining Armor”.

“Why can’t one of the royal guards do it”.

“All the guards of Canterlot have been ordered to stay in Canterlot and we can’t afford to have any guards away right now”.

“But you’re away from Canterlot right now” Twilight exclaimed.

“Yes, I’m suppose to escort you back to Canterlot after I inform Rainbow Dash of her mission. Now where is she”.

“I think she’s at her home”.

“Great show me the way” he said as Twilight started to run off, he followed her at a run.

They arrived at Rainbow Dashes home and the guard flew up to here house and knocked on her door franticly “Rainbow Dash for the sake of the princess come out of there”.

Rainbow opened the door and he started before she could say anything “Princess Celestia has ordered you to fly as fast as you can to the Crystal Empire and tell Princess Cadence that she and Shining Armor Are needed in Canterlot right away for urgent business” he shouted at her. Then Rainbow Dash got a confused look.

“What’s going on” Rainbow Dash asked.

The guard was frustrated “just go there isn’t time you need to go inform the Princess now”.

Rainbow said “right” and flew away as fast as she could.

The guard flew down and turned toward Twilight “we have to go to Canterlot, I am sorry princess but you will have to fly there with your own wings we must go, can you fly fast”.

Twilight shook her head slowly “sorry but I’m not the best flyer”

The guard was annoyed but didn’t show it “fine we will need to start flying then, shall we be off then”.

She was hurrying she didn't have time, the Princesses, Celestia and Luna, said it was urgent. This meant something was good or bad it was hard to tell by the tone of the letter. Twilight being herself decided just to rush to their summons. She turned quickly into the throne room and nearly ran into a guard.

"Hay watch it “the guard shouted then he saw who he was addressing and bowed in humility. "Forgive me Princess Twilight; I didn't know it was you".

"Its fine Ster..." she trailed off as she saw the small vortex of reds, blues, and every color in-between in the center of the room. It was no bigger than a ponies head but it was growing slowly but surely.

She started approached it, then she herd "Twilight get back" the words came from behind her. She looked back to see her brother standing at the entrance, in full battle regale. Celestia and Luna were standing behind him ushering Twilight to come back behind the guards.

Twilight started to move toward the Princesses and her brother. "What is that thing?" she inquired

Shining Armor turned to her and said "we don't know, but whatever it is it's giving off powerful magic".

"The odd thing is" Celestia spoke "there's no source, the magic is coming from nowhere. We also can’t find out where it is coming from."

"This magic is unlike none we have ever seen before" Luna stated.

"It is discomforting to see the castle defenses so easily penetrated" Shining Armor said.

"So we have no idea where this magic is coming from, and we can’t track it down" Twilight began to panic.

Shining Armor began to comfort her "settle down Twilight, settle down".

Suddenly a female voice came from the vortex “We have to hurry".

A male voice responded "There isn't enough time, we've been found out the Templar’s are coming". There was a pounding sound like metal on wood.

A third voice began "quick Leana you won the straws, you have to go through the portal now".

"I won't leave Fangar" the female voice yelled.

Just as the female voice had yelled that Princess Cadance had entered the throne room, having being done dealing with two servants and their lovers quail. She could feel the strain of love in the female voice.

"Fine then, I’ll go through the portal first so you two love birds can know its safe" the third voice shouted.

Every pony could hear the bitterness in the third voice. But there was something else there something hard to describe. Not frustration, nor annoyance.

Suddenly the vortex began to grow and change. It got more and more colorful as it grew. Every guard in the room got in a battle stance, every guard except Shining Armor who was charging up a spell it was a modified version of the spell he had used to protect Canterlot during his wedding, this spell contained instead of keep out.

As his spell charged he said "Stern Side, get the Princess out of here. I don’t want to put them in any unnecessary dangers".

"Sir, yes sir" Stern Side said obediently. He turned to the Princesses "your highnesses you need to come with me"

Then the vortex made a sound, there was a shockwave that knocked every pony over, disrupting Shining Armor's spell. The shockwave launched Stern Side out of the room, he landed on his face.

Out of the vortex came a tall, dark-brown unicorn stallion, with hazel eyes. His horn was slightly longer than usual and was sharpened. He had a beard that was a darker brown, his mane was the same color. Oddly he was wearing some sort of dress, it was blue with bits of green, and it covered most of his body leaving just his hooves uncovered by it. No those were covered with some kind of boots made from an odd substance. As he walked out, it was apparent by the sound he made when he walked he had different boots on his hind legs. On his back was a gnarled wooden staff that’s top looked like a tree with a deep blue gemstone encrusted in the center of its branches.

The stallion suddenly turned back at the sound of wood splintering. There was a screech as Leana was stabbed. The stallion began to run back then a figure appeared in the vortex "No Welik one of us must survive this" there was a blast of magic.

The stallion Welik yelled "No Fangar not blood magic".

"Sorry old friend" he yelled through the portal, and Fangar could be seen through the portal being stabbed as he threw a gem through. The brown unicorn tried to catch it but it was hit off angel by one of the Templar knights swords.

Shining Armor was just getting up as he saw another stallion run through the vortex. It was an earth pony wearing odd armor, it was clanking and the armor was covering its entire body except its mouth, which was holding a sword.

The armored stallion charged at the brown stallion. "Die mage" he shouted very clearly threw his clenched teeth.

The brown stallion simply sidestepped and as the armored stallion pasted him, he tried to shoot the armored stallion in the back with a spell but it was deflected off the armored stallion’s armor and hit part of the ceiling. The armored stallion’s nostrils blared “just for that I’m going to have you go through the Right of Annulment”

The brown stallion shot back “not if I close the portal first”. He ran over to the gem and grabbed it, as he muttered a few words and a beam shot from the gem. The armored stallion charged as the brown stallion, but when the brown stallion went to sidestep the armored stallion threw out its hoof and hit him. The brown stallion simply ducked at the last moment. The armored stallion stabbed the tip of his sword into the ground and used it to pole-vault up and turned around then charged again, the brown stallion shot a bright light and dodged. The part of the ceiling fell on the armored stallion’s head; he fell and didn’t get back up.

The brown stallion turned and that was the first time he saw them, he was too caught up in the fight that he didn't even notice the ponies in the room. "What in Andrastes name are a bunch of horses doing in such a grand place" he asked.

Shining Armor spoke sternly "who are you and who is he." He pointed with his horn to the armored stallion.

At this the brown stallion eyes widened in surprise, and then he started laughing "really you demons are sure getting desperate for tricks, to think you want me to believe that horses can talk". He was cracking up " Oh no, I'm in the land of talking horses, here have my vessel. Anything to escape this prison you've built here. On second thought no". He pulled that staff of his back and slammed the end without the gem on the ground yelling "be gone foul spirits"

There was a flash of white light from the gem on top of the staff, every pony closed their eyes. When the light had subsided the brown stallion looked around expecting to see the demons true forms but there were only the horses. A puzzled look cam on his face "What, how, you're not demons or spirits? That means, Fangar you devil you were right." He spoke as though his friend was there right beside him. Remembering his friend’s fate he hung his head.

The vortex was still open behind him, it was shrinking but still open the stallion turned toward it and shouted "Knight Commander, I will have vengeance for what you have done to my friends. You hear me I will have vengeance”. The armored earth pony got back up, the vortex closed, and both the brown unicorn and the armored earth pony collapsed on the ground.

Shining Armor walked up to the collapsed unicorn stallion and tried to wake him but he couldn't. "He's out Princesses, what shall the guards do with them your Highnesses"

All of the Princesses looked at Celestia, seeing the Princess do that all of the guards did as well. Celestia said with certainty "place them in guest rooms on opposite ends of the palace and have them under a constant guard, also get the treated I want to know what just happened."

Every guard said in unison "Yes you’re Highness".

As the Princesses walked away Princess Cadance leaned towards Princess Twilight and whispered "you know if the brown stallion isn't insane he might make a good suitor".

Twilight acted surprised "what makes you say that?”

"He's handsome, great with magic, clearly on the side of good…”

Twilight cut her off "he is also be hunted by a knight of a seemingly religious order".

Princess Cadance cocked her head "how do you figure that?"

"The symbols on his armor" Twilight stated. “The other knights that we could see had the same symbols on their armor”.

Princess Cadance arched an eyebrow "that is a fair assessment, I guess".

Twilight turned to Princess Luna "do you think you could pear in to their dreams?" she asked. "The more we know about our guest the better, wouldn't you agree".

Luna nodded "We agree" she winced "that is to say, I agree"