The Odd Visitor to Equestria

Emon had hurried out of the Gala he was terrified of what was going to happen if the darkspawn General managed to break out of Welik. There was also the matter of the other darkspawn that were rampaging across northern Equestria. He was feeling a slight pain in his chest, it was the darkspawn inside him, it wanted out, but he was strong and disciplined from years of practice. Welik on the other hand doesn’t have years of discipline and may turn at any time.

Emon reached Weliks room; a pegasus guard put his weapon in front of Emon. Emon just looked at the guard then said “really, let me in”. The pegasus guard looked at his partner and they both stepped aside letting Emon inside.

Emon walked inside and looked at the bed, there was a lump under the sheets. Emon hesitated “Welik? Are you ok?”

“No I am…rang rang” Welik was speaking the untranslated language of the darkspawn. Emon was terrified of what was about to happen, but Welik continued “Leave I must fight this alone.”

“How can you?”

“In... Fade…it…only…way” Weliks voice was straining “Go” He bellowed.

Emon jumped back, and then he left the room. He turned toward the guards and said “post a guard out of his window, I won’t allow him to escape no matter what, understood?”

The guards saluted, then the pegasus guard ran off and Emon assumed he was going to fly out of the window, and he went to his room.

Before Emon got to his room a guard rushed over to him and told him that princess Luna wanted to see him. Emon asked the guard where to go and was surprised to hear he was to go back to the Gala.

Emon found Luna and asked “Why am I here?” in a stern voice. Then catching himself he said “forgive me your highness, I’m a little on edge with what’s going on, but I digress.”

“I told the other princess about Welik and they agree to keep Weliks condition secret. Twilight thinks she can help with a spell that will require us all.” She looked at him happily. Emon face was blank. Luna asked “What’s wrong?”

Emon answered “that didn’t work the last time or the time before that, I doubt it will work this time.”

“But this can’t be the same spell and doesn’t magic work differently here?” Luna asked.

“Then there is a slight chance, but I wouldn’t count on it. But we have to let him try to beat the General himself.”

“How?”

“In the Fade.” As Emon spoke a realization came over him. “You have to help him, well you don’t have to but… he needs your help.”

“What about the spell?” Luna asked.

“You may not have to try it if you help him in the Fade. You go help him, I’ll inform the other Princesses of the plan, go now we have to save him, and in turn Equestria.” Emon said as he ran off.

Luna was having trouble getting into Weliks dream. This was a sharp contrast of how easy it was to get in before. She pushed harder and eventually broke in.

She had expected the usual floating island, what she saw was completely unexpected. She was in a immense cavern, there were odd buildings all around. She looked down and saw, thousand of pail, furless ponies, their eyes as black as Weliks had gotten. They each carried black swords, their armor was black as well and they were all marching in the same direction.

She looked around and saw three large pale ogres, they were attacking a door. She looked at a bridge and saw a large black dragon it was perched on a bridge, she recognized it as the second dragon that had flown into the mist the first time she had entered Weliks dreams. The dragon looked at her directly and pointed with his tail towards a outcropping.

Luna looked at it and saw two mages in pony form battling out on it. She flew in closer so she could hear what they were shouting at each other.

“I won’t give in to you” Welik shouted.

“Fine I’ll just kill you and take my body.” The General shouted back.

“I won’t let you.”

“You won’t let me; please you’ve never beaten me before, not without his help at least.”

“Please the Archdemon never helped me.” At that Welik shot a fire ball at the General. The General impossibly cough tut with his staff, then threw it back at Welik. It hit Welik; Welik flew back and almost fell off of the outcropping.

The General walked forward and stopped about two meters from Welik. He spoke “Welik I don’t want to kill you, so I offer you a deal…”

Welik cut him off “What kind of deal?”

“One were you don’t get destroyed and I don’t convert every pony in Canterlot to darkspawn right away. Even thought I will be losing my best Hurlock Vanguard” The General said, grinning his sharp toothed grin.

“If I except you won’t convert any of the ponies here to darkspawn?”

“Yes, in fact I won’t start infecting ponies until I meet up with the bulk of the darkspawn horde in Equestria”

“I know you’re not lying, fine…”

At that Luna dived at the General and knocked him down. The General was up quickly and using his staff, he hit her with a bolt of magic.

Luna was kicked out of the dream. She heard something though she flew around the dream to see Lust and Valor arguing about this predicament they were in. she rolled her eyes and left the area to return to Equestria.

Emon was in full battle regale, running as fast as he could in it. Amazingly in full armor he was still faster than any of the guards that where following him. Luna had told him of the General’s deal and he was worried.

Emon arrived at Welik’s room; he pushed the guards aside and went in only to see the Great Darkspawn General standing there in his darkspawn armor and his staff. The staff was like Welik’s hut was black instead of brown and the gem was red.

The General looked towards him and then began to run at the window. The window shattered as the General jumped through it. Welik’s room faced away from the mountain and the General was falling past Canterlot. Emon rushed to the window as he told all the pegasus around him to catch the General. Three pegasus flew after him.

The General looked up and used his staff to shoot several mana bolts at the pegasus that where following him. Then Emon saw it, a darkspawn ogre jumped from the mountain under Canterlot, it caught the General in mid air and landed away from Canterlot. Emon wasn’t sure but he knew that ogres couldn’t survive that fall so did the General. He couldn’t see General or the ogre anymore, this wasn’t good, if the General still lived then the darkspawn to the north would soon have one of the greatest tactical darkspawns in the history of their race.

Emon left the room determination on his face as he put his helmet on. The princess appeared and asked what had happened. Emon explained by to them exactly what had happened and explained his plan. He was going to use the mages phylactery to track him down and kill him before he can muster up a strong enough force to cause real trouble.

Twilight asked “What’s a phylactery?”

“It’s something we use to track down mages. Now if you’ll pardon me I have to go kill a being of pure evil.”

“Will killing the General will also cause Welik to die as well?” Celestia asked.

“Yes” Emon face was stern “but it is the only way”.

“What about the Elements of Harmony? Can’t those work?” Twilight asked.

Emon looked at her “Whet in Andraste’s name, are the Elements of Harmony?”

Twilight was surprised “you’ve lived here for over a month and a half, and you’ve never heard of the Elements of Harmony?”

Emon looked blankly at her then said “I spent most of my time here going through lyrium withdraw!”

Twilight shrugged “I forgot, but let’s just use those.”

Emon looked at each of them “how do these things work?”

“Well we get the Elements and there bearers together and we use them on Welik.”

“Let me guess the Element’s bearers are spread across all of Equestria and we must go on an epic quest to find and gather all of them.”

The other Princesses looked at Twilight “Well actually most of the Elements are in Ponyville.”

Emon was confused “then we must track down the other ones won’t we”

“No” Twilight began “The last Element is me”.

Emon was completely confused now “Then this Ponyville must be hard to get to, right?”

“Not really it’s just a short train ride away” Twilight replied.

“I don’t like this, it’s too easy” Emon was skeptical.

“Fine, I will accompany you to this Ponyville, help you collect the Elements and then lead you to Welik. We must leave at once.”

“Let’s go” Twilight said as she ran off. Emon followed and soon caught up, putting his helmet on as he ran.

Fortunately Pinkie Pie was throwing a post Gala party and Twilight had gotten an invitation, they knew just where to look.

Twilight and Emon burst into Pinkies house and stopped the music. Pinkie turned towards Twilight and asked “what’s going on, why did you turn off the music?”

“There’s an urgent matter that requires the Elements of Harmony” Twilight said to the other ponies. The ponies looked at Emon who hadn’t taken off his helmet.

Rainbow Dash asked “who is this” she said pointing at Emon.

Twilight was about to answer but Emon said “forgive me Princess but may I introduce myself?”

Twilight turned to him and said “by all means.”

“Very well” Emon began “My name is Knight Commander Emon of the holy Chantry of Andraste”. As he said this the light hit his armor and it shined. Rarity was infatuated by it.

Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes “I’ve never heard of the holy Chantry of Andraste” she said skeptically.

Emon looked at her “I should hope not it has no presence in Equestria.”

Applejack walked over to Twilight “Ya’ll sure we can trust him, sugar cube”.

Twilight nodded “Positive he’s been living in Canterlot for the last month and a half.”

Emon pulled out Welik’s phylactery which he had on a necklace and began to start turning around. The other ponies looked at him like he was crazy. “Ah ha” Emon exclaimed “He’s that way. He pointed northward and slightly eastward. “We must leave at once before the darkspawn horde expands and the General becomes out of reach.”

The five ponies looked at each other and Rainbow Dash said “Twilight, are you sure he’s not crazy”.

“He’s not now come on the chariots await us”. Twilight had arranged for pegasus guards to take them all too where the General was.

They were passing Canterlot as twilight was wrapping up her lecture of what had happened in Canterlot over the last month and a half. Rainbow Dash flew to the chariot that Emon was on and asked him if it was true. He nodded and said “Yes I am from Ferelden”. At that Rainbow Dash started to bombard him with questions about where he lived. After about fifteen minutes of this, Emon was annoyed and asked her “I’ve heard you where fast, mind proving yourself by informing the Princesses of the progress of our quest. In fact how about a friendly wager, I’ll wager ten gold agents you think you can match it?”

“You’re on” Rainbow said, and then she darted off towards Canterlot.

“You know we could have just sent a letter to them with Spike” Twilight told him.

“That’s a good idea after I lose this wager, I’ll wager that she can’t take spike back to Canterlot in under twenty minutes.”

“That’s not what I said.”

“I know but I can’t stand being grilled by that pony any more”.

Rainbow Dash returned in thirteen minutes and Emon pulled out ten gold coins “here you go. Now bet you can’t take Spike here back to Canterlot in under thirty minutes. What say another ten gold” they shook and Rainbow Dash flew off, as Emon watched he saw spike fall off multiple times. “That should keep her busy for a while” he said to himself, as the five remaining ponies looked at him. “What I never liked being grilled”.

They where half way there when Rainbow Dash finally caught up with them “ha that was thirty-seven minutes you owe me ten gold.

Rainbow took out the ten gold pieces he had given her and gave them back to him.

Emon was about to talk when he heard a tremendous chatter. He looked over the edge of the chariot and saw a large dark mass. Twilight asked “what is that?”

Emon replied grimly “The Darkspawn horde, it’s grown quickly, it now numbers four thousand seven hundred thirty-eight.”

“Wo you can count that many from up here” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“Truly divine vision” rarity retorted.

“It’s anything but divine” Emon retorted.

“What do you mean?” Rainbow Dash asked.

Twilight looked over at him “you don’t have to tell them”.

“Ah but I do, for should I change in the upcoming battle, they deserve to know why. You see I am what you call a Hurlock Vanguard; in fact I am one of the Vanguards that served the Great Darkspawn General directly. “

At that Rainbow Dash flew into his face “you’re what?”

“A direct servant of the very being we are trying to destroy, that at any moment change back into that form and try to kill you all.” he said calmly. “We need to get to the General. He’ll be in the center of the horde.”

“Well how are we supposed to get there” Applejack asked.

“We could fight our way through, land next to him, perform your spell from up here, or send the guards here to pick him up,” Emon proposed.

“I say we dive down, you and the guards protect us why Twilight charges her spell with the Elements and we blast him!” Rainbow said eagerly.

“Shock and ah tactics are frowned upon by the grey wardens. However that would probably be the best option”.

They dived, as soon as they landed the pegasus guards and Emon jumped and they all formed a circle around the main six. Twilight charged her element and they shot a rainbow at The Great Darkspawn General.

There was a flash of light and a shockwave went over all of the Darkspawn and they all turned into the ponies they were before the infection. The Elements also took it one step further and even sent them home.

When the smoke cleared a single form was standing in front of them. It was the Darkspawn General. The General smiled and said “you’ve freed me from him”.

Emon took his helmet off “Welik is that you”.

The General got a confused look on his face “what do you mean, of course it’s me”, than he looked down. Welik was still in the body of the Great Darkspawn General, but his mind was his. He looked back up at Emon “your plan didn’t work.” he announced.

Rainbow Dash rushed him. Welik did what cam naturally to him; he sidestepped at the last moment.

“Emon I’m afraid I have to leave Equestria”.

“No you don’t Welik; the ponies here can help you.”

“We both know that’s a lie Emon”

“We both know I can’t let you live in that form Welik”

“We both know you can’t stop me, Emon. Besides I’m darkspawn and you aren’t a Grey Warden.”

“You’re right but if you leave you’ll be an apostate mage and that makes you my responsibility.”

“I’m leaving this peaceful land in exile Emon”.

“You know I can’t let you” Emon drew his sword and charged Welik.

Welik knew sidestepping wouldn’t work he drew his staff. As Emon got close Welik blasted him with magic. Emon flew upward and landed about ten yards away. He hobbled to his hooves, as he put pressure on his right for hoof he fell it was broken. Welik began “I can’t thank you enough” he was addressing the main six “you freed me from the prison of the Generals mind”. He turned to Emon “Do not follow Emon I refuse to cause you more peril”. With that he disappeared in a ball of green light.

Emon was leaning ageist a guard and was being led to one of the chariots when Pinkie Pie yelled “Hay, what’s that?” Emon turned and saw where Pinkie Pie was pointing, there were papers on the ground and on top of it was a necklace. Of course by the time this had registered Twilight had already picked it up and was trying to read what was on it.

“What weird language is this?” she asked aloud then resisted some of it “Luna ma emma lath. What does that mean?”

Emon was coming over “it’s Dalish, as for what it means, it says “Luna you are my love”. May I see it?”

“Sure” Twilight said handing the papers to Emon.

“Oh, this seems to be a love letter to Princess Luna. I will translate it on the way home, now let’s go, I need medical attention.”

They were back in Canterlot. Emon went straight to the throne room and found Luna there. He hobbled over to her having refused medical attention until he delivered the letter.

He walked up to her and said “Welik wanted you to have this” he pulled out a letter and handed it to her. Then turned away and began to leave.

She had a confused look on her face as she saw the odd language; she asked “how do I read this.”

As Emon was about to leave the room he turned over his left shoulder and said “there is a translation on the back.”

As Luna read Weliks love letter she began to cry. It was romantic, and it only enforced her grief. Twilight had told Celestia and Luna what had happened. Than Emon reentered the room and said “I almost forgot he also wanted you to have this” he pulled out a lovely necklace. Emon pointed out to her that it was a powerful type of phylactery that would allow her to track Welik down with ease.

Luna took the necklace and went to her chambers and softly wept. The only pony brave enough to court her and he had left Equestria entirely just to protect it.

In Emon’s quarters he pulled out a second untranslated sheet of paper. He knew what it was and he was slightly happy. It was detailed instructions on how to use the portal spell in this realm.

But the cost was great just to get this sheet of paper and he knew he had to find Welik.

Beyond the border of Equestria in a cave Welik was looking up at the moon and remembering all the lives he had ruined. He counted them off Marith, Fanger, Leana, Emon, Flemeth, and most recently Luna. He sat on his haunches and turned towards the candle he had lit to help him see in the dark. He muttered to himself “Darkspawn don’t need light” and blew out the candle.