The Future of Magic

The future of magic

Chapter 1: Equestria's newest arrival

This is my first fanfic guys, so go easy on me... I do not own my little pony or any of the references in this story. Enjoy (^_^) now revised

The summer sun celebration. A time for fun and enjoyment, for all of the ponies it is a favorite amongst all of equestria, an equal to hearths warming day. The elements of harmony, bearers of ancient form of magic that could defeat the dark forces and bring light to the world, were attending this celebration and why not. They were the ones in charge of having it set up.

The young lavender unicorn Twilight Sparkle enjoyed her punch with her friends, the celebration had gone off without a single problem, no dark creatures, no changelings, no gods of chaos that want to ruin the party.

"What's wrong, darling?" Rarity asked Twilight, concerned.

"Nothing, Rarity, I'm just glad that the celebration's going on without any trouble. I just wish my parents and my BBBFF could make it, but they're away on important business from Princess Luna."

"Oh?" Rarity inquired, curiously.

"Yeah. They sent a letter. It was about a disturbance on one of our faraway moons. Also Shining Armor wrote to me and said he had to stay with Cadence in the Crystal Empire."

"Apparently they have to elect a new heir. Important political issues and all."

Hours later, it was nighttime and it was the ending parts of the festival, princess Luna had shown up to make her now more wanted appearance and Celestia was about to give a closing speech and then conclude the festival over.

"My little ponies, I say that thanks to the help of Twilight sparkle and her friends this celebration wouldn't have been possible. It is unfortunate that we have to end the festivity but everything has to end eventually." Celestia said to the crowd, as she continued the speech, up in the sky a small dot flash appeared.

Luna looked up and let her horn glow to see what it was, a large object roughly the size of a cart was falling at an incredibly high speed, it was pointed right towards her and Celestia. "sister… forgive me for pushing you." Luna whispered to herself as she ran into Celestia knocking both out the pods path.

"Luna what is your problem? you know you're going give your speech too why would yo-…" Celestia was cut off as the pod slammed into the stage, Dust was in the air, splinters from the wooden stage flew everywhere, the guards that were there for obvious reasons rushed onto the stage, some of the Pegasus attempted to clear the dust via some heavy wing flapping.

When the Dust cleared the princesses were getting back on their hooves and the guards were assessing the situation. Twilight and the other elements were making their way through the crowd. Fluttershy was being dragged along by Dash. "Stand back Twilight… whatever this thing is, I will not let it harm any pony." Celestia said as she and Luna approached the crater.

In the crater was a large object, it was bulky and silver in color, small reinforced windows on its sides and front, on its bottom was a charred dome-like shield. A ring of foam like material lied about three feet away, small bits of smoke escape the holes of the foam.

Celestia and Luna walked over the foam ring and into the crater. Twilight got closer too, getting passed the guards and next to Celestia.

The Guards were all at the ready, horns pointed at the pod, Pegasus guards ready to strike, and earth pony guards ready to hold anything that comes out of the pod down.

Most of the towns ponies were backing up, not sure what to say about the pod.

"sister look at this… who or what ever made this had to know Equestrian writing for It has warning labels and some code name written in in-formal writing." Luna said pointing with a hoof at the code number the pod had. She had of recent finally mastered modern speech and only used her more formal old Equestrian speech in her night courts.

Celestia approached the label and noticed one above a small handle it was partially in the main plating of the pod, using her magic Celestia lifted the handle and the front of the pod hissed as smoke escaped the gap made between the door and the hull. As Twilight got closer the pod door lifted and the smoke dispersed a tall figure with no fur except on the top of its head, it wore clothing over most of its body and instead of having hooves it had a pair of hands like a monkey, over its eyes it had a pair of goggles deep royal blue lenses with a silver colored material as the straps, around its neck was what surprised Twilight and Celestia the most, a necklace made of silver chain, and gemstones, it was of a blue diamond four sided star with a teal background.

"it looks… like my cutie mark…" Twilight said with confusion and concern in her voice. A being they don't know what is, has a necklace similar to her cutie mark. As she got closer to the creature it stirred in its sleep and causing a smaller creature in its lap to yawn…

"(Yawn)… wow, that may have been the best nap I've had in weeks…(sniff-sniff)." The creature that spoke was a small dragon about spikes in size but stood on all fours, by its voice it was female, her body was covered in a silver skin with a pale yellow underbelly, her eyes were pale baby blue and on her head were hundreds of tiny spines that were drooping as if they were faking a hair style. Spike looked at her in curiosity.

She walked out of the pod and was tackled by one of the guards, "hey get off… you'll regret it if you don't!" she said as her mouth created blue sparks. Celestia saw this and walked up to them. "Iron back, as much as I enjoy that you are protecting us, I'd rather not get on the bad side of this dragon here, which may or may not be a threat." The guard looked down at her then back at Celestia, he was hesitant but got off the dragon.

"I've got my eye on you." He said as he backed up and let her stand. When she looked up at Celestia and around the area, then gasped and stepped back,

"by Solaris… where am I?" she said concerned and scared. She looked back up to Celestia and backed up a bit, she wasn't used to unknown aliens."

"Calm down little one, I'm not going to hurt you, now who are you?" Celestia said as she lowered her head to eye level the dragons

"Well… my names Afina Aritinon… well kind of… I'm not officially related to the family but I was basically adopted into it." She scratched her head with her right hind leg and rubbed her growling stomach. Celestia giggled a bit, this Afina seemed to be shy but has a voice of confidence, and maybe she only talks to creatures she knows.

"I see that you are hungry yes?" Celestia asked as she looked at the guards giving a stern look saying not to attack. she looked back down to Afina to receive a nod

"Well what do you eat?"

"Well… fish, chicken, beef, gemstones, pork, some sweets, and also if I'm desperate some vegetables." The young dragon said as she smiled showing massive fangs and sharp teeth.

"Ok... Well meats are rather one thing we don't offer… gems, are not really something I can offer at the moment but there are still plenty left over pastries if you want some." Celestia said to her as Afina looked over at the buffet table in the distance covered in various pastries.

"Do you mind?" she said as she looked up at Celestia and received a nod from her. She walked down off the stage and into the crowd that seemed to part as she got close to anypony. When she passed Rarity, she noticed an inquisitive look from her, was it the earrings or the small bracelet on her arm.

"Princess Celestia, not to going against your order, but your just letting some dragon species that doesn't look anything like any of the recorded breeds, go and get something to eat." Iron back said to her, bowing as he did so.

"Iron back as I do admire your concern, but I sense… she her peacefulness, I believe she would only attack if provoked." Celestia said as Afina ate a slice of apple pie.

Iron back was silent and looked at the large pod, he walked to the front and saw the other being, and it was asleep. He looked the creature up and down, he sneered as he used his magic to pull the other creature out of the pod and onto the stage

"What about this one princess?" Celestia walked up to the creature and looked at it, aside from the cutie mark styled necklace, it seemed odd.

Iron back poked him and he stirred in his sleep. Afina came back as iron back kept poking him, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, he tends to throw a hard punch if you kee… never mind" Afina said as she saw the human punch Iron back square in the face. The other unicorn guards pointed their horns at him.

Celestia stopped them as Iron back fell onto his side. The creature sat up. He scratched his nose looking down at the ground while doing so. "ohh… by Solaris what happened?" he said in a voice similar to Shining Armor's, but different to an extent.

He looked up to see the horn pointed in his face. He looked around to see armored Unicorns horns all pointed towards him. "uh… Afina what happened and where are we?" he said as he began sweating from stress of either getting poked in the eye or Solaris knows what.

"Beats me Aquaris… maybe she might be of better help." Afina pointed a claw to Celestia. He stood up and got a gasp from the crowd off the stage. He heard mixed comments of fear, interest, and concern. He looked at them, seeing the large various equine shaped creatures.

"Strange I thought this species of creature sentient or not was extinct. Apparently not…" he thought to himself as he looked at the bout as tall as him white Alicorn. Her snout was rounder than the guards and she was more slender. He could tell this one was female; she was about his height except for her two hand long horn. Her main and tail seemed to be of various pale colors and on her hear behind her horn was a crown.

"Who are you?" Celestia said walking up to him.

"Well, my name is Aquaris Aritinon, 2nd born of Nova and Apollo Aritinon, Bearer of the element of Arcane and apprentice to prince Solaris one of the two princes that are part of the council for protecting the rights and live of magical beings.

Celestia nodded and noticed the guards ready to strike if need be, she also noticed that Aquaris's gloved hands were clutched nervously. Iron back got up from his quick knockout, he sneered and chargsed his horn, and he shot a rather powerful spell at Aquaris without warning.

Aquaris closed his eyes and produced a shield around himself. The spell impacted and just cracked the shield. Most of the ponies gasped, some were just surprised this thing knew magic. Out of instinct he turn and shot a teal bolt of energy at Iron back, when it hit, Iron backs legs stiffened up and locked, he fell over not able to move. Some of the guards charged their horns but Celestia stopped them.

"Sorry about that… it was self-defense…" Aquaris said as he turned to Celestia, she nodded and stepped closer to him, "what are you?"

"Well I am a human, to be more precise a terran… even more precise is that I'm a mage. Now may I ask who and what are you?" Aquaris asked as he looked at Celestia and then to the group of other equines, one of them, which was all pink in fur color, seemed to be restraining herself.

"I am princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria. I and like all the others here I am a pony" she said as she received a bow from Aquaris. The guards loosened up to this, seeing that he respects their princess… but still remained vigilant to his actions. "And this is my younger sister and other co-ruler, Princess Luna." Luna walked up and held out a front hoof, Celestia wasn't all into the hoof kiss thing but Luna was, then again she had been more into the old fashioned things except for the gaming console devices she had. Aquaris did so by lightly kissing the silver hoof slipper Luna wore.

"You may rise Aquaris" Celestia said to him, followed by him standing up.

"You seem used to us even though you never see our kind before… or have you?" Luna asked as Aquaris scratched his head. "Well no I haven't but I'm so used to other species from other worlds, it's no different to me if I find a race of ponies that possess magical capabilities."

Celestia nodded and looked over his shoulder to see all of the town's ponies with concerned faces. She walked past him and spoke. "It is ok every pony, this human means us all no harm… welcome him as you would any pony else." Most was silence but one light teal in color unicorn spoke out,

"I WAS RIGHT… ALL THIS TIME I WAS RIGHT… HA HA!" she said in a giddy tone.

Celestia seemed to ignore it as if it was normal, "Now Aquaris, I want you to meet the bearers of Harmony, they will help get used to your time staying here in Equestria and my student Twilight sparkle will learn from you on what I'm presuming a different spell pallet.

"yes… and also I'm guessing they are these elements of harmony", he pointed at Twilight and the others.

Celestia nodded and then nodded to Twilight who of which stepped forth.

"I'm twilight sparkle, this is spike my number one and one of my two assistants." She said holding out a hoof,

"Well pleasure to meet you Twilight, (grabs her hoof and shakes hands/hooves) like wise to you spike. Now who may you be?" he said walking up to Rarity,

"Well I am Rarity darling; I must admit you will be an interesting creature to design new clothes for." She said head brimming with ideas for new clothing for Aquaris.

"well I'll hold you to that, if it happens my friend would love to meet you and compare designs." He said as he was tackled by a pink blur.

Hi I'm pinkie pie, I'm going to throw you a "welcome to ponyville" party" she said bouncing on top of Aquarises chest.

"That's… great… pinkie… oof… but… it's… to enjoy it… if… can you get off!" he said as she stopped bouncing and stepped off of him "thank you, and thank you for making me feel welcome. But there is a crucial factor missing… I have no house to have you host it in."

"Well I can help with that Aquaris, nearby Twilights home is a perfect spot for you to build

"Well thank you princess also I don't need to build it. After I'm introduced to you three I'll show you what I mean"

"Well I'm Applejack sugar cube", she said holding out a hoof

"It's a pleasure… you seem like you can give a hard kick with the muscle you have on your legs." Aquaris said noticing how thick her legs were

"well I can, I live and work at the apple orchard just outside of town so of course all the hard work has its rewards." She said as she flexed her hind legs, Aquaris noticed her cutie mark. "Wait a second what's with the tattoo?" he said pointing at her flank.

"What you don't have a cutie mark?"

"Well I have a crest but not that." He said showing the necklace hanging around his neck

"strange it looks like Twilight's" Applejack said as Aquaris turned around to see Twilight's flank showing her mark

"Weird, prince Solaris said that everyone's crest was individual to their talents, such being mine of magic and arcane, and yours looks just like mine, and AJ's here looks like my friend Jackie's crest"

"Well it could be individual to your kind, but in a mass of different species, some may look a lot or exactly alike", Celestia said as she looked at both Aquaris's crest and Twilight's cutie mark.

"Well lets set aside that for later shall we, now you are?" he asked looking up at the flying cyan Pegasus,

"I'm Rainbow Dash, the fastest flyer in all of Equestria." Rainbow dash stated as she flew down to him.

"And an ego so large that Equestria's next ten generations shall remember." Everypony started laughing, except for Dash who just crossed her front legs; remark. After a few minutes Aquaris walked up to the last one, and your name?"

"I -… I'm Flu-… Fluttershy…" she said quietly as she hid most of her face behind her bright pink mane.

"There is no need to be scared, you're too adorable for anything to want to harm you, so when you meet someone new don't be frightened." Aquaris said to here in this reassuring tone as she looked at him and cheered up.

"Wow that's the fastest I've seen Fluttershy open up to anypony" Rarity said as Fluttershy joined the rest of the group.

"Well I have a way with people and gaining their trust" Aquaris said as he examined his pod and pulled out a few bags, one back pack, three duffel bags, and a bag full of crystals. He then made then stood back and focused his energy on the pod making it glow tealish blue, it lifted off of the ground and started shrinking in size, everypony watched as it became the size of an apple and floated into one of the bags, and next Aquaris focused it on the stage and repaired the crater the pod made. "So, you don't even need a horn for your magic."

"Magic in study is said that in order to cast it you need bones filled with arcane power, such as your horns and humans arms" Aquaris lifted one of his bags up and small chirping could be heard from the bag he put the pod in, seconds afterwards a small phoenix hatchling popped its head out of the bag

"so that's where you've been hiding blaze." He said as held one hand out in front of the phoenix and it hoped onto his hand it chirped as it flapped its wings and nibbled on its wing feathers.

"It's so cute." Fluttershy said as she walked up to Aquaris and looked very inventively at the hatchling. "He looks like pewee Twilight."

"She actually, blaze could fit the name of male or female." Blaze chirped as Aquaris had pulled out a small cube of some sort of meat for blaze it was reddish and had white marbling to it. As blaze chewed at the cube of meat Aquaris picked up his other bags "so Celestia where is it I will be staying?"

"Ah yes… this way Aquaris also I'm curious on how you can build a house within seconds. (turns around and walked towards a rather large tree with light illuminating from it) this way Aquaris." The guards were about to follow but a look from Celestia told them to wait

Over by that open plot of land she mentioned Aquaris had pulled out two metal canisters with the words saying "spray paint" on the side, he tossed on to Afina who started spraying what appeared to be more of a piece of art work of white lines in the grass. As it was finished Aquaris stood in front of the group. He closed his eyes and started glowing teal, the lines of the drawing on the ground glowed a brilliant teal. A two story house formed. After about ten minutes most of the unicorns and the princesses were jaw dropped at what he just did.

"Wow I've never heard of a teleport spell that could move entire houses," Twilight said as she had a spark of excitement in her eyes. "it is not a object teleport spell, I teleport an area of objects reason why my hammock and my back porch with awning are here." Aquaris said as he the group saw the hanging bed made of interloping ropes.

"What was that you and Afina drew?"

"A rune, special drawings that help channel magic to a large area if large enough then my tutor could literally teleport this entire town if somehow possible he could move the entire planet to a new location,.

"Now if you wish I can make us all some tea and you can ask your questions" Aquaris offered as he picked his bags up and carried them to the house.

As he entered the nine of them followed to end up in a rather spacious living room, it had two couches with a small glass coffee table in between them, and on the wall in front of them was a black glass panel with small lights on the bottom right corner. Looking down to the cabinet under it they group noticed a thin tall black box with the etching of an X on the side and the numbers seven-twenty under it. Luna walked closer to the box, a small green X appeared on the front and the black panel lit up it showed a black background with mist flowing on the bottom, a silver symbol depicting a dragon was on the left and the words "Elder scrolls V Skyrim" a deep drum started playing in a heartbeat like rhythm stopping for a second every-so often, "oh you turned my Xbox on… (skyrim theme plays)

"Xbox?"

"One of the many innovations of human entertainment, (turns Xbox off and changes Input to the DLX player) us humans have a need to technologically evolve, entertainment, food production, medical care, all sorts of other stuff. Most recent release of technology was the New Star gate" Aquaris said sitting down on one of the couches and using his telekinesis to levitate a tray with nine full tea cups, some biscuits, a small bowl of sugar and a jar of honey.

Everypony made there cups, Aquaris was surprised how these pegasi and earth ponies did stuff without magic or hands. "So Aquaris, who are these confederates you mentioned before?" "Well they are also humans, but they don't have magical augmentations like humans of Terra, they despise magical creatures of the galaxy, seeing magic as an unnatural plague that needs to be wiped out." He paused and siped his tea, "They would kill any magical being they find, I was lucky to hide my magical abilities from their scanners, they accused me of being a magic supporter and well… Here I am." He said with a sigh as Celestia saw his sadness in his heart. "They… they destroyed one colony meant for refugees of a mysterious virus… no one was spared. Men, Women… even children, babies even. All of them… gone

"What do you mean… gone?" Luna asked as she shuffled on the couch "I'll show you, he put his hands on his head and pulled a string of pure light out of his head, he dropped it into a small water filled bowl it grew in size so all of them could look into the image forming.

(Flash back)

A bright flash happened and all of them were in the memory as if they were there, the smell of ash clung to the air. The sky darkend by smoke from destroyed buildings, Celestia looked around seeing Aquaris and seven other humans walking with him.

The streets of haven colony were full of corpses, men and women lay on the ground with bullet holes in their bodies, Aquaris walked down the street over rubble covered vehicles and trash from spilt containers, the others followed his memory self being careful not to disturb the bodies even though they were just an illusions of the memory to his left were his friends and to his right were the princes of the Terran's

"brother… why, even the confederates couldn't stop this low?" one of the two princes said, his hair was like Luna's not as long but still depicting space.

"I don't know Nocturne, but the memories of these people say otherwise." Aquaris turned to the solar prince, Solaris crouched down and picked up a small wooden box, opening it, a small tune played, "I remember giving this box to a small couple who had a kid… the box was mine when I was young...(closes the music box)"

Celestia noticed that the one Solaris held was almost identical to the one he held and played the same song. "Please Aquaris no more…(memory closes)…I can't handle… that much death." Celestia said tearing up,

"I'm sorry princess, if we knew that they were planning that… we could've stopped them before they could eradicate." Celestia Wraped her wings around Aquaris and cried into his shoulder. Everypony was startled at this as he held here with his own embrace.

"Aqauris, you said they were there because of a virus… what kind?" Twilight asked as she wiped her face of tears she had from the memory.

"A virus that made death better than It looks… it infests you, slows your bodies decomposing rate to a crawl and makes you a slave to your own body… you lost your will, you served under the command of an unknown source… you'd wish you were dead, heck even some of the infested managed to break from their mental prison for a second or two before the infection locked them back up, but just enough time to beg for soldiers to kill them as their bodies tried to kill the soldiers…"

Aquaris said as let Celestia cry into his shoulder, "It's ok… I and the coalition of magic, we'll defend this world from them. You, and all of your subjects, will be safe… from them. I promise you this." Aquaris said as he let a hand go through her mane,

"(sniffles) you mean it?" "Yes by the oath of Solaris, I will not let the confederates hurt or kill a single pony, dragon or living creature of this world." Celestia smiled and leaned close to him lightly kissing his fore head. After she kissed him Aquaris felt dizzy and passed out from some sort of spell she put on him, the last words he heard were "Thank you".