Phantasma Eeria...The Pony from the Shadows

Chapters

Prologue...
Chapter 1...After the Train
Chapter 2...The First Signs
Chapter 3...Confirmation
Chapter 4...Forming a Plan
Chapter 5...Chocolate Milk Rain?
Chapter 6...Drinking Glass, Literally
Chapter 7...Location, Location, Location (Part 1 of 2)

Prologue...

Our story begins on a high-speed train in the middle of a particularily violent winter. Phantasma Eeria; a red unicorn mare with an orange and yellow striped mane and tail, and a red zero with a sword through it as a cutie mark; gazed upon the seven other ponies and the dragon on board the train with her. She knew who they were but they did not know who in Celestia's name she was, she stepped back and seemed to vanish into the shadows. The other 'ponies' on the train were Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Derpy Hooves...and Spike...the dragon. Suddenly the eight heads staring at the spot Phantasma had disappeared from were joined by another, a red one with magenta eyes and a horn protruding from the forehead. Rarity turned her head saw Phantasma and screamed, causing six of the eight other passengers on the train to jump.

The only ponies maintaining composure were the blue pegasus who casually put on her sunglasses, and Phantasma. Rainbow Dash simply looked at the unicorn, who had startled Rarity, through her shades and said calmly "Needs to be about Twenty Percent cooler." This remark caused Phantasma too briefly chuckle before remembering why she had gotten the mane six, Spike and Derpy to meet with her. She said "I assume you are all wondering why you are all here," at which the addressed ponies nodded.
Phantasma continued " There is an evil being far greater than Discord, or any of the other foes you have faced, besides maybe Tirek, loose in Equestria and everypony here has skills that will be useful in the jouney to defeating the being. Even the cross-eyed pegasus currently headbutting the carriage wall. I mentioned Discord and Tirek for a very particular reason, The evil creature that came into existance when Sunset Shimmer took Twilight's Element into the other world and used it for her own evil deeds has somehow remained alive but in a severely weakened state and has found a way into Equestria and possessed over Discord. This evil along with Discords already unpredictable nature has created a manifestation of evil and chaos which has several similarities to Tirek's brother Scorpio."

After the last sentence everypony on the train let out an audible gasp and Fluttershy's eyes started to water as she felt sadness rising up inside of her after having her friend turned evil...again.
Twilight replied "So how do we stop him?"
"I believe that using dear Fluttershy's abilities may come in handy here, if not we can use the fact that Derpy Hooves over there is accident prone to get him restrained and maybe incapacitated, then use the power you six are famous for, however I'm not sure what role Spike will play in all of this just yet, but I'll use my knowledge of all of you to help us get past any obstacle we face," commented Phantasma Eeria answering Twillight's question.

A common inquiry was flowing through the minds of all of the passengers, except Phantasma and Derpy. They were wondering who this red mare was, how she knew so much and whether or not they could trust her.
Phantasma saw the expressions of distrust on their faces and said "To be honest I invited you six here," she said gesturing to the mane six "Because I knew of the power residing in each of you and that with the qualities each of you have you have managed to face every foe you have met with ease... besides Tirek"
Just as Phantasma opened her mouth to continue speaking Rainbow Dash cut in remarking "So why invite Derpy Hooves, and Spike if you know that me and my friends wield the power and wielded the Elements of Harmony?"
Phantasma looked at the interrupting pegasus with an look of exasperation and sighed before continuing"Firstly, If you will let me get that far Rainbow Dash, might I add that I knew Spike would want to come since Rarity and Twilight were coming. Also I invited the clumsy pegasus for more personal and embarrasing reasons as I have a minor infatuation with her, and I would like to point out that I only learnt of the fact that she's accident-prone today after watching her break several pieces of luggage before my very eyes."

Rainbow Dash furrowed one side of her brow in a look that in itself said 'Really??' as she did not believe a word the mare had said after she had made the sarcastic comment towards her.
Twilight said to the unicorn that had just finished speaking "I'm terribly sorry about the incessant questioning but I think we are all wondering, except maybe Derpy, who you are and how you know all of this about us"
"My name is Phantasma Eeria. I'm also known as-" Phantasma said before being cut off by Pinkie Pie
"OOH OOH is it Shirley, Sam, Jade, Laney?" Pinke burst in
"No Pinkie my friend I am not known as any of those, I'm also known as The Pony from the Shadows. I know this much about you as I have been watching you without anyone else's knowledge. I will tell you more about everything in time but for now i will be keeping some pieces of information classified until I know I can trust you"
The other occupants of the train carriage gasped, besides the yellow eyed grey pegasus who simply smiled. The main six were sceptical about this new pony no-one had heard of since no-one could verify that this mare was trustworthy so they didn't know if they should continue this venture onwards with the red unseen mare. All they knew is that whether they went with her or not things were never going to be the same again.

Author's Note

This is my second FiMFic attempt which if my last story was anything to go by standard-wise this will be terribly written.
I will include clop whenever i can be bothered to write it in, there will be some gory parts occasionally

Yours Derpily
Phantasma

Chapter 1...After the Train

Previously, Phantasma had invited the mane six, Derpy Hooves and Spike the Dragon to meet her on a train to an unknown location. When the train had reached a point far enough away from mainstream civilisation, Phantasma had begun to talk to the invited ponies and dragon. She had told them why she invited them, who she was and how she knew so much about them, but little else.

Our story continues on the same train as before. Rainbow Dash managed to regain her composure before anypony else.
The blue pegasus rigorously shook her head from side to side before asking "What's so special about being The Pony from the Shadows?" she asked.
Phantasma smiled, while looking semi-psychotic and said "Multiple things Rainbow Dash, the least of which is my ability to vanish without alerting anypony who is watching," with that she disappeared.
The mane six turned to face outwards and split up to look for Phantasma, who reappeared behind all six of them. Rainbow Dash turned around and notified her friends of Phantasma's appearance.
The red mare looked out of the carriage window and said "We're nearly there."
Rainbow Dash asked "Where are we exactly, because I don't recognise this place at all."
"You should, we're near the Crystal Empire, but we won't be visiting, there's business to attend to" answered Phantasma.

The mane six, Derpy and Spike looked out of the windows and saw the Crystal Empire growing smaller as they sped away. They all wondered where they were going for a moment before the train ground to a halt and Phantasma told them that they had reached their destination. When everypony had vacated the carriage, they were met by a steel door in the side of what appeared to be a large glacier. Spike gulped, Derpy flew muzzle first into the face of the wall of ice and the mane six gazed in awe. Phantasma casually walked up to the door and used a spell on it causing it to open.
The red mare said to Twilight "That my magically gifted acquaintance is a spell I have recently mastered, it is a magical lock that only opens when I use a particular spell on it, I will grant you access to it should I be unable to return here for any reason but the spell will only be revealed to you in a dire situation."
Twilight nodded slowly before asking "What is this place, and why are we here?"
Phantasma replied "This is my home, it's where I grew up and now it is where I have gathered all the facts on the threat to Equestria and linked them to one another."

When they got through the door the eight guests were greeted with masses of threads which meant that negotiating their way around the ice cave became a hassle, meanwhile Phantasma traversed the room with ease as she had done this many times before. When Twilight got to the converging point of the threads the saw a rather cluttered board with pictures of Discord, Scorpio, Tyrek, Sunset Shimmer's demonic form, and what the beast looked like. The being that was threatening to bring down Equestria looked very similar to Discord however all four of his legs were equine and he had large horns protruding from just behind his ears, however his size remained that of a draconiquous. Fluttershy saw this picture and screamed, her eyes burst into tears and she huddled herself up into a reasonably foetal shape.
Phantasma slowly approached her so she didn't startle her and said softly "We'll get your friend back, whatever it takes. I know how much he means to you after all you are the one who showed him the magic of friendship." She then turned to the others and said "On a partially related note, now that you've seen the information I have gathered, how about we put our heads together and get working on a-" however she was cut off by Derpy hitting her in the back of the head with the pegasus' forehead. Phantasma blacked out. When she awoke she saw Derpy crying, and the other ponies staring at her. She asked what had happened and they all tried explaining except Derpy who continued to cry.

Phantasma said "One at a time, you're giving me a worse headache than I already have"
Twilight said "Derpy Hooved head-butted you, causing you to black out, Rainbow Dash saw this and shouted at Derpy who didn't understand what she had done, which made Derpy cry. Meanwhile me, Fluttershy, AJ, and Rarity started trying to revive you while spike had a look around your home, then you regained consciousness and that's where we're up to right now"
Phantasma got up on her hooves and walked up to Derpy before embracing her reassuring her that she was fine and that there was nothing to be worried about. Derpy slowly and hesitantly stopped cyring and hugged Phantasma, the unicorn was surprised by this at first before hugging Derpy back.
Phantasma tapped Derpy on the foreleg and said "Come with me, let's get you a nice soft muffin." With that Derpy juped for joy, narrowly avoiding the threads running across the expanse that was the main work room of Phantasma's humble abode. Rainbow Dash nudged Twilight, when the lavendar pony looked to see what her friend wanted, Rainbow simply grinned. When Twilight understood what her friend was getting at she smiled and chuckled to herself.

Author's Note

This is the second chapter of my new FiMFic, I'm not sure when I will implement clop but I will eventually
Yours Derpily
Phantasma Eeria

Chapter 2...The First Signs

Previously; after the mysterious invite from somepony that had never been heard of, the mane six boarded a train to an unknown location, where they met the red unicorn mare named Phantasma Eeria. Phantasma explained her intentions, introduced herself but little else. When the train ground to a halt near Phantasma's 'house'; a cave in a large glacier, the mane six were surprised by where The Pony from the Shadows lived. Upon entering the mane six found themselves in a web of threads linking theory to evidence in Phantasma's investigation of the being created by Sunset Shimmer's demonic form. Shortly afterwards Derpy Hooves knocked out Phantasma causing Rainbow Dash to shout at her and make her cry. When Phantasma regained consciousness she went to get a muffin with Derpy.
Our story continues in the back rooms of Phantasma's Ice cave. Phantasma led Derpy into a back room of her horn-carved cavern to the storage room and asked Derpy to help her search for her muffin supply; the pegasus nodded her head in what Phantasma thought was understanding. Phantasma weaved around the maze of refrigerated crates searching for the supply of muffins. Suddenly there was a crash from behind the unicorn; several columns of crates had fallen over with Derpy holding the one labelled 'Muffins (For Derpy Hooves)'.
Derpy smiled then said "I just don't know what went wrong, but I found muffins." Phantasma laughed and rubbed Derpy's neck, smiling. The unicorn took the crate from Derpy's hooves and led her back to the main room before giving her a muffin. When they arrived in the main room Dash and Twilight looked at Phantasma and Derpy with expressions of curiosity. Phantasma waved her forehoof and said "Nothing happened you dirty minded foals." Twilight and Rainbow Dash were shocked to find out that Phantasma knew what they were thinking. Phantasma then asked if they could finally get some work done, the accompanying ponies nodded in agreement, except Derpy who was too busy eating a muffin to pay attention. The red mare started explaining her plan.
"Firstly I should mention how you can tell where the being has passed through; any areas of road will be soap if the monster has been there. Houses may be upturned, and the day-night cycle will be random, to put it simply the being leaves the areas he encounters looking like Ponyville, during the first time Discord was evil. Secondly I should mention that my plan to convert him back is to lure him towards us with magic, trap him, then Fluttershy may be able to reverse the spell in the same way that she reformed Discord, also Twilight you may want to stay slightly behind me, Fluttershy and the rest of us because no doubt the being will be after alicorn magic, but luckily they aren't stable enough to travel to Canterlot, mainly because the purity of Canterlot is fatal to the being. This confines it to the area around, and including the Crystal Empire, Ponyville, and the Everfree Forest, also he can steal the strength, magic and flight from ponies." explained Phantasma Eeria.
"What happens if that doesn't work" asked Rainbow Dash.
"I have a very extensive library," said Phantasma causing Twilight's eyes to light up "Twilight and I will research the spell we need to extract the evil conscience possessing him."

Twilight said "I hope this works I really do, after all if it wasn't for Discord, Tyrek would have destroyed the world as we know it."
Fluttershy said "I'll do anything I can to help, I'm not letting my friend be possessed by that BIG...DUMB...MEANIE!!!!" Phantasma Eeria smiled at Fluttershy's conviction in this matter. Phantasma asked Twilight if she wanted to see the grand library she had amassed. Twilight instantly agreed, and followed her red wingless equivalent through one of the exits out of the main room. Phantasma led Twilight through the maze of tunnels that she had made until they finally arrived at Phantasma's library.
Twilight gasped as she saw the enormity of it, it was about as large as the library in the Castle of the Two Sisters. The sheer size of the library rose questions in questions in Twilight's mind.
"How did you get this many books?" inquired Twilight.
"I bought them from various sources such as the Crystal Empire, Canterlot, and Zecora. I have been looking for books I don't have but it's becoming ridiculously hard as I have half if the books in Equestria, the only ones I don't have are the one containing the 'Inspiration Manifestation' spell, certain spell books and any books that have only been made once except this one," Phantasma explained, lifting out a dusty, tattered, ancient-looking book with a faded leather binding, a peculiar gold clasp securing the book, the name was 'Species Parasitis Demonis'.
After several moments of admiration Twilight finally asked whether Phantasma could show her where she gets her books, Phantasma kindly agreed and notified the others of their short departure to the Crystal Empire. As they set off Phantasma thought something was amiss with the surroundings, she noticed the scent of soap, and considering they arrived at Phantasma's house in the early day-time and it was now nearly night. As the pair approached the mystical Empire the soapy scent grew stronger, when they finally arrived they couldn't see anything as it had become midnight in the few minutes travelling it had taken to get to the Crystal Empire. When the sun finally arose the duo saw was soapy roads, and ponies everywhere exhausted, when Phantasma asked them what happened all of them said one word..."Discord".

Author's Note

This is the third chapter in my newest rendition of Phantasma Eeria's story. Still no feedback or comments on the story, if anypony has and they would like to post either PM me or just add it to the comments section.

Yours Derpily
Phantasma Eeria

Chapter 3...Confirmation

Our story so far; Phantasma Eeria, a dark red unicorn mare that nopony had heard of, invited the mane six to meet with her
anonymously. She had then introduced herself, stated her alias and purpose for calling the mane six to her. Afterwards she had shown them around her humble ice cave and informed them about what she had discovered. Later Twilight and Phantasma had gone to the Crystal Empire to find some disturbing alterations.

Twilight entered the Crystal Palace and ran into the middle of the room with Princess Cadence and greeted each other by chanting "Sunshine, Sunshine, Ladybugs awake, Clap your hooves and do a little shake," performing each appropriate action to the letter during the chant. Phantasma observed from the shadows in a corner of the grand throne room smiling to herself as the pair carried out what seemed to be tradition by now. When the chant was finished Twilight asked courteously whether Princess Cadence or Prince Shining Armor had any knowledge on what had happened.Cadence nodded as she stated "A being, not unlike Discord passed through here and caused this sister."

Twilight gulped at this statement, however before she could speak Shining Armor asked "Twily what should we do?" At this Phantasma stepped out from behind the concerned rulers of the esteemed Empire and said "If I may interject." Cadence screamed as she hadn't noticed Phantasma's presence in the room at all. Guards rushed in and surrounded Phantasma, who slowly backed into the shadows before disappearing.
The red mare reappeared in front of the trio of royal ponies and said to Cadence "Now was there any need for that, if I was a threat your sister in-law wouldn't be here right now, considering I was the one who brought her here, so if I wanted
to eliminate the Equestrian royalty I would have started with her, your highness."

Cadence and Twilight were shocked at Phantasma's small speech, whereas Shining lowered his head as his horn lit up with magic. Phantasma looked calmly at the Prince before turning and saying "Do it, but if you do Twilight won't see her friends again, also this being won't be stopped either and chaos will take over Equestria, so if you think you can live with that, go ahead." Shining was taken aback by this and stopped the flow of magic to his horn before asking why all this would happen. Phantasma then explained that Twilight's friends were in her house, which was spell-locked so Twilight couldn't get in by herself and her friends were inside her humble abode, Phantasma then added that she was the only one that had any knowledge about the being and its weaknesses.

Twilight added that Phantasma was a new friend of hers, which caused Phantasma to flush as she had never had anypony consider her as a friend. Phantasma then invited the two royal ponies who hadn't seen her ice cave before, to find out all the red mare knew about this foe. The two addressed ponies graciously accepted the invitation and followed Phantasma to her glacial home. Cadence and Shining were shocked when they saw the enormous wall of ice that they were confronted with before Phantasma used the correct spell on her door causing it to swing open. Cadence's eye twitched when she saw the 'mess' that was present in the otherwise magnificent cavern. Phantasma guided the three ponies to the centre of the room, where her noticeboard was present. Shining Armor looked at the series of threads, pictures and notes intrigued by all of it. He then accepted that the red mare whom he had threatened was trustworthy, for now.

Phantasma noticed Shining's change in attitude towards her and smiled, she knew she had brought him round to trusting her; however she also knew that he was still unsure of her. Phantasma explained to the guests what all of the bits of paper and string meant, without missing a single detail as she knew how important her knowledge was to the other ponies in Equestria and to everypony's fate. If Phantasma doubted herself in any way she wasn't showing it, sharing her knowledge with the rulers
of the Crystal Empire as if it was a normal day, then again on a normal day Phantasma would be out of her cave taking pictures of everything going on in Equestria, because while being the Pony from the Shadows, she was also an avid photographer. Photo Finish had asked her if she would do some work for her on several occasions as Photo was the only one who knew of her before she introduced herself to the mane six.

When she had finished explaining what she knew to her guests Phantasma asked if they would like any beverages or food of
any kind. While Shining refused the offer Cadence graciously accepted asking for a cup of warm herbal tea and a daisy sandwich. Phantasma nodded her head and went into a back room of her cave, meanwhile Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity entered from the right hand side of the room. The new occupants of the room were startled when they noticed the Prince and Princess and hastily bowed to the two ponies they had saved from Chrysalis. Shining Armor nodded at the five ponies who were kneeling on the floor, whereas Cadence smiled before greeting them with courtesy. When Pinkie Pie asked the couple why they were here Shining Armor explained what had happened and how they had met Phantasma who led them here.

Four of the five ponies who were listening intently were sat gazing at Twilight's brother, Pinkie on the other hoof was bouncing up and down as casually as she could without bursting into laughter. In the back rooms of the Ice Cave, Phantasma went through her stores to find several cakes missing, and her box of muffins was still out of the room. The last observation worried Phantasma as she didn't know where her favourite pony had gotten to, she hurriedly made the tea and sandwich before delivering them to Cadence. The red mare then asked the others if they had seen Derpy Hooves, at which the five ponies who had been with Derpy, while herself and Twilight had been out all said she had mentioned something about going to sleep before heading off down a random tunnel. Phantasma galloped to her bedroom and there was Derpy, asleep in her bed hith a half empty crate of muffins next to her. Phantasma approached Derpy before hugging her. Phantasma leaned in to give the pegasus a kiss in the cheek before leaving her to sleep for a while longer, but as her head closed in on Derpy's and her lips pursed, the grey muzzle rotated towards her and the yellow eyed pony pursed her lips as Phantasma's connected with her. Derpy opened her eyes and smiled cheekily.

Author's Note

Hi everypony
I hope you enjoyed the newest chapter of Phantasma Eeria...The Pony from the Shadows. It took me a while to think of stuff to put into it, so if it isn't as good as my other chapters that is why, however if it is better then something's wrong with me...
Anyway, I plan on publishing one chapter every week from now on. I have a very faint idea where this is going but it's becoming slightly difficult to think of phrases to describe things. Also I would like to add that there will be no clop in this fimfic as it is very difficult to get right, so at most there will be hugging and kissing.

Yours Derpily
Phantasma Eeria

Chapter 4...Forming a Plan

In the previous chapter; Phantasma was introduced to Twilight Sparkle's brother Shining Armor, and his wife Princess Cadence. The royal couple were surprised by Phantasma's sudden appearance and short speech as it implied hostility to the Princesses of Equestria. Phantasma then invited Twilight's siblings into her cave, where Cadence was shocked by the mess present in the otherwise grand cavern. When the rest of the mane six joined the small crowd they hastily bowed to the royal ponies after acknowledging their presence. Shining Armor explained how they had come to be here. Phantasma noticed Derpy Hooves wasn't around and questioned the mane six about where the grey pegasus had gone, at which the five ponies who were listening to Twilight's brother all said she mentioned something about going to sleep. Phantasma went into her bedroom to find Derpy asleep in her bed, with a half empty crate of muffins next to her. Phantasma leaned in to kiss Derpy on the cheek as Derpy turned her head. Derpy then opened her eyes and smiled.

Phantasma looked at Derpy in shock after what had just happened; Derpy on the other hand just looked at Phantasma smiling cheekily. The red mare started to freak out which confused Derpy as she thought the unicorn, who was so nice to her, loved her. Phantasma managed to bring herself round before asking Derpy why she did that.
Derpy smiled and said "I thought you loved me and I love you so I thought you would like that."
Phantasma smiled at Derpy and said "I did you just surprised me." Derpy smiled before getting out of Phantasma's bed grabbing her crate of muffins and following Phantasma into the main room where they met back up with the mane six Cadence and Shining Armor, who had just finished recounting how he and Cadence had come to be here.

Phantasma grabbed everypony's attention by banging her hoof on the central table. Everypony's head turned to face the red mare before the noise in the cave lessened to silence. Phantasma said "Ok everypony, we know as much about this as each other now. I think it is about time we turned this knowledge into a plan." At this everypony nodded muttering between themselves, besides Derpy who was too busy eating her muffins to talk.
Phantasma laid out a map of Equestria onto the table followed by a map of Ponyville, Canterlot, The Crystal Empire and the Everfree Forest. She then proceeded to mark the places that the being had caused chaos in, and the places that she suspected the being would target next. The other ponies in the room watched carefully occasionally adding notes of their own.

Phantasma then said "Ok we have numerous locations plotted on the map; now all we need is a plan... I have a few ideas but they may not work."
Twilight then interjected saying "Please elaborate Phantasma, we need to have some way to stop this thing"
Phantasma continued "Ok my first plan goes as follows; Me, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack will lead the being into the Crystal Palace, where Twilight Cadence and Shining Armor will be waiting to cast a magical entanglement which will trap the being. When the being is in the centre of the throne room I will teleport myself, RD and AJ out of the way and shoot a paralyzing spell at the creature. Cadence, Twilight and Shining will then begin casting the spell. Once the spell is complete Fluttershy will use her kindness to reform the 'thing' back into her dear friend Discord hopefully forcing out the evil personality of Sunset Shimmer, which we will then work to defeat."

Pinkie Pie, after hearing this plan jumped in shouting "That sounds like it could work let's do it, although I'm not sure where I come in."
Phantasma then added "You can help set up the Party for after and you can help lure the being into the trap" Pinkie notified Phantasma that she was happy with that and they got working on the plan adding points here and there to fine tune it, eventually they had finished all that needed to be done was mapping out the route that they would take to get to the crystal Empire. Cadence suggested that they started at the train station as that would provide a quick path to the palace.
Phantasma said "Yes that would help as the longer we lead it the sooner it will figure out it is being trapped. Here's the route I would take, starting at the Train Station: I would go past the spa through the market around and into the back of the Crystal Palace so the Crystal Heart isn't corrupted."

Everypony else nodded and thus the plan was set, now all that needed doing was to teach Twilight, and her brother and sister the spell needed to capture the beast, the plan needed to be set up, and then carried out. It didn't seem like a lot needed to be done to Phantasma but she was mistaken. Phantasma went to her library to find five books open, all of them relating to the being running rampage around Equestria. She then went to her spell-book collection and found that she didn’t have the book she needed. To hopefully disprove this she looked in the book she had pulled out when she was showing Twilight around her library. To her dismay she couldn’t find the spell-book. She asked Twilight if she had the spell-book in her library. Twilight sullenly shook her head.

“Gosh darn it” thought Phantasma as she hurried into the Crystal Empire to see if she could find the book she needed. She burst into the Crystal Library, panting heavily and asked the librarian if they had any spell books. The unicorn’s heart soared as the Librarian said that they did have a variety of spell-books, and directed her to them. Phantasma frantically searched the stacks of books until she found the book she was looking for ‘Spells for the Magically Adept’. She asked the Librarian if she could borrow it. The Librarian agreed to this but said have it back in 30 moons. As Phantasma was rushing home it began to rain.

Author's Note

Hi everypony,
I have come up with a total amount of Chapters, which does mean it will be finishing relatively soon, definitely by the end of the year.
I will be finishing this story completely, I may add a cliffhanger so i can make a sequel.
For now it will be continuing as normal, with a new Chapter coming out each week
Yours Derpily
Phantasma

Chapter 5...Chocolate Milk Rain?

Previously; Phantasma Eeria, a red unicorn mare who lives a generally solitary life; Rainbow Dash, a light blue Pegasus whose dream is to join the Wonderbolts; Twilight Sparkle, a lavender alicorn who was tutored by Princess Celestia and now lives in the Ponyville Castle; Pinkie Pie, a pink earth pony who has a rather concerning addiction with sweets and cake; Rarity, a snow white unicorn who has a keen eye for fashion; Fluttershy, the canary yellow pegasus who is often found caring for an animal of some kind from her menagerie; Applejack, the orange earth pony who's apple orchard is remarkable; Spike, the baby dragon that is proud to be Twilight Sparkle's assistant; Princess Cadence, the princess responsible for all love in Equestria; and Prince Shining Armor, Cadence's husband and Twilight's brother; were coming up with a method of trapping the being running riot across Equestria, after they had formed their plan, Phantasma Eeria went out to find a book, on her way back it began to rain...

Phantasma hurried frantically back to her house to protect the book she had recently procured, as she reached her door the spell required to open the lock was ready so she could burst through the door with ease. The red mare leaped into the air, turned around, landed on her forehooves and bucked the door open. Everypony inside the cave jumped in shock to see their host acting like this, however when the door shut and Phantasma had regained her composure and adjusted her mane and tail so they were back to their former glory, they were pleased to see their host acting normally again.
"Did you get the book we need?" asked Twilight, before Phantasma levitated the borrowed book out of her saddle-bag and told Twilight what had happened. When she got to the part involving the rain, Pinkie stuck her head out of the door, and stuck her tongue out to drink the rain.
"Chocolate Milk?" said Pinkie Pie curiously. Everypony looked at her questioningly before Pinkie told them to come try it for themselves. Phantasma cautiously edged towards the door and stuck out her tongue to catch some of the rain, which much to her surprise tasted like chocolate milk.
"Did Discord make it rain chocolate milk when he was evil, the first time Twilight" asked Phantasma, the lavender pony nodded with a look of confusion on her face.
"Didn't you know this?" Twilight inquired
"No, I did not as when I returned to Equestria after my trip to Saddle Arabia was over, you and your friends were just about to defeat Discord, I had left before you faced Nightmare Moon, so my knowledge of that event is fairly limited as well." replied Phantasma
Twilight and her friends proceeded to inform Phantasma of the events that occurred during Nightmare Moon and Discord's rampage while Phantasma sat listening intently.

When the mane six had finished reciting the story to of how they defeated Discord and Princess Luna's alter-ego Nightmare Moon, Phantasma nodded with understanding, and stood up only to fall back onto her flank as her hind-legs had gone numb. When she finally managed to stand up without falling over, she wandered over to her desk, levitated the book she had obtained from the library, and began reading. The book contained complicated processes that had to be performed to the letter for the spell to work, occassionally there would be a small picture showing how to perform the more difficult steps. eventually Phantasma was ready to attempt the spell. She closed her eyes and focused a large amount of energy into her horn before opening her eyes and letting a thread of magic protrude from her horn, she began to perform every step necessary with ease until she reached the first of the more difficult actions, by now she had several strands of magical fibre under her control. She weaved the first cross-strand over and under the other threads, making sure that it didnt touch any of the other strands as this was how it was depicted in the book.

In the end, Phantasma was left with a weave of magical fibres, none of which were touching. Finally she began the last step, she formed one final string which was larger than any of the others and joined it to the ends of the other fibres perpedicularly before pulling it outwards from all four sides and the cross-weaved strands began to join together. A few seconds later Phantasma was left with a magically formed mesh, which she dropped over Spike to test it. After Spike was completely enveloped in the mesh he was asked to try escape, after a few minutes of frantic struggling Spike was still stuck in the mesh. Phantasma used her magic to lift the mesh off of the dragon and asked him to try and rip it using whatever means he had at his disposal. The results of this was a perfectly intact mesh and an exhausted dragon, even Spike's dragon-fire was ineffective against it. After Phantasma had finished the tests Spike went to the library where most of the ponies were staying in magnificent beds.

Phantasma, after admiring her work, dispelled the mesh and proceeded to teach Shining Armor, Cadence, Rarity and Twilight the spell. She had no problems teaching the two alicorns how to cast the spell, she had a little trouble teaching Shining Armor how the spell was executed and had a lot of trouble teaching Rarity how to form the thread but had no problems teaching her how to weave it due to Rarity's profound talent for crafting clothing. After everypony who could cast the spell had mastered it to the best of their abilities they all began attempting to weave the mesh in unison to make it faster and stronger. After several attempts they had perfected making one mesh with four other ponies. Finally they were ready to set up the trap, all they needed was the location of the being, to learn the route, and to execute the plan. Spike came into the room, looked out of the window in the door and said "Is it just me or is that Chocolate Milk Rain?"

Author's Note

Hi Everypony
This is the start of the final ten chapters so ten weeks and ill be publishing the last chapter... I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as i enjoyed writing the story, one thing i would like to say is thank you to Soul Hook as without them i wouldn't be writing on this site, and thank you to Scootareader as without your support i wouldn't be writing this fimfic.
Thats all for this week
Yours Derpily
Phantasma

Chapter 6...Drinking Glass, Literally

Previously...
Phantasma Eeria had run home with the book she procured from the library in the Crystal Empire. Upon reading it she managed to figure out what was needed to capture the beast running rampage throughout Equestria, she then made an attempt to cast the spell described in the book. The spell produced a mesh which seemed to be indestructable. The unicorn then taught the unicorns and alicorns in her company how to cast the spell. After they had each individually mastered the spell, they began an attempt to cast it together. Spike then came into the room and after noticing the rain asked whether it was raining chocolate milk.

Phantasma told Spike that it was raining chocolate milk, at which Spike hurried to find a glass. Phanstasma shook her head and smiled and set off in the opposite direction to the baby dragon. Spike returned saying that he couldn't find a glass before being shocked when one was in his hand. The dragon looked around and saw everypony present shaking their heads saying that they hadn't put the glass in his hand. Phantasma emerged from behind Spike and told him that she had put the glass there. Spike laughed ad stuck the glass out of the door and filled it with the chocolate milk falling out of the clouds. When the glass had filled Spike put the glass to his lips and drank. Everypony in the room was watching ass the glass slowly disappeared leaving only the chocolate milk.
Phantasma yelled "Spike! Throw the milk out of the door for Celestia's sake!"

Spike thought this was odd but followed Phantasma's orders. Spike re-opened the door and tossed the milk out, upon impact with the ground the chocolate milk exploded catapulting snow everywhere. Twilight looked confused and asked Phantasma how she knew that that would happen, Phantasma told Twilight that before she had come to Equestria she had heard rumours about Discord and that he brought a whole new meaning to the words 'drinking glass'. Twilight agreed to this before asking what the next step in the plan was. Phantasma told Twilight that she needed to know where 'Discord' was Twilight said "I've been studying 'Discord's' activities and they all seem to be near markets and important elements of the city. This leads me to believe that his next attack will be near the Crystal Palace." Cadence looked worriedly at Phantasma who was wearing a reassuring smile and told the princess of love that they wouldn't let any damage come to her home. The unicorn thought to herself, "I don't want her home to be destroyed like mine was, then again it was me who destroyed it...damn magical outbursts."

Phantasma snapped out of her soliloquy and started to pace around the room. The unicorn was trying to come up with a way of finding the beast and leading it to the Crystal Palace, where the trap would be put into action. No matter how many times she passed the mane six, Spike, and the royal couple, Phantasma just couldn't think of anything. She began to doubt herself and wondered whether she was losing her touch, but quickly erased any doubts as she knew how much she had accomplished in a few days. Phantasma went over what she had done thus far, with each action that she had thought of Phantasma felt her self-confidence rising as they weren’t feats of a nopony they were feats that very few could achieve. She then remembered that she had a dragon and eight skilled ponies with her, and a pegasus that Phantasma hoped would become her special somepony.

Phantasma asked the guests whether they had any thoughts as to how they were going to find Discord as she had no clue whatsoever. Phantasma was bombarded with ideas some good some bad and a few brilliant ones. Eventually she settled on one, or a combination of a few. She took Applejack's idea of splitting up, Pinkie Pie's idea of shooting a signal into the air if the find Discord and Twilight's idea of using a different signal for everypony. Phantasma then suggested the use of fireworks with everypony's cutie mark as the signal. Her guests nodded in approval, and Phantasma went off to search her library for a book about making fireworks. She came back with a brown leather covered book with a firework embossed into the front.

Phantasma opened the book and flipped though the pages until she found a page on shaped fireworks and decided to make them. She gathered the materials she needed, which mainly consisted of gunpowder and several different metals and dyes. She went into another backroom and started combining the materials she had gathered until she had a considerable amount of fireworks each with one of nine shapes. She brought the fireworks into the main room and distributed them between her and her friends. She then decided that they should gather up some equiptment and call it a night before they go out. Phantasma showed everypony where they would be staying with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity in their own rooms, Twilight and Spike sharing a room and Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor sharing a room. Phantasma then retreated back into her own room and smiled as she saw Derpy Hooves curled up under the covers with an empty muffin crate next to her.

Phantasma lifted up the quilt and slid under, cuddling up to Derpy and smiled and closed her eyes and started to fall asleep. When she woke up, Phantasma was face to face with Derpy. Derpy hooves slowly opened her eyes, smiled and kissed Phantasma and then looked at her smiling cutely. Phantasma smiled and kissed Derpy back before asking her if she wanted any breakfast.
"Can I have a muffin?" asked Derpy smiling. Phantasma nodded and went to get Derpy a muffin. Navigating through the caves in her house she found the room where she stored the muffins for Derpy. She wished that she hadn't built her house so complex.
She went to grab a glass of chocolate and thought "I'm about to be drinking glass, literally."

Author's Note

Hi everypony
I hope you enjoy this chapter because it took me quite a while to write it for no other reason than i couldn't think of anything to write
anyway brohoof on y'all /)
Phantasma Eeria

Chapter 7...Location, Location, Location (Part 1 of 2)

Previously, after everypony had discovered and taken advantage of the chocolate rain that was raining down on Equestria, due to the chaos enveloping the world, Spike brought out a single glass and tried to drink the milk from it, however instead of the milk level dropping, the glass disappeared from top to bottom. Phantasma Eeria saw this and ordered Spike to throw the milk away, upon doing so the milk exploded and everypony was advised not to drink the rain from any form of glass. Afterwards the ponies occupying the ice cave formed a plan and got to work on making everything necessary to carry it out. Then when everything was ready, the ponies went to bed as they had a long day ahead of them.

Phantasma awoke to see Derpy Hooves awake and eating from a new crate of muffins. Light from the lamp beside the bed was illuminating the room, while giving it a joyful ambience. There was a knock at the door and Rainbow Dash burst through the door, shouting that something had happened. Phantasma lept out of her bed and hurried after the blue pegasus. When she got to the main room she saw several fireworks emptied out onto the floor.
She laughed and said "I know who did this," at which everypony in the room looked at her intruigingly.
"Derpy Hooves did it as she was getting a new crate of muffins, it was an accident" Phantasma said smiling gleefully, "Don't worry everything will be ready in a few moments." The red mare focused magic through her horn and refilled the fireworks, before sorting them dependent on the shape they make, and refilled everypony's saddlebag.

Pinkie Pie hopped into the room as casually as ever and started rambling on about a dream she had where she ate a lot of cake, meanwhile Applejack was making some daisy sandwiches for everypony and Twilight was reading several books trying to find a spell to make locating 'Discord' easier. Much to Twilight's despair, the books she was scouring had no information whatsoever.
"Do you know if any of the books in the Crystal Empire's Library contain information on location spells?" asked Twilight
"I'm afraid they don't Twilight" replied Princess Cadence and Phantasma in unison. Twilights face sunk slightly at this unfortunate news, as she was really hoping that she would be able to make this quicker for everypony.

Phantasma wandered around the room before Applejack tapped her on the back and gave Phantasma her sandwich. Rainbow Dash put on her shades, and casually flew aournd eating her sandwich. Phantasma looked back over at Pinkie Pie and saw her chewing her own tail, so Phantasma decided to break the tension by clapping her forehooves together and saying "OK then, now that our hungers have been satisfied, and everything is ready, it is time to start looking for 'Discord'."

The mane six, Cadence, Shining Armor and Phantasma Eeria then went out through the front door and began their investigation into the location of thr transformed Discord.

Author's Note

Sorry for the late and shortened chapter guys, I've been having several issues, writers block, a member of my family sadly passing away and me completely forgetting about it on several occasions however it is here now, the next chapter will be at least 1500 words long to make up for the lack of length in this chapter