Equestria Age: Magi Imperium

>-- Golden Oaks Library --<

>-- Third Person P.O.V --<

Twilight sits quietly within Library, its thick wooden walls stopping the harsh winter winds from chilling her being but even though her shelter keeps her warm, safe and secure she cannot stop herself from shivering. It has been a full day since the event where she crossed dimensional planes into the world known as the Fade and discovered that strange bipedal creature that knew itself as an elf, she had spent the first half an hour from returning from the Fade trying to find out where she had heard the name of that species before and she of course she found a whole chapter on the species of Elf's within a old book of mythology, though there were no true physical description of them and all the information seemed based of fairy tales. But now she sits herself in-front of her desk trying to figure out the events that unfolded when she was in the ghastly realm of the Fade.

Slowly she starts to recall the extraordinary events she witnessed within the Fade, firstly one of the most important things that happened within that God-forsaken realm was the discovery of the Elf known as Rodwen, from what she could recall of the Elf's appearance is that he appeared to be around "5'6, he also had a long brown mane that covered the majority of his face and went down to his spindly shoulders, from what she could remember of his face is that it was oddly gaunt and his skin was a very pale complexion but beside all of that the main feature that made him stand out was his long pointed ears, from what Rodwen had explained to her is that was one of the main features that distinguished them from the other races of his world. As she remembers what Rodwen told her of how his race was once treated as slaves forces a cold shiver to run up her spine quickly and she decides to think of the other experiences she found within the Fade.

During Twilight thoughts on her time in the Fade she fails to notice that the young drake known as Spike starts to make his way down the stairs, as he descends he takes notice of Twilights solitary presence within the main room of Library, from this angle he can barely she the blank facial expression dawned on his "Adoptive" older sisters muzzle.

"Twilight?" He asks softly as he finishes his decent to the ground floor of the Library, a ever present chill seems to be caught in the air. "

Twilight? Are you okay?" The small drake asks once more since his first inquiry is left un-responded though this time he succeeds and Twilights head darts quickly in the direction of Spike, A little surprised at the baby drakes sudden appearance she answers his call.

"Oh...Spike? What are you doing up so early?" She asks inquisitively and she is met with a plain answer from Spike, he tells Twilight that he had heard a noise a few hours ago down the stairs and was scared it was a intruder in the house so he had ventured down to investigate, after he had gained the courage to take the first steps, to see who it was and what they were doing. Twilight gives the baby drake a reassuring smile and gestures for him to come over to her and give her a hug, Spike rushes over to Twilight and is embraced within her warm hug, when the hugging had finally ended after several minuets Spike offers to make Twilight and himself some tea and once confirmed by Twilight that she would like some tea he rushes off to begin the task.

Once Spike leaves the main chamber of Library and enters the kitchen Twilight then returns to her thoughts on what transpired yesterdays night, she starts to remember the long discussion that her and Rodwen the Elven Mage had enjoyed together, the idea of ever meeting a new cultural demographic had always fascinated Twilight but this was even more exciting considering that this culture was cross-dimensional. Twilight then proceeds to pull out a blank journal from a shelf located not far from her desk and a quill from its inkwell and starts to write down all she can remember of her and the elf's discussion last night within the Fade.

Halfway through her spree of writing down all that she can fathom from her memory Twilight is pleasantly disturbed by her number one assistant brining her a nice steaming cup of hot tea.

Spike looks over Twilights shoulder as he examines the journal she has begun writing. "So is this adventure you went out on yesterday?" Spike asks with enthusiasm as he moves forward a little to get a better look at the Journals contents but is quickly blocked by Twilights form, a bemused expression stuck on her face that is caused by her assistants enthusiasm. Twilight lifts the quill and journal with her magic and hands them Spike.

"Indeed, this journal holds at the moment only a small amount of content of what I experienced last night within Fade." she pauses while Spike mouths the word Fade. "And since you are now awake you can help me write it all down!" Twilight says eagerly at Spike who now grimaces his decision to wake up this morning.

Two Hours later Twilight and Spike now rest the newly filled journal atop Twilights desk, the tome now filled with the information about the Fade, Rodwen and even the Demon. Though Twilight wishes to leave enough information about the demon un-written which did at first confuse the young Drake Spike but after Twilight explained how frightening and powerful the demon was Spike understood Twilights fear of the demon but honestly it was not only the demon that frighten Twilight but the power Rodwen had displayed when fighting the foul creature, it was nothing she had ever seen before in her study of magic and friendship and now she was regretting the decision of giving the Elven Mage the access to Spikes delivery system.

Though she could no longer regret the decision once Spike had delivered a very odd scroll. The flame quickly dispersed from the scroll and Spike seemed to have been effected with the mail sickness faster then usual when accepting mail from Celestia, the seal of the scroll was dawned with an odd sign that she had never seen before, it kinda reminded her of a horse shoe of some kind but that wasn't important now what was important is that she had received mail...From another dimension!

Spike was still recovering from the sickness but Twilights focus was on the scroll she had received from the Elven Mage, she quickly tell spike to go back upstairs and rest for how long he needs, once Spike has gone up stairs Twilight starts to unfurl the scroll and begins to read the letters on the parchment.

Dear Twilight Sparkle.

If you don't remember me allow me to refresh your memory, I was the Elven Mage you had encountered within the Fade last night.

Now Unless your mind has become corrupted somehow, maybe to the exposer to the Fade? I will hopefully help remind you of your memories.

Last night you and I crossed paths within the land of Dreams, The Fade, within these lands we conversed on subjects on both our worlds present actives, I remember on how you told me how your world is known as Equestria, you have three main species of your kind known as Unicorns, Pegsi and Earth ponies and finally you told me that your rulers have magic that allows them to control celestial bodies.

I remember telling you about my world, a world where magic is feared and hated and anyone who can use it treated as so. The world were my kind was once shackled into slavery by Humans who were beaten upon greed and power and finally how I told you about the Circle of Magi what I explained in detail was as much of a school as it was a prison forged by the human religion that sees magic as a cursed that needs to be eradicated.

After our conversation we were set upon by a demon that tried to kill me and you alike, thankfully as you can guess we defeated and killed the fiend and found a portal to return you to your realm, before you left you made me promise to write you this letter and to include more information on my world, you will find this information on the back of the scroll, the magic that made the letters invisible should have faded by now. Have to play it safe with this kinda information.

Anyway I can't wait to hear from you again and I hope we can figure out a way we can meet again.

Your Sincerely.

-  R

After reading the letter a few times she checked the back and noticed that there was now writing to be discovered on the back, it appears the information seems to based on the Circle of Magi and another group known as the Chantry but Twilight would have to ask about them in her return letter, were they the religion?

Twilight snaps to attention as she realises that she should send a letter back as soon as possible, it appears that Twilight will stretching the limits of the meaning of pen-pals.

>-- End Chapter 2 --<