Making Friends.

Study

The punishments most of those that lay waste to Equestria vary; but none are more a painful  to experience than enstatuation. Only one being has been subjected to it and spared with a release afterwards. In spite of committing crimes that permanently damaged the planet's system of ecology; which left equine society dependent of the cooperation of each of the three tribes to survive.

Twilight Was reading her copy of Crime and Punishment through the ages; one of several she was turning too in the hopes of finding answers to her existential dilemma. she sat at her desk; thankfull the late afternoon had grown quite quiet in the New Beginnings, stacks of books all dealing with every subject from the justice system to trials held from the first era all the way to the one she wrote herself on the mane six's own gallery of villains, hoping to Celestia they would yield help.

"No record of anyone ever attacking the Gala." she said mostly to herself; reading from a book on G.G.G. disasters. "It was only canceled three times, always on account of war." She sighed and shook her head closing her book. "Before the final cancellation; other civilized nations had been invited to the gala in the hopes of keeping relations peaceful. It all got thrown out the window since the last cancellation was because almost EVERY one of those nations was at war WITH Equestria." She gave a sigh and looked through a few more pages. "The idea of the old ceremony was peace, big help this I'll do me."

Give gifts

He held three figures in his hands. all of them where very old; almost as old as he once had been. tiny plastic and screws that left an impression of a long lost culture, but they were still suitable for what he was about to do.

While initially developed to bring a pseudo life to *puppets** to perform in shows; advanced static animation can be practiced on any form of representation of whatever it is you are animating.* He read from the stolen book.

"That's good, I only hope that they'll be just what I always wanted." He said as nonchalantly as if he was doing something as normal as ever. Danny Keith had set the old living room of his house up as something of a "laboratory" or "shop." The coffee table cleared of the long outdated newspapers and issues of popular science/mechanics, and replaced with the first of his "friends" he meant to give life. while the book said static animation didn't need anything more than its concentration on the spells to work, but Danny had gone all out. Candles; a snow globe, even dark purple almost black curtains on the windows to keep the light as low as possible.

"Funny, once upon a time what I'm about to do would have been a very bad thing to do according to a lot of people, but I guess that doesn't matter now that I'm the last one with more than two braincells to rub together." He said this as his gaze turned from his arcane table to the family photos on the faux fireplace mantle specifically the framed photo of his father. "Oh I'm sorry Daddy, I didn't mean it like that." He hastily said to the smiling eyes in the frame. A christmas picture; the little one year old sitting on Santa's lap. he had pulled the white beard down exposing the red one, but the boy wasn't saddened by this but rather happy.

Danny placed the figures on the table; lifeless at the moment,  just  toys. He continued reading. While not entirely necessary; Most unicorn beginners to static animation magic, going on to higher levels, MAY find it easier to place objects or "props" your creation may be using close by. While there's no clear understanding why this tends to make the spells more effective; it is recommended if your are having difficulty, more so if you haven't gained a Cutie mark yet.

That word, he knew it all too well. That little marking the baneful equines gained that dictated their life's callings. "What a crock" he thought to himself. "Those ponies are stuck with one little talent to screw around with from cradle to"...actually he hadn't seen any graves, yet only the two rulers lived as long as he did, interesting. (but that's a subject for another day) "Yet I? I'm a jack of many trades...but I guess they're all useless now; everything from my world is, even it's people." He said seemingly unaware of how in death, they served a greater purpose than any one life.

The figures were of three main heroes from the anime genre; a lifetime (or several) ago just around the time the two allicorns came to his world, he had taken a liking to the the antics and adventures of the three he had in plastic on the table now. Monkey D luffy; Naruto Uzumaki, and young boy Goku. They sat lifeless and silent on the table; the only thing he had left of that old life, outside there was nothing left but a lonely mist. He placed a long bo staff in the Goku's plastic hand, "You're power pole," then a tuff of something that floated just above the surface; "Nimbus Cloud, (it was indeed a bit of a pegasus' cloud) for you." He said this to the one figure before moving on to the next, the ninja trainee Naruto. "I've got something special for you buddy," Danny placed a long spike like object; a starlike object, and another staff like object next to the stiff; smiling, smug, face of Naruto. "you're  shuriken; Bōjutsu, and kunai. Use them well; but know this, they're aren't as dangerous as they can be...yet. " All three made metallic clangs as they hit the wood; they were real.

Decisions

"He doesn't deserve half the things I've read in here, but I'll be keeping my eyes open for anything that might raise a few flags." Twilight dictated to spike as he penned it into a letter. "I understand if you don't want to take the possibility of this kid being a serious threat to us the way so many others have been princess Celestia; but if worst comes to worst, and if things go as bad they can with him, I want you to please, please look deep inside yourself to be lenient but not so much as to not consider punishing him at all. Just let us handle whatever happens if anything at all does, yes I've thought long and very deep into this, yes part of me has this feeling that maybe he'll never come back.  Twilight Sparkle"

"No you're faithful student or loyal friend twilight?" Spike asked getting his breath ready to send it off.

"It's too important, it's my final decision on the matter of Danny Keith." She trotted around the room growing impatient waiting for the letter to be sent. "I'll keep my eyes open." She said again as she looked out the window. She say far beyond the hills and dales of Ponyville to a mountain somewhere past some lifeless badlands; a mountain that towered to the clouds and constantly seemed to have this thick foggy mist emiting from the top. Twilight's horn started glowing softly, but she wasn't getting a spell ready.

Give Life

"The blades are modified to go cleanly through someone without cutting them; instead the muscles will lock up, the blood will congeal, and they will be rendered immobile and cold, very very, cold, Temporarily of course. No matter what happens, I'm no killer." Danny said as he pointed the timber wolf "wand" to his head and read the passage in the book. You must focus every aspect you want the characters to have in the form of three "Personality cores." An abilities core; a characteristics core, and a morality core. They will be colored Red; Blue and green respectively. As he Said "I'm no killer," three green little glowing balls of light, no bigger than marbles seemed to be pulled from his own head and floated down to the figures; they remained lifeless.

"What happened? why aren't they?..." He flipped some pages; All three cores MUST be sent to all figures, but only the "Master Core" will give life. "Master core? Damnit I knew I should have read this whole thing over before I started." He sighed and looked over the figures as they all started to give off a soft glow. "You're all easy going; laid back, and generally nice guys to hang around with, but strong; heroic, and brave. Your loyalty to me is undying, but you're not minions or lackeys; You're my friends." As he said this three blue cores slid from his head and into them; the glow grew stronger.

In lieu of ability cores, if you don't mind the loss of them, you can convert a book that covers the needed skills, (Like a manual) into the cores. "Is that so? Well guess its a good thing I found these." Danny said this as he pulled three books out from under the table, and set them down next to the Naruto toy. They were bound in bindings not like any in Equestria; for they were books from his world. The Art Of War; The Art of Ninjutsu, and The way Of Shinobi. Focusing all the concentration he had; he waved his timber wolf stick over them. Something; maybe sheer force of will or maybe just the untapped, unused magic in the air, allowed them all to become Red ability cores. The cores glided silently across the wood table and into the Naruto toy, his glow became bright golden yellow.

Static animations can also have abilities granted to them later in the forms of magic spell powers bound to them; this is often used for unicorn characters to replicate the unicorn's magic powers (see the ballad of Star Swirl show of 413 C.E) magic given to these creations may not be as strong as full flesh unicorn magic. "Hmmm, oh Well guess I'll just have to use a placeholder for the other two latter, I don't know if the Equestrians have any sort of spell tomes on how to make themselves stretch like rubber Luffy." He said the to the Luffy toy as if he was alive already, "but for you this book on sword techniques should work; I mean, you are a pirate after all. For you Goku a simple book of karate moves should work." He said getting the respective books out from under the table, the last ones he had for now. "Gotta go back out into the mist see if I can still find the places I got these from as well; Funny, if I didn't know better, I'd say it's almost as if Celestia wanted me to be doing this." he said chuckling to himself. All three of them began glowing a bright golden color; almost ready.

The key step to making the creations of static animation as close to life as possible, involves *YOU** the creator taking a part of yourself and who you are and giving it to them, this will make them closer to actual size; have a closer sense of sentient thought, but most of all, It will bound creator and creation in a way that cannot ever be fully broken, this is the master core.*  As Danny read this he placed the tip of the dry, painted black timber wolf bone over his chest, and concentrated on who HE was a person. pouring quite literally "heart and soul" into the last three of cores, and sent them out to the glowing toys. The entire room was suddenly enveloped in a flash of bright purple light so bright; it made the boy's eyes clamp shut. He opened them slowly as the light died down to look, and smiled.

Aftershocks

Miles away in the New Beginnings Library; Twilight felt a strange sensation in her horn. She concentrated on the sure of magic that seemed to be coursing through every hair of her coat to the horn and released it. She felt as if a chill had just cut through her whole body; and a cold blast had shot down her throat into her lungs.

"Sweet Celestia! What just happened?" She asked herself looking back out her window. Yet again all she could see was the strange mountain to the sky. Inside however; she felt something much more. "I hope You know what you're doing." She said aloud thinking of her former mentor turned ally. "And I hope you know what you're doing girl." She said solemnly thinking of herself.