Lore, War Torn Battleon

Things were not going well for the defenders of Lore, for for the second time that year; war had come to their home town of Battleon. Its protector, a man by the name of Regwald, stood at the top of the mighty guardian tower, his sword drawn as he guarded one of his oldest friends.

Regwald looked back to the man behind him, his old friend Walic sweating as he used his magic in conjunction with nine of the most powerful artifacts of lore, the elemental orbs. “How you doing old friend?”

“I’m managing,” said Warlic with strain, “but it’s been a long time since I last cast this spell, so I am a bit out of practice.”

Regwald smiled, using his blade to cut down a creature that had managed to get past there other defenders, “You did it before old friend, you can do it again.”

He saw his friend nod, and then looked back to the battle, his magically enhanced eyes picking out faces as they struggled to keep the forces of The Queen of Monsters at bay. To the north, Artix the paladin was leading what remained of the order of paladins in keeping the creatures out. To the south, Gravelyn was leading the Shadowscyth forces in a very effective defense, her many undead soldiers proving to be unmovable when compared to the Queen of Monsters lowliest denizens.

To the east, he could see some of his other fiends, Victoria, Zhoom, and Galenoth were leading their own forces to push back the invaders, and to the west, many more of lore’s greatest heroes were doing their best to quell the swelling tide of enemies. All of this made Regwald smile, for as long as they fought, he knew the city would not fall.

This moment was short lived however, for a moment later a massive roar echoed out over the battlefield, and when he looked to its source, he paled at the sight. Marching toward the edge of the city, clad in slicken robes and golden armaments was a The Queen of Monsters herself, and fanning out behind her was a vanguard of her greatest allies.

“Titans…”

Warlic, who had been trying to focus on drawing out the remainder of the element orbs, looked up from his work and sighed, noting the creatures as well and speaking up. “Well, we knew they would come eventually, I was just hoping they would get here a little later than this.”

“I’ll hold them off,” said Regwald, sheathing the weapon and then going for the blade on his back, drawing the mighty Blade of Awe from its sheath before getting stayed by his old friend.

“No, I need you to stay here and keep any creatures that slip by from attacking me,” said Warlic tersely, looking toward the sky before hesitantly speaking once more. “…You need to summon her.”

Immediately Regwald’s face became downcast, the man not even looking back as he spoke heavily, “don’t you think we’ve taken enough from her with our wars, especially when you consider what she lost in the last one?”

“We may have,” said Warlic, “but she swore that if we ever needed her she would come, and we need her now.”

Regwald looked at him for a moment, and then sighed, pulling an amulet from around his neck and looking back at the battlefield. He passed his thumb over the amulets crystal for a few moments in hesitation, and then he raised it above his head as he cried a name out loud.

“KIRA!”

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Land of Equestria, Castle of Friendship

Twilight was not having the best of nights, for she couldn’t get any sleep at all, not with what was happening. Every time she closed her eyes, images of a world not her own and full of creatures she had never seen before filled her mind, making her sleep troubled at best. Lately however, the images from that world had been scenes of war and destruction the likes of which Twilight had never known, some so horrid that when she woke up she had to run to her bathroom to vomit.

Celestia had said this would happen eventually, for all alicorns had powers of some sort pertaining to otherworldly sight. For Luna it was the ability to pear into and enter dreams, for Cadance it was the ability to see into the hearts of ponies and see their true selves, and for Celestia it was the ability to get tiny glimpses into the future.

However, none of them had said anything about the possibility of Twilight getting glimpses into possibly alien worlds, for she was pretty sure that she had never seen any creatures like the ones appearing in her visions.

“Well that’s not entirely true,” thought Twilight with a cringe, “after all it seems like the ones defending the town look similar to what I became when I went through the mirror into the human version of Equestria, though they look a lot bulkier…and less colorful.”

Twilight sighed, and then cringed as a spike of pain shot through her head, prompting her to rub it as she cursed. “Buck it, I don’t care what I see anymore, I need bucking sleep.”

So with that, she went back to her bed and climbed in, falling to sleep instantly and letting her dreams take her, hoping beyond hope that maybe this time it would be a sleep untroubled by such horrid visions.

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Lore, Battleon Guardian Tower

The moment the name left his lips light exploded above them, before forming into one of the largest dragons in their world. As big as the tower itself, she used her claws to grab upon the side of the tower and become stationary, before craning her neck down to look at the man who had summoned her.

“What is thy bidding, Dragonlord?”

Behind them, Warlic couldn’t help but react to the sadness in her voice, for she no longer sounded like the happy go lucky dragon who had always warmed many of their hearts.

“There are titans approaching Battleon, ones we cannot fight by ourselves. We need you to hold them off long enough for Warlic to finish his spell, and then we can end this once and for all.”

“As you command Dragonlord,” said Kira simply, before letting go of the tower and flying toward the mass of titans, letting out a bellowing roar to let both them and her allies know she had arrived.

As cheers sounded out from the town’s defenders, Regwald turned as the sound of footsteps echoed form below, before smiling as the sight of Cysero came into view. “Cysero you mad dog, what are you doing up here?”

The crazed weapon smith smiled, before pulling out an orb from his jacket, one made entirely of bacon.

“God damit Cysero, I thought we said we wouldn’t need that thing.”

“Well I was just thinking,” said Cysero, “you guys are trying to gather the more obscure elements that power out world, so I thought, why not use the most obscure of them all to track them down.”

Regwald made to comment, only for Warlic to cut him off. “There’s no time to argue, just let him bring the blasted thing here!”

Cysero moved over then, letting the orb float from his hand into the circle before moving to the opposite side of Warlic to begin channeling his magic. Warlic made to protest, but was stayed when the mad mage spoke up. “Hey, the last time you pulled something like this you lost your beard and got turned into a teenager, and I think I can speak for everyone when I say we do not want to go through that again.”

Warlic hesitated, and then nodded, channeling more of his power into the spell.

Much too everyone’s surprise, adding the bacon orb did the trick, for the other orbs began appearing and joining the circle, till finally all eighteen Elemental Orbs were circling in a close not group, beginning to spiral around one in particular, the Elemental Orb of Law.

However, just as they Warlic was beginning to work on the final part of the spell, Regwald caught something out of the corner of his eye, turning and managing to get the Blade of Awe up in time as he clashed blades with one of his oldest foes.

“Drakath, why are you…!”

“I WILL NOT LET YOU STEAL MY VICTORY!!!”

Immediately Regwald’s mood changed, his face contorting in rage as he pushed his blade all the harder against his opponents. “You arrogant son of a bitch, this is not just your victory, if we don’t do this, all of Lore will die!”

“And that is no concern of mine,” growled the former champion of chaos, “our world can burn for all I care, but I will be dammed if I let you take this from me!”

Both men step back from each other, sending magic into their blades before clashing once again, energy flying from the clashing swords just as Warlic's spell went off.

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Equestria, Castle of Friendship

Twilight sat bolt upright in bed, her horn glowing as her mind burned with pain. Once again she had seen visions of this…other world, focusing on beings looking like they were focusing on a spell of some sort when another being had attack, this one of the same race as them.

This had puzzled her, but after a moment she had realized she shouldn’t be too surprised, after all even among her own species there were those who would fight against their own.

Twilight was stopped in her thoughts when a large pulse surged through her horn, nearly flooring her as she felt a new magic entering their world. She didn’t really know how she knew, all she really knew was from what Celestia had told her, for Celestia had told her that do to her being the personification of magic, she could sense magic all around the world.

But this new magic she sensed was unlike any she had ever experienced in her world, and as Celestia’s student, she had been exposed to many forms of it over the years. But this, this was different, it was more primal, more raw, and it felt exactly like the magic that she had sensed in her visions.

Before she could do anything else, a letter appeared in front of her, one which she grabbed and unrolled before beginning to read with haste.

Dear Twilight,

I know the hour is late, but we couldn’t wait for you to be awake. As you no doubt have felt, it seems some new form of magic has entered our world, one which my sister and I have also felt. It seems scattered, having popped up in many places, but the closest seems to be within the Everfree Forest itself.

Because of this, I must ask you to go there, for you and your friends are the closest ponies there who can handle something like this. Plus, if this new magic is connected to something living, I feel that it would be better if it were greeted by friendly faces rather than the hostile creatures that we know roam the Everfree. When you find it, make sure to alert me at once, but till then take care.

Sincerely yours
Princess Celestia

Twilight grumbled a bit as she read the letter, figuring that the princess would ask her to take a look, but secretly she was happy. This new magic excited her due to all the possibilities it held, and if it was connected to the beings from her dreams, perhaps she would be able to learn more about this strange realm she was seeing.

With that thought, she folded the letter back up and then headed out to the balcony, intending to gather her friends till she saw a massive dark form standing on the outskirts of her town, panic rising when it opened its mouth and emitted a mighty roar which echoed across the town below.

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Equestira, Everfree Forest

Regwald groaned as he slowly woke, his body feeling sore as he tried to lift himself off the ground. He could hear other groans around him, and when he looked around, he saw what looked like Warlic nearby. “Warlic…what happened?”

“I don’t know,” said Warlic simply, “I think…I think the spell react to the energies of your and Drakath’s blades, but I believe the spell worked…though it may have taken us as well.”

“Well that’s just peachy,” said a voice near them, one which Regwald recognized as Gravelyn. He was about to ask her how she was doing when another voice sounded above them.

“…Um, guys,” said Kira, “why do you all look like talking ponies?”

Regwald’s eyes widened at that comment, which caused his vision to clear. Surrounding him on all sides were several large ponies, most of them having horns on their heads, and in the case of Warlic and himself, both wings and a horn.

“Ok,” said Regwald, looking to his old friend before blowing his top, “WHAT THE FLYING FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO US WARLIC!!!”

Much to everyone’s surprise, Regwald's shout was much louder than they had expected, thundering out across the expanse around them and causing many animals that had been eyeing them to scatter into the woods around them.

Once the ringing had stopped, Warlic spoke up. “Well…I honestly have no idea what has happened to us, I mean from what I can tell only me, you and our allies are here…but I have no idea why we have been changed into these…creatures.”

“Well assuming since we are here,” said another voice, this one being Artix, “then isn’t it likely that our enemies have been sent to this place as well, and have likely also been changed.”

“I would assume so,” said Warlic, shakenly getting to his hooves as he looked around. “However, I think for the time being we need to worry about finding shelter, and possibly something to eat.”

Everyone nodded, getting up and checking to make sure they still had their weapons. However, they soon stopped when a roar echoed across the wood, one which Kira recognized.

“That is Exodus,” said Kira, before turning to Regwald and extending a wing to him. “Climb up Regwald, I shall need your power if I am to defeat Exodus quickly.”

Regwald complied, climbing upon Kira’s back before looking back down at the rest of his friends. “Ok, you guys better make your way to where the roar originated from, for if the memories of this creature are right, he can create smaller versions of himself, and if he is anywhere near a town, I’ll need you guys down in that town conducting damage control.”

Everyone nodded, and then charged off as Kira took into the sky, the mighty dragon letting out a roar of challenge as she flew toward one of her oldest foes.

Author's Note

I feel I should explain about two characters who will be major characters in this story, mainly the two OC's apearing in this story.

Regwald:
Rewgald is essentially my player character in AQWorlds, thus he is the Hero of lore. However, he also has the memories of the Hero's from the games Dragonfable, Adventure Quest, and Mechquest, though the reason why will be explained later (don't want to say now as that contains spoilers for the game AQWorlds.)

Kira:
Kira is from Dragonfable, and was destined to be the dragon of destruction but ended up switching destinies with the dragon of salvation. She originally was under the command of the Hero of Falconreach, but in this stories connected timeline, he was killed by Drakath, and she later came under the command of the Hero of Lore, who she has a strained partnership with, though that will also be explained later.