Twilight really couldn’t believe her eyes at this point, for despite the fantastical things that had happened this morning, the ponies standing before her were hauntingly familiar, as well as shocking in every detail.

Most of them were unicorns, while the rest were alicorns, which made Twilight a bit nervous. What also made her nervous was that many of these ponies were covered in armor, armor which had seen many a battle. And they had also were carrying weapons of similar wear, weapons which rivaled the likes of anything Equestria had to offer.

Just as she was about to speak though, the black dragon she had seen before flew over their heads, landing behind the new group of ponies and lowering itself to the ground, allowing the alicorn ridding upon its back to dismount before getting comfortable while the new alicorn made his way to the front of the group before speaking to Twilight.

“Can I assume you are the masters of this Town?”

“Masters?” said Rainbow, “heck no, were just the heads of the friendship council.”

The alicorn looked confused, but before he could ask, Twilight lifted a hoof to stay him. “Look, we will explain ourselves later, but for now, I think you should come with us, for we have some questions we need to ask you.”

The alicorn nodded, and then turned to the dragon, “Kira, you might want to change to a more manageable form for now, that way you can follow.”

“As you wish Dragonlord,” said Kira to the confusion of Twilight and her friends, before being engulfed in light and changing into what looked like a hybrid between pony and dragon the size of Princess Celestia, looking herself over in confusion. “Strange, it seems my other form has been altered as you have been.”

Twilight was tempted to ask what she meant by that comment, but decided to leave it for later, gesturing with her wing for them to follow as she and her friends led them to her castle, sending off a quick note to Princess Celestia to meet them there, in the hopes that she could help her and her friends get to the bottom of this whole mess.

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Regwald had to admit, of all the places he had been, or remembered being, this castle was reminding him of a place he would rather not be, for it was reminding him of the Vizalain, crystal creatures who he had slaughtered.

“No,” thought Regwald with a grimace, “that wasn’t me, that was him…and he is dead.”

He took a deep breath, and then looked around, noting that his friends were just as nervous as he was, if not more in the case of people like Gravelyn. They were currently waiting in one of the many rooms in the lead mare’s castle, a mare who called herself Princess Twilight Sparkle, which Regwald found a weird name.

As to the reason why they were waiting, apparently, Twilight was only a minor ruler in this land, and so she had sent a letter off to a ruler who had more standing, who they were waiting to meet now.

“Regwald,” said a voice behind him, causing him to look back and see another old friend looking at him with a quizzical look, though he had to admit the only reason he could recognize her due to her mane.

“What is it Celestia?”

“I just noticed something,” said the silver haired mare, “Twilight is considered the ruler of her people, and she has both wings and a horn correct?”

“True.”

“Well I was thinking; if the ruling body are these…winged unicorns, why would it make you, me, and Warlic into them?”

“I can’t be sure,” said Regwald, “unless it also has to do with how powerful we are, after all, were not exactly the average citizen are we.”

“No we are not,” said Celestia with a chuckle, though she soon stopped as she gave him a serious look. “You know, I think you and Kira should…”

“No Celestia,” said Regwald, knowing where the mare was going and deciding to put a stop to it before it could start. “I can’t be with her and you know that, she is only interested in me because I look like him and have his memories.”

“That is not the only reason Regwald,” said Celestia, but before she could continue the door opened, and in walked Twilight, the rest of the so called friendship council, and three more winged unicorns, the center one actually looking to be the size of a full grown horse.

The larger pony approached, looking over Regwald and his allies before speaking, Regwald noting that her voice sounded exactly like Celestia’s. “Hello my little ponies, my name is Princess Celestia…”

She was cut almost instantly as Regwald and the others gasped, Regwald turning to look at his friend to notice that she was looking shocked as well, and when he looked back, he could see that their shock was not lost on the mare.

“Pardon me, but what has caused you all such sock?”

“Um,” said Artix, moving up so that he was standing next to their Celestia. “Pardon me your highness, but our shock was caused by the fact that you um…share the name of this mare here, for she to is called Celestia.”

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The room had gone dead silent at that statement, Twilight looking up to her mentor to see a rare look of confusion on her face, the solar monarch hesitating a moment before extending one of her wings and gesturing to the mare.

“Come closer…please.”

Twilight watched as the mare walked forward, and couldn’t help but take note of how similar the two mares looked, especially when she got close.

When the mare was standing in front of them, Princess Celestia gave her a quick look over, and then smiled, sitting down and speaking. “Well this presents a lovely surprise, so tell me, where are you princess of?”

That got Celestia confused, “Um…I’m sorry princess, but I am not a princess of anyplace, I am but a humble priestess who cares for dragons…well at least I used to be before me and my friends ended up here…wherever this is.”

“Really, so you are saying you are not originally from Equestria?”

“Is that what you call your planet, or your kingdom?”

This got a confused look from Princess Celestia, who leaned over to speak to Luna before looking back at Celestia and speaking. “Our planet is called Equis, our kingdom is called Equestria.”

Celestia sighed at that, “Then I have to say we are not native to Equis, in fact until a few moments ago we were not even ponies. We were…well we were a species called humans.”

Much to the newly made pony’s surprise, Princess Celestia did not look so confused, the mare turning to Twilight and speaking to her. “Twilight, I thought you said the humans on the other side of the portal were more advanced than this, these ponies look like they have come out of Equestira’s dark ages.”

“Um…princess…I don’t think they are from that world…in fact I think I know where they came from.”

This got a surprised reaction from all parties, causing one of the new ponies to move up and speak. “Um, begging your pardon Your Highness, but how can you know where we are from, we just got here.

Twilight sighed, “Because, I have been having visions of your world Lore for the past few months.”

The room suddenly exploded in an uproar of voices, but they were soon quieted as two bright lights flashed from Princess Celestia and one of the new alicorns, the two looking at each other before the princess spoke.

“I see we are of the same mindset when it comes to calming down those around us?”

“I have seen that displays of power often have a quieting effect on my friends, but for now, I would like to speak to Twilight if you don’t mind.”

“Go ahead, just be sure not to pressure my student too much; she is new to her station.”

The stallion nodded, then walked up to Twilight and bowed his head, “Princess, my name is Warlic, Arch Mage of Lore. If you could please, tell me what your latest vision was, for it may explain why we ended up…in your world.”

Twilight nodded, then explained about her last vision, explaining how she had seen their battle up to the point where Regwald had crossed swords with Drakath, and then she had been woken up by her horn burning due to the influx of new magic.

“Hm,” said Warlic, “that explains a lot actually, and it really is the only concrete reason I can think of that we would have ended up in your world.”

Twilight gave him a confused look, so Warlic explained. “Princess, though I have only been in your world a short time, I can tell your magic behaves very differently from our own. In our world, visions are a form of magic that can be tapped into, and, in the case of certain magic’s, traced so that they can be followed back to their source.”

“What, you’re saying that your spell latched on to my vision and…followed it back here?”

“In simplest terms yes,” said Warlic. “If only by accident, and if that is the case, then…then I am afraid I have to apologies to all of you.”

“What do you mean by that?” asked Princess Celestia.

Warlic sighed, looking at all of them before speaking up. “Because, the spell I was attempting to pull off was not meant to transport us away from our world, it was meant to banish the monsters of our world, as well as their progenitor, to make our home a safer place. However, when Regwald and Drakath clashed swords, the resulting shock wave introduced new magic into the spell, which latched onto Twilight’s vision, and sent us…and our enemies to your world.”

The silence was deafening, but after a while, Twilight finally spoke up. “So…so that creature that attacked Ponyville today, that was…”

“A monster from our world,” said Kira, who had moved up next to Warlic to address the princesses. “Specifically he was a Titan by the name of Exodus, one of the weakest of their kin, but still a formidable foe.”

“And you are,” said Celestia, eyeing the hybrid with some worry.

“Kira Elrana, former dragon of Destruction and guardian of the world of Lore, at your service.”

“Whoa whoa whoa,” said Rainbow, who had flown up to look at the mare. “What they hay do you mean former dragon of destruction, usually when something has that name they can’t exactly stop being that.”

“You would think so,” said Kira, “but I decided to defy my destiny in order to protect those I love, and for better or worse, I would never go back on that decision.”

Rainbow looked like she wanted to argue, but Princess Celestia cut her off. “You can ask her more about herself at another time Rainbow, for now, I would like to hear about these titans.”

She turned to Kira, who nodded her head before speaking. “The titans are quite simply the oldest and most powerful beings in our world, around long before our gods took up their mantles, and even older than all the races on Lore, including the dragons. They are ruled by a creature who goes by no name, save for her title…The Queen of Monsters, for she is both their progenitor, and their ruler.”

Kira closed her eyes, letting her magic pool within her claws before releasing it, surrounding everyone in the room with images of the titans, as well as their queen.

“By Faust’s holy quill,” said Luna, looking at the creatures surrounding them with genuine fear in her eyes, fear that was mirrored by her sister. “How can such creatures exist, they…they can’t be natural.”

“In our world they are,” said Kira, “and they exist because she exists, and she has existed since time began.”

Kira let her spell drop, the images fading away, and backed up to allow Warlic to speak. “We do not know when, or if they will make there presences known to you, but unlike Exodus, it will probably be a long while before they show themselves.”

“Why is that,” asked Cadance, her eyes showing her hopefulness at his comment.

“Because,” said Regwald, “Exodus is a mindless beast, and has no mind for strategy or the patience to even come up with a plan. The others however are a lot smarter, for they used to rule over nations and worlds, so they are well accustomed to playing to long game. They will want to take time to adapt to their new surroundings, scope out the creatures here, and most of all, adapt your world’s magic to theirs.”

“Adapt our magic to theirs,” said Princess Celestia, “I’m afraid I don’t understand you.”

“Beings as old as they are have their own magic which they carry with them, magic which is separate from the world’s magic. Because of this, they make the world bend to their rules, rather than letting the world bend them, which makes them even more dangerous.”

Princess Celestia’s face looked grim at this description. “That is very troubling then, for we have only ever faced one being the likes of which you describe, and the only reason he is not a trouble now is because we were able to reform him.”

“And he was?”

Before she could speak, a flash of light blinded everypony there, and when there vision cleared, one of the strangest creatures the heroes of Lore had ever seen stood in there center, looking around with a wide grin on his face.

“Oh what lovely little aliens we have here, why didn’t anybody tell me we were entertaining guests of another nature today.”

“What the hell is that?” said a voice from Regwald’s crowed, drawing Discord’s attention.

“Who me, well I’m Discord, spirit of Chaos and HRRKK!!!”

Discord was cut off by Regwald's horn flaring, the recently turned alicorns eyes glowing bright purple along with his magic as he drew his sword along with the rest of his group, placing the sword to Discords throat as he began to speak. “You better give me one good reason not to…”

“REGWALD!!!”

His eyes immediately dimmed, and he turned to the one who had shouted, seeing Kira looking at him with concern as she gestured around the room. “Please my…please Regwald, put your sword away, you’re scaring them.”

Regwald hesitated for a moment, and then looked back at the group who were there hosts, seeing them all with looks of fear in their eyes, though they were not directed at him, but at the being below him. When he looked down, he saw that his sword was pressed close to his throat, and was drawing blood.

He quickly let the creature up, who didn’t float of the ground, causing more concern from the ponies around him. When he had backed a significant distance away, he sheathed his sword, and then used his wings to command his friends to do the same before speaking. “I…I’m sorry, but I just…the last war we fought was caused by an entity who manipulated chaos, and the battle which accidently sent us to your world was caused by the same being, so we…we have a very knee jerk reaction to beings of chaos unless they…well unless they use their powers for good.”

“Well,” said Discord as he rubbed his neck, “I can assure you…I may have had my failings in the past, but I have been shown the error of my ways thanks to these mares behind me, so you don’t have anything to fear from me.”

Regwald hesitated, and then nodded his head, sitting down and then looking to Princess Celestia. “Princess, if it is alright can we put off further questions till a later date, my friends and I are still a bit jumpy from our last battle, and we could use the time to calm down.”

Princess Celestia nodded, and then turned to Twilight’s friends, “Girls, could you please lead them to some guest rooms, I have to speak with Twilight a moment, and then she can join you.”

The girls nodded, and then started to lead the group out, and as they left Princess Celestia turned to Twilight. “Twilight, Luna and I are going to stay for a while; at least till we are sure they can be trusted in your care alone. As for Cadance…”

“I’ll be staying too,” said Cadance instantly, looking at the departing ponies with saddened eyes. “I can feel a lot of pain in them, they have lost a lot of loved ones recently, and it needs time to heal.”

Twilight nodded at that, and then turned to Discord. “Discord, how are you feeling?”

“Frightened out of my mind,” said Discord, his eyes fixated on the departing form of Regwald. “I don’t know what kind of magic was in that blade of his, but it wanted to kill me, and I think it could have.”

“What,” said Princess Celestia, “but the only kind of magic you’re weak to is…?”

“Harmony magic,” said Discord, “I know…but that blade, that blade is anything but harmonic, that weapon was made for only one thing…”

“What?” asked Twilight hesitantly.

“…To harm beings of great power…and insure that they die.”

He then snapped his fingers, vanishing and leaving the four princesses to ponder his words, and the ramifications they brought along with them.”

Author's Note

Lot went down this chapter, and a lot more will be coming in the next one. Next chapter Victoria and Gravelyn are going to have a talk with Princess Celestia and Luna about Rewgwald, and Twilight will also be talking to him, which will lead to the big reveal about this character and his past. Till then, if you guys have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop them on buy, I love hearing form you guys.