My little league of ponies

by pokecrafter1

chapter 1: summoner's rift

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"What in the hay?" Twilight said to herself as she stood up in a half dazed state. As she looked around the crystal glazed world she remembered what happened a few moments ago.........

"come on twilight! out with the spell already!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she bounced around twilight's library. 'It's a miracle the books are still alright!' Twilight thought to herself. Pinkie and Twilight were also accompanied by four of their best friends, Rainbow Dash, the steadfast Pegasus who is always looking to get in the wonderbolts, Applejack, the hardworking earth pony that never lies to anypony, Fluttershy, the shy Pegasus who as an uncanny way with animals, rarity, the unicorn that would never hesitate to help a friend out as long as it doesn't get her hooves dirty! and finally, Pinkie Pie, the earth pony that loves to make parties. "settle down pinkie" twilight shouted as she herself shouted for spike to pick up her spell book. As the baby dragon ran in to the library with the requested book, twilight explained that she had learned that all spells can be changed with a few minor adjustments to something else as well, and she was about to do just that! If this succeeded, twilight would officially have her names in the history books! Not that she wasn't already in several, having saved Equestria from discord, nightmare moon, the queen of changelings, even a snoring dragon! Of course, she couldn't perform this spell without her friends support! After reading over the book once again, twilight felt ready. She braced herself, and her horn started glowing, gaining more and more power as it went on. Suddenly, in a flash of white light, the library was enveloped in a white light.

"Right, i was trying a new spell. Oh no! what about the others!" twilight said to herself as she looked around frantically. Just then, she spotted the others all huddled in a group and getting up. All but....... "Fluttershy! where's Fluttershy?!" Twilight shouted. " I dunno, twi,didn't u see her?" rainbow dash said worriedly. Fluttershy was one of her best friends and rainbow dash was not going to let anything happen to her.

"Don't worry" Twilight said, "i have a spell called clairvoyance that let's us track down Fluttershy(ok, this is not what the spell actually does, but i'm focusing on the ponies here!), as long as she's in the same world we are...." At that last statement rainbow dash flew towards twilight shouting "What do you mean the same WORLD! Where in celstia is this place!!" Luckily, applejack was right next to rainbow and immediately grabbed hold of her tail. "Whoa! Rainbow! don't you go recklessly charging around again! We don't want nothing happening to you too now." "And besides," twilight reminded them, "this spell was already tested by the council." And with that, another flash of light ensued. "I am never going to get used to this" Twilight thought to herself as she concentrated on the spell. In a matter of minutes she had found Fluttershy, but the sight wasn't pretty.

"Fluttershy's fine." Twilight said, as her eyes turned back from white to her normal colour. At that, everypony sighed with relieve. "She's just trapped in some kind of nexus with the elements of harmony!" Rarity, upon hearing this fainted. "Well, now we're two ponies down! Can this get any worse!" Rainbow shouted. At that moment someone announced out of nowhere: "Welcome to Summoner's Rift!" When Twilight heard this, her heart sank. "Unfortunately, Rainbow, It can get worse."

"What do ya mean, sugarcube?" AJ asked. "I've read about this place, we're in a world called the runeterra, and it's a lot less peaceful than equestria........."

In a few minutes, twilight had explained everything about theruneterra. It was a world where there were two warring countries, Demacia and Noxus.

Until only twenty years ago, Runeterra was on a collision course with disaster. As quickly as Runeterra’s denizens would band together in ancient times as tribes, opposing tribes would war to settle their disputes. No matter the era, the preferred choice of warfare has always been magical. Armies would be enhanced or decimated by spell and rune alike. Champions made the most of magical items forged for them as they led or supported armies. Summoners – often the de facto leaders of Valoran’s political forces – would unleash mighty magical powers directly against foes and their holdings with little regard for consequence. With such an abundance of raw magical power at their disposal, there was little motivation for summoners to explore more environmentally-friendly forms of warfare.

Within the last two hundred years, however, the dangers of unchecked magical warfare began to expose the fragility of Runeterra to everyone residing in Valoran. The last two Rune Wars drastically altered the geophysical landscape of Valoran, even after magical energy was focused on restoring it. Violent earthquakes and horrific magically-fueled storms made life on Valoran challenging, even before factoring in the horror of warfare on the populace. It was theorized that another unchecked Rune War would tear the world asunder.

As a direct response to the world’s growing physical and political instability, Valoran’s key magicians – including many powerful summoners – came to the conclusion that conflicts needed to be resolved in a controllable and systemic way. They formed an organization called the League of Legends, whose purpose was to oversee the orderly resolution of political conflict in Valoran. Housed in the Institute of War, the League would be given the authority by Valoran’s political entities to govern the outcomes of the organized conflict they would administer.

The League resolved that all major political conflict would be settled through the use of specially prepared arenas strategically located throughout Valoran. Summoners representing a particular political allegiance would each call forth a champion; the champions, leading mindless minions generated by novice summoners manipulating a nexus, would fight to achieve the objective of the arena they were in. The most common victory condition of a battle arena would be to destroy the opposing faction’s nexus. These arenas are collectively referred to as the Fields of Justice.

While all major political conflicts were being funneled through the League of Legends, physical conflicts between warring political entities were not completely eliminated. For example – the strategic choice of the League to build the Institute of War directly between the constantly warring city-states of Demacia and Noxus stopped almost all direct confrontation between them, though military skirmishes continue to break out. Instead, the warlike Noxian High Command has turned its ambitions of conquest offshore. Even still, all political entities abide by the governance of the League of Legends. No wise regent would be foolish enough to rail against a vast cabal of immensely powerful magicians, summoners, and champions.

The fights in the various Fields of Justice over which the League presides are not only of great political interest to Valoran, but also of great social interest. The League magically transmits the sights and sounds of the action as it unfolds to specially built arcane receivers located in key settlements throughout Valoran. Watching a fight in a Field of Justice is one of the more popular entertainment activities Valoran’s denizens engage in.

The League of Justice is supervised by a council of three powerful summoners, known as the High Council of Equity. Each summoner has been on the Council of Equity since the inception of the League of Legends except for its newest High Councilor, Heywan Relivash; High Councilor Relivash’s ascension took place five years ago after the mysterious disappearance of the previous High Councilor, Reginald Ashram. The Council of Equity is responsible not only for the leadership and guidance of the League, but also to act as the highest court of appeal for adjudication of Valoran’s political entities.

The structure of the League is focused around internal organizations that lead their various goals. Each city-state is assigned an Emissary of the League – a diplomat who serves as an on-location political representative to enact the will of the League. The Adjudicators are the arbiters assigned to a given match in the Fields of Justice. The Council is the body of high-ranking summoners which rules over political outcomes once a battle arena match has been resolved.

By the time Twilight looked up, the other ponies were already starting to doze off. "Are you ponies even listening!!!" Twilight screamed. Everypony immediately stood up and said yes. "Anyway," twilight continued, "If we want to save Fluttershy, we're going to need to destroy their enemies nexus, and maybe with the elements, we may be able to get away from here! At the sound of that, the other ponies all perked up their ears and stood up. "Well then, what are we doing here? Let's get to it!"

"Hey aren't aren't you at least going to get some boots or something?" When they turned around what they saw surprised their eyes.

I know this an extremely short chapter, but i promise I'll make it longer later in the day. Hope u enjoy the start though! CHeers!

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