Grimoire of Equestria

by microdrago

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"What the hell are you?!" A frill, yet still male voice called from behind us. I turned to see a White unicorn colt, with long blonde hair. His face was one of horror, as he had a hoof held mid-air pointed at me. My eyebrow quirked when he started to back up slightly. "M-monster! Why is there a monster in the castle?!" He yelled

"Well then, I can see I'm not wanted at the moment, so I'll just-" I was interrupted by his scream.

"GUARDS!!" He called. In a rush of movement, a half dozen guards came running into the room, weapons at the ready in their magic. "I, Prince Blueblood, order you to capture and detain this foul creature!" I felt my eyebrow twitch at his order. He sounded a lot like the old Celestia. The guards grunted as they lifted their weapons and aimed them at me. I shook my head, as I put my hands in my pockets again.

"Yeah, how about not?" I said as I rushed past them, slipping through them like water. At least my body still reacted like it used to. I felt a few of them take swings at me, but it didn't matter. They didn't hit anything aside from my coat, at least that's what I thought anyway. As I rushed into the hallway, I heard them cry out in surprise. I shrugged as I continued my sprint for the nearest window. I was stopped when I noticed a barrier around the castle.

"Really? They've gotten faster at least." I said with a smile.

"Get the freak!" I heard on my left

"Halt, you're under arrest!" Was heard to my right. My eyes widened slightly. They had managed to get me stuck in a small hallway. I cursed myself as I backed almost up to the wall. They had guards behind them ready to fire if I tried to get back. I sighed in frustration at all this stupidity happening right after I woke up. I leaned against the wall to think, so imagine my surprise when I just went through the damn thing. Of course, this action not being my own caused me to tumble a bit. Which made me fall through the floor as well. Flipping fast I landed, somehow, on the ground a full floor down. Above I heard the frantic screams of a 'ghost'. My eyes widened, and a scowl appeared on my face.

"Really?" I growl out my question to nobody in particular. "When he said I was part 'ghost' I didn't think he meant MOSTLY.." I groaned, as I face palmed. It was okay, I just needed to get back to my room, lock the door, and figure this out. It cant be that hard right? I mean, I DID wake up on a bed just an hour ago after all.

"We cant touch anything as long as you don't have power." The voice of Terumi said. Something was up though, I could tell by his voice. He sounded serious. "I don't get it though.. Normally the energy we have would be enough, that's why I told you about it earlier. If I couldn't make due with that, the negative emotions that flowed from everyone was enough. The guards fear should have been enough." He paused. "Unless your power runs on something different than mine.. But why?"

"Well Dearest, it's simple really. You two are opposites, so it would seem that your power runs off of opposite spectrums. The voice of Nightmare called out. I rubbed the bridge of my nose. This was way too much to take in before coffee..

"So what do I do then? Its not like I have a supply of-" I abruptly cut myself off.

Nope. Not going to do it. I refuse to use Luna as a battery!

"You don't have much choice, since you refuse to let me out. Since there's so much malice around here, I can power our supply a bit!" He sounded almost giddy.

"..." I put my hands in pockets again, and walked towards the stairs. "Where was Luna's room again?" I asked myself.

"Why wont you let me out?!" Terumi raged. I continued to walk up the stairs.

"When I say 'There's no way I'm letting you out', I mean it Terumi. Your not coming out, even if I die." I say resolutely. His silence was all the response I needed.

A few minutes later, I had found Luna's room. I could feel my body fading slightly, it seemed like a long process, so I wasn't worried. I opened the door to see Luna still sleeping with that 'me' shaped pillow. I smirked a bit at the image, as I stood in the middle of her room. I could feel it already, the feeling of my body solidifying again. Only it felt more, full? Like the energy powering the process would last longer. I raised my hand from my pocket and watched as it slowly faded back into an actual hand.

"Hazama.." I froze, as Celestia called out from behind me. As I turned to look at her, I slipped my hand back into my pocket.

"Hey, good morning!" I said as cheerfully as I could.

"Wh-Whats wrong with your hand?" She asked softly, wrapping my hand in her Golden magic. When my hand was forced into the open air, she gasped. She watched as it slowly reformed, still missing a few appendages. Her Magenta eyes looked into my own, looking for an answer. I gently shook her magic off, putting my hand back in my pocket to heal. I then sighed, I had wanted to get the hang of my new body before telling anyone.

"When Luna gets up, I'll bring her down for breakfast in a bit." I made the mistake of leaning on the bed-post. I faded through it, and had to catch my balance. "..When I can touch things again." I muttered aloud. I turned to Luna, as Celestia made her way to the door. The worry on her face was almost too much.

-----One Hour Later: Dinning hall-----

"You what?!" Luna's voice shook the table, as she called out in what I could only describe as a megaphone voice. I flinched a bit, not from the volume, rather the look of panic on Luna's face.

"Don't worry, I can handle this. I just need to stay in a constant flow of positive emotions until I can figure this out." I sighed as I realized how terrible that sounded.

"But Hazama, as you explained, there aren't all that many ponies who have positive emotions around here. Aside from us that is." Celestia motioned between herself and Luna She was right after all, I had felt around earlier, and I couldn't feel an ounce of positive emotion. Even from the guards who worked for them. It was like they were robots or something. Stupid military training..

"Well, I need to do something, I cant just-" My eyes widened as I felt something in the room change. A smirk formed on my face faster than I could blink. I knew that feeling. I stood up and walked to Celestia.

"What are you-" She started. I pushed my hands into her mane, and pulled. Pulling out a ball of Pink.

"Wowweee! You sure are good at this! How did ya find me?" Pinkie said while she bounced from my grip. Both Luna and Celestia looked at her with wide eyes.

"Hmm? How would it be possible to miss this big fluff of happiness?" I asked her as I poked her side, causing her to burst into laughter. After she stopped laughing she had that big old Pinkie grin on her face. My comment seemed to snap Celestia out of her confusion, as she smirked a bit. She nudged Luna gently, and motioned towards me and Pinkie.

"Oh oh! What if you have a Find Pinkie sense! I'll have to check on that later! I'm here for a reason!" She stopped her bouncing around. Suddenly she lunged towards me, and started twirling up my body like a snake, sniffing me. "My Pinkie Sense told me that somepony needed my help!" She stopped when her face was rubbing against mine. "Its you isn't it Hazie?" I blinked at the nickname she gave me. With a quick Ouroboros maneuver leading me up and over, I all but teleported out of Pinkies clutches. I laughed as she collapsed into a Pinkie Spring, and bounced towards me. This pony has made my day. As she bounced, she ran into a small wire, making a bucket of pudding fall on her head. When she removed the bucket, I flicked a finger at her as a pie tin hit her in the face. The cherry I flicked landing right on her nose when the tin fell. I couldn't help myself! This pony makes me just want to have fun! I laughed lightly as she licked everything up and swallowed it all except the cherry with an enlarged tongue.

"Classic, yet effective, nice timing, and full use of your surroundings. If I didn't know better, I'd say we were evenly matched." She said with a wink. All with the cherry still sitting on an outstretched tongue. With a flick, she sent it zooming into my open mouth. I couldn't help but chuckle as I chewed.

"Well, that solves that then." Luna said. I looked over at her. I had completely forgotten they were here! She had a smile on her face. "You look a lot healthier, and not as melancholy. For a little while, why don't you spend some time with Pinkie and the her friends? I'm sure Pinkie would love to have you over." The wink at the end of that was something I didn't expect.. Or understand.

"Before we send you off, here." Celestia gave me a crystal, it was half Black, half White. "Its a communication crystal. Normally we save these for dire emergencies, but were going to let you have one either way. It lets you talk to us from anywhere, just by putting magic into it." She said. I had a slight issue with that, since my power wasn't magic, or at least their type of magic. But I guess we'll see later on. My attention was drawn to Pinkie once again, as she was now bouncing on top of my head squealing.

"Ooooh! I cant wait to tell everypony! Dashie's been talking about that race you promised her, Rarity's been saying she wants to make some new clothes for you, and Twilight said she can't wait to ask you some questions. I'm sure Fluttershy will be happy to see you too, since she still thinks you think she's afraid of you. You don't think that do you?" Pinkie rambled while staring into my eyes, pushing her nose against my own. Jesus, any closer and she'd have kissed me. A smile broke out as I tickled her sides to get her off my face. Holding her under my arm like a bag, I turned to Luna and found her standing closer to me. Her face looked amused, yet sad.

"It looks like I've got a full plan already, sorry.." I apologized softly. Luna shook her head, her smile growing.

"I just want you back to normal, if it takes some time then I can wait. Don't forget to use the crystal okay?" She nuzzled my neck and cheek affectionately. I ran my hand through her mane, as I gave her a quick peck on the cheek. She blushed as she backed away with a smile. Heh, I was right. She wasn't ready for open acts of affection, yesterday must have been a spur of the moment thing.

"Every night, wait for me!" I said with a smirk, as I disappeared with a flash of Golden light. Celestia powered down her horn and turned to her sister.

"You didn't seem too angry about that." She said raising an amused eyebrow. Luna froze in place, as she looked embarrassed.

"Well he did look happy, didn't he? Besides, I doubt anything like that would happen so soon. Although I have to be slightly worried. They are both very spontaneous, as seen earlier." Luna let out a chuckle, "Did you see the maple syrup?" She asked with a grin. Celestia only smirked back.

----Ponyville----

We appeared in Ponyville a second later. Me still holding Pinkie under my arm, until I felt her slip right out. When I went to look at her I found something pouring onto my head, covering almost my whole body in a sticky substance. Then in a flurry of White, found myself looking at myself covered in feathers. I heard Pinkie laughing hysterically, rolling on the ground.

"The old 'Tar and Feather' trick huh?" I said, flaring up my power a bit, causing the feathers to catch fire quickly and the maple syrup to dry and crumble away. I finished by spiting out a feather, "Now that's a classic, Pinkie Pie. You're going to have to try a little harder than that though." I said as I pulled my hand in a tugging motion. She only now noticed the string in my hand. When she followed the string with her eyes, she gasped.

BOOM!

The cannon fired a blast of confetti and such in her face. When it all settled on to the ground, her face was priceless.

"How did you get ahold of my party cannon!?" She asked in awe, eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Your mane sure does have a lot of stuff crammed in there doesn't it?" I said as I pulled a rubber chicken from my sleeve. I tossed it to her and her mane seemed to come alive and absorb it. Honestly, I got a little scared now, what was this mare and why was I so excited to pull pranks? "So I borrowed a few things." I said with a smirk. Her face pulled back into that full blown Pinkie Smile once again.

"Best day ever!" She raised herself on two hooves and screamed to the sky. I chuckled at her antics.

"Hey, we need to talk. Its about what's happening." Terumi's voice sounded slightly distressed.

Ah Christ, what now?!

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