Chapters What Kind of Magic is This?
Author's Note
This is my take on Twilight becoming a Planeswalker and meeting the other Planeswalkers through out her travels, and first stop for her is the beautiful and yet dangerous city-plane of Ravnica.
What is that light?
What Kind of Magic Is This?
Prologue
Well what can I say here that doesn’t make me sound like a idiot? How about from the beginning.
Yes that would be great.
Would you shut up for at least a couple of minutes please, now where was I … oh yes I need to start at the beginning as to who I am and where I am currently.
It was a warm Summer day with no clouds in the sky thanks to the weather team working their usual routine that Rainbow Dash had taught when she was the captain of the weather team, though now she has finally achieved her dream of joining the Wonderbolts and currently on tour with them in Zebracai.
Anyway I’m on my way to see Rarity about if she is still available for the meteor shower tonight or if she is going to be working on her project for the Fall Fashion Show later this week.
As I walk up to the Boutique I can hear Rarity and Sweetie Belle having an argument about what the CMC were planning for their next adventure in helping ponies finding what their Cutie Marks stand for when I knock on the door.
Rarity opens the door looking a little frazzled and when she sees me she smiles. “Twilight Darling how are you today, and what may I ask do I owe the pleasure of this visit?” Rarity asks.
“Well Rarity I came over to see if you were still going to come watch the meteor shower with me and the others tonight.” I say to which Rarity’s smile slowly fades into a frown.
“Oh I’m so sorry Darling I wish I could go but I have to watch over Sweetie and her friends, because tonight is Sweetie’s turn for a sleep-over and I don’t want them to burn the Boutique down. I am truly sorry Twilight but if it was any other night I would. Please apologize to the other girls as well.” Rarity said with a sad look on her face while she shuts the door.
Sadly I turn around and start to walk towards Sugarcube Corner to see if Pinkie Pie is going to be able to go. I know I shouldn’t be sad that Rarity won’t get to go, but this will be the last one in my friends lifetime.
As I walk into Sugarcube Corner I can hear Mr. Cake talking with Pinkie about watching the twins for the next two days as both Mr. and Mrs. Cake had to go to Manehattan to visit a cousin of Mrs. Cake who was starting up a branch of their bakery there and they were going to help start it up.
Pinkie agrees to watch them and then turns to see me walking out, remembering that she had promised that she would watch the shower tonight. She asked Mr. Cake for a small break and come finds me heading to Sweet Apple Acres when she stops to apologize to me that she had forgotten her promise to me, to which I say that it’s okay and I do understand that the Cakes business is growing and I don’t hold it against her. She gives me a hug and says she’s sorry one last time before going back to work as I go to see AJ about tonight also.
After I knock on the door Granny Smith opens the door “Hello Twilight, are you here to talk to AJ?” she asks to which I nod, “Well I’m sorry to tell you Twilight but AJ is feeling under the weather and probably won’t be feeling better for a couple of days.” Granny tells me with a bit of a worried look on her face.
“Oh that’s okay Granny, I just wanted to see how she was and now I hope she gets to feeling better, okay” I say with a sad smile on my face. I turn around to leave when Granny says that she will tell AJ that I came over and hope she gets to feeling better.
Fluttershy was helping a pair of squirrels settle an argument with a few chipmunks and wouldn’t be there tonight either, and Spike and Glimmer were both in the Crystal Empire so I was alone to see the meteor shower. When the time comes for the shower to start I’m sitting on the hill a little ways from Fluttershy’s house with my telescope in hand and quill with paper floating next to me so I can write down every detail when I see a weird looking light start to fall in the opposite direction.
It can’t be a meteor because it’s falling towards the South whereas the meteors are falling towards the North-West, oh look at that it just hit one of the meteors and is now falling towards my direction and losing altitude. Oh this is not not good at all, because if it stays on the course it is on then it will hit Ponyville and either kill or injure many ponies and that is very very bad.
Okay it’s changing course again and now looks like it’s going to hit outside of Ponyville. Wait is this thing alive or being controlled by something, because I would love to study it after it lands or crashes by the look of it’s path.
The thing is now falling faster and is headed towards Twilight and she’s too busy trying to figure it out it notice that it is now dangerously to close for her to run till it’s too late and she takes the full force of the impact and the last thing she sees is the blinding blue, green and red light as it hits her.
“Hey , hey creature get out of my cart.” a voice says while poking Twilight with something. Twilight stirs and sits up to see a man with a spear pointed at her with a scared look on his face. “What kinda creature are you, because I’ve never seen anything like you before.” the man says before seeing some guards of the Boros guild and quickly called them over for help deal with the weird Krasis by the look of it.
The Boros guards talk with the merchant man while Twilight starts to realize she is no longer in Ponyville, in fact she can tell that she is not even in Equestria anymore.
What Kind of Magic is This?
What Kind of Magic Is This?
Chapter 1: Meeting Jace
Twilight sees so guards coming over to the cart she is in slowly with weapons drawn and cautiously watching her to see if she will attack them. Twilight having grown up in the Canterlot Castle has watched plenty of training routines knew what to do in this situation, she slowly and carefully raised her hands towards the sky and equally as slow and careful stood up.
When the Boros guards saw that she was compiling with them, which was unheard for a Krasis to to do, they finished the trip to the cart.
“Can you help me please because I don’t think I’m on the right world and would like to go home please.” Twilight asked the guards, which shocked everyone in the area.
One of the guards walk up to where Twilight is and asks “What do you mean that you are not on the ‘right world’, I never heard of a Krasis that was intelligent enough to be self aware, or to talk for that matter. Now get out of the cart and come with us.”
Doing what the guard told her Twilight was confused about what she was called. She looks to the one that talked to her and asked “What is a Krasis? We don’t have anything that goes by that in Equestria or even anywhere on Equus at all, but that could be that it was lost to time.” Twilight says while following the Boros guards to the Azorius Senate for detainment because the Azorius might have some protocol for getting ahold of the Simic Combine for information on a talking Krasis.
While walking to the Senate guild headquarters Twilight looks around at this new world she is in and is amazed at the architecture and races she sees walking around going about their business when they hear screaming coming from down a side street. What they see is a terrifying creature running around slaughtering people that are unlucky to get into it’s path.
The Boros guards charge at the creature with weapons drawn when suddenly there was a blue aura surrounding the creature making it stop in it’s tracks with what look like crystals growing over it’s body.
“Well that should hold up till the Azorius can deal with the Slaughterhorn , though what are you two doing in this area?” a tall looking man in robes says jumping down from a rooftop a little ways away. “You both know that this is Azorius guild territory right?”
The Boros flinch in fear of this man that Twilight is surprised because just moments ago they would have willingly died fighting that creature, but him they show the slightest fear meaning he must be a very powerful person for well trained soldiers to show fear. “Yes we know that Jace, but we have brought a Krasis that is some what intelligent to be able to talk and we were bringing it to the Azorius Guild to be dealt with as they see fit, Jace .” The first guard spoke.
This Jace person (I’m in a world with humans so I have to talk like that, it’s such a pain) comes walking over to me with a curious look on his face as he gets closer to me.
I feel something weird when his is standing right infront of me, a feeling like I can trust him with my life, and that he will teach me many things in the near future. “Well I will take this person to the Guild HQ for you and we will speak to both the Simic and Boros Guilds for information and to inform your Guild Leader of your help, thank you and you are dismissed.” Jace states to them as he take my arm and we start walking to this elaborate building that I assume is the guild hall.
“Well are you going to tell me whom you are Miss?” Jace asked.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle, and where am I Jace, I never seen a world like this before?”
“Never seen a world like this before? Have you been to any other worlds before this one?”
“Yes, but I was a human in that one, but here I’m still a pony with my wings and horn, maybe it has to do with the fact that there are non-humans all around, but that can be. Maybe it was that weird light that crashed into me.” I said to him which made him stop and stare at me with a confused look.
“What color as this light that hit you and where did it come from?” he asked.
I thought for a little while, after we started walking again to this Guildhall, before I remembered what had happened to me.
“It came from space during a meteor shower, when it hit one of the meteors which caused it to change course and crashed into me, the colors it had were red, blue and green, and after it hit me I woke up here in a cart.” I told him all that I had remembered every detail.
This gets a serious look on his face that I found scary. He turns and looks at me a little more closely, then he made some weird aura appear around his hand which was gently placed on my shoulder. When he did this I felt a strange power start to make itself known to me and I heard a voice inside my head.
You are the one I have been looking for young Twilight, for you can either bring others like you together or you can wipe all of them out with a simple thought, you will be the strongest of my children. Now go and find them..
I wake up in a strange room on a bed that is far too large to be just one person, though it is soft and warm. There is a knock at the door which then opens, and in walks Jace with a couple of people in armor . They all turn to look at me with different expressions on their faces ranging from shock and fear to curiosity and wonderment.
“Ah, your are awake, Twilight Sparkle, I welcome you the Azorius guild, though you are currently in my quarters, you are going to have a test in the next few days that will determine if you are able to join this guild if you so choose, or any of the other two guilds that have the colors of Mana you say you have now.” Jace tells me which confuses me, and me having to learn about something new gets me excited like Pinkie after she ate too much sugar and a couple of cups of coffee, (don’t ever do this EVER, we had to to beat Discord at one of his games), which makes me stand up on his and dance a little bit till I look over towards them and see the embarrassment on their faces, with Jace looking down at his feet and shaking his head. I look down at myself and see that I’m naked. I scream and fall back till I’m sitting. After covering myself up with a sheet I apologize about the outburst and then ask where are my cloths.
“Well Miss Sparkle, your cloths are being examined for any traces of the magic that brought you here to the city-plane of Ravnica, though we do have some more suitable clothing for you, if you would follow us please.” one of the armored people that came in with Jace said, though a little bit like how Fluttershy acts when she is around new ponies. “We just need to get your measurements and they will be made within the hour, and Miss Sparkle while you wait for them to be made if you are hungry food will be provided for you, whatever you would like to have, though within reason.” the same armored person stated as we walk to the fitting room where I will have new clothes made.
An hour after getting measured and ideas on what I wanted for my clothes I’m sitting in an alcove near the fitting room eating some on some of the locally grown fruits and vegetables while Jace and I are talking about the test I will be doing and that he and some of his friends will teach me how to use the magic of the colors I now have, and that I had heard to some voice tell me that some person to bring its children together or destroy them, which shocked Jace more than anything else I’ve say to that point.
“You are going to bring these ‘Children’ together or destroy them, hmmm, well I can tell you now that I am one of these ‘Children’ it spoke to you about, as are my friends that will teach you Red and Green magic, though I don’t see why it would have to be you of all people in the multiverse.” Jace says while thinking of a meaning for this.
“Could it have anything to do with the fact that in my world I’m the Element of Magic, and that magic is my special talent?” I ask him.
“What do you mean by that Twilight?” he asked.
I explain everything that I have been through up till the point of coming to Ravnica and meeting him. As I finish up one of the people from the fitting room comes to us and tells me that my clothes are done and if I want to come with her I can have them right now, to which I agree and tell Jace to wait right here for me while I get dressed.
Ten minutes later I’m in my new clothes, (what I saw some Vedalken wearing them and is what I chose to get), I walk over to Jace, who has this look of being lost in thought on his face, and gently lay my right hand on his shoulder to get his attention and ask him “How do I look?”
He looks at me from head to hoof and nods his approval “That looks great.” was his answer and then he says “I was thinking on how to start teaching you on Blue magic, and I think I have the perfect way, come follow me.” as he turns and starts to walk away, with me coming after him as excitement is all I feel.
Author's Note
Next chapter is going to take a while, but at least I got chapter one out and it's a little longer that the last one, but anyway enjoy and thumbs up and comment if you like it.
May Princess Luna give you great dreams
What Kind of Magic is This?
What kind of Magic is This?
Chapter 2: A New Friend?
Twilight was exhausted from the Magic training she’s been going through for the last two weeks, even Jace was very surprised at how fast she has learned to conjure and control the Blue Mana that runs through the world. Right now Jace is off to find some of his friends, whom he did not name but said that they will help with her training.
Twilight is in her new room meditating as instructed by Jace, to keep her reservations of Mana full, when she feels a presence that is both familiar yet dangerous at the same time.
“Who are you and what do want?” Twilight asks this presence.
“You can sense me, well that is a first for anyone on any plane to do. So you are the new Planeswalker I’ve heard about.” the voice is female, and a little shocked at being found out, though she finds it oddly refreshing for it to happen.
Twilight goes to look at where the voice has come from but then she is blinded by a spell she has never experienced before. “What have you done to me, I can’t see, HEL..hmmmf!” Twilight tries to scream out, but a hand is placed over her mouth.
“Quiet girl, or I will slit your throat.” the woman says causing Twilight to freeze. “Good you don’t seem to be completely stupid, now as to what I have done to your eyes is a temporary blinding spell you that I don’t kill you if your eyes were to meet mine, now do you understand?” she asks Twilight while removing her hand from her mouth.
“Yes I do, though why didn’t you just cover you eyes instead?”
This get a laugh out of the woman which is just a touch scary. “Well then I wouldn’t be able to see you, and you would get scared of the way I look.” the woman said while walking around Twilight, looking her over as best she could. “In all my life I’ve never seen a creature like you, though you look like a Satyr mated with a horse, but you’re not the weirdest thing I’ve seen.”
Twilight knows what she is talking about when she mentioned the Satyr, because Jace had taken her to the plane of Theros to teach her how to use her planeswalking ability. She seen what most Satyrs do for fun and was glad Pinkie Pie was not there at that time.
“Are you going to tell me who you are, or will I have to guess.” Twilight said with a little more anger that what was needed. “I can sense your Manas, both are Green and Black, which are Golgari colors.”
This shocks the woman more than when she was found out the first time by this new Planeswalker.
“I am Vraska and how are you able to know what Mana I control?” Vraska asks with curiosity in her voice. “Are you able to see my form through this ability, or does it only work on the colors?”
Twilight thinks this over for a few moments before asking “Why do you want to know if I can see you or not with it, I’m still trying to understand it myself. But no I can’t see what you look like, even though I can get a general idea when your emotions flare.”
Well that seemed to stop Vraska in her tracks. ‘How can this be possible, how can she be this strong, if not stronger than regular Planeswalker?’ Vraska thinks for a minute. ‘I’m going to have to study her some more so that I may have to find out.’
While Vraska was doing this Twilight was trying to figure out the right spell to end the enchantment that blinded her, but before she could Vraska removes it from her.
“Well new Planeswalker, I will have to talk to you another day, for I’m on my way to speak with Jarad, head of the Golgari Guild, but know this we will speak again for you are a fascinating being. Now goodbye.” and with that Vraska is gone, like she was never there.
Two Hours Later
Jace has returned with two of his friends and fellow Planeswalkers when Twilight told him about what had happened. “So you’re telling me that you met Vraska the Unseen and she didn’t kill you, that is a very surprising thing to hear in all the planes of existence.” Nissa Revane stated while looking at Twilight with a non-believing look on her face.
“Why not Nissa, it’s not like it hadn’t happened before with a couple of us when certain other more powerful Planeswalkers took an interest.” Nahiri asked “I know that a few of our friends had teachers that were like us.”
Just as they were starting to get into an argument a new being appears in the room from nowhere.
“She is telling the truth about Vraska being here and talking to her, for I was watching it happen.” Ral Zarek says after his little Teleporting show.
“And why were you watching this happen without doing anything, Ral Zarek , you know she is dangerous?” Jace asked
Twilight is now confused about this new person in her room and what did he want.
Author's Note
Well this chapter is a little short, but at least it's a new chapter. I had something come up to where I might not be able to write often (I'm going to try to get a degree in business
What Kind of Magic is This?
What kind of Magic is This?
Chapter 3: The Darkness Has Come.
It has been months since Twilight has come to learn Red and Green Mana in Ravnica, the tests from the guilds of her colors are quite impressed with her performance and want to have her added to their ranks as soon as possible, but as of now Jace is looking to find her in the guild hall.
“Where could she have gone, and why had she not left a note?” Jace wonders out loud. Thou much to his annoyance he cannot sense her anywhere, then a thought occurs to him. ‘If she’s not here then maybe she’s on a different Plane, but which one could that be?’
Jace uses his ability to check the few Planes that he has shown to Twilight, and the ones shown to her by Nissa and Nahiri. The Plane he finds her on is none other than Kaladesh, the Plane of the Aether and greatest of inventors.
Twilight is talking to an Aetherborn named Gonti, Lord of Luxury, along with a Planeswalker he has mixed feeling towards, Liliana Vess.
Seeing her mentor and friend Twilight quickly runs over towards Jace.
“I’m sorry if I made you worry Jace, it’s just I wanted to have time to think on what I should do, which guild I should join, and what I need to learn more of.” Twilight says in an apologetic tone with her ears lowered.
“Yes Jace, you should let her out more often and see the Multiverse, and don’t worry I won’t touch her in any way.” Liliana says while walking up to both. “Besides the dear girl will need my help in her training.”
“What do you mean Liliana, what training?” Jace asked with an unsure glare.
“Oh my there is no need for that look dear, Twilight here has found out that she can use Black Mana as well as create new artifacts, better that some here on this Plane I might add. She is an impressive pony if I’m correct on what you have told me Twilight.” Liliana states with amusement in her voice at the shock on Jace’s face. Jace knows how Liliana would manipulate Twilight without any remorse, just because she could.
“Yes Liliana you’re correct, but let's go show him what I can do. Thankfully Celestia had taught me how to protect myself from dark magical influences and Black Mana feels no different than that, plus it seems I will need to learn White Mana to if my hunch is correct.” Twilight says while gently pushing Jace out of town with Liliana dismissing Gonti before walking after them.
When they passed a shop near the end of the street they heard someone yell out “Hey where do you lot think you’re going?”Turning to where the voice came from the three see someone Liliana and Jace know very well, but is new to Twilight.
Walking up to the group is the native born Planeswalker Chandra Nalaar, the Pyrogenius of Kaladesh.
“Well Jace, Liliana what are you two doing with this…. whatever it is?” Chandra asked when she got closer to the group of three. “Is this another one of your illusions Jace, or some dark creature that you summoned Liliana, cause I don’t want it going rampant through town like the last one did.”
“No Chandra this is Twilight Sparkle, a new member of our kind. We were just going to an arena to see how well she can handle the Black Mana that she just learned.” Liliana said with a simple smile on her face, which turned into a thoughtful look “Thought now that I think about it, you might want to come along with us and see if you can help the poor dear with her Red Mana skills.” Liliana suggested.
Twilight turned to Chandra with her hand out. “I would love to learn as much as I can from you Miss Chandra, if that is okay?”
Chandra gave Twilight a glare at being called ‘Miss’ but laughed and took her hand, giving it a quick shake before saying ”Whatever, I could use a break anyways lets go!”
They made their way to the arena and started to decide who would test out Twilights new Mana, Liliana was the winner of the decision and both participants went to their respected ends, with Liliana taking the first move by summoning an Ashen-Skin Zubera then uses the enchantment Aspect of Gorgon on it. Twilight is both interested and concerned by Liliana’s moves before summoning Asphodel Wanderer before enchanting it with Bad Moon, making it a little stronger.
Liliana smiles and says “Well Twilight you seem to be able to read the scene quite well, I want to see how well you can so I will allow you to use the other mana colors too in our duel, if you want that is.”
“Well thank you very much on that Liliana, I will take that into account later if I need to. I don’t want to use too much mana at once or I’ll give myself Mana Drain to early on, which would not be fair to both you and I”. Twilight states with a chuckle. “I know you would not want to win by handicap, right?”
Liliana is quite surprised by what Twilight has just said, showing on her face, then starts to laugh when she realizes that Twilight is smarter than what she had thought.
“Yes you are right about that Twilight, I want to see what you can do more than anything now that you have piqued my interest quite thoroughly. No one other than Jace over there has done that in a long time and I want to enjoy this.” Liliana says. “You are well on your way to being a great and powerful Planeswalker young one.”
The duel lasted for hours with both trading blow for blow with Twilight learning more on how to control her connection to Black mana as they went. It ended with a surprising draw, with both exhausted.
Liliana smiles a true smile, something she has not done in centuries, for she has found a worthy opponent and ally in the new Planeswalker. Twilight is equally happy that she was able to stand up as an equal to someone that Jace has told her is a powerful being that many have failed to ever last five rounds against.
Chandra was syked to go up against Twilight next, but knew better that to try right now, so she told Twilight that she will wait till the next day if Twilight stays at her shop for the night to recover. Twilight gladly accepted the offer and both headed to Chandra’s place.
Jace walked over to Liliana and asked “What do you think of my student Liliana?”
Liliana looks at Jace and states “I am quite impressed with her and how fast she learns how to use mana so well, did you teach her that Jace?”
Smiling at what he just learned, Jace says “No I just taught her how to focus and manipulate mana by showing her how to summon creatures, use enchantments and spells. Once I taught her the basics on it she figured out the rest on her own. From what she has told me is that it’s a little different than the magic she can use on her home Plane of Equestria.”
Liliana is shocked by what she has just heard, and tells Jace to tell Twilight that she will talk to her again at some time in the future before leaving to whatever plane she calls home.
Meanwhile Twilight and Chandra have made it back to Chandra’s home\shop and are talking about some of the things that they have seen and done after learning about their Planewalking ability, which turned into Chandra asking about what Twilight did before she got the ability. “I am the newest princess of Equestria and have defeated many foes with the help of my five friends. They are Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkamena ‘Pinkie’ Diane Pie, and Fluttershy. We are called the Elements of Harmony, which is one of the most powerful artifacts in all of Equestria.” Twilight told Chandra all of the adventures they had gone on before she became a princess.
Chandra laughs at some of the antics that happened when Jace entered. “Hey Jace have you heard any of what Twilight has done before she came here? I’m surprised that things like that can happen without the use of mana.”
“Yes I have Chandra, and I don’t agree with you on the last part though. Twilight comes from a different plane of existence that has never been discovered, let alone even if it is in our Multiverse and probable works differently than ours.” Jace said as he sits down in a chair next to Chandra.
Author's Note
I started this chapter in August and put it on the back burner till today, but here you go with the newest one. May you all like it and again sorry for the delay. See you on the other side.
