My little Mage Episode 1

"And that!... is how Equestria was made!"

wilight was on the verge of tearing her hair out. Listening to her familiar talking endlessly to some shy obnoxious druid for the past half-hour was more than just playing on her patience. But finally after poking around a little bit she was now finally in front of the only library in Ponyville.

"All right now, I know you two have had a good long talk but I have to get to sleep... and I'm sure that you have plenty of Druid things to do... so if you don't mind..." She opened the door and stepped inside giving the soft wave goodbye before firmly pulling the door shut.

"Blessid Sun... I thought I'd never get out of there alive."

The slightest shift in the air causes her to whip about quickly, bringing to bear her staff, conjured to her fingertips in the blink of an eye. However, it was not a foe she was dealing with. It was something much worse.

"SURPRIIIIIISE!!!!!!"

Twilight had nearly leveled the place with one magical blast, but when the lights came on and she realized that it was full of plenty of the townspeople with a very large Banner overhead reading *welcome to Ponyville*. Seeing all of this, there was a tickling temptation to use the magical blast anyway.

"Welcome to Ponyville!"

It was the same Jester that they had seen when they first arrived in ponyville. The same one that screamed in horror and ran off.

Twilight's eye twitched heavily. "...thanks... I guess..."

Twilight I was very unsure of the whole situation. She most certainly was not one for parties and this was no exception. At the moment, she needed a bath and then to quite simply go to sleep. She had been booted off to some trivial task by her teacher, practically force-fed more food than she could handle, splashed with mud then soaked with water and blasted dry, insulted by her own familiar, reminded of her least favorite part of equestrian culture as if it was the best thing since the construction of the arcanaeum, and finally annoyed to no end by an excessively shy introverted druid wanting to know everything and then some about a dragon that should have had very little to say. And now there was a party in her honor that she wanted nothing to do with. Had this not been the only place she could fall asleep she would have simply teleported away.

"I saw you this morning! I was super surprised because I didn't know you! And the moment I saw you I knew right away that I had to go and prepare a welcome to Ponyville party! Because I know everyone in Ponyville. And if I don't know you and you're here in Ponyville that means you're new! As such the planets aligned and the heavens parted! And the Declaration was as thus! I must have a party for this newcomer!"

"Newcomer? You did all of this and you don't even know my name?..."

The jester smiled and waved a hand dismissively. "Of course I Know Who You Are, you are Twilight Sparkle. My friends told me!"

She jabbed a thumb over her shoulder at a tall Paladin, a rainbow haired Elementalist, a beautiful enchantress and a shy druid who looked like she was pulled in from outside forcefully. The fact she was amongst the crowd seemed to haunt her.

".... I see..." She grumbled in a low tone and she plucked one of the random bottles off of the beverage table and poured herself a glass. The pink-haired jester continued blabbering on constantly and the only thing that Twilight Really caught was the fact that her name was Pinkie Pie. That and the fact that she did not appear to even need to breath with how much was coming out of her mouth.

"Really it's quite amazing... " Her tone was dripping with sarcasm before she took a long sip from her cup. Which of course she instantly regretted. Doing her best not to instantly spit whatever it was out Twilight instantly made a mad dash for the bathroom.

Pinkie Pie giggled taking one of the cupcakes off the table and splashing the Muerte Roja hot sauce from Twilight's cup onto the cupcake and practically swallowing it whole. "Yummies!"

" Moon damn it!"

Twilight lifted her head off of her pillow trying to gather enough concentration to double the sound dampening field around her. Admittedly she only discovered this spell within the library a few days previous and this is the first time she actually had the chance and the desire to use it. She was both embarrassed and absolutely livid at the fact that she didn't already have mastery over it. Mostly because of the party still rocking on in the Next Room. "You would think that they would cancel the party once the guest of honor has left or at least made it clear that they don't want a party!..."

"It's not all that bad mistress..." Spyke slithered up her bedpost and laughed. " I happen to know that you're not allergic to having fun... okay so I don't actually know for certain but it won't hurt to try and find out... just go out there and..."

He was cut off as Twilight banish him for the rest of the night and instantly went back to trying to double the power of the spell.

Waking up after a solid 3 hours of sleep, Twilight was not happy. She woke up just in time to see Spyke returning from his banishment.

"Mistress you have got to stop doing that!... not only is it very rude, but I am your familiar for a reason! Being banished hurts you as much as it does me. I'm more than just an assistant..."

Twilight sighed and rubbed her brow. "I am sorry Spyke... it's just been an exceedingly stressful 24 hours. And I know you're not always the most perceptive individual but you should have known very easily that I was not happy about this party. Let's just go to the Celebration and forget all about everything that has transpired... I honestly have no idea why in Equestria the archmage has done this to me... maybe I pissed her off or something."

Spyke sighed and slithered of her leg perching on her shoulder. He knew well that she had social problems, and despite how inconvenient it was for him he was not so much angry at her treatment of him, he was her familiar and he was charged as per magical contract to protect her with his life. He may have been an infant of his species but he owed his existence to the girl he was currently perched on.

"Aye mistress... I am sorry you didn't have a better time and I should have tried harder to make the experience better for you."

She gently pet the top of his head. "Don't be so hard on yourself, despite how terribly you failed, you were trying to help me and I appreciate it..."

Without another word they prepared for their day.

Slowly making her way through the crowds, Twilight rubbed her temples. The crowd's murmuring was already enough to drive her up the wall with a small amount of sleep she had. However the problem she was suffering from what's the return of Pinkie Pie the jester. She had seen just enough of the pink haired girl to notice that she did have some potent Magic, which technically made her a Trickster mage and not a jester. However it was blatantly clear that she was an Entertainer and not a combatant. Not that it was vital to it being worth her time, it just made Twilight a little less confident in her time here being of use.

"The party last night was great! It would have been better if you weren't being such a grumpy pants!"Pinkie's words were followed by happy giggles. But the Trickster mage was promptly pulled back by the Paladin Applejack. This ease Twilight's nerves a little more, the same sort of ease she knew she needed, the same sort of ease she decided to take by leaving her familiar behind for the night much to his objections.

"Sorry about the fuss sugar cube. Pinkie throws a party at every chance she gets, it just gets worse if you try to postpone or Escape it. We learned it's probably just best to let it happen and apologize later." The Paladin was much easier for Twilight to deal with at the moment, unlike the jester she actually understood the concept of personal space, and seemed rather respectable, perhaps a little too proud of her family and their work, but that was something that she could easily understand.

"Don't worry too much about it it's just one night of sleep I lost out on... soon the celebration will be over and I can go back to Canterlot." She smiled despite her utterly exhausted state. Her eyes poked about picking out just about everyone she had met the day before from the crowd.

The crowd's murmuring looked like it was going to continue forever, at least until the mayor of the town begin to speak welcoming everyone. "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, we are eternally pleased to for the first time in a great many years, the summer solstice, the Summer sun celebration is to be held within our Halls. We will feast and revel in the enjoyment of this holiday. For the immortal Arch mage herself has chosen this little town to be graced with her very presence. So without further to do, I give you the sole reason that our nation stands... our Eternal protector, our princess, and guardian... archmage Celestia!"

The curtains pulled back with the Beautiful Singsong tone of birds and trumpets. However the balcony that was lavishly decorated and the throne that had been hastily transported from the capital which Now set upon said balcony was in fact empty.

At first there was a lot of shrugs then a small murmur began to spread. Quickly turning into a soft spike of fear. Something had gone wrong.

" remain calm everyone she is our eternal Guardian... literally the most powerful individual in the entire world, I am sure she is fine..."

As the mayor continued to speak a sickly dark Mist rolled in, twirling and crackling with Arcane Magic. Twilight gulped and grit her teeth, hoping with all her heart that this was a joke.

The Mist formed over the throne and with a burst of power shattered it. When the Mist cleared, the Shadows throughout the entire building shimmered and danced without even the slightest change in lighting. There amongst the shattered fragments of The Golden Throne stood an individual as beautiful as she was powerful. It was like she was the literal embodiment of Shadows and darkness. And off of her back floating gently and majestically, the sign of immortality. Solid black Arcane wings. Solidified just like the power of the archmage. Very few within history have even been able to begin to achieve such a level of power that would create literal and physical wings out of the latent magical powers flowing off of an individual.

"Hello Equestria... I do hope you didn't miss me too much... "

The mayor gasped and threw an accusing finger up at the figure. "Where is the archmage?!"

"Why hello to you too peasant, the common decency towards royalty sure has declined in the past Thousand Years. If you're looking for the archmage you're not going to find her... for some obvious reasons."

She hefted a massive double-bladed sword with a grin. A grin that all the Royal Guards did not care for.

"SEIZE HER!"

Four guards at once rushed the dark figure. Twilight almost didn't have time to scream her warning. "NO YOU FOOLS STAY BACK!"

The blade twirled and thankfully only Magic Flowed off of it. Not so thankfully, All 4 elite guards blasted in all four directions. Their armor was smoldering and their weapons were shattered.

"Did you fools really forget who I was?... this whole time you borderline worship that tyrant weakling and you forget who I am?..."

Her body dissolve into mist and she flowed down into the ground trailing off long tendrils of smoke that slowly rolled across the floor. Beautiful sharp inhuman eyes opened in the darkness and the power moved outward gently nudging the frightened villagers who did their best to stagger back.

There was a sudden burst of energy from Pinkie Pie as she was about to begin blabbering on and a massive guessing game as to this mysterious figure was but as if it was foretold ages before. Apple Jack saw it coming and crammed the largest Apple she could into the girl's mouth to shut her up. The Paladin was no fool. She could feel the tension in the air and the ungodly level of power radiating from this magical woman. So to keep a lot of death from happening, she remained silent.

"I know Who You Are..."

The dark figure smiled and turned about facing the voice that had just spoken. In turn Twilight narrowed her eyes and spoke once again. "The dark God of nightmares and the Moon. Shadows incarnate... Darkness and dominance... you are Nightmare Moon... Here to plunge the world into darkness eternal..."

"Finally one of these peasants remembers me..." Nightmare Moon smiled and twirled her great blade once in her hands before floating up to Twilight until she was face-to-face with the much younger and much less powerful girl. Twilight did her best to maintain her Stern face, but she could feel the power wafting off of this individual. Never before in her life that she felt so small. And looking into the deep cyan eyes she could tell that the monster in front of her knew how she felt and reveled in it.

"Cute little thing, smart too... I'll tell you what, I have things to do, so why don't you do me a favor and inform these Petty ignorant fools of exactly what is expected of them... and when I come back... I won't kill the lot of you." She smiled and her power crackled before she turned into a mass of Dark Mist which nearly instantly exploded and shot out through every possible exit in the building. Twilight's response was also just as quick as nightmare Moon's exit.

"....Crap..."