Final Fantasy Equestria: New Beginning

Chapter 3

The Veterinarian and The White Mage

[Fluttershy’s Cottage]

While Twilight was busy dealing with the situation in Sugarcube Corner, we turn our attention to Fluttershy tending to the animals at her cottage at the edge of the Everfree Forest. While outside she begins to do her daily routine which involves feeding the animals, making sure their homes are kept in perfect order and aren’t damage, and tend to any animals that are sick or injured.

“There you go mister birdy.” Fluttershy said as she finished bandaging a red bird’s wing. “Now, you get some rest so your wing can get better.” She said as the red bird nodded and hopped off towards the nest on the ground. That is until he stopped and begun to look around. “Is something wrong?” She asked as the bird let out a small chirp.

“You hear somepony singing behind the cottage? Are you sure?” The bird nodded as he begins to lead Fluttershy over to behind the cottage. As Fluttershy began to follow the red bird, her ears twitch upon hearing the voice of someone singing as she got closer. Once she was behind the cottage she would see a pony wearing a white robe with red patterns on it and a staff on her back.

“To all of my children in whom life flows abundant. To all of my children to whom death hath passed his judgement~.” The mare sang as a few animals began to approach her due to her singing. “The soul yearns for honor and the flesh the hereafter. Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after~.”

“Such a beautiful voice.” Fluttershy thought as she slowly crept up on the mare singing as to not disturb her.

“Shining in the land’s light of justice. Ever flows the land’s well of purpose~.” The mare extend a hand up as a blue jay flew over and landed on her finger. “Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe. The land’s alive, so believe~.” Looking at the blue jay on her finger, she reaches for her hood as she slowly takes it down. Once the hood was down, Fluttershy let out a gasp upon seeing her pink mane flow down. The mare’s ears twitch as she turns around with a shocked expression upon seeing Fluttershy. “Oh….h-hello.”

“Y-You’re….You’re me?” Fluttershy said as she carefully walks up to her look a like.

“I-It would seem so. Though I think we might be different due to our ages.” The white mage said as she walks up to Fluttershy. Once she was close, the veterinarian notice the height difference between the two. “I’m Fluttershy by the way, but I’m sure you knew that.”

“It’s nice to meet you...um...me? I’m Fluttershy as well, but I’m sure you knew that as well.” Fluttershy said as she giggles a bit.

“Fluttershy Dear, is everything alright?” The two of them heard a voice from inside that startled the veterinarian for a moment before she turned to the window nearby. “I could’ve swore that I just heard you talking to yourself just now.”

The white mage took notice of Discord near the window as her gaze harden and begins to reach for her staff from off her back and takes up a fighting stance. This caused the veterinarian to realize what she was doing and extended a hand to stop her. “W-wait… I-it’s not what you think. He l-lives with me…”

“Forgive me if I don’t believe you...but I don’t trust him….at all.” The white mage said as her staff begins to glow in defense to seeing Discord.

“He’s reformed-”

“Fluttershy?” The Draconequus said, only seeing the white mage and not even noticing the vet nearby. “What are you doing in that costume? It’s a few months away from nightmare night and you told me you don’t normally celebrate that. I was going to ask if you'd like any tea-” That… was when he turned his head and saw the vet not that far from the white mage. Causing him to blink a few times before his jaw dropped to the floor… literally.

“Stay behind me...um… me.” The white mage said as she stood in front of Fluttershy. “Whatever he is planning can not be good.” She said as she casted protect on herself, the veterinarian, and her animals.

“The only thing I was planning to do was make tea… But in all seriousness, what is going on?” Discord asked, turning to the white mage. “And why are you using magic?”

“Not to be rude or anything, but I’ll have to refuse to answer your question.” The white mage said as she was preparing to cast Aero II on the draconequus. Until she heard the same question he originally asked… from the vet.

“Uh… how are you using magic?”

“...What do you mean?”

“Uh… well, only unicorns and alicorns f-from my understand know the kind of magic you are doing,” She pointed out to her. “We pegasi just use weather magic, n-not… that…”

“That’s… a bit weird. Mind telling me where I am?”

“Uh… Equestria?” Fluttershy answered for her, looking back at Discord as he raised an eyebrow and shrugged his shoulders.

“This is… all too strange for me… and normally, I’m the one who sometimes does strange things.” Discord commented.

“Hm. I should be in Gridania if that was the case. But after walking through the untamed forest of the Everfree Forest, then that must means that Sunburst’s magic must have teleported us to some weird alternate version of our world. One where certain species of ponies can use magic.” The white mage said to herself before realizing that she was talking out loud and blushes. “Oh, um, sorry. Just, thinking out loud….something that I picked up from hanging around Twilight for too long.”

Yet… the white mage wasn’t ready for a question that the vet asked. “Sunburst?” She then turned to Discord and asked him something else. “Discord, have you heard of somepony by that name?”

“Can’t say that I have at all, Shy.”

“Yeah, I-i’m sorry, but we’ve never met anypony named that before.” Fluttershy said apologetically.

“Um...what month and year is it here?”

“You mean today’s date?” Discord asked.

“Yes, today’s date.”

“Well, today is August 15, 1005, CE…”

“CE...what does that mean?”

“Celestial Era… when Princess Celestia originally banished Nightmare Moon.”

“Um...who’s Nightmare Moon?”

Fluttershy and Discord both blinked in response before looking at one another. “You don’t know who Nightmare Moon is?”

“We never heard of Nightmare Moon from where I’m from… why? Is something wrong?”

“Well… how should I put this…” Discord asked. “Nightmare Moon was what happened when Luna’s jealousy over her sister took hold of her. She would raise the moon and make a beautiful starlit sky, but she felt that nopony appreciated what she did since they were all asleep. However, when Celestia raised the sun, everypony appreciated her. That was 1000 years ago and at that time, Celestia originally banished Nightmare Moon with the elements of harmony… fast forward to five years ago, when Nightmare came back, it was Twilight and her friends that stopped Nightmare from having revenge.”

“.....Forgive me if I’m not responsive to this...but for the most part of what you said….it never happened back in my Equestria...We never heard of these things called the elements of harmony or Celestia banishing her sister to the moon.” That threw both Fluttershy and Discord off guard, before both of them looked back at the White Mage.

“Uh… Perhaps we should go see our Twilight… maybe she has some kind of idea of what’s going on or how she can help you.” The Vet spoke up. “I mean… things do seem rather quiet today-”

The second she said that last sentence was when she heard something that sounded like the force of an explosion go off in the direction where Ponyville was as Discord snapped his paw and had a telescope form from it. “Well… you’re not going to believe this… but two Applejack’s are fighting in the center of Ponyville.”

“....Would the other one be wielding an axe on her back and wearing armor similar to that of a warrior from olden times?” The white mage asked with a worried expression on her face. Discord’s response was to conjure another telescope, this time for her, and let the white mage see for herself what was going on first hand. “....I would say that I’m not surprise….but I am. Mostly from seeing how well your friend is holding her ground against my Applejack.”

“Really? Because she turned her back just now and got hit by a wave of- Ooooh, that’s gotta hurt.” Discord said, sounding rather disturbed by what just happened. “That’s going to leave a mark.”

“Oh dear. I gotta get over there and stop them before they end up hurting themselves.” The white mage said as she was about to quickly fly over to Ponyville. Until Discord saw something else and then spoke up to the white mage.

“Hey, is your Twilight decked out in some kind of important wizard’s garb? Because right now, I’m seeing two of them and one of them is tending to our AJ.”

“Yes, that is my Twilight...I’m a bit surprise she’s in Ponyville as well….This is a bit of both odd and relief at the same time.”

“Uhh...Maybe they might have an idea as to what’s going on?” The Veterinarian suggested.

“With both Twilight's talking to each other. They might have an idea on what’s going on, and how we might be able to get back to our home. I mean I have a bit of a grasp on it, but Twilight might be able to help us all understand what’s going on.”

“Well, let’s go see them then!” Discord declared, grabbing hold of both Fluttershy’s as he snapped his talon, causing all three of them to appear in front of Sugarcube Corner… where everypony else was. However when he arrived at the pastry store..he didn’t quite get a warm welcome from either the Warrior, Summoner, and Bard upon arrival as he was bombarded by a combination of Ruin spells and arrows.

“Oh come on!! I just wanted to say hi! After all I did to get reformed, that is what happens!?” Discord shouted, hiding behind Fluttershy and Twilight.

“Hiding behind Twilight and Fluttershy is not going to save you traitor!” The summoner said as she glared at the god of chaos. “I don’t know how you got here, but you’ll pay for what you did to us during the Dawn Era and sold us out to Tirek!”

“Uh… What is she talking about?” Applejack asked as the farmer adjusted her stetson hat. “For one thing, we reformed Discord, Tirek is locked up in Tartarus where he belongs and when Discord did try helping out Tirek, that centaur stabbed him in the back since he tricked him.”

“Wait so this is your Discord? And you let him run out and about as he pleases?”

“Normally, I stay with Fluttershy and only visit time to time,” He said, looking back at the summoner and holding a clock that was actively recording the amount of time that he had stayed reformed. “Plus, I was only coming here because I believe we found your Fluttershy back at the cottage.”

“Don’t try to change the subject traitor. How in the name of Hydaelyn you're not in prison or exiled from Equestria is beyond my imagination.” The warrior said as she readies her axe. “But no matter how you look at it. A traitor is still a traitor in our eyes.”

“Uh… I learned from my mistakes… plus, when our Fluttershy was talking with your Fluttershy, we kind of stumbled on something,” Discord said, before turning to the white mage. “Should I explain or-?”

“All will be explained in time once we get both of our counterparts here to Sugarcube Corner.” The Summoner interrupted in a cold emotionless tone. “Twilight sent out a letter to her friends along with Celestia and Luna seeing how ours would be with your world’s princesses.”

“Don’t think just because you say you’re reformed, means we trust you Discord.” The Bard said as she tries to put up a serious expression on her face. “The fact that you would betray your friends is proof that you’re not completely reformed.”

“I was tricked by Tirek and I was an idiot to fall for it…” Discord regrettably told her. It was then though that Fluttershy soon thought of something as she looked back to her counterpart.

“Um… would it be possible that your Rarity may be at Carousel Boutique? I remember Sweetie Belle telling me that she was in the middle of processing an order when I saw her buying fabrics at the market yesterday and that it was going to take a couple of days for her to complete.”

“That is possible. But like my Twilight before, her counterpart sent out letters for them to meet us here in Sugarcube Corner.”

“That may be true,” The princess added. “But it is a habit of Rarity’s in order to fully focus on a project from start to finish and not pay attention to other matters immediately. It’s happened before when she was working on preparing dresses for the Grand Galloping Gala-”

“The hay is a Grand Galloping Gala?” The Warrior asked as she placed her axe back onto the holster on her back.

“Think of it like an annual celebratory ball hosted in Canterlot.” Twilight told her. Discord himself even added onto that by snapping his talon and providing a series of pictures from the event for the warrior and their companions to see.

“...You would never see me in a dress like that sugarcube.”

“To be fair, I’m not for dresses either,” the farmer grumbled. “But Rarity insisted.”

“I know the feeling. Rarity can be… insisting when it comes to her dresses.”

“Oh trust me…” The farmer told them in response. “You’ve seen nothing yet.”

“I doubt it.” The Bard interrupted as she leans against the warrior. “Our Rarity had to fight Applejack to the point of death to get her to put on a dress.” She said as Applejack looked over at the warrior who nodded.

“....You ponies are weird.”

“Says the one that gave a traitor a slap on the wrist and not sending him to jail.”

“Back to the topic at hand.” The summoner said as she got everyone’s attention. “I have faith that our Rarity will get your Rarity’s attention and bring her here to Sugarcube Corner. After all this is an emergency that involves both this world and our world.”

“What if your Rarity was helping our Rarity with what she was doing?” The veterinarian asked.

“Like I said before, this is an emergency.”

“Not to sound rude or anything.” The white mage said as she turned her attention at Fluttershy. “But you don’t know anything about our Rarity and how she takes something like this seriously over making dresses.”

“Uhm……” Before the vet or anypony else could say anything for that matter, they all heard a loud pitched scream come from the opposite side of town.

“THIS IS A SERIOUS FASHION EMERGENCY!!!!!!!” yelled a certain fashionista as it caused The Warrior to deadpan upon hearing that yell and looked over at The Summoner.

“Guess I should’ve mention the age difference between us while we were inside Sugarcube Corner huh?....Sorry, should’ve said that from the beginning of all this.”

That only left the warrior facepalming herself as she muttered one thing in response.

“Nul’s balls.”