Author's Note

Meant to add this to the summary, but the setting of this story is a bit modern so be prepare to see some places with TV, gaming systems, computers, and all that jazz. Enjoy the chapter folks

Chapter 2: Ponyville's Hospitality

Chapter 2

Ponyville’s Hospitality

After a few hour of traversing the Everfree Forest, avoiding dangerous plants and wildlife, and a pack of timberwolves sleeping directly on the path they were walking. The group finally made their way out of the dangerous Everfree Forest. And just in time to seeing as the time was just about twelve o’clock noon on Scootaloo’s watch. Looking forward, Scootaloo grinned as she pointed over at the direction of the colorful town of Ponyville.

“Here we are. Welcome to Ponyville!” The pegasus yelled as The Arisen stared at the colorful town from the distance.

“Huh...reminds me of home. Only I lived near the ocean and was a fisherman before becoming a traveler.” The Dragon said before scratching her head. “And it wasn’t so...colorful to the point where it hurts your eyes.”

“Really? I didn’t know dragons fished!” said Sweetie Bell as they walked into town.

“And don’t you mean fishermare?” Apple Bloom added.

“....Roll with it for the time being.” The Arisen thought before shaking her head. “Uh, yeah. That’s what I meant to say.”

“You’re a weird dragon.” Scootaloo said before she notice Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom glance at her. “What? It’s true. What dragon doesn’t know much about Equestria?”

While the Cutie mark Crusaders talk amongst themselves, The Arisen began to take notice of the town once they entered into the streets. It was weird to see that this place had strange looking street lamps without candles, ponies wearing clothing that she has never seen before, not to mention walking by a building that had someone inside of a small box doing something that involved reading. Compared to Gransys, it’s almost as if she walked into some kind of weird world that was more advanced than her country.

“Yeah, this is a whole lot different than Gransys. Is this the will of the world or god that I’m in this place?” The Arisen thought as she shook her head. “No point in trying to make sense of it at the moment. I’ll do that after I get some info on this country called Equestria and take it from there.” Looking around The Arisen noticed some of the ponies were looking at her odd. Mostly out of either interest, fear, possibly the fact that she was wearing armor, or the fact that she was a dragon. As she looked over at the citizens of Ponyville, most of the ponies quickly ran away or locking their doors and hide inside their homes as soon as they saw her looking at her.

“I take they’re not a fan of new folks coming into town?” The dragon asked as she looked over at Apple Bloom

“Don’t mind them, they’re just not used to seeing somepony new in town. Oh look there’s Twilight's library!” Apple Bloom said as she pointed to a large tree in the middle of town. The Arisen blinked upon seeing Twilight’s home.

“Huh...this would be the second time I've seen someone living in a tree like house....weird.”

“Really? You know somepony else who lives in a library?” asked Sweetie Belle.

“I wouldn’t say it was a library...wait that’s a library and a home?” she asked as Sweetie Belle nodded.

“Yep, most ponies went to Canterlot if they wanted to get a book. But ever since Twilight moved here, Ponyville doesn’t need to go to Canterlot to get their books.” Scootaloo said before walking up to the front door. “Now you stay here while we have a talk with Twilight.”

“You sure she’s going to be of some help?” The Arisen asked as she leaned against the tree house.

“Trust us. Twilight knows everything!” Scootaloo said as she, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle entered into the library. Just as The Arisen was about to get comfortable, Scootaloo quickly opened the door and hands the dragon her P-Phone. “Here, play with this while we’re gone.” She said before going back inside.

“What am I supposed to do with this?” The Arizen asked as she looked over the strange object given to her. Eyeing it in her hand, she begins to look it over for a while before starting to press on it. “In all my years of traveling, this is by far the strangest thing I have ever-.” While continuing to press on the screen, unknowing to her the screen quickly lite up as she let out a yelp as she accidentally drops the phone onto the ground and moves a bit away from it. “....I really hope I didn’t break it or anything.”

Just as she was about to look over it a bit, she was once again startled by the phone as it started to ring. Slowly looking over at the phone, she slowly picked it back up to see what was wrong with it. Looking at it now she could see a picture of a cyan colored pony face with rainbow colored hair on it. “Okay...what the hell am I supposed to do with this?” She asked as she noticed the signs that said ‘flick to the right to answer or flick to the left to not answer’ the phone. Due to her being new to this strange object that Scootaloo gave her, she flicked the phone sign to the right to answer it.

“H-Hello?”

“Scootaloo, is that you kid?” said a tomboyish voice over the other end of phone.

“No, she’s um….a bit busy at the moment helping me.”

“Yo, who the buck is this?”

“Who is this?”

“I’m asking the questions here jerk. Where is Scootaloo and what did you do to her!?” The voice asked as a worried expression appeared on The Arisen’s face.

“Um….At Twilight’s tree house thing?” The dragon said before hearing a click on the phone. Looking over the screen of the phone, there was a message saying call ended as the phone return to a black screen. “Well...that was...something.” she said before placing the phone in her pocket and went back to relaxing against the wall of the treehouse.

“So, you think you can just foalnap somepony and get away with it?” Rainbow Dash said before taking off from the cloud she was resting on and headed towards Twilight’s house. “Well think again buddy. Nopony messes with my number one fan/sister and gets away with it!” Just as she was making her way to the Golden Oaks Library, she soon noticed a dragon wearing rusty old armor on. Squinting her eyes a bit to try and get a closer look at the dragon, she soon noticed it holding Scootaloo’s orange colored P-Phone. Glaring, she quickly nose dived at the dragon as she prepared to try and knock the dragon out with a dive bomb kick with her hoof.

The Arisen’s ears began to flicker a bit before she quickly looked up to see someone heading towards her. On sheer instincts, her body quickly moved on its own and barrel rolled out of the way of the charging rainbow colored blur.

“What the hell!?” The dragon said as she quickly recovered from her barrel roll. Looking at where she was leaning against, she watched a cyan colored pegasus with rainbow colored hair, wearing a tank top and navy blue scratched up jeans remove her foot from the wood she kicked and glared at her. “Oh…..I take it you were the one on that thing I was talking to?”

“Yeah so hand over my number one fan/sister or I’ll knock your lights out!” yelled Rainbow Dash cracking her knuckles.

“Look, I think there might be a bit of a misunderstanding. I didn’t take your sister or done anything to her. She’s inside this treehouse thing with her friends along with this person named Twilight and-”

“So you’re holding them all captive as well! You’ll pay for that!”

“....Guess reasoning is out of the question then?” The Arisen said as she pulls her shield off from the strap on her back as she takes up a fighting stance. “Look I don’t want to fight you. Let’s just take a deep breath and talk about this-” Before the dragon could finish her sentence, Rainbow Dash yelled at the top of her lungs as she charges at her in an attempt to punch her in the face. Only for her fist to collide with the dragon’s shield, causing her to reel back and hiss in pain.

“Mother bucker!” Rainbow yelled holding her wrist as she glares at The Arisen. “You’re going to pay for that dragon!” The pegasus said before flying off into the air before turning back and tries to dive bomb the dragon again with her hoof.

“Not very smart are you?” The Arisen lifted up her shield again as she slams the bottom of it onto the ground. With one hand on the handle of her shield, her right hand began to glow blue for a moment before she placed it on the shield. Upon doing so her shield began to glow blue as the ground around her began to freeze up a bit. Once the shield was covered in the sky blue colored aura, she lifts it up as she blocks the dive bomb from Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash was taken by surprise from feeling herself being repealed backwards from the dragon’s shield before quickly recovering. As she lands, she soon felt her left leg give way as she falls to the ground. Looking down at her leg, her eyes widen to see it completely covered in ice.

“W-What the hay did you do to my leg!?”

“Figured you would need to cool off. So why not use an ice spell to help you simmer down a peg or two…..why does that sound corny?”

“B-but dragons can’t use magic! How in the name of Celestia can you do that!?”

“Um...I just can?” The Arisen said with a shrug. “Now are you going to calm down, or do I need to make you calm down-?” Before she could finish her statement, she felt herself being levitated up into the air along with Rainbow Dash. “What the!?”

“Hey! Put me down dragon!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she began to flail around in the air.

“That’s not me pony.” The dragon said before she head someone clearing their throat. Both she and Rainbow Dash looked over to their left to see Twilight and the cutie mark crusaders off to the side looking at them. Mainly Twilight who had a disappointed look on her face at Rainbow Dash. “Um...Hi?”

“Ha! You’re in for it now dragon. Twilight! Quick, put me down and use some kind of spell on this dragon before she does something evil!” Twilight just looked between the pegasus and the dragon before turning to The Arisen. Twilight lowered the dragon to her level and held one of the dragons hands in her own.

“I take it you’re Arisen?” Twilight asked as the dragon nodded her head. The alicorn simple examined the dragon for a while before placing her on the ground and extending a hand towards her. “Pleased to meet you! My name is Twilight Sparkle, student of...I mean Princess of Friendship.”

“Um, pleasure to meet you Princess?” The Arisen said as she shook Twilight’s hand.

“Twilight! What are you doing!? She tried to foalnap you along with Scootaloo and the others!” Rainbow Dash said as she tried to struggle out of Twilight’s magical grip.

“Rainbow Dash, she didn’t foalnap anypony. The girls found her in the old castle in the Everfree Forest.” Twilight said before glancing at them. “And we’ll be having a long talk about why they were there in the first place later with Applejack and Rarity.”

“Aw, what!?” Both Applebloom and Sweetie Belle said in union as Scootaloo snickered a bit before looking off to the side to avoid the glares from her friends.

“You’re not off the hook ether Scootaloo, you and RD are going to get a long talk as well.” Twilight added as both Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo groaned with a roll of their eyes.

“.....This town is so weird on so many levels.” The Arisen said as she scratches the back of her head in confusion.

“I am so very sorry for Rainbow Dash’s action. Can you find it in your heart to forgive her for what she did?”

“Um...okay sure?” The Arisen said which took Rainbow Dash by surprise.

“Wait seriously? I tried to send you flying and you’ll forgive me just like that?” Rainbow Dash asked as the dragon nods.

“I don’t see why not?”

“....What’s your game dragon?” The pegasus asked with a raised eyebrow.

“What game?”

“Most ponies wouldn’t forgive anypony so quickly. You must be up to something.”

“I-I assure you that I’m not up to anything wrong.” The Arisen said as she placed her hands up in defense to this. Rainbow Dash simply glared at the dragon before pointing a finger at her.

“I got my eyes on you dragon. You do something out of the ordinary and I’ll be sure to deal with you.” She said before feeling Twilight pull her over.

“Let’s have this conversation inside my home.” Twilight suggested as she began to motion Arisen to follow them inside. “I think we need to get a better understand of our friend here so we don’t jump to conclusions.”

“That and so she can fix my leg.” The pegasus said as she shows Twilight her still frozen leg. “I thought you said that only Alicorns and Unicorn can do magic, Twilight?”

“Yes they can….wait.” Twilight quickly looked over at The Arisen with a raised eyebrow. “You did this to her?”

“....This is going to take a while for me to explain…..”