Respawn?

After spending like thirty minutes messing around with the Palantir, we headed over to Twilight’s library, mainly so that William could check out the books she had on hand. Funnily enough, her library was built into a tree, and seemed to have been a gift to the Ponies from the Deer. We walked inside, and William headed over to the shelves, looking over some of the titles. He pulled out one book called ‘Fifty Shades of Hay’, looked at the back cover, and slammed it back onto the shelf, causing a very loud *crack* to be heard. Twilight, who had been focusing on a spell with her back to us, turned around very quickly, and hit me in the face with the spell. I felt an odd feeling on my upper lip, and looked in a nearby mirror that had been conveniently set up. I was now sporting a large fu manchu mustache with a complimentary beard.

“...I will now remove this amazing stache, so that I still look young.” William looked over his shoulder and started chuckling at the beard and stache I had before going back to his book. I then gripped my stache and ripped it from my face with a grunt of pain. “The beard next…” I then ripped it free of my face as well, then tossed the hair in her face “That’s what you get for making me look chinese! I’m American, damnit!”

“Do me, do me!” Spike shouted, hopping up and down.

“Spike you are too young! You are but a boy! The wonders of the feminine body are not yours to plunder yet!”

William looked over his shoulder again, this time at Spike. “You’re a dragon, right?” Spike nodded, “Which is a species of reptile, yes?” he nodded again, “So, how the hell are you going to grow hair?” Spike’s eyes snapped open wide in confusion.

Twilight then looked to me angrily, “And you, don’t you dare make Spike a pervert!”

“Well, he isn’t the one who has erotic fiction out of the adult section, wherever that may be, so…” William said, grinning and pointing at ‘Fifty Shades of Hay’. Twilight blushed profusely and teleported the book somewhere.

I grinned, “So, Twilight, you saving that to read later? Maybe you could act out those scenes with a stallion someday?... or a mare, if you get a strapon.”

Right then, two unicorn kids ran into the library. “Snips, Snails, what’s going on?” Spike asked them.

“Wha- haven’t you heard, there’s a new unicorn in town!” Snails said enthusiastically. I suspected they were denser than our sack of carrying, at least with them added together.

“Yeah, they say that she has more magical power than any other unicorn EVER!” Snips added. At this, Twilight paused, having just been about to leave the room.

“Really?” Twilight asked them inquisitively. William just set his book back onto the shelf he had gotten it from, and was listening with a growing smirk on his face.

“Ah, no way, that honor goes to Twilight here,” Spike bragged.

“Where is this unicorn?” Twilight asked, blushing slightly at Spike’s compliment.

“She’s in the town square, come on!” Snails shouted enthusiastically.

“Yeah, come on!” Snips repeated.

After leisurely making our way to the town square, we came to a stop near Twilight’s group of friends. There was a large crowd surrounding a cart sitting on the edge of the square. It looked rather nondescript, and then a voice rang out from inside, “Come one, come all, come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful, TRIXIE!” While this announcement was going on, a stage folded down out of the side of the cart facing the crowd, and a light blue woman in what looked like wizard’s robes popped out from behind the curtain through a smokescreen.

Something about her annoyed me, but I dismissed it as not liking how she rolled her R’s. The crowd ooh’ed and aah’ed at her theatrical entrance, though William and I were kinda bored by it. “Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!” she shouted, and with this statement a series of fireworks exploded a small distance above the cart. Twilight’s friends all started getting all over her shit for boasting, which I couldn’t see why they were annoyed, since it was a showmare that they were talking about.

“Well well well, it seems we have some neighsayers in the audience. Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical abilities of the Great and Powerful Trixie!” Trixie shouted towards Twilight and her friends. “Do they not know that they’re in the presence of the most magical unicorn in all of Equestria?!” she continued.

At this William burst out laughing, going so far as to roll on the ground, clutching at his sides. Trixie glared at him until he got up, still breathing hard. “S-sorry,” he managed to gasp out, “Continue, please.”

She made a bunch more fireworks appear, along with a whirling spiral portal. Rainbow Dash flew up into her face, calling her out again. At this, Trixie responded with, “Only the Great and Powerful Trixie has the magical power to vanquish the dreaded Ursa Major!” William burst out laughing again as a neon rendition of an Ursa Major appeared in the sky. She glared at him again. “What is YOUR PROBLEM?!” she screamed at him, as soon as he managed to collect himself.

“Sorry, sorry, it’s just that you’re in the presence of someone so much more powerful than you, and you honestly still think you’re the best?” he managed to get out, between fits of giggles.

She glared at him, before an evil smirk graced her features. “Trixie challenges you to a magic duel!” she then looked over William further, “Though it seems that I need not even worry about losing, you’re not even a unicorn.” she laughed at this, and William grinned.

“I accept your challenge,” he stated confidently. “Here, now, no using magic on anyone in the audience, or on the other participant.” Trixie nodded confidently, and William raised his staff. All around him, twisted trees and shrubbery broke the the hardened dirt of the square, turning the square into a forest glade. Some of the ponies reached out and touched the trees, and were surprised to find that they were real. Trixie tried the same thing, but her magic failed. Her trees dispersed, them only being illusions, and William shouted to the crowd, “Now, who do you think won this duel?” the crowd responded by chanting his name, and he made the trees recede.

Snips and Snails ran off somewhere, no clue where, and William and I headed back to the library to chill for a bit as we waited on Celestia to arrive. Twilight took down a book called ‘Beasts of the Everfree’ and began reading. William and I headed into the kitchen, and Spike gave us a checkerboard. We started playing, and William was consistently kicking my ass.

Two hours later, I looked to William and grinned as Twilight came in, a slight frown on her face. “So, Twilight, want a quesadilla? I made plenty.” I then turned to William, “King me, bitch!” He placed a second checker on top of the one I had finally managed to get to his side of the board. He then proceeded to wipe out the rest of my pieces with a single move, and Spike whistled.

Twilight screamed like a little girl as she ran out of the room. I looked to Spike, “Well damn, I owe you a head sized jewel.”

Spike nodded, “Yep, I told you she’d flip out.”

I frowned, “What even happened to make her that scared?”

“So, basically, it was my first birthday, and the anniversary of Twilight getting her cutie mark, and we headed to a Mexicoltan restaurant,” William and I chuckled at the name pun, and he continued, “Anyways, we were at the restaurant, and a waiter was dressed as a giant quesadilla who was serving the children. So, he starts telling Twilight to hold off on eating the quesadilla, as it was still very hot, and then trips and accidentally flings the burning hot quesadilla into her face. As she was screaming in pain from the burns she was getting, the rest of the restaurant was laughing at her.” William and I winced at the story, and William atomized the quesadillas on the stove.

Spike headed off to find Snips and Snails, who had been gone for the last two hours, and William quickly whipped up an iced coffee for Twilight as I headed upstairs to find her. I found her huddled underneath the covers of her bed in the loft, shivering slightly.

I cleared my throat and tapped her shoulder gently, “Twilight, you okay? We, uh… We didn’t know that you’d freak out like that...William made you some iced coffee, and I’m here if you need to talk…” I rubbed the back of my head uncomfortably as she could be heard sniffling, which most likely means she was crying. God damn it I feel like an ass.

“Y-you sure? I-it’s really silly, honestly…” Twilight sniffled.

I smiled and nodded right as a giant shaking rattled the house, “Jesus Fuck what was that?!”

We ran outside, and saw a giant bear, like seriously, the thing was like eighty feet tall or some shit. Trixie was running from the bear, and stopped in front of us, with Snips and Snails following close behind. Spike came up right behind them, sprinting as fast as he could away from the and waving his arms in the air like a mad man.

I pulled out an amethyst that comfortably fit into my palm and tossed it to William, who caught it. “Pokemon?” I asked.

“Pokemon,” he nodded. He zapped the Ursa in the back, and it turned to him, growling. He filled the gem until it was glowing with a purple light, and chucked it into the Ursa’s face. Ethereal skeletal arms reached out of the gem, grabbing the Ursa and compacting it into the stone. After the Ursa was entirely in the stone, he levitated it over to me. I looked it over and noticed that the constellation in the stone was that of the Ursa Minor. I swore under my breath and slipped it into my bag of holding, and we headed back into the library. All of the ponies that had been outside were just gawking at us, us having just defeated an Ursa Minor with no issues.

Twilight had snapped out of her funk and wasted no time informing the town that it was only a baby. Trixie fled, her cart being smashed in the town square a few streets over. I turned to William, asking, “So, how long until the Ursa Major shows up?”

He shrugged, “Probably only like an hour, so we should probably head back to our house. From what I read in the deer’s library, the Ursa Majors are about six times larger, so we should start prepping.” Twilight walked in, and William waved good-bye. She opened her mouth to say something, but William teleported us out right then.

We appeared outside our tree house, and headed up to the fourth floor, scrying the Ursa Major with the Palantir. As William predicted, it was headed straight for our house, and would arrive in like twenty minutes at its current pace. I tossed William the fist sized amethyst I had prepped for this, having been told by the deer that there were two Ursas in the Everfree that needed to be dealt with. William started using the same spell, only putting much more power into this one. When he finished, the crystal was glowing just as brightly, and he collapsed. “Kill me real quick, please.”

I shrugged and curb stomped him with a single, heavy step. I felt his spine break at the base of his neck. A second later, he popped back into existence, and stopped me from draining the blood from the body. He cast a spell on the body, and it raised up. He drained the magic from the staff, which crumbled into dust. When he saw my questioning look, he simply said, “Servants,” I grinned and nodded, and he levitated the charged stone into his hand. He teleported us out into our yard, on the side of the house facing the Everfree.

After waiting for another five minutes, we finally felt the tell-tale shaking of the ground, and saw the dark purple, nearly nine hundred foot tall bear. William looked between the stone and the bear and shrugged, chucking it at the bear. This time, the stone hit the center of the bear’s chest, it having just exited the forest. The same arms came out of the stone, this time there being nearly four times the original amount. The bear began struggling, but even then, it was slowly growing smaller. Upon noticing that it was struggling quite a lot, I ran up and jumped, leaping nearly forty feet and landing on its forehead. I smacked it a few times on the star decal in the center of its forehead, and hopped off, having succeeded in stunning it. The arms easily compressed it the rest of the way into the gem, the lack of struggles making it much faster.

William levitated the gem over into the bag of holding on my hip, and we headed inside. I smiled to William and began to sing, “I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was~” As I was singing William cringed, and then I heard the music kick in. I was forced to sing through the entire song, and said, “Holy shit mun, that was awesome!” I then prepped to sing again, only for William to stab me in the chest.

“I’m going to head to the library in the morning and read up on this shit, so good night for now.” he said. He headed upstairs, and I followed him, heading to my room. We both went to sleep, or at least I did. I heard some noises downstairs, but I assumed that was the new undead servant moving around.