Equilibrium, Book 1: The First Human.

October 8, 1000, C.E.
Canterlot High Counsel of Magic.
8:00 A.M.

"Headmaster?" Chancellor Neighsay looked up from a document in his grasp and smiled at the dark-furred unicorn approaching his desk.

"Yes, Ms. Inkwell?" He set his document down and gave Ms. Inkwell his full attention. She held out a file and passed it over to him.

"The file you requested." Neighsay took the file and dismissed Inkwell with a hoof.

"Thank you Inkwell." As Inwell left the room so to did the smile on Neighsays muzzle. He glared at the picture kept in the file.

"Soon Human, soon I'll have all the proof I need to put you in the deepest pit of Tartarus." He set the file down and began to laugh. It was an evil laugh, one devoid of true laughter, filled instead with malice and hatred. It stopped just short as a knock on his door caught his attention.

"Come in!" He shouted. At once, his secretary burst into the room.

"Sir there it was again!" She shouted as her cobalt eyes scanned the room at rapid speed's. Neighsay smirked as he cleared his throat.

"No Stardew I hadn't heard it this time." He stated as Stardew frantically began to sift through the room's contents. Neighsay just got up from his desk making sure to tuck his file away in his cape before he left the room. standing at the doorway to his office he turned and gave Stardew a soft smile.

"Please do be a dear and clean up after yourself." Stardew gave him an absent nod of her head as she continued to search Neighsay's office for the evil laugh. Neighsay himself rolled his eye's as his frown once more took up residence upon his muzzle. He trotted out the high magi's tower with a purpose. The spy he had sent to ponyville had come back reeking of sanguinemancy.

"Damned blood sucker's." He muttered to himself as he stopped by the high inquisitor's armory. If he was going to stake this vampony he might as well take out several birds with one giant stone. The latest report had told of the human's interaction with a time traveler. The situation was quickly getting out of hoof.

"Not for long." The Chancellor smiled as he pulled out several sets of sun-blessed weapons. Hiding them in his capes rather spacious pockets he signed them out of the tower and left heading off to catch the first train he could to ponyville. He needed to stake out the area first but he'd be damned if he was going to get caught unaware's.

October 9, 1000, C.E.
Ponyville.
7:34 A.M.

Rainbow Dash smiled as she galloped at a brisk pace down the dirt path leading through the White Tail Woods. Looking back she let a smirk pass over her muzzle, Spinning around to gallop backward she gave her running buddy a grin.

"Come on slowpoke. It hasn't been that long since we last ran." She said as spun around and continued her gallop down the trail. John just glared at Dash's flank as he huffed and puffed while trying to keep up with her. After a little over a week of being stuck in the hospital, his body had taken to being sedentary. Luckily he was still in better shape thanks to his constant work on the farm. John waved a hoof.

"Yeah yeah laugh it up fuzzball." He muttered under his breath his face breaking into a smile as he saw Dash look back once more. Smiling she trotted back to were John had stopped for a rest.

"Hey, you ok?" She asked as she saw the sweat pouring off of John's face. He looked up and gave her a thumb's up.

"Oh yeah, I'm just peachy." He said as he leaned against a tree for support closing his eyes. Dash took a wing and gently began to fan his body. Even in his short's and sleeveless shirt, John was absolutely glistening with sweat. A rosy hew made it's way to Dash's face as she stood there admiring her friend's physique.

"Wow, he's really bulked up." She thought as the heat on her face intensified.

"I-I wonder." She took a small step forward and gave his scent a tentative sniff. Her eyes widened as she smelled the unmistakable smell of apples and earth. Shaking her head to clear out the unwanted thought's she cleared her throat.

"So how've things been at the farm?" She asked trying to get her brain back on track. John opened an eye and gave her a grin.

"Oh, they've been going." He said as he took a stance in the middle of the road and stretched out his legs.

"Ready to keep going?" Dash gave him a nod.

"You ready to keep up?" She smirked as John gave a nod. As the two once more began to run through the woods John couldn't help but smile over the past week.

"Aion is settling in nicely." Dash gave a smile at that.

"Yeah, how's the little guy been taking everything?" The two rounded a bend in the road and began to several mile's long run back towards Ponyville.

"He's been taking thing's like a champ all thing's considered." The two were now neck and neck as they continued to chat. Weather this was due to John speeding up or Dash slowing down the two paid it no mind.

"He insisted on helping out since he's staying there with me." John continued.

"He can't really help out much in the fields so Apple Bloom took him to the barn and's is having him sort the apples that get hauled in." Dash shot him a grin.

"Yeah, I see that's been helping you fill out more." John's face heated up as he took that in stride. Dash just giggled.

"So any mare catching your eye?" She asked out of the blue. This caused John to glance over at Dash just long enough to miss a low hanging branch coming his way. Dash who looked forward saw it too late.

"Look out!" She yelled as John looked in front of him. His vision was consumed by brown as he plowed headfirst into the branch.

"Aw Shit!" He screamed as he felt his glasses break as they took the impact for him. He fell onto his ass as pain raced through his face. Letting out a groan he kept his eye's closed as he blindly felt around for anypony.

"Dash you there?" He asked as Dash raced to his side.

"Hey, there big guy It's ok. I'm here!" She said as she cradled John's head.

"Shh, shh, let me take a look." She said trying to soothe John's pain as her hooves glowed a soft blue color. John's head began to feel better as he quickly stopped groaning.

"How bad is it?" He asked as he felt Dash's hooves feel around his face. She used a little bit of magic to remove the broken glass and bits of plastic that had thankfully only embedded itself into John's cheeks.

"Well, you've got the blessing of Faust over you bud." She smiled as she once more began to weave her magic around John's face. He felt a cooling sensation as his cut's and bruises began to heal.

"You can open your eye's now," Dash said as she got off of John's body. Her face once more lit up. She hadn't even realized she had basically been straddling his crotch this whole time. As John looked around he saw the blurry outline of Dash off to the side.

"Thank's Dash." He said as she just smiled albeit nervously as she got her head together.

"Any time John," she said as she trotted over and lent him a wing to steady himself. He wobbled for a little bit as the adrenaline coursing through his body began to taper off.

"Well, there goes another pair of glasses." He sighed.

"Clear Vision is going to kill me If keep breaking his glasses." Dash snickered.

"Please. He probably likes all the business he gets from you." She said as the two set off slowly down the road Dash sticking to John's side as they went. Off in the bushes however a stallion cloaked in shadow's smirked as he jotted down some notes.

"In addition to being susceptible to our magic the beast is blind without its glasses." He tucked his notebook away for later as a wicked smile crept across his muzzle. "Good to know." He said as he faded into the shadows of the woods.

8:17 A.M.

"Look this way please." Dr. Vision held up a hoof and had John follow his limb as he moved it about. John did so and with his final test done Dr. Vision jotted down some notes on his pad and help John to his feet with a spark of magic.

"Here you are son." He said grabbing a pair of glasses of a rack and handing them to John. He grabbed them and tried them on.

"Perfect Doc. Sorry for the last minute appointment." Vison waved him off.

"Not at all boy." He smiled as John sat the proper amount of bit's down on the counter.

"Glad I could be of help." He said leading John out of the office.

"Don't hesitate to come back if you need an adjustment." He stated as John gave him a wave, walking out into the waiting room. As he did so he saw a rainbow blur look his direction. He waved as Dash sat there waiting on her friend.

"So stretch what's the damage?" She asked as John and Dash walked outside into the sun. John just laughed.

"Other than a few bump's and a new pair of glasses costing about five bit's not much." He flashed Dash a smile. Dash looked around a little nervous. Finally she gave John a wry smile.

"So big guy you doing anything today?" She asked as she tried to stomp down the feeling of butterfly's in her chest.

"Seriously what is wrong with me!?" She internally screamed. "Were just friend's. No more. No less." She frowned as she chastised herself.

"No not much of anything going on today." He said. Dash's muzzle lit up like a hearthswarming tree.

"Awesome!" She zipped Into the air causing John to chuckle.

"What's got you so excited?" John said a smile adorning his face. Dash let out a small chuckle as she hovered back down to ground level.

"What can't I like spending time with my best friend?" She snickered as John just shrugged.

"No I guess that's not a bad thing." He said as he knelt down.

"Hop on. I could use the strength training." Dash hopped onto his back with a huff.

"Are you calling me fat?" She asked her voice filed with mocking hurt at the jab. John just laughed.

"First off Dash if anyone ever calls you fat there extremely jealous." He flashed her ne of his patented smiles. She blushed at this but John continued.

"Secondly all of your weight comes from pure muscle which weigh's more than fat but you also have compact muscle which is in and of itself better than being a bulked out roid monster." He hastily looked around for Bulk Bicep's. Not seeing the massively muscled Pegasus he let out a sigh.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that of course but I think you look great just the way you are." He said as he felt Dash get settled into his back. He got to his feet and started walking. Dash meanwhile was crimson faced. Not wanting to let John see her bright red face she hid it by settling her muzzle on top of Johns head.

"T-thanks." She mumbled as John continued on walking down to sweet apple acre's oblivious to the flustered Pegasus he was carrying.

As John did so his stalker showed up once more.

"This is worse than I thought." He wrote down. "He's already infected one of the element's of harmony with his vile corruption." He dashed over behind a tree.

"I can't allow this to spread to the other's or all of Equestria may be lost." Chancellor Neighsay put his notebook away.

"I may have to enlist the help of the other's if I'm to be able to stand a chance against this creatures power's."