The Little Adventurer

Nova sighed as he killed a spider nearby. "Seriously.. Is he just messing with me on purpose? Why the heck does he need so many spys? I killed about 200 in the last one hour." He looked over to his left, a blue furred pony with a rainbow maned hovering over him lazily. "I thought you said we were going to kick butt. Not kill insects." Rainbow huffed.

"Well, what do u suggest we do?" Nova looked back at her.

Rainbow smirked,"A race."

Sighing, he asked, "So.. you wanna race? Where do we start?"

Immediately perking up, her eyes had her usual violet energetic shine in them. She turned herself upright. "Well, DUH! I've been itching for a fast flyer to race with for the past month! You're an alicorn. Alicorns have a lot of potential to fly fast because of their powerful wings."

Nova smiled. She didn't know he couldn't fly. "Well, before we start, how do wings even work anyways? I'm still new to this world."

She replied proudly with her knowledge on pegasi,"Well, it might look like flapping to earth ponies and unicorns, but it ain't that simple. We need to use our pegasi magic to fly." Demonstrating, she flapped once, lifting her entire body up in one shot. "The more magic we use, the more faster we are. The Wonderbolts have trained all their lifes. They have about 3 times of pegasi magic than average of ponies. That's how they fly so fast and long without getting tired."

Nova hummed. "So it wasn't so simple after all..." Nova flapped his wings experimentally. Instantly soaring off the ground, he smirked. "I barely even used magic in that one flap..."

Soaring into the sky like a bullet, he laughed. Rainbow smirked at the speed of which he went up.
"Oh...He'll be a fun one to have around...unlike the previous stallions who entered Ponyville." Rainbow huffed.

"Now THAT'S the speed I'm talking about! Com'on! I'll race ya to the Everfree Forest. No cheating with magic." Rainbow warned. She wouldn't even say 'No cheating with magic' when racing, but she was challenging a ALICORN.

Nova nodded and got ready. "Let's see how fast these babies can go..."

"Ready..."
"Set... "
'GO!" Nova put all his magic into his wings and flapped them exactly three times.

Rainbow had the early start as always. She competed in enough races to know exactly when she needed to start flapping or even better, start coursing her pegasi magic in her wings. Coincidentally, the place where they started was a straight path directly to the Everfree forest. Reaching the Everfree and seeing no sign of the black-blue alicorn, she smirked.
"And here I thought that alicorns could be fast..."

"Well, I guess I win." Rainbow said to herself while she landed onto the ground softly.

"Guess again." Rainbow heard Nova's deep voice to her left.

Rainbow's entire neck snapped towards the new apparent alicorn chilling on the ground a few metres away, as if he just took a nap while waiting for her.

"There was no way you came here before me. I didn't even see you when I was coming here! Did you cheat?" Rainbow accused.

Nova shook his head,"1.5 seconds after you said start, I was already here. I didn't use magic. I just 'flapped' my wings. Nova laughed.

Rainbow merely stared at the now smug alicorn sitting on the grass as if he owned the bucking grass.
She held a hoof up slowly. "Lemme just...check the area for any alicorn or unicorn magic before I do anything rash."

Rainbow opened her magic sensitive wings and walked around Nova. Using her wings like a sensor, she didn't feel a trace of unicorn or alicorn magic. She would know. She spent enough time with Twilight as it is to know what magic feels like.

Rainbow sat down and rubbed her temples with her hooves.
"So.. you flew. Around 2km. In less than 2 seconds?"

Nova shrugged. It didn't faze him when he had already traveled thousands of miles in a few days.

"Well... I guess you win fair and square. Congratulations! You are the first one to say you have beaten me in a race." Rainbow said while she held a hoof up.

"It was a nice race." Nova hit Rainbow's hoof with his own. Standing up, he stretched his wings. Rainbow's eyes lingered on his wings. "His wings are huge.."

"Well, I'm just going to fly around for awhile. Sorry for keeping you busy. Cya!" Nova opened his wings and disappeared. Rainbow's eyes widened before she rubbed her eyes, not believing what she had just seen. If anyone were to look at her at that moment, they would have said she looked like sitting duck.

"Did...Did he just disappear...? ...what..." Rainbow's brain was officially not working. She could not imagine the amount of pegasi magic he had. . She had enough for flying long distances at a fast speed, but this? This was just incredible. She had not even seen Twilight fly this fast, even with the other Princesses magic.

But he? He just opened his wings and disappeared as if he teleported, no. Even worse than teleported. She had seen multiple times in her life that it would have taken at least a few seconds to teleport.

"Oh my Celestia.. The headache it's gonna cost me just thinking about how he went that fast..." Rainbow groaned.

Meanwhile with Nova Shine...

Nova smiled gratefully at the wind that was flowing past his body. It was never this satisfying when he was Eric. Gliding across the sky, he felt his sensitive feathers glide through the wind satisfyingly. Landing in front of a castle, specifically, Twilight Sparkle's castle, he knocked the door in a uncontrollable annoying way.

"I'M Coming! WAIT!" He heard a male voice from inside.

The door opened, showing a small bipedal dragon in front of him. The eyes of the dragon turned into slits the very moment the dragon saw him though. Nova stood there for a few moments, unable to do anything except let the dragon stare at him at point blank range.

"Hey..You ok..?" Nova softly nudged the dragon with his hoof.

"It's exactly what happened when Discord saw that illusion..." he thought.

The dragon however still didn't move nor budge. His instincts made him take a few steps back. Hearing a familiar voice from inside, his ears perked up instinctively. "Spike? What's taking you so long to get the door? Who is it?"

Purple magick surrounded the door before the door was slowly pushed open fully. Seeing the very dark blue alicorn a few metres away from the door for some strange reason, and Spike staring into space as if he looked at Rarity for the first time, she asked,"What happened boys?"

There were a few seconds of awkward silence before Nova obviously responded first,"When this little guy saw me, he just kinda froze there and been like that for a few minutes."

Looking back at Spike, his eyes were still pinpricks. Waving a hoof in front of him, she said, "Hey Spike! You there?"

Receiving no response, she poked him gently. Nova shook his head and sighed. Trying to use his magic, he tried lifting up a stick nearby. The moment he used his magic though, Spike groaned in great pain and dropped onto the ground while clutching his head.

"Spike!" Twilight shouted in surprise. Catching him with her magic, she stared between Nova and Spike. Levitating Spike near Nova, she flinched when Spike groaned in greater pain. "Turn back to a human, please." Twilight ordered.

Nova shrugged and turned back to a human. Spike's eyes turned back to normal. Rubbing his eyes, he groaned.
"Wha..? What happened? I feel like I got hit by Rainbow..." He groggily said before falling asleep.

Twilight tried looking at Eric, he was super tiny. "Does that happen to everyone who isn't a pony?"

Eric shook his head and cast a telepathy spell. "I went to Fluttershy's cottage and all the animals there were perfectly fine. This is the first time..."

Twilight suggested,"I don't think you should go into my castle with a form of an alicorn anymore. Just for the sake of Spike. Anyhow, what are you doing here?"

"Just wanted to check up on Discord." Eric answered.

Twilight smiled. "How thoughtful of you. Follow me."

Eric smiled back and levitated himself onto Twilight's back, surprising her. She didn't mind however, Spike is undoubtedly heavier than him. Eric made himself comfortable on Twilight's back. Her fur was surprisingly soft. Twilight giggled.

"Don't move so much. That's my spine that you're lying down on. It's sensitive."

Of course, Eric didn't listen to her. He moved even more, caressing her back with his thumbs. Twilight giggled before lifting Eric up with her magic. "You do know that I haven't forgotten that you ARE my pet do u?" Twilight asked with an evil smile.

Eric rubbed the back of his head with his hand sheepishly. "Fine, but what do you want, my dear...favourite lavender Princess?"

Twilight sighed. "Just want you to help me check up on Discord. He's been getting depressed lately. He doesn't answer the door whenI knock. Immortal creatures don't necessarily need to eat to survive, so I'm not really worried of him not eating whenever I put food in front of the door and he doesn't touch it. I'm just worried for his sanity."

Eric stared at her before nodding. "Sure. That's what I wanted to do anyways. I'm pretty sure the Creator tried pulling out the knife I put in him, but I really made sure that the knife was there until I said so. It would've made Discord feel like shit."

"Well, you can go check up on him. You know where his room is. I need to take care of Spike and make sure nothing is wrong with him. Thank you Eric." Twilight nodded her head before releasing Eric out of her magic grip. Eric teleported himself into Discord's room. "Hey Discord, ya there bud?"

"...I'm here..."Discord murmured weakly.

"It's going to be fine Discord. Let me just do my thing. Trust me." Eric watched Discord tense up before his eyes lit up with a blue, sapphire aura. Putting a barrier around them, he made sure he would not be disturbed while he cured Discord. He needed a lot of accuracy to do this. One mess up could cost his life or even Discord's.

Closing his eyes, he concentrated on the knife. The magic he had put in the knife was still there and nothing seemed abnormal. Not believing what he had seen, he incased Discord with his purified magic and took out the knife. Discord curled up even more on the bed uncomfortably. Sensing that Creator's magic was nearby, waiting for an opportunity to change Discord, he quickly made haste with his work. Always making sure that Discord was covered with his purified magic, he made his purified magic bend and flex, enabling it to blend in with Discord's core while not affecting his core entirely. Protecting the Lord of Chao's core was hard enough. He needed to ensure Creator wouldn't and couldn't do anything to Discord while his magicks were still in affect.

The Creator's magic was getting more rash too. As if they knew that Discord was going to be protected soon. Eric smiled as he made sure everything else was in check before he released his hold of Discord. He sucked in a breath as he waited for the results. He felt the Creator's magic try to transform Discord into that monster, with no avail. He sighed in relief.

"Yes! It worked! Fuck yea!" Eric celebrated. Discord was knocked out from the magicks playing with his body though. Putting him back in bed comfortably, he cringed as he noticed the foul smell coming off his body. Cancelling the barrier, he stepped out of the room only to see a worried purple alicorn in front of him. "Is he ok? I felt a lot of your magic in there."

Eric nodded. "He's fine. Let him sleep."

Twilight nodded before Eric excused himself and teleported back into his home. Looking around in the dense forest he called home, he sighed peacefully.

"Feels good to be back." Wondering around,he put a barrier around him he looked around the leaves and branches around his small body. Taking a deep breath of his home, his sensitive ears picked up on a shuffle of branches a few ways away, he levitated himself higher and got a closer look.

It was a snake. It was a weird snake. It had a human upper body. It was about the size of a average human. Changing his size to his past height, he approached the human-snake. Hissing in pain, he saw a branch the size of a child stuck in between her scales and bleeding badly. "...Are you ok?" Eric asked.

The creature, whom he decided to call Lemi, looked up to him with her eyes opened wide. Eric slowly stepped closer and whispered softly,"It's fine...Don't be afraid. I'm just here to help you."

Lemi stared back at him, her mouth opening slowly,"That's what they always say."

Sensing the Creator's magic nearby, he couldn't risk scaring the already scared Lemi now. Being careful with his words, he said ,"I won't hurt you. Promise. I just want to heal you." Discreetly putting up his barrier around them, he made sure Lemi couldn't sense it nor see it.

Lemi still stared at him with untrusting eyes. Slowly stretching her tail with the branch in it, she hissed in pain. Eric quickly got to work. Hovering his hand over the branch, he warned, "This is gonna hurt..." He tore a piece of his sweater and handed it over to Lemi. "Bite this."

After the nod of approval from Lemi, he covered the area around the branch with his magic. Starting to heal the wound, he waited for the prefect moment to pull the branch out without too much loss of blood. "....There. It's done." Eric cracked a small smile. Lemi opened her eyes. She didn't feel anything. Looking over to the area, she saw her scales were fine, no branch in sight. Crying out, she said,"Thank you so much! I thought I was a goner..."

Lemi pounced onto him, Eric laid there dumbly, allowing Lemi to snuggle up to him on the floor. Her.... Eric's face lit up bright red. Lemi wasn't stupid though. Lemi giggled at his embarrassment. "Don't you...boys like it?" Lemi asked innocently with a smug smile on her face. Eric stared at her with his sapphire blue eyes for a few moments....Before promptly groping her and smirking back. Lemi yelped at the sudden touch. Eric arched his back a bit. Putting his mouth right next to her.

"You want to play dirty? You got dirty." He whispered huskily into her sharp elf-like ear. Her ear twitched before she slowly used her hand to trail down his chest. Eric smiled, before teleporting out of her hold, which was slowly crushing him. Lemi stared at the now empty space, smiling. "Well, you have passed the test. Men usually for that trick." She stood up with her huge snake tail. Sweeping off the dust and dirt, she looked back at Eric nonchalantly. Eric's eye visibly twitched as he easily raised Lemi up with his magic.

"I don't take kindly to people who try to kill me. Remember that the next time a person saves you." Eric warned with a harsh black-blue aura surrounding him. Lemi wasn't a newbie to threats though.

Lemi smiled her first genuine smile before she bowed, "Thank you for saving me. We shall see if we meet again." Lemi shook herself out of Eric's grip. Surprising Eric as she looked alot more fragile than she was. He had heard of this type of animals. Acting innocent, before promptly killing their victim. Putting a marker on her just incase, he levitated himself to the canopy of the trees. Sitting on one of the thicker branches, he truly relaxed for the first time that day. Breathing out a sigh of relief, he rested his head on the bark of the tree, watching the orange hues of the sunset escape from the horizon.

"No matter how strong I am, I can't choose what I do, where I go, or where I am. It was a perfectly normal day. Nothing was wrong...But I just had to try a teleportation spell. Now I'm here. Separated by my family, never to be seen again by a human. Ponies and other mythical creatures for all I can see. " Eric thought. He closed his eyes, resting for the first time that day.