How the Spark of Adventure was Ignited
(Wild Spark's POV)
My journey began before my friends and I went to Equestria. My name is Wild Spark. I’m a black unicorn stallion and my eyes are neon green. Both of my mane and tail are jet black with white and green stripes. My cutie mark… well, it's complicated. Because right now, I’m going to talk about how my life went into a whole new level of crazy. It all started 10 years ago.
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10 years before the Summer Sun Celebration
I was 11 years old and I used to live with my mom and my brother outside of Equestria. My brother is a dark brown unicorn named Bam-Bam and he wears glasses. His mane and tail are black and red dreads while his irises are royal blue. His cutie mark is a game pad controller. He wears a black hoodie and a black pants displaying his cutie mark. He’s 2 years younger than me, but sometimes we are mistaken for twins because of how our voices sound nearly identical, how we sometimes we act differently, or how we wear the same brand of glasses. I wear glasses sometimes, but I mostly wear them if I’m either reading or if my vision is acting up. My eyesight is okay, but the vision of my left eye is a little blurry.
Our mom’s name is Splendor Bloom, and she owns a beauty supply business called “Kinboshi”. She’s a dark blue unicorn with a translucent pink and yellow horn, while the color of her mane and tail is black, and her irises being caramel brown. Her cutie mark is a flower with purple, pink, and yellow petals and the bottom of its stem being translucent pink. My family and I happen to be omnivorous ponies. Lucky for us, we live near a griffin restaurant. However, the only meat I can't eat is fish. Any seafood I take first bite from, my ears feel like they're on fire, my tongue feels irritated, and then l vomit.
My Journey Started when my cutie mark changed from an unknown phenomenon. Here’s where I’ll explain about my cutie mark. Before it used to be a game controller being designed by a pencil, it represents how good I am at playing games and drawing. But a day after I got my cutie mark, that’s when the phenomenon happened.
The sky had suddenly darkened with a shade of green and what appeared above me was a huge green vortex filled with unbelievable amounts of electric energy. I was too shocked to move or say anything. All I could only do was stare at it and the only words I could mutter was “Holy crap.”
Five seconds later, the vortex shot a huge beam containing every ounce of its power at me. I still couldn’t move or scream due to my shock, the beam made physical contact with me, and it hurts a lot. It felt like every fiber of my body was being disintegrated and being put back together at the same time. When the beam dissipated, the vortex was gone too.
I panicked thinking that the beam tore me apart, so I checked myself to see if any parts of my body were gone. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case. However, I can’t say the same for my cutie mark. The controller was still there but the pencil was replaced with a paint brush. Now it’s a card showing white silhouettes of both the controller and paint brush. The card is also surrounded by two lightning bolts.
Not only that, but I noticed something about my magic felt different. That’s when I inspected my body again only to noticed that my entire body was now coated with green electricity. I panicked again, trying to find a way to turn it off. Good thing I was a fast learner, so I tried to calm myself and think about myself not being coated with electricity. After a moment of concentrating, I channeled some of my magic to dispel it. To my relief, it worked.
After getting myself together, I quickly went home to tell mom and Bam-Bam everything that happened. We went to a hospital to see if I was okay. The Doctors told us that I’m physically okay, they also said my magic was somehow enhanced, like something new was added. He also said that it could make me hyperactive.
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Four days later, I chose to go to a library to do some research on supernaturals, electricity, magic, and secretly about genetic mutations. I wasn’t the only pony who was doing the same. A librarian told me there were three foals at the table to my left with the books I was looking for. I chose to join them to see if we can share the books. In front of me were six foals with three of the books I was looking for.
The first one is an earth pony who seems be a year older than me. His black coat being slightly lighter than mine, and the color of his eyes are violet. The color of his mane and tail is white as snow with the tips being violet while his haircut looks a little messy. His cutie mark seems to have a purple wormhole being surrounded by four pale yellow stars. He was also wearing a pink hoof band with three hearts being sky blue, pale yellow, and deep violet.
The pegasus colt on his right has a dark gray coat with his feathers having a fiery gradient you would see on a Phoenix and his eyes being fiery orange. The color of his mane and tail is a palette of fire while the back of mane being long, and the front had a quiff haircut. His cutie mark is a big fireball with light blue being in the center of it.
The unicorn filly on his left seems to be younger than the rest. Her coat is fuchsia pink with her horn being pearlescent yellow on the tip and the color of her eyes are sky blue. Her haircut bun buns and the back having fringes. The color of her mane and tail is deep violet with pale yellow and sky blue. Her cutie mark is a green thread with a pin covered with blue stars. Looking at it tells me that she very good at craftsmanship. She is wearing two different hoof bands. The one on her right hoof is black, purple, and white while the other hoof band on her left is deep violet with three hearts being sky blue, pale yellow, fuchsia pink. Looking at both her left band and the band on the earth pony next to her, I think they are wearing those show that they have a bond.
Next to the pegasus was an earth pony who strangely enough, has claws and his ear are slightly bigger than normal. His coat has fur, and its color is a lighter shade of gray. The color of his eyes is forest green. He has a Mohawk and the color of his mane and tail is darker shade of gray. He’s wearing gloves for both his front hooves and back hooves. He’s also wearing green jeans and his cutie mark is on it. It looks like a potion filled with sky liquid and the vial is surrounded by a couple of sky-blue stars. I can only assume that he’s great at alchemy.
Next to him was an earth pony filly who looks oddly metallic. The color of her coat and mane are both a lighter shade of gray. Her eyes are entirely magenta, there were no pupils, and the bottom of her eyes were lines that are straight down to her chin. Her cutie mark was a yellow circle above a yellow ring. I don’t know what her cutie mark means, but I think that she’s good at science and probably biology.
And lastly, next to her was a unicorn filly. Her coat is Pale Magenta-Pink. The color of her eyes is Cinnabar red. The color of her mane and tail are Pink as a flamingo. Her hairstyle is short with bold spiky bangs in the front while the back has a ponytail. Her cutie mark is a cookie with rainbow sprinkles and in the center was a brink pink star. Looking at it makes me assume that she is a good at bakery and pastry, I think I can even smell a scent of freshly baked cookies from her.
Normally, I would either freak out or just walk away, but I’m a gamer and a nerd. Luckily and thankfully, I’ve played enough games and read enough comic books to know that I should never judge a book by its cover. Not to mention, my mom raised me to not be a bully.
So, I went ahead and approached the table and greeted them. “Excuse me, I know what I’m going to ask is pretty suspicious, but-”
Before I could ask my question, the pegasus cut me off and said, “You’re looking for the books about supernatural, enhanced magic, and genetic mutations.”
I stood there with eyes wide open and said “Yes, but how did you know I was going to ask that?”
The metallic mare replied, “Probably because our project is kind of related to them.”
I then asked, “Does that project involved something to come out of nowhere and you get caught in the crossfire because you were close enough for it to do so?”
It was their turn to look at me with their eyes wide open, the Pale Magenta-Pink filly then replied “Yea, but how you know about that?” I used my powers to flash my eyes with some small amount of electricity. They all stared at me with their eyes wide open again, their mouths were also slightly open agape.
After a few seconds passed, I asked “You guys think there’s one more room for another partner for this project?”
The lighter gray earth pony then said, “That depends on what you would do once you’ve gotten the answers that you’re looking for?” He raises a good point; I really don’t know what I would do after I figured things out.
I thought about it and there are obviously stuff I want to avoid doing, so I went ahead and told them “Well for starters, I’m not aiming to do anything stupid with them like frying ponies by accident (definitely something I want to avoid), power abuse, be drunk with power, let some psychopaths do experiments on me for whatever crazy re-”
A hoof covers my mouth to cut me off and the jet-black earth pony then said “Alright, you’ve made your point. Just stop before you say something that would scare my sister.”
I look at the pink filly next to him, back to him, and their hoof bands. I had a feeling they they had a bond, so when he said ‘sister’, my thoughts were confirmed. “Sorry.” I apologize with a sheepish smile.
He then replies “It’s alright. Anyway, I think we got enough room for one more project partner. I think we should introduce each other. My name is Light Void.”
He points at the fuchsia pink filly, “This is my little sister, Crafty Bliss.”
Crafty waves at me, “Hi.” I wave back.
Light then points at the dark gray pegasus as he says, “That’s Quick Pyro.” Quick nods and point at the light gray colt and said, “This is Carbon.”
He waves, and the metallic mare says “I’m Razza.”
The last mare introduces herself and says, “My name is Sweet Mojo.”
When they were done introducing themselves, they all looked at me and Sweet asks “What’s your name?”
I had a calm smile and said, “I’m Wild Spark, but you can call me Wild.” This is the day I made new friends who understood what I was going through.
Author's Note
In case you guys are wondering, this chapter basically explains the other characters’ backstories. Two of them will also explain why this story is connected with Dragon Ball Z. Also, in case if you guys are going to ask why I added in Prince Blueblood, I chose to not make him a jerk in this story, not yet.
I hope you guys enjoy this story as I work on more chapters for it.
Show and Tell (Edited)
(3rd Person POV, Four days ago)
Somewhere in Maretropolis lies a castle. Inside that castle lies an alicorn prince. His coat is electric blue and the tip of his horn and his wing feathers are both inter dimensional blue. His mane and tail have a majestic purple palette as they flow in the air. Some say that ‘those who stares at his mane long enough, they’d feel like time itself had slowed down.’ He wears a dark indigo royal tunic, with the end of his sleeves being middle purple and the cuffs having a golden amber color. His cutie mark is a golden metronome clock and its pendulum being purple. The color of his eyes is pure red. His name is Prince Metronome.
Next to him is a young white unicorn colt with blonde mane and tail. The color of his eyes is easter blue. His cutie mark is a blue and yellow compass rose. His name is Prince Blueblood.
Metronome was walking with his nephew while having some ice cream in Metropolis until he stopped for a moment. He suddenly felt an unknown presence that seems stronger than any kind of magic he was aware of. He also noticed that the sky is somehow green.
“This is… both odd and new.” He says internally to himself.
Blueblood notice the sky too and is concerned about whats happening. “Uncle Metronome, what’s happening?” He asks Metronome.
“I don’t know, but I believe that wherever this is coming from, we should check it out soon.” He replies to his nephew as the sky goes back to blue.
***
(Wild Spark POV, The present)
After getting to know my new friends, we all left the library and went to Light’s home farm. Both my mom and Bam-Bam included. Apparently, his family runs a dragon fruit farm which also grows star fruits.
Light asks, “Have you ever had a dragon fruit before?”
“No, not really.” I answer.
“Here, try our dragon fruit.” Light offers.
I accept the dragon fruit and say, “Thanks.”
After I took a bite from it, Bam-Bam asks, “How is it?”
“It’s a little bland, but it’s good though.” I replied.
“Putting some sugar usually makes it taste better, but you should try my family’s fruit salad.” Light suggested.
“I’ll be sure to do that.” I commented.
We got into a cluster of trees that looks like they literally merged together to form a house. I see that as a really cool way to make a treehouse. As we approach the treehouse, we see Light and Crafty’s parents coming towards us.
His father, Exotic Bash, a blue earth pony stallion with purple eyes, a dragon fruit for a cutie mark, and his mane and tail’s color having a dragon fruit theme. He runs the farm along with his wife, Gleaming Comet.
She’s a dark purple unicorn mare with blue eyes, a comet with two stars for a cutie mark, her mane and tail having a color theme that reminds me of the dusk sky, and two feathers attached to her mane. The feathers are red and cyan. Not only works with Exotic’s business, but she’s an astrophysicist. Now that I think about it, it sort of makes sense why they also grow star fruits. I could be wrong, but to be fair, I’m still 11, so I still got much to learn.
My mom got along with them pretty well as they went to the dining room to have chat while we went outside. After meeting his parents, we talked about how we got new forms of magic from unknown events. I already told them about the vortex while we were in the library.
Light’s phenomenon apparently had something to do with a self sustaining black hole that was somehow not sucking anything until he made physical contact with it. What has me confused is that he said he found a purple glowing orb in there, claiming it to be the black hole’s core. Light touched the orb and then it went into his chest. He also mentioned that he felt his body being ripped off and put back together.
When he told me that, I remembered the same thing happen to me after being blasted by the vortex. I’m starting to think that our events are somewhat connected. I could be wrong, but it’s the only theory I could come up with until somepony corrects me. After two minutes had passed, the black hole spat Light out and disappeared. I’m not going to ponder on how that works because I don’t want my brain to explode. Light then explained that he somehow threw a ball made out of shadows at one of the bushes next to his house.
So he’s capable of using dark magic, despite him not being a unicorn. I’d say that’s one of the coolest things that anypony could have, as long as they learn how to control it, so it doesn’t control them. His hoof band was made by Crafty to show that he doesn’t need to figure out how to use it on his own, and he swore to constantly wear to show Equus how much he loves his family.
I’m not really sure how a black hole not sucking anything works, but like I said, I’m not going to hurt my brain by figuring out something that would shatter a scientist’s sanity into pieces. Plus, I stopped caring about the laws of logics and physics two months ago. I might need to care about logics still so I can learn how to control my lightning magic.
Pyro’s was actually something I recognized this summer. A few weeks back, the temperature felt like 110 degrees, almost all of the unicorns had to cast any cold spell they knew on Maretropolis. Prince Metronome took part and casted a frost aura spell on the pegasi, so they can make it snow to cool the city down and resist the heat while they are at it.
However, the sun suddenly turned blue and threw a blue solar flare that took a form of a phoenix. The solar flare shrunk itself to a size of a house, engulfed a pegasus colt who volunteered to help make to snow storm, and then disappeared. After that, the temperature went back to normal. Everypony immediately stopped what they were doing and went to check on the colt to see if he was okay. I now realized that the said pegasus colt was Quick Pyro. I honestly thought that the blue flare killed him, but thankfully it didn’t. It instead allowed him to use fire magic.
He found out about it when he was one day exercising. When Quick was done, he found himself throwing three of his feathers at a random cloud, and they were caught on fire as they left his wings. What makes it weird is that he said the none of his feathers fell off. In fact, the feathers that left his wings were entirely made out of fire, they even look like that belonged to a phoenix.
I don’t know what caused that blue solar flare to happen, but from what I know about Equestria’s history, Princess Celestia is the princess of the sun and she’s the only alicorn who can both rise and lower the sun. Her younger sister Princess Luna is the princess of the moon and the only alicorn who can rise and lower the moon. With Luna gone, I’m assuming that Celestia was doing her sisters job while she’s in the moon, so Equus won’t freeze or burn.
Carbon is a hybrid of an earth pony and a griffin. He told me that the only griffin traits he has are his chest fur, his claws, and being an omnivore like me. Actually, Quick, Light, Carbon, Sweet Mojo, and my family are the only ponies I now know who are omnivores.
Razza is apparently an alien mutant creature called a Tuffle who escaped from being extinct. She told me that the Tuffles are a race that are significantly intelligent insanely good with technology and science. She also said that she’s able to jump into any creatures bodies, but she only does that if it’s to keep them alive.
Sweet Mojo’s backstory made me feel bad for her because of what happened to her.
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(3rd person POV, Four months ago)
She had a kidney failure and her parents were both unicorn doctors. They thought about every single healing spell that could help her, but there wasn’t one yet until last month. Sweet Mojo already figured out what her special talent was before her kidney started to fail and her cutie mark was basically a cookie with rainbow sprinkles, but without the star. Despite Mojo’s situation, she was still baking pastries for everypony. They all felt sorry for for her and hoped for her surgery to be successful.
She’s grateful for their hospitality, but she’s not using the funds she earned for herself, she told her customers that using it to for the hospital her parents work at so they can get better equipment to not only improve her surgery, but pretty much everything else. She was not joking. Literally everypony who heard that couldn’t be anymore sad and happy for what Mojo was doing.
Later until evening she was about to get ready to go home until she heard a whistling noise from the sky. She looked up and saw that it was a blob of pink goo falling the sky. She also sensed that the pink blob itself was made out of pure magic and something else. Like me with the green vortex, she was too shocked to move or anything. She could only stare at it, she couldn’t even say anything. Luckily, it didn’t land on her, but it did in front of her. Her parents came outside to see what happened along with the neighbors.
What they saw next both shock and horrified everypony as the pink blob merges itself with Sweet Mojo. Before they could do anything to save her, there was a pinkish red flash. As the flash died down, what they saw next made them feel a mixture of relief, fear, and amazement. Sweet Mojo looks physically unharmed, but what made everypony curious was what happened to her cutie mark. What used to be just a cookie with rainbow sprinkles now has a pinkish red star on the cookie. This is where both amazement and fear comes in, Sweet was coated in a pink aura and everypony can sense the magic coming from her.
Mojo was equally freaked out like everypony who witnessed it. After the aura dissipated, her parents brought her to the hospital to see if the pink blob done something else to her other than changing her cutie mark. Much to their shock, relief, confusion, and joy, it did. The pink blob somehow enhanced her magic, her body, and most importantly, she got a new kidney.
Everypony was extremely confused about this too and Light’s mother who came to investigate what happened came and explained her theory. She believes that it has something to do with the pink blob that merged with Mojo along with it carrying pure magic. That said pure magic not only enhanced her magic, but it also healed and somehow regenerates any body disorder. As everypony ponders about Gleaming’s theory, it begins to make sense.
They had no idea what the pink blob was until they heard Mojo say, “It’s a Majin.”
Gleaming looked at her and asks, “ A what?”
“The pink blob, it’s called a Majin.” Mojo replied.
Everypony else was looking at her after she said that, being confused on how she knows that.
Her mom asks her, “Honey, how did you know what it was?”
Mojo replies, “I don’t know, I heard a voice in my head saying ‘I’m a Majin’. I think that voice belonged to the pink blob. And judging on how it fell from the sky, I think it’s safe to say that it came from space.”
Everypony thought about what she said. The more they thought about it, the more it began to make sense. No pony in Equus really had any knowledge nor any encounters with a Majin before and Sweet Mojo was the only pony who got merged with it. After all, they just found out that it enhanced her both physically and magically.
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(Wild Spark’s POV, Present)
Right now, Bam-Bam and I looked at Mojo with our eyes wide open and our mouths open agape after hearing that.
Mojo and the others noticed our reactions and she says “I know, mind blowing.” She continues, “After that, the fundraiser was a success. All the equipment the hospital has are now improved and they also got new medical spells. And since my kidney isn’t failing anymore, I can continue making my cookies for everypony.”
“Well, that explains how the doctor was able to tell how my magic was enhanced by the vortex.” I said after getting over my shock. I then continue as I remember something else that the doctor had told me, something concerning. “He also told me that they had trouble measuring my magic.”
Carbon asks, “Why’s that?”
Bam-Bam answers, “Because when they were measuring Wild’s magic, they also noticed that his magic also gave him a dormant personality.”
“So basically, I now have an Unknown Personality Disorder.” I added in, “What makes it scary is that none of us know what could trigger it. We don’t even know what kind of personality it is, but he said it’s dormant for the time being. Part of me believes that it’s the vortex itself.”
“And part of me thinks it’s not because a vortex filled with large amounts of lightning can’t do that.” Bam-Bam chimes in.
“And another part of me disagrees with you because I’m sticking with my beliefs and I didn’t ask for your feedback.” I said back, giving my brother an annoyed glare while he sticks his tongue at me. I continue, “Besides, I was literally shot by a beam that came from that said vortex. And If the doctor said that the vortex did it, then I’m sticking to it until something or somepony proves me wrong.”
“He’s not wrong, you know.” We all looked around to see who said that until we see both a sky blue alicorn and a white unicorn colt. It was Prince Metronome and Prince Blueblood.
“Prince Metronome?” We all said in unison.
Almost everypony (except me and Bam-Bam) bowed down until Metronome raised his hoof and said, “Rise up little foals. No need to be formal.”
They risen, gave us a glare and I asked with a confused look, “What?”
Light asks, “Why didn’t you two bow?”
“Well, we’re not really a fan of formality, just saying.” I replied.
Blueblood chimes in and says, “To be fair, I’m not much of a fan either.”
“Well, what are you guys doing here?” Light asked.
“Well, we noticed that there was a powerful magic surge four days ago, so we came here after tracing where it came from.” Blueblood answered. I began to become scared, thinking that they might blame me for the vortex.
Metronome noticed my reaction, placed his hoof on my head, saying, “Relax, you’re not in trouble.” After he said that, I calmed myself a little, now knowing that isn’t the case. He then ask, “What’s your name, little foal?”
“My name is Wild Spark.” I replied.
After everypony else introduced themselves, I then asks, “How did the surge appeared.”
Blueblood ask answers, “Four days ago the sky turned green. Not only that, but uncle Metronome sensed the surge feeling like, claiming it to be powerful. We track that same magic and it lead us here.”
Metronome asks, “Do you know anything about the surge, Wild?”
I looked at the group and they shrugged. I nodded and explain, “Well…”
***
After explaining to them about the vortex, my friends explained theirs because Metronome also sensed different sorts of magic from them.
Metronome asks, “Do you foals know where I can find your parents?”
“Yes, my mom is in the house with Light’s parents.” I answered. I then ask, “Why do you ask?”
Metronome says, “I’m going to let them know that I’ll be helping you with your situations.”
