Area: Ponyville
Year: 1813

Scootaloo was staring down her simulated opponent. She gripped Fatal Wind in her magic as she used a dash attack to start the fight against Doppelganger40 with a head start. As Doppelganger40 tried to attack more, Scootaloo dodged everything, attacking and attacking before defeating it, earning a medal from a hitless completion. "That's... 15 medals now, this isn't going to be hard to learn," She said to herself.

As Scootaloo left the Memory Museum Gallery, she ran into Twilight and Alucard, "Princess? Alucard? What are you both talking about?" Scootaloo asked as Twilight and Alucard turned towards Scootaloo, "Just the mare I wanted to see, Alucard, why don't you tell Scootaloo what's happening?" Twilight said as Alucard, the best friend Scoots had, cleared his throat, "Scoots, it appears that someone is attempting to revive Dracula and I'd go deal with it but I felt you should know," he said as Scootaloo nodded her head.

"Expect me to go and help then."

Area: The Order
Year: 1813

Scootaloo stood outside the imposing building as she felt strong surges of magic from two sources, either people battling together or each other. Scootaloo galloped into the building and went to the top where she found a women in a mainly blue attire with symbols on both her arms and one on her back fighting a man in green robes who seemed to be a magic user.

Then the women summoned a Rapier from nothing with the symbol on her right arm. She remembered what the Shadow Hunter told her about her helping a girl who could use mana to make anything. Scootaloo gripped Fatal Wind with newfound vigor and attacked the magician with all her might, a deadly glare visible in her eyes.

The magician falls as the blue-clad lady looked at him, "Barlowe, why did you do what you did?" Causing Barlowe to laugh. "Simple Shanoa, I needed a sacrifice to bring Dracula back, and I had hoped you would have been that sacrifice... but after everything Albus had done I now realize that my goal was not completible with you..." He stated as he started laughing again, causing both Shanoa and Scootaloo to raise an eyebrow.

"What's so funny, asshole?!" Scootaloo commented as Barlowe approached the statue and sat in a worshipping pose, "I offer myself to bring you back lord of darkness!" He said as he dropped dead and the statue glowed. It soon realized two very familiar faces.

"Dracula, Sweetie Belle. You both returned," Scootaloo commented as the two mentioned teleported away with a laugh, "Argh, damn it! They got away!" Scootaloo turned towards Shanoa who had a face that shown no emotions as if they were removed prior to anything happening.

"Thank you for assisting me against Barlowe, it seems as though we'll need to defeat Dracula and his little pet," her voice held no emotions, a surprise for Scootaloo to be sure. "Well, hope you don't mind me joining along. Name's Scootaloo, someone who defeated Dracula and Sweetie Belle back in 1798," Scootaloo said as Shanoa nodded, "I am Shanoa, a user of glyphs and now the last remaining member of the Order to Ecclesia."

Glyphs... wait, Alucard mentioned Ecclesia one time.

"Wasn't Ecclesia formed to defeat Dracula? Why the hell was Barlowe trying to summon him and Sweetie Belle, both people which this group was, supposedly, to be defeated by them?" Scootaloo asked but Shanoa just shrugged. "I have no idea, from what my brother, Albus, remembered he thought Dracula could save humanity and Sweetie Belle for your species, even going so far as to make Dominus out of Dracula's essence," Shanoa said causing Scootaloo to think for a moment.

Mainly about how stupid Barlowe was but at the end, it don't matter.

Scootaloo starts trotting out and makes sure Shanoa's following her.

Area: Castle Entrance
Year: 1813

Scootaloo and Shanoa stare at the statue at the entrance to the castle, Scootaloo understanding that it was a save point, and saved their progress before moving forward into a boss room? "A boss right as we enter the castle? That's new," Scootaloo commented.

Entering the boss room showed Scootaloo a familiar face. Darklight did her usual shushing motion before casting a shield spell. "An evil pony with magically powers, interesting," Shanoa said as Scootaloo used a dash attack to drain some of Darklight's MP.

Shanoa used her left hand to summon an orb of light(which homed in on the opponent) which Scootaloo recognized that spell as it was one she learned about by reading in Twilight's library. Vol Luminato, a spell long thought lost to ponies, being wielded by a random girl with the power to use glyphs... if this means what Scootaloo thinks it does...

Together, Scootaloo and Shanoa defeat Darklight and it summons a blue triangle with a symbol on it, "... excuse me... what just happened?" Scootaloo asked as Shanoa stood in a way that slowly sucked the symbol towards her and soon, she had acquired a new power. "A new glyph, one that I'm sure Barlowe didn't make," Shanoa said as she used her left hand which fired a blast of hard magic while saying Medeis, "I bet this will have multiple teirs we can find, but for now I think I'll use Vol Luminato as a magic attack."

It's not even 30 minutes into the adventure and Scootaloo is already questioning everything. As a 27 year old mare, this should not be something she needs to do. It helps that she looks 12 still but it also doesn't.

When the two entered the castle proper, Scootaloo noticed just how much this place felt like the castle she was sadly used to. And obviously there were portraits of Sweetie Belle around the place that Scootaloo slashed. The castle had many high up areas that Shanoa had no issue getting to which often led to Scootaloo following suit. Sometimes Scootaloo would see an area that had a green glow on it. Most likely an area for a glyph to gain access to.

The castle entrance was not the biggest, it never was, and they eventually found the next area.

Area: The Library
Year: 1813

The Library of the castle was the most unkept library Scootaloo'd ever seen there were books spilled all over the place, and though Shanoa didn't care, not that she could care at this point. The eyes, peeping eyes Scootaloo had read about from Alucard's collection of monster books, weren't a threat. The Tin Men however... were. Defeating the Tin Men took using smashing damage, which Shanoa had in the form of Vol Macir, to deal more damage than one'd expect.

Scootaloo actually saw an area that Shanoa couldn't reach due to being behind a flight blocking gate, so Scootaloo teleported to the area and found a switch to open the area to Shanoa, "Thanks," she said in her same emotionless voice before she broke a statue and found another glyph, Vol Medeis if Scootaloo had to guess. "Of course the second teir of the magic glyph was in a library, one of the princesses in my world is a master of magic and lived in a library for a good while," Scootaloo commented as she watched Shanoa test out Vol Medeis, which fired a double burst of hard magic.

They left the out-of-the-way room even though Scootaloo felt a powerful presence in that area, they might have to return in the future.

Scootaloo and Shanoa found a save and warp room nearby and Scootaloo knew a boss was coming up. Shanoa and her saved and went to fight the next boss.

Upon entering the boss room, they saw another of the green glowing parts of the walls and from it came a blue-humanoid like creature, probably the librarian.

Problem is... "We can't deal enough damage to kill it," Scootaloo said after trying to attack it just to realize it had immortality magic. Well... mostly immortality magic. Scootaloo didn't knos the exact one but it was clearly a lower teir one that defended from damage at no cost to the user's MP.

The Wallman, thank the fairy tome, threw several bombs before going into the wall with a glyph.

With a glyph...

Shanoa had an idea, "Scootaloo, if you could, when the Wallman comes back through the wall, make sure the bombs are in a good position so I can just stand up here and steal the glyph," Shanoa said and Scootaloo nodded, slightly confused about her plan. As planned, when the Wallman came back, Scootaloo carefully took to bombs and made sure that they wouldn't explode in a way that could hurt Shanoa as she started doing the thing she does to take any glyph and before long, the Wallman died in the wall. Ironic.

Shanoa wore her glyph and went through the wall, Scootaloo left behind. At least it seemed that way. Scootaloo sat there for a moment, curious... What if... she thought to herself as she touched the wall and found she went right through it, now wearing attire that closely resembled Shanoa's own get up.

Scootaloo got to her hooves and immediately learned how she'd change between the two forms. With a thought. She went back to her Alucard inspired one and nodded towards Shanoa who broke a statue and got Melio Confodere, a direct improvement to her Vol Confodere but Scootaloo shouldn't shake the feeling that Melio Confodere wasn't the best it could be.

Scootaloo and Shanoa went and found more rooms as they found a split path. Scootaloo went down the right path as Shanoa went down the left.

Shanoa's path was... interesting. She had to navigate through a path filled with pony shaped monsters, not that it made things any harder except the fact that they were shorter than the normal versions. Through towards the end, she found a boss room.

When she entered the room, she felt an overwhelming darkness in the room so she made sure to replace Vol Medeis with Vol Luminato. The darkness started the congel into a pony, who it was was lost on Shanoa. The pony had a grey coat, black shadowy mane and tail, was wearing metallic armor with a red, fluff-linen cape, a red horn, and eyes that just radiate darkness. Shanoa got ready as she used Melio Confodere to attack the pony who she now realized was called Sombra.

And then she couldn't move. "What the? Hey, why can't I... ergh... move?!" Shanoaasked as the darkness powered pony laughed, "This is the power of the Order of Ecclesia? I will admit I'm... disappointed. At least you show no signs of being with that stupid ass orange filly," he spoke as dark magic started gathering at his eyes. His magic was crushing her, and yet... she seemed to realize how to stop this.

Shanoa mentally changed Vol Luminato for Vol Medeis and used the double magic burst to break Sombra's magic hold. "That is over, now... Vol Medeis!" She said aloud as she shot the double magic burst at Sombra. Shanoa had started putting the pressure on Sombra who actually summoned some Shadows and Shanoa learned the other weakness these things had. Slide kicking.

Shanoa proceeded to slide into her enemies for the next 15 minutes, no kidding. Sombra fades into the darkness opening both ways with a magic crystal spawning in the center. Scootaloo entered the room afterwards, "What did I miss?" she asked as Shanoa grabbed the magic crystal to heal herself up. "Just a battle with a pony named Sombra," Shanoa replied as she broke a statue showing a glyph of darkness, Melio Umbra.

"Barlowe's notes mentioned missing glyphs, a Melio variant of each elemental glyph chain were among them, what is the likelihood we'll find other missing glyphs off the beaten path?" Shanoa asked Scootaloo shrugged.

"Probably if we'll lucky and both Dracula and Sweetie Belle are stupid enough to not leave powerful upgrades right in places we can reach."

"Well then we better hope they aren't after learning how I absorb glyphs to make a duplicate of me for some reason,"

"They wouldn't need to considering Doppelgänger exists," Scootaloo said with a chuckle when she finds a warp room which she promptly ignores as she picks up a map, "I will hold onto this map since we could need it."

Shanoa nodded as she and Scootaloo went into a save room and saved.

Author's Note

For those that wonder what Medeis is, it's a Latin word for Magic/Magical

I am not doing the areas discovered thing this time as well.

Bosses defeated: Barlowe, Darklight, Wallman, Sombra

Yes, I am making new glyphs for Ecclesia's plot to account for the ponies. Melio Umbra, Medeis, and Vol Medeis are examples that appeared here. Should you guys have a glyph idea, I'll feel happy to add it to the story.