My little Dragon Ball: FuyuMori

Chapters

Ch 1: A Saiyan and An Alicorn
Ch 2: How they met
Ch 3: Visiting Ponyville
Ch 4: The Bearers of Harmony
Ch 5: First Meeting
Ch 6: Bridle Confrontation
Ch 7: Apology Plan
Ch 8: The Crusaders and a Saiyan
Ch 9: A Deceptive Past
Ch 10: The Party Begins
Ch 11: History of the Nightmare
Ch 12: Winter Wrap up
Ch 13: Pie’s Predictions pt.1
Ch 13: Pie’s Predictions pt.2
Ch 14: Children of the Night
Ch 15: Moon Vs. Ice
Ch 16: Celestial Goddesses
Ch 17: City of Canterlot
Ch 18: Sun and Ice’s heart-to-heart
Ch 19: Sonic Dragon
Ch 20: Diamond Canidae
Ch 21: A Canidae Battle
Ch 22: Barite Brawl
Ch 23: Arctic’s New Friend
Ch 24: Their Training Begins
Ch 25: A mysterious new foe?
Ch 26: Birth of Equestria’s Super Saiyan

Ch 1: A Saiyan and An Alicorn

A massive burst of water erupted into the sky. Within the epicenter of a massive lake, two figures were sparring. One was hovering above the water swinging his arms sending waves of water rushing toward the other figure. With a clap of his hands, the water separated into small droplets and shifted into jagged shards of ice. The other figure was also floating above the water. With her horn aglow, her magic forced water to shoot up and solidify, stopping the ice shards in their tracks.

Behind the horned figure, an ice copy of the other figure emerged from the water. Shooting it hands out, it attempted to grab the horned figure, only fo her to spread her wings and rush into the sky. Hovering in front of the moon, the Alicorns wings shined under the soft glow of the moonlight.

The Alicorn rushed down to the water and dove in. Looking for the Alicorn, the bipedal figure scanned the water. Immediately, he saw something coming for him, he raced away from the water. Unfortunately, he wasn’t fast enough. Water shot like a rocket towards him and latched onto him. Solidifying, it completely trapped him. Eventually he gave up and stopped his struggle.

“I must say, you’ve greatly improved. Although, there are still things you’ll have to work on My Child.” The Alicorn said as she flew in front of him.

“I know, Mother. Not even my transformation could help me against you.” Said the biped.

The biped was a Saiyan. Currently he was transformed, resting in his super Saiyan form. His ssj was, different. Instead of the usual turquoise eye’s his were bright red. His Aura, while it was golden, small bursts of blue would waft from it. De-transforming revealed his hair and tail are naturally Snow white and his eyes were bright blue.

The Alicorn the Saiyan called his mother was giant. Her mane and tail flowed like water and had sparkles within it that resembled snowflakes. Her horn was curved and looked as though it was made of ice. It even held a few cracks and chips. Her wings were huge. Her wingspan completely dwarfed her Saiyan son. Her eyes were pure white that glowed brightly. They came off as eerie if you saw them at night. She even had a giant halo over her head which looked like a massive snowflake in the middle of two rings. The rings even held different symbols within it. The giant Alicorn well and truly looked like a goddess.

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Getting a bit into the twos history, The Alicorn, named Glacious, was a very old Alicorn. She existed before Celestia and Luna, she even existed before the ancient parents of the two sisters. Glacious was the Queen of Water and Ice. She held no subjects, nor siblings. She was always alone. While the reclusive Queen didn’t really mind being alone, over time, she did soon gained the desire to have a companion at her side. As many millennia passed, she roamed the land. Debating whether or not to go out into the crowds of ponies she’d see. Unfortunately, every group of ponies she ever came across viewed the Queen a monster and hid from her. While it was bad, it only got worse after a certain event.

One night, Queen Glacious had noticed something off. The moon held a new marking on it. Not knowing what it was she never bothered to question it really. After that, the fear of the ponies she would see only got worse. She never knew why that was. Ponies young and old would throw food at her, shout at her, bellowing for her to leave. Eventually she had begun to keep to herself again, giving up on the idea of gaining a new companion. After another millennia had passed, something interesting happened.

Roaming a dense forest, which had become covered in snow due to her magic coating it in snow and ice despite it being the middle of spring, Glacious had seen something unusual. The sky had been covered in a massive array of colors. Then shortly after purple bursts of light appeared. Glacious couldn’t understand what had happened, so she ignored it. Then, a few moments later, she heard a low crying. Choosing to investigate, she saw a small strange baby sitting in the snow. The small baby slowly opened his eyes and looked up to the Alicorn. With a smile, the baby began to reach up to her, giggling as he did it. After that, things had pretty much become history.

Over the years, the two would travel around together. Glacious underwent the trials of parenthood, given she had decided to adopt the young Saiyan. As he grew, he revealed he remembered what he was, a Saiyan, and that was all. Glacious had decided to give the young Saiyan a name. Arctic. She had also begun training him once she found out he could use magic, which was a surprise to Arctic. While he didn’t remember much, he did know saiyans couldn’t use magic. As they trained, Arctic had grown more skilled with magic as well as his own power, which he discovered after becoming a ssj for the first time,pushing himself to the limit while sparring with his mother.

As the years passed, that brought us to today. The two had been exploring a dense forest when the stumbled upon a giant lake and decided to start sparring once again.

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“Your power seems to grow exponentially everyday My Child. I do believe, given enough time, you may be able to hold your own against me when I go all out.” Glacious said as she chuckled slightly.

“Mother, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to become as strong as you.” Arctic said as Glacious removed the ice keeping him trapped.

“Never say never My Child. Someday you could become as powerful as any Alicorn.” Replied Glacious.

“I suppose I could. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.” Arctic said.

The two had gotten onto solid ground and Arctic picked up his cloak and slipped it on and Glacious did the same.

“Mother?” Arctic said as he looked up to Glacious. “Are we ever gonna meet anymore ponies again?”

“I don’t believe that that is something we should do My Child. For other ponies most likely will shun us again.” Glacious said.

Giving a confused look, Arctic said, “Mother, what if they actually accept me this time?”

“My child, from what I can see, many of these ponies will always fear the two of us. Do you remember the time we stumbled upon that little village many years ago?”

Arctic started thinking back, he was quite young back then but he did vaguely remember that day. It was winter. The two had been roaming around when they had settled down to rest. Eventually, they realized the two of them were near a small village. A young Arctic wanted to go to meet the ponies who lived there as he had never seen any other ponies. Glacious, remembering all of the times ponies had shunned her and feared her, she had an inkling that the ponies would feel the same with Arctic. Not wanting her son to experience that, she tried her best to keep Arctic away from other ponies. Doing his best, Arctic managed to convince her to let them both go to the village to see the ponies there. Moments later, the two were rushing away from the village covered in food with ponies shouting and running them out of the village.

Arctic, while he does have a bit of a resentment towards ponies after that, he does want to give it a second try. He believes that maybe the ponies will be able to accept him and he often asks his mother if they can go find a group of ponies to try befriending. Glacious also doesn’t try to befriend other ponies as she knows they are also afraid of her. Arctic, does not know this yet, so he believes that it’s only him that they fear right now.

“I remember Mother. But maybe things could be different this time.” Arctic said.

“I suppose my child. Though, we shouldn’t risk it. Glacious said.

Suddenly a loud shout rang out. The two perked up and looked to each other. Knowing someone needs help, and despite knowing the one screaming may run away from them, the two races into the forest. Tracking the scream, the two ended up spotting a pony getting chased by a pack of wooden wolves. Arctic jumping in got between the pony and the wooden wolves.

The wolves all stared and growled, angry that some creature had interrupted and got in the way of them. The pony stopped and looked back to see Arctic. As the wolves began attacking, Arctic attacked back. After taking down five of the wolves, there was only one left. Lunging toward the wolf he dodged it’s strike with it’s left paw and with one swift kick, destroyed its head. After the quick squabble he relaxed and turned around.

“Well done My Child.” Glacious said as she walked up to Arctic. “Your strength truly is remarkable.”

“Thank you Mother.” Arctic said as he smiled at her.

The two looked back to the pony. It was an earth pony. She had a light harlequin coat, two tone mane which seemed to be in a dreadlock style. Her eyes were a light grayish purple and had a cutie mark that looked like a tree with a potion bottle resting in its tangled branches. She had on a cloak and golden bracelets and big golden hoop earring. The mare was also bleeding quite profusely which Arctic and Glacious noticed.

“Young one, would you like some help with your hoof?” Glacious said pointing to the mares bleeding foreleg.

She just stared at them. It was obvious she was scared of the two, but she did need some help and didn’t want to be alone, so she shook her head slowly. Arctic and Glacious stood on either side of the mare as they walked.

Looking down to the mare, Glacious asked, “Please young one, could you tell us your name?”

“Oh Uh, it’s Tree Hugger.” She said clearly still very unease and scared.

“It’s nice to meet you Young Tree Hugger. My name is Glacious and this is my son, Arctic.” Glacious said pointing to Arctic with her wing.

Tree hugger noticed the giant wing and flinched. She hadn’t noticed Glacious was an Alicorn. Glacious had used magic to hide her wings and halo as well as give her normal looking eyes. So, right now, she just looks like a giant Pegasus.

“Radical to meet you too. Uh, thanks for helping me, man.” Tree Hugger said.

“If you don’t mind my asking, what were you doing all the way out here?” Glacious asked.

“Oh, I was out looking for some herbs for my teacher. She sent me out to get them for a new brew she wants to try making.” Tree Hugger said as she lifted the cloak and revealed her saddlebags.

Arctic perked up. “What kind of brew is she trying to make?” He asked. He had never seen anypony make and use potions. He had been a bit interested in it and so hearing this got him a bit excited.

“I don’t know.” Tree hugger said, “she never told me what it was she was going to try making.”

Arctic and Tree Hugger had begun talking to each other more. Tree Hugger very slowly started to become more comfortable and her fear slowly started to slip away. Soon, they got to a big house. After Tree Hugger pointed it out, Arctic and even Glacious were taken aback. The house was big and seemed to be made out of a hollowed out tree. There were masks and vials strung up around the outside and glasses filled with fireflies flying around within.

“Here’s my teachers home. Come on, I’ll introduce you.” Tree Hugger said as she stummbled up to the door.

Arctic and Glacious walked up behind her as Tree Hugger opened the door and announced that she had returned.

Author's Note

Here’s the first chapter of the remake of my story, MLDB: Icebound. The first one, while I felt good about it, I figured I should remake it, as I felt things didn’t quite make sense in the first story so, after some thinking, this story came into being. Hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter of the remake of my story and has a great rest of their day.

Ch 2: How they met

Within the hut, there were multiple masks strung up on the walls. Multiple shelves also sat along the walls with many vials resting on them. Within the center of the room sat a massive cauldron. It was resting within a small pit with flames licking at its bottom. The liquid in the cauldron was boiling and steam flowed all around the room.

A mare who was sitting by the cauldron when the door opened had rushed up to Tree Hugger.

“My young Tree Hugger! Your foreleg! Please, let me mend your….”

The mare trailed off as she looked over to Arctic and Glacious. The two were looking at the mare, taking her in. The mare was a Zebra. She had a Mohawk that ended in a braid. Her eyes were a bright light blue. On her forelegs, neck, and leonine tail, which poked out of the cloak she wore, all had multiple rings on them. She also had two large hoop ear rings.

The mare just stared at the two before breaking out of her stupor and starting to tend to Tree Hugger. After lathering an odd green goo on Tree Hugger’s foreleg, she bandaged it up and gave Tree Hugger a tight hug.

“My young Tree Hugger, what happened to you while you were away?” The Zebra asked.

“Well, I managed to find the herbs that you needed, but on my way back, I got attacked by a pack of Timberwolves. One ended up biting me, but I managed to get away. Then those two came and helped me and he destroyed them all.”

“You saved my student?” The Zebra asked looking over to Arctic.

“Yes ma’am. I heard her scream and I couldn’t just not help.” Arctic said giving a small bow.

The zebra mare smiled and bowed as well. “I can not express how grateful I am for you saving my student.”

“There’s no need for that, miss…” Arctic said as he trailed off a bit.

“Zecora is my name young creature. What are your names?” The zebra said.

“My name is Glacious, Lady Zecora. This young stallion, is my son. His name is Arctic.” Glacious said wrapping one of her giant wings around Arctic.

Zecora stumbled back in shock a bit. She could see that the mare before her was clearly massive. But she hadn’t expected the mare to be a Pegasus with such giant wings. Tree Hugger was also staring at Glacious’ giant wing again. The behemoth of a mare, in Tree Hugger’s eyes, gave off the roughly the same vibe as Princess Celestia, though she dismissed it. Zecora also looked between the two and smiled.

“Miss Glacious has adopted you? I’m glad to see she has taken you in as her own and seems to have raised you very well.”

Glacious smiled and kissed Arctic’s forehead and the tall young Saiyan just blushed and sheepishly looked away. Zecora just chuckled and smiled. Even Tree Hugger grinned at the display.

“I must ask,” Said Zecora, “How did you two first meet?”

Glacious smiled and recounted their tale. She explained how after some strange burst of color filled the sky and what felt like a magical surge appeared, she discovered Arctic when he was a baby. She then explained how she adopted him and raised him and even became a teacher to him. Though she left out the fact that see was an Alicorn. Remembering how other ponies reacted to her, she didn’t want to risk it. She did, however, contemplate telling them, seeing as the two mares seemed to be comfortable around Arctic.

Zecora and Tree Hugger took in the story and smiled as they listened to it. Once it was over, Tree Hugger said, “Looks like we are a lot alike.”

Tilting his head slightly, Arctic asked, “What do you mean we’re a lot alike?”

“Because, much like you, Tree Hugger is adopted by me.” Zecora said with a smile.

“Truly? You’ve adopted young Tree Hugger?” Glacious asked.

“Why yes. It is quite the interesting tale, as to how we met.” Zecora said.

“May we hear it, Miss Zecora?” Arctic asked.

Zecora smiled and chuckled as she began telling the story.

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Many years ago, a younger Zecora traveled Equestria. After leaving her homeland, with the goal of pursuing her goal to become one of the best Herbalist Shamans in all of Equestria, she traveled all over. Each place she stopped, she would learn whatever she could, whenever she could. Everyday, her knowledge grew to the point she could rival her homeland, Farasi’s, best Herbalist Shaman. However, she wanted to get better. She felt she could get better, and so, her pursuit continued.

However, every place she stopped, shunned her. Wherever she went, ponies would hide from her. Labeling her an evil enchantress or a monster. Nopony would dare come near her for fear that she would do something to them. This deeply upset Zecora. There were even days she would shed tears and even contemplate going back to her home. Then, one day, things got strange. While Zecora was temporarily residing in a small forest near another town, she began noticing small things being left for her. Then, soon, more and more things were being left for her. And then, one day, something that was left for her changed things.

Zecora had awoken one day. She was in an foul mood. The day before, she had attempted to go out to the little town to get something, but once again ponies fled and hid within their homes hurling multiple insults or screaming as they ran. It didn’t help that it had been raining all day and will be raining today as well. As Zecora walked to the window of her self made temporary home, she noticed something outside. Registering what it was, Zecora immediately went outside.

Sitting in the rain and covered in mud, soaked head to hoof, was a small filly. She was an utter mess and it looked as though she had been crying.

“My young foal, what are you doing here.” Zecora asked, sorry present in her voice.

The filly flinched as she stared up at Zecora. She looked as though she was about to bolt, but something was keeping her held in place.

“P..please don’t hurt me.” The filly stuttered, terror clear on her face.

“Hurt you? Why would I do that? I would never hurt anypony.” Zecora asked.

The little filly looked a little shocked by that but was still scared.

“Everypony has been getting sick and they all have been saying it was you.” The filly said.

Zecora was shocked by this. She didn’t know that ponies had been getting sick, but to hear that it was because of her shocked her even more. Then she remembered the trinkets and various fruits and veggies being left for her. It dawned on her that ponies were leaving them for her as some sort of offering to convince her to remove whatever curse she cast to make everypony sick.

“Ugh. Well, young one, why are you here?” Zecora asked.

“Um, mom and dad left me hear as an offering.” The filly said as she looked down.

Zecora was sickened. A couple left their young filly here in the hopes of stopping some sickness she had nothing to do with. Zecora had grown angry, but kept it contained. Ushering the filly in, Zecora quickly found some towels and began drying the filly off. Afterwards, she made breakfast for her and the filly and the two began talking.

Zecora asked the filly about her parents and was upset by what she heard. The filly, Tree Hugger was her name, which Zecora found out later, was an only child. She lived with her mother and father, though they weren’t the best parents. According to Tree Hugger, her parents were neglectful and could be quite abusive. It was quite often the two would beat the young filly, leave her with nothing to eat or drink. The filly would have to take whatever scraps she could or steal something to eat just to survive.

Tree Hugger also explained that ponies had been getting sick. It wasn’t until Zecora appeared, ponies had begun blaming her for it. It didn’t help that ponies would sometimes catch her making brews, practicing her craft. The assumptions and accusations only got worse. Then, somepony had the idea to leave things as offerings in the hopes of getting Zecora to release them all of the curse Zecora placed upon them. As the days went by, more and more ponies got sick and those already sick got worse. It wasn’t until a few ponies ended up passing away did the offerings got more crazy.

Then, the parents of Tree Hugger got the idea of offering their daughter. To them, it seemed the other offerings weren’t enough. So they decided to give up their daughter as an offering. To them, not only would it be enough to appease Zecora and lift the curse, but they would also be rid of the daughter they hated so much.

After hearing this story, Zecora instantly decided to take the filly in and raise her as her own. In the beginning things were rather difficult. Tree Hugger was trying to get over her fears of Zecora and Zecora was experiencing the trials of parenthood. But over the years, their relationship got better. The two had truly developed a mother and daughter relationship as well as an unbreakable friendship. Tree Hugger also became a student under Zecora after she picked up an interest in making brews like Zecora.

As the years went on, their bond grew stronger and the two traveled all over together before eventually settling down in the Everfree Forest. Of course, much like all the other times, Zecora was shunned by the ponies of Ponyville, so Tree Hugger would often venture out to Ponyville to get anything Zecora needed. Though, Zecora would go to Ponyville in the hopes that someday, things could change, though it seems that may never happen.

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After hearing that story, Glacious and Arctic stared at the two. Arctic was smiling with tearful eyes and Glacious looked to Zecora with a look of understanding as she and Arctic understood how Zecora feels.

“That was such a sad story, Lady Zecora. I’m glad to hear that you’ve taken in young Tree Hugger much like me and my Young Arctic.” Glacious said.

“I also understand how you feel, Miss Zecora.” Arctic sympathized.

“You do?” Zecora asked. Arctic nodded.

“I’ve also been through what you have. Me being the only of my kind in Equestria and something nopony’s ever seen before, ponies do hide and run from me. Though I do hold out hope things will change someday.” Arctic said.

“I feel the same. And I must say, it does feel rather nice to hear somepony else understands how I feel.” Zecora said.

Glacious smiled somberly. She also understood how it felt. Though, she didn’t believe anypony would accept her. Nor did she thing ponies would accept Arctic and Zecora. Though she didn’t say anything. She didn’t want to ruin their optimism and hopes that things could change for the better for them someday.

“Please, you both look hungry.” Said Zecora. “You should stay for dinner and we could get to know each other more.”

Arctic perked up at the mention of dinner. He looked up to his mother and she just sighed and smiled as she nodded her head. Arctic just cheered and smiled ready to dig into whatever food Zecora had in store.

Author's Note

So, if you’re wondering why Zecora isn’t rhyming, in my story Zecora only starts rhyming once she’s serious. It’s also a bit of an excuse because I can’t figure out any rhymes. Forgive me :fluttercry: :pinkiesad2:

Ch 3: Visiting Ponyville

It was the next day. Zecora and Tree Hugger let Arctic and Glacious stay over after eating dinner. Last nights dinner was a nice one. Zecora and Tree Hugger had put together a nice soup and even baked some bread. Though, the two very quickly got to learn that Arctic had an unbelievable appetite. He ate most of the soup and bread and even a few berries that Zecora had. The four talked some more and Arctic and Tree Hugger soon quickly became friends. Glacious was glad for this. Watching her son interact with a pony after being shunned or insulted multiple times in the past really warmed her heart. While going to sleep, Glacious contemplated revealing she was an Alicorn. She even began wondering why it was ponies feared her.

While she could understand why ponies feared Arctic, he was an alien, a creature no pony in all of Equus had ever seen, she didn’t understand why ponies feared her. She did vaguely remember hearing something about some other pony, though she didn’t know if it was some kind of strange nickname or something for her, she didn’t dwell on it.

It was early in the morning and Arctic and Tree Hugger were sitting outside. Tree Hugger was watching Arctic training. She was completely mesmerized. Arctic was practicing more with his magic. He manipulated the water all around him making it flow around him and even solidify into ice every now and then. His movements were smooth. He himself almost looked like his body flowed like water. His hands were glowing a light blue from his magical aura.

“Woah dude. What kind of magic is that? I’ve never seen somepony do anything like that before.” Tree Hugger said.

“It’s Elemental Magic. My mother taught me it when we found out I could use magic. From what mother says, it’s very difficult for others to learn. It took me till I had turned 16 to become a bit of an intermediate with it. Though mother says I still have a lot to learn.” Arctic said.

“You’re only an intermediate with it? Dude, you look like you’re an expert with it.” Tree Hugger said as she watched him. “Wish I could that.”

“Perhaps mother could teach you, though it’ll be difficult to learn.” Arctic said.

The two chuckled at that and smiled. Just then, Zecora and Glacious started walking out of the hut. The two were talking and laughing when they looked up to Arctic and Tree Hugger.

“Oh my.” Said Zecora, amazed at the sight before her. “I’ve never seen anypony do that before.”

“My dear child is quite skilled with this magic. Though he still has a ways to go before he can be a professional with it.” Glacious chuckled with a sly grin.

Arctic blushed slightly and stopped in his tracks feeling slightly embarrassed, despite admitting he was an intermediate with this magic.

“My young Tree Hugger, I have a small request for you.” Zecora said.

Looking to Zecora Tree Hugger asked, “Sure. What do you need me to do?”

“I would like for you to go to Ponyville. There are a few items I need for my new experimental brew.” Zecora said.

“Yes ma’am.” Said Tree Hugger.

Tilting their heads slightly, Glacious and Arctic looked to each other and then back to Tree Hugger and Zecora.

“If I may,” said Glacious, “What is this Ponyville?”

Tree Hugger begun to answer. “Ponyville is a little village just outside of the Everfree Forest we’re in. Many ponies live there. It’s a quaint little village.”

“Do other Zebra’s reside there by chance?” Glacious asked.

“No. Only ponies live there. Though, I do not think those ponies will accept my kin.” Zecora added.

“They’re afraid of you as well?” Arctic asked.

“Indeed. So, I try not to go to the village.” Said Zecora as she looked sheepishly down to the ground.

“Why don’t you go with us? Perhaps things can change this time and the ponies can give you a chance.” Arctic said. Some of his youthful optimism showing. He had begun to believe if he could be accepted then she could too. Though he could see Zecora had doubts which he could understand. Then Zecora perked up.

“‘Us’? What do you mean?”

“I would like to go with Tree Hugger. I’ve never heard or seen this Ponyville place. I wish to go see it.” Arctic said.

“Are you sure my Child? You know you’ll be shunned and heckled again if you go to this little village.” Glacious said.

“Well, yeah. But maybe things could change this time, for me and Miss Zecora.” Arctic said.

Zecora, seeing the young adult saiyan’s optimism and hope for change gave her a bit of confidence. Even if it could just be a simple pipe dream, she did hope that finally things could change and she and her Saiyan friend could be accepted. Secretly, Glacious was filled with pride and even hope that she herself could be accepted. The Alicorn did want to be able to walk freely and not be ostracized or shunned, watching ponies run and scream in free of her. But she knew she needs to be cautious and keep her disguise up.

“Hehe, very well, my young Saiyan friend. I will go with you and my dear daughter to Ponyville. Glacious, my friend, are you going with us?” Zecora asked.

Glacious, thinking for a bit decided, she may as well go. She too was quite interested in viewing this, Ponyville.

“I will accompany you all, and view this village.” Glacious said.

Tree Hugger and Arctic cheered a bit. After eventually slipping on their cloaks and putting on their hoods, the group all began trudging out of the Everfree Forest. As soon as they headed out of the forest, the group all had a shield their eyes and allow them to adjust. It was darker in the forest so coming out directly into the sun, blinded them for a second. After adjust, Arctic and Glacious looked around and admired what they were seeing.

“I must say, this village looks quite nice.” Glacious said.

“It looks kinda cozy” Arctic said as he looked around.

The group all began walking forward taking in more of their surroundings. The village seemed quite large, almost like a very small town. What almost immediately caught Arctic and Glacious’ eyes was a giant farm. The mother and son admired the large farm and took in the sweet scent of apples wafting over toward them. Looking around more they saw what looked like more of the village as well as many ponies walking around.

Just then, one of the ponies looked up and saw the group and while they didn’t notice it, the pony’s face contorted into a look of fear and began running away. Then soon almost all of the ponies fled into the many houses and shops. Yells and yelps sounded throughout, doors slammed, even welcome mats were swiftly ripped into their houses.

The group noticed this and Zecora let out a low heavy sigh.

“Once again, ponies flee in fear.” Zecora said.

“Well maybe we can at least still find what you need?” Tree Hugger asked.

“Could I help?” Asked Arctic.

“Sure.” Said Tree Hugger said.

“Do be careful my child.” Glacious said as she looked worriedly at her son.

“Same goes to you my Young

“We will Mother.” Said Arctic and Tree Hugger as they left the two.

As Arctic and Tree Hugger roamed ponyville in an attempt to find what Zecora needed, Glacious and Zecora started talking to each other as they walked.

“For as quaint and inviting as this little village seems, the residents of this place don’t seem to want to allow those not like them here.” Glacious said. Slight resentment evident in her voice. Knowing Zecora, her dear son, Arctic, and herself always seem to scare of ponies.

“That is unfortunate true. Young Arctic’s optimism is good but misplaced. Ponies fear myself and he as the two of us aren’t like them. I must say it is sickening and upsetting.” Zecora said. Some resentment oozing out of her voice as well.

“My child, I raised him to see good in others and to give the benefit of the doubt. So he believes that someday these ponies will grow to accept him and now you. But, eventually, someday, I believe his hope for that will fade in time.” Glacious said.

“I hope the young Saiyan’s hope never fades. It is quite an endearing trait of his.” Zecora said.

The two kept walking once Zecora stopped and started digging at the ground.

“Pray tell, what are you doing Lady Zecora?” Glacious asked.

“I’m looking for a certain root. Unfortunately, young Tree Hugger isn’t quite adept at searching for these sorts of roots as I am. Unfortunately, they seem to grow within Ponyville, for right now at least.” Zecora said.

After a few more minutes, Arctic and Tree Hugger returned.

“Nopony helped you?” Asked Glacious.

“No.” Said Arctic slightly dejected.

The three watched Zecora do her thing digging at the ground, when all of a sudden there was a loud slam behind them. They all looked over to a big building. Looking at the sign it read, ‘Sugarcube Corner’. Dismissing it, Zecora went back to digging at the ground in her search for whatever she was looking for and the others watched her, not knowing that they themselves were being watched.

Ch 4: The Bearers of Harmony

Within Sugarcube Corner, seven ponies and one dragon were peering out of the window watching the four beings outside digging at the ground. After getting hot, Zecora off her head to cool down. Multiple gasps rang out inside the building.

“Just look at so stripes. So garish.” Said a unicorn mare.

“She’s a zebra.” Said another unicorn.

“A what?” Called the others.

“A zebra. And her stripes aren’t a fashion choice Rarity, they’re what she was born with.” Said the mare.

“Born where? Ah never seen a pony like that in these parts, ‘cept for her.” Said one of the Earth pony mares.

The ponies within the bakery were the Bearers of Harmony. Twilight Sparkle, Rarity Belle, Applejack Apple, Pinkamena “Pinkie” Diane Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. Twilight Sparkle, the faithful student of Queen Celestia, Goddes of the Sun. She was a unicorn mare with a deep purple, blueish-white mane and tail, golden glasses and a blue scarf. She had golden eyes and freckles. Her mane was tied back in a messy bun. One of the things that really stood out about the mare was the markings on her coat.

Unicorns, if they have vast amounts of magical potential, hold markings on their coats. Twilight’s markings appeared at the same time she obtained her Cutiemark. It was one of the reasons Queen Celestia took Twilight on as a student.

Next up, Rarity Belle. Ponyville’s main unicorn fashion designer. She’s an albino unicorn. Her eyes are a vibrant red, though she wears contacts that make her eyes a blue hue. She lives and works in Carousel Boutique with her little sister, Sweetie Belle. Rarity’s a bit of a diva, though she’s a good mare. Her goal is to surpass her mother, Cookie Crumbles. Equestria’s number one fashion designer.

Up next, Applejack Apple. She’s an Earth Pony and is one of the residents of Ponyville’s Apple family farm, Sweet Apple Acres. She’s a massive mare. In terms of height, she reaches, Arctic’s chest. Applejack is the middle child of the Apple’s at Sweet Apple Acres. She has an elder brother, Big Macintosh, and a younger sister, Applebloom Sugarbee. Applejack is a hard worker, always in the orchard Applebucking. She can be quite stubborn and it can get her into trouble. She’s working on not letting her Apple Family Stubbornness get the better of her, though, it’ll be rather difficult for her.

Then, there’s Pinkamena “Pinkie” Diane Pie. The tiny enigma of the group. Pinkamena, or pinkie, is a small Earth Pony. Just slightly bigger than a filly. Though, she’s a rather strange one. Able to do multiple strange things that just seem to defy any and all laws of the world. Despite that, she’s a very cheery mare who lives and works at Ponyville’s bakery, Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie’s also Ponyville’s number one party planner and is very proud of it.

Up next, Rainbow dash. A Pegasus mare from Cloudsdale. Rainbow Dash is an athletic mare who works at Cloudsdale’s Weather Factory. She’s also a bit of a daredevil, always performing some kind of new trick or stunt. She too is quite small. Though she is bigger than Pinkie. Her biggest goal is to become one of the members of the Wonderbolts.

Finally, there’s Fluttershy. Fluttershy is a hybrid. She’s a mix of a Deer and a Pegasus. She lives on the outskirts of Ponyville near the Everfree Forest. She’s a very quite and shy mare upon first meeting, but given time, she’ll open up. She has a love for animals and tends to any and all wounded or sick animals. It’s also best to not let her kind and gentle nature fool you. When Fluttershy gets angry, she’ll prove that she’s quite strong and fast. Strong enough to rival the mighty Applejack and fast enough to rival even Rainbow Dash.

The two others there were Applebloom Sugarbee and Spike the Dragon. Applebloom, the younger sister of Applejack, is an Earth pony filly. She often works with her siblings at Sweet Apple Acres doing whatever she can to help out. She doesn’t yet have a cutie mark, so she alongside her two friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo Skipper, gave rise to the Cutiemark Crusaders. The three fillies are on a mission to obtain their cutie marks.

Lastly Spike the Dragon, or Spike Sparkle, is a small baby dragon. He was hatched thanks to Twilight who had quickly become his elder sister. While he is Twilights little brother, he’s also her number 1 assistant. He’s also an honorary member of the Cutiemark Crusaders. After Applebloom and her friends created the Cutiemark Crusaders, Spike was asked if he’d like to become an honorary member, which he gladly accepted.

As the six mares talked about Zecora, Applebloom was looking out the window just observing the four outside.

“They’re all bein crazy. Ah’m sure Zecora’s just tryna be neighborly. And maybe those three are friends of hers.”

As she kept watching she noticed one of the figures take off its hood. It was Arctic who had done so. Applebloom gasped slightly. She had never seen anything like him before. Although she was a bit afraid, she was also curious. Applebloom’s curiosity got the better of her and as the four began to walk away, she slunk outside and followed after them.

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“Lady Zecora, does this happen often whenever you come into this little village?” Glacious asked as the four made their way back into the Everfree Forest.

“Indeed it does.” Said Zecora. “Tis why I usually send young Tree Hugger to get things we may need from Ponyville, but even then, nopony even wants to be around her, for they know she is with me.”

“So, how do you two ever get anything you need from Ponyville?” Arctic asked.

“Well, I usually just snatch it up. Of course, I leave Bits for what I take, I just do it when nopony’s really paying attention. It’s not right, but it’s the only way we can get something we may need from Ponyville.” Tree Hugger said.

“M..maybe ah could help?” Said a voice.

The group stopped and turned around to see a small filly behind them. It was Applebloom. She had followed after the two, making sure to stay as hidden as possible. As she hid she also listened in on their conversation. Hearing about their plight made her feel quite sad, even a bit guilty. So, she plucked up courage and made her presence known.

“Oh dear, a young Filly. What are you doing here young one?” Said Glacious.

Applebloom gazed at Glacious. She could quite clearly see that the mare before her was big. But being this close to her made it even more apparent that this mare was gargantuan. The other tall creature came up to just beneath her chest.

“Oh uh, well.” Applebloom struggle to cobble together a sentence as she was a bit too stunned to speak.

“Impressed huh?” Said Arctic gaining Applebloom’s attention. “My mother’s crazy tall. It’s so cool, isn’t it?” Arctic asked with a light chuckle.

“Yeah it is. She’s taller than you are an’ yer super tall! And did ya just say mother? Yah look like no pony ah’ve ever seen.” Applebloom said.

“That’s because, young one, my son here is no pony, for he is adopted. He is a member of another race entirely.” Glacious said.

Applebloom was a bit surprised to hear this. Her curiosity grew more and more. Now she really wanted to learn more about them. Though, she knew her sister, Applejack, would protest her getting to know the four strangers. Just then a voice sounded out. Applebloom groaned slightly. She knew all to well who that voice belonged too. Applejack was coming for her.

Ch 5: First Meeting

Author's Note

My updated design for Arctic. Hope everyone likes it and the story so far.

Ch 5: First Meeting

“Applebloom!” Called out the farm mare.

As Applebloom turned around she could see Applejack and the other charging towards her. Once the six mare and baby dragon got to Applebloom, they all saw Arctic and all came to a halt. The seven of them all just stared at Arctic before eventually turning their attention to the giant mare next to him. They all were in awe and terrified. To not only be in the presence of the “Evil Enchantress” Zecora, but to be next to a tall bipedal creature they’ve never seen before, and a behemoth of a mare? They were all petrified.

“A..a..Applebloom, get away from them!” Applejack stuttered out.

“But Applejack, they..” Applebloom started before being cut off.

“Get away from mah little sister, yah hear!?” Snarled Applejack as she shakily took a step forward in an attempt to intimidate the four.

“Yeah, stay away from her and our home you freaks!” Shouted Rainbow dash. Despite being scared, she gained some courage to speak up.

“And don’t you dare come back!” Blurted out Rarity, who was trying to act brave, but was shaking as violently as Fluttershy.

Zecora seeing not only her, but her friends as well step forward into the blue plants before them, she decided to speak out.

“Beware! Beware, you pony folk! For those leaves of blue are not a joke!” Zecora bellowed.

The loud intenseness of her voice made the six back off out of fear. Satisfied seeing them back away, Zecora began trotting back into the Everfree, followed shortly by Tree Hugger and Glacious. Arctic stayed behind for a few seconds before following after them. Twilight, ever the perceptive mare she is, saw for only a second before he left, the look of sadness on his face.

Applebloom, who had also noticed the sad look on Arctic’s face, remembered how genuinely friendly he had acted towards her and the motherly concern coming from his adopted mothers voice when she spoke to her. She had begun to grow upset at her big sister and her friends.

“Applejack, what the hay!?” Applebloom shouted.

“Hush now Applebloom. Her safe now.” Applejack said.

“Ah’m pretty sure I was already safe to begin with.” Applebloom retorted.

“Around those four? Nonsense. Who knows what they’d have done to you had we not showed up.” Applejack said.

“Quite right.” Said Rarity. “Had we not shown up when we did, they could’ve seriously hurt you, Darling.” Rarity said. Then Rainbow jumped in.

“They just better be glad I didn’t start fighting with them. I’d have kicked their flanks before they even knew what happened.”

“Are you sure? You seemed pretty scared Dashie.” Pinkie said as she gave a small chuckle. Rainbow blushed slightly and stumbled over her words as she tried to defend herself.

“Applejack, ah’m serious. They seem real nice. And what yah all said to them, really seemed to hurt their feelings.” Applebloom said, wanting to defend the four.

“Fer all we know, that could’ve been some kind ah trick. Tryin’ rah make us feel bad fer them so we drop our guard and they can attack us someday.” Applejack said.

“Yah don’t know that. Ah’m pretty sure it isn’t an act, and what y’all said really hurt them. Y’all gotta go apologize to them!” Applebloom shouted.

Applejack’s face contorted into one of shock at that suggestion. Then her face quickly morphed into one of anger.

“We ain’t apologizin’ to any of them! Now hush up and let’s go home!” Applejack said sternly, her voice at a near shout.

Applebloom hearing this grew even more angry and she stomped a hoof as she stared at Applejack.

“Applejack!” Applebloom yelled.

Applejack gritted her teeth and finally her anger got the better of her and she glared at Applebloom with a burning rage.

“Enough Applebloom! Drop it and let’s all go home!” Applejack finally shouted.

Applebloom recoiled. She and Applejack had gotten into arguments a few times, but never once had Applejack actually shouted at her like this. Applebloom began to tear up slightly before she quickly ran off back to Sweet Apple Acres. Applebloom was a mass of emotions. She was saddened yet angry with Applejack as well as he friends. To hear what they all said to the four who seemed so friendly and concerned about her, deeply upset her. She wanted to see them, to make things up to them. She wanted to show them that she liked and trusted them. Applebloom, right there and then, decided to go seem them early tomorrow morning.

The six mares stood there. Applejack breathed heavily as she stared ahead watching her little sister run back towards the farm. Rarity, Rainbow, Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Spike were all taken aback. They had never seen Applejack that mad nor heard her yell like that before. Rainbow drifted toward Applejack.

“Dang AJ. I’ve never seen you like that before” Rainbow said.

“That was quite scary to see.” Said Fluttershy as she shuddered in fright.

“Ah’m sorry, it’s just, she don’t know what she’s talkin’ about. Thinking those four are good? And then there’s that tall fella. What even was that thing?” Applejack said.

“It looked like some kinda monkey.” Fluttershy said.

“A monkey?” Asked Applejack.

“Yeah. He had a monkey like tail. His large fangs even looked monkey like. He probably eats meat.”

The other mare shuddered at that. To hear a creature like that probably eats meat got them to feel even more scared. Applejack grew even more concerned.

“Now Ah’ll definitely have to keep Applebloom away from that them. They made do something to mah little sister and feed her to that thing.” Applejack said.

“Applejack, maybe Applebloom was right and they are nice ponies.” Twilight said softly.

“Twi, don’t tell me yah thinkin’ they are good ponies.” Applejack said.

“Look, just, maybe we should all try to keep an open mind. Maybe Zecora and those others aren’t bad at all.” Twilight said as she started making her way back to the library, Spike riding on top of her back.

Applejack just sighed. She couldn’t believe that they were good. That Zecora was an oddity. Nopony knew what she ever does in the forest. And now seeing Zecora’s underling alongside two others? That really had her on edge. And then there was that creature she had never seen before. Applejack did see it had rather large fangs when she saw it talking to Applebloom. Hear it may eat meat had her really on edge. If it did eat meat, then where does it get it. Did it eat ponies? She shuddered at the thought. She wasn’t the only one. The others were also a bit afraid. Perhaps afraid that that creature and the others would come to attack them all someday.

Pinkie, she wasn’t necessarily scared. She was thinking about what Twilight and especially Applebloom said. What if those four were just good ponies and they all were running and hiding from them purely because they knew absolutely nothing about any of them. Pinkie’s mane deflated slightly. How could she just shun others and even make up a song and dance about Zecora when she didn’t even know anything about Zecora. Everything Pinkie heard about Zecora and her “underling” were all speculations. None of it could be true. Pinkie left for Sugarcube Corner with a lot on her mind.

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As the group went back into the Everfree Forest, Arctic began to speak up.

“Miss Zecora, what were those blue plants you were warning those ponies about.”

“Poison Joke my young Arctic. It’s a plant found all over Equestria in certain areas. It isn’t dangerous by any means, but it’s effects are that an ironic effect will happen to whom ever makes contact with it.” Zecora said.

“My child, we have seen those plants before remember?” Glacious asked.

Arctic cocked his head but began to think back. He remembered back when he was much younger. He and his mother had been roaming some ice covered land when they discovered a large cave entrance. Inside the cave was dozens of icicles that all shined like precious gem stones. There was even a large lake sitting within it. Thought, one thing stood out. The blue plants that sprouted up from all around the cave. It all looked very beautiful.

Arctic did remember his mother warning him not to touch the plants, though he didn’t know why. Figuring his mother knew best, he obeyed and never went near them. He had intended to ask about them, though he never acted on it.

“Oh right. I do remember them. Back in that cave we went into.” Arctic said with a slight smile. He soon made plans to return to that cave.

“While I did warn them,” Zecora started,”I do get the feeling we’ll be seeing those mares again by morning.”

“How come?” Asked Arctic.

“Those mares possibly made contact with the Poison Joke. We’ll have to wait and see once tomorrow comes.” Tree Hugger replied.

“Well, hopefully, they didn’t. But those mares seem to be rather hot headed.” Glacious said. “Though something greatly surprised me.”

“And what was that Miss Glacious.” Zecora asked as she looked up to the giant mare.

“That small filly who spoke to us.” Glacious replied

“That was rather surprising.” Zecora said with a small chuckle.

She hadn’t expected to be approached by anypony, let alone a small filly. It in fact kinda warmed her heart a bit. It seemed to her Arctic’s hopes that something could change for them was beginning to bare fruit. All because of the one small brave filly who came up and talked to them.

“It amazes me that a small filly seems to be much braver than her elders. She even seemed to be growing used to us quite quickly.” Arctic said with a smile on his face. “Perhaps we can meet that little filly again someday.”

Glacious smiled as she watched her son’s eyes sparkle. She had seen him hope for things to get better for themselves. That he could be accepted. She still has yet to tell him that many of the ponies fear her far more than him. She’s still unaware as to why ponies fear her so much. She does vaguely remember hearing something about the Moon, but that was pretty much all she got. She doesn’t know what she has to do with the Moon and why it’s making ponies so afraid to be around her.

As they all made it back to Zecora’s home, they all relaxed and chatted among themselves. They all told stories of their travels and hopes for the future. After that, they had all eaten dinner and soon fell asleep. As night came and went, the Sun peaking over the horizon washing away the night, the four were awoken by a small knock.

“What on Equus is that?” Said a sleepy Tree Hugger.

“Sounds like the door.” Arctic groggily said as he tried to drift back to sleep.

“I’ll get it.” Zecora said as she got up and trudged over to the door.

Rubbing at her eyes, Zecora let out a yawn before opening the door.

“Who is.. oh, it’s you, young filly.” Zecora said in surprise.

Hearing this, the others slowly looked over toward the front door. It was the small filly from yesterday that they had met while on their way into the Everfree.

“What bring you here, young filly.” Zecora asked.

“Please, ah need yer help.” Applebloom said as she looked to Zecora with pleading eyes.

The four looked at Applebloom in a bit of surprise, but they all nodded indicating that they’ll help. Seeing this, Applebloom could only smile and give a small sigh of relief knowing that they were going to help her.

Ch 6: Bridle Confrontation

“What’s the problem young filly?” Asked Zecora as she looked down at the filly.

“It’s mah sister. Somethin’ happened to her and her friends.” Applebloom said.

Zecora sighed slightly and shook her head, facehoofing as she then groaned.

“I did warn those mares about the Poison Joke.” Zecora said.

“What the hay is Poison Joke?” Applebloom asked.

“The plant is much like Poison Oak, though it’s results are like a joke.” Zecora said as she walked over towards one of her shelves searching for a book.

Tree Hugger shuddered slightly. Zecora’s rhyming thing had reared its head. Tree Hugger remember when Zecora would speak in rhymes often, though when she appeared in Zecora’s life, Zecora’s rhyming died down. Nowadays, when the rhyming comes out, it means she’s serious or angry.

“So is there a way to help them?” Applebloom asked.

“Indeed there is young one. Although, it shall take a while for the cure to be done.” Zecora said.

“Okay. Thank you.” Applebloom said with a smile.

Arctic drowsily walked over and crouched in front of Applebloom. Applebloom froze up a bit as he did that, but she eased up. Her curiosity about the tall creature began to flood her mind once again as she looked up at him.

“Nice to see you again little filly.” Arctic said with a smile. “I don’t think we properly introduced each other. My name’s Arctic. What’s yours?”

Applebloom blinked a bit before snapping out of her stupor.

“Oh, uh, Ah’m Applebloom. Nice to meet yah.” Applebloom’s voice was a bit quite but Arctic still heard her well.

“Applebloom huh? Nice to meet you too.” Arctic said reaching out a hand.

Applebloom stared at his hand, unsure of what to do. Then it kinda clicked for her. She slowly took her hoof and placed it into Arctic’s hand. Arctic smiled and gave her hoof a small firm shake before letting go.

“Oh and that’s my mother, her name is Glacious.” Arctic said point his thumb over to her.

Applebloom looked over to the giant mare and nervously smiled

“Uh, hello miss.” Applebloom said.

“Hello young filly. I’m glad to see you again.” Glacious said. “Though, I’ve heard from Lady Zecora and young Tree Hugger, that this forest is rather dangerous. Did you come here on your own?”

Applebloom sheepishly nodded and looked to the ground.

“That was rather dangerous to do, young Applebloom. You could’ve gotten seriously hurt. Though, it does confirm what my young Arctic said about you.” Glacious smiled slightly.

“What he said?” Applebloom looked up to Arctic. “What did yah say bout me?”

“That you were brave. Even braver than those six mares yesterday.” Arctic said.

Applebloom’s eyes widened a bit. Her heart raced slightly. She had grown excited and proud to hear that some tall creature she had just met called her brave. And to hear she was braver than even her own sister, made her smile widely.

“Thank you Mister Arctic.” Applebloom said.

“No problem, Applebloom.” Arctic said petting Applebloom on her head.

Applebloom smiled even more and enjoyed getting pet by Arctic. Tree Hugger chuckled and walked up to the two.

“‘Mister Arctic’? Guess someones got a fan already.” Tree Hugger said with a grin.

Arctic just blushed as Applebloom chuckled. After Zecora had started the process of making the Poison Joke cure, Applebloom hung out with them all. She learned about Tree Hugger and Zecora’s past and she had grown a deep amount of sympathy for them. To see that the two are such good mares and hear how they’ve been treated as well as seeing it herself firsthoof? She immediately began thinking of how she could get Applejack and the other ponies of Ponyville to apologize to them.

Applebloom also learned of Arctic and Glacious’ past. Though Glacious did keep out the fact she was an Alicorn. She saddened even more hearing that what happened to Zecora and Tree Hugger, also happened to Arctic. Applebloom was amazed to hear that Arctic was an alien. She asked many questions, but he couldn’t answer many. He only knew what his race was called. He also showed his Super Saiyan form to Applebloom. She, as well as Zecora and Tree Hugger were surprised to see this. Applebloom asked to see the other things Arctic could do. So, he went outside with her and Tree Hugger, and showed small low power energy blasts and even his flight.

What really amazed Applebloom, was the ice and water magic Arctic displayed. She had never seen or heard of any magic like that before. Arctic told her that he learned this magic from his mother and that he wasn’t even a master of this magic. Somewhere between a high level beginner or low level intermediate. Applebloom couldn’t see how, to her, he seemed like a master of it.

As the day went on, it had become noon. Zecora was making good headway with the cure when she came outside. Arctic was flying around, low to the ground, with Applebloom on his back. The filly was laughing and smiling enjoying being flown around.

“Young Applebloom?” Zecora said. Applebloom looked over to her.

“Yes, Miss Zecora.”

“I have a small request for you.” Zecora said.

“A request? Fer me?”

“Indeed. There is a certain herb I need for this cure. It resides within Ponyville. I cannot be able to get it, because, well, you know.” Zecora said.

“Oh, yeah.” Applebloom said as she sadly looked down. Then she perked up with a bright smile. “Well, if yah need mah help, I’m happy to do it fer yah.”

Zecora smiled. She went back inside and returned shortly with a small bag of bits. Arctic escorted Applebloom to the entrance of the forest and let her go off into Ponyville before returning to Zecora’s home.

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The Element Bearers were venturing off into the Everfree. Twilight had summoned her friends to the library. When she had learned of what happened to her, she called the others to her place. It was then she found out something strange had happened to all of them. Applebloom had also been there, only because she was asked to get Applejack by Spike. After the girls had their meeting, Applebloom went to go find the herb Zecora needed. Before doing it, Applebloom discovered Applejack had been a stowaway in her mane, and left her on a branch before trotting away to get the herb. After being found by Rainbow, who had been struggling to fly thanks to the Poison Joke, went off into the Everfree with the others to get Zecora to remove the “curse” she placed on them.

Before long, the six mares made it to Zecora’s home and sneakily begun peaking through the window.

“What’s with all the freaky mask things?” Asked Rainbow as she scanned the house.

“They’re all so creepy.” Shuddered Rarity.

Just then, Zecora walked in. Making her way to the cauldron, as she did so, she had begun putting more of the ingredients needed for the cure in. After which, she began speaking in her native tongue. Then Tree Hugger walked in.

“I got some of the herbs you needed.” Tree Hugger said.

“Why thank you, my young Tree Hugger.” Zecora said. “Though, it looks like you also got more than just these herbs.”

Behind Tree Hugger, came Arctic and Glacious. Draped over Arctic’s back was a massive sack full of fish. He was even eating a piece of fish as he walked in. Glacious, after squeezing her way in, laid down next to them.

“My dear child and his appetite. He just had to get as much fish as he could.” Glacious said with a light chuckle.

“I can’t help that I can eat a lot.” Arctic said somewhat defensively. “Besides, I haven’t had fish in a while.”

Tree Hugger chuckled. “Dude, I can’t wait to see you pig out again, you bottomless pit.”

Arctic just rolled his eyes, but he couldn’t help but smile.

The girls all stared at Arctic in shock. They were all now seeing Arctic out of his cloak. What shook them even more, was the fact that Arctic really does eat meat.

“That’s what that creature looks like?” Rainbow asked.

“And it seems like Fluttershy was right. It does eat meat.” Applejack said.

“Then, does that mean it eats ponies too?” Rarity said as she shuddered.

“Ah womdeh ippt eafh cuhcaks.” (I wonder if it eats cupcakes.) spluttered out Pinkie pie.

Just then a small chuckle sounded from inside.

“Now then, we just have to wait for our young Applebloom.” Zecora said.

Applejack, hearing this, begun to grow angry.

“Applebloom? What the hay do they plan to do with mah little sister?” Applejack said through gritted teeth.

Twilight shuddered as she began mauling over the things she had seen. She had slowly begun to believe that they all were bad. After a moment she came to a dreadful conclusion.

“Don’t tell me. They’re going to make ‘Applebloom Soup’? And feed her to, whatever that thing is?”

This made Applejack reach her boiling point. In the blink of an eye, Applejack hopped onto Rainbow dash, and with the makeshift reins she made earlier to help guide Rainbow with instead of letting her fumble around attempting to fly, she made Rainbow fly up and barrel straight towards the door.

With a mighty bang, Rainbow and Applejack flew into the house, Arctic heard this and whipped around. Seeing the rainbow mare flying towards them, he jump in her path and Rainbow rammed into Arctic’s belly. Applejack jumped off of Rainbow skidding along the nearby table.

“Ah won’t let y’all hurt mah little sister!” The tiny mare barked out.

Just then the others rushed in. Arctic jumped away from Rainbow Dash and he grabbed onto her back hoof and flung her over to Fluttershy. Fluttershy helped in her now deep voice as Rainbow slammed into her. Twilight, getting angry now, used her magic and grabbed onto Arctic trying to stop him. Arctic using his ki, broke out of Twilight’s magical aura. This startled Twilight. She had never known somepony to be able to break out of a unicorns magic like that.

Glacious had jumped into the fray. Concealing her magic, she used her wings to blow the mares back. However,what she wasn’t expecting, was the tiny pink mare to somehow pull out a massive cannon. Before Glacious could properly react, the cannon went off. Surprisingly, the cannon had enough force to blow Glacious back slightly. Just then, Rainbow, sloppily, rushed in and nailed Glacious in the side.

Tree Hugger, while not a great fighter, was also fighting. She was brawling with Rarity. The mare’s mane did make her struggle a bit. So, as unladylike as it was, Rarity used her magic to make magic based gems appear and attack Tree Hugger. Tree Hugger was able to dodge a few of them, but every now and then, a few would get her. Scratches and cuts littered a few spots of her body, but even then, she kept fighting.

“We won’t let you hurt anypony!” Twilight shouted.

“we’ll make sure monsters get put in Canterlot dungeon!” Said Rarity.

“I’ll buck all of you into next week!” Said Rainbow.

Arctic, who had now started fighting with Rainbow, after she had been launched away from Glacious thanks to her massive wings, was beginning to get angry. To him, his hope was crumbling. He had always held out hope that he and now Zecora and Tree Hugger would be able to be accepted by other ponies. But now? He heard what those mares were saying about them just outside of the Everfree, heard what they were saying now, and being attacked like this, he had begun to feel that maybe these ponies were just never going to accept them. Then he thought about Applebloom. He wanted to believe she was genuinely accepting them. The stories they told each other, Applebloom’s enthusiasm learning what Arctic could do, her happy laughs and giggles as Arctic flew her around on his back. But now, he was slowly beginning to believe she was tricking them.

Just then, Arctic heard another low boom. Followed by a massive burst of wind. It was Pinkie’s party cannon. Then Arctic got lassoed around the neck by Applejack who pulled him down, letting him get bucked by Rainbow. Blood gushed out of his now broken nose. Arctic’s mind temporarily went blank. Then, reaching his breaking point, Arctic erupted. In the blink of an eye, Arctic had transformed into a Super Saiyan. The six mares were surprised by this and a beginning to get scared. Arctic slowly stomped his way over to them. His glowing yellow eyes staring straight through the mares.

“It seems I was mistaken. I held out hope ponies would accept us. No longer look at us like monsters. But now I see that’ll never happen. Now, I want you all to go away, and leave us alone!” Arctic bellowed out before rushing towards them.

Glacious felt the same. She was about to start truly fighting as well, but something stopped her.

“What the hay is happening!?” Shouted a voice.

Everypony looked up to the source and saw Applebloom. She was panting heavily and staring manically at the scene before her. Then she noticed that Tree Hugger, Arctic, and Zecora were bleeding. Tree Hugger had multiple cuts and scratches, so did Arctic, but his shoulder also had a giant cut on it and was bleeding heavily. Zecora also had a few cuts and bruises.

“Are y’all okay!?” Shouted Applebloom as she rushed over to them.

“No! Stay back Applebloom! Said Twilight as she held out her hoof stopping Applebloom.

“No! Let me help mah friends!” Applebloom shouted.

“They ain’t yah friends Applebloom! Now go home!” Applejack shouted.

“Yes they are!” Applebloom retorted as she rushed past Twilight and straight towards Arctic. “Mister Arctic! Are yah okay?”

Arctic stared at Applebloom. He still did kinda believe she was tricking them, but seeing how worried and frantic she seemed made his belief fade away. Arctic slowly calmed down and fell out of Super Saiyan.

“I’m fine Applebloom.” Arctic said.

Applebloom also went to Zecora, Tree Hugger, and Glacious asking if they were okay. Then Applebloom quickly found bandages and helped bandage up the wounded trio. As she did so, she started going off on the Element Bearers.

“How could y’all? Comin’ and attackin’ mah friends! They’re so nice and kind, and y’all treat me like this? If y’all actually tried to get to know em, y’all would see that for yerselves! Mister Arctic was right. Ah am braver than y’all.” Applebloom said, her voice lowering as she continued to help bandage Arctic, Tree Hugger, and Zecora.

This got to the girls. Their minds had calmed down and they had begun to think. Their fears had truly gotten the better of them and they had jumped to conclusions. Applebloom really was brave. She actually got to know them and seeing as how she befriended them, shows they are good.

Applejack just stared at Applebloom. Watching her worry over the ones she and her friends attacked. Applejack was a bit ashamed but proud to see her little sister show such bravery, doing what she and her friends were too scared to do.

“Um, excuse me.” Said Fluttershy.

The three injured beings and Glacious as well as Applebloom looked over to the pink maned Doe.

“I’d like to apologize to you all for what we did today.” She said as she gave a low bow.

“I would like to apologize as well.” Said Twilight. “Our fears got the better of us and we jumped to conclusions.”

Then Pinkie Pie popped up with four cupcakes. With four cupcakes. While she couldn’t quite talk with her tongue still all big, she gave an apologetic look. Tree Hugger, Glacious, Zecora, and Arctic cautiously accept the cupcakes which made Pinkie smile.

After the other apologized, Zecora, while still upset, decided to help the mares. After a while and a bit of convincing the other ponies of ponyville, the six mares as well as Tree Hugger, Zecora, Arctic, Glacious, and Applebloom were at the spa. The six mares had been cured and were relaxing. Glacious was resting and getting a hooficure for the first time. She was a bit unsure, but after some time, she had begun to enjoy it.

Arctic, Tree Hugger, and Applebloom were in a jacuzzi. The three were happily chatting when Applebloom asked Arctic to show her more of his magic. As he did that, Applejack was watching. She was glad to see Applebloom having having fun with the two. Her mind was buzzing. She was thinking of ways to properly apologize. Though, she worried that no matter what she, or her friends, did, they would never be properly forgiven.

Ch 7: Apology Plan

It had been a few days since the Bearers of Harmony were cured thanks to Zecora. The six mares were trying to come up with any way to properly apologize to Arctic, Glacious, Tree Hugger, and Zecora. Applebloom had regularly begun visiting the four. The five would have fun exploring to very few beautiful spots in the Everfree Forest, telling stories, even camping every so often. Applejack, seeing just how happy Applebloom would be after returning home, made her feel even worse about everything she had done and said about the four. Applejack wasn’t the only one. The rest of the Bearers or Harmony we’re feeling just as bad. Though, none of them felt quite as bad as Twilight. Twilight had experienced this in the past with Spike. She had heard and kept Spike from hearing the many things ponies had said about him.

She’s heard how many ponies disliked Spike. Afraid of him because he was a Dragon, believing that he was terrible and violent much like the other Dragons. Twilight knew Spike was nothing like other Dragons. He was a kind soul and would never up and attack somepony or anything like that. They had no right to judge him, they didn’t know him. And then for Twilight to go and do the same things other ponies had done, to Zecora, Tree Hugger, Arctic, and Glacious? She felt awful. Much like those ponies who didn’t know Spike and judged them, she judged the four Residents of the Everfree and she didn’t even know them.

She was ashamed to admit it, but what she found out Arctic had said was correct. A young filly was far more brave than any of them. Applebloom was brave enough to approach and speak to them. That led to her befriending them and even hanging out with them whenever Applebloom isn’t helping on the farm or crusading with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.

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It was the middle of the day. The six mares were all at Sugarcube Corner discussing things.

“Ah just feel horrible.” Said Applejack, her head on the table. “Ah said so many bad things about them. How could ah? Ah couldn’t even work up courage to even give ‘em a chance. Applebloom really is braver than ah am.”

“I do feel awfully dreadful too. If Applebloom is friends with them, then they must be really nice. I can’t think of any way to properly apologize to them.” Rarity said in a low voice.

“What about a party?” Suggested Pinkie. “A party would be the best way to apologize! We could have a ‘We’re sorry for how we treated you and Welcome to Ponyville’ party! I wonder what flavor cake they like. Chocolate? Strawberry? Vanilla? Or do they like cupcakes? What about pies? I don’t know what flavor pie they like though. I could just make every pie flavor I know and see which ones they like more!” Pinkie said.

As pinkie fired off the different things she could do for her party, the others began talking amongst themselves.

“A party sounds nice, what if i got them a pet? Do you think they’d like that?” Asked Fluttershy.

“A pet could be good, Darling. I could make them some dresses. And a bunch of different outfits for that tall gentlecolt. Oh,what’s his name again? Rarity asked.

“Applebloom says his name is Arctic. And why’re yah gonna make so many outfits fer the fella?” Asked Applejack with a raise eyebrow.

“Well, from what I’ve seen, he seems to be always wearing clothes. I could make him more refined clothes. What he seems to where now looks so uncouth.” Rarity said. A disgusted look adorned her muzzle.

Rarity did have a point. Right now, all Arctic wore was a pair of tattered pants and a cloak. So, after everything happened, she decided to make some clothes for him. She wanted it to be her way of apologizing and it was also a project for her. Making clothes for a creature no pony had ever seen? Rarity was ecstatic. She already had designs, she just needed to get his measurements.

“Honestly, I still don’t trust them much, but still. Maybe I could dazzle them with a Sonic Rainboom? Bet they never seen anything like that before.” Rainbow said with a smug smirk.

“I don’t know what I could do for them.” Twilight said. “I just hope I can think of something. Maybe Spike has some ideas.”

“Speaking of my little Spikey-Wikey, how’s he doing, Twilight?” Rarity asked.

“He’s well. He’s still a bit afraid of them, but I’m sure he’ll come to like them once he meets them. Especially Arctic.” Twilight muttered. Believing nopony heard, she was surprised when Applejack spoke up.

“What does that mean, Twi?”

“Well, think about it. Spike and Arctic are they both creatures in a place dominated by ponies.” Twilight said. “While I’m sure Spike would connect with Zecora and Arctic, he’d probably most likely connect with Arctic.”

“Especially since they’re both meat eaters?” Asked Fluttershy.

Twilight sunk into her seat looking down to the ground.

“Yeah.” Twilight inhaled before letting out a long low sigh. “He’s unaware of it, but, just like Arctic, Zecora, Glacious, and Tree Hugger were shunned and discriminated by us, Spike was also discriminated by other ponies. I’ve heard ponies say so many things about him that were just terrible. I protected him from it for so long. I always felt it was terrible to say such things about somepony they didn’t even know well. Then for me to turn around to do the same to those four? I feel so terrible. I can’t hope to be forgiven by them. Queen Celestia would be so disappointed in me if she found this out.”

The others were silent. Pinkie’s mane even deflated slightly. They never knew about this. They all would’ve protected Spike from such a thing. But for them to do it to others? They all felt worse and wanted desperately to apologize.

“Girls, if we’re going to apologize, we need to make this apology as genuine as possible. Do everything we can to show them how sorry we are.” Twilight said.

“When are we going to do this?” Asked Rainbow.

“And what about the other ponies in Ponyville?” Asked Rarity. “They all were pretty bad too. How will we get them to apologize. Or even warm up to them enough to have those four be in Ponyville and not run and hide?”

“Maybe, if they see them all hanging out with Applebloom, they’ll see that those four aren’t bad at all. Maybe that’ll get them to at least give Glacious, Arctic, Tree Hugger, and Zecora a shot.” Fluttershy suggested.

“Ah suppose that could work.” Applejack said.

“It’s not a bad idea Fluttershy.” Said Rarity.

“And then, we can have one great big PARTY!!” Shouted Pinkie Pie, clearly excited to get to know Arctic, Glacious, Zecora, and Tree Hugger.

After that, the six mares had begun to set their plan in motion. They soon left Sugarcube Corner and made their way into the Everfree Forest to get their four potential new friends.

Ch 8: The Crusaders and a Saiyan

As the Element Bearers approached Zecora’s home, they all saw something that made them smile. Applebloom was there. She was outside with Arctic and Glacious. She was watching in awe as Arctic moved around. His movements resembled dancing. As he did so, a massive glowing snowflake encased in two circles with multiple symbols in between sat beneath his feet. Shining snowflakes and water swirled around him. Even the air around him had cooled giving the area around a nice cool feel. That made the girls sigh in relief. It was a rather hot day, so this was very much needed. Applebloom as she watched, asked Arctic and Glacious multiple times if she could learn to do this someday. Glacious just smiled, knowing the filly wanted to learn how to use her magic.

Applebloom, catching something out of the corner of her eye, looked over. She saw her sister and her friends and she gave a small smile.

“Hey Y’all.” Applebloom said.

The girls all said ‘Hi’ back, though Applejack’s was a bit quieter. Her and Applebloom’s relationship was slightly strained. Applebloom was still a bit upset with Applejack and the others. She was still quite perturbed regarding the fact that they had attacked her friends. She wondered if they were ever going to apologize for that. Though, she didn’t know about the girls plans to make up to the four they attacked.

“Hello again, young mares.” Glacious said.

Arctic was silent but he gave a small wave. He, much like Applebloom, was still a bit upset. Though, he had heard stories from Applebloom about how the six were good ponies. So, he was willing to at least give them a chance at least.

Just then, Zecora and Tree Hugger walked out.

“Oh. The six young mares have returned. What brings you all here?” Zecora asked.

“Hopefully it isn’t to attack us again.” Tree Hugger muttered under her breath. Which earned her a small jab to her side by Zecora, who had heard what she said.

“Uh, we wanted to invite you over to Ponyville for something.” Twilight said.

“Y..you want us to come to Ponyville?” Asked Zecora, a bit shocked to hear that.

“Well yeah!” Said Pinkie. “We wanted you to come cause we have something planned and we want you to be a part of it!”

The four just blinked in confusion. They were all still pretty sure the Ponies of Ponyville would run and hide from them, which they felt would make things awkward. Just then Applebloom perked up.

“You should go. Y’all could get to see more of Ponyville. And Mister Arctic, you could meet mah friends!” Applebloom said with enthusiasm. “Ah’ve told them about yah and they really wanna meet yah!”

Arctic was taken aback. Her friends wanted to meet him? He was a bit unsure, but he decided to go along with it.

“Uh, alright. I’ll meet your friends Applebloom.” Said Arctic with a smile. “And you don’t have to call me ‘Mister Arctic’. Just call me Arctic. Or Arc.”

“Alright!” Applebloom said with a wide smile.

“What does this plan of yours, young mares?” Asked Glacious.

“We can’t say right now. It’s a bit of a surprise.” Said Rarity.

Glacious was a bit suspicious. She had a sinking feeling that this was all some sort of trick somehow, so she would keep on guard.

“Very Well, young mares. Let’s go then.” Said Zecora with a small smile.

“I still don’t trust them.” Muttered Tree Hugger, rubbing at the small scar on her left foreleg, given to her by Rarity.

“Alright! Let’s go!” Shouted Applebloom excitedly as she bit down on Arctic’s pant leg and drag him off.

The other’s just gave light hearted chuckles as they watched. Applejack also smiled. Seeing how close her little sister had grown to the creature made her smile and made her even more determined to properly apologize to him and the others.

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As Arctic and Applebloom approached Ponyville, Arctic had picked up Applebloom and set her on his shoulders. Applebloom marveled at her newfound height, enjoying being up that high. As they got into Ponyville, much like last time, all of the ponies fled and hid. This upset Arctic, but hearing Applebloom’s happy giggling made him ignore that and follow Applebloom’s directions, looking for her friends.

The ponies of Ponyville all peaked out of their windows. They could see Arctic running around with Applebloom on his shoulders. They all could hear Applebloom’s happy and cheerful yells. This did make them believe that maybe the creature was good if the small filly seemed to be having fun with it. Though, they still didn’t quite trust it yet.

After searching all over, Applebloom directed Arctic to the Cutiemark Crusaders Clubhouse. Arctic was a bit amazed. He had never seen a treehouse before. So this was most interesting to him.

“If they ain’t nowhere else, their probably here.” Applebloom said.

Arctic nodded. After walking up to the door, Arctic set Applebloom down. Applebloom went in and once she did she was treated with a chorus of voices.

“Applebloom! You’re back!” said one voice.

“Where’ve you been? We’ve been looking everywhere for you.” Said another voice.

“Yeah. When Twilight left, I went with Scootaloo and Sweetie to help look for you.” Said a different voice.

“Well, y’all remember the friends ah told y’all about?” Asked Applebloom.

“Yeah.” The three voice said in unison.

“Well, ah was with them. And I brought one over to meet yah.” Applebloom said.

“Cool! We get a meet a new pony!” Said one of the voices with excitement.

“Well, he ain’t a pony though.” Said Applebloom.

“He isn’t? Then what is he?” Said one voice.

Applebloom, instead of answer, stuck her head out and waved for Arctic to come inside. As he did, he took in everything around him. The treehouse had a fairly cozy feel. It was also housing a few boards with multiple lists and pictures. It also held beanbag chairs and a bunch of apples.

After taking those in, Arctic looked to the three others in the room asks sat down so Applebloom could get up onto his shoulders.

“Crusaders, meet mah friend, Arctic. Arctic, these are mah friends, Scootaloo, Spike, and Sweetie Belle.” Applebloom said, pointing to the three.

The three just stared at him. Scootaloo, while shocked seemed to be growing excited as she looked him up and down. Her wings began buzzing rapidly as her smile grew. Sweetie Belle was a different story. She was quite confused. She was a bit unease, sure, but she was mostly confused. She had never seen anything like him before, so her curiosity grew. Spike, was a bit scared. He remembered seeing Arctic, albeit under his cloak, but to see him in the flesh had him on edge.

Arctic just looked at them. He could see their varying looks and was unsure how to feel. Though, when he saw spike, he perked up. He had heard of dragons from his mother but he had never seen them. Arctic always felt he could connect with dragons. Maybe because they were meat eaters like him or they were fighters like the saiyans, he didn’t know. So getting to see a dragon for the first time kinda excited him.

“Woah. You’re so tall! And your hair looks so cool!” Said Scootaloo. “Er, well, not as cool as Rainbow Dash’s, but still cool! Woah! You have a scar too!?”

Arctic was seriously taken aback by that. He didn’t expect the small Pegasus filly to take a liking to him. Or even find him cool.

“Uh, thanks. Yeah, I got this scar a while ago.” Arctic said pointing to the scar on his shoulder that he got from one of Twilights attacks.

“So cool!” Scootaloo said, examining the scar.

“Um, what are you Mister?” Asked Sweetie Belle, her voice low and trembling showing she was on edge.

“I’m a saiyan. An alien, I guess you could call me, since I’m not originally from here.” Arctic said.

Scootaloo and Sweetie paused. They looked to Arctic with awe and shock.

“An alien?” They said.

Arctic just nodded. Scootaloo begun to celebrate, once again stating that he was cool. Sweetie was shocked, but much like Applebloom, her curiosity had begun to grow. Arctic looked over to Spike and gave a small smile.

“You know, never thought I’d see a Drsgon in the flesh.” Arctic said.

This caught Spike’s attention. Hearing the softness in his voice, Spike eased up slightly, but was still very much on edge.

“R..re..really?” Stuttered Spike.

“Yeah. My mother’s always told me about Dragons, but I’ve never seen them. You’re the first Dragon I’ve ever met.” Said Arctic, giving a gentle smile.

Spike slightly smiled at that, glad to be the very first Dragon that Arctic ever met.

“Well, to be honest, I’ve never met another Dragon before myself.” Said Spike in a soft voice.

Arctic tilted his head a bit and gave a sympathetic look.

“Do you ever feel lonely?” Arctic asked.

This question gave Spike pause. He was unsure of what the question meant, but before he could respond, the others jumped in.

“Why would spike ever be lonely? He’s got us!” Said Scootaloo.

“Yeah! And he’s got Twilight and her family.” Said Applebloom.

“Yup! And the others would never let Spike feel lonely.” Stated Sweetie.

“Y..yeah. And then, Pinkie would never let me feel alone too.” Said Spike with a light chuckle.

Arctic smiled. What he heard from them was sweet, but he understood that they didn’t quite get what he meant when he asked that.

“That’s sweet, but I meant, do you ever get lonely being the only dragon around here?” Arctic asked.

Spike paused again. Now knowing what Arctic meant, the question struck a cord with him. He had never truly thought about it. He had asked Twilight, her family, even Queen Celestia why he was the only dragon around, but never really got a good answer. They all kinda just, dodged the question. Spike remembered how lonely he felt. But being with his family and especially he sorta forgot about it. Old feelings slowly started to resurface till he felt something on his head.

Looking up he saw Arctic with his claw sitting on his head. He had a small sympathy smile.

“I get it.” Arctic said.

“W..what do you mean?” Asked Spike.

“Being the only of your kind in a place dominated by ponies. I’m sure even Zecora feels somewhat the same, being a zebra surrounded by ponies.” Arctic said.

Spike’s eyes widened a bit. He understood? Spike, while he never really said anything about being the only dragon around since his earlier years in Canterlot, still, every now and then, felt a bit lonely being the only Dragon around. He did vaguely recall seeing ponies giving him strange looks when he was living in Canterlot, but he never really questioned it. At least not till now. He soon decided to talk to twilight about it.

The girls had been silent the whole time. They never once thought about that. Spike really is the only Dragon around. They never figured he’s be lonely since he had a bunch of friends around him. But now, they were truly starting to understand somewhat.

Just then, the three fillies jumped the poor dragon, hugging him tight and spewing incoherent sentences as they tried to comfort their friend. Arctic smiled as he watched. And then his happiness fell to unease as the three small fillies and Dragon looked to him. Before Arctic knew it the four had jumped, pinned him to the ground and hugged him tight.

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After about an hour or so, the five were going through Ponyville. Arctic was carrying Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo in his arms and Spike and Applebloom were on his shoulders. The five were all laughing and chatting like they were old friends. Spike, as he talked with them, could see ponies all hiding in their homes, staring at Arctic. Vague memories surfaced. Memories of ponies giving him roughly the same look. It made his heart ache.

Soon, the five made it to Carousel Boutique. Arctic looked at the building in awe. He had never seen a place like this before. Sweetie Belle hopped down and opened the door, ushering them in. As the went in, Arctic let the others down and took in his newest surroundings.

Multiple mannequin dawned multiple different dresses. Chests sat around full of different gems stones. Arctic could also see a changing room, a stage, and dozens of different kinds of fabrics.

“Rarity! I’m home!” Shouted Sweetie Belle.

The sounds of hooves striking the floor sounded through the house as Rarity came out.

“Oh, hello Sweetie Belle.” Rarity said as the sisters went up to each other and hugged each other.

Looking up, Rarity spotted Arctic. Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Spike were with him.

“Oh my. Arctic, you’re here. And you came with my Applebloom and Scootaloo. And my little Spikey-Wikey.” Rarity said.

Arctic chuckled as he watched Spike stare at Rarity, very clearly in love with the mare.

“Yeah. We were walking around when Sweetie Belle asked to come here. I must say, I didn’t know you made clothes.” Said Arctic still glancing around.

“Oh! Maybe Rarity could make you something.” Scootaloo said.

“Yeah! Sis, could you make him something?” Asked Sweetie Belle.

“Oh, well, I never thought about that. I suppose I could make something for him.” Rarity said.

“Are you sure? I wouldn’t be able to pay for it.” Arctic said.

“Oh, don’t worry about it Darling. It’ll be on the house.” Rarity said.

The Crusaders all cheered and celebrated. Rarity smiled as she watched them all start chatting with Arctic. She too celebrated inside. She already had a design for his outfit she’d give him for her apology. And this would be her opportunity to get his measurements.

After about an hour, Rarity had gotten his measurements and watched as the five drank some apple cider she had gotten. She deeply enjoyed seeing the four all happy spending time with Arctic. Her mind began to wonder as she started hoping Zecora, Glacious, and Tree Hugger were also having as good luck as Arctic was.

Rarity jumped as she saw the Crusaders drag Arctic away. From what she could hear, they were taking him to Sweet Apple Acres. Rarity chuckled as she heard them quickly say bye and soon got to work on making the outfit she had in mind for Arctic.

Ch 9: A Deceptive Past

A few minutes after Applebloom took Arctic away, the others were calmly walking towards Ponyville. The Element Bearers were all behind Glacious, Zecora, and Tree Hugger.

“Well,” whispered Twilight, “that takes care of Arctic. What do we do about the others?”

“Oh, oh, oh! Can I take Tree Hugger with me? I wanna learn what flavor cake is her favorite.” Pinkie said as she bounced up and down.

“Well, ah suppose that’s okay. Just gotta keep her distracted for the rest of the day, okay Pinkie?” Said Applejack.

“Okie Dokie Lokie!” Said pinkie as she charged up to Tree Hugger, scaring the poor mare to death before dragging her off to Sugarcube Corner.

Zecora, seeing her adopted daughter get snatched by the excited pink mare, gave chase.

“But my daughter down, you!” Zecora said as she sped her way towards Pinkie with a confused and sorta scared Tree Hugger.

“Dang. That Zecora’s pretty fast.” Said Rainbow with a slight smirk, having been impressed by the zebra mare’s speed.

“Well, while Pinkie’s doing that, I should be on my way home. I must sketch my design for Arctic’s new outfit. I even have some idea’s for the others.” Rarity said as her mind begun racing with ideas and her heart racing at the idea of making new outfits, especially for Arctic.

“Alright then. Guess we’ll have to deal with her then.” Rainbow said glancing over to Glacious.

“I don’t envy you. She looks quite intimidating.” Rarity said as she shuddered looking at the massive Pegasus mare. “Well, I’m off. I’ll see you all later tonight.”

The girls all waved as Rarity made her way to her boutique eager to start sketching her designs.

“So, what exactly are we gonna do?” Asked Fluttershy, nervously looking over to Glacious.

“Maybe, we should talk to her. Take this chance to get to know about her.” Applejack suggested.

“Not a bad idea. And maybe we can learn more about Arctic too.” Twilight said. Her eyes shimmering with the idea of getting to learn about a new creature.

Quickly trotting up to Glacious, the four mare got her attention.

“Excuse me, Miss…” Twilight said before trailing off.

It was then she realized that she and the others, with the exception of Applejack, didn’t know her name. Picking up on this Glacious chuckled softly.

“Glacious, my young mare.” Glacious said in a motherly tone.

Twilight awkwardly smiled.

“Right. Thank you.” Twilight said.

“Young mare, what pray tell what are your names?” Glacious asked looking to the four mares.

“Oh, I’m Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight said with a small smile.

“Names Rainbow Dash. Fastest flyer in all of Equus!” Rainbow said with a broad cocky smile.

“Um, I’m Fluttershy Miss Glacious.” Said Fluttershy in a soft barely audible tone.

“Ah’m Applejack. Nice tah meet yah.” Said Applejack, tipping her hat a bit.

“Ah, so you’re the sister of young Applebloom?” Glacious asked.

“Yeah. She’s talked about me to y’all?” Applejack asked.

“Oh yes. She’s told us all how great a big sister you are and how much she looks up to you.” Glacious said.

This made Applejack smile. She knew her littler sister looked up to her, but to hear that she had been speaking so highly of her made her happier than ever.

“Miss Glacious,” Interjected Twilight, “We were wondering if we could talk with you? We were wanting to learn more about you.”

This kinda caught Glacious off guard, but she kept her composure. Seems to her, after learning how badly they messed up, they want to know her story. Get to know her on a more personal level. Glacious agreed and she walked with the four mares to Golden Oak Library.

The library was a bit shocking to Glacious. Homes like this were quite common for unicorns many years back. But nowadays, homes like this are extremely rare to come by. So seeing one here surprised her.

“So, young ones, what do you want to know about me?” Asked Glacious as she laid down after getting inside.

“How about how you got to be so big?” Blurted out Rainbow. This earned a glare from Twilight and Applejack.

“What? We were all thinking it.” Rainbow said defending herself.

Glacious chuckled before responding, “My size is due to my heritage. My great grandfather was a rather big Griffon. I inherited my size from him.”

“That makes sense,” Twilight said. “Griffons are a species that has rather large kin.”

Glacious sighed internally. She couldn’t let slip that she was an Alicorn. From what she’s gathered, many ponies seem to freak out at the sight of them. It’s because of this she tries to stay away from other ponies.

“So, can we learn about yer past? Everything we thought we knew was just us jumping to conclusions. We wanna really get to know yah.” Applejack said.

Glacious paused. She knew she couldn’t tell the truth, so she came up with a story that mixed the truth and lies.

“Very well. I suppose I should start from the beginning.” Glacious said.

“Years ago, I was born to a not so great family. My father was never around and my mother wasn’t the best mother around. She would always treat me like I was worthless. Made me feel unwanted. There was only one saving grace for me. My elder sister.”

This hit the four mares hard. They had no idea this was what the mare they had been blindly labeling a monster had been through. For Applejack, it was a toss up. She could feel something was up with the story. She had a feeling the mare before her was lying, but at the same time felt she was telling the truth. She held mixed emotions. Suspicion, sadness, even a bit of anger.

Of course this was a lie. There was only one truth to Glacious’ statement. The fact she had a sister.

“My sister was always there for me. No matter what. I looked to her like my guardian angel. Always there to protect me. Til the day she betrayed me. One day, she had obtained a significant amount of power. She began to grow cocky and power hungry. This made me feel uneasy around her, but I still looked up to her. Then one day, she ditched me. Claimed I was weak and was holding her back from realizing her true potential. I told her I could get stronger and wouldn’t hold her back. This then led to a fight between us. She beat me within an inch of my life and left me for dead. After that, I crawled myself away. Left my home, left my family. I needed to get away and improve my power. I had a feeling I would see my sister again. And I knew I would have to fight her once again.”

Applejack, sensing that this was true, began to grow upset. Hearing that Glacious sister pretty much turned on her, beat her up and left her for dead? It pissed her off. The others had a similar reaction to this. Rainbow was upset. Up until then, she was still a bit suspicious of Glacious and the others. But after hearing this and seeing how genuine Glacious was being shattered that suspicion and made her feel upset with herself for feeling that way and upset at Glacious’ sister.

Fluttershy, in a bit of a rare display, was also a bit angry. Although she was mostly saddened. She could tell that Glacious was extremely hurt by what her sister had done. The pain she saw in Glacious’ eyes made her heart ache.

Twilight was similar. Saddened and angry. But she was also surprised. She remembered the story of Queen’s Celestia and Luna. The incident with Nightmare Moon. Glacious’ story felt similar to that, though it seems things have yet to get to such an extent as the Royal Sisters.

Glacious was trapped in her mind for a second. It felt odd to her telling her story to these mares. While a good small chunk of it was false, everything involving her sister was true. She knew she would have to fight her sister one day, whenever they meet again. She also prayed her son would stay out of it. She couldn’t bare to see her son hurt or possibly killed by her sister, his aunt. She sighed and began again.

“After that, I roamed the land all on my own. No friends, no family, I was completely alone. That is, till Arctic came into my life. A small baby all on his own. So, I took him in. I adopted him and he became my son. Soon, I wasn’t alone anymore. I had my son with me, by my side for years. Eventually he did come to ask why it was we never went around other ponies. I tried to tell him why, but he didn’t listen. Over the years he tried to interact with other ponies, holding out hope he could be accepted. Every time he was shunned and chased away. I suppose what happened with you all would’ve been the last straw. His hope would’ve died out, if it wasn’t for Zecora, Tree Hugger, and to a greater extent, young Applebloom.”

The girls were saddened by this. Applejack especially. She felt worse than ever. Those two had been through a lot and for them to pile on? It hurt the family oriented mare. Especially know how badly she spoke of them. She desperately wanted to just drop down and apologize on the spot. Though she felt no apology she could ever come up with would suffice.

“That sounds so sad and so sweet.” Said Fluttershy to herself, tears building up. “I didn’t know you both have been through so much.”

Applejack walked over to Glacious and bowed her head.

“Ah know there’s nothin’ I can do to ever atone for what ah’ve done, but ah still wanted to apologize.”

Then, Twilight stepped up. Followed by Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

“I would like to apologize as well. We never should’ve done what we did. We can only hope you can forgive us.” Twilight said.

“Yeah. What we did was super uncool.” Rainbow said.

“Could you ever forgive us Miss Glacious?” Asked Fluttershy.

Glacious smiled. She could see how remorseful they all were, especially Applejack. And after hearing them all apologize, she pulled them all into a small hug.

“I can see how remorseful you all are and that you’re up to something to make it up to us.” Glacious said with a small smirk.

This made the girls freeze. They didn’t know that she knew they were planning to make things up to them.

“And for that, I forgive you all. And knowing my son, he will forgive you as well.” Glacious said.

This made the four mares sigh in relief. While most of them were glad, Applejack was still feeling a bit guilty. Afterwards, the mares all started talking with each other. They all told stories and jokes, even Rainbow was pretty much ranting about how amazing the Wonderbolts were when she found out Glacious didn’t know what the Wonderbolts even were. Time flew by and soon it was time. After exiting the library, Rainbow flew off to retrieve Arctic and the Crusaders. Before long, the party would begin.

Ch 10: The Party Begins

Pinkie was rapidly rushing around the center of Ponyville. Tables were quickly set up, streamers and confetti were blown around thanks to Pinkie’s signature Party Cannon, and a massive cake sat atop a table. As Pinkie tirelessly worked setting up the party, Zecora and Tree Hugger were sitting inside Sugarcube Corner. The two were breathing heavily, sweat cascading down their faces. Mr. and Mrs. Cake were bring the two some drinks.

“Jeez dude. How can one mare have so much energy?” Huffed Tree Hugger.

“Hours of cake making and the young Pinkie Pie is still going.” Zecora wheezed.

While Arctic hung out with the Crusaders, and Glacious sat with Applejack, Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy, poor Zecora and Tree Hugger were stuck with the hyperactive Pinkie Pie. When they got to Sugarcube Corner, Mr. and Mrs. Cake were obviously a bit on edge having Zecora and Tree Hugger there. But after seeing that Pinkie wasn’t scared and in fact having fun with them, they cautiously begun to give the two a chance and began speaking to them.

It took some time, but they soon warmed up to them. Though, they were surprised and a bit sickened to hear how Tree Hugger and Zecora met when Mr. Cake asked them how they met after hearing Tree Hugger was adopted by Zecora. Even Pinkie was saddened. Her mane even deflated slightly. Though that only made her more determined to make this Apology Party as “spectacularific” as possible. She even got Tree Hugger and Zecora to help make cakes which tired the two mares out after some hours.

“Here you two go.” Said Mrs. Cake.

Zecora and Tree Hugger looked up. Mr. and Mrs. Cake had brought the two some water which the two took great-fully. Zecora took some small sips whereas Tree Hugger chugged the whole glass before asking for another.

“I understand how you feel.” Said Mr. Cake. “Baking with Pinkie, while it can be rather fun, is very tiring.”

“Especially since the young dear seems to have an endless amount of energy.” Said Mrs. Cake sympathetically.

“How does she do it?” Asked Tree Hugger. “It’s been 7 hours and she’s still going.”

Mrs. Cake chuckled softly.

“You learn to get used to it after a while.”

“I suppose not everypony can handle the Young Pinkie Pie.” Chuckled Zecora.

As the four chatted amongst themselves, Pinkie was just finishing setting things up, when she heard hooves rapidly approaching. It was her friends.

“Woah!” Exclaimed Rainbow Dash once she saw everything. “You really went all out Pinkie.”

“Well duh dashing! I had to make sure this was super spectacular and amazing for our newest friends!” Pinkie said as she put the finishing touches on the party.

“Where’s Arctic and Ms. Glacious?” Pinkie asked.

“Their not far behind us.” Rainbow said. “They should be here any minute now.”

“Okie dokie. Let’s get ready!” Pinkie said.

Pinkie went inside Sugarcube Corner and grabbed some blindfolds. She went up to Zecora and Tree Hugger and blindfolded them before leading them out to the party. Then, in the blink of an eye, Pinkie appeared in front of Arctic, Glacious, Spike, and the Crusaders, blindfolding them.

“Pinkie Pie, what’s this for?” Asked Applebloom.

“Oh, maybe it’s some kind of Surprise.” Sweetie Belle suggested.

“Yep Yep!” Pinkie said.

She slowly lead them to the party and once they were there, Twilight, using her took off the blindfolds. The first thing to greet them all was a giants banner that read, “Welcome to Ponyville! We’re sorry for being such big meanies!”. Arctic, Glacious, Zecora, and Tree Hugger saw this, and their reactions varied.

Arctic went up to the pink party mare, picked her up, and spun around around as he held the tiny pink mare tight. Glacious saw this and smiled as she started observing the party. Tree Hugger and Zecora were stunned to see everything. Pinkie was baking for hours all day with them and they were super tired, yet Pinkie had enough energy to set this up? And it seems she still has an unbelievable amount of energy let in her. It baffled them greatly. The Crusaders were just excited to be at a party and immediately started having some fun.

“Weeee!” Pinkie said as she and Arctic spun around. “So Arc, you like it?” Pinkie asked.

“Yeah I do!” Arctic said.

“This will be our first real party Young Pinkie.” Glacious said as she walked up to them.

Pinkie gasped as she her head snapped back and forth between Arctic and Glacious.

“Your first real party?!” Pinkie exclaimed. “Now this party has to be super duper spectacularific for you.”

“There is no need Young Pinkie. This party seems like it’ll be a rather, ‘Spectacularific’ one.” Glacious said as she gave Pinkie a small bow.

Pinkie just smiled at this and began to have fun. The group all begun chat and just have fun. The group all played multiple different games drunk as much punch and apple cider as they could, though Rainbow Dash drank most of it, hogging it to herself. Glacious and Zecora chatted with Fluttershy. The shy doe was a bit surprised to hear Glacious and Zecora had a bit of a love for animals and was thrilled to talk about them with her. Tree Hugger was dancing with Pinkie. Tree Hugger, while not much of a dancer herself, did quite enjoy dancing it out with the tiny pink mare. Arctic, the poor soul, was subject to Twilight’s enthusiasm and urge to learn about the Saiyan. This unease him, but he did tell her what he could remember and, apprehensively, agreed to let Twilight do some tests on him when she asked.

Elsewhere, the ponies of Ponyville, still hiding in their homes, could hear everything going on outside. Cautiously, many of them began to peak out. Seeing the ones they were afraid hanging out and having fun with the Element Bearers and the Crusaders, they slowly and nervously began to walk outside to join in on the party. Over time most of the town was partying. While still cautious, they were chatting with Arctic, Zecora, Glacious, and Tree Hugger.

As Glacious talked with some ponies, many of them marveling at her height, she looked back and saw something that made her smile. Arctic was sitting with many of the fillies and colts. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Spike and Scootaloo were telling them about Arctic. Many of the fillies and colts were cautious, but amazed and curious about Arctic. Many of the asking to fly with him when the four Crusaders told them he had flown with them riding on his back. After some convincing, and talking with the foals parents, Arctic flew at slow speeds with the fillies and colts on his back, one at a time. Glacious just adored seeing her son playing with the foals and went went back to talking.

After the party began to wind down, ponies began to go home, many of them having giant smiles. Pinkie was very happy for this. Soon it was the Element Bearers, the Crusaders, Glacious, Zecora, Tree Hugger, and Arctic. The group went to Twilight’s place, as Twilight wanted to have a bit of a sleepover. After getting there, they all wound down and relaxed. Rarity walked up to Arctic, Glacious, Zecora, and Tree Hugger giving them all a box. There were outfits. Dresses for the mares and for Arctic, Rarity made him a whole new outfit. She was pleased to hear that they all really liked their outfits. Arctic even said he was very eager to put the outfit on in the morning.

“I’m so glad you like it Darling. I have very many ideas on outfits I could make for you if you like.” Rarity said.

“Thank you. Though, I don’t think I’ll be able to pay you for them.” Arctic said.

Rarity just waved her hoof and smiled. “Nonsense Darling. There’s no need. The outfits I’ll be on the house.”

“Are you sure?” Arctic asked.

“Of course I am.” Rarity replied with a smile.

“That is rather generous of you Young Rarity.” Glacious said.

“Oh, why thank you Miss Glacious.” Rarity said.

“Yeah, our Rarity’s generosity is amazing.” Pinkie said as she plopped down into Arctic’s lap. To which Arctic started absentmindedly petting her. Pinkie’s eyes widened and she tensed a bit but she then relaxed as her eyes drooped as she began a purr like a cat.

“Still, ah’m glad y’all had fun. Pinkie’s parties are truly amazin’.” Applejack said with a smile

“‘‘Twas an amazing party. That was the most fun I’ve had in ages.” Zecora said.

“It was righteous, man. That party was such a vibe.” Tree Hugger said as she laid down.

“I’m so glad you all enjoyed yourselves.” Fluttershy said.”I’m pretty sleepy, so I’m going to get some sleep.”

“Think I’ll hit the hay too.” Rainbow said.

“Guess we’ll all get some sleep.” Twilight said as she gathered extra blankets and pillows for them all. “Goodnight everypony.”

After getting their pillows and blankets, the group all said their goodnights and promptly fell asleep ready to see what tomorrow had in store for them.

Ch 11: History of the Nightmare

It was the following day in Equestria. The group had all woken up and Spike was helping Twilight and Zecora make breakfast. Arctic, now dawning the new outfit rarity made him, went out fishing. After the cooking had concluded and Arctic returned, they all had begun eating. But that soon came to a halt, when they all noticed Arctic and Glacious eating fish. They knew Arctic ate meat. Fluttershy even pointed out his predator-like features. His front facing eyes, even his large canines, borderline fangs. But they didn’t expect Glacious to eat meat.

“Woah. I’ve never seen a pony eat meat before.” Rainbow said. “That’s kinda badass. Gross, but badass.”

This earned her a sharp pop to the back of the head Applejack.

“Ouch Damn!!” Yelped Rainbow.

“Mind yer language in front of the youngins, Dash!” Applejack said with a sharp tone.

Glacious chuckled slightly at this, before giving an answer.

“This is because I am part Griffon, remember?

“Oh yeah! I forgot you were part griffon.” Rainbow said.

Arctic, obviously confused by this, leaned over to his mother and whispered to her.

“I didn’t know you were part Griffon mother.”

“‘Tis a long story my child. I’ll tell you later.” Gracious said.

Deep in her mind, Glacious berated herself. She didn’t want to lie to the mares, but past experiences indicated to her that, in her eyes, Alicorns weren’t exactly liked. She remembered the countless times before and after meeting her son, ponies running away. Screaming at her. It all cropped up after that image on the moon appeared. She had a feeling that had something to do with how she was treated. She knew she had to learn about it. But who could she ask? Maybe Young Twilight could answer her questions?

“Part Griffon?!” Exclaimed Scootaloo exclaimed. “That’s so awesome!”

“Wowie! A Pony Griffon? A Griffony? Ponygriff?” Pinkie said in an attempt to figure out what a Pony Griffon hybrid would be called. “Do you know Gilda?” Pinkie asked.

She stopped and stared. All of the had. Gracious held a rather intense look in her as she slowly lifted her head, locking eyes with Twilight.

“Young Twilight? If I may?” Gracious started.

Twilight, caught off guard, nodded her head slowly.

“Could you possibly tell me about the moon? More specifically, that image on the moon that appeared and vanished from its surface?” Gracious asked.

Arctic perked up.

“Oh yeah, I’ve been wondering about it too when I saw it.”

Arctic recalled seeing that image whenever his mother trained him. Helped him control his Oozaru transformation. He would always wonder why it was there and what it meant. He asked his mother about it, but not even she knew about it.

Twilight and the girls all shuddered at that. Remembering their tumultuous struggle against ‘her’. Though, Applejack chimed in.

“Y..ya’ll don’t know? Not a thing?” She asked.

The two shook their heads.

“Remember, Young Applejack, I have been on my own for a long time. I have never learned about the Mark on the Moon. And by extension, neither does my Child. Though, I do remember hearing something about a Nightmare mare?” Gracious answered.

Twilight let out a low sigh, before staring the story.

“You’re close, in regard to what you called it. It’s actually a legend, called “The Mare in the Moon.” Twilight said.

“The legend stated, that eons ago, two sisters had taken up the mantle of ruling over Equestria. The eldest, using her unicorn magic would raise the Sun, whereas the youngest, would use her’s to raise the moon, creating balance throughout Equestria.”

This surprised Glacious. To hear that two unicorn rulers held enough power to raise the sun and moon? It baffled her quite a bit. She stayed silent as Twilight continued.

“Overtime, the younger sister had begun to grow resentful. This is because, ponies would laugh and play, even worship the Day the eldest sister gave. But they would shun, fear, and sleep through the youngest sister’s Nights. The eldest would try to reassure and comfort her sister, but the bitterness within her heart had grown too powerful. This bitterness and hatred aided in the younger sister’s rebirth in the mare of darkness. Goddess of the Night, Nightmare Moon.”

Glacious’ eyes widened slightly. Things were slowly starting to fall into place for her.

“Nightmare Moon, with her incredible power, rose the moon, plunging the world into darkness. With her power, she bested her elder sister and locked her away. Ponies who worshiped their new ruler, Nightmare Moon, would be corrupted by her magic, warped into new entities called Thestrals, or bat ponies. Her reign last a few years, until traitors in her ranks, still loyal to the eldest sister, released her and aided her in her battle against her sister. It was a long fought war. One that went on for 100 years.”

Glacious, stunned by this, thought back. She did remember the hundred years the moon sat in the sky, never descending. She even remembered hearing that something of a war was taking place. Though she never got involved or learned fully what was going on.

Arctic, was practically shaking. His saiyan blood was boiling with sheer excitement. To hear of two unicorns with such power and a long war? He was saddened to hear this, but he also wished he was a part of it, so he could fight in it. Twilight continued her story.

“After many years of battle, the elder sister also hunted for a set of ancient artifacts that would aid them, possibly even help the win and end the war in its entirety. Eventually nearing the end of the war, she found them, buried in an old ancient temple. The Elements of Harmony. After finding them, the day had arrived. A long hard fought battle later, the elder sister, elements at the ready, defeated her sister, banishing her to the moon for a thousand years. After the war was over and won, the elder sister took over raising the Sun and Moon, and peace and harmony was restored to the land.”

“Amazing.” Said Arctic. “But wait, if it’s supposed to be a legend, why was there an image of a mare on the moon?”

“Because it was no legend. It was true.” Twilight said.

Arctic was amazed to hear this, but he knew there was more to the story, so he quietly listened to the Twilight.

“After the thousand years had passed, the day had come. Nightmare Moon had returned, plunging the world into darkness yet again, after getting to her sister and briefly banishing her to the moon. As with her out of the way, nopony would be able to use the Elements and she would be able to rule Equestria yet again. Unfortunately for her-“

“She didn’t expect us to show up and kick her flank into next week!” Rainbow interrupted.

Glacious and Arctic raised their eyebrows as the others just groaned, except Pinkie.

“Yep yep! She didn’t know what hit her! We were all ‘Glowy glowy’ and ‘Sparkle Sparkle’. Then a beam flew out of us like, ‘Whoosh’! And she was all like, ‘Nooooo’!” Pinkie said as she stood on her hind legs, a hoof outstretched and a hoof on her chest.

Twilight smirked and rolled her eyes.

“Pretty much. Due to us embodying each of the Elements, Honesty, Laughter, Loyalty, Kindness, Generosity, and Magic, we were able to harness the power of the Elements, and defeat Nightmare Moon, turning her back to normal.” Twilight said.

Glacious was quite impressed. She didn’t think the two would be powerful enough to take down a unicorn able to move the Moon. Though she was curious about something.

“Young Twilight, what did this mare look like?” Gracious asked.

“Well, she was pretty big. Actually, bigger than you. She had a dark coat, a long glowing horn that resembled a sliver of the moon, her mane flowed and looked like it was made of the night sky itself. She even had large bat-like wings.” Twilight explained. “Even the air around was chilling. She was able to chill the air around her.”

“W..was this mare a unicorn, Young Twilight?” Gracious asked.

“Oh no, she was an Alicorn.” Twilight said.

Glacious froze. The ruler of this place was an Alicorn? Was her sister was also an Alicorn and they both were rulers? If that’s the case, then why was she shunned? After a moment, it clicked. Why ponies fled from her. Why they shunned her. Why everything happened. They all believed she was this nightmare moon. They were afraid of her, because they believed she was Nightmare Moon who had returned to torment them.

“What are their names, Young Twilight?” Glacious asked.

“Queen Luna and Queen Celestia. Believe it or not, I’m the number one student to Queen Celestia.” Twilight said with pride.

Glacious thought for a moment. She didn’t recognized the name’s Celestia and Luna. If they were Alicorns, surely she would’ve known them. She knew she needed to see and meet these two Alicorns sisters.

Arctic, looking up at her nudged her slightly.

“Mother? Are you okay?”

“Why yes my Child. I’m just thinking.” Gracious said.

Arctic, a bit curious and slightly suspicious about what she was thinking about, put that thought in the back of his head and started talking with Twilight after she had jumped over to Arctic with a giant smile and stars in her eyes. Arctic grew a bit scared. He had forgotten she wanted to study him. Twilight, while happily talking about learning about the saiyan, used her magic to pick him up and start dragging him to her basement. Tree Hugger seeing this, grabbed onto Arctic trying to pull him away from the overly excited mare. But she underestimated the Unicorns strength and was dragged as well. The others tried to help as well, but it was futile. They were dragged as well.

Glacious, seeing this, chuckled but went back to thinking about the Alicorn Sisters. She wanted to meet them and she wanted an explanation.

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The room was dark, only candles lit up the room slightly. Glowing orbs were also present in the dark room.

A large table sat at the far end of the table and two beings sat there looking through scroll after scroll, each with the same story.

“Tis ridiculous! An entity roams Equestria making our ponies fear us yet again!” Shout a voice.

“Calm down, sister. Perhaps there’s an explanation.” Said the other voice.

“No! We desire to find the being responsible for this act. We have been feared too long. We wish to be able to roam freely amongst our subjects with their fear overcoming them! We desire to be rid of them, so that we may finally be adored by our ponies!” Shouted the voice.

Her eyes warped into dark blues with reptilian slitted pupils. The other being raised a hoof and placed it on the first one’s shoulder.

“Be calm, sister. We have a lead. It has been stated that the entity and its ape-like companion have been spotted in the Everfree Forest.The two don’t seem to be hostile and it seems that they aren’t doing anything bad. We could watch them for a time, and if they do nothing to our subjects, then let’s leave them be.” Said the being.

The first one just gritted her teeth. She observed the letters. It seems that the two entities have power. And a lot of it. So the Element Bearers would be the best option to capture the entities. However, should they fail, then she, Queen Luna, Ruler of Equestria and the Night, shall find them herself, and eradicate the two entities once and for all.

She will not be feared by her subjects any longer and she will do whatever it takes to change that.

Ch 12: Winter Wrap up

It had been a good many days since Glacious, Arctic, Tree Hugger, and Zecora became residents in Ponyville. While ponies had still been wary of them, they had grown to accept them and actually speak with them almost daily. Arctic and Glacious, for the time being, we’re staying at Twilight’s place. To the two new residents, it seemed Ponyville certainly wasn’t a dull place. Some new thing seemed to always happen, though some days were a bit more ‘exciting’. Imagine Arctic and Glacious’ shock to see Ponyville overrun and in near shambles when they had return from a brief journey to find some old book Twilight had been wanting to surprise her with. Arctic and Glacious could really get used to the place.

As the days went on, Winter had come. The Mother and Son duo relished in the snow. Even showing their Snow and Water Elemental magic to the denizens of Ponyville. Twilight marveled at this and practically begged Glacious to teach her everything she knew. Glacious, against her better judgement, explained how her magic worked one day. Little did she know that one day would become two weeks. The poor ancient mare had never experienced the feeling of her mind being wrung dry, but on the last few days of those two weeks, she certainly felt as though her brain had become mush.

After a few more weeks had passed, the day had come. The time to officially wrap up winter.

As everyone slept, they were swiftly awoken by an excited Twilight who had gotten dressed and with some clothing to keep her warm. Glacious, groggily cracked open an eye, looking to the excited Unicorn.

“Young Twilight, what has you so excited this early in the morning?”

“It’s not that early.” Twilight said before glancing outside. “Okay, maybe it’s a bit early.” Twilight said with a shy little smile. “Anyway, I’m excited because it’s time to wrap up winter!” Twilight said excited.

“Keep it down, will ya?” Said a still sleepy Spike.

“Oh, sorry Spike.” Twilight said.

“What do you mean by ‘wrap up winter’?” Asked Glacious.

“It’s an annual Ponyville tradition that involves clearing up winter to bring in spring.” Twilight said.

“I don’t imagine it’ll take long with your magical potential.” Said a groggy Arctic.

“Actually, magic isn’t used to wrap up winter in Ponyville. It is used in Canterlot, however, because Ponyville was founded by, Earth Ponies, they change the seasons from winter to spring without using magic.” Twilight explained.

“That sounds like it takes quite a bit of time to do.” Said Glacious.

“It does. And this will be the very first time I participate in it!” Twilight said with an excited prance.

“Gues it’ll be ours as well.” Arctic said. “Mother and I have never wrapped up winter before.”

“Indeed. This will be quite the experience for us.” Glacious said with a small smile.

“I can’t wait for us to experience wrapping up winter together! Let’s go!” Shouted the overly excited mare as she stepped outside, only to stop dead in her tracks. “Oh right. It’s still really early.” Twilight said with a small blush.

After eventually falling back asleep, the group all woke up and got dressed for the cold weather. Arctic, while he can handle the cold weather, decided to wear one of the winter outfits Rarity made him. Arctic, Glacious, Twilight, and Spike left the library, ready to start the day.

“So, how does this winter wrap up thing work, Twilight?” Arctic asked as he looked around taking notice of the multiple groups of ponies all dawning winter clothing and vests.

“Well, there are three different groups, or teams. The blue vested Weather Team, the green vested Plant Team, and the tan vested Animal team. Each team tends to different things.” Twilight said as she looked to the Plant Team, Arctic and Glacious looking up as well.

“Ponies from the Plant Team, ensure that Ponyville will have enough food during the year. They move snow off the fields, plow them, and plant and water the seeds.” Twilight said, before looking to the next team.

“Composed mostly of Pegasi, the weather team clears the sky of clouds and lets the sun warm up the land. Assigned ponies depart to retrieve the birds that have flown south for the winter.” Twilight explained.

“Then there’s the last team, the Animal Team. The animal team mostly consists of Earth ponies and unicorns, but a small number of Pegasi, most notably Fluttershy, is on the team. The team wakes up hibernating animals, cleans up their dens, and ensures that they have food to eat. Even Rarity is on the team. She’s in charge of nest-making for the returning birds.” Twilight finished with a proud smile, glad to get to flex her knowledge.

“Interesting. I wonder which team we could be among.” Said Glacious as she looked around to each team.

“Do you know which team you’ll be joining Twilight?” Asked Arctic.

“Honestly, I don’t know. I’m not sure where I’d fit in.” Twilight said, a bit of panic in her voice.

After a few moments of debating, the group had begun to see where they may be able to fit in. After a bit of trial and error with Rarity and nest making, they tried scoring the ice with Pinkie.

“You’re doing so well, Archie!” Pinkie exclaimed with the little Nickname she had given him.

“Thanks Pinks!” Arctic said back.

Arctic, dawning ice skates made out of ice, as there were no skates that fit his feet, was skating along the ice. He had some experience ice skating before. While he wasn’t nearly as good as Pinkie was, he was doing well.

“Wow! I had no idea Arctic was so good at this.” Twilight said.

“My child has this once before. Hehe, I remember how he kept falling each time he tried to skate.” Glacious said with a chuckle. “Though, he kept going till he eventually got the hang of it.”

“Why don’t you give it a try, Twilight. I bet you’re a natural at it.” Pinkie said with a wide smile.

“I guess it wouldn’t hurt to try.” Twilight said.

Twilight, now wearing skates, had begun to skate along the ice. Unfortunately, she wasn’t good at it at all. Try as she might, she kept falling and tumbling over. After a few minutes of constant falling and an eventual crash, Twilight had given up. After giving a wave and goodbye to Pinkie the group then went towards where the Animal Team worked.

“Wake up little sleepy heads. You’ve had wonderful dreams and a restful hibernation, but it’s time to get up now. Spring is coming.” Fluttershy said as she slipped her head out of the den.

Multiple little hedgehog’s begun to emerge, yawning, tired and groggy.

“Looks like you’re hard at work.” Said Arctic.

Fluttershy, having not noticed them, jumped slightly and turned to see the group.

“Oh, Hello you guys.” Said Fluttershy with a smile. “Yeah. Oh this is my favorite task of the season. Waking my little animal friends from their hibernation, so I get to see them again.”

“I couldn’t imagine a young mare more suited for this task than you young Fluttershy.” Said Glacious.

“Thank you.” Fluttershy replied, a slight blush forming on her cheeks.

“Uh, what’s hibernation, by the way?” Asked Spike.

“It’s like a long sleep. Animals hibernate throughout the winter to save energy and eat less food.” Fluttershy explained.

“Oh I like the sound of that.” Said Spike.

“But, with all these dens, I don’t think I’ll be able to wake all of the animals before spring comes.” Fluttershy said.

“Why don’t we aid you in your endeavor, young Fluttershy?” Asked Glacious.

“You’d do that?” Fluttershy asked.

“Of course.” Said Glaious.

“Yeah, we’d love to help.” Arctic said.

“Thank you so much. This’ll be such a big help.” Said Fluttershy.

The group begun to start waking the animals alongside Fluttershy. Things were going smoothly for a bit, until eventually, another mishap occurred with Twilight. She had been frightened by snakes, chased by bats, stung by bees, and eventually sprayed by skunks.

After a good treating of her stings and washing to be rid of the stink from the skunks, the group went out to try again. This time with the Plant Team.

“Are ya’ll sure?” Asked Applejack.

“Please, give me a chance.” Pleaded Twilight, desperate to prove herself, to prove she could help and find where she belonged.

“Well, ah won’t turn down the extra help.” Applejack said. “So, go on then Sugarcube.” Applejack said with a small, almost motherly smile.

In no time at all, Arctic, Twilight, and even Glacious got to some plows and got to work. Arctic and Glacious worked with no trouble at all. The ponies already hard at work, we’re a bit taken aback to see Arctic and Glacious, seeing as they were still kinda warming up to them, but glad to have the help and to see that they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Twilight, unfortunately, struggled. She was much to weak to push the plow along, so she resorted to using magic. Much like last time, things went wrong for the mare. The plow had begun to go out of control and lead to a crash, causing an avalanche. In a matter of seconds the once cleared field had been covered in snow. Twilight, now thoroughly embarrassed and ashamed, ran off. Arctic, Glacious and Spike chased after her shortly after.

“I can’t do anything right!” Said a devastated Twilight.

“My young Twilight, you should not say that.” Said Glacious as she sat beside Twilight.

“It’s true. I couldn’t make a nest, I couldn’t help make lines in the ice on the lake, I caused an avalanche, making more work for those ponies, I couldn’t even wake a bunch of animals properly.” Twilight said with a frown on her face.

“Don’t beat yourself up, Twi.” Said Arctic. “This is your first time doing this. You won’t get it the first try. Give it time. You’ll find your place soon.”

“Easy for you to say. You’re able to plow the snow with no problem, you’re good at skating, so you could do that, you’re even good at waking the animals. Plus, you can fly. You could probably work with the weather team too.” Said Twilight.

“Twi, honestly, I don’t even know where I’d fit in.” Said Arctic

“Huh? What do you mean?” Asked Twi.

“Skating for instance. I’m good, but nothing like Pinkie. You probably didn’t notice, but I was struggling to stay upright a few times. Waking the animals, that was fun, but even I have a bit of a fear of certain animals.” Arctic said.

“Oh dear. I forgot all about that.” Glacious chuckled.

Back when Arctic was younger, he had had some run-ins with some animals that left him with a bit of a fear of them.

“Anyway,” said Arctic with a deep blush on his face, “with the Weather Team, I suppose I could do that, but I don’t know. I’ve considered it, but I don’t know if it’d be my cup of tea. Plant Team, seems a bit more for me, but again, I’m not sure. So, yeah. I don’t necessarily know where I would fit in either. But, hey. Let’s find out where we belong. Together.”

That made Twilight feel a bit better. Though, still, she desperately wanted to figure out where she would be able to fit in.

Just then, the group heard Mayor Ivory Scrolls, or Mayor Scrolls, going over things with the teams. Clearly she was a bit frustrated that they may, yet again, be late wrapping up Winter for the Spring. Just then Twilight perked up.

“Late? Again?” Just then her eyes twinkled. “This may be my chance. Spike! Quickly! Go fetch my quill and scrolls!”

“On it!” Spike said as he rushed off to the library.

After returning, Twilight made her plans known. Before long, Twilight’s plan was put into motion. Everything was running smoothly with little to no mishaps thanks to Twilight’s planning. Soon, Winter had gone and Spring come. Slightly early, but in time nonetheless.

“I can’t believe it. Spring is here! And on time!” Mayor Scrolls exclaimed. “And it’s all thanks to you and your organization skills, Twilight. And it is because of that, I would like to gift you the title of, “All-Team Organizer”!”

Rarity stepped up slipping a newly made vest onto Twilight. Just then, Glacious and Arctic stepped up to Twilight, wide smiles on their faces.

“Congratulations, Young Twilight. We knew you’d find your place for winter wrap up.” Glacious said.

“Thank you.” Twilight said with a smile. “And it seems you two have found your places.”

Twilight pointed out the two dawning vests of their own. Glacious had officially become a member of the Animal Team and Arctic, the Plant Team.

“Yeah. I decided to go with the Plant Team. Applejack did a bit of convincing, so I figured I’d go with them.”

“And we’re proud tah have yah with us, Sugarcube.” Said Applejack, followed by words of agreement from the other members of the Plant Team.

“And I, myself, have chosen to work alongside the Animal Team. It seems I have a bit of a knack for working with Animals.” Glacious said, remembering her brief time helping Fluttershy wake the animals. The animals all seemed to like her. Not as much as they liked Fluttershy, of course, but they liked her well enough.

“I’m so glad we all manage to find our place.” Said Twilight with a smile. “Now that this is over, let’s go get something to eat.”

“Now we’re talking.” Said Arctic. “Hey Pinks!”

“Yup Yup?” Said Pinkie, appearing on Arctic’s shoulders out of nowhere.

“You still got that recipe?” Arctic asked.

“Of course I do silly!” Pinkie said digging into her mane and pulling out a scroll with a recipe for Apple Cupcake Pancakes on it.

Arctic and Pinkie, spending time together and Sugarcube Corner one day, decided to make their own pancake recipe to make for their friends. And thus the Apple Cupcake Pancakes was born.

“I think it’s time.” Arctic said.

“Oh I can’t wait! They’ll abso-positively love it!” Pinkie said.

The girls all looked to each other with confused but happy looks.

“Now, before we go, where’s Spike?” Asked Twilight.

“Ah reckon he’ll be in a whole heap of surprise when that last piece of ice melts.” Applejack said with a chuckle, pointing her hoof to the lake.

Everyone looked over towards it, and doubled over laughing seeing the young Dragon floating on a steadily melting block of ice. Arctic, not wanting the dragon to get hurt or sick, still chuckling, went to pick up the young dragon and carry him to safety.

Ch 13: Pie’s Predictions pt.1

“That looks so cool!”

Arctic was sitting in the park with the Crusaders. He was showing the three his ki. Apple Bloom had asked Arctic to show the other two Crusaders his ki, like he did with her when they first became friends. Scootaloo and Sweetie hadn’t seen Arctic demonstrate his Ki, except for when he flies.

Arctic moved his body in a way the made it seem like he danced. Small energy balls flowed and danced around him. Even his body gently glowed from a bit of his aura shrouding him.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before!” Said Sweetie Belle.

“And cool!” Scootaloo said with a giant smile and bright eyes. That is, till she caught herself and coughed a bit. “Well, not as cool as Rainbow Dash, but still cool!”

Arctic just chuckled hearing that.

“Thanks you three. Maybe one day I could teach you three how to use ki like I do.”

“Really?!” Shouted the three fillies in unison.

“I don’t see why not.” Arctic said.

The three fillies jumped around and cheered in excitement at the idea of learning to use ki. Just then, they were cut off by the loud sound of a scream.

Like a burst of speed that rivaled Rainbow, Pinkie charged around the park, panicking.

“Twitchy tail! Twitchy tail! Something’s gonna fall! Something’s gonna fall!”

Pinkie then spotted Arctic and charged over to him. Jumping up high, she clutched him tight before looking at him with panicked eyes.

“Take cover Arc! My tail’s-a twitching! Something’s gonna fall!”

The Crusaders, having stopped cheering, heard Pinkie and all ran off taking cover under one of the tables. Twilight and Spike soon came up, catching Arctic’s attention.

“Hey Twilight.”

“Hey Arctic.” Said Twilight as she waved at.

“Hey little brother.” Arctic said sticking out his fist.

“Hey big brother.” Spike said giving Arctic a fist bump.

“Now, what’s Pinks freaking out about?” Arctic asked watching Pinkie run around still screaming.

“Pinkie’s freaking out, because her “Pinkie Sense” is telling her something’s gonna fall.” Twilight said.

“Pinkie Sense? What’s that?” Arctic asked.

“I don’t know, but according to her, different things happening to different parts of her body tell her something’s gonna happen.” Twilight explained. “There’s no way something like that could happen. It’s just not possible.”

Arctic could tell Twilight was a bit frustrated. He knew she was a bit of a pony of science. And he had a feeling she didn’t believe in this Pinkie Sense thing purely because she couldn’t explain it and there was no scientific reason for this happening. But, to be fair, Arctic himself didn’t quite believe it. Though, judging by the Crusaders reaction as well as the reaction of the few ponies in the park who also booked it, this Pinkie Sense thing was legit.

“Twi, maybe Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense is a thing to be taken seriously.” Arctic said.

Twilight blanched and snapped her head to Arctic.

“Arctic, don’t tell me you believe this “Pinkie Sense” thing.” Twilight blurted out.

“Well, I mean…”

Before Arctic could say anything, Pinkie clung onto Arctic with a desperate look.

“Arc! You have to put up a barrier quick!”

“Uh, okay.” Arctic said, a bit unsure.

Raising his hand he tapped into his magic. A big glowing blue ring with a snowflake in the center appeared before his fingers and quickly he created a giant barrier around himself, Pinkie, Spike, Twilight, and the Crusaders.

“Look out below!!”

Just then, in a streak of color, Rainbow Dash barrel down to the ground, hitting it hard and kicking up a massive cloud of dust. Once the dust cleared a dazed and pained Rainbow sat in a crater.

“Up! My tail stopped twitching. That’s what was gonna fall!” Pinkie said with a giant smile.

“Hmm.” Arctic hummed.

Getting up and shaking access dust off her, Rainbow flew back up.

“Jeez. That could’ve gone better. What’s up guys.”

“Hey Rainbow.” Pinkie said with a smile.

“What were you doing that landed you here?” Arctic said lowering the barrier.

“I was trying a new trick for when I finally get into the Wonderbolts.” Rainbow said with an overwhelming sense of confidence oozing from each word. “By the way, what was up with the barrier?”

“Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense was tellin’ her somethin’ was gonna fall. And you were what fell.” Apple Bloom said.

“Oh. Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense never fails.” Rainbow replied with a smirk.

“Come on Rainbow. Surely you don’t believe in this Pinkie Sense thing too.” Huffed Twilight.

“Look, Twi, I get you wouldn’t quite understand it, but Pinkie’s Sense are always true. If they’re telling somethings gonna happen, it’ll happen.” Rainbow said. “Heck, there was one time Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense told her somepony was gonna be sick and wouldn’t be able to celebrate their birthday, so Pinkie took the party to them. It resulted in most of the town getting sick, but still. Plus, her sense told her this, two weeks before the pony even got sick.”

“I remember that day.” Pinkie said. “It was so much fun, even if I ended up in bed all week with the sniffles.” Pinkie said with a chuckled. Arctic just lightly honked the pink mare on the head and smiled. Pinkie also smiled at this and giggled.

“There’s just no way random twitches can tell somepony what’s going to happen.”

“Well, it just does. And sooner or later, you’ll believe in my Pinkie Sense.” Pinkie said booping Twilights snoot before bouncing away. Leaving the other to watch her go.

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Zecora and Tree Hugger were sitting within their home relaxing once a knock sounded at the door.

“Oh? We have visitors.” Said Zecora. “Do come in.”

Twilight, Spike, and Arctic, came in.

“Sup guys.” Said Tree Hugger.

“Hey Hugs.” Said Arctic as he fist/hoof bumped Tree Hugger before hugging her then hugging Zecora.

“Always a pleasure to see my dear friends.” Zecora said hugging Arctic back, then hugging Twilight and Spike. “Now then, tell me, what brings you all in today?”

“Zecora, I needed to ask you something.” Twilight said. “It’s about something Pinkie says she has something she calls her “Pinkie Sense”. She says that multiple different things happening to different parts of her body, tell her somethings gonna happen. I wanted to know if you knew anything about it.”

After hearing and processing what was said, something came to Zecora.

“Perhaps it is reminiscent to what all Earth ponies, even some zebra, feel in certain situations.” Zecora said.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Many earth ponies get certain feelings in their body whenever danger is near. It only really happens with Earth Ponies and even Zebras as a defense mechanism. Pegasi sorta have this. Their feathers puff out and eyesight briefly enhances. Unicorns, also sorta have it. It shows itself when a unicorns horn begins to crackle with magical mana, alerting them to nearby danger. Perhaps with Pinkie Pie, this defense mechanism is greatly heightened.” Zecora explained.

Twilight raised an eyebrow.

“That can’t possibly be true. Ponies can’t just do that.” Retorted Twilight.

“If I remember correctly, you mostly lived in Canterlot, yes?” Zecora asked. Twilight simply nodded. “That would explain it. Canterlot is never really in danger. Thus the feeling never really appears.

“Plus, it doesn’t really get documented or researched of whatever, dude.” Tree Hugger said.

Twilight was stumped. Surely, this defense mechanism thing didn’t exist. For as long as she lived, for every pony she’s ever meet, not one of them ever brought this up, nor had she ever had an experience like that herself. Then, she thought of something. If this has never really been documented, maybe she could observe and watch Pinkie. See what she could learn. Then document her findings herself.

“Hmm, thank you Zecora. I’ll be right back with my findings!” Twilight exclaimed, her determination burning in her eyes as she whipped around and bolted out of the door.

Zecora, Tree Hugger, Spike, and Arctic all just blinked and watched her go.

“What do you think she’s gonna do?” Asked Tree Hugger.

“Knowing her, nothing good.” Said Spike as he just slouched.

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Bursting through the door of Golden Oak Library, Twilight trudged in, anger plastered across her face. Glacious, who had been resting on the couch, which was a bit difficult considering her size, reading a book, and drinking some Apple Cider. She looked up and saw, Twilight stomp her way in, followed by Arctic and Spike, who was sitting on Arctic’s shoulder.

“Young Twilight, whatever is the matter?”

“It’s Pinkie.” Twilight let out in a mix of a sigh and a groan. “She’s been going on about this Pinkie Sense thing and I’ve been trying to figure it out all day!”

Glacious, thoroughly confused, looked over to Arctic and Spike. The two gave a brief run down of what was going on. After hearing about what was going on, Glacious was a bit sympathetic for Twilight after learning why Twilight looked all beat up, but she was also chuckled.

“Young Twilight.” Gracious said in a gentle tone.

“Yes?” Twilight said looking back to Glacious.

“So, you’re trying to figure out young Pinkie’s ‘Pinkie Sense’?”

“Yeah. There’s no way, Pinkie and other ponies have some kind sense that tells them things. I never had anything like that happen to me, nor have I ever heard of anypony experience anything like this before. It hasn’t even been documented before. Zecora told me, ponies all have some kind of sense to alert them of danger or other things, but that can’t be possible.” Twilight ranted.

Gracious just slightly smiled. She had a feeling she knew where Twilight was coming from. This sense, call it a ponies sixth sense, doesn’t really crop up in places it isn’t all that necessary.

“Young Twilight, just because you’ve never seen it or can’t even explain it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t or can’t happen. And just because it isn’t written down, doesn’t mean you should dismiss it. Every time Young Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense went off, something happened, yes?” Glacious asked.

“Well, yeah. But they all had to be coincidences.” Twilight said.

Glacious just smirked slightly. She knew there was only one way to get Twilight to believe in Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense. She just didn’t know how or when it would happen.

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It was the next day. Arctic and Spike were relaxing outside just enjoying the sun, when Twilight walked out of the library. She was still in her head, thinking about Pinkie and her Pinkie Sense.

“Come on Twilight.” Said Spike. “You’re still thinking about the Pinkie Sense.”

“Of course I am. There’s still no way something like that is truly real. And it will be proven that this thing is all just made up.” Twilight stated. Confident that today she’d be able to prove this “sense” is all a hoax.

Just then Pinkie rushed up. Her body was shuddering and shaking violently.

“Arc! Twilight! Spike!”

“Pinkie? What wrong?” Arctic asked, concern present in his voice.

“My Pinkie Sense is going off. But I don’t know why! Though it’s a doozy!” Pinkie said.

“You don’t know what’s going on? Does this mean something big is gonna happen?” Spike asked.

“I don’t know. But whatever it is, is gonna happen in Froggy Bottom Bog!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Isn’t Fluttershy supposed to be heading there?” Asked Spike.

“Yeah it is.” Said Arctic. “We should go make sure she’s okay.”

Arctic, picking up Spike, placed him on his shoulder as he, alongside Pinkie raced to Froggy Bottom Bog. Twilight, begrudgingly followed after. She was certain Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense was all stuff and nonsense. She was finally gonna prove to Pinkie and everypony else, this Pinkie Sense was not real at all.

Ch 13: Pie’s Predictions pt.2

Like bats out of Tartarus, Arctic, Spike, Twilight, and Pinkie Pie raced to Froggy Bottom Bog.

“Fluttershy?!” Arctic shouts out.

“Where are you?!” Spike yelled.

“I can’t find her!” Pinkie shouted as she continued to violently shutter and shake.

“Um, Pinkie? Spike, Twilight, Arctic? What are you four doing here? And why are you looking for me?” Came a voice.

The four looked over and found the source. Fluttershy was there looking at the group with a confused look. A few frogs either on her back or surrounding her.

“Fluttershy!” Pinkie yelled, rushing over and picking up Fluttershy holding her in one of her bone shattering hugs.

“What’s going on?” Fluttershy wheezed out.

Arctic rushed over and looked over Fluttershy.

“Shy, are you okay? Anything in pain? Nothing crazy happen to you?”

Fluttershy tried to respond but couldn’t with Pinkie still squeezing her.

“Pinkie. You might wanna let Fluttershy go.” Twilight said.

Pinkie raised an eyebrow and looked up to Fluttershy to see her face was a bit blue.

“Oh!” Pinkie said letting go of Fluttershy.

The tall shy doe stumbled a bit resting on Arctic as she caught her breath. Everyday she was amazed by Pinkie’s strength. Pinkie was the smallest of the six. Just barely bigger than a filly, yet she had incredible strength. Fluttershy had to guess Pinkie was as strong Applejack. Maybe stronger, if she really put her mind to it.

After eventually catching her breath, Fluttershy began to speak.

“I..I’m fine. What made you think something happened to me?”

“Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense was going off and she said something was gonna happen here at Froggy Bottom Bog! We thought something was gonna happen to you!” Spike said

“Oh my! Well, I’m fine you guys. Nothings happened to me while I was here.” Fluttershy said.

“And that proves it!” Blurted out Twilight.

“Proves what?” Arctic asked.

“It proves, Arc, that Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense is all false. Not a real thing. Every thing that’s been happening regarding this Pinkie Sense was nothing but a bunch of coincidences. There’s no way ponies could…”

As Twilight talked, Arctic felt jolt. He could sense something. He could tell something was wrong. He wasn’t the only one. Fluttershy’s coat and her feathers puffed out a bit. Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense went off alerting her of something, and a burst of flames erupted from Spike’s spines before quickly dying out. The four could tell something was coming.

“…just makes no..” Twilight said before stopping and looking at the four. “What are you all doing?”

Just then, Twilight’s horn spluttered and crackled with her magical mana. Twilight jumped at that. That never happened before. Confused, she wondered what just happened, till something clicked. She then remembered what Zecora and Glacious told her. So, was it true what she was told? Slowly, she looked around. Just then, she, alongside the others, saw something slipping out of the water.

It was massive and it stared down at them with glowing eyes. Suddenly, it begun to sprout another head, then another, and another, till soon there were five heads, all of them looking down at them.

The five heads let out loud roars before diving in. The group all quickly begun to run. Well, except Pinkie, who just skidded forward as her body bounced and shuddered.

“What the hay is that?!” Asked Arctic.

“It’s a Hydra! A subspecies of dragon that lives in swamps and bogs like this!” Twilight said.

Just then, the Hydra had begun to spew flames from all five heads. Arctic, thinking quick skidded to a halt and raised his hands, his magic activating, two snowflakes surrounded by two rings and ancient magical runes between the two rings.

A giant version of the two magical glyphs appeared on the ground before a giant wall of ice erupted from the swamp, blocking the flames.

Arctic turned and booked it, catching up to his friends. The Hydra, after repeatedly bashing the ice wall with it heads till it shattered gave chase once again.

Twilight, deciding to take action, whipped around and blasted bursts of magic at the Hydra. Small explosions went off once the blasts hit. The Hydra stopped but slowly begun to push through.

Arctic, flying towards the Hydra, grabbed one of its heads and flew beneath it. After flying behind it, the Hydra had flipped onto its back. It tried to get up, but Twilight used her magic to pin it down. Arctic, using his magic, created a giant hand and arm made out of ice and swung his arm down as if throwing a punch. The giant ice fist and arm flew down and punched the hydra in the stomach knocking all of the air out of it.

Twilight and Arctic both rushed away getting to Spike, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. The group ran off as quickly as they could. Before they knew it, the Hydra was back up and chasing them again.

“Will this thing ever quit?!” Arctic said.

“Let’s just keep running!” Twilight shouted.

The Hydra, leaning a head back shot it forward. The group all dodged it, but Arctic threw his leg back kicked it in the neck. They Hydra yelped and coughed before trying to attack again, mainly trying to attack Arctic.

Arctic dodged its attacks and looked over to the others.

“You all keep going! Leave this to me!”

“Are you sure?” Twilight asked.

“We can’t just leave you!” Fluttershy exclaimed.

“Just trust me!” Arctic said.

After a bit of internal debating, the four decided to trust Arctic and ran forward.

“Come on.” Arctic said as he jumped up.

The Hydra, its focus solely on Arctic begun to try attacking him again. Arctic dodged them all and attacked back. Punching on head, axe-kicking another, and hammer striking another. The Hydra yelped out with each hit but continued to try attacking Arctic.

“Let’s try this.” Arctic said before flying up further and bursting into Super Saiyan. His auras silvery blue glow, lighting up the area, his golden yellow eyes and silver hair glowing as his aura dissipated.

Arctic raised his arms before sticking his left hand over his right shoulder and right hand down by his left hip. Two glowing orbs appeared in his hands. A glowing yellow flame like orb in his left hand and a water-like white orb in his right.

Lifting his arms and holding them over his head, the two orbs melded into one, creating a black flame-like orb with bubbles surrounding it.

“Take this! Eclipse Cannon!” Arctic yelled before blasting at the Hydra.

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Not that far away, a multitude of glowing yellow eyes blinked as a massive explosion rocked the area creating a massive cloud of dust.

A pair of glowing blue eyes watched on, before a voice rang out.

“It’s time. Let’s go.”

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Fluttershy, Twilight, Spike, and Pinkie watched on in awe. They knew Arctic was powerful, but seeing this, amazed them.

The Hydra, still alive but pretty injured, scurried away, retreating into the bog. Arctic landed in front of them and de-transformed.

“That..was..AMAZING!” Pinkie shouted. “Arc! How did you do that? When did you learn to do that? Can you teach me that?”

“Hehe. Maybe someday Pinkie.” Arctic said, picking Pinkie up and putting her on his shoulders, her forelegs resting on his head.

“I hope the poor things alright.” Said Fluttershy, her caring nature shining through.

“It’ll be fine. Hydra’s are a very resilient member of the Dragon race.” Twilight said. “Anyway, you said there be a doozy here at Froggy Bottom Bog, Pinkie, and I’d say we had one heck of a doozy.”

Just then, Pinkie started shaking again. “Nnnope! That wasn’t it.”

“What do you mean, Pinks?” Arctic asked.

“That wasn’t the doozy. I’m still getting the shudders. The doozy hasn’t happened.”

“How could that not be the doozy? What could be doozier than that?” Twilight asked.

“I dunno. But that wasn’t it.” Pinkie said.

Twilight’s face began to contort as her anger began to reach its fever pitch. Just then, Twilight erupted. Her coat had turned deep purple, almost solid black and her mane and tail erupted into colorful flames. The others jumped in shock watching this.

Soon, Twilights anger died out as she collapsed.

“I give up.”

“Give up what?” Spike asked.

“I don’t get how, why, or what, but this sense thing makes sense. I don’t know why, but it does. Just because I don’t understand doesn’t mean it isn’t true.” Twilight said.

“You mean you believe?” Pinkie asked.

“I guess I do.” Twilight said.

Pinkie, still shaking, begun to contort in an odd way, which confused the others. Suddenly, she stopped.

“That was it!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“What was it?” Spike asked.

“That was the doozy! I never expected that to happen.” Pinkie said before skipping off, leaving the others confused. However, before Pinkie could get far, she begun to shudder again.

“Uh oh!” Pinkie said.

“What’s wrong Pinkie?” Asked Fluttershy.

“Another doozy’s gonna happen!” Pinkie shouted.

“Do you know what’s gonna happen?” Fluttershy asked.

“No, but it’s gonna happen soon.” Pinkie said.

“How soo…”

Before Spike could finish his question, the sky went dark. This confused them. It was the middle of the day, why was it so dark all of a sudden? The group looked up and what they saw, shocked them.

Sitting above them, was a giant black mass. Then, one by one, a bunch of golden yellow slitted eyes opened up, followed by one set of blue slitted eyes.

Something flew down before them, landing on the ground with a thud. It was a pony. Though, not just any pony. The ponies wings flared out, revealing that they were bat wings.

The group looked on in awe.

“A thestral.” Twilight uttered.

The pony, no, the Thestral, looked at them with its bright blue slitted eyes before speaking.

“You, creature. You are coming with us. Willingly or by force if necessary.”

Arctic was shocked but readied himself. He was unsure what the Thestral wanted with him, but he could tell the Thestral meant business, and he wasn’t going to just willingly go with them.

Fluttershy coward behind Pinkie, who held a fairly serious look, which was unnatural on the bubbly pink mare. Twilight was unsure of what to do, but she readied herself as well. She was willing to fight alongside her friend. Even Spike, as scared as he looked, also got ready to fight. He knew he may not do much, but he decided to be brave and at least fight alongside his pony sister and saiyan brother.

“Looks like it’ll be by force then. I was hoping this would be the case.” The Thestral said as it too, got ready to fight.

Ch 14: Children of the Night

The Thestral shot forward like a rocket, nailing Arctic in the stomach and Twilight in the chest. The blow knocked them both back, but Arctic recovered quickly. Using his magic, he prepared an attack.

“Brinicle Pillar!” Arctic said flicking his pointer and middle finger up.

Arctic’s magic glyph appeared under the Thestral and a massive pillar of ice shot up hitting the thestral in the stomach, launching it into the air.

“Augh!” The Thestral groaned. “Nice shot!”

In an instant the Thestral flew back down striking Arctic in the stomach, sending him skidding backwards on his back before he corrected himself.

Arctic grinned a bit. His love for battle slowly coming to the forefront. Arctic flew and kicked the Thestral away before chasing her down.

Some of the other Thestral’s flew in to battle the Saiyan wanting to defend their captain. Plus, they wanted to battle the foreign creature. The Thestrals, for ages, have battle various creatures, so many times it was getting boring to them. So, having the opportunity to battle some new creature who seemed to be able to hold his own, got them eager to fight.

The Thestrals didn’t get far, before a blast of purple magic shot towards them. Twilight, while not much of a fighter, was certainly willing to throw down. Especially if she was defending a friend.

“Well,” came a deep voice from one of the Thestrals, “Seems Queen Celestia’s star pupil wishes to battle.”

Another voice chimed in.

“We aren’t here for her, but I wouldn’t mind brawling with the Queen’s best student.”

Twilight, hearing this, froze, but she was still ready to fight.

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Tree Hugger threw down a glowing green battle. A mass cloud of green smoke erupted as vines shot out grabbing hold of the Thestral she was fighting. Before it could register, Zecora landed ahead of her. A Thestral had gotten ready to attack Tree Hugger, but Zecora, the protective mother she is, shot towards the Thestral like a rocket, nailing it in the stomach and pinning it to the ground.

“What the heck are these ponies? And why are they attacking us?” Tree Hugger asked.

The Thestral tangled up in the vines spoke up.

“She has sent us out to bring you in.”

“She? She who? And being us in to where?” Zecora asked.

“You’ll find out soon enough.” The Thestral, using its sharp fangs, bit through the vines entangling it and rushed Tree Hugger.

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Back in Ponyville, a massive cloud of dust erupted into the sky as A Thestral, caught within a lasso, was slammed to the ground by Applejack.

“Why’re all these gosh darn varmints attackin’ us!?”

Rainbow, who doing her best to attempt to blitz a few of the Thestrals, responded.

“I dunno, but these guys are tough!”

Before Rainbow could do anything more, a hammer being wielded in the mouth of one of the Thestrals slammed into her and sending her straight to the ground.

Rarity, while not much of a fighter, was surprisingly holding her own against a few Thestrals. She used her bubble shield to force Thestrals back or block incoming attacks. She needed to thank Twilight for teaching her that spell. And she used the various rocks she could find as projectiles to strike at the Thestrals.

“These beastly things just won’t let up! All this fighting, sweat and dust is bad for my complexion! Oh I simply must attend the spa after this!”

Applejack and Rainbow just rolled their eyes and kept fighting.

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Glacious was effortlessly defending against the Thestrals she fought. She had been attacked at Golden Oaks Library, but led the Thestrals away, not wanting Twilights home to get damaged.

With her big wings, and tapping into her ice magic somewhat, blew the Thestrals away or launched small sharp shards of ice at them. She made sure to not have the shards cause life altering damage or possible death, but she did make sure the Thestrals would stay cautious of her.

“Shit. I didn’t think we’d be having this much difficulty with her.” Said one Thestral.

“She is tough, I’ll give her that. Though, hopefully, we won’t have to keep fighting her and she will take care of her. She’s been wanting to for a while.” Said another Thestral.

Gracious stepped forward and began to speak.

“You young ones are attacking me. For what purpose?”

“Oh, we were order to. We were here to size you up, before we went after that little creature of yours.”

Gracious tilted her head slightly. Till it clicked.

“My child? Who would send you after us? We’ve done no wrong to anypony.”

“This child of yours, is an abomination and an affront to our kind. We will strike that beast down where it stands. As for you, we shall personally handle you ourselves.”

Glacious, hearing a new voice looked behind her.

A cloaked figure stood there. It was clearly a pony, though, this pony was big. Bigger than herself. If she had to guess, Arctic would only come up to just about the knee in this ponies foreleg. She could see a massive horn protruding out of the ponies hood.

Glacious knew exactly what this pony was. An Alicorn. But something confused her. Why exactly would this Alicorn have a vendetta against her and her son?

“You are an Alicorn, yes?” Glacious asked.

“Indeed. As are you. Shed your disguise and face me properly. I wish to dismantle the mare responsible for keeping my ponies fearful of their Empress of the Night.”

This stunned Glacious. She knew she was an Alicorn? Glacious decided not to question it and dropped her disguise. Her body grew in size and her horn emerged. The other Alicorn just scoffed.

“You are in your suppressed state. You disgrace us with this decision. You will fight us in your natural state!” Cried the Alicorn.

Queen Luna, shot forward like a rocket and nailed Glacious in her cheek with a hoof, sending her skidding backwards.

Glacious just spit and using her magic, created some magic glyphs around Luna, as spears of ice shot out towards her. Luna flew up, dodging the attack sending a blast of magic barreling towards Glacious, who merely blocked it with a dome of ice surrounding her. Glacious grinned a bit. Seems her son’s love for battle has rubbed off on her a bit. She spread her wings a sped her way up to Luna.

“Let’s get started!”

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Fire erupted into the air. The Thestral it was aimed at, dived, dodging it before using her tail to knock Spike away. The young drake was determined to keep going, despite how tired and beat up he was. He watched Arctic, Twilight, and even Pinkie Pie fight. While Pinkie was tired, she kept fighting. Her party cannon at the ready and completely flat, straight mane and tail flowing in the wind. Arctic and Twilight were holding their own. Pushing themselves hard to keep going.

Spike wished he could keep on like them. He wanted to keep going, determination keeping him standing and spewing flames. Though he knew he wouldn’t last longer. He desperately wanted to keep going. He felt he was of no use. He couldn’t hold his own against Nightmare moon. He was bested in a matter of seconds. He knew he was a young dragon and accepted he wasn’t all that strong and couldn’t do much, but he still wanted to prove himself. To fight alongside Twilight and the girls.

While he didn’t know it, Arctic inspired Spike. Spike wished he was just as strong as him, and one day, he would make that wish, become real.

“You’ve left yourself open!”

Spike snapped out of his trance and saw the Thestral he was fighting use her forehoof to strike Spike in the back of his neck, knocking him out.

“Spike!” Cried Pinkie, Twilight, and Arctic.

Twilight’s anger flared. Her previous burning transformation returned. She let out a loud roar and blasted the Thestral, sending it miles away, and crashing into the ground. She set her sights on the Thestral’s she was already fighting and charged.

Arctic erupted into Super Saiyan and blew the group of Thestral’s he was fighting away with the burst of his aura. The Thestral’s came rushing back, and Arctic begun fighting with them. He was a bit surprised to find that the Thestral’s seemed to be holding their own against super Saiyan, but he kept fighting.

Pinkie, grabbing onto a Thestral with her teeth, slammed it into another before using her forehooves to send a massive rock, three times her size up. She whipped around and used the immense amount of strength she gained working on the rock farm and bucked it at them. The Thestral’s not expecting that, couldn’t dodge in time and got struck by the rock.

The other Thestral’s charged in to fight Pinkie, but with her Pinkie Sense guiding her, she dodged them all, before pulling out her party cannon.

“Time to party!” The party cannon went off. Cake batter and confetti shot out and nailed a few Thestrals.

Fluttershy. The poor shy doe. She sat off at the sidelines watching. She was terrified. She could see her friends fighting against the army of Thestrals. She was surprised to see Spike and Pinkie fight. She never thought they would jump in. She wanted to run. To leave. But she did want to fight alongside her friends. She knew there would possibly be times she would need to fight. Especially with her being one of the bearers of Harmony, but she never wanted to believe she would need to.

She wanted desperately to be strong. To be brave, to fight with her friends instead of running away and hiding. But she knew she would never…

“You wish to fight alongside them?”

“AAHHH!” Fluttershy yelled.

She whipped her head back and saw another Thestral. This Thestral looked, old. She held a grey mane, though there was evidence that he mane was originally a deep purple. Her eyes were deep red. They looked as though they had seen a lot of things in her life. Despite her age, she seemed just as strong Big Mac. Probably stronger. She also held multiple different scars,showing she had been through a lot. Even her wings had a few tears and cuts. It was a miracle she could even still fly.

“W..wh..where did you come from?”

“I’ve been here for a while. I’ve been watching you. I can tell you wish to fight with your friends. Though you are afraid.”

Fluttershy sheepishly and cautiously nodded.

“I do. But, i can’t. I don’t want to get hurt, but I don’t want to sit here and let my friends get hurt either.”

The Thestral smiled.

“I understand. You’ve never really been in a fight before. I can tell. But I could help you overcome your fear. You can fight alongside your friends and protect them as well as your little animal friends.”

Fluttershy looked to the animals surrounding her. They were all looking up at her. Fluttershy did want to protect her friend and her animal friends. The knowledge that, she may need to fight in the future coming back to her. She knew she couldn’t keep hiding away and would need to fight alongside her friends some day. Fluttershy thought for a while as the Thestral watched her.

“Um, okay.” Said Fluttershy. “How will you help me, Miss?”

“Cattleya Orchid. But please call me Leya.” Said Leya. “Now, are you sure, you wish for this?”

“I am. I will need to fight at some point in the future, and if you can help me and I’ll be able to help my friends and protect them as well as my animal friends, I’m willing.”

Leya nodded.

“Very well. After this, I will help you learn to control it.”

Fluttershy tilted her head in confusion. But before she could ask anything, Leya struck.

Arctic, who was getting a bit overwhelmed kept fighting back. A Thestral rushed up and hit Arctic square in the cheek, only to get grabbed by a giant ice hand Arctic created and threw the Thestral to the water. He turned his attention to the other Thestrals and kept on fighting. However he kept getting overwhelmed. Another Thestral, managing to get behind him, opened it’s mouth. It’s fangs glinting in the sunlight. Before the Thestral could bit down on Arctic’s neck, the Thestral was kicked away by another.

Arctic, seeing this whipped around to see a new Thestral. It’s mane and tail were pink. It’s cutie mark was of multiple pink bats. It’s coat was a light yellow with brown patterns. It took a second but Arctic recognized the Thestral.

“Fluttershy!?”

Fluttershy, the doe now turned Thestral, turned and gave a small smile and nod. Arctic wondered how Fluttershy became a Thestral, but he figured he’d question it later. The two, now back to back, flew in and begun fighting the Thestrals together.

Ch 15: Moon Vs. Ice

A massive explosion rocked Ponyville. Ponies, still hiding away within their homes, all fled. The only ponies to remain, where Applejack, Rarity, and rainbow Dash.

“What the hay was that?” Asked Rainbow dash.

“Ah don’t know. But whatever it was, it was intense.” Applejack said.

“I do wonder, where did that loud noise come from?” Rarity asked.

“Maybe somepony else is fighting?” Rainbow suggested.

“We‘ll, possibly.” Rarity responded.

“Rainbow, think you can go check that out? Maybe somepony need our help.” Applejack said.

“Right.” Rainbow said before rushing off to where the explosion came from.

In a matter of seconds, Rainbow raced back, panic on her face.

“It’s Glacious! She’s fighting Queen Luna!”

“Queen Luna? What on Equus is Queen Luna doin’ here? And why’s Glacious fighting her?” Applejack asked.

“And that’s not all. Glacious is… different.” Rainbow said.

“Whatever do you mean, Rainbow Dash?” Rarity asked.

Rainbow doesn’t say anything, just waves for them to follow her. The two shrug and follow her. Once they got to the spot, they stopped and watched in astonishment.

Massive magical glyphs surrounded the area, firing off shards of ice and Queen Luna was using a mist-like form to dodge before reforming and firing off a massive blast of magic. Glacious dodged the attack and flew up to Luna slamming both hooves into Luna’s stomach. Luna groaned and swatted Glacious away with her hoof before barreling straight towards her.

“Holy Tartarus! Who the hay’s fightin’ Queen Luna?!” Applejack asked.

“It’s, another Alicorn?” Rarity asked. “I can’t quite tell.”

“It is.” Said Rainbow Dash. “And it looks a lot like Glacious.”

Applejack and Rarity couldn’t believe that it was. Glacious surely was no Alicorn. Though, they can’t exactly see to make a good judgement call. Pegasi eyesight is much better than Unicorns and Earth Ponies. This is to help them see from afar and allow them to react quicker while flying should something happen.

“Well, either way, we should leave. This feels dangerous.” Rarity said as a beam of energy struck the ground and an explosion went off.

“Ah agree. Let’s get outta here.” Applejack said as the three quickly left, trying not to get caught in the crossfire of the two beings battling.

Luna and Glacious flew across the sky before Glacious flew past Luna. After performing a quick multitude of front flips, she jutted her hind legs, bucking Luna in the muzzle and sending her back. Blood erupted out of her muzzle, painting the sky in a deep red hue, as her blood splattered the trees and ground below. In a blind anger, foregoing her usual grace, Luna used her magic to grab onto Glacious before dragging her to her and headbutting her. Glacious groaned, clearly not expecting that. Luna then struck Luna with her forehoof, sending Glacious careening to the ground with a mighty thud.

“You’re quite the fighter, but you’ll never compare to us!” Luna shouted as she rushed down to Glacious.

“I appreciate the compliment. But please, you’re far to young to be acting this arrogant.” Glacious responded.

Glacious conjured a life-size ice figure of Arctic. Puppeteering it, she had it fly forward and punch Luna square in the muzzle before spin-kicking her to the ground. Luna slid along the ground before correcting herself.

“What on Equus is this creature suppose to be?” Luna questioned, before thinking back. “That ape creature? So you truly are connected to that abomination? Why ever would you keep that affront to our society around? That beast should be put down.”

Luna, to busy staring at the ice figure of Arctic, wasn’t paying attention, when suddenly, she was crushed. Two massive hands made of ice had been conjured and shot towards Luna like rockets, crushing the Alicorn of the Moon. Luna letting out a pained yell, looked to Glacious and saw that she was staring at her, hatred in her eyes.

“How dare you say such things about my son, you spoiled little brat!” Glacious yelled.

In the blink of an eye, Glacious appeared before Luna. Having quickly charged her horn,Glacious released an attack.

“Oozaru’s Frozen Roar!” A massive bust of Arctic’s Oozaru form’s head appeared.

It’s mouth opened wide as a swirling ball of ice shrouded in magic blasted Luna as the roar of the Oozaru sounded out. The blast and roar could be seen and heard from Canterlot.

Luna was shot back by the blast, getting trapped in a block of ice. Glacious flew quickly towards Luna, getting ready to unleash another attack. Before she could get close, Luna erupted. A massive black pillar of black magic erupted from her, freeing her from the ice. After the magic pillar died out, Glacious could see that Luna was different. Her coat had become black. Her mane and tail had become mist-like and appeared to show the vastness of space within it. Her eyes had become completely blackened with white slitted pupils. Even her wings had become bat-like.

Nightmare Moon had returned

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Another Oozaru roar could be heard. Arctic let out a loud roar as he powered up. The area begun to shudder and shake as his aura flared and his ki rose. After pushing his ki to the limit he rushed forward and begun fighting a group of Thestrals. The Thestrals, this time, we’re struggling a bit, but hung in their.

Twilight, using her strange form, fought her hardest. Magic and blueish purple flames were fired at the Thestrals. Twilight was struggling to fight with this form. This was new for her, and she had no idea how to control it.

“Looks like somepony’s having difficulty.” Said one Thestral as he dodged one of Twilight’s attacks and bucked her in the side.

“The Queens little pet student has no idea what she’s doing. Never had to fight like this!” Called another Thestral. “Let’s finish up with her and go after the monkey creature.”

Twilight’s gritted her teeth. “Why are they even after Arctic?” Twilight questioned in a low voice.

Twilight jerked as she saw a Thestral rushing towards her with her hooves out in front of her. The horseshoes she had on held small metal spikes on the bottoms of them.

Twilight jerked and pointed her horn at the Thestral before blasting a mix of flames and magic at the Thestral. The Thestral stopped and hopped back as a second jumped in with a shield blocking Twilight’s blast. Slowly, pushing back, the shield wielding Thestral moved forward as Twilight kept struggling as her new form begun a flicker, indicating that it was about to slip away.

Before Twilight could give up another burst of flames smashed against the shield. Looking to her side, Twilight saw Spike. He had woken up and saw Twilight struggling. So, without hesitation he jumped in and begun to help his big sister. The fact that Spike jumped in to help gave Twilight the resolve to keep going. Together, the Sparkle siblings were able to push back the shielded Thestral which surprised him.

“They’re pushing back?” Said the Thestral.

“Seems like we aren’t the only one’s struggling.” Said the other Thestral.

Not far away, they could see their allies fighting with the others. Pinkie, surprisingly, was holding her own. She was kicking rocks at the Thestrals, while also diving and dodging multiple strikes from the Thestrals. It was incredible as Pinkie moved as though she her body moved in a fluid manner. It was mesmerizing in a way.

Not far from her, Fluttershy was also fighting. Though it was a struggle for her. Since she never fought before and given her kind and caring nature, she had difficulty actually fighting. But she would throw out a kick or use her long mane and tail to her advantage, using it to cover a Thestrals face, blinding them, thus making them slam into another Thestral. Surprisingly, even a few animals were fighting alongside her. It was clear the Animals didn’t want Fluttershy fighting alone and wanted to help in any way they could.

Arctic was also managing to push back the Thestrals he was fighting. Much like Twilight, he was struggling with the transformation. He may have fully mastered Super Saiyan, but having pushed himself to the limit while fighting a group, was slowly started to take its toll. He kept on fighting to the best of his ability but, luckily for him, he wouldn’t have to keep fighting for longer.

As he fought, he noticed a bright yellow glow. Then a soft warmth in covered him. He noticed the glow cover everypony else. Just then, he felt his body get ripped from where he was and dropped to the floor. His vision was blinded by a bright yellow glow. All of a sudden, he felt a massive wave of magic energy wash over him. He felt nauseous, as though some powerful figure was staring him down, ready to kill him in an instant. Then he heard voices.

“Sister, dear, why-ever would you disrupt what we’re doing.” Said one voice

“Sister, be rid of that form, at once. I am aware of your anger, but you should not have taken it this far. Allowing your guard to attack our citizens as you attack one of our own. You should know better.” Said another voice.

“Sister, she will pay for what she’s been doing. we’ve returned from our prison, only to find out our subjects still fear me, especially with this once walking around, instilling more fear into them. Alongside, that beastly creature. It must be eradicated before it does something to our subjects.” Said the first voice.

Arctic’s vision cleared up. He found himself in a giant room with decor that screamed royalty. He could see yellows, golds, purples, blacks, and blues with images of the sun and moon all over. His mind then shot back to the two rulers of the land Twilight talked about. Celestia and Luna. Speaking of, he could see Twilight out of the corner of his eye.

“Twilight?” He asked.

“Arctic?”

“Where are we.”

“Looks like,” Twilight gasped. “Canterlot! In the castle!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Not just ya’ll. We’re here too.” Said another voice.

It was applejack. She alongside the other bearers of Harmony as well as Spike, were there. Arctic sensed another power and looked over. It was his mother. The others, following his gaze, saw Glacious and froze. They couldn’t even tell it was Glacious. All they saw was another Alicorn.

“My child, are you well?” Glacious asked.

“I am mother.” Arctic replied.

This made Spike and the bearers do a double take.

Glacious looked over her shoulder at the seven. “Are you all well, young ones?”

They nodded.

Arctic, looking up saw two other Alicorns. His eyes widened. Both of them oozed power. Being under their gaze felt like being under the judgmental eyes of two gods. The jet black one, who seemed to be de-transforming into her natural state held a disgusted look directed towards Arctic. The taller, pure white one held a more concerned, but soft motherly look.

So this was them. The rulers of Equestria.

Queen Celestia and Queen Luna

Ch 16: Celestial Goddesses

Arctic watched to the two Alicorns. He had clearly seen an Alicorn before, his mother was one. But these two, unnerved him deeply. Perhaps it was their appearance? The two were massive. He barely came up to the smaller of the two’s chest and the other one, he came up to above her knees. The two of them held no cutie mark. Presumably the halo’s represented their cutie marks? The two also held wing ears which covered their eyes, adding a new level of ominous tension. He also noted the two held no mouths, so he questioned how the two spoke to others. Not even his mother held these qualities.

Despite this, he could, albeit, barely, get a read on their expressions if you could call them that. The blue one, Luna, held a hostile air to her. As if she was on the verge of lungeing at him and killing him on the spot. He had the feeling he should keep on guard around her.

The other one, Celestia, was different. She was still unsettling, her very subtle body language suggesting she was on guard, but she also held a more motherly and comforting experience.

“Ah’m sorry, but, if yah don’t mind mah askin, Miss Glacious is an Alicorn?” Applejack asked, bringing up the question on the others minds.

“Indeed, young Applejack, I am an Alicorn.” Glacious responded.

“How come we never heard of you before? Are you a Queen too? Are you a princess? Where’ve you really been all this time?” Pinkie Asked.

“Miss Pinkie has a point. Where have you been?” Celestia asked.

Glacious sat silent. It was as if she was contemplating whether or not she should answer. Luna, slowly losing her patience, snapped.

“You will answer my sister at once, Glacious!”

Luna charged her horn ready to attack her.

Arctic shot up in front of Glacious, his arms outstretched.

“Don’t you dare touch my mother!” Arctic shouted.

His anger getting the better of him, he erupted into Super Saiyan.

“My child, calm down.” Glacious responded.

Luna was taken aback by this for 2 reasons. First, she wasn’t expecting him to get before her in an act of defiance and transform. If she wasn’t so angry, she’d probably be impressed. The second reason she was taken aback, was because he called her his mother. This Alicorn, one of her own kind, took in this creature and became his mother? It was baffling to her.

“So, Glacious, you took in this creature and you dare call this disgusting creature your child?”

“Luna, be silent!” Celestia roared. “Miss Glacious my be one of our own, but she choose to take in this young stallion and it is clear they love each other! I shall not tolerate this behavior even from my own sister!”

“Celestia, our ponies have been fearing this Alicorn, mistaking her for me, making our subject even more fearful of me, and this bipedal abomination isn’t helping!”

Arctic bared his teeth and decided to snap back.

“I don’t blame them for fearing you if this is how you’re acting.”

Glacious, using her wing, popped Arctic in the back of the head.

“My Child, I understand you are angry, but do be respectful.”

The Element Bearers, watching this walked up and decided to interrupt.

“Queen Celestia,” said Twilight, “ why did you bring us all here?”

“My dear student, I brought you all hear to talk.” Celestia said before shooting Luna a glare. “And to keep my sister from doing something she may regret.”

“Sorry, but ah still want to know why yah lied about being an Alicorn, Miss Glacious. Yah lied to us about that, did yah also lie about yer past?” Applejack asked.

Glacious let out a low sigh before responding in a quiet tone just loud enough for Applejack to hear.

“Young Applejack, while I did lie about a bit of my past, I did not lie about it all. There are aspects of my past I wish to keep to myself for now.”

Applejack was uncertain as to how she should proceed. She wanted to press Glacious, learn the truth. But at the same time, this was an Alicorn. No matter how badly Applejack yearned for the truth, she knew better than the press an elder, let alone an Alicorn.

“Miss, Glacious?” Celestia asked. Glacious nodded. “I believe we have never met. If you wouldn’t mind, it would be a pleasure to hear your story. I feel it would be beneficial for myself and a certain somepony,” Celestia said shooting Luna a look, “to learn more about you and your adoptive son.”

Luna, internally growing and rolling her eyes, begrudgingly begun to listen to Glacious’ tale. What she was willing to share with them, that is.

By the end, Celestia was a bit somber but happy. Much like Applejack, Celestia too, could sense that Glacious was lying in some aspects , but was mostly telling the truth. She could also clearly see the joy and love that adorned Glacious’ face when the story got to Arctic, which intrigued her.

“Young Arctic, was it?” Celestia said.

Arctic, being fairly caught off guard not expecting to be addressed, quickly bowed before responding.

“Yes your majesty.” Arctic said quickly.

“No need for the formalities. I have a question for you.” Celestia said with a light hearted chuckle.

“Yes ma’am?”

“Do you by chance remember anything before your arrival to our world?” Celestia asked.

Arctic took a moment to think before coming up with an answer.

“No ma’am. All I remember is what I am, a Saiyan and maybe a little things about ki. I don’t remember much before I got here. I was a baby after all.”

Celestia smiled before her smile turned to Twilight.

“It also seems you, my dear student, were the reason this young Saiyan found his way here.”

Twilight stumbled a bit.

“What do you mean Queen Celestia?”

“Twilight, do you remember the day I took you on as my personal student?”

Twilight bashfully rubbed the back of her head with her hoof.

“I remember. It was also the day I got my Cutiemark. And the day Spike was born.” Twilight said as she pulled Spike into a hug.

“‘‘Twas also the day Arctic arrived and got adopted.”

Twilight, Spike and the girls all paused.

“What do you mean Queen Celestia?” Twilight asked.

“How could Twilight be the reason Arctic got here?” Fluttershy asked.

“On that day, a massive explosion had occurred. The result of which cause young Twilight’s magic to spark into life. Her uncontrolled magical power had cause many different effects. Such as turning her mother and father into plants and turning young Spike into a giant.”

Twilight blushed at that. She remembered taking to her parents after that. It was an awkward chat.

“It seams that young Twilights Magic was far more powerful than I initially thought. It seems she was able to rip young Arctic from his original home and dropped him here.” Celestia explained.

Twilight and the others all stared in shock. Even Glacious was a bit taken aback.

“So, you are the reason my child is here?” Glacious asked.

Twilight couldn’t even respond before being embrace by Glacious and Arctic.

“I thank you, Young Twilight. You are the reason my child is here with me today.”

“I wanna thank you too Twilight. If you really are the reason I’m here, then thank you for bringing me here to my Mother.” Arctic said.

“Y..you’re welcome.” Twilight said.

“Now then. Sister, as for you and your Guards, you all will be swiftly dealt with.” Celestia said giving Luna and her Guard, who were all in the room and trying to sneak out before being called out.

“Sister, they are our Guard. Thou have no jurisdiction over them. And we are a full grown mare. Thou can not do anything to us.” Luna said turning up her nose.

“You’re still my little sister. I can still punish you if you do something bad, just like all those years ago.” Celestia said with a sly grin.

Luna saw that grin and her face fell.

“Sister, surely you aren’t going too..”

“Indeed I am Luna.”

“Thou better not sister! We are not a foal!”

Celestia just smiled and charged her horn and whisked Luna and her Guard away.

The others all jumped and begun to look around as if trying to spot where Luna and her Guard were sent.

“Queen Celestia, where did you send them?” Asked Arctic.

“To time out, Young Arctic.”

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Down in the dungeons of Canterlot Castle, in a rather big cell, sat Luna and her Guard.

All of them were huffing as they sat and atop all of their heads sat a tall hat that read, “Dunce”.

“How could our sister be so cruel!?” Luna blurted out before crossing her forehooves in frustration.

Ch 17: City of Canterlot

Twilight walked up to Queen Celestia stopping at the bottom of the steps leading up to the throne.

“Queen Celestia, I have a question.”

“What is it my Student?” Celestia asked with a small smile.

“How could I manage to bring Arctic here? I know you said my magic was exceptionally powerful compared to most Unicorns, but I have the power to pull beings like Arctic to our world?” Twilight asked.

This question peaked Arctic’s curiosity. He had no idea Twilight brought him here, but if she did, would she be able to bring more of his kind here? Or move him where he came from? While he was curious to see more of his kind, he didn’t mind just staying here. After all, his family and friends were here.

“Indeed, you are exceedingly powerful compared to most Unicorns. However, due to the training I had been subjecting you to, your magic, while still quite powerful, is substantially more suppressed than when you were a filly. So, it is unlikely you’ll be able to preform such a feat again.” Queen Celestia explained.

Twilight was a bit upset by this answer. She was hoping she’d be able to preform that a second time. Go where Arctic was born and explore.

Arctic was quite alright. He is still curious to learn about and see where he originated, but he was fine knowing he was stuck here. He didn’t really want to leave.

Queen Celestia’s explanation while partly true wasn’t the full truth. Twilight was exceptionally powerful as a filly. Infact, her power was roughly equal to that of a young filly Celestia. It was the leading reason Celestia took Twilight in as a student. Over the course of there time together, Celestia had been finding ways to dampen Twilight's unstable power. If left unchecked, Twilight’s magic could’ve gone rampant. Twilight could’ve destroyed all of Equestria in time.

“Um, excuse me, Queen Celestia?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yes young Fluttershy?” Celestia asked, finally getting a good look at the doe.

Celestia could obviously tell Fluttershy had become a Thestral. Celestia actually believed Fluttershy becoming a Thestral would be beneficial for the young doe, for many reasons.

“What’s going to happen now?” Fluttershy asked.

“Well, I don’t have much to discuss with you all right now, but I do wish to speak with Glacious. In private please.” Celestia said looking over to Glacious.

Glacious had raised an eyebrow. She begun to wonder why Celestia wished to talk to her. Arctic, on the other hand, was a bit uneasy. He didn’t want to leave his mother. Celestia noticed this and smiled.

“Young Arctic, I understand your hesitance to leave your mother, but she will be fine. I understand you have never seen Canterlot before. I suggest you explore it alongside your friends.”

Arctic glanced up to his mother.

“I’ll be fine my child. Go explore and have fun.” Glacious said as she used one of her wings to pull Arctic into a hug.

“If you say so Mother.” Arctic said returning the hug.

As he as well the the others begun to leave, Celestia called out.

“One more thing young Arctic.”

Arctic turns to look at her, only to see a ticket in front of his face. He hesitated before grabbing onto it.

“I would like for you to join the Grand Galloping Gala. I believe it would be quite the wonderful experience for you.”

“Oh. Thank you your Highness.” Arctic said as he gave a respectful bow.

“No need for the formalities. And please, just call me Celestia.” Celestia said as she gave a small smile to him.

“Of course, Celestia.” Arctic said giving a smile of his own.

Rarity tapping the floor in excitement spoke up.

“Oh darling, I absolutely must design an outfit for you for the Gala!”

“You’re gonna have so much fun! And I’m gonna make sure of it!” Pinkie said excitedly as she hopped up onto Arctic’s shoulder.

The seven all ushered themselves and Arctic out, leaving the two Alicorns alone in the throne room.

“Now then, let’s talk shall we?” Celestia said as she walked down to Glacious.

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The group all walked through the castle and eventually made their way outside.

“Oh, I can see it now. I have an amazing idea for an outfit for you! But every time I think of something, a new idea comes to mind! Oh I can’t wait to design something for the Grand Galloping Gala!” Rarity said with absolute excitement in her voice.

Arctic stared at the ticket and looked over to Rarity.

“What exactly is the Grand Galloping Gala?”

Rarity stopped dead in her tracks as her head snapped to Arctic. Arctic jumped at this, seeing the wide-eyed shock on her face.

“You don’t know about the Grand Galloping Gala!? Have you lived in a cave!?” Rarity blurted out as she clung onto Arctic, her hooves clutching Arctic’s cheeks.

The others, Arctic, and even a few guards who were nearby all watched Rarity in shock, not expecting that outburst

“Rarity, yah know about Arctic’s past. So yah should know, he never heard ah the Gala before.” Applejack said.

“Oh. Right. Well, anyway, the Grand Galloping Gala is an annual Royal ball held in celebration of the completion of Canterlot after Equestria was founded. All high class Canterlot socialites attend the Gala. Anypony who’s anypony will attend. And not only will we be going, but you will also get to experience one of the greatest balls in all of Equestrian history!” Rarity said with a giant smile and stars in her eyes.

“You all will be going as well?” Arctic asked.

“Oh yes.” Fluttershy responded. “Queen Celestia gave the seven of us tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala herself.”

“And we all are going to experience the Gala for the first time together!” Pinkie said as she set off her party cannon.

The others just giggled and chuckled at Pinkie’s antics as they walked along the streets of Canterlot. As they walked it was obvious many of the ponies of Canterlot gave the group a wide birth. Many of them even held looks of fear and would slip somewhere to hide. They all understood why they got the reaction they did. The Spike and the mares all looked to Arctic. It was clear that this was upsetting him, but he was mostly just looking around, amazed by how beautiful Canterlot looked.

“This place looks amazing. And you two got to live here?” Arctic said looking down to Twilight and Spike.

“Yeah. We’ve lived here for a long time.” Twilight said with a smile as she begun to reminisce about her and Spike’s younger years in Canterlot.

Arctic looked around taking everything in. Then he noticed the giant waterfall and the streams it ran off to throughout Canterlot. His eyes lit up as he saw it.

“That looks so beautiful!” Arctic said.

He ran over to one of the streams and looked in. He saw dozens of fish swimming within it and was dazzled by the sparkles of the sunlight reflecting off the waters surface. The others all smiled watching him. Even Pinkie and Fluttershy joined him in watching the flowing water and fish swimming around. A voice called out and the group all looked back.

It was a stallion. He was a unicorn who held white fur, with a leonine tail with blue hair at the end alongside the short blue mane and mustache he had. He wore a black suit jacket, a blue vest, and white shirt beneath it. He also had a monocle over his right eye and even gold cuff links with blue gemstones in them.

There was also a mare with him. She was tall. As tall as Arctic and Applejack. She was also a unicorn, her mane and tail were a light shade a pink with a white stripe going through them and her eyes were a pale violet color. She wore a few bits of jewelry even a wedding ring on her horn, just like the stallion’s.

“It is nice to see a new fellow enjoy the beauty of this wonderful city.” The stallion said as he walked up to Arctic. “I do not believe I’ve ever seen a fellow like you before. If you don’t mind my asked, what are you?”

Arctic was a bit taken aback. He had expected all of the ponies here to avoid and fear him, but this stallion didn’t seem frightened at all. By all accounts, he just seemed curious. Even the mare, whom Arctic was assuming was the stallions wife, seemed curious. He watched her as she examined him.

“Well, I’m a Saiyan.” Arctic said.

“A Saiyan? I’ve been all over Equestria and I’ve never seen a fellow quite like you before.” He said.

“He does vaguely resemble the Minotaurs, though his form looks far more appealing.” The mare said as she kept examining Arctic.

“I suppose he does. Nevertheless, my good fellow, my name is Fancy Pants. This lovely mare here, is my wife, Fleur De Lis.” Fancy said.

“It is a pleasure to meet you both. My name’s Arctic, Arctic Fuyumori.” Arctic said giving a small bow.

“No need for the bow my good stallion.” Fancy said.

Arctic stood up straight and smiled slightly.

“Fancy Pants, what bring you here on such a fine day?” Rarity asked with a seemingly nervous smile which Arctic picked up on.

Rainbow, who had been hovering next to Arctic, leaned over to him and whispered in his ear.

“Rarity’s been a fan of this guy for a long time. She’s just trying hard not to fan girl.” Rainbow said with a snicker.

Even Arctic had to chuckle at that.

“Well, Miss,” Fancy started hinting for Rarity to give her name.

“Oh! Rarity Belle.” Rarity stated.

Fancy Pants gave a light-hearted chuckle before continuing.

“Well, Miss Belle, my dear wife and myself were on our way to small gathering with a few cohorts all set up by the Prince. When we noticed this fellow.” Fancy said gesturing to Arctic. “It’s not everyday you see a new fellow quite like him in Canterlot. We fascinated and wished to come to meet him. We also overheard that you all will be attending the Grand Galloping Gala?” Fancy asked.

“Indeed we are! In fact, this will be our first time attending.” Rarity said.

“Why that’s wonderful news. My dear wife and I will also be attending. We hope to see you there.” Fancy said with a smile.

Fancy Pants looked to Arctic and raised a hoof.

“It was a pleasure meeting you, Mr. Fuyumori.”

“It was a pleasure meeting you as well, Mr. Pants.” Arctic said extending a hand and giving Fancy’s hoof a firm shake.

“Please, just call me Fancy.” Fancy pants said.

Fancy Pants and Fleur de Lis both gave a quick bow before making their way to where they needed to be.

“Well, that was new.” Arctic said.

“Heck yeah it was.” Rainbow said. “Figured all these uppity high class ponies would hate you, or at least be…scared.”

Rainbow trailed off a bit, remembering how she and the girls treated Arctic and the stories of how dozens of ponies that he met ran in fear from him. It left a sour taste in her mouth.

Arctic saw this and gave Rainbow a hug. Rainbow, not expecting this, flailed around in a futile attempt to escape her capture.

“Did you hear? He’s going to see the Prince! Maybe I could get Fancy Pants to introduce us. Then I could be with him! My Prince Charming.” Rarity said with a giant blush.

“There’s a Prince? The one of the Queen’s has a son?” Arctic asked.

“Oh no, Prince Blueblood is the adopted nephew of Queen Celestia. The title of Prince is kind of an unofficial thing.” Twilight explained.

“He’s still a Prince, Twilight.” Rarity said with a deadpan look before quickly going back to swooning over the stallion.

The others just rolled their eyes. Except for Arctic. He had picked Spike up and hugged him, seeing the upset look Spike had seeing Rarity swoon. He knew Spike had a crush on Rarity, so seeing this had to be tough.

For the rest of the day, the group toured Canterlot, with Twilight and Spike as guides as they had lived here for a majority of their lives.

The tour went relatively well, despite the stares and bouts of fear from most of the ponies they came across. Though one thing did surprise them all. A small group of foals all came up to meet Arctic. They were all curious and fascinated by him and wanted to meet him to sate their curiosity. By the end of that interaction, it was safe to say Arctic had made some new little friends.

The tour eventually ended with a stop at Donut Joe’s. The big gruff earth pony stallion, while a bit afraid, was quite cordial with the group. As time went on, even Joe found himself animatedly talking to Arctic and the others.

“I’ve never had this much fun chatting with anypony.” Joe stated. “Most who come here are off duty royal guards. So it’s nice to seem faces other than them show up. It’s also an honor to have a creature from a different world enjoy what I make.”

Arctic just smiled.

“I’m surprised there aren’t more ponies here. These are delicious!” Arctic said as he stuffed his 90th donut into his mouth.”

“I’m still amazed you can eat that much.” Rainbow said. “You’re just like Pinkie.”

Pinkie was also devouring donuts like noponies business.

Just then, the bell over the door had sounded, alerting them all that somepony had come in. When they all looked up, they saw Glacious in her disguised form.

“Hi Mother.” Arctic said with a wave.

“Hello my child.” Glacious said with a smile. “Hello to you as well young mares and young drake.”

The others collectively gave a “hello” back as Glacious approached the table and sat down.

“What were you and Queen Celestia discussing?” Fluttershy asked.

“Nothing that should concern you all.” Gracious said. “Now then, what have you all been doing whilst I was talking with her?”

The group explained their day, what they had been up to leading up to them stopping at Donut Joe’s.

“I must say, I’m glad to hear some ponies have seemed to grow quite friendly with you, my child.”

“It was a surprise to me as well, mother.” Arctic said.

“So, now that the little tour’s over, what should we do now?” Applejack asked.

Rarity quickly responded.

“We should get back to Ponyville. I really must set to work on designing an outfit for Arctic for the gala.”

“Yah really are desperate to make him something aren’t yah?” Applejack asked.

“Of course! He absolutely must look his best!”

“You wouldn’t mind making me something as well, would you, young Rarity?” Glacious asked.

Rarity stopped and soon fainted. The idea of making an Alicorn a dress for the gala? It was something she dreamed of, and now it was her chance.

Eventually the day had come to an end. The group had all caught the last train back to Ponyville. Once they got there, they quickly gave their goodnights, before returning to their homes and falling asleep, ready to see what the next day might bring them.

Ch 18: Sun and Ice’s heart-to-heart

Glacious watched the group all walk out of the throne room. Glacious, seeing the smiles on their faces, and the sheer excitement on Rarity’s as she rambled on about different outfit designs she could make for Arctic, put a smile on her face.

Queen Celestia saw this and she too had to chuckle a bit.

“They seem to be quite close.” Celestia said.

“Indeed. Though it wasn’t like this in the beginning. It’s nice to see that those seven have grown fairly close to my child. Especially young Spike.” Glacious responded.

“Spike his grown close to him the most?” Celestia asked.

“Yes. The two a similar in many ways. Both are young beings in a realm dominated by ponies. Both consume meat, though young Spike has yet to mature enough to properly consume it. We’re young Spike older, I imagine many ponies would fear him just like they fear my child.” Glacious said.

Glacious was right in her assumption. Celestia knew this. If Spike was much older, many ponies would fear him greatly. The only reason ponies are okay with him around is because he is a baby. He isn’t yet old enough to where most ponies would consider him a dangerous threat.

“Tis a sad reality. I imagine things were difficult for young Arctic and you as well?” Celestia asked.

“It was. My child and I would wonder to many villages and towns only to be chased away or shunned out of fear. Many ponies called me by a name. Nightmare Moon I believe.”

Celestia froze a bit. Glacious noticed this.

“Is there something wrong?”

Celestia took a second before responding.

“Nightmare Moon, was my sister, Luna.” Celestia said.

Celestia went on to tell Glacious everything. From Luna’s mounting jealousy of her, her and Celestia’s falling out, her transformation to Nightmare Moon, the small war that took place, and eventually how the Element Bearers restored Luna, bring her back to normal.

“I am sorry you had so deal with such pain as to fight and banish your kin for so long.” Glacious said sympathetically.

“It is alright. My sister is back, though she still has quite to learn especially after what has transpired today. For as old as she is, she still behaves like we did in our younger years.”

“Like in your younger years?” Glacious questioned.

Celestia let out a sigh and shut her eyes before beginning her next story.

“In our youth, over a megaannum, my sister and I lost our parents. They both perish in battle against a force that took decades to defeat. My sister and I were left to wander the land for many moons. It was not till what would be our adolescent years did we slowly come to rule this land with the aid of our friend and teacher, Starswirl the bearded. With his guidance, my sister and I had become the new Queens of Equestria. Though, we were a bit, bad at first. We were prone to jumping into things and acting in rash manners. There are many times we have gotten close to starting or starting a war. Over time, we had begun to mature and correct our behavior. My sister is a good sort, despite what your first interaction with her may tell you. While I understand she is still frustrated about being feared still, due to ponies believing you to be Nightmare Moon come to harm them, it still doesn’t justify her actions.”

Glacious smirked a bit at this.

“I understand. Perhaps, should we get the chance to, Luna and I may talk properly.”

“I do hope you and my sister can become decent allies.” Celestia said. “It would also be beneficial for her to speak with your son, Arctic. Give her the chance to get to know him. He seems a good sort.” Celestia smiled. “Now then, I wish to hear of your past. Your proper past.”

“You could tell?” Glacious asked.

“Indeed. Can’t quite fool me. I could tell while most of what you initially told me was true, I could sense the deception in a few things you said.” Celestia said.

“Quite the sharp young thing.” Glacious teased. “But my history is not something I enjoy speaking of. Many painful memories. But I suppose it wouldn’t do me much good to keep it all bottle. I will have to tell somepony the truth eventually, even my child. He will have to know at some point, though I wish the keep it from him from as long as I can.”

Celestia frowned at this. While she was curious, she didn’t wish to push Glacious into telling her story if she didn’t want to.

“Please, I asked just to sate my curiosity. You do not have to tell me if you do not wish to.”

“No, no, it is quite alright.” Glacious said before taking in a breath. “Let’s start at the beginning.”

Glacious’s mind went back. Far back. Millions of years back, before there were even a few hundred ponies to inhabit planet Equus. Back when Alicorns were just starting to roam the land.

Back then, in a brilliant display of light and a massive wave of mana, two small Alicorn foals were born, birthed by an Alicorn stallion and mare. The two foals were named, Khione Fuyuyama and Agneya Fuyuyama. The two Alicorn foals, as they grew, developed their magic. Khione, developed a magic derived from the snow and ice. While Agneya’s was derived from fire and magma.

As the two grew, they grew powerful and more importantly, they grew closer as sisters. Everyday the two would spend time together. They were nigh inseparable. Where ever Khione went, Agneya was there. And wherever Agneya went, Khione was there. Their mother and father found this most adorable. The two Alicorn parents would spend their days teaching and aiding the two sisters in any way they could. Though, they mostly made sure they were a strong family unit.

As the sisters got older, their powers grew at an exponential rate, as did their bond. The two talked about possibly ruling a kingdom together. Side by side as Princesses, or even Queens. Though they though it just a simple dream. Well, one did.

Agneya begun to wonder. How would she fair being the ruler of a kingdom. She believed it to be difficult, and even decided against becoming a ruler. But over time, her curiosity grew. As years went on and kingdoms were indeed beginning to become established with their own rulers, Agneya would occasionally sneak in just to observe the rulers and how they worked. She would even occasionally bring Khione with her, so she too could observe.

While there were some kind and just rulers, there were some who were outfit despicable. While Khione had a big distaste for the unjust rulers, Agneya had a fascination with them. Eventually, she even begun to mimic those rulers. At first it was small.one would never even realize what was going on. Though in time, it grew a bit more obvious. While not blatantly obvious, it was noticeable. Which was just enough for Khione to begin to worry.

As the years passed, it was ever so slowly becoming a bit more obvious the Agneya was beginning to idolize those negligent rulers. Khione, deciding to step in, informed her parents of what was going on. Agneya was punished for this, as her parents believed she should be a kind ruler. Better than those unjust, unworthy rulers. After all, as Alicorns, they were meant to be powerful figures meant to guide the creatures soon to inhabit the world of Equus.

It was after this, Khione and Agneya had a falling out. The two had gotten into a heated argument that threatened to become a heat exchanger of blows. Afterwards, the two had begun to grow distant. Even to the point the two wouldn’t even be within the vicinity of the other. But while, Khione was upset, she still cared for her sister. Which is why, when one day, when Agneya had gone missing, Khione was worried sick about her. She would search high and low, near and far to find her sister. Even going to the kingdom of the unworthy ruler she idolized, but alas, Agneya was nowhere to be found.

Even more years passed. Khione continued her training under her mother and father and continued to grow in strength. Even after so many years had passed, Khione still deeply missed her sister. One day, Khione was out enjoying the sound of a nearby waterfall and the gentle mist it showered Khione in. This peace was disrupted by a loud explosion and the unnerving scent of smoke. An attack had happened. Khione,rushing to the scene, found a terrible sight. Her home set ablaze. Flames and puddles of magma surrounded the area. It was then, she heard a noise that sounded like a scream, Khione rushed to the source. And what she found made her stomach drop. Her parents, dead. Their coats soaked in their own blood. Though what chilled her the most, was the weapon. It was evident that they had been severely burned in places and even stabbed. By what? A horn. A mighty Alicorn’s horn was what seemed to be the finishing blow. For what made it obvious was the broken blood soaked horn embedded with the stomach of the mother.

Khione cried out for her parents, hoping they’d still be alive, only to find that they weren’t. They had passed on before Khione got there. But who could’ve done this? How would somepony be able to take down two powerful Alicorns such as them? Well, obviously another Alicorn. Agneya.

Agneya stood before her sister. Blood coating her fur, her horn missing and even dawning a few scars both fresh and old. Khione demanded to know why Agneya would do this. As well as where she had been this whole time. Agneya explained that she had been taken under the wing of some powerful ponies. Who helped her gain even more power and better control of said power. In time, Agneya believed she was ready to rule a kingdom and so visit a ruler she was quite fond of. She hoped to rule along side them but was in for a rude awakening when she discovered the ruler wished to use her. To gain more influence with the might of an Alicorn backing them up. So in a display of power and a fit of rage, Agneya struck down the ruler and usurped the throne, becoming the kingdoms new ruler.

As time went on, Agneya had begun to lust for more. She wished to rule over every kingdom and even all of Equus. But she knew others would try to take her down. While no regular pony could, there was always a chance another of her kind could put and end to her. Her parents. So, she devised a means to execute her parents. But leave her sister, not out of pity or love, but because she believed her sister was too weak to stop her. Years of training and gaining more power lead to this moment. The death of two Alicorns.

Khione, in a fit of fury attacked her sister. Surprising Agneya, for she believed her sister was too weak to fight her. Unfortunately for her, they were evenly matched. The battle went on for ages before a victor could be decided. So, Khione using a technique her parents only briefly should both of them when they were younger, Khione managed to siphon away Agneya’s magic. Though this did little to deter Agneya. Khione, despite doing her best not to, used what last shreds of magic she had left in her to let loose one last attack. This attack while not fatal, sealed a significant amount of damage. Agneya, now no longer with any of her magic and in a terribly weaker state, retreated, so she could someday regain her lost magic and be rid of her sister once and for all.

Khione, after tending to her wounds, buried her parents, before leaving her old home. In a bid to forget her past, to forget the pain, she altered her name. Khione Fuyuyama, had on that day, died, and in her place, Glacious Fuyumori was born. Glacious spent her days keeping to herself. She never spoke to or made an effort to see anypony. She was always alone. That is, until her son came along.

After finishing the tail, Glacious was in tears. Having to relive the past was difficult for her. Celestia too was holding back tears. She hadn’t expected that when she asked to know Glacious’s past.

“I am sorry to hear that Glacious. I can not begin to image how painful that was for you.”

“It…it is alright, Celestia. My sister is still out there. I hope to keep my child and the other young ponies away from her. Who knows what she will do to them all.” Glacious said.

The two sat in silence before Celestia spoke up.

“The gala is coming up. You should use it to get to experience a bit of Canterlot with your son. Take your mind off of having to relive the past like this.”

Glacious thought for a moment.

“That would be nice. To spend time with my family. It would be a welcome distraction from today’s discussion.”

Celestia then gave Glacious a ticket to the gala. Glacious smiled and accepted it. With one last quick chat and a farewell, Glacious slipped into her disguised form and exited Canterlot Castle. Tracking her son’s power, she followed it to a little bakery, called Donut Joe’s. Upon entering, she was hit with a smell that brought a smile to her muzzle. And at a table before her, was her son and his friends. Her new little family.

Ch 19: Sonic Dragon

It had been a few days since the group’s encounter with Queen Celestia and Luna and her guard. They all fell into normalcy soon enough and were all doing their own things again. Partially. The element bearers and Spike all had begun question Glacious. Now knowing she was an Alicorn, they wanted to know about her past. Her true past. Glacious asked them not to keep asking. She informed them that she would allow them to know the truth in time, when she was ready.

Glacious, while in Golden Oaks, would often be in her suppressed form. While outside, she’d be in her disguised form. It was interesting for Twilight and Spike to live with an Alicorn. She was giddy about it. That is once she got used to the cold air Glacious’s body produced. Though, Arctic did have to point out the fact that Twilight had lived in Canterlot Castle with Queen Celestia, an Alicorn. Twilight waved it away saying it was different, which Arctic just chuckled at.

At some point, one day, Arctic, Glacious, Twilight, Spike, Pinkie, AJ, and Rarity were all helping Twilight clean her books. She had been studying for a week straight about a group of plants she had discovered while out in the Everfree visiting Zecora.

“Does this place usually look like this after a study session?” Rarity asked.

“Of course not.” Twilight waved aside.

“Twilight, you usually leave this place looking like a tornado ripped right throw.” Arctic quipped, which got a chuckle out of the others.

Twilight just bashfully blushed.

“Anyway, thank you all for helping me clean up all these books. It was a crazy week of studying.”

Quickly, a loud yell grew closer and closer. Looking out of a window, they all saw Rainbow Dash rapidly approaching the Library. Jumping up, Arctic caught Rainbow stopping her from colliding into them all and messing up the books they just put up.

“Hey Dash.” Arctic said looking at the dazed Pegasus.

“Hey Arc. Thanks by the way.” Rainbow said.

Just then, Fluttershy flew up and land on the windowsill.

“Rainbow, you rock. Woohoo.” Fluttershy said in her usually soft voice.

After Arctic set her down, Rainbow gain her bearings after recovering from being launched miles away.

“Really gotta work on that feeble performance.” Rainbow said.

“Actually, it wasn’t that bad. It was so amazing seeing you make those clouds spin.” Fluttershy responded.

“I’m not talking about my performance. I’m talking about yours.” Rainbow said pointing the Fluttershy.

“What are you two arguing about?” Twilight asked.

Rainbow just waved it away. “It’s not important. Wish you guys could come to see me compete in the Best Young Flyer’s Competition.”

“What’s the Best Young Flyer’s Competition?” Twilight and Arctic asked.

“Where all the greatest Pegasus flyers come together to show off their stuff! Some are fast!” Pinkie said before rushing around the library only to screech to a halt. “Some are graceful.” Pinkie then begun to attempt to gracefully dance about the room, only to stumble and fall. Quickly being caught by Glacious’s magic.

“Well golly. I’d love to see yah strut yer stuff in that competition.” Applejack said.

“Wish you guys could be there. Only Glacious and Arctic could be there, but I’d like for you all to be there.” Rainbow said.

Arctic slyly glanced away. While he could go to Cloudsdale to support Rainbow, most ponies are still a bit weary or scared of him.

“Fluttershy’s support is great, but her cheering isn’t exactly inspirational.” Rainbow said.

“I’d love to see you do a Sonic Rainboom! It’s like the most coolest thing ever! I mean, I’ve never seen it, but how not cool could it possibly not be!?” Pinkie excitedly exclaimed.

“What’s a Sonic Rainboom?” Twilight and Arctic asked her again. Even Glacious was intrigued.

“I have never heard of such a thing before. Could you possibly explain it, Young Pinkie?”

“Sure! That Sonic Rainboom is legendary!” Pinkie said as she jumped up to a high windowsill. “When a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going really fast,” Pinkie started before jumping to the ground with a loud thud. “A Sonic Boom and a Rainbow happens all at once!”

“And Rainbow’s the only one to pull it off.” Applejack said.

“That was a long time ago. I was just a filly.” Rainbow said.

“But your’re bigger and stronger than you were when you were a filly. You should be able to pull of a Sonic Rainboom much more easily.” Arctic said.

Rainbow mauled that over. Before, rather nervously, making a remark.

“Y..yeah! I could pull a Sonic Rainboom off in my sleep now! Now, I should get going. Gotta rest up.” Rainbow pointed to Fluttershy. “You need to keep practicing.”

As Rainbow flew out, Fluttershy looked back.

“She’s been practicing all day and never came close to doing it. I don’t know if my cheering will be enough to help.” Fluttershy said as she flew away.

“Go on. Go on.” Rarity said, nudging Twilight.

“Go on what?” Twilight asked.

“Find a spell that could get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale. Didn’t you see how nervous she was?” Rarity asked.

“Nervous? Why, she was tootin’ ‘er own horn louder than the brass section of a marchin’ band.” Applejack retorted.

“I’ve seen enough shows to recognize stage freight when I see it.” Rarity said. “Now go on!” Rarity blurted nudging Twilight harder and sending her stumbling forward.

“Ugh.” Groaned Twilight. “Fine. But I gotta find a book with a flight spell.”

“Flight spell? I’m on it. Here you go!” Pinkie said after rushing to a shelf, pulling out a book and tossing it to Twilight.

“How’d yah do that?” Asked Applejack asked.

“I saw it while flipping through the books as I put them away.” Pinkie said doing her usual bouncing in place.

“Here we go!” Twilight said after scanning the spell. “It looks quite difficult though.”

“Young Twilight, if I may?” Glacious chimed in.

“Oh uh, sure.” Twilight said levitating the book to Glacious.

Glacious looked through the book and nodded.

“This is indeed a difficult spell, but I should be able to perform it. I’ll just need somepony to go first.”

“I’ll do it!” Proclaimed Rarity. “I must be able to be there to support my friend.”

“Very well.” Glacious as she begun to perform the spell.

Glacious’s magic begun to swarm and surround Rarity. As Rarity was shrouded in Glacious’s magic, she felt something begin to materialize on her back. It felt strange to her as she felt what seemed like new nerves sprouting from her back as newfound wings took shape. Once it was over, Glacious’s magic dispersed, revealing Rarity with new butterfly-like wings.

“Woah! It worked!” Exclaimed Twilight.

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The group were all flying up towards Cloudsdale. Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Spike, and Twilight were all in Twilight’s Hot Air Balloon. Glacious and Arctic were flying.

“Woohoo!” Cried Rarity.

She was flying all over the sky, seemingly enjoying herself. Admiring the glistening sight of her wings. Her mane and tail flapped in the wind, her eyes closed as she enjoyed the feeling of the wind and condensation showering her body as they got closer to Cloudsdale.

“Oh my! I never knew flying would be this fun!” Rarity said.

“Young Rarity is having quite a lot of fun with her new wings.” Glacious Said with a light chuckle.

“Seems like it.” Arctic said with a broad smile.

As the group approached Cloudsdale, Rarity flew ahead bursting through the clouds. Moments later the other flew through them.

“You guys! You made it!” Rainbow said.

“Of course we’d make it.” Said Arctic. “Gotta support our friend, right?”

“Absolutely!” Replied Pinkie Pie.

Arctic was about to land of the clouds, as was Pinkie, who was jumping out of the hot air balloon. Rainbow, knowing neither of them could stand on clouds tried to stop them. Only to absolutely taken aback once the two landed with no problem.

“Wuh, h..how?” Stuttered Rainbow.

“We found a spell that gives non Pegasus ponies wings, but doing it multiple would be taxing, even for Glacious. So we found another spell to allow any none Pegasus to stand on clouds.” Twilight explained.

“Pretty cool huh?” Pinkie asked leaning up to Rainbow.

“This is amazing! Hey, since you guys are here, how about Fluttershy and I give you all a tour of Cloudsdale?” Rainbow asked.

They all agreed and their tour of Cloudsdale began. As the tour went on, Applejack, Pinkie, Spike, Twilight, Arctic, and Glacious all marveled at what they saw. Rarity, while she did enjoy touring Cloudsdale, basked in the complements she got from others. She even had somepony suggest that she enter the Flying Competition. Even, surprisingly, somepony suggested Arctic join as well. A few Pegasi had seen him flying, and after getting over their nervousness around him, asked how he could fly without wings.

After explaining how he could fly, a few Pegasi suggested he take part. After some debating, he decided to do so.

It was the beginning of the Competition. Pegasi after Pegasi went on the do their performances.

As the competition went on, Arctic, who was going second to last, noticed Rainbow hadn’t gone yet. After quickly searching for her, he found her.

“Rainbow?” Arctic asked.

Rainbow jumped and looked to Arctic.

“Wow, you’re tense. What’s wrong?” Asked Arctic sitting next to her.

Rainbow blushed a bit and sighed before opening up.

“Everypony’s gonna see how much of a failure I am. I’m gonna blow it, then I won’t meet the Wonderbolts, then Queen Celestia’ll banish me to the Everfree Forest! No, the moon!” Rainbow exclaimed.

Arctic could clearly tell Rainbow’s nerves were getting the better of her. So, he hugged her tight and smiled.

“I doubt she’d do that. And besides, You’re going to be fine. All that we wanna see if you doing your best. That’s all anyone can ask of you.” Arctic said. “Plus, you’re Rainbow Dash. Best flyer in all of Equestria. You’ll kick all these ponies flanks.”

Rainbow, still feeling nervous, cracked a small smile.

“And yours too.” Rainbow said.

“We’ll see.” Said Arctic.

The two chuckled and grinned. Arctic could see that Rainbow was still uneasy, so he came up with an idea.

“How about we perform together?”

“Together?” Rainbow asked raising an eyebrow

“Yeah! We could improvise a team performance.” Arctic said.

Rainbow was unsure, but she after a bit of internal debating she smiled.

“Alright! Let’s kick some flanks!” Rainbow said.

“Rarity is ready!” Came a voice.

From out of her room, decked out in a nice, albeit strange looking outfit, Rarity emerged. Her wings spread out glistening in the light.

Arctic and Rainbow looked to each other and rolled there eye. After a bit of convincing, the two were allowed to due a team performance. Alongside Rarity. The three emerged, ballet music playing in the background. Rarity, using her wings danced about in the sky as though she were doing ballet.

Rainbow and Arctic were doing phase 1 of Rainbow’s original performance. The two were flying in and out of massive cloud pillars. Arctic occasionally giving Rainbow words of encouragement when he noticed her nerves beginning to get the better of her. She appreciated it and was able to keep a cool head. Soon the two were on to a new phase. Arctic, using his magic, flew up into the air while spinning. Small flakes of snow and small shards of ice danced around him. Rainbow flew around him, a rainbow stream trailed her as she flew. It was a dazzling sight. Everypony watching was amazed.

Rarity was still doing her own thing. Dancing around and humming along to the music that was playing. Those watching her all watching hummed along as well, some even wanting to join her.

“Alright, time for the last phase. A Sonic Rainboom.” Rainbow said gulping.

Arctic could tell she was still nervous, so he smiled.

“I may not be able to do one, but I’ll fly with you. Let’s do this together. If we fail, then, we fail together.”

Rainbow was a bit taken aback, but smiled.

“Alright! Let’s do it.”

The two flew up high into the air as Rarity also flew her way up. As Arctic and Rainbow reached their peak, they heard a loud scream. They looked down. They both saw Rarity plummeting down to the ground.

“Rarity!” The two screamed.

Then, some of the members of the Wonderbolts, whom had been watching, flew down to catch her. However, Rarity’s flailing legs kicked at the Wonderbolts, knocking them all out. Arctic and Rainbow flew down as fast as they could in an attempt to catch them. Sensing that they may not be able to catch them, they picked up speed. Flying faster and faster. Arctic even transformed into a Super Saiyan to gain more speed.

As the two sped up, sparks of color burst out. Even a few flickers of something else flickered to life. In a matter of seconds, a massive Sonic boom erupted. But something else happened. A giant silver and blue dragon erupted into life. Not only that, it was shrouded in a massive rainbow. They both raced down and managed to grab onto Rarity and the Wonderbolts. They raced back up towards Cloudsdale and could hear the many cheers of the ponies there. They could even hear Fluttershy.

“A Sonic Rainboom! She did it! She did it!”

“A dragon!?” Exclaimed Arctic. “Was that a dragon?”

“I believe it was.” Said Glacious. “It seems my child has discovered a new move to add to his arsenal. And now it seems the two have done something new. Equestria’s first ever, Sonic Dragon.”

The others all looked amazed and dumbstruck before looking down to Arctic and Rainbow who had landed as other Pegasi came to get the Wonderbolts, Arctic carrying Rarity.

After some time went past, Rainbow and Arctic were at Twilight’s Hot Air Balloon with the others after being dubbed Cloudsdale’s best flyers by Queen Celestia.

“That was so amazing!” Pinkie blurted out, hoping around. “A Sonic Dragon!? That’s so fantasamazing!”

“It was rather cool. A Sonic Rainboom performed once again, and a new phenomenon. Any ideas of what you’ll call it?” Twilight asked.

Arctic thought about it. It took a bit, but he came up with a name for it.

“How about, Dragon’s Rush.” Arctic said, glancing to Spike and winking. Spike caught that and smiled. Just then, the Wonderbolts came up.

“So, you two are the ones who saved us and performed something called, Sonic Dragon? You’ll have to show it to us properly, that is if you’d like to hang out?” Said Spitfire.

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!” Rainbow said, excitement clear of her face.

Arctic chuckled.

“We don’t mind at all, Miss?” Arctic said.

“Spitfire. You?” Spitfire said raising a hoof

“Arctic.” Arctic replied holding out his hand and shaking Spitfire’s hoof.

Rainbow, after being hoisted up by the Wonderbolts, continued on.

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!”

Arctic just rolled his eyes and chuckled and followed them and gave a small light hearted laugh as their hangout session with the Wonderbolts begun.

Ch 20: Diamond Canidae

It was a bit of a slow day today. The only real eventful thing to happen thus far was Rarity asking Spike to go with her to collect gems for some famous pop music pony called, Sapphire Shores. Other than that, the others were all kinda just doing their own thing.

Arctic and Tree Hugger were at the lake with Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo was also there, listening to Arctic and Rainbow talk.

“So, what was all that? A Dragon?” Rainbow asked.

“Well, I have been trying to develop a new move dedicated to Spike. I guess doing a Sonic Rainboom helped me finally develop a new attack. And a new team move.” Arctic said with a grin.

Rainbow perked up and smiled.

“Oh yeah! Team move, the Sonic Dragon!” Rainbow yelled. “We should do it again!”

“That’s what that was?” Tree Hugger asked. “Dang dude, Mother and I both saw that. Didn’t know it was you two.”

“I also saw it!” Scootaloo chimed in. “That looked so cool! But, Arc, what are you gonna call that move when you don’t do the team move with Rainbow Dash?”

Arctic raised an eyebrow. He hadn’t necessarily thought of a name for the move. He figured he should give it a name, so, he began to think.

“How about, Dragon Rush?” Arctic asked.

“That sounds cool!” Scootaloo said.

“Heck yeah it does, little dude. Think you could show us?” Tree Hugger asked.

“Sure.” Arctic said.

Arctic begun to fly up into the sky before stopping. His nerves were getting to him. He had only done the move once alongside Rainbow, so he was a bit unsure about it, but decided to give it a shot. He begun to barrel down to the ground. He could feel himself picking up speed as his energy engulfed him. Just before he could manage it, something disrupted him.

“Hey you guys!”

Arctic’s focus had been broken and he slammed straight into the water.

“Oof. Good thing he landed in the water.” Tree Hugger chuckled as she reached out helping Arctic back into dry land after he popped up.

Looking over, it was Pinkie Pie. The tiny ball of cotton candy and energy bounced up and down.

“Sorry Arc, but I really need to guys to come with me.” Pinkie said as she jumped up onto Arctic’s shoulder, reclaiming her seat above the low born non party animals.

“What do you need us for Pinks?” Rainbow asked.

“It’s a secret!” Pinkie said in a sing-song voice. “Let’s just go to Sugarcube Corner.” Pinkie said.

The others looked to each other before shrugging. After picking up Scootaloo, and promising to show her the move later, he and the others made their way to Sugarcube Corner. Upon arriving, they saw the others there. Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Glacious, even Zecora, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle.

“Howdy, y’all!” Applejack said.

“Howdy, A.J.” Arctic said with a small grin, mimicking Applejacks accent.

“Pinkie asked you all to show up too?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yup.” Rainbow answered. “Thing is, we don’t know why she’s asked us to come here.” She said giving a suspicious glare to the filly sized mare, perched atop her throne.

“Don’t suppose you guys know what’s going on?” Tree Hugger asked.

“Oh no, my dear Tree Hugger.” Zecora responded. “We know not why Ms. Pie had summoned us here.”

“It’s a secret.” Pinkie said as she hopped off of Arctic and marched up to the doors of Sugarcube Corner. “Alright everypony! This tiny pink mare has been working on something and I’ve done it!” Pinkie said opening the doors.

The others looked within and found that there was a giant cake that resembled Sugarcube Corner itself.

“Minicube corner!” Pinkies blurted out presenting the giant cake.

The others all just stared in silence.

“I’ve been wanting to make something like this for a while. At first I wanted to make Golden Oaks, then I decided to try making Carousel Boutique, but I couldn’t figure out a proper flavor, so I decided to go with Sugarcube Corner, especially because I knew the flavor of it.” Pinkie said bouncing up and down.

“Young Pie, do you mean you ate pieces of Sugarcube Corner?” Zecora asked with a look of concern.

Pinkie stopped and looked with shifty eyes before whispering, “maybe”.

The others all just groaned as they began to dig into the cake as Pinkie just smiled watching her friends, till she too, dug in. The cake was good the amalgam of was strange, but good in a way. The group all ate together, enjoying themselves and getting up to speed on each other’s lives. Tree Hugger had found a group of ponies to explore nature with, with interested Fluttershy to the point, she asked to join in every so often. Zecora had even decided to take a trip to her homeland for a while. Her mother’s birthday was coming and she couldn’t miss it. Of course, Pinkie begged to go as well to throw the party, until she remembered Ms. Cheerliee’s birthday was the same day. So, reluctantly, she decided to stay for Ms. Cheerliee’s birthday. Though she offer to make a cake.

By the time the group finished off the cake, they made their way to the middle of town to relax and chat.

“I’m so full.” Groaned Rainbow as she laid sprawled out of Arctic’s lap like a cat.

Arctic just chuckled and pet Rainbow’s belly to help relieve her of her stomach ache.

“Well, with all the cake yah done ate, makes sense yah’d be feelin’ like a over inflated balloon.” Applejack said with a chuckle.

“I have to admit, seeing you like that makes you look adorable.” Fluttershy said.

She wasn’t wrong. For all her tomboyish antics, in this moment, she did look rather cute.

“I’m not cute.” Rainbow said with a furious blush plastered across her cheeks. “I’m a big blue speed demon! The fastest flyer in Equestria and flank kicker of Nightmare Moon!”

“I wouldn’t call you big, Young Rainbow Dash.” Said Glacious.

“Indeed. You are just barely bigger than Miss Pie.” Zecora added.

Pinkie giggled and bounced in her usual manner.

“That’s right Dashie! You are pretty small!” Pinkie blurted out.

Rainbow just huffed as the others laughed. Just then, Spike ran up. He was sweaty and out of breath. He tried to speak, only to stumble over his words as he attempted to catch his breath.

“Spike? What’s wrong?” Asked Twilight as she went up to him, a worried expression on her face.

“Rare…*huff*….take….*huff*…..dogs.” Spike spluttered out.

“What?” Twilight asked.

After managing to catch his breath, Spike spoke.

“Rarity. She was taken by Diamond Dogs!”

“Taken?” Everyone asked in unison as they shot up.

“Then we should go help her!” Fluttershy said in a frantic cry.

“Young ones.” Glacious said, gaining their attention. “You go find and save young Rarity. If they are foalnapping ponies, they may be coming to Ponyville for more.”

“We shall stay here to defend Ponyville. Should things grow too much for us, we will evacuate and summon more help.” Zecora said.

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They rushed away to where Spike and Rarity were digging up gems. As they ran, The others asked Twilight about the Diamond dogs, as they had never heard of them. Even Twilight, for all her scholarly knowledge, knew little about the Diamonds.

“There isn’t much about them. Most books that include them are mostly about them living in the mountains, hunting diamonds to hoard. There is a rumor, they had a kingdom many years ago, but I’m unsure. Perhaps Queen Celestia knows more about them.” Twilight stated in a pant as she ran.

“Then we’ll ask her about them.” Arctic said. ”Or I could ask mother.” Arctic thought to himself.

Eventually the group made it to the site. Dozens of holes littered the ground, where the Diamond Dogs had popped out to attack and abduct Rarity.

“This is where it happened.” Spike said.

“Then let’s get to it! Or friend needs our help!” Rainbow said.

She shot up into the air, and barreled back down. Before she could make it to the hole, a mound a dirt emerged, blocking her path and closing the hole. Rainbow, moving to fast to stop properly, slammed into the dirt.

“They’re pluggin’ the holes!” Applejack said.

Looking around, the group saw all of the holes being filled. In a frantic flurry of motion, the group all quickly try to dive into a hole but are unable to make it. After failing so many times, fed up with the games, Arctic just stuck out his hand and blasted at one of the mound, creating a bigger hole in the ground.

“Huh. Could’ve done that sooner.” Pinkie said as she hopped into the hole with an enthusiastic squeal, leaving poor Arctic to just let out a low groan.

“Never change, Pinkie.” Arctic said as he jumped in after her.

After the others jumped in, the landed on the ground, surrounded by tunnels that seem to stretch in multiple directions as far as the eye can see.

“How in tarnation are we ever gonna find Rarity? ‘S like a maze in here.” Applejack stated.

“It’s a miracle the Diamond Dogs can find their way around this place. How do they even get around down here?” Rainbow added.

“Maybe, smell?” Tree Hugger suggested.

“What does that mean?” Rainbow asked.

“Maybe they use their sense of smell to find their way around.” Tree Hugger said.

“Well,” started Fluttershy, “Dogs do have an incredible sense of smell. That could be the way they get around.”

After some thinking, Arctic chimed in.

“Fluttershy!”

Fluttershy jumped, not expecting Arctic to call, or rather, kinda shout, her name.

“Yes?”

“You’re a Thestral now.” Arctic said.

“Yeah, we know.” Rainbow said with a pout. She secretly wish she had become a Thestral. It looked so cool to be one.

“Don’t bats have good senses of smell, like dogs do?” Arctic asked.

“Yes they do.”

“Then, Thestrals should also have a good sense of smell too. Since you are one, maybe you can get Rarity’s scent off Spike and track her down. We can find Rarity and go home.” Arctic suggested.

Twilight perked up.

“That’s right! Since Fluttershy is a Thestral, her sense of smell would be greater than a ponies. She should be able to find Rarity pretty easily.”

Fluttershy thought for a bit. Now that it was brought up, she had noticed her sense of smell had gotten stronger. In fact, a few things about her new form caught her attention. She thought of going to visit that Thestral that transformed her. She’s going to have to learn more about her new form. After sniffing Spike, she picked up Rarity’s scent. Or rather, the Lavender and Vanilla scented perfume she always wore. Sniffing around, she pick up on Rarity’s perfume.

“This way.” Fluttershy said, leading the charge to Rarity’s location.

As they charged their way to Rarity, a pack of Diamond Dogs blocked their path.

“Ponies, here for gem pony.” One said.

“Will not let ponies take gem pony.” The other said.

“Gem pony, find gems for Diamond Dogs. Said a third.

The three and the rest of their pack held up weapons, ready to fight. Arctic stepped up and took a deep breath.

“Spike, you really wanna save her?” He asked.

“Of course I do!” Spike said.

“Well, time to fight for her. I’ll back you up.”

Spike grew nervous. He never caught before. He was always scared to fight. Nightmare Moon? He didn’t even go with them. He was terrified. Thing is, he knew Twilight and the girls were scared, yet, they still went. Spike admired that. Their bravery to jump into a fight despite being scared. Then there was Arctic. The only one who really understood him. Spike really looked up to Arctic. Looked to him as a brother. Then there’s his power. He’s so strong and tough. He wanted to be like him. Perhaps this could be the opportunity he needed. Show his bravery and fight alongside Arctic. So, steeping up to the plate, he readied himself.

The Diamond Dogs laughed.

“Monkey creature and tiny lizard? Fight us? No way!” Cackled one.

“Will lose to Diamond Dog might.” Said another.

Arctic and Spike nodded to each other. Spike rushed forward. Skidding under the first dog, he grabbed his legs, pulling them from under the dog. This allowed Arctic to shoot forward, kneeing the dog in the chin. The dog was knocked out before it hit the ground. The duo rushed the next. Arctic swiped his leg and kicked the dog’s side as Spike, using his claws, scratched the dogs face. The dog yelped and ran off with it’s tail between it’s legs.

The girls, especially Twilight, watched as the two fought together. Twilight didn’t think she’d see Spike fight like this before. She was proud of him. Worried, like any sibling would, but, proud.

As the two fought, the girls rushed by, following Fluttershy as she tracked Rarity’s scent. Arctic and Spike kept fighting, till a few of the pack of dogs saw the girls and gave chase.

“No, Twilight!” Spike shouted, till he found himself being lifted.

“Go with them. I’ll keep the dogs back. Take this.” Arctic gave Spike one of the dogs weapons. A large stick that was wielded like a bo staff. Spike nodded as Arctic threw Spike, making sure he landed on Applejack’s back, as he knew she could take the sudden jostle of Spike landing on her. He jumped in front of the dogs going after them, blocking their path.

“You’re fighting me.”

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Rarity was down on the lower floor. She was a haggard mess. Her mane was frazzled, her coat was dirty and caked with frothy sweat. She was strapped to carts filled with diamonds as the Diamond dogs stood with her, making sure she didn’t stop. Rarity’s horn spluttered out. The dogs saw this and growled.

“Gem pony giving up?” Fido said.

“Does gem pony wanna finally go?” Said Spot.

“Dogs don’t mind, feasting on pony.” Said Rover.

The three stared at Rarity, their mouths drooling, ready to have a feast they hadn’t had in a while. Rarity, fear in her eyes, activated her magic, locating more gems. The dogs groaned. They were ready to get a taste of meat, they hadn’t eaten in ages. Just then, the three were struck on the head by someone.

“How many times have I told you three not to try eating them so early. We need all the gems we can get.” Said a voice.

“Y..yes! We sorry. We try not to eat pony early.” Said Rover.

Sitting down on a cobbled together throne sat a Diamond dog girl. She was taller than the other dogs. Much taller. She was muscular with tan fur with a long pale blonde hair and tail that were both braided. Her eyes glowed green in the darkness. She wore armor that seemed to be put together much better than the rest of armored Diamond Dogs. She watched over the whole ordeal, satisfied with how things were going.

“Grand Mistress, Princess Dia will be proud. Perhaps by the end of this, she’ll make me a part of her Royal Guard, as I should’ve been. Hehe. And this pony will help me obtain my goal, even if it kills her.”

Ch 21: A Canidae Battle

The Diamond dog general sat upon her cobbled together throne, observing Rarity. She let out a low huff of disgust. Diamond Dogs have never really liked ponies much. They tend to keep their distance from ponies, only really revealing themselves, to foalnap and use the ponies to gather gems for them, or to occasionally feast on the ponies they grab.

“General Barite!” Cried one of the armored Diamond dogs, who rushed up to her and bowed

“Aren’t you meant to be guarding the tunnel entrances?” Barite asked, anger evident in her voice.

“Yes, General Barite. But….”

“But what?!” Barite interrupted.

“Intruders, here.” He said.

General Barite raised and eyebrow.

“Intruders? And you left them to possibly come here to disrupt our operation and save that miserable little pony?” Barite asked.

Rarity flinched at that. She wanted to retort, but was too tired to, having constantly used her gem finding spell. Even if she wasn’t, a muzzle was out on her, keeping her from speaking.

“Intruders, strong. One of them, more strong.” Said the armored dog.

“One of them, stronger? Most of these ponies are much too weak to challenge a Diamond dog. Other than a select few, we Diamond Dogs topple these lowly creatures.” Barite said.

“Stronger one is no pony. Tall monkey creature.”

“A monkey creature? How could some monkey creature possibly be strong enough to handle us? How could those pony intruders, be strong enough to handle us?!” Barite said.

Her face shifted to one of irritation and slight shock seeing a few Diamond Dog Guards running from something. She looked over and saw the group rush in. Fluttershy stood at the head of the group, Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Tree Hugger, and Spike, standing behind her. Rarity saw them and let out a happy throaty groan.

“Rarity!” They all shouted, rushing up to her.

General Barite observed the group. She then threw her head back in a loud cackle.

“These rinky-dink little ponies are the strong intruders you warned me about? A couple ponies and what looks like a small, weak, baby dragon.”

Spike frowned slightly, but stood his ground.

“We’re here to save our friend, Rarity!” Spike shouted.

“Save her? Save her?!” Barite cackled. “And how exactly are you going to..”

Barite stopped short to dodge a blast from Pinkie’s Party Cannon.

“Let’s buckin’ PARTY!!” Pinkie shouted, rapidly firing her Party Cannon.

Pinkie laughed like a madmare, firing her Party Cannon, confetti scattered all over. Twilight, did her best to free Rarity. Rover saw this and growled.

“You won’t take gem pony!” He shouted, lunging at Twilight, ready to strike her down.

Applejack, swiftly rushed up and bucked Rover away. He skipped and skidded along the ground, getting covered in deep cuts and scratches. He wasn’t dead or anything from Applejack’s powerful buck, but he wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon.

“Thanks for the save, Applejack.” Twilight said with a thankful smile.

“No problem Twi.” Applejack said before jumping into a fight, teaming up with Pinkie.

Rainbow dash was fighting, using her speed to her advantage as the Armored Diamond dogs were sluggish and growing more tired with their heavy armor.

“Haha! You schmucks got nothing on the great Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow said with a cocky laugh.

That is, until she whacked over the head by one of the Diamond dog’s shields.

“What they hay!” Rainbow groaned til she zipped away, dodged one of the dogs that reached out to grab her.

Fluttershy, while reluctant, fought as well. Though, she didn’t exactly fight as much as she dodged. Using the dogs against each other. She would make the dogs hit each other as she moved with newfound nimbleness and agility. She moved sorta on instinct, using her senses to guide her. But as she was not yet used to her newfound Thestral senses, she did occasionally get hit or scratched.

“How is bat pony dodging?” One of the dogs said in frustration.

“Bat pony annoying.” Said another.

Spike, wasn’t doing bad. With his smaller size and speed, thanks to the dogs armor slowing them down, he was able to dodge their strikes and deliver quick slashes at the dogs exposed parts. He jumped back, and taking a deep breath, unleashed a breath of fire. The dogs stopped, frozen in fear. Just then, a giant shield slammed down in front of them, blocking the flames.

“A shield?” Spike asked. Then he looked at the shield more closely.

“It’s a scale.” Said Barite as she walked up and picked up the shield. “To be more specific, it’s a dragon’s scale, young drake.”

Spike blanched slightly.

“A dragon’s scale? You fought….”

“Fought and killed a dragon, yes.” Barite said with a cocky grin.

Spike’s heart sank with fear. He had never known any creature to take down a Dragon. Though he didn’t know much about dragons, he did know they were pretty strong. So, to hear that a Diamond Dog somehow bested and killed one? It was terrifying. Barite, sensing Spike’s fear, chuckled and rushed him. Spike, stood their, to scared to move. Just then, he ducked and jumped away. A new burst of determination and anger filled him. He knew he had to be strong if he wanted to make it out of here with his friends. He knew Arctic would fight to protect his friends, so, he decided. He had to fight. If he wanted to make it out, he needed to fight.

Spike took in a breath and spewed fire at Barite. Barite just used her dragon scale shield to block the flames. She shot forward, and with one of the armored Diamond Dogs axes, he swung, ready to strike Spike. Seeing it coming,Spike quickly dodged the incoming blow.

“Decided to be courageous and fight, Huh? I’m impressed. But,” Barite said as she rushed Spike, “in the end, YOU’LL STILL DIE!”

Spike helped at the vicious roar. The roar caught the attention of the others. Twilight’s eyes widened, and in a flash, used telekinesis to pull Spike away. Barite growled and looked over to them.

“Using telekinesis huh? It won’t help you in the end. All of you! Clear out.” Barite barked to the other Diamond Dogs.

The dogs all backed away, knowing Barite was getting serious. They saw her when she was serious many times. It scared them to the bone. Barite, cracking her knuckles prepared herself.

“Alright, girls. Let’s get ready.” Twilight said.

“Think we can beat her?” Rainbow asked.

“No.” Rarity said. “I saw her strength. She’ll beat us.”

Applejack noticed Rarity tremble. It was clear that whatever Rarity saw, terrified her. And hearing that she had brought down and dragon, as well as seeing the other Diamond Dogs fairly fearful expressions? It told her that this Diamond Dog was something to not take lightly.

Barite smiled and shot forward, swinging the axe down. Twilight, thinking quickly, used her magic to teleport the group. Rainbow, ever the brash mare she is, rocketed towards Barite, ready to deliver a kick. Barite, in a swift motion, grabs Rainbow Dash’s leg and tosses her to the ground, slamming her shield down on Rainbow’s stomach hard enough to knock the wind out of her.

“Rainbow!” Applejack yelled.

Reaching into Pinkie’s mane, Applejack pulled out her rope. This made Applejack shudder though, knowing Pinkie seemed to always be Apple to store things in her mane somehow. Anyway, she made a lasso and quickly lassoed Barite. With a tug of her mighty muzzle, swung Barite into the walls and then into Pinkie’s Party Cannon.

“Fire in the hole!” Pinkie shouted as she fired the cannon. However, what Applejack didn’t bank on, was for Barite to hold onto the rope.

Barite, clutching the rope, dragged Applejack with her. As Barite flew, she began to spin her body, swinging Applejack around she finally swing down, slamming Applejack down onto Rainbow. Both of them let out a pained groan. The even coughed out a small splattering of blood.

Rarity, her anger over what the dogs did, their threats, working her to death, and now, harming her friends, let her anger boil over. Triggering her magic, Rarity summoned shining blue spots on the floor. Twilight, seeing this, quickly teleported Applejack and Rainbow to them. Barite looked down at the spots on the ground. Curiosity flowed through her as she looked and saw Rarity was the one who was doing this. Before Barite could do anything, Rarity started her attack.

With a bright, almost blinding, glow, gem shards shot out of the dots on the floor. Barite did her best to block them, but try as she might, she did obtain a few new cuts. Some of which were deep enough to leave her with some new scars once they healed.

After the attack, Rarity collapsed, having used the last of her magic just for that attack.

“Dang dude.” Tree Hugger said in awe. “What was that?”

“I…I don’t know, d…darling.” Rarity stuttered.

“Whatever it was, it was amazing!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Barite brought her arms down and looked over to Rarity.

“Impressive, diamond pony. That actually left some decent cuts. Good job. However, that’s the last bit of damage you’ll ever get on me!” Barite said as she charged towards Rarity.

Tree Hugger jumped in front of her, and with a swift motion, bucked Barite in the stomach before she could reach Rarity. The kick knocked the wind out of Barite, but also sprained Tree Huggers back hooves. Barite, in an effort to get back at Tree Hugger, reached out to grab her. Twilight tapped into her magic and let loose a blast of magic. It nailed Barite and sent her flying. Barite hit the ground with a thud and laid there.

Twilight took in deep breaths.

“Is she down?” Twilight asked.

“Doesn’t looks like she’ll be getting up after that.” Fluttershy said.

“Let’s get Tree Hugger, Rarity, Rainbow, and Applejack and get out of here.” Twilight said as she rushed to Aaplejack and Rainbow.

She was about to pick them up, when Fluttershy cried out to her.

“Twilight! Watch out!”

Twilight looked back and saw Barite standing above her. Before she could do anything, Barite swung her paw and back fisted Twilight in the side, launching her away. Twilight let out a groan and even spat out some blood from the strike.

“Twilight!” Spike exclaimed as he rushed towards her. “Twilight, are you okay?!”

“No use focusing on her, young drake. Better focus,” Barite shot towards Spike with the axe. “ON YOURSELF!” Barite shouted as she brought the axe down. Spike dodged it and jumped away. The axe narrowly missed Twilight as its blade was imbedded in the ground in front of her.

Barite pulled the axe free and walked to Spike, ready to end his life right there. Spike, frantically looked around. Rarity, Tree Hugger, Rainbow, Applejack, and Twilight were down and wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon. He noticed Pinkie and Fluttershy behind Barite. Fluttershy was getting into Pinkie’s Party Cannon, and with the fuse lit, it soon fired.

Barite heard the boom of the cannon and looked back, only to be nailed in the back by Fluttershy.

“RRAAAAAGGGHHHH!” Barite exclaimed, coughing out blood and crashing to the ground.

Fluttershy wasn’t done just yet.

“Take this, you big bully!” Fluutershy’s shouted.

Spike noticed something. Fluttershy’s eyes had changed. They had gone from their usual bluish teal, to a blood red. Even her fangs got sharper and larger, and her coat puffed out slightly. The sight, frightened him.

Fluttershy in a bout of uncharacteristic fury, rapidly began punching Barite in the back. The flurry of punches left deep dents in Barite’s back. Fluttershy let out a blood curdling, pained, and furious scream. Fluttershy kept wailing on Barite, until Barite managed to reach a paw back and grab Barite’s hoof.

Fluttershy stopped, shocked her attack had been caught. Her eyes turned back to normal as Barite, slowly stood up.

“I’ve had enough of you.” Barite said coolly.

In a swift motion, Barite slammed Fluttershy down and tossed her straight into Pinkie Pie, sending them both crashing into the wall. Spike stumbled some, but decided to attack. If Fluttershy could attack, he could too. Plus, he knew Arctic wouldn’t just sit back and watch. Thinking fast, Spike spotted the axe. Barite had dropped it after Fluttershy slammed into her after being shot out of the Party Cannon.

Rushing for it, Spike grabbed it, and with all his might, swung it, nailing Barite square in the back. He made sure to hit directly where Fluttershy had been hitting.

Barite let out a pained roar as she quickly kicked her leg back, nailing Spike in the stomach. She got Spike on his back and stepped on his face.

“I’ve beaten fully grown adult dragons before! What makes you think I can’t handle a baby?!” Barite exclaimed, until she jumped back holding the paw that was on Spike’s face in pain.

Spike had let loose a burst of flames, burning Barite’s paw. Barite was about to attack Spike again, a loud roar soaring out of her throat as she readied herself to attack and kill Spike. However, in her anger, she left herself open. Spike, opening his mouth let out a blast of fire in Barite’s face as he ran away, rushing to the girls to try and wake them up so they can go.

Barite saw this and rushed to Spike.

“Get back here!”

Spike jumped and rushed to Pinkie’s Party Cannon. Tossing a bunch of gems in the barrel, he lit the fuse. Once it went off, gems flew at Barite, pelting her all over. Some even deepened the cuts she got from Rarity.

Barite stumbled back.

“How….how, DARE YOU!” Barite exclaimed as he rushed Spike with a spear she snatched from one of the armored Diamond Dogs.

She was about to impale Spike right there, until she noticed all the other Diamond Dogs on the floor. Next she knew, a sharp pain shot through her. Looking down, she saw a creature she had never seen before. Its foot was buried deep in her stomach as it held the dragon in its arms. It was Arctic.

“Arctic!” Spike exclaimed as he hugged Arctic tight. “What took you so long? Where’ve you been.”

“Sorry about that Spike. I would’ve been here sooner, but i decided to take out all the other Diamond Dogs before getting here. What happened to the girls.” Arctic asked.

“She took them out.” Spike said pointing to Barite.

Barite looked at Arctic and Spike with a scowl as blood oozed out of her mouth and nose..

Arctic set Spike down.

“Get back Spike.”

Spike nodded and rushed back.

“I’ve beaten many creatures. What makes you think I can’t beat you?” Barite asked.

Arctic didn’t bother answering as he got into a fighting stance.

“Not a talker, huh. Very well. Let’s get this over with. Your head will make a nice addition to my collection.” Barite said as she too, got into a fighting stance, ready to go up against Arctic.

Ch 22: Barite Brawl

Barite held her spear tight as she rushed Arctic. With rapid thrusts of the spear, Barite attempt to stab Arctic. He managed to dodge her and deliver a back hand to her cheek. Using his tail, he took her leg and tossed her to the wall. Barite slammed into the wall, her paws leaving divets in the wall. She looked up and jumped away as Arctic rocketed forward and punched the wall, narrowly missing Barite.

Barite spun her spear and tossed it at Arctic as he ran towards her, aiming for his head. He dodged and caught it before flipping it around. He slashed at Barite with it, managing to cut her cheek. Throwing a hard left hook, she aimed for his stomach. Arctic thought quick, and used his tail to catch Barite’s fist. Tilting his head back, Arctic shot it forward, head butting Barite in the muzzle. Barite stumbled back and whipped around. Using her tail, she struck Arctic’s face. Arctic stumbled back and smirked.

“Well, this is going to be a fun little bout.” Arctic said as he spat blood to the ground.

“Indeed. Pray tell, creature, this is an interesting little fight I find myself in. Though, I wonder, what are you exactly?” Barite asked.

“I’m a saiyan.” Arctic said as he flicked his tail.

“A Saiyan? Never heard of a creature such as you.” Barite said.

“Makes sense. I am the only of my kind here in Equestria.” Arctic said, his eyes glinting.

Barite scoffed and examined Arctic’s body. “I can tell fighting you is going to be tough.”

“You mean, fighting “us” will be tough.” Arctic said.

“Us?” Barite asked.

Before she could register it, Spike appeared behind her and slammed her over the head with one of the shields from the armed Diamond Dogs. Barite clutched her head and went to swing at Spike, only to be hit in the side by Arctic, sending her skidding away.

“Insolent baby DRAGON!” Barite shouted.

Arctic and Spike, standing side by side, unleashed an attack together. Arctic, a Chou Makouhou, and Spike, a burst of flames, the would later be dubbed by Spike, the Shine Cannon. The two attacks melded into one and shot straight towards Barite. Barite put up her guard and blocked as best as she could. She was thrown back and straight into the wall.

One of the armored dogs tried to help her up.

“Miss Bari…”

He was cut short. Barite had rammed the spear through his chest. He dropped to his knees and fell over. Dead.

Spike shuddered and Arctic growled.

“She.. did she really just?” Spike trembled.

“She did. She killed her own comrade.” Arctic said.

Barite rushed towards the two and swung her leg, kicking Spike away. Arctic reeled and punched Barite square in the face. The two glare at each other and begin to clash with each other. The speed of their punches and kicks was blinding. Spike could hardly keep up with them as he slowly got up. Spike looked around and spotted Applejack’s rope. Running to it, he snatched it up and, looking for something else, found it and ran to it.

As Arctic and Barite clashed, they stopped when they heard a loud “Boom”. Suddenly, a purple and green blur shot past. It was Spike. He had used Pinkie’s Party Cannon to launch himself to Barite. As he flew past, he managed to get Applejacks rope around Barite’s neck.

Barite growled.

“Can’t have you getting in my way and disrupting things. Better get rid of you first.”

Barite ran to the downed Spike. Arctic, determined not to let that happen, grabbed the rope. Barite, after being choked by Arctic grabbing the rope, she looked to Arctic. Arctic smiled and tugged the rope, slamming Barite to the ground over and over. Barite used her claws to cut the rope. She ran to Arctic and slashed at his stomach. He managed to dodge, well enough to not get fatally slashed, but he did get a relatively deep cut across his stomach. Arctic leaned back and kicked Barite in the jaw, disorienting her enough to rush over to Spike.

“Spike! Are you okay?” Arctic asked.

“I’m fine. What about you? That cut looks bad.” Spike said, looking at the cut across Arctic’s stomach.

“It’s fine. I can take much more than this.” Arctic said.

“Let’s test that, Shall we?”

Arctic looked back, only for the spear to pierce through his left shoulder. Arctic let out a roar of pain as he clutched his shoulder. He had briefly, and mistakenly, lowered his guard, allowing Barite to take the spear and send it barreling thought his shoulder. Arctic pulled it out and swung it at Barite, getting his blood all over her and sending little splatters of blood all around her.

“And what was that supposed to do? Just wanted to sully my fur with your disgusting blood?” Barite asked with a chuckle.

“Mother can do it. Let’s see if I can too.” Arctic said as he raised the spear.

Triggering his magic, he jabbed the end of the spear into a puddle of his blood. Barite, raising an eyebrow, just watched with an amused smirk. Until, the end of the spear shot up from a splatter of Arctic’s blood and nailed Barite square in the jaw. Barite looked at Arctic in confusion.

“What in Tartarus was that?” Barite asked.

Arctic smiled and begun jabbing the end of the spear into his blood over and over, striking Barite all over.

“Spike, get the girls. We need to get out of here.” Arctic said.

“Right.” Spike said as he rushed to the girls, slowly waking them, one by one.

Barite, after slowly picking up the pattern in Arctic’s attacks managed to grab the spear.

“This is it. I won’t let you beat me with these cheap tricks.” Barite said.

Arctic tugged the spear, dragging Barite into the blood. Popping out the other end, Arctic let go of the spear and punched Barite in the face as Barite also through a punch into Arctic’s face.

“Woah! Never seen anything like that before.” Came a voice.

Arctic, and Barite, looked over and saw Rainbow and the others all awake and watching.

“Damn it. They’re awake.” Barite said as she looked to them, Fluttershy in particular, remembering her assault on her.

Barite growled and ran like lightning to Fluttershy and punched her hard in the cheek. Rainbow, her anger rising, flew up and shot back down, landing a blow on Barite’s back. Barite swung around and backhanded Rainbow and stomped her, breaking Rainbow’s left foreleg.

“Rainbow!” The girls yelled.

Arctic saw this and his anger flared. In a Burst of rage, Arctic tapped into Super Saiyan. Barite looked back and saw that he had transformed.

“What the heck?” Barite asked.

Just then, a wave of cold air filled the area. Barite, even Arctic, Spike, and the girls looked to the source. It came from Fluttershy. She was trembling fairly violently. She had had enough. First her and her friends were knocked out, Spike was hurt, Arctic was injured and with the blood still leaking from his shoulder, she worried that he’d die from blood loss. Then, when they are awake and getting ready to attempt flee, she were attacked and Rainbow got her leg broken. Fluttershy had finally had. She snapped.

“RRGGGAAAAHHHHHH!”

Letting out a bloodcurdling yell, Fluttershy had changed. Her body and muscles had grown slightly. Her pink mane and tail became snow white. Her coat had gotten slightly puffy and her teal eyes had become blood red and her fangs grew larger. The cold air and frost got worse. Fluttershy had completely transformed.

“You’ll pay for this, you big jerk!” Fluttershy yelled as she spread her wings and barreled into Barite’s belly and sent her flying backwards to Arctic.

Arctic kicked Barite up into the air as Fluttershy flew up, grabbed Barite’s leg, and with a spin, threw Barite into the wall. Spike, deciding to help, spewed fire at Barite. She dodged it and rushed towards Spike. She stretched out her hand, about to grab him, when Fluttershy slammed her hoof into Barite’s head and slammed it into the ground. She then took Barite’s leg and slammed her into the wall, dragging her across it before tossing her aside. Arctic ran up and punched Barite into the wall. In quick succession, he threw multiple punches to Barite, till she caught his fist. She punched him herself, targeting some of his injuries, specifically the gaping wound on his shoulder.

Once Arctic dropped to a knee, clutching his shoulder, Barite kicked his face,causing his nose to bleed, and sending him backwards. Fluttershy, got in front of Barite and bucked her face. Spinning around, she used her wing to grab Barite and threw her to Applejack. Applejack smiled and bucked Barite. Barite grabbed Applejack’s leg and was about to break it when Pinkie aimed her Party Cannon to Barite.

“Party Time!” Pinkie shouted as she fired the cannon, sending Barite flying back.

“How can a cannon that shoots confetti be that powerful?” Barite asked.

Rarity, activating her magic, summoned her attack from last time. Blue spots formed all over the floor. Barite tried to get away, only for Arctic to kick her back back into Fluttershy, who grabbed Barite and flew up, hovering over the spots.

“Gem Pillar!” Rarity shouted as Gems flew up from the ground, pelting Barite and Fluttershy.

Barite yelled and tried to wriggle out of Fluttershy’s grip.

“Let go, you bat pony trash!” Barite shouted between getting hit.

“I won’t let you hurt my friends anymore!” Fluttershy replied.

After Rarity stopped her attack, Fluttershy dropped Barite, letting her fall to the ground. After that, Fluttershy landed nearby, only for Barite to then grab Fluttershy’s forelegs and bite one of them. Fluttershy yelped and tried to shake her off. Tree Hugger, upset with herself for not being able to even fight with them, let her desperation flare. Tapping into a bit of old magic, magic that hadn’t been seen in a millennia, made the ground rumble. The girls, Arctic, and Spike all sat with wide eyes. Vines and roots popped out from the ground and grabbed Barite. In the blink of an eye, a large tree had formed, holding onto Barite tight. Twilight looked over to Tree Hugger.

“How did you do that, Tree Hugger?” Twilight asked.

“I don’t know, dude. Let’s just go while we can.” Tree Hugger said.

The group was about to leave, when Rarity stopped and went to the carts of gems.

“Rarity, what in the hay are yah doin?” Applejack asked.

“I slaved away finding these gems. I’m taking them with me. Plus, I can use them for my work.” Rarity said.

Arctic ran up and took the saddle connected to the train of carts full of gems and flew to the exit. The girls and Spike got in them. The gems poked and jabbed them, but they decided to bare it in as they fled. The armored dogs, who were just sitting around letting Barite fight Arctic and Spike, fled and hid. Until now. They chased them in an attempt to stop them. Spike got to the back of the train of carts, took in a deep breath, and spewed a massive burst of flames at the dogs. The dogs all stopped and fled, suffering some burns.

Eventually Arctic made it out with the carts and the girls. After getting out, he used his magic to seal the holes with thick sheets of ice.

“That was intense.” Said Rainbow.

“Arctic. Are you alright?” Tree Hugger asked.

“I’m fine. Though, I might not last long with this wound on my shoulder.” Arctic said.

“You should stop, darling. Get some rest.” Rarity said.

“Yeah Arc. One of us can pull us to Ponyville. You get some rest okay?” Pinkie said.

Arctic chuckled. “Okie dokie lokie.”

Pinkie squealed with joy hearing Arctic say one of her signature lines. After Arctic fell out of Super Saiyan and laid, uncomfortably, on the gems, Applejack got herself saddled up and hauled them all back home to Ponyville, eager to get themselves checked out and get some rest.

Ch 23: Arctic’s New Friend

It was around two days after the battle with Barite. Glacious and Zecora were shocked to see them all injured and bruised up. Like the caring mothers they are, immediately rushed them all to Ponyville Hospital. Most of the group only had a few minor injuries and left earlier, tough Arctic and Rainbow were in there longer. Even Fluttershy was in their longer. Her little transformation underground had drained her significantly. She was drained so much, she couldn’t even talk. She had recovered enough to talk and eat, but not yet walk.

Nurse Red Heart trotted out of the room after bringing Arctic, Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Pinkie, food. Though Arctic, and Pinkie who kinda just wanted to eat as she had skipped breakfast, we’re on their 30th helping of food.

“I’ve never seen a transformation like that before. I didn’t think Thestrals could transform.” Twilight said. “Honestly, I don’t know much about Thestrals, but still. This is wonderful! I have to document everything!

The group all shied away as Twilight manically giggled to herself as trotted in place before running off to get some parchment, quills and ink. Arctic just chuckled.

“Tree Hugger? You okay? You seem, haggard.” Arctic said.

He was right. Tree Hugger looked as though she hadn’t fallen asleep at all.

“Twilight’s been studying the magic I cast back at the place we fought that Diamond Dog girl.” Tree Hugger said groggily.

“Oh right. I wondered how yah did that.” Applejack said. “So, what did y’all find out?”

“Well, she couldn’t find out much, though it did seem that, a bunch of years ago, Earth ponies seemed to be able to use plant like magic. Still couldn’t find much on our own, so she sent a letter to Queen Celestia.” Tree Hugger said.

“Well, if anypony would know about Earth ponies being able to use magic like that, it’d be her.” Rainbow said.

“By the way, Arc, how’s yah shoulder? That injury looked pretty bad.” Applejack asked.

“It’s feeling better. Still sore though.” Arctic said as he rubbed his shoulder, only to flinch slightly.

“Well, darling, after all that, your clothes were ripped up. So, how would you like a new outfit to where once you leave?” Rarity asked.

Arctic just smiled. He new Rarity had been desperately wanting an opportunity to make some new clothes for him. Partly to keep him clothed, but mostly to just flex her creative chops in making outfits for the bipedal alien who had become her friend. Though, Arctic did want something new. So he agreed.

“Oh, I already have some ideas! I’ll have some new outfits for you soon. You desperately need to get out of that garish gown.” Rarity said.

“And you desperately need to have more of this tomato soup!” Pinkie shouted as she downed her 5th bowl of tomato soup after she and Arctic downed all the broccoli and cheddar soup and the potato and veggie soup.

Arctic chuckled and started eating the tomato soup. The girls all rolled their eyes and laughed.

As they enjoyed themselves, the soft clip-clop of two ponies approaching rang through the hall. The ponies were Lyra Heartstrings and Bon-Bon. Lyra had been in Canterlot for a while and eventually came to Ponyville to meet her best friend, BonBon. That day, she ended up in an accident that left her right hind leg damaged. She had been recovering and slowly practicing walking on her leg again.

“You really have to be more careful, you know.” BonBon said.

“I know, I know. I just didn’t even see that hole.” Lyra said.

Poor Lyra had fallen victim to one of the CMC’s escapades. They had been trying to get their Cutie marks in hole digging. After they hadn’t gotten them, they rushed off to do something else, which lead to Lyra falling into it and breaking her leg. Badly.

“Those three little fillies. I can’t wait for them to get their cutie marks so they can stop all their chaos.” Bonbon said.

“So, anyway, what’s been going on here in Ponyville? It’s be a while since I last came to visit.” Lyra said.

“Well, it’s been the usual stuff. Days have been pretty much the same.” Lyra said with a smile. “My sweets company is gaining traction. Not as popular as SugarCube Corner, mind you, but it’s doing well.”

Lyra smiled and gently bumped her. “Well, at least it’s gaining some traction. Who knows how far you’ll grow.”

“Yeah. Oh! I almost forgot. Some new pony and creature are staying her, in Twilight’s Library.” Bonbon said.

“Oh? What are they? Have they been here long?” Lyra asked.

“Well, they haven’t been here all that long. But anyway, the pony is a Pegasus. A huge one too. Always wondered how she got to be so big. Anyway, the creature is a tall one. He has no coat, stands on two legs, and…”

“A human?!” Lyra interrupted BonBon.

Bonbon groaned. Lyra had always told BonBon about these Human creatures. Bonbon didn’t really care about Lyra’s claims.

Lyra had always told her that her ancestors had passed down stories of humans appearing in Equestria thousands of years ago. According to the stories Lyra’s father, Sitar Heartstrings, a small group of humans appeared in Equestria thousands of years ago, before Celestia and Luna became rulers. They aided in beating an ancient evil and vanished never to return. Ponies had forgotten about them, other than the heartstring family. Though many ponies didn’t believe them and often brushed them off.

But, after all the descriptions Lyra gave, she had to wonder if Arctic was a human and if humans actually existed.

“I don’t know if he is a human, but after your descriptions, he might me.” Bonbon gave a hesitant look to Lyra.

Lyra’s face lit up. She let out a loud squeal and trotted in place, only to abruptly stop.

“Ow.” Lyra said as she rubbed her leg. “Anyway, if he is a human, I have to meet him. Where can I find him?”

Bonbon briefly thought before something clicked. “Well, I think he’s here, actually.”

“He is?!” Lyra shouted as she got shushed by Nurse Redheart.

“Yeah. I think he came in with some others and they all were pretty injured.” Bonbon said.

“I gotta find him.” Lyra said.

She speed walked her way down the hall. She passed each room and looked in, trying to find Arctic. She passed one room and kept walking. Only to stop and back up. In the room, she saw Arctic and Pinkie devouring cupcakes. They had gotten their fill of soup and started eating cupcakes Pinkie had stashed in her mane. Lyra saw Arctic and gasped loudly, catching everyones attention. Arctic looked to Pinkie, and knowing she knew practically everypony in Ponyville, he asked her.

“Hey Pinks? Who’s she? And why is she staring at me?”

Pinkie giggled and looked to Lyra and back to Arctic.

“That’s Lyra! She lives in Canterlot and sometimes comes to visit! How are you feeling Lyra?” Pinkie asked.

Lyra didn’t respond. At least not right away. When she did respond it was a loud, giddy, scream.

“A human!” Lyra said as she rushed over to Arctic, stumbling as she did so.

“How’d a human get here and why didn’t I know about it till now? Do you really live in a world where you car pilot a self driving carriage? What’s it like having hands? Is it nice being so tall? I mean, we have tall ponies, but still! What’s…”

Before Lyra could finish, Glacious had stepped in. She was still in her Pegasus disguise.

“Young mare, my dear child is not, whatever a human is. He, is a saiyan.”

Lyra’s face scrunched. She knew of, at least, heard tales of human from the tales of her ancestors that were passed down generation to generation till it reached her. But she had never heard of a Saiyan before. He looked so much like what the stories described humans as. Though as she looked at him, she picked up on differences.

From the stories, humans were smaller than ponies and looked younger. At least, the humans that were said to have appeared in Equestria, thousands of years ago were. This, “Saiyan” looked taller. Younger too. Well, older than the humans from the stories, but still quite young.

“A saiyan? But you look like a human.” Lyra said.

“Sorry to disappoint, but I have no idea what humans are. I barely remember much about my own race. All I remember are vague stories from some man about saiyans. Even then those memories are pretty fuzzy.” Arctic said.

Lyra was a bit disappointed, but happy nonetheless. He may not be human, but he sure as buck looked like one.

For the next few weeks as they recovered. Lyra would come to see Arctic almost daily. She would often ask Arctic about his race, his powers when she found out he had powers, she also admired his hands. Arctic found it strange that she did, but he kinda just let her. By the time they, and the others recovered, Lyra decided to finally ask to see Arctic’s transformations.

“Well, Super Saiyan would be easy to show, but Oozaru, we’ll have to wait till night fall.” Arctic explained.

“I don’t mind. I just can’t wait to see them.” Lyra exclaimed as she jumped up and down.

Pinkie too, joined Lyra in jumping up and down in excitement. The others just rolled their eyes. Bonbon nudged Lyra.

“You should calm down. You’ve been all chipper and excited seeing somepony who many not be human, but closely resembles one, according to you.”

“I know! It’s just, I’m so excited. If he exists, who’s to say human’s don’t?” Lyra retorted.

Bonbon just groaned as Glacious chimed in.

“Do be careful, my child. Your body isn’t yet fully recovered. I do not want you to burn yourself out.”

“I will, mother.” Arctic said.

Arctic steadied himself as he got ready The ground began to tremble slightly as he powered up. His eyes began to change from their usual deep blue to a ruby red. His hair began to stand on end and with a roar, accompanied by the roar of an Oozaru, he transformed into a Super Saiyan.

Bonbon, and especially Lyra, was amazed. they had never seen anything like this before. Lyra’s mind raced with new thoughts and questions. But one stuck out in her mind.

“Hey, Arctic?”

“Yeah?” Arctic said as he powered down.

“I never asked, but are there any more of you around?” Lyra asked.

“Well, in Equestria, no. But if what Queen Celestia and my mother says is correct, and Teilight somehow ripped me from where I was meant to be, and dropped me here,” Arctic said before glancing to Twilight, who just sheepishly looked away. “Then, maybe there are others.”

“Have you ever been interested in meeting them, someday if you could.” Lyra asked.

Arctic mauled over that question. While he was curious, he never really cared much.

“I guess I kinda am. But, then again, other than blood, I don’t really have a connection to the saiyans. I was raised on Equus. And though it took a while, I have friends here. My Mother and my friends are all my family. They’re all I need really.” Arctic said.

The girls all smiled. Even Rainbow. Despite the fact she was trying hard not to. Gotta keep up her tough tomboy appearances, after all.

After that, nightfall came. Arctic kept his word and showed Lyra his Oozaru form. She was utterly amazed and giddy with excitement. Even the Crusaders were there. They hadn’t really seen Arctic’s Oozaru form. They had seen his Super Saiyan form, he showed it to them. But when they heard of his Oozaru form, they were desperate to see it. They were just as giddy as Lyra.

Tree Hugger, the Element Bearers, Glacious and Zecora were there. They all marveled at the sight. Except Twilight. She was, as she usually did, taking notes.

“Dude, this form is so cool!” Rainbow shouted.

“It’s like a slide!” Pinkie screamed in excitement.

She had gotten on top of Arctic’s tail and slide down it like a slide.

“How long can you stay like this again?” Lyra asked.

“Until the sun has gone down. Until then, I’m stuck like this.” Arctic said.

Applejack trotted up with a pile of sticks from an old tree she managed to kick down.

“Well, if’n yer gonna stay like that til mornin’, we can’t rightly leave yah out her alone, now can we, Sugarcube?”

Pinkie gasped.

“Camping with an Oozaru?! I bet nopony’s ever done that before.”

“Well, to be fair, nopony really could. Until now.” Fluttershy said.

“Hey Arctic?” Lyra asked.

“Yes, Lyra?” Arctic said, looking down to Lyra as he laid on his belly, his head in his crossed arms.

“Think we could sleep in your fur?”

“Sleep in his fur?” Rainbow asked. “What for?”

“I must admit, Rainbow Dash, his snow white fur does look rather soft. I imagine it would feel quite nice to sleep in.” Rarity chimed in.

Arctic, while a bit confused, agreed. Circling them with his tail, he let them all get on top of it, or lean against it. According to them, it was extremely soft. Even Rainbow admitted it was soft. Softer than the clouds she often slept on. After Spike got the fire going, they all sat and told stories to each other or talked amongst themselves. Lyra even told them all about the stories of the Humans that once appeared on Equus. Arctic found the stories interesting. He didn’t know if they were true or not, but he enjoyed them either way. While it did bring up his old thoughts of being the only of his kind on Equus, he didn’t really mind it much. He had a mother and friends here to keep him company. And he wasn’t gonna trade that for the world.

Author's Note

Ssj Arctic

Ch 24: Their Training Begins

Arctic was at the lake with Glacious. The Element bearers were all away with Spike at Appleloosa to visit Applejack’s extended family, so the two were on their own.

“I must say, my child, I’m amazed you were able to pull off Water Warping. And on your first try.” Glacious said.

“I had seen you use it in battle once before. I figured I could try it to see if it would work.” Arctic sheepishly rubbed the back of his head.

Arctic had told Glacious about the fight with Barite. When he had gotten to telling her about the Water Warp attack he had pulled, she was astonished.

Water Warping. It is a technique that Glacious had created long ago. She wanted to find a way to teleport without the obvious loud pop and crackle of typical teleportation. With her cunning and creativity, she gave rise to Water Warping, though it is exceptionally difficult compared to normal teleportation.

It allows you to warp anywhere, so long as there’s a big enough body of water, or substance that contains water, and said substance or water is within eyesight.

Arctic, now, was showing Glacious the Water Warp he used, demonstrating with a stick and two puddles of water.

“You’ve learned it, although at a small scale. Performing this technique takes a lot of energy. You must build up more energy to do this at a larger scale.” Glacious explained.

“Yes ma’am. It’s so taxing, I’m amazed I can even still stand after doing it.” Arctic said with labored breaths.

“Do not fret, my child. You will get better with time.” Glacious said as she pulled Arctic into a hug with her wing.

As the two hugged, a loud yell sounded. The two looked for the source and spotted it. The CMC. Falling from the sky. In a hot air balloon. Arctic was about to jump in and catch them, when Glacious stopped him.

In a quick flash, Glacious dropped her Pegasus disguise. In her mid point form, her horn lit up. Grabbing the water, she created a large disk of water above the lake and a disk of water above the ground. The hot air balloon and the cmc shot through the disk over the water and popped out to one over the ground. The basket landed with a thud and the balloon flopped to the ground.

Glacious transformed back into her Pegasus disguise and winked at Arctic, a smile plastered across her muzzle. He just rolled his eyes and walked up to the basket.

“I told you, we needed more fuel.” Sweetie Belle said.

“I thought it was enough. I didn’t think we needed more!” Scootaloo said.

“Of course we did. If yer payin’ more attention next time, we might be able to get our Cutiemarks!” Retorted Apple Bloom.

“You should‘ve blown into it, Scootaloo. Your head is already full of hot air.” Sweetie Belle said.

“Now that wasn’t very nice.”

The three jumped and looked up. Arctic was just watching them with a smile on his face as he struggled not to laugh.

“Arctic!” Apple Bloom said as she and then the others jumped into my arms.

“What were you three young ones doing? Using that Hot Air Balloon without an adult. You could’ve been hurt.” Glacious said as she walked up.

“Well, we wanted to get our cutie marks in piloting a Hot Air Balloon. But we kinda didn’t fuel it enough.” Sweetie Belle said.

“And we kinda ran into some birds.” Scootaloo reluctantly added.

“Well, at least you three are safe now.” Arctic said as he hugged the three of them.

“Hey Arctic? What are you and yah Ma doing out here? Are you going swimming?” Apple Bloom asked.

“Can we go swimming with you? Maybe we can get our cutie marks in swimming!” Sweetie Belle chimed in.

“We are not swimming, Young Sweetie Belle. I am training with my child. He needs to build up more stamina, as well as work on his Ki and Magic.” Glacious said.

“Ki?” Asked Apple Bloom.

“What is that?” Asked Scootaloo.

Arctic briefly went on to explain Ki to them. But it didn’t quite get through. So, he decided to show them instead. Using his ki, he had a brief sparring match with Glacious.

The Crusaders were amazed. They had seen him use magic, and ki briefly, seeing him fly and occasionally use an energy ball as a light source, but he never really showed them what all he could do with it. They watched him fly all over, move so fast it looked like he teleported, delivered heavy kicks and punches to Glacious which she blocked or parried. At some point, Glacious even vanished. Arctic stood there, looking around for a bit. Then he whipped around and charged a green energy beam in his right hand. He fired the massive beam at Glacious who had reappeared in the air and danced around the blast, jutting out her hind leg to kick his face, only for him to grab her and toss her aside.

The Crusaders watched on in awe at their session. Once the two were over, the Crusaders cheered and ran up to them.

“That was so cool! Probably cooler than watching Rainbow Dash!” Scootaloo shouted.

“That was amazin’! Y’all were flying around so fast, ah couldn’t keep track!” Said Apple Bloom, stars in her eyes as she remembered watching them flying through the air.

“You were like ‘whoosh’ and ‘boom’! And Arctic was all ‘pachew’ and ‘bang’!” Sweetie Belle added, mimicking the moves she saw them do.

“Oh I wish I had that Ki stuff! Maybe we could do stuff like that too!” Scootaloo said.

“You do, actually.” Arctic said.

The Crusaders stopped dead in their tracks.

“Wut?” Apple Bloom asked, looking at Arctic with a dumbfounded expression.

“Yeah. Every living thing has Ki. Even the grass has a slight bit of Ki of its own. You ponies have it, though it’s dominated by your magic. I’d say the race of ponies who use a bit more Ki is Earth Ponies. But yeah, you all have Ki. Even you three.” Arctic explained to the three.

“So you mean, we could do what you do?” Scootaloo asked excitedly.

“With proper training, yeah. But I’d have to teach you how to access your Ki first.” Arctic said.

The three little fillies were absolutely ecstatic. They were gonna learn to use Ki. They jumped and cheered, screams of joy echoing around. Glacious looked to Arctic.

“My child, are you sure about this? These little fillies with such power, who knows what they could get up to.”

Arctic thought for a bit. He cleared his throat, catching the three fillies' attention.

“Okay you three. Learning ki and constant training will give you access to great amounts of power. If you three are going to properly do this, I want you to promise me that you three will use this power to defend yourselves and to protect others.”

“We promise!” The three yelled out.

Arctic stared at them for a bit and smiled.

“Very well. Guess I’ll teach you.” Arctic said.

The three fillies cheered. Glacious went into the shade and sat down, watching the quartet. Arctic sat down in front of the three, his hands held up a bit.

“Now, first, quiet your mind and relax. Then, listen to the center of your body. You’ll feel a warmth within. Once you do, latch onto it. Then, pull it out.”

Arctic explained as he formed a blue glowing ball of Ki within his hands. The Crusaders watched in awe. They had never seen such a thing before. It looked intense, but cool. Quite peaceful, actually. Arctic’s Ki dissipated as he looked at the three.

“Now then, time for you three to give it a shot.”

The three looked at each other. Doing their best to sit in a way similar to him, they held out their hooves and did their best to summon their ki. However, it looked as though they were forcing it. Arctic chuckled.

“It won’t work if you three go trying to force it. Remember. Calm yourselves.” Arctic said.

The three nodded and tried again. Nothing happened for a bit, until Arctic felt something. It was Ki. And it came from Apple Bloom. As Apple Bloom’s Ki rose, a small ball of Ki appeared in her hooves. Arctic smiled and petted her head.

“Good job Apple Bloom! You did good!” Arctic said cheerfully.

Apple Blooms ki ball dissipated as she collapsed.

“Thank yah, Arctic.” Apple Bloom said between heavy pants.

“Now, Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell. It’s your turn.” Arctic said.

The two nodded and tried again. Apple Bloom sat in Arctic’s lap as she and Arctic watched Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. It took some time, but the two managed to do it. First Sweetie Belle and then Scootaloo. Arctic congratulated them both and hugged them tight.

“We did it!” Cheered the three fillies.

“Does this mean we can do all the cool fighting things you do?!” Scootaloo asked.

“With proper training, you could. But first, I say it’s time I taught you three how to fly.” Arctic said.

Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were amazed. But Scootaloo, she was beyond amazed. Beyond excited. Finally, Finally she would be able to fly!

Scootaloo was born with underdeveloped wings. She would never be able to fly with them. But she could use them for extra speed on her scooter. With this Ki training, she would finally be able to fly. Be able to Fly alongside her idol, Rainbow Dash, and seemingly new idol, Arctic.

Scootaloo looked at Arctic with fire in her eyes.

“When do we start!?” Scootaloo asked, eager to begin the flight training.

Ch 25: A mysterious new foe?

Some time had passed since Arctic had begun training the Crusaders. The three had been doing well. They had slowly begun to get the hang of it and were able to fly. Needless to say, they were ecstatic. But not nearly as much as Scootaloo. She was so happy to finally be able to fly, she cried. She cried and thanked Arctic for helping her learn ki and gain the ability to fly. Even Rainbow Dash was excited. Finally having a new fly buddy, and seeing the little filly she often viewed as a little sister, finally flying alongside her. It was a sweet moment.

After that had passed, Arctic was out with Fluttershy. she had asked him to come with her and Angel to gather some fish and other things for her animal friends in the Everfree. With the Grand Galloping Gala right around the corner, she wanted to have food ready and out while they were all gone.

“I really appreciate you coming to help me Arctic.” Fluttershy said.

“No problem, Shy. So what are we looking for?” Arctic asked.

“Oh, well. We’re picking berries, gathering fish, and a few other things. Especially carrots.” Fluttershy said, looking over to Angel.

“Yeah. Gotta make sure ol’ Mr. Angel has his carrots.” Arctic chuckled as he pet Angel’s head.

Angel wanted to bat Arctic’s hand away, but decided that the head pats felt too good to stop. Angel had been wary of Arctic for a while. But eventually got used to him, even starting to like him. Which was new to Fluttershy, as Angel didn’t really like anyone. He barely liked the others.

Arctic grinned as he pet Angel when a thought hit him.

“Hey Fluttershy?”

“Yeah?” Fluttershy asked as she looked to Arctic.

“So, are you gonna go find that Thestral?” Arctic asked.

“Thestral?” Fluttershy repeated.

Fluttershy thought for a bit, then it clicked. The Thestral that turned Fluttershy into one back when the Thestrals attacked at Froggy Bottom Bog. It took a bit for Fluttershy to remember her name but she did. Cattleya Orchid was her name.

“Oh yeah. I remember. What about her?” Fluttershy asked.

“Didn’t you say that she was going to teach you about being a Thestral?” Arctic asked.

“Oh, well, yeah. But I don’t know. Being a Thestral, it seems interesting. I don’t know anything about being one though. I guess I should find her and learn more with her. I don’t know where she is.” Fluttershy said.

“Wasn’t she part of Queen Luna’s guard? Maybe after the Gala, you could ask to meet the Thestral and she can take you to learn more about your new self.” Suggested Arctic. “Plus, you’ll need to learn to control that transformation.”

“I guess you’re right.” Fluttershy said.

Both of them remembered Fluttershy’s transformation. Back at the cave, fighting Barite. How her hair shifted from its usual pink to white, how her body grew slightly, her eyes changing color. It was strange to Fluttershy. Well, scary is more like it. She had never done anything like that. Let rage take over and make her beat down on somepony. It was terrifying for her. She really will need to learn to control this newfound transformation.

Fluttershy looked over to Arctic.

“Do you think I could really learn to control this new form?”

“Well, yeah. I mean, I learned to control my super saiyan form. I’m sure you can learn to control your form.” Arctic said. “Just need to get experience with that Thestral lady.”

Fluttershy looked away. She began to think about something. She had been wondering about it, but never really asked. She finally decided to ask.

“Hey, Arctic?”

“Yeah, Shy?” Arctic looked over to her.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you, but, how did you first go Super Saiyan?” Fluttershy asked.

Arctic smiled and was about to recount the story of how he first went Super Saiyan, when a noise caught their attention.

They both glanced around, trying to find the source of the noise.

Just then, a group of Timberwolves ran by. It wasn’t common to see Timberwolves run away from something, so the fact that they were running had the two on high alert.

As they looked around, Angel jumped and quickly patted Arctic on the cheek.

“What is it, Angel?”

Ange pointed his paw in a direction. Arctic followed Angel’s paw and noticed a pair of glowing yellow eyes.

“What the buck is that?” Arctic asked.

The glowing eyes raised up. Then, before Arctic knew it, he was flying backwards, nose now bleeding. He quickly stopped himself and caught Angel, who had been flung off his shoulder.

Arctic looked up to where his attacker stood, but it wasn’t there. Then, a wave of ki washed over him. He moved away as a hoofed leg swung at him, trying to kick him. What really shocked him, was that he felt Ki.

While he could sense Ki, he could also sense magic. Magic and Ki felt different. Ki felt more erratic, yet calming at the same time. Yet Magic felt more soothing. You could look at it as Ki being a slightly erratic wave in a storm. And Magic is like a calm, gentle flow of water.

So, feeling Ki in a place dominated by magic threw him off.

Arctic swung around and threw a kick as well. Both legs collided in a burst of expelled Ki and a tremendous shockwave. Now, Arctic was able to get a much clearer view of what was attacking. And it was unlike anything Arctic had ever seen before.

What stood before Arctic was a bipedal creature. It stood about a few inches taller than him. It was covered in brown fur. It had legs that resembled the back legs of a pony, with a face that closely resembled something similar to Arctic.. It wore blue pants and a large white cloak. A pair of curved horns were atop its head, grey hair, and a pendant tied around one of them.

Arctic jumped back, surprised to see this creature. He had never seen such a thing before, nor had he heard of whatever this is.

Just then, it held out its hands and fired an energy blast. Arctic swung his fist and knocked it away as Fluttershy rushed in. She had transformed again. She swung multiple punches at the creature.

“How dare you attack my friend, you meanie!” Fluttershy bellowed.

Arctic jumped in and started attacking alongside Fluttershy.

The two fought hard together. The creature was barely holding his own, but slowly began to lose ground. They kept up the fight, till something caught their attention. A large Ursa Major lumbered over, having been awoken by the three’s fight.

Arctic and Fluttershy looked at the creature as it looked back. They split up and ran off to avoid the Ursa Major. By the time they reached the edge of Ponyville, they stopped to catch her breath.

Fluttershy collapsed, falling out of her form, yet again completely drained.

“What was that thing?” Arctic asked in confusion and slight curiosity. “Have you ever seen something like that, Shy?”

“N… No.” Fluttershy panted. “May..Maybe Twilight knows what it is?”

“Guess I’ll have to ask her later.” Arctic said.

Angel hopped out from Arctic’s shirt, dazed and a bit angry.

“What’s wrong Angel?” Fluttershy asked as she looked over to the upset bunny.

Angel tapped his belly which growled.

“Oh right. We still need to go gather food.” Arctic said.

The pony and Saiyan groaned as they forced themselves to get up and trudge back off into the Everfree Forest.

Author's Note

Design of the new character

Ch 26: Birth of Equestria’s Super Saiyan

Arctic was training with Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Spike. Glacious was sitting nearby watching them. The Crusader’s had been going around yesterday, talking to the girls. They were listening to their stories on how the six gained their Cutie Marks, in an attempt to find a way to gain theirs. During Rainbow’s story, it got to the point that it was revealed to the three fillies, that not only did Rainbow’s Sonic Rainboom cause the connection between the six of them, but also was the cause of Twilight’s Magical Surge somehow willing Arctic into Equestria.

========== During the Cutie Mark Chronicles ==========

“So, you two are the reason Arctic is here?!” Apple Bloom said in shock.

“That’s right!” Rainbow said smugly.

“That’s so cool!” The Crusaders said in unison.

“Yup! And that means Arc is connected to us too!” Pinkie said as she claimed onto Arctic’s shoulder.

“I suppose so.” Arctic said.

Glacious just chuckled watching them. To think all this seemed to be fated to happen. Rainbow’s Sonic Rainboom causing a connection between not only the six of them, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Twilight, but also brought her son here, making a connection with the seven of them. Rather, eight. Can’t forget young Spike. It was quite magical.

As the Crusaders had fun, laughing and playing, they began to wonder. Arctic could transform. How did he do it at first? Did something happen. Honestly, they weren’t the only ones. The mane 6 and Spike had also wondered how Arctic transformed. They did want to here the story of how he transformed in the first place. Though, they were a bit caught up in partying to really take the chance to ask him.

========== In the Present ==========

The group were still vigorously training. The Crusaders and spike were doing well. They were getting stronger. Especially Apple Bloom. Arctic could contribute that to Apple Bloom’s Earth Pony strength and magic. Arctic began to wonder if Apple Bloom also had some kind of Magic. Much like what Tree Hugger displayed during the fight against Barite. Twilight did do some digging on that. What he and the others learned was interesting.

========== After the fight with Barite ==========

“You mean this magic is something Earth Ponies used to actually have?” Pinkie asked, facehoofing.

“Yeah. Apparently many years ago, when Celestia and Luna were just starting to rule over Equestria, Earth Ponies had some kind of magic of their own!” Twilight said excitedly. “According to the old books, Earth Pony magic was used to help plants grow. Especially during the harsher winters back then. With their magic, they could make the food grow in the snow. And, the food that grew had been altered into some special altered version of the original. For example, Apples.”

Applejack perked up at this.

“The apples that they could grow in the snow would grow to be different from regular apples. They would become what’s called, Frost Apples. Apples a light blue in color, we’re cold to the touch, yet very juices and sweet. But over the years, Earth Pony Magic withered out. Nowadays, Earth pony magic gives them a connection to the ground and greater strength than the other two pony races.”

“So, when Tree Hugger created those large vines and tree roots to stop Barite as we fled the caves, was her tapping into this Earth pony magic for the first time after so many years of not being used at all?” Arctic asked.

“Yup!” Twilight said happily.

“Dang dude.” Tree Hugger said. “So, will I be able to use that magic again?”

“With the right training, I’d believe so.” Twilight said.

“Then, does that mean ah have this magic too? And even Pinkie Pie?” Applejack asked.

“I hope so.” Twilight said before running in place, letting out an excited squee. “Old magic to be rediscovered? I’m so excited!”

The others just chuckled and smiled

========== In the Present ==========

Arctic had to stop his reminiscing to dodge and blow from Scootaloo. Scootaloo really had grown more adept at flying with ki. Arctic was very proud. He used his tail and smacked her away and he crossed his arms to block a kick from Apple Bloom. Arctic skidded backwards as Sweetie Belle charged ki into her two front hooves, slammed them to the ground and fired her first ever attack.

“Belle’s Burst!” Sweetie Belle cried.

With a low rumble, four pillars of light pink energy erupted from the ground and barreled toward Arctic. Arctic smiled. He rushed away, Sweetie’s blasts following after him. He rushed to a nearby lake, and stomped his foot in the water. He swung his leg back and used the water to do the Water Warp Technique. He managed to kick the water away to leave small puddles under Spike and the Crusaders. The four blasts burst out of the puddles, straight towards them. The Crusaders evaded the blasts, except Spike.

Spike inhaled and released a burst of flames at the blast and a massive explosion went off. Then and blast of flames shot towards Arctic. Even the Crusaders charged their on attacks to fire at him. Arctic clenched his fists, exhaled slowly, and erupted into Super Saiyan. The blasts landed, but as the smoke from the explosion subsided, he stood their with a smile.

The four all collapsed. They weren’t yet used to this kinda thing. The Crusaders were still getting used to ki. It was astonishing the three were able to get blasts attacks somewhat down. Spike had been learning to wield his fire more. Thanks to the training, even his scales seemed to grow stronger. Even Spike’s height seemed slightly off. It looked as though he was ever so slightly growing taller? Arctic was unsure, but he was certain Spike seemed to be growing taller. He would have to ask about it at some point.

“That was so fun!” Scootaloo shouted as she excitedly jumped around. At least, tried to.

“Ah really wanna learn to do that water thang yah did!” Apple Bloom said.

Arctic chuckled. “Well, maybe you can learn it.” Arctic said. Then he looked to Glacious. “She could, couldn’t she?”

“Indeed she could. Remember my child, Elemental Magic can be taught to many. Although it will take time. Remember, it did take you some time to first learn it, and you believed you wouldn’t be able to use magic.” Glacious said.

Arctic shyly smiled.

“So, we’ll be able to learn it? Awesome!” Sweetie Belle said.

“You four have gotten stronger. And you’re learning to use ki a bit better. You young Sweetie Belle, are learning to use energy blasts quite well.”

“Yeah. Your “Belle’s Burst” attack is quite impressive for a first time ki user.” Arctic said.

Sweetie Belle just smiled. She had seen Arctic use a move similar to the move she now uses. The move was a bit of an improvised move against some Timber wolves when he took the three to see Zecora to learn about potions for a potion making Cutie Mark. Arctic did teach her how to use the move and thanks to him focused on helping her with the move, she was slowly perfecting it. Even managed to learn to use the blasts to track her target.

Arctic walked with the four and his mother to Sugarcube Corner. It had become their ideal place to go eat after training. As they walked in, the mane six were there. They were doing a small celebration to welcome Twilight’s new pet, Owlowiscious, into the group. Owlowiscious was the new pet/secondary assistant to Twilight. Third, if you count Arctic occasionally helping Twilight, considering he and his mother lives with her. But, anyway, the new Owl pet was now staying at Golden Oak Library. While in the beginning, things were a bit rocky with Spike growing jealous of the Owl, worrying that it would replace him, but things had mellowed out now.

“Arc’s here!” Pinkie yelled as she rushed up to Arc and clung to him as she shuffled up to rest on his shoulders.

“You really like being up there, don’t you Pinkie?” Rainbow asked with a chuckle.

“Tis! Thine Saiyan shoulder shall now and forever be dubbed and claimed as, “The Throne of Pie”.” Pinkie said in a posh Royal voice.

Arctic just chuckled. As the small party eventually died down, Arctic was resting, his head on Glacious’s back. Scootaloo walked up, a question on her mind.

“Hey Arctic?”

“What’s up, Scoots?” Arctic looked over to her.

“I’ve been meaning to ask, how did you first become a Super Saiyan?” Scootaloo asked.

“Yah know, ah been wanting to know that mahself.” Applejack chimed in.

“Me too” Fluttershy jumped in.

“Yeah, how did you first become a Super Saiyan?” Rainbow asked.

Arctic looked to Glacious. He knew if he was going to tell this story, he would have to tweak it a bit. He remembered his mother wanted to keep her true Alicorn form secret. After all the times she had been chased away and had ponies outright try to fight her, mistaking her for somepony else, assumedly another Alicorn who she apparently resembled, she knew she’d need to keep her Alicorn form under wraps. At least, for now anyways.

So, Arctic first figures out ways to alter the story, yet tell the truth. It would be tricky, especially with Applejack there. Being the Element of Honesty, she can tell when somepony’s lying. But he knew she wouldn’t push it if she felt it wasn’t necessary and the lie was for at least a good reason.

“Alright. I’ll tell you all the story, of how I became a Super Saiyan.

========== In the past ==========

It was the middle of Winter. Arctic at this point in time was a young boy, at the age of 12. Was training with Glacious, working to perfect his ice magic. He was working on creating an Ice Double to train with. He had been working on building his ki for a while. He had managed to perfect flying and learn energy blasts which did improve his strength training with Glacious.

The ice double he managed to create was slowly taking shape, but crumbled to small bits. Arctic let out a breath he hadn’t known he was holding.

“This is so tough.” Arctic groaned.

Glacious smiled. “You’re doing well, my child. It would’ve taken any other pony forever to learn to create an Ice Copy.”

Arctic smiled. “So, where are we going to sleep tonight?”

Arctic and Glacious as they had been on their own, and couldn’t exactly find a place to stay, had been living in caves or Glacious managed to find any abandoned little hut for them to stay in on their travels.

“I suppose we could find someplace to stay tonight. It is to be a rather cold night tonight. And while I can handle it, your body has yet to get used to the colder temperatures.” Glacious said.

The two decided to have a little race. The two ran and soared through their air, weaving in and out of trees. The two had fun just racing and flying through the air. The snow they passed kicked up in beautiful swirls and the starts above shined brilliantly in the sky. It was peaceful, outright magical.

The two eventually made it to the outskirts of a small town.

“A town? This far out? This place looks isolated from so many other places.” Arctic commented.

“Hopefully we can find a little hut away from here.” Glacious said as she walked deeper into the trees.

Arctic, while he had at this point mostly come to terms with the fact the ponies don’t seem to take to kindly to him and Glacious, he decided keep away.

The two had managed to find an abandoned hut. Glacious figured this would be a good time for Arctic to practice his ice magic.using his ice magic, he managed to patch up the hut with his ice magic. It took a bit of a toll on him, but it came together well.

The duo managed to start a fire in the chimney and Glacious began getting ready to go out to search for some food.

“I will be back soon, my child.” Glacious said.

“Okay, mother.” Arctic hugged her and watched her walk out, her cloak firm around her.

Arctic sat, patiently waiting for Glacious to come back. However, that patience fell when Glacious had been gone for over 7 hours. He put on his cloak and hood and decided to try to find her, worried she may be in danger, despite knowing she was strong enough to handle herself. He was still worried at least.

Arctic trekked through the snow and cold, calling Glacious’s name and sensing for her ki. However, the cold had gotten the better of him. While he had grown used to the cold and could handle cold temperatures, tonight was colder than usual. As he walked through the snow, he had begun to grow sluggish, tired, ready to collapse. As he walked, he heard a voice.

“Hey!”

Arctic looked around for the source.

“Over here!”

Arctic looked over and discovered the source. The voice belonged to a filly. She had a large coat on with a bundle of sticks on her back. He was wondering why the filly was calling to him and not running away. Then he realized he was still draped in his cloak. He walked up to the filly. Till he was stopped. A large hoof was pressed against his chest.

“Now hold on. We can’t go inviting some other to the house, Blair.” Said the stallion in a Scottish accent.

“Come one, paw. He needs help and needs to get warmed up.” The filly, Blair, said.

The stallion looked at Arctic with a suspicious eyes.

“Alright. I suppose we’ll take a chance. Fella seems like he’ll need to get warmed up.” The stallion said.

The stallion lead Arctic away. The three got close to the town. As they walked, Blair chimed in, trying to start a conversation with Arctic.

“So, what’s yer name, stranger?”

“Arctic Fuyumori.” Arctic said.

“Really? That name sounds so cool! My name’s Blair Stronghold.” She said. Then she pointed to the stallion. “That’s my paw. Magnus Stronghold.”

The stallion, Magnus, just grunted. Arctic and Blair soon began animatedly talking to each other. Though, Arctic did keep some things of his history secret. Eventually they made it into the town. With it being this cold, ponies all stayed inside. Though some were out and gave the two, Blair and Magnus, waves. Some did give Arctic a wave, but seemed a bit reluctant.

The three got into Magnus’s home. Inside, a mare was diligently working on cooking a meal. The mare saw her husband and daughter and hugged them.

“There’s the two loves of my life!” The mare said happily, till she noticed Arctic. “Well, who’s this?”

“His name’s Arctic.” Blair said.

“Nice to meet you ma’am.” Arctic said.

“Well, nice to meet yah. My name’s Bonnie Stronghold.” Bonnie said as she hugged Arctic.

The family let Arctic stay to get warm and eat the soup Bonnie had made. The four slowly began to open up and the Stronghold family was pretty animatedly talking with Arctic. Things were going well. Time had passed in the blink of an eye and it the four were getting ready to head to sleep. As the four were about to sleep, Arctic had figured he should go. Find the hut and rest as he waited for Glacious. As he did, Blair tried to stop him.

As she did, she woke her parents. The three tried to stop him. As they did, they managed to pull off his cloak. The three ponies were terrified. Magnus, believing Arctic was a monster and up to no good, he pulled out a pitchfork and charged Arctic. Acrtic snatched his cloak and ran off, Blair’s voice crying out, wondering if Arctic lied to her and really was out to hurt her and her family.

The ruckus alerted the others of the town and soon, a mob of ponies was charging Arctic to do him in. They were ready to kill him. As Arctic ran off, Glacious found him. She had returned from getting food. She had returned to the hut and went to find him once she saw he was gone. And seeing Arctic running away from a mob, she was a bit upset with Arctic, yet understood him. She knew he must’ve went looking for her when she didn’t return and ended up in that town they saw. And now, she would have to help him lose them.

Glacious quickly jumped in to help her son. She began helping Arctic get away, even fending off the mob. As they ran, things got worse. A loud long howl echoed throughout the woods. A large Timberwolf and a pack of dozens of smaller ones came up. The Alpha and his pack. The pack all charged and went after Arctic, Glacious, and the mob.

Arctic and Glacious could defend themselves, but the mob couldn’t. At least not well. The mob did there best to fend off the timberwolves and seemed to bring down one or two, but the wolves were too tenacious. The one really fighting well was Magnus. He was doing well until the large Alpha stepped in.Magnus and the Alpha fought hard, but it was clear Magnus wouldn’t last long. Arctic could see this and charged in to help Magnus, but he rejected Arctic’s help. Which would lead to his downfall.

Magnus had gotten beat. And soundly. He was on the verge of losing his life. But Arctic, remembering the good moments with Magnus and his family, and seeing Magnus nearly at deaths door, he snapped. With a might roar, the roar of the Oozaru behind him, he transformed into a Super Saiyan for the very first time. Arctic defeated the Alpha in a flash. While he knew he couldn’t quite heal Magnus, he made sure to quickly take Magnus to the town. He went back to the woods, but stayed close enough to see ponies take him quickly to the hospital. After that, Arctic left with Glacious and the two left the town behind them.

========== In the Present ==========

The group all listened to the story closely. They were enthralled by the whole thing. Even the Cakes were listening to the story. They all were upset, amazed, and a multitude of emotions.

“Did you ever go see Magnus and his family again?” Pinkie asked.

“No. Honestly I don’t know if Magnus even survived or not. Besides, I’m pretty sure the town wouldn’t exactly accept me.” Arctic said.

The ponies all thought back to how they behaved when they saw Arctic for the first time.

“Well, maybe they will. We were the same and we accepted you.” Fluttershy said.

“If we can accept yah and become her friend, ah’m sure they’ll do the same.” Applejack chimed in.

Arctic smiled. He did wonder if they would accept him. He did wonder if Magnus was okay. Perhaps, someday, he will go see them again. And maybe, he’ll become friends with them. Real friends. Maybe he should write a letter to them at some point. Or at least write a letter Blair one day. He knows for certain Pinkie would probably help him write it. Knowing her, she’d even send some kind of cake to help. Arctic just hung out with his friends. He was glad that this time, things went different. This time, he had truly gained some friends, or more accurately, a family.