Chapter 2: Interrogation, Part 10

{*First Person View, Ponyville Library*}

“I beg your pardon?”

“I said, can you preform magic?”

I sat in the cherry red sofa, wiping my salty tears off of my face. It was difficult to keep breathing through my nose as mucus filled it to the brim. I dunno how that exactly works, but it’s as annoying as heck! Anyways, I looked forwards toward the purple unicorn conversing with me. It was kind of a sudden question, but I had already agreed to participate in the final inquiry. I just had to ask her what she said to make sure that I wasn’t hearing things. She asked me if I could perform magic, right?

What a strange question.

“Look, I…” I sighed, tilting my head downwards. This was a silly question. I thought by now she would have realized that I could not cast any spells of any sorts! But now that I think about it, I never actually told her that magic doesn’t exist on Earth and no human has been able to use it before (except for self-proclaimed magicians, but I have no idea if that’s legit or not). She was going out on a limb that humans had enough similarities to unicorn ponies that they could use magic! I guess could answer the question…

“Please, can you answer the question? For me?” pleaded Fluttershy, giving me the most adorable (ugh) puppy eyes I have ever seen. Patience, Fluttershy, I was getting to that!

I returned my gaze back to Twilight. “No, I cannot perform magic.” I gave a little pause to observe their reactions. Twilight and Rarity looked somewhat surprised, but the rest of the mares didn’t exactly show bewilderment at my answer. There were a lot of mixed results. Fluttershy just smiled at me contently. I guess it didn’t matter what I said, she would be as supportive as possible. Rainbow Dash looked a tiny bit bored. I could see why. She seemed to be a bit hyperactive. Applejack had a neutral expression. She was probably just listening to the discussion and not thinking about it too much. And Pinkie Pie was swatting at… something in the air. I couldn’t see it, but obviously it was bothering her if she was focusing on it instead of the main task at hand. Or she could just have a very low attention span. Either or.

“You can’t?” Twilight questioned, her voice cracking a little.

“No I cannot. In fact, no human can perform any kind of magic whatsoever! Magic is a myth where I come from, and is only spoken in stories and old legends. Almost everyone I know believes that magic is a form of fiction, and I did too! Well, until about twenty minutes ago when you slammed me into the wall with such arcane energies.” I expressed my annoyance.

“Sorry about that. Umm…”

Twilight seemed at a loss for words. How can no magic be a foreign concept to her? I mean, I know she can use it and everything, but shouldn’t she expect that there would be some possibility that I could not use magic?

“Could you please, maybe give us a second?” Twilight inquired again.

“Huh?” I said, raising my right eyebrow.

Twilight backed up a bit from the circle of ponies that I somehow was the center of. “Girls, I need to discuss about some things with you. Could we all just gather round me and form a brainstorming circle?”

I heard Rainbow Dash groan slightly, but otherwise, the ponies followed Twilight’s orders like they were her crew on a ship!... Or… Something… That’s a bad analogy, but the point it that I could easily tell that Twilight was considered the leader in this group of friends. While they whispered in their little ‘brainstorming circle’, I twiddled my thumbs in patience, waiting once again.

Of course, they left the alien out of their thoughts.

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{*Omniscient point of view, Ponyville Library*}

The purple unicorn called all of her friends into a miniature meeting a few feet away from Griffin. It pained Twilight to leave Griffin out of the conversation, but she didn’t know what to think in the current situation. Once all six were in a small circle, Twilight leaned her head towards the center and began to speak her mind.

“I’m really confused right now girls. Really confused.”

“About what?” Rainbow Dash spoke.

“About how Griffin has no idea how to use magic! I mean, he has so much magical energy radiating out of him that it’s… it’s… it’s unbelievable! I can’t even describe it! It makes no sense that he doesn’t know about magic and yet he holds so much of it!”

“Really? I couldn’t tell.” Pinkie Pie squeaked.

“That’s because non-unicorn ponies cannot detect magical energies, dear.” Rarity added in.

“Exactly. That’s also because Earth ponies and Pegasus ponies cannot control nor withhold the standard magical energies! Since they can’t use it, it would made sense that they can’t sense or see any of it. But Griffin could use it! Griffin could use magic! He just doesn’t know how! He doesn’t even know that he can!”

“Now ah’m seeing what y’all gettin’ at. Griff arrived inside that blue-glowy-shield-thing, right? That was magic, wasn’t it?” Twilight nodded her head to Applejack’s inquiry. “So if he didn’t do that, then who did?”

“Hang on. What sort of shield? Were you two there when he arrived on Equiss?” Rainbow once again directed her question to Applejack and Twilight.

“Oh yeah, we kinda forgot to tell all of you about that, didn’t we?” Twilight bashfully smiled, blushing slightly in embarrassment. All the other ponies except the orange farmer nodded their heads in agreement, still looking at their speaker.

“Well, long story’s short, me and Applejack saw Griffin crash land into Sweet Apple Acres like a meteor, except he was protected by an extremely powerful magic-based shield.

“Ohhh…” three of the mares confirmed, catching the main idea.

“I still don’t get it.” Rainbow Dash stated.

“Basically, Griffin got here by magic that wasn’t done by himself.” Fluttershy explained.

“Oh, ok then, now I got it.”

“Right. So, that means that some unknown force has not only thrown another creature across universes to our planet using very very very powerful magic, but also, I think that whatever sent Griffin here also created the huge storm that’s destroying half of Ponyville!” Thunder rippled in the distance at Twilight’s words.

“Now what would make y’all say that?” Applejack pondered.

“It would make sense that the act of sending one living being billions of billions magic-years* away to a different location would cause major magical consequences. Such consequences could very well include messing up the laws of nature and the course of harmony!”

All the mares murmured in astonishment and intrigue. It all made sense to them now. Send human to ponies, create disharmony!

“But what kind of villain would do such a thing?” Rarity asked the question everypony was thinking.

“I have no idea Rarity. It couldn’t be Discord; we locked him up for good. And besides, not even he could conger up strong enough magic to travel complete solar systems! Heck, I don’t think that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna’s combined power could accomplish such a feat! Whatever we are dealing with here, we have never faced before.”

Twilight’s words hit everypony like a ton of bricks. They had no idea who or what was pulling the strings. Sure, they figured out his or her or its master plan, but they had no idea what kind of power it would take to bring him or her or it down! They didn’t even know what he or she looked like! Heck, they didn’t even know if the Elements of Harmony had enough magical strength to take him or it or her down! Everypony looked slightly nervous. Seeing this, Twilight decided to move on to the next part of her agenda.

“Now, there’s just one more problem I have to address.”

Twilight managed to grab everypony’s attention.

“What are we gonna do about Griffin?” Twilight turned her head to see Griffin staring off into the distance. It looked like he was doing some deep thinking too.

“Whata’ya mean, what are we going to do about Griffin?” Rainbow Dash queried.

“Well, I still kinda feel guilty about completely ignoring his feelings and opinions when I was asking him questions.”

The other five mares drooped their heads and stared at the floor, sharing Twilight’s feelings. No pony deserved to be ignored like that. No alien did either.

“So, I’ve decided to do something to gain his trust and forgiveness, but I’m kinda nervous about the sheer idea of it.”

“What idea do you have, Twilight?” Rarity chipped in.

“I… I want to teach Griffin magic.”

The other ponies hoed and hummed about the idea. Twilight watched as her friends looked in several different directions, creating brainstorms of their own. She witnessed Rainbow Dash scratch the back of her neck nervously. Pinkie Pie was swatting at something in the air for some reason. But when she looked at Applejack, she was being looked back at. The apple farmer had a clear look of determination on her face, obviously ready to state her opinion.

“Ah see no problem with that.”

At the other ponies look at her, as if wanting to hear more of what she had to say.

“Ah mean, it’s not like it’s gonna hurt anypony, is it? And besides, teaching others is always a great gift to give, and a great gift to receive. Ah don’ think Griff would mind one bit if y’all taught him a bit of magic.”

“You really mean it?” Twilight asked, making sure she had her friend’s support.

“I definitely, without a doubt, mean it, Twilight.”

“Wait. What if he can’t control his magic?” Rainbow chirped suddenly, flaring her wings up in panic.

“Don’t worry. I’ll start with the basics. That way he won’t do anything too drastic. And besides, Rarity and I will be there to absorb any excess energy just in case he uses too much.”

“Yeah.” Rarity agreed.

Almost satisfied with her friends, she popped the question “So, otherwise that, do I have all of your support?”

“I’ve got your back!” Rainbow Dash was the first to speak.

“Y’all can count on me” Applejack stated proudly.

“I’m here just in case anything happens.” Fluttershy whispered meekly.

“I’ll be your wings, darling” Rarity reassured.

“I’m here to help too!” Pinkie Pie announced.

“Fantastic.”

Twilight looked around to all five of her friends. (With friends like these, nothing could go wrong.) She thought to herself.

*Magic-years is the pony equivalent of light years. Although in my mind, the 'speed of magic' sort of speak is five times faster than that the speed of light. I know that's impossible, but hey, it's pony logic. Nothing really makes sense.

I have been working very hard to deliver to you guys, so I hope you enjoyed this installment of Chronicles of an Unknown World!

EDIT: Deleted this chapter by accident, this is not the original I posted a year and a half ago.