Chronicles of an Unknown World - The Awakening

Note: thoughts are in italics and parenthesis.

{*Omniscient point of view, Ponyville Library*}

“Twilight! Wha… What did you just do???”

Fluttershy was appalled as she just witnessed Twilight step forward and cast a spell towards the awakened alien. A few moments ago, he was screaming out in terror, and Fluttershy figured it was due to post-injury trauma of some sort. (But then again, it could of also been because it’s never seen a pony before, and it was just scared for its life) Fluttershy rationalized.

During the middle of its little freak-out, Twilight immediately drew her magic powers towards herself and cast a powerful paralysation spell. Unfortunately, the spell hit the alien so hard that his neck snapped back from the blow with a sickening crack. Both ponies knew that Twilight may have just killed the first alien to step into Equestria, but that didn’t really concern Twilight. All she knew was that the creature subdued, therefore it no longer posed a threat to her and her friend’s safety, or in fact Ponyville’s safety, and that was good enough for her.

“Twilight Sparkle, you WILL tell me what you just did to the poor, defenseless alien, right now!” Fluttershy quietly demanded, delicately stomping her hoof on the floor.

Twilight did a double take. “Poor? Defenseless??? Fluttershy, for all you could know, that ‘thing’ could have eaten us! Obviously, it was about to attack, so before it could harm any of us, I cast paralyze spell. We can’t take any chances with an alien, especially since it potentially threatens the peace of Ponyville!”

Fluttershy made a face of disbelieve. “But Twilight, it was just probably scared or exerting some post-traumatic emotions… or…something...”

Twilight eyed Fluttershy with a doubtful look. Fluttershy returned the gesture by presenting herself more bashful than usual.

“Well, you know what I mean! That spell was unnecessary, and I expect you to reverse it as soon as possible!... please?”

Twilight sighed. “Fine, but I’ll only heal it ONCE I’ve figure out if it has any booby-traps on its body or not.”

“Oh, I’m sure that he’s fine. Here, I’ll show you!” Fluttershy began to walk towards the creature slumped on the floor…

“Fluttershy, wait!-“

Twilight reached out in a feeble attempt to stop Fluttershy from approaching the body of the alien and lightly poking it with her front right hoof. The purple mare backed up and prepared to cast a shield spell along the room just in case anything on the creature’s body blew up or not. Fluttershy didn’t even blink twice when she felt the tip of her hoof squish against the skin of the organisms left arm. Both ponies waited patiently for a few seconds, expecting SOMETHING to happen. But, nothing in the current setting changed, so Twilight let go of the breath that she didn’t even realize she was holding. Then, she began to speculate that the alien might have triggered some kind of illusion when Fluttershy touched it so that they wouldn’t notice any difference in scenery at all when in reality she and Fluttershy were being choked to death by the alien’s killer robotic octopus arms.

Her thoughts got interrupted her thoughts when the yellow Pegasus spoke:

“See? There’s nothing to be afraid of. He’s just a little lost alien that had a little freak out scene when he saw other beings that he couldn’t recognize! He wouldn’t harm a fly! All you need to do Twilight is have a little faith that not everything from outer space is evil!”

Twilight took another second to think for herself. She looked up to see Fluttershy sitting beside the alien making the widest smile she could muster. The shy Pegasus’s argument made sense. If she was suddenly in another world with no explanation, she would have probably spazzed out like the organism did too. In addition, Fluttershy had already come into contact with the space being, and so far, had gained no visible damage to herself, somewhat proving that the alien was most likely, safe.

Furthermore, what would it cost her to have a small bit of faith in the alien?

(Actually, it might cost a lot, but still, I have to keep Fluttershy’s opinion with an open mind!) Twilight determined.

“Ok Fluttershy, you’ve slightly convinced me that he holds no harm to Ponyville, but that still doesn’t mean that I’m not going to scan him with a few spells!”

“Oh dear…” Fluttershy faintly whispered as she shuffled herself to the side when Twilight grabbed a hold of the alien with her telekinetic grip. “Please, be careful with him…”

(We don’t even know if it’s a ‘him’ or not…) pondered Twilight.

The purple unicorn guided the alien’s limp body back to a resting position on the bed once again. After, she brought all her focus to the physical scanning spell she was about to cast. Her horn shined throughout the room, creation a purple light show across the mahogany walls. Fluttershy watched Twilight’s magic from behind the purple mare, silently praying to Celestia that nothing would go wrong in the scanning process. Once she was ready, Twilight released her magical energy and spread it over the organism’s body, allowing her to examine every physical shape, curve and crevice that the alien had to offer.

As she observed the creature’s legs and arms with her mind’s eye, she noticed that compared to an ape’s (which she was basing her assumptions on), this creature’s muscles were abnormally developed. Also, its feet were definitely were unlike an ape’s, and its brain was substantially larger than the average anthropoid. When she checked the contents of its jaw, she frowned to identify a pair of healthy looking teeth that were clearly made to grind meat, but also consume vegetables.

Twilight opened her eyes, coming to the conclusion that there was nothing harmful on the organism’s body, except for a few muscles that could pack a powerful buck if they wanted to. She glanced one last time at the visual aspect of the alien’s body. It seemed so calm, so peaceful, as if it was having a pleasant dream.

(Well, we’ll soon find out if peace is in it’s true nature, won’t we?) Twilight rhetorically asked herself.

Twilight turned to face Fluttershy. “Ok, I’m done physically scanning over his body, and… I found no traps or threats.”

“Yay!” Fluttershy squealed in delight as she fluttered her wings and daintily clapped her hooves together.

“BUT, I still have one more test to go over…”

“Aww…” Fluttershy immediately wilted on spot.

“…And that’s the magical energy scan…”

Twilight turned to face the organism once again. As she started to gather and store up the magical energy around her, she felt her chest tighten. She was absolutely terrified about how this next test would go. Although it would give her a great idea of what exactly it was capable of in terms of magic, there was a certain level of danger that came along with progressing with the test. If the creature had too much magic for her to handle all at once, or if it had some kind of immensely potent defense-reaction spell locked up in its mind, then there was no telling what could happen to her after she cast her spell. Twilight was about to pull out and find a different method to find its arcane abilities when…

"Have a little faith."

Fluttershy's words rang out in Twilight's head, filling the hesitant pony with courage and resolve. She scrunched up her face as she released the magic from her horn.

Her body relaxed as half of her consciousness was brought into her brain to inspect the magical aura before her. It seemed that the spell went without a hitch, giving Twilight much needed relief. But, it also seemed she counted her chickens before they hatched, as she found a sudden weakness in her knees. Next thing she knew, she was collapsing with the world spinning around her. The walls and ceiling of her own tree house were bleeding together in a greyish-brown blur. She heard a worried “Twilight!” somewhere in the distance, and then proceeded to fall over on her side while spotting a yellow blob in the corner of her eye right before she blacked out.

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