Depth of Mania

Chapter 1

Both Twilight and Spike had heard of Regent and Twilight had seen him quite a few times on her visits to Canterlot. He was supposedly the husband of sorts to Princess Celestia but he was rarely seen by anyone even Celestia herself had once said she barely sees him. He seems to bury himself in his work on more archaic magics of the world. Rumors be told he has even seen and heard the Necronomicon speak. Some are stories of him tampering with time and what not. The two of them sat on the couch and waited for Regent to show up. Minutes ticked by and soon minutes became an hour. Then a knock came from the door. "Spike get the door that should be Regent." Spike walked over to the door and opened it on the other side was a lead-colored alicorn with a dark gray mane with lighter gray fraying the end of the mane. Which went down to the start of his shoulders. He nodded to Spike as he entered. "So Twilight you can't do any magic from what Celestia told me."

"Yes I can't watch." She focused on a book that was on the table and tried to lift it her horn began to glow but quickly died.

"Your horn glowed...but yet you didn't seem to perform the spell..." He suddenly became lost in his own thoughts and Twilight stood in front of him waving her hoof.

"Hello? Equestria to Regent? Hello?" He suddenly snapped his back into focus. "What? What was it you were saying?"

"Nothing you just zoned out on us."

"Oh...Well I think I have an idea what may have caused this..."

"What?" She suddenly interrupted.

Regent shot her a look and started to talk again, "If you would have let me finished I believe it was some sort of energy drain."

"A what?"

"An energy drain. Somepony must have done a great feat of magic and needed more power so that pony used his or her magic to drain surrounding Unicorns of their magical energy to use. It's not permanent as you can see you should start to be able to do magic as you regain your energy but we must find who did the drain in the first place as they could be dangerous if they needed to even perform an energy drain." Twilight was still confused at Regent's explanation.

"Of course my explanation may not make sense as energy drains are old archaic spells so a pony like you wouldn't know much about them." He snickered as he turned to leave the library.

"Come along we must go and find the pony that casted that spell." Twilight followed him out of the library leaving Spike who wasn't really listening so as soon as Twilight and Regent left he went to the kitchen and came back with a bowl of gems scarfing down small hand fulls.

The three ponies headed through town all the ponies who passed by the group quickly bowed as Regent passed. A lot of the unicorns they passed by seemed worried and asked Twilight and Regent why they couldn't do any magic. Regent didn't explain and only responded with "We are working on just stay calm." They exited Ponyville and were in the fields. Regents horn had a faint glow to it as they wandered through the fields. Seemingly in no direction just following Regent till they came over a hill and saw the portal.

"They opened a portal...well we found what they did. Now let's find who did it." They walked closer to the portal. Suddenly two cloaked figures came running out of the woods. When they saw the group they stopped. The alicorn surprised them but they knew who he was.

"Auctor?"

"Yeah?"

"What are we gonna do?"

"Well archaic magic is outlawed. I do believe we may be arrested. Just run for the portal they shouldn't follow should they?"

The group looked at the cloaked figures. "I think they casted the spell Regent."

"Do you not think I don't know that Twilight it was certainly obvious." He snapped at her. The two ponies ran towards them,

"Halt!" Regent's horn started to glow but he was cut off as one of the ponies crashed into him knocking him into the portal with them. Twilight and Rainbow Dash not expecting this looked to each other. "What do we do?" Twilight asked her friend.

"We have to go in after him!" Rainbow Dash answered.

"WHAT!? Into that thing I don't like that idea!" Twilight got shoved by Rainbow Dash and fell into the portal. Rainbow Dash

just ran straight in. The sensations of being teleported through the portal was not a good feeling it felt like ants crawling all over your insides. When it was over they felt better though and Twilight felt amazing like she could do anything. They scanned the area around them when they came out of the portal and they saw Regent laying on the ground unconscious.

"Regent!"