Author notes: Hey everypony me again sorry took so long, but this chapter was kind of hard because it gives you some background info and I had to think carefully also I was having trouble getting some of the way they speak. Hopefully I got it down well enough, but since nopony been leaving any comments I'm not to sure. So the usual leave a comment about anything really I'm all ears.

The girls and I were at apparently Twilight’s home which so happens to be the library and were going to hopefully get all their questions out of the way. Twilight was the most excited out of her friends and had a smile that could rival Pinkie Pie. However fate wanted to tease Twilight when Rarity, which I found out during thier quick introductions, suggested we get something to eat. Twilight was protesting with such passion that we almost didn’t until her stomach betrayed her causing her to blush and simply nod in agreement. About an hour later with full stomachs we all sat back down while Spike came in last bring some tea for everypony.

“I must say Applejack you sure know your way around an apple. I mean that apple soup was simply delicious” I said.

“Thank ya kindly, also ah was wondering if ah could ask ya something real quick” she asked but stopped when she notice Twilight scowling at her which I thought was pretty cute.

“Sorry Applejack, but I did promise Twilight I would let her go first once she’s done you can go next” I said with a slight chuckle this made Twilight brighten up and she got herself ready to take down notes.

“So I know this has been on everyponies mind but what is your name?” she asked.

“I don’t have a name” I replied this seem to get me some confused looks.

“What do ya mean ya don’t got a name?” Applejack asked.

“Yeah that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense” said Rainbowdash.

“I don’t have a name for a reason which probably follows who or what I am” I said.

“Um…if you don’t mind me saying you said you were a dragon” said Fluttershy.

“Wait he’s a dragon I thought he was a talking snake with wings” said Rainbowdash.

“First off I’m not a snake” glaring at Rainbowdash for a couple of seconds then I calmed down and continued “Technically I’m a dragon, but I’m not at the same time.”

“So what are you then?” Twilight asked paper and quill ready to write.

“I’m a spirit or more precise a water spirit” I said getting even more confused looks from the group.

“What the hay is a spirit?” asked Rainbowdash.

“Yes I’m afraid I’m not too familiar ither” said Rarity.

“Hold on a sec I think I have a book somewhere” Twilight said, but before she could get up Pinkie came over and placed a book in front of her.

“Here you go” Pinkie said now hopping back to her spot with a smile on her face.

Twilight was surprised at first, but got over it and was now reading the book. Only I was surprised by how she was able to do that and everypony else seemed to be waiting for Twilight to finish what she was looking for. ‘What the…she did it again a weird act that defies all natural order like how she knew what I was thinking and now knowing what book Twilight was going to need like seeing into the future’ I thought now starting at her closely.

She seemed to notice I was looking at her and said “No silly I can’t read ponies mind and I can’t see the future and it wouldn’t be fun if I could see the future because then I would know how my parties end and they would never be a surprise.”

“See right there” I pointed at her now everpony looking at me except Twilight. “You claim you can’t read my thoughts, yet you know what I was thinking so explain that” I said fear crawling thru me knowing that my thoughts could be heard.

“But I’m not lying” she said and seem to deflate a little tears starting to form.

Feeling guilty I said “I’m sorry Pinkie I shouldn’t have accused you of lying, but it just seems so… bazaar that you can do things like that, but that’s no excuse can you forgive me.”

This made her hair perk back up and said “Of course I forgive you.” with a big toothy grin on her face. “Oh also I can’t read minds but I can read text” she said looking off in a direction still smiling and now waving at no pony.

This left me dumbfounded “But…you just…and I…just” I said.

“Best if ya just let it go sugarcube” Applejack said.

“Pinkie is just being Pinkie” said Spike giving me an understanding look.

Rainbow was laughing slightly and said “Pinkie you’re so random.”

“Uh ok you know what I give up, but can you promise me to stay out of my head or text or whatever it is you do for the rest of the night?” I asked

“I’ll do even better” she said and started to do a strange ritual like thing while saying “Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye” which end with her poking her eye, how it didn’t hurt I’ll never know.

“Uh… what did I just watch” I asked skeptically.

“Silly willy it was a Pinkie Pie promise” she said as if it was something everyone knew. “It’s a promise that you can never brake and must keep FOREVERRRR.” She said dramatically on her back hooves. I simply just gave up logic while being around her and decided to shrugged it off.

“Ah here it is” Twilight said and began reading the passage out lout “Not much is known exactly about where spirit come from to begin with, but have been around since the beginning of time. Spirits seem to falls under the elements of magic which are Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Lighting, Darkness and Light. Spirits are known to be peaceful creatures that rarely show any aggression against others unless it is for defending other lives and have been told that they are bound to a code of some sorts that forbids them to hurt any intelligent creature like ponies, griffons and etc. They are known to come in many different shape, sizes and even form some examples would be fairies, small critters like squirrels or birds and some are even know to take the form of ponies, griffons and etc.  Although they are strong in magic they cannot live in our realm forever and eventually die out once their magic is depleted or killed. Some researcher believe that spirits reborn each time they die naturally, but cannot be certain since most if not all spirits have been hunted down and killed for varies reasons such as believed to increase one’s lifetime or grant smoother and better fur coats which has not been proven. Spirits were believed to exist for the purpose of keeping order to the lands that we live on, but again no proof has been determined and spirit don’t tend to trust anyone especially pony kind at all yet are still known to do their duties till the day they die.”

Everypony in the room looked like they were on the verge of tears. Twilight was the first to say something “I…can’t believe that anypony would do such a thing” she had her head hung down.

“Whoa” Spike said now trying to comfort Twilight.

“Why in tarnation would anypony do that, it ain’t right” Applejack said her hat was now covering her face.

“That just messed up” said Rainbowdash who was trying to look like it didn’t bother her, but was still tearing up.

“Those poor creatures” said Fluttershy who was crying.

Rarity was now comforting her and said “Yes that is certainly ‘messed up’.” Pinkie didn’t say anything, but her hair was deflated again and looked sad.

“You girls shouldn’t have to feel bad about what other did” I said trying to cheer them up.

“But…” Twilight was about to say something but I beat her to it.

“But nothing it was a different time era and I don’t hate or blame anyone for what their ancestor did a long time ago. Besides there’s more to it than that” I said this got them to cheer up a bit and were now listening to me again, but still had tears in their eyes.

“For starts there were two kinds of spirits, which researchers gave us names for, one kind were named 'lesser' spirits and for the most part everything that was written is correct. The other kind of spirits were known as 'higher' spirits which no pony ever really new because we tended to keep a low profile since we had a more…important job then what other spirits did.” I said they were now not tearing up, but listening attentively. “We were still the same as spirits we each fell under an element, but different like how our magic and body heal/regenerate like normal creatures would unless we’re near our element in which case the process goes faster and how we don’t die once our magic is depleted and…” I said before I caught myself and stop from saying the rest, but Applejack seemed to notice.

“There’s more to it than that isn’t there” said Applejack with a grim expression.

“… do you… really want to hear the rest” I said trying not to make eye contact with them. They all just nodded waiting for me to collect my thoughts. “Higher spirits are not bound by the same code as lesser spirits and can kill” I said staring at the ceiling.

“YOU CAN WHAT” Rainbowdash said getting ready to charge at me to defend her friends.

“Hold on their sugarcube there’s more to it than” said Applejack holding Rainbowdash back.

“Yes there is more to it than that” I said this seemed to calm her down and I continued “I only kill others when I don’t have a choice and even then I still don’t enjoy it. It’s just a necessary evil is all” I said sadly looking at them now.

After a couple of minutes of silence they got into a little group and discussed what was just said. “I think we all understand and thank you for telling us that even though it was hard for you to talk about” Twilight said and the rest gave me a reassuring nod.

“So back to the original question before we skipped a couple of questions, but what should we call you?” Twilight said.

“If you must have the need to call me something you can referrer to me as Azul” I said not really caring.

“As in the color of your scales” Spike said.

“Precisely” I said.

“How many other ‘higher’ spirits are there besides you?” Twilight asked.

“There’s only six other excluding me each representing an element” I answered.

“And what happen to them?” she asked.

“We choose to split up and meet back up here in Equestria. Some went to the Griffon kingdom, some went to the lands of the zebras and the rest went to the lands of the donkeys only I came here first. Anything else” I said hoping she would be done.

“Ok let’s see hear” she said while checking off a list of question on a scroll that went to the kitchen ‘We’re definitely going to be here for awhile’ she went back to the top of the list, decided on a question now and asked “So that means you originate from Methana correct?”

“Yes” I answered.

“I’ve heard rumors of Methana from clients and they were hardly anything good” Rarity said her voice darkened a little bit.

“Yeah and those rumors you heard are all probably true” I nodded in agreement.

“What kind of rumors if you don’t mind me asking?” Fluttershy asked now shaking a bit.

“Nothing good Fluttershy and I would rather not talk about it right now” I said firmly this seemed to get my point out and they stopped asking about it.

“So how does spirit magic work exactly?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah do you have to shout at your element to make it work” Rainbowdash jokingly said getting a couple of giggles from the girls.

“No I only did that for dramatic effect, but if you don’t believe me here’s your proof” I replied. I snapped my claws and in a few seconds a ball of water the size of a basketball formed over her head. The girls and Spike were fascinated by my act that they didn’t realize the water strating to fall towards Rainbowdash and before she could move out of the way, it was too late leaving her completely soaked. After a couple minutes of everyone laughing I took the water off of her and the ground making it completely dry and put the water in the barrel with me. “And to finish off your question I assume spirit magic and pony magic are similar if not the same thing. The only key difference is the fact that I’m limited to only water magic while you as a unicorn can do all types of magic.” I said now getting over my laughing fit.

Twilight and her friends were also getting over their laughter as well and asked “So then why did you come to Equestria?”

“What can’t an eight thousand or so year old spirit go on vacation see the world and what not” I said sarcastically.

“Is that also how you got those injuries?” she asked skeptically raising one of her eye brows.

“Ok so maybe I wasn’t on vacation” I said with a shrug, but she still was staring me down. I just sighed and continued “I was being chased by Methana soldiers is all” I said.

“Why?” she asked

“Because I’m a water spirit” I said with a shrug.

“You’re obviously holding back something” said Rainbowdash.

“And obviously nothing gets past you” I replied back with sarcasm.

“Why I outta…” she said before she was stopped again by Applejack.

“There a reason why ya can tell?” asked Applejack.

“More or less” I answered.

“I don’t mean to pry Azul, but would you care to explain?” asked Rarity.

“For starters it’s my job not to let ponies or other to know what I know and second and more importantly is to make sure you girls won’t get into harm’s way” I said darkly.

“What would happen if you told us?” asked Twilight more curoious then concerend unlike her friends.

“Well let’s just say that Methana has spies all over the world and those who get too close to spirits are never heard from again” I said with concern in my voice this seemed to upset them a bit while also some of them showing concern ‘They probably think I can’t trust them maybe I can let them know a bit’ I thought for a while and decided to just tell them where I was going at least.

“I can’t go into detail, but I can tell you little bit about my plans” I said they seemed to brighten up and I continued “I’m going to go see the ruler of Equestria Princess…uh bugger what was it again. Celestria…no Celestrial…maybe damn what was it again” I said scratching my chin.

“Oh oh I love guessing games how about Kelestria no Melestria no wait how about Trollestria” said Pinkie Pie jumping up and down.

“Somehow that last one sounds about right or at least close” I said with a laugh.

“I believe you mean Princess Celestia” Twilight said glaring daggers at me.

“Ah yes that was it thank you Twilight that would have been awkward to see her and not even remember her name or getting it wrong” I said while rubbing the back of my head. ‘Wow somepony is mad.’

“Why do you need to see the Princess?” Rainbowdash asked eyeing me suspiciously.

“To just ask for something she borrowed from me a thousand years ago” I replied.

“Well what is it?” she asked me bluntly while making constant eye contact with me.

“Rainbowdash that’s completely rude” Rarity said slightly glaring at her friend.

“What he could be lying for all we know and besides you’re just as curious” she replied back still not breaking eye contact with me.

“He hasn’t lied to us once Dash, besides ah reckon it ain’t really none of our business” Applejack said.

“I admit I’m rather curious as well darling, but like Applejack said it’s none of our business” Rarity said. Rainbowdash seemed to lighten up a bit, but showed me a jester suggesting she was keeping an eye on me.

“Um…excuse me if you don’t mind I could take you to Canterlot if you want I mean if you’re ok with that” Fluttershy said quietly while twiddling with her hooves.

“That’s very nice of you to offer Fluttershy, but who knows how long you’ll be gone and how long it’ll take to get there. No I’ll be fine once I know which way to go” I said.

“What are you talking about silly it’s only like a three hour fly from here or you could take the train, but it’s much slower, but there lots of ponies on the train so you could throw a party or Spike could send a letter and invite Princess Celestia to the train party OH even better we could make it a flying train party and invite the Princess to it” Pinkie Pie said with a big toothy grin without having to stop and take a breath, how she did this I'll never know.

“Wait just wait” I said rubbing my eyes to help me think. “So let me get this straight I’m only a couple hours flight away from Canterlot as in the capital of Equestria like as in the middle of the country” I asked with disbelief they gave me a couple nods and I continued “and you continued to say that I can send a letter directly to the Princess herself because we have Spike.”

“Well duh I mean Twilight is Princess Celestia’s number one student” Pinkie Pie said leaving an embarrassed Twilight rubbing the back of her head with her hoof.

”Wow those soldiers are really committed to capturing me to fly all the way to the heart of Equestria” I said still trying to process how far I actually went. “And I’m apparently in the presence of Celestia’s number one student” I said still a bit unsure if they were joking with me or not.

“If you want I could send a letter to the Princess letting her know you’re here” Twilight said trying to get me at of my daze.

“Yeah sure you do that” I said not truly believing her.

This seemed to make her upset, but decide to wrtie about what has happened so far and was about to send the letter off, but asked “Anything you want to mention?”

“Yeah ask her how ‘The maiden fairs tonight’ ” I said ‘I really doubt that she knows her, but on the off chance she’s telling the truth I might as well, if anything I’ll get a good laugh out of this’.

As she wrote that down she rolled it up and sent it over to Spike who blew a green flame on it and it vanished. In a mere matter of seconds Spike burps up a letter and Twilight starts to read it out loud.

Dear Water Spirit or Azul

The maiden cries under the moon for the loss of her dear ones, yet still pushes on for hope that she may see them again ‘Mother of God she was telling the truth’ I thought now listening closely. I am afraid due to certain ‘guest’ I cannot meet you for some time. I suggest you stay with my student Twilight Sparkle and her friends for the time being and I will let you know when it is safe for us to continue our discussion with greater length face to face.

Signed Princess Celestia

“Wow I must apologize Twilight I really didn’t believe you were her student let alone you can communicate with her thru Spike” I said.

“It’s alright it does seem a bit far fetch if you haven’t been around here before” she said with an understanding smile. As the room fell quiet I noticed some of the girls and Spike had bags under their eyes. ‘It starting to get pretty late…we should wrap this up and get some shut eye’ I said while stretching a bit.

“Hey Twilight I think we should wrap this up it’s starting to get late and everyone looks beat” I said gesturing with my hands to the group.

“Yeah your right will continue talking another night” she said a bit disappointed. The girls said their goodbyes and left leaving me, Twilight and Spike alone.

“Well I’m going to bed” said Spike making his way upstairs “You coming Twi?” he asked.

“In a bit I want to organize these notes real quick” she said moving her pile of notes to a corner and neatly organizing them.

“Well I guess I’ll get some sleep as well, Good night you two” I said watching them now both head up the stairs.

“Good night” they both said as Twilight turned off the lights in the library leaving me in the dark. I swam down to the bottom and closed my eyes embracing sleep in mere seconds.