Twilight let out a cry of frustration as she tossed a book to the side using her magic. The book flew towards Spike, who ducked, barely missing it.

"Hey, watch it!'' Spike cried angrily looking at Twilight.

Twilight turned, her frustrated face quickly became one of remorse. "Oh, sorry Spike. I'm just so fed up right now.''

Spike crossed his arms as he rolled his eyes, ''Yeah, I bet.''

Twilight frowned irritably at the dragon before turning her attention to the piles of books in front of her. In fact, there were a cluster of open books around her, all over the room to be exactly. It's been two days since her and the others' meeting involving the purple gem and not only has Twilight not received word back from Celestia, she couldn't find anything on magical gems with the power to travel back in time.

"I just don't understand it!'' Twilight spoke, frustrated. "I've looked through half the books in this entire library and not a single one of them has anything about time traveling gems. It's maddening!''

Twilight's horn gave off a billowing magenta aura as she levitated a book and place it on the podium to prepare to read. Spike saw her frustration and softened his expression as he walked towards her. "You've been at these books nonstop for two days now Twi. Maybe you should take a break. I've made fresh cookies!'' Spike said, smiling brightly at his last words in hopes to cheer Twilight up.

Twilight turned to her assistant and gave him a small, but grateful smile. "Thanks Spike, but I really need to find at least something about this gem. If it's somehow connected to the Changeling Queen, the fate of Equestria could be at stake.''

"Well couldn't you just asked your mom about it? I mean, she did give it to you,'' Spike suggested, shrugging.

Twilight pondered this thought before answering, ''I suppose so. But she would've told me about its powers when she gave it to me, and she definitely didn't mention them when telling me stories about it.''

Spike walked beside her and gave her a worried look. "Well you've already went through half the books in this entire library. What are you going to do if you don't find anything?''

Twilight sighed somberly, ''I...I don't know Spike.'' Twilight looked down, fear, worry, and dread consuming her. "I just wish Princess Celestia would reply. I...I wish she was here.''

Spike frowned sadly and put a reassuring arm around Twilight. Twilight gazed at the dragon wearily and returned his embrace as they sat among the litter of opened, scattered books that failed to offer the information Twilight was seeking.

Today, Pinkie Pie invited Quentin to Sugarcube Corner to help with an order that was due later on that day. As usual Mr. and Mrs. Cake would alternate between minding the storefront and watching over their twins. Quentin was able to see them during his stay in Equestria and he's never seen a pair of the cuties babies ever. True that they had a mischievous side to them, but was a joy to keep watch over.

"How's those cupcakes coming along Quentin?'' Pinkie called as she mixed cake batter.

"Looking good Pinkie, as always,'' Quentin replied, taking out a pan of finished, delicious cupcakes, their sweet aroma making the stallion's mouth water.

Pinkie went over to him and grinned before speaking in her signature cherry tone. "Oh, those DOES look good! And they smell good too!''

Quentin chuckled, ''Nothing less from the best bakery around.''

Quentin then proceeded to spread chocolate frosting on the cupcakes. "You must really love working here if you think this is the best bakery around huh?'' Pinkie asked as she poured the cake mix in a cake pan to be ready to put in the oven.

Quentin nodded with a smile, ''Yeah, helping out here every now and then definitely has been an interesting experience.''

Pinkie Pie laughed, surprising the earth pony by coming out of nowhere behind him and embracing him rather tightly, ''Well what did you expect Quentin? You think this place would be dull and boring? Uh uh not on my watch!''

Quentin rolled his eyes, as she continued hugging him tightly but he smirked and embraced her with a one foreleg embrace.

"And you especially been interesting to work with Pinkie. You are totally one of a kind.'' Pinkie giggled.

As the friends embraced, Quentin noticed a scent that he had failed to notice before. Pinkie's coat seemed to have a sweet smell, like baked treats. Quentin instantly deduced that this could probably be due to the amount of time she spends here, or could it possibly be her natural body scent? Either way, Quentin inhaled and sighed softly, the aroma making the hug even more enjoyable and relaxing.

By twelve, Pinkie Pie and Quentin had finally finished making three dozen cupcakes, two dozen chocolate chip cookies, and five cakes that was heading out later that day.

"Whew! Now that's some good baking right there!'' Quentin breathed out, leaning against a counter.

Pinkie nodded with a grin, ''Yepity yep yep! I wouldn't be surprised if the front counter was overflowing with sweets! Thanks for your help today Quentin. Do you wanna join me on my lunch break?''

Quentin nodded, ''Yeah, verily. As much fun as baking is, it can really take it out of you and besides…'' Quentin then smiled warmly at the pink pony. "I'll never mind spending time with one of my closest friends.''

Pinkie giggled, "Aw you're as sweet as triple, decker, strawberry cake with whipped cream and a cherry on top.''

Quentin pondered such a dessert but quickly brushed it off and smiled meekly, averting his eyes before suggesting. "How about the cafe?''

"That'd be great! You go on ahead and I'll tell Mr. and Mrs. Cake we're leaving,'' Pinkie Pie responded.

Quentin nodded and headed out the back door and into town. He walked among the pony residence and it wasn't long before Pinkie Pie had caught up to him. The two talked casually as they made their way to the cafe and before long, they had arrived. There were quite a few outside tables occupied more than usual for the little cafe.

"Eeny, meeny, miny moe catch a pony by the nose, if they squeal let them go, eeny, meeny, miny...THAT ONE!'' Pinkie chimed, pointing to an empty table at the far end of the cafe.

Quentin followed his optimistic friend to the table and sat down on the hay present. "Wow, this is a pretty big table,'' the earth pony stallion said, examining the table." It could probably seat all our friends.''

"You're right! I wish they were here thought. Oh, you think I should go get them?!'' Pinkie asked excitedly.

Quentin opened his mouth to answer when a tomboyish, fun loving voice called out, ''Pinkie! Quentin!''

Quentin and Pinkie Pie turned their gazes to the sky to see Rainbow Dash zooming down and landed in front of them. "Hey guys, what's happening?!'' Rainbow Dash greeted with her trademark grin.

Quentin smiled and spoke, ''Hey Rainbow! We were just about to have some lunch.''

"Awesome! You two mind if I join you?'' Rainbow Dash asked.

Pinkie smiled brightly, "Are you kidding?! We would absolutely, positively, LOVE it if you ate with us!''

Quentin nodded, patting a patch of hay next to him. "Totally, pull up some hay and join us RD.'' He flashed her a wink.

Rainbow Dash giggled at her friend's nickname for her, averting her eyes briefly before coming over and sat near Quentin. Rainbow Dash then gave him a hug, something the stallion was not expecting from her, but regardless he thought nothing of it and returned it. It wasn't long before our waiter came to their table.

"Welcome, what can I get for you to drink?'' he asked in a strong accent reminiscent of French.

"I'll have the sarsaparilla,'' Rainbow answered.

"Hot chocolate for me!'' Pinkie grinned.

"And can I get sweet tea please?'' Quentin said.

The waiter nodded and left to get their drinks. Quentin, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie opened our menus and skimmed over them. "So Rainbow, what are you into today weather patrol?'' Quentin asked his rainbow maned friend while looking at her from the corner of his eye.

Rainbow Dash closed her menu, apparently knowing what she'll order and shook her head. "Nope, have a day off today. Honestly…'' Rainbow then became somewhat bashful, prompting Quentin to tilt his head.

What was wrong with this girl? A bold, daring daredevil like Rainbow Dash would act so strange and uncertain around him for these passed couple weeks. Rainbow glanced at Quentin a gentle smile as she continued.

''Honestly...I was thinking about you before I came here. Ya know thinking we could hang out today.''

Quentin was a bit surprised by this revelation. "Wow, I didn't know I was worth thinking about when there was nothing to do?'' he finally said, gazing down at his menu a bit timidly.

"Are you kidding?! Who wouldn't want to think about you?! You've been a really great friend! You've saved Ponyville from a rampaging chimera, AND made friends with a lot of ponies in town. Plus you make the best cupcakes!'' Pinkie praised.

Rainbow Dash nodded, smiling at Quentin, ''Yeah, totally Pinkie. Plus you're just awesome to be around with!''

Quentin shook his head, still gazing down shyly, ''You girls really do praise me too much. I'm really not that great as you claim.''

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie looked at each other blankly and back at him. Rainbow chuckled, patting the human on the back, ''And you're pretty humble too. I guess that's just a part of who you are, but I like that.''

Quentin gave his cyan friend a thankful smile. Their waiter came back with the drinks, skillfully balancing them on a try on his head. After giving our drinks, he proceeded to take the three's orders. Rainbow Dash ordered a tomato soup with hay fries, Pinkie ordered a slice of cheery pie, and Quentin ordered vegetable soup with a side of grilled carrots and barbeque sauce.

The three ponies engaged in friendly conversation while waiting for their food and before they knew it, the waiter came back with their orders. After setting them down, he bowed and left the three customers to their meals.

"Alright, that's what I'm talking about!'' Rainbow Dash said, rubbing her hooves together and licking her lips.

Quentin's mouth also watered as he looked at his soup. He could see carrots, corn, peas, potatoes, and celery all mixed in a hot brownish broth with the grilled carrots on a separate plate next to it. "What are we waiting for, let's dig in!'' Pinkie chimed.

As Quentin, Rainbow, and Pinkie ate their meals, they engaged in friendly conversation. In fact, they hardly paid much attention to their food. The three were just having a great time being in each other's company. Rainbow had offered her hay fries to Quentin and though he was hesitant to try on at first, he eventually picked one up and crunched down on it. He was surprised by how good it actually was. The outside was crispy while the inside was rather soft. It was true by what they say, anything deep fried does taste good. At one point Quentin felt Rainbow Dash lean on him gently. He looked at her out the corner of his eye with a confused look. He turned his gaze quickly to Pinkie Pie, but was glad to see her too busy with her meal to notice Rainbow's act.

"Um Rainbow, are you feeling alright?'' Quentin asked, seeing his friend's unusual behavior out of character for her.

Rainbow Dash quickly moved away from him with a nervous expression as her eyes looking around quickly, ''Yeah Q I'm fine. I guess I was getting a bit too relax, my bad!''

Rainbow Dash gave Quentin a nervous smile, but he just eyed her suspiciously. He could tell she was hiding something. "Right, is that all?''

Rainbow Dash nodded, ''Yeah, just got too relaxed. It is a rather warm day today and I'm getting stuffed with this food.''

Quentin continued to stare at her. True the weather was nice and warm and one would definitely feel to a nap after having their belly filled.

"Alright Rainbow, I'll give you this one'' Quentin finally said, still giving her a skeptical look.

Rainbow Dash just nodded and they went back to their meals. Out the corner of his eye, Quentin saw Rainbow Dash sipping her soup with a rather dishearten look. What was going on with this girl? For weeks now she displayed odd behavior, usually just around him. Quentin decided not to pry on the matter and continued with his lunch. The three finally finished their lunches, paid their bills and left the cafe together.

"Man now that was some good stuff!'' Rainbow Dash said happily, patting her belly. She then let out a rather loud belch and Quentin smirked at the mare. Upon seeing his face, Rainbow Dash raised her hooves in front of her.

"Hey what can I say Q? That was some really good eating!'' Rainbow Dash said in her defense.

Quentin chuckled, shaking his head. The last time she burped like that, the two ended up in a burping contest with one another. Quentin was tempted again, but decided against it this time. Pinkie spoke while she happily bounced.

"I still have a plenty of time before I need to head back to the bakery. Wanna do something until then?''

Quentin smiled and nodded "Sure thing Pinkie.'' He turned to Rainbow Dash, ''You want to chill with us for a bit Rainbow?''

"You know it Q!'' Rainbow Dash replied with a grin.

Quentin, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie walked through town, talking casually amongst ourselves. "Well girls, what should we do to kill time?'' Quentin asked casually, cracking his neck.

Pinkie Pie thought, tapping a hoof to her chin, ''Hmm let's see...oh!''

Right then Pinkie's tail started to vibrate rapidly. Quentin noticed this and spoke with a weird look. "Um Pinkie, what's up with your tail?''

Pinkie gasped and exclaimed, ''Oh no, my tail! My tail!''

Quentin jumped a bit from the surprised outburst as she leaned forward, her rump in the air as her puffy tail continued twitching. "Twitchy twitch! Twitchy twitch!''

The alarmed stallion looked at Pinkie s if she lost her mind. Quentin opened his mouth to speak but Rainbow Dash cut him off. He turned to his Pegasus friend and was surprised with what he saw. Rainbow Dash actually had a freaked out expression on her face, as if she was scared about something.

''Oh man...TAKE COVER!'' Rainbow Dash then flew quickly to a nearby fruit stand ad took shelter under it, shaking controllably while her rose colored eyes looked around rapidly with fear and caution.

"What in the hell is wrong with you ponies?!'' Quentin exclaimed.

"Quentin quick, get somewhere safe!'' Pinkie called as she ran to a barrel and hopped inside. She poked her head out and called with a scared look. ''Quentin quick! Something is about to fall!''

Now Quentin was really confused. Something was about to fall? "Pinkie Pie, what are you talking ab-WHA?!'' Quentin began before he was abruptly cut off.

Quentin was suddenly bulldozed by a herd of ponies, running to some unknown destination while chatting excitedly. There was a dust cloud as the ponies ran and Quentin was thrown upward into the air. As quickly the ponies came, they left just as swiftly, the dust cloud ceasing rather quickly. The earth pony screamed as he did a couple flips in the air before painfully falling back down onto the ground. Quentin's body was raised over his head, his legs askew as his eyes rolled in his head as Quentin was in a daze, he also thought he even heard birds chirping with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.

"Oh crap, Quentin!'' Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she flew from her hiding place and to the dizzy stallion.

"Quentin! Q are you ok?!'' Rainbow Dash asked with a very worrisome look.

Quentin's body fell to the ground and he shook his head to snap out of his daze as he grumbled irritably.

"How would you feel if you just got flung in the air by a pack of ponies?''

Pinkie hopped merrily to the two and chimed, ''Wow, who knew that it'd be Quentin that would've fell from the sky!''

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and gave her unamused looked as Quentin grumbled under his breath. "Yeah it's a damn miracle.''

Quentin slowly got up, annoyed by Pinkie's cherry mood towards his misfortune. "What the hell was that all about?''

"It was Pinkie Pie's Pinkie Sense,'' Rainbow Dash answered.

Quentin did a double take at his rainbow maned friend. "Pinkie what now?!''

"My Pinkie Sense!'' Pinkie answered with a smile.

Quentin couldn't believe what he was hearing. Pinkie Sense were they kidding? What was she, a pony version of Spider Man but without the spider powers? The human turned stallion could only laugh out in disbelief at the explanation.

"You're kidding me right?'' Quentin asked with a laugh.

When Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie just gave blank, serious looks, Quentin stopped laughing and retorted, ''Oh c'mon! Pinkie Sense are you serious?!''

Rainbow Dash nodded and she answered, ''Dead serious Q. Everypony in Ponyville knows that when Pinkie's Pinkie Sense acts up, you better get your ass to cover!''

Quentin looked at his brazen friend skeptically before shifting his attention to his pink friend.

"It's true! Twitchy Tail always means something is going to fall from the sky. And this time, that something was you!''

Quentin rolled his eyes, still not believing what he was hearing. "What you can see into the future or something?''

Pinkie Pie shrugged, ''Yeah something like that.''

Quentin shook his head, now he's seen and heard some crazy things while in Equestria, but this one takes the cake. "Please, what happened was just coincidence, an unfortunate coincidence,'' he grumbled at his last words." But the chances of something like that happening again is like one to a milli-what the hell?!''

Quentin was interrupted by Pinkie's shriek as her tail started to twitch again. "Oh no, twitchy tail...something else is going to fall from the sky! TAKE COVER!''

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie screamed as they took off to the nearest safe place for cover, which just happened to be under a giant mushroom table.

"For the love of god,'' Quentin groaned under his breath, becoming more cantankerous.

"Quentin are you deaf or something?! Get down!'' Rainbow Dash called from hers and Pinkie's shelter.

Quentin sighed deeply, having enough of this. "Guys for the last time. Nothing's gonna happen. I don't believe in this so called 'Pinkie Sense'. So I'm not going to run around like a bunch of jack-'' CLONK!

Suddenly something hard had fell down on his head and everything went black. Quentin didn't know how long he's been out, but the disoriented voices of his friends calling his name slowly got Quentin to regain consciousness.

"What...what happen?'' Quentin asked groggily, slowly getting up.

He felt a rather searing pain on his head and Quentin rubbed his aching spot and wince in pain as sure enough, he felt a bump form where he had been struck. Quentin gazed around and saw Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie looking at him with deep concern. "Q are you ok?'' Rainbow Dash asked, her face filled with worry.

Quentin rubbed his head, winced, and gritted his teeth. ''That was not fun. What the hell was that?''

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie chuckled sheepishly. "You remember what I said that something else was going to fall from the sky?'' Pinkie asked with a nervous grin. "It turned out that something was...''

"Tank,'' Rainbow Dash finished.

Quentin shot his eyes open and whipped his head at Rainbow. "A tank fell on my head?!'' the earth pony exclaimed.

Rainbow Dash shook her head, ''Not A tank...Tank.'' Rainbow Dash pointed down beside her and Quentin saw a tortoise standing beside her foreleg.

Quentin blinked blankly a few times in confusion as he looked at the reptile. He was a bit surprised as it had a noticeable sad expression on his face as well as a pair of aviation goggles on his head. Quentin also notice a helicopter rotor strapped onto his shell being held by a magically glowing mid piece. H gazed at the tortoise before looking back up at Rainbow Dash.

''So a turtle fell out of the sky and on my head?''

"Tortoise!'' Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie corrected him in unison.

Quentin rolled his eyes at the correction, still feeling rather annoyed by what happened. Rainbow Dash continued, scratching the back of her head awkwardly, ''Anyway, this is Tank my pet.''

Quentin widened his eyes at this revelation. Her pet? Rainbow Dash possibly the fastest flyer in the world, the daring speed demon has a slow tortoise for a pet? "You're pet...seriously?'' the stunned stallion asked in disbelief.

Rainbow Dash chuckled before patting Tank on the shell, ''Yeah I know, but there's a little history between us, so Tank here's my boy.''

"Yeah, it started out with Rainbow wanting a pet, so she went to Fluttershy's house and there was a competition and a big race and HMMM!'' Pinkie suddenly started to explain really fast, but Rainbow Dash covered up her mouth with an annoyed look.

"Long story short, Tank is the best pet I could asked for.''

Pinkie nodded happily, her mouth still covered by Rainbow's hoof. Quentin smiled slowly at the brief story. Who'd thought an adrenaline freak like Rainbow Dash would actually accept a slow moving tortoise for a pet. Rainbow Dash added sheepishly.

''I guess Tank was flying through the air when his propeller stopped. Say you're sorry Tank.''

Tank just looked at Quentin with sad, beady eyes. Quentin chuckled, gently patting his head. ''It's ok little fella. I was glad to help soften your fall.''

Tank responded with a slow smile and Quentin laughed. ''He even smiles slow!''

Quentin, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie all shared a laugh. After a few moments, Tanks propeller spun around and he took to the air and flew off. "Hey Quentin, are you sure you're alright?'' Rainbow Dash asked, sincerely apologetic.

Quentin nodded, ''Yeah I'm good Rainbow. Just don't want to experience that again.''

Rainbow Dash chuckled, ''I know, you just want to get clocked by Tank once in your life.''

Suddenly out of nowhere, another horde of ponied came running by and around the three and were gone towards the northeast part of town. "Hey what's going on?!'' Pinkie Pie asked.

"Yeah, where the heck is everypony going?!'' Rainbow Dash asked loudly.

Quentin shrugged, ''It looked like they were going in the direction of Twilight's place. Let's go check it out.''

His friends nodded and they took off after the crowd. The three been running for countless minutes and when they saw the library come into view, it was not where the ponies were going as they ran past it and headed east. Quentin and his friends followed until finally, they saw a crowd of ponies surrounding the train station.

"What the buck is this?!'' Rainbow Dahs asked, frowning a bit

"Maybe the mayor is about to make an announcement?'' Quentin suggested

Rainbow Dash flew up high, looked towards the station and flew back down, ''Nah, I don't even see the mayor up there.''

Pinkie said excitedly, ''Is it a party?! If so why in the hay was I not told about it? I mean I AM the best party planner in Ponyville!''

Rainbow Dash and Quentin rolled their eyes as the latter spoke, ''Anyhow, let's see if we can get a closer look.''

Rainbow Dash flew towards the front while Pinkie Pie and Quentin excused their way through the crowed and finally to the front where they saw Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike among the front with Rainbow Dash joining them.

"Hey girls, you're here too?'' Quentin asked, surprised to find them here.

They looked at him and smiled, ''Howdy there Quentin. Yup, I was at the market sellin some apples when all of a sudden everypony was gallopin around here so I decided to see what's goin on.''

Quentin nodded in understanding as he spoke, ''Well does anyone knows what exactly is going on?''

He heard constant excited chatter from the surrounding ponies. Twilight shook her head, ''I haven't the faintest idea. We just got here ourselves.''

"Oh, I wander if somepony important is coming to Ponyville?'' Fluttershy suggested in her usual quiet tone.

"If so then they must be important if it's causing such commotion,'' Rarity said as she flicked her mane.

Spike gasped before nudging Twilight, ''Hey Twi, maybe Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are coming back!''

Twilight thought about the possibility. ''Maybe, but wouldn't the Princess have sent me a letter in advance? Besides, she never arrived by train before.''

Rainbow Dash then frowned uncaringly, her forelegs crossed, "Whoever it is probably isn't that great. IF anypony is coming that is.''

Suddenly the group heard a loud whistle calling from an incoming train. The excited chatter of the crowd of ponies intensified as the train drew closer and closer. Finally, the train screeched as it came to a complete stop at the station with a final hiss of steam and a last whistle. All present stared in awed at the locomotive. Immediately, Quentin saw that it was greatly different than the usual train the come and goes here. This train was far from feminine looking. The train had the appearance of a hall class steam locomotive whose main colors were deep red and black with the cars red and the black. The train carried few cars, only five actually. A rather long, windowless car had stopped in front of the crowd of awing ponies.

Upon the face of the car was a rather colorful design of an outline of a unicorn of some kind with his hooves outstretched. Underneath were a vast colors of swirls, fireworks, sparkles, and flames. The ponies murmured among themselves, observing the mysterious train.

"Whoa!'' Rainbow Dash and Spike awed in unison.

Applejack whistled, ''Will ya look at that. I've never seen a train fancy as this one!''

Quentin nodded with agreement, ''You and me both AJ. But what's if for, and why is it here?''

"I don't know, but it's definitely not something Princess Celestia would arrive in,'' Twilight answered, eyeing the train with great curiosity.

"My word, whoever arrives in such a dazzling locomotive like this must have standards that magnfique no?'' Rarity said with a French accent in her last words while her azure eyes sparkled at the impressive train.

"Oh my, I-I wander if there's anyony in there? It sure is taking a while for somepony to come out,'' Fluttershy said softly, but still with a hint of surprise.

Pinkie Pie grinned brightly, ''Well let's just knock and find out silly!''

Before Pinkie could even make one step to the car, a yellow light glowed down the middle of the car and disappeared. Moments later, the doors open as a red, sparkling mist flowed out. There were oohs and awes in the crowd as the doors fully opened and the mist flowed from the car and onto the ground. Suddenly to everyone's surprise, the mist started to rise up into a pillar and fly around and through the crowd, as if it had a mind of its own. There were gasps and brief screams of shock as the mist flew mindlessly around.

"Is that smoke possessed or something?!'" Quentin exclaimed, waving away some of the mist.

Finally the plum of red mist rose up into the air and froze for a moment or two before falling back down into the crowd. The ponies quickly spread apart to evade the mist, forming a spacious circle in the middle of the crowd. When the mist collided with the ground it quickly spread out, then formed a tornado that spun rapidly before starting to shrink until it materialized into a pony. Everyone looked at the mysterious pony, while whispering. The pony seemed to be covered in a red covering of some sort, a cape maybe. After a few more moments of the strange pony's covered position, the pony suddenly flew a forearm that held the covering around and struck a rather dramatic pose.

There were gasped as all the ponies finally saw the pony in full view. The pony, a unicorn had a real unique appearance. He had a yellow coat with orange eyes. Unlike most ponies one would see, he was wearing clothing. He had a white dress shirt with a crimson red vest over it. Over the vest was a matching crimson red tuxedo jacket with rather long twin tails and the collar was of black fur. The jacket's wrists were black with gold lining as the sleeves of his dress shirt puffed from his wrists to give a slight visible view. Over his left shoulder was a long, very elegant crimson red cape with elegant black designs and gold lining. His cutie mark seemed to depict a black top hat with a black wand with a white tip tapping the rim with four stars shooting out, two red stars and two yellow stars as well as two white, crescent moons. His mane was jet black, flowing and greased back with a ponytail that hung over his left shoulder as a lock of his mane hung over his face. He had sideburns that came down and curved to a point as well as a mustache connected to a goatee that came out to a point. Around his forehead just beneath his yellow horn was a ruby chain with a shimmering yellow, smooth, oval jewel of sorts hanging from the center. All these features gave him the appearance of a mysterious, magician or showman.

Quentin, his friends, and everypony in the crowd all stared at the unicorn, mouths agape as he wore a proud, yet somewhat smug look on his face. Finally, the unicorn spoke.

''Amazed, are you not?''

He spoke with a light, smooth Italian like accent that made more than a few mares in the audience coo and weak in the knees, like he was some kind of womanizer "Oh my,'' Rarity sighed, placing a foreleg over her head like she was about to faint, a dreamy look in her eyes.

Spike noticed this and frowned jealously at the unicorn with his arms crossed.

The unicorn chuckled as he did a short bow, ''I don't blame you, for all is left speechless after my spectacular display.

Immediately ponies murmured about the unicorn's entrance. Rainbow Dash frowned unimpressed and flew next to Applejack and whispered, ''Wasn't really that amazing, he just came from mist.''

Twilight heard her and shushed her, wanting to hear more from this visitor. The unicorn stood straight up, took a foreleg and brought it across his chest and over his right shoulder, his cape draping as he looked rather discontent around.

"Not my first choice to stop for a rest, but it'll have to do,'' he muttered.

A blue earth pony filly stepped forth and asked, ''Excuse me mister, but who are you?''

The unicorn looked down at the filly, and grinned smugly. "Young filly, I am not a 'mister', for I am far above such a title!''

This response prompted a slight frown from Applejack, ''A bit full of himself don't ya think?''

The visitor continued, ''I must admit I'm a bit surprised that you haven't heard about me. For I am the most powerful unicorn the world has ever known!''

Ponies gasped at the claim. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Twilight, and Spike frowned skeptically while Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie looked mildly surprised. Quentin didn't know what to think, but the visitor had peaked his interest. Twilight spoke, somewhat sternly.

''Wow, that's a pretty bold claim you've made. Exactly, who are you?''

The unicorn gazed at Twilight for a moment and laughed. "My dear...I am he that can turn a sea of water into a sea of butterflies.''

His horn engulfed in a billowing goldenrod aura as the jewel glowed but blended with the sunlight. Suddenly there was a plume red smoke of sparkles as another of the unicorn appeared between Applejack and Rainbow Dash, surprising them.

"I am he that can walk through lava and consume it in a matter of minutes.'' Another plume of smoke erupted next to an earth pony and unicorn in the crowd as another copy appeared.

''I am he that can make the stars in the sky and control the sun and the moon themselves.''

There were oohs and awes as Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Spike frowned deeper. There was another plume of red smoke as another copy of the unicorn appeared beside a flustered Rarity.

''I am he that can defy nature and with a single though, create new life from the old, or even from nothing.''

He used his magic to levitate a nearby pebble and red and yellow magical streams spun around it and in a flash of said colored light, it was changed to a glowing, beautiful red rose. He levitated it and put in in Rarity's mane next to her ear, flashing her a charming wink. Rarity blush as she giggled averting her eyes. The real unicorn in the middle spoke, gazing around the crowd of ponies,

''You ask me who I am?''

At those words, his three copies burst into plumes of red sparkling mist and few around the air a high speeds. The unicorn, flashing a dramatic pose, answered loudly. ''I am the mystical, magical, and devilishly handsome...FIYORAE...THE UNICORN SUPREME!'

At those words, the three plumes of smoke collided into each other and bust into an assortment of colorful fireworks as an image of the outline of the unicorn similar to the one on the train car appeared in gold outline as red colors appeared underneath spelling out 'F-I-Y-O-R-A-E'.

Immediately the air was filled with the impressed murmurs, oohs and awes of the ponies. Quentin gazed up, mesmerized by the firework display. Rarity and Pinkie Pie looked simply amazed. However, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Spike weren't impressed in the slightest. In fact, they seemed more irritated and angry to say the least. The fireworks finally ceased and Fiyorae whipped his cape around him, giving all a confident smirk.

"Yes, be dazzled by my greatness. I travel all over Equestria to amaze ponies of my powers.''

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes before calling out, ''Yeah right! You call that great? So you made a few fireworks show, big deal!''

Fiyorae frowned uncaringly at Rainbow Dash before speaking, ''Ye of little faith. But what to expect from a lowly pony as yourself.''

This remarked caught all of us by surprise. Rainbow Dash gawked for a brief moment before glaring at him, her anger bubbling. "What did you say?!''

Rainbow Dash was ready to fight, and Quentin couldn't blame her. He frowned at Fiyorae, disgusted that he just insulted one of his friends, but decided to not to speak. Fiyorae just closed his eyes and whipped his head upward, not remotely apologetic by what he said.

"I said you are nothing but a lowly pony. One that isn't worth my time even addressing you.''

Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth and scowled, ''Why you stuck up-'' before she could jet to him, Applejack stopped her by grabbing her tail with her teeth. Rainbow Dash glared at her, ''Get the buck off my tail Applejack! This guy has it coming!''

Applejack released her and answered, ''Calm down Rainbow. There's no need ta get yurself in any trouble. Beside, we don't know much about this self-righteous varmint, he could be dangerous.''

Before Rainbow Dash could retort, Applejack frowned at Fiyorae, ''An you!''

Fiyorae gazed lazily at her. ''Jus because ya can do fancy magic tricks doesn't mean ya can look down on other pony folk!''

Fiyorae just eyed Applejack uninterestingly before turning his nose up, ''Magic tricks? Don't insult me by comparing my powers to such meager level?''

By now Quentin and his friends were giving him either angry, annoyed, or skeptical looks. Even Rarity, who was swooning him was glaring at him for his boastful, belittling attitude.

"But still, even if you're talented as you say you are, that doesn't give you the right to insult others, ''Twilight spoke boldly.

Fiyorae raised an eyebrow at the unicorn before walking casually towards her. At a few inches, he stopped examining her closely. The others watched intently wondering what he was doing. Finally, the vain unicorn spoke, ''My dear, I am just stating the obvious truth. After all, one great as myself cannot be categorized to...common ponies.''

Quentin's friends frowned deeper at his comment. Some ponies in the crowd went from awe to disapproval, murmuring with displeased sounds. Fluttershy had more of a 'what is he talking about?' expression. At this point, Quentin was gritting his teeth and frowning angrily at Fiyorae. Who was he to belittle and demean those who's not as talented as him, if his talents were really as great as he claimed. Rainbow Dash let out a snort before speaking to her seven friends.

''Man, this guy's worse than Trixie!''

Applejack retorted, ''An' that's sayin much. That last thing we want is ta have another loud mouth, braggin showoff flauntin his abilities!''

The rest agreed. Quentin didn't know who this Trixie was, but right now he really didn't care. Two unicorn, school ages ponies, a golden colored, blue maned, lanky unicorn known as Snails and a short, chubby, grayish opal colored, brown maned bucktoothed pony known as Snips stepped forward.

"Wow! Can you really walk through lava?!'' Snips asked eagerly.

Fiyorae looked at him with a smug grin. "Walk through it, walk on it, why I can even consume it like its water.''

Rainbow Dash and Applejack rolled their eyes, but Snips, Snails, and some ponies in the crowd looked in amazement. Spike snorted, ''Yeah right so he says. Just because he said it doesn't mean it's true.''

Fiyorae seemed to have heard this, his left ear twitched. He smirked darkly and muttered, ''A nonbeliever are we?''

Fiyorae then turned around to face us. "But you've already seen a demonstration of my powers.''

Twilight retorted, ''What, a little firework display? Not really impressive. Though I have to admit your duplication spell was rather high level considering you did it with little effort, but hardly spectacular. And you're title 'Unicorn Supreme' is way too much. Only two unicorns in history were so powerful to have earned that title and they died centuries ago!''

The rest of her friends agreed. Fiyorae frown at the intelligent unicorn coldly. "Well, you seem like a rather intelligent and knowledgeable young mare. Do you have some expertise in the mystic arts?''

"Maybe. What…what if I am?'' Twilight answered, averting her eyes slightly. She was not one to brag about her magical talents, even preferred not to say much about them.

"That's right! Twilight here has better skills and magic then you'll ever have!'' Spike spoke boldly, causing Twilight to blush slightly.

Fiyorae chuckled, ''Well, well your little lizard friend seems to have much praise for you,'' Fiyorae began, rubbing Spike on the head causing him to growl and glare at him. "Perhaps you can back it up with shall we say...a duel?''

At those words there was a gasp in the audience. Quentin widened his eyes at the thought of a magical duel. "So unicorns can battle each other with magic?'' he thought, but not really surprised. The other worldly visitor suspected such competitions tend to exist in this seemingly complete paradise known as Equestria.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Spike glared at Fiyorae. Pinkie had a somewhat disapproving look while Fluttershy seemed worried. Twilight stared at him with a frown.

''I'm not going to duel you Fiyorae. There's no need to!''

"That's right!'' Rarity spoke up, giving the boastful unicorn an angered glare. "Twilight has no reason to engage in such brutish contest with the likes of you!''

Fiyorae looked at Rarity with a somewhat disappointed look. "But my beautiful lady, a moment ago you were melted by my extravagance. I even made and given you a beautiful rose to add to your radiance.''

At this, Rarity's horn gave a billowing light blue aura which engulf the rose as it levitated in the air. She then threw the rose on the ground and stomped on it, crushing it. There was a brief gasped as Fiyorae looked rather dumbly at his creation which was now a crushed plant that lost its magical red glow. Rarity glared at him.

''You sir are a pompous, disrespectful, vain scoundrel and I wouldn't accept any gift from the likes of somepony that would bluntly insult my dear friends. Besides, the magical rose could even compare to the slightest from a thoughtful gift from a true gentleman.''

Rarity glanced at her silver bracelet with the ruby on it around her left foreleg and she gazed at Quentin with a lovely smile. The stallion could only smile warmly how she treasured such a humble gift of his.

"Yeah you tell him Rarity!'' Rainbow Dash cheered while the rest nodded with approval.

"Hehe, I guess not everybody doesn't think you're all that after all huh,'' Spike sneered. He had an obvious crush on Rarity, so seen her turn down a guy like Fiyorae was more than a highlight of his day.

Fiyorae gawked with his mouth ajar before turning his nose up, ''Hmph, perhaps you're not as graceful as you appear. By such horrid choice of company.''

He shot Rarity's six, closets friends a disgusted look. They glared at him, but Quentin have had it. He didn't care about himself, but nobody disrespects the friends that helped him in his time of need.

"Hey! I've just about had it with your bullshit!''

His friends seemed rather surprised by Quentin's sudden outburst as Fiyorae looked at him a bit alarmed. "Boy, do you know who you're talking to?'' Fiyorae glared.

Quentin snarled, ''I frankly don't give a damn who you are, you have no right to disrespect my friends like that. Rainbow Dash is anything BUT lowly and Rarity is the definition of graceful, not like you would ever know!''

Rarity and Rainbow Dash gazed at their human friend speechless, their mouths hanging open slightly. Rainbow Dash then formed a small, grateful smile and hung her head a bit low as a faint blush came on her cheeks.

Rarity then blinked before speaking firmly, ''Quentin, a fine stallion like you have no need to get into a confrontation.''

Quentin gazed at her and frowned, ''I'm not one to get into fights, in fact I try to stay away from a brawl, but I can't just stand by and what him insult my friends. I won't!''

Rarity seemed surprised by his words and replied softly, ''Quentin I...I'm flattered you feel the need to defend my honor but-''

"But nothing Rarity. A generous princess like you should never be talked down too so bluntly like that,'' Quentin said, placing a hoof on her shoulder and giving her a warm smile.

The rest of their friends smiled at this. "Q...you're awesome,'' Rainbow Dash thought to herself. Rarity blushed and smiled fondly at Quentin.

Quentin then turned to Fiyorae and glared at him. "You're going to apologize to my friends...NOW!''

Fiyorae looked back at the brave earth pony with an uninterested look before laughing. "Apologize?! I'm not apologizing for speaking the truth!'

Quentin gritted his teeth. This guy was pissing him off by the second.

"That's it I've had enough of this!'' Applejack spoke up, fed up with Fiyorae's bad attitude. "Look, I don't care how 'great' ya claim ta be, but ya need a serious lesson on manners!''

"Yeah! This town is all about friendship and kindness. What you said was just mean!'' Pinkie Pie added with a rare, angry look.

Fiyorae didn't even look the slightest bit apologetic and he just turned his nose at them and looked at Twilight and smirked, ''Well I wouldn't blame you if you don't want to face me. I'd be scared too of my wonderful powers.''

Twilight growled, ''Look Fiyorae, I'm not scared of you OR your 'wonderful' powers. There's no reason for a duel!''

Fiyorae eyed the intelligent unicorn with a grimace. "You need a reason to duel me you say?''

He then gazed at her friends who were glaring at him with gritted teeth and finally at Quentin who was giving the same expression. Fiyorae smirked rather coldly before saying, ''Maybe this will give you reason enough!''

Instantly his horn gave off a billowing yellow aura and a yellow beam of magic energy erupted form his horn shooting straight at...Quentin Twilight gasped, looking at her with a shocked expression.

"Quentin no!''

Quentin didn't have time to react and was blasted square in the chest by the attack. He gave a brief yell as he was flown through the air and landed on a good couple feet away, the crowd gasping and moving out of the way of impact.

"Quentin!'' Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight cried in unison.

Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Spike ran to him with extremely concerned looks. "Oh my, Quentin dear are you alright?!'' Rarity asked frantically as she and the rest gathered around him.

Quentin nodded, boiling with anger by what Fiyorae just did while his chest was blackened and singed, causing a burning, stinging feeling to him.

"Rarity I know you don't want me to get in fights, but this guy's really asking for it!''

You shouldn't Quentin. Besides, he has magic. Who knows what other spells he can do,'' Fluttershy said, looking at the injured Quentin with worrisome eyes and attempting to help him up.

Pinkie Pie yelled at the unicorn, ''That was uncalled for and mean! You don't deserved even a piece of cake let alone a party!''

Fiyorae gave an uncaring snort at Pinkie's remark. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight stayed in their places, looking shocked until, Applejack turned and glared at Fiyorae, and snarled, ''Why ya no good son of a bitch!''

Applejack ran full speed at the smirking unicorn with Rainbow Dash right behind her. "Right behind ya AJ. This bastard's gonna pay for what he just did!'' Rainbow Dash shouted, her rose colored eyes burning with fury.

She was especially angered by Fiyorae's uncnessary assault. "Applejack, Rainbow Dash wait!'' Twilight called but it was too late.

Fiyorae chuckled mockingly and muttered, ''Poor, simple fools.''

His horn glowed a yellow aura as a ball of yellow light shot from it and towards the charging ponies. "Head's up Rainbow!'' Applejack called but it was too late.

The ball of light quickly expanded and knocked the earth pony and Pegasus backwards a little past Twilight and onto the ground gasps and brief screams erupting from the crowd.

"Ugh...oh man...what the buck?!'' Rainbow Dash groaned as she groggily sat up.

Applejack shook her head, dazed, ''Alright in hindsight...that really wasn't the best idea.''

"Applejack! Rainbow Dash! Are you alright?!'' Twilight called, concerned for her friends' wellbeing.

Rainbow Dash scowled, ''I will be when I kick this guy's sorry ass!'' But before Rainbow Dash could charge at him again, Fiyorae spoke holding up a hoof.

''Not so fast!''

"What?!'' Rainbow Dash retorted, stopping dead in her tracks.

"You needed a reason to face me in a duel...here it is,'' Fiyorae said with a dark grin.

His horn was covered with a billowing yellow aura as was Quentin as he was levitated in the air. "What the hell!'' Quentin yelled in surprise, flailing in the air.

His friends gasped and looked on in horror. Suddenly, the aura changed to a blue color and expanded into an orb drifting with glowing, yellow stars, trapping the stallion inside it while levitating in the air.

"What the...get me out of here!'' Quentin yelled, though from the outside, his voice sounded muffled.

"Quentin! Are ya ok?!'' Applejack yelled to her trapped friend.

Quentin could barely here her, her voice sounded muffled on his end too. He tried giving a strong equine head butt and a couple bucks to the orb, but Quentin did not even the slightest bit of damage. Whatever this thing was, it was designed to keep him from getting out.

"Oh no!'' Fluttershy whimpered, her hooves over her mouth.

"Don't worry Quentin! I'll have you out in a jiffy!'' Pinkie Pie exclaimed. Out of nowhere, she pulled one of her party cannons out and jumped inside. In seconds, the cannon fired Pinkie at the orb, but when she collided into it, she bounced back and hit the ground hard.

"Pinkie are you alright?'' Rarity asked.

Pinkie lifted her head, her eyes rolling around in their sockets, ''Rarity, can you tell me the story about the bunny?'' the silly pink pony asked in a daze.

Twilight turned and glared at Fiyorae, her ears dropping low. "Let him go Fiyorae,'' she snarled.

Fiyorae just laughed and replied, ''Oh I will...AFTER we've dueled.''

Twilight growled as Applejack shouted, ''Ya heard her ya two-faced galoot! Now let Quentin go or else we can't be held responsible fer what we'll do to ya!''

Rainbow Dash was seething, ready to flat out charge at the unicorn. Quentin did another round of unsuccessful bucks as Fiyorae spoke, ''My dear, I've-''

"Don't call me 'dear'! It's Twilight Sparkle to you!'' Twilight spat.

Fiyorae rolled his eyes and continued, ''Well Twilight Sparkle, I gave you a reason to duel me. If you win, which you won't, I'll let your friend go and when you lose...I'll come to that bridge when I get there.''

"How could you be this cruel?'' Fluttershy asked, a hint of anger in her soft voice.

Quentin stared at Fiyorae with gritted teeth and an angered look.

"Fiyorae...'' Twilight growled, her patience wearing thin with each passing second.

Fiyorae then gave what seemed to be a fake concerned look, ''You can refuse of course, but then I will have to keep your dear Quentin forever in that orb. I'm sure I can use him to dazzle my audiences across Equestria. Or better yet, maybe I could turn him into my own personal pet. What should he be? A dog? A mouse perhaps?"

That's it, enough was enough. "Twilight!'' Rainbow Dash called from behind.

Twilight turned to the Pegasus and she scowled, ''Kick his ass!''

Twilight blinked a few times, clearly wasn't expecting such aggressive response. She glanced at Applejack who had a strong frown and gritted teeth and she nodded. Twilight then turned her gaze at Quentin, he gave her a mix of angry and worried look, his hooves against the wall of the orb. Twilight looked sadly at the stallion for a brief moment before closing her eyes with a stern look before turning back to Fiyorae.

"Alright Fiyorae...let's duel!'' Twilight declared.

Instantly there were gasps from the crowd of ponies and Fiyorae smirked, ''Excellent.''

He then sharply spun around, his cape flowing in the brief wind as he walk a few feet back from Twilight, the ponies backing away as he came near. Hey faced Twilight with a venomous smirk.

''As agreed, win and I let Quentin go. Lose, and he'll be trapped as my personal valet forever.''

Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Spike gasped as they looked at Quentin sadly and with worry and he returned the gaze. Quentin was praying that Twilight would win this duel. Twilight continued to glare and grit her teeth at the manipulative unicorn. Twilight stood ready to duel, glaring intensely at Fiyorae would just gave a calm, vain smirk. It seemed like forever that the two unicorns stared each other down, Twilight was even beginning to sweat. Quentin his friends, and the pony crowd watched on, the suspense killing them all.

A drop of Twilight's sweat fell from the side of her face and when it dropped to the ground and Twilight let out a brief yell as her horn became engulfed by a billowing, magenta aura as six, basketball sized, purple glowing balls of energy appeared high above her and in the next moment fired towards Fiyorae. The balls flew quickly at the smug unicorn, but he remained where he was at, still smirking confidently. In fact, he wasn't even flinching. Finally, the balls hit their target and six, purple explosions erupted on the spot. Ponies nearby screamed as they ran out the way. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike all tensed up against the brief gust of wind caused by the explosions.

"Aw man, that was sick. There's no way Fiyorae could've evaded that!'' Rainbow Dash cheered.

Twilight gave a triumphant smirk. "Let's see how you like that. Wait...WHAT?!

The smoke cleared to reveal Fiyorae just standing there casually, that same, confident smirk on his face. He didn't have so much as a singe on his bod, his coat and clothes perfectly intact. There were surprised gasped from the crowd and Twilight's friends as well.

"Wha...What in thunderation?! I coulda sworn Twilight's spell hit em' dead on!'' Applejack exclaimed in shock.

"I know what gives?!'' Rainbow Dash added, hovering next to her with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Twilight gazed at Fiyorae with a bewildered and astonished look, ''But...but I didn't see you move a spell! How is it you're undamaged?!''

Fiyorae chuckled smugly, ''Twilight Sparkle, you seem like a studious unicorn. Surely you've came across phasing spells in your studies?''

Twilight widened her eyes in shock, ''Phasing spells? Yes, I did read something about phasing spells, in fact I'm still practicing them, but I still didn't see your horn glowing if you used that spell!''

Fiyorae flicked his ponytail as he bore a cocky grin at Twilight, ''Child, there are plenty things you don't know what I can do.''

Quentin looked on in the bubble, both shocked and worried about his unicorn friend. "Do you think Twilight will be alright guys?'' he asked no one in particular.

Spike looked at me with a confident grin, ''Are you kidding me?! This guy's got nothing on Twilight! Even Princess Celestia herself said she had never seen a unicorn with such raw power as Twilight!''

Rarity nodded with a firm frown, ''Quite, true Fiyorae shocked us all with his unscathed appearance, but Twilight is without a doubt the best unicorn in Ponyville in regards to magic.''

Quentin gazed back towards Twilight with a worried look, ''I hope you're right.''

Fiyorae let out a yawn before looking at Twilight lazily, ''Are you quite done with the baby magic?''

Twilight frowned as she lowered her head. ''I'll show you baby magic,'' she scowled and her horn glowed and a magenta colored beam of magic shot from her arm and towards Fiyorae.

Despite the incoming attack, Fiyorae let out another uninterested yawn before giving a bored look as the beam hit him square in the chest. Immediately the air around him became cold as ice started to form and covered him until he was frozen solid in a large, block of ice. Twilight shot the frozen pony a cocky smirk as the crowd murmured at Fiyorae's apparent defeat.

"How's that for baby magic. I'm sorry if it gave you such a...chill,'' Twilight said with a triumphant smile.

Her seven closest friends cheered for her victory. "Woohoo! Twilight did it! She did it! Did it!'' Pinkie Pie sang, bouncing up and down.

"So you think.'' A voice suddenly spoke out.

Immediately they all stopped cheering, frozen with blank expressions as we tried to find the source of the voice. A small, yellow, unicorn colt stepped forward with a dark smirk. Rainbow Dash frowned, ''And what's that's supposed to mean pipsqueak?!''

The colt laughed as his horn was enveloped in a golden rod aura as was he. Soon, red and yellow strips of light began to circle him until in a flash of light, Fiyorae appeared in his place. There was another wave of gasps as Twilight's jaw dropped.

''What in the name of Celestia is goin on here?!'' Applejack called out, clearly surprised by Fiyorae's appearance.

"But...But I just froze you. How did you escape?!'' Twilight stammered. She looked back at the solid block of ice and to her surprise and confusion, saw an exact image of the Fiyorae standing in front of her. She turned to the unicorn and growled after coming to a conclusion. ''Let me guess...''

"Correct, a simple duplication spell along with a transformation spell, you like?'' Fiyorae asked arrogantly.

Twilight responded with a growl as Fiyorae frowned, ''No? Well then, how about I counter with a spell of my own.''

Fiyorae's horn glowed golden rod as did the block of ice as the ice quickly began to melt. As it did, the duplicate Fiyorae disappeared leaving a large, puddle of water. Fiyorae whipped his head upward as the puddle of water flew in the air to the surprise of everyone watching. The large, glob of water separated into seven, balls of water before morphing themselves and solidifying into large, lean, pointed ice sickles aiming right at Twilight.

Twilight backed way, intimidated by the large spikes of ice. Quentin and the others all watched with horror, the safety of their friend now unquestionable. Fiyorae gave a smirk and a wink, immediately the aura covered ice sickles flew and charged at Twilight one at a time. Twilight let out a brief scream as she evaded an ice sickle, digging into the ground. She narrowly evaded the second, third, and fourth. Fiyorae laughed, enjoying Twilight's struggle.

"Dance Twilight, dance!''

He then used his magic to lunge the remaining three ice sickles at her simultaneously. "WhaaaWOAH!'' Twilight yelled.

"Twilight!'' her friends all yelled in unison.

Right when the ice sickled made impact, Twilight's horn was engulfed in an aura and in a flash of magenta light, she was gone, the ice sickles missing their target and embedding into the ground. The rest all let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness she was able to evade,'' Rarity flustered out, a hoof on her chest.

Fiyorae frowned slightly, but rather uncaringly as he took a few steps forward. "Teleportation spell...simple but clever. Now, where did you go?'' Fiyorae muttered, his orange eyes scanning the area.

Suddenly there was a flash of magenta light as Twilight appeared behind him. "Here I am!'' Twilight called before her horn was enveloped by a billowing aura and she shot a blast of magenta colored magic.

Fiyorae quickly whipped around and his own horn was giving off an aura as he too shot a yellow colored blast of magic energy at Twilight's the two colliding and exploding briefly as yellow and pink embers floating softly down to the ground. Twilight's determined glared locked eyes with Fiyorae's mocking, smug eyes and suddenly, the two talented unicorns began to unleash blasts of magic energy against each other. The whole scene reminded Quentin of something from Harry Potter only instead of wands, they were channeling their magic through their horns.

Twilight would block his onslaught and fire back while Fiyorae would do the same. Yellow and magenta blasts and light flashed through the air as the two unicorns were locked in combat. The crowd seemed to be in awe by the duel, for beyond the stakes of the outcome, it was truly a spectacular sight. As Twilight dodged and grunted as he sent spells after spells against Fiyorae, the latter mainly stood his ground as he smirked confidently as he dueled the gifted unicorn mare.

At one point the two unicorns ceased their attacks briefly before shooting a beam of magic energy at one another, Twilight's magenta and Fiyorae's goldenrod and the two collided in the air midway. Twilight groaned and grunted beginning to sweat from the effort of pulling back his attack. Twilight pinched her eyes shut and peered out one of them and gazed at Fiyorae. To her shock and confusion, Fiyorae didn't look nearly as tired as her. In fact, he looked as if he wasn't giving any effort at all.

"What...ugh...what's with this guy? I'm dueling at my best, but it's like he's not even trying!'' Twilight muttered under the strain of the attack.

Quentin and his friends looked on in awe as their studious friend dueled. "Wow, I've never seen Twilight go at it like this before!'' Spike confessed, his eyes wide at the display.

Quentin gritted his teeth as he spoke softly, ''C'mon Twi...you can do it.''

After a few moments of the beams pulling each other backwards, Fiyorae grinned and whipped his head up, sending the two beams of energy upward into the sky, a brief flash appearing after they disappeared from sight.

"What's...going on?!'' Twilight panted, in between breathes.

"Well it's just you look so tired Twilight that I wanted to give you little hoof. You don't need to be so proud, just surrender and avoid the embarrassment,'' Fiyorae said, an eyebrow raised with arrogant smirk upon his face.

Twilight glared at him. Was he really so high and might and arrogant that he's trying to coax her to give up. She turned to our friends who gave her worried looks. She gazed up to Quentin in the orb and her face fell sadly. He looked back at her, his hooves against the walls of the orb looking distraught. After a few moments of locking eyes, Twilight turned to her opponent and frowned at him.

''Quentin is my friend. He's been nothing but good to us since he came to Ponyville and now he needs my help. There's no way I will EVER give up, especially not to a grandeur delusional unicorn like you!'' Twilight declared and she fired another, more large blast of magic at him.

Her friends cheered. "Whoowee! Ya'll get em Twilight!'' Applejack cheered.

Quentin gazed fondly at Twilight, touched by the words she spoke and her determination to free him. "Twilight...thanks,'' he said softly.

Fiyorae frowned, and his horn was engulfed in a billowing goldenrod aura. Instantly a yellow glowing, spiraling wormhole appeared in front of him. Twilight gasped as her attack fired into the wormhole and it closed into a small ball of light before vanishing.

"What...was...how did you...?'' Twilight stammered as if she'd never seen the likes of that spell.

Fiyorae grinned, ''Aw miss your spell? Don't worry, you can have it back.'' His horn glowed as another wormhole appeared behind Twilight.

She turned around and called, "What in the-AH!'' Twilight was hit by a blast of energy and was flown feet's towards the center of the crowd. The rest of her friends looked in horror as the crowd gasped along with a few screams.

"Oh my, Twilight!'' Fluttershy cried.

Twilight groaned as she slowly got up from the attack. Her coat was singed slightly and her mane had become moderately unkempt as the wormhole closed. A dread thought came to Twilight's mind as she struggled to stand. The wasn't Fiyorae's spell...it was her own. She was attacked and hit by her own spell.

"That spell...ugh...was that...'' Twilight began, wincing in slight pain.

Fiyorae gave a slight nod while grinning proudly, but arrogantly, ''Yes, an interdiminsional spell that sends whatever I wish, like your spell for instance through space and time and can reappear where ever I desire, a very high level spell. You've seen where I've sent it on the count of your struggling to stand.''

''Twilight growled as she stood straight up.

"But don't feel so bad Twilight, for if you had so much trouble recovering from your own attack, it truly must've been powerful. Who may I asked did you learn such spells?''

Twilight leered at Fiyorae as she answered proudly, ''My teacher and mentor... is Princess Celestia herself!''

Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Spike looked at each other with tough grins while Quentin balled his hoof so to say and gave a determined nod with a smirk. Fiyorae himself seemed to be slightly surprised, his mouth dropping a bit.

Twilight grinned, ''Surprised are you? Dueling a student of the co-ruler of Equestria?''

Fiyorae didn't respond right away. Surely the revelation of dueling a personal student of Princess Celestia, princess of the sun had even impressed the 'Unicorn Supreme' Fiyorae.'' I must admit, that is rather impressive,'' Fiyorae admitted.

Twilight gave a satisfied smirk as the vain unicorn continued.

"However, what's more impressive is how disappointing you've faired through this duel. Surely someone as powerful as Celestia would've taught you better. A foolish student from a foolish teacher I supposed.''

The seven friends and Quentin just stared at the boastful unicorn, shocked by what they had just heard. They all then glared at Fiyorae with gritted teeth. "That dirty...rotten...'' Rainbow Dash seethed.

Applejack growled under her breath, ''I've had it with this fink. Just HAD IT!''

Rarity shook her head with an outraged frown, ''Disrespecting our beloved princess so bluntly? Unforgivable!''

Ponies around too gave their disapproval of Fiyorae rudely mocking their princess, some of which sneered at him. Quentin gave Fiyorae the death look. How dare he carelessly ridicule someone like Celestia? He never met her nor knew virtually anything about her, but he's been hearing nothing but great things about her from her subjects. He needed to be put in his place, and Twilight was just the pony to do it. However, the most outraged was Twilight. She gritted her teeth as her lovely purple eyes burned with anger, Quentin swore her eyes would've burst in to flames.

"How dare you...'' Twilight growled.

Fiyorae just shrugged, not remorseful for his remark.

"I don't care what you do or say to me...but no pony NO PONY insults the princess and gets away with it!'' Twilight yelled.

Twilight's horn began to glow a billowing magenta aura only this time, the glow was much brighter so much that a cone shaped, magenta energy surrounded her horn with a solid color, rippling with pink and white sparks emanating from her horn as a sizzling sound was heard. A tremor rumbled the ground as Twilight continued to charge her spell, her eyes suddenly glowing a white light while sweat ran down her face.

"Hey what going on?!" Pinkie exclaimed, finding it a bit difficult to stand. This caught them all by surprise as Rarity asked alarmed.

''Goodness! What spell is it Spike?!''

Spike just shook his head, not knowing what Twilight was doing. Rainbow Dash grinned, ''Whatever it is, it looks like she' going to whip Fiyorae's sorry ass with it.''

'' Applejack nodded with a frown, ''I'd better have.''

Twilight grunted as she continued with her spell. The spell must really have been intense because the ground beneath her feet began to crack around her, the cracks glowing a pink glow. Quentin looked on amazed by how much power Twilight was giving off.

"Whoa…damn Twilight,'' was all the stunned stallion could say.

The ponies in the crowd began to disperse a bit, as they murmured their confusion. Fiyorae however, looked at the straining unicorn with that same, calm, arrogant, smug smirk.

"Come on...just a bit more...'' Twilight grunted as she lowered her head, her glowing eyes pinched shut from the strain.

She was even starting to get a mental migraine but she didn't care, Fiyorae was going to pay for what he said. Just then there were gasps as a massive ball of deep pink energy began to form feet's above Twilight's head. Pink embers swirled from all directions and flew into the ball, as if it was giving it more power. Quentin and the rest of his friends voiced their amazement and wonder at the display of Twilight's power. Twilight grunted as she struggled to control her spell.

''Come on...come one...I can do this...I can...NO!''

Suddenly a sound like electricity failing came apparent as Twilight's aura over her horn instantly went out. Instantly, Twilight collapsed on the ground, exhausted from her efforts as the massive ball glowed brighter and collapsed within itself, disappearing in moments. There were shocked gasps as Spike yelled.

''Twilight!''

Quentin looked on in the orb, concerned as he's ever been for his intelligent friend's welfare. "No...'' he uttered softly.

Before anyone then could even move, a golden rod force field surrounded them, stopping them in their tracks. "The hay?! What's going on?!'' Rainbow Dash exclaimed with frustration, tying to no avail to burst through the barrier.

Fiyorae shook his head, his horn glowing that goldenrod aura as he spoke, ''Tsk, tsk, tsk this duel is still on. Nopony is coming anywhere near us.''

Twilight's seven friends glared at Fiyorae. "Let's us out of here ya no good turd!'' Applejack called, attempting to buck her way out, but like Rainbow to no effect.

"No, until this duel has come to an official end, no help...no friends.''

"FIYORAE!'' Rainbow Dash shouted.

Quentin too growled, first Fiyorae trapped him and now six of his closest friends.

"Girls...don't...don't worry!'' a voice then called out. It was Twilight, who was trying to get to her feet. She looked light she would collapse, but her determination allowed her to stand, though she did panted slowly. "Fiyorae's right...this...this duel is not over yet.''

"But Twilight, you can barely stand!'' Rarity called, worried for her friend

Twilight just shook her head, ''He bluntly...disrespectfully, insulted our princess...I'm not having that!'' Twilight snarled, glaring at Fiyorae.

"Are you sure Twi?'' Spike asked, fearful for his best friend.

Twilight nodded, ''More than sure Spike. Besides, I still have plenty of juice left.''

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy looked at each other uncertainly. "What do we do ya'll? Twilight's lookin beat, while Fiyorae doesn't even look slightly tired,'' Applejack asked her friends.

Rainbow Dash frowned with a mix of concern, ''Hey Twilight's cutie mark is a star for a reason ya know. She's just as skilled as Fiyorae. Besides, she HAS to win...for Quentin's sake!''

Rainbow Dash then looked over to Quentin and asked, ''How are you holding up there Q?''

The earth pony shook his head, ''I'm fine, it's Twilight I'm worried about!''

"Don't worry sugarcube, Twi's gonna get ya out of there!'' Applejack smiled faintly, before turning back to the two duelists with a frown and muttered, "She has to.''

Fiyorae eyed the tired Twilight uncaringly before speaking, ''Admirable, but insignificant. You've lost before you've even accepted. I admit it was ignoble of me to even challenge you against my vast powers.''

Twilight retorted with a pink blast beam of magic fired at Fiyorae. Fiyorae rolled his eyes as his horn gave a billowing goldenrod aura as he too fired a beam of magic energy at hers. When they collided, there was a bright explosion.

"Now!'' Twilight thought and her horn glowed and in a flash she disappeared.

As while the smoke cleared Fiyorae chuckled, ''Like I said, insignificant.''

"How's this for insignificant?!'' A voice shouted from behind him with a flash of light.

"What?!'' Fiyorae cried in shock, turning around to see Twilight's glowing horn and with a brief yell, Twilight blasted Fiyorae point blank with her spell. Fiyorae screamed as he was flown feet's away and landed on the ground and rolled a few times before coming to a stop. Twilight smirked boldly as a few cheers rang out. Clearly the ponies weren't enthusiastic about Fiyorae's attitude and were rooting for Twilight to win.

"Yeah, you go Twilight!'' Rainbow Dash cheered. She then sneered at Fiyorae, ''Hey Dickoryae what's wrong, couldn't find a counter spell or something?!''

Quentin grinned, ''Maybe if he wasn't so busy kissing his own ass he'd countered it.''

His friends burst out laughing as did a few others ponies in the crowd. Fiyorae glared at Twilight, for the first time that smug smile was wiped off. He got up, not taking his eyes off the unicorn.

"You think it's noteworthy that you've landed it hit on me? You think that means you're going to win?'' Fiyorae said calmly, having regained his composure as he used his magic to conjure a brush and dusted himself off of the dirt.

Twilight nodded confidently, lowering herself ready to fight, ''Oh I know so!''

Fiyorae nodded, closing his eyes as he bowed his head. "Then it's time we finished this little contest.''

Fiyorae's horn was covered with a goldenrod aura as was Twilight as Fiyorae levitated her from the ground. "Hey what do you think you're doing?!'' Twilight shouted, flailing in his grasp.

Instantly the laughing had stopped and everyone looked on in horror. Fiyorae leered at Twilight and replied dryly, ''Winning this duel.''

Immediately, Fiyorae began to slam Twilight down to the ground with a powerful force, knocking the wind out of her. Twilight grunted, trying to stand, but it didn't end there. Fiyorae's horn glowed again and he was surrounded by a golden force field. The field expanded quickly and in a blink of an eye separated into eleven, diamond shaped glowing energy pieces. As Twilight finally managed to stand up, Fiyorae smirked cruelly and with a tilt of his the pieces shot like bullets at Twilight. She screamed in pain as the pieces shot her at her rapidly, throwing her backwards.

Luckily, the spell was only a concussive force and not penetrating, but that hardly made matters better. "Twilight!'' her friends all exclaimed.

They all wanted to run to her, but with Fiyorae's force field and orb trapping Quentin and his friends, they were powerless to help their friend. Twilight groaned, weakly trying to even get half her body up. Despite this weakness, Fiyorae smiled coldly and said.

''Oh you're not getting off that easy...student of Celestia.''

With his horn glowing, Fiyorae tilted his head upward, instantly a pillar of yellow reddish, fire like energy erupted from the ground beneath Twilight, taking her in the air as she was consumed by the spell. As quickly as it came, the pillar of energy subsided and moments later, Twilight fell to the ground. Quentin, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Spike just stared in sheer horror as screams filled the air from the crowd.

"Twilight..." Quentin spoke with dread, gritting his teeth. To see his friend motionless on the ground caused his eyes to get blurry as tears formed in them. Quentin wasn't the only one for Fluttershy too was on the verge of tears, her hooves over her mouth.

Fiyorae just stood there for a moment, slightly frowning at Twilight. He took a few steps towards her but then froze where he was. Slowly but surely, Twilight tried to stand. Her coat was now heavily singed, her mane even more unkempt. There was complete silence and in minutes, Twilight had once again stood up in a bent, wobbly stance, one of her eyes half closed as she glared at Fiyorae. Fiyorae raised in eyebrow, again looking uncaringly at Twilight.

"Cough...let's ...see how you...ugh...like this,'' Twilight grunted and her horn was engulfed in a magenta aura.

Fool,'' Fiyorae muttered as he own horn glowed and a bolt of magic, golden lightning fired from his horn and at Twilight.

Twilight couldn't evade it and was hit with the blast. Electricity mixed with Twilight's screaming filled the air as screams and gasps came from the audience. It seemed like an eternity before Fiyorae finally stopped with his lightning spell and Twilight was back on the ground, small flicks of electricity surging throughout her body before stopping. Twilight remained motionless, just limp on the ground. Fiyorae walked casually over to the fallen unicorn until he was standing over her.

"Pity, your skills were functional...but I'd expected more from the student of Princess Celestia,'' Fiyorae said carelessly.

He raised a hoof over her but a southern accented voice called out, ''Don't ya even THINK about touchin her!''

Fiyorae glanced over his shoulder to saw her friends, glaring at Fiyorae through gritted teeth. Spike had tears streaming down his face as he gave Fiyorae a deathly look, his fists balled and shaking. Fiyorae's pompous nature knew no end as he simple spoke.

''This duel is over...you're friend had lost.''

"You're gonna lose your teeth if you lay another hoof on her!'' Rainbow Dash shouted, she just wanted to beat the living crap out of this guy and Quentin couldn't blame her for he too was shaking with anger, ready to tackle him the instant he could.

Fiyorae brushed off the threat and gazed back down at the unconscious Twilight. "Your friend lost because I was better than her. Thought it was unjust for me to challenge her against my skill, I still relish the fact of defeating her so effortlessly.

''That's enough Fiyorae! You've proven your point, but that gives you no right to continue berating Twilight for all she did against a brute like you!'' Rarity yelled, all her charms for Fiyorae now gone and replaced but disgust and hate.

"You jerk...because of you...Twilight could be dead!'' Spike screamed, tears cascading down his face.

Fiyorae whipped around and glared at them as he shouted, ''Will all of you be quiet?!'' The friends just glared at the unicorn as he gazed down at Twilight. He closed his eyes and his horn was gave a billowing goldenrod aura as did Twilight. Everyone all watched in shock as Twilight began glowing a bright yellow light. In moments, the light subsided to reveal Twilight. Her friends all looked at her, praying she would be alright.

"Twilight?'' Quentin asked.

In moment's there was indeed a grunt and shifting as Twilight lifted her head. "Wh-What happened?'' Twilight asked, a hoof to her head as she looked around groggily.

It was amazing, all the singes in her coat was gone and her mane was smooth and kempt, Fiyorae had actually healed her.

"Twilight! Thank goodness you're alright!'' Fluttershy squeaked rather loudly, tears coming down her face.

"Ya had us worried there fer a minute girl!'' Applejack said, whipping a stray tear form her eye.

Fiyorae said nothing and just walked around Twilight. After remembering where she were and what she was doing, she noticed Fiyorae walking and she immediately stood up and lowered herself, ready for another go.

"Stop Fiyorae!'' Twilight called. "We're not done yet!''

Fiyorae stopped and sighed irritably. "Yes Twilight Sparkle, we are for not surprisingly I've beaten you.''

"No! It's not over until I've beaten you and Quentin's free!'' Twilight retorted, her horn glowing a magenta aura.

Fiyorae glanced over his shoulder and snorted, ''Silly little twit.'' His horn glowed his usual goldenrod aura and suddenly, a golden light rippled in all directions and vanished. Instantly, all movement and speech were becoming slower and slower like everything was going slow motion until finally everything completely stopped all except Fiyorae. Fiyorae turned and glazed around at the frozen ponies. Amazing, he had just cast some sort a spell that stopped time.

He casually walked towards Twilight and stopped in front of her, giving her a bored, yet disgusted looked. "And to think I've challenged such a weak unicorn,'' Fiyorae muttered before his horn was engulfed in a billowing aura as was Twilight.

Glowing a goldenrod aura, Twilight sank into the ground until nothing as visible except her head. He then placed the tip of his glowing her to Twilight's and her horn went from magenta to goldenrod.

"That should do it,'' Fiyorae said and with a flash of his horn, everything and everyone instantly started moving again as Fiyorae's time spell was dispelled.

Twilight blinked blankly before looking around frantically, ''What the...what the hoof happened?!'' Twilight grunted as she struggled to get out of the ground.

The rest of her friends blinked and stared dumbly.

''What...just happened? I blinked and Twilight was in the ground?'' Rainbow Dash asked, clearly dumbstruck.

The ponies in the crowd also voiced their confusion of what just happened. Applejack looked confused and then frowned at Fiyorae, ''You! What did ya do to her?!''

Fiyorae shot her an arrogant grin as he answered, ''A bit slow are you little hay seed?''

Applejack snarled, ''What'd ya say?!''

Quentin gritted his teeth and shook with anger as he glared at Fiyorae. He insulted Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Rarity, and Celestia, now he insulted arguable his closest friend? Oh hell no! Fiyorae chuckled before looking down at Twilight.

''I told you this duel was over, and now you can't deny it. I simply used a spell to stop time in its tracks. With everything but me frozen in time, I used a spell to sink you into the ground...among other things.''

Twilight growled, ''You think you've won? You actually think I can't get of this?!'' Twilight closed her eyes as she tried to use her magic, but something was wrong. Instead of giving off that usual magenta aura, Twilight's horn was still giving off a goldenrod aura. Twilight shot her eyes open at the failure to cast a spell.

"Wha-what''s going on. Why can't I use any spells?!'' Twilight asked, a hint of fear in her voice.

Fiyorae grinned vainly, ''As I just said, I've done more things than just stopping time and having you swallowed into the ground. You see that yellow aura around your horn? Until I've uncast it, any and all spells you even try to perform will be rendered mute.''

Twilight just stared at the vain unicorn, her mouth hang open slightly and her ears lowered. "Wha...I can't...do magic?'' Twilight asked slowly, but terrified.

Fiyorae just chuckled with that infuriating smirk, ''I'm afraid not amore mio. Now all your baby magic is now useless, as if it really mattered.'' Fiyorae patted Twilight on her cheek to which she whipped her head away and frowned at him, gritting her teeth.

"A spell that renders another unicorn's magic powerless?! I've never knew such spells existed!'' Rarity gasped surprised.

"But...but if Twilight can't use any spells does that mean?'' Fluttershy asked meekly.

Quentin and the rest of his friends looked at Twilight with great worry. "Twilight...'Spike muttered, tears still in his eyes.

Fiyorae looked down at Twilight, with that arrogant, high and mighty demeanor. "You can't use magic, and at this point I could do anything I wish to you...you've lost...admit it.''

Twilight glared at Fiyorae and struggled to move and cast a spell but all in vain. After abandoning future attempts to move or use magic, she bowed her head in defeat. There was absolutely no way to get out of her predicament unless...she lifted her head and somberly looked at Fiyorae who was giving her a 'well, I'm waiting' look. Averting her eyes with reluctant frown and her ears drooped, she muttered.

''I...I give up.''

Fiyorae acted surprised and leaned, ''I'm sorry I didn't catch that. What was that you said?''

Twilight growled, his egotistical personality disgusting her for the lost time. "I said I give up! You've won!'' Twilight shouted.

Instantly, murmurs filled the air as ponies looked at each other with shocked and concerned looks. Fiyorae glanced down at the defeated unicorn with smug pride. "Now was that so hard to do. Admitting your inferiority to your superior?''

Twilight growled as her friends scowled at him. "How could anypony be so mean? I'm never throwing him a party if my life depended on it!'' Pinkie growled.

Fiyorae took a few steps back and leered at Twilight, as he hissed, ''Know your place filly.'' His horn was engulfed in a goldenrod aura and in a small flash, the same aura surrounding Twilight's horn faded.

"Your magic is free now,'' Fiyorae spoke flatly.

Twilight sighed with shame and closed her eyes and her horn was glowing a billowing aura and in the next instant there was a flash of light as Twilight teleported herself from in the ground to on top. Twilight sulked, her head bowed and ears lowered as she was dealing with her defeat.

"I can't believe it...Twilight lost,'' Spike said in disbelief.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked sadly at each other. "But what about Quentin?'' Applejack asked, looking sadly at the human turned stallion.

Quentin just looked devastated and he just fell on his haunches. Twilight had lost. What was going to happen to him? What was this egotistical douchebag going to do to him?'' Twilight bowed her head, tears forming as she pinched her eyes shut.

''Quentin...I'm sorry. You needed me, and I failed you.'' Twilight muttered regretfully as beads of tears began fall from her face to the grounded.

Fiyorae leered down at her uncaringly an eyebrow raised before rolling his eyes and closing them. His horn was engulfed in a billowing goldenrod aura. Quentin winced at the unicorn.

''What's he-WHOA!'' he yelled briefly as suddenly the orb trapping him suddenly vanished, causing Quentin to fall painfully onto the ground. "That was not fun,'' he groaned, rubbing his head as he sat up.

"Quentin!'' his seven friends exclaimed. Apparently Fiyorae undid the spell that caused the force field and they came running to him and caught him in a tight hug, except for Twilight.

''Quentin, thank heaven you're free. Are you quite alright?'' Rarity asked him concerned holding his hoof in hers.

"Other than a ringing mind, I'm good, '' Quentin muttered.

Applejack nodded with a sad, but relieved smile, "I'm glad ta here that pardner. I don't know what I'd do ta Fiyorae if he did anythin to ya.''

Rainbow Dash frowned, "I sure as hay know what I'd would've done.''

"But why did he free you? I doubt somepony like him would let you go without some sort of catch,'' Pinkie asked.

Quentin was hardly listening, for the instant he fell to the ground, his thoughts went to Twilight who was looking at him with a remorseful, forlorn look. He got up and passed his way through his friends and towards Twilight. When Quentin came up to her, she sadly adverted her eyes and the stallion asked, ''Are you ok Twilight?''

Twilight just nodded, without looking at him. Quentin smiled relieved, ''Good, I was losing my mind when I saw you getting roughed up out there.''

Twilight said nothing and Quentin tilted his head, puzzled. "Twi, what's the matter?''

At those words, Twilight turned to him, tears streaming down her face. "I'm so sorry Quentin. You're friend and you needed my help. No matter how hard I dueled, I still lost...I still failed you. I'm...I'm sorry!'' Twilight sobbed in his arms.

Quentin was taken by surprised as his friends gathered around, looking sad and worried. He tried to calm her down, wrapping his forelegs around her and stroking her mane. "It's ok Twilight.'' Quentin spoke softly. "We're all safe and unharmed, that what's important.''

Twilight cried, ''I know, but...but...''

Quentin lifted her face so that she was looking at him, her tears flowing down her face. Her friend smiled warmly at her, ''Hey c'mon Twi. You were great out there. In fact you really surprised me.''

Twilight took a breath, shocked by what Quentin did, ''I...did?''

Quentin nodded, ''Absolutely. I knew you were good with magic, but what you demonstrated just blew my mind. And that spell you tried to do...man it would've been awesome if it went through.''

Twilight giggled lightly at the praise, a few more tears escaping her eyes. ''I really didn't what I was doing back then. I was just so determined and so fed up with Fiyorae that I just snapped.''

"But still, I was flattered and honored that you were going all out to ensure that I would get free. And even though you lost, you're still the best unicorn in Ponyville to go to for magic.'' Quentin said fondly.

Twilight blinked a few times, ''Really, you really mean that Quentin?''

Quentin smiled with a nod, ''I may have never met Princess Celestia, but I do know she'd be proud if she saw you today. Nothing less than the student of one of Equestria's rulers.''

Twilight giggled loudly but gratefully, tears still falling. "You don't know how much that means to me Quentin.''

The two embraced each other and another tender hug and Quentin whispered, ''You're brilliant Twilight...don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.'' Twilight nodded silently. Their friends looked at us warmly and relieved.

"Hmph...pretty words, but still hides the truth of the matter that I defeated Twilight badly,'' Fiyorae said, ruining their moment.

They all instantly glared at the unicorn, ''What?!'' Rainbow Dash scowled.

Fiyorae whipped his lock and frowned vainly at us, ''I should never had challenged Twilight to a duel. Pitiful...so much that I've felt sorry for her that I decided to let you go. To think of it now, you're not even fit to be any valet or pet of mine.''

Quentin have had it with this pompous, belittling unicorn and he growled, ''I don't give a damn about what you do to me. But I'm not going to sit here and listen to you talk shit about Twilight or any of my friends!''

The dreadlocked stallion tried to lunge at him but Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Rarity held him back. There was a shocked gasp in the crowd as a low commotion came from them while Fiyorae had a sort of ' you dare?!' look.

''Let go of me!'' Quentin seethed, trying to break free from their grasps.

"Not on yur life Quentin!'' Applejack said with a frown, struggling to restrain him.

"Applejack's right. You mustn't involve yourself in a brawl…it's not worth it especially for this egotistical scoundrel!'' Rarity glared at Fiyorae.

Quentin glared at Rarity, ''And you expect me to just let him go after everything he said?! I don't think so!''

Rainbow Dash helped restrained the aggressive earth pony. "Easy there Q. Believe me, I want to teach this horse dick a lesson myself.'' She said shooting the unicorn a glared, but then looked back at Quentin concerned. ''I can't believe that I'm saying this but they're right, charging at him so recklessly is just dumb. I mean you've seen what he can do!''

Quentin just frowned at his Pegasus friend as Twilight spoke a few tears still in her eyes, ''They're right Quentin. Just let it go. You have nothing to fight him with, and I won't stand there and watch as one of my friends gets pummeled to the ground helpless.''

Quentin looked at her and then looked down in thought. It was true, he was an earth pony and though he had considerable strength, there was no way he'd stand a chance against Fiyorae's power. Quentin sighed, frustrated and angry as Fluttershy spoke with her usual meek, soft tone.

''Please Quentin...you're our friend and we couldn't bear if we saw you get hurt in anyway.''

Quentin glanced at all his friends with Applejack being the last. The two locked eyes, as she gazed wearily at him. Quentin immediately softened at her eyes, her charming, emerald, beautiful eyes and he sighed and nodded silently.

"You stupid boy,'' Fiyorae snarled. "What made you think you would even stand a chance against me?''

They all frowned at the elegantly clothed unicorn, their patience to his rotten attitude wearing thin. "Keep talkin' crap about our friend one more time and I'll make YOU look stupid!'', Applejack spoke with gritted teeth.

Fiyorae glared at the group and they returned the look. To their surprise, he started to chuckle. The chuckled then turned into a light laugh, and the laugh turned into a loud cackle.

"What's so funny Fiyorae?'' Twilight asked, her glare not leaving her face.

"Why you are you fools. I don't think you understand the power that you were facing.''

"The only thing we didn't know we were facing was the second, biggest dick in the world,'' Quentin retorted.

Fiyorae leered at him but then smirked darkly. "Still doubt my powers? Very well then. Allow me to demonstrate my abilities at their upmost peak and show you...just how powerful I really am.''

Fiyorae closed his eyes and in another moment, his eyes shot open, his horn glowing that goldenrod aura. But this was much different than how it looked before. The glow was even more intense and his eyes were giving off a bright yellow glow, like bright beacons. Out of nowhere, a gust of wind blew through the whole town. Everyone all gave off cries of shock, trying to block the winds as screams came from the crowd as they scattered to safety.

"What's going on?!'' Rainbow Dash shouted over the howling winds.

Twilight peered through one of her eyes, the brightness of the aura and the winds making it difficult. "Fiyorae...!'' Twilight shouted.

The unicorn didn't seemed to hear her. Soon whether by the winds or some unseen force, Fiyorae began to lift from the ground and soared high into the air over Ponyville, grey clouds quickly coming in and covering the sky, darkening everything.

"What's he doing, trying to make a storm?!'' Quentin called, shielding himself from the winds.

Applejack winced, ''I don't know, but somethin tells me I ain't gonna like it!''

Fiyorae clapped his fore hooves together. "BEHOLD...MY ABSOLUTE POWER!'' Fiyorae called, his voice echoing aloud.

He then moved his hooves apart to reveal small golden balls swirling rapidly in an atom formation in his hooves and he separated his hooves further. As he did so, the balls of golden light expanded larger, swirling madly around, but what happened next left all that were present frozen with shock and intimidation. As Fiyorae moved his hooves apart and the golden balls swirled in his grasp, the clouds dissipated and the sky was replaced with a black, star filled atmosphere. What seemed to be streams purple interstellar clouds were among the blackness of the space like atmosphere. Suddenly out of nowhere, red magic balls zoomed and swirled all over the place, trailing sparkles behind them.

What's more, objects resembling planets appeared out of nowhere and began flying madly out of orbit. Twilight, her friends, and all couldn't believe it, Fiyorae had just created his own entire solar system right in front of them. Fiyorae spun is forelegs around each other, causing the balls of light to spin rapidly around them and Fiyorae threw his forelegs over his head, causing the balls of light to rapidly fly and zoom wildly around his body and finally all around his makeshift solar system. Everyone all gazed up at the unicorn, motioning his forelegs as he controlled the out of wild planets and orbs of light.

"Twilight...what the hell...'' Quentin asked the purple unicorn, not shifting his gaze from the spectacle.

Twilight shook her head, completely speechless as her mane flew in the violent winds. "I...I...what is he?'' Twilight finally said in awe and fear.

The winds were becoming so strong that the eight friends were forced to huddle together against each other to help fight against it. Ponies everywhere were screaming and running all over the place as Fiyorae continued his spell. After what seemed like hours, Fiyorae glanced down at the townsfolk, his glowing eyes looking at them like beacons.

"Heh...now they will never doubt my powers again.''

Fiyorae stretched out his forelegs and almost instantly the winds were slowly, but surely beginning to die down. Fiyorae began to levitate back down to the ground as the planets, balls of magic, and the blackness of space began to disappear. Finally by the time Fiyorae's hooves had touch down on the ground, the winds had stopped and the space like atmosphere had dissipated back into the sunny, cloudless sky. The group shielded their eyes from the brightness of Fiyorae's horn and eyes. It wasn't long before the light dimed and the glow from his horn and eyes died out as he closed his eyes. With the light gone, they friends unshielded their eyes and stared at Fiyorae in disbelief at what he had just done.

Sure enough, ponies were starting to cautiously poke their heads out of their shelters and slowly come out. Fiyorae opened his eyes grinned that self-important grin. "Now do you believe in my powers?''

No one said anything, just stared with slight frowns of uncertainty. "How did you...what spell did you...how was that even possible?!'' Twilight finally asked.

Fiyorae flicked his lock from out of his eyes and smirked mockingly, ''My dear, my powers takes me to a level where the clouds themselves burst into fire. Nothing is beyond my abilities. If I wanted to...I could take over Equestria without even trying.''

At this remark, Quentin, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity all glared at the unicorn as he continued. "But fortunately for you and all the lesser ponies in this land I'm not that kind of pony.''

"And yet you're still a self-righteous asshole!'' Rainbow Dash retorted.

Fiyorae leered at the Pegasus before smirking darkly, ''Still brave even after my demonstration. Would you like me to make an example out of you as well?''

Rainbow Dash growled, ready to fight, ''Try it dick!'

Fluttershy immediately hovered in front of her and pleaded, ''Please Rainbow...don't...just don't.''

Rainbow Dash glared at Fluttershy for a moment before looking at Fiyorae. Fiyorae laughed and spoke, ''Smart girl. Perhaps not everypony in this town is as base as they look.''

"Enough! Just go...you've proven your point so just go!'' Rarity spat.

Fiyorae frowned carelessly at them, then all around at the frightened ponies before whipping his head upward, his eyes shut. "Well...I do believe I've over stayed my welcome. You all should be glad for me to even give you the honor of being in my presence.''

"We'll be glad when ya shut up an leave,'' Applejack snarled.

Fiyorae's horn glowed as he magically made a pocket watch appear. "Oh dear look at the time, I really must be going. Places to go, ponies to dazzle.''

He made the watch disappear before taking a small bow. ''At should at least thank you for the duel Twilight Sparkle, despite how inadequate it was.''

Twilight growled, ''Just leave Fiyorae. We all had enough of you, I know I have!''

The rest voiced their agreement but Fiyorae just smirked, ''A hint of jealousy I see? I wouldn't blame you, for my powers outclass even that of the two royal sisters themselves.''

"Shut up and go!'' Twilight shouted.

Fiyorae looked disgustingly at her and retorted, ''Such disrespect to your superior. I'll be glad to be out of this ridiculous, mud ridden, rube inhabited town.'' And with that, Fiyorae whipped his cape as turned and walked towards his train.

"Yeah keep talking out your ass. You're not even half the unicorn Twilight is!'' Rainbow Dash shouted back at Fiyorae.

Fiyorae didn't answer, just continued walking to his train. As he walked away Quentin, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy just stared at Fiyorae, shocked, disbelieving, frowning, and confused. Rainbow Dash on the other hand just glared at the walking unicorn as she gritted her teeth. There was a brief silence among us, until Pinkie Pie finally spoke.

''D-Did you guys see that?''

Applejack shook her head, "I saw it, but I still don't believe it.''

Quentin looked at Twilight out the corner of his eye and asked, ''Twilight...what the hell kind of spell was that?''

Twilight answered, shocked without looking at the stallion. "I...I have no idea. He just on a whim created an entire solar system right above us. I've never even heard of such a spell.''

Rarity spoke, ''He may have been the absolute crudest unicorn we've met, but that claim he said...about being the most powerful unicorn in the world...you don't think…''

Twilight shook her head as she gazed down, ''I...I don't know what to think Rarity,'' Twilight said softly. "I'm not sure if Princess Celestia herself could've done that.''

At those words Quentin glanced at her for a moment before looking back at Fiyorae who was close to his train. He still haven't grasp the full extent of magic in this world, but even Quentin knew what he saw was beyond magic. He frowned slightly as the earth pony asked softly, a bit of disbelief in his voice.

''Do...do you think that was even magic? Do you think that that was the power...of a god?''

They all watched as Fiyorae climbed into his train car, but not before glancing back and giving them one last, smug smirk, the yellow jewel around his forehead shimmering in the sunlight. Who was he...what was he?

Author's Notes:

To those wandering, the character I created name is supposed to be pronounced like this. Fiyorae (Fee-your-ae). I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and the story so far and like always, please tell me your thoughts in reviews.