I yawn and slowly open my eyes, it feels like I'm on a very comfortable bed, I guess Twilight and Rainbow brought me up here. I look around and notice another bed to my left with blue sheets and yellow stars on them. I sit up on the bed's side and stretch, that had to be one of the most pleasant naps I've had in a long while.

I stand up and walk over to the door, I open it and head down the stairs to see Twilight sitting at a desk looking over some sheets of paper. I quietly sneak over to her and spot Rainbow on the couch, she sees me and I place my finger to my lips to shush her, she grins and looks over at Twilight. I keep walking and look over Twilight's shoulder.

It looks like the notes she took of my magic, I cough to clear my throat which makes her jump with a yelp. Rainbow starts laughing as Twilight glares at me. "That wasn't very nice!" Twilight scolds me.

"Sorry, but I couldn't resist. So, what are you up to?" I ask her.

"I'm just going over the notes of what I've seen so far, are you ready to show me the rest?" she asks.

"Sure, I feel refreshed and my mana is fully recharged, same spot as before?" I reply.

"Uh-huh. Rainbow, do you want to watch as well?" Twilight asks her.

"Oh, sure, could be fun," she replies.

We head back out where I continue where I left off. "Right, we were doing beam spells right?" I ask.

"That's right," Twilight replies.

"Okay, well you saw the target version of the life element so here's the area and self ones," I say and channel a life element and send out a pulse around me making some of the damaged grass regrow around me. I channel again and cast it on my self, a green glow engulfs me and fades.

"This next one is the arcane element," I say and channel the element. I cast it and a beam of blood red and black energy flies out from my palm, it hits a tree which starts to expand, a few seconds later it couldn't handle the pressure anymore and shatters half way up the trunk. I quickly set up an earth wall as the splinters and chunks bounce off it, the other two were far enough out of range though.

I look over the wall and chuckle nervously, the top of the tree is a few metres away from the stump with bits of wood everywhere.

"I think it might be a good idea to stop for now," Twilight says with shock.

"Awwww! But that was sooo cool!" Rainbow says.

"I agree with Twilight. If anyone else was nearby they might have gotten hurt," I reply and walk over to them.

Twilight writes down a few more things then looks up at me. "Were you some kind of soldier where you come from?" she asks.

"No, I'm what's considered a battle-mage, I use half plate armour with a sword and stave. I was actually heading towards the capital city to learn at the Academy there," I reply.

"Wait, so how did you learn what you know now if you didn't go to a school?" Twilight asks me.

"I was mostly self-taught from books, our town's elder was a retired mage, he helped teach me a few things as well," I tell her.

"And how long did it take you to get to where you are today?" she asks.

"Just over six years, but that was while I was travelling and working as well so I didn't have much time to myself to practice. I'm still learning and training, my mana reserves are still considered low and I can only combine two elements at a time," I reply. "Now that I don't know where I am or how I got here, I guess I'll just have to keep training myself," I tell her. I then remember that book.

"Twilight, where is my book?" I ask her.

"Oh, that's right, follow me," she says and we head back inside.

She walks over to her desk and pulls the book out from a drawer. "Here you go," Twilight says and hands it over to me.

I open it in the middle and see an element I've never seen before, It looks like a tornado within a circle.

Air.

This element has the ability to conjure razor sharp blades of air to cut through the caster's enemies.

To cast this element, one must have a clear and tranquil mind, as miss-casting could result in cutting the caster apart instead.

As I'm reading, Twilight looks over my shoulder, only for the text to suddenly vanish. "See, it's blank," she tells me.

"Actually, there was text, but I think I understand what the stranger meant by reading it alone now," I reply.

"So, only you can read it?" Twilight asks me.

"Seems that way," I reply which makes her frown, I guess by the amount of books she has that not being able to read a book is quite frustrating for her.

"What's the book about? There's no title on it," she asks curiously.

"It's a book about my kind of magic, it appears to even have elements that no one knows of anymore," I tell her.

Her eyes widen, she heads over to her desk and starts writing again. I walk over to the couch and begin reading more of the book, Rainbow sits besides me and reads her own book.

After a few minutes I finish reading up on the element of air and decide to try channelling a single element.

But before I could, the Library's door suddenly bursts open and those guards from earlier swarm inside.

"WHAT THE BUCK!" Rainbow yells out and jumps behind the couch in her surprise.

I quickly get up and drop the book on the couch, I hold my hands up ready to cast spells and defend myself again if I have to.

"What are you doing!" Twilight says to them angrily.

"We got reports of the creature using illegal magic in the area," the guard I first knocked out at the Hospital says with an almost smug tone while looking at me, it seems he's sporting a black eye from where I punched him. "We're to detain the creature until the Princesses arrive to deal with it personally," he says.

I frown at them. "I'll warn you again, I do not wish to fight. But should you attack me, I shall not hesitate to put you on your ass again!" I threaten them, I see Rainbow grinning up at me while Twilight looks very worried.

I notice the window that Rainbow crashed through is just big enough for me to dive through, the guards start charging towards me, so I run towards the window. I dive through head first and roll as I land.

The guards swarm out of the Library and rush at me. I channel the same shield and earth spell and create a weak suit of stone armour from the stone in the road.

They stop their attack and try to surround me, the other residents of the town look at us with curious or fearful expressions. I channel a water element in my left hand and a cold element in my right, I don't want to kill them but freezing their legs to the spot might be enough to stop them.

I quickly cast the water spell and soak them all where they start laughing at me, so I cast the cold spell and aim for their legs. They gasp and start chattering their teeth as their legs are covered in solid ice, I look up to see two of the winged guards charge down at me so I cast an area of effect shield spell, creating a dome around me and boost it to full strength.

The two guards slam into it which causes the shield to crack all over, the guards slide down the shield to the ground with dizzy expressions as the shield then shatters.

Twilight comes out of the Library and sounds very angry. "What in Celestia's name do you think you're doing! He's been nothing but friendly so far! And I asked him to demonstrate his magic for me!" she yells at the guards.

One of the guards I haven't come across before speaks up. "B-But he w-was using i-illegal spe-ells," he says with chattering teeth.

"Then that's my fault! He comes from some place where his magic may be very well common! Now you will all stand down before I report you all to Princess Celestia myself!" she threatens them.

They all look at her wide eyed except the one with the black eye, I pick up a spear that one of the winged guards dropped, Twilight sees this and speaks up with alarm.

"Adrian, put the spear down, don't make it any worse than it already is!" she pleads to me.

I frown at her and then at all of the guards, I sigh and drop the spear and walk over to Twilight. "Adrian, can you thaw them out please?" she says and points to the guards. I grumble and comply, I cast a single fire element and thaw each of them out except for the one with a black eye.

"W-What about m-me creature?" he demands coldly with chattering teeth.

I look at him for a few seconds with a frown. "Nope," I simply reply and walk back into the Library as the other guards are rubbing their legs to warm them back up.

Once inside I sit back down and go back to reading my book. Rainbow then sits beside me again. "Dude! That was bucking awesome! Where did you learn to fight like that?" she asks me.

I look from the book to her. "The guards of my home-town actually taught me how to fight physically while our elder taught me magically. I'm by no means the best but I know enough to survive," I tell her and return to my book.

Rainbow hums in thought. "How old are you?" she suddenly asks.

Without looking back to her I reply. "Twenty,"

I hear the clanging of armour and look out the window to see some of the guards watching me, I ignore them and continue reading on how to successfully use the air element.

I follow the instructions and a white orb orbits my hand, I look at it for a for a while before it starts to destabilise and I quickly cancel the element before it gets out of hand. I look back at the book to see what I did wrong only for the text to suddenly vanish.

"What ya reading?" a happy and perky female voice says over my right shoulder.

"GAH! PINKIE!" Rainbow yells startled, I look over my shoulder and see a pink furred woman with really poofy darker pink hair, she's wearing a white and pink striped shirt with light blue short overalls.

"Oh! High'ya Dashie!" this Pinkie person says. "So what're you reading? Looks like a sketch book... You gonna draw some pictures?" she asks me.

"No, It's a spell book," I reply and close the book. Looks like I'll have to wait till it's quieter before I can read any more. "and how did you get in here?" I ask her.

"Through the front door silly!" she replies. I didn't hear the front door open, and I doubt the guards would let anyone in or out.

I ignore the strange woman and look to Twilight. "So what's going to happen now? Those guards are still out there," I ask her.

She looks up from her notes. "I'm not sure, I could send a letter to the Princess to see if she really is on her way," she replies.

"Well, as long as those guards don't try to attack me again, I don't mind," I say.

"Spike!" Twilight calls out.

Spike walks in from the kitchen. "What? I'm trying to make some sandwiches for you guys... Oh, hi, Pinkie," he says and greets the pink girl.

"Hiya, Spiky!" Pinkie replies to him with a wave.

"I need you to send a letter to the Princess," Twilight tells him and she starts writing a letter. After a couple of minutes she hands Spike the letter.

He takes a deep breath and blows a green flame onto the letter, which turns into ash and flies out the broken window.

For the next ten or so minutes, Twilight asks me questions about where I come from. I told her about my homeland of Hedonia and the town I was born in, I didn't say anything about my parents but I explained what life was like in the quiet little town and about how my kind of magic was used.

"So you even use the life element of your spells to heal dying crops?" she asks in wonder.

"Yes, if it was damaged by pests, the element would repair the damage caused by it. Then we would use the water element to water said crops," I reply.

Twilight was about to speak again but Spike interrupts with a loud belch and a scroll forms from the flames. "Baahahaha, nice one, Spike!" Rainbow says laughing.

Twilight levitates the letter that formed over to herself and opened it up. She reads it and gasps, looking at me, then back to the letter and then back to me with a nervous smile.

"Something wrong?" I ask.

"Nope, nothing at all!" she quickly says. "Rainbow, Pinkie, can I have a word with you two in the Kitchen?" she asks to the two women next to me.

"Oh, errr, sure?" Rainbow says and stands up, leaving her book on the little table in front of her. "See ya in a bit, dude," she says to me with a confused tone.

"Not like I got anywhere else to go," I say with a chuckle. Pinkie just giggles and skips into the Kitchen humming a tune to herself.

I notice Twilight left the letter on her desk, so I stand up and head over to it, I pick up the paper and read it.

Dear Twilight

I'm afraid you may be in danger, if he really is a human as you say he is, then you need to keep him there while Luna and I make our way to Ponyville.

The last human to enter Equestria a thousand years ago brought an army of undead with him. We sealed him in stone and locked him away, but the damage he caused scarred the lands now known as the badlands.

If this new human is anything like the last one, then all of Equestria is in danger, especially if he has a book of ancient human magic with him.

Until we get there, please be careful and stay safe.

Princess Celestia.

I frown at the letter, I'm being judged by the actions of another human from a millennia ago? If I stay here, I could be imprisoned, sealed away like the last human or worse... killed, or I'll have to try and escape before these Princesses arrive.

I hear four gasps and turn to see the four of them staring at me with the letter in my hand, Spike looks afraid while Rainbow looks conflicted, Twilight Looks nervous while Pinkie just looks confused.

I sigh and wave the letter in their direction. "So what's this about a necromancer one-thousand years ago? Am I really being judged for the actions of another?" I ask them.

Rainbow speaks up. "That's what I've been trying to tell Twilight! I don't think you're a bad guy. If you were, you wouldn't of healed my wing," she says.

"Yeah!" Pinkie decides to speak up now. "My Pinkie Sense isn't getting anything from him either!" she exclaims. Pinkie Sense?

Twilight looks between them and then to me. "I'm sorry, but the Princesses want you to stay here for when they arrive," she tells me.

I sigh, if I'm to earn their trust, then I'll just have to show them who I am. "Alright then, I'll wait here and have a word with your Princesses when they arrive, I'm not here to cause any trouble," I say and sit back down on the couch.

Twilight walks over to her desk and pulls out a black ring from the drawer. "Can you put this on your finger? It'll stop you from casting any spells and show that you mean no harm," she tells me and holds it out to me.

I look at the ring with a raised brow as I slowly take it and examine it. It has some strange silver words or runes inlaid on the inside of the ring, I sigh and place it on my right index finger.

I try to channel a shield element to my right hand and surprisingly, it orbits my hand making Twilight gasp and grab my hand.

"What!? But... how? It should be blocking your magic from being cast!" she says.

"Maybe it only blocks unicorn magic? Remember, my magic is different," I tell her.

She looks at me worriedly. "Can you, erm, cast one of your life elements to see if you can cast a spell and not just channel an element?" she asks nervously.

"Okay," I reply and cancel the shield element and channel a life element. I point my palm at the guard looking through the window and cast my spell at him, a thin green beam hits him on his forehead making him yelp, he tries to back away but drops out of sight with an 'oof'.

I hear Rainbow, Pinkie, and Spike laughing as I look back to Twilight and shrug. "It didn't feel any different," I tell her.

She frowns and takes the ring off my finger and puts it on herself, she tries to cast a spell but the ring glows with a silver light and her horn stops glowing. "This doesn't make any sense. These rings cancel all magic, not just unicorn magic, for this to make sense it would mean you're..." Her eyes widen. "You're not from Equus," she says.

"Equus?" I ask confused.

"Yes, Equus, the name of the planet," she replies.

My eyes widen at the implications. "That can't be right, everyone knows the world is called Terra," I tell her.

"Then I'm right, you're from a different world!" she yells with fear mixed with excitement.

I just stare dumbly at her, I'm not on Terra anymore? What the hell did that stranger do to that book!? I pick up the book and check the first few pages, they're only an index and nothing about interplanetary or dimensional travel. The last few pages just have a biography of the mage who wrote the book, someone named Starswirl the Bearded.

I close the book and place it back on the table, I then place my face in my hands and sigh, I'm guessing I won't be going home any time soon.

I feel a hand on my right shoulder and look up to see Twilight with a sad smile. "Don't worry, maybe the Princesses can find a way to send you home," she tells me.

I just sit back for an unknown amount of time thinking to myself, a knock on the door gets our attention and Twilight goes to answer it.

"Twilight, is he contained?" a voice that sounded like it belongs to an angel asks the purple unicorn.

"Erm, not really... he's just sitting on the couch, Princess," Twilight replies to her.

Twilight steps aside as a woman my height with fur as white as freshly fallen snow walks in. She has deep magenta eyes and long multi-toned hair and a tail of green, blue, light purple, and pink that waves as if in a gentle breeze. She has a Long horn on her head and large wings on her back, a dress of white and gold adorns her slender body, a crown of gold with an amethyst gem in the centre atop her head.

I look at this woman, captivated by her.

She locks eyes with me and speaks with a demanding tone. "Who are you."

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