Laughing while being chased, Levy looked behind her to find the pink-haired girl running after her. Turning a corner, she turned back and threw her arms wide, shouting ‘HOLE*’ as she did. The word spread out on the ground in front of her and as the girl ran around the bend, Levy saw her ear twitch. Jumping just on the edge of the trap, the girl with the gaudy jester costume moved her arms apart and tackled the surprised Levy.

“How?” Levy coughed as she struggled to get out from underneath the girl.

“Pinkie Sense. That’s how!” Pinkie said happily, straddling her as she kept the blue head down.

“I don’t get it.” Levy said as she tried to wriggle out from underneath her captor.

“There’s nothing to get! I feel something twitch in my body and I react accordingly.” Pinkie said simply, ignoring the girl’s wriggling.

“Woah!” Twilight shouted as she fell into the hole that Levy made earlier. Pinkie bent over backwards to see a cloud of dust come out of a hole.

“So that’s what I jumped over!” Pinkie said as she rolled backwards and into the hole.

“Ow! Pinkie! Get off me!” Twilight said in a huff as she felt Pinkie squish the air out of her.

Listening to the both of them argue made Levy get up and tiptoe away, knowing that they would be occupied for a bit.

In another part of the library, Shining was looking up books on crystal magic, to see if he could try and find something to help that newcomer. This time, he had changed out of his guard uniform and into a sweatshirt with his cutie mark of a shield with a magenta star in the middle. He only wore some light-blue, fur-lined slacks for pants. His horn wasn’t glowing as he had switched the shield spell over to Cadence, therefore making the shield a different colour and earning him a rest.

“Not in that book.” Shining muttered as he stood up and got another book from the shelf. “Twilight should be in this library somewhere. Maybe she can help me.” Shining said as he held the book in his hand and began wandering around the gigantic library. Soon enough, he came upon a hole in the floor, nearly falling into it but what saved him where the voices of Pinkie and Twilight.

“Twily?” Shining called out. The voices stopped and then he heard a foot stomp. Looking down, he found both Twilight and Pinkie standing close together in the hole. “What are you doing down there?” He asked, kneeling down to help them up.

“I ran around the corner to try and catch up to Pinkie when I fell in.” Twilight said as she climbed out. She saw her brother pull Pinkie out of the hole as well. “How are we going to fix that?” Twilight asked, pointing to the obvious hazard.

“I know!” Pinkie said and rushed off to someplace, only to rush back and begin putting nails and wood over the hole at a fantastic rate. Soon enough, she was done and grinned proudly. “There we go. All done!” She said with a tah-dah gesture to the now-covered hole.

They both clapped and Shining turned to Twilight. “Twily, I need help in trying to find a solution to Derrick’s crystal arm problem. Do you think you can-” He was stopped by a terrific shout.

“AHHH! I JUST ATE FIRE!!”

“That would be Derrick.” Pinkie said and ran off in that direction with Shining and Twilight close on her heels.

After Levy had tiptoed away, she ran back to where she had found the guy that was on fire. When she reached the place, she found him scratching at his pink hair with barely a scorch mark on him. As the man turned around to have a look at the books, Levy found that he had a Fairy Tail mark but it was covered with some sort of black crystal. Walking up to him, she tapped him on the shoulder.

“Hmm?” Derrick asked, looking down to see a blue head. His jaw dropped as he recognised the clothes and face. “No way.” He said in disbelief. “Levy?” He asked.

“Do you know me?” Levy asked, looking at him oddly.

‘Oh wow this is awkward.’ Derrick thought and sighed.

“Sorry. Must have been thinking of someone else who has the same name. I’m Derrick.” He said and stuck his hand out for Levy to shake it.

After shaking it, Levy heard a growl come from him. “You okay there?” She asked.

“I’m fine, just hungry. For some reason though, I feel like I should eat fire. Do you have any?” Derrick asked slowly as he tried to work out why he was feeling like that at the same time.

“Not sure why but okay. If that’s what you want.” Levy answered with a raised eyebrow. Pullin some sort of pen out of her pocket, she wrote the word ‘FIRE**’ in the air. As she finished and put the pen away, the word lit up in a burst of flames.

Thanking her, Derrick concentrated and sucked in the air surrounding the word, making it go into his body. When he finished, he patted his belly and then realised what he had done and screamed. When he had finished, Levy looked at him with her hands covering her ears.

“You scream loudly.” She said calmly, taking her hands off her ears.

“You. You seem very calm for someone who had just witnessed fire eating.” Derrick said, just as calm.

“I could say the same to you.” Levy retorted and crossed her arms over her chest. “What’s with the arm?” She asked, pointing to the crystal.

Derrick touched it and followed it with his hand, finding it had spread across his chest and began going down his other shoulder however it did shrink slightly as his body absorbed the flames he ate. “It’s … a long story. I’ll tell you some other time.” He said softly as they both heard running footsteps at that moment. They turned to see Pinkie running in with Shining and Twilight on her heels.

“You three okay?” Derrick asked, noticing that Twilight’s hair was in a dishevelled state.

“We’re fine. The important thing is are you okay?” Twilight asked. “We heard you scream halfway across the library.” She added.

“I appear to be fine. I feel a bit better anyway.” Derrick said with a shrug.

“You definitely don’t look better! In fact, you look worse than when we left you!” Twilight said in protest as she fussed over him and the crystal slowly inching its way across his body.

“You!” Pinkie shouted and went to tackle Levy again. This time, Levy stepped to the side with another Hole spell appearing on the ground just as Pinkie touched it. She fell in and then looked up at her. “What is up with these holes? He has fire magic and you have hole-y magic.” Pinkie pointed to Derrick and then to Levy, not even realising she had made a pun.

“I don’t just have hole magic. I have other magic as well.” Levy said and demonstrated by thrusting her right arm out and shouting the word ‘STONE***’. The word materialised and plummeted like a rock on top of Pinkie’s head. The word cracked down the middle as a giant bump formed on top of her head.

“Ouch.” Pinkie said as she rubbed the bump, not noticing the word on either side of her in the hole. Levy stood there with an equal face of surprise and shock.

“You are something else.” Levy breathed.

“Twilight, I feel fine. I’m just not sure about this crystal, is all. While I’m here, do you need help with the fair?” Derrick asked as he patted his hand against his crystal one.

“I do but that’s not-” Twilight was interrupted by Pinkie. She looked in her direction and found in another hole however this one had a stoned word in it.

“Not important!? You need to help these people and free them from Sombra’s mind control!” Pinkie said as she jumped out of the hole. Looking back at where she just was, Pinkie proceeded to cover up the hole like she did with the other one. Wood.

“Where did you get the wood from? There’s only crystal around here from what I remember.” Derrick asked as he beheld the sight of Pinkie work overtime to cover the hole up in just a few seconds.

“I have my ways. Derrick wants to help doesn’t he? Let him help.” Pinkie continued on from where she had left off.

“But-” Twilight protested but was cut off by Shining.

“No buts, Twily. Pinkie is right. We need to think of the citizens of the Empire. I told you that Cadence and I were busy working on finding a cure for that crystal growth Derrick has.” Shining interjected and gave Twilight a stern look before she relented.

“Fine. Derrick and … what’s your name?” She asked, blinking at Levy.

“I’m Levy. Nice to make your acquaintance.” Levy said and shook Twilight’s hand.

“Pleasure to meet you as well. I want the both of you to head back out and try to fashion a crystal heart out of … well, crystal.” Twilight finished.

“We can do that.” Derrick and Levy said at the same time.

“Good. I’ll finish trying to learn the Crystal Anthem. I think Fluttershy is okay with bringing some crystal yues for the petting zoo and Rainbow Dash is fine with trying to keep the weather nice and sunny. Rarity is making costumes and-” Twilight was once again interrupted, but this time by Derrick, and was starting to get ticked off with it. “What?” She asked through gritted teeth.

“I ran into Rarity and she didn’t seem to like me using her materials for Pinkie’s costume. But she seemed to be doing fine on her own.” Derrick said and trailed off at the end as he saw Twilight’s left eye began to twitch. “I’ll … shut up for now.” Derrick added lamely.

“Thank you. Pinkie is alright, actually, can you help me with the anthem? It will be better with two people rather than me on my own.” Twilight asked Pinkie, who nodded and skipped over to her side. “Applejack is helping set up the various stalls so after you’re finished with the heart, see if Applejack needs a hand with that.” Twilight finished and turned to the table where she was reading before this whole mess started. Pinkie sat down next to her, leaving the others to fend for themselves.

“Hey, um, Derrick. I have the guards helping out Applejack with the stalls so you can both focus on the making the crystal heart.” Shining said helpfully and walked away to look for a few books, seeing that Twilight couldn’t help him.

“Okay, Levy. You heard the Unicorn. Let’s see if we can make a crystal heart.” Derrick said and marched off to the entrance. Levy ran to catch up with him.

“Why do you have the Fairy Tail mark?” She asked.

“The mark?” He blinked and looked at his right bicep. There definitely was a red tattoo there but it was magnified because of the crystal. “Oh. I have this because this was meant to be a costume. I got transported here and I seem to be stuck with it.” Derrick quickly explained as they climbed the stairs.

“That would explain why I haven’t seen you around the guild before.” Levy said in response as they slowed to a walked when they got outside. Looking left and right for a bit, Derrick tried to find a suitable chunk of crystal to fashion while Levy tried to find a place to fashion said crystal. “Let’s actually try walking around.” Levy suggested and Derrick agreed, not being able to think of any better ideas.

“You mentioned a guild. You mean the Fairy Tail guild?” Derrick asked with excitement in his eyes. Levy nodded.

“Yeah, that’s the one. I’m actually here on a job to try and help out a suddenly appearing city with its library troubles. It called for a solo so I decided to come alone, much to the protest of my teammates. I’m part of a team called Shadow Gear and the team consists of me, Jet and Droy. I do most of the book-related jobs while they just cheer me on.” Levy said with a wave of her hand and finally finding a chunk of crystal that looked good enough to fashion for what they needed, she grabbed it and held it in both hands.

“We need to find someplace to fashion this properly. Wait. You seem to be taking this like it’s a stroll in the park. Didn’t what I just say about this being a costume confuse you at all?” Derrick asked in confusion. The blue-haired girl next to him merely shrugged.

“It’s nothing considering what Fairy Tail and Equestria go through on a daily basis. You just happen to be another weird thing to happen to this world.” Levy answered.

They both fell quiet after that and resorted to a somewhat companionable silence as they searched for some sort of forge or something. Eventually coming across one on the other side of the city, Derrick looked up to find the sun was slowly going below the horizon. He watched Levy place the crystal on the anvil, finally letting her arms rest from having to carry it for the fifth time after switching back and forth with Derrick.

“We need some heat so that it will be easy to chisel away at it.” Levy said and prepared to write in the air. Derrick held up a hand though to stop her and lit up his hand on fire.

“Allow me.” Derrick said and focusing on the flames, intensified the heat to practically melt the anvil underneath it. Cringing a bit, Levy began to slowly chisel away to form the heart as well as the stand it goes on. By the time Levy had finished, Derrick’s hand was shaking as the crystal was now halfway down his left arm, stopping just below the elbow with the crystal on his chest having been moved down to stop just before it reached his abdomen.

“Crystal Heart’s done.” Levy said and wiped sweat from her brow. She gave Derrick a smile before looking at the crystal. “Uuh, Derrick, the crystal has grown even more.” Levy stated, pointing at him.

“You think I don’t know that? I can definitely feel it on my body and now, I can barely even feel my right hand moving. It may not look like it had moved on the outside, but I definitely moved my hand on the inside of it.” Derrick said as he sighed sadly. “Anyway, let’s just- OOF!” Derrick was suddenly knocked backwards and into the ground by what looked like an iron pillar that was attached to the roof that definitely wasn't there before.

Author's Notes:

*More info on the hole spell can be found here:
http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Solid_Script:_Hole

** More info on the fire spell can be found here:
http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Solid_Script:_Fire

***More info on the stone spell can be found here:
http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Solid_Script:_Stone