Magic: the Gathering, Friendship is Magic -I think?-
Chapter 18: Chapter 18: A fiery Discord future....
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI stood on the path that lead toward Ponyville with my cane sword in one hand and my bag in the other. I wore a black trench coat with dark blue highlights with metal buckles that had red symbols on them. Underneath it I word a simple gray t-shirt with some ripped jeans. I also wore a black wide brim hat. I waited for Moonlight to catched up. She had her bag and her staff with her. She wore a dark red zip up hoody which was open. She wore a black shirt with some camouflage pants one.
As soon as she caught up we moved on down the path. We pasted some guards on the way. As it seemed Luna agreed to send some of the lunar guard to Ponyville. Pinkie was happy about that since she can set up a 'Welcome to Ponyville!!!’ party. It made Amber happy that she had more guards to help out , but she had to work with another captain since that group of bat ponies or thestrals as they are also called are nocturnal. She was going to say that she could handle it but I told her if she did she wouldn't have time to sleep.
Two days ago I told the mane six and some others that Moonlight and I would be leaving for a bit. I also told them that it was for training for us since Light was still a long way to go and I need to refine my skills in spell slinging and fighting. Being turned as a statue and sitting still for over a few thousands of years can really do a number on reflexes. Rarity, Twilight, A.J. and Rainbow took it alright. Fluttershy started to cry a bit but I was told that she does that. And Pinkie grabbed my leg and told me not to go. I had to drag her half way through town until I told her that she had to prepare for a party. After that was done I went to Sylph and asked her to at times check up on the cottage. She told me that she would and would put all the mail I will be getting for as long as I was gone. As it seems Syl got her a job as part of the weather team and as a mail carrier backup. After talking with her I went to the town hall to pay my rent of the cottage for a few months in advance.
Coming back the present time I was walking with Moonlight on the road. It been half an hour since we left town. I pulled out a map to see where we are going.
“I have to ask, why do we need to head out of town for this? Can’t we just train in town?” Moonlight asked me. I glanced over to her and back at the map.
“We could but it wouldn't do any good and would take too long, when I was still learning how to control mana I went from one side of Equestria to the other and then some. Besides you will get to see the sights.” I told her as I was still looking at map. I saw that in the direction we were going we would hit Appleloosa. I heard what happened there from the mane six and facepalmed when they finished. I told them if they just let them talk it out or look at the layout of the apple trees and move some of them then all the hell they went through would have be for not. Tia said that they learned a good lesson that day. Yeah a lesson on common sense.
“I’m guessing the then some are different planes? You still didn’t really tell me how a Planeswalker works.” I put the map away and looked at her.
“I didn’t really tell you that didn’t I? Well let me tell you this that we are going to be jumping from plane to plane soon as soon as you get a good idea on how white mana and magic works.” Moonlight looked at me for a moment and blinked a few times.
“You mean you’re going to teach me white mana now?” I heard the excitement in her voice. I put a finger on my lips and grinned at her.
“Spoilers.” I told her. I saw her roll her eyes at that. I tilted my head a bit and decided to teach her something that I picked up on in my travels and is really cool to have.
“Ok since we are on our amazing training trip it’s time that I show you something that cool, something that’s called hybrid spells and mana change.” I saw that she didn’t understand what I meant. Hybrid spells and summons are what they sound like, using mana from different pools to summon creatures and cast spells. In the game that’s all you can do but here I found that I can use some pools of mana to change it’s properties a bit. I found a open field and lead Moonlight there.
“Alright first off are hybrid spells and summons, they are simply spells that take mana from two mana pools. Now do you remember how to summon and use spells.” I saw her nodded.
“First you need use a little mana to make a base of the spell you want and just pour mana into it.” She said. I nodded.
“That’s very good now take that and apply it to this lesson, you see to cast a spell from the hybrid tree you need to use two or more different manas to make a base of the summon and/ or spell, for example,” I turned and focus my mana a bit and used used a bit of both green and blue mana to summon a Horizon Chimera.
A bright flash shot out of my hand and landed on the ground. After it was done shining I saw the chimera standing in front of me. I went over and pet it. I looked back at Moonlight and smiled.
“It may look easy and somewhat cool but it took a lot of focus and knowing how much mana to use, that’s why I wanted you to know blue mana and green mana first.” She nodded to me as I released the chimera and looked back at her and pulled out a card. “Now you try, this creature takes mana from green and blue but it’s one of the easiest creatures to summon.”
I handed her the card as she looked at it for a minute. She handed it back and looked away from me. She began to focus on her mana. I felt and saw blue mana began to rise. I frowned a bit. She got the blue mana down but not the green.
“Light think the two manas as rivers that slowly merge together into one river.” She nodded and closed her eyes. At first nothing but after a minute I sense the green mana began to rise. I saw a ball of light shot out and like mine it flashed brightly. After it dimmed down I turn and saw a Icefeather Aven.
It looked somewhat fine, other than it looked a little sick and confused. It crowed once and disappeared. I looked at Moonlight and saw her panting. I went over and helped her up a bit.
“Th-thanks.” She said to me. I smiled at she wobbled a bit but still stood.
“Alright the next part is a hybrid spell, you can try tomorrow since the summon took a toll on you, so we move on to the mana change. Now this is a little different since you’re not casting anything, you are instead changing the mana you have into a different colour. Be warned doing so will take a large toll on you, it can go from a simple headache to straight up killing you killing you, so don’t try it until you’re ready.” I took out a bottle of water and handed it to her.
“So that’s it? That’s all you’re going to show me?” She asked me.
“Well now there’s one thing that I learned in my travels that’s pretty sweet, now let say I use red mana to make a simple base to make a fire bolt.” I Put out my hand and a ball of fire appeared. “Normally I would pour red mana into it but what if I poured green mana instead.” As what I just said I poured green mana into the bolt. It change from a red colour to a green one. I smiled and shot the bolt to the ground. We watched as the plants started to grow much faster than before.
“I’m guessing that you change how the spell worked by using a different colour of mana.” I nodded and rubbed the back of my head.
“You know I found that out by just fooling around a bit, but anyway with this you can change how some spells work, you can make a lethal spell non- lethal and the other way around.” Moonlight nodded and finished the bottle and handed it to me. I put it back into my bag and we walked back to the road.
“Now then we need to head off, there’s a town near here that we need to get to before nightfall, you ready.” She smiled and nodded. We set off for whatever is ahead of us. All I gotta say is that this is going to be a fun few months.
PoV: Twilight
Place: Ponyville that been turned upside down by Discord and right after the mane six fired the beam of friendship.
A few months later.
I groaned a bit as I tried to focus my eyes a bit. Using the elements of harmony take it’s toll on us when we all used it. The last time I slept for a day and a half. I looked around to see my friends, who have been restored to normal and reconnected to their elements groan a bit.
“Ugh, I feel like I ran a marathon with no breaks.” Dash said with a groan. She stood up and wobbled a bit. Applejack helped her a bit.
“Well I have to say that this was something that I wished we didn’t have to deal with, I think we all need some beauty sleep after this.” Rarity chimed in. Her clothes had dirt on them and the fact that she’s not flipping out means that she’s too tired to care. Fluttershy whimpered a bit and sat up.
“Well girls it’s over now, I just need to send a letter to the princesses to let them know that Discord has been…” I turned and stopped talking at the sight. Discord, the god of chaos and disharmony was staring at the spot he was just standing in drinking a cup of something.
“Well that was something, that would be bad for me if I had been hit with that.” He said as he tossed his cup over his shoulder. It turned into a bird with a laser pointer for feet. We all stared at him.
“But, but how? You got hit with the elements of harmony! How are you not a statue?” I yelled at him. He just grinned and blinked over to me.
“Oh Twilight it so simple really even an egghead like you can figure it out, all I did was move a little to the left really.” He said with a grin. I jumped back a bit and fell to one knee. I painted a bit. I was too tired for this. “Like seriously it’s really easy to dodge the blast if you know how. Now then since that you all are reconnected to the elements again and I can’t just do what I did before, I will just have to fouse you like I did with little old Fluttershy.” We all looked at Fluttershy as she looked panicked at all the staring.
“Well bad news there buddy, we aren’t going to just let you do that.” Dash taunted discord. I smiled a bit at her bravery but frowned. How are we going to defeat him know?
“Oh well that would be a problem if you all ran around, I guess I have to call in for backup.” He snapped his fingers and creatures appeared. They all looked like creatures that had their body parts swapped with other creatures. They all advance at us. We all backed up into a circle as the creatures surrounded us.
“Come on! We can take them!” Rainbow put up her fists and went to a fighting stance, so did Applejack. The rest of us looked around. I heard Discord laughed.
“Oh you’re going to fight, well this is just cute but just for you all to know is that you lost. You have nothing left and besides, who’s gonna save you all now?” Just as the word was spoken the ground rumbled as roots shot up from the ground and grabbed all of the chaos beasts and pulled them into the ground. We all blinked at what happened as a popping sound came and Moonlight was standing in front of Discord.
“I think that someone is going to be me.” She said. Rainbow called out her name and she turned around and waved at us. She turned back to Discord and crossed her arms. “Well it has been a while has it Discord.”
“Well isn’t Nightmare Moon, is there something different about you? Did you change your hair or something.” Discord changed into a barber and began to cut her hair. She waved him off.
“First of all it’s Moonlight, and second I’m not the one you should be worried about.” Discord revert back to his normal look and eyed Moonlight.
“Oh and pray tell on who I should be worried about.” Before anyone can say anything a blast hit Discord on his side and sent him flying into a house. We all blinked at what just happened.
“That would be Jace, he’s also pissed about the fact to attack Ponyville today of all days.”
PoV: Jace
I blinked into town, saw Discord talking to Moonlight and I shot him with a magic bolt which sent him into a building. Why? Why of all the days he had to do this today?? I thought to myself. I walked to the building. I heard the mane six call out to me but I ignore them and saw Discords tail. I cast a giant growth on myself and grabbed his tail and pulled him out of the building. I lift him up and slammed him down on the ground. He groaned a bit.
“Hello Discord, nice to see you out and about.” I said to him. He looked at me and blinked.
“Oh Jace, I didn’t know you were in town we should catch up with a drink or something.” I rolled my eyes at him.
“Listened I’m pissed about what you did today but I’m going to let that slide, what I want for you to do is to clean up the town so it’s not fucked up, next is that you will head to Fluttershy’s house and start being reformed that way since it’s the easy way.”I told him.
“Wait you want me to get reformed already? It’s a little early for that.” I sighed and glared at him.
“Discord you have three choices, you either get turned into stone and wait about a year for the day that you have to be reformed, or you let Flutters reformed you now, or if that’s not to your liking I can put a seal on your powers and have me and Moonlight use you as target practice, oh and by the way” I pulled fate out of the holster and pointed at his head. “I don’t miss.” He gulped and looked at me.
“O-ok I go with option two if you don’t mind.” I nodded and holster my gun and walked over to the mane six and Moonlight. I saw them talking to Light. I went up to them and told them what going on. Most of them argued that he can’t be trusted and I pointed out that they thought the same thing about Moonlight. I looked at Fluttershy.
“I hate to spring this on you but you’re the only pony that can reform him.” She looked at me and then at discord. He waved at her as she waved back.
“I-I think I can do that.” She said. I nodded at her and began to walk away. I took about three steps before something happened.
“What in tarnations is that!” I heard Applejack yelled. I looked up to see a meteor coming down from the sky. It was heading towards Discord as he looked up and saw it.
“Oh my.” I pulled a small umbrella and opened it over his head as the meteor crashed down on top of him. Luckily it didn’t do that much damage to the town. I looked at what looked like a small crater in the ground.
“Well, that’s one way to begin season two.”
Next Chapter: Chapter 19: …A Dark forgotten Past. Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 15 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Whoa! Another chapter after the other! What witchcraft is this! As you can see this is a bit of a shorter chapter but this leads to the next one. Think of this as a two part arc or something.
Anyway two question are here, Why is Jace so pissed about today? And what's up with that meteor?
See you all in the next chapter :)