Chapter 20: I get an invite to a wedding, and I get a visit from a chaotic friend.

Months has passed since Discord happened and everything went on normally. Sure stuff happens in Ponyville during that time but when living here you expected crazy shit to happen.

First was Twilight went crazy due to something about sending Tia a letter and cast a spell on a doll to make everyone want it. I and Discord watched all of that happen while eating some popcorn. Sure it was funny to watch and Twilight learns an important lesson; don’t put mind control spells on objects without a backup plan.

Next was Halloween or Nightmare night. That was fun since I and Moonlight decided to scare the whole town by looking like Nightmare Moon and the headless horseman. It was funny but both Luna and Tia yelled at us about it, which made it funnier.

Next, some kind of pony decided to dress up as a superhero and calling themselves ‘The Mysterious Mare Do Well’. As it turns out it was Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy trying to teach Rainbow a lesson. I had to talk to Twilight about her methods, though, one of those steel beams almost hit me.

There was also one instance that Spike started to grow bigger due to his horde instinct. Luckily Sylph knew what to do to stop it. And that was throwing him through a few walls. She may be nice but she get scary at times.

The last notable thing that happened was Hearts and Hooves day, as it seems the CmC decided to pair up both Big Mac and their teach. How they got a book with a love spell in it I don’t know but I believe Twilight gave them the book. I have to help push back a house that Mac pulled out of the ground and dragged all the way to the other side of town.

All in all, that what happened in town. For me, I keep getting and sending messages from Steel at times. As it seems that the Changeling fillies are growing up face and doing alright. I smiled and told him any questions that he would have about them.

After that, I grabbed my bag and cane and headed out. I have some books to return to the library.

After returning the books to the library I headed to Canterlot to see how Tia and Luna are doing.

To keep it short they are fine and doing great. They also gave me an invitation to the wedding of Shining and Cadence. It’s a big thing and Tia wants me to be there. She also said that she was going to send a letter to Twilight and her friends at a later date, as it seems that Twilight didn’t know that her brother is getting married.

I told them that I would come and bring something for the newlyweds. After that, I went home to train with Moonlight, and when I mean train I mean having a sparring match between us and see who wins. So far it’s 56 to 49 my favor.

After the training, I went back home and looked at the invitation. As I hold it and turned it in my hands I was getting a bad feeling about it. I pulled out my phone and opened the app on it and search through it until I get to a thing that says ‘Canterlot Wedding’.

“Okay, so what’s in store for me…” I told myself as I read through what I would be dealing with. Cadence get’s kidnapped by Chrysalis, changeling army, love conquers all, etc, etc. As I finished and went to a bookshelf and pulled the book on Slivers. As I read through it I saw that Changelings are a type of Sliver, the only thing they can do is change who they look and have the whole hive mind stick as well. I closed it and went to grab a drink.

“Well dealing with changelings should not be a problem but I still think that there’s something up.” I again said to myself. I thought of a plan to train Moonlight to fight. Fighting an army, what else is new.

Fast forward to a few days till the wedding.

After a few months of training both me and Moonlight were ready for anything that the changelings will throw at us. Which is somewhat odd since changelings have no reason to attack Canterlot. Changelings are Slivers that have the ability to change their appearance. Also, the whole need love to survive is a bunch of bull. They do need some sort of energy but it’s sure isn’t love, it mana.

I’m going to give the short version of this because it’s really long and I don’t want to say it. Mana like magic and magic is part of the life energy that inside every living thing in the world, and don’t go and say ‘That means changelings steal the life of everyone’ well that’s not true either, if you get drained of your mana you don’t die you’ll just be really tired and sleep for a couple of weeks.

So all in all changelings attacking Canterlot during the wedding seems a bit odd to me. Sure I saw some changelings around in Canterlot but they didn’t hurt anyone so I didn’t bother. I keep an eye out to see what will happen.

Which leads up to right now as we finish up the last bit of training we have until we have to leave. The mane six left for Canterlot a few minutes ago by train. They asked if we wanted to join them but I told them that we have another way to get there. It also means that I didn’t have to hear Twilight complain about her brother getting married and didn’t tell her about it.

“Alright I think that’s good enough for now, we need to head off to Canterlot,” I told Light that. She looked up at me and took a drink from her water bottle. She took her spear and spun it once and it turned into a staff.

“So what’s with all this training, and don’t say that it’s just training.” She said to me. I raised an eyebrow at her.

“I’m your teacher, I'm allowed to change the way my way of teaching,” I replied to her. She crossed her arms at me.

“Normally we spar we spar easy, for last few months has been intense.” She told me.

“Oh, it wasn’t that bad,” I said to her.

“You threw me into a mountain and made the mountain exploded on me,” She made a worried look at me. “It’s as if you are preparing me to fight an army.”

I frowned at her and stared at her. I sighed and walked up to her.

“Let’s just say that I have a really bad feeling that something is going to happen during the wedding, I just want to be prepared,” I told her. She chuckled at me.

“You know you're paranoid sometimes.” She told me.

“Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being paranoid,” I said to her. I narrowed my eyes at her. “Also, you need a shower you smell.”

I saw her eyes went wide. She pulled her shirt a bit and took a sniff. She made a face and looked at me. I waved my hand dismissively.

“Go take a shower, I’ll wait for you so you can smell nice for your girlfriend.” And with that Moonlight was gone. I chuckled at her and cast a spell that makes me smell like oranges. Oh, by the way, Moonlight got a girlfriend or marefriend now, and it’s Rainbow. Shocker, I know.

As I waited and checked that my ride was ready to go. As I stood there I felt a chaotic power coming from the sky. I looked up as a giant fireball sailed through the sky. What was odd that there was music coming from nowhere.

“Okay??? That’s new.” I said as it landed into the Everfree. I frowned and ported to the spot it landed.

As I got to the spot I saw a smoking crater. As I got close I felt the energy that was coming from it. It also felt familiar. Then I saw a being coming out of the crater. He wore a red trench coat with a red wide brim hat. As he got closer I knew who he was. I sighed a bit as he stood about ten feet away from me.

“Of course, it’s you, you’re the only one that comes in on a giant fireball with AD/DC playing.” I told him. He just laughs at me.“Oh god…”

“Hey Jace, miss me,” Vol said to me.

Author's Notes:

Yes it's a short chapter but it's the start of an arc of three. And if anyone knows the man in red well... here we go >:)

See you all in the next chapter :)