Manehatten, the same Bizare Joe found the Krusty doll. Third Pov.

A caped figure had walked into the shop and started looking at the various objects. Unlike the few ponies that enter the shop, the one that entered didn't browse, the customer was looking for something specific. After tossing a zebra skull to the side, a light came on from behind. The one who turned on the light was the same stallion that Joe had met. " May I help you?"

The stallion went behind his front counter and inquired to the ponies business. " Something drew you to my shop, something powerful. Was it the Frogurt?" The cloaked figure shook its head before pointing a hoof over to a display of an amulet that resembled an alicorn. " You have a keen eye, traveler. The Alicorn Amulet is one of the most mysterious and most powerful, of all the known magical charms." The figure then pointed towards the amulet again, saying that it was what it came for.

" I'm afraid that this item is too powerful, not to mention that it carries a terrible curse." The shop owner waited for the figure to say something to that but remained silent. " I'm sure you're wondering if that's bad or good, right?" Still, the figure said nothing, instead, it threw a large bag of bits on the counter. Seeing all that money, the shopkeep had this to ask. " Would you like a free Frogurt with that?" The figure ignored him and instead levitated its purchase from the display and left the shop. " Hrrmf, at least my last customer would say something."

Ponyville Marketplace. Joe's Pov.

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I was walking down the market, looking for some ingredients to make my famous Pecan pie. Since Luna told me that delegates from Saddle Arabia were coming to see me and hear Mimirs story since they couldn't make it the first time, I decided to break the ice with some Texas-style pecan pie. I had Orion and Jack with me who now reached my hip, to have a nice father-son outing while Luna was in Canterlot and Jackie was doing her own errands. I went looking for some fresh honey, and pecans with the boys.

" Okay, Granny said the best place to get honey, is at beehive's booth... You know boys, daddy is getting tired of all these obvious names."

" Why daddy?" Orion had asked while walking on my right side.

" No real reason son, maybe it's just that I grew up where people had different names. Anyway, I think I see the stall over there." We made it to Beehive's stall and looked over the honey.

Jack pulled my pant leg to tell me something. " Great granny smith said the clearer the honey, the sweeter it tastes." I gave him a smile and ruffled his hair.

" The lessons your Mamma Luna gave you two are really paying off ain't they?"

Orion came back with this. " Mommy said that ' ain't' isn't a word."

" Shut up you little rascal you." I started grappling both the boys, making them laugh at my antics. I continued wrestling with the boys when we heard a scream come from down the way. We stopped our wrestling and went to check what the commotion was.

We found our way over to town hall where we saw our friends being terrorized by some hooded figure. The figure then shot a red beam at Rarity, giving her a tie-dye dress that one would see at Woodstock. " You beast! This shade of brown should be used by accents." She then fainted where Jackie quickly caught her.

" Come on Applejack, we got to get her into a nice soothing pink STAT." Pinkie and Jackie took Rarity away from the scene to put something else on her.

I made my way to the middle while the boys went over to Twilight. " Alright, what the fuck is going on here!?"

" Well well well, if it isn't" The figure removed the hood to reveal one Trixie Lulamoon. " Prince Joe." Her eyes flashed red and an evil smile spread across her face.

" Trixie? What in the Hell are you doing, terrorizing these citizens like you are?"

Snips and Snails were giggling off to the side, it seems Trixie heard them. " You two, keep quiet!" She fired another beam at the two, making their horns meld together, making them scream and run around like cartoon fools.

" Enough!" I wolfed out, hoping this would end her attacks on the onlookers. Admittedly she recoiled a bit, seeing as she never saw me wolfed out. The moment quickly passed as she regained her evil smirk. " For the last time Trixie, tell me why you're doing this?"

" To draw you out, to make everyone witness that Trixie has more magical abilities than you!"

" Oh yeah, how you planning on doing that?" I suspect a challenge might be her answer.

" I, The Great and Powerful Trixie, challenge you, to a magical duel!" Called it. " Winner stays. Loser leaves Ponyville, forever!"

Without even giving her challenge a second thought, I answered: " I accept your challenge. Though may I ask why you're challenging me? If it's about that time you came here, I mean that was over two years ago."

" Yes, and I had to live every day of those two years in humiliation!" She then pulled up a screen to show her events since we met. " Ever since you showed me up with your tricks, I became a laughing stock. Everywhere I went I was laughed at and was even discredited for defeating that Ursa Major. I even had to take a job on a rock farm just to earn a living." Her magic screen vanished as she continued her rant. " A rock farm!"

" Hey, you're lucky a rock farm would take the likes of you!" Pinkie yelled over to Trixie. Guess hearing Trixie bad talk her family's farm made her upset. Trixie responded by magically removing Pinkie's muzzle and making it disappear.

For the first time that day, Mimir made himself known. " I was waiting for someone to do that for a while now."

" Quiet head." I returned my attention to Trixie. " Return my friends to their natural state, and we'll have at it." With a smug smile, she undid the damage she had done to Rarity, Snips, Snails and of course, Pinkie, who was glad to have her mouth back. " Good, now, what are the rules?"

" I already said the rules."

" Those were the conditions, I need to know the rules of engagement so we can have a proper fight." I gave her a grin, making the audience laugh.

" Fine, since I just want you humiliated, no lethal spells of any kind."

" Good, now here's another. No using onlookers as targets or as an instrument of destruction to the challenged." Her eyes went wide, it seems she had the idea to use our audience to her advantage.

She regained her composure and went about her act. " Any other rules?"

" Rules, no, though I do believe I have one more condition." I unsheathed Frostbite and placed it on the ground while turning back into my human form. " With the condition of the loser leaving, they must also relieve their artifact. Me, my ax Frostbite. And you, that necklace around your neck." Her smug smile once again morphed into a look of surprise. " Did you really think I wouldn't notice that or how the aura of your magic went from a light pink to a blood red? You didn't get better through your own talents, you just went and made yourself more powerfull with a trinket." As I kept goading her ego, her face would scrunch into anger. " So even if for some inconceivable way you beat me, all the credit goes to that necklace, not you."

" Enough!" She had enough of my taunting and fired a spell at my face. The result of the spell impacting my face, was that my mustache and beard turned purple with yellow polka dots while the hair on my head turned into grass. " Ha! beat that monster."

Without even lifting a finger or channeling any aura, my healing factor rid me of my hair's discoloration and grass-like nature. " Very nice attempt my dear but I'm afraid that won't be enough." With my hand engulfed in my own blue aura, I sent a blast of magic that hit Trixie right in the middle of her chest. The result in which was this.

The whole audience laughed their asses off as Trixie wondered what exactly I had done to her. " What? What did you do to me?" She conjured a mirror and looked to see her new look. " Eeeeekkk! That's not funny!"

" I beg to differ."

She rid herself of her screwball form and glared at me. " Enough games you barbarian!" She fired a spell again but this time, it hit the ground beneath me. I expected the ground to turn to quicksand or fire to spew from where I stand. Instead, two hands made of stone grabbed ahold of me. They squeezed me a bit while Trixie came up to gloat. " Ha! You can't use magic if you can't use your claws."

" Heh. Heh heh. Hahahahaha!" My laughter made Trixie take a step back. " Ohh Trixie, like so many others you see but you do not observe."

" And what, praytell, do you mean by that?" Instead of answering her, I went and began pushing against the rock hands holding me. Within seconds, the constructs crumbled and exploded from my Herculean strength. " Oh, that's what you meant."

" Yes, and since you've resorted to conjuring giant appendages, I believe I'll summon a friend of mine." With a combination of elemental and illusion magic, I made it seem like the earth was shaking to bring forth a great beast.

" What madness are you bringing forth you imbecile!" Trixie sounded like she was regretting her challenge. When the spell was through, the sun was being blocked by a massive form that loomed over the town and most of the countryside. When Trixie and the audience looked to the sky, all they saw was the head and a small fraction of a massive serpent.

Trixie stared wide-eyed at the beast staring down at her. " What is that!?"

Mimir, seeing the fake giant, decided to help the challenge along. " That Lass is Jormungandr, the Midgard serpent." The image loomed closer, making it seem even larger than before. " Would you mind brother, if he and I had a conversation?"

Smirking slightly at his idea, I lifted him to face the beast. " As you wish, head."

" Thank ya, now, don't be too judgemental with our talk, I've never really spoken to a giant snake before." He cleared his throat and spoke to the image in an ancient tongue. " Hello, Jormangandr, remember me?"

The serpent responded in a thunderous voice. " How could I forget the wisest of the Aesir?" The audience had to cover their ears so blood wouldn't spill out. " Why am I here, instead of the depths of Midgard?"

" My friend holding me has brought you here to show up that blue mare across from him." The serpent then moved his eyes over to Trixie, who at the moment was trembling in fear. " Any thoughts on how to do that?"

The world serpent then grinned evilly at Trixie. " I could always swallow her."

Mimir then spoke normally to the audience. " Well, I suppose that'll end the battle fairly quickly?"

Trixie looked to Mimir. " What did he say!?"

" Oh nothing, he just suggested he'd end the duel by swallowing you whole." Jormangandr opened his mouth wide and started sucking in large amounts of air, making it seem like a hurricane was going on.

I crossed my arms and gave Trixie a choice. " So what's it going to be Trixie, you wanna surrender or do feel like seeing what the inside of a giant snake looks like?"

Trixie looked at me, then behind me at the giant snake with a look of hunger on its face. Seeing as she didn't want to be eaten or get chased everywhere she goes, she gave in. " Alright, you win! Just call off that beast!"

" Not until you uphold the conditions of the challenge." I held out my hand, gesturing for the necklace around her neck.

She was reluctant to give it up at first, but with the illusion of the world serpent drawing closer, her reluctance jumped out the burning building. " Fine here!" She pried the necklace off her neck and once it was off, the aura around her horn lost its blood-red tint and once again became its light pink color. She threw it at me where I caught it. " There, you have my amulet, now call off your beast!"

" Sure." With a snap of my fingers, the giant serpent lost its details to reveal a large cluster of clouds in the shape of a serpent which quickly dispersed to reveal the sun.

Trixie had her jaw hanging as the realization that she was being terrified of a bunch of clouds hit home. " You...you....you tricked me!"

I just shrugged. " It is called magic trick, people always seem to forget the trick part." I went ahead and pocketed the amulet and walked over to Trixie. " Now about those conditions." Her head dropped in shame as she started to leave. Before she could even make it five feet, I stopped her. " I think we should come up with a better solution."

" But I lost and threatened others just to draw you out in the first place. Why would you even want to think up a better solution?"

" I'm the one who drove you to get the amulet in the first place. Even though it wasn't my intention to humiliate you during your show, I did. So for that, I apologize for ruining your show and by extent your reputation."

Trixie had tears in her eyes as I made amends for my transgressions towards her. " That's all I ever wanted to hear. Thank you." At that point, my sons had joined me at my side which Trixie took note of. " Are these your children?"

" Yes, this is Orion" I patted Orion's head. " and this is Jack." I rubbed Jack's head. " Boys, this an old acquaintance of mine, The Great and Powerful Trixie." Trixie smiled at me using her stage name. " She gave me a way to test my magic in both a competitive and fun way."

The boys went up to greet her, starting with Orion. " Hello, Miss Trixie. I liked the magic hands you made out of the rocks."

Jack went up next. " I liked it when you made daddy's hair funny looking."

" Hehe, that was pretty funny" Trixie giggled at the spell she did to me earlier.

" Speaking of, there's still the matter of your punishment for terrorizing the citizens." I contemplated on how Trixie could make proper amendments. Finally, it came to me. " How's your firework magic?"

The delegates from Saddle Arabia arrived with the coming night. Mimir told the origins of Equestria to them, which they were very surprised to hear. When the tale was done, Trixie gave off an amazing firework display while Twilight did a floating animal figure eight, for some reason, while we all had pie. After Trixie did her display and apologized to Rarity and Pinkie, she left to go back on the road with the promise she'd return one day.

With a moment to myself, I inspected the amulet with the help of Mimir. " So, any thoughts on this amulet Mimir?"

" Give me a moment brother," Mimir observed the amulet for a minute before letting out a huge gasp. " by Odin's beard, do you know what this is?"

" It's the Alicorn Amulet." Twilight and Celestia came over with a book that had a picture of the amulet. " It says that whoever wields it, will gain untold power. Though once it's worn, it starts corrupting the user."

" You're half right Lass. It's the gem in the center that holds the power that it gives to the wielder. But without the weapon it was created for, the magic goes wild and corrupts the one who uses it."

" So without the weapon to focus the gem's power, it'll keep corrupting others with untold power?" Celestia sounded worried that the amulet might fall into worse hands.

" It will if it weren't for the fact that Joe already has the weapon." Those two were surprised at that fact, though I had my suspicions since there was a little slot in the handle. " The gem was named, Frost Giants Frenzy. It gives the ax's frost rune's a huge boost, to the point you can fire a beam of concentrated winter at your target as well as other attacks if you get creative."

Twilight asked the next question. " But how did the gem wind up in the amulet, instead of the ax in front of us?"

" Well, Faust never really saw herself using the ax, she mainly used her magic and kept the ax more as a symbol than anything, which is why the gem was never put in the ax. The only reason I know what it can do is that Brok kept boasting about how powerful it could be, Faust just didn't feel the need for it."

" If she had used it, she might be here with us." Celestia shed a single tear at the thought of her mother and what might have been.

" When the two were brought over from Asgard, whoever found the gem must not have known it went with the ax and decided to place it in an amulet instead."

" Well, what we have to do now is crystal clear then." I removed the gem from the amulet and hovered it over the slot in the ax's handle. I looked to the two ponies watching me and smirked. " Hope we don't blow up." With that, I placed the gem in the ax. The moment the gem went in the handle, it went from its blood-red coloration to an icy blue. When it was done changing, the ax starting glowing a bright white with blue streaks. Once the light show ended, the ax took on a similar but at the same time, different look.

As we all gazed at the ax's new look, one thing came to mind. " This will certainly be a game-changer."

Author's Notes:

First, the gem that was in the amulet will be the only gem that will go in the ax so no more finding other gems to add more power to the ax. Second, I should be doing a birthday chapter for Jack and Orion in a bit, though it might be awhile. Third, the camping episode is next with a twist ending Shyamalan wished he came up with.

Clip.

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Another.

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