My Little Pony: Yogscast approves

Chapter 9: The Wizard

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A/N: You may have noticed, in the past few chapters I have been referring to Simon and Lewis by their Earth names, but now I will begin to call them by their Minecraftian (and now Equestrian) names, Honeydew and Xephos. This will only happen if I am speaking their names, but the two may still end up calling each other by their Earth names. I am sorry if this causes confusion. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

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Xephos woke up surrounded by books. He looked around and remembered the room and the situation he and Honeydew were in. He thought back to the nightmare he had last night.

'Why was Simon- I mean Honeydew, in the nightmare with me? That isn't possible. I wonder if he remembers it. Why does the name Nightmare sound so familiar? Why am I drenched in sweat?'

These were all perfectly good questions to be thinking about, but he guessed he would tell them to Twilight later.

"Ugh, freaking ponies" He murmured under his breath, chuckling.

Xephos got up in the routine of falling face first off the sofa and stumbling to his hooves. He slowly trotted over to the window, where he looked out at Celestia's sun. It was only just showing, meaning it was still early. Xephos cursed under his breath; he needed something to do. Then he noticed he was in a library.

'Derp' he thought while silently laughing at his own stupidity.

Xephos walked over to where his pile of books were but halted when he spotted a reflective surface next to him:

"A mirror, great, maybe I can finally see what a look like." He said to himself, still whispering incase he woke Twilight or her 'Number one assistant' Spike.

He examined himself carefully, running a hoof through his dark, red hair. He turned round and looked at his flank, taking in the details of the camera as his cutie mark.

"Well well, admiring ourselves now are we?" Came a mare's voice from beside him.

Xephos literally jumped 5 feet (or hooves) into the air in surprise.

"AHH! JESUS!" He shouted while in the process of jumping.

Twilight giggled, then laughed, then broke out laughing, rolling about on the wooden floor.

"Twi-Twilight, you can't sneak up on me like that," He said, panting from the sudden shock, "How long were you standing there for?"

Twilight regained herself and spoke. "Long enough," She said, giggling again, "But seriously now, what were you doing?"

Xephos stumbled to make his sentence of explanation in his head.

"I was just looking at my pony body, I haven't properly seen it yet." He explained, glaring at the unicorn.

Twilight pointed towards his flank. "Your cutie mark, what does it mean you think?"

Xephos held in a blush and said, "It's a video camera, but the design looks old." He ignored Twilight's look of confusion and continued, "It is probably there because I used to record most of the stuff Sim- Honeydew and I did together." He suddenly remembered what he wanted to ask Twilight earlier. "Twilight, do you know anypony called Nightmare?"

The unicorn sat in thought for a moment then spoke up, "Well, I know a Nightmare Moon, she took over Princess Luna's body, after she was banished to the Moon by Princess Celestia. Afterwards, she came back and took Princess Celestia prisoner, then me and my friends banished her using the Elements of Harmony and the power of friendship. Why do you ask?"

'Nightmare Moon, I knew I knew that name from somewhere.' Xephos thought.

"Well, last night when I got to sleep, I woke up in a dark room next to Honeydew somehow, where a puff of black smoke was waiting for us. It told us it was called Nightmare, and that it was teaming up with Israpony to destroy us and take over Equestria. Before we could get more information out of it, it left, and I woke up in a cold sweat."

Twilight just looked concerned.

"Nightmare and Israpony? Take over Equestria? I have to alert Princess Celestia!" She said, starting to panic.

"SPIKE! I NEED YOU!" She yelled, knocking Xephos back into a wall.

The baby dragon, that had just been awoken from his sleep, came rushing down the stairs, tripping on the last step and flying into a nearby pile of books.

"Spike! This is no time to be messing around!" Twilight ran over and pulled him out with her magic, "I need you to write an urgent letter to the Princess!"

"Urgent? I'm on it!" Spike said, grabbing a scroll and quill from Celestia knows where. He gave the signal that he was ready.

"Dear Princess Celestia, I am writ-" The unicorn started, before she was interpreted by an explosion.

The three looked at each and ran up to a window, peering out into what was outside.

Ponies who had been woken by the sound had stepped outside their houses to see what the noise was.

The trio kept scanning the area until they spotted a smoking crater with a pony standing next to it.

"Spike, stay here." Twilight said, before her and Xephos ran out of the door towards the mysterious Stallion who stood in a field.

The pony (who they spotted as a unicorn) was wearing a wizards cape and had a bushy beard, almost covering his horn. He had a cutie mark of a red block with the letters 'TNT' on it.

When the pony turned to look at Xephos and Twilight, they noticed he seemed concerned, with a hoof up to his bushy chin.

"Oops..."

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Fluttershy, Honeydew, and the newly found Knight Peculiar were standing on the top of the hill they had found him on.

"Honeydew and Xephos," He spoke in a old gravelly voice, "You two hero's need to save this land befor- say, where is Xephos?"

He peered around searching for the missing pony, when he spotted a yellow pegasus whimpering behind Honeydew. He pointed towards her.

"That's not him, is it?"

Honeydew turned around and saw Fluttershy hiding behind him. He knelt down to her level.

"Don't worry Flutters, he isn't gonna hurt you, why don't you come and say hello?" He spoke to her in a calm, soothing voice, and nuzzled her on the shoulder.

Fluttershy blushed and slowly peaked up from behind him.

"Um.. Hello.. I'm Fluttershy." She spoke her name loud enough that he could hear it.

"Hello Fluttershy, don't be worried, this sword is just for just for looks." He spoke to Fluttershy at her eye level, but he regained his form to talk to Honeydew.

"Anyway, where is Xephos?" He said, confused.

Honeydew pointed towards Ponyville, and at the big tree in the middle of it.

"He was staying the night in the library, we were on our way to see him, I'm guessing you will be coming with us?"

KP nodded.

"Yes, Fumblemore and I were travelling to find you two."

Fluttershy suddenly came out of thought and spoke up.

"Oh! I remember you! Honey and Xephos told us stories about all of you."

KP raised an eyebrow at 'Honey' but shook it off and chuckled.

"Yes, they were crazy adventures!"

Honeydew spoke up again.

"Wait, if you and Fumblemore came here together, where is he?" He stroked an imaginary beard on his chin. 'Damn, I miss my beard.' he thought.

"Well, he decided to search the other side of town, but I don't know where he got to, we were just going to-"

He was interrupted by an explosion from the other side of Ponyville.

Honeydew and KP spoke in unison

"Oh, that must be him." And with that, they ran off, Fluttershy going a slower pace, worrying about what they would find.

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A/N: Thanks for reading! I went ahead and made this a finished chapter, because I decided it would be long enough.

Feedback wanted as always!