“Wake up.” Trixie said and then kissed me. I opened my eyes looking at her. “What are you going to do today?” I pulled her closer to me kissing her neck. “I mean don’t you need to learn more about Equestria?”

“Yeah a lot more, apparently they have the elements of harmony.”

“Wasn’t ours the elements of order?”

“It was, but I thought that might sound weird, so I made up the name elements of harmony, I didn’t realize they existed.”

“Yeah they do.” I kissed her taking in her memories. “You know that’s not nice to do to a pony in the morning.” She said getting a large headache.

“I needed to.” She kissed me getting on top. “Eger to please huh?”

“Nope, just always wanted to do this, you were always in love with AppleCran, so I never even got a shot.”

“She died before I could tell her.”

“And she would have pushed you to the side and said. Spike you’re one of my best soldiers, I can’t let your feelings get in the way of my leading.” I sighed knowing that she was right. AppleCran was hard, but she could train and command like no other.

“I know, but still, I hoped.” She giggled rubbing against me. “Now that you got a taste, you want more don’t you?”

“So much more.” I chuckled a little. I turned her over and thrust into her easily, she was already wet and warm. Very ready for anything I could give her and more. She was going to be fun, a lot of it.

“That’s good for you then.” I started and she was rather simple to finish, of course any newly broken in mare was, but it took finishing her three times before I finished myself, and this time I made sure she enjoyed it.

“Hey Seffron, you awake in there?” I groaned a little at Applejack’s voice, and then her heavy knocking.

“I swear.” I snapped my claws cleaning everything up, putting on pants and shoes, then went to the door, unlocking it and taking off the metal board. “What?” I asked not bothering to change into my baby form. She stared at me and then looked at Trixie covering herself on the bed. “Hi are you there?”

“Wow, you’re, um, older looking.” I sighed at her blushing. I hadn’t shown Applejack or any of them my real form. At any other time I was either in my full form or baby form, or miniaturized form.

“What did you want?” I asked stopping her from staring at me, even ponies thought I looked desirable in this form, and any that hadn’t seen me like this, often times stared, either too shocked, or for some other reason.

“Oh um.” She cleared her throat. “Well Princess Celestia is calling’ us, and she requested that we bring you as well.” I sighed.

“I'll be back Trixie, you have the gold if you need to buy anything.”

“Alright.” I closed the door behind me.

“You’re rather handsome.” I looked at her.

“Yeah this is how I normally look, I should change back, but.”

“NO!” She shouted almost too quickly. “I mean no, don’t worry about it really.” I sighed a little bit. As this form, I was as tall as Celestia when I was standing on two legs, on four I would be the same as a normal pony.

“I won’t scare ponies right?”

“Not at all, I like you better in this form, I mean.” She blushed a little. “I didn’t mean it like that, it’s just you shouldn’t be uncomfortable to be yourself.”

“Applejack!” Dash said appearing next to her making Applejack step back from the sudden rush of wind. “What’s taking you… so…long? Whoa.”

“Hey Dash.” I said.

“Seffron, you look different.” She blushed a little bit.

“Let’s just go.” We teleported inside the Library and Twilight jumped back seeing us appear out of thin air.

“Whoa!” Twilight shouted.

“Yeah, I know I’m scary.”

“I most certainly wouldn’t say that.” Rarity said. Pinkie Pie was just staring with Spike, and Fluttershy was half hiding behind a chair.

“I told you I should stay in my baby dragon form.”

“It’s fine,” Twilight said. “In fact we don’t mind at all.” I pointed at Fluttershy. She sighed and chuckled a little. “Don’t mind her, she’s afraid of everything. Fluttershy don’t be rude, we need you to come with us. Princess Celestia said for all of us to come, not just me.”

“But-but he’s a huge dragon!” She shouted scared. I pulled a gem out of my pocket and threw it at her, it stuck onto her front leg.

“EEP!” She shouted.

“That didn’t hurt.” I said a little annoyed.

“What was that?” Dash asked.

“A fear gem, it can absorb fear. Fluttershy how do you feel?” She paused looking around for a few seconds coming out.

“I don’t feel afraid.” I smiled.

“So long as you don’t take it off, you won’t feel afraid of most things unless it’s for something you really should be afraid of, like if it’s life threatening. So don’t go too nuts with it, ponies used to lose common sense when using those, but I fixed that. Then again it does only last for a day or two.”

“Whoa, where is that spell in here?” Twilight asked looking inside the book.

“It’s not in there, and that was volume one of a hundred and ten.” Her eyes went big and they all stared at me a little.

“But there’s one spell per page and there are hundreds in here!”

“Hundreds of years ahead of you, never stopped making spells, in fact we had hundreds of ponies just working on spells. We made some really great things. So take your time, there’s a lot you have yet to learn.”

“Great, then once we get back we can talk more about that. Come on we have a train to catch.”

“Train?” I asked and she looked at me. “Why not teleport?”

“It’s tiring to do that, and doing all of us is a little hard.”

“You use a seal.”

“Seal?” I sighed rubbing my temple.

“You really don’t know seals, it takes so much less magic to use a seal.” I stomped my foot, a paper with a circle and magic symbols appeared under all of us. She looked around surprised. “Teleport eight to the throne room.”

We all teleported appearing in the throne room. Celestia looked at us a bit surprised with a muffin in her mouth. She looked away quickly, Dash and Pinkie Pie chuckled a little bit, even Twilight was holding back a giggle at how funny she looked full of muffins.

“Twilight.” She coughed a little cleaning her mouth. “I didn’t expect you to teleport right into my throne room.”

“Sorry,” Twilight said smirking trying to hold back her laugh. “I’m really sorry, but you looked too funny.” Twilight laughed and Celestia smiled chuckling a little herself. “I’m so sorry, I'll stop, also Seffron was the one that did with a seal.”

“Next time Seffron, please reframe from doing that, just use the front door please, I can’t have ponies teleporting in here at will.”

“Sorry, I'll reframe from doing it from now on.”

“Good.”

“So what’s happen?” Twilight asked.

“I have been receiving strange reports from Baltimare City, something about weird creatures coming out during the fog, they have sunken a number of ships. No pony has died, but it brought me some worry that they might.”

“Did you check the swamps?” I asked and they looked at me.

“What do you mean?” Celestia asked.

“The bog monster and it’s army, in my world they were one of the major events which started, things. The creature wiped out almost half of Baltimare in a single day, we had come too late, in fact we had discussed this too, but it took us too long to get there to save the ponies from getting eaten.”

“Then we need to move,” Applejack said. “If what you said is true then we need to get there right now!”

“Don’t worry, my world and this world are different, the bog monster wouldn’t just appear, I was at least ten at the time.”

“I am ten.” Spike said and I looked at him.

“What?” I asked as my heart sunk. No, no, no, the filth couldn’t exist in this world, that just wasn’t right.

“Also wait, what do you mean you talked here in your world?” Dash asked. “I thought you said Celestia and Luna were evil.”

“They are in my world, but that didn’t happen till later, they used to rule like your Celestia and Luna does now. They didn’t become corrupt till later. I’ve been at battle with them for a very long time.” Not really, it only lasted a week.

“You should all get there as soon as possible then.” Celestia said.

“We will,” Twilight said. “Seffron will you please teleport us.” I clapped making a seal appear under us.

“Eight to Baltimare City docks.” We teleported and I looked around. We were on the docks of Baltimare, large buildings could be seen beyond the dock warehouses. Ponies hastily hurried about their way, not minding us having suddenly appeared. I looked down at the wood docks then out at boats upon boats docked. I walked to the edge of the dock looking down and studying the water.

“Alright everyone,” Twilight said. “We need to split up, and start asking around for clues to figure everything out.”

“No need.” I said and they looked at me.

“What?” Applejack asked walking over to me and looking down at the clear water. “I don’t see anything.”

“What?!” Twilight ran over panicked looking around.

“This is worse than I thought.” I looked south across the bay to the other side, where the swamps were. I could see sludge markings on the dead grass.

“What is it?” Spike asked.

“The seahorses are gone!” Twilight shouted looking at where I was.

“We got reports of them going missing first,” I started. “We found the last of the seahorses in my world trapped in sludge, we couldn’t save them, they drown slowly.” They all looked at me in horror. “Of course it was just me and Twilight, with a few royal guards at the time. If you have the elements of harmony this should be easy.”

“Not on us.” Twilight said and I looked at her, that was more annoying than inconvenient.

“We don’t have time to go back.” I growled lightly.

“So what we gonna do?” Applejack asked.

“We’re too late to save the seahorses, but I think we can save Baltimare from being eaten by the creature. We just have to head into the swamp, only those which can fly are going to be able to come with us, traveling by hoof will be too hard and only get us killed. My Twilight made that mistake.”

“We’ll stay here and send you a message if anything happens.” Spike said.

“What?”

“Oh I can send letters to Twilight as well as Princess Celestia.”

“That’ll be a very useful ability, send us a letter if anything goes badly, Fluttershy I think you should stay here.”

“Oh, okay.” She said smiling a little.

“Wait you want to go?” Dash asked.

“N-no, just, I um.” She blushed a little.

“She can keep watch from the sky,” I said. “Inform us if things turn badly, I'll do something, I won’t let this city go to waste again. Twilight, Dash, let’s go.” We flew into the air going to the swamps and we looked down at a thick black fog.

“I can’t see anything down there.” Dash said.

“I know, this creature is the bog, and it’s worse.”

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Watch.” I stopped and so did they. I pointed my claw forming a large fire ball going to the size of a basket ball, and fired it. It hit the black fog burning it up for a ways. Both of them gasped seeing an army of sludge creatures on the march, screaming from the sun light.

“This is bad!” Dash shouted.

“Worse, there are more than twice from my time. My Baltimare must have done more damage to the army than I realized. Anyway, we need to destroy this army before it reaches the water, Dash would you mind giving me a double sonic rain boom over there.” I point at where the middle of the army would be. “And close to the fog, but don’t touch it, that stuff’s very poisonous. You won’t survive the infection easily.”

“Sure thing!” She shot into the air going high, then flew down causing the first one rain boom, then not even a second later causing the second one and flying up away from the fog as the blast flattened the forest. A heavy wind made me grab Twilight and make a shield around us as black fog flew past us.

“Whoa.” Twilight said seeing a huge dry area devoid of anything, rather it was trees, water or grass. The swamp now had a huge creator in the middle of it. Dark water started to fill it as the army started to scream in pain. The sun light burned them away after a few minutes not being able to get to cover.

“Um, is it safe?!” Dash shouted.

“Yeah!” I shouted back.

“Can you let me go?” Twilight asked. I let her go undoing my shield. Dash flew over to us grinning.

“How’s that for ya?!”

“Iffy at best.” Her jaw dropped and I paused. “Sorry, I meant it’s great.”

“How could I have done better?!”

“Well you send black poisonous fog back at us, if I hadn’t shielded Twilight she would probably be dead. You need to learn how to direct the energy of the blast wave, or you just end up causing collateral damage.”

“You need to train me!”

“What?”

“You heard me.” She growled.

“So the bog?” Twilight asked. “Did we get it?”

“No, we only wiped out half of the army, look over there.” I pointed at a very dense heavy black fog. “We need at least four more of those double rain booms to destroy the entire army, then, I'll have to kill the bog myself. I won’t risk your lives to do that, if it trapped one of you, then it would all be over.”

“How do you mean?” Dash asked.

“It can control the minds of the dead, it would snap your necks and use you to fight for it, and, well you’re both rather powerful. I couldn’t kill you both, but I’m pretty sure you would wipe out Baltimare long before I could stop your corpse even a little. So do you have enough in you?”

“Um.” Dash said sweating a little bit.

“Maybe two more.”

“That’s fine, if I had you or rain drop the first time around, I think this would have turned out much nicer than what it did.” We flew a ways and I shielded Twilight as Dash did sonic rain booms in the two most important areas wiping out all but one tenth of the total army and the bog itself. I smiled looking around.

“Whoa, I think I need to lay down.” I caught Dash. She was sweating and breathing rather hard.

“You earned it Dash, you earned it.” I smiled and we flew back landing on the docks.

“What happen?” Fluttershy asked running over.

“She’s just asleep.” Twilight said.

“You guys must have had your hooves full to do three double rain booms.” Applejack said looking at me.

“Not really,” I said smiling a little. “But had she not done that, we would have had the sludge army marching onto these docks right now. They would burn under the sun light, even if they were underwater, so I know they aren’t here.”

“Look some Seahorses!” Spike said, I turned around and stepped back.

“That’s not good.”

“What isn’t?” Rarity asked. I cut the air opening a screen showing the Seahorse, it’s eyes, noise, ears, and mouth were bleeding tar. All of them gasped.

“This is really, really bad.” Two large ships coming in flipped over sinking in seconds, as parts of the hall explode sending out black tar. The water started to turn black. Some ponies started screaming for help and I grabbed Twilight. “They’re dead, that’s a trap and if you go, we’ll all die. There are thousands of seahorses in these waters, and they just made it their territory.”

“What do we do?!” Applejack asked panicked. I looked at them for a moment, they hadn’t seen something like this before, this was their first horror.

“I’m going to deal with them, start ordering an evacuation of the city, do not leave a single one behind. This is much worse than my world. The bog never thought to use the dead till it was too late. You all need to do what I told you right now!” I blasted a sea horse with blue fire trying to climb on the dock, it evaporated.

“Come on!” Applejack ordered, and I grabbed Twilight, they all ran leaving us be.

“I need a boost.” I held up a gem and she blasted it.

“Good?” I nodded letting her leave. I looked out for a few seconds as I ate the gem gaining power.

“You won’t steal a single one of my pray.” I growled flying into the sky. I stopped high above the bay being able to see through the black water, they had more than a few thousand seahorses, and they had a small army of dead pony suits as well.

I started writing magic symbols around me, I stopped after a minute checking to make sure no pony was on the docks. I blew into my claws forming a ball of white fire lighting up the sky brighter than the sun.

The water started to boil under me as the clouds evaporated instantly from the heat. I blew more fire into it, growing it till it was twice my size. I held what little breath I had, every bit of air around me was on fire, there was none to spare.

“Die.” I said breathlessly launching the ball straight into the center of the bay. It cut through the water hitting the floor in less than a second. The water turned bright white for only a moment then disappeared as the sea floor itself melted into a white lava which made water look like cake batter compared to it. The edges of the bay lit on fire from the heat.

The bay held like that for only a second before becoming an implosion. Everything rushed in to fill the void clasping louder than any thunder, and causing a shockwave ripping apart everything that was around the bay.

The city was lucky that they had cement docks or the entire city would have been damaged heavily. Water exploded as it rushed over sending scolding rain everywhere, and creating a massive storm cloud going for miles around raining heavily with warm rain.

I looked up feeling dizzy. This world had done more to take away my powers than I thought it would. I should have easily been able to do ten or twenty of them, no wonder this world seemed powerful. I had gotten weak, even with this world limiting my power, being lazy didn’t help me much.

I looked at my body as pieces feel off rotting me away, then healing back only to rot away again second later. I could only use so much power or it would kill me. This world was just too much for me to handle alone, I would need something soon, or I would die before I even got to the big events.

“Seffron!” I heard lightly from the heavy rain and screams of the wind. I turned slightly seeing Dash as she flew to me. “CAN YOU HEAR ME!?” She screamed a few feet away from me, but she might as well had whispered it. I shook my head no. She grabbed me going to my ear. “We need to go back, Twilight wants you.” I sighed pushing the last of my magic to heal me completely.

We flew back and landed going inside one of the few still standing dock buildings. Dash closed the door, but it weaved with the wind. I looked around, only Pinkie Pie wasn’t here with us, and Twilight looked pissed.

“WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!” Twilight screamed at me clearly furious beyond words, or at least almost. I grabbed her bring her close to my face.

“You have no idea what you’re up against, if even a bit of the tar from the bog so much as touches you, you’re dead, it doesn’t matter if it’s dranken or bathed in, ponies would have been infected and died later on. I would rather completely wipe out the entire bay and surrounding area than risk another infection!”

“What?” Rarity asked and I let go of Twilight which was shaking.

“The bog came back a second time, and that time he wiped out the entire city, he spread to every nearby area for miles around. He used the dead ponies he killed to infect more, to reach all over the place. Tens of thousands died and that was just from the infection, not his raiding the land. Almost a hundred thousand died from his rampage before I finally stopped him from burning away nearly half of Equestria.”

“Calm down Twilight.” Dash said putting her hoof and Twilight’s shoulder.

“We’re lucky we got every pony out then.” Spike said and they looked at him.

“Yeah,” Applejack said. “Lucky we got a princess.” They relaxed a little bit.

“I rid all the water of the infection,” I said and they looked at me. “No one will be infected, and any pony which was dead or infected, would have gone into the water to wait for its command, so other than the bog itself and a few minions, this won’t be too much of a problem, at least I hope.”

“You hope?” Twilight asked.

“Your world somehow has an more intelligent bog than mine, mine wasn’t anywhere near this powerful. I don’t know what could’ve changed and gave it so much power. In fact I think it should have been weaker.”

“Wait didn’t you say he?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah.” Dash said.

“Maybe we should deal with the bog now.” I jumped seeing Pinkie Pie almost appear next to me. I stared at her for a moment. Rather it was the most quiet creature or just a rock, nothing could sneak up on me, I could feel life force, she just didn’t give any off. Even the undead gave something.

“Where did you come from?!” I asked taking half a battle stance.

“I was standing next to you silly.” I swallowed and she stared at me a little nervously, there was something off about her. I could feel it, but I just don’t know what. “The bog is still there isn’t it?”

“Where did you go?”

“I was just helping the last ponies get out of the storm.”

“You’re not wet.” She paused and smiled.

“Of course not.” She pulled out an umbrella.

“Don’t try to explain Pinkie logic, I’ve tried for years.” Twilight said. I sighed, she was now on my list of things to learn about. She clearly was more powerful than she wanted to let on, no creature could simply sneak up on me.

“Fine, I'll have to go deal with the bog, Twilight will you blast this.” I held up a large red ruby. “You to Rarity, I need all the magic you got in you right now.”

“With pleasure.” Rarity said walking forward and both their horns lit up. They fired into it and stopped after a few minutes breathing hard.

“Thank you.” I ate it feeling a massive amount of energy flowing through me, more than I had the entire time I had come here, I could probably do what I did twice with this much magical power they gave me. They just were generators of magic power, it was amazing that it was possible on such a scale.

“Now what?” Dash asked looking up. “I don’t think any pony can clear this sky, won’t that help them?”

“No, they will actually be in cover, this rain is too heavy, and with wind this heavy as well, it will cause it to hide till it passes. Right now is the best time to finish it off, and its remaining army.”

“Wait what if they infect you?” Twilight asked.

“Won’t happen, I’m immune to their toxic and to the tar. I was infected when I was a baby dragon, and heavily. I barely beat it out. If it wasn’t for the fact my Twilight used everything she could to heal me, nearly dying herself, I wouldn’t have lived. I was infected two more times, but I beat it on my own after that. The third and last time I was infected, I just brushed it off.”

“I got the door.” Dash said.

Dash opened the door and I took off into the sky getting blow around a little before flying over the swamp. I looked around and the black fog was gone, but now I could see the bog clearly and it was crying in pain. I flew down landing on a clean rock. It looked at me being a huge bubble mass of tar. The rain died down because of the trees.

“You!” It growled.

“Come out, now, I want to talk.” A stallion came out of the tar looking much like the seahorse, but was not bleeding from ears.

“You were the one that destroyed my foals!” It shouted at me spraying the air with spit tar and black fog, which was quickly destroyed by the rain’s down pour.

“I’m going to destroy everything that you are, and kill you, but I want to know a few things, how do you have an army so large?”

“What do you mean?” It asked intrigued.

“I’m from another world, the bog in that one didn’t have an army half yours, and he didn’t think to control the dead! What changed to allow you such a large army and make you so smart?”

“From another world, that would explain it, that power was unlike anything here that I know of, but I made this army because I had the magic to feed it. Controlling the dead was something I could do from the start.”

“Then this world does have more power than mine did.”

“Did?”

“It’s not important, thanks for telling me, that will make doing this so much easier for me, when I absorb your powers.” I pulled out a small clear gem from under my scale.

“What do you plan to do with that?”

“Absorb everything you are.”

“What?!” I threw it into the air and he started to yell as his tar started to get sucked into the gem. After several minutes things further away started to get sucked into it, including his whole army and every last bit of tar. Outside of this gem, nothing of him existed or was left. This world was clean of his filth.

“You are such a puny creature.” I growled. The clear gem had been corrupted and turned black, it then lit on fire and he scream in pain making me grin. “This world is mine to eat, not yours. Soon so soon I'll rule over this land, and filth like you will never exist again.”

“Thank you.” He whispered as the gem fully evaporated taking away his pain. The bog was trapped his nightmare for hundreds of years. In constant pain, and the only way to make it hurt even a little less was to eat others, and absorb their emotions. It just never lasted long before he would need a new fix.

I let out a sigh sitting down as my body started to rot away again. Absorbing him took way too much magic power, I needed to start storing more magic or I was going to completely rot away after another major spell. Though after everything I had done over the last few days, it was just luck I wasn’t dead.

The rain slowed to a stop after a few hours having poured all the water I had evaporated away back onto the ground. A beam of sunlight broke through lighting up the swamp around me nicely, bathing me in light. I started to absorb the magic around me, allowing me to heal myself again.

“Seffron!” I heard Dash shout and I flew into the air. She appeared in front of me. “There you are, we were all worried.” I smiled.

“Sorry, was enjoying the rain and sunlight.”

“Oh, well let’s go back.” We flew back and ponies looked around their docks, but there wasn’t anything left, not a single ship. Nothing had survived the blast. In fact I was surprised the city was reasonably untouched.

“How did it go?” Twilight asked as we landed on what was left of the docks.

“I destroyed it completely, there is no chance for it to come back again. The city and ponies are safe to go back into the sea.”

“Any way to fix this?” Applejack asked looking at a lot of sad ponies.

“No, I don’t have the magic power to fix this, we should get going through. They have rebuilding to do thankfully.”

“He’s right,” Pinkie Pie said and I looked at her next to me, I was unnerved by her, she was going to drive me insane if I didn’t figure out what she was. “We can’t party this place into higher spirits yet.”

“So that train.” I said smiling a little changing the subject. We took the train back to Ponyville and I ended up at my cottage passing out onto the bed from the long train ride. I had a feeling I was going to be doing this a lot.