Chapter 1

"Holy crap! So many d'awws!" I thought, covering my mouth.

I was reading some My Little Pony fan-fiction on my hammock. This was one of my favorite pass times, and easy since I had a tablet. My name is Zach, closet brony and awesome duelist.

"Zach!" My mom called from the window, "Time for dinner."

I got up from the hammock and pat my jacket to make sure my deck hadn't fallen out during my reading session. I shut down my tablet to make sure no one got on and discovered me.

I stepped forward and a green glow began to surround me. I looked down and saw that I was in the middle of a unicursal hexagram.

"The Seal of Orichalcos?" I thought, "Why the heck is this here?"

The Seal turned into a hole and I fell through.

I awoke in a dark forest. I sat up and felt a churning feeling in my stomach seconds before I hurled in a bush.

"Hey!" a voice beside me said, "I don't appreciate you puking in my home.

I looked around, but all I could see was a raccoon.

"Did you just talk?" I asked, thinking I was losing it.

"Of course. I would have thought a unicorn would have seen a talking raccoon before."

Unicorn?

I looked at my body to find that my clothing had been replaced by dark blue fur. I looked at my hands to find hooves and I touched them to my forehead and felt a horn.

How the heck did this happen?

The raccoon must have seen the surprised look on my face because it said, "I guess you weren't always a unicorn."

"How can you tell?" I snapped back, "I have no idea how I came here, where I am-"

"Or what the brace on your leg is?"

I looked down and saw a golden gauntlet that went to the bend of my leg. It appeared that there were wings attached to it, though I had no idea if they could move. On the end near my hoof it looked like there was a slot large enough for a Yu-Gi-Oh deck. I looked on the ground and saw my cards in a neat stack.

"Hey Raccoon," I said, "Could you grab those cards and put them in this slot?"

"Sure," Raccoon said, "But I do have a name."

"What is it?"

"Reggie."

I raised an eyebrow, "Reggie the raccoon?"

"Let's just say my parents were beginning to run out of names."

I was about to ask what that meant when I heard a scream from my left. I unsteadily stood up and ran towards the sound, Reggie holding onto my tail.

As I ran I heard a roar and asked, "What was that?"

"No idea," Reggie replied, "I've live in this forest my whole life and never heard anything like that."

We reached the edge of the forest where I saw a large beast that appeared to be living crystal. In front of it were five mares; two earth ponies, two pegasi, a unicorn, and an alicorn.

Those are the mane six.

Twilight shot a blast of magic at the creature, but it absorbed the energy and shot it back at the mares. The beast began to raise a sharp limb and I heard a sound come from the gauntlet.

I looked down and saw that the wings on the gauntlet had moved to one side. Five slots appeared and I realized what the gauntlet was. I levitated the top card of my deck onto a slot and called out, "Rise Utopia!"

The beast stabbed down, but it was stopped by the wings of a humanoid monster. Twilight looked up to see what had stopped her demise.

"Utopia, attack with Rising Sun Slash!"

Utopia cut straight through the creature, cleaving it in half. The two halves grew and turned into two beasts.

How do I beat these things?

I levitated my deck out of the slot and looked through it to find the perfect card. I pulled out Mirror Force and set it on the disk. The monsters attacked and I put the card on my disk. An energy field appeared and reflected the attacks, destroying the creatures.

Utopia returned to my disk and I ran over to the mares, "Are you alright?"

Before anypony could speak, I felt extremely weak and passed out.