This time will be a bit different.

For the most part, I'll be leaving it as just this chapter until further notice. If I get more ideas to take it further, I won't be doing much to update. Once I have an opening, then that'll change.

Also, in case of anyone wondering, this will be rated 'T' mainly because I'm not sure if anything such as lemons or higher-form violence will show up or not. Thought I'd say something about that.

Also, if anyone wants to take over 'Blood Storm,' let me know through PM. Pretty well, you can have it.

Don't own Fairy Tail or My Little Pony.

Return of the Fairies

As dawn drew over the horizon, it shone down on a set of castle ruins that had clearly seen better days from its spot in the middle of a pretty massive forest that didn't look all that inviting to most.

However, it was one particular statue inside the ruins that was rather important that morning. In design, it didn't look too much beyond a small and simple pony, albeit with no real big muscle to it and a somewhat scraggly mane and tail. The biggest differences, though, were that it was holding a book protectively, and their were cracks all over it and the book.

As the sunlight finally fell on it, a small chip broke off, causing more to fall off afterwards, leaving a surprisingly living creature and furbished book in place of the statue.

The main body was a dull pale blond and the mane and tail were a dull pink with a rather faint blue streak and a faint mark on his flank. In the case of the book, it was marine blue and gleaming gold with a brilliant red-with-white-trim symbol on it surrounded by the words 'Book of the Fairies.'

When the last chip fell, the pony fell as well, waking it up in an incredibly tired and pained young man's tone. "This...this one...is..."

As he focused pale and somewhat dead green eyes on his surroundings, his memories came back, getting him to struggle his way into a standing position. "Ngh...out of...magic...but... can't...stop...not yet..."

He placed a hoof on the book, only to be distracted by one of the chips. "Lacrima..."

He bent down and worked it into his mouth and then down his throat. After waiting a couple of moments, he felt the expected rush of energy. "This will have to be...enough. Must get Book of the Fairies to...the Princesses."

He focused on his hoof that was still on the book before intoning "Kanso."

The book flashed before disappearing, accidentally making him stumble a bit. After he got back up, he started sniffing around until he seemed to find something and said to himself. "Please, Fairy Tail...lend this one...strength...one last time."

With that said, an fiery red aura that was just enough to completely cover him and be classified as visible flared into existence before he sped out of the ruins and through the forest. All the while, one thing filled his mind.

Failure will not be tolerated.

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Not far off from the forest laid the town of Ponyville. A quaint town that, as the name implies, was inhabited by ponies.

Now, ponies have been the forefront of the citizens of the land of Equestria for easily hundreds of years, quite content to live and let live in regards to the world around them. Seeing as Equestria and beyond are seemingly full of strange creatures beyond count, ponies are often times labeled as of little importance, not seen as all that dangerous, nor counted among the more corrupt.

In fact, it has been remarked by pretty well all that the ponies only real passion is for parties. A somewhat unfair observation, since they also a keen interest for the fun of adventures, and the consumption of good food and drink. But their hearts truly laid in peace and harmony, and good tilled earth, for just about all ponies had a love for things that grew.

Needless to say, most of that was being shown in the party that was currently going on to celebrate the return of Luna of the Moon, Princess of Equestria and younger sister of Celestia of the Sun. However, Celestia herself was a bit distracted as she looked back towards the ruins where her sister was returned to her.

"Princess Celestia." a young voice called her attention. "Is everything alright?"

Turning to the one who asked that question, she saw her student, a young magenta/purple pony with a horn on her head to mark her status as a Unicorn Pony, Twilight Sparkle. "Yes, Twilight, and I am glad that I have my sister back, but...there was someone else there back then."

"You mean the Fire Pony?The one who could cover his entire body in flames?" asked Twilight. Seeing Celestia's look, she sheepishly explained. "You kind of left your notes unlocked in the library one night, and that was the part it was turned to. That's all I looked at, though, I promise."

"That does explain how the last I remember it, it was in the library, but I found it in my chambers the next morning." She sighed at Twilight's words. "Yes, he was there as well. He was accidentally imprisoned in stone, but when I found him, not only was he immovable even to me, but the stone itself was rather strange. Like crystal, but none I've seen before. It was all I could do to lift him off the ground, quickly discovering my magic being absorbed into the crystal."

"Absorbed?" the unicorn asked, shocked. "It could absorb alicorn magic?"

Celestia nodded. "However, it only happened when I was directly affecting it. When I formed a pedestal underneath him instead, but it absorbed any of it. But the strangest thing of all was the book that he cradled."

"A book?" Twilight's interest was peaked.

"It had a wing-like mark similar to a Cutie Mark on it, bordered by the wo-" Celestia was cut off as she sensed a burst of magic power from the edge of the forest, like none she felt since the pony she was just talking about. Turning back to see, her eyes widened in shock. "How is that possible?"

Twilight looked in the same direction, wondering what was going on, and noticed a fiery trail heading straight towards them. "Is that...the Fire Pony?"

"Twilight, get the others." Celestia ordered, flapping her wings. "I'll try and slow him down."

The white alicorn flew off as the unicorn turned back to the party to get some help like Celestia ordered.

Celestia flew to intercept, quickly identifying the pony within the magic field, before landing again, this time ready to restrain him as her horn flared with magic. However, she didn't have to worry too much, because he slowed down fast enough to stop a few feet in front of her. Although a part of her instantly wished he hadn't.

"Oh my..." she proclaimed to herself upon seeing the skeletal and ragged figure in front of her. "Who could've done this to you."

"Princess...Celestia...?" he said, head facing down.

"Don't speak." she ordered, quickly moving over to lay him down gently. "Save your energy. Help is coming."

"As you...command..." he replied, keeping his face hidden.

About a minute or so later, Twilight arrived, accompanied by five others and a wagon. When she noticed, Celestia ordered as she flared her magic and lifted him up into the wagon, "Hurry, let's take him to the hospital. Rainbow Dash, go back and get some food for him. We'll be along as fast as we can."

"On it." came from a cyan winged pony with a rainbow mane and tail. The Pegasus Pony then flew back to town, trailing a rainbow behind her.

"Fluttershy, you and Pinkie take care of him. Don't let him die on us."

"Yes, ma'am!" answered the pink-themed Earth Pony for the two, the yellow pegasus already in the wagon as well as a white unicorn named Rarity.

"Ah'll try and keep it steady, ya'll." The final member of the group, a more tan earth pony named Applejack, said before pulling the wagon back to town.

"You focus on speed, Twilight and I will handle balance." Celestia told her just as Dash and Luna arrived with some food. "Dash, Luna, that will certainly help. Thanks."

"No problem, princess." Dash replied as Luna looked on in horror at the state of the pony they were transporting.

"Luna! We can be horrified later, we need to get him to the hospital now!" Celestia cried, getting her sister to see sense.

"R-right." Luna said as she and Dash took position over the group.

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"How is he?" Celestia asked after a pony named Nurse Redheart came out to speak to them.

"Frankly I'm surprised he even had the strength to move anymore." she told them, blank-faced from what she observed. "Malnutrition, atrophy, fried nerves, he should be well and dead long before now. And you say that he came from the Everfree Forest?"

"That's where he came from, yes." Celestia confirmed.

Redheart shook her head. "Even with help, I'm not sure he'll ever fully recover."

"Can we see him?" Twilight asked, concern clear on all of their faces.

"Just don't take to long or be loud." Redheart told them after a moment. "The sooner he gets some rest, the better."

"Thank you." Celestia said with a nod before leading them into the room where the pony in question laid. Although it was clear he needed time, they could still see enough of a difference now that he was clean. Moving to his face, she looked at him in sorrow. "What pony could've done something like this?"

"He who...ordered this one...through another...to deliver...this one...and the Book...into your...service." He answered almost mechanically.

"What book are you talking about?" Twilight couldn't help but ask, only to get a response that shocked all of them.

"Kanso." In a flash of light, a book appeared within his front hoofs. "The Book...of the Fairies."

Gently taking the book from him, Celestia turned it over to Twilight to hold as she said, "Before we leave and let you get some sleep, I would like to know the name of the pony who 'gave the order?'"

"...Sombra..." After that, he fell asleep. But the damage was done.

Sombra? The tyrannical ruler of the Crystal Empire? He was responsible for the damage to the pony in front of them?

Needless to say, all of them were at least catatonic on the way out. Celestia was the first to recover her voice.

"I'll try and get Luna and I time to visit and help, but otherwise I'm entrusting his care to the six of you. I want daily updates on his progress, Twilight, alongside anything from the book that might be remotely helpful."

"Yes, princess." the six ponies said as one, not knowing what else to say. Afterwards, they split off for the rest of the day, with Twilight meeting a bipedal reptile by the door of 'Golden Oak Library.'

"We've got work to do, Spike." Twilight said as she walked in with the book. "Whenever one of us has time, they need to be looking through this book."

"Why? What's wrong?" Spike asked.

"Something horrible." Twilight told him, placing the book on the main table. "But this book might have the answer to fix it."

"'Book of the Fairies?'" Spike read. "Who are they?"

After his question, neither of them expected for the book to suddenly glowed and purple markings to appear momentarily on the cover before it opened by itself to a page marked 'Fairy Tail.'

Whatever they thought, the two knew one thing at the very least.

The skeletal pony, and the book, were only the beginning.

This was one of the main new ideas I've had in my head for a while now: Fairy Tail ends with either Tartoros or Alvarez, eventually giving rise to the My Little Pony world, and leaving behind only a single book to remember the original world. A broken slave of Sombra finds it, and is tricked into delivering it out of Sombra's clutches, unknowingly gaining freedom and the power of Fiore Magic (Natsu is primary while Erza is secondary). However, upon arrival, he gets imprisoned in Tower of Heaven Lacrima crystal thanks to the Elements of Harmony, and stuck in the ruins until Dash's first Sonic Rainboom when the cracks started, and completely getting free the dawn after pilot.

As stated above, I'm not sure if anything such as lemons with be in this one, so the pairing will be undetermined for now. Although Spike will probably end up with at least one of the Cutie Mark Crusaders instead of Rarity. Not that I think it's a bad pairing, but best to leave it open for the time being.

Sorry to anyone who doesn't like how I portray Sombra in this, but that's how it is.

R&R if you don't mind. Let me know what you think, but please make it reasonable. Can't exactly improve if I can't get feedback on where to look for the issue.