div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"I exited the tree with Twilight and was led by her to the obvious town square was. There, I saw a blue pegasus, a white unicorn, Fluttershy, an orange pony, and a pink pony going insane bouncing up and down. Twilight greeted them all kindly before turning around to me. "Girls, this is Drumin Fa'losk. He is a human." The blue pony flew in close and examined me closely. "A what now?" The orange pony questioned as she joined the blue pony in examining me. "He can speak like us, and he is very intelligent." Twilight added as Fluttershy whispered her hello to me. "Hello, little ones, what are your names?" I asked tentatively. The blue pony flew up and looked into my eyes suspiciously. "Why do YOU wanna know?" She said accusingly. The white unicorn brushed the blue pegasus out of the way. "I am Rarity, the most accomplished fashionista in ALL of Equestria!" She said, her proper accent reminding me of myself and the elvish accent when they speak human. Rarity tossed her long purple hair around, trying to look extravagant, and accomplished no more than to annoy me. "Please, Ms. Rarity, do not waste your time with showing off." I said tersely as I turned to the orange pony. She stepped up and shook my hand with her hoof. "Well howdy do, Mr! I'm AppleJack, and that there is RainbowDash," she said gesturing to the blue pegasus buzzing around me. "She don't take kindly to strangers all that much" That left only the pink pony, who was bouncing around cheering and singing loudly. "OH BOY, OH BOY! I MADE A FRIEND!" She shrieked before Twilight cleared her throat loudly. The pink one smiled and bounced up to my height." HII'MPINKIEPIE!" She crammed all the words out as our eyes were level with each other. Pinkie Pie continued to laugh and bounce as Twilight gathered everyone else's attention. "Well girls, I have brought you all her today to-" "HAVE A SLUMBER PARTY?!" Pinkie shrieked as everyone rolled their eyes. "No, Pinkie. I've gathered you all here today to discuss King Sombra." Everyone looked confused, save Twilight and I. "Yeah, we're listening." RainbowDash kicked back in the air above, seeming to listen while taking a nap. "Well, I have reason to believe he's back." Everyone muttered amongst themselves and Twilight paused until their was silence. "Our friend here Drumin Fa'losk was brought to this world from another world called Earth. He created a portal that went wrong, and we think Sombra was behind it." Rarity shook her head. "Darling, don't you remember? We destroyed him! And why would he even bother to bring Drumin Fa'losk to Equestria?" Twilight looked at me for an answer. "I do not know why this, King Sombra, brought me to this place. And I know what I saw. Green eyes with purple trails, just like in your book Twilight." No one seemed to believe what Twilight and I were saying, except FlutterShy. She looked scared and needy,like she wanted to be held and comforted. "Do not make me demonstrate again Twilight, I ask of you." Twilight nodded to me and took over the conversation. "Drumin Fa'losk here told me that creatures like King Sombra live in his world, and what we did with the crystal heart, only repelled him and negated his evil energy. He feinted his own death to give him time." RainbowDash opened her eyes and looked down at Twilight. "For what?" She asked curiously. "I don't know. Probably another try to take over the crystal empire." As Twilight and the others began to discus where he could be, I felt the presence of someone I thought was back home. I looked to a rooftop and saw an owl perched on the beam. It took to wing and flew to an alleyway. I prepared myself for an earth spell to crush it when Ebon walked out of the alley, dressed as he always did. "Ebon!" I called to him and ran to him. "Fash dien mildec Drumin Fa'losk!" He called to me in elvish. I tapped his throat kindly and he produced a gift of tongues tongues spell. It flew around in an arc between his hands before enveloping him. "Hello, master!" He said in Equestrian. "My pupil, why did you come through the portal! You should have ran, you fool!" I scolded him. He looked at the ground beneath us and sighed. "I was sucked in by a spirit!" He retorted defensively. "I know, Ebon, I know." I took his hand and led him to the six ponies in deep conversation. I felt I needed their attention, so I held my hands up to the air. Magic began to flow through the air, struggling against the sun's rays to maintain it's shape. It stopped above the ponies heads, who all looked at it in awe. I guided their gaze over to me and made the magic explode in a cloud of purple vapor. Everyone snapped out of their stupor and looked at me intently. "Friends, I'd like to introduce you all to my student, Ebon." Everyone looked shocked to see another humanoid here. Twilight drew a notepad from her saddle bags and took notes furiously. "Do all adolescent humans have pointy ears?" She asked as she scribbled a drawing of Ebon onto her notepad. "No, he is an elf. A youngling, as he is though. His acute magical capabilities, his eternal life, and his ears make him different than humans." Twilight gasped loudly and squealed. She flew up into Ebons face and began to question him. "Oh, my gosh, oh my gosh! You have eternal life?!" She said, preparing her notepad. "Not exactly, I just do not age or grow sick." Twilight squinted at him questioningly. "Then when you age, you'll still be an adolescent, or will you appear old, but not die?" Ebon looked around at all the ponies looking at him questionably. FlutterShy was in awe of meeting another "animal". Everyone else seemed friendly but slightly wary of Ebon." Master, is it too late to ask a question?" I shook my head no and leaned down to his height. "What is it you ask of me, young Ebon?" Ebon looked around for a second and whispered in my ear," What in all of Hades is going on here? What are these mythological creatures doing here on Earth, sentient, no less!" I smiled and waved away the question. "An accident with the portal, nothing more. All you need to know at this time is that these creatures are to be trusted wholeheartedly. Is that understood?" I looked into his eyes, waiting for an answer. "Of course Master." He nodded and walked around me to meet "everypony". Everyone introduced themselves in turn, except FlutterShy. She blushed and knelt down slowly. Ebon failed to understand her shyness to him, and turned to Twilight curiously. "Is she a mute?" He whispered into Twilight's ear. Twilight wrinkled her nose in disgust an took of step back. "Of course not, she's just shy, thats all. Now that she knows you are both like us she isn't treating you like an animal." I raised both eyebrows cautioning Ebon to not displease our caretakers. He nodded quickly and walked over to FlutterShy. "Hello, friend. My name is Ebon." He said. Fluttershy looked up from the ground slightly. "What's your name, Friend?" Ebon said soothingly raising his hand in front of his face, palm facing outward. "What is he doing?" Twilight opened her notebook and flipped to an empty page. "It's a traditional Elvish sign of peace and friendship. It is rarely used by anyone other than rulers, family, and lifelong friends. The receiver returns the feeling by sliding their hand-err, hoof, across the givers palm." I whispered to her, while she copied what I said word for word, or at least I'd assume so,I still didn't read Equestrian. FlutterShy hear what I said and blushed even deeper and hesitantly raised her hoof to slide it quivering across Ebon's hand. Ebon smile toothily, revealing his straight white teeth, and her rushed her, dragging her into a hug. FlutterShy's eyes popped open and she shrieked, flying two meters or so into the air, barely dragging poor Ebon off the ground. FlutterShy realized what she did and zipped down and landed Ebon safely. "I'm sorry." She whispered just within earshot. "I didn't want to hurt anypony, you just really scared me." She crammed the last sentence out of her mouth as quickly as she could, just barely keeping it understandable. FlutterShy looked at all the strange looks she was receiving and flew away crying softly to herself. "I'll go after her, everpony else, fill in Ebon and begin planning the expedition." Everyone waved goodbye to Twilight as she spread her wings and flew away in FlutterShy's direction. /div
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div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"I flew after FlutterShy, easily catching up to her when she slipped into her cottage, still weeping sorrowfully. I followed her inside and she spun around hearing me enter. "T-T-Twilight?" She whimpered softly as Angel Bunny bounced into the room from the upstairs bedroom. FlutterShy draped herself over her green couch and continued to cry. "FlutterShy, what's wrong? He didn't scare you that bad, did he?" I rubbed her shoulders soothingly with a hoof. It seemed to calm her down enough to explain. "I-I-I was so scared that I'd ruined everything, I just didn't know what to do, oh-" I cut off her rambling kind of rudely, but I was very confused as to what she had "ruined", I couldn't contain my lack of patience. "You didn't ruin anything, he just hugged you, and you are a little jumpy to strangers, so what?" Angel Bunny took FlutterShy's current weakness as an opportunity to raid FlutterShy's pantry for any food. "Oh yes I did! I ruined any chance of me being with-" she stopped herself when she realized she said too much. My eyes widened when I understood what she meant. "You mean, you want to be with-" /div
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div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);""You think he won't-" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);""Well, yes" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"I sighed and started to laugh loudly. FlutterShy wanted to date an adolescent, ish (I calculated that if his age was infinite, then his current age was approximately 395 years old, given elves aged slowly and reached physical and sexual maturity at the age of 500.) elf from another world, and she thought her jumpiness would ruin anything they might establish together. "What's so funny? Please don't laugh at me." She pleaded and clutched my foreleg, squeezing the life out of it. "I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing because you thought your shyness would get between you two! If you want him, go for it! You're shyness is cute, it doesn't ruin anything. If he likes you back, he will see that you're much more than shy." FlutterShy looked slightly encouraged by the news, and let go of my leg slowly. "S-So what is I can't talk to him about my feelings? H-He wouldn't like m-m-me to be weak." I shook my head and held her on the shoulder. "You're not weak. Don't you remember how you faced down the dragon, and sang to everyone when big mac needed you? That isn't the signs of a weak pony." FlutterShy whimpered adorably. I felt so sad for her, I gave her a tight hug. She returned the sentiments while crying on my shoulder. "What if he doesn't love me back?" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"Hooray for apparently useless love interests! Flash Sentry got nothin' on this! Anyway, leave a PM if you want an OC in the story, just remember to give me their name, background, occupation, anything else I might need to make your characters the way you want them made. Leave a review, constructive criticism is always appreciated, and follow me and this story if you want to see more!/div
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div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"I flew after FlutterShy, easily catching up to her when she slipped into her cottage, still weeping sorrowfully. I followed her inside and she spun around hearing me enter. "T-T-Twilight?" She whimpered softly as Angel Bunny bounced into the room from the upstairs bedroom. FlutterShy draped herself over her green couch and continued to cry. "FlutterShy, what's wrong? He didn't scare you that bad, did he?" I rubbed her shoulders soothingly with a hoof. It seemed to calm her down enough to explain. "I-I-I was so scared that I'd ruined everything, I just didn't know what to do, oh-" I cut off her rambling kind of rudely, but I was very confused as to what she had "ruined", I couldn't contain my lack of patience. "You didn't ruin anything, he just hugged you, and you are a little jumpy to strangers, so what?" Angel Bunny took FlutterShy's current weakness as an opportunity to raid FlutterShy's pantry for any food. "Oh yes I did! I ruined any chance of me being with-" she stopped herself when she realized she said too much. My eyes widened when I understood what she meant. "You mean, you want to be with-" /div
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div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);""And because you-" /div
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div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);""You think he won't-" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);""Well, yes" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"I sighed and started to laugh loudly. FlutterShy wanted to date an adolescent, ish (I calculated that if his age was infinite, then his current age was approximately 395 years old, given elves aged slowly and reached physical and sexual maturity at the age of 500.) elf from another world, and she thought her jumpiness would ruin anything they might establish together. "What's so funny? Please don't laugh at me." She pleaded and clutched my foreleg, squeezing the life out of it. "I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing because you thought your shyness would get between you two! If you want him, go for it! You're shyness is cute, it doesn't ruin anything. If he likes you back, he will see that you're much more than shy." FlutterShy looked slightly encouraged by the news, and let go of my leg slowly. "S-So what is I can't talk to him about my feelings? H-He wouldn't like m-m-me to be weak." I shook my head and held her on the shoulder. "You're not weak. Don't you remember how you faced down the dragon, and sang to everyone when big mac needed you? That isn't the signs of a weak pony." FlutterShy whimpered adorably. I felt so sad for her, I gave her a tight hug. She returned the sentiments while crying on my shoulder. "What if he doesn't love me back?" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);" /div
div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"Hooray for apparently useless love interests! Flash Sentry got nothin' on this! Anyway, leave a PM if you want an OC in the story, just remember to give me their name, background, occupation, anything else I might need to make your characters the way you want them made. Leave a review, constructive criticism is always appreciated, and follow me and this story if you want to see more!/div
