The sudden realization that magic be stolen from the girls was greatly feared. Sunset especially felt terrible Because deep down in her heart she knows that this was her fault.
"How could this have happened?" she wondered
Ash could feel the discomfort from her and he didn't even need to use his powers to confirm it to look all over Face Screen regret and shame. He held her hand as a sign of comfort and she gave a weak smile back. But this still didn't change anything. Ash was pondering on who and how this could be done. Even thinking back to Tereck he had that power but he was back in Tartarus. Even if he was out there was no magic here nor could a centaur get to Japan from America without raising any attention.
Ash shook his head this was a conundrum.
Aria and Sonata looked at each other and says that it could be another Creature From Equestria banished to this world there were multiple of magic stealing entities in the old days of Equestria before the princesses took power.
"It is possible one of them came over here right?" Sonata asked as Aria sat down on a crate and folded her hand in front of her face.
"But magic doesn't exist here or at least didn't before last year." Aria pointed out. "Even so its only been within us."
"Right and Pinkie is the first one to lose magic right?" They all nodded Ash thought back to the idea of a device that could track magic. It wasn't too far out of the realm of possibilities but for someone to discover Magic would being a storm on all fronts, religious, scientific, and political. Even back in his old kingdom he was considered either an angel or a demon depending who side they were on. Pinkie Pie was slowly recovering but it felt like he had a huge weight crashing down on her and she had no energy which was very strange for Pinkie Pie.
"I feel like a deflated balloon." She was helped up by Rarity and AJ as she stumbled to her feet.
Rainbow Dash wasn't interested nor concerned but was looking out the window wondering about if this could have been a shadowbolt conspiracy on sabotaging Canterlot High School. But her train of thought was interrupted as she noticed the massive storm moving in has a few drops of rain hit the window panel before Sheets of Rain pelted the glass.
"Where did this storm come from?" she wondered looking up. Everyone was surprised by the sudden storm but they all try to make the best of it.
Pinkie got up and felt better but still felt tired. Sonata and Sunset got her some drinks and food to help her recover; of course she ate it all quickly so her eating ability wasn't affected. Ash muttered to himself "how does she eat like that?"
Then a gust of wind hit the stadium and blew the doors wide open. Everyone covered up and shield themselves. But then a Dragonite appeared; everyone was surprised as it smiled at everyone and dropped a letter. It was small in a red envelope. Dragonite flashed a toothy grin and flew off back into the storm.
"What in tarnations was that?" AJ growled getting back up. Sunset pulled out her pokedex. "Dragonite. The flying dragon pokemon; It is a kindhearted Pokémon that leads lost and foundering ships in a storm to the safety of land. It is said to make its home somewhere in the sea. It guides crews of shipwrecks to shore. It can fly in spite of its big and bulky physique. It circles the globe in just 16 hours."
Aria was impressed so too were the others. One of the students from Crystal prep opened it and a hologram burst out young woman was standing there.
"What the heck?" Lemon Zest muttered. The woman in the hologram took a bow. "Greetings Pokémon trainers, i come with a challenge from my master the greatest Pokémon trainer. He invites you to come to New Island and compete against him for the title of Greatest Pokémon trainer. You must brave this storm in order to be accepted into the competition." And it showed that it was not far from the stadium that they were at it was probably 20 miles from the shore. "My master expects your arrival." The hologram turned off.
Many students were very hyped up by the challenge the Crystal Prep students we're interested too but most students knew it was stupid to go out into the storm. Even our heroes were concerned about the storm but Rainbow Dash (Being the impulsive girl she is) upon hearing the challenge was all too excited to see sense.
"Let's go out and do it!" she was running towards the parking lot doors and some of the other students between Crystal prep and Canterlot High started to join her.
"Don't you dare!" Everyine stopped to see Principal Celestia and Luna glaring at their students it was too dangerous to cross the sea in these conditions and during the storm no less." Celestia spat. Luna nodded "We will be making arrangements to send the students back to the hotels in order to wait out the storm. Remeber we are guests in this country and we can't risk anyone being fool hearty. We will do the friendship games when the storm lets up." Many students were groaning but complied, but an stubborn few students did not heed the warning.
Rainbow Dash turned to her friends "Let's go check it out anyway."
Rarity was bewildered "Honestly Rainbow it's a typhoon out there we cant sail in that kind of weather and besides we don't have a boat."
RD smiles "we can carter one... Besides look those Crystal Prep students are going.."
They all turned to see them walking out towards the harbor. AJ and Pinkie wanted to see what was happening and Ash wanted to make his opinion know he saw her. He gazed that that long purple hair tied into a bun. He could see her perfect eyes hidden behind some large glasses. ' why is she here, did she come here after all, why the strange attire?' questions filled his head as he drowned out the conversation around him..
"Ash..?"
"Ash.."
"ASH!"
He snapped back into reality. He looked at his friends then back at the door where he had seen her but she was gone...
"I'm sorry what.."
"We are wondering if we should go or not?" Fluttershy said.
"We know you can protect us right?" RD teased hoping to get him to agree.
"Yes. We should go to his island" That was easy
"Really?" Aria amazed he was going through with this.
"In my gut I thinks that this has to do with something with Pinkie Pie's magic being taken." Rainbow Dash added "There is more going on here than we can see from here. But if we go we can figure this all out."
She lead the others outside and hopped into a boat. Of course Ash was able to pay a boat owner off with gold from Equestria. The man was so happy he couldn't care less. They all jumped into their boat meanwhile the Crystal Prep students we're able to take their own boat which had been conveniently delivered. Science Twilight was piloting the boat as the other students were looking at her with suspicion. She looks back at them and smiles sheepishly "this is probably my experiment going crazy" she tried to laugh but the others just stared at her unconvinced but went back to their normal routine and the other boat Rainbow – was very assertive in trying to get to New Island. But as they face the storm it. The waves were huge and growing violent. Fluttershy, AJ, Sonata, and Rarity were getting sea sick. Ash made sure they all had life vests on and used his magic to give some sort of comfort. Suddenly went very quiet, the wind and waves cleared out and found that they were in the eye of the storm. Ash did not like this one bit. There was a tremendous power on that island and an aura plagued with pain anger and thirst for vengeance. He thought to himself this isn't right the storm is unnatural and whoever is causing it is on that island. He then remembered seeing Twilight. 'She may not be aware of what's going on and had to seek in with them or Discord is playing trick on her again' He gritted his teeth cursing the chaos spirit. Sunset could also detected but she was more concerned on the magic and wondered if all the magic problems that they were dealing with were her fault.
Come to find out it was much worse than anyone could have predicted.
