Chapter 3

Twilight's POV

I picked up the savior of Ponyville with my magic and rushed him to my home. He had single handedly defeated a dragon by shape shifting into one, but before anyone could thank him he cast some sort of amnesia spell on every pony to make them forget. Luckily, I was able to resist it due to my high intelligence.

I ran into my home because I knew he needed immediate attention and a hospital was too far away. I laid him down on my bed as I searched for a healing spell to fix his wounds, after a few moments I found it and got ready to cast. I enveloped him in my aura once again and began to cast the spell, but something was wrong even though I was focusing with all my might I couldn't fix his wounds. I reread the spell to see if I did anything wrong, as far as I knew I didn't do anything wrong until I read the description of the spell 'uses the pony's magic combines with your own to heal injuries.'

"That must be what's wrong, he literally doesn't have any magical energy left. I wish there was another way to help him."

Suddenly, I heard a cough and his eyes began to open.

"T…Twilight."

"Sir, you're awake! Come on, I'm taking you to the doctor."

"No, I have…something else…that can help."

"What do you mean something else?"

"Look…under my cloak…find a red vial and…give it to me."

I did as he said I looked under his cloak to find there were pockets in it and there was indeed a red potion in there. I handed it to him.

"Thank you."

He popped the cap and chugged the whole thing down. I wasn't quite sure what he had in mind but just as I was about to get him up to take him to the hospital I saw his scratches start to heal themselves and his skin turned back to normal.

"Thank you Ms. Sparkle."

I saw that he was about to go back to sleep again. "Wait, I've told you my name, what about yours?"

"Void…my name is Void."

With that he fell back into unconsciousness and all I could do was wait and hope that he would wake up again.

Void's POV

I woke up after I had no idea how long (When you're an adventurer you get used to passing out due to potentially deadly wounds) Realizing that I was in a bed I got up, still stiff from the fight. I walked down stairs and saw that I was in the home of that purple unicorn who tried to talk to her friends, I believe that her name was Twilight then again I asked her name when I was really low on blood so I may have gotten that wrong. She noticed me walking down the stairs.

"Void good to see you up. Those were some serious wounds after that fight with the dragon."

I was surprised. "How do you know about that? I could have sworn that I wiped everyone's memories with my amnesia spell."

"You aren't the only powerful magician in Ponyville. I'm highly trained in magic and countered your spell with my high intelligence."

"Hmm, seems like I underestimated a few ponies in town."

"Well, compared to you my magic skills are pretty meek. I was wondering if you could show me some more of your magic."

I sighed. "Sorry, no can do. That transformation drained all the magic I had from my body, it'll be at least one more day before I can cast my spells again. Right now, I don't think I could even cast my cantrips."

"What about levitation? It's the most basic magic a unicorn can do and takes little to no effort."

"I don't know, I haven't tried levitation."

Although, I had never tried a levitation spell before I had a good idea of how it worked. I looked at a book on a table and focused on it, commanding it to come closer with my mind. Eventually, it was surrounded by an ember red aura and came closer to me.

"Huh, I never noticed that my aura was red, that's pretty cool." "Well, it looks like I can use levitation, at least until I can get my magic back. Then, I can show you some of my spells; I have to say it's nice to be appreciated for my talents."

Twilight spoke up "Well, there is somepony else who has taken notice of your talents. The princess has also seen what you can do."

I was shocked. "WHAT? How did she…I didn't see any princess in town."

Twilight giggled. "She didn't see you, she can sense you. She's an Alicorn, that's about as magically powerful as you can get in the world. She sensed your magic and it's unlike anything she has felt in a long time, plus you did grow into a gigantic dragon and that's not entirely unnoticeable."

I didn't want to be noticed, especially by a monarch. I wanted a quite peaceful existence, but I guess when you're the arch-mage that's impossible. "Should I be worried?"

"I don't know, she sent me a letter ahead of time so maybe."

She levitated the letter over to me as I began to read it.

My faithful student,

I have noticed some strange occurrences occurring in your town. Recently, I have sensed this powerful, foreign magic unlike anything I have ever felt in my one thousand years of life coming from your town. Once more, I was watching to see how you would handle the dragon situation only to see two dragons fighting one another, and then one shrank down while the other retreated. Something tells me there is a mysterious unicorn in your town and I would very much like to meet him/her. I will send over a chariot in one days' time, send him to me and I will find out if he/she is dangerous.

Your teacher,

Princess Celestia

I finished reading the note. "Wow, you're the student of the most powerful being in Equestria? No wonder you can resist my magic."

"And you're not worried anymore?"

"Oh quite the contrary, I'm terrified. I have not lived the simplest life or the most innocent, I've done things which I don't wish to speak about and I'm just very good at hiding my emotions. But, there's nothing to be done for it, even if I run it would look bad for me. So there's only one thing to do."

I sat down on the ground, closed my eyes and stood absolutely still.

"What are you doing?" Twilight asked

"Meditating, trying to feel the weave and speed up my mana recovery."

"What's the weave and mana?"

"Where I'm from, we believe that magic is a force that exists through the entire world in a form called the weave. Wizards or unicorns like us have the ability to tap into that weave and use its energy to create spells. Mana is a form of that energy which exists inside us, but only through great study and skill can you tap into it to create magic."

"I…I've never heard any of this before. Where exactly are you from that you learned all this?"

I looked at my cloak; it was a symbol and reminded me of home. "I have a feeling that I came from somewhere very far away."

I went back to my meditation. It lasted for hours apparently but it only felt like a few minutes to me, it was disrupted when I heard a knock at the door. I opened my eyes and saw Twilight going to answer it, I didn't want to draw attention to myself but there were no good places to hide.

"Okay, I hope I have some of my powers back."

Thankfully, with all that time I spent focusing my energy I managed to get myself to about half strength, and I cast an invisibility spell on myself hiding me from the pony's views. As Twilight opened the door, I saw that it was those other five mares she likes to hang out with.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Twilight asked.

"We just wanted to check on that new stallion that helped save the town from being torched by a dragon." The white and purple one said.

"Yeah, a pony that special deserves a party. Plus, he's new in town and every new pony gets a party, so when can we throw him a party?"

"I'll ask him, hey Vo- where did he go?" She was fooled by my invisibility spell. I had to make sure not to touch any of them as I dipped and dived around the room or the illusion would be revoked. Wanting to have a little fun with them, I snuck up behind the rainbow haired pony as close as I could and whispered in her ear.

"Boo."

"AAAAAH" She shot up towards the ceiling and hung from the light fixture, and I negated my veil. Everyone in the room started laughing including me.

"That's not funny." The rainbow one said.

"Yes it is, you were seriously afraid of little old me." I said

Now she came down and was all up in my face. "Look buddy, there's a difference between getting me from behind my back and getting me face to face. If we meet face to face you'd better be scared."

Now I was on the offensive. "I think you're the one who should be scared seeing as how I could turn you into a ghost with a mere thought."

"Pfft, yeah I'd like to see you try."

With that, I cast ghostly visage on her. She looked like a ghost, turning pale white and translucent.

"AHHH! I'm a ghost, I'm a ghost, he killed me." Rainbow pony was freaking out, while all I could do was laugh and laugh.

"Relax, it's only a visage. It makes you harder to hit but you aren't dead."

I dispelled the spell and she returned to normal.

"Sorry, but when you're an adventurer you find humor wherever you can get it. I apologize for scaring you so much."

"Hey, I wasn't that scared!"

Twilight nudged the rainbow pony on the shoulder

"But…I forgive you."

"Thank you, now Twilight please introduce me to your friends. We haven't had the pleasure of meeting formally."

Twilight showed me all of her friends: Rarity, she's classy but too formal for my tastes. Applejack, she worked on a farm meaning that she was strong and dedicated both qualities I can appreciate. Pinkie Pie, she seems a little bit too hyper but she also has this charm about her that makes you incapable of hating her. Fluttershy, she's meek but what she lacks in bravery she makes up for in care and compassion. Finally Rainbow Dash, she's brash arrogant hot headed, and if it wasn't for her physical prowess (so I'm told) we would have nothing to speak about.

"So Pinkie, you said you wanted to throw me a party?"

"Yep. I throw every pony in town a party it'd be super-duper rude not to do one for you."

"Well, I really don't have anything better to do until tomorrow so…sure why not?"

"Great! Let's go Let's go Let's go!"

So we went off to a local sweet store called Sugar cube corner where Pinkie works and she threw me a party. Not exactly my definition of a party, it was a bit childish but I still had fun. After around 3 hours I went back to Twilights home, she was kind enough to let me stay the night until my visit with the princesses tomorrow. Oh and what a visit it will be…

Okay, not a very great chapter but writing for to stories and high school can take a lot out of you. Next time, Void visits the princesses and learns some things of the future. Rest assured, evil is arriving and it isn't pretty.