When Worlds Collide

[skyacezero]

I can't say for sure, Kyubey said, Although we may find out provided they haven't left this world already

Applejack placed a hoof on her chin. "Nope, nuna' them looked nuthin' like the one you described, 'cept fer the 'strange appearance' part," she said. Her eyes lit up. "I know! Maybe Twilight can help y'all," Applejack said. "If anypony can help you find yer friend, it'd be her," she walked over the hill a bit. "HEY! BIG MAC!" she shouted, catching the attention of a large, red stallion pulling a cart full of apple barrels. "I GOTTA HEAD TO TOWN A BIT! CAN YA TAKE OVER FER A WHILE?"

"Eeyup!" the stallion simply said and resumed it's cart-pulling.

"Well, c'mon then, follow me!" Applejack said, trotting towards a dirt path.

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"I still can't believe this..." Cade said as he approached the town. As he got closer, most of the buildings that he could see resembled the architecture of houses in the Swiss Alps. "If I can't get back to the convention at least, then.....this weekend....." his voice trailed as he tried to process the sight he was seeing.

There were colorful horses everywhere he looked. They were trotting to and fro, chattering happily and incessantly like chickens in a coop. Every single one of them was engaged in a various enjoyable activities. One of them was happily eating a delicious pastry here, a small filly was playing with a jump rope. It was like walking into a fairy-tale.

Cade was just face faulting at the scene before him. "What...the...hell?" he said in a small voice.

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OOC: Hey, don't worry about it. You had personal problems to deal with first, so it's okay. Don't worry about your post size, either, I'm a bit out of practice myself.

[Remus]

"Who do you think these "others" are?" Alastair asked Kyubey in a low voice. "Could be friends of Terumi's or they could be something of their own sort. We don't even know if they are to be considered friend or foe. It wouldn't be wise to get ourselves entangled in the affairs of others, especially since at the moment Cade is somewhere alone and unguarded, but at the same time it would be best to know everyone in the game right now."

He found the world Applejack lived in to be the peaceful sort. One where it's inhabitants lived freely and allowed themselves to grow at whatever pace they desired. The perfect kind of place someone of evil intentions would love to take over one day. He wondered about Applejacks friend. Who were they to this world that they would be able to find Cade? The question poised on his mind before he voiced it to the pony.

"Your friend Twilight, How are they going to help us find our friend? I know he looks vastly different from everyone else but he could have landed anywhere.

[skyacezero]

Hard to say for sure... Kyubey said as he leapt onto Alistair's shoulder. I will admit, one of them does strike a familiar note, the one with red hair and carrying a giant fork. The fork could be a weapon like a spear and the only redhead with a weapon that comes to mind would be Erza Scarlet

"Well, she's got a fair hoof with magic, so maybe she know a spell that can help 'ya fine'jer friend," she said, looking further up the road and smiling, "We might even get some eyes in the sky, over there," she said pointing her hoof further down the road. Just a little ways down was another pony like Applejack, only it was yellow,had wings, and a pink mane and tail. "Howdy, Fluttershy!" Apple jack greeted the pony, catching her attention in the process.

"Oh, hi Applejack," the yellow pony said in a soft voice that was barely above a whisper. "I'm glad I ran into you, you didn't happen to see..." her voice trailed as she caught sight of Alistair approaching. She let out a frightened squeak and zipped into a nearby bush, which started violently quivering.

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Cade just stood at the entrance of the town like a deer in the headlights. "What kind of place is this?" he said in a low and bewildered voice. Nearby, a pink pony with a puffy pink mane and tail resembling cotton candy was bouncing along, until she caught sight of Cade and froze in mid-air. She let out excited gasp was shot like a bullet at Cade, stopping just in front of him, kicking up a dust cloud from doing so.

"Ohmigosh another one!" she said excitedly. "When I saw you i thought 'I know everypony in Ponyville, but I've never seen you before!' so then I thought 'he must be new'!" the pony yammered on at a million miles an hour, "And if you must be new, I just have to welcome you!" she said and zipped off, appearing almost instantly with a festive-looking wagon.

"Wait how did you get that so quick-" Cade tried to ask but was stopped by the pony raising her hoof and pressing a button on the side.

At the song's conclusion, the striped pipes expanded and launched a tan-yellow, sticky concoction into the air that landed on both the pony and Cade, covering them in the stuff.

"Oh silly me!" the pony said bashfully, "I must've put the confetti in the oven and the cake in the confetti cannons....AGAIN!" she said and laughed playfully. She proceeded to step out of being covered in cake batter, and ate her cake outline in one gulp. "Still delicious! Go ahead, try it! It's guaranteed to make you smile!" she said and grinned with a squee.

Cade just looked wide-eyed at the pink pony, "You're crazy..." he simply said, and the pony giggled.

"I'm not crazy! I'm Pinkie Pie!" she said proudly and got in Cade's face. "So who are you, 'weird-thing-I've-never-ever-seen-before-in-my-entire-Pinkie-life', huh, huh, huh?!" she said, her voice raising in excitement.

[Remus]

The part of him that was from a different world let out a dark chuckle. Unlike in the world Cade came from, the people here gave reactions that he was more used to. A lot of lesser demons back home feared Alastair and either bowed or ran from him as he passed.

Erza Scarlet Alastair thought. That name does ring a bell somewhat, from some time long ago I'm sure else I would remember in it's entirety. Whether or not it goes with a 'fork shaped weapon' is not clear.

"I don't think your friend likes me" he mused towards AppleJack. He strode a few paces closer to the bush. "It's alright little one, I'm not quite as dangerous as I may seem. Your friend here tells me that you are good with magicks and finding people. Both are quite useful talents, you must be both very powerful and adept at your skill in order to use them."

[skyacezero]

"Here, lemme talk to her," Applejack said, trotting up to the quivering bush. "It's alright, Fluttershy, he ain't gonna hurt ya," Applejack said coaxingly, and the yellow pony peeked out of the bush slighty. Applejack turned to Alistair. "I hate tell you this, but she's not Twilight, her name's Fluttershy, and as you can see she's a little..." Applejack trailed off to try and find the best way to describe her.

"Hey! Shutterbug! Or whatever your name is!" a rough, tomboyish voice came from nowhere.

Kyubey's head cocked at the sound. Wait I know that voice... Kyubey said and investigated the source. Kyubey rounded a large bush and behind it was a stream, and in the stream was a woman bathing. Her back was turned to Kyubey, but she had short red hair, short, twig-like horns on both sides of her head, and leaning on a nearby rock was a large, fork-shaped weapon with a red and green dragon motif. That's not a fork, that's a halberd! Wait... Kyubey's eyes widened. DRANCIA?! Kyubey projected that name to everyone in the vicinity, causing the woman to turn around.

"Wha-," she started as she turned around, catching sight of Kyubey. "Is that you Kyubey?" she asked, rising out of the water.

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Cade fell back as the pony, Pinkie Pie, got in his face and awaited his answer. "Uh...Cade..." he said slightly bewildered.

"Nice to meet you, Uhcade!" Pinkie Pie said gleefully.

"What? No, it's just Cade," Cade said trying to clarify.

Pinkie Pie looked away in thought. "Well make up your mind! Is it Uhcade, or Justcade?" she said quizically.

Cade facepalmed. "Cade! My name is Cade!" he said in irritation.

"Oh, well why didn't you say so?" Pinkie Pie asked.

[Remus]

Alastair made an attempt at a smile that probably came off more intimidating then understanding and sincere. "I really am not as scary as I appear." He explained trying to calm Fluttershy down. It was at that moment that Kyubey's shout had caught his attention.

DRANCIA? Kyubey shouted to all of them and Alastair immediately jumped into the air, his red wings spread wide as he floated momentarily off the ground before coming back down at Kyubeys side. His eyes narrowed slightly as he took sight of the woman bathing in the river. She had more of an human appearance than anyone else they had come across in this world so far, but she also was the farthest thing from human too. Her horns had had attested to that fact. They, and the design of weapon that was near her made him think of an old clan of dragons that used to live in the mountains back in the world that he was from. But they were old where she was young and....more attractive. His head tilted slightly.

"Friend of yours?" he asked Kyubey in a low whisper.

[skyacezero]

Shortly after Alistair landed, Drancia took a brief look at him. Her eyes widened, her face turned bright red and she let out an embarrassed shriek. She quickly crossed her arms over her chest and submerged back into the river. "YOU IDIOT!" she screamed at Alistair and looked like she was fumbling around for something under the water. "QUIT LOOKING! GO AWAY!" she screamed again, and hurled a small stone at Alistair.

Kyubey dove at Alistair and somehow hit him with enough force to move him out of the stone's path. The stone hit the tree behind Alistair and the trunk of the tree promptly exploded, followed by several more behind that tree. Yeah, Drancia's one of the Twelve Zodiac Beasts, and we'd better give her some privacy... Kyubey said nudging Alistar behind the bush Kyubey had rounded.

"Whoa, nelly!" Applejack said in surprise at the exploding trees.

"Oh my..." was all Fluttershy said, not moving from her spot.

"The hell, Flutterbug! You were supposed to keep an eye out!" Drancia said from behind the bush.

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While Cade and Pinkie Pie had their scene, more ponies started to crowd around them, catching the attention of a passing purple pony who decided to investigate the source of the crowd. "Excuse, me," she said pushing her way through. "Sorry, just need to get through," she approached the center of the crowd. "What's got everypony so...." her voice trailed at the sight of Cade and Pinkie Pie. "Another one?" she said and trotted toward the two.

The pony caught Cade's attention and he looked at her quizzically. She was a purple unicorn with a violet, straight mane and tail. They both had a purple and pink stripe running along the direction of her hair. Her eyes were bulbous, had curled eyelashes, and were purple like her coat. On her flank was an image of a six-pointed star that was surrounded by smaller stars. On her back was a pair of feathered wings. Cade looked at both Pinkie and the new pony. "What, there's winged unicorns, now?" he asked.

[Remus]

"hmph" Alastair said with a small smirk as Kyubey nudged him behind the bush, giving the girl privacy. Dragon girl or not he thought more to himself then he would have telepathically towards Kyubey. she is not the one I'm looking for anyway.

"The twelve zodiac beasts..." he muttered racking his head trying to recall all the old legends of the world they had left behind. There were many tales of so called guardians or deities that ruled above all else. "I have not heard of them personally although I am familiar with the human zodiac. I'm assuming that is not exactly what she is a part of...?" Alastair could hear Drancia chiding the pony called Flutterbug from where he crouched behind the bush.

"Do you think she will help us?" he asked Kyubey quietly. "Not just with helping finding Cade, but stopping this mess all together?"

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Katsumaru shifted his garb to hide his sword as he approached the town slowly. It had been two weeks since he was last met with any type of civilization and he was eager to restock on his supplies, which had been running low for the past three days. The wind picked up slightly, blowing his pale blue hair away from his face, revealing shockingly bright emerald eyes. The young southern prince was on a mission from his own lands to scout out the surrounding areas. He was wearing a silver and green travelers cloak over a dark black tunic. On the back of the cloak was a blue rose outlined in silver-the symbol of his lands. On his feet were a pair of boots that were caked with mud from his long travels. The prince was tall, and although he had a thin build was still quite strong from his young age. He had been on the road for just over five months now and wondered when he would ever get to go home again.

After the great war had ended, many of his parents enemies were still around, hiding, just waiting for the chance to strike out against his people. His father, the great Lord Ryuko and his wife, Katsumaru's mom, had decided that he had reached the age where he should venture out into the world and see it with his own eyes.

Katsumaru sighed. It's not like own own lands are big enough. Now I have to see everywhere else too? It's not like they could have sent me to auntie's. At least her queendom was underneath the ocean and had something to see. These villages all look the same! Katsumaru was tired and bored with it all but he would do his duty as the prince of the south. This land in particular did have one major difference than the others he had seen in his travels. Instead of humans or demons controlling everything the entire place was run by ponies. Talking ones at that. He supposed that with everything else in the world such a thing could be possible but it still brought a bit of a smirk to his face whenever he compared these talking ponies to the ones he would ride back home.

"Looks like there is something of a commotion going on." He raised his head and looked at the small gathering of ponies near the entrance of the village. They were all gathered around something. A person? Another pony? He couldn't tell just yet but he hurried along the path quickly so that he could get a better look.

[Ooc: Yup I'm back and I finally got to reintroduce one of my mains. Katusmaru: The son of Tsumaru Ryuko and Kaori Kaze. ((he is half my child so I am allowed to use him. ) I know his intro isn't so great but that's because I'm not fully sure how we can integrate him into the story yet, so I figure I would start off with him learning what it means to be the prince of a land and act as a diplomat to other surrounding worlds.

Also I started to read some MLP fanfics so I could familiarize myself with the series and well... let's just say I got deeply disturbed by what I saw. lol.]

[skyacezero]

I can't say for certain if she'll help or not Kyubey said. As for her zodiac group, she's part of the eastern zodiac, you're probably thinking of the western zodiac he added. Shortly after, Drancia emerged from the behind the bushed, fully clothed now, and approached the bush Fluttershy was hiding under.

"C'mon Butterbug, what happened?! Why weren't you keeping an eye out?" Drancia asked the hiding pegasus.

"It's...Fluttershy," Fluttershy said meekly. "And those things you told me to keep an eye out for um....per...verts..." she continued, "I don't know what they look like," she finished.

"Well you don't have to look far, there's one right over there," Drancia said, cocking her head in Alistair's direction.

"Awright, missy!" Applejack said, suddenly stomping in front of Drancia. "Ya better start explainin' yourself right now!" Applejack demanded, earning a confused look from Drancia.

"Um...sorry, but have we met?" Drancia asked.

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"Actually, it's alicorn," the purple pony said as she circled around him. "Hmmm, you don't look dangerous, not like the last one," she said thoughtfully.

"Last one? What are you talking about?" Cade asked, his head following the pony's movement.

She sighed and stopped in front of Cade. "I'm Twilight Sparkle," she said and extended her hoof at Cade. "And your name is....?" Twilight asked, waiting for Cade's response.

Before Cade could respond, Pinkie started bouncing between the two. "Oh oh oh! His name's Cade!" Pinkie excalimed. "At first I thought it was 'Uhcade' then said it was 'Justcade' whiche was really really confusing, but then-" Twilight put her hoof over Pinkie's mouth, silencing her.

"Okay Pinkie....I think we get it...." Twilight said and removed her hoof. "So your name is Cade?" she asked to which Cade nodded his head.

[OOC: Glad to have you back Remus! So were you disturbed in the good way, or the bad way?]

[Remus]

"I can hear you!" Alastair shouted from behind the bush fuming. Honestly the nerve. It's not like he was purposely spying on her. He just happened to have heard a noise and gone to investigate it. It's not his fault she chose to take a bath in such an open area in the middle of the day. He turned to face Kyubey.

"well, help us or not, we're still stuck here until we find out what happened to Cade. Applejack and Fluttershy both seemed to think that this Twilight friend of theirs could help us find him. Perhaps it is time we head towards wherever it is she lives." He tilted his head towards where Drancia was. "After we sort out this little mess." he added with a small smirk.

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"A human?" Katsumaru's eyebrows raised slightly in surprise as he reached the edge of the town where the ponies were gathered in a circle. He was a little more familiar with this land than the other strangers were, so he knew that was mainly made up of talking horses. To see a human or a demon such as himself for that matter was a rarity and undoubtedly was what caused the ponies attention.

A purple pony had come to the center of the circle and was met by a pink pony. The two quickly exchanged words and the purple pony had turned to the human and extended a hoof to it. From the exchange Katsumaru quickly surmised that the purple one must be the leader of the herd.

"Well now." Katsumaru exclaimed walking towards the group slowly. "Another person was the last thing I expected in these lands." His green eyes sparkled. "I'm sorry to have interrupted your meeting. My arrival in this land seems to have coincidently been timed almost perfectly with yours." He gave an almost over dramatic bow. "Katsumaru Ryukot, prince of the south, at your service."

[ooc: Not to sure how to put it. Pinkie was a cannibal who turned Rainbow Dash into baked goods. Needless to say it was...odd but somewhat interesting.]

[skyacezero]

"Hold on sec, you really don't remember anything?" Applejack asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"Yup, Shutterfly ("Um...it's...Fluttershy...") over there said I was out of it for a few days," Drancia said. "Woke up with a killer hangover, and Butterspy ("Fluttershy...") kept an eye on me while I slept it off,"

Applejack raised puzzled a brow at Drancia's explanation, then sighed. "Well, you ain't lyin' that's for sure," she said then straightened her posture. "Maybe seeing yer own handiwork'll jog your memory," she said then turned to Alistair and Kyubey. "I was takin' these two to Ponyville anyway so you might as well tag along," Apple jack offered.

"Eh, what the hell?" Drancia shrugged. "Don't have anything better to do anyway," she said.

"Well that settles it then! Off we go!" Applejack said, trotted a few steps, then stopped. "By the way..." she said, turning to Alistair and Kyubey. "I don't think I ever got yer names," she said.

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"What?" Twilight said as the new arrival introduced himself. "They're popping up everywhere now...." she said and approached him. "Well uh.....Katsumaru...."Twilight tried to pronounce his name the same way the man introduced himself. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and if you don't mind me asking...did you get here the same way Cade over there did?" she asked.

"Unless a little animal shoved him through a portal from an Anime Convention as well, I've never seen him before in my life," Cade said getting to his feet.

Twilight turned her head towards Cade with her eyes wide. "A portal from a whatnow?" she asked and approached Cade. "If it was portal does that mean Equestrian Magic leaked into your world, too?"

(OOC: Oh god, you just had to read THAT ONE, didn't you? lol.)

[Remus]

"Well, I'm Alastair." the demon told Applejack as he followed the pony towards their village. "and my companion over here is called Kyubey" He pointed to Kyubey. "We we're both on our way to the village to find someone when we ran into Applejack here." He looked at Drancia, still not forgetting her accusations against him.

"Lost your memory huh? Must have been one hell of a drink you lost yourself in, that or one hell of a fight."

He wondered if Cade was really in the village or perhaps even in this world at all. When it came to portals, there was always a chance of getting lost somewhere along the way, stuck in some unfinished world between worlds or even ending up no where at all. He highly doubted that, given Kyubey's assurances earlier but the thought was their in his mind nonetheless.

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Katsumaru raised his eyebrow questionably. "Portal?" he asked surprised. "Nay, I travelled her from my own land on my own two feet. I do know something of portals though. A long, long time ago my aunt who was a queen of all the oceans in the world once had vanished through one. It had been many decades before she ever returned, but both times the door to that world opened, things came through to our side as well." He turned his gaze towards Cade.

"Anime Convention? I have not heard of such a thing before, but from my Aunt's tales you are obviously not from the world she disappeared too. That world...the things inside it...they were less"

He was deeply curious now. First his Aunt, now this boy. Something seemed to be wearing at the fabric between worlds, and this time it seemed like an even bigger threat. He voiced his concerns to Twilight and Cade. "If magic of any kind, be it good or evil, is leaking in between worlds it will cause chaos for everyone."

[OOC: Alastair being a jerk as usual. Figured I give Katsumaru some knowledge of portals. Even if it doesn't lead or do anything I provides some good input. Yes, I don't think I could watch the actual mlp now without envisioning Pinkie as a secret cannibal ]

[skyacezero]

"True..." Twilight said, placing a thoughtful hoof on her chin. "I do remember a friend of mine saying something similar almost occurred in-" Twilight didn't get a chance to finish when one pony in the crowd pointed his hoof at the entrance to Ponyville.

"IT'S BACK!" he shouted in a panic, causing all the other ponies in the crowd to frantically scatter away. Twilight turned her head to the entrance to see what was the matter.

Applejack, Drancia, Alistair and Kyubey had arrived with Fluttershy trailing behind slightly. Twilight's eyes narrowed and she vanished with a flash, reappearing in the same fashion in front of Drancia.

"You've got a lot of nerve showing up here again!" Twilight said angrily to a confused Drancia.

"Hey whoa! What'd I do?" Drancia said, to which Applejack trotted next to Twilight.

"Hey, Twi?" Applejack said to the angry alicorn. "You ain't gonna believe this, but she don't remember anything, so I thought seein' her handiwork might jog her memory,"

"What handiwork? What are you talking about?" Dancia asked. Twilight said nothing, only pointing her hoof to another part of town. The part of town she was pointing to hand several collapsed buildings, fissures in the ground, and some of the buildings had scaffolding framed around them to repair them.

"Whoa...the party bus really rolled through there, am I right or I am I right?" Cade asked out loud.

[Remus]

Alastair hadn't noticed the destroyed buildings when he had first walked into the village. Immediately he was reminded of a certain Queen who once rampaged on her own lands leaving a long scar of devastation that permanently marked the ground. He only knew what Kyubey had told him of Drancia, and that was a very little bit. However given her...temper earlier it would not surprise him if she were the culprit.

He projected his thoughts towards Kyubey, so that Drancia could not hear. He preferred it if he didn't risk anything that might trigger her memory too quickly. After all this might not be the only thing she was repressing and if it all came back too soon, another rampage might occur.

'You said Drancia was powerful, but would she have any particular reason for being destructive? The others didn't seem to mention a fight, I don't see this being the result of some battle between enemies.' Alastair still didn't particularly like Drancia. True that their earlier altercation had been his fault...mostly, but he never truly felt safe around others until he was assured he knew whose side they were on, and what type of person they were.

"Indeed, this is an interesting turn of events." Katsumaru echoed Cade's words with a raised eyebrow. "This world seems to be getting more and more curious with each passing moment."

[skyacezero]

Dranica's always been a bit of a hot-head, but she's never done anything like this without a good reason... Kyubey said to Alistair as he surveyed the damage.

"Hold up, I did all this?" Drancia asked, and right on cue, Twilight's horn lit up and projected a screen in the air, almost like a television screen.

The screen was shaking like it was filmed from a handheld camera. It was nighttime, and ponies were running and screaming, while several houses and buildings were collapsing and exploding into splinters. The screen charged at the wreckage while a figure came stumbling out of the debris, laughing giddily.

"What are you doing?!" Twilight's voice was heard. "Why are you-?!" she was cut off by someone putting their arm around her.

"Hey! Hey lil'... horsey-thing!" a revealed, and heavily inebriated Drancia said. "How....how much you wanna bet I can hit that up there?" she said, pointing at the moon.

"What? Hit the moon? Why in Celestia's name....?" Twilight started, only for Drancia to cut her off again.

"Check it out!" Drancia readied her halberd and after taking a few seconds to find her footing, she threw her halberd into the sky.

"Wait, why would you...?" Twilight said until she noticed the moon explode. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open "WHAT THE-?!"

Drancia laughed in a drunken triumph and go tin Twilight's face. "Told'ja! Pay up!" she said before falling over, passed out.

Twilight's horn stopped glowing and the screen faded, with Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy looking at Drancia waiting for an explanation.

Drancia blinked a couple of times. "Oh! Now I remember!" she said, earning an annoyed growl from Twilight. "I was kind of on a week-long bender, blacked out somewhere between day....three or four I think and I guess that kind of happened along the way...?" Drancia explained sheepishly.

Well that would certainly explain it... Kyubey said with semicircle eyes, clearly not amused.

Twilight raised a brow. "A bender?" she said. "What's that mean?" she asked, then Applejack leaned over and whispered in her ear. Twilight's eyes widened "WHAT?!" the she marched over to Drancia. "You drank yourself stupid and that's why you destroyed the moon and half of Ponyville?! Do you know how long it took Princess Luna to put the moon back together?!" she ranted.