Monster hunter and ponies pt1

Author's notes: First of all I want to welcome you to the first story I chose to share with the public. Since the original scenario was thought of before season two started airing, I would like to ask you to disregard anything season two will bring as you read through this story.

My little hunter : Companionship is magic

version 1.2

by ~Meteorimpact/Monster Hunter Brony

Special thanks to Sparky who helped me fix most of my grammatical mistakes.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Equestria

Canterlot, a city high on the side of a mountain that keeps watch over all of Equestria. In this lively city where mostly unicorn lives, the royal castle stands proudly, sheltering the two Princesses from outside disturbance. Princess Celestia returned from raising the sun as she did every day, but today was different. It had been a year now since Nightmare moon had been defeated, and Luna's rehabilitation to the new world was a bit harder than expected. During the thousand years in which she was banished to the moon, her own powers kept growing, but without the help of her big sister she never learned to control them, or rather, Nightmare Moon never bothered to try to control them. Now shot back in this world a millenia later some nervous breakdown would sometimes arise as Luna felt she isn't adapting fast enough. During these nervous breakdown she would accidentally spawn small black vortexes at random places in Equestria, mostly around ponyville and the Everfree forest. It seems Luna inherited more power to control time and space than Celestia did, and if the younger sister wasn't able to control this power, the eldest might need to seal this ability to create these anomalies, before anypony end up caught straight in a rift and injured.

Celestia was walking down a flight of stairs that would lead her to a meeting she had scheduled with a good friend of hers, who had saved Equestria from interdimensional danger many times. Maybe he would be able to understand what Luna's powers exactly were. Horn glowing, Celestia softly opened the door of the laboratory. Inside, there stood a brown stallion with an hourglass cutie mark. He was standing in front of some screens and talking to Luna through a microphone, the princess of the night was currently isolated in a room a bit farther than the laboratory for security purposes.

"Dr.? I suppose Luna is ready for the tests?" Celestia asked the brown pony.

"Everything seems to be in order, her highness has been very cooperative and I'm pretty sure we will soon find out if she can master or not this ability to create these rifts. Now we will try and find out if she can actually summon them of her own free will, or if only stress makes them appear." Dr. Whooves paused for a second then turned around and grabbed the microphone. "Luna, can you hear me?"

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Inside the test chamber, Luna kept impatiently walking back and forth, these last days have been a bit hard on her, trying to understand all these new technologies and customs of new Equestria she kept getting a bit too enthusiastic about it and often would end up the new experience into a big blunder. Her big sister kept telling her it was normal, she had to learn, to adapt to this new world, but it was so hard to figure out how to become your "future self" in so little time. A thousand years have passed and the generation gap was so hard to cross. Often, Luna would wake up from her sleep all sweaty, stressed and feeling magic coming out of her horn unconsciously, of course she would immediately stop the flow, but the rifts she accidentally spawned in her sleep didn't go unnoticed and created panic in Canterlot and Ponyville. As Luna kept thinking about all this, she suddenly heard a familiar voice coming out of a speaker set in the test room.

"Luna, can you hear me?"

" Yes I can Doctor Whooves, are we about to start?" replied the dark purple mare.

" Yes, Celestia has come to supervise the tests, if anything goes out of control she will help fix it, so feel as relaxed as possible. I will now ask you to try and generate one of the black rifts in the room you are in right now, start small and see if you can summon it."

Luna's horn started to glow, the young Alicorn then closed her eyes and bowed her head. Taking a deep breath she started focusing on the empty space before her. The horn kept glowing brighter and brighter eventually looking like a small flame on her forehead. After a few seconds of concentration a small black ball appeared coursed through by small lightning bolts. Doctor Whooves' calm, clear tones resonated through the overhead speakers once again, but this time it was laced with ear-splitting static.

"Very good, it seem you can actual... summon  them of  your... will, Now try ma... -ng it bigger."

Apparently the appearance of the rift caused radio interference, Luna didn't think too much of it, but she was starting to wonder if it was a good idea to make it grow bigger. After a moment of reflection, she started to pour a bit more power into her horn, making the anomaly grow some more.

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Celestia kept a worried eye on the screen displaying her little sister attempts at controlling this unknown new force, of course she was there to intervene if something would go wrong yet she felt a bit uneasy, she had already lost a thousand years with her beloved sibling, she wasn't going to risk losing her for good. Yet, she waited to see if the young mare would be able to handle this on her own. A gentle hoof then grabbed her shoulder.
"Don't worry Princess, your sister is doing quite well thus far, and according to the readings it seems like the holes she is creating are actually unstable tears through other worlds. I see reading similar to those I use when traveling with the TARDIS, yet it seems like these tears are one way only." Whooves turned around and grabbed the microphone again. "Luna, now I will need you to start gathering power and to release it directly in the anomaly. Once you gather plenty, pour it in it but not all in one shot, do it slowly." As the two observer watched the scene unfold before them, time itself seemed to stop- then, it all begun.
As the stone floor began to tremble beneath their hooves, the Doctor shot a concerned glance towards Princess Celestia.

"Uh-oh." He muttered.

The ground suddenly shook even harder sending important research equipment to the ground. Celestia's previous worries were slowly starting to come back at her as she hurried over the test room.

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Uncertainty seized Luna once more, the black portal seemed to pulse with life, just like a water balloon that keeps being prodded and is on the verge of exploding. Static noises kept coming out of the speakers as the black ball of energy grew.
"Luna... need you to... gathering power... release... in the anomaly... Gather plenty, pour it in... all in one shot..."

The speaker was crackling and soon died, Luna wasn't so sure about that last instruction, but Dr.Whooves was reliable, there is no way it could go wrong, right? Her horn started to glow even brighter, her eyes opened revealing lights as strong as the sun's coming from them, The horn was now a huge pillar of purple light.

"Here goes nothing" muttered The young princess. She released all the charged magical energy at once. The black ball of energy suddenly expanded at an alarming rate as it rose to the sky destroying the ceiling of the test room, once at it's apex the now gigantic vortex of black energy and lightning bolts divided itself into 4 smaller tears and they each flew away, 3 of them toward everfree forest and the last one in an unsure location. Exhausted from such a use of magic, Luna fainted, but kept consciousness just long enough to feel the embrace of her sister before everything went dark.

Luna reopened her yes a few minutes later, still held by Celestia.

"Are you ok Luna, please tell me everything is all right" Pleaded the light pink alicorn.

"Yes everything's fine, not sure what happened tough... do you think I just caused trouble for everypony?" Replied the Purple one.

"Actually it seems like you did." A male voice added as the silhouette of Dr.Whooves made its way trough the rubbles toward the two princesses. "But, it wasn't your fault, I'm probably the one to blame here. Here is some of the reports I managed to salvage from the equipment that survived the shockwave, it shows that the four vortexes all ended up opening a rift through space-time and each brought something alien to our world.  One of the portal got me a little worried tough, normally I would be able to track down anything from a different world just with the dimensional data they have stored in their bodies, but out of one of the portals, two being came out, one as big as an half grown dragon, the other one hardly bigger than a pony, yet, even though the smaller one comes from this other world, it seems like its dimensional data is being slowly overwritten by our own world's. Soon I wont be able to differentiate it from a regular equestrian. And an other interesting fact is that the subject seems to be radiating a power similar to one I detected at Sweet Apple Acres. We need to investigate this as fast as possible."

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Somewhere else, in a completely different world where life itself is like a jungle, only the fittest survived. Eat or be eaten is what everyone was taught, and on this sunny plain, Danleon was about to be the one to eat. The young man all clad in a volcanic grey armor was waiting for the right moment to strike, he already weakened his target and saw it limping a few times, surely the azure rathalos would not last much longer. Then the sound of an activated pitfall trap echoed, as fast as he could, The hunter readied his greatsword made out of metal and khezu pieces and charged at the now helpless wyvern. The sword cleaved the skull like hot butter, but instead of preparing to celebrate his victory, he suddenly stopped moving in stupor. Lightning bolts started surging all around him, creating an unreal vision. He saw similar lightning bolts before when he fought a kirin, yet these bolts seemed to ark oddly toward an empty space in the air. A sudden cracking sound ripped the air as a vortex opened right in front of the young man, no matter how hard he struggled though he was slowly sucked in closer and closer.

"This is definitely not going to end well-" was the last thing he could say, before disappearing in the portal, along with the fresh body of the fallen rathalos.

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Danleon finally open his eyes after a few hours unconscious, he slowly tried to stand up while fighting his nausea. He wasn't certain what exactly happened but it sure left him groggy. His surrounding weren't the same as he remembered before blacking out. Instead of the green sunny plains and woods where he fought the rathalos, he was now standing  in a dark gloomy forest, the air seemed heavy, and the simple act of standing there brought a chill down the young man's spine. Maybe he was knocked off a cliff by the lightning bolts... The lightning bolts! Suddenly remembering the last time he was still awake, he started scouting the area with his senses. His ears picked up something, a few flaps of wings, then... the sound of hooves? It didn't take much more longer before two equine creatures appeared in the forest, both heading toward him. The creatures each had a long horn coming out of their forehead, and it didn't take long for Danleon to do the math.

Lightning bolts + horse with horn = Kirin... two of them!

He knew he wasn't prepared for this type of encounter, after all kirins rarely ever show up in the forest, why did these two come here? And was he seeing wings on their body? Flying kirins? This was no time for dilly dallying and fleeing seemed to be the best option. Danleon turned around and started running as fast as he could. Only to trip in his own legs and fall to his dismay, it was as if he could not command his body properly, also he just now realized how the ground seemed to be way closer than usual. the sound of hooves was getting louder and he knew he would not be able to run away in this state, so he turned around to face the two creatures and tried to charge them. As soon as he dashed tough, one of the kirin's horn started to glow and he felt as light as a feather, actually, this wasn't a bad feeling at all. The magical aura surrounding him drew him closer to the two monsters, strangely enough, he felt relaxed, one of the kirin had a a very light tint of pink for coat,almost white, and a multicolored pastel mane flowing like water on a beach, the other one, a lot smaller, was the same color as the summer's night sky. The closer he got to them the more he felt like they looked somewhat harmless. Suddenly, the taller Kirin opened its mouth:

"Greetings young one, My name is Celestia, and this one over here is my younger sister Luna, you are probably confused about your situation, and for a good reason. It seems like we are responsible for your current distress."

"What the-" The hunter was flabbergasted, did the kirin just talk? Ok that's it, all this was probably just a dream, he probably drank too much and that was just the result of his excesses. Yet, the weird sensation of floating seemed very real. "Celestia? Luna? I didn't know Kirins had names... Or could talk. And what do you mean by you 'might' be responsible for my situation?"

Once again the biggest of the two spoke:

"How can I explain this... We aren't what you call a 'Kirin', we are alicorns, and this here around you is the Everfree forest, one of the most dangerous places of Equestria. It seems that due to a mishap of our own, a portal linked both our worlds together and sucked you in with other creatures from where you came. We are deeply sorry about that and we are working as hard as we can to send you back to your home world. One of our most trusted agents is currently working in this matter. I also have some... somewhat bad news for you, from what Mr.Whooves could tell us, you are originally from a world where the dominant specie is called 'humans'. But since you have crossed the portal, our world's magic transformed you into the dominant specie of this world, known as a pony."

"A what?" The young man wasn't usually gullible but he was genuinely starting to worry about what the alicorn meant. It seemed important to make a self check very quick.

Intact belly, check! Recognition of pain, check!, hooves, check!... HOOVES?

Now something was wrong, very wrong. No wonder the ground seemed to be so close, he was shorter than usual, no wonder either he couldn't run properly, this body obviously wasn't meant to run, or walk, on two legs. Danleon was in a state of shock, nothing he learnt from the hunts could have prepared him for this, yet this was real, and he would need to adapt. Fast!

The tall alicorn raised her voice once more "Do not worry though, I will make sure your arrival here in Equestria will go as smoothly as possible. I will bring you to the castle, in Canterlot, there we will help you learn to use your new body as any other normal pony, and I'll get some of my friend to help you integrate into the life of Ponyville. We will try to keep you updated as much as we can on our researches to send you back to your world. Now will you accept following us? I'll send a letter to my most faithful student, she will gladly help you adapt yourself to pony life, but for now you need to learn how to walk normally on four legs, and to use the hooves magnetism magic."

"I guess I don't have much of a choice do I?... And what do you mean by hooves magnetism magic?" asked the hunter.

"There are three types of ponies except for the fourth type which only has two members, the three types are as follows: unicorns, adept at magic- they use their horn to cast their spells. Pegasi, they are winged ponies, the magic they are infused with allow them to fly even tough they have relatively small wings and they can touch or give shape to clouds. As for the final type, which you are now a part of, the earth ponies, they aren't gifted in magic as the other two species, but they make up with stronger bodies. Yet there is one type of magic that the three type share and is usually an innate skill, the hooves magnetism magic, it basically allow you to channel some of your energy through your front hooves to help you hold an object, you can't grab an item as well as with hands and fingers, but it is still useful for housework in general, even if the slightest touch of your object may make it fall. Since you are not born a pony you may need to learn to channel your energy into your hooves to be able to manipulate basic tools. Now I'll bring you to Canterlot, prepare yourself young colt, the rehabilitation may not be as easy as it seems... By the way I haven't heard your name yet, but I will need to help you find a fitting pony name for you so you won't draw too much attention."

"Just call me Danleon, for now. I have a favor to ask though can you help me gather my equipment and the body of the wyvern I slain? I would like to at least be able to keep my belongings for when I go back home. It was right where I first appeared."

For the first time the darker alicorn spoke "We can't bring them with us right now but if it's really important for you I can probably freeze them in stasis for conservation until you can come back to get these yourself. Give me a moment and I will take care of it." The mare turned around to head toward the appearance site. Danleon, still a bit confused, proceeded to follow Celestia to a kind of golden chariot with guards around it, shortly after they were on their way to Canterlot.

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Luna easily found the arrival zone, the ground was scorched and trees were scattered where the portal left its load. The young Princess gasped in awe as she discovered the body of the massive beast corpse. A big reptilian creature, scales as blues as the sea with spikes ending in an ebony color. The creature looked like a dragon, except it only had two hind legs. "I don't know how he defeated this thing, but these humans are sure amazing if they can fight them on equal grounds. I just hope the other creatures that were brought here are nothing as scary as this one, or Equestria may face a crisis we haven't dealt with in centuries." Luna walked around the wyvern to observe it a bit more, and found a discarded monkey shaped armor. By looking at the head of the monster she also saw a massive weapon as big as an adult pony, longer even. "Back at Canterlot I will have so many questions to ask him!" she giggled, then prepared herself to cast the preservation spell. A thin layer of ice started forming around the rathalos, growing thicker and thicker until the whole area was covered in a blue crystal like dome. "All done, now to go back to Tia and our new guest."