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Chapter 1

Ivy didn't want to move, but that fact wouldn't stop her new friends from forcing the matter.

The zebra Zecora and the Bushwoolie named Blue Bud knew she had to confront the powerful sorceress pony that lived in this version of Ponyville.

Zecora was a power sorceress in her own right but in her rhyming speech told Ivy she couldn't help much with saving the other lands that laid beyond the edges of her world. That only the Princess Twilight Sparkle could had the needed magic to confront the threat being faced.

Another powerful magician was the last thing she wanted to seek. It was a powerful sorcerer pony who had destroyed her world. Made it fall into a dark realm of shadow that robbed all it's life of having true forms. She had barely escaped this fate her self. The only thing that saved her from being as doomed as her friends, family, and all other ponies from her world is she in panic accidentally found & went through the crack in the universe the evil sorcerer unicorn had come in through. The only reason why she felt comfortable being around Zecora was her magic wasn't the ethereal nature as his was, and Princess Twilight Sparkle's was told to be.

The residents of Ponyville watched the pair push the reluctant Ivy down Mane St. towards the large tree house at it's end. She looked different this new comer but she appeared in good company being with the zebra from the Everfree Forest. Her other companion however was a creature that while cute, they weren't sure what to make of it.

Blue Bud could feel the eyes of the local ponies on him. Back home this would have never happened. All eyes were normally focused on his former companion Ruby. She was a princess but like this Twilight Sparkle? He didn't know. What he did know was she treated himself & Chumster well for being attendants. Why were there so many princesses among the ponies he now wondered? Bushwoolies didn't need rulers but for the most part they didn't mind being called to act servants to them. The one exception ever given to this had been to the cat-woman Katrina. She decided to abuse the good hard working nature of them once long ago. Something Blue Bud had, had nightmares about in fear from what he'd heard of the event but fortunately it had not colored his mind so bad with scarily images that it prevented him from allowing her to help them.

Ivy had leap into the forest of the Furbobs from out of thin air. She ruined the picnic the two races had put together. That was Blue Bud's first memory of the strange pony. She screamed at them in terror and they did the same in turn. She was a pony, they could tell that, but her legs were longer than normal, her neck held the same characteristic. Blue Bud wondered at his first sight of her if she was a flutter pony that had some how lost it's wings. To her perception of the Bushwoolies & Furbobs. The Bushwoolies at first she thought were balls of shivering fur. That way of looking at them quickly changed when as she screamed at the sight of them. They had screamed at that moment too and at that she saw their little mouths and eyes that had previously been buried in the fur of their bodies. The Furbobs reminded her of dogs but with clown like faces. Their screams revealed nothing new at first. In short time they began trying to decide what Ivy was.

"It's a pony! It's a pony! See it walks on all fours and has a long face!" Started a rose colored Furbob.

"No! No! No! It's a blue giraffe!" Shouted a yellow colored Furbob.

A emerald colored Furbob cut it with, "Look at it's flank! It's flank see?! It's marked like how the ponies ones are!"

Ivy now was annoyed at the clown-like dog creatures. She'd had enough of their debate over what she was. "I'm a pony!"

"See? See every one? I was right it is a pony!" Chimed up the rose hued Furbob.

"I am a mare, not an "it". What are you?"