“New rule,” Sunset said as she felt her mane, “No more fire magic for you.”
“I’m sure I’ll get it if I try again!”
She turned to glare at me, “You almost set me on fire! Again!”
“It’s meant to explode. It was just a bit early,” I protested, “I just need to…”
“No!” she exclaimed and stomped her hoof, “We been at this all day. You aren’t getting any better and I’m tired of being scorched!”
She did look a bit worse for wear. Nothing seemed to have actually burst into flame on her but she was a bit… sooty.
I sighed and sat down, “…Sorry.”
Sunset sighed and then turned to Swift, “Back me up here?”
He grinned, “When the lady is right, she’s right.”
I glowered at him, “Traitor.”
Swift shrugged, “Page, face it. It’s not working out and sooner or sooner you’ll set yourself on fire if you continue. There’s a reason I’m here with a bucket of water.”
“You are just looking for a reason to splash me with it!”
He just grinned.
Sighing I nodded, “Fine. No more fire spells then,” and reached up to rub my horn. It was starting to hurt anyway.
“Thank you!” Sunset said and turned to Swift, “Tell me the truth, do I smell like burnt mane?”
“Maybe a little?”
She groaned and shook her head before shooting me a glare, “I’ll have that book back now.”
“…It’s in my bag,” I grumbled.
I almost had it that last time.
“Well I’m done,” Sunset said and brushed her mane back, “I’m going to take a bath and get some nice wine and try not to smell like burned mane.”
I cringed, “Sorry and thanks”
She rolled her eyes and gave my nose a flick with her tail tip on the way past, “You owe me.”
“I do,” I admitted, “See you tomorrow?”
“Yep,” she said and dropped her bag across her back before glancing back at me, “No setting yourself on fire again.”
“…Yes, ma’am.”
Good advice in general.
“Dude you are really bad at fire spells,” Swift chuckled and trotted up next to me, “Not even sure how you mess up some of them. Anyone can cast a fireball.”
“Apparently not me. What am I doing wrong?”
Gout of flame? That I could do since it was basically just a stream of fire twisted energy. Anything else just didn’t work. Or rather it didn’t work correctly depending on how you looked at it.
He shrugged, “I don’t know. Looked right to me. Well, other than the setting yourself on fire thing.”
I sighed again and looked over the pristine/whole/untouched target. I hadn’t had this much trouble with a spell since I first learned to cast magic.
“Let me try again.”
“Okay, just let me get waaay away from you and behind something solid. Also, could you write a note to the Princess? I really don’t want to be the one to explain why you exploded.”
I rubbed my forehead and nodded, “Okay no more firespells. My horn hurt anyway.”
Swift frowned, “…Maybe it’s an alicorn thing?”
“I’ll have to ask somepony that,” I groaned and rubbed my forehead, “Damn it. Starting to really smart now.”
“Well, you did take a couple of explosions to the face…” He commented with a grin, “Come on, let’s give it up. You can blow up on somepony else’s watch.”
“Fair enough. I really should ask Celestia or Twilight about this anyway before I blow myself up,” I sighed and shifted my wings, “am I missing some feathers?”
“Edge of your mane is a bit scorched and you are smoking in places .”
“…Luna is going to kill me.”
Swift looked way too amused for his own good, “Could have been worse, I could have needed to use the bucket.”
“There is that,” I grumbled and then stretched my wings, “Think Sunset will be pissed for long?”
Swift looked in the direction the mare disappeared to, “Don’t think so? But maybe bring a gift of some sort tomorrow.”
“Not a bad idea,” I agreed , “And I need a bath. Luna will be annoyed if I show up smelling like burnt fur.”
“ Same with Minuette now that I think about it.”
Awe but setting yourself on fire is fun! good chapter as usual my dude.
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Fun fact gryphons can't catch you if you are on fire.
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I find that lighting myself on fire solves most of lifes problems.
I am a bit annoyed that the chapters for the last two stories are so short and don't seem to have much in the way of over arching plot to them anymore. It's a bit of a disappointment that it just seems to be riding on the success of the first three stories with not as much thought or care as it once was.
Thanks for the update!!
Luna is gonna kill Page
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It are SoL stories, not adventure stories. So chapters like this are normal. Of course, stories need a build up to get to a plot, but that can also be in the way of SoL.
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Actually all the stories had great swaths of time pass in slice of life. I re-read all of them recently and can confirm the same trends are ongoing. It took awhile in the previous ones to hit upon the stations of canon.
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The recipe hasn't changed, you are just getting tired of eating it.
If you play with fire magic, you will get burned. (and yes pun intended) Keep up the great work
Maybe Page secretly thinks he's a Monstrous Nightmare?
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Hmm, burnt fur, at least that was all, allows it to be funny without being dark and losing its lightheartedness. Another great chapter, I guess the next step is Sunset setting things to ice, or maybe something else entirely. Whatever it is, I'm excited to find out.
Well in his defense, it's a valid reason.
I'm just surprised he kept on banging away at fire spells for so long, his Alicorn powers align closely with Luna's and she can do jack with fire.
Heh. it's nice to have some more relaxed stories to read sometimes.
Sooner or later*
Such a missed opportunity even though, with Swift's character, he wouldn't do something like that while on duty the scene still popped into my head regardless.
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I’m just going to pretend that’s what happened
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So does this guy, apparently. Ray Wold
"Now that we don't need this anymore..."
*Splash*
"Swift, you get back here!"
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Great idea
Guess unless you have a magic cutie mark versatile affinitys are tricky... Also i doubt its less than a few month without the affinity. Still being stubborn about it might help...
At least Blank Page didn't exploded or worse...
Exploded twice!
If fire isn't his thing, perhaps ice will go all the smoother? Would be a cool magic set to have
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Best comment this chapter 👍