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// Spell Casting 
// Story: Glimmering Spells 
// by StormLuna 
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Monday morning had arrived and Starlight woke up early that day.  The first thing that she thought about was Trixie's condition.  She was hoping that her best friend was feeling better but also knew that altering Sunburst in the ways she saw fit would be better if she were still ill.  She got up and headed to Trixie's room.  She knocked on the door and heard a voice, "Come in Starlight!" 

Starlight went in and Trixie was getting ready to head to the shower, feeling perfectly fine.  Starlight asked, "Feeling better?"

Trixie embraced her and exclaimed, "Yes, much better!  Thanks for taking such good care of me." 

Starlight replied, "Well you know I'll do anything for you Trix, anything."  Trixie broke the embrace and Starlight added, "Well we probably should get showered before we eat and head to the school." 

Trixie commented, "Sounds good." 

The two headed to get ready to start their day.  Starlight was happy that Trixie felt better but at the same time this made her a bit nervous.  She wanted to cast all these spells on Sunburst but knew that it was going to be a bit more difficult with Trixie there.  It then hit her, Monday mornings were often the time when Trixie would have a line of students who wanted to see her.  As she was showering she exclaimed, "I've got it!  While Trixie is seeing students I can do this and after that, Trixie can help get our new student enrolled in her classes." 

Starlight had a lot more confidence as she finished her shower and headed downstairs.  Trixie joined her and she asked, "So Trixie, you want the usual?"

Trixie replied, "Yes, the usual." 

Starlight headed into the kitchen and began to fix their oats and pour them large mugs of cider.  As she was doing this, she hummed a happy tune realizing that by the end of the day that she would never have to put up with her annoying "friend" bugging her about going on dates or crushing on her ever again.  She did know though that she couldn't act too happy, well yet anyway since there was no guarantees that the spells would work. 





After breakfast that morning the two headed to the school and there were plenty of creatures outside the school interacting with one another.  Starlight asked, "Well Trixie, you ready for another day?"

Trixie replied, "As ready as I'll ever be." 

The two headed in and headed towards their offices.  Sure enough, there was a long line of students waiting to see Trixie.  As Trixie headed to her office Starlight gave her a smile, "Have fun Trixie!" 

Trixie sighed, "Oh I will." 

The next office Starlight passed was Sunburst's.  She saw that he was sitting in at his office and said, "Sunburst, I need to speak to you in my office, alone." 

Sunburst's ears perked up as he got up and enthusiastically followed Starlight to her office.  She led them in and locked the door behind them.  She said, "Sunburst, we need to talk." 

Most ponies would think that such a statement from their boss was a bad thing but Sunburst thought otherwise.  He asked, "Starlight, do you want to ask me to be your......" 

Starlight fired a bolt of energy at him, stunning him.  She whispered, "No Sunburst, I don't want to be your marefriend, I would NEVER be your marefriend." 

She got a smile on her face, flared her horn up and readied herself to cast the spells.  She first cast the sex change spell.  She fired a bolt of energy at him and recited, 

"Right now the pony is a he and that simply cannot be,
The problem there is that a he often does not agree,
Now the pony shall be a she since they more often agree,
The great thing about a she is that she will always agree!" 

He became encircled in a white ball and after thirty seconds, a slightly different pony emerged.  Starlight approached what was now her and made sure it worked.  She got a huge smile on her face and snickered, "Oh yeah, the most important one has been taken care of."  She then flared her horn up and readied herself to cast the second spell.  She hit her with a bolt of energy and recited, 

"The pony is old and that is very bad,
At a younger age the pony will be glad,
The age of twelve will be great,
At that age there shall be no hate!"

Again Sunburst became encircled in a ball of energy and it was less than a minute that the ball dissipated and revealed a younger pony.  Starlight took a close look at her and laughed, "Excellent, she's the age of a student now, not a staff member!" 

She then readied herself to cast the next spell, the name change and mark changing spell.  She repeated the process and recited, 

"The mark and name Sunburst has is just not right,
For a new mark will cause her to not engage in a fight,
The new name of Sunshine and the mark of the sun it shall be,
With these changes nopony will suspect a thing and she won't have to flee." 

This one took a couple minutes before the ball popped and who was now Sunshine was revealed.  She took a look at her mark and it was exactly what she wanted.  She knew she had to be quiet so she whispered, "Yes, I knew my superior cutie mark magic could pull this off!" 

She then decided the time had come to make him much less recognizable.  She flared up her horn, hit her with a bolt of energy and recited, 

"For a coat the color tan is bad,
And that color must be changed more than just a tad,
The color pink it shall now be,
All shall love what they will see."

With each spell it began to take a bit longer but given the length of the line of students that needed to see Trixie, she wasn't too worried.  Once the ball popped, the pony standing before her now had a pink coat.  She pumped her hoof skyward and added, "Now it is time to take care of the mane and tail." 

She repeated the process and recited, 

"The light brown color is uglier than hay,
That is something that certainly cannot stay,
For now the color dark pink it shall be,
And throw in a black stripe for all to see!" 

Much to Starlight's delight, this one was rather easy and like she had hoped, the style was that of Twilight's.  There was one thing that did bother her, that putrid facial hair was still there.  She sighed, "I hope this doesn't reverse the stun spell." 

She grabbed it in her aura and ripped it out, causing Sunshine to let out a screech of pain but remained stunned.  She looked at the black and pink hair and saw that she had ripped it out by the roots.  "Good," she said to herself "at least it won't grow back." 

She then repeated the process and got to the next spell, 

"Right now the pony is just a little bit out of whack,
That may be ok for some but for this the cuteness would lack,
The young mare's personality must not be that of a geek,
Her personality shall be that of the valley, which is something all will seek." 

This one was a rather easy spell but what bothered Starlight was that she wouldn't know if it worked or not until she undid the stun spell.  She sighed, "All I can do it hope, now to make her an earth pony." 

She knew that this one was going to require a lot more power and would take longer given the complexity of it.  She flared her horn up bright, struck Sunshine with a powerful bolt of energy and recited, 

"For some being a unicorn is great, 
But for others it is something they hate,
With some they would prefer to not have magic,
Others prefer the strength of the earth and not having it would be tragic." 

The energy struck her with a great amount of force and the ball she was in was shining much brighter.  Starlight quickly became impatient worrying that Trixie would wind up catching her doing this.  She knew that Trixie cared about her but also had her concerns that she might turn her in.  She then calmed down when she realized that she could just erase her doing that from Trixie's memory. 

When the ball finally popped, standing before Starlight was an earth pony.  She pumped her hoof towards the ceiling and whispered, "Yes, I'm almost done!" 

She was a bit relieved because the most difficult spell had been taken care of but she still had to do.  She repeated the same process and recited, 

"Memories of the past can cause issues,
Remembering some can cause one to need tissues,
Memories of the past will be no more,
Without them her memories will not make her sore." 

This was another one of those spells that she wouldn't know if it worked or not until she undid the stun spell.  She then decided it was time to take care of his vision so she did the same thing and recited, 

"Right now the pony has poor sight,
And that simply isn't right,
The pony's vision 20/20 it shall now be,
A life without glasses shall set her free!" 

He became encircled in one more ball and once it popped, she knew that those glasses had to go.  She took them off and easily disposed of them by incinerating them into a pile of ash, a pile that she quickly moved under her desk.  She then said to herself, "Anything else, anything else." 

She then turned to Phyllis and said, "What's that?  You think I should make all of these permanent."  She continued to stare at her beloved plant and thought she heard her say yes.  "Alright, hopefully writing this won't take too long." 

She was a bit concerned because writing magic from scratch, well good magic anyway, wasn't easy.  She then realized that she had to take her time so she took the still stunned Sunshine and put her in the supply closet in her room.  She sighed, "I can take care of her later.  I have classes to teach." 

Once she put her in the closet, she left her office and locked the door with her magic just as the last student was leaving Trixie's office, she quickly turned the lights off in Sunburst's office before closing and locking the door.  Trixie came out and sighed, "You know Starlight, some students complain about the tiniest things." 

Starlight replied, "Tell me about it.  I remember when Silverstream was wanting to tell the seaponies about showers, that had to be the most frustrating appointment of all time." 

Trixie took a look to her left and saw that Sunburst's office door was closed.  She approached and knocked on it.  She knew this wasn't normal so she yelled, "Sunburst, are you ok?"

They heard nothing.  Trixie seemed a bit concerned, "Starlight, this isn't like him.  Do you think he is ok?"

The illness that Trixie had had was spreading around Ponyville pretty bad so she figured she could use that as an excuse, "He probably caught that virus you did and is laid up at home sick.  I'm not going to worry about it too much." 

This wasn't exactly normal behavior for Starlight and this caused Trixie to become a bit suspicious, "Starlight, you didn't do something to him did you?  You didn't use some freaky spell to kill him did you." 

Starlight remained calm, "Trixie, that would be murder and you should know that I'm not a murderer!" 

Trixie sighed, "Alright.  Well I'm going to get back to my office in the event a student needs to see me and I'm sure you probably have administrative duties to handle or a class to teach."

Starlight replied, "I do have a couple classes to teach this morning and then papers to grade.  I want to get those done so I don't have a mountain of them come Friday night." 

Trixie gave her a smile, "Well you better because I want us to go to the cafe come Friday evening." 

Starlight gave her a light embrace and replied, "I wouldn't miss that for the world Trixie!" 

Trixie headed back into her office while Starlight headed off to teach her classes.  She was a bit concerned that Trixie might break into her office at first but then realized that Trixie couldn't do anything like that given only her magic could unlock the door.  She also knew that her stun spell she put on Sunshine was strong enough that she wouldn't be coming to until after she had the time to cast a permanent spell on her to keep those spells nice and strong.