It was an early morning in Canterlot as the mist settled in on a fair autumn day, the colt of a wealthy family was born. At the hospital, two adult ponies were in a cream colored room, where the mare laid in a hospital bed, with beeping monitors around her.
“What should we call him?” the mother asked as she gently cradled the little colt in her hooves. The father looked at the sleeping colt in his mother’s arms, he paused and thought about it, then looked out the window as the sun was beginning to rise, the light reflected off the orange and red leaves giving life to the once white mist.
The father tuned back to his child, “How about...Autumn...Autumn Mist?”
The mother smiled, “Perfect...Autumn Mist, our child prodigy of the Pure Magic Bloods.” She said as the small colt let out a yawn.
-9 Years later-
“If you want to join Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns then you’ll need to do better than that!” The old unicorn huffed as a filly sadly trotted off the stage. “Next!” said one of the judges.
The shy colt shyly walked onto the stage, not the most appealing colt, his dark brown uncombed mane and grey hair which didn't impress the judges as they sighed and huffed. An old unicorn began to speak to the colt “Number 29...eeerrr....Autumn...Mist, you have a lot of promise being the son of the famous P.M.B family. Now let’s see how much potential you have.”
The old one waved his hooves signalling one of his assistants. He assistant came out to the stage with a flower that has yet to bloom. The assistant gently placed it on the ground and trotted off the stage. “Now” One of the judges boomed, “You will show us how you've come along. Let’s begin with an age spell.”
The small colt’s heart began to race as he began to sweat in fear. An age spell has never been possible to normal unicorns. The small colt shyly shook his head. “Ummm...I-I....c-can not do that........”
The old unicorn sighed and shook his head, “You think by this point the P.M.B family would have a child that could do what they wanted”
The colt felt disheartened by the judge’s remark, “C-couldn't....I-I do anything else...” the young colt asked stuttering.
“Do whatever you want.” the judge snootily proclaimed.
The colt looked at the flower and started to concentrate as the magic flowed through him. He wanted to do something impressive in front of the judges. His white aura extended and zapped the flower as a bright light cover the plant. By the time the young colt opened his eyes to see that the flower had changed into a quill.
The old unicorn looked surprised at what he had achieved. The judges took notes and left the room passing by the colt parents. “We will tell you the results tomorrow...” the old unicorn said to the colt’s father. The colt’s father nodded as they went onto the stage.
“How do you feel?” the father asked.
“....A-A little tired...” the colt huffed.
“Don’t be...you still have lessons this afternoon” the father said sternly. The colt stood up and followed his parents out to the streets as they made their way back home.
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The colt approached his home as he struggled to keep up with his parents, it was a large with two floors and lots of rooms for all the servants. One of the servants was waiting for them in front of door. As they approached he opened the door and bowed.
“Welcome back Master Mist” he said addressing the colt.
“Thank you” the young colt nodded with a small smile as he entered. The servant closed the door behind them.
“Autumn, your teacher will be here short, go upstairs to you room and get ready.” the father ordered. The colt sadly nodded and made his way upstairs.
Autumn Mist was his name, the first and only son to the Pure Magic Blood family, a family of unicorns who have spent generation after generation researching magic. Recently there has been a revolution of magic since the coronation of Princess Twilight Sparkle. It was Autumn’s destiny to create a spell that would transcend him into an Alicorn, or at least that’s what his parents told him.
Autumn got to his room and started to get his things ready using his magic to pull out a few books and a quill with some ink. As he waited he decided to revise on one of his magic books. He started to read and flip through the pages and started to test out the spells. He focused on himself and his desk. Slowly they started to flout and turn to the ceiling. The young colt smiled to himself as he floated back to the ground.
A few minutes later he heard a knock on the door, “W-Who is it?” he called out.
“It’s your Teacher kid, Ruby Beam” Autumn recognized the familiar voice and slowly opened the door for the mare as she trotted into his room. Her mane and tail was a dark red and glittered like crystals, fitting seeing how she was half crystal pony and unicorn, her eyes were a light grass green color. Autumn knew her since he was leaning how to walk, she was the one who taught him his first spell and how to control his magic. He looked up to her as almost an older sibling.
“Kid I do wish you clean your room before I arrive.” she said somewhat snobbishly.
“Sorry...I was just trying some new spells.” he shyly proclaimed.
“Really, what one’s exactly?” she asked with curiosity.
“The...errr...Gravity spell...” he stuttered.
“You pulled off a gravity spell! At your age!?” she said surprised.
“Ummmm...Y-yes...” he blushed.
Ruby gave a warm smiled to him, “Let’s get started shall we?” she said rustling his hair.
An hour had passed; time passed quickly with Ruby as Autumn began to feel tired and yawned. “You feel tired kid?” Ruby asked.
Autumn nodded slowly, “Well, that’s okay, our lesson is over. Go downstairs to your parents.”
Autumn smiled to her and left his room to go down stairs for dinner. He trotted to the bottom floor where the servants were preparing dinner. Autumn’s father was already sitting at the table reading The Daily Canterlot, since he never got to read it in the morning. “Done, already?” his father hissed as Autumn sat down at the dining table.
“Ruby said I was done....” the colt stated avoiding eye contact as Ruby came into the room, She gave his father a quick glance, indicating he should talk to her. His father folded up the paper and went with Ruby to the waiting room and closed the door.
Autumn was alone and all he could hear were the faint voices of Ruby and his father, he got up from his seat and quietly walked over and put his ear to the door to hear them speaking.
“He’s progressing quickly...” Ruby stated
“As he should be.” his father replied
“But I’m worried about how he is doing emotional.”
“Why would you worry about that?”
“Emotion plays a part into magic and if your son has doubt then that cou-”
“Is it effecting him?” his father cut in
“....It doesn't seem too.....no.”
“Then we don’t have to worry about it.”
“.............Why are you forcing him to do all this?”
“Those matters don’t concern you Ruby.”
“As his teacher I have a right to know…”
“As his teacher, you only have to teach him.”
“Tell me why you’re doing this to him?” Ruby said getting fed up
“Why do you suddenly care?”
“Because this isn't beginner spells or simple history anymore, your kid is doing Gravity spells…Gravity spells! What do you make him do while I’m not here?”
“That’s family business!”
“Tell me now or else I’m not leaving!” she yelled
“You should leave now Ruby…” his father said faintly as he walked to the door.
Autumn panicked and rushed over to his seat and tried to look calm as his father and Ruby came opened the door and came back into the dining room. “I’ll see you in a couple of day’s Autumn.” Ruby said as she left the house. Autumn’s father just came back and continued to read the paper.
After dinner Autumn made his way back up the stairs and too his room, he thought about how the day went as he crawled into his bed. He felt different like the world around him was starting to become clearer, was this all he was going to do? Go through his life doing everything he was told and what he couldn't become what they wanted him to be, would he be a failure? Would his parents not love him anymore?
He went to sleep asking these questions.