Chapter 6
Alicorn Power Activate!
Gaia looked at the four ponies and felt a sense of pride in how far they had come “Thank you” he replied. He turned towards Trixie “Do you still have the necklace that I gave you?”
“The Alicorn necklace?” she asked Gaia who nodded in response. “Right here” she then took the necklace out.
“Good now put it on please and we will begin” Trixie did so nervously as Gaia motioned the girls to form a circle around Trixie. “Long ago there was a mighty magic user called Starswirl the bearded who after mastering many of the spells in this land decided to challenge himself to the secret of the Alicorn. This is a secret known only to the royal family, myself, and a select few creatures in Equestria. After many years Starswirl managed to comprise a mighty spell and wrote it inside of this book” Gaia held up the spell book that he took from Twilights for them all to see. “While writing it down he realized that to work such a spell he had to make a powerful catalyst for its magic. So he went to the heart of the Crystal Empire and managed to find the legendary jewel of Gol which was guarded by the fierce dragon Klypther. After a long battle Starswirl defeated the dragon and claimed the jewel for himself. He then had a legendary smith create with his guidance a rare and powerful necklace.” Gaia pointed to Trixies neck “That necklace was none other than The Alicorn necklace which Trixie wears upon her neck this very moment.”
“Wow really?” Lyra asked looking at the necklace with awe.
“Yes, with this necklace in his possession Starswirl decided to cast his spell on himself. Sadly Starswirl without the proper knowledge of the Alicorn secret made a fatal flaw in his calculations. The necklaces magic although it is powerful, doesn’t have the magical strength needed to trigger an Alicorn transformation. Starswirls spell backfired and scrambled his thoughts in such a way that he lost all enthusiasm for magic and instead took on the role of an earthpony. He raised a family and lived out his life in peace but I still think it a shame that he never knew how close he was to solving the Alicorn mystery.
Trixie looked at the necklace around her neck “I had no idea” she stated.
“Of course you didn’t, although it is curious that you out of all ponies were the one to buy the necklace from that shop. Maybe deep down you knew its significance.”
“What do you mean?” Trixie asked looking up at Gaia.
“You are Starswirls direct descendent Trixie.”
Trixie stood there jaw dropped “You’re kidding me.”
“Nope” Gaia replied. “You are Starswirls heir to all that he left behind. You see, when Starswirl disappeared Celestia confiscated everything in his lab including this book and necklace. Since then they had been all but forgotten, that is until Twilight came along. Celestia wanting to test her gave her Starswirls book of spells to see if she would figure out that she needed to take the power needed for the spell from her friend’s elements. If she figured this out she would have solved what Starswirl could not and be ready to join the ranks of the alicorns.”
“So that’s why we’re in this circle, to use our elements on Trixie” Lightningdust replied.
“That’s exactly right.”
“Wait so if Trixie is a direct descendent of Starswirl then the book belongs to her?” Lyra asked. Gaia nodded “Then were not thieves!”
“You’re not thieves” Gaia assured her. He then turned to Trixie who seemed to be lost in another world. “Are you ready Trixie to follow in your ancestors footsteps and accomplish his goal?”
It took Trixie a moment to come back to them “um…yeah, I’m ready Gaia.”
Gaia then cast a spell upon them “this is to keep our actions a secret from Celestia or more importantly Discord.” He then joined the circle around Trixie and coached her in casting the spell in the book. Once done a huge surge of energy started to be drawn from their elements as the magic took effect “Now all you girls direct your elements to me as I feed it into the Alicorn Necklace.”
“Why not to Trixie?” Lightningdust asked.
“Because we need a catalyst to keep the surge of power from harming her” the girls hearing this directed their elements to Gaia who then feed it into the necklace as it started to work with the spell.
Suddenly there was a bright flash of light and Trixie found herself in some other dimension. There she could feel the presence of all the Princesses in Equestria that had at one time been in this strange world. Luckily Gaia’s enchantments had worked and nopony knew that she came into this world. Soon a barrage of her own memories and the mysteries of the Alicorn entered her head “What is this place?” she asked herself in awe.
“This is the world between reality and fiction” Gaia replied appearing before her. “In this world is the mysteries of oneself as you may have already figured out. Here you will see yourself for who you are and realize what you are connected to in this world and reality. This is the world that all Alicorns are connected to but also at the same time we are separate from it. This is a world not to be understood but felt. Do you understand what I mean?”
“No” Trixie replied “but I do feel it, I cannot explain what it is but I feel like it makes all the sense in the world.”
“That which cannot be understood is only understood when you don’t understand it” Gaia said more to himself than anypony else.
“What?” Trixie looked at him confused.
Gaia simply shook his head “never mind, Trixie do you understand a little of what this world is?”
“No, I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”
“Quite right, even I am still finding things in this realm and I have been around for thousands of years to study it. One thing that must be made clear is that this realm is everything in our world and others mixed together. This realm that you now behold can best be described as the universes DNA.”
Trixie looked at the realm again with wide eyes “The Universes DNA” she muttered to herself. “I bet Starswirl would have loved to see this” a sudden sense of sadness swelled inside her for her distant ancestor.
“That he would have.” Gaia then looked up at the dark plasma filled sky “however, I think that he would be proud of you for finding this place.”
“I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Gaia looked back at her “Everypony learns from one another. It is true that I did teach you, but ultimately it was your decision to seek the knowledge I had.” He looked at her as Trixie began to glow a little “the spell is taking affect. Tell me what element are you connecting to?”
“What do you mean?”
“Every alicorn is connected to something, Celestia is connected to the sun, I am connected to the Earth, Luna to the moon, Cadance to love, and Twilight to friendship. What are you connected to?”
Trixie thought about Gaia’s question and started to search the new knowledge that the place was feeding her. As she search, the strand that tied her to her new element soon grew like a tidal wave and engulfed her. Right then she became aware of her connection and what a wonderful and thrilling thing it was; the connection would have made her ancestor Starswirl proud indeed. “I can feel it Gaia” she finally said eyes shut focusing on it.
“What is it?” Gaia asked although he already had an idea of what it was.
Trixie opened her eyes which were now pure white and glowing “Magic.”
“Well done Trixie” Gaia said giving a slight smile “just what I would expect from Starswirls heir.”
They then left and returned to their world. Barely anytime had passed in the real world compared to what they spent in the other realm which was normal from what Gaia told Trixie. The other girls were still around in the circle when Trixie appeared in front of them with wings spread out in full alicorn attire and her now regular dark eyes fiercely glowing.
“Look at those wings!” Wildfire whistled as they stared at Trixie wrapping their minds around the idea that she was now an alicorn.
“You did it!” Lightningdust called as she ran up and hugged Trixie who not being prepared for the assault tumbled back nearly hitting Gaia as he reappeared from the other world.
Gaia teleported out of reflex to the other side of them as they crashed where he was just a millisecond before. “The spell was a success” he stated without skipping a beat. “Trixie has become the alicorn of magic and rightfully so if you would ask me.”
“Does that mean that you can control a unicorns magic?” Lyra asked.
“No, I cannot do that” she then thought about the question “but I believe that I can deny magic to them if I wish.”
“Oooo do it to me!” Lyra asked as she levitated a book into the sky. Trixie easily found the magic that was being used to hold up the book and simply kept it from flowing to it. The green aurora surrounding the book suddenly ceased and the book dropped upon the ground “That was so cool!”
“Twilight doesn’t stand a chance now” Lightningdust stated.
“No, she still does” Gaia replied.
“How’s that? She will not be able to cast any spells.”
“Twilight is an alicorn she has her own force to draw upon to cast magic.” Gaia then floated the book into the air “sever my connection to the book Trixie.”
Trixie looked and looked in the vast amount of magic that she now controlled but she could not find what was holding the book up “How is that possible?” she finally asked Gaia.
“Because magic is just a different form of energy and there are countless forms of it. Mine comes from the Earth, I could, if I wished, use your magic to cast a spell. Just as you can use my Earth to grow crops, but we ultimately receive our powers from the element we control.”
Trixie looked at him and sighed from the sheer vastness of knowledge that she was learning “I still have so much to learn.”
“Don’t worry” Gaia laughed “now that you’re an alicorn and can handle more powerful spells, we can start your real training.”
“Oh, goodie” Trixie mumbled. Even though she knew that the training would be hard she was excited to try out her new abilities and learn the extent of an alicorn’s power.