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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Could be for understanding 
// by Fat1thatyoulove 
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Chapter 5

You awake from a restless night of sleeping on the couch, besides from the couch being too small for you to actually sleep on the position you had your head in did not help the bruising that is still painful on your head. You turn your eyes to the clock in the room as you notice you've actually gotten up before even your alarm clock would wake you up.

At first you’re mad at actually waking up before you need to, but you get over it pretty quick as you bring your head up to your forehead and just rub.

A faint sigh comes up from you as you stand from the couch and direct your walk to your room, mainly just to see if the pony is still there...and also to check to see if Twilight is still ok.

To your surprise she's already up, and the door opening takes her attention as she speaks up, “I'm sorry I have to stay here again..."

You kind of just nod  not really knowing what to say as she continues to trail on, “I need to know where I am, that way I can better understand how I can draw my magic. Tell me are we on an island away from Equestria?”

You study the word Equestria for a minute as you stutter out your response, "I-I've never heard that name before you said it..."

A faint laugh comes up from the slightly straggly maned mare as she shakes her head, “Surely you've heard of it? Celestia...Luna the rulers of Equestria??”

You hear a sense of urgency in her voice so you do  what you always do when you don’t know an answer; you grab your laptop and move to sit on the edge of the bed, well away from where she's sitting as you start searching up the word Equestria.

Your absent voice and the sound of your fingers clicking the keys flicks her ear as she slowly pokes her head towards the glowing screen.

The search for you is over as the no results page comes up, you turn the screen to where she sits as you wait for a response.

However she just studies the screen in a confused wide eyed stare as she speaks up, “What is this? A book of some kind?”

You shrug "Sure lets go with that." You never really realized how hard it would be to explain the internet to someone so you sum it up the best you can as you tap the back of the flipped up screen, "It's everything you want to know, in one spot."

The mare's tone changes as she takes on a slightly more upright posture, “Whoa, if I had one of these Internets in Ponyville I would never lose a book...Not that I ever have but this would make them a lot faster to find. How does it work?”

You smile at how intrigued an alien is over a laptop...You lay the laptop in front of her and begin showing her how to search things.

The change in her voice has held and the slight sad and shy tone has been shed...For the most part as Twilight speaks up, “So anything I write in this box will bring up that book?”

You shrug in agreement, as you mindlessly look around the room. However your eyes catch the clock as you notice it's getting close to the time you would start getting ready for school.

"I need to get going..." You turn back to the pony  sitting on the bed as you speak up, "I uh...I need to go to school and-..."

Your voice is halted as the mare's ears perk up and her voice comes out, “You’re a student too?"

A simple smile comes to your face as you nod your head. However your comment has seemed to open up the floodgate of stories as the pony starts to speak up, "I'm Princess Celestia's-..." Her excited words come to a halt as she stops herself, "I...I mean i'm just a pony from Ponyville."

You blink to the sudden change in her voice but you don't pay it much mind as you speak up with the name the pony has used before, "Twilight, I need you to do something while i'm gone."

The mare's ears stay up to your voice as you trail on, "Don't leave the house, and you can't open the doors or windows ok?"

Your words turn a questioning eye to the mare but you're able to finish your comment before she can speak up, "Unicorns are not really found around here."

Twilight nods her head to the comment as she speaks up, "O-ok."

To her words you turn towards the door, however you don't leave the room as her voice comes back up, "Wait..."

You turn to the mare as she tries to push through her awkward sounding question, "Am I allowed to use your bath?"

The comment brings a slight bit of confusion to you as you look over the pony...But you nod your head as you speak up, "Y-ya...and help yourself to something to eat."

With another nod from the mare you turn back to the hallway now second guessing whether or not she'll actually know what a fridge is. The thought only holds to you until you reach the front, and as you open the door you take a deep breath as you try to just put on a normal non alien harboring persona.

(After School)

The things you've done today have allowed you to bury thoughts about the alien that's living in your house...But it's also got you thinking. Honestly, you have no idea what you’re paying for anymore, this thought runs through your head as you exit the bus and start your short trip to your house. You start thinking about the money you are wasting in college with stupid classes that you honestly don’t see helping you towards your major.

As you near your house you again as always can’t wait to get to your safe haven and block out the stupidity of your daily school life. However just before you turn your key to your door you remember what waits for you.

The sound of the door closing rings to the house for a moment as you just scan the room, the windows are still all shut and theres no men in black suits trying to take you away...So it's safe to say that the talking pony in your house didn't leave or get seen.

The sound of the door also brings another thing to the house as you hear the sound of hooves clapping to the floor.

You pause for the moment as you watch the now brighter lavender mare trotting over to you, her two tone purple mane still looks a little uncombed but you don't really pay attention to that as you notice her horn glowing and your laptop and a piece of paper floating above the ground beside her.

"I hope this was ok..." Her voice comes to your ears as the piece of paper floats over to where you stand in the doorway.

You look over the paper in your hand as you realize it looks to be an assignment for school, "Where did you get this?"

"You got a letter on the magic book saying it was the work you missed...It's the least I could do after you let some strange pony that you don’t even know stay in your house, eat your food and use your magic book.” Twilight's ear flops down a little as she continues, "A-and it was rather interesting to see how this island learns."

You nod and give a friendly smile and also make a mental note to buy more apples and other such things like that.

“You have been a very gracious host, but I think its time to go I don’t want my friends worrying about me anymore. Thanks to your magic book I think I found a way to extract the magic from this land.” The laptop next to her floats to your hold as she starts to turn away, you glance over the screen for a moment but you're just kind of stunned how many pages there are.

However you turn your eyes back to the pony as you speak up, "Um...That spell thing. Are you sure you can do it? I mean, how do you know it will work?"

“I won’t know if it works untill I try it, and I can’t wait to long its imperative I get back home as soon as possible, if I’m not there the Elements of Harmony can’t be used. Without the element Equestria could fall into darkness.”

You blink to the comment as you start to walk over towards the kitchen table to set the lap top down, "Helemnts of aramory?"

Your mispronunciation brings a quick response from the pony as she shakes her head and turns more to face you, "No, the Element's of Harmony."

Again you just stare to her not knowing what the word means.

Twilight looks you over for a moment before she explains, "I guess I should tell you who I am..." She clears her throat as she straightens her posture, "I am Twilight Sparkle, the prized student of Princess Celestia."

You give a simple nod as you lean to the table and listen.

"...The Elements of Harmony are items of great power, their magic can even change the way a pony acts or thinks." A smile begins to cross over the mare's face as she continues, "In our land magic is thoughts and emotions and it affects everypony and everything especially feelings." She halts her voice for a moment as she looks around, "From what I was able to find out about this land the magic here doesn't seem to be generated like ours." Her hoof comes up to her mouth as she taps it for a moment and begins to think out loud, you still listen to her but the sight of an animal doing such a human like action leaves you a little uneasy, "I'm guessing I must have teleported somewhere off the coast of the Griffin empire."

As her comment ends the room goes silent for a moment as she just lightly taps her hoof to her mouth, however her silence doesn't last long as she nods her head, "Yes, well I should get going."

Before you can even nod your head the pony  turns her trot back to the open space in the living room.

“Ok here I go….” As her comment ends her eyes close and her horn sparks up in a bright purple glow.

Like before a purple aura surrounds and wraps around Twilight as she begins to fade in and out with the building magic around her figure.

With a poof chiming like sound as she disappears.
You stare to the spot for a few minutes in silence, just hoping the spell works for Twilight's sake. You end up waiting about five minutes still standing in pretty much the same spot until you finally start thinking she made it back home safe…But just as the lighter toned thought rolls in, you remember how weak she was the last time she tried her spell, your mind is now swirling with thoughts of the talking pony being hurt somewhere by herself.

A hard sigh comes from you as you realize tonight is going to be a sleepless night of worrying about some talking thing, that you barely even know. You don’t really even know why you care, most likely it’s the big purple eyes that look so innocent or maybe it’s her inquisitive spirit...

Just as you start to push the thought out of your mind you hear the sound of the magic again. The sound like lightning, you know that her spell failed again you just hope she's not too hurt.

The purple ball like object of magic that you saw yesterday appears in the middle of the room again like yesterday, the ball of magic eventually pops with the same effects. Twilight reappears as the burst of purple and white swirls of light begins to fade. You can see that she is standing and does not seem to be as weak as yesterday, but from how she hangs her head you know she's anything but ok.

“I couldn't do it…The magic in this area is just so different...I-it's like i'm not even in the same world.” She studies the ground not wanting to look up.

Despite the fact you already have assumed she was not of this world you keep your mouth shut not wanting to truly upset.

Her tone holds almost  a sad whisper as she trails on, “In my land o-or world whatever it’s called here, love and tolerance generates magic… but in this place, there is not enough love and tolerance to generate the magic I need to teleport. I can’t even send a letter home to tell anyone I’m ok…I already tried but the letter just burst into flames.”

You can’t imagine how she must feel and you just stand there silent as she continues to just stare to the ground.

“I-...I think i'm going to lay down for a minute." As her comment ends she starts her trot towards the hall, all the while never raising her head.

Despite her obvious emotions she keeps her composure as she moves from your sight, you trail your eyes after her for the moment as you watch her enter into your room and close the door behind her.

You hold your head to the door for a moment as you quietly walk over to it, however you don't even get halfway down the hall before you hear what sounds like a light sob being muffled from  behind the door.

The sound completely empties your mind about asking for your own bed back tonight as you turn your own head to the floor and walk back into the other room.

However as your eyes move to the laptop still sitting on the kitchen table as you bring a thought into your mind. With a few quick motions you take the laptop into your hold and then turn back to the door of your room. You clear your throat for a moment as you speak knock to the closed door, "Um...Hello?"

The light sobbing from behind the door stops to the sound of someone outside of it as Twilight's slightly shaky voice calls back, "Y-yes?"

You adjust your hold as you speak up, "I was just thinking...Maybe that magic stuff could be gained from a little studying."

No answer comes up from behind the door and you now start to think over whether or not your previous thought was dumb or not, but you hold strong to the idea as you bring your voice back up, "...You said magic was thought right? Well maybe if you learn something about where you are it would help?"

You stand in the hall for another few good moments before you hear the sound of hooves coming closer towards the other side of the door.

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(Present)

The sight of the door opening fades from your spell induced mind as the light start up of Aerolight’s cry breaks through the spell.

With a faint pop the room around you comes back into view, and as it does you like Twilight both turn your heads towards the crib.

However before you can stand from the bed Twilight has already gotten to her hooves as she trots over towards the now stirring colt, "Does somepony need a diaper-..." Her baby like tone changes as she hangs her head over the crib, "Oh...I think so."

You watch quietly as Twilight scoops the small colt into her hold, as she adjust her hold she turns back to you and Violet as she speaks up, "I'll be right back."

Again you don't bring your voice up, but you give a simple nod as she turns out of the room. To the absent lavender mare you shift your eyes to where Violet stands, as you do this you notice her wondering eyes skeptically rolling over you.

A faint smile starts to creep over your face as you push the realistic feelings that the spell brought up out of your mind, "What?"

Violet tightens her stare of you as she takes her head back and brings her hooves up.

The sight of the light purple mare's hooves holds your smile as you start to poke a little fun at the comment, "I looked different huh?" A light and forced laugh runs from you as you turn your gaze to your hoof.

However you don't hold your stare to the fur covered hoof for long as you notice from the corner of your eye Violet's hooves starting back up with another question.

"What? No no, i'm fine." You hold your smile as you roll your hoof to her, "At least we know your dad has always looked good huh?"

Violet rolls her eyes to you as you give a simple  much needed laugh.

You hold the lighthearted moment for a moment as the tap tap sound of claws starts to chime in from the door. The noise turns your head as you and Violet stare to the light purple dragon lazily rubbing at his closed right eye, with a faint yawn his voice rings out still holding it's lazy and most likely sleepy tone, "What are you guys doing?"

Before you can answer the sound of Twilight's voice comes up as she trots in behind Spike into the room, "Oh Spike you're awake, could you watch Aerolight for a few minutes?"

The little dragon takes his claw from his face as he blinks to the question, "Um...Ya sure, what's up?"

Twilight turns her trot towards the crib as she lowers the colt down to it, "We found a spell that was able to break through a magic barrier."

Spike turns his head to you as Twilight's voice continues to ring out, "...And we're almost done."

"Almost done?" You give a light laugh as you speak up, "Twilight you said that was when we first meet? How are we almost done?"

Twilight turns from the crib with a simple smile as her know it all voice comes out, "Well yes, but it's a shared memory, so once we break the shared memory we'll be done. And..." Her ears flop down a little as she continues, "...It's bringing back a lot of nice feelings going back through it."

You don't hold the same smile she has as you just watch her trot coming back to her spot on the bed. The only feelings you've gotten out of this endeavor so far have left you feeling a little uneasy, and the fact that you can't even remember what happens next in your own memories has set a strange bit of fear in the back of your mind.

However in your silent thinking Twilight has taken her spot next to you on the bed as she turns her gaze back the light purple mare in front of her, "Violet...Do you want to continue the spell?"

The light purple mare gets a wide and proud smile as she nods her head. Unlike you, the spell so far has brought an unexpected adventure for the young mare and her own curiosity to who her parents were before, it has held her attention and added in a certain kind of joy.
"Alright..." Twilight straightens her posture as she sparks her horn up, "Start your spell when you're ready."

To the sound of Twilight's horn and Violet's own smile you take a deep breath as you just close your eyes and wait.

End chapter 5