My Little Gemcraft

by Registered Anonymous

Chapter 4

I DON’T OWN MY LITTLE PONY OR GEMCRAFT THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND THIS IS A NON PROFIT STORY THAT I AM USING BOTH FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Chapter 4
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Ponyville Library
12:18 P.M.

For the past two hours or so Twilight has been asking me a series of questions. The questions mostly pertaining as to what the human anatomy was and other science related things about human species. She was very interested in how my hands and opposable thumbs worked when we began discussing about it. Although I found these questions a tad boring at times, but who was I to turn down a hungry mind from knowledge? But as of right now Twilight looks to be finished with asking these types of questions as she says:

“Alright I think that’s enough information about your human anatomy, biology, and psychology. It’s amazing really at how incredibly different your human bodies are in anatomy, but psychology wise almost the same as to us ponies. Now if you don’t mind may we delve into how you humans use magic? I am quite interested in how you perform magic without a horn like us unicorns and I am interested in this ‘gem crafting’ you are able to do as well.” Twilight says with a joyful smile on her face.

Now things were starting to get interesting.

“Hmmm well where should I begin? Should I tell you about the different types or spells we use or just the basics about how we can control it? Either way it will take a long time to discuss them both.” I say to her with a grin on my face.

“Oh I don’t mind I am always up for long lectures at anytime.” Twilight states as she turns towards her dragon assistant, Spike. “Spike if you would please make some tea for our guest and for me as well?”

“Sure thing Twi!” Spike says as he finishes putting the last of some books into one of the shelves and made his way towards the kitchen.

“I hope you like tea Zekeal,” Twilight says as she turns back towards me.

I chuckle lightly and say “Tea would be quite lovely actually.”

Not even two minutes later Spike was coming out of the kitchen with a teapot and two cups.

“Hmm that was fast.” I say as I looked at the dragon quizzically.

Spike looks at me and says “I’m a dragon remember?” He then proceeds to blow a short stream of green fire out to show me that he used his breath to heat the water.

“Oh right, right sorry I am just still trying to accept that dragons, unicorns, and pegasi are common things here in this dimension.” I then pick up the teapot and poured myself a cup.

“Why? If you have magic then you must have some magical creatures then right?” Twilight asks me.

“Actually yes, yes we do, but they are not like you ponies,” I reply back taking a sip of tea. Mmmmm that’s some good Earl Grey.

“Oh and what are these magical creatures then? Are they friendly?” Twilight asks with a questioning look.

“Uh um well how about I tell you about how we humans use magic, then gemcrafting, and then I’ll tell you about our magical creatures in our world?” I say trying to postpone the inevitable time when I tell her about the monsters that infest my world.

“*sigh* Alright I guess we can do that.” Twilight says as she takes a sip of her tea by using her magic to levitate it up to her mouth. “Now if you will please.”

“Right well first off I guess I should explain how we humans use magic.” I begin “We can use magic, because of a certain energy that we use which can be found in all living things from where I am from called mana.”

Twilight’s eyes light up as she says “And just what does this mana have to do with magic? Or in other words why is it needed?”

“Well we need mana, because it’s like the energy we use to like walk to a certain place or to lift a book up with our hands or something that requires energy for everyday things. Mana on the other hand, or hoof in your case, is used to perform magic spells in our everyday life. Like this for example.” I say as I aim my hand towards the teapot and focus my mana to make it slowly levitate up and pour it to refill my cup.

Twilight was amazed to say the least “Wow that’s amazing you can levitate objects like us too?”

“Yes, but levitating is just a few of the spells I know of and is by far the only spell that uses a very miniscule amount of mana. I was taught this back in my beginner days back at the wizard academy.” I explain with a smug grin on my face.

“Hmmm very interesting,” Twilight says as she takes down more notes “Now if you would please explain to me about how you created all those stone walls from out of nowhere back in Applejack’s orchard.”

“That, Twilight, is what many wizards would call Construction magic. We human wizards tend to use it to build structures with it.” I explained “Although unlike the levitating spell this spell requires a fairly large amount of mana for it to work so it’s a little more complicated.”

I waited until Twilight was finished copying with what I said to her on her parchment of paper before I began again.

“The spell requires the mana to be forcefully pushed together and aimed at the ground where you want to make your structure until eventually, POOF! Where you were aiming at there is now a wall or tower where you were focusing on.” I finished explaining although not in the most scholarly of ways, but hey it gets the point across.

Twilight was looking at me with a raised eyebrow “Poof? Really?”

“Yeah well I wasn’t really paying much attention to those lessons back at the wizard academy alright! Think of it as some sort of dumbed down version of its actual explanation.” I say embarrassingly while I scratched the back of my head.

“*sigh* And how exactly did you manage to pass Wizard Academy then if you didn’t pay attention that much in your classes?” Twilight says with a curiously, annoyed look on her face.

“Well… I had help from my other peers… that’s how I passed.” I said with a weak smile.

“…You cheated didn’t you?” Twilight then says with a deadpanned look.

“Uh um… well yeah on the written exams of course, but I excelled incredibly in my spell application examinations.” I explained with an even weaker smile on my face “Did I forget to mention I barely passed my Wizard training at the wizard academy?”

Twilight had that deadpanned look on her face for a full minute before saying “So… you have more spell smarts than books smarts then?”

“Well yeah I am a man who prefers action over intellectual debates, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like to read books it was just that in the wizard academy they made you go over the same materials over and over again. It just got boring for me and I just had to stop studying for what I was going to be tested on.” I tried explaining to her “I am a wizard and as a wizard I have a craving for knowledge that is slightly unquenchable.”

Twilight looked at me understandingly and says “I understand although I am somewhat the opposite of you as I enjoy re-reading books in fact I think I have already read every book in this library at least three times already. But that’s beside the point may we get back on topic please?”

I was glad she was so understanding to my opinion, but her being able to read every book in here twice just amazed me. She must have incredible reading endurance to be able to pull that off and an incredible love for books. Which gave me the idea of the perfect nickname for her.

“Sure thing Book-worm,” I said to Twilight teasingly.

She looked at me while shaking her head as if she couldn’t believe at what I just said and then nodded at me to let me continue my lecture.

“Anyway, after the tower and wall spells there comes the coup de grace of what being a wizard in my world really means, Gem Crafting.” I said with a hint of excitement in my voice.

“Gem Crafting was an ancient art of magic passed down from generations upon generations of wizards with most tomes and books dating back by about 3,000 years ago. Gem Crafting requires the most concentration and effort out of all the spells that a wizard has in his arsenal.” I slowly explained while getting a sudden glance from Twilight when I said ‘arsenal’ but she brushed it off. I continued explaining.

“When a wizard wants to create a gem through gem crafting they will have to use a fairly decent size of mana to acquire a gem, all gems are categorized into grades ranging from one to twelve, with twelve being the highest, which means it requires a lot of mana to create it, and one being the lowest, which requires the least amount of mana to create it. So in short the higher the gem grade, the more powerful the gem will be.” I then took a moment to sip some of my tea before continuing again “Now that I have explained the fundamentals of Gem Crafting a short demonstration is in order.”

I proceed to open my hand palm up with my five fingers arched towards the center of the palm of my hand. “Now then first I have to concentrate my mana into each of my five fingers…” I say as a light blue aura begins to spread to the tips of each of my fingers. “Now I slowly release the now focused mana to the center of my hand.” The blue aura then gets drawn into the center of my hand from my fingers and begins forming a triangle shape with rounded sides.

“Now I focus on the shape of the gem… then begin hardening it from the inside out,” I say as a red gem slowly materializes in my hand. “And… presto!” I say as the red gem fully materializes in my hand glowing a little “And that’s how you create a gem with magic!”

I looked at Twilight to see the expression on her face. She looked stunned, but incredibly excited from the demonstration I just performed. “T-that was amazing!” She stuttered as she looked at the gem closer.

I chuckle a little and say to her “This is nothing compared to other gems I have created, what you see here is a grade 1 gem, so it’s nothing really special plus I can do this a whole lot faster anyway.”

I then focus again into the palm of my hand and another gem suddenly appears in my hand although this time being the color green instead of red and also being more of a diamond shape instead of a triangle.

This only increased Twilight’s excitement by ten fold at least “*Squee!* That was amazing! How can you do that so fast and with it looking so much more smoothed out!?” She says to me excitedly.

“Years of practice Twilight years of practice… which is where I will begin explaining the more darker side of Gem Crafting.” I then say my face giving a more serious tone.

Twilight’s excitement was slightly halted a little “Huh what do you mean darker side? How could something this amazing have a dark side?”

I smile weakly at her innocent reply and say “Twilight this gem right here,” I raise up the red gem that I created from my demonstration “This gem is called a Bloodbound gem and this one,” I then raise up the green one I just created “This gem is called a Poisonous gem.”

Twilight frowns slightly, “But why are they called by such ugly names? What exactly are they used for?”

I look at her struggling to keep my fake smile on my face “These gems I created are used for battle, Twilight. Being a wizard in my world is not a glamorous job. I am more like a soldier for hire from where I am from than a man of knowledge.”

Twilight’s face turns into a confused frown, “But how!? You went to a Wizard’s academy that taught you all these amazing spells that should help you to create yet why are you using them to destroy!? How can you be just so alright with being a soldier!?”

“Monsters.” I say to Twilight with a solemn face. “Because of Monsters Twilight.”

“Huh what? Monsters? What do you mean Zekeal?” Twilight asks slightly confused.

“The magical creatures I told you about before, the name they are called by in my world are Monsters.” I say to Twilight solemnly “It’s because of these Monsters is the reason why the wizards of my world are considered soldiers or weapons.”

“Wait you fight these Monsters? But why?” Twilight asks again.

“These Monsters infest my world Twilight. They are truly disgusting and evil creatures with no sense of pity about them. Their main purpose is to cause destruction and misery for us humans.” I say seriously “They ravage villages and towns killing every man, woman, and child that lives there so long as there is no wizard present. And even then if there was a wizard there is just be just no complete end to them. When a wizard destroys one of them another ten rise to take its place the next day. It’s like one struggle for survival after the next where I am from Twilight, not like your world with smiles and sunshine, how I envy your world so much.”

I turn away to look out the window which I sigh heavily. I then turn back to Twilight who was stunned and saddened by my tale. She looked to be at a loss of words. I really wished I could have kept quiet about the monsters, but I guess it would have been brought up eventually, so I guess better now than later.

I better help raise her mood a little.

“But that doesn’t mean there are no good things in my world either Twilight. Whenever a wizard destroys a nest of monsters that’s threatening a village a sudden feeling of peace is felt around the area near the nest. Not only will the wizard feel it the villagers will feel it as well making them all calmer and having the sense of dread raised off of their shoulders. And said villagers would proceed to start a huge festival in honor for the wizard for destroying the nest of monsters. Even though the peace would only last for a day or two and another horde of monsters would easily move into the empty nest by the next day and feeling of peace gets replaced with the same gloominess that was once over the village the villagers and the wizard would enjoy this small respite to the fullest and be thankful to be alive for that one day in the world. So even though there may be darkness and hardships in my world Twilight, as long as you endure those hardships you will eventually achieve your goals one by one and there will always be that tiniest sliver of light that will help light your path and guide you through the darkness of the world.” I told her in hopes of cheering her up even though I was not really good at long winded speeches.

Twilight looks up at me sniffing a little, but smiling and says “You would make a better story teller than a wizard Zekeal if you could tell more stories like that.”

I chuckle quietly “Yeah, you are right about that, but anyway I think this is a good time to stop asking questions if that’s alright with you?”

Twilight quickly composes herself a little and says “Yeah it’s alright, plus with the information I have gotten from you I think I have enough to give a full report to Princess Celestia.”

I smile at her and reply “That’s good to hear. Now I was wondering if I can look at some of your books for the time being if that’s alright with you?”

“Sure you may look at as many as you want,” Twilight says with a smile “I’ll just be over here composing the report for Celestia. Call me if you need anything Zekeal.”

“Sure thing Twilight.” I say to her and turned toward the shelves.

I quickly grabbed one of the books from the shelves and looked into it expecting incredible insights of information… but I quickly learned that we may have the same language, but not the same alphabet. This was going to take a while I feared.

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Ponyville Library
6:53 P.M.

It took me about a couple of hours and some tutoring from Twilight, but I eventually managed to create a small mediocre translation sheet that translated Equestrian script to my own world’s script. Now I can actually read some of these books now… slowly though, but hey at least I’ll learn something new from this.

The first book I read was apparently about the Princesses of this kingdom and from what it told me Princess Celestia could raise the sun and Princess Luna could raise the moon. Two beings that could raise a sun and/or a moon. The fact that they could was just do that without even straining was amazing by itself while at the same time incredibly frightening to me. Double mental note to self don’t piss off either of them that is if I ever meet them.

I was about to begin another book when I hear Twilight say “Sincerely from your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle alright Spike once you finish writing that last bit please send it to the Princess right away alright?”

“Sure thing Twilight.” Spike says to her as he rolled it up and blew a green flame which caught the letter on fire. I was about to say something about that when I noticed how the ashes flew out the window in a very peculiar way almost magical mind you so I decided not to question it seeing as how Twilight was not angry and still smiling at Spike so I continued my reading.

About an hour later something else happens that I did not expect from Spike. A belch. But this was no ordinary belch because right after said belch a parchment of paper popped out of nowhere near Spike’s mouth which he quickly grabs it and says “It’s from the Princess Twilight!”

Twilight turns towards the dragon from where she was studying and says “Well I was wondering when she would return my letter from this morning and whether she would read the one I just sent, go on and read it Spike.”

“Alrighty then Twilight *ahem* Dear Twilight Sparkle, I am sorry that I could not get back to your letter from this morning, I had a lot of royal duties I had to attend to today and couldn’t get a break to check my letters. For this I apologize. But I am glad you sent me this report about a Human named Zekeal as he also pertains to the magical disturbances you felt the night before.”

Both Twilight’s and my own ears perked up to this new change of development. So apparently my entrance into this world didn’t go entirely unnoticed eh? Spike then continues reading.

“Apparently one of the disturbances from last night was near Sweet Apple Acres and seeing as to how you found this human Zekeal in the vicinity of Sweet Apple Acres just the day after points to one thing. He was one of the magical disturbances.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up as she says “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” She seems very happy at this discovery she just made out of me. I couldn’t help but smile at this, but at the same time wonder if this is how she acts whenever she gets really excited. Spike resumes reading.

“Although the other disturbance that you written down I am having a harder time trying to find I will keep investigating the matter and I also plan on visiting Ponyville sometime on the day after tomorrow to meet Zekeal face to face. I really want to meet with him and see how you two are getting along. I really look forward to it. Sincerely yours, Princess Celestia.”

I was shocked and awed by this. I was going to meet one of the ruler’s of this land, and the best part is that it’s not going to include me getting thrown in a dungeon.

Twilight was ecstatically jumping around all over the place while saying “Oh my gosh Princess Celestia is coming to meet you Zekeal! We have to get you ready for her arrival so tomorrow we’ll have to let you see Rarity about a new set of clothes. I can’t believe this is happening!”

“Woah woah Twilight calm down.” I say to her trying to calm her although it doesn’t look like she will calm down entirely just yet “I am as excited as you or anyone else, but if you keep this up you’ll cause an earthquake!”

Twilight suddenly snaps out of it and smiles embarrassingly “Sorry I guess I sort of overreacted for a moment there.”

“No problem Twilight.” I say to her smiling “And I guess my robe could use a little tailoring to begin with.”

I looked down at my robes to see that they are slightly torn and water worn from days of traveling from town to town back in my world, although the more ragged a wizard’s robe gets means the more experience the wizard is. At least that’s how I pictured what an experienced wizard would look like.

“By the way is this Rarity person another friend of yours Twilight?” I ask her.

Twilight was about to speak until she was interrupted by Spike who says “She is only the most beautiful and respectable mare in all of Ponyville!”

There was no denying it this young dragon had a crush on this Rarity person, not by the fact that he had hearts in his eyes, but by the way he was acting, and to a being who was a pony no less! This world is just full of suprises.

Twilight then interjects with “She is actually the best tailor/dress maker in Ponyville, and she is quite good at what she does.”

“Oh so I am going to have my clothes tailored by a professional eh? That sounds quite nice.” I say to Twilight with a small grin.

“Glad to hear it Zekeal.” Twilight says as she turns toward the stairs “Well I am going to sleep right now, those series of questions and creating that report took a lot out of me. Goodnight Zekeal, goodnight Spike.”

“Goodnight Twilight sweet dreams,” Spike and I said almost at the same time.

“Also Zekeal you can sleep on the couch in the corner there if you want alright?” Twilight says to me as she began climbing the stairs up to her room.

“Thanks Twilight I really appreciate it,” I say to her as I went back over to my chair and began reading another book from the shelf.

“No problem Zekeal,” She says as she enters her room to turn in for the night.

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Ponyville Library
9:43 P.M.

Only Spike and I were still awake with me reading my book and him stocking the shelves of the library with books. But it soon came to being only me as Spike finished shelving the last book and began making his way upstairs to call it a night as well. We both said our goodnights to each other and he went to sleep. I was alone in the main room of the library finishing a book about the currency of Equestria and how it worked here. It wasn’t long until my eyes began to get heavy from all this reading. It wasn’t long before I began yawning more and more often and decided it was time to turn in for the night as well. I blew out the candle that was on the study and slowly made my way over towards the couch to lie down on upon it. It felt incredibly comfy and I almost went to sleep immediately with the last thoughts to enter my mind before I went to sleep were ‘Just what was that other magical disturbance that Twilight felt that wasn’t me?’ I then entered into a peaceful slumber on the couch slowly being lulled to sleep by a soft sound.

The sound being so soft that you would have had to listen closely to it.

Closely enough to tell that it was actually a whisper.

Closely enough to tell that the whisper was trying to communicate to me.

That the whisper was trying to tell me something important.

“Why have you come to this place young wizard?”

“You shouldn’t be in this world young wizard.”

“And why have you brought something oh so terrible to this peaceful place young wizard?”

“That will most certainly shatter this world’s peace forever if it’s not stopped by you, young wizard.”

The voice stops and there is nothing, but silence of the pitch black library all around me as I sleep soundly.

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End of Chapter 4

Alright another chapter bites the dust! I hope that the long dialogues in this chapter are not too confusing especially that heart-felt speech that Zekeal made in the middle of it and managed to get the point across. Again I hope you all are enjoying this story as it progresses and please don’t hesitate to point out any continuity errors, huge grammatical errors, or characters being incredibly out of character in my story that I may have overlooked ITS GREATLY APPRECIATED AND HELPS THE STORY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!

Zekeal: So hear that you readers! Tear this chapter a new one! So it no mercy!

Zekeal please stop breaking my 4th wall please.

Zekeal: Sorry no can do Registered I have to appear at the end here! It creates more entertainment for the reader at the end of the chapter anyways.

No you are just being a pest Zekeal.

Zekeal: Say what you will it won’t affect me in the slightest.

*sighs* Fine I won’t try to stop you, but if you bring anyone else in here I’ll end you! Anyway this is Registered Anonymous,

Zekeal: And Zekeal!

Signing off, check you guys later!

Comments

[Iambrony]

sweet also FIRST

[Nutter795]

I'm liking this story so far freind. I hope you have a good plot for it, it would be a shame to see an original idea fail. Oh look i'm first to comment not say a few words and yell FIRST.

[Registered Anonymous]

279063

I can see why Twilight would seem powerful, but to be fair Zekeal was caught off guard, tripped over Twilight, and landed face down in the dirt while with Applejack he was more prepared to escape. But if this reason isn't good enough or too defensive then I hope Uncle's reason is much more plausible:

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Also ONE MORE THING! Thanks for commenting.