After nearly two weeks of constant practicing, Sweetie was only slightly better at casting the advanced spells. When casting the flight spell, she managed to spawn a single feather. The fire spell on the other hand, exploded out of her, and had to always be aimed at the sky so it didn’t start a fire. The levitate self option she was excelling at. Sweetie was already mastering it by jumping out of her window and using it to land safely.
However the change gravity and transform spells just slipped through her magic. Thankfully they didn’t explode, but Sweetie wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to master them. Given enough time, she supposed. That of course left the final spell, a might higher level shield. Sweetie had tried it out, but left it alone for the moment. It wouldn’t do to use a high level shield spell to drain her magic, and keep the headaches away BEFORE she needed to.
“Sorry Sweetie, there’s no shortcuts at this point, you’ll just have to keep practicing.” Twilight sympathised with Sweetie, wanting to get to the more exciting spells. Sadly, training one’s magic took time and conscious effort. Even two weeks wouldn’t be enough for Sweetie to learn how to do these spells. Before Twilight was an Alicorn, she had struggled with them, even under pressure.
“I know Twilight. It’s just so...boring!” Sweetie leaned backward, falling to the floor as she groaned. Why did learning magic have to be so boring. Sweetie was starting to despise her daily training regimen. It was boring beyond compare. Sweetie was horribly tempted to just abandon the advanced spells.
“Well, you’re welcome to stop whenever. No one is forcing you to.” Twilight tilted her head. Sure, she LOVED learning magic. But Sweetie wasn’t Twilight, and she knew that. Sweetie glanced to Twilight, and sighed, shaking her head.
“Well yes, but it’s something for me to do.” Sweetie sighed, closing her eyes as she layed there. Twilight bit her lip, and looked away.
“It opens new stuff to me. No matter how boring it is.” Sweetie stood up, and quietly mumbled a goodbye. Twilight waved, and watched Sweetie leave. Looking at Sweetie walked away, Twilight could see just how much Sweetie had matured during the time loop. And it was not a good thing. A filly should be allowed to enjoy her childhood, not forced to do increasingly hard stuff to keep herself from being bored.
Twilight sighed, and returned to her tasks, despite the fact she had apparently done them for weeks now.
I'm loving this so far!
I really love time-loop stories like this and the drift between funny and serious; and this one definitely has its moments!
thanks for a good read
YAY! This is wonderful. Stuff is happening!! HURRAH!
Feel free to start skipping loops now. Not every plot point has to be in consecutive loops.
Seriously, I want to see Sweetie use the mirror pond and try taking her clone through a the loop reset with her. If there were two Sweetie Belles when the loop reset, what would happen???????????????????
I'm imagining what would happen if sweetie did start a fire...
With this end, something important is happening next! Or spells ...
So what exactly is Twilight doing at the end of this chapter?
Writing herself notes and trying out experiments I imagine.
~Leonzilla
5638661 I hope she will do that. Maybe that could lead to the mysterious helper who stopped the death circle and other stuff?
5638661 time and space colapse inof each other, at the point of equidistanse between them
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I really hope it happens because some loops are at best only few sentences or meaningless
If the last loop was 47 (where she just learned advanced)and you start off saying two weeks wouldn't this loop be at least 49 if not 50?
I just did the math and at the point of this chapter Sweetie has spent 240 days in a time loop.
...Holy crap.
All things considered, I believe the only reason Sweetie is sane at this point is because she is a very creative, innovative, and strong-willed
perspony.This makes her very able to think up something new to try every loop. With the loop causing her to collect magic in a vampire-like way, she also has plenty of loops spent on her magical training, which, once she is able to try new spells, becomes entertaining for her at the same time.Everything I said above going into consideration...
You are a very impressive writer as you have most definitely researched everything you include here, you manage to keep it all in her personality, which you have grow over loops, causing very small changes that make tiny little interfaces that you can include to entertain us readers. That being that, there is also the fact you are giving everypony a chance to make theories.
Thanks so much for this story. It just helps me think. I just looked at the clock, and I've been reading the chapters I've missed for about 4:12. Not bored at all. I salute you.