Silver staggered back into his room on an evening about a week later. Night was gone, likely doing her guardpony duty, but Fast awoke at his entry and looked to him. She frowned with concern and approached as he wobbled dangerously. "What happened?"
Silver smiled, "Nothing bad. Luna."
Fast tilted her head, "What... were you two doing that has you looking that roughed up?"
Silver shook his head, "Dunno. I, you know, finished, but it felt like I was being sucked inside out, but in all the best ways. I was terrified, but I didn't want it to end either. It felt important, like... I had to do all I could. So I dug deep and let my magic run wild, and it just kept... coming out."
Fast squinted at Silver a bit, "I'm glad you didn't kill yourself, the way you describe that." She lifted him up in her magic and brought him to the bed. "Was it like that with Night Watch?"
Silver blinked, "No? I mean... it was good, but not... that."
Fast rolled a hoof, "I'm guessing it isn't that way every time, or you would really be dead."
Silver curled on the bed. It was so soft. He felt the urge to just pass out. "I think I did it."
"Well you certainly did something!" agreed Fast.
Silver shuffled over and kissed Fast on the snout, "I mean with Luna. Time will tell."
Sleep descended on him for a time, but he was roused from his dreamless rest by knocking on the door. Fast was already headed for it. She pulled it open to reveal Professor Thetics. Silver was fully awake, his pulse hastening.
Fast frowned, but, Celestia bless her, she forced a smile, "What a pleasant surprise." Her eyes darted and she gave off all the tells of lying, "The savior of my dear husband."
Callis smiled brightly at Fast, radiating his own insincerity, "A pleasure, I'm sure. I came to speak to him."
Silver pushed himself upright despite the fatigue, "I'm right here."
Callis approached with a smile, with Fast scowling at his back dangerously. "My boy! The deans of the college were so impressed with your little speech. They thought you deserved a second chance."
Silver blinked, "What's the catch?" he said without thinking. He couldn't fathom why the school would dare invite him back.
Callis reared up, putting his forehooves on the bed and smiling at Silver, "They want a chance to examine you. You've broken almost every rule we have for development in unicorns. You're too young to be making spells, and yet, there you were, submitting one for your test. Your raw power is average at best, but you have precision, and a fearlessness that is aching to be tapped."
Silver rolled an ear back, "That sounds like I'd be more of a test subject than a student..."
Callis shook his head, "Perhaps a little, but you could go to the classes I know you want to go to. One does not cheat to be where they don't want to be."
Silver flushed, "I didn't ask her to!" Oh god, why did he say that? Silver cursed his pony body and its habits even as Callis grinned with triumph.
"Consider it water under the bridge," said Callis soothingly.
Silver shrank back from Callis, "They never looked at my spell. I heard they burned it."
Callis lifted his shoulders, "A regrettable mistake, but one of the students, one Lyra Heartstrings, still had a copy. It has been entered into the library, with credit, of course. Quite the interesting choice for a spell." He raised a brow at Silver, "Are you stallion-ruled?"
Fast seemed to bristle at the word, "Take that back!"
Silver glanced at her, then to Callis, "What is that?"
Callis sat on the floor, taking his hooves off the bed, "A pony, a stallion specifically, who is ruled by the urges of his male anatomy."
Silver considered it with his muggy mind. He did have a foal on the way, quite possibly two. He had two wives, and one consort, and felt no shame trying to find time to appreciate all three every day that he could. Maybe? "What if I am a little?"
Callis gestured at Silver, "I'm not judging." His voice implied he was judging with every syllable. "You are young, you may yet grow out of it. Still, it's an interesting development. I am told you made that little... fire spell. The surge."
Fast suddenly slipped between Callis and the bed, "Enough! He's exhausted and you're not welcome here. Stop pressuring him like he's still a student."
Callis held up his hooves, "Peace. I'm not attacking him. If he wants me to go, I'll go. We're just talking."
Silver nodded slowly, "Leave him. He hasn't done anything too bad." He gave a quirk of a smile, "Besides call me a slut."
Fast perked an ear, "A what? That a human word?"
"Stallion-ruled? Is there a female version?" asked Silver.
Fast wrinkled her nose, "I'm not here to expand your dirty language, unless it involves us alone."
Silver flopped onto his side, "So why you? I mean, you could have sent a neutral teacher, or even Lyra."
Callis snorted loudly, "They felt I knew you. You gave such a convincing speech they were convinced you would be more likely to agree if I approached you. Lyra is not a professor. She is a student. She has not yet graduated. Her teaching of the introductory class does not make her a professor. Did you get her to cheat for you as well?"
Silver frowned at that, "She was honest and forthright. She did not cheat or help me cheat. Why, you have the spell, don't you?"
Callis waved a hoof, "You could have gotten it from somewhere. Tell me, how did you make it?"
Silver suddenly grinned as a devious thought came to mind. It was devious enough to even fill him with a second wind, sitting up and looking down at Callis, "Why don't I show you. I can make a spell right now."
Callis blinked, "What, how? I don't have months to wait."
Silver waved a hoof, "Give me permission and sit still and I will show you a new spell." He pointed back at his cutie mark, "That's my specialty after all. I will make you the envy of all stallions."
Callis looked skeptical, "I have little problem in that regard... But I do wish to see what you can do, if anything. Very well, display your new spell. Just don't waste my time. If you can't do it, admit it."
Silver started pulling out his notes and Luna's book of entirely inappropriate spells. Oh what to do, what to do! He could mix and match spells in so many deliciously awful ways, not to hurt Callis, physically, but to make life awkward and embarrassing for a time. It hit him and he grinned, "I have it!" Why not combine the two spells he knew well and had the primitives worked out. He began to scribble quickly, comparing it to the other two spells, then adjusting it, going back and forth with his notes to make sure he had just the right number of each symbol, in the right order, to command the universe the way he wanted to. To Callis' credit, he sat there quite patiently for half an hour before Silver put his quill down, "Got it."
Callis blinked at Silver, "Already? Hmmph, just stringing two spells together is not sufficient. It must produce a unique effect."
Silver nodded, "Of course. This is entirely unique, so far I know." His horn began to glow silver as he focused on his own heart crystal. He could feel the warm presence of Twilight's magic helping his own magic, then he reached out to Callis' pyramid, giving himself access to Callis' body. "I'm ready to begin."
Callis nodded, "Proceed."
So trusting... Silver wondered if it was a good or bad mark for Callis. He began to play the letters methodically from the notes and he could feel magic being drawn from him. Silver was already glad he hooked to his own crystal beforehand, as his reserves were quite low and he felt fatigue building quickly. The bed suddenly shook as Fast sat beside him. Her horn leaned over and she tapped his with hers. He felt her magic begin to flow. He could feel her reserves made available and relief was quick. He drew greedily from this new source as he formed the spell, funneling its power into Callis, who had begun to squirm in place, but remained still overall.
It took a minute of work, but Silver finished with a smile, letting his horn cool down. "Done."
Callis looked himself over before he closed his eyes. Silver could see his horn glowing, but to no effect. "You've... enchanted me. In a very unclean fashion."
Silver shook his head, "What else did you expect from a stallion-ruled spellcrafter? It should wear off in a day or two, and is harmless."
Callis rose to his hooves, "But what is it? I recognize a fragment of it, but it isn't that."
Silver decided to toss subtlety out the window, "You remember that fireball, right?"
Callis nodded stiffly, "How could I not?"
Silver gestured down between Callis' hindlegs, "You have a portion of that power in your jewels. If you give it a way out, you'll explode. Now don't look at me like that. I don't mean a fiery explosion. I mean whatever comes out will be hot. You could probably start a brush fire if you lifted a leg against a tree."
Callis darkened and sputtered, "How crude!"
Silver shook his head, "Just don't lay with a mare. It would be very cruel."
Callis slapped the bed with a forehoof, "This is assault!"
Silver tilted his head, "How so? You asked for it, and you consented to it, and nopony has been injured." He pushed ahead the scrap of paper with the spell. "Here, if you need to check it."
Callis snatched the paper with his magic, "Undo it, now."
Silver flopped to the bed, "We warned you I was tired, and I meant it. I'm dead serious when I say I don't trust myself to do a bit more magic. It will fade on its own. You can feel the warmth, so you should know when it's gone."
Fast suddenly flopped onto Silver, laughing hysterically. Her laughter did little to calm Callis. He turned and fled the room. Fast was still laughing merrily, "You're going to teach me that, right? You have to!"
Silver felt his grip on the world weakening, "He took the spell," he murmured as he passed out.
Fast picked Silver up in her magic and soon they were both under the covers. She curled around him, affectionately and protectively. "You are more insane than you could ever know," she said to the sleeping Silver, before she joined him in a nap.
5766746 That seems like a very bright, if short, career. Silver thinks he will pass on that offer.
The fuck jsut happend?
5766787 Is that rhetorical?
5766791 No, it's not.
I'm confused by what happend.
5766806 Thetic showed up late after Silver was beat from happytimes with Luna. Thetic reported the academy wanted Silver back. Thetic was a bit of a jerk as usual and wanted proof of Silver making a spell. Silver mixed an enhancement and his fireball to make a stallion piss fire for a while. Thetic is not amused.
Hope that helps.
5766817 Oh, ok....that was a strange and unusual punishment??? I'm not sure if it is a punishment...
5766843 Are you saying having fire shoot out of you in the restroom or bedroom is a good thing?
5766846 Phrasing.
Edit: It sounds like an S.T.D.
5766846 For a Pyromaniac or Pyromancer...maybe?
For a normal person, probably not...
So...This is a strange and unusual punishment...Heh! Strange. Definitely new.
heh, silver gets payback
I think he is much better off with the Warlocks teaching him how to honor and control his talents in creating new destructive spells and won't try to con or manipulate him x3
Wow, that spell could lead to some very hot lovins.
Okay I enjoyed the rewrite additions and enjoyed this chapter. Screw this pompous twit Kineto...Sthetics...hisface.
I'd give him a flaming dickbutt!
I love it silver got a little satisfaction out of the new spell Callis Thetics did not get heart and he agreed to it all the way.
and his sex life just got put on hold for a few days, good job silver.
now hear is a little problem for silver witch school does he go to. he wants to be a good pony and the first school can help him with his talent .
the second school can help him control his power's better.
hum what to do what to do???
Harts Fire
5766890 Definately a U.T.D.
The thought of pissing fire....... it hurts my johnson.
Capitalize "fast" here, since it's her name.
I'd change "primitives" to "basics," since otherwise the sentence reads very oddly.
I think that should be "ever know" rather than "even know."
5767868 Tweaked, though primitives in this case is coding jargon, and is the word I meant to use. It is not basics. They are the words you make code out of.
5767881 My mistake then, but I suspect that that distinction won't be recognized by readers who aren't programmers.
5767891 Silver's internal monologue is as confusing as his actions sometimes! What think ye of it?
5767895 This chapter was largely an interlude. While it did present a notable point in that Silver now has a chance to reclaim the direction in life that he was headed in previously (e.g. returning to school), the remainder of it was Silver's sweet revenge on that monumental jerk.
Seriously, I can't believe how much of an ass Callis Thetics is. After everything that he went through, including Celestia's subtle warning, he still shows up at Silver's home and says the school wants to treat him like a guinea pig, calls him a slut, reiterates the idea that he was only admitted because of Luna, and questions if he cheated on his final exam. That level of arrogance, and rudeness, is stunning. Silver's spell was crude, but very much deserved.
That aside, this does bring up the question of whether Silver will go back to school to study internal enhancement or join the warlocks...though I have to wonder if that's really a dichotomy at all. After all, Luna publicly declared that she'll be instructing him, so really he might just go to school during the day and spend the evenings learning war magic from Luna. That'd be her monopolizing time with him, but it's easy to see her doing that.
It was notable that Silver could apparently tell exactly when he impregnated Luna, but that's not unbelievable. After all, ponies have inherent magic, and the alicorn sisters are overflowing with it. Given that, a case could be made that it takes a large amount of magic to engender a new life within one of them, and so Silver could feel it when he suddenly had to supply that much to fill her with a foal(s).
So, Silver cheated to get in via connections, broke the law, endangered many people, and almost killed a filly. Thetics was verbally chastised by Celestia, and I thought he was being forced to give Silver his "due" here and give him another chance, and his trying to let Silver make a spell was him trying to confirm that he wasn't worth it and until it was revealed he seemed like he was grudgingly respectful.
So far, the only thing Thetics has actually done is paralyze him and say mean words. Silver nearly killed him and a handful of others, and now has essentially cursed his penis for several days.
If Silver was an actual child, maybe I'd have sympathy for him, but he is not a child, he is an adult.
I'll go ahead and step back for a moment: I realize Thetics is supposed to be completely execrable, but this is a common trope in stories: The arrogant jerk who is supposed to be very influential and powerful but who actually is totally ineffective, and mostly exists to be a pathetic caricature of the arrogant and powerful. And I hate that archetype. You already have realistically arrogant elite in this story who have done actually bad things, have ignored wrongdoing, insisting that Silver is the wrong one, have tried to manipulate him for no reason other than greed... but this character had legitimate points: Silver can't be trusted with dangerous magic, and he did cheat to get in. It is not a satisfying scene, for me, where Thetics is humiliated and cursed for being adamant about fighting for those points in a mean way.
5772816 You won't get much argument from me. Silver was dead tired when he showed up and did something foalish indeed, though it did prove he didn't cheat in the introductory class exam.
While he did cheat to get in, Thetics didn't know that, he just assumed that. He assumed a lot of things, which is why the situation came up as it did. Is he evil? No, I really don't think he is. Heck, Silver did give him a wing of the academy and said nothing but kind things about him, so there's that? Cursed penis aside.
That was a childish thing to do. He could have either accepted the offer or politely declined and everything would have been fine.
Why accept a offer when you can make someone piss fire.
5930960 you can do that nonmagically.
Dunun duń duń! Great Balls of Fire!
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*sigh* Silver, you could have remedied your relations with that stallion. You could have not been a jerk. Unfortunately I would have done the same :P
I withdraw my previous comment about Silver being to nice.
So instead of spitting hot fire... he pisses hot fire.
Reminds me of that scene from ghost rider 2.
HHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BWAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAH! Oh my god dude! This paragraph made me laugh so hard I threw up a little in my mouth!
You win! I give up, I can not beat you in a game of why can write the funniest thing in context.
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!
Well Okay this is gettin-
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
I'm not sure why, but this was the first thing that popped into my head when I read this.
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Seems legit.
Yep, and I'll wager money that it was not acredited to Silver. These 'tests'... I am absolutely certain they are going to be outright harmful. That shit stain of a bully teacher has nothing wholesome about him in ANY way. Why can't Silver see the damn trap!?
10438187oh god it's like 3 am I'm trying not laugh u funny