Magic and Unity Pilot

by LovelyFlowerBloom

Part 2

Zephyr Sky arrived at Hazel Bloom’s flower shop. The flower shop doubled as a house and shop for Hazel Bloom. Zephyr was quick to land and knock on the front door, “Hazel! Hazel Bloom!” Zephyr shouted, trying to get Hazel’s attention.

The door opened slightly, allowing Hazel Bloom, an earth pony mare, to peek her eye through. With her typical deadpan expression, Hazel opened the door completely, revealing the entirety of her body, “Zephyr,” Hazel Bloom said in a monotone voice, “Do you need something? I’m closed on Sundays.”

“I-I’m not here for flowers, Hazel,” Zephyr said in haste, “Something crazy is going on and we need your help.”

Hazel leaned to the side, peeking around Zephyr and noticing the havoc being caused by the black spirits, “Oh my,” Hazel said as she looked back at Zephyr, “Let me guess. You got careless and Velvet, for some reason, trusted you?”

Zephyr rolled her eyes to the back of her head in guilt, “Um…more or less. Let’s not get into specifics. Point is, we need your help with this.”

Hazel sighed as she nodded, “It would seem that way,” the pony walked out of her shop, closing the door behind her.

Twilight, coming from quite a distance away, galloped towards Zephyr and Hazel. Zephyr and Hazel quickly put their attention toward Twilight. "Twilight!" Zephyr said, running up to and stopping in front of the unicorn mare, "Did you talk to Velvet?"

"I did," Twilight responded, looking around at the mayhem the entities are causing, "She said she's going to the observatory to find a spell that can reverse this," Twilight turned back to the 2 mares, "Can you two use your Magic to keep these spirits at bay?"

Hazel Bloom and Zephyr Sky nod in unison. "We'll do our best," Zephyr said enthusiastically, quickly dashing into the air in flight.

"Are we sure that using my magic is a good idea? You know it causes property damage?" Hazel Bloom said, still with a deadpan expression and tone, but conveying a more gentle emotion.

"Yes, I know. It's alright. At a time like this, it's needed," Twilight said as she smiled at the earth pony.

Hazel Bloom curved a small smile as she lifted one of her front hooves. She quickly smashed it into the ground, which prompted a large vine to sprout from the ground in front of her. The vine is roughly two meters in diameter and stretches ten meters into the air. The vine stretches and whacks many of the entities in one swoop. The entities were dazed for a moment before they snapped out of it and turned to Hazel in anger. They headed in Hazel’s direction in a fit of fury. Twilight nodded in approval, “Excellent!” she turned to Zephyr, “Zephyr! You know what to do!”

“I’m on it,” Zephyr responded as she spread her wings as far apart as she could. As she began to descend from no longer flapping her wings, her wings began to glow white. With a loud grunt, Zephyr flapped her wings forward, causing a blade of magic shaped like a wing to be fired. The beam of magic smashed into the entities, knocking them out of their trajectory.

Twilight scowled in focus as she began to charge up a magical attack. A purple ball of magic appeared at the tip of Twilight’s horn. She took the opportunity to fire it at the entities. The ball made its way to the entities, bursting on contact with them and stunning them further. Twilight smiled, “Perfect! They’re stunned. Now, if we can keep doing that for the rest of-” Twilight got cut off mid-sentence when the entities shook themselves out of it and zoomed away, continuing to cause chaos. Twilight and Zephyr went wide-eyed in disbelief. “Wh-What?!” Twilight uttered in shock, “But…that spell should have kept them still for much longer!”

Zephyr turned to Twilight with a concerned look, “Maybe for any ol’ pony. But these things are something like ghosts.”

Twilight looked to the ground, getting deep in thought, “You’re right. That spell won’t work on them,” Twilight turned to the observatory in the far distance, “We just have to hope that Velvet will be able to find that book soon.”

Velvet had finally reached the Observatory and quickly got to searching for the book. Velvet quickly littered the floor with books as she used her magic to grab one after another and inspect them. As she read a book that wasn’t the one, she would quickly discard it by throwing it on the floor as she read the next. “Come on! Where is it?” Velvet said in urgency, “Ugh! It should have been on that shelf. Or maybe it should be. AGH!!” Velvet cried out in frustration as she continued looking. Velvet’s eyes finally lit up as she pulled out a book. She looked upon the book with a smile, “This isn’t the one. But…but it could work!”

Twilight, Hazel, and Zephyr scurried around Ponyville, trying to subdue the entities. However, the ponies were unsuccessful in their attempts. “It’s hopeless! We can’t do anything to slow them down,” Zephyr commented as she descended to the ground from flight.

“We just have to hope that Velvet can get that book,” Twilight said as she looked at the surrounding chaos.

Right on queue, Velvet appeared, running towards the three mares. Hazel was quick to notice the running unicorn and immediately pointed it out, “There she is.”

Twilight and Zephyr turned in the direction that Hazel pointed out. Immediately, their eyes lit up in joy, seeing the pony with a book. “Velvet!” Twilight cried out, “Is that the book?”

Velvet stopped in front of the group and quickly caught her breath before she looked at the mares to speak, “No, it’s not.”

Zephyr put on an expression of disbelief, “WHAT?!?!”

Velvet was quick to raise her hoof, trying to calm the pegasus pony, “It’s alright. I actually found something even better!”

“Well, what is it?” Twilight asked in haste.

Velvet smiled as she presented Pandora’s box, which she was previously hiding from the others. Velvet dropped the box to the ground before she opened the book, “This book actually contains information on this very box!”

The group went wide-eyed at this information. “You really found this book in your library?” Hazel asked as she stepped forward.

Velvet nodded, “That’s correct,” she looked down at the book, “This book contains the precise information on how to cast a spell to seal every single one of those things back into the box.”

“Deus ex machina aside, how do you cast it?” Zephyr asked as she tilted her head.

Velvet looked up at her friends nervously, “Well…that’s just it. It requires Alicorn magic.”

“Alicorn magic? But none of us possess alicorn magic!” Twilight stammered.

“Aw, we’re screwed then!” Zephyr said, collapsing to the ground.

“That’s what I thought at first,” Velvet said as she flipped through the book and turned it over to show the other ponies, “According to the book, there’s a way we can perform the spell without alicorn magic.”

Twilight, Hazel, and Zephyr looked closely at the book. “And what is that?” Hazel asked.

The picture of the book shows an earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn channeling their magic into a fourth pony, who is channeling magic into a box. “If we channel the magic from each type of pony into another, then they can perform the spell. However, it requires all the entities to be in one place, otherwise, it won’t work.”

Twilight smiled, “That’s perfect! Hazel will be our earth pony, Zephyr can be our pegasus, and I can be the unicorn. Which leaves you to be the conduit for the magic.”

“Awesome! So we’ll be able to clear this mess after all,” Zephyr said as she backflipped in excitement.

“But just as the book says, we’re going to have to gather the entities together in one place,” Hazel said as she looked at the surrounding entities.

“That shouldn’t be a problem,” Twilight said, turning to Hazel, “We were able to round them up for a while before they kept escaping because we had nowhere to put them. Now we have a goal. We’ll just have to keep them still long enough for us to cast the spell.”

“So that begs the question now. How do we cast it?” Zephyr asked, lifting a hoof up.

Velvet took another look at the book, “You have to charge your magic and direct it towards whoever will be the conduit. The spell should do the rest.”

“Then we haven’t a moment to lose. Hurry, everypony. Let’s get started rounding them up,” Twilight said, turning to where most of the entities are.

“I’ll stay here and prepare everything. Gather them over the box and we’ll start as soon as possible,” Velvet said, placing the book on the ground, open to the page of the spell.

Twilight, Hazel, and Zephyr ran away without a word, intent on gathering up the entities invading Ponyville. Twilight devised a plan. Hazel would create a large net made from plants, coated with Twilight’s magic. With that next, they would run around Ponyville, scooping up the entities by using Zephyr’s magical wing beams to push the entities in and keep them from escaping. Before too long, the group had easily collected every single entity. As the group ran towards Velvet, she held the box open, ready to cast the spell. “Alright everypony,” Velvet said, “We have to be quick about this!”

Twilight, Zephyr, and Hazel quickly got into formation. Twilight let go of the net, which allowed the entities to phase through. “Now, everypony! Lend me your magic!” Velvet shouted. On queue, Hazel kneeled, channeling her earth pony magic into her hooves. Twilight raised her neck high, channeling her unicorn magic into her horn. Zephyr spread her legs and raised her back into the air, channeling her pegasus magic into them. Simultaneously, three beams of magic sparked from each of the 3 ponies and began flowing into Velvet’s horn. The magic coming from the hooves of Hazel was Blue, the magic from Twilight was Red, and the magic coming from Zephyr was Yellow. Together, the magic turns into a color of white as Velvet begins casting the spell. A pair of translucent pegasus wings appeared on Velvet’s back as the white beam of magic shot toward the fleeing entities.

In an instant, the magic began swirling around each of the entities, pulling them closer and closer together in the now firming whirlpool. Zephyr, Hazel, Twilight, and Velvet watched the event in awe and shock. The whirlpool swirled and swirled, aiming into Pandora’s Box. One by one, the entities began to be pulled into the box. Though they tried to escape, it was no use as the spell was unstoppable once cast. As soon as the last of the entities was consumed by the box, it closed itself, locking shut. The magic from the ponies dispersed and Velvet’s new wings disappeared.

The air fell silent as the ponies were unsure of what to think about the spell that transpired. Ponies of Ponyville began to come out of hiding and cheered on the group. Zephyr was the first to speak after smiling, “We did it!”

Twilight followed, smiling as the four were victorious, “The spell worked!”

“I can’t believe it was actually that easy,” Hazel commented, giving a small smile.

Twilight approached Velvet, “Velvet! Your back…you had wings!”

Velvet turned to Twilight in confusion, “What? I had wings?”

“Yeah!” Zephyr said, coming close to the two mares, “It was like you were an alicorn!”

“Really? I didn’t notice,” Velvet said, looking at her back.

“You said that the spell could only be activated by alicorn magic. An alicorn is really just an earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn combined. The spell must have taken the magic from each of us and put it in you, turning you into an alicorn. And that allowed you to complete the spell,” Twilight said, seemingly figuring out exactly how the spell works on the fly, as if it was some case of bad writing or something.

Velvet smiled, “You’re right!”

Zephyr looked down at Pandora’s Box, “So uh…what should we do with this box?”

Twilight used her magic to pick the box up, “I think we should put it in the care of somepony who knows what to do with it. I’ll send it to Princess Celestia when I get the chance. An ancient artifact like this has no business being in the hooves of anypony but her.”

“I agree,” Velvet nodded. Velvet proceeded to turn to Zephyr, “Zephyr Sky!”

Zephyr blushed, “Um….y-yes?”

“I think you owe an apology to the ponies of Ponyville,” Velvet said, backed by the scowling ponies of the town.

“Hey, it wasn’t just me. You were the one who opened the box!” Zephyr said as she pointed her hoof at Velvet.

Velvet nodded, “Yes, I am to blame too. And I will apologize,” Velvet turned around to face the ponies of the town. She bowed her head down and closed her eyes, “I am very sorry, everypony.”

Zephyr rolled her eyes, “Fine. I’m sorry too, everypony.”

Comments

[blackhotmetal]

Fun chapter! I love it so far. I'm looking forward to where this goes!

[Fujimi200SX]

Interestingly Interesting!