I yet out one more yawn and put the glass tube with the weird green liquid on the table near the other tubes. Seeing Starlight come into the room levitating the cardboard box I asked her to bring, I thanked and shoved it on the table next to the potions. I opened the box. Phew! The spells were in perfect condition even after the Golden Oak library was destroyed. Taking out the parchments with spells, I put a few of my new spells near the table with them, burning the cardboard box in an instant. Starlight came closer and read aloud the titles of my new spells.
" 'Magic steal','Book Restoration Spell', ' Double Modified...." She looked at me with confusement, and anger."...Time Travel spell? Twilight you modified my modified Starswirl's spell?"
I nodded. "Just for good measures. This way you can always change huge mistakes you made! Now lets go to sleep. We shouldn't have stayed up this long." I looked at the clock. Two o'clock into the night. It was a bad idea staying up so long. I went pass her with a good night's wish, and headed for the bed.
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I woke up hearing sounds from the castle. Was Starlight still up? I saw the sun rising in the window. Or maybe.. thieves? I jumped out of bed running towards the sound. Opening the library's door, I saw Spike, inspecting the glass tubes. I cleared my throat, asking for the dragon's attention. He turned towards me."Oh, Twilight! What is this all about?" He asked coming towards me.
"I'm doing an experiment. You see.." I prepared my lecture voice and saw Spike rolling his eyes."When I pour this liquid on the spell, it casts itself without damaging the paper of course. It's helpful for the earth ponies and pegasi, because they can't use unicorn magic." For once it looked like Spike listened to me and climbed on the chair looking straight onto the glass tube with the green liquid.
"So, these are spell caster liquids?" He for once was interested in the experiments. He turned around hitting a few glass tubes with his tail, causing them to fall over. It all fell on the spells next to them on the table. I shrieked as a few ducks appeared, a freshly made cake, and magic light? Suddenly a glowing scroll opened and suddenly started pulling me and Spike in. Spike was almost sucked in, but I teleported him away, to late to teleport myself out. I was sucked in the paper with a nauseous feeling.
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First thing I felt, was the terrible smell of rotten and trash. I pushed my self to my hooves, I started stretching my wings, and legs. Then finally I looked around. I was in a space between buildings, with trash lying around me. The walls of the buildings were made from bricks, with cracked paint all over them. Ponies were passing in the street ahead of me, but in the space where I was, was dark, so thankfully nopony could see me. I summoned a pile of checklists I always kept with me for situations like this. I took out a checklist with a title that read 'Checklist #13472 - magical fail guide'. I read the first box.
'1-Look around you.'
I checked that one off and resumed.
'2-Put up a disguise.'
This one was because I was an alicorn princess after all, so seeing your princess appear smelly and sleepy, will not put up a good impression of me. Casting a disguise spell I removed my horn. After that I wondered if I needed to remove my neck curve(1), and my much-more-bigger-then-a-pegasi's wings.
~~(1)My neck curve freaked me out after I became an alicorn. Having more body parts, an alicorn needs to have a bigger body to fit them nicely.~~
But I decided to keep them. I never liked getting out of my comfort zone.
'3-Which city are you in?'
I realized I had no idea where I was. Walking out of the building space I trotted along the unknown to me street. The buildings seemed odd - a lot of them were made out of bricks. On the streets were mostly unicorns in old-fashioned gowns and tuxedos. There were a few earth ponies here and there, but most of them were in farmers clothes. Just when I was confused about the pegasus I saw a lot of them flying above the city, with no care at all. I realized I was disguised as a pegasus so better work those wings, if I wanna look kinda normal. When I got higher then the buildings a few familiar castle towers popped into view. I gaped at the castle. CANTERLOT? No, It couldn't. I was about to head for the tower of time(2), when I realized it wasn't there. I was hovering in confusement with no idea what was happening.
~~(2)The highest tower in Canterlot. Apart from the clock, it has a calendar as well.~~
I flew across the city inspecting it. When I was above a newspaper stand, I flew down to get the date from the newspaper. I bought the only newspaper I managed to recognize.
Canterlot Times
Date: 6th July, 25 year of ER.
Cloudsdale coming to Canterlot?
I stared at the paper in amazement. ER was a very old time name. It stood for Eclipse Reign, because of Luna's and Celestia's reign together.
But as she remembered 25 ER was the last year with that time name. It was stopped after Luna's banishment, and it so happens that she was banished a few months ago in this time. So after that went MB - Moon's Banishment. In Equestria it was 1002th MB. I guess my time travel spell was activated...
Time travel was never my thing. Especially after the Starlight thing. I have to get out of here... wait Cloudsdale? I read the newspaper title once more. Of course! This is the first year the Wonderblots will perform in the first Summer Sun celebration. They needed to pick the best flyers to
participate in the show. She saw Cloudsdale in the distance hovering slowly towards Canterlot. The grin I let out was huge. This meant one thing - history in real life.