"Eager to learn about what you can do with your new power, are you?" asks Aunt Tesla, chuckling.
"Oh, yes!" I say, looking at my horn, where Aunt Tesla is speaking from. "I can't wait."
"Well, Angel," mom interrupts, "I'm afraid you'll have to wait till morning. It's getting close to bedtime, for all three of you."
"Aaaawwww," me and my sisters say in unison.
"Can you let me practice for at least an hour?" I ask mom, doing my best impression of a baby bunny.
Seeing my face, moms ears lower slightly in defeat. "Alright, but only an hour, no more." She turns to my sisters, "And you two can stay up, too, and watch if you want."
"Yaaaayyyyy!" we squeal, hugging each other.
I break away from my sisters, look at my horn, and say, "What do we start with first, Aunt Tes?"
"Well," she hesitates, "I never really learned to control it myself, so I don't know what to start with." She pauses. "Why don't we try charging your wings with lighting, to start."
I nod in agreement, and extend my wings. Then I close my eyes and think, Lightning cover my wings.....Lightning cover my wings....,over and over again in my head. After a few minutes, I feel the familiar tingling sensation I felt when I took Aunt Tesla into my horn in my wings, and I hear my sisters gasp in excitement. Excited, I open my eyes and look at my wings just in time to see the lightning surrounding them, fade. I flatten my ears in disappointment.
"You almost had it," Aunt Tesla says."Try again, but this time don't loose your focus."
"Okay," I say. I close my eyes again, and concentrate. This time seems a little easier. The tingling returns, and I know my wings are charging again. I look at them again as the lightning starts to fade. I concentrate harder and, at first I feel I'm doing something wrong, but then my wings start glowing brighter with the beautiful white light as it moves and shifts over my wings, like a beautiful symphony that makes you want to dance forever.
"That's it! Keep it up!" Aunt Tesla urges.
Ecstatic, I make the lightning brighter, and I decide to make it cover more than just my wings. I concentrate on the lightning itself and watch in amazement as it starts moving to my back, around my sides, and down my legs. I look at my family and see they're all smiling at me. Les 'n Lunys faces are filled with wonder and awe. Moms and dads face are beaming, and I know they are proud of me.
Then an idea hits me. I take to the sky, making sure my lightning still flows, and I add the magic I was born with to my lightning, making it form a large sphere around me. I make a bolt of lightning arc from one of my wings to the newly, made sphere, and I hear a sound I was after. I do it again but towards a different point of the sphere, and I hear a different sound. Satisfied, I make more and more sounds until it sounds like a song. I look at mom and see that she recognizes the song I was playing. She closes her eyes and starts to hum along with my music. Then, she starts to sing:
"Come little children,
I'll take thee away,
Into a land of enchantment.
Come little children,
The time's come to play,
Here in my garden of shadows."
My sisters look at her in surprise as they realize that the song I am playing, is the lullaby that mom sings to us every night.
"Follow sweet children,
I'll show thee the way,
Through all the pain and the sorrows.
Weep not poor children,
For life is this way,
Murdering beauty and passions."
My sisters, listening to her sing and me play, look like they're about to fall asleep.
"Hush now dear children,
It must be this way,
To weary of life and deceptions.
Rest now my children,
For soon we'll away,
Into the calm and the quiet."
After this verse, she starts humming along to the music again as I continue to play. During the song, and my lightning music no one notices the flash of light that shines from my flank. No one except Aunt Tesla. But she didn't want to interrupt our song so she kept quiet.
"Come little children,
I'll take thee away,
Into a land of enchantment.
Come little children,
The time's come to play,
Here in my garden of shadows."
As we finish, I land on the ground, exhausted, and collapse. I look at my sisters and see they are fast asleep. I chuckle to myself and say, softly, "Good night, my sisters." I find myself falling asleep as well. Then I feel myself being lifted by magic. I look up as mom sets me on her back. She smiles at me.
"That was beautiful, my little Angel," she nudges me lovingly.
"Thank you, mom," I reply, yawning.
"Let's get you to bed, sweetie," were the last words I hear before drifting off to sleep...........
The next morning, I am awoken by somepony jumping on top of me. I awake with a start as my twin shouts, "Good morning, Angie! Good morning, Aunt Tessie!"
"Good morning, Luny," I respond."Good morning, Aunt Tes," I say, looking at my horn.
"Good morning, Angel. Good morning, Luna," she replies."I'm glad you two remembered I was here. Did you girls sleep well last night?" she inquired.
"Yes ma'am," we say at the same time.
"Did you sleep well last night, Aunt Tessie?" Luny asks her.
"Yes, I did. Thank you for asking, Luna," she answers, happily."Although, I don't really need sleep seeing as I don't have my own body anymore."
This makes Lunys face turn red. "Oh, right," she says in embarrassment.
"Oh, and Angel?" she says.
"Yes, Aunt Tes?" I respond.
"I think you should get out of bed and look at your flank."
"Okay," I say as I get out of bed, worried and confused. I look at my flank........and freeze. Right there, is the most beautiful cutie mark I had ever seen. It was a black eighth note with a red lightning bolt in the center, in front of a silver background. But what was the most unique about it, was the electric design surrounding it. It was actually MOVING.
Before I could say anything, I hear a shriek behind me as my twin notices what our aunt was talking about. "EEEEEKK!! YOU'VE GOT YOUR CUTIE MARK!!!"
I look at my bouncing twin. She stops bouncing when she sees me looking at her. Then, I feel a smile break across my face and I start jumping, shouting, "I GOT MY CUTIE MARK!!!!" And she starts jumping again as well. Then we hug each other. Then I break away. "Wait." I say. "When did I get my cutie mark?" I ask my aunt.
"Last night, while you were playing that lullaby." she replies."Your parents noticed it as they were carrying the three of you to the castle. They were amazed by it."
"Oooh, oooh, oh-oh-oh." Luny says excitedly. "We gotta show Tia!"
"Yes," I agreed. "Let's go!"
Then we run out of our room, down the hall, and into her room saying our trademark, "Lestia!" as we barrel right into our eldest sister, as she was leaving her room.
"Oooff," she said as we hit the floor. "What's the rush, you two," she says as she picks herself off the ground.
I jump up, turn around, and point to my flank, saying, "Look, Les. I got my cutie mark!"
She stares at it in wonder. "Wow." She shakes her head. "What? How? When?"
"During the lullaby last night." Aunt Tesla says." Nopony noticed it when it appeared because of all the musical lightning Angel was making."
"That is soooo coool!" Les exclaimed.
"What's all this commotion about?" says a familiar male voice. We look towards the door to see dad standing in it, with mom right behind him, both of them with a frown on their faces.
I jump up and down excitedly, saying, "I got my cutie mark!!" Smiles light up their faces when I say this.
"Are you excited?" mom asks, pushing past dad, scooping me in her hooves, and kissing me on the cheek.
I nod vigorously. "Yes I am. And it seems I'm not just a Lightning Elemental, but I'm a Lightning Musician, too!"
Dad chuckles and says, "That you are, Angel. That you are."