I looked at her again and I can’t tell if those eyes are misleading but I couldn’t just trust a voice or a stranger even though they said this place was harmonious. I looked out the window and those creatures are looking out their doors thinking if it’s safe to come outside or if I’m safe with one of their citizens. I looked back and Starlight seems to be examining both me and Siri, although Siri is bothered by it as he keeps tracking her movements.
“She’s making me uncomfortable” Siri said telepathically to me.
“Excuse Ms. Starlight” I said which got her attention.
“You can just call me Starlight” She said with a smile.
“Okay, Starlight do you know what I am?”
“Yes I do Nix. You’re a draconequus, and probably the second to have ever come into existence in equestria or in history"
“The second? Who was the first?”
“Discord, however unlike Discord you’re younger and inexperienced. I can help with that”
“Why would you help me?”
“A draconequus’s purpose is to bend reality into what’s best for all ponies. Discord however bended reality into his own twisted imagination, not until princess Celestia encased him in stone”
“So my purpose is to help others with my powers?”
“You’re a very powerful creature Nix and you should use that potential”
“So how do I use it?” I asked Starlight.
“I’m going to teach you the basics, after that we move on to advanced and you can control your life after that”
I consulted with myself again to make sure I make the right choice. She seems friendly but can I actually trust her? She does have a noble intent for me on why she wants to teach me, although I don't know if she has an ulterior motive, but I don’t know much about this world to know what’s good to them and what’s bad for us. I have no basis to make sure I make the right choice and all I can rely on is the voice’s words and I couldn’t see another town for miles and what chance do I have to meet someone that’s accepting as her?
“Where do we start?” Nix asked.
“We can start with a simple transfiguration spell” she said as she used her magic to turn the pitcher into a potted plant.
“Now you try”
“How?”
“You know that ponies say that they use a certain amount of cerebral capacity to understand and take in information about the world. Earth ponies are able to understand and feel the ground beneath them making them good tillers of fields or pegasi are able to walk on clouds and control the weather. Unicorns on the other hand use much more cerebral capacity than the average earth pony and pegasi, allowing us to control the matter around us at a more exponential degree, however Draconequi can use more than an Alicorn’s cerebral capacity at a theoretical degree, and they use a combination of Earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns” She explained.
“That sounds very interesting,” I remarked.
“And it gets even more interesting. The way magic works is that it’s tailored to how we imagine matter to become or how we want it to move. What makes an object, an object? What is it made of?”
“Molecules” I answered.
“And the way we perceive them is how we want them to be. Tell me, does creativity lead to imagination or does imagination lead to creativity?”
“It’s a two way street. Imagination is something in the mind and creativity is the physical form and with the physical form in our perception, we can imagine it to be anything else”
“Good. Between imagination and creativity, what’s the similarity? How do you make them work together to make an output to your liking? What is the one thing about that output specifically that other people may interpret differently?”
“The finer details” I said.
“You’re pretty smart. Now ask yourself this, how do you think I transformed that pitcher into a potted plant?”
“From all the questions, I say you look at the molecules and imagine what you want them to be. With creativity, you made it into a plant the way you like it. Seeing the plant made you think of another way to make it special, so with the finer details, the functionality is different from other plants”
“I’m very impressed that you can understand all this even when you’re fourteen. Yes, this plant looks and acts different from other plants. Can you guess the functionality?”
“Imagination stems from the creativity of a physical form. Since you had the idea of a pitcher and a flower and that they both gather water, but if it’s different from an ordinary flower, then I would guess it’s a plant that gives off water”
“Very good,” she said as she levitated three glasses next to the plant. She covered the plant with her aura and water came out of the plant, landing in the three glasses.
“Thirsty?” she said to both me and Siri.
“Thank you, Ms. Starlight” Siri said to me telepathically.
“Thank you from me and Siri” I said to Starlight as we all drank our water.
“Okay Nix, your turn. Make anything an object you want” Starlight said to me as she levitated the glasses to the table.
I looked around the room for anything to base my imagination on to have a better grasp at creating finer details. I looked around and saw the glasses we drank from, and it reminded me of the telescope I once had. Remembering how light reflects through a telescope and the internal angles and schematics of a telescope, I looked at the molecules of glass sitting on the table. I imagined them changing shape and density as well as material to make the outer parts of a telescope. I watched as the glasses shattered into pieces. I was about to reform the molecules until the glass shards started multiplying, then angling themselves to make the inside of the telescope. The remaining shards clustered together around the lenses, forming a rough cylindrical shape until smoothening out, forming a white telescope.
“It’s a telescope, with a button that activates an x-ray vision mode”
“Hm, the form looks good but I wonder about the functionality” Starlight said as she examined the telescope. She pointed the telescope out the window next to her door and smirked.
“You did a good job on your first try, how do you feel?” She asked me.
“Satisfied and accomplished” I said.
“You learned a transfiguration spell and did it perfectly on your first try, with some style”
“Thank you for the compliment”
“Now try it on other things around the house”
“Because I have to practice?”
“Yes, and because you’ll have to transfigure yourself”
“Is it because other people will be afraid of my true form?” I asked apprehensively.
“Discord was the only draconequus to have ever come to Equestria, and until now, the only one thought to have ever existed, and because of his behavior, all ponies think is that Draconequi are evil, so it’s best to have a cover”
“I see. What would you like me to transform next?”
After a few hours of transfiguration, I turned almost every piece of furniture into something that reminds of home, and every time I did Starlight would check to make sure I did them right. I was good to know that Starlight kept watch because I wasn’t too sure about my powers just yet, transfiguration was easy in one way to another. After all the practice, it was night time already but before we went to bed, Starlight asked if could do one more transfiguration spell. This time on myself.
“It’s time to use the spell on yourself” Starlight said to me.
“You have a disengaging spel in case something goes wrong?”
“You know the difference between a reversal spell and a disengaging spell?”
“Reversal spells revert the object back to it’s previous form even if it was still affected by magic while a disengaging spell removes any effects of a spell done to an object”
. “You’re keeping up. Yes I do. Make your pony form the way you want, although I would suggest you be a unicorn because they can do magic without being conspicuous. Also a stallions body is bigger and a bigger muzzle”
“Okay” I said.
I focused on how I want my body to be. A normal stallions body has a bigger body than a mare and I should have a horn to show I can do magic. I focused to see how my insides would form to fit the new body, how my fur and mane should feel and look like and how my mark should look like. This is even more complicated than objects because I would have to see how everything should work, I would have to use my knowledge on anatomy to see the functionality of this body work in the world. After imagining the pony body’s inside and outside look I thought of how my molecules would change. I have to keep in mind the the different molecular structures that form the body and what they make.
I started to feel a tingling sensations around my body, I looked down to see my neck was shrinking, my hands were coming together to make hooves, my torso was becoming a barrel, my wings were withering into air. My horns were becoming one and my jaw was becoming a muzzle. After the structure was done the finer details were made. My scales were and fur withered into nothingness and black fur sprouted. My fin withered and a dark blue mane with a darker streak of blue in the middle sprouted and my tail shrank, with the fire going out and hair he same color as my mane was sprouting out. My eyes changed from slit eyes to circular eyes with a darker blue iris. Finally the design of my mark, I based it off Starlight’s mark, I created a dark blue, six point star with three white, lightning bolts around the star and a smaller white, six point star in the dark blue star.
“You look nice. What does your cutie mark mean?” Starlight asked.
“It means my love for science and learning” I responded.
“That’s who you are. It’s time for bed, Good night and I’ll see you tomorrow”
“Good Night, Ms. Starlight” Siri said.
“Good Night, from me and Siri” I said to Starlight.
I looked around my room. It was small and quaint, a single bed, a bookshelf and a fireplace. I looked out the window to see everyone was out of their homes and looking at my direction, the creature I became must be someone they’re scared of or maybe someone looks like me. I checked the bookshelf and there were spells books and adventure books stacked against each other. I looked back at Siri and he was preparing to sleep on the floor.
“You don’t have to sleep on the floor. You can sleep with me” I said to Siri.
“I’ve always slept on the floor, it never bothered me” Siri said telepathically
“I know, I just want you to be close. I feel afraid”
“But we always moved. You weren’t scared once we got used to it”
“I’m not afraid of moving. I’m afraid of my powers. I’m afraid of me”
“You want me to be close by to watch over you?” He asked
“Yeah”
“Alright” he said as he went up to the bed and I laid down next to him. I pulled the blanket over our bodies and before I drift off to sleep I decided to start a conversation with with Siri, now that he can talk.
“What do you think of our predicament?” I asked Siri
“Since I bit that kid I’d wind up going to the pound and never see you again” He said to me.
“And mom and dad wanted me gone, I was being bullied in that orphanage and I hurt them. I don’t think we can go back”
“Even if we could, where would we go?” Siri asked as he turned his body towards me.
“Do you think it’s best we stay here?”
“What did that voice tell you?”
“This is a place of peace”
“Then I guess we can believe him”
“I guess. Goodnight SIri”
“Goodnight Nix” he said as we drifted off to sleep.
This is wonderful. Not only I was able to meet a young draconequus, I was able to befriend him, in time maybe. He has a dragon with him which is very unheard of. They are both reptile species but to think he made friends with such big and elder dragon is impressive, and I sensed no mind-controlling magic around him or the dragon. He is only fourteen years old, maybe that older black dragon took care of him when his parents left him at that orphanage. Being bullied for being a draconequus is a possibility because there are others who think they can overpower a young draconequus but they might end up injured.
Chaos magic is very powerful and breaks the laws of the universe as if you were the universe itself, modeling and changing the way you see fit and hiding secrets and powerful artifacts to be used by pony-kind into bending the fabric of space and time, as if you’re changing the laws the way you like. That’s a draconequus, a living artifact born from the universe to bend it to be new and shape anything to be fit for life and existence. He’s young and can be manipulated, with him by my side I can change the way ponies see their cutie marks and make sure the ones who object this philosophy will be changed forcefully.
Draconequus species are very powerful and dangerous, having a young fourteen year old could mean he’s very powerful like a young unicorn or weaker than an adult draconequus. Book don’t have the answers because Discord was the only draconequus to have ever existed in Equestria and no records can be found outside of equestria, that’ll mean I’ll have to teach him like a young unicorn. Just the basics then the advance and maybe he can learn how to create matter on his own because unicorns can’t create something out of nothing first rule of thermodynamics. We can change or manipulate matter but not create it. It’s a shame that we can’t do it so many possibilities can be done with that power. I have that power, or nix does I just have to control, make him feel safe, that I’m his family now.
I marveled at the thought of it having a draconequus as a little brother. It could be fun and he does have that dragon under control. Speaking of which his dragon is very unusual. It has the parts to be a dragon, such as being a reptile and having wings and scales but it doesn’t talk and the way it responds is by looking at his friend. A spell or perhaps a dragon that uses more of its brain’s power to talk to someone it cares about. Even when I used a mind spell on it I couldn’t read its thoughts while it was talking with Nix in their room. He’s probably a dragon of higher intelligence or he’s resistant to magic. He could come in handy as well but he could be meddlesome as if he is a dragon of higher intelligence he would separate me and Nix, or even try to make Nix run. I’ll have to experiment on that dragon but if I do his cautiousness around me will increase faster. I’ll have to do something soon.