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// Loop 21 
// Story: The Time Thief 
// by Reading4HalfMyLife 
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"Sweetie" Starlight said, gaping as her daughter entered the kitchen. "You look . .different."

"What?" Astral froze, before spinning on her hocks to race up to her room. Skidding to a stop in front of her mirror, she shamelessly gawped at her own reflection.

Sometime between the last loop and this one she had a growth spurt, not that noticeable if you didn't know her, but she had gone from being extremely small to only being a little under the height for a filly her age.

Her age . .

She bit her lip, deep in thought. How old am I really? I haven't been keeping track of time in here. She made a mental note to try and keep a record of how much time had passed from now on.

As well as her height, her mane was starting to grow longer as well, and her fetlocks were starting to grow excessively fluffy. Sighing, she levitated her scissors over and snipped the excess hair off her hooves before trotting out the door. 

She had been going over her spells; though she struggled with lasers, cloudwalking, lightening and stun, she now knew how to phase, use air, teleport, undo spells, summon a (shaky) shield and make basic illusions. And, armed with that knowledge, she marched out the door to face the world.





Celestia and Luna were in the middle of court when she teleported in; a six winged, black and red Alicorn with a curved horn. She easily towered over the two Alicorns, and cackled madly as she used an air spell to knock the ponies back.

"Your souls are mine!" She boomed, shaking the windows from the intensity of her voice.

Celestia and Luna seemed to be caught in a permanent state of shock, jaws dropped with pupils for pinpricks. A strange squeak was coming from somewhere inside Celestia's husband, Sunburst. Luna and Discord's youngest child Anarchy rolled her eyes while Discord himself just calmly sipped at his lemon flavored orange juice.

The dark being whipped out a camera to take a picture of them all, before Astral broke the illusion on herself.

"Too much?" She asked.





It was on her way back home, after getting an earful, that Astral spotted it.

Tacked onto the walls on the inside of the train was a map of Equestria. It wasnt' very detailed, but even so Astral could see places like Griffonstone, Yakyakastan and Mount Aris.

I could travel one loop! The idea of not being surrounded by the same ponies doing the same things was appealing. It would probably take a whole loop to do all that though.

So, for now, she wrote it down in her notepad.

Goals



Get a cutie mark

Help CMC get cutie marks

See Alchemy

Graduate from Beginner to Intermediate

Beat Shining Armour in a duel

Beat the Princesses in a duel

Travel