//------------------------------// // The Wind Mage's Students // Story: Displaced Timelines Book 1 The Hero Six // by Wingsofsilver //------------------------------// Alex groaned as he regains consciousness. Slowly, he gets to his feet while, shakeing his head to get rid of the dizziness. When, he sees more clearly, he look at the strange large building in front of him. He look at in confusion. " Hmm never seen this before... what's it called?" He asked to himself, trying to remember what in the world is this building before his attention was drawn to a plack with a name on it. " School of Gifted Unicorns?" He frowned at this. This isn't familar to him at all, where is he? 'I needs to investgate instead of just standing there.' with that in mind he enters inside. Inside the building is Huge, There are many rooms and a few long hallways, there are signs of a few windows here and there. Once in a while find a small wooden table with or without a flower vase. Alex was walking though the hallways when he notices a mirror at end of the hallway.There was something wrong with the reflection, curious; he walks closer and closer for a better look. When he got close enough to get a better look. When his eyes widen, startling at what he saw. Looking right back at him was someone familiar to Alex. The person was short with purple long hair, a dark purple line curve under his red eyes with a sharp point spike line going down, his ears are now long and pointy. Wore a pale purple tunic with a collarbone gold button and a dark purple cape, gold belt strap with a bunkle having a circle gold ring frame with red inside with the center having a black dot, red upper knee long roomy pants, red sandals that have straps wrap around the lower lower- legs, lastly; on the top of his head is a triangle purple cap with golden rim jewelry with a red orb crest in a gold horseshoe crowning on rim. He blinked for a few seconds before realization on who's reflection that belong to, his eyes roll back and land with a thud, blacking out. *********** Ten minutes later, Alex woke up and hoping it was a dream. When he looks around him, then the mirror, and finally look at himself, misfortune tells him no, it wasn't a dream. He is still looks like the wind mage, Vaati. "Okay, I'm really freaking out about now," He whimpers in fear. "This can't be happening. What's going on?!", Suddenly, as he was freaking out; coming out of his shaken hand shot out a bit of light streams of wind. When he saw the wind being manifested to viewable, Alex couldn't help but be in awe. "That's cool!" He said as a child like excitement grew. He got up off the rug floor. Moment later a thought pops into his mind. "Hmm, let's see..." He got ready to test something, hopefully, it's his new powers. With a flick of his wist more gusts of wind formed around him. The sound of wind passing by him made him feel relaxed, and his fears are at ease, joy and wonder took his doubts away. He calls forth more of his assuming 'wind magic.' He contiuned his wind performence unaware of the audience at the end of the hallway behind Alex. He turns around during his testing of his magic, opens his eyes too see a group of unicorns are watching him in curiosity, surpise and awe. Alex stop and stare at them shock, seeing technicolor mythical horses staring right back at him, in his mind he was screaming and panicking. His new long ears heard them whispering to each other, was surpise that they can talk! " Is that magic?" One of the unicorns ask. " But it's strange, not unlike our own" A yellow unicorn said, puzzled by this. " Maybe he can help us with our issue? Maybe he can teach us magic?!" A greenish light unicorn whisper cheerfully and with hope. "Ummmm ... H-h-hello?"He greet them generously. This cause the unicorns to whisper more. "It can talk?!" A male unicorn exclaimed. " A new race that knows a different kind of magic!" A violet mare mutters to herself in excitement. "My name is Alex and, umm, where am I?" Alex asked them. He heard a few unicorns giggling. One horse walks towards towards to Alex. A male unicorn with avivid and brillant vermilion scarlet mane, goatee, and tail, a brillant gambage coat with light apple greenish grey legs and a rectangular patch on the ridge of his nose, wore round glasses and a dark pale blue wizard cape with sky blue and rim and field of stars " Explaining your whereabouts: Your in Canterlot and this our school, School of Gifted Unicorns. Mister uhh.. I'm sorry; what's your name again?" The male pony asked. "Alex or Vaati if you wish." Alex answered. "Alright, Vaati. Anyways we were in class when, somepony notices a stray visible wind. It didn't came from outside so we assume it was a magical energy. However, the magical energy is not the same as our magic; its differnet and unlike anything we have ever seen before." The orange unicorn stallion explained tap his glasses back in postion. " I see, though I must apologized for the intrusion." "My name is Sunburst." The stallion introduce himself. " Well I don't think your a threat if your are aploogizing something completely minor, and you haven't attack us." "My magic is not from here." Alex said. "I see. Can you by chance teach us, using this strange magic?" Sunburst ask "Huh, why?" He ask in confusion. "I'll explain." A lavender unicorn with bright purple eeyes eyes, long blue with violet and hot pink stripe mane and tail, her mane is tied to a ponytail and wears glasses. "You are?" Alex asked the unicorn mare. "Twilight Sparkle. Moving on to the explaination. She explained. " We are at war against King Sombra who had returned after a thousand years and seeks revenge and conquer Equestra. "Few are merely students here, the mages with more experienced unicorns are looking for ways to remove the brainwash helmets, Sombra used on his own subjects." " Hmmm. Do you think my foreign magic could remove it?" Alex ask. "It's a possibility" "But I'm not a good teacher. I'm not good at explaining things, let alone magic," He replied. "Perhaps not though talking, but we can learn visually and studying your magi." A feminine voice spoke up and a pony walks up to 'Vaati'. A pale yellow unicorn with bright purple eyes, with long light red-orange with violet and lavender highlights mane and tail. "Will this solve your teaching issue?" "That could work. What's your name?" He asked her. "Moondancer." She answered. "Okay that makes things easier. Is there a place to train my magic?" "It's recommended to use the training room. We'll take you there it's pass the hallway and right beside the library." Sunburst respond. He and other students leads Alex to training room. They took a few turns and a few steps down a floor before reaching thier destination. With magic, the double doors open up and went inside. It was a huge room, it remains Alex of the P.E. gym; just with books, magic training, and wooden training dummies. "This could work. It's like gym class I use to take in school." He comments as he look around. " Alright. Vaati, shoot this training dummy with your magic." Twilight instruct. "Very well." He mutters as he slowly concentrates, focusing his attack on the target. His hands slowly surrond in a orange glows. The unicorns watches with high interset and curiosity as the glow become tense and ignaites into a ball of fire. Alex resumes his focus, shoots one of the fireballs at the wooden target, burning it. "Interesting... This new magic is fascinating... I wonder if we can replicate it?" Twilight noted in thought as an emotion of excitement grew. "Maybe if I constantly do the same magic over and over, you guys might pick it up." Alex presume. "Be careful of over doing it, Vaati! Magic exhausted will cause you to collapse." Sunburst warned him. Alright, I'll be careful." He noted, return to training. He shoots another fireball on the next wooden target. It was a couple of mintues of Alex casting his magic. Unicorn ponies continue to watch him perform his magic memorizing the feel, type of magical resonance and understanding it's frequency. There are a few times his magic goes unstable and had to stop for a moment to get back on the rhythm of the spell. An hour passes and Alex took a break, feeling himself getting exhausted. He remembered Sunburst's warning of the magic exhaustion, and decided to rest. They decided to get some lunch. Though; when Alex looked at the food options, he was disappointed. The food choices are very limited, as humans; he can't eat hay and certain types of flowers. However, there are eggs for him to make himself an omelet. After, his lunch break, Alex went back to the training dummies. Casting a gust of wind to shred both the dummy and wooden post in pieces. Night came quickly, and his training left him exhausted, Twilight was nice enough to show him were the beds are located. When he got in the bedroom, too tired to care to tuck in for the night. Alex collapsed on the bed and was quickly falllen asleep to tired to care to tuck in for the night. *** The next morning, Alex is startled by the sound of explosions and a lot of shouting. Feeling nervous; he heads out of the bedroom and head quickly down stairs to were the loud noises are coming from; assuming it to be in the training room. Fearing there's an attack he quickly opens the door, ready to defend himself when his eyes widen in horror to see the unicorns practicing the magic "he" demastrate yesterday. The room is a mess, soot scattered all over the place with a few dummies either stain by soot or a bit of fire left behind and few had been scattered off thier placements of some force. Messy as the place is, unicorns are casting spells that looked like Alex's magic on the practice targets. He notice a few unicorns having trouble with the spell, a unicorn wearing a purple star hat and a star cape, her mane and tail are very light cornflower blue and very pale cerulean blue highlights, kept trying to use a minor spell by spewing out words as if that was it's key component to making it work. Two to four unicorns were able to cast a ball of fire at the target and gave a weak but loud explosion from the collision. "Guys?" he called out but the explosions were too loud for them to hear him at all. So he a deep breath then shouted louder "Enough!!" Everypony, flinched at the loud voice and stop what they were doing and turn to Alex. Sheepishly, he continues speaking; but with normal volume. "I'm sorry, but the way your casting the magic was way too chaotic." " I apologized! We were practicing an equivalent of your magic. We are hoping to learn a way to cast the spell, but it seems we are having a problem with casting your spells, so we try to make an alternative option and try to use equestrian magic to try and replicate your spells. Though weaker than the ones you have, probably because your magic and equestrian are different " Sunburst said sheeplishly. "I seem to noticed some of the unicorns are having trouble with thier magic casting" Alex replies. The unicorn poines who are having trouble nodded in agreement though a couple refuse to admit. "I see we need to form different groups in order to be more organized" Alex suggested. Twilight Sparkle hearing this groaned and facehoofed how could she forgot to be more organized. Well, she did got too excitied to learn new spells, that she had forgotten about it. Meanwhile, Alex is thinking how to split the students in groups, spilt into two groups is to large so, spilt into four goups is smaller, but how would he do it? Then, he remember something the ponies are like mages, in some of the games of Final Fanstay mage classes are split into three or four types; red, black , white and blue each having differnet styles of casting magic this gave him an idea. "I have an idea we'll split into four different groups", He anounces. " What kind of groups?" A unicorn by the name of Lemon Hearts ask. " By mage classes; let's start with the Blue Mages, know they don't cast magic normally; they need to copy the magic form an opponent or enemy to learn that specific magic and then the blue mages can use it against the enemy," Alex explains. While, as he was explaining the Blue Mage class, Twilight Sparkle uses her hoove to move her glasses a bit and starts jotting down notes with her magic, as Alex continue his explanation. " The unicorn pony with a purple magician outfit can you come here please?" he called " Trixie is being choosen? The Great and Powerful Trrrixie is flattered," she says as she walks up to the semi human mage. Some of the ponies roll thier eyes as Trixie boasts about herself. "I notice your having diffculty with casting magic thats not illusion or a show based but, I beileve you'll be great as the Blue Mage Twixie, so, your the first blue mage in the group" As he tell this to Trixie, the blue pony was surpise yet, she smiles and held her head high. "Alright Trixie your the leader of Blue Mages you'll be responsable and need to help the other ponies in your group," He informed. "Trixie understands" She said. "Now for the Black Mages," As he says this though, the ponies immendiately started shouting in panic. A unicorn name Amethyst Star started speaking in fear. "Are we going to learn Dark Magic? Thats forbidden!" "No no, It's not like that Black Mages learn offensive magic like fire and lightning," Alex quickly explain. "Oooh," Everypony sigh in reflief. "I apologize for giving you the scared everybody? or is it everypony? Anyway, how about you Sunburst would you like to be the Black Mage?" Alex asked Sunburst. "Me? I'm not sure" Sunburst doubted himself as well as looking a little nervious. "Don't look down on yourself Sunburst you won't know until you try" Alex ressured him. Sunburst thought for a moment he's still unsure if he can cast magic if even at all but, Alex's encouragement made him feel like he can do it maybe, with training he'll be able to easily cast magic like everyone else. "Alright I'll do it," He said with confendence. " Okay Next, are the White Mages they instead of useing offensive magic are the healers and can use defensive magic like wind to attack or use as a shield. The white mages can destroy the undead with either holy or healing magic," Alex informs. " Moondancer you'll be the leader of the White Mages," " I accpect this postion you gave me" she repiles. "Lastly, are the Red Mages they can learn both magics from the white and the black mage now, Twilight Sparkle I believe you'll be a great Red Mage," "Me? Really?!" She asked in surpise and an excitment. " Of course Twilight," Alex repiled. Twilight tried her best not to squeal in glee. "Now once these four are completely trained they'll train the rest of you depending on what group youtr on and learn what they have learn," The students nodded in agreement. "Alright, now to choose who goes to which mage class you'll go to," he mutterd to himself. "Let me help you with that," Sunburst offered. "Thank you Sunburst," " Let's see..." Sunburst pondered. " Lemon Hearts, Twinkle Shine, and Neon Lights will join the White Mages. Sea Swirl, Blueblood.." "Prince Blueblood" he interpreted. Sunburst sighs and shook his head " Prince Blueblood and Minuette will be in to the Blue Mage class; Next, Comet Tail, Juniper Berry , and Lyra your on the Red Mage group and finally Amethyst Star, Spring Rain, and Glitter Drops you'll be in the Black Mages," Sunburst saids, continueing telling which ponies go to which class. All of the ponies agree with him and started cheering well, most of anyway as certain stallion huffs in annoyance but remains slient. Elsewhere, in the Castle of Canterlot, Celestia suddenly hears something odd it sounded close were the School of Gifted Unicorns is at, suddenly, a loud explosion made her jump a little this causes her to panic and rushes quickly, and flew out the window flying as quickly as she can to reach her students hopeing they are all right. However, she was not the only one to hear the explosions the head mages heard them as well and immeniately teleported close to school and inside to deal with the possiable threat.