//------------------------------// // Settling in // Story: Dōjutsu // by Northguard //------------------------------// When the bus reached camp and every student had walked out and retrieved their luggage an introduction was held at the center of camp. Twilight didn't really pay attention to it, but they got her attention when they pulled out a sack full of cards. They said that every students were to pull out a card and those who had the same picture were to share one of the tents. Twilight walked up and reached into the sack. She pulled out a card and looked at it. "I got sapphire." Twilight said. "I got sapphire too." Adagio said showing her card. Twilight was half relived and half unnerved. Relived because then her secret would stay safe and unnerved because Adagio was a complete stranger. Twilight entered the tent and began unpacking. After a few minutes Adagio entered. She walked up to her own bed and unpacked after a few minutes of silence Adagio spoke. "So you're the one who has a talking dog?" she said and gestured towards Spike. "Yeah. His name is Spike." Twilight said lying down on her bed and quickly fell asleep. Two days later "You know you don't have to hide your eyes here. Right?" Adagio said "I want to go like this so that I get used to it." Twilight said before leaving the tent. When she walked outside she found her friends waiting for her. They all sat down by the lake next to the camp and sat there in silence for a few minutes before Sunset broke the silence. "So what went wrong with your experiment?" she asked. "The whole thing blew." Twilight replied carefully. "Yikes. Did it damage your eyes or something?" Rainbow Dash said. "No. The opposite actually. I no longer need glasses." Twilight explained. "Then why would ya hide yer eyes?" Applejack asked. "I...I don't really know. They changed and it looked so freaky, so I decided to cover them up." Twilight answered. "Freaky? What do you mean with that?" Sunset asked, though Twilight refused to answer. Twilight zoned out for a few minutes and Sunset attempted to pull back Twilight's hair, but Twilight noticed and on impulse stretched out her arm to push Sunset's hand away. Suddenly when her hand was open a burst of wind sent Sunset crashing into their five friends. "Ow...What the heck?" Sunset said. "Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it!" Twilight said shocked as she ran up to her friends. "It's okay Twilight, but how did you do that?" Sunset asked curiously. "I don't know. I was just going to push your hand away." Twilight said as tears became visible coming out from under her hair. "Hey it's okay Twilight it didn't hurt that much." Sunset said as she got up. "Speak for yourself." Rainbow Dash said while staggering to her feet "You weren't the one everyone fell onto.". "Can you do that again?! Just don't do it at us." Pinkie Pie said bouncing to her feet. "How is she goin' to do it if she doesn't even know how she did it?" Applejack asked. While the main six talked about what just happened, Twilight began questioning her new eyes. 'Did my eyes cause this?' she thought as she placed her hand over her right eye. "Twilight are you okay?" Rainbow Dash said as she had noticed Twilight standing there frozen in place with her hand over her eye. "I'm fine." Twilight said and waved her hand. Just then a black rod suddenly shot out from her palm and hit a tree right next to them. "Scratch that. I'm NOT fine.". Sunset grabbed the rod and pulled it out of the tree. "It's not metal even though it feels like it. I have seen a lot of things, but nothing like this." Sunset said as she tried to bend it, but to no avail. Sunset gave the rod to Twilight who looked at it very carefully. She tried to bend it and to everyone's surprise the rod split in two like it was a stick. "How did you do that?" Sunset asked shocked. "I don't know. I was just going to test it's strength and it just split like it was a stick." Twilight said confused. Sunset then got Twilight to take an arm wrestling match which Sunset won, but that only spread more confusion. The main six started to come up with theories while Twilight sat down and looked at the two rods. 'I can create these?' Twilight thought to herself. She opened her hand and pointed it at the ground trying to create another one, but nothing happened. Then a splitting headache struck her. Her impulse kicked in and she started to walk towards the forest. Her friends noticed and followed, though they kept themselves at a distance. When Twilight was few hundred meters into the forest her headache caused her to drop down to her knees. She clutched her head in pain as she fell onto her side. She pushed with all willpower and sat up, but the pain was to much and she put one of her hands on the ground. Then strange markings appeared on the ground and a large smoke cloud came out of nowhere. When the smoke settled Twilight looked up and saw a huge chameleon like creature with the same eyes as her with a snake for a tail. She screamed and fell backwards and the chameleon exploded into a smoke cloud and was gone. Twilight began to hyperventilate while still clutching her head in pain. While doing it she felt a weird feeling in her right hand and looked at it. Then the hand straight up transformed into a form of canon. She freaked out even more began to tell herself that this had to be nightmare. A very realistic one. Eventually her hand turned back to normal when she started beating it on a rock in panic. After that the headache disappeared and she began to calm down. Her friends had been watching everything happen from afar and were in shock at what Twilight had just displayed. "We can't just pretend that this didn't happen. We have to confront her about this." Rainbow Dash whispered.