From the past until the future, everypony has lessons they must learn from time to time. A lesson I must teach to all generations, to my students, even to my own children.
In the darkest room inside of the tower, the floor was filled with rune marks and hourglasses symbols around the room.
I opened my eyes and looked in front of me at what would be one of the most convenient spells ever made. However, this spell is taboo as well... Ponies who used this spell usually would suffer terrible catastrophes because of one simple and stupid mistake.
I looked at my own clone in front of me. He examined himself as he looked the same way as me, having my mind and my magic as well...
"I have to take care of my children, and I have to take care of my new students... I'm not creating you to obey me and fulfill my tasks and schedule. I give you the choice to help me to raise my children and to teach my own students." I said while I gave him a scroll, which he examined himself.
He took a read and then looked at me.
"I take care of the students, you take care of Aria, Sonata, and Adagio." He finally answered, and then I just nodded and then he teleports away, leaving me in the darkroom...
The spell was a complete success...
There is a reason why clone spells usually would try to be the dominant one among the clones and the original... Lack of leadership and boaster of the casters...
The creator of this spell used this spell to create multiple clones just to fulfill all his desires while he could enjoy himself. That was the most stupid way to use the spell because of one single reason... Numbers would mean rebellion and lack of leadership would be the cause.
There is a difference between a leader and a boss... A boss would demand, would complain, and would take orders and the other would just follow his orders... And that would be the destruction of the objective they would want...
The leader in the other hoof... he is the one who leads, the one who offers the choice, the decisions of all together as one, the one who would work the same weight as all the clones... To make half and half, and two or three workings together with their own responsibilities.
Changing the sides and offer new experiences would make not you acquire leadership experience, but make all the others learn more from another perspective...
Even if I wanted to give the lessons to my new students... I have no reason now that he decided to be their teacher. Later I will use the share memory spell and we can move on.
That's the perfect way to create a clone spell. Using on both sides and becoming more experienced in both fields, while you get tired from using much magic and working all day long. In the end, the results would worth it.
I walked outside from the darkroom, and I was surprised by an interesting image in my front... Aria was over the sit, concentrated looking at a book. Her frown showed she was taking much effort in doing something. Which I decided to approach her.
"Aria, where are your sisters?" I decided to look around and found no residues of their presence, while Aria was concentrated at the book and didn't even take the eyes out of it.
"They are playing in the bedroom," Aria said while she remained looking at the book, this raised my eyebrow.
"Why are you staring this book so much?" I asked while I could see the title of the book and that title intrigues me more than the fact Aria was staring at it.
"Because I'm trying to read it," Aria said while she was still looking at the words inside of the table.
Just somepony stupid would laugh about the desire of learning books, but there is an obvious fact that I must teach Aria...
"Aria you can't read, you don't know how to read. You have 3 years old..." I said while Aria looked at the book angrily. "Are you trying to use the force inside of your mind, to force the book to speak with you?"
"Yeah. But that wasn't working." Aria said while I took the book from her hooves. "HEY!"
"Aria... This is a book focused on how to clean the toilet..." I said while Aria looked at the book in disbelief.
I could see a little tint of deep purple color on her cheeks while she pouted angrily.
"I can't believe I was looking at that." She grumbled angrily, while I took her with magic and placed it on my back.
"Aria, why are you trying so hard to read?" I asked while Aria looked a bit annoyed.
"I heard you are going to have students, someone to learn from you... I wanted to show you I can learn too..." The voice and the determination coming from her voice were funny to many but to me...
I slowly took her from my back and then I gave her a hug.
"Oh, Aria... you don't understand how proud you made me at this moment..." Aria tried to take off from my embrace, but then she got more comfortable and looked at me sheepishly. "Well, if you insist. I will teach you then, but I want you to take all my lessons into your heart."
Aria's face brightened with the idea, and then she nodded excitedly. Then I chuckled from her change of mod, and I took one little seed, a bit of water, a feather, and a scroll, I placed Aria down, while I decided to walk.
Aria followed me to a place at the tower where showed a good amount of sunlight.
"Aria, this will be the first lesson I will teach you. And I want you to take this from the deep of your own heart. If you have this lesson inside your mind and heart, you can learn anything in all Equestria." I said while Aria looked at me with her eyes wide open and slowly nodding to me.
I placed the little seed inside of a vase with a dirty and hearth inside. While Aria was near the vase and looked attentively.
"Aria, learn is like a little seed inside of a vase. While little in front of you, in the future what you learn can improve your abilities and make you want to be whatever you want." I said while I placed water and with a little magic and sorcery, I made the seed start growing up, from centimeters to becoming a flower, and from a flower, it became a fruit, and from a fruit a tiny tree. Which Aria looked at it in awe and amazed. "However, from understand the true potential of time. You must know, sometimes the best way to learn time. It's from the tiny things and the slow process you do and make."
Then I used my magic and transformed the plant again into a seed and I planted inside of the vase and I took the vase and let it out in the sunlight.
Leaving my daughter remaining looking at the vase.
Then I grabbed a feather with ink and then I make a risk (/) then I made another risk (\) and in the end I made another risk (-) creating the letter A. And I showed it to my daughter and I made her repeat the same risks I did. Which she started using the feather while I said.
"Shortcuts are created after ponies learn the long way of the trip too many times. And time is a thing you need to learn the slow process, understand the full process, then you construct and deconstruct the ways of time with your own rules. That's how I created my sorcery, based on the rules of the full knowledge of the full process. And my first lesson to you is... don't be afraid to take a long way. Because time is your ally and will teach anything you want if you understand the full process..."
Both Starswirll said at the same time, while left 2 alicorns and one siren admiring the words of wisdom coming from both of them... The first lesson was taught...
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After 1015 years in the future Equestria.
The moonshine with the glance of shadows of a mare over the moon, while a white mare with a colorful mane looked sadly over the moon, while she sighed sadly, while she counted the days until the Summer Sun Celebration. While deep inside of her heart the words of her teacher remained.
While she glanced at a photograph of her little student with her with a prideful smile on her face.
"Thank you for your lesson teacher... Foal steps until I save her." The white mare smiled while she looked at the moon once again, before using her magic and raised the sun again.
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After 1415 Earth years in the future of the Earth.
The gloomy night replaced its charms while a girl looked from the garden of a house. The window with the light in the bedroom showed a girl who was getting ready to sleep. Her orange skin and red hair and yellow strips showed her unique style and beauty... Her smile on her face showed she had enjoyed her day... And after getting the sleep she didn't know outside of her house, there was a girl who has purple ponytails and cyan strips, and a serious face of someone wanting nothing more than justice on her part. She looked at her cellphone witch had a single thing she was focusing it.
Date: May 21th 11:57:23 p.m.
She kicked and destroyed the daisies over the garden while she focused on drawing a line over the floor.
She marked a line on the floor with chalk, and using her blade she cut the tip of her finger to get blood drops...
She then focused the drop over the floor, until one of the bloodstains touched the chalk, and from the touch of it, the line of chalk started glowing a light green which not just the line of chalk was drawn in front of the girl, but there was all around the house, a glowing green mark showed thousands of hourglasses glowing in such deep green color, but it was so quick that nobody could even feel the light has hit their eyes. From the time the girl made such a show, she then looked at her cellphone again.
Date: May 21th 12:00:05 p.m.
She looked on her side, and then she grinned satisfied with the results... The daisies she had destroyed while creating such runes, was intact and as it wasn't even touched minutes ago.
The girl who took such time and effort to do those runes, then grabbed a bag of dirty earth, while she took her motorcycle and went directly to her house.
The moment the girl got inside of her own house, she watched both her sisters using a punching bag and training such punches and kicks while they vent their anger.
"These girls, it's all their fault, and they still want to make our day worse on the breakfast. They took all the time and effort from us." The yellow girl with a purple sports bra with the huge orange hair was punching in such anger that it would have been launched away, but it was very firm over the roof. "1200 years, we have been taking the negative energy from this world without magic... we were so close to using the magic to create the perfect liberation seal rune... just to be in vain and wasted half of the magic of the runes..."
The blue girl was in silence while she kicked the punch bag while she didn't want to express her voice because she would cry at any moment.
The cough as heard from the purple-haired girl made both girls look at her.
"Oh, Aria... You're back." The elder girl was concentrating on her punch while she complained about all the problems deep inside of their hearts. With a sigh, the girl then stopped punching and then looked at the other girl. "How many years would it take for us to recover half the negative energy remaining for we free the seal?"
Aria, took her bag of dirty while she then looks up like she was having a thought process, which in response she gave a sad sigh.
"At least 7 hundred years." At the moment she said that a huge impact sound was made by the blue girl who was now on verge of tears...
"We were so close... 2 more cities and we could have free them... Faust why do you hate daddy and mommy so much?"The blue girl started breaking down on the floor, and the elder sister then approached her and in a tender action, she gave a hug.
"It's alright Sonata, it's alright, we still have half of the negative energy on the emergency runes, we can create more catalyst of voice to attract more negative energy... It will be a slow and boring process again? It will, but this time we will be more prepared and we will save our daddy." The elder girl whispered while the blue girl hugged her sister crying.
Aria's tight fist held the bag of dirt while she walked into her backyard garden... While she then proceeds to drop the dirty on the earth, then she grabbed the watering can, and started wetting the earth...
She remembered the moment she took the smallest of the seeds and from the longest, boring and cruelest process she made that little seed of mustard, after 1400 years, she made the biggest tree of mustard she ever saw... She planted with all the effort and from all the lessons she learned...
She looked at the tree and then smiled determinedly.
"I don't care if will be 1 week or more 700 years, I can wait, but dad, mom... I will rescue you both... That's what I promised. I can wait for anything, but others can't. That's why time loves me and my sisters."
Aria looked at the moon over the sky, while she looked at her own hourglass, time is by her side.