The Travelling Magician
"You may have defeated an Ursa minor, but you will never have the amazing show-stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!"
Those were the last words Trixie had said before she vanished in a cloud of smoke. As she ran down the dirt road, tears began to stream down her face. She was embarrassed and ashamed of everything that she had done in Ponyville. Soon, her legs began to tremble and her body began to ache. She had been galloping for a solid hour and thirty minutes, and decided to take a breather. Trixie saw a tree on the top of a hill and felt like it'd be a good place to be alone, even though she was already alone. The grass felt cool on her hooves as she walked up the hill. She was exhausted, but she knew that she'd be resting soon. The tree was about the size of her wagon, the one destroyed by the ursa minor, and she sat against the trunk. She looked up at the moon cried,
"Why? Why can't I do anything right?! Just when I finally made something of myself by myself, YOU TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME!" She began gasping for air as her body was still exhausted from her escape. Trixie's eyelids slowly closed and quickly fell asleep.
Trixie was woken up by someone tapping on her head. She opened her eyes to see three shadows resembling ponies.
"Finally found ya! Ya little bitch!" whispered one of the figures. It seemed to be wearing a hat of some kind.
"Dear, I do not condone such vulgar language, but I believe that it's about bucking time we found her. My mane is getting all frizzy because of all this running around!"
"Oh, I've been waiting too long for this, I can't wait to get started"
"Who are you?! What do you want?!" Trixie demanded.
"Well, if you must know, we're here because we hate you! You made us look like fools in front of the entire town for your own amusement. Not to mention what you did to my beautiful mane!." one of the shadows said. The voice was elegant as of high class. Trixie soon put two and two together and figured that these were some of the ponies from Ponyville.
"That's right, our friend may have shown you up, but that don't mean that the score is settled."
Before Trixie could reason with the figures, she felt a hard thump on her face, followed immediately by sleep once again.
Trixie awoke in a haze and her vision was blurred. She figured that she was struck pretty hard and was out for a while. She tried to stand but a sharp pain in her side made it quite difficult. As she made her way down the hill, each step sent a wave of pain throughout her entire body, making her wince every time.
"This really hurts but why? Why does it hurt all over? What happened? Oh Celestia, I really need some help here." Trixie said as she limped down the hill.
She continued stumbling down the road for the next hour. Just when she was about to give out hope, she noticed that she had stumbled into a town. She noticed a large tree that appeared to be turned into a house of some sort. Trixie slowly approached the door and took a deep breath. Fighting through the pain of moving her hoof to knock on the door. The door swung open to show a silhouette of a pony standing in the doorway. However, before Trixie could figure out who she was, she gave into her exhaustion and passed out.
She woke and found herself in a bed that was not her own. The sheets were green and there was an owl staring down at her.
"Who." The owl called.
"My name's Trixie, Trixie Lulamoon, and you are?" She said still disoriented and dazed.
"Who." The owl called again.
"You! I'm talking to you!" Trixie was beginning to get annoyed with the owl.
"Oh, you're finally awake!" called a somewhat familiar voice, "I was so worried that I'd have to take you to the hospital, Trixie." The voice came from below her, "and don't mind Owliscious, he's just being himself."
"How do you... know my name?" Trixe got out of the bed and went downstairs.
"Everypony knows your name around here, Trixie. I mean, how could anyone forget the show you put on for us? You only left Ponyville like, six hours ago."
"Well, I certainly don't know of any show or performance that was put on in... Uh, Ponyville, was it?"
"How could you forget already? Oh my, nopony can possibly be this forgetful." Twilight began to worry and thought that maybe she should have taken Trixie to the hospital.
"Ow! Oh, I have the most dreadful throbbing in my head. Ow!" Trixie winced in pain as she gently tapped her forehead.
"You must have gotten into a bad accident sometime after you left." Twilight said worriedly while frantically thinking of some way to help, "I'll take you to a doctor tomorrow, right now I think you should just stay here and let me help you."
"I... I can't remember anything... it hurts to think." Trixie groaned, obviously in no condition to move.
Twilight's eyes began to sparkle as she realized how she could be useful. Books and her magic were the answer. She began searching through the thousands of books. She used her magic to pull books down and flip through the pages. She threw them on the floor, not caring for their condition.
"Oh, there's gotta be something in there that I can use to help jog your memory. Aha! I fou--" Twilight was stopped by the sound of feet coming down the stairs.
"Twilight?" Spike rubbed his eyes, "What are you doing up so early? You should really go to bed and--" Spike cut himself off when he saw a brilliant azure unicorn sitting on the floor.
"Spike, you remember, Trixie, right?" Twilight gestured her hoof towards the dazed unicorn.
"Why is she here? I don't wanna hear her voice again! Her show-off-y-ness is what made us run her out of town in the first place!" Spike ranted.
"Spike, something's different about her this time. I did kind of show her up, remember?" Twilight reminded Spike of how she subdued the Ursa Minor and saved the town. A feat that Trixe had claimed to have done before but had not.
"I dunno, Twilight," Spike said with a puzzled look on his face.
"Well, just look at her, she's obviously in need of help." Twilight pointed at Trixie, who was clearly in a lot of pain. "Trixie," Twilight walked over and stared into her purple eyes, "I'm going to cast a spell that will bring back your memories, but you have keep your mind as clear as possible. If your thoughts wander, the spell wont work, got it?"
"Yea." Trixie nodded. She cleared her mind of all her troubles and thought only about the spell that would help her.
"Alright, here I go." Twilight's horn began to glow and there was a loud ringing noise that filled the room.
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The ringing stopped and Trixie opened her eyes to see herself surrounded by ponies. However, something was off. All the ponies seemed to have gotten bigger, no, Trixie had gotten smaller.
"Where am I?" She looked through the gaps in the crowd of ponies to and saw a fairly large stage and on it was a pale blue unicorn wearing an elegant black cape. Rearing back and balancing on his back hooves, he shouted.
"Come one! Come all! Behold the amazing talents of Constello Lulamoon!" His sentence was immediately followed by a display of fireworks. The entire crowd, including Trixie, began cheering.
"Good evening everypony, I am Constello," he flashed a smile and winked at the crowd causing many of the mares to swoon, "I am a traveling magician. I have traveled from Manehattan to Las Pegasus and to every city in between, showing them wonders that would amaze even Starswirl The Bearded!" The entire crowd was in awe with his words.
Constello levitated a large diamond and held it up for all the crowd to see. With his magic, he shaped the jewel into a the shape of a small unicorn, all in about five seconds. Everypony was amazed that he was able to create something so beautiful in only a few seconds. He put the statuette down and pulled a seed from his pocket.
"Everypony, this is an apple tree seed! I am going to plant it and make it grow right before your very eyes!" Constello exclaimed as he placed the seed in a small pot he grabbed from back stage. With his magic, the seed quickly sprouted and became a seedling. It became bigger and bigger with each passing second and soon was a full grown apple tree, it even had fruit! Constello grabbed an apple off the tree with his magic and took a bite. Everypony cheered. He then made the tree dissapear entirely as if it was never there. The audience cheered even louder.
"Now for my next trick," Constello said, still chewing on the apple, "I need a volunteer!"
Trixie raised her hoof as high as she could, but it was no use. She was smaller than everypony in the crowd.
"Ugh... what's the use? There's no way he'll see me." Trixie sighed disappointingly.
"Young filly!" Constello called, "You, the blue unicorn in the back!" His eyes met with Trixie's
"M-m-m-me?" Trixie stuttered.
"Yes you! I would like to invite you to my stage."
"O-o-okay" Trixie said, trying to contain her excitement.
She navigated her way through the sea of ponies and made it to the stage. The moment her hoof touched the wooden floor, Trixie felt something strange. It felt like she was very light and almost as if there was a bright light shining down on her.
"Now, tell me, little one, what's your name?" Constello asked.
"M-m-m-my n-n-name?" Trixie stuttered nervously.
"Yes dear. Oh and don't worry, I don't bite." Constello smiled gently.
"Trixie. My name is Trixe."
"What a pretty name. Now onto the magic." Constello reached into his pocket and pulled out a single bit, "You see this coin? Everypony, I assure you that this is a real bit! Nothing special about it, just a normal coin. Trixie, feel this and tell the crowd that it's real." Constello handed the coin to Trixie. She felt the coin with her hoof to test the weight. As far as she was concerned, the coin was legitimate and nothing was out of the ordinary.
"It feels real to me." Trixie said to the audience.
"Alright, now Trixie, take that coin and put it in the this bag." Constello handed her a small brown bag. She put the coin in the bag and held it tight, "Now, you all saw the coin go into the bag right? Now you all know that you can't just make object appear out of thin air, otherwise money would be in everyone's pockets right now." Everypony began chuckling, "I am going to make that specific bit appear in front of me." Constello's horn began to glow and he focused his power on the bag in Trixe's hooves. There was a flash and a single coin was laying on the stage.
"Huh?" Trixie opened the bag to find that it was now empty, "What?! I don't even..." Trixie was dumbstruck by the magic. Everypony was silent for a few moments trying to comprehend how he just teleported an item without seeing it. Once everypony gave up on trying to figure it out, they all began to applaud and cheer.
"Thank you! Thank you! You've been a wonderful audience! Good night everypony!" Constello bowed and headed behind the curtain. Trixie saw that everypony was leaving and decided not to leave the stage, but to follow him behind the curtain. She approached the large red curtain and moment she touched it, a blinding light flashed and she was returned to the library.
"So, do you remember anything?" Twilight asked, wondering if her spell worked.
"Where is he?!" Trixie demanded, "Where's Constello!"
"Constello? Who are you talking about? There's nopony by the name of Constello here."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Your spell may have taken me back farther than you had hoped."