Chapter 8: Oculos aures
"OH SHIT."
"OH SHIT."
"OH SHIT."
"OH SHIT."
"OH SHIT."
"OH SHIT!"
"OH SHIT!"
"OH SHIT!"
"OH SHIT!"
Calm the fuck down!
How the hell am I supposed to calm down?! I just torched a book that belongs to a magically talented unicorn from a different reality that could probably teleport me into a wall!
Or a rock, or the space between here and the sun.
Not helping!
Just calm down, I have an idea.
And what's that?!
Turn the book to ash.
Now how does that help?!
How will she find it if there's no book to find?
That plan...........could very well........BURN DOWN THIS WHOLE FUCKING TREE! ARE YOU INSANE!
You tell me. I'm you.
What ever. How about we use your idea. BUT. We use it outside.
Sounds like a plan. Lets go.
So I take the burnt book under my arm and make my way to the door. Just as I'm about to reach down to open it, my left hand gets warm and the emblem starts glowing brighter. "What the hell?" I take my hand away from the door and the glowing darkens. I bring it closer and it brightens.
Uhhh why do you think that's happening?
Dunno, maybe you're like Danny Phantom too.
What?
Your powers can sense other powers like and/or similar to your own.
What, so there's a spell on the door?
Maybe.
Well that would explain why they left me alone. They probably spell locked me in here.
Maybe you can break it
Yeah, 'cause breaking someone else's property is a nice way to get on their good side.
Not the door, the spell.
Besides how to light my hand on fire, I don't know shit about magic, let alone wards and barriers.
Well you gotta start somewhere. And besides, they probably don't think you can use magic, so they wouldn't use anything complicated. Maybe it's like lockpicking, but with your mind.
Well, I don't even know how to lockpick, but sure, why not try and see if it works?
I started by sitting down with my legs crossed, with the door in arms reach. I try touching the door, my hand growing hot as it gets closer. Just before my hand touches the door, and I feel a little resistance. Like when you try to touch the same sides of two magnets together. There is a violet glow forming in front of my hand that looks just like you'd think a barrier would look like. I press harder, trying to see just how strong it is.
After applying more force, I start to hear a quiet static sound. Not like static on a TV, but like the sound of a plasma globe. I push harder, making the sound grow louder and louder. I can now see little bolts of electricity jump around my hand and the barrier. My hand is feeling hot, like it's in boiling water, but it doesn't hurt. Using what knowledge of energy flow I've learned from all the anime I've watched, I try flowing my magic into the barrier.
I imagine I'm a big body of water, a river out in front of me. I watch as the water flows through the river and at a dam. I feel resistance as the water hits the dam, physical resistance, I take it as a sign I'm doing it right. I increase the current, making the water flow at the dam faster and faster. I feel the resistance weakening, as my force strengthens. Then there's a give.
I feel like a weight was lifted off me as the dam breaks. I see the barrier shatter like glass and fade out of existence. The heat in my hand leaves and the glowing stops.
Holy shit I did it.
And people say magic doesn't work the way you think it does.
Well those people can suck it.
I get up, now feeling a little tired, and reach for the door. No resistance. I open the door and I am met with bright light and colors with other ponies in the distance. I close the door. And think. How will I get past them? There's too many of them and I appear to be in the center of a village or town.
I run upstairs to the large window in my room and open it (after breaking the barrier). I look outside with unobscured sight, and have my thought proven right. I'm in the center of a town, near what appears to the town square. I see ponies of all colors trotting back and forth along the paved roads going up to stalls and doing their own business all around the square.
That's a lot of ponies
Nevermind the numbers, look at all the colors. I feel like I'm going to get a seizure just looking at them.
What's those marks on their asses?
Are they like the one on my hand?
From what we've seen, only unicorns can use magic.
We should ask Twilight when she gets back.
We still need to deal with the book.
Riiiiiiiight. Well guess we're going with the unaltered plan.
I run back downstairs, book in hand, and make my way into the kitchen. I look and find the trash can, take it and put it over the stove. Luckily the can is empty, so I won't have to worry about making the library smell like burnt garbage. I take the book and place it in the can.
I raise my hand over the book clenched in a fist and funnel rage into my hand. Don't ask me how I did it, I'm still a little skeptical on how it works. After I feel the heat in my hand reach it's peak, I open my hand and slam it down on the book. The book bursts into flames and almost appeared to explode. I break the barrier on a nearby window and let the smoke flow out.
Well that's done.
I wonder what the book was about, hopefully not anything important
If it was really that important, it shouldn't have been laying out in the open in the first place.
Once the fire was out, and the book was ashes, I emptied it out the window, closed it and made my way back into the main room. On the way I notice that I'm really tired again. Probably from using this much magic in such a short time. I am just a beginner after all.
Dragging my feet, I make my way back up to my room, close the window I left open and laid back in bed.
Well, my time here may have been short, but it has been pretty fun so far. Maybe staying in this world won't be so bad. I already have a place to stay, I've learned that I have magic and even have a good first grasp on using it. Even if I am actually insane, it doesn't seem like it will be getting too boring anytime soon. And I wonder how the rest of the locals will react when they find out about me. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Sorry for the chapters getting shorter, but this was why I never made a story sooner. As I get farther in the story all of you and I will have to deal with my writers block. Hopefully a can get past it and pump out chapters faster, and make them longer. Thank you for reading and I hope for your support in latter chapters.