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// Tracto is 
// Story: Vanished 
// by Azure Steel 
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Chapter 9: Tracto is


I wake up hearing voices down stairs.  Twilight must be back.  I get up stretching and make my way to the door and open it.  Once I'm within their line of sight everyone stops and looks at me.

"What?" I ask.

The girls look at each other for a second before Twilight answers. "Was anything else in here with you?"  I stop and think for a second.  No one was in the house other than me.  I even looked all around the house during my tour.  "Not that I know of. Why?"  I ask.

They all look at each other worried.  "What?  Is that a bad thing?"  Twilight looks at me with more worry.  "Well...I put a...barrier up...around the library, but...it's gone."  I look at her, putting on my best poker-face I say: "Well I would think so.  'Cause I kind of broke it."  She looks at me surprised and asks: "How did you do that?!"

I look down at my hand.  Then back to her as I lift it to eye level.  I then proceed to light my hand on fire.  They all jump a bit.  "That's how."  They all look at me in astonishment.  And a bit of fear, though that makes sense.  If a guy I hardly knew, who lived in my house, could light himself with magic fire, I would be a little worried.

Spike speaks up. "You can light yourself on fire? How long have you been able to do that?"  He says with curiosity.  "I learned how to do it while you all were gone. And on another note, do you mind telling me what this is?" I say as I show them the emblem on my left hand.

"I think it's a cutie mark." He says with a completely straight face.  I just look at him with a 'are you serious' face.

A what?
A what?

"Humans have those?" Twilight asks.  I shake my head.  "No, they don't.  That's why I'm asking why it's there."  Not that I don't mind the magic that comes with it, but I'd like to know the back story this thing has.  Like, why didn't I have it when I got here?  Why is it a star?  Why is it blue?  Wait....da fuck?!

Since when is this thing blue, it was red before.  Hmm...odd.  It's the same blue that's on the on the left point of the star.  "OK, know I have more questions. This thing was red a minute ago, so why is it blue?"  I say making Twilight's eyes perk up "What? But...cutie marks don't change.  That can't be a cutie mark."

Oh thank God.  I was worried for my masculinity a second there.

"Well that does make sense.  'Cause I may not know a lot about 'cutie marks', but I don't think they heal you."  I say.  "What do you mean?" Rarity asks.  "My arm is healed."  I respond, making they look at my arm.  Fluttershy flies up to me and inspects my arm, noticing no scaring or any sign I was ever injured.  "I was worried you wouldn't be able to use your arm right.  It's a good thing it's healed now."  It was my turn to be surprised.  Until now, Fluttershy hasn't really said anything to me.  And even when she did, it was very quietly.  "But are you sure you're alright?" she says looking up at me.

This was the first time I've had a good look at her.  She has big, bright, sapphire blue eyes.  Her coat, which I previously described as just yellow, is a calming sunset color.  And her mane and tail are a vibrant pink that reminds me of a lotus flower.  Why the hell am I thinking about this?

I snap out of it in time to answer.  "Y-yeah.  I'm fine."  Felling reassured, she glides back down to her friends, while my gaze follows her.  Gah! Stop looking! Why am I thinking of this?!  Well...she is pretty adorable  Ahhhh! Stop it brain!  I distract myself by looking at the emblem on my hand again, and freeze.

Now it's green.  What the fuck is going on? I think.  I look back to them, making sure not to look into Fluttershy's eyes.  "This is really strange, but it could have something to do with the spells you were hit with."  Twilight explains.

That would make sense.  We came from a world without magic.  So, naturally, we'd have to be exposed to it before we can use it ourselves.

I don't think I ever told them my world had no magic.

Best you don't then, less explaining that way.

Yeah.

OOOoo, you know what would be troll?!

What the fuck?!
What the fuck?!

To end the chapter right here!

What...the...h-