//------------------------------// // Chapter 18. The beauty of pancakes. // Story: The Choice // by Not_available_now //------------------------------// Chapter 18.                     Martin opened his eyes, thinking of what happened the night before. He didn’t have any problem with it, but it had gone a bit quick in his eyes. He has been here for less than a month and  he would already be getting an girlfriend.  And she would be a pony too, that was just plain weird for him, having an interspecies relationship. Granted, he liked them platonically and he really liked Luna and the time they spent together, but he wanted to wait until after his therapy.                     It still was a bit early, so he went to the only place he could think of: The library. Martin shuffled his way over the cold floor. As he reached the library he silently thanked the architects of the castle for making the doors as large as they are.  ‘Probably for Luna and Celestia.’ He thought while sitting down on one of the pillows and grabbing some of the books from the overly large pile of books Twilight left there after Luna and Martin went to the restaurant.                     It contained mostly books about magic, but also some books that wrote about aliens and being from other dimensions. It was very thick, but didn’t appear to say anything humans, but it did have some typical examples of other aliens: Lunar men, green globs and a thing with one heck of a lot of horns. That one was named: Cornus multus.                     He read for a bit in various books until he came across one of the books that he had been reading earlier. Specifically the one that said that everything  had some magic in it.                     The book sparked his interest once more and he re-read it. And so, after he was finished, he tried if he had magic himself again. He did everything the same as before. Book in the middle of the table and then he started focusing on it.                     After a couple of minutes he finally started to feel something, but that disappeared completely as a purple colored backside slammed into the door of the library. His concentration was broken and he fell backwards and just laid there, waiting for Twilight to enter the library completely.                     Immediately following the mare was a large pile of books, contained in her magic. She stumbled in and let the books fall to the ground with a thump.  “That was too simple. I need something more difficult.” She muttered to herself, not noticing the human on the pillow.                     “Good morning, Twilight.” Martin said while walking over to help her with the books.                     She jumped at the sudden presence of the human, yelling all the while. When she stopped hyperventilating she threw a rather large book at Martin’s head. “Why did you scare me like that?”                     “Because you are too easy to scare.” Martin said while laughing a bit. “And your reaction is priceless.”                     Twilight sighed and separated her books into neat piles, all with her magic. “Hoe did your date with Luna go?” Twilight asked, a tad bit of jealousy in her voice.                     “It went really well. The restaurant was very nice and the food was good. Me and Luna mostly talked. I really liked that evening.” Martin said with a content sigh.                     “Did anything happened afterwards?” Twilight asked carefully.                     Martin thought about that question for a small amount of time, but eventually decided to lie about that. “Nothing happened. Luna teleported us into the castle and we went to our respective rooms.” He said,  the lie barely noticeable on his voice.                     “That is very nice to hear.” Twilight said, satisfied with the answer. “What were you reading?” She asked while looking at the title of the book on the table.                     “I wasn’t reading that one, but this one.” He said while looking for the book he had been reading. He quickly found it under the pillow he was sitting on. He handed it over to Twilight who looked at the book with a skeptical book.                     “You don’t believe this, do you?” She asked, a bit worried, and sat down next to Martin. “When this book came out it was seen as very controversial. It says that everything has magic. As a result of that a lot of non-unicorns got angry over the fact that they couldn’t access their inner magic. A lot of ponies took advantage of that and sold fake medallions and other useless stuff many ponies bought.” She said while looking through it. “Eventually some scientist researched it and discovered that every creature did have some magic, but that it already was being used by their own bodies and couldn’t be used actively. Just a few rare cases could do that.”                     She then remembered that she saw Martin focusing on the book in the middle. “Were you looking to see if you have any magic yourself?”                     “Yes, but nothing happened so far.” Martin said while looking at the book on the table.                     “There is a way to check if you have any magic, just ask the doctors. We’ll go visit them after breakfast.” She said while tossing the book away.                     One of two stomach rumbled at that word. “Maybe we should go get some.” Martin said while patting his stomach.                     Twilight agreed and they stood up and walked through the hallways towards the hallway.                     Their journey was fairly silent, the only sounds came from their stomachs and the occasional grunt from behind a door.                     Twilight though a bit and then said. “I have to return to Ponyville this afternoon. I was wondering if you wanted to come with me?” She asked hoping for the obvious.                     “I would love to, but I do have the therapy that I have to do for one month.” He said, hiding another reason.                     “I’m sure we could work something out. Let me think.” She said before lapsing into deep thought, thinking about a method.                     Her eyes lit up. “You can come with me and whenever you have the therapy you can be teleported over to the castle.” She said, lighting up with the idea.                     “If that would be possible that would be great.” He said, glad that the idea had him spending more time in Canterlot, but he also wanted to meet the rest of Twilight’s friends and the rest of the residents of Ponyville.                     The rest of the way they walked in happiness, hoping that their plan could be completed.                     They arrived at the empty dining room with a table filled with food. And as a special treat : Towers of pancakes.                     A small pile of drool formed on the floor at the sight of the beauty of it all.